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NOTES AND COMMENTS.

WASTE OF MONEY.

the cost of which

comes

even-

ended in as the Conference was taally broken up, owing to the rival parties failing to come to agreement.

THURSDAY, JULY 31. 1919.

DAY BY DAY.

A MAN EITHER GIVES ACCORD- ING TO HIS MEANS OR HIS MEANNESS

The Blue Funnel steamer Laertes departed on her maiden Voyage to-day for Liverpool.

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MUSICAL JOTTINGS.

THE RICE SITUATION.

(BY

·ENHARMONIC.")

WHO ARE THE PROFITEERS!

[To the

THE RICE SITUATION. I would again remind readers

An anonymous correspondent SirAllow me so congratulate of the sarvios to be held at St

Sunday sent us a lengthy and, somewhat you on the very sensible stand morning next, which will be a cryptic comment on the rice which the Telegraph has taken on- John's Cathedral on memorial service for Hongkong situation from which we take the rice question. There has been lot of criticism of the Govern- men who have fallen in the war. the following points

Many, rice merchants inment for the inane manner in AB stated last week, Mr. J. W

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meetings, a settlement of the

The ss. Japan departed on the internal problem had been arrive? ed at. But this figure represents 27th instant for Straits, Rangoon, Round and Calcutta with 335 salpos and An 1.710 draw, steerage passengers

tons of general cargo.

A reader who sends us a badly tora Peace Souvenir coupon is talk of commencing "Round My dog, who evidently the money that has been and is ther No. 2, with a fr sh set of dele-possesses good taste, tried to make being made by composers of granted. gates on both sides. The trouble away with the enclosed coupon. songs that sell. with these Conferences is that Is it still valid. in spite of mutila-a large music publishing firm told at

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both the Northern and the Southern nominees.come to them

because the documents

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Yours etc. MERCHANT.

Hongkong, July 30, 1919.

NOT ROBBIE.”

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A RARE MOSQUITO TRAPPED. The arrival in England of a

A nice little illustration of the scandalous - mismanagement which goes on in China was pro vided by one of our telegrams yesterday, stating that the cost of the so-called Peace Conference to the în Shanghai

Yesterday's health return respectable total of $119,000. One

that shows three cases of cerebro- would think that even amount had bear, well expended spinal fever, two of which were White, the organist. has arranged Saigon and Haiphong have large which it has tackled this problem a very appropriate selection of stocks of rice, but they can- Most of this has been justified, choral and other works for the not export it as the if, as a result of the Conference fatal. All were Chinese.

Gov-especially concerning the way in stops the export which the authorities played into musical portion of the service ernment which, combined with the other and the rice is rotting and the the hands of the profiteers and portion, will be most impressive. factories idle. They are willing allowed them to fix the price, for to sell very good rice at $8 that is whatzeit eg amounts picul if they can get export per-to. But excepting the Tele The sum of £17,407 left by the mis If the Hongkong Rice graph none of the papers have composer of the famous "Indian Controller applies for export per-offered any constructive criticism, Love Lyrics," Mrs Amy Wood-Imits from the French Govern You have put forward proposals forde-Finden, is an indication of [ment, and states the conditions, which, if acted upon, would do.

would Tat once be far more to relieve the situation.

Then rice of

the than the plan adopted by the A member of best quality could be bought Government. One thing, the

picul, free

along Government has now" evidently« Daily Chronicle representative side ship. Freights are high-seen the reasonableness of your that to-day, more than ever, there fifty cents a picul-but even pay-suggestions, for already there is The following telegram was is money in song. He instanceding this the cost of best rice same sign of the authorities in a spirit which knows nothing received by the American Can The Rosary, which brought in arriving in Hongkong would be taking over some of the tremen of sweet reasonableness or com-sulate General, Hongkong, from hundreds of pounds, and "Soldiers $8.50 a pical The buyers could dous stocks which are lying in

determined promise, each uphold its pet schemes. It would the Manila Observatory at of the Queen, which was a small be allowed $2 a pical profit, in- the godowns in this Colony and to-day Cyclone gold mine for Leslie Stuart. Feluding discharge and transporte on which the profiteers are not be so pitiable if these politi-P..

Nahe Other songs which are sources of tion costs, and than the people hoping to make huge money. cans merely indulged in a talk typhoon over. or near

steady incomes are:-"Roses of could buy the best quality rice it You have performed a public ing competition and did not mulet moving N.N.ES

Picardy," "Little Grey Home in the shops for $10.50

service by taking up the matter the country in heavy expenditure.

