SHIPPING IN THE FAR EAST.
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BRITAIN'S NERVOUS BREAK-
DOWN.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, MARCH 17г, 1906.
"CHINA FOR THE CHINESE.”
that her
treaties, make a final attempt to drive every foreigner out of the country.
Were it possible, either by outside pressure or All is not gold that glitters, and the prospect
· The Shanghai correspondent of the Times by the will of the people, radically to reform the of extended and profitable shipping enterprise
The British are said to be affering from writes: The affect in China of Russia's defeat Chiness system of government, there would be in the Far East, now that this Russo-Japanese
ne bord of pessimise is writing of the com- war is over is qualified by a variety of considera. neurasthening, the first completo dassription of by Japan has made itself unmistakably felt
for f tion. The Japaneru far ene thing, appar to which was written in 1879. Dr. Guthrie throughout the country-an offect to which morcial and social future of the Empire,
Raukio, in the Cantomponery Review, has an
several causes, latent in the condition of the people are well-disposed (unless their religious have by no menus exhausted themselves in de
Many people, contributo; and the itaation thus or social customs are attacked) and the country Wo were interesting article on the subjec fenting their Muarovite enemy. reminded the other day,
in the interesting changes have come about during the past half- oroated is one with which atateamon must offers vast fields for educational and industrial freight aport issued from Hongkong by the contury. Education is compulsory, traffic and rockon. The whole altitude of the people los Lterprise. As matters stand, while from a fregita firm of Meus Augannl, Thoreson commeres have been widely extende, strenuous timid Aviatio would seem to have suddenly the right of Europeans to impose their unwel- undergous a remarkable, change, the patient, certain philosophic standpoint we may question and Co., that the mercantik abilities of the perfected, diet changed. and a strenuouslice that the power of the West is no longer
come presoner on the Chinese, and admit the Japstess urn, if anything, superior to their restless spirit has been diffused. The leading
conseqnition of all these changes in from the invincible, and the result has been an immediate Inttor's right to protect themselvea ngainst it by martial qualities, and that their steamers, no longer repaired as transports, will one by one, health point of view, a disturbance of the balance awakening of the nationt i stinet and the mesus, it seems inevitable that sequer or
the of organic responsibility. When life was more expre
expression of its national policy-China for the later thar the freaths will once more have to And deren by dezen," thrown on to the. market. Alremly, it is stated, several of the sedate sud ungreatf, the issues and organs Chinese The canes which chiefly prodisposo be enforced i et armis or the rights they confer
possibility
bergaly aben fonol. regular lines which were kept up by chartered wers adapted to the exigencies of the daily the Chinens people towards tha foreign tonnage have again put cu Japanese wear-and-lear, and bore their respective shares of so saddon a change are undoubtedly, Srat, boats. On the other band, we know that this in the maintenance of bothly vigour with sach their instinctive and ef
and hand to the objects and methable aversion of European
HOW TO HELP EX-SOLDIERS. nice balance of supply inevitable though it is, will not be fully step,
our civilization, sud, secondly, the abnormal erry•ll n for some little tip yet. Mr Kando, that no una strain was put upon any
The War Offro has tinkered away at the the chairman of the NY Company, for partion of the scenery. In the individual it basigures of the litorali and gentry whe
no doubt been always frue that axessive applies mald and guide public opinion. Were it Army with little sucess for a considerable Distance, annoncer at the has all the card thon in the prosecution of his duty or pleasure not for this all-pervading ignorance and fit Many schemes have been tried, and n'l meeting of that undertaking that com
uy's services esca'd not be instated til ny have exposed him personally to the tissue the inability of those who lead the present have failed. The latest, that of Lord Monks
movement to realizo the actual position of the past, is d seribed by the originator in the fawards the and of Bed, owing to the demand dangers attendant upon a too zealous desire to Sar transports by the Japanese Government exel and forge ahead of his neighbours. But. Empire in its relation to the rest of the world, taughty Review. Ho contends that while For a time, therefore, sundry iritish ships taking mankind as a wholt, it may be asid safely the riotories of Japan would have sobered he is not avers from Lord Roberts' plans et training the civilian to be a sukier, he can will continue to ply in established Japaness that the demands of life and the ambitions of rather than stimulated the national mind. As
get no reciprocity" for his own scheme: services, but in the latter balf of 1906 artald men wom comparatively circumscribed, and that mattera sinud, however, the classical scholar of the old regime complacently raminds himself
Afor all people have to be civilians as that the NY.K. Company will have surplus they were deve-tailed into on another so a 1onnage of its own, wit to the release of 16 distrilate the strain equably. Nowadays that Japan resolved her prehistorio education well as soldiers; moreover, none who lives to stress of life falls more on the from the Middle Kingdom, while the student be reasonably all, anless he is a Fioid-Marshal. the transpels and that
company any the
rofornier talks loudly of insisting on this remains in hard face."
