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CHINA SERVICE,
JAPANESE · PROPAGANDA IN
CHINA
PEKING, July 8th. The Sino-Japanese Industrial. Society is starting operations by buying up silk cocoons in Chekiang and other Southern provinces. Chow Ching Chien has been entrusted with the transaction of this businesu. The Vice-President of the Society, Baron Shibusawa, hay declared that Japan is expecting much from the Society in the way of propaganda for Japanese political and trade influence in China.
A "SECOND WHITE WOLF.”
PEKING, July 8th. Nows is reaching the capital that a Second White Wolf has made his appearance in Shansi, near the Mongolian frontier. The Government, however, is very little perturbed. The man in question is Kung Fu Kuci, formerly a Mujur-General who was dismissed for complicity with White Wolf." He has, however, the assistance of the former Colonel Sha Tung Chi, who acts as his aide-de-camp. Both were formerly mem hers of the Kuomintang..
RAILWAY EXTENSION IN CHINA.
Pakis, July 8th. : The Ministry of Communications has decided to extend the following railway lines, as soon as possible, viz.--Sui-yuan in Shane to Ning-shis in Kansuh, total 1,178 kiimostres; from Ichung to King" chow-in in Hupeh, 400 kilmetres; and from Ban-chow in Honon to Siang yang in Hupeh, 250 kilometres. THE DEADLOCK AT THE TIBETAN CONFERENCE
MACAO NOTES:
[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]
MACAO, July 7th.
ANNIVERSARY OF THE REPUBLIC OF PORTUGAL. This morning by invitation of H.E. Senhor Maia, many assembled at the appointed hour at Government House to consider arrangements for celebrating the anniversary of the Portuguese Republic It was decided that there should be Chinose day and night processions, sports for civilians and military at the Tap-siac, general illuminations, balls, etc." Com mitters were formed to make the necessary arrangements. Among the Chinese great enthusiasm prevails.
THE WEST RIVER FLOODS.
Two expeditions have gone up to Kong. moon, etc., from this city with rice, biscuits, medicines, etc., for the relief of sufferers by the Hoods. They have reported that it was only possible to help those near the river, and the relief parties are returning to Kongmoon with further supplies of food and with launches or motor-boats, in order that they may reach rearer to the hills where many have taken refuge.
A PARLIAMENTARY ELECTION. Soon we are to have an election to
appoint a representative as "deputado" for this city at Lisbon. There are two candidates for the honour-one is Dr Gonsalves Pereira, port doctor, now at Lisbon, and the other is Dr. Mello Leitao, notary public in this Colony. The sup- porters of each are industriously at work.
SUPREME COURT.
Wednesday, July 8th.
IN ORIGINAL JURISDICTION BEFORE THE CHIEF JUSTICE, MR
H. H. J. GOмPERTS.
AN INJUNCTION JUDGMENT.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, JULY 9rn, 1914.
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CORRESPONDENCE.
THE STAR FERRY CO.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE HONGKONG DAILY. FREES."]
With reference to " Passenger's" letter in your to-day's paper regarding the Star Ferry Cos monthly family tickets, I think the Company is quite justified in charging more for a family of 12. I don't see why a family of three should pay the same as a family of six or more. It tickles me to know that "Passenger" is a shareholder in the Ferry Co., and is kicking, Under the circumstances it will bring a
better dividend for his shares.
I agree with "Passenger" that there are some who take trips after 5.30 p.m. almost daily for several trips at a stretch. I know a few families who are doing it, and don't you think the Company is justified in raising the price of the tickets?
About the suggestion of chartering Chinese launch to ply between Blake Pier and the old Forry Wharf, I advise
Passenger to go ahend with the pro posed scheme. Talk is cheap, but do it "Passenger" will next want the Ferry Co. to provide him and his family with
a motor-car to take them to and from the Ferry Wharf daily, and, course, it is to be included in his family ticket for 89 a month. Yours truly,.
KOWLOONITE.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE “HONGKONG
DAILY PRESS."?
