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gunboats. How many such outrages these precautions have been the means of aveiting no one can possibly divine, but it affords evidence of how closely, the movements of the steamers are watched by the pirates
A fine of $2,000 was imposed 45 the |TELEGRAMS. ĮTELEGRAMS.
Magistracy yesterday upon a Chinese who was found in possession of 40, taels of opina.
Twenty cases of plagae were reported Ali were ou the rare occasions when no guuboat Chinese, Yesterday three fresh cases werO is in sight of the steamor. Since the Tai¦ notified, bringing the total for the year On piracy occurred we understand a Come up to 128. During the week there were mittee, appointed by H.E. THE GOVERNOR one case (British) of diphtheria, which has been considering what measures proved fatal, three of enteric fever (one may be taken on British river steamers fatal), and one case of puerperal fever, CIGAR MERCHANTS for the greater security of passengers and also fatal.
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property, and doubtless by this time they have made their recommendations. But whatever incasures of protection may be taken on these ships, the Canton Govern ment is not relieved of its own obligation and responsibility for rendering its water wayo safe for commere Their obvious duty is not only to maintain in the highest state of afficiency the large fleet of gunboats and police pinces they now
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Evan ThoNĖS, A seaman who had desorted from the Empress of Russia, appeared before Mr. Melbourne yesterday charged with disorderly conduct at Blake Pier on Sunday, It was stated that the defendant was asleep on the pier and when roused by a Chinese constable ho struck him. A fine of one dollar was im- posed.
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TOKYO, Jone 8th. An official inquiry is proceeding at Mukden into the circumstarices of an attack made Majors Vincent. upon Dickinson and Haslehurt and party who, while visiting the battle-fields of the Russo-Japanese war, fired at by Chinese.
The party, being without retreated safely, but badto abandon their animals and baggage.
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THE DERBY SENSATION.
CRITICISM OF THE SÆWAŃDS.
[THROUGH RENTER'S AGENCY.] GERMANY'S ADVANCE IN
ATHLETICS.
BERLIN, June 9th. The Kaiser's Silver Jubilee festivities practically began on Sunday, with the dedication of the huge Olympic and Stadium at Grunewald, where, in the presencis of 30,000 spectators, their Majesties the Emperor and Empress, aur-
A CHINA COAST MARINE QUESTION,
[BY A JUNIOR WITH WIDE EXPERIENCE.];
The cause and remedy for the Intely much ventilated shortage of European junior mates in the stemmers tending under the Red Ensign on the Coast of China is, I think, not far to cook for anyone possessing experience of the Mercantile Marine during the past 25 years or so, and more especially for those having knowledge of the lator days of the transition period from sail to steam. It is a matter of common experience that the comfort or otherwise of those serving
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rounded by their family, the Chancellor, on a ship depends upon the type of the and other high functionaries, reviewed shipmaster. In the days of the single were 30,000 picked athletes from the whole of ship, or small companies, the master held & mere autocratic position than Germany, including contingents of girls in these days when companies control and women lawn tennis players, foot big fleets, and junior officers arms,allers, cyclists, skaters, ski-runners, &c.
more subject to the individual whims' and all appropriately dressed and equipped. General von Podstolski, the President of the German Olympic Commitice, in the course of short patriotic speech, xtended to the Kaiser the greetings of | two and a quarter millions of Germans
affiliated to the Committee, and exhorted | all to take as their motto "Ever ready for the glory of the Empire."
idiosyncrasies of each particular master according to his stage of education o refinement. It is mostly in steamers mastored by men of earlier coast days, who joined the service when the, Mer cantile. Marine was more akin to th present day Chinn coast partly educatel crews,-men who still adhere to the old saw, "What was good enough in my early days should suffice for my junior,"-whee the shortage principally exists. They do not seem t grasp the fact that the position of the modern junior mate his the large considerably improved in
United Kingdom, from what it was in majority of steamera trading out of the
their hard days-the boun and second dis-mate combined days-thanks to the effort.
