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COAL FROM THE RUHR.
PARIE, September 4th.. It is stated that coal deliveries from the Bahr region in August excreded 16,000,000- tabs. 15,300,000 tons was the amount fixed at Spa
M. DESCHANEL.
PARIS, September 4th, later ewed by the Exelsior, Colonel Fabic, & member of the Presidential stae, declared that M. Deschanel's health has much improved and all trace of fatigus Les;
disappeared..
RELUCTANT RICSHA COOLIES.
INCIDENT ON THE PEAK.
DISORDERLY BEHAVIOUR
PUNISHED.
Inspector Purden, of Mount Gough Police Station, this morning charged two ricsha coolies plying for hire on the Peak, with (1) using insulting language, and behaving in a disorderly manner, and (2) refusing fares. They both pleaded not guilty.
The Inspector said that Mr. and Mrs. H. Dreyer came up on the 7.40 tram last night. Arrived at the top station; Mr. Dryer attempted to en-- gage the first defendant's vehicle which was the only one on the stand at the time. When defendant refused. Mr. Dreyer pressed down the shahs
of the rissha while Mrs. Dreyer en- fered. He then forced the first delen- dant to walk while he walked by the side of the vehicle..... The first delen- dant used bed language all the way. When they got past the Peak Hotel, Mr. Dreyer saw the second defen- dant's ricsha. He beckoned to him, but the first defendant shouted out something, and the second defendant dashed away. Mr. Dreyer gave chase and forced the man to take him. Arrived at Mr. Dreyer's residence, No. 98 The Peak, Mr. Dreyer tender- ed the defendares the legal fare of 15 cents each, but the defendants refused to accept the money. Con- sequently Mr. Dryer took them to the Station.
Inspector Purdet, said that Mr. Dreyer offered the defendants their Fares at the station, they refused to accept the money.
Replying to the Magistrate, Mr D-eyer said that he had had a lot of trouble with fiesha coolies on the Prak
While he would not say that. ur deleaton's were the guilty persis before, there were several coolies whil - were always nicking trouble.
The Magistrate There is nothing special against the second defendant. 1. subpose?"
Mr. Dreyer No. The Erst defen. cape was the cause of all the trouble.
The first delendant said that Mr. Dreyer did not fuckin to him, but struck him on the leg with his- střek. That was not the way engage a riesha. He was plying for hire, and would certainly have taken Mr. Dreyër had he called him, but he did not.
The second defendant also said that Mr. Dreyer did not beckon to him.
The Magistráte: Then why did you Fim?
I was running to the station to make·
1 fare..
The Magistrate fined the first de- fendant $$, bound him over to be of good behaviour for six months in the sum of $50, and directed that he be not allowed to ply for hire on the Peak during that period.
The second defendant was fined $1, and cautioned not to run away in future. when called upon to take a fare.
BOUND ADVICE.
ONE REASON WHY BRITAIN IS
GREAT.
THE CHINA MAIL
TO-DAY'S
CABLES.
(Reuter's Service to the China Mek)
DAMASOUS-MENACED.
ARAB TRIBES COMBINE TO ATTACK FRENCH.
ALEXANDRIA, September 15. Arab tribes in Hauran have come to a mutual agreement to attack the French in-Damascus. It is stated that French troops sent to Hauran recently were defexted and that Damascus is now entrenching. There are about 12,000 troops in Damascus
STILL UNREPENTANT
EX-KAISER STYLES HIMSELF EMPEROR AND KING.
LONDON, September & That the ex-Kaiser is still unrepentant is shown by his telegram in answer to the congratulations of the Association of German Officers on the occasion of the anniversary of the Battle of Tannenberg-"I heartily thank the officers for their loyal remembrance. Would that the Fatherland might have another Tannenberg-Wilhelm, Emperor and King.”
CONFIDENCE TRICKS.
TWO WOMEN DUPER.
MURDER CHARGE.
KENNEDY TOWN KOBBERY,
ISTRALIA AND THE EAST.
TRADE POSSIBILITIES.
NOW THEY CAN BE EXPANDED,
After an absence of about eight months, during which be visited India, Malaya, the Dutch Indies, China and Japan, Mr. E. C. Dyason has returned to Melbourne greatly impressed with the possibilities of further expanding Australian trade with the East. He undertook the our partly on behalf of the Australian Gold Producers' Association (which 'came into existence largely as the result of his efforts), and partly on account of. several. Australian con- carms doing business with firms 'io the East.
