HOME AND CHINA AFFAIRS, [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]
LONDON, August 5th. THE BAN FRANCISCO EXHIBITION.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2ND, 1913. loud general officer, inspected the army finished a stata as is compatible with | THE HONGKONG UNIVERSITY. acroplanes. Tho men on duty could procedure by resolution. Not long ago scarcely refrain from smiling in the face the preface of a Unionist bandbook said. of their superior officer, for the War the Government seemed to have forgotten Secretary was puffing away at a cigaretto the promise given in the preamble to the But the truth is some accompanied by the very officer who Parliament Act.
duty.
PROFESSOR SMITH'S ACTIVITIES AT HOME,
We take from a Walsall paper the proceedings at a meeting of the Chamber of Commerce in that elty --
by everyone out there, because it had been had been taken up with great enthusiasm a way of showing there was life in the Old Country yet. He went out in September to organise the engineering work, and to found when be got there that there was very little modern work could say "he Chinese had subscribed
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KING'S STRANGE EXPERIENCE
ANXIOUS MOMENT AT COVENT GARDEN OPERA The visit of the King to Covent Garden on July 22nd was attended by an extra- There was a very ordinary incident.
Quite a storm in a teacup has been issued an order recently prohibiting the of the Cabinet have had the matter in following extract from a report of the being done, and he had to do the best he/ brilliant audience, and there was not n
mind all along and the proposals were before the Ministers in the rough as much as a year ago. In the interval the cout- clusions have bean narrowed down and the scheme is now in a state that will facilitate consideration.
raised by the decision of the British Government not to participate in the great exposition that is to open next year in San Francisco to commemorate the
Imme opening of the Panama Canal.' diately that decision was made known on baisterous American confreres of the pen not to work to lash up summer surf by
An
men under him from smoking while on There has brou a good deal of heart-burning about this prohibition, especially as for many years during long route marches and other hard phases of military anty the soldiers have been allowed to cheer themselves with a cigarette. In suroral brigades, however, declaring that behind the decision lay this has now been forbidden, the army irritation because the United States. desired to impose falls on British ship-surgeons having reported that cigarettes engender heart trouble. It is recalled ping passing through the Canal. uucasy conscience probably actuated the suggestion, for the vast majority of Americans in their hearts realise that America is acting in violation of # However, the former agreement with us. simple explanation of the conclusion come to by the Commercial Bureau of the British Foreign Office was that in view of the numerous international exhibitions of late years and the distance and cost of freight in the case of San Francisco it would be impossible to induce a suffi cient number of British firms to exhibit
in a manner that would be adequately representative of our trade and industry.
The trade with San relatively small and very few manu
adhered to.
in wares
that the Duke of Wellington in 1845 issued an army order enjoining" officers Canding regiments to prevent smok ing in the mess rooms, as it occasions drinking and tippling by those who acquire the habit.” opinion is just the other way. for it has been found that sinoking has done much to abolish long sittings over the bottle. Perhaps the authorities are just as far wrong in this new order.
Nowadays the
THE CULT OF CHRISTIAN SCIENCE, It may be that we shall, in fact, soon
faith-healing sect. One of the churches recently cost £80,000 to erect, but that is but a small item in the expenditures, for a very large number of the supporters of the movement are wealthy. In addition to London, the Christian Science move ment has established itself in Manchester, Darlington, Edinburgh and Leeds, and the chief organisers of it claim to have in their ranks a remarkable number of N.Ps. and army and navy officers,
THE MEDICAL CONGRESS.-
YACHTING AT COWES.
bos below. sceno that the incident
some
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vacant square foot anywhere. The King. in this way: The Chinese Romeo et Juliette (which had not been and Queen came to hear ne. Melba in £110,000 to this institution-(hear, hear) The President said they were favoured and he had asked home firing to it out heard since 1911), The Queen, the Duke of Connaught, Princess Victoria, and of an engineering department at a cost of Princess Alexander of Teek were in the that afternoon, with the presence Professor Middleton Smith, Dean of the £15,000, with machinery made in this royal box and the King in the omnibus It was in the course of the Faculty of Engineering at the University country. He was in the happy position of recently erected in Hongkong, and he being able to tell them that day that they banishment believed he would have something interest had done it-thear, bear)--for they had accurred, and for a moment it gave rise obtained machinery worth certainly to uneasiness. A gentleman was observed King Edward would have been ing to say to them.
