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PUNISHMENT\MANDATES - AGAINST
ANFUITES,
FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT]
THE HONGKONG – DAILTY PRESE, THURSDAY, AUGUST 12TH,
AN INTERVIEW WITH
GENERAL WUZ PEL-FU THE POLICY OF THE VICTORS
The Editor of the Chinne, Peking und Tientum:Timea, in the sarly part of this
weck. want to Pantingly, by motor along the Military road. and had an interview with General Wu Pei-fu in his private residenge. The Général had just returned PIKING, Aug och
from the nutskirts of Peking, where he took A@mandate' has been issued appointing
up the disbandment of Tuan - Chi-jui'z g Peng, Premier. Another mos="
troops. He stayed with General Tsao Kun date is expected to be issued to-day pre- throughent the night. The interview whe migating the Cabinet in which Chin Yang Feng will have the War Portfolio; xed up by General Wa at 8 o'clock the others members being Sah. Chen Wednesday. In answer to the many ques Ping, Minister for the Navy; Chow Tations of the Editor, General Wu said.-- Chi, Minister of Finance; Yeh Kung Cho, Tuan Chij organized the Ting: Kuo Minister of Communication; Wu Yen, Chus Army, to fight against us for the sake Minister of Foreign Affairs; Chang Chi of strengthening his own position and the Tan, Minister of Interior; Wang Nai Antu Clique. He had disposed ten differ Ping, Minister of Agriculture; Fan Yuan Lien, Minister of Education; Tang Kang, Minister of Justice.
PROMINENT ANFLITE REFUGEES
"IN (JAPANESE LEGATION.
Mr. Obata, the Japanese Minister, bas informed the Watchalopu that sbven pro minent Anfaites are sheltering is the Japanese, Legation under guard. Y
In this connection it may be mentioned that notices with photographis attachéd bars! been posted throughout Peking offering rewards for the empture of eight Anfu, leaders. The list, and the amoant offered: for each, includes:—
Little Hsu, $30,000, Tan Tu-chan $30,000. Tuan Chi-kwei, $20,3000.
Yao Tseng, $20,000;
Sao Euchia, 10000,
Cha Shon, $20,000,
Liang Hung-chi, *120,000, Li Shih-hao, $20,000,
A second list of those to be punished has been prepared and includes the names of Tao Jai-lin, Lur Chengyu, Chang Chung hiang and Chen L. Many of these are -currently reported to be in the Legation
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TSAO KUN REPUDIATES THE
SCHEME
A telegram bas sent out by the Secre Lariat of the High Commissiouer's yamen.--| General Taxo Kun, Tuchun of Chihli in sho
“RATHER LIKE SLAVERY.”- RULES OF CHINESE GUILDS. MAGISTRATE REFCSEN TO UPHOLD
THEM
High Commissioner of Four, privinterThe following intersting judgment was pudiating the text of the telegrams that delivered by Mfr. 8. O. Hutchison, pen was sent by General Wi Pol-fh and say in the care in which a Chinese, claring that the telegram is null and void. wha charged with quitting service without
All the provinces are asked not to treat pitica General Wu Peisfuy proposal seriously or binding on Tuchup Tao -“anyway.
Kung
From this it can readily be seen that dis sension and rivalries in the Chibli camp
have begun early.
PUNISHMENTU MANDATES.
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The facts were that the man left his employment mwing, it is alleged, $42.92- paid him as an advance, The employer wished to present his going away till he had wiped out the debt, acording to the
rules of a Chinese guild. Mr. Hutchison at the hearing, remarked that the arrange ment seemed rather like slavery.
