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PRESIDENT POINCARE.
DEPARTURE FOR SCOTLAND...
PARIS. November 13th. A Havas message says:— President Poincare has left London en route for Scotland.
The crowda chored enthusiastically be the Presidential train arrived at Glasgow on Wednesday evening. ·
French circles state that a feature of President Poincare's visit wis a conversa
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER
PEKING NOTES.
{FROM OUR OWN CORRISPONDENT, Į
PEKING, November 19th.
AMERICAN SENATES
RESERVATION,
CAUSES UNDERLYING THE AGITATION
TREND OF POPULAR OPINION....
[BY OUR REPRESENTATIVE LATELY IN
NEW YORK.]
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Barely two months ago, when read ent Wilson was touring California and delivering addresses on the advantages of the League of Nations, it was appareat in New York that there was a sharp difference of opinion, among the people themselves as to whether the Covenant of the League made due aliowance for the intereste of the United States. Between the extreme. Anglophobe journals and the whole-hearted supporters of the League, there were shades of opinion which augured ill for the President's pro- gramme, Extremists were making capital and pointing a sermon as to be useless out of the Anglo-Persian Agreement,
ness of any international arrangement which, even at the outset, allowed, as they alleged, as country to dictate to Innother. The Fem Fork American led
ZUCH.
1919,
RAISIN & A SUPER-THE RAILWAYMEN'S CASE. DREADNOUGHT.. WHAT THEY WANTED AND WEY
GREAT ITALIAN FEAT
Italy has achieved a great hydrostatic feat in the salvage of her grent super- dreadnought Leonardo di Vinci, which went down in order to save a neighbour ing town and Italian and Allied war ships nearby from the effects of a terrible explosion abound. the inquiry into which is still proceeding-
THEY STRUCK.
[BYTES RIGHT HON. J. H. THOMAS., M.P:}.
It means "a
the most serious events that have ever The present railway strike is one of happened in this country complete dislocation of traffic, and thou- sands of people thrown out of work. Among these people as the half million railwaymen themselvest They are the A clockwork bonib brought by an un-first to be affected, and with their meagre known hand from Switzerland exploded rates of pay the burden will fall upon setting fire to a supply of naptha close to them afriss, more heavily than upon any a store of large calibre projectiles prone else. The railwaymen are perfectly pared for gan practice which was about conscious of this. They know their own to be held in the open sea. In view of the vulnerability. appalling danger that the explosion light-heartedly, but because the thorn
They have strack not
which had already begun could not failrent left them an other cours--because to finite the white powder magazine, Commander Sommi-Picenardi urdered in fact they were driven to it. the valves to be opened in order to sink the ship, dying himself the next day from injuries, received while trying to control the explosion
YACTION FIGHTING.
The new Cabinet has not yet been sub- mitted to Parliament for the very good reason that the Anfu Club has not aban doned its pretensions to having its owe nominees included It is not surprising that the Premier, Chin Yung-peng, should resent such dictation, the more ro as bo oceny to he struggling to free the administration' «from the pernicious effects of Antuista. Two days ago I was informed that Field-Marshal Tuan thi jui let it be known to the Anfu Club that he had no sympathy with their present claims, and frankly stated that he di agreed with their policy. If this be true. it representa a great triumph for the more moderne elements. Moreover it proves that the President, Premier and Field-Marsha! Tuan Chi-joi are as one in seeking to elimite the purely m sary untrol from the government of the country. My latest information confirms this view. It is that Chow Tsz-ch may
being made Minister Finance against the rival claimants of Many minés are refusing to resume, the Anfu, obstacles to his nomination the van among the extremists, and paint. the bottom of the sen
having been overcome. cinted that he will not be bound by party spectacle of the United States playing the difficulties encountered being so enormous considerations, his acceptance of the office ought to inaugurate a clenger adminis tration than China has been accustomed
tion with Mr. Lloyd tirorge, to which mach importance is being attached.
EARLIER TABLES."
AMERICAN COAL MINERS.
REFUSAL TO RESUME WORK.
