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of the rights and privileges resulting from Treaties and established usages enjoyed by British subjects"-will not meet this particular difficulty, for the Tibetan problem now presents phases that are not envisaged in existing Treaties, and a new Agreemont will be necessary to set it on a satisfactory basis. This is so, not because of a change in British policy, but on account of the changed tendency of Chinese frontier relalious since the commencement of the afferipted conquest of Tibet require to be mot by something more definite than the prosent Treaties. British Tibetan policy has always regarded the country as intern- ally autonomous, under the temporal theceratic rule of the DALAI LAMA, and bound to China by some ill-defined tie which it was fashionable to describe ag "uzerainty." The danger of applying so
contentious a term to the inter-relations of Oriental States is apparent without, for the prosent, attempting to assten limits to the scope of this suzerainty, it may be taken for granted that neither Great Britain nor China regarded it AS extending to sovereignty, still less to political union, for when open war was being waged - botwoon Great Britain and Tibet, diplomatic rela- tions at Poking and Saint James' were carried on unchanged. The vagueness of the political relation between China and
Tibet is exhibited in the various conceptions of it reflected in our Treaties and diplomatic intercourse, and it is this vagueness that has to be met and abolished once for all in the now Treaty that must ultimately follow
the remedy is equally plain-China must be TELEGRAMS. ĮTELEGRAMS. ĮTELEGRAMS.
The danger, fortunately, is apparent, and
required to subscribe by formal Treaty to the terms of Sir JOHN JORDAN's Memoran- dum of August 17th list, and acknowledge the absolute internal autonomy of Tibet and abandon categorically her claim to interfere in its administration, to bring military pres sure to bear on it, or to incorporate it in the Republic.
The European branch of the Hongkong police force has been supplemented by two new arrivals from London, Con- stables K. W. Andrew and J. L. Taylor.
The Ladies' Singles Championship of Shanghai was won last week by Mrs. W. R. Brandt, who after a close and exciting minteh beat Mrs. C. D. Pearson by 4-6, 0-1, 6-1.
On Friday night last the police raided a house at 12, Tit Hong Lane in the Central District which was suspected of being an opium diyan. A man in the house jumped out of a window, and had to be reihoved to hospital.
In the yamên of the Shanghai Profect, į
(FHROUGH NEUTER'S AGENOX®]
WAR
IN THE BALKANS.
TURKEY'S ADVANCE Definite orders have been issued to the Turkish army nut to advanc. hegend the Enos Midia line,
ROUMANIA'S ADVANCE, It is officially announced at Bucharest that Silistria has been occupied. From go to 300 Bulgarians surrendered with uut resistance, |
The Roamauian Army has penetrated from 10 to 15 kilometres into. Bulgarian i territory, and has been acclaimed by the Roumanian and Mussulman inhabitants. THE PROGRESS OF THE GREEKS.
The Greeks have occupied Servos.
THE BULGARIAN DEBACLE. The complete debacle of the Bulgarians a very large quantity of raw and boiled is now. incontrówŕtible. The facts were opium, opium residue, opium pills, etc.apparently recognised in Sofia a few days the accumulated stoel: of confiscated pro- perties for seine time past, was recently bed on the ground of the Main Court
Hali.
ago, when Bulgaria placed herself un- reservedly in the hands of Russia, who is
now endeavouring-to arrange an armistice and to bring the belligerents, and also
His Excellency the Governor has given his assent, in the name and on behalf of His Majesty the King, to the Ordinauer Roumania, to a conference at St. Peters- to amend the Official Signatures Feesburg, into which Bulgaria will enter in a
(THROUGH EKUTEN'S AGEROT-]
PEACE TO BE CONCLUDED ON THE
BATTLEFIELD.
It is semi-officially trnguverd in Athens that Greece, replying to the re- presentations of the Powers, Ius intininted that peace will be woncluded on the battlefield,
REPRESENTATION OF THE
POWERS. There is a complete fall at the theatri of war.
