THE CHINESE PARLIAMENT.
PERISHMENT OF ABSENTCES.
The Senate is now meating in the morn- ixx. On the 4th just., the Speaker) aned that an informal sitting would take place from which visitors would excluded. It is understood that the Speaker requested members not to intre- due so many aniimportant amendments to the law of the National Assembly, so that the latter might be passed at an carly date after which order would be main- tained by the House adhering to the laws In question, which would also provide for the punisient of those who did unk attend the House.
obtain
THE MURDER OF SUNG
CHIAO-JEN.
WHAT, CHINA READS. THE AVERAGE CHINESE IS BETTER IJAD
THE AVERAGE FOREIGNER.".
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, JULY 10ra, 1916,
- The following, interesting contribution to this question is taken from the China Republican
|
TRADE OF WESTERN CHINA.
CONDITIONS AND PROSPECTS.
with bis own classics and the immense wealth of ancient learning, but is likewise TEAXEgunited with the best works of Europe Of course, it must be and America
danted that translations necessarily lose fe point and effect, as there are shades of sentiment, of habits of mind and (RY A CORESPONDENT OF THE EINES") change of 71 taels silver-8000 in coin is tradition, that cannot be transferred from the original into the pages of a translated work. In order to understand the beauty of phrasing, of the harmony between the sense and sound of words and the grandeur of rare fights of poetry and prose, the original is almost always pre ferable. But translations fill a necessary want in the life of nations, and we have no doubt that in the not very distant future the people of China will be in a position to derive as keen an enjoyment and pleasure from the literary treasures of the West as any Westerner himself.
CHENGTU, April 22nd. The trade of Western China, by which I refer especially to that of the rich and populeus province of Szechuan, may be said to be handicapped at the moment by two great adverse factors lack of rapid world and an nafavourable exchange. and safe communication with the outside The first of these hindrances has always existed and has hitherto been considered irremediable, but at last the difficulty seems to be on the ess of being overcome, first,, by steam navigation on the Upper Yangtze, and, secondly, by railway con- The Second nection with Hankow. drawback is merely a transient one, and A SHANGHAI BANKRUPTCY.
is accounted for by an adverse bulance At Shanghai last week, Mr. George of trade due to the suppression of opium and followed by the Government's pro. Wing Cooper underwent examination inhibition of all exports of silver from the bankruptcy Delter-estionated his liabili ties at Tls. 1,000, while the Official Receiver estimated them at a lakh. The Official Breiver described the case as "simply a bid for fortune which failed.” and said it might be seinmed up in the words June Settlement, 1910, with the the qualifcation that debtor, nature of his profession, could not plead that he was led into taking risks of which he was unaware. He had a small capita! and the transactions were on a very big and within a few months his liabilities scale. He had Tis. 18,000 to start with
were a lakh and a hali.
from
It would be a perfectly safe assertion to say that the Chinese Revolution was as much a product of the revolutionizing of the Chinese mind as the logical cut come of Manchu misrule. Litérature, u¢ all times and in all countries, has played a prominent part in the enactment of some of the most stirring dramas of history and the same is true of the Chi- nce Revolution. Hegel observes truly that Revolution is impossible without Renaissance. It was the Revival of Learning which brought about the great Reformation in Europe, and the work of HUNG ISU-CHU'S EXPLANATIONS.
