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The Daily Press.

EchoLong, JUNI 15TH, 1926..

STRIKE.

JUNE 15TH, 1926

belief prevailed that there might-and extension of the subsidy to the mining Lee Ying Shan, one of the four Koreans probably would-be an industrial up-industry until it revived and could stand who have been detained in the Japanese kosval Nothing can be more calculated on its feet again, or to nationalise the Consular gaol, at Shanghai, following

a charge of carrying, to destroy confidorce in the businees mines, which simply meant that the their arrest on world. than the spectre of a strike on a country would have to carry the industry pistols and bombs with them on the national scale with the whole of organised in bad times and that of course was CN.C. str. Shumtion, strangled himself in a cell. Though there were four in- only another name for subsidy plus public labour involved in the trouble,

| mates, all Japanese, in the cell, it seems ownership. In any event the miners were

none of them knew that the Korean had One tragic aspect of the General Strike

to be assured of a minimum wage at the hanged himself until the morning.. was that it took place just at the moment expense of all the other industries in tile when there wore signs of a return to country. Workers in every other field of Last week we published a list of botter times in industry. At the begin industrial activity might go abort when stopping places in connection, with the ning of May there was good reason to trade was bad, and find themselves.out Kowloon 'Bus Services. With reference hope that trade was beginning to tum of a job, but not the miners. This may to these stops it should be noted that the corner at the bottom of the long roati be excellent Socialism, but it is rotteen Nathan Road should be substituted for of depression. The unemployment figures economics. And needless to say, if the Coronation Road, wherever the latter showed A decrease, Merchants and stupendous gamble of the T.U.C. to bluff name appears as a stopping place. Wa others were more cheerful Moreover, the nation succeeded, and they won their have also been asked to state that on it was tragic because a Geceral Strike bid for power, it was absolutely cattain Routes de 'buses will stop by re- quest at the Kowloon British School, far, deliberately planned and put into opera that after placating the miners a similar

the convenience of childeru, tion with the ostensible object of helping claim would have been måde for workers. the miners could never make things bette: therefore, the country taken as a whole Mr. H. G. Sheldon applied for extension in other stapia industries. No wonde

At the Supreme Court yesterday, than they were in the coalfields. Only arose up to defeat the would-be Napoleons of time allotted for registration, with lunatic could imagine that by paralysing of Trade Unioniam who threw down the the Hongkong Registrar, in respect of the manifold activities of the whole challenge, and while professing to assist two mortgages entered into.. by the country it would be posable, to compel one comparatively small section of work-Shanghai Branch of the National Com the mine-owners to pay the men дого

ers the miners-attacked the nation at mercial and Saving Bank, Ltd. The wages, seeing that on the authority of the large, and set out to indict the maximum mortgages concerned property in Hong- Coal Commission it was patent that the amount of loss and privation and suffer-kong. His Lordship intimated that he money was, not there. There was the ing upon millions of their fellow country must Eave assurance that there was so- further fact that no matter how the strikeren, including helpless women and child-thing in the way of a winding-up pati- tion pending. The application was ad- ended the miners and the owners wouldren, by declaring a General Strike.

journed. It is, we think, a matter for pride to

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Britons in every part of the world

POLICE CHANGES.

be no nearer an agreement over hours of labour and conditions of employment

that when confronted with the fright- They would still have to meet round the

'ful menace of a General Strike the table and endeavour to arrive at a settle

people at home refused to be "rattled." The following changes, in respect to ment.

