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INTIMATIONS
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, APRIL 2187, 1914
exposing the illegal acts or negligence of the officials est in authority over the people They admit the justice of the law so far as it is intended to protect the individual from slanderous attacks upon his personal.
The Neuman murder case is still under TELEGRAMS. TELEGRAMS, THE CANTON INSURANCE OFFICE,
the consideration of the German Assessor at the Mixed Court at Shanghai, the case being beard in camera.
"Frivolity Frecar performed in
A. S. WATSON character and conduct, but the law as it Canton on Saturday with such success
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stands is interpreted as absolutely prohibit ing criticism of a man's conduct in a public capacity. There are many other provisions of the Law to which objection is taken by the Chinese journalists, but the two points of most importance are those we have man tioned. There is no need to labour the im-
that he has been urged to pay the Shameen another visit. Ho has left for Shanghai and proposes to pay a return visit to Canton when he comes back to play in Hongkong, where he intends occupying the Theatre a week.
Lieut. H. F. G. Carter, 1st Battalion
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
THE CRISIS IN MEXICO.
PRESIDENT HUERTA FLATLY REFUSES AMERICA'S
DEMANDS.
WASHINGTON, April 20th- President Huerta has sent two evasive messages contesting details Mr. Bryan
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CHINA SERVICE.
THE FINANCE MINISTER SEEKS TEMPORARY ACCOMMODATION.
PEKING, April 20th. Being in dire financial straite, the Ministry of Financa has entered into
LIMITED..
We are officially informed that ther forthcoming meeting of the Canton Insur ance Office, Limited, will be held on 18th proximo.
This balance at credit of the Working Account for the year 1912 is, after the payment of $19
share interim por dividend already paid, 503,980.66.
Out of this the General Agents and Con- sulting Committoe will declare a final dividend of $3 per share, add to Reserve
portance of the service that the public Press KO.FL.I., has been seconded for in the replied that he could not deviato from negotiations with several individual Fund $100,000, xdd to Reinsurance Fund
in all countries bae rendered in promoting both the purity and the efficiency of the public sorvica, and there is no need either to emphasise the great scope for labour in this direction which lies before the Freas of China, which is as yet in its infancy. Itis true that it has shown all the indiscretions of youth, and, generally speaking, it has probably wrought us much harm a good but a growing sense of responsibility is manifesting itself, and, guided by a wise law, allowing reasonable freedom of comment
regiment whilst studying the Japanese He is already a first-class language. interpreter of Russian, Second-Lieut. J. A. Jervois, also of the K.O.V.L.I., has of four and a half years. been promoted lieutenant after a service
The Hon. W. W. Rockhili, formerly US. Minister to Peking and latterly to Turkoy, arrived here by the M.Matr. Atlantique en route to Canton. He will later return to Shanghai and leave for America by the C.P.R. str. Empress of Bussid on the 15th May Mr. Rockhill
his position.
Twenty-two destroyers have been order-
capitalists for a loan of 10 million pounds sterling for me term of three months.
ed to leave. Pensacola for the Gulf of CHINESE LABOUR ON THE AMUR Mexico,
LATER
President Huerta has flatly refused the demands, and the officials at Washing- fon my that the negotiations have closed,
RAILWAY.
ALLEGED ILL-TREATMENT.
PEEING, April 20th. The Chinese Foreign Office, according and that the programme of reprisals will to the Peking Jill Pan, has advised the be carried out.
The hattleship Mississippi, with an acroplane corps and 600 Marines, have
Civil Governors of Shantung, Fengtien, Chibli, to prevent Chinese labourers being enlisted to work on the Amur Rail-
"WHINK Y Pupon public men and affairs, the Press is is making his tour in the interests of the been ordered to leave Pensacola and way, as they would there receive ill-
destined to fulfil in China the same impor- tant function that it fills in all civilised Our Celebrated E very old countries in the diffusion of knowledge, and the promotion of a healthy public Liqueur Scotch Whisky is
opinion hostile to all forms of corruption a blend of the best Pot and inefficiency in the Administration. What Distilled Scotch Whiskies, the new Press Law appears to aim at is abolition, but the time has passed in China It is of great age, very fine, when this was a practicable ides. The and mellow. Its superio- Press can be wisely controlled, ac doubt, quality has established itsre-and made to recognise that freedom must putation for over 30 years as not degenerate into license, but the free expression of honest public opinion cen THE LEADING SCOTCH never be successfully stifled. If that is the WHISKY IN THE EAST. object of the Law it is certain to defeat its own ends. So many protests appear to have showered uponthe PaESIDENT that, according to a vernacular paper, he has come to the conclusion that there must be something wrong" and has referred the law to the Ministry of the Interior "to be properly
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1." What is first of all needed is a competent revising authority. The com BROWN | Plaint is incidentally made in the Press
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very old BRANDY, Guaranteed 25 years age, in wood. The finest LIQUEUR BRANDY on the market.
