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THE CHINA ASSOCIATION. ANNUAL MEETING IN LONDON. REVIEW OF THE PAST YEAR IN THE
FAR EAST.
DISAPPEARED HOPES.
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a piece of grey shirting which could have been dyed for 50 cents before the war.
SALT AND FINANCE.
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HOLLAND AND GERMANY.
It is interesting to find that the salt
PLAIN SPEAKING BY THE LONDON revenue for the first five months of this
EDITOR OF THE “TELEGRAAF." year was 31 millions dollars against 281 millions for the same period of last year,
Mr. John C. Van Der Veer, London In the series of articles on the Navy at and that in the Chinese Budget the Salt Gabelle is
Amsterdam Veleyrnuť, now the
war, written by Mr. Bernard Copple-editor of the most important The annual meeting of the Chim
stone, and published in the Cornhill writes as follows in the London Morning source of revenue with the single excep Association took place last month at the
tion of the Land Tax.
Magazine under the title of "With the P. &0. Offices, Leadenhall Street.
Grand Fleet, there appears one which Posts ----
Apart from the clumsyg attempt to In moving the adoption of the report In the early part of this year the For- purports to tell how Lieutenant Peter, and accounts, Mr. F. Anderson, the, eign Powers placed an embargo on the Royal Mare Artillery, on night watch blame this country for the king of the Chairman, said:The past year has been salt revenue, as with one Province after on a super-Breadnought battleship, sank Datch steamer Frebantia, the quotatious from two leading German papers on tu one of the busiest on record; we have another declaring independence a German destroyer. He says:
case in the Morning Post to-day hear a dealt with many matters affecting British was not quite clear what the position of
I will tell you all about it. I was up striking lesson. It proves a remarkable interests not only at the present time but the Central Government would be in the
un the platform at my watch. My bat change in the German mind. A year ago likely to affect then after the war. We even of the movement, extending. have andy representations to H. f. consequence of the embargo somewhere try of six gun was down below, all Germany felt her position in the war still very strong, so that she then could herd- Government at some considerable length, about 17 million dollars accumulated in landed with high explosive shelt weigh
All the gunners were lessly acknowledge the sinking of the regarding trade in China after the war. the hands of the foreign Banks, which ing 100lb. ch. I do not think it is advisable to go into was far more than sufficient to provide standing ready for anything that might Medea and justify it on the pretext that details about this matter to-day, but one
For all the current liabilities of the Chi-happen, but expecting nothing. So they that Dutch steamer carried contrabatul point which we have especially emphasizese Government to foreign bond-holders, had stood and waited during a hundred to England-forsooth, oranges! And so ed is the fact that the state of affairs and it can easily be understood how em-watch. It was greying towards down, long as the German armies remained in brought about by the war offers an excep-
barrassing this procedure must have been but there was a good bit of hazy and the a strong position Berlin never hesitated tional opportunity to abolish the
to the Peking Treasury. The foreign
sea was choppy. The old ship was doing to acknowledge and even to glorify the sound methods of trade which German obligations of the Government, however, her rocking horse trick as usual, and destroying more Dutch and other neutral misdeeds of German submarines, by merchants have introduced and develop were all duly provided for, and shortly also as usual I was feeling a bit squee-es
steamers. But now the position of the ed in China. I refer more particularly after the new President had been inrish, but nothing to worry about. As to the system of delivering goods to stalled in office the embargo was removed, the light increased I could see about war has, what every sensible person ent- China on extended credit which had for and 12 million dollars surplus revenue 2,000 yards, more or less I am not much
The bally has been were handed over to the Chinese Govern
mentally altered. expected. Ennea- its main object the undermining of Bri-
driven in a corner and becomes rinid. tish influence in the China market.
Inusit.
good yet at judging aca distances. officer of the watch was walking up and Far fear of enraging enduring Dutch- down on the lookout. Hallo," I heard men, he invents Binsy exeuses like these. thir way. what's that dark patch three The Tubantia-remember, she was the points on the starboard quarter?" B finest steamer of the whole Dutch er- meant 30 degrees tu the right, poor chap, cantile marine-was sunk by striking a put up my glasses and so did he, and flouting German torpedo, which also may just then came a call. from the fook-out have been picked up and fired by a Bri As we looked the dark palettish Warship at the Dutch steamier; and pear us.
