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IDAY, AUGUST 20, 1908,"
THE QUESTION IN THE|
LEVANT.
ENTERING A PACIFIC PHASE.
(Reuter's Service is the China Mail.) LANDOK, August 10
anything, rather too self-compiscent and propertien as it is gratified. More and three mines for the week ending 7th Augush that the situation seems to have deci
sell-satisfied regarding themselves and their national characteristice. Of late, however, the columns of such serious winded journals as Le Soleil, Le Figaro nad Le Canicis have been filled with articles dwelling upon the perils which surround France ing to the widespread area of social decay which has befallen the Gallic nation. And the newspapers 10,000 RECORDS do not stand alone in pointing the
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aively entered upon a pacific phase in consequence of Greek assurances that the forthcoming reply to the Turkish Note will be satisfactory
LONDON, August 20. Reuter leurs that the Greek reply is
temporary, is a rells of barbarism and it couched in ceneilastary terms and that paints out that the police of England audit justifies the hope that he will satisfy the United States discharge their onerous the Forte and remove Turco-Greek
misunderstandings. duties without recourse to its sid.,
JAPANESE CHERRY TREES FOR THE
POTOMÃO.
A PRESENT FROM TOKYO.
Independent News Agency's Service to the Chma M.)❤
Toro, August 19, Mrs Taft and other leading ladies in America being enthusiastically desirous of transplanting Japanese trees in the newly proposed Washington Park on the banks of the Potomac, the Tokys," City Assembly has decided to present
Washington with 200 cherry trees, ten feet high, as a reminder of the goodwill now animating both nations!
more do we perceive in all classes, und more especially among young people of
The Jiji Shimpy is londing its powerful the lower orders, both in town and coun- try, that the moral sense has become influence to the agitation, which seeks to weakened. The care for material interboah the sword now worn by the Japanese ests predominates, and ordinary char seer is the prey to uncontrolled desires. An impatient contempt for all authorit ative restraint, a scotting disbelief in the idea of duty, and a dread of and hatred moral driven home by all historiaus.for all effort or self-sacrifice prevail." fb HERODOTUS to FERDE, that moral As we remarked at the outset of this corruption sape the lifeblood of the article, it is as well to discount much of soundest nation if it is not attended to this Jeremied, and to bear in mind and suppressed at once. There has re that France is one of the wealthiest 1906. csatly appeared in Faris a book entitled nations of the weat; her peasantry the 1008.
German secret Naval Manœuvres have appointed Directors of the Oriental "Les Fleaux Nationaux," written by thriftiest. There is, however, a good 1909 (Up to Juse). 9,030 114,378,000
commenced in the West Baltic and will Exploitation Company. Ober-Aremergas, a picturesque village probably extend to the North Sen..
S. MOUTRIE & CO., LD. RENS LAVOLLER, who declares in deal of truth in OLIVER Cloldoven's
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Ill fares the land, to bastering illa
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Whare (wealth accumulates and
men decay.
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MEMOS FOR TO-MORROW, Meeting. Noon-Meeting of The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation at the City Hall,
The following figures, which the Japane fait takes from the Hochi Shimbun, show the growth of deposits in Japanese postal savings banks during the past few years:———
Depositors F
43,151,000 5,006 8,949 56,213,000 7,414 81,030,000
·8,077· 97,609,000 8,885 119,141,000
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in Bavaria about 6 miles from Munich, in celebrated for the pasion play which is performed there every 10 year. The next performances take place in 1910, the play being given 3 times between May and Sptember: Mesars Thos. Cook and Son have been appointed Official Agents for the play and will be pleased to give any Further information on application at their Inent office, 16 Des Voeux Road.
GERMAN NAVAL
MANEUVRES.
'FLEET" OF (ONE HUNDRED
VESSELS ENGAGED.
(Reuters Servira to the Chins Mat.) LONDON, August 10.
Nearly a hundred vessels comprise the Fleet, which is commanded by Prince Henry of Prussin.
H. M. the Kaiser will review the Float at Sasenitz on the 30th inst..
LIEUT. SHACKLETON.
GOVERNMENT GRANT OF
This is plainly proved by the atitudesions, and £1,575,000 for defence. Funds the J-pan Bail, and the time is at hand Lieut. Shackleton i sum of £20,000 |
of the Government toward the Church, and the whole tendency of recent legis- lation. With this loss of faith bas followed the loss of many qualities which work for national fortitulle and for the character upon which national virility is based. Military prestige has vanished, the, oavy is a wreck, and does not now count as a serious factor in the plans, of European cabinets, while the strained relations which have sprung up between the social orders have made the county an cbject of criticism and an example of warning to other nations."
