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To leave the Tuchana in the saddle with CHINESE TELEGRAMS. the knowledge that they would ride rough- shod over any constitutional mandate i (BY. COURTESY OF THE "CHUNG NOČI which displeased them would be to court"
SAN POL"] disaster and invite the foreign'interven-.
CHINESE. DELEGATE TO THE tion which so many are anxious to avoid.
PEACE CONFERENCE.. Patriotic Chinese do not disgrise the fact į that China cannot work out its salvation unsided. The required aid will not be withheld oncë it becomes evident that the
PRING, November 15th. It is stated that Luk Ching-chang will be appointed China's plenipotentiary to.
reactionarias are too powerful and too the Peace Conference in Europe. solish to permit of an ordered Govern ment being established.
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GERMANS IN HAMEEN,
We are formed that the Germans.in- Shamcen, after receiving the British Consul'a notification, are preparing to leave Shameen during November, THE CIVIL GOVERNO KAHIP.
It is astonishing how the tens of thou- sands of useless soldiery are maintained in the present state of national impe- cuniosity, According to the reported terms of Japan's conditions precedent to the remission of the Boxer Indemnity which, however, have been officially denied-it was stipulated that China was not to borrow money from any other foreign country. Caustic Chinese comment pointed out that the proceeds
It was decided by the Constitutional from the several railway and other loans Conference yesterday that the Civil would finance a campaign against the Governor in every province must. first PROPHYLACTIC OINTMENT. South for months. Be that as it may, it be elected by the Provincial Assembly: is significant that about two or three and subsequently obtain, the sanction of weeks ago, the Government approached the President to hold the office. The the Diplomatic Body with the request Governors are to be elected for a term of
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two and a half millions in the Quadruple in all cases to be appointed to serve Banks should be released. The request during the absence of the Governor. met with a rather blunt refusal, the. reply being that it could not be granted until the civil war was ended It was the Head, rumoured, also, that the Salt surplus would be withheld. These decisions gave a decidedly physical aspect to the advice tendered by the Powers counselling peace and warning China that if she neglected to do her duty as an ally she would fail to obtain a place at the Peace Confer
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HONGKONG, NOVEMBER 16TH, 1918.
THE PEACE MOVEMENT IN
CHINA.
from one of the largest Japanese com- panies in Tokio:-
*Warmest congratulations on the conclusion of a victorious Armistice, towards which the unceasing British efforts so gloriously, contributed"
South. Since then, however, it has been announced that the surplus from the THE LATE CAPTAIN CROMIE'S
Customs and Salt revenues have been returned to the Feking authorities, and that China is negotiating with the Allies for a big loan, secured on everything pledgable, with which to pay off recent small loans and reorganise, industry.
WOTEL
500n, and the collapse of the Central Empires brings that something nearer.
CAREER.
Acting Captain Francis N. A Cromie, D.8.0., B.N.,—who was killed, after kil ing with his own hand three of the Bolshevik troops who forced an entry into the British Embassy at Petrograd-joined the Submarine Service in
sub
This would seen to indicate that peace 1903, and was one of our earlier may be nearer than is generally she was in command of the Hongkong sub- marine officers. At the outbreak of war posed. Certainly conditions cannot be marine fotilla In June, 1815, he went home to take command of Submarine £19. permitted to go from bad to
In September, 1915, he proceeded to the... Something must happen Baltic, vid the Bound, in Submarine E19. indefinitely.
During the period of his service in the Baltic he torpedoed a German destroyer. in 1815, and the German light cruiser Undine in November, 1915, and in the months following sank or captured ten. steamers sailing under command of the Baltic Submarine Flotilla. When the Russian Revolution burst forth ha handled the delicate situation in which the British Submarine Flotilla was placed with great tact, earned the respect of the extremista by his fair dealing and firm attitude, and kept his flotilla working against the Germans. In October, 1917. April, 1918, when the submarines were prometed acting captain, and in destroyed and the crews dispersed, he was responsible for the arrangements of this successful operation. Owing to his know-
Capt. E. G. G. Sandemann, C.M.G., has been promoted Vice-Admiral.