(soon afterwards) the Dutch ergo boal the Biaze sld the high forepeak of a de changed to thick smoke, and then out of
Palembang was suik by three derman stroyer. 1, thought it was one of our torpedoes, fired at but accidentally miss- escort, and so did the officer of the watch, ing a British destroyer (which, by the but as we watched the destroyer swung way, was at the moment engaged in safe- The most important event of the year round, and we could see the whole length guarding neutral ships by destroying German mines, of course, a criminal act affecting the Far East has been the new
of her. Then, for the first time in my
in Kultured eyes). On that Gran Some people even hoped that with Russo-Japanese Agreement which is service, 1 saw the German navy flag!
exense concerning the Palcanbang the internal troubles out of the way a prae political act of high importance. It was an enemy which had blundered Datch monthly De Gids commented: tical people like the Chinese would have seems to us to be an exceedingly effective into us by mistake and was now trying tried to take advantage of the excep
rejoinder to the persistent attempts to
I don't know what tional opportunity arising out of the war
stir up enmity and distrust between the hard to get away. to manufacture supplies for the Allies: different Allied Powers, which has been the officer of the watch did...I never gave a share of the contracts placed in Ame-characteristic feature of Germany's him a thought my mind simply froze ng to that beautiful battery of Gin, guns dica and Japan would have helped to policy. In view of the extremely cordial rélations of this country with both
down below and on to that enemy de- develop industrial work on terms very
stroyer trying to escape. Those two profitable to China. There may have Russia and Japan the news has been rợ- been external difficulties in the way, but ceived here with the greatest satisfac-things the buttery and the enemy-filled in any case internal political compli tion, and all British subjects welcome my whole world. cations made it impossible to take any the statentent issued by the Japanese FARE OPENED WITHIN FIVE SECONDS. steps in that direction. It is, however, Foreign Office that the Agreement is it believed that last year many Chinese have full harmony with and adds strength to done very well in ordinary trade, and the Anglo-Japanese Agreement of which perhaps the general prosperity may have it is the corollary, and that it does not a moderating influence upon the disturb-prejudice the position of any other ed conditions which have latterly deve
Power equally committed to paciác aims. loped in political life.
A year ago we were hopeful that China was in a fur way to enter upon a period of penerful progress and prosperity She had passed through a prolonged period of unrest, the Central Govern- ment appeared to be more or less firmly established, internal disorder had been.
to a great extent suppressed, the authority of the Central Government over the Pro- vinces bart been re established, and an Agreemeïnt had been concluded with Japan which settled in an amicable way questions which had been long oats(sind- ing between the two countries.
in turn remains united.
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China may justly take credit for having paid all the Interest on her foreign debt daring a time when she was subject to this embarrassing and some-
what arbitrary action.
the declaration of the moratorium has A good deal of adverse criticism about appeared in the Press, but the import- ance of this step, perhaps not very dis unduly magnified. It only affected two creet under the circumstances, has been or perhaps three Chinese Banks, and was confined to internal financial opera
tions only:
TRADING WITH. THE ENEMY,
It
is
With
ELI
cold on the essence of the whole ques tion. There followed actions at law in Prize Courts of this country and His Majesty's Courts in China, in the Alexandria. in the Court of Appeal, and in the House of Lords, where eminent judges have given dianietrically opposite decisions.
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of the crew!
The Gids went
for the
THE WAR MINISTER.
**DAGONET'S " VIEWS ON MR.
LLOYD GEORGE!
The Gifs also urged our Government and people not to shelve tie Tuinentia scandal, which might be very instructive for knowing the mentality of the wae- madman. Various Dutch papers haya claimed satisfaction for the destruction of that beautiful liner, but Berlin thinks Within Ave seconds I had called the
Flolland must be satisfed with excuses The Teutonic batters, given them a range of 2,000 like those stated above.
rulers have, over the far more serious yards, and loosed three shells the first
ense of the Lusitanin, successfully trifled- shells which I had seen fired in any action. They all went over, for I had with the largest neutral State, and they not allowed for our height above the naturally think that any sma!! neutral I will not trespass much further on THE NEW PRESIDÈNCY AND THE SOUTH.
water. The Beth did an extraordinaryury will certainly be 100 proud to your patience but would like to express thing. If he had gone on swinging round was not encouraging for will nations.
fight. In the report we have shortly suELI-
The example of a great leader marized the political events which have gratisfaction at the amendment of the and lashed off he might have reached But a country like Holland has other led up to the present position of affairs finitely puts an end to an anomalous But h's officer of the watch was either the evildoer to book.
Trading with the Enemy Act which decor in the life before I could hit him.strong trumps to play in order to bring It is a situation which calls for lead position, as regards our commercial rela- frightened out of his wits or else was a even so far as to lend for armed ship and constructive statesmanship of high order. The upw President, Litions with Germans in China. It
More effective still would bloomin' copper-bottomed 'ero. Instead neutrality, unfortunate that the simple question as Northug, incontra par the to whether Germans. living outside their firing to get away, he swung back to be the policy arged by our payer, namely,
Central--but
wards us, rang up full and eanie our Government should stop ex- difficulty at the moment seems to be the country, are in a legal sense enemies formation of a Government which will or not, should have involved so much charging in upon us so as to get home ports of foodstuffs to Germany until sho gives full satisfaction and compensation comunand general confidence. A we litigation. When the Trading with the with a torpedo. It was either the mud- understand the position, the Southern Eadny Act was originally under condest or the bravest thing which I shan for the ruthless destruction of varions
sideration a good deal of.
