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晚十二五八年九十百九千餐英

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HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST . 20, 1919.

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The tests whether an industry was unstable would be whether it was.

(Router's Service to the Chino Mail.)

tor.

TRADE AFTER WAR.

PREMIER DEPRECATES

IMPATIENCE.

THE WORLD SUFFERING SHELL essential for war or whether war had

revealed an inadequate supply of:

LONDON, August 15th. SHOCK.

The Premier speaking in the House such goods, whether the government of Commons this afternoon, dealt with had to foster it in wartime or whether the country's trade and industrial pori- if government support were with drawn the industry could maintain. He complained that some people ex itself at such level of production as pected industry production to be zermal These the war had shown to be essential to as soon as the war was over. national life..

people did not realise the magnitude of the last five years' disturbance.

[See earlier telegrams for beginning of this message.j

HAVAS REVIEW.

LONDON, Aug. 18. The Premier also emphasised ex change difficulties. The sovereign to-day was worth less than 17:6 in America, which was due to the fact: that we were not paying for imports." with exports. The only alternative to increased production was to quit

PERSIAN TREATY SLATED. the country. The Premier mentioned among the reasons for decreased

PARIS, Aug. 18. production the difficulties of transit. ion from a state of the war, the lack of i The Council of Five has received labour, also the fact that everybody's a telegram from the French general nerves were jaded and torn after the Graziani, chief of the Allied military strain of war. Everybody was commission at Budapest, announcing plaining of everybody else. Some perfect accord between the mission complained of providence but these and the Rumanian military com- tendencies were world-wide and mand: would pass. The world was suffer- ing from shell-shock on a big

scale.

SLACKERS..

is

of

the

The agreement negotiated by Great Britain with Persia causes. considerable stir in Allied and diplomatic circles- in Paris. Deep disappointment felt among the advocates League of Nations

wondering Maay diplomats are whether President Wilson will re cognize it, as in everything but name Persia is now a British protectorate. President Poincare left Paris for an eight days visit to Alsace and Lorraine. He will unveil a monu ment at Burzvills to the memory of the hostages shot by the Germans and confer the cross of the legion of honour on Strasbourg, Phalsbourz, and Bitche.

One of the arguments in favour of reducing hours had been that it would not involve a reduction of output. The fact was there had been a reduc tion of output almost in mathematical proportion to the diminution of hours. The deliberate slowing down was not) confined to the workers. There were evidences of it among employers and managers. He stigmatised as a dan- gerous fallacy the theory that the less you worked the more work there was for everybody. Deliberately to reduce the output meant all-round unemployment on a gigantic scale.

The French government has con- (cheers) The absolute necessity of tracted with a big firm at New York everybody pulling together must be for the erection of 2,000 dwellings in brought home to the whole country the devastated regions of France. in crder to enable the people to shake i A Franco-American congress will off the fatal lethargy and slackness open at Tours on September 21 for which was depressing production and the purpose of discussing the utiliza- imperilling the most vital interests of tion of French waterways from the the nation.

view point of navigation, power, and the possibilities of betterment of agri-

PREMIER TAKES "CHINA MAIL" VIEW OF LABOUR.

culture.

IMPORTED WHEAT PRICES FIXED.

(There is a part missing here.] But Labour said we realise the need for production and we don't believe in direct action. (Cheers) But we are human and cannot work

LONDON, August 18. with a will unless the conditions are i The Wheat Commission to-day fairer and more satisfactory. We fixed the following prices for impor- must, said the Premier, examine that ted wheat, per 480 lbs: Canadian attitude honestly and squarely, not 52s 6d to 60s.; American 548 to 60s; in a spirit of resentment but in the Australian, sound, untreated 619, spirit of justice and comradeship treated 60s.; Argentine 59s. created by the war. He appealed to employers and workers to press their claims in that spirit. We must de- monstrate to the world the British traditional power of solving our difficulties without resort to anarchy but merely by appeal to commonsense and our innate spirit of fairplay.

"WAGES THAT DISGRACED

THE FLAG,"

He admitted that before the war hundreds and thousands of able-bodied | men had worked hard for wages which

were a disgrace to the flag they

fought for; but Labour's gains in the last two or three years had been enormous. The average wages were more than doubled, and the hours diminished by four weekly. The war had taught soldiers that positions were easier to capture than to re- tain. That was a lesson for Labour, who had captured more advanced posi tions in wartime than ever before. COMMITTED TO NATIONALIZA TION.

LONDON BUSINESSMEN AGAINST NATIONALIZATION.

LONDON, Aug. 18.

A memorial signed by the repres- entative bankers and merchant traders of the city of London was forwarded to the Premier. It pro- tests against the nationalisation of mines and other industries until the people of the country have expressed

their opinion thereon.

PERSIAN TREATY

EXPLAINED.

LONDON, Aug. 19.

