SUPREME COURT. Thursday, November 27th.
IN CRIMINAL JURISDICTION. BEFORE 118 HONOUR ME. H. H. J. GoMPERTZ (PUISNE JUDGE).
CANTON BANK NOTE CASE,
The case was resumed in which Ma Yuk Fai and Ma Kwan are charged with having in their possession, without lawful
Government of Kwangtong, these having been stolen outside the Colony...:
ST. ANDREW'S NEW HALL, KOWLOON.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 28ru, 1913.
ANOTHER" MONMENT TO FAUL CHATER'S CENEROSITY.
The ceremonial opening of the hand some, and well-appointed new Church Hail connected with St. Andrew's Church, Kowloon, took place yesterday afternoon. The new Hall erected through the generosity of Sir Paul Chater, C.M.G. who, it will be remembered, gave St. a great-help-to the work of the Church. The Hall stands within the Church
ACTIONS AND REACTIONS IN CHINA.
11-FOREIGN RELATIONS.
[CONTINUED.]
OTHER COUNTRIES,
should not be carried along the line at all China had seen in Manchuria how military railway guards can develop an army of occupation, and was determined lo forestall any possibility of similar French aggression in Yünnan.
*THE WESTERN EDUCATED CHINESE STUDENT.”
LECTURE BY A CHINESE DIPLOMAT.
PANAMA CANAL TOLLS. The following telegram appears in the Manila Lopengra
WASHINGTON, November ud. President Woodrow Wilson has issued a proclamation'in which the tolls to be charged for merchantmen and war vessels of all nations has been fixed.
The toll will be one dollar and twenty cents per anndred feet carrying capacity for all merchantmen, and the samo amount for every 100 tons per warship. This toll is considerable smaller than based on the displacement. that charged by the Suez Canal company, present has held the monopoly; but with choice of route, so that high rates will the Panama Canal there is, it many cases,
elect tonnage
urense, 12,600 $6 notes of the Provincial Andrew's Church to Kowloon, will prove importance, the acts and circumstans owned by persecuted Christians should be Minister, but he was detained by the due to the fact that the Suez up to the.
Chu Laing, an employee in the Treasury,grounds and is of early English Gothie peculiarities calling for separate notice, paid for, and the money-handed to the
architecture,
[FBOM QUR OWN CORRESPONDENT]
LONDON, November 7th. The opening meeting of the winter session of the China Society was held last
The chair was night at the Caxton Hall with a good taken by the Chinese attendance of members. to have been
French Minister in China for transmis. Brenan acted in his stead. The paper pressure of official business, 80 Mr. Byron sio tu the Christians in the localities was by Mr. P. K. C. Tyau, First Secretary concerned. Then follows, in the Chinese of the Legation, and was devoted to the text, the interpolated clause which is not subject of the Western Educated Chinese It is in mand of the English language, and his found in the French (which was to be student." The lecturer's complete.com. the authoritative) version:
It is a curious revolation washer arics to rent and purchase land it all in all its historical and other aspects, addition, permitted to French Mission: most exhaustive survey of the question the provinces, and to erect buildings greatly impressed the gathering thereon at pleasure."
The grant in 1800 of Chinese offiein! deelrred that when the inner history of for the gator of the murder of Sang status to priests and bishops of the the revolution against the Manchus came Roman Church may also be mentioned to be written, a considerable part would here as a fact which, by its infine on he devoted to the heroism and valour of Chinese sentiment towards foreigners. contributed towards the events of the the returned students from abroad, whe The last ceceding years: the whole question of had prepared the way for it.
