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Thamby Marayeas Dyskalon in the Onbong.
The
Hongkong Telegraph
PROBLEMS OF INDIA.
Threstons Host Miles per Dollar.
At Indianapolis, U.S.A. on May 301, 1924, Jos Boyer, driving■ Dussenberg Bpecial, equipped with Firestone. Gum- Dipped Cords won this 500-mile Memo- rial day Race. Boyer set a now world's record by averaging 98.24 miles per hour. It is further note-worthy that the first ten cars finishing wore all equip pod vlth Firestone Gum-Dippod Cords. THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO., LTD. Registered Head Office and Service Station. 3-Wong Wei Chung Read,
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NEW CHINESE CLUB. MACLAREN RESUMES.
HUGE SHIP COMING.
FOR HONGKONG'S ' BUSINESS MEN.
ARRIVAL AT RANGOON. BIGGEST EVER SEEN HERE, What will undoubtedly be the
THE
Labour,
Education and Unrest.
INTERESTING INTERVIEW WITH MR. C. F. ANDREWS.
A most interesting personality times as high. I think those
in Hongkong at the inomont is figurow'speak for themselves." Mr. C. F. Andrews, an old friend
way of Siberia, Dr. Tagore had
1st. The Doctor in on July tends travelling by the same; will and beat to Singapore, not have time either. to:
LABOUR PROBLEMS IN
INDIA.
Asked
A now Chinese Club--the Should be Here in a Few Days. biggest ship ever to visit Hong- Chinese Merchants' Club-is to
and
"
TO-DAY.
the result had.
LOCAL TENNIS. ··
LR.C. TOURNAMENT. The final round of the Doubles Championship Competition in connection with the I.R.C. was played off yesterday afternoon on the Bookunpoo ground before a fair number of spectatore. H. D. and O. Rumjahn, this your's holders of the Colony's Doubles beon Championship, met and defeated
The arrangements for the tour- ists here will be in bands of the American Express Company.
"MIXED GRILL.”
·Happy Valley. ·
.Central, 8950,
ROLLED SLEEVES AND PANAMA HATE.
(Reuler's Service.)
London, Juno 25.
Miss McKano beat Mrs. Mallorg:6-1,6-0. Miss MoKang won the first five games, and only lost the sixth through venturesome play. Mrs. Mallory was autolassad in the second Hot..
Mdils. Longton boat Miss Clarks, 6-0,6-0, Miss Wills boat Miss Dransfield, 6-0,6-2. S. Hadi boat K Hooi-hye, the champion of Malaya, 7-5,6-3, 6-2. The American, Norris Williams, bent the Fronchman, Faret, 6-4,4-6, -6,6-4.
The Doubles.
In the first round of the doublos, Fukuda and Harada bost E. In the first doubles matches played to-day, on the centro-court, the Americans, Richards and Hunter, defeated-F.M.B. Fisher and Lamb and G. Crolerees, 3-6,6-3; 6-4, 6-2.
Peacock, 3-6,7-5, 6-4,6-3.
On an outer court, Okamoto and Honi-hye best L. Owen and W. Aitken, 6-2,6-2,6-2.
The Britishers, Gilbert and Kingscote, boat Roupell and Duminy 6-4,6-3, 6-2.
FUNDS FOR THE AGED.
MORE GENEROUS SCHEME PROPOSED..
London, Junë 25. A quarter of a million elderly people will benefit as the result of an extension of the old age pensions scheme, which has obtained the House of Commons” approval..
keng is,, we learn, siuo to arrive hora during January noxt; og a At Wimbledon there were twelve thousand persons in attend- Rangoon; Jung 25. bo opened on Saturday on the
round-the-world tourist trip. anco for the second round of the tournament. It was vory hot Squadron Leader Maclaren fth floor of the new China
The vessel is the s.8. Bulgenland day, and there was a blaze of colour. The players had turned up. Building. A suito of very large has arrived hero.-Router.
