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HONGKONG, MONDAY, AUGUST 6, 1917.
PUBLIC HEALTH AND CHINESE REFUGEES.
The Fourth Year.
DAY BY DAY.
U S. MERCHANT MARINE. OVERFLOW OF HWANGĦO,
ALL DELAYS ARE DANGEROUS
The Deck Officer Problem.
Report by the Shantung Governor.
August 4-A date that will| become significant in history as marking the beginning ofa mighty miragge between Might and I WAR Dryder. Bight, between benign govern-1 ance and arrogant power-bas To-morrow's Anniversary. come and gone again, and the To-morrow is the third anniver- fourth year of the great European mary of Montenegro'e-declaration War bas dawned. When the of war against Austria. civilised world witnessed the Alice Memorial Hospital. dramatic events of three years
Government Turf.
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CANTON NEWS.
TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY.
who
Although he was Denisbed for bay, or lake steamer, with a|(From our Own CorrespondentYonag men of foreign birth,
stes mer..
of
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Black Jack Pershing, who is in command of the United States troops in France, in no carpet Laight, Since he left Wass Pant engineers for the Government'e Where are the deck offers and
in 1888 he-bad seen before the General Obang Hasi chi, soting great war broke out as much of new merobant fiet to come from? Shenchang of "Shantang, has the rough-and-tumble of cam- To meet the emergency, the Un-telegraphically reported the overpaigning as any soldier in the ago, saw the Central Powers Alice Memorial and Afiliated established a recruiting service, the damage it has caused the he fought the Apachas and the The Hon. Treasurer of the ited Sale Shipping Board has foding of the Yellow River and world. As a young lieutensat baughtily pat aside the ples for Hospitala bega to acknowledge with beadquarters at the Breton people. This river which is Biaux on the border, he took time and a conference, and thrust with thanks the following dous Custom House, and Mr. Henry known as "China's Sorrow" is hard against the Spaniards upon their neighbours the only to the Fund of the Ruspittle-Howard, director of the service, giving endless trouble to the in Cabs, and in the Philippines alterbative left a few if any Oboy Hing, $190. realized what was in store for the
has just issued a statement giving people inhabiting its two banks. it was by M.C.L Meeting. peoples of combatant and even
the minimum experience required.
tamed the According to Geners Chang's Moro fanatios, and brought about We are asked to gain draw of seafaring men who wish to report the recent heavy rains have finally the pacification of the neutral countries, Possessed of attention to the fans that a mass enter any of the variona grades caneed inundation in many "die islands, it was Roosevelt who an immediate aperiority, Ger- meeting of the Europesa bran- for deck officers or engineers in tricts. The embankments were first marked his great capacity, many and her accomplices sought obes of the Ministering Chil- the new merchant marine. to averran the Continent.
damaged so quickly that the re-and the ex-President may find in We dren's Longue is to be held at The information is based on the gular officials looking after them the fact some compensation for Baw Low the lust for power could Government Bones at 5 pm, on revised roles of the Steamboat could not keep up with the repair-any disappointment he may have deprave those who were thought Wednesday. to be calta ed; we witnessed the axiates are invited.
All members and Inspection Service, recently isaned ing work. As a result, consider-fels in not being hims-If given at Washington. The rules have sble damage was done 10 the the command in Europe. General ravaging of small and helpless Why he was 'Arrested. nations-Belgiam, Montenegro,
bean considerably modified to people of Taizin Haien, Chang-Parabing was advanced to the When was charged be- make admission to the merchant shan Heien and m ny other dis-rank of Brigadier-General over sad later Serbia France fore Mr. Dyer Bill, at the Police marine service essier for real tricte. threatened with destruction; and Court this morning, with sellingvilors who hitherto may not have
the heade of soms eight hundred- cime near, hof very near, to vegetables without a licence, he hidepportsaity to 'secare licenses posible inundations in the regions youngest West Pointer who ever Stopa have been takent prevent senior, and he is said to be the seeing a triumph of military stated that he was buying, and strength over moral right. But not setting. He added that the
aer ficers.
near the Tientsin-Pakow and the reached the rank of General in there in a natural law of compen constable was trying 10 arrest the information of applicants for fiod in these regiona is able to
While intended primarily for Paking-Hankow Railways. Any time of peace. sation and retribution and the ugh some" rascals" and as he could admission to the free schools in destry the raile and interfere with| the situation was dark, this law not do so be arrested him (defend navigation and engineering which traffic on these lines.
