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common to the various parts of the Empires and then the braak-up and partition of China would be the vast natural step," When this was written there was no hint of the wonderful way in which provincial jealousies would be overcome or smoothed down by the statesmanship of the repub- lican leaders; and it seemed incredible that within less than a year the whole of China would be owning its allegiance to
The police made a raid on an opium diven at West Point on Wednesday, and the master of the house after being placed under arrest jumped from the seeund storey window on to the ground and was seriously injured.
A Chinese woman at Yaumati who had been entrusted with cloth to make into garments and who made the clothes and afterwards pawned them was brought
Yesterday was the official celebration of the outbreak of the revolution which led to the establishment of the Republic of China. The day was observed as a holiday by many Chinese in the Colony, and the five striped banner was much in evidence.
CORRESPONDENCE.
FOREIGNERS AND PASSPORTS.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "HONGKONG
DAILY PRESS."]
under this heading in your issues of 8th Sin,--Referring to the two articles
and 9th instant and to the paragraph in to-day's issue, a reference to the follow Government Gatettes may convince you that foreigners with sporting guns, etc., entering Chinese territory should, in their own interests, obtain permits to carry such arms, etc., from the local offes of the Chinese Maritime Custome for Kowloon and District:--
1-Notice No. 481 of 8th July, 1908: Gazette No. 29, Vol. LIV.. (Nes Rule
1910: Gazette No. 41, Vol. LVI, which 2-Notice No. 303 of 30th September,
is repeated in
a President (still less to President-YAN) Lefore the Magistrate yesterday anding notices published in the Hongkong and that inter-provincial jealousy would, to sentenced to six weeks' imprisonment say the least, bo vo more pronounced than it was under the Manchus yet that is only one of the miracles that have been accom. plished. Much has, it is fras, been said about the problem of Canton and its desire for Home Rule, but the difficolty there will be largely dissipated if for the objectionable phrem we substitute Devolution. Canton has shown some aloofness and exclusive- neas--the latest instance is its wish to have n special festival inaugurated to celebrate, as the first blow of the revolution, its abortive rising of April of last year-but, after all, there is nothing very reprehensible in its desire to manage its own provincial affairs in the way best suited to its needs, and there is no shadow of evidence that it intends to cut itself off from the rest of the Republic by refusing to send representatives to the Senate or to boar ite share of the
national burden, and, after all, these are the main tests. The Canton ideal simply re- duces itself to that of a federal republic. with liberal autonomy for each province.
The police have been informed that someone entered No. 3 Robinson Road in the early hours of yesterday morning and stole three lady's diamond rings and other valuables to the value of $1,000, the property of Mr. Kusomota, the manager of the Nippon Yusen Kaisha.
Mr. Ng Hon Taz, the manager of the Yuen Fat Hong, is joining Messrs. She- wan, Tomes & Company as compradore,
and will have na assistant Mr. Chan Yui Tong, head of the Chinese staff of the Nippon Yusen Kaisha, who leaves that office after twenty years service.
3. Notice No. 1 of 6th January, 1011: Gazette No. 1, Vol. LVII. The foreign territories of Hongkong and Macao are obviously not. "Treaty arts and places opened by China to foreign trade"! Enclosing my card.- -1- um, etc.,
SPORTSMAN.
TELEGRAMS. TELEGRAMS.
[SUROVON REUTER2#AGENUY?")
THE BALKAN WAR.
MONTENEGRIN SUCCESSES.
LONDON, October 10th
nople telegraphs that censorship is delay- Router's correspondent at Constanti
ing Turkish telegrams.
THE SEIZED VESSELS.
from the Greek vessels scized those most The Government has devided to select
suitable for transports and release the others.
MINISTERS IN A DILEMMA.
The Bulgarian, Servian and Greek Ministers are still without instructions, expect a rupture at any noment. but their baggage is packed, as they
MARTIAL ENTHUSIASM IN TURKEY, Reuter's correspondent at Salonika telegraphed on Monday that meetings were being held everywhere in favour of war. The Albanians have alone promised to restrain Montenegro.
FIGHTING ON MONTENEGRIN FRONTIER.
