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THE CHINA MAIL
NEWS OF THE DAY.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
The Hon Mr. P. H. Holyoak left by the Shinyo Maru on a trip to Canada, whither his wife and daughters precoded him a few weeks ago,
A Peking telegram” says that Mr. Tang Shao Yi has declined to go to the Capital and has recommended either Wan Chun Yin or Ngai Shun Tso it his stend
!
Japia papers report the engage ment of HLH. Princess Masako, eldest daughter of H.H. Prince Nashimoto, o HLH. Prince Kon, the heir of the former King of Corca.
All efforts to salve the P. and O. steamer Nilę, sunk in the Inland Sen, have ailed, and the Mitsu Bishi Company, which is said to have spant upwards of
a million yen in the attempt has How definitely abandoned the enterprise.
THE MAGISTRACY.
"OATMEAL "AND RAISINS."
THE CANTON SITUATION.
ARMIES CEASE FIGHTING ON THE
EAST SIDE.
Concealed, in a pocket of Scotch
The threat of the Central Government oatmeal on board the as. Findori, & Chinese passenger had a revolver and in
to send troops to quell the disturbances in Kwangtung has had the effect of 144 pockets of apparently wholesome
muscat raisins was 200 rounds of new-opping the aqubble at least for the
Ammunition.
The passenger was arrested and brought before Mr. Hazeland this morning and fined $500,
AN UNDESIRABLE
A banishes returned before the ex-
piration of his time and known to the Folice as a lander of a gang of thieves and a harbourer of kidnapped children was ordered to undergo six months imprisonment for turning up again in the Colony,
A POLICE DESERTER.
A Chiness constable was charged with desertion at the Police Court this morn-
FRIDAY, AUGUST 18 1816
WAR CHARITIES.
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British School Ship's Company, as "Kaifong" Mesars, W. R. Loxley & Co... Meurs Jardine, Matheson &
Com Ltd. v Mr E. J. Sharples Froceeds Sale of Books Kowloon Cricket Club, Golf-
Fection, Entmanes fees Em- pire Day Competition Staff Messrs AS. Watson &
Co, Ltd. (monthly sub.) Ojagar Singh (monthly sub). Staf-Messrs Lane, Crawford
time being.
Govrnor-General Lung's memorial the Government makes it ap parent that the question of his racuation cannot be decide upon natil the Central Government has found some solution to the problem of dis banding his men. His communication on his subject with Peking has been. favourably reviewed by the rebel partyFET which awaits the decision of the Péking with much earnestness..
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MR. F. C. Hedgeland
proceeds from Lauano Tennis
Matches held on the Hong- kong Cricket Ground on,
0th July Anonymous Mr. A. Young
Chan Kwing Ming and his rebel underlings are still causing a great deal of trouble in the Tang Kun and Fo On | districts and exchanges continue daily,
Collected by Ho Fook and
Fo Kom Tong:- Lung means, business and has sent Mr Li Po Lung
....$100. reinforcements against the rebels over Mr Eo Ping Woon... whom he has now got the upper hand.
MrLauShan Shan Tong... 100 Mela Lim Yoang... The City of Canton abow's a big Mr R. Pestonjee
31 Wong Hung Kee
and tradesmen have commenced to re. open their shops,,
It is stated in a Shanghai telegram
Mr Li Tas Tain...
Mr Moe Wo
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Our Little Bit Society (month-
ly subscription):
It is a significant item of nows thating It was stated he bad signed on. improvement. Work is being resumed You Leo Cheung. the Cantor-Hankow Railway Co. Ltd.,for five years and deserted on July 22 was that he had has secured a loan from the Bank of 1918 His excusa Taiwan, Ltd., and that the land and been suspended from duty and thought station buildings at Wong Sha (the he was no loner required. Centre of the recent fighting) have been mortgaged to the Bank as security. We understand the loan is fer one million dollars Efforts had been made for more than a year past to raise the money in other quarters but without SUCCESS,
We wonder what Reuter will have to say about the following from the British North Borneo eraldi : In consequence of the shortage of paper it is. proposed to discontinue publication of THE announcement made by Mr. Reuter's telegrams in the Herald, unless AsQCITE in the House of Commons it is shown that any appreciable pro that the British Government is deter-portion of local subscribers find them of interest in following the course of the mined not to tolemte the resumption war. It should perhaps be explained with that the Herald is a fortnightly record Germany after the war till reparation and most of its readers either subscriba has been made for the murder of to a daily service of the telegrams or sea Captain FRYATT is a declaration them at the Club from day to day. second only in importance to the Prime Minister's famous, declaration of the fundamental basis of peace which he made an November 9th 1914, and repeated with added em- POWELL, LTD.phasis on November 9th, 1915: "We shall never sheathe the sword," he said, "until Belgium-and I will add Serbia-recover, and in full measure,
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WILLIAM
THE DIARY.
