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that the Cabinet and Advisory Council ars subservient to him in these matters. There ie, too, reason to believe that we shall soon see a much larger number of the old man- darins restored to office; for recent Presidential Mandate calls on those who are
CHAMPAGNE that the so-called saluries paid to officials.
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taking refuge in foreign territories and WATSON concessions to return to their own homes, and promises pardon to all who are not & CO., LTD., deserving of punishment. Those who have embezzled public monies and the taken refuge in foreign parts are still to bo nought out and made to disgorge their plunder, but the Mandate recognizes under the Manchus left them no option but to supplement their income out -of-the-public funds, though of course, ST. MARCEAUX & Co, it does not put it so bluntly--those who left an empty treasury because of the inado- quary of their own ealaries are promised that nothing more will be said about it if VERY DRY. they will only coise out of hiding. It may, perhaps, be uncharitable to suggest that all this ambiguity is perpetrated to serve its $58.00 author's own end, but it is evident that not all the fugitive officials are to be welcomed $60.00
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The remains of the American bluejacket | who was killed by falling over a verandah were interred yesterday morning with full naval honoura at the Happy Valley.
The Ferris Hartmann Company, who made such an excellent impression on local playgoers on the cecasion of their first visit to the Colony, return here neat week after a successful season in Manila. They begin on Friday, 27th, and their repertoire includes A Trip Abroad," The Girl and the Boy," and "Dream city.”
LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
A meeting of the Council is called for to-morrow.
The orders or the day are:--- First reading of a Bill entitled, "An to amond the Summary Ordinance
Offences Ordinance, 1845.
TELEGRAMS.[
(TROCH REUTER'S ACCSUV.]
THE PEACE NEGOTIATIONS.
CORRESPONDENCE.
CHINA'S DISREGARD OF THE OPIUM AGREEMENT.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE
DAILY PRESS. "]
HOND
Hongkong, 16th December, 1912. SIR-I have read with much interest your leading article this morning showing
LONDON, December 17th. The peace negotiations were opened at First reading of a Bill entitled, "An Ordinance to prevent the andue and im- St. James' Palace. The most rigorous proper interference with or hampering Precautions had been taken by the police.that the local Government is at last alive of lawful business and commercial under-The Turkish delegates arrived first, to its sense of daty and taking drastic followed by the Servians, Montenegrins, measures “to put an end to a condition takings."
Bulgarians and Grecks.
of things which it is impossible to tolerate in a British Colony."
Apropus, I should like to know what
Second reading of the Bill entitled. "An Ordinance to provide punishment The death took place yesterday at Kow for certain persons found guilty of adul foon Dock of Mr. Charles Fittack, suportery or of barbouring Chinese Married intendent shipwright, at the age of 30 Women."
Second reading of the Bill entitled, years. Deceased bad been in the employ
revision and entoncreene of the real number amendment the Ordi nances of the Colony from 1944 to 1912 inclusive before incorporating them in the New Revised Edition of the Laws of the
of they go considerable number of Company for a years, and proved himself a most valued servant.. He took a keen interest in sport and was one of the best lawn tennis players in Kowloon. He was a pro-Colony," minent Freemason. Great sympathy is extended to his widow and young family, The funeral takes place this afternoon.
Li Sum Ling is rising rapidly to the pinnacle of greatness. A few years ago was assisting in the management of Hongkong vernacular newspaper. Mr Cordon Bennett, the millionaire news paper proprietor of New York, paid the Colony a visit, and Mr. Li acted as inter- preter and guide to him. Taking a great fancy to Li, Mr. Gordon Bennett took
THE MAGISTRACY.
