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A Chinese Publishing Enterprise. From Shanghai comes the news that a body called the Inter- national Publishers' Association
DAY BY DAY.
THE WARDS,
The Weather.
Lower level 8 a.m. Tomp 83 overcast.
At the Peak 8 s.m. Temp 75; overcast.
RATEPAYERS'
ASSOCIATIONS.
Why Not one for Hongkong?
(SPECIAL ARTICLE:Y
If there is an organization at home that does work worthy
WEST RIVER FLOODS.
Another Long List of Donations.
Nearing the $100,000 Mark..
The Tang Wa Hospital begs
and which operates in many Relief Fund., towns and municipalities. Such Already noknowledged
a body has for ita chief object the ventilation of the views
$78,954,00
"UNFEELING RUFFIAN.
BLUNT STATEMENT IN COURT.
'Some Nice. Polots of Law.'!
A claim for maintenance Was mentioned this morning before Mr. Justice Hazeland. There had been a case fixed for this afternoon which had gone over and as a consequence the list was empty for this afternoon.
Mr. Goldring asked for the case. to be taken after tilfin.
Mr. Lewis could not agree. There had been attempts at settling the case and, if it came before the court, there would be 423.07 overal nice points of law to be 200.00 disonssed,
Lid, has been formed and has THEY THAT CAN WALK AT WILL
-ARE REVEALED, its headquarters in the Northern WHERE THE WORKS OF THE LORD city. It has est blished connec-LITTLE GUESS WHAT JOY CAN BE
GOT CONSLIP tions with the lening European FROM
OUT OF THE FIELD. publishing houses and is to act as their agents and advisers on the FLOWERS TO THESE "SPIRITS IN
PRISON. A REFRESHING, INVIGORATING and PALATABLE drink preparation of books for the ARE ALL THEY CAN KNOW OF THE
China market. The Association
11 SPRING, AND SWEETEN of notice it is a body which calls to acknowledge with thanks the does not propose to publish on its THEY FRESHEN own account. Its businese will LIKE THE WAFT OF AN ANGEL'S itself the Ratepayers Association following donations to the blood be to secure proper advertisement WING-Tennyson, In the Children's and an adequate sale for works Hospital. specially prepared for Ohius here is plenty of room in China for an association of this kind and plenty of useful work for it to do apart from the mere sala of books. If it is conducted on wise
The Malls. lines it can do much in the way of alvising foreign publishers 18 to books which will best sell Siberian Mail-Due per
Felching to-morrow. amonget, and which will be most aseful to, the students in the French Mail-Dus per, as. many thousands of schools and colleges scattered up and down Chino.
One difficulty which the Inter-Canadian Mail.-Closed per 3.3. Protesilaus to-day at 1 p.m.. national Pablishers' Association will have to face is that of pira American Mail-Closes per s.. ing: There is no copyright law in China, and, with the spread of printing plants, the pirating of books published outside of China has become a serious evil. If the Association is strong enough to
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The Question of Pirating.
sung to-morrow,
8.8.
of the ratepayers in a manner Hair Drossers' Guild, col that would not be otherwise pos-
looted by Messrs. eible. For instance, complaints
Tung Hing regarding certain coalities or the Lan Shun Tong township as a whole are brought Mr. Lau Shin Hung Ix for the association hts general Messrs. Tin Tak
Lua Bing meeting, and, if those complaints Lai-are worthy of the support of the Association; they are brought on the council who represent the Association, or by the Associa before the ruling body by those
tion itself, through correspond- soce should the Association be unrepresented on the governing body.
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Wing Taeung Shing Kwong Yan Hang Kwong Shang Ng Chan Sing fosare. Tak Les
Mr.
200.00 Mr. GoldringThere would 100.00 not be any nice points of law. 100.00 My client is a poor woman who is 100.00 trying to make the man pay for 100.00 the maintenance of her child. If 75.00 your Lordship will fix an early 50.00 date we may be able to force 50.00 something out of this unfeeling 50.00 rätian.