ever see in my life, ought to have been Dutch ships. But, strange tá relate. party is aiming at attaining
ining the
presure
Germany received from Holland more dominance in the few. Government which brought to bear on the Government by frightfully thrilled, but somehow the Northern party formerly had in the powerful interests, who maintained that wasn't. I felt no excitement whatever foodstuffs after than before her sub- late Government under Yuan Shih-kai'a we should do more harm than good to you see, I was thinking all the time of marines sank the Tubanti and Faien administration. Recent telegrams in- the country by stopping trade with all directing my guns, and had no conscious-g. Thus are misdeeds made to pay, dicate that the Navy, while not hostile Germans in neutral markets, and that ness of anything else in the world. The One can easily perceive that the hangry this action would hurt us more than it moment the destroyer charged, zigzagging Let us sink some big Dutch steazuers. German reasoned in a manner like this: to the new President, declares that it will act independently of all political would hurt them. The result was that as he came to distract our aim, I knew he chances are ten to one that the Gov- parties. At the same time the Admiral as originally passed, the Act was a kind exactly what to do with him. I gave nyernment at The Hague will vot kick if of compromise, blowing hot and blowing gunners 1,000 yards, rapid curtain fire we invent some silly excuse. But the & infinates that he is opposed to the domination of China by militarists or
from the whole battery, and you should Dutch will be frightened to ship food- monarchists, who, he says, are still in control of the Provisional Government
just have seen those darlings pump, it stuffs to England, so that we shall get out. I have seen fast bring in practice, what is available for export, and even While not very powerful from a foreign point of view, the Navy may be able to
but never anything like that. There was more than Holland can spare
he continuous stream of shell as the six need of her own population." car Fol movements of troops by sea, if it
guns took up the order. Six-inch guns
And this is what happened, are no toys, and 100 shells are a bit There are obvious dangers ahead if either side proceeds to extremities, but
The China Association both here and hefty to handle. Yet oo quick-firing as the vast majority of the nation is
in China were from the first of opinion cartridge-loaders could have been worked I that it trading with Germans in China faster than were iny heavy beauties. evidently averse to any revival of in- ternal disturbances, perhaps the contend-
were undesirable in the national int- suppose that it tunk that destroyer about ing parties may agree upon a com-clared it to be, it should be stopped; and de feu, and every ten seconds my lively terests, as the Government officially de 60 seconds to reach the edge of my rideau promise, and from some kind of coalition Government. In recent years observers the only way to stop it was to make it battery spat out six great shells! On
"Dagonet, the well-known contribu- came the destroyer, and round came our of Chinese affairs have noticed that new definitely illegal. We felt that elements have been growing more power- country was blockading German trade ship facing her. The officer of the watch or to the Riferer, say ful in the body politic. The position with the definite object of shortening was swinging our bows towards the enemy Mr. George is War Minister. Bless formerly held by the literati is less in-
the war, that this action imposed a con so as to lessen the mark for his torpedo.him, and more power to his elbow! It fluential whilst the Guilds, the Chambers tinuous and very severe strain on our
Tawung my guns the opposite way as the is a most interesting ease, Only in of Commerce, the banking and commer-Navy, that it was in German interests, ship turned, keeping them always on January, 1914, Mr. George was saying in
that Germans should be in a position to cial classes generally are asserting more
the charging destroyer. I could see them the Daily Chronicle that he looked upon and more the power which wealth cables carry on their trade, while our interest leaping backwards and forwards on their the demand for armaments as organis them to exercise. These classes have lay in having it stopped. There could
Awayed insanity. And on July 1, 1910, he very important stake in the country
be no doubt at all that if the English slides just like automatic pumps. and German positions had been reversed, towards the enemy the sea boiled as the is chosen Minister of War amid the they are accustomed to representative the German Government would have torrent of shells hit it and ricochetted hearty approval of all who believe in government amongst themselves, and it
raken the most effectual steps to prevent for miles.
banging away at the enemy with all the is probable that they will exercise a
their subjects from trading with the
resources of destruction. And on July moderating influence in political life.
It was only for a moment that I looked able leader on the British advance with the Daily Chraniete concludes a remark- hated Englishman, THE VERPLEXING POLITICAL SITUATION. The half-hearted character of our down, at the guns and at the smooth.these words," It is reasonable to suppose The task of building up a new Con- stitution is one of immense difficulty and legislation at the beginning of the war quick, precise, but unhurried movements that in the long run the side with the
has given rise to a good deal of irrita of the gunners, for I had to watch with largest number of men, guns, and rauni complexity in any country. It will tax all the powers of the ablest men of all
tion both in this country and in China, every scrap of my attention the zigzag tions will triumph."
