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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 11TH, 1911.

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GANDHI AND LANCASHIRE COTTON.

THE MOTIVE BEHIND THE". BOYCOTT.

A Bombay Correspondeat writes to the Manchester Guardias on Gandhi's campaign for the boycotting of foreign cloth :-

cloth.

A MISSIONARY CAPTIVE, BANDITS GAME OF BLUFF WITH THE TUCHUN OF YUNNAN.

Communica

**WORLD REVOLUTION,”

“A CRAZY EXPERIMENT.”

CHICHERIN'S ADMISSION.

FRON

THE DAILY TELEDRAPH'S" SPECIAL"

CORRESPONDENT. ]

The capture by brigands of Mr. Parker, the

missionary, near Yunnanfu. last month was followed by in from the bandit chief to the Yunnan

BERLIN, August 14th. authorities to the effect that their pri

In an interview with an American While Lancashire looks on with amused stuer would be killed unless the whole Soviet Government, definitively renounced journalist Chicherin, on behalf of the scepticism, the movement for the boycott body of the bandits were taken over" by the world-revolution, which he described of foreign cloth is gaining ground in the military authorities and. incorporat-weaken the enemies of his Government. more war wessure designed to India Gandhi has the faith which can ed in the regular forces of that province. At Kanigsberg Fair the Soviet dele- remove mountains, and at the moment The Tuchun, however, looked upon the gate, who in He is exerting his immense influence to threat as a harmless attempt at blaffing

public speech pleaded earnestly for close relations between Ger induce consumers to buy only Indian the authorities and sent one of his gen-used similar language about the entire many and Russia, is reported to have Piece goods merchants are toerals to inform the bandits that, it harm policy of instant, wholesale nationalisa place no more foreign orders, and mill were done to M, Parker, he would bunt tion of trade and Industry. According owners are to weave only hand-spun all the bandits down at once and execute used approximately these words:

to the Deusithe, Allgemeine Zeitung, he Indian yarn, or at least us wuch of it them summarily as is available. The ideal cloth for Indian use is to be khadi, a rough dur capture of the missionary. During that More than mouth passed after the able fabric, hand woven and hand-spun. period his friends were extremely anxi Twenty lakhs of spinning-wheele have ous for but little news ran received been already distributed. Schools for regarding him, while the Yunan officer teaching spinning are being opened. merely reported that he would be success- There is talk of picketing the shops tal in. mission. The bandits at first which sell foreign cloth. Manufacturan peremptorily refused to liberate their are being asked for pledges that they prisoner, and then submitted other terms will ut export cloth or raise the price which were not acceptable to the authori of the home product. The Mahatma is ta appealing to consumers to ration them selves during the transition period. It has been painted out that the annual consumption of cotton per head fell from 130 yards in 1913 to 9.3 in 1626, and that Belf-denying people could reduced the consumption still further.

Though the campaign strikes the Eag

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in which no news was received, it is A period of two weeks then passed surmised that the Yuanan General re sorted to military preparations againat the bandite; for on September 20th it rescued. was reported that Mr. Parker had been

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RUBBER POSITION HARRISON AND CROSSFIELD'S OPINTON"

VAIRLY HOPEFUL ABOUT THE FUTURE.

Messrs, Harrison and Cressfeld, Ltd. who act as agents and secretaries for a group of forty-three rubber companies in the Malay States, write to the Struite Times a long letter in which shareholders in rubber companies generally will be greatly interested. They say:-

nations in agrarian Bassia-that. of seats itself to our view.

ture has recently been written about the Much of an extremely pessimistic na-

Industry, and as this does not appear to us to be justified by the facts and may induce shareholders to sacrifice, their How could anyone think us so foolish interests, a course which they may sub as to believe in the possibility of this quently regret, we have thought it desir ernay experiment! A Socialistic order able to sum up the position as it pr of society in the middle of capitalistic

Rubber production. which, ten or twelve years ago, partook of the of pioneering, has now become a sound natura industry, resting on that surest of all foundations, the permanent unavoidable and growing needs of the whole world for its product. To ignore the accumu lated stock in the United Kingdom or to shut one's eyes to the fact that this the deplorable price to which rubber has fallen would be altogether auwise bat is concurrent with the deepest and most widespread depression faauce iz living memory, and that the in trade and

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worse than the Rubber industry is no tries, is equally foolish.

