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THE HONGKONG

CANADIAN NEWSPAPERS”. STRUGGLES,

FRIDAY, JULY 23, 1830.

EGRAPH

JAPANESE SUFFRAGE".

CAMPARIN

KHAKI NOT TO BE ABOLISHED

CONDITIONS-OF RETURN TO: FULL DRESS.

| EFFECT OF PAPER PRICES. POLICE: STOP A MEETING.

Toronto, May 12—The rise in Tokio, July 13,—~A copepiguona Mr. Churchill made a statement the cost of paper continues to feature of the pro-anfrage agit-in the House of Commons reçently produce mortality among Cansition was calling out by the gov-on the proposed return to full [dian newspapers. A few days ernment thousands of police dress uniform in the Army,

ago the Toronto World, which reserves, who were joined laati Answering, & number of quem- was established nearly half a night by a company of gendarmes tions, the Secretary of State for century ago, and under the cou-} Though marked by violent de-War said the only axpenditure. trol of Mr. W. F. Maclean, MP. nunciatory orations, the mass that wonkl fall on this year's has been Among the most meetings took the form of peace Estimates was in respect to the virile journals of Canada, was ful protestations, except when the Foot Guards, who were to be forced to make in assignment, police stopped unlicensed meet. immediately supplied with full It is hoped that a reorganization ings. After the meetings were dress for the current year. will be affected and the paper broken up scudies and fist fight- The Household Cavalry bad continue, but as yet the neces-ing took plson, arrests were made, had full dress throughout the war, sary new capital has not been the police employing judo masters and it was" only a question of obtained. Some months ago tha} to round up the recalcitrants. maintaining it. Brantford Courier was absorbed The newspapers charge that the The rank and file, of course, by the Erpositer of the same rity.police in making arrests and the would have a free issue. Officera The St. Catharine's Journal, with gendarmes in clearing the streets, would receive, con entrance, a a long and honourable history, used needless brutality

grant of £150 towards the cost of has also ceased publication. A Premier Ears joined in the ad-uniform, and those who joined rear or more, ago the Toronto mization of the conservative eladoring the war would receive Tom its doors, and in ment of society for the firm hand- £150 ass the amount of outfit Montreal and the West there ling of the situation, which it was grant already received-in many have been su-pensions or amal-pointed out, "might exally-bave cases £42 108. gamations TAPIOUS daily aggravated into lawlessness by FOR CEREMONIAL DUTIES, publications.

the thousands whom the financial The re-issue of full dress to the The Regina Lewder, one of the depression has thrown out of em-|Goards and Household troops masi prosperous of Western Iployment.

stood in a special position owing dailies. has just published in- The agitation was confined to to the ceremonial duties they structive figures of the rise in the larger cities, the farming discharged in the capital of the paper prices. In 1916 the price classes, like the peasants in the was 2 cents per lh, or $40 per ton. French and Russian revolutions. as compared with $120 per ton remaining indifferent. The cities since April 6. The total anndal demand political reforms, but the cost of paper to the Leader government officials claim the advanced from $54,000 in 1916 to agitation is provoked by the $108,000 at the close of 1919. The opposition as a means of causing further increase for Western the downfall of the cabinet, and papers announced in April will that there is no genuine national Fadi $54,000. Thus the total ic-support of the moment.

of

crease for 1920 will be $113,000. The suffragists argue that the Owing to lower right charges, time has arrived in enlightened

Empire

Full dress issue to the other! units which his military advisers considered desirable would be spread over four or five years. If necessary the programme would be lengthened.

No exisiting stock of khaki or khaki uniforms would be wasted. Khaki, with cap or steel helmet, would remain permanently the working Service dress of the}

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explained by shorter haulage. Japan when every man should whole Army. There had never Watson's prices of paper have been lower | have the right to vote.

in the older Provinces than in

Western Canada, buteven for the dailies of Montreal and Toronto

been any question of its abolition.

The only question now before! them was the issue of fall-dress uniform to the Guards and its re- the price will be at least $100 per "pportunity now offers to improve tention by the household Cavalry. their position, but only if adequate This would mean an expenditure ton. This for some of the chief journals will mean a total annualupplies of paper can be secured. not of £3,000,000, bas of £100,000 increase of $200.000 or $130,000 Unfortunately British publica for the ranks and £20,000 for the in the cost of paper above that oftions may also be affected by the officers- £160,000 in all. This reasons which compel those of the had already been included in the four or five years ago.

to restrict eir-Estimates of the present year. The charges of the Postal De United States partment for transportation will

SAVING 7,000 "BEARSTİNS,” During the war prices of news- also be increased. It is proposed i

If they had decided against re- that within a distance of 49 miles paper for Canadian newspapers from the place of publication were arbitrarily fired by the clothing the Guards in full dress and against maintaining that newspapers and periodicals shall Government as lower figures than be transmitted free of postage, but sellers could obtain from Ameri-of the Household Cavalry they

Jation.

would have had to supply

if required to be carried for a can publishers. To this regule them with another complete ont greater distance the present rate of tion the paper mill submitted Vicent perlb. shall be increased to under protest. They held. and 5t of ktaki at a cost of £30,000. 1 ceat per lb. from January 1. Perbaps with reason, that the The total new expenditure wa 1921, to Januany 1. 1922, and 12 regulation was unjust and dis therefore £130,000., not £3.000.000. Abolition of full dress would rents thereafter.

