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THE SHIP REQUISITION. Misy of Shipping a London, cided up, but it is the intention

Colonial Secretary Keplies.

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The Indemnity Ordinance.

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Your Vessel will be brought under to use it either for the benefit of Government"requisition and control, shipping in Far Eastern waters or similar to that of vessels under the directly for, the benefit of the Im- Homy Liner Requisition Scheme. "perial "Government. it is intended, that so fur`as praelio- The following letter from Hondablepo shuld run your vessels as With regard to the Indemnity Mr. A. G. M. Fletcher, Colonial for yourselves thùngle pay Govene, Dediname; Mr. Burkill asks "why, Saretary of Hongkong, appeared in mine wenyus

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When the owners, brought their ae- the 3. 1. D. Wens Shanghai, of less is that of a regular established, tion in December, om, did not the September 12:

fline, it is not this desire of the fine Hongkong Governor "non suit them. Sir. The letters of August 14 andgament tor interfere with the uatate by defending the action, and prov→→→ 17, féin Mr. Möller and Mr. Burkill of it or with your method of gone that in should have been brought make it evident that their disagrees ducting it exceptin so far as un-against the Imperial tiyerament. ment with the Hongkong Govern- tional interests night require, ". This is exactly the course which the nient on the shipping control ques

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tsen is based, tora, Certain extent that, subject always to the insimes but the Imperial Government de- at least, upon a misunderstanding, tions of the Shipping Control Confereed otherwise. Mr. Burkill wns" at I therefore ask the hospitality fritter, yang shuikt run your vessel personally, informed at the Colonial of your exlumns to explain the sun, as for yourselves, though on decent Office that the Indemnity Ordin ti as "the Hongkong Government of thert verwent, who confidently, ance wasgot a device of the Hong- Thank he you to conduct the bustrong Gofermcut to meet their own lay in the best plage take the with as much zealand care as if perial diffinies, but was passed opportunity to express the pleasoten your own. interests Wore, still" in

sie-fire matructions of His. Majesty's) with which I have read the very vodyøds"

"Government, as sinner Ordinances kid references to myself in hotel will be wine and Mr. Molles weris pased in Colates similarly Jesters.

who quofo the instructious situated, and were intendeiť to carry I had missed the signifiesinee of shit Surely "have realized. a dry, the achterate intention and de precious statements regarding the thege was a sukarstion that the gision of His Majesty's Government us of the ships in aid or defence of ships were cigmardäeresi i zid that showers in Hongkong and the Colony, but "Mr. Moller and Mrs of or in connection with the defines elsewhere in the Colonies must not Barkill have now made it clear that of the colong. I think that Mp. Splaved in any way in they are under tik impression that T. Williamson, Chattan' of th favorable position than shipowners

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if sucli popperty bu, required in aid fhad been resident in the Colony at Crotiance was a piece of "Imperial fuf or in connection with the deter the tue, there would have been no gedieg

and it was. - (of the Colony" and, being under misunderstanding regarding the pars conceivable that it should bẻ dis- | that impression, Mr. MoKervand Me' pose of the schenge, the method of allowed" (Bajkill remeny the user whiách was poquisition, war risk insurance, atil · Me. Burkill objeërs in the use of

nude of sertain of the slips, no klinked mittere

the Wołowra" of the Singapore tably the Wollowra, cladiriing that,

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Rangoon run at $110,000 a month although they were sostensibly taken. As regards the finiicial side of and he states that the right course in aid of or in connection with the the question; the contin web taking would inve fren to hand the ship defence of the Colony, they, wore of vessels for-war purposes resulted back to die original fice charlevert in fært employed solely far purposes in an ever increasing shortage of al 4*,900 a month.""But, un secupe off make

shipping for ordinary trade, and dance with the Imperial doseni Tel. Central No. 1877. But the Governor did not"requiri fright rates scooty 'rapidly, The 'mens instructions, the owners were, in the ships the ships were not Imperial Government decided that t min the ship

if For dies to aid of of in connection with it was unfurt that Gwners, whose themselves: the owners Intro- the defence of the Colony, but were ships had not been taken for war duced and pressed for the ac- BRAINS AND BRAWN IN

chart- to be asmi,, if not otherwise reqüir piorpuses, shout "reap the benefit ceptance of, the $10.000 LINĖ, TAI the owners' ordinary Busif a fize in prices, which was dueler, wishing un doubt tà get their a and the Order-in-Comel solely to the compulsory withdrawal per veut, enumission on the läger never came into the matter at all.

