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Dollar Company's Statement.
Rumours of the death of Sun fe are ques-Yat-sen have been circulated more tions which naturally, rise to the than once or twice in recent mind upon reading of his reported years, but the news of it has now Illness. It must be borne in mind, come from responsible sources in
In view of conflicting rumours first of all, that China has never Peking, where the self-styled Pre- relinguished her claim to over-sident of the Republic of Southern which have been in circulation for lordship of the Forbidden Land China has ended his singular several days pertaining to bids in spite of the rising againat her career amid the apparently Hope which were submitted to United rule and the intervention of the less failure of the idens to which States Shipping Board March 19 British to prevent more bloodshed, his life was devoted, comments by the Dollar shipping interests It is her expressed intention to the "Daily Telegraph." No re- and Pacific Mall Steamship Co., attempt to exercise greater convolutionary leader not oven Mr. J. Harold Dollar, representa- trol over the affairs of Tibet than
haa hitherto been the case, but Lenin, his friendship with whom tive of the Dollar interests in the owing to the lack of a strong was among the latest of many Far East, has received from the central authority she has little perilous enthusiasms-ever gave Head Office of the Company In" influence over outlying provinces. himself up with more untiring San Francisco the following state- The Panchen Lama is the leader zeal of the work of political con- ment regarding the two bids of one of the two great parties in Tibet-the one which has become
spiracy
than did the young which were submitted for the pur-
now operated between San Fran- cisco and the Orient by Pacific Mail Steamship Co.:-
to be known as the pro-Chinese physician who took his diploma at chase of the five President boats party, and he exercises consider- able spiritual power. The other party is that led by the Dalai Lama whose object would appear to be the introduction of new ideas in contrast with the con- servatism of the pro-Chinese party. Many of these have been introduced through the Indian Government which has earned for the Dalai Laina's party the title of pro-British. It was owing to the strained relations existing between these two potentates and the greater present power of the Dalai Lama, that the Panchen Lamia left Tibet, his departure, it is stated, being pretty well anforced. The Chinese have! received him with open arms and their iden undoubtedly is for him to co-operate with them in plan- ning a future attempt to re-estab lish cumplete control over, Tibét.
"Little Willie.”
DE SUN YAT SEN:
"As a preliminary it should be.. stated that these five boats, as well as the five similar boats now · being operated by the Admiral' Oriental Line, were assigned to the Pacific Trade by United States Shipping Board in 1921. From that time up to the present these bonts have been owned by the United States Government but have been operated under contract with the United States Shipping Board by those two companies, the Admirał Oriental Line operating between Seattle and the Orient, and the Pacific Mall operating between San Francisco and Orient
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The
accordance with economy programme instituted
President during
Harding's administration, the United States Government has been endeavour- the College of Medicine in the ing to dispose of these ships to British Colony, of Hongkong private operators. Early this Whilst popular hate went to thirty-three years ago. Certain-year the Shipping Board adver- the father, ridicule went to the no Chinese of modern times hastised for bids for these 10 enjoyed so much admiration and steamers and the trade routes json. The ex-German Crown confidence among his educated which they cover. the specifica- Prince was "little Willie" the butt and Westernised countrymen astions requiring companies inter- of caricaturists, whose mentality did Sun Yat-sen at the height of tested in purchasing the vessels to his career. If he had died on the bid for the boats in blocks of five. might be gauged by the extent of morrow of the revolution of 1911. When bids were opened on March the length of his nose. It is a when the object of all his efforts, 19 it was found only two bids part of modern warfare that you the overthrow of the Manchu were submitted, one by the Dollar disparage your enemy as much as dynasty, was accomplished, he interests and the other by the
would have left a name to be Pacific Mail Steamship Co. possible. As Kipling would say honoured by future generations. bid submitted by the Dollar you kill Kruger with your tongue. He was chosen by acclamation as interests was for Dollars 5,625,000 The one time imperial family of Provisional President of the new and, in accordance with the Germany got all that-and
Republic, and he won new respect Board's specifications in making perhaps a little more. They still by retiring in favour of Yuan this bid, the Dollar interests live-most of them--in spite of Shih-kai as a man more fitted for agreed to the other conditions set the threatened hanging, of the the practical tasks of government. forth by the Shipping Board in principal member promised by Mr. But a change would seem to have its formal notification, one of Lloyd George-another form of come over Sun Yat-sen among the which was that the ships must be tongue killing-and the bringing rivalries and intrigues which continued on the route between to book of notables of the stamp were so soon to reduce China to San Francisco and Oriental porta of the ex-Crown Prince. The
He, for a period of five years and to its present political chaos. Supreme Court of Germany has too, began, to lust for personal agree to make 17 round trips per found that the ex-C.P. never power, and his last years were year. The bid submitted by ordered the burning und, plunder-spent in clinging to the shadow of Pacific Mail Steamship Co. was aa ing of villages und towns and that it as head of a corrupt and feeble follows, according to advices he was not responsible for the Government in Canton, which received this week from Washing- executions ordered by the mili-played a no more respectable part ton. The Pacific Mail Steamship it becomes known amongst the tary tribunals of his army corps, than that of any of the provincial Co. made its bid in the form of a "Therefore the court quashed tyrants in whose plottings and proposal to organize a corporation His with a capital of G. Dollars The China Mail" large army of these desperadoes further proceedings." Which alliances it was involved.
that, not only jail-which has means that although a man is in unequalled standing among sin-5,500,000, consisting of 4% per little or no terrors for them but control and is supposed to know cere Chinese reformers had prac- cent, cumulative preferred stock
vanished when
anand 50,000 shares of common, a good birching is in store for what is being done by his under- tically
lings, he is not held responsible incurable malady struck him stock without par value, the them on conviction, it may be for what they do in his name! down, and his disappearance from Pacific Mail agreeing to purchase expected that these outrages will The finding of the Supreme Court the political scene is unlikely to all common stock for Dollars eventually become less common is probably as valuable as the affect in the smallest degree the 1,250,000. The Shipping Board than at present.
