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have previously noted, twenty per* the German colonial expenses. Hongkong": cent. of the net import duties towards is not concerned with this worthy example of colonial statesmanship, being on quite ̈ its New Territory. The hinterland trado another footing; unless it be with regard to with Weihniwei is as yet very small; and it looks as though that place were include t among the other leased territories whose non-success is based on illicit traffic. Hongkong appears to be definitely em braced, however, by a concluding allusion! to German" dscal conditions which, while “ not perfect, were still more advanced thin those prevailing in any other cession or
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figures is not withheld. The moon both are badly levelled by the collision. A who have suffered by likin abuses. To draws the earth with a force equal today or two later the sun-tide gets the come to the main point, “the Germans 20,490,000,000,000,000 tons approximately, ascendency and we have the two tides have recognised that illicit trade is an while the sun's mass, notwithstanding its merged into one. Then there become the | unstable foundation on which to establish great distance from the earth, attracts it sun-tide out of which arises with a force of 3,462,000,000,000,000,000 momentum-tide. When the two
n colony, showing themselves in this wiser tous. In these numbers the sun's attraction ¦ combine on the coast there is what is known or even, it is to be feared, than the new and better colonists than their thrée riváló; of the earth is shown to be 169 times that as spring tide'. This occurs about once Japanese occupants of Port Arthin and ai of the moon." It therefore follows, as the a fortnight, corresponding in point of time Dalny". We can imagine some of the night the day", that "if the moon's force with the number of days there are between guessing that will follow as to the identity raises the tides to a height of six or seven new moou and full moon. feet- the sun should dınw the sen over a
About midway of the writer who could persuade the between the occurrences of 'spring tide' is mountnia one-fifth of a mile high". The what is called 'neap tide. The tide is then compliment. There is no getting awAY "Thunderer' to sponsorate aucli-a author of this truly am izing demonstration low, being the result of a slight interruption from the implication that Great Britain and begs us to withdraw our minds from the because of the momentum-tide being impeded the other Powers have been guilty of sins Newtonian theory of attraction; and to by the formation of a new sun-tide which both of commissiou and omission, in the start on the assumption that the surface of acts in opposition to it. The neap tide statement following, that "instead of ** The sea is pushed, instead of pulled, by the also occurs fortnightly, aud for this reason, holding the Chinese revenue authorities at“- sun. There is expansive force in the sun's has been supposed to be caused by the first | arm's length, and even impering the rays: we have only to think of them pushing quarter and the third quarter of the moon, ¦ legitimate performance of their functions on at the sea to see the part free from such just as the new moon and the full moon pressure rising. Assisted by the motion of have been supposed to cause the 'spring, invited the Customs into Kiaochau itself”. their own side of the boundary, they have the earth, the sun pushes our tides; the tide '." There is a touch of assurance constant revolution of the earth from west to about these teuses, “has been" and "have full revenue control, subject to a small- From April 1st last China was granted east inclines the sea water to flow westward, been", which promises that the new GALILEO "because it is difficult for the water to
"free urea", delimited with an eye to will not easily recant his original beliefs. maintain a momentum equal to that of the
Customs convenience, to be treated on solid: earth COLUMBUS noticed that the
the footing of a huge bonded warehouse. ocean current seemed to follow the sun, i
The Customs revenues contribute, as By the law of reaction there is an under. current formed which finds its way towards the eastern coast." The atmospheric pres. sure is increased and decreased nt regular intervals by the alternate heating and cooling of the surface of the globe; and this.Oscillating pressure acts like the touch of a hand on a cradle", increasing the inclination of the ocean to move back and forth between east and west. The sun passing over the Pacific causes a tile ou the coast of Asia: the return tide is the reaction, the swing of the pendulum. "If the sea could all act together the return tide should reach the American coast by the time the sun would arrive the following morning and be ready to be assisted to come west again along with the sun." The author realises in that case that there would be in any given place only one tide a day, and points out that there are a few such places on the earth. But the sea is too large for simultaneous action, and "before the sun has reached the shores of Japan, the eastern half of the ocean has broken loose and is on its retura journey to California. The polar currents known to exist, he adds, divide the sea in two, setting up a sort of wall between cist and west. Here we are less able to follow his reasoning; but he plunges boldly to the triumphant result: This produces two tides, one in the east and the other in the west, coming in and going out pretty much at the same time." One of these tides he calls, for convenience, the sun-tide, and the other he calls the momentum.tide. And this is bow they behave. The sun starts a.tida. up in the ocean - at two a.m., six hours from the coast, and gets it into Tokyo Bay at eight a.m. It will then recede to the starting point in mid-ocenu in six hours and get back here (Tokyo) in some twelve hours from the time it left, and go back to sea in the night, to be brought in again the following thorning. It the water travelled us fast as the sun, what I have described would-be the netion, but friction retards the progress of the water and it arrives in Tokyo Bay about thirty-two minutes later each morning. In the course of twelve days the tide has lost six hours, This will make the momentum-tide be in Tokyo Bay when the sun arrives in mid- ocean at the point where the tide should be started towards the coast. The outgoing momentum-tide and the incoming sun-tide meet two or three hours off the coast and
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AGREEMENT.
