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CANTON NOTES.

(FROM DUM OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

CANTON, March 5th.

On the evening of the 20th ultimo, several robbers rushed into the native bank, Tak Chan, at Sap Sam Hong, and

NATIVE, BAKE BØDBED,

MARCH 7TH, 1917.

ARMY OF INDUSTRY

MR. CHAMBERLAIN ON HIS TASK.

LABOUR MINISTER'S PLANSE

Mr. Neville Chamberlain received

RECENT SEISMIC DISTURB FAR EASTERN MEN AND

ANGES AT HAKONE.

THE WAR.

Bet away with about five hundred dollars Service. He announced that very shortlying to the pre-arranged order, a mani. Please, worry about sonding me any ad-

In his report on the recent Hakone A Parsed resident of Canton has re- yama Sedamic Disturbance, Dr. F.

ceived the following. Omori, of Tokio University, says the great ovation at Birmingham, on Jan. spontaneous, being the effect induced by ing in Mesopotamia for the past twenty

shocks were by no meany sudden and 14th, 1917, from his o

who has been fight 26th, on his first appearance at a public the recent extraordinary activity along months: Dear. Father, I am doing meeting, as Director-General of Nationaltic whole Fuji volcanic chut The well and am quite comfortable. Don't, Hakone yana made, so to speak, accord in Hongkong notes and a quantity of he would issue an appeal to the people festation of activity in the form, of ditional underwear, etc., for I have moro subsidiary silver coins. One of the robo join a new Industrial Army would numerous smal earthquakes and earth part of the world are doing splendidly than I am allowed to carry. We in this entall some sacrifice, but this would be sounds ( maido). As the mountain 1s and our men are very anxious to come to bers threw a bomb and several of the slight compared with the sacrifice of these dead volcano there is no fear of angrips with our enemy; we are not al bank staff and occupants of the neigh

the trenches. As the raising of this actual outburst, while the volcanio-earth all fed up. Our new provinces ara bouring shops were seriously wounded.

Industrial Army was necessary to the successful prosecution of the war, com quakes, though sometimes quite nume THE SALE OF ARMS

pulsion would be applied in the event of rous, never attain the magnitude and in showing signs of reviving trade, here, so

much for British occupation.. the failure of voluntary effort.tensity of a great destructive shock, The object of the meeting; whil was capable of destroying ordinary Japanese

Mr. S H Hollamby, formerly of the held in the Central Hall, was to put dwelling house Tientsin Pukow Railway, has left Shang National Alliance of Employers and are in reality small local earthquakes before the country the proposals of the The meido or earth-sounds, which hai to offer his services to the Government, Employed for the handling of the problem after the War Mi. Neville Climber of unemployment. labour dislocation lain, who presided, was recompanied by Mr. Hodge, Minister of Labour, and on Capital and Labour. the platform were mea representative of The proposals of the National Union

The local government has noticed recent ly that people are selling arms privately to robbers in this city, Fatshan, Kong moon, Chun Chune and other porta. The local authorities have therefore sent out over ten detectives to the above-mentioned places in order to check the practice. REWARD OFFERED FOR THE ALREST OF NGA

BALON

Nga Ke Hona subordinate of General Lug Chat Kwong, who is alleged to have murdered the reformers at the meeting held at Hoi Chu during last year, is now reported to have been plotting against the local government, The Military Governor, Lak Wing Ting, has therefore notified the Police and Magistrates throughout the Province

that a reward of $10,000 is offered for the man's arrest.

GENERAL LUNG AND KING CHOW REVENUE.

General Lung Chai Kwong is reported to have collected taxes at Kingchow aggregating more than ten thousand dollars without remitting any of the money to the local government.

ITALY'S CLAIMS.

are as follows #

That powers should

should be obtained from

HONGKONG POLICE RESERVE.

and seem to have taken place occasionally It will no doubt be of interest to his past, became sensible on the 7th of Jan Temp Lieut. Col M. H. Logan, R.E, in the Hakone district for several years friends in the Far East to hear that uary, 1917, greatly increasing in force of the firm of Messrs. Palmer & Turner, after 8pm on the 30th of that month, of Shanghai and Hongkong, has been The maximam frequency was reached awarded the Military Cross for good work between 8 pm on the same day and 2 done under heavy fire on many occasions "o'clock on the next morning, the total during the "pash on the Somme. Ha number of these disturbances recorded was employed first of all on preparations by Mr. Nishimra, of Ubago, amounting for the advance, and then on forward Parliament to set up without delay to over 242 in the course of the 12 hours work, nearly always ahead of the guns Central and supervise

Statutory Board to regulate ending with 6m on the 31st. Since during the whole of the operations.

