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HERRING HALL MARVIN Jinx accommodation. The problem BANK VAULT DOORS, but that is no reason why It
"A STANDARD FOR THE WORLD"
DAY BY DAY,
MANKIND DIVIDES ITSELF INTO TWO CLASSES - BENEFAJTORS
Ligut. R. O. Cobbold, R.A., re- joined his unit from sick leave in England on July 9th..
ghofahould not be thoroughly explored.
In various spheres of activity. AND MALEFACTORS-Emerson room might well be found in this Colony for Indian, Tamil, Malay, Annamite, Filipino, Javanese and Gaanese workers if efficient ma- chinery were brought into being The Empress of Hussia arrived for the regular supply of our at Shanghal at 5 a.m. yesterday needs. It might even be neces- and is due in Hongkong at noon sary to create a Labour Bureau here, the cost of which would,
The installation of a Horrit g Hall Marvin Vault Door is a form of insurance which cannot be duplicatod. The name ituo'f is the best proof of the high quality of the product-the leader of its kind for over three quarters of a contury
we are sure, be willingly borne it only immanity from future big, strikes could be assurga.
There can, of course, be no suggestion of a complete shutting out of Chinese labour from this Colony, but the time would appear to have arrived when we could very well do with a considerabla measure of dilution. Even were SPECIFICATIONS AND PRICES the present strike to end almost immediately, what guarantee have we, that the near future might not witness further stóp-·
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As there was not a quorum present, yesterday's meeting of the Sanitary Board was adjourned for a wook.
RUSSIA AND CHINA
SOWING THE SEED OF SOVIETISM.
Aggressivo nationallem is no now manifestation in Chino." When I was thoro, about the time: of the Russo-Japanose" war, it was much in evidence. But sinco then, because of the revolutionary trond of world development, it has become greatly intensified.
"RED" PRINCIPLES FOR.
It cannot be denied that there 500,000,000 PEOPLE.
are many points of similarity between Russia and China. The situation in China has long professional
In both coratrice a class of Boon aarious, but the nature of the drawn from the discontented in
revolutionaries, disturbancos now occurring Attelligentsia, has come into being, Shanghai show that it has devel and the proportion of workers to oped to, a stage which justifo
the utmost anxiety, writos Mr. Peasantry is about the same; the Lancelot Lawton in the Daily Pasantly predominating to the Chronicle in mail week. He extent of about 85 por cent. of the population, and consisting of continues:
small-holders getting a bare sub Latest mossagos state that anti-sistance from the land. foreign fooling is manifesting! And what is still more remark-, The Hongkong Land Invest- itself in all parts of the country,able, there is a certain redemb mont and Agency Co., Ltd., is and what is still more disquiet-lance between the disposition of paying an interim dividend of $2 ing that this anti-foreign feeling the two peoples, a love of peace par share for the six months is largely the fruit of Bolshevik which may at any moment be ended June 30th,
agitation.
replaced by the flame of fanc The history of Soviet Russia's ticism.
More than ever is the similarity "Town Dwellar."-You have recost relations with China are
of the two peoples evident to-day,.. failed to comply with the rule little known in this country. requiring correspondents to for-
It is not realised that Russia is though the systems by which it ward their names and addresses; making a determined effort to has boon brought about diffor
widely, honço the non-appearance of your Bolablevise China, and that, in
Of China it may be said that to lettor.
the process she is becoming |" Asiaticised "harself.
large extent, the ultimate ideal. aimed at by Lenin-Society with- out the State - has boon attained.
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A measure requiring all inter-
island vessels carrying 50 or more passengers to instal wire- less is expected to come before the next session of the Legis- lature in Manila.
ext? That is the contin- gency against which
we have to legislate. Business Interests, public utility concerns and Gov- ernment services cannot be When the President Garfield OX- arrived in Manila from Hong Mrs. Potley desires to sincerely pected to carry on effectively so kong, the captain reported that thank all those who so kindly long as they are in the position of he had never experienced worse sent flowers and messages of
a man at whose hend a revolver rain than that encountered on the sympathy in her recent bereave-
is being pointed. Some reason-run from here;
mont.
The Telegraph.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 15, 1923.
HONGKONG'S LABOUR
PROBLEM.·
Ji
Unable to find a place among the Western nations, she has begun to dream of being first in Asis.
The Contral Administration re- frains from interference in loci) affairs. The Chinese masses are organised into unions or societies,
Petrograd (Leningrad) is no longer what its founder (Peter the Gront) intended it to be, ✡ window looking into Europe many of which are secrot, and its place as the capital has been some of which have oxisted for looking into Asia. taken by Moscow a window centuries.
Beggars and thioves have their
agreed on one thing, that since
All visitors to Moscow are unions under distinguished
patronago.
