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the men alluded to above ne haring studied abroad we note in the list of members the name of Mr. Wins CHIA-HSIANG who, upon the convocation of the late National Assembly was elected Speaker of the Tsan Yi Tuan; we note so the name of Mr.
LIANG CHICHAO who was prominently identified with the Reform movement of 1803, When that movement failed he fled to Japan, where he edited for many years several periodicals advocating reforms in Ching, and when China became a Republic, Mr. Itano accepted the post of Minister of Justice. He is now Director of the Currency Bureau, Many others there are who have occupied important official posts under the Republican régime, so that the assertion that the progressive elements have been excluded from any real share in the administration
is not altogether warranted by the facts, Though the Reformers in the Council may be comparatively few in number, we should think that they are likely to bring to bear upon the deliberations of the chamber an influence that will save the legislation from being entirely reactionary in its character China must traid the path of progress with slow and measured steps. Experience has shown that she cannot safely take long jumps. The functions of the Taan Cheng
Yuan are apparently intended to be much the same as those of the House of Lords in Great Britain. It will serve as a brake upon the Li Fa Yuanor House of Com- mone--when that body is created. This body is to be "elected by the people," and, inasmuch as the only section of the people interested in parliamentary elections are the young reformers, it is fairly certain that they will be largely represented in that
House when the time comes for its creation, unless they have been entirely scared by the experiences of the past twelve months. The laws governing the elections for the Li Fa Yuan have yet to be framed, and some apprehension appears to exist lest this body, like the Tran Chong Yuan tâ be made a close corporation of ex-officiale
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THE EMPRESS DISASTER
BALVATIONIST MEMORIAL SERVICE AT ALBERT HALIZ
LONDON, June 8th. A memorial service to the Salvation Army victims in the Empress disaster was held at the Albert Hall. There were 148 vacant chairs representing those who were lost.
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RIVAL VOLUNTEER ORGANIBA- TIONS AT BELFAST.
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THE SITUATION IN MEXICO.
AMERICAN SHIP L'ANDS ARMS FOR REBELS.
London, June 7th.
VEEL CRUZ, June 6th. Sir Edward Carson inspected the An American ship has landed arms and Special Reserve Corps of the Belfast munitions at Tampico for the rebels, Volunteer Regimente in the Balmoral without being cpposed. Show Grounds. The men weza in uniform and carried rifles. Sir Edward Carson advised them to let no one take.
A letter of condolence was read from their rifles, no matter what authority Her Majesty thạo Queen.
INSURANCE OF THE EMPRESS,” The total insurance on the Empress of Ireland was £400,000 atorling. It will be paid in a few days.
THE LIVERPOOL RELIEF FUND.” The Empress Disaster Fund opened by the Mayor of Liverpool totals £13,738.
THE SUFFRAGETTE INCIDENT AT
COURT.
they had He hoped when the fight was over and the victory won, to pin on their breasts medals bearing the word
Ulster."
Mr. Devlin, M.P., inapected a thousand National Volunteers at Belfast. In a speech ho said that Sir Edward Carron's Volunteers were intended to foster ran
cour and ill-will while the Nationalist Volunteers purposed to fight for liberty and country and to defend their homes and altars.
LONDON, June 8th. The utmost reticence is shown at Buck- ingham Palace regarding the Suffragette incident. It is understood that the Suffragettes are two sisters, daughters of a well-known titled lady, and that they were not debutantes, having been previ- ously presented. were thus admitted unhesitatingly. Increased denys. precautions are hoing taken to-night
They
ANOTHER HANDION: BURRED.
Suffragettes burned a mansion at High Wycombe, containing valuable antiques. EMETICS FOR HUNGER-STRIKING
SUFFRAGETTES.
ULSTER GUN-RUNNING.
ANOTHER DARING · EXPLOIT.
LONDON, June 5th. Å schooner ran 3,000 Mauser rifles into Belfast harbour at daylight yesterday, and the Volunteers removed them in
The authorities were completely un- suspicions of what was happening.
HOME RULE PROTEST MEETINGS
LONDON, June 7th, Demonstrations to protest · againet Home Rule were held yesterday at Hull, LONDON, June th Newcastle, and Eastbourne, the speakers Summonses have been granted at Bow including Lords Selborne, Milner, Ridley, Street Police Court against a solicitor's and Beresford, the Duke of Devonshire, clerk, who is charged with conveying and Mr. F. E. Smith, K. C., M.P. tabloid emetics to Suffragettes in Hollo- way Prison who were being forcibly fed.