General Perching has long been was working out it ono eads eut). A fine of $2 was imposed. the Shipping Board is establish- Britsir. France and Rassia were
an advoctate of the aniversal Oa account of the urgent need | preparing to meet this sinister
ing in the noset and Great Lakes for repairing the destroyed em- Taree men were before Mr.
amy training of American challenge, and, before the first Djer Bell, at the Magistracy this Stater, the summary of the new bankments and for giving 28sis-ins, not merely from the year of the conflict had past, had morning, charged with cattingles is of general intereas to ance to the sufferers, General point of view of military prepar stammed the tide. Though Government turf at Ysomati.
Americas sailors everywhere. Chang reported that $30,000 has dedness, but because he belired varying fortunes bave secmed to Ose man was found to have bad master of a fishing or coasting he asked the Government to
Under them, for example, the been granted for these purpores, elee could do to zaify the various it would do more than anything away mattere first tole way and two previous convicticas far a
racial elements then that, the tread of events has similar offence, and he was fined schooner of two years' standing eaction the payment of this fund. The wenta in the population. been all in one direction, and $100, or 12 months' hard labour mate on one of the cargo steamers is now qualified to be come a chief to-day we have every reason to The ther two men
bypheatsted Americans," he were fined feel assured of the only end that $25 each,
being built for the Shipping
wrote four or five years ago, or one month'a could have been
"because their military educa- Board. The modified rules also permitted. imprisonment. Steadily,
too would make them an inte bat none the less
qualify the master on 8 sound. Soon Back Again." surely, the Allies bave gained
gral part of our body politio." TAYLER At the Standard Oil Installation, Canton, on 6th the advantage in matters that life in January last, a Chinese proper knowledge of navigation,
Canton, August 3. inst, to Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Tayler, a daughter.
whatever their origin, would, by count. The entry of the United was before Mr. Dyer Bill, at the a chief mate on an ocean States, the placing of popular Police Court this morning,charged
with Owing to the delay of the association
the natire arrival of the warships that have Americans, power within the grasp of the with returning. He had been
The roles thaa let down declared their defendence, the American ideals, and without be inspired by patriots of Gresos, the ridding of banished six times, and had re- the bars to Rassis of her darkest forces, the tarned five times, being sentenced previsaely could not easily get officers, prepared in the Esat Pershing believes, should be many men who Grand Reception for the naval sach association za immigrant,. consolidating of the military for each return to one year's hard into the merchant marine ser Garden, has been posposed till given the privilege of the vote. strengths of Britain, France, labour. The case was adjourned vice, while garanteeing that the the 6.b inst. Many articles re Italy sad Rumania, and now with a view to committing the men the admitted shall be ex- the entry of China,
qaired for the meeting have been are man to the next Criminal Semians. perienced is their business.
presented by viriona organiza-Parliament
The pending retirement from events that sogar well for
Hotel Entertainment.
Tas Shipping Board will take
tions.
of Mr. William the cause, although in the case of Russis the transition from one ment of the Grand Hotel in per sea experience and give him the Fleet will be in the Admire thirty-four yeare, recalls, says the
The enterprice of the manage-in hand any applicant with pro-
The bosdquarters of the cffers tervals, has been a member for O'Brien, who, with certain in.
state to the other has been of an engaging the services of Mr. the nicestry free training in order far f.om ideal.
alty of Kwoogtung. Terence Ramadale for an enter navigation to qualify him for his
Manchester Guardian, the famous Governor Cha Hing-lan has Future Hopes.
tainment on Saturday night was new position at any ons of its telegraphed to the Magistrate of
scene in Manchester, twenty-eight la vain has a campaign of The performer gave a really
rewarded by a large attendance. schools.
