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CABLES.

LATEST CABLES, (THROUGH RYUYER'S AGENCY,}

TRANCE'S MILITARY

STRENGTH.

. BRIAND'S CLAIM FOR HIS,

COUNTRY.

PARIS, February 7th.

A Havas message says:-

The Chamber of Deputies has adopted a Bill authorising the French Government

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, MARCH 52#. ~1920.

FARLIER CABLES.

ADRIATIC DISPUTE OUTLINE OF ALLIES” SETTLE-

MENT.

CIVIL SERVICE SALARIES. NEW RATES FOR BRITISH

**MALAYA,

.

BZADE 3

S.S

..... 83

Land

nita Singap

FMS.

LEVY ON WAR WEALTH.

COMPANY. REPORT. SUGGESTIONS BY BOARD OF THE GREEN ISLAND CEMENT

Protector of Chinese S.S. Public Trustee *- -** INLAND REVENUE.

JOHN CO., LTD.

Assistant Colonial Subject to audit, she Directors of the In a latter to the Secretary of State, Auditor General

Secretary Lownow, February 27th, Green Island Cement Co., Ltd., will re WASHINGTON, February 27th.

The Board of Inland Revenus, in a pronte at the forthcoming meeting of

Collector, commend the following allocation of forwarding the report of the Public Ser

Revento Correspondence on the Adriatio ques-memorandum, furnishes striking figures, shareholders, to be held on 20th inst Malaya, Sir Arthur Young, then Gov-Telegrapha

vice Salaries Commission of British Director, Fosts and To tion is published. It reveals that "the estimating the net increase in with

pay a Dividend of 80 cents per share

District Judge and Memorandum of December 9th-last, sign-between 1914 and 1919 at £1,000,000,000 Te write off Launches and

-$320,000.00ernor of the Colony, modified the salary To place to Reserve Fund....

la Magistrato 50,000.00 sale recommended by the Commission, District Officer ed by France, Great Britain and the which £250,000,000 is estimated to have Lighters (an additional)

Da 50,000.00) and recommended the following rates:—— United States gave Italy, control over been made by 990 individuala,

To bonus to Provident Fund... 25,000.00

District Judge and To bonus to Works Hanager: “

Year of Salary

Magistrate It is suggested that the war Javy should

on his retirement.

10,000.00

Service, monthly. District Judge. 300,000 Jugo-Slavs inhabiting territory

Aud to carry forward to the

Public Trustee Credit of next year's socount 114,843.91

Registrar, Supremo

Coart

to call up the whole of the 1020 clasa for overlapping the Istrian frontier, while primarily be charged upon individuale

military, Barvice........

In the course of the debate. Briand aid it was absolutely necessary that France shows that she intended to main tain her military strength. Both France's former enemies and her friends should be given to understand that she intended to play a leading part in diplomacy. She too proud to ask her friends for charity. It was her duty to say that she

must have ber rights.

·EARLIER CABLES.

FRENCH RAILWAY STRIKE. SERIOUS EXTENSION OF MOVEMENT.

PARIS, Feburary 27th. The railway strike considerably extend-

40,000 Italians would be placed under the League of Nations. Fiume would be made a free State under the League of 30th, 1914, and June 30th, 1919. Nations, the cities of Flume and Zara to get complete autonomy; Italy to get the mandate for Albania, and Greece to con- trol certain undefined territory.

starting from a clear comparison of two aggregate capital values fixed at June

The Memorandum described the provi-

Returns of the value as well as of the sources of wealth would have to be made by the tax-payer.

The Board suggests that the detection

$589,843.21

INDO-CHINA DEFERRED.

A correspondent in a London paper who writes over the signature of "Orient" fecalls the rumour that the Indo-China Steam Navigation Co. was to be absorb- ed by the P. & O., on the basis of £75 heavyThis rumour was denied and the shares

VOTES FOR WOMEN. "SECOND · READING OF LABOUR

sions as giving Italy full satisfaction. of wilful evasion should result in the re-for each Indo-China, Deferred share The new agreement of January 14th pro-covery of the duty due pad also

penalties and imprisonment. vided that Fiume would be an indepen- dent State and the boundary between Italy and the Slovene State would be re-drawn, as would be the so-called "Wil- on line," in the region of Benoseccia, with a view to protecting Trieste. Italy would retain Valons and take the Alban- jan, mandate, but Gretos would get Koritza and Argyrokastron.

