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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

NOTES & COMMENTS.

RENT CONTROL.

WEDNESDAY MARCH 10, 1920.

DAY BY DAY.

ALWAYS DECRY THE TIME IN WHICH YOU. LIVE; IT IS A PROOF oF VITALITY.— Mr. Hillaire Bellor.

The 88. Khiva is due to leave for Shanghai on March 16. "

AVIATION NOTES,

(BY "METEORITE")

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DEARER RICE FORESHADOWED.

SAIGON'S INTENTION TO LEVY EXPORT DUTY.

TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY.

The office of Clerk of the House of Commons, for which a now holder will soon have to be ap-

To those people who argue in

It is a sign of the times that regard to rent control that "it

with the ushering in of the can't be done" we would direct

era of the aeroplane in this part attention to the piece of news

of the world the field of journal-

It looks as though very shortly pointed, is what is called a "pat- from Manila which we published

ism has been extended to include Hongkong will be called upon to ent" office, and appointment is yesterday. A Bill has been in-

matters relating to its progress, pay dearer prices for the rice sold by the Crown on the advice of troduced in the Senate there,

These notes have been anticipat in the markets. Some go so far the Premier. He has a good deal haring the backing of the Gov-

ed by Far East Aviation, as to say that very shortly we of patronage in his hands, since nor General, which fixes twelve

Yesterday's health return shows journal which has made its first shall witness a big boom in the there is a staff of more than thirty officials under him, all of per cent. of the assessed value of one fatal case each of diphtheria appearance in Manila, where, rice business.

The root cause for these whom are appointed by him. He the property as the maximum rate and cerebro-spinal fever (both am told, aviation has come to of rent on buildings. One other Chinese).

stay. This is a timely public rumours is the report that Saigon is the special coadjutor of the feature of the measure is that

ation and should help to foster is on the eve of putting on a big Speaker, and leaves the Table landlords are prohibited from giv.

Last night, at the V.R.C., Mr. general interest in aercuantical increase in the duty on exports when the Speaker leaves the of rice from that country. This Chair, and he has a good deal ing notice to tenants to quit, in

iszpected to be two or three of power, the exercise of which order that someone else may Crocker beat Mr. Kwok in the matters

piastres, each piastre being the requires tact, in the matter of be given possession. Some of the Colony's Billiard Championship

members' questions, or rather, other provisions we mentioned by 500 to 357.

equivalent of $1.40. yesterday; suffice it to add that

the precise form of them.

the measure is to apply to the

Mr. Alfred Hyndman, whole of the towns and cities in

respected member the Philippines and that for any

Community. violation of it offenders will Portuguese render themselves liable to a fine at his residence yester 'ay. of two hundred pezas, six months funeral takes place this evening.

Now,

A.S. WATSON & CO., LTD, imprisonmen Hongkong be given

THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY.

TELEPHONE 16.

Cable Address: Telegraph, Hongkong.

Telephone No. 1. A.B.C., 5th edition. Western Union. Office address: 11. Ice House Street.

BIRTH.

CLARK On March 10th at 1 B. Railway Terrace, Kowloon, to Excellency Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Clark, a daughter.

The Hongkong Telegraph

HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10. 1920.

INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS.

THE "OUT-OF-WORKS."

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EXCHANGE BANK

TO BE OPENED SOON IN HONGKONG.

A big Chinese Exchange Bank, called the Taito Bank, is on the eve of being established in the with .. subscribed

