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Oring in the dunbtful move mants of the Kwangsl forces in the vicinity of Nanning, head- quarters has ordered the com mandere in Kochow and Loi- chow to dispatch forces to co-operate with the main force in order to an encircle the city. It is predicted that sovare - Rghting is unavoidable,
It is reported that the Kwangsiį forces ia Kweilin which declared independance when the Yunnan troops arrived, have | revolted after the arrival of reinforcements. Severe fighting is. going on there.
A report from Wuchow states" that the Cantonese authority has permitted the continuance off Fantan gambling in that city oa condition that only 20 houses are opened, and that the daily revenue be not more than $500. each.
VIEWS IN PEKING.
Nemazee. She was moving be
It is reported that Luk Wiog tween the parts in the gulf and re- turned to Hongkong after about alting is still in Luogchow with a three month's cruise. Her inward force of abou: 15,000 strong. cargo was a small one of genara). items, it was announced this morning. The Mattawa 'will now be returned to the Canadian Pacific, it is understood.
Through the Hongkong Gener- al Chamber of Commerce the local steamship companies en gaged in overseas passenger trade have asked the Government to sanction a modification of the present Passport regulations, which require the examination of passengers passports on vessels at the bour of both entering and leaving the port. The Govern-withheld. ment was addressed in the matter last week.
The Methven after being laid up at Yaumati for nearly months has been into drydock for cleaning preparatory to going on oa charter, it is said. In the meantime particulars of the vessel's movements are being
Both vessels bave been off the trans-Pacific cargo service of the company about six or Seven
Under Charter.
The Kwangsi Community in Peking has decided at a meeting| to demand the following condi- tions from the Cantonesesuthority in dealing with the situation in should be demanded from the Kwangsi 1. No military expenses
in Kwangsi should not be inter- province. 2. The defensive rights fered with by the Cantonese. 3.
No Cantonese forces should be allowed to remain. ip the province. 4. The ad. ministration in Kwangsi should not be interfered with."5. Both civil and military officials shoul
In asking the withdrawal of the regulations the shipping commonths, but before being tied up be elected by the people... 6. panies stated that the sighting of as in the case of the Methven, and passports by the police officers going on charter to the Persian Before the formation of the teads to delay the discharge of Gulf, as the Mattawa did, thes
Union provincial government the vessels immediately upon arrival. were engaged in the Saigon Kwangsi people should enjoy In the case of outward bound Java rice trade for several trips. autogoms, and Sun Yat-sen's steamere, particularly passenger
presidental influence and man- and mail vessels running on
date should Do be used in limited time schedules, their de
The Lloyd friestino freighter Kwangsi. 7. The drafting of the parture are frequently later than Cilicia. now at Hoogkong from provincial constitution should the adyertised hour of sailings Italian ports, has been chartered no: be interfered with by an due to examination of passports for a voyage from Java to Itals, powers. S. The properties of Lak taking up so much time. If the according to instructions received Wing-ting, Chan Ping-kwan, Tam regulations governing the check-from the owners by Messrs. Dod- Homing and others which have ing of passporte on both incoming welt & Co. The vessel, instead of been confiscated should be con- and outgoing vessels at the hour proceeding to Shanghai to dis-verted for the redemption of of arrival and sailing cannot be charge her cargo for that port Kwangsi bank notes only. repealed completely, it has been and Japan, will sail to-morrow in urged that the system be changed ballast for Tegal. Java. where in respect to examination at the she will lift a full load of sugar hour of sailing, as it is then that for Trieste. ,the most serious delay is ex
perienced.
A Common Practice. Five cargoboat mistresses were In the letter requesting the at the Marine Court this morning' abolition of the regulations, in so fined $5 each for having made far as they affect the early dis-fast their craft to the steamer charge of cargo and the sailing of Ku Chow before the vessel hat steamers on time, the shipping been examined by the police upon companies expressed their grest arrival in port yesterday. appreciation to the Government of the way in which the Police department carried out its daties and the consideration shown by its officers under dificult and trying circumstances.
More Mooring Buoys. Within another ten days, it is expected that the laying of the
Kerosene Cargo Here.. The Dutch oiltank steamer Sultan Van Koerei arrived at Hongkong yesterday from Miti bringing 2007 tons of kerosene for the Asiatic, Petroleum Company.