Mr Hutchison's judgment VHS BA Follows:-In this case the complainant appears to have volied on thein guild milles and not on the laws of the Colony, There are definite provisions in the Ordi- names for the controlling of labour. These have not been complied with in this case. In cannot, therefore, be held that the employee is bound to work for his employer till all his debts have been paid off. The proper remedy is a civil setion, Again, the charge has been brought under subsection
show that there has been a serious low as contemplate by that section. The charge, under this section, therefore, iniks. I would like it to be undeson that an employee who leaves the service ад employer without notice: is guilty offence, but I tot tien int been proved in the first instance. I dis
Parise, July 30th The long expected “Punishment Man date" was issued last night, Punishesent vat expeditions to fight against us, vizicketwas ordered for General Han Sku-cheng, the First Division of the Frontier Defence tieneral Tuan Chi-kuei, Meters Teng Army* 2. the Fifteenth Division 3, the Yu-ching Ting Shih-yuan, Chn Shen, Third Division of the Frontier Defens Wang Chi-hing, Linng Hung-chi, Ino Army: 4, the ad, 4th and 5th Brigades theng, Li Shih-hao and Yao-cheng of the North-Western Army;; 5, the lat The majestic law of the land is to re and 3rd Brigader at Loyang (Hons); gulate the conduct of the people. Punish
the Second Division of the Frontier. ment is provided for any one acting Defence Army of Tainaniu 7, the Brigades against it. When Hau Shu tseng and on the Upper Yangtze River; a the Shepsiothers started the recent military cams Nothing has been proved before me to Force; 9, the Anhui Force; 10, the troops paign in the Metropolitan Area and caused of Chekiang excepting the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, anfferings to the people, it was originally 4th 6th, and 7th Expeditions. Those which due to their refusal to obey the orders of have been, mobilized are still in their original, the Government, which enjoined the trans positions, and must be disbanded as,oner. Pley of the Frontier Defence Troops to the The President should promulgate the six Ministry of War. At first they refused to demand of the Chibir Armies ar nos se hand over the troops to the Ministry and possible, and General Taso Kun and later on they incited the troops into taking Chang Tao-lin will go in Peking to settle up arms. They further forced Tuan Chi- the, arisis for the Government. There are ju, Chien Wet Shang Chang Chan, to four things which the Generals will carry create a name of Ting Kue chan and nut, viz.: 1, before the organisation of a arbitrarily mobilised other troops. They occupied strategical positions and tool possession of arms. All their unlawful acts. were committer) for the fartherança of selfish - ends ---iseng-Yu-ching-and-"Taan. Chi-kei, being in longue with them, took part in their secret plots or in military "perations while others plotted against the The Indian constable said that he was peace and order of the public. They have on duty in Cook's Street when defendant, also abused their power and misappro who was accompanied by some other haw Priated Government funds. If they are
Indian devil" The constable asked him not severely punished how can we vindicata kers, came up to him and called him an the law of the land and give warning to others. It is hereby ordered that Hihat he meant by it and was again oufled ***Indian devil.” The constable meczod Shu-toeng, Theng Yu-ching, Tuan Chirkel,"
the man, who said “: What are you, grumbl- Ting Shih-yuan, Chu-Shen, Wang Chi
Ring
new Cabinet, the administration should be
in the hands of the Military; 2, to make a permanent peace with the South, and abolish the Peace Conference at Shangbai;
3, to declare that all the secret treaties and loans which have been contracted with any country are null and voic, and 4, to organise a National Conference to decide the ways and means of restoration and recti PEKINO, July 31st,
fication of the Constitution. The general Events have been kateitscopie during the phat wook. The rout of the Tuanites hasles for the organisation of the National
been completed, and their disorganisce and dispersed forces have been collected and disbanded by au organisation set up for the purpose or absorbed in the armier - of General Chang Tro-lin, às way to be expected the President, sent back on his
Conference are
The name of the Conference will be the Kao Mix T Huf
their
charge defendant..
INDIAN DEVIL”.
INGENIOUS EXPLANATION BY
FRIEND
At the Magistracy, - yesterday, Chinese was charged with using abusire language to an Indian constable.
