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TELEGRAMS.
[HROUGH BOTER'S AGENCY.]
PEACE NEGOTIATIONS.
KAMOURED NUPTURE.
LONDON, September 17th. Reuter's correspondent at Vienna wires
that trustworthy information has been rec-ived from Constantinople that the prace negotiations have been wrecked over the Italian proposal that the Ports should proclaim the independence of Tripoli, Italy then settling with the natives. The Ottoman delegates have left Lausanne.
A DENIAL
A message from Geneva slates that the Journal Geneve mys that the Tures- Italian Peace delegates were surprised at the report of a rupture having takon place. They declare that the conversa
tions continue.
PRACE BASIS FOUND.
SUPREME COURT.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18TH, 1919.
Tuesday, September 17th..
IN SUMMARY JURISDICTION.
BEFORE MA. H. H. J. GOMPERTZ (PUISHE JUDGE).
CLAIM ON COOLIE BRIFMENTS.
THE ALLAN. WILKIE COMPANY.
** CANDIDA,
Last night was unique in the dramatic history of Hongkong, as it witnessed the first production of a Shavian play. George Bernard Shaw is one of the most Action was brought hy Wong Hon Chi, interesting, as well as one of the most carrying on businers as the Tai Yingerplexing personalities of our time, and the attempt to understand his works Chan, against the Wing Cheung Chan
is rendered difficult by the fact that be and Lan Tan Yan to recover $1,000,
refuses to take himself seriously. Whoever heard of a dramatist writing a play and then satirising it himself? Yet that is the sort of thing that George Bernard
balance of money lent by the plaintif to the defendant. The full claim was endorsed on the writ as 81,010, but the 818 was waived to enable the action to bo brought in Summary Jurisdiction.
Mr. Crewe (of Mosure. Hastings & Hastings) appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. D. Lewis (of Messrs. Johnson, Stokes
Master) represented the defendant, Mr. Crew said the plaintiff firm carried on business froin about the beginning of 1010 in the export of conlies to Singapore, and to a certain extent was financed by persons interested. The defendants were the keepers of an emigrant boarding
A message from Paris states that the house, and through their hands the plain tiff was in the habit of obtaining coolies,
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Shaw does.
THE REPUBLIC OF CHINA.
The Chinese Chamber of Commerce in
850,000 to the Central Government. the Straits Settlements has remitted
T French General Brissons- Desmaillez has taken over his post as military advisor of the Chinese govern ment under a three years' contract.
General Hwang Hsing arrived Peking on the afternoon of the 11th inst. His reception was similar to the one given to Dr. Sun, though there was not so auch public interest shown.
Candidly-no pan ist intended-Shaw's
Vice President Li Yuan Hung decus the salary for him of 88,000 a month works cannot be said to appeal to the may in the street. They have their own
passed by the Legislative Bureau, exces- admirers, numerous enough in all con-offere to contribute it to the State for sive and has declined to accept it He science, but they cannot be described as
public uso. enjoying aniversal pouilarity. This is not a reflection, of course, on Bhaw, nor pred it be a cynical reflection on the general public, for, after all, they are honest enough to admit that they do not A confession niways understand hirm, which
cultured
Bome of
their more
Martial law has been proclaimed at Changchow owing to the military situn tion which has arisen because of the troops to the number of 2,500 are now activities of the Mongolians. Chinese within a hundred li of the Mongolians, who are estimated to nuraber 2,000. Fur- ther bodies of Chinese troops have been tier in order to prevent the Mongolians making flanking raids,
HOME AND CHINA AFFAIRS.
[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.
LONDON, August 21st. THE EDUCATION OF THE CROWN PRINCE OF JAPAN.