Buoy Missing.
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| SHENSI JOINS CANTON.
Grave Development in Central China.
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Mr. Bernard Shaw's Gospel of | Longevity.
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Among the lectures that Mr. Gen. Yi Yao-jen bas, says the. t. Wells was going to deliver Canton Times, telegraphed the in America explaining how civili- legal Government at Canton of sation was to be salvaged was one his acceptance of the appointment concerning the need of a new conferred upon him by the Gor- Bible. Its tentative title was the ernment as Commander-in-Chief Bible of Civilisation. of the province of Shengi.
the fall of bis province will meso
the
new
&
LIFE'S HANDICAP. What has been the great
"The Gospel of the Brothers Barnabas." A suitable subtitle for it would be "The Utter Failure and Fuality of Politics as Such."
thousand
to do 50.
оз
The will
has been powerful enough
to
schiere the end desired, and we And the two statesmen, Burge
and Lubin, rolled into one person- ality, still alive and flourishing under the name of Burge-Lubin.
He is the President of the British Isles
two men.
It is an amusing, onslaught in which there figure two characters, Joyce Borge and H.H. Lubin, who will be easily recognised as caricatures of two living states- men. Both are impressed by the new gospel-as an electioneering plank and when they ask how the thing is to be achieved they How soon or late the urgent are told by Force of Will. They Shensi is a province in the nor need of this world-felt want was must becogie Neo-Lamarckians, thern part of China and naturally communicated to Mr. G. Bernard The will 10 wish to attain under the influence of the illegal Shaw we do not know. Bes with the ripe old age of a Government at Peking. That this in a few weeks of Mr. Wells'sers will 2001 endoe province should throw off the demand the boon has been with the capacity yoke of the Peking Government granted. Its title is "Back to The Third Drams brings us to The Pakhoi Customs have and join the Government at Can-Methuselah." Its author is Mr. the years 2170 A.D. "The Thing additional mooring buoys ordered notified the Hongkong Harbour ton by accepting the appointment Bernard Shaw. Its publisher is Happens" is its title. a few months ago will be com- Office that a port buoy is missing and obeying its orders, is sufficient Constable. Its price is tea shill- Fated. There will then be buoys after the typhoon of July and proof that not all the provinces ings. to accommodate 57 vessels in the until it is replaced at the first in the north are loyal to the! It does not aim to be a com- harbour to say nothing of the opportunity it is advisable for Peking Government and it is plete Bible, however, bas only berths at the jetties at Hongkong mariners to note its absence. The only a matter of time that they the beginning of one. That is to and at the docks of the two large buoy is a black one with lack will finally come under the wharf companies at Kovloon. diamond-shaped cage marking | Government at Canton when the Pentateuch."
say, it is "A Metabiological Altogether six new buoys are the northern side of the fairway opportune moment arrives.
But it enshrines being put down in the centre of through the fishing stakes. off The threatening war between Creative Evolution, and in
religion which is
A stoutish middle-aged man, the barbour and at Wanchai. the village of Tikok, with a bear- the troops of Tuchun Wang Chan Preface and Fire Dramas we are
good-looking and breezily genial, The work was started two months ing to Josshouse, Tikok Point Yuan of Hupeb and the combined given a conspectus of life from dressed in a silk smock, stockings, far three buoys South 30 deg. East and to the forces of Hunan and Szechue the time of Adam and Eve to the and a gold fillet round bis brows. 2go and 50
handsomely ornamental sandals, are in position.
They are in Castomhouse Usgstaff South 83 provinces will be a test of the advent of a summer afternoon in He is like Joyce Burge, yet also mid-stream and two of them are East.
stability of the Peking Govern- the year 3920 A.D.--writes "W. class A and one class B. The
meat according to the Tuchun "in the Daily Chronicle.
like Lubin, as if Nature had made remaining three, which are of the
who in B telegram to the
a composite photograph of the B type, will be fixed at Wanchai.