the profession of arms all bis I certainly nervous syster than on any other of the tiranes, #perience
war, for it and aurustlemia nervous breakdowa-is country's sovereign rights and the immediate life. Most of the rank and file are only soldiers FIRS
Mince not done 80
for a few years, their military career is a mers boaste that
has rood how to use sprending Evidently wear-and-tear plus luxury organizing of armies. Neither the ous nor the
amode in their lives. And what I maintain is, foreign teamers in au economical manner.
is telling its story more rapidly than wear-and other realizes that they themselves are suti.
cient axplanation of the fans that China has that even if we look at the question excluarely and white omplaying them it bas tear plus unsuitable food and insuficient rest.
from a That though at present, the richer leisure clasicut present no more hope than Turkey of climb
a military standpoint, it is just as import- been estring large sums from the fiovernment
που
ant, haring regard to the difficulties of recruit. The profit during the half-year ended September suffer more from "nerves" than the poor, the ing to the boights Japan has It was so large that, after paying a dividend day is rapidly coming when every class will administrative corruption far exceeds that of ing, under our system of voluntary enlistment, equal to 12 per cont, and putting 100 yen saffer"--the poor hing to bad fading and Russis; and that she is constitutionally incapable that a soldier should be taught while with the tos spacial repair fund for transport steam, ignorance of health lawa, the middle class from of making the national sacrifires by which Japan colours to make a goca sivilinu on his dischargo, the stim carried forward was considerably in the stenggis to get rich. An analysis of the was able to cast off medievaliam in a day. cess of that is previous periods. And at the symptores prated by nonethene patients it is precisely because they onnot be made to as might be exjooted, a rast complexity realize the truths and because they praash to end of this half year the company had still nade barter 70,90 tons of foreign shipping.f symptoms: Int from among the tangle classes sunk in still lower depths of ignorance All this suggests that when things become quite of evidence implicating the nervous systems, and prejudios that the ontlook is far from
and pointing to it ou the fons et prigreasering. normal again, and the whole of the company's 250,000 Tons--another 25,000 tons is building ali, there standa forth a bold land- is sailable for ordinary work, this great mark in overy case the existence of moutal deterioration. This is waifontein many enterprian will be to them ever Japanese to deal with that great ora of trade with age. One patient in spatetic regarding the the Par Wast which smug other things. But the cheese cars, and anger in Chris while another droads doth; one has a toded the Momparing and the Chur- gours Reinis Companies to organian a new tine svience, and su en. A Franch physicien service from Autwerp to Chius, Japan and as suggested that the disease should come San Fracing, and bone by West Coast ports under the heading of paychaatheniswhich and the Straits of Magalan. The cleverness danotes not a fault in the nerves, but "a failure
in the vital power by which they are driven of the Japanem na urvelaat stendship owners
more sorrect definition of nervous bronkdown. has its country as far as other countries aro concerned, in the organising ability of the Ger- One day men will learn that tissun income and man, The Norwegian report to which we are expenditure must be adjusted to better referred days
fael the Germans have sequired balance if the human musobina is to he kept in practically a monopoly of the Bangkok tradesBoothly working order. At present the froth and that they at all-powerfal in that of the is not recognised, though the disease is no Straits Settlements. Indeed, the way in which were society craze, but is becoming a national the German companies have been able to calamity. Preventien is caly possible if public expand their casern rade commands entire attention can be arousal and individual effort adinization." What with the Japanese and onlisted. In so far as social customs and the Germans, and my over-supply of tonnage to personal habits are contributing to the increase bool, the prospects in the Far East of British of nerve-instability, they must be altered if we shipping, with its lack of co-operation, are not are lo escape that downfall of our supremacy which other great nations before us bare of the brightest.---Shipping Lenzelle,
experienced. A moro rigorous public montiment, fostered by an Iample of greater self-denis! and more rigid adherence to simplicity of life ou the part of those who sot the junco and lend the fashions of the day, would do much to arrest the downhill rush of the multitudo.