Heangahan District to the effect member for Cork City was the years ago, of which the senior rathless murder at ees sought to capital show and displayed won schools in New Englandat arrived at Swatow, will return to walked out of the Courthouse at seven of these that Mr. Tang Shao-yi, who has leading figare. Mr. O'Brien had starve u and every week the derful versatility in his character Harvard and the Massachusetts his native ocontry place, prior to Carrick-on-Sair, and the con From a point of view of public bealth, the past year in Hong: advantage to its originators. dramatic recitale. Prior to the Bedford, Portland, Bockland, is ordered to make necessary pre- tione, had omitted to arrest him. effects of this more become of leer stadies. comedy sketches and Institute of Technology, Now visiting Canton The asgielzate stabulary, being without instroo- kong does not compare too favourably with the previous twelve Morally our enemies are bank. months, judging by the sanitary and medicale reports, which have rupt, and in every new artifice cf was served in a style that upheld A second chain of the schools
entertainment, a special dioner Machias, and Boothbay Harbor. parations for his reception. jast been issued. The general death rate shows an advance over war they produce, in every speech the reputation established by this embraces Greenport, L. I sat River Defence Commissioner, bich, after a very stormy pas both 1815 and 1914, being 24 per thousand, against 18.59 and 23.24 their leaders make, there is dia-
Mr. Wong Mei Shan, the assist-and
Hemede his way to the cost engaged a email bost, respectively. The birth rate remains about normal. Without going cernable the fact that they are
popular hotel,
lantio City, Cape May N. J. has made a report to the Tukwanage, landed him in Wales, whence into the various disesses in detail, it may be mentioned that those of not fighting now with confidence
Crisfield, Md Philadelphis, to the effect that the Whampoa he travelled to London. With s notifiable character show a marked advice over 1915, the tots! of victory bat with desperation to
Bilmire, and Norfolk. A third Dack of Canton is suitable for half a dozen warrants hanging being 1110, compared with 507. Happily, the incidence of plague save of the day when they will
will embrace Charleston, Jack-making a nevel yard. He is cvor his head, sa be explained, was very light there being only 39 cases, contrasted with 14 in 1915 have to sue for pecce, bumbled and 2,581 in 1914. This gain is, however, very largely cffet by and contrite. No great victory
sonville, Mobile, New Orleans, going to inspect it. and Galvenson, sad a fourth Los
Mr. O'Brien travelled to Manchest- the so all-por visitation, to fewer than 712 occurrences being record-was ever won lightly, and history
The German Gabon Calle San Portland, Ore. Sebooks will be Angeles, San Francisco, sad ed, as against 34 in 1915 and 110 in 1914. One other noteworthy will perbape be forced to the Marcelino was ficially reopened established later at points on the combined experience of two years a meeting of Mr. Jacob Bright's er, via Shefeld, on January 29, 1889, having promised to address feature of the year was the farther incresse in respiratory diseases judgment that the price paid was sterday, says the Manila Daily Great Lakes. and in tuberculosis, especially among the native population. Ia heavy-though not too heavy for Bulletin, with facetion of the malaria, too, there was a slight advance in the number of deathr, the end gained. Bumen liver, in insolar government authorities, are Institute of Technology, Cam
in these positions, on ocean or constituents in Halue Town Hall. The latest engineering schools comtwise steam vessels.
The ball was fall, and so were when compared with the two previous years
In considering this question of the Colony's health, the effects have been lost, energy and wealth official order aines the declaration can be handled in a clas; Ste-schoolebip.
alost narealieable, after having been closed by bridge, where 150 men a month ineering claws of a nautical Mr. O'Brien might be arrested
(2) A graduate from the eng
the streets. The possibility that of the islaz of Chinese refugees must be kept in mind. It is have been turned aside from of war between the United States vena Institute, Hoboken, N. J.;
before reaching the meeting kept estimated that there were no fewer than 189,000 such refugees channels of in the Colony at ops period of 1916, and we are told that this is a industrial progress, and the
communal and and Gerzaspy.
(3.) A gradusta in mechanical the people's excitement at fever Johna Hopkins factor of the greatest importance in considering the apparent rise in world weeps
Permission to reopen the club Baltimore; the Case School of cognised school of technology, ball it seemed as as though the University, engineering from adaly re- pitch, and when he entered the the Chinese death-rate of 45 per thousand. It is also the chief Brt
at ito loases, was granted by the insular ag Applied Science, Cleveland; the with three months' sea experi- audience would never have done reason for the decrease in the number of nairacce-nice e Ted, who realises the true signifi- favour of each step from thepon- Washington University, Beattle,
there 19 not 8 manthorities after recommendation in Armour Institute, for, as the sanitary report pate it, "with this heavy extra pressure cauce of this epoch who could stabulary and after the receipt of and Talane University, New full charge of s 1,000-horsepower fal scene of enthusiasm and
Chicago; euce.
cheering. He said he would on the already inadequate housing of the Colony, some temporary regres the expenditure, or who information.
(4.) A stationary engineer in never forget "this most wonder relaxation of the law with regard to cebicles wae as voids ble.
from Washington Orleans. This infox is a condition to which the Colony has been subject of the diaraption have been the homeland to close German
welcome," and no one present plant. could say that until the instigators that no steps have been takes in many times since 1911, and it is pat sa record in the latest robbed of their power to repest clubs.
Minimum qualifications, under (6.) A locomotive engineer who is likely to forget it either, for, reports that of the many thousands who seek refuge bere from dis- their crime, can westsy our hende,
new rules, for entering has had six months' experience on the testimony of one who kept The fear that the existene officers ste as follows:
the school for turbances in their own country, act a few appear to remain after the in inflicting the deserved chastise each a gathering place might jo
navigating in the engine department of ocean swatch on the clock (if the phrase
or coastwise stɛam vessels.
be permissible) the applause last- majority have returned to Chins. The increases in the deaths from ment. Thas it is that we should sibly constitute a community (1.) At least two years' ex-
(8.) A journeyman machinist ed for ever ten minutes. Tarn malaria and respiratory and tatercalons diseases are sitributed to enter this new year of war, with menace se a source of plotting is perience in the deck department i who has been engaged in the followed the arrest in the ante the presence of these people. It is quite possible, too, that the ter high hopes and renewed deter believed by local officials to be of ocean or cosstwice steam vessels, Constraction rible smallpox epidemic may have been started in this way (though mination. One fast that should groundless, particularly in few
repairing of room by the Chief Constable of (2) At least three years' ex-marine steam engines.