the Encyclopaedists headed by Voltaire The Fount made by uns Hsu-hu Revolution. The Chinese Revolution is The Peking Daily News publishes and others which gave birth to the French in the Court of law at Kiaochow in whickikewise the direct result of the Revival Dung somewhat confusedly reviews the of Learning which began in this country wvidence procured in Shanghai in connee shortly after the Chino-Japanese War. It was not that the Manchu rule, as might tion with the murder of Sung Chino jeu and gives explanations of the harmless appear at first sight, was more severe and adions in 1911, the year of the Revolution. dutentions of bis telegrams and other
tessages to Ying Kwei-shing. He makes than ever before that the titanie struggle a strong point of Sung Chao-jes's alleged Ixtween despotism and democracy was riminal proscedings in Japan and his hastened. If ything, never before had Hung's) desire to obtain incriminating the Manchus been so greatly disposed to vidence of these proceedings, which he grant concessions where before such a states Sung's friends, also, desired to thing was unheard of than just before the Hung explains that the word time that they were destined to breathe "leri" was not intended to refer to their last short gasps. It was because the killing. He says this word is commonly people had become more intelligent as a used in Peking to mean spoiling one's result of the political and intellectual for injury and damage, notably to worn speak, through the very fibres of the reputation," and is also a general terma currents that were transmitted, so to out dresses and clothes. It is understood nation. They had cozue to realise in a that the Kinochow authorities at present conscious, tangible form the wrongs they find it impossibin to hand over Hung to had suffered and woke up to a real con- the Chines as a prima facie caso has not sciousness of their inherent rights and
privileges, which had so long been denied, THE CENTRAL CHINA UNIVERSITY been made against him.
them. The truth of this law underlying national development is shown in the aptecedents of the English Revolution of
A meeting of members of the House of the seventeenth century and of the Ameri can Revolution of the following century. Commons was gouvened last month to The real cause of revolt in each case was the same-the general intelligence of the discuss the subject of the proposed British people made the infringement of their University for Central China. The object rights by their rulers intolerable, which of the conveners is to consider the was the result of the general diffusion of knowledge among the masses. It is clear advisability of asking the Government to that without this knowledge they could permit a certain amount of the Boxer never have presented any front to their indemnity to be allocated for the pro- oppressors, for ignorance would have suggested to their minds that such a thing posed university. was beyond human accomplishment, and having deemed it something above and beyond their power, they would have been content to continue in their condition of i enslavement, the two qualities necessary for the making of a slave being ignorance and u broken spirit, which amount to spiritual death.
STOCK-BUYING NOT A "GAMBLE."
PROJECT.
THE WUCHANG, CONSPIRACY,
EXECUTION OF FLOTTERS.
GREAT CAPTURE OF TREASURE,
The Gazing Act was unsuccessfully raised as a defence by a lady who was sued by a stockbroker for £50, balance de on a purchase of National Telephone Deferred shares. The plaintiff was Mr. Walter J. Cramplin, of Maidenhead, who recently retired from membership of the Stock Exchange, and the defendant was Mrs. Kichgessner, of Upper Marylebone Street. In April last year, said counsel, defendant's daughter wrote instructing Mr. Crumplin to buy on her behalf and her mother's two Telephone Deferred shares, They then stood at 158, and the ladies expected a rise as a result of the arbitration award. Plaintiff said he had carried the shares over on several occa
Cheques had been paid as the
The Welang correspondent of the sions.
For the last ten years, the Chinese have shares fluctuated, by owing to sucermive
བྱི་དང་(རིག་པའི་tsalagevpas i་བྱས Western "learning.. pursuing falls the amount claimed was now due. been
The result of the collapse of the riceut He had advised defendant to sell when Trained in the rigorous school of classic- they stood at 108. He indignantly denied ism, and accustomed to the critical study conspiracy is a total of fifty-five exeru the suggestion of the defence that the of the literary masterpieces and the tious. Contrary to report, however, no transaction was a gamble and that defen- analysis of human activities, the Chinese women were among those executed, while dant never intended to take up the shares, wind is well prepared to enter upon the the further rumour that sune of the It was an victimas had been handed over by the Judge Lamely Smith, in giving judgment study of western science, for the plaintiff with costs, said that if cepted idea among foreigners that the Foreign Consular Body is also incorrect The plot was anti-Yuan in character. this were a good defence nobody would Chinese scholar at one time, like the ever lose any money on the Stock Ex-Mahomedan with his Koran, considered Its nim was to upset the focal Governant change.
