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Aside from this altogether, there are obviously other objections ta the idea. The fostering of trade and industry by a Government is most desirable, and in this re- spect our American cousins con give us many a lesson from the manner in which their Consulates keep this end in view; but it is Barely carrying the idea a little too far when it is suggested that battleships should be turned into gale rooms.
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of
from a window in Li Yuen Street, He was removed to the hospital.
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Injured by Explosion-
A Chinese from Chang Hus has been removed to the hospital Buffering from injuries caused by premature explosion, during blasting operations.
Junk Master Fined.
Branch Falls.
the footpath outside the Hong- kong and Shanghai Bank, just faster nine o'clock, this morning. Fortunately no people were pass ing at the time or they might have received a nasty knock.
Settled.
THE FIGHTING AT KIUKIANG..
ACCOUNT OF A THREE DAYS'
ENGAGEMENT.
THE TROUBLE IN CANTON.
Trade at a Standstill and People Expectant.
So far as actual nowa is con- cerned, there is very little to report of the situation in Canton. Quietness generally prevails, and trade is still practically dead at the momoat. There is a distinct feeling of uneasiness prevailing, and no business is being transaO– ted.
The situation may bo
An interesting account of tho Everything Quest. outbreak at Kiukiang, and the
A private telegram dated the fighting which followed it, sp-15th from Hankow said:- pears in the North China Daily Kuling everything quiet summed up by saying that every- News of Friday last. Special Troops leaving vicinity. Nobody is expecting something to telegrams in our columns announ- further anxiety.
ced the result at the time: An The Central Obina Post"' of account received from the scene Monday, the 14th fully corrobor of operations generally confirmeates the above. It gives the a previous report that in the following detals:-
happen at any moment, though ' what that sorbething" will be, few are willing to hazard a guess,
Many people in the native city, preferring to take no risks, have within the past few days prepared to leave for Hoogkong and Macao1 but in cases where they have en- deavoured to take their furniture
Yesterday a man fell forty feet engagement the northern troops "The latest news, received in had ultimately the better of a private message last night, was things. The engagement seems that the Northerners were press- to have extended over three days, ing the Kiangsi mer back during starting on the 12th, Saturday, the fighting of Sunday. continuing all that night and "According to Japanese re- and belongings with them the again with occasional falls until ports, considerable numbers of the police have intervened and darkness on Sunday. It was men were engaged in the fighting let it be known that if they them again resumed on Monday morn-of Saturday. The attack was selves wish to flee they can, but ing, by which time the southern made, it is reported, by a brigade they must take nothing with Welsh Disestablishment.
troope had been driven up the (about 5,000) of Kiangsi men. them. This action is being taken We are not sorry to learn, from The rates of Subscription to the "Hongkong Telegraph will wire in yesterday's issue that A Jank Master was fined $100 pass through which the Kaling We have no record of the num- because once the people were road leads, and here it iber of Northernors, but it must permitted to make their departure" be us follows:
Lord Salisbury has moved a re-on a charge of exporting arms and solution in the Lords declining to $150 for having shortage of arms believed that many of them have been very much smaller with their household effects it is
broke and fled.
than the Kiangei force, as the believed a generul " scare " would proceed with the Welsh Dis-according to the number stated
total number of the northern men | follow, The Opening, Phases. cm, proportional. Subscriptions establishment Bill till it has been on his licence, at the Police Court,
this morning.
stationed at Kiukiang was not What is Chan Kwing Ming? for any period less than one month will be charged as for submitted to the country by means
About noon on Saturday the more than 3,000. Nothing is sid
We learn that there is still full month...
of the referendum. The attack.
ball was opened. At that time of the large force of Hupeh troops, much uncertaintylas to the whore- The daily issue is delivered free when the address is accessible to on the Anglican Church in Wales
A stout branch of a tres fell on the northern troops, advancing some 5,000, which our Kinking abouts of Mr Ohan Kwing ming, messenger. Peak subscribers can have their copies delivered at has been, from the very begin
along the road from Kiukisng to correspondent reports to have the Governor. The general belief their residences without any extra charge. On copies sent by ning, & contemptible piece of
the hills, opened fire near the arrived there last Wednesday in that be is still in Cantori. And post an additional $1.80 per quarter is charged for postage. cheap politics under the gaise
villago of Shiblipu. Those who (9th). The postage on the weekly issue to any part of the world is $1.00 of religion, worked by such
have visited Kuling will remem
here a most important report may "There were five foreign gun-be chronicled. It is said that on persona 18
the blame
hor a staap arched bridge which boats at Kiukiang on Friday, in Monday the Governor sent a Mr. Single Copies, Daily, ten cents. Weekly, twenty-five cents (for less
Lloyd George.
is encountered en route, and this cluding the U.S.S. Helena, which messenger to the Shameen with cash only).
