WHAT ABOUT THAT CHILD'S EYES? Are they just as good as his school- mate's the boy or girl who is forging shad of him or her? Or.is he or she bandicapped by some little weakness of the byos which makos school work a burden and retards prograss? Why not be sure about it? An examination of the oyos is the only way to be cortain. If" gladaos are ordered. It will be for one reason only because your child's eyes will suffor without them."
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HANKOW CRISIS. THE CANTON BOYCOTT CANTON TENSION. HUGE RUM-RUNNING STRUCK OFF ROLL POLICE AND PICKETS
GRAVE SITUATION DEVELOPS.
BRITISH APPEAL FOR AID.
Rugby, Nov. 29.
WEAKENING.
MORE BRITISH GOODS IN EVIDENCE.
LESS ANTI-FOREIGNISM. Our Canton correspondent gives some interesting facts in regard to
RICE STRIKE CAUSES ANXIETY.
<
SERIOUS TROUBLE FEARED.
continued anxiots on the part of Roports from Canton speak of
CONSPIRACY.
"PLOT TO DELUGE US WITH LIQUOR.
CASE OF SHANGHAI BARRISTER.
"ARGUMENT IN COURT.
BANK OFFICALS INVOLVED.
Bost Nov. 29.
In H. M. Supreme Court, at Government Agenturo jubilant Shanghal on Wednesday, Judge
allegett to be interested in a gigan- ing Mr. Lawrence Kindt Kent-
FRATERNISE.
APPEAL AGAINST UNDUE INTERFERENCE.
SCOTTISH BALL·
ALL READY FOR TO-NIGHT.
AN OFFICIAL'S SPEECH.
SIMPLE CENOTAPH CEREMONY
The smell of heather is in the An appeal to policemen not air to-day. It is St. Andrew's Day, interfere unduly with strike move-when, all over the world, Scots
Sir Auston Chamberlain was ques- tioned in the House of Commons by the movement to extend the anti-the public regarding the possibility at the indictnient forty people Grain delivered a judgment removmants was made by the Commis-foregnther to celebrate the day of Mr. Ramsay MacDonald regarding British boycott. He states that of serious trouble arising out of the condition of affairs at Hankow, many of the printed forms.dis- the strike of rice, shop employees tic rumrunning enterprise of well from the roll of legal practi, sioner of Public Safety in Canton the Patron Saint of Scotland.
He replied that serious develop ments in the situation had taken place there during the past week and grave anti-foreign movement appeared to be work..!!
THE CUSTOMS UNION.
Æ
Continuing, Sir Austen ald Union of lower grude employees of the Chinese Maritime Customs was formed on 21st November,
tributed by the Boycott Extension Committee have now been collected but it is believed that only about third of these give any reliable in formation with regard to the stocks of British goods held by Chinese merchants. forms fall to mention any British Two-thirds of the goods whatever, the majority of the merchants saying they do not know how to distinguish British products
:
In such circumstances, the boy- with the support of the Superin-cott extension movement is making tendent, who was a Chinese official. very little headway. It is apparent, This Union announced that its aim says our correspondent, that anti- was to oust the foreign element foreign feeling is dying down and from the management of, the sor
that British. goods are being, sent vice and to bring it under purely to Canton in increasing quantities, Chinese control. The Commis-this being especially so in regard sioner of Customs hoped that i. to picco-goods. might be possible to keep the Cus-
Some shops atill hesitate to offer, tome House open and to maintain for sale openly British goods which the light service with foreign are easily recognised as such, as, labour, but this might be difficult for example, the products of the if the Customs House, which was British American Tobacco Com in the Chinose city, was picketed. pany None the less, the "Three The latest report was, that the Castles brand of cigarettes are situation in some respects appear now appearing at some stalls and ed to be easier. The Union had are fetching as much as forty cents presented its demands, and these a packet. These are enjoying much were not expected to be of an im- popularity at the moment, and possible nature, though It might many shopkeepers find it difficult
as well as from other labour trou-which the principal figure is the a bles. A number of Labour Unións son of a most respectable New have already demonstrated as the York banker, who is charged with Department of Agriculture and financing the project.
have decided to follow suit. Labour, and others are said to The Agonte declare that the rum-runnings intended to deluge Thus at a time when the chief the United States with liquor, their ships carrying a million dol- officials are away on their inspec- lars worth every trip. tlon tour of other provinces, ich tension exists, and there is a fear that the young men holding, acting appointments may not be able to control the situation should seri- ous trouble, ensue.
sHors SHUT.
