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Ap.m.-Auction of Crop Land.
Address by Lady Lugard on Ministering Children's Longue at Go. Pp.at.-Concert at Sensen's Institute, 9.m.-Lecture on "Chinese History" by Mr A. II. Harris at European
vernment House.
YOL.C.A.
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General Memoranda.
Tusshay, March 7 :----
Cathedral
WEUSESDAY, Marols 8-
Nom Meeting of The Rowhon Land &
ports called for supplies to the value, of 27 millions compared with
THE CHINA MAIL.
3. BRITAIN AND YUNNAN.
doing.
In insny tustates the soldiery: lave tmosformed the temples into barneks, in
[COTLIGHT.]
SATURDAY, MARCH 4, 1911.
CARNIVAL TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIP.
HONGKONG LOSES THE DOUBLES.
↑ "(From. Our Special Corverpondent.) · By Maxua, Marab 3. Hongkong has suffered nother reverse
[Corxur.]
IMMIGRATION RESTRIC- 21 millions for 1008 and 10 millions What the new Chinese Army is others they have erected huge arsenals mixt modom barracks, but everywhere drill
TIONS INFRINGED, for 1907. China is finding Japan
goos on from morning to tight. Yan
JAPANESE SCHOONES DETAIN- a better custoiner as the years go on. (Specially written for the "Cursa unan ever fails in war, it may be because As I write thera appons the rumour that, the men will turn on the officers who in
LED BY BRITISH SLOOP.. For the year under notice the Island
the Britial are encamping in consider tiuia at poses drilled them from¬tawy Empire bought over 1 million telah sumbo's over the border of Yunnan, to dusk, all day and every day.
(Router's Service to the China' Mail)
LONDON, March 4.. worth of goods from her near and, although the British Minister at Pok and with scarcely any time to fan!
"A message from Fanning Islands neighbour-an amount which faring has announced most emphatically that round in that inimitably childish
it is merely a case of misunderstanding on way no dear to the heart of all Chinese in the Carnival sporting programmo. atates that the British naval sloop Alge- execoded the returns for any previous the part of the gentry of that province, young or old. It is doubtful whothor
In the Tonais Doubles Competition rine has detained the Japanese schooner" year. The figure in 1008 was 37 sufficient importance is attached to the Japan at any period of her era of progress millious. The intercourse between presence of British troops is to has spread made greater strides in army matters than the Hongkong representatives had to Taga Mara, the latter having admitted China, and the United States is also an alarmnist report throughout the length Yunnan te making at the present the face. Mr. Paul Fanning and Mr. Edwin that she had landed thirteen Japanese extending, and for 1909 the toul and breadth of this province. Things liore and what may he said of Yunnan is true,Gee, but victory went to the latter on Christmas Island.
look dungerous though at the present as we all know, of “niany of the other pair who are thus Doubles Tennis moment.
provinces, with which, howprer, Burran has Champions of the Orient. loss to do.
exported to the latter country is represented by sue of 32 millions, This synchronises with the presence in the south of Yunman of Fronch- trboja in which compares with 23 millions and greate, numbers than usual-the purpose 26 millions for 1008 and 1907 respec- for which they are there is illegitimately tively. More markets for Chinese pro-belisved for something more than the more ducts had also been found in Great guarding of the railway-with the British troops on the border of Tibet, and the
The British uillitary authorities in Burma should not lightly dismiss the possibility of Yunner's Model Army being a monaco to the British frontier, The Model Aring of China is a fanture of the Young China party, and their influence, although slow
TROOP MOVEMENTS.
(Wah Tz Yut Po's Service.)
PERING, March 3. Field Marshal Choong Kwai Ti has Affairs to bring his troops to Tula,
BRITISH POLITICS.
SECOND READING OF PARLIAMENT BILL.
(Reuter's Service to the China Mai.)
Loxton, March 3. The second reading of the Parliament Commons by 368 votes to 243.
COUNTER-MOVE BY LORDS.
Britain, whose patronage is reflected in raport that Rush is about to send to in conting, is certainly sure of establishing been ordered by the Board of Military. | Bill has bean passed in the House of
a sum of well over 10 millions, against tatals of about 19 millions for each of the two preceding years German purchases totalled about 71 millions, which is slightly above the sum for
1908.
in
warm foothold in province no full
THE PLAGUE.
REPORTED APPEARANCE AT
HONAN.
Wah Ta Yat Pos Service.).
SHANGHAI, March 3. It is reported here that the plague has broken out in Hondu
PRESERVATION OF RUINS.
