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RUSSIA !
THURSDAY, JUNE 10, 1920,
DAY BY DAY.
THE FIRST AND WORST OF ALL There seems to be a deal af FRAUDS IS TO CHEAT ONESELF feeling being infused into the dis- | ALL BIN 19 EASY AFTER THAT. cursions as to whether it would
de politio for Great Britain and The U.S.9. Helena arrived this the other Allies to open trade morning and saluted the part. relations with Soviet Russia.
Mr. H. W. Bird was a passenger on the ss. Naleus, which left for Home yesterday.
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OBITUARY.
RECENT SHIPPING
DISPUTE.
COMMENT ON THE HONG-
KONG AWARD,“
TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY.
CAPT. JOHN G. COGAN. Nawa.has been received recant-
14 sooma strango that there still ly of the death of ( aptain John G.
survives a venerable lady who by Shipping
Engineering her marriage.
Louis Cogan, which occurred at Glasgow on 2nd April fast.
(Shanghai) bas the following-Napoleon became the niece of The late Capt. Gogan was well ↑ After two months of waiting | Napoleon the Great-It is not leas
Colonel Gretton did not mines · The winning ticket words in the House of Commons, raffle for Mrs. Le Breton's piano though ona can hardly under is No. 379. stand any man being anxious to perpetuate the present state of isolation in which Russia finds harself. We have to admit that
daet. Mr. we did not find
Lloyd
He resigned his position during George's arguments in reply vary There was one fatal ease of the latter part of last year owing convincing; he seemed to adopt plague notified yesterday: the to ill health and proceeded Home a tone of helplessness.
in the hope that his health would There victim being a Chinese. WAS jus Opo part of bis
be restored by the change. speech that appealed to us and that was his reference to what would happen unless the nations of the world soon succeed in many years. bean' in the service/ RICKSHA ACCIMENT. month rising to $579 per month
in the known on the China Coast, where since the close of the arbitration strange that the date of h
ho was for 20 years in the service case that was held in Hongkong birth-May should be the 15 the date of Mis of the China Navigation Com during March, the award has been same pany, Ltd., the last 14 years of made and, by the telegraphic death. The ex-Empress Euganie baru at Granada on which he was in command of summary that has been cabled by was
the Reuter, it appears of
that the May 5, 1826, while five, hours various steamers
captains, officers and engineers of previously on the same day what are known as the "outside day Napoleon had died at St. ships have came off very well as Helens, just as the evening-gun the hands of the arbitrators. was announcing the wetting of the The new scala of salaries) son. Despite her advanced age, wanted is published elsewhere: the ex-Empress has just under- summarizing it, it is decreed that taken a trying journey to har the master of a vessel under 250 native Spain, where she will spend tons gross is to receive $305 per her 94th birthday.
Mr. and Mrs. H. Doughty lạiti for Home by the a. Nelous yesterday. Mr. Doughty has for
restoring order. It is a matter of of the Green Island Cement Co. prime necessity that order should He is now retiring.
1st, 1919.
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for ressels over 2,000 tons. Chief engineers will receive] Among the gargoyles of "St $300, rising to $500, chief officers Giles Church, Cambarwell, are be restored and because of that!
TRAMCÀR NOT INVOLVED. and second engincers 230) to be found representations of we heartily favour any sug-
Returns just issued show that
320, while second three politicians of the last gestions that will tend to put
There seems to be a good deal rising
officers and third engineers are generation-Lord Salisbury, Lord Russia back in her place amongst on June 1st the contents of the recognised Powers of Europe reservoirs in Hongkong totalled of misunderstanding abroad as awarded a flat rate of $245 for all Randolph Churchill, and alr. to precisely what happened in | 1,260,21 million gallons, compared |
classes of vessels and third W. E. Gladstone; while same the accident that befall Mrs. A. Poland has not helped matters by with 1.317.84 million gallons on. Silva in Des Voeux Road on officers and fourth engineers a modern carvings in the south her military measures against the same data last year. The the Bolsheviks, for it seems that
Tuesday afternoon. It has been at rate of $235. Where food is transept. of Chester Cathedral Kowloon reservoir contained by fighting the Russians with
ly trying to topple over a church armed force we are only driving 294.48 million gallons, as against reported as a case of collision be not provided, an allowance of $10 include Mr. Gladstone and Lord
but it has since transpired that ships and 25 for river-boats.
