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'HONGKONG TELEGRAPH"
SERVICE,
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CHINESE CONSERVATISM.
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH FRIDAY OCTOBER 23, 1908,
THE PROPOSED SINO-AMERICAN
ALLIANCE.
INTERVIEW WITH CORRESPONDENT OF ' NEW YORK HERALD".
Much interest has been manifested by the
THE COTTON WAR.
100,003, PEOPLE IDLE
INNER MEANING OF THE FIGHT.
The cotton lock-out'in Lancashire is:lm, full Japanese Press in the recent visit to 'Peking of force to-day, says the Pall Mall Gaselle of als Mr. Kingsley Oh, representative of the New ult. Over 140,000 workpeople are idle, and Tork Herald in the Daeot, it being understood each of them on an average is losing about a that the purpose of his visit was to secure the ponad a week. views of leading Chinese officials and others. So far no definito steps have been upon the Stag-American alliance advocated by bold Boother ballot of cardroom workers, who the Herald. Mr. Obi, who bas' returned to
are responsible for cessation of work, but it is expected that something in this direction will be done during the week.
Peking, 22nd October. The Waiwupu bas requested the Tokyo, has declined to be interviewed, giving British Minister to restrain his na-it as his idea that the business of a newspaper man is to interview others, not to be interview- tionals, from opening hongs and ed himself. Talking informaliy of his hurried establishing warehouses at Changsha, trip to a representative of the Michi Nichi, in Hunan Province:
THE AMERICAN FLEET.
DEPARTURE OF CHINESE COMMISSIONERS.
By courtesy of the "Sheing Po"].
Peking, 22nd October.
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There is one side of the dispute which has not yet been clearly placed before the general public, and without it, it is impossible for the exact piion to be fally appreciate', writes a Manchester correspondent,
"Among other interesting discoveries I made at Peking was that there was not the slightest truļb in the report, given wide circula- tion in Japan, that the Chiness Government has decided to recall Wu Ting-fang as Minister to the United States on account of certain ex- pressions he used io an interview given to the New York Herald several weeks ago. Not only has no such action been taken, but the idea of such action evor having been contemplated is TE. Yuk Long and, un Tung-laughed at in Paking official circles. The fact in, who had been deputed to wel, is the Wai-wu pu has never deemed the episode
of sufficient importance to question Mr. Will the present one. come the American Fleet, have about it, por bas Mr. Wu over sent a degial of decided to leave Shanghai to-day on the interview to his Gaverament. The effort the cruiser Hoi Yer for Amoy.
of a few newspapers to make capital out of Mr. Wa's talk is looked upon at Peking as what Americans would call making a mountain out DALAI LAMA,
of a molchill.
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A ČO PERENCE.
[By courtory of the "Sheung Po."]
Peking, 22nd October. Princes and Grand Councillors were to hold a conference with the Dalai Lama yesterday, and to-day to discus affairs in connection with
Tibet
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Peking, 22nd October. The college for the education of sons of noblemen has been com- pleted.
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Tokio, 22nd October.
"With regard to the proposition for closer relations between China and the United States, which for sake of couvchiepçe has been called "alliance,' I do not care to say, anything, more than that the suggestion undoubtedly appeals very strongly to the Chinese-officials, gentry, mrchants, all classes-all of whom entertain a peculiarly warm friendship for the United States. No man who has any knowledge of a doubts that the old days when the pen. ple were ignorant of the outside world have passed away. The Chinese people have a live 19 appreciation of the many substantial evid- eces they have bad of America's practical friendship for China. The action of the last Congress, upon President, Roosevelt's recom- mendation, in releasing China from the pay ment of many millions of Boxer indemnity has had the effect of emphase og to the Chinese mind the lonk-existing unselfish friendship of the United States Government and the Ameri- can people for China, and the idea of such an alli ince as the Herald advocates appeals very strongly to them.
