Telegrams.
[Reuters.]
The Kaizer's Visit.
London, 6th November The Kalver has postponed his visit to Holland, as after, his visit to King Edward ho will stay privately in the Isle of Wight on account of his health.
Hit Majesty is suffering from persistent catar, and from depression in consequence of recent events in Berlin.
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The Kaiserin is not coming to England owing to chicken pox in the Imperial family
The Sensational Trials in Germany The journalist Brand has been sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH FRIDAY NOVEMBER 8, 1907.
THE POLICE. The members of the Canton Police force have put on their winter uniform since the first day of the present maan.""
HEMP TRADE.
Report from Fatahan states that the hemp trade there has done well during the year and large consignments have arrived from Hupeh and foi a steady market. It is reported that hemp merchants have, made good profits during the year, and are still showing signs of prosperity
CHINESE IN SIAM,
date 15th ult.:-The Siam Olmerter has recent "Kalchan wife to the Siams Observer under
The Uni od States.
ly quote, an article from the Hongkong 1 degraph, Many flour mills in Minneapolis are closed therely contained, and I beg you kindly to I cin by no means concur with the opinion Howing to the financial conditions.
publish the following refutation in the corres pondence of your paper, Later."
The Hongkong Telegraph says:—"Of all places in the world it is difficult to understand how Siam could justify a policy of Chinese ex; clasian," and "The subjects of the Middle Kingdom (China) and it was only a few years ago that the Government of Siam annually sent tributes to 'l'eking in acknowledgment of the Emperor's sovereignty over the vassal state" The writer then continues to say, that on account of China's troubles in foreign policy, Siani neglected har duties at a tributary state, and finally became independent by the act of France and England, who made Siara abuffer. state between their respective colonies. of 'The writer in the Hongking_Telegraph hat evidemly studied history in China, as his opi- nion soundi extremely "Chinese."
Prince Buglow, at the trial, declared that the charges made against him were insensate, and he described the tendencies ascribed to him as abl^rrent int incomprehensible,
Explosion in a German Training Ship.
An explosion has occurred on, board the German training ship Bleucher.
The decks were blown dff.'
Up to the present the casualities ainocht
to 8 dead and za seriously injured?
Thoth Lancers.
These coollas are a great danger to the Siamese race! They take away all work from tba Siamese yes, even the agriculture of this country, which for a long "time" "was' ali togelber in the hands, of: Siamurë, Will 1000 become a monopoly of the Chinese too, and then nothing will be left to the Slamaie. These Chinese coolics threaten to devour Siam!
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Siam has been the ruling state of Fur ther India for many centuries and formerly her authority was acknowledged from Burma' the down to Singapore. The Europeans who came and took-possession of the countries surrounding Siam, did surely not make her independent. On the contrary. Siam's these occupations and at present ons even independance was greatly endangered by hears of English and French "spheres-of-in-COVERED DRAWING ROOM SUITE, Fillet of Steak and Mushrooms. terest" in this country. On the other hand it OVERMANTELS, TEAKWOOD EXTEN is by the aid of Europeans that Slam bas be SION DINING TABLE and CHAIRS DINNER WAGGONS, DINNER SER come a prosperous and well-organised state, VICE, TEAKWOOD WARDROBE with which is rapidly progressing on the pair-of-BEVELLED GLASS, CHEST-OF-DRAW- civilisation. All these reforms were by na ERS, CARPETS, &c. &c. means intro uced into this, country by, the
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The Chinese are allowed to ester-this coun try when and where they like; but in spite of this the Siamese Government does not seem year to your be a gradual lessening of that soldiers, whilst the Chinese in Siam are exemptable lads, who, unless means are taken to pull to frust them, for all Siamese have to become number of reckless, wayward, and uncontroll- from military service.
lives, when the State has them in its ensiody. them up sharply at a critical moment in their must inevitably continue to swell the ever. rolling wave of habitual and hopeless and incurable, crims.
