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ARE WOMEN IN BUSINESS WORTH £2 A WEEK? CANADIAN M.P. SAYS THEY ARE

· NOT.

According to the version published in

Mr. Boulay, who spoke in French, the Berliner Thychlett of the debate which took place in the Lower House vigorously assailed the idea of women in public life. Wonen, he declared, · from of the Austrian Reichsrath on May the standpoint of health and morality the chairman of the Czech Deputies, M. Stanek, made the following declaration in the music of the representatives of the Rohemian people--

Our

Civil Service. If they had to be alike, should not be permitted in the employed, they should never be paid more than £10 a year

It is useless to pay them more," he said, Iecause it would be wasted in the murchase of theatre tickets, toilet articles, dress, powder, and perfume

I wish particularly to emphasise the powder and the perfune

As a role wodnej pay go taxes, 'url

it is not their habit to save anything. have opportunity to learn housekeeping, Women employed in the service do rent and most of them have no desire to get married.

The young ladies are filled with envy and enmity toward une another over the cut of their clothes, trying to outshine one another in dress, o pajots and powders, and general make up.

These things and their figures are about all they think about. Since I was elected to Parliament I have found the Canadian capital to be suffering from two evils-theatres and women in Government nad Parliamentary offices.

H. Boulity, the Conservatives mon=" The above is the title of a lung com

The Germans in Austrin are protest her for Rimouski, caused a sensation in Considerably over 2,000,000 lbs. of tea munication contributed to the Finis ure being withheld from the British pub-imperiet and Foreign Trade Supplementing vehemently against the Czech demands the Canadian Parliament recently by a for Bulemian self-government. They despeech in support of his motion that," lo owing to the rigidity with which the by a Peking correspondent, who contrasts clare that these demands will encounter hereafter, men only should be employed the resolute resistance of all Germans by the Government in all branches of than prohibition of February 23rd has been the push and go of American fires in

Civil Bervice where the salary exceeds in Austria applied by the Government (says the curing business in China with the

£100 per annum London and China Express). The pro- efforts of British traders there in the hibition placed an embargo on all imports same direction, very much to the detri of foreign ten from that unes but made tent of the latter. In the course of his no provision for the case of tea bought, remarks the correspondent says with freight and exchange arranged for; The best known American house now ex- The result has panding existed before the war as a Danish one, but at no time in the past previous to that ane. been a condition of things which is caus

10 years did its operations compare in

The representatives of the. Bohemian ing great irritation among importers and

volume with either the great British or people ure strongly convinced that the buyers.

present dual system lins, to the obvious Gernuen houses. A correspondent in the tea trade writes organised, pat on a sound financial basis, disadvantage of collective interests, creat to the Morning Post:

and today it represents some forty ored dominating and subject peoples, and Attention is already been called to the fact that the Government, in prohibiting more American machinery and engineer that, for the purpose of removing every all imports of China tea as from February, ing firms of note, is the agent for a national privilege and ensuring the 23rd, had omitted to provide for the case steamship company, certain insurance. of Lon bought, with freight and exchange houses, and a very few British firms. Its mural development of each individual a whole, as well as that of the dynasty, arranged for, previous to the date of proactivities in conjunction with the Inter-people in the interest of the Frapire as hibition. The hardship inflictd in that

national Bank afford an excellent lessunare-shaping of the Austrian Hapsburg enso has now arisen. Several tea steamers to British houses of what modern method, fenarchy inte o Federal State of free which left Shanghai February 23rd have modern organisation, and modern idens national States with qual rights has now reached British ports. In at least handled by experts who have Chinese became a mintler of imperative necessity, three instances the cargoes are not allow knowledge will accomplish when handled We, at the head of our people, will ed to be sold. Licences have been refrised,

sed, in a cohensive way.

strive for the anion of all the branches and intimation has been made that this

of the Czecho-Stay peoples into a demo decision cannot be reconsidered. So the

This company has its agents as far cratic State in which that branch of the We are short of ten up as Urga, it has sold a motor-car even

Czecho Slavs which lives adjacent to the position is this:

to the living Buddha; it has its pony

frontiers of historic and yet ten already imported or shortly.

