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little doubt that the real origin of slavery in traceable to the constant strife which primitive communities waged with each other. The student of history remembers the helot of Greece and the bondman of Rome, and it will also be remembered that the nations which succeeded these had their particular forms of slavery or serfdom. The Saxons when they settled in England brought with them that system of villeinage which obtained there till the middle ages. The slaves then were generally attached to the soil. They held land from their masters, to whom they looked for protection in time WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS of war. They enjoyed a certain amount of
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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JULY 16TH, 1909.
The German Mall of the 18th June Tas delivered in London on the 13th last.
We are officially informed that Newchwang has declared Hongkong to be an infected port.
Nineteen ateamers acaght refuge in Kowloon Bay from the typhoon on Wednesday night.
For stealing a small piece of said aper valued about ten cents from Quarry Bay an employee from the Dook there was yesterday at the Magistracy sentenced to three weeks' imprisonment.
The Penang Chinese who was recently er tradited from Hongkong has been committed for trial on the charge of falsifying the books of the Penang branch of the Hongkong and liberty, and their condition perhaps is better | Shanghai Banking Corporation, and thereby described as that of bondsmen rather than obtaining 870,000. slaves. Whether the form of serfdom which
Formerly in command of the Breton Steam- obtains in China is the descendant of that ship Company'e steamer Shawmut Captain E. slavery, associated with the utilisationof priv. Roberte on June 11th took over the com- soners of war is not quite clear, but it is safe mand of the Hill liver Minnesota in place of to assert that the system of bondage found Captain Charles Austin, who has been her to-day in that great empire is parallel with master for several years. the villeinage of the dark and middle ages in Europe. The bondemen are invariably attach ed to the soil. They may be bought or they may be born in bondage, but in the event of their owner not being able to keep them they may find work elsewhore and ultimately buy their freedom. This, it will be noticed, is one feature in common with the system which once prevailed in England. Happily, it is now not so common in China for mon ut any rate to lose their liberty. Boys are no longer bought to be slaves. They are bought to be sons, to become members of a sonless family, and with a view to their
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·MENT.
LONDON, July 15th. Suleiman Effendi, brother of the Sultan of Turkey, is dead,
He was in his 49th year,
PRINCE BUELOW'S SUCCESSOR.
LONDON, July 15th. Vice-Chancellor Herr von Beth- «She is not really my mother, but she is my mann-Hollwegg has been appointed mother," a small Chinese boy told Mr. Justicato succeed Prince Buelow as Imperial Gomperts in the Summary Court yesterday Chancellor, the appointment involving In reply to another question he said, "I remem
several ministerial changes. ber I was born in the country, and that my mother reared me and brought me up,”
Herr Sydow, the Minister of Finance, becomes Prussian Minister of Commerce.
The Hongkong Government lave, zoys tho Bangaon Gazelle, applied to the Government of
Herr Wermouth, Under-Secretary India for the services of an officer with railway experiance to represent them in connection with of the Interior, replaces Herr Sydow railway problems now pending in Southern China, and the question of the nooossary as Minister of Finance. selection is understood to be under consideration.
Gambling raids añost are now being carried
LATER. Herr Bethmann-Hollwegg is a de- doing their duty to their honefactors when out by the police. Yesterday two gangs who scendant of the eighteenth century
the latter have ceasel to live. Unfor
had been arrested while gambling on board
SUPREME COURT,
Thursday, July 15th.
IN SUMMARY JURISDICTION.
BEFORE HIS Hoxova Ma. H. H. J. GOMPERTZ. (PURNE JUDGE.)
CLAIM FOR MONEY LENT.
Action was brought by La Fuk Hing against Li Kam Tong, otherwise Mung Sin Wan, to rocover $300, amount due under a deposit note dated December 27th.
Mr. F. X. d'Almada o Castro (of Messrs Almada and Smith) appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Roader Harris (of Messre, Wilkinson and Grist) reprosented the defendunt.
Mr. Almada, in outlining the facts, said the plaintiff first made the aquaintance of the defendant when the latter was the owner of a stall in the Central Market, A few days later Mang Sui Wan told plaintiff that he was Li Kam and that he was the registered hoidar of the stall, Plaintiff did not believe it until
NOTES FROM THE CAPITAL.
