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Readers of your journal will, havo
noticed thes evidence furnished in your recent issues of the remarkable progress watch medical science, is, “faking 411
FRIDAY.
FEBRUARY
THE END OF THE OPIUM AN IMPERIAL -UNIVERSITY
COMBINE.
HOW CHINA TAKES OVER THE STOCKS,
STORY OF FINAL AGREEMENT.
As already announced the Chinese (v Chit. The papers read and the contri-ernment has entered into an agreement butions to the discuss at the recent with the opium merchants to purchase conference at Canton were by no means and use exclusively for medicinal pur stricted to the foreigners present but
poses the residue of foreign opium exist
FOR HONGKONG.
POLICE RESERVE GAZETTE.”
The third issue of the Hongkong Police In the current ing of the Yelle Dingen Reserve Guzelle is a very entertaining the following article, Intely referred to by production and contains much that 1 H.E. The Governor as having been the first of interest to others then members of suggestion of the Fongkong Luirersity, is the Corrs. The first of a series of sketches, reproduced from the Ching Mail af Decem- entitled Chinese Benefactors, is pube be 15th, 1905. It was written at the lished, dealing with the generosity of invitation of the then Editor of that paper the Hon Mr. Wei Yuk, C.M.G., who is (Mr. W. H. Donald) by the Editor of characterised as the prime Chinesa several illustrations including a carica fessor H10 Garrett. The article, will ture sketch, with a
point
ing article wider. entertaining it Mrs SBC Bose contributes Adoption something humorous to impart of leading Some Notes on
China," " Aunt foo
Dorothy bes
were largely from Chinese. Those coming on March 31st next estimated for chattar Yelloo. Druga in conjunction with Pra- godfather to our Corps. There are:
tributions from native sources indicato date as something under 2,000 cheats.
quit plainly that Chinese are already It will be recalled that by an agree ment entered into on May 1st, 1015 wit the Chinese Goverument, the Opium Com bine was to be permitted to sell its opium
the correspondence to which it give rise, was reprinted in pamphlet form by Mr. Donald. He posted these by the thousand the lenst likely to be interested in the mat to people all over the world who were in Sou
the
compoting and not unworthily, with their Japanese neighbours an investiga tion and original research. Quite satis factory progress is being made in this in the provinces of Kiangsu, Kinngel and to No-one can deny that, in the event, tre several Corps matters dealt with.
branch of science, and the various schools for medical study throughout this wido Empire are co-ordinating their studies. The medical journals now spread broad cast, with these conferences are having the intended effect of sinnlating the native genius. A very considerable number of excellent medical treatises have been translated into Chinese, including phar macopecia, nomenclature and standard works on the various branches of medical science. There is not yet no agreed system of nomenclature; this is ong of the pressing desdiruta. Dr. Cost and, of the Swatow Mission, has done very, meritorious service in trying to meer thin
Granted that more and more álleation is paid to the study of medicine, and allied subjects, the gain to the social life of China will be rapid and of the utmost importance. Sin his entrance into China the medical man has had a cough Gght. He saw at once the appalling need, The native herbalist and numberles
dices barred his way. Now the uglest and lowest ranks in the land udrai: his superior skill and reques his aid Young lacs who have finished their
High School training flock in ever
both Hongkong and Chinn owe something to
W. H. Dond,
Kwangtung free of all interference return for a contribution of $3,500 per chest. This agreement way to lost until March 31st, 1917 It will be recalled,
In spite of the scriptural injunction to the contrary, provision for the morrow, says the NC Daily News, that owings of the essentials of the well-being to the extensive smuggling in Kwangtung
opium
as the Combine alleged, and certainly to of a nation, particularly in these days the outbreak of revolution in Canton of rapid change and progress, aud in during the past summer, this agreement ongkong such provisions are extremely bruke down to a very serious extent in necessary at the present time. Within the last few years great changes have taken have taken the South, and while the agle of op in Kings and Kidugst continued fairly place in the Far Ess which will vitally well, the Combing found themselves last affect the conditions of trade and prosper summer with the end of their agreement ity in this colony. By hor defent of Rus si and by the consequent terms of peaco in sight and an amount of opium which it was quito imposible to liquidate within ile specified time.
