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When Kaiser Bill harnessed his War Horses and took a mad canter in the race for the "World Dominion" Cup, the IMPERIO DEL MUNDO was lost to Hongkong Smokers, but now that Wilhelm is chewing the bitter cud and tramping of a World-wide" Empire the Dutch Hooks, his dreams having gone up in smoke, Hongkong lovers of a good puff have come to their own again, for their old favourite, the peerless-

IMPERIO DEL MUNDO

is with us once more at

THE HONGKONG CIGAR STORE

CO. LTD..

Hotel Mansions.

Tel..151.

The sole proprietorship of this Factory belongs to an American concern.

THE

CORONET

July 14th and 15th 1919.

at 5.15 & 9.15 p.m.

697

CHINA'S REFUSAL TO SIGN THE PEACE TREATY. TELEGRAPHIC EXPLANATION FROM PARIS

HENRIK IBSEN'S WORLD FAMOUS PLAY

GHOSTS"

HIS ONLY PANTS

GLACIER NATIONAL PARK

The Roof of America). Booking for 9.15 p.m. at ROBINSON'S

TRADE REPORT.

EXPORTS,

"|

IMPRESSIONS OF HONGKONG. LIKENESSES AND CONTRASTS TO SHANGHAI,

**AS OTHERS SEE US JAPAN COMMENT ON HONGKONG

JUSTICE. !

Says 'the Jupin Phrom fie:-

PEANUT OILA fair number of orders have been pat through during the week

[FROM A CORRESPONDENT.]

Count de Toulouse Lapres de Savine. The visitor to Hongkong, should be the would he King of Bulgaria. is still The following is a translation of the and the market closes Arm at $32.30 for

have come from Shanghai, anturally being moved on. The last place" whees full text of the telegrans despatched. to No. 1, and #22.30 for No 27

Woon Qiz-There is a fair demand and makes a mental comparison between the he was endeavouring to take up his r king from. Paris, on June 28th, by.

n' moderate stock!" The closing rate is the Chines Delegation, in regard to their

two places. In some respects the two sidence was Hongkong, where it was his $97.50. fusal to sign the Peace Treaty:-

TEA OIL is steady at 883-

towns are more or less alike. They have intention to deliver the famous lecture. With reference to the signing of the

STARANISHED Ort 13The market is

1 trainways system and It appears that on his firap derival,” his Plan Trenty a formal note regarding strong. Today's quotation is $165. Some wide streets,

under foreign control and as such are passport not having been vid by the Shantang was peranted to the Confer business is reported to have been done at other modern adjuncts; they are both

about this price. enge on May eth stating that "Chinn

Cassia Oita small business'ta report-havens of refuge for Chinese when the British Consul at Shanghai, his last times are troublous, for, however much place of residence," the authorities refused wished to have the question of Shantunged in 80/83 per cent. 44 295; 75/80 per

the natives of this land may rave about tested for inture discussion as personal, at 8213; and 70 75 per cent. at the presence of the foreigner in their to admit him and he went to Canton and

SAIGON Cassra is nachanged. any stated by (in "Tseng-hsiang) un

Tix.-There is a very gater market for midst, vary many of them are, neverthe from there to Macao. At Maeno he wrote May 8th to the Conierenze, Since then

less, very glad to avail themselves of his to the Hongkong authorities that he had we have been trying to push through our this article.

some iniportant military information to t claims in every possible way as we have PANTS. There is a good demand but protection wiem affairs in their own coun

Unshell retry are getting rocky.

communicata and permission was granted From time to time.

stacks are very light. reported to you

hi

to to Hongkong. The in- this matter China has been yielding quoted at $19.50. at every stage. At the very beginning. LARD. The demand for this commodity Yet, after all, the points of contrastare formation proved of no importance, but I be continues unabated. New tins are quoted greater than the points of likeness, and the Count would have been allowed t

This wa

none the less sa because they are the more remain had he not unfortunately allowed

his filings to denied us. We then,

have the 75 and Old tins at from stud to

run away with him and difficult to define. One feels the contrast same included in the annex. This was

CANTON SELECTED CASSIA is wanted ot

as soon as one's vessel reaches the har- got a local paper to interview him. Thi

and the delivery of his lecture were two We next naked to make #11, and the market is likely a bour. retused. goin

One searches, after this one

of the prohibited things, and the poor this re agreement,

thing which seeks to parate Hong Count" soon Aseparate

found himself on A ship queat was refnd. We were further higher.

kong from its northern rival and at last bound for Shanghai. Apparently, the nored when we applied to make a state.

one stumbles across the rest of this dis-fates FLI

ar Sghting against that ecture, of the

and ment independent of

for everywhere the Count goes

there is without the clause of reservation. As tfore was no other means available, we

GALENUTS. No business reported at $40,

lecture

At the same sent a note to the Conference to say that

Biex is very neting and steadily the signing of the Peace Treaty would

This may seem at first an unimportant ties is rather arbitrary.

they re- not deprive as of the right to bring uprising" market. The Japanes have been the question for discussion in the future heavy buyers during the past week, not difference. Shanghai houses large British fused the Count admission because his was not in order, and then they This last request was again rejected at only locally but also in Saigon, where interests. Many of its Municipal" Coun- pass him, because he had some in- noon-to-day-June 9th just before the they are reported to have secured about cil members are of that rationality, the signing of the Treaty.

