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· MISS; CHENG OF CHINA.
AN INTERVIEW IN PARIS,"
Young China Nobold China. - Do you know," sið Mile, Cheng in Paris, thas three hundred years ago China was putting into practice those ciples that the world hopes triumph in the new,tovant of the
FUTURE, OF SHIPBUILDING. Commenting on shipbuilding prospects, the Liverpool Journal of Commerce says the probable course of events in the ritish shipbuilding and marine engine-
Mr. Hurley, Chairman of the United State Shipping Board, speaking recent- ing industries, though always a complex at New York, gave an outline of the roblem has since the year 1914 become creasingly discult, as to the quintions
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The present situation," our contour porary, says, " differs mainly from any presa conditions in three ways. There is a prospect of organized intensive com
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RACIAL IMMUNITY TO DISEASE..
PREVENTION OF PLAGUES The Pay Press recently published an interview with the &O.E. regarding the spread of plague in this Colony and the best methods of combating them. It is League of Nations! Yes, at a time when Sically accepted that plague com
maniested to human beings through the
can citizens at the world market price for continual and bloody wars, China, the "ney of the rath" "A theory has incontestable Queen of the East, had recently am proponded thatents are As condition of sale maximum renounced militarism and, professing gradually developing, immunity from right rates will be set. Twenty-five and practising the most resplute pacifism, Plague infection. In connection with per cent of the price would be paid down had thrown open to all and sandry her this, it is interesting to read what, br.
Bacteriologion! Enstitute and an authes That did not last, 1 objectesi. rity on Tropical diseases, sys: No, because that barbarous Manchu The theory that rats
tition with other countries, principally and the mat iu instalments covering teneivilisation, then the most advanced in. Nicholls, Director of the Ceylon
the 'nited States. The capacity of the shipyards in the United Kingdom bas en largely insreased. There is a world shortage of tonnages
POST WAR COMPRTATION,
the world."
radually.
shipowners are to be charged 3 per cent. wears, while on the unpaid balaned the
The Shipowner is responsible for insur- ance. tpt the Lovernment will provides conquered our entry, le developing immanity from plague infec the long and will Rowinate one directoreng replied, and brutally spied nition and may be expectek soon to ecotug
on each company purchasing ships.
* NO POREIGN TRANSFERS.
tiens of justice and liberty. For four latin Ruences hostile to its methods of be very perfect. Certainly, I aur of opinion [completely plagué proof does not seem to
A second fund will be devoted to me.ppression might infitrate from without, that plugue has not been long enough
chant marine development.
Coylem
With regard to competition this journal ** the prospect of more extended competition after the war is one which is not likely to endure for a very long
the dynasty closed the door of China to either in India or Ceylon, for racial in Ento this all foreigners,
munity to have been established. period and it makes the prediction that fund will be paid 1 per cent of above)
From exneric.ce in this country and in 5 per vent interest revived by the Gov-ago the Chinese revolatan muverded, at disappear altogether from India and From this depressing uke mine sears too early to judge whether it will the United Stites, and from reports eres from the shipowners and also
1st in freeing the country, and now our received concerning the character of the the profits made by the lovernment on
The question of racial imamenity to new Government "wishes for only one shing to co-pperate with the Allis for disease, continues Dr. Nicholls, is a special war piparations made by me insurance, amounting to an scinated social and industrial questions, angulation of one of the South Sea Estairs
A common future in all econociend,ry big problem.
Certain native po- riou to produce more tonnage, the
per rent. of the total liability assumed. ake part in the League of Sations for me time ago were extremely susceptible dvanite opinion has been formed that in This inter protit arises drause the Govs the happiness anti well-being of to measles and the epidemic killed over ten years at the outside American com- ernment with charge the full market nareunity.
half the inhabitants of the Isinnd. That petition in shipbuilding will have dwind-rate, but will handle the business more
But, mademoiselle. I have beard that island is now immage. It is ne immune such an extent that only special cheaply than private underwriters. The China sadready menuerd with Ru
as the rest of the world. legislative action will keep it alive. Development Fund will amount to about shevisan
It will be spent.Mendacious
It is no doubt, exceedingly difficult It is false came the vivacious reply to explain it. I will just give you an- Bluntly, the shipyards on the other side,500,000 in the year.
