1.
CABLES.
LATEST CABLES, (THROUGH RENTED'S AGENCY.]
CABLE
DELAYS.
ADDITIONAL CABLES TO BE PROVIDED.
LONDON, March 31st.
In the House of Commons, in reply to Mr, Sugden, who asked what steps were being taken to lessen the delaya in cable traffic between China, Japan and the United Kingdom, Mr. Pike Tense stated that certain important cables had been repaired during the last few days
The able-ships were now working on other interrupted cables, but bad weather was hindering the work.
Bieps were being taken to provide addi tional cables as quickly as possibile
FIGHTING
BOLSBEVISM.
ORGANISATION TO INTRODUCE BOLSHEVI83) INTO ASIA.
states
that
LONDON, March ist.
The correspondent at Helsingfors organisation for pro pagande in ludia, Porta, China, Japan, and other eastern Countries has been formed in Moscow. The organisers in clude S. D. Mistislanzky (Indies). 1. § Saving (Persin); Jussupoff (Islamisin): Subcha Bey (Turkey). Besides the arranges is intended to inent of conferences, 11
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS,
THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS. NEW DRAFT COVENANT ALMORT COMPLETED.
Pants, April 3rd. The drafting Committee of the League of Nations have completed the draft of the new text of the Covennat. The Com. mittee have reserved the French amend ments to Articles & and 9), suggesting an organisation for the control of armaments and the creation of an internationa!
HONGKONG'S MANY NEEDS.
INTERESTING LECTURE BY HON. MR. H. E. POLLOCK, K.C.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9TH, 1919.
PAYING FOR THE WAR.
THE BILL FOR GERMANY.
HOW THE MONEY CAN BE RAISED,
CHINA AND THE WEST,
GERMAN, ENGLISH BANKS. FOREIGN CAPITAL NEEDED.
Speaking at the annual general meet
of the National Provincial and 31. Liang Chi-Chao, who has been
Ing Union Bank of England, Ltd., recently Work which requires to be done "instructed by the Chinese flovernment to
Lord Lochcape, the Chairman", said:---A Starting with the assumption tint there was the title of a very interesting lecture atiend the Peace Conference in an
inly one act of people whose business or two go it is fashionable to shower praises upon the German banke. delivered, last night, under the auspices official but obviously privileged capacity.it is to pay for the war and those the We were all called upon to stand and
people who made it-the Federation of admire their size and driving power, of the C.E.M.S., by the Bon, Mr. H. E.
British Industries has compiled very their air of massive efficienc the Pollock, K.C., at St. Paul's College.
close- complete and interesting set of figures,
of their alliance with industry, their Professor Earle occupied the chair,
hased upon the Tierman trade return. showing how the money can be raised
successes in pushing German trade The lecturer dealt with the housing
abroad. And we were all made familiar The federation does not claim to have
with the arile counterpart picture of question, buking asmerous suggestion
budgeted finally for the enemy countries. British banks as aloof and lumbering" for opening up entirely new districts in
cation of their retente-production capa- but offers its memorandum as an sadi.
institutions by comparison with their the Colony. He suggested that either the
Asrity
burst lang rivals of Berlin. There are just 150 comments I should like to, inake on Government should build the houses and The Committee have also reserved the let them, as it did to public servants, ur American amendments relating to the¦ that the Government should render finan Monroe doctrine and the Japanese amend. cial assistance to people to build.
claiming
Ioralse advocated an rasy purchase system. rights equal the Japanese with the subjects of other Another point dealt with was the intro. duction of legislation on sirailar lines to the Building Societies Act of Grentin Britain, and that followed by the Straits Settlements. whereby a certain mandard
miditary force to enforce the decisions of
tite League.
new
nations.
IN
STRENGTH OF ARMIES
EUROPE. ONLY 26 PER CENT OF ALLIET ARMIES DEMORILISED.
WASHINGTON, April 7th General March, Chief of Staff, has an Donuced figures relating to the statistics of the military forces in Europe, which
show that the armies of the Central Pow
ers at present organized constitute about 16 per cent of their strength when the Armistice was signed, while the Allied forces still organised comprise 75 per cent of their total strength on Novem. ber 17th, 1018.
