FRIDAY, JULY 14, 1811.
[Corrnicurr.] ANGLO-JAPANESE ALLIANCE
*** THE WINCES" ON ITS MODIFICATION.
Beuter's Service to the China Mail.)
LONDON, Jaly 14.
The Times welcomes the reported proposal to modify the Anglo-Japanese Treaty of Alliance. The proposal is, it says, the first frait of a new departure in foreign affairs which was happily inaugurated at the Imperial Conference,
The journal considers is highly improbable that if the reported agree mant has been male the two Powers have not also agreed to revise other articles of the Treaty with a view to its prolongation. Whatever action has best takes, the journal is confident that
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The U Asiatic torpedo-bost fotilin, under the command of Lieutenant Charles
8. Kerrick, U.S. Navy, consisting of the torpedo boat destroyers Bainbridge, Dale, Barry, Chauncey and Dentur, will leave Cavitu to-morrow (Saturday) for a cruise in northern waters.
The first port of call will be Hongkong where the little bosts will remain several day and then proceed to several other thiness ports before visiting Japan,
An interesting feature of the summer cruise will be a visit to Tindivantock, which port has never before bein included in the itineraries of the smaller vessels, and but seldom visited by ships of the foot.
Port Arthur may be added to the itinerary inter, but that in as yet uncertain, That port has been closed since 1933, the Japanese continuing the rule established
TPS.
The Fire at Samabel:
The recent are at Samabul turns on is
beer very serious one, and it been burnt down. Of course the place is reported that one third of the town has
not large. The number a shops and uses burat is actually thirty-eight Bat
and storas in the centre of the place. The they are some of the most important shops Bre raged from four in the afternoon till about seres at night. It is all the more to be regretted that the origin of the destruc- tion may be traced to some surreptitious gambling, and if this had not been allowed there would have been no fro.
REVENGE ON A APT.
Still another instance in-forthcoming of the hatred of the robbers towards the
piss who lead the police towards the spot
THE CHINA MAIL.
THE REFLECTIONS OF AN
who after years of absence, The man himself: whirled-along; în suddenly finds Landon, writes a pore the roaring tidesmas, feals, chand, and disconverted, Hole other the change spondent to The scions of change, but cannot rightly tell who the saviour
wath astonishment groat cars of Jagasjen lis in-his own outlook, or in HA 2004 went to which be his returned. hurtling through the contracted streets
th
he drops down a shafs, and is whisked daylight heathless and Amazed, and headlong bansath the rary foundations of the giant city he anerges into the pale gazes with fresh wonder upon the palaces the new and strango, hotels, the swift and costly motor cars, all the evidences of luxury, extravagance, and poverty that pass fucossantly before his unaccustomed eyes. Họ fooli kike a man in a dream; the rushing, prooccupied throngs become for a time a haunting ob session that banishes sloop; but presently, after contact with his fellows, he asks him- self whether he is really the dreamer, or whether it is not rather these enger, rost loss people who are busy with fund illusions. They seem complacent and saclafel, thes
when Isagh saked to look outward over
It has been decided upon after consulta. by the Rusainns, since their acquisition of where the robbers are supposed to be halstant horizons: even those who dimly
tion with the Ministers of the Overseña Dominianu
THE INSURANCE BILL.
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LONDON, July 14,
the port. The Inst Ambrian vessel to lurking. In this case there was a company sachor in the interbusin nt Port Arthur of soldiers led by a spy. By some means was in the fall of 1904 when the Don Juannet stated the spy was separated from the do Austria, under the commander of Comst. When the latter came upon the spot ntander (now Repr-Admiral) Aaron Ward, to whom the courtesies of the port were
where he was, he was found nearly dead, extended contrary wexisting regulations, being stabbed in the abdomen in several called and was allowed to enter the places. He died before he could be m harbour.
moved. The officer has written to hand
A DELAYED ACTION,
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All parties are co-operating, though the subject is found to be fraught with / Vieira and Co., were murtioned at the able hesitation about the receiving and would soo it if they would but look with M- Noakes, by Q. A. Dawean Scott.
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Wo Ping and Co., for 2490, against Mesars
but that also had not been done.
It is reported that still there is consider
A VISION OF THE BASZ.
Mombers of the Family, by Owen Wistar The White Owl, by Kate Korn.
