"FRIDAY, AUGUST 28, 1918.
Hughes & Hough
AUCTIONEERS TO THE GOVERNMENT.
General Auctioneers
Khare, Goal and General Produce Brokers and Commission Agenta.
PROPRIETORS
PATRIOTISM IN CHINA
{RY DR. THAUS Eitos De TiOL : PERING LEADER"]
AM
THE CHINA MAIT
Again, it may be just as cheap to get 6 certain kind of goods from alien à as from aliem B, but because B's government bas done an injustice to China for which no diplomatic redress could be obtained,
the only way for the people of this
Among students of Chinese history it is often said that patriotism is un-country to aid their government is by known in this land of 100,000,000 souls. boycott. It is an extreme measure, but passiva resistance, namely a commercial And the favourite proof adduced is the that it is the patriots' most powerful xpathy of the people when the Boxes of 1900 ran amck in the northern weapon is not to be easily denied.. provinces. But surely it was a blessing there are also individual acts of patris Now all this is collectiva, action, but in disguise that that was the actual tim which deserve to be noted.. I situation: that Yuan Shib-kai then Governor of Shantung province, did mean the taking of one's life in the case of a man who laments his country's protect foreign lives and property; and that the viceroy of the Yangtssopateasness as well as his own impo
tence to ameliorate its conditions. If
"To-Ews-Wan Coal Storage. provinces were bold enough to alter the in his lifetime he could not accomplish word "destroy" in the imperial edict his cherished desires, he hopes that by into." protect.' Otherwise, the story of that midsummer madinese" roald in death the motive of his deed
may fire the imagination of his com- have to be entirely written.
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Filegraphic Addres "MKIRION* HONGKONG.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
MHE Undersigned have received interests of the family cerae first, not the Administration and suggesterl sonnu
YOK ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED).
on
TUESDAY,
the 27th August, 1918, at 20 p.m... at their Bales Rooms, No. 8.
Des Voeux Road, Corner of
Ice House Street,
Whatever may have been the motives patriots and stir them up to rigorous: which prompted such apathy or indifction. Thus in 1909, Yang Tiny s ferenec, it is nevertheless true that is life," to quote from an imperial Manchu matropolitan official, “Merificed artled from the Western point of view, decres conferring upon him posthumous the Chinese were lacking in that quality hounurs, in order to display his patrio which we call the love of country Tim. Before his death, however, he explanation, however, is not far to seasant to the Press a remarkable open For in Chinese society the unit is the petition addressed to the Prince Regent. family, not the individual The Ele called attention to the evils besetting those of the members composing ito the State icenli. In the experience of the "West such a system is not without its
I am a member of the Imperiul house' evils, but the fat remains controver. hold, and my family has been a recipient tel that notwithstanding its defecra, it The contemplation of the Bangers of the of the Imperial bounty for generations is one of the primary facters which has time made me sick at heart. Full of enabled the Chinese as a nation to belief at what I cannot alter, I have till vital when their Egyptian, Creek, braved death in making my remons Roman and other contemporaries have trance. Lacking literary ability or gracq
style
and knowing that the law
Taw pur ishes who speaks of what concerns him nex, I have decided on self-slaughter document in fear of because my constitution is
The following rebuilt Typewriters (in long since departed. If the maxim good condition):
3 REMINGTONS,
1 UNDERWOOD,
2 ROYAL,
1 OLIVER,
Torma-Cast
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HUGHES & HOUGH,
.. Auctioneer's.
Hongkorn, Anh Ti, 1918.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
686
THE Undersigned bave received instrue How to sell by Public Auction, (POK ACCOUNT OF THE CONCEANED),
TUESDAY,
the 27th August, 1019, commencing at 2.30 p.m., at their Sales Rooms, No. 8, Des Vaux Road, Corner of..
Ice House Street,
AN ABORTMENT OF
HOUSEHOLD LINENS, &c.
Comprising Scalloped Pillow Cases, Sheets and Bed Quilts, Single and Double Plain and Hemstitched Sheets, Pillow Cases, White Satin Quilts, Table Cloths, Fure Linen Damask Serviettes, Bath Sheets, Bach Towels, Turkish Towels, Glass Cloths..
&c.
dc. Terms: Cash
*
ECCHES & ROUGE,
Auctioneers.