Manchester, and the march, the reparts are silent on this point), since of the year's cases it is re- make as confident is that at this of assurances received from bad-coean or coastwise sailing hinist's trade who has been six Prisoner, in the centre of a square corded that 38 were imported. These periodical"invations" of the moment par armies in the West ing members of the Gerhan
perience in the deck department
(7.) An apprentice to the map through crowded streets, of the Colony are not altogether a blessing, for got only is a danger to the are pounding their way through colony here that nothing d & vesela.
months on a steam veerei.
of 200 covetables, to the Manonest- public health created, bat pesce and good order are adversely affect the German lines, and the West na'ure objctionable to the inter- (3.) At least three years ex- ed thereby, as was shown by the Captain Superintendent of Police 18 stiff, as it always war, the este of the government will be ferieons in the deck department scand, or river steamere.
(8.) Engineers of lake, bay, er Town Hall, where Mr. O'Brien was lodged for the night. He in his report for the past year, Mr. Messer ascribing the increases in decisive, front. The sime is one tolerated, and this fact, coupled of sailing vessels engaged in the
(9) At least three yer Re
breakfeated with the Mayor and Mayorese next morning," and large influx of natives from China. So that, from a health, bossing before the dawn, sad who caa to the policy adopted in the and criminal point of view, Hongkong could well do without these say that before another year will United States, bas proved lagely Ferience as mate of ateam vessels
(4.) At least one year's ex-steam Temel.
quietly went off to Ireland to Only American citizens are submit to his trial. The police visitors to ita shoree.
While it is a tribute to the security offered by the British flaga peace, just and lasting, will not resched.
have run its coure the dawn of responsible for the decision just engaged in the ocean or coset-admitted to the schools. At the anticipated modern war regula
wise fisheries. that Chinese from adjacent territory flook to the Colony in their have broken upon a wirer and
end of the school service the tions on the railway journey to thousande during periods of unrest in their own land, the point more uplifted humanity?
I appears that no attempasa
(5) Two years' experience as stadent will be given ses train-Holyhead, for the windows of Mr snuggests itself that Bongkong has a duty to itself, both from
made to scare sathority for the master or chief mate of cash or ing or pay. There is no enlist O'Brien's compartment Bealth and a criminal point of view. Practically apesking, Ühiness
reopening of the club until few twice sailing vessels of 200 mest, as in the navy, bat if darkered. of all types are allowed free and uninterrupted access to, and egress
weeks ago, when a regnen was gross tona or over.
accepted for training an applicant from, the Colony, often, so far as the former point is concerned with
made for permission to reopen it (6) Two your experience sa
Sir George Henschel points ont is expected to sign on for the effects which are none too benefical. It is, indeed, somewhat of an at Newcastle the Archbishop of there, and belonging to theorgan sound, steam vessels.
At the Missionary Conference or to dispose of the stock held master or pilot of lake, bay, or merchant marine, where wages at in the Musical Times the interest anomely that Chinese come into the Colony with far greater im- Armagh said he had two sons isation. When this petiton với
present are considerably higher ing coincidence that for the first munity from medioal or police examination than do Europeans, The and 10 nephews in the service. received, the local government
(7.) A graduate from the steam than before the war.
four bara "Tipperary” and “Joha ship class of a neutical schoolship. question is a huge and complicated one, we admit, but in view of Two of the nephews had been cabled to Washington to certain
Applications for places in the Brown's Body" can be sang 14- Micimum qualifications for merchant servipe are being gether. It is not so uncommon ★ infax on public bealth and crime, it is one that calls for serious con- man in his diocese who had a son thorities on the general question the consequent tax on housing accommodation and the effect of the killed. There was not a clergy: the attitude of the fedral in entering the engineering schools received at the rate of several a phenomenon as might be imp hundred daily by the Director of posed, in view of the simiplicity sideration, the more so since the evils referred to tend to incress of military age who was not in of German clubs, the reepnes be
(L.) At least two years' experi Recruiting for the Shipp ng of harmony which characters rather than to diminĩnh,
the Army or Nary.
ing that already mentioned.
numbers
MANILA GERMANS,
Reopening of their Club Permitted.
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