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HONGKONG, MONDAY, JULY 8, 1918.
AMERICA'S WONDERFUL EFFORT.
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, JULY 8, 1918.
The Canton Situation.
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To-morrow's Anniversary." To-morrow is the 18th anni. Versary of the passing of the Australian Commonwealth Act,
The Dollar...
The opening rate of the dollar on demand to-day was 34. 31d.
Communication Restored.
route.
Anniversary of the War. Auguet 4ib, the fourth suni vereary of the entrance of the British Empire into the Great
FAMILY LITIGATION.
More Interesting Points on.
Chinese Custom.
The case which has been before Sir William Bean Davier, K. O,
SOUTH CHINA.
Reorganisation of Military
Government.
The Canton Intelligence Bureau issues the following :-
The reorganisation of the
TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY,
It will be interesting to see the amendment of the naturalisation laws promised by the Home Secretary. The late Sir Hubert Herkomer used to say: "In Eng and I am an Englishman; in Germany I am ■ German."
in the Supreme Court, for some Military Government at Canton Naturalised here, he went back deye, in which an appeal is made in accordance with a resolution of
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It will have been seen from our isena of Saturday that the Canton fame still proceeds merrily, the reorganisation of the so-called Usion Militäry Government haring reached the stage which the appointments of Mini- atera is being considered. Thus | the movement now takas definite form and plainly becomes an effort to set up a definits Govern. ment which is to ignore the
for the decision of the Cours the National Assembly in Extra-Germany, in middle life, and Central Authority and to sesame to itself all legislative rights. Co. soroances that asble com- deceased intestata
The G-est Northern Telegraph whether the eldest son of aordinary Session is progressing there, as a German, married his The maleontents have
is smoothly. Five of the eaven
decesard wife's sister, which our raised the banner of revolt munication with Amev is restored. entitled to a double share of the Administrative Directors elected lawe then forbade. Beturning
"A War Article:
property, was resumed this more- have accepted their election certi- to England, he found that he in Peking itself, but have con
Mr. AH. Harris, Commissionering. gregated in the South and entered of Chinese Maritime Customs,
fieste, they being D. Wa Ting- had not forfeited his British citi Interesting evidence was given lang, sometime Acting Premiership. Still a Germso, as he upon a campaign against the re contributes en interesting article by the. Hon. Mr. Lau Cho-pak, of the Republic of China; eaid, he took out another certi- cognized Government of the country. That is a point which The European War and its who was called to speak as to the Admiral Lin Tso yin, Command: ficate, and was Engliebed street.
of Effect on China" to the current custom prevailing in · Obiness | er in-chisf the Southerners are for ever passeaue of the Yellow Dragon,
villages and also as regards the Navy now in Canton; General La Dr. A. C. Handlaro, editor of ing glibly over, and it is, morr
The Colony's Health. facetious of the eldere and the Ying-ting, formerly Inspector the Church Quarterly Review, who over, one which demonstrates the
For the twenty-four houta ended likely decisions to be made by them General of Lisag Kwang; General succeeds Canon Socis Holland in rebellicas character of the move July 6, two fatal cases of apotted when sitting on a esse similar to Tang Ohi-yeo, Military Governor the Begins Professorship of ment. Themselves scouring the fever were notified. Out of three the one now before the Court of Yunoso; and Teen-Chan-Divinity at Oxford, is what Bishop the Northern Government of try-cases of babraic plagas two Mr. Lea said that the Tai Sing began, formerly, Viceroy of Liang Wilberforce used to style a ing to "wreck the country," they prayed fatal and there were also Lak Lai is an Imperial law, but Kwang. The other two Directors aquaraon," which means a com- are doing more to perpetuste two fatal cases of enteric fever. the existing unrest than any other
the variona villages regulate their expected are Dr. Sun Yat-sen, bination of squire and parson. Telegraphic Delay. different custome. By the law of First Provisional President of Es inherited Whorlton Hall, body of men. The way to attain The Eastern Extension Tele- Tai Sing, the property is divided Chins, and Tang Shao-yi, a former Darham, where he has resided concord is not to set force
graph Co. announce that home-into equal shares, but customs Premier of the Republic. sgainst force, but to seek con- ward telegrame are
sinos his retirement from the beavily varied, according to different stational means for adjusting delayed owing to the extra traffic villages.
