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HONGKONG, FRIDAY, AGUUST 16, 1913,

THE CHINA MAIL.

SOOLAL AND PERSONAL

aung Fortifications have at last. enpirulated. During the past threa weeks the condition of affairs at this afternoon for Sivator to take up Lies. R. H. Parkinson, 2nd D.O.LI, Woesung was a daily menace to an appointment in the Beftisli-America the peace of the vicinity and to the Fobuces Company, He will not only bo lives of Chinese and Foreigners.greatly missed by all members of the Happily, the danger is now passed, Regiment, but it is understood, by ons though not without the loss of many Frudney, who, was his constant com- member in particular, Llout. J. H. lives and the destruction of much

panion. property. Nanking, u wo stated yesterday, is again in the hands of

THE REVOLT.

CANTON

FRIDAY,

COMPARATIVELY. QUIET,

LATEST NEWS FROM THE NORTH,

PRESIDENTIAL APPOINTMENTS."

A telegram from Feking received here las last evening, states that Admiral Sa

rossels ceme roar to her usual range. Whed about seven or eight miles off they

AUGUST 15-1918.

TYPHOON WARNING.

The American Cosaulats General xt Hongkong inform us that the following telegram was received from Manila at 11.35 am. to-day :-Opalone, or Typhoon E of Luzon less than 500 miles distant, moving WN.W.

THE BANQUE INDUSTRIELLE DE CHINE.

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Captain C, V. S. Skrimshire, R.G.A the rebels-mostly from Woosung staff offer of the Hongkong Volunteer

stopped, and there remained all the The Bangku Industriella do Chine,., but there can be no doubt that Corps, has been awarded the Duncan

morning. On their first approach these joint stock company with capital of their ascendancy in China's was definitively and capital will be short-lived.

Both Woolwich, for an easy discussing how f} Watar Palien of Shanghai and Woowung, a warning to shipping, but towards noom legally constituted in Paris, on the 5th of

in the North and South there is at the great developments which have recent present no cause to fear that they taken pica in (a) the armament and hostilities will be much further car of warship: (6) aubmarines; and

(c) aircraft, justify alteration in the arm

ent of const fortresses.

protructed.

A HINT FOR EARTHQUAKE FORECASTS.

NEWS OF THE DAY.

Sir John Jordan, British Minister in Teking. was received in andienes by the

Admirel El Chun has been appointed with the tiles of Shua Wai Shal, and Pacificator and General !! in Canton,

Sheng Cheung.

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·THE CONDITION OF CANTON.

KOMMANDER-IN-CHIEF'S -RE-ASSURING

- TELKUNASE.

this was pudied down.

sight in the South Chuanul, bus up to the meeting of the shareholders and formed as About 2 p.m. a third oruiser came in July, 1813. The Board was elected at the

present no firing has taken placo.

follows:-M. M. Andr Berthelat, Pro-

The Banque Industrielle de Chine has its Head Office (Sidge Central) in Feking and its #Begistered "Office (Siège Social) in Paris, 15 Boulevard Haussmano.

M. A. G. Pernotta is Goopral Managar,

In view of a probably engagement aideat ; Li Seo Kong and Tubae Hebry. the Customs bulk has been towel from Vice-Presidents Sir Richant andry, the Foctung to the Shanghai witle of the George Ballu, Raoul Caincy de Lamazière, river, and is now unetored just above the Band de Cérenville, Paul Chautard, Comte houses of the telegraph companies. Arthur Espinasse de Villesboinat, A. Dozens of country people are crowding to Friouls, Comte Gérard de Ganay, J. PROFESSOR Omori, the great Japan-King on July 10,

Wong Shi Luag, the new Commander the jetties begging passages to Shanghai. Perchot, and Charles Victor... -Chief at Canten, has telegraphed to EMS. Alacrity has put down river earthquakes aro caused, at least in ese earthquake expert, thinks that

the Chinos Press Society of Hongkong this aftomeen with Vice Admiral Torram Sir Francia Piggott, legal advisor to stating that there is now only a small board. many instances, by bulging of the the Chineas evornment, has returned to number of soldiers in the city who are

The A.-L... Bohemia, which was to earth's crust due to the pressure of Poking after a short visit to Shanghal. disobeying "crdots, and they are not prebava left for Triesto yesterday morning. ganised, having been dispersodi The want down river, but afterwards returned ita contraction. The crust finally Major A. MaMunn, R.A.M.C., returned telegram continues that the city is quieter to her moorings and her departure was. fractures, with a shock, and returns from home Teava today by ss. Delta and order is being gradually restored. postponed until the afternoon, when she to its norinal love. The swelling and having travelled out via Siberia.

