[Spacial Anticis.] CHINA'S COMING REVOLUTION.
THE SON OF HEAVEN ISOWNED IN THE EYES
OF HIS PEOPLE.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SATURDAY APRIL
Tang, "The Revolutionists by the
Grace of God." Translated litor
CHEKWAN ISLAND.
-HEAVEN.
THOUSANDS PRÉSENT.
ally we are told that it means" the THE GREAT FESTIVAL OF party having a divino mission to upset the Government."--Canone wonder now at tho auti-dynastio and anti-foreign outbreaks. The first has boon clearly onjoined on the people by Heaven so soon as their misorius prove too grout for forbearanco. The socond, we think, is nothing more than an aronsoning wish to hurt those
Clashing cymbals, booming Brickling fire crackers, reoking joss-sticks, ladies bo- sooching the gods that their nur sorios be filled, men praying for a rich harvest, beggars in hund-
THE
'FOREIGNER'S " CHANCE.
Poor old China, doubly afflicted with plague and witli famine, says the "World," Omaha, is in des- perato distraction, anxious for this Wo have been fortunate in
assistance of thoangel that may be in the foreigner, but still suspo- obtaining a copy of the January numbor of the "Suddeutsche
ting that ho is mostly dovil. Munatshefto in which appears
Thirty thousand dead from the a most interesting and instructive who have, oven by their own rods, mandarins in semi-foreign plague Two hundred dying article entitled The Rovolu virtues, disproved the inherent uniform and escorted by bravos daily. But this is only a fraction. tionary Party in Chim. It is virtue of the Emperor. Then, armed with three-pronged pitch-This is only in towns or disiricts from the pen of Herr Wolf von says you Duwall, camo the war forks, and huge scythe-like that the foreigner knows some- Dawall, and at this moment with Japan, with the people who
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AGRIFFIN'S IMPRES- on the plaine, paddy-folds, vill- SIONS OF HONGKONG. agos, still walled in for protection
against bandits, hillside graves The fifth athletic meeting ot It is inevitable, one supposos, and many other object of in- Lusitano Recreation Club was comer to Hongkong, should be to Low, and gather in the mind, hold Monday, under the patronage that the impressions of a now- torosk, strike the eye, on the trip redolent of platitude to those a tangled mass of impressions, of H.E, Sir Frederick Lugard. whose lot has been cast in this which would nood a whole page to pleasant place for any great length unravel-not a column. they may be of interest to those ADMIRAL HUBBARD. of time. Yot it is possible that delighting in the first thoughts of now arrivals, who stare round-LAST CRUISE AS COMMAN eyed and open-mouthed at the DER OF ASIATIO benuties of wint has been tormed
SQUADRON. "London in China."
The writer came into the hars Admiral Jolin Hubbard, who. when we live to regrat a crusl since the dawn of civilisation had pours-all thoso and many more thing about.; Wodon't know what bour at daylight and, needless to samo into harbour last wook-ond Mr. D. P. J. Lopos, Mr. J. DA
never been classed as barbarians, liule village of Chokwan on the
are to be witnessed at the dirty the conditions are in the interior. say, admirod the picturesquositus on his flag-ship, the Saratoga, but merely tributaries of the island of that nome during the million likely to die defore the woll nigh precipitous sides of the Commander-in-Chief of the Amo- Two million without food: One tion of the town porched on the bogan this, his final, craiso as Mings, "When," he says, "in present woolt,
noxt crop is harvested...
Poak. Later he saw how cunning-rican Asistio Squadron on April 1804 the picked troops of China
China is frantic to seize the ly roads had been laid out and 13. wore routed by the Dwarfs' a
bounty from the full hand stretch houses given footings where none the Japanese ports, followed by Ho leaves tho station at one of ad across the sens. The poople could naturally exist. the relief committees and the fight for the food handed out by missionaries, and inany are
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The occasion is the Festival
of the Goddess of Heaven, and Chekwan village is the proud where the deities are propitiated possessor of a really fine temple and bosought on this important fonst...
wero
busily engaged writing out the fortunos of those who came to them. Nothing disturbed them; they appeared aloof, impressive, masters of all fate. Roasted pigs, whole, passed by them from time to time to bo laid at the foot of the gods, a sudden
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ALLEGED MALTREATMENT CANTON NEWS.
