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MONDAY, MARCH 15, 1920.

TO-DAY'S CABLES.

(Reuter's Service to the China Ma" }

HAVAS REVIEW,

PARIS, MARCH 12.

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THE NEW DEFENCE" CORPS.

ENROLMENTS ARE STILE SLOW.

THE CHINA-MAIL

THE USE OF GOVERNMENT DOCKYARDS FOR MER- CANTILE PURPOSES.

A statement was made last week, The most disappointing feature of the new Defence Corps is the slow by Dr. Macnamara, Financial Sere {way in which enrolments are being tary to the Admiralty, that the sent in. Despite the fact that some Colwyn Commitee had recommended weeks have elapsed since the forms the construction of merchan: ships were sent out, the two hundred mark in the Royal Dockyards, and that the has not yet been reached, the Latest

Admiralty were now looking for figues being: 193. Compare this with A Havas message says:→→→ The figures of the collections of French revenus for 1920 show big the strength of the Defence Corps at suitable orders. The Committee had increases. During February lodirect taxes and monopolies brought in the end of December last year. Then also suggested the use of part of the 794,044,800 frames, which is 215,129,500 francs above the estimated the must roll showed 768, the actual Devonport yard as a terminal port

strength in the Colony being 817. amount and 342,632,000 francs above the revenue for February, 1919. The men put down as os leave in shipping firms. The policy af For the two months of 1920 the revenue exceeded estimates by 472,496,400 cluded many members of the Corps building merchant ships in dockyards francs and was. 692,244,000 francs over the corresponding period last year. who were on war service, The point is much on a par with the building The French Chamber of Deputies, yesterday, passed the bill extending is that 617 and 193 make a disappoint of locomotives and wagons at Wool the rights of trade unions to possess property," and also a bill, amendinging comparison, and of the larger wich. We do not consider that the number it is safe to say that at least Government is wise in taking such a minor items, for retiring pensions.

The Amnesty Bill. in celebration of the election of M. Deschanel as.75 per cent. were voluntary enlist-

It may be that many are hang-step. It is highly improbable that any work of the kind can be conducted President, was laid on the table. The measure does not apply to plots ing back to see how the new come a proper Sommercial haris as the

The disadvantage of this is #gainst the State or inciting soldiers to disebey orders. In the army and works. Havy the Amnesty Bill will sunal' all punishments except those indicted tor desertion and other very serious offences. The Gevemment also laid on the table a bill to provide credits for the restablishment of the French "Embassy to the Holy See.

Fortune smiled upon the French rugby footballers, at Farc des Princes, Auteuil, yestergay The French army fifteen, in the presence of the Fresident, the British Ambassador and a crowd of nearly 30,000, defeated the British army team by a margin of 15 points to 6.

THE "JACHIM” AFFAIR.

GERMANY APOLOGIZES.

BERLIN, March 9, The Foreign Minister has expressed regret the French Charge d'Affaires Over the Joachim affair and has promised that the culpits shall be punished.

BRANTING TO FORM. QABINET.

menus.

TO-DAY'S

ADVERTISEMENTS.

HONGKONG CHINESE RECREA TION CLUB.

The Annual TENNIS TOURNAMENT

Commencing at the End of March, 1920. Will be held on the Club's Ground,

ENTRIES are invited for the follow-

events

I. Championship Singles. Entrance

&

fee, $200. Open to Chinese to this Colony

Challenge Cap kindly presented. by Megara. Peter Dawson Ltd., Glasgow, to be held for one year and won outright if wen 2 years. in occasion.

(Holder: Mr. Ng See. Kwong,

· 1919).

2. Kandicap Singles. En-

Chicalication to be ar

trance fee, ... $100.

ranged by the Clots-

mitten

Handicap Doubles. Open to

"Entrance fos, $1.00 members sach player. To be enly. entered in pairs,

4. Handicap Mixed Don-! Blan Entrance. fee, 1 $1.00 anch player. To! be entered in pairs.

Entries CLOSE on SATURDAY, 20th March.

