[ { "id": 416639, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-351 - Public Offices - 1908", "page_number": 804, "title": "CO129-351 - Public Offices - 1908", "content_text": "4\n\nKiangsu, with a view to the suppression of piracy. Four shallow-draught gun-boats, eight Chinese gun-boats, and ninety small patrol-boats ('red boats') are to be purchased.\n\n\"Railway for Ili.—The Military Governor has reported in favour of constructing three lines: one from Ti-hua Fu to Ili, one from Ti-hua Fu to Urga, and the third from Ti-hua Fu to Lanchou. He proposes that the gold mines in Ili should be developed with a view to raising capital for the construction of these railways, and that a loan should be made by the Board of Revenue.\"\n\n'Railways in Manchuria.—The Tsi-tsi-har—Hei-lung-chiang Railway is to be commenced next spring, and the Chinese Eastern Railway branch line from Tsi-tsi-har to Old Tsi-tsi-har this summer.\n\n\"Kirin-Ch'ang Ch'un Railway. The survey of this line has been completed, and the estimated cost of construction is 5,500,000 to 5,600,000 dollars. Work will be commenced on the conclusion of the Loan Agreement with Japan.\"\n\nProposed Admiral for Hupei.—The Grand Council contemplate the appointment of an officer as Admiral of Hupei, to be stationed at Hankow and co-operate with the Admiral of the Yang-tsze.\n\n**\n\nProposed new Naval Harbour.—The Viceroy of Canton has forwarded to the Army Board a Report on the harbour of Hsia Yung in Kwangtung, with regard to its suitability as a naval harbour. The question is to be referred to Admiral Sa.\n\nYang Shih Ch'i's Mission.—In a Memorial to the Throne Yang Shih Ch'i gives brief account of his mission to inquire into the condition of Chinese settlers in the Philippines, Siam, Singapore, Java, Annam, and other countries. He describes the climate and productions of the various places visited, and states the number of Chinese settlers in each. He praises the Administration of Singapore and Penang, where the Chinese have attained much wealth and influence, but states that in Java the Chinese, especially those employed in the mines, are badly treated. Everywhere he went he was well received, and found that the Chinese settlers still retained a strong feeling of affection for their native country. He addressed meetings of Chinese merchants in various places, and visited schools and other institutions, to some of which he gave scrolls presented by the Empress Dowager.\n\n\"Steam Navigation on the Upper Yang-tsze.\" (See Sir J. Jordan's despatch No. 157, of the 1st April) In a Memorial the Acting Viceroy of Szechuan reports that he proposes to establish a Company with a capital of 200,000 taels, to run steam-ships on the Upper Yang-tsze between Ichang and Chungking, and later to Suifu and Kiating, one-third of the capital to be subscribed by the Government and two-thirds by the public. An officer sent to investigate the matter has reported that by blowing up some of the obstructions in the river and using windlasses at some of the more dangerous rapids, navigation by steam vessels would be quite feasible. Three small steamers are to be purchased abroad, and the service will afterwards be extended.\n\n46\n\nFires in Peking.—It is reported that Na Tung has given special orders to the police with reference to the fires which have been very numerous recently. He states that, although the frequency of these fires is chiefly to be attributed to the exceptional dryness of the atmosphere, there is reason to suspect that some have been the work of incendiaries who wished to take advantage of the fires to commit thefts. He directs the police to exert themselves to bring all such criminals to justice.\n\n\"The Ching Hua Shih Pao reports that there was a fire at the Wai-wu Pu on the 4th, but that it was promptly extinguished.\"\n\nThe Ching Hua Shih Pao also reports that there are at present a large number of revolutionaries in Peking who have come here from Japan. The Board of the Interior are reported to have given orders for the arrest of fifty-five of these persons.\n\n\"Naval Harbour in Hainan.—The Viceroy at Canton has reported in favour of making a naval harbour at Yu Lin, in Hainan, and states that the water supply and climate are good. He recommends the construction of a railway for the purpose of transporting troops and supplies there when necessary.\n\nChengting-Te Chou Railway.—The Government have decided to proceed with the construction of this railway at once. Engineers have been sent by the Peking-Hankow Railway Company to survey the line, and work will be commenced next month. The construction will be under the direction of the French.