The Land Troops haro, all gone back to again went down river. aubsequent subsidence appear to the

their respective quarters.I am in A sorvant girl employed at 33, Prays, negotiation with Gorceuer-General Lung observer as slight loxal alterations Kannedy Town, fall from the top to botto arrango what mozgures shall be taken in the geu-level, amounting at their tom of a staircase in her employer's house to pacify the inhabitants and restore rom- greatest to only a few inches. In the yesterday on had to be sent to hospital scientific section of the Journal des

seat extra police to the neighbouring dis- Debate wo read that this may possibly with an assault upon a junk fokirat Shan.will be dispatched to these places in the lowing warning has boon roeived from A man is in custody in canection tricts to Suppress pirates and a big arbý "Notice is hereby given thus the cl. lead to a method of earthquake-kiwao. Tho faki's head Wes Roveraly near future. I learn some rumours in Admiral i, Chineso Naval Commanderizon for six yearn and had since been in

prediction. Says this paper:

"Is the sea-level constant? That depends on locality. In some places it senteely varies, while in others it changes appreciably, often alternately in opposite directions.

I

injured, and he has gone to hospital,

suicide yesterday by hanging herself from » Chinese servant girl committed

a beam in her employer's house, & Roso Lane, in the Weak Point district.

Speaking at Norwich, Viscount Dear- "This is shown in two import-burst said that the Unionist party, o unt memoirs published by Professor their return to power, would abolish thá Omori, the well-known Japanese payment of members of Farliament. eartliquake authority, in The Bulletin Our readers are reminded that the

of the Imperial Earthquake Investiga-half yearly meeting of shareholders of the tion Committec. Omori describes Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Car variations of sea-level ascertained porntion will be held in the City Hall from observations made from 1894 to 1910 at 10 Japanese stations.

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"From 1897 to 1899 the level rose about 2 inches; from 1900 to 1002 it fell about 1 inches, rising again between 1909 and 1906, and

at noon to-morrow.

A woman living at 24, Caine Road, left her house for a short time yesterday and on her return found that five ploces

WARNING TO SHIPPING. At two o'clock yesterday afternoon, the

merve.", mds the Commander. I have Harbour Master issued the following not

Beation:

AN AMERICAN STOWAWAY.

Arthur ást, who claimed to be at Police Court to-day, with the altercative of American subject, was fined $150. at the one month's hard labour for stowing away the B.I. steamer Grgery & pear frotu Singapore to Hongkong.

Defendint stated he was an American

Hongkong to this effect that Canton is in Chiat: The bombardment at Wocsung in a dangerous slate and it is of this Forte will take place very soon. It is Batavia, and was told that on this account request you to distribute it to all the war or steamers anchored near the fort money and only the clothes he was wearing.. ho had lost his citizenship. He had no account that I and this tologram and advisable therefore to notify foreign men-

People."

in the vicinity there to clear away in And his reason for stowing away was thab recse to avoid accidente."

ho wanted to get to San Francisco.

GRINGKIANG CAPTURED.

Commander Cheag Shing has captured Chingliang and intends to march on to Nanking to attack the rebel troopa there.

THE PRICE OF SAFETY.

Pak Man Wai, the rebel Governor-Geno- ral, has forced the commercial people of Yunnanfu to subscribe $100,000 towards the expenses of his military as a means of ensuring the safety of the town should he be attacked. He has promised in consider

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LOVE LETTERS OF A

GOVERNOR

A STRANGE POLICEMAN. UNWILLING

TO LOGI PAMONEK.

A carious case in which an Indian police- man showed a great reluctance to part with a man whom he had arrested, although bis rate, cezarrod in Colombo the other day. prisoner had been discharged by the Magis

Observer sa follows The incident is reported in the Ceylon

£6,000 CLAIM FOR BREACH OF PROMINE.

+1. New Yonx, July 12. "Love letters of a Governor may form now being brought by Miss Mignon an interesting chapter in's suit for damages Hopkins against Governor Sulzer, chief of the ssocative of the State of New York.

