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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. “ TUESDAY, MAY 17, 1921.

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HONGKONG..

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

The Hongkong Telegraph

HONGKONG, TUESDAY, MAY 17, 1921.

THE LATEST CRISIS.

NOTES & COMMENTS.

Japanese Press on Yap.

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DAY BY DAY.

An eight-year old girl was on Saturday knocked down by a public ricksha in Queen's Road West, sustaining slight injuries.

THE "MUI TSAI” SYSTEM.

Slavery Officially Denied.

CHINESE ADVISORY

COMMITTEE

At the

MUTINOUS CREW.

Chinese Sent to Prison. Before Lt. Conway Hake, R. N. Marine Magistrate, this Lee Sang was charged with morning the crew of the as assaulting the first mate

of

First Attendance at Shanghai Council. In view of the public campaign Chamber of Commerce on the Chinese General at Home against alleged abuses atternoon of the 11th inst., the of the mui-taat system in Hong-five gentlemen elected to serve the same vessel, Mr. William kong, the statement of Mr. S. B.as Chinese Advisory Committee W. Hopkin, in Hongkong on the C. Ross, Secretary for Chinese to Affairs, made in the course of an Council were guests of honour at ing his lawful commands.

the Shanghai Municipal 30th ultimo and also with disobey- interview with a representative a reception given by the Shang- of the Hongkong Telegraph willhai

They pleaded not guilty. Chinese! be read with interest.

Ratepayers' Association and other bodies,

The first mate sent

Mr. Ross characterized the Chen Tze-ming chairman letter, which Was produced allegations that girls and boys of the Shanghai

in Commercial

Court, stating that he are brought and sold in the Federation and опе Colony for the purposes of labour strongest agitators in the recent the assault. It will be remembered of the was unable to appear on account of injuries in connection with as being absolutely untrue. Any fight for Chinese representation

parente Was

"THE FAULT IN EQUALITY 18 Japan's Press and to some extent THAT WE ONLY WISH IT WITH her people have been much ex- THOSE WHO ARE SUPERIOR TO US. oreised over the question of Yap.-Henri Becque. There is, however, considerable: divergence in the views expressed. Motor car No. 283 collided with Marquis Okuma's organ, the a pedestrian in Coronation Road Hochi, seas in Washington's yesterday. The man was sent to attitude an intention to make the Kwong Wah Hospital. Yap "the keynote to the new American diplomacy," and reads the world at large a lesson upon the danger of admitting the American claim, which, it asserts, would be a blow, possibly a fatal one, to the League of Nations. Conversely, the Yomiure, Liberal organ, in the course of Among the passengers who girl who was not in the custody on the Council, presided. In a that the case was remanded for

loft for Home by the ss. Nagoya of her

the short speech of welcome, he said one week, the defendants to be yesterday were Mr. and Mrs. W.J. official ward of the Secret- that this was not the time for kept in custody. Mr. W. Carrie, and Eng. Com. G. Hariat. She Was not under rejoicing. A great deal of work Hopkin, of the Lee Sang, the guardianship of anyone else. was to be done and much was said that on the date in question Slavery did not enter into the expected from the five Chinese shortly after I p.m. the boatswain

Cas08 question.

of cruelty, advisors. whether to a child

The successful out. Came to his room and said parents or to a mui-tsai who was tion, he said, depended upon the to. He told him thay must do so with its come of the fight for representa- the crew would not turn the legal ward of the Secretariat, energy exerted by the gentlemen immediately or he would sead were amenable to both Chinese who were elected.

for the Police. He waited a little English law. Certain One of the oldest Chinese re-while and then asthere was no sign people would be cruel to their sidents in Shanghai, Ma Hsiang- of their beginning to work be children in the same way as they peh, called upon to speak, told of went to the forecastle to order were cruel to their mui-tsui and the regrettable manner in which them out. He went to the Secretariat was doing its Chinese had ignored municipal the forecastle whore all the de- most to stop it, as witness the affairs in bygone days, "When fendants were. He spoke to them. recent cases at the Police Court I first came to Shanghai after the Some of them started to go out when mistresses were prosecuted Taiping rebellion," said Mr: Ma, and one man WAS .still for cruelty to their servant girls. The Chinese paid no attention in his bunk fast asleep. He Supposing they could abolish the to civio affairs."

shook him by the shoulder and

Sanders,

remarks that admirable for their temperate tone, sees some justification for the argument that America should not be bound by the League's decisions, and, further,