criminatory, that like The annual

have meant that the uniforms of and manufacturers Hoss to the Postal Department

tance-

other

producers the Household Cavalry and of from carriage of newspapers and they had the right to sell in an the Guards bands, together with periodicals is put at $4,000,000 opan market, and that so long as This has been justified as a Prese higher prices were not exacted in 2000 bearskin helmets now in subsidy owing to the great dis. Canada than could be obsined stock, would have become usŞ. elsewhere no fair ground of in-less, and this would have meant over which newspaper have to be distributed in Cansiterference by the Government waste of £50,000

He added that it was not pro- and the desirability of assisting could be established. Finally on posed to abolish the stand-up Cana sian publications to obtain a of the mills challenged the power collars for military uniforms. of the Board of Commerce to fix national circulation.

The were not more irksome! The tree zane is an additional prices of newspaper, and the bonus designed to benefit weeklies Supreme Court, affining that than the stand-up collars of and the dailies of the smaller news paper coull not be regarded civilian dress, and, moreover, ad centres. There is of course, as a necessity of life, gave judz-mitted economy both of time and preference for the less importantment for the complainan. Thereof collar. " newspapers, and notwithstanding is no likelihood that the GovernPRICE OF ESPRIT DE CORPS." the argument that for nationalment will contest the decision or reasons the chief newspaper suggest new legislation to control should have national con- paper prices. stituency the revenue from news- PROSPEROUS PAPER MILLS.

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paper postage is obtained chiefly In the meantime Western Cantaxpayer.

from

the

Mr. Palmer asked if £13,0000 was not consideration at this time, and if Mr. Churchill thought it was necessary to buy esprit de corps Val the expense of the papers of generalļadian newspapers find it dified?:

Mr. Churchill said he would be circulation. Generally the street to secure supplies, while the de-ready to debate the matter if there prices of newspapers have been wand from the United States is was a general desire. He did not doubled and advertising charges so great and so argent that it taketheview that it was necessary have increased from 30 to 100 per cannot be fully met even at the to buy recruits with uniforms, bot most extravagant prices that may he considered that the historic AMERICAN COMPETITION, be offered. Naturally the paper uniforms of the British Army There is a prospect, however, mills are very prosperous, and the carried with them a sense of that higher paper prices, will pulp and paper industry steadily continuity and regimental tradi- reduce the circulation of Americao expands. It is estimated that tion valuable not only for recruit publications in Canada, and thus $240,000,000 are now invested in ing, but for the discipline, conduct indirectly benefit Canadian news-the industry in Canada, that and high reputation of the British papers and periodicals. For ex- 25,000 persons are employed, and units:

cent.

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ample, the Philadelphis Saturday that the total valus of pulp wood, and if this could be done frugally Etening Pox, which has sold pulp, and paper exported in the over a long period of years, using fin teps of thousands in last fiscal year was $115,000,000. up every scrap of existing Canada, has ceased to supply There is said to be a shortage in material it would be worth Canadian news-dealers and sends the American supply of between

while. only to mail-subscribers. It is 500,000 and 700,000 tons, or from

IREH AND WELSH GUARDS. also stated that these subscrip-five-eighths to seven-eighths of

Sir O. Thomss. Are the Irish tions will not be renewed unless the total Canadian output.

and Welsh Guards included in a greater supply of paper becomes It is not admitted that there is the Estimates? available. Other American mag-any element of justice in the

Mr.Churchill: Certainly. There azines are putting two isguns into deraand of Washington for To never has been sny intention of one for Canadian subscribers, and moval of the restrictions upon abolishing the Irish Guards. It is expected that American(the export of pulpwood. The With regard to the Welsh dailies will be withdrawn from wood belongs to the provinces.Onaniw the povition of recruiting Canadian-new-stande. Toronto It-is-not-under-Federal-control has raised the question of the and-no-need-of- now receives 54 toos of and the Dominion has no-power continuance of the regiment, but American magazines as against to coerce the provincial Govern. I have expressed no opinion one 61 tons a short time ago, and meats. It is held that so long as way or the other. I have allowed foundations. there will probably be a rapid there are no restrictions upon the the discussion to proceed between and continuous reduction in the export of paper, the right of the the various parties concerned. supply until practically only old provinces to compel manufacture and the Army Connell and the subscribers will receive American in Canada cannot be fairly Secretary of State bave reserved periodicals. Canadian magazines attacked. Moreover, the United their judgment and will be free and periodicals have suffered States sells to the Do-to take it at any time. greatly from American com- minion goods and raw materials petition. Unable to secure.say to the annual value of $746,000,- considerable market in the 000, while the United States United States such periodicals takes from Canada goods and have had to be content products to the annual "value of In order to keep the church a comparatively small only $454,000,000. There is no garden tidy, the vicer of Bl circulation. Wilb income affect-disposition to be unneighbourly, Stephan's Church, Bush-bill-perk, ed by circalation' they have not buz there - is a common, and is, offering a reward "for" the been able to command the revenue growing, feeling that the raw finest collection_of_tramway necessary to aggressive competi- materials of Canada should be tickste (not under 500 in number) tion with the periodicals which maimfagtursi to that last, pro- guaranteed to have beef gleaned sell all over the Continent." "An cedies in Chmadian faétarieni), from the church garden.”

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