An Ladian Faliceman produced Bala- Governor Saltor himself deprecates the under Mr T. A. J. Noorbhai, whom he ar action as a plurnar offor at imposition cu rested at Colombo on warrant fasued by sundra Nayada alina Daniel Joseph, clark of jade and some clothing, worth about ation of the subscription, to remove his donbtedly true that his activity sa governor, of trust of R4, in 1811. The Policeman gineered by political anemies. It is a Magistrate in India for criminal breach. $22, had been stolen.

soldiers to the country and meet the and passibly his known politics aspirations produced the warnet but was unable to Northern troops outside the town to me inspired the enmity of many of his former Magistrate and that he as him signing it, leading towards White House, have depose that the signature was that of the it from being bombardad..

political associates, who declare that he has as required under the Estadition Act con noting treacherously towards the He also had no evidence sa to the identity SHANGHAI AND NANKING. Tammany organisation, to whom he owes

Shaach

of the man, an the person named The Magistrato told that there was no proof of July 15.

A CHANGE OF OMISION.

identity or of the legality of the warrant. Mignon barself mays that she met Gorer The Magistrate, therefore, discharged 'the

A

Thirty-three men were fined at the

Router's Shanghai sorrespondent stetos Police Court today for smoking opium in that the bulk of the rebele fod from mond stated that this divos had been reader, which caused immense relief in divan at Ng Fuk Laps. Inspector Dr. Wooning Forts the right before the sur. mided twelve times in eighteen months! Shanghai. The rebels have regained

possession f Nanking.

THE SITUATION AT PRESENT. then falling until 1909,

In the Honse of Representatives the Speaker reported that the voting on the Evidently these facte: may be inter-nomination of Alfred Szas. Chinese Minis- Ammar the frequently recurring preted in two, ways We may sup-gainst, atd-92 for.

tor in Washingtat resulted in 201 votes efforts of the so-called Punitive pose either that the level of the sea Force to re-assert themselves, though itself changes, or that what changes Exclusive Distributors obviously completely baffled and is the elevation of the land. How beaten body, it is somewhat difficult shall we decide which is the changing to state precisely how affairs stand at element? Simply by observing that the present time in the north and in not far from stations where there is the south. From the latest news to variation, there are others when there hand from Canton there can be ne is none or where the movement is doubt that the fighting and looting, even in the opposite direction. In though of a spasmedie character, have these conditions we can not well sup- been, sulliciently serious to cause one pose a variation of the sea, as it to hesitate to predict as to when the would be noticed everywhere; so we rising will be completely quelled must conclude that there is a change With the approach of General Lung

of elevation in the land.

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to the city it was believed that quiet- Professor Omori supports this

To to-day's return there are three canex of plaqua, two of which were fatal. All wore Chinese, one coming From Second Street, another from Connaught Road Central, and the third from Tzi Wo Street. The year's total is now brought up to 301.

4 Chinese man from Tsumati was was charged at the Police Court with Jour that the defendas atabbed the deceased dering a fellow countryman.. It is alleged with a file during a quarrel. The hearing was proceeding when we went to press.

THE ADVANCE ON WOOSUNG.

HE EVE OF AN 'Attack.

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CRUISERS IN POSITION.

From the N. C. Daily News.**)

Woosuno, August 11.

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man.

Sulzer in 1901, when she thought him After the mist Taft Court, and was dishonours him the soul of There was row and peoples collected

test and noblest man alive," where going away, be Indian Policeman srested. him again and would not let him go. The lady further says that she considered both to Court again. Fren then the Police The Court Sergeant went and brought up herself engaged to Fulzer natil 1908, when man would not leave the man alone. the future Governor married a trained nurse at Philadephis. She alleges that she was had to arrest the man again; and the The Magistrate asked what business ho to receive £3000 as compensation for her Policeman said this was the man. His want. wounded feelings, and she brings an action to od and he would allow his hands to bo recover £6,001 now because shaalleges that handcuffed if the Magistrate, would tele Pulsar nevor kept his word, and only paid graph to Indis and find out if this was nob her about £800, and that in instalments.

WHY SHE WAITED FIVE YEARS,

the man wasted. The Magistrate told him there was no necessity. He must go back to India and bring a new warrant, signed "Precisely why Mignon Hopkins waited by the Magistrate is his presence. The for five year after the rupture, and until man said tha+ Policeman would not leave Anxious anticipation has been the order Salzer was elected to the great office of the him alone. The Magistrate told hims since early morning, and for the past few Governorship of New York, does not seem go away, and ordered the Policeman to go hours the opening of the bombardment reporters, said she had been restrained all The Policeman wanted to follow the

apparent, but the lady, in uhatting with back to India. uess would be gradually restored and theory by facts observed in Europe,

has been looked for at any minute. On that time by the that normal conditions would soon seismic observations ir Japan having search warrant at an illicit opium divanans in sight-those in the South Channel York