THE HIGH PRICE OF OPIUME,
pan was added the cresujog achieve- ment to her wonderful career of advancre mert, which stands without precedent in the history of the world. And although
ran is our ally and is bound to us by 4 treaty of the most nigte nature, shu
will now be more than ever our rival though, we trust, always a friendly rival
development of China in the intule For there is in shadow of doubt that the restoration of lasting perce in the For Enst must lead to an increased alteration
The high price at which opium was then standing was the cause of consider abic criticistu, as it was argued that the Combine could have dispose of the stacks 11 hey had not been so greedy explanation that they give, however, that these paces arose partly from the tory large competition among native dealers for opium in 1915.2 Info the
1,000 chests e informed that as much as of opium were sold in a single day and the dealers were competing with each the present conditions of trade. The ather so vigorously that the prices naturally rose. In view of the high sums tendency will be for China to become more that the dealers, and paid for the opium and more open to trade. Treaty ports at that time it was subsequently impose Chinese Empire will be opened to will soon rease to exist and every port in
Shanghai
should appeal to all policemen, and there domestic subjects, Fanling Comedy "
In the course of a letter to the Corps, on the accasion of the second anniversary the D. §. P. (R), makes the following opportune comment. May I ask you, if any of you do, not to worry because you are not in either of the khaki-clad
enl Forces.
ces. A record of your in- dividual services to the Government is kept and is open to axamination, and I dered and efficichtly rendered there is say that in the matter of services ren- not another Auxiliary Force in the Colony with a better account to show, What is Superintendent to Constable, we have not more, our Pay Sheet shows that, front had a ten-cent piece between us since we started. No other local auxiliary
gay that "
HONGKONG POLICE RESERVE
MUSEETRY, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 18TH,
CRN
All members of the Staff No. 1 Platoon, Mounted Police, Maxim Gunners and all Company Inspector who nier (1) passed Part of the 1918. Course or (2) missed Part 1 of the 1017 Course will attend the Range on Sunday next Leave Biske Pier ab 9 am Drinks for tiffin time will be provided by Headquarters Club, Manliers in porsertion of Service Rifles will take sure to the Range Uniform with helmets. Residents in Kowloon my travel from the old Star Ferry Warf at 9 am by launch provided. by courtesy of the Green Faland Comcht Go
NOS 2 AND 4 COMPANIES,
Parts will be fired by thore eligible to
But on March dth
No. 2 Company will fire on March 4th.
CENTRAL STATION COMPOUND,
sible for the Combine to lower their prices without causing grave losses to the native formign enterprise The rural result ncreasing numbers to the nuspitulis eritra who lind stocks on their hands 01 this must be a great increase of dog on Sunday, February 25th, and purchased at considerably higher figures. lnterport trade, through branch lines of where they serve a period of four or more
In these circumstances the Opium Com-Samers, The more this develops the less vaars, receiving an education both in the bine first appriched the Government for will be the necessity for lage distribot
m extension of its agreement The contres like Hongkong and theory and practice of medicine. It Chinese Government refused and the for the huge godowns and wholesale ware The attention of all ranks is called to would be fateresting to note how many of Combine was not, on the wholes displease hoes of these parts will give way to
sintiler
Standing Order 139. storės practical Shops in the ports open to trade.
Buch
WBEVSKO POLICE SCHOOL. these lads are now full fledged pre with the refusal.
development will lead to hugely increased titioners i Canton and other proces THE SURPLUS STOCKS
There then arose the question of commercial prosperity for China, but will They moant up to a considerable nulu be? Tacir nicely got up consuling rooms darbus stacks in Shanghai and Hongkong the British share in that prosperity in
crease in
proportion One may
even look
Class 1 (Inspector Gerrard) Tuesday,
February 20th,
Class 2 (Inspector Gordon)– Wednesday,
Tebruary 21st,
19th
mediving (1oreign) stores indicate there where would remain over when the Opsound for assurance that it will remain Class (Inspector Grant)-Monday, Feb.
Combine's agreement came to an end, an,
not less than it is
success in their vocation Be it feniem.