I am not entitled to make proposals in order to regulate the immigration of Chinese coolies, as all this will surely be arranged for in a wise and good manner by the Guveroment of this nothing is undertaken to stop this coolie-in- country. I however am convinced that if
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MENTALLY DEFECTIVE PRISONERS. On the medical side of the question the
cases of mental defect amount to 3 per cent. PRISON PUFULATION REFORM. soners and the Commissioners hot at the of the total receptions-i.e., some 6,003, prì-
Chinese history, speaks of one Emperor vasion, Siam will be a Chinese country.in lese medical inspector surmises that the recognised
than nity years.
There is much sympathy at Aldershot believe that during the last Chino-Japanese HUMANE BYSTEMS THAT REVIVE HOPE AND prudence of legislation "relieving them of the
with the officers of the gth Lancers, but the action of the Army Council is commended as evidence of thy determination to maintain the utmost efficiency throughout the Army
GASTON PAY AY DIY
ARULITION DE, TAXAS, -
[From The Dan Carvegundout)
reigning several thousands of years, and of battles where millions of the enemy are killed. The masses of the people in China generally, war the Japs received a sound bidding. As many things in China are upside down, so the Chinese interpretation of historical facts is sometimes, most queer and miraculous.
berefore beg the Hongkong historian to base his opinion on facts and not on Chinese non- lease.
Why, I beg to ask the gentleman, is Šiam mote fit iban other countries to open its pro vinces to Chinese emigrant? The Japanese, or instance are akin to the Chinese, but in Canton, 7th November, spile of this they seem to dislike their Celestial After exhaustive inquities bed been made brethren, of whom, only a small number have into the different items of the mure unim. ettled in Japan. The, Siamese, so says the portant taxes levied on the people of the city | Hongkong scholar, are descendants of the of Cantor, it has been found that the collection Chinese! The gentleman has evidently not of such taxes amounts to a very insignificant studied the. Sixinere language and has no sum and, moreove, there small'ievics are often Į knowledge of Siamese rites and custome i the cauts of disturbutice by the people against the Government. The 199gs Authnijties pro- pose to abolish all taxes of amül amounts for the benifit of the gener il public,
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otherwise he would not boldly put forth such vague statements, 1 do not deny that the That (hive' to ‘a great extent mixed with Mongolic elements, but originally the Thai ore most likely a branch of the great Aryan race. The Siamese do not use Chinese characters, but have a typical Aryan alphabet of their own. "Many rootwords of their language car respond in sound and meaning to words of other ryan languages. Their ancient fairy. tales and their mythology lead to Aryan sources, and the history of the Siamese nation has many features that planly prove their Aryan origin.
SELY RESPECT.
great burden and responsibility of adapting the penal system to numerous cirea of men and women who, from their mentál state, are not
The note of hope pervades the annual repor. of the Commissioners of Prisons and the Direcfit sabfects for penil discipline" tors of Convict Prisons, dealing with the year onded fast March The oustanding facis pr - sented are that crime.incl shows a decreasing tendency, and that real advintages in the com form reform both of the prison treatment and munity are accruing" from recent effortș at re-
of the prison population,
The broad result reported in that during the year the total number of priseners, 199,282, showed a decrease of 18,044 as compared with the previous year. Of this total; 1,035 were sentenced to penal servitude, exactly the same number as in 1915.6, but the average length of sentence was slightly less.
DECR ASE IN DRUNKENÑÉST".
The Commissioners make some strong re- marks about the indisposition of the Courts to take advantage of the 'powers endferred upon them of placing certain prisoners in
punishment in the case of persons where the Second Division-of differentiating the
there is a distinct diff:rence in the character of the offence and of the offender, and the circum- stances of the offender,
EMPLOYING PRISON LABOUR.
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ber of such minor cases as crunkenness, and now collected at Dartmoor, are being shop. offences against police regulations and bye- herded by the Borstal Assocation, and with laws, musbeliavior by’paupers, and actaqi's, excellent results, Out of 41 cases discharged continued during co6-5. Drunkenness, notably, during the year only three, so far as is known, supplied 5,20% less cases. Larceny cases also have bech reconvicted, and the majority are declined by 1,572 offences, against the poor law reported to be doing well-a result which the by 1,47 and begging and sleeping out by 2,379. Commissioners justifiably regard as amply Another excellent feature of the crime year is repaying all the trouble and expense involved conveyed in this sentence of the Commis in setting up these cases again after the expira-
ioners' report:
tion is early youth of grave offences against the
law.
