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government, yet now they have ceased to be. H.M.8. Merlin leaven to-day for Labaan Before the revolution, the people had come on survey work share in the government of their country,t. but what share have they now, beyond the doubtful privilege of paying the expenses of
the numerous bodies of sci-disant soldiers of the revolution who overrun the land?
WATSON Their officials are appointed as arbitrarily as they ever were under the Manchu rale, and the limited powers of criticism that & CO., LTD.,
could then be wielded through the agency of the Censorate bave now vanished-the only effective criticism nowadays is by bomb. We do not in the least suppose that the WINE & SPIBIT MERCHANTS. Advisory Council intend to maintain inde-
ESTABLISHED A.D. 1841.
BRANDY
Our Brandies
The first meeting of the Gymkhana. Club takes place on Saturday next. The card
for the afternoon embraces six events.
A man named F. L. Picard was yester day committed for trial on a charge of forging a cheque for $120 on the Yoko hama Specie Bank, in the name of A Vernon of Macso.
Engineer-Commander
Highton, of H.3's Naval Yard, Hongkong, who leaves for home at an early date, is suc who arrived here on Sunday
THE BANDMANN OPERA CO,
The well-known musical comedy Floro- dots" was produced at the Theatre last The prodae- night before a full house.
tion was notable for the fact that it signsliced the return to the company of Mn Fred Coyne as stage manager, Mr. Coyne, who played the part of the wealthy American, was accorded a fine reception, and needless to say, his portrayal of the character was splendid. The characters in the play are too well-known to warrant a recapitulation; suffice it to say that all the principala and the chorus were well up in their work, and the piece went with a swing throughout. Miss Marjorie Ten-
TELEGRAMS. TELEGRAMS.
[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENOT.]
END OF THE COAL STRIKE,
LONDON, April 10th. The miners are returning to work in large numbers. Trade and industry are already being reawakened, and the
railway services are improving, strenuous efforts being made to get back to the normal.
Much suffering exists among the miners themselves in sonie districtą. For
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY:]"
THE FUTURE OF MONGOLIA.
A REFUSAL TO JOIN THE CHINÈSE' REPUBLIC.
finitely a military dictatorship, but neither ceeded by Engineer-Commander Roome, pest, se Dolores, Miss Violet Frampton, example, 8,000 in Cleveland are unable order to maintain the inviolability of
did the Committee of Union and Progress in Turkey intend at the beginning to carry on an arbitrary government in defiance of the Constitution. We would urge that President XUAN should, with as little delay as possible, sweep away all the temporary expedients of Advisory Council and Provisional Government, and let the people
GUARANTEED have the essentials of constitutional govern-
PURE
as Angela Gilfain, Mr. "Bobby" Roberts, Palmyra Island, in the Pacific, whereas Anthony Tweedlepunch, and Mr. the United States flag has been hoisted, Farmer as Frank Abercoed, were all well has long been abandoned by Britain, and suited to their parts. Mr. Acland for the Foreign Office in Par- liament recently. It was once sold for a dollar and is inhabited by crabs.
To-night, the company will stage the new and delightful musical comedy "The Kinga Bride."
BILLIARDS.
A man was charged at the Magistracy ment. The evolution of a final Constitution yesterday with selling kerosene oil with may be the work of years or even of out a licence. He was also charged generations, but the longer the time that with having failed to mark the oil as elapacs before the first step is inade, the dangerous. On the first charge he was first pair being Colour-Sergt. Rodgers, GRAPE harder that first step will become, and the fined $25, and on the second $10.
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to start work for a fortnight and are without funds.
The disputes in Durham and Yorkshire with the enginemen have been settled, and the men are resuming work immedi.
ately.
