PARIS.
(FROM OUR COMLESPONDENT.)
ADAMIN WAR
Juno, 21st.
"FE "ONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, JULY 25TH, 1907.
of peace-makers at the Hague is looked upon ¦ six years of its existence. This detail may by most people as nothing more or less than a serve an a suficient description of the country,
Uddo, June 10th, farce.
We are now in the heart of the Gobi Desert, and this message is being despatched from a solitary Mes beside the well of trade.
FACING.
Longobamps which was bathed in beautiful suusbice was a sight last Sunday on tho occasion of the Grand-Prix, which is the greatest sporting event of the year in France, The classic race was won by Sa-Souci II, owned by Baron Edoard de Rothschild, who was the recipient of hearty congratulations from President Fallire and his royal guest, the King of Denmark. The inco which was a splendid one was truly a neck to-nook race, only a few inches, so to speak separating the winner from M. Uphrossi's Mordant, another usgultioval animal. Tho crowds on hearing the result wont frantic with delight. Nevor were visitors so namorous; the United Kingdom was strongly repressated the presence of the King and Queen of Den Socialy folks turned out in thousands owing to
mark, who together with President and Madame Fallières received a most cordial welcome. The beautiful dresses of the ludies surpassed in: splendour anything seen before ou similar occasions. The graud Prix is worth £10,500 besides 1600 for the breeder of the winter.
Sovereigns of the Universe, and the Possessor of Twenty-four gold Umbrellas-- to my no hing of Elephants. When the All-Powerful Omaisoient goes for a walk in his dumine, his faithful subjecta prostrate thems Ivos before The worse has happened, and civil war has at him, oren if the streets be covered with mud last broken out in all earnestness in the South The highest dignitaries in the realm in fact, of France. During the last few days terrible when admitted to his presence, must fall on sarage coomem have taken place in this vinegard their hands and kaser. Bouts are fortunately country, recalling the worse spisedos of former nukuown in Siam, which explains why the revolutionis Frange. That the wine growers' | life of so despotic a monarch has, as yet, never revolt in the South would sooner or later been threatened at lost by ray of his sub- devolop into condition of civil war wan B
jects. Chulalong horn bas an annual revenne foregone conclusion. Nothing could be more
of 50,000 franes, his palace at Bangkok is erroneona thau to conclude that the uprising
a veritable city montaning.inestimabla treasures. was at an end, becauso Oko Gorecmorut, by Among other curiceities is a large hall cou- its prompt action a few days uge, succeeded structed entirely of many coloured glass, in temporarily checking the evil. Far from joined together by a very strong coment it. Indeed, it wee me that the dematic stops taken This ball, surtaented by turrots, and a minaret, by the authorities soon after things began Roats on the surface of an artificis! lake. From to lock ugly, hare, only welded fuel to fire, time to time the King, recompanied by seme of or farmed the flames of revolution, rather then his wives--who tame is legion--shuts himself quelled, as they were intended, the grave up in this retreat, and at a given sigud, the disturbances, Wholesale slaughter between ghas house desconds to the bottom of the lake. the mob and the soldiers and goudartes is now submarine fashion. By an ingenions arrange. the unfar of the day. It is ondy for plain that the ment air is pumped into the interior during in Government has fallal to rection with the Majesty's sojourn under water. Such a devic passatry, where temperament is totally differ is to las cuviod ospecially in suff eating weather ent from these Parisian; The barbarity is Delighted would Enropean S wereigns bo to be played by the hol-blooded wine-growers who able to laro delicions a refuge in the dog lose no opportnuity of wreaking their hatred on days. The Palaes of Bangkok, built over a the exvalry und gealarnes is truly charneteri-hundred years ago on designs by Earopena stic of their race. The infantry wou are gopalar artists, is a various mixture of European favourites-at last up to now. Frouch History glendour, and barbarous luxgrianes. It con is full of such savagers, the maze awful scenes tains thirty rooms furnished in the style of Pellior and Narbonne, oue of the citizens was
