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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, MARCH 14TH, 1911.

the human race. ~ She may be, it will not At the Magistracy yesterday soven Chinese any absolutely that she is not, but it in were convicted by Mr. Hallifas of being rognes claimed that Burope can show at leasta very and vagabonds, and each was sentenced to one

month'a imprisonment, respectable antiquity as the abode of man For instance, the gentleman who left his skull in the cave in the Neandor Valley, probably more than a hundred thousand

years ago-a few thousands more or less raake little difference-would seen to im-

The Variety Company of E.M.S. Minotaur are giving a grand variaty entertainmont in the Sailors and Soldiers' Home, Arsenal Street, on Thursday.

It is announced that Dr. H. Schzaidt will ply that Europe even then afforded scope Hamburg-Amerika Linie during the absence of taice aharge of the Hongkong office of the for an honest, if predatory, living. But Mr. C. G: Gok... oven thousands of years before this gen tleman lay down to die in the cave in the Noandor Valley, the human race flourished in Europe. How many thousand years be fore cannot be exactly stated, but there are indisputable traces of una's residenco 'in'

Mr. A. Taylor, the billiard player, reports to attacked by three rieska coolies and robbed of the police that on Saturday night he was a gold watoli and $250.

An Indian watchman, for behaving in a disorderly manner in Spring Garden Laue, was

ordered. by Mr. Hallifax at the Magistrany yesterday to pay a fine of 63, the alternativo being ten days' imprissement.

"We direct the attoution of our readers to the announcement in our advertisement columns of the Aviation week arrangements. Mr. Charles van den Bora will make fights in his biplane at Shatta on Saturday, Sunday and Monday aert

The Concert in aid of the Incorporated Soldiers' and Sailors Help Society, which was postponed from March 2nd, will take place in the R.E.Theatre, Wellington Barracks, on Tuesday, March 23rd, at 9.15 p.m. It will be followed by a comedy entitled; "A Golden Wedding," by Eden Philpotta.

There were nineteen cases of small por

Changsha is fast becoming a port of some consequence, the builling contractors baving their lands full. A now Customs House had been built, as also a large red brick-dwelling house for the Standard Oil Co, and new go downs for Messrs. Batterfiold & Swire. The sighed, will cover a stretch of three miles, Band is also under construction, which, when- while the railway has made such progress that locomotives are running at the back of the city, Another improvement, which must be a great boon to the port, is a large recreation ground situated on the island-Centrul China Post

THE DES VŒUX ROAD TRAGEDY.

HOW THE MANIAO WAS SHOT. Further particulars regarding the startling tragedy which occurred in Des Voeux Read early on Sunday morning were furnished our roprosen fative at the Police Headquarters yesterday. The Chinoso who ran amok, as formerly stated wounded eleven mon, and thres subsequently

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BOXING,

Mr. H. Marriott, as the prometer of the boxing tournament.at tho City Hall on Satur day night, asks to be allowed to convey his thanks to the public for the patronage exten teatled to him, and adds :--“I think that the pab-

tunately they did not agreo with the referee's decision. For this I am very sorry. The referee who had promised to give his services was objected to by one of the principats in the main prent on the grounds that he (the refores) list a

in the drama was mortally wounded by a police succumbed to their injuries, while the principal THE PLAGUE IN THE NORTH was satisfied with the fighting, but unfors ballet. It appears that after tho madman had MORTALITY AMONG CHINESE DOCTORS. wronght snob nyoo among the inmates of the boarding-house he took refuge in a ground floor, kitchen at the rear of the building on the

There, concealed by the. darkness, and carrying a chopper in either hand, he awaited the entry of the police. willing to go where, if not certain death, at least To the orodit of the men of the force who

orious injury awaited some of them. But Mr. were prosent be it said that they were ready and

P.P. J. Wodehouse, the Deputy Superintendent of Police, who was in attendance, was unwilling to expose his men to unnecessary danger so long" as other means of scouring the lanatio remained.

