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(From Our Special, Representation.)
CASTON, October 15, $.10 p.m. The onse for the Crown in the Batler Wright trial was closed, to-day."
The defendant gave evidence in his own behalf this morning.
He said he was 55 years of age and had a wife and six children at home.
FRIDAY OCTOBER 15, 1909.
COPYRIGHT ANTI-JAPANESE BOY- COTT IN THE STRAITS.
WOMEN ATTACKED AT IPOH.
"Berlons State of Astairs.
RUSSIA'S POLICY IN
COMMERCIAL, PROBLEMS
ONLY PRESSING.
(Router's Service to the China Mast): Losmor, October 15. Mr Kokovizet, Rumish Minister for
(From Our Own Correspondent.)
SINGAPORE, October 14. The Chinese in Perak and Penang Finance, speaking at the Moscow Bourse, are boycotting Japanese goods and dwelt upon the improvement in Russia's attacking Japanese women. At Ipoh finances. The budget difficulties of airs are rather serious, the boycotters other countries, he said, were far insulting the Protector of the Chinese. The authorities are sternly repressing greater. His visit to the Far East was connected principally with the East. China 'railway. - The policy of the Government thereanent was quite clear. Formerly the railway was a politico. commercial affair, now there remained only the commercial problems; for io-
the boycott.
in officially tabulated according to nected with the school dich causes anuses indeed, it sects that the as Insufficient capacity to cope with police have special forms (Selbstmord the demands of the curriculum," karten) to be filled up by parents and failure at lessons, despite the best teachers of the victims. Professor efforts, and other causes classifed as ALBERT ÉULENDERG, the well-known arising from the particular relations physiologist and nerve specialist, has between the school on the one side. recently unearthed the records of 1,958 and the individuality of the scholar in such cases, all of childran actually his failure to meet the aims and attending school, and he has published demands of the school on the other."
From the foregoing particular it will 152 analysis of them under the title
Suicide Among School Children." bo observed that there is much to be According to this analysis, there were no said on either side of the question, and less than 473 suicides of school-children that it is extremely difficult even forked what he had to say with regard the transfer of $13,000 from the due to fear of punishment, dread of learned professors to say which party Conton Railway sccount to his own has thoroughly proved ita case. Like private account, he said he considered Prof. GERHARDT, whom we have largely himself responsible for the whole of the quoted, Dr EULEXEURO is inclined to find cash balances and it did not matter that the fault lies chiefly in the home, in whether he transferred them to one no count of to another so long as $13,000 "active and passive mistakes in bring was available. He himself opened ing up children of control, lack the two currency accounts at the of insight, hack of understanding for International Bank for convenienes make ante's Service to the China Masl.) the child-soul, end, the lesitng to the and he regarded these as his own. He
LORTON, October 14 |
had available over $9,000 when he was The anarchist Ferrer, who was mi- stock, b school of duties which it cannot per arrested, also he could by a singlestroke plicated in the recent disturbance at form." This is, of course, a serious in-of the pen make up the deficiencies Catalonia and also in the attempted for Siberia. dictment of both school and home; but after the examination of the accounts. assasination of the King and Queen the 600 suicides a year. seem to bear it
He strongly objected to not being of Spain on the occasion of the Royal BRITISH NORTH BORNEO. to being arrested and pillaried as shot at Barcelona. felon.
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A huge crowd, headed by Jaures, well-known Socialist Deputy,
the China Muil.)
Toxro, October 15. Next year's budget was discussed at the Cabinet meeting hold this morning The Financial Department's programme shows expenditure of Yen 599,000,000, The proposals were adopted.
of the Spanish Legation in Paris' yes. terday, shouting "Death to Alfonso and the Maura Murderers."
The police intervened and revolvers
were fired on the crowd. Two police- men were killed. The police Enally drew their swords and succeeded in clearing the streets.
wares into North Manchuria and the conveyance of Chinese raw products to. Bussin and of Chinese wares to Vladivo
Mfr Eckovizelf subsequently started
ME COWIE SLECTED CHAIR
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(Reuter's Service to the China Mid
Losor, October 15.""
Mr Cowie has been elected chairman
the British North Borneo Complay.
