PROPERTY FOR WAR MOTORING IN
PURPOSES.
Vast Operations of the War
Department.
country.
the position was becoming rather
perions when it was decided in November," 1916, to create out
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1917.
HONGKONG.
NEW GUINEA EXPLORATIONS.
Aa Enterprislog Local Firm.
America to Help Sweden
succes?.
The Kowloon branch of the
for bases of operation on the plateaus in she ́mountains. Heavier machides then will be used for carrying is supplies, equipment and scientists. - The camps will be in communication with the base on the coast by scroplane and also by wirelem telegraphy, for, Dn Mjoberg says,
before he Inft
CHINA'S INTEGRITY.
American - Japanese Agreement Further Explained.
OUR DIPLOMATIC SERVICE,
"No Penalty for Incompetence.”
The American Consul General The Reform of Diplomacy” in
The
Bo-called
CORRESPONDENCE.
(The opinions expressed by oogt pondents are not mosssarily those of the “Hongkong Telagapli."}
A CHESS GRIEVANCE.
To the Editor of the "Hongkong
Twograph
This involves the time to buy, as the rate of the their cordial reception ol him, Greenongb, president of the relating to the Republic of China the Eton manner of the correct ever since they reached Queen's
and Finali. conducting of all Bego iations doll is extremely favourable.
wheater a s'e, a parchase, or
hiring takes place, while the Broidance of legal complications
cocupation requires the most technical clerks, working at high careful cassidération, as intricate preants in order to cope with questioce are continually being sicilions of every-description of raised. ently, is still outside, the com- to stile the many difficulties The Admiralty, appar-landed and other property, and
bipation.
Are
hours.
quartering of troops alone necas-that me and all the seroundings They have anderisken to see that careful study of the difficaltion the part to which her possessions the opinion of "Diplomaticus," is the honour to be ben and
The Dragon Motor Car Com- Since the war the Government pay is expecting the arrival of has become one of the greatest Bedson, Chandler and Overland occupiers of real property in the can. "These well-known ours, of
American scientific societies it is a journey of only two hours has received the full text of the the abject of a temperately This was quite a firit clase make and finish, here are to have a share with Swedish from civilisation to the heart of communications exobsaged by phrased but remorsely-pointed simple operation, as for war a quality all their own, and the in the exploration of the interior the unknown there... the powers of the Dafanos of the Dragon Motor Car Company is lying between the equator and United States lust November: Visconut Ishii, spesial Japanese "Diplomaticus," is editorially de- concerned is bring to your notice parposse the Government had fad that they are imported by the of New Gaines, that great felsad
the Secretary of State, Mr. Bobet article in the New Europe. The Dr. Hjoberg osme to the Lansing, in Washington with writer, who Resim Regulations behind them, father guarantee of their worth. Australia, and American sero- Since that time he has lectured Ambassador to the United States, soribed as "a foreign correspondent the intolerable persecution that - Sir,—I have been requested by eigne himself a relative to one of the lads They took over property and converted it to their own ass, has given a deal of thought as to the entry. Dr. Eric Moberg, York, Philadelphis, Washington, define the policies of the two has had intimate contact with at Queen's College because of
Hr. Lauritsen, the proprietor, planes are to be the medium of before scientiste in
Now under data of November 2 which who, in the course of his work, certain Chinees boys are suffering learing the delicate question of the class of car most suited to the secretary of the Natural Science Chicago, Denver, Butte, Mic-governments sa regards China arral British Embassies and their unwillingness to play in compensation to be settled after-rosis in and about Hongkong, Society of Stockholm, Sweden, nespolis, San Francisco and other These communication consist of Legations." and he afirma that the school chess team. wards. Not all of them were and, after great consideration, has obtained guarantees of the cities, and has obtained assistance letter addressed to the special car diplomser is out of touoh boya have been summoned by equipped with the machinery for has decided that these three co-operation of these organiss: to the amount of about $75,000 smbassador by the Secretary of with the real forces at work the headmaster to his office, dealing with theee probleme, and mate will sait sny of the roads tions, and to morrow he will start to be added to the fund of $25,- State embodying the substance
Thess in Boogkong and its environs, or for Stockholm the roads in the New Territory.
