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were revealed, was among the fint THE BATTLE AT Al Chang Hsun's troops surrendered, to ruise an army for the purpose of defending the Republic. It was his arwy which mada the "attuck on Peking and he has now established himself is the capital and has tormed

Cabinet All fears of a conflict. between TUAN and Fixo, are

THE PREMIER SCOTCH OF recognises the authority of General

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Fourteen foreigners were wounded..

·A· Reuter's talegram skys the casual- ties resulting from the fighting on July 13 were slight as compared with the FURTHER DETAILS OF number engaged and the expenditure of ammunition. They amount to 10 soldiers THE FIGHT.

killed and 30 wounded, and 30 civilians killed.

"SAVED BY HIS GERMAN FRIENDS

2.

Chang Hsun is known to have been

MONDAY, JULY 16, 1917

SUNDAY MORNING'S

STORM

A SERIOUS COLLAPSE TO-DAY.

A thunderstorm, sccompanied by a downpour of rain, both of unusual violence, occurred at about 2:30 am on Sunday morning. The rain commenced about o'clock on Saturday evening, sad continued without a break until the early hours of Sunday morning, culminating, in an aarsplitting peal of thunder and a terrific downpour.

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merchant in this Colony. It is stated that the occupants of the house were eating their noon meal on the first floor of the rear building when the wall EXPO WAY.

The adjacent dwelling No. 10 Caine Road, is owned and occupied by Mr. Ho Fook, Compradors of Meurs. Jardine, Mathieson and Company. The only member of Mr. Ho Fook's house- hold who was injured was an amsh who sustained a light injury from flying brick.

Father Gramps, of the Italian Catholic Mission, st No. & Caine Road, informed a representative of the China. Mil that at 8:30 this morning he noticed a crack about two inches witlo in the corner of the St. Joseph's play- ground retaining wall, which is just at the Frear of the Mission house. At about 9.43

ar.hu saw that the crack in the wall had'

Belated telegrains, from Peking to removed by the Intest telegrams the Chinese Mail stai chat hostili which show that General Tax ties, Cousienced on Thursday, morn

ing. at il-past four, between FANG by submitting to him for his Tan Chi-jui's and Ching sun'saved by his German friends, who took approval the names of the statesmen troops in various parts, of Peking him to the Dutch Legation from where he was taken to the German Legation

For fully three-quarters of an hour selected to form the Cabinet. These Field-guns and machine guns were barracks on the evening of the 13th, the storm continued with, unabated have been approved by General. The telegraph office, being inst. Negotiations in connection with fury and the lightning effects were most FANG as Acting President, It, fenour the centre of operations, it was Chang Haun's future are now entirely vivid, lighting up the harbour as if by

The in the hands of the Dutch Minister. POPULARITY MAINTAINED" BY ITS EXCELLENT perhaps, too early yet to say impossible to send telegrams.

was The Allied Ministers are... ..., marely whether the arrangements made will fire of the attacking forces

Fortunately the damage done was command general confidence, but directed on Chienmen, and Chang watching developments.

insignificant, most of the residents in th Chang Haan has dad from the it China is to apendily settle down Hsun's troops in, the Temple of

al attacked, while German hospital where he had been Colony having been more or less prep red became about six inches in width, Es Observatory that a typhoon was moving tar of St. Joseph's College of the breac's in varen were the Third Arcy movel towunks taking, refuge aines July 1, and is now owing to the earlier warning by the then sent a coolie to notify the head mas Saadeported to be on his way to the southin the vicinity of the Colony. The the wall and also sent a coolie to war Tingwomen at Nanchise,

Additional charges are heing made of typhoon however, by Saturday morning the occupants of No. 10 Caine Bead of bugs had been piled up at the residener which Chang Hsun oern-German ind. gus being behind Chang had passed well north of the Colony.

the impending danger, as the track

the The worst that happened were Incessant firing from the Hann move. These charges are

wall

also jest residence. of their south and the east continued ip to strengthened by the circumstances of broken windows, due to insecure 趨 faw broken eleven o'clock, when the firing on Chang Hand's dight to the Dutch fastenings, and both sides sluckered, and only the feld-guns were heard at intervals of

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FROM PENANG AND SINGAPORE.

