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CANTON, September 11th, THE PRESIDENT'S BIRTHDAY.
The 18th instant being the birthday of President Yuan Shih Kai, prepara tions on an extensive scale are in full Governinent swing
the various #t Departments to appropriately honour the Numerous articles of decora- tion hure, been purchased, whilst amongst the great number of föral adornments already ordered there will be one which "The bears the characters meaning
The Customs will whole world rejoices.". he closed on that day, as also many of the departments of the Chinese Pust Offices,
OFFICIAL ECONOMY.
the recent
F1E
TAS HONGKONG DAILY PRE§A FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 1718, 1915.
CANTON, September 15th T LAND TAXATION IN CHINA.
DETENTION, OF DIRECTOR OF, NAVIGATION. T In connection, with the detention of the Director of Navigation reported in the codurans yesterday, it is now stated that the reason is that Mr. Lau went ahead with the pulling down of the wall encircling the Dock's strong room with out first having obtained the sanction of his superior officials, although he had already set a petition to the Governor It is said that concrming the matter. Mr. Lan has always been painstaking in the discharge of his duties and that be won the appreciation of the Vice Minister of the Navy during his retent visit in Cainton.
GOVERNOR CHANG AND FINANCES,
source.
GLORIOUS FAILURE. STIRRING STORY OF FIGHT FOR HILL 60
Some little time ogn (says the Far East- ern Review) we briefly described the mea-
́DEATHLESS: HELDISM. suros that were being taken to reform the
Mr. G. Valentine Williams, correspon system of land taxation in China. While the necessary investigations will take a considerable time, and, general reform will dent of The Standard, giving the first be a matter for the future, some steps have complete account of the deeds of the 13th of innumerable feats of deathless hereism already been taken that will have the Brigade at Hill 60, says that it is a story and splendid tenacity, beginning with a Iminediately after the Revolu effect of increasing the revenue from this tion the land tax machinery was working fine fest of arms and ending with the
The provincial authorities
asphyxiation of gallant men crime so foul that none who saw the result will ever shake hands with a German again. very badly..
As soon
Describing the struggle he says:The in many justances collected the revenue en their own account, and in some cases tir tax was decreased or abolished.. as the Central Government were in a posi~ tion to do so they restored all the custom Germans held the upper slopes of the sun. ary levies and charges and instructions mit; the British trenches ran along the were issued that the land tax should be lower slopes. It was decided to mine the collected in silver coins instead of tuelsummit and to send the infantry to occupy or cash. The practice that had formerly the craters and capture the hill. The 1st prevailed of permitting the provincia West Kents and the End Scottish Bor- In many instances the cost of collec-far o'clock in the evening of April 17th. raised the cost of collection was abandon-explosion of the mines, which was time Lotion was but of all proportion to the total Fire mines were exploded punctually, amoant raised, consequently the provin- while the French, Belgian, and British cial authorities were directed to meet this guns opened fire on the road and all the
As a result of those measures the Mini- last mine try of Finance in 1914 received an appreWest Kents over the parapet. The Ger Someans were completely surprised, and hosti- cialite sum from larul taxation.
were raked by the fire of the British provinces remitted over $1,500,000 more quitted the ruined trenches, which than had been received the prorious year, and the saving in the cost of collection, machine gun. Those who stood their was about 82,000,000. When the survey that to being undertaken is completed it is expected that the revenue will be greatly Until a proper survey has been made it will be impossible for the increased Government to put into force uniform will continue to be made at the varying regulations, and consequently collections rates that at present prova 1.
INTIMATIONS
LANE
CRAWFORD & Co.
JUST UNPACKED:
FOLDING
EACH
FURNITURE.
CAMP BEDS
$8.50
EACH.
Civil Governor Chang, in view of the financial straits with which the local Civil Governor Chung, in conver Government is confronted, accentuated by sation with Mr. Cheung. Insentiant of the very heavy item of relief for effecters authorities to delacs from: the amount deprins manned the frenches avaiting the WITH MOSQUITO CURTAIN AND FRAME
disastrous by the recent floods, is gathering all Cirenit Ou
of the provinces with inundatione and the general state of details possible relating to the finances ed. unrest in the province, is reported to augmenting the financial sources. have said that he has instructed the principal items coming under this head Exees and Taxation and Auxiliary Taxation.
H. view
The
COMPLETE
$15.50
COMPLETE.
