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? ''དྡྷ ནྟ THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1918
BY TELEGRAPH. BY TELEGRAPH.
(Reuter's Servica to the Okino Mail) |[(Beuter's Service to the China Mail)
AUSTRALIA AND THE PACIFIC
A
NAVAL POSITION.
LONDON, Oct. 9. Reuter telegraphs that Australiaas are much dissatisfied with the naval position in the Pacific. The decision of the Imperial "Conference to have three units in the Pacific has not been fullled, as only the Astraliah unit exists. The problem is iade more urgent in view of the opening of the Fanama Canal Cousequently Aus tralia devices à Naval Conference in
the near futura.
ITALIANS AND ARABS.
REBELS DEFEATED,
LONDON, Oct. 85,
WELL-KNOWN AVIATOR
INJURED,
LONDON, Oct. 9. Mr. Hawker, the well-known Ano-
tralian aviator, who recently competed for the Daily Mail" "Round Groat Britain" prize, fell Afty feat at Brook lands and badly injured his apine, The wind was gusty when 'Hawker was starting to attempt to dy 200 miles in an uninterrupted fight,
UNITED STATES NAVAL POLICY.
LONDON, Oct. 9
CORRESPONDENCE.
Ma. G. STEWART AND THE RECLAMATION CO.
Whitehelme.
Hoylake,
Cheshire.
THE SECRETARY.
Hongkong Loud Inveximent Co.,
Hongkong
THE CHINA MAIL.
Amalgamation. We note that our Board' is willing to consider s. Scheme of ‚am- algamation, but destros us to put a scheme forward. That is, of course, impossible for #shareholders abs distance, and out of touch with Local details. And 'we' are ⋅ ab. & "further disadvantage in nos being on the spot in so far we are unable to pat forward can view at the Companies' medking.
Board of Directors. We notice that thene prefer to act in their presont dus! capacity of managing the two present re.of a similar sort should they consider it Companies and apparently more Companies advisable to greata tham, but we coonider war within our righta in claiming that, if and when similar Companies should again be under contemplation, waa sharabolders. in the Parent Company ought to be consulted
Dear Sir,-We beg to acknowledge ceipt of your letter of 12 h July addressed to Mr. Stuwart, on the subject
The Reclamation Ca
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You seem to treas tho discussion on
1st February, 1900, as finally settling the and to be offered shares in the new Com- question of the propriety of the two Companies Pro Rats to car Holdings in the panion being under ana ninnagument.
ald Company."
We would point out, however, that the Home Shareholders were not roproseated at that mosting, which consisted of 13 shareholders only, other than the Directors, And although the management at that time, and apparently at the present time, A belegram from Washington states are of opinion that the two Companies that the Government will ask Congress | cannot possibly compete and esant there. is December for thres Dreadnoughts | fore be termed Rival Companies, we hold and a proportional number of sub. different opinion and consider the marines and destroyers. The policy is similarity of the business done by both
A telegram from Rome states that likely to be "Less money sshera and Compazies to be such that their respective
the last gathering of Arab rebels at Cyrenaica was broken up on the 6th. instant. when Goneral Vinaia captured the camp at Buscemal, inlicting heavy Зоклев
The Italian casualties were alight.
The success of recent operationa permits a beginning to be made with the repatriation of troops from Cyrenaica.
THE FINES SYSTEM.
AN IMPORTANT LEGAL „
REFORM.
LONDON, Oct. S. Mr. McKenna, Secretary of State for Home Affairs, in a speech at Pont- newynydd, announced the introduction of a measure to reform the system of finer. Out of 151,000 people imprison- ed in 1912, 80,000 were committed in default of payment of fines, mostly through want of means. He believed it would be an advantage to the State if minor offenders were given time to pay, or allowed to pay by instalments.
KAISER DECORATES JAPAN- ESE AMBASSADOR.
LONDON, Uct. S The German Emperor has conferred upon the Japanese Ambassador, Mr. Ishii, the Grand Cross of the Red Eagle.
Harverson, the former made a breek of
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FRENCH PRESIDENT IN SPAIN.
A CORDIAL WELCOME.
more afloat."
LABOUR PARTY AND SYNDICALISTS.
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LONDON, Oct. 9.
Speaking at Hendon Mr. Ramsay Macdonald, Leader of the Labour Party, said that a curse to the progress of the Labour Party was the advocacy of direct action and sympathetic strikes. There was no room in the Party for Syndicalists.
THE GOVERNMENT AND HOME RULE:
THE DOMINIONS AND THE
QUESTION.
LONDON, OCL 8.