President Wilson's Note, of January ad this morning. The Nord and Est 10th, protesting against the arrangement, yem are now affected and the suburban declared that unless the terms of the Barvice is practically parslysed. The settlement returned to the provisions of Geneva station is choked with packing the agreement of December 9th he would cases destined for the Lyons Fair which is seriously consider withdrawing the Treaty opening on March lat. The Cabines has | of Versailles and the French Treaty from He inquired whether the approved a reduction of the meat courses the Benste. in restaurants owing to the strike and British and the French intended in future to settle pending European questions and has proposed to obtain power to requisi- then communicate the result to the United

States. tion motors.

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UNPOPULAR WITH THE PEOPLE.

· LATER. The latest news from France shows that the railway strike is spreading. Owing to the seriousness of the situation, M. Millerand bas bastily journeyed from London to Paris. The Government has decided to mobilise all the strikers. It is feared that a general strike throughout the country will begin i to-morrow.

.measures.

The strike is unpopular and the public' will support the Government's strong The trouble originated by the suspension of one carpenter who left work without permission, but the extremists' leaders are now demanding nationalisa tion. They declare tas strike is the be ginning of a Soviet movement. It is note worthy that the General Federation of Labour is withholding recognition.

LATEST CABLES.

EFFECT OF STRIKE ON THE BOURSE.

PARIS, February 27th.

A...

A Havhs message says:-- M. Millerand came back from London and had conferences with the delegates of the National Federation of Railroad- men.

M. Millenand said to the journalists: "I should like nothing better than to aid those responsible. I know that they must stand by one another, but they know that the Government will do its duty.

The general strike order has not been. issued. Many delegates are thinking of asking for arbitation. The strike had little effect apon the Paris Bourse. There was, however, a falling off in orders. Quota- tions were Arm

AMERICAN RAILROAD BILL BROTHERHOODS PETITION TO

PRESIDENT.

Watkinorox, March 1st Representatives of the Railway Brother hoods have deposited a petition at White House requesting President Wilson to yeto the compromise on the Railroad Bill

NEW YORK: DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION.

SUPPORTS PEACE TREATY RATIFICATION.

ALBANY, Maroh 1st. The New York Democratic State Con- tention bas, declared for the immediate ratiscation of the Peace Treaty without destructive reservations, the adjustment of relations between Capital and Labour in order to end strikes and lock-oute, and

a speedy repeal of Federal Prohibition. NEW SECRETARY OF STATE, IN SYMPATHY WITH PRESIDENT WILSON B VIEWS,

NEW YORK, March 1st. Mr. Bainbridge Colby, in an interview, tand that he was thoroughly in accord with the League of Nations and all the other views of President Wilson.

OBITUARY.

PARIS, February 27th. A Havas message saying The death is reported of General Roques, formerly French War Minister and explorer, who died at Dieulast yester-

PARTY'S BILL:

LONDON, February 27th- The House of Commone unanimously passed the second reading of the Labour Party's Bill enfranchising women similar ly to men: This means a reduction of the age qualification of women voters from 30 to 21 years and the addition of Ave million voters to the Register.

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THE IRISH QUESTION. CARDINAL LOGUE REJECTS SINN FEIN.

"ONDON, February 27th.

A telegram from New York states that

have since fallen to 83. "It seems to me that £75 would be a very modest valua tion for these Deferred shares. The 1918 balance-sheet showed paid-up capital, reserve funds, and balance of revenue account amounting to £2,631,100 Deduct £247,945 for the Preferred Ordinary capi tal and £3,583,063, of over £48 per share, is loft as the value of the Deferred. The Acet stood in the balance sheet at £671,910, or £7 8 9d. per too, whereas the current Tale of shipping is nearer £25 per ton. If we take £90 per ton as a fair valuation for the company's feet, this would make the Deferred, worth over £10. Whether it has an excellent business. the company is eventually absorbed or not,

COST OF LIVING IN MALAYA.

ODIOUS COMPARISONS,

In the course of its report, the Public Service Salaries Commission of British Malaya,, whose report," by the way, has been accepted in the min by the Secre- tary of State, says:

1-It is a complete fallacy to com- (a) paid in Great Britain;

Great Britain and France, on February Cardinal Logue, in the course of a state-pare a salary of £1,000 when 17th, replied that there was no foundament, disavows Bion Fein. He advocates tion for President Wilson's assumption

that the new settlement involved capitala a union of Ireland with the British Em

ion to Italy. Thoy emphasized the

advantage conceded to Jago Elavia, which pire on Dominion lines, but opposer dual was given control of 150,000 more nationals Parliamentary control.

under the original proposal. than Finally, Great Britain and France found ARMOURED CARS IN DUBLIN. difficulty in understanding the present attitude of the United States, and hoped

DEAL IN CANCELLED NOTES. that their explanations would lead to a re-consideration of President Wilson's position.

