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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
FRIDAY,
MAY 13, 1927.
STORM AT ADEN.
CHINESE LABOUR.
EXTRAORDINARY RAINFALL UNFOUNDED CHARGES
LAST MONTH,
Simia, April 18.-While the western disturbance which crossed
EXPOSED..
over the head of the Bay of Bon--RECENT BRITISH REFORMS,
gal a few days, ago is still caus- ing havoc in Barisal and Faridpur, the reports, which continue to reach Simla from Aden, are not reassuring; in fact, Aden, which maintained its usual average of Less than 2 inches of rain through- out the twelve months last year, has suddenly become notorious with an extraordinary record of 3 inches of rainfall during the 24 hours preceding the 13th April and about an inch on the 14th. This rain was accompanied, it is unofficially reported, by a heavy dust storm.
This appears to have been as sociated with the highly disturbed conditions in Persia, a fact which compelled the Meteorological
GUNMEN IN
SINGAPORE..
DRAMATIC RECOGNITION IN POLICE COURT.
Three Chinese alleged to have been in the act of robbing two Stralts-born Chinese were arrest- "Lack of accurate information is ed at Singapore by a detective the cause of many unfounded patrol on Wednesday night last charges that are brought in this week. country against British employers of labour in China," states a White Paper on Labour conditions in China, issued by the Foreign Office in mail week.
One of them was armed with a pistol.
Road.
When the accused were being brought into court, they were soon by Inspector King. He identified These charges, it is stated, are two of them as among the four that British capitalists use the Chinese who, it is alleged, wound- British export credit to China toed him and some constables dur- erect factories and exploit cheaping the recent affray in Serangoon labour, that the products of this
In the Second Court the next. cheap labour, are exported into other countries, such as India,
were charged where they compete with English morning the men manufactures, and thus injure the with armed gung robbery.
It was an extraordinary scene British working man, that the authorities of foreign concessions when Inspector King suddenly special refuse to apply Chinese factory claimed to recognise the two Chin- messages to ships in the neigh-legislation in the concessions, and ere.
When the men had reached the bourhood of Aden, and request that the child labour by-law for their captains to report their ob- the international settlement at top of the stairs they were seen Shanghai was defeated by a deli- by the Inspector, who immediate berately organised boycott, which y claimed to recognise two of prevented the quorum of rate-them as members of the gang of payers necessary to pass the by-four who shot him and some con- atables in Serangoon Road a short law being secured.
time ago.
Offee in Simla to issue
servations.
Anxious weather persisted for four days until the 16th. April, necessitating a continuance of The pre- such special messages. cautionary measures were render- ed necessary, particularly in view of the experience felt over 40 years ago in 1885, when a violent stormraged in the neighbourhood of Socotra and passed into the Gulf of Aden, but the special messages brought forth response only from near the Indian coast and not from the affected area.
less.
Unprecedented.
The Foreign Office replica to these 'mis-statements, which to some extent arise out of honest ignorance of a very complicated and little-known subject', are...
The careers of the arrested men are now being closely inves-
ment. tigated by the Detective Depart
"POLAR CAKES.”
DEPOT AT KOWLOON, The enterprise of the "Forpro- dist" Company, in conjunction with Messrs. Connell Bros. Co., in importing Seattle ice cream Hongkong, is meeting with great success, so much so, that a depot has been opened in Kowloon as a retail distributing, centre.
to
"China, having barely begun to emerge from the state of domestic industry, the total amount of all capital invested in fnctories is Insignificant. Nearly the whole of this capital is Chinese, and only a small percentage, British. The It may be mentioned that there interests of the British in China is no Observatory anywhere else are, therefore, overwhelmingly in that area except at Aden, and those of the traders, and only to the Meteorologica) Department in a very insignificant extent those Simla has, therefore, to rely on of the capitalist or employer. of reports from stray ships by wire labour. The development of
Of the details of the recent factory system in China is, and disturbed weather or the damage must continue to be, the work, not
"Polar Cakes" may henceforth caused, the Department is not of foreign capitalists, but of the aware, but their chart clearly Chinese themselves The influence be obtained from the new store at shows the unprecedented rainfall of foreign capitalists, both British 96, Nathan Road, from 9.80 a.m. to at this time of the year.