It has, however been--rather in her unofficial capacity of protector of the Roman Church in China that the peculiar Though the intercourse of France with features of France's relations with China China rivals in antiquity that of Great have lain. This was exemplified in the Britain, and that of Germany, though Convention of Peking. Article VI. of necessarily more modern, it is also of great which provides that such churches, schools, and buildings, as were formerly -of- either-country exhibit few marked The activities of each country have more said that the money in question was
with the in harmony
or leas followed normal lives-pressing handed over to an officer of the Governor Church The building, tered by a for recognition on a footing of equality, General's Yamen, anal was carried away porchway, consists of a main hall with for the opening up of the country, for by coolies under an escort of soldiers.
accommodation for 250 persons, is preconcessions, and then for more eences Mr. Potter thereupon asked-As far as vided with a stage or platform, and has sions-though Germany's share in the you are aware, have you had any com-nite-rooms adjoining. A side entrance events of the concession era is entitled to
some distinction, in that it plaints of the money not reaching the leads to a staircase giving access tu recrea Famen!
tion rooms on an upper floor over the occupation of Kiaochau at the end of 1897 that inaugurated the serurable, and, Mr. Slade abjected to this question stage and ante-rooms. Lavatory accom
as we have seen, was at once seized upor The first essential point for the Crown to modation is provided in a separate build- prove was that the crime had been coming behind the hall, and is connected by in Russia as a pretext for demanding mitted, and they could only prove the
Italy's part in the concession hunt commission of the crime in a certain way. They gould not prove it on hearsay. The
of 1808-1392, too, must not be overlooked, Crown had not proved the commission of the crime and they now wanted to prove, His Excellency the Officer Administer presumably, that the crime occurred ring the Government (Mr. Claud Severn) | cunde between the Yanes and the Trea-attended by Captain Connolly, A.D.C., sury. They wanted to narrow down the performed the opening ceremony, opening commission of the crime to the Yamen- the main door with a silver key which that the holes did arrive at the Famen was handed to him by the architect.
Inside the building, Sir Paul Chater, simply by putting in as evidence à com plaint made by somebody else, or what formally presented the Hall to the somebody else had said to that witness. And they wanted to get at the witness in
a roundabout way.
His Honour said that he could not
allow that question and Mr. Potter sát
down.
bridge to the recreation rooms. The architect, was Mr. W. L. Leask, of Messrs. Leigh & Orange, and the con tractor Messrs. Wing Lee & Co.
authorities of the Church.
was
Port Arthur.
He
In the spring of 1899 she, demanded missions will, however, be dealt with revolution would have fared the same as)
later.
INTERNATIONALISM.
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its predecessors had it not been for the propaganda by which these students had And now those prepared the ground. called upon to join in building up the who helped to destroy the old edifice were
Imw structure.
CHINESE METHODS. The Peking correspondant of the China of Chiess methods that while the Government is Press in the course of a letter says:-
alleged to be offering a reward of $100,000 of lung Kwei-shing tho alleged
Chiao-jeu, last March, who escaped from gaol during the recent rebellion, Mr. Lung is in Peking, where a friend of mine There can be who knew him well in Shanghai saw him as recently as last night. little doubt that his presence here is Kawn to the anthorities. One is there fore tempted to ask why the Government arrest of a fugitive who has been in the is offering $100,000 in Shanghai for the Capital for some days past. The secret probably make interesting reading, if anyone dared to write it. history of the last eight months would
INTIMATIONS
The it isian of foreign schools and XMAS GOODS colleges received its great impetus when the late Viceroy Chang Chih-tung publi- shed his Chuen Hatch Pien," It was however, when the first students went to in the late Forties of the last century, the United States, among them Dr. Yung Wing and the late Dr. Wong Fun, the latter becoming the most successful-of-all.. foreign-educated physicians; so much so that Europeans along the coast ports Tyan traced the stream of ambitious used to seek his advice. From that Mr. students to Europe, the United States, und Japan, pointing out that it was not the flow became constant. A long and until after the Chino-Japanese war that varied list of notable Chinese were quoted students had achieved notable success in to prove that these foreign trained politics, law, teaching, aviation, and even So far as Europe
OUR CONFIDENCE JUSTIFIED. football and tennis. set in earlier than to the United States, was concerned, the stream of students for as far back as the eishtes of thews andertake to refund the Cost of any their appearance in Paris, where
Article if any of our Customers are not satisfied, Eighteenth Century two of them made
by the famous economist were befriended by the
United States the lecturer students to the United
commis conservative recalled that a gave them a bad naine and said that inter sent to report on their progress Such an offer could not be made if there was
In fact, the students had passed through ask is your inspection. stead of attending to their books they the slightet doubt about our Goods, All we
First they were re- were making love to the American women, three stages of consideration at three different periods. and half foreign devil. Then they were garded with suspicion, as half Chinese considered as demi-gods during a period when Western education became the rage.