---This Conference is to be organized by "tung, Liang, Hung-chi, Yoo Cheng, Lat, are you not-en-Indian devil! If
the people themselves avoiding any official supervision
-Its policy is to decide, by the people,
Shib hao and Yoo Kup-chang be hereby deprived of all their official titles, Orders
of Merit and Decorations. The Peking
you are not, What are you?" He also made ase of filthy expressions,
road about the weather, and the cons Defendant it, he was talking to his - several previous mandates issued in:
*ll the questions of restoration, constitu- Gendarmerie, and the Metropolitan Police name. He has restored Too Kun and Wution and election, etc Pei-fu to their original ranks and honours,
are hershy ordered to take measures forent lack of business, when the constable
extenuation for them,
A friend said that he told the defendant
that the weather was much worse than the devil and the constable misunderstood him.
Inspector, Aria said that the hawkers were sore because they were not allowed to hawk in the strects.
Defendant was fined $5.
FAILING TO REGISTER.
A PORTUGUESE "BIRD OF PASSAGE FINED $i.
hus accepted the resignation of Marshal to be elected by Chambers of Commerce, reance with law. The Ministries of Finance
The members of the Conference are their arrest so as to punish them in accord.. ordered him not to make, a noise. Ta Chi-ju, has sanctioned the disband presentatives of agriculture, labour and and Communications are hereby ordered ment of the Frontier Defence Force, and students of each district, each department to investigate the financial acounts of their has dismissed a number of Anfu oficials, only to elect one representative. (All these respective Ministries and submit a repert from Cabinet Ministers to the Chief of
representatives are to be summoned to the on the results of their investigations to the Pober. The Anfa debacle is indeed COSTA
capitals of each province for election, and Government for examination. Although plote. It is exemplified in the posters the number of members elected will be one magnanimity is the policy of the Govern displayed all over the city to-day offering fifth of the total number. They must thenment, yet such kind of flagrant crimes are rewards for the arrest of Little Hau, the assemble at the General Conference, which liable to the punishment provided by the lote Minister of Communications, the late will be at Tientsin or Shanghai, as cireum. law of the land. It cannot unjustly plead Minister of Finance, the late Minister of
stances provide); Justice and sundry others....
6.The district conference is to he super. According to a telegram from Wang Many of the wantede have been shel-vised by the Chambers of each district, Chanyuan, Inspector-General of Liang tering in the Legation Quarter, and conster the Provincial Conference is to be super. H, (Hunan and Hupch). Wa Kuang-hain, nation was widespread when it became
rised by the district conferences and Commander-in-Chief of the Upper Yang known that as de putcomes p
of Diplomatic
General Conference is to be supervised by tzn Reaches has been plotting scdition with
the notorious rebel leaders in Hankow, Colony. considered action this right of asylum was
tho Provincia] Conference; ja
According to his scheme, he first intended no longer to be extended, However, it has
to make use of the stragglers of the Hunna
Mr. G. R. Haywood, for the defence, not produced any sensational captures so
xoops but later be changed his plan by pleaded guilty and said that Mr. Bousa deciding to incite the local bandits to far.
create disturbances. Recently he secretly was a bird of passage. He was ignorant moved his troops to Haingang with a view of the regulations, which were purely a war to has further despatched men with bombs to creating disturbances in Honan. He
Meanshile much interest has been attach ed to the published interviors with Chang Teo-lin and Tano Kus. The former locks
6.—The time limit for the meeting will bo six months, provided all the questions mentioned in Article thres are thoroughly
and settled;
7. The District Conferences are to be
the bad boy in the good performance, convened in-each districs and Provincial assassinate the important military officers
me
Mr. J. M. Sousa was charged at the Magistracy, yesterday, with having failed to register himself on his arrival in the
measure,
Mr. Smith: Is this a measure to prevent. the Germans from coming here?
deed, it is not clear yet whether he is a Conferences in the capitals of each pro funds due to the Hupeh, troops and inter- Sergeant Chevalier replied that it was
concerned with the maintenance of his own position or the establishment of ordered government in China. Neither, doen Iszo Kun suggest the disinterested patriot. The only man who do in Wu Pei-fu.