(Daily Press, 7th June.)
(Daily Press, 8th Juas ) So very seldoin has the London Times any thing good to say of Germany, especially of Germans as colonists, that extra interest must be attached to an article in its com- mercial supplement of May 7th, which arrived, somewhat appropriately, by the German mail yesterday. In this article Tsingtau is held up as an object lesson worthy of Hongkong's most careful attention. The writer, who hails from Shanghai, opens as follows: In Chinn where territory is held under various tenures by foreign Powers, the problem has been to reconcile the commercial and municipal freedom demanded for the inhabitants of the foreign possession with the rights of the original owner, the ceding THE PROPOSED ANGLO-RUSSIAN Power, over the adjacent territory. This problem has been solved experimentally for the German colony of Kiauchau in a way that promised well for its future develop- That au understanding with Russin is.. ment, while at the same time the rights of eminently desirable, for Russia, no one with China seem to have been sufficiently safe any political prescience cau for a moment guarded in the protection given to its doubt; that it will at all tend to bring legitimate revenue." Pofiting out how at about any amelioration of the present Hongkong the Chinese authorities discover. tension between the two countries is more ed early that colonial free trade seemed to than anyone with a knowledge of the mean a good deal of smuggling, and had to present condition of that country can.. take strong measures, he very kindly puts believe. It may be that a large proportion in a word for a more tolerant verdict upon of the inhabitants of Russia are quite ne Hongkong merchants than they have desirous as the ordinary Englishman for hitherto been given. The actual smugglers, some sort of a working agreement that he says, were Chinese; it was not the would be effective in bringing about closer pidjin of the foreign, veudor to find out arrangements, and would sincerely welcome what the Chinese purchaser intended to do any feasible scheme that would afford some with the goods. The Government, also, relief to the present unbearable condition" has not been altogether negligeat with of the empire; but as Russia stands, her regard to illicit trade in opium and arms; Government does not exist for the benefit. but no other help is given to the Chinese of the country, but merely for the private revenue authorities. The result of the gain of a few individuals who have con- present arrangement, by which the leased trived to get possession of the reins; and area extends to " high water mark on have few qualms of conscience as to how the further shore of all bodies of water, they keep them, provided that by any means whether streams or bays", is to make they can continue to hold them. There are Hongkong a smugglers' paradise. A. | in fact as many parties in Russia as there reference to leased territories having no are statesmen, each working for its own “desire to injure the revenue of the lessor aims, and each utterly regardless of engage-, may be regarded as invidious, although it meats entered into by its neighbours, unless was probably only due to the style of it should be for its momentary advantage. composition; but it is followed by the to pretend to respect thein.· Indeed, in suggestion that the Russians, British, and this respect Russia is not altogether unlike French, at Port Arthur, Weihaiwei, and England at the present moment, where it Kwangchow wan respectively, have liampered has been professedly a matter of momentary necessary customs work by their scrupulous policy whether so sɔlem... an engagement as levotion to the idea of absolutely that entered into by the late Government unrestricted trade. The point of view is with France should be permitted to become evidently different to that held by merchouts a matter of open debate, and that the
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