It is not do'y the present 5 per cent. decrease in wages over which masters and operatives are fighting, but other s per cent. changes which. depend on the issue of the present fight. The cotton industry, is carried on under the Brooklands Agreement, which result ed from the disastrous strike of fifteen years ago, Its operation has been so generally be- peficial that since it came into existence no serious dispute has taken place in the industry One of the clauses of this agreement lays it down that any change in wages shall be limited to 5 per cent., neither less nor more, whils there shail boat least a year's interval, between every change.
Hetween three and four years ago the cotton industry, with the other trades of the country, began to "boom," and soon every mill was working full time, large dividends were earned, and, the operatives, eager to share in the pros. perity, demanded that their wages should be increased by 5 per cent. Early in igos the employers agreed to make the increase. Still the prosperity continued, and when the paces, sary year had elapsed the employees asked for further rise, and received it. Thus since the opening of the year igas the wages of the operatives have been increased by to per cent.
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MANUFACTURERS LOSINO MONEY, Suddenly, in the early part of this year, bad times set in. The American financial crash upset the finance of the world. The demand for cotton goods feti off in every muket, and stocka began to accumulate on the manufacturers' hands. The prospects of large profits were turned to the certainty of losses, until at the present time it is declared that every pound of yara manufactured means a loss to the manu, Tacturer of three farthings.
The employers would have been justified in demanding decrease in wages early in the year. But they waited, and it was not till a new set of circumstances made it absolutely pecesty that they moved."
THE HYDERABAD FLOODS,
SCENES OF HORROR..
TEN THOUSAND ROTTING CORPSES.
The Advocate of India correspondaut wires under yesterday's date: "Through the cour tesy of Mr. Raikus, Telegraph Mastor of the 1tyderabad Telegraph Office, just now restored to something like working order, 1 am naubled to used this from Hyderabad, thos saring a six miles fourney to Secunderabad.
Secunderabad bazaar was due to a chit being It appears that the scare last night in the
received from the Cantonment Magistrate by Inspector McCarthy of the police, stating that the Jecdmutha Tank was in dauger, and that the natives in Nelegoods; a low-lying district
near the Hussain Baugor, ware to be warped.
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would imagine that 48 hours ago it was 60 foot deep in water.
The killed, it is now estimated by many"
officials whom I met this morning, cannot post-
Captain Shakespear had an exciting experi esce. On Monday, at 7 a.m. Captain Nicholson in command of the Residency guard reported to him that things worn getting dangerous. He at once proceeded to the 1st Assistant's ban galow, sed looking through a loophole in the high wall of the old gaidos adjacent found that the water had risen on the other side several feet, that tons of "loga had washed up against | tively the barrack wall, and that the doors and the gate of the 1st Assistant's compound were two. feet deep in, waler. He rushed to ibe guard and, after seeing them all out, escaped by a wicket gate, into the Residency compound. Tea minutes after the garden wall gave way, and the volume of water.behind the pile of timber simply 'crushed jate the barracks Like shells. Captain Shakespear ten made his way to
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BE LESS THAN 10,000. . §.
If the city's population on Sunday was 300,000 and 25 per cent have gone what munt the total of the killed have been ! One shudders to think. Truly Hyderabad is now under a scourge, awful for the present, but far less awful than another week will yet reveal, unless some great organizer arrives to clear the putrid human ity from tea square miles of devastation,
The telegraph offices are inundated with the confidential records of the Residency and by dint of desperate efforts waist deep in water messages from all parts of India, asking for the managed to lift most of the records clear, but welfare of friends living in Hyderabad. The "many were damaged-ft-was-only then-about-Hyderabad office is taxed to its utmost Hon
dreds of messages.are arriving, but half the 8 o'clock and he
delivery peons are missing, and the surviving | peons have a hopeless, task, As said to me when asked why he did not deliver a mes. sage;-"What to do? Nastreet, no house, no
RUSHED TO THE TELEPILONE
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ALL DEAD, SIR.4
H.E. Tang Shao-vi, the special territory. The Chinese believe they have reason raw collon is, therefore, likely to be cheap in the line and, secured a railway carriage and this morning was somewhat shonḍlived, for by
Commissioner to America, has arrive ed in Tokio and was to be received in-audience-by-the-Emperor-yester-
day.
