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BITES.
BRANDT.-On April 17,1916, at the Vietoria Nursing Home, Shanghai, to Captain and Mrs. Fred J. BLANIT, of Chungking Wert Chim, twin sons,
CorSLAND-At Cheltondale." The Peak, an 24th. ind. to Mr. and Mrs. A. S. D. COUSLAND, a daughter)"
The China Mail.
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the Hukuang Provinces. Under the
| Republican régin. he was certainly
a staunch follower of the President
down to the time that the monarchical
CHINESE AFFAIRS.
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NEW GABINET FORMED.
A STORM OF SHELLS.
NEW RECORD ESTABLISHED AT
YERDUN.
THE CRITICAL POSITION.
(Pro Mr. H. Warner Allen. Special Correspondent of the British Press with the French Armies.)
MONDAY, APRIL 24, 1816.
at circumstancen to stake everything on a moral victory. The Crown Prine haped by the capture of Verdun to retrieve his' military reputation and the decaying prestige of the Central Empires, since Verdun, as the creult al past tradialous..
The Assistant Judge-Ta siniply warm them they will be procçeded agains. according to lay,
Mr. Wilkinson-Yea, and it warns then about jasurance spécially.
Mr. Wilkinson continued that i was
movement came to a head, since when, Router's Service to the China Mall.) fin common with other old friends of
PEKING, April 24 the President, his friendship for the General Tuan, Chi fui has accepted President has markedly, usoled to a the Premiership and the War portfolio) degree approaching open hostility, and is organising a rowCabinet to which Our telegram on Saturday stated that is St Kat has agreed to Li Your Hino (the Vice-President) | remfor all Civil authority," was willing to take the Presidency, | ns the Constitution directs vacaney occurs, but he will do
Lu Chen, Hung so only on condition that YOAN
Chai Chai Sam EA guarantees that there;
Wong Yi Tang shall be no military outbreak in
...La Kuan Hsing Communications...Tsao Ju Lin Peking and that the control of the [local troops be vested in Tuas Cur
The Government hopes the Premier ship of Tan Chi Jai, who is a JUL It is evident that the negotiustatach Republican, will reconcile the off, who is representing the Russian point at which the Crown Prince's army Trading with the Enemy, King's Regula
The following membes have been it practically selected Foreign Affairs.. Fimunce.. Interior Nagy
tious are fast reaching a settlement onth on this basis.
world knew that his first duty was no to have dealings with the cremy. All thə things referred to by Mr. Macleod were exceptions. Thes lid pot extend to nor hare saything to do with Ching, where they had a complete" body of law and " apecial legislation, dealing with all points that had to be dealt with.
The Chief Judge--What was that leginu Istion?
Mr. Wilkinson-First, the Treasonabis Lastaringe Eegulations and second, the
tions..
outbreak of the war.
The Chief Judge-Thas was not on the
is a household word and the symbol of well known to the mau in the stress that - the imprenable fe tress. Tha neutral" what "enemy" meant was a man held- and the mad in the street have nod yet ing allegiance to the sovereign of san» realised that the term fortress" has elony atato. All such were elemiss; in modern warfare lost its unclent signi that was known to every man in the Scance. If the Crown Prizes fails. Ger. street. Every British subjeut in the many had staked her all, on an attempt which, if it fails, as it surely must, may VER, March 4
well prove a death-blow to the Empire. Verdun is French to-day as is always The Germans are shelling the gates will be despite the menace of the Garmas teavily, and everyone in the town-so Army and the threats of the Crown far as I have seen, there are exactly three Prince. As we came into the town-the civilians apart from ourselves has been first civilians who have reached Wordus out to pick up the splinters that are rain- since its evacuation, Mr. Elmer Roberts, pattezing sound like that of rain.
ing down on the roofs of the houses with.