that there was nothing to learn outside and to put Chi Yu-lin in the place of his own cherished classits. Nothing could Vice-President Li Ynan-bung. A large be further from the truth. The Chinese are proverbially known to possess a love antity of revolutionary badges and of Tearning. The reason they did not take sters of revolutionaries, together with One feature of the Far Eastern ship to Western learning carlier is because the 1,000,000 worth of silver, were captured ping, situation that is of more than study of classics was until quite recently by the Government. Chi Yu-lin escaped the road to official, rank; wealth and to Shanghai on board a gunboat of a passing significance is the rise of Manila political preferment. With the abolition certain Fower, Wuching is quiet and the as a port, remarks Consul General Ander of the old-style literary examinations, trumps are trustworthy. son, of Hongkong, in the report to the with their rigid adherence to mero book! American Government, A Yes, and knowledge and a genius for me increased valls of ships of all lines, and all hopes of official advancement
specially the determination of the Euro- pan mail lines to send vessels to Manila mere study of the classics were ex- ! Western science, philosophy, history and on their neward trip during certain tinguished for ever and the study of seasons of the year, were announced. literature became general. There was no
The dullness and restraint which has This year's schedules provide for calls at Manila of most of the transpacific mail realm of learning that the Chinese did
not enter into, until today the acquaint-caracterized the Silver market lately boats sailing by way of Japan and
ance with Western learning by some of has been followed by seats weakness, and Innolulu. Under the new schedules soine
the Chinese is enleulated to surprise many veiers lage given way substantially. The of the vessels from Hongkong to San
enter of this must be deep-set, for, un foreigner. Some of the best book, which Francisco rid Hawaii proceed by way of
are the product of Western genius and
some days. business has been alinost Manila, leaving out Shanghai (which was formerly one of the principal ports of call
microscopic, and neither China or any for all transpacific steamers), and on the voyage from San Francisco to Hongkong only the large boats of the American line and
MANILA AS A PORT OF CALL..
a few other shins proceed to Shang hai, Manila in each case being a new port of call. While several explanations are offered for the change, including the enforcement of the one bottom" rule on ships from the United States to the Philippines, the plain-fact of the situa tion is that the Philippines now have the tonnage to offer, and the lines send their vessels by that route for the business which they find there in paying quar tities.
·ERUPTION OF MOUNT ABAMA.
SIGNS OF NEW CRATER FORMING. and rumblings have again been heard in the neighbourhood of Asama. Tsahi despatch from Marcbashi, dated June 26th, says that no smoke was seen black smoke were seen barsting out from
an
learning have been translated in Chi-
nese,
Spencer, Huxley, Darwin, John Stuart Mill, Adam Smith, Montesquieu Indeed, on account of Chinese student. and Rousseau are familiar. to
Lehre voni
every
THE DECLINE IN SILVER.
prince..
The currency of Szechuan compared with other provinces of China appears to Tho be in a fairly satisfactory state. dollars minted in Chenglo are every- where, although it is stated that the recent issues are being made 4 per cent. lighter in view of their scarcity.
A fixed ex-
recognized. Mexican dollars are not current at all, and Hupeh dollars only at a discount. The old strings of cash seem to his giving place to the new ten- cash pieces (copper cents) minted in Chengta These coins exchange a 118 to the dollar in Chongty. In 1997 I And was 1,220 cash to the tuel. To-day it that the average exchange in Szechuan stands at 1,900, so that the currency of the people expressed in silver has depre ciated 15 per cent, within the past 15 years, and this, without doubt, is the azin cause of the enormons increase in the cost of living. The celebrated Ger- man traveller, Baron von Richthofen, in 1872 referred to the price of hiring bag, gage coalies as 250 cash per dicin. To-day one is fortunate to secure very weedy look ing specimens for 500 cash, the men of better physique usually having joined the
Notwithstanding the disadvantages that tion between the Treaty, ports of the have been stated, trade in Szechuan, both
The lack of easy and rapid communica Lower Yangtze and the richest province foreign and domestic is good, and the of Chinn has been the one great obstacle leading nativo Hongs in Chungking to the progress of Szechuan since time admit that during the year ended. Febru- great markets of Hankow and Shanghai themselves for all losses sustained during tamemorial, and all intercourse with the ary 5 they unde sufficient profits to recoun has had to be carried on by means of the Revolution, and they look forward native junks, which have been hauled by with confidence to even more satisfactory and swirls of the gorges with incredible loss of life and property, However, in kuna agency over the seething rapids results in 1913. 1907 Mr. Archibald Little navigated tim
and in 1900 demonstrated with the s.. first stenni vessel, a wooden launch named Poncer (now EI, M.S. Kinsha) that not the Leechuan, from Ichung to Chungking,
withstanding the enormous risk. steam navigation on the Upper Yangtse was a physical possibility.
