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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, JULY 23, 1915.

Loyal Shanghai Britishers.

DAY BY DAY.

NOTES ON THE CRISIS.

THE TIME WASTE OF STRIKES.

Here is a summary of the gores of the Board of Trade for the ten years 1890-1908 showing the amount of waste that fai

Trade Disputes in the United Kingdom,

THEIR ADOPTION TRIED

THE FRIENDS THOU HAST AND AN INTERESTING BUDGET. occasioned by strikes,

GRAPPLE THEM TO THY BOUL

WITH HOOPS OF STEEL- Shakes-

The Weather. Lawer level 8 s.m. Temp. 84; sunchine.

At the Peak 8 am. Temp. 78; sunshine.

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Count the Columas.

The British element in Shang- hai has, since the outbreak of war, given very satisfactory proofs nt its abiding loyalty to the Empire and bas, in a score of directione, set a very ealatury peare.

Che example before Hongkong. annual meeting of the Settle- ment's branoh of the China Ar- Bogation, reported in car issue of yesterday, is of itself sufficient to show the loyal tread of sentiment in the north. Shanghai has sent home over two hundred men for

Yesterday the Telegraph the Frost, and is prepared to send more-and it has made a magni. published 351 columns of solid ficent stand (is still making it, in reading matter. To-day there fact) against trading with the will be 34 pablished. enemy in Ubins. The wires this week" from our correspondert up there show how resolute is the local feeling in this respect, and we welcome the that the Britishers Etatement are doing all in their power to combat any vacillating on the part of the Government at Home where the possible issue of "special licences" is concerned. If Hongkong would pattern itself a little more on the northern city,"

endurable.

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HONGKONG, FRIDAY, JULY 23, 1915.

THE FLOODS-AND AFTER.

in the House yesterday as to the Imperial Government's taking the Dominion Ministers into its entire confidence will give satisfaction both at home and in the Colonies. If there were no other reason for this than that Australasia, Canada and South Africa have given their money and their best blood that reason would be universally judged to be ample. Bat there is more than this to be said. The discussions in the Cabinet af | Eume have always more or less lacked the backbone that can be supplied by the commercial ele- ment; and the men who are handling the affairs of the great Dominions are almost invariably business men. The monitions problem showed us sll bow, great was the need for the advice of practical," hard-headed propla who were not likely to beled astray by sentimental considerat one, and that need is going to assert itself still more when Germany is beaten and the question of a Bettlement of eftirs arises.

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Market NewE..

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Olosing prices

Bongkong ard

Shanghai Banks.-$817), azlea, Canton Insuranoes. —$3721,

buyers.

North China Insurances Tle.

160, buyers.. Douglas's- $55, buyers. Uniona.-$920, bayers.

The Discussion in the Commons.

Testerday's slackners' of wires was amply stoned for daring the night by a rash of quite interest- ing stuff. Nearly every facet of the war situation receives at least some little attention. It is a good thing for the sanity of the buman that events have come race gradually upon us, twelve months ago such a sheat of wires as we are able to lay before our readers to-day would have convinced them that the end of the world was

Period,

No. of disputes

No. of work people affected by the disputes duration of all including work-

Aggregate

in.. each period.

ers directly

disputes in

and indirectly

esch period.

affdoted.

millions of days

1899-1903 1904-1908 1899-9108

2838

022,000

15.0

2199

5037

841,000 "1,783,000

20.0

35.6

Yearly averages based on the above facts.

1899-1903

568

184,000

3.1

1904-1908

440

168,000"

4.0

1899-1903

504

178,000

3.5

We see therefore that 504 strikes occurred each year affecting indeed coming. For those tele-176,000 people, causing a loan of 3,500,000 working days to the grams record wholesale slaughter nation.

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and

the Russian, Italian Each of these 170,000 people lost 20 days of work per year French fronte, which on the basis of an average of 5 per day represents a loss in mysterious fires ou United States wages of £875,000.

This lous of wagea to the workers does not represent all the warships, significant. German

naval movements, strikes and loss which the nation sustains, bloodshed in America-and an-

lin! Incidentally they give de tails of a debate in the Commous that is of peculiar interest, to us dwellers overseas.

ascertained.

Industries are dislocated and the loss of spending power means other Washington Note to Barlow of trade in many other directions and this loss, cannot be Farther loss acarues to manufacturers who fail to complete contracts where opportunities for new trade are lost to foreign competitors.

Figures dealing with the Trades whose workpeople have been most anmerously affected daring period 1899-1905 are as follows:

No. of Work people affected..

Bravo the Colonies f

From the debate above-men- tioned, the point that stands out in the strongest relief is the in-

China Fires.-8152), buyers.creasing respect for,and confidence Indo Obinas $140, buyers. Hongkong and W'pos D.

Id-$764, bayere.. China and Manilas

Groups of Trades.