as took place on similar occasions, years ago, sre now being repeated. No quarter is being giren on either side; all sorts of weapons are being used for biling-purposes, dreadful mythes, kiires, guur, revolvers, stones, articles of furniture, while paraffin is being poured wholesale over straw and logs of wood, placed alongside buildings for the purpose of incon1- diaríum. Barricades are arceted by the infuriated mtb everywhere as quickly as they ara broken dowa by the soldier, so fresh and wore formidable ones are top chewhere. To make admit that it is completely in the dark South to what is happening in ef France, owing to the rioters being complete masters, and having broken down telephonic and telegraphic commasications, blown
matters worse, the Government has bar to
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the
op bridges to delay the arrival of troops, and the placing of dynnuite cartridges along railway lines. The principal
Louis XV, while the Palace buildings are surrounded by a cord blessed by the native priests, and supposed to forme au effective pro tection against wicked spirits The King of Siam is quite a modern sovereign in many respects: he not only speaks English and Froach fluently, but half a dozen Orientul language as well. The Queu who ranka flist amceg his many wives of whom His Majeely Las 880, bears the name of Sɔwaşi Pongsi. She is somewhat Japanese in appearance, slight in figars, with an oval face, black piercing eyes. and tooth which are veritable pearls, European Queen is us rich as she is in jewels The Court Joweller receives commissions every year to the extent of £120,000, the lovely are distributed by Chulalongkora among the farourites of his huren. The king's throus is of gold onrusted with precious. stones. The Sovereign's personal collection of
urticles
AN AWKWARD SITUATION, The innocents de usual muller. In conse.
quence of the revolt nid arrest of the Mayors in the South of France, where anarchy reigns presse for the time being, weddinge and burials bare bad, to be postponed. At Moat.
refused a birth corticate yesterday, while a score of brides are in tears, because there is no place at the cenastery at the risk of the relatives one to marry them at the mayoralty. Burials take Bodies en zot a 19ered from the town with out a wayoral certificate,
PEKING TO PARIS.
wired
The Daily Telegraph's Special Correspondent
Pong. Kiong, June 1sth. the long journey across the illimitable Mongoliu We still remain under the impression left by
At five o'clock this morning we left Puug. King and traversed the last of the grasay plains of the Mongolian interior.
Appointing Udde as the next meeting place, Prince Borghoas took the lead, and wo Haw over long distar ces at the rate of sixty miles an hour over ground sometimes as level nga billiard table.
Now and spain we put to fight herds of gazelles and antelopes, which, terrified at our approach, scattered in the distance.
We could easily kavo purmod nad captured them, but that would have unnecessarily delayed
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follow us at a gallop, but they did not appear to Many thnos Mongolian horsemen tried to
be at all hostile. They do signs of astonishi ment at not being able to overtake us and to our siguals of saltution.
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Towards right o'clock we entered upon the first of the arid plains of the Gabi, the read FONDÙN'S LORD MAYOR IN BERLIN. | 1a1a Municipal Technical Institute, rasintained being somewhat difficult and the heat very oppressive.
By ten o'clock we had entered the vast soli. fades of the desert, and the torrid otspur
seemed to barn our faces.
The sand dunes and patches of slony ground compelled us to proceed cautioudy, kid thin increased the sufferings caused by the leaf, but tre gucouter un sorions difficulties.
Our road unintated over it, easy bille bare of herbage and burnt by the sun, or dipped into valleys which must at one time bave her salt lakes, as the residue of the evaporated water still whitens the ground.
of
We pie od zmorous caravans at rest, as they only travel during the night Their tracks are marked out by the bones of camels, whose Bash has been wasted away by the ali-day ouring suv, At the entrance to the desert are many strauge heaps of stones, crowned with the skulls altars, to which the caravans resort for prayer Toxon. These are Mongolian "obo," primitive
before committing themselves to the risks of the desert journey.