\n\n\"Tsitsihar-Angangchi Railway.—A Chinese Company with a capital of 320,000 taels has been formed for the construction of this short line (a distance of 50 li). The contract for building the line has been given to a German firm, Messrs. Telge and Schroeter. Work will be commenced in June.\n\n**\n\n5\n\n'Proposed Appointment of Judicial Officials.—The provincial authorities of Kwangtung, Yunnan, and Kweichow proposed some time ago that judicial officers (Pu Huo Ts'ai P'an) should be appointed in the interior with a view to preparing for the withdrawal of the right of exterritoriality at present enjoyed by foreigners. The Government, with the assistance of Wai-wu Pu and Hsien Cheng Kuan, are engaged in drawing up Regulations for the purpose.\n\n\"Proposed Railways in the North-west.—The Shen-Kan Viceroy has recommended the construction of two lines, one from Kalgan to Urga, a distance of 2,450 li, the other from Sui-yuan along the north bank of the Yellow River to Ning-hsia; thence to Liang-Chou, Hami, Ti-hua, and Ili, a distance of 8,000 li. These railways could not be constructed as a commercial enterprise, but would be of great importance for military purposes.\n\nMining in Shansi.—Since buying out the Peking Syndicate, the Taiyuan Fu Mining Company have obtained permission to raise capital to the amount of 5,000,000 taels to develop the mines, and the capital has already been over-subscribed, only Chinese being permitted to purchase shares. A Chinese mining engineer has been engaged at a salary of 600 taels a-month, machinery has been ordered from Europe, and 1,000,000 taels of the capital is to be devoted to the establishment of an iron foundry.\n\nThe \"Universal Gazette,\" in an article on the danger of ignorance of the limits of foreign relations, proceeds to argue that, while the limitation of India's export of opium is a diplomatic question, China's monopoly of sale of the prepared drug is an internal Government step with which England has no concern, since the nature of the drug has been altered, and so the Treaty with England does not apply. At present the shops charge at will, irrespective of the duty and li-kin, and England has nothing to say. Similarly, Chinese prohibition of rice export does not affect cakes and biscuits made of it. Moreover, a rise in price is not a customs duty; the aliens might as well claim to interfere with the proposed stamp duties, which will be charged on native and foreign goods alike.\n\nThe distinction between diplomatic and non-diplomatic matters is quite easy. Another instance, the Soo-Hang-Ning Railway. The Tsung-li Yamên's agreement with the British Envoy might be brought within the scope of diplomacy, but, as regards construction, the publication of the Railway Regulations took that out of the Wai-wu Pu's sphere, and the Wai-wu Pu should have told Sir J. Jordan to bid his nationals petition the Board of Communications direct, and have declined to interfere, quoting as precedents the American exclusion, which its State Department insisted pertained solely to the Labour Department; the Manchurian troops question, which Russia said pertained to her War Office; the Touquin Consuls, which the French Foreign Office put on its Colonial Department, and all the other precedents of recent years. Unfortunately, the Board waited till it got a bad name by resisting popular opinion before it got the Board of Communications to make the loan,\n\nThen trade-marks: all China promised was rules like other Powers, yet foreigners are allowed to interfere with their tenor. And the Mining Rules, which were drafted with the aid of foreign advisers, were still less open to foreign revision.\n\nIf attention is paid to their protests on more and more questions, China's independence will be lost through Chinese heedlessness.\n\nThe trouble has come from the fact that the Wai-wu Pu is not bound, like other posts, to report to the Throne and quote precedents. It has assumed unlimited powers, and, with a Prince and Grand Councillors at its head, ignores all control, and, without knowing it, is a danger to the State. Could folly go further?\n\nTo recover from the consequences will take many years' struggles and constant supervision, which latter is beyond the Throne, the Council and the Ministers, and to be found only in an elected Parliament. This is the only means to safety.