Hongkong. Aug it, 1918
628
PUBLIC AUCTION. THE Undersigned have received in
structions to sell by Public Auction (FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED),
03
TUESDAY,
the 27th August, 1913, commencing at 3.30 pm, at their Bales Room No. 8, Des Voeux Road, Corner of
1. Ion HOUSE STREET, TEAKWOOD" AND "BLACK WOOD FURNITURE, BRASS-MOUNTED AND TEAKWOOD TWIN BEDSTEADS, CURTAINS, CARPETS, ¿c., &cu AND AN ASSORTMENT OF USEFUL HOUSEHOLD GOODS, As follows-
of
not strong enoug
enough to endure the cruel tortures of my gaolers, so I
I beseech your Highness to pite and forgive.
but I fear
My original intention was to nak superior official to present my memorial might extend to bim for presenting it.
that your Highness's D Then I thought at stopping your High- ness's chariot and presenting it person- ally, bet your suite is too large to render approach an easy matter. And a call to you on my part would result in
in my being rebuked. So I decided to send it by post to the newspaper, where your ghauss will be able to peruse it and et a
acordingly. Then I shall live though lie. Weeping bitterly I prostrite myself and reverently hand in my memorial.”
"Take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of themselves" is sound, surely Take care of the family. and the nation will take care of itself" ought to be equally unimpeachable.
Thanks to the railway, telegraphs, and other modern facilities for travel and intercommunication, the barriera which once used to separate one part of the ecuntry from another are gradually disappearing, and people begin to realize what it is to be a citizen of a free and Independent sovereign State. If the love of the soil that gave a person his birth has been lying dormant all these centuries, it is Dow, rapidly asserting itself. Hence the clamour for the cancellation of all alread, mining and other concessions. One's family interests to-day no longer count, because the State, and not the family, This is not the only instance, for a parameint. For example, it may Chinese student in Liverpool similarly be burmless to indulge in an occa- dedicated his life in 1911. He was a sional pipe of the soothing opium, Chinese scholar, well versed in the Con- or it may be profitable for the fucian Classice, who remembered how the family homestead to grow the poppy Chinese patriots of yore made the plant, but if the Government, in accord supreme sacrifice. He thought there ance with the 1907 agreement with was no hope for his country, since Great Britain, decrees that, the cultiva the Manchus showed no tangible signa tion as well as comsumption of the of promise; so he jumped overboard dendly drug should be exterminated just a month or two before the out- within ten years, then it is plainly the break of the Revolution which restored.) duty of every patriotic Chinese to help the Chinese to their rightful patrimony. and get rid of this awful scourge. This And, to come. nearer home, during the new Chinese patriotism is sound at the negotiations over the recent Joint enre, with the result that the opium | Defence""agreement, an editor of a agreement with Great Britain was metropolitan vernacular daily also com- revised in May 1911, so that the immitted sucide. portation of Indian opium, need not Now westerners may not quite com- waif for another seven years but could prebend the significance of this extreme: be stopped as soon as China could show Sherifice; but to the Japanese it is that it was effectively extirpated within surely no new thing. For did not its territory. And the sequel. The car Court Nogi, the conqueror of Port estness and determination of this con- servative people never flagged, and the British Government declared that com mencing from April 1, 1913, the export of the drug from India would cease once and for all.
BABY'S GREAT DANGER
DURING HOT WEATHER
More little ones die doring the bat weather that any other tits of the year.
Arther, and his devoted wife also gpmmit kora-kiri 'in 1912, when their imperial covereign" "ascended "urto Heaven" Sir Charles Bruce pointed out in the London Times, in a general discussion as to the merits or motives of Nogi's immolation, that the question may be put to the Christian world! whether the bodily fulfillment of the spiritual law of self-sacrifice was pot Consecrated by Divine Authority in the central fact of Christianity of which the Cross is the symbol?”