UN HEW FAN,

Bos. Secretary,

that those men are depriving them yards are not laid out fee building selves of the right of election of offi- mercantile shipping at economical cere. It is probable that the import-rates. When all proper overhead ant proceeding will take place very charges are included, we do no doubt} shortly and the suggestion is that members of each unit will send in that it will be found that costs come names, proposed and seconded, for out at a rate which would not com officers and non-coms., and then they pare in any sense with commercial will be balloted for. Nothing could building. But supposing even that the fairer than this and the greater the by some extremely favourable coin-i strength of the Corps at that time, the cidence of circumstances, coats were greater will be the satisfaction gained. Inat exorbitantly high, we again It has been pointed out that there are come to the fact that the Government

many new comers to the Colony whose would be competing with private! experiences at the front might be of industry, and turning itself into s great benefit to "the Corps. and of trading concers, Instead of confining course, unless their names are re-, itself to its proper duties of govera PACIFIC MATL S.S. COMPANY. ceived before the election, their sering. Activities of this kind are to vices, in the most useful way, may be be deprecated from every point of view. If the yards are now too great for the country's need. the most reasonable step to take would be definitely to make over part of some of them to private firms From SAN FRANCISCO vịa JAPAN on suitable terms, either lease or PORTS, SHANGHAI, MANILA hire, and let them run them at their own risk. The suggestion that pert of Devonport be used as a terminal

lost.

Join to-day.

STOCKHOLM, March 9.

Branting has been entrusted with the formation of a Cabinet. -

LEIGUE OF NATIONS.

MISSION TO RUSSIA.

PARIS, March 14.

The third meeting of the Council of the League of Nations has been held. It adopted a resolution to provide the appointment of a commission of ten members chosen by the council, each of whom shall be assisted by two advisers. Two of these members, one an employer of labour, the other a workman, will be proposed by the international labour bureau. The resolution adds that the international bureau may, if it be thought desir able, send a commission to Russia specially to investigate the labour ques tion. A telegram will be sent to the Soviet authcities of Russia informing them of the Council's proposals, and asking if they are prepared to give the commission all necessary facilities to accomplish its mission.

THE ENGINE ROOM OF THE IMPERATUR.

ENGINEERING STAFF'S ACHIEVEMENT.

UNDERGROUND RAILWAY

DEAL.

PURCHASE OF SPEYER SHARES.

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The entire holding of Messrs. Speyer. Brothers in the London Underground Electric Railways has

BRITISH AND FOREIGN BIBLE SOCIETY.

BONGKONG AUXILIARY'S

REPORT.

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shipping port is not open to quite the same. objection, provided the Government did not manage the port, and arranged for resumption of control on suitable terms in case of The report for 1919, of the Hong-need.. Devonport, however, is handi- kong Auxiliary of the British and capped by bad approaches for large Foreign Bible Society is to hand. It liners, and it is doubtful whether any records that the issues of Scriptures of the leading steamship companies from the depot in Lower Wyrdhan would make it a terminal. The Street reached a total of 5,514 copies, Canard, it will be noted, is now sales being giving up Plymouth as a port of call the receipts from $1,346.99. The depot in Kowloon for its larger ship at all events, circulated a further 310 copies, temporarily. Engineering. Within the limits of the Hongkong subagency, 84,477 copies of the Scriptures were sold by missionaries. and 15,310 by colporteurs under the direction of the Society's sub-agent. In Indo China, 22,794 copies were placed in circulation.

Referring to the general work of the British and Foreign Bible Society, the report, mentions the good work of the Rev. H. E. Anderson, the sub. agent. The Society commenced its work in China in 1812 with a grant of 500 for printing Dr. Morrison's translation of the New Testament,

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QUITE INTELLIGIBLE.

A travelling circus recently added to the gariety of the Federated. Malay States with the following programme:

c/o The Bank of Canton, Ltd.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

Fi

15. WEST MINGO,”.

and CEBU,

THE boys mentioned vessel having

arrived with all cargo ex S. 6. WEST NERIS," from the above mentioned Ports, Consignees of cargo are hereby informed that their cargo will be landed at their risk into the goda was at West Paint and stored Pacific Mail Steamship Company's at Coatiguess risk.

