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INDIA AND THE OPIUM
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T 15 HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 7TE, 1911.
The Times of the 9th alt contained the following leading article:-
CHANGELING OR COUNTI
WEATHER REPORT.
On the 6th at 12.05 p.m. The barometer has ROMANCE OF A VAST FORTUNE fallon all chily in N.E. Japan, and risen mode.
rately to slightly in. Vladivostok and E. China.
A depression has passed from the continent to the N.E. part of the Sea of Japan,
AND A TITLE
Berlin, May 14.
romantic and mysterions caso, in which many The Supreme Court of the Empire has decided members of the German aristocracy are interest ed, by deciding that the boy known as Josephi ecki, and the heir to the family fortune and
The Pastilo high pressure still extends West wards from the Bonins to the costs of B. China. Pressure is relatively low over N. Annam
Tongking.
and
NAPIER JOHNSTONES' rond tells Rode the Ontitetion of the Kwilveki is the son of Constars Isbella Kwill N, part of the China Sea.
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The effort to establish the legitimacy of Count Joseph Kwilocki resulted in litigation extending over a period of years, and the revelation of a story which is more like a plot in a novel than a succession of facts affecting living personages.
The four contral figures of this strange affair
The new Opiam Agreement between Groat Britain and China was signed yesterday, and there can be no doubt that it heralds the early a disappearance of the opium traffe between India
and Chinese ports. Our Peking Corre ment would bring about trade within two years, and his estimate is probably well Justified.
The arrangements now mado follow the lines we have been led to
expect. The earlier Agreement, made at the end of 1907, provided for a gradual reduction of the Indian exports at the rate of one-tenth annually. This would bave extinguished the trade in another seven years. The British Government have new agreed that Indian exports shail stop in less than that period, if Chins proves that she has ceased to produce "native opium,"
" It is furtbor that Indian optom shail not be
agreed consered meanwhile inte any Chinese province bas censed to cultivate or to import qutive opiam."
The
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some Chinese provincial at du
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Conat Joseph Kwilsoki, now fourteen years of age, the only son and heir of Count Ignaz Kwilecki.
Coollla Mayer, a Galician peasant woman who was formerly the wife of a railway navy, and who after her husband's death carned a procarious living by manual fold- labour.
Count Ignar Kwilech, a great Polish noble man, aged seventy years, who claims to be the father of Corint Joseph Kwilecki. Count Hector Kwiloeki, a distant cousin who claims the inheritance of the family estatos on the grounds that Court Joseph Kwilecki is not a Kwilecki at all, but the son of Cecilia Mayer.
Frau Cecilia Mayer claimed to be the right ful mother of little Count Joseph, and demand. od that he be handed over to her.
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KING EDWARD VII. FOUNDATION.
BIR ERNEST CANSEL'S GIFT.:
We announced on August 17 last, says 7he Times, that Sir Ernest Cassel intended to dorote
£200,000 to the establishment of an Augle. Gorman institute in memory of King Edward, and this be lung now done.
The English section, which has the patronage of the King and Queen and Queen Alexandra. will be known under the antae of "King Edward VII. British-German Foundation (United Kingdom)"; the German section, which has the patronage of the German Emperor and Emprese, will be called Kooig Edward VII. British-Deutsobe Stiftung (Deutsche Abthei
"The British section is intended to assist Germans residing in Great Britain, and the German section to assist British subjects resid
given dates. This is in addition to the prescribed annual reduction of one-tenth. As there is already a great accumulation of opium in the banded stores, this provision must very speedily
Count Ignar Ewilecki and tie wife, Countess reduce the Indian exports to scanewhat slender Isstella Kwileoki, who ovenpied a very promin proportion. Drastic though the now Agree ont position among the Polish aristocracy, wore ment is, we believe its purpose will be endorsed, for many years disappointed in their hopes of t
but by
of son and heir, the lack of whom meant that the not only by English opinio, development family estates, all of which are strictly entailed, ing in Gertuszy. For each section the income enlightenei opiniog in India.
would in 4 of the opium trade undor British with to Co, after the death of Court Iguaz, pasa to from a capital sum of upwards of £100,000
the balk
chapter of our history which most people see closed for over. If China really succeeds in extinguishing the production of opium within her borde n it becomes manifestly impossible eontime the Indian trade another
admiration
Hector Kwileoki, a distant cõusín. Count Ignaz and Countess Izabella Kwilecki and three daughters, but the conditions of the family entail necessitated that they should be members of the entire Kwilcki family. The death of Count Ignaz would thus have plunged Countess Isabella and her three daughtere into aberlute poverty.
