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MARINE COURT INQUIRY,
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Peking. Fobrunry '12.--His Ex- sollency, Sir W. J. Oudendijk, Netherlands minister and Senior
There were a number of people
Singapore, February 12, minster of the Foreign Legation to- of more than passing interest on
The Marine Court Inquiry in con- day sent the following note to Wal-board the s... President Cleveland nection with the stranding of the when she arrived from Manila ateamer Benvannoch recently, on chinopu:
yesterday. Already, on many occasions,
Treo Iainnd, was held to-day, have the heads of the Legations Among these were Dr. Mrs. when the Master and Second felt the necessity of drawing the and Miss K, Stone, who are atop Mate were charged with negli- sorlous attention of the Chinese ping off at Hongkong on a tour gence.
Government to the interruption of round the world. Dr. Stone is The Court he'd that both were. the regular traffic on the Chinese one of the best known clergymen gulity and ordered that the costs |Government railways. 'This Intor-In the. United States and is the be borne equally by the Manter
ruption has caused very consider Pastor of the Fourth Presbyterian Second Mate,
able losses to the mercantile Church, Chiengo.
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foreign, and at the same time has, Others are Dr. J. H. Reed, a eroated very great inconvenience Physician of Cairns, Australia, to the public generally.
who with his family are taking) Deplorable as this atato
trip through China, and Japan, things wasaa all other conse-American Express Co., returning:
Mr. E. F. Small, Tresident of the quences of the recent state of into the United ternal war-the heads of the Lega Small; Mr. C. H. Benson, Oriental States with Mrs.
DUE HERE ON TUESDAY. tlous trusted that once the war Manager of the American Ex- operations wore at an end, the
The delegation from the Seattle Government would lose no time in Hama, Mrs. Benson will stop over visiting the Orient will arrive in press Co., proceeding to Yoko-Chainber of Commerce which is restoring normal conditions on the for a while in Itongkeng; Mr. L. Hongkong on Tuesday next by railways, and thus promote publie Everett, General Agent in tho the a.s. President McKinley pro- welfare and heal the wounds in Far East for Mesars. Struthers iceeding to Manila by the same filcted by the military operations.and Barry, en route for Shanghai: steamer with a stop-over of one
They feel, however, greatly con-Mrs. G. Flori, wife of the Chief day only. cerned to witness the continuance of Polico of the French Rettle-.
As part of their official business of the state of affairs, which, ifment in Shanghai, returning home they bring an invitation to Far not promptly checked, may threa-with her daughter, Frances; Mr. Eastern business men to attend ten to become permanent, and R, C. Morton, Director for the the Twelfth Annual Convention of not only throttle the economic Orient of the United States Ship-the National Foreign Trade Coun-| development of the country, but ping Board, who is proceeding cil which is to be held in Seattle inflict lanting injuries on Chinese on leave, and who during his vaca-In June. The Committee convey- foreign trade and interests, tion will go to Washington
connected with
WISH WYNNE.
These latter are not confined to business the use of railways for transporta- Board. tion of merchandise and food- stuffs and coni. Foreign interests are closely tied up with the rail- ways themselves. Not only are these railways indebted to foreign suppliers for equipment supplied and actually in use, to the amount of tens of millions of dollars, but for hundreds of millions of dol-
oning this invitation consists of the Captain J. S. Gibson. President of ithe International Stevedoring Company. Seattle, who is Chair- man, Mr. David Whitcomb, Presi- Ident of the Sentile Chamber of Commerce: Mr. Cornell, Presi dent of the Tacoma Chamber of Commerce, Professor Howard T. Lewis, Dean of the College of Business Administration at the University of Washington, Sent- Another appreciative audience tle: Mr. J. D. Farrell, Vice Presi- tars are foreign bondholders of welcomed Miss Wish Wynne and dent of the Union Paeille Railway,
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all nationalities interested in the ner company to the Star Theatre, Portland, Oregon; Judge L. C. fate of the Chinese Government Kowloon, last night. railwaya.
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Gilman, Vice President of the Chief Interest naturally centres Great Northern Railway; Mr. around Miss Wish Wynne herself. James R. Stirratt, of the Superior Daless control thereof be taken There is nothing forced or Portland Cement Co., Seattle; Mr. without delay from the hands of mechanical about her work, noth-Lincoln, Secretary of the Commis-
sion of the Port of Seattle. the military commanders, who nowing to indicate that she is The party is accompanied by! exploit them for their own ar-acting. She is what she pertrays, count, and the revenue be again and therein lies the secret of her Mr. F. R. Eldridge, Chief of the allowed to flow into proper chan-conquests.
Far East Division of the Bureau nels, it la evident that the Chinese
lof Foreign and Domestic Com- Government railways, before long.iss Wish Wynne, and Mr. Edgar met at Shanghai by Mr. Julian company is with merce, Washington, and will be
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desperate.
The foreign and diplomatic re- prosentatives cannot but express to the Chinese Government theiri grave apprehension at this de- plorable state of affairs, the far- reaching consequences of which,
SIR JOHN WORMALD.
A DISTINGUISHED VISITOR.
at this moment, can hardly be A distinguished visitor in the Jestimated, and they feel it their person of Sir John Wormald,
duty to tender moat earnest advice K.B.E., arrived In Hongkong that steps be taken forthwith to Wednesday by the 3.9. Tango re-establish normal conditions on Mars from Australia.
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Sir John is a director of Messrs. Chlan and remove the present Mather and Platt, Ltd, mechani- military control from these rail-
cal, electrical and hydraulic ways and restore the rolling stock
and to the lines to which it belongs engineer of Manchester and place the control of exploita-County of Oxford and held
London. He is a J.P. of the the tion and collection of revenues in position af High Sheriff during the bands of lawful Government administration.
1916-17. During the late war he was a member of the Finance (Signed) W. J. OUDENDJIK, Board of the Ministry of Muni-
Kweichow Forces.
tions and Chairman of the Indus! Peking, February 11-Mandatestries and General Services Com- give Yann Tau-ming command of all mitteca under the War Cabinet to Kweichow forces and allow him Committee. While here he is stay-
ing at the Hongkong Hotel. to concurrently retain command of
Bin Kweichow-Szechuan troops
A mandate abolishes the posts of NOTICE TO MARINEKS, Tupna of the Bzechuna-Yunnan, western frontior, and Tupan of the Szechuan western frontier..
Defence of Klangal and Huvek.
SUNKEN LAUNCH AT KONGMOON.
According to official reports, The following notice to mariners Tang Chiyno is sending an exped-has been issued by the Customs tion against Kiangsi and Hupeh, and nuthorities at Kongmoon under that Hsino Yaopan is hastily prodato. February 10: paring for dofence.--Daily Bulletin. Notice is hereby given that a Gov
Pekin, February 12-A man-crament launch, name unknown,, date appoints Kun Chi-ping sub-was sunk in collision to the N.E. stantive Civil Governor of Shan-of Fa Chlao Island, opposite Kura-
chuk on February 7. tung.
Bie les completely submerged Dr. Sun's Condition.
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