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THE HONGKONG DAILY PREES, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 30xA, 1914........
Western standards, it would still be some years before Foreign Powers could have Buch confidence in the stability of this reformed system as would justify them in entirely abandoning their rights of extra territoriality and in submitting their nationale to unmizol and unchecked Chinese jurisdiction. It must be borne in mind that, if Dr. Son's proposals wore carried into offect, they might result in foreigners having to undergo trial at Chinese hands far in the interior, where publicity might be altogether evaded, unless the special courts that are mentioned are to be so can.
The MacWatter's Malo Quaristta of Boston, a combination which enjoys a hig reputation in America, is visiting Hong- kong next week and will occupy the Theatre on Tuesday the 8th inst.
A marriage has been arranged and will take place in two or three weeks between the Hon. Mr. R. J. Wilkinson, C.M.C., Colonial Secretary, Straits Settlements (who is now at Home on leave), and Miss E. Baird.. Mr. Wilkinson bas engaged a double passage for Singapore.
ULSTER DAY.
SIGNING THE COVENANT.
SCENES OF ENTHUSIASM.
MESSAGES FROM UNIONIST LEADERS.
LONDON, September 28th,
[TELEGRAMS.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
MAN RUNS AMOK.
A LONDON BERBATION.
LONDON, September 28th.
A foreigner named Titus entered the saloon bar of the Horis Shoe Hotel on Friday and fred at two customers with
After the service Sir Edward Carson, a revolver, then turned the weapon on the accompanied by his escort, proceeded to the manageress and the barmaid, shooting City Hall to sign the Covenant. Lord the former dead and wennding the latter in the shoulder. He then reloaded the revolver and rushed out into Tottenham
Most of the Unionist leaders have Londonderry signed second, and after him came the heads of the Protestant despatched messages to the people of Ulster sympathising with the movement churches, Peers, Membors of Parliament, Court Road, grazed the porter in the neck
against Home Rule.
Mr. Bonar Law expresses the opinioa
officials, and others.
The ceremony of signing the Covenant. was carried out with the utmost solemnity
and fired to the right and left. Eventually a newsvondor and a passer-by seized the
performing the duties of Superintendant that victory is certain. He assures the and dignity. The Members of the Corman, who, however, shot the former in
people of Ulster sbat they will not stand alone, but that they can rely on the sup- port of the whole Unionist party.
poration attended in their scarlet robes
the stomach and knocked out the other' teeth with the revolver. The latter, how- At the conclusion of the ceremony, Sir
ever, clung to the man till the polica Edward Carson and other prominent arrived. gentlemen associated with the movement operated upon and is in a serious con- The newsvender has been
marched in procession through the strecta dition. Three mon were admitted to hospital. Several more were injured, but
The Colonial Treasurer's financial statement for the month of July shows the balance of assets and liabiliting on June 30th to have been $005,304,10, which, plus revenus for July amounting to 8634,431.06, gives a total of $1,365,795. 16. of Commons will attempt to drive Ulster thronged with cheering crowds to the
His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint Mr. Hutchison, stituted an to admit of foreign supervision in Superintendent of Imports and Exports, some shape or form. Another point on
to act as Head of the Sanitary Depart- which elucidation is necessary is the exactment, in addition to performing certain meaning in Dr. Sun's mind when he speaks of his own duties, during the absence on of throwing China open to foreign enterprise. leave of Mr. E. D. C. Wolfe or watil Does he mean that foreigners of overy rank further notice, and W. M. Beckwith, in life and any nationality will be permitted R.N., will assist Mr. R, O. Hutchison in to reside, buy land, and set up trading establishments in any part of China in the of Imports and Exports. same way that they now can at the Treaty Porta? Or is his intention merely that Foreigners shall be allowed to rural where they please in the interior without pass- ports? He specially mentions, as one of the concessions to be granted, the abolition of passports, but that is, after all, a more trifle. No one would weigh the simple BLEND OF THE FINEST PURE formality of obtaining a passport against the doubtful condition of submission to Chinese law, even though it be administered MALT SCOTCH WHISKIES.
in special courts. If his throwing open of Chian to foreign enterprise is to be of any real use, it cannot include less than the right to reside and entry on business in the interior (and it may be noted in passing "E" has maintained the
that this would actually involve na now of the FINEST Principle-it is well known that many reputation
foreigners, especially Japanese, do so carry SCOTCH WHISKY in the on business now, with the tacit consent of the authorities), together with some arrange. FAR EAST.