\n\nThe \"Eastern Times\" of the 25th March professes to give the gist of a secret report by the Chinese Delegates to The Hague Conference on the European position. He describes the Peace Conference as a covert struggle for each Power's private objects. England dislikes Germany, which, since its victory over France, has increased in military pride above not only England, but the whole world, and is now developing a navy. So Russia fell in with England's request, in order, it is said, to safeguard her Asiatic possessions after Japan's victory over Russia. So Russia and Japan nearly came to rupture over the naval question, who five years ago started the limitation of armaments proposal, now refused to sign such an Agreement. The Conference reminds him of Sung's abortive assembly of the States (in B.C. 545), when the Ch'u men wore armour under their clothes.\n\n797", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-351 - Public Offices - 1908.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 422674, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909", "page_number": 77, "title": "CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909", "content_text": "# Measures for Railway and Telegraph Development\n\n1. A thorough survey should be made of all projected lines.\n\n2. In the case of railways under official management which are still unfinished, a time limit should be fixed by the Board for their completion. This provision does not include the Tien-tsin-P'u-k'ou, Hankow-Canton, and Szechuan-Hankow lines, which are under the direction of directors-general.\n\n3. As regards railways under commercial management, it will be the duty of the Board to see that they are completed within a reasonable time, and failing this, to make other arrangements.\n\nAnother matter requiring special attention is the question of the repayment of foreign railway loans.\n\nAs regards telegraphs, telephones, &c., many steps have to be taken with a view to improving the service and putting it on a profitable basis.\n\nThe Board then give a list of the measures already carried out and those which they propose to take year by year.\n\n## Measures taken in the 34th year of Kuang Hsü (1908-9)\n\n* Completion of the following lines: Shanghae-Nanking, Mên-t'ou-kou, and a branch line of the Swatow-Ch'ao-chou. The Huang-sha-Ying-tsui section (128 li) of the Hankow-Canton line completed (the whole line has now been transferred to the control of a director-general).\n* Commencement of the Tsitsihar-Angangch'i line.\n* Continuation of the following lines under official management: the Peking-Kalgan, Kaifeng-Honan, Canton-Kowloon, and of the following lines under commercial direction: Shanghae-Chia-hsing, Hangchow-Chiahsing, Wuhu-Kuangte, and Nanchang-Kiukiang.\n* Survey and enquiry into affairs of the Szechuan-Hankow, Honan-Tung-kuan, Hsi-an-T'ung-kuan, Tung-P'u, Kiangsu-Chekiang, Ch'aochou-Swatow, Hsinning, Huichow-Ch'aochou, Kuangsi, Fookien, Yunnan, Szechuan, Anhui, and Kiangsi Railways.\n* Survey of Kirin-Chang-ch'un, Lehang-Kwei-fu, Cheng-Te, and Yen-Ch'ang lines.\n* Repayment of Peking-Hankow Railway loan.\n* Conclusion of arrangement for the annulment of the Canton-Macao agreement, and annulment of the Hanpiac branch line agreement.\n* Redemption of the commercial shares in the telegraph company. Establishment of various new telegraph lines.\n* Arrangements for reducing telegraph rates.\n* Officer sent to the Lisbon Telegraph Congress.\n* Reorganisation of the technical college at Shanghae and arrangements made for establishing a similar college under the Board.\n\n## Measures to be carried out in the 1st year of Hsuan Tung (1909-10)\n\n| Measure | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| Completion of lines | Kaifeng-Honan, Peking-Kalgan, Hangchow-Chiahsing, Hsinning, and Tsitsihar-Ang-ang-ch'i lines |\n| Arrangement of loan | Kirin-Ch'ang-ch'un Railway |\n| Commencement of lines | Kirin-Chang-ch'un, Szechuen-Hankow (Szechuen section), Honan-Tung-kuan (during this year at least 5,000,000 dollars of capital must be raised and one-third of the construction completed), Ch'ingchiang-Hsuchou, Hangchow-Ningpo, and the Hupei section of the Szechuan-Hankow line |\n| Continuation of lines | Canton-Kowloon and other lines already commenced |\n| Survey | Kalgan-Sui-yuan-ch'ang and Kalgan-Urga lines |\n| Engagement of engineers | Survey of the Kuanghsi and Yunnan railways |\n| Arrangements | Improving the Antung-Mukden line |\n| Survey | Haichow-Ch'ing-chiang and Kaifeng-Hsuchou lines |\n| Reduction of telegraph charges | 20 per cent., involving a total sum of over 600,000 dollars |\n| Establishment of new telegraph lines | Various new telegraph lines and improvement of others |\n| Wireless telegraphs | From Robdo to Sui lai |\n| Arrangements | Establishing a new electrical college |\n| Establishment | Technical college under the Board |\n| Improvement | Telephones in Peking and elsewhere |\n\n## Measures to be carried out in 1910-11\n\n* Arrangements for repayment of the Cheng-Tai Railway Loan in the following year, the total sum required being 40,100,000 fr.