than that of many other indus-

The two serious facts which face the

courte. is Consense. We never believed in wanted anything of the kind. What we did in Russia was dictated by the necessities of the war. It was war-Jocialism, such as Germany, too, was compelled to adopt. From the be- ginning we intended to abandon this compulsion as soon as the necessity for and the Bolshevik at Koenigsberg can de-

it disappeared.

lude only those who have neither eyes to As the statements both of Chicherin see nor ears to hear, their astounding insincerity need not be dwelt upon. One point, however, should be mentioned in fishman is cray, it makes a strong AMERICA'S WOODEN SHIPS. passing. At the very mument when Chi- appeal to the patriotism of the nation

cherin was assuring the interviewer that Gandhi's heart is wrung with the might

the Soviet Government in no way sup of a half-vitalised

NEW YORK, August 23rd. race. He

ports the Third International,' emaciated men and stuated children The sale yesterday by the United States affairs of other countries," the German less than the average cost of production.

and "does not desire to meddle with the Industry are, that rubber is selling at trailing across the barren fields of Shipping Board of the Government Rest India. India is trying to breathe with 05 wooden vessels for about the price Communists, in conference, were listen sad that visible one lang, and for full life she needs two. it cost to build one has aroused a great Lenin gave them detailed instructions amount to over 80,000 toas.

stacks in the United Agriculture alone can never nourish the deal of mirth, some pathos, and also s

ing to voluminous letter. which Kingdom are abnormally high and now people. A second industry is needed to considerable degree of indignation (writes how to overthrow their bourgeois Govern ditions, however, are similar keep at bay the chronic semi-starvation The Daily Telegraph correspondent), ment and accomplish their part in the affecting most other industries to-day. which is so much more insidious and and a public demand has arisen for a

world-revolution. demoralising than periodic. Gandhi is convinced

famine full explanation as to why such a tragedy Muscovite Junto only helps to drive home continental countries, the stocks of the But this discord of voices within the in the United Kingdom and one or two With the exception of visible stocks wheels would save the situation,

that spinning-was necessary.

They

the fact that the statements of Chicheria world can only be estimated. ca be bought for a couple of rupees, and Board, has explained that the fleet was are a frank funeral knell of Bolshevism,stocks in the East are above normal, but,

Mr. Lasker, chairman of the Shipping and the Soviet emissary "at Konigsberg statistics are not available. in a few hours a child can learn to use costing £12,000

Reliable them. There is a inexhaustible market idleness, and that, despite the fact that a long death-agory, and now it is no

month to maintain in and that the political monster has had owing to the pressure of the Sinancial Probably for the yarn, and raw cotton is abunit cost approximately £60,000,000 to build, more. The coup de grace has been dealt vailed during the last twelve months. dant. Certainly there is

and trade conditions which have pre- for encouraging so obvious & means of meat's invitations for bids. Mr. Lasker paradoxically enough, seems likely to both in America and elsewhere, are cor- strong caso no one had responded to the Govern by the great famine which, however, those in the hands of manufacturers, salvation.

tainly reduced. He

Until 1910 consumption sering to have that during 1919 'visible' and 'invisible' We estimate

the first The in-

DEAD SCHEMES AS STEPPING STONES.

of £155,000.

kept pace with on

These con.. to those

cloth is not a vindictive measure.

Gandhi's boycott of foreign declares that such situation justifies prolong for a little the doomed domina does not propose a boycott of all foreign him in seizing upon the one bid subtion of the Bolshevik oligarchy. The goods. only of cotton. If full self-gov-mitted, even though it was only £ts per appalling disaster which has befallen cutt would not cease. It is & campaign giving the ships away or sinking them, soviet rule, both internally and extern stocks of the world increased by 10,000 erament were granted to-morrow the boy ship, because he was on the point of Russia has temporarily strengthened the for bread, not for political rights. is difficult to withhold admiration from tenance.

It in order to eliminate the cost of main-the disintegrating Bolshevik elique the tons, and during 1920 and

ally. On the one hand, it has had on the losely idealist pittng himself against that the successful bidders for the ships mon danger always produces in discorre during the last eighteen months

It is regarded as signincant consolidating effect which a grave com- months of 1921 by 78.000 tons. A whole industry, Gandhi is not indif- the Ship Construction and Trading Com. dant bodies of men. On the other hand, consumption of crude rubber during 1920 ferent to the subering which may fall pany-themselves built two of the vessels it has disarmed attack from outside. upon Lancashire, but he is on fire with involved, at a cost of £138,060, pinus

is equal to about 25 per cent of the India's wrongs. He sees that Lancashire engines, when the original contract call-