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At last the Aero Club of Shang- hai has something to do to merit Just recently the Government its name. Preparations are being of Saigon has shipped 300,000 tons the made for a hearty reception to of rice from Saigon to France. are which has depleted the available died the Italian Aviators who The now engaged in the flight from stocks for export from that coun- will look with some envy at the project for increasing still further Rome and who will land at try. Shanghai on their WAS to At the beginning of the year it the salaries of the French depu Tokyo. In connection with the was estimated that Saigon would ties already higher than those in The result of the Marchlight it is announced that an have an exportable surplus of one this country, to say nothing of the benefits of such a Bill Captain's Cup qualifying com-interesting piece of journalistic-and-a-half million tons of the railway privileges. It is one of the little curiosities of things that, Tenants would not even object to petition was a win for Lt. Comdr. enterprise is to be launched. On new crop. It is reported that landlords receiving as much as P. T. Kilgour. 90-12-78. There the day the squadron reaches the there are now only half-a-million whereas our great offices of State, our judgeships, and so on, are twelve per cent, on the capital ex- were 22 cards taken out and 5 Northern pert. The China Aerotons available at present in Saigon rated higher in the salary list penditure, high though that is, for returned.

in for exportation.. publication

than those in other countries. Chinese, will make its they would at any rate have

Saigon is now quoting very! initial appearance.

In whatever high prices for her stocks, namely, suggestions for raising members*

salaries, and some assurance that there is

for granting fixed limit the

Mr. R. R. Roxburgh, the China respects China may be back- 11.60 piastres per picul for long the railway passes, are never charged. As matters are. nothing representative of Messrs. John I. ward, it certainly is not aviation, No 1 c.i.f. San Francisco: and 10- but the law of supply and demand Thornycroft and Co., Limited, the testimony to this fact being 80 piastres per picul ei.f. Sanwell received, though it is ad- and the greed of landlords has arrived in the Colony from that the journal is intended to be Francisco for round No. 1 quality.mittedly difficult for a poor man

These prices are nearly 8 operates. The important point Shaughai, and is now staying at the official organ of the Depart- about this Manila Bill is that it the Hongkong Hotel.

ment of Aeronautics and also of quarter higher than the Hongkong present rate of money value. springs from the recommendation

market value. The enhanced export duty is expected to come There is wisdom and under-◄ by the Governor General. So His

Owing to the thick fog over the

into operation very shortly. Governor of

standing in the latest Act of the

The lack of a suitable landing Stocks of rice locally, although Congress. It is to the effect that Hongkong would be in good harbour, many vessels since last company in acting on the hint evening have not been able to place for the Caproni machines not targe, are sufficient for our all American citizens between the come into port. There are three has deprived this Colony of a present needs. There are about ages of 16 and 21, and all aliens which he recently threw out Blue Funnel boats iying outside. place in the future record of what two thousand tons of the round living in the United States bet- about the possibility of establish-

will be a historic flight--that now quality, and a plentiful supply ween the ages of 16 and 45, who ing a Fair Rents Board. We have together with many others.

being participated in by Italian of long.

do not speak the English language, heard of so many instances of

shall go to school and learn it, and terribly high increases in rents of The Canton Rowing Club Aviators from Rome to Tokio.!

that such study shall occupy at residences and business houses of intend holding a Regatta on the The neighbouring city of Canton] late that we are convinced the 17th April, and

least 200 hours every year till the Rowing Possesses an advantage over this

competency be attained. The time has come when the Govern-section of the R. H. K. Y. will Colony in being able to rise to the LARGE CHINESE

advantages of such a law are ment should act.

glad to receive the names of occasion with the provision of a

obvious, for surely everybody competitors in Hongkong who suitable landing ground, and the

ought to be able to read the laws wish to enter for this interport authorities there are not bound by those "red-tape restrictions

of the country he lives in the The which obtain in Hongkong.

language of that country; hence Colony, sad to relate, is out of the

the sooner we ourselves copy a We sec by a Northern paper

page from this book of wisdom the Sergt. Sky Kerrison has been reckoning so far as the Hanoi- that there is to be established in medically examined by the Box-Canton stage of the flight is

better. Shanghai a big factory to providing Association's medical officers concerned. means of livelihood for unemploy since the tournament on the 5th