Professor Smith thanked the President £12,000, and probably more. He had also to make his way along the gangway in opportunity afforded him of bringing London to carry out the freight free of by the Omnibus Box and look straight at before them a little news of what was cost; they wanted to increase the trade the King. A gentleman from the stails
attendants of the and the members of the Chamber for the persuaded the shipping companies in front of the pit-tier boxes and to stup
As they with the For East, and they knew they and happening in the Far East. knew, Hongkong was a British possession, were not dealing with anything vague persuaded him to move on, and after the and it was probably one of the most Prof. Smith went on to say that when he fall of the curtain he left the house with remarkable places un earth. Be would visited films, as he had done that of Mr. out demur at the request of the officials like to give them an idea of what had Hemming, he looked round and considered Those who were close to him at the time or pinned on to the front of his shirt. It was also discovered that he had arrived happened there under the British flag. what he could ask for, and scieties noticed that he had a black cross painted Seventy years ago the island of Hongkong he saw nothing suitable in the way of was a granite rock at the mouth of the equipment; but if they could do nothing at the Opera House in morning dress Canton River, inhabited by about forty else, it was always easy to sign cheques before the beginning of the performance. Chinese pirates Today it was the laughter)-or to remember them in their but on being told that he could not be largest part in the world, the shipping wills. (Renewed laughter.) He wanted nutritted he had returned home to not the Port of London. That had been due, there was to stimulate British trade. He being much greater than that going into them to remember that their object out that they had been he thought, to two causes. First and might mention foremost was the fact that the Union immensely cheered by one firm here, and Jack had been floating on the Paik, ash should never forget the fact that the but farther than that, it had a very re- the first firms to answer his appeal and they called it, during those seventy years; Walsall Electrical Company wore one of markable geographical position. Situated help in a very definite way. They were at the mouth of the great Canton among the first on the list, which now
it
the distributing comprised over 180 firus. Everyone he
delighted had he been alive to ace the
FL Cowes yesterday, for he had. great victory of the Royal yacht Britannia at affection for the famous racing cutter. She is in fact the same vessel that was built by the celebrated naval architect, Mr. G. L. Watson, in 1893, when King Edward's racing colours first came into prominence in the yachting world. Of course she has been constantly overhauled since then, and it is a proof of her condi tion that she was able to lead the racing It is often a subject Mary on board.. at Coves, with the Queen and Princess for comment that the Royal family use the yacht Fictoria and Albert a seldom. But the reason is that the Queen is not a good sailer and even the sight of a calm sea gives her quaims.
Norway.
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this country.
ELSC.
AN ELABORATE HOAX. Even the records of the mid-Victorian age--that paliny era of the practical joker-show nothing to equal the hoax alleged to have been perpetrated on the impressed Colonel Seely and his officials War Office. The hoaxer is said so to have off the ignition of an acroplane and stop its engines in mid-air, that a hangar and posal. The feelings of the department Appliances turned military acroplane were put at his dis when the "wireless"' out to be a hoy of sand are of the easier to be imagined than described order.
INTIMATIONS
RED RASH ON FACE ITCHED AND BURNED
grow sceptical of all medical dictu, for the cult of Christian Science is growing Francisco is apace in these islands. There are three Alexandra, on the other hand, is very river
very large churches and quite a number: facturers indeed consider it worth the of hired halls in London devoted to the appy when on the water and some of centre for the whole of the Eastern had seen in this country had been with a story of a wireless device to cat
the pleasantest hours of her life have hemisphere. It was not a manufacturing sympathetic. He wished what was being been spent on the Royal Yacht, especially centre, but was very largely connected done out there to be known, and they expense to display their California. Moreover, there is a feeling
when visiting the shores of Denmark and with shipping and distribution. At the would only be pleased to accept sug
present moment in China there was going gestions. The Duke and Duchess of on a tremendous struggle, chiefly between In reply to Mr. Dewsbury, Professor that the agreement eached in Berlin among European exhibitors recently not
Connaught, by the way, accompanied by three nations-America, Germany; and Smith stated that the rock of Hongkong He, of course,spoke was about belf the size of the Isle of to participate in international shows
Princess, Patricia of Connaught, are to
principally of the class of work in which Wight, but since the Boxer trouble, they more than once in three years should be
cruise in the Baltic in the next week or he was practically interested-engineer had taken over 90 square miles of the Ghent has taken the lead
two and it is expected they will pay a ing, and anything connected with mainland opposite, and they now had this year and so Sen Francisco has to
private visit to the German Emperor and metallurgy for mining. In engineering command of the roadstead. Answering fall out. It was hoped at the Foreign
