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OF TONE,

SECRET: SOCIETIES.

Recently, saya a zative paper, of deinla to secure definita results in enlightening aro specially active and determ ned in and promoting the national sense of following up clues that might over the tracks of 'secret societies in Santon, and dignity and truly to lay the foundations therefore member wore compelled to seat of a new moral and intellectual structure ter for a time. They arrow reassembling kad are making Fathan their bead- in which, according to our ideals, the

quarters. As is well known, these bande Western and Eastern civilizations ars are not merely associations of secret society to be blended into permanent harmony.men, but to all intents and purposes are ganga of robbers," They have been rabbing I am as yet only partially satisfied in hers and there a good deal lately, and do my own mind with the present state of nos hositato oo use kniven if opposed by any our progress, and I fully recgnize how whom they are robbing. Admiral El Chun has now sued & proclamation against these much has yet to be done and how great robbers, and is backed up by the Visaroy. is still the need for us to quicken out exertions and to direct them in the light of comparative studies. If the condition of modern Japan is minutely analysed and obearved, we shall be bound to confess that many defects in the political, judicial, economic, social, educational,” and material domain still require to be remedied.

NEWS OF THE DAY,

The English -Mail of the 23rd July as delivered in London on the 23rd Ang

The Hunan Government. has paid as an indemnity to the Japanese for the Changsha riots the sum of Tis. 110,000.

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Sir George Newnos' will consists of 24 words, leaving £174,163 to his son, Frink, whe is to allow £3,000 yearly to his mother..

The yacht, Shamrock fitted with a now

topmast easily won the big cutter races at Corres,, avenging the two recent defeats by White Heather. King Alfonso was on

draft of

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 24, 1910.

[COFYANET]

THE LAST WORD IN

WARSHIPS

PROPOSED ADOPTION. OF

MOTORS.

Will Render Dreadnougkij

Obaoisto.

(Rauler's Service to the China Mail)

LowDor, August 94.

THE TOKYO FLOODS.

KAISER SENDS CONDOLENCES.

(Renter's Service to the China Möri.)

Laspoy, August Herr von Kiderlen Waechter (Foreign Secretary), by command of the Kaiset, Las called upon the Japanese Ambar sador to convey His Majesty's condolences upon the destruction and loss of life occasioned by the floods in Tokyo.

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The Admiralty is about to build nt Fortsmouth an experimental battleship installed with motor engines. In the TAFT AND ROOSEVELT. new model there will be so stoking, and the ship will la without fummels. Grout economies in weight and space will be effected.

The 2nd Battalion Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, Dublin, am furnishing a .67 non-commisëgoyd officers and men for

The Portsmouth Brening News, says | the 1st Battalion at Tiantain, to embark that the now style of battleship will on 10th September nesh, por U.M.Trander obsolete the Dreadnoughts of all Rohilla..

The names which these societies assume board.

suggestivo and as "flowery" as is the literary title of the Empire itself. Thoy call themselves "Lovers of Foee," the Society of Sincerity and Righteousness," The Expounders and Promoters of Right- sousness How these styles harmonize with robbery, and if needs be with killing,

Li Chun declares that all those ausgested probably no one stops to inquire. However, of being involved in any of these societies seo to be arrested, and if found to be ring. leaders are to we their heads without much formality.

"Our country has been unavoidably

Should it be found that sem compelled to engage in two great war are more or less hangery-on of the mere with foreign countries in a space of mant, to them in offered the option of little more than ten years. In addition recantation and another chance.

What all this smounts to it is difficult to

to the extraordinary stain to which say, and what the officials can affect remains these wars have subjected us, State te be seen. Certainly there is much room for severe measures in dealing with the expenditure has advanced by leaps and amorous robbers who seem at present to bounds in order to cope with the expan-infest almost all the districts of the pro- vince, and whether these scoundrels are sign and growth of State undertaking members of sect,acieties or not, they BIRTHS.

1, at both at home and abroad, and extremely should be arrested and punished. But how Ccrets-On August 15 Teitsibo, the wife of C. W.. CALL heavy financial burdens have been far such men are attached to and involved (British Legatica, Peking), of non.

in the movements on foot to stir up hatred Boys. On August 16, 110, at 15, placed upon the nation. Moreover, against the Gqkerament, and how far they Wayside Road, Shanghai, to Mr and Mrs there are many tasks before us requiring are pledged to assist the overturning there F. Bore, a daughter.