At the Marine Court yesterday PS poses for patrolling the waved Jackson proceded against H. D. Jonos, but also to do a great deal
master of the ss. Wing On, for carrying than has been done up to the presentssengers on more than two decks. It was stated that the officer bearded the to search the pirate lairs for firearms. The reports in every instauce show the pirates steamer and intimated that he wished to to be well equipped with firearms, and count the passengers. He found 396 on the if success is to be won in suppressing lower and main decks and 132. on the
LONDON, June 9th. The vessel was licensed to brigandage and piracy, the authorities must boat deck.
The newspaper: are still full In answer to Mr. Lewis, who
of bend their energien to the task of depriving carry 836.
rumours, allegations, and denials of all
As he ended his speech, 10,000 Army the the brigand population of the weapons they defendes, witness stated that it had been
His Worship sorts in connection with the disquali-carrier pigeons were released, taking the possese. Until that is done there can be customary for many little hope of improvement. Therefore, the passengers in this way.
(Commander Basi Taylor, R.N.) dis-fication of Cragstour and the running speech to all corners of the Empire, to be
of other horses in the Derby. sooner the Canton Govenment strengthens
The issued as a public proclamation.
Afterwards there were athletic its police control over the population in the missed the defendant with a caution. riverine towns, and conducts rigorous
The Peking correspondent of the N-stewards still come in for much criticism,
"Hotspur," writing in the Daily Teleplays. searches for firearms and makes the posses-Daily News says that Mr. B. F. Alston,
The Duke of Somerset, Chairman of the EXCELLENTES
sion of lethal weapons without a licence au who has been appointed in charge of the graph, reproduces with precise details a offence punishable with extreme severity, Legation in Peking during the absence story eurrent on Saturday night that British Olympic Association, was among (Alhambra). A very fine
we do not see how it is possible to hope for on leave of Sir John Jordan, has been Mr. Ismay had written the stewards the Emperor's guests at the luncheon
asking whether certain formalities which followed. Manila Cigar Per Box of 25 $4.25 | the suppression of brigandage and piracy. created a Companion of the Order of the We have no doubt that the recent attacks Bath. Mr. Alston is senior clerk in the
He has held numerous required by the Rules in connection with on steamers flying foreigu flags convey to Foreign Office. the Canton Government a warning of the important posts, and was Councillor of objections had been fulfilled, and the Peking in 1912. writer anticipates that this will delay H.M. Legation in action likely to ensue if these outrages continue, and so we may hope that the warning has already spurred the authorities to more rigorous efforts to safeguard life and property not only on the river but in the Delta.
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Hogakoso, JUNE 10TH, 1913. Cases of brigandage and piracy in the neighbourhood of the Canton Delta and up the West River have become so frequent
and so flagrant of late as to raise in saany minds the question as to how long the Powers whose tradal interests are menaced by the prevailing lawlessness will allow this to go on without active interven tion. It can hardly be said that the state of things was worse in the Delta when Admiral MOORE undertook the patrol of the waterways a few years ago with British gunboats than is the care to-day. Notwithstanding that the Chino authorities have, all told, a fleet of gunboats and armed police launches numbering over a hundred patrolling the river within an area of fifty miles of Canton, reports of small craft being held up and looted by pirates have bear frequent, but it has required
properly from Cantor Road, Kowloon, last week,
The contract of Captain Bleyhoffer as instructor to the Ministry of War in Peking has been renewed for three years.
MY O PRO OZANETZENTATIVGUT
A few landslides, the result of the heavy rains, took place in the Colony on Bun day, one on Findlay Road and the other near the destructor at the Peak.
Thieves entered the shop of Mr. Storn- berg in Queen's Road Central on Bunday and stole fountain pens, cigar and cigarette holders to the value of $200.
A Chinese woman was knocked down by a motor car on Sunday and received in- juries which necessitated her removal to the hospital. The driver was arrested.
The nail and needle factory at Han. yang, one of the many creations of the late Viceroy Chang Chih-tung, which had beca closed for a long time, has now been opened by a new Company.
