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NOW OPENLY SOLD
.. IN CANTON.
ORIGIN CLEARLY MARKED.
According to a British wireless message, information from Carton shows that the trading position:
country districts is steadily im- 'proving, although the boycott agitation still continues to some
The
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Hongkong Telegraph.
FOUNDED 1881
No.22,087
AND BETATAKE SATURDAY, OCTOBER
MINERS' EXECUTIVE COLONIAL EMPIRE. FRISCO EARTHQUAKE
ITS POTENTIALITIES OUTLINED.
MEETS.
SPECIAL CONFERENCE TO BE CALLED.
MR. AMERY'S SPEECH.
Rugby, Oct. 22, Both the morning and afternoon
THE LEVY QUESTION.
"After
„London, Oct. 22. conferring with the
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SHOCKS.
THREE TREMORS CAUSE
ALARM.".
HOTEL WALLS CRACKED. Kundimakan diamo decenije in an
San Francisco, Oct. 22, A sharp earthquake at 4.30 in
there and in the neighbouring Miners Executive all day, the sins of the Imperial Confer the morning, brought people in General Council of the Trade ence to-day were devoted to alarm from their beds, as far south Union Congress decided to call a debate Imperial, economic
as Paloalto. Buildings rocked in pecial" conference of the Execu-affaire, a feller report of which San Francisco but there was no tive members of Affiliated Unlong will be given to-morrow evening damage. for November 8, to consider the when the text, of the speeches will
Affiliated Unions. It was decided question of a levy on members of be published.
extent in Canton Itself whilst passenger trufte by train and atenmer between Hongkong and Canton is approaching normal;
The message adds that cargo is again being openly imported into. Canton by British merchants, while British goods of all varieties. with their origin clearly marked are freely offered and sold in Chin- ese shops of Canton.
TRADE OUTLOOK.
Some interesting views on the resumption of trade between Can- ton and Hongkong have been ex- pressed by a prominent Chinese merchant, who says it is only na tural that there should be a slow various conditions recovery, n make it inevitable that the return to normality should take some lit- ''e time:
The discussion was remarkable that the question of an embargo for the determination shown by must be considered with the all Dominion representatives to principal Unions affected.Incrense the volume of inter- Reuter.
Imperial trade and each, in turn, TRADE UNIONS' ATITUDE.
praised the work of the Imperial Economic Committee. The im- Rugby, Oct. 22. portance of increased trade within The Miners' Executive to-day the Empire was emphasised, parti- met the General Cone of the cularly in relation to the develop Trades' Union' Congress with the ment of the Dominions and the object of endeavouring to obtain necessity of British industry- an embargo on imported coal and a levy on, the Union.
itself to meet the Dominicus' re- quirements was strongly urged.
IMMENSE GROWTH.
'Details of the isgussion were not officially disclosed, but it is understood that the General Coun- cil, while expressing sympathy tary of State for the Colonies, Mr. In the statement by the Secre with the miners did not promise Amery, at yesterday's meeting of either the embargo or the levy, the Imperial Conference, a com- The Trade Union leaders took the prehensive survey was given of line that it was time the parties to the progress and development of the dispute got back to the coal British Colonies and the Mandated Commission's recommendations. Territories in various parts of the They were willing to use their good world offices to induce the Government, if possible, to permit further de
RAILWAY. CLOCK ON
“STRIKE."
smuggling in goods which have ing the suggestion when the meet- not. paid taxes. These are. stilling was adjourned-British Wire-the Empire different, on one side. seeking to continue this trade, and less. the ordinary merchants, who now have to pay the extra surtaxes as well, are finding the competition very hard to face. Trade on the whole has not decreased, he says, but only trade through legitimate channels. Besides, all this, the conditions of trade have changed, as many merchants are now them- selves engaged in direct import and export business. "Despite the present conditions, however" he added, "a boom is coming; it only needs a little patience."
CHIMES RING OUT FOR 15 MINUTES.
A tremor was followed by tw further shocks, the former of which was sharper than the first tremor but only of fifteen seconds duration.
Plate glass windows were broken and walls cracked in the Palace Hotel. Clocks in numbers of other buildings were stopped.-Router's
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TRANS-SIBERIAN TRAVEL.