HE Steamship

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having arrived from the above ports. consignees of tarze by her are notified that all goods are being landled at their risk into the hazardous and'or extra hazardous Godowns of the Hongkong

HONGKONG.

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The China Mail.

HONGKONG, Mustay, July 18, 1917e

THE PRESIDENCY OF THE

CHINESE REPUBLIC.

THE latest telecams from Peking tell us that. Li Yrax Brse, is firmly

resolved it to re-occupy the Pre- sidestial chair, and that he b

and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Cos I handed over, his authority to the Ltch whence-

ence and for from the Wharves

Vice President, General FEN: Kuo delivery may be obtained.

Claims against the steamer must be presented in writing within ten days after arrival of steaner, otherwise they will not be recognised.

No Fire Insurance will be effected by the undersigned in any case whatever.

Bills of Lading will be countersigned by

JAVA-CHINA-JAPAN LYN,

Agents.

Hongkong, July 16, 1917.

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NEWS OF THE DAY.

LOCAL AND GENERAL. -

pied.

The attacking forces were" assisted

Exchange on London was down a farthing this morning, and at hali paat by a perplans corps ging over the twelve, another farthing, the rate being City, Stray bullets rained in the then 27316 demand. This afternoonst part of the city. at 4 pm the rate was the same.

It is too early to ascertain this number of dead and wounder.on Four Fox Terrier paps are to beber side, but judging" from the sall he auction at noon tomorrow heavy firing inside the City. nd its Messrs Hughes and Hough and at 3 p.m. the same frm are selling Slazenger tennis bails in airtight tins.

One fatal case of plague w reports in the Colony last week... Five euses of enterie, fever (one fatal), one of paratyphoid, and one of diphtheria were al reported. All the cases were

Chinese.

Information has been · meived from London that the registered portion of the Mails dispatched from Hongkong vis United Kingdom excepting London and Ireland, on November 29, 1916. in missing

duration, the cusdalties must be

etonBox.

At the time of despatch of this message, five foreigners are reported have been wounded near Chien-

The firing, sounded “just like the New Year Eve ding in Hongkong." The firing stopped entirely at moT and the Legation people reported, by telephone, that Chang Hsun's house had been destroyed and that Chang Hsun had moved to the west.

In a telegram handel it on the

respondent reported that he had visited the scene of the battle and aww many dead lying in Chienmen Street. The police and members of the Red Cross were busy picking up the corpses.

General Chang Heun went to the Legation at noon. Near the gate, one of his Staff Officers was shot and fell. Chang Han is now in the Dutch Legation and his family in

Legation.

a Telegraphic communication between Peking and Tientsin has been restored.

(Realer's Service to the China Mail.)

FIGHTING IN SZECHUAN PROVINCE.

SHANGHAI, July 15.

A telegram from Mienyang states fighting broke out at Cheng, on July

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fower-pots Queen's Road, at the Father Gramps then, gave order that bottom of Wyndham Street, at first all occupants of the Mission house should sight, on Sunday morning, appeared to have been the scane of a rather bad collaps of masonry from one of the

adjacent buildings, for the road was covered with a mass of debris, broken bricks, rubble and stone being beaped up half way across the road. It turned

keep away from the rear of the house. He could not, however, see the wall at the rear of No. 12 Caine Road and did

not think that that house could be. llected by the wall collapsing at the rear of No. 8 and 10 Caine Road. He therefore did not warn the occupants

at however, that the rush of water down of No. 12 Caine Road. When Mrs. Ho Wyndham Street had carried with Fook was informed by her amsh of the

6, between the Szechuan and Kweichow it the looss material, bricks, etcge sent by Father Grampa she

Most of the foreigners at Chengtu are at present in the bill resorts

housebold to keep away from the rest troops. Fires broke out in the city.which had accumulated near the build immediately ordered all member of her The situation is critical".

ing operations which are in progress

of the house. Also, many pieces of next to the Dairy Farm premises.