-SETTLEMENT BY DIRECT NEGOTIATION

LONDON, February 27th. It is understood that the Supreme

Council has made progress towards a possible aettlement of the Adriatic, que tion by direct negotiations between the Italian and Jugo-Blav delegates It is reported that Signor Nitti has expressed his readiness to negotiate.

GERMAN WAR CRIMINALS: EX-KAISER NOT TO BE BANISHED.

LONDON, February 27th. The Daily Mail reveals a plot whe cancelled £100 sterling bank notes Ita being recirculated and cushed.

The practice is to cancel the notes by perforation and by tearing off the lower right hand corner.

ván examination shows that the circulated notes are most skillfally paired.

(b) expressed in sterling and paid in Straits dollars at a dollar value of

8. 4. as in Malaya;

(c) expressed in sterling and largely or altogether paid in Hongkong dollars at dollar value of Is. Bd. n in Hongkong;

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(d) expressed in sterling and paid in rupees st, say, a rupee value of Is. Bd. or 1 ed. as in India or Ceylon. 2-A shiling in Great Britain and a rupce in India or Ceylon have very much the same purchasing value as a dollar in Malays.

3-Malaya is, sport from its high monetary anit, a very expensive country the large towns: practically all Euro- for a European to live in, especially in

pean non-edible requirements are import- ed.

red-Malaya is not a suitable country for the poor white; unless a European re- can earn a wage on which he is able to live decently as a European should be merely brings discredit and contempt upon the British community; this posi Government officers! tion is greatly intensified in the case of

As a counter-move the municipal autho rities are cutting off the light Armoured cars and wagons equipped with search

"LONDON, February 27th. The Daily Telegraph states that the idea of banishing the ex-Kaiser to a re- mote island has been abandoned, and that lights, are nightly patrolling Dublin. Holland is now considering removing him

from Amerongen to a spot further from THE CAIRO-TU-CAPE FLIGHT. the frontier.

OBJECTION TO FOREIGN TRIAL

45

5-Marriage necessarily entails in Malaya much greater proportionate in "crease of expenses than it does in Great Britain

In a covering letter, Sir Arthur Young. COMPETITORS' PROGRESS who recently retired from the Governor- hip of the Colony, anys I think that BERLIN, February 27th.

LONDON, February 27ths in the second observation the Commission Von Ludendorff, von Tirpitz, voa Falkenhayn, von Kluck, Manteugel and is:-Cockerell has left Kisumu for

The position in the Cairo to Cape fight overstate the case. With the Inst three

observations. I agree.” others have issued a declaration refusing Tabors; the Silver Queen has arrived at to appear before any foreign, Court, but Kisumu; the Service Vickers-Vimy bas agreeing to trial by a German Court.

RUSSIAN PRACE OFFER. PORTION OF FOREIGN DEBT TO BE RECOGNISED.

NEw Youx, February 7th,

arrived at Asuan; the D.H., 14, men- JAPANESE TROOPS NEEDED tioned on the 4th instant, crashed down

IN SIBERIA. at Sant Euphemia, Italy and the Handley-Pago damaged at Shereik, d

has been irreparably

A JAPANESE NEWSPAPER'S

VIEW.

Unpassed Cadets

Provided that if a Cadet has passed the pre- scribed examinations, —before the completion of 3 years be receives a salary of $350 per

mensen

After completing 3 years and having passed the prescribed examina- tions.

Ulsen V.

Efficiency Bar.

Class IV.

Class III.

Efficiency Bar.

Class II.

Je décide d

974

873 $75

Singapore ...Kinta *****, Klang.

Penang

Senior District

Officer

Singapore FJS.

Singapore

P. Wellesley

Solicitor General ... 5.S.

F.M.S.. Perak

Secretary to High

Commissioner Socretary to Resident

Do..

Chief Justice

To remain

în Class II.

sa pro-

posed by

Selangor | Sit Arthur

SUPERME COURT,

S.S.

Six Puisne Judges... S.S

:ཝཱ;

Inspector General of

Police

Young.

2,000

Chief Judicial Com-

missioner

F.M.S

... 1,800

400

Senior Puisne Judges.

*** 1,300

450

575

Judicial Commia-

and

1,900

500

sioners

FALS

Attorney-General ..... S.S.

1,600

39%

OTHER HIGH APPOINTMENTY.

850

10.

875

Director of

11.

G00

Agricultor 1

F.M.S.

12.

Director of

•1,050

Efficiency Bar.

External Audit

FI

13.

700

Master Attendant ...

B.S.

950

14.

Principal Civil

15.

750

Medical Officer

នង ·

16.