CLASSIFIED BY THE GOVERNOR, To Wakefield prison, for instance, while only 31 were sent assecond division prisoners, the governor of the prison classified after commil- ment of 260 as "Star Class" prix ders, most of whom,in his opinion, might have been classified by the Court as offenders of the
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It has been already reported that lie pre pared epium monopoly of the whole province of Kwangtung has reverted to and is to be under the sale comol of the bifficials of the Canton Shan Hoà Chu. Now the Bureau's officials have decided in adapt the methods of the farm in vogue longkong to regulate the sale of opium, and to issue
So far as prison statistics may be taken as an labels to be pasted on all opium boxes. These
index of social progress, it is a most hopeful' The "sorry response to the benigo inten-, labels will be prepared and printed by the Thus for instance the character of the Chi and encouraging sign that juvenile delinquency, tion of the Legislature is that out of 169,377 Canton Government" l'aper Factory and will exe and Siamese female sex is altogether minishing yent by year. The diminution of during-the-yer, only-1,3-12, ar 5.07. per cent, as measured by commitment to prison, is di-prisoners sentenced by the summary courts
•soon bi issued for that purpose,“
different, and 1 shall here,cite an episode from, Siamese history corroborating this fact. Near invenite crime strictly so-called, ie, offences by were ordered for special treatment in this The Canton-Hankow Radway Company hasly every year, when the harvest was over, the
persons under 16 years of age, has, indeed. division. The Commissioners point out that received a telegram from the Ministry of Siamese King assembled his army and waged during the last ten years, shown a decrease the failure of the Courts to mike this differen. Agriculture, Industry and Commerce, at Pek-war against hostile neighbours. Once, when which is almost marvellous; the numbers for tiation throws the responsibility of doing so ing, string that in connection with the present the Siamese army was fighting in Cambodia, the last year being less than half of these for upon the prison authorities, who classify first agitatim among the people of the province of searly the whole male population of the Siam the year 1807„*
offenders as "Star Class," and "what should Choking against the proposed fra'ing of a gue town' of. Korat had followed their King
Only fout children, under 12. were sent to be a judicial decision" becomes ao adminis foreign loan for the consuuction of the railroads The Lao Prince of Wieng Thin, led an army prison, and 734 between the ages of 5 and 16trative act after commitment, in that province, the president of the Chekiang down to Siars and captured Korat, But ( against 999 in 19556, and 1,141 in 1904-5) Railway Company will be sent to the Capital the womenfolk of this, town leaded by a
· SEPARATE “COURTS FOR CHILDREN. to dincurs the matter and to arrive at a satisfac brave lady named Yai-Moh armed them- In this connection he Commissioners again tory selement in connection with the question. selves secretly, and one night they drove the call-nutention (as they did last year) to the re- Laos. out, and so great was their fury that markable decrease of juveniles received into by Canton Bureau of Agriculture, Industry the Wieng-jan army was totally dispersed. Birmingham prison, where the numbers were and-Commerce has, on the suggestion of a Such stries remind, one of the battle, utformerly large. This point derives its signifi- mining expert, Clan Kwong yau, issued Aquae Sextiac, 101 B, C., where, when the
cance from the fact that at Birmingham the notification to the general public inviting army of the Cimbri was defeated by the Roman
system of separate courts for children has been merchants and others to companies 10 dictator Marius, the Roman legions had still to established. The result is certainly an osten-" work the various gold mines discovered in the ght the enraged Cimbric women, who defend- sile triumph for the experiment. „district of Hoi Kon, in which gold has been ased the chariotring to their last breath. Warlike certaibed to be found in payable quantifies, Ambitions are not to be met with amongst the female sex of the Chinese. On the contrary, Instructions have been received by the Canhei hinese woman shows but little energy, and ton Authorities from the Mitary of Ries at enjoys no freedom, as her jealous husband Peking advising the dates selected for the confines her to the four walls of the house, closing and re-opening of the official seats of The Chinese and Siamese are two different We strongly endone the opinion expressed the diferent yamews for the New Year, holi races. But I admit that the Siamese have to aby governors and chaplains throughout the days. The date for the closing of the seal for certain extent intermingled with Chinese service, that in the case of the young, and im the transaction of public business is the 19th clemen's. Thir, however, does by no means 'pressionable, and imaginative, a sentence day of the 12th monn and the day for re-open-entitle the Chinese io-devour Slam and the which only familiarises with what ought to be ing is fixed for the 4th day of the moon Siamese and to exterminate the language, the great mystery and dread of the interior of
civilization, and history of this nation.
