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BIRTH.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1923.
DAY BY DAY.
| chastened spirit of deep sincerity, we trust that a satisfactory adjustment will be possible be~!
TO PLACE OVER-TAXATION ON fore long. What makes us hope-
THE COUNTRY IS LIKE SITTING ON | ful is the knowledge that all A MAN'S CHEST AND PREVENTING parties, to the controversy are HIS GETTING UP-Sir Alfred heartily sick of the months of Mout. finesse und uncertainty, and wili do their best to reach an amic- Lable" selilement. Perhaps we shall soon have a fresh start on the road towards peace and stability in Europe, with the difficulties of the last six months but an unpleasant memory of strained friendships and threaten- ed chaos,
Child Labour.
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CORRESPONDENCE
(To the Editor of the Hoogkong
Telegraph."')"
Local Ferry Boats.
WUCHOW AFFAIRS.
More Trouble Brewing.
Trouble is expected to break out again in Wuchow, where the military situation has lately developed into another crisis.
Sir,With regard to the find-
The population was greatly Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Janes reings in the recent enquiry into the partured to learn that Fung Po- turned to-day from a trip to sinking of the steam launch Fei cho the Commander left in charge Japan by the s.s. Kutsang. Din Yat, I should like to register of the Cantonese troops in Wu- my dissent with that" part of chow by Ngai Bong-plug when he The health return for yesterday the decision which purports to recently retired from the military shows two cases of small-pox find a solution for the instability leadership of the West River dis- and one of "enteric fever. All of the ill-fated vessel.
tricts, was being held a prisoner were Chinese.
In the first place, in my opinion by A number of subordinate. no ferry bout, with the exception officers, and an extraordinary of the Star Ferry launches, is fitturn was given to the situation for passenger-carrying service inby a demand for ransomras a con this port. The remark may appear dition of his release,
Messrs. Lammert Bros' sale of valuable postage stamps takes place at 5.15 p.m. to-day; not at 11 am as advertised yesterday. sweeping at first sight but base It is not definitely ascertained my opinion on the following whether the act was instigated The Traffic Superintendent of grounds-Vessels used in ferry by the Sun party, but it is the Kowloon-Canton Railway in-service with the outlying dis generally agreed that whoever In common with many others, form us that the normal train tricts of the Colony are essential was responsible for the coup was we had expected a bpon to be service, with the exception of the ly launches; they are built on committing a grave blunder, in conferred on Chinese children
fine lines and int that that it might cause a return to as the result of the passing of a through express trains, will be too
totally unfit for the old undesirable conditions, law some time ago in rugulateumed on Saturday, the 15th. respect are
carriage of passengers. The first with grave results to trade and their industrial employment,
strong puff of wind that comes the safety of the population, Unden that law, it was
Armed robbers entered a Shan-across the harbour will cause I is explained that Fung, in made illegal to employ "young kiwan dwelling house last night, these little vessels to rall and spite of his Kwangsi extraction, children in the carrying of heavy loads, but, so far as we are able at No. 11 Nan On Fong, and there is a continuous list towards is one of the few military officers genuinely liked by the people, on to judge from external evidence, after binding and gugging the the leoward side..
The obvious solution which account of the tact and good in- conditions have not greatly mates they decamped with money: changed since the Ordinance was and jewellery of the total value suggests itself would be for these Buonce he generally brings to boots to have not narrow beams bear in matters where the passed. Unless we are sadly mis-of $47.30.
but fairly flag bottoms, the rule military element runs counter
instant."
taken, we often, see boys and girls i We are informed that Mee being twenty feet across for every to the interests of the civil popula- well under the stipulated ages staggering under burdens which: Cheng is selling photographs of 100 feet of length. The initial tion. The confidence he has must very seriously tax their the earthquake disaster at Yoko-test, and one that is reliable, is gained may be judged by the fact strength and in the long run do ham, taken by officers of the to lead five tons weight on one that when Ngai Bong-ping de- DIGBY-On Sept. 13th, in them unloid injury. But it is not Empress of Canada, the proceeds side of the ferry designed to hold parted from Wuchow, after re- London, to the wife of Dr. Kenelm alone it the sphere of industrial being devoted to the Japanese hundred passengers, and if no capturing it for the "Constitution- dangerous tilt resuits from this, alist" forcas, he left Fung in 1. Digby a daughter. (By cable). labour that this evil is to be Relief Fund.
then the vessel shall have been charge of the Pro-Sun gårrison, observed. A couple of days The hotel boarders tax has considered fit for the service for in spite of his province of origin. ago we saw passing through
Otherwise In this position he has excercised the streets î
most elaborate been put into operation in Can-which it is intended. funeral procession. Included in ton, the daily receipts being said with the present design of the considerable tact in the cause of the paraphernalia were a number to total some five or six hundred majority of our ferry launches, preservation of good order, not
wooden articles, somewhat dollars. The privilege of levying no dependable margin of safety resembling tables, of extremely dimer taxes has been granted to can be realised.Yours etc.