A Chinese, who was apparently contends that any way Yap is not insane, jumped from the first floor worth wrangling over-or, as verandah of a house in New might be said, Yan-ping over-as Street on Saturday and had to be ite economic valuo fe negligible, sent to hospital. and its only strategic significance ia in relation to the neighbouring American-owned island of Guam. In the course of a fight over This prompts the Yomiuri to money matters a Chinese was propose that Japan relinquish the badly bruised by a compatriot, Yap mandato altogether on con- who is now in police custody. dition that the fortification at The injured man is being treated Guam be removed, while cables in hospital. generally might be placed under international supervison. This

and

looks like a practical suggestion Yesterday the police were inai-tsui system to-morrow, such Mr. Ma said that foreigners had ordered him out. Thon for an instalment of disarmament, summoned to a house in Third a course would not affect done "their bit" in building Shang- one of the defondants, With the American policy of con- Street, in which a fight had taken the questions of prostitution, hai up as one of the best places in the eleventh one, started to centration in the Pacific, however, place. A woman, who had been of children carrying burdens the universe, and could not be shout out to the rest in Chinese the prospects of acceptance can hit on the head with a stool by a up the Peak, industrial labour by blamed for admiuistoring and they all turned round and the not be considered bright. The man, was removed to hospital. children, or any other question municipal affairs since the witness saw there was going Kokuminto (bureaucratic), view-

whatever, because the mui-tsui Chiness themselves were indiffer to be trouble and af he was system was different. It was a eat in the matter. The speaker alone he tried to make for the door. of Chinese socured domestic hoped the Chinese advisors would the door and held him fast. The system by which the better class concluded by saying that he Those outside the door jammed,

servants.

men behind him commonced hammering him on his back with something hard. The boatswain was standing in front in the alley way.

ing the award of the Peace Con-

In the Government Civil ference and the League as Hospital is a Chinese who got conferring an indefeasible title, the worse of a fight at No. 326 adjures the Government to stick Queen's Road West on Saturday. to its guns, and characterise He was belabourad with sticks by: America as "a disturber of inter- three men, and injured on the arm national peace," The Joji

(moderato conservative) expresses

surprise at America's attempt to A salt fish dealer, who was undo the work of tho described by the Magistrato as Peace Conference, but, in order a regular profiteer, was fined $50 to reach B settlement. by Mr. R.E. Lindsell this morn- considers that it would being for the possession of a pair judicious to enter into direct of false scales which was thirteen negotiations with Washington. per cent against the purchaser. This sooms to be pretty much the conclusion to which the Allies have come.

There is no question that one of the gravest crises since the signing of the armistice has arisen over the Silesian dispute-a crisis that has been openly referred to as "gravely endangering the Eutente between France and Britain." Mr. Lloyd George's vigorous speech in the House of Commons on Friday rast has brought the matter to a head and French opinion has been very outspoken. It The Coal Tragedy. is difficult to speak of a dinging situation, but a great principle has been enunciated by the British Premier which is deserving of all the support Britishers can accord And to guage the importance of that principle it might be as well to go over a little old ground.

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miners to

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perform their duty and bring about Mr. Ross mentioned the good happiness to everybody concerned, work of committee of sixteent Replying on behalf of the Ad Chinese ladies, which had been visory Committee, Sung Han- formed to look after the welfare chang said that he and his of the fifty odd Chinese girls who coleagues already felt the are being lodged at the Po Leung responsibility that devolved on Kuk institution. These girls, our the advisors, but that they would representative was informed, try to do their best in the inter- were those who were found eats of the Chinese. wandering in the streets, children Huang Shao-yen, representative who had been kidnapped, and of the Labour and Commercial servant-girls who were taken Union, said that he hoped that from the charge of mistresses the Advisory Committee would

The wook-end has been parti-convicted of cruelty, cularly free from occurrences of notifiable disease. During the three days anding yesterday there was only one fatal case of plague and one non-fatal Case of paratyphoid fever.

An accident which illustrated

crowded streets by

CANTON NEWS.

Raising the Money.

follow an open policy and in case

The Magistrate held that the assault was committed and impri- soned the men for three months with hard labour.

CHINESE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.

A conference of Chinese Cham- of difficulties consult with thebers of Commerce throughout the local organizations. He hoped country will be held in Shanghai that they would be concerted in this year. their actions and discuss with. each other before bringing mat ters to the attention of the Municipal Council

RUMOUR OF BIG RAILWAY CONTRACT DENIED.

The Ministry of Communica- tions denies the report that it is After tea and refreshments had negotiating with an American boen served, the Advisory Com-and a Japanese firm for a contract mittee was conveyed to the for the purchase of 1,000 trucks, Council Rooms in apecially 500 passenger cars, and 100

Railway,

Between

Ourselves

Well,

and

By Robt. MacWhirter.

