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THE CHINESE | MINISTER TO WASHINGTON.
At the banquet given on Wednesday evening at the Connaught House Hotel in honour of His Excellency the Chinese Minister to Wash ington, briefly mentioned in our yesterday's lasuo. the Hon. Dr. Ho KAI, C.M.G., who
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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRIES, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27TH 1903
SHIELD TIRE.H.A; "GLORY." «. 80TH ce..
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There was a good attendance to witness this match, which was played at Happy Valley yesterday afternoon. Teams:--
Glory-Goal, Morgan; backs, Urquhart and Shorbrooke; halves, Booth, Crossmen, and Watson; lerwards, Lane, Hensford, Milford, Moore, and Cottell.
presided, proposed the health of His Majesty the King of England and the Royal Family. RA-Goal, Toon; books, Bottomley and **God Save the King" was played.
Cassidy; balves, Spence, Couper, ozd Dooley; Hon. WEI Yus proposed the health of His forwards, Stone, Sewell, Yule, Robertson, and
Browning, Majesty the Emperor of China,
Referee, Mr. F. Browne.
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The series of remarkable articles published in the fivies last month, on the military position of the British Empire, briefly summarised in telegrams from Reater at the time, are to be OF THE FOLLOWING RACES: found in the copies of the Landon journal This writer, is his first articlo, points out that our Empire is an oceanic Empire, and that our which arrived by the last mail,
naval supremacy is the kevalons of our whole defensive position. Consequently the writer lays it down that our military expenditure must always be the balance of what we can afford to
spend after we have satisfied our anval geada.
Given, then (he says) the complete subordina tion of our military policy to our general palley of oceanio defence, the question that next arises is Where, if we do fight on land at all, are we likely to fight? The answer to that question it, perhaps, best given by the method of exclusion. In the first place, it is not on the
tinental Powers, and we cannot afford to keep mainland of Europe. We are so aggressive designs against the territory of any of the Con up armies large enough ever to cope with theirs on ground of their own choosing." If, through with any of these Powers or any combination of them, the struggle will bo docided at son, and in thom outlying parts of their poseraious where,
dietance from their bases, wo can hope to fight
His Lordship-You put it that they had not | THE TIMES" AND THE ARMY got a light?
answered in the affirmativo. Mr. Sharp Defendant, he continued, said that the teaser'". lights which were first sighted were the only lights seen from the junk up till the time of the collision. Regarding the meas nres taken to avoid a collision, the plaintiff stated that as soon as those on board the Eclair her engines were reversed, one short blast was saw the junk the steamer's helma was porte blown on the whistle and those on board the steamer shouted to the junk to keep out of the way. The junk people said that the junk was kopt on her course until it was seen that the only way to avoid a collision with the steamer was to put the kelm hard aport, which was done accordingly, Immediately be fore that those rn haard the junk shunted out to thees on board the steamer to avoid the Mr. FUN WA-CHUN proposed the toast of the
The Artillery kicked off, and almost coinci-junk. The plaintiff stated, further, with regard guest of the evening. We meet here this deatly gave away a free kick. The Glory made in the parts of the ships that came into contact, evening, he said, to bid farewell to His Ex-nothing by it, however, and were called upon to that the bew of the junk struck the port bow of cellency Sir Chen Tung Liang Chang, our own defend their territory, but a corner which fell the Eclair about three feet from the stem; the countryman. Iask you all to join me in heartily to the R. A. remained unconverted. The Glory port bow of the steamer. Plaintiff alleged that junk said that the bow of the junk struck the drinking bis health and wishing him bon-voyage. began to press, and thrice tried to open the the junk corried no light, that she improperly (Applause.) As you are aware, His Excellency is soaring, Toon having to handle once. The starboardad her helm, that no proper look-ant possessed of eminent abilities and wido exper soldiers made a break-away, but the forwards was kept on board, and that the junk was navigated in a reckless and angeammalike ience, and you may rest assured that on hiemission were slow and lost the ball. Their castodian was manner. On the other hand, the junk stated to America, Spain, and Peru he will be able to playing asterling game and accounting splendid that those on board the Eclair did not provo not only worthy of the high esteem ly forthedangerous shotathat repeatedly came in. keep a proper lock-out, that the Ectar did in which he is bold, but also to the outside Thus carly, the Navy lot were manifesting their not keep out of the way of the junk as she ought to have done, and that hog ongines were world that in him China has appointed the superiority in the open, and kept their not slackened and reversed in sufficient time to right man in the right place, as regards opponents tied down to defence work. Now avoid a collision. The case of the plaintiff, international dealings. (Lond applause.) In his and then the Artillery cleared their ground, said Mr. Starp in conclusion, was substantially present appointment, His Excelloney bastat their attacks meré novor pressed far that the junk carried po 'lights, which unfor good opportunity of utilising to the best enough and sassed no real uneasiness Lently was an extremely common case against
junks in local waters. advantage his enlightened education and of the Glory goalkeeper, Once, however, be Evidoneo was afterwards, given for the rendering valuable services both to his country had to ran out to stop a dangoròna rush | plain:iff, and his countrymen trading in the States.
