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MARQUIS INOUYE.
THE YUNNAN OPIUM CASE. "ANOTHER GENERAL ARRESTED.
INCOME TAX. VALUE OF BUSINESS PREMISES
ABROAD.:
MEŜSRS, BOUSTEAD & CO. WIS
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CHINESE NEWS.
THE NATURALISATION OF KOREANS.
The Japanese Chargé d'Affaires 1:13 ludged a protest with the Wai Chiao u against the Chinese Authorities in South Manchuria granting naturalisation to Koreans The Japanese Government en all Koreans buve ipso facto be to
Another General, appeared before the Mixed Court, Shanghai, at the 14th inst., In a farewell message un his departure says the Daily News, to answer opium from England the Marquis Inongé, the charges that he is concerned in the recent
The question of whether the annual Japanese Ambassador, said: "While it alleged illeged importation of
from Yuman, so that now the list of is matter of great regret to me that I ans obliged to leave England at this eventful those under detention and awaiting trial value of houses uhrond should be deduct- time, yet I have no doubt as to the before the Court includes three membersed in arriving at the figure assable for eventual issue of the great struggle now of Parliament and twe generals. Three going on. I carry back with me the firm other members of Parlament, for whom income tax under Shedule D was raised conviction that the heroie and splendid warrants have also been issued, are said before Mr. Justice Atkin in the King's offensive of the gallaci British Army husto be in Hangshow and it was reported already dealt a moral and material blow that the Chinese authorities have been Bench Division on July 12th. The City colonists in South Manchuria are legally,
asked to cause the return of the three to Income Tax Commissioners
Counting the student who Shanghai. was arrested at the time of the seizure of the first four cases, there are now fice
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-CHINESH DEMAND FUN PRISONERY,
stated
Mr. Duke, K.C, appeared for. E
that since the annexation of Km 2,
nationality, changing their Japanese subjects; and since the las of Japan prohibits Japanse natis la
thr
Korean
of
visional Constitution continues unamend
in that respect. I the circumstances. it is hoped that the Russian Government will not press for a settlement of the question raised pending the promulgi-
which provision will be made in order to meet the altered situation created in Declaration of 1911,
ed shius of all sorts, and he could state usual practice and rules civil and Benstead & Co., and argued against the Outer Mangolin by the Chino-Russian
criminal cases have always been tries
by
the Court ander whose jurisdiction they contration of the Solicitor tieneral, after have occurred, he cannot remain silent. which Mr. Justis: Atkin gaya judgment He says that whilst he has always appli-in, favour of Mr. Duke's, clients,
H
A SYSTEM OF MILITARY DISTRICTS..
disabled from becoming Chinese subjects. to the oemy, and is a sure sign which
special case that they but decided in In these creamstances it is pointed out pints towards the fil puad to victory,
now heard was by the Surveyor of Taxes nationality to Koreans is likely to coa plicate Chino-Japanese relations in Mau- The spirit of great determination which
men under detention prevails throughout the British Empire
favour of E. Boustered & Co. The appeal that the attempt to grant Chi ese The latest arrest is that of General against the decision for the firm.
The Solicitor-General (Sir George churin, because the Japanese authorities to see the thing through to the end is the
as subject to the jurisdiction of the bulwark of the All For
Tsung-woo, Commander of the Republi
Mixed Court war-for the income tax authorities. He ex- *As regards Japan it is our deterean Army at Chapei during the first re- Cave, K... M.P.) sapported the appeal will entinine, to treat all such Koreans mination to give every assistance to our volation, for whom
against un additional first assessment of We hope tsays the Peking Gazette) the Allies, as far as we possibly can, towards ran was issued at the request of the plained that E. Boustead & Co. appealed Japanes consuls in South Manchuria... £1,081 under Schedule D made upon them Chinese Government will deal with this attaining a complete victory, and thus pium Combine.
to argne it vel in terms of legal tech to bring about the restoration of peace
Three letters have been addressed by by the Comissioners of Income Tax for question wisely, resisting any temptation on a permaturat basis. I may add that nar side, are straining every
the Chief Procurator of the District the City on August 12th, 1913, in respect ww
THE MONGOLIAN M.Ps. ffort towards the maintenance of peace Court of Shanghai in the city, pue to the of the financial your ended April 5th,nicality,
Peking the and stability in the Far East, and Special Envoy of Foreign Affairs, one to is. The appellants carried on business sincerely hope and happily, 1,do not see, the Chief of the Chinese Constabulary at Singapore, Penang, and London, and
Gamite) that the Wai Chino Pu or any contrary sign that tontingents and one to the Mixed Court, demanding they olained in deduct as an expens: the understand (says wil arise which would again miscessitate that the Yunnau opium case be transfer (annual value of the premises they owned
To the Cabine the protest lodged by the one king measures tu defeud uur interred to the City Court for trial. He con- and occupied at Singapore and Penang, Chinese Foreign Office has communicated tends that inasmuch as the twenty trunks and where part of the profita had been sts in this regions.