Are we to be "hustled" even ed people and those members of jast., and they are of opinion that

in our last journey of all? asks a The question of Government Colony, various political parties who are Serg Kerrison is not. owing to

correspondent in the Da out of work. Happily, so far as his dedaged arm. fit to fight for encouragement of aerial trans- capital of £1,000,000, and half of

port to and from the Colony was that paid up. It has almost beea Chronicle. The other day I save No matter from what aspect one looks at the matter, the interna- one is able to judge, there are not

mooted by the Hon. Mr. Pollock subscribed for.

motor hearse, containing & It will have its offices in coffin covered with Bowers, be- tional economic position is of engrossing interest just now, and many unemployed people in

at a recent sitting of the Legis- there are daily indications that it is a subject which is engaging the Hongkong. Neither have we ang

Snatching a gold earpick from lative Council, and as this carries Bonham Strand, next to Kum-ing driven swiftly along a City very close attention of the world's diplomats. It is a matter of out-of-work politicians, unless

street, followed by one motor-car This Bank is going to open with the mourners. So swiftly common knowledge that the economic relationship of countries not we regard some of our Uncfficials a Chinese woman in Queen's with it the provision of a landing sheong.

in Amoy, Shanghai, did it pass that men had not only reflects but determines their general political relationship, and as occasionally wearying in well- Road Central yesterday, a Chinese place, it would be interesting to

Java and Singapore. so the matter is fraught with a very real importance. In the doing so far as the raising of was chased and eventually arrest-know what are the results of the branches

which it is

The time to raise their hats. They interests of all other nations it is desirable that not one of the public questions is concerned. So ed. Evidence of the occurrence communications international group should be economically unsound, and so it is we suppose there is scarcely any was heard by Mr. N. L. Smith anderstood the Government have principal promoter is Mr. Kwok bad only time to express surprise the Home Sheud-yeung, who last year is in their looks before the rapidly that we find strenuous efforts being made by the Allies to place read for such a factory here as at the Police Court this morning entered into, with Germany in a sound financial position. Similarly, we find that the is to be erected in Shanghai and he sentenced the thief to six Government on the subject. For said to bave made over twenty moving vehicles were out of sight.

cannot help thinking months hard-labour, 12 strokes of the present at any rate, there is million guilders out of sugar in We have always associated

funeral with reverence and Allied statesmen are taking every means possible to place their We

The Bank's operations will be solemnity, and I am old-fashioned countries in a better financial relationship to the United States, for however, that there is a chance the birch and four hours' stocks.no immediate demand for the l provision of a landing field, as the

confined entirely to the low rate of exchange existing between Europe and New York for some of the Chinese charitable

exchange enough to hope that we may be institutions to take up the ques-

machines purchased by Capt. has been an undesirable feature of the past few months.

spared An important addition to the Ricou are, properly speaking. fy-business.

speeding-up" in this. Reuter told us yesterday that the Supreme Council has beention of providing some place where

respect at least. considering the draft of a manifesto dealing with the rise of prices many of the beggars who now list of the existing firm of golding boats and need only a and also with the necessity for restoring Germany's economic infest our streets and have no leaf dealers is the firm of Wo suitable stretch of the Harbour prosperity. The latter is indeed a very desirable point, but means of livelihood might be Hing Lang, which has just been for the purpose of a mooring we think that few will he prepared to

go as far

as Signor made to work, and where, also. formed with a capital of $200,000 place. Nitti who suggests that the Allies should waive their indemnity young criminal offenders should The promoter of this concern is rights. By all means let Germany regain her economic indepen- be sent for reformatory treatment. Mr. Chan Kit-hing, who was for dence and once again contribute to the stream of international One thing is certain--the present many years the manager of the our Ho Sing gold leaf dealers firm. trade, but considerable caution should be exercised in dealing manner of dealing with with her indemnity, because it is a legitimate part of her mendicante is absolutely futile. from which position he retired war punishment. If peace with Bolshevik Russia resulted, as the They are periodically rounded two years ago. outcome of the present negotiations, a long way would have been up, packed off to Canton and then gone towards restoring international balance and because of this by the next boat or so they come The Mission given at the Roman be held back until the Home The Aerial Derby Commission moration of the victory won in fact alone peace is a thing eminently to be desired. It would seem back and the process is started Cathedral by the four Rodemp-Government's view on the subject has been next heard of through the 1814 by Sir John's grand-father, from a message to hand that an Anglo-French loan has very recently all over again. It's all a waste torist Fathers is very successful. can be ascertained. In the mean- medium of a telegram received which was followed by the cap been, negotiated in the States and this should do a lot towards of time and energy. Can't some There are large congregations at time we have a full strength bere afew days ago from Singapore ture of Washington. Sir John

