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THE SWATOW, TYPHOON DISASTER.

PROGRESS WITH CLEARING UP!!!

RELIEF FUNDS. GROWING.

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The Chinese are making gooi progress with clearing up the wreckage of the typhoon disaster at Swatow. Most of the bodies in the town itself have now been

ALGUST

1993

INDIAN SEAMEN, GOVERNMENT'S PROPOSALS

SEA LEGENDS.

STORIES OF ILL-STARRED VESSELS.

DE VALERA & SUN YAT SEN

A PARALLEL

A Chinese writing to the Singapore- papers 3.48:-

Of the mass of items of current eveals

The following statement concerning the proposals of the committee appointed by the Government of India to consider the f war ot sàn give, rise to a new era of mar which have. been published in the preas

methods of recruitment of Indian seamen has been officially issued:--

Af the present time, the system under which ludian scamen

are recruited for

Will the innumerable tragedies of the

time legend lore? Or has the deep-rooted belief among seafaring folk in things lately one fact Tooms large before my eyra undreamt of in the landsman's philosophy a most striking and extraordinary finally passed away with the passing of Pisode of the Drama of the World which the sailing vessel and of the old-style shell being staged to-day. There are so many

things to occupy one's attention these day which fellows naturally enough on the

noticed this curious fact. I allude to tha reading of an interesting collection of misfortune which has befalien Mr. Des the general title of "Wanderships" by of the East-the two redoubtable repab Ensign Bassett, of the United States fican advocates whose views seem too Naval Services." The Wander ships

collected and coffins or boxes provided for employment upen vessels exposes them back who manuod het? The query is cae that none of the news readers sceni to have

thens. Damaged goods which there is to great hardship. Their interests are not some hope of solving are spread out, eyrry properly safeguarded, and they are sub- legends of the sea, brought together under Valern of the West, and Dr. Sun Yat Sen

where in the sun, to dry.

in a typhoon.

The statement in o Reuter inessDI QU

that

a lighter, bail gone through one of the A.P.C. tanks, is absolutely without foundation. A further survey of the town-made possible now there are no longer so many dead bodies unremoved shows that some 'districts have suffered than others. Where the typhoon struck with full force, or the conditions were least favourable to resistance, the pince resembles nothing so much as i town France after a fortnight's bombard

worse

jeet to many extortions.

HOK" SEAMEN ARE SECRUITED,

When the

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** BOÅT LEGENDS, "

No European buildings with any pre tensions to modernity have suffered to

The International Labour Organisation are considered under five categories-extreme. in the eyes of the majority of any "extent through the storm. The of the League of Nations in June, 1920, Giant Ships," "Punishment Ships their countrymen. Consider these facts Devil Ships and see if you do not wonder that thorn seems to be a hidden link which binds each Chinese seem to think that the foreigners framed a draft convention for establish Phantoon Ships,"

Ships and i

these two personalities-- - 匾 typical are in league with the powers of evil and ing facilities for finding employment for and Stone

starten. The Indian Legislature recom-case the author narrates

De Valers and party together with that their houses consequently escaped.mended in 1921 that an examination legoad of the class in literary form, Michael Collins were only a year and a They seem unwilling to recognise that should be undertaken of the methods of appending copious notes ou parallels' in half ago associates fighting for a cause. there is any essential difference in een recruitment of seamen at the different folklore, references in literature, and mot struction between 'the native and foreign ports in India in order that it might be origins of the tradition is question. The Sun Yat Sen and party and Chen Chinag definitely ascertained whether abuses work is excellent and exhaustive so far eng were also big and little brothers fighting for a cause (Constitutionalism) aï buildings which renders the latter safer exist. An enquiry has been recordingly as it goes, but it touches only the almost the identicnt period. (Excuse me. held by a committee into the conditions fringe of a vast subjret which has been readers, if the time alluded to in under which seamen are recruited af Bom rather singularly neglected by the folk his tester be not quite accurate as Taut bay and Calcutta, It was found that forist. Indeed, with the coming of the writing from memory, having no recorda shipping companies generally engaged new era at sea it is probable that a state to refer to). De Valera and party seamen through licensed brokers, ar pri. mass of sea tradition has been lost beyond in the West and Sun Yat Sen and party in the East were both very successful in sate brokers (in Calcutta sometimes recall.

