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CHINESE POLITICS.
A MAN TO BE WATCHED. SHANTUNG GOVERNOR'S ROLE IN PEKING.
| THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
PERSO, "July 11th.. A mandate was issued at midnight last
night accepting the resignation of Mr. Chang Ying-bus from the post of Minister inars and appointing Mr. Way Ko-min në Arting Ministen in his place.
Some doubt was recently expressed as to whether Mr. Wang would take the post if it were offered to him, but it is now stated un good authority that he is prepared to do so. It is in fact asserted in some cir eles that he has wrendy accepted the portfolio and it is semi-officially reported that he will probably take up his new post next Monday.
THE ANTI-JAPANESE BOYCOTT..
IN THE BANDS OF TE MONEY LENDER
HEPORTS AT A CONFERENCE OF EUROPEAN SUED BY AN INDIAN.
JAPANESE MERCHANTS
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A. Blyth, an Inspector on At the second sitting of the Joint Con- Kowloon-Canton Railway and living at Terence of Japanese Chambers of Cem- No. 3, Railway Terrace, Kowloon, was merce in China and Japan and the Sino sued to the Summary Court, yesterday' at Shanghai, delegates from the Japanese H. H. J. Gompertz), by an Indian, named in the newest experience to come to Mr.
Japanese Businessmen's Association held morning before the Puiane Judge (Mr. C. W. Bishop, of the Smithsonian In
Chambers of Commerce in various parts Chulla. Singh, described as a watchman stitution of Washington. Mr. Bishop who
of Caina reported on the actual condi-employed at the Gas Works, Kowloon, for tion of the anti-Japanese boycott, in the recovery of $228, being money due to has just returned to Peking after"being
the plaintiff. China, the guest of General Wn Pei Fu at hist
The plaintiff claimed on two promissory Mr. T. Shimadzu, of the Tsingtao Divisional Headquarters outside of Lao
Chamber of Commers, stated that notes, one for 830 with ten months” in- yang, tells of his work in locating the site of the cities of Luoyang.
though the anti-Japanese agitation interest amounting to $50; and the other When just outside of the west gate of
Tingians was for a time" as "intense as for $10 and $8 interest being money due The defendant was presented by Mr. the Loyning of the Han dynasty at Pei a
that prevailing in other places, it is at on a promissory note of $400.00 present comparatively quiet by dint of Ssu. Mr. Bishop was unpleasantly sur-
the strict control by the Chinese authori C. H. Layman prised by the sound of firing. Pei Ma San
The plaintiff in the box produces the is eight miles east of the present Loyang Mr. Hsiang Ping-chi, Civil Governor of ties concerned there, but that the agita
residents in the two promissory notes, the one for $50. and à quarter mile north of the Lunghai Shantung, who has recently arrived intion against Japanese Railway Line. At nine in the morning. Peking after visiting Layang and Pasting principal cities and towns along the being signed by the defendant and the
ant's wife (31. Ross Byth), Mr. Bishop and his guard of twenty-five fa, is working hard to obtain the election Shantung Railway was going on in one for $400 being signed by the defini- soldiers, which General Wa Pei Fu gent of Marshal To Kn to the Presidency tensely. out to profeet him. heard firing in the by methods as legal as is posible. His] village one mile to the south of them, first object is to get the vacant places in the Cabinet filled so that the Cabinet can The shots gradually became regular until than to carry, but the Presidential it two o'clock a stiff battle was being, duties till a President is appointed. After waged between the local soldiers and a the Cabinet yacancies have been filled he gung of bandits. At that time the desires to see the constitution completely drafted and then the presidential election bullets began to drop in the field where carried out with a quoruta if such can Mr. Bishop was working and the officer possibly be obtained. of his guard insisted that he leave, sinen« the risk was becoming too great. Then they saw the flames from the village which had been set afirà “
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At the railway station while waiting for, train to Laoyang a party of troops which had been in the battle came in, and Mr. Bishop was asked to look at one of their number who was being carried. He was suffering from a Arsh wound in the thigh and was taken on to the hospital ut Loyang.
Mr Bishop represents the Freer Gallery of Art of the Smithsonian In etitution ul it was his plan to do exten- sive work in the interior. However, that does not sem advisable after his ex perience in Hosan during the past General Wa furnished a guard of from two to six soldiers whenever his guest
work.