\n* Completion of the Nanchang-Kiukiang line. Commencement of the Hsi-an-Tung-kuan Railway.\n* Continuation of the Honan-Tung-kuan line. Capital to the amount of at least 10,000,000 dollars must be raised, and two-thirds of the line completed.\n* Continuation of other lines.\n* Survey of Urga-Kiakhta and Hsinmintun-Tsitsihar-Aihun line.\n* Preparations for establishing several new telegraph lines, including one from Szechuen to Thibet, a distance of over 2,000 li. The cost of the latter line will be met out of the grant for the development of Thibet.\n* Extension of telephones, &c.\n\n## Measures to be carried out in 1911-12\n\n* Repayment of Cheng-Tai Railway Loan.\n* Completion of Ch'ing-chiang, Canton-Kowloon, Nangchow-Ningpo, Changchow-Amoy lines.\n* Continuation of Hsin-Tungkuan line: capital to the amount of at least 2,600,000 taels must be raised, and two-thirds of the line completed.\n* Continuation of other lines, including the Honan-T'ungkuan, for which the full capital must be subscribed this year, and the construction approximately completed.\n* Commencement of the Tung-P'u Railway.\n* Survey of Hsi-an-Lanchow line, and of branch lines on southern railways. Establishment of works for the manufacture of electrical instruments, &c.\n* Various new telegraph lines to be established.\n* Preparations for installing wireless telegraphy along the coast.\n* Improvement and extension of telephone services.\n\n## Measures to be carried out in 1912-13\n\n* Preparations for repaying the Kaifeng-Honan Railway loan, the total sum required being 41,112,500 fr.\n* Completion of Honan-Tungkuan, Kirin-Ch'ang-ch'un, and Wuhu-Kuangte. The Hsi-an-Tung-kuan line must be approximately completed and the total capital subscribed.\n* Continuation of other lines.\n* Survey of Lanchow-Ili line to be continued and surveys to be made of branch lines on southern and northern lines.\n* China to join the International Telegraph Convention. Construction of various new telegraph lines.\n\n## Measures to be carried out in 1913-14\n\n* Preparations for repaying the Shanghae-Nanking Railway loan, a sum of 3,559,931 taels being required in all.\n* Continuation of Szechuan-Hankow and other lines.\n* Survey of branch lines on eastern and western railways.\n* Construction of various new telegraph lines.\n* Extension of works for manufacture of electrical instruments, &c.\n* Extension of telephone systems.\n\n## Measures to be carried out in 1914-15\n\n* Preparations for repaying Tao-Ching Railway loan, a sum of 797,789 taels being required.\n* Repayment of Shanghae-Nanking Railway loan.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 531642, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-536-1 Estimates- 1932 3-9-1931 - 16-6-1933", "page_number": 134, "title": "CO129-536-1 Estimates- 1932 3-9-1931 - 16-6-1933", "content_text": "CATHAY HOTEL, Shanghai\n\nCABLE ADDR \"CATHOTEL\"\n\nE. CARRARD,\n\nGeneral Manager\n\n← NEWEST AND MOST\n\nMODERN HOTEL\n\nIN CHINA\n\n250 ROOMS AND SUITES EACH WITH PRIVATE BATHROOM\n\nCLASSICAL CONCERT\n\nIN THE\n\nGROUND FLOOR LOUNGE\n\n(EVERY MORNING & AFTERNOON)\n\nMR. J. ULLSTEIN'S\n\nCONCERT ORCHESTRA\n\n\"DINER DANSANT\" EVERY EVENING\n\nIN THE\n\nBALL ROOM\n\n(8TH FLOOR)\n\nHENRY NATHAN'S\n\nDANCE ORCHESTRA\n\nWITH ADDED\n\nENTERTAINMENT PROGRAMME\n\nGRILL ROOM\n\n(9TH FLOOR)\n\nAN IDEAL RENDEZVOUS\n\nFOR\n\nLUNCHEON AND DINNER\n\nTeeth like pearls\n\nHER perfect teeth are indeed a precious\n\npossession. They mean so much to her-\n\nin appearance-in freedom from dental troubles-- in health both now and in the years to come.\n\nAnd she owes her strong, healthy teeth very largely to \"Ovaltine\" Rusks. When the first tiny teeth were coming through Mother gave her \"Ovaltine\" Rusks to chew. The exercise given to the baby jaws and teeth made possible the forma-tion of a flawless second set.\n\n\"Ovaltine\" Rusks are delightfully crisp, yet break up easily in the mouth. They are made of pure, unbleached wheat flour. The addition of \"Ovaltine\" makes them delicious in taste, easy to digest and most nutritious.