Serious fighting is taking place on the Montenegrin frontier, and Ersad Pasha is marching to the relief of Skutari.
RUSSIAN SYMPATHY.
A meeting to express sympathy with
[TEROVGN-ELUTER'S AGENCY:] TURKEY AND ITALY.
October 10th.
The Porte has despatched a courior to
will bring, the negotiations to a close. Ouchy with final instructions for the peace pourparlers. It is understood this
LATER. Many Italian families who were absent, from Constantinople during the Turko- Italian war have returned to the Turkish capital:
FIGHTING AT BOMBAT.
LATBIL
landing at Bombah, the Italian troops A message from Ronie states that after advanced in three columns over diffeŭlt country, being stubbornly opposed by the Tarks and Arabs all day. The Italians eventually occupied the positions which
were their objective, having four men killed and 58 wounded. The Turkish Insses were heavy..
THE CHINESE LOAN,
LONDON, October 10th. Mr. G. D. Faber, Conservative M. P. for Clapham, asked for u statement. On the Chinese Loan and whether the Gov- etament were hostile to the loau negotiat-
BRAND Besides producing a united China, the article in yesterday's issue the total cost In the case of Magao, for nearly 300 years Servia has been held in Moscow, where ed by Mr. Crisp and why.
By a printer's error in our leading Republic is gradually overcoming the inavit of the P.W.D. administration for the able aftermath of disorder; the vast super last ten years was made to appear as fluity of troops is being disbanded; local | $13,057,371. It should have been
[We are aware of the official notifications to which our correspondent refers, but we think the statement that Hongkong and Alacao are obviously not places opened by Chinese to foreign trade ise, to say the least.. debateable. These territories are held not by right of conquest but by forinal treaty.
Portugual over Macao, the port was before China conceded the sovereignty of cognised by Chinn as a place opened to
re 3,000 persons have volunteered for user- Mr. Acland, in replying, recounted foreign trade, and for many years the Pervice.
INDECISION OF THE CONFEDERĄCY,
the objects of the Six Powers agreement. the case of the New Territory added to this
and said that the principle of the con- Whatever their ultimate decisions, may Colony of Hongkong, it is held on lease from the Chinese Government, and, for the par- be, none of the other Balkan States have for any loan must be maintained, but ditions that had been considered essential The first practice for the forthcoming pores of our argument, there seems ne very appointment of YUAN SHI-'AI to the concert performance of German's Opera this territory and a foreign concession intimated their intention to wait à day or amendments that Chips might suggest.
insterial distinction to be drawn between yet declared war. Indeed, they have in this
WUB not incompatible with nay Merry England by the Philharmonie ry treaty part But admitting thesa on Monday, October 21st, at 5.30 p.m. Society will take plaes in the City Hall, arguments to be untenable, we can still fall two before replying formally to the Note It was most undesirabio to break up the
back on the argument used in our para- Choral practices will be held on subye
graph of yesterday, viz., that both Kow of the Powers, ion and Lappa appear in the offcial list of quent Mondays throughout the season. places opened by China to foreign trade."
published by the British Legation.]
LIGHT ALE government is being put on an effective foot 83,057,371, as will have heen obvious from tuguese Colony paid a routal to China. In
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ing; and a strong Cabinet is in existence in the comments based on the table. Peking. The turning point in the history of the past year undoubtedly was the
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Presidency, nad it is largely due to his wisdom and statesmanship that the Republic has made such phenomenal progress progress that would have been, a few months ago, incredible to the most optimistic. But while assigning so large a meed of praise to
A. S. WATSON President YUAN, we must not be oblivious
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An interesting case was heard before. of the part played by other leaders. YAN Mr. Melbourne at the Magistracy yester- Skin-x'ar's success in his now rôle would day when two men were charged with being i inlawful possession, of a quan.
THE WATER SUPPLY.
