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CORRESPONDENCE.;

CHINA AND THE MANCHUB.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE "DAILY PRYB3,"

Singapore, 6th October,

SIR,-As the Manchus have given Macharia

io Russin the Chinese are afraid that she will annez China through the Minahus

also

POLICE COURT.

Thursday, 15th October. Bertan. Me. T. BERCOMES Skita (POLICE MAGISTRATE).

$10 FOR RESCUING A WOMAN FROM DROWNING.

Last Bunday afternoona Chiness woman, 35

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRS FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16r

LORD ROSEBERY ON THE WAR COMMISSION REPORT.

10th September. Br-You ask me my opinion with regard to the report of the Commission on the War, and

obcouragement, se tle Chinese must be on their years old, Leaped from the wharf opposite the the situation created by its publication. My in many parts of the world. When buried į

guard and unite themselves in expolling the Monchus from the Chinese empero as quickly as ponible, or olsa tho Chinese will have no home and turn out like the Jews who were driven from Judes, Should Russia seizs Chips a war must be instantly declared by the Chinese and the Japanese against the Manchas and the Russians in order to free Chios from the Manchu yoke. As long as the Manchu Govern- mont is allowed to exist Chien cannot be sured and the China will be disgraced fill the

world comes to an end.

Why have the Americany, Dutch, Spaniarda and the Australians ill-treated the Chinose in their countries ? It is because the unfortunate Manchu Government is unable to protect the Chises owing to their weakness, although the Chinoso are under their rulo. The Chinese ought to re-establish their own Goverment ander the reform method and solet a Chisaman to be the Emperor, instead of the pressat one, who is so peworkss and unlucky to China.

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BURIED TOWNS. During the last twenty years or no archaeo- The following letter has been written by logical discovery has progressed at an extra- ordinary pace. The scientiflo uas of the pick Lon! Rosebery to a correspondent:---

and shovel has brough to light the mast astonishing evidences of the civiliation-or of the lack thereof-of probistoric times. In no the unveiling of the social life of long past eras direction, perhaps, has more been done than in

towns are mentioned an European's thoughts naturally in at once to the shasic sites of Pompeii and Hercalaneam, As regards the former, we are not likely to add much lo the knowledge already required by the case of Herculaneum excavation; bat is d. Forent, In the course of a paper which he read not long ago before the

M Konny Hughes made some very interesting Royal Archeological Insthink, Professor remarks of the Herenlangan ata, In cou THE CREAM OF

viers can scarcely be a secret to any who have done me the honour of reading my speechos, butt om quite ready to re-state them.

Naval Centeen, Praya Esst, with the intention of putting an end to her trials and tribulations. She bad not reckoned, however, on Fax Hing

I have always thought and said that the tot king so callous as so many of the Chinese. in is sampan, Fak pulled to the spot when the

Brat business of the nation after the com- woman appeared on the surface, gripped ber by the hair, and landed her, struggling pletion of the war should be to overhaul its ad- violoutly on his bost. Help was given the ministration and place it on a business footing. rescuer in holding the woman down by others That is the only method by which the appalling on the boat, from which she was taken to No. 2ncrifice and expenditure of the war could be Folies Station, and thence to hospital, where converted into a gain. If not, it is all sheer lose, enquiries were petituted into her mental and there is, morouver, & grave and imminent | tradiction to the popular view which regards be the condition of the country after its painful public danger. I did not doubt that this would

condition. Asked by His Worship the reason why ato tried to commit suicide, the respon30 elicited was that her husband died about a year age; but she would be a good girl in future. $150 personal bead for six months and two sareting of 825 each were asked, Fuk, King received 10 from the poor-box, and walked away koking pleased nitu himself.

A WRONG SPIJCK.

An nsual sight was witnessed in Court

the town as having been buried under lava, ho

to lava per to any flow or hot mad from the volcaco, or to any outburst of water daring the pruption, but to a heavy rainfall washing da the unconsolidatai ash; which thou set into a sort of Roman cement, Professor

experience; and I inferred, though not withoutlined that as overwhelming was due, not 1900 the constituencies had resolved to entrust some surprise, that at the guzzeral election of

Tho preliminary and obviens process was on this vital duty to the Government in power. enquiry to ascertain responsibility and facts. And, whenever discussion was suggested; it was silenced hy the

not unreasonable

since the Chin se have been under-the yesterday of a Chinaman squs ting ou the floor plea that it should wait for the Commission ancient bistory, and gave good reasons for

Manchu ruly from 1644, China bus almost 1ating feet, hauds, and tooth in an endeavour

her tribulary santries excepting Tibet, Turkestan, Mongolia, and Muucharis, but the, fourth one is under the Russians' control. The

Chinese further point out that Chins was not only losing her dependencies, but also her ora teritories which the Great Powire grabbed from are bit by it after the China-jupar wer, owing to her insblity to resist them.

