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SWATOW NOTES,
[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT]
March 24th. THE SITUATION IN SWATÓW. Things have got a little easier here during the past week, and the recrudes- time cence of fighting, which at one
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HE HONGLONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27ru. 19)2.
PARIS LETTER.
STATE LOTTERY. France's last lottery has just taken
COMPANY MEETING.
INTIMATIONS
A meeting of the Sanitary Board was [SPROTALLY WRITING FOR TAR "HONOKONG place in the Paris Office of the Credit SHANGHAI AND HONGKEW WHARF JOHNSTONE'S
held yesterday afternoon. The President, Mr. ED. C. Wolfe, presided, and there were also present:-Hou, Mr. W. Chatham (Vice-President), Colonel Irwin, Dr. Clark (Medical Officer), Dr. Fitz
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PARIS, February 23
MINKES' STRIKE FENDING.
Next Friday, the first of March, will come much too quickly for thousands of
CO., LTD.
ANNUAL MEETING:
Foncier, with the result than 30,189 people have been made happy, and several thon- sands disappointed. The winning number wa 9,948 of Series 29, which won le otor lot, or 1,000,000 francs. The lucky winner
The annual meeting of shareholders of who bas eu suddenly become a millionaire this Company was held on the 20th residing at Boulevard Pereire,
seemed imminent, has not materialized:williams, Messrs. F. B. L. Bowley, Ng people in this country and elsewhere. It is an elderly gentleman of private means, instant at the offices of the general
of ammunition: thia does not look as
(Secretary).
- POKFULAM WATER SUPPLY.-
to strike and paralyse the whole industrial machinery. Will there be a grave, or strike, or not in France? Considering how much dearer as well as scarcer cont is in France, the people of this country, unlike those in Great Britain, are unable to lay in anything like large supplies. So far as France is concerned the strike has been voted in principle, though it must be admitted that the one ray of hope left for the French is the indecision on the part of French miners with regard to the date of striking. The miners of the Nord and the Pas-de-Calais-France principal coal regions have agreal to
SUICIDES FROM EIFFEL TOWER.
He was
The
M.P.
WHISKY.
It is understood that peace negotiations on Te, and Mr. Bowen-Rowlands in the day on which miners have decided
at lunch when he received news of his agents, Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd. There were present: Messrs. C. E. are now.. proceeding, and the Mr. Woo,
good fortune, and, leaving the unfinished who was to have come up from Canton
A letter was received from the Colonial
dejeuner, he immediately barred his doors tou (Chairman), E. G. Barrett, R. R Kinnear, A. M. Marshall and C.. W. to restore order with a strong hand, has Becretary, forwarding a copy of a minute
to all callers, ordering the concierge, or Wrightson, directors, J. J. Durse (800- not yet appeared, but is, presumably, by the First Assistant Director of Public
house porter, to inform them that he retary), J. R. Elias, R. H. Elias, P. H.
There waiting to see what the outcome of the forks, who stated that owing to the
had left town for the country.
Chambers, A. R. Wilson, D. Brand, A. L negotiations will be. At the same time, favourable conditions prevailing through
was one prize of 200,000 francs, one Anderson, Brodie A. Clarke and J. M. Lim Che Chen declares that he has no
the present dry season, the supply from
of 100,000 francs, and one of 50,000 Young intention of staying here, but is moving Pinewood Nullah, which was the intake
franes Twenty-five won 10,000 francs. The Secretary having read the notice on as soon as his preparations are com-referred to, had been discontinued. As
ench, 198 won 1,000 francs each, and 30,000 convening the meeting, the Chairman *plete. Mr. Gow, the Director of the it would not be possible to dispose of that
others won 50 francs each. Will the Gov said:--Gentleman. Before proceeding Swatow Waterworks, in treating with him, and as Lim must by now realize how source of supply during most of the dry
ernment change its mind, and sanction with the ordinary business of the meeting. I take this opportunity of recording how other lottery?