The water return for October lät is now
have been impossible but for the patriotic.sity of coal. It was contended that the available end the situation is disclosed self-abnegation of Dr. Sor, who, after see coal was deck sweepings, and that it was in the following table :-
ing the object for which he had been labouring for years past, often at the peril of his life, now on the verge of realization, stepped aside to let the prize. be grasped by another, and that, too, one whom he must have been accustomed to regard as an implacable foe to his cause. Nor must we overlook the loyalty with which the. PasSIDENT has been served by others who might have thought that they themselves had a claim to the highest authority, and who might have caused much inconvenience and difficulty by refus- ing to serve the Stute in any less capacity. The most notable of these is General Lt YUAN-HUNG, without whose faithful sup. port the PRESIDENT would have found it a hard tank to deal with the Wuchnog soldiery Indeed, it may be said that the result which we now behold could hayo bewa achieved
given the men, as payment One defen dant was discharged, and the CANE T against the other was adjourned.
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Pokfulam
Tytan
Melbourne at the Magistracy yesterday
appeared before Mr. Wong-nei-chung
charged with being in unlawful posses- sion of opium. The first defendant said he had been only out of prison for a few months and it was unfortunate that he should have been arrested again.
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: MINISTERS' TASK.
A message from Constantinople states that at midnight the five Ambassadore were still-deliberating upon the text of the communication to be addressed to the
Ports
ALBANIAN ACTIVITY.
that the
agreement, but there was no intention of maintaining it for the purpose of im- posing harsh and unreasonable conditions upon China. The loan in question was of the Six Power-Group-were proceeding, upposed because, while the negotiations
wo considered that China was not free borrow elsewhere, and we (the Britien Government) were under an honourable
The latest news emanntes from to Constantinople newspapers Albanian chief Riza Bey with 4,000 from Djakova has broken the Montenegrin lines (at Berane] and penetrated into Montenegro a distance of six miles.
BULGARIA DISSATISFIED..
A messago from Soba states that Bul- garia is dissatisfied with the Note from the Powers, as no details are given of the
obligation to oppose any outside loan. Furthuroiore, the loan, as far as they wore aware, did not afford adequate guarantees for its proper expenditure. THE ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF THE KING OF ITALY,
LONDON, October 10th.. Reuter's correspondent at Rome tele-
His Worship imposed a fine of 822, islund on October 1st was 608.87 millions Turkish reforms or guarantees that they graphs that the anarchist d'Alba, con
whereupon the defendant replied that he wanted the money he could take his life. had no money, and if the Magistrate
A fow
weeks ago
the island during last month is given as ber last year. The total consumption on 131.43 million gallons. If this rate of consumption is maintained, the supply is sufficient for just over three monthe, Usually the rainfall for the next five months does not average an inch a month, but last year in the months of October and November over eight inches of rain fell, and, for the purposes of the water supply it is to be hoped that we shall fare no worse this year.
KUSSIAN "TEST MOBILISATION.'
disbanded.
A MONTENEGRİN PROCLAMATION. A telegram from Cetinje states that King Nicholas in a proclamation to the people calls upon Montenegrins to help their brethren who are being sacred in old Servia, and says they can be as- sured of the sympathy of the civilised world, and would be assisted by Servin, Bulgaria and Greece.
DELIGHTFUL IRONY.
LONDON, October 10th.
Mr. A. J. Balfour, speaking at Pad- dington, said Mr. Churchill's speech at Dundee on the 17th alt. was a much-mis understood masterpiece. It meant that Mr. Churchill had returned from his fam aus Belfast expedition convinced that
Clearly be had tried, but fruitlessly, to impress this upon his colleagues, and then made a speech intonded to make Home Rule utterly ridiculous.
Home Bule was an absolute impossibility.