Out of numberless strikes and picketing of business firms, the most serious situation it the mo ment is in connection with the strike of rice shop employees, as this is causing much inconvenique to the public and resulting in the shutting down of several firms,
According to the rice merchants,
4
at a mass meeting held there a few
in
This morning there was
tioners. Mr. H Lipson Ward, acting Crown Advocate, attended, days ago, says our correspondent simple ceremony at the Cenotaph and Mr. Tycho Wing also was pre- The gathering, which was at-when Mr. R. M. Dyer, the Chief- sent on behalf of Mr. Kentwell. tended by several thoraitain of the Hongkong St. Andrew's Society, laid a wreath in honour. At the conclusion of the judgment, Labour Union representativas, of the glorious dead, in the mur
held Mr. Wing made an ineffectual at- was
the campus sence of members of the Commit tempt to restrain Mr. Kentwell of the Chungshan Uciver tee...
Everything is in readiness for from speaking and when this failsity, it being described as a "Police the Society's Ball this evening, for Many minor hank officials are ed he walked out of Court, leaving Those present included a large tations have been accepted, and an and Labour Fraternity Party." which over twelve hundred favi- concerned. The headquarters of Mr. Kentwell arguing.
number of policemen and pickets. additional touch of colour will be the Syndicate was high-class New York, with ramifications ex- that the right to practice granted Public Safety, who stated that to the Colony of the new Scottish bat- Amongst the addresses deliver- added to the picturesque scenes. fri The motion before the Court was ed was one by the Commissioner of the ball-rooms by the presence in real estate office on Broadway, tending to two Continenta. The to Lawrence Klindt Kentwell on Canton police had been generally talion, the 2nd King's Own Scot plot was discovered by the seizure November 30, 1916, be withdrawn. gardat na counter-revolutionists, tish Borderers, many officers of in August of the steamier Cretan on-the ground of misconduct, and He said it was the duty of the which will be present clad in their with a cargo of alcohol valued at
police to maintain public safety, Leslie tartans. $300,000-Revier's American Ser-that the roll of legal practitioners but to use their influence to
Those responsible for the de- of the Court be amended accord-interfore unduly with proletarian corations have achieved remark- ingly. The misconduct, alleged by movements and students demon-able success, for they have succeed- strations was contrary to Kuomin-ed in completely transforming the the Crown Advocate was that Law-tang principles.
interior of the City Hall and renee Klindt. Kentwell falsely fc- The police had in the past often Theatre. Heading the Committee Kwei-ching, as a Spanish subicct were from the same class as the years has undertaken this work and gistered a Chinese subicct, Chow interfered with strike pickets, but responsible for this work is Mr. they should remember that. they George. Duncan, who for many at the Spanish Consulate in Shang- labotirers and peasants, and there, is known to everyone for his abili hai.
fore they should show their sym- ties in this direction. He has been pathy with these and with the stu-ably assisted by the other mem- dent in anti-capitalistic movement; bers of the Committee.
vice.
THE COAL DISPUTE.
EMERGENCY REGULATIONS
he that they were only a preliminto secure supplies sufficient to meet thero is very little margin, of pro- the debate painction for con-
ary move.
STRIKE THREAT.
