THE
Hongkong Telegraph
FAMINE RELIEF.
ARBITRATION,
(1st May.)
The resolution in favour of Hongkono, Saturday, May 6, 1911. Anglo- American arbitration, which was passed by a huge moeting in the Guildhall, as re- ported by Reuter, marke a very defuito stop towards universal posco. The two great branchos of the great Anglo-Saxon race soo oye to oyo in this matter. Noi- thor Great Britain nor America
(29th April.)
a
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SATURDAY MAY 6 1911
calling them anti-dynastic It is not for us to suggest risings, would be ridiculous. The present outbreak, may caussa good deal of bloodshed. "It will certainly bring misery to the peo plo and that without in the least helping them to an improved Governmont.
THE PLAGUE CON- FERENCE.
(2nd May.)..
ways and means to the Canton authorities, but in view of the largo commercial Interests which bind the interior, and Hongkong, we cannot be nooused of rushing where angela would fear to tread
only available, taction now must lead to bloodshed, and that any fighting, that inkos place, will necessarily Bosovero and pro- longed, can be readily anticipated, when it is noticed that a jeliad or Holy War has boon preached. This
Wilson found it hard to intprost the people of his district in foreign studios; they were self-complacent litorati of the Confucian school; until he his upon the happy idea of giving au exhibition of tho wonders of electricity. The re-
Tho
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IGNORANT VILLAGERS INSURGENTS FORCE
INTO RANKS,
REBELS FEEL AT SIGHT
OF GUNBOATS. SEVERE ENCOUNTER.
WIRELESS APPARATUS
DAMAGED.
ORDER RESTORED AT CANTON AND FATSHAN.
if we respectfully hint that immediately brings to the support ault was instantaneous. battalion or two of the well-train- oftho Moroccan Governmentevory students, hoys of twenty, mon of ed, wöll-armed and courageous able bodied Mussulman Tribal sixty yours and more flocked to northern troops, the Feiyang hotrods, burdensome taxation, hear him and later bogged him troops, be immediately asked for. injustice and poverty are all for-to open a soltool where they From time to time certain pro-
They could bo sont down to Canton gotton. It is now no longer could learn all that. there was to vinces in China suffer under the
The plague conference at Muk-infeststeamers. They are needed, matter in which the common peo-be known. That school is now haud of gaunt and torrible Famine, want war. Neither is afliotodden, the first of its kind over hold for twenty thousand odd men un-ple take ou ox parte interest, it is making Wimshurt machines, and the wealthy nations of the with militarism, both aro "nations in all China, has now come to an der the Viceroy in Canton have not no longer a question of govern-induction coils, telegraphs in
of shopkeepers," are clear-headed, ond, and as far as one may judge covered themselves with glory.ment versus governmont, but one stromonts, wireless varil como forward with help, recognising fully the horrors of from the necessarily meagre ac. They are loyal ouough appar of religion against a Power. That phy apparatus, batteries, tole tologra- freely given and greatly nooded. modern war, and for many years counts of its findings it has ad-ently, but they are certainly do the Moroccan government are re-phonos, microphones, galvano
Canton, May 2. We havo land an examploof famine past noithor has shown any vanced a considerable distance not seem to bo oficiont. Tho responsible for proclaiming a holy molars, electro-magnets, electric On the 28th April about two and the charity it calls forth only dosire to aggressively extend towards dotermining the main volution should never have reached war no one for an instant doubts, motors, and a hundred and one thousand insurgents hauled up recently in Kinngei, and although its possessions. Even without mediums at least, of infection. As the stage it, has. Herein lies the It was a strong move; it united other things and the students are their flag of independence England and America and-tho-
treaty, they are factors in the we have already stated in these gravest danger. The people would the people and scoured an im doing this work with the seauty Lok Chung market in Shin Tak Continental nations willingly such an instrument they bring under which Munchuria and than
march towards ponce, but with columns, the terrible scourge for prefer to live in peace menee and fanatio army and means at their disposal,the hair
Join any crusado
no the only hope is that the Frenoli springs of broken-down clocks, subscribed largo sums for the
