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SATURDAY. SEPT. 25. 1926.
THE COAL DEADLOCK.
It seems as though hopes of a settlement of the coal mining dis- pute are only raised to be dashed again, for yet another dealock has
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1926.
DAY BY DAY.
THAT HAPPY STATE OF MIND, SO AmLY POSSESSED, IN WHICH WE
the Profiler has already suggest ed as the way out This will, virtually be defeat and it le to De questioned whether, in the best interests of future Industrial | OAN SAY, "I HAVE ENOUGH, IS THE reaco, It is wise not to give the HIGHEST ATTAINMENT OF PHILOSO-
PHY-Zimmermann semblance of compromise to the dettlement eventually effected. Wo doubt the wisdom of forcing the miners to go back without having Secured angle point over which
Three Chinese cases of typhoid favor were notified in Hongkong yesterday.
The Government Gazette, con- to feel more or less pleased, forhold for the allotment If a body of economically im- of local recreation grounds. boverished men are driven to ac- Cept something which they feel to be unjust, then nothing but a store of trouble had been laid up for the future. The miners are notori
Tils Excellency the Governor has appointed Sapper R. S. Logan to be Second-Lieutenant in the Volun- teer Defence Corps.
LEISURE
ITS HEALING VALUE.
What is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare.
Colonisers, and old campaigners, its problette will destroy your pro- often agree that any region unit. If you must think, let it be healthy to horses is equally trying of your own childhood, your life to the white man. Whether there aged three. Leave conclusions at Is a mutual secret of distress in home, alongside the telephone, Hongkong has not yet been dis leave discipline at home, un- covered. One thing is certain selfgimess, nd all other.conscious that. horses, as distinct from the effort; meetings, charitice, games, China pony, do not thrive here, plans, competition in every form. and that man, and particularly "Six days shalt thou labour, and woman, is constantly "under the do all that thou hast to do" Make weather."
your, seventh day a day of rest, Serious complaints are beside and the best day to choose le Mon- the point; they are often due to day. Sunday in Hongkong Is. contagion, and may be expected in probably the most arduous of the tropical climates, but, onf fair and week for every wife: It is her fickle Hongkong! what a communal husband's holiday, and he wants groan goes up by day and night to break away from routine either from the populace suffering petty by taking exercise in which she entertaining. ills. There is no need to enquire éan join, or by the nature of such ailments from Children make demands, servants a neighbour every house makes need more attention, picnica need light of a dozen a week, but to organising, and all these arrange- wards the end of the summer these monts demand concentration from twelve subside into a cry from the the woman, women of depression, depression, Leave concentration at home. and depression.. Old custom de-You will more easfly find it on: crees a change, to 'cking, to Tuesday. Above it, get away from Japan, to Kuling, to Cheung Chow, noise, from bells, front doors; from and though the heart'may be light hammering mechanics, from an- This is no spiritual cure. It is at the prospect, the purae just now happy children.
cannot is too often lined with misgiving.
There is a simpler remedy neur purely physical. You at hand. Only universal adoption make an effort without expending. A Bukharest message states that could defeat its object, and the energy, and if every effort requir the Rumanian Government has recipe is not so obviously attracted of modern woman in this crowd- been informed that the first instal-tive as to cause one fear of such ed community cost fifty cents no ment of the Italian loan to the amount of 200,000,000 lire is now at its disposal.
ously stubborn and they have long His Excellency the Governor has accepted the resignation by memories. We think there is rea-second Lieutenant W. Foster- donability in their latset offera Turner of his Commission in the Fetute to work at lower wages pro- Volunteer Defence Corps." vided a national wages agreement fs later outered into, the framing. of such agreement to be enthrust ed to an independent Tribunal whose awards shall be legalised. It is the bogey contained in that
the
His Excelleney the Governor has accepted
resignation by Second-Lieutenant G. K. Hall Brutton of his Commission in the Volunteer Defence Corps.
It is notified that, at the expira- word "national" which is prevention of three months, the Maw ing the owners from accepting, Fung and Company, Limited, will and we think there will yet be a unless cause is shown to the con- long and bitter fight on the part trary, be struck off the registar of the minors to maintain their
and the company will be diasolved.
national unity and rights of na tional action
Sanity First.·
If it is so that the members of the Kuomintang Party known as "the Prince Clique" intend setting their faces against the termination of the boycott, we think that the leaders of the Canton Government can well afford to disregard them. It was inevitable that Mr. Eugene Chen, or anybody else who favour éd the resumption of normal con- ditions, should come in for criti- cism'at the hands of the extreme
a calamity. The prescription is income could stand the strain. jast six hours of solitude taken Every kindly smile and word which once a week. How the six hours is not instinctiva and subconsci- are filled is immaterial providing ously effortless, taxes the nervous the body, mind, and nerves are re system. Every time you keep your moved outside the radius immedi-temper yields you strength, and ately affected by any other human every time you lose it, costs you being.
fhealth and strength:
Every day in the East a woman The first essential is to go ont of the house comfortably, clothed, is jerked and jolted in vehicles, and if the mind requires occupa- banged, pulled, and hurried by fel-/ tion before it can rest, the neces-fow men and women; the five sary materials can be taken in a senses are assailed in rough and been bag. Take a chair or ricksha imrade fashion without cessation.