of the Associated Press of the United Before coming here I saw from one of States, and myself, with Captain Seme. the heights above the bombarded wity the
Press-the air was trembling with the rain and mist. the back outline of is striking blow after blow. Despite the Ecise of the battle that was raging round the Cote de Poivre and the eminence of F Chen Hsing, the Minister of Dandumont. Even some five miles away Douaunient are visible to the naked eys. Foreign Affairs, has had considerable the noise of the German artillery Was The distance between these two points diplinatio experience. He has been deafening. For minutes together it was was less than a twelfth of the direum. The Chief Judge-In that all part of Ministers Ruskin after serving at the absolutely a continuous crash upon crashference of the hills which surround Fer. the system? Levation successively interpreter,
dun, every one of which is a veritable Mr. Wilkinson-The people here are attache and secretary. He has and bang-poa bang, huge Gercaan shells stronghold of tranches and barbed wire. governed by the King's Regulations in so served as Minister to Holland, and was
bursting in and all round the town, and One could only marvel as the enemy's far as they apply and where not by the China's delegate at the first and second the French guns answering from every temerity in trying to fores his way Common Law. That is quite clear.... Conferences at The Hague. Mr: Eu was ‡ slope. Silence seemed an impossible through the defence on so narrow a front There is no question of mens rea at all. M. Piry, the Director-General of the selected Minister or Foreign Affairs in ideal. Yet even outside the town from and across steh difficult country.
They do not listen to mens rea at home. Chinese Post Ofire, has returned to the First Republican Cabins and sub-time to time there would some a silence smoke elpady rising from German shells until otherwise denned.
Through glosser one, could sea the Enemies are enendes at Common Law Peking from a vacation spent in France.quently became Prime Minister, retain perhaps of thirty seconds, and it was ing the portfolio of Foreign Affairs. He
Burating, on the Coto de Poivre and the The Assistant Judge-Then the dafini- resigned" office owing to sickness.
more nerve racking than the eternal boom tiles of the French guns nested to us.tin in the July Trading with the Examy Dr. W. F. Willoughby, Deputy The other members of the Cabinet, of bursting Gernua shella and the Beneath our feet white shoke town here Begulations was not necessity. Legal Adviser to the Chief Executive, repting the Fremier, whose enrer is trembling of the earth beneath the reply and there in grey Verth, showing where The Chief Judge-oes not the Secre
leaving for America or the ex-briety meationed in any leading article, of, the French artillery. During these shell had fallen accountable littletary of State put himself, in rather s pization of his term of service this is afentifiable, as C. T. Wang, wholences one was waiting in tense expect from a field or wood were svidence that Chins and for the Foited Kingdom.
me not widely known, unless Wang Yi
pillars of snake rising here and there ridiculous pusition-different laws for Lonth
was General La Ya Huey's Chief of tion for the infernal dip to break loose
a casual German projectile had burst is Mr. Wilkins-Certainly, and for good:" | Inphumatic Affairs at Wuching and Vice- | again.
vojn Minister of Commerce and Industry in
rams. As ar tearned judge used "to say "We are in China.“ the first Republican Cabinet,
NEWS ON THE DAY,
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LOCAL AND GENERAL.
At an inquest Bell at Shanghat into the death of Mr. Richard J. Brand verdict was recorded that deceased died as the result of a wound self-inflicted from a revolver. There was no evidence to show why deceased had committed
HONGKONG, MONDAY, April 24, 1016micide.
THE SITUATION IN CHINA.
01:
JJ Theipon. Dist fier "Engineer the Nanking Human allway is leaving China shortly to volunteer for engineering and munition work. Mr Thompson was on the Shanghai-Nanking railway from 1901
MATTERS at Peking appear to be shaping well for a settlement of the political turmoil, though the reports still leave us in, some doubt regarding 1908 and on the Canton-Kowloon the position of the Chief Executive.milway from -1908-1915.
it has been reported that YEAN
SHI KAT bas tendered his resigna-
i
SPORTING.
ROYAL HONGKONG GOLF CLUB.