Huah-
of Parliament representing Outer Moh- 22 Russed and Agreement of opitum were seized in a vacant house made on which the assessmeat was based.
adjoining the Taoyin's yamen. which has just heen signed may be re gartird side by side with the Anglosing Raul, which is situated in Chinese It was not disputed that the amount of Russian Minister regarding the members Japanese Alliancens form'ag a powerful territory, the Chinese authorities alore the rating valuation of the Singapor
of the Even the search without his was not disputed that if the premises had subject. The issue raised by the Russiun Factor towards consolidating the goal should assume jurisdiction over this part and Penang premises was £3,5%, and itgalis. together with the duster on the poare, in the Far East. I wish to take
consent and signature was illegal; and, bern erupied at such rental in the City protest is the subject of considerable dis-s this opportunity of expressing our deep he adds, after the, seizure of the opinion or nited Kingdom the amount of such cusion in responsible circles. It is point-
parliamentary representation gratitude for the mindless hospitality the Chinese Police should have sent the wait would have an allowed as a deduced out that the Provisional Constitution
The direct Surveyor of Taxes that as there was no and personal kindness which 1 and the whole case in the Procurator for him totion of expense, but it was said by the as well as the Eleefion Laws provide for
conduct the prosecution.
ing, the Government is powerless to in- Marchioness Inouyé have received from all quarters during our sojourn in Eng-search authorized by the Alixed Court as Schedunt: A duty under the Income Tax (Outer Mongolia and that, strictly speak welt as the illegal trial by the same Court Acts referring to foreign companies or land." Heutre.
constitutes, he argues, not only conterept imposed in Singapore or. Penang, the terfere with the members already circled JAPAN'S HELP TO THE ALLIES.
and sacrifice of China's judicial power, rm should fat be allowed my deduction for that dependency is long as the Pr The fourmd says that Admiral Akibat also impairs China's national dignity in respect of the rental ratus of the pr
mises they occupied for the purposes of as sovereign Power.
The Solicitor-General The gist of the three letters is practieir business. yam, the chief of the Japanese Mission
contended that the premises were to he to Europe, arrived in Paris im July 11th.ally the same throughout. H said that at the time of his visit to
In his letter to the Mixed Court, the regarded as a transit, and nothing the Russian T be was surprised to ser
Procurator says that as it is a question that was equivalent to interest on expitalions of the Permanent Constitution, "rr the considerable progress which had been affecting his authority and jurisdiction could be deducted..
and seeing that in accordance with the made 'n one year. Russia bad construct- that the fleet had been doubled, Admiral Akiyama emphasised the loyalty of Jagan te her allies, and said Japan was striving to give all the help to the Allies that her
ed for the consent and assistance of the said it was established that in estimating
A report states (says the Pekong- situation permitted.
Referring to the Deutschland's, run to Mixed Court when his Court wanted to profits on business for income-tax the the United States, the Admiral remarked summon any person living in the Selle annual value of the business premises that this was certainly a carpus exploitment, and the Mixed Court has ap-should be deducted, and there could be Gaflet that the division of the whole, The provinces, including the am very remarkable from the sporting proached him for cooperation in like eir-no distinction drawn in the rules as b-country into a number of military dis point of view, het of a real importance, cunstances, he protests against the high-tween busi oss carried on here and triets is under consideration by the Goy Germany uld not expect to use this as landed action taken in the search for abroad; an: there could be no reason for ernment.
The first district will comprise a means of loosening her adversaries opium in Chapei against all precedents calenlating the profits in a different way dependencies such as Chinghai, Tibet, etc., and rules. He demands the surrender if the business was abroad. He could are to be divided into elevan military dis to his Coure of the 20 trunks of opium not agree that this deduction, represented tricts. grip.
and of all prisoners arrested in Chinese interest on capital that could not be de Chin, the Metropolitan prefecture and dueted it was a deduction that did not the Administrative Areas, namely, Kat- territory for trial:
district will incluch Kiangsu, Kiangsi come within the prohibitions. He there gan, Chabar and Shui-yuan; the second fore dismissed the appeal, with costs.