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The coal strike drags on its weary course with alternations of the incalculable loss to industry, hope and gloom. In addition to the strike is costing the country round about a solid million the dangers of cycling along"| By the selling of Provincial When the Treaty of Versailles was signed it was and

half sterling

learners, bonds and by borrowing money provided that a plebiscite should be taken in Silesia to week for precautionary measures occurred at Yaumati yesterday from the Salt Gabolle the Goy decorated motorcars provided by locomotives. The total cost of in respect of Army, Navy, when a Chinese boy ran his erament hes at last secured about determine the destinies of its people. The country was Fire Brigade, and the like, so that bicycle over the unprotected part $2,000,000 which will be used to the Shanghai Chinese Ratepayers the transaction was stated to mapped out into certain areas and it was agreed that the the candle is being consumed at of a deep nullah, whilst attempt-pay off part of the arrears due to Association, and; for the first amount to $25,000,000 and the territory should be either German or Polish according to both ends just when the country ing to avoid a collision with a soldiers. Many soldiers have time in history, the Chinese price was to be secured by the He fell into the refused to go to the wost front advisory committee officially revenue of the Peking-Baiyuan the votes of the inhabitants. Such a plebiscite has becneeds application and thrift. Mr. pedestrian. taken and it has been found that Upper Silesia-the Lloyd George is to make another nullah and was sent by the police unless their arrears of pay are attended a Council meeting. richest part of the territory-has voted in favour of being attempt to bring owners and to the Kwong Wah hospital forthcoming.

where he now lies in a precarious understanding.

The Governinent is still suffer- German, whilst only a small portion has voted in favour Apparently the result will hinge condition.

ing from lack of funds and the of being Polish. Poland has not accepted the verdict, but, mainly upon whether the minera

Canton-Hankow Railway Com- under a patriot named Korfanty, her troops have occupied are prepared to relinquish their A serious crack in one of the pany has now been ordered to some of the territory of pro-German favour and the Germans demand for a national pool. Now arches under the verandah on the supply $30,000 a month, or $1,000

that, after some dramatic fluctus Pedder Street side of the Hotel There has not yet been, anything in the tions, it seems fairly certain that Mansions has been discovered. have objected.

a day.

It is reported that the pro-large

we've had another It wasna' a bad meeting so far nature of real fighting, for Allied soldiery were looking the railwaymen and transport When the discovery was made hibition against fan-tau gambling

representative as meetings go. I hope the Gov- after the territory until the result of the plebiscite became workers will not adopt a general workmen were promptly engaged will be withdrawn all over the gathering at the Theatre Royal, ernment will be duly and fittingly known, but the Polish troops have refused to withdraw strike, the miners may prove more to prop up the arch with strong province, with the exception of it wasn't too bad for all that. roaches them.

It might have been larger but impressed when the resolution and the situation has been rendered extremely grave be hoped they will, in their repair work.

amonable. Assuredly it is to bamboo shorings, pending the full Canton. The monopoly will be When night-time comes, folks by reason of the fact that the French favour the own interests as well as in those the crack may be due to the sub-thirds of the revenus thus derived There's worse things than a bath, follow and invited all those It is thought that given to the military and two want to get home and change. that the C.R.A. meeting would Mr. Pollock then announced Polish action, whilst Britain declares that, Poland ought of the community generally, sidence of the ground, which at will be used to defray military a long chair on the verandah present to remain seated. to have observed the terms of the Treaty and have seeing that foreign competition, this part appears to have sunken expenses the other third going to and a nice cold gin and tonic, that was very good of him and let Germany take what was hers under it. It is alleged formidable enough under working a little in comparison with the the Provincial Treasury. Lot And yon Theatre was very mug- quite a few appreciated the com- by the French that the Germans are largely responsible for British coal from more of the

conditions, throatons. to aust far ond of the building.

teries will also be permitted by official orders.

gy when the fans were turned pliment by remaining and risking creating the present insurrection and that France will not most valuable markete while the

It is said that Tung Shao-yi form

off. The hot-air from the plat- irreparable ruin to their already tolerate German troops entering Silesia in opposition to mines at Home are lying idle.

has persistently refused to come either. The magenta coloured the fans were turned on again didas' improve things nice pink coats. Ju the meantime the Poles. Britain-at least its Premier-thinks other America, it transpires, is having

to Canton and that President Sunseats spoilt our clothes but mas- but even that was not a strong in the same wise, and he very severely censured Poland for not keeping serious trouble

Yat-sen has appointed him first kee, we had our money's worth enough temptation for her word as expressed by her signature to the Treaty. The United States mines have A Bad Case of Speeding. But, in spite of this, he has again did wo not as free and indepen- presentative gathering.

industry, but on a local scale.)

adviser to the new President. and the price was worth it, for majority of that large and re- That is the point on which he has made out a strong case been working at heavy pressure

refused. If the Allies are compelling Germany to honour her word to make hay while

dent citizens assert our man was not. It was a sad com- No, it Goneral Chan King-ning is hood? Yes, Verily we did. We mentary on the public spirit they must surely honour theirs, whether there are dis- shines.

making preparations to establish rolled up in our-hundreds- shown by Hongkong folks that appointments or no. Poland lost but she ought to have.

his beadquarters at Bhao-hing. (please don't miss out the "s" although they were all gathered

The Canton Times says In Mr. Editor) and view of the three ening danger vehemently by-holding up our purpose of passing a resolution protested together under one roof for the anent the House Tax and were Mr. Free Trade- Life Blood kindly invited by Mr. Pollock to

accepted. If matters had been the other way round would The Crown Prince. Germany have been allowed to dispute the result? Would

the sun

IN A HURRY.