The death occurred in Seoul, on 30th May, of Captain Magda Kohler, of the Salvation Army. The deceased lady, who was only 20 years of age, was a Swede by birth and arrived in Korea in December, 1011. Death was due to typhus fever.
Besides Mr. S. Barton, Chinese Secretary to the Legation, (mentioned in Router's recent. telegram), Mr. W. P. Ker, Com mercial Attaché, les had conferred upon him a Companionship of the Order of St. Michael and St. George.
THE COMING GERMAN CELEBRATIONS.
SERVICE IN ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL,
EXPLOSION ON A DRITISA SUBMARINE.
LONDON, Jane sth.
the settlement of zicounta Other An explosion occured in the engine papers discredit the report, and as far room of Bubmarise E. 5 at Milford as the result of the race is concerned the Haven. matter seems definitely settled by an injured, and eleven were seriously in- authoritative statement in the Sporting jured, including Commander Moore. Life, that Mr. Ismay had not appealed, and did not intend to appeal, and s statement in the Moning Post, that Major Loder, one of the stewards, in··
CHINESE IN PANAMA.
NATURALISATION PROHIBITED.
PANAMA, June 9th.
of the various nautical professional associations, and to the substitution of steamships.. There were many well-hud gentlemen commanding and offering ear old Indiumon, tea, and wool clippers; but the greater number of these had gradually given up the ser as a profession in the earlier transition days, and their places were taken in the majority of wres by men who in their time would not have' been upon the quarter-dick. It naturally follows that the men who have had the of master are mainly responsible upon One of the crew was fatally their return home for the circulation doubtful honour of serving with this typo
of the reports in connection with China Coast service, generally prevahat in professional shipping ciroles at Home, which deters the young junior mate of. the right sort from taking such long odds against success at the outset of his career, despite the fairly good pay condi tions which prevail upon the Coast. la those steamers where the above type of the master has been superseded by modern generation, no difficulty scenu to be experienced in obtaining juniors of the right sort and in afterwards retaining their services. The out-of-date type of master is usually an dd servant of the company in whose steamer be happens to be serving, and the companies enanoh be exparted in the interests of the sure- holdera either to pension them off er to reraove them unless ocasion demands it; but the men themselves, who in most case have acquired satisfactory "piles ing their service on the Coast, might themselves relieve the situation, by volun- tarily retiring upon their, in most cases, well-invested savings in the interests of modern progress and the rising geará- tion; falling which wo must either await the Hand of Time" or on for the admission of the well- educated Asiatic to the nautical examina- bion for marine service upon the China Coast.
reply to an enquiry, mid-"No appeal The President of Panama has signed a had been lodged up to yesterday, and I decree prohibiting the naturalisation of know nothing of an enquiry being re Chinese.
The programme for the celebration of the 25th anniverary of the accession to CHEATON German Emperor Wilhelm II. has been changed in so far opened." This is decisim in view of the as the divise service on Sunday, the 10th tute equiring appeals to be lodged ist, will be held in St. John's Cathedral within 48 hours. at 10 1.1. The German Community would be glad to see their friends attend- ing the service. Cards for reserved scatr are to be had at the German Consulate. ̈ ̈
DEATH OF CAPTAIN A. W. OUTERBRIDGE.
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A SUFFRAGETTE" MARTYR. "
LONDON, June 9th.- The suffragette Miss Davison died on Bunday afternoon.
MONETARY DAMAGES AGAINST SUFFRAGETTES.
DESCRIBED AS THE DEATH BLOW TO MILITARY.
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LONDON, June 9th. The Defendants affected by the verdict in the window smashing case include all the members of the Women's Social and Political Union, who come jointly and individually responsible for the damage,
The papers describe this as the death- blow to militancy.
OUTRAGE AT BURST PÅBY.