IMPORTANT CONFERENCE
OPENS
Berlin, Oct.22% Government, an international con- On the Initiative of the Russian ference on the queen Europe on Fire Fear of has upencu w Berlin. Tiere ate seventy delegates from thirtyon States, including China and Japan. The object is to re-establish and
vice from the west of Europe to the Far East. Herr Dorp Mueller, the Managing Director of German
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A man named Gale left a large answer to last week's "Mystic Appropriately enough, tha aum to the London S.P.C.A., Maze" puzzle, was "The Tole- tharoby proving that "its an phone. wind that blows nobody good""
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While introducing the report, Mr. T. Z. Koo said that he was un-
Diplomney is the art of being According to the China Mail, certain as to whether or not the agreeable to disagreenble people. His Excellency the Governor came Christian forces should make a
here with an immense handicap- pronouncement on China's present An astronomer asserts that in his favour" That must have. problem of Treaty relationships. Mars is signalling to us, but has been a big advantage against him. The reason he gave was that much no way of ascertaining whether
00. of what was said by Christians for we receive the messages.
She Hongkong people never seem to
of
or against the existing Treaty should send them "collect on de know what they want until they've status was based on arguments livery" and see if we pay, for them. rend the Budget speech. which seemed to him to be on s
The other day we noticed a We presume that the vote of plane lower than the true plane principles. He referred to the favour of
Christian obligations and broker so full of arguments in $230,000 for improving
that he fan out approaches to the Ferry wharf at fact that the Kwangtung Division of fingers.
Kowloon will include the overtime fccs of certain hard-working KRA: oficiala
he saw a cow hide in the shop.
the
covered that if you spend summer Lots of Hongkong-folk-have dis-
on the sands you may easily get on the rocks in the process..
"Hot and Cold Bathe Under the Personal Supervision of the Pro prietor," reads a Hama hotell There's a complaint at Home advertisement, Who says you dan't that surgeons charge too much. get service in England?, They should make a few cuts.
al Council of the Church of Christ town near Vo in China had expressed itself as In a small town near Vancouver, uncertain about the wisdom of a dog dished through the window turning Christian property over to of a shoemaker's shop and bit an the Chinese Church. This action assistant Probably he thought had been interpreted by some, Mr. Koo said, to mean that the Kwang- tung Chinese Christiana felt that Treaty protection of Christian pro- perty must be continued for the time being. Another interpreta offered by Mr. Koo to the effect tion of this action was, however,
that these Chinese Christians did
Let the Chinese authorities swat. In these days, lots of Chinese not wish to accept this responsibil- how hard they will they don't seem to miss their queues. ity for Christian property until seem able to suppress these their Western colleagues are pre- Swatow die-harde. pared to share in the risks in CO volved therein by doing without Club gossip confirms the im- Koo felt furthermore that the in- be affected by the proposal to formed Christians should take a charge more for water consumed position on this matter that might in large quantities. be a guide to the large mass of ill- informed, Chinese Christians" in
Interior centres.
SPECIAL PRIVILEGES.
The report of the Committee
If it were not for the cumshaw cards, Bridge would hardly be worth playing at ten cents per
According to the report in the Norway is likely to experience Daily Press of the Army Harbour increased humidity if she really Race, L/Br. Norris kept a clobe abolishes Prohibition.
second and finished about 20 years behind.". Perhaps, when the's a.
The cost of living le bad enough, few yards older he will be more. on International Relations showed and now these increased hospital successful, NONN that the National Christian Coun- rates are likely to send up the cost cil had been compelled through of dying, top. pressure of Christian opinion to
According to this commentator, the basic cause in the delay now being experienced is the keen com- petition between what he describ.
Referring to the immense ed us legitimate and non-legiti- mate trade. During the past six-liberations on the lines of the Coal grow of the work of the Colonial teen months, he suya,
Various Commissions report, but the two Office in recent years, he said that groups of bandits and pirates have sides to the discussion had not the Colonial Empire had in fact, been engaged in the latter by reached a common platform regard in the last generation, evolved as improve the pre-war railway ser- extra-territorial protection. Mr.pression that not many people handred and a one-and-ninepenny
separate constituent element in from the self-Governing parts of the Empire, based on democratic institutions, and, on the other, from a complex of races, religious, creeds and old civilisations which made up the Empire of India. In-As-much as responsibility for their various Governments in the last resort lay with the British Parliament, though they had autonomous institutions in vary The clock in the Kowloon-Cantoning degree and increasing Railway tower went on "atrike" measure, this Empire énjoyed a this morning, and 'continued to certain unity which it also derived chime out the hours until from the fact that its units were quarter past
mainly inhabited by populations -seven, when
of a non-white character and were mechanic intervened. In the meantime, it is reported Residents in the vicinity jump mainly situated in the tropics. that the bonds of the second In- ed out of bed with a start after it The Colonial Empire' could only ternal Industrial Loan in Canton passed the count of seven, and ex-for very limited purposes be are meeting with little or no res-perienced a sense of relief to find classified as a type, for its various Railways, emphasised the vital ponse from the public and the au- that it was apparently trying to parts differed enormously in his- Importance of the Trans-Siberian thorities are greatly perturbed make up for lost time.