775

Principal Medical

1,200

17.

800

Officer

FMS.

Senior Warden of

895

Mines

...1,050 or

19.

850

1,900

900

ទន

1,800

945 950

1,900

FMS.

1,200

S.S.

* 1,200

$,000

Chief Resident Engi-

neer for "Construc-

tion, Railways

1,350

Perak

·1,060

Do

Selangor

920

Deputy Colonial En-

gineer

Penang

950

Warden of Mines

Selangor.

850

Paral

$50

1,050

1,080

Hereafter, promotion by selection. 13I would make the two grades or

subdivision of Class I. as follows: ----

GRADE A.

Balary $1,400 per mansen. Treasurer, Straits Settlements. Salary $1,300 per mensem. Commissioner of Trade and Oustoms, F.M.S..

|

Controller of Labour. Director of Education.

Legal Adviser and Public Prosecutor, r.M.S.

Commissioner

of Police Director, Public

it

Works Colonial Engineer and Surveyor- General

General Manager of ."

Railways

State Engineer

Do

Medical Appoint

menta, Clias A

Bailway Department

Appointments,

Grade A

Appointments Grade B

Auditor General, F.M... Postm ments.

General Straits Settle Railway Department

Registrar of Companies and Official Assignee, Straiïta. Settlementa.

Resident, Malaces, plus $100 per month THE CIVIL SERVANT'S CODE. entertainment allowance.

Treasurer, F.MS Under Secretary to

GRADE B

In the course of a letter to the Secre-

Government, tary of State, accompanying the report.

of the Public Service Balarica Commis sion, Sir Arthur Young say

...

Salary $1,100 per month. Assistant Colonial Secretary, Straits. Settlements.

Auditor-General, Straits Settlements. Collector of Land Revenue, Singapore Director, Posts and Telegraphs, F.M.S. District Judge and First Magistrate, Singapore.

District Officer, Kinta District Officer, Klang. District Judge and First Magistrate, Penang

District Judge, Singapore.

Registrar, Supreme Court, Singapore. Senior District Officer, Province Welles Hey:

For the purpose of the preparation of a suitable salary scheme, the Commissions have sarumedaix postulates. They are, set forth in paragraph 25 of the report. and are as follows:-

and retain a good and suitable type of 1. That Government wishes to obtain

European officer.

2-That Government is willing to pay him enough to enable him to live, in whatever post he may be, at auch a stand- ard of comfort that he may support pro perly the status of his position and be free from financial temptation or worry

3-That he is not supposed to rely on any private means for his maintenance. 4.That he can earn a reasonáhle pen- sion.

5.That he is not condemned to a life of celibacy but will, if he behaves himself and is efficient, he at a reasonable age in a position to marry, to maintain his wife and children and educate the latter after a certain age up to a certain age la Europe.

6.That he is given sufficient means to

intervals."

on leave with his family at suitable With these views I entirely agree

Bolicitor-General, Straits Settlements. The Secretary of State, in replying, said:-You have already been informed. by my telegram of December 8th, that approve report, as modified by Bir A. Young's despatch, subject to certain alterations which have appeared to me to be necessary. I consider that the salaries A further message says that the Hand

for the higher appointments have been Jey Page machine crashed down five miles

fixed at rates somewhat too high, and I After recapitulating the answers of the annex & table showing the salaries which. miles north of Bhoreik Station. The Ministers of State to interpellations in I am prepared to approve. It will be The Associated Press Washington cor-machine cannot be repaired, though the the Diet regarding the reason for the noticed that the reductions, except in the respondent says the Soviet new peace engines are not injured. No one was maintenance of the Japanese garrison in esse of the higher posts, are of a very proposal, mentioned yesterday, pledges hurt. the establishment of democratio principles

Siberia, the Osaka Mainichi says that the moderate character." I have made no question is not when the troops should reduction in the rate recommended for withdrawn but how the peace of the post of General Manager of Railways, Siberia can be prometed. While amist high though it is, in view of the beary ing in the restoration of equilibriam in and increasing responsibilities entailed Siberia, the Japanese troops should faci by the great railway system which has THE SHIPMENTS OF SILVER litate the establishment of commercial now grown up, and which is bound to be

TO CHINA. relations between Japanese and Russians greatly extended in the future.

Those who favour immediate with="

The schedule approved is as follows:- drawal of the Japanese army should turn

Salary per mensen their attention to the services rendered by the Japanese garrisons in Hankow and

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other places in North Chins and Man churia, where they are ensuring the cafety of peaceful activities. The garrisons are needed even in a country which has & legitimate Government, and the mainten- ance of the Japanese army in Siberia, British Resident⠀

in Russia, the convocation of a Constito LONDON TO MELBOURNE AIR

ent Assembly, the withdrawal of the the extent of the re establishment of sixty decree annulling Russia's foreign debt to per cent of her liabilities and also the Payment of arrears of interests, guaran- teed by considerable platinum and silver mining concessions to an Anglo-American Byndicate."

