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THE CHINA MAIL
provoke criticism and distrust anong foreigners has been recogaised for some weeks past that the Govern- ment, sooner or later, would have to bow to this storm, of opposition.
The hour has now arrived. Japanese Cabinota s a rule are short-lived
CHINESE AFFAIRS..
[The
PEACE EFFORTS..
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PERING, Sept. 15.
Tong Kai Yiu has sent a delegate to
ALLEGED WRONGFUL
DISMISSAL
CLAIM FOR Y90,000 DAMAGES.
In the Kobe Chiko Saibanaho the
THURSDAY SEPTEMDER U
INFLUENCE OF ORIENTAL LIFE ON WESTERN WOMEN,
"Poisor: A True Story of Toke
THE JUSTICIA:"
WONDER OF SHIP CONSTRUCT
TION
aud the life of the TERACCHI Cabinet confer with Liang Shih and to caring has been opened of an action in by W. 3. Mason in the September issue the coast of Ireland, was returning to
may be regarded as rather above the (average, - The' change of Cabinet ja not likely to entail any importanf change in Japan's engagements relat- ating to the world war. The criticism
HONGKONG, THURSDAY, Sept. 6, 1918.
THE RESIGNATION OF THE
JAPANESE CABINEL
of the Cabinet has been entirely destructive, and. it is difficult to discover what is expected from a change of Cabinet. According to the Jiji, the national spirit needs refresh- ing, and a change of Government gould give the national mind's new sum! Generally speaking, it may be said that it in eeldeni. that a
charge of Cabinet in Japan has been ollowed by any striking change in policy.
NEWS OF THE DAY.
LOCAL AND GENERAL
No case of communicable disease was reported in the Colony yesterday
Annuel Bazar will take place oc The Ministering Children's League
Saturday, November 2nd, on the grounds cf Government House.
Eight Chinese papers have been enspended in Peking for publishing news relating to the alleged intention of the Government to raise a new loan
No NEws has yet reached the Colony of the cause which directly led to the resignation of the Cabinet in 796 Japan. Recent criticisms in the Press indicate serveral grounds of complaint which the country has had loguinst the Government, on foreign and domestic questions, but what was probably the determining of $100,000,000. factor in the decision of the Cabinet | *. was the domestic problem of dear fund which led to the recent extensive riots in many parts of Japan, notably
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A Peking message states that General Chong Chok Lum has suddenly dispatched farge detachmentä
of
¦
propose the following peace terms.
The dissolution of the old and now Parliaments and the forma tion of another Parliament according to the old tagulations, -The punishment of Lau Chuon
Haw and other
To recognias Hang Kan Wu as-
Tukwan of Szechuan. 4-To rolund the Military and Administrative funda expended by the provinces of Yunnan.and Kwoichow.
The Justicia, reported sunk at the hamn," is the title of an interesting story end of July apparently somewhere off which Mr. H. B. Clough of. Kobe that will doubtless be widely read, both large contingent of American troops of the New Fast, (British owned) Tokid, an American port after delivering" » claims from the North-Weas Trading for the intensely interesting story of says New York paper from which w
take the following particulars:
The Justicis had a troop), carrying capacity of between seved and sight thousand men. Her crew numbared about five hundred.
reasons for his diamiazal.
Counsel for plaintiff asked the Court
The Justicis, with her gross tonnage
Company, of Kobe, damages amounting wife who went astray and also for the to X30,000 on the ground of unwarrant author's most interesting rofections upon ed diamissal, and also ask the Court to the effect of life in the Orient upon order the Company to give plaintiff its Western women, part of which comment
is hero reproduced:
There is something free and easy to order defendant company to give its about life in the Far Easty an on- of 32,120, was the second largest ships- reasons for dismissing plaintif, and also few charms, but which to the wicked a White Star vesel, of 15,000 gross.