Mr. Herbert Samuel, the Postmaster.
General of Great Britain, who was the guest at a lunchdon given by the Cana dian Club, dealt with the problem of reconciling unity with individual free. dom wishin the Empire. He believed that the Government's General Home Rule policy was approved by the Do. minione.The Government cannot," he said, and will not abandon the proposals for Irish, self-government."
THE GOVERNMENT FIRM.
Mr. Alexander Ure, apeaking at Renfrew, said that Lord' Loreburn's letter had aroused a flickering, interest in the Irish question. If the Govern. went meant business with the Parlin ment Act, they also meant Home Rule for Ireland, The Government was
spheres of operations in Land overlap, sed tharsforo compete with one another. We note that it was contemplated to offer the shareholders in the Land Investment Company an interest in the new Company pro rats to their holdings in the old Com- pany, which confirms the statement of one of the Managing Directors on 1st February, 1006, that with the individual shareholders "The Board has nothing to do" an at titude which we contend is very regrettsbla towards the "Proprietors of the Company" who are the individual shareholders and ne which we are happy to think is not general in Join: Stock undertakings. We would merely quote thres companies operacing in the Colony: the Hongkong Bak, the Chartered Bak, and the Canadian Pacific Railway, t show the different attitude of Directors to warda shareholders, who in each case, when extensions have been found neces stry, have been individually ofered the option of subscribing for new shares "pro" rata" to their holding.
In regard to the Arst named it is within
public recollection that when a Company
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The Military Correspondent of The Times, | TION in an article reviewing the arguments in favour of a Channel Tunnely wrote
The case for the Channel Tanocl' will bare to be made a great deal stronger than it is at present before the British publi can safely part with the advantages of their ingularity; and wor military forces at home will have to become much more formidable than they are before the undoubted risks of this dangerous scheme can be scripted: with equanimity. is.
Thus, however "considerable the com. merical advantages of the tunnel way
to do siműar business was created by some appear to be; whether wo attribute much of the Directors, "The Trust Cad Loan or little value to the safegande at our end of Company, which developed into the it; and whether we rate the national risk to "Bank of China and Japan," the Directors be great or small, there can be no question interested in the new Company retired that a tunnel will add to our anxieties and from the direction of the older Company. will modify the conditions under which the
Focloon Blarine Lot 49.-Yoat conten- tion that the Land Company has never defence of the country will have to be done a better transaction than in selling undertaken. Consequently, and until a Kowloon Marine lot 49 to the Reclamation national Anny has been created in Eng- Company is duly subed, but not without hud. it would is an act of felly to barter come astonishment in view of the successful operation it has proved to the younger sway our insularity; to add fresh dangers Company.
Dividends. You say we are geting 9.33 per cent on the paid-up value of our shares.
Home Rule vere accepted.
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We were getting at one time under the
In our opinion the arguments against the to be nicet intimate, and while it is impos- 12 per cent dividend at 15.0 per cent. room are conclusive. The incresss in sible to forcase any change or cause of snd we would point out that in 1903 to main-the power and efficiency of our asval change in them, yet the tunnel, once co A RECORD BILLIARD BREAK.
tain that rate 2250,000 was taken from re- taken out of roserve in 1804 for the same changed since the time when some years of the Channel must reangnize thin serve, and that further $250,000 was and relatively our position at ses has national agreements are not. Both sides Armaments can only be regarded relatively; structed, would be permanent, and inter.
LONDON, Oct. 3.
purpos The Reclamation Company was ago, this scheme was unequivocally rejected France were to becoms unfriendly, or In a match between Stevenson and
origo nder $1,000,000 as made by the saperte and by natural feeling As Calais vers to bo seized by another Power, brought into being la 1902 and on
regards our military strength we have the tunnel would be worse than useless to 919, which is a record with ivory balls ready to confer if the principles of approximately a profit of $1,500,000 on certainly act improved the position. The this county. Apart from these consider. Land transactions within a mile of the City supporters of Chinazel Tunnel con ations, the stablishment of unbroken But Company in tour where binus, nevertheless, to urge its value in communication with Europe would mean policies under all the beat and modern methods of Late Assurans
the interval has reduced
duced peace and in war, commercially and dividend
20arly 50%, and acded nothing strategically. Ita value from, the latter to us the loss of the ineuler position, 1 its remarvės. We cannot but feel, there-
guarantees our national, sense of security. point of view is the more questionable of We cannot afford to lose this position and that had our reserves been wisely the two. There is one element of danger thereby to add to our anxieties and to the utilised we could have financed the "New that cannot be eliminated, the risk that responsibilities of those who are charged Company
quite comfortably and that the our end of the tunnel might be surprised. with the task of providing for our defence. remark in your latter, that we are ad- The Committee which inquired into the voosting speculative business" when s project in 1882 admitted the inadequacy of are only asking that the Land Company all the means of protection that could be SHANGHAI, Oct. 91
should advance pori-paru with the develop devised. Lord Wolseley was emphatic in Chung Haun, Commander of Nan-ment of the Colony, tends to show that the
denying that A surpriso of this find was king, has decided to tender his rebound from the "Imprudence" of paying impossible. What he asid then bas lost
too high dividends in the past is resulting none of its resignation.