PRINCE SHUN.
(Wah Tex Fat Po's Service.)
Paso, October 14.
ved at Hanrow an the 12th inst Prince Shun is reported to have
having travelled south by the Hankow- Peking milway...
number of child-suicidea is many times
Socialist demonstrations, to protest Undoubtedly the greater: mentaf
as great as in Germany, although the
against the execution, are general. precocity of the Continental child school-going population is much smaller JAPAN'S NEXT BUDGET throughout Italy Work has been plays a part. Among this long list of Thus, for 1907, some 490 children of
suspended in many towns. asos appear питегия Caspa of under sixteen are stated to have taken "unhappy love," "expestre of a love their lives in Russia, nearly all being including portage, 33.00 per month, affair," "offended feeling of honour," pupils at secondary schools, few at("Independent Notes dyency's" S-rvice to made a demonstration in the vicinity of OVERLAND CHINA MAIL (weekly) $15.00
per your; including postage, $17.00 and "baulked ambition "—all of which primary village schools, and sone, as far sentiments, if experienced at all by as is known among the untaught pas English school-children, would cer- sant children. As the secondary schools tainly take no such morbid form. Pro. are based exactly upon the German fessor GERHARDTS book also confirms model, with the difference that the the precocity theory, inasmuch as he as course of study is severes, it is plain Code, A. B. C., fifth edition,
TELEPHONE No. 99.cribes child-suicides to ideas quite out that over-strain plays a considerable CHINA MAN, LIMITED. side the mental range of English part; the Sgures prove that child- school-children. These are the "mater-suicide occurs only among children who ialistic and pessimistic ideas of the have reached, or are being forced into, school-going youth in the higher a certain standard of education. What- classes." Professor GEHALT declares ever the primary or secondary caused that it is necessary to combat these may be the evil clearly calls for are ideas in the children's minds, and even medy and we hope that one will be advises that the suicide question should forthcoming before: many years have be directly handled at least in the been added to the century's record. middle and higher classes; but Professor ECLESG thinks the children get the suicide iden mostly from the heroic Justice Gompertz will preside at stories af antiquity, and points the Criminal Sessions on Monday.
BIRTH.
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MEMOS FOR TO-MORROW.
Anetion. 11a.m.- Auction of Coloured Silk Thread at Mr Geo. P. Lammert's Sales Rooms,
Miscellaneous
3.50 p.r.-Fifth Meeting of Hongkong Gymkhana Club, st Happy Valley. Amusomeats.
2.15 p.m.-Performance of Harmston's
Circon at Kennedy Toys..
General Memoranda,
TUESDAY, October 19:
12.30 p..Meeting of Dairy Farm Co.,
Ld. at Co.'s Town Office.. 2.30pm-Anction of Household Forni- tore, &c. at Botanic Gardens Build ing.
WRDNESDAY, October 20:---
2,45 p.m.--Auction of Hoarebold Furni. tars at No. 6, Cameron Villas (No. 59)
The Peak
6 p.m.-Meeting of Kowloon Cricket
Club at Club Pavilion.
THERIDAY, October 21:-
';'
NEWS OF THE DAY:
The French Mail of the 14th Sep tember was delivered in London on the 14th inst.
www.
out that the most dreaded. modern thinkers-SCHOPENHAUER, NIETZSCHE, and TOLSTOY-condemn, or at least do not recommend, suicide.
The strange
The annual dinner of the China Associa. paychology of the German schoolboy tien will be held at the Whitehall Roome, is well exemplified by such a
Hotel Metropole, on November 3.
troversy among his teachers; but it
At the Lucknow dinner in London, an happens to be by no means confined September 27, only seven veterzas were to Germany. The Moscow Russkor present. Sir George Barker presided. Sloro contains an authenticated case of
con-
A woman residing at No. 9 Castle three children resolving an suicide Road reports to the police that she hung
THE CRANE EPISODE.
(Independent News Agency's" Service to the China, Mail.)
Toro, October 15. are fall of the Crane The papera I affair. The general feeling is that Mr Crane had to be recalled after his misrepresentation of the United States views regarding China's political quer- tions. That he has been relieved of his position as U.S. Minister to China therefore comes as no surprise.