\n\nREISS, MASSEY & CO., LTD. Agents for\n\n'OVALTINE\n\nPusks\n\nPRETISING D CLSTIVE/\n\nNOUR SHING\n\nenentore\n\n(Regd.)\n\nA.P.B. 64\n\nTHE PIONEER and WORLD-FAMED\n\nCOLOUR POWDERS\n\nFOR TINTING\n\nCEMENT, CONCRETE\n\nPATENT FLOORING, DECORATION, ETC.\n\nAPPLY\n\nDODWELL & CO. TEL. 28021.\n\nSOUTH CHINA MORNING POST. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1931.\n\nGENEVA ANXIETY.\n\nALARM LEST COUNCIL SHOULD ABDICATE.\n\nPROBLEM OF MANCHURIA STILL CAUSING GRAVE CONCERN.\n\nJAPAN'S REPLY SENT.\n\nThe atmosphere at Geneva is reported to have become exceedingly tense, as Japan's reply on the latest issues raised has caused \"a painful impression.\"\n\nFurther bombing by Japanese aeroplanes, with railways as the objective, is reported from Manchuria.\n\nAnxiety amounting to alarm is felt lest the League Council carry out its intention virtually to abdicate over the Manchurian dispute.\n\nThe Chinese still maintain their viewpoint that the Japanese must withdraw their troops to the railway zone and agree to indemnify Chinese losses before negotiations can be commenced.\n\nThere is a growing belief in League circles, however, that the Council's committee is weakening in its treatment of the difficulty and is inclined to advise the Chinese to abandon their conditions.\n\nThis policy has produced very deplorable effects in League circles. If persisted in it is feared will have very disastrous effects on the coming disarmament conference and the League itself, which is facing the most serious crisis it has ever experienced.\n\nPAINFUL IMPRESSION.\n\nLondon, Oct. 22.\n\nM. Briand, with a very grave face, descended the stairs first, alone, on the way to his hotel, where he will receive Mr. Yoshizawa.\n\nThe anxiety, almost alarm, felt lest the Council carry out its intention virtually to abdicate over the Manchurian dispute is reflected in the comment of the London morning papers.\n\nHe told Reuter.—\"We are not through the wood yet.\"\n\nOther members of the committee were equally preoccupied, and the atmosphere is tense almost to breaking point. The Japanese reply has evidently created a very painful impression.\n\nThe News-Chronicle appeals to M. Briand and Lord Reading to remain at Geneva to avert the threatened calamity to the League. --Reuter.\n\nTENSION INCREASED.\n\nGravity of Position Owing to Japan's Attitude.\n\nNOT OUT OF THE WOOD.\n\nGeneva, Oct. 22.\n\nDramatic Development. There was a sudden dramatic development in the situation as the result of Mr. Yoshizawa's visit to M. Briand, which lasted exactly twenty-five minutes.\n\nOn leaving, Mr. Yoshizawa told Reuter that the reply from Tokyo was incomplete, and some sections of the communication had still to be received. He might therefore consider it advisable to ask for an adjournment.\n\nThe committee of five is now meeting to consider it.\n\nThe reply arrived in the small hours of the morning, and the staff of the delegation stayed up all night long decoding it.\n\nThe final form of the resolution which will be presented at a full sitting of the Council proving difficult to find, the conversations continued until a late hour last night, in which the Secretary General of the League participated. Various modifications, it is believed, were suggested.\n\nHe then returned to his hotel to consult his colleagues.\n\nOn arriving for an interview at 11.55 Mr. Yoshizawa had told Reuter that the Japanese reply was \"a little reassuring.\"-Reuter.\n\nJAPANESE ACTION.\n\nStrengthening Defences in Manchuria.\n\nIt is rumoured that the Japanese reply to M. Briand's proposals on behalf of the Council is not altogether satisfactory.\n\nThe Chinese attitude is unchanged. Dr. Sze maintains the viewpoint of the Nanking Government that the Japanese must withdraw their troops to the railway zone and agree to pay an indemnity for Chinese losses as a result of the occupation, the amount of which shall be settled later, before commencing direct negotiations with Japan.\n\nSerious Alarm.\n\nA very serious view is taken of the situation in League circles this evening. It is alleged that the Council's committee is weakening in its treatment of the difficulty and it is said the committee is inclined to advise the Chinese to abandon their conditions for direct negotiations, namely the previous withdrawal of the Japanese troops and the presence of neutrals to supervise the evacuation, and thus seemingly leave the Japanese to treat with the Chinese Government under the pressure of a military occupation.