teres iz.tha present in an attitude of Ular menores of this year have amply Prudence" amounting almost to timidity justified his statement; and the risk of a in the present.
raid on Dorar is one which the nation can To illustrato our contention that we are never prudently accept until its territoria! forces have been organized on a national prosperity of the Colony we would point basis. out: That although the rate- ible valoe of the Colony has advanced from under
To oror our returns a go property holdersshow not only stagnation but retrogression, for in 1002 the position of the Land Co. was As follows:
LONDON, Oct. 8. President Poincaré has arrived at Madrid, on a visit to King Alfonso.
President Poincaré had a most en thusiastic reception King Alfonso, attended by Ministers, "received his dis- tinguished guest on the milway plat-
CHINA'S PRESIDENT:--
form, and the Queen of Spain received THE ACCEPTANCE OF OFFICE. not getting a fair share in the advancing the Fresident at the Royal Falace, wbere j be reviewed a body of troops. On
PERING, Oct. 9. appearing at the balcony, he was It has been decided that the Pre- vociferously cheered by crowdę of silent shall make his declaration and people,
acceptance of office ut 10 a.m. on the 10th instant. After the cere-
Ai a banquet in the Palace, King Alfonso, tcasting the French President, said that Spain and France had in com mon the task of the civilisation of Mor .occo, and it was found imperatively necessary to assure the solidarity of interests by fertile collaboration, Presi dent Poincaré's visit was a precious pledge of future intimacy.
President Foincaré, in replying, said it would be a joy and honour if his visit contributed to make the union of the two peoples closer and mors fertile.
CONGRATULATION FOR PRE- SIDENT YUAN.
London, Oct. 8,
A telegram from Berlin states that
the semi-official Norddeutsche proffer
A
ony he will receive all the high officers und Foreign Ministers. salute of a hundred and one guns will be fired, and a military review will follow.
The President has appointed Sün Po Chi, the Minister of the Foreign Department, to return the calls of the Legations and to send in the President's name telegrams to all Foreign Governments expressing thanks for their recognition of the Republic.
LONDON SHARE QUOTATIONS.
The following share quotations were
Capital Reserve Carried forward
8 4,000,000 in 1891 12,000,000 in 1913
доде
Indeed, the caval
Association Football.
D.C.L.I. BUND v. R. E. RESERVEA,
Those teams thrned out for a Becond Division, United Service League match at If the Navy is unable to hold the the Eappy Valloy yesterday afternoon. · Channal in time of war, then the tunnel Tame-D.C.L.L Band-Ward; Wilcox, becomes a positive danger: but, if it is Twitchett; Smith, Alexander, Briscoe; certain that we can close the Straits, we
doubt the strategic necessity of the Wright, Nightingale, Candler, andurtaking sitogether. Supporter of the James.
Cann,
propass estimate highly ita vaine as a R. E. Reserves -Wilkinson: Tuckar, rapid mesas of transit for food supplies
from France to England in time of war. It Hill; Robinson. Thompson Miller: in not certain that France, would possess
Broadrib, Buddy Allen, Mason, Baff.
this aid. Undeniably's new
such a surplus se might admit of her Referee, Ship's Corpi, Menadus, R. N. rendering
From the kick off the mppers attacked source of supplies from the East by way of and were almost immediately awarded a 85,000,000.00 Marseilles and Calais would be welenme: purity, which caused a hot dispute. This
760,000.00 but it must be borne in mind that his pre-
51.707.20
supposes our complete control of the Modi- being eventually taken by Robinson, the terranean trade-routes. From this point of saj pers were a gual in front before anyone £5,801,707.28 view also the claims of a tunnel can be had had time to settle down. The Band axaggerated Eren under the most favour-tried a couple of solo efforts through able conditions, it is not to
to this
Cann and James but Tucker was in that we look for provisions. We have a
...