and Anfui; the third Honan and Shang- hang; the fourth. Hunna and Hupch the fifth, Szechuan and its frontier terri- CHINA AND THE SILVER
tory; the sixth, Shansi gud Shensi; the right, Kwangng and Fukien Messrs. Samuel Montaga & Co., cominth, Yunan and Rosichow; the truth, menting on the course of silver Inst the eleventh Kansu, Chnghai and Hsin- Fangtion, Kirin and Heilongkiang: and month, state:The situation at the pre-ching. Sort time, considered from the point of The British Minister. says the view of China, is more than usually in trops will be stationed throughout. is now taking measures to prutret this
FOO Daily Xers has demand wood bộ rquiring workers to take-out
The distribution of the teresting. The rise in the price to the the country, ud that the CREAT of prmits and by fixing a minhyum girth such
snuggling
neighbourhood of 37d, which took place will be as follows: The first and send Troops to the different military districts. large quantity
illicit at which it may be felled, restriction in opium into Shanghai should be dealt in the early part of May, could not fait general uitput is not unlikely to ensue.
The phony woods are found to the west strong are the comments of the Opium currency of that country, all of which eighth and the tenth, vach will have five with as severely as possible. Especially to affect strongly the trade, prices, as Military districts will have six divi- sions of troops; the third, the sixth, the of Bangkot in the districts of Kanburi, Suppression Association. Although the depend largely upon the gold value of Petchaburi, and to the south towards the Peking public, knowing the past in silver. In the case of su vast an extent and the elventh districts will have four Malay Pepissuta. They also are exporttegrity of Mr. Chang Yo-tsen, believe him of territory as China, and one se ill-pr: divisions of troops each, and in the rest ed in the ban of roughly trimmed logs to be innocent, still the position of the vided with commu ieations, the influence of the districts, that is, the seventh and from 19 to 20 in. in circumference, and Minister of Justice seems quite of silver prices, though sure, can only the ninth, three divisions of troops will from 80 to 190 in. in length.
This scandalous case is having permeate in a slow fashion, and it is pos Still xt The exploitation of the woods is not the post careful attention of the Govern¦sible t'at recent sales on Chinese account
be stationed. in each. a regular industry in Siam, but forment, as it affects equally the laws of the were set in motion by the rise, oven one of the desultory accupations of the country, the treaties with foreign Powers t'ought occurred ten weeks ago. people when they are not engaged in rice and the honour of the Yunnan Govern It is considered most important growing. The wood is bought by the Chinese, who are either middlemen or,
that the evil should be traced to its root. agents of Bangkok Chinese firms, and, as it will not float, it is brought to Bang- kok by boat or by train. It is sold by weight, the unit for export being usually | 100 piculs (about & tons), and the average price in Bangkok ranges from about £22 10s to about £37 10% per 100 picula, for rosewoods, and about £22 10, per 100 pculs for the ebonies. The bonies are apparently more uniform in quality than the resewoods-none of these woods ap pear to be dealt with in Bangkok in the
SIAMESE TIMBER.
VALUE OF OPICH HEIZED.
It now, seems that the value of the opium H.M. Consul-General at Bangkok (Mr.
so far seized has been considerably ex T: B. Lyte CM.G.) as furished the following particulars regarding the in-aggerated, as, according to reports,
first dustry and trade in Siamese rosegoud or 24 trunks and boxes contain much lessy
be the trave pigself th Lilpak wwwdi me zorm of roughly winnedrinks at 100 the total weight of the round logs, the average size of which is 24 trunks not exceeding 2,300. Placing from 1964 24 in. in circumference and the valuation at $150 per , as a high fan. 50 tig 190 in. in length. The ro§.
estinate, the value according to these word: forests have been begvily over-ex-
figures does not exceed $375,000.
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HONG KONG POLICE RESERVE.
STREET GAMBLING.
Arrests for gambling otherwise, than in a ***Street are not permitted except on a Warranty
Street" includes any road, ane alley, passage, wharf, pier, park, Feetention ground or other open space. These places must be “Openi Suncesi."
NO. A COMPANY. This Company will parade under the Sergeant-Major at Central Station at 6 p.m. on Tuesday and Thursday, August 22nd and 24th. Uniform, rifles and helmets. The CS.M; will attend all parades of both No. 3 and 4 Companies.
Another case of the freedom with which China has sold silver may have been the moraturins proclaimed in that sountry.. A suspension of specic pay- iments would create a fear in the minds of the Clines, always upon their guard against officialdom, lest their silver tres A sure might be annexed. Thus a study flow, as speret as possible, would ensue Second Lieutenant E. J. S. Tanner, towards the treaty ports. The accumula fourth son of Sir Henry Tanner, C.B,, tion of such fresh stocks would naturally 1.5.0., was killed at the front un July provoke sales of silver to India and ad while serving with the Machine Guendon.