[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]
June 30th. OFFICIAL CHANOES, There have been quite a number of important official events recently. The chief, perhaps, is the return to his duties of H.E. Na Tang, -
No Tung is the Manchu successor of the Chinese Yuan Shih Kai, and is a man of very different character and calibre from the former President of the Waiwupu. He is wholly in the hande of the Japanese, and is understood to be in dread as to the coming negotiations with the Japanese Minister on the Fakumen Rallway, Chientao and other questions. It is expected that he will sporifice Chinese interests and that there will be trouble in consequence for the whole régime. Even the Prince-Regent will be on his trial, so to speak, during the coming months.
DEATH OF THE METROPOLITAN, VICEROY, You will have received news of the death of
defendent showed him his photograph, and H. E. Viceroy Yang of Chihli and of the then be advanced him $300, for which he appointment of, Viceroy Tuan of Nanking aa received a receipt signed by Li Kam Fong and his successor. I can, however, give you some Mang Sin Wan. Plaintiff hud demanded details that have not appeared in print. H. E. repayment several times, but had not boan Yang began to suffer from Bright's disease more than two years ago when Governor of remid. Sometime in the month of June this register was altered, and another man's name Shantung. At Teinanta, however, ho sooms to have limited himself to Chinese doctors and was abstituted.
His Lordship (to Mr. Harris)-Where Chinese medicines. This resulted in the disease becoming chronie instead of being stopped, your client?
as it might have been had competent European medical skill been invoked. I
Mr. Harris My client is there (pointing to the body of the Court and beckoning him to stand up). He is nine years old.
A small boy arose and came forward. His Lordship-Infancy is no defence in the Sammary Court.
mention
this detail because it sens B pity that such a life should have been sacrificed at the early age of fifty, when its
owner was in high favour with the Prince.
Evidence was then called, and the case for the Regent, and was by the agreement of all
marked out for future high advancement. ⠀⠀
Yang came to Tientsin and did well-better phintiff closed.
Mr. Harris presumed that his friend's sugges than anyone anticipated, especially of one
tion was that Li Kam Toug, or his client, was a following so distinguished a pretilocessor as
tunately, the same cannot be said with cargo beats were brought before Mr. Wood st Jewish banker of Frankfort. He is a person-who-had-a-great affection for fightingYuan Shih Kai. But the insidious disease was....
bureaucrat with leanings towards actions, and having found that a writ was issued, present all the time. Yang had both doziestic
he went up to the Registrar-General'e, said his and public worries. social reform, but has no experience name was Ll Kan Tong, and that he wanted of foreign policy.
regard to girls. Their easy purchase helps to perpetuate and make most acute the social evil in China. It is a subject that should make China's wellwishers blush for
her good name. That girls of tender years should be purchased with the malevolent design of one day consigning them to the horrible existence which so many economi- cally helpless women drag out in houses of ill-fame is an evil, an outrage, that must be apparent to all fair-minded people in and out of Chinn, and its removal ought to
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the VICEROY's action be correctly reported, HIS EXCELLENCY's proclamation aime at this social blot. Were it erased through his instrumentality, countless numbers of giri+ and women would have cause to rise and call his name blessed, and China would car tainly benefit by the purification. We have not seen any confirmation of the re-
the Magistracy by Inspector Kerr and fuss of $25 each were inflicted in most cases. At one raid $45.35 had been captured and this sum was confiscated.
The Directors of the Kiangpel Ting Ciul and Iron Mining Co., Ld., Banounce that the negotiations with the Chinese authorities have now bean concluded, on the arrangement that the Chinese will pay an indemnity of Tis 200,000 exclusive of the stock of coal in the Company's possession. A meeting of share holders will shortly be convened,
A Naval Yard employee who on being searched at the gate by an Indian policeman
was found to have in his possession a quantity
of brass and copper. He struggled with the policeman and assaulted him, but this only aggravated his offence. Yesterday Mr. Haze two months imprisonment and six hours in the lands at the Magistracy soztanced him to
stocks.
The following have been invited to dine at
CONTINUED FIGHTING AT TEHERAN-
LONDON, July 15th. Reuter's Correspondent at Teheran reports that the fighting was continu- ous throughout the day, yesterday.
The shrapnel fired by the Shah's Cossacks struck the houses of the Europeans.
The Shah's troops are shelling the House of Parliament from the hills outside the city.
to fight this action.
After hearing the evidence His Lordship entered judgment for the plaintiff against Lt Kam Tong, but not against the boy who appeared as defendant.
·LOCAL SPORT.
WATER POLO SHIELD COMPETITION.