It is too early yet to learn steeple with a lever, and the them further into an irreconcil. 30640 million gallons on June tweep a ricksha and a tramear. per month is to be made for coast Beaconsfield, the former apparent- able attitude. If the Allies
the tramcar had nothing what whether the award comes up to latter holding a crown on a sword. thick that Bolshavism is in
ever to with the mishap. Several changes in the Water
the full expectation of the officers Mr. Joba Burns, too, 03 ons 90 evil 2 thing that itself
Police Force have been effected. Several independent witnesses concerned, but in view of the occasion claimed to be one of the never recognise they can
the archangels in Sir W. Richmond's Government professing it, then Sub-Inspector Sutton, who is now have made statements to the handsome increases over
a: Home on furlough, is invalided Police from which it appears that present scale that is being paid, mesales in St. Paul's, over the the only stop in to fight
out of the Force, and Sergeant the driver of the ricksha was pro-it may be hazarded that the chancel, the famous Labour it effectively: but they
if The rate of subscription to "The Hongkong Telegraph” is $38
Macdonald from a minor post ceeding down Wardley Street ata award will be found satisfactory. leader, who was in the employ- think that they C30 exert per annum. (Payable in Advance.)
The tram- It is known that some of the ment of the artist at the time he WAS actually past the more pessimistic did not expect was designing the mosaics, having Inspector Sutton's place. Sergeant Car tions for any period less than one month will be charged as for a own peoples to nullify the Brown has been appointed to bottom of the Street when the to receive any increase and, as sat as a model for this particular
The rate per quarter and per mensem, proportional. Subscrip-sufficient influence over their has been promoted to take Subvery smart pace. fall month.
of any propaganda, if they think
ricksha reached it, and it was only the increases made are to be paid archangel. because tha ricksha puller back from December 15, 1919. The "Hongkong Telegraph" is delivered free when the addressee that there is no real danger, then Sergeant Macdonald's post. is accessible to messenger. Peak sub cribers can have their copies the only sane thing to do is to
The celebrated Italian artists tried to make too sudden a turn five days before the return of the stop all aggressive measures and delivered at their residences without any extra charge. On copies get back to a peaceful footies. | Madame A. Silvestri and Senhor into Des Voeux Road that the officers to duly when the dispute | ricksha overturned throwing the cecurred, there will be a band- we ae inclined to believe that D. F. Amelias, kindly assisted by fare, Mrs. Silva, beavily to the soma sam forthcoming in the Bolshevism WAS inevitable Professor E. Danenberg, will give
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The Brewers Company, which is selling its estates in St. Pancras, is not one of the great city com panies, though Fit is 85 ancient
11445 In the time of Edward 1.
swing in the Russian pendulum an open air concert at the Clob round. There was on collision way of back pay.
between ricksha and tramcar: Comparisons with the present having been incorporated jo
be
The "Hongkong. Telegraph” is now on sale at, and will tafter the peoples' liberation frome Recreio, Kowloon, on Satur in fact, the tramcar was some rates are difficult owing to the
Thraldon and that it will onlyday, the 12th instani, at 9.15.p.m.
a matter of time before it Tickets of admission, at $1.50Fards beyond the spot where the various salaries that were being the trade was chiefly in the hands
paid in the ships and the fact partially returns and approaches each, may be obtained through ricksba overturned.
We make this explanation in that the present scale is based on and was then reckoned amongst the normal. If by opening up any member of the Club or at trade we can draw the Russian the gate on the evening of the fairness to the tramcar driver the size of the vessel, whereas the callings of low repute. By and to the Company. The driver before the award was made, the degrees tie trade increased in im- people closer to the Test of concert.
DEATH:
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HONGKONG, THURSDAY, JUSÉ 19, 1920,
HONGKONG AND PREFERENCE.
such
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Murison
of the ricksha was licensed.
only factor governing rates was the likelihood of obtaining a cheaper man.
af brewsters, or female brewers,
portance, and in 1345 the browars psed so much of the water of the
source WAS
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run-
COGAN.-A: 29, Huntley Gardens, Glasgow, on 22nd. April] Europe then by all means let us 1920, Captain John G. Cogan, late of the China Navigation Company, trade, and let us also tell Poland Returning to the Colony on the:
that her war for Pasternly. a Chinese banisher who was
As nearly as can be ascertain-conduit in the Cheap that their boundaries has gone far enough. ordered by the Police not to show MERCHANT MARINE ed, the average size of the river please Bliz One would have thought after his face here for ten years, was
steamers affected by the award stopped. Queen Elizabeth favour- ed the Company by granting them five years war that Europe was yesterday arrested at Pee Ho
650 tons, which brings a vessel of The prisoner informed
two charters, which extended tired of strife and dissension, but Street.
