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VARIOUS COMMENTS.
Qer Saturday contributer, the re nowned Adversarins, does not know! everything, and is far from infallible. He has sometimes said that agitation here manifestative of tablic opinica -is of no more use, under the system, than ploughing the sacrl.
The news we are in yesterday's China Mail seems on contradict him fatly. The Government, owing to the public hostilty to the re-im position of the super-boose tax, has decided to drop it.
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have I not visited the land of my. fathers through L.OF. If I pay more my hopes have gone." [And LOF. interpreted is "Lack of Funds"]
Yet another did bewail himself that he would have to sell his chariot, bạt the people reviled him saying "Had we less chariots perchance we had less taxes."
And he went away and wept bit- terly, for, next to his wife, did he love his charist,
These and many other things did | the people say unto the Ralera to remit the tax...
"And the Rulers did so which was passing strange.
And the people did rejoice giving ! shanks to their gods, whom they called Cra and Kra. Also did they prase their Rulers for bearkening to their voice.
But the Rulers did smile and said "We must tax something. for wei need funds; also that our faces may not be lost...
And they did debate in secret, bat :
whether it was on fa-come tax [. Di "come-in tax,” the people were ignorant.
To fact so busy were they withj their feasts that their ointment con- tained no fly.
Nor heeded they the Prophet who counselled them to keep their eyes. skinsed, for their adversary the Landlord went raging through the Colony seeking whom he might "do" for the extra money he had pot to par.
It is usual to collect the views and opinions of prominent citizens on such occasions, but the rain, and one thing and another, has made our interviewers lazy. So we give berei the ideas of the various members of
literary staff, our
which wen abould answer just 28 "Adversarius" not having come in. could not be Interviewed. Yull} perhaps get his comitents next week:
Our office Pessimist said: So friend SicGuigan who prayed at the meeting af protest against the increase in house rates that he might be deprived of his "uncomfortable feeling that the Hongkong Govern His brow packered with indecision. gent would take about as much bis lips parted in dismay, The Bright rotice of us as if we were Reporter. Youth was embarrassed so many little boys digging when asked for his views. However, sand on the seashore when, the after hesitating an hour or two, until tide is out" bas had his prayer nearly too late for the printer, answered." Events have proved that he weigbed in with this: be neednt have felt uncomfortable Why all this fuss over a matter so about the issue at all. The Govern- simple? The Government with its ment, it seems, had its telescope artificial, official, majority has passed carefully trained upon us when we the resolution, and the Government were gambolling in our juvenile'fash- with its official majority-theirs nat ion among the shells and seaweed and to reason why--would rescind it the sturdiness of our sand castle Could anything le more simple? bas impressed them more than But a great and glorious victory. we thought. Bat I, I am has been won What about” Mr. |
z suspiciņus mortal and I find it hard Pollock's position in the matter?
to believe that this rose hasn't got Of course he had voted for the
a thorn somewhere about its person. resolution. Trae he did so without
pablic pressure that
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It is so novel, so unusual, this sudden | question and he took a leading part bending under the storm of in the agitation to have the offensive instinctive-measure withdrawn. Of course he
some will voter in favour of the Governi-. | ulterior motive and I think "Iment's new resolution at the next *Takao pom
Somahti and Wachaw .............. have found one. Wasnt there a Legislative Council meeting
Here you have a Government that Bengkok Bangkok other meeting held that same after- noon and did'nt that meeting carry passed a resolution
on certain Paizoor
·resolutions clamowing it constitu- grounds, depleted treasury and so|"Amoy "Sraits and "Bangkok............. tional reform. Wasn't something forth. A few weeks later with Straits, Bergkok, Calcotta & ADEN....... Namsang mentioned about an uncficial to those grounds still-as good as on the Shanghai and North China
Tingchow Pakhoi und Haiphong.
Chongra jority and a petition to the House of day when they were firs used to get Commons Yes indeed. Can it be the measure passed, "the Government
**SUNDAY, MAY 29. then that the Government have heard rescinds the resolution (the mere an-
little bird that councement of its intention amoun SO, Aoy and Keelung Byron's rings
ing to that) If the necessity for the The people by and by will be the new taxation had been as urgent as stronger."
Or is this a sop to Cerberus on the principle of letting the people think they govern that they may be the easier governed. 1. am like "Mr. McGuigan. I hope time will prove
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me wrong.
The Romantic (as we call him), jotted these dithyrambs down"and shyly shoved them'at us:
And at that time the people were sadly tried because the Rulers did wish to further tax their tents, for many were already hard bitten.
And The Man' in the Street" who had a large following, did revile bitterly, muttering in his heard "No extra 7 per for mine.”
:
*Takao and "Reelong
the Government represented when Jav via Entavia the resolution was passed no mere Swatow agitation would have secured its with. Straits and Baczkok.. drawal. A resolution passed only to Weihaiwei and Tientsin. be rescinded a week or two later should never have been passed at all. So much money, time, and temperato lest.
CORRESPONDENCE:
OUR BIRTH STATISTICS.