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It would be a thousand "pities of the if that potentate hud told him, to kill" Weser Zeitung" were allowed to keep his grandmother he would have obeyed fullowing story, which it published with equal sharity.. In his speech on
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the war. President Wilson stated early Large quantities have been exported to various important cities in the World. Arm-chairs "and" Chesterfield Sofas
departure of the thousand odd Chinese to its circle of readers, for the story aer, that America and her Allies are fight . Terms modurate, especially for Agencies. Orders gxecpteri promptly.....~ (new), Card Tables, Upholstered Suites, without warning, and when a medicine students from Japan as a protest aguinat taily deserves wider publicity. A ter ing for the shered" rights of "free inen THE HING WAH PASTE MANUFACTURING: CO., LTD. &c., Bedroom Furniture, comprising short delay too frequently means that two countries? We may not exactly
tive belg promptly the the self-same convention between the tain, Squire, care von Certzen, had a everywhere. Incidents wel as the one Head Office No. 47 and 48: Connaught Road, Central, Hongkong: Telephone 11:39, White Enamelled Twin Bedsteads, the child has passed beyond aid. Baby'
was pulled Wisniewsk, which has been erorded show unmistake. Principal Factory: No. 71, North Soochow Road, Shanghai, Chins: Telephone 3385. Teak Twin Bedsteads, Sideboards Own Tablets, the Canadian children's endorse the students' attitude, but farni-head whe
ably how crus those words are. The
Branch Factory Wing Hing Street. Causeway Bay, Hongkong, Dinner Waggons, Extension Dining remedy, should always be kept in homies we cannos minimise the fact that and this farm and transgressed in the Allies are fighting not to much is na
Cable Address: ** Bergwand Tables And Chairs, Tea and Occasional where there are young children! Ang student would take an extreme sight of his lord. The Squire, who as a system, system, which tråds to
occasional dose of the Tablets will step nt the risk of incurring Tabica, &c., Dinner Services, Crockery, prevent stomach and bowel troubles. his Government's displeasure
and was given a good character by the people put the clock "of progress back scrèmal Case Ware, Cooking Stoves, Catlery, or if the trouble comes suddenly the discontinuance of his studies, unless on his estate, felt that he had to shew centurice. Toilet Set, de Bath Room Utensils, prompt use of the Tablets may save the he had within him a spirit which practical manner that he disap Bradry Electro-Plated Ware.
baby's life. They are sold by medicine Electric Reading Lamps, Blackwood from Tor Dr. Williams Medicine Co much more than the resumption of his proved of Wouwk Accordingly 20
dealers, or he mail at eb eenta a vial, values the preservation of his country and Teakwood Screens, Blackwood
took the men into the park, ondered him Furniture including large Blackwood Schuen Road, bhanghai.
Sueb, in brief, is the new spirit of to undress, tied him ip to a tree and Seran
Chinese patriotism. At times it may thrashed him with whip
on the raked Le misguided, but it is unfair to com-
THE BANK OF TAIWAN, LIMITED iema it just because of a few whe body, Wisniewsk" wfxfed, and the have been 30 over-zealous pa to Squire bound him yet more fightly and have oversbot the mark of discretion.
flogged, more herly. Wisniewsk Chind is no longer isolated, for by
Side Tables, Chairs, Cabinets, Engravinga Fictures Rinkosan
and Brass Tuses, &c., kc, Tennis Poles and Net, Several Carpets new second-hand.
Also
and
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Auctioneers.
Hongkong, Ang. 81, 1918,
TO LET
TO LET
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ber entry into the war on behalf screamed, and the Squire logged get of Liberalism and Democracy, she has harder. At the prosecution which sub- IVE-ROOMED FORNISBED defnitely identified herself with the in-
HOUSE for six weeks, or two terests of the world. & patriotism that equently canned the Court held that Apply M. Z R. looks to the preservation of the inde the fact that Wisniewsk had submitted pendence and integrity, of the, new to the punishment would not be regarded Kepublic a more than hational One
as consent, but rather as claudience to country is to-day closely-kalt with the
months.
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temper is a tontter for speculation. The coat somewhat. apologetically sentencod... the Squire to un menths' imprisonment. From every point of view the case is an interesting pay. I by,s wild freate ut the imagination transfers the scene to England one at base ecu fronted with a host of difficulties. For the wake of argument let us suppose that
LONDON BANKERS Capital and Counties Bank, London, Squire Brown has a difference of opinion and South Western Bank, Parr's Bank. with Bill on the abjeer of the subtl The Bank hra Correspondents in the distinction which exists between Meum Commercial contres of Bussis. Man and Tuum. The Squire, select a churia, Indo China, India, Philippine Kalands, Java, Australia, America and hyaling crop, from the rock in the hall fabewhere 4 dona pizda, jedn and take Hill for a walk in the park Interest allowed on Current Account, On arriving at a spot which seems dixed Deposits and Savings Doposita Fagarates which will be quoted on mirably anited for the purpose, which lication
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Prices $195 and 1225
hids in view he adera Bill to undress,
One can see Bil doing it. would
NYAMAGITANE
probably driving Lahishaght to know | HONGKONG “BRANOH
why
A fight might or might not enadei
but one can usƐely" usy
Hongkook Mey
Town Office, 18, CACOTT ROAD CHIKAL Basgkook Telephone: Shipyard Sham-Sui-Po, Kawione, Hongkong. Estimates furnished on application. 42
April 1, 1912.
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