While the police were axosuling both hands the Government man-of-wor sisters, who hold good position has two man again, and the Magistrats directed prevail. These expectations proved been made for too short a time to at West Paint yesterday of the having come up and part of the foot to newspapers, but so far there is no word The man then left, and the Policeman was positions in New the Curt Inspector to soad the Indian much too sanguine, as would be seen draw conclusions from them. It opin smokers jumped through a window the Arsenal having come down. Up to from Governor Salzer, his side of the taken in charge. Lete: the Indian policea The plaintiff has given her letters to the stable, and to see that he went to India. Policeman to the wharf in charge of a Con-

by what we have been publishing appears that the great earthquake at /to avoid arrest. Ho was injured by his presont, however, the advance posts romanes being reserved for, judicial ears man thrustened to commit suicide if he

more.

fall and instead of going to guol was sent of the Government army have not been first.

sighted. The presence of the men-of-war ahead of the troops soetas, to mean that the bombardment proper of the Forts will procede any engagement on lazd, and while it is going on the soldiers will an- dosyour to be in the rebels.

Owing to heavy rainfalls and the re- duction of the tariff for the carrying of coal, the receipts of the Shantung Railway Company have for June shown decline, since Jan. 1, 1813, the aggregate retenus has, as compared with the corresponding period ef. 1912, receded from 62,170,000 to 89,004,000€

SHINS AT KLJOT.

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"ONLY A DIO, KIND KID..

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fatare-governor she expresses admiration In one letter written by Miguna to the for his conrage in arraigning selfish, mar cenary tyrants." She reads with doligbt, how his stayed in Washington to make a speech on the Cuban question, which was nesslike statement of s most painful situs- wonderful and eloquent, but still bual- tion." "

was not allowed to take the man whom he surested to India..

tendent of Police, Columbo.

report to that effect before the Superin The Court Inspector then sent him with

BANDMANH OPERA COMPANY.

The Dairymaids was the name of In another letter she refers to Salzur as the musical comedy produced at the only big, kind kid." Your Liberty Theatre Royal last night. It is a rollick- in she says elsewhere," was graceing mixture of fun, nous and aprightly ful and true." rather good-looking blonde, whose gentle All the reporter describe Mignon an a

Busto. The cast was equal to all thes was required of them and the perform face shows traces of suffering.-Daily so was much enjoyed!

To-night, the ever popelar." Autu Maneuvres will conclude the proson visit of the Company to Hongkong.

Fourteen Chinese fireman arrived, at

of the Red Cross Hospital. Hors for a Liverpool on July 23 on board the while she dropped anchor, but soon Cunarder Caronia to answer a charge of

during the week General Lung, the sea-level was at a minimum ; that

Messina took place at a time when to hospital. contrary to all expectations and to the promise given by the soldiers is, when the land elevation was at a in Canton, has met with not a maximum. Just after the quake the GENTLEMENS

the sea rose; that is, the land fell, little opposition in his endeavours This is Professor Omori's idea of what to pacify the City and to restore really happened: DISTINCTIVE tranquillity. The soldiers either mis-

Towards 9.m. the men-of-war from trusted or misunderstood the General

"For years the land had been

the Arsonal showed themselves off Kajów Creek. They had weighed unchor, some or, which is more probable, having gradually rising. That is to say, a part of the earth's crust, under pres

tima boloru eight o'clock, and at this hour set their minds upon obtaining loot, sure from the adjoining masses, Hongkong to escape the footers in the at Shanghai. They passed through the A Canton shopkeeper, who fled to the first of them passed the Custom House determined to carry it into effect no squeezed by them, curved upward, Chinese city has found to his cost that all harbour, and about nine o'clock were just Imatter what the cost might be just as a sheet of cardboard curves his countrymen here cannot host of their visible from Woosing.