HANDLING GIANT LINERS.
COMPARISON
LONDON, June 6th.
In contrast to the happenings to the German liner Vaterland on May 2nd and May 27th, the new British linor Aquitania was docked at New York within half an hour, being handled like
tur.
AN ADMIRAL'S BOMBSHELL.
BIR PERCY SCOTT DECLARES DREADNOUGHTS
TO BE USELESS.
WARSHIP CONSTRUCTION IN AUSTRALIA.
FEDERAL DOCKYARD OFFICIAL'S:
· DISCONCERTING REPORT.
MEDIATORS THREAT TO AMERICA
NEW YORK, June 8th. The papers state that President Wilson has received a despatch from the media. torn at Niagara protesting against the United States not preventing shipments of munitions to the Mexican rebels, and hinting that this may end the mediation,
THE FINES ON GERMAN VESSELS.
The Hamburg-Amerika Linie agent has appealed to the American Secretary for War to remit the fines on the Bavaria and
the Epiranga on the ground that the cargo was shipped before the occupation of Vera Cruz and Puerto Mexico to an
open port."
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BRITISH EIRM SUSPENDS
PAYMENT;
BAID TO BE ENTIRELY SOLVENT.
LONDON, June 6th.
The well-known financial house of Chaplin, Milne & Grenfell has suspend ed payment. One of the partners in the firm recently withdrew from Partnership in consequence of very heavy losses on the Stock Exchange.
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It is understood that the firm entirely solvent, but time will be required" to liquidate the affairs. The suspension was due to losses and withdrawals conse quent upon the operations of the partner, Mr. Arthur Grenfell, who was greatly, mixed up in the affairs of the Canadian Agency, Limited, which is deeply involved
in purchases of Grand Trunks. STEAMER SUNK IN THE THAMES.
LONDON, June 7th. ** BERVICE TO HUMANITY.”
The liner Corinthian, from Canada, President Wilson, addressing the Naval collided with and sank the Thames Academy graduates at Annapolis, stated steamer Oriole off Greenwich. The that the mission of the United States in Oriole had just landed her passengers. Mexico was a service to humanity. It was Her crew of 17 were azved. the duty of the United States to serve the world, and the Navy and Army wore merely the instruments of civilisation. TAR PROTECTION OF FOREIGN INTERESTS. WASHINGTON, June 8th.
A destroyer has been ordered Tuxpan to protect foreign interests.
ALBANIAN DEADLOCK
INSURGENTS INSIST ON A MOHAMMEDAN
RULER
Durazzo, June 6th.
trol has returned here after fruitless The International Commission of Con
attempts to negotiate with the insur gents, who persisted in their demand for a Mohammedan Prince, The Govern ment afterwards proclaimed martial law
in Durazzo and ordered the Malissories against the insurgents, but the order was Dancelled on some of the men refusing to fight.
MR. JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN.
LONDON, June 7th,
A garden party was given at Highbury by Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, M.P., and Mr. Austen Chamberlain, M.F., to their respective constituents.
Mr. Joseph Chamberlain was wheeled in a Bath chair along the terrace, this being his first public appearance for eight years.
Mr. Austen Chamberlain, in a speech, said the Government would not dare to
coerce Ulster...
"HISTORIC MIDLANDS CHURCH DESTROYED.
LONDON, June 6th. The historic Brendsall Churchin Derby has been destroyed by fire. Price less relics and a monument to Erasmus Darwin were burnt
The population is panic-stricken, and heard. some are embarking on steamers.
VIENNA, June 6th, Private despatches from Darazzo report that the situation in Central Albania is
Explosions were
APPOINTMENTS.
The Gazette announces that H.E the Governor has been pleased to appoint
MELBOURNE, June 6th. Mr. Saltor, manager of the Federal Dockyard, in a report to the Minister of Defence, says warship-building in Australia is largely futile, The vessels are not completed until hall their effec tive life is concluded, because construction takes five years instead of two, owing to becoming worse, the agitation against C. W. M. Beckwith, Commander, RN, the shortage of skilled labour, while the absence of the piece work system adds 30 per cent to the cost of expenditure, and £500,000 is also necessary to overcome the deficiencies in the dockyard's equipment.
