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JAPANESE NAVAL SCANDAL
OFFICIALS NAMED.
Tokyo, February 18th. The Minister for the Navy announced in the House of Peers the names of the officers alleged to be guilty of receiving
commissions.
Admiral Fujii and Captain Sawazaki will be court-martinlled.
DEATH OF A NOTED DIPLOMAT.
TOKYO, February 16th. The death is recorded of Viscount Aoki,
(THROUGH REUTIL'S AGENCT.]
THE TOKYO BRIBERY SCANDAL.
TOKYO, February 16th. Five naval men, including a Rear- Admiral, are under detention by the Navy. Department pending the organisation of a Court Martial to try charges of corrupt practices.
AUSTRALIA AND THE SOUTH AFRICAN DEPORTATIONS.
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CHINA SERVICE.
THE LOAN TRANSACTIONS.
PERING, February 16th. The transactions in connection with the
new Government loans are kept so secret that even stenographers are not admitted.
THE CHINESE MINISTER TO
LONDON,
HIS RECALL AND PUNISHMENT DEMANDED, PEKING, February 16th. The Council of Ministers has demanded
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THE RAILWAY PROJECTS IN
TURKEY.
BERLIN, February 13th. The draft of the Germán-French Agres ment regarding the Turkish Railways and
Finances has been initialed.
There will be n contract with tho Deutsche Bank, which represents tho Anatoli and the Baghdad Railways, and with the Ottoman Bank as representing : in Berlin the Syrian Railways and tho Black Sea Company. The agreement will
ance by Turkey of the yet outstanding proposals,
MELBOURNE, February 14th.. Mr, Fisher, the former Labour Premier, while condemning the deportations by the Union Government of South Africa the recall and punishment of the Chinesa become operative from the day of accept-
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The late Viscount Aoki had served as. a Secretary at the Legation at Berlin, and was given the post of Minister in 1815. He was Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs. from 1886 to 1889, and was then promoted Minister. He was again accredited to Germany in 1892, and for a brief period had charge of the Legation in England as an additional post. He was afterwards, ap pointed Ambassador to the United States, Viscount Aoki married a German lady.]
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THE HOME RULE QUESTION.
SPECULATION AS TO THE GOVERNMENT'S CONCESSIONE.
LONDON, February 10th. There is much speculation as to the nature of the Government's concessions in the matter of Home Rule for Ireland.
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Other papers refer vaguely to the tem- porary exclusion of Protestant Ulster, The Standard says that the highest and most potent influences are working to secure a truce of this basis,
The Daily Mail hints that the Irish
Our leading article yesterday contained a startling blunder which we hasten to correct. It represented that the loss of six lakhs of dollars was two-fifths of the Bank's paid-up capital. As the Bank's Unionists accept such a compromise.
paid-up capital is $15,000,000, the error is obvious, but we much regret that it escaped notice before publication."
THE BYE ELECTIONS.
LONDON, February 18th. Mr. J. Eitzen, who has been for some
-Despite the flooding of the constituen years past the Vice-Consul for Norway in eies with Ulsterite speakers" and litera- Hongkong, has been promoted to be ture, the insurance question continues to Acting Consul General for Norway at Shanghai, and leaves, with Mrs. Eitzen, be a strong rival to Home Rule at Poplar for the Northern Settlement on Thursday. and Bethnal Green.
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The candidatures of Mesra, Scurr and. (Labourites) arc... unlikely to
TURKEY AND THE AEGEAN ISLANDS.
Among the New Year honours con Jones ferred in Paris We note that M. Cognacq. Director of the School of seriously affect the issue. Medicine in Indo-China, is made an Officer of the Legion of Honour. The list of Chevaliers of the same order includes MM. Tillet (general advocate at the Court of Appeal of Indo-China), Bourcier-Saint-Chaffray, Bose, Kircher, and Nicolas (officials in the service of that Colony), Bédat (an engineer at the Hanoi waterworks), and Girard. (Presi- dent of the Chamber of Agriculture of Cochin-China).
