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THE 37th ANNUAL

THE HONGKONG - DAILY PRESS

FRESCO FETE

OF THE

SOCIETY OF ST. VINCENT DE PAUL

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will be held in the compound of the

CATHOLIC CATHEDRAL

and the Playground "of the

OLD ST. JOSEPH'S COLLEGE

ON

SUNDAY, 5TH DECEMBER, 1920

Frox 8.30 to 11.30 rx.

Under the Distinguished Patronage of

H.E. the Governor and Lady Stubbs. H.E. Vicc-Admiral Sir A. L. Duff, X.C.B. H.E. Major-General F. Ventris, C.B. Commodore W. Bowden Smith, C.B.E.

Admission

$1

Soldiers and Bailors in uniform admitted free.

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The Grounds will be briliantly illuminated in the Evening.

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UBE FROM.

OUR LONDON LETTER. THE BEGINNING OF THE GREAT COAL STRIKE.

PUBLIC OPINION SOLIDEY AGAINST

THE MINERS 4-S

[FROM OUR OWN CORETEPONEKT-]

LONDON, October 31st Before this article is in print the cable will have informed you of the development of the national coal strike which began this week. It is to be hoped that in the meantime the strike will have come to an and, and that no legacy of bitterness and resentment will be left to rankle on either

FRIDAY, DKUEMBER MED. 1970.

GERMANY'S DEBT TO ALLIES.

M. POINCARE'S ARTICLE IN LE MATIN

INDO CHINA

STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY. LIMITED

MANILA

SAILINGS SUBJECT TO ALTERATON,

STRANTS & CALCUTT

In an article in La Matan, entitled "On darp ibe Blippery Slope M Poincare emphasises the cential characteristica of the indemnity problem from the French point of view. We and ourselves, ha writes before a debtor who, in reply Cour questione, said "I will pay you in a certain number of years?' which if you like we will call X, although mute as to the figure, However, Germany is prolix. He points out as to the manner of calculation she proposes to adopt. If we are to proceed to

she systerious signatknown quantity from her

moment my duty is to deal with the siste of opinion here as it exists at the outset.

side. But that remains to be seen. At the equation she c

in

SHANGHAI VIN SWA BRANIGHAL

HAIPHONG VA HUIHOW "NINGPO,"W_RAIwat, CHErco & DAY

KOBY

*YUENBẰNG* FL, 3rd Dec. 3 pm KWATSANG Bake the Dea., pm. KWONGSANG", nn th Dec, Dlight **OHOTSANGKA 4th Dec, D'ight. "LOKBANG MERA 8th Die 40 km CR BONGSHING "Thirty 9th Dec D'ight.

TATSHING," Thurn-fth. Doe, w'aigns

paid some 20 milliards of gold CALUUTTA LINK-This Lina affords regular ballings to Calenta, Penang and

Kind

and that if anything more,

Singapore; retorning from Calcutta ateamara proceed via Stratu and Hongkong to Japan, cocasionally calling at Shanghai All aboner have excellent passenger - ascommodation, Atted with Himtric light and laws and cany bla

of the struggle, which, if it goes on for is required it must be based on the ocoro some weeks, as is predicted, will become mic and financial capacity of Germany whe historic On the surface the strike is in will refuse to give any guarantee that will ejudico ber unsocial sovereignty. This respect of a wages claim; but in reality. Prei

condition, says Poincare is er SHANGHAI LINE -Sailings it is an attempt by the Miners Federation prusaly set forth in Germans second note to impose their will on the whole com- and constitutes a double violation of the munity

Peace Treaty The Treaty

MINERS IN TRUCULENT KOOD.

the amount of the debtipulates that

fired MANILA-

-between > Canbon-and approximately every five- Shanghal sometimes onling All Bwald through- Makete cam be obtained and through E0) 'di Tading

and Yangige Fong wikis Mistedim by vonsola with good

Forts via Bhika LINK ir suvios In'i

at

AIPHONG LINK-Salling approximately weekly) sbr. pamengers,

hen inducement calen LIVE BORNEO

Up to the last moment it was firmly according to the amount of damage done, boped that way would be found to end and that Germany's capacity to pay she the deadlock which had arisen between the be taken into consideration only for the Miners Federation and the Government purpose of giving her a more or less or Even this week with pite idle all over, the tended period over which to spread pay.. country there are optimists who believe that ment, The Treaty stipulates that the mesny of mediation will be forthcoming Reparations Commission shall verify Ger that will have the effect of shortening the many a budget and may at any time call TIENTSIN

and minimising the extent of the on her in the name of the Allied govern- Baker.

