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SATURDAY, JUNE 26, 1926.
SHANGHAI'S TROUBLES.
SATURDAY, JUNE 26, 1926.
DAY BY DAY.
AS THERE IS MUCH DEAST AND SOME DEVIL IN MAN, SO IS THERE SOME ANGEL AND SOME GOD IN HIM,
tures were on strike for higher jay, the workers of the Kiwa Mill were also asking for higher wages, tas godown workers WHIę out for a liko cause and some womon Sock Factory workers were also on strike protesting againat ja manne
threatened reduction in pay. In all cases apart from...””
bhosa con cerning Japanese cotton mills the employers of the discontented labour wore Chinese,”
!!
The Colony had a clean bill of health for Thursday.
Libut H. Lovegrova has been appointed to H. 31. 8. Moth
Tenders are being invited for widening and improving the Shau- kiwan Road in Shaukiwan village.
One would not be fair in con- sidering the "present outcrop of labour trouble in Shanghal if one did not take into account the fact that the condition of the peoples has been made the harder of late
ja
The Astor House Hotel, which in a dangerous condition, was extensively shored up yesterday..
His Excellency the Governor has appointed Dr. Hilmar Florenz Sommers to be a Member of the 'Dental Board,
Notice is given that a portion of the piece of land known as "West End Park has been re-appropri ated ns from the 11th June.
MIXED GRILL By A Meriye Miscellary
Ashley Sterne
Iam vastly tickled to read how the effect that the University pro unfamiliar the Australian poses to bestow upon the aged cricketers are with the use and sportsman the coveted title of management of umbrellas, for Senior Apgler, according to Mr. Kelloway" veryNe girl who is unable to cook
few people in Australia, carry umbrellas. I picture the team, then, daily doing a little light umbrella-drill by numbers under neath the shower-bath at their counter one of our typical English hotel, so that when they en- summer days they shall not feel awkward as they walk abroad. For my part, I dislike carrying an umbrella in the street, so every day, wet or fine, I sit in my study beneath an open umbrella, saving
by reason of the extraordinary high price of rice following a shortage in stocks and hoarding by natiye dealers. There doubtless much justification for a higher rate of pay to workers to meet this extra cost, but there is and can be no justification for the violent outbreaks of impatience and passion which have marked most recont disputes. Shanghai's brand, of "Labour leader" Is of the half-baked student type, the man who will incite a crowd and
Then; when I go out in the middle of a shower, I am already so jolly spread false report because of his
Oh account of the unsettled well sheltered that I never get: immature outlook. He wants weather, it has been decided
to wet
No fewer than 51 pages in the Government Gazette are taken up by new Regulations under sec
tion 3 of the Post Office Ordinance.up shelter against a rainy day:
an appetising meal is educated, said Dr. Elizabeth Sloan-Chesser in a recently delivered lecture. And conversely let me sing
Sweet Phyllis, pray accept from the My most profound apologeelcas How oft have I not chided you Because Grook verse you can't
construe,
most awful grammar,
Employing An
And scarcely know your
Your A. B. ON Forgive me that so often ISO Deplored your lack of mastery o
Of things the youngest child
- should kno TRA Such as "De Bello Gallico,EN And whence the Danube's, waters.
flow
And what the value is of "pl"
For you can cook the tanty dish Such as we hungry menfolk wishl What matter if no heed you give
To splitting an infinitive
No wiser pandit does their live Than you, M. A. of chips and fishl
the other day to ring up his coal A friend of mine had ocession
merchant who had failed to de- liver an urgent order. My friend
trouble and suffering as an aid postpone the Kowloon Cricket. Since telling you last week learnt that delivery had been des to his preaching, little caring for Club concert, which was to have about that girl I once know who layed owing to a fire at the coal-
those who are called upon to bear it. As China's greatest industrial centre, Shanghai will have to take this problem of rowdyism among its native labour very seriously and examine with card all possible avenues to a remedy. Police methods are only a check and not
Labour troubles in Shanghai are daily becoming a graver menace to the well-being of the big northern port, where agitators who incense cure,
What is most wanted is
the workers to destructive violence an enlightenment of
opinion
taken place to-night.
was so pale. that "I got snow-. blindness through gazing at her, Passengers arriving yesterday I have met another most remark by ss. President Jefferson includable member of the sex. She is do ed Professor Ross W. Marriot and tall that when she wants her hair Mr. Lo Kan of the Hongkong waved she has to go to a steeple- Amusements.
Having as its object to "prevent
jack.
yard. "It's lucky," he earcantical. observed; as he replaced the receiver, "that your yard contained no combustible material."
