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INTIMATIONS

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER ára, 1916.

S.Moutrie & Co., Ltd.

PIANOS

TO

HIRE

FROM

$10 Per MONTH.

TRADE OF WUCHOW IN 1915

H.M. Consul at Wuchow has furnished. the following particulars of the trade of this port in 1918-

GERMAN TYRANNY IN BELGIUM.

WORKMEN DRIVEN INTO SLAVERY.

COLONIAL SERVICE REFORM,

SIR H. H. JOHNSTON'S CRITICISM. OF THE SYSTEM OF APPOINT- ING GOVERNORS.

considers are necessary dunges in the Sir H. H. Lohnston points out what he adminstrat on of a portion of the British He notes that the whole of the British Empire in remarks in the Daily Mail.

| FREIGHT ... MARKET.

Mesara, Snowman & Co., of Hongkong in their freight circular dated 2nd Sep- tember, state: -Our lust report was dated 19th ult, since when the stagnation as

How the Germans aro-tyrannising over regards chartering, therein commented the unhappy people of Belgium is shown upon has continued.

by a document issued by the Foreign The Canton situation still remains a matter of concern to practically all Office. The attention of the Foreign Empire abroad, with the exception of southern mercantile and shipping arms, Office has been drawn to a decree said to India, Baluchistan, Southern Arabia, but during the last week, with the arrival have been issued by the Governor-General Egypt, and the Sudan is within the do

main of the Colonial Office, The there of the Admiral from Shanghai with cruisers, and the fact that the Civil in Belgium, which adds to and makes self-governing Dominions deal di Brent Governor has taken up his position, come- more stringent the laws against work with their own affairs. The Secretary of bined with the practical cessation of men who refuse work,

State governs automatically the policy fighting, it would appear that there is 4

of Gibraltar, Malta, Cyprus, Ceylon, the Possibility of affairs being settled shortly

On September 22 last, a protest was Malay Peninsula, the West India The purchasing power of the Kwangsiand the locality, to an extent, pacified addressed to the patrons of the Relief Islands, Guiana, Honduras, British West. Frovince was detrimentally affected by 1 is known also that the new Military 14 and lú, regarding labour in Belgium. Rhodesia (through the. Chartered. Com Commission against decrees of August Africa, British East Africa. Nyasaland, disastrous floods even worse than the Governor is in the near vicinity and

The value of the total trade of Wuchow in 1915 was £1,078,377 as compared with 7,720,017 in 1014.. These totals were made up as follows Foreign imports, £606.2 as compared with £609,870 10 1974; native imports, £164.811 as compar ed with £164,408 in 1814; and exports, £606,200 as compared with £500,679 in 1914. The apparent decrease in the total trade in 1910 as compared with 1914, is, however, due to the difference in the aver age value of the Haikwan tael. The valon of the trade expressed in Chinese currency shows an actual increase of Hk. Tls. 388,815.

pre-

fload in 1914, and in view of this catas-paring, it is said, to take over the seals Since then, the Foreign Office states, pany), Uganda, Zanzibar, Bechuanaland,

trophe, and the adverse effects of the of office. European war, it may almost be consider ed a matter of congratulation that the Wuehow trade statistics for. 1916 are:as satisfactory as they are.

FOREIGN IMPORTA,

Almost every item among the cotton imports showed a decrease compared. 1014. With regard to cotton yarn it is significant that while the value of the Indian yarn imported has declined by

We therefore have to report a slightly more hopeful outlook, and this is rc- flected in the Bangkok-Hongkong rate which has again risen from 60/40 cents per picul to 70/00 cents per picul for inside outside bar loading respectively. The Saigon rate also has firmed slightly, after having

stood at about 20

some.

time

cents per picul for

which a fixture of a modium-

4

reports have been reecived of further

attempts by the Germans to requisition Basutoland, Somaliland, Mauriting, the labour for their military needs. Now all Seychelles, Malaysia, North Borneo, these stories are confirmed by the avowed Hongkong, Wei-hai-wei, several archi policy of General von Bissing, embodied pelagoes and islands of the Western Pati- fic. the Falkland Islands, South Geor in the new decree of May 16,