f the Atlantic will not be capable often relping the shipowners to maintain rulated in order to separate our Eatsother example. Europeans are more im-
Fumours are being re- building ships cheaper than they jean he
transport along new and unremunerative produced in this country. The struggle,
trom that of the Allies hinese revolu. There is no doubt about it. Hopter
mune to leprosy than any other nation. true that. it says, is not likely to be an easy on Power without the express consent of tha
like all evolutions, our Ch No ship may transfer to a foreign tipu had its hours of trouble. But what is that their ancestors have suffered more and acknowledges the result depends on American Government.
are they compared with, the shocks which in the past from this disease and rncial the energy and initiative" shown by our dipbild rs and engineers. Naturally
rent France in 1795 and those which are imevnity has been established. There is ravaging and devastating Russia
practically an leprosy in Europe at the present time, Europe suffered periodi immune to-day.
world shortage of tonnage means
American shipping can compete with On the fundamental question whether British, Mr. Hurle tates that America
It 18
The reason
"I repeat, I have jast visited the thing of the North and of the South, Anally from plague threaks, but it is
lenty of work for woopybody even the pages or same re 75 dollars (28) "greement between the two parties s
•hance over period is completed. Eat the munthly, while British war wages ar Anerosted facilities both in, they dollars (ies), or narly as much And broad in a somewhat short limit to this period of prosperity which y most conservative estimate laers ut, five |
REGULATIONS OF SALE.
sinned; everywhere is a desire to se: the final triumph throughout the world of the ideal which has
always been Chines nation, which
Dr.
PLAGUE EASILY PREVENTED: Plague is ensily prevented." Nicholls added. dear the The scheme, is based on the assumption brought it into the war--right by justice dirt, lars and squalor. The public or It is associated with ears and the prediction is made that that £200,000 worth of shipping" will be opposed to right by might. We hays know the dangers of the disease, and that at the end of the veriod of work incapital in excess of the purchase price during the war, our Republic being so
at least a good proportion is getting to janvalted No company may apply green able to do all we would have wished plenty the situation will be approximate. ly follows: this freight market will be paid to date, which saferard is design young, but we have done all we could to die ont. More cleanliness is being is one of the reasons why plague is likely stabilised; owners will become chary of co against stock jobbing. The scheme. We have sent soldiers and workmen. We observed now than some time ago. The placing further orders; and, owing to the 15 ocean-going steel cargo ships, were with you in hort. And yet Mlle. reason why plague sticks to a leality, is increased capacity of our shipyarda. slips
agregating 3,395,000 dead-weight toos. Cheng stops for an instant, then with hopause of the conditions of that loenlity. will gradually become idle. Therefore,.
overnment building contracts cuver profound emotion if you only kare Plage does not spread to the sanitary unless something unforeseen happens, weight tons. The total programme will arrived here!
F.336 similar vessels of 9.25.000 dend how my heart has been torn since parts of a town. as a rule. I do not thera will be a period of depression
There is so much mis-say that you may not have a case of during which only the best yards will give America Rearly 17,000,000 dend: understanding about what we are plague in the cleanest part of a town, but show good returns."
what we have been, and what we want Mr. Harley 'claims that on November
be become in the world!! There sema 11th he had it shipyards practically most legitimate rights."
to be complete "igaurance even of van ways. This he says, is more than double completed. including 1.8s launching And the number of yards in the rest of the
PROSPECTS FOR TEN YEARU,
weight tons in 1920.
The journal anys the possibilities for th next ten vớnra; may, thus be marised Shipbuilding and engineering are likely to experience, from five to Soven years prosperity, followed by a period of way, two years' keen competi tion, and then by a somewhat indefinite THE MIRCANTILE MARINE. term of depression.
CAPT
FRYATTS MURDER. GERMAN COURT'S VERDICT.
FROM THE DAILY TELEGRAPH'A
CORRESPONDENT.
SPECIAL
BERLIN.
world.
LONDON'S FORTHCOMING
to
and
PAGEANT.
I
stored to as the liberty we lost under the
are these right! ** Oh, imply that we should have re
Manchu dynasty, and all that was then
fomented in our country, to develop our taken from us by force. That we should be left alone, without trouble, being own institutions freely. That Beal should be given us in the organisation of our finance and it the opening up of our safettered. Kiau chau was brutally torn edustries; that our commerce, should be fren us by the Germans. Would it not its be natural to give it back to 118
the rule with plague is that it sticks to an unrtran locality."
CHINESE DECORATIONS. CONFERMENT ON BRITISH OFFICIALS.
