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TO-DAY'S CHINESE

TELEGRAMS.

/Wah Taz Fat Po Service)

Paking, April 8 A large quantity of opium, reported to have bean smuggled by solliers from Mukden, has been seized by the Customs.

Stadente returned from Ameri- ca, Britain, Italy and France have all joined and telegraphed to President Wilson requesting the return of Kiaochow to China.

The re-opening of the Shang hai Conference is reported to be taking place on Wednesday.

Shanghai, April 8,

The Shensi

gentry have

CORRESPONDENCE.

(To the Editor of the ** Hongkang Talseraph.*]

THE JESUIT COLLEGE.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8–1919.

LEAGUE OF ALL NATIONS.

MR. J. H. THOMAS ON BASIS OF PEACE.

TO-DAY'S SHARE

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Sir, I have read with interest

The International Labour Con- all the correspondence published ference at Barne on February 5 in the Press regarding the propos was devoted to a discussion of ed Jesuit College, at Hongkong, the League of Nations resolution andar the distinguished patron-submitted by the Conference Com- age of Senhor Sousa, Consul for mission.

Mr. J. B. Thomas. M.P., opened H. K. & S. Banks b. & sa, $700 Portugal, the country from which the Jesuits were banished, and I with a forceful spech which the beg to state that Mr. De Sousa, delegates warmly applauded. He as Consul for Portugal, should the delegates not

made an earnest appeal to pot preside over the committee of such a College.

I have reason to believe that the Fortuguese children of Hong kong are receiving a very weak

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away their time in end North Chinas less wrangling over responsi-Unions bility for the past, but to remem. Vangtsres ber that responsibility for the Par Eas arus future was far more important. education.

He Is it impossible to

declared that the peoples improve it by other means than would not be satisfied with a

The League China Fires those suggested? Why imagine paper settlement.

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petitioned the Government re-remely? Is it a fact that the its basis. questing it to avail itself of the Jesuits are the best teachers, on nations, and not a few select- present armistice to clear out the face of the earth? I don'ted ones. The settlement must be Douglases bandits and alleviate the people's)

that they are good framed not in the spirit of victor Steamboats educators. No one, with sense and vanquished, the spirit of indos (Pref:) suffering. Feking has already

in him, knowing certain abomin-hatred and revenge, but the spirit Indos (Del.) wired Chang Sui-ki to carry out able facts and the lamentable of the guardianship of the in- Shells the suggestion in conjunction politics of the Jesuits, will ad-terests of the world and of Ferries

humanity. with the different angies,

veente their coming to these

From the horror, suffering, and shore. Kuluangtsu, in Amoy, has been

misery of the war must emerge a Why

some prominent determined attempt to make war Sugars selected as the site for the confer-attubers of the Portuguese com-impossible. Unless the League Malabons ence to decide on the demarcation unity in Hongkong taking was made the founation of peace, of Fukien territory, pending the manch interest in advocating their territorial and strategical disputes result of the Shanghai Conference. | cause? Will not a f. e and up-t- | would arise, and of these the im

Chu Sha-tsung attended a Cab-late technical schol. directed perialists and capitalists would Kallans inet meeting on the 5th inat, and civil professors, a at the take advantage.

Hongkong University, suit the Portuguese community?

Yours etc..

explained his territorial defence scheme, which consiste-t of four proposals to establish banks to issue domestic bonds, to establish

F. X. Macao, April 8, 181V.

This correspondence is now

reclamation „aud, cattle grazingched.—El. H.K.T.) companies, and to send troops to settle on the frontier.

Chan Luk. Foreign Vire- Minister, has conferred with Mr. Obats at the Japanese Legation |

to how to simultaneun-ly publish the War Participation

Lan pact

heard of at the Conference,

WOMAN AVIATOR.

FLIGHTS IN MANILA. Reporting exhibition fights by Mis Rail Law, an American

viatrix, the Manila Bulletin of

the 5th inst. sys-

There was only one Law in Manila yesterday and that was Ituth.