"Perhaps the most potent iofluance to this general end is the realisation of the Chinese that America wants none of Chian's terri- tory; that she is absolutely honest id her pro fessions of desire that the territorial integrity of China be preserved, and that China be per- mitted to exercise full-sovereignty over her own to doubt the sincerity of similar professions on the past of some other nations. They may, of course, be wrong in this; but as long as they entenain such doubis, is it not natural that they should feel most friendly towards the nation of the sincerity of "whose friendship they have no doubt ?
- The 'hew circumstances were as follows: Repons from Amer ça'show that the new cot, ton crops is likely to be a very large one, and the near future. Cheap cotton neaus pro- sperity in Lancashire, and there is thus every prospect that depression will be succeeded by another boom."
to apprise the Resident and Captain Minchin, the first Assistant, living at Bolarum, 12 miles away, of the calamity, The Rendent and Captain and Mrs. Minchin and Mr. F. 0, Craw fard proceeded with all speed, and; tailing to get across the lack band in a motor, ran along It appears that the vigorous work of the troups 2 o'clock they had all retired-perhaps for thas got to Hyderabad alation. The papers being saved, the next thought was the rescue lunch, and from the Residency to the Afzul of scores of people changing to trees, on the top Gusj there was hardly a Nizam's official of of temples and any point of vantage above the importance in view; but the; Hon'ble Resident, Now the position is this: If trade begins to water's level whate the wretched people could bis I's sonál Assistant and Captain Minchin were making a hasty survey of the latest deve boom again the operatives will very soon ark cling, and I now understand that of the Re- that wages shall be increased. More than
sidency rescue party, besides the officials them-lopments. Owing to the withdrawal of the The tendency on the part of a section of year since the last change took place basal-elves, were Mr. F. C. Crawford, Mr. Kenneth police the crush of people on the Afzul Guoj the Japanese Press to construe the America-ready pasted, and they will be within their Barnett, Major Pain, Captain Nicholson and badge cadeavouring to get across it became China alliance proposal as aimed at Japan does | rightja making the demand.
dangerous. Two policemen were there to con Trol hundreds-of-people-The-river-bed-next- the water was swarming with natives watching the washing up of bodies evidently coming from long distances, which would show that the floods
Mr. Ment. Boats helped greatly in the work,
CHINA FOR THE CHINESE,
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not impress the Chiness as logical, to say the 7 he employers have this in their minds.but last of it. Their argument runs this way: Peking, 22nd October.
No arrangement that might be entered into a mass meeting in between the United States and. China could Hankow on 20th inst., to oppose the by any possibility be anything else than peace proposal for raising, foreign loans for its nature. China wants only peace: railway purposes.
There was
America desires nothing more than that Chins shall have 'a square deaļ,' Japan bas entered
At-the-meeting-those-present-re-into-certain-agreements declared-to-be-solely solved that the management of rail- way affairs should be retained in
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-Subscriptions to the extent of four million dollars were promised there and then by the assembly.
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The European Situation.
LONDON, 2180 October. The Turkish delerates, who have left Sofa, have concluded the basis of any agree. ment with Bulgaria.
The two Bulgarian delegates at Constan. tinople have visited the Grand Vizier and Foreign Minister, and have discussed, with them the terms of a settlement,
Later,
Turkey has abandoned her opposition to the proposed European conference, which she now regards as indispensable, and is sending a circular note to the Powers enu: merating Turkish claims.