of gallons, as compared with 700.02 will be carried out. She desires to convicted of an attempt to assassinate the date last year. But while throughout the action. millions of gallons on the corresponding sult Servia and Greece before taking King of Italy in March last, has bon month of September, 1911, there was a
sentenced to thirty years' imprisonment, Chinese living constant supply in all districts, in
saven of these being solitary confinement. As the German and Austrian Press has. netting somewhere about $6,000. near Sem Sui Po won a Macao lottery, September this year the intermittent
MR BALFOUR ON MR. WINSTON celebrated with a feast on Tuesday, and districts caur into force on September sian mobilisation, it is officially declared -Ho supply by rider mains in rider main been voicing suspicions regarding Rus
CHURCHILL. was keeping up only by the loyal and patriotic co-operation Wednesday by entertaining a number of head in September this year was 17.4 od has been finished and the reservists. the celebrations on 4th. Consequently the consumption per that the test mobiligation recently order- of the mass of the officials of the Republic.friends when a band of ines armed with gallons as compared with 29.4 in Septem- It is necessary, however, to point out one knives appeared on tho scene. They great danger that lies before the Republic surrounded the house, plundered it, and that of being false to its uamo, and iu made off with money and clothing to the | emphasizing this point we do not minimize value of 81.4. No arrests have yet been HONGKONG, OGrosan 11тя, 1912.
the financial problem, which is, however, of
mada. Br Presidential Mandate, by the role of a different category, The people are now
An extraordinary misadventure was the Advisory Council, and by popular allowed no more say in their local, provin-reported to the police on Wednesday: desire, it had been decreed that yesterday cial, and national affairs than they had while a coolis was removing clothes from should be observed sa national festival in under the Empire, and trouble such as has bamboo at his residence in Queen's Chins, in celebration of the anniversary of just occurred at Foochow shows that theyRoad West, he overbalanced and fell over the first blow in the struggle that led to the are chafing under the arbitrary bureaucratic the verandah. He alighted on a Chinese overthrow of the effote Manchu dynasty and rule to which they are subjected. It is woman who was passing underneath, and to the establishment of the Republic in essential that there should be as little delay she received such injuries that necessitat China, and in-memory of the men who fell as possible-in-aduitting the people to a Led her removal to hospital, but-the-coolie, fighting in the republican cause. It is diffi-share in the government: the members of although he fell from the second floor, was cult to realize that all the events of the past a bureaucracy may be perfectly loyal and practically unhurt and refused to go to year in China were actually crowded into so honest, and believe that they are governing
hospital. short a space of time, and that it is but a the people in the way best suited to there, brief twelve-months since the revolution and that their well-considered plans would broke out at Wuchang and was pooh-poohet be seriously prejudiced if it were necessary as a mere sporadic rising that would soon to submit them to an elected Council, but be suppressed, as many others had been the sincerity of the bureaucrats dess not
It is inevitable that to-day our make their government constitutional. the opium divans under instructions from The following have been selected to play fired the first shot in the war at the Tur China before and during the revolution, and makes it harder to relinquish it; every day of divans in the Colony is now double and Mr. Hutchison's team on the Hong-bands theanwhile playing the Royal a review of all that has happened since that that the people are kept out of the estate what it was when divans were registered. teteful day when JuI-CHENG "Dipped the that they have won with their life's blood. revolution in the bad" may serve a useful will increase the strain. purpose in demonstrating the gradual con- the Cabinet, and the Advisory Council will solidation of power under the republican add to their reputation if they delay no adwinistration, its justification of itself to longer in establishing constitutional demo- the world as a capable government, and the cratic government, so making China a true possibilities that await a rejuvenated China. Republic, and not one in marne only.
"before.
OPIUM DIVANS.”“”
THE FITILITE OF LEGISLATION.
It is asserted that since the closing of
The Kowloon Gravitation reservoir was ft 5in. below overflow on October let this year as compared with oft 2in. above overflow of the corresponding date of last year, but ou last month's consump- tion basis-in Kowloon there is a supply sufficient for ten monthe.
CRICKET.
FARTICULARS OF THE FIGHTING.. A dispatch from Podgoritiza, the Mon- tenegrin headquarters, dated the 9th inst., states that after an artillery duel along the whole line for 2 minutes the marine Be has been abandoned. Turks were compelled to retire from their first position on Mount Planinitza.
THE SUNKEN BURMARINE.
LONDON, October 10th. The re-floating of the sunken sub
By
CHINA PLAGUE SERVICES. noon the whole mountain was evacuated.