The Allied Armies' strength on Novem
of
This is the conclusion it reaches 164 fo the runs which could be exacted from them anually without crippling them beyond the user to provide the money
averssary for their own neerla :-
Germany Austria and Hungary ... Bulgaria
Turkey
£600,000.000 18N,000, ADV 31,000,000 21.000.000
bat. Ju first. place the German bank on issuing house, a discount coupaby, was a clearing bank, an accepting house, and a promoting syndicate rolled into
|0007,
But all these functions are per- and in London by separate concerns and institutions, ench specialising in its www peculiar sphere. To compare the Cornian banks with the British ieint stuck banks is, therefore. LO
whole of wings system wystem
put of our 1's.
Not
has been interviewed in London by n representative of The Daily Telegraph Few men have crowfied more into a fe His Excelloney is as relatively short. only 48, but as long ago as 1894, when he was only 20, he took part in the abortive rising of Kang Ya Wei against the regrate of the then Downger Empress. a result, he fled to Japan, and was exited from his own country for about fourteen years, This period he spent party in travelling in America and Australasia, including any Pacific islands, while for the greater part of the time he edited a Peking paper, to which lie used to for ward his contributions from Japan. After the successful revolution he retaien- ed to Peking, and took a prominent part in politics. He became Minister of Jun tice, and Inst year Minister of Finanec,
Total annually.. „Á×10,000,000 as well as leader of the Progressive party.
only in dur He was always very strongly pro Large as this sums it need hardly be better, adapted to our more. varied Enfente
Ht cent should be fixed, the landlords bring | war aligned the declaration said that it will not meet the Allies' debt, nevde and war world-wide
and for spread Germany and resigned his
Ti is calculated that probably three times responsibilities and interesta, but it post beenuse he
not induce accept-
as much would be required annually to more scientific and more highly-developed ance of his proposal to send Chinese
the recond troops to the Western Front, though the
pay off the whole Allied delt and interest system than the German. In as well within about forty years. Government of the day was willing to
The place the German basker was almost se that much a trader as he was a Lanker. He regard against the South, a policy with which the total cost of the war should be
snécess he entirely disagreed. He retains how.
liability of the enemy countries, or failure of the particular concerns that ever, the confidence of the President, and irrespective of any investigation or he undertook to fuance. He came a his financial standing is shown by the opinions to their capacity to pay the full partner in the business; he was represent. fact that he was president of the Board amount, and that the full sum should be on the board, he controlled, and often appointed to consider the reform of the entered in the Treaty of Peace; but as a directed its management. A year or two Chinese currency, whose report is to be result of it, very careful financial naalysis before the war the three lending banking carried out on the conclusion of peace it concludes that the most satisfactory groups in Germany had their representa He is a voluminous writer on fiance, procedure is, perhaps to make Germany tives on nearly 400 trading company economics, politica, and literature, and has off the capital of our debt with her directorate. But this way of has more books to his credit than any
£600,000,000 a year, while we bear the engs entailed enormous riskeng and interest and recover as much of it as pos diabilities; it led to the erection of a huga living Chinese writer.
sible from her accomplices, whe would superstructure on a very shaky founda pay a yearly sum of £240,000,000 towards sin; it meant trading on the narrowest this object
of narrow margins; and it implicated industry and finance in, national and How it is suggested that the money re international politics to auch an extent quired from Germany could be raised in that those may not be far wrong who that country is shown in the following believe that the war was partly determin- table, and it is claimed that the extra od upon to save a top-heavy edifice from charge, her outlined would nut impinge orashing to the ground.
Mr. Pollock also ad employ them in the interests of the North federation holds must emphatically involved himself directly in th
liable to a fine for contravention of the (Ordinance. A necessary adjunct to the opening up of new districts was means of transportation voeated European roservations.