The report that the Emperor Yoshihito of Japan intends to have the Crown Prince educated in England receives no confirmation from official Japanese circles in London. It is thought unlikely, in the absorption of the Japanese in mourning, that even if such`no idea had beon entertained it would bo mado public yet awhile. Japanese residing in Lou- don on Beptember 12th will gather to venerate the picture of the late Emperor and to listen to eulogies from prominent. mon of the nation now in England.
by the way, is Baron Kato, the Japanese Ambassador, Thames-side dweller, having taken Waterdale, Cook-, ham, for the summer months-if indeed any such description can be given this year to any section of the calendar.
now
THE WEATHER,
For the weather is the worst ever" for August. I mentioned it in my last letter, and it may be argued that ar
Temps correspondent at Geneva declares The method which was almost universall, brethren would make had they the neces stationed at various points on the fron hard up for topies in the dull sească,
that an acceptable basis of peace has been found. The principal point is a lone of £20,000,000 to enable Turkey to re organise her finances and administration. The fundamental question is an fail
were very often
|sary courage.
accompli. The question of Tripoli has throughout 1910, various sums being lent the characters not only from one another silver-smiths shopa. For this behaviour the middle of the dog days, but the ther-
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The play has been summarised in the chaser to advance from time to time following words:"Candida" is a play
Not at all the weather is the topic, even various suLTIMA to the boarding-house i
of temperament rather than of action,
among skilled talkers and writers. It is keepers, ImTM which
On Saturday, the 7th inst., the soldiers so bizarre in its summer effects and so and it is the gradual lifting of the veils at Shasi refused the high rate of ox repaid in cash. There were dealings
that conceal flar varying mentalities of shops, and eventually lasted them and the siveness. When the diary tells you it is between the plaintiff and defendants
change for notes offered by the pawn compelling in its bone-chilling impres
but from themselves that provides the some of them were flogged, where- been settled to Italy's satisfaction. It is and various sums repaid, and in January,
101, the defendants owed the plaintiff a Progress and dimax necessary to drama. po they made an attack upon Colonel meter tells you the temperature is no
Hsiao, even stated that the plenipotentiarica to
The Rev. James Morell, a parson of was murdered.
He escaped, but his secretary more than fifty, the combination of facts WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS. kuin of 82,098. This was a larger kami
Goneral Tang also is calculated to attract the attention even sign the treaty have been nominated.
than had beɛn owing at any time before socialist cunvictions, strong and confidentescaped, across the river. The telegraph of the most philosophical or the moat! Reuter's, correspondent at Romo tele and the defendants transferred 30s in his own opinions and beliefs, of which offee at Seaparting was destroyed."
uct the least strong is belief in himself, graphs that Signor Giornale Italia Berto-current account and gave
introduces into his family circle a youth, acknowledgment for the balance of $2,000, lini, conducting, the semi-official Turco-
TE uote of
Italian negotiations, arrived from Ouchy Mr. Lewis said this sum, on the strengths Eugene Marchbanks, the son of a prer, farmer Prince Regent. Very favourable leisure and not pressed for either timo! and conferred with Signor Geolitti of that note, was not repayable except by win, alarmned at his son's deviation fromade wing to the friendliness which the or cash. Then he can make for the
Giuliano, the Foreign Minister, and ro turns shortly to Switzerland.
CANTON.
FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT. ] ·
CANTON. September 16th. EDUCATIONAL LECTURES.
Some time age reported that the
blasé, When a man tries to think out a
a prolonged visit to Prince Chun, the is nonplussed, unless he is a man of Dr. Sun YL Sen on the 10th inst. paid holiday scheme that will meat the case he
comments and impressions are being instalments against shipments of coolies.pe. is striving to starve him into his Marhus are displaying towards the cwn conception of the Stness of things. southern leaders and the opinion is being Marchbanks, whose scheme of life and established that the former are earnestly striving to destroy all feeling of anta- thought differs not only from that of hisgonism and to join with the Republicans own milieu but equally so from that in working for the general welfare of of Morell, is a poet with all a woman's China, intuitiveness, with all a poet's instinctive divination of the truth, a compound of and intellectual physical cowardice courage, a stranges, shy, slight effeminate
Morell, Candida, Murell's wife,
Mr. Lewis-That is my defence exactly. We admit the money was borrowed, but say it is not presently payable.
