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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS WEDNESDAY, MARCH AND, 1321.
GERMANS PREPARE
+3
SURPRISE:
DELEGATE'S ANNOUNCEMENT IN LONDON.
LIQUOR
ON
SHIPS:
FORBIDDEN IN AMERICAN PORTS.
TYPHUS PREVENTION, STRINGENT MEASURES AT NEW FORK..
Now Yonx, February 8th. The stringency of the anti-typhus pre- European cautions is being increased. passengers are prevented from landing until accommodation is available at the quarantine island. To-day, 750 passen gars were sent to Hoffman's Island for observation.
IMPERIAL CUSTOMS
.CONFERENCE
ADVANTAGES OF UNIFORM CERTIFICATE.
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THE TASTE FOR OPIUM. THE EXPERIENCË OF BURMA, The following is from the Raport of the Administration of the Excise Depart ment in Burma, during the year ended the 31st March last:-
AGITATION IN EGYPT. OVER MR. CHURCHILL'S SPEECH,
LONDON, February 28th. There has been considerable" agitation in Egypt over a summary of Mr. Churchill's speech at the banquet to Lord Reading, cabled on the 13th inst., attri buting to Mr. Churchill a statement that Egypt was a part of the Empire---
It appears that what "Mr. Churchill said" was that this principle (common consultation among the members of the British Empire) would be found to have
- SUPREME COURT DECISION. its usefulness in ralaion to countries and
WASHINGTON, March 1st. nations as für spart and as widely dif
The Supreme Court has decided that LIQUOR ON SHIPS. ferent as Ireland and Egypt; while, after
referring to the late Mr. Campbell Ban- the Lever Anti-Profitearing Act is uncon- RESTRICTIONS UNDER U.S. PRO-
norman's solution of the difficulties institutional, although the Government has HIBITION ACT..
South Africa, bo expressed couidance that availed itself of it many times. WASHINGTON, March 1st.
in a few years our present difficulties Supreme Court, also, decided that the The Assistant Secretary of Treasury would be greatly diminished, and that Federal Farm Loan Act is constitutional announces instructions to Customs collec nations now a reproach and stumbling Loans to farmers aggregating millions of being closed for two years for reconstruc- considers that amdtig Burmins 'residing
LONDON, February 28th. The Imperial Customs Confereres held
No very definito conclusion can be formed from the district reports whether its first meeting to-day at the Board of
Australasia, Canada, South there is any increase or decrease in the Trada. Africa, Newfoundland, India, and other taste for opium. I have made careful colonies were represented. Sir Robert personal inquiries while on tour during Horne, presiding, outlined the advantages the last few months and the general U.S. ANTI-PROFITEERING ACT of the adoption of a uniform Imperial opinion seems to be that the majority of
U.S. NAVAL
POLICY:
“SECOND TO NONE."
LÄTEST CABLE 18.
THROUGH RIUTER'S AGENCY.}
LONDON CONFERENCES.
GERMANS PROMISE SURPRISE FOR
THE WORLD.
LONDON, March 1st
tora making effective the decision of the Department of Justice, which had been
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Burma consumers of opium, who are not registered, are over the age of forty. In BRITISH IRON AND STEEL most cases these consumere allege that they take opium for purely medical rea- TRADES.
FURNACES TO BE RE-STARTED.
LONDON, February 28th. Amid the prevailing gloom in the iron and steel trades a welcome ray of sun-supplies. shine comes from the Teeside, where, after
tion, the first steel furnace of the North Eastern Steelworks was re-started. It is understood that more furnaces will be
block to the supreme cause that the Eng dollars have been withhold panding the found managing their affairs within the LABOUR DENUNCIATION OF starting shortly. lish-speaking, union has at heart, may be decision.
slastle circle of the British Empire
A large, silent crowd at Victoria with withheld as a result of the representa .nessed the arrival of the German delegations of the British Embassy, on behalf
tion to the momentous Reparations Con-
of certain exporters and shipping authori. ference. The full, personnel of the Emties who protested against the depart E X-SERVICE
bassy, headed by the German Ambas mador, Herr Sthamer, met the delegates. It was the largest gathering of Germans at one spot in London since the war. German thoroughness was illustrated by the fact that the delegates brought their own electricians and mechanics to install extra telephones and other business re- quisites.