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On the Was sin
unusant. In the Arst place the plaintiff the had sued his client, A: Blyth, and then He proceeded to sue him on a nais signed. by his wife. On the question of liability it was generally agreed that the busband. was not by any means liable for all his. wife's contracts.
Mr. Y. Ohanachi, of the Taipan, Cham-Platter promissory note there ber of Commerce, said that the muti. endorsement on the back to the effect that Japanese moverent in Shantung of to $230 had been paid. day was outwardly calm as compared Mr. Layman said the ease was a littlə with that which prevailed in connection with the Shantung controversy, fending agitators being certain Chinese journalists and students, but inwardly It is said to be largely through hi efforts that Mr. Wang Kumis has been the root of the agitation had been car appointed Finance Minister. In response siderably strengthened. Inflammatory to his request Dr. Wellington Koo is re-circular telegrants had been received from
His Lordship ugreed "with this content. ported to be returning from the Western Shanghai and other trees and that anti- Hills this afternoon and in official circles Japanese boycots and agitation had of tion and Mr. Layman went on to vay it is hoped that he will take up the poszlate become more intense. Import mer-
While that if it was presumed that the wifor of Acting Foreign Minister on the same chants were the chief sufferers
the loss sustained by exporters was not acted as agent, for the husband then he day that Mr. Wang goes to the Financa
so great, he concluded, there were still thought that would make the husband.
seriously Ministry, that is next Monday.
affected owing to the fact that Chinese liable. As a matter of fact he did not. of the same trade were making capital think it was worth contesting the point of this agitation in order to expand their as he imagined that his client would not be any better off, as the plaintiff "would. own business.
DATHEN REPORT
Mr. Hsiung Ping-chi is entertaining the M.P's. at the Yuan Garden this evening when he will urge the above-mentioned views. His aims are recognised to be those of Marshal Tsao Kun so future steps in his programme will be watched with interest,
many
Was whose business
Those competent to judge think he may probably be successful with regard to Cabinet huiding, but it is cpasilered very doubtful whether at quorum can be obtain- for drafting the constitution or elect ing a Presilent, unless the drastic step is
Actions between Japanese and Chinese notes. adopted of replacing those les violence there with the result that trans- husband had signed both promissury have left for the South by nominees of inerchants and the trade with the interior Cross-examined by Mr. Layman, '1E6. the Chibli Party.
of Manchuria had not been affected at all. In fact, business was going on quité plaintiff denied receiving any money on smoothly. The trade between Dairen and April 25th of this year in respect of the He admitted
Mr. H. Kamidari, of the Dairen Chauvery likely bring an action against the ber of Commerce, said that Dave was wife. the objective of the anti-Japanese agita- His Lordship explained to the plaintiff tion prevailing to-day in China, but that the case would be treated as if th
ΠΟ act of fortunately there had been
went out and the plan of making the the Salt Administration, bern'appoint Japan, nowever, was being more or less promissory note for $50.
Pei Ma Ssn a camping headquarters during the field work is deemed utterly impossible since the danger of tulei carrying off the party is too pressing.
well as the present economic depression..
Mr. Chang Ting-ao, the Chief Secretary of the Cabinet, will be appointed director
As Mr. Wang Ko-min has ed Acting Minister of Finance it is under afficted owing to the silver market, as that Mrs--Blyth came to see him about stood that. the Bontd of Director of the the Chinese residents in Dürren were very that date and paid him $950 in respect Bank of China will shortly meet to ni- quiet, for it is to be regretted, he said, of the $400 note. She then asked if the point a new President of the Bank.
that because of the gold standard question, the Chinese merchants there were promissory note for $30 could be returned entertained lest this might be taken ad the money paid was in part payment of vantage of by anti-Japanese agitators, the 400. The only way to maintain friendly rela tions between the Japanese and Chinese merchants there ny in the abolition of the gold standard at the revival of the silver standard."
The bandits in the attack on the village'may lead to a speedy settlement of the to all\appenrants suffering. Fears were to her. Witnesz refused and told her that.
The opinion is held in many quarter that Mr. Wang Ko-min's appointment were equipped with modern rites and Gold Franc Problem and to a consolida there are a great number of them in the tion of certain unsecured bands, vicinity.
CHINESE CHILDREN. HOW TO TELL THEIR AGES.
THE NICKNAME" SOLUTION.
