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ovome, the low standard of political education in Chin Tal nonsense to say that when the Monarchy was overthrown Republic was created. What the events of the past his years have shown, however, in that China is deßhitaly committed to the idea of Hapablican institutions, but before any stable Government can be formed, or any sound progress made with administrative reform, there must be recognition of the fact |that in a country" anch as China the growth of republican institutions will have to be promoted by methods not strictly republican. Some time ago the ides of government in China the Japanese Genro plan of Barlier days was much discussed and we believe that in this idea alone lies.
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NEWS OF THE DAY.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
We understand that the salvage of the .. Hongkong, ashore on the island of Neochow, at the entrance to Quang
donation of Yen 30,000 for the relief of The Emperor of Japan has given a the sufferers from the Tientsin foods. Private contributions for the same purpose in Tokyo and in Osaka are expected to total over Yen 110,000!
Ir is quite time that some tangibleChow Wan, is considered possible and resalt emerged from the prolonged
that pumps and gear have been di discussions which have taken place patched by the Hanoi. between the two political faction in China with a view to diasovering a basis for the settlement of the differences which are finding expres sion in civil war. It is a very trite IMPORT AND EXPORT OFFICE. remark to say that there will be no_peace_in_China until power_is CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR
centralised and until there is A civil action has arisen out of HOLIDAYE.
throughout, the country an acknow-the dispute over the winning of the respect for Champions' Cash Sweep at the Shanghai MAIS OFFICE will be entirely ledgement of and a
CLOSED on Christmas and Now
authority. The problem is how Autumn Race Meeting and the case Year Days On the other Holidays the Ofice will be UPEN for all purposes to get a central authority which is expected to occupy the Mixed Court for two or three sittings this will command universal respect. week If all that the Southern faction demands were at once conceded,
The Hon. Director of Public can anyone suppose that this
Works informs that it has been found would ensure peace and respect for
necessary to postpone the date for the Imports and Exports. authority throughout the twenty-two laying of a memorial stone to mark the 2406 provinces? It manifestly would not completion of the Tytan. Tuk Water, Notwithstanding that both sides Works. The date will be notified as continue to show a disposition to soon as definite arrangements have been regard compromise as futile, it is made.
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SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.
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CHINESE AFFAIRS.
(The Chiness Mail” Service)
MILITARY APPOINTMENTS,
ALL THE NORTHERN
PROVINCES MOBILISING....... PERING, Dec. 19.
A mandate appoints General Then Ki Sut (the late Premier) to be Diretor of Military Affairs.
Another mandate accepte Wong Shi Chen's resignation of the war portfolio and appointe General Tuan Chi Ewei as Minister of War.
Another mandate appoints Lau Chun How to be Tuchon' of Szechuan, and Chow Tac Kang is made a Powai
General
THE MAGISTRACY."
"ECHO OF THE
SWATOW.
A Chinese lady was charged before Mr. Dyer Ball this morning with attempting to export 338 silver dollara to Canton without permit.
Acting Inspector Davitt stated that the defendant was arrested as she was boarding steamer for Cauton quantity of the money was concealed
about her person, and the remainder in ber bag.
Defendant pleaded ignorance of the regulations of the Colony. She stated that she had arrived only recently from Swatow where, owing to the fighting, all her belongings had been pilinged. The money was all her worldly
All the northern provinces are possessions. mobilizing..
His Worship Aned the defendant The Premier has telegraphed to Luk-$25 and instructed her to convert the Wing. Ting saking when he will come dollars into bank notes, to Poking, now that Lung Chai Kwong as asumed ofce as Inspector Gepers). of the Liang Kwong.
Many important meetings were held by the Cabinet, and, also at the Pre- sident's Office yesterday.
SUSPECTED THEFT.
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1917
@NIPPON. ZUKA MAISHA.
The key-Alth the Nippon Yusex Kalaba to the Share- holders is as follows:-"
Gentlemen The Directors submit to you the annexed statement of the esaseta and liabilities of the Company, and the profit and as account for the
A Chinese youth was charged before Mr. Dyer. Ball this morning, with the unlawful possession of a quantity of} clothing.