The first meeting at which the Germans will state their case will be held at mid-
day in the State dining-room at Lancaster House, formerly, Stafford House, and the British; French, Japanese, Italian and Belgian representatives will attend. The Allies will later, consider Herr
Simons' statement.
von
will then
Mr. Lloyd George-who possess Marshal Fock and Field-Marshal Sir Henry Wilson's report, definitely out- Lining what is to be done if it is necessary to carry out the sanctions will announce the Allies' decision as regards the coun tor-proposals on the resumption of the conference at
St. James' Palace to
morrow.
The Germans were evidently impressed with the extent of the counter-proposals.
ment's interpretation of the Prohibition Act.
(The Department of Justice has decided that no ship transporting liquor from one foreign port to another may call at an American port. The decision will, if strictly carried out, prevent the entry of any passenger liner having & bar, even though the contents are sealed.]
U.S. NAVAL POLICY.
CONFERENCE.
MEN'S
FIRST EMPIRE GATHERING AT
CAPETOWN.
CAPETOWN, February 28th. The first Empire Conference of ex- Service men, for which Earl Haig travel- led to South Africa, has opened.
General Smuts, in an eloquent speech, "SECOND TO NONE."
declared that the object of the Conference DETROIT, March 1st. was to perpetuate the war-time spirit of The Secretary of Navy, Mr. Denby, comradeship and also to promote the has not taken long to define the new
welfare of ax-Service-men. He hoped Clovernment's intentions as regards naval the Conference would help and advise policy. A statement issued by him says Governments thereon, especially as it was that the objective will be to have a navy the true and honest desire of all the second to none, trained to the minute Empire's Governments and peoples to do and with the best material. It is added their utmost to meet cases of hardship.
that, while it does not fear war with any Power, the United States' peculiar situa- tion justifies a strong first line defence.
NEW UNITED STATES
ADMINISTRATION..
Earl Haig, who was given an ovation, dwelt on the Empire spirit which linked British troops from all parts of the world during the war. That meeting was the first open acknowledgment of the bond forged by common risks, hardships and APPOINTMENT OF SECRETARY OF sacrifices, and the first step was to form
WAB.
an Empire Legion to bind all ex-Service men together.
NEW YORK, March 1st.
The President-elect, Mr. Harding, has One delegate told a Daily News repre-appointed Mr. John W. Weeks as Secre sentative that the magnitude of the Ger-tary of War. -man offer will astonish the world.
Dr von Simons, in the meanwhile, is maintaining silency. Ho declared that the Cabinet has definitely instructed him not to make a statement for publication,
Mr. Weeks wOH candidate in the Republican Presidential nomination in
1918.
M
COAL INDUSTRY CRISIS.
SOVIET.
AMERICAN FEDERATON'S
MANIFESTO.
WASHINGTON, March 1st, The American Fedoration of Labour bas issued a manifesto furiously denouncing the Soveit's ruthless tyranny in the sya- tematic extermination of organised workers, instancing the refusal of bread- cards to the families of strikers, the death sentences, and the prohibition of speeches at Labour meetings. ·
AMERICAN SHIPPING.
EMBARGO DECISION.
WASHINGTON, February 28th. The Supreme Court has decided that merchant, vessels in the service of the United States or belonging to friendly States may libeled (isid under embargo pending legal proceedings) in American porte.
PERSIAN PREMIER'S
PROCLAMATION.
FATE OF ANGLO-PERSIAN
POSITION IN GEORGIA...
BOLSHEVIKS OCCUPY TIFLIS.
CONSTANTINOPLE, February 28th.
The Collector of Rangoon thinks that the opium habit appears to be steadily declining especially amongst Burmans, who end it increasingly difficult to obtain
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In Bacin the Deputy Commissioner
in the healthy parts of the district, the habit of opium consuming is gradually declining owing to the operation of the following casca
(1.)-Tho prohibitive price of illicit opium;
The distrust of the Burman by the Chinaman from whom supplies must be obtained; and·
(3) The social stigin attaching to opium consuming In the sen board, The Bolsheviks occupied Tiflis on Fri-villages of the district, however, whers"
day.
