1911-09-02 — Page 3

THE STRIKE.

Food Cut Off

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 2 1911

pany, who have hoists from an underground passagó.

Prepaid

intimations.

Advertisements. THE GENERAL ELECTRIC:

$2 for eaa week.

BOARD AND RESIDENCE

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HOMEVILLE, Marrison H, splendid, view, of the harbour, 10, aluates from Post Office by electri cars; outrance 159, Wanchisi Road,

Apply at the hous, i [128

In the docks niul the railway missariat. Yesterday's supplies, stations vast quantities of produce were short and notices five been are accumulating, but they cannáb received from various provision The result was flat from every be nulled or distributed. The Contra no longer guarantee book in the market beef or mutton strikers have given the order, aiding delivery of ice or freshes was hanging. But the problem 25 WORDS $1 for 3 intortions or Fondon: Aug. 9.

their will prevails.

of provision.

was to get it awayA few carts London's food supplies aro

At the Low-lon Hospital therefrein retailers presented them- Fa is an unparalleled situation, has been no shortage, as the elves and they were loaded, but practically cut off. The groat and it grows graver with each strikers have lot all hospital supin ny cases the strikers over.. bulk of our food comes from bone that the strike is prolonged. cabroad, and 150 ressols laden with each increase in the number lies through. Fee is made by turned the in sile structs, with meat, wheat, batter, frait, of men who have quitted work, hospital uses 1,400 quarts of milk Friday is the day when rotail but-

chinery on the promises. Tho

The pinch will be felt to-day, -uri-öther provisions are lying in

The mi showed a menacing 600th, of meat, med 30016. of hors buy their supplies from the the Thaines undischarged."

Vahicles which lud ra"; fish daily; 1,000ew, of potatoes week-end.. If the means of trans- tempor Buc blocks of the mails are consumed weekly, The great food markels were stations were attacked, overtura The hospitals are also threaten-will be very graveleçi.

post is not provided the situation alinost-at-n-standstill yesterday-nd, and damaged in the shepts ed with a drug famine. Yester Mark-lalau corn, Covent Garden Three motor vehicles suffered day all who horse vans of Messrs. Since Play Inless steeke ure Prices have advanced by hali fruit, and Smithfield mat. The Musfatoner Paddingtout where Burnaghs, Wellcoin Cremoved today, much will decay, the disorder yesterday was it is wholesale elemists, were stopped Borough fruit and provisions worst.

by working till late at nigh de Juhrket was absolutely idle. Mer

Thé polien praved powerless in, livering emergency supplies to chants have nothing to coll. unny cases, las give, proljetian "the hospitals and retail chemists,

Tamoloy is living on the store of. Though a smularul vans managed; Idist in the retiŝl újøreħant shops.fta effet sortige From the station When that is exhausted dothing undor their guard. can be capreyed hip dis whole-So grave is the outhok, su le markets, and nothing be streng, the diger to Lipton's d'scharged from the shijes iushock until the strike is sorted,

Laling merchants prodies that cur steks will be eaten up in thres or four days. But for home supplies an la seinly simonat ar- riving via ports still moff-cted. famming will be reached, j

Those vans have, not yet heant interfered with;

Food Waste.

Ice at a Premlum. Owing to sume 20,000 tons of ie being detained at the docks, etories, and cold storago dňpart- ants the supply in London you- terday was almost entirely cut off, The querútities of for another obtained at a fow of the West For the most part ice was only to 1, dot troups dire being held by the strike enot possibly be manufacture their own. Every commo-lities destined in London End-hotels and restaurants which edy at Aldorslet, Hounslow, exactly stated. But of the stocks ce mereliant in Indon was bo Shornliffe, Colchester, Dwar.hud of impo.fed goods stored in the eged with orders which he was bewhere; 190 rounds of blocks and warehouses of the Portable to carry out. gartridge per man have been of London Authority mil of the

Several attempts were made to

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CO. OF CHINA, LTD.

CONSULTING ENGINEERS AND MANUFACTURERS. 4-

Telegrams.

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Terphone

10, Dea Voata Rd.,

Houghtong.

