INTIMATIONS
fist-fruits of his planning and the first net of the revolution took place in September, 1911, with the outbreak in Szechuan. Again, Mr. Mane's acquaintance with Chinese politica is revealed by bia reference to the Regent's dismissal of YUAN SU- A. S. WATSON & two years before this (it was moarer three years before, as a matter of fact) "because of his leaning towards reform, But we bare not space to go into the mis-statomenta zeriatin; a couple of quota tions will suffice to expose the farrago of nonsenso that is being served up to the public at Home. Mr. MEDE begins: The names of many great mon occur to one who
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Only fifteen Scottish residenta attended the meeting.
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:: MALTREATMENT
OF-FORMOSAN CHINESE
AT AMOY
-JAPAN DEMANDS APOLOGY AND ́
INDEMNITY,
(THROUGH NEUTER'S AGEXOV. ]
UNITED STATES AND MEXICO,
SITUATION, MOST CRITICAL
WASHINGTON, August 10th
re-
(THROUGH NEUTER'S AGENCY.]
OPIUM TRAFFIC AND THE BOXER INDEMNITY IN CHINA.
AMERICA'S DRAMATIC, POSITION;":
· President Wilson was much surprised LONDON, August 10th.
at the receipt of a message from the Lord Crewe and Sir Edward Grey | Mexican Government idention! to that PEKINO, August-10th. received on the 7th instant a representa- | received by the Times, in which President The Japanese Consul at Amoy has tive deputation of opponents of the opium Huerta intimated that unless Mr. Lind, demanded from the Chinese Author-traffe, including Mr. Rowlands, who, on the ex-Governor of Minnesota (who was We have received from Shanghaiya letter signed Conme" discussing the itics an apology, an indemnity of the instant, withdrew a motion in the to be sent to the American Embassy in House of Commons in consequence of an advisory capacity in the place of the present situation in China. We have no
American objection to publishing this letter if the $2,500 for a house which was Lord Crewe and Sir Edward Grey con-
Ambassador, who Jinel writer will forward-his-prog-name-and-damaged, the punishment of thesenting to receive the deputation.
signed) quem with proper credentials, address "not for publication but as evi
leaders in the recent outrage in According to the official report, Lord accompanied with the recognition of the dence of good faith...
which four Formosan Chinese were
Crewe, in replying, said that Chinese Mexican Government, his presence would maltreated, and a guarantee of opinion and practice were not unanimous not be acceptable to Mexico. Mr. Bryan, segarding the ending of the opium trade, after. conferring with the President, but already there was a great improve-issued It statement declaring that future protection.
ment, There were great practical diff President Wilson was entirely within his culties in disposing of the Shanghai rights in sending Mr. Lind, and assumes stocks elsewhere than in China. that the mission will not be regarded as The Government of India had no desire unfriendly when its character is under- to encourage the export of opium to stood. China. If China suppressed the oplum The papers regard the situation as most are discussing the pos habit in ten years it would be a feat critical, und unparalleled in the history of the world. sibility of war,
The Colonial Treasurer's financial and twenty-five millions of people who were statement for the month of May shows transformed from an empire into a republic, that the balance of assets and liabilities and he did this with a minimum of on April 30th was 88,793,985.30, which, bloodshed unparalleled in the history of with the revenue for May, $721,402.01,
The time allowed for the satisfac Deducting rovolutions. Compare the man and his gires a total of $3,515,348,2%, work with two men undeniably great.700,210.46, the expenditure for May, the tion of these demands expires to balanes is $9,749,101.86. - The assets of Napoleos had a giant intellect, but its the Colony total 0,054,180.00, whil night, but the Chinese Authorities
placed at have applied for an extension.
chief result was the deluging of a continent with streams of blood and the draining of { virile strength from his own country to such as extent that to this day it has not recovered: GLADSTONE was also a man of gigantic intellect, which he applied to
Lotal liabilities are
$3.394,378,20.
LATER. The returns of the average amount of
The indemnity has been paid, bank notes in circulation and of specie
reserve in Hongkong, during the one of the offenders has been arrested PRICKLY HEAT LOTION | making for peace; but even he could not month ended 31st July, 1913, as certified and an extension of time has been
An invaluable and most effective remedy Immediately allays the irritation.