Sir Edward Grey, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, opened the proceed-"drastic measures the Imperial Govern ings with a sperch. He welcomed the ment is going to take against the so-called Chinese Republic who set at defiance delegates on behalf of the King and the the very last Anglo-Chinese Agreement, -
trusted that they would find the rooing Manchu Government, regarding the total Government, and said His Majesty made on this A Mo-Chinese Agreement.. in the Palace placed at their disposal suppression of the opium trade? As you are aware, one of the articles stipulated suitable. Sir Edward believed that they
Now, would find in this country en atmosphere that the trade be ended in 1917.
within five months of the Agreement, when of impartiality and calm that would be the Revolution began, it was declared from favourable to their work, Sir Edward the house-tops over and over again, and the Grey continued-There are difficulties in repeated assurances were given to
whole world by the Chinese leaders of the all negotiations for peace after war.
Revolution that they were going to do not attempt to estimate what these solemnly respect all the treaties made by may be in your case, but there can be no the Mancho Government previous to the nobler task than to overcome these Revolution. But what we now behold is difficulties and to accomplish peace as the quite the contrary. Not only are they result of your own efforts and your own deceiving the British Government, but work. In this may you lay foundations incidentally the whole of the civilized world. It is revealed that all the time on which we trust will be built by true they were not sincere in their promises. Private Frammery, of the K.O.Y.L.,wisdom and statesmanship the prosperity, As soon as they came into power they
A Chinese ex-policemen was fined $150, or two months' imprisonment, for deal. ing in lottery tickets.
Yesterday Sergeant Jackson prosecuted the owner of a licensed trading junk for removing sand from the foreshore at Tsing Lung Tau. Defendant was fined
$25.
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imply that well-founded charges of dis- hira with him to the United States, where was fined $3 on each of two charges. The moral, economic, and national, of your began to put obstacles in the way of the
charges were of assault on a train-car con- respective countries. Without that states. we have chosen), and in all probability the tion with the ridiculous advocacy by the ductor and two special constables abanship the gains of wer are of little of the Indian certified opium. Not being
honesty could be laid against the example
of 50PL
Causeway Bay.
Two Chinese were yesterday fined $100 each for having been in possession of arms and ammunition in a house at Wanchai. P.S. Ogg, who made the arrest, was com mended by the Magistrate (Mr. Mel
bon me)..
A. M. Bux, locally known as Iron Bux," Adam Ismail, and Solomon Moos. deen were charged at the Magistracy yesterday with throwing eggs to the danger of persons in Des Voeux Road on Ismail pleaded guilty. Monday night. and was fined $5 and bound over for six months in the sum of $100. the other two being discharged.
On Monday Inspector Dymond dis Li is covered a Chinese walking along Queen's
THE CHINESE PRESS AND THE BOYCOTT.
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trade by closing the ports to the entry or no worth to future generations. With content with that, the so-called National that statesmanship the losses of war can Assembly resolved that the opium trade be repaired and bitterness merged in the will become extinct by the end of 31st realisation of the blessings of peace. December. The consequences to the say no more except to wish you success in Indian merchants engaged in the trade your task and to assure you that you may better be imagined than described. have the goodwill of every one in the. The huge sum of £12,000,000 is involved. object for which you are assembled, and
Being myself a product of British I firmly secure the respect of the whole of Europe believe that the present Chinese Authori
The chief delegates cordially acknowties will have a "rude awakening" very ledged the sentiments of Sir Edward soon when the Imperial Government Grey, who was offered and accepted the takes the matter seriously into its hands. honorary presidency of the Conference, However, to any mind, it is high time that the Imperial Government should take, not only the Indian merchants, but in- and then withdrew.
cidentally the whole civilized world into their confidence, and declare what
The delegates discussed the procedure to be followed, and decided that the chair be taken alphabetically according to the The Conference then adjourned states.. until Tuesday.