MANUFACTURERS OF ALL KINDS OF

ELECTRICAL MACHINERY.

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ESTIMATES GIVEN TREE,

nd Flour For particulars plea e Large Stocks of Fittings, Cables, Wires and Accessories my fly to F. laukhend and Co. | 1317

FOR SALE at a moderate paine 10 aures of land in Ue Colony suitablo for chicken farming oz mielog pig or cattle. Apply t–W. of 116 Hongkong Telegraph," F1111

WANTED 1g Outler fat or cats," A 10 or 12 roared house ins gro Deality, or 2 or 3 bou is adjoine Higher level proformed. Apply **Lease." care of Hongkong Too graydı."

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subd." Army Server wagons quantities waiting to be unloaded bain supplies from the docks railings were torn down. Soreful ire waiting at Hounslow.

in the vessels which have cone and factories, but few were succonstables were injured, and one The exact position of the strike; into dock since the strike boganeessful. Loaded vans were tarod had The hunt has a double effect on is as follows:

he following tables 'give an ap-ibuok and in some cases overturned. he had

his bend So cut that the situation. Less cat is. Bucker: Claims conceded. Aproximate estimate.

to benedically The usual amount of fee supplied | treated. nooled just now, bột mare fruit Coal Porters: Clainis emeed-

At longth the charges in Fondon daily, at this time of of mounted patrols quelled the [138] and vegetables, andl those ed yesterday..

fyer is 1,000 tons yesterday not outbreak. Nino vans laden with more than 50 tons could be defruit were later escorted through Ship. Waren es. That livered. Prices have risen since theangry crowd to Covent Garden.

Mnstay from £1 to £3 or £4 a ton.

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will soon parish unless delivered Fish Porters: Pains maced- When more coal can be hil ful posterday, wagesdouble Land refrigorating arrangements" will | raise | to 24, au höur. :

any.

Foodstuffs Detained

Stobisatg Aboard Doks mad'.

stop and stocks of food will de- Lightennen; Plains under Åtroa THIÊ ̧

lisension na lato hone last night;

the Board of Trate, but wo! wrletuent in sight.

Garten: Claims yet ti be dealti

Mout has risen, wholesale, from 01. 01. a 1. for British and i -4.1-20, to 7d; for foreign, Flour

was advanced be, yesterday, -

with.

т

Toy Tour.

$11

Sege, Tap-

1 20.

Copos

·Coffee ... Fir Fruit-12rind fireen....

4085

80 1,552 1,500 200

1214

one and

Sedfwesty

Play concession of this clims of Supplies of paper for news papers are running very short, particular section brings no In fear of a shortage of petrol gehef as long as there are other one-third fewer naibuses will sections on strike, as the tión Have! be on the streets to-day,

detarmingland to return to work. till all havo ligen satistiël, Inderd, Ive

The strike extended to zogon farmen not only at the docks bát, also in all parts of London,

t

***London will to-day be withon -neari," say the ligadors. Yester, day only 50 vans passed the Man- --sión_House_iu diva aniqutes

other time the muncher is 500,

Mr. Bu Tillate is répòrtel to havo said that they wanted to paralye: the Port of London,

mize, Gelang

اوران ك

2.00

QUION

1

ds fast as the elims of ong section Pracen Mght 70,006

re gented another section of Pepper and workers comes un, domnding higher wages or slutter hours, or

tb.

A most of the green mil-,

Spices ...

Pravisions..

IGO

618

KE8G 2,952 5J08

Messrs Newby-and Co., "of St. Mary-at-Hill, inve "decided to

Steeping in Uniform

Au order was issued at Ald-r- close down altogether." Eight shot at 10,30-that all the troops thousand tons of ico bolonging to were to go to bed, but that they United Carlo Gatti, Stevenson, were to sleep in their clothes. 4 and Slators are awaiting delivory Men are also hold ready t 3,660 at the London and Surray Com-Shorncliffe and Colchester,

mercial Docks, "We were able

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Jonly to sand out a few tons to- day, said the secretary. The 19.15-19.tab North Pole les Company are in

17.378ry similar position.

7,27%

200 2011 1,700+ 7.968

76,000

El

Approach to the Government railway siding at Aldershot is

held

Hongkong & Shanghai.