Bohemian to arrive may not be sold because the im-baying stables at Kalgan, from whence Fatherland (, the Slovaka) cannot be penetrable official mind will not under-

ponies are shipped overlooked." stand that a big trade cannot be stopped long strings of

the racing contres: it hay

A similar declaration was made by the

"I have no pbjection to widowy with dead at any moment, hut that arrange-

two carpet factories representative of the South Slav (Herr families to support having places in the ments for freight have in these days to established

Foreign managemenKorosec), who demanded on the grounds service, ut object to a system which, I be made far ahead by merchants. Actual Kalgan under

employing over Chinese, faith- of the principle of nationality and of maintain, creates improper social ambi- ly large consignarents of tea which may not be sold are now lying in bonded ware fully copying the old Mongolian and the constitutional rights of the Croats Lions, love of show and gaiety, and the union of all that part of the Monar destroys the young woman's love for home houses, incurring charges and involving Chinese rugs for the foreign markets. the payment on maturity of the drafts It has its woul buying and cleaning chy inhabited by Craats, Slovenes, and life! relating to them. The mandarins of establishment, its wood packing works; Serbs into an autonomous State free Peking are nothing to the mandarins of it has its direct agents throughout Mon- from every racially foreign domination golia; it has in Tientsiri secured the and fonded on the imais of the demo With reference to the above, we under

services of one of the best known hide eratie principle under the Hapsburg

Lorraine dynasty. stand that some 25,000 packages had been and pelt buyers, as it has gocured in bought and freight and exchange ar

Kalgan the services of a gentleman who ranged for prior to February Bird, the

was until lately the Chinese Government dates of shipments, owing to the scarcity Adviser on Mongolian affairs. It has in of tonnage, issing booked as far forward Peking men. of the very highest know

The East Indian and China. as May. Trade Section of the Liverpool Chamber edge in its financial and peltioni de of Commerce have protested in the patient, which works in conjunction with the International Bruk and the strongest possible terms against the re striction, and have urged that it no Bri-Lagation. It has, the bank hasand it is difficult for a layman to understand tish tonnage is available for the trans- port of China tea Japanese tonnage might where the firm ends and the bank begins, he utilised or the German ships in Chinese as is the case with a certain British ports. The China Association has also house-secured the service of perhaps telegraphed to the parent Association in the greatest sinologue in the East from London as follows: "Strongly. of a great Chinese Government service, it opinion that exeption to prohibition of has established itself in Shanghai on importation Chian teas should be allowed huge scale, with engineers in charge of in the ease of teas already contracted for half a dozen or more engineering depart-sidered, the men who produce, whose pri

Alternative is ments, with piere goods, sundriesim- prior to February 23rd. practical loss of teas contracted for. In port and export specialists culled from view of trifling amount tonnage involved practically every wat British, French, German Austrian, and American firm we consider it unnecessary hardship merchants concerned, many of whoni pil, in the East, it is interested in railrend bo seriously affected financially unless concessions, mines, many industrial and ception is made to prohibition in this other works; it has building at this tume greal spioning mill for Tientsin, to be entirely outfitted with American machi nery; it has es motor-car department; and no branch of industry seems too high

WHICH ARE SEPI ETE WITH ALL THE LATEST AND MOST UP-TO-DATE APPLIANCES FOB TEE PROMPT PRODUCTION OF

BIGB-CLASS WORK.

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or to low for it to enter.

The China Association in London hus also addressed to the Foreign Office are tist, in which they state:-

Prohibition was declared without any warning, and at the time several firms in

AMERICA'S CONSULAR SERVICK. China had consignments of tea in couras

The correspondent also alludes to of shipment which had been paid for in China, and for which exchange and ship-several other enterprising American firms that are opening up branches in the ping space had been settled." pliced to the Consul General at Shanghai principal trading centres in China, and For information as to how the prohibition goes on to speak of the United States would be applied in regard to such cases, Consular Servier, of which he says it but were informed that no instructions would be difficult to find a more efficient had be received. The firms thereupon or up-to-date service in Asia. This ser- raad affidavits that the tea had been paid vice being used, as it is, purely for com- for before the date of the prohibition, and mercinl ainus, does not have the money shipped it about the beginning of March. appropriations that certain atlas Potera The shipments in question have been in allow their Legation and Consular ser- pounded on arrival, and are hold in hond viens; but what it lacks in money it more apparently for an indefinite time.

than makes up far by the vin, hard work, commonsense, and good business

The now regulations of the Food Con- troller regulating the price of tea from ity displayed by its members. Rand June 11th provide that 90 per cent of

ability is rewarded in the American the supplies anctioned at Mincing La in future must be graded in thres grades, service, consense takes the place of and sold respectively at 2. 4d.. 25. 8d..precedent, and ordinary world know

ledge counts more than snobbishness. and 39. per lb. The remaining 10 tr cent. of super-fine tea can be sold at what it will fetch, The new regulations are designed to prevent profilerfing,

