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HONGKONG, MONDAY, JULY 5, 1909,"
ASIA'S CONTRIBUTIONS TO
THE EVOLUTION OF" CHEMISTRY.
Soxx very interesting topics were discussed at the recent Congress of
Phoenix Park murdera.
An intimate friend of the assassin,
Chronicle, says that prior to the commis describing his life story in the Daily
a
decoction of Indian bemp) and cram med weapons into his pocketa
s
and advancement of scientific processes as applied to modern industrial life, and that with her ancient lore and crafteran ship as a foundation she can carry forsion of the crime, Watan Lal spent two ward the work of research and evolution hours in Westbourne Grove talking to extremists who plied him with “bhang " along lingo sa original as they are often entirely unsuspected by the investigators of the West. The same will be true of China in the course of the next few de codes if her people are given the proper educational machinery and so the middle of the twentieth century will most likely find the Occident still deeper in debt to the "teeming East" for many of the luxuries, conveniences any aven the necessities, of existence.
AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE
DAY.
Owing to the Fourth of July falling on Sunday this year, the celebration of Ameri- an Independence Day has been spread over three days so far as the Colony of Hong- kong is concerned. Most of the american firms, including the Standard Oil Company, Tore At Home to their friends on Saturday and many a toast was drunk. On Sunday one or two ships in harbour were gaily dressed. In the evening special dianers wore held at the Belle View Hotel, where the Band of the 13th Rajputs played, and These methods must be to a large at the Kowloon Hotel, where the music
was supplied by the 115th Mahrattaa extent based upon chemical principles.
To-day the U.S.S. Holens, the English Is it not strange that we know so little and Portuguese warships and other craft in harbour were dressed and a salute was about them and that little gonerally
fired at noon. Mr Stuart Fuller, the Art- only indirectly through the accounts of ing-American Consul, received many callers travellers who were not chemists? If throughout the day, while in the evening all these peculiar methods were fully an Independence Day dinner will be given
at the Hongkong Hotel
·known"and described by persons who had seen them applied, and bad watched their application with the eyes of a chemist, it would certainly be of the greatest utility to our own industry, Who can deny the advantage which the industry of cotton dyeing, and calico printing derived from the study of the Turkey red process which,
PRISONER ESCAPES FROM GAOL.
By some mysterious means, which up to the present remains unexplained, a Chinese Prisoner, with a long record against him, succeeded on Sunday in caping from Vistoria Goal.
The writer is missed that it was deliberate plot and warns the public that unless the police adopt stringent mensures there will be further outrages.
DOCK DISASTER AT NEWPORT.
MANY LIVES LOST.
(Reuter's Service to the Chino Mail)
Loxpos, July 3
A trench in connection with the buge dock which is being constructed as Nawport, Monmouthshire, bas' collapsed, entombing fifty navvies.
It is feared that thirty hava perished.
AMERICAN INCOME
TAX
PASSES THE SENATE.
(Bruter's Service to the China Mall.) Londos, July 3.
The Unite
PRINCE
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the China Mat
„Tokra, July 3,
The Chinesa Ministe
in honour of Prince Taal place to morrow, evening. ahin, Kaniz and
(present->
party"
gushi Fushimi will
NEW JOURNALETIC ENTERPRISE
Service be
the China Matk)
Mr M. Zamoto, late. Ed Japan Times, main for Tuesday to establish in New York Oriental Information Agency-
THE SUGAR SCANDAL VERDIOT.
Independent Nowe doency's; Servic
to the China Meit)
Judgment has been given
of twenty one Members of implicated in the Great Japan Sague Refinery Company
scandal
One of the accused was found to be innocent, twenty were pronounced guilty. A sentence of major impris
The Washington Senate has adopted ment of from three to eight months war by 45 votes to 33 the proposal to tax the passed. Each will also have to refund net income of corporations.
ANOTHER COTTON MARKET PANIC,
EXPECTED DEFICIENT CROP.
(Reuter's Service to the China Mail) »
LONDON, July 3.
3. panic has been created on the New York cotton market as the result of the publication of the Government's estimate ehowing an unexpected deficiency in the It is understood, that he had only to crop due to wet weather in some dis- sarvo, another month of his six months tricts and to drought in others. It is sentence, Probably he thought be would
a proportional | amount of the bribe received.
Punishment meanwhile is suspended conditionally in the case of seven of the accused, pending appeals.
OPIUM SMOKING.
HIGH OFFICIALS TO:BI
TESTED.
(With The Yat Pu's Savice.
The Imperial Commissiers for Prohibition of Opium Smorn Officials, having heard that ban win, Vice-President of the Board of War and Shao Chiang, Vice President of the
opium smoking, hava naked for LE Imperial Edict to be issued directing that these two officials be examined by
counteracts all effects of perapura Chemists held in London at the close century ago, was bought as an Eastern crown his succession of misdeeds by expected the yield will not exceed Board, of Law, still pursue the habit of
Promotes a healthy action of the skin
tion, and is as refreshing and invi- gorating to the system as a Turkish Bath.
of May and the beginning of June. Dr. OSCAR WITT, who presided at similar Congress held in Berlin in
trade secret by the Franch Government and generously placed at the disposal of European dyera? Would the making
escaping from prison. No one at first 18,000,000 bales: appeared to know bow he got out, for the
wall, some 20 feet in height and
crowned with glass, was a formidable THE THIRD TEST MATCH. the Test Institute abstacle.