THE CHINESE QUESTION SETTLED.
Ameriam nowspapers will soon settle Chinose affairs. Here is a specimen telegram : -
Washington, March 12-Amarica, England and Jupus are to police China
-
And
Amongat observers of the Far Eastern question there exists a tendency to arrestimate the Pan-Asiatic movement, tanecapte identical the national characteristics and sepirations of justified, as is proved by the presence. Chica and Japan. To a certain extent they ar number of Japanese to the cofagrest interior of Chins where Europeana are not tolerated, by the tatianates relations naturally from similarity of thought, resulting langage, and customs. Bat closer acrutiny of those relations in both countries justifies us in doubting the existence of racial sym. paths sufficient for their permanence. The prezent meed of the Chinees in chiefly due to recognition of Japan's success in war and a desire to acquire the secrete of that success for their own purposes, in this desire which has sent ten thousand students in Japan in the last two years, which accounts for the large number of Japanese advisors, school teachers, and military instructors in every province of China; but there exials at the same time so fondamentol a difference in temperament that a Japanese instructor can no more permanently influence the moral of a Viceroy's yamên than a Chinese student in Japan can assimilate the principles of bushido.
latest pinise of the Far Eastern situation denen NEW JAPANESE CUSTOMS TARIFF. Cho fall short of the of the Japanese here. The State Department has not given it publicity, but it is not contradicted.
It is said that Germany. France, Russin and the other Powers wid agree to the proposert achine for maintaining order. It will never- sitato Americs keeping a larger float in Asiatic waters, and more troops in the Philippines, thin par st hase to China.
REMOVAL OF THE WAE TAX.
as that a civilion should be trained ao as to bacoma a gand soldier on an emergency. The Service wauta conscription, and if voluntary enlistment be proved an aisolate failure, cou scription world gain more friends. Lord Yonkawall holds that consoription in England is an impossibility, and consequally that our Army mast be brought up to the highest point of officiaury. More attractions should be hold eus to the recruit. At present whom he leaves the Army, he is inferior to the civilian employing resortata in the Site service from the employers point of view, As to (police, etc.) and appealing to the patriotism of privats Arms in engaging men, he writes: There AID two ways of helping men to gut employment--one is to exclude his competitors, and the other is to train him to compete with them or favourable terms. Now, Major-General Chen, C.B., lecturing sa December 12th. -188) reade, theso pertinent reinacks; A Full consideration of the various efforts which have Governost cle dy been made to secure employment for reserva sabliers as a matter of jaivilege, has convinced me that the only way by which remunerative civil employment undur Government, or in the labour market, can be secured to soldiers who have completo their period of service with the colours it by rendering the men themselves, through the Army training, better quali ed an ethers to compete for employ out in civil life, Sir Evelyn Wood has advocated the training of soldiers in regimental
1 Beloet Committee of the House of Com- workshops. More evidence is avaliable. In mans feerenloon members, mostly connected with the Services), with Sir George Chesney in the chair, inquiral into the employment of discharged soldiers and sailers.
serve
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REGISTRATION OF PARTNERSHIPS,
AN INTERESTING DIRCOVERY.
These letters were
Wo Singapore Free Press) have to thank The Secretary of the Chamber of Commerce for a copy of the 1905 report which has reached us. The look contains besides reconals, of, reports of the special general meeting, the anal and half yearly meetings. The report, howover, is mainly interesting from certain correspondence published in regard to the Begiatantion of Partnerships proposal,
knowledge of the Chamber or dutie writen in 1945 and must have 1-6, in tho Chairman and Seerstary when the famous meeting was held at which the Chamlar by 19 votes to seven, opposed the principla of the bill As we pointed out then the Penang Chember was decidedly in favour of the settems 11 now appears, though we were not told so at the time, that both the Bengal Chamber of Commerce But the Hongkong Chamber recognised that logislation on the subjret was inevitable and as far as Bengal in concerned was so desired that there the Chambe had actually framed a bill and it was Goren- ment which was hanging back. Despite this it was said in effect that no induential body in the East, desirest registration, and yet all the tune both Bengal and Hongkong recognized that the desirs was so strong that practical legislation was imminent if not pending. These letters in appendix I should give me rs of the Chamber considerable food for reflection, but they would doubtles have had for greater tabb of the now famous meeting of the "ma- offret had they han printed and laid on the jority of twelve" who claimed to represent the real weight of opinion in the Settlement.