"WORN-OUT, BICKETS MACHINE"

and less than 33 per cent of the esti organisation, whereas the Indian pen and that the company still has a claim feared that the fall of Lenin would prob; exceeded the post-war peace demands is bas long enjoyed prosperity and highed for their construction for £15,000 each,

Those who know Russia, best always

mated consumption for the current year. sant is dumb, lonely, and half-starved against the board for an unpaid balanceably be followed by a prolonged period negatived by the facts. Our estimate of The suggestion that the War demands of abarcay But that would mean co the supplies of all crude rubber, includ- like, the present any Government is bet-ing wild from 1915 to 1020 is na follows tain death to many millions In à crisis ter than one, and the slightest further deterioration of the worn-out, rickety economic life of Russia would enormously maching of "the administrativo and increase the inevitable vest measure of suffering and mortality. That is why any, even of the bitterest enemies of the Bolshirika hold that active measurea against them should be suspended for the prezent, and all available energies con nation and the country, which are centrated on the work of saying the tion. They will almost certainly prove threatened by famine with literal destruc. right, if they also think that such tem- porary tolerance will only render the doom of the Bolsheviks all the more certain in the end.

Gandhi is one of those people who, in

It is claimed that the machinery of the every dispate inevitably takes the aide zasels alone, costing something like of the under-dog. Fortunately, along £75,000 per boat, should be salvaged for with his profound capacity for vicarious

more than suffering goes the temperament which amounts to less than the sam claimed the selling price, which can make a summer out of one swallow, from the Government as the balance due One by one his projects fail, but his for the construction of two vessels. Mr. spirit remains indomitable. And steadi-Lasker declares that the board has not ly the people rise on stopping-stones even the funds to wrap the fleet. of his dead schemes to higher things. They hurl themselves fruitlessly at orie impregnable position after

another, but

even in retreat they realise more of their INJURED MAN TAKEN OFF own solidarity. If Gandhi's boycott of STEAMER IN HEAVY SEAS. foreign cloth prove an barren of practi cal result as his boycott of the schools, law courts, and Legislative Councils, it will still not have been in vain. Lanca ahire cottonia, coarse, dear, and scarce.

FOR OPERATION ON A CUNARD

LINER.

While 300 miles of the Irish Coast, re-

am a fan,

en-

that

a few hours.

a

.1910 1920

"

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1915

......... 169,700 tons. 1018.

...... 201,200 "1917........... 207,200

1918

268,800 3-13,000 370,000 stocks to correspond with increased con-

Without any allowance for increase of` sumption, the 1810 consumption of crude and that for 1920, when the world depres rubber is estimated by us at 330,000 tons sion set in, at 310,000 tons.

the world, outside America, will this It is now apparent that the rest of tity as in 1920, namely, 90,000 tons. year collectively consume the same quan- This may be regarded as very encourag

of

Yet the wearing of khadi has become a cently, Capt. F. G. Brown of the Canard principles implied by. Chickerin and his consumption of most other commodities. sort of panache. And Gandhi will give liner Albanis picked up a wireless Koenigsberg subordinate every day notion likely to be realized this year, is Of the putting into practice of the PB, having regard to the diminished. his vast following no rest until they message stating that a firetion on the brings additional news. are all khadi-clad. His activity knows Tamaqua, bound for London, had had trade, which was at first confined to the compared with last, may be attributed The whole of the shortage in consump Do respite. Socrates once said,

said, a sort of his right are torn off by a ventilating aged and invalid, bas now been extended tons, but in

Freedom of gaddy, given to the State by the State is a great and noble steed who, been applied, but that he was losing the object of coaxing from the peassata not be so great.

God, and

temporary bandages had to all classes of the population, and, with tons, but in our opinion, the drop will It is estimated at 70,000 is tardy in his motions owing to his 100 miles away, but the surgeon, Dr. O. attempts are being made to stimulate the new cars which are being built in Ame blood rapidly. The Albanis was about their hidden stocks of grain, "desperate of new tyres required, the number of very size, and requires to be stirred into E. H. Harris, wirelessed complete in exchange of goods. Confiscated houses rica, and the reduction in stocks of The various estimates life. All day long and in all places I am arousing and persuading and re- atructions. prooching you.

