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authorities that the custom of wear- ing tiles in our own Parliament was so derived. Mommsen does not even mention it.

LOCAL PROFITEERS.

LOCAL AND GENERIL

To-day's dollar is worth 4- 15/16d.

The Hon. Mr. Lau Chu-pak's address to the pupils of the Ellis Kadoorie School on July 25, on the Peace, has been printed in English and Chinese in a very neat pamphlet, and distributed to the boys.

WILL NATIONALISATION

. CHEAPEN COAL ?

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1019

MARKET TO FIGHT

PROFITEERS.

The open-air market which liford' Urban District Council has allowed to be established as a check to pro- fiteering by local tradesmen had an extraordinary opening recently in Station-road.

IMPASSIONED APPEAL FOR MERCY.

TX-SOLDIER WHO MARRIED -

COMRADE'S WIDOW.

[BY SIR LEO CHIOZZA MONEY.) Coal nationalisation is as much a consumers' policy as a producers" policy. It is even more important to the nation as a whole to own and

A romantic and touching story of work its coal than it is for the miner Some stalls were sold out by noon. Ea soldier's promise to a dying com- to work is national mines and to Fish, vegetables, poultry, and eggs rade, on the field of battle, to take an effective voice in their direc-were displayed, and the rush began look after his wife and children, and tion. Our coal is limited, and private as soon as the hawkers had taken the subsequent fulfilment of that ownership is wasting it with pro their pitches. Only local hawkers promise in marriage, was aufolded in digality.

were allowed in the market, and they Frederick E. Butterfield's passionate I have been asked to reply to the are licensed for three months.

appeal for leniency in the Luton The produce was excellent and the police-court, when he was charged question: Can nationalisation chea- pen coal? If what I have said is true, prices much below those in shops. with having stolen a postal order, the answer to this question is, Yes. The fishmonger was besieged and Treasury notes, and stamps, to the

Other things remaining the same,

soon cleared his fresh haddocks at value of £285., and also with having nationalisation can give a cheaper 4d and kippers at 8d. a Ib. Later stolen a Savings Bank Deposit Book, and better output than can private he was selling the kipper boxes at and obtained £1 from the Savings

id, In the shops hiddock was 6d. Bank by false pretences. and kippers: Sd. a 16.

Amongst the passengers who left the Colony for Shanghai on the s.s.China," were Mr. and Mrs. P. We gathered the impression aw. Goldring and Mr. P. F. J. Wode little white back that the Hongkong house, C. I..E. Government thinks it has no power to deal with profiteers, and that it would need to pass an Ordinance to do so. As a matter of fact, the con- trary is the case. It will have to pass an Ordinance to relieve itself of the duty of dealing with them, and to legalize some of the transactions that are at present common here and

The P. & 0. 5.5. "Khiva." with regarded as straight business. This Sir ReginaldStubbs, the new Governor is the position. Hongkong was of Hongkong, on board, is due to started in 1841 and formally ceded leave Bombay to-morrow and is Ain 1842. It tock over the expected to arrive in Hongkong on ownership. The proviso has to be

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A man with ducks and chickens problem of output is a complicated To name one of them, the nation from 26. each respectively, and as gnone, depending upon many factors. found ready customers at 4s. and must realise that year by year the he had nothing to wrap the birds in, getting of coal becomes more difficult Customers took them by the neck because of the working out of the marched off quite happily mest easily won seams.

Newlaid eggs were 34d each-id to 2d cheaper than in the shops.

Extradition proceedings. Regrating. Under these statutes to behalf of the Canton authorities, will buy large quantities of any article be commenced next week in the case in order to sell it at an unreasonable in which a Chinese is charged with price, to practise any artifice or assisting in the emigration of three device which would enhance the girls to Bangkok for immoral price of food, or to buy victuals on the way to market in order to sell them at higher prices were criminal acts. These statutes were repealed at Home in 1844. but as Hongkong has never repealed them, they are still the law here. There is, as we showed a few days ago in a reprinted article, a movement at Home to wards re-enacting them. Possibly there will be a movement here to enforce them. Let our local fore

cornerers beware..

