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HOE AND CHINA AFFAIRS.
LONDON, March 19th. LABOUR UNREST,
THE HONGI ONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, APRIL 9TH, 1912.
THE FOUNDERING OF THE "OCEANA."
FURTHER DETAILS.
A. CHINESE JURY TRIAL.
A BENTENCE OF DEATH.
labricants in disaffected 'areas. A van places are being taken by returning load of bear must indeed be a provocative Irish-Americans, anxious to set up with temptation to a mob of striking miners their dollars as magnates on the "ould more or less out for a spree. Under-sod," or to participate in what they call
The accounts given in the London Late on Bunday night, March 31st, the writers take a very serious view of the the coming revival of Irish industries.
papers of the sinking of the P. and O. Chinese jury trial which was held at situation and are issuing their policies Among the latest announcements of steamer Occana furnish many details Nantao came to a conclusion, when the jury returned a verdict against the with the following clause--"Warranted those who are quitting the island are Lord supplementary to those telegraphed to us
prisoner of murdering one of the deceased. free of loss or damage caused by strikers, Barrymore, the Duke of Manchester, the at the time.
It may be remembered, saya the ... The way in which the disaster happen- locked out workmen, or persons taking Countess of Egmont and the Duke ofed remains anexplained, says the Daily Daily News, that the trial, which is the part in labour disturbances or riot or Westminster. But whatever may be the Mail. It was
a clear night and the first of its kind in the history of China, civil commotion."
anticipations of newcomers or desertors Occane was steaming at full speed. The was started over a week ago in the Chinese There were three Pisaqua seems to have struck twice, once Town Hall, Nantuo. there can be no doubt that to the on-
on the Ocenna's port bow and again fur-judges, Mesars. Ivan Chen, Alex. Ting ther aft. Passengers in the liner asleep and Ying Teai, and a jury of seven were below were awakened by the suddenempanelled. crash, followed by a loud, grinding noise. They rushed out of their cabins, not dar ing to do more than seize rugs or dressing gowns to put over their night clothes. The stewards were serving out lifebelts in the music-room. Everyone acted coolly and quietly, though at that monfent the pas plunge suddenly down beneath their feet, sengers were expecting to feel the ship as there were already two feet of water in the passages outside their cabins.
CHINA IN LONDON,
Unless the predictions of a good many who are considered qualified to judge, are falsified by the developments of the next few weeks we are a good deat nearer a real revolution of labour than most of us realise. There are bold sayings from ex- treme labour leaders as to accepting no legislation "unless it gives us complete This summer we are all to be invited That power," and so forth: there are rumours
to China--at the Crystal Palace. of an intention to put up a claim for ten
great exhibition place--recently saved to per cent increase of wages all round
the nation by the energy of Lord Ply after the minimum wage has been estab-mouth and his friends-is to offer a lished by law; there are mutterings of discontent among industries held up by the cool strike-and last but not least there are the workers who would be ready to resume work if only they were placed under protection, and these workers, I an assured by a colliery owner, number no less than forty-five per cont. The one hope for England, to avoid bloodshed and prolonged ruinery, is that the workers will tire of their syndicalist leaders of the Tom Mann and Ben Tillett type-as
"a comprehensive and extensive idea of China as she is and should be known by the British people." The opening date is May 25th, so already the preparations are in full swing. There will be a Chinese village, and a Chinese theatre with Chinese players and all complete. Hundreds of natives are en route for the "native industries" section, and they will be accompanied by a native restaurant where we will be provided with chop
looker there will be plenty of fun in the
Emerald Isle when Home Rule comes in. An Irishman of experience told me to-day with sobe in his voice that he feared his country had no able men to start the government with. But they have some funny ones to make shift with. Take the case of the Dublin Corporation. A few years ago they used to allow the Lord Mayor a salary of £3,800 a year. Then when Alderman Farrell took the office two years ago he plainly told the citizens that he would accept a reduced salary of £1,000, but they must not expect the customary civic junketings at the Man sion House. The citizens blandly agreed.
LASCARS IN TEZBOR,
Hurrying up on deck, they found the ship settling fast by the head. The officers and the Englishmen of the crew were working smartly to get the boats away, but the situation-already, trying enough with the anxiety and the darkness, the
the workers of France have tired of their Buoys and all the paraphernalia of dishes But then came the coronation visit of the cold and the heaving seas-was made more Manns and. Tilletts-and will veer round such as are open to the frequenter of the King and Queen to Ireland and the do- unnerving by the howls of the lascars,who in charge of the volunteers, and Chao, the Chinatowns of the Pacific coast of termination of the Lord Mayor to receivehuddled themselves together with bowed
to the saner view that to injure one in- dustry is to injure all. Whether it works out that way or the more violent and prolonged way, the fact remains that one may predict with tolerable certainty that the workers of the country bave some bard times to go through before they emerge into smooth waters, out of which they were steered by the irresponsible revolutionists whose hand is on the trade union tiller to-day.
