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consequence of alleged treat- ment. It is passing strange, how ever, that, unlike, most industrial troubles, the employers have been

Air Expansion.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1925.

CORRESPONDENCE.

RENT PROFITEERING.

Sir, Having read of the peti-

DRUG EVIL.

GENEVA'S "POWERFUL

BLOW."

AMERICA'S SUPREME IMPETUS.

: (Reuter's Servios.j

Geneva, February 19. ence, M. Zahle, said that the Con The President of the Confer

ference had not made any claime to complete success. On the con- unsolved questions which could trary it recognised that it had left not be solved for years; possibly decades.

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M. Zable agreed with Mr. Porter's statement that the drug problem could only be solved by international co-operation.

Other speakers, including Sir Malcolm Delevigne (Britain) and Mr. Sugimura (Japan) paid a ̈ warm tribute to the officials of the League and to M. Zahle's patience and impartiality...

Geneva, February 19." Ten States, including Britain, Japan, the Netherlands and Siam, have signed the convention pro- tocol for the control of the inter- national traffic in drugu,

kept In, ignorance of the real To the Editor of the China Mail.] causes of the strike. Where thousands of hands are employed, individual grievances are bound on proposed to be forwarded by

the Tenants' Protection Associ to crop up fairly regularly; butation to the Governor in Council, I there had been no sign of should like to draw the attention organized unrest immediately of your readers to, one of

facts that at present seem to have prior to the present. trouble. A been Inadequately represented. number of men was dismissed in In the first place it is quite un- the general interests of discipline, true, as has often been stated, that the Rent Ordinances. pro but none was dismissed from the tect the coolle class. The only mills in which

the dispute class who benefit by them, in the struck a very powerful blow at The Conference had, however, originated. As for the alleged long run, are the protected principal tenants who, in most cases,.are.

the drug evil and greatly ill-treatment of employees the profiteers of the worst description. strengthened the Hague conven- general manager of the Naigai If the protection of the Ordinance tion. Wata Kaisha has stated that this were removed; the landlords them drawal of the United Stated M. Zahle regretted the withe selves would be satisfied with a was precisely one of the matters good, deal less than the actual delegation, which by its boldness in which special care was taken to rents paid by the sub-tenants,

and devotion, had given the safeguard the worker. The most provided they received these supreme impetus to the whole rigid rules existed against any rents themselves, and the anti-drug campaign. sort of abuse by foremen and profiteering principal tenants overseers, and the, greatest care were removed. To take a was exercised in investigating any typical instance. There is a shop grievance which came to the notice in Queen's Road West, let before of the management. The manage 1920 at $160 a month reat. The ment has heard nothing about the tenant has now retired from trade real cause of the trouble beyond and sublet the same premises for what has been published in pam- $400 a month, living on his phlets and the Press, but it has profit Instead of carrying on his expressed its readiness to discuss business. This is an actual case, the matter in a reasonable manner and I can give particulars if rem with any definite body appointed. quired. If the protection of the on behalf of the strikers.

Rents Ordinance were removed the landlord would be able to get rid of the profiteering principal tenant, and would be quite satisfied with a rent of $300 per month from The documents remain open for The Royal Air Force Estimates

'protected" sub-tenant.

signature till September 30. have been increased but not on all over the Colony, the poorer second Opium Conference closed This sort of thing is going, on [Yesterday's session of the such liberal lines... as many coolie class being fleeced most of with an excellent speech delivered advocates of the air arm predicted all, as they cannot afford to be by M. Zahle, reviewing the some time ago. It is true that the the first tenants and owing to labours of the Conference and the personnel is to be increased by a the monopoly created for the results obtained. The Convention thousand, involving increased pay principal tenants, who are not the was signed yesterday afternoon. of 2171,000; and it is equally true owners of the property, have never Sir Malcolm Delevigne announced that the Admiralty vote for the spent a dollar on it or taken any that he would sign on behalf of air branch of the Fleet is actual owners receive a quite in not bind the Dominions, who were risk in connection with it, the Britain, but the signature would £1.320,000, making an effective adequate return on their capital, members of the League.] net increase of £1.972,000, which and the poorest class of all are should satisfy the critics, Flying fleeced unmercifully. These facts does not raise partisan issues, are well-known to the Tenants' Pro- was pointed out a few months ago tection Association, which every- by Sir Samuel. Hoare in his body knows might with better capacity of Air Minister. In the advantage designate itself, the future he hoped that there would "Principal Tenants" Protection be no sudden changes as there had Association, and I suggest that If. been in the past-for example, the the Secretary of Chinese Affairs sudden change from a large air were to examine closely the posi- force to one not large enough for tion in life of those who may sign British needs and the sudden this much vaunted petition it In cessation of airship activities. would be discovered that quite Commander Kenworthy (Liberal) The expansion programme for