by Stone and Sowell, and might have fured (Applause.) I am sure, whon I say may be, n
worse a little later hud not the former throwE his return, be promoted to the highest position away a beautiful chance at an open goal. in China, I simply echo the feelings of all The gunners were now showing up to present. Let us give three hearty cheers for decidedly better advantage, and towards the His Excellency, (Loud cheers.)
interval the blusjookets did not have much to boast of. The combination work of their for wards was a treat, but with it all they were unable to score, and half-time found the game standing—
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owing to our command of the sea and to their them on land with sacceae. On the continent of Asterica we have end a land frontier of some 3,000 miles, adjoing one of the greatest Powers in the world. But there again we love no political ambitions that will be likely to bring us into conflict with the United States, no canses of friction, that diplomacy and national good feeling could not dispose of. Nor is there
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any indication that the United States oborish VICTORIA LITHOGRAPHIC
aggressive designs against Canada. There remain the two continente of Africa and Asia. There we hold enormous territories on the mainland, inhabited by races whose ebedieu to our rule is in the last resort only determined by our military superiority, extended frontiers saposed to the attocks of hardy savage tribes, and, in the case of India, to the advance of one of the greatest military empires in the world. Outside of our actual possessions we have in those regions a vast complex of political and commercial interest, which may at any moment bring us into conflict with one or more of South Africs, the great European_Powete. Eastern and North-Eastern Africa-including Egypt and Abyssinia-Arabia, Mesopotoniis,
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Anglo-Chinese Sketches. By WILLAR A.
EIVERS. London, S. R. Menhoneott, WE were perhaps unfortunate in opening this little book of sketches near the beginning of Hra EXCELLENCY SIE LIANG CHENG
one entitled "Neatly Laid Out," which the in responding said- Mr. Chairman, Mr. Fung
author describes as a by-product of the Wa Chan and gentlemen, I pass by Hong
Japanese War." We certainly thereby dis- kong en route to America, to which I am
covered the worst of Mr. Rivers. We found being sent by my Imperial mastor. Not
Glory, C; Artillery; 9.
him writing of the Japanese as follows regarding me as herb and gross, but with Milford touched the ball twice when ho" There is something of the mask about their genuine feelings as + fellow-countryman, kicked it on the resumption, and gave the new face as a modern civilised Empire; and you have
kindly invited me
this soldiers a free kick, which, however, was located it is an everlasting truth that a mask galls Persia, Afghanistan, India, Indo-Chins, China, the South African war are-first, that it is 30,000) men. Our military budget, which bafore grand banquet, for which I am oxtremely grate- too far out to be of any material nse to them. sooner or later, and is apt to be thrown off Siberis-that list covers almost the whole of necessary to have an adequate organisation, the war had excorded 20 millions, has now
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ful. As I have been appointed Minister to three cenntries, I am afraid that with anch poor abilities as I pussers (No! no!) I shall net bo competent to discharge my responsible duties to the satisfaction of my countrymen, but any opportunity by which the coromercial interest of China can be benefited I will take fall advantage of in the hope of repaying to a small extent the kindness of my Imperial mas- tar and also meeling the wishes of my country- men trading abroad. (Loud applause.) You are well aware there is at present a hot race for ascendeney between the different commercial countries, and the commerce of our country, still in its infancy, requires close attention and con- stant nourishment. It is therefore my earnest wish that you gentlemen will always bear in
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Giren, thes, the fondamental conditions or ought to have been, calculating from the numi.. which any workable system of Imperial defence ber of recruits enlisting, simply because must be based, we may next enquiro how for the nickness, desertion, and other causes dependent lessons that we have learnt in the recent South
on the inferior quality or this material enlisted African war, and the new conditions of warfare caused a wastage of nearly half the recruits that the war has revealed, bear on those general enlisted before they ever reached the reserve. e nditions.