Life is lived according to the revolution the aspect of the city and its crowds has come to ancient tradition handed down resemble more and more that of in Holy Books, which prescribe able guarantee of being able to The value of "Foamito was Peking
human conduct for every conceive or any other great secure and retain a steady supply demonstrated last evening when Eastern city.
able occasion in life. Thus there is no such things, A8 indivi- Russia's official relations with of workers, willing to work, is a fire broke out aboard a motor
boat which was anchored off the China have been put upon an
duality among the masses essential for everybody concerned. Praya near Arsenal Street, due entirely new footing.
of China; All
ther Under circumstances in which the to one of its pipes bursting. The cessions have been handed back,ivilisation to be found there (as present type of Chinese worker Central Fire Brigade were soon all indennities and contributions in Soviet Russia) is a civilisation of 'industrious ants. Fealing a on the spot, and they quickly relinquished. enjoys a complete monopoly, no extinguished the outbreak by Even extra territorial rights need to escape from this "living Buch guarantee can' be given. liberal applications of Foamite." for Russian citizens have been tomb" many Chinese, intellect
uals and workers have rushed to That is why there is need for
surrendered. And an Am- abassador has been sent to Pek- Bolshevism, a faith which re- looking into the question of a sup-
ing who, as such, ranks above pressos individuality to a much the Ministers representing other greater extent than that handed
down from their ancestors. Powers.
Will history repeat itself?
Aa
The recurrence of strikes in plementary labour supply. If going to get anything but personal Hongkong-particularly the 1922 this problem is to be investigated, impoverishment out of the strike, upheaval and the present stop no better time then the present together with depleted union funds. page-has naturally given rise to could be chosen. We commend The whole business is a sad com- the thought whether some scheme the whole matter to the notice mentary on the alleged good sense could not be evolved by which both of the Government and the of the Chinese worker. we should be placed less at the Chamber of Commerce, feeling mércy of restless Chinese workers, that it is one worthy of the most
A few days ago, a contributor to serious contemplation.
the South China Morning Post. looking at this matter from the standpoint of British interests
Disillusionment.
Useless Employees.. #
It is admitted that the Soviet
fluential of all the diplomatists] onvey is the most active and in in the Chinese capital to-day,
An intensive Bolshevik pra- paganda is waged throughout China.
Chinese students are a common sight in the streets of Moscow,
and
COMMUNIBM 800 YEARS AGO, Eight hundred years ago Chine endured for 50 years a Commu regime.
Commerce, industry and a ulture were nationalised.
The Stale fixed prices, If there is one thing which, the
decided what kind of crops should” FOLLOWERS OF DR. BUN. be grown. The property of the present strike is demonstrating to
Outer Mongolia has been ad-rich was confiscated, and dis foreign business houses more than mitted to the Russian Union of
tributed among the poor.
The Lenin of those days, one According to telegraphic inforina- another it is that they can very Soviet Republics and Moscow both in Hongkong and Shanghai, tion received yesterday, the General well get on without the services of has undertaken to supply Outer Wang ngon Che, argued that tho Mongolia's foross with arms and only people to suffer would be the suggested the calling of a con-Labour Union in Shanghal has al-many of their former Chinese ammunition.
userers and the monopolists; and ference of leading British busi-ready incurred the displeasure of employees. It is only at such aA recently organised Com-that, as the State would be the only speculator, enormous profits ness men of this Colony and its members, by not keeping up its time as the present that business munist party in China has no would be available for expendi
more than four thousand mom-| China generally to consider the
payments of striko pay. A crowd men begin to realise what a number bers,"
ture on works of public utility, question of the introduction of a
of strikers, whose strike pay was of useless "hangers-on" figure on But Moscow puts its reliance And in pursuance of his policy he strong British leaven into the la-
on the Kuo-Min tang party, of destroyed all old institutions and three days overdue, became hostile the monthly payroll. Many of which the late Sun Yat Sen wasinto the sacred and classical wrote his own views and maxims bour forces of Hongkong and
to the Union officials who had to these employeet-particularly in the leader. This party is co-works of ancient days. Shanghai. It has been suggested
call upon the Chapel Volunteers for the lesser positiona-fulfil ittle, if posed of intellectuals, students,
This Communist experiment to us, however, that it might be
and workers, and its main protection. A policeman, who later any, useful function on the staffs strength is in three provinces in spread chace and ruin; and the preferable if the various British
Bolsheviks of those times, com- ordered the Volunteers out of the of local firms. They are usually of the South, where there is a) trading centres in the East each
total population of 70,000,000. pelled to fly the country, took Settlement limits, was cheered by the type who get worked into a acted separately, and that there
It is severely nationalist, and refuge in the deserts of Tartary, is no special need to confine the the strikers, who shouted: "We position of some sort by relatives advocates the expulsion of for-where, leading a vagabond life, want work. This is the kind of or friends, the latter of whom no eigners. At the same time, it they communcicated their re- leavening forces to, British sub-
maintains a Communist school volutionary spirit to the savage cts. In such an event, what is thing that is always table to hap-doubt make a little "squeeze" on at Canton, with an Annamite Mongols.
