THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY. AUGUST 16, 1914.
THE CHINESE PARADOX. sentatives of "Young China," but CHINESE TRADE IN DRUGS. no Intelligent person on the spot would thus classify them.
Puzzle for Students of History,
has since
become
Drawbacks of the Present Reform.
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SHORT RATIONS.
Cook Flaed For Stealing Volunteers' Beef.
TALLYMAN SENTEnced.
Six Months for Embezzlement.
The Financial Position.
Turning to the purely financial Those Englishmen who find aspects of the situation-admitted- leieure, amidst the crowding ly the most important-Dr. problems of home affaire, to Morrison declares that China's The stagnation of all business: endeavour to form clear ideas financial position is growing in China has been the subject of concerning the course of events in tronger every day; furthermore, auch anxious inquiry. Varions Obina, must. bave been greatly on Yuan's authority, he annouces sons have been assigned for perplexed during the past that China has no difficulty in the prevalence of outlaws, in fortnight by the harp conflict meeting her obligations of the all provinces, depreciated paper between authoritative and official Boxer indemnity, and so far from currency, lack of credit due to opinions on the subjoi. To having any idea of postponing the collapse of the native banke. appreciate the inwardness of the payments thereof, intends rather and the continuance of petty plots, situation and its apparently irre to expedite them in future. nlting in general anest and concilable anomalies, sccount Large amounts of surplus re- lack of confidence. None of should be taken of the traditional venue," he says "after the retenthee explanations quite meets workinge and traditions of the tion in the foreign banks of suma the case, saya the Times. If there mandarin system, and of the efficient to meet all obligations are bandits, the hold of the fundamental fact that the Central for six months ahead, are being Government on all provinces is Government, hard pressed for returned to the Chinese Govern-stronger to-day than it has been fande to pay the troops upon ment."
since the Empress Dowager died.j whom its very existence depends,
On close examination, all these compared with what the past two If there are plots, they are feeble is at this moment endeavouring statements merely amount to proof yeare have seen. And if oredit to raise a new loan in Europe. that the President after firmly facilities are lacking,the notorious Dr. Ernest Morrison, who made uppressing the activities of proclivity of the Chinese to trade bis great reputation as Times Young China, has been able, by ander any conditions ought to correspondent at Peking and who the aid of his own adherents and overcome even this disability.
Одсе Political foreign loape, to restore
There remains one explanation. Ar viser to Yoan Shih-kai, speaks again something of the Central which has not yet been given in on Chinese affairs with the voice Government's authority in the print. With dae allowance for of one having authority. Yet ever provinces and partly to re-establish all other factors, the fundamental the most casual bus top reader of the old Bnancial and Lecal cause may well be the suppression
Before Mr. Melbourne, at the the daily papers cannot fail to relations between them and the of opium cultivation. have been impressed of late by metropolitan administration. Ac- was the natural currency of the employed at the Volunteer Head- Opium Police Court, this morning, a cook the fact that between this eminent cepting the official figures quoted Chinese farmer, his margin of quarters, was charged by Sergeant tallyman employed by the Nippon expert's uncompromising optim- by Dr. Morrison, the official wealth out of which he paid for Major Higby with stealing 2 lbs. ism and the day's news from Government's revenues for the foreign luxuries, such as piece of beef which he should have Peking there Lag Bu lenly current year up to date, amount goeds, and now he is no longer cooked as ratios for the guard. appented a wide gulf, full of to about seven million dollars allowed to grow it. Fourteen
It was explained that eight lbs. things unexplained.
Mexican) from general taxation provinces have boan closed to of beef were sent by the contrao and thirty four millions of dollars Indian opium, which means that tor, and defendant put two lbs. On June 25, for instance, Dr.ficm the Salt Gabelle.