Association's memorial that "there is a lack of able and well-informed men in the Ofice charged with the responsibility of compiling laws. It is frequently to be observed that laws are no sooner pro
American Asiatic Association. accompanied by Mrs. Rockbill.
He is
The N-C. Daily News states that Mr. A. G. Stephen, manager of the Hong keng and Shanghai Bank in Shanghai, is leaving for Hongkong on May 1st, where he will take charge of the bank during the absence of Mr. N. J. Btahh, who goes on leave for some seven months. During Mr. Stephen's absence, Mr. J. D. Smart, who has lately returned from basis.
will be in charge of the bank in Shanghai.
At the Magistracy yesterday the ma who was caught in the act of breaking into the Bon Ton shop in Queen's Road Central appeared on a charge of being in unlawful possession of house-breaking implements and of assaulting a lukong who attempted to arrest him. For the first offence he was sent to gool for three months, and for the assault he was ordered to serve a further period of a month.
proced to Tampico, accompanied by the transport Prairie and destroyer Dixit, and a torpedo flotilla..
∙LATER
At 6 o'clock, Washington time, Presi dent Huerta had not communicated any intention
treatment.
THE CHINA MEROHANTS STEAM
NAVIGATION CO..
PEKING, April 20th. Upon the recommendation of the Minis. of complying with the ter of Communications & Special Ultimatum. During the day he asked for Commissioner has been appointed to a written assurance that the United investigate the affairs of the China
States would return the salute. This was promptly refused, and word sent that a
decisive answer to the Ultimatum must
come before 6 o'clock, Mexican tiros,
NEW YORK. The battleship North Dakma has started for Tampico.
THE FRENCH ARMY.
TOLL OF THE AIR
PARIS. April 24th. Two aeroplanes which were racing at
PARIS, April 20th. M. Doumergue, in a speech at Souillac on the eve of the elections, vigorously In the criminal section of the Tokyo upheld the three years' service law, and Court of Cassation, on the 8th inst., behinted at further measures for improving fore Judge Dr. Yokota and four Associate the Army organisation. Judges, final sentence was delivered in the appen of Mr. William Alfred Whealer, charged with having obtained mulgated that, to deference to public sum of Yee 100,800 through false pre- tances. Public Procurator Hayashi con- criticism, they are again returned by the duered the prosecution, Chief Judge the Buc aerodrome collided and fell, Oure been in forse a month. The Mining Laws the Lower Court was upheld, and the Roge, and a passenger, Dalbin, were PRESIDENT for revision before they have Yokota announced that the judgment of burst into flames, and the pilot, named
are a notable example of this, and the appeal dismissed with costs. The bail of burned to death. PRESIDENT must surely be beginning to Yen 2,000 is thus forfeited, Mr. Wheeler appreciate the fact that if China is to have now being in Europe. MONE. On April 13th, at Shanghai, to legislation on Western models it would be to its advantage to seek guidance in fram-
BIRTHS.
wife of A. D: BELL, of a son.
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BELL On April 15th, at Shanghai, the HARTZENBUSCH-On April 15th, at Shang-
hai, to Mr. and Mrs. J. HARTZAN
BURGH, & son.
Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Moyɛ, a son, RETTBRNO-Die Geburi einer
Tochter.
Letters received from Mr. C. D. Jame
De
M. Bidot, the pilot of the other machine, sustained a broken leg, and the passenger a dislocated shoulder.
LONDON, Ápril 20th.
$100,000 add to Investment and Exchungo. Fluctuation Account $40,000, and add to Underwriting Suspense Account to close.
the year $143,990.68
The balance at credit of Working Account 1913 at 31st December last was $1,514,267,78, out of which an interi dividend of $18 per share will be declared.