This decree supersedes the decree of gia, and St, Heleno-altogether a realm August 15. It enacts heavier penalties comprising some 1,500,000 square miles, than the first decree. Workinen refusing with a population of 58,000,000, mainly to work are liable to imprisonment from of non-Caucasic race.

fortnight to a year; all persons, com-

The staff of the Colonial Office which munes, associations or other groups directs the administration of such an giving relief to those who refuse to work

ruited from the successful competitors

over HK Tis: 60,000, the value of the sized vessel was made), and during are liable' to a fine of not more than extraordinarily diversfied Empire is re-

than Hk. Tis. 20,000. There are indica

TUNING AND REGULAR ATTENTION Papanese yarn has increased hy morethe Inst. few days rose to 20 cents per 10,000 marks, (£500) and imprisonment the examinations of Class 1 (Second

INCLUSIVE.

DON'T FORGET!

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 4TH

IS THE

I

OPENING NIGHT

OF THE

"SCAMPS"

AT THE

THEATRE

BOOKING

AT

ROYAL

MOUTRIE'S.

FRICES AS USUAL,

COMMENCING AT 9.15 P.M.

IS THIS

YOUR

SHARP.

SMOKE?

Westminster Specials

Turkish

IT'S THE BEST.

Grand Prize of Honour Panama-Pacific International Exposition SAN FRANCISCO, 1915

ASAHI-BEER

SOLD EVERYWHERE

[28-1

[1070

tions that the. Japanese article is becomeu), two medium-sized steamers having, for not more than two years. The whole nivision), and the curriculum in this

At

fixed at 24 and 24 cents per picul we understand, in the meanwhile, been time of going to press, however, it has again weakened slightly and only 25 cents Per picul is now quoted..

As

ing more

and more popular ang

administration of the decree, with the exam nation is the same as that establish buyers,

exception of a rainor provision relating The value of imports of cigarettes in

to false declarations of indigence, is for te Diplomatic career and Foreign Office, for the Indian Civil Service, the 1916 showed a large increase as compared

placed in the hands of the German mili-

Home Ofoc, Board of Agriculture, etc. with the previous year, The trade in

tary tribunals, cigarettes throughout China is immense,

Business up north remains stendy..

The 19th report of the Belgian Com-It is not a curriculum by any means and is one of the standard examples of

mission of Inquiry saya: ---

especially suitable for dealing with the the result of direct intercourse between

Export of rios from Saigon from tat

Following upon the refusal of work- Crown Colonies and Protectorates. foreign salesmen and Chinese in the in-January to 30th July amounts to 479,768 men to work on the requisition of the regards the Colonial Service proper (in terior.

tons, as compared with 442,281 tons for German authorities, the latter attempted Crown Colonies and Protectorates) it is The large increase in the imports of the same period last year. Quotation for to starve them. They forbate the com- not chosen on a uniform method.

The electrion! materials, namely, from Hk. No. 2 white round sifted rice stands at cunal authorities to give them relief administrative posts in Ceylon, Malay- Tis, 435 in 1914 to Hk. Th, 11,689 in 1015.4.40 per pical fo.b. Saigon for Septem- either in kind or in money. Some time sia, and Hongkong are filled by prompted was due to the erection of an electric ber-October shipment.

afterwards, with a view of depriving Eastern Cadets, young men who have lighting plant at Nanning, the capital of

thers of all resources, they proceeded to the Province..

Saigon-Philippines. Three fixtures of arrest and imprison all the State func-entered this branch of the Colonial Ser- outside medium-sized steamers are re-tionaries and agents, as well as private Fice as successful candidates in the same maintained an increase.

Kerosene is one of the inports that hasported in this direction, one discharging persona assisting them in, the distribution type of competitive examaination as that time a Japanese oil from the island of at Formosa has made its appearance in the Customs Returns. It is said to be of inferior quality to other oils on the China the American, Sumatran, and Borneo market, but the recent rise in the cost of products may afford an opportunity for Japanese oil to become established.