There was no trace of punic. Instead, Police administration, have been mado These considerations were of course there was a rush of volunteers to main- and will take efect from to-day :--- well within the knowledge of the Generaltain essential public services. The aerce- Divisional Inspector W. F. Blackman, Council of the Trades Union Congress saries of life were forthcoming; there was who was recently transferred from Shau- who were responsible for "calling the no shortage of food; in a few dayskiwan to Central, is taking charge of No. General Strike. But what of that? The transport of all kinds was organised,en 2 Station, Wanchai, and his "place at Council were concerned to promote ques- some sort of regular basis, and those who Central Station will be taken by Divi- tions of far greater importance in their had to travel daily to and from their sional Inspector C. Aris, who for the past estimation than the wages of the miners work wero able to do so. A nation which few months has been in charge of Trim

SEB Tsui Water Police Station. is able to stand up smiling and undaunted or the general prosperity of the try. Their ultimate aims were political against such a blow" at the heart is un- beatable in any circumstances. It is a and not economic, This is the basic

nation worthy of the high destiny of Empire and the leadership of mankind.

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Madam Wa Pei Fu, wife of the famous Marshal Wu, has left Hankow for Footingfu.

In addition to taking over the duties of Divisional Inspector Central, Inspector Aris will also become acting Chief Inspec- tor; which office has been carried out by Inspector Binckman sines Chief Inspector Kent. went on leave a week or two age.

Divisional Inspector J. Ogg, who has been in charge, of No. 9 Station, Wann thai, takes over the charge of the Water Police Station. ・・

fact which governs the conception and right understanding of the General Strike. They wanted to hold the country to ran- som by starving the population into sub- mistion to their will, and having accom- plished that purpose they aspired to any what should, and what should not, be done in the wide feld of industry; in fact their object was to place themselves above

HONGKONG ANGLERS. the Constitution, "Concern regarding the

One Chinese imported case of small-pox ANGLING CLUB ANNUAL MEETING. mirers was only a pretext for the strike; was notified in Hongkong during the 48}, and the General Council of the T.U.C. hours ended June 13th," sought to gull the public into believing

thae from first to last it was an industrial dispute. But the statement was untru?. It seems to have carried weight with the

Trade Unions; but otherwise its falsity

was apparent to every man and woman outside the walls of an asylum for the feebleminded."

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The Eastern Extension Cable Company announce that cable communication with Macao is interrupted.

A Reuter's cable from Peking states that later foreign dispatches confirm

the Hankow shooting affair.

The theft is reported of a wooden box,

valued at Bi, containing $78 in money, from the quarters of an assistant hawker at 4, Tung On Street.

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The naaval meeting of the Hongkong

Angling Club was held in the Board Room of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., yesterday evening.

Mr. W. E. L. Shenton presided. It was decided to ask H.E. The Gover

nor and the Hon. Mr. W. T. Southora". (Colonial Secretary) to be patrons of the

Association.

The Chairman said that the Eshing An amah, employed by Mr R. V. competition arranged last season had Harris, of 465, The Peak, reports the been cancelled owing to the Strike. He theft from a drawer in her room of a expressed the hope that it would be held purse containing 815 in notes.

this season. It was, alter discussion, resolved to hold a competition, and it Lord Willingdon, head of the Com- was considered that 3200 would sufice mitter of Inquiry in connection with the to cover expenses and to procure prizes. British Indemnity Fund, is staying at Money in hand was stated to be $300, the British Legation, Peking.

and it was resolved to put $300 on Fixed Beposit.

No sooner had the struggle, commenced than the public at large perceived that they bad to face something essentially different from the ordinary industrial dis THE FAILURE OF THE GENERAL pute with which they were familiar. They saw that it was an issue which was to decide how they were to be governed Position, Central Cool. Nine Kooma, Six THE article published in this issue from in the fature. Were they to be ander the Bath, Two Tennis Courts, also Ten-Boomed our London Correspondent gives a con- authority of Parliament or of the Trades HOUSE New ST. PAUL'S for SALE or nected account of the General Strike in Union Congress Were they to be sub-

Mrs. Bowes Smith is at present a The Chairman, referring to the pro- Great Britain. The outstanding feature jest to a group of delegates elected by patient at the Peak Hospital, having spects for the season, said that members of this description of the greatest indus- Trade Unions, or Parliament elected by been operated on for appendicitis. She of the "Association would be granted per trial disturbance in modern times is the