CHINA COAST CHANGES. this average tonnage into the their jurisdiction, beyond the city. there are still turbulent spirits, at the Magistrate this morning that)
class 501 to 700 tons, gross. The work, and it should be the duty the desire of seeing an aged father
Captain JR. Owen of the Han amount claimed for a master of The hall of the Company, just off of the Allies to frustrate these and taking up the reins of the
this class of vessel was $450 Cheapsides, was rebuilt in 1673, and no: parder to them. What latter's business, were sufficient yang has resigned.
Captain J. Mathias, from re- while the amount awarded is after the Great Fire, and is a :he outcome of the discussion moral grounds for this breach of
He. therefore. receives quaint example of old London.
architecture. with M. Krassin will be can only the order. Three months," said serve, has gone master, Hangang,| 8335.
Mr. R. H. G. Ashby, from nearly 75 per cent of the amount be guessed at, but we sincerely His Worship.
leave, bas gude chief officer, claimed. His present pay is hope that it will be the beginning:
Sinkiang.
about $288 and he, therefore, Dr. R. Vaughan Williams. of what will eventuate în com-) Three Chinese were before Mr.
Mr. W. Lowrie, chief officer. receives an increase of $47 whose London Symphony "was plete European peace. It is high R. O. Hutchison at the Police Sinxiang, is on reserve.
per month Or nearly 17the feature of a recent concert by Court this morning on the The information contained in one of yesterday's telegrams to time that came.
M. R. Allan, chief engineer.per cent. Chief engineers claim-the British Music Society at the the effect that Hongkung, amongst other Colonita, has been sounded BRITISH TRADE.
accusation of obtaining a cheap wencho, has gone chief en-jed $417 and receive $300 or 79 per Queen's Hall, gave over four passage on the steamer Lake with regard to the practicability of Imperial Preference, and that a
- leent of the claim and an increas" years' service to the country in The forthcoming British Trade Faulk, operated by the Pacific Kineer. Yingchow.
Mr. W. G. Ramsay, chief en-[of $61 on their present pay, rothe reply has been given stating that such a step is not necessary, will
war. At the age of 42
1914 enlisted in come as news to most people here. Inasmuch as Hongkong is not Exhibition is being planned on an Mail Steamship Company be- a big producing or manufacturing centre. Imperial Preference is extensive scale and it is pleasing tween Hongkong and Calcutta Bineer, Yiogchow, has gone chief presenting 24 per cent. Chief he
engineer. Wenchow.
officers and second engineers pricate in the R.A.M.C.. and obviously not required for the Colons. We are not in the position to learn that the Government via other ports. Mr. C. F. Mason.
Mr. A. Unwin has been apreceive more than was claimed, as stretcher bearer and scramber represented two of the of our great self-governing Dominions which are to be counted 13 introducing a Bill providing who amongst the world's greatest producers both of raw material and £500,000 towards the guarantee prisoners, asked for a remand of pointed third engineer. Rain the claim having been $235 and of floors saw service in France
Peking
the award 90 an increase, over and Salonica. Not content with manufactures and whose leading statesmen, have long advocated fund. Not only in the interests the ease. which was accordingly
J. Reay, third engineer, present salaries, of $75 or 29 per that be went through the groall- preferential tarifs, so arranged as to give them a pull in British of trade but in relation to social held over until to-m0.TO.
As there are no seconding and grind of examinations for and economic interasts
Shuntien, has goce third en-cent. markets over foreign competitors. Hongkong is. after all, a ware-
Dow planned
gineer, Hanyang.
officers or third engineers carried an artillery commission in 1917. In connection with an extradi- house, s distributing centre for goods coming into and going out of shows as the one
Mr. G. B. Hood, third engineer, in these vessels, it is not worth and on passing out" at Lydd China, and therefore for all practical purposes its interest in mare of decided value. British tion case against a Chinese who
Hanyang bas gone third while pursuing the comparisons won special commendation" for perial Preference must be confined to watching its application to trade can do with all the help it is wanted by the Canton Police
further. receives from the Government for robbery and kidnapping on
engineer, Shúntien.
bis high place on the fist-no other parts of the Empire.
