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THE SITUATION IN CHINA.
The following extracta throw interesting light on the situation
IN AID OF THE VETERANS' OLUB. | China –
Childrens' Play
Humpty Dumpty'
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"The Greedy Knave" UND
INDEE the Patronage of H. H. Sir
HI MAX, R.O.M.G. H. E Major General VEXYNIE, Rear Admiral Anstruther, C.M.G., sta, sta, ets.
PERFORMANCES :— Tavasay, 13th April:-
WANG YIN-CHANG TO THE
REBEL GENERAL.
THE CHINA MAIL.
always disappeared when personal danger threatened. He'le also distinguished by the absenen of mind that he has invariably displayed, about the pay for his troope which, in a manner to darba moit in annoying to him, persistently found itw in way into his own pocket. To surres: Dr. Han Yabarn ar President of Chlos, shows that the Yorodu la gifted with a fina vanro of humeur.
The most delightful suggestion of all in that the little Manchu, az-Emperor should be restored. As we have so often pointed Thit following telegram was sent by
ont, the revolution of 1911 was »nti. Wang Yinchang to General Teal and other Manchs; the rebellion of 1916 is allegedly Revolutionary leaders in the South anti-Monarchical With Bno irony the The Chief Executive has now cancelled Torodu, one of the companions-in-arms of the Monarchy, and by this wise step the the Chinese robel Press, suggests that both object you gentlemen had in view has
the monarchy and the Manchus should be already been attained. You have a restored. In this what the rebel leaders. obtained a grea maral victory; therefore it
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in ecossary that you should devise the best persuading their dupea to fight for?
Whan the names of the possible sucoss means to turn the victory into good accounors of President Toan Shib-kai, were he fa my opinion it is to the Internet of the borengo, are mentioned it in obrions to sountry that you gentleman'should lay dow the mosuast intelligence that nothing could your arme and exercise your influence for as the country, in its present condition the reform of the administration and were be to consult his own comfort and, your energy for the development of the probably, inclisation, and retirer into
country. Then postority will not only regard your as champions private lils. Not one of the men named could control the military chiefs who obey of the Chinese Republic bat as reformers President Tan Shih-hal because they of the Nation. Your names will think that to a man of his ability abedienes down in the history of this country and be can be properly rendered. It is not wive respected by generations to com If you to be dogmatic, but it is probable that it should push things to their extrames thethe President wore to cosigna ate of country will be devastated by a prolonged anarchy would ensue, which would 488 vil war, and fasily you with only be terminate with Chins being endowed with
fratremental in bringing aliens and robbermanarical syster, but with the monarch into our own family. Then all will be involved in a common ruin. Your original the other side of the Tallow Sen. purposes were to maintain and save the Will only Repalle, but it is feared that you hasten the destruction of the nation. The consequences of your present decisions will be very serious, and I hope that you will sch wisely so that there will be no canes of regret in future. The Kuomintang of the 1st and 2nd year of Min Kawy and the preinak Government of the 3rd and 4th. year will serve as our great warpings, and 1 beliers that you have already made a good study of the past, etc., etc..
51% RUSSIAN INTERNAL SHORT TERSED LOAN OF 1918.
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AN ASSORTMENT. OF HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE. &c.. Comprising:- Sideboards, Dinner Waggca, Dining Tables and Chairs, Chesterfield · Bofus,
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The price of ixage is 90%... The loan is entirely like of Income Tax
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The loan is redeemable at`par on Ist February, 1996, Russian style, without option for the Russian Gorarament to convert it at an earlier date.
Coupons are payable half yearly on the
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ON NOT ANSWERING LETTERA,
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and that would mean one letter, it net padre...
The best that can be done. in practice, is to establish the convention that you do nos answer letters; and the worst of
that is that your cesse to reretva nem. For there are few people who do not like to receive letters. There is always some pleasure in lasking at them unopened, i they are not avidently bills and one resents a mining with no post.. There. farst is weli to answer one now and then, so as to keep your correspondence alivet sometimes it is ever a relief t
There would be great satisfaction is answer many, when they have piled up in great arrears and lie benvy on your not answering letters if it could be donorssience. After that you feel quite & without misgiving,
But an uneasy conscience seerns to be
man of business and virtus until the arrears begin. to secumulate again.-
1st February and lat Angust. Bussisa THINKS TUL PREMIDENT OUGHT TO RESIGN. ways part of the process; aɔık even it orrespondent in the Times***
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An interest on the above tona rums |from Ist/14th February, the intercet Accrued on date of subscription must be taken into consideration and is to be added to the price of laruel-
The Rosso-Asiatic Bank in Hengkong is Arm-chalis, &c., Wardrobes and Toilet ready to accept applications for the store
named loan.