WATSON'S
bring about a settlement of the woes of a
little island in the northern seas. SUN YAT BEN, less than twelve months ago, raised a five-striped banner gathering as one nation five peoples under that banner, and starting them from beneath its folds upon a new ere with a claim to take part in the comity of the world's nations along a pathway of progress, education, and freedom interdicted by the displaced rulers." This undiscern- requisite, soothing to the most sensitive ing panegyric is typical of the writer's skin and a useful adjunct of our woll-attitude throughout; we wonder how many
known Lavender Water.
LAVENDER TALCUM POWDER An invaluable Toilet and Nurgy
of our readers would recognize as greatar that NAPOLEON OF GLADSTONE the dreamer
by the managers of the respective banks aie as follows:-
Bauke. Chartered Bank of Indling Australió
Average Sperie Amount.. in Reserve.
and China $6,659,087 $4,000,000 Hongkong
and
Shanghai Ranking Corporation 19,011,081 15,000,000 Mercantile Bank
of India, lad
780,525 352,000
Total.828,450,699 $10,352,000
THE COLONY'S WATER SUPPLY.
The Water Return just issued, which
granted.
|THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.
EXCURSION TRAIN COLLIDES. AT YEOVIL
LONDON, August 9th, Two people were killed and six injured as the result of an accident on the Great Western Railway at Yeovil. The disaster was due to an excursion train from Paddington over-running another train.
The condition of the injured is serious.
heartrending conditions and in this ruins of a telescoped couch.
It should be remembered that reformers
in England would not venture to suggest ten years to limit some of our national vices Lord Crewo did not believe that complete prohibition, into China would be a very great help.
AMERICA ANXIOUSLY WATCHES MILAND'S
PROGRESS.
Pre-
The progress of Mr. Lind, ex-Clovernor of Minnesota, to Mexico City, is being watched most anxiously by the United
·States in view of the possibility of an Sir Edward Grey, in coneurring, affront to President Wilson's unofficial described the scheme which would bring voy involving America in war. the trade to an end in 1910, and said it sident Wilson outlined the Government's was doubtful whether the accumulated policy to the Senate Foreign Relations stocks at Shanghai were really an obstruc Committee yesterday afternoon. tion to China while China continued to produce three times as much opium as these stocks. They could not reasonably
It is understood that the United States merely intends to call upon President Huurte to carry out the pledges he madu
of dreams with his fantastic railway schemes, shows the level and storage of water in The rescue work was magnificent under as the British Parliament to buy the when he succeeded President Madero,
bis proposals to govern China in accordance A. S. WATSON & CO..with the principles of JEAN JACQUES
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HONGKONG AND CHINA.
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BIRTHS.
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The Daily Press.
ROUSSEAU and HENRY GEORGE, his advo cacy of universal (including female) suffrage for China, and his failure to achieve anything concrete save the Tung-meng Hui? Dr. Sus, our readers will further be interested to learn, has the Bourses of two komispheres at his command"The financiers of the world yielded to his per ounding tones, and placed at his disposal
the reservoirs on the 1st inst.. makes a very satisfactory showing. Tytam was
"level with overflow," whereas last year on the same date it was 43ft. 10in. below overflow. Tytam hyewash was only 1ft. 7in, below overflaw (last year 21ft in below). Tytam intermediate, Pokfulam and Wongueichung were all level with overflow."
The storage on the island showed 007.19 millions of gallons as compared with
The official statement says that it was a light engine which ran into the exeur-
ion train,
AUSTRIA'S HUGE ARMY BILL
VIENNA, August 10th
stock.
namely, to hold a prompt election with
Britain should follow the example of government."
Replying to the suggestion that Great & view to establishing constitutional
America with regard to the Boxer in- Mr, Lind landed at Vera Cruz yester- demnity, Sir Edward Grey, in an out- day afternoon, and preceeded to the
that spoken statement, said
Great American Consulates. The population Britain drafted large claims against was quiet. The newspaper Zeil states that the China, but reduced them before presenta- additional expenditure necessitated by tion, whereas America presented large
the great sum of money necessary for big/301.17 millions of gallons on the corres the contemplated increase in the Austrian claims, Waited until a good deal had been
the
ponding date last year,
The Kowloon Gravitation reservoir wa
also level with overflow and contained 352.50 millions of gallons as compared with 277.28 millions on the corresponding date last year.
THE PUKOW SETTLEMENT,
Mr. B. G. Tours, British Consul in Nanking, in his report on the trade of that port for 1912 says; No visible pre gress has been made in the matter of the
Army will exceed 14 milliards of kronen, while the cost of the mobilisation on account of the Balkan War will require an appropriation of at least 800,000,000 kronen. The usual Armay estimates-will be increased until 1918 to 50,000,000 kronen, and the Naval estimates to 175,000,000
kronen.
