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CORRESPONDENCE,
ITO TE RDITOR OF THE "HONGKONG -
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HONGKONG BRANCH OF THE NAVA LEAGUE,
HONGKONG, December 3rd. Sin, The telegram from Reuter's Bom- bay correspondent announcing the con-
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRE W, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6TH, 1919.
MONGOLIA AND TIBET.
SZECHUENESE VOLUNTEER FOR WAN WITH BESSIA.
A Chengtu message dated the 25th ult.
At a general meeting to-day of the military officers it was resolved that the 4th Division of the Army should volunteer to proceed to Mongolia, providing that their offer is accepted by the Central Government. It is stated that Szechuan
OPIUM PLANTED IN DEFIANCE
OF LAW....
POPPY EVERYWHERE IN PUKIENY.
A correspondent of the China Peas
writes (Shanghai)
from Hsinghwa, Fukion:-
"The political conditions in Hsinghwa, Fukien, have not improved. It is now very unsafe to travel over a wide section of the
DR.
CURRENCY REFORM IN CHINA.
ROEST APPOINTED CURRENCY ADVISOR.
A Peking dispatch dated the 25th ult. been signed, the Central Government fine saye-Although the contract has not yet decided to engage Dr. Vissering's private secretary, Dr. Roest, as advisor for currency reform, while Dr. Vissoring has accepted the position as honorary advisor. It is intended that Dr. Roest shall work in close touch with Dr. Vissering by
Roost follows to-morrow, but will return ing has already left for Europe. Dr. reform work which is being published in Having completed the currency Shanghai to-day, they will now begin similar report in connection with the establishment of a central bank which will obtain a separate charter from the central government but will be entirely independent of the latter,
THE PANAMA CANAL.
THE NEW ROUTE AND THE EMPIRE.
[BY A CORRESPONDENT OF THE TIMES.
An oceanic Empire like the British, with vast interests and territories in every hemisphere, must needs be greatly affected by the artificial bisection of the American continent. lationships will be considerably altered Geographical re-
consideration. political effect of these requires careful thousand miles is no grost matter, but as With the vast develop- ment of steam-power a sea-distance of
templated gift of super-Dreadnoughts can send 40,000 men and Tutu Hu has territory. My own burden-bearer was means of continual reports. Dr. Visser by the Panama Canal, and the probable i
and cruisers by the independent Rulers,
Princes and Nobles of India, following the generous gift of a Dreadnought by the Federated Malay States, must have made a deep inipression on all British subjects in this outpost of the Empire.
expressed his willingness to lead the troops.
Tibetans have retreated from Lamaya
During the fighting the Chinese force lost sixty men
the
the
had a very narrow escape. The situation attacked and stabbed few days ago. He is due. Inrgoly, to a fow reactions among the literati, who secretly encourage soldiers, well officered, but the commander thebandits. We have plenty of good is hampered by conflicting, orders from Commissioner King at Foochow, due to
600D.
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It
We feel that this splendid example must have engendered a desire on the part of some, at least, of your readers to assist in the movement which has given rise to such tangible result of generous impulse. I may be premature to suggest that the Colony should contribute its special unit to the Imperial Fleet, when its present limited income is considered; but, we arrived at Tatsionlu en route to assist hence; so that the Government must from Professor Jenka. They propose to wealth of Australia. Still, it cannot be
trust, it is not too much to suggest that those of your British readers whose souso of practical patriotism has been touched by the example of the F. M.S. and India should spend the modest amount of 85 each, and become members of the local branch of the Navy League, as being the only organisation which exists for the purpose of inculcating the people of the Empire all over the world with a know- ledge of the supreme importance to then of the British Navy, as the mainstay of Our Imperial existence.