This is the first indication that (formerly known as the Belgie), sleeves, and panamas wore the order of the day. The first contre
has secossfully the owners of which are the In-court player was the Australian veteran, Norman Brookes, who rooms has been secured and thown have boon furnished in Chinone Maclaren style by Mossrs. William Powell, assembled his now inachine and ternational Navigation Company, defeated the Cingalese, D. Rutnam, 6-2,6-2, 2-6,6-1. Brookes, with Ltd. A smoking room, lounge, resumed his flight from Akyab, which is a combination of some uncanny anticipation and skilful placing kopt Rutnam on the run,
of the biggest shipping interests Brookes was 'untiring, and was de his bast in the fourth set. and associate of the great Indian
and har have been fitted out and whore ho crashed on May 24. post. Dr. Rabindranath Tagoro.
In discussing the domesticator billiards will be added. If all goes well, the British in the world including, the White Mr. Andrews, who has 'come to
The purpose of the new Club airman should be horo carly next Star, Red Star, and other lines The vosaci la a famous Red Star Hongkong in response to a cablo labour problems of India, Mr. Bessage from the post to meet Androwe said that the Govern is purely social, and membershin wook.
Chinogo On enquiry, this morning, Mr. liner on the American run, but is him here on his way back froinment of India had of late bean will be confined to Japan, very courteously gave an very active in encouraging in merchants who will thus be able H. K. Prosser, of the Asiatic due to go on a touring trip in the every way possible better labour to meet for timins etc.,and discuss Petroleum Company, who has autumn," being expected here interview
Telegraph re- conditione. It had passed many business matters.
charge of the arrangements here, sometime in January with a yesterday morn- prosentative
moasures which had materially About 60 members, have so far informed our representative that large party of tourists.
The vessel, which was built by! explained ink, in which he
improved the lot of the labourer been elected, the entrance fee he has as yet no information as that a Mr. Elmhiret, the poet's and although they had only got being 8500 and the subscription to when Maclaren is likely to Mossra Harland and Wolff of Secretary, had gone to Europe by to the 10 hour day it was a great 320 per mor th. Tho Hon. reach Hongkong. It in not yet Dolfast, in 1917, is of 27,132 tons Sho is 670 feet in length asked him to come to Hongkong deal better than the 12 hour day Secretary is Mr. Li Tse-fong, the settled whether the British for gross, with not tonnage of 15,392 and nice him so that he (the) which existed only four years Chief Manager of the Bank of will go direct to Vinh after reach- tons.
ing Bangkok, or whether he will between perpendiculars, has a post) would unt be travellino, A great many factorion had East Asia.
procoed by way of Saigon and width of 78 ft 4 ins, and is 44 ft. Tourano.
7ins, in depth. Fitted with triplo ulong. Mr. Andrews is enjoying one on to eight-hour shifts on
scrow, aight turbines and also: the hospitality of Mr. H. M. H. their own account. With rogard Nemazeo until Dr. Tagore'so, agricultural labour, it was
reciprocating engines, the vessel is of the latest in shipbuilding, arrival hore by the Suwa Maru very difficult to say whather there had been any improvement. Whilst the price of grain budj
having aubmarino signalling in addition to other modern im- one up the prices of other em-
Closing Exchange 2s. 4. 9/16.
provementa. inodities had also gone up and
Barometer 2 p.m. 29,78 Temperaturo the farmer was no better off.
2 p.m. 87 lecture here in Hongkong, to His opinion was that there were
Humidity
Spiri · 66. visit Canton in response to an
Lighting Up-Time 7.11 p.m. invitation, or to visit Saigon and to signs yet of prosperity coming
High Water 5.25 a.m. Angkor as he would have liked.to the great masses of the short people of India. 85 per cent. of
Low Water 11.20 p.a. He will probably pay visit to Java, and is due to fulfi whom were villagers.