1024 bered, however, that the foreign doctal the Combine argued that in face of the kifir from despizing the originai nusive Fargo em which they had paid under future with its ample the O.C. No Company will: détail 18.
the agreement of May, 1016, to the
the prospects, lies in the hands of two Powers Constable to attend withi Clitse 4. drug. The native Esculapian fraternity
Chinese Government on in agreement →Japan and the British. Empire, for went sitting will take place on can boast of exoc lent remedic, for 1
which through no fault of their on they need not take the German influence upon Tuesday, Feb. 27th at 6:30 p.ar. variety of ailments. Here, he thinks, he had not been able to use, some considera au Oriental race too seriously Landesin holds his own with the western.dius,bution was due to them with regard to this spite of the recent Imperial speech, the Joined No. 2 Platoon, C. K. Markar, he gracefully yields the palm to the prum After some negotiation the twentieth century, in the Far East at all
Water Police, P. A. Loader. foreign surgeon Chinese Government appointed Vice events will not belong to the German. The In other helds of foreign enterprise in President Reag Kue-chang together in their emigration laws takes place, are United States also, unless some alteration
(Sgd.) F. C JENKIN,
DSP (E), February 15th, 1917. Chipa no less progress may be noted the Civil Governot down to Bhang heavily handicapped by the diep offence:
special Opium Envoy
year
guruünce.
the
of Kiangon and
for
which they have caused among all classes in China, and are also at a disadvantage
It
been
STEENOTI
through berceries that they have past four years on further during 118 progress, Japan has of the North something for more than instance, would be the first to admit this Combine and considerably more trouble the wide through China, and now of higher education in Hongkong or in
the Opium far and
1 rhyfely in
asked, is
The gradual influence of foreign ambasen dorial, legislative and consular courts on hat, to bargain with the Opium Combine the ammistration of Chinese Jawy is very The upshot of these discussions is that the noticeable as the years pass. China is in Chinese Government has agreed to buy up to having no base of operation nearer than go as far as it might. On careful ex- no sense hide bourd to her own heavy all the stocks remaining on March 31st the Philippines. It is necessary to con amination it will be found that the educa aged systems. She moves whenever the next at TI 8,200 per chest payment to sider what our rival-for so Japan must tion provided in the schools of Hongkong sees the probable advantage to be gained be made in & per cent bonds of the first hu termal is doing in preparation for The recent revolution is merely an indica
republic sceared
on the Land the Future, and here her ratural position is of an elementary nature. To judge These bonds and national conditions of life give her masters, this is to a large extent the fault tion of the ferment in the Chioce mind Tax and the Stamp Duty
from the reports of the varions hand- No country in the world was so frood run for 30 years, but by special arrange a great advantage Japan is wise enough of the boys themselves in that they fears of her educational system as Chim. Her meat they are to be redeemed at the end to see that money used for the spread of
school too early to proceed to a higher ono mental effort was directed to the of ten. The price paid for the opium was Japaness influence and idens through standard of work. But if the British mastery of her daasics: While she not arrived at in view of the fact that the Chinn is not thrown away, but as really Empite intends to hold its own and to admits that she gave too much of her bonds stand at a considerable discount, counterpart of the bread cast upon the time to this, other nations have learned while the average price of opium for the waters. Long before the way, and cren prend its influence equally with its rival elementary education is needed. What is paid too little heed to the mastery of
spreading her missionaries of civilization ele
tion needed
is a regularly established system their own mother tongues, America for It may be pointed out that the
peace is once more restored their other words, University. If such an England has already done ko. Ching is with its native members in India in numbers will naturally, he
institution be set up so hear to him the poulding her educational schemes on the arriving at this agreement than with t method upon which such mission Chinaman of the Southern provices, and
*creased. But.
What great mission schemes, chiefly on those of Chinese Government. All kinds of fantas America and England. She is ever endte demands came from India and at one any work is based The cornerstone and probably of some of the Northern ones, will prefer to take advantage of it rather ing hor defective parts by copyire freely time i socmed possible that the British asential of the method is education Upan,
than of his Chen universities, for there is from the Mission schools and by engaging Government would have to be asked to modern lines. Japanese teachers
no doubt as to the eagerness of the rising with enhanced salaries, Mission school put pressure upon the native merchants. Chiug-in Peking they hold the pre tenchbys he is not grudged these acces Finally, however, the latter were brought dominant position in school and univerfaneration of chinese to absorb Western Western civilization. Such an saries, for the aim of all tuch foreign to reason and the agreement has now been sity training and, further, Japan herself institution could not be expected to pay offers higher education within her own its own way at first, there we are at a enterprise is to help in every possible signed and sealed. way the people of China. In a small LIBERAL TREATMENT.