The three maiù lessons of At this moment the reserve stands at less than
the countries in which is any conceivable which will combine the collection of in- reached the enormous figure of nearly 30 millions, The story got a corner on their left, and, Its fastenings certainly appeared to loosen circumstances we may be called on to conduct formation with the control of military policy and under the present system there is not the teking up the pass. Crossmun did his best to during the attack upon China. Witness the large opera ions on land. They form the eastern-that is to say, a proper "brain of the slightest possibility of reducing it. And yet wi
secondly, that our troops must be all this enormous cost, with the whole of Eng- Bet the ball, but rent to the outside. Milford, awful sinking of the Koushing and the or cath-eastern face of the Old World. Else army"
where we only have conling stations which it is placed where they can be strategically effective land cavered by army corps of regulars which "(Siulad," they called him) took a free atrocities st Port Arthur. It did not suit necessary to garrison with a small forse, and at the outbreak of any probable war; and batly are not wanted in the country, sur military posi kick picke in for the Glory and found the net, Europe to take any notion of these happen. Contral and West African possessions kept in that the important factor in modern war will tion is actually no sonnder then it was before, and, but as to one touched the ball in its fight the ings," oto., etc. This with all deference to Mr. order by troups locally raised. The logical ba not so much numbers as mobility and a high relatively to the needs of our policy, far worse than at any past time. Nothing can be done with- effort was abortis. The sailors lost a good Rivers is nonsense of a particularly offensive corollary from this definition of our military state of individual and combined efficiency.
position is that our striking arm, the Imperial The writer then pr seeds to discuss the out a thoroughgoing change of our whole system Regular Army, should face towards that military system which is at the present time to meet the present requirements of the Em- many points by their unnecessarily hard shoot kind. The "awful sinking of the Kowshing' ing at goal, and the gunners set about showing was a legitimate act of war, not to be classed military front and be concentrated at points as established, and declares that the Cardwell pire. The ill-considered patek workandadding on thers how to do it, 1hey pressed, and kept it with certain incidents which happened during near as possible to it, and not kept in those system, which was based on the fundamental of battalion after battalion, without any one o
allied sparstions op zorih in 1900 parts of the Empire whose defence is already supposition that there should always be the same eration of where forces are most wanted and up los, but eventually bad to retrace their steps
suflciently provided by the Nary, or whence number of regular troops in the United King-where they can be spared, must be abandoned. without reward. Teon caught a dropping shot of which Mr. Rivers is doubtless aware. The the striking arm cannot be quickly brought dow as in the rest of the Empire, cannot now be As it stands, our army system provides the in his hauds and threw it over Milford's hond atrocities at Port Arthur wore, unlike some into service for offensive purposes. A consider regarded as other than utterly unsound. Thirty largest possible force on paper and the least in as the latter charged fall speed at him; then, of the atrocities in Chibli in 1900, inspired by able portion of our Army and a still larger years ago we were practically the only Power reality. It provides the largest possible force the sight of terrible mutilations of the pative force are already permanently stationed in the oceanic world; the scramble for Africa in England, where it is not wanted and the least stepping back quickly, he allowed “Sinbad” to And resting-place in the corner of the nut avengers compatriota. And it is perfectly in ludia, the coural point and keystone bad not been thought of. Russia bad not yet possible fores in those parts on fed and the least of our military position. But the climatic reached Merv, still loss Penjdeb or Port Arthur.it is wanted. It renders the temporary whilst he himself recaptured the ball and sent untrue to say that Earope took no notice of conditions of India, and of some of the There was no British occupation of Egypt, ne reinforcement of any part of the Empire mind the duties to each other as fellow country. it well out. Morgan's charge was then assailed, these happenings, for Europe and America ether regions where we may be called upon to Persias question, no Siamose question, and, last impossible, except at the cost of the break. men, and work unitedly to improve the condi- but the situation was relieved by the leather did their best to exaggerate the story out of all carry on war; tuake it undesirable to keep more of all, no Chinese question. Var army abroad down of the whole system, and it cannot white troops actually stutioned there than is was regarded not so much as a striking force. | wage evan & comparatively small war