a prison, and which does not admit of sufficient THE KING'S BIRTHDAY,
Furthermore, I beg to state that Slam has time for this application of any useful reforma- | The 9th instant bring the birthday of H.M. never been a tributary, state of China and that tory ir fluence, must do mare harm than good. King Edward VII,, the British Consul General Chinese armies have never invaded Siam. It here has issued invitations to the leading Chi-is true that the relations between the two Coming to the more difficult subject of beze officials to attend a dinner at the Con-countries were of a friendly character, and the "juvenilp-adults" (between the ages of 16 and sulate on that day. H.E. the Viceroy is think, rulers of both cupatries have now and then 21), the Commissioners again have hopefu;
f 11 A LARGE AND VARIED ASSORTMENT ing of personally proceeding to the Consulate exchanged presents to demonstrate their mutual figures to report. More than 2,000 fewer při. 10 days' aight Sydney and Melbourne„2.1,9/16 to offer his congratulations on the occasion, friendship. Yes, the Chinese even gave a
OF soners of this age were received into prison 4 months' sight Frar ce.........................................................2.65 princess of the Kayal,blood to King Phra than. in 1905-6, The Canton Authorities have abolished the Ruang of Siam; but on arriving in this country
.• L6 months' sight ...ư
....2.67) Honem Bunding Bureau as it is decided not to the girl was not received by the King and from
Time may perhaps, prove this to be only 4 months' sight Germany............. 1.2,16) prosecute the scheme of bunding the Honam grief of heat she committed suicide by jump enough to believe, that the concentration Bank of England rate
a casual diminution; but we are sanguine Dar Silver side of the river until the completion of the newing into the Medain-Cho-Phya. The Chinese of in 'ividual attention bund on the. Canton side. The director of influence did not reach beyond Burma, and soners of this age, from the application of Bank of Francinaniem.
on young pri Market rate rate-sa-nimiisamata - 1.01.2 that Department; expectant, m'gistrate Got even this state was able to maintain it inde- the Forstal system in his full sense at Borstal Sovereignama #imunom Yay-chun, yesterday resigned his post.
...............1,970 pendence.
and Lincoln, and.in its modified sense at all
next year.
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Siam's relations to China were always friend Them was a represeátative gathering at the ly, and it was on account of this that Chinese Man Yuen Gardens in the western suburb yes- traders came to Siam selling their wares and terday afternoon to discuss the steps to be taken sending the products of Siam to Chies, for the introduction and.establishment of a I beg to stata thuigny attacks in the corres Local Self-government Bureau for the city, of pondence of this paper were bus partly directed Cantón. A tea party was also held and the Against the Chinese traders, and merchants in promoter of the scheme, Mr. Ljang Hing kepi, Siam, for 1 freely admit that this class of Chin- addreund chose, present as to the object of these cann tallozether be replaced by Siamese, meeting. It was decided that the election of who evidently show httle ability for commercial the officials of the Bureau should take place at aflain. But I protest against the Chinese con
meeling to be beld on the 10th'instant in the lie
who are crowding into. Slam and sama gardens,
Play the whole cqualifi
That there is still abundant room for further. reform in the treatment of juvenile offenders, however, is indicated in this remark of the Com- missinners, in connection with the large total percentage (61 per cent) of juveniles sentenced to seven days or less:
"JUVENILE ADULTS."" |
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