Percentage of workpeople affected in each group of

Trades.

in, the Colonias, entertained by Co. the Imperial Government." Stress

:

Thousands.

per. cent.

$5,

is laid on the voluntary armed help that these have received from their civilian people, and it is evident that there is a growing tendency on the part of the folk at Home to look upon these

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Mining and Quarrying ..............

821

46.0

2

Textile

3

Metal, Engineering and Ship-

BEAN CEPAN

413

23.4

building

256

14.5

4

Building

89

5,0

5

Transport (Dook Labour

Railway mon eto, ; kunei

3.5

6.

Clothing

2.5

7

Miscellaneous (including em

ployees of Publio Authorities

79

Total of all trades

1763

Mining

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40 conte buyera x the return of $4.50 per share, Shell Tisasporta 88/ buyers, China Sugara.-$127, buyers. Luznos 844), buyers. Colonies as not at all enable to Shanghai Cotions in Shai-take their own part in any local

Tle, 99, buyers.

rough-and-tumble. In Uganda, Hongkong and K. W. and G. sape Mr. Bonar Law, the Col-

Co. Ld. $744: hayers, Ewo's.-Tla. 175, boyers. -Langkats.-Tls, 381⁄2, buyers.

Shanghai and Hongkow W.

"Co. Ld. Tls. 92, Kung Yiks. Tle, 14 80, buyers. Hongkong Tramways.

buyers

The Dollar.

The rate or the dollar demand to-day is la 9 1/16d.

"

$5,

onists not only volunteered but were a class whose services bap. pened to be specially valuable.* Similarly, the Under Secretary of State, Mr. Steel Maitland," hear- tily concurred in the praise of the promptitude of the British at Singapore, and assured the House: that the Governmentɛwas mind- ful of the brave deeds of those în

on Singapore and the other Colo nies." Again, in Togoland, Mr. Bonar Law "instanced the fact that ninety-five per cent.

To-day's Anniversary. To-day is the 76th anniversary the entry of the British into

Ghuzneə.

was doubly, then, the duty of the of Imperial Government to call in the aid of the political leaders of the younger countries and we

School Vacation,

The Bode on the Kwangtung river have come, and (it may almost be said) have gene; but their work unhappily lives after them. At a low reckoning, at least ten thousand persons have met their death, either from drowning or from the results of the blazing feel sure that it is a step which Queen's Co lege broke up yes petroleum that was carried along on the "water; untold thousands no one will regret; nay, one by

terasy for its seven week's eum-

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are homeless and in various stages of starvation; and thousands more which the whole Empire will mer vacation, have lost their household goode, personal belongings and means of

profit. livelihood. In addition, many individual Europeans have suffered in health and in pocket, while a number of business houses bave sustained serious lose in damage to stock and premises. Finally Thomas Hardy. and it is with the greatest reluctange that we draw special attention

to the fact-Hongkong, both Chinese and foreign, has had to come!

to the aid of the inhabitants of the flooded districte financially, be-

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Our issue of yesterday con-

cause the native government is not in a position to cope with anything paragraph relative to Thomas tained BIL interesting little

Adjourned In the Summary Court, this morning, A.G. Bassein sued Fook Sing for the Sum of $25.76. The case was adjourned,

Benolit Concert.

of unofficial Europeans took up arms." Not a bad little record

for people alleged to be keen to throw off the tyrannical yoke of the King Emperor !

The following diagram illustrates the figures.

Textile

Metal, etc.

Building

Transport

Clothing

Other Trades

4.5

100.0

Bad Times for Austria.

The Italian sneness round about Goritz is, so Reuter reminde us, of more importance than might at first be gathered from the com- musique, and is apt to be over- looked on sccount of the focussing of the world's attent or 91 Waraw. Liter Austrian ad- like a tenth part of the distrese that has been occasioned. This may Hardy, re-printed from the Full the Concert to be held to-night at ately the enemy must be suffering, Our readers are reminded of missions abo how desper

--⠀⠀ Taking the four leading trade groups, the number of work- seam a wantonly ungenerous thing to say, but it is with an eye to future eventualities that we speak. Of course the warm-hearted Mall Gezite. It seems that he the Victoria Thea re on behalf of and how really hopeless is people affected by trade disputes, compared with the total number people of this Colony, who have so readily set other matters aside in has a stuck to his Wessex home the sufferers by the Kwangsung his position. The time is as of persons employed, given the following reanita. order to be free to concentrate their attention on the position of their for thirty years without a break, floods.

euredly coming when Cadorao's Groups of Trades Percentage Percentage not Total working

ITextile movements in this region and his

affected..... bi aiteotád by lere fortunate neighboure, do nct grudge the relief which they have partly because "re has a theory been able to bestow, and would bestow it again to-morrow if it were that his continued success as a

careful “clearing up" before 2 Mining and Trade die trade dispa- writer depends largely upon needed. But that is hardly the point.

