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Some time ago several native merchants at Hankow organised a company, for the construotion of a tramway line in the said city" with the understanding that into "such an enterprise no foreign capital should be introduced. Recently a number of Hupeh merchants wired to their native townsmen in the Capital to the effect that lately a certain Li Zį- cheng has negotiated with a certain Japanese firm for a loan of $3,000,000 in the name of the said tramway company and that an agreement for it has already been drafted. The Hüpeh mer- chants in question strongly protest against such a loan and request their fellow townsmen in. the Capital to render them belp
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the ground that within recent years the growth of Japanese influerce in the said city has been increasing by leaps and bounds and that the mer chants think it would be utterly derogatory to both the prestige and interest of their country should such a loan be concluded. -Peking Gazetio.
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not only sending over their finest bly Evans. He had the bad look -DRAGON CYCLE Co. Educational Fraud in Japan. Young people of this country golfers, but were applying yesterday to be pitted againat a are all eager to learn the English scientific principles to the gume, man who, for nine holes, played on their clube if not with them language, especially those living were taking long weeks of superhuman golf, against which will be frank to say that the a port of Kobe's standing practice, studying every point, no man living, amateur or pro- English can yet teach us several Among the innumerable" tea- exhibiting to the full the national fessional, could have stood. That things about the fine points of chere" of English to be found al-genius for organization. Who the display was merely one of the game. One lesson in that most everywhere in Kobe there was sufficient for these things? those magic intervals that some golf cannot be played as Alfred seems to be, says the Japan This was the alarmed question in times come to a player and seem Jingle played cricket-banging Chronicle, no small number not English golfing circles when to make it impossible to miss a the ball one moment, the next over scrupulous in pretensions the American invasion" o'er lehot, is shown by the fact that twanging the lyre. assumed on the strength of palo Britannia passed." the wonderful performer was only a smattering. O40. Fukuhara-A
gallant resistance was an ordinary mortal in bis next Ryoichi, 21, living at Nakayamate undertaken. Veterans of the round, where he was beaten. dori, 6-chome, Kobe, and Nomura linke wore summoned to aid in Bat the possibility of meat- Kanji, 21, Kotoocho, 2-chome, repolling the invader. Bat the ing auch a man is always Kobe, established an agency at prevailing. trepidation was before the American who faces Nakayamate-dori, 2-cheme, pro- unmistakable; so that the result, the whole British field, and it fessing to supply work to the un-with not ene American contestant mast enter into say sober aalou THE QUEEN OF employed. On the 18th of last surviving to the last sixteen, islation of his chances. So must month, they advertise in the almost as much of a joke on the the English custom of making vernacular. Kobe Pecas to the Engliali as it is on us.
the matches at eighteen holes, THE effect that two men were wanted But the joke of jokes is now seen instead of our new plan of thirty- for Germany, as many for France, to be the whole theory upon which ix. Evans might have boston. and one for Hongkong, and that this American invasion Kas MacFarlane in thirty-six holes; intending applicants should applanned. It was all fatally in the nobody could have beaten him in ply at the English Studying limelight, and accompanied by a eighteen. But victory in a flash Society at Nakayamate-dori, blare of trumpets. These means is one of the likelihoods in the 6 chome. There were many ap were certain to defeat the end. British championship, and has to plicants, from whom the humbuga For not only the public, but the be reckoned with by anybody demanded 5 yen each as commis-players themselves," were. tre-laying out an American invasion sion. The two subsequently remendously keyed up nervously of the English links, moved to Hanakuma cho owing to by all the preliminary advertising the increased numberofapplicant and shouting. Their
Our golfers should have learn responding to their fraudulent step was dogged by reported something from this year's advertisements, and wore spend-era and osmera-men: Every experience. They ought not to ing the money, so obtained in the game they played, nearly repeat the folly of going to hunt eaual way, when they were every ahot they made, was gasped the British cup with a brass band. arrested by the Aioibashi police.at and exclaimed over and dulyMoreover, they must have discov European Charged in F.M.S. recorded. Moreover, nearly all ered that the quality of English
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the beat American players engag-golf is higher than ours. England The Ipoh Magistrate, Mr.ed themselves to cable thrilling has three or four times a many Barton, on June 12th concluded descriptions of the championship amateurs, in the first flight as we the hearing of the adjourned case matches, including their own have, It is this foot which makes against a European named I. W. sensations. Thus their tension the chances so heavily against Malcolm, who was charged with was in every way made as great any one man. "Two English ex- having no visible means of subs possible. When Travers step champions were put out at aistence, in the Polico Court, ped to the ten last Monday he felt Sandwich, along with our men, Ipoh. Detective Inspector New-in every fibre the concentrated besides several players whose wins, Queen's man, in opening the case, said that he had conamited with the gaze of the world upon him. Is it ning was thought quite possible. any wonder that he played like a It is not only that the English D.P.P, and the D.P.P. suggested duffer? Could there have been, have been longer at the game, to him to withdraw the charge in fact, a more ingenious method but their golfers have more skill of cheating against the accused devised to put our golfers off their in adapting their style of play to so it was hard to get sufficient game than to have surrounded the modern architecture of the evidence without the presence of them for all these weeks with an links. This has imposed heavy the other man wanted. He (the atmosphere of clamour and puffery, penalties on a
a. pulled" ball. D.P.P.) saggested to the Inspector and thus made them what every. It used to be the favourite that there was sufficient evidence experienced golfer knows to be shot, when malign traps were to call upon him to show cause deadly intensely self-conscious? not placed to catch it; but now why ho should not be dealt with The kingdom of golf cannot the beat English players have under the section of the Criminal thus be taken by violence, given it up Americans, how Code dealing with persons having Only contrast what happened ever, still have a weakness for it. no visible means of subsistence. this year with what took place James Braid warned Travers His Worship ordered the accused in the 1918 amateur champion against it, when he saw him play to find surely for $200 for three ship in England. Then we had si Walton Heath. But at Sand montha-Malay Mail, plea 6 player entered of whom few in wich Travers was pulling into IF you have lost your appetite quietly slipped off his ship and, and Unimos aptoillyhocola
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