SPEECH BY MR. BONAR LAW.
drastic steps they are going to take to insist upon the observance of the Anglo-Chinese Agreement by China. If the present Chinese Authorities succeed in defying, even for a time, the observance LONDON, December 17th. of the Agreement the ultimate result will Mr. Bonar Law, speaking at Ashton-be disastrous not only to the Imperial Government, but to all the Powers who belonging to him. At the Magistracy under-Lyne, said that though he was not have made Creaties with the late Manchu
a Churchman he described the Welsh Government. yesterday the prisoner was sentenced to one-month's imprisonment and four-Disestablishment Bill as mean. It was hours in the stocks,
incomprehensible how any one could tak funds from a poor church in the name of religion. Referring to the distribution of wealth, he expressed the belief that the co-operative movement was one of the At the Magistracy yesterday P.S.best ways of raising the level of wages, Thompson proceeded against the master
but he believed a
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FRIGHTENING THE SHARKS,
Millions are spent every year un dreadnoughts and super-dread-
In my
noughts ostensibly for the protection of the world-wide British Trade. humble opinion, some of that protection should be given now to arrest the ruinous losses of the Indian merchants.-Yours, etc.,
X. Y. Z.
fairer fiscal system CHINESE SOVEREIGNTY IN OUTER
MONGOLIA,
of a fishing junk for being in possession would help the workers to obtain better of sticks of dynamite.
dynamite to be used for fishing?
Mr. Melbourne (to defendant)-Was the
THE CRUCIAL QUESTION.
he bounded suddenly into fame in conec
New York Heild of a formal, alliane officials contemplated in the Mandate are
between the United States and China. Tact'ais and others of lower rank. It may, Mr.. Li Sum Ling figured in the American Unofficial however, be questioned whether such a large
newspapers as a re-employment of evicted officials as the Ambassador, interviewing the President Mandate would appear to contemplate is and prominent politicians on the subject desirable. At first sight, it would seem of the mission to which Mr. Gordon that the policy has much to recommend it: Bennett hack appointed him, No it provides an ample supply of men of alliance" eventuated, and the next we
that by accomplishing peace you will education and British rule. it smooths over the breach heard of Li Sum Ling was from Peking. experience; with the past; it prevents the possibility of where he started publishing a newspaper the dispossessed officials forming cliques in English. More recently we have heard that might ultimately become the axele of of him in Manila collecting or trying Conspiracies against the Republic. On the to collect from patriotic Chinese funds other hand, we bare sean in Turkey the to help the Government to do without a disastrous results of a reformed administra. foreign loan. Now a Peking telegram tion becoming dependent on the officials announces that Mr. Li Sum Ling has Yuan of the old regime: the change from the been appointed by President Manchu dynasty to a Republic does not director of the Government Mint at
Canton. We note that Mr matter a strax to the average Chinese man, described as one of the ablest financiers Road West with a parcel which aroused except in so far as it comes home to him of the Republic." Where he gained his the suspicions of the officer. Examina.
B00S the same personally, and if he
experience we do not know. The Canton tion of the parcel showed that it con- officals in office with the same failings Government stands in great need of antained two singlets valued at $8, which (for their nature is not likely to have able financier, but we doubt if they have were later identified by an Indian as undergone much change in the course of a found one in Li Sum Ling, year) he will be inclined to say, in the common phrase, it is a name without reality." At the same time, Young China and the partisans of the revolution will feel a legitimate grievance, for many of
No comment has yet appeared, either them are more able and better trained than in the Hongkong or Canton vernacular the average member of the old mandarinate,
papere, regarding the Boycott Prevention and, as they would be employed among
Bill. A precis of the Bill has been their own people, as is the rule now, the published in the papers. Apart from this disadvantage of lack of special experience nothing concerning the boycott has would be largely discounted, as the old recently appeared in the Chinese papers mandarin had absolutely no experience of
published in Hongkong, but in the official duties among his own people. What Canton papers paragraphs occasionallying the sharks. wo question in particular, however, is not appear which are evidently intended to whether it is better to employ men of the foster the boycott. One, for instance, old school or of the now, but whether it is relates that two Chinese ladies on alight really necessary or desirable to retain the ing from a car were subjected to abuse army of territorial officials-Prefects and by bystanders something was thrown On December 17th, CHARLES FITTOCK, Magistrates of various grades--that formed into their mouths, their dresses were Kowloon such an essential part of the machine of soiled, and the ladies were told that they Superintendent. Shipwright, Ducks, aged, 39. Funeral Cortege will government under the Manchu and previons had no patriotic pride, etc. The story pass the Monument at 5 p.m. this after-dynasties. The "general utility" official may be true, but it is probably an inveu- [1427 of the type of the District Magistratej tiun for the purpose of keeping the
is out of place in a modern, self- boycott alive. governing. State. What China needs is specialists in the various departments of administration-law, finance, education, and so on the general government and man- According to police reports some parts agement of affairs in ench district would not of the Colony are not quite free from dis- then present any very onerous tasks, and turbances associated with the bad feeling might well be loft in the hands of the engendered over the tram boycott. OB In a State that is evolving its constitutional people themselves. Local self-government Monday evening while an Indian picket procedure, it is difficult to assign correctly is a thing that the Chinese have always in charge of a European police officer was the responsibilities and powers of the been acquainted with to a certain degree, in Des Voeux Road near Sincere Com- various parts of the machine of govern- and all that is lacking is the proper pany's premises some person threw from a These may be, and usually are, machinery. In a country that is preparing verandah two fine filled with sand at the bezutifully defined on paper, but political for parliamentary rule this should not police.