Referring to the question of Hospital accommodation, the lecturey said that although the Government Civil Hospital was conveniently situated for Chinese and other Asiatic residents of the Colony, i was not a favorable location fur Europeans. He suggested that a hospital should be built in flungkong in a better and less crowded district. Another re quirement was hospital accuminodation in
publish periodicals and prepare agitators ber 11th totalled 13,633,000, and on March the Kowloon peninsula for other than
to work among the people. Many meet-
31st only 25 per cent. had been demo
ing will be held and proclamat008 | bilised.-- Amtercons Wireless, iskud in the languages of the countries
to be exploited
Brunch offices will be
One has already
oprued in several towns. been opened at Orenburg.
THE SILVER MARKET.
SINGAPORE, April 5th.
The silver market is steady.
of FAR EASTERN CABLE
NEWS.
It is said that agitators will be sent ontra Tashkent. The great work organisation in declared to be the Indians and the Persimais,
Aiton
EARIJER CABLES
AN AMERICAN VIEW.
WASHINGTON, April 7th. Cineral March said that the Archangel situation, from a military point of view, was well in hand, and it was incredible that the Allied forces could be driven into the sea by naybody.
It is avunced that the War Depart ment plans to have the American force out of that portion of Russia by the end of (-)--American Wireless.
THE PEACE CONFERENCE.
FRANCE TO EXPLOIT SAAR COALFIELD.
PARIS, April 3rd. The Council of Four appear to have agreed on the necessity of conceding to
Frafice the exploitation of the Baar coal- fell, as compensation for damage Bus tained,
GERMANY TO REPAIR DAMAGE CAUSED.
As regards reparation the Council have not yet fixed any figure. They are de- voting theraselves at present to determin- ing the nature of the damage which Ger any must repair, rather than the total indemnities sho ought to pay.
ALLIED RIGHT TO DANZIG
UPHELD.
L
PARIS, April 7th. Marshal Foch has telegraphed to the Allied Governments that the right of the Allies to use Danzig for the landing of Polish troops has been formally upheid in the conference with the German re- presentatives.-American Wireless.
PRESIDENT WILSON ILL.
PARIS, April 7th. President Wilson passed a satisfactory night, and was able to sit up during the day. With the rest obtained on Sunday, President Wilson will be able to attend
AMERICAN WIRELESS.1
JAPAN AND THE PHILIPPINES.
Chinese, for who provision already existed. A new Lunatic Asylum, also, should be built. as the present one was not suitable.
Discussing Chinese economic problema. Mr. Liang Chi Chao said that on his re Lurn to London from Paris he hoped to see many public men and deal freely with the potentialities of China. China needed capital for development, in order to work for the use of the world some portion of her great untouched reserves, including iron, coal, and oil, the last named of which was being obtained with district, though on & relatively small
erl
SOURCES
NAVENCE
very satisfactory results in the Shansi seriously on the revenues required for not see the least reason wh stilibly.
An neroplane service should be estab-scale lished in Hongkong, the aerodrome being situated 11 Sham Bui. Mr. Pollock added that he hoped in a decade or Bo to be able to go Home and back in an neroplane.
There was also need for linking up the Colony with the Imperial Wireless Tele- graph Service. The present wireless ser vice at D'Aguilar was too low-powered for commercial purposes,
WASHINGTON, April 7th. Recent reports of Japanese emigration
An industrial settlement and a farm to the Philippine Islands having increns- ed to large numbers are denied by Mr.
for women were badly needed, and could Emanuel Quezon. President of the Philip-be located somewhere in the neighbour- pines Senate and Chairman of the Indehood of Kowloon. In years to come the
settlement would be self-supporting. pendence of the Philippines Commission.
President Quezon said that there always was a movement of Japanese to and from the Philippines, but there had been no
notable increase of late.
President Quezon also asserted that he did not believe the statement that the Japanew had any designs upon the Philippine Islands, except for the admis sion of their commerce.