Mr. Yonesato, of the Shanghai Chamber of Commerce, Mr. Matsus of Kvoto, Mr. Kotomi of Nagasaki, and Mr. Takayanagi of Osaka also made statements.
His Lordship said that on the facte be fore him he was not antisfied with the defendant's case. The onus was on the defendant to prove that he had paid the money and that "onus had not been proved. He would give judgment for the plaintiff on the first promissory note for 850 plus 8 interest and for the money. due on the second promissory note-$150 plus 86. interest.
Mr. Layman said that his case was that the 880 and interest was paid at the same. In view of the disquieting situation,
time when Mrs. Blyth paid over the $50. Mr. Bishop was full of appreciation for the interest and help show him by
Mr. Nishikawa, of the Kobe Chamber Mrs. Blyth had no receipt for this pas General Wu Pei Fa and his aides. Stay-
of Commerce, stated that, judging from ment, and it was only a case of the ́ ing at his headquarters just outside of
reports from various part in China, the Loyang, Mr. Bishop had good opportu
excuse for the anti-Japanese agitation and plaintiff's word against the defendant's uity to know the General, the two having
One of the minor difficulties which con boycott lay in the so-called Twenty One wife's word. His client admitted liability in common their study of the Chinese front the members of the Child Labour Demands, the greater part of which had in respect of the second note only and classics. General Wu showed great in- terrat and knowledge in the work which Commission recently appointed by the already been either withdrawn or modi- that for $156.
Mrs. Rose Blyth, in the box, said that Mr. Bisliop was doing,
Shanghai Municipal Council is that of fiel. Of this fact, he said, the majority of the Chinese people were apparently not The field for research around Loyang the difference between Occidental and will be extremely satisfactory if conditions Oriental methods of counting ages. Very aware, and it appeared they were barking in July of last year she went to the quieten down so that the work can be interesting information was forthcoming at the shadow of the Twenty-One De plaintiff's quarters and asked for the loan carried on. In the vicinity of Pei Ma a recent meeting of the Commision mands He proposed that the remaining: 853. Later the same day the plaintiff Sau Mr. Bishop found many old mounds when medicul evidence was being taken. substanes of the Treaty be made public care to the house and handed over $350. and the farmers continually turn up All witnesses, of course, agree that in the in urler that the misunderstanding on the Her husband signed the promissory note.
might be cleared away.
again approached, 'this, time for $400, and stope tablets ranging from the Han absence of any system of birth registra part of the bulk of the Chinese people Later in the month the plaintiff was Mr. Kebayaati, of the Tientsin Cham- she (witness) signed the promissory note. dynasty down. While many of the old, tion it is quite impossible to tell the age graves have been looted there is still of Chinese child workers.
One witness a Chinese doctor, stated her of Commerce, replying, said the exist On April 26th of this rear witness went material for researcher
Demands had been already published in him $950 in respect of the $400 promissory On this trip Mr. Bishop was merely that he had a method of securing the substance of the so-called Twenty One to the plaintiff's quarters and there gare ooking for evidence to establish the old proper information which, invariably bore Tientsin with the object of dispelling the note and $70 in respect of the other note. sites of Loyang Following the indica- good fruit. At: an unexpected juncture misunderstanding of the Chinese people. Witness asked for a receipt but the plain- tions of the historical records which are in the course of the interview he raps but in vain. He averred that in view of tiff refused, saying that he would not very detailest and "by, finding these old out the question asking the child's" nick-the fact that the Chinese agitators against give it until he had been paid the whole
П Every Chinese child. has Japan of to-day had something different lot... mounds, very satisfactory results were name."
nickname" which depends on the year up their sleeves, regardless of the sub- Asked by his Lordship as to who gave reached Loyang is a natural site for a city, being located on the crossing of two in which he or she is born. For these stance or the truth of the Treaty, the pro- her the $390 to make the payment, important roads. The one going east and nicknames there are a dozen characters position made by Mr. Nishikawa would witness said that her son did. west runs through Sianfu and on to only, there being five periods of 12 years probably come to naught. Chinese Turkestan and western Asia. The tach in the Chinew cycle of 60 years. north and month route is the one by which These characters represent animals, vis. thu Chinese culture first reached the rat, rabbit, tiger, dragon, monkey, pig, Yangtze Valley in the Chow Dynasty and et, and the Chinese child, taken un- awares, will promptly give the desired perhaps even earlier.
