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NEW CRUISER FOR CHINA STATION.
HMS. Cairo to be Relieved.
(Reuter's Service.)
Landon, February 2. The cruiser Cairo, at present at Shanghai, will shortly be Telieved by the new light cruiser Diomede, which will be com- missioned at Portsmouth in March.
The Cairo will then be transferred to the East Indies Station in place of the Comus.
RESIGNATION OF ITALIAN GOVERNMENT.
Opposition to its Foreign Policy.
"Rome, February ̈*. The Cabinet has decided to resign. The resignation is due to lose of support in Parliament, where, owing to hostility to foreign policy and other causes like the alarm of the anti-Clericals at recent actions of the Catholic Ministers on the occasion of the Pope's death, opposition has been growing, cul- insting in the Social Democrats, numbering 143, joining the Opposition.
The crisis may affect the Genos conference. A section of the Press has been urging postponement to May on the ground that this will give time for all the countries to prepare the ground for discussion.
GERMAN RAILWAY STRIKE BREAKS OUT.
Not Expected to Last Long.
Berlin. February 2.
A general strike of railwaymen arising out of a wages dispute abgan. It was preceded yesterday by a general exodus from Berlin when many thousands thronged the stations. Towns like Breslau and Frankfort on the Oder are isolated.
發三月弍英培書 FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 192
TO-DAY'S STRIKE NEWS,
PROTECTION OF ESSENTIAL SUPPLIES.
SEAMAN'S CRITICISM OF HIS UNION.
Will the Houseboys Come Out?.
日七月正
SINGLE DOPY: 35 CTS
SHE PER LINGIM
Certaldeed
of the steamer give as the Chip, then no bread," but for a handful shing, though we give the name) of men to attempt to unload a big with reserve.
ship almost like trying to bala The total number of vessels in fout the barbour with a buckat. the harbour,this morning was 152
COMPANY REPORT.
Ltd.
2
There were one or two other Hongkong Tramway Co., and the tonnage was 258,261. vessale lying alongside the whart The number of Japanese steamers but no work was proceeding on has been reduced from 18 to 12. them, and bat for a few watch- The report of the Directors of
B coal either at Amoy-OVKE Shanghai.
the, gways were the above Company, to be sub- Energy S, Wild to the ordinary godaral
for
deducted the Loan Interest
6,329 2 11
£60,791 19 3
| of Mosers, Jardins, Matheson, and Strikers continue to awarm up Co, Ltd, on Thursday, 13th, Will Houseboys Come Out? Other Guilds Dissatisfied. What with the high house razte
to Canton and up-to-date nearly April, stains sine and bigh prices for food and Ameur European householders 7,000 have left the Colony by rall: The Gross prot That the cargo and coal cooliss other commodities something in the Colony the main topie of About 250 strikers have returned.
the year are not likely to remain out for should be done to control the conversation is whether the The express trains are duplicated amounts to ...£67,101 27 long was the general feeling this food prices and bouse rents, much-talked-of strike of house-anning in two portions and From this must be morning amongst those best able otherwise we poor haad-to-mouth boys and amaha is likely to even the traffic is over double the nor- to judge. More than one official working people and laboureratuale. Rumours of-noch amal. With the Chinese New Year of the coolfs guilds complain of will not be able to live or possibility are rife, but a usually just over, there are, of course, a the hectoring spirit of the Sea-work in Hongkong. and there well-informed Chinese yesterday large number of holiday-makers men's Union and admit that in-will always be trouble and expressed the opinion that these returning to Hongkong, but the To which should be timidation and threats brought strikes upon strikes. I say again stories are being circulated by number of strikers going to Can- members out, They are something should be done about the strike leaders with a view to ton is so large that the up trains their gravely dissatisfied with the on-the food prices and house rents creating a panic, and that they are much fuller than those com. willingness to arbirrats here in The strike is caused by the ex-need not be taken
seriously.ing down. Hongkong. considering that the borbitant prices for all commodi- Though there are Europeans who Owing to the strike of the seamen had declared themselves ties and the high house rents. really fear that such a strike may cargo coolies it is impossible to come about, amongst the majority get anything that comes down anxious to secure arbitration. All
the opinion appears to prevail by rail shipped from the indications, in fact point to
that the houseboys wonki have loon the strong probability of a break-
to the island,
tion Prefits Tax........ 7,568 14 4 up of the strike amongst the
nothing whatever to gain by such general merchandise is coming valoas who bave joined the
a step.
down from Canton at present Making Balance of £68,360 14 0
Of this the Interima
samen.