their fights" and both got quite a good known as Ghat Serangs). These brokers are paid a commission calculated on the

Seafaring men have always been proce deal of influenes in their respective can- advances which they make to the seamen

to a belief in the supernatural. Take, tries, curiously enough all in the southeru The "first on behalf of the companies step in the selection of the crew is the for example, the familiar tale of the Fly sections: They becaton so powerful that. ing Dutchman which Ensign Bassett deals both the British Government and the Ces-" nomination of the serangs or butlers. with under the head "Punishment Ships" tral Government of China in Peking had The crew is selected later and the serangs Would not an earlier age have found in to recognise and respect them, Mr. De and the butlers have naturally a consider the doings of the boats material for Yarra and Co in the West, and Dr. Sun' able share in its selection. erew has been finally approved by the many variant of the old legend! And Yat Sen nod Co. in the East. (Don't get are really separate entities! offcer concerned, it is signed on the even in the sceptical days it would seem mixed up, den readers, these two "Cum-

that such traditions are, in fact, apring pans articles in the presence of the shipping ing into being among the fisher folk, for They cannot get amalgamated.. too! for master or one of his assistants. The brokers then give the men an advance of lief in the "Lusitania ladies" and other East, otherwise they might have done so. we have it on good authority that the be- one is in the West and the other in the their pay. Immediately before the ship phantoms of victims of piracy, through in the long, long ago, with what results sails, medical examination is held, and whose agency the submarines were led to do ant know) either as a result of this examination or their doom, has attained the position of The British Government entered into from other causes, vacancies may arise,

a recognised North Sen legend." And

negotiations with De Valera and party would not the old style sailorman, who and finally had an agreement signed with held firmly to the belief that the birds of the latter's representatives, one of whom the sea were inhabited by the souls of dead was Michael Collins. The agreement was seamen, have seen & grim significance in hurriedly carried to Treland and submit. the fact that the men of ven, Spee's ted to De Valera and party for scrutiny Mr. De Valera and a squadron after the batt of the Falklands and approval. water bumbers of albatrosses the "greement and rejected it, while a portion were repeatedly attack while in the portion of bis party found defects in the albatross, as everybody knows, being favoured it. A split in De Valera and especially respected by sailors. Nor is it party then took place and Michael Collins in connection with war alone that tradi afr. De Falern, and became the leader of declared himself independent of his chief. tion dies hard at ses.

the Opposition, the Free Staters, Media- tion was tried to prevent ip open bresch and widespread hostility between the two Parties-the Free Staters and the Re- publicans The gulf of party differences was too big to be bridged, and mediation failed. The split soon developed into an open fight for power involving widespread. destruction of property and loss of life.

mens.

Measures for the relief of the surround ing districts are now being organised from Swalow and considerable quantities of rice are being distributed daily.

CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FUND.

The Chamber of Commerce Relief Fund yesterday amounted to $51,435.

The British American Tobacco. Co. contributed $2,000 and the Hongkong. Canton and Macro Steamboat Co. and Messrs. A. S. Watson & Co., -81,000 each. The Hong kong Rope Co. gave $750 and the China Light and Power Co. $800; Messrs. Ben- jamin & Potts sent $500 and other firms, including the principal Arms of solicitors in the Colony sent contributions.

CHINESE RELIEF FUND: 850,000.

Ou enquiry yesterday, a Daily Press representative, was informed by Mr. T. N. Chau, of the Chinees Chamber of Com merce that the fund raised in conjunction with the Tung Wah Hospital had reached 850,000. This figure does not include receipts from the drive," inaugurated yesterday morning.

י,

| THE OVER DUE B. I. STEAMER. Late yesterday afternoon we were in- formed by the Agents for the British India Line in Hongkong that no word had been received of the ss. Gondia, which is now six days overdue.