(To the Editor of the "China Mail."]
Sir error in my statement at the last Sanitary Board meeting with re ference to Infantile Mortality in the last para- Hongkong, la graph of my statement I should have said that out of 1,456 births attended by registered midwives during the first four months of 1921 there were 85.7 females born to every 100 males, whereas by error I made it appear i that 85.7 per cent of these birth: were of females.
regret that there was an
You may care to pablish this
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Yours faithfully,
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SHANTUNG PROBLEM.
PORT OF TSINGTAO.
JAPAN SUGGESTS INTERNA- TIONAL PORT,
JAPANESE MINISTER'S YTERS.
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Washington, May 16-The estab Istment of an international port at Tsingtao is contemplated by Japan as soon as she can induce the Chi nese Government to andertake negotiations for the relinquishment of Japanese control of the entire pro vince of Shantung. It is explained io Japanese quarters here that the internationalisation of the port was; insisted upon by Japan because the
maintenance of a Japanese : settlement at Tsingtao might invite.] demands from other maritime Powers for similar concessions which it was believed was impossible became Tsingtao was too small. The Japa- sese propose to 'settle the questiqu of the control of the mixed settlement by Taviting the Chinese Government to establish gendarmerie of sufficient | strength to ensure their "ability to keep off the bandits who are swarm- ing in Shantung-Reuler-
Note: The foregoing. U. S. Navy Radio message
was received in Peking on May 17 but was not picked up in Shanghai. On May 18, Renter's Peking correspondent tele graphed to Shanghai, the official in- formation that Mr. Obata, the Japan- ese Minister to China, prior to his departure for Japan at the beginning | of May, had “remarked to the Chinese Government that Japan in anded making representations to the Powers concerning the international- isation of Tsingtao, and that if the Powers concurred, Japan would make a definite proposal to China to that effect." Reuter's correspondent added · that the Chinese fovernment had heard nothing of the matter since.
In this connection, Mr. Obäta's statement to a representative of the Osaka Mainichi on landing at Moji on May 13, is of special interest ---
Referring to the Shantung ques tion, the Minister said that, as declar- ed by the Japanese Foreign Office some time ago, Japan is ready to negotiate with the Chinese Govern- ment for the settlement of the pro- blem at any time, if that Government so desires. China, however, is still undecided, and the matter is in abeyance.
The reason why China hesitates to open negotiations with Japan is, is Mr. Obata's opinion, that she is ap prehensive of very severe conditions being formulated by Japan for the settlement of "the problem. The question will be easily solved if Japan draws up a very fair proposal and presents it to the Peking Gov-| ernment with the previous approval of the Powers.. It admits of no doubt that China will endorse such a 2.11am.
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H'm! It reads rather like a swatow, "Shanghai and North Chins. Telegraph leader. Let's drop it. Seandain AUSTRALI
Zealand via Thursday Island. Registra tion 9.45 am. Letters 10.30 1.1 ...... Swatow, Amoy and Foochowanie szumomnes Javis Sama Strafta and Bangkok
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A Chinese youth attending school in Elgia Street, was this mor- ring charged before "Magistrate Orme, at the instance of Sub Inspector Wills, of No. 7 Police Station, with Hgh and Haiphong
North Shanghai. the unlawful possession in his house But the Rulers persisted. In their in Connaught Road West, of-three councils they decided it that the tax daggers. The defendant said that' should be impered. For the Rulers they were not daggers but ordinary: were in sore straits, having spent clasp knives. The Inspector said much mozey in building roads for that
Cu information received, their chariots and not having the he secured a search warrant and Ayatow, Amoy and Tako
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Bosh Maraqli wherewithal to replenish their hoard.raided the house at 6.30 this morning. Shanghai and North Chine Fucting..
3watow, Straits and Bangkok ins Spansi And the people did grieve Yea, Besides the daggers, he found a Jspać...... the very Taipans of the Peak did revolver torch which was evidently
Fookeang
descend from their Olympus and meant to be used as make common SOTKOW:
But the Rulers hardened their hearts, for the voice of the people was as one crying in the wilderness.
Therefore did they say "Behold we have a fist full of trumps.”,
And it came to pass that when the time-was nigh" that the money should be collected, the people held a salerna fast and did congregate | together that their voices might be heard.
́revolver with | '
which to frighten people. The Philippine Islands defendant referred to the compradore Swakow, amoy and Foochow
of P. & O, as a relative and elected to
call him as a witness. The Magistrate Shangbai and North China... remanded the case until Monday. Hobow, Pakhoi and Elaiphong......
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the back bathe the parts with atow, Amoy and Poochow hamberlin's Pain Balm twice. day massaging with the palm of the hand Shanghai and North Chine for live minutes at each application.
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There did they air. their weds "For" said one," "UI pay this tax how harper pos of flannel slight Amey and "Philippine Islands
with this bringat and bind it on over the shail I buy meat. And another get of pain For sale by all Chemista answered him saying "For ten years and Storekeepers.
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