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ruination to China's principal industry TELEGRAMS. TELEGRAMS.
Silk. In the raising of gilkworms and the spinning and wearing of the beautiful silks for which China has long been famous millions of popis find daily employment, and though it is well that a note of warning
WATSON should be sounded so that the people of
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China may be awakened to the important economic aspects of the change, we doubt vory much whether the silk industry is really as seriously threatened by this NE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS, cause as it is by another to which we shall presently allude. We notice that one of the Chinese papers published in Peking, while advocating a change in the
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ST. MARCEAUX & Co. there is an increasing demand for silks in
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the West, and if the Chinese people are to be in the fashion" they must not show any marked preference for woollon clothes. All through the article the writer presses upon his readers the economic aspect of the
change, but it seems to us that the argu
ment would be strengthened by an appeal to considerations of comfort. The salvation of the silk industry is the climate of China. S2. MARCEAUX & Co. In the Northus wel as in the South, the great
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etc., oto,
bant of the summor will be found to
make silk, for the wall-to-do Chinese, "the only wear." We doubt very much whether a change of costume will be very sudden or very general in China, and if it prove detrimental to the silk industry at all the effects will be so gradual as to avoid any serious industrial crisis, since ample time will be afforded for a gradual
C. DAILY
A HISTORIC CEREMONY:
(BY LIL BOON-KENG IN THE
["DAILY PRESS EXCLATE SERVICE]
THE KOREAN PLOT.
THROUGH BRUTER'S AGENCY.]
THE INSURANCE ACT.
NEWS.
NANKING, Feb. 15.
TOKYO, February 2208. The 'campaign against the Koreans who were charged with plotting against the life of Governor-General Terauchi has culminated in the arrest of an American missionary who is Principal of a school in North Korea. Other arrests are expected.
(THROUGH LAUTAR'S AGEKOS.)
ANGLO-GERMAN RELATIONS.
PROSPECTIVE
POLITICAL AGREEMENT.
LONDON, February 22nd. An Employers' Parliamentary Association Charles Macara as president to secure the has been formed in Manchester with Sir
postponement and amendment of the Insur.
free people has vindicated our national prestige and plaúted anew the spirit of great nation, sustained by the glory and heroism of a great past. Thus all-at once the glorious traditions of our race become Inspiring sentiments, and by, the adoption of
To-day a most interesting and historic as old as the antiquity of our event, crowning the struggles of the revolution, the new Republic will be no infant tion, took place at the Ming Tomb, situated on the nations of today, but will take not far from the north-east wall of the city pristine vigour and excellence of one of the her place in due time, as the restoration in
in the national fashion to the founder of the of Nanking. The President of the Chinese widest civilizations of mankind. Republic repaired thither to offer sacrifices Ming dynasty and to dedare to the spirits of the departed ancestors of the Chinese nn- tion the establishment of a free republic and The British Medical Association, after a the annihilation of the power and prestige
ance Act.
fourteen hours' conference on the Insumuce Act yesterday, adjourned. It is understood
that they have decided not to refuse to
treat with the Insurance Commissioner while adhering to their demands for adequate remuneration.
BYE-ELECTION AT MANCHESTER.
bold.
LONDON, February 22nd.⠀ A bye-election is rendered necessary at LONDON, February 22nd.