conventionality, which is one of its sunk during the war. The Britannic, to pay him Y20,000 damages, togather and to the foolish becomes an occasion tons, was sunk in the Aegean Sex in with interest at 5 per cent. from the for all kinds of wrong doing. Life November 1916. The Lusitania wan day on which the writ was served until famong people of diferant customs and of a differvas moral code is first a shoek
of about 32,000 ton. divisions and weichow one 1917, proceeded counsch, plaintiff was
Officials of the Holland-America line, mind division of troops in Szechuan, engaged by the defendant company as the ballast of philosophy. The sight of the name of Statendant and to which
unprepared by knowledge ·and military funds to be allocated manager of its office in Kobe. Towards so many naked people, of crede facts the ship would have reverted after the by the Ministry,
the end of that year Mr. Clough visited of animal humanity everywhere ex-war, said to-day she was valued at The Promiar will not agree to the the head office at Sea:ils on business, posed, occasions something more than $10,000,000 and was built to be one of first condition bat is willing to accept While there he was entrusted with a suprise or a smile to a foreign girl, the fasst passenger ships in transatlantic the second, third and fourth conditions that he was given a salary of $300. decency with morality and both with service She was supposed to be
special mission, on the understanding used, as so many girls are, to confurs Regarding the fifth condition, he will (Y500) a month and other necessary the Yoshiwars pulls away the rail which tion would make her. T
religion. The unmistakeable evidence of nearly unsinkable sa modero constri- allow Yuanan and Kweichow troops to expenses. This mission consisted of has hidden from her randerstanding the On her last trip from the Atlantic ba stationed only in Western Szechuan.investigating the affairs of the Kabe greediness of sax in the men with port the Justicis was commanded by and the Hongkong branches and report-bom she has played and talked and Captain A. E. S. Hambleton and carried ing thereon, oporinga bratch at Shang- dazced. Finally, the continual lying, nearly ten thousand men, considerably bai and an import office at Chicago,pying and whispering which seen in excess of her rated capacity, and and completion of the establishment of bus parb of servant
snt life in the Far East
3.To allow, Yauben to station two execution of judgment. In Mareknd then a demolizationhout | for which the Justicia was built underi ·
THE MAGISTRACY
Five men were charged this morning before Mr. E. D. C. Wolfe with being in unlawful possession of daggers.
Inspector Sim said he wished to with draw the charge against all the defen dants except the first one.
Mr. Shenton appeared for the first
defondant.
His Worship accordingly discharged second, third, fourth and fifth defendants and remanded the case against the first defendant.
ALLEGED CHEQUE FRANDS.
Fong Kam was charged, on remand this afternoon bofore Mr. JR. W on ten counts with stealing sheques
10
a branch at New York. After this produce in reaction a furtiveness, 15,000 ton cargo. She was a triple work was done, Mr. Clough was to have callousness and a suspiciousness of anisere turbina driven vessel capable of the option of taking up the post of Many women become stronger and wiser fore and aft, with laven s'er tight among some of f those who employ them.eighteen knots and hurl a double hottori peral manager of the import depart through living in the Far East but bulkheads extending up to the bridge ment in the United States of the defer- very few become sweeter and more deck. The ship had nine steel decks dant company or of manager of their charming in character. | Shanghai branch.
The hie of a European or American and three fannels. In order to set about fulfilling this men have their offices to go to: but time 630 second and 1,800 third class pas woman in Japan is a trying one. The Built to accommodate $30 first class, mission plaintif left Seattle on January hangs heavy in the houses on the Bluff. engera ber sppointments would have 17th, 1918, for Robe, which he left on There is little relaxation. There is little been the last word in shipbuilding if February 17th for Hongktug. On new to see or bear always the same she had not entered the transport. April and plaintiff returned to Kobe, gossip. There is little which makes life service before her completion. Thirty- and in the interval had been attending the theatre and concerts: no restaurant two de lure stateroome, a dining, alon bright and charming; only occasionally 9th, however, he was suddenly notified of feeling smart, up-to-date and proud of persons and interior decorations in the to the mission entrusted him. On April or shope, as at home; small possibility large enough to accommodate 560 by the Kobe branch of the defendant oneself. For new clothes act as a tonic style of Louis XVI were among her company of his dismissal. Plaintiff to woman's nature. Used in moderation was greatly surprised at this improper they prevent meatal depression and de The Justicia in size and tonnage
contemplated features, procedure, but disliking to cause any gradation of spirit. But in the Far East early approached the discusions of trouble, agreed to accept dismissal once and fresh. The have been the great steamship Vaterland, now in
The material arrive condition that the reason should be chosen for the Far East, for customers too the service of the American government made known to him. On April 2d, distant to complain. however, defendants refused to give violated by Chromis, they have been and being used as a carries of American officials: they have troops to Europe. The Justicia was lost their bloom As for the styles, designed as a modem passenger vessel him any ressor
In Europe and America, continued there are no discreet conferences in for the trade between New York and
dressmakers sax
sanctums: the magic words employee. give his reason for the dismissal of an serious reflection on the honour and character of an employee. As a result of defendants' refusal to give their resson
in Kobe and Osaka. On this latter Fengtion troops to Peking, declaring his from letters and with forging the counsel, the law requires an employer to From Paris yesterday ""are never heard, Rotterdam, but she never entered that"
subject the Press criticism has been very bitter and the Government retaliated by a vigorous application
object to be to support the new President
elect.