Ming Yiok
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Ohung Woo Yuen
50.00
60,00
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Tak Hing Tai Kwong Hip Lung Co., Ltd. 50.00 For a long time the Messrs. Kwong Hop Lang 50.00
Wing Tak Tai advisability of forming such an Association has agitated the Mr. Yiu Yuk Won mide of numerous ratepayers Messrs. Tin Houng in Hongkong, and judging by M. Lo Wai Hing the
growing public interest Mr. Pang Yu Tai taken in local affairs there
Jhak Sheung Shi room for such a body. Mr. Hung Bling Kum in
if formed, Mr. Wong Lei Shang The Association,
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Yesterday the Telegraph need not be one of agitation Un Kwong Yu Tong Gezonger. Peak subscribers can have their copies delivered at suppose that it will find this a task of some difficulty in the their residences without any extra charge. On copies sent by absence of any law to support its published 34 columns of solid so much as one of suggestion, and Mr. Choy Ying Choy reading matter. To-day there suggestion is as desirable in the Messra. Kwong Tung
world of municipal government post an additional $1.80 per quarter is charged for postage.
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HONGKONG, FRIDAY, JULY 10, 1914.
Chan
is
purpose being served by such an Taun Cheong Lung
doubt will do, however, is to
Haimun Docking. impress upon the more advanced Chinese, who read literature of The Haimun will not leave for European origin, the fact that Swatow on Sunday, as she pirated books, in the very nature going into dock. of things, cannot compare either
Third Gymkhana. in quality of matter or in work.
The third gymkhana meeting, manship with booke carefully produced under the best of is to be held at the Happy Valley conditions and with every cera. to-morrow. The first race com
mences at 3.15 p.m.
Another Polar Disaster.
Revolver Possession,
Roof Garden Concert.
sre man
כו
Shun Wes Cheong Wing Yoo Cheong Ho Wai Ki
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Mr.
Mesars,
Shin Ying Tai Kong Shing Lee Sui Ying Cheong Hop Lee Taeung Lan Cheung******* Shun Tai ............OVAT Tai Lua" ............... Kwong Cheong... Ohan Lung Wing Lan Hing Tai Cheung Int Kwong Wa Cheong Kan Lun
***
The case was adjourned."
KANSU.
WHITE WOLF.
26,00 20,00 20.00
WHOLESALE ROBBERIES IN
20 00
20.00
The Mobility of the Robbers.
20.00
20.00
One сад
Teinehow, Kansu, Jane 18. Now the Wolves have left the 20.00 2000 province,
give & 20.00 survey of the damage done in a month and a half, says a 20.00 North China Daily News oor- 20.00 respondent. In all some seven- 20.00 teen cities have been looted, and 20.00 numberless market places. The 20.00 killed must run up to some 5,000 20,00 at least, the wounded, perhaps to 20.00 half of this number; of these 20 00 many will die, as only a very 20 00 small proportion have been at
In most cities some 20.00 tended to. 20.00 houses have been burned, Tainan- 20.00
baien suffered heavily in this 20.00 respect, and the worst of all was 20.00 Trochow old City, which was 20.00 completely destroyed along with some 1,000 or more women and children. They had fled to a Moslem mosque and a temple for 20.00 refuge, and their own people sat these places on fire rather than 20.00
let their women fall into the hands of the thieves. This is the 20.00 capping tragedy in this province
20.00 20.00 20.00
20.00 20.00
2000 and was the last city attacked. 20.00 Five Catholic Mission houser were robbed, ons Fuhintang 20:00 burnt and one looted. 20 00
20.00
Mesare. Mee Chau Fok Long Shi Mesare. Shin King.
Kwong Tak organisation as a Ratepayers"
Hang Mow Association in Hongkong, Mr Iu Lok Shan long as it is run by those who Mensrs. Yan Woo have no personal axes to grind Fang Shi and who have at heart the benefit Mr. Leung Yiu Kai of the community as a whole. Mesere, Kung Sing Woo
Than Kim, Hop From a telegram received you-
The master of the Kwang San-Naturally there terday it seems almost a certainty that another grim Polar disaster wo firm was fined $100 for being matters upon which the small possession of a revolver without ratepayer can throw light but 77 object of this paper is to publish correct information, to serve the truth has occurred. This time it is the intermit, at the Police which the big ratepayer is apt to overlook and which, at the same and print the son without fear or favour.
Stefansson Arctic Expedition
time, would be of as much which haerently suffered the Court this morning.
International Pole. loss of some of its members. This
The Times' descriptive account benefit to the big ratepayer as
21 if efficiently Expedition, it will be remember of the first of the International the small one ed, was organised under the Polo matches between England remedied.
