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GOVERNMENT'S ATTITUDE

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UNITED STATES AND JAPAN.

NAVY SECRETARY'S RECALL STARTS RUMOURS,

Washington, September 17. Mr. Wilbur, Secretary of the Navy, her suddenly been recalled TWELVE-FOLD IN 23 YEARS. from the Pacific coast, where he was campaigning on behalf of the President. The reasons for the From the annual report of the

recall RTO Director of Education (signed by though it has been indiested that

unexplained, A burglary was committed at the Hon. Mr. E. A. Irving) we it la dictated by Budget matters the store of Mesers. Whiteaway, take the following Laidlaw and Co., Ltdų, apparent.

Those semi-official explanat- After doduoting the school foes fons ly in the early hours of this,

received the total nott expendi-sources, which claim that Mr.

aro ridiculed by some morning...

During the night, the night on education was 8725.635.20 Wilbur has been recalled be ($606,797,80 in 1928). The in-cause of inopportuna speeches in the lane at the rear of the pre-Emoluments caused by the misos at About 4 0.0.

for defensive purposes in the ho

door employment of moro British Pacifio. found that the

toaohors: to &n

increase of of 020 of

The White House officially $10,000 for Fees and Maintensace denise that the President has 'for Studente in Training at beard any criticisms of Mr.

laid on the table afthis afternoon's mants has boontoeradicate.not the penalties for infringemont of thing amiss, but when påtrollingeroase of $50,000 in Personal and suggested a strong navy corn of tho Provincial Govern-/opium or to relax the existing watohman did not notics apcrease is mainly due to an in-which he attacked the Japanese,

action."

PROHIBITION IM- PRACTICABLE.

the

In discussing the question as to entrances Was open.

rear Ha

STAFF.

navy.—Reuter's American Bervice.

Secretary, Wilbur, .

moeting of the Legislative Coun oplum habit, but the Indian oplum the law

ll, this boing the report of the habit, and the failure to attain Committee appointed by H.E. the this ond, until India co-operated, Governor "to consider the augmay be attributed to the fact that! gestions made by the Advisory publlo tuste vastly profors thehother consumption of opium immediately informed the day Hongkong University to an in Wilbur's speeches, and it is Committee of the League of Indian to the home-grown drug could be reduced, if no further watchman, who was about to orasse of $21,000 under Capita- added that the President has Nations with a view to dotormin- In the prosent state of Chinese logitimoste suppiles were avall-take over duty, and her tion Grants: to an increase of sent for the Scorelary solely to be taken in Hongkong to give a diminish or to put a stop to the "if the use of opium wore to be Investigations showed that the Vernacular Schools: and to an Domestic concern relating to the ing what further measures can public opinion the only way to able" the Committee atates that tolephoned for the manager$9,000 in the subsidios paid to cansult him on matters of more offective application to use of opium is to diminish or to prohibited, it is probable that the intruders bad manipulated the increase of $22,000 under Build- Chapter II of the Opium Conven- put a stop to the production of situation would get entirely out look and thus gained entrance. tion, and to examine the existing opium.... and, while China of band. A comparison whiob An attempt had been made to ing Grants, all approximato.

In the last 23 yours the total position, and to explore the pos- continues to provide its popul-suggests itself is the placing of a forco the safe in the mannagor's Estimates for Education havo in- sibilition of further affective ation with opium in limitlose small foreign Government in office, but this failed. Attention creased twelve-fold-from $75,000

quantity, Hongkong, in attempt Marseilles and the prohibition by was next paid to a case containing to $900,000 for 1924.

THE NAVY AND THE LEAGUE. The Committee consisted of the ing to provent consumption by it of the drinking of wine by the watches, which was opened and Hon. Mr. P. H. Holyoak, the Hon. those Chinose who happen to be Tranch within the town: except ransacked of its contents, noveral

NO DEFINITE DECISION FOR EMPLOYMENT. Mr. Chaw Shau-son, the Hon. Mr. within its borders, is morely that opium is much more easily hundred watches being taken. At the close.of the your tho

London, September 17. beating the air.

snuggled than wine. Neither the Documents in the office were pormanent British Staff was 4

The discussions at Genova as regards the British obligations in The Committee Ostimates that Hongkong Government nor the strewn about the place, but no- men and 8 women short of the the onforcement of arbitral awards, are particularly given promis approximately oquel quantities of Council of the League of Nations thing else of valuo was taken. Estimate (2 and 7 in 1922). How-ence in the French newspapers, most of which confidently assume Government and illicit opium are can prevent indulgence in a The police are at prosent luvesti-ever there were also 9 tompor- that Britain will undertake to co-operate in imposing sanctions on consumed in the Colony An practice habitual in a nation of gating the matter.