13
siguntures on same..
Mr. R. Kennedy, accountant of the Mercantile Bank, deposed that when he rezived a draft he compared it with
Refuss! was in itself
·
of the Censorship. The increase in porary at Canton that there are now the advices received and if the endorse for dismissing him, plaintiff might find i hatefully similar to that worn by Justicia over to the British Admiralty
the price of rice since the beginning of the war is stated to be more than 200 per cent. This, we read, is 767 partly due to the over-issue of. paper money, which is one of the causes contributing to the increased prices of all commodities, and partly to Government purchases for the needs of the Siberian Expedition. But it is also due to the deliberate corner-
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heart-rending battle with Chinese cabira, saloons and starways 'rough delays and disappointments; and a final different parts of the city, and that the case of a Chinese signature, it was position in future. It was at present more than 300 Japanese living inment was in order he initialled it. In it impossible or very difficult to obtain a dozen fellow sufletars who patronize the
blossoming into a skimped mishit which Canard steamship Company turned the After being completed at Belfast the
there are eight larga Japanese business initialled only if the assistant copa-plaintif might suffer generally hereafter county town, acerbated by the bitterness
and the vessel for some time was need as not possible to estimate the damage Arms established in Canton.
Then there in the gossip of a little a transport of troops and supplies. pradore passed it
owing to this action of defendants, but of exile No action escapes remark. ment wireless service announced that
In March, 1917, the German govern The question of holding a peace cou
Mr. Ein Sang Chok, the axistantia order to compensate himself for the No word remains unechoed. The tliist German submarines had sunk in the ference at Shanghai of Nanking is begin. compradore of the Mercantile. Bank, loss and damage resulting from the mere for news is like the thirst of the Sahara Mehtarranean it armed treesport ning to take definite form, saya Reuter's said the draft in question was handed fact of defendants having refused to give
Friendship" 13 Bustly sacrificed for the correspondent at Peking. President Hsu to him on the 12th instant by the the reason for his dismissal, he zow popularity of the story monger. He steamship of 34,494 tons, with about Shih-chang desires this initial conference accountant's throw and when it was to T20,000 and also for a Court injunt why?' replied one of our few great came corrent that it was the Justícia claimed payment of damages amounting after retailing the latest tale. Oh, on board. At that time the report be- ought to be banged, said Sycophantus 500 Colonial troops, artillery and horses-
to be composed solely of civilians,
handed to witness the draft bore two tion compelling the defendants to dia- ladies, he has given us something new which was referred to by the German News from Manile states that Mrs. name of the chop with that on the damages which might chequer be the Far Fast who take to stud or to a Australia and New Zealand to England,
chopr. It was his duty to compare the close their reason for dismissal" A to to
to talk about." $1.50 each. ing of stocks by speculators, and the John A. Logan Zenor (née McWilliams), draft. In the present case he found sustained owing to defendants refusing hobby of some kind in order to supply
There are strong-minded women in Admiralty as the vessel was then in the transport, carrying troops from”, deliberate witholding of supplies by widow of the late Lisut. Zenos, U.S.N. agreed. It was not his duty to sea agree to his demand for a statement intellectual oxygen. There are others and was approximately of the tonnage TAKES WONDERFUL, agriculturists, assisted by the strong (Flagship Brooklyn), underwent a major that all chops were genuine. He had reserved the right to put in further daily duties. There have been some American port, however, showed that of their reason for dismissal, plainti who float like lous down the stream of named. Her subsequent arrival at an PICTURE.
national prejudice, amounting almost operation at the Government hospital no record. His signature on the draft claims later.
who took lovers Mrs. Carew joined to a religione belief, in the superiority recantly. Her mother is with her. would guardates, that the name on the Mr. Yamashita counsel for defer this class, She still nursed a grudge the report was a mistaken one,
against her husband for his
The Justicia was 740 feet long, of Japanese over foreign rice." ▲
A Special Commission has boon it would not guarantee the genuineness accepted one month's salary from April had longing to live some of those pas
chop was the same as on the draft, but dants, asked the Court" to dismissalities; and such a grudge always feet beam and 43 feet deep.