A Seaman's Outspoken
Comments.
the Seamen's Guild who asks us,
for obvious reasons, to withhold his name, comes the following letter
"Dear Sir, It would not be a
men men:
Yours, etc..
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across the harbour.
added the amount brought forward _from_the_Inst Balance Sheet, after allowing for the Final Dividend
of £20,312 10. 0,
Kow. and
and for Corpara-
no
Dividend for 1921
of 1s. Od. pas share, paid 24th August, 1921. absorbed £16.250.
The
Directors now recommend Final Dividend for 1921
of ls. Id. per sbare, £25,729 3 4
ed forward
41,979 3 4
£26,381 10 8
Both the balance sheet and the Working and Profit and Loss Ac- counts have been converted into sterling (with the exception of capital additions and depreciation taken f 2.) at the T.T. rate on
A MEMBER OF THE
SEAMEN'S GUILD. The writer of that letter may have it from us that the reporters A reader, however, tell us that Four tracks of poultry and six were never greatly misled by the he has been at pains to interview down could not be sent across to trucks of vegetables which came Union officials. Most of the in-his servants on the matter, and he Hongkong and consequently had formation given Was never finds that they are inclined to to be sent to be sold in the Kow. Meanwhile, from a member of published, and the rest, so far as believe the story that their Union loon market. Some of the vege
this paper was concerned, was will shortly issue an order requir tables had to be stored in the ing them to return to their cative given very guardedly.
places until the strike is over.
[godowas, but yesterday the cab Food to be Handled.
They say that there is a lot of bages were being transferred to jonks, it is reported, the Seaman's One fact emerged from a walk talk amongst their own class to Union having permitted" the The situation in the South and South-West is much brighter bad idea for the shipping com- along the waterfront this morn this effect, and some of them have delivery. Fish, continues to ar The engine-drivers at Munich have refused to come out. Ibe panies to apply to the Governing. The food and essential ser-been given to understand that if Bavarian railways are almost normal, likewise most of those in ment for help and for the authori- vices are not yet in grave danger. they do not obey the order when enough, there is no difficulty Learing to be carri
rive every morning and, curiou-ly Wartemberg and Badeo. It is not expected that the strike will last ties to supply them with Military Officially it was stated that the it is issued they will be killed. whatever in getting that taken fong. Little disposition towards violence is manifest. The canals and Naval men to load and disposition was unchange and that any rate, amshs in particular are are being utilised for foodstuffs etc., and a staff of officials has been charge osrgo from their ship there was nothing u2 report, įvery free in their talk of s organised to drive and stoke trains.
Distress in Canton. whilst the cooles and seamen's However, from a quarter usually possible strike, and we yesterday strikes are on, the shipping com-well-informed, like the state-beard of a case in which one of panies to compensate the
coolie these women servants told her Our Canton that the cargo
correspondent writes to inform us that owing with pay. I think this would do guilds had agreed to the handling mistress that she had been waza- some good in breaking the strike of, for instance, food and firewood.ed to erase work, a threat being to the seamen's strike in Hong A law should be made that al Cost coolies were found working issued that if she did not do so kong and the stoppage of traffic. 31st December 1921, diz. 2s. 70. Labour or other Guilds should be at Wanchai, not numerously it is she would have her ears cut off there has been practically no The actual Hongkong receipts made to pay heavy registration true, but in sufficient numbers to Other householders with whom importation of rice into Canton $12 cases of influenza and 186 of pneumonia have been officially fees, as also should all the heads raise a feeling of hopeininess, and we have talked base their fear since the strike began. Socks and working expenses in the local reported in twenty-four hours.
are getting very low and the curreny are as followy :~~~ and officials of these Guilds; other little knots of men standing here) that there is something afoot on New York, February
wise the Guilds should be pro-and there discussing the situation an alleged growth of a truculent price has been going up daily, Traffic and Miscell Ansors Receipts... There were 1.052 cases of influenza and twenty deaths yester-hibited and the official banished. suggested further work resump and independent spirit amongst until considerably hardship is!
to be severely punished if found
being caused 10 the day, additional to Monday's list previously cabled.