THE TRAGEDY OF THE SCOTT: EXPEDITION.
CINEMATOGRAPH VIEWS AT THE THEATRE ROYAL
By the aid of cinematograph films, people in all parts of the world are being afforded an opportunity of witness- ing one of the greatest exploration tragedies of modern times; the grim story of how many brave Englishmen f the type England cannot afford to lose, courted death in the vast and lonely Antarctio; how the moro adventurous few, these who undertook the final dash,
never returned.
Merchants Steain Navigation Co. At the Theatre Royal last evening a PROTEST BY CHEFOO AGAINST A fair audience followed the late Capt.
NEW PORT,
Scott and his exploration party from Home to the frozen South; saw those who Pexina, April 10th: can never return wish their comrades The merchants of Chofoo in a body are good-bye cheerily; were given an idea of opposing the opening of Lan Kou, ae
the dangers to be met, and were able to adequately realise what the end NURT the harbour is shallow, and as being un-have bec. The story will always be a necesary because Tientsin and Yinkow (Newchwang) are in the vicinity.
LIANG TUNG JEN,
PEKING, April 30th. Liang Tung Jen with his family arrived yesterday at Tientsin and will continue his journey to Peking in a few days.
and one to Englishmen because of what happened, yet this actual reproduction of the Polar tragedy which touched the heart of Great Britain must not be inissed, Until one-ge Captain Scott, Captain Oates (who gave up his life in such & wonderfully heroic manner because he would not "bamper the others "), along with Dr. Wilson, Evans and Bowers leave on that dash which sent them t their death, they appear just what a party of healthy English explorers would be expected to be, one big happy and BERLIN, April 18th."
jocular family. In addition to the hist Count Wedell, the retiring Governor. exciting trip of the Terra Nord, the audience are shown, and explained General of Alsace-Lorraine, has been animal life in the white world, their created a Prince, and his successor is the habits and peculiarities; in fact a scienti- Minister of the Interior, Herr v. fic lecture accompanies the picture story, Dallwitz, who is in turn succeeded by and the programme is both educational,
and interesting.
EUROPEAN SERVICE, THE GOVERNORSHIP OF ALSACE-
LORRAINE.
Imperial Chancellery.
The films are most
zeigen hocherfreut an fi. O, RETTOERG ing laws from sources competent to give it, son, engineer of the new Huai river con- | SULTAN OF ZANZIBAR HONOURED. Herr v. Loebell, formerly Chief of the exhaustive and. take the audierce from und Frau, Shanghai, 16th April, Until that is done, and until the Government creates the proper administrative machinery CAMPRELL-SLATER.On April 10th, at for an intelligent enforcement of the lawa,
Shanghai, PERCY CAMPBELL, to Georgina Stazze, of Horwich, Lanea. It had better cease attempting to legislate, a percentage contract and have agreed to
shire,
MARRIAGES.
THOMPSON-GOмME.-On April 15th, at
The King has appointed the Sultan of Zanzibar an Honorary Knight Com- mander of the Order of St. Michael and St. George.
servancy schemes dated New York, March 19th, state that Messrs. J. G. White & Co. have taken over the entire work a pou
furnish the money. This important con- for the issue of unworka le laws only dition of the agreement made with the Shanghai, ALFRED ERIC SHEPPARD Serves to impress the people of China and Chiness Government has thus been fulfill- THOMPSON, to ELSE EMMA HARRIES the outside world with the incompetence of ed long within the stipulated period of ALLEGED DEALING IN OPIUM. Conse, of Engleheld, Ramsden Road, the Administration, and at the same time two years, and Mr. Jameson is very Nightingale Lane, London, 8.W.
breeds a want of confidence fatal to greatly to be congratulated on the success
At the Magistracy yesterday, before Mr. DEATH
are the of his untiring efforts. He hopes to be. Wood, four Chinese appeared to VIEIRA-On April 15th, Shanghai, progress and prosperity which
anaver charges of being in unlawful ANGELO FRANGISco Vizita, aged 24 ostensible objects of this legislative activity. back in China with some engineers by June 1st next in order to study the floods.
possession of 40 taels of opium, other than this year, if Bloods come-YU. Daily
Government opium. The first two were News,
years.