plaintiff's claims, with costs. Plaintiff writar in the Near East mentions organised at Tokyo for the purpose of of the chop. Ha hauded it
suggests repayment in kind. She also 1388 that since January let eight times ijusting foreign exchange. The pre- to be entered in the book, and after spandoned all claims against the auch in fiction; and she wished to be the clerk 11th to May 9th last, and in doing so sionate scenos which appealed to her so ad much foreign rice has been fairlent is the Minister of Finance, and that it was sent to Mr. Kennedy.
defendants, agreeing to accept his the first woman of Yokohama in men's imported as in the corresponding the members are composed of officials
dismissal. Hence the present claim admiration, since she certainly consider. period of last year; but the majority and unofficial persoas interested in
was improper, and should be dismissed. ed herself the wittiest and the most
In reply to the Presiding Judge,
sttractive," of the common people still refuse foreign exebange.
counsel for plaintif said that the head to eat anything but Japanese rier,
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office of the defendant company was 25- grown in the Japanese way, and was sent to the Government Civil
signed in the United States according was named, Li Hong, aged 23,
ablished in the United States. The contract for plaintiff's engagement was profiteers take advantage of their pre-Hospital on the 23rd, suffering from
to American law. The demand for the judice. The Government's methods three stab wounds inflicted by six men of dealing with the situation have in Third Street at about 1.30 pm system when a draft is presented the right recognised by legal custom. reason for dismissal was based on a
as an upis vial act in contravention of Further, refusal to gire this information
recognised personal right. This Death under 50 years of age is avoid-our economic annihilation, is the war unlawful act was the ground for the able, and the medical practitioner is the aim of England and America. Prince ven prosent claim for damages,
primary agent in the task. Something Below's saying must be made to prevail, Counsel for defendants admitted that approaching revolutionary reform in pre- namely, the King first in Prussia, Prussia plaintiff had been engaged in the United to Sir George Newman in a striking world. (Loud cheera)
ventative medicine is needed, according frit in Germany, and Germany fiest to States, according to American law, but memorandam on medical education in denied the axistence of any custom or England, addressed to the President of law requiring an employer to give any the Board of Education. reason for the dismissal of an employee October 5th."
The proceedings were adjourned to
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the Bank of Canton, said the draft on his Quam Shu John, chief accountant of Bank was presented to him on 27th August. The shroff handed it to bim
shown another draft on the Bauk of with the signature. Witness was also
Canton. Neither of them, he said, passed through his hands. According to his
not given satisfaction and there has The case is considered to be serious. clerk receiving it gives it a number to Que.. man has been detained by the been an insistent and a very general Police ou atipicion of causing the identity it and the Bank's chap is put of it. That clerk then saka the person presenting the draft to righ his name on the back.
demand for weeks past that the Government must go. Certain con- wtitutional questions arise out of the
injuries.
An accountant, named Lang Shway,
entered
The asso is proceeding..
AN EXCITING CHASE.
Twenty-four Chinese were fined $3 French whart. each by Mr. Wolfe for gambling on the
a
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HOW TO, PROLONG LIFE.
FATAL CONDITIONS UNDER. 50 MORE OR LESS PREVENTABLE.
course are too fully occupied." he states, The five or six years of the medical to perrait of healthy assimilation of much which the student is taught, and
GERMANY FIRST IN THE
WORLD."
According to a Berlin telegram, at the inclusion of the session in the Prussian Upper House the President mid
Do the Entente peoples still believe in a victory by arma. Now it is the Amer- ican reserves which constitute the hope of the two victims of England's buckster ing spirit-France and Italy-but these reserves can no longer decide the "was.. They come too late-so wa earnestly hope. The eremy pats his faith in our internal, disunion, which to-day, in addition to
£15,200,000.
cos Let's have a Song on the Gramofailure in domestic administration of 157, Whu Hu Street, money
phoże.
suggested by these food riots. There changer's shop, reports that at 9.30 p.m.
a growing demand in Japan yesterday five armed men for the recognition of the respond his fokis.
his shop and pointed revolvers at him sibility of Cabinet Ministers in the went bobiad the counter and took from Two of the, men political as distinguished from the the money changer's counter 16 in formal and legal use, and the copper coins. Two of the men have Police arrived some defendants jumped POLITICS AND PROFITS IN CHINA. Diploma of Publis, Health. He is not Provincial Councils of Belgium sum wanner in which Count TERAUCHI's been arrested. Cabinet was formed two years ago
into the water. One tried to swim the i han served to add force to the
Canton la now provided with a harbour. They were' all arrested, daily English newspapery the first isntio being published on the 25th inst. The
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A constable deposed that when the
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are largely controlled by the examing GERMAN EXTORTION IN BELGIUM tion" system. The ordinary student. does not require & course of study.com parable to that prescribed for the
It is learnt from a Belgian official source that the Session of the Nine
a dim cutive medical officer of health mon
suggesting what should be taught the moned by the German Administration A correspondent of the China Prese student, Sir G.