The representations of Russia and other Powers are already apparently making themselves felt with the armies.
AN IMPROBABLE SUGGESTION.
Greek papers talk of marching upon Sofia to avenge the dastardly cruelties perpetrated by the troops of the Heil Tsar upon wounded and aged men, women and children,
Allies will push their advantage so far, It is improbable, however, that the
especially in views of the declared inten tion of Romania to protect either side
dangerously threatened,
RUSSIAN MEDIATION.
if
It was reported in Saturday that both Grised.and Sérvia had acepted Russian
(THROUGH KRUTNIE': AGENCY.]
CHINESE EMIGRATION TO
CANADA.
VICTORIA, B.C., July 12th, The Canadian Government is negotiating for a Treaty with China with a view, to limiting the number of Chiness einigrants to 150 a year. At present thousands are arriving, despite the head tax of 2100,
ROYAL VISIT TO LIVERPOOL.
KING OPENÝ-LAKJEST-DOCK-IN-THE-ADILA—
LONDON, July 12th. Their Majesties the King and Queen made a State visit to Liverpool on Friday and reviewed a hundred ships by the Mersey extending along a line of ten miles, this being the greatest pageant of merchant shipping ever assembled.
The King opened the new Gladstone graving dock, the largest in the world,
banks of the river.. There were a million sightseers on the
Replying to an Address from the Chan-
ber of Commerce, the King declared that
the trade between Liverpool and the Dominions was an important factor in Imperial development.
Their Majesties proceeded to Ashton-
from the contemplated special mission adhoį Ordinance, 1988; and the Ordinance to greatly chastened spirit, recognising that mediation, though doubtless niany pre- | under-Lyne, were they were given
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from their respective sides of the frontier,' which implies a very large measure of inter- ference by China in the internal adminis tration of Tibet. This was followed by the Trade Regulations of 1893, which the Tibetans themselves repudiated on the ground that they had been concluded botresa Great Britain and China direct without their consent--that is, 'Tibet claimed to control its owa foreign relations. The A.S. WATSON & CO.. next plinge was the YouSAND Expod
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tion, and the resulting Treaties, first with Tibet direct, and then with China, the effect of the latter being that China, after confessing on. Řeverl occasions Lur powerlessness vi-i-vis the Lhura Government, was allowed by Great Britain to stand as guarantor to the Treaty which had been entered into with that Govern. mient
prohibit the importation and circulation of certain Foreign Coin recently passed by the Legislative Council,
An extract of meteorological observa- tions made at the Royal Observatory
daring the mouth of June shows that the average maximum temperature for that period was 55.6, the mean 81.2 and the average minimum temperature 77.6 degrees. The rainfall for the period was 16.035 inches and there were
am 181.5 hours of sunshine
His Majesty the King has not been advised to exercise his power of dis
allowance with respect to the following Ordinance:--Ordinance No. of 1913, entitled "An Ordinance to declare the terms and conditions applicable to loans authorised to be raised by the Govern the creation of Hongkong Inscribed ment of Hongkong and to provide for
Stock."
THE FATALITIES ON THE BARON ERSKINE."
COMMENDABLE BEAVERT.