Members of Parliament are principalabip of King's College arriving daily at Canton to sitend | London. A former Fellow of Al- which the differences. The Southern on the Eastern route, caused by The Chief Justice-I may their resalar ansion of the Nat-Souls, be was a member of the with agitators, however, prefer the the interruption of the Pacific take it that the value of the Tsiional Assembly. As soon as there commot-room there during Mr.
for former cedres and claim for them- selves all the virtues while at the
Sing has no practical application is a legal quorum, discussion on Gladstone's Isst memorable visit same time proclaiming their re
at sil ?-Inn *ease, no. The permanent Constitution will to Oxford. law would bold good so far se a begin. It quires two-thirde bellious acta as the essence of
magistrate is concerned, legality. With each a situation
[votes of the National Assembly Chelk sa an assistants to the balore na, it becomes clear that War falle on a Sunday this year. decide that all sons should share
Supposing the village elders to adopt the Constitution. war-bread maker, would bring Mr. Tuan, who arrived in about a prosecution in London; there is small hope of a com There will be special prayer in alike, would there be any appeal? Canton July 3, bes been busy for but in Paris, where the scientifi promise being effected, and the St. John's Cathedral on that dayAccording only development which can end and other arrangements which eldest son has the right to etate a trying to bring about a settlement mixture hea many advocates, castom, the the last ten months in Shanghai brain is unprejudiced, a caleiam the present foolishness is for the will be announced later.
case for the Court, but in that between the North and the South France's war. bread is declared to recognised Government of the
The Water Supply. case the Magistrate generally He has now given to the hope of be esity, which leads to taste in land to take steps to sweert its The Water Return made up sccepts the decision of the elders, doing saything. The Northern assimilation, and, therefore, to authority to the full. The Western" Front.
the July Let, shove that the ator- The Chief Justice is militarists are not only refusing increased consumption--as well ! age in reservoirs of the City and rather sfarce in that oase. Would to do what they can to restore sa to increase of the gouty. Now to far from the Germans Hill District was 1,212 18 million it be possible to give a younger internal peacs but doing every the right thing is to use unsalted laacobing their wach-aivertised gallons against 414.28 million son a bigger share than the eldest thing possible to wreck offensive against the Allies on the gallons last year. In Kowloon ?-No in the case of an country sand bring China into a cany do. Bat you need lime, and the bread, sa the wise people of Tas- Western Front, they are being the respective figures were 282.73 eldest on be is generally net of interes:ions] complications you can get it by using prepared subjected to quite a material and 254 74 million gallons,
entitled to more than his younger through their reckless mortgages chalk mixed with water. measure of pressure at the pre
Expensive Tobacco. brothers. That is the custom of national railroads, mines, and dough becomes whiter, never sent moment. The
A Chinese trading on a steamer Cad you tell me of any czas other property. Although the soury, and has a operations of the British are running to D, where the eldest son has taken an National Assembly will repudiate ing smell," is the verdies of one
very appetiz deeply satisfactory, for in addition barged before M. J. B. Wood, equal share ?-No; in almost all Peking bas dons since who bas enten it. to capturing a number of useful this morning, with importing every care he gets a bigger share. the illegal interference of the points and effecting improvements eight pounds of Chinese tobacco A case came up before the Chinese Assembly and the office of the in their line along a front
without paying duty. The duty Chamber of Commerce and the President, the traitorous zots of of "five miles, they have should have been eighty cats, members agreed that the eldest the North will certainly invite When the United States entered the war, Germany professed had another useful heal of and his Worship faed the man con was entitled to a larger futurs troubles. to regard the development with absolute ancor cern and was some fifteen hundred prisoners, ten times the duty payable-$8, share. They agreed, however, that it should not be more than pains to show that by reason of the U-boat campaign it would be including a battalion commander and confiscated the tobacco. impossible for America to take any real or active part in the strug to say nothing of the war material and the greater part of his staff,
one-and-a-half When a returned bazieben wEO gla. At the present moment, however, somewhat revised opiniona
Supposing this matter had been must prevail in Berlin, for with every day that passes it becomes captured. This follows the recent charged before Mr. J. E. Wood, left to you-if all parties bad increasingly clearer that the Americans are in the war heart and strategic improvements effected at the Magistracy this morning. soul and that the part they are plasing is becoming mors formidable by both the French and the he stated that he thought his greed to leave it to you would sa time goes on. Indeed, it is not too much to any that the Ameri-
Americans in other sectors and time had expired. He was elders -Yes; there are generally can effort, when it reaches its fall limits, may well be the deciding shows that the Allies are not banished for five yearain October, four or five elders, all of whom factor in the war, Never a week goes by that does not bring fresh their feet. It will mesa, too, who sent him away told him that certain village for a number of Bay has been reported to the allowing the grass to grow onder 1913, and said that the detective evidence of what the United States is doing, in earnest co-operation that when the enemy thrust does every nine monthe counted as 3 years. They apply the customs Police by the master of trading with the Allies to secure the final cverthrow of that spirit of aggressive militarism which has its chief exponent in the German come we shall be better prepared year. He only came back eight prevailing, in their decisions. nation and which the Entente Powers have sworn to rid the world
days ago.