Special favorable rates will be quoted for Russian exchange.
Payment may also be made in Roubles.
Tablus, Double and Single Eruss and Brass-mounted Bedsteads, &c., Miscol Lansons Furniture, several lots of Black wood Ware, Carpeta, Pianos, e low lete of Pekiness Cloisouse, Porcelains, do., &, &c.
failure of monarchical scheme.
they never are answered, it is only because one puts them off until one forgets them. People like Napoleon may
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Count Okuma has given to the drahi hin views on the latest phase of the Chinaan question. President Yuna ho describes having been caught at a trat aab by himself be determined not to answer them from FEDERATED MALAY STATES. WAR sad. Els triskary he meets her in the the Arst, and get a pleasure from that Japanese Government, acting in concart with resolve; but most of us are bot like friendly Powers, has served on the Peking Napoleon, and we do, consciously, meas
The Legal Adviser, introducing the Government эстель!
warnings, being to answer them, oven if the unconscious War Loan Enactment. 1916, on persuaded that the introduction of a non part of us mesas otherwise. Perlaps certificate of urgency at a recent maceting Applications will be wired to Petrogradarchy would provoke. disturbances, but is the unconscious part of as that lowes at the Council of the Federated Malay
Yuna failed to appreciate President Fu free of talegraphic charges and commission, advice, and set it at nought until he was them, when they are lost, according to States, said that the object of the mil
this 40% only of the cast of the Bonds may obliged to declare the abandonment of the that theory of Freade which explains all was to render some humble menanre at be paid cu application, the balance to be scheme. The Mendate abandoning the mistakes as unconscious will. (Fal Particulars from Catalogue.) paid on receipt of the Bonds.
Resistance to the British Empire in the Tram :-Cash.
monarchy ought to have been issued much The Bank is also ready to give every earlier, for the rerola tionists,, The ware er letters have a great power of mislaying halt the world. Regarding the Bill he At any rate, those who do not answer great struggle now raging over more than facility to subscribers in the shape of adrances against the scripe.
ginally
to the monarchical opposed to the
regime, hare now become resourceful and entertain them; and then, it it becomes absolutely did not speak as being at all behind the strong personal feeling against the Prosinecessary to answer them, that is to say scenes, but he thought it owed ita exist- dent. President Yuan in now, trying to it the will t answer becomes pre-bence to the observations of Mr. Mucfadyen) utilizo both Bas" Shih-Chang, and Tean
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Chi-jai, whom be onca dismissed from dominant, they find them again. All this, at the resting of the Commeil in Novera posts of responsibility to mediate between of course: does not apply to offices and ber last, whez the hon. member drow the North and the South. Granting that such places, where there, is always une attention to the fact that the adverse they consent to this step, it will be very will to answer and a system by which balances against these States had been difficult to say how far they are likály
burden upon the succeed in their efforts, especially when it they are not lost, but even preserved after some extent is remembered that a strong sati-Yan they have been answered.
general Imperis resporces of the Em sentiment pervades the,, whole of Chios.
Men of business are cross with those pire and the object of the Bill was to If Provident Yuan is really solicitous for who do not answer letter; they even feel remove that burden. the welfare of his country, as he professe, virtuous over their own punctuality and
He then went on to say that the Bill the best course to persue in the present dispatch. They forget that it is their which he now introduced did not carry circumstances will he to retire from the Presidency. Some people appear to be business to answer letters, and they would exactly all the suggestions put forward under the Impression that China lacks have nothing to do if they did not sawer by Mr. Mactailyen, because it width snother etsreeman to raplace President them. Letters code to them in the nothing about the payment of debts, but
and thar, therefore, the tuation would be complicated by his roelgnation, orning and they answer them straight it provided for the handing over of the but Count Okuma does not endorse this and as naturally as they sat, their whole proceeds of the loan to the Imperis? Tiow. He thinks peace and order would breakfast, But the man who does not Government. The terms were based be restored in Chias immediately President answer letter does something als largely on those in the General Loan and i Tuan resigned. and that it would be easy naturally. Perhaps he is a poet, and the Inscribed Stock Enactment of 101
morning is the time when he writes his [poetry best
to ind a successor.
POSSIBLE-08. IMPOSSIBLE
PRESIDENTS.
A Japanese paper, Yorodu Chahs, which seems to be closely in touch with the revolutionary elements In China recently answered the question as to what men are capable of guiding the destinies of China, by giving t
y the following list.. Teen Chun-Hausn Kang Yu-Wai.