But the rank and file of the meats to vote chough taxes to place her miners are truculent In South Wales and taxpayers under at least as heavy a burdan which are as those of ang Allied nation. The whole some of the Scottish coalfields,

effort perpetual hotbeds of troubles directed against these two stipulations, and Germany is being systematically femper prevails.

As an indication of the gravity of the this as a moment when the experts of the situation it may be placed on record that League of Nations itself point out that the military leave was stopped as soon as the French taxpayer is now actually paying strike began, Officers and men on furlough twice as much as the German saxpayer. were recalled by telegram to their regi- Germany desires to bring about a modifica

menta.:

in The Guards are being concentrated | tion of the Treaty so that patead of having Arrangements are complete to appear before her judges she may insist for the dispatch of troops to mining areas in trying her own case.

in the event of a grave emergency arising. Coal exporte are prohibited with the result that shipping is held up. The country is on rations in regard to essential commedi ties; and in many other respects we have been suddenly thrust back again under the grim régime of wartime.

THE QUESTION AT ISSUE

GERMANY'S

CONCEALED

ARMS.

The Munich Cours on October 14th, con dembed to one year's imprisonment sailor Damed Kari Wagener on the charge of betraying military secrets. The segres he was found guilty of betraying vas secret stores of arme, and I betrayed

Several weeks ago in this correspondence I made it clear that the Miners' Federation were attempting to dictate policy to the Governmen

and through the Government to the country under cover of wages to the Inter-Allied Commission at

Munich. "no" stretch of exaggeration or misrepresentation of the facts can this strike be put forward as a conflict between Capital and Labour,

The Neue Berliner, Zeinnig, commenting on this strange verdict, ays the question whether to inform the Entente Commis The history of the dispute, in short com. sioner of concealed arms is one to be pass, is that Mr. Smillie, the Fresident of decided by every person according to his the Miners Federation, and Mr. Frank conscience. It is evident that there are Hodges, second that the exceptional the surrender of arms a to the still military secrets" in Germany, with

Jeaders, other framed a demand

otherwise they could not be betrayed. profits on exported coal, which are at pre-

diverted from the precisely as if constitutes a military secret would be

pitzen's pockets, workers in other

One aling: per month between Honglong and Sandakan b autoamer having ap-to-date accommodation for puissengers. Cargo taken on through Bill of Lading for Kanday Joelton Labuan, Tawao and Lahad Datuk

LINEA regalaz worries it run from March to November between Hongkong and Tientsin, calling at Welhafwel and Chefoo.

CALCUTTA

LINE.

“KWAISANG" will be despatched on or about

**

Dec., 4th, for SINGAPORE PENANG and CALCUTTA.

Through Bills of Lading issued to RANGOON, PORT SWETTENHAM, MADRAS and DUTCH EAST INDIES.

For Freight or Passago apply to-

Jardine Matheson & Co., Ltd.,

SENERAL MANAGERS

GLEN AND

Joint

SHIRE

of Steamers.

sent taken by the State in relief of taxa-material is carried out according to the tion, should be divided among the miners. Treaty there is nothing to be kept secret,

AS

fortresses, or regular Germany has no In that case the taxpayer would of course be called upon to make good the sums army, and neither can say may prepare war, an official explanation of what Exchequer to the

The welcame, answer is, of course, that, demanded that industries

not disarmed-an

U.K.-STRAITS CHINA ADSWCK tho large sums furnished by Excess Profits Germany is Duty

should be paid to their and not to which is supported in the Press, where the State. In effect the

claimed stories of the scoidontal discovery of con the right to say how the mines should be cealed arms are of daily occurrence.

