Illegal Opium Seizure.
MR. MAX MULLER'S PROTEST,
WAIWUPU'S' INSTRUCTIONS TO CANTOY VICERLY.
[From Our Own Correspondent);
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH THURSDAY AUGUST 25 1010
THE FLOODS IN JAPAN,
· 9-mmare »g dumbiricas repor ́s, says the Kela ficreld of August 13, we gather that cor- di ions in Toklo owing to th: Goods are getileg woise and wome. With the exception of the bills, every qarter of the city was ander muddy water yesterday. The water in some places is Canton, 24h i uguit," Indɗep as nine fret, and the rooficlover 7,000. TE, Viceroy Yuan has received a tolegram houses in ene neighboorhand are submerged, from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs at Poing Most dist castol sceres confront the observer transmitting to him representation from the everywhere and the min of water through and British Chor, éd Afulks with special reference | over the bluses has carried away the prople's to the illegal se zure of twenty bal's of opium | belongings. It was grasily feared panerday. at Sun Tong and. Sam 1 ing in Samabul and jibat the Kindagawa 'would oweißw, if this the imposi lon of a fine if † 850 taeisio Croton" dar ger materialized both Kanda and Niborba?" on the owṛer The Friish Chorjé d'Ag dren shi waidi would be immediately inundated. - relicrated)hat the lewy of the tax on foreign raw | The six h section of Asikuja Park resembled rpiom under the rame of prepared oplum |'a large lake. fi has been impassible to`rta the Licence fees in Can'on is quila, a breach of electric tralor la *sikura" Ku since yesterday Treaty sights and that the collection of these | momirg. A large number of vessels, small and
Hlegal t. xos must be abol abed without the
fezal delay,
The Ministry in the "elegram instructed H.E Yoss to settle be case the cpum se rare referred to above le a satisfactory manner, for fear the probibi lon of opium im hisg in Chini might be bampered and seriously affected, on account of the frequart pretres from the Dhiệsh Chưr. Zil, fairin.
CANTON RAY BY DAY!
JAN ZAIR KIDNAPPINO CASE, (From Our Cion Correnpovalent)
Coton, 23rd Augu ́i. Ten daya ngo seven houres were attacked and indiacked by robbers in Sus Chiu and one
Tokio ware as
According to official reports, tha houses. which were more or le's under, al-3 o'clock yesterday"!* follows:—
Ward.
Koit
Euka
Hongo
Usbigom
Yolioya
Aknaka
ribui...
Kej macai .....
Kanda Klobashi
fasta for fifteen th
Houses
No where Water in: Flooded, abora floor,
71918
203
2,003
ifteen days.
LITER, REPORTS, Tok oʻand its reighbourhood, which suffered
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la 11th day of September, 19th, an which date Dividend, Warrants may be obtained on ap plicatira at the Company's Office ME
An important statement as to the affects on British trade of the hoposed new lapinnie tariff which will come into force on 1 July.hert AN INTERIM DIVIDEND 61 FIFTEEN year, har been hosed by the Taill Comanding goth of June, igie, will be payable on CENTS per Share for the Six Mobius misalon, which points out ibat the decreases daty are few and comparatively unimportant, while the increases are many sud raty Isige compared with those now chirged en British goode. It is estimated that the average of the na doties is no adracce of two-third upon the average of the existing rates on British com modities.
-ản goods from all countries the increase in. the average of the duties is only so per cent, and those classes el cotton goods in which Great Britin predominates are subjećt tq,ex- The decreases of duty affect such manufac- captionally heavy duties,
tours
planing machines, knitting machines,
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company. will be CLOSED from the set to the joță day of September, imb, both days laclashva
NEW WAY SHEWAN, TOMES & Oo,
EMNETAN: Gesural Managers.
Hongkong, 25th August, agio.
PUBLIO AUCTION
$537
VALUABLE LEASEHOLD PROPERTY,
'HE Undersigned will fell by PUBLIC
THE AUCTION,
THURSDAY
ge. The residence of Viscount Enemoto was severaly by the rainstorm on Tagidir,' weeknairies, The United Klogdem, however; teim 'of_75 years from the sith June, -1888,
sorronaded by water on all sides, but the leave bef:rehand. The op ratives',quarters of Occupants were fortunate enough to be. b'e to ite Kanegafuchi Spinning Company were
violence until dawn, says The Nagasaki gain visited by a heavy gate on August 1, begianleg at s a.m., and raglog with great Press" High embokmants, loosened coub is the city, killing several persons and injuring many more. 1o one case a family of six per-
Jeet.
a was kidnapped. 7te, whereabouts of the Roded, but the workpeople, pear 1,000 alless by the preceding. rains, collanza is antimated at between one-third and ore-tall | and inspection of plans, apply to
kidnapped are not knows to any one up to the present and bis relatives have reported the
care to the Capion officialy,
OFFICIAL ENTERTAINED.