The Georgian Government has withdrawn to Kutais.
In response to the Kemalists' demands. the Georgians have evacuated Artvin and Ardahan.
U.S. TARIFF BILL.
WASHINGTON, February 28th. The Senate has approved the Fordney Emergency Tariff Bill.
the Arakanese element is strong and elimatic conditions are particularly un- healthy, consumption of opium is com mon and the people regard it as an anti- dote to fever.
The Deputy Commissioner, Amherst,. fears that further restriction on opium allowances may induce consumers to sub- stitute alcohol in place of opium to some" "extent. This be regards as a very un-· desirable contingency. The Superinten- dent of Excise notes that "there is no race on earth which does not use some stimulant, and it seems that opium is peculiarly suited to the Eastern tempera- inent and does far less harm than any other, certainly less than alcohol. Fur-- thermore he repeats from last year's re-
FAR EASTERN CABLE port that in many cases opium should
NEWS.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.} FRENCH BANKS IN THE FAR EAST.
PARIS, March 1st.
The recent mission to China of the former Premier, M. Painleye, is result ing in French financial circles having their attention called to China'a splendid possibilities. Leading French business banks are now participating in the A message from Teheran says that the new Banquo Industrielle de Chine, which
AGREEMENT.
PARIS, February 28th.
not be regarded as a luxury, but as a necessity. People who know nothing of the East and derive their ideas about opium from the fantastic misrepresenta- tíons current in fiction may regard opium as an unmitigated evil but those who live ia the country and have much to do with the people and know what malaria is and something of the lives of many who have to work under extreme hardship, such as timber extractors and tin miners, have more sympathy and understanding, and most of them will agree that opium is a necessity of life in many cases, that its beneficent chcete outweigh its evil ones, and that to cut it off entirely or even to reduce it much below its present point would inflict an amount of hard- ship wholly out of proportion to any benefit, obtained." On which the Deputy Commissioner remarks: "1. ngroo with the Superintendent that there are cases, of hard manual work in malaria- atricken tracts, where doses of opium are attention to: planning and carrying out a necessity, and I do not think there is justification for ruthlessly cutting down the allowances of existing smokers, but public works in China.—Havas."
I certainly should not approve of any- thing that would legitimatize smoking amongst Burmans and would scrutinize most carefully any claims by members of other races."'
A letter conveying good wishes wastead Premier has issued a Proclamation out-specializes in the Eastern held. The lining the reorganisation of the army, Banque Paris et Pays Bas, is heading from H.M." the King.
redistribution of lands, and reforms in that group which intends devoting special. the administration of justice. He de- clares that the Anglo-Persian Agreement will not be maintained, that the Russo- Persian Agreement will be signed- and |that the Capitulations will be abolished.
THE IRISH UPHEAVAL.
SINN FEINERS SHOT IN PAIRS. LONDON; February 28th. The six Sina Feiners, executed at Cork, wore shot in pairs.
The news of the
WARWICK COMEDY
CO.
A "BERNARD SHAW” PLAY.
The Warwick Comedy Company opened
In Tavor and Mergui, both of which
yet a factor, not overlooked by the Allies EFFECTS OF TRADE DEPRESSION.executions caused a sensation in Dub, BRITISH COLLEGE IN PARIS. their return visit to Hongkong, last are mining districts and in both of which
in connection with the settlement of the
reparations question, is the attitude, of
LONDON, March 1st. where there was great military activity. The paralysing effects of the trade de- The National University was occupied by the new American Administration, which pression are complicating the difficulties troops, whe searched students. Many may" enu the state of war with Germany, of the coal problemu. A fall in the out offices in Sackville Street were also and puso acad commercial reativas, and put and, in consequence, slackness of searched. woшu then most Laery" frown most v.u-business have obliterated the whole of SOLDIERS KILLED IN REVENGE
lenuy
the French occupation plans in the wage advances of 42 per shift the event of German perverseness. secured by the miners, in the November
strike settlement.
