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THE CHINA, MAIL.

SMILLIE AND DUKES HOW ADMIRAL KOLTCHAK SIR S. W. ROYSE & CO.

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BECAME DICTATOR.

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ITEMS FROM INDIA.

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Horniman as

SHANGHAI'S SHIPPING

TRADE

The total tonnage entered and cleared during the quarter from January 1 to March 31 was, in round numbers, 3,680,000 tans which was an increase, over the corresponding quarter of the year before, of over a quarter-of-a-million tons. Most of

THURSDAY, JUNE 28 1919

AN AMERICAN PASTOR'S STORY.

The Rev. Walia B.. Brock, of Berwyn, Oklabama, recently related the follow-

During his thirty-five years of work in assuming power which they didi aeglected.. Arsenic is in better rewrites of Mr. Harriman that he was remembered that the short trip to ing personal experiences

Crush

WEATHER REPORT.

-Houth coast of China, between Bogkong and Hsinan. The same as

ROYAL OBSERVATORY HONGKONG, DAILY WEATHER

· REPORT..

Station.

JUNE 26, 1919.-..

Wind

in the 1918 quarter is 34.9 per cent. East quarter, a gain of 6.1 per cent. Japan's loss in " ocean tonnage was Mr. Mazharul Haque, a member

June 98 124. 100-80 retaros not so great, being 1.8 per cent MANCHESTER, May 2.1.

of the Viceroy's Legislative Council and cleared at Shanghai for the first difference, however, has been sufficient has decreased moderately at Welhaiwe The returns of shipping entered between the two quarters. The from Japan and Vladivostock. Pressure Chemicals. The course of business wrote to the Viceroy that innocent quarter of this yem already show the to restore the British dag to the and bispil, and slightly at the majority Mr. Robert Smillle was in his native

during April has been checked by people were shot down because they effect of the removal of the sub premier position it held before the of other stations reporting. Depression town of Larkhall, near Glasgow.

labour troubles and enquiry has been were holding a peaceful demonstramarine menace and the result of the war, for whereas the proportion of pitcated over Shantung sod presented with a testimonial from

Now it is proposed that the Allies |

building programme to which all the the three local branches of the should recognise Koltchak, it may only moderate. The Easter holidays tien

Skr Sankaran Nair, another Coun- maritime nations of the earth have flag i 1918 was 28.8der gent. Against Hongkong Rainfall for the 24 hours

ocean** tonnage under the British Toughing. herent appointment as permanent Koltchak came to be in power in Siberia an extended period have also been was the result of misgovernment and are also slightly affected by the re been reversed this year, Britain being total since January 188. 34.94 Inches, Lanarkshire Miners, Union to mark be of interest to recall how Admiral and the closing of many works for

cillor, told the Viceroy that sedition committed themselves. The returpa 36.4 per cent. Japanese, the order has orting it 10 am. to-day, 0.00 inch. president of the Miners Federation On this point some valuable informa disturbing factors. However, the of ill-advised measures.

turn of a number of vessels belong, represented by 349 per cent.sinat a average of 38.83 inches. of Great Britain The gifts included a tion is given in a statement corg

Quite a lot of respectable citizens of ing to coast companies which bat and Japan by 6 per Forecast fre the 24 hours, ending at Clock for Mr. Smillie, and a dialer Sionim, in ex-member of the Camoval by the end of May of control Bombay protested against the depore been commandeered by the Brickh cent. The difference, thus far, is not hoon on the st

a diamond municated to L'Humanite by Mrcent official announcement of the comprised 5,000 miners from the stituent Assembly, who was present on the sale and distribution of goods tation of the journalist B. G. Horni Government, but as few of these great, but when it is remembered Roosing to fap Reck, S. and colliezies, at which Mr. Smillie had both at Lifa and at Omsk as a witness with few exceptions, has caused man. Here is an extract from the were back in time to resume their that Britain was 76 per cent, bebind SW. Inds, frean fair, min later.

of the circumstances which he des

protest::= =

regular trades before the close of the Japan last year, it is cause for com

-Formos Ubanel. S. winds, The deportation of Mr. Harriman March quarter, their effect uppn the gratulation that she has been able to In acknowledging the gifts, Mr. cribes. Further confirmation of his better feeling in the trade. The

A-Fouth coat of China between Smillie referred to the sittings of the statement is given in the Oleichs | further removal of export restrictions under an executive, order has come total shipping returns are neglige pull level; and better, in one clear Hongkong and Lanocks. The same a Coal Commission. It had been alleged strene Vedomosti, quoted by the has also given satisfaction. There as a rude shock upon the public mind able.