However, later enquiries) their servants during the past)
poorer Power Expenser, Vienna, February 2. in the Colony before the ex- elicited the fact that these were few weeks, whilst numbers or classes. There is, however, & Traffic Expenses, Maintenance and 2,753 cases of influenza occurred during the week ending January piration of their banishment not contractors, but purchasers others say that recently either lot of vegetables and fruits, as
I think this
Repairs, and Gen- 28 against 131 in the previous week.
would coolies, so too much need not be their coolies or houseboye bave considerable quantities used to strikes, the cargo-boat
be rent to the Hongkong markets. eral Expenses Canton, leaving poor goae to and junk and launch masters and
types of substitutes behind. Ridiculously low prices have their, ticket* to have
There may, of course, be nothing prevailed in there foodstuffs, but Working Proft.
Hongkong suspended and be heavily fined
whatever in these cases to war large quantities have been left at for going on strike.
raat the belief that a strike is the wharves to decay. A great bave suffered pending, but that there is con- many farmers
financial losses on account of siderable anxiety felt on the
trices falling, and also because matter cannot be doubted.
former avenues of sale aro now closed.
INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC EXTENDS TO AMERICA.
Enormous Spread in Vienna.
New York, February 2.
ULSTER AND THE SOUTH.
Difference over Revision of Boundaries.
Loaden, February 2. Hopes of the development of an entente between Uister and the Southern Parliament have been somewhat dashed by an official announcement after an interview between Mr. Collins and Sir James Craig at Dublin lassing two and a half hours, that no further agree ment had been reached, and that a most serious situation had arisen It is understood that the difference is connected with the question of the revision of boundaries.
RUSSO-GERMAN AIR COMPANY.
Projected Service from Koenigsberg to Moscow.
Berlia, February 2.
MEASURES TO CHECK ANTHRAX.
terma. stop
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tion.
built upon that.
A Murder.
TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY.
$1, 87,969
461,501
$626,468
The retiring directors are Sir Robert Ho Tung and Hon, Sir C. P. Chater, who are eligible and offer themselves for re-election.
The Auditors, Messrs. Lowe, Bingham and Matthews, offer themselves for re-election.
off
News in To-day's New Advertisements.
Cheerful Signs. Travelling along in the other direction, however, more cheerful Officials A Bad Lot. signs could be noted. The Praya was busier than it has been for These Guild officials are a bad some time. One first, glimpned lot. They are the real instigators signs of unloading from & steam of strikes and it is through them launch, by the way-jzat beyond and their intimidation that the the F. and O. wharf. But closer
A mysterious affair which is other Guilds have gone on strike. inspection revealed that what thought by some to be connected The nightsoil coolies will be going was being unloaded was soap with the strike, took place at on strike next through the of- | " Yellow Brown Soap" and "Blue Taikoo Dock, yesterday, when a cials intimidations, so that the Mottled Soap," which are useful Chinese plater who was working strike will cause a great deal of commodities but seem to lose on the steamer Haichow, lying trouble in Hongkong. These part of their usefulness when food at No. 2 Slipway, was murdered. nightsoil coolies and other labour-is scarce. But from that point The assailsat escaped, and his
The sudden ummoning ere have been threatened by the matters assumed a more satisfy-identity still remains to be en-Parliament to ratify the Irish officials of the Seamen's Guilding complexion. Vegetables and quired into. Three wounds were settlement caught Big Ben nap- quite considerable inflicted on the head of the unfor-ping. His four-sided face has A Russo-German air navigation company has been formed that if they do not strike in firewood in
and be was been undergoing a process of
Mr. Ernest W. Blackmore has with a view to a regular air service from Koenigsberg to Moscow sympathy with them they will be quantities were being unloaded tonate plater,
to the Government cleaning, which is so necessary taken over the management of by Russian Government aeroplanes. The Company consists of a severely tortured, ill-treated and from junks on to the Praya and removed combination of the German General Electricity Company, the Ham. killed. The officials do not suffer. being carried away by coolies Civil Hospital. Death followed after long exposure to the London Etablissements Brossard Mopin
poor labourers who were perhaps ew boldened by soon afterwards while the man smoke. One dial is without bands in Hongkong.-Page 4. burg-America Line, and the Zeppelin Company with the Russian It
who suffer. These officials are the knowledge that soldiers with was still in an unconscious con- but it is glaringly white in com-
The Yacht Club's extraordinary Government.
nothing but a bad, grabbing lot of bayonets fixed were not far away.dition, and the police have now parison with the others in full rascals and they should be But all the activity war not con- to investigate the motives of the possession of slowly revolving meeting advertised for February severely punished.
fued to the Prays. One met murderous attack.
benda. It is evidently intended 4th, has been postponed until "What do we pour labourers get coolies carrying vegetables and
to renovate the four dials one by Saturday, February 16th-Page 4. Godowns at a Standstill. for going on strike?
