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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH FRIDAY JULY 21 1911
THE POST OFFICE SAVINGS BANK,
(21st July.)
REGISTRAR GENERAL'S tion does not appear to have been FATALITY ABOARD SHIP.
ANNUAL REPORT.
f
A Colonel Killed on Mishima Maru.
Buy means, conipleto the info of the crimes by violenco that occur
stimulated much. Tho, numbor of assisted omigrants passed in from day to day in the Colony and the fact that not more arrosta
1900 was 16,803; in 1910, 23,554, ure nindo is in no way to be thought a fault of the police who'
The prescut state of what should be the promior security of the Some Interesting Facts. have at all timos a most arduous task in running the Chinese world, console, is at this time of prosperity most disappointing. In
the number going to the Straits The Registrar General's annual Settlements and Malay Peninsula
BLEEDS TO DEATH ON <riminal to carth. That they have done good work is apparent to fact practically all government securities are in a condition that can
roport, which was laid on the being 18,177 in 1910 against
SUNDAY MORNING. every one, who reads of their doings in the local press, but at the only give rise to the most aouto alarm. This year Mr. Lloyd George inble at the last meeting of the 10,714 in 1900, to the Dutch present time flio lurge influx of fugitivo Cantonoso into the Colony has not made that appeal to the small investor that it was expected Legislative Council, contains Indies 3,577 against 5,023, and
[Ovu Own ConnESPONDENT.] ho would make, and he has failed to take the opportunity of bringing
to Borneo 1,800 against 112. has increased their task, and at the same time augmented to a large consuls within the roach of the man in the street, who has only a few some very interesting facts.
The thro ports that compote
Port Said, Juno 22. oxtent the number of crimes committed in and around Hongkong.pounds put by. For the past decade this investment has gradually gone Protection of Women and girls.
The Rumbor of individuals in any way with longkong as The moat startling ovent which « The institution of the cat for dealing with armed and down in value, and where at one time it was quito customary to find violent robberies is by no means a new thing. It has been used the price quoted in the niuotion, in has supk, till during the past detained under warrant was 302 ports for emigrants are Swatow, has marked the career of the in England for the suppression of similar forms of wrong-month the low level of about oighty lins been reached. Woare not as compared with 280 in 1900. Pakli and Hoihow. The nun-
going to say that this is the fault of any government though it would They were all sent direct to the Pobor of assistod omigrants who ar- Mishima Maru (Capt. Mosos) since doing and with conspictions recess. At the time it was introduced seem that in time of peace, when the national debt has been roduced Leung Kuk, and the action taken rived in Singapore during, the lor construction took place on the humanitarinum, whose only caro seemed to be for the safety of the and as a consequenco the supply of console has been lessened, then respect of them is shown in first oloven months of 1910 were, Sunday morning, June 11th, when This has not Tablo III. The number of women from longkong. 14,750 from Colonel P. Warron, of the 3rd bodies of criminals, raised an outery against this form of punishment price of the moonrity would have gone up.
room of that vessel, blooding ter- but, to the credit of those concerned, this policy of sovore repression been the case quil the situation that has this been created is whose detention was found to be Swatow 1,900; from Hoihow, Brahmans, was found in the bath
calling forth a considerable amount of comment. That party unnecessary and who wore ro-5,246, making a total of 21,008)
ibly from outs on the arms and Dispensaries and Plague
broast. was followed out to the bittor ond, with the result that particular capital has been made out of the state of affairs is to be leased after enquiry was 83 or 28
Hospitals.
A fiue-built, powerful man- forms of crime were stamped out by judges who feared not to do their regretted for we think that, to a great extent, it will obscure the per cont. The cases of 18 women
Tho dispensaries continue to be
one who delighted in graphic re- duty. Viewed from a purely sympathetic standpoint the infliction trio issue in discussions on the subject and load to no good end. were still under consideration at of the cat is a rolie of burbarity. But so is the criminal. Te is the Whether the reducing the purchasable unit of consols will have the the end of the your. Nine girls conducted on the established lines.inisconces of big game hunting
effect of making the investment more popular, is still a matter for wore sent to the Eyre Diocesan The three dispensaries in Victoria
expeditions in India, of wars in last surviving exponent of the theory that might is right, and that, in time to prove, and our only concern here is for a moment to reflect Rofugo, and one to the Italian and the Harbour Dispensary are various parts of the world- order to get that which he wants, a man must use force if necessary. upon the serions, state of many institutions in the home country Convent still close with your managed by a Committee consist on Warren of the world-
the numbor still detained undering of the Registrar General as That being so the only niethed of appealing to the criminal's better through this huge falling off in value.
The fall of the Birkbeck Bank fan beon instrumental in warrant in these institutions was Chairman, the Hon. Dr. Ho Kui, board ship when returning home from Singapore. In the early feelings is through his skin, and his doctrine of might being right calling public attention to the matter, and the various financial 14 and 2 respectively. Soveral M... Vice-Chairman, and must be enforced against himself by society whose canonis he has newspapers have dealt with the subject of great length in their ran away from both the Refuge venteen other members, and thours of Sunday morning, when Lho son was in a frotio and ile wind aamo Committee, has openeil a broken. The othies of the application of the cut would seem to be pages. It cannot be said of course that the fall of this was and the Convent, but so did somo solely that of a deterrent, but in actual practice it is a sublime form of in any way due to consols. We doubt it had any great proportion from the Po Long Kuk, where dispensary at Shaukiwan. The whistled through every crovico poetic jistico: the infliction of pain for the punishment of a crime op- of its money in this stock, but if the statements of our contempo- the precautions taken aro almost constitution and general objects and port hole, just a few hun- tailing suffering. It may be said that the criminal loves this form of rarios are fo be relied on, the immediato canse for the suspension excessive. The number of in- of the Association have to receive there was a wail from uno, punishment a broken man. That, we venture to salamit, is no concern was the fact that the bank had no reserve to make up for the mates of the Eyre Diocesan Re-the concurrence and sanction of of society at large. He has offouded against the laws of the com-deficiency caused by the general deprecation of securities. fuge at the close of the year was the Government, and are describ-the bath rooms: "Please call
ed in a ininuto dated the 20th the doctor. The door munity, he has placed individuals in such a condition that fright or The Birkbeck Bank is not the only sinner in this respect for the 54.
The total number of persons re-October, 1900, in 9262, 07, jar, and those who ran to his shock may also have brokon their spirits, and in such circumstances same reproach has been levelled against the Post Office Savings! the final results of the punishmont, upon the body of the man that has Bank by no less a person than Mr. Bowles in the House of Commons, ported missing, including reports.S.O. The three dispensarica at assistance-Mr. W. Edwards, of incurred it, are of no matter at all to the community that he has In the course of some discussion on that subject, the hon. gentle from China and Macao, was 35. Yaumeti, Hunghom and Kowloon Singapore, Mr. Thomas (of the wrongod.
man pointed out that the money deposited in the Savings Bank Of these, 75 were reported to have City, are managed by soparate Tramway Co.) Penang, and others Consequently wo think that the judges yesterday in awarding was subsequently invested in consols, and he had you to learn been found. The corresponding Committees elected by the in-saw the Colonel standing blood- prusialment by flogging, as well as the tera of imprisonment, per- they were bought at less than par. If that be the case, the Post figures for 1000 wore 390 and 50. Imbitants, and in his work of guid-g freely from wounds in the formed a very unpleasant duty, woll. Everyone can guess that it was Office Savings Bank is faced with a deficit of at least £20,- (For 1908, 181 and 48.)
The timidity and docility ofng and controlling them the modintely, everything that was Registrar General is assisted by possible was done for the gallant a distastoful task to sontonec a fellow creature to etual and grio-1000,000. Of course this does not mean that the bank is at any vous bodily pain, no matter how much he has wronged time liable to go "Broke," for there is, behind it, the complete Chinese girls make them an easy the two linese Membersof Coun the law, at these tasks have to be performed and the judges are to guarantee of the whole nation unit its resources, but it points to pray to procuressos, In one case cil and the two Members of the soldier, and it was realised, alas! be congratulated in that they carried out the duty in an excellent man-he fact that if the institution were a private concern it would respectable little girl of 15 was Sanitary Board. To enable thote was beyond humun skill. An per, neither imposing too harsh nor too light a sentence upon those haro failed long ago. There has been a drop in the value of the takon (it is needless to give the Registrar General to keep in close artery had been govored; ho blod brought before them. What the ultimate effect of the administration securities held by the Post Office of about twenty per cent. Such a details of the conspiracy) to San-touch with tho Chinese in matters of the cat will be, it is too early to prophesy, but if it has the desired trop could not be faced with equanimity if the bank were other than dukan, and thence to Singapore, relating to sanitation, Street Co-Warren must have been indulg effect of reducing to a minimum violonce in our midst, if it makes irational institution, and though the strictures of Mr. Bowles wore and put into a brothel. She was mittees have been appointed by the higher levels and the country roads safer to pedestrians, the stigmatisod as "alarmist," they most certainly point to the fact that recognised on the voyage from Clovernment, and are consulted in some physical exorcises in. legislature will not have done wrong in introducing tho punishment, the business of the bank isnot being carried outon business lines. To Saudukan to Singapore, and word
dred miles out of Colombo,
Was
breast. The doctor arrived im-
to death.
It is surmised that Colonel
While on the subject we would like to ask a question of those in meet the requirement of the depositors in the bank a rusorvo of cash is sent home to her fathor in Macao.on matters of importance and on his bathroom. The vossel was authority. Are there not other crimes for which the samo punished to the extent £500,000, whilotho rest is held assecurities in govern- report of tho caso was sent by Couraged to ask advice. Attached pitching at the time, and ero lo
ARMCHAIR PHILOSOPHY.
(20th July.)
CANTON-KWEILIM RAILWAY.
Ta "TELEGRAPH " CORESSPONDENT.)
Canton, July 19.
TION.
In the Far East.
Admiral Slado, who is well
the last of one of Nature's more ir-
could relax the muscles of his to onoh dispersary in Victoria are ment would be equally appropriate? We'venture to think there aromat bends. The idea of arush, may be regardedas phantastic but it is me to the Chinese Protectorate licentiate of the Hongkong arm his left hand went through Jono of the windows soparating Kidnapping is one particular crino which should be so punished, within the roulins of possibility. Then comes the question as to at Singapore, but the girl when l'ene, it may not mean actual bodily harm at the time but in nine what the banks would do. It is clone that the securities held could questioned adhered to some fab- College of Medicine, a cork with the bathrooms and he must have
a knowledge of English and cases out of ten it means the conderauation of young children to a life he put on the market in any great quantity for the price would ricated story taught hor by the colies with ambulances and dead-fallen with a crash on the jagged of utter lily and mental degradation. In such cases we yenture go down more than it has done: It would be equally futile to float procuress, and denied all know- vans to removo patients and dond glass. A moment before that his to assort, you cand neo tho eat too frequently.
nother loan and the money could only be borrowed from the other ledge of her father; he then went bodies. Two lecturers are invoice was raised in song! That banking institutions at an excessive interest. The savings bank to Singapore himself, and on stained whose duty it is to prouch the fatality astounded the passon- would therefore be in a precarious condition, were it not for the appearance, the girl admitted Suarantee that the nation provides, and it is a clear indication that everything, and returned with him against "dumping" of bodies in gers, and arrested overy sign of the streets, to point out the beno-pleasure, need not be said. He this form of nstional trading must be considered as anything but a to China. I saw her on her return it to be derived from the dis was distinctly popular, and many success, The popularising of consuls may be an effective. solution; and was satisfied of the bona fides But we think that the time has come when some serions attempt of the case. The lo Leung Kuk ponsaries, and to explain the obi oye was tearful when on the shroud—his mortal romains wore Among the subjects that were discussed at the Colonial Confer
bills are issued in profusion once there were dubtless imny that did not come prominently before should be made to da smothing to increase the domand, and, at the has temporarily received into its feet of the sanitary laws; hand-13th with the Union Jack as
samo time, koop the price ups
honno several women sent back to whenever occasion demands, and consigned to the deep. Strong China by the local Benevolent the public, and one such instance is brought to our notice by an
him s a inan and a soldier, article in "Tho Statist" for June 17, which has just come to hund. The
Societies in Siam and in French photographs are taken of bodiosen who know him, and loved found in the sirevis and aro posted Australian Prime Minister introdurod the following motion :-"That
BRITISH NAVAL SITUA Indo-China. In Siam particularly, up in the neighbourhood, and stood with bared hands to so the membersof this Conference recommend to their respectivefiovern-
the Society appears to be very enquiries are made in each case ments the disirableness of submitting measures to Parliament for the
active. The Italian Couvent has from the Street Committee. Thiere gentlemen and no prevention of acts of onspiracy to defeat or 'ovide the laws of any
kindly received 3 of the women, is a District Plague Hospital at-pressivo sight could move who were of weak intellect. other part of the Empire; that the hoperial Government makes sini-
tached, to the West Point Dis-men than this event on tho It is some time ago since the lar representations to the Cloveruments of India and the Crown
Female and Child Emigration ponsary in Victoria, another in Mishima Maru, for the veuerablo Colonies. The resolution was ultimately withdrawn, but the construction of a railway from
A record is kept of the occupa Kowloon City and a third at Bishop Moulo-with the grey Government pledad itself to make representations to the Govern- Canton to Kweilim, the enpitol of ments of British possessions in the Fast to tako such stops as might wangsi, was commenced. The known in Hongkong, gets the tions of female emigrants. Out luaghom. A fourth hospital is hairs of 83 years-spoke as if tho be possible to check the practice of smuggling coolies, which was no will pass through Wu-chow following comment upon his opi- of 10,875 over 10 years of age, built at Wanchai, The number sympathetic soul found articula plained of by Australia. It is not of the resolution nor of the way of Samsul, traversing nious stated in our estimable con- 6,562 were going with the hus-of rats caught during the year in ion. The service was brief, but Government's undertaking that we complain, in fact we are in accord l'ing-lok and then on to Kweilim. temporary the "London and band or other relative, or to join Victoria was 50,021, and in the it will live in the memories of all relatives; 3,127 gave their oc- Kowloon, Peninsula where rat-present with the flag at half mast, with the motive underlying both, but of the remarks made on the From Kweilim to Wn-chow, the China Express":
distance will be about 100 li8.
cuptions ON servants, 530 8 catchers have been engaged by the steaner alnost at a standstill, subject by the writer of the article.'
With regard to the strength of seamstresses and 552 as pro- the dispensaries and paid by the hero of many a fight found Phero can be no mistake as to the views of "The Statist" in itsat-However work from the Canton
Sanitary Department the number his rest in the depths of the Indian
Ocean. tack on Australia'sright to exclude what and whom she will. It says: side has not yet been done as for the East Indios und China squa-stitutes.
drons it is interesting to note that A record has also boon kept was 21,257.
Many incidonte might be re "Yet we say without hesitation that the Home Government oughton, and it will be a long time Rear-Admiral Edmond Slade, sines February of the occupations
Si-wui, Tock-ling and Fung-
Anyone interested in the spread not to have given such a pledge as they are reported to have given, the line could be linked up Commander-in-Chief of the form to which boys who wore given out of a belief in European medicine called now if we would attempt to
road the inscrutable decrees of. and that the Couforonce ought not to engage to help the Australian Commonwealth to shut out coloured people, whether they be Chinese with that one from Kwei-lim ater Sution, takes an optimistic to be apprentices, were destined. among the Chinese will be pleased fate. At Colombo he had, like or others. This is surely another case where the people at home form Warchow. The Governor of Kwei-view of the naval situation in the The principal headings were to learn that the percentage of judgment on really second hand information and proceed to lay down lim has telegraphed to the Canton Middle East, as opposed to the Chand lore, 1,113, carpenters, rotate cases to not cases treat many others, made a few pur- with an air of dignity, begotten of ignorance, what the dependen Viceroy requesting him to have a prevalent opinion that our posi- 378, farmers, 192, hawkers, 65, od at the Victoria Dispensaries chises for his "little girl." His father's loving yearning. There cies in the l'acific shall or shall not do. Australia has a government survey made on the line and form tion in those waters has been tailors. 127, silversmiths, 108, 98 risen from 30 in 1908 to 37 re-union he looked us with a
in 1909 and finally to 57 in 1910. of its own, and, if the people, who know, say that they do not want an estimate of the cast of con- rendered insecure by the growth goldsmiths, 64.
In all, 2,387 boys were entorn Kowloon City the percentage was an opal pondent for the little Chinose in their coasts, nu end comes to all argument and the duty struction and to let him know the naval power which may become
every integral
part of the Empire is loyally to results so that he may have an menace to British interests. ed as apprentices, but the list of remains about the same, at Yau-ass, and when a votoran suggest- assist the continent colony towards the fulfilment of its iden for the provision of fuels Admiral Slado considers that the headings shows that they cannot mati it has dropped, but there is ed to him, on the last night the desire. There is no need for thoorists in London to discuss pros and for the construction of the lines Indios Squadron is sufficient have been all apprentices in the a very satisfactory increase at gallant Colonel was on earth, that at prosent for all practical pur-usul meaning of the word, lunghom from 8 in 1908 to 15 opals were unlucky, ho smiled and
|"Chonors "is a term which in in 1910, cons, and the ethical right of mon to rain the whole world over. The from Kwailim.
With reference to the China omigration returns had almost Suadion, Sir Edmond Blade better be entered as "unspecifi- locs not agree with the agita-ed." 969 boys went as students. Before a number of interested Lion in favour of swift The return has been discontinu- The promises of argument are equally weak, for the article pro-auditors at the City Hall yoster-cruisers being sont to roamed for the time, as the informa ceeds: "It is to be recollected that theright tooxclude ishy no means day afternoon, Mr. W. D. Mc-about the son with the idention obtained does not appear to generally acknowledged. The Western Powers, for example, compel Crackan, M.A., C.S.B., delivered of picking up hostile ships. At justify the trouble of compiling China not merely to open hor ports to foreignors, and to engage in an interesting lecture on the the same time, Adiniral Slade it every year. trades which China wishes to abolish, but they fores horoven to admit above subject. Tho lectare recognises the value of speed, and Assisted Emigration. missionarios who preach in a manner that stirs up strife in China." throughout the time it lasted was forecasts that in due course the The number of assisted emi-tacle when compared with the loss wasrogretted, and the genuitó The Powers do not force her to open her ports to foreigners, followed closely by those present speed of the ships forming the grants examined was 24,086 as figures of the trade of the previous sympathy of his fellow-voyagers. Had "The Statist" said "some ports," it would have been nearer the and with evident interest. component parts of the Enstern against 18,511 in 1909. These year; but taking into account tho goes out to the distressed relatives mark. Nor is Chinn boing coerced into continuing trades, which Mr. Gao, E. Anderson, Ameri-Fleet will have to, be increased numbers include the labourers fact that the crop of 1009 was said in the old homeland who to-day sho wishes to abolish. There is only one trade that might come can Consul-Generalia Jongkong, in order to keep abreast with going to British North Borneo, to bo 20 percent. short of the "buru will be acquainted with the indor that honding, and though China is being actively aided by in introducing the lecturer to those the increased speed of all ships who are technically not assisted por harvest" of 1908, and the pur-dienster.
It was an accident, almost with-- Great Britain, an actual infringement of the agreement to suppress present, madon racy little speech on the trade routes.
emigrants though treated as such. chasing power of Manchuria there- the opium traffic has come to Britisli notice, white those, who know which was much appreciated": For the work, however, which The number of those examined fore necessarily limited in a like out equal in the history of modem and do not theorise, doubt the bona fides of the Colestial even in this In the course of his able lecture, ut prosent has to be performed wlio declare their unwillingness ratio, the result of the year's trade ships, and it is certain that moi- mattor. The artiole goes on to describe the Chinese nation as weak, which showed that the speaker on the China and East Indios to go, is now insignificant. In should be considered as highly sures will be taken to make a r a people numboring 400 millions and with natural resources borond had a thorough grasp of his sub- Staticus, Admiral Slade con 1008 it was 81 per cent; in 1910; satisfactory.
currence of such a fatality impue the dream of the triachuir philosophists at home. While we are not jet, Mr. McCracken dealt fully siders the present classes of slips 07. This year the native langu- Newchwang again hold her own (sible on any passenger boat. The prepared to uphold Australia's claim to powera of exclusion against with the various phases of the quito suitablo, on the principle age of the emigrants is shown, not against the powerful competition bathroom has four windows, and people of the Epiro, despite livir colour or creed, we claim, for that now science under different heads, that as it is not economical to their place of origin. The demand of Harbin and Dairon; and the fact there are two panes on the door." colony, the right to pick and choose amongst those who are not subpassing on from one phase to an use a steam hammer to wield a for labour in the Malay Peninsula that she has done so, in the face of Strange to relate there are no jouts of the Crown. Hind "The Statist" been anything but a financial other with remarkable ability. horse power, so also it is un-resulted in the formation of sove-ndverse railway freight, ratos, bars which one night grip should paper it would, we venturs, to think, havo joined in the hysterical Thalecture was much appreciated. necessary to utilise big armourol ral labour agencies, but labour ought to give lier morohants, and the vessel in any way roll.
Col. Warren was 48 years of shrick against allowing the Chinese in England. If the home country. At the conclusion of the lecture, cruisers to deal with vessels still continues to be recruited in others interested in the welfare of should possess the right to exclude the Celestial, so should thoja voto of thanks was passed to tho | which aro relatively small and the same way, and through the the port, renewed confidence in age, and his address was Houtou' colonies. What is sauce for the geose in sauce for the gauder." lecturer,
same Chinese ugente, and emigra the future.
Bouse, Winchester.
of
SCIENCE.
people on the spot know, and thicory must always bow before know LECTURE ON CHRISTIAN lodge. No wonder Colonials lose patience, when the type of thought that "The Statist" apparently caters for, endeavours to set the whole world' right from the firesido.
:
poses.
weak,
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NEWCHWANG IN 1910.
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aid to me, "Well, you see I nu
un Irishman, and perhaps am not superstitious." Again, on another. ocasion a romark was passed along at the tablo as to bad luck, A Prosperous Year.
and he replied by wondering who would live the "touch of bad The net value of the trade of lick" on board on this trip. Newchwang for the year 1910 He was a man who had en lour shows a decrease of about 2 millioned himself to all on board. Ibe