· GENERAL NEWS.
"Golf rs' Lumbago.".
Tennis, ccling, and motoring have long been held responsible for what may be termed the or- cupational d sra os of sport, and golf is no longer out of the fashion in this respect.
THE NANKING ATROCITIES.
Gen. Chang Hsun's Own Account,
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18., 1913.
OPIUM IN HONGKONG AND MACAO.
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Anglo-Portuguèse Agreement,"
We are requeered by Me
The Foreign Office bas publish. Chang Yu-cluan, Comms ine
ed the textefan agreement signed for Foreign Affair in Shangtai, in London on June 14 last be News, to publish the following Portugal for the regulation of Baps the North China Daily tween the United Kingdom and "Golfera lum: telegram, which he has received the opium monopolies in the bago" is at present said to be ex-from the Central Government in Colonies of Hongkong and Macao ercising its ravages on the linke, reply to his request for the facts The agreement is in pursuands as the result of recent climatic Nanking. He adds that he knows if the conclusions of the Interna- Road, Kowloon; from 1st October.OLET-Ranfurly, No, 11.
vagaries. When a hot afternoon in succeeded by a cold evening the golfer is especially liable to rach a chill, and unless precau- tious be taken, a painful attack of lumbago may be the result.
Reported Curo at" Lourdes. Purią, August 23—2 ccording to the Lourdes correspondent of
as to the alleged atrocities in
mént.
"
that a deputy has already been tional Opium Conference, and in appointed to make a thorough consideration of the fact that and searching investigation, and the geographical situation of the there is no doubt that where Colonies of Macao and Hongkong guilt is established there will be prompt and exemplary punial makes if necessary to regulate in a similar way the opium mon- Your telegram of the 5th inst., opolies in the aid Colonics in was, duly noted. The text of the all matters concerning the restric telegram received from Tuluh tin of the consumption, sale, and Chang in reply to ours is as
exportation of prepared opium and repression of smuggling.
Article 2 lays down that the highest marit rushed in like piao, aged 35, who was one of the crowds of bars, and engaged with Macao opinn farmer will not be pilgrims from Toulouse, and who rebel troops in street fighte, permitted to import more than had been recognised by several This last more than one day 280 chests of opium (a chest dootore as suffering from paralysis
nd night. The whole city was means 40 balls of raw opium) per in a turmoil and shots flew abɔat. was unddenly cured in the morn After that the rebel solliers annum, exclusively destinel for ing, after communion before the fled for thair lives, but the consumption of the fixed and Grotto. It is stated that althe gbb fore, doing so, they took the floating populating of Macao, and
theEcho de Paris" a case of follows:- paralysis, has been cured at the When Nanking fell the soldiers Lourdes Grotto. Madeleine Lu-competing with each other for
Gap," Peak, from the lat October. Houses. in "Torres To let or for sale, GLEN- Buildings" SHIEL, Barker Road, No. 124, Kowloon. Apply to.-SPANISH Kimberley Road. Peak, 5 rooms from 1st March. DOMINICAN PROCURATION,
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her left leg had for a long time "pportunity to loot, aided and Article 3 fixes the amount for the No. 3 Mountain View, The
been incapable i mavement, the "patient reguine! "the use of the
limb and threw away her erat
obes, advancing through the amazed crowd, whose enthusiasm was indescribable.
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hettet by the local ruffians. They Hongkong opium farmer it 540 made the greatest and most crusl hayoc psible. In many in-hest per annum. These figures Poak.
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SH PS,
"I advocate complete disarma ment and condemn war ue a relic
41, Plantation Road from 1st December, 1913. Furnished.
Apply DEACON, LOOKER, DEACON & HARSTON,
As the hours passed by, my anger grew, and I devised hard punishments for him. At the last be came, late in the morning, and bowed low,
I called out angrily
"Go forth from my presence and never
of barbarism," said Representa-see my face aga n tive Goodwin, of Arkansas, when
I
"He looked at me, and re-
low, husky voice:
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There is no economy in going
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Artiole 4 atataso LET-104, A, The Feak, from 1st November, 1913, in the city of armies under the "mmand of different general, it
Apply S. J. DAVID & Co., Hongkong will be permitted to Oplum Crop in Yunnan,
„Prince's Building. was most difficult to maintain import, per annum, respectively; Chaotung, Aug. 13-A great p103. Extreme measures bad to 240 and 120 chests of raw opium harvest of opium was finally gath-be resorted to to gain this end,
{exclusively destined for exporta- In order to do away with fav-tion to countries which have not erod in many districts of Kuei-uri ism and leniency, I detailed prohibited at present and which chow and Yunnan. In some cases well-trained and reliable soldiers the poppy grew to six feet high. n patrol the streets and more shall not prohibit hereafter auch and the gatherers of the juice than 200 persons fund red-imports of opium. were quita hidden from the sight handed were execute on the of passers by, Spasmodic attempts
Article 5 states that the limit pot. Innumerable collectinue of fixel in the preceding article for were made to root up the crops by loot were alo overhauled. Nank
"My little agents of the officiala, but in manying was only then quieting down, Hongkong must be considered a be introduced a Bill stipulating mained silent, and then said in a And osses & payment of money secarer Such was witnessed by the definite one, and not subject to that every United States warship daughter died last night." immunity. Some of the official foreign residents in the city. alteration. Is ia understood that sailing for foreign ports without another word he went to are reported to have made great sums of money by their opium that of the looters the majority to increase the number of chests of American wares automobiles
Now Renter's Agency reported in Macao power will be retained should be loaded with samples his daily task." destroying campaign. Unless there is a great change in the
were soldiers
blue of raw opium imported each year from Detroit, men's clothing from My coats, pólioy of some of these rulers of
when and destined for exportation, New York, canned beef from the people, another crop of opium occupied the north-eastern cor- the said imports are destined to
•hey entered the city only provided that proof is given that Chinego, and so forth. will be sown this year. Large: numbers of huyere came up from mostly waste lands and very few trade.