--- HOLIDAY COMPETITIONS AT.. FANLING.
Practically, no small calibre guns were nsed by the Germans, and their main artillery preparation was made by eight and twelve inch guns." They used their 12inch guns just as we use our seventy- fives." said a captain to me. He had come through the preliminary bombard. ment" inscathed, and he meant by bis phrase that there was a hail of heavy shell upon the French treaches that wa enly comparable with the rafale of the Fresch seventy-fives, which fire twenty rounds a minute. He told me also that the craters made by the shells lost their 1022478 102-24-78 shape casiculy. Instead of being circular 97-16-81 conelike excavations they were shapeless, 95-14-81 írreitular holes, for shell after shell bures RO+ 280 08-14-82 within an inch or two of the same spot. 08-11-62 He himself, with his antonel, had taken refuge from the storm in an admirable 87 - 483 97-14=63 | ginnlar, ruter runde by a twelve-inet
In the Medal Play Competition on Cood Friday the following qualified for match play
3. Morris F. R. J. Adams
AF
F. Berington
Carleton Capt. Campbell B. F. Beith
C. L. P. Hay
W. D. Kraft..
A. B. Stewart
37-5=82
.102-18=84
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Mr. Wilkinson-One after the other necessary.
The si trobbing with tremendous sound, the earth quivering with uncens You have British subjects enemy sub- ing explosions-this is all there is tojects, Tsingtao being invested or liable show that the greatest battle of modern to investment, and there is all the world times is being waged round this town. of difference. That is why insurance is The Crown Prince will not succeed in Fan wall looked after. You are guarantee- pturing Verdin. It is in Verdun thing to replace the enemy's loss either victorious, hot Verdun the vanquished, at the hands of British
or any other that I am to-day.
emigers. It's a very diferent thing when ʼn British subject says: " Curry on tiede as if there was no war xai Ivili idem.........
There is a total difference. nity you."
The Chief Judge-Why is it more dan. gerous to insure goods in China than in the United Kingdom?
•
THE YANGTSZE INSURANCE CASE.
THE APPEAL
Mr. Wilkinson-Because the whole đố the British Fleet was in the North Sea. The appeal by the Yangtze Insaranes and not here, except for a few ships Association. Ltd. against the recent There was the greatest difference in the judgment in the, Shangbai Police Court world. Mr. S. 7 Docks, of Shanghai, is
The Chief Judge-It seems to mer was heard in H.B.M.'s Supreme Court tion to the State Council, but has passing through Hongkong in his way
that on, the first, blush of it, it is an last Monday before Sir Bay and extraordinary position for the Secretary. stipulated for certain conditions to Australia for a short holiday. The
Sausmares, Chief Judge, and Mr. Skinner of State to take up to say he proposes to which in the circumstances should Yolk Daily Neca says Mr. Decks
N. S. Marshall
Turner, Assistant Judge.
atap insurance in China whereas “insur- offer no barrier to the ncceptance of the absence, will make a distinct gap both in. Hancock
K. E-Lindell
39-6 projectile. Hardly had they got there Mr. H. P. Wilkizoon, with Mr. S. 1nce in England is to be permitted.
Mr. Wilkinson-It was ont. resignation. His conditions, as stated "porting and dramatic circles, as he is F. W. Taylors
99-14-85 when a shell burst on the northern side McKean, appeared for the Crown: Mr. in the telegram we published og
enthusiastic, active member of the L S. Greenhill
101-1487 of the crater and threw them both over. N. Macleod for the defendant count is.