If it were paper on which it has been situation of anarchy which he would then sell to this new written. It perhaps convinces no helped to create. Yet this was a corporation the five ships, the new possible for such punishment to one; adds little to preconceived man who was looked up to during corporation paying down Dollars ba administered publicly, the and other. eonceptions and the many years of his exile as 41,260,000 and giving preferred effect would be even
more destroys at once the doctrine of destined political saviour, and stock for the balance of the pur- "Little Willie" is who was so much feared by the chase price. This new corporation salutary.
pantheism. "whitewashed" and the German Manchus that an attempt was proposed to make a contract with halo of respectability once more made to kidnap him in London by the Pacific Mail Steamship Co. to rests on a brow undimmed with the officials of the Chinese
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Hongkong, Tuesday, April 21, 1925.
THE "CAT.”
A Week-end.
There is nothing like a week-care. Sehr Gut. end to demonstrate the fact of Sir Edward Arnold's line that mortal life is, as the wind-
Á
moan,en sigh, a sob, a storm,
a strife.
A Monday morning's news can shake us to the very foundations;;
blight our hope in human nature
MACAO 'REDIVIVUS.
NEW ILLUSTRATED BOOKLET.
31
Embassy, whence he was rescued operate the boats similar to the present arrangement between the. by the intervention of the British Pacific Mail and the Shipping Government in circumstances
ment,
new company,
which have often been recalled. Board, the total price for each Sir William Chntlie, his old vessel to be Dollars 1,350,000 in teacher at Canton, and the instru- other words they would pay in ment of his release by Lord actual cash Dollars 250,000 for each vessel and give the Shipping Salisbury's order, has borne testimony to the extraordinary Board Dollars 1,100,000 on each depth of personal devotion which vessel in preferred stock in the or raise it to great heights; bring
he inspired in all who knew-him. 'If we were given to tips we There was never, perhaps, a more "In may easily be seen that this to us the other ends of the earth would say: "Keep your eye on pathetic instance of the selfless bid did not accord with the and make us see whither men and Macao. To justify this state-idealist changed and corrupted by Government's specification when things are wending. The young ment there has reached the Commander of the wayward air- "China Mail" a beautifully illius contact with a corrupt environ- the ships were offered for sale, alip refuses to be interviewed on trated booklet, in glowing litho- the exploit which in a night has
colours, graphed
giving in It is appropriate that Mr. made him justly famous; the concise and clear language all Justice Wood, in his first case at "happy Prince" continues his that the stranger, visitor or re- the Sessions yesterday, should journey to the sound of much aident needs to know of the oldest
European Colony in have sentenced a member of a welcome and tribute that so well
China. becomes him. A scion of a once Armed with this publication, the gang of armed robbers to ten imperial house is declared not transient visitor need never com- years' imprisonment and to guilty of certain alleged war plain that Macao is dead, or dull; receive twelve strokes with the crimes; whilst in the same on that there is "nothing to see" and tinent there is being counted the nothing of interest. A visit "cat." Some time ago it was cost of the havoc wrought by henceforth becomes a profitable urged, in view of the epidemic of seemingly demented righters of experience; a holiday a delight. armed robberies, that heavier the social fabric. Locally a blaze The brochure is handy in size and sentences were called for, includ- of summer heralds a day of sports format; its illustrations ing more use of the "cat." It is and the triumph of the vigorous. superb and its information, in In another sphere, merchants English, and in tabloid form, pleasing to note that another of speak of hard times and the easy and natural of assumption, our Judgeà la détermined to use anxiety born of inability to meet Those responsible for its publica- his discretionary powers in this the result of depression into which tion are to be heartily congra- honourable trade for the time tuinted. They have done & ser- respectCriminals of the type-
being has fallen, Stern justice Vice Which should result in inv the armed robbers, who terrorise deals out unerringly to the creased interest being manifested whole households, tie them up, despoiler and the paller down of in perhaps the most interesting and gag them, before they proceed the ordinary social fabric of pot in the Far East Copies you still want to marry me
He to ransack the place, are usually existence, punishment which has may be had gratis from the
been ordained from almost the Publicity Department of the Har Sha Then I must refuse cowards at heart. “Nothing is beginning of time, life is indeed bour Works Macao. They couldn't marry an Imbecile more calculated to stamp out
“China Mally trusts there will be pecoens
Burn Humor- Madrid form of crime than the test. Om
an emper demand for coples
are
since it would merely mean that the Government would indirectly remain in partial ownership of the vessels for a considerable number of years. As soon as the decision of the United States Shipping Board to award the vessels to Dollar interests was announced the Pacific Mail Steam- |ship Co. instituted injunction. proceedings to prevent the Ship- ping Board carrying out the sale, notwithstanding the fact that the Dollar interests bid conformed to the legal requirements of the Board. These proceedings were instituted in one of the district courts of the District of Columbia, and according to latest advices a decision was to be handed down en-April-20
"It is not known, of courney- what the result will be, but in Sha: "If I had no money should | view of the general interest of
both Chinese and Foreigners in [Chine in the outcome of you. matter, the Dellar Company con
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