the boundless benefits which commerce brings expectedly; Milford took up & pass into centre the sketch with the remark, "It seems a pity then is to use our Army, as much of it as can be where the Navy could not ast, but as a garrison providis no adequate training-ground for tion of our commeres so as to do able to enjoy topping the bar. The Glory's goal came un- resemblance to the facts, Mr. Rivors concladeshgolutely necessary for safety. What remains ready to carry out our poley in those regions without the calling out of the reserve. It in its train. Gentlemen, I again thank you and consigned the ball to Hensford, who shot close that civilised powers connive at this sort of spared from India, at points within a renacuably to held India and one or two other points the kind of fighting that one regular army
in at goal. Toon datted at the ball, but slipped, Mr. TAM TE KONG proposed the toast of and into the not the leather rolled. The soldiers the Attaché and Mr. CHEUNGKIN HON responded went to pieces after this, and Milford, after failing to profit by an absolutely open goal when only three yards away from it, outwitled as a whole aro amasing enough reading and military front by the whole bulk of Europe, top to bottom, the Cardwellian system was of supertinous battalions it starves the in- The de feners and scored the record point of the match. The Artillery made a good fight of it, but they were hardly fit enough to put a different interpratation on the game, which Mr. William O. Smith, formerly Attorney.ended-Glory, 2; Artillery, 0. General of Hawai, left Honolulu last month to spend a few weeks at Washington enlightening Congress on two matters of importance that are expected to become the subject of Con- gressionni legislation. One of the matters is the recommandation of the Senate sub-com- mittee on Pacific Islands that a national leper enlogy be established on the island of Molokai, and the other is the recoxamendation of the some committee that the land lues of the United States, be extended to the Territory of Hawaii.
for your kindners (Loud applause.)
with thanks.
PROPOSED LEPER COLONY AT HAWAIL.
SUPREME COURT.
Thursday, 26th February.
thing!" The phrase about civilised powers" is merely the cant of the eccksure Westerner. Having said so much by way of preses, we anst admit that the Anglo Chinese Sketches bear witness to some observation of life, if not of a profound order. "The Human Form Divine is an entertaining account of how a British Consul refused to protest against nude coolies at a northern treaty port. A couple of the other tales are rather unpleasant, but not devoid of merit. The book may serve to while away a spare hour, and its cost is only one
skilling.
List of the Higher Metropolitan and Provincial Authorities of China, Shanghai, Kelly and Wakh.
IN ADMIRALTE JURISDICTION.
BEFORE HIS HONOUR SIE WILLIAM M.
GOODMAN (CHIEF JUSTICE) AND COMMAN-TEIS useful List together with a Genealogical
DER BASIL B. H. TAYLOR (Assessor)
Table of the Imperial Family has been compiled by the Chinese Secretaries of H.B.X, Legation
STEAMER. 1. JUNK.
The steamer Ectoir sued licensed cargo-juok No. 711 for damages arising out of a collision which oceurred on 5th November in the Capsuimus Pass.
Mr. E. H. Sharp, K.C. {lustructed by Mr. Paget Hett of Messrs. Mounsay & Bration, solicitors), appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. H. E. Pollock, K. C. (instructed by Mr. F. X. F'Almada e Castro, solicitor), appeared for the defendant.
All students of Chinese affairs will recognise the necessity of adding such a List to their reference libraries:
close distance of our strategic front, and at the considered of importance. Practically speak wilt be called upon to undertake abroad, or, same time enjoying a healthy climate and affording, the defence of England and the mein- indeed, for any kind of fighting whatever under tug ample opportunities for training. England, tenance of our hold on Ladia were the only modern conditions. It is incompatible with though healthy enough and in many other ways points to which the Cardwellian system looked any really workable scheme of decentralisatio
For many years past, long before the strain It has no proper staff organisation, and with a very convenient, ought, strategically, to be put out of court at once. It is separated from our of the South African war dislocated it from vast expenditure of money on the maintenance Africe, and Asis, and the only short cut available the Suez Canal-is one on whose security in time of war we cannot absolutely reckon. Fortunately the geographical distri bution of our Empire provides us with a chain of positions which meets with almost every military requirement. South Africa, Australia, and Canada form a line every point of which is within a fortnight's steaming of the nearest part of our military front. No distribution of our military forces can be strategically justified that does not look first and foremost to South Africa, and then to Australia and Canado, os the main bases of our regular army. Great Britain may, no doubt, for many years to come be by far the best rourniting ground, but as a base it has no business to occupy more than a secondary position.