to report his 000 which had been soosmolated of their conversations on the sub their real public life, while it is threatened with all manner af
in other Statoe and
with both singly and together, and Stockholm. joot of the relations "of the two of the War Department Lande Dagon Motor Car Company has going away he wished through in March to complete local formal acceptance of the weare the diplomatic service are secribed as a disgrace to their school. Dr. Mjoberg said that before He will return to New York countries and of Viscount Ishii'equally aloof from popular move punishments. They have bean Branch, which had proved recently been re-opened in Nathan she New York Herald to express arrangements for his expedition try's letter as such embodiment partly to ignorance of foreiga It is compulsory for them to stop ments at home, The defects of held up to their schoolmates highly efficient organisation for Road, sad the public can now, at his gratitude to the organisations and then will go back to Sweden of their respective ideas. work of this kind, a Lande Direcvery short notice, hars their which have helped him here, to await the end of the war, letter of the Secretary of State, is, indeed, the hall-mark of the while for others boys it is purely torale, at the head of which was mor hire requirements satisfied, including the American Gee which will be the sigual for the which contains the
language="linguistio poverty after school hours and play obers, placed Sir Doward Frank, senior To void confusion orders should, graphical Society, which has sub-start. partner in the firm of Koight, as far as possible, be placed at scribed $5,000 toward the ex-
agreement is in full, as follows: social tradition, and partly to the
service"pertly to the diplomatic voluntary. Frank and Hatley. This depart the head office in Des Voeux Rosd penses of his expedition; the tion will reveal races of pigmies tary of State, to Viscount Ishii, Foreign Offies and those who are defeated Queen College, lest
It is expected that the explora Note from Mr. Lansing, Seore lack of contact
Most of there boys were mem- ment, which bas shouldered such Central,
between the bera of the Sayingpun team that heary responsibilities, deals with
Aero Clab of America, which has which can be traced back to the dated November 2, 1917 :- all lands and boildings either are advised to call and inspect the light flying machines needed for gold, coal, oil and other material to communicate herein my under-
Intending purchasere of care undertaken to provide at least the stone age, as well as sources of Excellency: have the honour broad.
entrusted with British interests year, and having been four years temporarily occupied or perman- latest Budson model, the Super-scouting; ently acquired by the War Office S, which is one of the finest Museum of Natural History and
in Baiyingpon School and not to the American | wealth.
Blanding of the agreement reached Office itself the critic is no less and having, moreover, been Upan the state of the Foreign four months in Queen's Collage, and the Ministry of Munitions, cars on the market. The foot the Explorers' Olab, which also giving to his expedition the in- touching the questions of mataal Office clerk has no grasp of Sayingpan and not worried In a letter to Dr. Mjoberg ty us in our recent conversations avere. "The junior Foreign treated with consideration in and is responsible for the manage-hould not be lost weight of that will co-operate with him; to the dorsement meat of all each properties, large the present is an advantageous press and public generally for Geographical
of the American interest to our Governments realities..... The possession of there
Society, John
sa they have been In order to silence mischievous ritual of a Christ Church address College, they naturally object to and to the many scientific societies organisation, wrote ja part :- before which he has lectured. “
reports that have from time to is a far straighter road to diplo- playing for their new school The undertaking appeare to time been circalated it is believed matic success than the surest against their old one. They are "Most of all I appreciate the us to possess an interest to the by us that a priblio sunon noement grasp of Balkan intrigue." The aware, farthermore, that heir new in cunction with Government and valuera, draughtsmen and support of the American Geo- explorer unsurpassed as respecta once more of the desires and system, it is held, tends to the headmaster signed a paper agree graphical Society," he said. "any region now unknown to intentions shared by one two
one of the foremost societies of civilisation, and it is not only Governments with regard to repression of talent among our to their not playing for accur its kind in the world and its sap from a scientific standpoint bat Oaina is advisable.
diplomatiste, for while there is College and they sannd ander- only once before has it granted so developments in the way of com- States and Japan recognise that petence. There are a number of scrap of paper." port mesne mush. I am told that also from the possible practical
The Governments of the United similarly no penalty for incom- wishes to treat the same as
no incitement to effort, there is stand why an English gatleman
•hicherise.
mach money to an exploring exmercial discoveries of minerale territorial propinquity creates men is our service to-day whom The public has little concep Occasionally
pedition, and that was to one led and other material resources. special relations between coua incompetence or undesirability is deam chess to be a plasimubjaci, laboure
If the schools of thi Colony tion of the vast amount of pro-lighted by the receipt of a letter by an American.