- i mamæning ships and was not the instead of on the smaller sue. Organizing the

result of individual enterprise, and other arrangements had heen ninee Mercantile ofaciae, fitedevoed "that" there should be for the neresstvy supply of riect

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"Boef-eating white bread cal- As the war progressed, "the inequality of treatment for all. All and the Singapore Rangoon chartering degenerates from the hardy creasing dreams, of tomtlage emphasize Were to be pofid on the same basis, 'crabbed the Hongkong Govermneutuld stock." Let more "and môre the vital neces- und an owner was li he allowed to both to comply with a regas-Crom Scotsmen of to-day were thus shy at, organizing the British. Mer-'jaest at the expense of the others, the Singapore Government sup criticised by Dr. Josiah Oldfield endile" Marine, in order to ensure The Hongkong Government gas ply coolies to mine da for war in an address on "Fruit and a that every ship should be used in

not asked to express mú- opinion on proses, "and also, to keep, opens the Long Life," before the Eclectic. the most economical way to mer this matter. It was definitely or limportást Rangoon conneétion,

Club, Jermyn Street, W. When the must pressing needs, and noderes, and the point was reiterated

the Scots ale porridge and brose, and did not mind hard living, enable the Shipping Controller 10 as a rŝult of subsequent representas

they grew so hard and so brainy, take with the last possible delay ions that the retaineration of the for to a suit successfully for night by that their countrymen of the last any vessels that, that might be chips which is managed must unu" the" Extern Steamship

mpany in

generation secured the best paid direnly regained far was purposes. De appreciably higher or lower than' Singapon against the Government jobs the work over, he said." The Imperial Government arrums, that, of competing vessels registereit of the Straits Settle met."*•** tiet But the porridge is ignored, plisted this end by means of the and owned in the Valied Kingdom." descrita tina letion, za talne vinila the brose is treated with contempt Liner Requisition Milinie, which "The rates to be paid were known as for the Wollowra Action: and they and "in softness and luxurious was applied" in the spring of His Blue Book rates, with Eastern al-' suggest that the degan Suga eating Seasmen are wasting to all vessels of United Kingdom towsare, and the adequacy of this pere influenced the jeho to the their inherited race vitality."

The modern Jew is also pinned registry An Endjan and Far Eastern payment in ordinary sireuantmegs Ladezimity Ordinance in Hough g

down as entomologists secure Services, as for example" the ships may be judged in the light of Mr. There was no imilarity betweet

strange specimens, and is subject of the Endort "hina and China Nasiga: Bjursill's admission that the Hong, the two actions. The Easter to remorseless dissection by Dr. Gun Companies, and was extended kong Bovemment gave him $15,010" Steamship Company, refused" 19 Oldfield, who says that he is not in the spring of 199stan all vessels a abuth for the Patriot, which at rate their vessels under the equal to hissterling, hard-headed. | pod.) Singaporgan Hongkong, and date of requisition was Chartered Liner Requisition Scheme: the Gov, upright clean-and-simple-living Shanghai regis. The Hongkong for $2,000 a month. The Bangkong ernor thereupon requisitioned the grandfather. In short, he is a

Cricket has suffered a big loss and Shanghai vessels were fequi-i-Chowriment at agree that any with an intimation that they would man of less grit, reduced sobriety

recently by the retirement of Amed by the Admiralty, were par owner suffered loss as a result of be removed from the Company's and lessened vitality

What we have to do in live to Sidney, F. Barnes, one of the under the controls of Colour Then the scheme. It has been pointed management: and the Court found.