RIVER SKIPPER, heavy weight. These were each a syndicate for $220, per annum. Hongkong, Sept. 13tha., 1923.
The Telegraph.
HONGKONG, 14th Sept., 1923.
THE SILVER LINING."
of
employed. A Dead Ordinance?
Our Picture Pago to-morrow
groups will include
of the weddings of Mr. J. A. Fraser to Dr. Gladys Turner und of Mr. A. J."Martin to Miss E. M. Craik, as well as snapshots of refugees who arrived here from Japan on the Empress of Canada,
killed.
A Correction.
only with his colleagues but with
rison.
the commanders of the Kwangsi forces further up the river. Some" observers of the situation, have carried by two little mites of
said that but for the restraining girls who could not have been
Influence of this Kwangsi man, more than five or six years of age,
Wuchow might have been the and in ang instance the burden
scene of another struggle if the There is great deal of premise was so great that the tiny
Kwangsi men up river had come Sir. Referring to the item in down to obtain revenge for in the latest pronouncements on carriers were almost 'crawling along, so beat were they under
your yesterday's issue in connecthe defeat inflicted on them by the subject of the Ruhr and re- the lot. How many miles they
tion with arms seized on board General Ngai. parations in fact, the whole carried these articles and what
the French, mailboat, I beg to t is now feared that with the" inform that a slight correction has elimination of this good factor aspect has heen altered within their "condition was at the end
of the journey, we hesitate to At about 6 p.m. yesterday, to be'inade re same.
the Kwangsi troops may be only the last three days. is up-think. At any rate, they were mehr-car No. 792 went over the It was not the Police officers too eager to return to Wuchow parent, from statements made clearly distressed in their labour, bank on the Castle Peak road who discovered the arms but the for another brush with the gar that France is prepared to ox-and we could not help thinking just past Tsin Wan Hill and Purser of the ship, and the Polico amine the German offers of that it was little short of a dis-landed well down the side into Officers hourded the steamer after How the coup was car so the water. A Chinese boy ten of having received information from ried out was related to a guarantees with tolerance, and grace, that they should he
twelve years of age, who was the local Agent..
| Telegraph reporter ly skippers probably our ally has reason to
amongst the passengers, was As your statement of the facts engaged on the West River run. know that Germany is prepared
calls for a public rectification It appears that General Fung The fact of the natter is that
should be grateful if you would in-was decoyed to a gunboat where to give up the game of "wang-
there is still a deal of exploiting Mr. H. E. B. de Gruchy, of sert the above in a prominent page a banquet was then spread. The |ling" and make an attempt to of child labour in this Colony, In Ellerman's Arracan Rice and in your day's issue. Yours etc. unexpected occurred when, in the
egt all abilities "fairly and certain factories, we are told, Trading Co. Ltd., Bangkok met squarely. The must significant juveniles work well on into the with a serious accident whilst feature of recent cables has been night, whilst they can be seen playing Rugby at the Sports Club:
daily in our streets doing work on Aug. 25. He was accidentally the new tone of the German which greatly overtaxes their kicked and, was admitted to the authorities, which has culminat constitalions. We have not yet Narsing Home suffering from ed in an admission by Herr heard of a solitary prosecution ruptured kidneys.
under the Ordinance regulating Stresemann that the solution child labour not that we want to The flags over Taikio office of the Rulir trouble could not be see the law enforced merely for and works were flown at half- achieved solely by a continuance the sake of the look-see" of the mast yesterday owing to news of passive resistance or by a thing; but we cannot believe that having been received of the death
A notable improvement will, te conditions are so ideal that there of Mr. H. T. Heath at Hankow made on the N.Y.K. Japan-Europe policy of¿force." This suggests has never beenerand, is not now, on the previous afternoon. For Line, when the new liner the decision by the Germans that any need for the law. There many years Mr. Heath has been Hakusan Maru will be put on passive resistance shall cease, would certainly appear grounds on the Taikon staff, formerly at the service replacing the smaller for thinking that, in the main, the Quarry Bay and latterly in the s. Kitano Maru, scheduled to which makes a solution of the big Ordinance is more or less of a North, and, the news of his death, sail from Yokohama on Oct. 11th. problem neli more likely, for dead letter. We are aware that after a short period-in hopsital The Hakusan Maru, which is! our of the chief French condi- the child labour question is a very with dysentery, will be received now being fitted for the service at ss. Kitano Maru, now on the tions for evacuation of the occupi-complex one, and that it involves with deep regret by all his friends the Mitsu-Bishi Dockyard and Japan-Europe line, will be berth-
2
We
other and bigger issues, but if it
41
EMPLOYMENT OF PRISONERS.
No Change in General Policy.
་་་
R. RODENFUSER,
course of the dinner, the large Aeting Agent: Compagnie des number of officers present. sud-
Messageries Maritimes. Hongkong, Sept. 14th., 1923.
NEW N.Y.K. LINER.
"
Hakusan Maru for the
European Line.
#
denly produced their revolvers and pointed them at their chief. The latter had no option but to allow himself to be tied up and led off to confinement. The" latest news obtained is that a demand for $50,000 as ransom is being demanded for the release. of the captive.