Two matches in connection with the Water Polo Shield Competitions were played at the V. R. C. enclosure last evening in the presence
of
Before he succeeded Yuan Shih Kai, Viceroy Yang was Governor of Shantung, and, coming much into contact with the Germans at Kino- chau and elsewhere in that province, and with other foreigners not having much communica tion, he naturally acquired a German bias. He in certainly the most pro-German- Viceroy-there- ever was in Chilli. The Gormans got the Concession to build the northern-evotion of the Tientsin-Pukon Railway, and naturally made the most of it from their own standpoint The Director of this section was Tactal Li Te Shan,
German-speaking afleial who married a German indy. The merchants and gentry of Tientsin and Chihli impeached him for cor.
a fair number of spectators. The first gameruption with the result that an official was sent
Was:
V.R.C. V. LUSITANO RECREATION CLUB. In this match some of the members in both
from the capital to Tientain to Birka investigations, the patcome being a recommenda. tion that Li To Shun should be dismissed. To this recommendation effect was promptly This culmination produced Viceroy given. Yang's seizure.
teams were too fond of "fonling," the conse quance being that the game was spoiled through too much whistle. The players were:
V.R.C F. K. Tata: A. E. Alves and L. E. Here are some entirely new and perfectly Lammert; A. V. Barros: A. H. Carroll, F. M. authenticated particulars. After the anxious
The British and Russian Ministers ported procianination, but we hope it is true. Government House tonight to meet His urged the Shah to arrange terms with Editor, not for publication but as evidence of We hope also that its operation will not be Excellency Kao Erk-chen and suite:-Mr8 the Nationalists, but His Majesty Remedios and J. M. R. Pereira.
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limited to the Canton viceroyalty, but that it will spread throughout the empire.
Taking the report, however, as it stands, it would appear as if the proclamation referred more particularly to the bondmen to whom we have already alluded. The report sets out "The Viceroy of Canton has issued a proclamation ordering all householders to emanicipate their alaves and report to the local authorities within Cone your. He further directsany slave who is kept in bondage after that time to apply to the officials for, release.” Even in this limited sense the news must afford gratification. It bears testimony to the spread of enlightened ideas, and shows that modern thought is permeating the Empire.
Ir the news published in a northera contemporary that the VICEROY of Canton has issued a proclamation ordering all hoursholders to emancipate their slaves be not correct, we may be pardoned for expressing the hope that the intention
W. Tao, Mr Chan Bui-ki, Mr Kwok Yik-ting, Mr Yung Him-pong, Mr. Ng Li-hing, Mr Chin U-tin, Mr Li Yau-chun, My Lai Yam-tzun, Mr. Leung Fni-chi, Mr Ho Fook, Mr Lan Chu Pak, Mz Wei Yak, Dr Ho Kai, Mr G. T. Lloyd, Mr Law, Mr Harris, Mr Hanchflower. Mr Clementi, Mr P..N, H. Jones, Mr Gresson, Mr Murray Stewart, Mr Brewin, Sir Henry Berkeley, Commodoro Lyon, Mr Hutchison, Mr Wodehouse, and Mr Fisteher.
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THE DELIMITATION OF MACAO.
PEKING, July 15th. The Prince Regent has given in- structions to the Grand Secretaries to
Lottie Kingsbry, one of the unfortunate sisterhood who was banished from Hongkong on March 31st, was yesterday brought before Mr- Hazeland at the Magistracy on a charge of re-order His Excellency Kao Erh Chen, turning from banishment. She told His Wor- the Commissioner appointed to the ship that she was taking a tour and as the Macao Delimitation Conference, to steamer on which she was travelling had to remain here four days she came ashore. On report by telegraph all questions in learning that she was wanted she surrendered connection with the delimitation of other words, it is another sign of the herself to Mr. Badoloy, the Captain Superinten boundaries. times. It is another step in the march of dent of Police,. She added that the steamer progress. In this matter we have lo recog-sailed on Sunday. His Worship adjourned the ise that China is not so far behind the case until Monday and liberated the defendant western world as in others. It is not a century since alavery was abolished in
LRC FM.E. Pereira; J. M. Lopes and C.M.S. Alves; C. A. Rodrigues; A. J. V. Ribeiro, F. L. Roes and R. A. Carvalho.
From the start it was apparent that the V.R.C. had an easy thing, the opposing team being immediately forced to defend. And they remained on the defensive practically through out the match, which ended with a big margin in favour of the home team.
Final: V.R.C., 8 goals; V.R.C., nil.
ROYAL ENGINEBES V. 88TH CO. E.G.Á. - This was a much more interesting game, and ended in favour of the Engineers by three goals to one. The men who played were:
Engineers: Marah; Goodyer and MoCrory; Hayward; Holmes, Coxon and Barton.