Consigoess of Cargo are hereby notified that they must produce an Import Permit signed by the Superin- tandsat of the Imports and Exports, Hongkong, before Bils of Lading can be countersigned.

All broken, obfed and damaged. goods are to be left in the godowa where they will be examined On March 31, st 10 sm.

All claims must be presented with- in a week of the steamer's arrival here, after which they cannot be ra.

cognized. PART I.

1. Some horses will make a very good tricks.

2. The klown will come and talk with that horses, therefore audience will laugh Itself very much.

Experts who have viewed the Cunard liner Imperator" since she arrived at Southampton are agreed been acquired by Messrs. Barnato the first copies of which were put 3. The lady will walk on borse's that the engine-room staff performed Brothers, on behalf of whom Mr. S. into circulation in 1814. In the 104 remarkable feat in taking over the B. joel has just complexed the con-years since that date. ending with vessel without the slightest previous tract carrying out the deal. It is be-1918, the circulation of the Scriptures by this Society in China had reached acquaintance with her technical equip Heved that the amount involved is a total of over thirty-six and a half ment,' and running her safely across about £1,000,000.

million copies. The report concludes the Atlantic without mishap. Although,

Mr. Joel. confining the report of with an appeal for the Society which in the main features there is no strike the deal, informed a Press representa is faced with the reconstruction of ing dissimilarity between British and tive that Messrs. Speyer Brothers' the work in Central Europe among

He its other tasks. German engineering practice in regard holding was a very large one. to big ships, when it comes to details admitted that his firm were already there are divergencies and peculiari. big shareholders in the Underground

ties concerning which actual experi- ence means everything in the matter of smooth running.

. When the Americans took over the

before the deal, but he was not pre- LATEST SHIPPING NEWS. pared to say that they had pow ac- quired a controlling interest.

ARRIVALS.

Te s.. "Tajima Maru," Capt:

"You must have more than half the shares before you can have a cor- trolling interest," he remarked, when Imperator "on the original transfer the question was put to him, but he under the armistice arrangement, they declined to state the precise amount Haraki, arrived yesterday at 9 a.m. had, besides much information in the involved, or to give any other indica- from Moji with 1,472 tons of general shape of records, the services of three tion of the magnitude of the deal. cargo.

Sir Edgar Speyer, whose Interest in

back and horse is jumping very much also.

4. The klown will make a joking words and lady will become to angry therefore klown will run himself away.

5. One boy will fall a ball from topaide, then he can catch that ball before that ball can fall.

6. This is the very better jumping trick.

Refreshments ten' minutes.

PART II.

No claim will be admitted after the goode bave laft the godowns, and ail goods remaining undelivered after March 22, will be subject to rent.

No Fire Insurance whatever will be uffected.

Consignees are requested to send in their Balis of Lading for countersigna- ture immediately.

-PACIFIC MAIL STEAMSHIP Co As Operators, U.S. SHIPPING BOARD.. Hocykoog, March 13, 1920.

PACIFIC MAIL STEAMSHIP.CO.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

&& "ARCHER,"

1. One man will make so tricks of From SAN FRANCISCO, via JAPAN trapeze. Audience will fraid himself

FORTS.-SHANGHAI, MANILA. and. very much.

German engineers who had formerly the Underground has thus been trans- The s.3.Kwanase," Capt. Shearer worked the ship, and their difficulties Ferred, is in America, and Mr. Joel 1228 tons, arrived yesterday, at 6.30 Dastricks,

The said he did not think there was much am from Hoihow with 400 tons of were thus largely obliterated. Cunard staff had no such advantage. Hikelihood at his returning to this general cargo. They simply walked into the engine country.

6. One man will walk on wire tight he is doing very nicely because! he is professor of that.

Refreshments ten mi.utues. PART III,

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SAIGON.

2. Dogs will jump and roll in the mud.

3 One lady will make himself so THE above-menticand vessel havin ar-

that he is the rubber lady.