·
For further particulars, Conditions of Sais
GÉO. P. LAMMERT,
Auctioneer. Hongkong, syth August, apro.
COMMERCIAL,
RAILWAY BUREAU'S MONETANY: LOSS. The Matbbrities "estimate that the demige large, are engaged in taking refugees to city sustained by the rallways soft through the ed places, and carrying fool sud supplies for, amodele to Yea 300,000 in the jurisdic provided by the authorities and philin brotion of the Coutralt ailway Sopuvision Bureau, and spluping plant, which are necessary to the the. 8th September, 1910, at sa c'clock (Neon), pists. Evary inch of Asakura Kwaodon and to You! 2:0,000 in that of the Easterace dustries of Japan, and which Japan
at his Sales Rooms, Duddell:Streat. Temp's and the schools on high ground-cas. Sbeud the suspension of traffic con- do not as yet make for herself.
IN ONE LOT. is occupied by refugees, and the general scans ticus for ten days, the loss of faces of the which Japan has obished er hopes to Office avec leely a THE REMAINING
The increates concera chit fis the ladustries
All those Pisces er Parcels tf Ground situate reminds one of a battlefield. At abou: 6 o'clock Central Bureau will be about Yen 420,000, and,
at Kowloon Point and registered in the. Leed on Tuesday evening pitt of the river dyke ngurthat of the Easter Biet about 500,000, mik.devel and are paz.icula ly brary to the case PORTION OF SECTION "A" (F KOW Sumida Carden, Mubij ma, was destroyed in the total lots Yen 1,200,000, is amount of cotton and woollen yains and cloth, free LOON INLAND LOT NO. 44, and THE Early yesterday mercing, a battalion of En
REMAINING PORTION OF SECTION will be excended of coure if the suspension and del goods, printing machiges, leathernBKOWLOON INEND LOT No. 44 „gineers was trdered rul To aid the inficiéti;
goods and paper while a force of soldiers and workmen, strove
with the European, Dreition: House thereon From the United Kingdom the datable fm-known as "GLEMT HOKE, Kimberley Read to prevent water from doing genatif dammo
pests are abzor one-third of the total from all The Property is Baid for the residue of the
Lot No. 44.aya "he unthalte
is likely to be excluded under the new tarif ends about one-tall of the articles which have created by the Crown Lass of Kowloon Island to bear the principal increases of duty. The
Total Area :6,738 square amount of imports from the United Kingdom Total annual Chown Rent S128.23, +/
British goods of the value of between £700,000 and £1,030,000 are likely to be excluded, of the total aj zo mil ion ye?. In other words,
- Toe prosent Lancashire trade with Japan in | somewhere about £2,000,000 Harling in value
fer of turprise to them if 25 per cent of their and some-Fritilah trades say it will be a mate
coms inte operation without amendment. "CHILDREN AT PLAY ON A WARSINIF
JAPANESE SAILORE GIVE A HUGE TEA-PARTY,
Gravesend, was changed yesterday from a The Japiness eru'sar fhoma, which is lying frim engine of war to a ship vibrating with reble laughter; the boom of her big guns was. sides, who spent ka afternoon with the good- Pieplaced by the happy voices of hundreds of pured little men from Japan, says the London orig Leader of 13ıd oli, :—It would by difficult to cecide who appreciated the after- con more--the nimble and smiling little men West who from the East or their tiny guests' from the wet ab oid the great. Oghting machine budding over with merilment and anticipatios.
told, succeeded in escaping to the new factory which is under construction on an elevated slo. They wcie, however, suffering hem a scarcity of food, but provisions were hurried 1. E. Chang Ming Ki, Gavemer of Kwangsi, forward as soon as their plight b:came now. who arrived here last Sunday; was yowerday The Tokio Spining Company's factory is also bined to dinner by Admiral Li CEUP. Aoded, but he buildings are very strong and There were a'is present the Tartar General, they are not I ke'y to be dɩmized auch.. The great consternation, Waming was given to own trade iz test should the proposed new ta iff by wire, are supplied by Messrs, E. 5. Kadoorle
the two-lieure at Taras Ge, eisht, and many other high provinci,l officials with the ex- ceptiva Litbe Viceroy, H. E. Yuen Shu Haup, who was unfortunately taken ili on that day, has not yet quite recover d.