The Empire is now called upon to face ❤ new situation in international politics, Fraught with potential peril; the war hich has broken out in the Near East. the ultimate outcome of which it is im- possible to foresee, vastly increases our Imperial responsibilities in the Mediter- reau, whilst the growing Naval power coupled with the reduction of the British Fleet in Far Eastern waters creates a position of considerable doubt as to whe ther Great Britain is holding her own in the matter of naval supremacy, having regard to her world-wide maritime in terests.
given, the canal will bring Sydney 2,882 miles and Wellington 2,759 miles
turer Newhole indifferent or Po eannot be indifferent to England that this vast southern continent should be brought so much closer to 90 millions of English-speaking people in the United States than to the 45 millions of the As a set-of against this, however, the eastern parts, including the administrative centre of the Dominion of Canada, are brought equally nearer to New Zealand and the Common- denied that the geographical contre of gravity of the English-speaking race New rather than in the Old World. settles more decisively than ever in the
to Hsinngehen.
The road to Batang is being opened, that he is only going as these reactionary influences.
Tutu Yum has left at for as Batang or Chiamdo. Many thousands of armed Tibetans are reported to be in the district
The very high price of opium has It is intended that the bank shall be just west of the Yangtze. Large numbers aroused the cupidity of many, and the essentially a banker's bank; similar to are also in the Hsiang-ehen district and poppy is planted everywhere in defiance the Bank of England. It will possess
situation ję uncertain, 隐技
of law. The villagers are in sympathy the sole authority to issue notes, and Tibetans
determined arc
to
with the bandits, because they want to so the present bank-notes will gradually British Imperial centre. resist invasión.
reap the large reward they think awaits
disappear With regard to currency Yang Shao Chuen, with another then when they gather their opium. This reform, Dr. Roest and Dr. Vissering do Chiness with a knowledge of English, has will be another three or four months not consider that a large amount of money will be necessary, thus differing Tutu Yuin.
change its wretched policy or have institute taxation on a gold basis, begin- continual chaos here all the winter.
ning at the treaty ports and then strongly garrisoned, and is as safe as it all faxes will have to be paid on a gold However, the city of Hsinghwa is gradually to extend the field in which has ever been, if the soldiers remain loyal; basis, eventually establishing a common and being altogether Fukienese, there is, rate between payments made by China to no probability of their becoming unruly in order to meet the different values of foreign countries, and all taxation, while long, for the country in general is becom-banks of each province will fix a daily We are confident of better times before silver in the various provinces, the local ing more settled; and the Government rate of exchange which will be official. can not continue to be deceived very long. The extension of the scheme will follow
upon effective government control.
Government has most peremptorily pro A Peking telegram says that the hibited all appeals for a war against the Russiana and Mongols. The Tutus of the Provinces have been ordered to other corporations agitating for war. dissolve the Kan-sze-tui troops and the The Government acknowledges that the only possibility of overcoming the difficul ties abroad is to first establish order in the country.
THREATS OF WAS.
In the House of Commons on the 12th ult.,
Dr. Chapple (Stirlingshire. asked the Secretary for Foreign Affairs Min.) whether the Government had ratified The Hague Opium Convention.
A Peking message to the Ostasiatische Lloyd says:-A mandate of the President THE HAGUE OPIUM CONVENTION. refers to the complaint of the Khalkas Mongolians that the establishment of the Mangolia and is undermining religion. Republic has destroyed all order in The mandate promises the Mongolians the means necessary for the administra- tion as well as a special treatment of the Princes. But in the meanwhile one town the Province of Chili is falling into the after the other in the northern part of hands of the Mongolians; they have already occupied Chi-feng and Chao yang-fu. Even Kaigan is threatened by
them.
CHINESE EMBROIDERY ON LINEN.
BEITISH DEVELOPMENT.
may so speaks, Atlantically. The Atlantic The people of this country think, if we
physical character they are chiefly or is the ocean with whose history and solely familiar.
INTIMATIONS
ITCHING ECZEMA ON
HANDS AND FINGERS
Scratched Constantly. Long Cracks Bled and She Cried Bitterly with the Pain, Convinced Case was Incurable, Cuticura Soap and Ointment Completely Cured Her.