CONSTANTINOPLE, Feb. 16th. The Porte, in reply to the decision of the Powers, points out that it hoped in regard to the islands in the vicinity of the Straits, and those integrally belong- ing to Asia Minor that the Powers would have solved the question of the Aegean
in the policies of the Dominions, but allow autonomous Governments to man age their own affairs.
Mr. Cook, the Prime Minister, has declined to forward to the Secretary of State for the Colonies a number of Trades Union protests against the deportations from South Africa.
THE BRITISH LEGATION IN
MEXICO,
· PRECAUTIONARY MEASURES TAKES.
WASHINGTON, February 18th." The despatch of bluejackets to Vera Cruz, and the forwarding of two machine guns to the British Legation there, are dre the precautionary intimation of the Ambassador in London.
moasures
to
so the State Department that the British Legation might be the particular object of attack if the mob gained possession of Mexico City.
THE AEGEAN ISLANDS.
TOWERS DECISION COMMUNICATED TO PORTE,
CONSTANTINOPLE, February 10th. The decision of the Powers in regard the Aegean Islands has been com municated to the Porte, and a written
Ambassador to Fondon, who concluded ↳ clandestine arrangement for a Loan with a Belgian firm, without first consult- ing Peking, thereby entailing Diplomatic dificulties.
THE FUTURE OF THE BANNERMEN.
PEXING, February 16th. The Political Committee has postponed its decision regarding the future of the Bannermen aucil their accurate numbers and the situation of the Manchurian waste lands in Chahar, Su Yuan Cheng and also the amount of capital required for their colonization in those places shall have been ascertained.
REVOLUTIONARY LEADERS AND
THE DEAD HEROES..
PELING, February 18th. Sun Yat-sen, Ho Hoi-ming, Huang Ising and other prominent members of the Kuomintang rendered sacrifices (sic) in the presence of noteworthy Japanese at Tokyo to the revolutionary heroes who
ell last summer at Nanking.
CHAO ERH HSUN.
PERINO, February 16th. Some difficulty is experienced in
MAUD ALLAN AND THE. CHERNIAVSKYS.
FIRST NIGHT AT THE THEATRE ROYAL
Miss Mand Allan and that talented frio- of musicians the Cherniavskys gave the first of their three performances at the Theatre Royal last night, and notwith- standing that the prices of admission are about double the usual charges the While there Theatre was well filled. were several vacant seats in the dress circle there were very few below, and the demand for the cheaper rats could not be fully met.
When the announcement was first wande of Miss Maud Allan's intention to tour the East, there was a good deal of fussy protest in the Indian papers from people who imagined that the many references made by wits to her scanty attire portend- ed some exhibition which would be per-
fectly shocking to the Asiatic's--not to say the respectable European's sense of anodesty. No greater injustice could be done to Miss Allan; and we endorse without hesitation the remark made by a buthern contemporary that there is nothing in her dancing or raiment to. shock the modesty of an angel. Miss Allan's art is one of great skill and re- foment, and an adequate idea of it
report. It has been well described as an cannot be presented in a newspaper
attempt to express things chat cannot be patterns in sound and colour and move said in words to weave, as it were,
inent in order to delight the senses. The dances are given in one simple stage setting with the skilful use of limelight effects, while the Cherniavsky trio supply the music. Miss Maud Allan interprets, the music by dance and posture, the graceful movement of the arms and the It is all PERINO, February 16th. eloquence of facial emotion.
highly artistic and extremely fascinating. Should Hsu Shi Chang at the last Her first appearance was in an inter- moment decline to accept the Premier-pretation of Schubert's "Am Meer" (By ship, he will yet be willing to become head of the Committee for the Framing of the New Constitution.
Erh Hsun, who is now willing to support reply was requested. Turkish official finding a suitable position for Chao the Government, but he will probably become Chairman of the Committee for the Compilation of the History of the Ta Ching Dynasty, since Kang Yn Wei has declined this post repeatedly,
circles are disappointed and grieved, and it is not improbable that Turkey will endeavour to negotiate directly with Grepce to exchange the islands occupied by Italy for Chlos and Mitylene.
