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GERMAN PROPERTY IN TSINGTAU.
statement
LABOUR UNIONS AND BANKS
AT CANTON,
COMPANY REPORT. NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA,
The following is the report of the Directors for the term edding the stat March, 1900:-
A correspondent writing in the British IPS CONFISCATION.
{"handler Comurar Journal on the The Japan ('hronicle extracts the follow. Trajle of Canton says:-
The more of Teng "Kong on March ing from the Osaka Muśnicki-
21st, and the general unrest that succised-
The net profit, after providing for the Concernit, the disposition of the led it, product an unfavourable effect on The
depreciation of the fleet. insurance and German property at Tsingtan Mr. Letes of the Provincial Bank. Ishikawa, secretary of the Foreign exchange shops gradually decreased the ships' structural repair funds, amounts to -Office, who has been ut Tsingtas, and amount of silver that they would give who arrived st Shimonoseki, on the for them, and the Labour Unions took Yen 2013.117,02, including You 409.201.50
tters into their own hands. They brought forward from the last account. morning of May 30th, leaving for
wash shops. shoul Tokyo immediately. maile the following
The notes at par, and by way of Adding thereto Yen 2,000,000.00, the assisting the Government they act amount transferred from the Dividend
ized The lossies suffered by Japan and ally a number of cash shopmen.
we obtain a
total the Japanese through the German whom they detected giving short exchange Equalization Fund, Japanese hostilities, amounted to about and handed them over to the police in surplus of Yen 3.013.717.02.
All the cash shops promptly Yi,000,000. The property attached nafchains. Security against these losses, which clonal their doors and there was n in was sold at auction, Rimounted to about on the bank. The workmaen thes, started V.16,000,000, which exceeds the amount picketing the bank and when a customer of the losses by Y3,000,000. This ex came to change more than a small quan Legal resenie kand'............. 140,000.00 cess amount is to be handed over to tity of notes, they threatened him with the Alliet Commission os Debts, to-be revolvers, and some men who were absery Directors and auditors fees... 180.000:00 ed to come more than gave in a day, were Dividend (10% per annum 2,900,000.00 returned to the enemy nation.
Extra dividend" (5%. рет
-1:450,000.00 "As the property was deilts with in seized. chained and handed over to cur tusly
annum) The soldiers, who could collect in accordance with the new law, private sufficient numbers to overcome the work-
Yo 4,670,1720, 0 German property was altogether con
sims by buying up notes large men, made Esented, and only Y.10.040 was set us! at A discount and then taking them into the limit to be returned to own the hank to be exchanged anti took carried forward to the next account.
leaving balance of Yen $43,717.02,to be that a German who had owned pre shops put all their prices up perty worth 1.10.000 escaped having the notes (though in limited quantities) his property confiscated, whereas
giving & discount to anyone who indi German who had owned Y.200.000 worth ented, surreptitiously, that be was pre
of property hai Y100,000 worth of it pared to pay in silver. confiscated..
The
The state of affairs was scandalous, and
The principal items of property the fact that the police did nothing to
protect the
the interests of the respect. arr buildings. The number of Germans who had their property confiscated was als
traders
to show that
231, the number of buildings as which the Government was afraid to come to are all big buildings simted in the grips with the Unions. most prosperous localities in Tringtuu.
The Directors now propose that this
plus bo appropriated as follows: --
Yen.
CHINA AND EXTRA- TERRITORIALITY.
The majority of the buildings fell intoarsly handicapped, and it was only International Commission to investigate
the
INVESTIGATION POSTPONED. Business was With regard to the postponement of the ore than a fortnight that an extraterritoriality in China, the Japanese Japanese hands on the occasion of the arrangement, was made (with the Kwang Foreign Office has made the following
General Chamber as mediators) that statement tung ajetion. The successful bidders are to
the
As a result of the WashingtonConference, cash shops should take the notes at commence 120m enterprises iz
par and the workmen should refrain from it has been decided to organize an inter buildings.
interference. How the arrangement will national ceision, within three months There are about 4 or 15 Germans work, time must show. but the notes are after the conclusion of the Washing who are still staying at Tsingtau, Teat considerable discount still in praeton Conference, by the representatives of
as their property is disposed tis
the Powers goneertel in ordey, to investi BS SOUT
The Bank is reported to have made a of almost all of them are likely to
gate into the present condition of extri profit of $200,000 in 1921, The want of territoriality and of law and judicial leave,"
confidence in the notes is largely due to administrulion, together with the ways The justification for this confiscation the fact that more than twice the num am means for abolishing extraterri will be found in Part VIII. (Reparation)ber of notes originally contemplated toriality in China. where 5.000.000 has been issued.
Versailles.
of the Treaty of Article 231 says,
The Kwangting General Chamber and", "But Chim has approached the U.S.A
vorra
the promoter of the Washington Confer The Allied and Associated Govern the Labour Unions, who work ments affirm and Germany accepts the largely together, intend forming a new, with a desire to ask the Powers responsibility of Germany for causing bank, nyned the Kung Shang Yih Hong corned, through the medium of the All the loss and damage to which the Workmen's and Merchants Bank S.A to postpone the said meeting of Allied and Associated Governments and Capital is to obtained by collecting the Commission until the autumn, gext their nationals have been subjected as funds in the various districts through year. a consequence of the war imposed the bodies asociated in the General upon them by the aggression of Ger Chamber. many and her Allies.