BRITISH WARSHIPS IN THE EAST,
The battle of Tenshina, while securing for a lang course of years the entire immunity of Jafar from the perks of foreign naval enter. prise, has had for Britain a resnit that is
The causen of this difference are deep-lying. racial, aur complex, but those who study 1 matter closely agree, I think, that its explanation lies primarily in the religions &istory of the two countries. The antional characteristics of the
chiefly in the capacity for altruism, sympathy, and artistic sensibility: the Chiness is esecutially an individualist, whose ethics and ideals have ben stereotyped or rather putrified by centies of Confucianism into a stiff pods of social philosophy. In Japan the humanizing and civilizing influences of Buddhista havo ovur- the past thousand years, bringing to a essentially martial rase new worlds of beauty and gent ouess, and developing the national instinct for every form of asthetic expression; but Chins remains to this day sale was when first she heard the gospel of touderness," fettered already then by five hundred years of nodiluted C
d Confucianism.
And with the laps of centurias the dry bones of but systematic urality have become drier still, while the Buddhist religion, enrriving only in the form of illiterate superations, does little to ruliovú 120 | enjoy, in attending any courses of instruction, is, is quite strong enough to represent Briishi
Japan is in such proz.mity that she word make & Bill to that end has beer submitted to the shadowed and moulded the national life durice strided, and nu93lo to find work at the end of ined in the Far East became, with the
no extra préparations, and Britain alec all the men and his resided for any erdinery
emergency.
Whether foress are to be landed to put down the anti foreign movement now getting impetus
in China was not learned.
"SECWAR" TAFTS PREFERMENT.
W reproduce, verb. et lit, the following telegrams and comments from the Manila Cabimera:-
Washington, March 10.-Becretary of War Taft is to go on the Supreme Bench of the United Stator now. This announcement was mado -day by President Roosevelt.
Br succorde Justice Henry B. Brown, who has ofered his resignation. Justice Brown is 20 years old and has grown feable. He leaves the benh at voch aud Taft takes his rent.
Chie Justics Melville W. Fuiler will reties startly and it is almost certain that Taft wili then i maile Chief Judies. He is recolving congratulations from alt over the United States, Hin saccraver as Secretary of Wir has not been i aned and there is wide diversity of episioa nants of Major
n to who he will be.
General Henry C. Corbin has been mentioned. San Francisco, Marub 10-Secretary of War Taft in statel to sused Justice Ins B.
Dist.
The Japanese Gorerment, considering that the Custouns Tariff of 1897 is no longer efficient, has decided to effect curtain am-adments, and
The Govorament statis that the development of foreign trade and of home industries demand surresponding alterations of the tariff. The Japan Chronicle gives some of the principal goods affected by the new bill, showing the ad valorem dute impused under the regulations of 1997 and under the amanded
Existing Now Tarif.
Tariff free
15 por et.
seule.
... 15 per ct. 15'
15
15
Rice... Wheal Large beans (Daizuj. Flour... Sagar, under No. 8.
Dutch standarti
Furs
Solé leather
Raw silk (for weaving
purpose...
Grey shirting
Woollen cloths... Coal
Pig iron
Iran, bar and ro
30
30
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Su
15
fres
5 per et
30
113
10
and passenger) Patrolenin... Blankets
20
If
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30
Galvanis sheet iren 25
Railway cars (goods
انوم
15
14
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A most remarkable change is observed in
for good. The battleship squadron we Russian Reet's destruction, an unemployed forev, with no prospect of ever boine wanted oven as a power in reserve. So it was rightly sant to
and there re-distribute: EuropeanS WATERY amongst the feels as newly organised. The battleships in the Far East are now in the main those of our ally Japan, and occasionally one or two of the United States, Power with whose general policy in the Far East both Britain and Japan are entirely at . 1. one. Our cruiser squadron, highly efficient as
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LIGHTEST
AND
THOROUGHLY
MATURED
IN WOOD.
12, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL.