Are the Chiuse not ashamed to let the Manobus supersede them, whom their ancestors und trated as their bitter enemies? When the Quine Dynasty was still in existence the Manelius often invaled China, bat "BORNOC-8, fully, and were driven to Manchuria, where they established their Government for a long period.

to splice a rope. A patrol of Water Palice boarded a innk in the harbour, and amongst the dis of bamboo rupe on bari ons of Manis bemp was discovered weighing 183 1. It being improbable that the junk-master had lawfully obtained the rope, he was asked to explain the matter before the Magistrate, and migḥi kare made.u successful defence but for having a bad memory. In the first place he could not remember where the rupe had been bought, secondly, some time ago he had occasion to spics the rope, but when called on by Bis Wowhip to make another the same, in court, be forget how the first one had been made--though a good attempt was shown. $:0;or 2 monthe, was the sentence; the rope was confiscated.

to report. The result of that onquiry is now before the country, and, as a regrettable but inevitable comegacner, bofors the world at large. It is the first part of that "grand inquest of the nation into the state of its affairs for which we have been waiting. By this result the Government mact be judged. To Casar it has appealed, and to Cesar As to its responsibility for our it must go. miscarriages and misfortunes the publio verdict ems already manifest. With that, however, I am not at this moment concerned. What does sondern us all is what is to be done. This is not a question of party; it is a question of safety, While the state of things exists which is recorded in the raport of Lord Elgia'a Com- mission, we are not, outside our Floot, in possession of the minimum of national security With that report in their hands, foreign states. Prepared opiais, weighing 336 taels, was emplured by the excise officers in the employ of men may commit the mis ake of holding Great increased risk of war. Wo have the Opium Farmer, at 58, Connaught Rood West. Britain oleap. This in itself is a danger, for where it had arrived from Sameban on consign-it means an ment to Singapore. Mr. J. J. Spooner. C.kl.O., | iquozdered our resources, we have piled up dubt conducted the prosecntion. The drug was with both hands, we have en ormously increased confiscated, and a fine of $500 imposed.

OPIUM SMUGGLING,

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U.S. PRESIDENT'S ALLEGED

DISCOURTESY.

During Tang Cheng's reign, the last Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, the rebel ion aross in every part of Chiu, and the Chinese Government w sunable to suppressit. The rebel leader, Li Tzu Cheng, then entered Pekin and drove the Emperor out and took pusserssion of- the Dragon Throne and, became the Emperor for a short too-noder what dyanty is anknown. When Wao San Kui heard of this now, be invited to Manchas to come to As soon as the Peking to exppress rubellion. Munchta arrived with Wao Sun Kui, the rebo's resisted, and were unable to hold their possession, and rucnacted the capital. So Woo Ban Kai pursued them. During Wao San Kuï's parauit. the Manchu took posao sion of the Dragon Throne and appointed their lider, named Shan, China's Emperor. After Wao sa Kai's rolara he found him occupying the

The World publishes a columa article under Throne with deferus nation to remain.

"Mr. Roosevelt Bars Lipton at The Ming Dynasty was overthrown by the the heading

in which the writer says rebel leader usmed Li Tee Chong, but not Cinb. Frast," by the Mucous. It Was dan Kai would that the President is responsible for the recognise bim as the Emperor at the time, fint rough discourtesy" experienced by the Munchus conid not obtain the chaucer Thomas Lipton in this country. The President, it goes on, has forced the Sea. to grasp cle Dragon Throng of China

waska Corinthian Yacht Club to with Yours, etc.,

daw an invitation to dinner which it had insu.ed Thi tor Thomas Lipton and bis friends. cib is one of the most important yachtingparently believed that the Bers did not mean organisations in the country, and, bas many fighting, and that the lost ordinary pre impoltic and super fuous. It is the Laburet, datingosed men in its membership. The puration for an obvious eventuality was both dab kon is at Oyster Bay, not far from Mr