Eleven thousand miners were working in South Wales yesterday, and it is ex pected that 100,000 will be working in a week's time
Some trouble has arisen in Inacaskie owing to the attitude of the President of the County Federation, and thousands of
Advisory Council (acting, possibly, with 50 was picked up in the street in the making breaks of 14. (twice), 17 (twice), miners are refusing to return to wo
the best of motives) to follow the example of the Committee of Union and Progress. Per case Pe The Chinese race has, at no small cost and of 1d. Bot peril to itself, effected an unprecedented revolution, yet it now finds itself worse off $28.40 2.45 constitutionally than before. If the Manchu Emperor could entrust the people with alective powers of self-government, what excuse can the Republican authorities offer for withholding them any longer? It 31.40 2.70 cannot be objected that the state of the country does not warrant the grant of free government, in spite of the riots and mutinies that have broken out at various places, which are, after all, only a very small frie tion of the country. SHENG YUN's rising, too, can scarcely be taken as a serious objection, for circumstances show that it is 49.40 4.20 only a local movement, and one that will not spread beyond the Provinces of Shensi and Kansu. We would not be thought of as wishing to minimize the troubles that have occurred at Peking, at Canton, and at other places, but, in view of their isolated A. S. WATSON & CO% nature, we do not think they justify the
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Central district yesterday." Death was due to natural causes. The dead body of a child was picked up in Hunghom yester day. Death was due apparently to small pox.
The Great Raymond, who is giving per formances in Hongkong at the end of the month, is reported in Bangkok papers to have had a very satisfactory season in Bangkok. His gross takings are said to have been in the neighbourhood of Tes.. 32,000.
Woodleigh, Singapore, which have taken The now water works at Kalang and ten years to construct and which will guarantee to Singapore town a daily supply of nine million gallons of water, have just been opened by His Excellency Sir Arthur Young, K.C.M.G.
HONGKONG VOLUNTEERS v. 83:00. .G.A.
Play was resumed on Tuesday night, the of the Volunteers, and Gummer Thomas, 83 Co. R.G.A. Colour Bergt. Rodgers was at his best, and played fine billiards,
break of the tournament), and 14 un- Il (twice), a faultless 5 (the highest despite the advice of other leaders. finished, beating the Gunner by 112
Cings are ranging the count, yurde, iry Thomas played a very good game, making ing to prevent the workers from descend- breaks of 11, 18, 19 and two 12's. The second mg, and extra police bave been drafted game was of short duration, the Volunto Leigh and Tyldesley in fear of dis- tæer representative again securing a win turbances taking place. Pte. Barlow, of the Volunteers, met tur Gunner Groombridge, R.G.A. Barlow scored rapidly and won comfortably by 120, his best breaks wore 11 (twice), 13 (four times), 10 (twice), 17 and 21, his rival's only double-figure break being 10. The Volunteers are now 333 points to the
next round is almost a good, and their chance of entering the certainty. Scores:-
Colour Sergt. Rodgers Gunner Thomas Private Barlow Gunner Gronmbridge
THE GOVERNORSHIP OF HONGKONG.
250 138.
960 121
A FALL IN THE PRICE OF COAL.
LONDON, April 10th. Coal has fallen 2/- a ton, but high prices are expected to rule for some time owing to the necessity of repairs to the pits, the congestion of the railways and the difficul ties of delivery. The manufacturing cen tres anticipate a boom in trade for a con- siderable time after the pits are re-opened, A permanent effect of the strike is ex- pected to be a greater co-operation in the railways, and possibly the non-restoration of trains which were previously run at a loss, but which it was hitherto impossible to withdraw.
Truth of March 6th contains the follow MR. BONAR LAW IN BELFAST.
Bangkok papers announced the death of Mr. John McClure, of the staff of Mesars. Howarth, Erskine & Co. Ltd. The deceased, it is stated, was known from ing letter: Java to Tientsin, and during his long life in the Eastover forty-five years there were very few parts in the tropics he had not visited.
Mr. A. Bellamy Brown, editor of the China Mail, has been offered and has accepted the Editorship of the Muluy Mun, and proceeds to Kuala Lumpur to take up his new appointment next month Mr. F. Hicks, sub-editor of the China Matt, is joining the Hongkong Telegraph staff next month.
SI-While in your article on Sir first-class Governorship of Hongkong Henry May (whose promotion to the aftor only one year's previous cervice as Governor (at Fiji has aroused such. unfavourable comment) you did not question his qualifications, you could easily have done so, and perhaps a re- Old China Hand" ference to another
LONDON, April 10th.
pearance. Special trains are arriving Belfast has now a most animated ap-
from all parts of Ulster, and processiona with bands and carrying Union Jacks and other colours are taking place.