For the League to be effective | Raubs it was first necessary that thereTronoha. should be international abolition | Urals

of Conscription." They were determined not to substitute the destroyed German militarism by

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a British militarism. It was the duty of the German Socialists to H.K. Wharves say that the spirit of militarism K. Docks had brought about Germany's Shai Docks downfall, and that it should N. Baginearings b prevail no longer; that they could no longer allow vested interests to control the means of destruc tion of human life, and look for profits from the blood of the people.

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agencies, are going back to PEACE PEACE PEACE PEACE PEACE PEACE PEACE PEACE PFACE PEACE domestic work. For thirteen

weeks they have the G$4.75 a

week provided by the Government

until they and other employment,

but, unless the girls have homes to go to, that is scarcely enough to shelter and feed them.

Many with aptitude and skill will continue at factory. work. taking the places of men killed or crippled in the war. Thous ands will emigrate, it is be- lieved, to America and to the dominions to seek industrial em- ployment not available to them here. Other thousands will marry soldiers when the army is de mobilised.

woman

The majority, however, in the opinion of employment agency officials, will sooner or later bare to return to domestic service.

But, acccording to a spokesman for the girls, it was the taste of factory-life freedom, even more than novelty of bigh wages, that is the chief cause of She their present discontent.

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It was the duty of the League Luk Ching-cheung, head de-

to deal not only with Conscription legate at Paris, reports that

and the private production of excepting Germany and Austria

armaments, but also with secret all countrie- reject Mongolian

Drawing to the vicinity of the treaties. They must insist that independence. He believes, there-Laneta the largest crowd that the League should deal with the fore, that the matter will not be has ever been commanded by a human and social side of life, and

single attraction in the Philiptional code of labour conditions. Kung Yiks

that it should establish an intera. Ewos The Peace Conference had an pines, the American girl who has They must say to the Govern-Lau Kung Mows 53. informal meeting at 9 o'clock taken to herself the wing and ments assembled in Paris: Do Orientals yesterday morning, the Shou all of the free abandun of a bird, justice, rise above jealousies and S'hai Cottons D. question being fir disen-sed.disposed, yesterday afternoon, of personal revenge, rebuild the Yangtszepãos As there is no fighting in the the first half of her contract ruins of the nation into a whole Province, no debate was with the Philippine Aero world. aroused, but it was decided Club and carried the first Herr Hermann Muller, secret- t carry Duk the Yangtze aerial mail in the Far East.ary of the German Majority So- Tachuas'

Police e-timates are that at cialist Party, immediately follow-C. Light & P. b. cum rights $57 recent proposal to send a high official to Shensi least ten thousand people made ed. German Social Democracy.vidents to investigate which side should their way to the Laneta between he said. had always opposed be blamed for causing the former 2 and 5 pm. yesterday, and Miss the recent elections the Majority

Dairy Farms militarism and navalism. During

H. K. Electrica trouble and to prevent similar Law said it was one of the largest took up a strong position regard-

Macao Electrics tronble in future, while the que-gatherings to which she has ing the question of armatients,

Ropes tions of the Defence Army, the performed. In addition to the and favoured a citizen army, not Trams, Beak, old b. Trams, LowLevel n. War Participation Loan, the dense mass of people covering to be used for aggressive purposes. Trams, Peak, new b military pact, and the 8th year the Laneta and "Ermita listrict, Speeches were also delivered bonds are to be discussed at one the whole city paused in its by M.M. Troelstra, Milhant, and time and settled in a fortnight. affairs for an hour and a half Cachin, and then a powerful con- before sunset to thrill and cap by Mr. J. Ramsay MacDonald, tribution to the debate was made at the remarkable feats of avia-who said that it was profoundly tion by the foremost woman significant and appropriate that CHINESE SHIPBUILDING. aviator of the world.

the first serious discussion of the The dropping of the thiny-conference was on the League of pound mail Back containing Nations. One of the most essen- letters and cards will be delivered tial duties of such a League was to their addresses in Manila thi- to create a Commission to control The Kam Ying Fat, built morning, bearing the first mail the supply of raw material and by the Kwong Cheung Hing top, was a distinct departure to preserve the economic con- shipbuilding yard, of Kowloon, from anything that Miss Law has stitution of the world-organisa