RETAIL SUB-AGENTS-

WM. C. JACK & CO., 14, Des Viix Road, Hongkong,

MANCHURIA

SOUTH

RAILWAY

guarded by military police, who SHORTEST & QUICKEST ROUTE

havo ordera to stop everybody Irom seeing what is going on. The £11.000 of Fruit Rotting. South-Western tailway is making 2011 At Covent Garden 500 or 600 up at Woking a very large number parters were standing idle. Thora of special trains, which are being ivas no foreign fruit for salo. It moved down to the military siding. Is been impossible to remove--" Daily Mail.” 17,700 50,000 packages of French and

400 "Ships "Held "Up- 4.000 3.517 7517 Spanish goals which arrived on

400 15.70 Spirit...

Sagar-

Pass exists. ! En 20 Sourcessful attempts were ma le in¦ Tea......

nginstances last night to remove Tolea agt gonals, Int lights with the crowds Cigars... Blingsgate fish portors have curved, The companies, can Wines...... demanded a large increase ofly low consignees to fetch wages, but Imvernot, yet struck,eir own gouts.

Tidal

350011714

0,668 14,100

GGHE

Wednesday. Forty-four, thou Nothing, perhaps, can better 200 17.05.17215 sand cases of foreign fruit, valu-illustrate the serious position

300

BETWEEN

THE FAR EAST & EUROPE, via DAIREN.

UMMER SCHEDULE.

Effective fruim May_1, 1911.)

THRICE WEEKLY EXPRESS TRAIN SERVICE, coinposed of excellently equipped Sleeping, Dining and 1st Class Cars, is operated between 1858 el #1214,000, are lying in ships than the following list showing Deiren and Clangchun is connection with the Trans-Siberian Express Train in the river rotting. One firm the number of vessels now lying ad with Dairen-Bhanghai Direct Stenner Sorvice by the S.S." Kobe Maru" 1.6 126,662 171.262, has been obliged to drop into the lle in the ducks, and in the "Baiko Maru" (each 2,877 tous) as Illows

sea about 5,000 bunches of Thames:

856

Other Goods Detained.

thors.

Thro conferences at the Bourd Owing to the shortage of petij of Trade yesterday concerned working. The newspapers End

imany motor-omnibuses yesterday | Bigdskins diffärent groups of strikers were

are threatened with paper faming, again adjourned.

Tho temper of the men is not so and exceptional difficulty is being Carpet nad good. Several-disumbancos experienced in getting the printedge .... carred and ning arrests were newspapers to the Stations and made.

guning the blockade,

How the Strike Stands.

It is possible to give only approximate numbers of those

on strike:-

London

Backers.............. 19,00

Lightärmen o 6,000 Coal Puttersho €,400).. Stevedores Com... · 8,000 Tagbont engillvers .., 500 Cand labourer,.......... 8,000-

The situation of each. group;

The milk supply, so far, has been seriously affected. Tons of mat will go bad at Smithfieldl unless it be promptly removed,

Faros

NORTH BOUND,

...LY

Shanghai (Steamer) ***** Ar

Jamanas.

Ships Tonage. St. Kaurine's Covent Garden will be pen

1. "It... 9,246 1st Class London ......................... 29 ... 20,078 this morning for the transaction

60,799 of ordinary business, but supplies Surrey Commercial ... 12 10:1 will be short Merchants have wade.

Millwall

9 ... 14,347 10... 20,297 bongla pisches, cucumbers, ands. W. laudia,

7 19,696 grapes to the market in taxicab. East India

6. 16,382 The ordinary means of transport Allert........

18 78,040 has been entirely stopped, and Victoria the market is dependent on what Tilbury 2.562 it can get furtively through.

Heat

118

CO

061

gos Yarn,

ao 19 Gum ..... Gutaperclin Hoop,Phas

Too, and Jute......

201

151

130

100

59

1911

1.394

1962

+

300

583

833

1,401

1,601

6,453

Papor!...... 950

2,657

6,953 3,607

Saltpeur.

200

623 132.

#184

1,808.