80 per cent. of the signatories asked whether the disarmament home defence is a programme sub-tenants, and making a profit or only postponed.

are themselves the landlords of conference had been abandoned under which in the course of a from the protection afforded them few years 52 squadrons are to be by

Mr. Austen Chamberlain, Secre theRent Ordinance, just tary of State for Foreign Affairs, formed the importation of opium eeased defence.

in Britain for home as it is common knowledge replied that all discussions of

The strength of the that in nearly under the terms of this agreement, R.A.F. at present is equivalent to before the Courts in which the protocol which were to have been every case matters arising out of the Geneva Hongkong's opium monopoly was 54 squadrons, including 25 1/3 at landlords were seeking possession, considered in Rome, had been the Home bases, eight at Iraq, six the tenants strenuously resisted, postponed until March with a not materially, affected. by these in India and 4 1/8 in Egypt and the resistance being engineered and corresponding postponement of measures, and the drug is still Palestine. During this year it is financed by principal tenants who all the subsequent dates. imported here under Government hoped that five non-regular were making a profit out of the Commander Kenworthy: There supervision,

squadrons will be raised, and it is premises. believed that the Territorial If any form of rent restriction is There are prospects now, how-Associations of the City and to remaip, I would most strongly ever, that the opium trade may County of London will lead the urge that profiteering from sub- be entirely suppressed in Hong-way in raising auxiliary tenants should be rigorously for- köng.

fire of the most notable squadrons. The ambition of the bidden, and landlords who reason

Air Ministry is to establish an

ably require possession of their features of the Geneva conference aeroplane route from Britain to be allowed to recover possession. premises for their own use should which has just concluded its India and Australia, as well as the

Yours truly, labours; was the offer made by airship service. The Air Ministry has already placed orders for two Britain to eradicate oplupi-smok- aeroplanes with three engines

SUB-TENANT. HONGKONG, February 19, 1935. ing in her Far Eastern possessions each, suitable for flying in the within fifteen years of the date East. One order went to the when China's efforts to suppress H. G. Hawker & Co., Ltd. Bombay Armstrong Arm and the other-to- the cultivation of the poppy and Melbourne have been men- DARING AFFAIR IN BROAD become effective enough to pre- tioned as possible bases in India vent smuggling into Hongkong. and Australia, but the enterprise Although this offer was not is a big one and no risks must be accepted, China withdrawing from the cohference, it still holds good Hongkong, Friday, February 20, 1925.and may be invoked at any time.

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LOCAL OPIUM TRADỀ

Hongkong owes its present opium monopoly to the British Government's policy eighty years

China failed to respond to Bri- tain's advance because she realized that it was impossible for her to carry out her part of the contract with the country largely in the hands of the militarists. There-

run,

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ARMED ROBBERY.

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An armed robbery was carried out by six men at the premises of the Tsang Foo Coal merchants on the first floor of No. 48, Das Vœux Road Central, yesterday afternoon.

The men entered the premises. on the pretence of being sent to search for arms, and suddenly whipped out pistols. All the inmates were bound and gagged, The occupants of the ground.

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NEW ARMS PACT..

FURTHER DISCUSSION

POSTPONED.

"(Renter's Service,)

LONDON, February 19. the House of Commons,

is therefore a chance of holding the disarmament conference in September?

Mr. Chamberlain: The position

is that each item in the programme has been postponed for three months.

