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verra serious, no to say preecarious poseetion, laddie. Pa no acquentit wi' the engineers that tackled that job wi* twa flat chisels and a hand-hammer, which is like to be the usual repair outfit provided by the owners, but mind ye. I'm pre
nairve and imagination and strength (man! ye ken hoo hot it would be), to say naething c mechanical skill
o' the tale. Gin Ikennt yin o' them,
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LOCAL AND GENERALL
To-day's dollar is worth Ss. 6 11 16d
TIMBER COLLAPSES.
FIVE KEN INJURED,
ONE DIES
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Mr. R. J. Stevenson, Government months' leave.
months" holiday."
SATURDAY, JUNE 7, 1919.
“NO SALVAGE NQ PAY,”
THE POSITION OF EUROPEANS IN INDIA.
STRANDING OF " JOSHIN MARU."
The Pioneer Mail says:-The Hon.
"Present Situation and our Critics," entrusted to the Taikoo Dock Com- sion to discuss the position of Euro- The preliminary operations were in the course of which he took occa O.SK. were advised to cut away the that our political troubles in this pany but were unsuccessful. The peans in India. We are so often told forepart of the ship about 50 feet.
pared to give them a certeeficate for electrician is going Home on seven collapse of timber in the Wine reported the stranding of the Joshin delivered a lecture in Madras on the Yesterday afternoon there was a
The China Mail some time ago Mr. V. S. Srinivasa Saatri recently Shing Cheong Timber yard, Praya off Swatow on April 29,
Maru on the Cape of Good Hope" Mr. C. H. Blason of Butterfield East A China Mail man attracted By the time that rod, transmitting and Swire's. is going away on nine by the large crowd went to in the sum, total o power, was fit to
vestigate. resume responsibeelity, some years
He found that a large stack of one must have elapsed, as they say at Commander Beckwith is a fallen over and five workmen were The Head Office at Osaka did not country are due to the social aloofness inch planks of Foochow plae had the Pictures...
pointed to act as Supt. of the Imports buried beneath the planks. The stack agree to this and offered the job to and unsympathetic attitude of the Did ye see that silly Picture a...and Exports Dept. Jock, ma mannie. F'm telling ye.
contained about 1,000 planks of the Taikoo Company on the prin European community that it is ex- The story rins roond the port that;
which about two-thirds had fallen. the Auld Man was asked $300,000 Bangkok has claimed Captain L. E. (camphor wood) was being, moved.
The epidemic of cholera at It appeared that a baulk of timber ciple of no salvage no pay. This tremely refreshing to find a gentle- for the tow, and it's a miracle the George of s.a. Mascot as a victim.
offer was not accepted. Since China Mail follows havena got hold
The coolies, carelessly so the man as stranded. A photograph seen by giving an Indian audience the other then the ship has been left man of Mr. Sastri's mental calibre ager said, knocked the baulk against a China Mail reporter shows the side of the picture. He is one of the the stack of planks, which fell and ship close to the shore and well out few who has tried to understand the buried the men beneath. and the work of rescuing the men in the forehold slightly to starboard that the charge of lack of sympathy Assistance was at once called for about 12 degrees. The damage is European point of view and he realizes commenced. Some of the Hongkong which accounts for the list. came and helped to clear away the to Swatow to see the wreck. He remarks as existing to-day between Police Force under Inspector Kent
cannot be made against oue section The 0.5.K. superintendent has been only. The wall of reserve which he planks. One after another the men has now gone were rescued and meanwhile the the Head Office. It is expected that European and Indian has been erect--
a salvage party will be sent from ed, he says, quite as much by the latter Japan,
as by the former, and on this subject the following statement of his, as re- ported in the Madras Times is particularly illuminating. "There were some amongst Indians who did not wish that any Indian of pro- minence should be associated even
I'd advise him. Wasna that a pickle " Mr. C. Bernard Brown of Messrs. for the Auld Man? Did it no show Linstead and Davis, and Mrs. Brown, confidence in his engineering staff, are leaving on seven months' holiday
OT their part and งด his, i when they decided to bide and To-day's reture shows seven mend that rod so that they cases of plague, one of diphtheria, could
come in slowly wit their one of enteric, one of small-pox, and ain power? Off the Paracels, yet three of ca- fever. mind. The owners and the Insurance folk were saved quite a parcel o Inspector Macdonald is pIP good money, that trip; and they're secuting the man who fatally stabbed saying that the grateful owners gave another in First Street. Magistrate the Auld Man as much as $250 Hutchison adjourned the hearing cumshaw, $200 to the Chief. and to-day. $150 to the Second. What would
Ouch! I dinna ken. Rab.