WASHINGTON. November 13th
pending the outcome of a conference of coatoaners and mine"here.
4
The Secretary of Labour. Mr. Wilson. opening the conference, declared that the men's demands for a hour week and 100 per cent increase in wazes was im possible, and must be eliminated at the *outet:
Wilson condemned the employeeg insistence on the previous was agree ment.
LABOUR DISPUTES IN AMERICA.
VOLUNTARY CONCILIATION PLAN ADOPTED,
WASHINGTON, November 13th. The House of Representatives has re- jected compulsory arbitration of labour disputes in charction with the ending Railroad Bill, and has adopted a volun tary conciliation plan.
·CUSTOMS' DUTIES IN AMERICA
A NEW SCHEDULE ISSUED.
WASHINGTON, November 13th. The President has issued an executive order establishing a new schedule of Cus icms duties based on the reduced values
of foreign currencies.
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As Chow Eas de
"as lurid colours as it could, the
ed, in "a
Press, who bave all taken it for granted
MR. BONAR LAW.
As the question has arisen with regard to what exactly Mr. Bonar Law said, or what exactly Mr. Bonar Law meant, in what he said. it may be well to quote from the official report issued by the Press. Bureau of the conference of March 23rd., 1949. Mr. Banar Law said on that oers- sion, When we were discussing in the
Cabines the question of equalisation. it was anderstood that it meant there must be equalisation upwards." This principl
and frien's grades, who on August 20th. was adhered to in the case of the drivers
obtained a settlement by which their pre- sent earnings, consisting of their pre-war
3
that the railwaymen were in the wrong.urse, other conditions which would pre-
Event an immediate drop in wages. "Es it likely that 500 you new wnatu "da") It is worth while to examing a few of something so momentous, something from which they suffer as much as anybody.
the actual Bgures and see exactly what Let us they mean to the railwaymen their unless they had a good chw for
take the example of passenger and goods, action
rates plus their wat wage, became their new guaranteed rate. Five weeks later, when the Government submitted as ** definitive "" offer the proposed new rates for all the other grades of railway ser The public, in their attempt to find out vants. it was found that they had de why this calamity has fallen upon the
parted from this principle, and were country, have been forced to depend on offering a new standard mate which fell The Italians ever resigned themselves the statements issued by the fovernment.seasiderably Below the present earnings and efforts have never been relaset won the chorus of denunciation in the of an advance of 100 per cent.. with, of to the loss of their six super-dreadnoughts who are one of the parties to the cise, and it was said to be based on the principle refloat the Leunurdu. It was an almost insuperably difficult task, since the vesse overturned as she sank and her immensely heavy guns, including thirteen. 12-inch, became firmly imbedded in the end as It has required months of patient strenuous work to remove the cannon, the
that divers were obliged to invent new part of a Cupe of Britain. "As may be technical expedients which will be useful imagined, auch stress was laid upon the to the whole world for future salvage
work. difference in the voting power of the
When the ship had been lightened of United States and Britain in the deliber everything removable she was tightly seal rations of the League. Incidentally, ited and the water forced out by extremely Though ai oficial information has beef was also pointed out that England stood into her bull. The vessel gradually rose powerful pumps injecting compressed air vouchsafed, it is quite proper to state in the Lengue as a champion of the dustsratthe surface, her keel, however. point. that the American loan arranged through
ing skywards, but by a series A Si traces of the world, and could always operations the great vessel was gradually hereulean the medium of the Commercial and Con reckon upon their support. This mix restored to her normal position. She is tinental Bank of Chicago is not a
now ready to be towed into dock, where brinsiction but simply the continuation thievous innuendo, coming at a time of in due time she will be restored to her of an old one commenced when then serious race riuts in the States, did not former value and efficiency. Chim-tao was Minister of Finance. How fail to have its effect upon the minds of far it is consistent with the aims of the the prople. To weaken the cause of the Freland was made the subject by acrimon-
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THE WINE AND TOBACCO LUAN,
new
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woman gets is. 6d.