there was period During that tremendous rush to Japan, where epecial short courses were prepared for the their limited equipment, and one, more Mary returned and began to teach with enterprising than the rest, advertised as Far as the letter G. Under these circumn. stance; the glamour wore off and many were recognised tnere smatterers. This was partly responsible for the tendency to turn to the actual Western college for
is difficult to say on what grounds-the
A necessary result of the standard rule Italy's of Chinese diplomacy to play off one lease of San-men Bay in Chekiang. This
bartarian nation against another-was, was too much even for China: demand was refused, but the refusal did from the very beginning, that the Powers not call forth a naval demonstration, but had to endeavour, whenever possible, to was quietly accepted. This fact may present a united front to China, and,
Briefly Mr. Tyau sketched the three ght be among them, v there might
"prevent"|"rypes of students who had gone abroad-- well have given encouragement to the whatever divisions and incompatible aims
Internationalism was the keynote of the stadents sent under a government anti-foreign movement, as is supposed by China taking advantage of them. the Chinese author of "The Chinese
Lord Aberdeen's instructions to Sir subsidy, those who were self-supporting, The Bignor of the Diocese (Dr. Lander) Crisis from Within" to have been the Henry Pottinger (November 4th. 1841) and the sent by the missionary societies. gratefully acknowledged the benefaction. case: in support of this argument he fer the conchision of our first Treaty with and entrusted the Hall to the safe keep-
You will constantly bear in ing of the Chaplain and Vestry of St. quotes a letter written to Tung Fu-hsiang China: Andrew's Church, the Rev. NC. Pope in May, 1900, and, attributed to Jung-lu,ind that we seek no exclusive advant not willingly see enjoyed by the subjects formally undertaking the responsibility in which the following reference to the ages, and demand nothing that we shall
The Bishop then dedicated the building to the Glory of God," after which the refusal of the Italian demands occurs of other States. The Treaty of Nanking
to these instructions in the shape of Witness, cross-examined by Mr. Slade, choir of St. Andrew's sang the Te Deum, opposed the cession of San-men to did not contain the natural complement H.R. Mr. CLAUD SEVERN, in addressing Italy and the latter dared aut tough us.
most-favoured-nation clause; this first said that there were many departments of the Canton-Government which drew the gathering, said he was sure that the So I intend to greatly and widely display appeared in the United States Treaty of
Must of new Hall would be an immerse-help-to- money from the Treasury.
the work of the Church in this growing the ferocity of my soldiers, and prevent Wanghia: If additional advantage, conceded hereafter by China to any other the drew stall amounts, $10,000 or
parish. In erecting this Hall, Sir Paul for ever the barbarians from frightening or privileges of whatever description be $20.000. The largest amounts were drawn Chuter had given very valuable assistance our people,
The accursed race of bar- nation, the United States and the citizens to the work Mr. Pope was carrying on. by the Governor-General for military
Their Churches were devoted to sacred barians are not numerous, and surely we thereof shall be entitled thereupon to a tion in the same." Since then every purposey. He did not know how many
uses only, and their Vicarages as a rule can kill and expel them from our complete, equal, and impartial participa were not sufficiently large for any large
country, departmente were drawing small amounts.
