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A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD.,
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3RD, 1914.
service will shinin much longer,' for Sir HIGH CLIFFORD, the present Governor, has exposed the legend of the lethal reputation of the Colony and has told an nudience at the Colonial Institute that the climate is no more unhealthy than the climate of the Malay Peninsula or Ceylon..
Sir Iech speaks from an experience of twenty years in the Malay States, and five
years spent as Ceylon.
Colonial Secretary in The compares meteorological statistics and declares that both as regards
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From to-morrow (October 4th), onward, TELEGRAM.
the hour of morning Service at Union
Church will revert to 11. instead of 10.30.
The earlier hour has bean tried during the SEQUEL TO A HOME RULE FRACAS, summer, but has proved somewhat ineon- venient.
LONDON, September 31st.
The Royal Commission which was
CANTON NOTES.
[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT]
GERMAN TRADE IN CHINA.
OPPORTUNITIES FOR BRITISH COMMERCE.
Wo may fairly assume that the joint CANTON, Oetober 1st.
action now being taken by Great Britain INCREASE IN BALE TAX,
and Japan in China will result in the The local Audit Office has received evacuation of Kizechay, and the "leased
THE RECENT HAID ON THE CANTON-KOWLOON
RAILWAY.
A Chinese carpentar, employesi on thes
buildings in Wudhum Strent, appointed to inquire-into-a-gua-roningelegraphic advice from the Audit Depart-torsitory hinterland of that colony, by ment attached to the Board of Finance | its"German military and naval forces: attempted to commit suicide in affray which occurred in Ireland on July that, commencing from 1st October, the One object, as now succinctly defined by. particularly desperate manner, on the gath are unanimous that the Police and the tax on salt shall be levied at the rate of the Japanese Prime Minister, is "tu isth ult.. He had apparently won ill, WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS. 1-heat and the much more trying quality of seizing, 'n sharp chisel, he drove itAsistant Police Commissioner Harrell has been instructed accordingly,
suffering from paine in the head, and Military were illegally employed and that $2.50 per picul. The Salt Commissioner eliminate from continental China the rout
into his throat. He was admitted into was alone responsible, but the Commission the Government Civil Hospital, and also blames General Cuthbert for comply- recovered sufficiently to attend the Magising with Assistant Commissioner Har- Tracy yesterday. It was stated that lie rell's enll, as there was no ground, for had previously attempted to take his life military intervention. by drowning. The man, who looked terribly thin and ill, said he did not know what he was doing.
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humidity, the "hot, damp" climate of the Gold Coast, as it is known at its worst on the sea-shore and in the moist forest helt, is a considerable improvement upon what is met with in similar localities in Ceylon, and no impartial person who has lived in both places, he says, can entertain a doubt as to which is the proferable of the two climates. Sir HUG CLIFFORD further points out that although certain 2.30 reference books describe the Gold Const
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not only relatively but actually much 1.60| smaller than that shown in Ceylon and the Malay States. · "What they?” he asks, is the matter with West Africa, and what the cause to which its appalling 3.45 reputation can be traced? Men, he says, are just beginning to understand that it "climate," but the presence of is not
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remitient fever and to fevers called by & variety of different names, and usually
·455 | regarded as some peculiarly virulent form of malaria." Yellow fever, he points out, is in no true sense "limatic." "It 2.65 depends wholly for its prevalence upon 6.65 the existence of the steyouyia, or common house-mosquito. The inseet abounds - in 9.95 the tropical countries of the East; but tho microbe which spends part of its life in the sh gomyia and is painped into the blond of human beings whom the mosquito bites, is as yet unknown in Asia. It may make its way across the Pacific when the Panama Canal is opened to traffic, and if this befall, the ravages which its coming will occasion not only among Europeans;
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BIRTH. NORCOCK-On September 27th, at Shang- bai, the wife of H. L. Neucock, of a daughter.