The lecturer then dealt with the ques
Wfé
internal administration : Saved
and
from military Asked whether Japan had not secured preferential rights in regard to iron sup
naval expenditure plies, M. Liang Chi-Chay observed: By railway, post, and tete.
graph taxes, ete. fancy there is a tendency to exaggerate Japan's holding in this, as also in other Canals and river transport
Electric power LAK directions. Her interests in the iron industry are but small as compared with German shipping tax
products those existing in China, We, therefore, Purest want much foreign capital, and, frankly, Fisheries the system we prefer is the one which has Agricultural importa, etc., already proved very successful, namely, duty joint co-operation between the Chinese Crops and the foreign investor. As to the method of investment, I suggest private privats adspices to the Chinese Govern- enterprise, and a direct approach under ment
And will the Chinese Government guarantee security for this commercin) exploitation
Mr. Liang Chi-Chao smiled. "China is so vast that most people seem to forget that even in the internal troubles we have
Animals kept Tax on arable land Mineral raw products royalty Tax on grass land
Faundry producte Taxca on certain raw products
issed Flax
Hemp Jute Silk
Mineral oils
Rubber (1912 figures) Leather
Taxes on goods produced: Tanning material
Cement
Elcatrion! exports Motorcars, parts, etc. Petrol, machine oils, etc.... Sugar ..
tion of children, cinene, and public been experiencing only a relatively small
portion of the country is netively involv olocka. He said that some provisioned. Even this is regrettable, but I think should be made for children's rooms in I may say that there is every hope of an the neighbourhood of factories where quility. At the same time, it should not early re-establishment of complete tran- parents were employed, that the children be forgotten that in most parts of China could be taught something useful. The commercial exploitation, oven at the pre-
of
cinemato censoring
ecat day, is safe and profitable In addi question
tion to our need for capital in the direc filme
under considera- graph
tions mentioned, we also welcome money tion, and would YOFY shortly for railway expansion and extension, come up for legislation. There ought to again on the lines of joint-co-operation. be a large clock on the Kowloon Railway engineers and the greater part of the The foreign investors would supply the station or in the neighbourhood of the capital: China would supply the balance Tax on labour employed in
of the capital and the labour, while the direction would be settled according to the respective financial holdings.
In other words, we prefer what are known as the Tientsin Pukow of Shanghai-Nan
Then we want money for waterway development, for deepening and broadening the canals, and improv.
MODERN DECALOGUE!
CLERGYMAN SUGGESTS TEN NEW General Post Office.
COMMANDMENTS,
The Rev. C Ashton Oldham, rector of St. Ann's Protestant Episcopal Church. Brooklyn, he startled New York by de claring thatthe ten commandments are out of date, and have been out-grown by civilization. He does not advocate their rewriting, but says:-"We should put them away with Jonah and Noah's Ark and other relics of antiquity in which nobody really believes."
ATHANGE IDEAS.
Beer (at I mark per gallon)
Alcohol fat marks per
galloni
industry, etc. Zuromt-tas
Total
uld be tempted by Germany b
or by her present
tate
to abandon their £100,000,000
sounder, more pradent, and in the long run far more effective, policy, Facthods, ns. Some people utay still 143,334, 150 and conceptions.
think the German banking 19,678,300
do not ap 14,748,000 better than ours. }
All the banks in this company 10,530,000 then.
3,202,067 have come through the ordeal of the as 4.150,000 four and a half years unscathed, their.
credit undiminished, their ametę liquid, their 35,189,090 and the public confidence in 44.309,362 management unimpaired: (Cheere.) 33,060,650 6.519.969 1,019,865
1. Placing the Allies in charge of the 7,000,000
revenues of these two Staten in the posi 5.895,805 tion of the administrator of a bankrupt
firm.
242,600
a. Tuke over all loans, treasury bills, rtc., due to Germany as part of Ger 128.000 many's investments abroad, the total to 330,800 be deducted from the amount of indem- 997.500 nity Germany has to pay to the Allies. 527,608 This step is essential if we are to rescue. 585,200 Pulgaria and Turkey from the grip of 2,222,378 (iermany.