MEMO. FOR ¡TO-DAY.
5.13 p.m.-The Palisade, (Kowloon. «
MENO, YOR TO-MORROW.. 11 am--Anction of Pipes, Pumps, and Propellers etc. ex. "Chiyo Marua
Kowloon Godowns.
THE LAW COURTS.
CUSTOM AMONG SOLICITORS.
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There was some legal hantering in the Summary Court this morning.
Mr. Mattingley, for a plaintiff, ex claimed that he had given Mr. Hind, for the other side, inspection of all his
CORRESPONDENCE..
CHOLERA AT MACAO.
To the Editor of the “CHINA MAT-"
SIRI feel it Licumbent on me to elucidate for you certain points raised in your editorial of last night dealing with the cholera outbreak ut Mataó.
to the Wah Tae Yat Po that the Government intend to appoint Tum Hu Ming Assistant Director-General of Military Affairs in Kwangtung.
Mesars Whitenway, Laidlaw
& Co Mr N. J.
Patell
Collection at Union Church Mr. B. Karanjia ....
on 4th August Collected at the Ohel Leah Synagogue on 4th. August...
ANOTHER NAVAL ENGAGEMENT," Mr P. E. Wodehouse...
EUROPEAN MOTOR BOAT BETWEEN THE LINES.
'SOLDIERS AS SPECTATORS.
The fighting between the "navies" I received two telegrams from His of Lung and Shum is really more Excelency the Governor of Macho absurd than the engagements on on the 18th instant. The first one fund. Each General bas about half reached me just in time to enable maa dozen boats and the largest could to secure its publication the next day easily be stowed down the funnel of a modern dreadnought. The Aeets by your morning contemporaries have met and given battle on a dozen
The second one, containing the in-
or mere occasions, and so far the formation conveyed to you in my losses consist of one sunken armoured letter of yesterday, was delivered Jater
after office hours; and I could only act of it the next day. Hence
the discrepancy commented upon by you.
You scem, to
launch, which was attached" to the
rebel forte.
な
During one of the recent engage- ments a motor boat which had gone
Mr8 B. S. Ellery ...
Chief Writer Kitt
Mr Liang Shi Yi
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THE PROPOSED AMERICAN LOAN TO CHINA.
ANNOUNCEMENT BY UL. STATE DEPARTMENT,"
CHINA'S URGENT BUT FRUIT- LESS APPEAL FOR FUNDS.
New York, Aug. 4.
The following telegram is taken from
the Japan Ukrohisle — t
The State Department has cableck thu US Legation in Peking giving notice that it has been unable to arrange the loan naked for by the Chines Government.
Tilo messaga #tates that while the· American bankers who were in the original Six-Power Group refused to make a loan to China, the State Department continued its efforts to place the issue elsewhere and com 35.40municated with other American bankers, who, however, felt it would be unwise. to invest in more foreign securities just now, while the prospects of floating an additional loan were not good.
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ore than two miles away, and the number of hits on either side was hil. Monthly subscriptions Of course the vessels were continu-
10,454.73
have taken umbrage out from Shameen for a cruise "got at the use of the word falsa by right in between the firing ships. His ExceBones" the Governor of Shells from both sides splashed into Maczo. As His Excellency does dot the water anything up to talk a mile deny the outbreak of cholers, it from the target.. For an hour the all and more than they have sacred; documents and Mr. Hind said he had fallows that the word "falso" can battle raged, the vessels not being until France is adequately secured against aggression; until the rights of the small nations of Europe are based upon an unassailable foundu-
Mr. Mattingley therefore asked for au tone, although the plaintiff said he had only refer to the number of cases reported as occurring daily at Blacao. affidavit.