For the first

Der picul. Also a small Philippine on

steamer at 45 cents. Saigon-Java. Nothing is reported from the Dutch possession militating here, the searcity of upward cployment against downward fixtures being made.

with having their houses burnt

The workmen were requisitioned at their houses by soldiers with fixed bay

hostages, Women and children were fre onets; in the absence of the workmen, members of their families were taken as quently arrested; one little girl 14 years Newchwang.-Charterers are still very

old was detained. Chians patrolled the chary of committing themselves to busi-streets to intimidate the population, Experts of antimony reguls increasedness in view of the fact that so far no actually charging peaceful inhabittants from 212 piculs in 1914 to 1,353 pieuls insettlement of the trouble in and around with their lancés. Two persons

wounded in one of those charges. 1915, while exports of autimony ore in Canton has yet been arrived at creased from 638 piculs to 10,892 pricals. Considerable interest has been shown dur

EXPORTS.

Coal-A little business has been done ing the past year in the Kwangsi anti-ut there is reall no material change from mony mines, and unless opposition to our last report. the development of the mineral wealth. of the Province proves insurmountable, large increase in exports of this metal inany be looked for in 1818.

The stoppage of the supply of foreign dyes, caused by the war, resulted in the export of three times the quantity and four times the value of indigo ay compar ed with exports in 1914.-

TRANSIT TRADE

The value of the transit passes issued at Wuchow in 1915 was Hik, Tis. 4,849,100 as compared with Hk. Th. 5,544,895 in 1914. This decrease of almost. Hk. Ts. 700,000 in 1915 was due to the general effect of the war and to the devastation caused by the local floods. Given favour. able commercial conditions, trade, ander the transit pass system is likely to con tinue to increase.

ī

Fixtures-Port Courbet-Swatow $4.50, Hongay-Saigon P.-T., Miike Batavia $11

per ton..

Sail Tonnage Leading or to Load, -nil.

FAR EASTERN MEN AND

THE WAR.

Brevet-Colonel P. G. Walke, a veteran of the China Expedition, 1000, has been Appointed to the command of a garrison battalion of the Royal Scots.

were

tive administrative posts are at the dis posal of the Secretary of State for the Colonies. He passes in review the lists

own good pleasure. put before him every now and again by his private secretary and.appoints on his The candidates whom he selects are not of necessity re- quired to pass any preliminary examina- tion, or special tuition.

The Colonial Office likewise docs little or nothing to encourage the study of Malay and Chinese, and it has been said. by one who should know that the recent serious riots in Ceylon were partly due

DEPORTATION TO GERMANY. Finally, not being able to overcome the resistance of the workmen, the Ger-to the fact that so very few British offi mans resolved to deport them to Gercials in the Ceylon Government Service many. The prisoners were sent off in knew either of the two principal Ceylon groups of about 50, During the period vernaculars. Sir H. H. Johnston thinks of their transportation from Luttro to this: when the Civil Service of the Crown the internment camp at Senne, West in the London-governed Empire has been phalia, they received insufficient food and rightly trained, rightly selected, and drink. The works in which prisoners rightly tested, it must not in futuro B were forced to employ themselves con- its legitimate ambitions of promotion to sisted in clearing forests and digging the highest posts constantly frustrated in irenebes.