Mr. Crew said he would prove the exact arrangement entered into when the note was tunde. The defendants agreed with the plaintiff that they should supply him with coolies for every shipment going to Singapore, and that on no occasion
Arctic circle or Russia-the only places sort of summer reported to have any
But for ordinary weather in stock. mortals the case is desperate. He decides to go to the Lakes, perhaps. Very well. His morning paper tells him there are foods up there so that the roads are Sun Yat Sen left Peking on the 6th inst. for Kalgan. The previous night he held subsiding and the hay is floating down a great reception for officials and other the valleys en route for the open sea. influential Chinese and delivered on this So he thinks of the South Coast, only to mending the policy of the open door, the
woman endowed with largeness of mind ployment of foreign advisors and engine is in bed with pleurisy caught because utilization of foreign capital and the em. cousin has just come home from there and
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Chs. J. Gaupp & Co.,
ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS,
CHATER ROAD.
and dignity of character, beloved by bath,ers, as China would not be able to make she took a walk by the sea without her Always have on hand a very large complete
hecomes unconsciously the storm centre of
any progress without foreign assistanca. enthusiasm on his journey to Kalgan and Dr. Sun was everywhere received with returned to Peking on the 8th inst..
Switzerland offers
nothing but storms; the country is so heaviest clothes on.
Lead out over a hundred educated lectur. 10: As a matter of fact, they supplied Educational Commission had decided to should the number of coolies be less than 1 youth-in. short, the direct antithesis of occasion an impressive speech, recon-be deterred by the news that his wife's ers to the different parts of the provinco100 instalments between the 4th February to discourse on the need for and the and May 4th, but in sight of those cases benefits to be derived from education. there were less than to coolies, and in During the last few days some of these only six of them were deductions made men have been at work on the new band against the loan, and this at defendants' and large meetings have been the result request. In November, 1911, plaintiff They have received a patient and quiet practically ceased to do business. The hearing and no disturbances of any kind business was largely formed to meet the have occurred, as usual when a crowd rush to Singapore during 1810 and 1911, of this size gathers to hear a speaker. there being then a great demand for
ENCOURAGING AVIATION.
A sum of one thousand dollars has been paid as compensation to the family of Fung Yue, the airman who was killed › here a short time ago and who is being so much lionised; also his father is to enjoy a pension of 8100 per annum til! he dies in recognition of his having such a clever son. The idea, of course, is to create an interest in aviation and get mechanics to take up this science. There is any amount of enthusiasm in this mat ter; but it ia foolish to spend money in this direction when there are so many more naedy objects. The Government's idon is to have a flying school and gradually to form an air fleet, but this looks rather like a dream of the future than a possible reality.
LABOUR TROUBLES,
We have strikes just as at home here in Canton, and only on Saturday astriko of the workers in hard wood was settled. The cause of the trouble was the uni- versal one in Canton--bank notes. The men are paid in paper currency, und owing to the heavy discount on this they struck work for higher wages, The masters kept them out for a long time, but eventually it was settled that the rise be not paid, but that wages would in future consist of 60 per cent. notes and 40 per cent, silver, and work is going on
as usual to-day,
ATTEMPTED ROBBERY AT VAYSBAN.
Two nights ago a junk full of rice an-
coolie labour.
stock of
SCIENTIFIC AND
their temperamental antipathies, and in the conflict the essential weakness of
cold that visitors have to walk about all Morell's strength, the strength of March-
day to keep warm; and the Cliannel bank's weakness, are brought into The persistent opposition of the Chibli elevates itself into a daily challenge to: evidence..
It is that real weakness that Provincial Asserably has finally forced the bold. Under these circumstances the SURVEYING INSTRUMENTS
the Tutu to retire. President Yuan Candida divining allows to decide her Shih-kai has appointed General Feng best place seems to be in town, unfashion- choice; and Marchbanks, quit of the Kuo-ehang as his successor in the exuble though it may be in the month of Transits, Levels, Fiaxe Tables, Prismatic and- desire for happiness, loaves them to theirs,pectation that he will prove acceptable August.
to the Chihli Assembly. President Yuan
His Lordship-You have got an acknow-with the realisation that life is nobler
than happiness, ledgment for 22,000 lout, and you say
As rendered by the Allan Wilkie com that $1,000 was repaid in cash?
