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INSURANCES
THE GLOBUS INSURANCE COMPANT OF HAMBURG,
THE Undersigned, Having been appointed AGENTE for the shore Company, are prestared to ACCEPT RISKS giant FIRE
Current Rates.
CARLOWITZ & Cà.
Hongkong, 13th August 1906.
TILE INSURANCE COMPANY.
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TOTAL FUNDS AT 31 DECEMBER, 1907
£18,114,624.
1 Authorised Capital.
Subscribed Capital
Paid-up Capital
II. Fire Funds
£3,000,000
2,750,000
687,500
3,065,374 15 7
The Undersigned, AGENTS for the abors Company, are prepared to ACCEPT RISKB
#gainst FIRE at Current Raton.
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.
Agente,
Hongkong, that July, 1908.
NETHERLANDS LLOYD
THE
AMSTERDAM & BATAVIA.
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THE Undersigned having been appointed AGENTS of the above Compang, are prepared to ACCEPT FIRE and HAKINE RISKS at Current Rates.
CRUZ, BASTO & Co. Hongkong, 11th Norember, 1908.
1548.
AACHEN AND MUNICH FIRE IN- BURANCE CO.
THE
OF AIX-LA-CHAPELLE.
THE Undersigned, having been appointed AGENTS for the above Company, are prepared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE ât, Current Rates.
WM. MEYERINK & CO., Agenta.
Hongkong, 5th September, 1908.
114
NATIONAL GENERAL INSURANCE COMPANY, LTD., OF LONDON.
TGENTS for the above Company, ars THE Undersigned, having been appointed
prepared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE at Current Rates,
REUTER, BROCKELMANN & Co. Hongkong, 14th November, 1908. 1566
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THE KAISER AND THE TRIPLE ENTENTE.
·A CRITICISM - TEOM PRANớm. --
The Timer Paris correspondent transmitted the following statement upon the conversation with the German Emperor published in the Daily Telegraph. It comes, says the correspon dont, from one who has not only had constant opportunities of familiarizing himself with the altitude of the German Emperor and hig Government towards Great Britain, France, and Russia during the past 12 or 13 years, but who izimself played a part in some of the more important events with which he deals a
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"I cannot comprehend why the present moment should have been selected for revising in the form of German Imperial declarations the history of events with regard to the nature of which it will apparently be for ever im WAITE
possible that his Majesty the German Emperor FOR
and those who are or have been engaged in EXTALOGUE conducting the foreign policy of Great Britain M46 France, and Enssia should see are
necessity of the hour is surely European unity and to raise at such a moment against two Powers. France and Russia, which are in relations of close friendship with England, the charge that in her hour of fried in 1899 and 1900 they invited Germany to join them in an attempt not only to save the Boer Repablics, but to humiliate England to the dust, can only have one tendency and one object-it can only mean an attack upon the present triple catanta, and on attempt to break it up by methods which any responsible adviser of any Sovereign could hardly tail to considor imprudent and, to say the least, ill-advised.
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"It is eartsin that these antortions will not remain without some sort of a reply, and the exchange of assertion and counter-assertion cannot tend to clear the atmosphere of inter national relations at a moment like the present, His Majesty, no doult, makes
reply dillenit when he charges those who doubt the accuracy of his assertions with insulting him. Bat if he descends into the arena of public and inter- national controversy into the journalistic arena to boot-how can he hope to avoid counter
if
was a nadive attached to the Consulate named | Bn Mediatr who was left in charge of the archives. He became ill and returned to Tan- gior, and another astive named Ben Ghabrit was sent to talco his phee. That is the only kind of French Consular representive' who, is or recently has bean, st. Foz. Moreover, the whole mise en scene of Dr. Vessel's departure for Fes, and especially the morncy with which it was surrounded, bear out the idea that at last the German local representatives considered that they were carrying out a singularly well- planned soup.
matters which are touched upon by the German. "Time fails me to go into all the other Imperial statement. The question of the German navy is a chapter with regard to which the British naval authorities and the British Government have shown that they know their own mind, and neither the unfortunate episode of the Imperial letter addressed to Lord Tweed- mouth nor any other official, uneficial, or semi- official German representations on that subject have sufficed to make them alter it. It is singular that the question of the German nary should be discussed in the name conversation which revives the history of the German attitude towards the British South African question, At the time of the Boer war nothing was more common than partriotic meetings in the pro- vinces in Germany under the sospices of the Navy League, the Pan-German League, or I the sandwiches and beer, there was a lecture on know not what other organizations, where, before the Boer war with magie lantern pictares, ani afterwards a lecture on the German nary. also with a magic lanturn, and with invi- dions comparisons between the weakness of the German and the strength of the British naval forces. At the time when the German Emperor delivered the speech in which he fleet, England was certainly not the peril declared. We are in bitter need of a strong which to the Marquis de Nesille be had repre sented her as being; she was engaged in a life- and-death struggle in South Africa.
"Englishmen can forgive, and they certainly. can forget, a great deal. I am convinced that and normal relations with Germany. But they always, and especially now, they desing good have a way, which is by no means peculiar to them, of assertion and avan contradiction P In Germany political fring to choose their private and
itself Royal personages de not take part in the
Monsur.
GERMANY AND THE SOUTH AFRICAN WAB.