TALA
Lith
This side of it, however, has not been guards. These men are offered ́à considered by the Press
In the Firanging from 488. to 60s, rising, in twelve of Monday this statement actually years to this maximum, If we con pare Leeurs Like the war with Germany, 15 this rate," which is equivalent only to must be a fight to a finish. Is it realised pre-war wage of less than 2% to 20%. per what that sort of utterance means! It week, with the wages at present being the Government should treat the 300,000 means, it can mean nothing else than that paid to the omnibus conductors in Lon
we find that while a guard after Failwaymen, Bing of whom fought for twelve years service ennnot hope to get this country in our common struggle vier un omnibus conductor, man the liberties and rives of the citizens of more than 80. a Week, after six months against Prussian militarism, as if they were tereign enemies. It is an incitement Take another example. The shunters-- to bloodshed t
it means the mobilisation
men who work in an occupation so dan- of all the rescurces of war-time against gerous that one in fifteen is injured and our own, citizens. Already the Govern one out of every 425 killed each your-are ment is beginning to act on the lines to offered by the Government, according to
summoned
to the Inain porte
means that even the Government's highest they have pruly stationed armed offer, which would only apply to a small guards everywhere, Lad, most unfortant proportion of the men, is actually trum of all, they are using against their own
164 to 48. less than the wages paid to countrymen the methods of propaganda Lahunters who happened to be employed" which they used in war time against the not by the Government, but by foreign enemy.
companies.
In South Wales shwaters are paid from 3, to 8s. per day. 56.53 per cent, plus 3. plus 23- ing into from Tês, tu 1038- per week. It must also be home in mind the week worked by these collery shanters
is 464 hours, as contrasted with
who happen to be under the Executive Committer.
Dew Consortium is not yet apparent, but League still further, Britain's policy in CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETIES Up which the Times inertes them. They have their grade,,60, 55m., 50, and 465, his
it is fair to assume that the loan has
been made after consultation with Britishus disenssion. and French banking interests occupied with China. As a matter of fact, it i believed that this transaction will faci.
SIBERIA.
comes out mast
blus
THE FINAL OFFER. This last. perhaps, the case, in which they triturately neck dearly in a sievernment's statement of
that
running
which emerges is that the advance of most of the opportunity of showing her export and import Arms and shery and the railwayinen 3, stated it may be well the forty-eight hours of the railw
Incidents Were then taking place in Ireland which easily lent themselves to distortion. Baids were Sinn Fein newspaper being tande on litate the operations of the Consortium. ed. The detractors of Britain made the offices, and agitators were being arrest. Perhaps the most important feature 495,000,000 to be, made will he properly in the role of an autocrat worse than safeguarded as to its expenditure, and Germany There was scarcely a place of that an American adviser will be ap-amusement or meeting where one could pointed to the new bureau to be organise escape from the discussion, in one for
or another, of the Irish question. The comedians in vaudeville could depend to the injustices upon any reference meted out to Ireland by greedy Britain to call forth peals of laughter and secure an extension of their engagements. The Seventren provinces have, now recorded street orators, off Broadway, had no ide bandment of troops, and it is expected once Ireland was mentioned. It was 'not' that a Presidentini, mandate will shortly difficult to see that it was all carefully be issued giving effect to this retrench-planned by the opponents of President ment. The twenty per cent. reduction Wilson. recommended by the Tuchun "is the more
ed for the collection of the wine, and tobacco taxes, thus seenring a certain re- venue for the Government which in time may equal those of the Customs and the
Salt.
DISUANDMENT OF TROOPS,
a
three
of reach
If we take the case of the carmen who are employed by the railway companies we find that the Government offer is for some men bes. a week, some 49%., and
The
agreement of the National
tional Union of Vehicle Workers with private employers provides for 614. per werk for single (heavy) horse drivers, so that the best rate offered by the Govern ment is less than the sum offered by a rete, perfore, he clearly seen that from the principle which they acted an and that the actual rates they offer are less than what is paid by private employ- ars to men who are doing exactly the sanie kind of work.