Chief of Police to severely reprintind (g, will be (1) Land Tus, (8) Lifits, G) cast ont of other provincial reverse the mist more went off Major Joslin led the FOLDING CAMP TABLES
INSPECTION OF PRISONS:
$8.50
Mometimes unisoidable they are been investigate the prison administration in which was added to the national teenus, ommunication trenches. By twenty FOLDING PORCH
AL
any of his subordinates who may be found indulging in extravagant pleasures, He is also reported to have said that while dinners at the various yamems are ing more and more extravagant, one dinner sometimes eosting over $100. * time when numerous victims of the recent floods are still much in need of help 'ney could be more beneficially spent than in such extravaganers. this reason, he has given instructions to the various departments to one giving many dinners for two months, and to hund the money that would otherwise have been expended to the Relief Burian, by which it will be advantageously distributed.
ARMS AND AMMUNITION.
For
General Lung has received a telegram from General Tong of Yunnan, in which it is stated that it has been found that the Families of soldiers escorting newly-appointed officials from another province generally smuggle arms and ammunition into the provide with a view to making a good profit by selling Chers unlawfully. Bearing in mind the and the prevalence of piratical activities an general state of unrest, this is a natier, says the General; that should revive imediate attention and it is suggested that where it is deemed absolutely necessary for each escorts to carry rms, permit should be given which would limit their equipment te one rifle or gun and 100 rounds of ammunition.
had
It is gratifying to learn that the Board of Justier has at last been persuaded of this necessity for sending a deputy to this provisos Complaints have been made from time to time of illegal demants being made om prisoners by the warders, and of prisoners who refuse to comply with them being subjected to torture. To give an ide susceptible to bribes. The warders are also said to be very of what is going on at the praes, the following two instances, which appear in
minutes past 7 the hill-was-taken, with few casualties. The Germans oarly in tas morning oprnist theis hambardment, dur- ing which the Borderers relieved the West Kents, and Major Joslin was killed,
DISTINCTIONS GAINED. There was a terrible bombardment al
An equis night long, but the astounding eu were bursting. The Duke of Wellington's 1. Prisoner Kum Tib Leung, whilst tion, of uniform, rates of taxation are ex-. this morning's papers, may he quoted;ble system of grading lands and the atop-gang choruses while the high explosives endeavouring to draw some water after pected to result in doubling the revenue West Riding Regiment relieved their com from this source. Moreover, the survey willrades in the morning, but the Germans, haring taken his usual ration of rice, was brutally kicked and punched by case of the warders until at last blood result in revenue being derived from much under cover of a merciless rain of shells. flowed profusely from his mouth and land that now escapes taxation. Previous crept closer and closer. By noon on the ho lost consciousness. (The rest of the surveys were very carelessly made, and the 18th they had recaptured the hill, save one
landowners were frequently able by cor section of trench. story is unprintable)
ment,
A British counter-
БАСН.
CHAIRS
WITH ARMS, DUCK SEATS AND BACKS.
EACH
$7.50
EACH
HAMMOCKS WITH VALANCE
EACH
PILLOW
$12.50
Lately quite a number of prisoners rupting the offeighs entirely to escape attack was decided upon. The Welling FOLDING DECK
ON THE COMPANIES
BRITISH REGISTER.
taxation.
or
out of their trenches the Doreots, haif asphyxiated though they were, "scrambled to the parapet and held them at hay. lying in the fields, ditches, and grass. When night fell the Devons relieved the Dorsets, stumbling over many gallant men
Even when the land had been tons, at full of fight as ever, led the way, B Company of the Wellingtons baye died of plague, Although there it prison doctor, patients have very little surveyed with approximate correctness the and the Yorkshire Light Infantry follow of owner was often able to evade the tax. Sel. chance of recovering as the use drugs is limited to the value of the much corruption prevailed that wealthy right reached the trenches with slight landowners were able to induce the tax casualties. C Company in the centre food allowance and, what is more, the medicine is not given to patients until collectors to leave them unmolested and to charged over open ground and only account of the endeavour to make up the deficiency in the Captain Barton and 11 men reached the A Company on the it is ice-cold ou
work which revenue by extorting a double tax from trenches, but with their bayonets they great amount
[N.B. those who were too poor to obtain exemprouted the enemy.
While it is impossible left lost all its officers, but gained the goal the servants have to perform -Native drugs are considered to tion by bribery,
to ascertain with any degree of exactitude and Hill 30 was, again in the hands of be effective only when drunk hot.] Under these circumstances, numerous the extent to which this practice was cat the British. Many line deeds were done relatives of the unfortunate victims
Devons, unil the Dorsats were next sent to have applied to the Courts for their ried on, it is certain that it was widely and many distinctions gained, but the 13th on condition that they prevalent in the past and that there was Brigade was exhausted. The Surreys,
much consequent loss of revenue. discharge.