In amplification of the brief statement our Saturday's issue that three Indian seamen had been asphyxiated on steamer Baron Erskine, we have been able to glean the following particulars. It appears that through a misunder- standing of orders the fore peak tank
Finally, in the Agreement within Russia in 1907, it was provided that "In accordance with the admitted principle of the suzerainty of China over Tibet, Great Britain and Russia agree not to enter into negotiations with Tibet oxcept through the intermediary of the Chinese Government,"
was opened by the serang who sent a man It is difficult to trace any consistency in descended into the tank with the idea of down. On seeing him fall, the serang the attitude of Great Britain and China rescuing him. He also immediately throughout the instances which we have fell unconscious. The lamp-trimmer thon eited. We have Great Britain requiring covered his mouth and nostrils with a China to interfere in the internal admini- cloth and went into the tank only to be stration of Tibet, and also entering into overcome himself. By this time the chief independent Treaty relations with the officer, Mr. Cairns, had been sent for and Lhasa Government; we have the Peking-tions to fasten u rope under his armpits was soon on the spot. He took precau- Government tacitly acknowledging that war before entering the tank, and very for against Tibet was not war agaïust the tunately, for he also Chinese Empire, and also asserting its impotence to control the Lhasa Govern ment, and then guaranteeing the observance by that Government of a Treaty wrung from it at the point of the bayonot. This state of affairs was innocuous as long as Tibet was effectively autonomous and China was a pacife neighbour, while it doubtless was the outstanding proved gratifying to Chinese pride. Lat. obstacle to the recognition by Great Britainterly, however, China has shown that she body. It was at once taken on deck and
SIE EDWARD GREY'S statement in the House of Commons on May 29th, coupled with Mr. ACLAND'a reply to Colonel YATE on June 11th, constitutes a landmark in the vexed question of Tibet from which it way
be convenient to review the whole situation. Prior to the Foreign Secretary's statement, it had been generally understood that this Tibetan question
was overcome.
Hanled back by the rope and taken to the open Rir he conscious.
WAS some hours un-
Tasker) was then sent for and he ordered The Captain (Mr. James
windsails into the tank and pumps to he started. In about fifteen minutes the tank-smelt-less foul and the ship's carpenter, & Dubrin, went down (rope round his waist) and succeeded in getting another rope round the nearest
the Serbo-Bulgarian Treaty is dead.
There is some anxiety concerning the. extent of the ambitions of Roumania, whose advance Bulgaria, making a virtue of necessity, is not resisting. ROUMANIA'S SIGNIFICANT NOTE TO BULGARIA.
Roumania has presented a Note to Bulgaria declaring that she had already warned Bulgarin that if war broke out among the Allies abe, would be compelled to take action.
reply to this. Moreover, Bulgarin attacked Servia withit giving the customary notification, and consequently Rumania ordered her Avtoy to enter
intimated that she intends to participate Bulgaria. Sternltaneously, Romania
Bulgaria did not even
in the discussion concerning the final partition of Turkish territory. Roumania points out that Bulgaria's failure to reply to the Note, and the attacking of Servia, are regarded by Roumania as acts of great provocation,
BULGARIA'S HELPLESSNESS. The papers, while somewhat sympathetic a helplessness of Bulgaria, sur
rounded by her enemies, attribute her"
her diplomacy, and hope that the Powers failure to remarkable miscalculations in
will retrieve their past errors and act unhesitatingly
B
Hiinaries will require settlement before great popular welcome, 200,000 people' a conference is held at St. Petersburg. lining the streets. Their Majesties visited others quietly possessing territory which
Bulgaria will have to acquiesce in Oldham.
she fully intended to have
There is some apprehension that-Gireece may demari overmuch, including the whole coast to Enus.
The exhaustion of men,
money and
supplies, from which all the States are suffering, will have a calming influence.
GREEKS EXASPERATED. Extreme exasperation is felt in Greece at reports officially published by order of the King of the massacre of a Greek
bishop, priests and notables by the Bul- garians on evenating Demir Hissar.
There are similar reports from Serres. EXPRESS TRAIN DERAILED IN ENGLAND.
LONDON, July 13th. The Croner-to-London express has been derailed at Culchester.
The driver, staker and guard were killed. The first coach was reduced to matchwood, and many passengers were injured.
GENTLEMEN . PLAYERS.
LONDON, July 13th.
The cricket match between the Gente
NEW DUTCH CABINET.
to end the rainons and players, which took place on the Oval, antagonisms between the Balkan States.
was drawn.