Alarm was caused at Ramsgate for the Globe Navigation Coin-acluded in her programmes and, tions created by the war for the recently, when a second German pany of Hongkong, underwent as far as a tea of the precise drop-materials in the interests of the itself in the sands a few yards control of shipping, transport, and mine came ashore and embedded her first speed trials this morning of a mail sack from an aero-people. ing, which proved satisfactory plane was concerned, the Aero

from the Marina bathing station. The success of the League de- This time it was possible to in every way. The vessel was Club's initial attraction was a pended on the character of the render it safe by removing the decorated with flags, and a large decided success. The famous peace. To give a peace similar detonators. number of friends of those con aviatrix swooped to within a few to that of 1871, and to create occurred at frequent intervals Heary explosions cerned were aboard during the feet of the roof of the Manila Government committees and call trial. Special significance at Hotel and dropped the sack in that a League of Nations, would yesterday in the Channel, where ser defeated A. H. Crook and taches to the incident since this the exact centre of the east towerbe no League at all from the large numbers of drifting mines A A. Claxton (Fecs. 2/6) 6-0; The SCHOOL has accomodation for 200 PUPILS, the is the first vessel of the with a precision which she de- Socialist point of view,

have been destroyed.

NEW STEAMER LAUNCHED.

The League, he contended,

Horgkong. April 9, 1919.

DRIFTING MISES.

kind to

be built entirely by clared may be duplicated by any must not be an association to Chinese in a Chinese yard for practiced aviator. Chinese firm and is indicative of

share out the spoils of war, and For nearly an hour, first in the must not be an instrument should be, not by delegates from the growing enterprise of Chinese dazzling radiance of the late af victory. It must be a union of the executive branches of the shipbuilders.

ternoon sun and then in the soft all nations whose social and Governments, but by delegates The Kam Ying Fat is 195 feet colourings of the gleaming, men political development entitled from Parliaments representing all long and 20% foot beam. She is women and children of Manila them to membership.

parties. fitted with two boilers, each & feet stood spell-bound gazing aloft at by 0 feet, and contains two this swooping, darting, carvorting of the German Majority Socialists compound engines driving twin heroine of the air.

He welcomed the declaration

regarding disarmament, but was disappointed with the proposal

cited as typical the conditions: onder which chambermaids in a

big London hotel work.

"They receive," she

said,

"13 shillings a week for a working day of from 13 to 15 hours. Once a week they are allowed off from 4 o'clock in the afternoon until 10- 30 at night, alternate Sundays from 2 p.m. until 10. 30, and they are given à full day of once a month.'

LAWN TENNIS.

matches resulted as followB

Last evening's tourament

Col. Crisp and Capt. Murray | Handicap Doables.-Lieut.-

6-3.

Handicap Singles "A".-A. Morse (recs 3/6) defeated N. E Kent (owes 15) 6-0; 6-4.

Handicap Singles "B" (Final). C. B. Brown recs. 15/3) defeated E. A. Macdonald (recs. [2/6) 6-2; 7-5, 6-2.

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screws making, a speed of about Manila's official reception for for a Citizen Army, for the for- ten and a bal knots. There Miss Law was tendered at the mation of auch an. Army on the are two decks fore and aft with Manila Hotel last night, with the basis of population would strike bridge on the top deck. The Aero Club the host for all of the at the very root of the principle vessel has a cargo-carrying cap-officialdom of the city. Most of of a League of Nations. neity of 900 tons and is of wood-the heads of the Insular Govern- appealed to the Germans, to en hall with iron frame. For ment are members of the Club and remove the Citizen Army proposal passengers, there are six first were there with their families to from their programme and to class cabins with bath rooms extend congratulations to the

declare that the only safe basis of and also a spacious dining saloon, lioness of the occasion.

the League was disarmament. The Kom Ying Fat took ten And she proved herself as grace in the resolution which is to be Mr. MacDonald proposed that months to build and has been ful on a ball-room floor as she is submitted to the Conference to- passed by Xesure. Jomes in the air. The place was throng-morrow it should be declared that Macdonald and Co., Government'ed with the leading families of the representation on the Central TEL. 2499 Sarveyore.

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