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SOCIAL AND PERSONAL
Since this article was penned, however, we have fortunately received official se Mr and Miss Bryer returned from their rapes of the vigilance of the Home Go, trip to Faking by the Tango Mary on vernment in the matter in the most recent | Wednesday evening. of which the PRINS MINISTER announced
scientific invention was bridging over pagalcal barriers the axistence of which have for so long bean regarded as a certain security against the danger of that masures have been taken to place at all natal and military stations abroad on The King's Birthday will be colabrated
invasion. To emphasise, as we are the work of the Navy and Army in Tuesday, November 5, his proper natal doing, the fact that at the present time aerial navigation on a more satisfactory day.
GERMAN NAVAL PROGRESS
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LONDON, Jane 8.
The Berliner Tageblatt states that the nart German Navy Estimates will pros
tion in the construction of the fant battleships to be made in 1911.
SIR CLAUDE MAO- DONALD ARRIVES HOME.
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Gowns, Paris Models in Great Britain is, because of modern footing, and item being the reorganis The Nestor of Singapore, MF W. Evide for a considerable increase in the Hats and Toques, Laces, developments in aviation, les immune fation of the balloon factory at Aldershot. Road, C.M.G., died at Binckhnath on May maintenance of the Reserve: Fleet and Trimmings, Undercloth-from attack ther she hitherto has been A special Department is to be formed 19, in his 91st year. He arrived in Sing-will also make provision for an accelera
might in some quarters engender a fresh at the National Physical Laboratory at apors in 1841 and left finally in 1885.
Teddington for continuous investigation Vice-Conest and Mrs Funstan returned attack of nerves." But that is not and to superintend its operations and to to the Colony on Wednesday by the Tony the" spirit in which we wish this advise generally on the various problem Mara. The holiday in Japan has done etc. reminder to be received. Fanics with which the Admiralty and War much to restore the health of Mrs Funatou,
serve no useful purpose. Our object Office will have to deal, Mr Ascurra has or whose behalf it was taken. BUSINESS NOTICE
will be attained if we succeed in estabappointed a special conumittee of experts, Major Menzies, of the South Lancashire under the presidency of Lord Rayzstan Regimont, who spent many years in Chins lishing, in view of instances such as: we RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION
Finally, the Prime Minister gave a wel under Yusu Shi-kai, has loft. England to (Payable in advance),
hara quoted above, the absoluta necessity come afirmative to Mr LER's inquiry undertake an official position ander the CHINA MAIL (daily) $1.00 per month of the councils of the nations evolving whether special and adequate funds Chinese Government. He is to rear-bassador to Japan, has arrived Bone.
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for their inutual benefit a code of fixed would be put at the disposal of the rewganise the police in the Nanking Provinos. per year; including postage, 3:7.0 Laws which may be applied to the opera- committee and the two servico. dopart- His Excelency Sir Frederick Lugard Fodera o 'addreases Accessible tions of, airships, when utilised for ments. This is satisfactory reading and gave a dinner to the Hon. Mr P. H. MAY Colopint Sceretory, Mrs May, and num- by messenger, including all Peak, Kawhon military purposes. And for the attain-may, the hope, be taken as a carat ber of frinds at, Government House on that whatever party may be in power Wednesday ororing on the pccasion of the Single coples, Daily, ton coats; Weakly,ment of this end we can conceive the leading spirits of the day are fully departure of the Hon. Mr F. H. May and no better suggestion than that there determined that the great British nation family for a well-earned ware of absence. should be summoneda conference of the shall assure for itself an adequate share. Hoa F. May loaves by the English ja leading Powers to thoroughly thrash of the fruits of victory resulting from mail on Saturday. the matter out and arrive at satisfactory the impending.conquest of the air. conclusions.
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THE AIRSHIP IN WAR. »
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Those who have followed the trend of! the times must have observed that all) the foremost nations are at present seeking to avail themselves of the very latest improvements in nerdoautics. Germany, both in commercial and military circles, there has been an
almcat astonishing adaptability to the
NEWS OF THE DAY.
The plague return to-day shows ond fatal case, that of aw Indian in Hongkong Road, Trim Sha Tsui.
Major-Geoanl - Frederick T. Hobson,
Sir Claude Macdonald, British An-
AMERICA'S TARIFF
PROBLEM.
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Lowcos, June 8.
It is stated in New York that President Taft will roto the Tariff Bill unless
who has just bean appointed colonel of radical changes are made in it. He is The Buffs," in succession to the late particularly irritated at the cotton Lieutenant General Sir Julian 4. R. schedules proposals.
Fapes, G.C.B., passed all his regimentul career in that distinguished regiment, PRINCE NASHIMOTO IN entoring it so far back as the year 1857,
ENGLAND and eventually attaining to the command
1
During the Easter holidays, at Eton of the 2nd Batalion, then at Hongkong (Reuter's Service to the Chinx Mail
College, a bird built ita nest and laid several eggs in a boy's silk hat left behind in a zoom
The death is announced of Mr P. A. Hugh, a well-known Irish Nationalist. member of the House of Commons. He prescated North Sugo, and, was pro- prietor and editor of the Sligo Champion.