1,000 tons out of the $3,000 tons allotted English anguage is the predominant formation to impart. They (illegally) foreign tongue. True, but Shanghai allowed him to remain in the Colony as FORCED, INTO A CORNER

this month to Chinese exportesorted to after all is not British. It is interna. long as he refrained from certain acts This question

We wanted the stiff to

buted in the Treaty

13

but even

WAA

that has the

$7.50

A

"

Cassis BCDs. There is a small business. The closing quotation is 818.30 per picul,

STARANISED. The market is strong.tinction, Today's price is 300 per picul.

BRITISH TERRITORY.

Ko

It is, of course, that Hongkong is away something which prevents the British territory."

tima the action of the Hongkong authori

cause

The Straits Government is have secured 30,000 tons in the same tonal and the ballot-box may market for early delivery, and, in view strange upheavals in the matter of its of these large purchases, prices have ad-government. vanced sharply in Saigon.

greatest importance and consequence with regard to our territorial integrity and fature safety. The reason why my asso ciates and have not allowed ourselves for a single moment to loosen oor grip American bayers are still offering ci. on the matter is because we wish to pr prices below current values, but the

some means of keeping the matter alive, and preventing other questions.com Eeneral opinion in that they will soon being unfavourably realize the impossibility of making pure cerning

from 19

chases at their low limits and that we nflected.. Inexpectedly Conferepee

the adopted an extreme attitude of despotism shall be in a position to resume business and refused to give the slightest consid-with the United States Pacific Coast

be ports. ration to our dignity. This. i to deeply regretted and resented.

It has become almost nle for the Wenke nations finally to yield, no mat ter how strongly they may protest at the beginning. It, however, China should en this occasion swallow the new humilia- tion and sign the Treaty, she will have no recourse in future to adjust her case by diplomatic means. We consulted our own conscience and found it forbade us to sign..

We ascertained tuc views of other people and found that they agree with us in thinking that it is reason able for us not to sign without die pro-

cautions..

Clowing quotations are; --

Siam garden rice at $17 (nominal). Siam straight rice at 816.60. Simo usual rice at $18. Saigon long rice at $18. Saigon round, $15.95.

SAIGON RICE MARKET The Compagnie de Commerce et de Navigation d'Extrême-Orient, Saigon, in their report dated July 3rd, states:-

This is not the case with Hongkong. There is a subtle force which binds to gether all the strata of society in the different institutions that make up the colony, and that force is the might and prestign of Britain.

DEAR OLD GRASNY.

Though these are not blazoned forth from the housetops, they are nevertheless there and make themselves felt in every department of fe in the colony. The spirit of law and order-that great deity that every true son of Briton worships whether he knows it or not-broods over the life of this outpost of our Empire.

(which themselves were not alleged), and they report him when he transgresses these entirely illegal regulations. Really, what with imposing enormous fines on children for offences in which they were obviously the innocent tools of others, indicting little boys for carrying um brellas in the streets, and condoning drunken nesaults on slave girls. Hoog kong, justice is of an extraordinary quality.

SLAVERY INCOMPATIBLE WITH

DEMOCRACY,

Says the Canton Times-

In Hongkong a wealthy contactor was found guilty of gruelty to a slave girl and Then there is the stamp of British solidity the Magistrate imposed a sentence of two and stalidity about the place. Not much weeks hard labour, without the option window-dressing, perhaps, but the founda- | of a fine. Fur wealthy families to put chase slave girls is a long-retablished cas- tions look secure.

Above all hovers grandmotherly old tom. In some instances these poor girls Britain with that fussy maternal solicite provided with a good home, and when masters or mistresses show decent tude that so otten irritates, her children

tion, their lor is

not so hard when she persista in giving them matronly advice and wants to keep them fastened But in the average ease, the poor girl is regarded as a mere chattel. She mast work from sunrise till long after unde patiently bear with the humones and exprices of her masters, and live in lite of continual drudgery, simply because she happened to be born of parents who were unable to provide for her support.

Many ardent patriots, who vociferously institutions and demand democratic greater political liberty for themselves have no scruples about exploiting the strength and labour of the children of the poor." Even in Christian families, wo have witnessed ill-treatment meted out to these pour unfortunate maid-servants when the provocation was ever so slight.