they are officially clear of native in a tin and passed the beef on to Morrisen announced, through This total, equivalent in sterl-callivation. Among them is a coolie, leaving only six for the the Times and other papers, ing to about,£1,000,000, still falle Szechuan, which was formerly guard. that tranquillity. Wan firmly short of the regular quota, remitthe largest cultivator of native His Worship asked if there in his¡ osse-ajon $130, but it was establishe throughout the length td by the provinces, ander the opium and the largest customer bad been any, over would arcertaine that he had been in and breadth of China, that Manobu diepersation, and inas- of the Shengbai foreign merebant. it have been looked upon as a Macao. the general situation was much as the country's foreign. In the Customs Decennisl Re- parquisite for the cook? better than it had ever been obligations have been greatly poite for 1892 to 1901 the Com Sergeant Major Bigby said if the case. at any time in his experience, increased since the revolution, it missions of Customs at Chunghe meat had been cooked properly and the outlook more promising in evidently insufficient to enable king, who had made a special there would not have been any Almost at the very moment that the Central Government to pay study of this question, calculated these views were being expressed, its way. The remittances from that Szechuan annually produced Defendant said he did not steal the rich city of Kalgan (one of the provinces are in themselves 150,000piculata pical equals about the beef; he was sending it back the few that escaped backing a highly satisfactory sign of the 1331be.) of opium. "Of this," he to the contractor. daring the revolution) was re-establishment of effective au-said, some 55 per cent, pases The coolie found in possession being ruthlessly looted by the thority emanating from Peking; the border under likin for con- of the beef said he thought he Firet Division of Yuan's regular and as that authority increases sumption in other provinces, was carrying an empty tin. army, thus emphasising once the contributions to the national about 12 per cent. goes through Defendant was fined $10, or, again the elemental truth that exchequer may be expected to the Custom House, while 33 per in default, fourteen days' im China'a chronio unrest is not grow.
cent, is consumed locally.” prisonment. political, but economic, in its
Let it be borne in mind that origins,
The two "Young Chinas."
any
At the same time, it would be unwise to overlook the considera tion that these recent provincial remittances may have been influenced to some extent by a Again, in the course of the same interviews, Dr. Morrison warmly desire to assist Yuan Shib-k'ai in repudiated the idea that Yuan the negotiation of new foreige Shib k'ai's policy is in
loans, part of which would sense that of
anturally filter through to the a reactionary aulacracy, or that he hes out provinces for the redemption of himself off from the Young China their depreciated paper money. party. According to the Political necessity for keeping up the abroad is Adviser, whose utterances must country's credit be regarded a more
certainly recognised more clearly official, "The 70 members of by the merchants and officials the Council of State which stands the South than by the Minister
Finance at Peking.
or less
behind the President represent every shade of opinion in China
the beat and most progressive politicians of the Mancha regime
Big Tras Deficit,
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pium is the essiest possible crop disorganized the whole economic where and almost at any time, it will it take that machinery to to cultivate. It will grow any machinery of China. How long
Thus it admirably fills in the time needs no manuring or attention. recover itself? between spring and autumn
Cheung ting-hai, formerly a Yusen Kaisha, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment, by Mr. Melbourne, at the Police Court, this morning, on pleading guilty to embezzlement, on divers counts, of about $1,000,
Bri was arrested by a Chinese detec tive at Kowloon when about to leave for Canten. He then had
Bergeant Pincott had charge of
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The pearling community of Broome, N. W. Australia, war sited with a sad loss during the known, and much respro ed week ending July 18. Two well- moater pearlors-Messrs. T. Un and J. Churka-bad their pearling The Demand for Drugs, harvests. When the poppy is in morphis smuggling has been o
The alarming extent to which nggere working in deep water, many miles from the const. of ower the women go round and the increase in China since the he small flent working in that gathering in bowls the juice in illustrated by a case which has so. On the night of Warner- Ecro the capsules, next day suppression of opium cultivation locality, their boats were furthest bas exuded in the occupied the MixedCourt at Shangday, the 8th alt. they had been previous 24 hours. That is the hai. It may be mentioned that the in visis a friend on another crude opium which can, or could, importation of morphia into China lagger, and were returning to be taken to established shops was illegal even before the opiam their boats in company, in a very in the nearest village and ex- campaign began, but the pro small, fa-bottomed dinghy. Since changed against so much silver, bibition has lately been reinforced the moment of starting from the There was just a risk that rain by a strong Presidential mandate, lugger, nothing has been seen of might fall while the capsules and the officers of the Maritime them, and it is almost beyond hope were exuding and rain the juice, Castoms have been ordered to that they can be safe anywhere but the process was so quick that keep a special look-out for Their absence WNA are working in the fullest harmony But, Eo this as it may, the this dunger wa- slight.
of un:il imorphis, cocaine, heroin, and the thought
The THE with the pick of the Young China really dangerous position of
Effects of Suppressioni.
like. The ease with which these next day when diving re-com. party." Only a week later we China's finances is shown by the find the correspondent of the facts and figures of the Trade
On the question of the much. en batances can be smuggled, se meuced. It was thought, on Mr discussed aarse of opium I will compared with opium, which Ure's bo t, that he was on Mr. Times at Paking de cribing Report for 1913, recently publish not touch, because it is one on has a strong smell, and the profite Clarke's logger, and on the latter this Council as "aolely a Pre-ed by the Inspector-General of which no.