Although the storm did not reach furniture and articles of value were typhoon proportions, shipping people hurriedly removed from the rear of the house. About three quarters of an must have considered it of some danger, since the as. Tui Lee, belonging to the hour after she received the warning the Fook not taken precautions against the ker. naval Sunday trip to Macao.vident there would doubtless b WEEKLY MAIL SERVICE RESUMED. Tez Yap Steamship Company, cancelled retaining wall collapsed Had Kr. Ho It was recently officially announced The Hongkong and Macao Steamboat beer many casualties in her household.. that the. mail krvice to India and the Co.'s Trishan, however, made the trip

Mre Wright, of the Public Works after some delay in getting away, the Far East would in fortnightly...

Department, bas stated that the collapse We see in the Indian papers to band part being closed antil after nine o'clock.

of the wall was undoubtedly the result the following paragraph dated Simla, The Atramboats from Canton bed to of the heavy rainfalls during the past has been remain Putside during the night. two days.

One of the Indian silk stores in By four o'clock this afternoon seren received from the Secretary of State for India that the weekly mail service to Queen's Road, that of Mr. Wassomall, persons had been extricated alive from Egypt, India, Ceylon and the Far East suffered a serious cas by the flooding the slébris, and two had been taken out of the premises of the Eastern Barnar. dead. The rescuers were then working will be resumed from next week".

He had just received eleven cases of silk ca heap to release a woman whose":" of various kinds from Canton. Eight of moana could be heart, and thres more these cases benides much otherstock ware damaged by the flooding of the premises, And the loss suffered thereby, is cati- mated at $30,000.

NATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR RELIEF IN BELGIUM.

"

Goods not cleared by 22nd July, will, CBANG. We think this is a step Siberia to London forward, is the faftemoop of the Rth inst., the cor-June 19th Intimation be subject to rent,

All bruken, chafed and damaged which the circumstances have seemed packages are to be left in the Golowns,

The existence of the where they will be examined on the 21st to dictate. July, 1917 at 10 mm.

have been Republic need never jeopardised but to the weakness and indecision which have charcter. The directors of the Ayer Kuning ised the acts of the Goverment (F.M.S.) Rubber Company, Limited, during the past year, and the late proposes to deal with the proft for the President must take his full share of year's working as fellows:-The year's the blame. The events of the past working resulted in s profit, (subject to 1962 few weeks, however, have revealed audit) of £61,094, which, with the sum that there are men in China to-day brought forward, £32.050, amounts to £93,144. Deducting the interim divid capable of taking vigorous and end of per cent, £6,463, there

Three fires were in progress, one decisive action. The schoolboy remains a balance £36,675. The direc wrangling, indecision, hesitation and tors recommend that this sum bein Chang Haun's house as Nas apparant fear to proceed with firmness allocated to the payment of foaldividend chitsze, one at the Tungon Market -procedure that we have become of 25 per cent, making 30 per cent. Jused to during the past year-for the year; to reserve fund, etc., "VAN WEARWYCK"

all seemed to vanish like magic 26,000, leaving to be carried forward having arrived from the above port,

£28,327 Consignees of Cargo by her are notified when the Republican leaders were that all Goods are being landed at their faced with the possibility of a return, risk into the hazardous and/or extra hardous Godowns of the fongkong to the Monarchy. There stands out | and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co Ltd. whence and/or from the wharves in this ware of determination a

KONINKLIKE PAKETVAART

MAATSCHAPPY.'

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES,

FROM SINGAPORE.

HE Steamship

THE

delivery

may be obtained.

will be subject to rent.

min who has shown that he is

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SOCIAL AND PERSONAL. Mr. T. F. Hough, having returned to

the Austrian Legation."

and one inside the Palace.

GENERAL TUAN ENTERS THE CAPITAL. Tuan Ki Sui arrived with Tao Ya-lin, Lasag Chi-chao, Fan Tran-lin and others, on the 15th, and will form a Cabinet.

Kong Chin-Chung welcomed Li Yuan-hung back to residence from the Japanese Legation. General Feng Kuo-chang and Tuan Ki Sui are in favour of Li Yusa Hung remaining in offer until August 1918.