The better scheme be hit upon? raising the value of the pound sterling and the franc.

all the daily Masses, especially aviation company whose mem- which stated that an Aero Club himself has had a distinguished fall in our local exchange on Saturday last might be taken as some

at the 7.30 Mass, which is follow-bers await only the arrival of the for that City had been established. career, first with the Coldstream reflection of the hardening of the New York-London rate and iti

ed by a short and interesting eleven Curtiss flying boats due To all appearances, the aerial Guards. whose historian he be should give us pleasure out here to see that, in spite of the

sermon. The evening services here on the 20th instant, from field within the jurisdiction, of came, and later on in various

become the Club is to be of an exten- civilian commence at 6 p.m. Important the United states, to fact that it affects some of us adversely. The little that we lose in DANGERS OF BOLSHEVISM.

capacities, including the Hongkong-London rate is nothing as compared to the import-

There are many lies told about sermons are announced for the fully equipped for a service from sive nature, judging by the fact service on the staffs of Mr. Fors- ance of any appreciation in the value of Britain's money in America. the Bolsheviks, as there are about two coming nights. Those who Macau to Hongkong and other that Mr. W. P. W. Ker, the ter, Lord Spencer, and Lord Car- Chairman of the Singapore narvon in the stormy eighties in British financiers are working all they know how to bring about a

get anything like a ports.

Chamber of Commerce, has Ireland. He has been secretary better equalisation of the values, and it is fairly safe to assume that every race and every political hope to

faction the world over. But there convenient position in the crowd-

been appointed by the to two British ruissions to the before many weeks bave passed we shall be witnessing an improve is truth tuld about them too, and ed Cathedral should come early.

It requires a very big dose of Aerial Derby Commission Vatican. ment of inestimable value,

it is to this latter that we should

optimism to initiate a service like their Commissioner for the For the British Empire there is a lot to bear in mind. The first

When the officiall pay hoed, is the necessity of keeping up the manufactures and in providing a

The play at the San Hi Yuen this. I can torsee the extraordin-whole of Malaya. The telegram

bodies The church of St. Mary-le- surplus over Home requirements that can be shipped to the hungry journal of the Bolshevike puts it

а certain thief must be borne by the Far East and the Aero Club of Malaya Stand, the beautiful classic design markets of the world. In spite of the great amount of work that on record that a conference was last night was entering upon that ary heavy charges that initially added: Commecrial has already been done since the signing of the armistice, Britain is recently held in Moscow to dis- stage when

cuss the future foreign policy of thought he could safely exercise Aerial Transport Company in the have before them the most valu-of which is said to have inspired still unable to export even a fraction of what could be absorbed. the Soviets and that M. Trotsky his calling. A compatriot who maintainance of the large staff able problems of the age by the architect of the huge building

Singapore

about to be erected on the neigh We see that every day here in Hongkong. The goods simply cannot

An efficient gigantic station for all kinds of bouring island site, was the scene be delivered and Britain is losing a lot in consequence. Because proposed the temporary ces-ation sat in the seat next to his was of aviators who have arrived establishing in

of one of the most dramatic ripped aerial service can be looked for, aizcraft." production is of such prime importance just now it is devoutly to be of operations in Europe and the not aware of the fact that his from America..