\n\nThis feeling has produced very deplorable effects in League circles and it is feared that this policy if persisted in will have a very disastrous effect on the coming disarmament conference and the League itself, which is facing the most serious crisis it has ever experienced.\n\nGeneva Hopes.\n\nAs both the chamber and the temple are in Chinese territory, the Shanghai Municipal Police have not intervened, but are watching both buildings. Should any of the detained men be brought onto a road, police action would follow.\n\n\"The Chinese Government sincerely hopes that active efforts, now in progress at Geneva to arrive at a settlement of the present case in the interests of justice and peace, will soon be crowned with success, which will be conducive to the well-being, not only of China, but of the whole world.\n\nCoolie Robs Japanese.\n\nA Shanghai ricksha coolie burning with the twin urges of patriotism and desire for the better things of this world killed two birds with one stone by attacking and robbing Mr. Bunro Ando, secretary to Mr. Yusuke Tsurumi, Japanese delegate to the Institute of Pacific Relations.\n\nAs Mr. Ando was returning to his hotel during mid-morning, he was pulled into an alleyway near Honan Road where the coolie first administered a beating and then relieved his victim of Yen 56 and $200 in Chinese currency. Despite his bruises, Mr. Ando was able to make his way back to his hotel and inform the police of the incident.\n\nRight of Boycott.\n\nReferring to the boycott in the course of its Memorandum in reply to the Japanese Memorandum of Oct. 9, the Chinese Government, according to the Sino News Service, makes the following declaration:\n\n\"It must therefore be matter of surprise to the world that popular indignation in China has limited itself to the mere refusal to purchase Japanese goods. The freedom to choose one's purchases is an individual right with which no government interferes, and, while it is the duty of every government to protect foreign nationals, it is bound neither by any recognized standard of governance nor by any principle of International Law to prohibit or punish the exercise of an elemental right of citizenship. If there be any responsibility in the matter, it entirely lies with the Japanese Government, which has, by many acts of unfriendliness since the Wanpaoshan incident, created this general prejudice against Japanese merchandise.\n\nCHINA UNITY.\n\nNanking and South To-\n\nManchuria.\n\ngether on\n\nSPECIAL COMMITTEE.\n\nRecent Disturbance.\n\nA Chinese taken into custody on Saturday, October 10, for throwing a stone at a police officer during the disturbance in Yangtze-poo district, when arraigned before the Special District Court received sentence of six months' imprisonment.\n\nMANCHURIAN WAR.\n\nIndependent Movement\n\nDefeated.\n\nRUSSIAN DANGER.\n\nPeking, Oct. 22. Retreating with several thousands of his followers, the Manchu independent leader, Chang Hai-peng, is falling back from Taonan to Hailar, near the Sino-Russian frontier.\n\nThe Heilungkiang Provincial Government has sent envoys to the independent armies advising the opposing troops not to proceed to Hailar, as proximity to Russian territory may lead to further Sino-Russian complications.\n\nShanghai, Oct. 22.\n\nThe impression in French circles here this morning was more favourable than it was earlier.\n\nTokyo, Oct. 22.\n\nIt is learned that the Japanese War Office has decided to despatch additional machine-guns and infantry guns to Manchuria, for the purpose of increasing the defensive power, as the Government is averse to increasing the number of troops.-Reuter.\n\nMR. CHU CHAO-HSIN.\n\nAn Appointment by the Nanking Government.\n\nA telegram announcing the appointment of Mr. Chu Chao-hsin, former Chinese Minister to Italy and vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Nanking Government, as one of the commissioners to serve on the Special Committee elected by the Nanking Government to administer foreign affairs and the Manchurian negotiations has been despatched from the Nanking Central Political Council to a prominent Hongkong Chinese merchant, asking him to convey this message of appointment to Mr. Chu Chao-hsin, who was in Hongkong yesterday.\n\nFAITH IN LEAGUE.\n\nPeking, Oct. 22.\n\nAlthough the resolution will provide for an adjournment of the Council for three weeks, it is believed a proviso will be added to the effect that the Council still considers itself in permanent session in order that they could be again summoned urgently, should the situation warrant.\n\nAnother Chinese telegram to headquarters states that Japanese aeroplanes dropped six bombs yesterday near Tahsing, on the Taonan-Angangchi railway, but the damage has not to be ascertained.