There was but one narrow passage loading to the dark kitchen in which the foki took shelter,

and this led from the front on the ground floor. Separating the front roem from the kitchen was a chen wes & uarrow open space, presumably made basement or well, and in the front wall of the kit

Health and Buildings Ordinance. In the loft- hand well of the basement was another small opening, secured by iron bars, and from this a glimpse into the interior of the kitchen could be obtained. "The only other point from which a view of the kitobon was possible. was the passage way loading to the kitchen on the first floor, and from either of these doigns of vastaze, owing to the darkness within, the view was buta lazy one.

to comply with the requirements of the Public

Persuasion failing to induce the the madmau

LONDON, March 13th, It is reported from St. Petersburg that eighteen out of nineteen Chinese doctors engaged in the hospital at that the hospital is to be burned. Kwang Chang-tse died of plague, and

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challenge to issue on behalf of one of his pupils to the winner of the fight. That was the reason that this was his first venture in the promoting for the changs of referee." Mr. Marriott adds line,and, although not a success financially, was, he ventures to say, a decided access from the fighting aspect. He intends to promote another fight in the near future, and hopes that the public will again extend their patronage to him as they did on Saturday night.

BE PRESENTED.”

GOLF AT SHANGHAI London, March 18th.

Playing in the semi-final of the Hong Four lending newspapers of St. Petersburg, heat by 2 up and 1 to play. C. E. Anton and The Novoye Vremnya," one of the somas Competition at Shanghai the Hongkong Bank couplo, T. F. Langmuir and A. C. Paiday, China (regarding Treaty rights) are Lugmnir and Padday (Wayfoeng) and E. F. declares that further discussions with T. S. Forrest, who represented Jardins, Mathe- ROD & Co. The finalists are therefore useless and that an ultimatum must Swire) Owing to the number of matches to bo Mackay and A. R. W. Menzies (Butterfold & be presented.

played at the prosent moment, the final will not take place for two or three weeks yet.

SERIOUS SITUATION IN MEXICO.

LONDON, March 12th. A message from New York states

to leave his retrant, Mr Wodehouse first that the Mexican Government has decided to try the effect of the host decided to suspend constitutional

effective weapon to use on Chinese. But which has on more than one occasion proved guarantees throughout the Republic. this proved of no avail, as the man in the dark- ness was able to dodge the stream of water. ordered to visit Mexican ports with Four American warships have been Then, as glimpses of the foki were obtained as the object of virtually patrolling the he moved about within, Mr. Wodehouse told his

coasts. men to fire with the object of lightly wounding him Several shots wars-fed, but without ed to rush the room, but this the Deputy Super. York, stated that when an armed force Don Limantour, the Mexican Minis- effect. The police, as stated, bravely volunteer-ter of Finance, interviewed at New intendent would not allow, as it was only possible at a time, and the alert and desperate man within for one man to pass through the narrow doorway could have wrought great havoc on the constabu lary whose transition from light to a darkened room would have partially blinded them

Power without invitation and without Crosses the border of a neighbouring

permission, it means invasion and occupation, and that means war.

THE YOKOHAMA SPECIE BANK, LTD.

Mr. Suzuki, manager of the Hongkong branch of the Yokohama Specie Bank, informs us that a telegram has been received from the head office of the Bank to the effect that at the half- office of the bank at Yokohama on the 18th yearly meeting of shareholders, held at the head inst., it was resolved to pay a dividend of 12 per

cent, per annum for the last half-year ending 31st Decomber, 1910; to add to the reserro fund

Yen 1187,000.00 to the next account; to in ran 20,000.00; to carry forward the sum of add to the list of directors the names of Jan- orease the capital to Yan 48,000,000 0, and to nesuke Inouye, Esq., and Baron Koyats Iwasnxi.