That your plan of resebing the tries perty and expenditure involved each to the following Botual
The Aero Club of America and interior by the use of seroplanes Government of the United States be removed from it without grave given to the boys durig school. and consequently the fully recognised, but who cannot then chess instruction would be in the work carried on by the specimen :-
its president, Mr. Alan E. Hawley, ie fessible commends itself to as recognises that Japan hus epecial scandal or injustice. Lands Directorate. The mere "Just a few lines to inform you
siso have been most kind to me, and we are impressed with the interestä in Chins particularly in
The first essential reform, in In Australis, sir, wher I had sitates hirings costing & millione is almost poisened with poisenous we have the aeroplanes which will and conditions which you may are scntiguons.
year. When land or buildings gass. I was nearly done to deth
take ne from the coast of the encounter and which you will be
The territorial sovereignty of candidates for the service are certain amount of complsion in to widen the basis on which educated, we also belies in a are occupied for the purposes of that Wednesday, also all the cats island to the interior highlands. prepared to meet.
Chica nevertheless the war, a claim for compensation are dyeing poisened, I think it is which is to start six months after experience especially fit you for of the United States has every from the time when a man first for the good of the boys thesalvas
"The records of the expedition,
"Thst your own position and animpaired and the Government adequate pay should be given plice to outdoor games and is remaine elected," and, to secure this, regards to reports, but bat ap- and extent of such olaims is thing ever could be in a heathen the war enda, ars to published in the command of the expedition is confidence in the repeated asantenters the service," The work of and not to get cheap gloryfor the in made by the owner. The variety about the dreadfullset disgrassfal astonishing, and the sum involved land sad the best thing to do the magazine of the America evidenced by the credentialsence of the Imperial Japaneses the Embassies and that of the school, but we also belive in may be anywhere between a before the time is to late would time there will be three aerial which we have received. In your graphis position gives Japan suck together by a system ander which affection for their old acho and
Geographical Society." At that which you have shown me and Government million ponude for lande, and a be to buy as out with compene exploring expeditions, those of two Australian expeditions so special interests they has three years' service abroad would also a belief in the old mots that that while goo Foreign Office should be linked encouraging boys to be an few shillings for a pig of meanderation sa soon as possible." ing disposition. The aress taken
Is it unfortunately essential to Roald Amundsen and Robert A. socasíully prosecuted you were desire to discriminate againes she be followed by one year's service an Englishman's word in his -vary 31 much es do the amounts | remove people from their homes Bartlets at the North Pole and my Natural Science Society of Stook-disregard the commercial rights the direct representative of the trade of other nations" or to elaimed-from 50,000 soren to a in cerisin areas, and in the wn in New Guides,”
as home, and vice versa. Dr. Mjoberg has led two sholm and indorsed by the Swedish heretofore granted by China in site upon a railway station plat majority of oases they are willing form for the accommodation of a to mats the best of it and to draw peditions into the northern part government. Your own scientific treatise with other powers, meat tale! When you see a bage consolation from the fact that it of Australia, under the saspises qualifications are established by The Governments of the United military lorry thundering along is "nothing to what happens in Swidish scientific bodies. He has the highest scientific scholarship bare any purpose to infrings in Labour Battalion, and of the staff
of the Swedish government and the fact that you are the holder of States and Japan deny that they with its enormous crushing wheels the air area.”
Mr, E. M. Gull, of the Uhimase it must cecar to you that it is not hand, a few, generally those written a book on the first one in Sweden, besides being a Doctor Bay way the independence or of the North China Daily News, ressons of his own for not apper. xactly doing the roadway good, loudest in their demande that and is preparing one on his quest Natural Science Society. We are They declare farthermore that week-end, en route to Weihaiwel few lines on behalf not only if of Science and secretary of the territorial integrity of China.rived in Shanghai garing the ing in the matter, so I write the and here again the directorate, in the Government must get on conjunction with the Road Board, with the wor" and in their asser- "It is a strange feeling to walk glad to know that you have the they always adhere to the prin- is answerable for the maintenance tion that "no scorifice is too where & white can never has active support of the Swedish ciple of the so-called "Open
the boys, who i don't ever cish and constraction of War Office great," look upon the taking of walked before," said Dr. Mjoberg
Minister in Washington ander Door" or equal opportunity "for}
moquaintanos with except to kno and Ministry of Macitions roads, an aos of land in their neigh-when speaking of these trige. instructions from the Orown commerce and industry in China. that the policy of Japan 18 re-
that their story is true, bat aly Inevitably the control of no bourhood (with due compensation) have experienced it twice. One is Prince of Sweden." Mr. Alan R. mach land raises the vital problem for agent military purposes as afraid to step. It seems that the Hawley, president of the Aero that they are opposed to the ion and by declaring that there boys being brought ap 1. goo Moreover they mutually declare gards China is not one of agrees- good sport, who believes i of cultivation for the purpose of an ourage on the part of that T6EF ground in stored.