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so far as that law applied to the raising
of money hy, debentures. It provided for It be answered his letters then be the charging of the loan upon the general would cease to bo poet. Then, when revenues and assets of the States, repay. he has finished with his poetry, he is too ment in a period of five years, an interest tired to write a good letter, and he would of six per cont, for the bonds, being raiber write nous at all than a bad one bearer hands and for other matters of So it goes on from day to day; and after detail. Regarding the interest being at some days of zeney conscience he six per cent, that was of edirse no a succeeds in mislaying the letter and in high rate of interest as interest went forgetting all about it.
here but it might be hoped that the Writers, generally, are bad at answering excellence of the security and the nobility letters, or good at not answering them; of the object would reconcile protential and the rasch is plain. All sorts of buyers. The limit of the amount of the Commenting on this list the Faling people write to them who are not writers loan was $15,000,000, which was of course
Hwang Hsin,
Sun Yat Sen.
The ex-Manchu Emperor.
Daily News says !-----
It is delightful Ust. The first named, by profession, telling them how much only a small sum and which if fully Then, was
was better known to the foreign they have enjoyed their writings, or have obtained would be merely a drop in the Butcher Shum," an epithet failed to enjoy them. Bat to the writer ocean having regard to the total cost of by his aesthetic taste in refresh-
be gained!
ment. After his troops had captured and answering letters is disgusting just the war,
killed a notorious bandit, the wildmanner because writing is his trade and he doer, Mr. Belfield, went on to remarie that this ed Taon drank a cup of his blood. This, not want to fill his lure with it. And was the first occasion on which these however, is not his only claim to respectful then, if he is a fastidious weiter, he will Elates had appeared in the guise of bor admiration. When the rebellion of 1913-labour even at a letter and ratuse the rowern and they were proud that this first broke out Teen was acclaimed by the be phrases that come se readily to the mat occasion should be for such a high pur.
rebel
Premas the * Generalissimo
WARE MERORANTS, Wholesale in Shanghai. At first he did not favour to band, covering an advised. TRON STEEL METAL and HARD Fanitive Expedition." He was at the of business. He cannot begin your pose. and Retall Ironmongers. Pig Iron and commit himself one way or another, but He must suit the words to the occasion High Commissioner, in the course of a His Excellency Sir Arthur Young, the Foundry Coke Imperters General Store-when he saw that the masterly measures and the mood; but to do this is always speech eulogised: the loyalty and patriot. keepers and Shipchandlers. Nos. 35 and that President Tusa Babkai had taken 37, Alze Loore STEKET, (2nd Street, west to maintain order were certain to be difficult, and he would rather not writem of the Chinese community, some of Central Market) Telephone No. 515,
successful, “be plaintively declared that at all than fail to do it. So he does not prominent members of which had come flongong, September 4, 1913.
be had. never accepted the post, write at all, and is supposed to be haughtyforward to assist. Towkey Loke Yew, and Rod panic-stricken, to Hongkong, or ungrateful. Of course bo ought to 0.31.G., bad promised to put iz
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It was in fiot from Canton that Shum perhaps he cannot afford the one nor Sen had stated in the Cornell that he fed to Hongkong-Ed O. M.]
achieve the other. There again he was putting in $400,000-(chaers) an Of Kang Towel it la unecessary to unlike the man of business who has both savers more promises of $250,000, speak other than to stagest that, while ba lis held in great ssteam by a large'
as a matter of course. But all these are $200,000 and $100,000 had been made.
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of Chiness, he would hardly fill the difficult excuses and betray that uneasy conscience He regretted that he was unable to give office of President. Hwang Esin is known which always spoils the pleasure of not the names of these as he had not obtained As the Three-legged General, s name he answering letters, e per fas lesvento do so, but hoped, later to do so. won by the celozity with which he has If only cus could read a letter and soy Bone had informed him that, althoug
with triumphant resolution: I will not, they wished to subscribe, they had not answer this," than one could enjoy the the ready cash and he had pointed out post fresh every morning. But that its them that where there was a will there. Impossible." There is always a conflict as a way. Heplying to criticums of between the conscious and the noon the Government taking op only an issue. scious will; and sometimes one wine of $6,000,000 in the firs: place, His sometimes the other. Sometimes leters Excellency said that it was a cautious are thoroughly lent and forgotten: come policy, but they had reuson to hope that times they are only mislaid and at last
it would benester, $15,000,000 'found and answered with labour and $6,000,000 as they obtainadven sorrow by the bonscious will. One wishes that it were possible in some way to go through the Bankruptcy Court in the matter of latters, without offering my composition to one's coditors. But even that could hardly be done without some kind of correspondence. bankruptcy would have to
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