and Japanese, in as much as it has 10.30 p.m. A special refrigerating Now, however, normal, weather set up higher standards and in-plant has been installed to ensure is reported to be prevailing there, troduced humanitarian ideas, has that these delicacies are kept in perfect condition. Deliverles will because the western disturbance been-entirely beneficient.
be made upon application, or resi- has completely entered the Indian
dents may call direct to the store. area, but the question is, what will happen to it? It will appear from today's weather chart that there is a well marked depression over the Punjab, and judged from the suspicious course it is attempt ing to follow, and also by the nature of the Agra winds one is tempted to assume that this de pression may make a dash towards Bengal where highly disturbed weather is already in full swing what with gales in East Bengal and 6 inches of rain in Chittagong and 5 in Silchar
at one
Low Standards of Living, "The evil conditions of labour in Chinese factories are due
After serving two terms of primarily to the low standards of living that prevail generally in imprisonment for being in posses China, and to the total absence of aion of illicit opium, a Chinese effective legislation. The disap- was deported from the Colony pearance of the concessions and at the end of last year. He lost extra-territoriality will probably no time in returning, and being o'clock this militate against improvement in arrested labour conditions. On the other morning in the street, he was hand, growth in the power and in- sentenced by Mr. R.E. Lindsell, to fluence of the Nationalist party three months' hard labour for which has on paper at least being in possession of a adopted a Labour policy, may penter's chisel believed to be promote such improvement. Con- intended
burglarious ditions in foreign factories, par- enterprise, and to a further nine ticularly British and Japanese, are months for disobeying the order better than in Chinese factories, of banishment. A high proportion of the few British factories challenge com-
Picked up unconcious after a 40- parison with any in the world.
feet fall from a scaffold, à Ken- STORY.
There is no Chinese legislation sington workman, recently, "Unpleasant and awful," was the whieh can be applied in foreign amazed his comrades-by-returning the description applied to prevail-concessions. The provisional to work, soon after recovering his ing conditions in China by the Rev. factory regulations of 1923 are senses, apparently unhurt.
CHINA BOLSHIES.
RETURNED MISSIONARY'S
for A
car-
He
E. F. P. Scholes, of Leeds, who, unsuitable, and exist only on was Walter Newman, aged 30, of after missionary effort in the Far
paper.". East extending over 23 years, ur- rived in Liverpool tn the Canadian Regarding the charge that the Pacific liner Montrose. He said failure to adopt the child labour
Barker-street, Fulham-road, S.W. The accident occurred in Rad- cliffe-square, South Kensington.
an arca.
His fellow workers
New-
he had been forced to return be-by-law for the international settle. He overbalanced and dropped into cause of the hostility displayed by ment was a deliberately organised found him unconscious and a doc-
boycott, the White Paper points tor was hastily summoned. Cantonese forces.
recovered before Ho-proceeded to describe sey-out that under the settlement
the doctor's arrival-and-refused- eral exciting adventures through regulations one-third of the rate, however, which he had passed before he was payers must attend before a new
to be taken to pospital. Shortly At the able to leave Hanyang, one of the by-law can be passed.
afterwards he mounted the scaf- three-central-cities-of-China, and special meeting. of ratepayers fold and resumed work. reach Shanghai. He explained called to consider the child labour that when he went to the annual by-law, it was the intention of the entertainment of the blind school Shanghai Municipal Council to
found The
the establishment endeavour, as a matter of routine, have been secured had normal con- placarded with posters of an anti-to secure the passage of certain ditions prevailed," it is, stated. British character, and Chinese other by-laws relating to the con-- Bolshevists distributing anti- trol of the Press, registration of British circulars. They had pre-produce exchanges, and increasing viously, sald Mr. Scholes, been wharfage dues." using British church buildings, both for quartering their soldiers and propaganda purposes declar- ing they had been slaves of the British long enough, and emphati- cally asserting that they must throw of the yoke..