Defendant pleaded not guilty Be stated that the clothes had been given him by a woman in Cross Strest.
Acting Inspector Davitt stated the
THE SOUTH-WEST LEADERS AND defendant had been allowed to produce
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LƯNG TRAI KHÔNG
The Intelligence Burean at Canton, communicates the following:-
the woman but was unable to do so.
His Worship remanded the prisoner in police custody until to-morrow.
AN OPIUM CASE.
hall year ended September 30th, 1917.
The surplus of earnings after defunt ing current expenditure for the past half-year amount to Fmm 31, 470,30%,
out of which there have been deducted:
Depreciation of the
Fleet and Property. Yea 1,309,744. Insurance Fund... Fen864,170 Shipa Structural Re
Ym319,844 pair Fund
Fen 2,488,659
leaving a balance of an 99,514,075, including I'm 032,433 brought forward from the last account.
The Directors now propose that this surplus bo appropriated as follows u
Reserve Fund. Ten 1,119,082 Special Reserve for War :**
Rak and Deprecia- tion of Vessels to be Built and Purchased. F. 10,000,000 Extra. Depreciation of
Fem 1,500,000 5,500,000
the Book Valus of the Fleet... Special Reserve... F Dividend Equalization
Fund...... Fund for the Training Protection and Ex- couragement of Seamen
1,530,000
Yon 350,000
¥20,329,089
From the remaining balance Y Two Chinese were brought before Mr.9,184,993, the Directors further propose
opium sauggling. Wood this morning, on the charge of that Yen 310,000 be allowed as the
Directors and Auditors' fees and Fe 1,000,000 as special grant to the staf ashors and affcat as well as the ordinary seamen for their services in connection with the war, and recommend a dividend
WAR CHARITIES.
-SUBSCRIPTION-LIFE-NOT-
[General:="
The authorities of Kwangtung and Kwangsi, supported by those of the South-Western Provinces, have notified by the illegal Tuan Chijui cabinet and Lung Chai-kwong that his appointment his unming the office of Inspector-
Mr. Leo d'Almada who appeared General of Liang Kwang will not be for their defence asked His. Warship to recognised; that his attempt to invade remand the case until tomorrow, and the two provinces and interfere with that bail be allowed for the defendante. their affairs and call government policy Mr. Tratman, Superintendent of the at the rate of eight percent per annum, |- will be strongly opposed; and that he Import and Export opposed the grant besides two percent per annum and his men will be regarded as rebels. of bail. He said that, from information special dividend and a further forty It is understood that all these con- he received, he was of the opinion that per cent, per amm as extra clividend, cerned have determined to annihilate the defendants were very wealthy and the total of these dividends to absorb him and his followers in order to end important in the opium smuggling ring. Yen 7,190,480, leaving a balance of Yen The casa' was however adjourned, bail | 684,513 to be carried forward to next once and for all that deadly menace to peace and repablicanism in Kwangtung being fixed at $5,000. and Kwangsi.
A CHARGE OF ASSAULT.
account.
At the same time the Director propose that the share capital of Com scoal pany be increased from Yes 44,000,000 to an $100,000,0000, upon the present share capital being fully paid up on the 15th February, 1918, the number of new theres to be issued in consequence being 1,120,000 of Yen 50 each.
To still refuse to surrender the com mand of his men when having already Japanese employed as been transferred to a civil post, that of Director. of Mining Affairs, is something that could only have been tolerated by Tu Chijat, the then Premier who has been using his office for selfish purposes and toretain him to be a menace in the South
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trimmer on board a steamer, was charged before Mr. J. E Wood this morning, with assaulting two Chinese girls at Praya East.
Defendant pleaded not guilty
One of the complainants, a little girl of about ten years of age, gave evidence. The Chinese Navy in Canton as well She stated that about 6.30 p.m. yester aa the Yunnan troops will co-operate day while she and her sister were, walk- with the Liang Kwang authorities ining along the Praga Fast they met driving Lang Chai kwong from his pre-defendant who Assaulted them. seat power and positions.