It would indeed appear as if General Chin Yung-peng were to return to the Premier ship and be entrusted with the formation
a new cabinet which would work in harmony with the South As Sun Yatsen and Tang Shaoyi bare been relegated to the background the re-union of the country seems to have been brought nearer, the more so that several southern leaders are in sympathy with the action of the Chili party which resulted in the elimination
A Frenel boy in an English'school wrote Loo when it should have been to."
vince;
8.The expenditure is to be obtained from the self-government funds of each district and province.
When asked about the full details of the battles at the Western Front, where General Wu is the Commander-in-Chief, the General aid, Although fighting a begun on the afternoon of the 14th instant,
in Honza and Chibli. He also seized the
cepted, the recruits enlisted by the Hunch officials. He has declared in. Hanzow that within ten days Wuchang would be state of great turmoil and that by that time he would take measures to quell the situation, etc.
Being in command of troops, Wu Kung hain should do his best to look after the Peace and order in the different localities and maintain the general situation in the country. If the accusations made by the and Inspector-General in his telegram se
difficult for bin to answer the question. It wiss_introduced Guring the war in connec tion with General Military Service and had been continued to prevent undesirables from entering the Colony,
Mr. Smith fined defendant $1.
GODOWN BROKEN INTO.
true, W. Kuang hsin is a wilful disturber and lasted to the 18th, they could not be of the peace and cannot be pardoned by termed latiles. It was merely fighting to law. Wu Xuang hain is hereby deprived LARGE QUANTITY OF PRINTING exterminate a band of outlaws. It is not of his official les Tuchun of Hunga
INK STOLEN!
and Commandern-Chief of the Upper necessary to give out details because none Yangtze Reaches and handed over to Wang of them are worth mentioning"
Chan-yuan who should make a thorough
A formight ago a godown in Mallory Questioned why he wanted to fight, and investigation into the case and report the Street was entered by a number of burglers against whom he was fighting, General Wu findings, thereof to the Government. The pho stola printing ink to the value of and that duty called him, and he was aght- post, of Commander-in-Chief of the upper G.81,100 The Wanchai Police made careful ing for the people who were his masters. Yangtze Reaches is hereby abolished and He did not regret having been cashiered", Wang Chan-yuan shall take over the comenquiries and discovered that 400 tins on the And neither was be delighted on hearing that wand of the troops under him and ba he was reinstated. He did not like fittery them disbanded
life
to set down
or congratulation; he lived a very simple military expenses of the Government
Martin Ministry of War is hereby directed
When Han, Shucheng started the recent note of the same,
itary campaigns, Wi former Superintendent of the Metr
In the reception hall there were five His master was pleased to be, sarcastic, portraits of the Chinese Gods of War-He and said (I can only represent it arith has an embroidered portrait of Himself which metically) "There are three in the was presented to him by the people of Police, failed to act in such a manner Bewers arrested. Two of the defendants were English language Write that out treaty Hunan, Province in commemoration, of his times, and then perhaps you will remember Army's discipline during the many years to free himself from suspicion, and
further done things in
it After puzzling for a while, the boy they were garrisoned thera General Wu is - official duty Although asked, how it was to be done, and the well-edensted man, na wall as a 8005 ed his post, he is hereby master had to admit that he was bawled artist; he drinks = little and smoken a few title of Lieutenant General aut. It is one of the few English sentences
cigarettes. rich cannot be written.
The interview lasted nearly two hours,
Decorations and Order of Meritabe receivedijoj na tá puash hîm -- 2 DENTA
Buong Sut, which had been taken to Cantur, veré unclaimed and were brought back to Hongkong-On Sunday last one of of the ink for sale. He was detained ac the men went to a chop and offered, sothe
banded.cver to the Police sad as a result of information, giren by him ex others
Mongkok Their hoses AR, and some broken boxes. #rappers-relating to the ink were found, The men, vers", thazgece yesterday init godown breaking and with receiving the inle Fand, were released on bail of $500 sách
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