"I have suffered for nearly five years naw from a very unsightly form of eczema on: nry hands and fingers, in spite of the constant attention of doctors, herbalists and chemists. The places began by small valery pimples. They burst, car song cracks and often bled. I developed two large sores on the back of my allt had and on my right wrist. Those becamo ravy as if sicinned and. as large as fivesfiliug places. The irritation was so bad that I
I was exhausted bag poured with blood, and scratched until with the agony and cried bitterly with thopalo. "I had grown firmly convinced that my Caso was quits hopelessly incurable. My right hand for months looked a terribla that I was compelled to wear a glove_night. and day, and it irritated me so that I toro it til the blood poured from anveral places At once. I was distracted with the canselesa. pain and Itching. I thought I would try the Culicura Boap and listment, and my delight was great when I found places that had been sore and painful for years gradually but surely healing up. They are absolutely cured now through the use of Cutleura Bosp and Ofatment, which appiled constantly. binding up the worst pisces,
"I can do my work now like any other woman, but before I dreaded even to think it. I felt relief after the List two er throe rashes with the Cuileurs Soup and applica flons of the Cuticura Ointment, and now after using only one and one-half boxes of the Ointment my hands are soft and white. The Cuticum Boap wo uso dally, it is so sooth- ing to the icin Cuticura Boap and Oint mant cured my hands when doctors sald I nover should get them heale" Bigned) Mrs. Alys Watson."Hazomero." The Avenue, Starbeck, Dr. Harrogate, Eng., July 10, 1911: Bamples with 32-p, book free from nesraat depot: F. Newbery & Sons, 27, Charterhours 8q., London; R. Towan & Co., Sydney, N.9.W.; Lannon, Ltd., Caps Fown; Muller, Macloan & Co. Calcutta and Bombay; Potter Drug &. Chen. Ourp, sole props, Baston, U. 8. A.
The Pacific is too far away to engage their thought and interest. They have scarcely been able, oven in imagination, to pass from the western shores of the Atlantic across a continent as wide as that ocean to the Pacific coasts and the ocean-spaces beyond. Even of The embroidered centrepiece and de- corativa d'oyley is more popular than those emigrants who have in recent years generally all white, and there are many ever, remarks a London paper.
arrived in the Atlantic ports of the It is beautiful styles of white work, or it is tion of going to the Pacific States not United States or Canada with the inten-
Sir E. Grey (Northumberland, Ber-character. In the Delft and the Dresden Chicago or Winnipeg. To all this, the likely to be a monochrome of decided many have ever got much further than
the reasons of the delay in ratifying, I pomegranate pink there are delightful encu wick)-The reply is in the negative. For pattern blue and white and in "old" or Panama Canal will make a vast differ- would refer the hou, member to Articles examples of monochrome, Strong colour Canada for at least a thousand miles The west of the Dominion of XXII and XXIII of the Convention. is generally very, acceptable on the table behind British Columbia will be Pacific Except in the now unlikely event of all-the effect is likely, to be very good in outlook and interest. All the varied the Powers signing the Convention and while delicate colours often seem weak and inexhaustible produce of this huge supplementary protocol before December and insufficient. The Chinese and catchment area 31st, 1912, ratification can in no case take Japanese teach as the use of heavy colour through Vancouver, Victoria,
will flow westwarda place until after that date.
ing on white and delicate-weight fabrics. Rupert, and the other ports of British Grass linen is a Chinese fabric, and is Columbia. All the wheat of the western one of the most beautiful of linens, for it half of the Canadian prairies will pour has in addition to the fresh beauty of all through these outlets. Even now, despite linens a kind of crisp icy look which dis- the expensive haulage over the Rockies, tinguishes it from the damask cloth when it is placed on it. This linen is very
wheat may be shipped in winter from Chinese produce exquisite examples of throngh Vancouver than through St. practical for drawn-thread work, and the Calgary to Liverpool more cheaply this kind of embroidery. The East is, in John, New Brunswick. Moreover, for fact, the home of drawn-thread work, five months in the year the eastern route The most lovely films webs of this work is blocked by ite, while the British come from China, and they are made on Columbia passage is open for the whole | CHRONOMETER-MAKERS, fine grass linens. The threads draw out winter. The Panama Canal will inevit- readily, and those that remain are so ably draw through its sluices the harvests strong that it is possible to make very of the western half of the Canadian open patterns.