"privato

Goods not cleared by 23rd July, 1917 capable, and can act if he wishes All broken, chafed and damaged pack to do so," with that decision and the Colony, has resumed duty a5 Astie. The latter refuser to resume off but] ages are to be left in the Godowns,

where they will be examined on the 21st firmness which is so badly seeded tant Superintendent of Palice (R).

monics received after June 1st will bs

unforeseen in connection with relief in Belgium.

SEVERAL PEOPLE BURIED.

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persone are believed to be under the débria

THE RAINFALL The rainfall as registered at the Observatory has been sa follows:

inches From 8 pm 14th to

1 pm

8.50 From 14:41.m,

20.

Three-quarters of an hour after the disaster occurred the rescuers discovered 6. 10-year old chid Buried under the APPEALS SUSPENDED.

On Sunday a large boulder dis debris. After working au hour they We have received the following com lodged from the hillside rolled on to dug heront. As she was being extricated Barker road and interrupted the service timber caught her trousers. "Please munication from the British National the Peak tramline in the cutting below from beneath a huge beam, a sail in the In view of the fact that the. United for about half an hour. At Kowloon the don't tear my trousers!" she said in Committea for Relief in Belgium — States Goverment has generously as rain dislodged quantities of earth from Chinese to Detective-Sergeant Murphy sumed all financial responsibility for the the Police Station Hill and also who had been working like a Trajan work of the Commission for Relief in from the hill side at Austin Avenue to save her life,

Dr. McKenny, who was on the scene, Belgium, it has been decided that the Granville Rand was blocked to traile

the whole of Sanday morning by tree examined the child and found that she National Committee for Relief in Belgium will suspend its appeals to the falling across the road as the result of had sustained no sariona injury, public in the British Empire Any the gale The heavy rain caused She escaped with only a number of slight

several houses built below ground level braises. held to provide for emergencies now to be flooded while in some places small landalipe occurred, the most important perhaps being part of a tennis court belonging to a house in Kimberley Road. No important damage was reported Claims against the steamer must be in the men who are to be at the

in the Colony until shortly before eleven is now in Washington, and has the spo'clock this morning when the north presented in writing within ten days head of affairs of China" until she after arrival of steamer, otherwise they ein settle down under a well-

Li Yuan Hing has sent out cir proval of His Majesty's Government retaining wall of the playground ad No Fire Insurance will be effected by

jacent to St. Joseph's College collapsed, the Underused in any case whatever organised Government. That man a couple of years ago was one of the cuar telegrams to the provinces, that and the Belgian Minister,

During theexistence of the Committee and crashed down upon the rear of Not Bills of Lading will be countersigned is General FasG KUO-CHANG. Straits cadets residing in Canton for be has left the Japanese Legation

and has gone to his private residence over £2,400,000, sabecribed throughout 10 and 12 Caine Road. The rear strac JAVA-CHINA-JAPAN LYN. During the past year he has held the purpose of learning Chinese.

He will shortly go to Tieutia to the British Empire for the relief of our ture of thess houses was torn from the what could only be regarded as a

Singapore paper record the death of recuperate. He also states that ou no oppressed Allies in Belgium, has passed main buildings and buried beneath a 1963 nominal position in the Government

of China, quietly living in Nanking. Mr. George Albert Miller, chief couscount will he re-occupy the Pread through its bands. The Second Annual great mar of earth and stone taking no active part in the affairs clerk of the Singapore Harbour Board, ental Chair, having handed over power Meating will be held at the Mansion Seven persons have already been sent House on June 15th, when opportunity to the Government Civil Hospital suffer of the Republic, and to all intents at the age of 37, Mr. Miller, who was to General Feng Kuo-Chang.

a Liverpool man came down from

All the proposed Cabinet Misisters will be taken to express gratitude to ing from injuries received as the result and purposes acting as a stop gap. Hongkong about ten years ago and names, enbmitted to General Feng Kuo those committees and individuals who of the disaster and it is believed that What General FENG KUO-CHANG made many friends in Singapore. He Chang by Tu Ki Sai have been have co-operated with such marked others are still buried beneath the is capable of doing, has been shown was admitted to the General Hospital approved by the former.

deration in the work of the national ruins. Those who have been rescued by the masterly manner in which suating from abscess of the liver, and Tuan Ki-sui called on the pancse body.

owe their lives to the effeciency of the members of the Fire Brigade, Polica he has carried out his part of the his sudden death me as a great shock Minister yesterday, and thanked him

Force and Public Works Department, successful effort to defeat General I to his friends.

who, immediately following the collapse

July, 1917, at 10.0

will not be recognised.