Board on the frequency, subject to occasional (a) The reinstatement in civil employ fluctuations, Has gradually decreased. (6) The settlement in normal employ meat of the present forces

ment of civilian workers now in Govern. meat or controlled establishments:

(c) · Any- general redistribution of labour arising out of the warn

Appropriate transfers of existing powers and duties will have to be made by the various Goverument Departments to the Central Statutory Board, so that complete authority

shall be vested in the new Board

diy Mr. Neville now in the third winter of the war, and Chamberlam said we were upon what we did in the course of the text few weeks might depend the answer to the question whether we should win the victory next spring or have to endure a fourth winter of hostilitice The enemy was like a great beaider on the side of

EXAMINATION OF RIFLES. All Martinig and Winchesters are to ba returned to the Armoury, Central Station, between the hours of 8.15 and 6.p.m., follows: Wednesday March 7th-All Martinis. Tuesday, March 13th.--All Winchesters, Musketry Sergeant Fisher will supervice.

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Members may attend in mufti. Medical exempts must return their. Fifies with the others, luspectors and Sorgeants will attend in uniform se Police School for Oral: Chief Inspector Kerr at 5.20 p.m. as Examination in Police Duties by follows:

INSPECTORS AND BERGEANTS:

Moto Hakone towards the N.W.N.. at The seismic sounds were heard as

Ashinoyu towards the N. W., at Yunoka- nazawa toward the slightly S., an Ubago towards the S slightly E, etc From these results, coupled with the fact that the earthquakes were much more numerous and intense as the above-men- tioned places than at Miyanoshita or Yumoto, it can be concluded that the origins of the disturbances were situated diameter, including the Komaga take and within a sircular area about 2 miles in Kami-yama poaks and the region to the NE of Lake Ashi. The area, thus deter- mined occupies nearly the centre of the o'd crater ring, having no relation with the old fumaroles and solfataras at O-jigoku Grent Hell)", which wem the Sonday, March 12th-All Crown Ser a hill. We had undermined it and we had seen it totter but we had not yet site of the latest but prehistoric explo-geants and Sergeants of Nos. I nod 7 dislodged it from its bac. If we could son of the Hakone volcano. The entire Совараліся only apply to it one

It rolling down the shock at 0.10 a.m., on the January 31st, hill But if we failed to put into the must be attributed to the comparatively push the last ounce of our strength, the great depth of the seismic focus. Had boulder would only settle more securely the origin of the recent disturbances into its place, and we should find our task been quite superficial and very near to indefinitely

the U-jigoku, then the case would have prolonged,

been one of the surface display of the volcanic activity which might have led The to some sort of outburst. On the con- trary, however, the source of disturbances

beneath the centre of the mountain; the

POLITICAL ASPECT OF THE ROME effort we could send eat and sustained absence of damage attending the strong Wednesday, March 14th.-All Chief In-

CONFERENCE.

BY FRANCIS GRLIDELE.]

Rumour has naturally been busy with what we want the proceeded) is the objects of Mr. Lloyd George's journey sufficient reserves of trained men to enable 10 Rome, and we may safely follow the and jerry the struggle most strength the struggle to a successful Corriere d'Italia in attributing pulitical conclusion. as well as military signideance to the gives us the greater part of the men of volcanic energy, no longer able to make The Military Service Acts have already to have been located at a depth ccatorenco in which he took party Italy military age and fitness who a are not claims and the attitude, actual or pre protected by Government exemption of explosions, haring so far reccded down sumed, of certain ofher Powers towards drafts we require to shall have to k

one kind or

In order to get the wards.

• other those claims, have been discussed with

teruate vivacity and auxiety the tom munition works the mines, tho

work,

of

spectors, Staff Inspectors Arculli and Potter, All Inspectors, and Staff Ser geants Fisher and Balean, DA Friday, March 16th.-All Crown Ser geants of No 3 and 4 Companies, Blounted Police, Maxim Gunners, and Ambulance Platoon POLICE SCHOOL.

Class

following Classes are to be warned

for attendave

Class IX-Twelve Constables to be wara- ed respectively by the Commanders of Nos. 1 and 2 Sections and 8 Con- stables by the O. C. Maxim Gunners,

X-Thirty-two Constables to be warned by the O C. No. 2 Company. Class XI-hirty-two Constables a

bo by the O. C. No. 9 Company, The above Classes will attend School in uniform at Headquartors Club at 5.30 p.m. during the week commencing Moudry March 19th. Dates for. attendance will appear in Orders. Members will provide their own materia! for making notes.

The MAKE DEFAULTERS, The attention of all Inspectors and Ber- geants is drawn to Standing Order 79. They will fail in their duty if they merely forward any excuse made by an alleged defaulter without check ing and expressing an opinion on the value of such extuse.