Manchester. owing to the appointment of Router's correspondent at Berlin states Sir Arthur Haworth as Junior Lord of the that the Lokal Asseiger, which is frequently Treasury, as successor to Mr. Guest, who inspired, announces that the Anglo-Gerinan has been appointed Treasurer to the House negotiations are taking a thoroughly satin- | factory course, and that the world has best BIG COTTON FIRE IN NEW YORK ground for looking to the future with full confidenca regarding the maintenance of peace. A kind of protocol is being clabor. ated in London, in which the views and tandpoints of the two Governments on all
CHAMPAGNE re-adjustment of the labour market great questions are laid down in order that
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24 Pta. $53.20 855:20 HEIDSTECK MONOPOLE (GOLE FOIL)
Per Case:
13 Qta. 24 Pts. $61.20 $54,20 HIS MAJESTY THE EMPEROR OF GERMANY
As applied
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to the changing circumstances. There woubl be no need to feel alarmed about the future of the silk industry in China if greater care were exercised over its pro- duction, and if those engaged in the indus-ment on all possible points of conflict. try were to improve upon their present primitive methods. Tu every Consular
ovary conflict of interest may in future be discussed and avoided. It constitutes not au entente but a completa political agree-
LATER. Reuter's correspondent at Berlin tole- report from the silk centres there is graphs that a semi-official Note has been complaint on these points. From the issued to the effect that the statements in Iatest Report of the British Consul at Can.
tou we may quoto the following:-"Before the Lokal Anzeiger are purely conjectural and any real improvement can be brought about are therefore likely to raise false hopes order principally to bring the filatures up a large expenditure of money, is required, in aud unfounded apprehensions.
to date; but the natives maintain that there
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is no necessity for this so long as they can easily dispose of all production, and they THE CONFERENCE AT THE FOREIGN OFFICE, KUPFERBERG distrust the opinion that, by bringing their
GOLD
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Per Case 333.40
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flatures up-to-date the additional cost would be compensated for by more silk baing obtained from the cocoons and therefore
less refuse (waste), and that by improving the quality better prices would follow, The
A. S. WATSON & CO., | fact of the matter is that the industry is in
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the hands of people with restricted capital, who cannot afford to launch out into heavy expenses, and owing to the careless and costly working of the filatures heavy losses have been sustained in previous years to such an extent as to frighten capital away If the industry were put on a proper business footing and admitted "foreign management aid foreign capital, success would be assured; but it is feared that a long while will elapse before these advantages can be instilled into the native. We commend this extract to the notice of the Chinese Press, which is concerned about the future of the industry. If the demand for silk in China should full off, the export would certainly increase if the producers would endeavour to meet the requirements of buyers.
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Loxpox, February 22nd.
Conforence Mr. Asquith will be accompanied It is officially announced that at this Coal
by Sir Edward Grey, Mr. Lloyd George, Bir Llewellyn Smith, and Sir George Askwith.
The coal-owners, and miners this afternoon accepted the Premior's invitation.
is that the English owners have conceded The most important point in the situation the principle of a minimum wage, although there is still disagreement as tia number of technical details. This is regarded undoubtedly as a success for the men. It is expected to greatly influence the situations in Wales and Scotland.
The International Minors Pedoration has mat in London and discussed sympathetic action.
LATER.
Mr. Hartshorn, the leader of the Welsh miners, in a speech at Maesteg, predicted that March lat would begin, the new epoch, as the day when a million workers would rattle their chaine together and declare that The German mail of the 24th Jamiary was they would no longer be slaves. delivered in London on the 21st inst..
The Japanese battleship Kawachi, 20,80cutives were of the unanimous opinion that tons, just comploted at Yokosuka, has now nothing could be gained by Government
intervention.
been commissioned.
Yesterday the war.ships in the harbour were decorated with bunting in honour of Washington's Birthday,
The Band of S.M.S. Scharnhorst is an- nounced to play during and after dinner to- morrow night at the Grand Hotel.
LONDON, February 22nd, Reuter's New York correspondent tele $2,000,000, vers destroyed by are at Hous- graplis that 45,000 bales of cotton, valued at
on, twenty-five blocks of buildings being domolished.
M.C.C. IN ARGENTİNE..
LONDON, February 22nd. Argentine in their first innings compiled 209 and in tho second 136 for 6 wickets,
The Marylebone team in the second innings made a total of 157.
OBITUARY,
Lownor, February 22nd. The death is announced of Canon Sir James Erasmus Phillips, father of Owen Phillips and other distinguished sons.