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ye do wi' a windia like that. Jeck, Major A. J. D Thomson, 18th gis it cam' your way?
Infantry, who has been Commandant of the British Legation at Peking. isi now in Hongkong and is attached to the shipowners, may be. What would the 74th Punjabis. you do?
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motor and other ambulances arrived. removed to hospital in the ambul All five were rather badly hurt and ances. One man especially present ed a pitiable object as he was carried to the ambulances. He bad ali his, of the men's injuries could not be front teeth knocked out. The extent ascertained at the time.
Later.
One of the injured men succumbed to his injuries last night. The others are all in some danger.
CRIMINAL SESSIONS.
MURDER ON THE HIGH SEAS.
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Osaka to report to
THE AMERICAN CLUB?
MOST UNLIKELY.
The suggestion that there should in social matters with Europeans. be an American club in Hongkong is He had often been criticized for his most unlikely to fructify. Speaking attempts to understand Europeans to a prominent American resident and to be understood by this morning, a China Mail reporter them. He knew such criticism pro- was informed that the formation of ceeded from complete ignorance to a club, or at any rate a club understand the necessities of Indian as such an institution is generally conditions. He had just now said understood, is most improbable. "For that it was one of their primary the few Americans there are here." duties to increase the volume of Mand w. June 9, being a holiday al Criminal Sessions was impossible to run a club. We have that they had to mollify and subdue the Hong'song Canton and Macaol before the thief Justice in the all the club life we need at the to sympathy the asperities of Euro- said our informant, it would be sympathetic opinion in England. For Steamboa Co., Ltd., will run a special Supreme Court this morning when a Hongkong Club. "How
Business with Foreign eave here at 8 a.m. and return from alur cops was charged with the
excursion to Macao. The Sai An willinese melber of the Chinese nothing more than a monthly tiffin them knew that sympathy was born There would be pean opinion here. Now every one of Countries is Financed" is the title Macao at 3 p.m. of a booklet just issued by the
anything comes of musler of a cast be on the Shanghai where we have about
it In of true knowledge and intercourse' Guaranty Trust Company of New
These are wise words and we trust York for the benefit of exporters and.
A Chinese who knew a littleasing the mouth of the Bet Sen
sens wliet the ss. Telthybine was a thousand Americans it is different." that Mr. Sastri's hearers took them importers and others having business English and little else fished ten. or financial relations with foreign 10 notes in Fat Hing Street. Hetti with a pontigent of re-and a small place would be too of Indian politicians demand sympathy en Mity his band from Evrope be impossible on account of expense speaks is too common; the majority- "I suppose that a big club would to heart. The attitude of which he countries. The booklet contains was soon surrounded by the pro-patriated Labor Corpse of which undignified for an American Club? twenty-eight reproductions of speci- fessionals, who parted him and his both the neered and the deceased suggested our representative. men forms of drafts, letters of credit. money: The monkey who did the bills of lading, invoices, other documents generally used in: connection with the financing of | Messrs. Lewis and Farray, officers exports and imports. Explanatory of the ss. Linen of Hongkong, who notes accompany each illustration and were sentenced in Bangkok recently, features in the documents of partito one year and six months' impri- cular importance are noted. The sonment for smuggling a large use of the documents is also explained quantity of opium into Siam appealed when that seems necessary. Special against the conviction but failed to The China Mail. from wages. It is proposed," he says, attention is given to those which bear reverse the decision.
directly upon the development of dollar, exchange.
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PAYING THE PIPER.
The new loan announced in a
Reuter message yesterday reminds us that we still have to pay the piper The job of Chancellor of the Exche quer, well paid though it be, is not likely to be a popular one for some time ahead, Outsiders there will be 3-plenty to advise on taxation, as there have always been. They have begun already. One of the most interesting suggestions, one certain to provoke a great deal of fierce argument, is forthcoming from the
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ALICE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL.
and chestnut picking gets three months. are members.
The Acting Attorney-Genem; the cared for the Crown what the Hon. Hon. Mr. H. E. Pollock, K.C., ap- Mr. C. G...Alubuster, O.E., was assigned for the defence.
und J. P. Xavier.
That's it" was the reply.
CIRCUS COMING.
would
mistake, as Mr. Sast! was at pains
Politically this attitude is a grave
and concessions while they ther selves will give none.
