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FRENCH FLAGSHIP SUBSTITUTE FOR MAINLAND ARMED
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LIKIN TAX.
JULES MICHELET TO GO OUT OF COMMISSION.
ADMIRAL LEAVING.
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As already reported, Rear- Admiral Stotz, Commanding the French Far Eastern Flect, is expected at Canton on about the 18th Instant
NANKING FORMULATES NÉEW SCHEME.
·CONSUMPTION TAX BY GRADUAL STAGES,
ROBBERY.
SECOND RAID IN SUCCESSIVE MORNING,
WORK OF SAME GANG?
With the approach of the Chinese New Year armed robberies appear to be on the increase. Following the outrage at Sham-
He will arrive in Hongkong on his START NEXT MONTH, Bhulpo yesterday morning, another
flagship, the Jules Michelet, and will probably go up to Canton.on the French gunboat Argus-and
spend a few days in Canton.
report comes from Yaumati where five men, two of whom were armed; with revolvers committed an armed
Shanghal, Jan. 4. Replacement of likin by a new From Canton, Rear-Admiral tax to be called the "special con- Stotz will return to Shanghai onsumption tax" is the basis of a robbery at No. 13, Tung On San board the Jules Micholot, but he by the Ministry of Finance for
comprehensive schems formulated Street. will not remain very long in the introduction North, ne he is due to return to
into the south- Europe in May. In fact, he will
return to France in his flagship, the Jules Michelet, which will then
go out of commission.
The Jules Michelot was launch ed at Lorient in August, 1905, and is a four-funnelled cruiser of 12,700 tons. She is being ropineed DISTINCTION} by the Waldeck-Rousseau and the
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There is a coincidence in the eastern provinces of Kiangsu, possibility that both outrages were two robberies which indicates the Chekiang, Anhwal, Klangsi and Fukion; according to reports from committed by the same gang, In Nanking. The scheme la reported that five men were concerned, and yesterday's report it was stated to have been devlaed for the com- plate abolition of likin, and will be of these two were armed with enforced by steps beginning in revolvers. February.
The victim this morning was a a number of toil stations in the ed by the Hongkong Tug and According to the Ministry's plan, Chinese private watchman employ two boats are expected to meet in Interior of the five provinces will Lighter Co., residing at No. 18, Colombo about May 15th, when first be abolished in February Tung On San Street. According Rear-Admiral Stotz will hand over when a new tax to be known as to a report made to the Police the China Command to his succos-special consumption tax, on certain Station, the man was asleep with sor who has not yet been designat-articles, will be instituted to make his wife at 9.30 this morning when ed.
up the deficit consequent to the he was suddenly awakened by. abolition of the likin toll stations, three, strangers, removing the quilt
from his bed.
The Waldeck-Rousseau is an other old pre-war cruiser, having been launched at Lorient in
Completed In June,
One of the men produced a September, 1907. She is some-
The second stop will be effected revolver while the other two were what larger, being a ship of 14,100 tons and very similar to thein April when all likin and other armed with daggers. They de- Jules Michelet
internal transit levies will be manded his keys which they found in appearance though she has Aix funnels, abolished and in place of which hanging on the wall and opened a instead of four, arranged in threes. Consumption taxes will be imposed, camphor wood box from which -Our Own Correspondrut,
The final step will be consuminated they extracted a quantity of In June when following, the commoney and Bewellery to the tolal plete abolition of likin, a system value of $263.
ARRESTED SHIP CASE SUBMISSION,'
of special consumption taxes will The victim was bound and be uniformly enforced throughoutį gagged by the robbers who afler the five provinces.
collecting the valuables left the house, Other inmates of the house had beca almilarly treated by two other men one of whom carried a revolver, the other being farmed with a dagger,
The administration of the special consumption taxes will come under OVERRULED BY THE CHIEF control of officials specially ap
pointed by the various provincial governments."
JUSTICE.
Ministry To Control Taxes,
In his report the man stated that A submission by Mr. C. G.
the haul included a South China Alabaster, K.C., that thero was no case to answer, was over-rated by The collection of special taxes Athletic Association Derby Sweep the Chief Justice (Sir Henry on sugar, cotton. goods, and the ticket, number unknown, which is Gollan) in the Supreme Court this excise tax will, according to the worth $10, morning, when the hearing of the original resolution pussed at the action against the .. Poa Tye recent likin-abolition, conférence was resumed. The plaintiffs held under the auspices of the Cheong Wo and Company, No. 131, Ministry of Finance, be directly Dea Voeux Road Central, claim managed by the Ministry. against the ahip, which is owned Where the nature of the goods. by the Tye Sing S.S. Company, Na,[to be taxed is similar and the
149 Des Voeux Road West, for the procedure of collection likewise sum of $3,077.81 being the cost of the same, and when collection of neces aries supplied.
MANILA HECKLES "PUSSYFOOT."
FUNNIER EVEN THAN "ROOKIES"
CIRCUS ROOKIES
T
HEY made the world' shake with laughter in "Rookies." They're even funnier in this comedy of The Big Top.
Dane is a gorilla trainer, Arthur a cub reporter, and when they clash as rivals for the hand of the circus
co-starring
queen, what a whirl KARL DANE
wind of fun, fuss and feathers!
Aa
AT THE
(Continued from Page 1.)
Q-How about the deaths from denaturated alcohol?