NELSOK-On August 16, 1910, at further outing, such as the completion of outsiders cannot possibly find out and probably even Chinese officials themselves Kuling, the wife of GRE LE TOMAS

of means of communication, reconstruc- are as uncertain. NELSON, of a son.

Goes On August 18, 1910, at 4 Purition of cities, the repair of harbours, the Road, Stanghai, to Mr and Mrs. Gues A HON.

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provision of waterworks and drainage, the improvement of sanitary equipments, and many other undertakings of public utility in the metropolis and in the provinces. The burden of taxation is accordingly bound to increase in every direction. Moreover, ada sequel to this social expansion prices have risen, and

encounter grave difficulties in the cost there are signs that our people may

of living. Sooner or later, too, the nation may have to grapple with, and solve those accial problems, known as the labour question, with which Europe and America

are

NEWS OF THE DAY.

The Aerial League is establishing a Rolls"Memorial School for teaching the theory and practice of aviation.

The Madrid Council of Public Works has approved the scheme for the sanitary form of Madrid, which it is ostimated will coat forty-seven million pesstag. The work is to begin in October.

the Edinburgh Court of Session on July Seventeen divorca casos were tried in

20, and judgment in each mas granted- This the largest mambor for one day in i the history of the Scottish courts.

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the Powers.

GERMAN FINANCES,

A SATISFACTORY RETURN.

(Reuter's Service to the China Mail) LONDON, August 23,

Messrs Rames and Ranios contarpinte opening their new skating rink, adjoining the Empira Cinematograph Theatre, early in November. The work will be cont menced next week and the floor of the rink will be paved with Java wood. Messrs Paimor and Turner are the architects.

Lloyd's Agent in East London, Cape A Berlin message atates that the Colony, reports that the German East After liner Kodire struck upon Cape Morgan and has been abandoned. It is considered that she will be a total loss, The crow word dared with the exception of

The third officer who was drowned.

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It is reported from Shidzuoka that on the 10th August, three men were found lying senseless in a store house of the top of Mount Fuji The Gotenha pobca weat to their help and usuaged to restore two of them, but the third was too far gone when they arrived:

The Bishop of Cremona, Mgr. Bonolli, hiss published a statistical statement of the suicides in the Italy from the year 1871 to the beginning of last year. The return

and in 1891 1,697, while in 1908 there were shows that in 1871 there were 836 suicides.

2,766, 9,076 being men and 610 women.

A son of Mr Kondo Rompei, President of the Nippon Yasen Kaisha, was staying at his father's vilk at Karuizawa, when s landslide took place, burying the house and all its occupants. The Mikes Hotel at Karuizawa was, washed away the samo

escaped unhurt. day by the foods, but all the guesta

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revente of Germany for 1909-10 exceeded the estimates by £3,625,000 sterling, while the expenditure was two millions below the estimates.

The deficit coverable by Ioan has been reduced to 26,300,000..

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REVOLUTION IN NICARAGUA.

PRESIDENT PROCLAIMED.

NO

(Reuters Service to the China Mail.)

LONDON, August 93. The revolutionists have captured

been proclaimed President of Nic- Managua and Juan. Sr. Estrada has

aragon.

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Misa Hurle, sesistant tescher, is trans- ferrod from Garrison, Infant School, Hongkong, to the Garrison Infant School, Kowloon.

PRESIDENT DENIES ANY BEEACE

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(Reuter's Service to the China Marik)

Leroy, Abgust 23, President Taft in a letter to the President of the Republican Committee categorically denies any breach between himself and Mr Roosevelt, mud declares. that the prevailing impression of such breach has bean engineered by 10%. actionary, Republicana,

MR KOOSEVELT SPEAKS.

(Reuter's Service, to the China Mail.)

Losos, August 24.

Mr Roosevelt has expressed pleasure at Fresident Taft's statement, which he Bays makes the situation perfectly clear.

YUAN SHI-KAI

(Wah Tst Fat Po's Servicc.)

PEXISO, August 23 The Grand Council has suggested that H. E. Yuan Shi-kai be called to Peking and appointed to a high position, stich as adviser to the Board of War,

but without power.

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Yuan Shi-kai has declineel,,office on the plea of ill-health.

TANG SHAO-YL

(Walk Ten Yat Po's, Sércica.)'

PERING, August 23. HLE. Tang Shaoyi has requested

Miss Dally Swift is xpected by the s.. one month's leave before proceeding to Taiyuan from Australia on Friday and Peking will make her debut at the Empire Cinematograph on Monday evening.