The Soviet requires Great Britain and other countries to abandon intervention in Russian affairs and also proposes that the United States grant credit to Russia in consideration of large expccasions.

OLPAND AND RUSSIA. PRESIDENT ON HIS WAY TO LONDON.

LONDON, February 27th.

TRIP.

CAPT. ROSS AMITH WINS £10,000 PRIZE

MELBOURNE, February 27th Capt. Rows Smith, after a number of delays in Australia, finally completed the fight from London 'to Melbourne. £10,000 at a gala reception.

He was presented with a cheque for

TELEGRAPHIC DELAYS. INTERRUPTION OF PACIFIC CABLES.

LONDON, February 7th The Eastern Telegraph Company

where anarchiam reigns, is necessary not only to that part of Rumia but to Japan and China. It is regrettable that over

Appointm

Chief Secretary..... Colonial Secretary

Resident Councillor British Resident

·Da Do 1,000 Japanese soldiers have been killed General Adviser are inevitable Up to the beginning of Do. or died in Siberia but caenalties in war British Adviser February no less than 56,400 persons had

allowance as

recommended by

THE REASON FOR SECRECY.

The following information, on

Salaries Commission) authority of Financial America, is quoted by Messrs. 6. Montagu & Co. in a recent F.M.S..

2,900 1,750 silver, circular... Perak Penang Selangor,

Pahang

Johore

Kedali

Kelantan

Do

Treasurer

ngganu CLAEN L. (GWATYR, A.)

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FMR.

EMA

EMS.

Fanda

1,300 1,450

450 Published reports of shipments of 11,400 silver dollars to China, which give the 1,400 total to date as $15,000,000, are incurrect, Negri Sembilan 1,200 according to trustworthy authority. The shipments which are wade- under an 1,300 #greement between the Treasury Depart 1,050 ment and the Federal Reserve Boned with 1,000 the Asia Banking Corporation, the Inter

national Banking Corporation, and the Park Union Foreign Banking Corpora 1,300 tion participating will not be annguner

sither as to the time of shipment or se

mounts The reason for the secreco maintained with regard to shipments because of the banking situation which exists in Shanghai and Hongkong. The financial machinery in either of them cities in under the control of the Chines 1200 Government, but in dominated by an

side interest. Fall information with regard to the amount which will be ski ned" under the agreement, either as to amount or time, might prove harmful to the object of the shipments, which is tr stabilise American exchange in the Chinese market

A Paris newspaper states that 1nounce that there will be temporary Paderewski is journeying to London to de'ays owing to congestion due to an acquaint the Supreme Council of the interruption of the Pacific cable died in Japan from influenza, yet neither views of Poland as regards the questionsan de of peace with Soviet Russia

the Romresentatives nor the Peers in the BRITAIN IN WORLD CARRY- Diet have urged the necessity of taking

TAIN IN FATE OF CONSTANTINOPLE.

ING TRADE.

special sanitary measures, though they Commissioner of Are making nfnes over the occurrence of Commisomer of ALLIES DECISION MADE KNOWN.

ENTERPRISE OF THE CUNARD

1,000 maaltientmong the Japanese LINE:

Trade and Customs troops in Biberia

Controller of Labour The remarks of the Premier, the War Director of Education Minister, and the Foreign Minister in Legal Adviser and drawal of the American expedition was Auditor General the Diet were to the point. The with Public Prosecutor due not a little to the fact that it was Postmaster General 8.5. dient to enlist new recruits, and it Registrar of Com it clear that Japan stokis in a position different from that of America in regard tendent

panio to Rusin It is impossible not to Fee the wisdom of hurrying to follow the American Campbe

CONSTANTINOPLE, February 26th,

The French and Italian High Commis-

LONDON, February 27th, sioners and similarly Admiral de tine is making Hamburg a port of ca

The announcement that the Canned Robeck, have informed the Forte of the is regarded as evidence of the Britisbers Pence Conference's decision as regards great bid for the world's carrying trade Constantinople, and warned it as regards Hitherto, the Hamburg New York trade the consequences of further misrule, was a State Jobudised German monopoly

Allied circles believe this will dianel The Cunard Line is now negotiating doubts of the Allies accord and further for the purchase of a large docking space imprem Eko Tark.

at Hamburg

(Malacca. AFME

Under Secretary to make