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CANTON NEWS.
THE THAW CASE.
SUBMARINES STILL BUSY:
Fallure of the Austrians.
"Stamp Tax Revenue.
Jury Trial Granted.": Canton, Jane 12. Tastics Hendrick in the Su- On the first of Juns the stamp preme Court ordered a jury trial tax law was enforced. The Finto determine the question of the ancial Board has announced that sanity of Harry Thaw, slayer of only 1/2 of the revenae derived Stanford White. The trial was from this tax will go to Peking set for May 17 in Part 16 of the No one hoped great things of The other half will be divided Supreme Court. the Austrians in their attempt to as follows: one tenth to the office This trial will be in connection rapel an Italian invasion, bat, of the Governor, the same to that with the writ of habeas corpus reading between the lines of the of the Finance Commissioner, and obtained from Justice Bijar some telegrame received during the three tenths to the various weekengo. The application for this past fortnight, it would seem as magistracies.
writ was based upon the contention though they had put up next to Japanese doods, that Thaw is not insane, and that The Malls.
to light at all. Last week the talk The feeling against the use of he should be freed accordingly, French Mail.Arrived per 8.5. was of a transfer of troope from Japanese goods seems to inten-whatever his condition might
Atlantique to-day.
the Galician frost to the Tyrol to sify as time goes on. Cueiti in have been at the time he shot Siberian Mail-Olosed per g.. deal with the Southern invadere, tea houses are not furnished with White. The decisionalfords Thaw Atlantique to-day at 4 pm but we hear nothing further of the marches for lighting cigarettes at his first opportunity to have bis Siberian Mail-Oloses per se, matter. Everything points to the the present time, but on eich sanity determined by a jury since
Yingehow at 3 p.m.
Anstrians being out of heart. table is a lighted coil of incense, he was sequitted of murder, on It is not usually a victorious or The China Bank in Canton reports the ground that he had been Up to the Minute-Share Märket News,
hopeful army, that sete light to a enormous deposits of money for insane when he killed White. forest in its own terri'o y. That "the restoration of a fast and the The scene in court when Jüz- the Italian progress would necesseetablishment of native intice Hendrick announced his de- arily be slow was manifest from dustries". Most of this money is cigiou, was nonsual.. Friende and Yangisze Ins. 49600. Ld.the nature of the ground; but being deposited by Chinese who spectators crowded forward to there is sufficient evidence to have returned from foreign seize the prisoner'a band. He show that, however slow it may countries.
emiled and remarked that he bave to be, it is also sure.
would prove that he was all During the past few days, the right now." Justice Headrick, in naval cfligers have been requiring his decision, said in part: their men to renew their oath of "I have come to the that the court Already, judging from last allegiance. The items in the conclusion night's wire, the Italians have cash are somewhat as follows: bas the discretion to order a been engaged long enough to Soldiers and silore must serve
habeas corpus.. I have decided to with what class of men he protect its people, respect their exercise that discretion by grant- has to deal. It is clear erough superiore, be kind to their com ing a trial by jary. that old prejudices, old griev-rader, obey their commande, give It must be borne in mind that auces, old feelings that loyalty good attention to drills, be brave, in this proceeding before me Thaw The rate of the dollar on was a local affair rather than aasame a serious face, and be is entitled to a trial of the question a national one, have been sunk.honest and reputable. If they whether or not he is now insane, demand to-day is le 9%1.
To-day our new ally is fighting do not do these things, God will irrespectiva of the queation for Italy and the friends of Italy, punish them. and not just for Sardinia or Pied-
The other day a Kowloon lady | was about to.order some house- |hold tin-wars of her compradore when she was met with a regret fal: "No oan catch since wor, Missy. German shops all makeo shut up." Aud to, becaupa Ger- man goods are no longer on sale -or supposed to be on sale-in the Colony, housekeepers must ran short of ordinary domestic necessaries! It is difficult to
Yesterday the Telegraph know at whose toor to lay the responsibility for the flooding of published 36 columns of solid the Home, Colonist and Chinees reading matter. To-day there markete with German-made will be 34 published. goods. The public naturally blame British tradesmen. "Oar shopkeepers," they Kay, "place a prohibitive price cn their water, and so, whether we likeitor not, we are bound to patro- piso German manufacturers. In turn, the stopkeepers blame conjointly the public and the Garmans; the one for disloyalty, and the other for laying them- selves out to export the cheap and the neaty. Of course mach of the blame harks back to the conomic conditions that obtain at Home. The British are far less thrifty than the Germana, and so what is poverty to the one becomes at least a decent com- petence to the other. Therefore the German can afford to work for a smaller wage than the Britisher, There are, cf course, scores of
[smol}; but it is idle to worry about what has been. It is with the fature that we are concerned. The doom of things made in Ger- many may be looked upon 08 sealed, so far as Britishers have
To-day's Anniversaries, any say in the matter. But there
To-day is the 172nd anniversary remains the question; Are British makers, workers and buyere going of the Battle of Dettingen and the to stand by as calmly as they did 100th of Quatre Bras,
Alleged Stowaway, before, when the war is oTAI,
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PEACE TERMS.