Whereas in 1912 10 years afterwards, it is as follows: $5,000,000.00 Reserve
92730,00€ Carried forward 15,814.89 85,266,814.83 and asmerous potts Bren with the in- other and put seras gosi and Allen a natural advantage in our long ses bourd the way and Boff pooding off to the creasing power, range, and it dependence despatched number two part Ward. Or a shrinkage in 10yearsof 634,892.43 of the submarine, It is inconceivable, whi
While accompanied by a fall in the dividend from 12% to 7%
ware in a position to carry on war at all, Thinge changed then and the Band played that any blockade of our conate could be up in fina style. After exerting considere established in such a way so seriously to able pressure, dering which Tucker proved affect communications
ons with our inexhaus-
received by cable from London to-day by although from all public reports there has fible resources over-se, Indeed, it himself a lusty bacit, they redaced the
Mr. P. C. Potts.
Shells ("Bearers"} Ural Carpinos..
Yuan Shih-kai the sincere congratula-Kailans
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-„tions of Germany on his accession to Trouchs
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the high office of President, which, is Indos (Combined)...
Pahange... ays, he owes to the confidence of his Electric Trama fellow citizens in his triod ability. After a reference to the heavy taką confronting the now President, this fournal concludes by hoping that ha
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been great immigration of cuteids Chinese dithis to see in what way the existence lead, Nightingale piloting falo, the Colony with the ousequent of Channel. Tennel would ever be of Wilkinson's way, The Band- outiszed 506 Ballers. increased demand for all kinds of House strategic advantage to this anantry, how their programme and before the laterval
property
Reclamation. The contention on page 2 | *vor much the conditions of modern warfare Uandiar equalised the scores." - Hall time sen of your letter that the Land Co. should not may be modified in the furfure. D, O. L. L. Bad, 2; B. B. Reserves, S
reclaim" is in direct contradiction to the
On commercial grounds the scheme is
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DIPHTBERIA-HOW IT MAY BE
AVOIDED
tions
Aru already serious
113 Bayers.statements made in 1906, and again ra- perhaps antitled to more sympathy, though The loams proved evenly matched in the ... 8 2.0 Middle, peated 4, that the Company may even here its drawbacks are considerable second molety. Following an attack by
may be
upon to undertake Reclama-
▲ dry-land "route, to the Continent the sappers, Nightingale got under ons that of a considerable character
would certainly create a very large increase gave the crowbars mighty mack when s New Companies. Maу но
in the number of tesroller to and from was expected. After Wilkinson and tether, is your view, the Present Beless desirable consequence would be the the sappers has another good ind to this country. An equally important but safely dealt with several good shots and clamation Company or any other new will greater labox of, füreign labour into a
Mason Company can be justifiably created by our country in safer the probletes of alien in Teltabattement well up the field, Alexander own Directors, to realnim choice Inta of the foreshors without the old Company being Undoubtedly we might look forward with dashing tackle. Time cams with the
migration.
eroogh piased on to James bat Tuaker robbed with.
contend that the large commission we bat mane acturers are by no means "gread treatment than that 1.5
Domentariona, It is true then some manufacturers the increased foreign, de Managing Directors have, under the who gained would base to face the past that onz competition would bring ruin, while those articles, certain deficite rights of remunerability of an-luczas of tariffs tion, bat it appears to us that merely it canntries Manwhile the carrying trade other creases the moral obligation incumbent in the Channel would, fer heavily implies THY let the children rack their tilst the culture beds, which form in upon them to give their individual atten. With all thes WH
buddies fo such a dutressing manner child's throst" when, -16, has a cold, and Ition to the interosse «f the sot Company, le hardly; surpris
baketers that pither children when you can easily cure their colds with minimizes the risk of contrating infectious and not to let their attention and luence le Chat: the
bolt u of Chamberlain'sough Remedy. For al by wil Chemists and be divided up between the Land Company any signs of p For sale by all Chemists And Strikespora. Storekeepers, S
Sage and oiler and competing Companies
IPHTHERIA is usually contracted welfare of Chide add to the merit of orepares the child's system for the reoop- the services he had already rendered to tion and development of the diphthoris pay for management, antities as to better that this would be an unmixed blowing. To the Fatherland.
may by his froth, achievements for the when the child has a cold. The cold. given a chance of doing the basin itself 1}.conßärnos to an intressed volume of trade; result:D. O. L. Band, R. E. Re
"CHILDRENS CULDS.
germs. When there are one of diphtheris in the neigborhood children that bare colds should be kept at home and off the streat matil recovered. Give them berlain's Cough Remedy and they will not hava to remain at home long Is slso clasa
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