From afar these
abe,"
porched upon hil Jocks, look like men. We thought, indeed, that we should find crowds of human beings, but as soon as we got near to these collections of images the feeling of loneliness was rendered all the more intense by reason of our decopli:p. sad we were fully received by the Chinese
It was at four o'click that we reached Udde, |
LON BUN OUTDONE.
for the ben fit of working men who desire after the close of the working day to perfect then selves in any special branch of wechanics, which text to nothing. the municipality onables then to do at a cost of
over, that beatiful boulevard,
day's sightseeing in Berlin, along with his The Lord Mayor of London, undergoing four
shritis and some forty councillors, telegraphed We much ejoyed our ride and inspection of to the "Daily Mail the following striking the sipse combination of the elevated sad nesount of the wandora bo znæ; -
underground railway syslours, a privately award Berlin, Jane (70).
"tube," which is swift-runing, olorless, ucise Magnificent hospitality and instructivo ex-less, and absolutely clean. I understood where periences at every turu have been our portion much of Berlin's municipal beauty derives its on the first day of our visit to this really inspiration when I was told that the reason wonderful capital of Cormaty. I hardly know why this rallway suddenly had to borc its way which to praise more, the methodical kindness underground and become a
tal" in the fact with which our hes's bare contrived to provide that the Kaiser insisted that the bus shot
ose to be overhead when it roached the ban'i for our every comfort and pleasure, or the splendid institutions shown, which illustrate ful residential district through which the restaru Berlin's right to be regarded as the world's extremity passes. It is also due to the Kuiser model of a great municipality.
Arm objection that the great heal tramways systems has ben unable to lay fresh trass aros Unter den Linden.. The Kaiser says that the company may go underneath, but not
Al nook wa bocanie.the guests of the Munici pility of Charlotteubarg,
where wo. 159rs ontor. tained to a sumptuous luncheon in the toma halt. Charlottonlntry is a separate corporation of nearly thres kundred thousand inhabitants, containing more willisasires that any other place in die many It is divided from Berlin by a merely imaginary line, Most of our British countrymen resident here have their homes in Charlottenburg, which is proud of it
English qua And in sko London, a
quarter "West End." While at Charlottenburg we eted the world-famous technical nuivity. inspe already knowa by eputation to all of us, but extensive and comprehensive beyond sit expecta. tius. Tais fasthution is the workshop in which the kernest industrial and mechanical minds of the Fatherland are trained. Therengh- ness and efficiency are written large in every nook and corner of its wids domain,
Oac programme is oply a quarter ended, but that the Kaiserstadt" is a fountain at which we already have seen enough to convince
the student of civic government cannot fail to drink rich knowledge. Our koeneat improssinu, I think, has been the astounding nownons of Berlin. Everything, or seems to be, of yesterday. Forhaps it is the supremo universal cleanliness which induces this impression, bat cortait le neither Loudon nor Paris can copare with Berlin for up-to-dateness of arstitectural
pletences. splendeur, radiant freshness, and modern com- Kindly intimations reached us that our Berlin rally
alarming proportions. As we neared our destination my foresight in bringing akong my private physician, Dr" Holley, became a matter of general ensy song var meity port. Yet our first day has been made easy and deligtful in very respect, and I enjoyed this afternoon in the royal suite of the Hotel Bristol, where our generon boste have so luxuriously lodged we, siasia which would conslitato a luxury for me in Loadou.
No plain, which is leading us within a few hours to telegraphist, who offers as bospital now of programme would entail physical wear and tearof
jewels has no equal, whils it incrana in
Pong-Kiong, nearly 300 miles from Peking
Last evening we encamped on the open plain fifty miles from Kalgan, while stilin sight of the rained old towers which are scattered aloug the whole frontier of Chins proper, advance guards which the Celestial Empire placed at the Great Wall.