It can,
the Government have first of all departed
FAR EASTERN CABLE their support to the proposal for the disficulty in gathering mammoth crowds Countries, so that it has a very fine future now, and thrust aside the within the in the case of the drivers and frumen,
NEWS.
+
[BY COURTESY OF THE CHINA MAIL."
M. POULETS FLIGHT.
SINGAPORE, November 19th. M. Poulet, who is flying from Paris to Australia, is due at Calcutta on Novem
ber 21st.
STRAITS ATTORNEY-GENERAL.
Sir
James Murison, the
Straits
feasible in view of the fact that most of the Tuchunt can give effect to it without turning a single soldier adrift to prey upon the community as a bandit, practically all their pay-rolls are swollen unsiderably beyond actual figures in order to increase their revenue.
THE BEANTUNG QUESTION.
spies and
the
but
HARBIN, Novetuber. 9th. Latest reports from western Siberia indicate that the proposed Russian main union of all Bussian cooperative unions has been successfully formed with Nova Nicolaievsk ns its headquarters. This is the Omake government because by this considered to be one of the successes of
way nearly 1,000 consumers' societies, to mislead the public. Before the case for
or two uf
of these lies. It creamery organizations throughout the to deal with one
cannot be sufficiently emphasised how grave a crime it extent and breadth of Siberia, GRA
15 for the Government, advantage. Previons to its formation, in its desire to secure the public support operate with each other to their mutual there
were 30 co-operative unions in for its attitude, to depart in slightest Siberia which handled the exportation of measure from the truth., FCP instance, it Siberian products, especially fats, egg has been said that the strike is against o
to which might for others 45. cheese, wax, wool, hair, furs, leather and problematical
might materials to
tarise
in
time. These other noted native raw foreign countries.
ies. The new union of the negotiations bad held up for our co-operative unions of Siberia has its and a half years of the self-sacrificing own factories and workshops in Irkutsk, patriotism of the men during the war, and Nicolaiersk, Blogovescherisk Vladivo beginning in last March they have nuw stock. Ekaterinburg and Harbin not to been pretracted for over six months. It struck Countries, ar pati hussia and all Allied is suggested that the railwaymen prospect. Asiatic New Agency,
ing
settlement at any time next three
three months. The facts
are that Government forced the strike by making anal offer which rendered all further *** THREE, FACES EAST.”
negotiations fruitless, and after two days" most anxious deliberations on the part
Can it be wondered that, when the rail- A large audience at the Theatre Royal of the executive of the National Union of A great deal of the criticism of the last night thoroughly appreciate the Railwaymen, men who are doing their waymen see the conditions given to one- ity grade denied to the others, and when they League was also influenced by personi trawley Lo's rental,on of a thrilling utmost to find a way out of this calamity.
"py play entitled" Three Face
the Government would not amend their realise that men doing the same kind of animus against the President. Senator by play is supposed to reveal the methods offer in such a way as would leave the they should feel that their standard of work are being treated more generously, Johnson, of California, who made himself of the Secret Services of England and slightest loupbole for farther negotiate is seriously menace
of Germany England triumphs in the end tions. the spokesman of the opponents of the after some very exciting incidents. That Again, it has been said, on the one
duty to their wives and children compuls them to make a stand:" President, pounced upon a mis-statement for sometime it was difficult to say who hand, that it is a purely selfish strikes. If
German were the
PROFIT OR LOSS? made by the latter as to the time when we added to the tear with which the play and firemen, who have nothing to gain then why are the locomotive drivers
The only answer the Government cal be" came to know about the Shantung was followed. Miss Vera Doria had one by striking, supporting their fellows make to the condition that the railway- It has been suggested recently that the Agreement between Britain and Japan. of the princip of het versatility. After his telegram of Saturday, called the railways are being run at a loss, and that
On
men are being sweated is to say that the present is a good time for the Chinese to The President's avowal of his mistake was giving a clever impersonation of a German strike an
gave fresh proof of her the other hand, Mr. Lloyd George, in
they cannot afford to negotiate direct with Japan regarding Attorney-General, who whe formerly Shantung. In the light of information published broadcast. Those who brought spy, if was with much relief that a start in the same telegram his knowledge of the not the slightest to pay more. There is truth compelled him to say There is ment There is no sign whatever of any at my disposal it seems that the Japanese the Shantung agreement inte, the centro-ling denoument showed her to be in the
English Secret Service. She hurt her no more patriotic body of men in this figures, since the beginning of the war
com-country than the railwaymen, and
that give an accurate idea of the financial. conduct during the war demonstrated
position of the British railways. It is that fact. The two statements of Mr.
