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CHINESE NEWS.
AIR-SHIPS FOR CHINA,
BANK OF COMMUNICATIONS,
As only one National Baak is permis- sible in any country, the Government has decided to cancel the right of the Blank of Communicaticus to act as agents for The National Treasury, and then fix a time to redeem its notes from the markets. The Chiantung Bank will be conducted is a common bank in China hereafter.
TERRITORIAL
DEVELOPMENT
BANK.
DR. SUN YAT-SEN ON LOCAL VGOERNMENT.
TAXATION OF LAND VALUES"
ADVOCATED. JE
oration in the Hangchow Assembly Hall, of which the local Correspondent of the
THE GLORY OF FRANCE, On July 14, 1916, M.: Barre led a pil- grimage of patriots to the statue, of Strassburg on the Place de la Concorde. This is the last time," said he "that we come here; we meet next year at the Kidber, statue in liberated Strassburg,"
That which we prayed might be an accomplished fact remains a hope, sure, though deferred. The Lengar of Patriots will not assemble in liberated Strasburg for another year at least. But the ulti mate rendezvous is assured, and when the day comes Englishmen will mingle with Frenchinen o celebrate with due. reverence a glorious victory.
And though we shall all rejoice when peace smiles once more, upon the world, we would not have forgone, we shall never forget, the glory of this year. Never was the national festival of France held under nobler auspices. It was for
In view of the active participation of Dr. Sun Yat-sen recently delivered an the various kinds of airships in the European War, the General Staff has decided to establishe, five Aviation Schools, viz, at Wuching, Canton, Nan Daily Vers gives the following translation I am very glad indeed king, Hsion and Mukden, in addition to the existing school at Nanyuan, Peking
to conte to Hangchow and see you all once more, and an extremely grateful for your welcome and for holding this meeting. Chekiang is considered the first province of South China, both as regards population and financially. Just now despotism Jugs been overturned and the Republic has been set up anew. so in taking hold of this opportunity we must reform all the political affairs of Che- king. If ne province, is reformed and well ruled, then all the others will imitate it, and regard it as a pattern, and so the entire nation will gradually brcome civilized. Being asked to speak on the problem of local government. 1er to acclain as the President did hour to the fallen soldiers, the splendid must go along that line.
heroism of Verdun. It is not for nothing As to self-government, it is the founda- tion of
a country, and, if the foundation that M. Barrés acclains the battle of Verdun, which has lasted many weary 18
stable, the country is surely standing weeks, an achieved victory. The Germans in the position of safety, and incorrupt- In the case of the Territorial Develop-ibility. Both the Republics of the United ment Bank of Shanghai many officials of States and Trance are considered the bestted attack of the Allies. They threw the Ministry of Agriculture and Cop-in the world. China should imitate them mercy are involved. Minister Bar Chung- METHODS OF LOVAL GOVERNMENT, hasa has despatched an
Now we may mention one of the hai to make investice to Shang-
1,500,000 || methods of local government.“ Take worth of the Han-Yeh-F-1 and the West Lake of Hangehow, for example, Coal Company is report to bave been which is the best-known place in China. The taunts of our enemy, that the Eng- mortgaged by this Back to foreign Suppose we can borrow one hundredish refused to go to the help of Verdun, capitalists...
million dollars frem foreign countries la fell disregariled on the air. Neither construct new conds and buildings, then French, nor English hastened by n day the land that costs usually (say)," one their wise and deliberate play. Verdan hundred dollars will rise in price to one held firm, and not only inade possible thousand. By means of the interest re-the general advance on the western and ceived we can pay back the foreign loans eastern front, but by putting the initia and interest, and, moreover, we eđu tive in our hands decided. The progress obtain more income besides the said pay- of the campaign. Hitherto it has been ments, because we can, over and above, in the Germans" power to direct the collect land taxes from the owners. Each attack. Henceforth it is our to teach landowner should himself give a report the battle where joi rage, and the Allies as to how officials could make a record of will not shirk their duty. it. If the land said to cost one thou sand dollars, then the owner should be taxed ten dollars, etc. But supposing
PARLIAMENT DEMANDS A STATE. MENT FROM THE PREMIER.
It is stated that Premier Tuan Chi-jui 18 preparing a vigorous reply to the in- | terpellation of the House of Representa
tives respecting the situation in Kwang- tung. The House demands the presence of the Premier in the House to explain the actual situation in Cautou and to inform the House of the policy he has decided to adopt.
TUCHUN OF KIANGST'S PROPOSAL.
may tax hing according to the price he estimates. Thus, the government will not lose anything whether the people overestimate or underestimate their hund
THE EXAMPLE OF SHANGHAI
hoped by a sudden stroke to forestall the their men in thousands against the im- pregnable defence of France and they threw them in vain. Nothing that hap- pens now can rob the French of their triumph.
