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SATURDAY, JULY 26, 1919
TO-DAY'S CABLES, BRITISH RULE IN EGYPT STOP
(Reuter's Service to the China Mei) NEWS BY FRENCH AGENCY.
PARIS, July 21.
The inter-allied committee and the German commission at Versailles have arranged the conditions under which the 500,000 workers will be sent by the German government to rebuild the devastated regions of France.
SPECIAL COMMISSION OF INQUIRY,
Statements of considerable import ance in relation to the future of Egypt were made in both Houses resently in the Lords by Lord Chur zon, who is acting a Foreign Secre tury during Mr. Balfour stay Paris, und in the Coumous by the Under Secretary. Mr. Cecil Hurn worth.
PRESS
RICE RIOT AT WANCHAI.
8 ARRESTS,
THE CHINA MAIL.
rice riot at Wanchai.
As we go to press we hear of a
have been arrested.
About 100 coolies rioteshe Eight
THE WALLS OF CANTON.
ANCIENT CITY OF REMARKABLE CONTRASTS.
MACAO ASSASSIN ?
THREATENS EX GOVERNOR.
"The ex-governor of Blacao, "Serber
Barbosa, is staying at the Hongkong Hotel. Some time ago it seems he suspended an official from duty, and this man is said to have come over on July 24 to kill him. At A correspondent of The Times writ least he said so in a Chinese ing from South China, says:
hotel, and his threats were reported to the ex-Governor.
To some extent Lord Curzon a speech was in the nature of a 're truction, or at any fute's decided ARRIVAL OF "NAGOYA." The pioneer of the British in China, detectives will be ready for him if he
Definite steps. have been taken by thedification, of some of his previous. the French government to endeavour references to the Egyptian troublew, to obtain from Washington on allevia rather severely characterised by Cap. tion of the embargo os tourist travel Wedgwood Benn in the other to France, which recently aroused a House as anong the most harmful storm of protest in Paris. Pressing fund foolish utterances ever uude in representations were also made for
MANY HONGKONG MEN RETURN.
The Great Wall still remains, but the walls of the cities of China arei Yesterday morning the man was crumbling. They kept out the rounded up and the CS. F. sent him wandering bands of robbers, but they out of the Colony. It is said he are useless before modern artillery threatened to come back, and that
gallant Capt. John Weddell, contem-does.. porary of Cromwell and Hampden, The Portuguese Consul knew silenced with his guns the Chinese nothing of it. batteries near Canton in 1634, but he did not touch the city Wall. The Cantonese themselves are now
motor-cars and electric tramway cars.
engaged in pulling it down, so that
THE PIRACY CASE.
"
Five Chinese were indicted before city in China. The other city walls Magistrate Lindsell to-day with being of this long-lived, undying people will concerned in the recent Piracy at also crumble and disappear when the Lamma Island. Inspector Gordon inhabitants of the cities hear the asking for a remand said that the throb of the internal combustion woman who was wounded by the pirates would not be out of hospital engine.
Pelament Zack of knowledge. The P. & O. 5.3. "Nagoya" arrived cancellation of passport restrictions. lack of sympathy, hek of humour-from Home this morning about 9:30.
Regarding the Japanese minister's en were the defects uttributed to As soon as the ship went alongside j may have a track around the largest oticial denial of the existence of a the acting Foreign Minister in his there were many visitors to meet treaty between Japan and Germany dufngs with the people of Egypt; relatives. and friends. the Chinese peace commission has mimost fatal in such a connection. pointed out that it has never been accending to Captain Benn, though alleged that such a treaty existed puexibly harmless us he reverently but that negotiations for the treatyggestede as the attributes of the were in progress.
The steamer" Atsuta Maru" with Marquis Saionji on board cleared from Marseilles on July 20
It is calculated that the amount due from Germany to France for reparations is approximately 200 milliard francs, not including the actual war expenses.