In compliance with the request, the Each district is to colliet Japanese Government statul if the other any deficiency to be made up by Powers-agree to it, Japan will give her Cheerral Chamber. Each of the consent. The next article goes on to recognise Labour Unionists of Canton longkong that it is beyond the power of Germany and Macao is to buy a $ share. The to pay such sums as might be compiled Bank when famed should prove a power and in Annex 1 to this section it ful instruitaent, in Sun's hands. stated that compensation may (not must); be claimed from Germany,
As damage enused to the peoples THE DEATH OF MR. SAMUEL the Allied and Associated Powers, all persions and compensation in the
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tary victims of war (including men bers of the air force) whether mutil ated, wounded, sick, or invalided, and to the dependents of such victims, the amount due to the Allied and Associating ways the Daily Trax, the forrign community has lost notable ed Governments being calculated for
By the lamented death of Samuel Cons
The Japanese Government has now duly been informed by the U.S.A. that the other Powers concerned have given en- sent to the postponement, and thus the proposed meeting of the International Commission to investigate extraterri toriality in China will be held at the time proposed by China...
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a protest was made against the suggestion came into existence, in order to pay the to offer himself to the Baptist Misionary contained in the resolution, before the pensions due to soldiers and their depen Society and was designated for service in legislative Council that the Colony's Here he spent funds should be used to defray the many years
HOW
of the scales in force in France at such Called to the ministry himself, bo enter away
Collester of the Baptist agreed that" it was tting that the
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the
dents mutilated or killed in the attack Tsingchowfu. Shantun work, and on | expense of kending & delegation of elect.
their lots on board the warships, which on Tsingtau, and any who may have last operated in the Mediterranean later on
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In addition to these conscations, there were the coniscations of private property in Japan. "
in
the analgamation of the Baptist and the members of the Council to London for
in Presbyterian educational work the purpose.
became associated with Dr. Mater in United College at Weihsion. After some years Arrvice in this institition, much to the regret of all his enilegurs. he resigned. This was a great loans the work. Later on he was invited to It is very afguable whether German the principal of the Shansi Ind aggression forced war upon Japan. ItUniversity. This, however, he decl. valves, indeed," a new definition of The art few years he spent as a private gression to thow, that it did. Japan
When this post was relinguished give up Tsingtau i Japan so that Japan still lived in Shanghai, until his dean made a proposal to Gemany that the tutor to a well-known family in Shang- might retrocede it to China. Germany
Str. Couling had been engaged for made no deply to this proposal. This
years in the preparation of a work is the aggression which forced war upon dealing with Things Chinese. Ager Japan, and involves the confiscation of many years of inborious work this tns German private property in China as published under the title of The Edy well as in Japan in order to pay the clopedia Sinica, a work that will are pensions of those who were killed or him a trading place amongst the writes mutilated in the war. The confiscaticas, on China. This won the great praise if as we know, involved sales which were Dr.
NEWSPAPER PRESS FUND, KING AND QUEEN BHOW THEIR SYMPATHY.
The King And Quern bonoured with their Prebence EL matinée Rives at Drury Lane on May 10th," in aid of the Newspaper Press Fund. A programmo of remarkable variety was contributed to by all the lending members of the Slage and the theatre was crowded By generous effort no less a sum than £3,500 was obtained for the Fund. At the very beginning a particularly appropriate note was struck by Mr. Matheson Lang.. .
written by Mr. Reginald Arkell, and Bentitled The Street of Ink, It was not alone the brighter aspects of Fleet-
restricted to Japanese buyers and which Juliez and gained him the Stanis in his recital of a singularly ant prologue
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a few years he was the Ifano street that the author laid stress; from said as to her gains. Moreover, thuigh ary Secretary of the China Eranch of th him also came an appeal for those who it is acknowledged that the entes effect Royal Asiatic Society, and the Editor of had, though no fault of their own, fallen
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distinctives
street;
ed more than cover, this generous comits Journal. He also revived the old on evil days. For them he pleaded in the
Chine Breit under the putation of loss, it is still found neces-
his elitera
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Before the war began, the inviolability place in the field of literature dealing If your glad hearts leap up to meat
with China, He obtained articles from The stray romances of the of private property from conuention was distinguished writers.
The Shanghai Muniginal Council Invit one of the most fundamental principles upon which war was conducted, Whened him to continue the History of Shang. the time comes for writing the history hai, a work begon by the late Mr. Lan- of this age the lapse into barbarism inning. He put the first volume through dicated by the manner in which revenge the press and prepared the second volume. has been taken by great Governments This is now in the printers hands and upon helpless und irresponsible indivi- he was engaged in the proof reading atofred Mr. Fred. Taylor's original de duals will be recorded as one of the the time of his death.
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