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The Council of Administration of the British reotion cousists of Lord Esher (Chairman), Redesdale (Vice-Chairman), Baron Bruno Geoffroy Drage, Mr. C. B. Loch, Dr. Ernest Schuster, and the following ladies:-The Hop, Iris Mitford, Lady Lewis, and Miss Bruce.
whole world has contemplated with a The left on one side until thero were no more male Schröder, Mr. Felix Cassel, K.O, M.P, M.....
and a little onry, the striking success of the
Chinese crusade. Whether the creation of a Cabinet and a Privy Council, which is also announced from Peking, is equally a sign of national progress, ratoaine to be seen The strong Maochu favour of the new bodies is not altogether encouraging
windfalle,
When Countess Isabella Kwilecki was fifty, years of age an announcement was isened to the affect that she bad given birth to a son OIL. Jonuary 27th, 1997. This baby was alleged to be the Count Joseph Kwilecki, whose Inte has now been decided by the supreme court of the empire.
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Count Hector Kilecki employed a small army of detectives, sad in the course of their inquiries they brought to light many strange facts.
Conntess Isabella, instead of remaining at her magnificent homo to give birth to her child travelled to Berlin and rented a small fat. At the time of the birth she refused to summon any doctor, but was attended by several elderly Polish women who had been domestic servante in her household for many years
When, however, we have given dos expres sion to our satisfaction at the approaching offucoment of a dark blot upon the British con. trol of India, it still remains to consider the birth, when Counters Isabella Krilacki was The legal contest began acon after the boy's precise effect upon Indian financo%.. The moral fervour is chiefly ours, but India has to pay accused of having obtained the baby from What we have done, in effent, is to wipe out, az another woman to pass it off as her own important source of Indian revenue, which with the criminal intention of depriving Const produced an average annual sum ef about Hector Kwilecki of his rightful inheritance of £6,000,000. It is true that India hed fairly self the entailed revenues during the minori
the family estates, and thereby securing to ample warning of the intention of Great Britain, and that even before the inauguration of the ty of her alleged child new policy the opium reronue was always regarded as likely to cease some day. It is irus, moreover, that up to the prouent the finances of India have actually derived ad- ditional benefit from the Brat Agreement. Al though exports were curtailed the price of opium roled so high that the Indian Exchequer found itself in the possesAÍON of
unexpected That agreeable interlude is now over, and the Indian Government have to face the aeri. fice expected of them. Had the original Agreement boen. maintained, tha stringency produced by a heavy loss of revenue might have heen minimized, because the process would have been very gradual. The prospect of an almost immediate termination of the trade will inevit. a surious dislocation of the Indian Badget. Its exact effect cannot yet be estimated, but It will probably involve freth taxation. Tho sources of reveane in India are so limited that the Indian peasant will be fortunate it be is not paying more for his salt in or two. The
* year impending extinction of the receipts from opium comes at a time when large new expenditure is in conteopation. Great Britain has been talling India that she must spend much more on eduen tion, in order to learn to appreciate the benefite of British rule. While ou the one hand we have urged her to spend more, on the other wo are now curtailing her revenue. The latter neces- sity was imperative, for the opiam trade had become indelensible, but we ought to recognize that ita de ppearance imposes a rather grave responsibility upon Great Britain
ably canto a
MÁNY TRIĀLĀ.
Count Hector Kwllecki spent three years in collecting inoriniosting material, and the initiated au nation demanding that the High Court at Fosen should adjudge the infaut to be Countess Isabella Kwilecki nor the legitimate an interloper and neither the rightful son of the heir to the Kwiloski etates,
The case was tried in 1901, when the boy was four years of age, and he was brenght into court to show the nileged remarkable "likerose between his own features and those of the Countess Isaballa The High Court at Fosen rejected Count Hector Kvilecki's claim, and raled that there wore ineficient proofs to warrant the denial of Counters Tsobelia's
motherhood.
Count Hector Kwilecki then pressed the public prosecn'or to take action, and the array
of
o overwhelming that he entered the arrest of ovidence laid before that official seemed to be Countess Isabella and her husband, as well as of the Polish servants who were in attendance. upes her at the time of the alleged birth.
