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THE INTERPORT MATOH AGAINST HONGKONG.
THESDAY, JUNE 1418, 1991.
THE LOOTING AT IUHANG.
In reference to the looting at Ichnag
LOOTING SPREAD TO WTCHANG,
by Chinese soldiers reported „în" yester2 { BURNING AND ROBBING BY LAW.
LESS JOHANG SOLDIERY.
The Interport lawn tenuis match bedags kuty Press, the following fow tween Shanghai and Hongkong began on gleanings from offices or translated from June 7th with two singles matches, play the Chinese Press in Shanghai are given ed on the courts of the Cercle" Sportif in the N.C. Daily News:--The Bank of Franctis, hetween W. Must-Smith China was hang the first buildings to (Shanghai) and. Ng Sizrhong (Hung he lot do thi lại th number of other koug), and J. Tanaka (Shanghai) and foreign firms and godowns suffered more M. W. Lo (Hongkong), respectively. ."
There was a large attendance of specta, for less. Sumerous Chinese firms also and both courts, we well-lined, but suffered greatly. Shops in the vicinity the play was marked more by
stendiness than brilliancy, says the J. Daily of the South Gate were burnt to the Fees, from whose report we take the fol-ground, but before setting fire to them, lowing
As the result of the two rubbers, hon the naruder cook care that mast, if ours may be said to be fairly even, as not all, of the contents of the shops Tanaka
Beat AL. W. Lo by three straight, sets-9-5, 7-3. 6-1, and Ng Sze-kong bent were taken away. W. Mansel-Smith by three sets to tivo- 61, 46, 6-2, 4-8, 6-4.
tors
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انم
JAPAN'S NAVAL EFFORT.
REMARKABLE. COMPARISONS.
Since Japan does not unduly advertisa | her armaments, the extraordinary efforts. ahe is now making to strengthen har position as a naval and military Power
MINT RIFLED,
HANKOW, Jane th Some 1,000 of the soldiers who were not fully appreciated abroad. It is.... concrered in the looting of Ichang certainly not common knowledge that arrived at Hankow this morning, and Japan, "in the current year, is devoting have been placed in the "barracks ne less than 48,7 fer eout, of her total W chang by orders of the » Tuchun, revenue to the navy unil army, Naval General, Wang. it is understel that armament along" represent an expeadi- they will be gradually disbanded. sure equal to 39 per cent. of the entire their way to Hankow with a view to vals the interesting fact that 55 per "It appears that these troops were on Budget. An unnlysis of this expenditure their disbandment. They spent the hours cent, of the money voted for the navy of waiting for the Chida Merchants goes towards new construction. The steamer to leave Ichang by going ashore Philadelphia Pablie Ledger prints a After a while they started lobting and table showing the proportion eventually returned to the steamer with national income which the three leading .... their foot..
naval Powers are at present spending an new naval construction, as distinct from
Japan
... 17.8 per cent. United States Great Britain
1.I
The vessel was intercepted during the
The premises of the Starup Tax In the match between Hansel Smith Bareng and the Wine and Tobacco "Tax voyage by, orders from. the Tuchun that other branches of the naval service :„.
very
befor Mansel-Smith visitor's servicekaw on: the 5th; and according to a tele)
Ng Saekwong then made a good rowvery grum received in Shanghai on the follow. and got on level terms with his opponent ing day. "the city is as quiet as usual" in the sixth gume. Manel Sunts then took the seventh and eighth games, and though Ng Sze-kwong took the ninth, Mansel Smith took the tenth after conpic of deuces, and the s
Onn repart states that the telegraph wires have been cut and communication interrupted, but this has been denied and messages are being received, in Shanghai as usual.
she was to proceed to Hankow direct, June 8th, 11.30 am. started losting and burning the city.
Local troops at Wuchung last night
HUPER.
HANKOW, June 8th.
of
and Ng Szokwong, the visitor had all Offices were entered by soldiers and the better of the play in the opening lonted, and the directors of the former! set, and only the fourth game went 10 was shot dead. Several hundred persons his opponent, while only two games ran
According to the Public Ledger (wis ten single deuce, In the second set, have either suffered wounds, or been
It is officially reported that the Mint | shows that Japan is putting forth tea however. Mansel-Smith. found his form killed.
has been robbed.
times a much effort in naval expansion, and took the first game fairly wasily. The second game of this set was
According to unofficial reports, the in proportion to her national budget, as Generals Sun Chaan-fang and Wang looters reformed patrols at dawn this the United States, and about fifteen. keraly contested, and ran to x deuses Tu-ching have been ordered by Tuchun morning, under a pretence of maintain times as much as Great Britain. It fur
gained. Chanyuan to the spot. They left Haning order, which they are not doing,
her shows that since Germany in 1914 the verdict against the
At present. Hankow is safe.--Neuder. set aside 1,000,000 marks, or only 0.2 per cent. of her income, for the benefit TROUBLE THREATENING IN af her navy, while Japan in 1921-22 pro
poses to use 32 per cent. of her income for the like objret. Japan is making a five-fold greater effort in naval expan
lu the third set play was fairly even
so than Germany nade in the t Natii "the"fourth game was completed.