Mr. Lloyd George, speaking at the
the Powers would restrict the area of war Mansion House, said he was hopeful that
and effect a lasting settlement between these hapless States, and thus remove the greatest cause for the disturbance in the money markets of the world.
boothem
BULGARIAN PREMIER ON THE SITUATION.
speaking in the Sobranje, declared that Dr. Daneff, the Bulgarian Premier,
the Government had always favoured peace, and had accepted the Tsar's pro- He maintained
THE HAGUE July 12th.
formed a Cabinet representing the entire Dr. Bos, the Liberal Democrat, has
Left.
EMPIRE CUP SHOOTING.
LONDON, July 13th, The results of the shooting for the Bisley Empire-Exp are as follows;****
Great Britain Australia
Canada
India
into
the Rima
doctor from the Lai-chi-kok Camp was sent that there was no question of a pre-
of the Chinese Republic, and that recogni- herself can be a metace to the peace of our artificial respiration started. The. Sikh posals for arbitration. tion would be deferred until some solution froutiers-her advance
the European conscience,
ROUMANIA'S TERRITORIAL
AMBITION.
It is stated in official circles that
lateral area formed by Silistria, Rust- chuk, Shumla and Varna.
2,210
2,190
2,072
1,953
INTERNATIONAL LAWN TENNIS.
LONDON, July 12th. McLoughlin and Hackett (America)
thus entering the final.
Powell and Schwengers (Canada) beat Watson and Vivier (Belgium), 3-0.
Canada will meet America, the winner
of the complications resulting from China's country, and its probable effect on the for, and he continued the artificial respira-meditated attack by Bulgaria, and forward policy in Tibet. Such a curso turbulent tribesmen living round the bondtion. The second cfficer, Mr. Muir, then would have given Great Britain a powerful of the Brahmaputra, could not be other volunteered to go down, but was overcome thought the declaration of war against lever in dealing with China, but, ne Sir than a source of anxiety to Northern before he got the rope around the nearest Bulgaria was unjustifiable. Bulgaria beat Rahe and Kleinschroth (Germany) EDWARD GERY pointed out, if China proved Assam berinvasion of Lhasa was followed body. The ship's carpenter then again was prepared to submit to a tribunal of by 1 in the Davis Cup Competition, abdurate it might result in recognition by unrest in Butan; and more recently she descended and brought up the second Being indefinitely deferred, and while it is has shown a decidedly bellicose tendency o
mao. By this time the tank was getting desirable to have a satisfactory agreement the Burma frontier. It is this danger that two the carpenter again went down and clear of the gas, und after a breath or on the subject of Tibet, it would be very requires to be met by new instruments, and brought up the third and last body. undesirable that when all other Treaty that renders intolerable the nebulous state Artificial respiration was carried on for Powers had recognized the Republican Gov-of Chino-Tibetan relations. We have the three hours, by which time Dr. Gröne Boumania proposes to annex à quadri- playing England in the challenge 'round. crament, Great Britain should be precluded peace of our Indian frontiers to safeguard, arrived and pronounced life extinct. from doing so. A further reason for not and, as Sir EDWARD GENY pointed out, making the settlement of the Tibetau ques-disorder there must follow from a forward and second officers, but most of all to the Great credit is due to both the chief tion a condition precedent to recognition policy by China in Tibet, and still more ship's carpenter, who really risked his might be added: China was informed in so from an attempt by her to incorporate life the three times he entered the tank. Sir JOHN JORDAN's Memorandum of August the country--an attempt which, in spite Something must also be said for the A telegram from Constantinople, states of the Chinese Government's assertion serang, who was the first to attempt a that General Natchevitch, visiting the revised Agreement on the subject of Tibet, on December 23rd last that Tibet was descended to attempt the saving of the
rescue, and also the lamp-trimmer, who Military Governor at Stamboni, expressed but it would be impossible to conclude a not to be converted into a province of other two. That this man recognised his
regret at the failure of his mission which- formal Treaty with a body that is not China, and that the traditional system of danger is evidenced by the fact that his he had hoped would have maulted in a acknowledged to be a legitimate wern. Tibetan government was to be preserved, is ment, while buy informal arrangement, as far from being abandoned, for, as recently
Turco-Bulgarian Alliance. an exchmogu of Notes, might be repudiated as April 10th, & Presidential Mandate was
A TURCO-SERVIAN AGREEMENT. It is also clear that the issued promulgating the law governing the
will recover a large part of Thrace under after recognition.