quarter and the two months of last | No. 1. year that followed the conclusion of in certain quarters, he said, that he Russian people's Information Bureau. has been more enquiry for Sulphate as a violation of the principles of had desired to score against the

As is already known, the meeting

Justice and freedom and has aggravat.

the armistice. dukes. He had no fuch desire, but of the Constituent Assembly in Ufa af Copper for export, and a faired a situation which was already

The remaining increases and No, 1. with his colleaguest simply to arrive elected a so-called All-Russian Gor business is also passing for home causing great anxiety and has inten

losses in

ocean fonnage between anithe a cheques, cups had been ernment or Directorate. The pre-account in view of agricultural re-sified the difficulty of restoring

the two quarters were very slight. auted to the Commission because the gident of this directorate was the quirements Prices have just been normal conditions in the public wind

America, which claimed 5.9 per cent. miners representatives thought the famous Avksentley, Right, Social reduced. Green Copperas is receiving Though some of us did not agree

had increased 0.6 per cent; France dukes were entitled to give informa Revolutionary while its members attention and there is no accumula- with all his views or always approve this was contributed by ocean with 1.5 per cent had increased 0.9) tion why they owned not only the consisted of equal members of Cadets tion of stocks. Acetate of Soda con of the manner of expressing them steamers, under which head, are per cent, Chinese tonnage, all coast, surface of the earth but the minerals (Constitutional Democrats) and

Heavy his courageous stand against what included coast shipping as well as at 18.7 per cent. had remained preted from eaten but the man had Social-Revolutionaries of the Right. stocks of Acetate of Lime are re ever seemed to be unjust or oppres vessels trading to Europe and stationary, while Hollard had lost 1.6 no intention of tank the dukes The Government was elected in some ported in America and prices have sive, his deep human sympathy with America. These showed an increase, per cents and Russia 0.6 per cent. before the Commission in an endeaway another Government been reduced, but this has not the suffering and his fearless ad out of the total increase of 251,900 Shipping and Engineering.

Acetates of Tocacy of the people's cause had en tons of 219,800 tons, while river your to browbeat, insult, or be without financial resources, with stimulated business,

out any impertinent to

Lead are offering at lower prices but deared him to a large section of the pteamers increased by 39,500 tons, government machinery. them. "We do

1 are little called for Nitrate of people. On grounds alike of justice the small remainder being made up army, that is to say. not blame them as individuals without an at all." added Mr. Smillie, but the without material force and with Lead, however, has been moving and policy, we cannot but regard the of native craft and lorchas.

Of the total of 3,680,000 tons, system of which they are a part is hardly any moral authority. It was more freely. Carbonate of Potash is deportation of Mr. wrong, and we wanted them to come composed of weak well intentioned in quiet demand and prices are a entirely unjustifiable and regrettable. 2,681,000 came under the head of

A French journalist at Allahabad

ocean steamers and 867,700 tons to give us the information desired."individuals whose only guilt consisted little lower. Montreal Potashes are

were "river" steamers. When it is 'tres bon journalist,” and i for the people he (Mr. Smillie) had not know how to wield. Therefore quest and price is firmer, but the

When I was a boy of about twelve | Vidivostock; é a teen accused over and over again of no one took them seriously, and amount of business passing is still

In politics the Europeans in India Hankow enables the river steamer to Yellow prussiate of are, in effect, still something of a make three entries to two of the years, asid be. "I had what a boy Nem sro creating discontent. He was not when they disappeared, overthrown only small.

saldem bas-rheumatism. I had been Hakodate.. going to preach contentment until by a handful of officers, no one took Potash is again lower, but demand bigot. Unfortunately the lower coast slips and perhaps a score as in bad health for some months and was fokot..

further with compared with the foreign trader, it taken out of school on account of it. Kochi they had some reason to be contest. their part, and after a few days their is limited: there is also little enquiry Europeans Dukes, earls, and marquises, as well existence was forgotten. The Cadet for Soda. Tartaric Acid is in fair Horniman, some of them began to is seen that the shipping trade of Bat I kept getting worse and at one o as capitalists, were entitled to be section of that Government having request, but the demand for Cream attack the morality of the man, the Shanghai is resuming the healthy time could hardly get around. This. Kagoshima content, but the working people, come to an agreement among them of Tartar is only small, although vilest calumnies and most shameless tone it had reached just before the suppose, undermined my health and landless and dispossessed, and those selves and with Admiral Koltchak Price remains steady- Stocks of Citric slanders and lies were invented to war when, in the year 1913, the ton was the cause of my later troubles.