Owing to lack of facilities have been restored to their original own. manufactured articles which has taken sleep on for the remainder of your of the situation, Captain Brown altered ducts of nationalised institutions and crude rubber in 1920, will consume more

it was impossible to carry them out on You will the Tamaqua, Realizing the seriousness re-established for services, and the pro- c which

ers. The principle of payment has been place, lead support to the view that Ame lives, unless God in Bis mercy sends you the course of the Albania and steered to factories, railways, posts, telegraphs, than 150,000 tons this year. another gadfly." The great and noble

consumed 280,000 tons steed will never go at the pach desired the Tamaqua. by the gadily, but it does move, and for hours to reach the latter vessel and a services are no longer gratuitous

It required five water, gas, electrio light, and tramway some time to come it will amble not launched in a heavy sea

small boat was with some difficulty,

Having regard to the substantial fall towards but away from Lancashire cot

ing off of the output of crude rubber ton.

ENGENDERING CAPITALISTS. Meanwhile, instead of political found that an immediate operation was ing of factories to private enterprise. to anticipate that consumption this year

the injured fireman's side the surgeon brings news of new orders for the rent-

Arriving at This morning

which has taken place (the rate of which agitation bringing in economic improve

Moscow telegram will probably be accelerated during the ment, it looks as if economic pressure

necessary; otherwise the man was bound This practice is now to be extended to there is no prospect of any material rise. next few months) there is good reason would work towards franchisement.

political

to die within lesed the Albania to make ready for an gramme of production, but the output in price until the existing surplus stocks

He wire establishments which fulfil their pro-

to may equal the restricted production, but operation. The fireman, William Ward, of which could be considerably incrected to substantially reduced The extreme of Hull, England, bore the transfer to by private initiative." SIKKIM TALE,

the Cunarder with great stoicism, and that the business management of the future of the Industry. is, we consider, It is laid down pessimism current, however, about the as the small boat was approaching the renter shall not be interfered with by the as little justified as the extreme optim EUROPEAN KING WITH."

Albana he waved his left hand to the control of the authorities," and that his iam of the early part of 1920. passagers lining the

rail. CROWN."

Two American physicians, Dr. McBean only by the and Dr. Gilchrist,

What is the remedy for the present The servant of a European who is

aboard the Albania, and had made all for workmen must be transformed into restriction of output, organised and un-

passengers Further, fairly well-known in Calcutta has just

into coante organised, and all interested in the entire care of the State the principal remedy is the temporary returned to this city from the Darjeeling the injured man was quickly District, writea a correspondent to the and thirty-five

operating room. The lifeboat contaion with productivity." Englishman, with a most extraordinary albania's boat had left the ahip Ward

piece-work, with payment by resulta, is

In other words, Industry should encourage restriction. minutes after story. He states that his master, who

the to be made universal. was accompanied by his wife and child, operation had commenced, with three in kind consequent on the famine de was on the operating table and the is a necessity, for the failure of the tax Moreover, the development of trade crossed the Tibetan frontier a month ago volunteer trained nurse waiting on the mands the elevation of the value of the and has now taken possession of a Sikkim orders of the doctors. village, of which he has declared himself was a success, but for the succeeding abolition of the gratuitous services If you have to hold the print too far away to King. The man is rather vague about forty eight hours the three volunteer already mentioned and by the develop see clearly, the oye will be strained to make oat

The operation rouble." This it is hoped to effect routes but he insists that after

by of 14 days from Darjeeling the frontier ly at the injured man's bedside. On the words, small capitalistep to be arti the fine pint. If you have to hold the print,

march nurses took turns watching unremitting ment of State saving banks." In other was crossed. He says that the party then removed to a hospital. went through incredible hardships ill it

Athania's arrival at Liverpool Ward finally arrived at the village which his given

ficially engendered. Foreign trade is master annered. He adds that his master

great cheer as he was carried which probably means its gradual trans Either way is bad. When you cannot readany:

He was be stimulated by impressed the villagers because in addi.

In the ambulance with for from governmental to private hands

decentralisation" two close that will strain the muscles of the oye, tion to a revolver to bad in his posseo- sion & golden" crown, The servant left the royal "service and made his way back to India, because the King finally pawned the crown for 100 rupees

GOLDEN

off the ship.

were

can be confiscated

stocks and Ponent of the courts" position? It seems to us obvious that

the

the

THE WRONG WAY TO READ,

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capital days and for some time after.

to a local trader and because there was child who is muddleheaded they inflict Every time the teachers turn out a a likelihood of the fact coming out that the burden of an incompetent citizen on the crown was only made of tin gilt the world for fifty or sixty years. Mr.

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