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he make the slip of saying "England ** whan he means "Britain" or "Great Britain," he is promptly called to order, and is made to realise when using the wrong term that he is needlessly wounding the ausceptibilities of the Scottish people. It is uot to be supposed, of course, that people who speak of England when they mean Great Britain or Great Britain and Ireland, or, perhaps, the whole Empire, do so with any intention of hurting the feelings of the Scots or of the Irish or of the Welsh or of
there young vigorous nations overseas; but,
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H.M.S. Neidcastle arrived last evening from. Weihaiwei.
The Siamese Minister to Japan will act as Siam's representative at the Imperial funeral.
We are officially informed that Woi- hai-wei has released Hongkong from quarantine restrictions.
Hongkong had a cleaner bill of health last week than for many months past. The only casca of communicable discass
reported were two of plague.
Mr. J. R. Wood at the Magistracy yesterday imposed a fine of 8100 or aix weeks' imprisonment upon a Chinese for being in possession of lottery tickets.
For committing a burglary" at 167, Queen's Road East, a Chinese was at the Magistracy yesterday sentenced to six months' imprisonment and four hours in the stocks.
There has been another escape from The the American gaol at Shanghai. missing man is Emil Dauer, who was being detained on a warrant charging him with embezzlement.
A tann who gave the excuse that he stole clothes from his master in order to raim his passage money to the country was at the Magistracy yesterday sentenced
to fourteen days' hard labour.
Cholera appears to be epidemic among
Several Euro the police of Shanghai. pean members of the forec are in hos. pital. A European forgeant and a Chi- nere constable died last week.
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before Mr. J. R. Wood at the Magistracy rabbish in front of a house in Mosque yesterday on a charge of depositing Street. It was stated that this practice had given a lot of trouble and had caused disease in that locality. The defondants were fined two dollars each.
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THE SITUATION AT PEKING..
LONDON, August 28th. Reuter's correspondent at Peking wires Judgment has been given in H.M. that Dr. Sun Yat Sen and President Supreme Court, Shanghai, in favour of Yuan Shih-kai have conferred for many
A. Serebriankoff against Messrs.
hours, Both afterwards declared that Samuel & Co., Ltd., for 3,600 roubles in they were in porfect agreement ou all respect of remuneration and Tls. 15,000 as important questions. commission. Plaintiff alleged that he had been wrongfully dismissed from his position as the firm's agent at Harbarovsk in Siberia.
THE KAISER INDISPOSED.
LONDON, August 20th.
tism, the Kaiser has been prevented from participating in the aununi manœuvres.
This is the first time in his reign that His Majesty has failed to participate in
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THE PANAMA CANAL BILL.
PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE TO CONGRENM,
LONDON, August 28th.
A Reuter's message from Washington states that Prosidont Taft has signed the Panama Canal Bill and has sent to Con- 熊TEAM a memorandum suggesting the advisability of passing a resolution declaring that measure not being
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A Borfin dispatch states that owing to considered by this Government na The engagement is announced in New ; a cold, accompanied by muscular rheumna-violation of the Treaty. The meanorans York of Mr. Charles R. Scott, of the International Banking Corporation, to Mrs. Ripley, widow of the late Sidney Dillon Ripley and daughter of the late Henry B. Hyde, founder of the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the U.S.A. The wedding is talce place early in September.
to
the manœuvres,
THE BALKAN UNREST.
TURKS MAHSAUDE SERVIANS,
LONDON, August 26th.
A great sensation has heen caused at Ipoh by the conviction of Mr. J. C. Fitzgerald; Assistant Superintendent of the Perak Chandu Department on a charge of accepting an illegal gratifien-Turks attacked the Servians at Sjenitza A message from Belgrade states that the tion. A sentence of one month's rigorous in the vilayet of Kosovo, massacring
many of the population.
imprisonment was passed. An appeal was lodged and accused liberated on bail, which was fixed at $5,000.
The Servion Cabinet has met to discuss
the situation.
