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GROUT-SWEET-On 11th June, st Saint Clement Danas, Westminster, London, by the Rev. J. J. E. Septimus Pennington, B... Rector, HENRY ACTIN GRect to GRACE MINNIE, youngest daughter of the Philippines, much less govern them and
THE CHINA "MAIL.
NEWS OF THE DAY.
The P. and U. steamer Mongolia was. fitted with wireless telegraphy before she fats London on her present voyago to
Australia.
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There was only one case of plague notified during the whole of Inat "weok. This makes the eighteenth, while the deaths therefrom bave numbored 18,
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There wore 316 European and 136 Chinese visitors to the City Hall Library, and 184 European and 2,019 Chinese visitors to the Museum during the week ended the 17th July.
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The Chinese Engineering and Mining Company. Ismited, report that the total outpat of the Company's three mines for
38.
¡Cortanar.] -DISCONTENTED SIKH POLICE.
SHANGHAI'S TROUBLE.
(From Our Own Corrasprindeni.)
SURA, July 18. There has been a mutinous spirit among the Sikh polies for some time past, and on Thurshy SO refused to dismiss after parade. They were con- fined to barracks until Saturday, when they were marched under an armed escort to the British gol and locked up
To-day they were bought up at the Police Court and remanded until Thurs- day.
the veok ending 2nd July, 1910, smounted | The immediate cause of the trouble is to 28.467.74 tons and the sales during the that the Indians desire the reinstate- period to 28;880.26 tone.
ment of a popular interproter whose agreement has been terminated on the ground of inciting to men to insub- ordization.
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The 1st Battalion Middlesex Regimest is under orders, to move from Allaïabad to Dinapers, with a detachment at Dum Dum. About the same time the 4th. Battalion of the Middlesex will move from Singapore to Lebong.
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General Sir John Fronch, after in-
CHINESE · MILITARY.
MISSION.
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(Render's Service to the China Mfail.)
"Lesbos, July 16c The Tsar and, Tanitsa have receiv
specting the Canadian Field Artillery at P.tewaws Camp, said that those persons in Great Britain who thought it impossible to organise and train citizen soldiers to a high ed Prince Tsai Tao and quite aboard standard of efficiency as artillerymen would the Royal yacht Standart at a Baltic have their eyes. opened if they visited port. Putera A.
Sir Edward Grey. Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, has received a dopatation which waited upon him to protest against the slavery which, it is alleged, is counten. anced on the cocon catates in Portuguese West Africa. Sir Edward Grey said that the Portuguesa authorities and promised
to see that the conditions are amended.
There were la cases of communicable
late. Mrs Sweet, cf Willesden Green.ber fenders are well aware of the fact. I disease "notified in the Colony hst week.
London.
BENNETT BARKER:-On July 11, 1910, at She has no ambitions that way whatever. Holy Trinity Cathedral, Shanghai, Captain PHIL BANNETT, of the C. X. S. Shuntien. For a good many decades to come she to PROEBE BABARR, of Sydney, New South will fad her hands full with the tasks Wales.
she has set before herself in Formesa, the Pescadores, Korea. Saghalien, and Manchuria. She will have no surplus
DEATHS.
Of these nino were cholem, all being
AIRSHIP RACE.
wwwww.d
50 MILES AN HOUR.
'(Reuter's Service to de China Mail.) Listos, July 10. Mr. Morane, in a monoplane, and Mr. Drexel, in a biplane, raced from Bournemouth to The Needles and back,
and the former won.
The airships traveled at the rats of
DIRTY WEATHER.
imported, from which there were six danths, fifty miles an hour. There were four cases of enteric fever (two Chinese and two British) with two cents therefrom, and one non-fatal case of plague (Chinese).
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"Spukeville. On July 11, 1616, at
The oppressive heat which has afflicted denly at the Victoris Nursing Home,
Hongkong of Intò culminated in a violent GEORGE SOM EBTILE, of Crouch End,
thunderstorm on Sunday evening, and The irregularity of the arrival of the much rain fell. This morning broke very London, aged 32 years."
BOYD-On June 1, 1910, WILLiar energy or administrative vigour left Siberian mails here is causing much.com atomily, the typhoon reported in the HENRY BOYD, ia Mexico of fever.