Miss E. Baker has been appointed teacher in charge of the Garrison Infant

It is asseverated with emphasis that the German Crown Prinen, who officially visits India, Japan add China, will not be The construction of the harbour works entrusted with a special mission and that aiready so at Samarang in Java started on July 30 character. The object is solely to og tid his Highness's tone is devoid of any politics)

2...-Auction of Household Fani- I painfully familar. The subject of They will take three years to finish, and German colonies and to extend his person during the absence of the schoolmistress,

Price leaves Berlin in November and will cost a large suur, but will undoubtedly Loowledge of the world. The Crow

returns in February, possibly through, America.

bure, etc. at Mesara Hughes & Hongh's financial adjustment, expansion of in-mata want long felt by the mercantile

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General Memoranda,

FRIDAY, August 28 :—

2.30 p.m.-Auction of Household Furni. tars at No. 4. Grest George Street, East Point.

Sunday, August 28:—

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Az innovation which is sure to prove highly popular with long-distance travellers

A sensational train outrage was per- has just been introduced at Paddington petrated on the Metropolitan Railway on Station by the Great Western Railway August 9. A first-class passenger, named Company by the provision of bathrooms William Frost, was travelling home to for the nam of parongers.

Raislip when he was attacked in the tanne! Letween tho Baker Street and Swiss Cottage

dustries, the advancement of education, community there.. and other social problems all require further study. Japan has not as yet reaped the benefit of the civilization she has adopted from the more advanced nations, but she has gained a knowledge Excursion to Masao by ss. of the material evils from which she Heungeban.

suffers, and her people are bending mittee meeting of the Cancer Research under the load of many great and Fund, said that the deduction to be made responsible burdens at home and from the labours of the investigators work

ing under the committee were that heredity as a cause of cancer was negligiblo and that implanted cancer could be checked.

MONDAY, August 20:--

9.30p.m. action of Household Furni. ture at Nos. 1 & 2, Kataford Terrace

Kowloon.

The China Mail

HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, Auster 24, 1910

COUNT OKUMA ON JAPANESE

PROGRESS.

abroad."

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School, Kowloon, as a temporary measure, Mrs M. E. Abby, who is on the sick list."

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The Prince Regent has decided to attend. the opening of the Senate in bis Field Marshal's uniform and has also commanded the officials of the Ministries of War and Interior and the Navy Department to waar underass on the occasion.

The following is so extract from the Mr A. J. Balfour, presiding at a coma-stations by a follow-passenger, who was a ❘ London Gazette datal 22nd July, 1910:-: stranger. A desperate struggle ansued, and Regular Forces. Infantry The Bula (Esat the assailant aber Mr Frost in the bead and Kent Regiment): Second Lieut. (now exped. He was captured, however, by Lieutenant) Tan G. Lanes is seconded for some platelayers in a dazed condition fromeervice with the Indian Army. the struggle. Mr Front is now in hospital. His condition is serious.

THE DALAI LAMA AND TIBET.

(Wal Tex Fat Po's Service.)

Penso, Acgust 23 The Amban of Tibet baz wized to Peking that the Dalti Lama, in league with foreigners, bus arranged for the sending of foreign soldiers into Tibet. The Amban now saka for reinforcements.

TO CUT THE QUEUE.

www.

(Wali Te Fat Po's Service).

PALING, August 23. Prince Shu and Prince Tai Tes have suggested that officers in the Polico, Military or Naval forces, or the Diplom→ Brigadier General E. S.. Cooper, C.B.,atic service should first cut their D.8.0, M.V.O., has taken over the North China Command. On his arrival at Tintain Sir Edward Grey. Socratary of Stato ness that all is not quite well with her; for Foreign Afaies, has rebuked the criti-

station he was met by a guard of honour of The Wai-wn-pa have agreed with the that the progrees made in the Meiji Era cism of Mr Dillon, M. P., which had

the 75th Punjabie with their colours and suggestion and are drawing up as memo- has not boen an unmitigated blessing. reference to the appointment of the Into nearly struck the Rev. Wm. E. Horley band. Brigadier-General W. H. H.Waters, rundum on the subject

whom he waccoeds, is en route to England.

It is well for Japan that some of her thinkers are awakening to a conscious-

of Egypt.