what should be British trade?
West Down in the Lusitania.
orator
THE CHINESE ARMY
General Tuan Chi-jul.-
Peking, June 3.
on a charge of being a stowaway united nation and not as a sheung is in charge of the vo keretion, to call in a jury to aid it in resolving the question of fact At the Polls Court, this morning serios of provinces or parishes and he bring w sand assist: ne presented by the pleadinge."f We see from a Home message the case was remanded for in which might or might act agree number of staden sand assist: n's.
that among gairies.
apen essentials. dated May 10,
Tate has not The line of sarvey passes through New York Evening Post. Lusitania Dled on the Voyage Home.
been kind to Austria in sending Chiu Chow and Fohow and is those lost in the
well-known
We regret to learn that Quar. was the Father Basil Maturin. The latter Mauter Sergeant Norton, RE roops from the North of Italy over three thousand ni ea in priest was of an Irish Protestant who left Hongkong some short against her. Her own finest soldi-length. The Generals of these
The sudden publication of the family and claimed his descent time ago for Home, died while era are those from the Tyrol; but two provinces are ordered to give the men who are opposed to the surveyors special protection. the vessel was passing through them have as much in their Taie, is the usual ile, low
Presidential Mandate grauting from a French Haguenot refugee
the Chinese Government
two months' sick leave to Grand of the 17th century. He was born the Red Sts. The deceased sol favour as they, when it comes can
dierhad been in the Colony nearly
of physique, expect to hold the reeptot General Tran Chi-jut, Minister in 1847 and was a graduate ofour years, and had made many endurance and knowledge of of other ustions when Trinity College, Dublin, After Eolding on Anglican curacy for friende locally. some years he joined the well- known Cowley Fathers and was sent to take charge of a parish in Philadelphia in 1876. He became
a zoted preacher, of the extreme
THE ROYAL COLONIAL INSTITUTE
to a question
of War, has caused some
deciding the terms upon which the combatants in the war will High Church school, and had a Aad the War on derman Trade, the story of how eaven thousand officials of the Canton-Kowloon/Minister agreed to remainin
very large following in the States
che mountain work. This was de-shows herself too weak, or too Houstrated plainly enough-if foolish, to cope with petty bonds anchsiness and surprise especially demonstration had been needed of highwaymen in her own in military circles in the capital because only quite recently to convince the average onlooker territories?
General Tusn's resignation was Bonds of R. R. Officials. of what he already knowe-by
As per a recent order, the twice refused and the War Many Continental, American and Home papers are cccupied in
last night's wire which gave us
office. Though General Wang Sbil tsong, member of the consent to lay down their arme. The German prees views may well
The Empire Trade and In-Austrian troops were furiously Ry, have put up bonds as secarity be left out of the question; so, for that matter, might those of many and in England, where his theo-dastry Committee of the Royal and successfully attacked by the for the discharge of their respo British and United States papers. To all intents every Britisher logical and devotional publica Colonial Institute has, during as Itslisa hillmen near Monte Nero, sibilities. Part of these ben la Generaling, no an old fol the peace terme would be. The Prime Minister laid them down for In 1897 he was received into the able service towards the co-her troubles in that part of the and another pert, consisting to lower of Yuan, he is not so popular know, within a few weeks or months of the outbreak of war, what tions were deservedly popular, past four years, done consider Austris has not heard the last of are retained in the local offices Mini,ter in 1911, is also an old fol- drie of $1190, has been for-with the Chinese Army, especially in south and central China, so that good ned all in his memorable utterance: We shall never theathe Catholic Church-indeed he was relation of the trade of the field.