The site of the Losang which was the information. It is obvious of course that capital of the Eastern Chow Dynasty is a mistake of 12 years cannot be made in now lost through change of surface and the case of children. If the dragon dre
ALLEGED PROVISIONS OF THE the like. However, beginning with the presents the eighth year of the cycle then Christian era the history from the child born in that year is either 13,
DRAFT AGREEMENT. Eastern Han dynasty down has been 5, or 27 years old or he is 4. 10, 28 or preserved and it is shown exactly where 40. In the absence of birth registration
[ASIATIC NEWB AGENCY.] « the old Han capital was located. Tag the system-which has come down through
PEKING, July 18th." "city"remlined on this site. up to the the centuries-it is believed to be about
His Lordship. said he would meet the end of the North Wei Dynasty or to the 3,000 years, old-is, like other customs
Unfortu In connection with the retrocession of early part of the sixth century. Then it Chinese, an admirable one. seems to have been abandoned.
nately, the nickname so given is not very Weihaiwei, the tnmbers of the Shantung parties in Chambers and arrange this. However, the city, was reestablished in generally used and it is not always pos Provincial Assembly have, wired to the its present site, several miles west of the sible to secure corroboration. As a rule, Cabinet and the Foreign Office demand- Han city, when the Sui dynasty came only very clow relatives are in possession ing the publication of the Anglo-Chinese IRRITATED & INFLAMED ETE into power late in the sixth century It of the information. The Chinese rule of agreement about this port previous to its has remained there since although the counting age, of course, is well known, being signed by the two countries. The can be directly traced in many cases to walle apparently enclose a much smaller, making the children anything from 12 to members claim that according to informa. the Sunday Motor trip and Golfing. The
tion in their possession, the agreement" space than that covered by the Sui 16 months older than by foreign count. capital. These walls date apparently For some unknown reason, this is one provides for the reservation of the naval dust from sections of the focal roads.. from the Sung period. It is thought that of the Eastern systems which are very ports and auchorage at Liukungino for contain a decided eye irritant. A sug- this Sui capital was rivalled only by little talked about. Clearly, the reason the British Flect in the Far East for a Constantinople of all the cities of that for this reticence must also be Oriental perigd, of fifteen years, the formation of gestion for these trips would be to keep- day, in point of size and magnificence: for, as stated, if it may not equal a birth an Angle-Chinese commission for the the windshield up and to use a pair of glanca Bun glasses of any pattern Mr. Bishop also commented favourably certificate-judged on Western lines administration of Weihaiwei after its "Sun slaa on the improvements which General Wu there is still very much to be said in its restoration, the employment of several with wither Crookes, Luxfel, Fieuzal, Pei Fu has made since he was at Loyang favour. After all is said and done British police officers, the perpetual
seven years ago. There are thou although most foreigners can usually state rental of lands by British subjects and Amber, London Smoke, or Blue lenses Band of tres planted, motor, roads and off-hand the year of their birth there are the collection of due and taxes by the are obtainable at very moderats pric concrete bridges constructed and a general times when it might conceivably be easier Commissioner of the Maritime Customs" feeling of the achievements of soldier to retort that one is a dragen or a mon- of Weihaiwei instead of by the Chicas from The Hongkong Optical Co., succes. Jahqur at work. This, General Wu ox key than to recall the exact year of authorities. The members say that in or to Clark & Co., Manufacturing and plained, was only the beginning of his birth. The matter opens up a very in order not to furnish pretexts for the Refracting Opticians the most compet scheme for the use of ex-soldiers interesting field. Doubtless it has been Japaness to make clasma on Chini con Kansu, Sinking and Mongolia. He touched on before. For instance, the cerning Tsingtao in the future, it is ent manufacturing optical establishment. would train his soldiers to support them gentle inquirer would like to know why, absolutely necessary for the Government in South China-located in 53, Que a'u selves after disbandment by means of in the first place, animals were chosen to examine the new agrement most care Road Central (opposite to the Singer Sewing Machine Company)—Apvz. [201 railway and road construction, irrigation and in the second why particular animals fully and reject those clauses which affect
China's rights. and reforestation project.
were allocated to certain yours?·
some
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Br. Layman asked arrangements could be made for the money to be pald by instalments, as he understood that his ellent was not in well-to-do circum stances