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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
Whenever you leave your house you leave it Safe-if your door is fitted with a YALE Night-latol.
A Yale Cylinder Night-latch cannot be picked" or forced, ond can only be opened by
the proper key.. The word *YALE'
security.
moans
DECEMBER 19, 1925.
time appointed another special Coal Commission to inve
DAY BY DAY.
-THERE IF AND OWRALTEL” BUT
the industry, and report possible solution The cost of the LIFE, LIFE, INCLUDING ALL ITS subsidy was estimated to be POWERS OF LOVE, OF JOY, AND £10,000,000 but it has since turned OF ADMIRATION –Ruskin.
| out to be £19,000,000. That Com-
The opening rate of the dollari mission has not yet reported but, on demand to-day is 28. 4.7/164. unless it is prepared to be quite revolutionary in its recomenda-
tions, it cannot be looked upon as being able to report very much moro than has already previously been reported on the industry by other Commissions.
The truth of the matter is that many of the mines now being worked in England are not pay ing the costs of oporation, apart from wages, are too high having regard to output. The plea of
SHANGHAI LETTER.
Workers Agitating-Ingenious Fraud Progress of Telephone Schonic.
(Our Own Correspondent.)
Shanghai, Dec. 8. In the chronicle of events which
HOCKEY NOTES.
PROSPECTS OF SIM"SHIELD COMPETITION.
The fight for the "Sim" hockey Shield is fast reaching an in- ... teresting stage, and it will soon Bo passible to form a good idea of who is likely to come out on top. There were two cases of typhoid | fever reported on Thursday. Both has been unfolding through the past The shield, which was only put sufferers were Chinoso.
fortnight, close observers profess to provides for matches between up for competition last sonson,
The P. & O. ss. Kliva, froin labour horizon, with indications the Club as entrante, and enablus ece atorm signals un Shanghai's the Royal Navy, the Army, and Hongkong, arrived at London on than anotter, outbreak of major twice, the scores counting as two those teams to play each other
9th. December,
proportions muy develop at any points for a win, one point for a
draw, and no points for a less, We have received from Mr. D. Įtime," 0. de Silva, of the Sun Life of
Through the earlier weeks of the dorived from the presentation of Considerable benefit has bean Canada, a very attractive wall new regime ushered in by the Che- calendar.
kiang authorities after they, had circies, as it has provided an in- the shiold in local hockey ousted the Fengblen troops most contive to the players, and the
From the Hongkong Fire In- rigourous measures were brought result has been that in the shield absolute the Trade Unionists and the surance Company Ltd., and the into force to quell activities of games, the standard of play hus socialists is that all 'the minns Canton Insurance Office, Ltd., we agitators and radicals di every hoen, on the whole, well above
hava received B most usoful degree, Whether or not influences the average,
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The Telegraph.
SATURDAY, DEC. 12, 1925,
THE COAL SUBSIDY.
ought to be nationalised at a calendar, round figure, so that the Govern- ment us owner of the whole could
have been at work to counteract Two games have so far beon this situation in the several Chinese played in the competition, in both
It is officially notified that the Yamons just outside the boundaries of which the Club were engaged, King's Exequatur empowering|
of the foreign settlements cannot and the most noticeable fact is thon weed out the bad mines, Dr. Wilhelm Wagner to act as definitely be said at this time, but that the Club have been the dovolop the good ones, cut out arman Consul at Hongkong has certainly a kind of relaxation of losers in both of them. Two waste and so decrease operation received His Majesty's signature. regulations has been brought about losses in succossion camo as and in some of the industrial centres something of a surprise, when it costs and leave wages high,'yot
agitators have been taking heart. is remembered they won the be able to market the coal at a
A motor car sustained damage
A result of this has been a con- [Shield last year, and had a in a collision with a tramcar in siderabic degree of labour unrest stronger team thisyear. They were reasonable price. No Govern Des Voeux Road Central yester-in scattered industrial plants with unfortunate in that two players, mont has, as yet, embarked upon day evening. None of the pass- sporadic strikes that have not yet turn out, and no doubt this was a Hett and Evans were unable to the experiment and it is one that engers were injured.
Jaffected any considerable number of would instantly arouse country-
workers. These strikes have grown
cause of their defeat. wide opposition. So there is a Major F. Hogg, R.A.V.C., assumed several industries, notably
Conimand Orders state that in number within the past week and and the Club were stronger this It was known that the Navy tremendous problemu still waiting the duties of Voterinary Officer, furniture manufacturers, have been thing, was weaker. A close game season, while the Army, if any. to be solved, and when this China Command, an Ist. Decenseriously crippled by walk-outs when was expected between the Club subsidy agreement runs out in bor, Vice Captain G. E. Oxspring, demands for wage increases were and the Navy, and the result was
the Spring there are going to be some, interesting, and possiby) anxious, times.
R.A.V.C.
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not met without delay.
Mass Meeting.
the
.