Some time ago I became very weak, Ishiin...! living in the slums God ver commissioned a group of officers to Acid are low, Second-hand parcels lower the man in the estimation of page entered and cleared was the bad a severe pain in my mida aloost all Bonis talk expected them to be content with carry out the coup d'etal. During the of Bichromate of Soda bave been the public. This method was defeat highest that had been recorded in the time and, when I walked any dis Websivai

night of November 18, 1918, a small cleared, but there is little demanded by its very excess. I firmly the history of the port.

for Potash, although makers have believe that this soured the man As regards the percentage of tonn feeling of burning at the heart. My Ichapa. rouse the people up to the dignity group of officers, led by a colonel.reduced their price. Oxalic Acid very much against. his community. age entered under the various fars head and limbs would ache fearfully, Kiokiang! of man, but it was not true arrested the whole Left section of

especially at night. Toen my rheamat Changha to say that he was out to breed AlFRussian Government, including moves slowly. Borax and Boracic Stil it was in the spirit of no ordinary operating in local waters, it is obvious sm came on again and, later, I had a Shanghai rebellion or bloody rest to its president, Avksentive. The next Acid are in good request at the new philosopher that he continued to that, released from the preoccupation dry hacking cough which nearly a ove Catala that could be avoided. Rather he day the remaining Cadet section of prices. Feesphate of Soda is receiv fulfil the arduous duties he had of the war, British shipping already me distracted.

Sharp Pk A friend in Texas some years before my fa wished to convince the people that it the Government issued the following been reduced. Chlorates of Potash straw for the meanniess of his country had lost through having to divert had told me of the benefit be had re- Swatow......

ing more attention, price having again imposed upon himself. He cared a recovering some of the advantage it was their business to unite, by

and Soda are in

ceived from Dr. Wiliams' pink pills, Talhoka constitutional means if possible. to "In view of the critical state of supply and prices easier. Bleaching minded of most of them, the ignor. forces fighting in numerous quarters by an article in a paper which told of Teinaa.....

more plentiful men. He only pitied the narrow- the topmage for the reeds of the sad finally I was induced to try them sicht overturn the present system, and the Empire and the necessity to con- Powder is in fair request at £15 per ance and the malice of many. Once of the globe. In 1918, the proportion their correcting a case similar to mine. Loshun. enable the people to live happier centrate the whole policy of the sup ton of rails. Caustic Soda has a better he sadly remarked to me that it was of tonnage under the Red Ensign took then and they made me well." Pescadores fives. He did not think it would reme power in the hands of one për

Alum and Sulphate of in enquiry. injure the wealthy classes or the big son, the Council of Ministers has Alumina are unchanged and stocks showed unmistakable blood relation tennage entered and cleared, whereas, the blood that carries oxygen. A remedy Cap Rock.

In rheumatism the blood is thin and Cantone this respect that

his race was only 33.5 per cent of the total lacking in red corpuscles, the portion of Hongkong. landowners to have more equality of temporarily agreed to hand over all at makers' works nominal. Salamship with the Teutons. opportunity for all the people. If governing power to Admiral Alex moniac and Muriate of Ammonia ars

last March, it was 37.6 per cent. that increases the number of these Macao... ultimately anything in the shape of ander Vassilievitch Koltchak. con quiet. There is practically no change repression by the Indian Government trades thus vacated, showed a pro- more oxygen and the oxygen burns out Bakhoi.

In protest against the methods of Japan, which had slipped into the corpuscles enables the blood to carry Wachow revolution broke out in Britain ferring on him the title of "Supreme to report in Tar Froducts. Benzoles Sir Rabindranath Tagore has re- portion, in 1918, of 36.7 per cent,

the rheumatic poisons.

Hotbow the fault would not be with the Governor."" "agitators like Bob

continue in good demand. Toluolesnounced his title. In a letter to the but last quarter her percentage was Such a remedy is Dr. Willams pink Phalin Smillie and Victor Tchernov, the leader of the are without change. Naphthas are Viceroy he accuses the bureaucracy only 32.1. Britain, therefore, in the pills for pale perple, the world-renown others," but with the wealthier Social-Revolutionaries and President of dull and uninteresting, without much and European Fress of," the passing first free quarter since the armistice, on sel and nerve tonic. They are r classes, those people who deliberately the Constituent Assembly, was at that prospect of any improvement unt of vengeances on the fion of the expense of japan, which has lost Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., 38 Echo Legaspi

obtainable from druggista averywhere, Aparri told them that their income was time in Ekateringburg, and yet his the anticipated demand, from the

has increased by 4.1 per cent, all atalad direct from the China Office of the Daguja £200,000 or £400,000, with hundreds name does not appear among the Rubber trade arises. Creosote Oil is the Macras Bar, who has lived t 4.5 per cent. mom

Mr. Eardley Norton, of acres, and four or seven mansions signatories.