Owing to the fall in the price of rice, it is the intention of the Govern ment to reduce the allowance granted to men in Government employment, receiving a monthly wage of $20 and under, from $2 to $150 from September 16.

To get rid of their Japanese stallers, increasers, Legaters, and popularly known to the Chinese as low grade" been some Cantonese dealers have attempted to sell it under British trade-marka. The Canton Chief of Police has issued orders prohibiting such a practice..

THE BANK. *

Canton is about to see

Mr. A. el-Arculi, son of Mr. A.

F. Arculli, is to be admitted to prac

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The question I have to answer should therefore be put clearly in this form: Under the same con ditions, can nationalisation provide cheaper coal than private ownership?

IF MEN WERE BEASTS OF BURDEN.

was e..

The

SHOP PRICES. REDUCED.

scores who could not get near the The crowd grew until there were stalls out they could hear the hawkers roaring: "Best blue peas, 23, a lb.

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had five wound

The prisoner, who ex-soldier and Luton G.F.O. as a temporary post- stripes, had been employed at the man since January.

The prosecuting solicitor for the Post-master-General said the offences

were

deliberately

carefully, and thought out.

Prisoner, who was twenty-one passionate appeal for Teniency, said years of age, in the course of a very he was a discharged nidier, and had heen wounded in five different battler.

The son of an old soldier with

In giving my reasons, let me first"New potatoes 2d. alb: the coster-In an action in Trannes Wood, ont deal solely with the problem as it mongers haven't all been killed by the Somme. in 1916 his chum, was would affect us if the miners were the Huns."

terribly wounded whilst fighting by mere hard-working beasts of burden, Some of the shopkeepers near by his side and in his hat moments he who could be guaranteed to work could bear also, and towards evening implored penner to inak after his arduously for so many hours per day shop prices came down in an astonish-wife and two children. Prisoner in return for their keep. Let using manner; but by then there was gave the necessary, neomise," after assume in short, that they were as little left to sell in the open air. Green which his comrade expired. docile as horses, and that "labour peas had been 3d. in the shops, and unrest" had never been heard of.

Upon coming to England he suc- came down to 2d. Tomatoes hadceeded in getting into communication The coal of the nation is now been is, and fell to 10d.; but the with his comrade's widow, and, with owned by a number of big and little hawkers had cleared at 94..

a view to discharging his obligation. the landowners. These owners. net.

The same result was brought about be married her, undertaking to look How does the Bank stand? One appearance of a daily newspaper for the most part, work their coal in Paris by M. Clemenceau's produce after the two children of his dead of our reporters was told a couple of managed and edited by women. It but lease it to capitalists to work. shops. days ago by an official of the Bank will be known as Chen Quan's The

comrade. He had since become a coalowners" or colliery pro that so long as they have silver Women Toural."

father himself as the result of the The editor will prietors are therefore usually not coins, they must and do redeem their be Miss Wong of Japan. She will owners, at all, but lessees.

marriage. That was the first time- notes at face value. They have be assisted by a manager and three number of separate colliery concerns, that it is still true to say that only a had given way to temptation.

he had been in any court, and be heaps and heaps of silver, we believe, assistant editors.

most of them companies, is about fractional part of our coal is got by but not of silver coins. (We really

The Mayor, as chairman of th 1,500, and the number of separate the aid of coal-cutting machines.bench, in announcing the decision of must mint our own." Let's ask the

The 5.3.."Changsha," which coal mines is over 3,000.

And still miners waste their time, the magistrates, said the offences new Governor to get us our own arrived here from Sydney yesterday A moment's thought will show walking miles underground, for lack were so serious that prisoner would miat). It is known that, to put it afternoon brought the following what a wasteful system this is from of riding arrangements. mildly, the Bank has not been cashing passengers: Mr. and Mrs. J. W. the point of view of the public

Apart from machinery, many of in all, with hard labour.