if the Northumberlands 'could Sergeant Jagbaw of, once and for all,
The Chief Justice quoted the junk, No. 1665. deposed to arresting the man as evidence of one of the witness Hongkong for Sha Tau Kok, with
The man states that he left locate the Kaiser! he was trying to pawn jacket. in the case before the Court, in "Recently some wonderfully striking statistics have been made public showing the whole hearted manner in which America is Charles Hobhouse has again light sentence of seven days' hard age and had lived in the village Lang, in Mira Bay another boat Embankment to-day," let him We are glad to note that Sir His Worship passed the very which he said he was 25 years of that when he was nearing Tai should pass his old home on the a cargo of rice and sundries and If the Duke of Buccleuch concentrating ber energies on the war and nothing but the war. brought into prominence the labour. Taking the armed forces first, it has just been announced that there quetion regarding the negotia-
of Nam Chan all his life. He are well over two million men at present cerving in the Army, this tions that recently appear to have figure being no less than nine times the number enlisted fourteen taken place between the Chinese befors Mr. J. R. Wood, at the of the property or a larger share were fired he stopped. The man Metropolitan Board of Works
A Chinese women was charged eldest son taking a double share refused, but when revolver shots between his family and
said he had never heard of the containing six men came up to breathe a blessing on Boolt. Fifty his and ordered him to stop. He years ago the old dispute. months ago. We do not know precisely how many of thees are Government and sotually on the European battlefields, but we do know that since Syndicate with reference to the assaulting a little servant girl in family.
Japanees Police Court this morning. with unless it was agreed upon by the boarded his boat and threatened ended in the courts, and the Board March Isat an army of 720,000 has been rushed to France, of which proposed acquisition by the letter her employ. The girl had several well over 276,000 sailed during Jone alone. Ooncerning America's of the Feng Huang-Shan Iron scars on the fee. It is alleged
the crew, driving all the cocupants had to pay for the pior to Montaga- Mr. Lau Chu pak-It might down into the hold, and closing House, Whitehall, destroyed for naval effort, Admiral Sima states that at present there are 250 U. S Mines. Those mines, as is well- by the prosecution that the woman be a custom of the village. The down the hatch. The boat was then the making of the Embankment. War vessels in European waters, these being manned by 3,000 known, are in the Yangtse Valley beat the girl with a rattan, whilst elders of that village should be sailed towarde Tai Lak Wong, in Where in all the documents less- officere and 40,000 men, and that this number will be trebled dur- in the "Sphere of Interest ing the coming year. Quite recently sleo the news was given which has for a considerable time girl because she would not come
the defendant esid she beat the sent for. I would rather have that Chinese territory. After some ing the land from the Crown to
statement from the elders. out that the personnel of the American Mary is being increased past been considered as parti- in from the veraniab. Mr. A. Hther evidence which had been releass theresalves and went on There was no such mention. time, hearing no noise on deak, the Dake of Bacclench, wherea The Chief Justice quoted for the imprisoned crew managed to was there mention of s pier? from 87,000 to 131,000. In the production of destroyers and cularly important to rabmarine chasers America is making great headway, and the commercial interests of Great Bri the case
the Crew appeared to defend, and given by an elder of Nam Chun deck to find that the robbers had Nevertheless, the pier had long Secretary of the Navy sasures us that these craft will be launched tsin. Lord Robert Ceoil, it will Wednesday afternoon for the village. Thisman said he wse barn left, taking with them about existed, sad "The Fortunes of
was adjourned until in greater and greater numbers, antil, in co-operation with other be recalled, endeavoured to attendance of Dr. McKenny, Jin Nam Chin village; he was $28.70 worth of cargo. Allied vessels, they will free the world of the asseeing justify, or at leset to explain, the
Nigal" was cited as evidence on of the sea. Bat there is another respect in which America negotiations that had taken place
Insufficient Evidence. | 61 years of age. There were soTSU There is, as yet, no trace of the the point, is making truly wonderful strides, and that is in shipbuilding. Be regarding the mines se not oon Bonham Strand, was charged the custom that if a man should
The foki of a shop at 67 elders in the village and it was robbers. fore the war, the American merosatile marine was, considering the ficting with the policy of the before Mr. J. B. Wood, at the die without leaving a will and
Having spent many profiliows immense seaboard of the United States, an almost megligible quant-Open Door." To all concerned, Police Court this morning, with if the family could not agree
years in attempting to persuade the world that Shakespeare was 1- ity; now it is become one of the marvels of war creation. The however, sa we pointed out at the the larceny of $845. From the about the property, they should double share, says: "I am a German, the greedy Bau is now "Glorious Fourth" was this year marked by a most astounding fest time, it would be much more story of the manager of the shop. villlage, who would than decide. Nam Chus village and I am well why Napoleon was of similar confer with the elders of the member of the gentry of the opening a campaign to explain -the launching of a hundred ships of more than 400,000 tons, satisfactory if, while recognising it appeared that the defendant Thue in one day shipping tonnage larger than America's whole that the policy of the "Open look the money to pay soms
There was no custom in his sequainted with the customs of the nationality. Herr Otto Hauser, losses in the war took the water, and it is announced that before the Door" is probably the fairest to accounts with, but he should have village entitling the eldest son to village. I say that it is the custom the anthropologist, declares that present year is ended the apprecedented total of a million tons will all, the Chinese Goverment would waited until he could have been a double share. It was the custom that the eldest have been constructed. What this will mean to American shipping consider the advisability, in such accompanied by the Ecountant, to give an equal share.