Defendant was very violent and frightened witness who screamed for help. Her cries attracted the attention of a lukong ho arrested defendant
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We are informed by Bishop Fozzon?" PUBLIC BUSINESS on MONDAY, TUES DAY and WEDNESDAY, the 24th, zatbare to be compromise if some sem that the Very Baverend James A. Walsh, blance of penes aud order is to be of New York, Superior of the Catholic 2407 restored in China. The existing | Foreign Mission Seminary, will preach Government at Peking is: one at the Catholic Cathedral at the 9.30 which appears to command little Mass on Sunday, the 23rd instant, and confidence, even in the Northern pro the 10 o'clock Minus.
afterwards at St. Josoph's Church,at
vince. One of our Peking entao-
PORTUGUESE RED CHOSS,
The variety entertainment in aid of element in the North that wants good pararies avers that "what" every
the Portuguese Red Gross Fund was government desires is a reunion of the
repeated last night and the audience Peiyang party on now lines, on lines
which gathared gave testimony of its |that would give TUẤY CHI-JUI the
endorsement of the previous verdict The following extract is from a letter of antis. Miss Annie Sva's acting leadership, that would eliminata from received from an officer serving on the was rally good, and considering that about to do the same to her younger the Government TUAN's former cor- Western Front:-"It may interest you this was her first appearance on the rapt colleagues; that would put the to know that the officer who was with
stage with only a week's rehearsal, she elderly rabber Tuchune under me in the Ypres fight came from Hong“
did exceedingly well. Mr. P. A. system by which they could be con- kong. Denne (4F) of Butterfield Bosario who, we understand, gave great trolled when they behaved themselves, of the best fellows I have ever met. He
help in promoting the concert and and could be quietly dismissed and did some fine work and I have never
scan a brayer man, but as so often supervising the rehearsals is to be con replaced when they gave trouble; happens, he was killed towards the end gratulated on the splendid, success of the performances, as also Mra. Omand that would separate the Chibli leaders of the scrap.
and Mr. Remedics who were respons
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THE CALENDAR.
HEMOS. FOR TO-MORROW. Hongkong Stock Exchange Settlement #Day
10 M-Auction of Drawings and Dinning Room Goods and Bedroom Linens at Mowers Hughes and Hough's
GENERAL MEMORINDA.”
BATURDAY, Dee. $2:-
Winter Solstice, Chinese Holiday. 10:30 am-Auction, of Jewellery at
Heer. Hughes and Hough's
18 noon - Auction of hp. Motor Cycle, etc. at Mers. Hughes and Hough's Monday, Dec. 2 **Genkahl Holiday. TUESDAY, Dec. 26:--
Christmas Day: General Holiday. WEDNESDAY, Decis
Boxing Day: General Holiday, FRIDAY, Doc. 18
Jo K
President Woodrow Wilson's birthday
(1856)
2.30. p.m.-Auction of Teakwood and
Blackwood Furniture, &c., at Messen Hughes Hough's
3.44 p.m.-Total Eclipse of the Moons 6.69 pm-Fall blood.
MONDAY, Dec. #1 cm;
is the South from President FENG
REMPEI KONDO
Chairman.
Head Office, Tokio, 29th Nov., 1917-
CHINESE OFFICIALS AND DR. G.
REID
THE ALLIED MINISTERS' PROTEST.
The mother of the girls also gave avidence. She stated that she accom=" panied her daughters in a trament from Shaukiwan. They got off the car at Causeway Bay and were procesling The following letter has beca along the Prays East when the defend addressed by Sir John Jordon, HLM. ant accosted them Defendant laid Minister st Peking to the Minister her older daughter into a drain and wis of the Representatives of the violent hands on her daughters, pushing for Foreign Affairs at the request Allied Powers in Peking respecting the marks of special attention recently. shown to Dr. Gilbert Reid by high Chinese officials on the occasion of his "60th birthday:
daughter when a lukong who heard their cries cime up and arrested him.
The explanation given by the defend
ant
was that he was sasisting in loading. coal at Prays Eset when the little girl came up and said something to him in Chinese, She caught hold of his hand and when he shook her off, her mother and sister came up and accused him of
se at all.