319,323
a. Deal with the inflation of the currency in Turkey, and, if necessary, in 1,900,000 Bulgaria. 1,100.000
4. Claim that all present railways 615,000
and all future concessions for methods of. 228,650
penetration with Turkey or Bulgaria 3,000,000
should be reserved for the Allies, and 76,120.026milarly all mineral or land concessions
91,143,870
The gact must be aphasised that in Bulgaria, and even moze in Asia Minor, 14,353,000 there are numerous natural resources 200,000,000
only awaiting development, the output from which, besides raising a revenue £782,808,215 and benchiting the native population, would confer a great bencht also on the From this total, to guard against any whole industrial world, which needs
handsome undue optimism, the very deduction of £152,808,215 is made for hy any of the products now
lying almost untouched ing the methods of transport. These mea decreased population owing to loss of
LIABILLY OF ALWE STATES. sures of inland waterway reform would territory, cost of collection, and so on, In making its calculations, the fedora- I am convinced, be very advantageous to leaving a clear Lotal of £600,000,000, as China, and also popular.
In conclusion, Mr. Pollock urged the necessity of linking up Hankow and Kowloon by railway, and of the developing terms. ment of the nineral resources of the hinterland as the frontiers of British
territory.
When the discussion was about to com- mence, the Press representative wore asked to retire, in accordance with a resolution If passed by the Committee.
It!
RICKSHA-COOLIES ATTACKED BY ROBBERS.
FOUR MEN EMERGE FROM A DUSH.
While two ricksha coolies were return-
fifty million Mexican dollars, but it is
any pre-war calculations.
PENURIOUS FRIENDS.
of these territor
a revenue surplus, but then some of the It is, perhaps, Germany's misfortune Statce, whether Allied or newly created,
revenue
the basis of their pre-war
The federation
stituted,
the
مر
We are anxious to bring capital into given above. It is recognised that nation has consider the position of but the believe enemy countries since outbreak Discussing outworn characteristics of
the country since commercial develops compiled at the present time are territories which have been severed fruin ment will benefit the administrativa in
of the war, and it anggests that for the that the
the paying power of the enemy the Decalogue, Mr. Oldham says:
many ways, Let me take the Chinese countries will prove to be far greater purpose of the payment of war costs, I literally obeyed the second command-
Badgel. Last year there was a deficit of than is anticipated, Just as the paying enemy countries should be considered t ment I couldn't make a sketch of a jelly-
comprised fish or the American eagle We couldn' bare coins or photographs.
quite an erroneous view that, given tran-power of all the belligerent countries has consist of the whole territories It would
and quillity at home, the Government cannot proved during the war to be far greater in the boundaries at the time at which they respectively entered the war, and The Bocond destroy all art, of course.
pay its way. In the third and fourth than could have been anticipated from that In the event commandment is directed against the
years of the Republic, which has now
passing into the possession of idolatry of early days, but it does not
been in existence nine youre, there was apply at all to the present day idolatry,
provinces gefused to send their quotas to that all her necotoplices in her great a share of the war costs calculated on which is not concerned with images, but
contributions with such things as money or falne.
the Central Government, and hence the venture are on the verge of bankruptcy to the revenue of the enemy States should deBoit I have mentioned.
The federation points out that the finan Notrody obeys the fourth commandment except Jews or the Seventh-day Ad- ing from Quarry Bay at 12.30 a.m., on
China will be able to avoid recourse to cial position of the ramshackle empiro pass with them and should become liabi ventists.
The rest of us keep the Arst April 8th, four men emerged suddenly borrowing if she is permitted to take in of Austria-Hungary was hopeless even lities of the new Governments responsible.
even for the administrationonmend that day holy.
hand effectively her system of expendi when the war broke out, und,
and, moreover, Isn't it silly for ministers to teach from a bush at North Point and robbed
ture. Probably you do not know
inter-Allied Commiss
should be in- these commandments and then explain them of $1.80. One of the mon attacked least 50 per cent. of the anti what at the bulk of the railway's, of the popu- lation, and of the mineral and agricul
with charged tho duty of receiv- that they mean nothing to them ↑
of China is spent on military matters, tural wealth of the empire is passing into exposes its to numerous criticisms. The ricksha-coolie with a stick, and inflicted and that is why in one branch of the
new hands. Even such tangible assets ar ing any specific revenues allocated to sixth cominandınent is another which a severe cut on his forehend.
Peace Conference work we feel a special ships will largely be claimed by the new survica of the War Coat Fund, and ol interest. There are plenty of evils needs revision.