CHEAP RICE.
ceas of Tukio ateina size bordering on
TEELT.
FURTHER DETALLS FROM THE TSI KAIDO,
| sons was entombed; fortunately, with one ex-
cepios, all wara sescued. bouses fluded in Tokio was 20,0.0.1
The number of
Rekuge, all near Tokio, gave way and caused The brake of the Rivers Tsu u ni, Tamaand
he inbabitants of the flooded wear by the slag og of temple bells. Failway traffe b two trips being brought to a standstill at sween Tokio and Yokoha,,m was suspended,
Turumi station.
According to Mr. Masud, supervisor co decors belonging to the Nagoya Railway Station, the neighbourhood of Fajjeda Esation, The price dacalised from the distibution'
on the Tekkaido, is among the places which beans were iuvodat^", also, 20, ex'en ive tract lo Saidamkeo, which adjolos,Totiɔ, 7, 109/ of cheap tice in &.aten during the three days suffered most from the A od. Early co Tues-offa m-land. Twenty-four persons were killed on, the 18th, 19th and 20th its sat were as dy mining, te dyke of the clogtws gave exit) red and thirteen others are missing. follows-18b: Kastern Shed, $344) West.nway for a distance of ab.ut 3:0 ken at the foot Shed, 5650; Worgska Shed, $1,230 and 110
At Odawara, Fakona, the Kosskimo, a lapa Dam Shed, 31,6 r. 19th: Eusters Sled, S1200 Western £brd. $1,370: Wongsha hed, $484 and Henam Skid,$610. 2013 Externshed, $1,10f; Western She, 5,74 | Wong.ha Shed, 51,740 and Bonam Shed, 5,742 In addition to the above the amount realised from the sale of cheap ilce to villagers during the ihren days was about $1,000 each dày.
PLEONERS BEHEADED.
was overwhelmed. by the torrent. Fifiesa immediately instituted, the services of 350 fire guasts were reparted missing; a search was
pot sta ed. mes being obtainus, but with," what result is
of Komp'rayami. Io consequence of this thesis Lotel, on the River Hayk-ya, was swept iran brides over the lochiyamagawa fali, ikeaway elly on Thursday mording and shortly water sweeping into several villages, Hun afterwards another well-known hotel, the dreds of houses wars wahed away, all the ki a mine, where sixty guests were staying, di iricis boing converted into a lemporary ron- Obeste-of-diawars, tea boxes, and articles of furniture were seen facing atout every where, whi's many naked men and women, young and old, were clinging to tree top under which the water wag tushing by, piteaus. cryig for help at the top of their voices Alas for the poor people, no aid came and the a who were on comparatively low c■ were even ually swallowed up by the waters under the eyes of their fands and relatives and, in soma casus, their children who were on higher ¡Another sum of three thoured do'lars has been appropriated from the funds ja be hardses, Some help reached them on Wedner- of the Canton Central Relief Committee in aid of the siren in the Toung Fa district where disastrous f;ds have secretly eccund.
PATIONAL SPORTS.
Two criminals, ormed Wong Ai Tsal and Wong Lai I un, who had keen found guilty of aimed robbery and had been sentenced to den'b, wera yesterday taken out of the Pan gal to the exe:usion ground and 'bebendo?,
FLOOD RELIE
Grind Chicese national sports have been Arranged to take place in Nanking go iba 1b day of the othı, moen. (17th October tex); tha members of the committee of she Canli o
Sporing Club bave accordingly invited inteed ing competitors Lom-Canton to proceed to Nan king to take part in the forthcoming spot there. They beld a scaling out eigh instar
at the premises of the Cintos Yourg Men's Christian Association 4. r the porpois of making arrangemanis to exist ingend ng compactions and Mr. Worg fx Lung, at posent superior tender of the Chote Military Collège, was #ppoista i to be in charge of all matters to this
morning, in time to save many from what appeared to be laeviable death. At that time fifty, ore dead bodies had been fourd, but many others were still mining. All the members of the fimily of Mr. Makino Tamakichi, a.very tich man who was in the for business at Skio were drowned seven in all,
ECENE IN RAGSYA NE:GÜ-URHOOD. jis reported from bogoys that on Wedors. day mersing, Lieutenant Merita of the Nagoya Division weat to iba Kisojawa, in commied of member of teldiers who were known to be xcellent swimmers, for the purpose of cle tire
some bridges and removing material which was
blocking up the water. When the work had wade some progress, a rush of water overlook lighter with six soldiers, and swept it down stream at the rate cfthree matres and a ball a second. The vessel struck against a pillar of a bridge and capi à d.... Fire, of ibe' men VILROY I DISPOS D.."