Mr. M. G. Sinclair has been In the coast ships the increas** small achievement for a #AA for there can be no question February 15th Jast. Chief Inasmuch as Hongkung has practically nothing needing pro-
in Detective
appointed third engineer. Tean. bave been even larger, the salaries of 46. He is a Mus. Bac. of Inspector tection from foreign competition, it follows that it cannot desire, for that the time is unique
Mr. H. Rawsiron, supernumer-awarded being 84 per cent. of the Cambridge and Oxford, the latter its own sake, the adoption of preferential tariffs by the Colony. trading opportunities. If pro- applied to Mr. R. O. Hutchisonary second officer, Kwongeang, amount claimed for masters. 80 an honorary degree conferred on Equally, if we look at the matter from the standpoint either of Great action at Home can be main at the Police Court this morning. gore second officer. Koop- per cent. for chief engineers. 98 him last year. Bot one of the Britain or the big exporting British Colonies, we shall find that the taled and even increased and for an adjournment on the ground
per cent for chief officers and few things be cannot do, as he concession of preferential duties by Hongkong would, in the long run, suitable markets found for all that he was not yet in receipt of
Mr. J. D. Thwaites, super-second engineers and 98 per cent. would tell you, is to tie a products that are surplus be detrimental to Hongkong as a trading centre. If we were to allow
to extradition documents, Sergi. British goods to come into the Colony on more favoured terms than England's own needs, then the Dorling said that he arrested the numerary second officer. Kwong-for second officers and third en-ning bowline" or "bawser bead the goods of other countries, we should soon find that the Colony foundations will be laid of a prisoner in Hollywood Road this sang. has gone supernumerary gineers. The inuiors have, there-knots which every artillery officer
second officer, Loongwo
fore, fared better in every instance is supposed to master. would offer Foreigners who find Hongkong a convenient distri-wonderful prosperity. The recen: morning-
Mr. H. E C. Turner has been than masters and chief engineers. buling point would be discouraged by the discrimination and would figures of importer and exports
For purposes of comparison. appointed second officer. Wosang.
Mr. E. A. M. Sharrati, third the scale between 1,500 tons and Should the oit supplies of prefer some other port. What that would mean to the trade and show that Britain's revocus of the Colony needs no emphasising. It would be a fatal steadily improving and it was the case in which Mrs. Joan officer. Koonshing, has gone third 2,000 tons grass may be taken. Mesopotamia prove to be the policy. Hongkong has been made, as a shipping and commercial interesting to notice from one of Maria Guttierez applied to his officer, Kwongsang-
the majority of the coast vessels salvation of the British Empire, centre, by the freedom of the port. To interfere with that would be the cables to hand yesterday that worship for a separation order
Mr. J. Rowe, second engineer, concerned falling between these as some hopeful Parliamentarians production also against her husband on the Wasang. has gone
second two limits. For a vessel of that now" imagine, wa shall know and the Government alike it is the one point on which they are in reviving. In fact, the figure ground of cruelly and neglect engineer, Luenho.
size, the amount claimed was where to place the credit. For absolute agreement. The Government, therefore, has gig the were eloquent of the strides that was yesterday adjourned by Mr.
Black, second 3600 and the the salary awarded if that tireless and not to be dis only possible answer to the Imperial authorities as to the French industry is making. Bound Hutchison sine die. Mrs. Gul-engineer. Luenho, has gone $505. Present pay is about $430, couraged Britisher, Mr. D'Arcy.
up with the successful expansion tiertz showed much agitation at second engineer, Wasang. practicability of Preference as applied to this Colony.
and the award, therefore, calls bad failed to find oil in Persia WO Speaking broadly, we are in sympathy with any wise movement of trade, is the proposed levy this decision and protested
war wealth, aud
Mr. R. EL Laker, third engineer, for an increase of $105 or 26 per should probably never have heard which will tend to knit the Empire together in closer bonda. Wa
possibilities the against the fact that the case Choysang, has gone acting second cent. for masters. For chief un-soything of the
And. oddly can understand the viewpoint of those who argue that when it rather glad to see that
not heard and decided in engineer, Loongwo WB3
gineers the present pay is about of Mesopotamia. Government has decided to take comes to a matter of commodities which the United Kingdom needs.