Artillery: Wert: Hardy and Debenham; McAllister; Thomas, Snow and Beattie,
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day of the Li Te Shun affair, H. E. had dianer, was feeling ill at ease. His kidney brit disorder was worse, and it affected his stomach Yang would ind And digestive system. relief in music. He was an excellent musician himself and he would sing. So he ordered in........... his orchestes and started singing. All know the familiar falsetto. Yang was extraordinarily effective in this method of vocal exercise. He went on till he got to a partage of very high notes, and these required some chest ex- While the singing he pansion to get out. suddenly became faint and dizzy. He sank into a chair, and immediately lost the use of one side
and became speechless. Dectors both European and Chinese were sant for, and under the care of the European he was brought slowly bat surely on the way to recovery from the stroke, But the stroke aggravated the Bright's dinnase, The Engineers were early aggressive, and and this he would not allow the European dec. tors to treat properly. Both he and members throughout the first half maintained sharp attack on their opponents' net, but of his family favoured the Chinese doctors, some. of whom wom qualified and some of whom were were only successful in penetrating once, owing to the clever play of West, quacks. He swallowed large quantities of Chi- the E. E. Keeper. In the second half nose nostra and would not take the European the Artillery were again forced to defend and doctors prescriptions. On the Friday before his Mra. Herbert Wadsworth, a noted New York this time the batter combination of the En death he defied the European doctors altogether, horsewoman, on the 21st all. #ccomplished a riding feat which has never before been equalled Fintors was productive of better results, getting up and sitting on the side of his bed
Towards with his feet dangling on the floor.
That finished him. He fell back uncon. Herr Immanuel Friedlaender recently deliver.by woman rider, Setting out from her two mons goals being recorded,
in a personal bond of one dollar.
JAPANESE VOLCANOES.
GREAT RIDE BY A WOMAN.
nevertheless exista. That slavery, as such, British duminions; in Europe itself, notably obtains in Chlua is perhaps not well known, in Russia, serfiom continued till about the but its existence cannot be doubted. The middle of fast century, and the greated a lecture in Yokohama on Japanase volcanoes, residence on the night of the 20th and making the end of the half an opportunity offered
miles in sixteen hours. This easily eclipses the number of Japanese volcanoes could not be proclamation has been issued, is proof this struggle which convulsed America before 1 in the course of which he said that the total frequent changes of horses, she covered 159 for the Artillery, and the Zorward who seious and remained so, The family were glad the negro slaves were freed is fresh stated exactly, as it will always main more or record of ex-President Roosevelt, who earned the was before the met made no mistake, driving then to have the European doctors, who had been such a condition prevails, though it has to in the memory of many still alive. But we less a matter of arbitrary opinion which of the admiration of army offcore last year by riding the leather in at close quarters.
proclamation itself, or the report that the
be admitted that the slavery does not take remember that before the slaves could be that horrible shape found in Africa or freed certain financial considerations had to formerly in America, but rather corresponds be met. Is due regard paid to these by to the villeinage in Europe of the dark and the reported proclamation? It might be middle ages. In one respect only is the possible to declare that from a certain time
Final Engineers, 3; Artillery, 1.
FASHIONABLE HAT CAUSES RIOT.
many mountains of volcanio material shall 120 miles in the same period of time. be reckoned as independent volcanoes and which not. The geological maps
however,
· of Зарад give a good basis for calculation, and upon thom Japanese geologists have marked 165 independent volcanoes. He arranged the vol- canoes of Japan in the following great zones
1. The Kurile zane, stretching from Kans-
the Kurile Islands to Hokkaido. 2. A sories
BOWLS.
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The following will represent the Civil Servics on their groen at 4.15 pm, on Saturday next
banished from the apartment for two days. They came but it was too late. They kept him alive on oxygen till Sunday morning, but he was dying all the time, and suddenly expired about 8 o'clock.
Yang had no connection with your district, but his death affects it, as it has involved the removal of Viceroy Chang from Canton to E. W. Dawson, J. J. Blake, C. Bond, A. M. Nanking. It had been obvious that Yang's
was terminated
verfdom in China, as bad as the alevery of the trafficking in human Hesh and blood chatka slob of smaller zones which run parallel with the crowd. The hat in question, says the Thornhill (skip); E. W. Brett, L. E. Brett, J.ocial career
southward
whether he
THE NEW RAILWAY DIRECTOR.