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Tokio papera agres in stating that the Yalu Lumber Company's operations have ended in failure. The year of cooperative official working has now nearly passed, saya
when the business of the Company will have to be handed over to private hands. It was expected that the enterprise would The group of Swiss speculators who are proved a model of international year ago, demanded of the authorities success, but our contemporaries call it a of the Canton of Tabis a concession model of international bulure. They allego construct a funicular line up the Matthat, of the three millions of yen forming terhom from Zermatt have abandoned the Company's capital, one million has the project, as a result of the strong been completely expended and the other local protest (in which tony English to millions are lying idle in the bank. jained) against the scheme.
It is reported from Stockholm that the Swedish strike in growing steadily more Berious. The gas and electricity employees have now joined it on their own initiative. The milk carriers entering the city from the country districts are escorted by troops. The Strikers are urging the railway men and printers' employees to join them.
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It is reported from Barcelona, that a grant striks is being prepared at that city as a protest against the continued detention in prison of the persons who were streated during the recent disturbances. The com
nadant of the troops declares that he will take very strong stope to quell any disorder, and that persons looting will be summarily shot
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SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.
31: R. H. Powers, who was born at Williamsburg, U.S.4., in 1836, norved same years in the American Navy, and settled in Nagasaki in 1868, where he established a business as auctioneer,, ship chandler and provision merchant, has just died. His wife and son predeceased him, and he leaves one daughter to mourn his loss.
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A memorial fund, to commemorate the
£20,000. (Reuter's Service to the China Mail.)
LONTON, August 20. The Government has decided to grant
sowards the heavy indebtedness" in- curred on his Antartic Expedition.
"AMERICA'S TRADE
EXPANSION. -
CONCESSIONS IN TURKEY. (Regter's Service to the China Mus.) LONDON, August 20.
The State Department at Washington announces that American firms are: endeavouring to obtain valuable con- ions in Asiatic Turkey, including the construction of railways through Angora, Van, Alexandretta and Aleppo and then "on to the head wafers.of the Eupbrates.
LICENSING APPLICATION
REFUSED,
A meeting of the Justices of the Pence horoisms of the late Dr Cawas Laleaca, has for the Colony was-hall this after- an application from been started at Bombay. The fund was poco to consider growing steadily at the departure of the G. Bertalons for permission to remove last nail and it then amounted to over the business now, carried on by him-under Ba.. 8.000, to which B... the Governor of Bombay, mary members of the Indian Civil Service and all communities con tributed,
Race suicide is another plague which is sapping the vitals of France. Mr FOVILLE, president of the last Congress of Social Economy, comparing the birth rates of the different European countries, recently remarked of France: If this condition of things continues, in twenty years there will be two Germans" for every Frenchman, if indeed France sur Telegraphing from Beverley, Maas, the vives so long as a nation." The follow-ummer resort where he is now staying. President Taft ays that he is watching ing figures are quoted in support of this with careful attention the dispute between Goods per Paima not cleared at 4 pm contemtion: In the sixty years from Japan and Chains in regard to the Autung 1346 to 1905 the population of Great Malden Railway. Should each insist that the other is acting in violation of the Britain and Ireland increased 62 per Trosty and the dispute be dragged on in- cent.: that of Germany 9 per cent.; tarmomably, the question will require the that of Austria 19 percent, Italy 36 consideration of others, and the United Moscow af September 1. Six Favilland
States will not repain silent
General Memoranda,
SUNDAY, August 22 :-).
on this date subject to rent.
BIONDAY, Agoat 23:
Noon-Meeting of Hongkong & Wham
poa Dock Co., Ld., at. Co.'s Office.
Goods per Nippon undelivered after this
dste anbject to rent.
4.
WEDNESDAY, August 25;-
9.30 p.m.-Auation of Household Furni- ture, &a at Mr G. P. Lammert's sales
zooma.
Goods por Australien anclaimed after this date so noon will be subject to ren and landing charges, y
Goods par Hanaganca Mors not cleared Goods per U. Ferd. Lacist undelivered
outhla date subject to rent:
after this date subject to rent.
TRVEIDAT. August 28:--
per cent.; that of Russia 81 per rent. : that of France: 14 per cent; ficallyy in A telegram from Formosa to the Japa 1967 the French population had de-nese Home Department reports that a storm. broke out in Fermions on the 9th instant. creased by 20,000. While the political
as a result of which 544 houses have been economist enumerates as causes of this flooded, a Japanese being drowned. The decrease the crowding of the rural public roads were damaged in 28 places, to the extent of about 1,224 feet. Several poptilation into cities, the military sys-rivers overtowed their banks, causing dis
The latest news from Six Envilland de
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Toro, August 19.
Messrs, Furnichi, Shiraiwa, Iwashita...... Yamamoto, aud Jomito hate boen
PAPER SUPPRESSED.
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Pexin, August 18. The Kong "Fis Po, of Peking, for publishing news, connected with the Manchurian " railway affair, has beadTM ordered to close up..
THE
ANTUNG MUKDEN
RAILWAY.
Wa Te Yat Po's Service).