Mr. Crew--By deductions from coolies employed.
bination, there can be little dificulty in understanding Candida." The "storm of temperamental antipathies" was skil
generous applause testified the audience's appreciation of the clever interpretation The small cast had to be re-arranged
SIE FERGY BOOTT'S FIRE DIRECTOR. Much interest is being taken in naval
| Shih-k'ai is making a determined effort o create a strong contral authority. He is now inviting representatives of the circles in the invention by Sir Percy Tutus of all the provinces to come to Peking and is endeavouring to assemble there the most powerful men in China in the hope of persuading them of the Thus Yuan Bhih-k'ai is making an effort to accom- plish diplomatically what many fear can only be attained by force.
His Lordship-Are the facts admitted fully portrayed last night, and the perils of decentralisation." Mr. Lewis-No. We 83 this man ceased to carry on the business; in fact, he transferred his business in the middle of 1911. We will pay him in coulies any time he likes, but he has put it out of his power to accept payment in that way
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mobility in the manipulation of ships' Dr. Sun Yat Sen was interviewed on who was to have taken the part of Mr. che 1th by Reuter's correspondent.
Bermaments. No official statement has Burgess, but it seemed to make little stated that the Chinese government pur-been issued as to the result of the tests, Mr. Crew That is a question of vi- difference to the success of the production.
poses to supply him with thirty thousand which have been carried out in the pre- dener. It is not a fact that my client Those participating werk :—
taels monthly, to be provided by the Chiao-tung-pa, in order to further rail-
sence of Admiralty experts, but it is transferred his business in 1971. HP carried on business on the surne premises Mr. Burgess
The govern-understood in Service circles that it bas Rev. J. Mavor Morell... Mr. Allan Wilkie way enterprise in China.
......... Mr. Stafford Dawsonment has also sanctioned the establish- beca conceded that the device will be of
ment of a central railway corporation after that with a signboard, and subse-Eugene Marchbanks
consisting of Chinese under the direction Krcat service in increasing the fire effce- quently the business was transferred to Bev, Alexander Mill... Mr. Hunter-Waits of Dr. Sun, who has received independent liveness of warships.
Miss P. Garnett Mise Vera Crichton authority to carry out a national syste
A telegram published a few days ago Candida
Miss F. Hauter-Watts of railways subject to the approval of confirms this.-ED.] Mr. Allan Wilkie was decidedly im the Central Government and the Na pressive as the Socialist parson, and Mr. tional Council in each instance. He said that the latter would be asked soon to Mr. Crew-Not at the present time, but Weir gave a highly creditable imper fortaully approve of three exploitation the battleships of the 1911 programme November last.
sonation of Eugene Marchbanks, while schemea The first is concerned with emphasise the increasing importance of His Lordship--And defendants case is Miss Hunter Watts' clever interpreta. securing foreign loans with which to the torpedo. The original Dreadnought
build certain lines; the second the grant- that you are bound to take coolies intion of Candida delighted her auditors ing of concessions to foreign syndicates and the three Invincibles have five tubes payment?
and secured for her more than one to build and work certain lines for cer- each, but all the other Dreadnoughts have Mr. Lewis-Yes Evidence was heard, and the case ovation. The part of Rov. Alexander tain periods during which the builders only three and the battle cruisers two.. adjourned.