BY CUSTOMS OFFICIALS; -
to attend.
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SHEEP AND TAXES.
Mr. Kwok Clik On has cont
First prize prosented by Mr. A.M.L. Soares. Second prize prosented by J. M. E. Machado. First Heat.
J. F. Castro... ................ ..... ...'.... J. M. R. Pereira....
Timo, 13 BOCB. Socond Heat,
V. Azevedo...... N. Malier...... Hurdle race, 120 yards (handi- Time, 13.46-seca.
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cap). First prizo presonted by tho Portuguesa Staff of the Hongkong & Shanghai Bank, Second prize presented by Mr. J. M. Alvos.
F. B. Silva........
A. Costa Vieira Ribioro. 2 Tímo, 19 1/5 sooS.
Boys' race, 200 yards (Handicap),
Boys from 10 to 15 years of age, First prizo prosented by Mosers. Noronha & Co. Second prize prosented by Mr. A. G. da, Rocha.
J. A. Gutierron J. M. Gutierron
The officials 'cro-President, Commendador Joao Joaquim Loirin, Vice-President, Mr. Alvaro Gustavo da Rocha. Hon. Secretary, Mr. C. da Costa Vieira-Ribeiro, Hon. Treasurer, Mr. O.F. Rozario, Hon. Assistant Secretary, Mr. A da Costa Vieira-Ribeiro. Judgos, Mr. Loo. d'Almada o Unstro, Mr. J. O, Barretto, Mr. A. D. Barrotto, Osmund, Mr. C. M. P. Remedios, political assassination bur very
Referee, Mr. O da Costa Vieira- Mr. P.da Roza, Mr. M.E. da Silva, doors is most opportune.
The author, somewhat apolo.
Ribeiro. Handicappers, Mr. C. M. "gotically, us' belits the enormous
S. Alvos, Mr. A. da Costa Viòira- range of his subject,
L. G. Cordeiro. Starters, Mr. A. E. Ribeiro, Mr. A: G. da Rocha, Mr. attcpipts to analyse the re- sladder of horror ran through the volutious, two catum, attract prido of the great inass of the
eye is the bonuity of the bull ingrethe hot weather in the Philip Mr. J.O. Romédies. Clarks of the volutionary trait in the Chinese whole land. The hurt to the
The first thing that strikes the the good-wishes of all."
S. Alves, Mr. J. M. V. Remedios, The cruise will continuo during Time-koopers, Mr. C. MS. Alves, our roadors' attention nuore quick-people did
not long remain
more ospecially some of more ly than by saying at the outset. acute, but it remained so in
trampled to death in the crush, recont dato. Spacious and uiry, pinos, and, tho. Saratoga carries Course, Mr. J. M. Britto, Mr. E. ho finds it born of the moaning the hearts of the clear-sighted."
The sight in this temple is one of the principal title of the Emhey were told when they ad- that fow who have seen it could are ready to take sanitary charge rooms, they are the first things Helena, Samar and Villalobos.
Japanese and Russian doctors with fine verandahs, and lofty recruit crews for the Wilmington, M. O. Romodios. Coinmittee, Mr. J. M. Alves, Mr. A. C. Botelho, peror of Chins himself, the "Souvised reform through Kang Yu forget. It is a huge structure as of towns and districts scourged by which upset the "grillin's" senso
Mr. F. X. Britto, Mr. H. J. M. of Houvon." Tion Tzu is the Wei, that they were mentally Chinese structures go, and the the plague, but the authorities of architectural excellence. More main sub-title of the autocrat of deranged and were to be arrest gods inside it are big and many are roluctant to accept their as- so when he has been accustomed
Mr. B. M. Cunha, Mr. D. J. Carvalho, Mr. C. M. Castro, Mr... A. A. Cordeiro, Mr. A‚M. da Cruz, Peking, who, however, ed as incendiaries, and the hot and varied. They wore thesistance, foaring that the foreign to the fine though dingy lines of Duwill shows, is far froin boing honds at once formed the Ko centre of a throng numbering or, getting further foothold on the London's principal buildings.