A frank recognition that there are differences of taste and custom which must render freedom of social intercourse HONGKONG THEATRE. always # matter of difficulty would make that intercourse From to-night (Saturday) up. to easier, but Indians are rarely dis Missors. F. X. Ribeir, W. B. Alus-story of the courage and resource are the real cause; they persist The following were on the Jure 10th inst, a pathetic and fanciful posed to admit that these differences kett, F. M. Care, WB. barn, V. A. V. Ribeiro, B. M. Webb father did not want her, is to be relationship to the "reserve" of the Binckfulness of a child whose Gamble in attributing the difficulty of social as a substitute for a crushingly
screened in the Hongkong theatre, European. Yet a moment's reflection heavy Income Tax on the whole
The booklet is The King of Siam has conferred
The Attorney-General certified the featuring Marguerite Clark in the on the wide influence of such ideas body of professional and business printed in attractive type upon the folowing decorationsUpon M. onse for the pro-eeution am! said the.
Valentine Girl," a play of 6 as have created the caste system," men." In that case many of us out coated paper and is carefully indexed. Sarraut, Govercor-General of Inda. Poner was charged with murder Parts. It is a masterful blending of the "purdah" system and similar here will be willing to look at it At the end there is a table of China, the First Clase of the Order of Tettiyhina in the early uning of and appeal. The beautiful girl who difficulty lies deeper than that, and
on the high seas on the British ship pathos and charm, quaint humour customs again. We are willing to be shown currencies of various countries and the White Elephant: upon M. Palgiers while the ship was passing has captivated the world Dainty. wherever there is a mutual recogti- show that the how we are to benefit by it. The their value in United States dollars. the 4th Class of the Order of the the Southern end of the Red Sen. whole arrangement presented by difference of inherited ideas social tractarian says we, even those of us This booklet is not for sale, but will White Elephant, who have annuities or invested be sent on request to manufacturers, Gouleslont the 5th Class of the Order is of the Labour Coips whey bal
Written by Laura Sawyer and the tien and upon 'M.
of this underlying The slip was carrying Chinese muets, savings, will find it pay us to have a shippers, and others interested of the Crown of Siam.
Daniel Frohman.
intercourse becomes a pleasure to properly graduated capital tax (in foreign trade.
served in France and were being picture, new comics and comedies
In addition to the above splendid both sides.. order to get the income tax down to
In a river collision case between repatriated to Tsingta. Both the will also be screened: New pro- something like the pre-war rate)
steamships named Eastward and
prisoner and the deceased were em rather than to go on paying 15 shillings in the pound. He says the
Golfer, it was stated in the Admiralty pryhead to prove that there had
bers of the Corps. Beklence would grammes at the Matinees.
to emphasize. It was the fashion Division that the former
amongst a certain section of Indian.. rich people prefer the income tax
had been a quarrel between the prisoner that the alternative has not been put
counsel suggested that the sound of member of the contingent would des the arger growth, there's a circus for a very great deal indeed. They though how he knows that, seeing
sounded the appropriate turning and the decensed, two days imfory
politicians to treat Anglo-Indian signal of four short blasts, and the mer, over some money.
critics as if they did not matter much, A
in current politics; but as things at four" ought to have been signpose that he heard a noise and get coming!
Boys and girls, and all children of present were ordered, they did count ficant to the Golfer.
ng up, followed the scossed to Circus is leaving Haiphong about not wise to ignore. To have
Bostock's Roya! Italian were a factor which it Mr. J. W. Graham Works latter was awakened and seeing the steamer, and will open at Kowloon side, if they could, would be a
Lieut. Washburn's cubiri where the the 10th, on a specially chartered them (Anglo-Indians) Manager of Hongkong and Whampoa prisoner habling kide in his fit about June
от their 50.00 Dock Company Ltd.,) and Mr. K. Ehand Lieut. Washburn grippet his Almazoff assures us there are 42 against themseves was to fight against Greig (Chief Engineer of Taikoo wrist and certain emersation nok artistes 30 of them stars, and 200 odds." That is quite true and the M. great strength, but to have them 25.00 Dockyard and Engineering Company) place between the lieutenant aux animals. The Band is Italian, the
who are leaving for home by the 3.5, the prisoner, which, said Counsel, he tent new, the seating luxurious. At desires is by no means impossible. rapprochement" which Mr. Sastri 25.00 Empress of Asia on holiday, are believe would be the subject of some Bangkok the King of Siam liked the There are 25.00 being entertained to dinner at the 25,00 Hongkong Hotel by the engineering argent and therefore he would not show, and said so. The Indo-China India who are friends to reform mary Europeans in community and other friends to tell, the Jury about it now. Lieut. papers speak highly of it. 25.00 night.
