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WEATHER REPORT.
Yesterday's weather report, fore cast and remarks, issued by the Royal Observatory at 5.10 p.m.. abated:---
An anticyclone is situated to the north-east of Japan A depression covers S.W. China. A depression or typhoon appears to be forming to the south of Guam.
Local Forecast:-S. or. variable winds, moderate, cloudy, occasional
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DARKNESS FOR CANTON!
POWER STATION.
A Canadian judge recently gave a wide and, as most people will agree. a very commonplace definition of drunken driving. A man, he said, might have a few drinks and yet THREATENED STRIKE AT - be able to conduct himself in a A call was received by the decent fushion under ordinary cir
But the moment he Central Fire. Station yesterday cumstances. afternoon from Shing Wong Street, took the wheel of a motor-ear he near Belilios School, but the use became a metace to the public-a of appliances sent was not neces- dictum with which few will be sary. The fire was among a heap found to disagree. of waste paper in a printing shop, | and was extinguished without any damage."
The total output of the Kailan It is for the respective Governments to confrm-or reject-the proposed Mining Administration's mines for terms of settlement after studying the week ending June 8, amounted to 103,870 tons, and the sales during the confidential reports submitted to them by the experts. The House the period to 124,085 tons. of Commons will certainly have something to say on Sir Jostan STAMP's report, and among others expressing an opinion will be the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Some of those who read Mr.. SnowDry's explanation of his position, repro- duced in our columns a couple of days ago, may have been surprised at its restrained tone. There is nothing in his presentation of the case which is contrary to fact.
His Majesty the King of Den- mark has bestowed the order of Great Britain, through Lord Faight of Danebrog" (Danish BALFOUR, suggested that all war Flag) upon Mr. Karsten Larsen, debts should be mutually cancelled
Danish Consul for Hong Kong, and by the Allied Fowere. The position Mr. W. J. Hansen, Danish Consul then was that Britain owed the for Canton. This is understood to TPSS, United States 1,000 millions, and be the oldest existing Order, being the various European allied nations founded in 1930 by King Valdemar owed Britain 2,000 millions. Un-the Victorious. The Danish Minis fortunately, the BALFOUR gesture ter for Chino, Mr. Henrik de was not regarded with favour, and Kauffmans, at present in Hong Britain made what is now regard Kong, personally prescated the
The Baily Press.
HONG KONG Juve 25, 1999.
DOUBTS ABOUT DEBTS.
Orders.
Ben Trovato.
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STAFF RESISTING CUT IN WAGES.
[FROM OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT.]
CANTON, June 24. Employees of the Electric Light and Power Company are threatening A strike which will have the effect
of throwing Canton at night into pitch darkness
Here is the latest story about Bally Betty," otherwise known as Princess Elizabeth of York. Ils authenticity is not guaranteed, for it seems almost too good to be true. The Princess had spoken rather
Trouble has been brewing for a rudely to her mother's scoretary. The Duchess of York, after scold- long time because the Company ing her three-years-old daughter, declares that it can no longer grant and sending for from the room, present rates of pay and hours of said to the secretary: Betty labour. A thorough revision, they must not be so rude. She must declare, has become essential owing to the conditions under which the learn a lesson. When she comes down to-morrow, please don't speak Government forces them to work.
The Company used to charge to her or take the slightest notice of her." Next day the Princess 25 cents per kilowatt but the started talking gaily to the secre- Government thought that was too tary, and was hurt and puzzled to much and forced the Company to reduce its rate to 20 cents, get no response whatever. After a minute she stopped, walked right the present price for the supply. up to the secretary, and remarked, The Company objected vigorously in the severest possible voice: at the time, but without access
The Government, after "an Royalty speaking?.