[have to go to prison for six months its notes as freely as it should. The Cook, Mr. and Mrs. Wakeford, Mrs. interest and of the consumer's purse. the estial improvements, it will

༢༤. China Mail had a letter about it. The Luxes. Mrs. Gamble, Mr. Gray, Miss will not dwell upon the 1,500 be seen, can only be brought about Butterfield implored the magistrates In another passionate outburst, Bank Ordinance, which may be L. Hiron, Mr. Calgaran, Mr. Chant, separate boards of directors and nationally or by a great private wife and children. He did not know

under collective working, either found at page 145 of Vol. Mr. Camell and Mr. Bethell.

to show 'leniency, for the sake of his of Mr. Alabaster's revised edition

staffs, but pass to more important

monopoly. of the laws of Hongkong, does

Only such collective what would become of them. The 1,500 colliery concerns have working can survey the whole mine not say anything about "so long

to make what terms they can withral Feld' and obtain the best and that he should have thought of all He was informed, from the bench, tice as a solicitor in the Hongkong the different landlords to obtain cheapest output. Mr Justice Sackey this before he committed the offence: Supreme Court on Monday morning. leases of coal areas. It is obvious and the three employers of labour on He will be the first Indian solicitor in that in a given coal area there are the Coal Commission reported this twenty-six years' Army service to ble the Colony. Mr. Arculli, who was best points of operation, which can in their interim report of March 20 credit, Butterfield served some years articled to Mr. E. L. Agassiz, will act only be determined by scientific known as the "Sankey Report") in in the Army as a boy. He rejoined this Colony yet. But Lucius found

for him shortly while Mr. Agassiz survey, and that proper determina- these words: Demos a nagging boss. The rabble

goes on Home leave.

the Service upon the outbreak of the tions ought to be made as to where

"Even upon the evidence already Great War, and was wounded in was just about as noisily devoted to

to sink shafts, where to centralise given the present system of owner five different engagements, having the Gracchi as ours are noisily down the Bolsheviks, so Lucius A.

not done the coal must be dearly got try stands condemned, and some hattle he was in was in Tronnes pumping, and so forth. If this is ships and working in the coal indus-thirteen wounds in all. The last Saturninus took on as A.D.C, or

and often wasted altogether.

other system must be substituted for Wood in the Somme in 1916-the private secretary a man who claimed in deciding our Junk case) that to be the son

What the consumer should know it, either nationalisation or a method battle in which he save of Tiberius would thean that the Bank, so long in which a woman was convicted of is that the 1,500 colliery concems of, unification by national purchase promise to his dying companion

the Gracchus. Mrs. T. Gracchus dis- as it refused to give silver for any being in unlawful possession of opium are often not working where best and/or by joint control." puted the claim, but Lucius one of its notes, could not lawfully labels and ammunition and sent they should work, but where they

and he was discharged after having The Government pledged itself in beea in hospital for a considerable lay low, and when Quintus Cecilius pay another note over its counter.enced to twelve months' hard labour. could get leave to work. Shafts Parliament on March 20 to carry out time. Upon marrying the widow of Metellus Numidicus, a political enemy The commonly accepted meaning of It was pointed out that at the pre have often been sunk where they this substitution of his, spoke against the Tichborne "fresh issue" would be ar issue of vipus hearing a man came forward ought not to have been sunk. The in the spiri

in the lettter and his comrade, he took up residence at Gracchus, denying his right to new notes, a new series; but we and claimed the labels and ammuni- boundaries of collieries are often

Kensworth, a little village in the the suffrage, Lucius "sicked" em imagine it would be easy to find tion, which, he said, he had placed in wasteful and sometimes absurd. The

THE HUMAN FACTOR.

vicinity of Luton, on him, and pror old QC.M.N. judges who would decide that in the woman's house..