ary but fully trained women any aggressor not merely with her fleet but also with her air forces. increase in the Government soll-four hundred milion people unless

teachers with at last 3 years ex- From enquirios in London, however, there is reason to bolleye the perience. Baveral men teachers people counting on the British floot being placed at the disposal of were expected to arrive shortly.the League are likely to be very much disillusioned. The question Thus the year onded with the has certainly been discussed, but it in emphasised that no definite, Staff stronger than it has over far-reaching proposal like that rosorded in the French Pross has boon.

been either advanced or accepted. It is always possible that the PUPILĖ:

| League of Nations in the event of a dispute might ask Britain to The total number of pupils at Co-operate by moans of her foot in enforcing an economie blockade, LOCAL VITAL STATISTICS. schools in the Colony was 42,452, but this is a very differont matter from what has been suggested in

of which 13,442 were in English certain interested quarters.-Router The annual general report on schools and 29,010 in Vernacular.

AGREEMENT as to PENALTIES.

R. H. Kotowall, Dr. T. W. Poorco,

the Hon. Mr. M. Fletcher and

Mr. N. L. Smith. The report, which is dated March 1st last, is longthy document from which we take the following:-

In Hongkong the measures ing price would probably result that nation desires to give up; now taken to give offoot to Artiole in a pro tanto substitution of illicit that indulgence, and unfortunate- 6 in Chapter II of the Convention for Government opium, Anyly there is no prosent Indication comprise a Govorament monopo-substantial doorease in the Goy-that the.oplum habit will be would abandoned by the Chinese poople ly, solo of Government oplùm at ornment selling price

tho financial aspect of the

oplum question, and it is agreed

RAISING THE PRICE.

.POPULATION AND

DEATHS.

LEYLAND LINER WRECKED.

DESTROYER RESCUES

The

an artificially high price, heavy almost certainly result in all the near future." penalties in respect of trafficking substantial increase in consump The Committee understands in or use of opium other than tion generally, as Government that the practice of swallowing| Government opium, and the oplum is of much superior quality, optum is spreading amongst the sintonanco of a considerable and, if it were available at the Chinese, a practice which, accord- force of Revenue Officers for the price of illicit opium, the demanding to medical evidence, is at Hongkong for last year was laid Schools. This is an increase of

Geneva, September. 17. purpose al preventing euch would he very greatly increased. least not lose harmful than smok on the table at this afternoon's 3,238 over 1992-a decrease of 238 M. Benes in a statement to journalists on the peace protocol Trafficking or usa. There is no The Committee has carofully tog opium. The League of meeting of the Legislative Coun- in English Schools and an in-says an agroomont has been reached as regards the penalties and check upon the consumption of conelderad the question of in- Nations Advisory Committee oil. The section on vital statistics uroase of 3,526 in the Vernacular how they should come into operation, and to what degree. The opium apart from the high price creasing the number of Revenue does not apparently take excep contains some very interesting Schools. Of the English Schools majority of the penalties are as provided in the Covenant. charged for Govornmont opium Officers and of providing moration to the swallowing of opium figures.

the attendance at Government political independence of the aggressor State is not to be tampered and the panalties imposed in drastic penalties for trafficking and the hemp drugs, ganja, The civil population of the Schools has decreased by 143 and with, but such State will have to pay the cost of war and prepara- ronpact of illicit opium, and it is in and using illicit opium, and it charas, and bhang, by Indians in Colony, according to the census increased at the Grant Schools tions therefor. obvious that the continuance of is satisfied that measures already Indis, and accordingly, if smok-taken on April 24th, 1921, was by $81. All those schools are Tho holding of a conference is foreshadowed as regards disarm- the present policy cannot load to takon by the Government go as ing is prohibited in Hongkong: 625,166 of whom 83,163 reside in pratically full. The decrease in ment-Reuter the suppression of the use of far as is reasonably possible in the Government must be prepared the New Territorios and in New the numbers attending Govern- opium in the Colony. The pro-this direction -

to face a demand that swallowing Kowloon at the census taken in mont English schools is explained blem to be solved is whether,!The Government, which al should be permitted according to 1911 it was 456,739 with 105,287 under existing conditions, it is ready controls the opium busi-tho practice in India. It is the figure for the New Torri- by a more rigid enforcement of

the rules limiting numbers. possible to supprass, either im-nosa in Hongkong, is making difficult to see how a discriminatories and New Kowloon. The

PASSENGERS, AND CREW. mediately or gradually, the con- arrangements on the lines sug. tion in favour of India could be estimated total population at the THE UNIVERSITY. sumption of opium in Hongkong, geated in connection with retail justifled.