Messrs. Ewart Maccaughey & Co., in their weeldy review of the tea auctions, state:-

A

SATIONAL BELLING MOVEMENT WANTED,

The heads of great British houses in China frequently assert that they do not repire our trade services here to do as other legation and trade services do." Why not? It is not a question for trem. They do not defend the Empire. They do not work in the factories at home. What affair is it of theirs?. The workers, the men who are fighting in their milors, the men who left Tathe and mill and plane, are the mea to be consulted; these are the men te be con

Mr. Boulny, in closing his speech, con- fessed that it would not make hit popular with the ladies, but that he was adopting his attitude in the best interests of the country. He sat down amid a

rained silener,

The Hon. George P. Graham, Sira George Foster, and Mr. Ernest Lapointe spoke against Mr. Bonlay's resolution, and the member for Rimouski finally acquiesced in its withdrawal.

BUT

"NOT ANNEXATION. RESTITUTION.”

FRENCH PREMIER'S REPLY TO RUSSIA.

M. Kibot, the French Premier, at the age of 75, niade a great declaration in the Paris Chamber recently on the war im of France.

In the course of his speech M. Hilot read a telegram addressed to him by the Russian Foreign Minister, declaring that Russia would never forget France and that it was th splendid effort of the French people which had drawn the s of the enemy towards the west and hud thus rendered easier the reconstitution f the Russian forces.

I accept for my country," he said. these words of confidence and gratitud. We shall go hand in with Russin, who With her these has remained faithful. will never be a question of a separato

ductions make our exports, who pays or will help to pay our national debt- not the men who show so little patriotism that they are ready and eager for the sake of the miserable proût it bringe to do their utmost to substitute foreign goods for British goods on this and other markets at a time, when every British subject and every British firm should be bending every effort to obtain connections that will put British goodly and British work into the great upen markets,

We subscribe to relief funds, but does jany me abroad ever give a thought to the conditions which must exist at ths

As to such a pince, the Russian Miuis- of the war if our foreign markets have during the period of the war been taken to himself has treated as they deserved from us and our trade supremacy lost the German Sophistries regarding the for- We give sales of work to help the wound-mala, No annexations, no indeamities," ed, but no one here seems to look deeper while all the time Germany intends to and to realise that we could best show keep for herself the provinces which she (General and our patriotism and our zeal for the formerly tore from us. country and its defenders by creating a repeated cheers.) Giveranny wanted war- wally national and patriotic selling The guilt is not with us but there. movement to assure for all workers dur ing their lives work at decent wages.

perce."

We shall demand restitution which will not be annexation but restitution based on right and justice We shall leave to judgment the barbarism with which our invaded countries have been treated. Pence without indemnities. 1 is not Bussin who will say that, but there will be no garstion of a war in- demnity to be levied as a penalty. (Cheers on all sides, particularly on the Socialist benches.}

It will be reparn

vion and justice. The whole world will sit in judgment.

THE TASK AHEAD, What we have to do is to open and keep open for ourselves all the markets. that we possibly e, to arrange for direct sales by the organisation of selling combines that will sell British products only in the great world markets, to re- The American Commercial Attaché is organise our Consular service before the one of the best edented men in China- end of the war, to create a Ministry of that is, educated for bis job. He can Commerce and trade commissionerships,

M. Ribot declared that a Russian gen- tell the inquirer at his office at exactly and to put the whole organisation in

elowe touch with the Factories and actual eral was right in saying that it would be what factory he tau get a machine tool,

ease of tinned salmon, or a leather market conditions. We must educate ridiculous, while the Germans were occu- cun tell you exactly what our manufacturers to the fact that it ispying a part of France and Russia, Bel- The scheme which Lord Devonport has belt, he adopted and which he has forced upon the American factories can produce and what not their ideas that rule or obtain in trade has, of course, formed almost the they cannot, and he hunts high and low foreign markets, but the buyers' ideas, sole subject of conversation before and to find samples of foreign products his which are nine times out of ten made by our inore pushful competitors and all since the holidays, and even the most knowledge teaches him will be of use to hop ful seem to anticipate great dificul- his facturics. He is under no misappre-of this we should do now. ties in dealing with it. The rationing is hension as to what patriotism means; America iss Germany was fully to be sorted out into four classes, and, to him it means doing the utmost that convinced of the value of the East as looked at casually, the main feature lies in him to benefit American industry, an outlet for her machinery productions, would appear to be that the distributor to push forward the sale of productions and in order to avail herself of the is placed in the position of being able to of American factories, and to see that opportunity created she has done much annex anything from sd, per lb. upwards. at the expense of the consumer-low the all Americans are employed when the tea is to be sorted into the A, B, C, and end of the war causes a cessation of D classes is at present a sealed book, but wat orders and a slump in the world's

productions. one thing may be taken as certain, and that is, that judged by the standard of the control tes, the extra work and the delay will be enormous. This sorting out, too, especially at this period of the season, will lead to some curious decisions -how, for instance, will fine cup autumnals with no appearance be dealt with?