MARRIAGE.. JONES-ABAS On September 20th, at Shanghai, ARTHUR, second son of the
late WILLIAM Jongs, of Gortun, Man- chester, to JESSIE, only daughter of S. H. Aumass, Shanghai,
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the Commission was the collision between [The incident which was inquired into by
some Nationalist Volunteers who were re- turning to Dublin after a suçeessful gan- runsing feat at Howth, and the soldiers and police. Subsequently the soldiers being mobbed in Dublin, fired upon the crowd, four persons hoing killed and forty injured.]
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A couple of days ago, Clan So, the "principal ringleader in daring raid by bandits 011 tho
Canton Kowloon Railway two months ago,
was
at
arrested and brought up General Lung's headquarters. He made no attempt to disguise the fact that he was the leader of the gang and he con- fessed indeed that he had been connected with over 80 enses of piracy. Prisoner also deposed to having personally destroyed part of the rail on the line. Early yesterday morning the criminal was conveyed by train to the Suntong station, the place where the attack on the train was made, and was slut dead on the spot 300.00 where he committed the crime. It is -274.50-
23.15 stated that the criminal exhibited no fear 23.45 of the punishment that he was to receive,
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ENGINEER AUTHORS.
PRESENTATION OF MEDALA AT THE INSTITUTE.
There was an interesting presentation ceremony at the Institute of Engineers and Shipbuilders last evening, when Chief. Engineer J. S. Gander, of the Anglo-Me Ellis Kaduwie.....
in, and Mr. James Macdonald, Govern- Asiatic Petroleum Company's vessel, that
ment Marine Surveyor, whose papers found the Committee's favour, were made
The
the recipients, of gold medals. medals, which were presented by Engineer Commander G. W. Roome, I.N., were the
gifts of Mr. F. R. Fry (a member of the cocoa firm of that name), who visited the Colony sometime ago.
Mr. and Mrs, Alfred B. Crow Passengers s.. tsuta-Mary-(£25)-
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.K.V.R. 361 Hồ Hung
390.
Mr. Ho Fook 21. Ho Rom Tung Ms. Ho Fook ... | Mr. Lo Chenng-shin Mr. Lo Cheung-ip Mr. Ho Ju
Mr. Ho Kwong Mr. S. L. Ho
Mr. Ha Shai Kit
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Mr. Ho Chenk Mr. S. K. Ho... Mr. S. W. Ho.... Mr. R. D. Harvey's Fund (1st
Sub)...
Previous to making the presentation, Commander Room, who is President of the Institute, expressed the pleasure it afforded him be present that evening, and subsequently remarked that Mr. Gandler's paper dealt with the use of oil- fuel in boilers of ships, while Mr. Mac-Miss May donald wrote upon the load-like. He
(the President) was very much interested in the subject treated by Mr. Gander, as inany of them were, and the author gare very good summary of the use of oil-fuel at the present time.
Mr. Gander was applauded upon receiving his medal, but Mry Macdonald was unable to be present, and his prize will be given, to him, subsequently.
Responding to a vote of thanks, the PassIDENT referred to the tremendons nomount of work which was necessary to prepare papers, and at the same time be orginal. The successful papers were both very well done, and revealed a good knowledge of the subject by the writers.
Mr. ELLICT, a member of the Committee, in the course of a few remarks, said that the Institute
had had
H.E. Sir F. H, May, K.C.M.G.
(1st Sub.).