Aged over for much beyond what her presentment among both commercial people and neighbourhood of Formosa evidently being programne demands. She has long private residents who rely on what should responsible for the dingy, weather which
be its advantages in the matter of time. prevailed. Recently the deliveries have been most but the wind has not be of any appreci spasmodic, and the question of makingabla strength. some proper arrangements for the despatch
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General Memoranda,
Friday, July 22:-
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SATURDAY, July 23-
Aquatic Fete at V.R.C.
since consolidated her own people into a homogeneous nation and therefore does not require any Bismarckian scheme of aggrandizement across the seas in order to make of them a united mass of patri- ots. She is fully aware of the antagonism felt for her f New Zealand, Australia | and elsewhere and is only desirma for
9 p.m.-Concert Eowicon Cricket Club. time in demonstrate to those who dislike
SUNDAY, Jaly 24— -
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The China Mail
from Shanghai at regular periods will have to be squarely faced
severing his connection with his old firm. broke down and he returned to England
Returning to China in the spring of this year he made a trip to Manchuria for Messrs Craig and Co., but had soon to charming personality and having great. re-enter hospital. Possessed of a most
business acumen, his" early"death will be much regretted.
All day the mia has continued
The American Consulate General at
Houghour circulated this morning the following telegram received from the Manila Observatory :-
rI.
Manila. 18th, 9.30a.m.
northern part of Formes channel moving Cyclone or typhoon rear or over the
NW, or N.N.W.
KOWLOON CRICKET CLUB.
promenade concert on Saturday, the ord This popular Club is giving its manual
instant, under the distinguished patronaga have been a success in the past and given of H. E. Sir Henry May. These concerta
fine weather the present ons should attract a large number of Honglong residents.
id
MONDAY, JULY 18, 1910
[CorraICHT.] THE KING AND THE ARMY.
HIS SATISFACTION WITH THE TROOPS.
“( Renter'a Service to the China Mail)"
LONDON, July 18.
Their Majesties the King and Queen. have returated to Londen from Alúsë. shot....
[COTTAIGHT JAPAN AND AMERICA.
SCOUTING THE WAR.
MONGERS,
Mr Dickinson's Speech at Tokyo. - (Independent News Agency's Service to the China Mail)
Tex, July 18.
Count Komura, Minister for Foreign
The King in a message to General Affairs, addressing the company assein- Smith-Dorrien expressed his satisfaction bled at the reception tendered to Mr with the fitneso, zeal and keenness off Dickinson, the Secretary for War in Mr the troops, and stated that lie intended Taft's Cabinet, said that he was glad making the vidit an annual one.
ME ASQUITH'S NAVAL, SPEECH.
FAVOURABLY RECEIVED IN
* GERMANY.
(Reuter's Service to the China Mail.)
that Mr Taft was so well informed of Japan's real intentions and the actual state of things prevailing in the Far East. He thought that there was ne room for trouble between the two nations but should disagreement arise- be thought it could be settled by the ordinary amicable representations.
In reply, Mr Dickinson said that Mr Lostos, July 16. Taft was well aware who the sensation-, newspapers give
mangers were and he also knew what prominence to Mr. Asquith's speech were the interests which tried to breed
The German
trouble between the two nations. It
on the Navy Estimates, and appreciats ¡ts moderation and friendliness as showing considerable reluation in the was a happy thing that such a far- sighted man was in power in America tengier existing between both
to-day. For himself he expected that.. the relations, between the two countries would be drawn aloser together, becom- ing more cordial than ever before.
countries.
Lostor, July 18.
The official Norddeutsche Zeitung re- joices at Mr Asquith's clear recognition of the real motive, of Germany's naval expansion, and hopes that the question of armaments will be calmly and dispassionately discussed in the future and that the relations of the two peoples will correspondingly improve.
The Austrian papers hail Mr As- cuith's speech with delight, especially the admission that Germany is equally entitled with Britain to increase her Army.
FRENCH TROOPS AT- TACKED.
BRUSH WITH THE MOORS.
(Reuter's Service to the China Mail.)
LONDON, July 16. French troops were attacked by Moorish tribesmen at the Muhuja River.
The Moors fed, leaving fifty-three' dead.
The French casualties were eleven killed and forty-three wounded.
BISLEY.
TRAM DISASTER IN TOKYO.
MANY KILLED AND INJURED.
(Independent News Agency's Service to the China Mail.)
Toxo, July 18. Two electric tram-curs came into collision on the Akasaka slope in Tokyo- and about thirty persons were wounded, p a few of whom have since died.