managed to escape of er a severe stiugale, bu 24th Augus'.
one soldier won swipt away and er word The V.cerey took ill a few days ago and has
Avalter-bost with some soldiers went to his - Det yet jetoverel, H.E. Yan has telegraphi
Cally applied to the Imprajal Gevirment force, but it capsized. The men were rescued
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fifteen days' leave of absence in criér to`ra cuperate his hent hand a 'r ply, has now been (received firm Peking gran ing bis application.
While HE. Yuzn is on leave, the Provincial
Treasurer, Chin KwaiLurg, w il uodųstakojbe,
after much difficulty.
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CELLAISE ‹ F TUNNILJ'
According to a report received by the East era Railway Furevision Bures a muriain life took place at Rumanohira on the biz etu Lac, a alway employed being killed,
AVIRELESS AT SEA,
by the United States Government, if of special The following copy of a recent not exacted
interest to people in a great post like Hoog köögi---
AD Ect to srquiza apparatus and operator for vadio.communication on certain ocean staamers.
Be it enacted by the Senate and use of Representatives of the United States of Amer is in Congress assembled.
That foc and after the G's: day of July, dineteen busdied and elever, it shall ba anlawful for sný ccost-going steamer of the Unued States or cf any foreign conzity carrying fi y or more persons, including pas. 109gers and crew, to leave or a tempt to leave any port of the United States unless sock
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The #lors of the 78;mi were "at home" to the schoolchildren of Gravesend, and at two Block the youngsters made their way down'
fr Uin gally'décorated High-ši, waving Japanese
by their boss, who had gathered every kind of And Kagilap go ***They were met at the pier
boat which the big cruiser could master-ple- Bices, cutters, longb as, galleyz, lif.boats, giz skiff, and ringhies The children tumbled into the boats and were pulled or they were told, w. "Liberty Hall for the "puffed" across to the big grey cruiser, which,
if.or2004.
THE MARTIÁL SCOUT,
· The smilir'g litila men took their guests all. to'er the big ship, and a number of "boy scouts who were included la the party were hugely interested in the working of the 4:7 gon, which
Jepara sailors goodeaturedly loaded and
unloaded for their bezef.
Heio and there a sailor would catch hold of
atuarner shall be equipped with an efficiant" working order, la charge of a person skilled land take ber up the barrow gangway to see the apparatus for infio-communication, in good adimioutive lady visitor, put her oa bis shoulder, the use if such apparatus, which apparatus mechanism of the wonderful tig guts, shall be capable of transmitting and rceiving an be ship was a world of smiles, and although dred miles, sight or day 1. messages over a distates of at least one hug the vsitors understood nothing of japanesa and and the sailors as litild of Euglish, things went Provided, That the provisions of this Act shall apply to steamers plyin; only betweso ports less than two hundred miles apart,
smoothly and crisply as a fresly mering. - Oceisionally ike abrill, commanding volle of an officer would ring out. - The men would drop the e'ernal cigarette" and perform, some martial evolation or swing the great guns round fast to show how it was done.
Sci. That for the purpose of this &c apparatus for sadic-communicktion shall not be dermed to be efficient unless the company installing it had con'fact in wilting to ex.