If this letter is genuine, it Power conelling a Treaty with China The Government was divided under two gatherings, and it was therefore essential furnishes a clear link between the refusal bas included a similar clause, the effect
that in every parish there should be some
all the Treaty Fowers any concession hends, the Military and the Civil, Money
place which was suited for meetings and of Italy's demand and the events of 1000 of which is to extend automatically to was drawn by the different Magistrates, concerts and for other functions which with all their aftermath, but in any ease obtained by any one of them. In so far play off one barbarian against his own Department (the Department for where associated with the organisation of it is clear that the successful refusal of as it has checked the Chinese propensity Another it has served its end though it Internal Affairs), the Bureau of Indus-au active parish. Although he had no such a demand is at one and the same to
personal knowledge of Mr. Pope's work, tries, and for Education: There were he knew on the test aathority how went time the fruit of a growing spirit has been seen to possess the weakness a divergence of aim is manifested-it was trefween 70 and 80 Magistrates in the derfully strenuous and successful he had the part of China as well as a cause of common to all Treaty bonds as soon as province of Kwangtung drawing money, beer. There was a great responsibility its future developments..
France's efforts to build up an empire for instance, powerless to prevent the
·⋅laidl⋅ the priest of a growing
on Pre-Bureau of Industries controlled
in the Et at the expense of her neigh cutablishment of a practical German. Farish such, nec Kowloon. He did not
monopoly in Shantung, or to overcome Ituporiant works and spent a good-deul
really bours received an early check then, in at Russian and then Japanese exclusive of money. Not such large sums were him out, but Kowloon
Diocero the theonly pariah in
1984, despite the treacherons destruction aus in Mancheria
The reverse side of the most-favoured heing spent now, as some of the works
of the Chinese fleet at Pagoda Island by nation clauses is exhibited in connection Church had its which were paying and were only drawing for Kowloon was the only compact ares
He had Admiral Courbet, she was unable to score with China's recent request for a revision The monthly expenses; for wages, etc.
centre and its parish priest. wages bill of the Department came to
seen that Mr. Pope was described as the any notable victory over Chins, and had, of the tariff to bring the suport duties & large amount per month collectively, Chaplain of the Church of St. Andrew after a drawn war, to be contrat with a up to an effective & per cent. The British
Well, he considered-and he thought all
periodical revision, but as a similar but the individual amounts were small. present would agree with har that reaffirmation of her frontier. Since then and American Treaties provide for anch There was no individual amount above Pope was Vicar of Kowloon, and he hoped the Sino-Tonkin frontier has not called stipulation does not occur in the Treaties $2,000. The money expended on military that it would be possible to arrange that forth any noteworthy political influences, of all the Powers, the provision is would be made a dead fetter by the that should be his title in the future. though there have not been wanting automatically nullified, and ang revision ronds came under the heading of military (Applause) On behalf of all who were incidents which in their sumo are not of operation of the most-favoured-nation payments, and the money for the military present, he wished the parish every railway was drawn by the Governor- possible prosperity during the coming slight import. One incident of this clause.
core gature was the action of M. François year, and for many years to Generál.
(Applauso.) His Honour questioned Mr. Potter 24 to BISHOP of VICTORIA expressed his French Consul-General, who was respon frontier: forty the across. appreciation of His Excellency's kind:sible for a serious anti-foreign riot. Ho ness in coming there to open the building, carried
cases of arms and ammunition destined and said that when they looked to the
As theses were not his recent Quadruple and Quintuple Groups that he would teach the English alphabet | Mr. Potter replied that it was proved Head of the Government. they never in evidence that the notes were issued by looked in vain. He could not refrain for Yunnanfu, the Treasury-the fact that they were in from saying how deeply, heartily, and personal luggage, the Customs at Mengtze at the same time the impossibility, until
sincerely they thanked Sir Paul Chater wished to examine that Court was very strong evidence that for his munificence in Kowloon. All knew François refused and carried off
how warn his heart was and how open his they had been issued. And because they hand was, for the Church, got only in cases, but the incident was telegraphed to by Sir Edward Grey, left nothing to be education. There had followed a third; were clean and unopened that was this place but in any others. evidence that they had not been in very interested to hear His Excellency's the provincial capital, end the Consul desireder Coloured period, in which wise discrimination had MAPPIN&WEBB, suggestion that the Chaplain should be General was met at the city gates by too have, from the experience come to the taken the place of blind worship. It was called the Vicar. The Vicar, as they prefeets specially depated by the unanimous conclusion that, both in the under these circumstances to-day that the him had performed veoman service, and investing, public, and also as a safeguard his country. Those who had gone beforr he might be expected to follow in their this-that these notes were either taken the Diocese, and he felt that he had indeed the demand for examination of M. of China's credit. it is incumbent on then
His Honor-Your contention, then, is new was the substitute of the Bishop of Governor-General. When they repeated interests of their owo financiers and foreign-educated sindent was an asset toi Of the fifty drafters of the substitute in Kowloon,
footsteps. splendid
to prevent, as far as lies in their power, François effects, he drew his revolver on from the safe by farceny or otherwise, or
(Applause.)