When

at the last minute, in the crew. The shipping companies depend upon the brokers for the supply of men to fill these vacancies.

Thus the main functions which the broker and the Ghat Serangs are intended to full include the supply of crews on demand. the payment of advances to seamen who are engaged, and the replacement of deserters or of men rejected on medical grounds.

CHANGES PROPOSED.

The committes found that this system had led to grave abuses which no mere amendment of detail would satisfactorily remove. They have recommended that an Employment Bureau must be set up to act as intermediaries between the ship- ping companies and the seamen. In each centre, a bureau controlled by a single officer able to work sympathetically with shipowners ships officers and men will be constituted... The bureau will main- tain a general register of seamen of each grade, separate registers being main tained for each company that so desires, Frecautions will be taken that freedom of choice of ships should be assured to sea- men and freedom of choice, of crew assur ed to ship-owners."

„BELECTIONS OF SERANGE.

The committee proposes that the selec tion of all seamen including serangs should be restricted to two classes of employés of the owners or agents, that is the Buperintendent and the Masters-of the Ships. The Chief Officer, Chief gineer and Chief Purser should have the

It is to the approval of the Master. hoped to encourage lines to give men, as far as possible, continuity of employment and to ensure that each man on the fist will have his claims regularly considered

→ THE TITANIC'S' FATE

of a skeleton between the keel of the Great

all her misfortunes.

PAYING FOR THE NAVY,"

AUSTRALIA FLANS TO HELP

BRITISH TAXPAYER..

Mr. W. M Hughes, the Prime Minister of Australia, has announced tentative

last heard of on the morning of the oil power to select serangs or butlers subject arrangements for an Imperial Conference hand man and who, is disposed towards

the Gondia was 100 miles south of Swatow on her way to Shanghai from Rangoon, It is feared that she has been disabled by the terrifc typhoon which passed over Swatow on the night of the 2nd-and 3rd August

SELECTING CREWS IN CALCUTTA AND BOMBAY,

to the Navy

It is widely believed in Roman Catholic Belfast that the Titanic's doom was seal ed because she left the slips with the words "To hell with the Fope chalked on every plate by zealous Orange ship wrights And a strange coincidence, to go a little farther back, was the finding

In the East the present struggle between stern and her inner skin when the time Sun Yat Sen end Chen Chiuag neng be came for the breaking up of that ungan under almost the same circumstances. lucky experiment in shipbuilding a fact The Canton Government under Dr. Suns which, in the eyes of a real old sailorman Yat Sen became for a time very powerful ** would be considered ample explanation of and gained widespread support from

many quarters of the country. The Pek". ing Government tried several times to get. reconciled with it without success. Sun, Yat Sen planned the unibention of the country by conducting an expedition against the North and netually started it... and world perhaps have succeeded in gaining fresh control of one or two Pro- Northern Provinces by this time had not". unexpected things happened. Chen Chiang meng, supposed to be Sun's right

to be held about the middle of next year Wi Pei-fu, seeing that Chang Tso-ling to consider the effect of the Washington was routed in the North by Wu Peifu, Treaty and the Dominions contribution decided on a plan of his own and refused to Empire defence, especially with regard to lead Sun's expedition to the North.

with the result that he was dismissed from. Mr. Hughes added that there was no the Civil Governorship of Kwangtung reason for the existing disparity between Province. He then became, as Collins did- the contributions of Britain and the Over of De Valera, independent of Dr. Sun Yat In Calcutta, where the crews are not seus Dominicus, "I agree it does not Sen. Attempts were made to settle Bun'a as a rule, slit up into self-contained appene aquitable," he said, "but Austra. and Chen's differences without resulty DIVORCE IN TOGOLAND.

groups closely attached to particular contribution per bead equals and and as reported recently in the paperi, In the first report on the British man serangs, the committee proposes to take perhaps exceeds that of the other Domin- Carn carried out a coup d'etat a short dated sphere of Togoland, compiled by the crew by roster, allowing the serangs ions combined. If the quots of each of while ago, disarming Sun's troops and Mr. C. D. Trotter, District Commissioner to make reasonable objections to any the other Dominions was raised to the made himself head of a new Party favour of the Gold Coast, there are some inter particular men so taken. In Bombay Australian level the British taxpayering reconciliation with Wu Pei-fu, the

present guardian of the Peking Govern eating notes on native social conditions, in where crews are more closely attached to would be considerably relieved.

