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(Reuter's Service to fas Chim) INTERNATIONAL LABOUR.

LONDON, Feb. 27.

The Press Bureau issues a com- munique from Paris saying that the Labour. Legislation. Commission has, agreed to the 'clauses in the British scheme laying down the qualifications for the Colonies adhesion to the International labour convention. It also examined the case for a federal state. The international labour.con- ference will be held in October next.

EARLIER TELEGRAMS,

(Bouter” Service to the China Mail.) PRINCE OF WALES ENGAGED?"

PARIS, February 18th.

A Havas message states:- The Queen of Italy visited Paris about the same time as the Prince of Wales did, and stayed at the same hotel,"

A marriage has been arranged between the English heir to the Crown and Princess Yolande,

ARMISTICE TERMS.

PARIS, February 19th.

I

OPIUM SMUGGLING.

There surely dhe qe for been a more amusing me of opium ruggling into Shanghai that the recent one, whe one the Custorns

March 1, 1918, Temperature

AČADFAHRET.

PENSION FUND FOR SEA- MEN.

Mr. J. Bruce Ismay has given

Revenue stcenters, organized for the £25,000 to the Mercantile Marine purpose of the payout of such Service Association Contraband trade, Quali bave been

the vehicle weby brly twin War Loan Stock. It is given in The gift takes the form of £25,000.] and-a-half piculs of the forbidden trust to the Association to form a drug was brought to the seement. lasting memorial to the manner in The matter in rendered yet more tudiotons when is faded in en that trip the Inspector General of the Custoris Bervice was tmvalling as passenger and the repudence of the smugglers even transcends that of the famous thiet, claimed by both Hongkong and Singapore, who stole the court clock from the wall while thecourt was sitting.

which all tanks of our Mercantile Marine heroically, steadfastly against amazing odds, in face of terrible loss of life, with voluntary endurance of unspeakable sufferings, carried on the sailings of the Mercantile Marina ships of this nation, and saved the Allied canse from defeat, and its peoples from starvation.

The primary object of the new fund is to make grants or pensionis to "necessitous masters and seamen of all ranks, who have served at sea on British. merchant vessels at any time during the great war," and it also makes equäl provision for the widows and children of such seamen.. Preference is to be given to applicants men who have sailed out of Liverpool, and dependents of masters and sea-

in Liverpool-owned ships, or have Liverpool The pension is not to had their homes in the port of exceed £50 per annum nor a grant to any one person to exceed £1

There is, however, a serious side to the matter in the treatment that is accorded merchant ships when found being used as the means of smuggling. It will be remembered that in the year just closed, at least two ships were fiued in sums up five undred dollars because opium had been found on board, though it was not insinuated that the muster or others knew anything about is.

It is somewhat doubtful whether the Customs is legally empowered to indist such a fine, but in any case, it is an outrageous perversion of justice that a shipmaster should be A Havas message states:-

Mr. Ismay has further provided The naval clauses of the new armistion fined for an offence he knows nothing that after ten years from the date of include the destruction of the fortifica-about and the commission of which its foundation the funds may be used, tions of Heligoland, the Kiel Canal to he is powerless to prevens. The so far as they permit, after satisfying be free to mercantile trafic, and the surcontention of the Customs appears the primary objects of the founda render of the German Fleet interned at to be that, as the opium has been tion, to assist aged and incapacit Scapa Flow.

The surrendered German warships will, found in the ship and he is in coated British masters and probably, be destroyed; as the idea of mand of her, therefore the smuggling men of all ranks who have served on dividing them among the Allies has must have been committed with his British ships, and their widows and lapsed,

knowledge and consent. This line children. RUSSIAN PROBLEM.

of reasoning takes no cognisance of This brief review of the mais pro- the tact that the vessel is manned visions of the gift definitely indicates by Chinese, of whose language the its national character, and in view of muster and officers are totally ignor the growing desire amongst all classes ant, and thas smuggling ventures to pay a practical tribute to the may therefore be arranged under Mercantile Marine, Mr. Ismay has their very poses without their know. opened a channel of real "thank- ing that it is being done. Once the offering," whereby even the most contraband is stowed away on board humble citizen of this great Empire: the ship the chances of finding it may mark his appreciation of the are very slender, even with u know. British grit which, witlicut the aid of ledge of the locality where it is conscription, kept the seas. open in stowed. To search the whole ship face of great peril; and ensured us with any chance of success is prae- and our Ailies that victory which has tically impossible. This has been brought peace, to our doors and shall proved time and again by the ofiend war.

PARIS, February 18th. A Hayas message states:-1

The Council of Ten is still undecided how to bring about peace in Eastern Europe

The Council of Ten also took up the question of what was to be done; in view of the failure of the proposed conferenca at Prinki The scheme, proposed by Home Russimus, now in Paris, is to raise a volunteer force to proceed to Russia, and put on the Red Forces. It is not likely that the Allies will allow this. On the other hand. the nati-Bolshevist. Governments in Rassid refuse to enter tain the iden of negotiating with the Bol- ahevists, stating that to disarm would mean cápitulation.

. ZIONISM.

LONDON, February 27th. The Press Bureau statesi- A communiqué from Paris says that the Ministers of the great Powers have decid- ed to organise a Central Commission to inquire into territorial questions.