So far as we are aware, there is
appears to have been in the very can land a large party of blue a view to endeavouring to raise a Advertisements and Subscriptions which are not ordered for a fixed no argument that will hold water.
centre of the operations. From jackets,in cars of need. for two escoada in favour of such The case in which J. Osawa their base the northern troops
loan of $500,000 from the banka period will be continued until countermanded.
tisestablishment. Four years ago and Co., were to have been the (Payable in Advance.)
A Deliberate Plan of Yuan's? there. The object of the loan is sent · out. *detachment
1 By Order,
the disconters" contention was appellants, and Mesars W. B. meet the Kiangsi man be-
not stated, but it is said that the "According to trustworthy in- that they so enormously out- Loxley and Co. the respondents, tween Shihlipu and Miaochihpa. formation received from Warevenues of the Province of
offered Kwanglung were numbered the Anglicane in Wales which was to have come before. Here skirmishing ensued. and chang yesterday, three gunboats security for repayment. The that the established Church was the Full Court this morning, was then the Kiangat men took up a were despatched down river to mission, we are told, met with no not needed. This tale was turned not called on, it having been position at the "Arob" entrance the scene of the trouble, (on SUCCESA, inside out, however, by the dis-settled. covery that the astute noncon-
the Kuling road runs. At the that the CMS. Kiangyn, which The prevailing feeling of un- formiete had been numbering!
At the Police Court, this morn-same time the northera troops went down river from Hankow on easiness is intensified by reason hemselves by the ingenious
of the strange disappearance of method of reckoning up how ing, before Mr Hazeland, four cocupied the country to the right Saturday night, was to pick up a
all. Chinese were charged by Inspect of Miac shikpa, and from these contingent of Northern troops at the Capton naval fleet, compris persone many chapels in the country would for MoHardy with being con- positions the fighting continued. Tienchinchen and take them on ing some twenty or thirty yesssle. hold, and assuming that everyone Wanchai.
cerned in an opium divan in Saturday's engagement would to Kiakiang. The C.M.8. Kiang These craft are said to have The first defendant appear to have been indecisive, kwan, now in Hankow, is stand-steamed from Canton on Monday, of those coats was cccupied re-who was also charged with for all night long rifle fire was ing by in case she may be needed but where they have gone no-one gularly!
"keeping" was fined $250 or in heard, punctuated by the booming as a transport."
appears to know, save that they raust be in the Canton delta some- default three months and the of the mountain guns, and it was not until about ten o'clock on
Southerners Cowed.
where, as they are not big enough remainder $2 each.
Another informant who left to take to sea. It was thought Kaling as lately as Tacsday, the by some that they had proceeded 15th, entirely corroborates the up the West River, but on enquiry above. The southern fugitives from incoming Kongmoon boats
"HONGKONG, TELEGRAPM,"
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HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, JULY 23, 1913.
AN IMPORTANT POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT.
Chinese News.
the
Shall we Westerners ever learn the truth where the movements,
Another Divan.
Dumping Rubbish.
A Sanitary Boad coolie was find $10 or in default one month by
to
to the mountains through which Saturday). It is also reported
Sunday that there was any
cessation.
Progress of the Fight.
as
were fewer war eraft on the river fleet. Indeed, it is said that there than usual.
