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MASAKI OISHI, who advocates what is that enabled Japan to carry that war to A successful conclusion. It was Great called Pan-Japanism," is even more German than the Germans in his views of Britain whe by reaffirming and extend- British power.
"Tho gilded dross afing the alliance for a second timo gave Great Britain has boom exposed" he says. Japan, timo to consolidate her; position Up to this day she, as the strongest and relieved her of the fear of reprisals naval Power in the world, was looked from any quarter." On the other hand, upon by others with a sense of terror, but the Navy is no more than an armed Great Britain by this alliance gained As for greater freedoni for her naval forces aud transport in modern warfare.” the British Army it is cowardice itself," was enabled to concentrato her battle in proof whereof some fables are quoted fleets in European waters, but there can with reference to the British participa bo no question that the balance of tion in the storming of Taingao. Mr. advantage from the alliance has been with 540,000 WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS. Diss, evidently taking his ene from Japan. With the facts in mind it. 1,000,000
Yeh
Chow, Kuang Yuan, To Chien Lu, total annual
receipts....
+20,000
The Native Customs of Tai
Ping Kuan, total annual receipts
300,000
Kalgan
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(j) Total Likin revenue in Shan
si, yearly receipts
Total $1,000,000
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on MONDAY, the 19th day at in bonds to bearer of 9:0,000 $1,000, 8100, April, 1915, at 3 E.M., at the Offest of the PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT, by Order of Lot of CROWN LAND at Star Strest, in HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR, of One the Colony of Hongkong, for a term of 75 years, with the option of ronowal at a CROWN RENT to be fixed by the Surveyor of His Majesty the King, for one further term of 75 years.
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German instructors," predicts the dis- becomes highly instructive to see that integration of the British Empire, and there are now leaders of opinion in Japan has nothing but admiration for the who,view the alliance as a serious im- kultur of Germany.. If the translation podiment to the realisation of the dream does justice to Mr. Disne's article in the of "PaJapanism" in Asia- men who vernacular all we can say about it is that preach the doctrine that a commercial Japan is indeed to bo pitied if competitor is but one step removed from her
future Cabinet at my
time an enemy; and who are only too ready has to--be 'recruited from
men to accept without investigation any talo of such limited intelligence. In his which may appear to serve the purposą admiration of Germany he express his of dimaging the influence-and-prestigo.of. belief that the KAISER, even if Germany Great Britain in the East. This public' is temporarily crushed, will not stop until discussion of the Alliance by Japanese. the whole world is under his flag. But he publicists has a special significance at the ceases to welcome the prospect of a present time when the aspirations of Gorman peril for Japan "We must be
Japan in China are widely regarded as. propared for the German peril," he says being in conflict with her treaty engage. and for that reason "Pan-Japanism ments. One of definite objects of that must bó cultivated. What Pan-Japanism alliance is the preservation of the com- means is that Japan must grasp the mon interests of all Powers in China by insuring the independence and integrity It is of great age, very fine,whole strength of the East in her hand," though he hastens to explain that this
of that country and the principle of equal and mellow. Its superior does not mean
the occupation of the quality has established itsro territory of other Eastern nations. We opportunities for the commerco and trade putation for over 30 years as suppose it means a sort of Monroe doc of all nations in China Thus this THE LEADING SCOTCH trine for Asia with Japan as the Protector alliance is in the interests of all Powers At the moment, how alike, China included, and therefore any WHISKY IN THE EAST. of the Continent,
attack on that alliance carries a sinister ever, he describes Pan-Japanism" "solving the China questions funda significance from which the Japanese. THORNE'S
mentally," a phrase - often used by Government has, happily, emphatically. No. 4,
Japanese publicists but never explained. dissociated itself. What Mr. 01sat does make clear is that "the replacement of Dr. MonRISON and OLD VAT
je ቢዝ Bir Joux JORDAN by Japanese essential preliminary, and the rest of my plan can be imagined." In other words the influenos must be in Japanese
Mutual suspicious between China and Japan will then dis solve in love and perfect trust, and all questions between the two countries will then be solved fundamentally." more publicist may be quoted on the sab
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repayment of principal or payment of in terest of this Loan, the Ministry of Finance shall petition the President to appoint two Censors and two Auditors of the Board of
As supplied to the House of Audit, who shall proceed to the Bureau of Bank of Communications to inspect the ac Domestic Loans, the Bank of China and the counts and the fund for the repayment of Lords and House of Commons. Loan The Censors, the Auditors of the principal and payments of interest of this
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Board of Audit and the authorities of the A. S. WATSON & CO.. Ministry of Finance shall also jointly super- intend the drawing of bonds for redemption. Chinese Government & per Dent. Internal Loan of 1915,
Scrip certificates to bearer in respect of the loan bonds will be issued against allotment letters; and bonds, printed in Chinese and English, signed and sealed by the Minister of Finance and the Comptroller-General of be -- the Bureau of National Loans will firered in exchange for Scrip Certificates, SCHEDULE OF INTEREST AND AMORTIGATION, with avady as soon as possible after the 28th the 6th month (28th June), 1915.