H. E. Mr. Claud Severn has the West, The Sunshine of "One steamer arrived here as you have done. It's useless But not only do they sicken all well-wishers of the Chinese by signified his intention of attend Your Smile," "Rose in the Bnd." with 35,000 piculs of rice, bought to go on ranting and abusing the

We squabbling and failing to come to ing the memorial service which and "The Long, Long Trail." Mr at $9 a picul, free alongside. authorities. w nt. sound You have given the them to forward their names and addresses with communications their own compatriots who want Cathedral on Sunday at 11 am. "That." made £1,200 out of" If I $19 a picul, freight forty cents & Government that, anyhow.

Correspondents are requested to observe the rule which require. agreement; they also disappoint is to be held die John's James W. Tate, better known as This was sold from alongside at advi addressed to the Editor, not necessarily for publication, by as an nothing so much as peace and in memory of those who have Should Plant a Tiny Seed of picul, and stevedoring five cents & Love," a song which he composed pical, The profit which the rice non-interference. And whilat this

in less than half an hour.

merchant made was $334,000. The internal question remains unsettl-

Among the passengers who ed and the combatants are pre-

rice seller in Hongkong paid $19 paring for another scrap. we left for Honte by the s.s. Dilwara

and resold in his shop at £21, after number of And yet men like Beethoven, ge: the Chinese delegates in Paris to-day were

risk of bags damaged, àlack bags

A correspondent sends us the and other things. Now the small following from a Home paper? sending frantic wires that as the demobilised officers, including Chopin, and other great masters Paying lighter cost and standing European problem is being solved, Capt. J. S. P. "Evans, Capt.. E. S. ended their days

men of this type were robbed and Among latest wills is the follow their shops broken into. Why ing-Mr. Robert McWhirter, The rate per quarter and per mensem, proportional. Subscrip- it is time China put her house in Lucy. Lieuts. E. B. Tyler. J. H. poverty. tions for any period less then, one month will be charged as for arder. But as it was in the be- Magee. R. M. S, Thomas. J. A

ginning, it now is and is likely to Halpin and S. Mann.

I wonder how much Arthur not the man who made the of Watford, Herts, and of full month.

The Rev. A. J. Stearn, M. 4. Lorello has made out of that $33,000 in five days? He is the McWhirter, Roberts, and Co.. remain to the end of the chapter.

set real profiteer."

East India Dock-road, £194,227. THE CHINESE LANGUAGE SCHOOL

(Cam.), has been appointed tingle-tangle composition

the words *Keep the CARGO OF RICE RAIDED. We were glad yesterday to be Chaplain and Assistant Master at Home Fires Burning"? The

Scallawags, and not bungry able to record the presentation of the Diocesan Boys School, Hong-words are all right, but the music men, were said. by Inspector certificates to stulents of the kong, and will begin duty in Hongkong Chamber of Commerce September. From 1915 to 1918 is piffle. On the other hand, Amy Gordon to have prayed on the Chinese Language School, not Mr. Stearn was Chaplain of St. Woodforde-Finden's composi-cargo of rice which a Chinese very rare mosquito was reported were Andrew's, Shanghai, and Assist- tions showed true musical genius. imported from Wuchow. The to the South-Eastern Union of Scientific Societies' meeting ar As a matter of fact, there are necessarily valuable in themant Chaplain at the Cathedral, people in London who write "soul from Wuchow. was yesterday He is believed to have disembark- steam lighter Kwong Cheang, the Guildhall, London, recently. selves so much as because the Shanghai.

atirting" musical settings to discharging a cargo of 300 piculs ed at Folkestone (writes ceremony marked a step forward in the work done by the School.

A Government Gazette Ertin-patriotic poetry for half a crown of

cargo boat when 2 sampan Carrespondent), probably in the The students of this School are ordinary published to-day con- tirae. The whole product is

come alongside and the nine men company of a soldier, but he only not mere youths; they are tains the following: It is here- worked for all it is worth at a business men, who, even at by proclaimed by order of His London Revue and the man who in ber, without any preamble, got as far as Dyrchurch before this stage in their

career. Excellency the Office: Adminis-composes the words becomes a coolly began to transfer the sacks he was captured in an outhouse have seen the value of becoming tering the Government in Council genius. To class Amy Woodforde-of rice into their own boat. The by the president of the local to the British Museum, where his acquainted with the tongue com- that Formoea (all ports) and the Finden with the composers of rice dealer signalled for the Police naturalists. His captor sent him

Little Grey Home in the West" launch while his fokis rained monly spoken in so large a part Pescadores, and Shanghai, areThe Long Long Trail," "If I firewood"

name was discovered to be at the impudent of South China As the Hon. ports or places at which an in-

Annulátus Fasciata, and he is Mr. Dodwell so well put it, whilst fectious or contagious disease Should Plant a Tiny Seed of Love" thieves. The thieves were in believed to be only the second of

the act of transferring the the English-language will take a prevails."

eighth back when the Police his kind in captivity in this man almost anywhere, China is a

launch came up.