Oan tiny girl was very interested'in iha ́sajl. change, and in fact, exchange as far as mors' uniforms. She A rted our:geously with a be physcally practicable, to be determined by bashful A.B., and then, when she had quite the master of the vessel, messages with shore
conmunications.
ordinary bust ess of ike Vicerry'a yo'men, Tearch Nos. 14 and 18'on the site line color ship stations using other systems of radio captured his koart, she criticised his shots,
reported that H.E. Yaan is desirous of relapsed, four parents and th;le childern, belig
(Japanese shoɑs are made with a special com- sigolog his position as Viceroy of the lips killed Another lardside occurred at a place berg in charge of any auch yes of which leaves Curiosity). Fortunately, perhaps, the lule, masi fec. 1. That the master or other person pailment for the big toe-a kurce of much Kwang. Froujucer, and arek tracaler to the betwcen, Yokogawa and Malguida on 11 4 same el could not understand English,
Terra tiar, seventy coolics being buried alive. 1bies Stales in vication of any if the foodadeed, she attempts to converse with the
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174, QUEEN'S Road Central,
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"ROCKERY, Cattery, Electro and Silver
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CLARETS.
To make sure of your Claret being good,
known Chateau. Messrs. Hanappier and Co.
NO, NO gloine ar of them were kiled on the sp 1, four are miés of ts At shall, upis conviction, by Ried children were inft italy amusing. be the it is advisable to buy only Wines from a well- Tha Tu Chib Pu; Ministry of Fisincs at Peking, bas sanctioned the joint mimar al of thirty were lef'ted, some of them very in a sem sot came than Gee sand del happened to know a word or two of Boglinh the Canton entry that the increased annual lady, but the others were saved,
lars, and any fuck 650 shall be a lion upon asked the visitors to "spik slow" in ordax that Fractul derived from the salt merchants, in Very excesive damage is reported from such vassel and such vassel may be libel'ed they might consult their dictionary
Kwangtong be wholly appropriated towards Gamma Trefecture also. The authorities there therefor in any district const of the United as children was equally curtons, and misy making good in part the revenue of the Previe- are now busily engaged in giving aid to the State hullative of depers, and the laylog or that "Konnichi Wa" (or something like it) of Bordeaux, are one of the best known firma.
within the fasisdiction of which scy of them, by dint of endless questioning, learned cial Government by the pirp'sed abolition offers a far as they had discovered yes, the difsiest gambling farms in Kwangtung terday, over three hundred houses were with attempt to lears each and every port of the intend to test the effic.cy of their accent on Japaness for "good day.". Ferhaps the childian. Judging from the above, there is a promising ed away, upwards of four bodied lives being oiled States shall consticole spathe Japatere at the White City. prospect that the different gambling, mono.
loa". So far, however, nothing di file can be
flance. palier in this province will be dope sway wi b
Bec 4. That the Secretary of Commerce and their visitors with Wrestling bouts, fencing, and | While waiting for tea the little sailors amused ascertained, many places beir diatric over Labour shall make such regulation of xing logather without delay or difficulty
wajar twenty feet doʻp., Al Usul district, or be necessary to secure the proper execution of fif.y houses, were wished away, and sighicent by collectors of customs and other feople drowned, while a number of cibery ars
Licers of the Government,,
GOYERKOR OF XYGE
The Govenor of Kwargal, H.B. Chang Ming Ki, whɔ narired bets (ba other day, will leave
for Peking to morrow
SHANGHAI SIKIE POLICE..
In the Shanbal Aunis pal Gaudia wa notice that the Captain Superinterdent of Police has seballtid proposals for the seplacement of the Bkbts recently dlib'ssed. He advises ile Chinese constabire with" y diting, station that the addition ciate DeCessy this from the
fence la cara al
missing.
At to o'clock yesterday morning, the Takio auko ftien recaired the following ta'ephone. communication, from tƐa Mini mi Adachi Dis- sict Offier Os Thursday alghi, part of the dyke of the Ayasegawa collapsed, censing.
Approved June 26, 1910...
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Events Coming.
of growers and shippers of Clarets. Their famous
2 hd girls was deeply interested in the lower
HOME COMFORT Wines (from cheapest kind to the very
504deck arrangements, and probably they
*" best obtainable) may be had from hova mach to tail-fond parents of what they; fuaw of the koms_comforta,on the 13,750.tom
Warship. **
Thursday, ngth Augustin villages to be istedated. The Distric
Lughes and Foigh auction sa'n of furniture Oface and the Elementary School to which at Fale Roem», 235
fagues througed wern Al'a konu fi sodeo, ana" the distracted people had to climb on to roofs to ercabo death. They hid escaped čemb *hing acutely from hunger for a fhours when the news was cent of by
iding in water:
** No efort was spared to make the big tonin unccess."? Four: hundred-guests li
anoma atination, but sverything ser
Insistent appetite
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