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CORRESPONDENCE

KOWLOON ROADS: A WARNING.

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PEKING.

THE BONGKONG DAILY PRESS THURSDAY, JUNE 1874 1973ET

Aj Northern native paper has a despatok from Peking which the N.-C. Daily News translates as follows: Although the Government tall everybody that the demands of Russia in regard to Mancharis bavo been rejected by China in tots, yet it is an open secre: that, aut rosa, the advisers of the Thrana have giron way to al the demands of Russia. Indeed the Waiwupa dare not discuss any important international questions, whilst none of the Ministers of that Department are seen nowadays within its precincts. They are, however, plunging deep into social intercourse with foreign dianers and banquets tre ofleials, and the order of the day with them just pov. Indeed, their Majesties proffer no questions about how to oppose Russia in Manekucio, nor oss thore be found any one caring under the eir- cumstances to address the Throne on the wetter. Even the ensachs in the Palace when usked as to how things are getting along in the Grand Conucil, etc., reply just now, 'Oh! we know nothing nor care for anything except to see that

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BOUTH AFRICL

London, 25th May. According to an Amsterdam newspaper, Commandant Generul Lenis Botha has cabled from South Africa that an amnesty has been nocorded to all the Cape rebels, and that there

now in Holland esti safely return home.

PREFERENTIAL TRADE.

London, 23rd May.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE "DAILY POK88." Hongkong, 17th June, Sau.-Will no one pity the sorrows of the poor Kowloonitost When will the "powers that be" give us roads that will not wash out leaving rocky eminences and yawning chasms The P.WD aftor each shower of raiu? apparently know no other means of repairing roads beyond filing the ruts with sand dug out of the neures drain (where it had been deposited by a previous shower). I grieve to think what would have been the faulings of the Walrus and the Carpenter if they had visited Kowloon this morning and sean "such quantities of mod" choking the drains! To ride in a ricksha in Kowloon is at present anything bal the enjoyment of the poetry of motion The convulsive efforts of stont lady (whom I saw this morning) trying to sit tight ould have moved aryono, except the local authorities, to tears. I fear the locs! "Bumour rice owls are full and palatable to the month.in favour of a rearrangement of the fiscal

hearts are border than their roads. That's all. The sale of official rank goos on wish all whom it may concern to note that guily and daily nad je such a manner that it should I in the course of a cross-country ride would seem the sellers are trying to make all dowa the maiti roed have my fakes tooth jerked they can while they can as if the day of reckoning down my throat I will proceed for dutage

were not far off. As for Viceroy Yann Shi-kai, against the Legislative Council, the P.W.D., or he looks as if weighed down by the know'ge whoever else I any be legally advised is respon of scans impending calamity. In fact he has cible for the atrocious state of the public roads. -I am, &c

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THE PLAGUE.

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TO THE EDITOR OF THE "DAILY PRESS

Hongkong, 17th June. Sin-Has a man got plagao when he meets his death by s fall or by any other form of accident? I wish to know, because I believe that Europeans recently admitted to Kennedy town Plague Hospital were no more suffering from plagas than is the was in the moon,

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stem any

scared and worried look ahnt bim Even the Empress Dowager is getting distrustful of his ability to political stora Her Majesty has been known to have asked Yuan about the condition of his ormy, whether it can be depended upon to give adequate protection to their Majesties in time of trouble, and to these questions You has always given uncertain replies. Prince Ching also has shown that he does not think Yuan ft.ed to all the important post As for the Grand of Grand Councillor. Beorelary Wang Won-shao, he is getting sonile, no when any one talks to him for any length of time H.E. falls of to sleep. La Ch'uss-lin is new anxious to leave Peking for some post in the provinces, os if be feared calamity to be in the near distance as regards Peking. Such are the men upon whom poor, unfortunats China has to depend at present.

THE KISHINEFF MASSACRE.

THE OFFICIAL EXPLANATION." A circular issued by the Russian Minister of the Interior to the Governors, Prefects, and Chiefs of Police gives the following account of the recent attack on the Jews at Kishineff :-

A Tariff League was formed Fehlerday at a private meeting held in Westminster, and attended by a large number of members of Parliament and leading British manufacturers. The League has been called into being with a viow to organising opinion through the mediam of local committees, and, while iguoring party politics, to promote preferential trade within the Empire. After Mr. Chamberlain's speech at Birmingham on the 15th inst the treasurer of the new league secured the signatures of 3,000 prominent British manufacturers to a petition duties. The Standard summarises the position this morning by stating that Canada is enthaei astio over the Zollverein idea, Australia Great Britain apparently option, and

"But," the Standard adds, "the expectant. leaven is working. Our fiscal policy must be vindicated by its adaptability to changing circumstances, and not by an appeal to authority,”

which the granting of aldinge pensions was bssed, but the funnelal foundations without which the pension proposals muat remain impracticable,

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NEBUCHADNEZZAE'1⁄2 QATH DISCOVERED.