All

documents requiring to be attached to a Report Sheet are to be fastened on the back and nut on the front of the Sheet.com

MUSKETRY COURGE, PART 1.

intian Press; and a bid finifustries, that are conuccted with wer a HODGE AND LABOUR EXCHANGE review of the questions Involved seems a adjustments of their man-power. At the unionist, he did not understand why it

and agriculture, to make fresh

Mr. Hodge said that, as a trade ingat natural sequel of redent changes in same time we have got to tind substitutes was that trade unionists were so much tas political direction of the various from other trade and the places the workmen engaged in the iron and ofafraid of arbitration. He mentioned that countries concerned in the forthcoming those who join the Forces. re-settlement of Europe.

That is my task. I have to act as steel industries were the best paid in What Italy wants may be summed up, dentist to the nation (Laughter.) There the United Kingdom. The society with in rough outline, under theads: are a certain number of teeth to which he was concerned-the

The Trentino, Istria, and Daliuatis, extracted, and I have got to take them Smelters' Union had rot had a strike Steel pushed forward to such strategic fron-out with as little inconvenience to the with an associated employer since 1888. tiero as will secure the future defence victim as I possibly can. (Laughter.) 1 Dealing with the problem of demobilisa- of these possessions, and including the have got to inflict the least possible pain tion, he said :-Not a day passes that ports of Trieste, Pola, Flume, and and hardship on the individual and do I have not a consultation with my chief Cattaro.

the least possible injury to industry. At officials as to the best method of tackling Vallons, and such concessions in

the same time I am asked provide a the

subject of the best machinery for Southern Albania and Northern Epirus the mouth, and if not quite as good as Exchanges.

new set of artificial teeth which shall fit Carrying out. There are the Labour as will make Italy the undisputed mis-the old ones, will, at any rate, enable that the whole of the staff were very may tell you confidentially tress of the Adriatic, relieved from all the patient to bite his food. (Laughter angry about the things I said of the danger of Greek rivalry. T

3. A Mediterranean zone, not af pie

Labour Exchanges. (Laughter.) But a Continuing, Mr. Chamberlan said sent exactly defined, but in propor nation organized for war had to provide who has even had a talk with the beads wonder at it! I am the only chief tion, to quote an Italian writer, to three essentials men for the Army, of the departments of the Labour our needs and rights and in sordance munitions, and money. It was a colossal Exchanges. One of the first things did with the desired equilibrium in this task to organize the whole nation so was to have all the permanent officials

that these three essentials might be pro- meet me, so that I might have a heart Members of the General Committes and duced to the fullest possible extent, but to heart talk with them. (Laughter.) I

all Sub-Committees are requested to if it was faced with courage and told them what I had said publicly

attend at the Club on Friday, March enthusiasm it could be successfully

The

employers don't love you;

at 6.30 p.m. the Oth cried out The Prime Minister has workmen don't love you. What is the The Co POLIS RESERVE GAZETTE. said it shall be done, if possible, by cause (Laughter.) It is not to be The Committee will meet as the D.S.P. wheying that it is going to be a failure instances, became lethargic for neither voluntary effort. The Germans

wondered at

office on Friday, March 9th,, at 6 p.m. that the officials, in many and that gives me encouragement, because Secretary ever came near them either th

(gd) F C JENKIN, the Minister nor his Parliamentary

D.S.P. (R.). very single prophesy they have made a fault with them or to give them his

Hongkong, March 6th, 1017. about the war has turned out to be wrong. (Cheers) want the nation to under blessing. I have had all the subordinato stand that the Government are very much officials up from the country, and had a few months ago, at earthest about this matter, and just another heart-to-hears talk with them,

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A SIMPLIFIED SITUATION Doubt as to the view which the rest of the Allies took of these requirements has unquestionably not been without its effect. Newspaper poemics on some of the points have sometimes reached a pitch of extreme violence; but a good deal has happened since the controversy was no its acutest and the regulation of the matter will probably be found to be good deal easier now than it was even The attitude of Russia, which called forth heated protest from Italy in the early part of 1915, may be expected to be modified by the advantages now guaran- teed to Russia on the Bosphorus and in the that may be necessary to bring the war We want live men, men of sympathy Dardanelles, while the failure of Greece -of-official Greece, at all events to follow M. Venizelos in responding to

while they desire to give the nation every possible opportunity of their own volition to come forward in their country's need they will not hesitate to take any steps

and they all went away feeling nearly in taller, because they realized that foere was one who took an interest in their work. (Cheers.)