Washburn would also depose to the
and would gladly co-operate with 25.00
Indians in an attempt to put the 25.00 In the House of Peers at Tokyo,
Government on a more liberal basis; any Indian party that displayed a 25.00 on April 29, the Minister of War 25.00 emphatically contradicted the report no wounds and therefore it was lear
real sense of responsibility in public of disagreements between the Japa tut the blood was not hus. Another (Captain D. D. Davies) arrived yester. often pointed out in these columns. The China Navigation 9.5. Chuson affairs would be certain, as we have 25.00 nese and American troops in Siberia, ofcer of the C...C Cupt. Brown day from Bombay and Singapore He admitted that there had been world say that he slept in the cabin which ports she left on May 12 and
of European support. 25.00 unpleasant occurrences but they were nest to Lieut. Washburn's and June 1 respectively. The Chusan
solely due to the difference in tangu-bearing "voices, he went 25.00 age and customs causing misunderer's cabin and saw him houted to the P. & O.
to the brought 2,000 tons of cargo consign- standings but time had smoothed over ing the prisoner's left wrist; He 25.00 both completely and the Japanese prisoner had a box stained knife carpenter disappeared overboard.
During the voyage the ship's THE COUNCIL OF EIGHT.
25.00 ing in the most complete harmony. 25.00 and American troops are now work-
in his hand. There was so blood No reason can be assigned for the
his shirt. When the prisoner was disappearance. charge at the Police Station here,
Memorial and Affiliated Hospitals The Hon. Treasurer of the Alice to them, we don't know. We can acknowledges with thanks the follow- see that the professional man with ing donations to the funds of the
income but no capital Hospitals:- would
stand to
n the change, but not how the man living on the interest of his savings
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could be bettered. What he calls a Indefatigible Sidney Webb. in a
once for all" tax could not mean Fabian Tract entitled 'National Finance and a Levy on Capital." such equality of sacrifice, after all,
You can buy it for tuppence, if you cannot take our word for what it says. Although the Labour Party will approve it we suppose, since it must be something like what they meant. by conscription of wealth," we can imagine a very heavy opposi tion, so many of us being capitalists in these days. According to Mr. Webb, the investing public has not loat by the war. Their aggregate capital is calculated to have in eased enormously, Small investors will doubt it. Most of these have lost by the war, their income at the best remaining stationary while the cost of living jumped. In order to reach Something like equality of sacrifice," which cannot be done even by a graduated income tax, Mr. Webb reckons that capital must be distrained upon. All taxa. tion is upon persons, when it is properly examined. A person has so much less to spend as he or she may pay in taxes. To tax the wage earning class beyond a point-is-to threaten a lowering of its standard of living, which he holds must be avoided. This is certainly what happens when income tax such as is now levied is deducted from the receipts of the small income There is an extraordinary person. Helusion among the middle-class," says he Tract, a delusion fostered by
the security our expenditure has because posterity owes something for provided. A man with £4,000 capital (£200 a year) at present is allowed
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spending. It is not clear how Mr. Webb would "graduate" his capital tax. He talks of a man with £100,000 being better off by giving up half of it than by going on paying the income tax, which seems rather against his own argument that the rich would prefer the income tax. The richest of men never seem to have any objection to being better off. Let us make the man with 24,000 surrender a tenth of it, as it were commuting. The income on £3,600 Sir Ellis Kadoorie...... would he (say) £180, instead of his Messrs. Lane, Crawford & Co. former £200 a year. Assuming that the tax dropped back to about two
Little Adams & Wood, 25.00 shillings in the £ (a big assumption,
Moxon & Taylor 25.00
would pay only £6 or £7 a year with reconstruction ahead of us) he
income tax, leaving him with £173 an apparent gain. of income of 33 a year due to loss of capital! But this
is to say nothing of his lower value in the eyes of his heirs.