Hon. Mr. Laú Chu Pak Mr. Chan Kai Ming Mr. C. L. Cho
Messrs. Ying Fat Yuen... AP, Mok Chó Chuôn Mr. Chan Sin. Ki Messrs. Kwong On Tai... Messrs. Chi Hing... Messrs. Wo Hing
sars: Kung Wo Lung... Messrs. Ming Shan Sheung Kee... Mr. Chan Kang Yeo Mr. Li Ping..... ..... Mr. Ip Shai Chi .... Mr. Li Po Kwei
Mr. Ng Hon Tz.... Moses, in Wa__ Messrs. Kwong Houng Shing Messrs. Tang Fat... Messrs. Chu Hing... Messrs. Kwong Yuen Messrs. Yeo Hing Lee Mr. Lo Yak Yong Mr. Pan Shiu Cho... Mr. Chun Shau Mr. Choi Ha Mr. C. A. Ying Mr. Lnu Tok Po
Mr. Lau-Ju Chung... M. Ku Ping Nam Mr. Yau Sui Chi · .... Mr. Chan Cheuk Hing Mr. Chu Ching
populations of the East, will beggar the appalling records established in Asia by the recent epidemics of bubonic plague. Were that terribly catastrophe to occur, which Gop forbid, men would realise once for all, how small a part in the mortalitylo of white men in West Africa has, from frst to last, been played by that universal scapegoat the 'climate of the Gold Coast. Those who are well acquainted with the early history of Hongkong will remember that in the early days this Colony had a reputation as bad as the Gold Coast. Hongkong had its own special brand of fever designated *Hongkong Fever"; even "yellow fever" epidemics were not unknown; but by the aid of medical, science and sanitation Hongkong from the health point of view (if we except the annually recurring epidemies of plague among the Chinese) has come to be deemed worthy of na special remark in such veference books as the Colonial Offer List and Whitaker's Almanack, The Colony has long outlived the lethal reputation it gained in the years of its infancy, and with men like Sir Hron OF ALL the Colonies comprised in the CLIFFORD devoting voice and pen to British Empire the Gold
showing that the dangers to health in commonly reputed to be, from, a climatic West Africa can no more he accurately point of view, the most deadly for described as climatic than the dangers Europeans. The most striking evidence which gave Hongkong so bad a name in of the force of the cetion that the the early days of its history, the Gold ALLEGED ASSAULT ON AN INDIAN
delivered from home a Ronald Wilde calorimeter, which would be of great use to anyone who was interested in the consumption of coal, either un shore or on board ship. The Committee would be very pleased to make tests, and anyone could send a sample of coal to the Secretary for this Mr. Un am Wa.... purpose at any time, and the gross und Mears. Joseph Mory
Messrs. Reiss & Co. the net valne would be discovered. As Mr. N. S. Marshall they developed the test they would be Mr. A. R. Linton .... able to give a full invoice as to the percent-r. Norval C, Wilson age of ash, sulphur and hydrogen.
Mr. Robert Kennedy
LANGE-On Septimber 27th, at Shanghai, FLEMMING LANGR, Great Northern Telegraph Co., aged 42 years,
HONGKONG OFFICE: 10A, DES VEUX ROAD C. LONDON OFFICE: 131, FARET STREET, E.C.
The Daily Press.
HONGHONG, OCTOBER 3RD, 1914. ·
Coast is
climate of the Gold Coust possesses, s compared with that or other tropical lands, some peculiarly devastating quali- ties, is afforded, perhaps, by the special enaditions of service granted to Gover ient officers in West Africa.
Coast in time will doubtless be relieved of La reputation which its present Governor- regards as its greatest curse.
Mr. GANDER, in returning thanks, Mr. Y. J. Breen (1st Sub.).
Hon. Mr. Claud Severn (1st Sub.) expressed appreciation of the assistance 3tr. R. H. Kotowall (1st Sub.) given him by Mr. Chapman and other Mr. N. S. Sefined... members of the Institute.
He felt it Mr. Sun King Kwong would encourage other members to come Mr. Thomas Lay
Mr. Sun She Chun.. forward in the next session it this were Mr. Robert Lay known, than would otherwise be the case. Mn Shan Ku This referred more especially to the junior | Mr. Fung La Cheung,
acubers, be being one himself.
Mr. W. Dunbar
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CUSTOMS HOLIDAYS.