The latter sum is required to cover the proposed expenditure on new construc-
tion,
paid and then waived the rest, tlus gaining a dramatic position.
THE MARCONI, CONTRACT.
RATIFIED BY THE HOUSE OF COMMONS,
LONDON, August 9th.
BLESSINGS OF THE INSURANCE ACT.
DAY OF RECKONING.
LONDON, August 10th. Mr. Lloyd George, dwelling on the blessings of insurance to 10,000 Notts miners at Sutton-in-Ashfield, said a day of reckoning was coming for the Tories In the House of Commons Mr. Master who stoned, reviled and spat upon the Act man moved a resolution approving the which was doing the work of the Man of second Marconi contract.
Ile said the Nazareth. Moch reniained to be dona Admiralty were reluctant to under before poverty and privation were driven take wireless, but if no reasonable private from this proud country. The Liberalu
development of the Pukow settlement at the southern terminus of the Tientsin- RSSIAN CABLE AND WIRELESS offer had been received the Government had relieved the aged workers of poverty,
compaign." And the general conclusion is that Under the old régime Dr. Son say China was always in disorder; now country is more united-and this is the Dr. Suy who has engineered the present war between the Kuo-ming-tang, and the PRESIDENT The natural corollary of the British public's unreasoning acceptance of any tales about China is exhibited in the London Magazine, where Mr. SHAW DESMOND writes on The Coming World War," his article opening with a lurid picture of the shadow of the follow Colossus" (adorned with a queue, by the way) falling across Europe. The illustra tions generally have their amusing side-or angles. Thus, we have pictures of revola-. tionary quene-cutting and of Dr. Sun set in frames decorated at the corners with what is evidently meant to be the dragon of Imperial China. It is interesting to learn that Chang (which can mean none but CHANG CHIH-TUNG), the Viceroy of the Hukwang," is "one of the most brilliant, as he is one of the most modern, of the Chinamen of to-day." The writer, of course, ja chiefly - concerned with the "Yellow Peril." China's resontment has been aroused by her successive humiliations by the hated White Powers in her last five wara with them." (We cannot recall more than four war between China and the White Powers,even including is such the expedition for the relief of the begations threatened with sioner is doing his best with the aval massacre in Peking). To continue: "She now anches of advice which pour upon him
but it will be some time before any sees her strength, and will raise an army scheme is properly in train, and some of thirty millionis, and, in combination with years probably five or six before the REN and the Chinese Revolution," by one Josera Mar, would be almost sufficient This setting of her house in order must
Japan and Siam, will menace the world. ettergent is impracticable shape. to jeopardize this reputation if people at ultimately lead to the expulsion of the Home had any opportunity of checking the The Powers from Ching. The remedy statements in it, or any desire to do so. Tuesatinent retreat. The only way to Who Josep MED may be we do not prevent such a death struggla of the White Know: bis qualifications for writing on- Chinese politics would appear to consist of and Yellow Races is by the withdrawal of having read Dr. Sun's Kidnapped in the Powers from China London," and Dr CaNTLIE'S "SUX-YAT-BEN Astrous alternative is a crash of colour
HONGKONG, ACGUST LITH, 1913.
The British public seem fatad toba misinformed and presented with highly- coloured and prejudiced views on the subject of Chiau. Why this should be so we cannot fatbom, but the fact romains that the popular magazinos seem beat on giving exaggerated and one-sided accounts of the Republic and its affairs, Chubert, Journal, for example, is usually regarded as a sober and reliable publication, but do article in its last number, "Dr. SON YAT
The dia-
between a Pact of the White Rares and a and the Awakening of China," together Yellow Federation, which would be a crime with such references to and comments ou
ugainst our common humanity.” We can the revolution and subsequent events as not say that we have any immediate fear of may have appeared in the London Radical Press. The caro taken by Mr. MEDE in hisch an Armageddon, or of the withdrawal compilation is shown by his reference in one place to Dr. Sun as having less than twelve months ago misad a five-striped banner," and then later on stating that the
ENTERPRISE.