LATER.
There was a demonstration of several
may be as luminating as one to your hundred thousand people at Belfast and correspondent in your issue of February 28th or to Who's Who
Provisional Government in keeping back democratic institutions from the bulk of the land, where the Republican régime is estab- lished as Braly as it is ever likely to be. The fitness of China for democratic repub. licaniam need not be discussed now—she is committed to it, and the one point is to get the new system working as soon as possible Whether China will be better off under an elected President than under the Manchu Emperors is not in question; she will certainly be worse off under a pseudo-repub lican government that is really an oligarchic dictatorship. If the republican ideal is to Improvements in Poking suggested by triumph, and democratic government to be "a self-constituted municipality in an accomplished fact, those who have now clude the deepening of the moats around contrived to place themselves at the hand of the city, the planting of trees on both sides, and building a good road round the city. They also suggest opening a sho
the administration dare not trifle with the question; they must regard it as their
in the government with the least possible HongKora ÖFFion: 104, Das Vœux Roan C delay. Thus only onn they justify them- LONDON OPTION: 131, Flant STREET, BC | selves to the world for the great experiment to which they have committed the land: they have the example of Turkey before them. Will they profit by it?
The Daily Press.
HONGKONG, APRIL 11TH, 1912
Ir is interesting at the present juncture to compare the revolution in China with those that have taken place in recent years in other Oriental countries, where the conditions 'somewhat approximate to these ruling in our neighbour. True, the comparison is mone too encouraging, and the outcome of the revolutions in Turkey and Persia might well give pause to the republicans of China; but if the present ruling party in China will learn from the mistakes made by other reformers, there is no reason why the com- parison should be other than beneficial. A comparison with Turkey is especially instructive, as the present course of events
communications,
It is true that Sir Henry May (as he
tremendous enthusiasm was created.
Mr. Bonar Law, in his speech, said that prefers to be called, not Sir Francis) has the Unionists regarded Ulster's cause as had thirty-one years' experience in Houg that of the Empire, and he emphasised keng, and probably does know every resident, British, or Chinees, there, as the point that Tariff Reform would his defender states; but has be used that benefit none more than Ireland. He knowledge for the betterment of either welcomed to-day's demonstration, as it the British or Chinese residents when he showed that Home Rule was not the WRS Colonial Secretary or Acting Governor. I am sure there are few end but the beginning of the Irish prob the know" who can say yes " to that lens. There was no hope that the shortsighted and anwise policy of the but the loyalists must trust in themselves question.
To him Hongkong owed the Government majority would be broken,
ing.) Cliter's resolution to resist Home Rule must prove irresistible. There had, been no change of British opinion regard- ing Home Bule. The Radicals had sold sold Ulster, but Ulster was not theirs to the constitution. They thought they had sell. (Cheers.) The present danger was very great.
LONDON, April 10th. Router's correspondent at St. Peters-" burg states that a telegram from Urga from Yuan Shih Kai asking Northern says that in response to an invitation
Mongolia to join the Chinese Republie the Kutuchuta replied that the people have proclaimed their independence in
their religion and territory and begs Yuan Shih Kai to respect the frontiers of Mongolia and support the Mongolian Government in consolidating the internal administration and strengthening its friendly relations with neighbouring States. The Kutuchuta states that even if it had been ready to renounce their in- dependence, it would be impossible to oppose the wishes of the people and sug- gests that. Yuan Shih Kai should submit the Mongolian question to the Powers in- terested.
AN EASTER DISASTER.
EXCURSION STEAMER SUNK AT CAIRO.
LONDON, April 19th. Reuter's correspondent at Cairo tele- graphs that an Easter excursion steamer with 300 on board sank last night in collision with another steamer near the barrage below Cairo. Rescuers hastened in boats to the assistance of the passen- gers and saved many, but it is feared that 200 were drowned. Seventeen bodies have been recovered.
BRITISH TRADE RETURNS.
LONDON, April 10th. The imports for the quarter ended March show an increase of £2,049,567, and the Exports a decrease of £149,941. The latter included decreases in cotton £411,125 and wool 2344,301. It is con- sidered wonderful that the exports have decreased so little in view of the strike. There were notable increases in iron, steel, and electrical manufactures, but coal and coke declined £2,033,600.