"The “Moon "Cake" festival falls on 500.00 Sunday, the 4th inst.," and the Customs 500.00
will be closed on the following day (ie., 300.00
the 5th). The 10th day will also be 200.00 200.00 | observed by the Customs as a holiday. 100,00 100.00 100.00.
PREVALENCE OF BURGLARIES.
Recently burglaries have been taking 100.00 placo, all over the city and the police have 100.00 ❘ not been very successful in detceting the perpetrators. With a view to putting a 2,000.00
stop to these burglaries, which are of 1,000.00 almost daily occurrence, the authorities 20.00 | have decided to direct the police to make 2,500.00 a house-to-house inspection throughout the $2,500.00
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HUGE SERPENT KILLED.
Yesterday, a military officer went to the 200.00 northern outskirts of the city to worship 300.00 at the tombs of his ancestors. When the 200.00 destination was nearly reached, the "boy" 200.00 wlay accompanied the officer reported that 200.00 a huge serpent was lying in the way. 200.00. The officer put six or seven shots into the 200.00 reptile and killed it. The serpent casured over 25 feet in length and 200.00 150.00 weighed over 60 cattics.
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of German influence." To attain that object it will be necessary, in the first place, to put an end to the German sphere of influenco" in Shantung, fogether with all the exclmive claims which have there bon exorcised since 1898 in violation of China's sovereignty and the treaty rights of other nations, and in the second place to take advantage of every opportunity which may preaut itself for diverting German commerce de our advantage.
In considering the possibilities of the situation and the prospects, of creating in China improved opportunities for British unnufacturers and merchants, us the result of Germany's present and future disabilities, it should be borne in mind that the annual value of China's direct imports from Germany-between three and four millions sterling- by m menus wepresents the, rent and ultimate issues at stake. By common consent of all competent, observers, the value' 19Í
19 fir China's foreign trade potential than actual. Keeping this furt in mind, Germany has systematically directed her State-controlled commercial as possible, against the day when China's policies to regging out claims, as wide economic resources shall perforce be deve- When compared with the total loped. volume of England's foreign export trade, Germany's shipments to the Par East might seem no great matter, wern it not for the world's general recognition of the fact that great plants of industry, are bound to spring from the seeds of trade wisely planted in China to-day.
THE GERMAN EXPORTS, The fist of Germany's exports to China includes several classes of goods in which British manufacturers should readily b able to replace the German article (eg, machinery, cultery, lampwar, nordles and electrical fittings). The opportunities created by the cessation of German com- merce overseas are suficiently obvious, and it may fairly be expected that they will continue to exist for some time after the war and during the necessity. "periud ̈ of reconstruction which must follow it. During this period British serchants should have no difficulty in securing large part of the trade in these com- modities; the difficulty will lie in concert- ing the measures necessary to retain t pornamently. To that end the collective energies and intelligent anticipation of. the Board of Trade and Chambers of Commerce throughout the country should! now be directed. It must not be forgot- ten destructible wealth of human industry,
in- that Germany's great and he rubery intelligent co-ordination-of- dustrial and. Enancial forces to definiti ends, the untiring enterprise and energy. of her traders far afield, will not be diminished, but rather increased, in thes Coumader Wong of the Forts at Bocca event of her being decisively defeated. 100.00 Tigris has submitted plans and skotchosable and immediate consequence of such Cheaper labour in Germany, an inevit- 100.00 relating to the changes, renewals and defeat, would mean cheaper German 100.00 additions in connection with the equip: goods in China. And whatever the issue. of war in Europe the Chinese will con- 100.00 ment of the forts recently carried out in tinue to give their custom to the nation 100.00 accordance with General Lung's instruc- that sells them goods of the kind they 100.00 tions. General Lung now points out that, want at the lowest price.
