THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
COAL MOVE.
NOTED INDUSTRIALIST'S DEATH.
ANOTHER MEETING TO-DAY
AT MINERS' REQUEST.
Rugby, Aug. 25.
A request was to-day made by Mr. A. J. Cook, Secretary of the Miners' Federation, that tho Committee of Cabinet Ministers which has had the coal dispute under its special care would re- ceive representatives of the minors. A notification of this request was at once. telegraphed to the Ministers, who are return. ing to Londoni immediately for a meeting. which has been arranged for to-morrow,
During the last few days, than ondeavour to delay the return to work of men in the Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire areas, Mr. Cook has referred in vague terms to imponding developments and. has urged the men "not to return while we are negotiating." No reliable information about any negotiations has been available, although the newspapers have re- ported that the conversations, which were begun with certain unofficial although influential. persons connected, with the mining industry prior to the recent abor- tive mecting between the Miners' Executive and the Mining Asso- ciation, were being resumed.
NEW MOVE
The request to meet Ministers is the first open move in the direc tion of further-negotiations.
It'
is probable that the Miners' Executive will express the desire to discuss the possibility of obtain- ing a national agreement for the miners as distinct from the dis- trict agreements which the owners
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EXAGGERATED STORIES.
Above is the late Mr. Chang Chien, the noted Chinese in- dustrialist and creator of the model district of Nantungchow, whose death is reported to-day.
NOTED FIGURE.
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the master mind. How he utilized all opportunities and created many more out of the resources of the soil and of the human power is a chapter that will octrpy no mean
consider to be alone fensible. The first Minister of Industry and place in the economic history of Government recently made it High Commissioner of the Liang China. That he met great odds in known to the Miners' Federation wal Salt Administration con-carrying cut his plans is a fore
The ignorant that Ministere wero prepared to currently. In the capacity of the gone conclusion. meet their representatives at any latter he submitted the proposal must be taught that machine pro- time they might desire.
to the Government that sale should duction does not spell reduced em- be taxed at the point of produc-ployment; parents must be shown tion, manufactured by the salt that education for their children worklors, collected by the Govern means better and more useful citi ment, and sold by the merchants,zenship; the lazy must be taught to This policy is substantially the work; the municipality must be reform adopted by Sir Richard shown the advantage of road build- Dane. In order to continue the ing, educational support, and suni- tary development, short, to chronological trend of his official transform the fifteen hundred thou life we may recount here that on
sand of Nantungchow, one hundred March 13, 1912, he was appointed. Director General of the Hunt-ho
| frty thousand of whom live in thể: Conservancy Bureau, and he re-city, from superstitious, wretched people into a hard-working, co- signed, as in most cases, upon operating, clean, and finally pros- meeting opposition.
There was less picketing to-day the Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire areas and a few miners reported for "work. The Home Office states that the stories of
intimidation and violence by pickets are exaggerated and that there is no question of other bodies than the police being re- quired, to maintain order.
FOREIGN OPÁL.
The Mines Department reports that the foreign coal imported, has increased from 620,000 tons in the week ending July 10th to 916,000 tons in the week ending" August 21st. The Weekly output from collieries in--Great Britain is at
present 200,000 tuns, while it is estimated that outcrop workings Field weekly over 100,000 tons.- 'British Wireless,
LEADERS CONFER.
London, Aug. 25. Miners' leaders were conferring
MODEL DISTRICT.
Regarding the model district of Nantungchow, a writer, who recent ly visited it stated:-
perous mass is a colossal task. "What we had to contend with," His Excellener remarked, "was the fact that every single detail has to be taught to the workman when he is transferred from Mis and domestic tools
ma-
When' we consider
"Then
To make the trip from Shanghai, handloom. to Nangtung requires from eight to the electrically-driven to ten hours up the Yangtze. Even chine. before we landed we observed mo- the dearth of experts in "any dernity. Along with loads and modern manufacturing line in loads of flour, cotton, and passen- China to-day, "we see the impts- gurs-were-trucks and automobiles sibility of venturing upon many durting through wilow-lined necessary new industries." most actively in Lordon, to-day.. roads. High chimney' stack bolchin more optimistic and determined. Mr. A. J. Cook has requesteded forth fire" and smoke while the tone he continued: "However, we an interview with Sir Steel Maitresounding whistles of its factories have a great domestic-market, and iwa concentrate only in produc- land, who is travelling to London announced another apps working ing for the bare necessities of the from Scotland.-Reuter,
day. There has becil constructed on the banks the river modern masses the production energy of the Chinese will be fully occupied," docking and warehouse facilities.
And on this conviction no doubt, From here modern roads andreanal through his instigation and sup- transportation lines stretch out in port, 384 schools, with 21,382 stud- all directions. There are
ents, have been erected, and se,res than sixty miles of hard-surfaced, of factories have been established." tree-lined roads spanned at inter- vals by modern bridges, while dirt-" surfaced bai transportable high- ways measure upwards of three
CORRESPONDENCE.
A BRIDGE POINT.
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To the Editor of the Hongkong
~~Telcj7aph.]-
more
CHIEF CHARATERISTICS.
"In a recent souvenir book, which the municipality of Nantung pub Sir-With reference to the letter hundred miles, all of which eclipses lished, Chang Chien's integrity and appearing in your issue of the 25th the proud boast of Shanghai's honesty were rated his greatest as- intant under the above heading, I rond-building programme. have much pleasure in offering my
"The factory district is located sets. And to these could be added opinion of the two points raised by by the river, while the city is six his personality, energy, practicabl miles inland. The better to under-lity, sincerity, politeness, and optimism These attributes-won- stand the topography of Nantung for Chang Chien, the confidence of how we ascended Wolf Mount the whole nation. And nothing three miles from Nantung city, and bore more convincing testimony to about five hundred feet bigk, on the Presidency of the Bank of Cont whose summit perches a pictures.munications. que pagoda. On our way there
thewriter
First. if he will buy any book on bridge, containing the rules, he will learn that cutting for partners can not only be insisted upon, but is one
of the rules.
Secondly, I should advise him to avoid playing with, a player who by motor we passed humlets im
A writer recently stated:-
can perform the mentally impos-maculately clean, by stiff cleaner "Chang Chien and his brother sible feat of acting "unconsciously roads lined with bewitching wil-Chang Cha, and Chang Chien, Jr.,' in collusion with his partner. lows and not by beggers... We literally are monarchs of all they
Yours etc.,
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