Fruit, to the value of £14,000, is Indirabber rotting in the docks. Teittion is Oil ......... 200 living from hand to mouth and Oilčako famine is at the door, .

Hospital Plight.

The hospitals ýesterday Legan Sif..........

to feel the effect of the strike. Skła (with

At University College | Fospital | sory

་་་

there was great difficulty in got-Tin...... 300

4.500 14,059

18.530

27,980. 294,558 302,488)

Fighting at Night-

The following is the position at the goods stations of the great Pilways:-

(S.M.I. Train)...L..

19

Thurs. Sun. Sst. Tues.

$10

Baires (

6.00 ..

Sun. Wed.FA.

Y11.05

Makden (.

JA

V11.50

... 15 12

... 95,961

fu#T!,

R 0,50

Changchun (

Harbin

)...1.. Ar (Russian Train)... Lv.

1.60 .. 2.00

11

"

11

8.30 11 0.80 Az *9.10 a,.

tt

Connecting a arbiti with

Totalt..........148 ...415,630 In addition there were in thio tegent's Canal Duck 13 vessels of unknown toounge.....

And in the Thaios, between London Bridge and Tilbury, there lay nearly 200 vessels of varying tonnage, including passenger vessels holonging to the General Stent, Batavin, Aberdeen, Dau-

,

| dee; Garron, and other consting Wednesday midnight.. Vans and Continental lines, so that, overturned yesterday morning, roughly, 350 vessols are in duck Deputation to socceive at land on the river, losing thousands of pounds daily. Here is the 10 m. to-day. Midland. All deliveries ceased position at a glance:

148 vessels in dock. pant Managers of all four railways

200 in the River Thames

40 due to arrive by this evening. 18 in Regent's Canal Docks..

401 Tutal idle.

ONE SAILOR IN 251 DROWNED.

.SOUTH BOUND,

11

Mon. Thurs. SAL- State Wx- Blate

Ex-

gon + Ex-

press Lits for pross

for Mos-for-B1. Moscow cow. Pet'g

State State Wagon Ex- Ex- Li

Cour cting at Harbin with press prose from

from from Мой Pet'g. Moscow DUN

It 9.00

([Liarbin (Rürsian « cain)... Lø.

Changeling C

*11.20 s.m.

Mon.

Wod, Fri

...Ac

·

Y11.00

(SMR. Tmin).

10.30

Mukden

...Ar

8.25 11.11.

6.10.Tass. Thurs.

11

"

*

1)

Sale

ከኝ .

)... Lv.

6.25

1)

Y11.06

Dairen (

"

Y... Ar.

Steamer

... Lv.

1.80p.m.

Nooa Wed

TI

*.

Sue.

Y40.00

Shanghai

........

Fri.

Tues.

• Russian Train Tirao is 23 minutes ahead of the S.51.R. Time. For instance

6-pin by the former is 5.37 1. by the lattor. Sapplenuntary Charges on DAIRIN-CHANGCHUN Service.

·Steering Car SUPPLEMENT.... ¥5,00 Excukon Extra FREY3.00

TICKET AGENCIES-The Company's railway and steamer tickets are obtainable at all the Agoncies of the International Slooping Car & Express Trains Co., the Nippon Yusen Kaishin, Shanghai, Messrs, Thos. Cook & Son, and Buirebureau der Hamburg-Amerika Línie,"

873 Urea Northern.-All Carmen sent heme at 2pm, in fear of disturbance and injury to men 2.183 and horses.. TQU 650 Great Western-Nothing deli Dockers. - Achitration wasting the daily food supplies, Up Wool... 11,000 211,703 222,703 vered after midday. giron in favour of the mon on till late in the afternoon no Wod Saulay, Int they are waiting till ice had been delivered, hours Other Goods 600 $8.939 11,033 Great Central-Carmen struck all others win.

after the supply

Inud run Carmen. Deunyd

A pilates faming, was 60-hour fout week, Mr. Gulley, general threatened to market asked

| Grand Total 72,550 407,218 17 1718 organiser of their union, said yes- the hospital by telephone to send

These figures-refer only 10 terday: London will be cart men for supplies, as no further lose to-day. All mei ongaged in deliveries euld be guaranteed. merchandise coming to London haulage work have been ordered Luckily there has as yot heon no from abroad by son. They do not to stand down."

shortage of milk, but a meat include food and other commo- say that the only thing for con

The signcos to do is to zand their own Lightermen.- Conference (月) Enuine is expected, for the medities arriving by rail, 10-hour day adjourned to to-day dealers have also asked the hosestimate of the quantities of goods vans for the goods detained..