BRITISH APPEAL.'
the demand
A DESPERATE ACT,
GAOLEIRD STEALS WOMAN'S CLOTHING.
same
the
Sir Austen added that at the same time the general strike had made great progress. The Chinese servants of. Japanese were already || on strike, and the Japanese had had to Import their food supplies Discharged from gaol on Satur- from other centres. The Commun-day morning, a Chinese was again ist section was showing gvent taken into custody on the activity, and there was fear of a night after a hue-and-cry raised Renerul strike being forced. This over the theft of clothing from No, if carried out, would throw out of 2, Arbuthnot Road. employment thousands of lower After release. from gaol the man grade workers and it would be easy did not wander far from the pri- to incite these to riot. The situa-son, but chose the first house next tion was being watched by the to the warders' quarters as British Government.
scene for his "fresh, enterprise. Here, at 6.30 in the evening, a young Chinese woman was called Sir Austen Chamberlain, reply to the window in time to sec a ing to a further question, said the man making off with a cotton pair Foreign Office had received a cable fof trousers, her property, left on from the British community at the drying pole in the yard. Hankow stating that the situation When the hue-and-cry was was very grave indeed, that they raised, there occurred a stert. were in daily expectation of an in-chase," and seemingly in the last cident which would involve blood stages of exhaustion from the exe shed, and that the naval forces tion, the man, stopped outside the were not adequate for the protec- Dairy Farmshop in Wyndham. tion of the community, and asking Street and allowed himself to be the Government to give an assur-captured by a Chinese student. ance that the forces would be! A witness in the case was Prin- Sir Austen said cipal Warder C. E. Thomas, who, that this appeal was under the con- to-day at the Police Court; said sideration of the Government, in- that from his quarters across the cluding the Admiralty.
way he kept the man under obser In official circles in London ivätion and could testify to having is pointed out that Hankow is ensi-seen the theft carried out. ly defensible. Though it is 800 Major C. Willson, before whon miles from the mouth of the Yang the man was was charged, imposen taze River, at that point the River a sentence of six weeks hard is a mile and a half wide and com-labour: paratively large battleships can "His Worship thanked the two lie off the waterfront.-British witnesses for their promptitude in Wireless.
strengthened.
"KEPPEL" FOR HANKOW.
Shanghai, Nov. 30. The British flotilla leader Kep- pel left for Hankow this morning. whilst the American destroyers Peary and John D. Ford proceed-, ed thither yesterday, Reuter.
LIGHTS COMMANDEERED,
taking up the chase after the de- fendant and securing his arrest.
LOTTERY TICKETS.
SHOE DEALER'S FEEBLE EXCUSE.
"It may be another name for
RUBBER COUPONS.
An illuminated shield, with lion rampant, high above the entranco, is the first indication of the typical. ly Scottish decoration which in carried out through the building. The blue and white of St. Andrew. naturally predominates in the col our scheme, but, if anything, the general appearance is more effec- tive than ever before.
NOT WANTED.
London, Nov. 29. In the House of Commons, iri
ABUSED RIGHTS. fit on the shie of rice, and, if the tinuing in force the Emergency
"After dealing with the facts of demands of the workers which Powers Regulations, the Labour the case, Judge Grain said: include a 60 per cent, increase in Member, Mr. Tom Williams; de- Foreigners in China by Treaty clared them to be unnecessary, inevitably be a big advance in the miners would be working in the rights and it is most essential at wages are conceded, there must inasmuch as 80 per cent of the are in possesion of extraterritorial
next 24 hours. retail price of the commodity.
all times, and more especially at the present period, that foreigners should not abuse those rights. It is still more essential that a train- English Bar and a legal practi- Amery said that no time limit had greenery into the hall, an avenue tioner in H. B. M. Supreme Court
RIVAL VEWPOINTS. "
Sir William Joynson Hicks said that if the statement was approxi- mately correct he would ask His
FURTHER EXPLANATIONS
OFFERED.
London, Nov. 29.