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In the course of conversation. Mr. Dyason laid strms upon the resource- ful manner in which the peoples of the East had taken advantage of the cessities of the nations of the West, of the industrial upheaval which were to their own benefit. The rumblinga shaking the world were in evidence from India Japan; but, said be the mass of the Eastern peoples are too close to the starvation line to be ready for political free- dom. The great material advance
mostly confined rich class, which, though large, formed a small percentage of the total Eastern populations. "The accumulation of wealth in the bands of this class had been enormous. On April 19 last, an armed robbery This had led to a gigantic crop of was committed at No. 36, Catchick new enterprises, which must have a Street, Kennedy Town, by four men. profound effect on the development
hey entered the house soon after of world trade. man near the Mongkuk Market, midnight.
The East had The only inmates of de-itely entered upon its industrial who told her that he was the house at the time, a cook revolution, but the crest of the pre- a stranger, having arrived from and
17-year old boy, were sent financial wave had passed In Canton only a couple of hours before awakened by the sound of the robnue cases, as in Japan, these was a He produced what appeared to be a bers breaking the door of the house, dehgite
slump. The Eastern roll of bank notes and asked her
but before they could arm them countries were, however, in too sourd
THE PLAUSIBLE STRANGER AGAIN.
A Chinese woman living in Yau-
raati yesterday reported at the Police Station there that about 230 pm while she was shopping, she met
ALLEGED ARMED ROBBER ARRESTED.
a
Japanese should learn how to treat foreign visitors so that they will feel at home here, is the advice which Mr. Yonejiro Ito, managing director of the Nippon Yusen Kaisha and the presi dent of the Tourist Bureau, gave in an interview with the Yonian. Since the ending of the European war, the number of foreign visitors to Japan has remarkably increased, and all do him the favour of changing them selves, the robbers burst into their a position to be seriously affected into subsidiary coins, promising to cubicle. The cook was overpowered by this. In the opinion of Mr. Dyason, give her a cumshaw for her trouble. and bound and She agreed. Before parting with the difficulty, but the youth offered economic progress of the East will gagged without there could be no question that the money however, the man told her stout that she would have to give him tried resistance. The robbers be rapid.
hotels are Elled.
"But I regret that our country men have not properly cultivated the prac tice of welcoming and entertaining foreigners. We often invite ill lock ing from the visitors, which they carry home with them. To-day, when Japan became a first class power of the world, standing as representative, of the yellow races, we should make efforts to have Europeans and Ameri-
cans feel it a shame not to have visited Japan.
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But the attitude of our county
some jewellery for him to hold into the kitchen and lock him in part of the eastern archipelago, but to drive the lad Australia, being geographically as security, and she handed there, but he fought every inch of possessing dimatic and natural re- kim three pieces valued at $46. When the woman stabbed him in the neck with his was in the most favourable position of jewellery the way until one of the robbers sources which Asia, as a whole, lacks, reached the money changer's and dagger.
lad undid the roll
Leaving #the of notes she
for to meet the new demands arising in dead, the robbers ransacked the the East. discovered that she had
Australian goods were,
beea
Improvement in standardisation of
swindled, the notes" being nothing property and money. Long after the ed throughout.
house and made off with $771 in on the whole, very favourably receiv more valuable than scraps of robbers had departed, the cook man-packing and
She rushed back to the aged to free himself and give the quality were, however, both needed "Every nation has national pride."| paper." to be sure. But we Japanese are very spot where the man had said that arm. The youth was removed to for the improvement of the Australian particularly sensitive. It is import be would wait for her but he was not the Government Civil Hopital, where, trade position. It had also to be ant that we should let foreigners see to be found.
in spite of medical attention, he died remembered that the cultivation of Another confidence trick was from loss of blood the country of which the people are
reported to have been practised on
race hatred towards any Eastern so proud.
The police followed up every clue power an amah outside the Central Market but did not succeed in tracing the Australia's material interests in the would not only damage men towards Europeans and Ameri. She was sent by her mistress robbers until about a couple of East, but tend to precipitate the very cans is to go one extreme or the ther On the way she met a man who gave formation that the robbers were policy was designed to prevent.
change $10 worth of subsidiary coins, months later, when they received in-crisis which the white Australia" hat is either to show extraordinary ter a roll of notes to change, taking located in a place called Sanwai, courtesy or to abuse them as keto-
the $10 as security. She also
Mr. Dyason said he found that a jin, or hairy foreigners. We do not covered her mistake too late.