The King has granted authority to wear the insignin of the Order of the Excellent Crop and the Order of the against their respective names, which, der Striped Tiger of the classes indicated corations have been conferred upon them hy the President of the Republic of China- dered by them:- in reengnition of valuable services run.
URDER OF THE EXCELLENT CRUP. W. Ritchie. Shanghai: CH. Shields, Class HL--Postal Commissioners W Canton J. Stirling, Nanking; and J. Sec Audit Dept., Directorate-Grh. DẾ. Els MeDowall. Kiangi; and D. McLorn, Porta
Class IV. W. A. Sturmberg. Acting Set, Directorate Gen, of Posts; C. B Otand-Hill, Acting Postal Commr.. Han- kow; D. J. Mullen, late Postal Commr., Shansi; F. A. Nixon, Acting Postal Postal Commr., Peking, J. C. Parkin; Commr., Shansi; J. A. Greenfield, Dep. Dep. Postal Commr, Canton E. F. S. Newman, Acting Postal Coming., Chan, sha; J. Aiston, Supt. of Section, Han- kow, Tientsin Pakow Ry; V. O'Kane, Standard Oil Co., Hankow.
Cina V-T. N. Manhers, Acting Poz Dep. Postal Commr.. Chihli; G. Mellows, tal Commr, Kuangsi; V. Smith, Acting Acting Postal Commr., Shensi; T. H. Gwynne, Asst. Directorate-Grn. of Posts. CADER OF THE STRIPED TIGER. Class IV.-H. D. Summers, Secretary Postal Commr., Tientsin.
On Saturday, July 19th, Fondon is to have an opoprtunity of paying tribute to the British mercantile marine for magnificent services during the great war. Under the auspices of a committee head struggling for justice but even for its Our infant Republic is not only ed by Mr. C. de Rongemont, chairman of Loyd's, every shipowner in the coup-
very existence The Conference annot The German Commission of Inquiry for the first time adequate use of the one if the grievances of a nation of
brys
be invited to take part and settlement can be a just and an enduring and get it. Do"
you think that the peace into alleged breaches of international law Thames Embankment is contemplated 40,000,000 people are not righted'? to-day pronounced that the execution of The iden is that from Blackfriars to "All I know, Captain Fryst constituted no Much breach, Chelsea, there shall be a procession of hun-Government has found in you
I answered, is that your inasmuch as the court-martial procedure dreds of ship's lifeboats, decorated with Ambassador as well as a charming one. And the provisions of German military the colours of the various lines, and man-
a very uble Faw were correctly observed. These proned by men who again
When I think that most of us imagine visions,
it is held conform with interna- their lives in follow and again risked Chinese women shut up in haremas, with Taw in recognition of the right of merchant, ves
the absence of a general The newly formed League efeting at the mentality and the knowledge of
National
Arts for slaves! What a change!", sels to defend themselves.
Ceremony,
5.9. It is not a change," she said, it is The Commission further decides that of the Embankment, Chinese women could become generals,
Berners-street, Londo
W. I will under just a return to tradition. there was no miscarriage of justice, as the pageantry, and the music. on lines Ministers,
In old days the evidence Fryntt's offencefficient, and Captain
was confirmed by suber the Empire auit.ible to
this tribute of the capital of quent disclosures from his log book.. expresses regret. however. nt the refusal mercantile marine were not known to the It For obvious reasons the deeds of the of the Foreign Office request for the post-vast majority of people during the war,
TRADE MARKS IN JAPAN. ponement of proceedings, and at the im but under the spervision of Sir Norman mediate
execution, but exonerates every Hill a record is being
The Board of Trade hayo received no ene responsible.,
prepared. This unofficial legal opinion as to the position publication will help the public to realise The proceedings, as in the Wittenberg the debt we owe to the seamen who fear under Japanese law of the owner of an Camp cas were unsatisfactory because lessly carried on with no defence against unregistered trade mark in use in Japan. of their ridiculous nature. The only wit the enemy are a lifeboat. nesses were the accused themselves and instance of men refusing to put to se
There is no their expert while the "hein's talling torpedo, mine, or gunfire. The fighting in upon, and intentionally imitated in
supporters, who bullied the
It appears from this opinion that the had shipwrecked by gainst them could only be put by devious services have their due meed of recogni
owner of a mark used but not registered devices Atternata by Herr Celin Gross tion, and it is peculiarly suitable that Japan by another párty has no remedy to question the "Naval Prosecutor, the the efforts of the non-combatant tenten by way of a passing-off action or by action
directly responsible for Captain should beoric Thames, which provide no- Fryatt's death.
