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the most molerate intelligence: Lieut.

THE CHINA

MAIL

B. EYRES MORELL. R.N., M.P., BY TELEGRAPH. BY TELEGRAPH.

who critically analyses the Declara- tion of London in the now volume of the Naval Annual, comes to the con- clusion that on the whole we stand to

lose infinitely more than we stand to

gain by its ratification. He sums up

怎

the argument in the following words

[COPYRIGHT.} BRITISH TRADE RETURNS.

NOVEMBER INCREASES.

"The total effect of the various! (Rauter's Service to the China. Mfail.)

sections will be cumulative and ex- ceedingly dangerous to us. First, we huve the establishment of the commerce-destroyers; secondly, these ships or given cortain powers for

LONDON, Dec. 8.

[COPYRIGHT:] ESPIONAGE.

|SECRET "TRIAL IN GERMANY.

(Router's Service to the China Mail.)

LONDON, Dec. S. A Britisher named Mar Shulz, two The trade returns for the month of German engineers, a German merchant November show that imports increased and a housekeeper are undergoing their by £1,343,083, though raw cotton im-trial on a charge of espionage at Leipzig. The proceedings are being conducted porta declined by 3 millions.

The increase in exports totalled in camera.

sinking not only our-own-ships-but £4,088,960, mainly in hardware, cutlery, also neutral ships carrying contra-machinery, cotton and manufactures, band; thirdly, there is a grave.

danger of our food-supplies coming SIR GEORGE LEWIS under the head of contraband, oven

when carried in neutral bottoms We

DEAD.

GERMAN NAVAL DISASTER.

A

A BATTLESHIP ASHORE.

cannot ignore the menaces contained(Reuter's Service to the China Mail.) (Router's Service to the China Mail.) in this progression of effects. It means

LONDON, Dec. 7.

that the stream of shire supplying The death bas occurred of Sir George England with her life-blood may be Henry Lewis, O.V.O., senior member of captured and even sunk by unknown Messra Lewis and Lewis, solicitors, of ships at present disguised as peaceful Holborn, at the age of 18 years, merchantmen, with the result that in England we should have to face. starvation, and starvation would pro- bably mean an unqualified surrender

Cricket Match on 'H.R.C.C. Ground-the end of our country and our

H.K.O.C.L.R.C.

General Memoranda. TUESDAY, December 19-

10a.m.-Extraordinary Meeting of China

Commercial Co., Lt.

The Ohms atl

HONGLONG, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1911.

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THE DECLARATION OF

LONDON.

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Reuter informs us that the Prize Bill, with which is bound up

the Declaration of London, will be

empire."

די

TYPHOON WARNING:

The telegram quated below was received Int the American Consulate General from the Manila Observatory at -10,20 3.m. to-day j

Manila, December 8th.Cyclone ori typhoon N.E. of Manila, moving W.N.W. ↑ * or N. W.-

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THE POST OFFICE GRIEVANCES.

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PREMIER SYMPATHETIC.

(Reuter's Service to the China Mail.) LONDON, Dec. 7.

Mr Asquith has viewed sympathetical ly the suggestion for accelerating the enquiry into the Post Office employees grievances. He says the rocon: increase in the coat of living alone justifies freak investigation.

H

U.S. AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS.

FLEXIBLE TARIFF NEEDED. There is a letter lying in our office ad. (Beuter's Service to the China Mail)

NEWS OF THE DAY.

dressed to S. P. C."

(?

The French Mail of the 7th November was delivered in Lardon on the 7th-Dec.

LONDON, Dec. 8. Reuter's correspondent at Kiel wires

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1911

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that the battleship Kaiser Wilhelm I UNDERWOOD TYPEWRITERS, went ashore during a fog in Flensburg Flord.

The cruisers Undine and Danzig are THE BEST atanding by."

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Sir Hugh Fort presided at the Straits Settlements dinner, and, proposing the LONDON, Dec. 7.

toast of the prosperity of the Straits President Talt, in his message to Settlements, he said the omene for the Congrese on foreign affairs, dwelt upon future ware favourable. Regarding the the progress of arbitration and urged the importance of the extension of American prospects of increased caration, be said he was confident that our loyalty and commercial interests. In this latter con- The 'Sociedade. Philharmonica are to nection he pointed out the high record public spirit would respond to the call. thrown out by the Elouse of Lords, bold an "at home" at the Clah Tusirane attained by American exports during Sir Joha Anderson, replying to the We sincerely hope that the news is on Saturday evening. There is to be music the year. He considered that the entire toast of the Colony and the Malay States,

foreign service was developing, capeci-aid he

was gratified BL the The ally as regards commercial inter- nore the Declaration of London is

of the Colony, The Duke of Devonshiro has distributed osta. It was increasingly clear that increased revenue examined the more distasteful its pro-to various hospitals in Derbyshire and there must be a lexible tariff in order to and still more grateful at the substantia) visions appear. We have been told Sheffield the sum of £20, derived from assist commerce and industry, and it balance Regarding the Malay States Destroys WHITE ANTS and prevents decay, by the advocates of the Declaration the admission of the public to Chatsworth seemed desirable that the minimum

during the yent.

founded on sure foundations, for the and

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S. MOUTRIE & Co., that as a Great Power we can afford

to be magnanimous and make con- Arriving at Gibraltar on 8th Nov, and eessions to the weaker states, but that leaving next day, the cruiser Royal Arthur, is no reason why we should surrender which is bringing out relief crews to the wholesale the positions we have held Far East, will, according to her programme, for the last two hundred years in re-rench Singapore on Dec. 17.