We regret to learn that news has reached the Colony of the death at Iloilo (Philippin Islands) of Captain A. W. Outerbridge of the China Navigation Company's steamer Tran. He went into the hospital at Iloilo when the ship wa last there, just a fortnight ago, suffering from interal trouble, and his condition was recognised to be very serious. Mr Outerbridse left for Iloilo a week ago, but did not expect to reach there until Captain Outerbridge this moming. appears to have died on Sunday. old Clifton College boy, he followed in the lootsteps of his father in In the early morning the grandstand adopting the sea-faring profession, Heat Hurst Park Racecourse was gutted. came to the Far East over thirty years The stables, situated some distance from ago and had been ever since in the the stand, were simultaneously ablat.
Suffragists are suspected. service of Messrs. Butterfield and Swis was, we believe, the commodore Ho of the China Navigation Fleet. For & good many years he had been on the Manila tun, and was therefore well known both in Hongkong and in The British, German, Austrian and the three leading ports of the Philip
circle of Portuguese Ministers are all leaving pines, and a Peking during the course of the next ten friends will regret to learn that he has days for a vacation in Europe. The passity dray so unexpectedly, for just Italian Minister, we understand, will also previous to this fatal illness he appeared Ever. The probably take a holiday later, says the as strong and active as
cause of death is given as cystitis. He China Times of 31st May.
leaves a widow and three young children. Renter's Yunuanfu correspondent states | two of whom have just recently gone to that the mission of the ex-Minister of school in England. Finance to Hongkong for the disposal of
A Chinese was brought before Mr. Hazeland at the Magistracy yesterday by Inspector Kerr charged with the mur der of a compatriot on the high seas on board the 2.s. Hamsung and also with A week's formal re- stabbing another. mand was granted,
Yunnan opium is reported to have failed.
very wide
HONGKONG UNIVERSITY.
LONDON, June 9th, Professor C. A. M. Saith, of Hongkong University, has arrived in Londone hopes to interest British engineering firms in the University.
AMERICAN CONSPIRACY TRIAL BOSTON, June 8th.
Mr. Wood, the President of the Amors can Woollen Company, charged with conspiring to create the dynamite explo-
NEW CHIEF MAGISTRATE
KNKUTED,
LONDON, June 9th. Mr. John Dickinson, the newly appointed Chief Metropolitan Magis trate, has received the honour of Knight hood.
THE AUSTRALIAN ELECTIONS. MELBOURNE, June 9th, The Liberals have now 38 seats, and the representatives of Labour only 37.
Sir W. J. Lyne was defeated in his attempt to secure a seat in the Senate.
The figures continue to point to the rejection of the Referendum proposals, and the Cabinet meets this week to con- sider the position.
THE POLITICAL SITUATION IN
CHINA,
ACTION 17 THE GAMBERS OF COMMERCE,
THE PEKING PLOT..
CHARGE AGAINST GEN. HUANG MHING,
dur-
As was to be expected, much attention is being paid in political eiroles in Shanghai to the charge which Peking has asked to be brought against General Hung Hsing in connection with the alleged plot against the President. Among the supporters of the General's The Singanpuo says: The office of the party, inys the V-C. Daily News, indigna- united Chamber of Commerce at Shang- tionis felt, and the whole matter is hai received a telegram from the delegates regarded as but another move in the gamin Another view during the past months, of Chambers of Cornmerce at Peking to of high politics which has been procedine the following effet:--The reprezentatives is that the demand for his arrest is in the of Chihli, Hupeh, Hunan, Heilungkiang, nature of a red herring across the trail Anhui, Shansi, Shantung, Mukden, of Chao Ping-chun, for whose trial as an Kirin, Kiangai, Honan, Szechwan, Kwan accomplice in the Sung murder the party tung and Harbia have also arrived at in Shanghai has been clamouring. Peking and have daily consulted with the.