Empress. The Kaiser and the Duke have it was on absolute fact and he had figures another question, he said they did not Office, I was personally informed by one
many interests in common and have which could be quite easily checked that exept anything they could not
the trade this country was doing was One firmy kindly offered to supply the of the secretaries there, to send a small
always maintained a cordial friendship, nothing like proportionate to the trade complety paper-making plant of a news- The visit really Linges on the health of of other countries compared with what paper, hat that would have taken up official exhibit, but timt also was ruled
Nevertheless, great interest is being out on the ground of expense. It must
might give reasons for that, and the
(Laughter.) be borne in mind, however, that several taken in the deliberations of thousands the Duchess, who is recuperating after her was happeding twenty years ago. They about half his available for space. revent, severe operation. After the Baltic people there also had their opinions. He Mr. T. A. Smith asked to what use the of our dominions overseas, especially of the world's doctors in London. One of
to Abergeldie had seen directors and representatives of those with a Pacific border, are exhibit the notable delegates is from China, Dr craise they will cross
Professor Smith said it would be put to ing Among them is Malaya, which will Wu Lien Teh, who considers that China Castle, where they will be the guests of 180 firms since he had been in this chinery was to be put, and whether the
meeting Chambers of Commerce, hodies
15 The building was. a very show a big, assortment of plantation has most to fear from tuberculosis of all the King for some Scotch shooting. They country, and he had had the privilege of Chinese were to be taught to use it.
the were invited to stay at Balmoral, but they such as the China Association, and two It so happens that rubber, regardless of the fact that the diseases.
whatever great rubber markets are in Europe and National Association for the Prevention preferred to have their own abode, so varioul engineering institutions. Some of beautiful one and could be seen by those those people told him they were so busy on board the ships which came into the is also meeting in Abergeldie was placed at their dispoal.
with orders for Canada and other parts roadsteads. Everyone, of the nearest rubber factory of any conat-of Consumption quence is thousands of miles across London and the Premier gave at the
The frish do not apparently take of the world that they did not very much nationality, inquired what it was, nad want the China trade. That might be so, they got a large number of visitors. His the continent. It is to be hoped that opening session some figures that may be
An inquest but he would ask them to look a little idea was to use the place to a great extent. as an exhibition; and, farther than that, their participation there will not prevent of interest to those who are concerned kindly to Japanese labour, them from showing of their best at the about the ravages of the white piague was held on Saturday at Clifton Lodge, further ahead, and be sure they wore rubber exhibition in London next year. among Orientals. Mr. Asquith said: "Athboy, County Meath, into the death of always going to be as busy as they were to use the machinery to instruct the a Japanese servant, Sanoti Konishi, who at the present moment. (Hear, hear.) students. They were taught to bandle it, Sonic told him that he had come at a most and they got to know the name-plates. (Laughter.) Of course, In fact there will be Bu overplus of am told by the Local Government Board exhibitions, for there is to be the Dutch that out of every ten deaths from all had been missing for a week and whose inopportune time, because they were so particularly. rubber exhibition in Batavia as well as causes one is due to this disease. And body was found in a ditel half a mild full of orders. He hoped it would always those who sent out equipment must not those in America and London in the greatest loss is in the working years from the lodge. It is supposed that sugit be the same, but in anch times of prus Expect to be at unce submerged with He wanted them to be particularly extent they could, but it was pioneer Professor Smith referred to the defence of London it must, however, be of life. Between the ages of 20 and 46 enemy luy in ambush and shot him ag heperity it was wise to look into the future. orders. They advertised to the fullest stated that the date for it was fixed two one out of every three deaths from all passed, for he received the full charge interested in what they were trying to do work.
Fifty shot hole were out there on behalf of the British trader fact that a few telephone system was la years ago, so the organisers cannot be cause is due to pulmonary tuberculosis in his forehend.
He went on to say that the toll was being found in the body and the doctors and manufacturer. He had come simply he installed in Canton. accused of unfair competition.
decreased. In the ten years from 1871 declared it was not a case of suicide, as a missionary of trade, and if he might Mr. Hawkins-It is to be hoped the so put it, as a missionary of Empire. telephone system will be better than it is Why did they start this? Well, they had in Walsall. (Laughter.) to 1880 the average annual deaths in There is no clue to the murderer.
taken a leaf out of the books of their England and Wales from all forms of
trade rivals. Some eight or ten years of tuberculosis numbered 70,000,
ago the Americans were clever and cute enough to see that if they could get hold America,
the
raw material.