Mill was woll filled by Mr. Hunter Watts, Mr. Stafford Dawson made an excellent the Chinese government, and the third each.
over the railways as going concerns to The next vessels, however, will have five Moreover, the torpedo equipment. Mr. Burgess, and Miss Vera Crichton as to organize companies either wholly or of the destroyers will be increased from Miss Proserpine
very partly Chinese also to construct railways
The fact that the successful.
under a period of charter. The last two tubes to fours scheme is intended for densely populated latest type of torpedoes have a To-night Oscar Wilde's Salome" is to areas and the first for the construction almost equal to that of the gun, has a he performed.
of railways for the frontier districts. lot to do with this decision. The Dr. Sun advocates the throwing open of
Yaumati
His Lordship-You are still prepared to take coolies if they will give them?
Wo
would have taken coolies up to
SCENE IN COURT.
MAGISTRATE AND LADY,
The big Court at the Magistracy raster- chored near Fatshar and shortly after day was the sceno of an unusual her arrival was boarded by six armed
robles. They demanded a large sum episode. His Worship (Mr. A. E. Irving) of money from the master of the boat, was hearing a summons in which Madame but he had none to give and they pro Gains, of 54, Nathan Road, proceeded ceeded to carry off the rice, having pre- against a hoy for having left her employ vlously made elaborate arrangements for without permission.
Garnett
WAS
GREEN ISLAND CEMENT.
COMPANY
the
It was reported yesterday that doing this. One of the crew of the junk, Complainant informed the Court of the Green Island Cement. Company owing howover, jumped overboard and swam eircumstances in which defendant left to difficulties in procuring stone, had ashore, taking the news to the nearest her service, and defendant said he left shut down, and that surae 600 men were police station. The result was that because the work was too hard. His thrown out of employment. Our repre before the robbers. realised it they were Worship asked complainant questions asentative made inquiries at the office of being attacked by a band of soldiers who to a man defendant had brought before Messrs. Showan, Tomes & Company with beat them off the boat and eventually he left, to one of which she replied That reference to the report, and was informed succeeded in catching and making is what I told you before.
by Mr. Hancock that it was quite untrue. prisoner two of them, who are awaiting His Worship--Don't speak to me like He added "we are still working.” trial at the military station. This part
of the river, which before was particular-. ly bad in this respect, has been quiet for
that.
Complainant-Well, you should not speak to me like that.
The Victoria Colonist states
that
will reimburse themselves and then hand
be
NAVAL MATTERS.
The preparation for the armament of
range
the whole of China proper to foreign en British Hardcastle" torpedo, for in- terprise, thus removing the necessity of stance, is credited with being effective up passports, bat he considers that it should
to 10,000 yarda. German Dreadnoughts stipulated that foreigners outside treaty ports should be subject to Chinese carry six tubes cach, it may be noted, and jurisdiction and that special courts ber battle crnisers four, while up to now should be established to try cases in
her destroyers have carried more tubes Sun scout, the idea of which foreigners are concerned.
then our own.
But the heaviest equip- commercial yellow-peril" following the intraduction ment on record will be that of the Japan- of foreign capital into China.
He
ese battleship Kongo, now building at argues earnestly, that general prosperity throughout the in China would improve conditions Barrow, which is to bave eight tubes.
wide world. Dr. Sun said the Chinese government While I am on naval matters I máy recently ordered the Tartar General mention that the largest dock in the I to proceed to Kobdo. The Russian- authorities at Kobdo informed him that world has been launched this week from he had better not comÓ,
as they were the shipbuilding yard of Cammell & able to maintain order while the move aird at Birkenhead. It has been built ment of Chinese troops might provoke
THE LARGROT DOCK.
disorders. The Tartar General informed for the Admiralty and is to be towed the government of the advice he had
His Worship-Will you stand dewa, H.R.H. Prince Arthur of Connaught, received from the Russian authorities, for round to Portsmouth at once. It will!
some time and it seemed as if the reli bers had transferred their energies else- please! I will take this case later in where. That some are still on the spot is the morning. evident.
Complainant then left the Court.
son of the Governor-General of Canada, will return from Japan by way of
Canada.
warding his telegram on to the National be capable of lifting 32,000 tons. It is Council, who held secret sessions in order of the box type," with two side walls, to discuss the matter, but so far have not and it covers an area of two acres. The reached any decision.
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