The facts, concerning the demand for members of the Kuaming-tang and the the arrest of General Kuang are perfectly Cheppu-tang to arrange an amicable clear. The arrest of the alleged women settlement of the political disputes and plotter in the capital was followed by the two big political parties, recognising instructions to the Procurator General in the delegates of the Chambers of Com- Shanghai to take measures to have a war- of complicity. The Procurator have sent us their responsible represents a charge merce as the nest effective mediators, rant issued for the General's arrest upon Lives respectively and we have opened accordingly took the customary steps, negotiations and we observe signs of laying the request for a warrant before Ivan Chen, Commissioner for having the two parties solve the affairs Mr.
with the documents in Foreign Affairs, amicably. Further news will follow:""
the case General Hung is a resident, in the Settlement, and for his apprehension a. Mind Court warrant would have to he obtained. Mr. Chen has now for warded the documents to Mr. Kuan Chún Mixed Court Magistrate, with the ap-
ITALO-CHINESE COMMERCE.
DEVELOPMENT PROPORALS.."
The Kungshangpu (Ministry of Complication for the warrant. sion which took plac in the town of merce and Industry) has been notified of Some details of the alleged plot hav
such sensational affairs as the recent dari Discontent has 'broken out among the MAIL TRAIN HELD UP IN SIBERIA Lawrence during the general abrike of the issue of the prospectus of the transpired in Shanghai. It is stated that
adventures of pirate gange on river steamers
flying foreign flags and commanded by local soldiery on account of non-payment
of wages. Some apprehension is felt.
Europena officers to get the public to realise the state of lawlessness which is now
The Diplomatic Corps are combining in prevailing in the Delta and up the River.
scheme for deporting undesirable men Pirate gauge are chary as a rule of attacking and women from Peking and for making steamers flying the foreign fag, as they it compulsory that foreign-owned "Barg doubtless know that--on some of them, at and Restaurants" be closed not lafer least-sque vigilanco a maintained with a than midnight. Undoubtedly the matter view to preventing such episodes as those should have been dealt with long ago, and which have recently happened on the Tai On it is now unticipated that niany dificulties and the Robert Lebandy. Moreover, the will arise in the matter before they can Chinese authorities for some time paat get rid of this abominable and dangerous have had the river steamers escorted by class of people. --China Times.
ROBBERY OF THE HAIL
A Reuter's tologram from Harbin dated June 2nd reads: Bighwaymen have held up the nail and passenger train near Tarbazatai atasion, 500 miles West of Munchouli. They robbed the postal ear, and wounded one postal official."
The N. Daily New days -Inquiries in Shanghai point to this train being a post-train carrying local mails only. One such train passes through Tarbazati daily. A train was die in Harbin on Sunday (June 1st) with Home letters, which will leave Taiton on Thursday. No intimation Las been received" of any mishap to this train.
1912, has been acquitted, while the jury disagreed with regard to Atteaux, but found Dennis guilty. All three were indicted on the same charge.
sum of
Cameradi Commercio Italo-Chinese at the services of a number of women were Naples. The object of the association is secured, and that they undertook to preliminary to develop Chine-Italjan commerce and convey bombs to the capital for industry. The notification states that the $300 apiece. This was but consumption of Chinese goods in Italy payment. Some time ago we mentioned amuents in value to 89,000,000 francs that such a plot, necessitating the manu yearly. These products reach Italy facture of a quantity of bombs, was afoot. through, Europe middlemen, and the and there seems to be no doubt that the will information then chtained referrel to consequently, new organisation, arange for direc trade, which will con- what has now been discovered in Peking.
The Shenpao understands that Mr.. siderably reduce the selling price of goods and lead to a considerable extension of Kuan Chun, Magistrate of the Mixed trade. The honorary committee consists the Commissioner of Foreign Affairs.
Court, upon receiving instructions from lineal descendant of of the Chinese Minister of Commerce wrote out an order himself requiring the
of Commerce, Italian Minister Chinese Minister at Rome and the Italian General's attendance at the Court for a preliminary inquiry. He has forwarded Minister at Peking, besides overal other the order in question to the nin prominent Chines and Italians.
Consul for endorsement.
DEATH OF DR. FORBES WINSLOW.
LONDON, June 9th The death is announced of Dr. Forbes Winslow, the well-knom lunacy expert
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