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growing more and more unworkable. As our telligence and educational departments, the very Imperial policy developed we found earselves mainsprings of military efficiency, to a degree obliged to strengthen one on lying point of the that is almost incredible. In other words, the Empire after another. The linked battalion existing system is nothing less than a gigantic organisation of the existing system compelled sham, and a frand on the taxpayer. us. For each battalion added abroad, to add an extra battalion at home, The expendi tare on our regular army kept on steadi. ly growing. By the year 1899 our mili- BOTTLED ALES, BEERS AND tary budget had rison to over 20 millions: 19 millions of that money went to maintain a force of 184,000 regulars with the colours- exclusive of the British army in India-and a first-class reserve of 78,000 men, Of these, at the outbreak of the South African war, we had Ind, Coope & Co.'s some 106,000 regulars and the whole of the Ale first-class reserve in the United Kingdom. Pass, Light Gravity
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Ale at Peking and corrected to April, 1902, by Mr.regions mast necessarily be emnell-small, that is, able foros, even if, owing to its being concent W. P. Ker, lately Assistant Chinese Secretary. Compared with the armies kept up by the great rated at a false stratagio base, it was likely to Bass, Boar's Ho
European Powers, but it by no mean follows that arrive late on the scene of operations. Unfor it need therefore be too small for its parpo a. tunately, this large force only existed on paper. Dortmund, Pilsener "The proposition to make Molokai à national
The great Earopean armies of the present day. The force astnatly available at short notice was are institutions whose origin and organisa- less than two-thirds of the figure given. In El Capitan, do. loper colony has preused a vast deal of bitter
tion are intimately connected with the peculiar the late war it took over eighteen months feeling and indignation among the people of
Porr Fellow. By Mrs. G. H. RIDDELL. conditions under which they are called to operate. before 180,000 regular troops had been sent Jubilee,
It is only in countries, with a dense population, out to South Africa. The reason for this Do, Hawali," Bsid Mr. Smith, when subjosted to
London and Bombay, George Bell & Song.
with enormous stores of supplies in every town was that the recruiting requirements for a Munich, Dark the inevitable interview at San Francisco,
Do do, large a force of regular troops bad for Mr. Sharp read the preliminary note. Plain- The author of The Senior Partner and George and village, with abundant water. with sn "I'bers is more to their objections than the
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do. mere sentiment of the thing. While Molokai tiff stated that the collision happened about Geith of Fen Court has established an undoubt intricate network of roads and railways, that outstripped the number of serviceable recruits Blatz, American
Tebisa, Japanees might be an ideal place for a leper colony, it half past seven o'clock png, on the day in quered claim to literary consideration. Her Poor armies of the magnitude of modern European who could be attracted by a service whose tion; defendant said about seven o'clock. Fellow is a clever book. Still, we do not think it armles' are at all manageable. And even than pay was inadegusta, and whih lusited on a the management of them presents diffoulties period with the colours too short for a career must be remembered that of the 900 lepers Plaintiff stated that the place of the collision is altogether capable of holding the capricious that, as many of the ablest Continental strategists and too long to give the soldier any chance Tobin, Japanese
was near the south and of the Capeaimun
The con- now on the island all but about thirty are mativo Hawaiians, and their misfortunes would Straits on that side of the channel which lay to tastes of novel-reading people. Its 30 closely recognise, will steadily tend to make all but in the rece of life afterwards.