THF TOKYO LOAN.
largely over-subscribed, at a premium of one
LONDON, February 22nd; The Faris portion of the Tokyo loan is and a quarter per cent. The London and New York portions wors issued to-day, the former at 98 per cent. and the latter at 97 per
cent.
AUSTRIAN POLITICS.
LONDON, February 22nd,
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of the national enemy.
START OF THE PROCESSION. The morning was cold and misty, but the
STORY OF A GLASS OF MILK.
COLLARS, PAVING-STONES, AND EXPLOSIVES FROM THE Cow. Discussing "The Story of a Glass of Milk" recently at the London County Council
vicinity of the President's residence was early Technical Institute in Vincent Square, West- stir with the movements of troops and minster, Mr. W. J. Melhuish, lecturer in Residency was decorated with flags of all milk one cascin-was used not only for. crowds of people. from all quarters. The dietetics, said that of the two proteids in nations, in the midst of which were the rain-cheese-making, but for synthetic celluloid for bow-coloured flags of the Republie. Troops coitars and brush "backs. It might be made from every province were represented. They so hard that it could be used for paving lined the route and massed in great strength stones and for sculpture, in front of the tombs, The Presidential party, consisting of his bodyguard and the Minister of War and his staff, rode out amidst the strains of national music by the army band. The cavalcade passed through historic scenes the old Tartar city, the an- berated to the sounds of the martial music, and the shouts of the people. cient Ming Palace, whose grim walls rever
Lactose milk sugar could be made into a very powerful explosive in combination with nitric acid,
germicidal, but very soon the germs began Milk in its early states was slightly to grow in aemarkable, way; and at first appalling A grain had been known to con..... the amount of bacteria in butter was almost
The monoliths that have stood silent sen- millions decreased to twenty-six millions tain fifty millions, but in one day the fifty tinels for so many centuries seemed to ac- The numbers afterwards rapidly declined quire new significance. As the troops, Ia Holland, added the lecturer, they were and the President's party, marched past these living in hopes of the day when they would monuments and the figures of ancient war be able to make every kind of cheese they riors, one felt what feelings of joy, enthu-liked, green, ripe, "walking or talking, siasm, and triumph must have filled the as- just by dropping into it the right kind of sembled people.
As the Presidential party bacteria,
in successioft and the wave of the sounds poses such as mixing with paint, though in approached the Tombs the orders of the off- The wher which was left over front cheese- produced by the movements of the troops in this country it was often given to pigs as a rers were passeft from company to company making was valuable for commercial purs coming to a general salute, had a most im-waste product. As to the mineral ash in pressive effect. From the hillside the wave-milk, he was hoping to realise his ambition like rise and fall of the long line of bayonets, of utilising it as nianure. the rows of soldiers, in all colours, the num erous flags and banners, the gathering with glad faces, all formed a group worthy of the, occasion and indeed enough to wake up the great warrior founder of the Mings.
UPON THE TOM
KING GEORGE AS AN ORATOR.
A FRENCH APPRECIATION. The elements themselves seemed to have caught up the spirit of the great concourses an Orator," M. Jacques Bardoux, who Writing in the Opinion on King George The heavy clouds passed away, and the sun after studying his Majesty's printed speeches shom brightly upon the President na he rode confesses himself disappointed to find in them up to the great portals of the historic tombs. no harmonious periods or lyrical flights-a True to the profession be had made to the characteristically French criticism which nation he also exemplified, by proceeding 10 every Englishman who has heard his perform a national ceremony of the utmost Majesty speak will construe as a high com- historic importance, the great virtues of our pliment-pays a tribute to the King's Indian and of whose wisdom our national poets and tributed to strike the imaginations and to. sage emperors of whom Confucius taught speeches, which, he says, have certainly con- Historians have lavished their praises in suc- stir the senses of his Majesty's Oriental sub- cessive ages. Almost pale with emotion, the jeets, King George, he thinks, was never President Jooked as if the historic associa- more happily inspired, and spoke to his tions overwhelmed him. Silent, serious and Indian subjects in sincere and moving statesmanlike befitting the occasion, he accents. The writer cites severni notable dismounted after entering the great courtyard passages in these speeches and describes how
in the mausoleum Passing through the themselves at his feet in and proceeded, amidst music, the plaudits the Bengal students, thirsting for Western works, to mount the steps to the first pavilion peets held out to them by his Majesty, threw of the people and the detonations of Bre-science, in response to the educational pros- building the party moved to the second pavi homage.
