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Yesterday was the sixtieth anniversary of the landing of Commodore Perry is. Japan-in other words, the sixtieth birth- day of New Japan.
Mr. Lau Chu Pak, officiel liquidator of the Hongkong and Manila Yuen Sheng Exchange and Trading Co., Ltd., an nounces a fourth dividend of $10 per centum,
The weekly *cture of communicable diseases shows that last week there were 13 cases of bubonic plague (one Indian), all being fatal, one of diphtheria, and one of puerperal fever. › Three further cases of plague were reported yesterday.
Mr. William Moss, an "expert of cite matters" sent out from England by the owners and underwriters of the all of the Nippon to advise with Cap tain Eggert and Messrs. Ker & Company as to the proper steps to pursue in the pinu case, arrived in Manila last week,
D.C.LI. VETERANS HONOURED TELEGRAMS. THE SOTTO EXTRADITION CASE.
TURED N.0.0.'s PRESENTED WITH LONG
SERVICE MEDALS.
An interesting ceremony took place on the Parade Ground after the Military Church Parade on Sunday, when His Excellency Major-General Anderson, C... presented three non-commissioned offieers of the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry with Long Service Medals.
Some 250 men of the regiment were assembled on the ground to witness the presentation, the recipients of this coveted nedal being :--
Quartermaster Sergt. J. H. Elliott. Colour-Sergeant E. J. Matless. Sergeant A Ostler. General Anderson pinned a medal on each man's coat, congratulated him, and shook him by the hand. After the cere mony the men returned to barracks, where, doubtless, congratulations became general,
CHINA'S REPRESENTATIVE.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCK:]
THE BALKAN WAR.
THE ALLEGED BULGARIAN ATROCITIES. Telegrams from Athens and Belgrade give full and gruesome details of the alleged atrocities by the fleeing. But garjans.
Before Mr. F. A. Haseland at the Magistracy yesterday, the hearing was continued of the case in which the Ame rican Government ask for the extradition of Vicente Sotto, the editor of the. Philippine Republic, to the Philippine Islands.
The Crown Solicitor (Mr. P. M. Hudg son), in continuation of his reply to. Mr. Brutton's first point, said that Congress, by Acts, carried out the promises made. to Florida and California by incorporat ing the inhabitants in the Union of the United States, and admitting them to GREEK KING AND MONSTERS IN the enjoyment of all rights and tumuni-
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ties of the citizens of the United States, and King Constantine had telegraphed to
these promoted
anorgnaised the Foreign Minister on the matter as submitted they were, to organised terri- territories, as he (the Crown Solicitor)
follows: Protest in my name to the representatives of the civilised Powers against the acts of the monsters in human
form and say that I, in my regret, am compelled to wreck vengeance in order to
acts have surpassed all the borrors of barbaric times, and have proved they have no longer a right to be reckonéd among the civilised peoples.”.
Sir Francis Piggott's very interesting WORLD'S RAILWAY CONFERENCE, inspire terror in the unsters, whose and valuable Letters on the Chinese Cun- stitution have been re-published 13 pamphlet form by Messrs. Kelly & Walsh, Ltd. They are dedicated to "My friend Ma Liang, in remembrance of much pleasant inlk about the Constitution that
is to be."
Yesterday was the French National Holiday. M. Gaston Liebert, the Consul in Hongkong, was "at Home" to the French community, his Consular col leagues, Government officials and friends generally at the Corsular residence in Queen's Gardens, and the day was observed by the French ships in the harbour which were dressed in honour of the occasion.
We are informed that Mr. Chen Kwok Wa. Spreial Chinese Railway Commis. sinner appointed by the Republican Gov ernment of China to attend the Railway Conference of all the Railway Countries
of the World to be held in the Capital of Russia on the 27th June, arrived at his destination on the 25th altimo.
Mr. Chen has been employed in the Chinese Northern Railways for many years, and is a ripe Chinese, English and French scholar. diplomatic experience, as he was a member of the staff of the first Chinese Consul
He has also had some
General of Australia.