AMERICAN LAKE DISASTER.
45 TOWNSHIPS FLOODED.
LONDON, April 10th. Reuter's correspondent at Memphis telegraphs that the main levee has beca broken on the Golden Lake of Arkansas, and it is expected that 45 townships will be partly flooded.
THE WAR IN TRIPOLI
* LONDON, April 10th. A wire from Constantinople states that the Powers have agreed to the terms of the request to the Porte regarding the termination of the war between Italy and Turkey, and will point out the desirability of peace in the interests of Europe gea- erally. They request the Porte to signity to terminate hostilities, in view of the the conditions on which they are prepared
WEST INDIES AND CANADA.
solemn duty to admit the people to a share number of gates in the city wallsawa relating to prostitutes, which scat and help would come, (Prolonged cheer Powers offering mediation.
tered them all over the colony and made especially in the south, so as to facilitate them a public scandal throughout the Far East; to him belonged the credit of de- feating the Bill for the registration and licensing Chinese servants-a thing the colony has suffered from the lack of notoriously badly needed, and one which furthered British interests as to seriously ever since. - As Acting Governor he so far impair the value of two of its most important branches through his policy. of invariably showing favouritism to
which was organized in Nanking about The Chinese Army Aviation Corps, two months ago, is now in the process of moving, with all its equipment, including five biplanes, to Canton, where a per H.M.S. Defence is due to arrive at manent aviation camp is to be laid out Hongkong on the 19th inst..
and possibly a plant installed for the manufacture of flying machines. H.M.S. Hawke left for England on Tues- Ray Wilcox, an American aeroplane.
Mr day with the old crews of the river gun-buildor and seronautical instructor, is in boats...
Mr. C. E. Anton, of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Shanghai, left for Home last week, travelling wa Siberia.
Pastor Russell, who preached in Hong kong a few months ago, was in Greece last month, and delivered an address to a large audience in Corinth.
Oscar Klein, an American skipper, who died a "typographical death" iz the Manila Times, has written to that at Peking and Nanking seems to indicates journal stating that he believes himself tendency to the same mistakes as those to be still alive. made by the Committee of Union and Pro- grees..
In the Ottoman dominions, three
among twenty-seven members.
"charge of the training of the corps, which
now numbers 23 men.
The Police Renier of March 8th con tains a portrait of Mr. William Arm strong, Chief Detective-Inspector of the Shanghai Municipal Police, who has had charge of the detective staff there since 1895. At that time the writer of Mr. Armstrong's biography says the Shanghai Police numbered only 50. Our own re- cords show the strength of the force iu 1895 to have been 502, viz., European, 69 Indian and 379 Chinese, This takes no account of the police force of the French Concession, which, of course, works with the others when needed.!!!
**Cadet"' officials.......
ing Mr. Bonar Law of Ulster's unalter The meeting passed a resolution assur
able opposition to Home Bule.***.
meeting, said they would meet revolution Sir F. Carson, presiding at a subsequent
heedless of the consequences. Their one object was victory, (Cheers.);
On the platform were Mr. Bonar Law, Lord Londonderry, Mr. Walter Long, and
Sir Henry may perhaps be the man for Chins, as your critic thinks, but that Hongkong during the disturbance in
would only be because he seems to be in sympathy with Chinese officialdom.. If was the who drove certain Portuguese elerks ont of the service-who by long and faithful service had risen to positions of trust and replaced them by Chinese, others in whom no faith or trust could be re- posed. The last case of this kind, I may
A procession eleven deep and stretching mention, earned for him a well-deserved for four miles marched past saluting Mr. rap over the knuckles from the Secretary Bonar Law, who bowed his acknowledge- ed ordering the immediate reinstatement of State for the Colonies, who telegraph- of the clerk in question. It is interesting to note that while he thus impaired the efficiency of certain Departments be was careful to retain the services of all the senior non-Chinese in his own and all other Departments presided over by a
Cadet" officer.