After all, whatis needed is advice auspices of the Canadian Govern and Americs will be found on
for the common good and whether ment. It included a staff of fourteen soientists, and carried Pages 1 and 5 to-day.
that come from the fifty dollar a aupplies for three or four years. The roof garden band concert, month rent payer or the two The principal vessel there were which should have been held at hundred dollar a month rent three altogether was the Kerink, the Hongkong Hotel last night, payer does not matter in the an old whaler, and she saile has been postponed until to slightest. Again, things thorough from E-quimaaltin June last year, morrow. If the weather is still ly thrashed out among the rats. bat towards the end of August it be the concert will be held on payare themselves before being was reported that she had been the first focr.
brought before the Legislative Council by one man, influenced badly damaged in the ice off Cape Barrow, while the fate of the The cargo shipped from Hong- perhe pe by the case of one man, party was unknown. Later it was kong by the P. and D. ateamer are less likely to waste the time of reported that the expeditionere Himalaya included 50 bales of the Council, and are more likely were marooned on Wraurel waste silk for Manchester; 100 to give satisfaction all round,
13 of which the Lately the Press in England, Canada and the United States has Island, to which spot a revenue bales of waste and 130 bales of than any move been discussing, at some length, the likelihood of Canada's remain-cruiser was despatched about raw silk for London; 172 bales whole of the ratepayera are not ing perpetually loyal to the Empire. This discussion has, of coures, month ago. Now comes the re- of raw silk for Lyons; 300 slabs cognisant. When a man makes danger that arisen mainly out of the appointment of Prince Alexander of Teck port that it is feared eight mem- of tin and 25 bales of human hair a move single-handed there is
bere of the party, including em- for Havre; 200 bales of waste always to succeed the Dake of Connaught as Governor-General. There is inent Britishers who did magnifi-silk and 26 bales of human hair more than he would desire
with Sir Ernest for Marseilles.
consider it a move which will! quite a widespread, and apparently increasing, feeling in Canada cent work
Removing a Dead Body. improve matters for the person That to nominata two Royal Princes in succession to hold the Shackleton, have perished. It is
At the Police Court, this morn- bringing it forward, though the Governor-Generalship is practically to declare that henceforth the a sad ending to a great under-
taking.
ing, Inspector Gerrard prosecuted contrary might very well be the Dominion shall be ruled only by a member of the Royal Family; and
Policewomen and the W.S.P.U. a Chinese for removing a dead case. A consensus of opinion on to such an idea the Canadians-or a very large proportion of them-
It will have been seen from our body without having a permit to the point might settle the qgeo- last night's issue that Lord Heary do so. It appears that while at tion as to whether a Ratepayers' feel decidedly hostile.
Cavendish-Bentinck's notice of Ma Ti an Indian Constable saw Association in Hongkong is Daily Averages for June and July, way into a city. Their numbers amendment to the Criminal Law two men with a dead body in desired generally or not. Amendment Bill, providing for their charge. Seeing the constable the enrolment of women police they ran off but a chase, resulted has found favoar with of all in one if the men being caught, people in this world the The man was remanded for throe Women's Social and Political usys
CANADA AND DEMOCRACY.
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Himalaya's Cargo:
Increase.
+
the
COWS SEIZED.
CASE IN THE SUMMARY COURT.
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Man Minger sp Kwong On Kes
On Channi
The amount of booty taken 20.00 will never be known, but most 20.00 amonat to a fabulous sum in 20.00 silver, opium, and watches. The 2000 number of horses and mules taken and destroyed must ran into 20.00
thousande, The Wolves lived well all the time and the pigs and cowa that fell to their guns were, num- 20.00
berlons. The shops were all cleared 20.00 20.00 out of si'ke, eatin, sateen and 20.00 anything worth taking, and many things not taken were destroyed in wanton mischief. Clothing wae dipped in oil and ured as torobos to illuminate fell deeds. Many women were ravished.
Tai Le....
Woo Shing
CEL 199
20:00
Po Tai Wo niyo.
20.00
Him Yick.
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Wui Ying Yuen ....
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Wing Fu Shun
Po Keeni
$81,807.07.
LANGKAT OUTPUT.
In a month and a half the Wolves travelled about 3,200 7 This works pat at the rate of nearly seventy li a day, not bad when they often had to fight their
are most difficult to estimate, but. from all sober accounts, the fight ing men were not over 1,000 The Langkat output for Jure when they left the province, but was 8,663 tons and the average the bearers of loot, wounded, sto. daily outpot was 288.76 tons were perhaps 3000 or 4000. These Mesara. Wright and Hornby were impressed as they went, and advies us that the output for taken for a few days and then let Jaly is:
off, sometimes with a gift of silver Lat July...