If the deceased man should be entitled desosat. He states quite absurd. of Napoleon's mother was of German after the war can be imagined, for if the rate of constraction is main-circumstances, of giving an option Soon after he bart left the shop, eldest son was a poor man, be to a double share of his father's 17 that her maiden nama lained the United States will find that the war has lifted her into a to the nation which is generally be returned and geld that th would probably be given a bigger estate". Te there any distinction Ramolini is a corruption of high place among the world's maritime nations.
recognised as having a prior claim. money had been stolen from him. share. In the absence of these drawn between an eldest son who Rammiein. He might, while he These are a few solid facts concerning America's magnificent Sach important negotiations, also, The defendant went into the circumstances, he, sa az elder, has a son and one who has not? is about it, put in a similar claim wer affort. They reflect the virility and enterprise of a nation which, should not be conducted without witness box sad told a long story would give an equal share. In the case of the former he is for Romulus and Remus, having made up its mind, is determined to marshal its whole en- first bringing the matter before of how he was met by two men, bably a little more would be ergies with the one object of ending the present inseneste strile at the Minister of the nation whose who showed him some other notes given the eldest son because he want to puzzle you, Mr. Lau Chu- the Latin ramulus, a twig, the Mr. Lau Chu-pak said that pro- always given something more. Ramolini is unquestionably of The Chief Justice-I don't Latin extraction, and is so like the earliest possible moment. And what has already been accomp "Sphere of Interest" is affected. and, eventually obtained the lished is, we may be sure, only a tithe of what will yet be performed. In the present eses neither Sir money from him by trick had more family obligations to pak. Counsel have been trying diminative of ramus, as to leave Americs is proving a wonderful tower of strength to the Allied Joha Jordan nor the Foreign Sergeant Blackman risted that discharge. The eldest son was to puzzle me within the past few DO doubt cause. Ebe is, moreover, illustrating another great German miscal Office were consulted. Con- slthough the affair took place on
concerning always entitled to a little more days, enlation. Germany, coneumed with ideas of her own strength and equently, as we have misted, wo Thursday last it was not reported district in one or two villages the case in mind in wood one share
dezivation, than any of the others. In his Mr. Las Cha-pak said he had importance, reckoner that nothing that America could do would are glad to note that the matter to the Police until yesterday eldest son would be given a war given to the aldeat have any material effect on the war, just se, in the early days of the is still receiving the attention of afternoon, and all chance of double share, but in other villages half a share to his son. It did Nearly 200,000 Man is drack straggle, she viewed Britain's military effort as altogether beneath the House of Commons until making enquiries had been lost, notice. She has been disillusioned on both paints, and to-day the representations can be made to After hearing both sides. bis the eldest son would probably be not follow that because an eldest great combine of freedom-loving nations look to the fature with the Chinese Government in order Worship did not consider that given only a larger, share, not s son had ons share in the will he serene confidence, well knowing that each and all will do their part to ensure delay in the final grant there was enough evidence to
doable one. M
he had a double shets in sny other sowarda sacaring the overthrow of Framianism and all that it stands until full ocasideration of British convict ou, and socordingly dis fendant in this case, who cisima s 1 The houzing was adjourned.
The Chief Justice:-The de- fands. interests in aantred.
charged the accused.
for.
to meet it.
British Interests in China.
Too Soon.
Alleged Child Cruelty.
you have taken the decision of the
are
men who have lived in a
MIRS BAY PIRACY.
A Junk Master's Story,
Among the men performing miracles of valour in this battle are the Northumberlands. They have traditions behind them, as Lord Kitchener reminded them. One of the boldest feats in history was achieved on their soil. When the Scottish King, William the Lion, invaded England, e ema!! force of Englishmen set out for Alnwick Castle, where he lay; aaw him tilting, with his staff, in A mazdow near the castle;
The story of a piracy in Mirs oharged, osptured him, and led
"SOD and
him prisoner to. Newesate in the very presence of bis army. Now
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Army Washington, June 26.--Gresse will soon have mes te 200,000. men/ under area, socording, t oficial advices recuived hors