UNRESTING, UNBABȚING. The heroic resistance wherewith France the landowner thinks that he can de-as opposed all the efforts of the Ger crease his tax by undervaluing his land,
mans to seize Verdun has shown us a side then the officials should purchase the land of the French character which a times at his own valuation and make it public has escaped us. We have always nar- property. And if the landowner over-
velled at the dash with which her troops General Li Hsun, Tuchou of Kiarsi, price from others, then the official We have not given her credit enough for
estimates his land so that he may get a
have thrown themselves upon the foe. has sent a telegram to the Central Gov crament stating that as it has been in
the dogged determination which has con- possible to decide whether Lung Chai
verted the grim assault upon Verdun inta kwong or Teen Chunhanan has been in
bitter defeat of the hopes and ambitions the right, he has addressed a telegram to
of Germany. She has fought her battle the latter advising him to withdraw his
without rest and without haste. She has troops sixty from the war-zone in order
attack, long ago settled and arranged. not anticipated by a day the reasoned to prove the sincerity of his desire for a peaceful settlement, and that should the
And her quiet confidence has ande Ver- dun the immortal glory of France. former refuse to cense from hostility or to hand over his offes to Lu Yung-ting on his arrival, the Central Government would at
once take up measures to punish him. If Mr.Teen agrees with the proposal, another one will be made to Lung Chai-kwong asking him to with draw bis troops sixty i from the war zone. As soon a a reply is received General Li will telegraph again to the Central Government.
NEW CHINESE SUBSIDIARY COINS.
The issue of the new subsidiary coins to replace those already in circulation Jappears to have angt with a very favour- able reception, and may be taken as an other step by the new Administration towards the reform of currency. The
of their lands justly, then there will be However, if the people assess the price no loss to them either in paying taxes or itens mentioned above with some others selling out their land. Those systems and should be first of all enacted, passed and constituted, through the provincial as- combly, so that they may be published and executed beinre long- Shanghai was a lonely desert, but after the divers repairs, reformation, and con struction by the foreign traders, it grew to be an attractive place and the focus of commerce, until now it has become a
Hankow
Formerly,
model of municipal out to the:
The evil name that it won of old na an
implacable dungeon is effaced for ever. place of respect in our hearts and bral As long as heroism and courage keep a so long will Verdun be remembered as the fortress which saved the eivilisation of Europe, so long will Vaux and Thiau
out and Douaumont be treasured as the symbols of France's patient and unbro Ken defence,
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Yet in this stern.defence there is no proof of a new spirit, France is lo-day what she has always bren calm and ré- solule in danger. It pleased the Ger- muus, unskilled always in the reading of human character, to pretend at the out- The wish easily fathers the thought. The set of the war that France vas in decay.
pour blind spies whom Germany employ ed thought that the life of the boulevards,
whole of China. Also, Hongkong, and some other ports have ati well succeeded in imitating it one after another. Now, then, the West Lake of Hangelow is lovely with its natural beautiful scenery, but by the addision of constructive works, and human labour, and by establishing "meam of intercour61 roads, water power and factories, etc., it will become, I am sure, one of the famous places in the world, in a few which they did rot understand, was the years' tiine. As to the local government
life of France. The thrift and industry of the provinces were a closed page to
scaled to the soil, found no place in their pedantic note-books. Knowing no his- tory, save that which is doled to them by State-fed professors, they knew дела France's unconquerable' soul; they knew not that quiet and tranquil mind which has always been inspired to heroism by lofty hopes and high ideals.
VOLUNTEER RESERVES, ORDERS BY MAJOR WARRMAN, O.C, BECK
DETAIL.
On duty till the morning of Sunday
3rd September—“A” “Co. Orderly Officer-Liout, R. Hancock, On duty from the morning of Sunday, 3rd September, to Sunday, 10th September--II.K.V.C.
Next for duty--"B" Co.
PARADES FOR THE WEEK ENDING ATH SEPTEMBER, 1816,
Monday, 4th Sept. 1-
Recruits on the Cricket Grou
ander Drill Instructor Sergi - berry at 15 p.. Dress Drill
order.
Sting Beetion on the Cricket
under Instructor Sergt.
E. V. Mitchelinore at 5.15 p.m. Dress: Clean fatigue. Machine-gun Bertion at Wellington
Barracks ander Instructor. Sergt. Bowles at 5.30 p.m. Dress: Clean fatigue.
Tuesday, 6th Sept.
"A
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Co, on the Cricket Ground at 5.30 p., Musketry Instruction. Dress Drill order.
Mounted Section on the Polo Grund
uider Inijetom.
at 5.30 p.m. Q.M. Sergi Talbot. Dress: Drill order.
Wednesday, 6th Sept.:-
Recruits on the Cricket Grund
under Drill
Instructor Sergt. Oxberry at 5.15 p.m. Dress: Drill order.