ner thereof, where there were meet the requirements of lawful
"It is proposed," say the Lon- For this purpose the don Telegraph," that the Secretary the neighbouring province of dwellinge. Szechuan nad carried with them nourishing distrio's were occupied nor nf Macao Customs certificates with the Secretary for Commerce The other more farmer shall produce to the Gover for the Navy should co-operate on their return great quantities of the drug. North China by the other troops. As to which passed by the authorities of conn-to allot space on battleshipe to to an optician of doubtful ability Daily News
army had committed the offence trien importing the opium showing manufacturers, merchant, €XTM snd which had not, is not hard to that the quantities authorised are porters, or trade bodies, who shall Arithmetical Policemen,"
be ascertained by making a house required for legitimate purposes be permitted to install and main The Royal Irish Constabulary to house inquiry.
over and above the 240 chests, in the exhibits. 1 am opposed appear to have reduced the bus attacking Tien paochen and other the Governor of Mago shall have battleships,' said Mr. Goodwin, Moreover, when my army was in Article 6 it is provided that to the senseless multiplication of ness of timing motoriste nit merely to a fine art, but to an important defences the rebel power to grant licences under yet 1 see no reason why thone tensely involved mathematical or had repeatedly disguised the preceding article for the ita- we have built should not be used process. At the Kingstowned by my soldiers with a view to an opium excreding the limit before they ros and became junk. themselves in the uniforma adopt-portation of the quantities of advancing American trade Police-court the other day three breaking through our lines: fixed in Article 4 motorists were fired for exceeding Therefore the alleged blue-ovated the speed limit Tho first défen-soldiers cannot be taken as the flant was accused of travelling at conclusive evidence of the cul-as the limit of chosis of law opium 284 miles per hour. There was
A FINE INDIAN POET. nothing extraordinary perhaps in pability of my soldiers." However, that can be imported annually asnil my soldiere si'l wear into Macao bas been fixed in Ar working outtherate of spred to the
Rabindranath Tagore is now odd half-mile, says the Autocar, eues, they can readily be identicles 2, 4, and 5 of the agree
Orment, the Government of India visiting London, where a trans- but in the other two cases, where tified by making inquiry. the rate of speed was worked out to course, I do not mean to shield will permit the purchas of opium lation of his collected poems six places of decimals (20.1011C7 my soldiers, and do sincerely in open market at the sales at under the title Gitanjali" (Song
Calcutta or Bombay, or any places.
Offerings) is enjoying large sales. and:28:108100 miles per hour priy-that-an-upright-bigh official respectively), the police surely in-
be appointed to proceed 10 Nan- in India, for export to Macao, ap The following translation from a king to make most thorough into and not exceeding the limits maunscript given in the Con- dulged their arithmetical pro vestigation, so as to establish the and conditions so
fixed, so temporary shows his dramatica pensities to unnecessary excess, and incidentally wasted time and guilty party and to clear the long as the opiam farmer at power:
Hongkong is permitted to obtain "The morning came, but my tainted reputation of my army.
The Farm Is under EUROPEAN publio money.
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Doors were all open, the tion is paid to the PROPER and the Poultry of EUROPEAN STOCK, Try Our Delicious
Brightening Cricket,"
This is how a writer in the "Clarin" on the Decadence of Cricket, describes his experiences of a match at the Oval "We saw Rhodes, Wilson Denton, Kilner,
8th
int tant.
Estimate of the Casualties.
Nanking, Sept. 9
Haigh, Booth, and Drake bat. The number of killed and
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Article 8 provides that raw water was not drawn from the GROWING OF VEGETABLES The Queen's Road Central Co. opium from India, consigned to well; my servant had been cup the farmer of Macao, within the all night. My morning meal was limita and conditions above indi-
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We saw them knock up 300 wounded in and, aboat Nanking Article 9 states that it is under- Three hundred in five and a half has leen exaggerated. The Red stood that if, after periods of five hours! Why need people auffer Cross burial corps bas intéried years (the dura ion of the con- from insomnia? Did I say knock up to date over 900. A few distracts of the farmer), the number up? I withdraw the remark. tricts have not yet been covered. of cheste agreed upon for local They don't knock up runs nowa. The total mortality among the consumption at or export from days. If a batsman lifts a ball Southern forces during the past Macao should respectively more than ten feet high it is a three weeks must be between prove to be excessive, the Por mistake or an accident, The 1,500 and 1,800. ...
tuguese Government will consider batsmen don't lift the ball. They Approximately 1,500 wounded the desirability of revising the don't hit it. And as for smiting itals of the City. Allowing for. The present Agreement is to
have been cared for in the hosp- amount in question.
thing. They pat it, they push it, those who have not had hospital remain in force for a period of ten they shove it they blook it, they treatment the number of wound-years, but may be terminated atab it, and they eat it, gently ed rebels can be estimated rough- by either Government at any time but they don't smack it, emite it, ly at between 2,000 and 2,000 lift it, slice it, hack it, or hash it. The loss of the attacki
it, they never dream of such a
Oh, they are very tender with the ball To watch cricket of this kind is about as exhilarating of watching a railway signal go up
on giving to the other twelve months notice of ile intention to force cannot be even approxim do so. On the expiration of ten atoly stated from this side.
years it is to continue in force, lives during the bombard, of termination is given About 200 non-combatants lost unlers and until o simila ment and of the hands of loolers." Government,
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