There was a country, The experts think he place where, with English alone, The Colonial Secretary informs

about malaria. we are apt only to scratch the us that there is no foundation for at Kowloon were enlivened on scuffle; in which two of the bars may be able to tell us something: surface, when we ought to be the report appearing in the Saturday night by a much need of rice which the theives had working on the lower levels where Straits Settlements newspapers ed treat by Our Very Own Band. taken, dropped into the harbour. Having urged that the Government should -tep in and com-the seams are richer and the op- and quoted in the local Press which performed a very excellent The theives were all captured.

and were to-day charged before claims. The question is whether mandeer a certain percentage of the rice stocks at present held in portunities greater. That applies that the Government of Hong-selection of music in

capital the Colony for export, we can regard the statement issued by the not only in commercial life. but kong requisitioned the cabin in style. We believe that the band Mr. R. E.Lindsell at the I can plead at present the Police Court. One of the force majeure clause in the Colonial Secretary yesterday as satisfactory in so far as it reveals a also to the question of getting the ss. Talthymus which had of the Hongkong Regiment will

contract. Up. defendants, who was evidently resolve to at any rate accept the principle involved. Indeed, from to know people better been allotted to the Honourable play twice a month in Kowloon

digestion of the Court an elaborate by the Government empowering that a commencement has, already been made in this direction, their ways. It has been, in the Councillor, Penang.

tale of how he had bargained with them to commandeer rice. The though, as we hope to show later, the method adopted is not past, rather a matter for shame average Englishin

the rice dealer for the purchase proclamation that they issued on by any means the best that could have been chosen. In explaining that the the situation to the public, the Government lays stress on the point coming to Hongkong and arrested at the Hunghom Railway I learn from a contemporary of 10 picule of the rice, and com- Sunday was firing the prices of that Mr. Hutchison has merely been depated to examine and report remaining here for long years Station yesterday in possession that Japan is to have Grand plained of being arrested while rice. Bence I do not think we can upon the supply of rice for local consumption, but has not been bas,

made of various quantities of illicit Opera, a company, which has he was in the lawful work of plead force majeure. Mr. R.. 0. Hutchison says he has wide appointed Food Controller. Well, we do not remember ever having no effort whatever to become opium. One of them, who had been playing in Vladivostok, taking delivery of his purchase. seen it alleged that he was Food Controller, We have always acquainted with the vernacular, 10 taels concealed in a false this past winter having arrived The ringleader, of the affair powers to enforce anything. T

when he has referred to him as Rice Controller. Incidentally. the Government even

Seen bottom of a basket, was fined there with sixty-eight performers. was sentenced to three months' am consulting my solicitors on remarks that it has no intention of taking over the control of food that the man who, masters $800. or four months' hard These artists will give a series of hard labour. Another of the men the point. I do not think the ib.. - default. The fifteen performances the who had bad previous convictions Government will pay in a hurry supplies in the Colony. We hardis expected that it would, at this Chinese has a pull over him in labour time of day. But we cannot help feeling that the community would business. Happily, there is now two other women who had Imperial Theatre, Tokyo. The was given six weeks' while the I do not know how many months We understand that the Govern bave been shielded from much profiteering had such a step been a growing desire amongst the 25 taels between them, were fined first performance will be Aida" rest received seven days' hard supply the Government wants. taken during the war. At Home, the authorities did not hesitate to newcomers to learn the tongue, $230 and $1,600 respectively. Mr. A. Strok, the manager, says labour.

quite 3 protect the consumer; our bere we have been merrilessly fleeced whilst

tons of rice which were to have number

of The alternative sentences were that after the series of perfor- MORE CARGO COMMANDEERED ment has taken over about 3.000 old bands' whilst the so-called Food Committee has remained idle and indiffer-

are, after "any six

months' and eight mances in Tokyo, his company

The following letter has been been shipped to the United States. But that is a diversion,

years residence here. remedy-months' hard labour respectively. will make a tour of other cities rent

Messrs. E. A Beaumont Now, to look a little closely into the Government statement.ing the deficiency. It is to be

in Japan, and then go to China, sent to a couple of local rice by We notice, in what may be termed the authorities' declaration of trusted, now that many of the A Chinese was to-day charged the Philippines and British India, exporters by Commander: C. W. and Co. This action has natur

of ally placed the Company ins policy, the remark that the Government's only action has been to men who have been on active by Sergeant Wills with stealing The company has its own orches- Beckwith, Superintendent

Imports and Exports →→

very awkward position with the secure that there shall be an adequate supply of fice for the service are returning to the four boxes of cosmectics from tra and ballet.