An English lady who insisted on wearing ons of the most startling of modern hats in i Rome music-hall has had an unfortunate experiance Rome correspondent of the Hobo, was mar vellos creation in the form of a fruit-basket, Macdonald, P. R. Adams (skip); E. H. Park-survived a long or a short time. with a mass of fruit draped round the rim and inson, A. Blowey, 1. A. Wheal, B. Fenton when the wearer took her seat in the hall there (skip); F. Allen, R. Hudson, M. Molver, W. was an immediate chorus of protest from dis-Fincher (skip).
Reserves J. Mo Leod, W, S. Diggins and appointed people in the rear, whose view of the platform was absolutely blocked out. Hiesing and hooting proving useless, the crowd rasorted J. Wiltshire, to a regular bombardment of the offending headgear; and the lady was orentually obliged to beat a quick retreat from the hall.
THE FOREIGN WARSHIPS IN JAPANESE PORTS.
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An excellent successor to Li To Shan Director of the Tientsin-Pukou Radway has been appointed in the Chief Enginoor of the Peking-Kalgan Railway, Tactai. Jeme Tien Yow, who has constructed the Peking-Kalgun line himself without the assistance of any This line. by foreign engineer whatever.
Africa, and that is in the unholy traffic shall cease, that the purchase of any bonds which is found all over the empire of buying man or bendswoman shall be illegal, but to the nothera azis of Japan.
3. The Hakusan and Aso zone, running little girls in order to have them trained that would not necessarily liberate those paralled to the South Japan aris.
Fuji! for immoral lives. With this exception, who are in bondage at present. To eary The Fallout and Bouth Japan
North which certainly shows no diminution as the that householders shall emancipate their to the Ladrone Islands.
5. The Kirishima zone, which extends from years pass, slavery as such has been dwindl-slaves without some quid pro que is practic ing in Chira, until now it is only found in ally to declare the impossible-impossible Kyushu on the west of the curve of the Loochoss
nearly as far as Formosa. the interior--and to a limited extent-with because of its injustice. It would be mani. The Japanese volcanic zones stand in the an exceptional instance now and then in festly unfair to those who took advantage closest connection with the geological building
up of the country. For this reason, and also Determined, however, to wreak vengeance on large cities.
of the law of the land to acquire baadsmen from their great size, they refute the view often the hat, a mob rushed out after the lady, still
The British cruiser Monmouth will stay at In olden times we know that slavery was or bondswomen, to deprive them of that expressed in recent years that walcances are hosting and yelling, until, to their surprise, the
merely local phenomena of subordinate import wearer turand upon them and aimed blows at Yokohama ntil the 20th instant and then leave ons of the outcomes of war. Frisoners property without compensation. It may are. The length of the Hawaiian volcanio the nearest of the rowdies. This was the signal for Kobo. The US. cruiser Galveston may com were not always slain: frequently their to that such a principle will not be recog-chain is, roughly, 1,700 miles and the Fuji chain for a general outbreak of hostilities, soms of the plote repair of her engines about the 10th bystanders taking the part of the persecuted Angust, after which she will leave for Hakodate. lives were spared so that the captors might nised, but we rather think that it will, and is of about the same length
Englishwoman, and others fiercely attacking The French flagship D'Entrecasteaux leaves utilise there as servants and labourers or it in this question of compensation which will
How To DE BEAUTIFUL-Keep your com- them. By the time the police, with drawn
The Austrian cruiser en route to Hakodate. include them in the rank of their fighting delay the reform, The state of China's plexion, Mrs. Ellen's Crême Charmante, Lait swords, had succeeded in restoring order, the! For Matsushima on the 17th or 10th instant left Singapore on the 14th inst. afternoon, and...
Ancient history also acquaints us finances is too well known to call for state. Charmant and Special Skin Tonic and Poudre triumph of modern millinery which was the Kazeerin Elizabeth was expected to clear from Charmant will enable you to do it. Her use of the whole affair lay ruined and the port last week. These ships had visited with men and women-who sold themselves ment, but it is such as to render doubtful Specialities for the Skin are the study of a squashed beyond recogsition in the roadway Yokohams in connection with the celebration of or were sold to masters in liquidation of any sum being voted for aush a purpose, feline. A. 8. Watson & Co. Ltd. Sele Agents, and its wearer was then escorted to her home the Jubilee of the port.
453 by the police. debts contracted, 'but there seems to be desirable though it may be.
HOR,
the by, is now completed, and will be opened for traffic for ite whole length next month.:
LATEST STEAMER MOVEMENTS.
:...
The Apear str. Catherine Apcar from Calcutta
The Indo-Chins str. Kumaung left Calcutta ay be exported here on or about the 20th inst. for this port via the Straits on the 13th inst., and may be expected here on or about the 29th
inst.
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