An alleged charge of intimidation was practice has a way of differing widely from prove a serious obstacle, and if the inhabi- the theory; one part of a written constitutants of a town were allowed to take part in investigated by Mr. Hazeland at the Magistracy yesterday. A man and a the actual management of the affairs of tion becomes a dead letter, while the powers
woman were said to have accosted four conforred in another section of it become their town, it would do far more to convince
oxcisemen as they were entering a tram For these them of the change of régime that will the with the threat that they would be stabbed extraordinarily exaggerated.
elections that ara taking place for a if they used the cars.
Both defendants roscons there may be some uncertainty as to whose is the guiding and controlling band Parliament that will sit in Peking and denied the allegation, the male defendant in recent political appointments in China, whose acts and deliberations will mean asserting that he was in the service of the though we have little doubt that the nothing to an immense proportion of the Singapore police and had procured the banishment of a man who was the friend PRESIDENT's influence has been paramount inhabitants of the land.
of the four complainants and they had trumped up this charge out of revenge His Worship dismissed the defendants,
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in these matters, especially when he has so strong a partisan as CHAO PING-CHUS for Prime Minister. But whoever has been the real authority in these appointments, there is one noteworthy feature since YUAN SHIH-K'AI's accession to Power--there is a strong tendancy to retain in employment or Board established a record, the proceed- to re-umply officials who had gained experience under the old régime. This in itself raises a strong presumption that the PRESIDENT'S is the real deciding voice, and
DISORDER IN HONGKONG,
·THE BOYCOTT OF THE RUSSO CHINESE BANK.
A Chinese telegram from Peking states that the Russian Minister has intimated to the Chinese Government that it will be expected to compensate the Russo Chinese Bank for the losses incurred by
The Philippine Assembly has approved bill prohibiting the imposition of taxes on farming machinery in the Philippines. the recent boycott.
Defendant-No; we use it for frighten-
Defendant Yes.
results from their labours. Proceeding, he said- we are entrusted with power we do not intend to impose food duties: conference of we intend to call H His Worship-Down that frighten the the Colonies to consider the whole quee sharks?
tion of preferential trade. The question Defondant-Yes,
of the imposition of food duties does not His Worship-Does it make the junkarise till those negotiations have been sail any better?
completed. If the Colonies do not desire Auch an arrangement there will be no food duties. If we consider them as non- essential for preference then also they will not be imposed. It is obviously impossible to give details of our inten- Following is the report of the Company tions till the negotiations are completed. for the last half-year :-
Gentlemen:-The directors submit to If any readjustment be necessary, I hope you the annexed statement of the liabili- it will only touch wheat, but it would ties and assets of the Company, and the be unreasonable to ask the Colonies to proft and loss account for the half-year, ended September 30th, 1812.
A fine of $250 was imposed...