DOCK STRIKE AT URAGA
(Independent Nex Agency's Service to the China Mail.)
Tokyo, July 18. About 2,000 dock workmen at Craga Tokyo Bay, have gone on strike, the dispute arising out of a reduction in-
Trages,
CHINA'S MINISTER TO GERMANY.
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(Wah Tez Yat Po's Service).
PEKING, July 12, The German Government Las re-.
"VARSITYIMAN WINS KING'S gnised Sir Liang Ching as the Chinese
PRIZE.
(Reuter's Service to the China Mail)
LONDON, July 16.
At the Bisley Ride Meeting Mr
King's Prize with a score of 340, which Radice, cf Oxford University, won the
is a record.
Mr George Somerville, removes me whowa
The death as the early age of 22, af
business career in China gave promise of very great things. "Joining the Hongkong office of Measts Showan, Tomes and Co. in January, 1800, ho was later transferred to her how il-founded are their suspicions. Kobe and two years ago went to Shanghai Inevitable that her in the to take charge there. His health suddenly world should produce for her many onemies; but fúte would be dealing her a very ironical blow indeed if the desires of the yellow press were realised and the Power which "forced her from her medieval seclusion fifty years or so ago became her declared enemy and sworn for. Fortunately the destinies of the world are in fairly se Ta gentlemen who write so glibly
kands
31 these days of the inevitableness of war present, in Washington, Tokyo, London, between-Japan and America are farely Berlin and Paris, and we think that we among the must superficial observers of may, under the circumstances, wifely the real trend of the international poli-id the spectre of war between Japan tics of the age. Unfortunately they and America begone to the glimpses of now Australian sculptor, has been con- General (Hon. Mr W. Rees Davies, K...) proclamation of Montenegro as a King--
BeNazone, MarDAY, JULY 18, 1910.
JAPAN AND AMERICA.
write for a public equally superficial in its' mental processes and thus an arti- ficial body of spurious public sentiment is created which way eventually have the
BLOUSES. most mischievous effects. It is an old
story nowadays how the vicious bellow.
the cuter blue, for the times are not out of joint as some timorous people would have us believë,
NEWS OF THE DAY.
|
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL........
Mr Myers, the American, Vice-Consulat Canton, is at present paying a short visit to Hongkong.
WÄNCHAI ARMED ROBBERY.
Sentences To-day.
"At the Criminal Sessions this morning. bafore Sir Fancis Piggott (Chief Justice two Chinese, named. Wong Sin and Tsoi Sam, were indicted on a charge of armed robbery, alleged to have beon (committed
[Note Corpori Burt, of the Tondon Rite Brigade, was the winner last year. ED. C.M.
MONTENEGRO.
Minister in Berlin, consequent on re- presentations made to the German.. Foreign Minister by the retiring. Minister, H. E. Yin Chang. «
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FEAR OF RUSSIAN AGGRESSION.
SOLDIERS IN CIVIL DRESS.
(Wah Tax Yet Po's Service)
PEKING, July 19.
H. E. Sbal Yin To, Chinese Minister at St. Petersburg, has reported that. over 100,000 Russian soldiers are pro. ceeding to Mongolia and Manchuria in civil dress.
2.
THE P. M. 5. S. MONGOLIA
FLOATED...
A COMING KINGDOM.
(Renter's Service to the China Mail.} Loxpos, July 16.