At Paddington yesterday even- Coal Porters-Conference on pital to fetch supplies, with the held up aboard ship is based upon wages and other points adjourn Warning that freshness and quality the last available statistics and ing a trainload of fish arrived represents the proportion of the from Curdiff, and one part of the can no longer be guaranteed. od to today:

Stevedores.Demonid not real- The usual delivery of fish failed London imports for the period station was ofeared by, a large Ir formulated.

yesterday. One of the hospital during which the strike has lasted number of police while the fish! Camal Labourers.-Demand in porters was sent to Marylebone for From the totals there is to be was unloaded by Billingsgato fish supplies. The fish was put in a deducted the unascertainable portors and salcamon into motor-

Last year saw more lives of cused Wages-Demand in-cab, but the strikers refined for a quantities which have boon ob- lorries, aneh guarded by two soumen and passengers lost by ercass from 1s, to 28, an hour time to bolieva that it was for the tained from the ships and dock olivenien. There was a sharp wreck of British ships than since ping's management.

hospital. Police in the end helped warehouses in spite of the strikers, tussle with the crowd, but the 1906. A return issued gives the

lorries got safely away. the porternway with his leod. To-

total of passengers lost as. 140, At Camden Town goods station compared with 117 in 1009 and day hospital portors sent to obtain

the Lindon traffic manager stated 04 in 1908, but 275 in 1005. Mobi law reigns

food supplies will wear an armlet

that everything was quiet. Therefmasters and seamen 99 'London. Tho strikers are with the red cross to denote their theoutward trallie was concerned. was amplo polico protection, At supremo. In all directions yester orrunde,

The Port of London Authority, Eustin everything was satisfac which is ons out of every 251 were lost by drowning or wreck, day they stopped trallic and in St Bartholomew's Hospital has who agreed to the strikers terms tory. Suno mineral water vans employed. The least porilutts terrupted supplies,

so for had no difficulty in of ovenpence in hour, luring the were stopped in Seymour-street. The capital finds itself in thetaining mont, eggs,, and milkday unti ninepenes at night, were None of the London and North-year for suitors was 1900, whon position of a blockaded, city, The authorities, however, had to permitted to remove carcases Western vans have been interferone in overy 311 was drowned. !! within which civil war-though send one of their own men to from their cold storage to the of with, a fortunately of a mild type is in Marylebone by a brougham for market in large quantities. Violent scenes were witnessed full swing.

fish At St. Thomas's the Other coll storage contractors last night in the vicinity of the Rev. Bernard Snoll. This is There is a disquieting shortage thorities are storing up on found great difficulty in getting Bricklayers' Arms Station. Bovo-the age of toleration: but tolor- of all manner of supplies, Meat porisible foods in case of emer-their goods to the market. Aral charges had to be made by ance can be infinitely more in- has risen grontly in price. Fruit gencies.

| large amount of homo-killed mout police mounted and on foot. In solout thun intolerance.

not yet on strike,

Mob Law in London.

August 11.

in

Meat at Smithfield. Smithfield was brought to standstill.yostenlay en far as the

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Output 3,500 tons per day. Fred wooks always on bindst Daima, Farchwang "and Tot-in • spota

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MINING DEPARTMENT,

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is soaron. Lee is besoning un- At St. George's Hospital came from Birkenhead and was Tower Bridgo-road a section of the Dean of Peterborough.-If you procurable. Petrol is hardly to the strike has already com-run straight into the market by crowd threw bottles, stones, and del fairly with life, lito will doel Agents: MITSUI BUSSAN KAISHA, LTD bo obtained.

Lletely disorganised the com- the Great Western Railway cow the like. Brickwork and ipm fairly you

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