Prospectuses and Forms of Application Year. may be obtained from any of the Offices of the Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corpora tion, The Bank of Chim and the Bank of Communications.
Peking, 8th April, 1915,
Regulat ons of the Domestic Loan of the Fourth Year of the Republic of China.
Interest
Repayments of Capital
Balance of Loan out-
standing.
1.
1,440,000
21,000,000
£
1,440,000
24,000,000
7.
8.
3. 1,440,000 3,400,000
1,232,400 3,667,000 16,873,000 1,012,380
12,9804000 3,987,000 770,100
4,320,000
8,866,003 4,498,000 4,368,000 531,300
nil. 4,498,000
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20,540,000
Art. 1. The Government issue this Loan for FROM the purpose of adjusting the old debts_and increasing the funds of the National Trea way. The authorised amount of this Loan
twenty-four million shall be (824,000,000.00),
Art. 2 The rate of interest of this Loan shall be Six per Cent. per Annum (6%).
dollars
Art. The interest of this Loan shall be paid half-yearly on the 12th day of April and the 12th day of October of each year.
Art. 4. During the first two years follow-
and that the Price of Servants Punch, Ticke'ning the date of issue of this Lorn, only the avail-ble for 20 Rides will be $1.20.
interest thereau shall be paid: commencing Season Tickets expiring in April can be from the third year, the amount of redemp oxtoaded to April 30th, en sams terms pro ritation to be made each year in accordance with
snow in force, but to three-monthly Seron Tickets and no Annual Tickets will be issued in April
Notice in further given that on and after 1st May next, daily return Tickets and Annosi Tichete will be abolished,
By Order of the Directors,
JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,
General Manager. Hongkong, lei April, 1916.
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A mall for Europe, vid. Siberia-closes today at 11a.m. and at 3 p.m.
Among Hongkong young men who have recently gone to the Front is Mr. Edwin- Lammert son of Mr. George Lammert. Mr. Edwin Lammert is in the London, Scottish
Many foreigners in the Far East will ject, This is Mr. TOEUTOMI, the well-regret to learn of the death, after & pro- known Editor of the Kokumin, a seini-tracted illness, of Mr. S. N. Yamaguchi, Mr. President of the Fajiya Hotel at Miyano- official journal published in Tokyð, TounToйi recently contributed an article shits. to a Japanese monthly financial and economic review in which he expressed the opinion that the Anglo-Japanese Alliance- is valueless from a Japanese standpoint. He describes Great Britain and Japan as competitors in China and declares that "between competitor and enemy there is only one step." By Bome strange process
Mr. H. Wrensere, formerly assistant at the British Consulate General, Kobe, is stated to have resigned from the Service and joined the Army, having secured,-a commission ip the Royal Artillery.
The death is autounced at Yokohama
of reasoning he regards the fact that of Mr. A. P.. Goodwin, formerly of Great Britain did not enter the European Singapore, a son of the Rev. G. B. P. war until Germany had refused to give Goodwin of Canterbury and a nephew of as assurance that Eelgium's neutrality Mr. Arthur Pearson, of the well-known would be respected, as proving that Great publishing firm of Pearson,
Britain's observance of treaties is not to
Among Hongkong residents leaving the be relied upon Thaugh it is somewhat startling to find that such views as these Colony to-day are Mr. and Mrs. Griffin, ars harboured by prominent publicists Mr. and Mrs. N. F. Blanch, Mr. A. H. of a country which Great Britain has Fergusson, and Mr. Baker; and Mr. and done so much for many years past to Mrs. Graves, who go to Shanghai. befriend, wo should hope it would be an HONGKONG, ATFIL 13th, 1915.
injustice to the Japanese nation ✡
Several Chinese living in the Shanki- whole to regard these men as representing wan, district have been taken to the JAPAN AND THE ALLIANCE. national sentiment on the subject. How Government Civil Hospital suffering from Ir has been made very evident in the ever, who we recoll the many substantial poisoning, caused through eating certain fresh water fish. The Chinese state that they got the fish in one of the markets,
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the schedule of payment to be hereto attach KOMOR & KOMOR. Japanese Press lately that there are quite proofs of friendship which Great Britain ed, shall be effected by the drawing of bonds and the entire amount of this Loan shall be redeemed in the eighth your. The above- mentioned drawing of boads shall take place at Peking, on the 15th day of February of each year.