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The trial of Count Ignsz.and Countess Is bella Kwilecki, szd of their threa servants, took SCOTCH WHISKY. duce in Berlin in 1903, and ended in the aequit tal of all the prison
Whos we turn to the Native States, the re- sponsibility becomes erou more marked. Com paratirely few Native States are concerned, 1ut the value of tlioir exports of opium has in the post exceeded £5,000,000 annually. They claim that they were exporting opinn to China possibly in limited quantities-whes Vasco da
anchored
off Calient What is nu questionable is flat the East India Company entered into competition with them, practically forced a large extension of poppy caltitation in Bengal, and eventually levied heary impost upon the opium produced in the Native States,
The action was first heard in the Civil thereby endersing the contignause of the trade. The States were not consulted when the present
Court at Posen, and the counsel who appeared Agre menta were entered into. We decided to on behalf of Hittle Count Joseph Kwilecki
Count Heator Kelleoki persanded Cecilia Mayer, the alleged rightfel mother of the boy, to bring an action in the civil court for the recovery of the child Coast Hector Kwilecki made no secret of the fact that he supplied her action. with the necessary money to pay the costs of this
asking their consent Some of the States are she would naturally desire to see him hair to extinguish their revenue from opium withouted that Creille Mayer could not possibly In the mother of the boy, because if she wore, not only opposed to the extinction of the China tude, but have formally protested against it magnificent estates, living in comfort and with the utmost vigour. More than one of the luxury among the great ones of the land, instead smaller territories will be rendered, almost of ende rouring to drag him down from his bankrapt by the new policy. Eron so pros. high position sud redace him to beggary in
perous в Siate as Gwalior will be seriously peasant's hut. ZAST APPEAL.
embarrassed. Land untor poppy pradaces revenue to the Native States
vastly more
they
The Posen Court gavo judgment against
than land under other crops. The princes Cecilia Mayer, but Count Heator Kwilecki concerned are asking for compensation, although succeeded in aceamulating now evidence, and declare that it will be almost impossible another trial took place before the Civil Court adequately to compensato the large numbers at Breslau. There again, judgment was given of cultivatars who will be sorely affected by
theainst Cecilia Mayer, but Count Hector change. Their claim is undeniably justified. Kwilecki apposled against this decision.
Is British India to be called upon to com
The High Court st Posen, sitting on Decem pensate them, in addition to the heavy decisions, and adjudged the boy known as Count bar 20, 1909, over-ruled all previous judicial lower she is already destined to sustain, or will Great Britain take upon herself part of Joseph Kwilecki, the only son and heir of Coust the cost of her somewhat belated recognition Ignaz Kwileeki, to be in reality the son of the of a great moral issue! We compensate Galician peasant woman, Cecilia Mayer.
the owner of inns when their licences are GX- At the same time, the courtisaned tinguished. We paid the erst of freeing the judicial order directing Count Ignaz Kwi- slaves in the West Indies. As onerously Mager. This step, however, was at Keilorki
·lecki to
hand over the boy to Caoilia princes and chiefs of India lesa generously owing to the fact that Cout
ATS WE bear no share of the burden which
And are
to
will fall upon British India until the inevitable immediately gave notice of uppehual at!
Seven judges of the exprems Leipzig heard the appeal. They did not order
a new trial, but simply cancelled the ruling of the High Court at Foren. The decision of the
Apancial strees is ened? We trust that in the satisfaction likely to be produced by the new Peking Agreement these important considera- tions will not be overlooked. The general ten- dency has been to look at the opium question Supreme Court is absolutely final, so that from a limited point of view, without regard to embely comblighed.
as the real Count Kwilecki is all the responsibilities it implies. Even to day, definitely
pium
England
while we denounce the iniquities of the Indian Count Ignez Kw lecki, Joseph's aged father, large alle, we pay far too little beed to the was the only member of the family protest when
morphino from
to the judgment was delivered. He was deeply affected. the illicit docaine traffic from the The overwhelming sorrow at the decision of to Indian and Chinees porte, which the High Court at Fosen in depriving her of is working such deady havoc. If we are in the boy, and indirectly of adjudging her earnest about the extinction of the trium ade, original, led to the death of Conntess Isabella we should see to it that our sacrifices are not Kvilecki in February 1910 at the 480
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