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IN THE GOODS of MATTHEW JOHN DENMAN STEPHENS late of Victoria in the Colony of Hongkong, Solicitor, deceased,
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LESSONS OF THE CHINA
DISTURBANCES, --
Batam and Bintang, islands of the same order of magnitude se Sings pore. The island of Singapore was under direct British sovereignty, being the metropolitan part of a Crown Colony called the Strait Settlements, which must not be
REJUVENATION MYTH
GRAFTING OPERATIONS
DISAPPOINTING.
The importance of Singapore as a 'confnoud with the Federated Malay
At the last meeting of the naval base, without which Britian States, which were a British Pro Chelsea Clinical Society, held at could not be secure either in the tectorato, The neighbouring part St. George's' Hospital the subject Pacific or in her Indian Ocean com- of the mainland, the terminal por of debate was generally the dis- munications, was emphasised by tion of the Malay Peninsula, wad
the
Dr. Vaughin Cornish in a paper the State of Johore, not one of the nses of old age, but some of the read on June 23 bafore the Royal Protected group, but connected speakers were led into a discussion Colonial-Institute. The paper was with the Empire by a treaty under upon the practical value of some ritled, "Singapore and Naval wlach the Sultan igrees to accept of the grafting operations for Cicography," and the meeting was and get upon the advice of a regeneration (wrote a medical presided over by Gupt. Sir Arthur British officer, who has the title of correspondent in London Young, G.C.M.G., K.B.E.
General Advisor. The islands of "Morning Post" on March 28). De, Vaughan Commish said that Batum and Bintang and mox Their general opinion appears to under the terms of the Washington smaller ishunds in the vicinity of have been that the result of graft-^ Treaty for the Limitation of Naval Singapons were Dutch, possessions, ing would not be immediately Armaments, signed on February 6. purt the immense inside domin: shown, and one well-known sur- 1022, Hongkong, hitherto the helion of Holland in East Indian geon said definitely, that a great quarters of the Royal Navy in Waders. Apart from the question of many of his grafting operations Eastern waters, cannot be provid-defence, the duties which these had not ful'led expectations. ed with the large dry docks neaded possessions entailed upon a neat Any contrary result would have for the cleaning and repair of the were very heavy, since the archi- rather surprised medical men, futest capital shine, and the nearest pelage must be policed in order to who, while always discounting the harbour now available as a mainsure that belligerents make no sensational reports, have recently tenance base of the Fleet is in the use of the innumerable anchorage leant to the belief that nothing island of Singapore, which is, in heyoud that allowed by interna-practical had as yet emerged from round figures 870 nantien, miles tional hew. | (430 statute of land miles) Went of
the new researches. the meridian of 110 deg. E., now known as the Washington Line," and is 1,350 puntical miles more distant than Hooglang from the Japanese ports.
URGENCY OF SINGAPORE WORK.
DOCKING FACILITIES.
The whole subject has now been
temporary.
Klinische
The commercial port of Singapore, reviewed in Vienna where Pro being situated at the southern un-fessor Wilhelm has been pointing ing point of Asia, was very largely out that little has been heard. used as a pors of call for the Fur recently of good end-results from East, and was also largely used for Professor. Steinbach and those In order to maintain the speed the East Indian archipelago; be rejuvenation. It will be remem- transhipment of goods to and from who work with him at surgical necessary for efficiency, the slips aides having its own proper wade bered that in the case of rejuvena of a modern Reet must lave en goods brought there for sale. tion of rats, reported at length in hull cleaned about very six There were only about a dozen porta many lay papers and in some months, and requies and also to be the world with as large a total medical journals great improve- done pretty frequently in dryade, and in Asia only two whore ments of the general condition xk. It takes years to construct and was distinctly lurger, namely were stated to have been observed a dry dock, and herein lay theHongkong and Colombo. urgency of the work at Singapore commercial port had five dry docks,
"The in the rodent subjects, but the for there were no dry docks in which the largess was the Kingfects seem only to have been Eastern waters capable of taking exk, with a depth of 30 feet D capital ships of the bulged type niches over the sill at high water In the Wiener adopted see the Battle of dit of ordinary neap bides, a length of Wochenschrift an autobiographi land, and these would consequently 873 feet, and a breadthi ut ill-level cal account of the operation has have periodically to make a 12,000 of 93 feet. miles voyage to Malta and back therefore, insuficient to admit Zessi, who died recently, and who
The breadth, was, been published by Professo for cleaning and repair. Theypital slips provided with the had undergone some form of would thus be much away from bulges now adopted as protection operation for rejuvenation. their station in time of pace, undagainst torpedoes, which have this article Professor Zeisel denies repair in war time would be almost beam of from 1 to 106 feet; impossible, not only on account neither had we any other dry docks of the distance, but hecape of the Asiatic waters which would take risk that a damaged ship might in these vessels. block the Suez Canal. The strate The Singapore Naval Ward, gical considerations governing the where two graving docks capable decision to establish Tully of taking bulged capital ships and eqpped naval maintenance base aircraft carriers were being con at Singure were world-wide instructed, was situated on the north their *l[,
and not only called of the island in a position somewhat for a study of the map of the world, similar to shut of Cowes in the Isle but for a re-orientation of the maps Wright, facing the mainland which we were neustomed to nuemiss Johore Strait, which was The difficulty of displaying the planarower than the straits which ing high profits. I this resultad of the continents and oceans was separate the Isle of Wight from in his colonising his own Con- int completely solved by the use of the mainland of Hampshire tinent, the upshot would be bene-
In
absolutely that he epxerienced any of the effects of regeneration that have been claimed as the probable consequences of his submission to surgical interference.