The Nisshin Kisen Kaisha Steamship
the following comparison is obtained." year before the war. Reducing the Ger aaa naval estimates-of 1814-15 to yes,. when the score stood at two games all, Company, according to word received.
German naval badget, 1914-15, but the Hongkong, representative then hina sustained heavy losses. Their offices won, four games in succession, fairly and godowns have been looted and, the
Japanese naval budget, 1921-29,
Yen 110,500,000 masily, and the set by six games to two. messages coptiques, fires were reported arrived at Wuchung from 'lchang rester. The fourth set wie al evenly con-in five places throughout the city simul-day morning, are reported to have, in-
"Yen 490,000,000 tested, with no long rallies, but after. taneously.
Making allowance for the depreciation four alt bad been called. Mansel-Smith"
stigated the soldiers of the 2nd Division, in money dues since 1914, and assuming. According to the Chinese Press, Anu who are under the command of Tuchun yen in 10 to be equalia purchasing took the next two sets and won 6-d, the rican Japanese and Chinese business Wang Chao-yuan. It is said that there power to two yen in 1914, Japan, it scorn then standing at two sets all.
houses were the heaviest sufferers,
number of casualties among the In the deciding set of the rubber, Ng Among the American companies locted civilians and the soldiery. Owing to the appears, is still spending about twice us Sze-kwong went well ahend from the start or partly locted were the Standard Oil breaking of communications between to spend in" 1014-15. These figures un minch on her navy as Germany proposed and at one period the score stooti four games to win his favour.
Co. and the Robert Dollar Co.
Hankow and Wachang,, no delnite de donbelly offer food for thought. The Smith then made good progress unit
tails have been received yet, but so far Ledger, however, goes
BY FIRE
ed to be in better staying condition thanA THOUSAND HOUSES DESTROYED his opponent. He won three games in succession, then lost one and won one, but in the final game, lost game. set; and rubber
The Nisshin Kisen Kajsha Steamship Co. at Shanghai received telegrams from
A muting occurred in Wuchang last inter fires broke out at four places there, night, at about 11 o'clock, and two hours burning till daybreak. The cause is not yet known, but according to all accounts, the soldiers of the let Brigade, who
IF
en to krgue
as is seen, it stems true that the Governs that when Japan has completed the pre- ment Mint there has been reduced to sent programme her navy will be ap ashes, and that there are signs of mutiny proximately equal in strength to that of spreading in Hupeh.
the United States. This assertion a Martial law has now been proclaimed open to Ng Se-kwong's victory was undoubted its Hankow agent containing the followin Wachang-Estera News Agency,
dispute. Reckoning Dread- ly due to his clever placing, and manying:
nought capital ships only America has completed 18, and is building 16—a totzi. of his winning strokes were made by put ting the bad just over the, put, whild mutiny brake out which was worse than
On the night of the 4th instanta ORDER RESTORED, IN" İCHANG.
of 35; Japan has completed 12 (including others were the result, of following up hid which took place at Ichang last year.
two "semi-Dreadnoughts"), and 18 BANKOW. Jupe Zih, strokes and anticipating his opponent's Fi were started in eight different Order has now been restored in of 27. The Japan total, moreover, will building, or about to build, 15-a total returns He was particularly good insectious of the city. The Bank of China, Ichang city by the 18th Division. Tuchun not be attained before 1998, and it is not Backhand play, but loat points on several occasions by his attempts to eat. Mansel, the Chamber of Commerce, the Road Wang Chan-yunn has despatched Mr improbable that long before that date Smith played chiefly
Bureda, and 70 odd other organizations Shin Kai, Commissioner for Foreign America will have laid down additional P hack-line * gauna and by, macans of his height and long.K.K. godowns, as well as those of lien, Commissioner for Foreign Affairs tremendous proportion of her: revenue
looted.