Hongkong, 8th July, 1914. Bil,-I have read in your columns this morning the letter written by Passenger
The Star Ferry Co. Surely "Passenger was only annoyed because he had been disturbed in his slumbers.
I consider that for years the uniform charge of 80 per family has not been quite fair to the smaller families, for why should a family of, say, 4 persons have to I am glad to see this matter is now pay at the same rate as one of 10 or 123
being levelled up. I believe this new system is followed by the Peak Tramway with avery success; whilst the Lower Level Trams do not issue family tickets at all. As regards the residents of Kowloon I should have thought the boot was on the having been the making of the Ferry Co.,
other leg! By the splendid service main have been attracted to the other side of the water. Let Passenger try a
DELIRIUM OF THE OIL BOOM
HOW: MILLIONAIRES WERE MADE AT QALQARY.
THE EMPRESS DISASTER. URIM COINCIDENCE WITH A 1912 COLLISION, With the discovery of oil near Calgary
The Empresa of Ireland calamity gorves (Alberta) a new source of supply has been to recall another collision which took mado available within
British place on July 27th, 1912, in the Empire. That oil exists in far Western locality as the recent disaster, of which Canada will be a surprise to many--and little public notice taken at the time the wildest booms of recent times has the two collisions which combine to form not the least to a great many Western as there was no loss of life. There are Canadians. Following the strike, one of certain circumstances, however, attending. raged in the city of Calgary.
the
man, an outat has been drilling in the Under the supervision of A. W. Ding- country to the south of Calgary for about were working indicated the presence of eighteen months. Reports on which they oil of good quality and in paying quanti- ties Last autumn they made a small strike, which, although it created at the time no little sensation and led to the flotation of a number of other companies, incipient. boom fizzled out and oil was did not continue, with the result, that the forgotten.
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That of 1812 was between the Empress of a grim coincidence, says a home papor. Britain and the Helvetia. The Empress Ireland were sister ships, and they were of Britam and the ill-fated-upress of both built on the transverse system. The Helvetia and Storstadt were built on the Isherwood system of longitudinal fram ing. In the 1912 collision it was the Isherwood vessel that was rammed amid- it is the transverse vessel that has anot ships and sunk. In the present disaster with that fate, resulting, unhappily. in Throughout the winter, however, the an appalling loss of human life. To Dingman outfit continued drilling, and heighten the coincidence still further the depth of 2,718 feet. In a very short time and so were the two Isherwood boats: on May 14th they again struck vil at a
two liners were built in the same yard, it rose about 2,000 feet in the well, and the former by the Fairfield Shipbuilding has several times since gushed at the Company and the latter by Sir W. G. top. This well is known as the Discovery. Armstrong, Whitworth, & Co.. The Causes of the Empress of Ireland, disaster PEJE CASOLINE.
will doubtless be duly cleared up at the official inquiry, but there is one respect in which the two collisions open up a wide field of discussion, and that I as to whether the Isherwood system or the transverse system offers resistance to damage-by cullision-
the greater
Wells have been stuk by a few other people, but have not yet got down to An analysis of the oil from the Discovery well has shown it as testing 65 Baume, or almost pure gasoline, worth about is a barrel. The well is estimated to be capable of producing from 100 to output of natural gas (through which the 150 barrels per day, with an additional drill goes before reaching oil) of about two million cubic feet per day. The oil has been put on the market in small quantities, and is in use in motor-cars.
The announcement that oil had been struck was made on the morning of May 15th, and a boom enated that eclipses the imagination. The Westerner is a born optimist, and will risk everything he has if needs be on the turn of a coin or a
rise in shares--he will lose one fortune in a boom and cheerfully borrow money and invest it in the next.
Despite the fact that Calgary had just pulled through a bard winter, with a great scarcity of money, the Calgary people went crazy over this boum, There was almost a run on the banks to secure money to invest in oil, and the buying and selling of shares reached at times the point of delirium.
*J*1 this
point there are many factors to be takon RESISTANCE IN COLLISIONS.
into consideration--the speed of the
In arriving at a conclusion
cuiliding vessels at the moment of colli- sion, the part of the ship where the and the displacements of the vessels. In impact is received, and the dimensions the case of the present instance it will be seen from the following figures that the two transverse boats were furger and heavier than the Isherwood boats feet by 65 feet 9 inches by 40 Fret; gross Empress of Britain.-Dimensions, 550 tonnage,
10,000 tons.