Kuo-CHANG and admit them directly. The death is announced at Singapore ble for the costumes. By special annoying her. He never intended to do of Mr. F. H. V. Gottlieb, Registrar of request a matinee performance, with the Supreme Court of the Colony He slight modifications, will be given next. died from the after effects of dysentery Saturday..
Frovince Wellesley, in 1880; and had held the post of Registrar of the Supreme Court since January 1908
to the councils of the Peiyang party without the mediation of the Pre sident, who has marched them up
at the age of 57. Mr. Gottlieb started the hill and marched them down work in his profession from the bottom again for six years, and that would rang of the ladder, as a third clerk to eliminate such Japanese influence sa the Court of Requests, and Police Cours, is prejudicial to the economic and political future of the Chinese people One weak point in this scheme is that the Boutherners avow themselves as firmly opposed to TearDN WO TING, FANG, who char come down to Canton for the purpose, it is said, of promoting reconalliation, has informed the President that if both sides would sacrifice personal prs. jadices in a common desire to work!
LADIES RECREATION_CLUS
LADIES' "SINGLES OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP.
Semi-Finals
THE “QUR DAY" FUND IN THE
STRAITS SETTLEMENTS,
Mr. Wood remanded the case until to-morrow, bail being allowed on defendant on a sum of 250,
«ILLICIT EXPORT OF OPIUM,
Two Chinese were charged before Mr. Wood this morning, one with attempting to export opium and the other with siding and abetting...
British Legation,
Peking
December 7, 1917 Allied Colleagues to draw Your Excel SIR-I have been requested by my lency's attention to an article published in the edition of the "Peking Daily News of November 30 concerning Dr. Gilbert Reid
It is stated in this paragraph that, on the occasion of a banquet given is honour of bin 60th birthday, this gentle man received marks of special sympathy from highly placed Chinese, whoạo names are given in the article, including the present Minister of Marine.
It is moreofer declared that Dr. Gilbert Reid recently precanted himsel at the Waichiaopu and was, réceived there!
My Colleagues and 1 ensider that it is, to my the least, strange that a person notoriously working in the interests of the enemy, and against whom precan fionary measures have already been adopted, should thus be favoured with special attentions on the part of high Chinese officials.
Perang has forwarded to Singapore $225,000 as a contribution to the Our Day Fund and the balance will be aspector Gordon stated that some femitted Ister. The sum of $175,000 time ago Mesra Butterfield and Swire represents Our Day collections and gagen the survices of the police $50,000 is an account of the lottery detectives to keep watch in their steamers to prevent opium smuggling The total of $13.174, collected, st. Penang for the Scottish branch of the Yesterday morning one of the detectives Red Cross, has been sent direct to who was on duty on the bridge of the
steamer noticed a sampan approach the I have been requested to warn Your Edinburgh
Exxcellency against the renewal of such The total amount collected in Sings ship when the sampan was slaugude incorrect conduct, which ela caly, Cana KANO pare to the 12th inst, was 305,287.60% he saw the first defendant let down a the most unfavourablegroominenti in
rope from the side of the ship and draw Allied countries, In Jobore the amount acknowledged up a bag. The detective then ran down to that date was 119,909.41 100lading the fridge and arrested him and found
27,609 from a latter
that the bag held four tins containing
His Excellency
Mrs. Kent beat Mrs. Bell The Bison best Mrs. Digby. fanis, Mrs. Kent Mies Wilkinson
for the best interests of the nation will be played on Friday 28th inst. at
everything might be settled by law and common-sense. There does not however, seem rau om-Sale of Rare British Colonial settlement being Stampe at
Hogumowy.
Hough
observe how
are interested to obs the much-lauded business mono, when called in to Ealy the mere politician, reached by the makes it bis Arst bukiness to shatter the negotiation. Poplar delusions fostered by those who
Coming Lord Rhondda practical method would on
all Consell of ing bad
clear that Fog all parties in Bir Ankland Geider Ent
harr work onth
foolish talk
50 taels of opium ench. The mumpa escaped. At thi
other defendant
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detective
came up
$500 to lat
refused.
took the
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