"
That being so, it is not to be won-
Mr. Mind said each side was, ordereddered at that His Excellency, wholly moving their posilions but | tion, and until the military domination to file an affidavit, but plaintif bir not better than anybody else should know throughout the fight there seemed to
tiled one and until they had done so he
and be a mutual desire not to hurt any the exnet number of cises would not do so.
deaths, should have characterized the one. On each bank of the river were The Chief Justice appealled to Mr. news as false." There is a wide opposing armies. Shum's men could Grist us to custom who said that where difference between 14 deaths in. 16ot have been more than 200 feet a solicitor gave an assurance that he bad days and 50 to 60 deaths or cases
documents his word was taken.
of Prussia is wholly and finally destroyed." If all these objects are achieved it will not be difficult to exact; if Germany does not offer, reparation for a crime which has been universally condemned. Meanwhile, nothing seems more likely to drive into the darkened mind of the BA-Excursion to Macao by as kultured" German a glimmering of the naked criminality of the Favarr outrage than the announcement of the
General Memoranda. SUNDAY, August 20 --
"Taishan".
MONDAY, August 21:---
11 am-action of Household furni British Government's determination
Mr. Hind said he could not give an inspection of what he had not got, but be was prepared to consent to an
Mr. Mattingley was satisfied
alficiavit
China offered to issue bonds to American bankers at '93, and the latter were to place them on the market at 97.
Chitside of other considerations, the bankers felt that in view of the lack of sufficient guarantee of payment, the prich suggested was not attractive.
The amount sought by Chine, tour tinues the State Department, Wor $30,000,000 of which five millions was to be advanced immediately. One million had been already furnished when China usked for another instalment of five millions. The bankers then consulted the Administration, fealing an obligation o to bring the other bankers of the Six- Power Group into the arrangement.
The Peking Government urged that the money was bully needed to meet the ordinary expenses of adminia- tration, and when it was made evident. to China that it would be difficult to { obtain_four millions, China asked "the" State Department to make an effort ta- gez two million dollars immediately.
The underlying attitude of the bankers has been their apparent, fent that the action of the Administration in March, 1913, in refusing to be a party to the guarantee when the Americai bankers contemplated participating in tho Six-Power Group, would continue to be applied to this additional loan even when arranged at. the instance of the State, Department.
The bankers consequently "invistel that the Administration should issue & atatement consenting to their participa tion in this new loan, but this the US, Government has refused to do..
As the matter now stands, Legotia tions are at a standstill, indicating the total failure of the proposed loan.
THE "DEUTSCHLAND'S " CARGO SPACE.
The New York Herald published 102 sketch of the German super-suhmarine 1.95 Deutschland, and in the following issuesi
among other references to the ship. it 7,087.73 Lad the following:
4,467.00
130,415.77
В
One
naval constructor at the New York Navy Yard mid to "Herald reporter that when he was informed that the Deutschland Carried 1 cargo of 760 tona te re- garded it as a great exaggeration. He said further that when he glanced over. the details of the construction of the oper and studied the sketch accompanying Babmarine as published by the "Herald Balance in hand 23,334.physical impossibility for a vessel built that he was convinced that it was a
1-1-49,87150
Already acknowledged
Les amount alloented and carmarked, subscriptions remitted and local payments 126,535.59
N. J. STABB Hon. Treasurer,
daily, and these exaggerated reports away from Lung's boats at one time. hud to be contradicted, especially as They could-providing their marka- it became apparent to His Excellency manship was reliable have easily Hongkong, 17th Aug. 1918, that the people in Hongkong were picked off the signallers and machine. becoming extremely apprehensive,
in consequence of the unchecked un crew" in the crow's gest, but dissemination of the same.
hoy, like their enemies on the Your authority for doubting the opposite bank 500 yards distant, accuracy of the figures given by His rere content to sit on their launches formation you have obtained from the navies on the river. The soldiers The bearing of two claims against Chinese sources, for you state that.
Row on No. 2 Ormsby Terms not to tolerate a resumption of diple ACTIONS AGAINST A SOLICITOR Excellency is apparently the in and watch the spectacular display by
Kowloon.
matic intercourse until reparation-bas
ou the lines of the Deutschland to carry more than one hundred tons.