The Hand of Venus, by J. Margau, do
Grost. dreaming!" the wanderer asks himself as Robinett, by Kate Douglas Wiggin
Is it the East or the West that is A True Woman, by Baronesas Orezy. he watches the fog drifting through the The Vision of Balmaina, by G. B. Bargin: cheerless streets, bletting out the sky, and Honour's Fetters, by May Wrane. glimmering lamps. He broods over mem-
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Supreme Court this morning, before Mr passing of Chinese notes in the town of Justice Gompertz.
Fatahan. It appears that the only condi- Mr U. L. Dennys, Jr., asked for coststions on which they are accepted by the ns two lots of particulars had been sent shops as payment, are cases in which no some time ago but both wore insufficient. change is given. For instance, if a man Plaintiff promised to let him have fartbow wishes to pay in a five dollar bill, then he WTapping the city in a brown all lit by Some Happenings of Glendalyne, by Doro must have bought commodities to equalories of things seen, not dimly, like these The King over the Water, by Justin particulam but had not done so. Besides, are dollars. The shopkeepers will not pay vague ewift shapes that fit through the a statement of claim was to have been filed, back cilver change in return for any this in light of the East. Foreste of smoking fac. bat clear-cut beneath the morning note value. It is reported that this is Mr B. A. Harding, for plaintiffs, mid causing a good deal of inconvenience, is isory chimneys, owned by brown men that the cases had been standing over for quite natural. But then when the Chinese managed by browned, with swarms of
workers who will readily to 12 or Brats. some time and in any case they would have make up their minds to any course, whether 14 hours a day for a pittance of a fow to be restored to the list.
there is reason in it or not, they will coppers; vast arsenala, where oro made obstinately purene the path selected, all weapons from great guns to rides, whatever fully there be in the nation and battleships, manned and armed and con- without any Western supervision; drand whatever be the consequences to themselves trolled and fought without the aid of any and others.
white man; the multitudinous cities of Asia, zich and prosperous and growing- and awake. Vast plains of waving wheat, Some of the Chinese papers are amusing illimitable stretches of green rice fields, ly critical in regard to the action of the trace and inexhaustible forests, wide, brim Viceroy of Canton over the position of the jungles, crossing chasms, speeding across
ming rivers.
The locomotive, piercing door of his gamen. Originally it seems it immeasurable distances, binding the oldest was intended that the door should face the continent in a network of steel mails with
APPALLING REPORTS.
Towns Wiped Out. "
(Reuter's Service to the China Mail)
LONDON, July 13. Telegrams from Ottawa report de- structive forest fires resulting from the excessive heat in North Ontario. Many | costs of to-day ? townships and mining camps have been destroyed.
Up to the present fifty persons are known to have perished, and it is feared that there are hundreds of casualties as the country is filled with prospectors and settlers.
Mr Daznys--Pleadings were ordered on
February 27th.
His Lordship Why do you want the
Mr Dennys-There was no necessity for bringing me here until the pleadings were filed.
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Bir Hartling-We are out of time. Mr Dennys Fire months out of time. Mr Mira, Clerk of Court-Pleadings have been filod.
next week.
The case was adjourned.
A MONEY-LENDING CASE
Bhagat Singh sued Tang Ping, a clerk in Mesin Donon, Looker and Deacon's office, to recover $190 for money lent.
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His Lordship-Make the application denly suggested that this would be bad fung shui, and the Viceroy was induced to believe it. He therefore sent for a geoman cor named Lo, and there was a good deal of mysterious ceremony by which this wise man decided that the suspicions were quite right. It would be fatal, he said, that the four of the nitr yamein si cult, brains this way, and he decided that the most propitious, direction was towards the north. This, we hear, will necessitate the buying up of some more land and the pulling dive co there are has without auch destruction. It is somewhat disappointing that, at this time of the day, a man like His Excellency should avoir this sort of thing as a serious business, and actually fellow the instructions given, to the extent of pulling down houses and wasting public money.
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The fire belt extends for 200 miles. Between North Bay and Porcupine, along the line to Temiscaming, the towns on the Northern Ontario railway Coohmne, Porcupice and Pettsville in "the-goldmining district-have been
Bir. W. E. Lhenton appeared for wiped out. All the mining camps from
defendant and said that he consented to judgment, but he would ask his Lordship Dome to Whitney have been hurned.
Forty persons perished at Porcupine. to exerciso his discretion with regard to dr were incinerated in the Big Dome the interest, which was 240 par seat, this direction there fa.no spare land possession An Asia savage, resentful rongkong, February 9, 1911.