But so far, I have left out the was stoned, and hurt worse tuan the Stroud's definition applies. The direc

arrangements as to pumping are human factor, the miner, who, most sometimes grotesque in their ineff-fortunately for the nation, is not a ciency; it was proved to the Cam- mere beast of burden, but à man, to mission that a coalfield is being lost whom the Government has pledged through this cause.

itself (March 20) without reservation This is not the fault so much of

to give an effective voice in the

It is not true, let us be glad to system, under which capitalists make

"The frequent prescription of as- the best bargains they can to lease know, that the miner wants merely pirin by physicians for the relief of this area or that from this landlord higher wages and shorter hours. He neuralgic or rheumatic pains has demands, as, indeed, others are made the drug familiar to the public. Professor George Knox, Professor demanding, the right to take an and not a few persons are acquiring of Mining at the South Wales School intelligent interest in the mine, and the practice of taking the drug for of Mines, gave the Coal Commission the power to elect, out of the wealth almost every disagreeable symptom "SHANGHAI, Sept. 12. tien for Peking on the 13th inst.

two illuminating maps of contiguous of talent which is available, men to or pain from any cause The Journal Wong Yap Tong will leave Fung royalties to show what he called "the help manage the mine. This, also, of the A. M. A. reports the case of a

day to interview Cheung Shu Yuen, coal had to be conveyed underground So all that is beat in him. It is a the desired rellef, until he was taking epresent excessive waste of valuable is a way to cheaper coal, since it is man who in this way acquired the will go to Tsinan on the following mineral products." He showed how the only method of giving the miner aspirin habit, and naturally increased social responsibility and of calling the dose which was necessary to obtain the Tuchun of Shantung. He will for unnecessary distances. how "bar. arrive at Nanking

as they have silver coins." It says (page 150, section 15) "if at any time there is a suspension of pay. ment of any of the bills or notes of the company, it shall not be lawful for the company, during the con- tinuance of such suspension of pay ment, to make ny fresh issue of bills or notes." Now, if we go by Stroud's definition (the legal dictionary that Mr. N. L. Smith, at the Magistracy, Mr. D. J. Lewis appeared before was used by Mr.

Lindsell yesterday afternoon, and successfully applied for the re-hearing of a case

CHINESE TELEGRAMS.

Northcliffe Press has ever hurt any therefore, if ever again they run tors of the bank will be well advised, public man in our time. After that short of silver coins, to face the loss things went well for Lucius, who was of buying in, even at a

premium, re-elected and formed a coalition sufficient to meet their obligations. Trahslated for the China Mail from individuals as of an indefensible direction of the mine." government called the Triumvirate.

hold

All the land taken from the Cam By that we do not mean their total brians who had taken it from others obligations, but their normal obliga- north of the. Po was nationalized tions, measured by the normal de- Don't run away with the idea that for soldiers, This led up to a

mard of their clients. It does not there is anything particularly up to

racial equality issue, and it was held need pointing out, we suppose, that date about Lloyd George or Bob that the admission of Italians to the first public hint of a difficulty in Smillie or the politics in Reuter's the colonies partially admitted their getting the notes cashed leads to an telegrams, because there isn't. The equality with Romans. The conser augmentation of such normal de- boatswain.in "Peter Simple" who had the idea that all his adventures Metellus Carsonius went into exile this may have been the cause of vative Romans didn't like it, and mand, makes it, in effect, abnormal. had happened before, and that they and no doubt made rebellious ora- the recent talk. would happen again, had warrant for tions. There was an Ordinance in people outside, money changers or Possibly some his theory. History, like an onion,troduced by pur hero to supply corn

others, have been trying to salad, repeats itself, and humen

at a nominal price, so that we may

up" the Bank. doings are cyclists. Progress is a

regard Lucius Saturninus as the first fancy name for movement in a circle, Food Controller. Q. Servilius Caepio and mankind doesn't seem to be (possibly a servile champion of the much smarter than those processional profiteers) said the exchequer would caterpillars at which Henri Fabre never stand it, and when Lucius invited us to smile: Lucius Appuleius pressed for a vote, Caepio "dispersed --but we forgot. Perhaps you haven't the meeting by violence." Even in met before. Let us introduce those days a newspaper man had a