district. They took possession of us immeasurably nearer purchase of grain, and sont ont goal we are slowly if steadily ap-upon thom from the Mongolian fame of discontent has been commanded to inflict one decisive they can find here and thero. So and after seizing all the arms and the North China groned was brought matter how nonsy, but the aro sufficiently strong and ably ordinary copper wire, the brass the barracks of the local braves workers to assist the overburden-proaching. Although the tolo- and Siberian fur-hunting tribes.sodulously fostored for months blow which will put an end to great was the demand for brokon ammunition, took up quarters ed missionarios, nevertholoss the people died in thousandshall meeting is doubtless the carry a flea which bred the dis-ty-stricken peasant is oftentimes time reinstate her to that position Dr. Wilson, the inhabitants of the would join their party in Canton gram does not say so, the Guild The marmoset was supposed to past and the ignorant and povor- further warfare, and at the same down clocks that, according to there. They declared that they Indeed this Kiangai Lamino has result of the expressions of opin- caso, and we now learn from our ready to respond to the call which she held prior to the in-oity "mildly remonstrated," point Day and night they induced the been the worst for many years; ion which have passed botwoon cables from Poking that this in-of lool, Wo know that terference of other Powers. the death roll has been simply President Taft and Sir Edward sect has been subjected to various tho rebol bands have already
ing out that their clocks wore ignorant villagers to join them. appalling, and it is no lack of troy, on the former's initiative. tests which prove it to be harm-been swelled by countryside re-
not gotting brokon fast enough and forced them to discard their sympathy that prompts us to ask The President informed the Se-ful. It is of a specios unknown cruits, apart altogether from the
for Dr. Wilson's requirements. queues. However, no harm was the question, Is this method of cretary of State for Foreign Affairs until now to entomology, biting valuable help they are receiving
The place whore this fairy done to the villagers and they pro- roliof the bost? We think it is that he had a splendid idea" with a fierceness that buries the from the brigands;
work is being carried out is a two mised them every protection. As not. The faminos continue and at least that is what ho is report-head in the skin of the victim. therefore feel justified in suggest
weeks' junk journey and a five the night came on, the gunboats the charity continues, but at theed to have said to hnston uni-The offects are vory rapid. Live ing that the Poiyung troops be
Ichang. It would be almost wont rapidly up the river. Rays, days overland ride beyond "Kiang-ku" and "Kiang-kung" vorsal poaco. The full descrip- animals subjected to the bite
impossible to bring safely electric of the search-light wore flashed by tion of tho President's idea has died more rapidly than even tho
apparatus to such a place from the the gunboats on to the shore not transpired, but Sir Edward guinea pig does under similar
coast. It would probably arrive As soon
as the rebels caught Groy displayed the utmost eager toate. The Conference has, of
broken in piocos; but the good sight of the war crafts, they fled nose to discuss it with him, so we course, arrived at other results,
people of this distant provinco are in all directions. The following. may suppose it is "splendid." It but had it not, its convening
now enjoying many of the com- afternoon, they came down in was practically certain that an would have been amply justified arbitration treaty would follow by this discovery.
forts of life which electricty has boats from Lok Chung market by the discussion of the two states-
way of Lam-slick and Shok-wan. mon, but what else is com- suggestions made by the delegates We are as pot ignorant of the
Thoir movement was probably a prised in the idea wo do not with a view to removing the dun-
design on Fat Shan. Half way they know. As Mr. Asquith says:gor of pneumonic plague from.
not the two gunboats "Kiang-ku" and "Kinnig-kung. "A severa en- "Wait and sec."
North China. They have arrived
kung mounted the machine guns counter took place. The Kiang- at Peking and are boing received in audience by Hie Imperial
and opened fire. Over one Highness the Prince Regent. It
hundred of the insurgents were
best the latter is only a palliative, not a cure. It has never yet lessoned the sovority of the next famine, while it pauperises the onorgios of the people-if we may so put it by removing from their minds the knowledge of the neres sity of consorving their natural rosourcos. Instead of realising that they must depend upon thoir own activities, must depend pt the wealth of the pregnant land, they go on living from hand tổ mouth in the old, old way, that foreigner will
holp ugem when the gods fail nil the harvo on
The ideal of poaco is surely and rapidly boing adopted by all peoples, and both those modern
and wo
THE CORONATION.
(5th May).
Committes are to be heartily The Coronation Celebrations congratulated upon the oxcollont programme they have drawn up, the main dotails of which wo published in yesterday's issue. The schome of illuminations is entirely adequate, and assures Hongkong of worthily marking its appreciation of the important given us.. FRANCE AND MOKOCCO. and historic event which we will There is food for reflection in
honour in June next. It is this.
employed. Wo lavo soon them in manoeuvres; we have soon them in camp, and we have seen them handling a serious riot. They are good men, and would blot out this ugly, useless little revolution in a fow days.
(4th May.)