FRENCH PREMIER'S
SATISFACTION.
PARIS, February 25th.
LONDON, March 1st.
ENTHUSIASTIC RECEPTION OF
PROJECT.
also
night, with Mr. Bernard Shaw's play the population is of a very mixed nature, "Arms and the Man." The company the Deputy Commissioners express the gave an admirable presentation of this opinion that the taste for opium is on the interesting, play which the author calls increase,
The district reports, generally, con- 10 "anti-romantic PARIS, Fibruary 25th.
comedy." -Mr. Barnard Shaw's satirical vein is at its firm the view that, while there is prac The French Government has placed at richest in such a play as this. Written tically no decrease in the taste for opium the disposal of Paris University & large long before the great war, it tears away amongst Chinamen, the difficulties of the veil of romance from those scenes of securing supplies and the high price of illicit opium, the competing attractions plot of ground for establishing in Paris"mud, blood and misery" which every
combatant found to be a delusion before of the liquor shops and the contempt that Evidently in revenge for the execution a British College. The idea is receiving be had been many days on the other is attached to the beinan have all o
Romanticism at Cork yesterday morning of the Sinn the heartiest support on both sides of side."
in love
tributed to reduce the consumption of Twenty-two thousand miners, are idie Feiners condemned for participation in the Channel. A committee has just been receives the author's stinging lash- opium by Burmans, except in those places indeed this is the main theme of the play. where climatic and economia" conditions in Rhondda. It is estimated that over a bush and illegally possessing arms, formed in London headed by Lord-Burn. The character of Rains, the hero-wor appear to demand a prophylactic Mea were real she would be an insufferable ing those who require to use the drug for medical reasons with adequate sup- The French Premier, now in London, 70,000 colliery workers in South Wales armed civilians attacked unarmed sol ham and the Chancellor of the University shipper, is, of course, & burlesque; if the fuge those who consideration for provid little hypocrite. Captain Blanchli, the plien From almost every district it in expressed satisfaction at the results so are unemployed or are on short-time dur-diers there yesterday evening. It is off of London.—Havas,
downright person, who prevails on the reported that the use of cocaine and mor for obtained in the Near East question, the ing the week-end.
cially reported that five were killed and
hypocritical lovers to be themselves, is phis has not spread but has practically admirably acted by Mr. N. Thorpe-Marne, died out, nor is there any evidence that eleven wounded.
Miss Joan Mayne makey Raina a delight the Burman has taken to hemp drugs. ful character in spite of the defects the author insists upon, and Miss Beatrix Wynn made a distinguished success in the part of Loulin, the serving maid who manies into the nobility. Mr.. Dudley Howarth gare an excellent rendering of the important part of Bergius and Miss Muriel Aked and Mr. Frank Wheatley did well in the minor parts.
Tonight the Company produces, for the first time in Hongkong, The Last
Thorpe Mayne. Act," a play written by Mr. and Mrs.
prospects of the settlement of which are ANGLO-AMERICAN RELATIONS now decidedly brighter. Another happy gesult of the conference is the tightening
the bonds uniting France and Eng. Jand.-Havas.
FIFTH TEST MATCH.
AUSTRALIA WINS BY LARGE MARGIN.
PRINCE OF WALES PRAIBES
AMBASSADOR'S WORK.
LONDON, March 1st,
H-R-H.-the Prince of Wales attended
"COMPETITION FOR COAL
MARKETS..
GREAT BRITAIN'S PROSPECTS. SPECTS LONDON, February 28th.
INTERNATIONAL VETERIN- ABY · CONGRESS.
PROPOSED CLOBING OF BALTIO FRONTIER.
Kovso, March 1st. An Interactional Veterinary. Congress
the farewell banquet to Mr. Davis and In the House of Commons at question called to discuss the spread of cattle paid a tribute to the services of the guest time, Mr. Bridgeman said that the quan- disease has passed a resolution in favour of the evening, declaring that Mr. Davis tity of coal exported from the United of closing the frontiers of the Baltic LONDON, March 1st had been more than an Ambassador in States to Europe for the year ending States to fodder cattle and the establish- June 1913 was 476,000 tons, from Austrament of a cattle serum institution in. Australia won the fifth test match by Anglo-American relations; he had been a
lis 100,000 tons, from China 28,000 tons. Lithuania. true friend.