The freight space of any submarine of the type of the Doulachiand is anite. restricted," said this, authority. "This Is largely confined to the space ordinarily occupied by torpedo tabes, arron and THE INDUSTRIAL BOOM IN JAPAN.nition and the like. A torpedo
weighs about two thousand pounds and there are eight generally carried by The returns for the month of July war submarine These torpedoes, if
3 pm Auction of Crown Land at been made. Mr Asqerre ́s statement MR. C. Faithful, solicitor of Hong "the Governor says there have been seemed to soy "No. b'long my the promotion of new undertakings, tons, making a total of Gfteen tons for
Public Works Department.
reminds us that some of the Allies kong in which the plaintiffs are but 14 deaths or cases while Chi- pidgin."
8.15 pm-Organ Recital at St. John's goes even further than this. He
Cathedral. Tembar, August 22:--
19.30 am-Auction of Fittings and Furniture at Gaupp & Co's premises; Alexandra Beildings.
THNESDAY, August 23 :-
"...
Bicycles, Typewriters, etc, at Messrs. Hughes and Hough's. TUESDAY, August 20 :----
Hongkong, Stock Exchange Settlement
Day. 2.30 p.m.-Auction of Sporting Guns and Rifles and Sporting Amunition at Mears. Hughes and Hough's.
Chinese, has been fixed for the 30th
Mr. Gardiner for defendant said a
statement of defence would be filed today.
Mr. would
THE JAPANESE WARSHIP' AT
CANTON..
have suffered grosser and more extended bratalities than ourselves" at the hands of the Germans. This is perfectly true, though the British subject who has a vivid recollection Mutual discovery was ordered 12 pm- Auction of Furniture of the appalling Luritania horror and Hind observing that the cases
many similar acts of savagery against Last sometime. non-combatant men, women and children, and who bears in mind the appalling evidence taken by the Bryce Commission, can hardly realise that there are even grosser and more extended brutalities than all these on record against a people constantly bragging of the superiority of their national kultur over that of every other race. Mr. Asquirit has made it known that the Allies are now considering the most effective steps to be taken and what conditions shoulda belligerent in the world-war,
THIS WEEK'S "OVERLAND
CHINA
MAIL"
Contents include
Chinese Affair Correspondence Lending Articles Commercial News Cases in the Courts Hongkong Local News Cholera Epidemic at Maco” The Trouble around Canton The Shanghai Opium Scandal Hongkong Hotel Los Meeting Opening of China's Parliament Moxonand TayloraShare Quotations
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The Japan Chronicls' says it is stated
ness reports, state that there have been 50 or 60 cases a day." Seeing that further on you yourself cast s information by saying that If we doubt upon the veracity of such
may credit Chinese reports. nothing further need be said on the matter except that, in the absence proof to the contrary, His Excel fency's official statement must stand. I have the honour to be, Sir.. Your obedient servant,
E. V. M. R.DE SQUSA. "Anting Consub for Portugal;" Hongkong, 18th August, 1918.
that the Chinese Government has made GUARDING THE PUBLIC HEALTH. an unollicial protest to the Japanese Charge Faires at Peking against the
dispatch and stationing of a Japanese(To the Editor of the CHINA MAIL") warship at Canton, as a violation, of China's neutrality inasmuch as Japan
Sin-Owing to the serious outbreak
be exacted in the peace terms in Itis understood that the Japanese Gov that the Hongkong Government, has so of cholers at Macao I am glad to see order to secure areparation "satisfying ement will explain to China, that the justice." If the reperation exacted dispatch of the Saga was necessitated by quickly issued the quarantine regula
the danger to Japanese lives and pro- tious and proclamation prohibiting the should fall to satisfy justice, it will at perty caused by the riots that have bro-immigration of importation to the least go tome way towards it and ken out in Canton, and it is expected Colony of Chinese from such port that China will be induced to agree to brand the German kultar of the 's age
or place for such time etc. I beg to Japan's measure for all time with the stigma of
point out that the people living at Macao are fleeing to Canton every day
from there to Hongkong, as Canton is
criminal lawlessness Now that Ger |—
many is beginning to realise the ARE YOU GOING ON A JOURNEYT and no toubt some of them traa-ship strength that lies behind these
declarations, it may not be too much (AYSIN'S Colic, Chalers and now the so-called war area. To protect
Remedyshould be packed
to hope that Mr. ASQUITH'S au in your hard luggag when going on a the health of the residents of the Dolony nouncement will serve to inspire journey. Change of water, diet and I hope the Hongkong Government will in resposible. German officers a trouble, and this medicine enot be immediately issue some regulation that temperature all tend to produce bowel little more respect in the future course secured on board the train or steamship will apply to the port of Canton,
RESIDENT.