as to what he thought would
Mr. Snowden, introducing the necessary financial resolution, an engagement to go to Italy and South America at the end of the bring about a change, Mr. An-
said that single persons having means, not necessarily earned, of drows sald that improvement in year. Mr. Andrewa oxplained that he usually accompanied the world trade and world prosperity that young educated Indians had
twenty-five shillings a week, would be entitled to a tent shillings pension a week: A married couple whoso incomo was fifty shillings was one of the frat essential,
would be entitled to a sovereign a week jointly. The cost of this poot on his tours, being with him India was just as much of the lost touch with their mother straight sots. whon he visited Japan in 1916.
commercial world se any other tongue and with what should A HOME OF CULTURE. country. The encouragement of ve buon their native cultura, was detrimental to fast play, the There will in future be an added scheme would excobd four millions sterling in the first year, but would. &lso Educationally, they had been ball being slow in rising. There roseon why you should make a rise to seven million. The proposals in no way could be regarded Speaking of his association village industries would
facior tulled up by the roote and had was net innoh baccus play, both point of procuring Saturday's as a final settlement of the problem of old age pensions. He hoped with the great post, Mr. Andrews holp, whilst the third
he thought. the acquired in a foreign tongus a couples working up to the net at issue of Telegraph (the shortly to submit a scheme for mothers and widows pensions, and
reduce the age limit to sixty-five. Week-EndPper"), becausa, com. him at the International Settlo-educational and
HD developed a stinging mancing on the 28th instant, ment, a Bolpur Bongal, which of the people That was taking unable to apply in native life. was known as "Visva Bharati," place, but very slowly at present. Inovitably that had formed a service which yielded him several" Mixed Grill, an Ashley Starne which means "world culture." He did not think that much in mentality loading to discontent games, his ground shots and feature, will appear every wook
Every lover of a hearty laugh! from all parts of the world and by the introduction of scientificated Indians were feeling very in his play. Hls, partner played and who is not?) kaowe Ashley] At that Settlement people came crease of prosperity could come and dissatisfaction. Also, educ-volleying also being strong pointa
Sterne. For a long time he contr.. united in studying the religious agricultural improvements, and bitter at not getting what they a sterling game, his smashing at
MOTHER BADLY HURT. and social problems of humanity in in illustration of that told the thought they were going to get the net being particularly offoe-buted Whipped Topics to Lon after the war. By various notative. Due credit must be given on Opinions and in more recent relation to the different countries story of how, during a recont
Shortly after six o'clock this and cultures. That was part of the famine timo-in-a-part-of-Bengal, of the Government they had re-to the losers, who put up a plucky.
favourito The Passing Show. For Yesterday afternoon, prior to moraing, the first floor verandab Pool's great work and the visitors due to floods, the relief workers ally lost a great deal and their fight. The games were 6-4 6-4 day he has become a first
the President of .house in Wellington included Swiss. French, An- of whom he was one, succeeded discontent was all the greater. and 6-4. erican, English, Chinese. Indians, in introducing tractors to do, the Dr. Tagore had been one of the COMPLIMENTARY DINNER clean, sparkling wit, and for con- the arrival of
H. D. and O. Rumjahn were sistency in adhering to a high Madison, foreigners, but partl Street collapsed with a was really international. There place of the osttle which bad lucation through the mother guests of honour last night at a standard, Ashley Sterne has few cularly Americans, wore sub-crash which cause I numerous Coylonase, Burmese in fact it work of tilling the ground in great champions in India for
jected to an unusually rigorous police whistles to be Boundled. The tongue, but up to the present the dinner given by the Committee (if aequale fetare was a very good centrul library boon which contained a great number tractors did wonders and it was course of events had been against and members of the Indian Re- The Telegraph, believing that the examination by a petty Customs There was one cauality, this creation Club, on the occasion of writings of this popular humorist official, who went the length o being a woman who was per- of Chinos, Indian and Thibetan possible to
the Bood for him. manusorips. There was also an the next harvest, but then the AN UNHEEDED PROPHET, their winning the Open Doubles will be much apprealated in ordering them to take off their forming her matutinal ablutions: Championship of the Colony. Hongkong, has entered into a boots and stand in their stocking on the verandah and who was thrown down into the street when agricultural sido which kept question came: Who was going
Mr. Andrews went on to speak The other guests were 8. D. and contract by which it has secured, ed feet on the wet flot ra.