Marty-Rollan publishes an inter- chance of

getting his "face view with Clemenceau in the Toulouse knocked off." Saturninys (still the Peuple." The following extracts public idol, as popular as Joe Cham- appear in the "Berner Tagwacht" of berlair or Lloyd George,) rushed the the 18th July:- ordinance through, and at the ensuing Clemenceau told us he was old,

you.

The Reader-Lucius

Appuleius Saturnious, a Roman demagogue over two thousand years ago.

It is quite startling to "notice how

a

CLEMENCEAU AND REVOLUTION.

the Wah Ts Yat Po.]

THE CHIEF DELEGATE'S MOVEMENTS.

or that.

THE ASPIRIN HABIT.

Following is from Good Health, an American Magazine:.

on the riers" (thick walls of coal) had to be highly practical consideration. Even, sixty grains a day. Very naturally, 15th inst, where he will stay until et between adjoining properties, however, if it were not so, the Gov. he was found suffering from indiges definite information regarding the how disputed areas remained peren ent has pledged itself, and its tion, constipation and low blood opening of the peace conference has marently unworked, and how essen-hesitation to carry out its pledges. is pressure. been received from the South. Hetal it is that colliery takings should the cause of the immediate grave "The habituel use of any drug does will be strongly guarded right through be properly arranged in respect of troubles:

serious harm, for the reason that the whole journer. He sends the sub-each colliery. For these and other tion, I ought to remind the reader Iv more or less poisonous, and the Before saying a word on distribu-drugs are foreign substances, general- delegates to Shanghai first to reasons Professer Knox declared that that the output of recent months has liver and kidneys are worn out in. make the necessary preparations nationalisation was necessary to save

THE FINAL. CONFERENCE.

Wong Yap Tong in an Interview

coal and to cheapen working, which necessarily suffered from the war eliminating them." means cheaper cool now and deterioration of the mines, so that R. L. Alsaker, M. D., writes: cheaper coal in the time to come.

even the wasteful and extravagant "For some reason members of the system of private ownership has been medical profession have spread the "EXTRAVAGANT AND WASTEFUL." worked under abpormal difficulties, idea that aspirin is harmles. This

fresh, and human, and familiar, and elections, declaring it a patriotic duty that although the peace had been with Chu Sai Cheung, said that if his foolish the politics of 2000 years ago

Sir Richard Redmayne, Chief In with frustrated development and lie has cost many lives, and will con to continue in office, had a dangerous signed it would not last. He had present mission proves to be a failure (spector of Mines, colliery manager shortages of timber, machinery, tubs tinue to spread death so long as look, beside the katzenjammer that's rival candidate beaten to death by always taken realities into account, there will be no use in appointing of long experience, with a practical funderground wagons), rails, etc. it. still proceeding. Lucius had

hired agents. There is no need to and therefore he did not harbour any new delegates for the next Con-knowledge of British coalfields And the railways have correspond exist

19 believed. There does not grievance against the Senate. v It

hire auch how there are always illusions now. He had 'deeply desference.

2 harmless pain king was, in fact, injustice that made a

that is probably unequalled, de-ingly suffered from similar causes, drug. Because people think that volunteers, even in out of the way pised the war from the beginning, demagogue of him. To gain the spots like Canton. But it has to be and he knew that the Peace Treaty

nounced the present system as with reaction upon mining output. aspirin is harmless, they take i favour of the soldiery, he proposed done decently. This murder taking concealed many dangers for the

THE NEW PREMIER.

extravagant, and wasteful;, whe It remains to add that there is in great quantities. They begin that each veteran should receive an

ther viewed from the point of view also much for the consumer in with five and ten grains per day, and place while the voting was actually world's future, but there were no allotment of 100 jugera of land in

of the coal mining industry, as a economic distribution. I do not gradually increase the dose until they Africa. In the same land this car Roman Mail and his impassioned

going on shocked the editor of the means, of taking another course.