Quite recently we analysed at some length the first Borious application of the Parliament Act to a messure which the Governmethode and aims of Chinese Mr Hazeland, at the Police Court Sunday afternoon found the were cowed and readily gave this morning we were informed ment intends forcing into law-the Home Rule Bill. Notice was politicians are concerned? We this morning for damping rub. northern side making further die-up their arms, which were then that nothing had been seen of the taken of the absolute disregard of all opposition to the legislation nek this, not so much from any bish in the public street at West positions, planting mountain guns used by the foreigners who formed affected and the assurance felt by the Liberals that ut fast they had teeling of soreness over the wild Point. A Sanitary Inspector said cat stories and wild goose chasos that probably the defendant was found means of evading a check on ill-drawn and hastily advanced by which all the journalists of doing a job for some body else. enactments. We are led to purage the matter a step further be-the Colony have ben victimis-He had no right to do any such
ed during the last few days, thing. cause of the obvious importance of the question and because also of as on account of some news sent
Language Examination. doubts which have been expressed as to whether, after all, the aim home to the Daily Telegraph' A board of officers, will assem
by its Peking correspondent. ble at the H.K.S.B.; R.O.A., O
on the low hills at the foot of the a guard over Kaling. mountains proper and firing upon Mr. Duff, who controls the store
What is the Difference. the positions escupied by the at Kuling, tried to get down dur
We have been authoritatively enemy: A cessation of fighting tooking the fighting for provisions, place for some time, but shortly but was shot through the arm informed that the latest news after five o'clock the Kiangsi men and compelled to return.
from Canton is to effact that the ratired further up the gorge to a. Op the Southern side the 6th Tatuh has never left the yamon, place called Taipingkung. and 7th regiments accidentally and, from the same correspon.. The northern body now seem to fired on each other. Esch then dence, we learn confirmation
of the present Ministry will be so easy of accomplishment as is This is to the effect that President cars Mess, Kowloon, at 10 a.m., have set out in pursuit of them, for thought the other was playing of the Canton Government's fondly imagined. It is not merely a matter of the fate of one Bill, Yuan has now plainly settled on Friday, 25th July, for the pur- towards twilight a tremendous faleo and a molts ensued in story, that there has been no or even of two of three Bills, this-the plan, if it succeeds, will strike his line of action and evidently pose of examining the andermen-fusillade was heard in the gorge, which 400 men are said to have actual Declaration of Independ at the very root of constitutional government and make a mockery proposes to attempt a thorough tioned officers in Colloquial Can-It was thought that one side or been killed,"
ence, but merely a repudiation of counterrevolution, making tonese:-Candidates: Lients O..other had been ambuscaded, but Our informant believes that Yuan Shih K'ai as President. Is of Parliamentary methods which hitherto have won world-wide Nationalism, that is to say the old-Chambers, R.G.A., A. G. B. this cannot be stated for certain, the outbreak in Kiangai is part of there a difference?
fashioned Chinese Nationalism, Buchanan, R.E., and A. W. S. es in spite of the fury of the rifle a deliberate plan by President admiration and approbation:
the main plank in his platform." Gibson, R. E. We should like to hear the views respectively of Northerners and Southerners on this point.
The point now being raised in political circles at Home whether, in the eagerness of the Liberal party to secure the passage of certain Bille, there has not been a colourable evasion of the provisions of the Parliament Act, the aid of which has been sought to help in placing the affected measures on the statute brok. There can be no doubting the submission that the real intention of the Parliament Act was that the Poers' veto could not be disregard-
"Britishmen."
In this column, the other day, a note was made of the fact that
THE NIPPON.
the Bill, or Bills, by virtually suppressing the Committee Stage suggests the coining of a
word. We have Irishman, Fisher of the same company, who while a still further retreat oc-BOOK"
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Ex-Governor Wu Hon Man leaves the Colony this evening for Shanghai.
If Chan Kwing Ming came to fire it is reported that no one was Yuan, who fully realized the to Hongkong it is at least certain injared. The northern 'regiments result of removing the Tutahs of that it was not to visit ex-Tatah had been able to mount a gun on Kiongsi, Anhui and Kuangtang, Wa Hon Man; for it has been de one of the low hills with which the and prepared accordingly. In finitely stated that no meeting approach to the rest-house is sur-support of this view it isslated: took place besween them. rounded, and from here its fire 1-That Gen. Li Yuan-hung was directed on the enemy, who did not send an order recalling Mr. Dyer Arrives from Hongkong on the enemy, who retreated the northera troops from Kin- further towarda Taipingkung.kiang when he was supposed to
Somewhat exaggerated etorius ed unless the affected Bill, or Bills, had three times passed through a Home paper was greatly perturbon the steamship Tean from are put at about forty killed.