be acknowledged from the hanka no Foreign Office useless, I
for what in English law might amount in the feld is executed immediately; and Daily Telegraph.
death penalty commodation for thousands of spectators. speaking, the Japanese law takes the view to & Common Law fraud. Generally Bruges was a battlefield," were the sort of answers given by this typical military.
that, on a sale of goods baring en imits. lawyer of the worst type Herr Bern
tion of a trade mark not registered in stein, when putting weighty points of The death ourred
Japan, the purchaser inay or may not, young Admiralty expert,
We laughed down by after an operation in n nursing home at remedy against the seller; but that the on April 17th according to circumstances, have a legal The only relief Captain Fryatt's skill and courage in Richard, at the age of 73. The deceased, protection which the Japanese Trade was a testimonial to Hendon, "of the Rev. Dr. Timothy having neglected to avail himself of the owner of the true unregistered mark, sidentally given by a submarine com- wander in describing his duel with the who bad spent 15 years in China, was Mark Law affords, has no legal ground Bruker. "Owing to a mistake the regarded in many respects as one of the for complaint. nars of my subordinate in diving instead most prominent and remarkable English The true ow er of a mark may, how- of dodging," he said, "
nid, Fryatt nearly men in the Celestial Empire, in which ever, in the following cases, be able to wank mg by a daring mancayre. For he bold the title of Mandarin of the first register and protect it, even where a con- some minutes we gave ourselves up for rank, and had been awarded a number flicting mark has already been registered lost. At this stage of the war our sub of Chinese orders. His work was in con- by another person, namely:(a) If the in the hands of a brave swift steamer, nection with the Baptist Missionary mark had become publicly known as be- | marines were no match for a
In view of the finding in this enam
Society, and more particularly as the longing to some person other than the which reduces international law to the secretary of the Christian Literature person in whose name the conflicting sons, according to the Registrar-General'a One thousand four hundred and six per- level of the German military code and appointed lecturer to oficials, and among has been used in Japan by the applicant Wales, during 1917 as
Society, for China. He had acted as an mark was registered; or () if the mark Returns, were divorced, in England and this Comission to the level of the Bruges the appointments he had held during his or his predecessor in title in good faith 1.980 in 1876. which empared with
in Lotional
necessary.
Directorate Gen. of Ponta; A. H. Hyland,
thief, Jamieson, Loco. Supt., Peking-Mukden Class V.D. P. Ricketts, Engr-in- Peking Mukden Rly.: FA. Riv.; W. D. S. Henderson, Accountant, Peking-Mukden Rly.
Class FI.-W. C Dodda, Chief Traffic Inspector. Tientsin-Pukow R.; L J. Newmarch M.1.C.E.. Sen. Dist. Engr Peking Mukden Bl W. H. Strele, Dep. CC, Martin, Dist. Engr., Peking Traffic Manager, Peking-Mukden Bly.
Brown. Chief Accountant. Canton-Ban- Engr.. Canton Hankow Rly.: T. G. J. Mukden Rij.; C." E. Stewart, M.I.C.E,
how Rv: D. Fraser, Chief Loco, Supt. Canton-Hankow Rly. Peking-Mukden Rly..
Class VII-J. H. Moffat. Loco. Bapt.,
DIVORCES IN 7917:
with 1.712.in 1914.
court-martial. I consider any further re port of the Commission proceedings un-extensive expericace in China was that from a date prior to July 1st, 1998, con- were the highest figures yet recorded. of an adviser upon reforms to the arbit tinuously to the date of application. In The figures for 1913 were 1.154, and after rators chosen by the Chinese pleninoten this case the owners of both marks may the large increase to 1.319 in 1814 they arits to settle affairs after the Boxer be able to use them at one and the same outbreak. He did much towards exten- time
apain dropred to 1.260 in 1915. sion of knowledge in China and his name.
Four hundred and twenty-nine divorced The full opinion may be consulted by
men and 369 divorced women remarried in 1917
The number of divorced men
w
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Taiynan-fa University. He was well plication to the Commercial Relations at women, and in 1917 the axe
is linked with the establishment of the interested firms by appointment on ap remarrying is generally greater than that versed in all matters dealing with educa and Treaties Department. Board of tion in China--Ex. "
Trade, Gwydyr House, Whitehall, 8.W.1.1914 the position wits reversed.
greater than usual, whereas in 1913 and