CLAMOURING FOR WAR,
“England" they do annoy a large propor- tion of their fellow-subjects who cannot call themselves English. Many who are guilty | of this loose manner of expression seek to condone it by explaining that they use it in the widest sense, but a little reflection ought to convince the most pronounced Anglican thut English as applied to the people cannot mean more than the English people. The English are not Scottish, nor are the Scots Buglish, but both are British. Before leaving this aspect of the question for its wider sind Imperial aspect, it may be as well to give sonic attention to the subject as it affects the inhabitants of the United Kingdom. The Union of the two kingdome was brought about by the Treaty of 1707, Per case Per which provided that the two kingdoms of of Idos. Bot. Scotland and England should upon the 1st May, 1707, and for ever after, be united into ...$28.40 2.45 one kingdom by thỏ namo of Great Britain. This, it will be seen, was not a union 31 40 270 brought about by conquest. It was an honourable undertaking to merge the national identity of England and Scotland in a new and in a united kingdom. DEFO", a writer known to most of us from our youth, who took & part in the negotiations for the unica, wrote at the time: “Boglund suffered the same alterations as Scotland, such as dissolving her Parliament, har namne as a Kingdom, ber Council, great offices, and title of her sovereign and all things began de novo in both kingdoms under the single denomination of Britain and British." |That was the interpretation put upou the Treaty at the time it was outered into, and it seems remarkable that two hundred years A. S. WATSON & CO., later it should be necessary to insist upon the observance of the very first article of the Treaty of Union. When the later union with Ireland was consummated in 1801 there was still loss reason for employing the torm ** England," the name of the United Kingdom being then extended to Great Britain and Ireland." It is argued by Central was ordered to receive twelve Northern Ladrono or Mariana Islandsgraphs that Djavid Pasha has entered)
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BIRTHS.
On August 19th, at Hayling Island, Hants, England, to Mr. and Mrs. L. E. ~~ CANNING; of Shanghai, a daughter.
On August 20th, to Mr. and Mrs. KARL TOCHTERMANN, at Chinking, a daughter.
DEATHS.
On 23rd instant, suddenly, W. 8. ROBILLIARD, Secretary, The Marcantils Bank of India, Ltd., London.-By Cable.
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On August 20th, at the Bhanghai Gen- eral Hospital, HINRICH QELKERS, Dock Master, Tung-ka-doo Dock, aged 38 years HONGKONG OFFIOT: 10, De Vaux ROAD LONDON OFFICE: 131, Fraze Ster, E.O.
The Daily Press.
A new N.Y.K. ship for the Yokohama Shanghai run is now in port. She is a 16-knot steamer of 2155 net tons, built on the Clyde, and named the Omi-maru. Captain Keith, is in command.
In the list of successful candidates who have scoured the B.Sc. degree of London University this summer, there appears the name of Mr. Albert Alwee, a former student of Queen's College, Hongkong,
A Belgrade dispatch says that in consequence of the attack on Sjenitza crowd of 5,000 persons paraded the streets of the capital clamouring for war.
has graduated in the Faculty of Mr. Ahwoe has been an Engineering. Endergraduate of King's Collage, Lon-
BELLICOSE SPEECHES IN SOFIA, don, for the past three years, and he ob-
It is reported from Sofia that repre- A Chinese who snatched a purse from tained a first-class in civil engineering, Mrs. Scusa, of Delilios Terrace, was at hydraulics, heat engines, railways, docks, sentatives of all parties from all the the Magistracy yesterday sentenced to six structures and municipal work, in the towns of Bulgaria have had a meeting in weeks' imprisonment, four hours in the
final exams. Before returning to China, Sofa Bollicose speeches were delivered stocks, and twelve strokes with the birch.. Ahwee intends to take up post-and a resolution was passed demanding graduate work in Europe and America,
The Philippine faunch Star of Mindoro, which went ashore on Mamburao reef, is a total loss. The jagged rocks of the reef have torn the little craft apart and the surf has carried the battered bulk high up on the beach.
A boy who stole a pair of white shoes belonging to an Indian who had left them to dry in ́a - passage in Des Vœux Road
strokes with the birch and to be detained for forty-eight bours.
A wireless telegraphy station is being installed by the Americans in Peking on that part of the city wall near the Ame rican Barracks. It is reported that the apparatus is powerful enough to com- municate with Shanghai.
those who have become addicted to the use of the word "England" when speaking of the united kingdoms that the correct title is too cumbrous. That, of course, is a matter of habit, and bad habit at that. To use the wrong name because it is too much trouble to correct oneself is, of course, no argument at all. While the term "Great Britain and Ireland" may be ponderous, the same, cannot be said of the A telegram from Peking to the simple word "Britain," which is comprehen-Ostustatischer Lloyd says: The appoint siva. It includes both islands, and the ment of Sir Francis Piggott, late Chief word "British” embraces Irish as well as Judge of the Supreme Court in Hong Bots and Welsh. A writer of some repute kong, to be Legal Adviser to the Chinese in dealing with this question says that the Government, is imminent." proper use of the term 'British' in reforring to matters concerning the whole kingdom simply brings history and polites into line with geography. As far back as the time of PTOLENT and PLINY-centuries before any
TYPHOON WARNINGS.
and will probably specialise in the the mobilisation of the army, also that urgent representations be made to the economics of railway engineering.
of Powers regarding the autonomy Macedonia, and that a declaration of war We have received from the Americanbe made against Turkey if there was no Consulate General the following typhoon warnings transmitted from the Manila Observatory:-Cyclone or typhoon E. of
Channel moving North Balintang Cyclone or typhoon near or over the
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THE BANDMANN OPERA COMPANY.