Mr. Chen bas already accomplished difficult and arduous missions in Man-
of incompetences which has been made by the Parliament during the three months of its existence. Our Peking contemporary recalls a recent Manifesto by the Kuoming tang--which party is in a majority in the Parliment wherein it was declared that every dollar spent by the Government repre. sents the people's sweat and labour, and that it is beartrending to think that the Cloveṛn- ment-meaning the President and his Cabinet--is spending money recklessly. Well way it be asked whether this vote, for which the Kuomiagtang must be held responsible, is not "reckless, wicked extra- vagance" ut a line when the country is on the very verge of bankruptcy? It is all the more to be condemned when we observe the scant attention paid by the great majority of the members to the practical work of the legislature. The world would have thought "the more highly of the Republican move. ment in China had the members of the two Houses of Parliament shown the strength of their convictions by gratuitous publie service until such time as the finances of the country had been put upon a sound footing, ANY enabling this heavy charge upon the and, with the exception of a short by the President for this important)
Treasury to be borne without embar-interval in Shanghai, bas spent the whale russment. But that is too inuch to expect. of her married life in Japan. Mrs. Hall The patriot in China, with but very few leaves to mourn her loss, in addition to exceptions, estimates the valan of his her husband, two sons and four daugh- patriotism in ounces of silver.. We had an ters. A pathetic incident in connection with Mrs. Hall's demise, the Japan late Governor-General, on the eve of rolin-
Guzelle says, is that the Consul General is retiring from the Consular Service at quishing the office, ordered the repayment the end of the year, when the family were of gifts made by "patriots" to the Revolu-oking forward to returning to the home' tionary funds, with interest at the rate of 50 per cent. added-at a time of great financial stress, too. The resolution of the Sonate, that members of the two Houses of Parliament should be paid $6,000 a year each, belongs to the same category.
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ACKNOWLEDGMENT.
Japan papers announce the death of Mrs. J. Carey Hall, wife of the British Consul General
at Yokohama. Mrs.
Hall, who was a daughter of Mr. Charles Wyclif Goodwin, at one time Assistant Judge of the British Supreme Court for China and Japan, was married in 1870,
land.
Anong recent promotions in the British Navy appear the names of Rear-Admiral Jerram, C.B., Commander-in-Chief on the China Station, who becomes a Vice. Admiral, and Captain William Chris topher Pakenham, C.B., M.V.O., who is Experiments were being made with the promoted to Rear-Admiral. The new motor fire engine last night.
The German mail of the 11th June was delivered in London on the 12th July.
The Balgownie Bubber Estates paid a 100 per cent. dividend for the past year,
Whilst assisting in transferring cargo on the Namur, a Chinese was struck by a block and killed.
We notice in a list of Federated Mulay States Government appointments the aames of two lady medical officers.
Rear-Admiral was in command of the Daphne, on the China Station, from March, 1901, to April, 1902. In June, 1903, he was promoted to captain,”and Riter two or three months' temporary ́service in the Naval Intelligence Depart ment was senior Naval Attaché at Tokyo from April, 1904, to May, 1906, including the greater part of the Russo-Japanese War. For this service he was decorated with the C.R.. July, 1905, and received the second-class of the Order of the Rising San from the Emperor of Japan. FR December, 1011, he succeeded Rear- Admiral Madden as Junior Sea Lord, an appointment which will not be dis
The Directors of the Shanghai Water works Co., Ltd., have declared an interim Mr. and Mrs. A. W-HT tender the dividend of 15s.- per share for the half turbed by his promotion to flag rank.
Fear ended June 30th, 1913.
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HONGKONG, JULY 15TH, 1913.
Dr. Wa Ting-fang has definitely declined the appointment of Chinese Minister to Washington. Probably Shit Chao-chi (Dr. Alfred Szé), former Minis- ter of Communications, will go to the United States.
Mr. Harry Good, late chief engineer of the 1.-C. str. Suiæo, who after nearly „forty-years" service with-Messrs. Jarding, years, has now retired, left Shanghai Matheson & Co., and at the age of 73
for England last week.
old woman.
TYPHOON WARNING.
The telegram quoted below was received at the American Consulate General Hongkong, from the Manila Observatory at 10.30 am, yesterday:- Cyclone, or typhoon N. of the Visayas Islands, moving W.-
THE MAGISTRACY.
GAMBLING THE CAUSE OF ROBBERIES.
The confidence trick has been practised
Nine houseboys employed at Kowloon by certain Chinese with assiduity and success lately, The latest victim is an were charged by Sergt. Wills, before She was walking along Mr. F. A. Hazeland, with gambling in Queen's Rond when she was accosted by the Servants' quarters of No. 4, Durbar three men, who persuaded her to part Villas, occupied by Mr. A. C. Seidel, with $20.
Mr. Seidel told the Magistrate that at about midnight on Sunday he heard a noise in the servants' quartors, and found
churia, and has been decorated by
President Yuan Shih-kai for his valuable services, and no doubt it is due to his ripe knowledge and experience of rail Way affairs that he has been singled out
Mission.
Mr. Chen is a Queen's College boy, and old boys will recognise him by his school pame (Chan Youk Ying). Mr. Chen Kwok Wa, who, by the way, is brother- in-law of Mr. Tse Tsan Tai, of this Colony, will proceed to London after the Conference.
SCHOOLS IN HONGKONG,
The Report on the Blue Book says: -- There are 63 Government and Grant Schools. the most important of which is
BULGARIAN DENIALS.
out a brilliant retreat before an over- whelming force of Greeks. Safia is silent regarding the operations beyond briefly chronicling the advance of the Rooman fans, who occupied Tchifoutekeui and are marching on Dohritch. Thousands of refugees are flocking into Sofis.