that all possibility of a return to the former storm they were part of the lot which were
The Rev, N. C. Pore, on behalf of the them and so raised, a
national competition China, which of whom one was educated in Germany, issued apparently for the Governor-
States, To-day the demand for foreign- General's Yument Is it not possible that such, said. "Thank you to Sir Paul for endangered the whole of the European dangerous polies of unprofitable inter. Constitution ten wers returned students.
hismunificent generosity. The Hall would
M. François' procedure only enabled the Chinese Government to three in England and six in the United last year some seven or eight million were be a powerful factor in the work of the population. embezzled from the Treasury, or by the parish, and such a building was absolute from beginning to end was, to use the obtain money without adequate guar- military paymasters, or somebody of that is essential if the work of the parish was mildest possible word, irregular, yet he antees, and rendered it impossible for the trained students was greater than the STERLING SILVER WARE. Lo There was a danger in having was re-appointed Consul-General, the Governments interested to exercise the supply. For the 7,000 now studying is is ample to show that the notes were taken must ever remember that it was morò 1 Governor-General of Yunnan and Kuei, necessary control over the torrns of any Europe, Japan and America, there was un
- what he was going to prove in regard to
the issue of the notes..
circulation.
surt?
in ..its
was
Mr. Potter- submit that the evidence such a friend as Sir Paul Chater. They
blessed to give than to receive. They must do their share according as the Lord
(Applause) had blessed them.
chis year, and that they did for part of the issue of one million dollars, by the fact that they were never opened, and that
On the motion of Mt. T. F. CLAXTON, they are in the original condition they were in when they came from the Tron- seconded by Mr. R. PACKHAM, hearty sury. And they were found three weeks thanks were accorded His Excellency and after the period when we say that these Sir Paul Chater. notes came down to the Yamen Un- doubtedly therò is evidence of that.
His Honour--You cannot say from the condition of the notes that they were not issued last year?
Mr. Potter-No, I cannot my only evidence is that they were untouched and unopened.
CORRESPONDENCE. MARKSMEN'S FADS.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "HONGKONG-
DAILY PRESS,"
the cases,
The necessity for the Powers to be animous in their demands unquestion ably enabled China to get off in 1000 with chtained had she had to deal with any far easier teras than she would have une Power alone; and the history of the illustrates once more the desirability and Mthe millennium, of such combined action. The original intention in the formation the of the international syndicate, as stated Majesty's Government
loans,
11
29
we know how rotten out duede art
H.
RUTTONJEE
& SON,
WINE AND PROVISION MERCHANTS.
LIMITED.
NEW CONSIGNMENTS
PRINCE'S
PLATE
(GUARANTEED FOR 30 YEARS).
CUTLERY.
In Thero can be no doubt that the danger whatever of overcrowding.
of future loans conclusien Mr. Tyau pleaded for good occupying official go far to secure this desirable end relations between foreign officials and chow had to write a letter of apology, the internationalization twe unfortunate prefects were dismissed,ould go to Lord Balfour of returned students
positions. The new Chinese official might Burleigh, May 14th, 1912), and an indemnity was exacted.