Nearly the whole of the day was spent in completing our preparations.
leaders of the revolt have all been arrested, with value every year; as for his ancestral man:le, i maler, as it was now time for as to travel alone i
the exception of M. Marceliu Albert, the Napoleon of the gigantic morament, who is still it is the richest garment in the world...
at large. The fate of the Cabinet entirely depende cu bow successful the Govorament will prove in restoring order. By directing its immediata energies towards the arrest of the ringleaders in the disturbed wins district, the Government has rendered a servico to the country; its prompt action, it is to be hoped, will have a sobering effect, for to a Frenchman, more then to any other nation, a leader is indispensable. The peasantry however, require some pacifying, one their passion is aroused, and more bloodshed ar either side will result Lefore order, or anything like order, is restored. 3. Clemeneen-who will do well to postpone kis riait to the South of France-and General Picquart, the Minister of War, are doing their level best to cope with the situation, and deal A3 leniently B6
the mob. Civil war-especially in France
DUELLING SOLDIERS.
General Picquart has raised the question of rolling in the French Army in a way which suggests a fooling of regret that he has not gone farther-Ho-has-left-the-commissioued ranks out of view enlitely, which means pros ably that things will go on as before. The Minister confines his attention to the rank and Gle, whe, it seeme, are liable to be ordered by a company commander to mille a quarrel by duel conducted before the sergeant-major, and generally harmless. General Pirquart commanda that this compulsion bo onded. But, if the men choose to fight on their own account, there is to be no interferezos. Why these half measures? It wouli certainly have besa mach better, bad General Picquart approached the question in a
We telegraphed to Pong-Kiong for the French and Duch automobiles, and learned
that all was well, except that they were making very slow progress, owing to the excessive weight of the machines in proportion to that power.
Pons, on the Cantal, has turned back. His tri-car is not adapted to the journey. As ilie, he has maintained an heroic but aseless fight against tremendons difficulti
We bat a Gnal farewell to coolios, carts, and
So far our experience has shown that an in the strength of our machines.
aut mobile service in this district is quite pos Reservoirs were filled with petrol and water,sible. To day we have covered quite comfort. baggage was loaded up, and the mechanicians by nearly 160 miles; to-morras we shall do made a tinel inspection of the motors.
shout 18, and the day after Urga will be
At last, late in the afternoon, we were on the reacted,
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way, and travelled about thirty miles moderato speed. The going was still rather beary on account of the und.
and the infinite silence filled as with indescrib
The calm weather, the star bespangled sky, able emotions.
This morning, at the moment of departure, Prince Borghese proposed Pong-Kiong as our rendezvous. The Itels car left a good deal behind the others, and found the ground well- emited to her particular type.
Soon we were able to reach a speed of SOME- thing over thirty miles an hour, and we arrived at Pong-Kiong at midday.
It t was an intoxicating journey over the thick grass, and along tracks beaten by the feet of thousands of camels, across dry prairies, zig. zagging through ground now covered with bash, graph poles which point the way to civilisation,
Through
and with the inbuite vista of
is possible with different way, and put an end once and for all graph po indeed, to join us to civilisation.
to the gentle art of plaking so far as the army which ga these green slitudes of Asia, which were never traversed at each speed, not BTU by Mongolian horsemen at their furious gallop. the crystalline air.
A NEW WOMAN,
is the
forin 01 war. At the was concerned. present moment, we have before me an exact panoramic view of what occurred in this much troubled country, in 1789 and 1848, Coless tamer. Such seems to be the femininely in the present outbreak is not quickly subdued,pulsive reasoning of Madame la Comlouse de la
Who can say that the automobille is not destined to be the vehicle of certain deserts, the successor to the patient camel?
· MAIL SERVICE.