Among the passengerra arriving The total casualties of Sunday do so.
are being spread throughout the a 2. That the northern general Colony as to an enormous influx all the usual stages, including the ordeal of a Committee, and the ed in spirit over the growing use Hongkong last Friday were Mr Firing was against opened on spontaneously "gave $200 to the of Obinese from Canton. On en- House of Common's had on each ecossion declined to make any of the word Britisher. A corres- R.M. Dyer, chief manager of the Monday morning and as a result Kiukiang hospital just before the quiry we gather that only on one material changes. If this be so, it is clear that any attempt to pass pondent of the ears journal now Hongkong and Whampoa Dock it is believed that a number of the fight began, saying (in effeot) day-Saturday was the ingress new Company, Ltd., and Mr John the Kiangei 'men took to fight," Your services will be wanted at all above the average; and that, even on that day, the excess altogether as in the case of the Home Rale, Welsh Disestablishment Welshman, Englishman, he have gone to inspect the work of curred.
3.-That Hapeh as well as number of arrivals was not great. and other Bills—is an evasion of the intentions of the framers of the anys, (evidently, he takes no making permanent repairs to the
Looting and Flight,
Wachang, has been stealthily We also learn that a large num Parliament Act.
account of Ecotsmen) and why Nippon. Mr Nelson, of the Shang-
filled with northern troops for ber of young Chinese men have not une the word Britishman? hai Dock and Engineering Some of the Chinese houses on some time past.
left Hongkong for Canton. It is a most arresting and highly important position which has Let any of your readers take company also arrived on the Tesn the field of battle were looted by
State of the Warket. Situation in Shanghai. been created by the over-anxiety of the Liberals to see their Bills the two words, Englishmen and for this same purpose and it is the soldiers, and for fear of the
An oremplifying the state of The "China Press" of Jaly 18 the market in Canton, we were pushed through. There is no question of a mere quibble here, for Britishmen, separate them by understood, says the Cablenews aftermath of the fight the coun-
hyphens, thus, English-mon, American," that an engineer from try people are fleeing to the says:-
informed this morning by a how can it be contended that Bills have passed three times through British-men, pronounce them slow the Tangtai Dock Company, at mountains, taking whatever they
Chin- The situation out in Shangani, ese gentleman that a huge the House of Commons if on two of those occasions the Committee ly and thoughtfully, and he will Singapore is now en route to Man- can with them. Water buffaloss though not critical, is full of un- quantity of rice, calculated to ordeal has been evaded? The Courte may in the future have some-find one word as euphonious ila on the eas errand..
and "pigs are being dragged pleasant forebodings and rumours, weigh about 100,000 piculs, which When seen on Friday,continues along, as well as whatever of the result being that the market should have been forwarded to thing to say on this new aspect of the application of the Parliament and expressive as the other."
No doubt; but the difficulty is our contemporary, Mr Dyer would their household effects are has been affected. The nawe of Canton, is at present held up in Aot; indeed, it is quite possible that the measure from which the that, in ordinary conversation, the would not say yes or may re- the most portable, and the southern victories creates excits Hongkong. Liberals have hoped so much may be declared null and void be-average min has not tiras to pro-garding his mission to the Philip people themselves are taking ment among cortsin olasses of It was unlikely, our informant cause its spirit has been disregarded, We put it only at a possibility; nounce words slowly and thought-pines but it was understood that up their abode in the mountains prople, while others remain in thought, that troops would be but if it does come to pass, the Liberals will regret the day when fully, so that Britishman is put all three of these gentlemen would making shelters in the rocks and different. The merchants, who sent from the North to Canton at out of court at once. There is leave for Olongapo the following wherever a likely place offers. ⠀ are more interested in mercantile present, because the city is quies, they endeavoured to stifle free discussion. More then that, they nothing wrong with Britisher, day to make a survey of the It is stated that a number of matters, do not welcome this and measures will first be taken will find themselves no further forward with their big contentious which will hold the field for quite Nippon as she lies on the drydock non-combatants have been killed second revolution." The Nantao to quell the disturanos ap, north,
Dewey,
by stray hullete,
(Continued on page 10), Bille tusa they were the day they assumed office.
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