RIVER COMMUNICATION,
CHINESE VICTORY OVER MONGOLS.
A CLEVER MOVEMENT.
In view of the recent successive Mongol victories, Chiuess are delighted to learn that their troops have inflicted a severe Three years ago the. Szechuan Steam defeat upon the Mongols year the Sunite Navigation Company was formed with territory, says Reuter's Peking representa- Chinese capital and Cantonese manage tive. It appears that some 2,000 Mongols rent, a powerful little steamer, the from northern districts, assisted by many Shutung, was shipped in parts from Inner Mongols, attacked the Chinese, who Great Britain and put together in Bhung- were considerably more numerous. In a for some hours, owing principally to hai, and the services of Captain Plant, au frontal attack the 31ongols held their own The Shutung has now been superior shooting. A Chinese regiment commander. expert on rapids, were secured as her running for nearly three years between the then made a wide detour and attacked the inenth of April and November, and the Mongols in the rear, whereupon the latter cess that a second vessel of twice the far ca the Tanpaliang mountains, where venture has proved such a financial sue-broke and fled, being hotly pursaed as carrying capacity has been ordered from they took refuge. The Chinese troops are Great Britain, and it is expected that she said to be waiting now for the Mongols will be placed on the service next spring. to evacuate the mountain passes, in which The initative of the Chinese company it is impossible for them to remain long having created a precedent, various other owing to the absence of supplies there. native projects are now being seriously mooted, and a steamy belonging to the Chungking Piecegoods Guild was de tained by the river. authorities in Shanghai only a month ago the grounds that, owing to the absence of Certifiented officers, she would be a danger
Meanwhile, toreiz tusha to navigatio1,
on
terests have not been idle. It is an open secret that a powerful Japanese concern on the Ichang-Chungking ran next year, proposes to place a couple of steamers and one of the leading British steamship water frontage at Chungking, companies has already secured a site and
Another difficulty greatest drawback is the lack of suitable and safe anchorage is the shortage of highly-trained officers possessing the requisite knowledge of the
Tiver.
The
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A Manifesto states that General Chang Chac-chong, who was formerly, stationed Lanchow, Chihli, reports that Brigadier Meng Hsiao-cheng and others have conquered the Mongols and swept
the.
Sheng- the
passes of Jower
and Tanpatiang mountains. They have also driven the Mongols
the
of. neighbourhood
the Lands of the Sunite prince nud Pang- or FINEST QUALITY AND HIGH PRECISION. klang, capturing and killing one cerned have been suitably decorated, while hundreds of the enemy. The officers con-
gratuity of $10,000. lesser officers and the form receis à
from
CHINESE STEAMER FIREMEN
DEMAND HIGHER WAGES. · The Shanghai Mercury of the 2nd inst.
On the whole it appears likely that we shall see a regular steamer service i way brings relief to the situation. Here augurated long before the projected rail-
and it is ex- "Forty Years Railway,
For some tine past there has been a in Szechuan it is usually termed the says tremely unlikely that goods from Ichang will be laid down by rail in Chengen feeling of unrest noticed by China. Const within the next ten years. The ongineer-geers among their firemen. Recently it finally leakeif out that owing to the ing difficulties to be suraunted are We subjoin extracts taken from Messrs.enormous, and, although the recent wave bad rate of exchange and the increased Samuel Montagu & C6,'s circular of the of public opinion in favour of railway construction will probably accelerate the 19th ult
laying down of the line once the money is forthcoming and the work taken seri cusly in haud, merchants in Szechuan place their hopes rather on steamer traffic thin en railways for the relief of their burgiensi
(other quarter has ben oppressing the
eneket.