The driver of motor car No. 218 was summoned before Mr. R. E. Lindsell at the Magistracy this morning for reckless Briving in Des Voeux Road Central.

tung by the Kwangsi militarista, Prince Hirohito has spent more! Inspector Garrod, prosecuting, of a possible invasion of Kwang- bands.

Now

the

she have been left free to put troops in an area which had than a week of his tour in the said it was a bad case of speeding. voted in favour of Poland? It is on the broad principles Old Country, and, what with On the morning of the 8th, the Businessmen's Federation of Holyoak waana' there to give us remain behind and listen to re- of justice that Mr. Lloyd George has based his protest and banquete, inspections, and visits to Sunday, defondant was driving Shanghai har telegraphed Pre- one of his fearful spread-eagle solutions about the reform of our it is a basis that has an undeniable appeal. He digressed a variety of places, his Imperial his car along Des Voeux Roadsident Sun Yat-sen to start a speeches. He made a little perhaps when he spoke of Poland's war effort as lighness can have had little Central, proceeding westward, at campaign to bring the province once. Never again. We had per cent. of them grabbed hold of us suffer Constitution more than 50

His Worship-How did you province in the South that is Unofficial Legislators. I never was honest and courageous enough to voice a protest he impression created by himself manage to obtain the accurate working in the interest of the knew before they could orate so you burst about the Unofficial. Mr. Pollock, you may talk till must have known would meet with disapproval.

appears to have been favourable speed?

Peking Government, under the well. It just shows ye what Majority; you may resurrect and The most serious part of the question is the danger alike among the "quality" and

Inspector Garrod replied that control of the newly established congenial surroundings can do. rattle the dry bones of previous that has resulted to the unity of the Allies, for there has the public. While the latter have be ascertained the speed by the Government at Canton, so as to Or maybe it was that hitherto petitions; you may harp of already been blunt and almost harsh words. France is accorded H. 1. H. a hearty recep. speed meter of his cycle. Defend- ensure the safety of the province the newspapers · bavena' done loyalty and patriotism; you may..... doubtful of German innocence in this matter-has been distinguished guests were struck Garage, his car containing mem against the illegal government at porting. What Mr. Lau Chu House of Commons till you're tion everywhere, the Premier's ant first passed him at Breezy and to Carry on the fight them justice in the way of re- send petitions to the Imperial doubtful of German intentions all through since the by the intelligent alertness and bere of a brass band. He shouted Peking." Armistice. Britain has been inclined to be more trustful-knowledge of the nation's young to him to stop, but the order was too trustful, our French friends tell us. The issue involved guest when Mr. Lloyd George ignored. Witness pursued him now is raised by the same divergence of views as has raised entertained a week-end party at on his cycle at a speed of 27 miles other delicate issues before, and as these former matters tive of Royalty is to have the him near the Western Market.

PUNISHING THE BACHELOR. Chequera. A traditional prerogaan hour and eventually stopped have been settled there is every reason to hope that this most flatterlug construction Defendant said his passengers one will be. But the whole of the Allies and the whole placed upon its slightest act, but were only a quarter of the band, world of nations must have noted the deep sincerity and sufficient evidence has been who were in a hurry to join the the keen appeal of the British Premier for straight play coming to indicate that the rest of the band at West Point. It is just that that is wanted so badly in the world to-day. good."

compared with the effort of France and Britain, but he impressions of the West. The

leisure so far to ponder hisla spoed of 27 miles an hour. of Kwangsi, which is the only fine speeches though, from two their hats and solemnly walked out.

Crown Prince is

Pak said was particularly demo tired; you may do all these things. cratic the more so as it was the are, and lots more I havens' had very opposite to what h sald time to think of but you know as to his own nationale at the well as I do after the lesson of Chinese Chamber of Commerce the other night, that the Com "I am always in favour of meeting when he defended stitutional Reform Movement in purishing a bachelor. Bachelors the quiescent part can go anywhere-they are barely when the House Tax resolution is certainly on its last TORS he took this Colony if maybe no deur worth considering." said the judge was passed. Of course, a man It may come to in time bate at Preston City Court during the has every right to change his certes, at the moment ils about making Mr. Lindsell imposed a fluo of hearing of a house possession mind, aye, that indeed

$50.

he as swift as a windbroken, undif has.

-going backwards.

Dane.