Manchester Libraries Commit- tee have decided upon the very commendable plan of issuing book-
printed with a number of "Don'ts" markers with the library books
for careless readers. I quote hands or at meals.fully to one: "Don't read with dirty appreciate the necessity for which I wish could show you a book
seem to have gained a big hold. among the workers and that can Thursday's incident in which strik-only be achieved by educational new Bill is shortly to be intro- he was visiting Hongkong so I recently borrowed from my own
ers at a Japanese cotton mill (pro- propaganda. Trade Unionism is testing against the arrest of a mill running wild at the moment and detective) actually set fire to the needs a severe check. cotton and then later attacked the Fire Brigade with bricks, spanners and other heavy missiles, was the
Coal, Issues.
Whilst the coal deadlock still con-
Newts, 1 seo, have been the use of titles, etc., by uncerti obstructing the water supply of fed Chinese midwives, which are Wiltshire; and this reminds me of Christian Malford, a village in calculated to deceive the public, a curious incident that happened and convey the impression that the to that priceless old uss, Professor midwife is properly qualified," a Barmion Crumpett, F.Z.S.; when duced in the Legislative Council years ago. He had gone East and is published, for information much to the disappointment of in the Government Gazette."
his fellow-scientists, who had been fervently praying that he would An addition has been made to go West) to study at first hand the Volunteer Gymkhana prize Hat the habits of the chop-sue by the Standard Oil Company, who which, as you doubtless know, is have donated'a case of lubricating the bird that builds the edible all of the grade suitable to the birdenests. On going to the obtained from members of the for his customary shower-bath, Gymkhana Committee or from the he found on turning the lever that Full particulars appear in to-day's about 14 gallons of small goldfish offices of the Hongkong Telegraph. no water descended. Instead,
"Motor Supplement."
local Public Library. At first I thought the librarian had made a mistake and handed me a lump of book were decipherable in a coal. But no, several pages of the strong light, so I settled down to its perusal. I hadn't got very far: before it was obvious that the
climax of what has been a series finues, the Home. Government is winner. Entrance forms may be bathroom of his hotel one morning previous borrower had been
doing what it can with the object better of paving the way to a organisation of the industry. As
of disorderly outbreaks extending over the past two or three months. It has been impossible to read any was pointed out by the Secretary of the Shanghai daily papers of of the Mines Department in the
were decanted upon his venerable late without finding reports of there are numerous points dealt House of Commons on Wednesday,
skull; and upon investigation it strikes and the violence attending with in the Coal Commission's Re-
transpired that they had been A Chinese faction fight started placed for safety in the tank over them, and the curlous, thing about port which cannot be made the sub- at Ipoh on the 17th inst, and was night by a Chinese illusionist good many of these strikes is ject of legislation, but which are resumed on the following morning named Wun Kow Tung (ne Alf better left for adjustment between resulting in numerous casualties, Simmons of Bermondsey). Un- that they are not called to obtain the owners and the miners. Under including one bad case of stabbing: fortunately, the latter, having run better conditions of Inbour or this heading come auch matters às It started through a Hokien out of ants"egga, had been forced higher pay,
but because of in. family allowances, profit-sharing street seller of durians refusing to feed his little assistants on and payment by results. On the to make good a rotten durian sold salted caviar, which made them cidents", many of which have been question of amalgamation with até a Cantonese girl. Crowds took dreadfully thirsty, with the result obviously manufactured by agita- view to unification, the proposed sides and a bitter fight ensued that during the night they drunk SEA tors. Let us look at a few of voluntary scheme may appear good. At daylight a police squad restored the tank dry. Old Crumpett was those current when the last mall to think that, like all such pro- morning, when a Chinese detective was mollified when the illusionist on the surface, but we are inclined order, but trouble broke out in the very annoyed at the incident, but SUITS left Shanghai. The employees of posals, it rests too much on action was stabbed. Quiet was restored, made him a present of the gold- the Chinese Tramway Company by those who may not feel inclined but crowds blocked Leach Street ash, which, being defunct, were
to act. It may produce some good for soma hours. were on atrike because of an al-results, but there does not appear
useless to him, The Professor had them bleached, and made leged assault on a moterman by at the moment any great urge in
That $10,000,000 that Egypt quite a tidy sum by selling them that direction. It is all very well some Chinese naval sailors. A for Mr. Hartshorn, at this time of might have had for a museum had to a restaurant-proprietor demonstration procession Was
it not demurred to the conditions whitebait.. day, to plead for a round-table con- held and the tramway workers ference between the Government imposed by John D. Rockefeller, demanded the punishment of the and Labour leaders on the whole offenders, the payment of an in-coal question, but past experience has shown the difficulty of gotting demnity to the conductor and the men's leaders to agree to any motorman concerned in the assault, thing binding in character.