HOSPITAL SUNDAY.
The offerings in 8. John's Cathedral and the Peak Church on Sunday next, October 27. will be given to the fonds of the Alice. Memorial and Nethersole Hospitals. The preacher in the Cathedral at Mating will bo the Rev. A. Dallas Ennis, M.A., Chaplain to the Forces.
At Et. Peter's Church the offertory will also be en behalf of the Hospitals. The preacher at Morning Prayer will be the Rev. W. Hewitt, B. D.
Offerries in aid of the Hospitals will also
2.50 p.m.- Auction of Household Faral: owing to "disillusion with life." One up her handbag containing $10 in the hall Church, Wanchai, and other places of wor
eure, &c. at Mr Goo. P. Lammert's
Sales Rooms.
FRIDAY, October 22:-
II Am Meeting of Canton Insurance Office. Ld. at Messrs Jardine, Mathe. son & Co.'s Offices.
SATURDAY, October 23--
luckily was saved before carrying out his intention. In his bedroom were found much-thumbed volumes of Harr- MANN, SEN, and other advanced
and it has been stolen,
Thren vagrants arrived from Singapore by the s... Hong Moh; three from Haiphong by the a.. Singan and 23 deportecs-frum, Singapore by the s.s, Lison..
be taken in Union Church, Wesleyaz
ship on Sunday. It is hoped there will be a liberal response.
HOUSEBOY'S CLAIM.
Work has been suspended at Buenos Aires and at Monte Vidoo as a signi of mourning.
BARRICADES ARISE IN PARIS.
Cavalry and Pallos Clear
Streets:
(Reuter's Service to the China Maz.) LONDON, October 15. The scenes in Paris at midnight have been unprecedented since Commune.
Barricades
the
were erected in the Boulevard Courceller.
Lampposts were torn up and the gasmnina were lighted.
Ineffective attacks were made on the banks.
Cavalry and police charged the mobs and eventually dispersed them.
י:
One policeman was killed and eighty injured.
THE CRANE EPISODE.
"HUMILIATING SACRIFICE TO
JAPAN.
(Reuter's Service to the China Mail) London, October 15. President Taft has accepted resignation of Mr Crane as U. §. Minis tor to China.
THE RAILWAY LOAN.
!!
(Wah To Yat Pu's Service.).
PEKING, October 14. The Board of Communications is noW negotiating with the Ministers of Eng- land, Germany, America and France with a view to barrewing money in the name of the Board of Foreign Affairs, instead of in the name of the Capton- Hankow railway.
GERMAN TELEGRAPHS IN SHANTUNG.
(Wah Tú Yat Po'a Servica)
Pro, October 14. The Board of Foreign Affairs has communicated with the German Minis ter asking that the line of telegrapha erected by Germany in Shantung pro vince be removed.
ARMED ROBBERY AT
KOWLOON.
Soon after 1 mm. this morning, the inmates of No. 138 Wong Nai Wa Strost, the between Yanmatí and Kowloon," WELD suddenly aroused from their slusïbers by eight mér, azmed with revolvers and The weight of public opinion sym. choppers, entering the house. They broke open two boxes from which they papera/ describe the incident as a stole money and clothing to the value of humiliating sacrifice to Japan.
writers. Su this is what led you to cessions the Irish party in the House of Mr Justice Gompertz, at the Supreme | pathizes with Mr Crane and the news, threatened the occupants of the house sad 12.15 p.m.-Meeting of Hongkong Jockey the idea?" asked his father. "It may Club on the ground Boer of Hongkong have led them, answered the thirteen-
Ulab Annaze, Chator Road.
In the absence of the expected-con- Commons is rigorously opposing the licens ing schedules of the Finance Bill.
9.16 p.m.-Oper Air Concert on Velau-year-old boy. "For me these writers The Manila Observatory to-day reports
coer Parade Ground.
THURSDAY, November 4:--
9 p.m.-Concert at Oity Ball.
are somewhat out of date."A case somewhat resembling this occurred last winter, where a sixteen-year-old g^1 student of LIFTZstit deprived herself of life because she was convinced that persons of the female sex were barred
that the cyclone or typhoon in the Pacific ocean, is about halfway between the
Marinon. Islands and the Loockoos, and is There is alan & inclone or
tha. Visayas falaris, moving & V. N. W..