Chinese Opposition.
Anti-Foreign Agitators.
Though industrial unrest has been increasing in China in re- cent years; it is stated, and econo- mic strikes have been of frequent Vehement opposition by Chinese occurrence in most forms of in- residents of the settlement deve-dustry, it is significant that the cotton mills in Shanghai loped into a violent and dangerous three
agitation when it was suspected owned and managed by Messra. He, Mr. Scholes, was followed by the Chinese that the active Jarding, Matheson, & Co., have from the meeting by a man who canvas for a quorum for the never had a strike until the be- child labour by-law was merely a ginning of June 1925-just after device the
shouted, "Here's an Imperialist, at the same time inviting the crowd to knock him down. "They tried their utmost to do so," said Mr. Scholes, "but I got into a pas Bage with my back to the" wall: As it was, they pummelled mo right and left, and I was lucky to ultimately escape from them with a bleeding nose, a black eye, and a bruised log."
to
of the shooting incident in the Nan- secure разване
few king Road-and then only because Press by-law. A
before the date of the workpeople were intimidated days
there by the political agitatore who the special meeting. occurred the shooting in the Nan- were responsible for the anti- If, as seems inevitable, China is ring Road, known as the Shanghai foreign disturbances.
to be industrialised, it is of the incident, of May 30, 1926.
On the day of the meeting itself highest importance that she should there was further rioting, accom-recognise the terrible social evild panied by shooting, and as some inherent in the old-fashioned
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A 7,000-YEARS-OLD- PROBLEM.
A common complaint among lovers
tion of a commodity, and more. 50 in the case of beer than probably any other commodity. The demand for boers free from cloudiness be- came insistent, and, thanks to the groundwork of earlier scientists and the sustained efforts of their suc- cessors, that demand, Mr. Roas Mackenzie claimed, was now fully met.
Mr. Scholes also stated that of the most enthusiastic suppor- domestic industry aystem, and of good beor-its cloudiness-was
Speaking of the demand for a Russian Bolahavists are behind the ters of Labour reform were afraid learn by the experience of the in- discussed by delegates to the Royal Chinese propagandu movement, of the consequences if the meet-dustrial revolution in Europe how Microscopical Society at Liverpool "pure beer beer brewed from and are inquiring how long they ing were held, the Municipal to prevent the extension of these recently at their annual conference. British malt and hops only Mr. are to be dominated by British and Council judged it prudent to send evils to the factory system where Mr. J. Ross Mackenzie said a Rosh enid the interpretation by the
"Wherever cut private foreign imperialism.
messages warning they would have the potentiality thorities had traced the history of public of the term "pure" in this boor bacic to 5000 B.D., and in those connexion is erroneous. A beer the Bolshevists go," said Mr. ratepayers not to attend. In spite of being greatly intensified. Scholes, "they establish Unions to of this 514 voters representing The British share in the indus-early days brewers were hamper brewed wholly from British malt of fight against us. There is no pros-720 votes turned out, but the trialisation of China, it is remarked by inability to produce beers the highest quality would contain: Wau insufficient fored, is very small indeed. There that were free from cloudiness. To an excess of crude nitrogen which pect of missionaries in the future exercising anything like the mount of control in China they quorunt A larger percentage of is no British capital invested in day the manufacture of beer was would provide nutriment for the de British voters attended than of Chinese factorfes, whereas in rightly regarded as an art and a Printed and Published for the Proprietor by FREDERICK have had in the past. "The spirit any other nationality. The by-law British factories the capital is acionco.
The oye of the consumer played PERCY FRANKLIN, at 1 and 8, Wyndham Street, in the City of of nationalism is now all against was thus not passed, "but there generally largely subscribed by
a very prominent part in the ovolu foreign control in anything."
is no doubt that a quorum would Chinose. Victoria, Hongkolis.
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velopment of disease-producing picro-organisms and cause a pornis. tent cloudiness. The public would. refuse to accept such a beverage.