warded to Peking. the sword, which we have not lightly drawn, until Belgium receives one of the first converts after various parts of the Empire.
the sudden change will have some **Suicide of a Young Woman.
effect upon in full measure all, and more than all, she bus sacrificed; patil Leo XIII's declaration against In connection with the War,
the re-organisation of A pecaliar story is being passed France is adequately secured against the menace of aggression; Anglican Orders and was presveral new services have been Germany continues to show the about the city, the main features, the army, General Wang ia a until the rights of the smaller nationalities of Europe are placed dained at Rome, B.th as prescher inauguiated, and it may be of Americans how much she regards at least, of which we have found native of Chihli and in military upou an anusgailable foundation and until the military domination and as privats individual he interest to quote some of those their protests and how sorry she t be correct. It seems that a matters he is regarded as not so of Prussia is whelly and finally destroyed." Mr. Asquith's state-achieved immense popularity which are specially aimed at be-ia for having submarined mor- young woman recently married experienced as his predecessor. ment resolves itself into a promise to the nation; it tells us what we wherever he went, and it is no ing of was to persons Ovargens,
chant craft by adding,slmost daily was living with her husband's It is believed in official cirples are battling for and, by impliestion, on what terms the Allies will exaggeration to say that many The Committee Undertakes. to her attacks on Britiek and mother on Yok Kwai Tan St., that General Toan will again cense fighting.
thousands of people in bath That the Premier had all the backing is the Empire that is Churches will mourn his lose..
(1.) To bring before the notice neutral-shipping. Her latest and that the mother-in-law was resign after the expiration of his of persons in the United King valiant deed in this direction is rather severe in her treatment of sick leave.
The Chinese authorities deny worth reckoning, when he thue aisted the position, robody doubts.
dom likely to be interested, any the shelling, without any warn her new daughter-in-law, Abɔut
The Submarines..
know." With Mr. Harvey, we from Germany and Austria. In was, when we were youngaters; for his disobedience er
BOD
She
He spoke, not only for himself and the then Government, hat for Who are the Seventy-Six ?
Mr. Wilfrid Harvey, the British product which is char-ing, of the se, Hope Mount, a ten days ago, the tro ladies had that the temporary retirement of the British race as a whole. We are going to fight, then, till Germany is prepared to indemnify Belgium-as far as money will Globe's literary critic, has fallen asteristic of o peculiar to any Newcastle ship of 2,300 tons. Ola sharper quarcel: than ever the War Minister has anything to do this. That is the main condition of peace and, next to it, comes foul of " an American gentleman, one of the British Possessions coarce all this sort of thing is before, and que tother, wou to do with the Sino-Japanese negotic- (2). To introduce the Biw excellent fun while it lasts and her room in a towering rage. tione, because during the height an assurance (and we know too well that Germany's word without who seems to find time hanging Materials of the Empire to manu- before the bill comes in. Germsay she called her sou, the husband, of the tension, General Toan in- heavy, security will be valueless) that France and cther nations will heavily on his hands" for having facturers.
with her submarines reminds one to her and demanded that he adfcrmed President Yuan that the be left in peace for all time. It will only be when Mr. Asquith's final compiled a list of no less than
(3) To find for buyera. Over-forcibly of a small boy with a minister a besting to his wife. army would fully support him in condition is fulfilled-the destruction of Prussian military seventy-six "living British writers
the Republic, General Tuan will domination that the other two, add minor ones contingent on whose names everytojy ought to stas, British manufacturers to catapult and a fairly wide range This be refused to do and accer-case be used it for the delence of
make goods formerly obtained of windows to go at. What joy it dingly the mother beat them, can be dealt with.