King Nicholas and Prince Mirko and The King has been pleased to give and Staff had ridden out early in the morn-grant unto the gentlemen whose namen ing to an adjacent mountain, amid. the appear
below His Majesty's Royal Licence and authority to accept and wear: cheers of the inhabitants,
Decorations which His Majesty the Punctually at 8 o'clock Captain Prince Emperor of China, by an Imperial Edict confer upon them in recognition of Peter, the youngest son of King Nicholas, dated February 6th last, was pleased to
thoughts should bark back to the state of Every day that they enjoy supreme power the Home Government that the number in-a match between Mr. Turner's team kish positions on the hills opposite, the Faluable services rendered by them:
A Chinese woman
The PRESIDENT,
THE PEAK BURGLAR RE- ARRESTED,
kong Cricket Club ground on Saturday, hymn,
the 12th, and Monday, the 14th October. After the Turkish evacuation of Mr. Turner's team:-W. C. D. Turner, Planinitza, the Montenegrins, covered by Lieut. F. W.Christian, R. E. 0.. Bird, { their guns, advanced to attack the A. N. Joseland, W. E. Warburton, H. strongly fortified mountain - Detchitch prisoner who escaped from Victoria Gaol Bagnall, Capt. H. K. Hughes, K.O...., Turks at two o'clock in the afternoon We learn on good authority that the Hancock, A. A. Claxton, Licut. H. G. commanding the road to Scutari. The last Saturday, while awaiting trial for G. B. Bayer, J. S. Lloyd, M. Maas, C. landed troops on the shore of Lake Seu- We are free to confess that we saw no more
tari, near the frontier A battle ensued reason than did anyone else to believe that
committing burglaries at the Peak, has Beswick and Lieut. F. B. Hitchcock. who fell from a been arrested at Macao. We believe that Mr. Hutchison's team:-R. O. Hutchi-along an extensive front. The Crown the great changes that the last year bas scaffold at the Taiping Theatre on Wed the reward of $500 offered for his arrest son, Lieut. A. G. White, Corpl. Taverner, Prince Danilo, who is the commander-in- witnessed would take place so rapidly or so nesday has been removed to hospital aufer information that would lend to his E. B. Reed, Lance-Cornl. Dempsey, E. A Carf, and Prince l'eter have just return peacefully, nor that China would so soon fering from severe injuries. evolve a new form of settled government,
capture has not been offered in vain, Fowler, S. H. Dodwell, Hop. C. Severn, ed from the battlefield to consult King The Pacific Mail 6.5: Co. has now made
Nicholes. as it is understood that he was identified); Lieut. N. J. Williams, A. H. Gillingham, At the time we said, "The present revole arrangements whereby passengers holding by one or other of his former friends. Capt R D. Crawford, 0, C. Clarke, tion spells the ultimate overthrow of the through tickets. have the privilege of It will probably take some time to have Manchu Empire; with the overthrow of the travelling by train between Kobe and hira extradited from Macao Manchus there vanishes the single factor Yokohama free of charge.
Colony..
to the
It P. Thursfield and S. 8. Moore.
Flay to commence on Saturday, at pm., and on Monday, at 10.45 a.m.
ORDER OF THE DOUBLE DRAGON.
Insignia of the First Clase of thes Third Grade. Mr. Dugald Christie, C.M.G., Medical Officer for the Prevention of Plague, Mukden Station,
Insignia of the Second Class
of the Third Grade
Mukden Station. Officer for the Prevention of Plague, Mr. Alexander Russell Young, Medical
For
Mr. David Dickson Muir, Medical | Officer for the Prevention of Plague, Mukden Station.
Mr. Hugh Miller Elder, Traffic Inspec-
Chinese Paing Mukden Line
Government Railways,
Insignia of the Third Class of the Third Grade. Mt. Rebort Thomasey, Adviser, A BULGARIAN ATTACK..
Prevention of Plague, ukden Station. Bulgarian poesauts and soldiers attack.
Mr. Robert Jolu Gordon, M.A., M.B., ed and drove out the garrison from the B.Ch., of the Irish Presbyterian Mission, Turkish blockhouse at Kalora on Monate Plagne Prevention Medical Officer day.
at Hulan, Heilaugchiang.