HONGKONG POLICE RESERVE. There will be a meeting of Unit Comman

ders at Headquarters Club on Mon- day, July 23rd., at 5.30 p.m. Exemption will be granted by the undersigned only. Uniform optional.

(Bdg.) J. W. FRANES,

Ag D.S.P. (R.) Hongkong, 18th July, 1917ko ekital

An English Bishop celebrated his golden wedding the other day A Bel gian guest same up to offer his congra ulations, but apologised for not quit grasping the meaning of the ceremony Oh, it is just this said the Bishop, laging his hand affectionately on his wife's arm, This dear lady has been living with me for 50 years The Bel- gian exclaimed, "I understand, and you HONGKONG,are going to be married now."

As if to help and aid the Americans to obtain foreign markets ur great houses seem bent on doing their utmost to in truques to Chinese buyers American goods, although all of them must be quite aware that in so doing they are running the risk of cutting off British manu factured goods and British products from this market, as the Chinese are conservative when a mark or chop is onc established,

The great houses out here do not, as a rule, contribute much to the unkeep of the State; they do not constitute any great factor of national safety they might once have done so when actual merchant trading existed, but those days are long paut. Whilst they are ready to take all the protection and help they can obtain from British Consular and Lega- tion services, they appear to be under no restriction to push the sale of other countries goods to the detriment of our factories, and they appear to have 30 little patriotism that they can calmly consider the result of this policy carried over a period of three or four years, which will unfailingly result in foreign goods being asked for in place of British and foreign marks and makes supersed ing British marks.

(Continued at foot of next enlume.›

gium, and Serbia, to entertain proposals for peace without conquest. Russian de mocracy was mistress of its destinies and had solemnly declared that it intended to prosecute the war with vigour. It was not guided by the spirit of conquest. The defence of the liberty of nations was con- corned. (Cheers,)..

TO GET BACK OUR OWN." "We shall continue the struggle," de-

to organise, although she is in much theclared M. Ribot, "not in the spirit of same position as we are, not through conquest and annexation, but in order to get back our own. I repeat that war orders absorbing her output so much

France does not wish to suppress any as by the difficulty in obtaining adequate nationality, nor even that of her enemies. freights. America has used the last two cause she recognises the liberty of all years to organise in the East. What have peoples, In the hour of victory she will be animated not by vengeance, but by we done?

We have at home made some steps to | justice. (Cheers, particularly on the to comething; but whatever we do. at Socialist benches.)

What is wanted is a lasting peace, home matters nothing it is what we do

We have still the same old The nightmare of war has lasted too long abroad. Consular muddle, still we have the some and we must therefore destroy military loftiness of men and disposition shown despotism. The day the German under in the Legation to trade and everything stands that the easier will peace be to connected therewith, nothing to aid our obtain. That is what the Russians are marketing ability has been done, no-repeating with us. There we have the thing to make our winning the military heart of our democracies. operations effective, nothing to prevent taken in hand by its chiefs, let it take Let the Russian Army be once again us from losing our foreign markets. We have not to day one organisation for the offensive on its side while the United selling worthy of us and of the patriotism States are getting ready to send us their first divisions, which will be but the fore our workers showed in fighting for us

of others, and our land, or

Let Russia but do her duty and we shall have no more fear. Our enemics will have to admit the annihilation of their hopes, and they will perhaps come to us and ask for peace, not hypocritic- ally, as they do to-day by equivocal and roundabout ways, but openly under con ditions worthy of France. And if they do not ask for ponce we shall be in a position to impose it."

Already the Americans have through their cohesive organisation and pushfal- ness, coupled with their admirable Con- sular and Legation services, obtained the greatest organisation in steel products, sewing machines, paraffin oil, and other products, and to-day it looks as if they are going to take the machinery and engineering products from all comers. even as the Japanese are taking the small sundries and wire, chemical, and certain other trades and what are we going to lo. outside of talk about it t

runners

M. Ribot's vigorous words produced the greatest impression on all parts of the House and were received with frantic ap plause, in which the Socialiste joined,