There has been added to the list of medical practitioners, the same of Dr. Jamshed Sorab Guzdar, of the Government Civil Hospital, Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery of the University of Hongkong.
The Secretary of the Admiralty announces that it has
Shipping is warned that as from the 27th September, until further notice, survey operations will be carried on off Kowloon Point up to the 6 fathom line. Area will be surveyed in squares, sides of
Sooner
Three words of wisdom: silence, solitude, sleep.
Every moment been reached after what seemed elements, for the latter have their decided, with the King's approval, mediately after, breakfast, and Duty has become a monster with most hopeful overture on the",
und when you come to a nullah, dis- a hundred heads. Part own interests to serve in keeping that orders, decorations of the miners. It has been decided alive the boycott. But Chen and medals shall be worn with frock miss the coolies, and walk up or belongs to someone or something by both the owners and the Gov.his colleagues will find that no coats and epulettes dress, and down until you get a clear view until the constitution goes on Government can last which de- with white dresa, by officers of the of the land or sea, unspoilt by strike. In Europe, thousands of human habitation. Huge boulders people are curing their aching: ernment that the proposals of the pends on "die-hards" for its ex- Navy
peacefully sleeping beside the bodies and nerves by lying in the gun, in silence. Artificial sunlight miners do not constitute a basis istance. Responsibilities naturally on which settlement can be beget caution in the world of
singing water.
Sit here and rest while the warm in England, Swiss rays at Leysin... politics-a point which was well renched, the owners going so far illustrated when the Labour Party
autumn sun does its healing work There it costs money; here it on the surface nerves, until the costa a ttle strength of mind. as to say that they are "quite int came into power in England. So
mind relaxes, and has posce. practicable and unacceptable."the Canton Government leaders would do well to bear in mind that The miners have offered to go the interests of those whom they back to work immediately on wages seek to serve will best, be safe such squares being 300 feet Craft marking these areas will fiy not lower than those paid under guarded by policies based or sanity a red flag and ships passing should and common-sense. Indeed, nothing the 1921 agreement, provided that will be to the greater advantage Proceed with utmost caution and the terms of a national wages of the Canton Government, in the rive them a wide berth. agreement shall be referred for long run, than the following of moderate counsels. Extremist decision to an independent agitations," against whomscever Tribunal which shall have power they are directed, must rebound on to consider and apply the recom-those who head them. Canton's mendations of the Coal Commis-leaders claim that they are seek- ing the unification and uplift of China; the world will judge them in 'their efforts according to the
sion, the award of such a Tribunal having the force of Jaw. That offer is now rejected,"presumably level-headedness of their policies. We can only hope that the damage
| because it means that a national agreement on wages will, in the near future, be inevitable. It is part of the miner's fight against the making of district agreements; and the Executive now go so far as to say that the men will re- turn instantly provided a national agreement is worked out by in- dependent Tribunal. By their re- jection of this offer, both the owners and the Government are insisting on the right to make dis- trict agreements, so that the old bone of contention remains.
The members of the Miners' Executive dispersed back to their districts and will re-assemble in London on Monday. There is to be a full mecting of the Cabinet to-day, and interest now attaches to whatever may be the outcome of this assembly. Seeing that Mr. Baldwin's proposals submitted
BOMBAY EMBEZZLE- MENT CASE.
COURT PROCEEDINGS COMMENCE.
Bombay, Aug. 31.
or later that peace will bring a sense of elation, and in- explicable happiness. To leave the sphere of humanity, to solve
COAL DEADLOCK REMAINS.
PREMIER ADDRESSES LETTER TO MINERS.
CABINET'S OPINION..
London, Sept. 24.
The Cabinet discussed the coal
One word of warning: Don't take your best friend with you!
TISTHENES.
LOCAL BANKRUPTCIES.
ANNOUNCEMENT OF DIVIDENDS.
The following dividends in local bankruptcies have been an- nounced:
Wong Po-tal, alias Wong Shi- shun, of fishing junk No. 5767.- First and final of $9 per cent.