Aithangh June is described as a marri- the literary excellence of the translated gemonte, the Indian bazaars have been the they have become classics in this but poor buyers; in the last day or so they country. In the realm of low and politi. have offered for sale substantial amounts cal science, such books as Bryce's of silver for forward delivery. The fact **American
Commonwealth, Lowell is that Indian speculators, who trade Governments and Parties in Continental almost exclusively with horrowed money, ward their womitments India, and End DeBarge Political Science have not found ff very easy to carry for Modernen have therefore put mere pressure upon and Comparative Constitutional Bluntschli's Staat," etc., are the standard text-books this market than it has been willing to The well bear. American and Mexican sales have in our schools and colleges. known work, Liszt's Lehrbuch des been less than sual, partially accounted demand from the Mexican Deutschen Strafrecht," which has been far by a translated into nearly every civilized Government for coinage, doubtless to language, has also been rendered into replace coin exported in this country last Chinese, although, as far as our know-
year. is It is therefore the more remarkable ledge goes, no translation of that book as yet to be found in England. Light that pronounced weakness has been felt, literature translated from European and suggests that the action of speculators languages is on the book shelf of every has, as it were, undermined public con-
home whose inmates claim
No doubt the returns of the Chinese
fidence.
OPIUM AND THE TRADE BALANCE,
cost of living, and house rent being higher, the Chinese Firemen's Guild hud, after many meetings, decided to approsch the various shipowners, placing all their grievances before them, the overtures ratious steamers, by means of a letter | being through the chief engineers of the from the Guild, one each being addrested To the credit of the to ench Chief. Green it may be said that they did not be learned, should their request for an contemplate-any violence, as far as can
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now crater
sare Island,"
silver.
Turning to the second great impediment to the free interchange of goods-between. Western China and the cost, we are brought face to face with the thorny subject of opium prohibition. Szechuan ease of wages he refused, the increase The principal Companies is practically self-supporting, and with wanted leing six dollars per month, their the one significant exception of cotton present pay ranging from sixteen dollars produces within her borders not only all pyards. the commodities necessary to support her affected were the China Navigation Co.. vast population of some 50 millions, but ado-Chin S.N. Co., China Merchants for export, more than while there are numerotis hitherto has always had a large surplus. Cu the Kailan Mining Administra- Yesterday for a couple of hours there imports from other provinces and abroad, | smaller-companies.cqun ly affected. thanks to the heavy shipments of opium. medicines, and skins The absolute was some slight confusion over the matter. cessation of the opium shipments, anout but this was settled by the China Mer ing annually to upwards of 10,000,000 chants' Company giving the men a ten- taels, has created a temporary adverse poury increase of three and four dollars. against her. As much as 2,000,000 tacs Jardine, Matheson & Company met the balance of trade and turned the exchanges Messrs. Butterfield & Swire and Messrs. of ready silver was exported in 1912 to men's demands in a friendly spirit and adjust the balance of imports, and great explained to them that nothing could be cousterniation was caused among the mer one in the matter, which is an important cheats when the Provincial Governorent
one in shipping circles, until it had been suddenly decided, in view of the monetare
it would receive careful attention. This
OF Scott's "Ivanhoe," Stevenson's
Beecher Stowe's Uncle with poor prices, the chances are. The par of exchange between Shanghai ruling of the local offices satisfied the mer 1,009 taels Chungking 959 toeis; but from the head offices, which are expected in a week or two. In the meantime all the side of the mountain. Whether this Tom's Cabiu," and Victor Hago's Les against the Indian Government operating and Changking is $59-that is, Shanghai and they have agreed to await replies phenomenon is due to e
No surprise therefore need be feit that during the summer months when the river forming at the side or to the direction of Miserables" are familiar to most people, in the market in the immediate future. Dickens, Dumas and other masters of