in a word, wuîch is severally and individually Hoosevelt's home. As the time for the club's newemble 14th October, 1903. 818-Wit reference my latter which tal dinner s prosched it occurred to the appeared in your issue of the 12th instant. I members that it would be a courteous and neigh- ampoaned to be able to alate for the informabearly-bing to invite the Presidentas the gust tion of ›he general public that all subscriptions of honour. Mr. Colgate Hoyt, the senior meg received forthe benefit of the wife and family her of the committen in barge, went in porn of John Poser, Inte Sergeant-Major Hongkong | Sagamore Hill and delivered an invitation. Volonter Corpa, will be simúnistered solely In order to meet the President's convenience by the four Commanding Royal Artillery, Mr. Horsevelt was requested to ix the date. Hongkong-Yours, eto,

The worst of it all is that, a far as I can ses, Writing on the 13th September from New things are little, if at al, better than they York, the correspondent of the Loudon Daily were; This consideration only increases the Mail gives the following somerlat incompre- necessity for promptitude of notion. Thore in beusibie account of alleged diaceurissy-indred, no time to be lost. As regards the Indeed, insuit-offered by President Roosevelt immediato question of the report, there are to Sir Thomas Lipton. The correspondent three main points that we should bear in mind.

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world in the way of rowaking the sites of of the Palestine Exploration Fund shows fresh lent towns. Every "Quarterly Statement " discoveris on the stes of the long-buried: Dr. Stein bus villages and cities of Cane 3D. recently published most interesting descriptions of the really wonderful disgovaries of ancient urban as well as rural life whios be unde slan; while every year addle to the revela- beneath the sands of parts of Chinese Turke tions made on the sites of the clies of the our public expenditure, we have given ancon-rosearches of Mr. Wilme, the late Mr. Assyria end Babylonia of old. In Africa the

be raps of the trolled power to our Ministers, and the report Theodore Beat, sad other explored, bave shows us where this gonerous contidence hes thrown some light on

mysterious city of Zimbabwe, which appears w have been ones the chi-f city of an empire Inndod ne.

present of considerable size adjoining te most interesting point in correction with the Portuguese province of dezamb.que. The eruntling towers and piles of this ancient African city, perhaps, je that Mr. Bent preity that Zimbabwe was "in the centunes dim and forgotten of alm.st prehistoric eu, either an conclusively proved, as a pent

by some mysterious links to the Pho sicians, ipised Phoenician city or a ver closely allied inasmuch sits customs and religion were dis tinctly Sidonian. Any proof of scour ction between these African ruins and the saucient cities of Tyre and Sidon is not interesting to Again, in America-in Mexico and Yucatan and other countries of the central part of the biblical as well as to other indents, continent-the ovidences which remain, in the skape of vast pyramids and other stounding and advanced peoplen, whose sery names are and Bridge Work piles of masonry, of the exetence of powerfal www forgotten, show that ben the luxurinat reu aiba of many towns of man sutiquity. tropis regulation there must, e buled the axtractions. Some day, perhaps, judins excavadou in these regions-when science has conquered the dangers of the climate will make wonderfal discovering, which may give the key to the my. stérions resemblances between the Inter Aztec civilisation and that of Phoenicia and ancient Egypt But without going so far afield, towa life of long ago in various parts of Farope Mr. Artbar kyaung Bürprising lure is continual reveintion being made of the

discoveries on the huoma sue in Crete have tion of the ancient Mye tan civilisation, and to some extent revola iti u sobulare concep made by Professor Finde Petrie, Mr. John Gorgung, and other explorers in Egypt, have together with the equas y surpris ng rerelations pushed back into the dimmest and most distant which had prevusly been supposed to be of Oa comewhat later origio. To me one thing antiquity the leginange of arts and crafts

that the art of writing is much older than it my, the Cretan discoveries have clearly shown

Basidua tuese discorofive on ancient, long- bed formerly been thought to be abandoned sites, the remains of barled towns