Figueiredo, Mr. F. If. Hyndman, a autocrat at all. The for-Ming Tang. It is to-day a dan-
thousands yesterday, and protext of mercy, will retain it for The change comos at first ne a
Mr. E. J. Noronha, Mr. A. F. eigner generally reads this as gerous secret society trying by Son of flavon but in reality it very means to join itself with the in the joss-stick smoke that float And so the request of Russia for mind has become soinowhat ne
almost lost to sight commercial or political advantago shock and it is only after the "PH" CORRESPONDENT] Osmund, Mr. FM. Roza Pereira, means "lle; whom Heaven treats thers, the White Lotus, theed up to the vaulted cailing. In parmission to cross the border and climaticed that the full force of
... Canton, April 16. Mr. S. Pinas, Mr. I. Rocha, Mr. R. As Son." He has, the writer Triads, the Vegetarians, and, it front of the main god theresatomo quarantine tho Chinoso towns the now style is really apprecinted. Po, member of the Self-Govern- Flat race, 120 yards (Handicap).
Some days ago Mr. Chan 'Wai | O. Silvo, Mr. A. M. L., Soares, explains, been picked out by is succeeding. Its lender is Dr. four or five priests woaring square on the Amur is met by the at- Naturally, from the buildings, mont Sooioty, was ill-treated and Heaven to guide the destiny of Sun Yat Son and its secretary black caps like those of the Vetic- tempt of the Chinese themselves, one's thoughts turn to the streets insulted by a foreign Customs the world. He has boon given 1907 at least was Chang tian Council of Threo. They were in their ignorance and with thoir and here the same tone of ap- employee on board a steamer his high seat as head of theng L, whose teachings are
antiquated methods, to check the preciation cannot be used. While bound from Canton to Hongkong. Ming dynasty-and "Ming" rogarded as gompol,
plague along the frontier, while those leading up the Ponk soom Tho sufferer reported the outrage mous mission. "His virtne and Behind this society are all the
further back, wliere the foreigner to be all that can be desired, it to the Customs Commissioner, who ability 810 expected to be restless spirits of the nation. It is
can as yet allogo no interest, must be confessed that aftor a
now resolves to check this form reflected in the wolfaro of tho to it that the people look for proof
the people are left to die. slight rain, the roads on the lovel of misconduct, as ho considers people. Do the latter suffer, the of their belief that the "Ming"
What is the death of a few do not create an altogether favour many of them have been exceed- fault is the Emperor's, and history has departed from him in Power
thousand or a few hundred ablo impression. Without parti-ing their authority in searching tonebea thom-that-thon they can on the Dragon Tirong, and with
thousand to the dreaded en oularising, the surface of some of the luggage of pasongors,__and help themselves. A revolution the Chinese proper who support clash of cymbals and beating croachmont or ingression of the the roads retains too much mois maltreating them. Mr. Chan has is only condemned if the Emperor the Ko are the Mohammedans of of gongs announcing some foreigner with his yoka? Food turo in the form of puddles to ren- been asked, by the Customs Com- ho overthrown, then it is clear Shansi, Kansu, Turkostan and change in the proceedings, and may be received. That may be der walking at all cleanly or missioner, to come to the Customa (from his illos) that the "Ming Yuman. Truly that childish their customers deserted them to dovoured and sustain life, but pleasurable. Howevor this ono and give ovidence against the has been withdrawn and that the ruler in l'oking has troublous pross forward with blazing offer persons and regulations, a kind discordant note cannot impair tho employee, to-day, while two oyo powers abovo protect the rovolu- times before him. Will sound inge to the main altar. They of authority and government suf general feeling of liking for witnessos layo been also requested tion.' The Emperor in his own legislation loading to the hap-woro unmoved. Women passed forod in an emergency, may not Hongkong. titles proaching a Jolind! Here is piness of his people confirm his in and out without ceasing, their be got rid of easily when the food for thought for those who right to the "Ming," or will Sun foreheads smeared with ashes, omorgoncy is past.. write on China. No wonder that Yat Son yet wield the vormilion after praying to baby gods, while the gifted author we quote says pencil as the now recipiout of the huge heap of joss-sticks smoked that the principle of revolution lovonly Mission to make China in the doorway, adding to the is recognised and accepted in content? That is the question wo indescribable atmosphero inside. China, has the sanction of must ask ourselves seriously to- In the village itself there Chinese history; dynasties have day. In a little while it will be was Jaughter and inuch ropoutedly been overthrown and | answored.