borders to the Celestial seeker after wis disadvantage when we compare the small dont Naturally when the Chinaman finds mission, bordering on the Swatow Mission fields, there are twenty-one elementary On the whole it will probably be agreed that he can get an education in Japan salaries of Japanese professors and teachers with the much heavier ones necessary in schools which are self-supporting That that the manner in which the controversy
equa to that in England or Ame
Europeans. The fres must of necessity be
earlier all the expenses incurred. What appels socis of opium were brought in legally has the double advantage of being ad stages of its career But specially to the Chinese- mind is he and the Chinese Government could hardly jacent to his native land and
4 university
maral of these
ese schools, as well ge the refuse to recognize their existence seeing a mode of lito not dissimilar for his own established it Hongkong would rank aa instruction imparted. These schools have the manner in which the treaty, where In contrast with this, let us consider an Imperial asset and any
spent the opium 12.30 p.m. Cuedos & Co., Ltd, General the benediction of the native authorities under
what the British Empire is doing in the spent, entered China, was what
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ing acceptance on the part of the Chinese of methods, systems of teaching, superior s to their own
Government said of its come schools
interests
t
on it would be any public money as far as the prosperimen as well subsidy which provides the Ameer of no doubt that to a certain Afghanistan with guns to defend India
cast its bread upon sure and certain hope of a retura
deals myfreely all various
the past, the certainly with Combine and the latter
to
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89
influence
therefore, be
Government with
doing,
at a very distant date Without State aid or without liberal endowment from
Godown Oh, Trid. Mosing of Ehashchime ranks and clisses of the Chinese Republie may think the cloches hogy to do top stod yeh sehold de urad Eestion
prises, the huge social fabric of China will price for their surplus stocks which, as an absence of a general system, of is dead
uplifted at least we hope s But they are to be used for medicine, are not finite working toward an end, which is so such advances in fedal life will not amenable to conside tions of the price mit-ked a feature of the Japanese metsad come by foreign imposition, but by will paid by native opium dealers, with Therefore let us liamion the missionary some other source it would be impossi
dealerschool, and turn to Hongkong a be studied. we may tre and fountain-head of I
for a university to be started at all imaging, welcome any agreement in this in the Far East. What is the position in details of such a scheme de net com
the scope of this matter which seems to them fair. They Hongkong to day with regard to the details could be speedily arranged when have but the one desire, that Great education of the Chinese There is one a star had once been definitely decided Britain and British subjects generally large G
Government
ведов, Queen's Coupon It should be done, once and for all, with the loge, and a number of smaller district even with the hope of inducing trade ut opiura. That desire is now schools under Government control, besides the Government and people of Hongkong
number
of Schools maintained by the fature has in store that this artials has accomplished.
realise it some measure whethe SOME BAR AASHelous denominations. Now, it
heon written. There is no doubt that is not denied for a moment that these
Wednesday, 28th Feb
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There in now in the process of forms tion a national Liberty of Conscien Society, The chief purpose is to foster this principles amongst all classes Chinese. The basis of its constitution is
A various
to
as follows:
Chinese "Government do (1)That the
not determine what form of s religion is to be proposed,
Mr Stuart-Wortley's elevation to the schools have done and are doing excellent England and Japan, are to be friendl (2)—That the Society have its head peerage leaves Mr. P. O'Connor the work in their own way. To quote from rivals hat rivals nevertheless for the
the
of the Head Mastör
commercial predominance of the Far Tast annual reports of duarters in Peking
House of Commons. Mr. Burt is going left the college Honor to the Bare as Fast aging of Queen's College- Say 9,000 boys have is angled shove, be in dreaded to real one third are set our influence among the four hundred suggested indicated spread to retire at the close of this Parliament.tered on the mainland, then we have a million Mr O'Connor and Mr. Stuart Wortley wall army of 3,000 unpaid misionaries shall find that to quote once more, in a
on the mainland of Ching, w entered Parliament in the same year, engaged in spreading Western ideas 1880 Mr. O'Connor was a junior repor But excellent though the stuestion orn
slightly modified form, the words of a ter in Dublin before he went to London vided at these schools may be, it fails to tieth century, in, the Far East, belongs certaan Imperial personageThe twen (Continued of foot of nett Colum.) 10. Гарав.
(3) That all adults, male and female,
be eligible for admision. (4)That one's signature constitute
membership (5.) That the names of all members be annexed to pelitions presented, ta
the cojel Legislature for secar IR BESTch of journalistic employment ing this sacred right
forty years ago,