If we could only secure dis- States. At the same time, it is felt that distributing them pre rite to the Allied besides killing which the Church should
armament we could employ the money far forbid. The trouble with all these com
more profitably in education and in com- the new States arising out of the debris and associated Powers. They are further *TRADE UNION FOR CLERGY, mercial development.
of Austria Hungary should be prepared of opinion that it should be a matter mandments is that they emphasize' don't '
to bear their share of the cost of freeing the Commission should not supervise and fór very careful consideration whether rather than do.' Their conception of
The war has had reflex effect on conduct is not sufficiently high for our There is a good deal of significanoo in China which not all understand. It has them.
With regard to Bulgaria and Turkey, control the total revenue of the enemy times.
movement which is gaining spread the idea of militarism. One of
countries. memorandum enys! our earliest stops should be to disband the federation's
It appears to the fedoration that ch "After two thousand years of Chris strength in certain centres of the West the vast numbers of soldiers who exist ju "Those two Sintes were largely indus tianity we ought to have advanced be. Riding among the more underpaid clergy China, but you must first fed them on trial, and whereas they are backward or wild have madla trocommend yond the stage of killing and stealing (says the Leeds Correspondent of the Playment, and we are anxious that coin. States, ulmari on the whole is fairly to conceal révenue and to build up
it. In the first place, absoluto Recurity with, nevertheless, great poten-
would be provided against any attempt. which is oluracteristic of the half-mvage
mercial exploitation of our country's
Lialities, tribos for whom Moses wrote the law. Daily Telegraph). In the deaneries of national possibilities shall absorb this sound
sound, and her administration has in wish we could set up the beatitudes in Halifax. Huddersfield, Wakefield, Dows
Inbour,
which might otherwise be public
ments with while Turkey is thoroughly un. run;
of a endden for The Secretary to the U.8. Novy, Mr. le place of the commandments in the bary, Batley, and Silkstone a number of centers. I think that if the Conference the main been fairly honestly and well | Recret fund to be expended ́ipoa- armas
Church's ritual. They are positive in thom are taking steps to form an associn- at Paris recommenda disarmament it will sound financially, largely because of a
treacherous attack Lion on the lines of a trade union by which afford us a vary groat measure of naist-corrupt and incompetent Government
wiggestion, made in that One inter part of tha - Daniels, has received + message from teaching and
human relations in their venception of
they hope to secure that all clergy shall
Germany ance in our task in China.
Hath, however, posso great potential debt by handing over works of art-not Mr. Oldham suggests the following as have a living wage adequate for all ren- Our object is to show that China, se wealth, and the policy of the allies her national art treasures, but these shp an alternative decalogue: (1) Love of the promoters that the clergy are the the
Bonable dent Wilson's personal medical attendant God; (2) true understanding of God:
requirements. It is contended by far from being a mennes to the penes of should be to develop these with the avow.
far from planning militaristed object of obtaining an
purchase) world,
increased as equired (not alwngs by worst paid of any professional mon, and schemen, is bent simply and Boy which povonne from which an annual inet she has no further moral claim that the and #sida-" Provident, Wilson and better bo(a) reverence in speech thought: (4)
parts of the world, and to whics vory often their inadequate stipends menn habit of daily and Sunday worship; that they have to turn out and do other { copo it may well bo, tikt we shall be of 1 ment for the indemnity, sold bẹ, ghtnin- | fact of possesion, mol og The Sisting... confined to his bed until Wednesday Mard-
commercial expansion, in reapert for parents; (0) kindness;
work in order to make enda meet. In the greatent us to those nations wheed. To do thin the soundest policy Madonna, ut Dresden,, and the Grock ing. There is no cause for alarmo.".. purity of thought and conduct (8)
Inesty (0) truthfulness; (10) unselfish many ensen sextons are in receipt of bet have suffered so heavily in the struggle appears to be that outlined below: soulpture from Asia Minor and clap Mmariona Wireless.
ter wages than the vicar of a parish.
(Oontinued at foot of neat column.} where in the Berlin Museu
Monday's meeting of the Council of Four. -American Wireltas,
"NO CAUSE FOR ALARM."
WASHINGTON, April 7th.
Rear-Admiral Grant stating that Presi
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