mont by which land and buildings necés. sary for the trade in question might be leased or otherwise acquired. This would constitute a privilege not incomparable with some modification of the extraterritoriality law, but, eren so, new Treaties with all the
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apparently thinks he can throw China open on his own terms; he would soon find, we fear, that as soon as the foreigners he had admitted into the interior gat into trouble, his spacial courts would be repudiated, and the offenders would, in terms of the Treaty
Deducting the expenditure for the month The of July the balance is 887,093.78, total assets of the Colony are placed at $6,310,341.00, and the total liabilities at the balance $5,422,347.31, which leaves above mentioned,
NEW STAMPS FOR HONGKONG. A notification published in the Gazette states that whereas the use of the die
bearing the head of King Edward VII. has been discontinued, and a new die bearing the head of H.M. King George V. has been provided in lien thereof, after March 31st, 1913, such new dio shall be the only lawful die for denoting dutier chargeable under the Stamp Ordinance, 1901. This notification does not apply to the b-cent revenue stamp sold unembossed to the public.
AT THE MAGISTRACY.
THE EARLY BIRD,
WASTING WATER.
A Chinese Woman W48 proceeded
Two Chinese women were charged with being in unlawful possession of a quantity of dates and Chinese delicacies valued at $57.60. Lance-Sergeant Wills of Tientsin, demand to be taken before the informed the Court that this was a caso nearest Consul for trial. If he wishes to of early morning pífering. Each do- put his scheme into effect, it will fendant was fined 825, the alternative firat be necessary for him to make an being one aunth's imprisonment. agreement with all the Powers to cancel this Treaty stipulation, and such an agree. mant is scarcely likely to be concluded at against before Mr. Irving on Saturday A con- present. The future may-and we hope it on a charge of wasting water. will-prove Dr. Sun's optimism to be well-stable, seeing her washing clothes under founded, but the reform of China's judicial a street tap, advised her not to waste the methods is not making such rapid progress water, but as she would not take the taken to the Central as would reader it likely that extraterritori. advice she was ality will be abolished in the present genera- Police Station. His Worship imposed a tion. The appointment of a foreigner as judicial adviser shows the sincerity of the
À boatman and boatwoman wero Government and their eagerness to get charged with being in possession of n the Augean stable clean, but the most zealous quantity of dates and other articles sup- efforts cannot have more than a gradual posed to have been unlawfully obtained effect. It may, moreover, well be asked from a cargo boat, alongside which their whether there is
for craft was moored. The man was ordered any demand
answer
fine of $1.
UNLAWFUL POSSESSION.
Mr. Balfour does not believe that either the British people or the House
out of the Union.
GOVERNMENT REFUSE TO BE
BLACKMAILED.
Sir J. Simon, the Solicitor General for England, speaking at Leeds, advised his hearers not to be provoked by the Ulster Crusade and the bad taste of the recep tieng beld by Sir Edward Carson. The Government, he said, refused to be black- mailed.
IRISH OFFICERS AND THEIR..
COMMISSIONS.
The Quilong states that one-third of the officers in the Army are. Irish and 90 per cent. are Unionist Protestants, who are considering resigning their commissions in order to lead Ulster in arms.
SIR EDWARD CARSON'S MESSAGE.
Sir Edward Carson issued a message to the effect that the great outburst of
enthusiasm throughout the Empire had deeply affected his colleagues and himself and had given them revived strength. It was realised that they were fighting for freedom and liberty and the inspiring ideals of unity and empire.
The utmost enthusiasm was shown in
Bollast on Friday night, the crowda buy- ing Union Jacks, etc., etc.
TWENTY MILES OF BONFIRES.
It was announced that Sir Edward Carson's guard of honour would consist of 110 specially selected Orangemen and 110 Unionists and that his sabecquent progress to Belfast Lough would be through twenty miles of bonfires and rocket displays on the hille.
FEARS OF A DISTURBANCE.
Ulster Reform Club, where he was enter-
tained to luncheon.
In Belfast during Saturday afternoon impressive processions of members of Clubs and Orange lodges wended their way to the City Hall, where there was a continuous signing of the Covenant.