Clab of America, wrote sa fol- acquisition by say government of is no intention to take advantage porte too. increasing the food supply of the vague scapegast "the Military." At a farewell dinner party log to Dr. Mjaberg:
any special rights or privileges commercially or indirectly of the
Yours, eto. country. Over 200,000 acres of This sort of man.rushes off in
which Dr. Mjoberg gave one night land are permanently owned by speechless indignation to tele last week at Heary's, a Boan-ested in your project for Ba ends or territorial integrity of by geographical position, The Hongkong, Nov. 17, 1917. tko War Department, and graphiahia member of Parliament dinavian restaurant, where he has expedition into the wilds of New Uhins or that would deny to the representatives of Japan have since the commencement of about "wanton destruction," and Presed mach of his time in New Guines, and specially as you subjecte or citizens of any country cleared the diplomatic atmos least 160,000 harries home again breathises York, one of the women sexed template the use of aeroplanes the fall enjoyment of equal phere of the suspicions which had mores have been taken over with fury to write a lengthy and the explorer if he ever had an for this purpose. Wears glad to opportunity in the commerce and been in addition, and the
so carefully spread by tenant disconnected epistle to the long. encounter with osunibata.
saanre you of our hearty co-opera-industry of China.
German propaganda, right aroused. Besides this suffering Board of Agriculture.
"Yes," he said. “It was în tion in your efforts to socomplish I shall be glad to have Your The Governments of the United bensiderable area is occupied by From this brief outline it will Australis. I had one white man this worthy scientifs work and Excellency enfin this under-dates and Japan again declare the Ministry of Manitions, be seen that here is a hive of sad twenty native and a string trust that you will be entirely standing of the agreement reached their adherents to the Open Door Boheme are being worked in ceaseles and highly specialised of horses. We were travelling 800956: al in your efforts to bring by aɛ.
Ordere iuened to-day by Mr. F. policy and re-commit themselves 0. Jenkin, D.S.P. (B.), atate — connection with the cultivation of work, and that the after-the-war fast, about thirty miles a day, about a realisation of boob a Accept, Excellency, the renew-as far as these two Governments? lands adjoining factories, which problems to be faced by the Lande Buddenly one day we heard voices splendid triamph for serial od assurance of my highest are concerned to the maintenance are both practical and interesting. Directorate are both great and human voices—and in a minute Davigation.
consideration.
of equal opportunity for the fall of Police,, Mr. J. W. Franke, The Assistant Superintendent These lands are cultivated by the complex. The lands and build. we came upon a oamp where black
We believe that you STO
(Signed) ROBERT LANSING,
enjoyment by the subjects or having returned to the Colony, employees in the Iactories,inge alone most be worth well men were fenating on haman eminently fitted for such an im- It should be noted in this lens of any country in the reaamse duty se from, the 18th
commerns and industy of China. insisat.
Baporta and Reports Sheets
hostilitisa
Bater,
On the other
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in Queensland.
Mr. E. M, Gull,
Dvor
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bond and his bond should be broken.
I have advised the boy'a ila- tive to tell his father to see me --
Chinees Affair, but he has god of the Chinese Council or
members of the Secretary or
"We have been greatly inter that would affect the independ-special relations to Chins created {........
naual ratificatione necessary in
JACKEROO.
POLICE RESERVE ORDERS.
this office.
Duty.