According to Turkish accounts, Turkey conditions demanded prior to recognition-first election of Dembers of Parliament for **the formal confirmation by the Repulic Tibat as passed by the National Council.
an agreement made with Servia.
17th last of Great Britain's wish for a
cloth when the body was found. nestrils and mouth were covered with a
Matin
The deceased three sailors, Abdul, Serang Akbar Layoo, and lamp trimmer Syed Mosa were buried in the Mohammedan Cemetery, Happy Valley.
FAILURE OF A RUSSIAN DIPLOMATIC MISSION.'
ENGLISH COUNTY CRICKET.
LONDON, July bath. Northants beat Somerset at Northamp ton by nine wickets.
Sussex drew with Derbyshire at Derby. Lancashire beat Yorkshire at Liverpool (extra niatch) by three wickets
Hampshire defeated Worcestershire at Southampton by two wickets.
INTER-COLLEGIATE CRICKET.
LONDON, July, 13th. Eton beat Harrow by nine wickets at Lords.
SUFFRAGIST SENSATION IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.
LONDON, Jaly 12th. While the House of Commons was dis- eussing the Plural Voting Bill, & man in the gallery fired a toy pistol, which gave a loud report. The man shtonted "Justice for women.". Another man
House. Both were ejected and afterwards showered pamphlets on to the floor of the
detained.
RIOT AT BELFAST.
CONFLICT BETWEEN - NATIONALISTS AND
ORANGEVEN.
LONDON, July 13th. The Twelfth of July celebrations ut Belfast caused the streets to be thronged. Unionists and Nationalists engaged in á "battle" which lasted for an hour and a half. Stones and revolver shots were exchanged, and the police charged the crowd with drawn butons in face of n fusilude of stones and bottles, and dis persed the people. A number of persons suffered injuries,
NOTABLE DECLARATIONS BY MR. BONAR LAW AND SIX EDWARD CARSON. Fifty thousand Orangemen denĪTIS– trated in the grounds of Captain Craig's.. residence in Belfast, Lord Londonderry and Sir Edward Carson being the spokes-
Unionists for whatever steps the loyal men. The former read a Message from Mr. Bonar Law assuring the support of
Ulatermen were compelled to take, whe ther constitutional or unconstitutional, Sir Edward Carson outlined a plan to take over the Government of Ulster, refusing to pay taxes to a Home Rule Government.
THE SANITARY BOARD AND THE GOVERNMENT,
Mr. F. B. L. Bowley, pursuant to notice, will move the following resolution at the meeting of the Sanitary Board to murrow:-"That the Board requests the Governor-in-Council in the event of au
appeal from the Board under section 265 of the Public Health and Buildings' Ordinance before hearing the appeal to communicate the grounds of such appeak to the Board for consideration and
report."
FIRE IN HOLLYWOOD ROAD.
Shortly after four o'clock on Saturday afternoon the firemen were sunmorred to No. 81, Hollywood Road, where an out- break of fire was discovered. The hase- ment and ground floor of the building are occupied by second-band furniture dealers, the first floor is used as a Chines "school" and the second and third-floors aro residences. The fire originated in tho basement, and was caused by the up- setting of a kerosens lamp among some bamboo shavings. Most damage occurred on the ground floor, and is estimated to amount to $300. There was no insuranca on the building or furniture.