THE RELIGIOUS ASPECT,
The Primate of Ireland has sent the following message to Sir Edward Carson : May God give strength and wisdom to guide Ireland's faithful sons who are try ing to save their beloved land from the degradation and disaster of religious strife and civil war.
Dr. McKean, in his Ulster Hall sormou, said that the Irish question at bottom was against Protestantism. What Ire. land wanted was rest from political agitation.
The Bishop, preaching in the Cathedral, said that they were ready to make every sacrifice to avert Home Rule.
the number is not known.
SIR HENRY WILLS' FORTUNE.
LONDON, September 28th. The estate of the late Bir Henry Wills, the well-known tobacco manufacturer. is returned at $5,214,364.
COMPANIONSHIPS OF THE BATH.
MORE FOR NAVAL OFFICERS.
LONDON, Beptember 28th. The attention of His Majesty the King has been drawn to the disparity in tho number of Companionships of the Bath offered to military officers and officers in
peace services as compared with those available for naval "officers, and His Majesty has authorised an increase of the latter awards by tan companionships, which will date from his her birthday,
LONDON'S NEW LORD. MAYOR.
LONDON, Eeptember 28th.
Sir David Burnett has been elected
The Moderator of the Presbyterian Lord Mayor of London.
Church of Ireland service at the Assembly Hall said the people would never submit to Roman Catholic ascendancy.
AN HISTORIC PARALLEL. At Edinburgh the Ulstermen signed the Covenant on the gravestone in Greyfriars churchyard on which the Solemn League and Covenant was signed in 1638.
THE COVENANT IN ENGLAND A steady stream of Ulstermen are signing the Covenant in London and the large towns of Britain.
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THE COVENANT IN CANADA. A message from Toronto states that at Some fears are entertained of a distura meeting attended by 5,000 people & re- was passed condemning Home bance during the football match between solution the Belfast Celtic and the Distillery, the Rule.
followers bring political respective opponents.
PRODUCING AN HISTORIC FLAG..
A great meeting was held in the Ulster Hall, Belfast, on Friday night, when the enthusiasu culminated in the presenta tion of the flag borne before King
such a general and unrestricted opening to pay a fine of $100, the alternative de-being six weeks' imprisonment, and the up of China, and whether it is
woman was cautioned and discharged. the sirable, and personally we think
BOLDIERS' EXTRAGEDINARY BEHAVIOR. in to "both questions is the
Privates Bailey and Archer of the negativa.
Most people have, of course, K.O.Y.L.I. were charged before Mr. their own pet place which they think it Irving with wilfully damaging watches would be advantageous to have opened to and a show-case in a Chinese jeweller's foreign trade, but we do not think there is shop at 217, Queen's Road Central, on A further charge of any demand for the right to set up in Friday night. business in every laulet and village of assaulting & loki was preferred against China. If any further places are to be the first defendant. thrown open, as doubtless will happen Sergeant Pitt deposed that Bailey was posal to import Henry Georgiams, are no
be auch na can follow a gradual and well and charged, and the other man, Archer, Sir Edward Carson to be borne be- far within the range of practitical politics defined programme, so that it should only who accompanied him, went away se fore him at Saturday's ceremony of to be recognized in European inds as sub-
Covenant. Sir signing the Saleman jects of unsettled controversy; while there be when a place had fulfilled certain marking that he would be back soon. He standards (eg, railway communication) went to the shop in question, pushed open
Edward returned
its the flag to ure also others which, though they would that it should be opened, rather than that the door and smashed a show-caso and a have been considered preposterous a year the whole of China should be opened at watch.
custodian, saying it was a sacred trust ago, cannot be dismissed se lightly now in
Complainant said the first defendant until the conspiracy against Ulster was view of the accomplishment of what at that once; and in any casa it would be far botter entered his shop and said he wanted to
killed. The responsibility for future date would have been considered even mory that there should not be a single new port buy a watch, Witness asked $18 for it, absurd--the establishment of a republic in of foreign trade if it is to be obtained only but defendant would not buy it, and events rested with the Government. China. It is in this third sites that we under the condition of subjecting foreigners threw it to the ground, smashing it. Witness insisted on defendant paying for must place Dr. Sua's recent suggestion for
the watch, and defendant then assaulted the opening up of the whole of China to
a foki. foreign enterprise with the proviso that foreigners living in the interior (ie., ontside the limite of the Treaty Forte) are to be placed under Chinese faw administered by Mr. C. W. Marshall of Yokohama as out a watch, and threw it on the ground and the wealth of Union Jacks and special courts. A year ago wa should have been appointed to the post of Secretary. He then ran away, but witness chased orange emblems.