Attempted Buicide.
potatoes and various vegolabios over £100,000,000, and in the fosh. They fled sa soon se we/purtant task, especially as your conssction that this is in 20 Japanese commercial and in- being grown for their own can-schema wuich is being matured it appeared. They evidently had previous experience in Australia aense & treaty, of agreement of adstrial enterprisse in Chins will continue to be dealt with at teens. They are thus provided 18 hoped that, by oo-operation with had a fight with some enemies has qualified you for exploration formal sort, for, saide from the manifestly have, on socount of the with recreation of a healtby obar-local authorities, land near and had beaten them. Going work of an exceptional nature.
and at the same time, have industrial centres now occupied into the camp we found long log **Please accept our hearty co-anch cases, there is the special geographical relation of the two the satisfaction of feeling that by trape may, after the war, be bones of men. Those bones, in- ctuplishments for the saranno ossity of abmitting all each one, a vertain advantage Bots as 0.8.M. to No. 2 Company Orawn Sergeant 587 Bosario even in their spars time they are adapted for housing the working scribed, with the facts of their socomplishments for the advance- agreements to the ratification of over similar paterprises on the】 during absence on leave of 0.8 M doing something towards the classes. Dificultise have been fading, are now in the museum ment of anion and in the the Benate of the United States part of oitiseds or subjeous of any giles. defeat of the U bata.
increased of lats by the necessity of the Natural Science Society in interests of ethnology, and be by a two-thirds vote. The letters There are thousands of separate of taking over every description Stockholm."
amenred that we will be glad to are an expression of the policies States and Japan take advantage
other country. properties to be looked after for of land for serodromes.
Dr. Mjoberg comidered the ex./render yon every assistance in our of the two countries based upon of a favoursbis: opportunity to The Governments of the United The War Office and the Ministry The work of the department ploration of New Guines before power in the field of seronautica." their sepirations, plans and pre-make an szoliange of expressions | of Munitions, and there are in will not be really known until he made his trips into. Australia,
Boat interests and are binding with respect to their relations hand schedules and valuations of after the war, when the public sad it was a fact that more than
only sa an expression of polios. the whole of these, an enormous may realise that a great deal of nine hundred attempts to reach
The note of the Secretary of with China. This andersunding suicide by cuting his throat A Quinese who tried to commit task of itself.
"A property "the expenditure inonrred is for the interior of the former country means often a huge factory, or a the lesing benefit of the nation, had been made fails by the dense Shanghai for Americs to offer his Peking under date of November The statements in the poles to cook, has been taken to the Mr. W. B. Lunt, who left Wa Fa or Foreign Office as exchanged and now transmitted. Buildings, where he is employed State was presented to the Wai is formally set forth in the notes with a carving knife, at 4, Blue and thus the valuation of "one 7 moneymaet needs be sank dar the coast. Dr. Hoborg decide services for the war, has been 2nd in a letter from the American quire no explanation. They not Government Diril Hospital. widespreading hatment camp, and that, although a great deal of tropical swamps and forests along property may involve dealing ing the war, the business men the aeroplane was the only means signed to the U. S. Army Tran Minister, Dr. Paul Reinsch, the only contain a re-affirmation of with the interests of 300 different whom the Government have of socomplishing the desired sportation Department, and substance of which is the "Open Door" policy but in- owners! Such responsible duties called in to amist have saved the result. Now Gaines now conta con ustioned as Norfolk, Vir-
trodaos's principle of noninter- oan only be performed by mien country millions of pounds by the largest unexplored area in the ginia. Mr. J. B. Allan, also of possessing high degree of their judicions handling of com world territory of more than Bhanghai, recently notified on to the United States aforded territorial integrity of Chins been conveyed to the Pablis The visit of the Imperial: Mis-ference with the sovereignty and The body of aà: Chiness' bas teshmios skill, knowledge and plex probleme, having always in 120,000 square miles,
dangerously wounded in Pales- ability, and they are married out their minds the need for nationsl The method prepared by Dr. Jins, is, by later advices, reported opportunity for free sad friend which generally applied is soment. Morinary, deceased havin pystal which includes barris economy and fetare times of Moberg in first to end woouting to be proging favourably son of interests of thelial to pargelaatintorsional his death through smping ou Werugslaw, molicitors, surrefoce" somos-Daly Ohronicle,
loward repormy 4
|United States and Japan in the peise, no has been no clearly de verandah whil Udader the sit gristors to Sad suitable
Oriest by openly proclaiming, olted by Famident
Emence of drink
War Items.
follows:-
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A Fatal Jump.