the forts being separated from each other strong hold on the trade which Germany is now perforce obliged to abandon, to put 100.00 by the sea, communication is rendered British enterprise in the Far East on a 100.00 difficult whenever the weather is misty, permanently sound footing, British mer and he contemplates installing wireless been told) to take a leaf out of the Ger
chants will send (as they have fretently 2,500.00 telephone apparatus in each of the forts man book by employing "technical
500.00 to facilitate communication during such trained to knowledge of the language and loent conditions. Firms, or groups of 250.00 weather. He has directed Deputy Tin to manufacturers, must combine to organiz 250.00
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the necessary observations and widely-spread distributing agencies; and, inst but not least, British capital must 50.00 plans.
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support of purely British industries and interests. With the present organized activities of the Board of Trade, the time and the opportunity have surely come to put an end to the misguided policy which. British enterprises, has freely placed it at while withholding British capital from the disposal of Berlin, for the extension of German business and influence in tion of national, for our present donation- China. What is required is the substitu- alized system of industrial finance abroad.
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"TEN COMMANDMENTS:"
AN INSTRUCTIVE GERMAN, CIRCULAR.
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At a meeting of British manufacturers held in the rooms of the National 0.50 Patriotic Association, St. Paul's Church yard, the following ten commandments" were read by Sir George Praguell. They 300.00 had, he said, heen eireulated in thousands throughout Germany during the last S41,325.30 three years:-.
1,272.75
$12,595.63
Hon. Treasurer.
At the Magistracy yesterday, before Mr. J. R. Wood, six Chinese
"boys. employed by Europeans in the Naval Hongkong 1st Betaber, 1914. Yard, Kowloon, were charged with
Every The 8.45 a.m. train will run to Sheung assaulting an Indian constable.
European in Government service on the Shui to-morrow. Gold Coast is granted four months' leave
In future the Early Service at St. Andrew's Church, Kowloon, will com- mence at 8 o'clock a.m., instead of at 8.30
'clock as hitherto
on full pay at the expiration of each
The Bishop of Victoria will be the period of twelve months' resident service. preacher at the Cathedral to-morrow and this heard begins upon the day of the
evening, officer's arrival in England and net, as is the case of officers serving in the Crown Colonies in the Tropies, on the day that he sails for home. Moreover, his passage home and back to the Gold Coast is paid: by Government, while officers employed
The Messageries Maritimes Company elsewhere have to pay their own passages. Yet further, the Gold Coast official at the have now decided to resume their regular end of eighteen years! service; provided partures from Marseilles to China and Japan fortnightly. After the steamer that twelve of them have been spent on, the outward mail steamer Atlan. duty in Africa, becomes entitled to his tie will therefore call at Hongkong pension and is at liberty to retire from where she is due on the 18th October, as the Public Service, no matter how robust
per time-table. in health he may then be; while the Colonial Civil Servant of the Eastern The Eastern and Associated Telegraph Crown Colonies and Protectorates is Companies are now counting and charging nailed to the cross of tropical service" for Telegrams as follows:-All letters and until he reaches the age of fifty-five, unless figures in address, text, and signature he becomes medically unfit for further will be added together-each figure or bar servics, or, being fit, is prepared to forgo of division counting as two letters--and all claims to pension or gratuity. It is the total divided by ten, giving the doubtful if the Gold Coast conditions of number of chargeable words.
WINTER GARMENTS FOR THE SOLDIERS.
warm
Inspector Gordon, who prosecuted; told | the Magistrate that there was no curro- boration of the actual assault. constable returned to the Water Police yesterday's issue regarding the scheme
The
In the notio which appeared in our Station minus his bayonet, and declared initiated by Lady May for providing that he has been assaulted by a number additional of Chinese. The complainant was placed soldiers on active service, it should live garments for our on guard with rifle and bayonet eutside back to the scene of the assault with the 10 cents to $5 towards buying materials, the Naval Depot. Sergt. Lannigan went been mentioned that subscriptions, froin constable, and he found the bayonet in a side channel, together with several loosely be sent to Mr. J. H. Kemp, of a bamboos. The constable identified the Gomes Villas, Kowloon, as well as to Mrs. first four the same night, and the other two on the following day.