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ton reads: That progress is being [An earlier cable from Washing-

made with the idea of a Dis- armament Conference is shown in an authoritative statement that preliminary negotiations proceed- ing in London, Tokio and Rome met with favourable reception, and-the-success" of the "project" appears to rest with the attitude Paris. It is emphasised, however, that land armaments are not involved, as America holds these to concern the political and economic problem of Europe, and therefore, any move, must originate from Europe, but Washington was anxious to curb the competitive buliding of smaller naval craft]

of

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[ago. Viscount Palmerston, in his fore as soon as a strong central.M.S. "Hawkins," which takes floor, when they became awareing of the Reorganisation Con

CHINESE AFFAIRS.

(Courtesy of Daily Bulletin).

PEKING, February 19.. The Tee Arts" Club

Tuan Chi-jui attended the meet instructions to Sir H. Pottinger, on government is established we may its name from the fact that it is that there were armed robbers ference this afternoon, the eve of his departure for the confidently look forward to seeing social organisation of the Artificers on the first floor, blew police Addressing the Conference, Far East, emphasized that the the cultivation of the poppy of the Engine Room, Electrical and whistles. The robbers, who had which was attended by 109 dele- opium trade must be placed on entirely suppressed and the trade ship, held a private dance last and secured money and jewellery that the readjustment of the mili Ordinance Departments of t partly succeeded in their purpose gates, Tuan Chi-jul said he hoped "some regular and legalised finally disappearing in Hongkong. evening at the R. E. Theatre,

How soon China will get a stable

amounting to about $600, then tary system would be carried out. footing" before any real under-central government, however, is nature ever held in the Colony, was

This, the first effort of a similaï } made a hurried exit.

The Conference decided to defer discussion of the military standing could be reached with another question altogether, since intended to mark the appreciation

rehabilitation, proposals pending China. While the opium trade is the growing of the poppy is one kindnesses of the many friends

of the Nuval

the introduction of a Bill by the forbidden by law," he wrote, "it of the chief incentives to provin- they have made here. The affair

War Minister, and proceeded to consider plans for calling the must inevitably be carried on by

cial rébellion.

National Conference, fraud and violence." Viscount

was very successful in that all who had the privilege of attending were Palmerston hoped the Chinese

inore than satisfied with this very Government, would share this

typical reciprocation,

view, otherwise he feared trouble A Serious Strike. would arise" through collisions

inen

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GUNNER CHARGED.

REMAND GRANTED BY MAGISTRATE;

The case in which a gunner of

MONGOLIA

TOKIO, February 19.

The veteran business man, Baron

The entire arrangements were in the R.G.A. was charged with an (By Courtesy of " Daily Bulletin."") the hands of C. E. R. A. Horspool, alleged attempt to obtain money According to the latest news those efforts were ably seconded by pretending to be a military with the Chinese preventive from Shanghai the strike in the by a committee of his colleagues." doctor and with unlawfully service.

Japanese cotton mills has spread The evening closed with the sing: | practising surgery, Was again Okura, plans a trip to Mongolia two more establishments, ing of Auld Lang Syne and wishes before Mr. E. W. Hamilton at the early in April, for the purpose of Since Viscount Palmerston's to day, however, the British Govern- and fresh disturbances have for a good. trip and a speedy return. arisen.The trouble is regarded

STUFFY COLDS.

Kowloon Magistracy to-day, when Lan adjournment, was made until

Foerday-next:~~~~

Mr. Wadeson has been retained for the defence.

investigating the possibility of mentia opium policy has undergone in Osaka as most serious, and

further agricultural developments. drastic change. In 1906 the opium spinners have passed a resolu

Prince is offering land, Baron- there, for which a Mongolian

opponents finally secured 'Parlia- tion urging the Japanese Govern

Okura supplying the caphal. ment's assent for an agreementment to take immediate steps with stuffy wheezy breathing to distress your Mothers, why allow "anu"es" and

Baron Okura, who in view of bin", the Chinese Government to babies when quick roller follows the use

Falling into a nullah with his advanced, dge will be largely at- with China reducing the export terminate the strike. It is under- of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy? 1 machine at Homuntin yesterday, a tended on his journey by a party, from India-one tenth annually, atood that the chief cause of the shocks the development of cold and Chinese cyclist sustained several has arranged with Chang Tro-lin provided China reduced production strike is a demand on the part of contains no narcotics. It is good too for injuries and had to be taken to the for an armed escort against a posin

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