adoration and lion, where a short rest was taken; then the different means and different qualities, King The article concludes:" With the long paved path to the tomb was travers in the near future in Paris, the diplomatic steps on the other side were descended and Geoge V. wins to-day in India, and will win ed; the tunnel under the main wall on which successes of Edward VII." the chief buildings of the unausokum stood was passed, and the top, where stand the sacrificial altars, was reached by a stope up the side.
TO THE DEPARTED KINGS, From the verandah, which was lined with!
LAUNCH OF A NEW NY.K. STEAMER
for Finance, and Governor of the Austro walls, the Purple Hill, the water courses, Japan's premier steamship company, the Nip- Dr. Billinski, formerly Austrian Minister, troops, the whole city with its awe-inspiring Dockyard and Engine Werke, Nagasaki, for The long list of ships built at the Mitsu Bishi Hungarian Bank, has been appointed and the distant mountains could be surveyed por Xusen Kaisbe, has been longthened by the Minister for Finance for Austro-Hungary, party came to the now roofless central court:
at a glance, Entering the archway, the anoressful launch of the Tokohama aru, replacing Baron Burian, who has resigned. At the far end, facing the entrance,
The Fokahanus Mart, says the Nagasaki suspended a life-size, ancient but splendid built at the Dockyard. She is to be employed was. Press, is the first of a new type of vessel to be water-colour painting of the Emperor Chu on the service between Hongkong and Seattle THE IMPENDING DEPARTURE OF dynasty, immediately in front stood a large freight, although she will have some excellent Hung-wu, the founder of the great Afing and is designed mainly for the conveyance of H.E THE GOVERNOR.
Imperial tablet bearing letters in gold: "The passenger accommodation. The keel was laid throne of his Imperial Majesty, great founder down on April 1, 1911, and the vessel is to be ancient ceremonial for offering sacrifices to deck, and her dimensions are as follows:- of the Ming Dynasty." On the table were transferred to the owners in May of spread the historic articles sanctioned by She is a steel, twin-sorow steamer, with shelter this year. the departed Kings, Two large red candles were burning brilliantly, and
Length over all
415.6 feat. an incense burner in the centre sent forth wreaths of
between perpendiculars 400 Depth... aromatic smoke.
30 Tonnage, gross... The President, surrounded by his staff,
6,200 tons.
the tablet.
Engines are to bo triple-expansion recipro and many friends, Chinese and foreign, faced caring, capable of driving the ship at a spood of
The Master of Ceremonies 15 knots an hour, and she will have four cylin Republic had come to present his respects to Government requirements and under the super- announced that the President of the Chinese drical boilers. She has been built to Japanese the great founder of the Chinese dynasty vision of Lloyde' Sarve, ors, and will be classed destroyed,
100 A1 at Lloyds.
Governor intends to leave the Colony with We understand that His Excellency the
Lady Lugird on the 16th March. Au Address will be presented to him by the community, the following gentlemen Laving undertaken to prepare the Address:-
Mr. Hartshorn added that the miners exe. A. Hewett, C.M.G., Hon. Mr. E. Osborns, Hon. Bir Paul Chater, Et. G.M.G., Hou, Mr. Hon. Dr. Ho Ksi, C.M.G., Hon. Mr. Wai Yuk, C.M.G., Hon. Mr. H. E. Pollock, Hon. Mr.C. H.
C. M. Ede, G. T. Edkins, C. 8. Gabbay, T. F. Ross, Messrs. J. W. C. Bonnar, C. W. Dickson,
Hough, F. C. MacDonald, G. H. Medhurst, E. Shellim, N. J. Stabb, M. Stewart, and C.