SIR CHARLĖS ELIOT.
America.
THE P. AND O. AND LASCARS.
The charge made against the Lascars aboard the wrecked P. and O. tiner Oceana in the Channel disaster the other day has revived the claim made by the
Sailors' and Firemen's Union that closer restrictions should be placed on the em- ployment of Asiatics on British ships. Hitherto, on criticisms of their cowardice being made in the House or before special committees on shipping, there have been I understand that Sir Charles Eliot, oficial and shipping witnesses to declare the Sheffield University Vice-Chancellor, that the Asiaties are better in discipline who is to take control of the Hongkong and sobriety than the whites. But even University, will leave for the East de the the P. and O., excellent as their record end of April, after he has had an opporis, have had more than one occasion when tunity of conferring with Sir Frederick the Lascars have been reported to have Lagard, on the arrival of your retiring carried fatalism so far as to be totally Governor on these shores. The North, useless for assisting the and in fact England generally, is serry Either they were sheer funks or else they to part with Sir Charles Eliot, who, has resigned themselves to fate and refused made a big place for himself as an educa tional expert as well as a pleasant writersidered the unalterable progress of events. He is credited with knowing twenty In this case they seem to have squatted three languages, but my mentory will not.
on the deck and howled to the great permit me to give a list of them. Any
distress of the women aboard the vessel. -way they ought to enable him to talk with most of the influential travellers who enter your port from time to time.
CHINESE STUDENTS ABROAD.
passengers:
them as head of the city, despite the hostility of the Nationalist Corporation. That started friction between Alderman Farrell and the Councillors that did not
He was suc lessen till his year was up ceeded by Councillor Sherlock, after whose advent a resolution was adopted abolishing the allowance altogether. The new man did not make a fuss about it, for it is said he was given the tip" that the resolution was only a strategic move, Alderman Farrell having developed the idea that he ought to have had £3,000 all along. First to the Finance Committee the Alderman announced his conviction that the resolutions reducing the allow ance had not been properly carried and therefore he was entitled to the full amount. They just laughed at him, so he sent in a demand for £2,000 odd as the
balance due to him. The City Law Agent advised against payment, so now to stir a finger to alter what they contion for the amount. I doubt if anything Alderman threatens to sus the Corpora-
more entertaining than that case could come even to the city of Dublin.
Neverthe-
In 1903 it will be remembered there was a departmental committee in Bersion under the presidency of Sir Francis Mention of this University item recalls Jeune. It took voluminous evidence, and in the end the report insisted very strong- to me that the Chinese Students' Society. of Cambridge have held high revelry toly on the advantages to be derived from celebrate the establishment of a Chinese the employment of Lascars. republic. A fancy dress bat was given at which they and their friends made Christ's terry with right good will. College leads the colleges of Cambridge in the number of Chinese students in residence, but there are also some at St. Jesus, Caius, Trinity Hall and Catherine's.
THE CHURCH IN CHINA.
less Mr. Havelock Wilson and his friends are preparing to take advantage of this latest opportunity to demand the em ployment of British sailors on British ships.
SALTING OF B.B. "OCEANA."
I understand that the Oceana lies in a' bad position for salvage work, owing to the deep water and the strong tides at the spot.
But fortunately most of the bullion nearly three-quarters of a million
heads, screaming with terror..
All the port side of the ship had been swept by the Plague's bowsprit, but as only forty passengers were on board-the rest intending to join at Marseilles-there was room for them all in the starboard boats.
The carpenter of the Oceana, named Tredigo, was lying in his cabin at the part of the ship where the Pigua struck. His right leg was crushed from foot to thigh was an hour before he could be set free by the splintered side of the vessel, and it He was afterwards taken to Eastbourne Hospital, where the crushed leg was ampu: tated.
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WHY THE BOAT CAPSIZED.
In
"The boat
cause of the capsizing of the lifeboat.
Varying explanations are given of the
the darkness, broken only by the flare of the distress signal lights, among the con fusion on deck and the screaming of the terrified lascara. it must have been diffi cult to see clearly what happened.