Germany,
H.I. M. the Kaiser, at the opening of the Diet, announced the introduction of a Bill Increasing civil salaries by ten million sterling per annum, necessitating increased taxation on property, and large incomes.
for the preservation of peace and of China's territorial integrity. Il Japan is sincere in her professions of friendship towards Chine, why should she object to China's entering into agreement with her best friend, whose sole effect would be to secure peace and ensure that territorial integrity in which Japan pro fesses to be so deeply interested and to which she has voluntarily pledged bersell? The Chinese seem to think that those Japanese who see in this alliance proposal a menace to the policy of Japan ate themselves impugning the good faith of Japan, and are, therefore, the severest critic of their own Government. The Chinese slso point to admissions of leading Japanese newspapers-is their discussion of
recent Japanese policy towards China-as
wages
Before the lari boom" they say, were to per cent: lower than they are to-day, if another booss comes, and we are compelled to make a further advance we shall be paying 15 per cent. more in wages than we consider te be the normal.
"We are now losing money, and, the opera tives should share our losses: Not only this, but if we can reduce wages by 5 per cent. we shall not only have prepared the way for the sex rise, but shall have put that rise off for whole year."
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or the other hand, the operativos-know that if they accept the 5 per ceat. reduction they. are giving away for a whole year their chance of a farther improvement.
It is, indeed, a battle not for one 5 per cent, but for many. The position is the one weak spot in the Brooklands Agreement, and, as bas more than once been pointed out by men on both sides, it is a weakness which can only be settled by the adoption cia sliding scale which would work automatically with the fluctuations in the prosperity of the industry.
IN THE DISTRICTS,
WITH A ROARING TORRENT TO FACE,
extending for half a mile, and huge waves bringing uprooted trees, and debris of ail de scription along with them, the work was ex ceedingly risky, but many souls are grateful for the gallantry of this bandful of Europeans and not one Residency employee was lost.
Leaving the Residency and proceeding along the banks of the river 18 inches deep in mud, not 50 yards from the Residency walls, were five hideously ghastly corpses. Further on a completely demolished village, containing quite 1,000 houses and huis named Ghonligoods in British limits appeared to have sunk entirely in mud as it stood, and the awful steach arising bere apoke for iisell. A few folk ware niggling with the debris, a sure sign of frightfe! mortality.
extend soms miles along the river. Entering
the city twenty policemen squatting outside the police station are chatting, some asleep. Un identified corpses lay at their feet, stinking. They appear to enjoy it.
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Crossing the road and entering the Faluce grounds of the favourite Nawab Saler Jung; see half his fine palace down, his rare ofl paintings banging on the walls which are about, to fall. This poor young nobleman's loss is estimated at thres lakhs.
All is seemingly in its busy normal state around the Char Miner. The shopkeepers are busy in the road leading from the Char Minar to the district-1 bave already described it as Down into the bed of the stream and up on the Black Grave, The high building's bide the to the main road to the city, I come across well-scene behind, but the odour is fearful even organized reliefs of soldiers of the 55th Nizam's 500 yards away. There are no workers and troops under their officers, digging away al
matters are quieter than yesterday. How long
d bris. At one point, for instance at Chow is this to go on?. The stench can be well
rasta Square, sightssers were moved to tears at imagined, when I say that withio forty yards of the painfully pitiable sight of half a Company the busy thoroughfare mentioned were huddled of Infantry attacking and digging up a buge together a decomposing horse, jammed on the mound of wreckage, beneath which lay a corpses of dogs and cats and filthy sodden
would venture further in this: corpses, whilst on a stack of debris opposite sat foodstuffs were rotting with the flesh. Who the relatives, -
valuable evidence in support of their There were fewer clogs rattling over the flags own suspicions of the policy that has di- rected that diplomacy, and by which Japan. of Bolton early this morning that has been the bas been judged; I am sodeavouring to
case on an ordinary working day for twenty Twenty thousand years or more past.