Dominion.
PRESIDENT TAFT'S THANKS- GIVING PROCLAMA гION.
The situation for the Chinese Govern ment with regard to the Mongolian question is growing more difficult every day. The Government threatens to go to war in Mongolia, if Russia will not give One item of the present policy of the numbers of troops to Mukden and to the in; in fact it despatches considerable Navy League is to advocate the imme-Chili frontier in order to protect China; diate re-establishment of British Naval against an attack of the Mongoliana. power in the Mediterranean, another is to But all men who are really in the
"A God-fearing nation like ours owes press for the adequate protection of position to be judges of the situation are it to its inborn and sincere sense of of the opinion that the Peking. Govern- trade routes, both being of vital importment will be absolutely unable to inter-moral duty to testify its devout gratitude ance to the Empice, and particularly to fere in Mongolia by force of arms. this Colony.
Prince Kalaching had yesterday invited the representatives of the foreign Press at Peking to a dinner. Apparently this was done by order of the Government to show the loyalty of the Mongolian princes. Prince Kalaching explained in princes had signed the treaty with his toast that but four Mongolian Russia; but be admitted that the other princes are partly sympathetic towards the attitude of the Russians, and partly
For these reasons, we trust that you will extend to as the courtesy of your columns and permit us to appeal to all British subjects who have not yet done so to join the local branch of the Navy League, and thus assist in the prosecution of the work of the League, by directing the attention of Britisners all over the world to the necessity for the mainten-unable to resist it. ance of a firm, well-balanced and con- tinnous Naval policy. There is no en- trance fee, and the subscription of five dollars per annum entitles aach member to a copy of the monthly magazine of. the League, which contains the latest news of Nuval development and policy, and of the work which is being dono in
this cause both at Home and abroad.
Forms of application for membership ̈can be obtained from the undersigned, or from the Hon. Treasurer, E. A. M. Williams, Esq., care of Mesara, Lowe, Bingham & Matthews.-Yours faithfully,
C. G. ALABASTER, HEDLEY G. WHITE, Joint Hon. Secretaries, Hongkong Branch Navy League.
A WHALE IN A KOREAN RIVER.
KILLED BY MEANS OF. AXES.
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CHINESE CIVIL SERVICE.
NEW REGULATIONS.
The National Council has passed the second reading of the revised regulations for civil examinations, which briefly are legal provisions:- as follows, with the exception of certain
to the All Giver for the countless benefits it has enjoyed,
"For many years it has been customary at the close of the year for the National Executive to call upon his follow countrymen to offer praise and thanks to God for the manifold blessings vouch- earnest suppliance for their continuance. safed to them in the past and unite in
Drawn work in China is done according to an established method. It is executed disregarded in Japanese or Chinese em- on a framed fabric, which makes re- gularity possible. Technique is never been notably favourable to our fortunate "The year now drawing to a close has
The technique is tyrannically land, at peace within and without, free perfect. from the perturbations and calamities and it is quite an ideal material for Grass linen makes beautiful napkins, that have afflicted other peoples, rich in frocks and blouses. harvests to abundant and in industries
broidery.
"TALES THAT ARE TOLD."
so productive that the overflow of our prosperity has advantaged the whole world. Strong in the steadfast conserva- bequeathed to us by the wisdom of our tion of the heritage of self-government
The Corriere della Sera has unearthed fathers and firm in the rescive to transmit a story which sounds too good to be true, that heritage, unimpaired, but rather When Li Hung Chang visited England improved by good use to our children and in 1896, Gladstone, we are told, sent him
days later the Chinese statesman sent a as an appropriate present two splendid
letter full of profuse thanks for the dogs. specimens of the British bulldog. A few
They were plump," he remarked, "but
our children's children for all time to come, the people of this country have abounding cause for contented gratitude
Civil Service examinations are divided into two classes, namely, for higher civil and for general officials. For the former there will be entrance, preliminary, and President of the United States I found them rather tough eating."