FELING, August 19. Negotiations have been opened be tween the Board of Foreign Affairs and the Japanese Minister respecting the railway question in Manchuria
THE NEW VICEROY OF CANTON.
LEAVES SHANGHAI ON AUGUST 28.
(Wah Tu Yai Po's Service.)
PERING, August 19.
H. E.-Yoon Sho-fan, the new Viceroy- of Canton, will leave Nanking on August 22nd, travelling to Shanghai by rail- way. He will come down to Canton on the C.M.S.N. Co's steamer San Ming, leaving Shanghai on 28th August
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„ITEMS AT THE COURTS,
For trespassing at Sai Wan O market by an adjunct licence on premisen numbered lounging in an unlesstall a native was, at 37, Queen's Road Central, to the the Magistracy to-day, fined $2 by Mr J... unnumbered premises in York Baild-B. Wood. Earlier in the week Mr F. A ings which were formerly occupied by Hazeland fined several offenders $15 esch Mesa Cottam, and Company.
Mr J. R. Wood presided and there were for a bike offence." also present Dapt-Supt. F. J. Badoley,
Sausmares is that he and Lady de Skus marez are in good health and that theyHolyoak. expect to leave Guernsey towards the end of August, in time to catch the train from
de Saumarez, who is Judge of H.B M.' Supreme Court for China and Korea, may therefore be expected in Shanghai about September L.
A CHAIR COOLIE'S DODGE.
An interesting story was told at the Magistracy to-day in connection with the
Messrs C. A. D. Melbourne, and P. Y. The proceedings were conducted in that the application was refused,
that subsequently it was announced
Two Chinus sailors were quarrelling on board the .s. Lightning while in port
end of the deck and with a clasp knife when another dashed up from the other
stabbed one of them 'in' the 'eye and on the A rabura presented re the House of back. The wounded man was taken fo Lords, at the request of the Earl of hospital. For committing the set the Donoughmore, shows the number of cattle drives in Ireland during 1907 and 1908 and assailant was to-day sentenced to two the first quarter of the present year. The months' hard labour, total number of drives" was 1,145, in connection with which 1,365 persons were convicted.
11.-Anction of 2,500 tons of Anars-tem which forces country youths to location to the traffic in the districts. The refusal of a chair cool to accept & lary is a medicine of great worth and they develop in few hours, and prompt.
lian Coal at Raumati Police Station.
Goods per Berlawers andsilvered after spend three years of early life amid the railways were also damaged, the traffic on
thla data subject to rent,
Farday, August 27 :---
2.30 p.m.-Auction of Household Furni
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The China Mail.
PRESENT DAY FRANCE.
corruptions of the town, and the
crushing weight of taxation, which amounts to $50 per capita, the principal
them being brought to a standstill.
river Tamui rose over seven feat.
On the 8th- ultimo a Chinese named
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having stolen Y30,000, which was on howl, and then dropped to the ground as pleasure, and a diminished sense of trusted to him in order to defray the ex-thoigh unconscious. Feeling somewhat duty, with the resultant increase in the penses of Chinese studenta studying in concerned, the Portuguese saw that the Hongsoxu, FRIDAY, Aces 10, 1999.number of suicides, of which 3.316 are Japan. It is alleged that the Chiness at coolie was convey to a Club, and tempted his escape with the money some called in a medical man, who, after on recorded in the single year 1005. The months ago and came over to Chemulpo on examination, declared that there whe moral decay of French literature, art, May 2 after visiting famous places and nothing whatever wrong with the cooliel historia sites on the way - Seoul Preu However, so be still remained in a étuple and drama, M LAVOLLEE, goes on to say,
state he was taken in an ambulance to Ir does not always do to take too is doing its work in promoting French On July 17 President Falliers valted hospital, where examination by another seriously the predictions of a Jresman, degeneracy and making Frenchmen of Harry and opened a new quay there. The doctor. resulted in the same opinion being Northern and Mediterranean squadrons of given. Apparently the coolie was shaming, or the ravings of a CassaNDRA; at the all classes, the slaves of vice. Closely the French fiber wurn assesmbled, and the for in a very short time he got up, laft
British battleship Jupiter, had been sent to same time it would be fatuous folly to allied with this is alcoholisms, concerning convey the King's greetings to the Pre- the hospital and took out a summena sident. After the opening of the cusy theagainst the Portuguese, who, in turn, ignore them altogether. In England which he gives some startling figures President held a BST review, after red cross-summons against the coolie
which he dagpatched to King Edward a we are more than abundantly blessed While the consumption of sloohol in telegram that king him for the presence of for refusing to accept a legal fare. with men and women who cry from England is decreasing, and so dimini- the Jupiter At a dinner, afterwards given Times of $7 ón both the coolie and the the housetop's the terrible fate which shing seriously the revenus derived at the sub-prefecture very cordial speeches Portuguese were indicted by Mr F. A
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