Tuan Chi-jai has declared that whole or from the national point of think it is realised by the public are taking from twenty to forty He added that the revolution was Kan Wan the same class of men are being protests brought about a revulsion growing in all countries, and that it selected"

Paog should.

be view

that, while the thirteen Coal Com grains a day. -as the new Premier offered the same reward. Two of public feeling. Saturninus and was coming nearer and nearer in Kung Sum Chum resigns,

In his view, collective production missioners differed on some grounds, Aspirin. when frequently and years later, after he was elected his gang were impeached as public Franze also. But he belived that with Kung Sum Chum, the Premier, how was absolutely essential to the they all agreed about that. Even freely taken, cause depression and Tribune, he let the cat but of the bag enemies. Let this be a warning to us it would be accomplished without ever, has not yet tendered his res greatest economy of output. He the coal-owners report recommended deterioration of the wint bady. "I about some bribes that Mithradates all Panjandrums. VI of Pontus was sending the (who had probably had the most

Poor Saturninus bloodshed,signation showed how collieries themselves municipal coal competition. There ruins the stomach, but in spite of thes

Clemenceau, said that the Con- The On Ferak party advocates that extravagant users (as was also point sweeping away of coal factors, coal not harm the digestive organs,

waste, coal, being among the most is no doubt whatever that the it is generally believer that it does patrician senators, This is where worthy intentions all through) took federation Generale du Travail Tuan Ch Jui be instructed to formed out by the Coal Commission of merchants, and coal dealers, large our parallel rather breaks down, refuge in the Capitol. They cut off his would gather the great fruits of the the new Cabinet. Nei Chi Chung, the 1905), how coal is wasted in party and small, and the substitution of who had been taking sirin for "Not long ago I saw a woman. because, of course, there is no more water. (nowadays it would be beer) bourgeoisie. Work Wandworkers Tuchen of Anhul now in Peking, walls, how much room for economy co-ordinated national and municipal several years. During this time she bribery nowadays, For his discreet and he was forced to capitulate. He would save France, and would make has seconded the proposal. revelations he was accused of and was put in jail in a sort of bastille the country greater in the future. tried for violating the law of nations, called the Curia Hostilia, and his "The nobility," he added, "are un- but public opinion got him offcuripusty hostile political enemies got worthy of governing France. The Another difference may be noted on the roof, took off the tiles, and bourgeoisie never were and never The Premier has approached the cutting machinery and mechanical it is forgotten think, that the woman died miserably has the veyors and pneumatic drills and coal Given the Sakey wages and hours would not hurt her. The poor between D.O.R.A. and the majestas, dropped them on his head till he will be able to do it. The workers Bank Group for a small loan to pay haulage and electrical working a law making acts tending to diad So perished Lucius Appuleius organised in the Confederation the Military and Naval mes The The Royal Commission of 1905 recommended only 6d. a day less that it rebelled, and

enal-owners on the Commission aspirin had so wrought like foram sch diminish the sovereignty of the people Saturninus, one time pillar of tre Generale du Travail are alone fitted representative of the Group replied pointed out the amazing neglect of than the Sankey 2s.) nationalisation tolerate water. S something more than seditious. The state and popular hero, but it is not for the tesk With my whole heart that they could do nothing, unless machinery. After fourteen years can save us more than the 6%, a ton your health, beware minuta majestos may be wanted in considered probable by the best wish that they may succeed. they wired to London for instructionk.there has been so little improvement) put on by Government.

LOAN WANTED.

there is in administration and in coal service would effect a very had been under the care of several buying materials, what need there is considerable waving in distributive prominent physician, all of for the more extensive use of con costs them bad told her than aspirin

habit

even Value