****I aur depending or you to settle|
The Liverpool Journal of Commerce new conditions. The mere fact that says that the international shipping schema regular airship services between city for regulating tonnage has been dropped, and city have been inaugurated in the as far as Liverpool is concerned. Fatherland is a significant sign and one which would seein to warrant the inference that corresponding, if not greater, activity might be found in the War Department. Still, there are yet, considerabis guides to be overcome, this matter for me so, that I may be able to for it is said: in" German military in carry on business and earn my living,"
said a bankrupt to the Official Receiver circles that in spite of its recent very when being publicly examined at the successful ascents even the airship Supreme Court to-day. "Zeppelia 'I" does not altogether fulfil the conditions required for making it a serviceable military airship.
Not a great deal has been revealed as to what Great Britain is doing, but the need for advice being given to the
General Sir Ian Hamilton, Adjutant General, criticising the Yeomanry parti aipating in the Whitsuntide operations at Salisbury, which were modelled on the battle of the Yalu,, saye that the aptitude of the mon is surprising. He is more than sves convinced of the value of the force to the country.
in 1883..
We understand that Mr H. T. Butter.. worth, who was für some time before. Messrs Butterfield and Swine in Hongkong returning Home last year sacbmanager of
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LONDON, June 10.7
Prince Nashimats visited Aldershot
and Shanghai, has gone into partnership where he wimassed the operations in with the well-known publisher, Mr John the Long Valley. Long, Haymarket street, Loudon, and that the business will be turned into al private liability company on the 1st prox. Mr Butterworth came out to China in 1880
twenty years ago-and doubtless bis many friends will he interested to learn Homeland. from the foregoing that ho is settling in the
YMCA.
A. LIBRARY.
The following cow books have bom add- ed to the YM.G.A. Library:The Rose of the Wilderness, Cricket; Groster Power,
ENGLAND'S FOURTH
DREADNOUGHT,
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- LONDON, June 10. HMS. Superb, 18,600 tons dis placement, with a designed speed of 21 H. Bindioss; Mystery of the Myrtles knots, which was laid down in E. Jephson, Priscilla and Charybdis, Moore; A Flight from Siberia, Sieroszewski, February, 1007, launched 7th November, City of Beautiful Nonsense, E.T. Thurston 1907, and completed in February 1999, Banzai, Parabellum High Life in the Far has been commissioned for ses at East, J. Dalziel; Dartmoor Hcase that
Jack beilt, J. Trevena; Mr Opp, Alice H. Portsmouth. She joins the Home Fleet Rico; White Sister, K. Marion Crawford. (at Spithead
HONGKONG BRITISH SCHOOLS.
lecture on Wallington before the scholars Lieur Simmonds, RA, delivered a
of the Kawloon and Victoria Schools on Wolzesday morning at Kowloon, Mr Ernest Gray, & London greengrocer, a B. James, Head Master, stated that Liont. prize for the best teetotaler, tock two glasson of rum for a Simmonds had offered cold. He became disorderly and was taken
essay resulting from the lecture. Lieut. into custody, after a struggio with a polics" man, Henry Lyous, who assisted the of ficer, died suddenly soon afterwards, and the affair so upset Gray that in a few days his hair turned completely white. „
that
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Colonel Chapman subsequently addressed the pupils and informed them that he had them A
LOYBOX, June 10. persuaded the Head Master to give balf-holiday and alo it
his inton- tion to give a prize for essay. After the National Anthem, cheersys that confirmation has been received
the second
Reuter's correspondent at Washington. beat Tora given for the lecturer and Col. Chopin diplomatic circles that: Great Britain, man, and an adjournment was made to the
Win the Dreadnought controversy still For the Bath, Toilet and exercising the public mind there is
Household,
n danger lest a possibly far more serious Government on acronautical mattera aspect of national defence is overlooked. was strikingly shown in a recent article We refer to the progress which is steadily in the Times. In this the writer pointed being made in the conquest of the air out that at Farnborough (the military and the consequent prospective advent aeronautical factory) practically the of the day when the airship will play its same staff is asked to produce balloons, full part as a deadly machine of war. dirigible balloons, and aeroplanes. In The mere mention of the continued France and Germany each section of the development of aeroplanes and of the work is handed over to specialists, for efforts which are daily being made in in effect the three types of serial vessels specialisation to render these machines require separate factories, and men more fit to take a commanding place in specially trained to their particular Highly recommended by offensive operatione against an enemy, requirements. The factory and sur
the Medical Profession carries its own conviction that the time roundings at Farnborough are, accord-seekers in all parts of the world, and his ship the Chief Justice (Sir F. Piggott),
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The visit of the Rev. F. B. Meyer, B.,",
we think be fittingly placed among the noted events of the current year, 1990. Mr Meyer's minongo as a writer and of spirit that have commended him to truth speaker, the breadth of vine and catholicity
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outstanding services to the cause of our
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now travelling not less than in the home.
wood behind the school, where an exhibi- ass finally refused to participate in-an- tion, of Baden-Powell Boy Scouting, in international, conference for increasing which both schools took part, was wit the Chinese ad valorem duties in return nessed.
for the abolition of the likin charges.