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report of a case in the Shanghai Court last wirk The following dislogue is extracted from the

the Shanghai Oil Ca→→ Corporation are putitioning for the winding of in which the, Hongkong and Shangirai Ranking,

HONGKONG LAW AT SHANGHAI.

of

Acts and the Hongkong Ordinances

Mr. Wright Of course unilor the Imperial

Europe at an early period when the climate was warm and the elephant, rhinoceros and the hippopotamus roamed over the land The abundant large flint implements found

The construction of an armoured cruiser of with the remains of these animals testify to 26,000 tons will to commenced at Yokosuka the presence of man and testify that then next October. The vessel will be a sister ship as now, bis idea of a holiday was go out to the cruiser ordered from Vickers, Son & and kill something. Thas man has been Maxim last year. present in Europe for many hundreds of thousands of years, and although, of course, this does not dispose of his Asiatic, origin, it clearly shows that Europe is by ao means the youngest of the continents. Thero is, moreover, ovillence that Asia has been overrun by tribes from Europe.. just as there is evidence that Europe has been overrun by tribos from Asia, but from which continent the migration first came cannot be stated. There is no doubt that the glacial epochs drove, mann to South Europe, where the highest civilisation was reached, and at a time when the Mediterran-reported in the Colony last week-fourteen ean was not, evan Africa may claim to rank being in the of y of Victoria. All were Chinose with its northern neighbours. Under these The only other casos of commarnicable disse cases, and two are described as "Imported," circumstances the "worn-out" civilisations reported last week ware one Chinese (imported) of the East take on another aspect. Are case of enteric forer, and two cases of diphtheria, they not rather stages in civilisation through one British and the other Chinese. which Europe bas passed, and European domination in Asia but a continuance of more or less unbroken attack? That a cer- tain amount of arrested development exists there can be no doubt, but there is evidence to show that progress in Asiatic countries proceeds exactly on the lines of progress in European countries. When foreigners first wont to Fapen they found a feudal system in full development which closely resembled A. S. WATSON & CO.. | the feudal systems of the Middle Ages in

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Europe, and Japanese history shows us that this feudal system was preceded by a period At a meeting held in the office of Messrs when the country was peopled by warring Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd., at Shanghai last

A telegram from Douglas (Arizona) Hongkong law. If English law applies Hong- tribes, each under their own chiefs or kings, week it was decided to form a Cotton Ant other members of the force were engaged dig. reports that a battle among Mexicans kong law, very well.

prisided and explained the objects of the associs-ging a hole through the concrete of the kitokien but had Japan been loft in her seclusion theretion, and the following Committes was appointed or shave. From this the refugee was visible,

Mr. Wright said that the point was whether is little doubt that a few more decades to draw up proposals-Representatives of the The hole was then enlarged and Mr. Wode

in winding up a company the company was going would have seen the feudal system flestroyed Tungohow, Ningpo, Shanghai, Taichoug, a house ordered one of his men to nám to wing

and again the hose was tried; but without avail.

Ordinances or not. to observe the conditions of the Hongkong and the beginnings of popular govern ment established. Thus the same political-

the lutis. The carbine was discharged, "bat developments are to be seen in the East as Mr. Bahrmeister, of the Seay Chea Co; Mr. Ausly mentioned, died on the way to hospital. the darkness did not lend accuracy to the air. The foki fell, imortally wounded, and as preci- in the West, but in a lesser degree, and to Brooke-Smith and Mr. E. C. Pearce. affirm that the West has outstripped the

An interesting route march and sham Split took eight injured men in hospital.

No further deaths are reported among the Eust, or that the East has lagged behind place fast week in the Jessfold district, Shanghai, the West, is to affirm things about which between the German Co. 3.V.C.onl detachments nothing certain can be said. We began by of men from the Austrian orniser Kaiser Franz speaking of the vices of the "effete" East. Joseph I, and 8.M.S. Luchs. The men, reports and it is curious that the vice which is the Mercury, assembled on the Bund about? | Cooper & Co., of 77, Wyndham Street, on the regarded as most distinctly Asiatic should. with field guns, hospital equipment, bioyole 9th instant, to act as office boy, wan charged dries, oto, and in full muching order before Mr. J. 1. Wood at the Magistracy their destination the forces were dirided and a marobed out the Nanking Road Beaching yesterday with attempted robbery. According sham fight took place, during which the sur