initiation of operations against pocket

incidents in the secret history of and China

India, open hoped that we shall see very little recurrence of labour troubles.

alas these men are experienced Persia,

London. It was in this edifice The French railway strike has fortunately ended, but short as it was

we feel

to

I wonder whether the proposed then known as the "new it must have been a costly business to France. If Labour would the story LS having at coins which it held dropping to having seen active service in the

such Aero Club of Hongkong too, is church in the Standthat only recognise the value of increased production and be prepared to least some element of truth in it. the ground. He turned round war. Incidentali, for be a little more conciliatory in matters of hours and conditions, we So also may place some and caught the thief red-handed. expert employees, the salaries faced with this problem, and if Prince Charles Edward Stuart, amount to ans, what will it do towards its the Young Pretender, was re- should soon see a great change. Another factor of prime import- credence on the story of a pro- A watchman employed at the budget must ance is economy both national and personal. The Bank of Eng-posed Revolution which the Bol- theatre took the culprit into enormous sum, and how the solution? The Hon. Mr. Dodwell, ceived into land has been protesting against the continued borrowing of the sheviks planned in the United, charge and gare evidence at the Company can hope for compensa- who was appointed Commissioner England during his secret visit Government and the Daily Mail asserts that the Government's ex- States, because documents pro- Police Court to-day when the tion on the subsequent returns is here, has left for Home on a cine to London in 1754. Had this step cessive spending has reacted upon the new 534 per cent. Exchequer ving the intention have come case was called up. The razor a problem which perhaps Mr. months holiday, and his office, been taken previous to the rising ex-oficie,"falls into the care of the of 1745, the course of British Bonds of which only one-third has been subscribed. One has to before the Senate Committee was produced to testify to the Ricou alone can work out.

hun who succeeds him in the history might have been consider- the thief had recognise that the Government has bad to be liberal spenders. which is investigating Bol-fact that

capacity of Chairman of the Hong-ably charged. In the course of There have been many problems created by the war and the Govern-shevik propaganda...It. is ripped open his victim's pocket.

The most important event of kong Chamber of Commerce. As the same clandestine stay in the ment has had to take control of many things, the handling of which absurd to over-state

kept by the Police! the Records has often resulted in a deficit. The big bread subsidy is still opera- case against the Bolshev ka; it also went to show that he was a the week under review has been the affairs of the future Aero Club city which had been his grand- tive and the railways are still costing a lot of money. The new is more absurd, and positively confirmed criminal, having been the christening ceremony of the necessarily involve it in negotic father's capital the Prince rates of pay in the Army and Navy are adding to the daily burden dangerous, to under-rate the convicted in 1912 and deported three-seater hydroplane which tions with the Government, the received his supporters, headed and there are always agitators crying out for more expense, more dangers of the movement. Bol to Macao after his release. A recently made the Bight from proposal of an unofficial member by the Duke of Beaufort, secretly

to Macao in 23 of the Legislative Council to be a one night in a house in Pall Mal expense. It is difficult to know at what point to stop. But it is a hevism will need a lot of watch-sentence of three months and Hongkong matter that must be left to our Home administrators. We in Honging if it is to be kept from stocks was inflicted by Mr. N. L. minutes. The function was per- member of the Club is one that which, however, has now book

demolished. formed by H. E. the Governor of will be welcomed. Smith. kong can help by providing all the facilities possible for the absorp doing untold harm. tion of whatever export trade Britain is able to develop.

inclined

we

Sir John Ross-of-Bladensburg, Macao on Saturday afternoon in the presence of the elite of who celebrates his golden wed. Macao's inhabitants. This is ding this year, has a distinction I have so far not heard what expected to be the first of a series which must be nearly unique in Captain Riccu's plans are in of similar functions which will the case of a commoner family

cited fairly as commoners-for connection with landing facilities take place with the arrival of the Highland chieftains cannot be in Hongkong. They are subject eleven other machines.

the family name is not Ross but to the consent of the military

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