18 reported to be making good progress. clear evidence it affords that the heart of the British nation is sound at the core,

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the nation as a whole! The newspapers

had been suppressed as soon as the strike

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started; and in itself this was enough to

mission to Ish from certain wharves and docks in the Colony,

Questions in regard to each of yourONGKONG HANSARD REPORTS | and we are able to see that the moment indicate the sinister character of the Sai Street, early yesterday evening and fishing with worms, for black bass in the

Matabeds.

of the MEETINGS of th- LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL for

2-Would. Members of the Publio kindly Session 1925 favour the BarHING BEACHES Courtre with any Saggestions they may have to offer for the improvement of Bathing Facilities in the Colony at existing Bathing Beaches?

Will they also suggest additional Bathing Boaches and say Schemes for developing the #507

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Hou, Secretary, BATHING BEACHES COMMITTEE,

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Lists will OLOSE on MONDAY, 21st JUNE, 1926, at 6 r.x.

By Order,

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A Chinese, aged about 20 years, fell A member drew attention to the une over the first floor verandah of No., 38, sportsmanlike habit of some persons in the danger threatened the people as a whole

movement, because all through history was removed to hospital auffering from reservoirs. He said that the fish usually rallied loyally to the support, of the it has been the practice of every oligareby a broken jaw.

swallowed the book.. to such an extent Government. We are not altogether surta destroy the freedom of the Preas. It

that it died before the book could be prised to learn from information received is to the credit of the British people and at the Kowloon Magistracy, in respect sshing be allowed in the reservoirs.

An order for tonfiscation was mado, extracted. He suggested that only By- from 2 sure source that although the a. testimony to their political acumen that of 216 taels of prepared opium, valued atrike was suddenly precipitated something although they were deprived of the guid. at 82,500, which had been found conceal-would deal with the question.

The Chainman said that the committee of the kind was expected by competent ance of Press opinion in their favourite ed in the engine room of the The question of re-stocking the reser- observers. For a long time past there journals they took the sine view of the Talthybius....“ „

voirs was mooted, but no decision was arrived at,

as a considerable body of opinion it situation. After centuries of liberty Seven Chinese women, whose combined home which was disposed to azy, under a system of government which has ages aggregated 387 years, were dis-

The following officials were elected for General Strce has to come sooner or been the envy and admiration of every charged at the Central Magistracy yes the year-r. W. E. L. Shenton (Preci A BOOK FOR THE GLOBE TROTTER later, and it is better to get it over, and nation in the world, they were determined terday, when they were summoned for dent), Mr. A. L. Shisida (Vice-President); Mr. E. B. C. Hornell (Hon. Secretary be done with it" This view may seem

that the ancient privileges that English- obstruction, by squatting on the pavement

and Hon. Treasurer); Committee: fatalistic, but there something to been won for themselves from rapacious by Jardine's Bazaar.

Messrs. J. Arnold, A. M. Thothhill, A nobles and despotic kings would not be said for it, because there are few things relinquished oven under the menace of stowed themselves away on board the Dr. Ho.

A Russian and an Esthonias, who had Gillard, Somerset Fitzroy, S. L. Sim and in life more disturbing to eno's peace. of starvation at the hands of a faction. German vessel, Dessau from Shanghai, Before the meeting concluded, the mind than the feeling that one is on the The public at home saw through the were each sentenced to a month's im- Chairman thanked Mr. Hornell for the edge of a precipice. Looking back now it motives of the T.U.C., and refused to prisonment at the Central Magistracy work he had accomplished on behalf of is permissable to remark that the trade recognise as General Strike as a trade yesterday. They were found in the the Association last year. He was sure and prosperity of the country could never dispute. The real mutives were either bunkera by the captain, when the vessel that the members appreciated his con- have recovered so long as a widespread to force the Government to grant an was one day out of Shanghai.

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