Then Genghis Khan, the there to hinder Hongkong from pen in connection with any strike the transaction. The majority of section, a Japanese section and a
world's greatest mastor of starting a real investigation of←a two-edged weapon at all times. them are certainly not worth the Hindu section.
Donbtlass it is the propaganda strategy, appeared on the scone and led the Tartars (and their this question without delay7 The Workers are led to believe that if room they occupy, and we imagine of this party that is responsibio Bolshevik allies) in the great first necessity, of course, would they strike they will receive enough that many of them, if they ever for the riots at Shanghai.
Westward invasion through In a pamphlet which I have
Russia; for the several interests involved, them starving, yet when they do go their services are no longer re- the Bolsheviks express the con
a koon interest in Mongolia... The same lesson was fident hope that as a consequence and in this connection the idea out they often discover that the quired.
Allusion bas already beon made funds of the unions are soon de taught us in the 1922 strike, but of foreign pressure from without to the inclusion of a Mongolian has been put to us that a con
and civil astrife within, the ference should be called compris-pleted and that strike pay stops. by degrees these parasites for that Chinese workers will be driven Republic in the Soviet Union. ing Government officials, the prin- Our Hongkong workers are Anding is all they are have managed to cipal employers of labour in out the same thing in Canton, if fasten' themselves on industrial establishments, and, strong local rumours are to be be business establishments, and they possibly, representatives of the lieved. The much-vaunted wealth have been amongst the first of those Residents' Associations, these lat-and power of these labour organi-to-go out in the present strike. No ter Being principally interested in sations is soon revealed at its true doubt the same story applies, maybe the question of new sources for valde when it comes to the test and to a lesser extent, to many domestic the recruitment of domestic ser the workers, who have put their households of the Colony. We all vants. A further suggestion is faith in them, begin to think about know how easy it is to fall in with that the Consuls of various coun- returning to work again as neces- the No. 1's suggestion that a coolie/China a system similar to that differout, for it is a policy which
be some common meeting point pay from their unions to prevent return, will be politely told that before mo, published in Moscow Bolsheviks of to-day are taking
Bolshevik literaturo is en-
into the arms of the Kuo-Min deavouring to prove that the tang party, which will thon be to various
able to secure the power, drive Mongolians were not savages but out the foreigners, and establish a highly cultivated people; and arohmological excavations are close relations with Soviet Russia being carried out with Bolshevik
It is pointed out that Russia has a frontier co-torminous with financial aid, in Mongolian
[territory.⠀⠀ that of China for over 6,000 miles,
Here, perhaps, we have one of or four times longer than that of the most significant indicate of her frontier with Western Europe of the trend of Bolshevik policy.
It is not to bo doubted that tho
To this policy the Western Bolshovik aim is to create in nations cannot long romain in-.. prevailing in Soviet Russia. tries who have possessions in the sily drives. It has been said that here and a "boy" there should be The Bolsheviks method is to
may make the Yollow Paril East should also be called into a strike never pays and the truth added to the household staff, with exploit national sentiment and to reality and which (putting the populations of Russia and China In pursuance of this palloy people, or considerably more then
together) affects consultation, with a view to sup- of that anying is surely being borne the 'result that prior to the strike stimulate anti-foreign hatred.
· 540,000,000- plying information ns to what out all along the line in the present there were many domestic estab- they have imported arms across a third of the world's population. [alternative labour is available. instance, more especially so when lishment here which had almost the frontier and have repeatedly Such an investigation would first there are no labour demands out double the number of servants follow the lines of taking stock of which might come increased pay really needed. If this strike docs of the prosent situation, then see for the workers, but only a foo-nothing else than to demonstrate In all the Bolsheviks pro- Board has rejected the recom ing how many workers of various fishly inspired "follow-my-leader" that some effective "weeding out" types are normally needed for the cessation of work Exaping the can be done in offices and re- Colony, and finally looking into situation how one will, it is Im-sidences, then, it will have served the matter of wages and hous-possible to see how the workers are some useful purpose.
instigated riots and striken.
AGAINST BRITAIN.
paganda the Powers (particularly Great Britain and the United States) are represented as Im perialist brigands, onslaving the
Chineso massos.
The United States Shipping mondation of the President of the Emergency Fleet Corporation that the bid of $1,370,000 by the Boston Iron and Motal Company for 200 toasols be accepted.