In the House of Commons at 'ques- tion time Mr. Harmsworth said it was proposed to lend Persia £2,000,000 at seven per cent. secured or the Persian revenues with a view to enabling Persia to initiate contemp- He announced that the joint indus. lated reforms. The government was trial council had come to an agree pledged to assist Fersia to reestablish ment on hours and wages which herself on a sound basis. There was would be embodied in the Bill to be not the slightest foundation for the introduced to-morrow. Substantially suspicion that the government pro- this Bill meant a 48 hour week with posed or that the Persian govern. few exceptions and a living wage for ment would have consented to the all industries. He urged steps to creation of anything in the nature humanise industry by seeking the of a British protectorate. The at- co-operation of the workers regarding titude of the Persian cabinet in the conditions of work. He denied negotiating the present agreement that he had committed the govern and the impending, visit of the Shah ment to accept every recommenda- to Britain were a sufficient answer tion of the Sankey report. However, to such insinuations. the government had accepted the

policy of State purchase of mineral

rights and coal and proposed that a OUR DOCKYARD MEN.

fund be raised out of royalties to

improve the housing and general

amenities of the miners.

As a result of China Mail interest

[There is another part missing here.]} in the matter, John Bull has addressed

PROTECTIVE IMPORT

RESTRICTIONS,

the following query to the Right Hon. T. J. Macnamara, M.P., Par- liamentary Secretary to the Ad- He announced that the government miralty. My Dear Macnamara-It la would take effective measures against a long, long way to Hongkong, but dumping." The Board of Trade it should be within your knowledge would be given power to shield unst. that, what with the rise in the Income able industries by probibiting imports Tax and other charges, some of the Lexcept on licence) of the products of employees In HM. Dockyard. there these industries and by preventing are actually receiving lower wages excessive imports of such products, than before the war, not to mention Where import prices were lower than the vast increase in the cost of living here, an import duty would be which has still further depleted their charged for licences. Cara would be resources. I am certain the matter taken that no undue profit was made need only be mentioned to ensure at the expense of the community. I prompt inquiry and speedy redress.

The aggregate direct cost of the war to the world wa £10,000,000,000. How could the world return to normal condi- tions immediately that expenditure was over? I would take just ng long to adapt the machinery of the workshops in the country to peace as it took to turn 1b to war.

The Fremier mentioned that among the paralysing elements for trade imme diately after the way was the fact that to rising prices of material of which contractors became shy of orders owing there was a shortage. There was also. a shortage of labour, as well as transport citiculties.

However, now over 3,300,000 men bad. been demobilised, of whom only 330,000 had not been absorbed industrially so that contractors could safely launch eat without the ier cracking under them.

He emphasised the fact that 'an adverse balance of trade must be faced, because we could not prosper without recovering our international trade. Indeed, without increasing it, our are balance of trade before the war was £130,000,000. was now: £800,000,000

That chasm must be bridged because at. The hottem of it was ruin. He reminded ti use that there had been an almost ensational decrease in outnus, which was now less than ever in every branch of production except azricniture. We were spending more and producing less

Take

The Premier, continuing, said:

coal before the war. 587.000.000 tons were produced annually. This year, at the present rate the figure will be 200,000. in spite of the greater number of mer. ruployed to-day. A ton rust 10. to raise in 1913. Today it costs 2. This is not only partly responsible for the abnormal- high prices of other articles, but it has handicapped us in other countries when production is greater and cheaper. No tarif can remedy

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CHINESE TELEGRAMS.

[Translated for The China Mail from the Wah Tsz Yat Po.]

THE TIEN ISIN CONFERENCE.

SHANGHAI, Aug. 19.

Chi Shu Tsang, Wang Chi Lưng Tsang Yuk Chon and many other leaders of the military party had a meeting, at the residence of Nei Chi Chung, the Tuchun of Anhui, at Tientsin the other day. They decided to make the following conditions for settlement of the present situation.

(1) Let the old parliament draft the constitution.

(2) The New par iament to be re- cognised as the legal parliament.

(3) Luk Wing-ting to be elected as vice president.

(4) Yuan Chi-jul to be appointed premier of the new cabinet.

TSO KWAN WISHES TO

RESIGN,

Tso Kwan, Tuchun of Chili and Chief Commander of the troops attacking the South, has repeatedly asked to resign, but the Cabinet has refused his request and sent Commander Ng Kwong-sun persuade him to remain. BOLSHEVIK THREAT AT MONGOLIA

to

Being angered by the Mongolians refusing, his demands, a Russian general of the Bolshevists is sending, it is stated, a large army to the Mongolian frontier. The Mongolian government has sent a certain prince to the frontier to make arrangements to resist. He has also wired to the central government for reinforce ments: The Peking government has instructed the Tuchuns of Fungties, Kirin and Hei Lung Kiang to give the necessary assistance.

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