Another milostone in the las boss rouched, and the move me bon the move
schomo that
The change has been embraces wrought in an incredibly short ovory unit in the life of space of time. A district of large complete wo can readily realise most advanced benefits of civili- the Colony, and although not you aron is now onjoying some of the that it will turn the Island of eation and modern sciences, and Fragrant Streams into a veritable yet has never seen an example of
killed while some were drowned.
In no way is this boster illustrated prophots, Kilping and H. G. is not likely that they will arriva ment-of-n-French-column, from fairyland on the nights of the the necessary machinery except The pilot on board the gunboat than by the entire lack of know- Wolls, may yet find themselves at any definito plan for somo time. Casablanca upon Fez, is but the colobrations. The work of the what they have made themselves.
tross and rivers. The people are absolutely indifferent, de spoliation of their forests, and
tales whoso tales come true. The oxtension and development of arbitration would certainly put
The trend of
calls forth
our con-
work gratulations. We are une well, and will we are
now
for this. In
suro
programme,
LAUNCH OF THE "ORION."
measures |
logical outcome of the trond of events during the past few months, might suppose. Various interests hibits were made by him, assisted the rebels besides five sailors. Moroccan affairs have given aned into one harmonious whole, and a tin smith. A people who on board was also damaged... As For a good number, of yours. and peoples land to be reconcil- by a Chinese blacksmith, a joiner The wireless apparatus installed even more indifferont to the con- the world under the adininistra formulato a policy that will inordinate amount of trouble to Civilian Europeans, the British can do this will not long nood the rebels were losing ground,
protect the north from the terri-all the chancellories in Europe, mon-of-war, the regiments, the what we can sell them. dition of their rivers. In almost tion of what Mr. Kipling calls a
they made for the shallow water blo scourge which so recently governed as it is by an autocracy, merchantmen, the Chinese and overy part of Ching the hills have "Planetary Board of Control,
so as to prevent the gunboats from beon donuded of their troca, and which would doliver judg visited it. The Central Govern- and subject to religious influences, Japanese communities, have all
getting near them. Three hun- dred of them reached Fat-shan in what might have been a rich mont on all disputos. It would mont, too, has to be compliment which severely repress all pro- been given a place in the and have, indeed, countryside is in consequence not interfere in the internationaled on the spirit in which it has grossive tendencies. Morocco has
spite of the heavy loss and landed thero. These rebela thon set fire scarred by the rushing rains, the affairs of any country, but an approached this problem. It has raised more than one question, been blended admirably. Wo alluvial top soil washed away and tional officials would be confined shown onergy, capacity and fore-over the solution of which strained join the Committes in expressing
The launchtook place, Wodnes-mon and demolished the local to the local military official's ya only the yellow, uncharitable to judges and police and a sightedness, and has in the few relations have drison. In fact the hope that the merchant craft, under soil remains.. With justico Cabinet of two or three. The wooks that have elapsed since the the only time, when European as far as the exigencies of their day morning, at the yard of Mossrs. police station by throwing do we call it the Yellow Sea dream may come true; there is, Conference met, shown itself in governments seemed to be really duties allow, will assist the war. W. S. Bailey & Co., L., of Mr. J. bombs. A large number of build-
in porfect accord, was in the ships to illamine the harbour. is thick with the rich soil of indeed, nothing insurmountablé a now light to the world.
seventeenth and eighteenth con-
B. Wood's new motor boat, the ings were enveloped in flames. We are a little disappointed"Orion." The vessel.
Ultimately the naval troops man- Ching, the soil that would producs in its way, and only national fool-
tarice, when they all combined, that no mention is made in the 80 feet over all, has a bonn of 12 aged to land at Fat-shan by abundant crops, and place thongs and racial antipathies to USELESS BUT UGLY.
for the purpose of putting down incomplete programme submitted people beyond the reach of their chook its developinout. Both
some other moans and repulsed (3rd May.)
the Salli ravers, who were of a parade of troops, and wo ft. 0 inches, and a draught of 4 ft. the rebels. One portion of the re- great enemy. The rivers, uncon- these sentiments, moreover, aro served and autonded, have done loss strongly implanted in the hu- disaffected persons at Canton For practically the last contury, will take place. The suggestion to Vancouver where she will be There they met the local garrison The molehill rising of a few the pests of the Mediterranean. cannot imagine that no such thing inekos. She is to now proceed bele escaped to Tung-chai-bridge. as much to produce famine as the man breast now than in other threatens to become a mountain the dominating influence in the was first made in these columns fitted with Eastern Standard on- oncottator ensued and Comman- sains on in unprotected country-days. We are more tolorant, less The revolution" which prac- country has been that of fan and we know that many of our gines of four cylinders, developing ilor Mn was killed. Twenty-seven and the braves. Hore a deadly.. sido. No attempt whatever is sharply divided in ideas, aims and made to keep them in their coursos, ideals, and the fusion of the racestically failed in the beginning if not with England's absoluereaders endorse it-that it would72. hip. The craft is painted braves met with the same fate.