In the House of Commons, re
•
EFFECTIVE ENTRANCE. Passing through an archway of
It is suggested that if the Majesty to hold a Privy Counciled lawyer, a member of the plying to Mr. E. T. Campbell, Mr. the merchants and the Govergulations.---Reuter. employces insist in their demands, on December 2, to abolish the re- ment should, unite in seeing th
Later. steps are taken to keep the poor supplied, with the necessities of voted the continuance of the Emer The House of Commons finally life.
gency Regulations by 198 votes to On the other hand, the Workers' | 76--Reuter, Representative Conference de- nounces the rice merchants as pro- fiteering capitalists and any that if they do not comply with the workers' demands, the shops should be shut down and rice- selling depots established with funds supplied by the Workers' Conference.
any way to abuse those Treaty rubber. coupon issued to a small dance halls. At the top of the stair for China, should do nothing in been fixed for the validity of the of. ferns and pot palms on the staircase guide. the way to the rights which he in the course of holder prior to November 1st. A way is a huge mirror, surmount his profession docs so much to up-rubber estate might entry fored by an illuminated Scottish this- hold and administer.
STOCKS RETAINED.
There is much feeling, also, inf
EASTERN LABOUR
CONDITIONS.
ATTITUDE OF, INDIAN GOVERNMENT,
London, Nov. 29.
regard to the continued retention Winterton told a questioner that In the House of Commons, Ear! of a large quantity of rice in cer- he had received a communication tain godowns, this having been from the Government of India re- seized at the time of the defeat garding the suggestion of the In- of General Yeung Hsi-man and ternational Labour Organisati Lau Tsun was, on the ground that to call a conference of represen it was bought by these two tatives of India, Japan and China, generals for the use of their which said that the Government of India.would prefer to await the troops.
results of the documentary quiry now being conducted by the International Labour Office into the conditions of work in Eastern countries-Router.
After a lengthy hearing in Court, however," it was proved that the rice belonged to certain merchants and an order was made for its release, this being countersigned by the Government. When the owners' employees, however, at- tempted to take delivery, they were arrested and thrown into prison, and it is reported that they are being treated as though they were criminala" of the very worst type.
The people and the merchants alike are incensed, over these de- velopments, as a great quantity of rice, badly needed, is prevented from coming into the market.
ILLEGAL ACTSŻ
SOUTH AFRICA AND MOZAMBIQUE.
en
GENERAL HERTZOG VISITS LISBON.
Lisbon, Nov. 29.
shoes, but I have never heard of it" said Major C. Willson this
General Hertzog has embarked Rumours have been rife during morning when a Chinese, charged
for South Africa, after two days the past few days in Shanghal, with possession of lottery tickets,
conversations with Portuguese (says the N. C. Daily News of pleaded that he dealt only in
Ministers on questions affecting Friday last) regarding the 'condi- shoes, and that the names on the,
South Africa and Mozambique, tion of up-river navigation, which tickets were those of "customers The bringing of the Sunning which it is hoped will prove the is reported to have been interrupt from whom he had to collect ac- Railway and the waterworks un basis for the conclusion of an ed in numerous instances. While counts. ·
der municipal control is also agreement in South Africa, definite information is not obtain- Evidenco was furnished by theausing much ill-feeling, as it is The visit was more significant able at the present time, it has exhibition of documents, of a large pointed out that both these con- as it was the first occasion a been ascertained that one of the popiu establishment having been cerns are private corporations and Premier of Britain or the Domi- ap-Yangtszd Bght-ships, whose run by the defendant.
their seizure is utterly illegal. nions had officially visited Lisbon. function it is to safe-guard naviga- The defendant was convicted,
In the case of the Sunning Rail-Reuter. tlon at night, has been presum- and Aned $60, for keeping a popis way, most of the stock is held by) ably commandeered by Cantonese. establishment and $15 for posses- overseas Chinese, and these are The incident is said to have oc- sion of the tickets. A foki, who lodging strong protests with the Tile Royal Observatory's fore curred in the river below Hankow. was arrested at the same time and Kuomintang Party and the Go- cast up till noon, tomorrow. is:
(Continued On Page 18.) was also charged, was fined $5,¦. vernment,
"East winds, moderate; cloudy."
STRUCK OFF.
U. S. PROSPERITY.
trait of the 5th Duke of Gordon, who was largely responsible for the formation of the Gordon High- landere, has been placed in the reception room, draped in the Gordon tartan.