Defendant had only repaired 878 and a promissory note was given for 8190, so that he would ask his Lordship to exorcise his jurisdiction and reduce to interest to a reasonable amount,
Plaintiff gavo evidence that he paid defendant 8190 in cash.
His Lordship said that ho did not think Не the ordinanco applied to that case,
mines, and twelve in the West Doma mince, besides the manager and his family.
The mining plant in the vicinity of Porcupine has been destroyed.
Hundreds of people are taking refuge, on the lakes and streams. The refugees from Porcupine and Pettaville crossed the Lake to Golden City though the outskirts of the latter city were aflama.
All construction camps along the railway west fram Golden City are burned, and the men are filering before the spreading Hames. Reveral refuger have been drowned in the lakes.
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The third great problem is that of the
We have seen reports of interclan fight had nothing to do with fixing the interesting at Kaukong and Saitei for some days, Japanese victory. It was hailed as an countries of the Muldle East, and it bas Bir Shenton-The rate has not beez Those disturbances have been growing and omen and a portent by all Asia. It was an the meet immediate interest, because
emblem of the turn of the tide that had will probably be the first to come to a band. His Lordship The parties have fixed now the camnation is a great and the carried the white races to the shore of the The Middle East is the real cockpit of the the interest if the man promised so much pain is so raging, that some details may Pacific. The outward movement that began work
ast be out of place. There are several when Vasen da am sighted the green
GREAT FACTORS THERE and golden wands of Calicut, and There are three great factors which miast villages involved, and though the original Mr Shenton-I think your Lordship can cause of it all was the refuel of the across the Uruls into the trackless forests determination of these problems. The first Verrank led his hardy band of warriors exercise a preponderating influence in the exorcise your jurisdiction.
| captain of a best to pay a toll for an of Siberia, was stayed for the first time. is the development of land communications, His Lordship-I don't think so.
the their day was dawning at last. When the Aristic question. The chief railway question Manchuria, and drove the Russians hond Europe on the one hand and with China on long back towards tho-ungari, they let the other, and both these schemes are no loose a surging, flood of vague but potent longer wild dreams. No one can foresce aspirations that quickly spread over the all the changes which the locomotive may whole continent. From Stamboul to
but ita steady advance produce
மயர். Canton, from Kabel to Maximas, from Tokyo profoundly modify the existing situation. to Bail, the peoples of Asia were quickly The second factor is the rejuvenation of resurgent. We cheered our gallant allies the Asiatic peoples, prompted by Japan. when they stormed the blood-red slopes of Thyre can be no mistake about the new Nanshan, but did we realize all that therapist abroad in the Frat A new world- triumph may mean some day to And movement is beginning, which is neverthe- lesa se old so humanity itself The Europe, and to all the Western world 2.
palating heart of Asia has begun angther - diastole, and the expansion suust produca & redowal of the ancient conflict with the West..!
Mr Shenton-it is such a astry trann. anchorage, the fighting has now reached The peoples of Asin knew full well that which is completely revolutionizag
Special tming we taking five injured action that the Court will lend its basis most the dimensions of a little civil war. Japatiese burst open. the harred doors of of Axis is now the connexion of India with
to Iroquois Fille, where n irria of doctors ance to the max.
and zures are ready to receive and care for them in hospitals.
The sky is darkened by the pall of smoke and illuminated by the flames.
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It is estimated at Toronto that between 800 and 400 periebed is the forest fires at Porcupine, Ontario.
GREATEST DISASTER FOR HALF A CENTURY.
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His Lordship Before I deal with that I shall have to believe your client and diabolieva plaintiff.
Mr Sheaton-That is what I am asking your Lordship to do
month.
THE LESSON OF HISTORY.
to
The victory of Japan was not a new phenomena. If the Western world oon- templated it with stupified surprise, it was only because; fashed with the memories of long and dazzling successes, it had forgot
The third factor now coming into play is ton history. The whole of bonen history that of the industrial development of Asia,
WAR COMING CONFLICT,
The high officials have taken the matter in hand and sent soldiers and delegates to try to stop the fighting and to pacify the angry fighters. Hitherto they have been an successful. It is said that there are famous rubbers on both sides who have joined in the fray with the men at their disposal. His Lordship-Buz ha is not claiming They have everything in the way of loot ta intercut. The difference in what he got gain by the fighting, and they are partly and what he signed for represents the con-responsible for the unwillingness of the fdence he had in your client and the con- people to desist from their ama Souse of the men on one side arranged two cinnon in fidence be would have in a good security, position and then they awaited a best that He had the risk of getting nothing.