Or the many new ideas and projects that Dr. Bus is setting before the Chinese some, as his great railway scheme, transcend reason and possibility; others, as his pro- before long, it is far better that they should taken to the station with a broken watch William at the Battle of the Boyne to
to China's present judicial system.
The English mail of the 31st August
Another witness stated that the second
was delivered in London on the 27th inst. defendant pushed open the shop door, smashed a show-case with his stick, took
scouted at once the idea of foreigners ever of the Shanghai Club. baing subjected to the jurisdiction of a
About 2,000 huts were destroyed by the
him and had him arrested.
At this meeting the messages from the Unionist leaders were read. THE SIGNING OF THE COVENANT, Saturday morning in Belfast was like a Sunday except for the decorated streets
Bir Edward Carson signed the Covenant One of the shop fokis said Bailey struck with a silver pen on a table covered with
the Union Jack Why did you behave in this extraordin- gry manner t
Chinesa court of law, and even now auch recent ire at Hankow, and from 7,500 to /him on the cheek with his fist.
proceeding still seems beyond the bounds
of possibility, but, if the miracle of national 10,000 people were rendered homeless, regeneration continues, what moms æ im-
OR
It must have been a fit of some sort,
Bailey was sentenced to three weeks'
the sir.
A Chinese has been arrested possibility to-day may be a common-place spicion of being concorned in in thirty years! time. Very much, of course, armed robbery which took place at Tai
Crowds proceeded to the services arranged by the churches, the greatest being held in the historic Ulster Hall. Thi Was attended by Sir Edward
Mr. Walter Long, who was one of the speakers, affirmed that Ulstermen determined to resist
BRITISH MEDITERRANEAN
FLEET.
were
UNIONIST LEADER'AT:DALMONAL.
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LONDON, September 29th, The newspapera comment on the pre- sence of Mr. Bonar Law at Balmoral. The conjectures vary from associating the
the desire of His Majesty and Sig visit with the proceedings in Ulster and
Edward Grey that the leader of the Opposition should attend the fiun) ex- change of views with M. Sazonoff.
OBITUARY.
LONDON, September 28th. The death is announced of Miss Louisa Twining, the well-known writer on social subjects, at the age of DI years.
IMPERIAL AFFAIRS.
LORD MILNER'S ADVICE,
LONDON, Beptember 28th. Reuter's correspondent at Halifax, Nova Scotia, states that Lord Milner, speaking at the Canadian Club, strongly appealed for the absolute dissociation of Imperial questions Irom local affairs. The former, he said, must be divorced from partisan strife in a similar mann the progressive reinforcement of the to foreign affaire. When public senti- Mediterranean flect until July, 1013, ment had been edusated, the politician, when it will consist of four battleship would find that it did not pay to mix cruisers and four cruisers.
Imperial and local issues Lord Milner concluded that any Canadian contribu- tion to the Navy abould not be to Eng- land, but to the Empire.
LONDON, September 28th. The Admiralty has issued a forecast for
The battleship cruisers are the Invin- cible, the Indefatigable, the Indomitable and the Inflexible, while the oruisers are the Farrior, the Duke of Edinburgh, the Black Prince and the Hampshire which. is a parent ship of the Alexandria, and will be a battleship of the Majestic class. The third battleship feet will cruise in the Mediterranean from October to January next.
AVIATION FATALITY.
LONDON, September 29th.
A message from Washington states that- a lieutenant and a sergeant were killed by a fall of 50 feet from an aeroplane.
UGANDA RAILWAYS.
MAWSON'S EXPEDITION.
LONDON, September 28th. "Reuter's Melbourne correspondent tele- graphs that the first wireless message received from Mawson's Expedition to Adelieland had reached Hobart vid Mac- quarie Island. The signals were faint, but it was hoped that regular communica tion would soon be established.
THE BONUS FOR BABIES.
AN AUSTRALIAN EXPERIMENT.
LONDON, September 28th. Reuter's correspondent at Melbourne states that the Commonwealth House of Mr. L. Harcourt, Secretary of State Representatives has passed the second
LUNDON, September 29th.