London, September 17.- middle of the year under review There is again an increase-and Tho Committee, in considor-sales.

It has been suggested that, if

was 681,800.

a very large one-in the Matri-! The Loyland liner Asian, bound from New Orleans to Liverpool ing this matter, has ignored'

confirmed opium smokers aro The Chinese aro approximately culation and Senior succossos in with a cargo of ootton wont ashore on Stag Rocks, Co. Cork, this registered and the use of opium is distributed as follows:--City of Shanghai. There is a falling morning. The destroyer Sea Wolf, the tug Witte Zee and the otherwise prohibited, the British Victoria (including Peak) 350,000, off common to most Hongkong steamer San Quirino rushed to the assistance of the liner and found that, as far as it in concorned, the would be proferable to limit sales thing possible to discharge its Kowloon (including Now Kow-alike, in the Matriculation and Bos Wolf picked up the Asian's two boala with the officers and crow It is further stated that it Government will have done every villages of Hongkong, 26.300, schools, Government and Grant the ship breaking up, with no sign of life aboard. Subsequently the fact that the Colony derives by raising the price rather than obligations under the Oplum Con on 140,000, Now Territories, Junior Locals. The Junior Ex-and passengers, and proceeded to Bantry. A froman of the Asian considerable revenue from the by restricting the quantity on thevention, salo of opium is entirely

The Committon cannot 84,500, population afloat, 65,500, market, but neither expedient agree with this suggestion. No

jamination has been made slightly is dead.-Reuter, irrelevant,

The birth-rato for the year more difficult: the standard, bow-

London, Inter. would diminish consumption, as Government placod as the Hong was 23:03 per 1,000 among the evor, might still be xalsed with

The Asian is a total wrock. Soventy-five passengers and orew, DIFFICULT TO ERADICATE. llloit opium would take the place kong Government is can put & non-Chinese community, as com- advantage.

including two children, have been safely landed at Bantry.➡Reuter. of Governmont opium. The The Committed is of the Committee understands that in alien race so long as it has not Chinose figures cannot be ao-

stop to a national habit of a parod with 22.84 for 1922, The MEDICAL INSPECTIONS, opinion that some twenty to 1920 the Gavornment of the the full support of public opinion, ourately estimated.

The usual Inspections under. twenty five per cont. of the adult Straits Settlements attempted to and the confining of opium to a

Section 12 of the Education

MADEMOISELLE OF THE LINKS. Chinese population, including roduce consumption by limitation few smokers, or total prohibition was 23 27 per 1,000 among the out by the medical officers of the The death-rate for the year Ordinanco of 1913 were carried

WINS BRITISH GIRLS' GOLF CHAMPIONSHIPS. some one to two per cent. of the of supplies and that after a few which would be preferable, would Chinese community and 14'83 schools concerned and call for no adult female population, alther months it found it necessary to result in a flood of smuggling among the non-Chines civil com- comment;- 1,788 children were

London, September 17. smoke or swallow opium. Oplum abandon this policy. smoking in China has porhaps

The latest Franch_sporting prodigy is the fifteen-year-old which it would be impossible munity, as compared with 25'47 present at medical examinations Mademoiselle Simone Thien De La Chaume, who has won the The Advisory Committen, in its to stem. the same popular support as fourth rosolution, recommends

and 20 46 for 1922.

In Government Schools Of these British girls golf championship at Stoke Poges, defeating Miss batting has in England, and the" that the possibilities of the hibited the Hongkong Governmout bored 674 (454 in 1982). The aolos.

With opium altogether pro The deaths from malaris num-247 were provided with spect- Dorothy Pearson of St Andrew's by 4 and Mdile. Simone's one praction 18 probably as system of registration and lioenewould lose the control which it deaths of Chineso from this cause

brilliance in the preliminary rounds oarned har the title of the difficult to eradicato as the other. ing, which has already boon now has, smuggling would be in the City of Victoria numbered of parents has been directed to