deeply we deplore the loss we have sus- impossible is his position here (none of season, works which were intended to remove all possible risk of contamination
The Eiffel Tower has of late become a tained through the death of Mr. Alexan his Hakka soldiers dare venture out by night), there is reason to hope that he and owing to the presence of Pinewood battery Gow will be able to agree on a price for were at present in course of construction. strike next. Friday, the 1st of March favourite building from which to commit der Macleod, who had so long been a990- The latest unfortunate person ciated with the Company and had slao No washing was allowed by the Military Other delegates are opposed to this parti-suicide. authorities, nor was there any trace of cular date. The miners are jealously to do this is Mdlle. Mathilde Faulian, been a director for many years. washing being done in the stream course. keeping their own counsel with regard to ed 20, whose father is a secretary of report and statement of accounts having The deposit of building rubbish was international negotiations, but it is the Chamber of Dépatés, and who mar been in your hands for some days, with tidied by the Military authorities, and thought that the French and Englished a daughter of the veteran pacifist M. your permission I will take them as read. only clean building rubbish was deposited minors have certainly come to an under. Frederic Fassy. The young lady had of It will be noticed that, as compared with occasionally. That could not be said to standing, though what that understand late been mach depressed by her grand the previous year, the balance of the After their victory over Chen Hong O's contaminate the supply. The Military ing is and how they propose to give effect father's illness, and the illness of one of Working Account shows a falling away of ber sisters, which played on her nerves to Tis. 78,881.01, and you will see that the to to it is their secret. The outlook is con-
such an extent that she threw herself from avilable balance at credit of Proft and Our argument is there is nothing troops, Lim's men proceeded to visit many authorities must have somewhere
seems by the second platform of the Eiffel Tower.
Loss Account, after deducting the interim of the prosperous places of business, on deposit such material. The existing railsidered alarming, and it
improbable that the English,
better than M.P the pretence of searching for concealed ings on the path.leading from Craig Ryrie means
>The proposal of the Mayor of Tours that dividend of Tis. 3 per share, only amounts arms, and loot them. As a protest and to the Peak Road had been filled in with French, Belgien, and German miners will precaution against this, the merchants of one inch barbed wire netting, and a gate finally go solid. We know there are such the people of France should be asked to so Tls. 48,760.98. The comparatively” nd- erected across the path. There was things as miracles, and if only such a subscribe one ou each to give aeroplanes verse result is partly accounted for by the fact that the steamers which discharged at the town have all closed their shops, and barhed wire fence on the west side of the terrible disaster, as a general coal strike, to the country, has met with a prompt our wherves did not bring to Shanghai business bas now been suspended for a path leading to the parade ground, from could be averted, it would indeed prove and encouraging response. Were the week, in spite of all that Lim and the the Peak Road, but there was no gate on miraculous. Such a strike could not pos-341,200 inhabitants of the Indre-et-Loire o large cargnes as those of 1910, but is Chamber of Commerce can do. There was that path. The railing near the Umbrellasibly last long in any case. With all due department-of which Tours is the capi- principally due to smaller receipts for
seat had been erected. The streara on the sympathy for international miners, letter to do this, it would be possible to storage, owing to the rapidity with which WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS, N.E. side of the parade ground bad been them wisely consider what they are
present two aeroplanes to the French goods on arrival went into consumption all the shops that remained closed; this trained, but not the stream running about to do, and the intense suffering they army. This alone shows what one depart. during the first nine and a half months of 38 AND 40, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL.
between the parade ground and Craig Ryrie.
his departure. Lim brought 200 more men in from Swabue on Friday, with 100 cases, though he were going to move on too. easily, but most likely he is simply trying to force up the price.
RUMOURS AND DISORDERS.
a persistent rumour at the beginning of the week that Lim was going to burn down
yarn was afterwards elaborated, and Lim was then accused of planning to reduce the whole town to, a heap of ashes. It would have been thought that so absurd a fiction would carry its own condemna tion with it, for even Lim would scarcely be so foolish as to destroy a town that may be worth $100,000 to him. However, it did gain some credence among the Chinese, and large numbers have left during the week, either for Hongkong or for the southern (Kakchich) side of the barbour. Certainly they have some
Mr. Bowley minuted that rubbish was still being deposited, and that some of it looked very unsavoury, and the path from the Peak Road to the parade ground was apparently used as a store for broken stone. The wire netting and the railing as now fixed did not comply with the Select Committee's recommendations, and did not, in his opinion, serve any useful purpose. He suggested that the Select
will inflict on their innocent fellow-crea- tures at such a time of the year.
AVIATION,.
ment can do by subscribing so modest a sum as one sou, one half-penny, or one cent, per head. The idea has been found excellent by the French Press, which has taken the matter up, and is sanguine of access. Are other countries prepared
to do the same?
молоссо.
the year.