Art. 5. The Ministry of Finance shall raise the full amount of one million four hundred and forty thousand dollars ($1,440,000), which is the amount of interest on this Loan for one year, and shall hand it over to the Inspector General of Customs to be deposit- ed by him in his name in the Bank of China and the Bank of Communications, to be per- maneatly doposited there as a guaranty for the interest. Besides this sum,
the of Finance shall Hikewise
Ministry
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men
The Bank of Taiwan is to open a
a number of Japanese publicists who has given to Japan during the past four need to be reminded of Japan's debt to or five decades, it surely is dificult to Great Britain. In recent number of realise that there can be in Japan even the Far East, ...an English wekly three men of affairs, or indeed any one man periodical published in Tokyo, it is with mental capacity for reflection and branch at Hankow on the 1st of May next. Mr. Kusakari, who is managing remarked that "wers the views of the with a spark of gratitude in his breast the branch of the Bank at Kiukiang, Japanese as expressed in their papers who can harbour the sentiments regarding will be in charge of the now branch at
have Hankow as well as the one at Kiukiang. fully translated it would come as a rud Great Britain that these
deliberately expressed in writing. It shock to those who regard the Anglo-would, we are confident, be a grievou, mis- Japanese Alliance as the cornerstone of
At the Magistracy yesterday, before take to suppoes that such sentiments have! the relations between the two island
aay place in the minds of the statesmen Mr. J. R. Wood, Richard Sanderson, of Hongkong, Was charged by empires. Our contemporary quotes twe who have borne the burden of the respon- examples of what is thought on the sub-
Inspector Macdonald with being drunk sibility of making Japan the Power in the and disorderly, and with refusing to pay ject among leading men. One example world she is to-day. They, at least, can
The defendant is an article contributed by Professor CHRONICLE MURO, who teaches de ayat ter not forget what Japan owes to Tngland's legal rich hire
THE
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kindly consented to deliver & Lecture, in aid of the above Fund, entitled,
THE EASTERN THEATRE OF THE WAR: SOME RECOLLECTIONS OF
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Art. & Beginning from the third year, the funds for the repayment of principal of this Loan shall be appropriated and deposit- ed in the same manner as stated in Article 5. Art. 7. This entire Loan is secured, in respect to the repayments of principal and payments of interest by the unconditional guarantee of the Chinese Government and by a first charge on the unpledged revenues of the Native Customs of the Republic, speci- hed below, and the Revenue from Lakin of the whole Province of Shansi.
The amount of the above-mentioned re-
is as follows: venues
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topte 1) The Native Custoras in Amoy, Min-an, Chu-chi, Tang, Chang An, Pu
Hung
Hang and Peilin, yearly receipts
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long friendship which at a crisis in admitted being drank, but said he could remember, nothing about the rich. He University; the other by Mr. MARAMI
Japan's history was cemented by an Os), who recently resigned the leader-alliance,
wes-fined $4; and ordered to pay $1 com- A northern contemporary ship of the political party known as the
recently very
succinctly catalogued pensation, for refusing to pay hire, and Doshikai. Both these inen, the Far East the leading proofs of England's friend- fineu a further $10 for being drunk and
towards
The Organist of St. John's Cathedral-
BAYE, may enter à future Cabinet.
Pro- ship
Japan during the disorderly, making 815 in all, or, in the feavor Muxo's opinion of The Anglo-hot twenty years 码 follows: alternative, 28 days' imprisonment. Japanese Alliance as it affects Japan is When Japan was impotently struggling that it is the height of folly." "The
to free herself from the shackles of extra- parties of an Alliance with Japan in the territoriality it was Great Britain who (Mr Denman Fuller) gave the last of his future
he says, should be this Caited
in July, 1801, extended her a helping appreciated organ recitals at the Cathed States of America and Germany only.. Britain and France are already on the hand and lifted her to a place of equality ra! last evening. The programme way na verge of downfall, Germany might have with other Powers. It was Great Britain follows:-Fantasia and Fugue in G been a good friend and our future ally, that declined to be associated with the minor, (Bach); "In the Boring.” (S. but alas, she is now our enteray.
If there European combination that forced Japan Exipoff); Recitative and Air, Thus It was Muriel; "Offertoire for Easter Day" had been no military campaign against to retrocede to Chine the southern portion saith the Lord," (Handel), Mr. H. E. Tsingtao, a German-Japanese Alliance of the provinco of Fongtien. would have been possible." Perhaps the Great Britain that by entering into an (Batiste); "Loe 'Carrilon," (W. Welsten "Soul of mine" (F. Professor's German education rather alliance with Japan kept the ring holme); solo, than bis patriotism accounts for 1904-5, and it was largely British gold Barus), Mr. H. E. Muriel;
Mr. his perverted political cutlook, clear" during the war with Russia in Storm," (Lemmens).
Tha