Chim an ultimatum respecting her timilo fights and privileges in Mengolia. So that af conflicting interests as is Yunnan. The where they are to be stationed. it is not unnatural for the Chinman of reform movement is the most real thing this isolated province to believe that in Chinese politics, but because of its among the Powers ther is happoning unwieldliness it is a matter of absolute combined foess of Europe mean to, strike dintely into line, and wo who look on are a sort of political generid post, that the possibility for the country to fall jamie- hard at China just at the time when shop so often to ridiculo and altogether It would be impossible to deal fecunt weakestand as it is easy to hanging doubt the ability of Young China to | direct her stops aright. Whilst thomilitary any great detail with the. character that in the province which borders on to
Burma great unrest prevails. So far na wo question is one assentially for the Govern of the goods supplied to China's are concerned, the Chiuew clain that woment, it is vitally associated with the numerous buyers, but one or two of hare right feed our trous over the Young China spirit, and it is outy "Tioped lint it wil, not wreck, 1881, it the principal trades may be briefly border, and it may be supposed that wo
Tho Government and ́erogs purpose£3. touched upon.
have not. The problem is rendered all tho First position must
more dificult from the fact that at the pre- the Young China party are now in an be given to the bean trade which sent time a spirit of keenest ill-feeling runs tagonian, but those who know most during the year under moview nearly through, the common people on account if about the policy of the country declare quadrupled its returns when contrast the picade, the miley, the general-hat Chian, from withith and Erin wich- spirit of reforma, which is erroneously put out, is giving proof after proof that ed with the preceding twelve months. down to the credit of the foreigner, and to The value of heaus sent out of China the excessive taxation necessary for the was no less than over 32 million carrying out of the reforms, » tels, the figures for 1908 and 1907 being respectively nine millions and three millions! Turning to the conl
THE YUNNAN 'ARMT,
Les a look at the question' as it might affect British Burma,
Last year; when, after some tour thousand miles of travel in the province of Yunnan, I arrived at Bhano, an officer
(Wak Taz Yat Po's Service).
PEXING, March 3. The Grand Council has requested the
er Service to the China Mail.).
Losmos, March 3. A Referendum Bill has been intro duced-in-the-House of Lords by Lord Balfour of Burleigh and read a Grat" time.
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THE OPIUM QUESTION.
BRITAIN AND CHINA NEGOTIATE.
(Reuters Service to the Chini Mail:) LONDON, March 3. Router's Agency learns that negotiat
the doce not want foreign assistance to Civil Board to examine into the credentions have Loen proceeding. between the take any part in the regeneration of her country. Whilst from within she is begirtials of the Ruin Preservation Society.
THE YUNNAN BOUNDARY.
(Wali Tas Fat Pa's Service).
FERINA, March 3, The officials in Peking who are
Waiwapu and Sir John Jordan, tho British Ambasander at Peking, over since the latter's, return regarding the restriction of the importation. of Indian opium into China.
The general idea is that the import- ation should be reduced proportionately to the lowered production in China, but
"with miny saperätist nzd anti-government tendencies, it cannot but bo admitted that the reform movement, in which propaganda stands first military progression, goes 30 pm-Organ Recital of St. John's industry we observe that there were
steadily ahead. Its final outcome is in possible to see, so complex is its character 195,950 tons sent out of the country, of the Welsh Fusiliers (then stationed at and fraught with such possibilities, good
27,894 for "1908: 6,351 that up country station) asked: "Well, tour. Her attention should be given natives of Yunnan have jointly sent in some people in China hold the view that for 1907 and 2,304 for 1906. what do you think of the model army of to troubles from within, but with so many petition to the Throne respecting the the production and importation should
and only laughed to sour distorted and contorted reports and Yunnan boundary.
wicked, it is quite possible that China may suggestion that during the past two visions which crowd a prese notoriously years Yunnan lnd made enormous military strides, and dismissed as absolutely ridin the next year or two have to facu trouble from without. Such reports as culous my opinion that at the present rate that which this article deals with at the progress Yinnan would in ten years time eutect are calculated to foment the feelings thousand trained soldiers who would be of the people to greater hatred of the
record when dealing with China's dealings
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The China Mail.
HOMRONG, SATURDAY, Marine 4, 1911.
Hongkong took 65,000 tons, which was a marked increase on the 1903 figure of 34,000 tons and on the 3,000 and -213 tons for 1907 and 1908 respectively, Japan niso ab- sorbed a largely increased tonnage
Yunuan ?"
of
be able to pat in the field some forty.
NEWS OF THE DAY.
A small party of sportsmen intend
Searching out the Stauley tiger to-night.
Regulations applying to the Hongkong
48,680 compared with 5,311 för 1908 able to compare with any Asiatic soldier. British; and history, an bloodthirsty Volunteer Reserve appear in the Gazette. and only 555 for 1907. India 31 able to make a good show at defending the with Europe within her own borders, may i
there was
man
FINAL DESIDERATUJI, "
4th.