A parti

is described particularly flagrant case rusad the profits distributed; their

the Vorwärts

who action was the first surportant step towards by correspondent of the realisation of their ultimate, aims gives an account of the discovery on the namely, the nationalisation of the coalfields.extale of Gellin, near New Stettin, of three 4in. feld howitzers, with equipment and EXPECTED A GOVERNMENT SURRENDER shells artfully bidden behind corn stacks.

miners

Un this careful summary of the essen tial facts one important point emerges which deserves to be noted by anybody who feels disposed to boy with the jen of na- tionalisation of industry. The miners never for a moment intended that the nation should reap any advantage from whatever profits were available. On the contrary they proposed to take over £30,000,000 as profits from exported coal and disburse it

among themselves. We have heard so much about greedy Capital ists taking an unfair share of the profits of industry that it might have been reason ably expected these enlightened Trade Unionists would have shown the world bow profits ought to be utilised. In the result We have simply a cynical object lesson in class selfishness. A strike to enforce such & proposal is nothing more or less than a strike against Democracy, It is in that light that the people of Great Britain regard it, and, so regarding it, they have ranged themselves solidly behind the Government in opposing the challenge of the miners,

There is no doubt hat the miners banked on the Government giving way. Conces sions were made on may previous occasions, especially during the war when no other course was possible and the notion had been established in Trade Union circles that it was only necessary to use enougir bluff to obtain almost

in a lonely barn. They had formed part of a battery of which the commander, Cap. tain Hasrichter, had surrendered four is pertigently asked what steps the district commission could have taken to lose sight of these three gone. Times.

.

infamed the miners, moro particularly the younger men, and persuaded them that more wages were easily to be ob tained by means of a strike. It is owing

activities the

of these

Red to extremists that the Government's proposal to refer the wages demand to an impartial tribunal was finally rejected. The last thing the extremists desire is a peaceful settlement,

What

Of course, is impossible to say how far Mr. Smillie or other leaders knew that this inflammable material was in the coal- fields when the demands were first launched against the Government last July, la certain is that before negotiations bad goce far Mr. Smillie discovered that passions had been aroused, which he was unable to allay Towards the finish he tried to make peace, and this lulled the public into a false sense of security, i was thought that a way to stop the strike. would

somehow be found, Mr. Baillie na peacemaker is like a man who sets the

Coal is to vital to anything, grouperity house slight and then takes credit for call

trade and of the country that Mr. "Emillie and his ing the Fire Brigade. Ha and others are friends were quite convinced they had the thoroughly frightened at the magnitude of whip hand of the Government tr

nment. They the disaster for which they are primarily that, rather than face a argued

strike responsible

under the most difficult circumstances of ZITECT ON TRADE.

the present time, the authorities would I is needless to say that in every part climb down. But they left out of their of the country the strike is regarded as calculations that there is a limit to everyt

things even to the extent to which a Coali catastrophe. It means that, not only tion Government can be intimidated I powerful section of organised about POSITION OF THE LEADERS.

will industry be thrown into chaos, but that France Italy, and other countries will be greviously injured as well as ourselves. It means that the one agency by which this The position of the miners' leaders country can recover trade is temporarily. throughout this crisis has been, variously hindered. It means hardship and suffer. represented in the Press. As a consequence ing among the minges of the people, includ

of the public. I realise the position of men thrown out of work: The price it a not well understood by the general ing the mizers themselves, and millions.

is to know something of the undercurrants ofoodstuffs must go up just af of Labour, polition. In certain quarters the

of

"down.

Mr. Smillie and his friends are painted in it comments when there was a prospect of FOR, WORKING ON OBUDE 4 lurid colours as would-be imitators." On the other hand, I find among em- Lenin; by others they are described as ployers there is a considerables section of BESIDUAL » 'OILS - OR - REFINEI

earnest advocates of peace.

opiafua that welcomes the conflict. They WAY to end the inter- PETROLEUM MANUFACTUREI 19 trath is that for years Mr. Smillio think that the only

seriven for nationalisation of coal min minabla demands for increased wages is ing. He tried hard to get the Trade to get to close grips with Labour. Thero Union CongresH to endorse this policy last has been a feeling in the country that year, but signally failed. Early in the sooner or later a fight would have to come, the present year he resumed his campaige and and that being so the sooner it came paved the way for the strike, In the mean- beter. In the engineering, trades em time for many months the mining districts ployee atato that they were unable to tender have swarmed with agitators, who care for new work because a new wage

derinne nothing for nationalisation, but are out for presented at any moment might take away a political-economic Revolution. These more than their profits on it has done in men are plentifully supplied with money may contracts in recent months. The bre probably obtained from Moscow, zehir thing to Lave business, they any, is Churchill hinted in a speech be delivered stability, and stability may come through at Dunder a few nights ago They have a strike and its failure for there in a

(Contenued as foot of neat coluven,)

general view that the miners will be beater:

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