London, 23rd May. Important discoveries have been made by a

party of German explorers, who have been Babylon. The explorers have brought to light excavating at the site of the ancient city, of the groot gate of Nebuchadnezzar's Palace. They also found hundreds of insoribed bricks, part of a public library, dealing with the earliest period of Babylonian history.

WOMEN'S QUEEN VICTO IA MEMORIAL.

London, 23rd May. The money collected throughout the Empire for the Women's Memerist to Queen Victoria, omonating to £88,000, has been presented to the King and Queen for the endowment ef an Institute for District Nursos.

THE EDUCATION MILL-ORGANISED

OPINION.

London, 24th May.

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The Nonconformist protest against the LEVEL London Education Bill took place in Lendon yesterday, and was on imposing demonstration. A procession, including many thousands of per- 6009, was formed. Amongst those who took Tytam part wars congregations led by their ministers, numbers of trades unious, and friendly societies. They met at the Embankment, and marched to Hyde Park, singing byuns, with banners flying Speaking at Doncaster yesterday Mr. H.-H. and bands playing. The weather was trilliant, and the spectacle uccordingly attracted an im. Asquith, K.C., asserted that Mr Chamberlain's

mente concours) to Hyde Park, the number being proposals had the unqualified, and aníted, opposition of the entire Liberal party. Other estimated at 100,C. Speeches were mads and resolutions moved from 12 platforms. The Liberal leaders similarly resist the proposals on the ground of the past success of the policy of speakers included Dr. Clifford, Mr. Lloyd All vigorously free markets and an open door. "Sir Charles George, and other members of the House of Dilke has a letter in the Daily Mail, in the course of which be states that there has always denounced the destruction of the school board, been a divergence of opinion on preferential and overweighting the London County Council. trade issues in Australia and Canada. It has, They maintained that it was necessary that the Sir Charles states, sometimes been assumed schools should be controlled by a directly from speeches made by s for leading Austra-elected body, The Government had previously lions that there exists in Australia a desire for announed that in consequence of the debate which took place in the House of Commons on what are called closer relations with other

Council would be confined to local management, parts of the Empire, but it would be difficult Wednesday Inst the functions of the Borough and that their representation on the Central accepted that standpoint. to show that any Australian party had ever

Committee had been abandoned.

Writing to one of his constituents, Mr. J. Chamberlain has expressed himself as being fully convinced that the prosperity of the eonatry depende largely upon the trade with the colonius, which he considers would, noder a wine system of mutual concession, increase by leaps and bounds. "We have been apt in the past," Mr. Chamberlain asserts, "to consider too much the advantage of buying cheaply, and not to pay sufloient attention to the methods whereby we may have the means enabling as to berlain added, "even more important to the pay at all." "Increased wages are," Mr. Cham- working class than a redaction in the cost of

living."

Commons, and ministera.

The Tires this morning states that the Hyde Park demonstration against the London Educa- tion Bill was the largest, most earnest, and most intelligent that has been seen in Hyde Park for a score of years. The vast crowd was largely composed of representatives of the respectable and lower middle classes. The Daily New's asserts that the generation of Londoners has witnessed no portest sc împrez. sive and so full of hope. The Standard admite tration directed against the general educational that it was a powerful Nonconformist demone

policy of the Government rather than the

London bill.

His Majesty the King passed through Hyde Park-while the demonstration was in progress, and watched the movements of the vast crowd with great apparent interest.

Te digress for a moment, take the oRD of the ship's steward who some time ngo fell into the graving dook at Kowloon during the night and was picked up dead next morning floating in several foot of water and with a hole in his head large enough to put on egg in. The ordinary mortal would have

follow unfortunate saitl that the sithor killed by the fall or drowned, bat that is just where the ordinary mortal would base erred, apparently, for the official wiseacres who make the health of the Colony their study found that the deceased died of plagne. Only the other day two Euro.