Hongkong, April 14, 1907

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gard to contraband and the sinking Thess. Kum Sang, which arrived in of neutral ships suspected of carrying port to-day from Singapore, reports that on contrahund. A further concession the 2nd inst, if male deck passarger jump. which in time of war would act very ed overboard. The steamer doubled to prejudicially against Grent Britain is the opposite course and a boat was lower- the granting of the right for au enemyed, but the man was never seon again to convert merchantmen into armed

tariff should embrace the free list.

THE MOROCCAN

TANGLE.

NEW FRANCO-SPANISH

NEGOTIATIONS.

(Reuter's Service to the China Mail),

Loxtos, Dec. 7.

The France Spanish negotiations for a settlement of the Moroccan question have begun at Madrid. The British Ambassador attended the first conference and participates throughout.

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RIOTS IN MACEDONIA.it was about time we did for the Tamil what we had done for the Balay in the (Peuter's Service to the China Mail) way of vernacular instruction

LONDON, Dec. 7. Router's Constantinople correspond- ent states that following on the dynamite The Main states that the French explosion on Dec. 3 at Istib, in Macs- Government insreceived advices from Indo-donia, the work of Bulgarian revolution

aries, by which 12 people were killed China.according to which Surgeon-Major and 13 wounded, riate took place, Legendre and two other officers, who were resulting in the death of fourteen more conducting a scientific expedition in a little Dulgarians, 157 being wounded. known part of Southern China, have been

The Washington Government proposes cruisers où the high scus, This is to construct two battleships which are to be merely à revival of privateering underarmed with ten 14 inch guna Theater a new guise, nothing else and yet have enough coal capacity to be able to privateering was abolished by the first cross had recross the Atlantic without clause of the Declaration of Paris coaling. The displacement of each shipwill drawn up in 1856. All the Powers be 30,000 tone.. subscribed to this except the United States, and it has been a recognised pact of international law ever since. Yet what did we see during the Russo- Japanese war? Two Russian ships, the Petersburgh and the Smolensk,assacred by Lolos. passed through the Dardanelles, a passage closed to Russian warships, fying the mercantile fag. They then passed through the Suez Canal, en gaging plots as ordinary merchant' slips; but on arrival in the Red Sec they hoisted the flag of the Russi

CANADIAN AFFAIRS.

EARL GREY'S SIGNIFICANT STATEMENT. (Reuter's Service to the Chito fail

LONDON, Dec. 7.

It looks as though the broiling sume! ner of 1911 in England is to be followed by sovery winter. On November ist, seven egrees of frost were registored in the ens, and ico had formed to the thickness

Earl Grey, as the guest of the Canada fa quarter of an inch in overal places Club, paid a tribute to the Right Hon. Mr Bryce. He said that the critics of the The R. M.-S. Montengle will make latter know not what they were talking

At Tai Miu Bay, yesterday P.C. Harris, to meet varying circumstances

in charge of No 1, Polize launch, boarded a juuk and found an ancient cannon, two antiquated muskets and a sword which bad pot buen de bred. For being in possess ion thereof the master was to-day fined $50 and the arms confiscated.

Judgmens was given for, the respective laintifs in the cases in which thu Hongkong and China Grrr Co., Ltd., sued the Tak Hing firm for $17.70 and Chau Ho bued Mrs B. Graham for $17.80 being bilance for wages far the awah. Meser Robertson, Wilson and Co., also obtained judgment for 8187.50 for goods delivered Against Sui Wa Chung,

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ture the P. and O. steamer, Malacca.

longkong at noon on Monday, the 11th istant, arriving at Shanghai on the 14th. turning the ship will leave Shanghai on 1017th, arriving hure on the 20th, ready

for her usual stiling to Vancouver on the 30th instant.

It was only after Great Britain, had sent in some very strong protests and our Far Enetern trade had been in jeopardy for the best part of two, months that thesocommerce- destroyers" hauled down the Impe rial flag and resumed their mercantile SERIOUS FORGERY CHARGES. status. At the Hague Conference of

At the Magialmey to-day, bolore Mr E. 1007 Great Britain endeavoured to A. Irring, serious charges were preferred obtain Homo settlement of the matter, against Abdool Rajack Samy. Under the but we found it impossible to do so; first count he was charged with forging the and again in 1909, at the London signature of Lau Choong Wan, on Nov. embar 10th and on November 11th, 1911; conference, the same insuperable diffi on four chequce drawn on the Internationa culties were

encountered. To quote Banking Corporation. A second count charged accused with obtaining from the an official report, States claiming an International Banking Corporation sams 2,15 m. i 11.15 r.. unrestricted, right of conversion on of $500, $500, $1,950 and 2650 by virtus of the forged choques, knowing each the high seas refused to make FRIDAY!

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Sergt. Grant prosecuted, Mr P. T Goldring defended.

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