DEFENCE OF THE 2. É 6, COMPANY,
This morning a little before ten o'clock motor-curs flying silken British and Gorman fluga teck us in parties of fons each, accom- panied by a Berlin alderman, who spoke English, to our first point of visit- board school where the urbane Chief Burgomaster Kircher and Vice-Bargonaster Dr. Reicke, who fiuds Lime between municipal worries 1 write poems and plays, toge her with a
a delega
What perhaps interested me personally most of all to-day was our visit to the wonderful "forert school maintained by the city of Charlottenburg. This-as the naras tuplies- is an outdoor school, where weakly children who wight suffer from the cortisement and discipline of the school room are taught and irsized in the open sir. I never in my life encountered a ore practical combination of humanitarianista and education. All the elildren are sent to the "rest school" whom the physician's f.vd physi are specially
tion of low councillors awaited us. After ally deficient in any respect. They from and
hyma of gweling from the school children, Herr Kirseber spoke a few warm sentences of welcome from the masters restrum, which I later monated to express fur gratitude. He spoke German, which I did not understand, and I replied in English, which was equally mystifying to him, but we took each other on trist, and all was well. A pretty incident followed this linguistic complication, when the
chorus boys
transported at the city's expense back to their home. The curriculum is
is arranged with a view not to crowding" the children iz their studios, their whole day consisting in minimum of mental strait and wholesome fresh air. It is a beautiful Hew, and I me away de-ply impressed with its enormous possibilities for the physics norimus waife.
one of their, with unmistakable gusto. London's thousands of wizoaed strays and
"If you can drive a borze you can be a lion the rumble of the muntor penetrates afar into expect to travel home by P. & D. from India eyed Prussich mi819, armed with Rower.
From the scattered Mongolian
"gurte,"
there is no telling what may become of the ¦ Gaćcinière, who attracted public notice in Paris round, like small pagodas, deposited on the Bombay, Calcutta, and other Indian ports | pride the municipal bath-house & splendid!
grass, we see the inhabitants iesno, dressed in their long cloake, which somewhat resemble the habiliments of the Turcomans.
Tsy come ant quickly, summoned by the token of wendermont. unaccnatomed noise, and wave their arms in
duat.
garte," shepherds signal us to stop. They As we pass close to a little encampment of sra s cordial, so merry, that we obey, and dismount among them.
French Boyublic, whose foundations, it must a short time ago by appearing as ons of the lady be frankly admitted, have been very severely cah-drivers. From that prominent position she shaken of late. It is no exaggeration to state retired, owing to a difference of opinion with that the extremely serious revolt of the South the proprietor, and she has since been engaged against the authority of the Central Govern in litigation. This has led to a curious light ment, in nuquestionably the gravest monaco that being thrown on a strangely diversified career. the Republic has bad to face for thirty years. There are fer callings open le women in It will be seen that the wine-growing districts which Madame has not had a try. She has have carried the doctrine of passive resistance been a modiste or milliner, chorister, forist to its logical conclusion. The Legislature restaurant-keeper, eirens rider, confectioner, refuses, or at least delays, to give the wine- interpretor, music-teacher, and several other' growers the laws they demand, and the wine things, besides cab-driving. She is now ta- growers, in retaliation, iguors. the Legislation.king practice to appear as
tamer" in a Tit for tat. l. Marcelin Albert's object is ménagerie.
is the secret precisely to destroy the machinery, and so leave of glory." the governing authority without arms or hand. proposes to write her memoirs, which should savage shouts of joy, which really resembled
Never say dio
They offer as milk, cheese, and tea, and we reciprocate with corned beef,
When we started again we found ourselves surrounded by a numerous crowd of horsem-, and for some moiantes the antomobile had to bằ
directions.
THE PRECARIOUSNESS OF
MANDARINDOM
POWERFUL OFFICIAL DISMISSED.
diantaral of bu Hangeld. This official is a
The Times correspondent at Peking wrote on. June 18th: The precariousness of high offices in Peking is once Laure shewn by the sudden Hunuese, the heading member of the
party. that in the last generation was the most powerful in China. Catil yesterday he had bee regarded for some time in the most powerfal ofoial in Peking outside the Imperial Family He was President, under Prince Ching, of Conocillor, Secretary, and member of the Imperial ed et deprived bin of allele and sent Coaucit for State Affairs. Last vening an him into retirement in his native province. As a special act of cleviancy the charges for which
If she escapes being eaten, she dziren with a regular escort of cavsiry sidst speed justified by business considerations, and thousand ciumitaneously. With a recollection the Ministry of Foreign A Tairs he was Grand
NAVAL ESTIMATES.