Roods Phanghai 3L 50 the bottle, 88/ a good market, prices still retaining India 40 years, writes that now "the and houses, while among the working

for six bottles, post free

Jasoba On November 19, having received their high level. classes they had two or three familles news of the proclamation conferring Acid is very weak, and Liquid is in Englishman is dead" due to

Crude Carbolic old feeling of personal regard for the

Write for a copy of the booklet foto Building Up The Blood". A postcard in one house, and three or five perpower on Admiral Koltchak, an em no better request. Pitch retains its arrogance of racial superiority."

request to the above address will bring sons in a single room. These former ergency session of the Congress of high tore, and with increasing

it to you by retum mail. were the people who were sitting on Members of the Constituent Assemb-enquiries for both home and export, the safety valve. He hoped the out-ly was held in a room of the "Palais and more freight available, higher | come of the Coal Commission, might Royal" Hotel.. All those present prices may reasonably be expected. be the nationalisation of the mines carried rifles and revolvers. The Con-Sulphate of Ammonia remain in good as well as the minerals, and that gress decided to form from its midst demand, with production practically ultimately they would bave the nationalisation of the land and the

their conditions. He was.

out to

use of it.

MISS PANKHURST AND MR." SMILLIE.

decree.

Sundries.-American Pearl Starch

a Committee of seven with extensive absorbed by the home market; very powers and responsible to the Con- little export business is being done. gress. The following were elected : Tchernov, Volski. Ain, Fedor is dearer both for delivery from'stock ovitch, Brushvit, Fomin and Ivanov. and for forward shipment. There is. At this session a proclamation deal however, very little offering for spor Speaking at a meeting of the ing with recent events was drawn delivery. Japanese farina is dearer Women's Party at the West-end up and many copies were typed out owing to increased rates of freight, Cinema recently Miss Christabel at once. These proclamations were but there are fair stocks. Consumers Pankhurst issued а challenge circulated by the Congress in, the of Sulphate of Barytes have ample

to 'Bob Smillic to get busy" on town and in military circles. When stocks, and pursue a waiting policy the housing question. The Miners this fact became known a group of as regards further purchases Federation had funds at their soldiers and officers belonging to one disposal, and Miss Pankhurst recom- of the regiments recently returned mended them to put some money into from the front marched to

said

10.

FOR THE ALLIES.

drawing up a housing scheme. If the Palais Royal." One section GERMANS TO BUILD SHIPS they took such a scheme to the surrounded the hotel and others en- Government they would get a large tered the private room where the gant, and they could then show the Congress was sitting, disarmed, all country how the mining population those present, seized a considerable should be housed. Let Mr. Bob quantity of arms, and all the docu Until the full text of the Peace Smile see what he can do," ments, papers, and 'proclamations. Terms are made known full comment Miss Pankhurst, "instead During the search 80,000 roubles is impossible. So far, however, as making 50 huch criti- were found on Volski. At the order shipping and shipbuilding are con cism of other people. I remember of the Commander of the 'Garrison, cerned there appears to be little Mr. Smillie complaining about the Colonel Nekrassov, who arrived at doubt as to the exact position which food question. He was asked whethe hotel, all the confiscated articles has been arrived at. The opinion is ther he would be Food Controller, were delivered to the supreme comfirmly held among most shipowners but he refused to stand the test. mand of the town. Na woman would have run away

that the ton lor-ton clause is not While these incidents were taking likely to work out satisfactory to as Mr. Smillie did then." Mr Smile place, a bomb was hurled by an un-Great Britain in view of the enar she said, was an avowed Bolshevist. known person from a window of the mous proportion of liner tonnage ..and an admirer of the regime of "Palais Royal, and exploded, smash-which the United States is being Lenin and Trotsky. Women did noting many window panes and wound- permitted to retain. It may be that defend the present system, but they ing three officers. Late at night the arrangements have been arrived at were not going to entrust the task Russian detachment which was between our shipowning organisa of its improvement to Mr. Smillie. guarding the hotel was relieved by a tions and the Government with this (Hear, hear.) The working classes Czech detachment.

and some ultimate end in view, but were no better thar. any other. Fre quently. they