AFFAIRS OF A CHINESE CONTRACTOR.
At the Supreme Court, before his Lord-
common Christianity (apart from ecclorias sitting in badkruptoy jurisdiction to-day, Mr Hoborrow (from the office of Messrs. person grata in wider Britain where he is the rescission of the receiving order in the Descon, Looker and Deacon), applied for and whers his teaching is a potent factor case of Thang King, contractor.
The Official Receiver (Mr G. H. Wako- in the religious life of the national hen) pointed out the neersity of the that Mr Meyer has to say is of sterling worth. His public utterances have a wide greatest publicity being given to cases of range. He is now seeking his audiences this kind, as there might be many other not, only within but also beyond our local editors to come int
His Lordship said he did not think that churches."
Invitations have been issued to a series was likely to happen in this coas,
The Official Receiver-This man has mostings for men and we trust the some very large contracts and it is quite reponses from all sections of this.com
possible he may have other, especially
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the methods of modern warfare. As to not even well adapted for dirigible how far a lect of military airships would balloons. The existing shed can be able to counterbalance or nullify the harbour one small-sized dirigible and possession by a nation placed on its one aeroplane with difficulty, but would defence of a hitherto invincible Naval be unable to give proper shelter to a
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PERISO, June 9. The proposal to levy a Navy tax to- provide fands for the reorganisation. the Navy will not be adopted.
CHINESE BARRED FROM JAPANESE ARMY
(Wah Tu Nat Po's Berica)
PEKING, June 9
force is a question which must largely dirigible of the proportions by left to experts to decide. But even deemed requisite by the best authorities.munity will be equal to the seating capacity Chinese, creditors. the barn possibility of supremacy at As for the single aeroplane stationed City Hall building. Those messings con apply for the order should be advertised in
of the largest auditorum avaibble in the An order was made that the intention to It is proposed by the Japanese sen being brought to nought in this way thers, has to be taken out sideways ducted by Mr Meyer should be regarded local English and Chinese newspapers, his Government that no Chinese student be
az occasion to be used to the fullest prompts the view that steps should through the narrow door, entailing a advantage by mion of thany nations resident Lordship saying if no further creditors allowed to receive practical, training in speedily be taken to establish on a well-great waste of time. The surroundings conversonal and the view of life which he
in Hongkong. Mr Meyer is particularly Peared within 15 days the order would
the Japanese Army. defined basis an international agreement of the factory are such that the machine tinguished and successful public career must 4 has been led to take in the course of a dis as to what may and what may not be can never be fully tested without grave sadiences and give to those utterances.
Isad weight to his uttarances before local considered acts of aggression in man-risk of accident, and thus our aviators enhnuced value. Mr Marer's meetings of oeuvres in the air. The present absence
Various kinds allould be the moans of placing cannot be properly trained there, the colony in closer touch with the best world. To be appreciated in this commu activities of the abarcli throughout all the
speaker to men on special topics, he Las nity Mr Mayer needs but to be heard. As long exercised of influence that has besz Tonight in the City Hall he will deliver singularly marked and constantly growfog? the first of twa addrusses on the Physiology
of such regulating lavalcaves the whole Until we have highly trained met no matter in à chaotic and decidedly or machine, however, satisfackay, will be actisfactory state.
safe in their hands, and useful and
The days have not long since passed novel idone can never be thoroughly when throughout the length and bread is tested: Painful economy is to be
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of a Strong Pure Life. A distinctive mark
of Great Britain the utmost uneasiness noticed in the old gae bags utilised for of the trae teacher, which for our Chinese was created by the proposal to construct the dirigibles, and in the many patches tinas. From this view point we commend friends has the highest mixtion, is time
a channel tunnel between England and in the fabric na it in transferred from Mr and his message Tracta for and **Sermons and addresson France. Chief objection to the project one plane to another. The engines used for the times are titles with which most
The Overland China MAI was the: to establish such a communica, are not na modern as they might be, and of care suflejbally familiar. It is also
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reasonable expectations raised by the to sacrifice to the advantage of neither
nemes. There are indeed comparatively fow contain specimens of almost every well speakers or writers who can handle force and principally to Grant Britain the
fully and felicitiously, some of the topics kaowa serial engine and aeroplane, with which Mr Meyer is proposing to security which the strip of sea between
order that comparative trinis might be during his visit to Hongkong. The more them provided.« The feelings of panir
reason therefore that those who can be. made. It is indeed, little short of mad- present should attend at the City Hall to than aroused were not holly laida
night and on misceeding aránings during Deas to hope that
enditure, the delivery of this series of addressons trad to rest until the most, definite në
With reference to the addramon to be surances had been given that
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