E: DC. Wolfe, of 134, The Peak.
The constable stated that the defendants came up to the barrier where he was of duty and wanted to pass. He would not him, and attacked him. The first, fourth, let them do so, and they closed around
away.
TRONOH MINES.
and sixth defendants used bamboos. that the general manager reports-an out- It was announced in London in August had received instructions not to fire, his rifle, or he would have done so. Witness put for the month of July of 143 tons of seized the third defendant, but he tin ore, estimated value, £12,400. The The others ranexpenditure on struggled and escaped.
the mine amounted to All the defendants denied any
£14,400. Office Note: Owing to the knowledge of the assault, the majority difficulty of realising the mine output, the stating that they did not go out on the instractions have been given to night in question.
general manager to curtail operations to His Worship, after hearing the evidence the utmost extent until affairs are more called. by two of the settled. Shareholders will be informed of three men defendante, said he could not go on with as soon as work can be resumed under the case, and discharged the defendants normal conditions.”.
(1)Iual expenses keep in mind the
interests of your own compatriots. (2.)-Never forget that when you hay a foreign article your own country is the poorer.
To secure L
LOANS AND CONCESSIONS,
men
This last observation applies with par- ticular fores to an important branch of brade in China, largely independent of the ordinary laws of supply and demand namely, the trade in machinery, rail- way and mining plant, factory equip
· (3.)--Your money should profit no onement, and arms, which follows in the
but Germans.
wake of loans and concessions negotiated": (4.)-Never profane German factories by either at Peking or with the provincial authorities. In this kind of trade (thanks (5.)-Never allow foreign eatables to be largely to the loan-sharing agreement
using foreign schinery,
sneved at your table. (6.)--Write on German paper with a German pen and AEC Germen blotting paper. (7.)--German Hour, German fruit, and German hear eau alone give your body the true German energy. ()-If you do not like German malt coffee, drink coffee from German -19)-Use only German clothes for your dress and German hats for your head.
colonies.
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which has existed between the State-con- trolled Deuted-Asiatische Bank and the ading British Bank in the Far East Germany has of late years secured notable advantages. The pressure being now relaxed by incans of which thes advantages_wore secured, and German prestige at Peking being correspondingly duces, the elimination of the root of German influence should follow the re establishment of the " Shantung; but here, again, the benefits open door in which may accrue to British enterprise (10.)---Let not foreign flattery distract you
are bot likely to be permanent unless th from these precepts; and be firmlyse of British capital can be directed to convinced, whatever others say, the purposes of a definitely national that German products are the only policy. ones worthy of citizens, of the
Finally, it must be borne in mind that, .German Fatherland:
although the situation presents excellent While contrasting this propaganda with opportunities, British traders cannot ex- the action of English ladies who insisted beet to have the field to themselves. The on buying foreign fashions at high prices Japanese, by reason of their geographical and of other English people who insisted position and knowledge of local condi on buying cheap, common foreign stuff tions, are likely to derive large and in- with which no British firm could compete,mediate profit from the suspension of Sir George Pragnell deprecated any German business, especially in inland immediate boycott of foreign goods. It provinces, such as Su-chuan, would be cruel, he argued, to those shop- British manufacturers are practically un- keepers who already held large stocks of represented. As regards railways and German and Austrian manufactures for mines, engineering works and industrial which there had hitherto been an insistent undertakings on a large scale, the Japan- demand. The attack upon, German and fese are necessarily bandicapped by lack of Austrian trade should come from the capital; here, if British enterprize British manufacturers. They needed the wisely guided, lies a wide field, from assistance both of the banks and of the which systematic culture should extract Government.
rich harvest. The Times.
where