The amounts for 1020 were: from the
Dwickets.
Australia, in the second innings, made 3 runs for the loss of one wicket, Bardsley contributing an unfinished half
century.
FRENCH INSTITUTE IN LONDON.
ENTHUSIASM IN FRANCE.
PARIB, February 28th Public opinion greets with sincere satis Faction the inauguration of the French Institute, in London, as a token of the ever-increasing goodwill between the two nations-Hayar.
EARLIER CABLES.
FRIENDLY VIEWS OF U.8. AMBASSADOR.
LONDON, February 28th.
In the course of a valedictory address
ARCHDEACON WAKEFORD'S
APPEAL.
United States 13,383,000 tons; from Ans- trialia 113,000 tons; from China not PRIVY COUNCIL GRANTS LEAVE. known. Mr. Bridgeman was not, with-
out hope of our recovering the coal mar-
at the Pilgrims-banquet, Mr. Davis (the ket from
U.S. Ambassador) ridiculed the reports
America
that had been spread by alarmists regard. PANAMA AND COSTA RICA Lord leave to appeal
ing possible trouble between Great Bri
tain and America.
Neither country bad
legitimate nims which co-operation with
the other would not promote, and neither
WAR DANGER OVER
WASHINGTON, February 28th,
was likely to sacrifice the traditional The Fanama Charge d'Adaires willingness, or throw difficulties in the
LONDON, February 28th. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council has granted Archdeacon Wake
The Archdeacon pleaded that the judgment of the Lincoln Consistory Court was not in accordance with the facts; also, that fresh evidence
scales of justice, for a verdict of impar nounces that the threatened war between had been discovered, and that one of the tial minds. Mr. Davis admitted the Panama and Costa Rica appears to have Resessors of the Court pre-judged, the case existence of enemies who would ander been averted by the surrender of a Costa by a statement he made on the eve of the mino Anglo-American friendship, but we should forestall them in the open.
Rican force in Coto
Arial
THE ETYMOLOGY OF "CA" CANNY."
Says a home paper:-While the idea conveyed by the words "ca' canny" is quite well understood, the etymology of the phrase, in England at least, is commonly misinterpreted. We confess that we are unable to supply the missing letters represented by the apostrophe, but that they are not "11" we can assure those in doubt. The Scottish verb "to ca" has many shades of meaning, but the commonest is to drive.” To cal the cows home is not to call them, but to drive them home. To ca'a skipping rope is to drive it round or turn it. To ea' canny thas menas literally to drive can- tiously or slowly. The nee of the word driving" as a synonym for working generally is also found in the English provincialism"
driving busy. The word is pronounced "es not conso often hear.
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THE BRITISH NAVY.
ITS PRESENT STRENGTH...
In view of the discnsion na to the relative strength of the Navies of the principal Powers the following para graph from the new edition of Brassey' own Navy will be of interest:--- Annual, dealing with the position of our
There remains in the post-war Flect at the present time the following re- sela which may be considered as effec- tive for war purposes:-Thirty-one Dreadnought battleships, of which ten carry 15-inch guns, twelve. 13.5-inch guns, and nine 12-inch guns; two pre- Dreadnought battleships, Agamemnon and Commonwealth, employed an target and gunnery training duties; eight battle-cruisers, of which three-the Hood, Renown, and Repulse have 15- inch
guas, three 13.5-inch guns, and two 12-inch guns two-light-battle-cruiser with 15-inch guns, the Courageous and -Glorious; 58 light cruisers, down to and including the Bristol class of 1919-10- with lighter guan; forty patrol boater varied numbers of sloops and twin- of sorow minesweepers, still in process reduction; 27 flotilla leaders, about 240 destroy type, but excluding all including the Inter verzala of the. earlier classes not yet disposed of; 100 submarines; and about twenty auzili- ary and dépôt ships.
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