of the war for the accepted canons of
renience if you have it handy. For sale It may save much auffering and incon-
by all Chemists and Storekeepers
bring the promotion result for the past displaced by freight, would provide roun which amount 98,075,000 yen went for material Ammunition and the like seven months to 299,927,000 yen, of for about eight tons of closely packed carried by submarines weighs about seven white 201,852,000 yen was used for these two items. the extension of old enterprizes. This Granting that a a submarine engaged total result presents an increase by in carrying freight is larger than the 145,976,300 yen over the same period sabraarine of ordinary type, there will of last year. i' -
of course,
a correspondingly larger Among the new concerns promoted race for freight-carrying purposes, Tenders were opened at Macao are the Tokushima Cotton Spinning employed and these will require: Inrer But even so, heavier engines must be. Company, the Ivo Mining Company, spaca Granting that an additional the Japan Tale Company, the Chosen carrying pen to recommodate fifty tone. Porcelain Company. and the Russo cargo is provirled, then you li Japanese Trading Company."
THE FAN-TAN MONOPOLY AT
MACAO.
sterday for the fanten monopoly in the Colony from 1st July, 1917. to June 30th, 1922. Eleven offers were received; the following being the principal:
Chau peng and Vong.
Dam
Lam-kuai
Lam-yong
Vong chịu
Ung-seng
Ho-kai
Vongvema
$1,288,660TM 1,288,666 118,000 1218,200 -1,178,000 936,000 $28,000
Yong-long
THE SUNBEAM PATRIOTIC CLUB.
lave & total space capable of accommodating a cargo of. about woventy-five tons
Naturally the aim of a submarino devoted to merchant uses is to rares as nuch freight as is consistent with safety. in submergence. It will not do for n submarine carrying hundreds of tons of In connection with the announcement freight to submerge too deeply, for the in another column of the death of Mrs slightest defect in the machinery would. T. B. Macaulay, Honorary President of doom the vessel and the men manning it the "Sunbeam Patriotic Club it may to certain destruction. Even if the be explained that this is 8 Ulub formed
of the ladies of the Head Office Staff of Deutschland had carried one hundred the Sun Life Assurance Company, of tons of freight rather than seven hun
dred and fifty tons as is reported, tiny Canada for sewing and knitting for the soldiers and sailors in the fighting thes-achievement in croming the Atlantic tres. Sunshing, the little magazine pub would have been no less great." 872,500 Halted in the interests of the policy holders of this Company, gives a list tof
The present holders of the monobe Club's output since the outbreak poly are paying $608,000 per annum,
GLOBING SHARE QUOTATIONS,
Banks Docks Sugars
Wharks Def. Indos
was
3.30.11.1
KEEP IT HANDY. TMMEDIATE relict as necessary
attacks of diarrhoen, Chamberlain Colfs Cholera and Diarrhoed Remedy should always be on hand Fore by
Chemists and Storekeepers.
Club
of the war and remarks: The wom The British Embassy at Tokis has hers of the Sunbeam Patriotio have demonstrated the capacity of the stating that iron hars, rods, plates and received's telegram from Viscount Grey twentieth century woman for efficiency sheets for ordinary, industrial purpos and continuity of effort. Promptly may be exported to Japan without organized as they were, at the licence
outbreak of hostilities, one might easily
have thought that long cre this the
ladies of the Club would have tired of
their
· self-appointed task. Buti not: 80.
Justice Borridge recently
Quietly, but none the less steadily, the pression to an opinion
Club and its friends have worked well be fairen to heart in the Far through all the past twenty months who he said Apbars not mutely with results that are very surprising sympathy with people who give,toos farid creditable indeed, i
long credit they manufacture doetbra
A farewell dinner was given by Bir
Edward Grey to the retiring Japanese Ambassador Among the guests were
MASTER FIMEDY..
HAMBE
Colio Cholerar
the Prime Minister, the Marquis of cramp colic dysentery, and Cross the Duke of Devonshire, Lord pairs. Ozle Bose robaves, Laustowne Lord R. Cecil, Mr Harcourt, is rarely necessary to effect?
Gay by Nonomists and Stor
and Lord Hard