movements impossible. The deadlock which the 108,000 men at home with the colours were un- bo greatly aggravated if they were to be the Eclair's starboard side. As to the direction printed pages make it a long book in these days the simplest and most elementary strategical sequence of this was that fully half of the
and force of the wind, plaintiff said," About of one-sitting" novels. Its mood is sombre, late M. de Bloch conceived would be the result dersized, undeveloped striplings whom
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water and supplies are alike scarce, railways for hare died off like flies. Henos the reserve. about to disappear behind the hille, Plaintif conscientiousness of workmanship, combinede. In vast regions thinly peopled, where as reinforcements after the end of 1899 would Gainuose, Boar's
with vigoar in the delineation of chamoter and and limited in exrrying power, and roads instead of being used as a reserve, was required described the tide as a flood tide, from two to three miles an hour; defendant said the tide insistence in pressing home the truths of every execrable or non-existent, the size of armies that to complete the fighting line before a single bat- was about slack. As regards the course and day Hie, that makes it worthy of analytical can operate with any success is strictly limited. talion could leave England. The battalions speed of the ship when the ather was firat sean, study and quiet, thoughtful perusal. Then the other hand, in consequence of that which were sent out were not the battalions that plaintiff stated that the Eclair was heading about Poor Fellow" is a City clerk, a good, honest, informa ion
limitation, all the advantages of adequate their officers had been training at bomo; they N.N.W. sud going about nine miles an hour over
and preparation, of snitable were composite battalions made up in almost the ground, defendant stated that the junk was estimable young man. He has the misfortuna" puipment, of mobility, of a high state of equal proportions of reservists and men with travelling in a S.E. direction at a speed of about to come into a small legacy, and, fired with training and of individual skill in the soldier the colours, and at the very moment when com
THE two miles an hour. Plaintiff said, also, that the ambition, he would start business on his own
and of generalship in the leaders are greatly pany officers most wanted to see the effect of enhanced. The foreign service army that we their past training they found their companie HONGKONG STEAM WATER- BOAT CO, LD., is prepared to supply stoamer was carrying the regulation lights;
with men whom they did not know, ANY QUANTITY of PURE FRESH ship, both to the lepers and their relatives, than that was to any, a white light on the flagstan | nccount. It is as a “financial agent" he makes | want must therefore differ not only in numbers filled whom had never even seen or handled WATER to the Bhipping. both for Deck and
many of forward (the Eetuir had no mast), a green light his venture. His hopes and fears, his upe and but also in its whole charecter from the armies the rest of the world can possibly imagine, and on the starboard aide and a red light downs, happiness and affliction are chronicled that are found to be effective in Europa. And, a La-Metford-rida. Even spart from a VIT
for this purpose,
of magnitude as the war in South Africa, necessary to remember The defendant stated with a faithfulness to life that begets conviction that England is to add to the distress of these people by making on the port side.
"European country. The could not in 1899, and we cannot to-dy, Molokai the dumping ground for all the lepers that the junk was exhibiting one white musthead
light. Plaintiff said that the junk when first on the reader's part however mash it may any that we want for Imperial purposes is not send a force of even 20,000 men abroad at short of the nation would be n. grave crime.”
seen was about 100 or 180 yards away on the harrow up the soul of the man about to follow likely either in respect of its numbers or its notice, without calling upon the reserve or else In regard to the proposition to extend the port bow of the Eclair; defendant said that the in "Poor Fellow's steps. The story is charroter to be as serviceable for the defence of mixing ap battalions.
Engl nd against the possible landing of s Since the war the situation has grown United States land laws to Harail, Mr. Smith Eclair when first sighted was from 500 to 400 well sustained to the end. The business and said he hoped to show the authorities in Wash-chronys distant, say 1,200 to 1,600 yards. In men and women who make up the ington that this scheme would prove seriously answer to the question Lights if any, of the domestic, non are without exception, well detrimental to the interests of the islands. He said None." Dofondant said that the white studied types, forcefully drawn. Fear Fellow is hoped to see experts from the General Land and red lights of the steamer were first observed a production which appeals to the head rather Office make a thorough investigation of condi- Ae to the question with regard to the lights of than to the hoart. The avaricious deromer of the other ship, other than those first seen, tions in the islands before any legislation to which came into view before the collision, promiscuous fiction may not find in it much to that end is carried out by Congress.
plaintiff's answer was "None"
entertain; the reader of discernment will.
races: who know nothing of their habits and customs. From several years of service on the Board of Health I know a great deal about the affairs of the leper colony, and I know it would be a great wrong to put into execution the recommendations of the Sensis committee. It lins taken forty years to bring our leper colour and our system of caring for our lepers up to its present state of efficienty. During that time 6,000 lepers have been cared for at Molokai, The separation and isolation of the laprons patients has caused more suffering and hard-
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THE
ROVINCE OF SHANTUNG.
European invading force san far cheaper force infinitely worse. We have to find a large force, raised separately for that special purpose. One at present 50,000, and not likely for many years of the fest mesentals of any proper scheme to be loes than 25,000, for. South Africa. The PIT TRANE, POPULATION AN TUNG of Imperial defence is a clear soparation political problems along what we have called PROSPECTS. between the Imperial Army, universal as the our military front threates to become Boater Navy and in close co-ordination with it, and then ever; any moment may see us engaged in the local supplementary defence foros of Grosta struggle of the very art magnitude in the Britain, or of any other self-governing portion Middle or Far East. Our reserve, even before of the Empire.
the war, was only about two-thirds of what it
BY M. O'S. Reprinted frethe "HONGKONG DAILY TREES" Price, 50 cents Cash, Messrs. Kelly & Walsh or Daily Press Office.
Hongkong, Jrst January, 1906,
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