have
fact that the knife had blood stains it and the prisoner also hore bol marks on his shirt. He had
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The following is a cable to The Pioneer from London:-It has been said that the Council of Eight of the Peace Conference consists of seven amateurs and one diplomat, namely, Baron Sonnino. If so, he has done. little towards re-establishing the macy. But he would be forgetful of vanished prestige of the old diplo
Mr. F. A. Chopard, one of the be said: "I did not kill the man Jurors summoned in connection with was sitting down eating a piece of the murder case before the Chief bread when police whistle was Justice, falied to TO CORRESPONDENTS,
2ppear when blown, I run to are whit was the his name was called. He turned atter and was arrested. I don't
SUICIDE ON VOYAGE, up at ten minutes to eleven however, know why I was arrested? Wh "Boys." We are disinclined to
just as Mr. Tyrell was giving evidence carmised by 4e unagistrate, said take any notice of sneers coming and explained to his Lordship that Counsel, prisoner id:Fittain. T. H. Dobson) arrived last night The China Mail s. Nanking (Cap We fear that Mr. Sidney Webb will would have done our best for you. and did not see the summons until a money but it is not thi thi. I first and 58 second class passengers, regard to the force behind him
from that quarter. Otherwise we he had just returned from Tonkin quarrel with te doreased over some from San Francisco. There were 97 its rules the negotiated without persuading people with capital, big
considerable difficulty in The man's a bletberer.
few minutes ago. His Lordship said him. or little, to support his proposal, or You will see we made use of it, negligence on Mr. Chopard's part the Talthybius, was then "caliel and
GROPER."-Thanks very much. he was satisfied that there was no
and 225 steerage. During the voyage Since the military possibilities behind even to listen to it patiently.
Mr. W. A. Tyvek, in others co was a suicide.
there were four deaths, one of which him are. obviously scanty, he must
be presumed to have though we failed to get a statement and accepted the explanation.
been The Nanking leaves at daylight to- before this witness was sword, hemorrow for Vladivostock to take upset
reckoning
the from the parties.
power Do the Lordship asked the Attorney-General Czecho Slovak troops to America.
Peace
Confercacé, which would be no more advantage. ous to Italy than to her allies. They having refused to be frightened into yielding, some sort of compromise. would appear inevitable. When it has been made, the Italian Govern ment will have to face a disappointed- people whose Chauvinism it delibe rately encouraged.
OVERHEARD ON THE FERRY.
W.-Your article "On Getting Drunk" is interesting, but must be declined with extra thanks. Some people are so "touchy."
BOWEL COMPLAINT IN CHILDREN.
Mr. Robert Sanderson Mc why the case was pot tried at the Cormick, formerly United States fira British port. He understood Ambassador to France, has died of the sirp stayed both st Penang and pacumonia. He served three years Singaþëtë., We are prepared to
ATTEMPTED ARMED ROBBERY.
An attempted armed robbery at 219, Reclamation Street on Thursday
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wealthy as one of their means of fence against being made to con- "Mas, I'm telling ye. It was her bute equirably to the taxes, that connecting rod was broken,oot there | project of a tax on capital is put by the Paracels, and if ye ken what
as First Secretary of the American do our duty, but it is clear that | ward in the interests of the wage I mean by a oncleg job below, and
Embassy in London nearly 30 years Singapore has the first obligatim in ers, in order to spare the mass I'm thinking you do, ye'll no need
ago, and was appointed Minister to this matter, I would like full en- e people from paying any taxes telling that the squad did more than
Austria in 1903, becoming Ambass4quiry made in this matter." "That is so, We have ordinar fine. The auld female dog arded it, and we feel fairly bas one crank, one connecting rod,
dor to Russia during the Russo The Attorney General: With all right led to arrests by the Police. sure that it was the idea and one; piston rod, rinning up
DURING montanatural
Japanese War. Mr. McCormick, who spots to your Lordship, intend. A party of marauders, armed with URING the summer months mother was born in Virginia in 1849, was ed asking this witness for a ex daggers entered the house and estet med by those of the through the two super posed com- looseness of the child's bowels. When the father of Mr. Joseph Medill Mc-planation I am much, obliged to whilst on their way to the first floor procat who clamoured for con-pounded cylinders, d'ye mind.” given prompt attention at this timo Cormick, the well-known Congress- scriptio of capital. But Mr. Webb Say the tax on capital is not pro- kind of compiled engine, Rabbie, can always be depended upon. For sale and journalist of Chicago,
Aye. Ye'll be meaning the first serious trouble may be avoided. Cha man, and Mr. Robert Rutherford your Lordship for
berlain's Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy McCormick, a distinguished lawyer
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the alarm. The Police were promptly ageries Maritimes steamers have 85.9% of passages by the Mess 'posed
substitute for deductions the first that Alfred Holt made to go. By All Chemists and storekeepers,
Mr. Tyrell then proceeded with his told and were in time to arrest six of been requisitioned by the French. evidence and the case is proceeding. the men..
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