the haustive investigation into economic conditions of the Com-
found that such Ľ
rate pany. would be high enough to warrant prosperous business. But things have not run smoothly and the Company has been bard pressel by its staff own which is affiliated with the All China Mechanics' Union, the most powerful labour organisation in Canton. They complain that they
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ed as an unnecessarily onerous settlement with the United States." Had it been possible for Britain to drive a better bargain with the United States in the first place. the whole problem of war debts would have been much easier of solution. As it is, the thing is a tragic farce, but the experts and the Governments they represent solemnly pretend that the business in hand is really serious. Germany is expected to meet all Reparations in full in thirty-seven years; there for indulging in "that pained tone after she will pay the Allies only be allowed to act as a sort of police- " colored. people" in the Union who have a strong union of their
the TRERE are indications that always alert French political writers are filling up their fountain-pens in readiness for a vigorous on slaught upon the MACDONALD Minis- A few weeks ago the right try. hon. gentleman who is now Chan cellor of the Exchequer made some references in Parliament to the subject of Allied debts which gave the Peris papers ample opportunity
of comment which is so charne-
teristic of them on such occasions.
to the result of the recent muni-
In
sufficient to enable them to pay of their "American obligations-pay. ments to the country which entered the war on the basis of "no indem nities and no reparations" It is inconceivable that Great Britain and Germany will be content to continue these payments to the United States and France for an- other two generations. Reparations
revised. And now comes a reminder from the US Government
ratifed by Franco.
to
Defen.
Two Chinese were fined $3 each by Mr. Whyte Smith for assaulting a boy and girl at a street fountain. The complainants stated, that the defendants his them and tried to push in to the fountain, dants accused the complainants of selling the water and that in such a case they were entitled to use the fountain. His Worship in convict ing the defendants remarked that people like the defendants could not
man and decide how many buckets a person should be allowed to draw.
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Chinese Protest in Colour Issue.
Chinese nationale in South Africa have imued a strong protest through Consul-General for Li Ngai, China, agadnes being classed as
By order of the Chinese Govern ment Mr. Ngai has addressed
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the Laterior, detailing the Chinese grievances in South Africa, which,
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Mr. Chow Tin Fong, manager of the Company, with trying to dis- solve their union and to rescind the
Now it is RAMSAY MACDONALD himself who has stirred up a hornet's nest by writing an article in which reference is made to the rights di minorities in among other places-Alsace. French senti- ment is perhaps particularly sensi tive just now about Alsace, owing
which there are two currencies,
" and "small money" nition of rights for Chinese, the cipal elections, when the Home and war-debts must be eventually big money
same as for nationale of other for in circulation. It takes years of residence in China before the eighations, friendly with Britain Rulers swept all before them.
average foreigner masters the in- Strasburg the municipal council has for the first time been captured Franco that the Franco-American tricacies of the system, for the sub- and South Africa, Mr. Ngai de- from the national" parties. Out debt settlement still remains un-sidiary corage rate of exchange is clares: "It is the object and disturbed and trying to effect a
France has never constant. While the sliver policy of my Government to abro
dollar is constant, subsidiary coin- of thirty-two seats eleven have been
nye fluctuates violently, chiefly gate all unequal treaties, to bring won by Home Rule party candidates fought a long but losing battle to and eleven by Communists, who are make the payments of her war debts through depreciation and base China, and her people to the same tives to discuss the matter with metal, and in every city there are to her former allies contingent upon bundreds of small shope which footing internationally with other Home Rulers of the industrial town her reparation receipts from Ger- make large proats doing nothing countries, and not neglect to up proletariat. The Sociclists, who are strongly opposed to Home Rule But America, who contested else but giving people change for lift and emancipate all smaller and oppressed nations in the common the principle from the first, basa dollar. One hundred cents to a dollar is merely theory, because and the Home Rule movement, bad had her way. France was forced to the average, is never less than six cause of world peace." their numbers reduced from twenty come to terms with America, but twenty-cent pieces and a few top- four to seven. In Colmar, the seat