eating and drinking. The booths popular loaders made Emperors.
are built in a matshed alloy way All this seats natural to the
that runs right down to the Chiness. To them, Emperors aro
landing stage: Here are millions only human, not sacred, as re
of blazing colours impossible for the Mikados to the Japanese."
the pen to reproduce. Toys of There is n little child on tho
all kinds, foods as varied, picture Throne in Poking on whom this
shops at which you can buy three terrible responsibility rosts. Not
A Motor Car Ordinanco has masterpieces for fifteen cents, and only is ho answerable to his sub- joets for his doads but in their been prepared and will be pub-you it is too much,, joss-stick then your Chinese friend will tell oyes is answerable to Heaven for lished, at an early date. Its sellers, and beggars, always bog- tir upps. The principia necessity las boon inore than gars: Suddenly there, are cries
happiness. is its workings past and present amply demonstrated by the mum-from the temple, a knot of people ber of recent accidents, due to a cone stambling down the steps. throw on the humanity of China's Talers, Failing, because they are walk about looking in any, direc-who is as angry as he is small great extent to the Chinese who It is only a very small policeman, human, to load the huge nation tion but the one in which they uro dragging along by his pig-tail into its Promised Land, they are
going! quite a number of them thief who towers over him. Jus and have been the hated of the poem to be deaf to the unmistak tice is prompt...The court is only people, the bult of secret societies ablo sounds of a car's approach.a fow yards away, hold in the innumerable, the target of ass The ordinanco will define open air. There are guards with assins, the captives of a new "lle, areas in which cars will be totally guns and knives and spears. Thro prohibited, but Queen's Rond, thief is found guilty and removed The question will be asked nt Connmight and tho Praya will, tiedupinan extraordinary fashion. quee. How can a Manch obtain under restrictions, bo opon to a "Ming"? Horo again a sur-·
motor traffic. priso is in store for the superficial,
Again, we understand that care student of China's history. The will be allowed to use only certain Manchus novor defeated the Mings by force. Heaven had withdrawn gross streets to reach the higher its mission to the last Emperor of levels, while in others they will not Some carry banners, others blow in China is not merely by those the latter by allowing him to die be allowed at all. The maximum withont adequate heirs; China speed of ears has really not yet been. xcruciating calls on trumpets who believe in foreign missions, when a traveller will be able to was in open turmoil and the "low definitely settled, but in no case four feet long. It is a visiting but by every intelligent American book through to Paris."