14,200 tons;
displacement,
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Helvetia. Dimensions, 376 feet by 52 feet by 30 feet 9 inches; gross tonnage, 4,960 tona; displacement, 10,000 to 11,000 tuns.
Ireland was the same as the Empress of
In size and tonnage the Empress of WATCHMAKERS. Britain, but the Storstadt is a larger boas thun the Helvetia was. Hor dimen sions are 440 feet by 58 feet by 36 feet 2 inches. Her gross tonnage is 6,030, and her displacement 14,000 to 14,500 tons.
His Lordship delivered judgment in an action for the discharge of an injunction. The action arose out of an injunction action in Chambers between Chui Tez Yuen, carrying on business as the Pau Heung Chai firm, plaintiffs, and the So Mang Suen firm, defendants. Mr. G. C. Alabaster (instructed by Mr. Stokes, of Harston), moved for the discharge of the Messrs, Deacon, Looker. Deacon &
Injunction on behalf of So Kwok Wan, was due to the demand that China should of 180, Queen's Road East, it being tained at reasonable cost many families were turned away at that hour with their Photographs of the sinking vessel were
FERING, July 8th. The Chinese-in-Szechuan Ray that the breaking off of the negotiations at Simula-
vacato Siang Chen in Szechuan province, a stronghold of the Lamas, which she took only a short while ago after fighting
which lasted one year.
REDUCING MILITARY
EXPENDITURE.
PEKING, July 8th.
The General commanding in Chekiang Province has reduced the military outlay of the province from 2520,000 to $355,415, with effect from the 1st July.
EUROPEAN SERVICE.
THE BOSNIAN TRAGEDY
INVESTIGATIONS INTO SERVIAN IMPLICATION,
BERLIN, July 7th.
A Common Council of the Austrian and the Hungarian Ministers has taken place at Vienne for the purpose of devising exceptional Ordinances for Bosnia and Herzegovina and to discuss the investiga tion of the Servian implication in the assassination conspiracy.
appreciate the difference. His family can board the Star Ferries with the assurance that their dresses will not be soiled, and during the present typhoon season he can he assured that the ferry service would not a Chinese launch would scuttle away to be stopped until the last moment, whereas shelter at the least sign of a signal.
The faraily of 10 or 12 may have to pay 17, but I think they are getting their money's worth.-Yours, etc.
KOWLOON.
PRIDE OF COUNTY.
WHICH HAB PRODUCED THE GREATEST MEN !
In ten days no fewer than eighty-nine new companies have been floated to exploit the oil resources, and some of these companies have been offering their shares at as low a price as bd. Neverthe been readily taken up, and the prices of less, everything that has been offered has some shares have risen from that price off the market at ten o'clock at night, to 4s each in a single day. One company advertised that its shares would be taken and more than two hundred applicants money in their bands
SUDDEN CHANGES OF FORTUNE. With all this frantic dealing money has been made in Calgary quicker than it has ever been before in this young and lusty Wester city. The oil boom has produced a crop of new millionaires, I scarcely enough money to pay his house know one man who before the boom had hold bills.
In the previous excitement in the autumn he had filed on the mineral rights of some lands supposed to be underlaid with oil but when the excitement dropped, he was at a loss what to do with them. He tried to sell them, but no one wanted them in a bard winter; he could scarcely give them away.
Just before the boom he was borrowing money to pay for his groceries. Now he is able to refuse an offer of 240 an acre for the mineral rights of those lands he has about 17,000 acres to such a height has he been lifted by his sudden accession to wealth.
AND
JEWELLERS.
INSTRUMENTS.