Pukow Railway on the north bank of the | Yangtze river, opposite Nanking. Much has been lost by the want of foresight of
ST. PETERSBURG, August 10th. those responsible in not having had a settlement scheme ready to be put in hand
The Telegraphic Administration has as soon as the railway was sufficiently begun negotiations with Japan for the completed a special commissioner was purpose of linking up the Russian lines near completion. After the railway was appointed to undertake the work of with the Japanese lines in Korea and arranging for the establishment of a settlement at Pukow, He unfortunately Saghalien. died, and a successor was appointed; this
It has been decided to erect a number gentleman commenced his work by pro the settlements in those places, it being ceeding to Tringtao and Tsinan, to study of wireless stations at Kamchatka and the idea of the Chinese authorities to Saghalien, and also at Krasnovodsk and the world of what China can now do in make the Pukow settlement an example to Tolibo, this direction, with her own brains and hands, and with her own money when she' but preliminary difficulties of erecting a has any The ambition is worthy enough, suitable settlement on ground which is 12ft. or more under water at the time of necessary municipal buildings, shares, the Emperor's Jubiles. summer high water, and of financing the have received an amnesty in honour of lighting, water
The special commis- not inconsiderable gedowns, etc., are
ALLEGED CORRUPTION BY
GOVERNOR OF NEW YORK
CHINESE FOREIGN MINISTER RESIGNS.
P
Luk Ching Cheung, President of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, has resigned, and the President has dominated Hu saying for the offer.
The Chinese Minister to Japan has also resigned and Li Sing Tok has been appointed to take his place.
The Hungborg Weekly Press, which will he published to-night for dis
THE KAISER'S CLEMENCY.
BERLIN, August 10th. It is announced that 240,000 prisoners
New Yonk, August 10th. Governor Sulzer, of New York, is being charged with speculating wholesale with the Electoral funds. A Committee of the New York Legislature is investigating and examining stockbrokers and others.
Governor Bulzer affirms that it is mere malice on the part of Tammany. Hall
BOXING.
SYDNEY, August 10th. In a 20-round contest at Sydney, Matt. Wells beat Hughie Mehegan en points.
OBITUARY.
or expulsion of foreigners from China, and patch by the French mail, will contain
LONDON, August 9th. we can only hope that articks such as these the past week's reports on the revolt at The death is announced of Father two are taken at Home with the traditional Canton. Orders for copies of the issue
should be sent in as carly as possible to Durvalden, who was for ten years a avoid disappointment. rain of cult.
eaptire of the Mahdi,
would certainly have undertaken the work were now attacking sweating and-intern- itself. He hoped the question would benerance and were about to march on the discussed free of passion,
Two Liberal members, Sir Houry Nor- nan (Blackburn) and Sir Croydon Marks (Launcraton), criticised the contract.
Lord Robert Cecil moved an official Opposition amendment, disapproving it. in the absence of a report from anybody independent of the Government.
in
central position where the land monopoly was entrenched. Mr. Lloyd George cun- cluded. The struggle will be fierce, but, the people helping, we will triumph.”
In exports the principal increases were in manufactures and cotton, £819,380; wool, £250,000; new ships, between £1,000,000 and £4,000,000.
BRITISH TRADE RETURNS.
LONDON, August wh The British trade returns for the past Mr. Herbert Samuel, Postmaster-month show that there were increases in General
lengthy defence of
exports totalling £5,177,848, and in im the contract, dwelt on the difficulties of ports amounting to £3,487.253. the State undertaking the work, ndduc. ing the case of the South African Cover- ment, which, after investigating other systems, asked to be allowed to partici pate in the contract.
In imports food, drink, and tobacco After Mr, Bonny Law had criticised the increased by £1,750,000, and timber by contract and Mr. Asquith had defended it; } declaring that the Government would re- main free to use any improvements science could suggest, the amendment was rejected by 221 voles to 140, and the cour tract was ratified by 210 votes to 138.
ENGLISH COUNTY CRICKET
LONDON. August 10th. drew with Warwickshire at
£1,250,000.
WOMAN SUFFRAGE.
THE VEOPLE TO DECIDE THE QUESTIÓN.
LONDON, August 981. Mr. Asquith has received a députation from the National Union of Women's Suffrage. He said he did so because their pacific and law-abiding methods contrasted so strikingly with the dis orderly and criminal proceedings with
liar.
Notts drew with Kent at Canterbury which they had unhappily become fami He claimed that the Government (Humphreys benefit).
Middlesex beat Sussex at Eastbourne i had kept faith with the women. by an innings and 137 runs.
Hants defeated. Somersetshire, Somerset, by 249 runs.
Gloucestershire beat Worcester Cheltenham, by 129 runs.
in
The whole question was one the people must decide. Then, if the verdict was favour able, no political combination in the world could prevent their success, and their at most determined opponents would be the
first to bow to that decision.