AN AWFUL
SKIN DISEASE
Sores Covered Neck and Cheeks- Itched Day and Night ---Nothing Did Me Any Good-Was Growing Worse
Immediately Relieved, and
SPEEDILY CURED BY
CUTICURA REMEDIES
Miss Nellie Vander Wiele, of Lake. side, N. Y.. writing under date of April 18, 19, says: "I do wish you would publish this letter in the newspapere, so that others suffering as I have may see it and be helped. I suffered for many months with an awful skin disease, sores covering my cars, neek, and cheeks. Scabs would form and they would swell, and itch day and night. Then they would break open and blood and matter ruaout. I had tried many different remedies, noue of them did me any good. I was the Cuticura growing worse when I tried Remedies. The first application helped me, and when I had used two cakes of Cuticura Soap, three haves of Cuticura Ointment, and three bottles of Cuticura Resolvent, I was completely cured."
TORTURING, DISFIGURING
Humours, Eczemas, Itchings, and Chafings Cured by Cuticura
The agonizing itching and turning of the skin, ae in eczema;, the frightful #caling, as in psoriasis; the loss of hair and crasting of the scalp, as in scalled head; the facial disfigurement, as in pimples and ringworm; the awful suffer ing of infants, and anxiety of worn-out parents, as in milk crust, tetter, and salt Theum,ali demand a remedy of almost superhuman victues to successfully cope with them. That Curicura Soap, Oint- ment, and Pills are such stands proven beyond all doubt by the testimony of the civilized world.
Callers Sep, Ointment, and 1913 are untó throughout the So.. Par 3 Rue de world. Depekr:1
Patz: Atralia, A. Trwy & Sydney. Potter Daug Cann. Carp.. ISANI, ..., Nole Prugs.
Stailed, "Bow to Cute Sleut."
In June, 1895, the issued their report, of which the cqreluding paragraph runs: Al authorities are agreed that nothing tende so panch to popularise service in the Army
knowledge on the part of those who that they will not find themselves their military enter." They further observe that soldiers enlist it oksetly that period of their fires when they might otherwise be luing what would be most asefal to them as mechanics or cruftamon, or in other civil vocatiņus. They have lost many opportunities of establishing connections and interest;" and the Commilise suggest that in the winter mouths ospecially, and subject always to the mount duty of maintaining their military efficiency, soldier- migh: bo giron some further sucursgement then that which they at present
infimener in the new and favourable situation materialism of the inert runaS.
oreated by the renowed Alliance. General with com- regards the doings of Young China wing including the of the National Sounds of Tech nical Education, by which they would be likely to placener, as it did those of the Boxers; it benefit after the form of service with the corcentration and compact redistribution is now the keynote of our naval policy, for it may be accepts such results on the American boycott colours shall be completed. Yone Committed with truth that, outside Europe, the world and the evolution of the patristic orator with would also recommend the further and more something more than telesno, and, except quest endogment of soldiers in all industriel contains no fores, at present, which constitutes ing Ya Shih-kai, there is probably ne
woes incident to their daily life and calling a danger to pence. The Singapore Frer l'res, atatesman in the country with courage and Armed with these decumarte Lord Moukwel
from which the foregoing remarks are taken,. wisdom safficient to oppose the prevailing bombarted Lord Lansdowne with requests for evidently does not fear complications arising.cut tendencies, Simultaneously there existsmongst
of the Chinese proletariat agitation. Tho the psical furtherance of the idea. the more intelligout Chinese officials
•," but no War Secretary gava "civil answers, annatural propensity in baliere that, whatever
information until February 26th, 1900, when ha of Its results, the policy
young China may bus couraged with impunity, they regard the announced that the experimost had been tried at Woolwich and had failed. Forty-one men had Anglo Japanese Alliance as practically guaran
put down their names for instruction, anel at tho teeing China against partition, and they realis
and of the voanne forty had withdrawn. This accurately enough the improbability of any
did net fck promising, but on investigation Pow r r sapporting its strongest protests by Lord Moukseell found that the
experiment Bo zure
ure of territory or act of war. Thand brou conducted under the wort
possible conditions. In the first pince the soldiers werd but the very rapidity with which the present drafts into their classes in Marcha date mond has been developed and expressof maj which in itself ensured the failure of the experi jus ify the hope that it will not endure.
ment. Having made this initial and fatal Should it persist, sach incidents as the boycott blunder in the Leeth of the Chesney Report, the and the recent rioting at Shanghai wust anthorities proceeded to mako nesurance doubly inevitably reuur, and socner or later the main.