The permanent currency m Corps. He left Shanghai-where he was quirements of China, however, must not employed in the office of the Hongkong be overlooked. It is only possible to and Shanghai Bank-carly last year with hazard guesses au to the amount of silver the intention of joining the army, and of which China has been relieved during married Miss M. Wisner, of New York, te last year and a-half, but without on the journey. Soon after his arrival doubt it is extremely large. Shipments in England he enlisted, subsequently ob-to the extent of Tls. 8,500,000 were made taining a commission and qualifying in on Russian account in 1915. Assuming the Machine Gun Corps.
u third of that amount to have been re- On July 13th, in reply to Sir E. Corn-
mitted in the current year, the total dar- wall, who inquired what communications
Captain Denzil Clive Tate Twentyming eighteen months would be some had passed between His Majesty's Govern York and Lancaster Regiment, whose 17,000,000 os, Add to this ment and other Governments, parti- death was announced in the Daily 20,000,000 ozs. in sycee or dollars sold to cularly those of Russia and Japan, with fresx a few days ago, fell while gallantry the Indian Government, the regard to the
Russo-Japanese leading his men on July 1st. He was bazaars and London, and a total of Treaty,
only
years of
and was the elder age
No one at Lord It. Cecil suid-The terms of the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Twentyragu, 23,000,000 oz. is arrived at. treaty Were communicated to His of Kirby Misperton Hall, Yorkshire, all conversant with the currency require Majesty's Government confidentially by After leaving Bromsgrove School hements of China can imagine that that the Japanese Government before publi- graduated at St. John's College, Can country can dispense with so large an cation, and His Majesty's Government bridge, where be took his degree in 1913 amount of ta stock for any great length thereupon expressed to both the Japanese and afterwards joined the Hongkong and of time, for in normal times China at- and Russian Governments their great Shanghai Banking Corporation. He got tracts annually an amount of the world's satisfaction on its conclusion. Otherwise a commission in September, 1914, was supplies which compares appreciably with no communications have passed between inade full lieutenant in "December, and the total lately disgorged. Hence, sooner His Majesty's Government and the promoted to captain in May, 1015. Can or later, China will have to make good Governments concerned, and it does not tuin Twentyman was married on June this efflux of specie, and the return of the therefore seem necessary to lay any Buth to Mildred Bybil Josephine eldest silver may coincide with an agreement be papers on the table.
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Percy Hall, of tween the Provinces, recently at variance Cambridge. His father, Mr.
Jand the restoration of public confidence Twentycian, will be remembered us resident of Shanghai for many years.
now
as least
Indian
*** THE LOST QERMAN COLONIES. On July 17th Lord R. Cecil, replying
which would follow that event. · It should to a question by Sir. E. Cornwall as to
be borne in mind that the extent of the which of the German colonies, other than
anticipated replacement would depend those under the Colonial. Office, or the
upon the price of silver. The higher the Governments of the Dominions, had been
Wife-Well dear, I shall have to do the prize the less silver is likely to Bow entirely taken over by the Allies and
The rumoured loan of which Power was responsible for the ad-cooking now. Cook left without warning back.
£0,000,000 to be marle to China ministration in each case, said the Caro-his afternoon line and -Marshall Islands in the Pacific. Husband-Not exactly without warn by the United States of America may be with the exception of the Island of ing. She told me this morning I had remitted partly in silver, though the lat Nauru, are being administered by the better bring home some dyspepsia tablets ter country will endeavour to send as Japanese Government, ez is also the dis- to-night, but I didn't quite understand large a proportion as possible in manu- trict of Kigochow in Chinz,
what she meant,
fastared goods.
Play for the Billiard Championship of
the Police Reserve will commence or Monday
August 28th, at the Head--: quarters Club Members wishing to play must enter their names in the book placed on the Bar and pay a fee of 50 cents to the boy. The book will be closed at. 7 p.m. on Saturday.. August 20th.
BILLIARDS CHAMPIONSHIP.
BIFLES AND AMMUNITION, Members leaving the Colony or obtain- ing Medical Exemption for a period exceeding, or likely to exceed, 7 days are required ander penalty to return- their Rifles and Ammunition through their Equipment Officers to the Mus ketry Sergeant, or the latter di rest.
In
*
to
the case of members at present on leave or medically exempted, whose leave or exemption has exceeded 7 days, and in the case of members who have left the Colony without permis sion, the Chief Inspector of Musketry will take inmediate steps for secur ing the return of Rifles and Ammuni tion.
AMBULANCE PLATOON.
The Surgeon Superintendent of Police (R.) will inspect this Platoon at Central Station on Friday, August 25th. at 5.30 p.m. All ranks will attend. Uniform, caps and covers, and full equipment.
F. C. JENKIN.
D.S.P. (R)