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SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 18, 1922.

ADVERSARIA.

(Continued from Page 4.)

ST. LL HAGGLIN J.

Fiddlesticks, I said. If they oan SEAMEN'S STRIKE. estol the lesa zorions cases, they can catch the bad ones. I shall continns agnostic till I see some evidenos. At present I am satisfied that there has As showing the loom been less intimidation than talk about way in which some meu it. I infor this from the lack of reason, may I quote thie

evidence that must have appeared if from the Telegraph f balt the talk Had been true. "As showing the attitude of some of the seamen in Canton, we hear of one who wished Northern Chinese.

AS

BROWING

to return to work, and who had to bribe one woman to pass sa bie wife and another as a friend, both wishful to return to Hongkong, before he could pass the pickats. But big num- bers of men are returning just the Bato,"

ton.

Let

That there

much WDS

fear of intimidation among the coolies, sad

of

soms pretended fear intimidation, appears to me believ able. You can understand that it would not need a high degree of canning for a coolie who for some reason did not want to work to give

NO OFFICIAL REPLY RECEIV.

ED BY GOVERNMENT.

The issue, arising out of the Gov- ernment's offer, which the seamen were called upon to decide seamed answerable by a plain "Yes" or "No" but the strikers are still haggling over the proposition in typical Chinese fashion. The Government promised that "if all come back work first on the

Lo

hia crouse that he was afraid." A man unwilling to confess himself a striker might say that. It is not, conditions offered by the ship-owners

award by even when the fear is genuine, and await the

the

evidence of positive intimidationbitrators" the proclamation out- lonesome lowing the Union will be cancelled. A gnarled troo

惮 on

Another

Here, there is no room to doubt, is a story intended to establish as a fact that there is "intimidation" at Can There may be. 1 am not interested in that. I am interested road at midnight does not intimidate The men say now that the resump- in the question whether or not this the superstitious coward who sees it lion must be simultaneous. quaint story is evidence of it. sa a gbost. On the other hand, a point they seem inclined to stick out me first compliment the writer on the fanip boggle held up by mischievons for is that the provisional rates fixed phrase "attitude of some" sesmentada is guilty of intimidation, and if as a temporary scale pending arbitra That was the right key of philosophic you show me that the seamen went tion ball be regarded as an irreducible

to minimam. caution, if he had only stuck to it. even that far, I'll help you But he didn't, or he would havo re-damn theat with all my flected that the extraordinary pre-bourt. 1 object to intimidation cautions of the returning asilor could I have suffered from it. 1 lose my only show what he (that one particular right to free speech by it.

You your- Bailor) thought the attitude of the self threatened to withdraw your

Then again, he omits friendship pickets to be. to show how or why the company of a wife, real or pretended, should mollify the pickets. If the sailor had worn the lady's clothes, and passed as her friend's wife, the friend wearing his clothes, I could have understoodi it better. However, these obstacles by. why did he

the and I did. story by adding: "But big numbers of med are returning Just the same as just the same. what? With bogus wives? Or if

spoil

without, how do they pass the pickets

when the hero of the tals could not?

I beg my readers not to regard this as a mere "ecore" against a contem- porary, or as an ille quibble. I don't doubt that the Telegraph mas heard

the yarn. them.

WB8

when

yun

thought backing up the strikers. What about it

now, when you ser that I don't care a tinker's cuss for the strikers, cor for the others, but only for a proper attitude towards evidence i

Come and have a gurgle, he said,

I NOW

GU ARMEI)

8

left at the China Mail office for me, " by an admirer," a pukka shillelagh. It's a brotu of a shtick, and must, weigh several poun 8. Owing to the nature of my job, the police do not permit me to carry gun or a wearing interference with the the Ordinance Cover 2 weapon like this. The thorns on it, 1 am requested to notice, are "grouped in threes."

Dos that prove that it was formerly the property of a Siun Fein commandant" ↑ "I do not think

serious Lext census, but I've heard so many of does not They are poor hetion all of them. The pople of Hongkong have been telling or listening to clumsy lies all these weeks, and taking for grant ed, and forming judgments on, the wildest and most blatant inventions.

I was trying to explain to a very good friend of mins this week how bad for us that sort of thing

js.

EXEMPLI

GRATIA.

I had first to convince him that

One factor which has to be re membered in considering the Govern ment's position in the matter is that their stipulation that work should first be resumed was made in respent not of the resmen only but of "sil work men whom they have involved in the dispute as well."

Interviewed this morning the Secre- tary for Chinese Affairs (the Hon. Mr. E. R. Halifax) said that so for no official communication from the seamen's delegates had reached the

Government.

The seamen delegates con erred) yesterday with the Tung Wab Hos pital authorities and later a conference at which representatives of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce were

present was held at the office of the Hon. Mr. Lau Chu Pak,

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The daily total of ships in barbour has steadily declined from the bigh- so, but I don't care. It is a hefty watermark of 170 reached on Feb- argument, that should be most convincing. 1 am now barning truary 11 until now it stands at 152.

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LOCAL AND GENERAL.

I was not pro-striker, or be wouldn't have listened to me. He is, as I am, strong for the Government, and

The name of the Ying Fat against all lawlessness. But unlike me, be doesn't require lawlessness to be Co., Ltd., has been struck off proved. It is sufficient for him when register. it is alleged,

are

1

Just let us have a quiet, friendly talk about all this alleged intimida- tion that's talked about, I pleaded, Yes, yes. I know you are satisfied that it took place, and I'm not

that saying

it

ΠΟΥ did only say, let's pretend, for the sake of the argument, that we not sure. Let's find out what we know, as apart from what we hear.

We neither of us knew anything worth mentioning. There were one or two police court cases in which we both believed, but they were mild affairs, that bothered even magistrates.

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By-laws relating to the depots witness was afraid to appear, said my for cattle, swine, sheep, and guate friend. It was in all the paper, Doesn't that fear show intimidation provided by the Government, and to It does not, I said. It only slaughter houses, are published in shows fear of intimidation, if it to-day's Government Gazette.

shows that. Look here. Did that witness say in Court, before witnesses, why he was afraid to give evidence

Of course not. He didn't turn up. It was the policeman who said he had **got cold feet."

So all we know is that a policeman said he had had a witness, whom he could not produce, for a reason which might be a supposition or inference by the policeman.

I get you, said my friend. But there was the kind of intimidation that

people

Bay

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think

when of

Not intimidation.

threat. even

they persuasion but actual violence.

ΟΙ

Ah, said I. Now we're getting there. Let's have it.

A sailor who wanted to work was almost beaten to death outside the Union beadquarters. There was a big pool of blood outside on the atrect which everyone could see.

Did you see it!

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Leading Articles ...

Hongkong Notes.... 1-9 Hongkong University

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Local and General New Motor Coaches

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.12

Company Meetings

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.12

Company Reports

.20

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Our Finances

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Legislative Council

...26

Seamen's Striko

.37-29.

Obituary

.29-80

18

Bir Henry May's Death

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.14.

Blasting Operation

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