Sir Eric Geddes £100,000,000, hopelessly incompatible. They are incom myth which was exploded as soon as it patible because the one phrase is an aba-as uttered. But. in any case, even if the
railways were being run at sive piece of propaganda; the other is
a lot, then. the admission of a fact.
the reason the Government could not afford to pay the railwaymen the little So much has had to be said about the paying the railway shareholders so much. they asked would be because they wero lies that have been current because it is The position cutlined above was befor impossible to proceed to any statement of the conferences at Downing-street-on the railwaymen's case until some refer Thursday and Friday. The ence has been made to the torrent of mis the National Union of Railwaymen and executive of
the facts, not merely of the recent negotia- papers have been flooded. Now, what are representations with which the news
myself tried their bardest to find if
ther was a way out. At one point it seemned as if there was a loophole, but before: I tions, but of the general railway service could explore that way out of the dif conditions which have made this crisis culty, Sir Eric Geddes stopped in and possible"
blocked the In the first place, what is standardisa Transport, a railway, manager,
WAY
The new Minister of tion 1 At present, and before the war, Geddes, has inherited all the evil railwaymen were paid on common of the acrimony and intransigeance
are that standard. In one town a porter in one have characterised the
many negotiations railway station would be paid different between the railway managers and the rates from another porter the
same railway workers town but
by a different com-
in the pant. Why is it employed
that the way was blocked Why is
is it that pany, though their work was exactly the Bir Eric Geddes and other kame This is the simplest
induences of orange blossoms, surmounted by a tulle appropriate sermon was delivered by the
antagonistic to settlement are forcing veil, and carried a bouquet of white Rev. E. J. Bentley, who emphasised that Monroe Doctrine, pure and simple, and bidding
from company to company and from town "peace bath her victories no less-renown
railwayman who She won
accused President Wilson of having ex-Jatge, after much a disastrous four-years to town, so that the i
t got been summoned 1 1 afas it had passed through, was discatered the railway service found
the Government fear a statement ed than war
himself attended by the Misace Dorothy Murray
and duties as urgent and changed a sure guarantee of peace for the counted, had, as one of these opponents confronted by a chace of rates of pay, of the nation men's case in that forum. and Ada Asger. These ladies were dress-
important.
people of America for the shadow of Square,the posters of the United States An attempt is made to find the way out member of the public desire is an imme of the League pointed out in Union bours of Inbour, and conditions of work.
What the railwaymen and what every ed in old-rose crepe satin, trimmed with
authority among the nations of the world. Government, then visible on all sides, of this chaos by the National Union of diate settlement. Is there no prospect of pale old rose georgette; and wore black cures, at least, it would like to eliminate They saw no reason why the United calling for recruits for the Army and Railway men, who, even before the war, had that? Is it impossible to secure a settle velvet bats, trimmed with ostrich feathers. those as prosent held. No less a sum than States should give up, as they termed it, the Navy were, in themselves, a denial of begun, for this purpose, to formulate their ment, on a basis that would be both just
faith in the. League of Nations. One national programme. Their bouquets were composed of pink $1,200,000 is monopolised for the payment" the excellent precept. of minding its should not be surprised if the extensive before his Government, and it had been will now say to us,
At the beginning and lasting The answer is, as I said in of this year this
the Albert Hall. If the Prime Minister Mr. U. Gonella acted as "best sident, and if those in the employment of
of ziviers and to
recruiting campaign which the naval and
Bimself. the Cabinet are added the amount reaches
military authorities It was apparent, shortly after Presid throughout the country alarmed the waxa of 336, should be maintained until the other grades in the railway service the
were conducting agreed that existing wages, Ere influenced After the service, a reception was held
ent Wilson's visit to California, that, in public and led them to believe that by December 31st, 1910, and that, meantime, same principle that, the Government composed of the pre-war rates plus a war else, that he is prepared to concede ta by anybody at the Hongkong Hotel, where the usual
spite of the enthusiastic reception with entering the League they would be bind- negotiations for standardisation should themselves concede to the drivers and fire tonsts were drunk.