HONGKONG OPTION: 10A, Dee Veux Road O. LONDON OPTION: 181, FLENT STAKET, E.C.
The Daily Pres
HONGKONG, APRIL 21ST, 1914.
THE vernacular Preas throughout the whole of China is strongly protesting against the new Press Law recently pro- mulgated by Presidential Order, and it must be admitted that they are a legitimate
The Colonial Secretary's Office informs us that quarantine has been imposed against Hongkong on account of the plague.
also charged with selling.
Mr. R. O. Hutchison (Superintendent
the other three.
BERLIN, April 19th......... The Press is unanimously friendly in its criticism of the solution of the questions regarding the Governor- Generalship of Alsace-Lorraine and the Ministry.
The re-entry of the 99th regiment into Zabern gave rise to no incidents and the
populace were interested spectators.
STRIKE IN ITALY.
BERLIN, April 19th. The tobacco workers in Italy are out
TIGER HUNTING IN HONGKONG of Imports and Exports) prosecuted, and
It will interest many readers to know
Mr. Eldon Potter (instructed by Mr.on strike. (The manufacture and sale of H.M.S. Rosario and the three sub that two local sportsmen satisfied them-Stocks) defended the second man, Mr. tobacco in Italy is a Government mono-
selves on Sunday that the tiger was not Otto Kong Sing appearing in defence of | poly.) marines left Hongkong yesterday on then in the Aberdeen Valley. Major cruise to Swatow and Amoy They will MeMuna, RA.M.C., and Mr. J. W. Les be away about a fortnight.
Jones went out with half a dozen Baluchi During the thunderstorm on Sunday a beaters. They beat right down the valley, Chinose was walking on the highway near starting from just below The Chalet, the Shaukiwan market when he slipped and though they came across traces of and slid down a six-foot embankment. its recent appearance in the water course
Mr. Kong Sing said he wished to plead guilty on behalf of the third defendant, and he proposed to call him as a witness.
Mr. Hutchison explained that an in- former was given a sum of $200 in notes
JUNK CAPSIZES AT TAI O.
SPLENDID RESCUE" WORK.
A licensed fishing junk left Tai O on
England up to the last scene of which the world has been made aware; just before the fatal dash. Captain Scott and his party are seen completing prepara- tions, they take supper, Captain Scott smokes his his pipe and thinks, and Dr. Wilson sets to work on his diary." Then they roll up in their fur sleeping bags, and here the final good-bye must ha made, for they were never seen again. The pictures are wonderful illustrations of a country which must always be interesting to Bribiahers because of the tragedy which it has locked up in its grim solitude, and also because yet another Englishman to whom the frozen South calls, is preparing to take the risks. There should be large audiences each evening to witness this remarkable cine- matography taken under such circum- stances. The pictures will be shown throughout the week.
"LANGKATS."
The writer of The Week's. Finance " in the NC. Daily News said "on Friday:
The noteworthy feature of the work has output and the consequent speculation in been the reduction of the Langkat oil the share market, That the output would not increase, under ordinary conditions,
grievance. Like most Chinese laws which He received minor injuries, and was sent the tiger and his wife were missing. It is second defendants. They agreed to prolled to turn back. When within sigay down to the level of 1,800 tons a week was
"Old
and instructed to go to a certain house in Saturday for a fishing expedition, but Yaumati, where he met the first and owing to a sudden storm they were come vide him with a certain amount of opium at a given address. The second man went of Tai O the junk capsized. out and sent the third and fourth defen- was seen by the police at the Tai O dants a short time later to deliver the opium at the specified address. The Station, and junks in the harbour were and was found in the possession of the firet
was no surprise; but that it would come
have been enacted within the past two to hospital for trestnient. years, it is a very crude piece of legislation. It is proposed to hold an full of the foalts due either to in- Wellingtonian Dinner" in Hongkong experience in drafting laws or to sheer on June 18th, and Old Wellingtonians would need a whole regiment of beater money was paid over to the second man, hailed and ordered to the hapless jank's interim, the tendency is for the output to
ignorance of the legislator. In a joint who wish to attend are invited to com memorial to the PRESIDENT the Chinese municate with Capt Bourchier, A.P.D.,
Major MeMuna's opinion that to thoroughly search the island in such scrub as exists on the south side of the ridge
Some house servante in Macdonnell Road report that they saw the tiger, or
their neighbourhood on Sunday night but describe it as not very large.