A-We had deaths from wood al-
the taxes can be done in ong cause he realizes the benefits of pre- Mr. II. G. Sheldon, instructed by lality, a revenue office will be hibition. F. H. Loschy, of Russ find Com-established to collect the various pany is for the plaintiffs, while Laxes, although at the time of the Mr. Alabaster, instructed by Mfr. inauguration of the special con- F. X. D'Almada, of D'Almada and sumption tax the provincial au- thorities may establish, according to the nature of the goods, more than one revenue office in any one locality where the products abound.
Mason, is defending...
10 Selected Products.
Mr. Alabaster submitted Dat plaintiffs had failed to prove any contract, express or implied, with the defendant. Counsel quoted un authority which stated that in all cases where necessaries were sup plied to a ship it should be shown The Ministry of Finance adopt that the master or other person | ed in full the provosal of the on whose orders the necessaries in abolition conference were supplied, had the authority, gards the kinda of articles express or implied, to bind the which special consumption vax will
imjmed. Following
DWRC 2
Counsel said that fu the present case there was no evidence that the
master was employed either by the owner or the charterers, neither Was there any evidence to show That the master was the servant of
are
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list of the selected products:-
on
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for
enhol long before prohibition came along. They still do have them in England. Chemists hope to devise some denaturing medium that won't be so harmful.
so
Q-Have Fu any specific. rea- why the 18th Amendinent. should be extended to the Philip plue Islands?
not
smart
A-Well, now I'm enough to decipher that. 1 sup making laws over here. I don't pose congress has the way about
know how that's fixed up. But there is a strong disposition in the United States to let the Filipino people handle their own problems.
Formerly in Manila.
Oils, te, paper, fin sheets, food, humber, porcelain, lees stock, excepting eattle used farming and domesticated fowls; medicines, lacquer, hides and fea- thers. inerals, rocoone, silks, Before he introduced the spenk- Argument ensued between Mr.beans, cotton.
Fr. Rev. Mr. Cattingham told the Alabaster and his Lordship on the The products under each classi-audience how Mr. Johnson got the
the owners.
point, when his Lordship remarked that subject to being influenced by any authority, it seemed to him that once one had proved the cap tuin ordered the goods and the de- fendant was the owner of the ship, there was evidence from which he could come to the conclusion that La captain was employed by the
owners.
His Lordship held that there was prima facie evidence of the em ployment of the captain by the
owners.
fieation will be decided by the provincial governments concerned and submitted to the Ministry of Finance for approval.
With respect to rates for dif- ferent goods, the "adopted schedule in us follows:-
Daily necessities 2.5 to 6 per cunt.
name "Pussyfoot." It seems that when the reformer was here 28 years ago, and was for a Lime editor of the Freedom, be ran quite campaign against the red light; district in Manila. Word of his no- tivities got back to Washington, ] and Roosevelt heard of it.
When Mr. Johnson finally got Quasi-luxuries 7.5 to 10 per cent back to the States, his work over Luxuries 12.5 to 17 per cent.
here was remembered in Washing- An estimate of the revenues will ton, and he was sent out into the be made by the various provinces wild and woolly went to clean up employing the system used by the some of the boot-legging and gun- Before outlining the case for the finance Department of Fukien. In throwing dives out In Arizona, or defence, Mr. Alabaster commented enue of imported goods, the values near there. Anyway, that's where on the case as put forward by the net down in the new tariff schedule | he got the name "Pussyfoot," from plaintiffa. He pointed out that will be the standard values,
the western bad men who used it lo plaintiffs, on their own admission, The National and the provincial describe hie methods of gathering had never dealt with the defendant governments will impose new taxes before and never knew of his ex- to make up defielts occasioned by Istence. They never looked to him the abolition of kin, but neither as an individual or a firm for pay- authority may impose new Laxea ment.
under the name of special consump Mr. Alabaster said that the Won tax other than those provided plaintiffs probably expected the in the schedule.-7'a Launge money to be handed over by the captain. The accounts were first of all made out In the name of The Chung but the words Poo Tyc were added after March 17.
Plaintiffs were asked by Tue Chung to send in a bill to the Sino-
U.S. WITHDRAWING
FROM NICARAGUA.
Portuguese Navigation · Company FIFTEEN HUNDRED MARINES
so that the principais: were dis-
closed. The plaintiffs denied that
they knew the principals us early
aa March 16 but they admitted
TO LEAVE.
Washington, Jan. 7.
Fifteen hundred U.S. Marines
evidence.
In his own speech he said he had. read in one of them that he was wasting his time in Manila.
"Well," he said, "nerhaps I am wasting my time, but it's my own time, not anybody else's.”
He told the audience that the fundamental principle of the pro- hibition' movement was the same the law that prohibits the sale of rotten meat,
FRESH MONSOON.
To-day's Observatory report,
knowing them before the ship sull-have been ordered to be withdrawn states tint the anticyclone is now
ed on her anal voyage.
The case is proceeding.
It Is stated that the ex-Kaiser
from Nicaragua, as soon as transcentral over S.W. Japan. Another portation can be arranged. These may be forming over the Upper Marines have been in Nicaragua will continue over the China Sea. Yangteze Valley, Fresh muonsoon for over two years.
The local forecast noon to- There will still be 8,5000 left-horrow is:-N.E. winds, frosh;
fair.
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