order to satisfy parliamentary or Minis ***Though the grounds to be cleared or terial jobbery. This is the outstanding dug consisted of quicksands, the Germans grievance at present of our Colonial Ser- refused to allow the elementary precau vice, as it is of the Indian Civil Servant. tions such as the use of props necessary The Governorships of splendid depend that they wished to make the work as Cyprus. Mauritius, or Newfoundland, in such circumstances. It was obvious encies like Malta, Cylon, Jamaica, difficult, dangerous and unhealthy as posare not infrequently conferred on Army sible: The sentinels forbade all rest; if officers at the end of their career (Malta Lieutenant Colonel C.C. Macnamara, a workman stood up to rest for an in- Royal Irish Rifles, who was numbered stant he was struck with a stick or with always is) or Treasury officials who have amongst those killed recently, was well the butt of a rifle, and even prodded with become square pegs in round holes or who known in Chim, where he had serveda bayonet. In general, the nourishment are tired after many years of depart of infantry prior to its disbandment. several years with the Chinese Regine given then was insufficient, bad and un-riental work, or who have parliamentary influence. We ought to possess Imperial healthy. showed an increase of 38,073 tous, due to Whilst at Wei-bai-wei, he passed as 21 reach of rules, was severely punished.propriately educated to represent the The least mistake, the slightest servants sufficiently well chosen and ap- interpreter in Chinese.

The punishments were of various kinds, Crown in the high posts as well as in the but always cruci. One workman was lowly, and to carry upwards with them Lieutenant-Colonel Oswald Swift placed for several hours, with bare feet the invaluable knowledge they have no Flower, who commanded one of the Ser-and his face exposed to the sun, on the quired in their apprenticeship to the ad. vice battalions of the Royal Welsh Fusi- liers, has died of wounds.

roof of a shed. Another punishment ministrative career. through the Boxer Hising in 1000 and several hours with a sack of bricks on his He served consisted in making the victim run for was mentioned several times in despatches shoulder, or with a brick in each hand

his being the only English regiment and two bricks attached at each side of that assisted in the Relief of Peking glass of water were allowed to the coal. A rest of five or six minutes unfortunate man every two hours. Some Captain Herbert Remix Robertson, times the victim was bound for several B.A.M.C., and Essex Yeomanry, of High hours to a stake or a tree with his face lands, Franfield, Sussex, has died in exposed to the sun. London on July 29th, following an opera- tion. fle was formerly in practice in Tientsin, and joined the R.A.M.C. soon after the outbreak of war,

He graduated M.R., B.Ch., and M.D. at Dublin Univer sity

SHIPPING.

Shipping entered and cleared in 1915

the appearance on the Wnekow-Hang- kong service of adiutional steamers under the Chinese flag. There are now seven. British and twenty-nine Chinese passen- ger and cargo-carrying motor oals By Eng on the rivers of Kwangsi Provine, with a total tonnage of nearly 2,000 toms The rise in the price of kerosene is, how ever, materially affecting the profits made by these vessels.

GERMAN PRISONER'S ESCAPE FROM JAVA. BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN KILLED

BY ARABS. ...

in 1895.

Tuson, D.

his

BROKEN PROMISES.

This is but a slight indication of the fate which awaits workmen who are led by force to the place where they are to work." It is presumably useless to urge upon the German authorities the in- Brigadier General H.

humanity of their action, and his Ma D.S.O., Duke of Cornwall Light Infan: jesty's Government are therefore reduced try appointed a General Staff Officer,

to basing their protest solely on the fact first grade, was with the 2nd Battalion

that the decree of May 15, is yet another which was at Hongkong when the war undertakings of the German Government broke out-some time before the campaign opened He was on three mouth leave

to the Commission for Relief in Bel

・mention

direct and deliberate infraction of the

The Norddeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung publishes an account of the escape of Captain von Mäller from Java, which is, it appears, more picturesque than acer- ate. According to this narrative, you Möller, who commanded the German gun boat Tsingtau, which was put out of action at Canton, was interned at Sour baya. With the aid of several coin in England and joined the battalion anThey have promised solemnly to patriots in this part he succeeded in their landing in England in the autum abstain from all interference in the work equipping a schooner named the Woof 1914. He has since earned ingen, on hoard of which he escaped from despatches, ind been made CM.0.