A Thanksgiving Service is to be held to-morrow (Sunday) at 10 a.m. by Parsis in their place of worship in Elgin Street.
One ense (one death) of bubonic plague and one case (one death) of enteric fever were reported in the Colony in Thursday.
he was
A small fire broke out yesterday after-conditions prevailing in Russia Captain of Russian and familiarity with the noon in a Chinese dwelling in Pottinger Cromie remained on at the Embassy as Street. The Fire Brigade was summon Assistant, Naval Attaché, and shortly
afterwards ed and quickly extinguished the flames.
was made British Naval Attaché. Little damage was dọnd.
Mr. F. B. Unwin, newly-appointed Commissioner of Customs at Hankow, has recently arrived in that port, together with Mra and Miss Unwin. Mr. J. F. Oiesen, Commisioner at Bankow, has been transferred to Shanghai.
At the conclusion of the usual Friday prayer, a Thanksgiving Bervice was held in the Moslem Mosque, at which an appropriate address was delivered by Mr. A F., Arculli The speaker mentioned the glorious deeds of the Empire which have saved civilisation, and expressed, the loyalty and devotion of Musulmans to the King-Emperor
The collections at St. Andrew's, Kow.
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St. John's Church, Hankow on Novem
A very pretty wedding took place at ber 5th in the presence of a large con- gregation; when Miss Florence Wilson Ferguson was married to Mr. J. Calvin Houston. The bride is the daughter of Dr. John Ferguson, of Peking, adviser to the President, and the bridegroom the American Vice-Ceasul in Hankow. It
WHILE LIANG SUTH-YI is working strenuously through the Peace hastening Societies to effect a reunion between North and South, Bux Yar's is issuing characteristic telegrams breathing irre concilability. All parties are concerned with abstractions not one of them yet has offered a definite suggestion as a basis of discussion. That the Pence hastening. Societies, of which there are several, may conduce to a settlement is a hope which is still lively. The good offices of the men who are to practise persuasion in various centres have yet to be tested. SCH YAT-SES and WU TING-PANG, Seemoon, to-morrow, will be on behalf of the obdurate; so does Casa TSLIN, the Missions to Seamen. The money received was a white chrysanthemum wedding. will be used to start an endowment Fund mass of white blooms, says the C. C. Post. and the aisle, chancel and altar were a generalissime of the North. The other for the local branch of the Missions to The wedding procession was led by four Northern militarists are showing a dis- Beqanen, which has no endowment fund'
and no reserve funds. The service at 11 ushers-Messrs. Mann, Shedd, Corbin position towards compromise, but as any am. (Morning Prayer, Holy Communion and Donald Smith The maid of honour was Miss Gertrude Gammel. Miss Fer arrangements emanating from this source and Bermon) will be taken by the Rev.
guson was given away by her father. would be concluded with the Southern vico et 6 p.m. by Major Walmsley.
W. T. Featherstone, and the evening 'ser-
The best man was Mr. Raymond C. Mackay, of the American Consulate Tuchans they would not constitute a
Representations are being made to the General who, by the way, was leaving real solution of the problem, for they
Government, we understand, in favour his post of Vice-Consul the same evening would ignore the Constitutionalists of of the abandonment of the Defence Corps on furlough carrying with him the best FOR SALE
Canton, and perpetuate the accursed Camp on the ground that, the staffs of wishes of numerous friends and their
President Ho commercial houses having been reduced hopes that he will be reappointed to Ha YALESEND, 109, THE PEAL, Biz Brome military domination. GG Tan's Court, medists BXIA-CHANG, though anxiong for 2 Tribunal, unisex should not be dis Bishop Roots assisted by Dr. Ridgely the to minimum by the Military Service kow The service was performed by
possession.
cessation of strife, would not be a party located by the withdrawal of men who Chaplain of the Church.
are. admittedly indispensable, especially wedding a delightful reception was held. scheme
of this Bort. He
as the imminence of peace readers such at the residence of the Bishop and Mrs. wishes the civil control to be restored a proceeding wasteful and unnecessary, Boots. and the authority of Peking respected.
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