"
with the horse-racing and yachting part Sir Henry was undoubtedly popular of the community in the colony, but not so with the Colonial officials, who were not in favour of his Russian methods of government. Lady May is so charming The present issue of The Leading Light and generally beloved that she may re- and China Coast Shipping Gazette, which concile many to ber husband's return to has earved out for itself a place in the read in the columns of the Morning Post Hongkong; but it is rather amusing to weekly journalism of the Far East, reaches devoted to Colonial Intelligence words to us under a new title, the name having the effect that great satisfaction is ex- been changed to the China Shipping and pressed in Hongkong st the appoint
ment, etc., etc. This is obviously an Engineering Gazette. As we understand inspired reply to your original paragraph, su engineer of high qualifications as as there can be no possible means of joined the staff of the paper, future mowing in London what the local feeling Emilio Aguinaldo, the leader of the articles on engineering watters should be may be. No one would pay several Philippine insurrection and the president written with the same technical known to able to this effect, except ane of the Philippine Republic of twelve ledge as has been the case with the ship- prove its truth. But even if Sir Henry who thereby "protests too much" to years ago, was the guest of General Belling which has made the journal & neces. May is popular, is popularity to promote at Camp Hoy last week. He is said to ity to shipping offices, shippers and those maas rather than performance-Tours be taking an interest in golf.
The Provisional Assembly sitting at Nanking discussed the question of the years after the revolution has been acco-seat of the provisional government, and plished and ABDUL HAMID overthrown, we decided on Peking by a vote of twenty find the country still under a dictatorship with its Constitution altogether in abeyance and liberty almost as little realized ag Mr. C. O. F. Cunningham, Managar before the revolution. Ant what is the of Jardine, Matheson & Co.'s Hankow state of affairs in China? Before the branch, has been transferred to Tientsin. revolution, the country possessed a Consti- Mr. McHaffie has been transferred from tution of sorts, that was to develop gradually Swatow to fill the vacancy thus created at into complete parliamentary rule. The Hankow. country had an elected National Assembly elected Provincial Assemblies, elected Dis trict Assemblies. These bodies may not have possessed much influence or weight, they may have been devoid of all power but still they contained the germ of elective
afloat.
faithfully,
ANOTHER OLD CHINA HAND.
menta.
UNIONIST DELEGATES ATTACHED,
A crowd at Randalstown railway station last night attacked the train by which the Unionist Relegates were re- turning from B fast and smashed the windows. Some of the passengers wele: injured by stores.
PRESS COMMENTS.
The Unionist papers are enthusiastic over the magnificent demonstration at Belfast, which proves the unshrinking expression by Ulster of a resolve to resist Home Rule to the end.
The Radicals sympathise with Ulster's fears, while scornful of the Conservative policy, and are confident that the safe
guards in the Government's Bill will be the most effective answer to yesterday's demonstrations
A CRICKETER'S RETURN."
A specialist has assured Warner, who
LONDON, April 10th.
only played in one match in Australia, that he can safely play in the forthcoming
season.
LONDON, April 10th An Ottawa telegram states that the West Indian representatives and the Gov erninent of Canade have signed a re- ciprocal trade agreement.
BOMB OUTRAGE IN LISBON.
LONDON, April 10th. During a religious procession in Lishon a barab exploded, and it is reported that five were killed and 30 injuret A 650- sorship is being exercised and details are withheld.
OBITUARY.
LONDON, April 10th. The death has occurred of Dr. Edward Divers, who was well known in Japan, having been Professor of chemistry in the University at Tokyo for a number of
yours.
INDEPENDENCE OF THE
PHILIPPINES.
A felegram from Washington to the Manila Times of April 2nd states-
The resolution for the neutralization of
Jonea of the House Committee on ported by the same committee and an Insular Affairs, has been favourably re- effort is to be made to expedite its passage. It is to be called up at an early date and the general understanding in Democratic major progresolution
majority. The directs the President to secure from the Powers an agreement whereby the Philip pine islands will be recognized as neutral territory and treated 28 such. Chairman tion as part of his project to inaugurate Jones prepared and introduced the resolu a probationary Filipino government in American Government, and anally tasti 1013, with a President appointed by the
tute an independent government in 1923,
the Philippines, presented by Chairman