for election those who have had no experience in administrative posts. The PRESIDENT certainly will not want an assembly of hot-headed enthusiasts with no capacity for legislativà work, like the last Parliament, but he is not likely to make an attempt to suppress the men who are sensibly advocating and working for reform. His sympathies are undoubtedly on the side of progress, and though he has never been abroad himself, he recognises as clearly as any one that the growing number of young men who have been educated in Western lands are an invaluable asset to the nation. China's destiny is to develop as rapidly as may be on the lines along declaring that submarines and aeroplanes which her little neighbour Japan has
pro have revolutionized naval warfare and gressed, and the co-operation of the young that Dreadnoughts are useless. He says. men who have been trained in Western.
wo require an lundi and institutions must be enlisted.
enormous fleet of sub-
Their entire exclusion from the counsels of
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useful purpose whatever, it must be repre sentative of the progressive elements of the nation, as well as of the most conservative and reactionary,
LONDON, June 6th. The papers give prominence to a letter written by Admiral Sir Percy Scott
LONDON, June 7th
A Frenchman, M. Noel, won the serial Derby of 95 miles round London, in
THE BRITISH HYDROPLANE
FATALITY.
LONDON, June 6th.
The body of Commander Rice, who was killed in a hydroplane accident
FRENCH AVIATION TRAGEDY.
at
as Harbour Master, Marine Magistrate, Emigration and Customs Oficer, Registrer of Shipping, Superin- tendent of the Gunpowder Depot and Collector of Light Dues, during the absence on leave of B. R. H. Taylor, Commander, R.N., or until further notice, with effect from this date.
the Prince having extended to districts to act hitherto loyal.
The insurgents demand a Turkish the International representative on Control Commission.
It is reported that the Albanian Government has accepted the demands of the Epirotes.
THE DEPORTATION OF BULGARIANS;
WILD ENTHUSIASM AT THEIR DELTASE,
DEDEACATCH, June 8th. The deported Bulgarians have been released There was wild enthusiasm
DrJay, June 8th. Two aviators, Lieut. Gironne and shown after the release, which has calmed
TRAUMANN the dangerous excitement. 1 hour 15min. -5secs. There were 14 Private Rioux, fel! a distance of 2,000 feet
while flying and were killed.
The English mail, of the 9th May was starters delivered in London on the 5th June.
Subsequently M. Noel was disqualified, The American
transport Sherman and an American aviator, Mr. Brock, brought to Manila last week 2,000,000 was declared the winner, his time being pesos in newly minted coin and paper money.
We have been interested in glaucing through the records of the seventy men who have been selected to compose the Tean Cheng Yuan, or Council of State, in China One of the vernacular papers at Peking recently described the Council as "not far
Among the passengers who departed from being a museum of ancient relics." It for Europe, by the English Mail on is true that the majority of them are men
Saturday last, was Captain James Hay who held positions as grand councillors, of the Indo-China Steam Navigation ministərs, viceroys and governors in the Company, who has gone on leave, and late Curso dynasty, and the criticism is | will return to China before the end of made that many of them are well known the present year. reactionaries while others are officials who
The concluding performance of the were dismissed from office for corruption. Hippodrome Circus took place on Satur "But, now owing to their being in possession day evening when a remarkably good of a Haulin's degree and a quene they are programme was given, the whole conclud. appointed to participate in the Administra-ing with revels which were taken part tion of the Republic. The recently pro- in by all the members of the company. mulgated laws governing the organisation This week the Circus goes to Shanghai of this body practically exclude any but ex- and a good reception should be assured. omcals from appointment, but there would
THE CHAUFFEUR'S CLAIM, soon to be a fur sprinkling among them of men who have travelled and whose studies This case was beard before Mr. have not been confined to the Chinese Hazeland on Tuesday last, and adjourn Classics. Several of the members are men
ed into Chambers for argument. The who have occupied diplomatic posts abroad. plaintiff, Allah Dean, was represented Wanote too that there are among the memby Mr. Dixon (of Messrs. Wilkinson & Grist), and the defendant, N. P. Law, bers not a few who have spent some years studyingin foreign countries. Of one we read of 3. Duddell Street, was represented hy
Mr. Gardiner,
1 hour 18min. 5aces.
CAPE-TO-CAIRO MOTOR EXPEDITION.
LEADER DIES AFTER BEING HAULED BY A LEOPARD;
LONDON, June 6th. Captain Kelsey, the leader of the Daily Telegraph Cape-to-Cairo motor-car ex- pedition, has died in Central Africa as a sequel to being mauled by a leopard on April 19th.