has tried to save what she could of pers to the dollar, while sac can The Chinese as Emigrants. “
get upward of 300 one-cent coppers of the so-called "
The last census, that of 1921, autonomy con-
the principle. She pays the instal for a dollar. The visitor night. spiracy trial," every one of the
ments, but has avoided committing think himself in Eldorado on first showed that just on half a million thirty senta the Municipal Council was captured"by the Homo herself to ratification. In this res-experience of this remarkable sy out of the Straits Settlements Rulers. These results may be taken as the reply of Alence to M. POIN- CARE'S policy of repression toward the Home Rule movement. Mr. -MACDONALD'S explanation that the
The arrival at Shanghai of the communication to the Minister of have been ill-treated and charge financial mission headed by D Edwin W. Kemmerer, the promin cat economist and money doctor," whose task is the reform and he says, affect their right af citizen-rights and privileges which the stabilization of China's finances and ship and "eause irreparable lose Company granted years ago. They currency, leads to the hope that the and damage on their part, particu- have appealed to the Provincial Government and to the public and near future will see the end to the larly under the term 'colored per- have sought to enlist general sup
Pleading for a full recog-port by threatening to strike unless subsidiary currency evil ander
they get what they wanted. Their petition has been cordially received by the Government, which holds that a thorough and impartial investiga cint Government is, however, most tion should be made. The Provin
3000 as possible. settlement as General Chen Ming Shu has sent 2 group of Government representa- the contending parties and Canton's. illumination depends on the outcome... of this parley.
on
pect Great Britain is treated the same way as the United States, bat continue jnde- finitely to escape ratification seems impossible. The problem now be
that France can
in what is termed.
CARRYING ON HIS GOOD WORK!
MR. SOONG AT SWATOW.
[NAN CHUNG KUO NEWS BERTICE.]
tera until he begins to spend the
big money, as compared with 8,149 Europeans. | ceived in a finds that all prices are population of 883,000 was Chinese, which has to be paid on the pro By now the Straits Chinese out- Tata rate of exchange. In the long run he finds the profit goes solely number all other races by more than to the title exchange shops which two to one, and before long there
his dollar.
CANTON, June 24. The Canton Government, has re- a telegram from Swatow stating that Mr. T. V. Soong and Commissioner, arrived in Swatow Mr. Fan Ki Me, the Canton, Finance on Sunday on a Government gun-
betes, Dropsy, Rheamati, sad many Directory and Chronicle offending article was written by him comes more urgent for France, since so obligingly give him change, for will be three of them for each of boat.
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As for Mr. SNOWDEN, the London means to pay off the £80,000,000 correspondents of the French papers either by using her gold reserves or will be watching him very closely raising a loan. Either would be an" now that he has gone back to the unpleasant choice for M. PorNCARE, Treasury. His recent denunciatory and would react unfavourably upon references to the Reparations preb- bis prestige but either might be lea have been very carefully filed less painful than ratifying. It and cross-indexed, and his first seems likely that he will hold out, official utterance in Parliament on fighting for the remnants of his the subject will be awaited by the principle to the end, but that end French Press with tense anxiety. must come, even if he succeeds in It seems not to be realised within postponing it for a long time. the Republic that France actually gets more than her due share of reparations. Moreover, in spite of "devastated areas, France suffered far less material damage from the war than Great Britain, France to-day is one of the richest coun- tries in the world, with practically none of her people unemployed, and has the wealthy provinces of Alsace Three cases of notifiable disease, Lorraine with their prosperous one each of small-pox, enteric and industries by way of compensation meningitis (all Chinese) were re for her material loses. The recent ported over the week-end negotiations in Paris on Repara-
News and Views.
Mr. and Mrs.