has
carried death and acquiosconce, at least without be no more than fitting that a white with gold lining. Inside Tho casualties on the rebel side and when the waters from the hills is only a matter of time, time, that
destruction to soveral Wost her active disapproval. is, in terms of world-progress. As lacking tlioso natural spouges,
Yet, review of our naval and military River towna. We must blame despite the guidance of France, forces should be a feature of the overy available space las boon were heavy. Afterwards they the forests, como down the rivers surely as America and England the Bianchu bannermon troops Morocca has made few strides principal day. It ecoms to us utilized. The fittings of the ades lusty retreat. Early yester rise and overflow their banks, and have given the rolling ball now wipe out the crops of a whole pro-impetus, so surely will peace down force, they have utterly failed to ever good and wise the laws of bande, the fireworks and the for the after cabin, Japanese onk, dispatched
overwhelming towards law and ordor. How that the processions and the saloon are Philippine mahogany, day morning Admiral Li Chun Commanders Wu vince. It seems to us that the universally.
take the opportunity afforded the autocracy may have been coloured lights would lack the and the remainder, teak. The Chung-yu, Shi Kong-ting and Lá huge sums of money that have been spent by charitable people on PATHETIC REVOLUTION. of the rising, and now they by as
them by the premature outbreak their effect has been nullified necessary background if the engine room is placed up forward Shing-chun with reinforcement
corrupt China's famiuc-stricken pensants
an adminis-
forces of the Crown do not in a separate steel-lined bulkhead, for Fatahau by train. On the find themselves opposed by a tration 06 can migh lava boon boller employed
be compro lend to them the dignity which completely isolated from the rest same afternoon, Commander woll-armed force, with a war bonded. Law has yielded place is not intrinsic of coloured of the ship. and with more lasting effect in
Wu telegraphed to the Canton chest of surprising dimensions, to avarico and has been set at lights and similar expressions of
The ceremony of christening authorities that the tumult at Fat- tonching them how to avoid the
and are faced with what has overy naught in the most flagrant public spirit. The difficulties in the craft was gracefully perforined shan had been subdued and order dangers which threaten. Half
iudication of beings demoralising manner. So much so that brigands the way are probably not slight, guests, among whom were manders will return to Canton by Mrs. Harvey, before a company had been restored. The Com- what has boor subscribed in the and man; so that the crime of our little war. last twenty years would plant luige
moment believe that the revolution commander in chief to ransom, but, as we have said before, they Mrs, Edwards, Messrs. JB. Wood, within the next few days. On
We do not for a lavo actually hold the Sultan's tracts of China with trees.
are not insurmountable. We Ita placid pond, canses disturbances will attain its object the over- and to free him a pardon and hope something will be done in Humphreys, N. K. Davidson, receipt of the telègram of Com would, again, help largely, atleast, far distant from the actual point throw of the Throne-but it would a lucrative sinecure has had to be this direction. Few of us hore Young, Bailey, J. Merecki, Guy, mander Wu, Admiral Li Chun at to conserve her rivers. Instead of of contact. The Chinese, more be madness to attempt to mini- that, a vast sum has been spont than any nation on earth, "take mise its evil potentialities. The
in Hongkong have seen our forces J Ross, Ramsay, Pritchard and onco sent out Commander Lam The cause of the present trouble in full review, and the occasion Harvey. with the bost intentions in the in each other's washing"; they are "insurrectors" have already ex- datos back, in reality, to 1905 seams a most fitting one to afford
After the vessel had successful-recruits corps, with some of his Shing-tang,attached to the Canton world, but no permanent result, entirely interdependent, and, pended about half a million when the Kaiser, recognizing the the loyal residents of this colonyly taken the water the company men to go round the city of and noxt year the same old therefore, revolution hits the peo- dollars. They cry will go up: Millions starving plain all parts of the country. "An there be
ars rich; let advantage of securing the control an opportunity of appreciating went on board, where in a short Canton advising the gentry, in China! We would like to outbreak in Canton, small though that; rich with the monies northern extremity commands the for King and Country,
no mistake about ling influence in a country whose the men who guard our shorea speech Mr. Wood expressed satie the merchants and the public faotion with the craft and handed to resume their usual business hear of every mission school in it may be and moro a flash in the sent them by the supporters of entrance to the Mediterranean,
Mrs. Harvey a suitably, engraved and informing them that China, and for that mattor, overy pan than a serious movement, the Ching who live in foreign attempted to weaken the status
silver card case, as a memento order had been restored in Fat other school as well, devoting at oauses misory over a large area lands. Olinose-American money, quo of France, and himself gain
of the occasion. He also proposed ahan. Commander Lam at the least half its working time to in-and among people far removed Chinese - Straite Settlements the coveted position. Having struction that would bring home from the scene.