The market is very much stronger on We have, therefore, communicated with

account of the Straits Government having the chairman of the Conference by corres- pondence emphasising the fact that China bought nearly 30,000 tons of rice for early reserved for herself the right to make shipment. This purchase has considero apron-strings for fear they may Exchange is try and get their feet wet. But we final stitlement with regard to herably increased the rates. rights affected by the Peace Treaty. This aril dificult to settle, and no improve children, know that after all the bid lady means well, and once we propitiate war only to save for us some ground toment has been noted on this side.

her by giving in to her little fuibles and stand doa.

humouring her bits of red tape, she is ATION IS TENDEREDE

prepared to protect even the least of these RESIGNATION IS My associates and

myself who have beer entrusted with a duty of great respon-

little ours to the last drop of her life's sibility, in spite of our snorr cumings,

blood and the last shekel in her treasury, confess, with regret, that although we have worked hard for the last six

months in we save failed to accomplish our We feel that both our

ginal desires.

No quotation can be given on recount of the fluctuations in the prices of rice and in the rate of exchange.

The total amount of rice exported from January 1st up to June 23rd, 1819, is 301,087 tons against 739,817 tona in 1918,

SENSATIONAL DISCLOSURES OF SECRET, WORK.

THE GRAND TRANSFORMATION.

Hongkong is Oriental, the noisy East is ever with us, bat underneath the babel

conscience and public opinion wo

would not BOLSHEVIK PLOTS IN SIBERIA of tongues, mint, yet strong and power- vequire 12M shoulder the responsibility for the failure, which has placed the i- terests of our country in an uncertain position since no one can tell what is going to happen to us. Whatever may have been the entws.it is our inability which has brought about the anxious situation that disturbs our Government, the Chiel Executive and the whole coun- try. We beg. therefore that a mandate be issued

dismissing Lu Tseng-hsiang fiom the post of the Minister of

Dusk, July 1st. Admiral Kolchak has left for Perm, where a grave situation is developing.

The Intelligence Bureau has discovered evidence of a wide-spread Bolshevik plot Siberia having for its aim wholesale rebellion, the destruction of communica tions and the demoralization of the

Affairs and that of Chief Peace Biberian armies..

and also Wang Cheng-ting, Koo Wei-chun and Wei Tseng-tan :rom their respective posts, and that they be handed over to a Commission to be punished. We request.

that, at the same time other respoa sible offelals be appointed to take action with regard to the Peace Treaty with Ger many and Austria.

Waiting for your punishment, ez (Signed) Lu Tseng-hsiang, Cheng-ting: Tseng-Estr.

Pl

rul, is the grip and power of Britain, and who can truthfully sa that power has not been used for the go of those it rules themselves whether this particular kind It is time that "our people should ask We have made inisca es no doubt, but the of slavery, is compatible with democracy. wealth and skill of the little island in Nu man should be given the power to ad- the west at bave converted a barren minister corporal punishment upon an rock in the east into one of the foremost other at will, just because he has pur ports of the world have also brought chased that person from her parents and ramense benefits to those of whatever she is reliant upon him for the neces nationality who live there, for Britain saries of life. Certainly custom and law has ever been willing to share her good cannot justify an act or establish a rela things with those who are content to keep tionship, contrary to the higher prin- her laws.

ciples of morality.

An infuriated

our

The revelations indicate that the

As Britons we may well be proud of Only a coward would maltreat a maid- expionage activities of the Bolsheviks Hongkong. Here we are not "foreigners" servant or tyrannize over a poor defences have been recently greatly intensified. Agents from Soviet-Russia, disguised ation of our own estate,

as we are in Shanghai; we are on a por-less girl. hawkers, beggars and refugees, have in moh in Shanghai may yell: "Out with the purchasing girl slaves has even a darker Then, too, the pernicious custom oľ undated Siberia, their modus operandi foreigner with some show of logic, but side. We will not elaborate for being remarkably systematic. Euch agent is provided with enormous funda and organizes in the towns and villages Wanz

a Committee of Five among the secret contented with the present Government, every conspirator being sworn to organize.

similar band-Reuter.

"

it cannot do this in the southern port. Its readers will understand what we have war cry would have to be "Down with reference to. Lincoln said, of the United

Koo Wei-chun and Wei adherents of Bolshevism, and persons dis teachings not yet having penetrated into what insidious poison alavery instils in

the British Empire," and the I. W. W. States, that the country could not con

to exist half free and half slave. China, this slogan is hardly likely to be raised at present-Yurth China Daily

** EMPRESS CE CANADA." FINEST LINER ON THE PACIFIC

OCEAN."

The Canadian Pacific Railway is not looking towards Vladivostock with a view

IBSEN'S GHOSTS" AT THE COMUNET.