The Chief Judge-The Magistrato says: Shanghai Cricket Chih-a, miestay of *Not entered for Match Play Saturday, are that he shall not be the first eleven both in lasting and
on their stonmuha. A second later-pany and appellants; and Me, D. McNeil Mr. Wilkinson-I think the magistrate Morris tied for the prize impeached and that guarantees shall wicketkeeping-and his efforts in the be given to him for the security of organization of patriotic concerts and the life and private property, of attending to the financial side of such himself and his supporters. This intertainments have been as shesin information is confirmed by the Times as they have been praiseworthy;« correspondent in Peking. To-day we
THE LATE MR MAXWELL.
uanther shell burst on the southern edge watched the proceedings on behalf of ie is wrong. In all the proclamations at
footing from anything else.
offered for the lovers et score in Medal Play and the day morning, resulting in a win for and threw them both down in their backs.
was played off on Satur- just as they were struggling on their feet Unioz Iasarance Society of Carton, which home insurance is on a very different Morris.
Captain the train Campbell won the prize for How we came out alive from that in
scratch returre The Match Play Competition look forno." he said, is a thing that I shal place on Saturday resulting as follows: never understand."
Morris beat Greenhill 3 and 1. Hay beat Adams 2 and 1.
Bevington beat Kraft i ap.
Marshall beat Lindselt 2 and 1.
The
A solone told me that on a front of a thousand yards, with a depth of about
was mentioned in the lower court.
The following organicut is taken from a report of the proceedings
The Chief Judge-It seems to me the whole question is what is the fixat meaning of the word "eadmy " I why not
winners met on Saturday after five hundred, not "less than 80,000-big inelined to read the devisione of. Prize
resulta nom, with the
"given below:- Morris bent
Hay I up Marshall beat Bevington I up.
shells had fallen within six hours Small wonder that even the officers who had
Courts in Alexandria er Lözdou us usfist
The Chief Judge-We are ready to accept the doctrize that insurance, of enemy gonds is prejudicial to the state.
Mr. Wilkinson had not concluded wher
the Cours adjourned until next day..
THE "GREEN FORM ** REFUSED.
TO SHANGHAI,
have the news that a new Cabinet is being formed under the Premiership of TUAN CH Jur, who will also take the War portfolio, and we are told that YUAN SHIH KAT is prepared to
been through the Battle of Champagneing us to construe a penal exaciment YOUNG MAN WHO WANTED TO GO We regret to announce the death, at The final was played off on Sunday declared that the French artillery pre drawn for local purposes. It may surrender "all" civil authority to the Hongkong, of Mr. Charles Lionel Max-21st hole. The players were all squar nothing compared with the weight of both of us-we should get more out of be morning Marshall beating Morris at, the
paration on that occasion was a mere necessary later, but-I am spellking for now Cabinet. Whether a distinction well of Messrs. Jurline, Matheson & Co., at the 19th bole." 3 p.m.-Bale of Crown Land at P.W.D. is drawn between civil and military Lul. Deceased was the eldest son of Mr. THE LADIES' TOMBSTONE COMPETITION. artillery used by the enemy in the Battle the lows, proclamations than anything At North Lacaan police-court a young
anthority remains to be elucidated. W. H. Maxwell of Munches, Kircut. This campetition, which was player of Tertan. The defensive organisation It ia au important point because on brightshire, Scotland, at the time awl tombstone was planted on the shattered and the concentration of the the one defining enemy,"
on Saturday, was won by Mrs McKenney of the Bois d'Haumont was absolutely else. I mean the King's Regulations solicitor's clerk asked Sir. Clarke Hall to
sign a "
green form to enable him to Yuan's surrender pit the control of the member of Parliament.. Ile was 341st green. Mr. R. E. MacDougall was German artillery steadily moved towards! Mr. Macleod-The transaction en go to Shanghai, with his mother. Ho Army, the revolutionary leaders in years of age, and joined the Ewo firuz Ars Davey and Mrs I. E. Martin were
being on the 19th green, Second
'while the French right. the South have been most insistent.York Office from 1904 to 1906. He offered a prize for the one nearest a ia 1004, being stationed in the New Just short of the green. Mr. Kraft,
plained of was before, the issue of the explained tast his father had been in January Regulations, "
Shanghai for ten years. Furthermore, it has yet to be learnt came out to the Hongkong Office G. M. Fletcher, who was 137 yards away hidden spot and this was won by Mrs A. whether a Cabinet ünder the leader- 1907, and was authorized sign the from the selected position, with Mrs H. were literally swept out of existence.ing with the Enemy Proclamation of 9th do when you get to Shanghai ?..