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ground for aların, for Lim's men seem Committee might invite the Principal sects, it is incapable of causing the settlement of the weary Moroccan ques: Tis. 20,000 as provision against repairs WATCH MAKERS,
quite out of hand, and, though a holocaust of the town is not in the least probable, individual acts of looting are numerous, and only yesterday a shop was deliberately burnt down, for no better reason than that the corpse of one of the Hakka
· soldiers was found outside it,
There has been no further fighting here, but we experienced a noisy quarter of an hour on Wednesday night, and it seemed as though another battle was commencing. Heavy firing broke out at about 9:30 at the barracks of Lim's men, and continued for some considerable time, spreading along the road until-it-seeped as though an attempt was being made to expel the Hakkas Then it stopped as suddenly as it began, and the next day the explana- tion appeared. One of the men, coming back from a good dinner, had given the wrong pass-word at the barrack gate. The guard immediately fired; the other soldiers heard the shots, and, thinking they were being attacked, fired too. No one saw anything to aim at, but that did not trouble them, and they fired all Soldiers the more vigorously for it. stationed at other places round loosed off in the same wild way, and before word could be spread that it was all a mistake, a vast quantity of ammunition had been
PROTECTION OF HATS AND OWLS. French sportsmen have at last awakened to the monstrous and undeserved torture inflicted on exle and bats, and L'Union des Chasseurs. Francais have issued an energetic protest against the continua. tion of such barbarous practices. "The bat," they say, "is the most perfect type of the animal useful to agriculture. While it keeps up an active hunt for in- Military Medical Officer to make a joint slightest prejudice to farmers. There is, inspection and report to the Board whetherefore, some ground for astonishment at the numerous absurd prejudices which ther in their opinion the recommenda tions of the Committee had been ade- still exist regarding it in country places.
The Union des Chasseurs Francais de quately carried out.
serves to be warmly congratulated on its humanitarian campaign, which must help to destroy a widely disseminated and en- tirely mistaken idea as to the real mature and functions of our most familiar night birds. So great is the prejudice in France against bats and owls that in the less en. lightened parts of the country bats and owls are nailed alive to bam-doors! ft is these admirable collaborators of the peasant, these precious protectors of the harvest, that ignorance and cruelty con- The PRESIDENT-Is the Principal Medi- demn to the most horrible tortures, The cal Officer in favour of joining the combat, no less than the owl, is worthy of protection if only on the ground of the mittaet
services it readers to humanity. It lives exclusively on insects. There is no great ar enemy of the remorseless mosquito that roba us of sleep in the summer time. The mysterious animals with the leathery
Mr. BOWLEY-I should like to ask you, sir, whether you are agreeable to adopt ing the suggestion I have put forward that the Select Committee, invite the Principal Medical Officer to inspect the place in question and see whether their recommendations have been adequately carried out,
1
Your directors at one time hoped to maintain the dividend for the year at Tls. 7 per share, but in the cir cumstances of a decline in revenue they regret that they can only now recommend the payment of a final dividend of Tis. 3 per share, making The. 8 in all for 1911. In order to accomplish this it will be neces Everyone will be glad when the last sary to transfer to profit and loss account word has been said about Morocco. This from equalization of dividends account a will not be long, as the negotiations be. sum of Tls. 60,000, and as it is also pro tween France and Spain for the Ansi posed to transfer from the latter account tion are progressing favourably. Spanish for the current year, the equalization of opinion realises that the heavy conces dividends account will be reduced, if these sions made by France to Germany involve recommendations are approved of, to Tis the renunciation by Spain of some of the 20,000. Since the outbreak of the Revolu- rights originally secured to her, and tion, stocks uf cargo have gradually ac- though the actual scope of the Spanish, cumulated, and at the present time our sphere remains to be determined, it seems godowns are for the most part well filled, clear that Spain is not putting forward which will considerably help our storage. The practical account for this year. We continue to any impossible lemand. difficulties to be overcome are three in obtain a good share of the trade of the In the first place, what are te port, and I can only hope that the result number. be the relations between Spain and the of the present year's working may be more nominal Sovereign of Morocco As luvourable than its predecessor. If any French influence is to prevail at Fez, shareholder desires further information Spain naturally desires freedom of action with regard to the account, I shall be glad in her own sphere. The projected soluto furnish it to the best of my ability,
There were no questions, and the follow- tion is that the Spanish sphore shall be formed into & Viceroyalty, and that Spain ng resolutions were then put to the meet- Proposed by the Chairman and second- shall advise the Viceroy a reasonable aring and carried unanimously:- rangement. Next, with regard to the intended railway between Fez and ed by Mr. A. M. Marshal!: That the re- Tangier, is it to be a joint Franco-Spanish port and accounts, as presented, be undertaking, or divided into two parte,
Proposed by Mr. J. M. Young and under the separate control of France and- Spain respectively? A similar difficulty seconded by Mr. J. R. Elias: That for when it is seen flying from side to tome. In the latter case, the need for M. Marshall, C. W. Wrighton, and the The PRESIDENT As regards the second-side above our Leads its presence is a uniformity of administration is obvious, senior representative of Jardine, Mathe- matter raised by Mr. Bowley, I think a
sign of a fine day on the morrow. Poor, while it in most likely to be secured by son & Co., Ltd., he re-elected directors
the institution of a joint Franco-Spanish for the current year.