Leung Kam-shui, trading as Lee Yuen Street East. First ind Leung Kon-tai, stevedore, of 21,
done to Chinese as well as foreign All the Government securities, interests as a consequence of the worth Rs. 540,000, involved in the Boycott will have the result of in-charge of embezzlement against deadlock for two hours, and later
It has been decided by the Kaf fluencing those in charge at Can-Mr. Evans; the ex-Chief Accoun- Mr. Stanley Baldwin wrote a letter final of $10 per cent. ton to perceive that extreme poli- tant of the Hongkong and Shang-to Mr. A. J. Cook, relterating that cies seldom pay.
hai Barking Corporation, have
the miners' proposals were impos-Tack Motor Bus Co., Ltd., to go into voluntary liquidation, and. been recovered:
sible and urging the Executive to Mr. Un Pak-leung and Mr. Li The hearing of the case com- menced before the Chief Presi- accept the Government's proposals Chin-nam have been appointed dency Magistrate.
in order that district negotiations liquidators. A ereditors' meeting is to be held at the Company's might be initiated, subject to sub-office at 2.30 p.m. on, October 12th. sequent review by an independent tribunal in cases of departure from the old hours.
CORRESPONDENCE.
HOTEL BUS SERVICE.
[To the Editor of the Hongkong Telegraph.]
The popularity of the accused in banking circles and the huge sum involved attraéted a large crowd, including many Europeans.,
Outling the case, the Police Pro-
At the annual general meeting of the Institute of Directors, Vis- countess Rhondda was elected Mr. Cook, after reading. the President. Sir, shall be grateful if you secutor stated that the accursed letter, issued the statement that if will kindly inform me whether had been in the Bank's service the Government persists in this at preference to seats in the Hong-since 1902 and was made Chief Acitude there is no sign of the end early or lasting settlement of the
The Executive present dispute. In these circum kong Hotel buses is granted to re-countant in 1922, holding power of the struggle.
will meet on Monday, to decide stances the Government are not sidents in and around Fells of attorney for the Bank, his
ain soliciting the In-duties including the maintenance action. Reuter, Villas. I formation because whilst I was of the security register.
The accused handed over charge about to take a scut in the 9.15 p.m. bus from the Star Ferry to the to his successor, Mr. E. J. Davis, University on Thursday, on Enxon June 12th, before sailing on ishman rushed in and usurped my Home leave, but did not explain seat. On my asking him for an ex the entries in the register made in planation, he hesitated and then his own hand, contrary to prac said that a special privilege was tice, all the entries being usually granted to him as he was ure in a clerk's writing. aident of Felix Villae
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prepared to go beyond the mature- ly considered, proposals conveyed THE PREMIER'S CEYTER:
to you in the Prime Minister's Rugby, Sept. 24 letter of 17th. inst. These pro- A. full meeting of the Cabinet posals cannot of course remain was held to-day to review the altun open indefinitely, but your federa tion created by the fact that this tion are still free to avail them- week's prolonged conversations besolves' of them by taking the prac tween the minera officials and the tical step of ordering district Cabinet Coal Committee have negotiations to be set on foot, sub- Ject to the subeequent review of proved abortive.
Afterwards, the following letter an independent tribunal was addressed to the Mingrs' departure, from old hou Federation by Colonel Water- volved.
The Miners Executive are not house the Fremier's Private Secre tary--I un desired by the Premier due to meet again until Monday. to inform you that both the Coal Further developments are there- Committee and the Cabinet bave fore, unlikely before then. On now given close and earnest atter Monday also a debris will take
here any
isin
earlier in the week were turned down by the miners it is perhaps tob much to hope that the Govern- In my opinion; public con- The auditor's report showed ment will make any further conveyance (and tile Hongkong Hotel that securities valued at over
hust is no exception) is one in lakha had been taken out and re- crete proposale at this stage, being which all have a right to scating placed, leaving a deficit of Rs content to wait until the self-accommodation as long as he or 40,000 missing. expressed viewpoints of the own the pays the recognised fare. After his arrival in Bombay ers and the miners more nearly may be wrong, but I shall greatly from Aden the accused's belong coincide. The owners have the appreciate your enlightenment or ings were examined and a diary
the pointYour, etc. was disclosed containing slips, inition to the proposals you submitted place on the situation in the House Government behind them in their
the accused's hand-writing, men Agt for district settlements and
tioning the numbers. it looks as though the miners will, Lin the long run, be forced to accept
something on the lines of what H.K.T.
DON Q.
Hongkong, Sept. 24th, 1926,
We should imagine that our cor- respondent. is correct in his in- ferpretation of the position Ed.
[It has since been reported that the accused has been committed for trial.
to him on Tuesday night and which of Commons. A meeting of the you have since made public. Parliamentary Labour Party was While recognising the advance held to-day at which the policy to which thene proposals indiente the be followed by the Party in vlow of Government do not feel that they the epal deadlock, was considered. afford à moans of reaching an-British Wireless.