Tong l'ung sued Melou Lovey proceeding to Trieste will be Quarrying putes What Hongkong has a right to ask, in view of all the circum maintaining the conditions of in the Summary Cout this morn-written down as a triumph of 3 Metal Engine stinces-and particularly of that side of things which relates to the life ander which he first made ing for the sum of $54.39. De strategy. The Vienna Government ⠀ring and Ship-

building interests of Britishers whose business lies in South China-is: What bie mark." No British novelist fendant admitted the debt and must feel that its banda are rather stepa dose the Government of Kwangtong propose to take to avoid has been able to imitate Hardy in the Dase was referred to Ohambers fall jat now; too full, in fact, for sticking, year after year to the for discussion as to payment, Mr. it to be able mach longer to aid a recurrence of the present disaster? For as many years as Hong- kong has existed as a British colony there has been vague talk of some class of theme without tir-Russ appearing for the plaintiff, the Germans in their dramatic performances on the Warsaw strengthening and heightening the embankments in such a mansering himself and his readers: In

[front.

as to guard against wholesale destruction of human life and of smaller degree it is possible

Admitted the Debt.

Rule of the Road.

property. But has anything of a lasting nature been done? Money course of time do the same and ing, befors Commander Beck that Arnold Bennett may in At the Marine Court, this morn

1·LEGAL TIT-BITS.

The Russians,

strued as confirmation of their Kaiser's wild boast of a few days ago; indeed their latest com munique “only claims a slight advance," and owns that the Russiate are making: im- portant counter attacks. Of course, even where the fight- In the Summary Court this ing concerns only a email front, it is difficult for us out here

has been voted, and even provided, for the work; but those respons- Eden Philpo's likewise; but R. N., Yeang Yan, the master of Talking about the Waresw ible have found other ases for it. If South China were a British Colony, or if the Imperial Government had any right to a voice in already both of these have been the aream-launch Hunglee, was front, the need for sifting news its affairs, this could not have happened. But Britain has no voies; content-perhaps glad to vary fined $30 for failing to observe from that quarter becomes in- has no more right, legally, to demand that Ching shall dyke ber their enbjot from time to time by the rule of the road in the Bar-creasingly great. Even the Ger- rivers than any one of our readers bas to tell us what form of print-side excursions into other forms bour at 7.50 p.m. on the 20th mane say little that can be con ing machines we shall use. Something, though very little at beat, of life and other geographical int can possibly be done by representations from the British Minister directions than those over, which as to the need for enfe-guarding our factories in the neighbourhood; they made their names. Even but half measures or one fiftieth measures are of no use. Something Scott, in half a dozen or more final is needed.

cases, abandoned the fruitful field Failing the Government, we look to the merchants; those of he had discovered in his own Hongkong as well as of Canton. All our readers-are well aware country for the sake of now, past- that the case is one of pressure required; that nothing else will do. ure, while Kipling, who made The Obiness Government will receive urbanely any suggestions Intis seems to have abandoned morning g

bis reputation in connection with ollered by a foreign power, will make bland promiess by the score- and will proceed to do nothing. Past experience over commercial the thought of writing any more Mr. Shenton:-I understand to get, for some time, any con treaties has long ago taught the world this. But will it not listen about it. Hardy, on the other this is the last adjournment my nected pisture; and, in the pre- to its merchants? These are the people who hold the purse and who, hand loyally refuses to dream of Lord; it has been adjourned for sent case, wherein the battle line since they pay the piper, have some right to call the tone. They admitting the ronibility of six months (laughter) stretches, for somewhere about a have it in their power to insist that justice shall be done, without it is safe betting that if he pro with the case as soon as the de- hopeless puzzle. The only de- Mr. Rusa 1 - Tos, we will go on thousand miles, the matter is a being played out”—and further delay, and that the lives of thousands, and the property of tens of thousands, of persons shall not be sacrificed for the mere con- daced another Dorsetshire novel fendant comes back (laughter), flaite fact that it seems possible venienos of rapacious officials who cannot be trusted with the would find as much in it to charm Mr. Dixon: I cannot fake it country's finences. The influential Hongkong Chinese must, be

and to make them think as there this morning as I don't even know perfectly well swore that so long as they choore to go on paying, was in the Wessex novels of thirty what the defence is. the Government, whether of Poking or of Kwangtung, will do nothing. Then is it not time that they and their friends in Osnenty years ago. May he live Mr. RussThere is no defence

(aughter), ton exercised a little friendly coercion ?

WOBBOX

to-morrow, his millions of readers. Soon Answered,

to give us yet more.

to extret from the conflicting and overlapping accounts is that, whatever else is happening, the Germans are not getting the easy time that some of our own pessimist› prophesied for them..

population in esch Trade Group.

per cent.

100.0

tes.

per cent,

per cent.

11.0

80,0

: 9.0

91.0

·100.0

4.2.

958

100.0

0.3:

09.7

100,0

The following diagram illustrates the figuree.

Textile

4 Building

Mining

Metal

Building