KITANO MARU.”
P
To Make Une Run to
Australia.
The N.Y.K. announces that the
in
Engine Works at Nagasaki, is the ed at least for one voyage on the d territory is the cessation of this was not intended to enforce the
service Recently the name of Mr. fourth of the "H" class passenger Japan - Australia pin-prick policy, whilst Britain in law. why was it ever passed ? Lohman Hisey was mentioned in liners and is the sistership to the addition to the present three mail the recent Note plainly hinted to Not merely to stop the tongues of a list of those dead or missing as Hakone Maru, Haruna Maru and steamers.
the Colony's detractors at Home, a result of the Japanese curth-Hakozaki Maru already on the The Kitano Marù, after return- Germany that passive resistance we hope.
quake. We are glad to be able line. She is 515 feet long, 62 feetling to Japan from Europe, will should be abandoned. "It will
to state that he is very much wide. 37 feet deep and of 10,423 sail from Yokohama "for have been noted that the funds
alive: he paid a visit the Teletons, gross and 18,850 displace Australia on or about the 16th gruph office this morning. He ment
October, arriving at Sydney and intended for the Ruhr cùm,
was in Tokyo during the earth- Her propelling machinery con- Melbourne on the 14th and 19th paign
were the other day
quake and had a fortunate escape. sists of two sets of Parson's November respectively. diverted by the German Govern-
Mr. Hisey says he believes that turbines of the latest type with The steamer will probably omit Mr. and Mrs. H. P. Chambers, double reduction gear, which calling at Zamboanga, Thursday ment to better uses. In con-
also reported missing, are safe,, enables her to maintain a speed Island and Townsville both out- sidering this aspect of the pro-
of 16 knots,
ward and homeward voyages, but We referred recently to the
The ship can carry 116 first she may call at Shanghai or blem, we must take into account possibility of the employment of the possibility that Italy has convicts on local work, like road-
STAR THEATRE,
class, 55 second class, 32 inter other ports according as cargo, mediate class and 102 third class may offer.... played no small part in settling making under the powers con-
passengers. The Hakusan Maru The Kitano Maru has been very the issue. Indeed, have ferred by the new Ordinance
Tina Gerald and Tom
is installed with every modern popular among the travelling amending the Prisons Ordinance.; Signor Mussolini declaring now A representative of this paper,
Fenwick.
convenience and comfort.
public as a very fine and com2 the Colonia! that the Italian Government who called on
Owing to the many ro Fuests. The first class public rooms fortable passenger liner. {had intervened to convince Secretary this morning, gathered received for a further pe'form-include a large dining saloon, a "Berlin" of the inutility of passive that the Government has no anco, Miss Tina Gerald and Mr. spacious lounge and music room,
CHANG HSUN, intention of instituting a change Tom Fenwick announce that and writing room, a comfortable resistance and the likelihood of from its general policy, and they will appear at the Sta smoking room, und a 'children's its leading to a 'catastrophe. At there IR no likelihood of Theatre, Kowloon, to-morrow rooni. They are all conveniently located and neatly furnished.
Reported Death in Tientsin. time, the Berlin using chain gangs on roads, or night."
Detuils of tho perform-The verandah cafe, which occupies) most commanding position authorities have probably become in other labour which they could
The object of the ances of theso clever artistes are a
Shanghai, Sept. 14. be put to.
one of the convinced by now that they have Ordinance is to cover. the emulready well-known in theColony,aft, is
many. It is reported that Chang Hsun. been playing a losing gamë. ployment of prisoners un the and there should be a good house attractive features. Great care the author of the Monarchist quarrying and reclamation work to witness what is a decidedly has been used in designing coup d'ed in 1917, died at Tien- Herr Stresemann still talks in connection with the new good and novel show. An all-and constructing the second and tsin from heart disease on the. about the "sovereignty of the prison at Ngau-shi-wan, and comedy programme is announced, third class quarters, which are 12th instant.Render. Rhineland" and "regaining the possibly also at Lai-chi-kok. with one exception-The In- remarkable for the provision of
Some convicts, mostly elderly truder." The management is to spacious room, efficient ventila freedom of the Ruhr" as if such men, would also most probably be congratulated on the choice of tion and lighting and complete tous-measurement. The Hakusan
sanitary arrangements,
Maru is the first and the only are to be prior conditions to the be employed outside the prison plays to be presented.
Booking is at Moutrie's and In addition to being a superb liner in Japan to have a gyro payment of reparations; but in in market gardening. view of the fact that.very valu
The amendments were neces- the Star Theatro, and it is ex-passenger liner, the steamer has compass installed.
The Hakusan, Maru. is due to sury because of the special ar-pected that theatre-goers will not excellent facilities for handling able industrial pledges
are rangements that this outdoor miss this opportunity of scoing cargo. Her loading capacity is leave Hongkong for London on offered, in what appears to be a work would entail—
some clovor performances. 11,200 tone deadweight and 13,000 October 24th.
the Bame