*As"
regarde German dealings with Bassia and France during and before the South African war, what I now state belongs to the realm of irrefragable fact. Da January 1, 1896, the day before the Kroger telegram, Baron Marschall von Bieberstein, then German Foreign Secretary, paid a visit to M. Herbette, then French Ambassador 'in Berlin. He came presumably with his Imperial master'a approval to ask M. Herbette if France would join Germany in Europeas diplomatic action with a view to securing the independence and integrity of the Boor States. M. Herbitte, in reply, pointed out that France had no particular interest in South African questions and that, first of all, he would like to know whether as a quid pro quo Gerinary was prepared to give France her support in the Egyptian question which Bt that time closely interested the French Government. Baron Marschall replied in a negative sense, Whereupon M. Herbette stated that, even before consulting his Government, he felt sure that France could not interest herself in Germany's
with regard to South Africa.
friends themselves. It is also their way, and -especially their more intimate this is perhaps more characteristic of
them, to profer friends who are not always engaged in recommending or defending themselves or accus 1ng others. In this and in many other and graver aspects the Imperial declaration may in various quarters be regarded as neither alto- gather opportune nor altogether onlculated to Achieve its professed or its implied objects?"
FIFTY YEARS” RULE BY ENGLISH-
MEN IN INDIA.
project art time that the Transvaal question Those Afty short years of rule under Par
A native paper, the Best Oftar commenta as follow-India with its multitude and diversity of people, representing one-fifth of the bed to the sale of a numerically insignificant the total human popaistion has quietly sac-
nation of aliens without the remotest desire to - subvert its suprem soy but with an overgrowing consciousness and an enlightened faith that the happiness and well being of the myriads of her populace ata so welded with British intorasts that the overthrow of British Supremacy would be an irretrievable untional calamity.
caine up in an International songe was after the Britannica have worked muscles in this South African war had broken out. It was in load of wonders, posceful progress and November 1899. The late Coutt Muravieff, material· Lis constituting the salient then Russian Foreign Minister, was in Paris in features of the administration of the lpst half that month. He saw M. Delcassé then Frenck cantary of that rule. Ever å prøy to recurring Foreign Minister, and in the course of and perpetual strifeand to constant struggle for conversation suggested to him that the kingly supramacy between chiefs of war-like situation seemed suitable for representation races, the peace of the country was over to Grost Britsin in the interest of the | disturbed and affairs of the nation suffered from restoration of peace.
France, it will be lack of continuity of a firmly established rule, remembered, had intervened amicalement in winch is essential for general progress. *No the course of the atommer in order to pave the secret of Empire can avert the scburgs of way for the conclusion of peace between the drought and plague, aya the. King in his United States of America and Spain. The message. It would be a idle speculation to renty of the French Government to Count rallent how India would have fared in pre- Murvied on this occasion was that the only British periods if destiny book her through thnes action which France could contemplate would such as she has passed throngh of unprecek- o amicable representations of a kind similar ented natural calamities of the last decade. to those which had been successfully made in If plagna has not wrought worse havoc than it this once of the recent Hispano-American con Bist. She would have nothing to do with any further notion of зву kind.
"Again in March, 1900, Count Muravieff made representations to M. Delassé and they were 'received in precisely the arine spirit as before. On his way back to Russia, Count Munvieff visited Potsdam, where he had an opportunity of conferring with the Emperor William and Prisice Bülow. He pointed out that the moment was how more suitable for making representations to England since the tide of war lind turned somewhat in her favour and British national feeling wonid consequently no longer be so sensitive. The German reply was-and this is most important and significant that the contemplated action might not be the affair of a day, it might be prolonged. Germany would therefore like us a preliminary-it was doubtless meant if not said as a guarantee against all aventushues that the three Powers, Ger
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tive machinery, and combine and co-ordinate plau, sa ingredients in food, in Class 42, on the other, working to harmonious taisos hirough the different units of the Fampire. It is not hard to form with the minds eye a hypothetical pictare depicting India's fate plagas had overtaken the country tinder in- † 1998 digenous rule, say of a compile of centuries ago, Cooperative and concurrent action in different parts of the country would have had no part in the campaign against phigus, while the Empire was broken up into hostile territories, and the rulers themselves as they flow at such others threats would have a more engrossing task to engage their time and resources in consolidating their position against the agression of rapacions neighbours than organising_s campaign for combating the plagas. Etiological study of the disease which has suggested to us the mains wherewith to resist it, would have been ont of the question as scientifle knowledge on Western principles would have been an nakaown quantity, and the only resistance to plague would have been con- fined to empirical knowledge and strong in- dividual sctión in the people. Famine and drought are national disasters which as the message stater experienced administrators These are, doubtless, the incidents to which done all that skill and devotion are capable of the Emperor William refers when he states that doing to instigate. Safety against foreign he informed England of what had been proposed invasion and internal peace are the principal I pass over the manner in which the information agencies that have operated under the British was conveyed, although that, too, was character ale to the benefit of commerce and led to the in istic snough. What strikes me most, and vestment of wealth in industrial and other useful what, indeed, I cannot comprehend, is that the channels. The introduction of railway and Emperor, who, doubtless, still attaches some telegrapinio communication, and an efficient importance to good and normal relations with postal service have contributed to the expansion Russia and with France, should publicly declaro of trade and brought remote quarters of the that he informed the British Government of country into close contiguity.
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"His Majesty's language seems to vary in the most striking manner, socording to the nations lity of the person whom he happens to be bonouring by addressing hisu. His conversation on board an American yacht in the Baltic on one momomble
occasion did not convey the impression of particular friendliness to England, Te more than one French Ambassador-par- ticularly to the Marquis de Noailles-he has repeatedly sad insistently spoken of Die English perit," and on one occasion when Mime Réjanu was acting in Berlin he had this Ambassador in the Royal box and discoursed to him of nothing else. I bare heard similar things from Russians, and I know that he has often spoken to Englishmen of Russia in terms which would not have been regarded in St. Petersburg as precisely flattering.
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