Constantine threatens to attack in the who seem to think that my task is totted with B job. (Cheers.) S

The following will attend for Range Duties on Sunday next, March 11th: Staff Inspectors McEwen, Mackenzie and Areali, Crown Sorgeants Wilka and Ford, and Sergeant Goodwin, HEADQUARTERS CLUB

ST JOHN AMBULANCE BRIGADE.

HONGKONG AND CHINA DISTRICT

BAIVINGPUN DIVISION

Fall in with the Hongkong Volunteer Reserves on the Cricket Ground on Saturday, the 10th iest, at 1.45 pm. Dress. Shorte, puttees, helmets haversacks (fitted), water battles (filled), great-coats (rolled). Stret chers will be required.

(gd.) E. RALPHS (Officer if charge of District). Hongkong, March 6th, 1917.

THE KAISER AND CHEAP TRANSPORT.

Mr. AW Gattic, in an address do

to a successful conclusion, including com pubory national service if voluntary grace if when our lady come back a and understanding, 22 the Labour Exchanges. --It would be a lasting die- is not found sufficient, Lord Grey's overtures obviously simplis PetA GREAT APPEAL counters to receive them.

(Cheers.) gure of wooden image were behind the bcs cortain other aspects of the problem.

* will b

my duty very shortly to issue

(Cheers.) We If Greece and Italy had both been our great appeal to the countryan appeal are going to have 600 or 700 hew friends, British sentimente might have to our people to join a new industrial Exchanges will be distributed that

The Exchanges

and been torn and divided, and the solution army. In doing so, I do not wish too of our returned boys will have to of several thorny questions might have volunteer in this army he is going to go farther than five miles, and when he suggest to any man that by becoming a taxed the ingenuity of diplomats better his

positione Mattera are very different now that King number of people who write to me, and munication all round,

There are a certain gets there he will and telephonic com

und, so that nothing rear the armies which M. Venizelos 19- find a

be left undone to get. him job for every man vited to Salonika. Phil Hellenism eu trifling mistake. The real fact is that Dealing with international trade rela-livered at a meeting of the Royal In

It is a mistake; out of court, and regard for Greck aspi- my task is to find a man for every job. tions after the war, Mr. Hodge, got the stituto recently on Goods Transport rations can no longer operate as a bar My volunteers will not better their loudest and most prolonged cheer of the Reform at Home and Overseas," said rier to Italian ambitions in this quarter. position. On the contrary, I am going to evening by saying "So far as Germany railway managers and Board of Treats In the North Adriatic, on the other ask them to put up with hardship and in concerned, rothing from that country officials were opposed to cheap transport hand, the conflict between Italian and sacrifice. Who is there who thinks of the shall come into this if I can prevent it. in Great Britain. Notwithstanding his Jugo-Slay, or Sorbian, claing cannot be hardships, and sacrifices that are being Do you think," he added, would buy proposals for the introducing of machi similarly eliminated. Some of the ter-endured by our brave comrades in the

baker Rexto

if he nery terminals goods had ritories there demanded by Italy on both trenches who will not be anxious to make kicked my dogf Heaides, we must have been before the Board of Trade for over historic and abrategic grounds do n the

very much smaller sacrifice which I

1 an open door for our open door."'****

eight years, yet the officials had done no questionably contain a majority of Blay am going to ask for! (Cheers) newed cheers.) inhabitante, and their attribution to On the motion of Mr. T.

Harris Spesoor

Mr. Huth Jackson said the promoters thing but weite unconvincing letters, Italy to create a of

By way of contrast, he told how the (president of the Midland Irredentisme tot ew problems Federation), seconded and Employers of the National Alliances had two thai Kaiser, reading in a London paper an for us, as the Allies of both claimants, resolution was carried declaring that the being unprepared for war we must ad London, who sent a report to Berlin. Davis (Brass Workers Association), a excuses this country might have had for account of his proposals, communicateł with the German Consul General in to side emphatically with ither of them co-operation of employers and employed it quite certain that we were prepared Then Herr von Schawen, of the German against the other. What we have to whale was essential to the success of any scheme conferences between employers and work Ministry of Transport came over from for is an understanding satisfactory to for replacing in civilian life mes now incom

for peace. The next was to provide for both of them, and, in the atmosphero of the forces or dealing with similar prob men in cases of dispute before extreme Berlin in June, 1014, and made a mutual good will which victory engend-lems affer the war, and urging the measures were taken, thorough examination of the machinery era, that result ought not to be unat Coversment to give a trial to the pro- A provision Consultative committo at Battersea and took coping notes. As tainable Probably it has already been posals of the National Alliance.

for the Birmingham and Midland district, he left Mr. Gattie's works he said. achieved in principle, and now only

needs to be worked out in detail (Continued at foot of next colums ) Evening Standard

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mobilization.