The Affairs of Hupeh, and Mr. Wei Sung ships The really significant fact is the reach was able to keep his opponent con stantly on the run, but the latter, other shipping companies have suffered of Ichang and Shasi, to all the foreign which Japan deems it necessary to set although tiring visibly towards the finish, greatly." Nine of ten Japanese shops Consulates at Icharg to offer an apology. aside for naval armamenty-Her states was able to last sufficiently long to gain have been lacted, two Japanese residente He has also notified that he intends to men assure the world that the feet in the wining point.
have been injured, while from 0 to 70 negotiate the matter of indemnity after process of creation as such appalling cost Chinese have been killed or injured. the completion of investigations into the exists solely for defence, but they do not, The following night, all Japanese women affair by the provincial Office of Hupeh. tell us from what quarter aggression is In the Interport lawn tennis doubles and children, were taken, aboard the
INTERPORT DOUBLES MATCH.
were either
hurnt or
LATER.
match, played on the lawn of the Coun- Company's stt. Tujuh Mora, while the It has come to light that the rioters who feared.-Naval and Military Record. try Club on June th, Menara Ng Szemen are in the Japanese Consulare.". pilluged and burnt the larger, part of wong and Lok Wei (Hongkong) gained. The Chinese Press in Shanghai stated the city of lehang are the soldiers of the
a substantial victory over Messrs. W. 8. that an organization had received word 21st Brigade, "who were given orders on RICE AND SOVEREIGN RIGHTS A Pott and W. Mansel-Smith (Shang that over 1,000 houses were burned and June 4th to be, transferred to Hainting hai) by three straight seta7-5, 6-3,8-0,
service, six deucus were called before Pott made the winning stroke....
I
MERCHANTS,
The Chinese Press of Shanghai con-
more than half the shops in the city have from chang. They had all embarked by QUAINT CETTER FROM SHANGHAI There was a very large attendance of been Inoted. The fire would not have day, but at night about half past ter apectators and some pretty tennis: was been so serious had not a strong wind they stole out of the boat and commenced witnessed, but there were few long rallies, been blowing at the time. The foreign their atrocities, setting fire to several and it was not until the fifth game of firms are not included in the number quarters and looting indiscriminately all tinues to give prominence to agitation the second set that excitement. Became given intense; in this set, on Mansel-Smith's
over the city. About two-thirds of the concerning the proposed licensing of rice Trouhie, states another message, has rioters who returned to the boat, before shops in the International Settlement. also taken pinen at Shasi, a town in the daylight, the next day, changed their The following in & translation of a letter vicinity of lebang. A number of foreign pre-arranged destination, and came down which has been addressed to the Chines missionarica are residing in this town. to Wuchong this morning at 8 o'clock, General Chamber of Commerce by the
With reference to the Wuchang affair, when Tuchun Wang Chan-yunu per- Rice Hongs' Association. the first gamu on his service, and Shanga telegram was received by the .K.K.mitted them to land under strict surveil The Shanghai Municipal Council, hai then won three gaines in succession, agency stating that the trouble was lance, accommodating, them at the but in the eighth game Hongkong drew caused by some 1,600 soldiers of the 2nd Honkow barracks. It is learnt that they level and the score was called four all, Battalion who had arrived from chang aro-shortly to be disbanded.-Eastern Ng Szokwong and Mansel-Smith again to be disbanded. Fire broke out in | News Agtury, won their games on service and five all various places team launches between
In the opening set play was of rather moderate quality and neither side showed good combination, Ng Szekwong
took
**
THE ANGLO-JAPANESE
0
ALLIANCE.
under the pretext that the price of rice
is high, desires that all rice shops in the Settlement should apply to the Council. for a license, and to have the shops open to inspection at any time. This has
owners of rice shops, and, despite re- A Hankow awesage states that, it is peated appeals for help, their desire to estimated that the total losses amount have the proposed licensing cancelled has. to no less than $12,000,000. The Hupeh so far not been realized. Considering authorities have remitted $50,000,000 to that rice shops do legal business, and Ichang to sid the sufferors,
that the nature of it cannot be compared
A telegram from Peking reports that with that of acrusciaedt resorts, it is the Diplomatic Body has met to discuss not necessary for, the Council to license the matter, and it was decided to ask them. If the Council intends to prevent the Hankow Consular Body to send two the price of rice going up, it should pay.