"In the disturbances, the originators of peans who felt seedy and had their blood examined by our doctor were sent to Kennedy. which were for the most part common people, town to take their chances as plague patients, forty-five persons were killed, seventy-four only to be discharged next day by another severely injured, and 350 slightly injured. doctor, who said they had no plague. Thore About 700 houses belonging to Jews and may have boon other similar casos, but these will about 600 shops were looted. The disturbances arose out of the strained relations existing

Replying to a correspondent, Lord Rozbory sufige to show that some of our destors, de between the Christinna and Jews in Bessarabia. spite the experience of past years, are still Reparta of alleged ritual marders in the guvern-recently expressed surprise that his Busoley groping in the dark as rogards plague. They meats of hersen, Kief, and Kishineff led speech had been interproted as supporting Mr. perhaps are not to blame, but the knowledge of to a clament for an attack on the Jews Chamberlain." It would have been unseemly theiriacompetesco fa decidedly for from comfort and written appeals were distributed with that and injudicious," Lord Rosebery asserted, "in ing to patients coming under their treatment object. On Easter Sunday a Christian woman addressing an audience divide upon that ques- tion for me to summari y diamies avy plan, if was maltreated by the Jewish proprietor of a Besides, if a man has not got plague, bat is sout, on the pronouncement of a doctor that he merry-go round, and this provided a direct causs proposed on the responsibility of the Govora. A German denter who was assisting in the has, to an institution where the disease of for attacking the Jews. The crowd then threw munt, to promote closer ties between Great hospital at Kishnielf after the recent outrages nacessity abounds, and where he runs the stones at the houses of the Jews in the neigh-Britain and her colouies. This specially applies upon the local Jews by so-called Russian esidences of which came under his personal gravest conceivable risk of being infected, surely bourhood, and marched through the various when the idea set forth is known to be eminently Christians describes many horrible cruelties, that is not fair to the unlucky patient, and quarters of the town, everywhere destroying the orugoniul te some of the colonies. surely the comment, "I could have sworn it houses and booths belonging to Jews. On Easter adhere to my previously expressed views that observation. In one instance a man's legs bed was plague" is not sufficient oxcuse for Sunday nine Jews were killed. On the following an inter-Imporis tariff, to be practicable, must been sawn off, and in another all a child's feath And I have infant's eyes had boen barnt out with a red-hot a blunder that might have cost a man his life. morning the Jews in the Now Bazaar attacked be just and acceptable both to the United had been extracted, while in got a third an Plogue is bad enough'in all conscience without the Christians, one of whom was killed by a Kingdom and to the colonies. Bending a man out of his way to contract it, \ shot fired from the Jewish side. The riots wern | siready indicated the nature of the obiection iron while the unfortunate little victim was and the daily returns of the sanitary authorities thereupon renewed. As the military who were which I believe to be unsurmountable.”

OLD-AGE PENSIONS. are disquieting enough in the height of an patrolling the town proved insufficient, further

London, 24th May. spidewis without the inclusion of cases that are bodies of troops were called in, and the daty of

The Aged Pensioners Bill was yesterday read anything bat plague casas. With apologies for maintaining order was transferred to the

military authorities. On the evening of a second time in the House of Commons. The trespassing on space.-Yeurs, etc.,

OBSERVER.

Easter Monday, when the troops End bean age limit proposed in the bill is 65 years, and the amount of the pension is 5s. per week. The distributed among the various districts, in accordance with prearranged plan, this dis estimated cost is £6,500,000 per annum,,the The regaired nonat to be raised partly from the turbaneus were brought to an end. events at Kishineff led to disturbances ip many cats and partly from the Treasury.

Referring to the bistory of the old age pen- other parts of the empire, and in some towns

HONGKONG SANITARY BOARD.

A meeting of the Board will be held to-day Thursday, at 4.15 p.m.

ORDERS OF THE DAY.

number of steamers and steat-launches baying for Canton or Macao.

But I

THE ANTI SEITE ONTEAGES--BOLY RUSSIA!

London, 25th May.

In the latter held in its mother's arms. instance the child's father was present, and was compelled to witness not only the agonies which the little one cuffered, but also his wife being outraged and baring her breast cut off while trying to protect their child.