New
to pass the necessary resolutions for emphasises the need
of $ careful study of (Shanghai) writing from Haichow, and conditions of disease be stansesment of the war contribution having
in relation to
refused to vote the sum of 6
2560 million severely criticised in certain quarters paper is owned by Chinese, but it is ing to the Common Pealth on furlough. It is hardly necessary to make a 55-63, and is one of the most disabling themselves will now take the necessary
Kiangsu, 74
social life and habit Heart discuss by the Germans, the proceedings were
france (£2,
10,800
300 poco
monti demanded- in regard to the Siberian Expendition intended to sorve all alike in Canton, It is believed their presence will sting-statement regarding the elections, forms of disease. Much of it is due to steps for the payment of the contributions causes one third of the deaths between declared null and void. The Germans but these comments, appear to have native or foreign, in the promotion of lato recruiting been chiefly inspired by prejudice international friendship and commerce, Four sons killed, two seriously aguinat America, whose co-operation Chan Lim Pak, of, the Hongkong and wounded, one discharged through an is regarded as a refusal to recognise Shanghai Bunk, and several others well the record of the family of Mr. Thos. the paramounter of Japan's interesanwa Cantonese are backing this new Lovegrate, of Sunning Hill, Ascot, in Eastern Asia. In regard to this enterprise.
HAMBERLAIN'S COUGH
REMEDY,
question also the rigorous character -The Intelligence Bureau at Canton of the Press censorship has served communicates the following -Civil to swell the agitation against the Governor Li Yau Hop whose, prolonged continued retention of the Governindisposition, renders him incapable of
THIS remedy has no superior is
cure for ment of Count TERAUCHI and his performing the duties of his office, has cou has been a lavounte with mothers of r colds, croup and whoopis colleagues. These two questions have Military Government. Governor Lie young childres for almost forty years.
been removed by a Mandato of the thrown the China Question somewhat continued absence from Canton caused always be depended upon and is pleasant Chamberlain's Cough Remedy can into the shade, though it is an great convenience in the administrato fake. Item in the indictment against the appointee, Civil Governor Chak, ie one tion of provincial affaire. The nex
It not only cares cold and grip, but events their resulting in pneumonia. Government that.. has allowed of the former Governor's capable
lain's Cough Remedysantains irresponsible schemers to venture.ou
liestonante, co ko will have the support
brium or older narcotic, and may be recklers can
of the Shin Kwadr soldiers furmerl
frem sa cdobdently to a child as in in anner de Goverade is
all Chemist raad
individual that reform must come. Heart
the
by
so called which were held some time preventable conditions of which piccbani and caise a loan for the purpos Two members were sent from here. monly reponsible. It is in the work: Germans by forced contributions and ago to elect members of Parliament cal strait, and infective disease are cara. Since the beginning of the war One of them spent $30,000 in buying shop and in the personal habit of the the seizure of moneys in Brussels banks. Too, and the porbs somewhat best disease is therefore, parály a problem of love and from Belgium. In in to The man who spent 830,000 sands back
£81200.000. Ta this must be report that he has already made 85,000 Proventive medicine. on, bis vote for President and expects xamined the pore clearly will it be £85,200.000 paid by Belgium over ski more the bills of health are added the 14,000,000 to be raised by Joans from June 2, making a total of to make about $10,000, more before the seen that most of the conditions fatal above all the laual taxes, which are still Presidential elections are over. It may under bare more or less directly prevent vied by the Curmans Router be inferred that he has made his pile able Freventive medicine has already was underg before this
p raised the expectation of life at birth
from 40 years in 1838-54 to 31:
A
A violent dispute as to the distribu it now on in this place und wack bair tion of vote money paid to local voters pulling and mud-throwing is being indulged in
It may be added that the representa tive from this place to the Provincial stembly in schoolboy not yet adested from Middle School and that he came home from Nanking 8200. to the good from transactions skilfälle grouped around the casting of his ballo
various Lines and places
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