Lieutenant B. Hutchinson, of the East Yorkshire Regiment, who was one of the passengers on deck, says: sheered off before the blocks were cleared swamped." A potty officer of the ship, on It was dragged by the steamer and
the contrary, believed that the cause of the accident was that there was too much way on the steamer at the time the boat was launched. She was certainly free from the blocks when she was swamped," She was just leaving the he said. Oceant, and the sea was a bit choppy. They were a bit too quick in getting the boat launched If they had waited a bil longer it would have been all right.”
Another passenger, who was in the boat that picked up the lady survivor, saya! "A davit broke and the bont went end up, so that all the passengers were shot into the water," Miss Macfarlane, the lady who was found clinging to the keel, thinks that the boat was swamped by the
EDUCATION IN PERSIA. According to Mr. B. W. Stainton, who has just been locturing to the Central Asian Society in London, the movement towards liberty in Persia is as serious as that which has attained its first fruits in China. Not that Mr. Stainton is a blind admirer of the Persians. After thirty years spent among them he peppered his description of them freely with such words corrupt," "iramoral," "venal" and "dishonest." But notwithstanding that, he corroborated the statements of the out-and-out lovers of things Persian as to the intellectual and spiritual renais- sance of the people. The cry for educa-curred at all. tion in Persia is quite as real and wide- spread, he says, as it is in China and the other awakening eastern countries As usual there are clergy in the places of
as
are the Mahometans, who would close every modern school in Persin if they could.
seas,
Though ex-Bishop Moule of Mid-China has passed away, the name is still held by a living representative of the Anglo- sterling in all-is in bars and not minted the chief opponents of progress. They given by somebody who had no authority." Chinese Church, We have been remind--the gold in ten ounce bars packed in ed of that by the announcement that the Archbishop of Canterbury has conferred the Lambeth degree of D.D. upon the Ven. Arthur Evans Moule, B.D., lately Archdeacon in Mid-China, and now rector of Burwarton with Cleobury North, in the diocese of Hereford, on account of his eminence as a scholar, as a theo logian, and as a missionary to the Chi-
nese.
Most people had forgotten that this privilege still remains to the chair of St. Augustine. Dr. Temple invited -"literates"-to compete for the degree, and an examination for the degree under him meant a stiff ordeal. It was from "Archbishop Tait that Dr. Moule received
his B.D.
ANOTHER PARLIAMENTARY CANDIDATE FROM THE EAST.
The pilot of the Oceans, Mr. T. Penny, of Gravesend, said, when he arrived in London, that no loss of life need have oc- The ship was afloat for seven hours after the collision, and there Bae no necessity to lower the boats, in a hurry As far as I know, there never was any order from the bridge to lower the boats, and if there was it must have been The people in the second of the Oceana's boats raet the Eastbourne lifeboat and were taken on board and brought to East- bourne. The rest of the passengers and crew, 210 in all, were taken off the Ocean by the boats of the mail steamer Sunset, of the Dieppe-Newhaven service, which came up about 4:30 am. and stood by, three other passing together with
Leamers.
Captain Hide, with sixteen of his officers twin hopes of the Persian future, but no and men, and the pilot, however, stayed. man can predict what will really emerge
on board the Oceana, which was taken in tow by the tug Alert. from the chaos of conditions of the pre-Dover the Oceana began to settle down, On the way to
-sent, time.
and the captain and his men were taken on board the tug. The Oceana Bank at at 10 o'clock am reven miles from Dover, and lies in about 15 fathoms, with her quasts above water. There is £750,000 worth of specie among her cargo, mostly in bar gold.
cases and the silver in bars of about 120 pounds each-so the divers' work will be
Bat in spite of this opposition, easier than in dealing with loose coin the craving for education is growing As to the ship herself and the baggage steadily and the demand is being met in and cargo, very little is likely to be saved, increasing measure by missionary schools so most of the marine insurance com
and native schools. Self-government and panies will lose by the mysterious dis-education, in Mr. Stainton's view, are the aster.
MR. WINSTON CHURCHILL.