Entry forms for the Hongkong Only a firewood in Bonham Strand,
by one,
tennis An International Commission.
Cricket Club's annual |paltry sum of 40 to 50 cents per similar carriers and others pull.
The Hongkong and Kowloon day, and some of us get nothing.ing vegetable laden trucks in Des Wharf and Godown Company's house than Lord Iveagh's could application at the Pavilion. En-
If such things must be, no fitter tournament may be bad London, February 2.
Your Road, and one with a case premises are The International Labour Office has appointed an anthrax No provision is made for our
almost deserted.be suggested for august Countries close en Wednesday, commission composed of experts from South Africa, Australia. wives and families. We have to of tinned meat bung from one ad Everything is practically at a cillors, and Sir Hamar Greenwood February 15th-Page 4. Belgium, France, Britain, Italy, India, Japan. Spain, and the United Pay high house rent and high of bis bamboo and two cases' of standstill a Telegraph reporter and bis fellow Ministers recently Volunteer Orders are given on Stairs to consider measures to check the spread of anthrax by prices for food from the above whisky from thy hopeful signs was informed. The coolies, tally had the choice at Elveden of paren
small amount siloted to us to seemed a distinctly siga men and lightermen stopped work being received by his Majesty in keep up the strike. Whilst the
Burnett's Gin is still a house- on Wednesday morning and now Ending the Shortage. heads and officials are enjoying!
there is nobody to handle cargo with doors of burnished copper a glorious ball of Carrara marble
hold word in London-Page 6. themselves at the West Point Nearer West Point the scene There is plenty of room in the
The principal attraction at the. brothels and giving big dinners was even busier, and matches, storage, godowns, but nobody to hall is now 15 years old; but at says the Day Chronicle. This
Coronet Theatre to-night is number of those drowned is at with the money which we poor paddy, flour, condensed milk, do anything, and the traanit go-Elvedea (pronounced Elden) the Mary Miles Minter is starred, which "Narse Marjorie” la labourers are paying for the present unknown.
late Maharajali Duleep Singh whilst at the Kowloon Theatre A Peking telegram states-The opkeep of the Guilds and officials. Vegetables and fruit were all seen downs are congested...
on trucks. The strike may be The office staff is still at has made it possible to takeallace Beid is to be seen in Government bas consented to Willing To Return To Work, some "way from being ended work, and the godowns are Passenger Launch Wrecked.
Liang Shib-yi's leave being
but there should not be a con open for business, but there is counsel in rooms of varying size
and Oriental splendour. Our Canton correspondent extended for another ten days. "I know for a truth that when tinued shortage of vegetables or nobody to handle cargo. Business writes :—
| Cabinet members are constantly your reporters go to the firewood, from what we saw this can proceed as usual If firms can Chang Kinz-ming has gone to moving to sad from Tientsin and ¦ heads and officials for in- morning.
To-Day's Exchange. get the labour to remove their Boifung in Waichow, his native Peking.
formation they are told a pack of A whisper of one interesting merchandise. Some firms are
The closing rate of the dollár place, and will probably stay there The rumours in regard to the lies and fabrications. These are fact reaches us Masses Jardloe's doing this. A well-known focal
on damant to-day was 2u. 674d. for a fortnight before returning to Communication Bank are at 70% of our seamen and coolles ships officers and office staff, we store removed a number of cases Canton.
tributed to anti-Liang parties. who are very much up against were told, had loyally set about by sending their own coolies and The Weather“. The passenger launch Nam The financial position of the bank the strike and all are willing to unloading one of their steamers yesterday afternoon one or two Yuan, bound from Wuchow to is very strong
en | come back to work. But we are in the harbour. No confrmation other firms were adopting similar Hobow, was wrecked in the Wa Pui-foo has arrived at threatened that if we break thecould be secured in the office it. meBEUTEL. Shulking Pass in the early morn Paoting. The representations of strike we should be ill-treated and - self, except that it seemed nes The Manlis Me ing on January 31. Some 80 other provinces will arrive shortly killed. Those, sdacted by the deanded.
Mengers were rescued by the and a general conference will be wiriks should aggrauak, the Goya B
infected wool hair.
[Other Telegrams on Page 2)
TO-DAY'S CHINESE
NEWS.
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bout Great China. The lopened in a few days.
ernment to do all that can be done.
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