What
a change parties in China to inaugurate a stable
but the amendment of the Act has now
course of my enemy and to keep any im What a splendid change! **Through form of administration, which will adsettled the question definitely, and it penetrable curtain true in his path. He Terrar to Triumph." And Through mit of a change of Government from time may be hoped as regards past differences reached the edge of any curtain! It seem
Error to Knowledge." As a patriotic to time, in a country whose area is and disagreements, couclusively.
Mr. W. Harwood seconded the adored to have been hours since I began to and common-sense Englishman, I am so nearly half as large as Europe, and
fire, but it couldn't really have been more pleased with the performance of the was carried whose population is about equal to that tion of the report which
than a minute, for even Germán de- Little Wizard from Wales that I shall of the whole of Europe. There is plenty without further comment, of scope for all the qualified men which President for the ensuing year,
Mr. George Jamieson was elected as stroyers will cover half a mile in that in future always give him his Lloyd," M. time. He reached the edge of my curtain, and if he is a very good bay and gets the without disipating their energen Anderson Chairman, M. E. Hors dung his bows straight towards us, and Mayphes, which I think I was labels
in ternal turmoil, and nowhere, will their Honorary Transurer. The members of instant
Mr. R. C. Wileox a torpedo. Vice-Chairman,
very precise
largely a shell, ricochetting upwards, instrumental in taking from him. efforts be followed with more sympathetic the General Commnit:e were interest than in this country
re-elected. caught him close to the water-line of his THE COUNTRY'S PROSPERITY.
ORIENTAL LANGUAGE SCHOOL.
high forepeak and burst in his vitals. I While the political situation is still
Mr. George Jamieson was nominated saw instantly a great flash blaze up from
"But what about the torpedo !" difficult and perplexing, the general con-
as a Representative of the China Associa- his funnels as the high explosive smash will ask. I never saw it, but the officer dition of the country is more prosperous
tion to serve as a member of the Governed his engines, boilers, and Eres into of the watch told me that it had passed than has been the case for several years,
ment Body of the School of Oriental scrap. He reared up and screamed exact harmlessly more than a hundred feet, and that of itself is an element of Studies in London. Mr. George Jamie ly like a wounded animal. It sounded away from us. "You sank the destroyer, stability
son briefly explained what this appoint rather awful, though it was only the said the officer of the watch, grianing, The Customs revenue for 1915 was mont meant. Some time age members of shriek of steam from the burst pipes; it but my masterly navigation sared the about Tls. 37.000,000 a decrease it is true
the Association and others
24 endowed of Tis. 2,000,000 as compared with 1914, School of Chinese which was indepen made one feel how very live a thing is a ship. So honours is easy, Mr. Marine..
dent of the Association. The Governship, how in its splend vitality it is, If I had had also those guns of.
yours," but better than any year previous to 1912. Of the decrease Tis. 900,000 was
ment had now established a School of as Kipling says, more than the crew. He he went on, I would have sunk the heg due to reduction of opium duty, and and they had decided to
Oriental languages in Finsbury Square reared up and fell away to port, and two gar with about half that noise and half their more of my shells hit him almost amid that expenditure of Government am- Tis. 300,000 to falling off in formage dues, caused by scarcity of shipping. A
The Gov ships and tore out his bottom plates like munition. I never saw such a wasteful effort in this newer venture. very satisfactory feature is that the ex- erament Body of the School had agreed shredded paper. I could hear the rending performance," said be. But he was only port trade was greater than ever, the to pay the endowments to the Oriental crash of the explosions through my car pulling my leg. All the naval officers, export duties being the bighest on re
School-at which all Eastern languages protectors and through the continuous from t'e Owner downwards, were very. cord. The export of metals rose from would be taught for a period of five roar of my own curtain fire. He, rolled nice to me and said that for a youngster, 89,000 tons in 1914 to 14.000 tons in 1915.
years on two conditions: (1) that are right over and was gone! He vanished and a Pongo at that. I hadn't managed rincipally I believe in ores, which shows
presentative of the Association should 9 quickly that for the moment my shells the affair at all badly. I fired right that mining is not altogether stagnant
be nominated from time to time
few screaming over au empty sea, and shells per gun, plus the three sighting even ander antiquated mining laws. The Member of the Geverning Body, and (2) then, I stopped the gunners. My battle shots, 51.rounds, altogether about two and falling off in the import trade was no
that the teaching of colloquial Chinese had lasted for one minute and 40 half tons of ammunition. It sounds doubt caused partly by the general ad- and the Mandarin dialect should be
seconds!
a lot, but there was a good lot to show rance in prices, bigh freights, and the carried out as an essential branch of
for it. fact that at present it costs $6 to dye study. Thereby they would be able to
study its progress,!
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