Irave Peking shortly for Shang- Some papers have expressed a hope that the war will not be should certainly like to scathe list. needlessly prolonged over a mere question of terms. Of that we The probability is that the Americas she Committee kua to send shot after shot through had not the right, according to hai for the recuperation of his
induced British firms to take up those little diamond-shaped win Chinese ideas, to b.at the daugh shattered health all rest assured, and the people whose hopes have taken auch can gentleman with time to spare the manufacture of goods former-dow panes. It was only afterwarde ter in-law, but she did the next may
· There is another report that form are disquieting themselves needlessly.. How is it that hee a higher opinion of British they do not see that the greater contains the less? When Prussian authorship (and of thenppreciation not made at all within the that we thought of the terrible best thing: About two o'clcok in after the termination of his sick despotism is broken there will no longer be anything to fight about. with which
stoppages of pocket-meney to pay the morning the young woman, leave, the War Minister will bs- it mests) than Empire,
(4). To bring the names of for the broken glas and often a having probably come to the oon- come the head of the proposed Special Committee of National In such a war as the Fianco German, peace certainly depends on Britiebere themselves have. both sides' coming to an understanding; but, in the present case, Among the names which "everr. Persons abroad desiring agencies good hiding thrown in. We can clusion that she was in the wrong, DafeLC:8 whose sols aim is to
before British manufacturers, see those stoppages end that can took a cup of tea to her mother- there is but the one condition: the surrender of Germany. For the body ought to know" we should (5). Generally to take an active ing coming along for Germany in in-law and offered it to her, strengthen the land and coast de- wer all along has been a punitive one; therefore it is childish to reckon half a dozen writera of
But the old lady refused if fences of the Chinese Republi talk as though peace were a mere question of arbitration; as well technical tocks, three or four poola part in any movement which bar the not far distant future.
for its object the improvement of
with accro and commanded and the reorganication of the talk about posce between a policeman and the murderer wi am he of sorta, a dozen novelists and por-commercial relations between the French Bluejacket's Good Work the young woman to stand in the Chinese Army in particular is about to catch after a long chase: We must find some other haps a dozen-all told, biograp constituent parts of the British There is nothing now from the corner of the room for thres hours N. C. Daily News. word. Germany is a criminal, a murderer-not yet captured and hers, essayists, historians and
Empire.
Dardanelles, but, further south, holding the cup before she con triod, albeit convicted beforehand by the testimony of the greater part philosophers, which brings as The Committee will be glad to on the Asia Minor ecast, s deac nded to accept the peace alive in the grave under the coffin mother-in-law should be buried of the civilised world. The question, then, is not how long dan tao only to about half the number hear from any persons who may couple of French destroyers offering. By that time the young of the dead woman, bat the me properly urgeniced Powers go on fighting before they reach such an epoken of "Everybody" is a big be interested in any of the above have scared the garrison of woman was so disgusted and an- agreement (e.g.) as the British made with the Russians at the end word. A science student could matters and to place the many Tolesme and prevailed on it to happy that she retired to her own gistrate said this could not be of the Crimean War, but how long can the ruffian go on eluding probably rattle off a score of and varied resources of the ran away. Incidentally they bank room, drank a quantity of car done since the Rapabile had been the policeman who abfolutely refuses to listen to any talk of coming scientific authora of whom only Committee at their disposal. As all the sailing ships in the harbolin neid, and died in tees then insulated he fingers was a to terms? When Germany's downfall is completed she will be himself and others like him ever the object of the Committes is to bour and destroyed the petrol half an hour.
grand, but the people of the hus band'e family were not allowed called upon to pay for her fan. Many of the papere have already heard. Similarly the confirmed stimulate in every way British stores and various public build. When the news of the tragedy to participate in any way. Even settled in their own minds as to who is to have what," but all that navel reader could produce a trade from a patriotic standpoint, ga Tchesme is close cn was brought to the wife's parents, the husband was obliged to retire, must necessarily be more or less idle speculation. The main point hundred names of which not ten there is, of course, no fab charge- hundred miles south of the Dar- they came at once to the scene is that Germany will have to pay the bulk of the bill which the Alles are known to the general public. able in connotion with this work. danelles, opposite the island of and had the mother-in-law although he was giren and herself have been running up. From time immemorial the Bat there is an easy test, Ask the Enquiries may be addressed to Chios, and is an important comtrrested? She was fined $1000 credit in view of the fact that he method of dealing with the moneyless debtor has been by distraint, first twelve or twenty Britishers the Empire Trade Committee, moraial centre with a population and forced to advance 88,000.for took a beating rather than hent Everyone knows that the bill cannot possibly be met with money in whom you meit, to write down Royal Colonial Institute Landog, of well on towards twenty thous faneral expenses. The girl's his wife. Had it not been for shit
the names of seventy-six living Communicated.
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15 Also, would have been thrown this case; bat, since the offender has property, the alternative seems,
into prison with his mother. préity obvious.
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¿parents: inäisted that the