The Archbishop of Canterbury has issued HONGKONG, FEBRUARY ZIRD, 1912,
a prayer during the present crisis. Few of our readers can have failed to re-
COAL FOR THE ADMIRALTY. mark the appeal which is being made by Chinese shops to the native populace for a
LONDON, February 22nd. change of fashion in dress. During, the past few months in every coast port, at
. In addition to largo purchases of American least, hundreds of Chineso have garbed home via Sileria, on leave, proceeds to balance of the coal from Wolah collieries Mr. A. Shelton Hooper, who is travelling coal the Admiralty has arranged for the themselves in Western style. The discard- Japan, en route.for Vladivostock by the ing of the queue was first followed by Empress of Japan sailing at daylight to-duckyards. The Admiralty has also
on the Admiralty list to be sent to biome the casting aside of the old style of round morrow,
tered steamers, to lead immediate'y cap with the button on the top, and in its place we have seen the streets
ENGLISHMAN WEDS INDIAN peopled with crowds of men wearing the
PRINCESS, Western cloth cap and felt hat in an infinite Variety of shapes and shades of colour.
Princess Fretiva, sister of the Maharajah
LONDON, February 22nd. The cap is proving in large numbers of cases but ar jatroduction to an entire change
Englishman named Lionel Mander, nephew of dress. By the Chinese it seems to
of Sir Charles T. Mauder, who was at one be regarded as inevitablo" that a change the most popular of captains. of the national costume should follow
time Mayor of Wolverhampton.
Tomes,
SUCCESSFUL MOTOR BOAT TRIALS.
hai liner Kasuga Maru, is resigning this Captain R. Swain, of the N.Y.K. Shang month and with Mrs. Swain will leave for home by the Mishima Maru which leaves Yokchama on the 18th proximo. Captain Swain entered the Nippon Yusen Kajsha in of Cooch Behar, was married in Calcutta to anally designed to withstand rough seas and hard
1885, and commanded transports during the wars with China and Russia. He is one of
cauction for
The cabin accommodation is sufficient for 28 first-class passengers, all berthed amidships. "ge passengers. There will also be accommodation for 216 stear-
BRACELETS AS LOVE TOKENS..
THE CURSE REMOVET), The President and alt present uncovered, tablet. Then a secretary read the President's and made three profound bows before the announcement to the spirit of the great Chinese hero.
This over, the President taned about and made a spirited address to the asscnibly. He was speechless with
successful trials, when the two iactor boats the crarse of Manchu domization was
a minute, Then he briefly One could wish, says a writer in a London On Thursday last took place a series of highly again recovered her freedom, and now that detailed description of those golden bracelets decisted how, after 266 years, the nation had journal, that Livy had entered into a more
char-Government ran their official trials over the could pursue unhampered their rightful been considerably massive, for when they repaid built by W. S. Bailay & Co., Ltd., for the U.S. removed, the free peoples of a united republic oftadel into their hands. They, too, must have worn by the Sabine soldiers, and which tempted
measured mile course in Kowloon Bay. These and free China must enjoy glory and pros head, their weight was sufficient to crash the aspirations. He prophesied that a united the treason by hurling the ornaments at hor ressole are each 70 ft in length by 15 ft perity. beam, and are fitted with mast, boom, mud winch, Three cheers for the President were called
traitress to death. with the necary gear, for towing and sub for and the appeal
During the fifteenth sud sixteeth centuries responded to bracelets were worn in Europe by both sexes, built of teak and Manila hard woods, and speut troops, to mingle with the hoorning of dis with rubies and diamonds, and in the clasp was marine eable work in the open ses of the Phi vigorously. The cheering was taken up and largely used as love tokana. A notable lippine Coast. The boats are very strongly carried miles away by the thousands of by the Earl of Leicester. It was of gold, set successively by the crowds below and then bracelet was that presented to Queen Elizabeth tant guns. Then quietly the party returned a small watch, adorned on the cone with unge. The motor engines, each of 100 horse and, after a short rest, left the tombs in the lozengs diamond. power, are of the Speedway six cylinder type, reverse order.