waz-eries, and the undalation of silken clothing swept by the wind,
In the matter of high passage rates ludia was wodoubted ? a grit Fenco against the P-&-0, Company, says the Times of Ceylon, but some of the critics are inclined to be unreasonable. The other day a writer in the Modra Mail, signing himself Quis Separabit," argued, to the P. & Q. Company onght to do the whols the evident complete satisfaction of himself, that
most beloved national melodies, "Long Live the Kaiser Singing national
Later in the afternoon i was visited by his Excellency the British Ambassador. journey by sea from Bombay to London in a songe is universul in der man schools. It is not couple of weeks, and issue tokets for Rupees practical education, but it is practical patrin- Frank Lascelles, whe Xpressed regret that that a higher rate of speed does not mean lower ding youngsters, who smiled welcomes as we splendid Embassy bers.. To-night wa listenact 200. It ought not to be difficult to comprehend tism, and it impressed me profoundly. Then on cyclonic progress through Berlin prevents. we wandered through classroome, full of plod him from tendering us the hospitality of our a passage; for there is the question of coal consumption among others which has to be
passed, uoli), we came to the girls annex, to a glorious production of Donizetti's "Daugh- taken into consideration. Why any one slicult where a couple of hundred fi yen-uniral, b'ne-ter of the Regiment" at the Regal Opors, sad at ten o'clock car indefatigable hosts took ne "coming-together," as the rimmed hoops, went through some graceful to an informal understand. for Rupees 20 we are at loss
idiomatic item on the ocial programme calls mnastic rolatians. There is a very fair service of steamers from Norte visited one of the city's special it, in the lobbies of the Reichstag. which book passages at mort reasonable rates,
W. P. TREGUAR, Lord Mayor. and the passenger with Ropees 200 to spend on
building, whose facade resembles some Venetian his ticket might be expected to look in other Renaissance palace. We were treated to some remarkably fine swimming exereizen. Tuence we drive to a We are often very much amused at the cor
real-gymnasium," or higher Many jump into saddle sail try to overtako us,parisons which are made between steamship Youth school, where the arrangements Er but we easily lease them behind in a elend of pend in the Occident and the Orient. Decause physical culture were particularly structive.
between Liverpool and New York
that the German theory of education It is plaio it paye to run
shinery in the effort to knock another quarta working clasa residential district in the midt great leviathaus consuming the us ands of tons provides simultaneously for the training of the mind and the boly. All these institutions of coal and fearing the inside out of their
were situated in the centre of the great of an hour off the Atlantic record, it does not of which rises on picturesquely elevated ground follow that the same would ha tras of the the Victoria Park, a beatiful garden spot P. & O., the Orient, the Hibby, the N. D. L. the M, M, or any of the other large passenger
with natural waterfalls of refreshing beauty.
For loucheou we were taken to the colossal lines trading to the East.
WRheingold "Restaurant, no establish It is all a question of steaming at the highest ment which bas accommodation for nearly five if it paid to run ocean greyhounds in the Oriel,
of good food and wines, unspoilt by speeches, should have had theus long ere this. No doubt newest glory, the great municipal hospital, as it undoubtedly does in the Occident, we
our afternoon was spent inspecting the fact that the P. & 1. base a. close preserve named after the pathologist Dr. Virchow. The But soon the clutter of boofs was left behind,
f Bombay has prevented the full fores of com and we found ourselves ones more alone on te potilion userting itself, but there is little extent and splendour of this institution almost horses, instead of rearrying away terrified.ovidence to show that much more could under beggar description. Its magnificence, indeed, he is imperated are not to be closely investi. grassy plain, where thosusinds of browsing €12,572,911, being an increase of £390,120, as advance towards ne to view the's range monster.contract for the Ind n mails than what has is essentially a free hopital for the poor, and is gated. The charges wore intriguing with pro-
any circumstances, be expected from the new sors wholly incongruens with the fact that it
vincial authorities for their sappet, intriguing compared with the Naval Hudget of 1907. This
maintained exclusively by rates. Patients who with the Press, attempting to been obtained. The will be a progressive can afford it ars treated for 1oo shillings a day. Like his pradocessors, President Falleros has increased expeliture is to be distributed under
corrupt the acceleration ไป speed, and if there could only The quipment of the hospits, especially the law Yu Chao-kaug, who is now dismissed from sensorate, and nepotism in the case of his son-in- won for himself the reputation of being a four main beadings to wit increasing the
be some adjustment of the Indian grievance in Only the long caravans of camels which wo
the ofice to which he was appointed on the brilliant ontarianer. All those who have come effective forces at a cost of £97, 50; raising the piss on the way, look at us with philosophie the woxtter of fares there would be little left to surgical department, is such as is maintained in England only by the most expensive private e- in contact with him, whether Kinge, Emperors, scale of pay in various branches. £77.215; indiferenca, turnier towards us their ridienious is only by a failure to recognise the terprise. LF Berlin had nothing else to be prond recommendation Chu Unng-cbi.