mandarin from a neighbouring who is rondy, to recognize the will a speed of twenty miles an bornTartars"
To Lown by the railway is a took charge hou be exceeded oven in the village. He wears a military cap, critical character of existing ques-liberal education in itself; the dif calmed the country and protected trade and industry. But it was lying districts. Provision is being and bostrides an animal that was tions in the Far East China ference between the lofty carriagce no out here, and the squat, dingy, made and rightly too-for the once hores. His "yanen" is to-day is undicapped as never forgotten that they wore
When Japan compartments at home is most tions wore always on behalf of up and down Battery Path, as this and in this washed covering he started on her ora of progress sho marked. Comfort ranks first on passionately antagonistic to all foreigners and the great insurrec total prohibition of cars travelling erected at the head of the village other nation is: the role on ball is a narrow path distinctly dan receives the notables. Evidently was free from political inter- this line, but at home prenior posi-steamera; they would like to see ference; but China is surrounded tion is occupied by dividend, to the the harbour froo of all vossola White Lotus and the Trind gerous to all podestrians and
In the harbour are.throo Chi- with powers grasping for torri inconvenience of the passenger. having amoko stacks. Societies and one wo mention be those using chairs, Our only nese gun boats, while the vessels tory. She is bound hand and foat The line itself seems remarkably low are the great leaders of the surprise is that it has not been from Hongkong lie thick about by treaties and compacte, which woll laid, despite the fact that plantations suffor heavily from
This is because the ground nat”] Ming party. They are vividly prohibited before now. Yoster- then, futtering with flags and she is not allowed to modify to the almost insuperable difficulties the deposits of smoke dust which alive, they are at work and they Buick car, No. 2, in charge music of the Chinoso dramatic patriotism all, over the country,
ilay afternoon about 4 p.m. a resonant with the voices and slightest degree. With growing hud to be overcome, await their payment. The strong of a Chinose, rushed up the
the steamers, linors or launchos or Tho smoothness of the porman- tramps, leave in their wako. est factor in their strength is the gradual recognition by the path, and had there been chairs The noise is without intermission, those anornachments on China's one considers the hugoness of the informed a representative of the companies installed in the sterns.. there is increased resentment of ont way is truly surprising, when The owner of a largo plantation people that the foreigners in- coming down an accident might while from ship to shoro ply the government. It would be better tasks of levelling, cutting and "Telegraph that his busincas Buonte is for good. How can, easily have occurred.
busy launches with thoir human for the peace of the world, if all tunnelling, which have been over-was boing ruined by this auia- they ask, unconsciously perhaps,
cargo. The movement never nations would adopt the policy come. these barbarous innovations be of-
once, coasos for a moment, and it leaves put forward by the American The grandeur of the scenery. He did not know why it was value to a people guarded by one Whom Heaven irents as a son"?
the foreign beholder bewildered government, that of guaranteeing comes as a shook to one who in a only the nut plantations that suf Mossrs Warner Barnos and but not unimpressed. The prayors China's autonomy, rather than perfunciory course of geography forod, but such was the caso, Ho How can ho have a Ming" if Co., of Manila, report in their made are very real, while the one of outside conquest or torrialas much too neglected in Eng-bowailed the lost days of the outer barbarians can teach him? fortnightly circular, thut the hemp crowd manages itself without torial aggrandizement. All that land was taught that China was junk, when his ground produced It is a logical thought in their market has wonkened for modium official interference in a manner is necessary is for Christian a great arid tract of land. True much wealth in the shape of the minds. Herr von Duwell tolls us and lower grades, but that prime altogether admirable.
nations to adhere to the principle vegetation is not prolific but yet fascinating nut, that because of the complaint marks are in active demand at asmodern political national full prices. After the Eastor
of Christianity. Wosliould allow there is sufficient to justify the China to work out her own sal hope, that at any rate, the agricul union has come into existence Holidays a change is expected,
vation, but in doing so we should tural possibilities of the new terri of
We regret to record which lids for its one object Sugar prices continued to lift, the
be ready to help her in so far as tory, graster@tha the overthrow of the existing copra market ruled quiet,, and
help is desired "Blar This is the Ko Ming
,
whom Heaven treats an a Son."
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RECENT MOTOR CAR
ACCIDENTS.
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COMMERCIAL.
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It must be confessed never- theless that the spirit of the which is entirely pneumonic, las tant daunted by the complote Physicians say that this plague, new man is to a certain ox- not scourged the world since the difference of East from West. of the ordinary bubonic tyre; Homeland it is unpleasant to fool middle ages. But even if it were After acquiring some experience within the narrow confines of than on the occasion of any that a fresh start has to be made, previous opidomic. One part that the mind has to be purged of the world is more quickly af- of many western ideas, and that fected by a condition in any other notions though correct in the part-ilan ever before. A few East-absolutely foreign to tho years ago Chinn was to the rost ingrained prejudices of home, of the world as if it were on an- have to be assimilated to take other planet.
their place. Doubtless all who formerly curious and with little road those lines will be stirred thotic and with fuller knowledge. own landing in Hongkong for the knowledge, line bocome sympa- by a lively reminiscence of thoir The far east is not so far as it first time, and feel sympathetically used to be, and we realize that towards the fresh sojourner in a one-fourth of the human race over there must be embraced in quickening everywliere. the world consciousness that is
Our interest,
It is an opportunity for the foreignor to show Ching that ho
more angel and less devil.