to the story told the Magistrato the defendant. rounding country was wol explored and valuable smith, told the latter his master had lost the on the day of his engagement, went to look information gained The decision went in key of the front door of his shop, and asked favour of the naval meu, and after the" cease him to inspect the look and make a new key fire"hed sounded, the men, well bespattered with The locksmith did as desired, and at 7 o'clock'on. mud, marched back to the Band forebere, where the night, of the 20th instant the defendant went a mareh past took place, Captain Schollhoss and to the locksmith and asked him to walk with several naval officers being at the salating point him to the shop to see whether the key would fit the look of the door. The locksmith necom. panied the boy to the shop pad opened the door Thon the defendant asked the price, paid th mechanic his money and told him he could go,

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BIRTH.

Outside pressure hastened political changes,

On March 9th, at Shanghai, to Mr. sud Mrs have originated in Europe. Seven thousand

J. R. LYNESS, a daughter.

MARRIAGE.

· DEATHS. ·

years ago, in the so-called Stone age, the lake dwellers of Switzerland were cultivating On March 8, at Shanghai, METER MORES COBEN, of Jacob Sassoon. Mills. Bombay, to poppies, apparently for the oil in the seed LIZA ELIAS, of No. 16, Quinson Road. In the South of Europe and on the Mediter

-ranean shores of Africa the opiuni poppy- or rather the wild-poppy of which the opium poppy is a cultivated variety was grown perhaps two thousand years ago

The Greeks were acquainted with the somni-

used us ferous properties of the sap, which was medicine, but chiefly it was cultivated for the oil. Now this variety

years.

On February 2nd, 1911. at Roturua, N. 2., ALBERT CURTIS DULCKEN, harrister-at-law, late of Grahamstown, Cape Colony, and formerly Faitor of the Hongtong Daily Press. Aged 70 [443 On February 26th, at Newchwang, dirs. CARO-LINE FARMER. Aged 59 years.

On March 7th, at the General Hospital, Shanghai, F. H. ROCKSTROH (Kolkmeijer & Bookstroli, Hankow, aged 41 years.

On March 8th, at the General Hospital Shunghot, JAMES FRANCIS PREVOST, chief engineer, Chius Merchants' S.N. Co., aged 71

years.

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Adulteration Association. Mr. E. C. Pearce

Hankow Cotton Guilds; Messri Fujise and Babu, representing the Japanese; Mr. Wuillon mier, of the International Co.; Mr. Arnhold or

HONGKONG CHAMBER OF COMMERCE JUBILEE.

This year the Hongkong General Chamber

Then there was a suggestion that the police, should enter with fixed bayonets, but as this idea was abandonei. meant almost certain death to the madman, the tioned were being made to dislodge the fob

While the efforts men-

A DISHONEST OFFICE BOY.

A Chiness who we engaged by Messrs.

A BATTLE.

LATER.

occurred on Sunday at Aguaprieta. from a canyon and were attacked by 300 Federal troops.

Five hundred insurgents emerged

The rebels finally withdrew. Thirty-five persons were killed. Thousands of spectators watched the engagement..

SIE FRANK

A TIT BIT.

NEWNES STORY OF HIS FATHER'S FIRST VENTURE,

Tit Bits were related by Sir Frank Newnes at the convorazione of the Newsagents, Book

Bono interesting details of the founding of

sellers, and Stationers' National Union at Edinburgh.

of Sir Frank's speech in the Newsagents from some evening paper" (to quote a report "My father was reading to my mother a story

Review), and the thought struck him, Why but interesting lit-bits like this. cannot soniebody bring ont a paper with nothing

His Lordship-I don't know anything about the Hongkong Ordinances, I don't think they apply.

Mr. Wright-I don't wish to raise that point now, but it is a matter of imperlange to Shang. lai and will be raised in the course of this aotion.

His Lordship-English law applies here, not

His Lordship-They don't apply ore.

I

don't ses how when tho Order it Conncil says that English law applies, Hongkong law applies. If English law abplies Hongkong law, then very well.

Mr. Wright--That is what I say that it ahould do. It should assumo jurisdiction

His Lordship A Court does not desume jurisdiction.