"I'm sorry to hear your wife had eloped with your chauffeur,
discharge him in any case. "Oh, that's all right; I intended"
a globe, for only half can be seen
Of the 24 sumoured ships in theficial to his descendants, for it was at once. The drawback was avoid present Navy, the nine bulged ships in Asia, not in Occidental coun- d by a map of the world, in bemis-were the up-to-data vessels em-tries, that the Oriental could en- pheres,
He must, be said combat the of Jutland, and of the 15 ships his own civilisation.
bodying the lessons of the buttle joy fill national life and develop contention of Rear-Admiral A. Pwhich can now
Of the pro be taken in utblems of the East-Indian hemis- Niblack, U.S.N., that there i Singapore 13 would be scrapped in there which would occupy the nothing in the Washington the course of ten years under the attention of the nations of the Treaty which prevents the develop; terms of the Washington Treaty,world for many decades, none were ment and fortification of a nuval. If the new vessels which replaced of greater importance than those buse at Kowloon, opposite Hong them had a beam equal to that of relating to Clinu. As the posses kong, us it is the leased territory the other post-Jutland ships, thereon of a naval base at Malta hed and on the mainland of China, wad only be two enpital ships lont weight to the word of His hence not insular." which contains the territorial pro- Singapore in ten years from now, affairs, so would the naval base at Article XIX able to enter the King's Dock at Majasty's Government in Balkan visions, had three clauses, relating About the time, however, the two Singapore help to ensure that da Anterica, the British Empire new naval docks were die for.com-voice should.be heard in the settle- and Japan respectively. The firspletion. referred to the insular possessions
WHITE AUSTRALIA. POLICY,
ment of the affairs of China. As u. trading nation and Oriental Power, the United Kingdom hud great The word "Singapore had come material interests involved
713
which the United States now holds. The third to the follow- ing insulag territories and posses to have associations with the White China; and as a nation of humani- sions of Japan, the second, to Australia policy. This had been tarian kitalists, for such in fact we Hongkong and the far posses-unaitically described us an efforters; we were bound in conscience. sions which the British Empire now to provest congested populations in to take a hand in safeguarding the holds. In political geography the Asia from colonising empty lands. future of the Chinese, the mont name Hongkong meant the Crown In point of fact it did not do so, populous of all nations, unrivalled Colony o designated, of which for the Asiatic colie had empty in industry, yet sunk in poverty, Kowloon is a part, so that the land at the doors of his own councivilised, but politically helpless. fortification of Kowloon, a it aptry. The Asiatic lunds, continental peared to him, was both contrayaad insular, adjacent to Japan, to the intention of the Washing China, and India, which are suit ton Treaty, and also forbidden by able in soil und climate for colonies the wording.
pation by Asiatica, exceeded in area Undar the terms of the Washing-all the land of tropical Australia, ton Treaty Hongkong could not be California, Oregon, Washington and developed and the ability of the British Columbia, put together East Indian Islands would depend The real effect of the exclusion Upon the development of a fast policy was to hinder the Asiatic clasy naval dockyard at Singapore from earning large wuges and mak
A WISE CHILD, Mr. W H. Tyub, chairman of the head master if the Kores Echool, Bt bres Community in Shanghai, ani
infant daugher aged 35 months who beady displays coaterabo wisdom bwihows in most hupistakable i terima
preference for Baby? Up Tablet hild pood, Castor 12 Lagalet thatenausoting terror of
THEN. AL DOCKYARD.
The conations which be bud. put forwydd A re, he thought, suffi- bent to show that the efficiency of the Navy in the West Pacific and Indian Quin was dependent upon the construction of a fully equipped naval dockyard in thor waters, and that Singapore had the most com munding klrategical position which our territoriew provided for the eastern Capital of the Navy. The defence of the island was strategi cally favoured by ite, remoteness 'from the main bases of other naval. the neighbourhood wits a tactical powers. The number of islands in: draw-back, minimised, however, bý the fact that, they were under the efficient government of a minor European power. He had no doubt that if the subject were generally tidied, there would be an over
STRATEȚICAL IMPORTANCH, The strategical importance of Singapore was not only naval; for it was a necessary, verodrome ba
·tween India-nd Australia, and therefore an essential link in the aril communications between Austráliasend Great Britain. Thus, even if in the course of the twentiefly century the tusk of protecting maritime communications became more aerial end les baril, the strategical importance of Singapore was troubled in her touch, was whelming majority in favour of the
ays My Lyub My daughter Would not necessarily diminish, ipated, and had swing, which onese The Island of Singapore, where the to cry est deal at night. My wife
conclusion that a naval dockyard in port of the same name 29 situnteil, care the child quarter off, but that di enatern waters was opential to und almost exactly the length sadilo one dy likerlibrary
of prose perumAET
and as the efficiency of the fleet; and that breadth of the Ine of Wight, bad the conditiogas bild bera koka
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