Agenta,

Hongkong July 16, 1917.

(Continued on Page 3.)

THE CALENDAR.

MEMOS, FOR TO-MORROW.

Noon-Auction of Fox Terrier Pups CHANG SUX's schemes. For the.

at Messrs. Hughes and Hough's £1.30 – 9.m. --- Auction of Furniture. moment he continues to take an Blackwood Wars, ete, sto at Mesara active part in the clearing up of the Hughes and Hough's pt-Auction of Tennis Balls at Dies and the re-construction of the Messrs Hughes and Hough's Republican Government. It would

General Memoranda..

(MAY, TRY 10 - SILLE-New Moon

11 pm Ex Gon, Meeting of the

British Traders Insurance Co, Ltd. TETESDAY, July 20

Lawl Investment Co's. Dividend due. West Point Building Co's Dividend

Day Longkang Stock

Internal Liberty Loan

Auction of

Geo P. Lammert

Mr. W. J. Gunston, Probationer in the Police Force of the Straits, Settlements, has resigned. Mr. Gunston

TYPHOON WARNING.

PRESIDENT RETIRES

for the protection afforded to Li Yuan-hung

THE CASUALTIES.

This course of action is in accordazos with the suggestion made by Mr. Hoover, Chairman of the Relief Commission, who

The price of printing paper con of the wall were summoned to the tinues to sos: A Straits contemporary scene of the disaster. Underthedirections A message d'apatoned from Poking mentions that news print paper obtain of the Captain Superintendent of Police

able in any quantity in England at 1fd The American Consulate Gene on the 13th int says The cost of just before the war was quoted by wire (Hon. Mr. C. McL Messer) Kr.AE the ammunition need in yesterday's week ago at Bid lb. This axplains Wright of the Public Works Depart Hongkong, has received from the

the following paragraph taken from be a calamity for Chins if General Manila Observatory the following ties for both sides, se 20 acidis filled of the halfpenny papers a home an Hongkong Police and Station Officer fighting must be enormous. The casual another Straits contemporary Comment, Chief Inspector Kerr of the telegramsALLASER

and 40 wounded. The only damage considering the question of furthe Lane Chief of the Fire Brigade, the

Cyclone or typhoon of the Visayas done in the City is to Chang Hannion to two pages a broad dangers work of rescuing the un

July 15, 6pm.

direction unknown. Islands

ToWJuly 14, 10.30 .. Cyclone or typhoon E. of southern Luzon moving NW or NNW

FENG KUO CHANG, whër peace in re-established, were to return to bis previous inactivity and compara- tire retirement. His place undoubtedly in Peking. A lers prominent figure in the rec military operations bas been General TUAN KI SUT, who a few mouths ago was the Prime Min whose dismissal by the appare gave the H

pportunity for the develop House Don't

But or two

could possi Amistadas evan

their cou

CHANG

CAN YOU AFFORD THE RISK

VERE you ever seized with a

house. To-day Chang Beint troops

whica has hitherto been seen occasionally in the case of early editions fortunate victims of the accident whom ware paid ten dillars each. Chang Hann textoys towards reduction in sims it was possible to get it was carried

sowed wonderful pluck waterday, With little over 1,000 troops hű oppors rearly 000, and he left only after his os are by bombs thrown blican troops

ident

attack of dang coke or diarrhoea chical without

bottle of Chamberlain's Colic parts of Cheers and Diarrhoes Remedy in the sich risks a' dose ctire you before a ipocber.

the called

are reported ufa

of evening papers. It is certain that

must be taken before long, and ponsibly the journalistic rate of mortality will be high for the next few months

BLAZON

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ing rain. All available word put to work remor. ing débris, largs,hrum ber

dhated by the Sanitary

3.30 pm

15th. 16th to 16th.

14:30

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