General Memoranda.
Thursday, April 27 ---
Noon.-Chiza Fire Inste. Co's. Meeting
Saturday, April of
**Taigisan
ship of TUAN C Jur will prove
firm per pra, in Miny, 1913. He was acceptable to the Southerners. While Deceased's youngest brother wis
some time in the firm's Shanghai office. in the North, TUAN appears to have killed in Gallipoli last year. I hav Noon.-H.K. Jockey Club's Meeting. been regarded among Republicans aA
two other brother, "both" of whom are a likely accessor to YUAN SHUKAI, Captain in the Camerons and the siber serving their country, one being a Buntar, April 30 ****
his name does not seem to have been Lieutenant in the Navy. Excursion to Macro sys.s. (entertained atall by the Southemers, In respect for the deceased the flag Prhaps because he still renmined at the Shanghai Race Club, of which the
ninally a member of Yeas, Sum half-mast today. The Ewo the
deceased was a number; was lowered to' KAI's Ministry, despite the evidence few at half mast, also the flags of the ho has given on mally important China steamers in porta. Shang
hai Mercury." occasiona of his sympathy with Republican ideals. He was one of the leading Generals of the Northern Army who memorialised the Throne in January 1912, urging abdication,
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TRENCHES SWEPT OUT OF EXISTENCE. First, the trenches of the Bois des
Caures, sud then those of the Herbebois Throughout the assault the Germans fok lowed this plan, concentrating their guns first on the French left, and then moving
The Chie! Judge-It is after the Trod-
September.
The Magistrate: What are you going to
The Applicant: I don't know und I get there.
Mr. Macleod--Oh, Jes
· Mr. Clarkə “Hall refused to sign the The Chief Judge These "King's Reform, remarking I don't think I ought the direction of their fire gradually pulations have to be sanctioned by the to let you go, as you may do deoful work towards the French right.
Secretary of State,
•
Mr. Macleod-Then if they are
not
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END OF THE WAR PROPBICY.
Apropos of the end of the war prodic tions, which are much in favour just: now, especially among clergymen, I have
the following story in high authorit
Victory or defeat in the battle of Ver. dun, the greatest battle of "the war, Mr Macleod wibmitted that Carlowitz" depends on one little strip of ground, Tear and Co, were not enemies within the than five miles, broad, between the hill meaning of the Regulations. that is called the Cote du Foivrs and the The Chief Judge do not think we alto gave its first complete exemption, On this platens the French have every enemies the whole case fails:
The City local tribunal on the ard fort of Donaumont, a plateau that is the want to hear you further on that.
outermost of the defences of Verdun the chairman at the time being Mr. T. thing, to gain, and they are sure of vic. The Chiet Judge That would appear Frider Mesars David Sassoon and Co, tory. Fivery officer, every man, even the to be so.
my informer, who is a political economist Ltd, applied on behalf of Mr AG wounded who have come back to-day from Mr. Wilkinwa, iu reply, said when of sorve distinction, giving his personal Davey, manager of the firm's Shanghai
knowledge for the accuracy of-the branch. It was stated that Mr Davey the line of fire, ara convinced that the they had local regulations it was better
details. was home on sick leave, that he had German is beaten. They have done their to look to thosd then to inférences izom
At an evening party at Richmond, in been fifteen years abroad, that he was worst, but France has gone one better, homo legislation which did not apply hats, May, 1914, a lady, who enjoyed a first not domiciled in this country, and that Even if the French lost this line of and, on the formation of the
The twenty-five members of Parlin-he attested under a mistake.