The Wai-wa-Fu has wired the Min- Reuter learns it is unlikely that any ister to return to Peking at once 16- Mr E. Bertram Mackennal, the well-at Wanchai on June 17th. The Attorney Power will mise an objection to the corralt on important affairs. missioned to design and model the Corona prosecuted on behalf of the Crown, prisoners do next month. tion meitaly and also the coinage for the being undefended, new leigu. This is the first time that The jury were empanelled as follows cipality, which has always claimed to be [Noce-Montenegro is a small Prio- anyone from the oversens dominions has Mears W. T. Stebbing (foreman), A. J.independent, and which was recognised been called upon to design English coinage, da C. Rocha, T. J. Richards, D. G. Steele, to be so by the Treaty of Berlin. It has Mr F. J. Halton, the agent in Hongkong Au J. Bursley, J. B. Seet and W. Taylor. srea of 3,486 square miles and + of the Pacie Mail Steamship Company, Lieut-Colonel Sir Matthew Nathan
population diminished by emigration, to The Attorney General stated that the shont (Secretary of the Post Office) inspected offence with which the prisoners were Musenimans: 14,000 Roman Catholics
225,000, of whom 13,000 are courteously informs us that be is in receipt. of a cable informing him that the Pacific, The Army Advisory Council in Peking Waring's cadet corps in the quadrangle of charged took place at a lease opposite the and the remainder Orthodox Slave. The Mail steamer Mongolin, which recently intonds to consult with the Fuch'uED the War Office on 11th ultimo. The corpe Police Station. On the date named the on the south and Herzegovina on the while making the port of Bhimidzu, whither Principality lies between Northern Albania wont ashore on the east coast of Japan, ing of the Yellow Press in the United pa and the Viceroy of Kwangtung in consists of youths who were formerly prosecutrix was in her house States gradually brought about a condi- regard to converting the proposed, Chaton-telegraph messengers, but who, on reaching her little daughter, aged nine yean, her Prince Nicholas 1, who succeeded his dostal of at airy, o'clock this morning. with north. It is under the rule of EL R. Haho was going for a cargo of tea, was
tion of feeling in America which had its construction of which should be undertaken Post Office, and entered that of the firms of husband being away at work. Four men uncle ou the lutter's ssassination in 1860. As she went on a muddy bottom it is not
Amoy railway inco a military line, the the age limit, left the service of the Gepers outcome in the war with Spain. The by the Ministry of War and the Navy Messrs Wing and Gillow, Limited, of came to the house saying they were looking and we assured the title of Royal High-expected that much damage has been
nesa in -1900.~ED. O.M.] war-party in the press, which saw its own
Department.
Oxford-street, who raised and equipped it for somebody, and the fint prisoner clutch- ed the woman by the throat, while the ignoble account in the outbreak of strife, were e clamourons that they overawed President MCKINLEY, and a message from the Quis REGENT of Srats grant ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS. ing all the demands put forward by the United States on behalf of Cuba was withheld at the eleventh hour
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fortifications of Port Arthur.
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Au interesting engagement in the thea second prisoner who carried a knife, gagged" Mr Frank Curzon, losses of the Prince of if she said anything. The child cried out trical world is that of Miss Isabel Jay to her. They threatened to stab her to death Wales and Wyndham's Theatres, which and her screams attracted some people who hu just been announced, Miss 1. Jay, came apstairs. This startled the four men. married Mr HS. H. Cavendish, the well-prisoners were identified as being among who is famous as a musical comedy actress and they belted out of the house. Both
known explorer, in 1902. One of Mr the four. A Europoun sergeant, a Chiurae Curzon's greatest successes was at the old watchonn and Mr Lyeanght gavo-chase and Stmad Theatre with Chinese Honey. the prisoners were evantially caught, one being stopped by an Indian"watchman. When the arcoud prisoner was caught he took a knife out of his pocket and throw it
USQOL.."
because the PRESIDENT, to please Dely News says that a man, samed V.
A Nanking telegram to the N. C..
his supporters, was on the point of Borowsky has been shot during a quarrel.
Captain Robert Marshall," the well- CINEMATOGRAPH THEATRE,signing the document which declared Both he and his assailant (an aerobat) known dramatist, has died at the early age are commested with the Circus. Bow of 47. ite was appointed a Lieutenant in PREMIER HALL OF THE COLONY, war against Spain. History has an
Hy was promptly taken to the Emer the West Riding Regiment in 1888, got his "Da Vaux Rois CITRAL,
awkward habit of repeating itwell The goney Houpital in the Nanyang Exhibi- captaincy in 1890, and retired in 1805. He Opposite Central Market.
men who hate and detest Jappa formation grounde und there attended to by was District Adjutant, Cape Town, tr. Doctors Beebe, Whitemore and Sza Yoong, 1893 to 1895, and from that time to 1898 no inconsiderable body in America His condition is said to be critical. His A.D.O. to Six W. Esly Hutchinson, Go- 9.15 uz 11.30 PM-to-day and they can find many chinuchsailant is said to British subject and a vernor of Natal. As a dramatist Captait
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at Nahiking, Everything is quiet in the too, and his picco "His Excellency the popular press both on the Atlantic as city. well as on the Pacific seaboard, in the
Middle West as well as in the South. They allow no opportunity for their animosity to grow cold and take ad-successfully used in nine epidemics of
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After evidenca had been called, the jury
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and his Lordship commended the action of the Chinese and Indian witchmen.
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