It transpires that the prisoner escaped
WATSON'S
1900, in particular delivered a very of porcelain have been invented illuminating address on Evolution in Europe if the impulse for it had Carbolic Soaps - Applied Chemistry, in the course of come from the Fast? Is there
not
aby sealing the wall by means of his blanket, which he made into rope. He loft his coat behind and after he had got over
no
the wall he made for Robinson Road.
Hore it appears he discarded his pants for
of
a piece of feminine wearing apperal, which
he stole from a near-by house. In so doing
which he said that, as a rule, one connection between the introduction "Highly recommended by takes it for granted; that anything Chinese porcelain and the invention of he woke up the inmates, who naturally
ANOTHER WIN FOR AUSTRALIA.
صعيد
(Beuter's Service to the China Mail) LONDON, July 4. Australia won the third Test Match
the Medical Profession / "pplied must have existed befers ita Delft, the curious observation of nately, on the way to the police station the with 126 runs to spare.
application, but that it is not so with
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took steps tosecure the thief. Unforta- REAMUR on devitrification and the workman managed to offect his escape. He thon raat a friend who gave him a full
out.
of that great and original genius, JOHAN WEDGWOOD? And would that
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rigour in the day in Indian constable acrosted him and the constable handed was a lakong, but who, in reality, was a prisoner over to a antire whom he supposed friend of the prisoner and for the third time the man escaped.
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TROUBLE IN PERSIA.
, RUSSIA MOVING TROOPS.
(Reuter's Service to the China Mai)
Lompon, July 5.
prevent the advance of the revolution-
upon the course of events...
BIG RAILWAY DEFALOA- "TIONS.
SERIOUS CHARGEN AGAINST LI TAK SHUN.
(Fah ẩm Tal 20's Beri
The lata Director of the Tientam Paksu Railway, Li Tak-shur, is charge. ed by shareholders in the Province o Chih-li with having embezzled som $2,800,000,000 to 9 Li is said to have stated that the late Viceroy Ying Shih-Kiang and the Director-General Ini Kai-wan phared în the plunder,
sight appears to be a paradox in this supreme triumph of the application of pure chemical science to industry "Chemistry as a science is the synthesis of indigo-ever have born, as we all know a comparabeen accomplished if indigo sa
NEWS OF THE DAY.
Chang Chih-tung, and Lian Chuan tively new orsation. Its applications natural dyestuff and its extraordinary
A Bussian circular to the Powers delin are very angry and intend to recorEL Two fatal cases of plague were reported clares that in view of the failure of Anglo the amount embezzled from Lui Ki on the other hand, have existed since
method of, application by rat dyeing to-day in the city of Victoria. Both were Russian measures to realise reforms and wa times immemorial, and may be traced had not come to us from the East? Chinese.. back to the very beginnings of human we live in a period when the intel
It seems that the thinl who looted Mrries on Teheran, she has decided, A CONFLICT OF OPINION
(Wah-Ti Yat Pa's Bernices) civilisation. The men who in the past lectual nations of the East wake up from James' house at Kowloon on Friday got while adhering to the principles of
- PEKING, July 4 ▲ 8. WATSON 200, devoted their thought and energy to their political sleep of centaries when away with $900 in bank-notes, not jewellery internal non-intervention, to send troops
and silver ware, as fires reposted.
from Baka to Enzoli to protect The Governor of Flonan, Wit: Ching- problems which we now call chemical they issue from their seclusion and
Bussimms and other foreigners. There hi, being dangerously ill, Prince Ching had to reach their ends with the help demand their share of the Atlantic since the let of January is now 190, of which avia, but a further nämace depends his successors, bus
The total cases of plague reported be no advance at present beyond asked that Tang Shao-vibe appolates
of Bound empiricism. Though their civilisation. But their awakening 106 were fatal. Of those 115 were Ostiewe
recommended that Yo La given the post. progress was plow, it was sure, so that means the going to sleep of their (102 fatal) and 6 other Asistics (4 fatal). to this day we have sometimes occasion industrial methods. These methods, to marvel at their successes. More ingenious as they are, cannot compete than that, we may safely say that with ours in heing applicable on a some of our best industrial methods manufacturing scale. Yet I am certain that many a new and good result might would never have been discovered it.
Owing to the great promure, on our be obtained from the copábination of space this afternoon we are reluctantly we had had charzical theory only
Eastern and Western achievements to guide us. Science itself stands
Examples of such happy blending are an empirical basis-wo enanot
not lacking. See what that great and draw general conclusions unless wo
original inventer, Lord Masnaw, the very A Chinaman attempted to commit suicide have well-established observations to type of an Atlantic genius, has made of on a vacant piece of ground at Des Vasuz start from. Professor WITT acknow the wild silk of India!
Bond West on Sunday, by outing his throat. He was caught by an Indian con lodged that the solentific method of
Naturally Professor WTT urged stable whereupon he made a second attempt invention is a quick road to sucessa, upon his hearers the duty of collecting but was frustrated by the policeman and
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