Jarge
using petrol as fuel, and upon the trials
The most famous bracelet of modern daya is, no doubt, one in the possession of the Shah of
contract called for a speed of 8 knots upon eix
Altogether the ceremony was well con- of Persis. It formerly belonged to the Emperor worked perfectly both in steady running and ceived and successfully carried out. From a of Chins, and contains the famous stone knows whon reversing or manwarring. The builders historic and national point of view, it is as the "Sea of Light," continuous measured mile runs at load desft, coping stone to the great work to which
a diamond of dazzling.
and these conditions were amply fulfilled, the of his life and for the completion of which the masking of it than is the case at presort.
worth more than ten victories and puts the brilliance and great size.
the whole Chinese people of 400,000,000 have Modern dress, with its elbow sleeve for day President Sun Yat-sen devoted the best part which it was once held, greater art must go to If the bracelet is over to gain the favour in
and 10 kucts when light. No trouble of any patiently prayed, secretly laboured and finally wear, adapts itself admirably to the display kind was experienced with the motors, and a accomplished. The event will stir up the of the bracelet, and there is therefore every atiff North East breeze and lumpy ass proved noblest sentiments of the nation and will
reason why it should again. become a popular. tha vorgols good ass boats Mr. John Bos Brove that we Chinese are as proud-of-bur bracelet with jewelled clasp, so much in vogdo form of o ornament. Even the black velvet past traditions as ever, albeit we are anxious Saperlatending Engineer of the Quarter to learn everything that is new. Were it in the Victorian era, is preferable to the of Messrs Carmichael & Clarke, watched the have risen to greet us today. By one act of the symbolical in its nature, Much might master's Department, Manils, and Mr. Thomson, possible, the spirits of our ancesors would machine-made prodhot of today, while the the vessels ware under the command of Capt. Manchu usurpers, the President of the in this direction among the pupils of schools of trials on behalf of the U. S. Government, and simple homage to a great national hero, be done by individual bandiorafts
plaited hair ornament at least has something of whose house was cruelly destroyed by the sad by stimulating originality of design Chinese Republic as the representative of art.
the cutting of the queue. It must be at Government House to-night, in honour of picturesque by the presence of so many
His Excellency gives an Official Dinner
The wedding, which was rendered most admitted that the style of clothing in H.E. Vice-Admiral von Krosigk, to which Indian costumes, was conducted according vogue in the West though by no means the following have been invited-Captain to the Brahmosamaj rites. Lord and Lady so picturesque, has certain advantages over Rosing, Captain Tiesmeyer, Mr. Klasing, Hardinge, Prince and Princess William of average speed attained being 94 knots loaded that which for untold centuries has been Captain Luppe, Mr. Claud Severn, Mr. Sweden, and other promicant people were the vogue in the East, but the preference Clementi, Mr. and Mrs. Pollock, Mr. and present. for Western attire is not dictated so much Mrs. Ross, Miss Bernard, Mr. and Mrs. by considerations of comfort as by the spirit Gresson, Mr. Landale Captain Cayles.
THE NAVAL PRIZE BILL of revolt against everything associated Commodore and Miss M. Eyres, General and with Old China." In many parts of the Mrs Heath, Mrs. Wood, General and Mrs.
LORDON, February 22nd- country the change which is taking place is Anderson, Captain Simonds, Colonel and
At question time in the House of Com- viewed with considerable uneasiness, not Mrs. Irwin, Dr. and Mrs. Stedman, Mr., Government would re-introduce the Naval mons Mr. Acland announced that the to say alarm, for a general charge in Mrs, and Miss Ede, Dr. and Mrs. Voretzsch Prize Bill this session. this respect is regarded as involving and Mr. S. Imai
James, B. Wood,
THE COPING STONE.
inga,