Ibsen's

Yerk.

society has been demonstrated in the his tory of many nations. Truly, China taunor long continue & Custom denounced and abolished in,contemporary democra-

Let our patriotic students take up this girl slave question. Determine against having any girl slaves in your home, and, if there are any there, grant them their freedom, pay them equitable wages for their work, and help them to a position. of economic and individual independence. In regard to the enslavement of young girls, no matter what the theory, may be, the practice is vicious and inconsistent with the principles of democracy

FAR EASTERN MEN DETAINEDries.

IN GREAT BRITAIN. We have called attention several times The Coronet Theatre was filled with an

to the difficulties experienced by Britons to establishing trade relations imme-appreciative gainering last night, when

world-famous play from the Far East in getting. repatriated diately with Siberia, in spite of the fact fieri that the Government Trade Commission ** Gnosts was streched. There are alto- (says the in und 6. Espres of June 5th), ia, and has been for some tibe past, ingacner ve acts,alled with emotional Some have cut the knot and gone at their trade between, Chaada situations, and gripping the interest own expense, and others have been sent and Siberia (says from start to taisa The plot revolves by firms and companies, though there has the Victoria Colunist, of a recent date, round, a fortune-hunter, who married always been great obstacles to getting on information obtained from President | girl for her money and then deserted her passages, The matter is referred to by E. W. Bratty of the CP.R.)

for another woman- His wife and her the London correspondent of the Man The Company maintains that the rail supplanter bear a son and a daughter chester Guardian, who writes:- way conditions in Siberia make the com respectively, and the climax is reached "Among those who came to Europe from mercial prospects too vague and uncer when the children grow up and "fall in distant lands to do their hit in the war, tain at the present time, hut should these with eneh other, ignorant of their and who are Ending it extremely difficult railways be established on a permanent

by a stable Govern.relationship. A wedding is arranged, bat to return, are Britons from China. "As hasis and will be early in the prevented at the altar by a doctor, who | soon as the armistice was signed these men |

it

ment, the

to demobilise. have a long field with ships to capture its share of was present at the birth of both the par- were eager to Siberia's export and import

business

tics. An all-star cast sustained the several way to go, one of them informed me t But day. in

in explaining his troubles. As soon as it is off the ways, which characters, their acting being superb. should be within a few months, the Oriental This film is relieved by a mirth-provok was not until they had come over from

Franes and got out of khaki that Bleet will be strengthened by the addition 422,000-ton steamer, the item of ing comedy and an interesting picture of Found themselves up against the awkward Canada, and with the rapid increase of gramme will be continued to-night and fact that it was impossible to. this trade and the demand for

at least two freighters will be g

from other routes or acquired by the com-

be

lo-morrow.

ik

There are those who will argue in fav- our of the practice. Many learned articles have been written giving aban dant traditional incidents, and of the re- pented arguments in defence of the cus- tom, but there is no evasion of the facts the system is founded in schishness, ex ploitation of the weak, and an undemo cratic tendency to accentuate differences of birth or economie differences. The cus- tom encourages abuse of power, systematic cruelty and vicious practices of every kind,

for ships for thing to the LONDON TO TOKYO IN LESS THAN Alle troops, and

also

book passage in ships bound for the Orient. The dificulty has arisen

repatriation of

THREE DAYS. because

of

Mr. Holt Thomas, Managing Director MINNESOTA." the large number of vessels required for

transport of foodstuffs to Europe. The new atpameran, and is being Has the United States Navy, asks

wall bo

As soon as they had obtained their of the Aircraft Manufacturing Co., Ltd., built on the Clyde to the order of the rat badan dudarius incidenti The discharge from the Army the soldiers from in a lecture before the Industrial Bestric-

pany, and will be placed on the run, US. BATTLESHIP

tween this port and Oriestly, the

finest on the

the

on the

CP.B with a view particularly to the well-known Italian naval journed, Revista Chips ceased to have any Upwards tion Council, London, predicted that an

nuthorities for maintenance requirements of the Oriental trade. She Jarittima, which is issued by the Minis, of one hundred men from the Britain com

have luxurious passenger accom. modation and will make a strong bid for try of Marine, in a summary of American munities at Hongkong and the Treaty war losses, gives the battleship finneanta, Ports are still on a cose end' in London,

the Pacific.

traffe now existing nu

aeroplane leaving London on a wood

at 8 a.m. could be:-

At

Cairo by Tuesday at 8 a.m.

At Calcutta by Wednesday at T-4.m.

the beary fibe cargo steamers will be of, 18,000 tons, built in 1905, as sunk by s and have no immediate prospect of getting at Paris by Monday at 10.20.1.1. the best obtainable the Company, mine on September 29th Inst. If this is back again. As may be imagined, the which has the utmost cantidence in the correct, the secret has been much better position of those who are without private

means is by no means enviable." future of the trade with the Orient. guarded than qar Audacious affair.

At Tokyo by Thursday at 2 6.DL.