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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1913.

FOREIGN SHIPPING SUB- SIDIES.

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extending operations of the sub- sidised line of steamer lying foreign llage, says a Calcutta cor- respondent of the "Singapore Free Press," On the representa tion of the longkong Chamber, the Committee requested the Christiania, January 10-The Calcutta representatives of the appointment of another police-British Steamship Companies woman in this city brings the trading with the Far East to Norwegian female police force upfurnish them with a statement de- to seven, three of whom are in fining the position. Christiania, two at Bergen, ono at Christiansand, and one at Stavan-

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said, "shows the decided unrest and pervading uneasiness that is militating so strongly against the growth of trade".

Unequal and Unfair Competition. The Committee are very deeply ger. The policewomen's duty is sensible of the necessity for the to keep an eye on women suspect extension in every direction of the ed of living immoral lives, women trade and commerce of Calcutta, tramps and children. They take and nothing is further from their spells of night daty and patrol mind than any desire to hamper some of the worst elum districts. or to discourage the development Only, the Christiansand police of the Port, but the fucts disclosed women wear uniforms, the re-in the lotter prove that the British mainder contonting themselves shipowners are being subjected with green capes bearing small to unequal and unfair competi- tion. While the Japanoss vesseln badges.. More Queue Cutting in Shanghai. are permitted to enter freely into Company are working at out After a long spell of quies in the Indian consting trade, no throat rates and endeavouring the suburbs of Shanghai, the British steamers may carry either to oust British Companies from

Manila nad the Panama crusade against the queue apposts passengers or cargo from one trade which has been organised to have been renewed, says the Japanese Port to another. This and built up by British capital

Turning to the question of the "N. China Daily News". Hoports is altogether an inequitable state and enterprise. The treaty be have been recoived that on Shturf affaire that should be remedied tween Great Britain. and Japan Panama Canal, Mr. Goodrich said day evening and on Sunday out the earliest possible moment. was intended to be one of recipro that no one could state, with any! "Protest Against Intrusion. city but in actual practice it is degree of certainty, which mer- last week volunteers wore armed with scissors, and all and sundry The Committee have, therefore, not so. The competition of the chant marine of the various nat- found waring the obnoxious no hesitation in strongly support- Japanese chiefly affects the ship-ions would benefit most, but that queue wore immediately deprived ing the views expressed by the ping Companies at present, but from the United States standpoint, of the same. The reason stated British Companies. The Com- it is quite apparent that it will their opportunity of at last build- for this recurrence of queue cut-inittee wish it to be clearly under- spread in other directions if not ing up a successful merchant ting is that during rocent days stool that they do not expect the checked and the effects might be marine has never been so good. Mr. Root's Bill, he thinks, meela many refugees from the North State to protect British steamship serious.

the objection that England has have arrived in Shanghai and owners against fair and equal vicinity, and true to their northern competition, but the Japanese PANAMA POSSIBILITIES. put forward with regard the Canal and the differentiation of proclivities they still retained the shippinga companies are subsidie-

tolls. Manila, will gain by the queue, which, it may, basurmised by the Imperial Japanese Go-

Canal, both by reason of its fur- ed, is an eye-sore locally.

vernment and they are

her aided by State restriction. Mr Lacy Goodrich, who is as geographical position, and be- One of. Tom Brown's Seconds.

in-sociated with the T.K.K. Com-cause of the amount of energy Mr. John George Hollway, who of competition in their was "one of the seconds in the torport trade. It is against pany, and the Denver and Rio that has been displayed by car- great fight between Tom Brown-he

these Grand Railway system, in discus- tain Americans, who have backed the hero of Tom Brown's School State aided steamships into the sing trade and trade prospects in their opinions with their capi days" and "Slogger" Williams, Indian coasting trade that the the East, said that it was a serious tal. In a comparatively short died at Worthing on. December Chamber protests, for these vessels matter regarding which to try space of time, he believes, it 30 in his ninetieth year. The are enabled by means of their and prophesy at present owing to will become the premier shipping Rev. Augustus Orlebar, the or-overnment subvention to enter the unsettled condition of China port of the Far East. iginal of Tom Brown, for whom into drastic competition with the and the general aloofness that is

Mr. Goodrich said that constant Mr. Hollway acted as second died British Linge in the Indian trade assumed toward her by the Powers. laat October. Mr. Hollway was while they are likewise protected This, Mr Lacy added, is only nata-reference to the Independence of at Rugby with Tom Hughes, the by their Government against re-ral when the still uncertain condi- the Philippines by an utterly irre- author of the famous school story taliatory measures in their own tion of the Republio is considered. sponsible press has been the and in an interview nearly two home trade. Such a competition China's trade, other than her means of seriously impeding the years ago he expressed the belief is neither fair nor reasonable. domestic. or interior business; is, coramercial progress of the Is- that Hughes himself was the The Committee trust, therefore, to use a common expression, in backer of "Slogger" Williams, that the Governor-General-in-astate of "suspended animation," who in real life is the Very Rev. Council will again move in the and until the confidence of the Chancellor Balkeisy Owen Jonas, matter..

business world at large is gained The Dutch Government bave Mr. Goodrich says he can see no now living at Deganwy, in North Wales.

lately modified thoir Navigation possibility of heavy trading.

Local Products. Laws in regard, to the conating

Mr. Goodrich has come from an traile of the Dutch Eret Indies. According to the old laws this extended trips though Manchuria

Astonishing Vitality.

intrusion of

Will Manila Rivai Hongkong?

A "Wello' the wist."

lands. It goes without saying,

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protect capital.

our informant continued, that there is in the Islands a class of people who are imbued with ideas of freedom, equal rights, and Independence, as may be found in England, the United States or France, but he A case of youthful vitality that has astonished the medical pen

believes that they are in pursuit fession is that of Geoge Krouse, trade was closed to all vessels and Northern China, and he was of a "Will o' the Wisp The a boy of thirteen, who died in the ander foreign flage, but by the astonished, while there, to notes Islands, he says, must be under a Lebanon Hospital, A red-hot amendment which has now been the great activity in the movement strong ruling hand in order to steel umbrella rod was driven made the claims to fair treatment of local products, such as beans, through the boy's head from ear of those nations who allow the bean cakes, and similar commodi- to ear while playing with some Dutch vessels to participate in ties of purely interior consump- children in a vacant lot in The their coasting trade have been tion; but he saw little activity in Broux thirteen days before. Thut recognised. This fact lends ad-imports or exports. life was sustained so long as it ditional weight to the Chamber's To indicate more clearly what was is considered exceptional by contention that the Indian coas- he meant about the "condition" witnessed a torchlight procession, surgeons intorcatod in the case, ting trade should be, closed to of the Republic, our informant several miles long, that was beld says the New York Tribune." vessels flying the Japanese flag pointed out the fact that he saw in celebration of prospective free- In addition to the terrible injury unless the Imperial Japanese from twelve thousand to fifteen dom. to the child's brain, owing to the Government are prepared to open thousand troops of all nationali- pressure of broken bones upon their coasting trade to British it, it had been completely pierced lines.

and burned by the heated steel.

How Japanese Ships pay Their Way.

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The news of President-Elect Wilson's so-called "Independence Speech," at Staunton, Pa., roused great enthusiasm among the Mr. Goodrich nativos, and.

Mr. Goodrich is to remaia in ties guarding the line of railway the Colony for a few days.

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