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MURDER OF A JAPANESE IN IRELAND.
T THE QUANNEL TUNNEL.
With the opening of a fine August there
parties.
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THE MILITARY STRENGTH OF EUROPE.
Mr. Rathbone referred to the instability
that of the Goverment of Ching,
Professor Smith pointed out
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JAPAN AND THE PANAMA CANAL Lancashire men agree with the report prepared for the Japanese Government, which states
the opening that
increase they had fallen to 63,000. "Allowing has been & record rush to the seaside and Canal will Panama
from for the increase in population, the to foreign resorts. To those with a fear of Young China, take them over to China's 400 millions population con- the imports of W cotton
and train them in their tituted a quarter of the inhabitants of The bulk of them were and number of deaths in 1911, had the of a bad Channel crossing the news has United the
Sintex to Japan decrease the demand for the Indian death rate of 1871 to 1880 continued, com with satisfaction that the question institutions, their political and economic the globe.
There-
of a Channel tunnel is to come up again sympathies would be American They Cantonese, who had two qualities. In the From that it is expected would have been about 103,000.
were the first to realise that fact, and at first place, they wanted to make money, that Japan will be able to deliver still fore 50,000 lives were saved in the course with renewed force. The advocates of the pressat moment large numbers of and, secondly, they were extraordinarily
single year."
Mr the tunel are row convinced that they Chinens were going to Amerion. The industrious, working from sunrise to the Indian of 1 oli cheaper cotton goods market, though the present cut freights attributes part of this, improvement to have national support in the changed Germans also saw that, and they went sunset and Sundays and week days. Talk The Cantonese were going to better social conditions, especially
conditions resulting from the cafenea step further. They said that the most of an industrial Yellow Peril
important direction in which to train unsound. between Kobo and Calcutta are not likely
cordate. The Prime Minister these Chinese was technically. Their idea develop their country, and though Govern- A similar develop housing, and the betterment of sanitation to be maintained.
ments came and went, the work of receiving a deputation on the subject this was that if they were trained to think in ment is looked for in regard to the supply and habits of personal cleanliness. of manufactured depanese-cottons & theoncluded that to wipe out the scourge week and a petition in favour of the millimetres instead of inches, and in engineering in Chins would go on. The China market and in the Pacific Islands.there must be co-operation and co-ording scheme has been signed by members of all German instead of the English language Chinese had transformed the Straits! it was inevitable, when they got back to Settlements. The battleship which they a big tion of science, philanthropy and govern-
their own country and drew up contracts talked of being given by the Malay Shipping men also anticipate
Several English, Continental and
for telephone services, railways, and other States was really given by the Chinese who change in the direction of direct trading ment. between Japan and the Atlantic coast American doctors testified to the power
Perhaps the increased military strength great engineering projects, it was inevit had made the bud is settled in MAPPIN&WEBB, of South America. At present the goods of tuberculin in the treatment of the of our Gallic neighboots will be cited as able that they would draw them up in realised what had happened in Japan, further guarantes sgainst hostile German standards. In Japan at the pre- and nothing would keep them back. They was the driving force. come as a rule to London or Liverpool disease.
of the engineering work was being done and that by way of Snez and are then forwarded; however, pointed out that tuberculin invasion by means of the tunnel, quite sent time they would find that the whole realised, too, that there was money in it, to Brazil, the Argentine and the other was an agent of enormous power and part from any measures to prevent in the English language and in English (Applause.) In reply to Mr. Hurst, the
The principal British and subtlety, but under certain conditions it
surprises. republicst
The passage of the Three standards, while the Japanese doctor speaker added that they would certainly for! be 228 grrat 2 power German shipowners are to hold a confer might
Years' Bill, though it has met with strong could only speak German. What was the require small castings. They would have indiscri fur good if used new situation ere long, evil
scientific work, the Government sent to this everything possible would be done to make The President, proposing a vote of much to re-establish the equilibrium upset country for engineers and to Germany for the names known. probably in Hamburg. The organisers minately and unintelligently. Professor opposition in French cities, should do reason of that? When Japan started this a list of donors in the University, and have sent a number of questions to the Beraneck of Neuchatel said he had by German military increases. The new doctors and chemists. The extraordinary American Government as to the regula proved that tuberculin inoculated into a law will give Trance 820,000 men next thing was that for all time the language thanks to Professor Finith, said he hoped STERLING SILVER WARE.