Mr. Wright-As I rend Mr. Bourne's judg ment he only goes so far as to say that Part 8 of the Companies (Consolidation) Act, 1908, applies here.

His Lordship That applics curtain other portions of the Ant in certain circumstances.

SCANDAL IN MANILA POLICE FORCE.

Five months' imprisonment was the sentencs

of the Manila police forco, says the Cablenews. handed down on March 9th by Judge Crossfield against George E. Brown, a plain clothes man in one of the three graft cases tried in his cours

In the cases of the afhor six man, John Walczykowski. Simeca Reyes, Juan Santos, some defendant Brown, the sentence of the court. Pedro Cruz, Engenio Samio and Pedro Hern- andez and in the other two cases against the

public office in the Philippine Islands for the was that they be disqualified from holding

public censure, period of three and a half years and receive a

struck him that ho might make something from "My father was passing a restaurant, and it this. He took a place, got a lot of waiters, and opened a vegetarian restaurant one day at 12 He ran this for a few months, and made a good o'clock, and by 12.30 everything was eaten up ftained from the shop he started Tit Bite cases Judge Crossfield found that the charge deal of money, and ultimately, with the money

In summing up the ovidence in the seven of poppy does not grow wild in Asia; of Commerce attains its jubilee, and it is in as his master would be returning shortly, When rent of 35. 6d. per week. The day before instructed by their chief not to concern them. basement, for which he paid the magnificent had been shown that the defendants had been "The first offices of Tit Bite were in a of graft had not been proved, inasmuch as it it was apparently introduced

into tended to celebrate the necasion by a banquet the locksmith had left, the defentant, in tamper Publication be went with a four-wheeler round selves with opium smokers anlosa they lap- Persia, India and China by Arab traders, as which will be held as soon after the annual meeting with the key, broke it in the look. Then to all the newsagents and left a copy on the pened to catch them in the act of smoking the the narcotic juice seems to have been largely ing as may be found convenient. A circular, we he entered the office and attempted to break newspaper proprietor going round in a four to go out of their way to look for them or to

bookstalle. used by Arabians for the pleasumble effects understand, has already been issued to mem- open one of the drawers of the office writing wheeler P. Langiter.)

Can you imagine the modere prohibited drug That to say, they were not produced. It appears to have reached bers of the Chamber, and a large number of desk, in which he knew the key of the safe 100 boys of The Boys' Brigade, and 5,000 copies police, whose organization was specially adapted raid houses in which they were suspected to be, India about a thousand years ago, although favourable replies have already be resolved. was kept. The safe at this time contained were sold. From that time the paper liad never for that work.

The day Tit Bits come out he engaged that being the work of the internal revenue no doubt the drug was imported before that present on the occasion, and the banquet drawer, the defendant capsized the desk, and the

It is expected that H. E. the Governor will in about $4,000. Falling to forco open the locked book." time, and five hundred years ago it was an promises to be one of the largest over held in noise this piece of furniture made iu falling led article of trade between India and Chint the Colony. HONGKONG, MARCH 14TH, 1911.

The cultivation of poppies, however, appar-

to his undoing. A Fortugnese youth named How it is that t'e vices of the effetently was only begun in Chino some two

Silva, attracted by the noise of the fall, went to the complainant shop to see the cause, and ou hundred East should have originated in Europe is a

years ago, when the Chinese hit |

arrival there he found the defendant breaking Coossens schiered the feat of waltzing steadily difficult question to answer, more especially burning the drug, the so-called opinn barrister-at-law, who in the early seventies was police, and the office boy was caught red-handed Place, Brussels on the 11th ult

upon the plan of inhuling the fuses by who can remember Mr. Albert C. Dulcken, informed of what was happening, notified the competition which was held at the Cafe Grand-by the way of a bribe not to take into custody There are still residing in Hongkong some open the bottom of the task Me Coupor, being for two hours and five minutes at a waltzing field find that he had actually received money