On receiving a complaint, the the structure collapsed. thom closely in touch with the to employ the labour which the villagon of India and the poor tractors, if kept, would do away of a celebrated Munshi (teacher) S. H. Ismail, A. H. and 8. A. for exclusive publication locally,
The introduction of who years ago warned educa Rumjahn, who did very well also his " Mixed Gril" feature. This, higher officials intervened and received injuries to the logs, and people. The Settlement was no with? palace of art, as the studente machinery would simply drive tionists of the dangers of educat-in the rocant H.K.O.O. champion-as stated above, will appear every apalogleed for the unnecessary was taken to the Government lived extremely simply in mud out of employment thousands of ing through English. This tea-ship tournament, In the un- Saturday in the Telegraph. Look discourtesy. and thatch houses. But there labourers who to-day get their cher not only foresaw the dangers avoidable absence of the Pre-out for the first instalment on the The offender was dismissed. - was a delightful atmosphere of livelihood off the land by the but prepared in the native tongue sident (Mr. J. H. N. Mody) and 28th, instant, and be sure to secure Daily Bulletin.
refinement. culture and
The simple motirade of ozen and text books which could take the chairman of the Committee tho Wook-End Papor" regularly poet was the bead and director plough cultivation. He question the place of the English text (Me U. Rumjahn), Mr. A. el and he had given him (Mr.ed, whether it was wino, at this books in use. Those native text Arculli presided over a large A-drows) permission to take up stage. to introduce agricultural books never sold, as the Indians attendance of members. the study of the very serious machinery. It was far from ideal wanted education in English and Jat our problems of India.
INDENTURED LABOUR
9, and A. Rumjan by three ASHLEY STERNE FEATURE
The soft nature of the ground.
#aid that he was working with would be, social uplift foreign aducation which they were every opportunity.
CONDEMNED.
starved or killed,
BOW
now his
Government
oven went so far
FOR "TELEGRAPH.”
THIEVING MONK.
U. S. PASSENGERS.
ANNOYED BY JAPANESE CUSTOMS OFFICIAE,
Yokobanın.June 25,
IRISH QUESTIONS IN AMERICA
British Government's
'Suggestion
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Civil Hospital on the arrival of the police.
TRADE WITH RUSSIA.
The Prospect of Orders.
London, June 25.
After the dinner, Mr Arcull}, not in congratulating H D. and O. to drive the village workers into the
In the House of Conimans, Mr. the urban centres where the con-sufficiently far-seeing to realise Rumjahn, referred to the envious!
Lumley asked had the Russian ditions of the poor were much the dangers of the methods being record the Club held in sports, STOLEN RING IN MOUTH.
case of a saying that though' youthful in
Government intimated that it WOTHO than la the country, followed. It was a
When two Chinese monks were
was prepared to place orders in "It is in the labour and Bcientifle agricuturo could help prophet not being honoured in his existence the IR. C. had many
London, Juno 25. England which would provide. educational problems that I am very much by the improvement own country. Fundamentally it achievements to boast of. Ho con-charged before Mr. E. W.
for large numbers of most keenly interested," said Mr. of the sand and by the develop was wrong to educate a man included by handing on behalf of Hamilton, at the Kowloon In the House of Lords. 1ord work
A of irrigation.
own country in a foreign the generous donor. Mr. J. H. N. Magistracy this morning, with Arnold stated that the Governongineering workers if credit Andrews, and as regards the rent former I have inade a special harrage scheme for the river tongus, and in such a direction Mody, a beautiful and valuable etealing a gold ring from the Hopment had instructed the British facilities be forthcoming?
at Washington Mr., Lunn said he understood study n'o Indian indentured Indus had boon started which that the education be gained silver bowl to each of the youth-Shing Timbar Yard yesterday. Ambasador
Sub Inspector Hutchins said that to inform the United States that proposals involving the labour to the Colonies, I have would eventually bring under could be of little or no practical ful champions.