THE CANADIAN FIVE MILLION LOAN
THIEF OF LA GIOCONDA" SENT TO PRISON.
LONDON, June 6th.
FRENCH POLITICAL CRISIS.
M. VIVIANI UNABLE TO FORM A CABINET.
PARIS, June 6th,
M. Viviani has informed the President,
The man Perruggia bas been sentenced M. Poincaré, that he is unable to form to one year and fifteen days' imprison- a Cabinet owing to the difficulties regard ment for the theft of the famous picture ing the Triennium Military Service.
La Gioconda."
M. Poincaré has invited M. Delcassé to form a Cabinet. GERMAN PROTECTORATES LOAN;"
YOUTH RUNS AMOK IN HUNGARY.
THREE PEOPLE KILLED AND WINETEEY, INJURED.
BEBLIN, June 6th.
A syndicate beaded by the Disconto Gesellschaft has taken over the 85,000,000 marks four per cent German Protec- torates Loan which will be issued shortly.
HOME TURF,
THE BACE FOR THE MANCHESTED CUP LONDON, June 6th 141
LONDON, June 6th. Gilt-edged securities have receded un The race for the Manchester Cap, run the underwriting of the Canadian over a distance of one mile and a half, Government £5,000,000 four per cent. Loan at price of 08
resulted as follows:
2
3
Mr. T. Martin's Junior Lord Cadogan's The Curragh Mr H Crallan's The Guller Twelve ran; won by three-quarters of length, four lengths separating second and third..
A GREAT BOXING MATCH.
TWO BLACK MEN TO MERTS IN LONDON.
LONDON, June 6th. that he is acquainted with the languages of
Jack Johnson and Sam Langford are several countries," of another that he has was entitled to recover his deposit of to meet, the fight being arranged to take Betting: 5 to 1 against Junior, 3 to 1 translated a number of foreign books into £98.10 and $50 for his February wages place in London Johnson will get against The Curragh; 40 to 1 against The the Chinese language
Judgment was given for the plaintiff, of another that "he
His Lordship held that the plaintif
with costs.
£6,000 win or lose..
Guller.
H.E. the Governor has also been pleased to recognise, provisionally and pending the receipt of instructions from His Majesty's Government, Mr. José Filomeno Lea da Silva as Vice-Consul for Mexico in Hongkong.
CUSTOMS REVENUE..
In correction of a willeading paragraph relating to the Customs revenue, the Peking Gazette says:- h
The facts are as follows: The revenue collection of the Marine Customs for January and February of the current year showed an increase of Tls. 937,811 over the corresponding months in 1913. In march 1914, however, there was & decrease compared with last year, which reduced the total increase for the first quarter to Tls, 809,182. The April figures are not yet known, but there will again ba a falling off, and as there is still a downward tendency, unless trade improves the increase in revenue of the first two months of 1814 will be wiped out.
GOLD MINING IN THE PHILIPPINES,
The Manila Cablenews says:-Approxi mating & yield of P1,000 a day of virgin
BUDA PERTH, June 6th. A youth named August Tomsics gold is the gratifying result of the past August month's clean-up on the Gumaos Placer wounded a girl and then murdered her Company's claim in the Paracale dredg.
guying field. parents. He took refuge in the steeple of bullion the steamer Dos Hermanos is due With 684 ounces in gold Ir a church, where he held out for & valued at P30,000 which will be received to arrive to-day with 2 consignment and fired 200 cartridges at all comers by the Bank of the Philippines, and He killed three people and injured 19, which represents practically the result of
hink thirty working days on that claire, par and also destroyed the altar and sacred This represents also next to the
geat pictures Ultimately he surrendered. clean-up made in the history of that Company. Last fall a shipment of >OBITUARY.
approximately 000 ounces was received, considering the amount gleaned, the time engaged, and the size of the dredge (a) seven and one-half foot bucket), this was regarded as a world's record.
LONDON, June 6th The death is announced of the fourth Earl of Lucan, KP, a Representative
Peer for Ireland
Another dividend of five per cent, has been declared for the month of May by the Company's directors, the last previous dividend having been made in The late nobleman sorred as A.D.C. to darch, 1914, in the same amount, gll of nine years Conservative MP for Mayo and encouraging to the mining industry, his father in the Crimes. He was for which is gratifying to the shareholders,
He owned about 63,000 acres.]
in the Philippince