honorary colonel, of the Tat Cinque Pets Post Office Butte
The city of Canton bas 2 populator another week. Hearing was tion of reore than a million people adjourned. within the wall. It is said to possess at present one motor car. That is surely a "record" for any city of DEPARTMENTAL ORDERS. the same size that is accessible to ocean-going steamers. when the city wall has disappeared,
But soon,
"The Police may not allow them
The numerous. passengers in- cluded:
Capt. H. Dovey, Capt. Openshaw, Lieut. Blenkiron Sergt Sutherland (Rex. Oficer), Messrs. J. R. Clark, Phillips, A. R. Clark, R. McFall, T. I. Almost maloneously with the Wilson, G. A. Stimsen, C. P. Alex handling of those and kimer gibes andes, K. W. Andrew, J. D. Murphy as the unsympathetic clameter of and J. Murphy, all Hongkong Felice, inter drinisation, Torco J. L. Speed, H. Johrson and A. B. Pop, unconscious of the Commons Didsbury, Warders, F. P. Lenfesty, gherding. was announcing in the and Lieut. A. W. Daily. Harbour. Birks the decision of the Gorem. Dept, Mr. L. S. Greenhill, Hong, a road, 100 ft. wide, will enable to sic there, but the law may. It is The French senate committee on rent to send us a Coumission to kong Land Investment Co., Messrs. wheeled vehicles to encircle Canton. y a departmental order, woman suffrage rejeated it by 11 votes to 3 the bill adopted by the punidad over by Lard Milder,
They cannot penetrate the city un-Magistrate Lindsell to Inspector to prepare recommendations as to
less there is a complete reconstruc-Macdonald, this morning, when a chamber of deputies to enable women futise Government, of the cour
tion. For in the master of thorough Chinese was charged with sitting on to yote at parliamentary elections. The Italian pence delegation has. Not only so, but hoshing could
fares Canton is unique. Only a Sedan the focs-path in Connaught Road, Inspector Macdonald: But I would stated it is not true that the Councilave been more irreproachable tiah
chair can pass between the shops, thus causing an obstruction. chair pass another. Outside of the charge them every time. Fined $3. of Five rejected Italy's claims to the the expressions of sympathy with the Military garrison. The full list and only at certain places can one city wall there is a very large popula concession at Tientsin.ente Exptian aspirations with of passengers is printed elsewhere.
tion, and many thousands of families Italy wishes only that the Chinese which the Minister accompanied His
live in little boats on the river. But government start within a year works unmounirement,
Austrian
of sanitation on the swamp lands bordering the. Italian settlement and works for improving the naviga. tion of the Haibo river near the Italian settlement.
Captain Marshal has crossed the Mediterranean by aeroplane and is
NO SUCCESSORS OF CRONER OR KITCHENER. Thanks to the vor, which in turn- ing us to be not wishbout coraponga- tors as an Imperiul educator, most
Culen and Logar. Kowloon Dock, M and Mrs H. Millington, Sanitary Board. Sergt. and Mrs. Witchell, Mr. C. Wilkie, B. and S., Mr. Mrs and Miss Blake, and a number of Families of
NEW MILITARY OFFICERS.the internal combustion engine is
THE MISSING CAR.
·
gaid
changing water traffic around Can-
The son of Mr. M. A. dos Remedios ton. Motor-boats have made more of 51 Wyndham Street recently re- rapid progress than motor-cars, for ported the loss of his toy car. Later The following arrived by the P. & the traffic of China is like that of the saw the vehicle in a shop and of those who took part in the Com-10. Nagoya this morning:
Venice, along the waterways.
informed his parent of the find, and Lieut. Col. W. Loring. D.S.0, Mrs. ons dulate were able to speak of
the Police were told. A CANTONESE STEAMER.
Three Chinese were produced expected to make the return tripditions in Egypt me personaLoring and two children. shortly after he reaches the Tunis experience. Consequently the da. Lieut. Colonel and Mrs. F, Hayley
Practically all the tourists who before Magistrate Lindsel this morn coast. The French aviator Lieutension was well weeth beuring, and, Bell.
rush along the coast of Eastern Asia ing and charged with receiving stolen Major Dowhing. Major Sturgess, visit this curious place called Canton.property. ant Roget left Villa Coublay and re-pie Captado Wedgwood Benn's
P. H. Davies It is a city of contrasts between the ached Amsterdam withour mishap.des reminder of the notoriousDS.O., Captain
Inspector Boulger stated that it Havas
unsafeness of the "expert tenti Major L. C. Bristow. Lieut.old China and the new ideas of was a very serious case but where the Ining of tef sojourners in a foreign L. R. J. Dale, M.C. and Ms. Dale Europe. Out on the river one sees last Chinese was concerned he should ndeurly all the speeches, includ. and Major and Mrs. Kirkpatrick the wooden stern-wheel passenger not have purchased the car from the
COURTESY TO THE PRESS.
ing Captain Benn's own, conveyed en impression of knowledge study und sympatby.