-Reuter.\n\nExcitement was at fever heat here this morning, as it is felt that some definite development must result from to-day's deliberations. It was decided at the last minute that the meeting of the committee of five should be held at the Secretariat, where it has now continued for already three quarters of an hour.\n\nGENEVA DELAY.\n\nWeakening.\n\n\"DEPLORABLE EFFECTS.\"\n\nMr. Yoshizawa has an appointment with M. Briand at 11.30.\n\npresumably to hand him officially the text the Japanese reply.\n\nGRAVE DEVELOPMENT.\n\nJapanese Reply Considered Unsatisfactory.\n\nLater.\n\nThe Council considers\n\nChina's Reply to Powers Identic Notes.\n\nPOLICY OF PEACE.\n\nNanking, Oct. 21.\n\nThe Waichiaopu despatched to day the following communication to the French, British, German, Norwegian, Jugo-Slavian, Italian, and Polish Governments in reply to their identic notes calling attention of both China and Japan to their obligations under the Kellogg Pact:\n\n\"The Chinese Government feels to her legal as well as moral duty toward human civilization.\n\nThe acting Chairman of the Heilungkiang Provincial Government who was responsible for the defeat of the Independents near Taonan, has telegraphed to Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang suggesting that the Nanking Foreign Office should lodge a strong protest against the supply of foreign arms and ammunition from one of Manchuria's foreign neighbours to the Independents under Chang Hai-peng.\n\nCommander Ma's telegram says that without the foreign imported arms and ammunition there would have been no independent movement. He declares that the movement was deliberately created to harm the prestige of the Central Government in her foreign relations.\n\nYOUNG MARSHAL.\n\nStill Intends to Return to Mukden.\n\nLUGGAGE MYSTERY.\n\nPeking, Oct. 21. It is understood that Mr. Chu Chao-hsin will be leaving for Shanghai on the Empress of Russia this morning.\n\nFour hundred and seventeen effects-cases of household furniture and personal belongings Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang and his family, have arrived at Tongku from Dairen.\n\nTen\n\nTHE BOYCOTT.\n\nMerchants Held in Shanghai Temple.\n\nONE PAYS $10,000 FINE.\n\nShanghai, Oct. 12.\n\nThe anti-Japanese boycott committee over the week-end resumed its activities against merchants supposed to be dealing in Japanese goods.\n\nDuring the last few days merchants held in the temple have been released on \"fines.\" One was $10,000. The usual amount demanded is $5,000.\n\nThe merchants are given a preliminary trial in the office of the General Chamber of Commerce, which adjoins the temple, before being confined in the latter building. In all cases the self-appointed tribunal has found them guilty of dealing in Nipponese goods and have been threatened with the destruction of their business if the fines inflicted are not paid.\n\nProtests to the authorities of Greater Shanghai have failed to bring any relief to the merchants, and in some cases the relatives of the men detained have refused to give information under fear of reprisals.\n\nJAPANESE OPTIMISM.\n\nContrasting with the pessimism prevailing at Geneva, Reuter was informed this evening that a more optimistic view prevails at the Japanese Embassy in London in regard to the Sino-Japanese dispute.\n\nIt was said there that there seems to be every sign of a settlement as both sides appear to have made up their minds to bring about an arrangement. Everyone, it was added, seems to be doing his best with this object in view.\n\nMomentous Meeting.\n\nLater.\n\nIt was then the general opinion that the Council would take a strong line.\n\nThe resolution to be submitted at to-morrow's meeting will urge Japan and China to find a mutual settlement of their difficulties within a period which will, most probably, be indicated by some date set for the next meeting of the Council, which, it is understood, will be about the middle of November.\n\nAwaiting Japan's Reply.\n\nLater.\n\nDespite the decisions taken to night by the Committee of Five-which have caused so much adverse comment it appears that everything to a certain extent will be subordinated to the Japanese Reply, which has not yet been received.\n\nThe tone of the Reply will directly influence the wording of the resolution to be submitted to the Council.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-536-1 Estimates- 1932 3-9-1931 - 16-6-1933.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 } ]