ing themselves to enter into military go forward. It was granted that there men. this strike could stop at once-" (Continuer · font of next column.) adventures in distant landa,
must, he in equalisation of rates,
Daily Exper
WEDDING AT ST. JOSEPH'S ·
CHURCH.
of Mr. Patrick R. Murray, of the China CONFUCIUS DESCENDANT DIES,
In
their
truc
M
as he did not raise his 'fident head of the English service, was Lloyd George-in the samą telegram-are that we have bad figures offered" cs
plotcet against -the
ar-
STANDARDISATION.
Chief Judge of H.B.M. Court at Zanziare prepared to discuss the question, and bar, has arrived. -
are preparing public opinion for what. versy accused President Wilson, more ankle before the entertain ever overtures they may make. By this or less,
toit menced, but very pluckily of being a party
Me Daniel Frawley as Yeats, the, con- means they aim at squaring the Chinese
10 50 fár before they present their ense to the
Mr. Herbert Far extremely realistic. League of Nations, but it is to be hoped voice that the snare will be too obvious for the rangement or make its abandonment on, the head of the German service, kept the audience thinking all the while. Chinese to give away potential rights as
was perhaps the most difficult part At St. Joseph's Church, yesterday represented by the verdict of the League a condition of the United States jo be play, and be acquitted bimself afternoon, the marriage was solemnised of Nationa
ing the League. As an American lady with great credit. pat it, "Americana will have nothing w Tonight, the Company is staging "The
Chorus Lady"! Mail Steamship Co., Shanghai, son of The death has just taken place of Duke do with a League which does not prevent Mr. R. R. Murray, of the Asiatic Petro. Kung, the 74th lineal descendant of Con protectorates. This seemed to sum up fucius and the only hereditary duke in leum Co., and Miss Louise. Chapman, China. His successor is C. F. Kuaz, who League of Nations when the Shantung popular opinion was turning against the
the drift of the argumente, against the
which he was met in the State, the tide of Btep-daughter of Mr. J. Gibson, of Kow-was one of the delegates the Paris loon. The young couple are very popular Conference. Posthumous honours will be issue came to the fore in America. More League of Nations for reasons, in most
conferred on the deceased, and the Pre- locally, and there was a large gathering sident will award a sam of $1,000 to his even than the Irish question, the discus Many even went is far na te den with the of friends at the ceremony to wish them relatives to defray the funeral expenses, sion regarding Shantung seemed to exer- League as a ruse of Ananciers to create war at will for their personal benefit. happiness. Fr. Augustine officiated.
cise considerable influence in raising a
They were of opinion that it was danger- The bride, who was given away by
Armistice day was honoured in Peking formidable wall of opposition against us to concentrate so much power as the her step-father, was attired in white chapel of the British Legation, those pre-
by a largely attended service in the the supporters of the Ledgue.
League seemed to possess in any single Batin trimmed with silk tassels and pink sent being mostly British and American
There were also others who regarded the organisation. They argued that those |directly responsible for the working of the and brocaded satin. She wore a wreath fethed by the King was observed, and an of policy. They were the adherents of the cars and erests war and peace at their These variations were repeated endlessly this misery apon the country! Why bas
residents. The two minutes silence en-League as worse than a mere departure League would become the tools of Snar
The desire of the world at
roses and maiden-hair ferns.
recs. ..man."
·AN. ELOQUENT. SILENCE.
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SINECUIES.
Parliament intends to abolish sine.
two millions. Parliament has addressed a communication to the Government de manding the stoppage of there payments. It is indeed a sweeping reform.
own busincaa."
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