Looking Back 25 Years.
every nationality combined. Very Mr. Soong is expected to remain little is heard of the enormous at Swatow a few days for the pur- emigration of Chinese which has pose of investigating the financial been taking place of recent decades condition of Swatow and the Chao- Barred-not on any moral grounds, Mui districts, and discussing with A local yachtsman gives it as his but merely because of their dis- the local authorities measures to opinion that the "sharks," nam turbing faculty for doing twice as straighten out the financial prob- bers of which are reported to have much work as white men for half lema. been seen in the harbour recently, the pay, and keeping well fed and The Cantonese forces occupying· are not sharks at all but suafish, fit on a quarter of the white man's Swatow, with the approval of the
Commis Provincial several of which he has noticed expenditure on food by Australis, Kwangtung within the last week or two about Canada, the United States, and sioner of Finance, Mr. Fan Ki Mo. Lyeemoon. The unfish is about various other hands around the are said to be demanding a military three or four feet in length, and has Pacine, they have been pouring contribution of $100,000 from the a dorsal fa that shows above water into Eastern Siberia, the Philip-local merchants through the Swatow in the same way as a shark's doca. pines, the isles of the Malay Archi- Chamber of Commerce. -Hong Kong Daily Press, Juat pelago, and British Malaya in hun- 25, 1904.
dreds of thousands. Despite the frequent raids made on their clubs
KWANGTUNG ADVANCE for the heinous sin of gambling by white police officials who play carda *** HELD UP. for money nearly every evening of their life, the ratio of crime among SUNCHOW MAKING VIGOROUS them is invariably much smaller. than that of the natives of their new land. In quite remote vildages
Looking Back 50 Years.
DEFENCE.
It seems to be beyond question that a little fostering of the Kow loor Peninsula will result in its becoming a very important depen dency of the Colony. Of course, time is required for everything, but
"Newe.) the progress of the desired end will in South-east Siberia they are to Industrial and Commercial Daily be by no means hastened by too be found keeping the best shop in close a regard for a neighbour's the place, and the retail trade of
The report that Sanchow bad reverse Taken al in all, Yow Manila is practically in their fallen into the hands of the Nanking Mah Tee has made wonderful pocket." To-day nearer a half than strides since it first began its on third of the population of British troops has not been confirmed, in ward course, that is, about four Malaya is of Chimese race. The fact the latest news from the front- states that they are still attacking years ago. Its shipping has in Japanese, despite their much
the city... ereased wonderfully.. Steam fer advertised need for expansion, do Bunchow is one of the strategic ries to the number of about ten keep not spread around the Pacific to points of Kwangsi and is, appare
throughout the day, and it i
numbers.
W. Naef left up communication with Victoria any extent. Honolulu "is the only ently, easy to defend, According to yesterday for Japan, by the as estimated that they carry to and put to which they emigrate in large Admi Chen Chak, Commander of the Fushimi Maru, on their honeymoon.fro close upon 7,000 passengers daily. It does seem dificult to account for the sudden proeperity
tions were purely tentative and The body of a Chinese youth was $8 provisional The decisions of the found in the harbour near Stone various delegates do not bind their cutter's rifle range. It was
of the village, to discover whence
BIAS BAY..
Canton Fleet, it will not be taken? without the assistance of gunboats
The Admiral stated. and aircraft.. that six gunboats have been sent to bombard the city and a number
the means are derived that support GUNBOATS SENT TO MAINTAIN of acroplanes have left Shiuhing to
ORDER
According to the vernacular press Admiral Chen Chak has sent two gunboats, the Kiang Ping and the Hu Shen to Bias Buy, with orders
co-operate with the troops, and he expects that a decisive engagement will be fought within the next few days."
the comparatively large number of people in the place, but it might, perhaps, be equally difficult to go- swer satisfactorily the same ques- tion put in regard to Victoria
As to the fighting in Luchow, itself. Anyway, it is of little con sequence what are the causes Cer
the Hananese pro-Nanking troops tain facts denote that Yow Mah Tee
under General Ho Chien have made no progress recently The Kwanger and such being the case every an-
re-in command, and assisted by Awei- deavour ought to be made to Besist that the pirate gangs were it in its advance-Hong Kong assembling at their old haunt and chow troops are resisting the in-
planning fresh mischief. Daily Press, Juno 25, 1879.
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