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THE BRIGHT FRESH

EYES OF YOUTH

CAN DE YOURS AGAIN

RT TITS USM OF

CROOKES GLASSES.

N. LAZARUS

OFERTALMIC OPTIOLAN,

2 Queen's Road Central. Ebengkong !

No. 17,910,

The China Mail.

March 27, 1920, Temperature 61

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骏七十三年 十二百八千一类

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GARAGE AT DES VOEUX ROAT."

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GARAGE AT NATHAN Rc.. KOWLOON

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Rainfall 0.00 inch.

ED 1.84 Humidity 90

March 27, 191, Temperature 65

HONGKONG, SATURDAY, - MARCH 27, 1920. 2日八月申庚年九國民中

TO-DAY'S CABLES.

Renter's Service to the China Mail.)

BOMBAY STRIKE.

BOMBAY, „March 26,

The mill strike has ended. The mill-hands' demand for payment for the recent strike periods was not conceded.

That

IT WAS ONLY HOT ÄIN. GOD

WASHINGTON, March 26. before the Senate committee, Admiral Sims declared that it was Rear-admiral Benson who told him not to let the British pull wool over his eyes, and that Americans would as soon fight the British is the Germans. He admits that the statement was made' lejthe course of an informal conversation on the eve of the United States entry into the war...

U.S. AND GERMANY.

A NOVEL WAY OUT,

COST OF SHIPBUILDING,

The great cost of the Hood" has surprised the public far more than any detail of her design. An estimated. expenditure of £3,287,335, without guns and ordnance stores, came as a thunder-olap Our pre-war expendi- ture on any one ship on the Navy barely exceeded £2,000,000. Te may be well, therefore, to point out that it is not so much that the design of the "Hood" is expensivë, as that the cost of shipbuilding has increased vastly since 1914. A few figures for.] the cost of building cargo-steamers in recent years, and at the present time, proportions. The figures in this table may serve to put the matter in its true

are from statistics complied by Messrs. C. W. Kellock and Co., the Brokers to the Admirsity Marshal :——

- COST OF BUILDING A 7,500-TON

CARGO STEAMER.

1900

£60,000

1903

44.000

1910

40,000

-1914 (July)

42,000

1915

125,000

1916

189,000

1917

197.000

1918

180,300

1919 (July)...

195.000

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WASHINGTON, March 21.

A joint resolution was introduced in the House of Representatives declaring for a state of peace under which Germany is required to recognise all the rights which the United States might have had under the treaty of Versailles. Should Germany fail to agree to this. the President will be authorised to prohibit the resumption of trade relations and the extension

of credits.

GERMAN DOINGS.

BERLIN, March 21. '

It is officially announced that the state of slege in Berlin and the pro- vince of Brandenburg has been raised. Trade Unionists and the civil ser. vants associations issued a manifesto urging the immediate resumption of work, declaring that the coup d'etat was due to the unnatural peace treaty of Versalles, which must be radically amended.

BERLIN March 21.

The federation of labour has issued a statement of the terms of the agreement between the workers and government parties, showing that the fatter accepted most of the demands. The agreement providea, inter alia, for government appointments to be made in agreement with the workers' organisations, for the immediate commencement oflisation of suitable industries (coal and potash) for the disbandment of all disloyal forces and their replacement by trustworthy republicans, especially workers,

BERLIN, March 20.

The government's afternoon press communication expresses firm confidence in a peaceful outcome of the situation, which is described as generally favourable throughout the empire. The only points whence fighting is reported are Essen, Remscheid, Duesseldorf, and Muehlheim. It is officially stated that the intersified state of siege has been raised. Mioi sters are returning.

ITEMS FROM AUSTRAMA.

MELBOURNE, March 21.

Had

The cost, therefore, has advanced nearly five-fold in five years. the increase in warship building been at a similar rate, the Heod" would have cost about £10,000.000.

At the same time we have to face great increases in the cost of all types jol warship. The new light cruiser Hawkins," of 9.750 tons, cost about £1.570,000, as compared with the "Kent" of similar tonnage, the cost £700,283. The **Calcutta.." of 190 tons, cost about £850.000 as

Bristol." af compared with the 4,800 tons, which cost £364,953. The more the figures are studied, the more evident it is that shipbuilding programmes of the near future will have to be confined to the most neces sary ships only. And it is beyond question that the taxpayers. Faced with will be a very potent-factor in deter- a bill for $6,000,000 for one vessel,

mining the actiude gee, authorities towards the manution Warship. More

perhaps even than technical considera- tion may lead to an abandonment of nions, the deadweight of public opposi» |

the growth in design.