With proper organization and honest hold the hill. They held on until the receive a certain amount of flogging in dien of the term they have to serve, in order that they may receive morts administration it should be possible to clearly hours of May 1st, when a low, attention in the way of medical treat-tain from the land tax a revenue equal to greenish cloud came rolling over tho the total revenue from all sources now ob hilltop. The Dorsets were wholly unpre- tained by the Central Government, The pared, and in a minute or two the gas bed. estimated revenue from the Tand tax in 1919 the man in its grip and was slowly choking was about 82 million dollars, about a quarthem to death, As the Germans warned tor of the total estimated revenue. The Innd under cultivation in Chine was esti DIRECTOLL OF NAVIGATION DETAINED.
The registration of companies under the mated in 1905 te amount to 650.000 square On the 12th instant. Lau Yee Foon, Director of Navigation, Whampoa, was Hongkong Ordinances has been a great con miles or about 400,000,000 acres. Taking
time the Colonial Government has been much cents Mexican currency per acre, summoned to interview General Langvenience to finns in China, and from time to the revenue at $82,000,000 the tax is twenty
A second gas attack was made on urgent business, but no sooner exercised in the matter on account of the course the productive capacity of the land international character of the constituents of varies greatly in different parts of the ho arrived than he was detained.
some of the concerns. The war has brought country and its value is affected by facili out another knotty problem that calls for ties for transperiation of produce and smorning of May 5th. It was a warm Further details are yet available.
These differences would preclude spring day, with a gentle roze. The immediate legislation. The firm of Andrews, von Fishera & George, Ltd., although, we
Dukes have been gassed; the men are ail Wong King Sing, at rebel-leader who el Fainly carried on in the interest of the imposition of a uniform tax, but the Wellingtons were holding the hill when
Direct taxes are
I believe I was the last to has recently been sent back from the German shareholders, registered under the assumption that the landowners coul! the gas worked down. Captain Robins They were splendid." Straits by Chan Kwing Ming, was Hongkong Ordinances in order to secure the bear a tax that would average $1 per acra staggered to the rear and gasped,The
advantages of British law. Subsequeat to seems to be justified,
from increasing her Customs leave the hill.
A tax that Captain Robins died that night. The arrested by a detective at Sai Wu, whilst the outbreak of war the firm was fined for always unpopular, but as China is de drad. travelling on the Canton-Kowloon Rail trading with the enemy. Now extraordinary barred
meetings of the corapany have passed duties she has no alternative. way to Sheklung. With the exception of solutions to wind up voluntarily, appoint averaged $1 per acre would probably not Germans gave no sign of remembering the reserve; even the cooks vero fined in the badges, ne articles of an unlawful nature ing an American liquidator and authorizing be found oppressive if the original valua lesson of May 1st, but the situation seemed could be found on him but he is said the liquidator to consent to the registration tion of land were fairly made and nothing so critical that the Devous beat up every of a new company, under the same name, beyond the assessed tax extorted by the
However, to render the tax trenches. Men described a railway cut- to have frankly admitted being rebel under the General Corporation Law of the collectors. leader and that he was trying to trace State of Maine. This means that German acceptable to those who pay it, the Governing in the side of the hill as a shambles
shareholders will now be able to draw
Taxes are levied to the whereabouts of four of his socomdividends and, if the company so chooses, iment will have to exhibit a willingness to where the dead and wounded lay so thick plices who wore to smuggle 17 cases of may-trade with the enemy. The British recognise its obligations to a greater extent
He was Government, apparently, is powerless to than in the past explosives into the interior subsequently escorted to the General's interfere, but it is quite possible for the provide the Government with the funds Hongkong Government to pass an emergency necessary to give security to life and prop Ordinance refusing to permit the liquidation erty, and to carry on the administration Yamen to be tried..
of companies in such circumstances, for this of the country for the benefit of the people, The landowners would pay their share more means nothing less than driving a coach and four through the King's Regulations-North contentedly if they knew that their lives and property were thereby given proper China Daily News.
ANOTHER REBEL-LEADER ARRESTED.
HOW DEDELS ARE MANUFACTURED.
No
A detective named Lau Chouk Fai, attached for service to the Police Depart ment, in his anxiety to secure a commis, sion, (as the Government has recently decided to cut the pay of members of to his profession), found it necessary
device of resort to the despicable
Pretending to "manufacturing rebels." be a rebel leader, he asked a friend ti introduce Chan Bun, one of the Body guard attached to Commander Chow's regiment stationed on Koon Tum Hill, with a view to his joining the faction
general
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COOKS IN THE TRENCHES.
the
EACH
IN STRIPED CANVAS.
$3.50
AND
EACH.
CHAIRS HAIRS
EACH.