At Singapore recently a large bottle either thrown from, or dropped out of the third storey window of a house. It Boutross Patha, Premier of Egypt, who was passing, and caught the leg of a It would be impertinent for a foreigner Christian, to govern Mohammedans. The rickshaw coolis, inflicting a terrible gash, to point this out in the bald language Minister reafiria Great Britain's determi. His passanger, a Boy Scout, immediately used by Count Oruia, but coming from nation to maintain the British occupation jumped out and gave him y First Aid," and two other Boye Scouts coming along COUNT OKUMA, familiarly known as the him perhaps it may have some effect

took the man in the rickshaw to the nearest doctors. The Boy Scouts sated splendidly Saga of Waseda, the critic at large of and bear fruit in the future. The "only the Japanese Government and people, thing that we see against such a forfollowing inventory of the contents of ene sad this incident, says the Straits Times, of his pupil's pockets-A hammer, two shows the value of the training given to -the one-time firebrand whose inres tunate outcome of Count Oxuma's pencils, a brick, &vo ̈ yards of string, two boys by that movement. ponsible tongue-wagging on divers misgivings is that his own c

a countrymen ice-create plates, three spoons, marbles, a cccasions caused much international per-do not place the same weight upon his mirror, buttons, postage stamps, a riolin whistic, a large key, a slate, a pocket

turhatian when he inopportunely in-worda as do most foreigners. They say string, a maik, two story-books, and a terposed in a correct question of the of him as was said of Rstuin of old, houz-must have been in an unusually "Unstable as water, thou shalt not

A schoolmaster at Munster gives the

heracahoe.

The Army Council has issued a circular ained in Army Order 137 were intended pointing out that the regulations-con-

queue

The Times states that it has been de

Familiar to the musical public as Paul]* Rodney, the composer of many well-known cided to grant passages to the intended songs, Mr Harry W. Hopkins has died at wives of soldiers, stationed in the Colonies Eastbourne at the age of forty-six. Among and India, who are qualified to marry and his seccosses was Aions on the Raft, while for whom there are vacancies on the married

wero, Ferryman John, Love's Dreamland, excluding those to the port of embarkation, The Balla of St. Mary's, Forging the will also be allowed, Anchor, In Garden of Roses, Sioc, and Resurrection Morning.

other songs which achieved popularity establishment. Land travelling expenses,

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to remove certain misapprehenzion 'as to the status of quasi-military organisations in Only one passenger wie killed in the senoral Those misapprehensions in the diffident mood when he allowed a certain excel;" treating him as a destructire United Kingdom last year by an accident past have resulted in the grant of facilities, thoes Remedy always on hand, and it is civilized country, and never file to give Wm. Powell, Ld. article to go forily to the London Times fault-finder not a constructive states was the sins such death for a period of Legion of Frontiersmen for association with

to a train in which he was travelling. This some commande to member of the chemists.and storekeepers. twenty months, saya the Government's the Army in military drills, parades, or report on railways issued on July 28. The from those of other unofficial bodies for the tactical exercises. In future, application number of non-fatal accidents-300-as co-operation or assistance of the military also low. In other words only one pas authorities are to be refused nules special songer was filled during all last year of circumstances justify a reference to the 1,204,800,000 journeys, and only one in-War Office. jured out of 3,200,000. The risk is oven mach less than that, for season-ticket helders are not reckoned.

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bearing his imprimatur. He had, or man. Still for all that his utterances hia translator hail for him-for the are noteworthy and deserve more than Count does not write English, we believe, passing attention. been discussing the spirit of modern Japan, in which much old

ground was retraversed andTM Buzlido, the Way of the Warrior, was dragged in as usual to The police have been notified by Mr P. J. M. Rodriques, of 25 Mosque Street, show how much in harmony are the that his brother, Mr F. A. Rodriques, has ideals of the Anglo-Saxon gentleman and been mising since the 22nd instant. He CREMIZE HALL OF THE COLONY," the modern descendant of the samurais said to be 30 years of age and of medium United States entering into dower trade toansge of the squidron by nearly fifty per height and build. Fears are entertained, Then addedly came the surprising ad- according to the report made to the police, Opposite Central Market. mission that after all the struggles of the that he has taken to the hillside where

past fifty years, in most of which Const 8.15 to 11.30 r. Oxumi has taken a share, he was not quite satisfied regarding the solidity of the foundation on which modern Japas is built. Here are the very words-

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"I do not feel certain, Lowever, whether the national progrcan achieved by the strenuous exctions of Japan during the past half century in yet based on solid foundations. If the form

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MILDNESS, MELOWNESS AND MATURITY,

relations with Canada. They had reached cent and the gun power also to the me time, the President said, when neither extent. The two battleships mount four. country ought to be envious of the other, tan inch,gutia sack in their main armament, and each ought to be convinced that the with foartoon seven and five-tmth inch HAMBERLAIN'S COLIC, CHOLERA its neighbour was

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