amount of facts and obtainable make the basinese it was naturally supposed to be sidential organ-its 70 members Customs. It shows a continually figures will make the faintest highly attractive.
vice-veran, As, during the day, all'asvouring of the past, a regular increasing trade balance against impression on the enthusiastic Ia giving bis evidence at the however, neither of these gentle mobilisation of the Old Brigade. China, involving a deficit of reformer. I merely mention in trial Wolfe, the tide surveyor, men put in an appearance, There is no Young Chinese about £20,000,000 per annum, passing that the use of causing said that during the past two inquirios were made from logger among them.
with no unseen sources of revenue and morphia in China is rapidly months the Customs officials at to Jugger, with the result that in any way capable of meeting The wide discrepancy between
Shanghai alone hal seized and their absenre was discoverad. A drain. thio
increasing. The Ohinese these statements arises, of course, Government now hopes to relieva
The formere have been told to confiscated about 200 lbs, of systematic search was promptly from the uso of the expression the situation by obtaining the grow cotton and wheat. But morphis, sometimes concealed in instituted by all the boats in the
Young: Chino' different: eenEDS.
very consent of the Powers to a con- cotton will only grow under cargo, sometimes in passengers vicinity for nearly a week, with siderable increase of the Customs certain conditions, and wheat fluggage. The chief offenders no result, and their luggers wer petent observers on the spot tariff, as provided for in the so heavy that its price doubles at were stewards servante, and crews sailed into Brame on the 14th including the majority of the Diplomatic Body, consider that Mackay Treaty of 1901. Bat any 10 miles from the place of proring of ships; and smugglers received ult, bearing the maraful news relief thus effected can only be tion. Both are comparatively in the drug, which witness It can only be suppnard
from $5 to $20a lb. for bringing of their loss. the President is fully justified in
temporary at best, unless exports difficult and costly to cultivate. exolading Young Chica-mean- can be simultaneously stimulated, Indirectly, there is little doubt, described ne fetching a higher that the dinghy capsized dur- ing thereby the turbulent poli and this is evidently impossible the suppression of the trade in price than opium or gold. Most ing the journey and that man drowned; but the strange thing so long as brigandage and native opium is responsible for of this morphin, said witness, Mesera. Ure and Clarke were ing from hiscounsels and offices. "Equeeze But to blazon this truth abroad the interior. The elimination of slots the country, paper notes that, whatever the evile of opium yet been found. At the time of
romain ohranic in much of the paper money which came from Japan.
It is hardly necessary to add is that no trace of the dinghy has might be impolitic, sinos it might White Wolves and predatory being invented to supply n alienate the sympathies of many mandarins would do more for the currency when opium failed. That smoking, those of using morphia writing, however, little hope is well-meaning idealista in partibus Chinese people than a 12 per it is also responsible for the and guanine are vastly greater entert ined that they have made infidelium, and antagonise that
enormous numbers of "out-of. Apart from morphia, there is on land, as the search for them "has important element in
cent, import duty. public
worke potential and actual question that opiam smuggling been systematic and prolonged opinion which has persistently Thus we come, once again, to bandits-cannot be questioned, is practised on a large scale without the slightest success. Identified Young Obica with the old, well-worn opaolusion, Opium, which they could grow Recent revelations have shown Considering the risks which these Christianity. Therefore it is that the firel need of the Chinese so easily, made just the difference that the emuggling of Peraian pearlera tako iu their amali only nateral that Dr. Murrison, is good administration and the to them between starvation and opium along the Siberien railway luggere, many miles at es, such Mr. Chen Chin-tao (Special strengthening of the executive. aqbsistence:
has become a regular trade, and occurrences are fortunately very Finsanial Commissioner) and Dr. Morrison tells us so, and it is It seems an extraordinary thing in the proviatus of Shenei and rare, and it is the more sad that others interested in maintaining true. That Yuan has strengthen that men should riek being fined Kueichow-to mention but two such a fatality should have China's credit abroad should be ed his executive is undeniable, and tortured and shot for the on which trustworthy evidence is occurred outside of the actual led to describe the English-speak. It remains to be seen whether sake of growing opium, But this available the same profitable, if duties imposed by the industry. ing members of Tuan's present with the materiale at his disposal fact of the bare margin between risky business attracts large Broome, Jly 18-All hopes Cabinetstaanch classical he can evolve in time a good want and self-support explains numbers of daring spirita It is of Meera. Clarke and Ure being
andarins dund as Liang Tau- administration, JO. P. Bland much. In a word, the suppression will not do without come narcotin, they are given up as lost,
an axiom that an Oriental nation alive are now abandoned and San Pao-ohi, un répte- lîn the Observer.
of native opium cultivation has
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