the toast of the builders.. same time notified the editors of The conditions money, even Chinese-English | done so the cession of sufliciont
Mr. Bailey in reply pointed out the local press to publish in their to the people some small idea, imposed on the people by this money is behind the bands now ground for fortification opposite
that Mr. Wood had thought out columns that things were quiet at least, of the great forces abortive attempt are indeed only ravaging the countryside around Gibraltar would inevitably fol- of the Chinese is a characteristic his own plans for the vessel, and both in l'atehau and Canton so aa, of nature with which they tamper further proof that revolution has Canton. They are besides pos- low. Though this move failed the potentialities of which are not so well lind he done so that they to pacify the minds of the people. and have tampered for centuries. gone out of fashion and out of sossed of the most modern arms through the Algecirns Confer without interest to a trading and had to make no alterations. He At the same time the Self- That indeed would be "a good use. Tho appeal to this aword that have been steadily smuggled once, yot the work had been commercial community that has wished them to drink to the Government Society distributed work." We will never curo China is inapplicable to modern life, to them for months, for years done. France no longer hold something to sell them. It should owner, his wife and the vessel. lund bills to the same effect for of famine by merely gifts of and the sooner the Hotspurs past, and WO .can. tako no tho paramount position that indeed be watched carefully in
Mr. Wood suitably replied and the information of the public, money or grain. We are, indood, of China realise this the better. comfort from the fact, that she did, and the Moroccan govern- its workings for it is a char- Mr. Harvey, on behalf of his wife, setting a premium on famine by They may, and very likely will, they do not practice the measured ment has learnt to disregard acteristic that makes for inde- thanked him for the memento of so doing. What is needed is cause riots, but these will not be march of trained battalions, for musli which in former years had pondence,the independence that the launch, thus bringing a very received in Tokio of the sudden Telegraphic advice has been teaching and seed; not cold the expression of a people's they have once defented the been attended to. French diplo- froes them from the necessity of pleasant function to a close. dollars and centa; and if we re-hatred of its rulers, but the Imperial troops in something matic notes lave been ignored buying outside the confines of
death of Captain Marble, former ly naval attache to the American cognise our rosponsibility in pro- ory of hungry men and women very like a pitched battle-anil and the position of the Powers their own land. An illustration The "Ceylon Observar bears Embassy in Tokio. Captain Mar- ducing the latter, that is, if we for food. None the less they will that after they had been dis has been considerably discounted comes to us from far away Sze- there is a project on foot to blo, committed suicide by shoot- recognise that we owe a charitable be dangerous, and above all astrously shelled by gun-boats, from what it was before. Though chuan, from a little China Inland start a big Coconut Company and ing himself with a revolver at take seriously a revolution that ing, but the courage, the indiffer- little oil on troubled waters, mat the coast Hero su English Mr. R. M. Latham's visit to 4th. He was in Tokio during
ordered ranks lack Algeciras Conference throws station 1,000 must degenerate into mere broad once to dostli je most certainly tere have gradually progressed to medical missionary, Dr. William Ceylon. Whether the new com- the Russo-Japanese war riots? We may hear at any there, and we must face the wards a crisis, and it is little won Wilson, is actually turning out pany in to be Hosted is London wards served in the moment of such occurring at certainty of a protracted, struggle der that the French have at last in large quantities every variety or Ceylon is not yet definitely Ca Canton, but to honour them by over a scattered aron,
luade a move. Unfortunately the of electrical appliance, Dr. known.
sistent and in justice to cursolves and in justice to the people we now pauperise, help them to rise superior to their environment That is true clarity
all modern civilisation, of all progross, is to intensify the relationship of man brother, like a stone thrown into
given to the miscreant.
BRICKS WITHOUT STRAW.
The extraordinary adaptability
of
two: