THE SPECTRE OF PARTITION.
they say, England and Japan agreed to maintain the territorial Integrity of Chign and their
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH MONDAY FEBRUARY
'Japan's Interest in the Chine e interests therein which, they
Revolution.
intor-
point out, far outweigh those
LOUIS NAPOLEON'S RUSE.
His Clever Escape front the
Ham Portress.
KING
forced to drop it, and, at the risk of come hurt to our modesty, we will tell you. The fact is that on the very first night, after a critical and exhaustive cross-eximination, which also included (for the rake misdesds of our friends and ao- of compariton only) tlie deeds and quais tancos, we came or not only at the top of the list, but with fall gived incidontally of his escapes. This, it is true, was &
also stopped the experiment, forest, reasons which it wou'd to indoli-
of the rest of the world together: In discussing the origin of A fow youra ago Japun inform-Botli je pardised. Why, theo, Louis Napoleon's nickname of od a certain Western Power that these months of costly and dan-Bidinguet some details wore she could not permit any gorous meation ? feroned on the part-of-that-Power- in the affair of Chosen-or Koren, as it was then called Tus intimation of “hands off"
status us a World-Power stal- Fshed beyond dispute, Japan Iris! joined the Concor of Elrape, or rather of the West-that eclect
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Hotels.
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Hongkong, 30th April, 1011,
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Management.
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ente in us to part colorir. Yot Thoroughly Renovated wo sill think tho plán a sound
Excelent Culstge.
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1t seems that e solo credit HONGKUNG ELECTRIO COM- for the escape must lie with Les
PANY, LIMITED, Napoleon himself. Ho malo his
-ST-GEORGE'S, BUILDINGS.
como runge, a cap, which was valet, Tholin, buy a black wis scrubbed with panico stone, and
a
NOTICE.
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Manager.
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The Important Matter,' from the fortress of lam, gratifying surprise, to us. But it Contrary to prevailing Northern France, on May 25, opinion in this part of the world, 1840. Fuller details, says the the form of government eventur?-«Journal des Dobats," are now led to a war in which the Japan ly plected by the Chineseople, available, thurks to the re one for the average go-as-you- Oso claim of superior interest was
for impared upon them by an in-searches of M. Thirrin, rei in please individual.—The "Globe," Buccessfully upheld. Things have changel since then. ilering Wost, is a matter of view of the escane of i indifferent to Japan. What is Lux, they have special interest of importance is st-Clin at the present moment. should not be divided against itself. The passing of the Man- pany of Powers which under-clasty will not provoke the the direction of the affairs sigh, or the establishing of nations unable to look after public a tinge of feer, within pair of shots. Then he cat eff THE extension of the ELECTRIC the length and brewith of the his moustacho, put on a blue expected to be completed by al out the themselves. There must be manaland Empire, for all this talk apron, a blue pair of trou read of March, 1913.
land n ́elpsc-fitting shirt of coarse i Japanose to-day who bitterly
Inteung consumers are advis I to Under the Diet Mnanga nont of the regret this association of their of Socialism. On the contrary,
{1-va their ligues? win-lju rzad’ness, to Taiwan, Railway Dept.. Sime workinen were carrying we'd đôj v in o' dring the light.
EXCELLENT CUISINE AND country with the Cabinets of China under a Republican
The Company are prepared ti sub-
GOOD SERVICE. RATES Europe and America, for they sime promises to be what it out some repairs to that part of
never could be under the Men- the fortress where the Princo lodgmit estimates for wiring houses an
GYEN, AND, Ur. Javo thoroby last in large cu strong China, a "rights-ed, and this gave colour to his application.
GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO., their national individuality and
Agents. watchmen entertained no suspi-
F01 freedom of action. China is inrer wey" China, a "C for disguise, so much so that the two
the Chinese." Now, such a China cions regarding them who walk-ongkong. 15th Der. 1911. travail at her very doprs, in a
TRAMWAYS 00. chaos of strife and mischief, but mean (as Japan well knows an ed pust them and out at the great
.LIMITED.' plunk on his shoulder. The seri Japan, of herself, can do nothing, anti-freign China, detained gata, a pipe in his mouth and a PEAR Wonderful opportunities present to make an ond of Weste. in-geant on duty at the drawbridge thomeplves, but she may not scizers on her independent, and was roading a letter as ho passed, and took no notice of him. "IF thom or admission into the het resources.
was then five oklock in the morn- coniity of "civilised" nations
ing limita her in common action with - a group of Powers whose interests, by compariam with hers, are microse. In a so it may be said of Japan thịt, in throwing in -her-fot with the West, she is gained the whole world and lost hor own soul
Four times that day, the last timorat five in tho afternoon, did the Governor. Demarle, send for the Prince. Eel time r. Con-
TIME TABLE.
WXEK DAY.
7.00 aw, to 8.00 a.tn. Every 15 min. 8.00a.m. .10.00 ..
10.00 a.m. ta 11.00 .m.
4.30 a.m. to 1.15 p.m. 1 1.45 p.m. 12.45 p.m. t
1.40 p. 2:16 pm. 2.10 p.m.
10 min,
71
15 min.
#
12.40 p.m. 1.15 p.m.
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15 min.
11
10 min.
"
15 min.
10 mia.
19
5.00 p..
F
15 min.