Proposed by, Mr. A. L. Anderson, and reminder by the Secretary to the Gov- misunderstood bat! It comes to tell us
Customs Board. Truc, a system of dual cf fair weather and rid as of our worst
seconded by Mr. B. A. Clarke: That crament will be sufficient, and I will re- port what the result of this reminder is, enemies, and mankind shows its gratitude control, even when definitely limited, has Messrs. G. R. Wingrove and H. W. G.
its drawbacks, but in view of the fact that Morocco has been treated as a single Hayter be re-elected auditors for the cur
rent year. entity in all the negotiations with the
Proposed by the Chairman, and seconded. For over a year a large and important various Powers not territorially interest-
That a final by Mr. A. M. Marshall: Government Commission in Paris based, it would seem that no other system is dividend of Tls. 3 per share be declarad been studying what reforms are necessary feasible.
for the year 191... in the regulations in force governing the
The PRESIDENT-You mean the commit- tee which originally made the investiga tion?
Mr. BOWLEY-Yes.
:
COLONEL IRWIN--Certainly.
The PRESIDENT The committee con sisted of Dr. Fitzwilliams, Dr. Clark, Hon. Mr. Hewett and myself.
adopted.
On the motion of Mr. Bow LEY, seconded squandered. Fortunately, no damage was by Mr. No HON T8z, the suggestion was wings is also a pleasant weather prophet, arises with regard to the collection of cus. Messrs. E. G. Barrett, H. R. Kinnear, A.
adopted as a motion
done, but incidents of this sort do not. tend to make Lim's men pleasant neigh- bours.
PIGHTING AT CHÀOCHÓW. The scattered remnants of Chen Hong O's men (he himself has not been found: it is said he has got away to Canton) tried to retrieve their laurels at Chaochow. There were none of Lim's troops there, that is, the question as to what action theby crucifying it! only the force of the Mr. Chang xiu Government propose to take with regard. originally set himself up in opposition to Mr. Clae in the early days of the Revalu- to the Bacteriologist's report.
This was all the business of public in tion. Chang himself is in Canton, and
when the struggle between Lijm and Chen portance. started, his men sat on the fence: they
BO
Fallières.
MEDICAL-COMMISSION...
THE TAXI-CAR. ÊTRIKE.
SINGING AND THE LUNGS.
The Chairman announced that dividend were going to act only in the interests ofA FIRE EXTINGUISHING SYSTEM. law and order, and would remain strictly
studies of those who wish to obtain the The taxi-cab strikers have lost all pub-warrants would be posted next day, and neutral. With Lim's victory, their doubts In the course of a letter addressed to State diploma of Doctor of Medicine. lie sympathy in consequence of their last the meeting then terminated. vanished, and they threw in their lot with Mr. William Rich, the Secretary of the The Commission, which has now drawn diabolical tactics. They swore revenge a him, but they have paid for it now. They Institute of London Underwriters, refer were taken quite, by surprise on Wednes- ring to the successful demonstration of up its report, included professors, hospital few weeks ago, and they are still bent day last, and utterly defeated, with, it is the fire indicating and extinguishing doctors, practitioners, scientists, and Déon it. Last Wednesday evening, some of said, 200 casualties. As they were poorly apparatus associated with that gentle putés. The decree embodying the reforms the ring-leaders hid seventeen infernal supplied with arms of a modern type, and man's name, says that the following com-
now awaits the signature of President machines in as many taxi-cabs; ten of It is well-known that singing, like whist-1 had practically no ammunition, their panies have expressed their willingness to defeat does not imply minch prowess on the make a return in the rates of premium on
The Minister of Education, them exploded in the small hours of yes-ling, is a fine exercise for the lungs, and Mdme. Jeane Jomelli advises those who part of Chen'e men.