Consignees of, Cargo are hereby informed bend. then everybody he will think,rived from the above-mentioned Porta 4. This the very grand display. that their Cargo will be landed so their 5. This is the very better Gim-risk into the Pacific Mail Steamship Company's godowns at West Point, and stared at Consignees risk: "

Consignees of Cargo are hereby notifmi. that they must produce an Import Parmit sigued by the Superintendent of, the Joom ES strangers to the entire BILL TO AUTHORIZE HIGHER FARES.

Laporte and Exports, Dongkong, before machinery, and beyond a few scrappy A Bill has just been deposited in notes written in German which were the Private Bill Office of the House

Then will come the very good bills of lading can be countersigned. dramatic.

NOTICE. discovered; they had to build up their of, Commons for introduction into knowledge of the vessel's mechanical Parliament next, Scasion to increase Thess. "Peleus," Capt. J. G. No sticks will be allowed in the arrangements and capacities from care tive maximum foils, rates, and charges Reynard, 4,800 tons, arrived yesterday spectator, and he shall not smoke ful diagnosis of the results as the ship leviable by the London Electric, at 7.30 a.m. from Singapore with 800 |also. proceeded. A tremendous amount of Metropolitan District, City and South tons of general cargo. investigation was necessary-even yel London, and Central London Railway there is a good deal to be learned Companies" to a maximum" rate not And it is not surprising that the exceeding Ad. per mile, for every achievement of running such a huge irst-class passenger, and 2d. per mile ship so well on a first voyage should for every other passenger, including sailed for Haipong and Bangkok at be one which only British engineers workmen.

11 a.m. to-day.

The e.s." Hainong," Capt. W. Passmore, 1270 tons, arrived yester day at 8 a.m. from Swatow with 800 tons of general cargo,

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DEPARTURES.

The ss. Diva (Capt. Tobiasen)

could have performed so successfully. The Bill also proposes to amend The 9.5. "Palembang." (Capt.

The Imperator had not long left the Cheap Trains Act, 1883, by| New York, when it was found that a doubling the maximum fures allowed. Bottema) sailed for Balikpapan at forced draught equipment to the boil-"

2.30 p.m. today. A

ers originally included, had been re- moved by the U.S. engineers. The

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·ADVERTISEMENT.

BONGKONG: ANз WEAMPOA-

- DOCK COMPANY, LIMITED.

the ORDINARY YEARLY

All broken, chafed and damaged Goods in to be left in the Godowas where they will be examined on March 11, at 10 m

All claims must be presanted within i week of the steamer's arrival here, after- which they cannot be recognized.

No Claim will be admitted after the Good have left the Godowns,, and all; undelivered. after Goods remaining March 22, will ha subject to rest.

No Fire, Insuroes whatever will be #foster.

Conegudes are requested to send in their Bill of Lading for countersignature

PADIO MAIL S.B, Co.,

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that immediately The ss. Abercos," (Capt. O. A MEETING of Shareholders will bo reason for this is not yet apparent, as quired, ti be very carefully studied. Annevik) sailed for Portland via held in the Office of the Company, 2 Ae Operators U. 8. Shippping Board. the forced draught presumably was Besides a complete motive power plant Manila at daylight to-day with 600 Queen's Buildinga, Hongkong, on SATURDAY, 27th March, 1920, “aš

Hongkong, March 15, 1920, only put in as a means to efficiency the ship boasts thirteen thousand elec- tons of general cargo.

Noon, for consideration of the Dizos and speed. It is believed that its tric lights, and the miles of service.

tore' Report and Statement of Accounts removal may, to some extent, account wires had all to be located and watch-

for the year ending 31st December for the poor results of the United ed. Altogether. it was an anxious

1919. States coal used on the rip, and time for the staff, who experienced as the advisability of its replacement much pleasure as anybody concerned is now under consideration. There that the trip was so satisfactory A return match between the Club were tank peculiarities to be discover The vessel is now being thoroughly and the Army will be played on ed, and many thousands of feet of overhauled, and it is anticipated in Thursday, 18th March at 5:30 p.m... tubing and piping to be Inspected her running will show gradual im Last week's Club team is likely to before the engineers could familiarise provement, until, in pou time be improved, and a Club practice Themselves with technical date.The she attains the 12 knots speed far will be held to-morrow eyming farge electrical installation: also re- which she was built,

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