Kwong Chiu sped F. Rummel, before
Court to-day, to recover $30 wages.
His Lordship--Do you owe this money -I don't think so.
....
Do you owe him anything 1-Be har stolen monoy at different times in small CHAMBERLAINTS PAIN BALM. sums and I dismissed him after giving notice. VOU will hoes good while before you Complainant said that defendant came I find a liniment that is equal to Chamberlain's Pain Balm. In cess of home late night and the followistonlaste morning Le complained, of losing du vetka.
finlenen "pain, and make; ALGER b drove me out bring home Mood possible. Zoreused of the mine, wa Mr S. Osada returned from Singapore complainant, "and he gave me five minutes
to clear."
His Lordship gare judgment for plaintif Osada bas obtained the lease of 1,000 acres for $15. of land from the Jobora government and in con-partnership with Mr A. Okura (relative of
plantation lu January next: 2.
HONGKONG, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16. 1909. from all ambitions of attaining the yesterday per the ss. Sado Maru, Mr
CHILD SUICIDE,-.
Ueber Mansch stage of greatness.", That ander certain paychical
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attention to a rather remarkable book written by Prof. GEREART, in | which the learned élienist sought to prove that the predominant cause of child-suicide in Germany-ons of the most saddening phenomena of the age -is due not to the excessive strain of the modern Gorman school curriculum
most trifling reasons in plainly show by Dr ECLEBELLO's lists, in which such causes are given se" anger at not being allowed to wear a new cap," "father's refusal to authorise a ses
" and " voyage,
in order to avold purents to a new moving with his Bat. "From what quarter comes the
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.
With regard to tle - Whangpu con Mr Bruce, aged 62; second engineer-of- servancy impasse, the Shanghai Mercury the ex. Glenlogan, died of beststroke in understands that the Viceroy of Nanking the Red Boa, on the present soyage east- has made arrangements to provide the Ts ward. He was buried at ara, 300,000 Decessary to allow dredging to proceed temporarily in the Astraca Channel,
The following four officials will accom" vision of the larger sum necessary for the pany Prince. Hetta on bis mission to study completion of the dredging til à report has navies-Sir Liang Cheng, Wei Han, Cher boon made by an outaiso expert on the En-tao and Ti Haoyuan. whole of the work already carried out and
- but that he refuses to arrange for the pro-
VICTORIA CINEMATOGRAPH. but to the breakdown in the old paychical condition is harder to deter the estimated further expenditure.
PRIMIER RALL OF HONGKONG. domestic ideals and home discipline of mine; but in view of the fact that
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Inspector Gourlay proscented a China man, at the Magistracy to-813, for storing nine tins of kerosene without a license and
five of $50 was imposed
Last year, there was proved the will of à member of the uniform staff of one of the Southern railways, who was well known to the public, and who stated in his will that My estate would have been oss, aiderably larger if it had not been for my unfortunate, marriage with the cleversst knows Legal daylight robber," My associa tions with this perambulating human vinegar-ersel-L-consider to have.coat me considerably over 4007"
such cases are common in countries TOKHER || many who combatted Prof. GERHARDT's where the German type of gymnasium Mudourishes it is hard to avoid the con- theories and it would, soe: from the latest offcial statistics to hand that clarion that the school is largely his opponents have much irrefutable responsible, whether owing to over. The case we mentioned at the Supreme Court this morning in which More Kruse evidence to draw upon to substantiate strain, to the too advanced curriculum, and Co., sued Mosi's Logan and Co., to their position,
Ar the Berlin corre or to the tendency to substitute reocyer 320,70 As employer appeared.
Great Britain's "tradeĝreturn spondent of the Westminster Gaselle scientific" and dun physical culture and aid the case had been withdrawn, de fandante having paid up On Hing Tal recently pointed out in alluding to this for voluntary sports. This conclusion also und W. D. Badburn for 855,99 F month of September, show subject, in Prussia child-raici de is such is confirmed by the fact that over 48 Lordship, said he had been informed that importa mounting
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