the hulls of steamers efficiently fitted with who appointed the Commission, and is terday morning, in many cases setting far consumption to go in for singing for Since the fight at Chaochow, the tele the apparatus, provided that no claims for responsible for the changes in the reguin fire to the garage in which the cabs were this reason. At the same time, she, of graph line from there has been severed, fire are made during the currency of the
telegraphic communication from policy-British and Foreign, Commer- tions and supervision at the Universities, housed, and in every case setting fire to course, does not advance the claim that. Swatow in every direction is now cut off cial Union, the Marine Merchants, New as well as in the hospitals where students the cab in which the bombs had been singing alone will save anyone from or entirely, thua emphasizing once more the Zealand, Ocean Marine, Royal Exchange, are admitted, has made a provision in the placed.`
This is one way of celebrating cure consumption. Acquire the habit of primary requisite of any kind of singing, Swatow.Chaochow Railway, too, has been Thames and Mersey. The Rich Company
Three garages in different parts of this bad or good, proceeds Mdme: Jomelli, and destroyed, and will not be in working states that the builders of the Hamburg permanent Commission to ensure its suc-
the physical joy derived from it will never order again for many a long day Not America liner Imperator; of 60,000 tons, cess. The chief reforme, indicated in the city suffered from the outrage, while a only have the rails bsen removed, but the and of the new Cunard liner Aquitania, report mentioned above, are: (1) The police official nearly lost his life. The allow you to celagte into lazy breathing. certain physicians, and which are no sleepers even have been taken up and of at least equal size, have received orders length of medical studies will be increased bombs were little combinations of five The breathing exercises recommended by
to instal the apparatus in these vessels, while the system is alio to be fitted in the from four to five years; (2) The practical tubes containing explosive chemicals, monotonous in themselves, become much
Since this laat outrage, which has created
is attached to them. Furthermore, the On Monday evening, a party of men two Cunarders now building at Scotts work in physiology, physics, medicala panic in acis, tizens refuse to ride more pleasant when some artistic pleasure from H.M.S. Janus were returning to the
chemistry, bacteriology, and so forth will in the vehicles lest they get blown up. mere effort of singing compels the singer ship, but there was a heavy sea running, Fires in liners have been such prolife
to stand straight and to throw the chest- be really compulsory; (3) The attendance The strikers state that it was the owners. and as the boat got alongside, the ship cause of claims during the past few years,
-totally innocent. There is something cal habits of weak chested people. (which was then lying broadside on to the waves, in the act of swinging round says the Times, that underwriters may be at a hospital will extend during the whole who placed the bombs, and that they are out, a good corrective for the bad physi-
to give possible encourage to the food) rolled suddenly. The gangmont to systeins which prove their off to diminust the course; sed by clamor in theentially humorous in the oultion Finally the exhilaration of singing is to the part played by chance in that the taxi-cab owners should have not a negligible element as a mental ad way struck the side of the boat, which was ciency is extinguishing outbreaks in the
destroyed their own property for the sake juvant to the cure. If you doubt my state- the examinations, students will each have of discrediting the strikers. This is more ments go to the opera, turn your glasses overturned. Twelve of the men who were very early stages. It will be remembered in it got safely on board, but, in spite that reference was made to the severity a report hook, in which will be entered than one can swallow. The recent tactics on every singer, man or woman, and see of everything that could be done, no trace of recent fires in the annual report, issued the marks they secured in practical work, of the strikers clearly show that they alone what a wonderful chest development they of the thirteenth could be discovered last month, of the Committee of the Liver clinical experiments, and at preliminary must be held responsible for the placing have attained. Fersonally, I have never
of the bombs, and its resulta.
beard of a singer becoming consumptive:"" The body has not yet been found. The sad "pool Underwriters' Association.
examinations. incident has evoked much sympathy here.
crying need here for a reliable cable. The South British, Standard Marine, and decree that he is at liberty to appoint a the 100th day of the taxi-cab strike.taking the big, deep breath, which is a
burnt.
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