of relief and to leave those dispensing it the island with a party of five German

free and untrammelled yet, openly by the decrees which they have issued and reservists, who, the paper declares, were Captain Dawyek Moberly Veitch, 1st by the oppressive measures adopted in anxious to return to the Fatherland. D.Y.O, Langers, attached to RF.C., who pursuance of those decrees in all parts of They reached the high seas on December was killed while dying was the Belgian, they not only leave the popula 11th last, and, after an adventurous younger son of the late Mr. Andrewtion of Belgium to be fed and saved: voyage, arrived at the coast of Arabia on Veitch, who was one of the early senior from starvation solely by the efforts of March 3rd. They continued their journey officials of the Hongkong and Shanghai the Allies and the charity of the United overland and theu traversed a further Bank. While he was flying on a recon-

States, but also seek to secure that the portion by sea.

naissance on July 8th both wings of his Belgians shall be enabled, by the main- In view of the presence of English patrols, they decided to land, machine were blown off, and it is believed tenance thus afforded them, to work for

he was killed. however, and, disembarking at a Red writes of bim: He is the greatest loss

His squadron 'major their enemies and thus postpone by their Sea port, they succeeded in reaching Djeddah on My 18th. Here the Turkish to the squadron. He was always cheery down and the independence of their commandant warned the party against and ready for anything, and we shall not country,

easily replace him." proceeding any further, but they set out, and, it is believed, were killed by Arabs shortly after leaving Djeddah,

own labour the restoration of their free-

་་་་

VILLAGE RAIDED.

A gang of fourteen Chinese robbers raided the village of Yung Sha Au, near the border, on Thursday night, and sub- sequently made good their escape. The men carried revolvers and knives and went through must of the inhabitants' dwellings, taking away money, jewellery and clothing, the value of which is at present not known.

HONGKONG POLICE RESERVE.

NO. 2 COMPANY:

The parade of No. 2 Company, fixed for Tuesday, September 5th, is postponed to Wednesday, September oth A1E ranks, excepting only medical exempts, will fall in under the O.C.- Company at Central Polla Station. at p.m. Uniform, caps with covers, and rides. Members of the Police Re- serve Band attached to Sections will parade with their Sections. The re mainder of the Band except drum- mers will parade without their in struments. The Drums will attend.

PROMENADE CONCERT. The following will meet at the Head-

quarters Club on Wednesday, Sep tember 6th, at 6.30 p.m. :-Inspector McEwer, Bandmuster, Orchestra Conductor, Crown-Sergeants Arculli and Ribeiro, and Trooper Belph, F., C.. JENKIN

D.B.P. (R),

PURCHASE OF HORSES IN THE U.S.A.

The Allies are still buying large num

Amongst the large number of honours just conferred the Military Cross is NO MORE AUSTRIANS AVAILABLE. The Dutch Colonial Department, it awarded to Captain Malcolm McBean should be added, has issued a few terree Bell-Irving, D.SO, R.F.C., Spec. Res. The Morning Post's Buda Past corre tions to the above story, as published in The record states it was for conspicuous spondent wites: "Nobody seems to know the Norddeutsche. Captain von Müller gallantry when on a photographic recon- was indeed, interned, but at Bandoeng naissance. When very severely wounded in

what Finder burg will be able to do. The bers of American horses. In two weeks in the interior of Java, not at Sourabaya, the head by fire from an anti-aircraft gun,

only prediction I have heard is that he contracts for 10,000 horses have been as state. He succeeded in escaping and and half blinded by blood, he steered for

will ruin his reputation. It is said he placed in t'e West. Omaha is the con- even the most diligent search failed to re- the ucarest aerodrome, and, feeling that Turkey shortly and another twenty, a

has ben promised ten divisicas from centration point for shipment, and £33 is the contract price per bead. The horses veal his whereabout. It is emphatically he could not last out, landed safely in a denied, however, that he had equipped a small field well within our lines. After There are no more Austro-Hungarian Dakota, as well as Nebraska. Bince the montly hence, from the western front. are drawn from Kansas, Iowa and South ship, though it is possible that in some giving orders for the safe delivery of his 168 way or other he got on board a native photos he collapsed. His pluck and skill troops. One-armed men are being train- beginning of the war, many thousands of

ed to operate machine guns.

horses have been drawn from these dis- coasting vessel.

sared his observer.

tricats for the war zone,