This matter has caused me much ward from the last restriction the, and in the mirror one catches la vision of a wonderful lamp- anxious thought and the most period to the new, its unused ex-shade, the sides being the St. An- grave consideration, and I much re-port rights.. With regard to the drew's emblem, a white cross on gret that the present motion has existence of unused rights and blue background, in the centre of come before myself and not before unused rubber coupons, are-as- each being a golden shield with a my brother Judge, for the reason sessment of the standard pro-red lion rampant, that the facts on which this motion duction would be made annually. Around every wall are greenery. is now made are the facts set in respect of the twelve-months bedecked clan, shields, with fes- forth in a judgement given by beginning Nov. 1st and it might toons of blue and white ribbo.1 myself in an action before me in be assumed that the authorities of swinging down from the ceiling. Ceylon and Malaya would take ac which the Chinese. subject, and Mr. Kentwell the defendant, on the different estates as far as Chow Kwei-ching, was the plantity count of the actual export figures NOVEL LAMPSHADES.
The reception room has been but unfortunately it was unavoid-
was reasonable.
prettily decorated, the lampshades Sir Skinner Turner. able owing to the absence of Judge problem as a whole would be bet-coloured and petal-shaped, they Asked whether he thought the being a special feature. Multi- ter dealt with by allowing coupons are the design of Mr. J. Simpson, in respect of release when the rate who has also been responsible for was 100 per cent, to be used when those in the old Chamber of Com- It is undoubtedly a most serious the rate was 70 and even 60 per merce room, which, for the pur- matter to strike off the roll of legal cent., Mr. Amery said he would pose of the ball, has been con- practitioners of this Court a man have to consider "all the facts of verted into a buffet. A large por who is a member of the English the case.-Reuter, Bar and an English University and a legal practioner in this Court. It must inevitably be the ruin of his professional career in this country and possibly in others, but, it is the duty of the official presid- ing over these Courts to do all in his power to maintain the high standard of Integrity and honesty which has always been held by the Bar of those Courts. · And I have come to the conclusion that the of the Commerce Department, says Queen Victoria is surrounded by: only course
that the material condition of the ensigns and the Union Jack, and open to me is to accede to the application of the people of the United States rose on either side are the clan shields Crown Advocate and remove the last year to an unparalleled level. of Ferguson and Robertson, the name of Mr. Kentwell from the The country maintained the high-clans with which the Chieftain is roll of practitioners of these est standard of living in its his associated. In the right-hand cor
tory and far above any other coun- her is the Leslie clan shield, as- Courts.
The Order therefore is, that the
try. The only unsatisfactory associated with the K. O. S. B... right to practice in these Courtspects, the report points out, were granted to Lawrence Klindt Kont duce and the failure of one or two
CHIEFTAIN'S COLOURS. the low prices for farmera pro- well on November 30, 1916, bo now industries, including textile and have been draped with the Fergu withdrawn, on the ground of mia- bituminous coal operations, to en-son tartan in honour of the Chief- conduct, and that the roll of legal joy full activity practitioners be amended acording-
tain. At the head of the hall is The report shows that although the Ferguson cresta gilt bolt. foreign trade slightly declined on round a thistle with a bee on the MR. KENTWELL'S REFLY,
the export side in dollars, it steadi-bloom. ly grow in volume being greater, St. George's Hall contains the Mr. Kentwell I think I am than. the previous year. The Bama striking St. Andrew's cross entitled to ask permission to say a financial and hanking activities as a celling decoration: Blue and few words. I have felt very much showed many new high records white again predominates..
(Continued On Paga 18.) Router's American Service.
(Continued On Page 12.)..
ly.
HIGHEST STANDARD OF LIVING.
On entering St. Andrew's Hall one's finst impression is that of. a huge St. Andrew's blue and white cross which extends from the four Washington, Nov. 29.
corners of the celling. At the end Mr. Hoover, in the annual report of the hall a portrait of the late
The dottees on the offlefal dafs