H
6.00 p.m. Lo 8.10 p.m. 10 mini NIGHT. CARS,
Winlover her attitude now, China en her defears against the Wess, must eventually look Japán for synpathy and aid. So far, the, from being to the later stone of stumbling rad a rock of offence, n public in China replied that the primer will probably prove the first step could not anybely, muse towardsanollensive and defensive he had taken medicine. When at allies between the two put the Governor lost patience 8.46 p.m. and 8 p.m., 8.46 p.m. to-
aches of the Yellow and went, himself to the Frines' Japan fails to her, lasting lv10 and walked up to the bed on ago such an opportunity, her which the supposed invalid was right hand will inde al hívó lest lying, he discovered that a very pentoblo dummy had taken its cunning.
the place of Louis Napoleon. The dovery was made too-Jato; by that time the fugitive was over the Belgian frontier.
FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS,
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FULL MARKS.
Japan's Interest. Unquestionably, taken allround, Japan's interest in the regenera- fion of China oxe, ads that of all other natiuns, whether of tho Ensi or of the Wost, says a writer in the "Pall Mall Gazette." Iler interest is bath sentimental and material through it one maquin
We have lately Lzon told of an old with the Japaneso clnructor
The proprietor of the "Horg-excollent plan whereby with no would think of wolghing one.
ostentation DV can effect À gainst the other. To begin with, kong Telegraph has decided marked improvement in one's must not the peuple of the two entipue during February 's character and murals, and, ever adjacent Empires confess to the offer of two prizos for tho 1st solicitous for our neighbours gime, crood and colour? Until photographs submitted to the welfare, we hasten to pass the information on. It is as follows: quito recent years it, is no, the editor by amateur.photographs flaving taken a convenient num-
ber-say, inhabitants of Nippon were wont laring the month.
hundred-as the to look with a Wild contempi It Las been decided to wide 1 maximum number of good marks. on the Nankin sun as they call the aepe of the competition. To that can be gained in one day,
1
11.80 p.m. overy 15 minutes, SUNDAYS
-7.30...
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10 mln. 15 mín.
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15 mia. 12.00 noon to 1:00 p. 1.00 pr. 126.00 pra, 0.00.m. in 6.00 p.m. 6.00 p.m. to. 7.00. p.u
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Uniformed hotel poiter meds all- rains and steamer. Luggage ar- Fanged for without any trouble to guests,
[132 Hongkong, it Fob., 1912.
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Apply stating Salary required to their kinsman from the Flowery restrict it largely to active life in you proceed every night to ro-XXX
viow your conduct during the
efa“ Hongkong Telegraph." Land: but they are now di the Colony excludes may ema-hours that have olapsed since llongong, 103 Pub. 1912– posed to accord a tardy re-tours who are not yet experien-you rose in the morning. It is cognition of what they have ced in this class of work. As the essential that this be done with the strictest imparçality. Out of owed him in the past in reapest whole purpose of the competition the hundred marks you then of religion, literature, and artis to stimulate interest in photo-allot yourself as many as you Sentiment, however, erits for graphy in Hongkong it bus have legitimately earned, and little with the Oriental, and Ching felt boller to restore all re-enter thom day by day in adet Omas far the Far Eut:-16, DES VOUX ROAD, HONGKONG Granado, A. uffers nu illimitablo field for en-tion und to
mercial exploitation. Waerefore
the Japanese, being an eminently
Give Everyone a Chance.
bcoke Comparison of one week
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THOS. COOK & SON, Tourist, Steamship and Forwarding Agents, Bankers, &c.
you to what extent you are TICKETS SUPPLIED to EUROPE by the principal STEAMSHIP |wogressing or falling back.', AN
LINES and TRANS-SIBERIAN RAILWAY,
practical race, lave no a lively Ficiares of active life, then, this, wo-confess, we know only TOURS arranged in. ALL PARTS of the WORLD.
pictures of still fifo, pictures
the future.
ly to own their yellow brother in recont or pictures taken months stopped abruptly after the first ago, pictures of life or scones in day." Still, the thing sounds at- Hongkong or pintures inken in tractive. But you will ho anxious any part of China, pictures taken to know why wo oursilyas wero a. Homo-any picture, general or
The Danger of Delay,
Photographic Competition
Coupon.
If for no other reason than that they are losing three-quarters of à million yea a wook, the Japanese local, may be sent along ii it favour a forward policy in the possesses interest at all. With Financial loss the competition of so cour prosont orisia. aport, however, they apprecinto, prehensivo a character there is a chanco for any amateur photo more keenly than the West, the prapher in Ilongkong to win ano danger of delay. The prolonga- of the prizes. The rules of com tion of the struggle without de cotition appeared in the issuca of cisive advantage to sither side Fol. 1 and 2. must mean for China, confusion -worse, confounded, the interven- tion of the Wost and ultimatie partition. For Japan it simply Rather than! spolle dienster. support that appremo calamity- the parcelling out of the Empiro into preservos of "influence". enclosed by Western tariff-walls- Japanese publicistsorgo the inmedin'o despatch of 10,000 toop to this Yangtse Valley, us preliminary step towards.com- pelling the combatants to come to terms. Under the provisions| of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance.
g
Feb. 20, 1912, ' I
agree to outer photographie competition on the cxpress understand- ing that the aditor's de cision shall be final, and that ho may, at his dicen tica, use the print cont herewith either in tho, "Hongkong Telegraph or the Weekly Telograph,'
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