LANE, CRAWFORD & CO.
SAKURA
BEER.
THE BREWERY'S OWN BOTTLING..
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scene made witnesses sick with horror, and were the perpetrators of the crime. A. that one had to pick one's way. The roused fierce anger against the fiends who counter-attack was ordered at 10 o'clock on the same night, and was entrusted to the West Kents and Borderers. The attack failed against a tremendous bombardment. and obstacles such as shell holes and frag THE ments of barbed wire. The leading files were mowed down instantly.
protection and if roads, railways and canals
Another counter-attack was made early were constructed or extended to afford them greater facilities for marketing their pro- duce. The Republican Government have next morning with the Yorkshire Light auty and may be said to be thus fought Bercely against the same obred to aucceeded in restoring order throughout Infantry and the Irish Rifles. They Reasonable security for life the lower slopes of the hill. The action
Ax the was a failure, but a glorious one. fulfilling the primary duty of every Go and failed. The British finally retired to and property has been afforded. revenue grows so should the efforts of the Government to improve the transporta- Expenditure oi tion facilities increase. part of its revenue in this way will be not to the landowners but wil
erament.
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THE "BRESLAU'S" BATTERED CONDITION.
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as periodical revaluations will undoubtedly 538 f; breadth, 72 ft.; net tonnage, 19,200;
The Malin announces the discovery of a to which he pretended to betong. This gross tonnage, 22000. She is a twin-screw
There is reason to suppose that done, he directed Chan Bun to plant an stemmer, fitted with quadruple expansion be made, the future revenue will also in explosive bomb in one of the principal engines, developing 12,500 horse-power and
facts, and that increased revenue from bours of MM. Leclainche and Valles, pro- passages leading up to the hill on the giving the steamer an average speed of the Government are fully seized of these new "Polyvalent" serum, due to the la off-chance of General Lung treading on sixteen knots.
The accommodation for passengers is land taxation so far from causing an addit fessors at the veterinary college at Alfoort. the dangerous spot, thus causing the
Paris. and particularly at the Burton homb to explode. He represented that if luxurious, the upholstery and decorations tional burden to be laid on the people will By means of this serum cases which we re-
Hospital, this plan were successful Chan was to beingin French styleand thefttings suitable to result in an appreciable improvement of garded as hopeless have been cured ju According to a military surgeon the re- racise a reward of 82,000 and pay at all modern requirements. There is a spacious their condition."
sults obtained are almost miraculous, and the rate of $20 per month afterwards, and magnificent dining hall, drawing and
soldiers who were horribly mutilated, and Chan Bun hesitated and went to consult music rooms, passengers' elevators, children's The
whose wounds were so infected that their one of the cooks in the employ of recreation room, smoking and reading rooms, Advisor Lam on the matter. Detective verandah café, electric laundry, etc.
lives were despaired of have made rapid- Lau succeeded in also inducing the cook artistic decorations of the various saloons are and his son to join his imaginaty party, the work of the prominent French artist, false Mons. Girette, the main staircase, or escalier
An employee of the Constantinopio progress, and are now on their feet, anxious to know when they will be allowed to re and to each of them be gave a badge. He then reported at the Police d'honneur being a special feature.
At present not more than 2,000 phials All the cabins are fitted with bedsteads, branch of the Danish Salvage Company,
states that the Tureo-German Breslau Department that he had detected three
These 2,000 to the sortage in the staff. "rebels" and presently Chan Bun, the arm chairs, wardrobes, writing and dressing who has recently returned to Copenhagen, join their comrades in the firing line. cook, and his son were all arrested tables, with hot and cold water circulation lying in dock and covered with canvas in a day of the new serum can be made owing Enquiries, however, soon resulted in the for the lavatories. detective being put in prison to await shower baths are numerous, and conveniently order to hide the yawning holes the re-
ships. The Commander and 20 men are as possible to the sanitary service. Up trial. The cook and his son were dis distributed among the many necks of the ceived in a recent fight with Russian war- phials a day are being distributed as rapid. charged after being cautioned, but Chan ship,
The Andre Lebon has accommodation for reported to have been killed, There it to the present it has only been possible to Bnn was detained for further examina- tion. This probably is one of many 200 first-class passengers, including four only one large German submarine at Conse" Polyvalent serum in the hospitals cases of a like, nature which have helped suites (appartements de luxe), 180 second-class, stantinople, but the former frequently at the base. When it can be applied as a to considerably lengthen the list of and 110 third class. Sho will probably leave changes her number in order to impress preventative in the firing line, like the Marseilles for the Far East some time in opoo the Turks that there is an enormous anti-tetanic serum, thousands of additional
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