"With reference to your pro- buyers. This seizure involves Colony's needs during the remaining months" of the year, Colony that the School will Messrs. Campbell, Moore's estab

posed shipment of rice by s.6. heavy commitment amounting. half-a-million gold and that it shall be available for purchase by the public at a receive increased support, and lishment. Mr. R. E. Lindsell was

Mr Strok, it will be remember-Hawaii Maru for Buenos Ayres, to about comparatively moderate price." If that is the Government that employers will not only give informed that the man had been aim, all we can say is that it is not at present being realised, their staffs every facility for employed for 18 months as coolie, ed, was responsible for the visit I regret to inform you that owing dollars." for the prices which have been fixed are the inflated rates which attending it but that they will his wages being $10 a month. He to Hongkong of the Cherniavsky to the scarcity of rice in the We understand that the Hong prevailed on Saturday, which are four times what they were offer inducements to their em was * hard-working man Trio and it is to be hoped that Colony the Government are com-kong Government have in hand athe support given on that occasion pelled to cancel your export $2,000,000 for purchasing rice and there should be a year ago, and which cannot by any stretch of the imagination ployees to sit for the various and had hitherto be described as "comparatively moderate." Even the Government examinations. There is great good character. The Magistrate will induce him to bring his permits. The Government are stocks, admits, later on, that the prices are "undoubtedly high. It is true trade rivalry coming. Britishers asked why he was so foolish as Opera Company to the Colony prepared to take over all such no fear of having to wait very

rice at prices" which will not long for payment. the "hope" is expressed that a reduction will be possible later on, cannot be too well equipped if to ruin his whole position in life for a short season.

involve any loss by you?" T

Mr. F. A. Beaumont, interview. but unless greater business acumen is displayed than has been the they are to take their proper by stealing. He sentenced the

The following letter was sented by us this morning, was case so far, we fear that will be but a pious aspiration.

from the Imports and Exports reluctant to say much. He said If is satisfactory to see that there is to be no interference with

office yesterday, by Commander that it was a matter of courtesy the transhipment trade of the Colony, though it is stated that in

Beckwith, to exporters of rice that his firm allowed the Govern one or two instances of shipments to abnormal destinations the

"All firms holding stocks of rice ment to take over their stocks That, we Government has exercised its powers of purchase."

Regarding the Pyrrhus, it is not the fault of the Blue Funnel Co.

are requested to forward to this as the rice would serve presume, refers to the stopping of permits, concerning which we

One of the demobilised men, because the vessel was simply

office as soon as possible a atate alleviate the presentaci gave some facts yesterday: But this tinkering with the matter is

ment showing the amount of rice situation. As these seizures w not what we mean by the Government claiming a certain percentage who volunteered in 1914 from chartered by the Government to

Playing on the EC.C. Courts held by them, the quali and tamporary until the Governm of the stored rice. The percentage should be a fixed one and the burden Manila and has seen. service on carry soldiers back to the Orient. borns proportionately by the exporters. In other words, the Govern the Western Front, yesterday The Captain and others did every last evening, the Wigwam Club date of importation, together with cargoes arrived, he hoped that ment should go about this matter in a business-like way. Exporters called at our office and strongly thing they could for the welfare defeated the "B" team by 52 details of any forward contracts Government would allow would not kick if all were treated alike, and, if a proper percentage protested

Way of the troops, but we are disgusted games to 47, thus securing their entered into in respect to such to proceed as before, and

-rico."

market was still high, that the 8.3. at the manner in which the Home first win. Scores basis were worked out, there would be no difficulty about the thing he and others on

Hicks and Gourmet beat Pile Mr. Bothelo, of the firm Government would red at all as to the renewed appeal to employers to grant extra allow Pyrrhus were repatriated from Government has returned us to

Bothelo Bros, those firms the stoch Landes to amaloyees, that all very well sin

We soldiers the scene of our labours. We have, and Mead 8-3; beat Goodall and of E but such Ens

ated are read in the local papers that the Richmond 7-4; best Railton med inter red this morning, said --- mander, at the free just asked the same quality who are being returned Frost 6-5

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HONGKONG, THURSDAY, JULY 31, 1919.

THE GOVERNMENT AND THE RICE SITUATION.

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and so on. is sacralege.

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Hongkong in 1894: "Residents

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further news which we were able to publish yesterday, it is evident and to more fully understand Mr. W. C. Michell, Resident throughout the summer." Verb13e ringleader, invented for the proclamation had been issued

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place among the others.

RETO NED SÜLDIERS.

A COMPLAINT.

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Three Chinese women were

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coolie to four weeks' hard labour and gave him the option of paving a fina of £100.

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