ment in the same way as: Collins' party All the Dominions at the last Imperial favoured coming to terms with the British the former German colony. Folygamy, it particular serangs and frequently form

almost a family on board ship, the com- Conference recognised the soundness of Government. Sun thus having been take appears, is universal, and a man keeps s

mittee consider that it would be a mis the principle of Empire contribution to unawares was temporarily dislodged from many wives as he can afford. The average take to interfere with the power of naval defence, but the matter was post his own province but Sun like De Valen is, about two. There are no specific nomination which the saraugs possess, poned-pending the decision of the Wash will never submit tamely to this trick grounds for divorce, the mere disinclina tion of one of the parties to continue the But they think that the system proposed ington Conference."

Played upon him by his "subordinate union being suficient to warrant it being for Calcutta might be applied with ad-

and is now working with might and main dissolved: Viewed from our standards, Fantage to the Punjabi and Pathan fire

to retake his lost territory and, for all we one would call the people unmoral rather

know, may succeed, in gaining his objec-. than immoral. Unfaithfulness on the

Ative. In the West De Valera also is con- part of a wife is not considered parti TEHA ADVANCES TO SEAMEN

The sale is zonounced of the premises ducting a fight himself against Collins*: calarly damaging to her character, un- The committee recommend that private

of the Conqueror Typewriter Company, of Party with die or win determination, Do less it is repeated a number of times. It agencies such as Seamen's Unious, Co. which Viscount Lascelles is principal now these similarities of circumstances is atoned for by the payment of damages operative Societies and respectable pri shareholder. The company, whose Fre which gave rise to the present life and by the paramour, the Indy's word as ovate individuals should undertake the the purpose of mass production, was West and in the Fast strike you as most mises were considered the inst ward for death political party struggles in the identity of the individual and the truth of duty of making advances to seamed started in 1919 with a nominal capital of extraordinary the accusation being proof of the offence. Licences for this purpose would be grant£300,000, to produce an all-British, type There is a fixed scale for the different ed by the Eurployment. Bureau fixing writer able to compete with the best classes, namely: £5 in the ease of a head maximum rate of mission. The ad American nachines, but owing to the chief, 508 for a sub-chief, 30s, for the vances would be paid in the presence of industrial slump and other causes not n more educated and influential classes, and an officer of the Bup

single minchine has been produced... 46. 8d. for the proletariat. This applies whether the individual of the glass men- tioned in the offender or toffeeded against."

THE SAIGON RICE MARKET.

The Compagnië - le Commerce et de Navigation d'Extreme Orient, of Saigon, in their latest report, dated July 31st, myn:-The' deyand from ali countries is very poor and the price of paddy has a slight downward -tendency.

The work for the new crop continues normally. "In some provinces the farmers have started transplanting. The total amount of rics exported from the 1st January to July 1711, 1922, is 625,588 tons against 798,204 in 1921, bet

We quote today white Saigon rice No. 2-gifted, Japan quality, Hongkong 80.02 per picul fo.b. Saigon for August Heptember, shipment.

men who stand in need of more protection BRITISH TYFEWRITER FAILURE. than the other Bombay seamen

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PENALTIES FOR EXTORTION.

It is also recommended that bribery, whether direct or indirect to obtain cm ployment for wamen should be regarded as a serious offence punishable with à con siderable term of imprisonment, -- Heavy Penalties should also be prescribed for unauthorised persons who endeavour to supply seamen through any agency other than the Employment Bureau

EGYPTIAN COTTON FREIGHTS,

Regarding the dispute as to the redno tion of cotton freights, it was anoun on July Bib that an agreement had been arranged between the inter-steamship lines and the shippers in relation to the transport of cotton to the United King dom and America, the rates decided on 265 and 306 per ton rospectively,

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