It is curious to note that one year ago far mazzis like those of antediluvian boasts, diferences between the Atlantic and all other of, I should ray unseitating that this Hangnese couped high parts in China, by
Often we encounter wells which give us an opportunity of economising the water in our
passenger trade, that sayone can be brought to marvellous municipal hospital, reared on a
the succour of the oit's the Ministry of Communications, who really were Chu Hung-chi, Chang Po-hsi, President of princely scals sooner has the Frestisal returned from speeding
Gold Desert, which we shall begin to traverse England as quicker and cheaper than the one renown.
vin the Suez Canal. It is quite possible to rup
was formerly Customs Tacini at Shanghai and bis last guests, the King and Queen of Denmark,
Tonight we were formally welcomed at a steamers from Sydney to Vancouver, which
is now Gecerner-Elect of Poking, but is unable whose brief stay in Paris has proved a most
impression caused by the perpetual "contrast
It is impossible to describe the profound will lant the Australiux mails in England gorgeous state bangnet in the town hall, where
gorgeousand of Berlin'e most illustrious British Government, and Lu Coyo kang. tu office to the opposition of the eujoyable one, that M. Fallières has had to get
between this primitive world and the presence quicker than they are copreved at present by
citizens gathered to do as honour. Count on
provincial Judge in Kiang si who was rernoved ready to welcome is august Majesty Chulalong
of as an embila in full fight. We are always the P. O. or Oriont Co.; but it clearly cannot
Ponndowsky, the Imperial Home Secretary,
from office because of the Wan-chang affair, oad korn, King of Siam, who is equally a persona Breat and Losient; twenty destroyers, of which renewed. What we should like to know, how-
aware of it, but the surprise is continually pay to do so.
proposed King Edward and the Kaiser." grata with the Feduch.
new again dismis.ed. The undemo strative one-half will be of $20 tons, end, lastly, ever, is that other surpris, that of the solitary
Chief Burgomaster Kirschner proposed the Guests." while 7, responding to the tausta, had reception accorded to him by Parisians as he
tifty sobrinos and submersibley, Nine. Mongolian shepherd" at the sight of the
the privilege of expressing to the extent of my drove from the railway station to the Siamese teen hundred and eight will be an importtistrange mystery on wheels.
strangers 4 ho have descended upon his land in
feeble powere our everlasting gratitude for a Legation differed considerably to what he is at your in respect to the last types, for
walcons of truly regal nugoitud Technically, the journey has been an easy our, accustomed to receive from his subjects at home. there will be lift in that your two boats except at certain points where sudden difficulties Whenever the King of Siam comes to Paris cach of four tons of the "Guepo" type: thirty arese. Prince Borghese drives with audacious the papers never fail to rakes up truly wonderful eight submersibles of 400 tons. and
ten Feocrity, uniting spod with pr dezce. stories, respecting the habits and customs of the submersibles of 30 tous.
Wo bull the night at Pog Kiong, where What price the there is a Chiucen
built of mud cen telegraph popular Siamuose Sovereign.