M Jean de Breacher and Mele, Jeane

Only in the case of Brown did Judge Cross- if we take into consideration the still com smoking. Here we see the introduction of editor of the Hongkong Daily Press. Previously Part of the broken kay was in his possession monly held belief that the nations of the a narcotic from the West to the East and he had bem associated with Mr. D. Warres when he was arrested. His Worship sentenced

brought by the prosecuting attorney against the two Chinamen who had fallen into his hauds East have a prior claim to the word the question arises why the West has been Smith on the old Recorder at Shanghai, and both the defendant to three months imprisonmont

accused for having rooovel bribes for the while in the not of using the prohibited Crag.. civilisation.". It was in Asia that the able to escape from its infiuence while so subsequently joined the Duity Press. Mr.

All these cases arose out of certain charges. original Garden of Eden was supposed to many Eastor nations have succumbed? Daleken, we believe, left Hongkong shout the

ABHANG TAI SHIPPING CA SE.

who conducted opinn smoking and morphine in- protection afforded by them to the places of business condnoted by the Chinaman By Boco,

The cases were tried recently and created no owing to the threats held out by the prosecution that similar charges would be filed against other

for

DEATH OF MR. A. C. DULØKEN,

with hard labour.

WALTZED FOR TWO HOURS, ENDURANCE COMPETITION IN A BEDASHLI CAFE,

Jadge Crosafold found that this being so, the fact that he aconsod had received the money they were charged with having received brought their orime andor the classification of receiving presents of money and articles of value while in the employment of the govern. ment whose interests they were encharged with serving.

after the first hour five of them gave up the attempt. Then the excitement of the evening Seven couples had entered for the prize, but

began: Two couples remained, and both seemed determined not to be outdone by the other.

The spectatora grew giddy with watching them, but the dancers were indefatigablo. Twelve different valtzes had been played by tire Jecting dens yours in the Far East, Mr. Dulcken continued damage to cargo shipped by plaintiffs in fell

pause in the music, and still out of time. They were well on question was dispatched to Chingwangtao by the couples retreated almost exhausted and

owing to the fracture of a sounding pipe. The alleged that the cargo was damaged by water claimed the prize. the Norwegian steamer Anna, which encounter left the floor, and the windera sped round the Heed very heavy weather on the way, and it was

fact that the pipe was there the cargo ought to all night, except that they were paroled with room for another five minutes before they Neither of them appeared to be very tired, plaintiffs contended that having regard to the have been stored differently. His Lordship, thiret.

and they declared that they could have gone on after hearing the evidence reserved his decision.

nover

have been situated, and therefore it was to This is more especially curious when we year 1875, and until a year ago practised his ThoBritish-American Tobacco Co, atShanghai orchestras, who relieved each other at intervals | small amount of excitement in police circles sought his birthplace, the cradle of his "he East from the West, is now as popular South Africa. Having spent upwards of len Mining Co. the tum of 321,261 for alleged the waltzers waltzed and Asia that the European looked when he remember that tobacco, also introduced to profession as a barrister at Graiamstown are claiming from the Chinese Engineering and without species, the home he had so long abandoned in Europe as in Asia and other parts throughout his life to take a close interest in the vessel chartered by defendants. The cargo in in the second hour when at last one of members of the force.

a purer air, and where he had left his of the world. Whatever be the cause of affairs of China and was from time to time a

this comparative indifference to opium valued contributor to our columes. ancestors to stumble along and produce their kind on a level of contentment, if not on and cultivation were imported from the and nows reaches us from New Zeland of in Europe, it remains a fact that its use retired from professional work about a year ago thy decline of degradation, while he rose to West, and thus an Asiatic vice turns out his death at Boturua, at the age of 10. He higher things. Modern science, however, is F

to be not peculiarly Asiatic at all. not so certain that Asia is the mother of

leaves a widow, to whom our deepest sympathy is extended

to the subject is the issue of n-writ of ammose the Biak-Indrapaers Rubber Concession, Ltd.. The consequence arising out of the affairs of remarks the 9hanghai Mercury, appear to be even more far-reaching then was at first in- agined. The latest development with reference by Dr. Nijhuis against Dr. R. J. Marshall for alleged slander,

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