they expected to pass along that way Defendant was ordered to pay: 815 When the chancns were fired the boat was mak, and it is believed that there were st least fifty people on board. Many have in the Eastern hemisphero has been one and the coming conflict between Europe record of flie ebb and flow of encounters and Leis will be, in its most permanent already been killed on both sides, whilst between Europe and Asia. The alteration form, war of industrial competition. the number of wounded will never be is an persistent, and almost as regular, as When the factories and minus of Asia have known. The passions of the people are the recurrence of winter and summer, of heaped up freah riches for the East the chamcter of the confict may change and till as violent sa evor. It is reported that night and day
There are three great
hree great problems which, in
which, in become mors violently militant, but the there are no fighters in China like villagers, their gradual development, are likely to intermediate proces must be a long one, when they attack each other. They are determine the character of the relations Yet, the results will not be less tangible shoolutely regardless of death. It is mid between Europe and Asis in the present because the weapons will be false With two mothers, two wives, foar that they were only hired soldier who cantary. The first, and the greatest, beef piece goods rather than ironclad
cause it will most directly influence the In the south and east of Asin The area covered lay the fime extends children, and paying 250 a month out of a fought the James in the last war, and moral attitude of Europe towards the Kath, are thone swarming peoples “with their hyer veral hundred square miles alary of $80 in respect of judgments and that if the people of China could be got te is that of the scure which will be shaped illimitable resources, their faculty of patient while the famsa are being fauned by a with Bre similar cases pending man fight against foreign nations there would by Great Britain is her control of India labour, their realitation of the great truth, named Chan Tak Wah, a clerk on the be a different condition of things. In a continued acceptance of British rule de happiness lion in unhurried work and not coming issue in India, upon which the which the West is forgetting--that true gale which is blowing at the rate of 50 Kowloon-Canton Bailway, was ordered by word, when fighting amongst theniselves pende, will be found in the demand, already in the nisure They have not lost the Mr Justice Gomperts to pay $5 a month they fight like tigers, and nothing can arising, for soal and financial liberty. It joy of fatherhood or the secret of maternity. to Bhagat ingh in respect of a claim of pacify them. 6220 for money lent
A mesage from. Ottawa states that the fires in the new mining country in Northern Ontario represent the greatest disaster Canada has experienced within the last half-century.
HUNDREDS OF MILES AFIRE.
miles an hour..
THE PEOPLE'S PANIC.
Many minor who have taken refuge! in wooden anuits, have been trapped Alke rata:
Crowds of people at Porcupine ars standing in the water up to their nook waiting for bouts to take them out of dagger In this way at least 200
have been henumber and drowned.
The total death-roll estimated at 400 not considered in excess of the actual figuren.
IN THE COURTS.
Messrs Wesser and Raven obtained judgment for 3135 against Las Pui Sang, at the Supreme Court this morning. Mr J. EL. Gardiner, who appeared for plaintifis, stated that defendant was in gaol.
SPORTING.
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the demand is conceded; and in, whatever. They cooupy the lands made freitful by form it must inevitably involve some the monsoons, and desiccation of much abatement of thn, control from England, of the rest of Asia leaves then untouched. which is essentinily Huarcial. The impend. They have been pre-occupied with AN OPEN SEORET
ing agliation will test to the utmost the agriculture for unnumbered ages, but now, professed unsolishness of British motiver they are leszalng the uses of michitory. M and increasing demand for Chamber the the Wood the products which they on ANY sak the reason for the continued in holding India, and will be fraught with Why should they continue to buy from Lain's Colio, Cholera and Diarrhran Remedy costed in the Declaratory Act when it was miske for themselves? China always made The secret: is that it never fula to give passed by the Rockingham Ministry most of the slothing her poople require relief. The middle-aged men of to-d
The second problem 18 that of the future In dine she will probably make all the In the county cricket chainpionship con remember it as the remedy giron them
of China. It is the problem which must wants, and then Chim, and Japan; and tant Yerkshire defeated Leicestershire by when they are children and itazeputation material effect upon Europe, became of aveready doing
their mothers for crop calls and dysente
in its solution stinitely have the grotest India will ask
themselves s Indised they why Abould not five wickets. C. Woods, for the winning as a positive cure for such ailments is still she sat natural n ces of Chios, and the compete in the rest of the Temple EST the test
made!
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produced, is the spot for the prompt relief bikante Mang believe that the Chinese mesh so much to the workmen of Eampe. ying big bab pain. For, malo, by sil" Chemie d
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