VAST EXPANSE OF POTRID RUIN, UNWOMEN, WEEPING AND WAILING, give you, briefly, the views of the Chiness, not
but with a fixed gaze on the tomb from which if this sight appears within the first few yards! my own views, I found the Chinese greatly Bollos and district factory men and women interested in the aflizace proposal, which is are idle and, along with the ordinary no- being very widely discussed, and there can be employed, are perambulating the streets. their own were momentarily expected to be I purposely mention plain unvarnished facts no doubt that they would welcome some such Many of the strikers are * playing" against dug out. Farther along, superintending the because of the dreadful danger which is im- arrangement for closer relationship such as the their will. A dozen icading firms not con- lifting by bamboos of three corpses from a minent. In short if cholera now breaks out Note York Herald is advocating, and which nected with the Masters' Federation are-work-decɔ pit, was Captain Green and bis res; and as the result of what I describe, good-bye to the a few yards forchet, Captain Nawab Mostaid city,population, which 1 now find is just at over seems to be the ides Mr. Taft had in his Shauging. The public is against the strikers. kai speech of last year, as well as the logical development of the traditional relationship
At Ashton-under-Lyme, 646,884 spindles and Nasjang and his party were making frantic 400,000, but in this event they would flee to even still-brex bing Secpoderabad, the largest garrison In India. 26 looms are stopped representing 20,000 endeavours to save an
woman. Captain Halloo, Mr. Warger, Mr. Gray The task before the authorities is admittedly- and many other officers were directing opera colossal and repugnant, but it has got to be tions with disinfectants with pads over their attacked and that quickly, laft Afzal Gunj mouth Cartloads of dead are being carried at 47.0, but no troops had returned and the away, the strain on all and sundry being up to i nat res were doing their best each with- kis, broaking point in the city, whither large bodies owA ruins. of troops have been drafted.
between the two countries,'
As to the progress of the discussion to the operatives, United States, Mr. Obl said his advices wOID
the proposal.
The Tongahan Engineering College, that popular interest has been manifested in
Sir Edward Grey, in reply to Mr. W. Mitchell-Thomson, Conservative member for Lanarkshire, said that Sir John Jordan, British Minister at Peking, was intervening on behalf of the dismissed. English principal of the Tongshan Engineering College, on the ground that six months nolice-is-usizal, and that the matter waistill under consider- stion,
America and Japan.
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French (Tourane) 16th inst.
Canadian (Empress of Japan) 28th.ipst. Indian (Lairang) goth inat.
pore for this port.on sand. inst., at 5 p.m.
Nine of the federated mills in Bury ate closed to-day, and four are working. Upwards of a thousand operatives have already signed the strike registers. The Bary employers met this morning, boy nothing was communicated as to the outcome of the meating..........
THE SITUATION SUMMARISED.. Over four hundred cotton mills in Lancashire are idle to-day, about forty millions of spindles are wholly or partially stopped, over £50,000,000
Jhave only so far penetrated half a mile from the Residency, and will proceed across the bridge wreckage this afternoon.
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The P.&O. SƑN °Co2 5•& Somali lelt Singa" | of capital is bringing no return, at least 140.00 army can never cope with the The C. P. R. Co. ss. Lennox left Vet-operatives are out of work, and they are losing over there, but there is a general rumour that and Company have opened a local food in The London Times rejoices at the inter-couver, B.C for Hongkong via the usual ports wages at the rate of £140,000 a week, change of messages between President Roose of call on sorb inst., am,
the British garrison will be turned out this Secunderabad and several relief camps have aftemoon.
bten opened for the destitute and big accom volt and the Mikado, and welcomes the good, The 1. C. S. N. Co's «.x. „Laisang left Cal-
the public gar understanding of our Japanese allies and our cutta for this port via the Straits on 14th inst., THREx cargo-boat men were each fined is in The starving and destitate are beginning to modation is being afforded American friends as a fresit indiced out and may be expected here on or about guh inst the Police Court, this morning, for maging look at sudden sisin shops, of what is there dens al Chudarghat peace is unlikely to be disturbed by a calami- The C. P. R. Co's Empress of India certain parts of Connaught Road West, Yaster stiilin store. Every inch one moves one fast The estimate of dssike (10,000) given this arrived at Nagasaki, at 6.30 am, on 2nd test. fach: or at the
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198 spans of the Algul Gusi bridge, ag ons in onizing villages comes to head;
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