tory, racial composition and the Railway and hoped the conference over the eltuation. Several dis- The cause of the clock's way-stage of evolution. At one end of would make it possible to journey cussions have taken place in of wardness is not yet known, but the scale was the little white solf-to Peking from Paris in twelve ficial circles, but no practical plan it is supposed that something was governing community. like Malta, days.
The conference will probably has so far been evolved to facili- broken in the striking-gear. tate or encourage the public 'to There is at least no truth in the national feeling of its own. At the last a fortnight-Reuter. take up these bonds.
rumour that the authorities have other end were the vast backwood instituted communal alarm regions of Africa, Inhabited by clock!
THE NEW BONDS.
STUDENT MANIFESTŲ: The Hongkong Students' Union, in Canton, has passed a series of resolutions in regard to the boy cott movement, from which we take the following extracts:
"The altered policy is, a new weapon for the enlarged anti- British movement, We should take the same course with our
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ALLEGATIONS.
Troops Reb Banks.
Shanghai, Oct. 28. Reports received from Hangchow last night state that General Hsin Chao's forces looted local banks fol- lowing the General's disap- pearance.-Reuter.
HAVANA GALE..
study the problems connected with
We intagine that if some of tho more ancient Chinese warships
This Kowloon agitation may be fired a salvo, the crew would need the May 30th affair in particular all right, but we know a man who a peg of sal volatile. Perhaps this and International questions in thinks there's no such thing as a explains why some of them haven't general. Christianity in China fair rent,
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"is seriously complicated and em- barrassed, if not definitely
It's easier to change hindered, by the fact that special habitation than your habits, privileges were granted to mis-
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fired a salvo latterly!
What with "Bessie's Bar and "Elsie's Lounge," Hongkong is becoming a nice sociable- little.
for receiving a stolen watch, now knows more about time, than he wanted to.
dan gigab
The Singapore Budget shows a surplus of $60,000,000, from which we gather that the Strafts isn't in straits after all 100
sionaries and religious freedom If we get much more of this place. guaranteed to Chinese Christians gel-determination talk, the next pla in China's Treaties, with Western think we shall hear will be de man who was sent to gaol: nations." In consequence of the events of the past year or so imand for Home Rule for Gap' tornational questions have pro- bably occupied a larger place in the thoughts and lives of Chinese Editor, Becomes Soldier," saya
headline. Why not? He' Christians and missionaries in China than at any other time should know something about The office of the National Chris columns, rules, and the thin red tian Council was at one time flood line, anyhow. ed with statements giving Chinese. Christian opinion and urging the "Perplexed," It doesn't neces National Christian Council to sarily follow that a golfer prefers issue statements setting forth the high tee in order to avoid play point of view of Chinese Chrising on an empty stomach..
DO tians. It is evident therefore that the bulk of educated Christian There's a report of a revival of opinion desire that Treaty pro English films. Imagination reels, tection of Christianity in China
be given up and that Christian
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Somerset Maugham anys Hong- kong people are sensitive. They are-particularly in the prlekly hent season.
primitive peoples, whom we were only beginning to lift from the most elementary barbarism and among whom such a thing as
WHOLESALE DESTRUCTION. national 'gentiment was, of course, This inconceivable idea.
Havana, Oct. 22. Colonial Empire, covered over two The destruction of telegraph
0:0 million square miles, and was in-and telephone lines and blocked
Sealskin coats for men aro habited by over fifty million railways and roads have teolated
popular in Russia just now. people. He thought it was not the provinces of Matanza, Pinar allies, the striker comrades, to sup R. E. Lindsell, this marning, on was the trade done by this Empire,
A Chinese, appeared before Mr. always realised how great already Del Rio and Santa Clara.