DISTRESS IN NEW YORK.
THOUSANDS OUT OF EMPLOYMENT,
NEW Yonk, February 16th, Heavy weather has been experienced in the eastern districts, and owing to the extreme distress, clergymen in New York City are arranging to open the Churches as shelters,
· It is estimated that 300,000 are un- employed in the city, and that hundreds of thousands in other industrial centres are also out of work owing to basiness stagnation.
FRENCH ELECTIONS IN APRIL.
PARIS, February 16th. The French Parliamentary elections
The Chinese Budget for the Second Islanda in accordance with the best will take place on April 26th.'
Fiscal Year has been revised several times, interests directly of the interested partics, but is has now been finally settled. The The Porte recognises its duties to peaco total receipts are $557,200,245 and the but says it will endeavour to assure its total expenditure amounts to $642,236,876. legitimate demands. Thus there will be a deficit of 884,040,631, As it is impossible to depend solely upon
remember ace hearing B witty English lecturer remark when speaking of the ties of kinship between the peoples of Great Britain and the United States: "We havo everything in common--but the langu This observation is recalled to mind by seeing an attempt made by na American writer to show the very opposite
that in fact there is little to justify the have just been introduced should be sus
age,"
leans the Premier has decided that in addition to the sale of the various official properties, all new state enterprises which
THE CHURCH CONTROVERSY.
LONDON, February 18th, The Bishop of Zanzibar, in a strong
that peoples one portion of the British that besides the enforcement of now taxes the Archbishop of Canterbary with regard
THE PANAMA CANAL SCANDAL
STATE OFFICIAL COMMITS SUICIDE.
BUFFALO, February 16th, Mr. Kennedy, Treasurer of New York State, who had been subpenaed to appear before the Committee of Inquiry investigating the charges of corruption in
HSU SHI CHANG.
THE PRESIDENT AND HIS
RELATIVES,
PERINO, February 16th.
A Presidential Mandate to the Civil Governor of Honan directs that the rela- tives of the President, who
were appointed, after the Revolution to official places, shall be treated without regard to their relationship to him. The Ex-Tutuh of Honan, Chang Cheng-fang, a cousin of the President, who has shown himself unable to subdue the White Wolf" Rebellion, has been recalled to Peking, where he has arrived.
REFORM OF THE ADMINISTRA-
TION.
PEKING, February 10th.- Hane. Shi-chang has handed to the Pre-
the Sea), and consisted of a masterly display of posing which seemed to walise eatirely the composer's conception. From this she passed to one of Chopin's creamy valses with its moments of joyous abandon, and then on to still more joyous and
movements frolicsome
suggested by.. Schubert's Moment Musical. The-. audience were fascinated and delighted. and applauded warmly when the curtain fell. A little later Miss Allan interpreted the four movements of Greig's well-known Peer Gynt Suite, Morning": "Ase death?"; Anitra's Dance and the Dance of the Gnomes.' Again the andience went into ceclasics of delight Ir. and Miss Allan gave a short extra. the second part she appeared but once, in two movements-Mendelssohn's Spring Song," and Grieg's "Norwegian dance. This was the final item on the programme, but the audience seemed loth to depart and Miss Allan acknowledged the cordiality of the reception by giving two extras-one would not suffice.
We have left ourives little space for comment on the contributions made to a most enjoyable evening by the brothers Cherniavsky. They gave one trio for piano, violin and violoncello, and subse- quently each appeared separately. This is not the first visit of this brilliant trio to Hongkong, and they have come this time with a reputation already established in the community. It is seldom indeed that the opportunity is afforded us of listening
Each was deservedly encored and the
The performance will be repeated to- night and to-morrow, night with a change of programme on each occasion.
broad assertion that we are of the stack pended until more favourable times, and reply to the statement recently made by connection with the commissariat depar-sident the Drafts of New Ordinances for to such music as the Cherniavskya provide. iales," and that the designation of Ameri- already promulgated, more taxes should to the Church controversy which has arisen ment of the Panama Canal, has committed the future administrative organs of violinist had to oblige a third time,
cans as Anglo-Saxon has, in fact, no better be introduced. warrant than that English is the dominant language. Official statistics regarding im migration much-discussed topit at the present time in America-show that of
suicide by cutting his throat.