Nearly the whole Constituent there is not yet any confirmation of than professional men and women, now in the prisons of Elcaterinburg interpretation which most shipping more Assembly, headed by its President, is such a reassuring theory. The frank and it was a new snobbery to grant and Omsk where Admiral Kolchak, men put on the position is that we concessions to them because they recently Commander-in-Chief of the have conceded too much to President had the horny hands of labour. Armies of the Constituent Assembly, Wilson's colleagues. So far as ship

is reigning supreme, p

buildings concerned, it will doubt According to Slonim, among those less come as a surprise that a section RANGOON RICE MARKET. arrested were the three members of of the Peace Terms calls upon the the Archangel Government who had German Government to build wer just reached Omsk after a fifty-five chant ships for the account of the Business was very dull in the days' journey. These victims of the Allies to an amount dot exceeding Rangoon Rice Market again on May coup d'etat were treated with the 200,000 tons gross annually during 28, only a few hundred tons of rice utmost rigour, but their lives were the next five years. There has not changing hands, Spall mills disposed spared through theintervention of the been heard any objection to this, so of a small quantity. May delivery, at Allies' representatives. The members long as a limit is fixed for the cost Rs. 380 and July quotations were Rs. of the Government were sent abroad of production, and that Germany 393. About a hundred tons of and the members of the Constituent provides all necessary material. - Europe No. 1 May delivery, were Assembly thrown into prison. A

gold at Rs. 422-8-0, there being no

earned

...

Then the White Terror had it

quotations for any of the other away. This regime soon aroused months. Ordinary specials were the population in different parts of the Press and of meeting, freedom quoted at the following rates-May: Siberia Between November and of association and the right to Rs. 380: June, Rs. 377; and July, January there were three risings, strike have all been supprested. Rs. 387-8-0. There appears to be which were crushed with an un-It Is this Government which the plenty of shipping but no new licences precedented...cruelty...... Under Allies, on the suggestion of Japan; Have yet been issued...

Koltchak's Government freedom of propose to recognise..

went

the

In ocean" shipping only, the gain of British tonnage is more marked. the proportion under the Red Ensign having increased from 28.8 per cent.

tance, I became out of breath, with

DODGE BROTHERS

MOTOR CAR

WE HAVE CONCENTRATED ON ONE CAR AND ONE CAR ONLY, IN A DETERMINA- TION TO MAKE IT AS GOOD AS A CAR CAN BE MADE FOR EVERY PART AND EVERY · PROCESS THAT ENTERS INTO IT WE HAVE PERSONALLY ESTAB- LISHED A STANDARD; THE WORK DONE AND THE MATERIALS. USED IN EACH PART AND EACH PROCESS, IN EVERY CAR, MUEW CONFORM TO THAT STAND- ARD. DODGE BROTHERS WILL;ALWAYS GIVE TO THEIR CAR THAT OVER CARE WHICH THE PUBLIO-EXPECTS OF THEM

PEOPLE HAVE IMPLICIT FAITH IN THE INTEORETY OF DODGE BBO- THERS MANUFACTURING, METHODS. BECAUSE OF THE NAME IT BEARS. YOU MAY BE SURE THAT THE PRINCIPLE BEHIND THE CAR WILL NEVER BE CHANGED A HAIR'S BREADTH + DODGE BROTHERS HAVE

· ONLY ONE IDEA IN THE UPRÚLLDING OF THEIR BUSINESS. THAT IS TO BUILD

· IT SO SOUNDLY AND SO WELL THAT THE GOODWILL WHICH THEY, HAVE WON WILL GROW AND ENDURE, FOREVER

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Q. W. Jarris, Chief dinstant, Hongkong Observatory, June 26, 1912 1. BAROMETER, reduced to a degress Fahrenheit, on the level of the sea in inces, tents and hundredths.

1. Topmiruza, in the shade in de- arees Fahrenheit.

1. HUMIDITY, in percentage of satura tion, the humidity of air saturated with maintars being 100

DIRECTION OF Win, to two points. & FOR OF WIND, according to Beadford Scale.

6. STATE OF WE, b. blue sky, c detached, aloud d driraling rain, flog, 8 gloomy, h hail, lightning, o overcast, Ppassing shower, q squal, e rain, a know

thunder, v vidbillity" w dew, VOL 7. RAI in inches tomthe and hun, dreitha

HONGKONG TIDES.

The tide table given below has been complied at the National Almanno Office in London from the result of the analysis of observations taken by means of en Automatic tide-recording machine to the Water Police Basin at Talk Bhs Tad during the years 1905-9.

The zere of the table coresponda with the zero of the sounding in the Admiralty Chart, which has been found to lan

1 inches below mean sea-level

To obtain the depth of water or the tide gange at the Victoria Naval Yard add feet 4 inches, and on the gangs

at Lamont Dock, Aberdeen, add 10 feet 4 Inches to the height given in the table-

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