Wherefore, I, William Howard Taft, final examinations. The subjects to be America, in pursuance of long established be Chinese literature, history, geography, American people, invite my countrymen taken at the entrance examination will usage and in response to the wish of the arithmetic and general law. For the wheresoever they may sojourn, to join will be national law; ponal, civil, this month of November, in appropriate Preliminary examination the subjects on Thursday, the twenty-eighth day of international and administrative laws; praise and thanks to God for the good economics and finance, which aro com- pulsary.
gifts that have been our portion and in toward us may endure, humble prayer that. His great mercies
In the final examination the candidate will be examined upon the interpretation of existing laws and orders and will have to make a statement upon a given case. He will also be examined in the drafting
of despatches. College graduates are exempted from the entrance examination, The Bill also provides for a general civil service examination, for which the subjects will be Chinese literature, his tory, geography, arithmetic and general administrative laws and economics..
not to exclude non-university candidates. After a long discussion it was decided
THE CRISP.LOAN.
19SUE OF OTHER HALF FORETOLD.
"In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the real of the United States to he affixed. seventh day of November in the year of "Done at the City of Washington this our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twelve, and of the Independence-of-the- United States the thirty-seventh.
one hundred and
"WM. H. TAPY."
DELAY OF THE SIBERIAN MAIL.
A Peking message dated the 8th ult. says:Official enquiries create the belief that the delay to the English Mail, "Vis
member of the London Stock Exchange The following is the reply sent by a
drawn to the extent of £47 89. 6d. -- to his bank-manager, who had written reminding him that his account as over- Your faveur, reminding me that my account is overdrawn, duly received. I fail to see why you should take the trouble to write me on the subject. When my account was in credit, did I write reminding you of the fact I think you done so." would be the first to complain if I had
Ruskin, out walking near Radley, saw a group of little girls playing, and stopped to speak to them. He asked one of them whether she loved flowers, and receiving an affirmative answer, inquired whether she had a garden. She had not, and Ruskin, with characteristic impul siveness, bought a cottage in Hadlay with a garden and had the freehold made over to the girl.
CHEAPENING OF FREIGHTS,
Prince
ports of Canada will be shortened by The ocean trails from British Columbia to Boston and New York and the castern 8,415 miles and to Liverpool by 6,046 miles. This means a lowering of freights cattle, coal, paper, fish, and all other by a full half for the wheat, lumber, British Columbia products sent round to
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The province will not simply provide the outlot for her own products and these of the vast interland behind, vessels that hear this produce will come back, not in ballast, as is too often the caac nowadays, but laden with the manu- An extraordinary event is reported
factures of Europe, mainly, let us hope, of England, to be distributed throughout from Sin Anju, a railway town in North
half the Dominion. It is difficult even to Pyongau Province, Chosen. On the
enumerate the possible directions of trade 20th ult. about noon, when the tide was high, says the Seoul Press, villagers of
development. For example, as the wealth and population and industrial power of Wangpong Li, Tong Myon in Kasan District of the same province were amazed
British Columbia and Western Canada develop, a new and illimitable trade- to see a big black object swimming in the River Tailyong running near by.