The scheme for the attainment of this be half-baked sometimes, but he should b The grandiose schemes of 31 Paul
He instanced the relations The events last year between the British Consul- Doumer, former Governor-General of desirable end has unfortunately (from treated with the respect due to his French Indo-China, too, which resulted the philanthropic point of view) proved position..
unworkable in practice. in the construction of the Laokai-Yunnan connected with the expansion of the General in Canton and the local Chinese Bailway, are worthy of note in this Quadruple Group into the Sextuple, and Commissioner of Foreign Affairs as an "Therefore he concluded For, connection, as
are also the Mission its subsequent reduction, by the with unhappy demonstration of the matter be Lyonnaise for the examination of the drawal of the United States; to a referred to.
Quintuple Consortium, and finally its "there should be give and take. commercial possibilities of Szechuan and partin cancellation are all recent after all, it is to the best interests of Western China, and the energies of history. Briefly, it may be said that it both that there should exist between them Prince Henry of Orleans, the Vicomte was not the principle of internationaliza a genuine entente cordiale. This can tion that failed that would be fully unly be accomplished by doing unto Hongkong, 27th November, 1913.
and many other French efficacious for the achievement of Six others as we would that others should do
onto us. fis Honour-They may have been
SB, The observant and bumorous d'Ollove,
Ip the snbsequent discussion Mr. issued last year, and embezzled this?
It is only because perfect Mr. Potter replied that so far there was correspondent who inspired your article explorers in penetrating into and investi. E. Grey's desideratu i onis it were
internationalization proved unattainable Breuan, Mr. George Jamieson, Mrs. no suggestion of embezzlement last year,
(as must always be the case outside Archibald Little Sir Walter Hillier. All compli but there was a suggestion of embezzle of yesterday's date entitled "Marksmen's gating the remotest parts of those attainable ment this, and he could also say that there Fads" seems to possess more humour than regions.
The Laokai-Yuunantu Railway Agree topis) that it failed because the Mr. Soothill, Br. Steele (of Swatow) and was evidence that those notes formed part cbservation. Since the only firing carried
it became Sextapic, divergent mented the lecturer, and several expressed CHS. J. GAUPP ment of October, 1908, again, possesses a intermitional Group contained, especially Mir. Playfair took part. of the issue of one million.
were others Grin belief that the students would ent at the field operations which took
Article 15 proclements; because.
there also clear evidence of a robbery.
"because of the difficulty. P.S. Brown spoke to arresting the place in the New Territory on Sunday" significance of its own.
Jamicsna moderated their praise by es- prisoners and handed in the statements was from Maxim guns, loent volunteers vided that a police force of Chinese might Fowers (nutably Belgium) that were not levelop statesmen count to these of if not impossibility, that even the Power Europe, but Mr. Brenan and M nade by them in reply to the charge.
of unofficial appraising the work of the students. operations
has Mr. Jamieson said he would advise the Mr. Potter closed the case for the who were present at these operations will be enrolled to operate along the line and included; and Crown shortly after 4 o'clock, drawing not be slow to discover the true value of among the workmen, but in no circum- included experienced in the attempt to pressing a dosire for greater eare in
Internationalization finance your correspondent's humour.-Youre stences might European troops be control the attention to the contrasts in the state-
employed. Articles 23 and 26 provided
License was often mistaken for instrument in the fields of finance, but a judgment of the results of the revolu ments made by the prisoners before and
faithfully,
LOCAL VOLUNTEER... that Chinese troops and their supplies proved too cambrous and unwieldy a stuents not to be too hasty in formin at the Police Court hearing.
The writer informs us that the remarks should be carried at half rates, and mails it is scarcely to be believed that China's tion.
hopes of free and easy borrowing (with liberty. He would adrite them to wait
cat would jump... were intended to apply to the Reserves and official despatches free; but salt, hopes and easy borrower's fate looming a little, sit on the fence, and see how the EB.J
contraband goods, and European troops ahead) are destined to be fulfilled."
There was
There are a number of witnesses for the defence, but Mr. Slade will contend, when the case opens at noon to-day, that there is no case to go to the jury.
From the
SOLE AGENTS:
& CO.,
ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS,
CHATER ROAD.