Co. af Volunteer Headquarters at 5.30 p., under C.S.M, Cooke.
Thursday, 7th Sept.
Recruits on the Cricket Ground ander Drill Instructor Sergt. Og berry at 5.16 p.tu. Dress: Dril order. Machine-gue Section at Wellington Barracks under Instructor Sergty Bowles at 3.30 pm. Dress: Dri order.
8th Sept.-
Friday the Cricket Ground at
5.30 p. Musketry Instruction. Dress Drill order. Signalling Sertion on the Cricket Ground at 6.15 p.m. wider Listrac- tor Sergt. E. V. Mitchelmore.
KESIGNATION. “
Private T. F. Hough has been permitted to resign on being appointed A. 8. Police Reserve with effect from the 29th inst.
G. H. WAREMAN, Major,
Commanding, H.K.V.E.
HONGKONG POLICE RESERVE.
BAND AND ORCHESTRA, Practices for month of September, at
6 p.m.
Band Friday, September 1st; Friday,
September 8th; Tuesday, September 12th; Friday, September 15th; Tues. day, September 19th; Tuesday, Sep- tember 28th; Friday, September 29th. Orchestra.-- Monday, September 11th; Thursday, September 21st: Monday. September 25th.
Al
NO. 2 COMPANY.
ranks, excepting only medieat
0.0. exempts, will fall under the Company at the Central Pulice Sta- tion at 9 p.m. on Tuesday, Septem-, Ler th. Uniform, caps with covers, and ridag The Hand will attend.”
PARADES, CENTRAL STATION.
new subsidiary coins, which have made of ather districts and places in this probem. The careful toil of thousands Munday, September 4th-Men detailed
Vince, they will take the West Lake as their pattern. And it will be the same
their appearance in Tientsin, take the form of ten cent, twenty cent, and fifty ent pieces, which may be exchanged for the dollar without premium or discount with other provinces; ene will reform
SHIPPING NOTES.
THE P. AND O. COMPANY.
from No. 2 Platoon, as per previous or lers, 5.45 p.m.
Tuesday, September atli.Whole of No. 4 Company under Chief Inspector Ma-on and C. S. Mujor, 648 pan. LECTURES, HEADQUARTERS" oLin,:5.30 PM. Monday, September 4th.--Governmènt Analyst on Chinese bombs and other explosives." Open to all Inspectors and Sergeants so: Patrolmen of one yer's service. D
on the decirual system. It is the inter- the other. tion of the Government to enforce this system throughout the country, and the Mint Tientsin has been instructed by the Government to continue minting. these pins for the purpose. In the mean-
The great prosperity of the P. and 0. time, the first issue has taken place in Company, says the Pioneer, is indi-should have sung the praise of his coun It was opportune that M, Barris Tientsin. Official Departments and mercated in the letter addressed to the share-try on the eve of France's day, at the very cantile organisations of the Republic holders in the New Zealand. Shipping moment when she was preparing for the have been notified that these coins are legal tender and shall circulate accord Company, in regard to the proposal for great festival of her year. No man has ing to their face vaino.
the amalgamation of the two enterprises. a better right than he to utter the ery All In Connection with the above, the This communication points out that the Fire la France! For many years he hits Chinese Chamber of Commerce at Tien market value of the New Zealand ordin-worked to revive the ancient spirit of the tsin will hold a special meeting on the ary: shares of £10 is £21, and the market Crusader, which still breathes in every For many years he has 25th just, to consider the circulation of value of £10 of P. und 0.sferred stock rendumun. these now subsidiary coins, because at the
equivalent to 11 temeent pieces; Hence, it is feared, there will be vat incon shareholders are reminded in the letter venience if the new subsidiary coins should circulate at their fare ralne, with out premium or discount.
is about £2. The dividend on the Newtaught the sound lesson that energy lives
present moinen, one silver dollar is | Zealand, ordinary shares has recently not only, in the capital, but in the pro-
GAMBLING IN KWANGTUNG.
Eleven members of the National As
been at the rate of 8 per cent., and the
that the P. and O. Company's bonus and dividend on its deferred stock for the year ended the 30th September last, aggregated 15 per cant. We might Did says the 'men, that the distribu tien took the form, of dividend of 10 per
cent, and a bonus of ♪ per cont., all tax
free, and, farther, that the interio divi
vinces.