In addition to a number of im
not altogether unexpected in many quarters, and at the samo It is notified in the Government
timo it must be admitted that the When Mr. Winston Churchill,
Gazette that the names of the
Navy well deserved their victory. apoaking in the House of Com-
Baptisti, York and Company, promptu gatherings, hitherto under In the case of the Army however, Wembley Costs.
Limited, and The Co-operative the ban of the Chinese authorities. the primary cause of the Club's hions on the Coal Subsidy, sald Every Dominion and colony. Trading Association, Limited at least one assembly that might be defect was the astonishing in- that the coal mining industry on being invited to express an have been struck off the Register. mensured into the size of a mass-ability of the forwards to shoot. cannot be allowed to become in-opinion on the value of the Em
meeting was staged in the Chapel Dyer-Ball has lately been playing pire Exhibition at Wembley, has
recreations grounds after protests at centre, forward with Wood- definitely a pensioner upon other replied to the effect that it is There was one, case of diph of Chinese police had been defled. ward inside, and the Club attack industries, he simply foreshadow-well satisfied with the results of theria and one case of puerperal This, by the way, was in the form might be improved if Woodward ed that last July's crisis, post-the expenditure incurred, That fever reported yesterday. In the of another of the long series of was given the centre forward is gratifying, and will compensate first case the sufferer, was of memorials" for the "martyrs" position, again. The rest of the poned at tremendous est to the the guarantors for the portion of British nationality and in the whose lives were lost in the shoot-cam seems strong enough, al- nation, will soon be coming up the cost of running the exhibition second of Chinese.
ing on May 30. Chinese police though a capable goal keoper again for decision. Renter tells which they have been called'
sought to disperse this gathering must be selected to replace Mills, upon to meet. The lossOTES of us that the supplementary esti- Wombley" have already been
Owing to an orror, Messrs. forbidding entrance to the grounds, who has left the Colony for
Shanghai. mate of 29,000,000 was agreed to stressed-educational, fraternal Hall, Law's special sale was ad- but a gate was opened and after by the House without discussion, and conimercial. The matter of Vertised to commence on the 18th.the throngs rad, streamed in, a teosof the match, and by shooting The Army scored the only goal cost reminds us that the object of instead of the 10th,instaut. There of oratory of a distinctly ecmmunis-good and often, they looked like and this together with the the Empire Exhibition
are particularly attractive bur-tic hue was freed. £10,000,000 voted previously ma- primarily commercial, and the Kains to be had in various lince,]
increasing their lend several Shipping Embarrassed, times. If the Club had copied kes a total of £13,000,000 which idea underlying the scheme was especially camerus.
the promotion of inter-Imperial the nation had had to pay, all trade, particularly trade between Messrs. Carroll Bros. report the Fengsien command was dis- they would at least have forced Related to the warfare in the their example, there is little doubt North when news was received that that if a win had not been secured, because of last summer's unset-the British Isles and various the receipt of cables giving the patching warcraft, southward, the draw. tled difference. Trade was then parts of the Empire. In view of following sales of rubber shares Chinese
At the same time all honour is due to the soldiers, who shockingly bad, the demand for Lord Inchcape's recont remarks from Singapore to Hongkong: Woosung, near
on the tendency for the bigger Connemaras, $3.20; Brogas, $2.25; the Yangtsze, caused some little game, and if they maintain form con was extremely low both at colonial territories
the mouth of put up a splendid fight in the
Home and Abroad, and the self-supplying, it might be queried $5.20; Bassetts, 62.15; and Colins-
to become Malaka Pindas, $4.05: Kedahs, embarrassment to shipping withthey will prove a harder nut to"
crack than has been expected. |Government stopped what would whether Britain herself is likely burgh, $5.90..
an order forbidding any vessels, In the match against the Navy, foreign or Chinese, to pass up or Evans returned to the side, but otherwise have been a strike by
down the river between sunset and Hett was again an absentee. saying that the taxpayer would make up the differenco, in wages
Was
to reap many or lasting bonefits
by mero reason of Wembley; yet
as the exhibition has undoubted-
ly been a great Empire triumph,
Mine Disasters,
three score of men are reported
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naval authorities
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In the Government Gazette is dawn. This order, in view of the Again the shooting of the for- published an Order in Council danger that foreign craft might be wards was not as good as it ought these of us who think Imperially applying Part 2 of the Fugitive fired upon from Wooshing Forts, to have been to beat the Navy, to the minors, because there were will be glad that the plan proved Offenders act of 1881 to the Com-became the subject of emphatic pro- and again proved a big handicap signs of reviving trade which such a success, and agree that monwealth of Australia; Papua; test from the foreign Consular auto the side." would have the effect of putting the expenditure was well justified, Norfolk Island: New Guinea:thorities with the effect that the The first gamo in the compati- Nauru New Zealand; Western original order was modified. Ad-tion between the Army and the the industry on its own economic
Samoa Fiji, Gilbert and Ellice miral T. C. Yang, who commands Navy takes place at the U.S.R.C. basis again. But that revival has 'Yesterday's news of the Island; and British Solomon Is- the Chinese naval contingents at ground, Kowloon, on Tuesday, not come, although Mr.. Churchill terrible disaster in a mine in lande.