TORKEY REJECTS BULGARIAN
-OFFER
Hc
Was
tories. His Worship would find that in Acts of Congreas incorporating the inhabitants into the Union, Florida was later on taken into Statehood, and California was also eventually taken into Statehood. Evidently desiring that the disposition of the question of the in- hitants of the Philippines should he lor entirely to Congress, the Treaty feeding the Philippines did not negatively refrain from making the same promises, but expressly stipulated that Congress should determine these questions. The stories of Bulgarino atrocities are submitted that the United States' fintly denied in Sofia. where similar sovereignty, in consequence of that, over counter-charges are made against the the territory coded by Spain was thus emphasised. His Friend had submitted Servians and the Greeka. An Interna-that it must have been the intention, when tional enquiry is suggested.
entering into the Treaty, to grant to the ridiculous the talk of the capture of evidence of that contention he quoted the An official announcement describes as Philippine Islands independence, and as.
General Wanoff and two divisions. He, case of Cuba. He (Mr. Hodgson) sub- with the Second Bulgarian Army, carried mitted that Cuba was not in the same position as the Philippines at all. Cuba
never became a territory. It was merely was not ceded to the United States, and temporarily occupied by the United States, Spain relinquishing her sovereign- ty, and independence was practically promised under the Treaty, and eventually granted the inhabitants. The Philippines became à territory of the United States under the Treaty of Paris -on-cession, and no less a sum than $20,000,000 was paid by the United States, The Philippines, under that Treaty, he srbmitted, became an unorganised terrj- tory and had remained so ever since, and as such unorganised territory it was United States. The United States would, under the complete sovereignty of the
by Act of Congress, extend these terri- tories into organised territories, and eventually into Statehood, and Congress could, and did, extend such laws and provisions of the Constitution to the Philippine Islands as it saw fit. The question whether any particular pro- vision was applicable depended upon whether Congress had extended that pro- vision to such territories. The Extradi- tion Acts had been so extended, but the defence contended that our treaty obliga tion as to extradition do not apply to the Philippine Islands. It was admitted by the defence that these Extradition Acts which case we should be bound, ander our applied to such territory as Hawaii, in Treaty obligations, to extradite. He could aut see that it made any difference as to whether all of the revised statutes hud been extended to the Philippines or not, nor did it matter whether the full- citizenship had been granted to tit Islands or not; neither did it matter that they had not yet been admitted to State- hood. They were territory nevertheless, the United States, and under no other under full sovereignty and dominion of
sovereignty. They were within the terri- torial jurisdiction of the United States. He would remind his Worship that this Government had recognised that there was extradition in force between this Govern- ment and the Philippines.
Meanwhile Turkey has rejected the frontier concessions offered by the Bul- garian plenipotentiary sent to Constan- tinople for that purpose, and has ordered troops at Chatalja, Bulair, and Gallipoli
Izzet
to be in readiness to advance, Pasha is commanding in Turkey.
There are signs of an agreement with Servia and an agreement with Greece is being negotiated.
TURKISH ARMY FOR ADRIANOPLE.
A message from Constantinople an- nounces that a Turkish army started on Saturday evening on a march to Adrianople.
The Turks are apparently actuated by
Queen's College. Of these 20 are Upper Grade Schools with a staff competent to give instruction in all subjects of the 7th Standard and above. These latter schools have an average attendance of 4,054, and the medium of instruction in all of them. with the exception of four girls' schools, is English. The 43 remaining schools are all Lower Grade. They comprise one the uncompromising attitude of Bulgaria, school for British Indians, where English also by a feeling that they cannot allow and Urdu taught, four Government Greece to become master of the whole Schools and 38 Grant Vernacular Schools. Aegean coast. Grade Schools is 1,984. The total average The average attendance at all these Lower-
attendance at both grades of schools is 6,038.
The revenue derived from school fees was $66,172.50 (of which 232,720 was from Queen's College).
Two schools are limited to children of British parentage.
Both these schools (one for boys, the other for girls) are under the Government. In 1912 the com- bined average attendance at them was 90.
HONGKONG TENNIS LEAGUE.
WIGWAM 7. CLUB DE RECREIO.