was in flood and communications difficult the inen have remained by their ships, the THE EYE the wind is not yet ascertained. Ashes fiction are well-known. Although there chalers fail to regard the market as fell at Mayebashi and Naganohara and is no Chinese translation of Shakespeare, healthy, when practically the only supa draft cn Shanghai for 1,000 tacts could sailings are bring continued as usual and neighbourhood for about five minutes. Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare" is port comes from speculative quarters, for, often be purchased in Chungking for 850 it is confidently expected that the matter On June 28th, Dr. Ombri, the well read by every school boy in China, and in the present circumstances, it is probacls, and this exchange profit was will be amicably arranged to the satis known seismologist, with party of we do not doubt that in time the works ably given, not so much in view of frequently the only remuneration of the fiction of all concerned in the near assistants, made an ascent of Asama, of the great English Bard will be trans-favourable prospects, as for the purpose inport merchant after selling his goods. only to find that
possible prend lated into the language of this counts of preserving the nominal value of the the ninth stage was impossible Professor although we recognise that such a Some Omori was to remain at the observatory bristles with obvious difficulties.
A Taipeh telegram received by the leaki at the foot of the mountain till June 30th, 1 of the works of foreign writers have even
states that on June 95th the Forthosen, wait for an opportunity to make han dramatized. such as the works of another attempt to reach the top. Zola and other French writers, which can
Government General started the grand Several cracks have appeared in the side be seen in Fe Now Theatre on the Chinese We Saturday evening. every
attue of the aborigines, the latter being of the mountain above the ninth stage, Bund
determined to withstand the Japaness advance to the last. Both at Shinchiku from which volumes of smoke are emitted, remember purchasing Defoe's "Robinson
and Toon, the Japanese expedition cousists while the conditions at the top of the Cresce" when we were at school in Can-
It is interesting to notice how aviation, volcano ere a dangerous that his plan is ton shont ten years ago, Historical and
A further incubus on the native Hongs of four detachments of artillery and com- The medical detachments scientific works are too numerous to men- not considered-likely to be carried ont
tion Ehly steaking, there must be like motoring, is making its influence felt over 2,000 books translated into Chinese language Every newspaper reader, the provincial ordinance that Governmissariat.
and police to over 3,000, or, if troops from the inst authors in Europe and knows numerous technical terms whichment war notes may be tendered in all added bring-up the total number of
In every Chinese periodical, the aeroplane and the motor-car have payments in the proportion of 30 per cent Much virtue in an "H."-She: Wo've Amarek. been waiting a good many minutes for there is most invariably translations called into being and some of them have naper und 70 per cent. good silver, and coolies and revimental followers are already passed into metaphorical use.
two points, the fluctuated between 10 per cent. and 15 peron concentrated at applied to the King's review of ariel despite the fact that the notes have of the fact that the troops and police have craft recently. The term sounds & trifle cent. discount. The question of the paper aborigines are likely to make an attack strange, but it is undoubtedly appro currency is now, however, receiving the elsewhere, so the authorities are redistri
buting the forces-Japan Chronicle. priate.
attention of the authorities in Chengtu,
speculative steek, which is unwieldy.
The stock in Bombay has fallen in valas from £370,000 to £535,000; the offtake is reduced from 10 to 35 bars a day.
Shanghai reports an increase in the relus of its stock from £4775,000 to
4,865,000.
high as 1,100, Ho that not only are the, The present rate is 1,000, and lys been as merchants profits seriously curtailed on of which are Lancashire cotton goods, but their imports from Shanghai, 90 per cent. they have been obliged to buy exports- portability-ship them to Shanghai, and notably gallants on recount of their sell them, often at a loss, in order to provide the wherewithal to meet their liabilities.
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