20th May. Pieminent Jewish financiers in London and Paris are bringing pressure to bear upon the Russian Government in order to prevent any further Jewish mane sucres of the nature of the recast torrible scenes at Kisbnieff. M. do

of Chiarse waving the Colony daily and the protection. Ai the instance of the Director of tary of State for the Colonies) agreed that warned the Tear that a repetilion of the 1. Reydy from Government as to the aumho 1 the Jews began to form societies for their own cions movement Mr. J. Chamberlain (Secre-Witte, the Russian Minister of Finance, has the Police Department, the Twar instructed the thore was a possibility of doing something to Minister of the Interior to make it clear to stimulate thrift and help the work of making Chiefa of the Government towns that it was their provision for old age. The question was, how- duty, for the falfliment of which they would be ever, complicated. The obstacles were great held personally responsible, to take meusares for but not insuperable. It would not be impos- proventing acts of violence, and thus quiet the sible to flod funds for that purpose. He had no peputation." The circular of the Minister of doubt but that there would have to be that

2. Correspondence relative to Plague at Formosa.

3. Letter from Government relative closing the Chinese theatres..

to

4. Approval of the Board's recommendation the Interior poials out that the formation of review of the fiscal system, which he had re-

oncerning the outbreak of a disease.

certain cattle

5. The President purrant to notice will more:-That whereas the Board have found it neceserry to take certain proceedings against people using chalk and water instead of lime. wash, the Board obtain authority to insert an advertisement in the local papers to the effect that chalk and water cannot be accepted in lien of limewash, but that there is no objection to colouring matter being added to it.

G. A. WOODCOCK,

Secretary.

AGENDA.

societies for self-defence is inadmissible. In the event of disturbances the civil anthorities are not allowed to transfer to the military their obligation to keep order, but must direct the common action of the troops and police. The civil authorities, adds the circular, are only to cease giving directione personally when they bare called upon the commanders of troops to

order their men to use their weapons.

A RATE WAR.

According to the San Francisco Chronicle, the avide Mail 8.5. Co. have commenced a

1. Correspondence regarding the detention now rate-war with the view of cutting out the of inmates of plagna houses.

China Commercial 8.3. Co, recently formed

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contly indicated as mosessary and desirable, at an early date. (Choere)

outrages will have a disastrous effect apor Russia's busses, and the Tsar bas accordingly ordered the total suppression of Jew-baiting. author, have strongly denounced the Kishuieff

Count Leo Tolstoi and Mexim Gorki, the

outrage.

THE CHINESE INDEMNITY.

London, 26th May. All the Power oppose the Anglo-American proposal to silow China to pay the amount of the indemnity for a period of nine yours on a silver, instead of a goid basis.

THE TIN TRADE.

Mr. W. H. Long (President of the Local Govorament Board) admitted that the bill was an improvement upon previous efforts in the

London, 98th May, same direction, but considered that more prosise, information was required. As it now stood, the

In order to prevent, Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan but, re-calling recent demands for a remission securing the control of the tin trade, the Go- bill was but a remnant of the original proposals, of taxation, Mr. Long doubted whether a vernment of the Straits Settlements has im- proposal necessitating a large expenditure would posed a prohibitive duty upon the export of tim be acceptable to the nation. The only way toore unless it is smelled in the oniony. raise the money would be to proceed with the revision of the fiscal system.

The bill was referred to a Select Committee of the House.

WEATHER REPORT.

Mr. Chamberlain's remarks upon old-age 2. Report relative to the scavenging of the in Hongkong. It is said that, the P.M. are

pensions have caused a sensation of West- Bill District.

shipping freight from Frisco to Hongkong at minster, and in political circles generally 1. Application for the renewal of the lake-54 per ton. The China Commercial Co. is house ligence for No. 230, Queen's Road Wert.

distinctively a Chízose úffair, the stock all being throughout the Kingdom. The remarks are mark the Loochoos.

interpreted to mean that Mr. Chamberlain

1. Application for the renewal of a soap-owned by wealthy Mongolians. The promoters intends pushing forward a scheme of fiscal

boling licence.

5 Mortality Statistics for the weeks ended 2nd and 9th May, 1903.

6. Rat Return for the fortnight ended fath

June, 19.3.

7. lime-washing Return for the fortnight ended th June, 1923.

of the Company stated that the primary object

of instituting this cow line was to build no trade rovision, believing that the workers will support between China, Mexico and the South American the imposition of duties on foreign products if republies. From later indications, however, it they know that the money is to be devoted to is apparent that the new Company intends to enter the local field to a certain extent, hence so old-ays pension foud. Mr. W. H. Long the alarm of the Pacific Mail and its basty urged during the debate that the real difficulty was not with regard to the principle upon cutting of rates.

The Hongkong Observatory yesterday issued the following report:-

the baresistor has fallen generally over N. Tdepression bas deepened and extends over

a

large aros. The centre is lying to the West of the Locchocs and moving Eastwards,

Fresh SW. winds in the Formosa Channel.

and streng 8W. monsoon over the N. part of Forecset-Fresh SW. winds: squally, thun- the China Sea. der showers.

Telegraphie communication between tho Observatory and Hongkong interrupted.

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