Mr. Winston Churchill continues to make the most of his ministerial career. He has sampled a good many positions now, and in all be has managed to emerge, with more kudos than his col leagues can clains after longer periods in their departments, The Churchill grip on matters naval has not altered this The general view in the lobby after his speech in introducing the naval estimates
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The East will shortly enter another
was in fact that he bad increased his re- competitor in the political field, for Sir putation. When I say that I do not mean John B. Matthews, K.C., from 1891 to
to give the impression that I am speak- 1900 a practising barrister of the Stratsing of the extreme Radical "little navy Settlements, will be the Liberal nominee men, who have been in doubt for some in South Wilts at the next election, weeks and now awake with a shock to against Mr. C Bathurst, the present find all their schemes for economy have Unionist member. In 1909 he was gone astray. But the moderate men on Attorney-General in the Straits, but both sides concede that Mr. Churchill has passed on to be Chief Justice of the made it clear we will keep our lead at sea Bahamas the following year That big and at the same time that we are ready interests are varied may be judged fron to treat with Germany as to a lighter his choice of clubs, which are set down naval cost in the future. The next step as the Reform, the Sports, and then with Germany. Lord Haldane is under- Colonial Institute. Next month he is to begin a sharp campaign in the division, and he will need it if he is to emerge with two more letters to his name.
LLOYDS AND STRIKES.
Such is the unrest here now and the prospects of danger to police and pro- perty at the hands of angry suffragettes and strikers that Lloyds' policies of in- surance are being issued to cover both. Local conditions affect the rates charged very materially. For instance, the rate ---of-insurance against looting and damage for a provision shop in London is five shillings per cent, but in South Wai it is five guineas. Not only have such policies been taken out, but some brewers have taken out policies to cover their vans and men while delivering throat
stood to have brought back from Berlin recently certain proposals for mutual de- clarations. It may be that the Churchill speech was part of the general trend to a better understanding, but, if so, it did got give anything away. That is a fact that commends itself even to his custom ary political opponents, and that is worth noting.
IRISH LANDLORDS.
It is remarkable just now how clearly Ireland is passing to a new set of land- lords. Part of this is due to the Land Purchase Acts, which enable tenants to purchase their holdings from the owners on ossy termo, and part is due to the withdrawal of the titled land owners from their Irish estates in view of the approach of Home Rule. To some extant their
APPEAL FOR MEDICAL MISSION FUNDS.
Several meetings have been held in London this week in aid of the North China and Shangtung Medical Mission. The last was in Chelsea, when the speakers were the Rev. F. W. Isaacs, Vicar of Chiswick and Commissary to the Bishop of Shangtung: Dr. Anderson Robertaon, medical secretary of the S.P.G.; and Mrs. Leonard Burrows. Dr Robertson made a special appeal on behalf of Ten Chow Fu in that diocese, and mentioned that as the shrine of Confucius was there hundreds of thou- sands, most of them sick and suffering, caine there every year in the belief that their great teacher would help them and they would die happy. That afforded a special opportunity for medical mission- aries to reach thousands of suffering Chi- nese with real help if the funds would permit.
OBITUARY.
The death has occurred at Pitlochry of Mr. Alexander Muirhead Aitken, for twenty years loading barrister at Singapore and also a member of the Legislative and Executive Councils. Mr. Aitken was in his ninetieth year. He was a noted shot and one of the best salmon fishers in Scotland.
HUANGPU CONSERVANCY.
SHANGHAI CHAMBER OF COMMERCE SOMEXE ACCEPTED.
It continued all Saturday, was resumed on Sunday morning, and the verdict and sentence were given about ten o'clock at night. The hearing on Sunday was prin- cipally occupied with the story of the defence, which was to the effect that in October last the two deceased, Tuan and without the knowledge of the magistrate Chow, proceeded to raise a volunteer corps of the district, the accused. The accused received information from the local gentry that these men contemplated releasing all the prisoners in the yamên and the looting of the shops in the vicinity. Believing such information he issued a warrant for the arrest of Yuan, and sent four runners to execute it. To this number, however, the gentry added another four, among the number being Yang, the military officer accused's deputy, Instead of arresting him, the men disembowelled Yuan and at the same time Chow, for whom there was no warrant, was shot, this being done without the knowledge of the accused.
Mr. Ting examined the accused for over an hour in addition to the examination of counsel for the defence and the cross- examination of counsel for the proseen- tion, and then counsel proceeded to address the jury. appeared for the accused, was in the While Mr. Tsao, who middle of his speech one of the audience shouted out that what he was saying was of no value, and Mr. Tsuo thereupon asked to be allowed to withdraw from the case. He was requested to continue, and about five o'clock Mr. Ting started to sum up to the jury, He put the following five questions
them:
L-Were the deceased killed in the affray with the volunteers at the temple
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2.-Were the deceased executed if so, by the order or direction of (a) the prisoner, (b) by Capt. Yang of the volunteer corps and Chao, the
prisoner's deputy, or (c) by the general accompanied Capt. Yang when going to order of eight or nine of the gentry who arrest Yang?