100 years is to follow the example greatest bowlers the guine has on as agent for the Shipping Con out in my report that" Mr. Moller, that this expropriation, in the form of the rich and eat more fruit and ever seen. Like many another cndler, and wire handed - over to Received betärgu $200,000 and 8400, in which it was enrried out, was not salads.

fine player Barnes was one of A. The - Hongkong Government to, mian-'000 in respect of the broken car in exercise of, any of the powers "If the poorer classes," says C. Maclaren's discoveries, and

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Shipping Controller tor of the Castlefield, and that "Me conferred upon the Governor. In Dr. Oldfield, "would shun the lure after playing in only three first- similarly handed over ships to the Borkill never claimed any loss, in Hongkong no owner refused to run of cheap meat and cheap tea, and class matches, he was taken Maclaren. 10 Australia Feninsular ad Oriental Company" respect of his ships.

his ship mider the Liner Requisation would live on porridge, furmety, by

a member of the English ur other parties to manage; mak-

Scheme, and the Governor never salads, garden vegetables, fish as fug as of the men and machinery The Hongkong Government

The Less Favourable Treatment.“

Hong Kong Aeral: ALEX Ron-&CA.. Hong Kong.

RETIREMENT.OF GREAT

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- requisitioned a single versel and dried fruits, oil, fresh milk, teum which visited that coutry in on the spot intend of sending on vajuce the position that most of Details of the Singapore netion dit, cheese, and onions, they would 1901-1902. He played for Lancd-

of

have a better chance to reach alpshire in 1902 and headed the man who airedly had more work he heal owners received less fave not reach the Hongkong Govern age than the rich."

bowling averages in each

He then deserted than they could cope with at home-ourable treatment than was ateord- ment until some months after the Here the worthy.doeur points those seasons. |* The Hongkong Government, obey-ed to owners under the imperial Indemnity Ordinance was decided the way to physical salvation.

County cricket for Minor County ed orders it was the spring of 1918. Selene, for the reason

and Club cricket and after that the upon, and the Hongkong Govern

leaving Lancashire'. played for a most critical period in the war ally managed vessels were for ment's mlicy was not affected-inere,

Staffordshire and various Ley- without argument as to the legal the most part obler than competing by in any way whatever

Iquestion of blant the policy adeptue Clubs, his appearance in authority, under which the Fraportal, stips and cost more in marine risk Mr. Moller calls me to task for ed although distasteful to a few in-first-class cricket being confined Government was acting, and when oranice, cual, and-repairs, and in criticizing in my report his use of dividuals was unifestly right and to Test matches and other re- de owners solicitors asked what; maintenapre generally.

The I- the word "immediately! 150 in the interests of the Empire as a presentative games. He made a the authority was, the lingkungal Government has informed the same that he used the expression' whole.

name for himself as a member of Government, not knowing the answers that it is prepared to receive "ahus immediately" and that I What would Mr. Moller and Mr. the M. C. C. teams in Australia in wer, referred them to the Imperial farther representations under this "multied and overlooked the all-im- Burkill have Their ships did not 1907-1908 and 1911-1912, and sub- vernient, saling that it was head, but it has "warned them that portant word 'almost". The word even belong in an uld-established (sequently helped to win for nanging the ships on behalf of and any concession which the Hongkong “almost does not occur in the puliline, but were

acquired after the England the Triangular Test match tournament in 1912, when ander instructions from the Importd Government may wish to suggest lished report of Mr. Moller's speech, outbreak of war, and why should against Australia and South must be reviewed at home by the and 1 take exception to his action' they, secure from the perils of the Africa he captured 39 wickets at Liner Requicition Schen", various departments interested in in putting the blane of omitting it way in faroft Shanghai, be chosen the low cost of 1635 runs apiece. "The general policy of the Liner the matter; before any undertaking upon mè,

font from all other British ship. In the following winter he won Requisition Scheme, as regards can be given."

No Shielding.

owners to reap the results of others' with the M. C. C. to South Africe.

where he splendidly maintained. his form by taking 40 wickets in Tost Matches af an average of 10,03., Although Barnes has not participated in first class erickol since the war he has played for Saltaire in Yorkshire for which Club, since 1915 he has bagged" 961 wicketm at the remarkable average of 5.40 runs per wicket. It is bowlors of the Barnes type of which County and Test cricket stand in such dire need to-day--Ex,

Government.

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SHADES vessels registered at him. The management of the Hong- I en suggested that the sacrifices?

and vessels registered in the Far long ships resulted in a large profit, Hongkang Government is shielding Bust, is outlined in the Colonial and similarly ships under direct itself behind the Imperial Govers- Secretary's letter of March 13, 1915, control, from home brought in pens in the sense that it admits which is quoted in fully by Mr. Farge profit. The Imperial Govern that wine injustice has been done, Moller in his recent jetter:--

ment ordered that these, profits for which however the Imperial Gov-

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