203 tons or onah, 2nd
264
His Lordship Suggests They should be Sold,
3rd 4th
5th
249"
219
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When Prince Alexander was appointed, Mr. Emmerson, ex- Minister of Railways, remarked in the Canadian Parliament, "I am not in favour of continuing the practice of having Canada "governed by Royalty. The idea of a superior society in a democratic country is encouraged, and this is not good for a young nation like Canada; and the same sentiment is echoed by some of the Montreal papers Union! Apparently Mrs. Dacre Mess Room Boys Demand an Apparently the malcontents do not realise that the appointment was Fox, the spokeswoman for this
It is understood that the saloon made, very largely, as a compliment to the Dominion, and that, in remarkable body, does not realise
The only damage done to the grumbling, they are looking a gift-hores in the mouth. Of course that, had women police been in-and mors-room boys in the
thieves appears to have taken it is absurd to pretend that Canada is not very largely Americanised, stalled a couple or three years ago, steamers of the China coast have
place at Teinchow and Taochow It is so of necessity. How could it be otherwise, with the United the militants might have been demanded an increase of $3 per
abova Nunguen, where the States next door to it, and with all that that implies? How too, could spanked out of existence by this month in their wagen. The Loys time. We have always maintained bave formed themselves into a
This morning in the Summary 8th
Luchun killed, perhaps, 100, and it be other than very largely democratio, seeing that the colonieing that: eufragist hooliganism must guild with the assistance of the
Fakiang where they lost some 500. has been done, in the main, by the working classes?
be met by force. Needless to say, compradores who supply provi- Uourt before Mr. Justice Haze 7th
These pests passed out of the province as the soldiers all went But, se we have pointed out before in these columns, while a however, men are not the peoplesions to the ships and threaten to land a case was mentioned in th
to Titao to prevent them going to certain amount of democratic feeling is essential to any country that to deal out this force; however leave their vessels unlose their which Mr. Hayward of Mr. Leo disgusted Englishmen may be at demands are complied with. D'Almada e Castro's office and
Lanchow, with the result that holds by representative government, too much of it is dangerous: the practices of the militants, the Negotiations are proceeding in Mr. Otto King Sing were concern- ed for the plaintiff and the
they slipped past the lot. We Claas distinctions are regrettable enough, but they are not pre men's using violence the matter. fatal, even..
now hear raports that they are things that there is no dodging; they always existed; they always towards women will always be Dried Fish In Court."
defendant respectively,
engaged with the Luchun near will exist. Is there not class distinotion in plenty in the two great repugnant to them. But why The Police Court never can be Mr. Otto Kong Sing said that
Pacchi in the next province república, France and America? We certainly do not see how should not women themselves be accused of smelling sweet, but this was a case in which come
They are having a fight according Rice-Cornering la Hunan. the appointing of a member of the Royal Family as Viceroy is deputed for the work? If, instead the entrance this morning was cowe had been seized.
to men who fled from here. We going to increase these distinctions. Had an English peer, or an of sentencing the maniacs to impregnated with the smell of Bis Lordship-Ar they aro English commoner even, been sent out as Governor he terms of imprisonment which they dried fish. It was an inanimate perishable articles I suggest that
Hunan merchants are apparent wait the result. They will have would still, by virtuo
of his office as the King's will never serve, the magistrates chief witness in a case in which they be sold.****** representative, have been marked off socially from the rest of the were to hand over each onlprit to a man was charged with being Mr. Hayward There are veryy omering rice, the price of a job, to get through with their people. No commoner could have shown himself more hard-working
astorde woman policeman who in unlawful possession of three heavy running expenses, which has risen 1,000 cash since loot if the soldiers are at all smart.
have gab'cribed generously district and they had or more genial and approachable than the Duke of Connaught would interview her in private large bags of salt fish. He was As the request of Mr. Otto the floods. Foreigners in Hankow Only two haiene escaped in this during his tenure of office, and there is every reason to believe with an elegant little cane, or the arrested on the Prays at Kennedy Kong Sling July 21 was fixed es that the same line of conduct will be followed by Prince Alexander.
through. The former paid about 20,000 in silver and oplum Then what is there to complain of? It would seem rather as though book of a nicely balanced hair- Town and was remanded to allow the date for bearing, an earlier towards the Hanan Floods Helief good high premiam for safety to the people who are opposed to the notion of a Boyal Governor are last of militandy,
brush, we should soon hear the of the Police making enquiries date being prevented by the Fund, says Routers Wnchang the Ichun and Luchup who passed
sitting of the full court of appeal, correspondent. equally opposed to the notion of having any Governor at all,
as to who is the owner.
9th
218
Total to date 2,163 Daily average 240.3 tons.