assistance. Several of the crew were
journalists have very intelligently pointed at the Command Pay Office, or '89, The Bome strange and terrifying animal, in A number of witnesses were called, and observed clinging to the upturned vessel, however, unfortunate. When rumours
out the unreasonable character of many Peak of its provisions and the mratifying Mr. Walter J. Clennell, H.B.M.'s Perhaps it was one of the cubs ! ambiguity of many others of apparently Consul at Newekwang, who has been on equal importance. As it stands the home leave, has returned to his post, and ¦ THE VACANCY ON THE SANITARY Press Law is absolutely unworkable. If Mr. W. M. Hewlett, who had been carry the Law is strictly enforced it must mean ing on the Consular duties, has been the speedy extinction of the public Press transferred to the Shanghai Consulate in China That newspapers shall not General, publish the diplomatic and military
BOARD.
Mr. W. L. Carter, local manager of the China and Japan Telephone Co., Ltd) has been nominated to fill the vacancy of the Sanitary Board during the absence of Mr. F. B. L. Bowley,
The nomination paper has been signed by the Hon. Mr. Pollock, K.C.; and the Hon. Mr. E A Hewett, CMG, as proposer and seconder respectively.
Philatelists may be interested in secrets of the country is accepted as a the fact that White Wolf has caused reasonable requirement, but the extension several post-offices of the Sianyang dis- of the provision to general political Lrict to surcharge old and new Chinese affairs" is 20 palpably preposterous that it stamps with the characters" Pch Lang, is never likely to command obedience. As Up to the present old surcharged stamps the memorial points out, the effect of the of 3 and 1 cent, and new stamps of 3.1-ence of drowns dad previous, spent provision is to prevent the Preas criti-2, 3, and 5 cents have been seen with this cising the administration of the country or
imprint in dark red. China Critic.
Mr. Carter has experi taken Mr. Hewett's place during his absence from the Colony on leave
man 7-Yew,
for one week are no criterion of the total The boat certainly not expected. Of course figures for the month; but it is feared that, unless success attends the deep boring in the
remain round about 8,000 tons per month The situation in the share market is, an amusing. cross-examination of a Cute Revenue Officer by Mr. Potter that licensed junk No. 177 could get to going to be she put
and it was only after several attempts prevailed in February that there was ensued.
You disguised yourself as a sampan them, owing to the dangerously high sea and when the output for that month showed a sudden increase of 4,000, tons, rauning. Four men, a woman, and a boy the market lost its head. Most people What kind of clothes I-I was in my own clothes.
were taken on board junk 177, and expected that the output would increase What kind of buttons, brass Glass!
attempts were made to reach an eight value of shares would move up to Tls, 70. largely in the succeeding months and the No, brass-oh. I'm sorry, I mean were yearold girl who was inside the capsized Hence those who made forward contracte they silver 1-(laughter)—No, cloth,
And you wore an English cap Yes. junk. A hole was made in the bottom of for April delivery at about Tis. 60. be- And you really looked like a sampan the vessel, and when the girl was taken You really felt that you were filling the police engaged a large junk, and went out it was found that she was dead. The part-(laughter)-Yes
But your face was that clean or dirty? out to the junk for the purpose of assist Clean.
ing to recover the effects, and managed to tow the junk into harbour. In a dropped from about Tis, 45 to Tls 38. statement to the police, the master of the In view of existing heavy ongagements it will be a bad business if prices remain wrecked junk acknowledged that had it low; and an effort is being made to keep not been for the splendid work of junk up the market Much depends, however, No. 177 they would all have been drowned, on the next two outputa; if they show no improvement, it is difficult to see how owing to the high seas running.
prices can be kept up.
man TER
As clean as it is now Yes.
And have you ever seen a sampan a with a face so clean as that Yes.
Mr. Potter-I cannot say any more.
(Langhtener-I cannot say any
The case was adjourned until this morn ng, when a day will be fixed for its con- tinued-hearing-
lieved that they had got a bargain: Then
The speculators were now in a fix. There events took a different turn and prices dropped over 23 points in three days.
But was a slight recovery after that. when on Tuesday there was a further reduction of 400 tons in the output prices