The Chief Judgo-Do you suggest you class reputation as an amateur palmist first Republican Cabinet he was recently to confer with the French men
ment who visited Paris from England fr Davey could not be taken under the which they can fall back, and where they what the Secretary of State moont?!
Major de Rothschild admitted that defence they have other positions on ought to be called on an expert to show and crystal gazer, "told the fortune" of young man who was present, and who chosen to be the Minister of War.bers of the "Conuts Interparlementaire Military Service Act, and that the claim can oppose to the German advance in Mr. Wilkinson-No.
had no military inclination at that time She said abo forest war between The fact that he virtually withdraw Franco-Britannique" were each present
simont irresistible barrier before Verdun The Chief Judge-We only takes our England and Germany, and that the Irom the Ministry last year when the with a souvenir of his week's visit as was given.
In the circumstances total exemption is really in jeopardy.
Inferences from the King's Froclamations. young man would be quickly engaged monarchical movement found favour, ments of the manager, M. Henri Dequin COMPOSITOR.
the Hotel de Crillon, with the compli
Suppose, for an instant, the impossible Mr. Wilkinson-Then I think I but not killed. At the beginning of this therein, and that he would be wounded, SIX MONTHS' EXEMPTION FOR
suppose that Verdun were taken. Behind have no diffoulty in showing you what year the lady and the young man now in the highest circles has been taken being frying pans made of terra cotta The souvenir caused much delight,
it lie line upon lize of organised entrench the intentions of the Treasonable Insur- minus an arm lost in Flanders--mat to indicate that he is a Republican by with the Kaiser, an expression of agony
At Southwark Tribunal six months' meat and barbed wire entanglements nice Regulations are
again at the same house. Once more he and the exemption was granted to a compositor with full provision of men and artillery Before the outbreak, of war contioned submitted to have his "forting told,
and her that the war would practically (her
inscription" around the
Suis
was a very strong one
conviction, and it must have cost him on his face, Bizzling 32 carved engaged in setting Chinese and space and Wess, the enemy can never carry counsel, Britisle subjects were governod the lady aid the crystal showed ino" little pala to find himsel! 80 The handle of the tin bears the in type It was claimed that the man was even if he is prepared to sacrifice millions by the Common Law, and were warned own word) end in July, but timt she THE strongly opposed to his old patron Aription: "Hotel de Crillon, 1918 the only one in Tundon capable of doing of men. The day when the capture of a to bear themselven truly to the King, by would not live to me it. Two or three
and friend When YEAN SHIR
the work, which, before the war, was fortress meant the surrender of a great notice from II.M. Consul-General weeks ago abe died suddenly Daily done by Jup, who luid now left army and the breaking of the coomy's The Chief Judge By what authority
Dispatch Kata was Viceroy of Chibli, TUAN
a | London.
lina bar passed away, Verdun is merely doen heimus that strement? Is soems a point in the grant berries, five hundred to me it does not help us in the very miles long, thst has been drawn across least. It is not given in consequence of Belgium and France to check the advance 85 Act of Parliament. It is zola Royal of the Barbarians. Certainly it has its rolamation.
was his Military Adviser and was in a BOWEL COMPLAINT IN CHILDREN. large measure responsible for the re-
KAI accepted the
organisation upon modern lines of the Dubject to disorders of the bowel, URING summur inbaths abildren
Taz FRUIT BKABON VISITING CARDS Northern Army. After YUAN Sit and should require the most careful attan.OWEL oxaplaint a sues to be reva-strategical Importance thot la equally Mr. Wilkinson-It is lasued as part o tion. As noun adapy-natural loosenom flent during the frikencor... Intizza. Premiership the bowels is noticed Chamberlain, able to keep bottle of Obataberlain's Cole Persilat from tila polns of now jebe duly to Britale subjects under the Monarchy
archy in 19114 Cholecs and Diarrhea, Raisedy should be Cholers and Diabee Randy on liind pe far less inapestant than say Misuper does his best to when British blood and sme botal Chole family
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