PLUDES OF CHIVALRY. By arousing the local patriotism of France he has taught her citizens what it means to defend their hearths against the invader. Aud when the hour of trial enne, the French were ready, They were not the careless degenerates whom They proved themselves of the true breed, the poor fancy of the Germans painted, dend declared in April last, for the half worthy descendants of the men who set sail with Saint Louie from Aigues Morten year was again 10 per cent. pointed out that if last year's practice who obeyed the call of Joan of Are to We then to wrest the holy places from the infidel, is followed of paying the dividends in drive the foe from their land, who fought For tens of years, the natives of equal instalments, the distribution for for glory under the Great Monarch, and Kwangiang have experienced the misery the whole year will e 19 per cent, to who shared Napoleon's pride in and wog caused by gambling, which is gether with the bonus of 5 per cent." worse than deluge and wild beast. At The P. and O. an obviously consolidat-field. the end of the late Ching Dynasty, the
sembly (says the rking Daily News) have submitted the following Bill request ing the prohibition of gambling in Ewangtung province:
the
DISCIPLINE AND ROUTINE.
ranks, including Patrolmen, will at- tend at the Victoria Theatre at 3.40 p.m. punctually on Thursday, Sep- tember 7th. Uniform, with helmets. or caps, but without rifles. First Shift Patrolnen will progred tv
their Stations at the conclusion of the Lecture which will be delivered on this occasion. Second Shift Putrola will popori for duty as 1.shak,
Medical exempts only may absent them-
selves
Mon will report to their Section, etc. Commanders outside the Theatre.
All Roll Books to be handed to the Ser-
geant-Major at 3.45 p.m.
F. C: JENKIS,
D.S.P. (K).
eagles of France on toany a hard-won and they are determined that it shalf never take root in French soil: When they have won, they will have saved theis If they country from a deadly peril. die, they die the death of martyrs, and with a martyr's serenity they meet their
fate..
natives of that province petitioned the ing their position and their prospects. The French, moreover, in spite of their Throne, which literally abandoned the seem to be exceptionally good. It is to Government, cling piously to the past. revenue of several million dollars levied be hoped that the clients of the Company Not even a passionate love of new ideas on gamblers, and introduced a provisionin India may benefit before long from can make the forget the honoured trudi in the law prohibiting forever the revival its increasing prosperity and financial tions of their rate. Though they live of gambling in that province. This law strength by a reduction in the fares now
under a Republic, they still cherish the
In vain have the Germans tried to. was vol respected by Lung Chai-kwong ruling between this country and Europe. rules of chivalry. On July 31st, 1914, understand. They believed the French. after his appointment as Chiangchun of
says M. Barres, the young officers of St.
to be gay and careless, and they did not the province, and he did not hesitate to EFFECTIVE STEPS AGAINST. Cyr swore that they would go into action know that gaieis, a stranger to them- bring misery apon the people if he only
MOSQUITOES.
and receive their baptism of fire in full selves, is a form of courage.
What dress with white gloves and plumed indeed, is gaiety but the art of life truly képis. They kept their oath and paid the interpreted? They are not afraid of price of their bravery and pride. It was death who have loved life. Should they
I could extort money from them. In order
to reintroduce gambling into the pro- In its comparative freedom from since he made many excuses and gave malaria the army in and around Salonika better names to various kinds of cam- is reaping the fruits. of the thorough magnificent, if it were not war, and gave not be ready to depart who have bling. At first he declared that the con- steps take by the medical service lasta tras presage of victory. Thus did the sparned the great gifts of God? ebarity purposes, but afterwards be said
hot
tributions were levied from gamblers for i spring to destroy the mosquitoes' bread- heroes of Fontenoy invite the enemy fo Only the starveling soul, for whom all
be
should not fight of his country and
that it was for the payment of troups, ing places. A map was prepared show-fire first, and in the same spirit of knight-things are drab, shrinks from the strife The military expenses for the province ing every rivaler, pool, and swamp hood shall the French fight, let us hope, and the sacrifice, inventing reasons whe are not one-third of those of the late Some of the latter were very large, a mil until the end of time. régime, but
the French are calmly gay, even on the or so long, but Greek labour was engaged And again says M. Barrès," The vaunting his cowardice for a virtue. But money raised from garn- blore is much tuore Lung has done his and all of them were drained inte run- French fight religiously." They take up battle field, and we are confident, there worst to the people of Kwangtung, and n'ng streams. Fools were filled up and arms, not merely to defeat the foo but fore, that, in the single revolution of a being representatives of the people we anything that could not be filled or drain to bring justice and beauty upon are bound by duty to approach the Can- ed was thoroughly sprayed, Special earth. In defending France they defend year, we shall celebrate the national festival of France without a Geruan left their beliefs, their hopes, their arts. tral Government for them, with the hope malaria officers have been appointed to
upon French soil, and with the League 108 that on order be issued immediately to each division, who tour constantly about They know what is the hideous, devastat of Patriots reverently assembled
Kwangtung for the prohibition of gam- the divisional areas locking for any ing thing which the Germans call Kultur, liberated Strassburg,AN ENGLISH VAN bling of various descriptions."
(Continued on neat Column.): 4.(in the Daily Mail).
Forgotten spot.
the