In the collision of 1912 between the former struck the latter amidships. Her Empress of Britain and the Helvetia the nose was kept in the breach which abe Empress of Britain was then backed out, had made until the 40 people who wore SURVEYING AND NAUTICAL on board the Helvetia were rescued. The and the Helvetia immediately sank.. taken at the time, and the pictures were subsequently shown on the cinemato- ZEISS PRISM BINOCULARS. graph. The Empress of Britain suffered very considerable damage, her fore part being almost completely carried away, although the ship with which she collided was smaller and lighter, and had it not been for her collision bulkhead another been recorded. terrible disaster would probably have
A. CONJECTURE.
SUN GLASSES.
SILVERAND PRINCE'S PLATE.
Representatives-
LTD..
LONDON.
ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS,
aimed for Wan that he had been adversely affected by the previous order.
Mr. Eldon Potter (instructed by Mr. Chinese launch for a month and he will Dennys, of Messre. Dennys & Bowley) opposed the application on behalf of the plaintiff in the previous action.
In the course of his judgment his Lord- hip said that there was no suggestion of that his goods had been wrongfully any fraud Plaintiff merely suggested
transverse vessel which has been rammed In the present disaster it is the taken under execution, and if he
amidships, and although the Storstadt proved this he had a right to follow
have lost comparatively few plates. As was the lighter of the two she appears to. the goods. And if the defendant had
to whether she would also have sunk had intermeddled in the execution the claim
she not been built on the Isherwood was against him, in tort, for damages.
data which are available prove that this system can only be conjectured, but the MAPPIN & WEBB. In any event, if the defendant received
type of ship emerges from ocean mishaps the proceeds of the wrongful execution,
and severe weather ordeals with compara tively little damage. In September, 1911; plaintiff could compel him to account for
an Isherwood ship was collided with in those proceeds. Did the defendant give
Flushing Roads. She was the Steinturm, plaintiff any right to attach the proceeds Warwickshire Folk in London to discuss A debate arranged by the Society of
with a displacement of 11,500 tons, and of the sale? The money had reached the which county in England has produced and most dealings are conducted through Marnia, with a displacement of 4,000 There is no stock exchange in Calgary, the ship which collided with her was the possession of the defendant; that was to the greatest men was held recently at the brokers. Some of them have offices, and tons. The Steinturm rummed amidships, say, it was in the hands of his solicitor Martineau, Lord Mayor of Birmingham, a hasty by-law fixing a fee of £10 for a
Holborn Restaurant, with Lieut. Colonel others trade on the kerb. The city passed but she was able to continue on her long who held it for him.
voyage after a temporary repair, and it But under what in the chair. It was hardly a complete broker's licence and for a kerb was conceded at the time that had she right could the plaintiff attach it? It was discussion, as many counties who have broker's licence, and on the first day no bean built on the transverse system the St. Petersburg circles afirm that Russia quite clear that his claim for damages strong claims were not represented. For fewer than 104 applicants paid the frem. collision would have sunk her.
Owing would have no objections on menarchical gave him no such right. Nor again, if many famous men, had no champion: land, from the United States and from construction the impact in the event of instance, Devonshire, which has provided A great amount of capital from Eng to the nature of the Ishorwood system of grounds to the extension of the investiga-he sued under contract for debt had beWorcestershire Esser, and Middlesex Calgary to be invested in oil shares, and frames and it is obvious that this must Northumberland, Durham, Cumberland, other parts of Canada is flowing into a collision is received on longitudinal any claim to attach upon specific grounds had no voice in the matter. Lancashire, brokers are having the time of their lives lessen the evil results. No part of the sum held by plaintiff's the county of the Red Rose, had for keeping pace with it.
The force of the Probably they blow is resisted by these frames and then solicitor could be ear-marked as the champion the Rev. P. B. Ditchfield, and never handled so much of the "ready" transmitted to the strong transverses; property of the plaintiff. His rights, he Home Cheshire's claims were advocated
Yorkshire, its old rival, Mr. Gordon C. before..
but in the case of a vessel built on the thought, were those of a simple contract by the Rev. A: Caldecott, Hampshire's by were being bought so rapidly that at some upon a piece of unsupported plating.