3.Was the murder the result of a joint. plot on the part of the local gentry in which the prisoner took a leading part 5
4.--Was the execution carried out on the bona fide belief on the prisoner's part that it was necessary for the peace and order of the district!
5-Did the prisoner patch up the matter
after the deceased bad been wrongfully
killed by someone?
6. Do you (the jury) believe the story of the prisoner, that at the time of the murder of the deceased he was sick?
THE VERDICT.
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The jury were almost two hours in con- sidering their verdict, during which time FINEST QUALITY there was tense excitement in the court room, hardly one of the spectators leaving. At the end of the time mentioned they returned with the following replies to the questions:-
1-Chow was killed in the affray, but Yuan was not,
2-No answer, being unable to find
anything from the evidence.
3--Yes.
4.It was not necessary to kill them to keep order. 5.-Yes.
6. We do not believe the story of the prisoner that he was sick at the time.
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Mr. Ting thereupon announced the sentence of the Court, saying, "We (the judges of the Court), in the name of the CLOCKS great Chinese Republic, do convict you, Yao Yung-tse, of the crime of murder and do sentence you to be capitally punished." By this time Mr. Tsao, counsel for the defence, had left the Court, and Mr. Ting
he could say anything he liked. explained to the prisoner that if he wished
The prisoner asked the Clerk of Court, Mr. Ou Yang-kong, to make an appeal for mercy on his behalf. Mr. Ting said that the sentence would not be carried out for three weeks, and if the jury so desired they could send a petition to the President of the Republic, asking for merey for the condemned man,
tangallant masts and yards carried away The Pingun, with her royal and royal and her forepeak full of water, drifted tion, asked the Court to announce that Mr. Lin, senior counsel for the prosecu- away after the collision, but she was pick all the witnesses and counsel in the case ect up by two tugs and brought into the should be protected, End that those wit
There was no naval harbour at Dover. loss of life aboard her.
GAMBLING IN OPTIONS.
INVESTIGATIONS INSTITUTED BY
PARLIAMENT.
nesses for the prosecution who had come from Sanyanghaien should receive their expenses. He pointed out that there had been an attempt to bush the case up, so he asked for a fine of Tls. 18,000 on those who had tried to compound it.
Mr. Ting announced that counsel and witnesses would receive protection, and in In the House of Commons on March 5the event of the President acceding to a Mr. Field asked whether the French
petition for mercy he would impose a fine Government has been forced to pass into law the new clauses of ite Finance Bill of Tls. 5,000, which the prisoner would have to pay. Of this Tls. 2,000 would go with respect to gambling operations in
to each of the deceased's families, and the "time bargains, options, and futures" on its Bourses; whether the Chinese and remaining Tis, 1,000 would go towards the He allowed the Sianoce Governments were also forced expenses of the trial. last autumn to take special actions with expenses of the witnesses, and in thanking the jury for their attendance exempted regard to gambling operations in order
them from service for five years. to protect their people from the corner- ing of foodstuffs; and whether official steps would be taken to procure full par
ticulars of these and other Governments' actions respecting gambling in futures and options, with a view of laying them upon the table of the House for the bene- fit of members.
P. & O. DELHI ABANDONED.
Salvage operations on the P. & O. liner Delhi have at length been abandoned. Mr. Asquith, in a printed reply, says: The vessel, which was wrecked near Cape I am aware that certain clauses of the Spartel last December, shortly afterwards Finance Bill referred to relate to time broke in two, and became a total loss, but bargains, but I have no official informasillion has been recovered, and an at- then the whole of the gold and silver tempt has been made to salve the cargo.. # comparatively Unfortunately only small quantity has been recovered, and now the salvors, the Nordischer Burgungs Verein, have notified that they have abandoned all operations, as the cargo is now under water and damaged to such an extent that the value will not cover the salvage expenses.
tion as to the nature of these clauses," The N.-C. Daily News understands that telegram was received from Peking at nor as to any action taken by the Chinese the close of last week stating that Yuan and Siamese Governments in relation to Shih-kai had approved of the Chamber of this question. I will make inquiries on Commerce scheme for the continuation of these points. Steps are already being the work of the conservancy of the taken, in accordance with the promise Huangpu, and that he had given orders: given to the hon, member, to obtain par that it was to be put into force for the ticulars of Government action on this time being.
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