HELD UP, SAT ON, SQUEEZED.

A Melbourne firm has received from Premier Hughes sent a message to the Renown, wishing the Prince of America the following letter which was Wales a pleasant voyage and assuring him of a loyal and cordial welcome.m. to whom a letter had been ad- sent by a customer of an American Sir Joseph Cook, minister for the navy, was pleased with Mr. Long's dressed calling his attention to a pay- A recent statement in the House of Commons on the naval position and ment past due or a small order---| agrees that a conference of dominions representatives is necessary for a "For the following reason I amn un- concerted scheme of imperial defence, in order to enable the Dominion and able to send you a cheque as asked imperial navies to be readily combined when necessary.

FLYING STUNTS.

LONDON, March 21,

The South African aviators, Colonel van Ryneveld and Major Brand have arrived at Capetown, thus completing their fight from England, Three machines were successively used.

OUR PRINCE'S AUSTRALIAN TRIP.

for I have been held up, held down, sandbagged, walked on, sat ob, Hat- tened out, ard squeezed, first by the United States Government, For Federal war tax, the excess profit tax, the Liberty Loan bonds, thrift stamps.

and city taxes; the capital stock tax. war saving stamps, for State, county, the auto. tax, the merchant's license and broker's license, and by every society and organisation that the mind of man can invent to extract what I may or may not possess. There are the Society of John the Baptist, the O.A.R., the Women's Relief, the Woman's

Nevy Suffragette, the League, the Red Cross, the White Cross, the Black Cross, and the Double Cross, the Children's Home,

LONDON, March 21. The Renown on the morning of March 21 was abreast of the Azores, making a prosperous voyage in splendid weather. The Prince received a wireless message from the Duke of Devonshire, homeward bound on the Empress of France, hoping on behalf of the Canadian government and the D. of A. Society, the Daughters people that H. R. H. would revisit Canads on his return. The Prince re plied that he would be unable to come to Canada as he was visiting the West Indies. The Renown is likely to reach Barbados on March 26,

GENEROUS COAL OWNFES.

LONDON, March 21, The coal owners have agreed that between March 24 and August 31 the price of bunker coal for outward bound vessels shall be seventy-five shillings at South Wales and Tyne ports, and seventy-two and a half at Scottish ports. Present prices range from 110 to 1159. The reduction involves £24,000,000 annually,

HUMAN DEVILTRY.

LONDON, March 25.

the Armenian Sufferers, the Belgian Relief, the American Relief, and every hospital in town. The Government has so governed my husiness that. I do not know who owns it. I am in- spected, suspected, examined, and re-examined, informed, required, and

am, or why I am here. All I know commanded, so I do not know where

is, I am supposed to be an inexhaus tible supply of money for every human need, desire, or hope of the human race; and, because, I will not sell all I have and go out and beg, borrow, or steal money to give away, I Have béen 'cussed, discussed, knocked, boy- cotted, talked to, talked about, led to, Eed about, robbed, and nearly ruined, and the only reason I am cling-

of the Revolution, the Jewish Relief,

A barrowing description of the Jewish pogroms in South Russia. lasting to life is to see what in the hell year is detailed in the Kieff relief committee report. Over 30,000 Jews is coming next." The borrespondent were murdered in the Ukraine. Half of these crimes are ascribed to Pet who forwarded the letter asked if con luras regulars, especially when the troops were compelled to evacuate the ditions were as bad in Australia, the territory. Altogether 372 places are registered where pogroms occurred. They bring the total to 70,000 victims. Number died on their wanderings, Some were thrown out of express trains and stealers to starvation. Women were, frequently violated before being slain. Cases are cited where fathers were killed. Only bayonets were used because of the Expensiveness of cartridges Grenades were thrown into cellars where Jews were biding from the Reds. The tortures included the tearing out of beards with specially adapted wire. Two Jewish girls are in hospital with venereal trouble. One's nose is cut off the other's arms are broken.

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