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Secondly, we should not forg tour own re- sponsibility. The nation itself is not disociated from liability in this aatior. After all the disasters and ineptitudes of the conduct of the war, it gave an overwhelming vote of confidence to the Government which has managed it. I know the reasons for this which have been The President accepted the invitation, and alleged, and I neither judge nor dispute them. damed plomber 18th. Under the rules of the But what I wish to smphasize is that this is club each member bas the privilege of inviting not the way to encourage efficiency or to die. jose guest. A few days ago the committe sent courage iurffioignoy. Eow the nation now invitations to Sir Thomas Lipon, the Earl of regards that vots of coufléanco I do not know, Shaftesbury, Mr. Fife, & d'another member of Bat if the nation desires to roverse that vote Sir Thomas's party, Sir Thomas Lipton is an of confitenss or diminish its effects it must konerary member of the orgauls tion, and, wasitud cxert its power. Little ou be done by TO THE EDITOE UP THE "DAILY PRESS," entitled to attend i. any case. The invitat on individane however eminent or able they may SEE,-1 wish to draw public attention, was sent merely as an extramark of onurtay to be. The crisis is too gravel too urgent for therogh year coluwa, to the lack of proper distin, nished yachtsman who was being any authority Ime than that oth nation itself. sup rvision of the Roman Catholic Cemetery at bonanied by the winle omotry. Sir Thomas By sil lawful and constitutional metods it the Happy Valley. Some little time sg, and his frien's gladly opted the invitation, should make that authority efective,

Tindly, what is the practical remedy? As to brouse ratio wreath, weighing about 200lbs, The inb made ready to receive and entertain was dragged down rom its prestion on the them, but then an xraordinary thing happened. that I hav never had the slightest doubt, and monument errated over the rave of my ste The President's scretary, Mr. Lo-b, wrote vs urged the proper counce in eason and, if husband. The thieves evidently found the a letter to Mr. Hoyt ddsring that neither that more possible in this case, ont of seasve.

come to the dinger. Mr. Loeb announced that doomed. The time has come or turbed, and it was left lying on the gr...n d broken uitle.

In the fint a tompt, nu in the second and oir Thomas Lip on had recently been received departure. We must place the War Office for a es e gost on tuo President's sout Mayflower time nader at expert. We are as fortunate third the thieves were satiated with one during the naval menmetres it Oyster vai portion of it, which they knocked off. That the President d'd not wont to seem to ban to possess a great soldier in the prime and weeks ago, however, the fourth attempt was "overdoing the contextes to him; end that it vig ur of life, who unites high capacity for made. this time successfuly, and the heary weath win carried aw y. It must have but wight be thought that sir Th me ipfon's beins, fins, and administration with ripe prea nor at the dinner was due to he fast that carried on bimboos y at last two men, and Le President was to be there. The commises and recent military experience, We should

was ng If it withdrew the invitaion to entrust, or at the King to estrust, the War eras

ormen, medieval Londo it won appear to show a must reprehous lack of attention on the part of the natherites

all are tipu in eng-alivenras sud elo of the earinry that such sacrilegious robbery Sir Thomas L pton and bis party that act would fire to Lord Kitchener, with the fulless light-tiles sed coins of Roman times,

be an insult to them. If it allowed the invite-authority to organize our present system with relics of Saxon, can be ammirted with impunity.—Yours, etc,

tion to stand the Pradent would refuse to

swiow, probably, to its being administered byquent in the commentary buy as be on the dryONTAINING Articles of Special Intereat. ontlines of written history. Very Day of The Guildhall LUGIA V. MUSSU.

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London relics rat he scrnin lecision it is impossibe to say, but the invita Board as in the case of the Admiralty,

and the Library Committee of Liess to Bir Thomus and his party were His relations to the Cabinet would selly La

nminal price The World article has anneyed Pesident settled by more methods than one. Wheth Corporation has just issued st Rosevelt more than any publication sines ho they should be with the present Cabinet ura ostalogue of the sulition, which not only has been President, Nr. Loeb said the foole

very large number of the antiquities are is continually were correctly stated in the fanio, but that is another is question beyond my province. scribes the varices items, but coutains un and the formal invitation was not issued when I am sure, that by singular fortaue we prasa gated. over 8 Japan and the Philippines.

urse, arme, and relics of antiquity of various Prasate in high et between the F. coast of the President olivated. M. Leeb pimise to this man for the crims and that some of the The same praces of discovery China and Japan, and stil for ever Manchuria. Leve a formal statement for the pers fremales which have been urged should gong on in our provincial cities Coms, seals

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