Two Roman Catholic Sisters of Charity.
Invitations are out for the lying of the foundation stone of the new building
dcase immediately
AMERICA AND JAPAN,
DETAILS OF THE NEW TREATY,
The Labour Difficulty Removed. (Independent News Agency's Service to the China Mail)
TOKIU, March 3, Yesterday Count Komura, Minister
The consting trade, the Minister said," in connection with St. Paul's College, and been entirely left out of the Treaty, which ceremony is to be performed on both parties being left free to enact Saturday next hy His Excellency the their own national Inwe, treatment as accorded by the most favoured nation Members of the Volunteer Reserves clause being mutually enjoyed. are reminded that shooting for the May":
The clause in the old treaty relating
to
the perpetual lease of land by foreign-
(even including our own Sikha), and he Non-Mesting of H.K. Fire Inse. Co. pants in the returns for the first time country gainat ilio possible invasion by yet have to give place to possibilities of the have been engaged in plague work at
iftorial strife and revenge against; tho under this section, her purchases being the troops stationed in Upper Burma
foreigners whe live there, that China may Chefoo, have contracted the disease and 16,000 tons. Of rice there were only.
**¡Why, man," said the amused
yet have to go through a terrible urdeal died there
for Foreign Affairs, gave an explanation five inillion odd penis exported, officer, once got a few of our little before she can enter into the comity of so much urgent legislature business in the Lower House of the Diet regard
twelve-pounders at work, and
you nations. compared with eight millions for 1908, would soon see thou run away from
remains to be done in Washington that ing the new treaty that has been con- but the value was almost the same our troops." He then went on most Chinn must be careful if she would escape
President Tait has decided to convene cluded between Japan and the United that 20 million taels, contrasted with 21 arrogantly to explain
fifteen from burself-her own greatest enemy, an extra meeting of Congress on april Staten. He said that the provisional hundred British world he sufficient So far as the entry of troops aver the millions for the latter year. There for a good tany years to come to protect British border is concerned, anyone who
clause in Article I CHINA'S EXPORT TRADE
of the existing tresty was n deercuse also in the quantity of British interests on the border, and al-ha
On Monday Dr, Neville Bradley, of relating to labour and emigration had. studied Anglo-Chinese relations ONE effect of the keen competition
black ten exported, the amount being though he enjoyed my little stories about during the past decade would know Pakbo, will conduct the Christian Union been, removed and at the same time the the training in the capital city and soreral that Britain would not be the aggressur meeting which will be held as vast at Imperial Government had declared that displayed by the big commercial con-19,000 piculs against 685,000 for other of the Larger tows of the province, there. There may or may not be Rutherford Hall, St. Stephen's College, at they had no intention of departing from cerus of the chief countries of the the year before. In value, however, he told me ofhandedly that I was not a some misunderstanding - as "to the 5.30 p.m.
the principle they had hitherto adopted Western hemisphere for a share in
an increase of some military man and did not understand there exact dividing Ene where the two
with regard to emigration. But immediately supplying the great Chinese Empire 400,000 taels. The green tea trade things! And so it is with the average great empires moct.
in Burma and India-hens troops are seen where people believe the with her ever-growing needs is to was slightly below the 1908 record.
no idea whatever of what Tunnon dividing line to be there frahus through throw into sharp prominence the ex-
It will be learned with interest that is doing to bring into being an army out the provinces that the Britinlt are in there was a marked shrinkage in the powerful enough not only to see that she Yunnan, that war is expected, that the tent of the Middle Kingdon's propium exports. The quantity sent be in a position to absolutely rule the cities must be killed so that Chian may in
Gorernar. keeps the foreigner out, but that she will foreigners who reside in the interior chuscs from the outside world. No
outside the Empire was 630 piculs of destinies, commercially and politically, of this get her own back"-and so millions such magnifying circumstance, how- the value of Tacis 325,215. For Yunnan, and keep the foreigner just as far of the common people are immediately Cups at 500 yards, at King's Park, to be ever exists to draw attention to the 1908 the figures were 2,232 picula off as she wishes. Because a fow foreigners up in arms against foreigners in general measure of China's contributions to
| during the last decade have found it im-because of the crass ignorance of followed by Class Firing, takes place ers had been removel. the demands of her international
and Taels 912,291. Other years possible to refrain from writing up the Chino's population concerning their own tomorrow commencing at 10, a.m.
The Imperial Government intends returns are:-1907, 638 piculs and absurdities and oddities of the ragtag and political standing with other nations. customers. For precise and reliable Taels 251,020; 1005, 4,730 piens bobtail of yames runs in their travels
further to negotiate with America for a In the whirl of her home political ex The Chinese Engineering and Mining anal solation of this question. FURNITURE. information on this question of the and Taels 2,012,177. The exports there it has become to be understood, that
them from point to point in their travels citement, in her military progress, in the Company Limited, report that the total value of China's exports we must of opium were only to three centres Yunnan has no army at all.