THE NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA
core
It is common knowledge that our Minis- ter for Foreign Affairs is now in com- munication-with-the Russian Minister-on- the subject of the Russo-Mongolian Con- vention, says the Peking Daily News. While we have no desire to increase the ares of controversy in which the pending negotiations are cast, it is not less ex- pedient than necessary to state that there are certain limits beyond which no Chi- nese Government will dare to go if the peace of the country is to be preserved. The point which must be borne in mind is that, in the present case, the Chinese Authorities lack that liberty and freedom of negotiation which is possessed by Russia: the latter is free to conclude any conceivable agreement respecting Outer Mongolia without endangering, in the slightest degree, her internal peace and stability. The same measure of freedom, however, is not vested in those who are nicet us if our powers are thas limited. negotiating in the name of China. They have the power and authority to concede The gross profits of the Company for The reason why we objected to the Recertain terms to Russia; but there are the past half-year amount to 4,944,200 yon, ferendum was because it would be unsafe |others-particularly one--whose conces- out of which, there has been paid :--
to the Colonies if us the result of the existing Government of the country, with sion may involve a grave crisis in the Yen. Depreciation of the Com-
negotiations to be submitted to the Ro the possibility of devoloping into an in- pany's fleet and property. 370,490 ferendum the Colonies to the ternal situation which may ultimately This is Insurance fund
509,889
Conference bound and we are free. Mr.jeopardize the peace of nations. Ships' structural repair fund 591,842
a statement of fact, not of speculation. Bonar Law concluded by urging the early The basis of any just and satisfactory. Yen 2,141,222
establishment of a real federal system, adjustment of the abnormal situation leaving a balance of 3,686,012 yon, in-
continued maintenance of Chinese eluding 482,014 yen brought forward from the Colonies contributing to the defence which Russia has created in Ku-lun is the of the Empire in proportion to popula sovereignty: Mongolia-every part of it -ust remain Chinese territory. This is the last account.
The directors now propose that 140,163 tion and sharing in the glory of govern the national resolve; and it would be a grave and serious error if Russia were to yen be added to the reserve fund, raisinging it. it. 3,448,840 yen, 258,570 yen to the re-
ignore or assign it a wrong value in the serve for the annual reduction
course of her negotiations with the Chi- subsidies, bringing it to 2,544,800 yen, and
"nes: Government. We have come to re- 1,300,000 yen to the fund for the exten-
of gard Mongolia as a necessary member sion of services and improvement of the
the family of races who constitute and fleet, making that amount to a total of
Owing to the interruption (beyond form the Chinese Republic, and it is a 6,300,000 yen; also that 73,556 yen be
suzerainty which can preserve Mongolia allowed as directors' and auditors' fees. Penang) of normal cable communication solution based only on sovereignty-not From the remainder the directors recom-
with India, etc., telegrams for those parts as an integral portion of our country. mend a dividend at the rate of ten per cent. per annuni, which will absorb are being forwarded at present via If the status quo of the region which is 1,100,000 yen.
Saigon-Moulmein to India, Burmab, and within the ambit of the political control or influence of Ku-lun-the Convention The balance, 813,223 yen, will be carried Ceylon; and via Northern Dioulea to the can extend to nothing more--is made to forward to the next account.
Persian Gulf and to Bushire. Bender rest on Chinese sovereignty, the settle- BARON. REMPEI Kondo,
Chairman:
Abbas, and Other Places in Persia andment of the situation cannot be difficult. By applying to Mongolia the principle of to Turkey in Asia (Mainland).
colonial self-government which Great Bri- For the same reason telegrams fortain has applied with such cess to her tonnage of 324,574. In addition five Europe, via Eastern," are subject to great dominions beyond thas, China steamers (aggregating 35,200 tons) were under construction for the Company, and some delay, but are being dealt with they had two steamers chartered from the best advantage. State. Including steam launches and tuga, the total tonnage is shown to be
1
of
The report gives a list of the Company's fleet. It shows 79 steamers, with a total
369,007.
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to
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casily grant all the political autonomy which Russia desires the Hutukhtu or Lama of Ku-lun to enjoy. And on this further basis, many of the other Russian demands can be considered and perhaps adjusted.