Where necessary the attention Suzanne of golf.-Router. This statement will no doubt introduced in some of the Far como universal, and consumption 260 out of a population of 330,000 the observations of the madloat be traversed by the argument Eastern territories, should be would that the oultivation of the poppy thoroughly

be greatly increased, or a rate of 0.74 per 1,000 por officers conducting the inspect- explorod." In Hongkong would then be in the annum

howover, and what I understand in China was practically put an Chinese community of the sine position of China, with oplum

|ionB and to about the year 1917, and of that in Hongkong it would smoking theoretically prohibited bored 136 as compared with 1,071

The deaths from plague num-i

GENERAL

the opinion of the Un- official On the whole the schodle of that the final suppression of not be

Members, I desire to....... possible to koop and practically uncontrolled, in 1922. oplum smoking was then all chook upon licencos, if they were because uncontrollablo,

the Colony are in a satisfactory

express to them through you Thore were 1,141 deaths from state. Departmental regulations hut attained. In the opinion of leaned in any considerable num-

doap regret that I CONCLUSION.

of small-pox, all but nipo being in the case Government the Committee this argumoot is bor. Licences would be bought

should have" oaused them" ́any' not supported by facts. The Chin-and sold, impersonation would be

schools and the nature of the

annoyance. I have served with Reform must come from within. Chinese.

Tuborculosis of the lunge Grant In the case of the Grant ese Government had consistently rife and licensees would corner The League of Nations has pro- claimed 1.473 Chinose lives and schools ensure that the senior this afternoon's meeting of the Couuolls that I for sure they them for so many years on both " rosented and opposed the export stocks and profiteer..... Hong- vontad oplum from India roaching 31 non-Chinese. The total of classes are really taught and Legislative Connoll of Chinese silver to pay for Indian kong

appreciate how much I value the is geographically and China and it may possibly find

privilege of working with them oplum, and, when the British racially an integral part of China means to prevent Forsian and deaths from tubercular diseases presented for the University expondence which had passed and will accept this antall but Government agreed to put an and, with the exception of a mere Turkish opium, from reaching was 2,108.,

aminations as units, to the dis-between the Hon. Colonial Segra sihcore amende for my action.” ond to the import of Indian opium handful, the whole of its popula- China, China gan and will grow

couragement of special tuition tary and the Hon. Mr. P. H. Holy, upon conditions, the conditions tion is Chineso. The task pro all the opium that she requires as were at once accepted. Those posed to Hongkong may be com-long as the opium habit is to tho conditions included the suppress pared to the task of preventing public taste and no really -ion of poppy cultivation in Chins, the use in Manchester of a strong body of public opinion and under constant Consular article which te in common use is opposed to it. It is the firm' supervision and protest much was throughout the rest of England. conviction of the Committee that AN APPEAL FOR RELIEF. ion be lightly discarded. done in this direction, although it The Advisory Committee pro- under present circumstances, no is possible that the reports of poses, in its fifth resolution, that reasonable, measure, can: bá

New York, Sept. 17. foreign observers uxpressed an the retail price of prepared oplum devised to reduce farther the con According 130 tile, Emergency optiminism unwarranted by the and the penalties for the infrac, sumption of opium in Hongkong. Commlifed of, Amerigan, Jowe, facts. Very largo stočká of opfum, tion of the law in regard to its The Committee is however. In ten thousand laws, boating Ame. both raw and prepared, were import, export, sale, and use, entire sacord, with the principle risan consular vítas, and toksis Fetried and not long after the final should be made uniform in the of opium suppression, and 16 Iulia entitlfig Sethelù, to oosan, trans, suoliston of Indian opium the various territories concerned. It sincere hope that it will be postalling are at present stranded "Internal" restrictions became a would hardly serve any ureful possible to devise some practickt in Cuban K Balikh, ingland letter throughout the grester purposes to discuss this question means for the total, abolition of Duton and Ramanião port

Alfseeihe koountry's Sinos, the while-present condition Köhläin the practices of opluma moking Committed: "ppsala...for. MATAYUNIOöplüm, quas. In China, As far as Hour kone ja and opium alih, boli in Chine million dellow for the

Joon-Joonoerned it would be unwise to and throí dout all parlent

RECENT COUNCIL "BREEZE."

SIR CLAUD SEVERN'S REGRET.

There was laid on the table a

corros

my

and pot hunting for scholarships: oak regarding the recent Incident Replying on September 1st, These conditions which bave in the Counoll Chamber daring Mt. Holyoak said STRANDED ́ JEWS. [been enforced for many years discussion of health questions, 44 I have the honour to acknow-

{tend-to-prodươe"a" high generat •Writing on August 30th to Mr. lodge your letter of the 30th

Icvel, and should not in my opin. Hollyoak, Birk Cland. Bovern which we much“ appreciate

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