the great O. Rumjahn, in an appropriate after defondants had been taken Government that they had placing of orders in England for toured Fiji, South Africa cultivation hundreds of squars use to him among
make miles of absolutely desert land, masses of his own people, and reply, thanked the committee and to the Police Station they were concluded it would be desirable manufacturas had recently been Malaya and Ceylon to
searched for fully twenty minutes that the conduct of matters at subinitied to the advisory 'com. as members of the IR. C. fortho hin- full enquiries and in my It was such works as, that which which reports to the Indian Government would most help the agricultural partially to alienate him from our they had done bim and his before the ring was found in the Washington exclusively relating mittes under the Trade Facilities
what would have been his partner and referred to the vast first defondant's mouth. His to the Irish Free State should be Acts of Bang I strongly condemned the in-population of India.
and prospects refusal to answer any of the confided to the Free State Replying to Comdr. Kenworthy donture systom. The system of EDUCATION AND UNREST. natural heritage of tradition and opportunities
It was with some reluctante native learning, Education (and before the members of the I.R: Inspectors's quos.tons led to the Ministar Plenipotentiary racore Mr. Lunn said the Trade Facili fran labour now in vogue in
discovery of the ring.
dited to the United States, and tlos scheme had not been extend Malaya is free from the serious that Mr. Andrews would speak of he was in favour of as much as objections I found to oxist in the the present unrest, confining people could get) should always
The first defendant said that ho they trusted this proposal would ed to the Russian Government at
acceptable to the United present but that would not pre labour under indenture. I found himself to the educational side.be of the character, and in the
wont to the timberyard to collect be of those
vent the committee conside a very distinct difference between As
subscriptions when he saw the States Government. — Reuter. # Fellow of Cambridge | native languaga“
the scheme.-Reuter. Indian labour in Malaya and University and as one who has receiving it: It was wrong to nay
the office. Ho ploked it up and Indian labour in Fiji and 1 con- spent many yours in studying that the British Government bad DEMAND TO BE PRESSED, ring ring on the ground in
the present style of demned Fiji' very strongly indeed, education. he was much more forced- so much so that the Indian Go-concorned with education, he education on the Indians, A second communication on took it away from the yard. vernment has brought indentured said than with politics. Thol for it was the Indians the subject of the demand for a He was later arrested by labour to an end. The evils of prosent political unrest was a themselves who desired it. 80 per cent, increase, in pay in the police on a ferry.
Until we stop this cutting off at being drafted by the Moulders The complainant, in ovidence, indentured labour are many, and very great question, and ho
MOULDERS PAY
LONG-DRIVING GOLF CONTEST:
in the Pacifio-Fiil and Samoa-thought that the unrest was the roots, we are dreating a Guild with a view to drawing the said that when the monks wont they were very keen on getting largely due to wrong educational political problem of the first early attention of foreign dook to the yard for money the first Chinese indentured labour, but the methods which had been applied order. I blame both parties, yard and engineering establish defendant put his subscription wages offered were not sufficient throughout the country. English, foreign and native, but the ments in the Colony to the book on top of the ring, which driv fendants left; witness discovered the y the demand. T ly high to attract. Personally, I had been made not the second outcome of it all, is bound to be necessity of prompt reply to was on a tlesk. When the de- by
four hat the ring bad disappears hould be strongly against in language but the first and the tragic,
Flow
On: enquiries this morging; a Telegraph reprosan! formed that hither
rom: Chinese conuer
tentured labour, anywhere. In medium of instruction, ovon for It was this that Mr. Androws Fiji I found that the suloide rate little boys, bad boon English. brought to a clone an inte among indentured Indians was History, geography, science and that revealed his 20 times as high as it is in Itidis all the varied subjects of modern insight into the itself and the murder rate--duo oduvation--had been taught are te deg perblax ta cho min of women 80 through English text books, India,
convicted:
Finches,
London June 25.
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