Shanghai, altered his requirements and should prove a game well than again gives the country what Alabama, whereby more
so that entrance to and exit from worth watching. Router describes as "crumbs of to have lost their lives, is but We
Shanghai for ships again became havé to acknowledgo possible with the condition that one- comfort" which, in the concreto, another item in a fairly long list receipt of an extremely attractive particular channel, known as the of such occurrences during this calendar from Messrs. A. S. North Channel, should not be used amount merely to a prediction your, mostly in America.
Another old idea that has just On Watson and Co., Ltd. Printed on
at night.
boen punctured is the belief that that the output of coal will stead-looking back through the files of white satin is the picture of a
New Form of Fraud. the Indian population of America Marigold," by ily increase. But then, even memory, we do not recollect that charming girl,
Shanghai In the guise of a gar. Hewitt, director of the School is rapidly dying out. Dr. Edgar the past few years have equalled Stanley Davis, and the artistry Mr. Churchill is fareed in the 1925 in the number of theso of the calendar makes it dis-rison town, or that portion of it for American Research, has just end to admit that there will con- mining disasters. It may be that tinctly ornamental as well as which essentially is Chinese, has finished a survey of the Pueblo tinue to be a disparity between the current twelvemonth has useful. the export price of coal and the merely been an "unlucky" one in this respect, or else the cost of its production. It is in intense "speading-up" of produc- that fact that one has the whole tion, particuarly the extended coro and essence of the coal min-depths at which working hab perforce to take place in the ing industry crisis.
course of time, is responsible for a smaller margin of safety. Each mining area there is grief among time a big disaster occurs in a
The contentions in the case are, mainly, these:The mine owners
sequence.
ΟΥΑΣ
PORTUGAL'S HEAD.
DR. MACHADO SUCCEEDS DR. GOMEZ.
Lisbon, Dec. 11. Doctor Bernardino Machado
MORE SUGAR,
produced at least one new fire and other Indian populations of new form of fraud evolved by an New Mexico. He finds that the ingenious group that came to grief population of the Pueblo villages after achieving some little pros-has increased 22.2 por cont in the perity.
last 10 years. It now totals The 'graft,' as an American would 10,565. Only one village showod put it, consisted of opening several a decrease in population in the recruiting offices with attendants past 10 years and that was as the in uniforms and some show of mili-result of an influenza epidemic. tary settings about the places, Re- Dr. Hawott also finds that a num- eruits were brought it willy-nillyber of communicable discases and in the process of, their admis-thought to be prevalent among
course was discovered in which by
say that they cannot continue on many families in the neighbour- their own to pay the high wages hood, and the sympathy of the has been elected President in alon to military ranks it was borne the Indians are no more so than demanded by the miners, for the general public is readily invoked, succession to Dr. Gomez, who has in upon them that the life of a among the white races.
though mading of such events resigned owing to reasons of soldier these days is exceedingly simple reason that the costs of some thousands of miles away, health. Reuter, production are higher than the and in these after-war times, ono [Dr. Manuel Tolxeira Gomez is hard. Then, of course, a middle price at which the coal can be is perhape inclined to pass them 64 years of ago. He was elected discreet cash payments the in-
all in the day's President on August 6th, 1923.) sold abroad. They want to cut happonings. Occasionaly, how-
pending military service might be to is the prospect of telephonic com- munication with Nanking in com- obviated. down the miners' wages in con-ever, as in the case of the Alabama gas.oxplosion, the douth
This situation was brought tog months. Through the mont is The miners, on the roll is sufficiently serious to stir
the attention of the real military of near strife in this region engi other hand, say that their wages the imagination of even the most
authorities with the result that neers have continued the work of wholesale arrests Including a num-wire stringing in the face of every are already low enough, especial. apathetic. And it brings us back consideration of the
ber of women and children, were obstacle and now have succeeded ly when so many of the mea aro
old themo-the unostontatiqué.
made. Three days later the three in Hinking Wusth with Shanghai not working full hours, and they heroism of men who, so often
persons who had originated the although service between the two threaton to strike if there is any abused and usually misunder-
London, Dec 11,
schome were marched out and exe-places has not yet been opened. reduction in the scalo. The Gov. stood, are daily risking their
cuted by shooting. What disposi-This. It is said, will require sara- The Daily Telegraph reports ernment, in July last, undertook earn a livelihood by winning the sugar for the current sepson in has not been disclosed.
lives in underground depths to that the world's production of tion has been made of the athoration of the Ministry of Communi to make up the difference between whorewithal to bring comfort to estimated at 24,500,000 tons, bo the owners proposals and the their more fortunate fellow-mon ing a million tons increase on last
and power to the whools of year's.—Reuter. minera terme, and in the mean industry the world over.
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WORLD'S BIGGER
PRODUCTION,
cations. In the meantime the work of extending the wire line to Nank- Nanking Tolephony Connection,
ing is proceeding. The work a Another of the new developments being done by the Chincse Tele that Shanghal has to look forward phone Administration.