CHINA BOUND HAND
AND FOOT.
Rov, Dr. Gilbert Reid, director of the International Institute of Chinn speaking at Baltimore,
Then from the hills behind the paddy fields comes the sound of a trumpet, and a thin line of men is seon marching into the village. They are armed with rifles U.S.A. said :---- and tridonta and
a great man,
ber
Constabulary, for the privilege of in a petition to the Taotai of collecting a tax of 50 conts on each
dollara towards the maintenanc head of sucop, in Canton and Ho- uam, offering to pay two thousand of the Canton police. The Tuotai minutes that although there are not many shoop butcheries in Canton, the 50 cents on each lead will certainly exceed, by far, the amount the petitioner las offered to pay towards the expen- dituro in the upkeep of the police force. He asks the poti butcheries in Canton and Honam, tioner to find out the number of sad the number of shoop daily slaughtered in these places, and
also to subunit particulars of some to the Taotai for chocking and approval.
MANSLAUGHTER CASE,
0.27 Baca. Bicycle race, 1 mile (Handicap). First prize prosented by Sir Hormusjeo Mody, Second prize presented by Messrs. J. O. Be- medios & Co.
Carlos Sequeira.................. 1 J. R. Pereirasyma apa series 2 Timo, 3m. 23 soça.
Boys' race, 130 yards (handicap). Open to boys under 10 years of age. First prize presented by Mr. Francisco Gonzales, Second prize presented by The Lusitano Recreation Club, D. Castro...............................1
Castro...
2
Girls' race, 100 yards (handicap):
"foreign and strange land.”
However protty Hongkong may be it is not really appreciated till ono has been to Kowloon, where the whole town can be taken in
Two days ago, the goatry of Tai at a glance, together with the im- menso harbour, the variety of ship-Tung Kuk, Namhoi, handed over. ping, mercantile and warlike, and a prisoner to the Namoi Magis the quaint sampans whose num- tracy for punishment, who is appears to be legion. guilty of manslaughter, having Kowloon itself is full of interest, killed his older brother's wife. At present, the site of the wharvos, When tried by the magistrate with the saving grace of excellent the prisoner admitted his guilt, residential possibilities, it re- and declared that he was 60 much quires no trained eye to see that provoked by his sister-in-law's the future of the Colony will lie refusal to advance him a loan, in that district, directly the Can that lo inflicted three nasty wounds on hor hond with his choppór, with the result that sho died from the offects of the wounds
ronched completion, moro speare. "The interest that is to be taken ton to Kowloon railway has
The Singaporo Coronation con- tingent will consist of Captain Llewellyn, Liouts. Millard, Kerr, Black, Webb, Blair, and Bergts, Wald and Part
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a short time afterwards.
THE GROUND NUT TRADE:
The islanders of Chokwan aro
Open to girls under 10 years of age. First prize presented by . Mr. O. M. Castro. Second prize presented by The Hong- kong Co-operative Society, Maria Vieria
Tanlisa Vierin..... Three-legged race, 100 yards. First prize prosented by Messrs. Graca & Co. Bocond prize presented by Mr. Felagio Oscar Roza.
J. M. R. Poroira................ F. B. Silvo...... W. C. Baptista
O. H. Lopes....... Bicycle race, 2 miles (handicap). Paul Clinter, Kt. 0.M.G. Sooond First prize prosented by Sir
prize presented by The Eastern Printing Office.
Carlos Sequoira ******* F. J. Brown..
Time, 7ml 20 soca.
Half-a-mile flat raco.
(Oper
European Sailors, Soldiers anff,
Police). Luokott Riokardan
Hardcastle
Time, 2 min. 9 secs. Flat race, 100 yards (challenge
cup). Presented by the mem bers of Club Lusitano, won three years in 10008 bofore becoming
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