THE GERMAN CROWN PRINCE INDISPOSED.
BERLIN, February 18th. The Crown Prince is suffering from
mumps.
THE BRITISH ROYAL VISIT TO PARIS.
in East Africa, respectfully suggests that the Archbishop, has prejudiced the whole Since the inauguration of the Republic. there has been established a special De case, and that the Council of Bishops Partment for the provision of livelihood would be compromised in the matter of for the Eight Banners of the Manchus. inter-communion. He declares that unless 32,243,382 immigrants enumerated at the But nothing practical has been accom the Bishops of Uganda and Mombasa, are last census only 10,037,420, or considerably plished. Upon the instructions of the found faultless by unquestionable authori. less than one-third, gave English as their President, it is said that h's secretaries mother tongue. Add to the total of other have made the following proposals: he would have to consider whether he tongues all native born of Celtic and Bannermen should be removed to Man will remain in communion with them. European descent, says our American churia and Mongolia, where they should contemporary, and it will be seen that the occupy and cultivate the waste lands. Anglo-Saxon is by no means dominant in The annual amount of $9,000,000 allotted the United States. "Amorica is neither by the Government to these Bannerien Latin, Teutonic nor Anglo-Saxon, but a new should be pledged for a foreign loan of and most distinctive people-a composite of between $40,000,000 and $50,000,000, The many races." Without venturing to dis, approximate number of the Bannermen la pute this claim, it may still be said that the about 500,000, or 100,000 families. Thus dominance of the English language makes each family will receive 840 for travel has ordered all the revenue offices to remit at Venice to escort the Austrian Taurus the new and most distinctive people of ling expenses and other expenses to start to solve the difficulty, for it is reported conveying the Prince of Wied
CANTON'S DEBIT BALANCE.
TREASURY EMPLEY,
The Government receipts for January amounted to $800,000, while the expendi ture was nearly $2,000,000. The Governor their accounts ten days etrlier than usual
their agricultural lives in the Three that the Treasury is empty. America" Anglo-Saxon both in their Eastern Provinces, Chahar, Shui-yuan,
Many shops were unable to reopen when thought and ideals. Our American çon Sinking and other places. The proposals the New Year holidays vere supposed to temporary considers that the -extent to have been forwarded to the Political end. It is believed that the cause of these failures is the depreciation in notes and unsettled: conditiona which an acquired speech influences the Council for discussion.
LONDON, February 16th. Their Majesties the King and Queen start on their visit to Paris on April 21st, THE RULER OF ALBANIA,
LONDON, February 16th The Italian warship Quarto is expected.
Durazzo,
to
BERLIN, February 16th. The Prince of Wied returned from Durazzo this morning.
China, and the President has signified his approval of them. There will be vested in the President under these laws the fullest powers without making him immediately responsible..
THE NEW CONSTITUTION.
THE BLUE FUNNEL FLEET,
All interested in the development, and supremacy of the British mercantile marine will be interested in the following information:
PEEING, February 18th." During the last few days the Fresident's
“Blue Funnel" steamers in Hongkong entourage has been busy with deliberaon Monday, 18th inst
G. R. Tonnage. tions on the New Constitution and with the question of removing the numberless Chinese Adviser
EUROPEAN SERVICE. THE EXPLORATION OF NEW. GUINEA BY AIRSHIP.
BERLIN, February 15th.
Protesilaus Bellerophon Helenus Aja
Yangtze
Hyson
Theseus
9.517
8.00
17.539.
7,030
Due to arrive
Tuesday 17th.
6.457
6,807
6,723
Seven inodern cargo carriers of a total:
The Colonial Office is opposed to accept G. B. tonnage of 52,670 tons and total ing donated funds in order to build an airship for the exploration of New
Guinea
cargo capacity of 70,947 tons deadweight. and 10,735 tons measurement. This prob- ably constitutes a record in Hongkong for one Company.