near Canton. By the time detectives high opinion was held of Australian reached the place, however, the foodstuffs of all kinds. There had robbers had disappeared and nothing been an enormous demand for the precious metals in the East. It was On Sunday morning, a man said probably true that for the last year to be one of the outlaws came down the East had absorbed much more from Canton by train. Inspector than the annual output of the world's Willis received the information that gold and silver. This absorption raided No. 6, Kennedy Street, Wan-The Easterner was, however, entitled Captain same aftemoon, and with some fois, continued at an extraordinary figure. chai and there arrested the suspected to these metals which he obtained by When the place was searched, parting with commodities which the
know how
to associate with them closely as friends, and I think it must
be very trying to foreigners in, this LATEST SHIPPING NEWS. more was heard of them.
country.
"On the contrary, - Japanese who
are in London, say that after visiting Paris and Berlin and returning to Len-j
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The 5.6. Derwent,"
dunt, they feel very much at home. Benstead, 1.562 tons, arrived this They like to live in that city. I was morning at 7 a.m. from Saigon with one of the Japanese who liked Lun-2000 tons of rice.
don.
That is where England is great. "Once when I was in London, I. with my family. went to a station to board a train. About five perice were
one pound. The ticket seller told me
DEPARTURES.
required for the ticket, but I had only eviled for Bangkok via Swatow at The 8.3. "Chusan." Capt. Davies, he did not have change. An elderly 11.30 am. to-day with 400 tons of gentleman stepped up from the side general cargo.
general cargo.
The s.s."Japan, Captain Munro, and said, to the ticket seller: You sailed for Calcutta via Singapore at should not inconvenience a foreign 1 p.m. to-day with 1000 tons of gentleman to the point that he can- not board the train. I will take care; of your office while you go to get the change.' The British make efforts to see that their own country is properly understood by foreigners.
The s.s. "Delight," Capt. Pearsons, sails for Seattle via Keelung at 7 m. to-day with 600 tons of general carga.
CLEARANCES.
The se. "Wuhu," Br, cleared to day and will sail for Wehu at 6
"A friend of mine who was in a boarding house in Hamburing three of fu years ago told the people there' the Japan was victorious in the war with China and Russia, but they would a.m. to-morrow, not believe him. How could a smell nation like Japan win over large coun- tries like China and "Russia? man is crazy,' they said.
This
Motor car No. 204 yesterday knocked down a Chinese in Des: Vaux Road Central, causing injuries
to the Government Civil Hospital
"That is an example of how little Japan is known in foreign countries. which necessitated his removal We should make efforts to invite for- eigners to come over by associating with them as friends."
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a fully loaded six-chamber revolver. west required... was discovered, it is stated under the mattress of a bed. A fur
in the discovery on the premises of ther search is said to have resulted
three pieces of stolen clothing identified as the property of the inmates of No. 38, Catchick Street. Subsequently, when searched at the station, seven pawn tickets relating. to seven other pieces of clothing identified also as stolen from the house in question were alleged to have been found on the prisoner. increased by five times last year.
This morning, the prisoner was In speaking of the brought before Magistrate Hutchison
Mr. Koike of and formally charged with the Since the murder of the youth, U Kwong, and armed robbery together with three others who are not in custody. He pleaded not guilty." and was re manded until September 14.
L'DIES' RECREATION
CLUB.
Passengers to America and Europe
increase N.Y.K. said, peace, was signed visitors to European countries have increased five times. The ran to America is made by the Toyo Kisen Kaisha, Osaka Shosen Kaisha and the N.Y.K. and these three companies are carrying extra boats to accommo- date the large number of passengers.
The European course, however, is handled by the N.Y.K. alone, and all cabins up to next April are engaged. Most of the passengers on N.Y.K. boats are going straight to London or Marseilles.
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LADIES' RIFLE CLUB,
The Committee will be "At Home," A clean bill of health was re- turned for the Colony yesterday, to all members on Saturday, October During the week ended Saturday two 2nd, at 3 pm. Members may bring Chinese died from influenza. and two guests each at the usual fees. An CHAMBERLAIN'S COUGH hree from cerebro-spinal fever. American Mixed Doubles (Sealed
REMEDY.
There were also one case of diptheria, Handicap) Tournament will be held British, and two cases of enteric: A member may enter with a The first meeting of the Autumn THIS,emedy has 70 superior as a care
Season will be held on Tuesday, 4th for. colde, croup and whooping lever, one British and the other non-member as partner or two mem cough.
Indian.
bera may enter together. The October, from 9 am to 12 and 2 pm It has been a favourite, with mothers of...
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