Differing on some points, notably as to the truth of certain alegra tāons of the harshness of the penalties suici to have been indicted by military A Singapore paper says. The arts on civilums for petty offences.. press representatives at Saturday's Captain Benn and Captain Oreby. Chamber of Commerce dinner feel hore were as one in condemning as agzrieved and say so. They complaina hauder the refusal of the British that the arrangements made for their Government to permit the proposed comfort were quite inadequate. "Wegyptian delegation to visit Eng. were seated well away from the main and.
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Whether was Lord Cur-
Lieut. Col. Loring is the new Commander of R.G.A. here. Majors Downing, Sturges and Bristow will command R.G.A. Companies...
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boat propelled by a dozen men, who boy who had offered it for sale, with- appear to be walking the treadmill. out proper investigations. The second There is no other motive power but and third men were sentenced to human muscle for the paddlewheel, four weeks' hard labour and the first which hangs over the sterr. A discharged. snorting steamer, obviously propelled by one of the latest type of internal combustion engines, using crude oil, easily passes the other. It is surpris ing to learn that the vessel and its four-cylinder engine of about 180
List of vessels in port this horse power were made in Canton. morning. There was no science about the
British making, no careful design, no welfare body of the guests during dinner." on personally who was responsible The regulations by the Governor work for the Chinese mechanics who says one of them, and after dinnerer the blunder did not appear. Ain Council, as part of the Marine built in. Owing to a lack of legisla we were taken to another table, stiltinted challenge on the subject by Stores Protection Ordinance, illustrate tion about patents the engine was apart, but nearer the speakers." The Captain Benn, who incidentally ac- the mischief of passing skeletor copied, piece by piece from one made
Lienshing arrangement made them look like un-used tint Minister of having early ordinances and letting the Executive in Great Britain or America. It was
Hangchow. Some are material all so simple...since there is no welcome guests-intruders. One of kat Erypt to the ampire, failed to do the rest.
Kwongsang them made a protest and was told
sinaw the desired in cemation, Mr. enough to require debate and in-patent law or copyright in China.
Japan Yet it is significant of the coming that as they were not members of Harnsworth seeking refuge from the corporation in the text..
Suisang the Chamber of Commerce they were pustion in an appeal (refreshingly
Mr. A. S. Hooper is declared a changes that the work was done
Luchow there as a favour." He was, told novel on the line of any member of member of the Licensing Board for without any European supervision or
Brisbane advice. It is very inferior to its pat Hok Canton that by Mr. Bateman, the secretary. the present Government) to the doc three years. We want quite vehemently to combat true of collective responsibility.
term in quality and in appearance; Fooksang the idea that the press is favoured
Allegations of andue severities in
Huichow but the engine works. by invitation to a function. It is administrations, and even of out.
Wuhu To-day Canton is still the most not favoured. An invitation is read
under military sunction,
Kaifong as meaning that the promoters wish though they had been repelled in
populous city of the Far Eastern Fooshing the function reported in the news-Tond Curzon's speech, were virtually
Republic. It is probably also the Agamemnon papers and the press attends in its gnored by the Under-Secretary-an
most important, and it is certainly Cassis capacity of a servant of the public seat, by the way, with the
the most restless city east of India. Baron Inchcape and the ordinary courtesies should tailed references of Mr. Sover and
Yatshing be extended to it. There should be Colonel Wedgwood should have made
The rebellions which have brought so Prominent no thought of favour, nor talk of
impossible. Possibly, however, Mr.
much bloodshed to China bave us Changchow favour on either side. Nor are the Hartsworth had this matter in mind
ually begun in Canton. The cisual Wollowra representatives of the press them giving expression to bis sense of
ties of the Taiping, insurrection were selves favoured. We had thought
more than those produced by the that even in Malaya, which is behind the inadequacy of the system of the times in many respects, the oldvernment which had followed
the benevolens autocracies of Load
Great War, but life was always cheap and stupid idea that newspaper men like to attend such functions as that Cromer and Lord Kitchener, both of of Saturday was dead. For news Who were dechred to have rule paper men suct functions mean work. Hgypt muly by personehty and **And," udded Mr. They mean work during the function Prestige, and very often after the function rusworth, regretfully, they have when other people are abed. The left us no successor." men are not being favoured: more!usvITATION" TO LORD" MILNER... Apart from an admirably argued often they are bored. It is an old saying among newspaper men that plea by Lord Winterton for some ORDERS ISSUED BY THE HON.