The Bandmann Opera: Company made welcome re-appearance in Hongkong last night when they presented The Mouse", to a large and appreciative audience. This pretty opera, which made such a great hit in London, scored a great success when it was introduced in the Far East, and Hongkong has not neglected to pay its tribute to the work of the author and the composer of this charming production. The performance went with a pleasing swing from start to finish, and the artistes deserved the unstinted applause with which their work was greeted. His Excellency, the Governor
close the fund last Saturday.
It was intended to and Lady May were present. nearly 100 names,
Up to the 10th inst.; Mr. A. W. U. Pope, who is acting as local secretary in Shanghai of the Chamberlain Empire Stilling Birthday Fund, had received
In view of the opening of the Panama Canal in a couple of years, the authorities of the Yokohama Harbour Office, finding it necessary to provide more extensive unchorage for shipping, have already drawn op a plan to extend the harbour limits..
The final of the lawn bowls open cham- W. pionship has now been reached.
Englishman' bad set foot on these shores -the name-Britannia Magna was applied to Great Britain, while the fact that Ireland was known as Britannia Farva, or Little Britain, entirely disposes of the ill-infor ed objection that Britain' excludes Ireland." So much for the local aspect of the question, the aspect as it affects the various people resident in the British Isles, but there is a broader aspect. In the case off the overseas dominions, Canada, Soulk | Africa, Australia, and Now Zaland, none of their sous or daughters born in there Russell, of Kowloon, beat T. Bateman, of Taikoo, on the Police Green by 21 now lands call themselves English. Tho
points to 5. Russell and Pitt, of the same applies to the sour and daughters Police, meet in the final on a date to be of the most perfervid Scots or the most arranged by the committee. Horexong, August 27, 1912.
patriotic Irish. Those born in the new countries do not take the Iv. these days of pronounced Imperial nationality of their father or mother.
The Chinese arrested by the Hongkong sentiment, when much is being done to make They are either Canadians, South Africans, patriot at Singapore last year whe the various component parts of the British Empire realise that they for, or should Australians, or New Zealanders. They brought before Mr. Wood at the Magis- | object to bang labelled as either English, form, one homogenous whole, having a comi- munity of interests, it is to be regrated Scottish or Inch, but they glory in the that there are those who forget, not only
name of "Briton." And it is perhaps the historical obligations, but modern needs, by recognition of the rights of these young continuing to refer to "English" and nations, more than consideration of Scottish susceptibilities, that is leading at present → Englishmen " as if these terms represented
British" or "Britons." We are all aware Britain and British, terus which are cor te the more general use of the words
Police for the murder of a wealthy com-
tracy yesterday. His Worship made an order that the prisoner be sent to Singu nore, there to stand his trial.'.
Towkay Low Ban Loek of Ipoh has been for bribing Mr. Hunter of the Chandu sentenced to three months' imprisonment
Department. Mr. Hunter in his evidence
To-night the piece is The Coint of "Luxembourg,"
A MYSTERIOUS MURDER AT
MACAO.
We learn that
FL
murder was per-
response.
TURKEY AND MONTENEGRO. Reuter's correspondent at Salonika tele-
Berana unopposed, the Montenegrins having dispersed.
HOLIDAYS PUKTPONED.
From Constantinople it is reported that in view of the continued effervescence in Bulgaria regarding the Kotchana massa ere, the Tsar Ferdinand and M. Guechoff will romain in Sofia.
Turkish officers are determined to resist any suggestions in the direction of de- centralisation arising out of Count Berchtold's proposal.
TROUBLED MOROCCO.
LONDON, August 20th. It appears that the French Consul aad his companions at Marrakesh attempted to leave the city, but were stopped some -miles-from-the city and obliged to return. The Pretender's forces continue to besiege Kaid El Glawi's house.
LATEE.
Colonel Mangin's expeditionary foren
dum points out that the Hay-Pauncefoto Treaty provided that no discrimination be made by the United States against other nations. The measure applied 206, to what the country gives its nationals, but to the treatment it extends to other nations. There was nothing Treaty preventing other; nations from extending favours to their
protest leads to the absurd conclusion shipping using the Canal. The British
that this Government after the construc.
in the
tion and maintenance and defence of the Canal finds itself shorn, of the right to deal with its own commerce in its own
way.
The hopelessly involved parliamentary, tangle has prevented the expected ad- journment of Congress sine die, and both Houses were to re-assemble on Monday.
BRITISH NEWSPAPER CRITICISM.
The newspapers emphatically decline to accept President Taft's argument aut the Canal Bill, which they regard as a mere legal quibble more worthy a petti- fogging attorney than the President of
great Republic. They point out, that President Taft's action is glaringly in consistent with America's professed faith
in treatica.