Thus, on the work of the Hague Conference after this and last in a solitade with a radius of 100 miles. presvut occasion; we ure informed that in the peacefnily-inclined delegates are only
The Cantal tricar has fund it impossible to addition to his title of the King of Siam, wasting their time edrecating quiversal disar-therefore reduced to four: MM. Cormier and proceed any further. The competitors are Chulalongkorn has a right to the pompous mament, which has become an impossibility ou Colognan on the De Dion Boutons, M. Godard attributes of the Brother of the Moon, Arbiter
the pert of all first-class Powars. M. Léon on the Spyker, and Prince Scipio Borghese on Supremo of the Ebb and Flow of the Tides Bourgeois, one of the French delegates at the Itala.
It is hoped that we shall now be able to sembles the Sun when it is at its Zenith, the King who reigns over all Emperore, Princce,
My message from
Though the Republic bas certainly become one | certainly prove interesting. of the most stable. Gerornments in Frases of late years, the force of events may well buve surprise in store for ne Trying as the ordeal - it is fervently hoped that all will and well.
THE PRESIDENT's Jursts.
The Naval Estimates presented for 19:s by M. Thomson, Minister of Marine, amounts to
Having satisfied their curiosity they moyo away all together as though cloying the word of comward.
umble about.
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or Princes, declared the President to be, a most building a unval bespital at Toulon at a cost of eharming person, a credit to his office as head | £136,030; and increasing by $17,850 the sam of the State, and a worthy son of Fra:.ce. Ne granted to the fund for the relief of naval reservoir, as the fluid will be precious in the believe in a Canadian route to Australasia from poorest, would entitle her to imperishable diod after sov.ro censure; Yuan Shahsom, who
veterans. The naval construction to be under takou, ir to be continued, in 1908 comprises six battleships, each of 18,300 teas, the armoured monisera "Edgar-Quinet" and "Waldeck Ronssa," which are to be launched soon at
to-morrow.
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LATEST STEAMER MOVEMENTS.
The Silk exstr. Tartor arrived in New York on the 29th July.
The C.P.R. str. Empress of Japan arrived Nagasaki at 5 p.m. on Tuesday the 23rd July, and left against 9am. Wednesday for Shanghai where she is due to arrive at 9.30a.m. 4o-day. Line) left Singapore for this port on the 24th The NY K. str. Hiroshima Mare (Bombay
July, and is expected here on the 30th July.
June 19h.
We have bed another bappy, bustling, instruc tive day in Berlin, which remains batbed in the balmist Jane sushine in our special honour, We were up betimes, only a few of our party appointed hour of hal past nine in con-equente finding it inconvenient > begin the day at the of last night's strennoas couriviality in the town
is
It in only fair to the Throne to state that the removal of Chu Hung-chiiaspires little regret among the Lgations, many of which regard him as the most incompetent Foreign Minister ever known.
Later.
Lu Hai-haw, the Imperial Commissioner who signed the Mackay Treaty of 12 and other commercial traurice, was to-day appointed President of the Minister of Foreign Air vice Chu Hung-chi dismissed. Prince Su, head of one of the eight princely families, has been appointed President of the Ministry of Withia a period of an hour we had the Interior rice Is Shin-chung How To BE BEAUTIFUL-Keep your com-
done," as the Americans would say, two of ferred to the Viceroyalty of Manahuria. plexion, Mrs. Ellen's Creme Charmante. Lait Berlin's finest museums, the Pergamon and the ability and character of this princo have Charmant and Special Skin Tonic and Poudre Kaiser Friedrich. These, like sestaingly every long favourably impressed foreignere. Many Charmante will enable you to do it. Her thing else in Berlin, are now, though each is remember that his palace, opposite the British Specialities for the Skin are the study of a stored with a huge collection of priceless Legation, was the central point of the siege of
ball.
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Half-Brother of the Sus, the King who rothe Conference is strongly of opinion that accelarate our Pong-Kiong was the first lifetime. A. S. Watson & Co., Ltd., Sole Agents historical objects. After the museums we wont ! 1904. Both appointments are well received.
useful work will be done-though the meeting
that has been despatched from that office in the
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