The above match was played off : on Saturday, the 12th instant, on Wigwam's ground and resulted in a win for Clab de Recreio by 27 games. The scores
were:
Club de Recreio Wigwam
89
36
Total
99
We see that the Chinese Senate bas passed, after a long debate, Article 91 of the Assam- bly Low, which provides that members of the Legislature shall receive an annual salary of no less than $6,000. It was not a ananimous decision, for amendments were moved in the course of the debate for the reduction of that amount, first to one half, then to $3,600 & year. But nothing less than $6,000 a year would satisfy the majority, and so it has been enacted that the Ministry of Finance H.B.M.'s Supreme Court for China, left already at its wits enda to provide funds for England last Friday accompanied by sufficient to meet the current needs of the Lady de Sausmarez. They travel home by country-must provide the very considerable way of Vladivostock and the Siberian His Worship observed that the real culprit information is of interest:-
Sir Haviland de Sausmanez, Judge of
sum of no less thma 55,220,000 a year for about three or four months...
route and will be absent from Shanghai
the purpose of remunerating the services of the country's legislators. We think our
According to the announcement in the Peking contemporary-regarded as the London Gazette. Major-General CA of the Chinese Foreign Office- Anderson, C.B., goes to Meerut, not to
organ
is justified in saying that when
comparison is
the defendants gambling. He had warned
CHINESE IMMIGRATION INTO CANADA.
In view of the recent telegram respect-
his boy un several occasions not to bringing the limitation of Chinese immigration its other men for the purpose of gambling into British Columbia the following
A TURCO-BULGARIAN ARRANGEMENT.
It is reported that the Bulgarian Government has ordered the Military Authorities to arrange with the Ottoman commanders for Bulgarian troops to evacuate those territories which, accord. ing to the Treaty of Peace, are to be handed over to Turkey.
Bulgaria has arrived at an agreement with Turkey that, as a provisional fron. tier, the boundary be formed by the Enos-Midia line. ALLEGED WANTON DESTRUCTION BY BULGARIANS.
It is officially announced in Athens the prior to evacuating Serres the Bulgarian. set fire to the city, nearly the whole of which was destroyed, rendering 20,000 out of a population of 37,000 homeless. BULGARIAN WAR VESSELS TARE REFUGE,
A Bulgarian gunboat and six torpedo boats have taken refuge in Sevastopol
from the Roumanian Fleet.
THE BULGARIAN KING.
aside in Sofia from acute rheumatism.
King Ferdinand is reported to be laid
THE CRYSTAL PALACE FUND:
CLOSED.
was the man in charge, Sergt. Wills said Chinese immigrants to Canada con:" -he-questioned him on the spot, and he tributed 88,339,443 to the revenue last. said he was afraid to turn the others away fiscal year. The law provides that half when they came. His Worship said the poll tax shall go to the province where entry is first made into Canada. The tax
LONDON July 14th... gambling seemed to be as common
There were 367 previously 23
is 8500 gold per head. announced. Kowloon as on this side of the water, and Chinese admitted under the exemption Stores, has contributed £2,500 to the Mr. Burbidge, the manager of Harrods' Major-General F. H. Kelly, C.B.. left Sergt. Wills said it was the cause of many
clauso for students, merchants, etc.
Lucknow
in
Mr. Brutton objected, and said this was most improper. There was no evidenen to that effect at all. That was just what bis Worship had to decide.
His Worship-No, there is no evidence, There have been plenty of cases in which prisoners have gone by conscat.
The Crown Solicitor quoted judgments · Lo show that the Philippines were not a foreign country by reason of the tariff law, and said that they were in the same position as. Porto Rica and Hawaii. It had been held definitely that the Philip- pines were not a foreign country. Referring to the case of Foster . the Globe Venture Insurance Company quoted by his friend, his submission on that case was that it was not for this Court in any way to find the extent of the territory of a foreign country, and where the dispute arose the Court must enquire. of the Foreign Office to ascertain and obtain 3 judicial knowledge of the status, And of the fact whether the district or islands in dispute was within the territory of the foreign country. It was not for his Worship to say whether the Philippines were a terri- tory of the United States or not. Mr. Hodgson then quoted from the judgment of the former Chief Justice (Sir Francis Piggott) in the previous hearing of this cass at the Supreme Court, as follows:- | “It is conceivable that distant. Islands might be so incorporated as to form an integral part of the territory of the United States. It was equally conniv- able that it should be treated as a separate
our business to meddle with so high au country altogether under the sovereignty. of the United States. It is cortainly not
the Constitution, and for that reason the Statca whose official duty is to interpret Court did not ask Consul-General Asider-- son to elaborate the question
The heari was again adjourned.
made of the cost of England on June 13th, in the Empress of of the big robberies at European houses Altogether there are now about 30,000 Fund for preserving the Crystal Palaco affair. A Court exists in the United
living, it is indisputable that China's Ireland for Hongkong to take up comin Kowloon. Defendants were each fined Chic in the Dominion, of whom 20,000 for the nation, thus completing the Parliament, which is composed largely of mand of the troops in South China. Mrs. 15, or in default one month's hard youthful, ignorant, self-scoking politicians," and Miss Kelly will remain in Camberley labour.
are in British Columbia and 3,000 in 260,000 necessary to comply in July with Ontario.
an anonymous donor's offer of £30,000.
is costher than any other in the workl; till they join him in the autumn.