have surely been conferences and a guarantee that no similar in-baugh at the subject treaty, equip and endow a great new hos NAVAL DISARMAMENT. cident would be tolerated in the without any fruitful results. In pital sorely needed, in Dublin. No future. A strike was also in pro-any event, conferences can be of no wonder that Governor General gress in the Nagai Wata Kaishaavail when one party adopts an atti-Timothy Henly of the Irish Free State is stirred to exclaim in tude of absolute refusal to give way Gaelic, "Rockfeller abu!"-"Rock- cotton mills because of a factional on casential points. Profit-shar fight between the workers. The ing, too, is an important issue, but, feller forever!" The "abus" of strike was to demand the dismis. even if owners were willing to initi-appreciative Irishmen are in re- freshing contrast to the abuse of such atc
scheme, ก sal of the instigators, the com-under the impression that the some misguided Egyptian chair pensation of those injured and the miners would not enter into it, a
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FLEET TONNAGE COMPARISON FAVOURED.
Washington, June 25. Öfficial circles are surprised at the action of the naval sub-com- mittee of the preparatory Disarma- appointment of a lawyer to settle Labourites have for some years Soewarna, one of the leaders of the dispute. The millowners had past consistently set their faces
against the idea. In the meantime, the Javanese Communista, who ment Commission, at Geneva, little to say about the whole mat- the strike still goes on and the Was responsible for the instiga deciding in favour of the French ter. In the Japan-China cotton country suffers heavily in consetion of Javanese labourers at theory that a comparison of naval mills at Pootung, there was trouble quence. Any hopes of a way out Parakan, has been arrested at armaments should be based on the
Temanggoeng. Anther report re seem to be dependant on a changa labour demands, and the general who, with the owners, must be will air of unrest and uncertainty pre dustry is to be put on its feet.
ing to make concessions if the in-
vailing in labour circles was large- ly conséquent on factors other than those normally associated with labour disputes. It is true that a number of small strikes have been going on for some time,
meal-time reader. I collected three sultanas and seventeen crumbs from the Preface, and in the middle of Chap. III. I found a tea stain, a squashed currant, and the imprint of a well-buttered thumb. But worse was to follow. Half-way through the book, at an exciting point where the hero is faced with the hideous alternative of denouncing his old father to the Police as a secret ventrile- quist or of taking lessons on the ukulele by correspondence. I en- countered the complete tail and backbone of a herring, a slice of toast, and about half-a-pint of marmalade.
In returning the book to the library I strongly urged that it should be handed over, just as it was, to the Free Breakfasts to Poor Children Committed..
CITY OF NAPLES RESCUES.
JAPANESE MARINERS WARMLY PRAISED.
-Tokyo, June 25, The Japanese naval men and merchant mariners who helped to save the crow of the City of Naples on June 17, mere the guests of honour to-day of the Pan Pacific Club, at which the British Consul Genoral, Mr. Hamilton Holmes,
not arising from any ordinary of heart on the part of the miners, colved from Magelang, in middle total tonnage of each fleet, instead warmly thanked them, and highly
on the unsatisfied demands for
WORLD MIGRATION.
RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED.
London, June 25, :
Java, states that a further three of the tonnage of various classes Communist propagandlats have of warships, as adopted at the been arrested as well as two na- Washington naval disarmament tives soldiers also in possession of
conference, Communist Literature: As a result of a search by the military This action is ascribed to the authorities, native soldiers have submarine problem, but it is hoped been taken into custody, tried be further conferences of the nations fore a military court and eventual-
ly dismissed from military service might agree to include submariner
tonnage limita It is probable that a thorough in the classified t The World Migration Congress search might reveal a few more. tions, the principle of which was has concluded, after adopting the Drastic measures are being taken rejected at Geneva-Router's
On the agenda,→ te nip Communist activities in the American Service,
bud..
Salon higher wages. Over 600 filature resolutions
workers employed in Chinese fla- Reuter.
praised their bravery, specially emphasising the Chefon Maru's gallantry and skiifat handling, which was also emphasised in the naval court of enquiry's report This report exonerates the City of Naples captain.
Commander Sakabe, who, with bluejacket, materially aided in rescue, plunging swimming to the
was also specially lauded Router