open Court. The petitioner Mr. C. M. Anderson, second 15375 and the scale awarded $440 enough, Mr. D'Arcy's success in and which can be supplied both by our Dominions and foreign no steps in such a direction. We was represented by Mr. Leo engineer, Loongwo, is, no leave, an increase of $65 or 17 per cent. Persis came by a lucky chance, countries, preference should be given to the former. But to under-realise that a great deal of the d'Almada and the respondent by
Mr. A. Fyle has been appointed Chief officers and second en after s strenous and baffling stand a certain attitude is not necessarily to approve it. We are assith was ill-gotten out of a Mr. A. F. Hall.
acting second engineer, Kiangwo.gineers, who before received $250, struggle. Many well bad been rather inclined to think that, despite its imperfections, our Freestion's emergency, but we also
Mr.L.F. Ellis, second engineer, will now get $320 an increase of sunk in vain, when one day Mr. Trade policy has paid us, and that any undue interference with it realise that that wealth is mainly might do far more harm than good. Preferences mean a curtail employed in financing industries. stand in the fight that is surely Kingwo, has gone acting chief $70 or 28 per cent, while second D'Arcy met a follow-traveller, officers and third engineers will busy on quite a different hobby, the commercial engineer, same ship. ment of competition, which is generally good for everybody. Thus To make a lery on wealth made coming for
Mr. J. T. Wright, chief engin- receive $245 against about $210, who told him of far wells preferential tariffa might very well send up the price of commodities in the five years of war would be, supremacy of the world. The
an increase of 17 per cent.
between Mal-Amir and Shuster. immemorial the to the consumer and possibly also discourage output in the producing to a very large extent, to impose danger of a levy is that it would eer, Kiangwo, is on leave.
These amounts are, of course, From time a levy on industry and that is the render us less equipped. On Mr. A. Ellensen, second officer, centre. We bave just been told that Britain is dependent on exports very last thing needed just now. moral grounds there is nothing Kiaugtung, has gone
second approximate sizes the salaries natives here had been collecting for much of its whest. Possibly the Dominions can supply our good many of those who made that can be said against a levy officer, Kiangsin.
received varied on the coast ships oil in pits from what they them needs, but where would the consumer and the British farmer come the money ought to be made to and everything to be said for it.
Mr. F. A. Muller has been apas on the river boats and one of salves knew as the the Field of in ander a system of preferential tariffs ? The former "would doubt suffer the los of it because it We rather like the way Mr.pointed fourth engineer, Hain-the principal benefits, apart from Oil. The villagers were bought less have to pay more for his bread, whilst the latter would just as was wrong, either by profiteer- Chamberlain phrased his reply wing.
the handsome increase, that will out, a drill sent down, and the soon that his competitor was a foreigner as, say, a Canadian. So,
cornering, out of the Government concluded that Mr. S. Gagul, third engineer, be achieved by the award will be oil was struck. So powerful was far as manufactures go, it may, later on, be necessary to deal with 1 or
the establishment of a definite the rush that the ascending damped foreign goods by legislative enactment. That is & question people who were already suffer the dangers of auch a levy al-Heinming, is on leave.
column carried away the dereich. Mr. J. MacKeller has been scale of pay for these "outside" which will be more acute when there is surplus production abroad, ing acutely. But Britain has not together outweighed the advan- but that time has not come yet. The Home Government has pigeon largely employed in the busi-a against advantages, not a
it is still tages." It is a case, of dangers appointed chief officer, Rotoras, vessels below which do owner From this discovery, or rather Mr. JL Walsh, chief officer will be allowed to pay and, it is to rediscovery, the potentialities of holed its Auti-Dumping Bill for the time being, at any rate. Perbags it realises that under the old Free Trade system the country is Boisses of the country which are matter of what is morally right Rotorus has resigned-Shipping be hoped, no member of the two the related strals of Mesopotamia.
and Engineering. | better equipped to take their or wrong. doing so badly after all."-
to court disaster. This fact is clearly recognised by business men
French
lost that money;
trade is
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After discussion in Chambers.
Mr. J. S.
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