They afterwards beard the Zionist re presentatives.

sea-

cials of the Customs themselves. It is desirable that we should again Information has been received that refer to the motives which have pm we being smuggled in a cer prompted the Mercantile Marine tain part of a vessel which has been Service Association to establish this carefully searched without any trace pension fund, and to the reasons of the drug being found. Yet it has which convince Mr. Bruce Ismay and been there, but so well concealed others of its paramount fitness to do crat, though the officers may have 50. stood within a few inches of it, they If we deal with the second pointi could not locate it. A case in point first there is this outstanding fact occurred a few months ago when one For very many years the Mercantile 36 LABOUR DISPUTES... of the Revenue Cruise took a party Marine Service Association, which Tower- of 10 searchers down to Kluton has its headquarters at LONDON, February 27th. Lightvessel o lutercept and search building, Water-street, Liverpool, has The Press Bureau states:- The Ministry of Labour states that

a ship that was known to be bring been the principal medium in this thirty-six labour disputes are being ring in some opium in a defined part country through which funds and ferred for arbitration this week, includ of her holds, but the officials seura institutions of a philanthropic nature ing that of the boiler makers, who claimed all night and found nothing. Yet for the benefit of seafarers and their twenty per cent, advance in their wages, had they happened to light upon it, families have been administered. It Disputes affecting the engineering and the vessel would have been fined holds the profound confidence and shipbuilding trades ar also being re because the master and officers had trust and esteem of shipowners, ferred to the Ministry of Labour for arbitration.

been unable, with no information it officers, seamen alike. their disposal to unearth it.`·.

extint it may be regarded as a Now comes the case of a Customs national institution.

It administers, in 'trast, the Liver- Revenue Cruiser itself being used for smuggling a huge consigament of pool Homes for aged Mariners, one A Havas mesange state-

consignment of contraband. Here residences that could be found." It of the most delightful series of The Allies bill to Germany for fazowe hate a vessel lying at anchor in dispenses the pecuniary relief which cial reparation comes this week before the various ports she visits with no is provided for by subsciption under Economic life in France and Belgium cargo-bouts alongside, working the "Aged Merchant Seamen Land in 15 a state of suspense, uniting the cargo, at night and visited only by widows Fund": also the "Liverpool Feace Conference's decision of the sum sampans which have some legitimate Seamen's Pension. Fund," which Germany must pay to make good the business with the vessel. Neverthe. was establishd by the late Mr. T damage wrought.

less, the smugglers were able to H. Ismay; the *Margaret Ismay bring on board some two-and-a-half widows Fund," the "Gibson Memo piculs of opium and attempt to larrial Home," the Mercantile Marine it at Shanghai. Contrasted with the Widows' Fund," and "The British coast vessel, tholz difficulties were Shipmasters, Officers', and Widows tremendous. In this case, the ship Benevolent Fund."

GERMANY'S DEST.

PARIS, February 18th

the Peace Conference.

REVIEWS.

The Books of Artemis.--W: Westall

& Co., Ltd., London. 24...

I: And it came to pass thut when the world was at war, certain scribes had the itch, and of the making of, books there was no end.

2. One scribe hit on the idea of telling his view, and peradventure of diddling the Censor, "by imitating the style of the bible,"

3. It is easy to do, and maketh slim matéria) look like unto that which is not slim, yet even so Arte- mias had some parables that were. good and cheerful.

4. The first book, went well to be) made him another. And for engh it was that the buyer had to pay two pieces of silver.

Just Buster" by Liian M. Bullock London: W. Westall & Co., Ltd. 28 6d.

This is a slight little story, told in letters from a very natural young lady to a confidant. This method of telling a story is very difficult, and when we say that Miss Bullock hus, managed to unfold at least three characters successfully, in this way, it' is praise. The high-spirited, uncon- "ventional girl, with serious moments, reveals herself, Her initable, respectable father is cleverly betrayed with a few deft touches. Agatha, the Vicar's daughter, is also merciless by lined. For the rest, there is fun in the heroine's adventures," and, "a love interest.

To that

is surrounded during her whole stay The honorary members of the As- in port by twenty to thirty lighters, sociation include such well-known pouring cargo through her hatches names as Admiral. Sir Rosslyn and sideports and coal through her Wemyss, Lord Inchcape, Mr. Bonar bunker hatches day and night with Law, and most of our leading ship out, cessation and to ensure that a owners. Ita Executive Council small package of opium is not intro comprises a body, of the most. duced amongst this confused mass esteemed British shipmasters. Its passing in and out is a physical im- secretary, Mr. Thomas Scott, for possibility. It is to be hoped, there nearly a quarter of a century connected fore, that the lesson, of the Revenue has been, intimately Cruiser has inprassed itself upon the Customs and brought it to see the injustice of fining the ship for a olence over which those in charge could have had no control Ship ping & Engineering,"

JUSTIFIABLE HOMICIDE.

with the highly efficient and gratify, ing organising and administrative machinery of the various institutions and funds to which we have alluded, and which sufficiently set forth the national aspirations of the associa tion. These, then, are the reasons which have justified Mr. Bruce Ismay and others in selecting the Associa tion as the medium through which to carry out their good intentions:

The King sent a telegram of con- gratulation to the President of the Association.

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