Peking Government declares that The buoys are of local manu-
A KIND OF GOLDEN AGE. facture, three having been turned
The country is being run by out at the Taikoo dock and three
in Peking. Tuchon Wang also Adam shirked the burden of im- Chinese and Degresses. The by & Chinese firm, Kwong Hip The competition held at Deep informed the Peking Government mortality is that mankind bas Chief Secretary is Confucius, and Lung. Most of the gear and fit- Water Bay yesterday, resulted as that the loss of the province is a had its span of life reduced to the President's greeting to him is tings have been supplied by them follows —
small matter to him personally unworkable maximum. We none "Well, illustrious Sage too. The first buoys were slow Men's Singles, played in the but it is regrettable that the whole of us live long enough to do any Onions, how are your poor sore in coming forward, but now that morcing-Won by Mr. R. R. military machine of the northern good with our meagre number feet?" the work of making them is al-} Valentine.
militarists should end 30 in-of years. Jost
we are At the time of the Fourth most finished it will be only a Mixed Foursomes, played in the gloriously.
getting into our mental stride we Drama, 3000 AD, we are a British little over A week before afternoon.-Won by Mr. Dims- When Hupeh is lost to these Pop off, and a fresh generation Common-wealth, and England -they are 801 in position. dale and Miss omith.
two southern provinces, the in-as to start all over again is now a sacred grove, to which When the work has been carried Driving Competitions-Mes, fluence and authority of the legal learning how to direct this statesmen from all over the earth out the mooring facilities Mr. A. Mackenzie: Ladies. Miss Government at Canton will be in-sublunary sphere in the general come to consult English sages, will be of the following classes:- Edkins.
creased and extended to the whole interests of mankind. The con- who speak with the experience of A type buoys, 13; B, 19; and C, Approaching and Putting Com-central part of China. Unless sequence is that no one ever does two and a half centuries of life." 24, and one Admiralty buoy, petitions. Men, Mr. A. H. Ferge reinforcementa are sent him by learn enough to lay the basis of In the Fifth Drama we have: making a total of 57.
son; Ladies, Mrs. Bevington. the different northern warlords, a civilisation that is proof against realised a kind of golden age. It
Putting Competitions.-Men, he will be unable to maintain his the wear and tear of time.
is "As Far as Thought Ca Mr. A. B. Stewart; Ladies, Mrs. position any longer. He advises What is the remedy? We must Reach' The scene is reminis Bevington.
the warlords to cast aside what all live much longer than we do. cent of Ben Jonson maeque, Mrs. Holyoak distributed the over political difference they may We must go Back to Methus and one of the features have to render him their com- elab," and make the normal span of this future aze is that bined help at this critical moment somewhere round about a thous humanity has become oviparous. which is considered to be a life and years. That would give us a All the ills of infancy and child- and death issue of the Northern chance to get something done. hood that fish is at present her military party.
And with the prospect of such a to are no longer suffered. They life before us we should not take place in the egg, sud when tinker with life's problems, but do the birth is accomplished the our job thoroughly. There would youngling steps on to the earthly be time to fix the responsibility stage with 17 years of youth be 9 us if we didn't.
bind it.
Such, briefly indicated, are the
a new civilisa-that Mr. Bbaw traces for us from in fully expounded in the dawn of the world to the edge Shaw's Second Drams, of human imagining,
In the early part of this year when the additional six buoys were ordered there was a great rush for moorings, but now the demand is not so big. During' prizes. July the applications for accom- modation bare been more numerous than for the two previous months and the signs of
a pick-up in tonnage coming into the port are said to be encourag- log.
C.P.O.S, Freighters,
The cargo steaners Methven and Mattaws of the C.P.O.S., Ltd.,
DAY BY DAY.
À boy was on Sunday admitted
the collapse of the military rule trouble of humanity ever since
ONSLAUGHT ON POLITICS.
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to the Government Civil Hospital suffering from injuries caused by 518 JAMES CRAIG'S SUCCESSOR Mr. B. G. Sharman Crawford being knocked down by a truck in Queen's Road Central.nother has been selected s Unionist aze to-day again both in port at youg victim through a similar candidate in the Mid-Down by This secret of the scheme that steps in the evolution of mankindi
Bir is to give us Hongkong. The Mattawa arrived accident was also removed on the election, necessitated by here yesterday from the Persian same day to the institution from James Craig's resignation from tion
the Imperial Parliament. Gall where he was working
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