The new treaty will be enforced from turn to the official retumas issued by Hongkong, French Indo-China and
in the rush of the commercial now sweep the week ending 18th Feb. amounted toed to lead to increased friendship Bat a greater mistake could not be made, ing tluough the Empire, in all her doings 20,208.47 tons and the sales during the SEE WINDOWS.the Chinese Imperial Maritime Cus- Koren, the latter country appearing by that oficer of the Wells Fasilers, who would seem to hemld the dawning of a and if the opinion expressed, to the writer we see the froth and the bubble which
between the two nations. toms, whose letailed figures, how-
period to 22,684,40 tons, in the returns for the first time had never put foot in Chios and who there-brighter day in China's fange national Customers Own Ideas ever are always a year late in publie Hongkong took 102 piculs of the fore thought he knew font about it, bo life. But we know, too, that the Empire has devised a shoct-service a-home by
FACTORY LEGISLATION Bishop Ferguson-Davis, of Singapore, ation. Thus those for 1909 are only value of Taels 115,109, against ten taken as a criterion of the ignorance of the Government and people is full of
IN JAPAN. now being sent out. From the mass picals valued Thels 3,185 for 1908. border is entrusted, the sooner it is dispell in argument and narration.
British troops to whom the safety of the incongruities and inconsistencies, award which it is arranged that workers under (Independent News Agency's Service. of statisties which the Report cut-The amount credited to Indo-China.od the better for Burns.
She is him in Malaya, the Straits Settlements
to the China Mai)... making strenuous endeavours to reach and Siam shall come out to Singapore in as we gather that die total value is 517 piculs and the value Taels In Yunakafu aleno, there are at the forward to the mark of a high political the first instance for three years, with
Texto, March 3. of the expert trade during the year 209,744, against 2,222 piculs and present moment no less than ten thousand calling and in doing so has to fight the of 250 per annum, and board, lodging, ing Bills passed the Lower House of the their return passage guaranteed, a stipend! Yesterday the Factory and Silk Trade named was The's 338,902,314, which Taels 906,800 for 1908; while Koren's outery would be a credit to any town in struck now by any of the Powers,
troops under training, The military Dragon China is weak. I she is travelling expouses, &c., paid.. is in advance of the 19-figures by emsumption of the drug is retumet India, the discipline and military bearing one riska from foretelling the no less than Tacis 62,332,4114 Iof the value of Taels 392.
of the troops on pande. would be so disequences For Chike, it is to fact, glancing at the totals for the Apart from the opium trade, in Asia, the thoroughness with which the forced to strike.
grice to any native or foreign regiment in hoped that she will not be struck nor past decade we see that the increases which, for obvious reasous, extended Yunnan Budel Anny is equipped with
EDWIN J. DINGLE. in goods exported have been con growth is not desired, the returns modern gear not only shows that the pro- tinuous without any deflection what-show a satisfactory all-round upward the army shall be in a position to put that vincial authorities mean business but that ever. This in itself is a most healthy tendency. They point to the fact business through. In the capital what first sign. Hongkong, ns asual, was the that even in spite of her present policy strikes the visitor is the military and im Service Corps, who left Hongkong in 1968, Empire's best customer, though, of of comparative inaction China, cautional virtue among the people. The been prompted lieutenant-colonel.
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nearly 97 million taele, compared The Bishop of Victorin returned last.
What is going on in the capital city 1. with 12 millions for 1908 France night from a short confirmation tour in the have seen in n leer degree in millor. B.D., Royal Army Medical Chilcor, who Thang Tsing District, on the Ehet river, towns throughout the province. In Talifu in charge of the Military Hospital. Hongkong, 1980-1007, has rotized on retired took over 30 million taels' worth of when he dedicated an old Ancestral Half (on the main tulo route to Burman pay from January 2th, 1911. goods, this representing advances of that has been ernverted into a Christian Yangchung (three days from Tongyuah), con
Church and bold five sonûrmalión, cone) in Chu-tsing fu, (lour days the other wide
been decided to me the per six and eight millions respectively firming 115 candidates, many of who are of Yumuntu), in Mengs in Chuongfru 22,700 to £1,000 a year. Bit Henry emolumiants of the oflica of Governue of Fiji when contrasted with the two pre-
old mon sod. women..
fu,in Tongchou-fo, and any other May, late Colonial Secretary of Hongkong the Bishop is announced to preach at vious years; while Russian Punfie St. Peter's to-morrow morning and at the places where I have travelled I have, bees will daw the ingrated Income of that
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