When a man wants you to lend Maybe some of the Reds are try port this new policy. We should
Hitherto $100,000 has been sub-workers in China base their privi-him an ear, he often deserves ans hard to get recognised in the
best circles. also together with all circles, con-
number of charges of obtaining nor how great were the oppor-scribed for the relief of sufferers. leges on the principle of religious boot.
tunities it offered to Britain
freedom now granted by the Cor tinue the enlarged Anti-British money by false pretences..
The value of the ships wrecked in
.... stitution of China...
The slump in the dollar is parti-. movement in order to achieve the It was alleged that in five cases and the Dominions. The total
the gale is estimated at overal
A cynic says that if the Chinese cularly hard on folk who've order ultimate emancipation
the now under investigation the de-trade of the Colonies last year million dollars. Two important OPINIONS OF CHINESE are really capable of governing,
fendant represented himself as excluding the .in and out
Two hundred and seventy-five themselves, they might invite out ed Rolls Royce cars from Home. Last year after the May 30 occupying a responsible position entrepot trade of Hongkong, was Bugar factories were demolished massacre, a portion of the Hong-in various firms, and by this means over £500,000,000. Since 1905, the and, a third badly damaged. One Chinese Christians replied to a few Labour MP's from Eng kong students could not take the obtained $600 from a ritm on par total export from the United in thousand tobacco curing sheds at in to This season's prolific crop of
Lasa Ludad wore destroyedy. China. Between sixty and seven-secret.. same course with us and stand with mising to give the latter the post dom to the Colonies had risen
from Balbonty-five per cent of these approved A message It was further from $18,000,000 per year, to Panama, gays that a violent atorm the following points ue.on the same battle front. of compradore.. They were not thoroughly awaken- alleged thaat defendant "got 8200 |£60,000,000, and in the same period seriously damaged crops in the 1. That the Church should jux again. The old fight-promoter the coolio do with all the polish?" ed nor understood our anti-im-from a prospective godown-keeper British imports from the Colonies perialist fight. We must induce and $30 from a third man who had risen from £19,600,000 to interior-Rester a Ames can Serpress itself with regard to cer
If silver goes much lower, it tain political gestional Labour is now demanding a five- 1 {\ them to voluntarily join us in pro-wanted to be a watchman. He was £81,000,000, testing against imperialism. In also accused of; obtained $500
2. That the "Toleration Clauses" day week. They'll soon be want won't be worth the burglar's time FUTURE PROBLEMS.
are incompatible with Christian ing twelve months holiday every order to attain the above, we from a Afth man on promising to
principles and, whatever their Illustrating the nature of the
past status, are no longer needed trade, he mentioned that the num-
and by implication, not desired." bor of British bicycles Imported
In Hongkong these days, it is "A∙GERMAN RUMOUR
Eighty per cent. of these Chinese into Kenya and Uganda Inst. year
Christians also voted that Carl either Investigations or Investi To-day's Observatory reports was 27,000. Four years ago the
Berlin, Oct. 22 tan bodies should be registered state that there may be a typhoon number was B,000. It was indeed!
It is rumoured In Hamburg with the Chinese Government, and "The Hongkong student strikers about 600 miles east of Balintang one of the largest markets in the shipping circles that a shipping the large majority felt that church have sacrificed their studies for Channel. The local forecast up world for the British bicycle trade. trit has been formed, comprising property should come under the over a year. In order to continue to noon to-morrow is North The Colonial Empire of two the America, Norther German custody of Chinese churches or our studies, we have asked the Na-wind, moderate; fine, becoming million square miles was almost all Lloyd, German-Australian and organisations.
(Continued on Page 16.)
(Continued on Page 10.). Kosma lines, Router.
should have clone connection with the students now studying in Hong- kong. We should also pay atten tion to the organisation and pro paganda work among the Hong- kong students.....
give him lucrative employment,
The case was remanded.
coolor.
vice.
SHIPPING MERGER?
(Continued on Page 16.)
Tex Rickard has got married
vent
tures
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We shall all be Surrey when the regiment goes."
blue coats with brass buttons has caused not a little domestic friction on the theme What does.
to carry, it away.
We understand that the. Stewards of the Jockey Club have, rejected the suggestion that secco- tine bo supplied free of charge to
ckeys in future.
Kungaton have been known to Jump twenty feat states an Aus tralian magazine. Sounds like. Prosumably the Borderers will nature's abortive attempt to pro- be able to trim most ppponents.duce a safe pedestrian.