uxchange will be opened with the They did not know what the monster was
Mississippi valley and with the teeming and watched its movement with great
basing of the Amazon and Orinoco. excitement and interest. Soon after the
Another effect of incalculable importance will be the flow of emigration via the STUDY monster sont up a columa of water and
Canal from the Old World to the United disappeared. On the following day at about 7 o'clock, Tomizo Tashiro,
Mr. Lloyd George at the National States and Canadian slopes of the Pacific. Japanese railway linesman in service at Bin Anju Station, while patrolling the
The following was issued last week Siberia," is due to the fact that it is Union of Journalists dinner observed This will mean an ever-growing supply a little in of labour and a consequent development as an extra by the National Review -
being forwarded by the ordinary postal that he himself dabbled line, was astonished 'to see a whale strugg
He was in industrial enterprise of every kind. trains. It appears that the English post journalism in his early days. PEKING, November 28th. ling to go down stream at a point about
With reference to the negotiations and that the Mail is forwarded to but he managed to earn an honest but its unity, political and economic, is cho above the Railway bridge on the recently proceeding between London and Moscow, where it ought to wait the deprecarious livelihood on the Parliament fostered by wise and constructive-states-
closes in London on Saturday evening, rather in the nature of a casual labourer, And so long as the Empire subsists and THE EYE Tailyong River. It was low tide and the Peking, and in view of the attitudeparture of the next Express Train, which ary staff of a well-known newspaper. manship, the increase of wealth in one water having considerably receded, the river was only about five feat deep. The adopted by the heads of the Hongkong & it would do proper arrangements were Nothing seemed to happen in his line in portion means an increase in the wealth whale had evidently stranded on a shal Shanghai Banking Corporation, it has made. This is borne out by the fact that the first few weeks, but gradually he and material power of the whole. low place and was
been found impossible by the new Inter the Mail which closed in London on the began to discover the portentousness of ΠΟΤΟ. Tashiro was overjoyed to find the un-national Group to comply with the wishes 13th November has arrived in Peking, quite commonplace events, and as le got The Pacific Ocean which we are-about- expected spoil and tried to kill it by of the Chinese. Government, which con- while that of the 9th is now between to know his job he managed to work out to look upon will be in a sense almost bring at it with a fowling piece he was sistently desires to preserve harmonious Moukden and Peking, and Dalny and his column pretty regularly from things as new as that which Balboa frat beheld carrying with him. He fired at it eigh-relations between the financiers and Shanghai, respectively. Strong official he had never thought worth taking note from the Culebra mountains in 1613. teen times, but the whale seemned to be Governments of all nations; to maintain representations are being made to Loudon of about six weeks beforehand. That had Nearly a half of the most powerful and none the worse in consequence. Tashiro the principle of equal opportunity, and on the subject. concluded that it would not do to try to
givch him ever since a good deal of progressive of the thus arrive at 起 mutual satisfactory
British Oversen kill it in that way and running to the modus vivendi, particularly as between
sympathy with journalists in search of Dominions will in future look westwards nearest village collected several Koreans, the conflicting British interests,
copy--even though he happened to be the to the Pacific.rather than eastwards to told them of his find and each armed
NEW COLONIAL POSTAGE STAMPS, Victim of that copy. (Laughter.)
the Atlantic. Far to the south-west is the with an axe they returned to the spot
vast island continent whose future The whale was still there, the water
destinies are closely linked with the having far receded. They rushed into
polities of the Pacific, The Empire's' the stream any striking the monster
position in Canada and Australia should on the end yh the axes several times
ensure for it a dominant influence in this oceanic hemisphere. But it faces the with might.main they at last sue-
competitions of the new era with two ceeded in kg it. The whale was about 35 feet in length and was valued
suffrage meeting from the House of Com-sources of weakness the scantiness of the mone? "Give them our kind regards, Australian population (only 4 millions at about 1,000 yen. It is evident that the animal strayed into the river from the
was the retort, the profundity of which in a continent of three million square sea and was carried away by the flood
completely took the wind out of the sails miles) and the want of a fortified position of his Lordship's eloquence.
tide.
unable to
...
Truth gives the following account of Rule in the House of Commons:-
a voice in the suffrage debate on Home "What message," barked Lord Robert Cecil, with flashing eye and menacing
In these circumstances, and in view of the urgent need of the Government for liquid funds; also in view of the desire
which free nations express towards China growing list of Georgian postage stamps The latest additions to the supidly- and their practical sympathy with her of the British Crown Colonies comprise efforts to re-establish prosperity, and also Jamaica, 2nd, grey and 18, black on green with the object of assorting definitely the (Nyasaland type); Sierra Leone, d.fore-finger," am I to take to the women's rights of Britons to unrestricted freedom orange and 2d. grey (D.L.R. type); East in Enancial and commercial enterprises, Africa and Uganda, 1, 10, 12, 15, 25, and the new International Group, under Mr. 50 cents, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 10, 20, and 50, Crisp's direction, will proceed forthwith rupees; Straits Settlements, le green, to the issue of the remaining half loan. 10c. purple on yellow.
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