On the first day of the strike shares transverse system, the damage is localised creditor, and his remedy against defen- Mr. H.S. M. Grover, and those of Sussex of the offices money was thrown into With two appalling disasters, the need by Mr. Prescott Row Cornishmen had waste-paper baskets, the safes all being is imperative that every precaution be The Roumanian Official Gasette pub-execution: He could not have an injuno Lach - Styrma,
dant was to proceed to judgment and their cause ploaded by the Rev. W. 8. fall and no one having time to check or taken to avert a repetition of such
Derbyshire lishes a communication from HM. King tion to prevent defendant from dealing Morice Gerard (the Rev. J. Jessop have sent agents to investigate the strike ments are excellent in theory, but they men by count it. The Standard Oil Company terrible tragedies. Watertight compart- Carol expressing his grief over the loss with his own proprty. It appeared that Teague), and Warwickshire, with Shakes--which carries its own moral. of a proved friend, in the person of the the defendant to the action was a foreigner advocated by Mr. E. Marston Rudland. peare, made strong running when assassinated Archduke..
- Chinese resident in China-but the Somerset's case was presented by Mr. E. ANARCHISTS ARRESTED IN PARIS. plaintiff was in the same case, and if the had a strong pleader in the Rev: A Gaston Calmette, the editor of the R. C. Gregory, and the men of Kent Mme. Caillaux, who shot and killed M. Winnifrth. The Channel Islands, Figaro, in his office, last March, has been Gloucestershire, Staffordshire, Norfolk, committed for trial on the charge of regarded in priority in the matter of Frelsior, that her case will come before and Surrey all presented claims to be murder. It is expected, says the famous men. The court of judges was the Seine Assizes about July 20th and
that it will last five or six days.
tions to Servian Territory,
THE AUSTRIAN HEIR TO THE THRONE.
The new Austrian Heir to the Throne will soon be gazetted as Inspector-General of the Army.
KOUMANIAN SYMPATHY..
BERLIN, July 7th.
The arrest is reported from Paris of two anarchists, who are stated to have beou preparing bombs for an attempt on the life of the Czar.
THE AMUR RAILWAY.
BERLIN, July 7th. The Russian Imperial Council have passed supplementary votes for the con- struction of the Amur Railway and the roorganisation of the Russian Foreign Office.
defendant would not wait here to be sued the plaintiff would have to pursue his remedy in China. The injunction would be discharged with costs.
Mr Potter asked for a stay for four-an-international one- teon days, pending a possible appeal.
Mr. Albaster opposed this, stating that the applicant had been kept out of his money long enough already.
Mr Potter said he wanted to prevent the money going out of the Colony. If it did go there would be no object in appealing.
His Lordship made no order for a atay, but gave leave to apply providing the costs are paid.
THE SITUATION IN ALBANIA.
BERLIN, July 7th."
Shi-Yu, the Guardian of the Young The German authorities have forbidden Emperor Hsuan Tung, has chosen a place for the mausoleum of Emperor Henan the enlistment of volunteers for Albania Tung at the Hailing, the Western Tombs. The volunteers who arrived at Durazzo It will be erected with the next five are discontented and are returaing The years at a cost of six millions dollars. Prince of Albania has urgently requested The amount will be defrayed by the
arms and ammunition.
savings of the Imperial household, which amount this.yar to one million dollars.
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SALE OF A KYOTO HOTEL.
We learn from the Mainiche that the Miyako Hotel, at Higashiyama, Kyoto, was put up for auction several times, but so far no bid reached the reserve pries of Y-120,000 This sum has been halved, and on the 26th ult, the hotel was ut last I knocked down to Mr. Yoshii Taketaro, of the Nippon Life Assurance Company, living at Nishinomiya, near Kobe, for Y210,000,
The Miyako Hotel has a capital of ¥2,000,000, of which Y1,000,000 is paid up Since 1907 Mr. Nishimura Nihei has been proprietor of the establishment, and, besides his own hostelry was responsible for the management of the Nara Hotel, Yamada Goni kaikan Hotel, and Arima Hotel. The enterprise was not successful, however, and st the end of the year before last it was declared bankrupt, as a result of application to the judicial authorities by the Industrial Bank concerning a claim of Y175,000 Japan Chronicles.
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