CAPT. SUPT. OF POLICE. the bigger the people promoting a sustained and consistent effort to function the better is the pressociate the religious susceptibil.. received. We could name a man in Les of the Islamic ruces under the Malaya who, at the last function he British flag an obligation shown to attended in London, sat beside ahure been strangely flouted in some The Police Reserve Club will be member of the Royal family and a of our dealings with the Egyptian closed on and after Monday the 28th peer, at the top of the table. He people the constructive suggestions inst. sat there because the. promoters offered to the Government in the wished to have an accurate report coure of the debate were concerted
On and after Monday the 28th, all and to that end made him comfort mainly with political and admins
Duty Lists and Correspondence must able. And if those who arrangatrative machinery. such functions, in Malaya wish to Gerelly, it seemed to be agreed be addressed to the Secretary, Police remove the reproach that they are that the Foreign Otice should be Reserve Office, Central Police Station. small men unused to such work,perseded as the controlling. Im they will in future treat the press perial departament as soon as possible with more courtesy and consideration. by a specially created authority fore-
ANSWERS TO.
The P. & O. s.. "Nagoya" from London June 6, and Singapore July 20. brings a Home mail consisting of 118 bags, and five packages of parcels. The "Nagoya" also brought 3,750 tons of general cargo for onward ports, and 1,044 tons for Hongkong.
There were 129 cabin, 51 military, and 193 Chinese deck passengers on bezrd,
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HONGKONG POLICE RESERVE.
!!
in China Is the days of the "Son Dutch of Heaven" Canton was the centre of
Tjikini sedition and the breeding place of
Tjibodas conspirators. Even now it is in Drente
Besltang revolt against Peking.
Norwegian
Sylvan Arrow Tancerville
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Peking
shadowed by Captain Benn as a sort
of Egyptian Council on the Enes of the India Coune in Whitehall. Moreover, following the precedent of
HEADQUARTERS CLUB,
POLICE RESERVE OFFICE.
E. D. C. Wolfe.
Capt. Supt. of Police
July 24th, 1919.
The city has always been famous for its artisans. The writer, 20 engineer, gladly pays a tribute to Prosper the mechanical ability of the Cantorese workmen; they have a
The audacity of pirates in Macao natural genius for machinery, which exceeds all bounds. Recently whilst ranks them second only to the Anglo the Governor of the Colony was cn Saxon in making the wheels go board a launch with a party of offi- round." Asiatics, in general, take cials they were actually fired upon much more readily to the pen than by some of these miscreants, says
Religião é Patria. to the file or the lathe, but a Can-j tonese is usually practical, and his intense struggle for survival has left
him with a definite constructive characteristic. When thousands of motor-cars run over the roads of China, which are still non-existent, and when aeroplanes are as common
THEY
Lord Sinha's appointment to the port on the existing sibustion, and as steamers on the China coast, the CORRESPONDENTS Indie Council, Colonel Wedgwood also make recommendations to drivers and the mechanics will be would have on the Egyptian Council the form of Constitution best cul- Cantonese. frm the outwetan Exptun mers culated to promote the prosperity of ber of sinitur distinction and repre- the country and the progressive Democral-Where do you get that rentative character-suggestion, development of self-governing in- about a local Government Reform should be noted, favourably received stitutions among its people. Bill? Mr. Alabaster tells us he has on both sides of the House.
A perdstent feeling that some heard nothing of it. Possibly your For the present, however, Mr. arabiguity attached to Lord Milner's story derives from the current | Hamworth was content to repeat intended position on the Commission agitation against the practice of Lord Curzon's anouncement of the was scarcely relieved by Mr. Harme getting blank cherue" ordinances intendet despatelt of a special com worth's cautious refusal to ath_to through the Legislature, for the Ex-assion to Egypt, what, among the curiously phrased information ecutive to fill in. We have already other duties, is to inquire into the that the Colonial Secretary had bean touched on that, and will return totuses of the late disorders and re- "invited to be its chutanan,
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