and the language of chemistry and would be very gratifying
Mr. Hemming, in seconding, said he The great tions to be imposed on Canal shipping normal guinea pig often augmented its year. Germany will have 870,000 of engineering in Japan would be English the response to his appeal from Walsali and the eplies to these questions will resistanco to a later inoculation with Reckoning the English forces at 165,000 medicine would he German be discussed at the conference. The main tuberculosis, and from this he drew the and the Russian at 1,050,000 this repre- point was as to what was going to be the was one of the few who had had the object of the gathering will be to avoid idea that preventive treatment might be gets a total for the Triple Entente of language in China-in commerce in the privilege of a visit from Professor Smith. other hand the Triple past it had been the queer language called and he would like to say how grateful he pidgin English-what was going to be was to him for giving them an hour of his a million and a half. the language of politics, and, chiefly, what time that morning. One thing which unfeng about half a was in be the language of trade among the struck him was, that Professor Smith a quarter of a educated class, and what their sympa knew what he was talking about; it was nus often they found men of theory quite D. in illion the sea the thies? The first, he thought, must
1er in favour of inevitably be English, because they had so practical. So long as the country had illut be forgotten got the help of America; but what were men like Professor Smith at the head of iscrepanctuation is the China's trade sympathies? This scheme concerns like the universitica, so long, be of definite training in applied science thought, would the business of this coun- the entent
work and commercial subjects, in which try thrive and prosper, (Applause.)
The resolution was carried amid that the Franco-Gels STATION. he was connected, was proposed three
Professor Smith, responding, said that years ago by the Government, and one applause, PAND last merchant was so much struck with the SINGAPO
question possibilities of such a scheme that he had out in Hongkong they were very proud of Mr. HeThere is a erected the buildings at a cost of £40,000. the Old Country-(hear, hear)-and they to month, in a foreign He was a merchant who had flourished would do everything possible to further
(Applaus) itics by Sir Wthe southern fader the British flag, and he showed the interests of British trader.
"risk that the Empiris gratitude in that way. The next thing estenstution in Eayeing of
that happened was that a Scotchman went House portion of the fav
ence
on
the
rate cutting by the new route. THE EMPIRE MARKETS.
While I am on the subject of shipping I may remark that a statement drawn
as
instituted in children who were brought 2,033,000 Ou in contact with tuberculous parents, or| Alls in persons in a situation favourable tomad infection,
up by the Manchester Chamber of Com-
THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER. wierce showing the advantages foreign
The wife of a great Conservative peer traders enjoy over British exporters in shipping to Empire markets may be feaid recently that she would walk bare expected to bear fruit. The matter has foot from York to London if it would The been referred to the Royal Commission get Lloyd-George out of office.
On
shows how intense is t the Trade and Resources of the remark Empire, of which Sir Edgar Vincent is animosity with which the Chancellor chairman. I an informed that the regarded. He goes from one extrem Commission views the matter as one of another, as though to justify his cr the utmost importance and obtain and his last speech, breathing thr further evidence thereon. To this end the ings against the existence of the Board of Trade, through the Consular of Lords, was delivered with service and trade". commissioners, will power of vituperation. I lear make reports and the whole situation of that the next task of the Cabi empire trade as affected by differential to complete their plans for t
shackling of the Upper C freight rates will be investigated,
soon as politicians are once in London after the vaca To those in the know there was amusing scene at Farnborough the other try will consider day, when Colonel Seely, the Secretary reforming the Lords, so for War and Sir Douglas Haig, the before the Commons
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Englishmen were Scotchmen (laughter) -the heads of departments, at any rate Curiously enough his name was John Scot
(laughter)-but he did not come from Walsall, but London, and originally from the Clyde. He realised that this scheme was going to be a big thing from an Empire point of view, and he came down
An invitation was extended to members industries to take tea with Professor Srih, and many availed themselves of the opportunity.
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The British Army Council issued & notification at the beginning of the month
A11X/NIRA BUILDINGS.
(KATER ROAD.
£41
with another £40,000 to start the thing that, in consequence of the unrest in going. Other firms had helped, each Chino, applications from officers to vist according to its ability, and the scheme Chins could not be sanctioned.