Consequently, there has been several when grasped by the two hands and honesty. He left his room at 156 Buckley had left her anchorage near the Woosung

In to meantime the yacht Lianching Nows less severe encounters bet pushed together. Hence the lower-Street, Burg bom, in Wednesday, and or Creek, and, without showing any colours, ween the recalcitrants and the ing of the sea-level and the recession Ting Sesterday pissod clothing and steamed up river until she lay abicist General's troops. The picturesque of the water abandoned by the rising

jewellery worth altogother 850, reports which have appeared in cer shore. But in 1908, the tension tain newspapers have considerably due to this upward swelling exceeded Hospital, Colombo, on Jily Di, of Mr. round the bend, and the Liching turn. The met, it is alleged, refused to work, declining to favour either the Hakong The death took place at the General Govornicat torpedo-boat love in sight mutiny on the steamer Norman Monarch to find the Rangoon Chamber of Commeren It is not perhaps altogether surprising magnified the condition of affaim at the crust's limits of resistance, and David F. Evard, third ongines ved tail and steamed back to he moorings and were put in irons. One of the Valley or the Manique route for a railway Canton, so much so, indeed, that, as this evidently ended in a fracture, taken ill a week or so ago, and was 2 m and not till then did the hoist the prisoners said they lied whiled away the time between India and Burma. Its men

B.I. ■.6. Bangala... The deceased was well under cover of the guns of the Forte. will be seen from our news columns owing to which, with some crushing moved to hospitol, dying about three rebel colours to-day, the new Commander of the and friction which explains the hours after admission. The funeral fook

by singing and dancing, and mouth-organ probably feel that, so far as they are Kwanting troops has been con- large number of shocks-the swelling Place at the General Cemetery the same chew, the Angship, the Chaobo, the to feel was that they are not allowed to Indo-Burma. Railway would be botter The fleet was composed of the Hsi-playing. The only hardship they appeared concerned, soy money that is available for strained to telegraph a kind of fattoned out and dropped, and the

evening.

Yingswoi, the Foying, a torpedo-gumboat.amuke in their quarters, but the captain system, which is totally inadequate, and employed upon the existing Burma railway protest to Hongkong, while at ground resumed ita normal level

and one tarpodo-boat. There remained agreed to let them smoke on deck. When upon the provincialroads which are the same time assuring all that

My client has a salary of $25 aon guard opposite the Arsound this Nan- over the men felt like a smoke they told the considerations, the lies that anito Barms to In these conditions, we may ask month se quartermaster on these shin, the Kingshing, the Chuyu, nad steward, who was stationed outside the the rest of India are at present vory alight. practically non-existent. Apart from these that the condition of affairs in the whether the progressive lowering of Zafira, and cut of that has to keep a wife, ona torpedo-boat. and that only a few disbanded soldiers swelling of the land) does not applying for he allowed to pay off a judge that the boats from the Arsenal bod aa

City of Rams is practically quiet the sea-level (indicating an upward six children and a mother-in-law, urged IT SOUTH CHANNEL.

barred door of their quarters, and they A wide sthnological gull exists between Mr. Mason in a Saramary Court case in While the nows soon reached tho Forts third-class deck, where they lit up and her political interests from those of India ware formed up in twos and marched to the her people said those of the peninsula, and there in an almost complete BOVECRACK OŽ aro giying trouble. It would seem, constituto a warning of an approachment by instalments. On Mr. Afason's olored off the Kajow Creek, thus remov

enjoyed themselves, therefore, that General Lang will soon ing earthquake. It would be in the Puno Judge fixed the ing un. Immediate cause of anxiety, ex

Elangoon is virtually an outpost of the Far East Railway connection between India enter upon his Governorship of the premature to concludo this, instalments 63 month.

citoment was created by the appocraten

and Burms would doubtless modify this City under conditions as favourable evidently, but it remains, a fact that When a case were called at the SumSouth Channel ab 10.30 in. The

being provided at the near future. situation and establish closer relations of the fint of the outside foot in the

between India and the Cinderella ens might be expected after so much the earthquake of 1008 took placenary Court this morning three solicitors the artisers to put in an spposrance diarrhoea, which can be controlled Bintesmsn (Calcutta),

Province, but there is little hope of its trouble and anxiety of the past two after a continuous sinking of the sea-ponded. Mr. P. W. Goldring said the was the Halaben, easily distinguishable by giving Chamberlain's, Golis, Chalen months

From the North, the latest news rising of the land. In any case 3r Gardines and hairself, Air. Gardias kowine appeared in the effing midng cao operation of the bowels more than -level for nine years, that is, after out that to had instructed two solicitors, came stostning up, and soon the alchi cary is to give the preached dose after defendant ermaidared the case so import by roam of Lo short forumast Sho and Diarrhines Hemedy. All that is neces is that much relief is felt both in we Trast continue our researches and added that counsel was coming in as well. her way towards the Forte.

natural and then castor oil bolesno the Shanghai Foreign Bettlement and investigations, and the study will be nugter.) Mr. Maron was the third

system. It is safe and ward. Even tho in the Native City that the Woo- a most interesting one

sollaltor saguged, appearing for the plain

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