A Peking message circalated by the representatives to Ichang to investigate strict attention to the smuggling of rice,... Asiatic News Agency says:
losses sustained-by-the foreign mera business in which rice shops are not chanta. Ore of the Ministers is reported copcorned. They are established to
was called, but Hongkong then took two Hankow and Ichang had discontinued LOSSES ESTIMATED AT $12.000,00. caused great excitement amongst the grumes in miccision and won the set 6-5, their services, and as telegraph wires be In the second set, Hongkong took the tween the two cities had been interrupt Brat two games and the fourth and fifth, ed, no communication was possible. No but in the sixth there was a lengthy further information was received. struggle in which Shanghai finally came out on top, bringing the score to 4-9 in Hongkong's favour. In the seventh game the best rally of the match was witnessed, in which Ng Szo-kwong eventualy got the better of his opponents in a seriest of hot returns. The ninth game was also well contested, running, to three deuces, with Hongkong gaining the final point and winning the Bet: 8-3
In the third set, Hongkong went dated May 30th says that in reply to Government
A private cablegram from New York to have urged, that since the Chinese supply food to the inhabitants, and their quickly into the lead and won four games the despatch of the British Government foreign interents in Ichang, steps should small to allow of their hoarding rice for was unable to protect capital is in the majority of cases too in succession. Shanghai, took the fifth concerning the renewal of the Anglo be taken by the Diplomatic Body to do the purpose of gending it abroad. The game, and Hongkong the sixth. Then Japaness Alliance, the State Department so, but the Doyen is reported a saying proposed licensing will not benefit the Shanghai made a wonderful, recovery and says, that the United States will have that representations will be made to the people, but it will impair the sovereign by taking five games off the reel gained nothing to any provided "American in- the end, will-a, sobra. of six games to forests in the Pacific-and the Far East, Peking authorities when the proper time rights of the country
The Council's five. Hongkong won, the twelfth game of especially in the Republic of China, areMess
action is wrong, and if carried out may the set, bringing the scores level at six not affected in any way by its stipala
Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co. mean that in future other businesses will games all, and then, annexed the next two sons; while the Chiness Government, received telegraphic information that be licensed The Generat Chaaber of games, than winning set, rubber and through its representatives in London looting, burning and shooting were go Commerce, being the senior institution. match,
and Tokyo, has formally informed the ing on at Wachang. The extent of the is asked to communicate with the Muni- tennis throughout.
Ng Bre-kwang played remarkably good British Jnd the Japanese Governments damage, those responsible for it and who cipal Council and weak them to comply sound and in returning shots he made fod if nothing is mentioned in the renew indicated.
His service was that the people of China will be satis were the particular sufferers were not with the wishes of the public by cancel- some beautiful backhand drives, as well ed Anglo-Japanese Alliance Treaty re
ling their proposal to issue licenses."
as showing acrobatic ability in taking lating to China's political independence many difficult returns Lok. Wei suffered and territorial integrity. Further, the by comparison and was weak in the open cablegram adds that in order to meet the ing so, particularly at the not, but in wishes of the British Government, and the two later sets his service was excel also to smooth over American popular
ORGAN RECITAL
Mr. Denman Fuller will give the last
DON'T BUY GLASSES.
these:
na you would shoén. Many defecté of itia
Bad
lent and his, net play distinctly good. sentiments towards, Japan, Mr. Obata of his Orga Recitals for the present in For Shanghai, Pott played a steady has advocated the unconditional restora St. John's Cathedral on Thursday next are revealed only by a careful examin game throughout, but was frequently at tion of Kisochow to China, or with a fault in his service, with several double view to inducing the Chinese Govern- several pieces which have not been play can only be corrected with specially ground
at 9.15 p.m. The programme will include faults. Mansel-Smith played far below ment and people to consent to the opened here, before or only infrequently and hia umal form and it was not until the ing of direct argotiations, Japan should in. response to a number of requests losses. If your eyes trouble you, have them match was almost over that he gave a show her friendly conditions to China Widor's famous Tocents in F which has
ties to smash," but on most
previous to the opening of negotiations
glimpse-of-it. He had many sions so as to lessen the fear of the Chinese for The novelties will be a Pedal. Stady the Refracting chamber of the Hongkong Optical
put the ball into the net instcha of over harsh terra.
it. The Hongkong pair took many risks.
frequently figured in these programmes thoroughly examined and scientifically tested in
entitled "The diagic Harp" by the well- in that both played well up to the net
known Recitalist, J. A. Meale. Co., Successors to Clark & Co., Manufacturing when receiving service and returna and
Romance by the distinguished American "lost several points in this way by being.
The remaining singles matches were Composer Horatio Parker and two Refracting opticians (the only competent unable to take a quick return near the played on the caste, of the Corcle mambers from an Organ Buite by the base line, but Ng Sze-kwong's agility com. Sportif Franchis.
optical manufacturing house in the Colony) The games were be fecitalfat. The vocalist.will be Miss pensated to a great extent for this fault tween J. Tanaka (Shanghai) and Ng Jean Lowson who will sing an extract located in bd, Quem's Road Central, and a þair tance was all that, could be.desired. and his volleying and judgment of dis- Sze-kwong (Hongkong), and M. W. Lo from Bullivan's The Prodigal Son
(Hongkong) and Mansel Smith and Alicis Neodliam's "My harp is on (Continued at foot of next column.) (Shanghai),
the willow tree."
of lensor will be
"My ground to correak their