It is expected that Great Britain will propose the submission of the whole carg to The Hague tribunal.
GUARDING AGAINST AIRSHIPS.
BRITISH NAVAL PROVISIONS.
Loxnos, August 26th. The newspapers state that the battle- ships in the current year's programme will be provided with curved armoured upperdeck and funnel protection against Lirships.
BRITISH MILITARY MANEUVRES,
LONDON, August 28th Despite the floods and the lateness of the harvest, it is announced that the manœuvres fixed for September in East Anglia will not be postponed. Hig Majesty will be present. He will reside temporarily at Trinity College, Camn- bridge.
THE TERRIBLE MONTH.”
LONDON, August 26th. The torrential rains have forced the
Guarda encamped at Swaffham, Norfolk, for inautenvres, to abandon their tents
barna.
The Lat Coldstream Guards took train
for barracks.
petrated at a Chinese Club in Macao came into contact with the advanced posts and sleep in publie rooms, schools, and last week. A wealthy Chinaman, living of El Hiha, the Pretender, ten miles from in Chinese territory near Macao, and Sakelarba, and repulsed them, capturing who is stated to have subscribed liberally to the revolutionary funds, was invited banners and a quantity of ammunition. El Glawi has handed over to El Hiba to a social gathering at the Chinese Club
It is not mentioned in Macao. As he did not return hame nine Frenchman. as soon as expected, his wife came to whether the Consul is among them. El. Macao to make inquiries. The Chinese
Hiba has promised to protect the French- Club was found to be closed, a strange
men and to convey them to the coast. circumstance which excited some XUA- picion, and when the premises were RESTORING LONDON'S TELEGRAM denominations on Sunday, in which tri- entered the anisaing man'a body was found. It bore evidence that he had been stabbed to death. 叫
LOCAL GOVERNMENT IN
EWANGTUNG
A correspondent writing from Moi-yen (Kwangtung) says:—
SERVICE
LONDON, August 20th. Engineers are working strenuously night and day restoring the fused wires at the new General Post Office in 8t Martin's-le-Grand, and it is hoped that the normal telegraph service will be
The Yen-chong elected last year was superseded this week by an official sesit resumed to-day.
The new Yen-chong has
that this is a grievance which is bitterly root and which are not offensive to any of stated that accused attempted to bribe from Canton.
THE LATE "GENERAL" BOOTH.
LONDON, August 26th.- References were made to the late "General" Booth from the pulpits of all
butes were paid to his missionary zeal.
THE EASTBOURNE TRAGEDY.
LONDON, August 28th. Interest in the recent Eastbourne tragedy has been e-awakened by a police announcement that Murray has been identified through the handwriting in a letter found in a vase as the brother of the nationalities that compose the great $20,000 and $10,000 respectively.
him with $800, and two other officers with been here two or three weeks, but the old
a Miss Money, a book-keeper at a British Empire.
A Chinese contemporary begins an Magistrate refused to yield up the seal of office until a peremptory telegram article in advocacy of wornan suffrage Battersea milk shop, who was found dead ... Among the subscribers of the capital
came from Canton ordering him to be with the following spicnt observation: in Merstham tunnel on September 24th, circumstances hitherto un- of the new Franco-Japanese Bank, says arrested and taken to the capital for "It is an undeniable fact that China's 1005, in a Japanese journal, are the Central Min-trial. Since then he has been a fugitive weakness is due half to her men and half
explained. "Murray" was formerly
Ernest Cassel, Mr. C. S. Addis, of the to another. ing Company, the Persian Bank, Sir from justice, going from one hiding place to her women, If China is to be strong dairyman in London and was not con-
her two saxes must wake up and dis Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, Mr. The authority of the provincial gov-charge their respective responsibilities. nected with the army.. Gordon, of Gordon, Panmure & Co., and ernment is recognized here now to a much Last year this expectation might have were not aware that he was passing under Franch, Swise, Russian and German greater extent than it was a few months seemed too extravagant, but now it is an assumed name, but they did not know
quite within possibility."
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felt in Scotland, and by the sous and daughters of Scotia in all parts of the Empire, and we are also aware that they display their resentment whenever they are given the opportunity. It is common knowledge that even the most Anglicised statesman who crosses the Tweed on a poli sold to a Japanese firm in Western Japan. The British steamer l'ondo has been
tical mission bas to remember, if he does
The German mail of the 24th July was delivered in London on the 24th inst.
not wish to be rudely interrupted in his In the absence of Mr. A. E. Irving, speech, that he must employ the cornet Mr. J. R. Wood acted as Police Magis description of the United Kingdon. Should trate yesterday.
bankern.
ago.
much about his movemente.
His relatives