suru and to render even the slightest glimmer tenance of China's integrity, under snel of success bopelessly impossible by a farther conditions, will become imposible. Japan, af
serios of blusdersin conceivably ingenuens. They those now established, between Marseilles and the Power whose inuenes in parent contrired to make the instruction assume Saigon. The latter service will be extended to
Tonkin until railway facilities have been proƒYPEWRITING throughout the ceantry, can undoubtedly lo an almost exclusively military aspect, so
vided, when the subsidy for this extension will ach to guide its doladed rulers into safer that the men wery
be unnecessary. Then a weekly line may beran botwoon Marseilles and Saigon. It is, however,
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Brown at the Supreme Bench of the United comparing the duties on the following articles immediata aptlook is, fluestore, anpromising,
States when but distinguished jurist tires. This nos given out to-day, but the exant date of the retirement of Justion Brown has not beon fixed. He is the arbiter of the matfor aud beyond stating that he wished to leave his duties in the near future has not made public the time when he wil doff the ormire.
It is said that he will retire boform the elcsa
of this year.
When Taft was here he often said that Lis ambition in life was to be a Justion of the Supreme Court of the United Stal Hu told President McKinley that, and has said the scue thing to Roosevelt often. His mind is judicial and be loves law and the great problems which come before such a tribunal as the Supreme Court. Jartios Brown in 70 years olil and according to last reports from the Loited States is almost blind. Taft is still young and as such su appointment is for life, aud the salary is ample for him, be will not hesitate to take it.
Margarine Sugar, under N,
Dutch standard Tenther, for shoes Pig leather... Animal bones Shells... Silk cocoons Gunay baga
Rugs Waste pspor Mineral ore
Clay
Existing New Tarift
Tarift 60 per ct..34 per si, Is,
50
++
free
1' per at.
from
free
COUCHON
5
Emery powder Gold and platinam
watch chains
60 per ok. 30 Waste and powdered
frea glass ... Magic lanterns and ac-
cessori s
50 par et. 15
froe RAW Indian rubler Porinmed waters, etc... 60 peret. 30 20
Another point taken into consideration by President Roosevelt is thus with Taft on the Toilet soap...
bouch he is out of polites, and the field is clear It is proposed to remove the war tax on all for Root who the president wants to succeed goods with the exception of rier, on which the him as the Chief Executiva,
Roosevelt sad in a speech when Ront became daty will remain for one year from the conclusion
of premet.
Secretary of State that Root was the greatest statesman in the United States er in the world in decades.
In the next issue, the following appened Washington, March 12-Secretary of War Taft is not to accept the position on the Supreme Court Bench of the Tuited States made vaunut by the retirement of Justice Hon. ry B. Brown, of Michigan. He will remain in the Cabinet of President Roosevelt. This statement we made to-day officially, but it is not denied that the position was offered Secretary Taft nor that he contemplated taking it.
Most of his friends here believe that he is considering it now,
LADY PIGGOTT'S FUND. Lady Piggott begs to acknowledge with thanks the following further donatio ne to the Japan Famine Fand
Hon. Mr. Gershom Stewart.. $100.00 The Japanese Ladies' Society
by Mrs. Noma...
50,00 Hon. Dr. Ho Kai, Car.G. 25.00 Amount already acknowledged 56250 $7:2,50
Total...
100 H
training
FRENCH SHIPPING SERVICE TO INDO-CHINA.
THE NEW SCHEME. Referring in his consular raport on Indo- Chiun to the now scheme of mail shipping service which the Frozch Government have been considering, Mr. G. W. Pearson states that it is proposed to do away with the Marseilles Australian line and that to Bombay, and to reduce gradually the subsidy on the Saigon Shanghai line. By way of substitates there will bu a new line from Saigo to Sydney T sia Singapore, Batavia, Noumen, and Brisbane, and unutuer monthly service, in aldi.ten to
t
ment the line of mail boats by a service of large 13 and Maresilien steanters rauning between Lyons a
76.21
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FLEST PEN.
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suspicious from the by the more careful solotion arst that the object of the instruction of Chinese students in Jupun and by
Was not boni fide with a view to their welfare equally careful selection and supervision of the in civil life so much as to get the honeft of very probable, Mr. Pearson thinks, that the
their skill white with the colours. Having scheme detailed above will be found improti. 34, Queen's Rond Central (Serond Floor)
cable. It will probably be necessary to supple. firmly established this prejudice they added yet another element to the difficulting of the situation. The totally unskiled soldier wa6 drafted into classes side by side with the fairly to Shanghai and Canton in view of the expected of trade in rios from Into China and increase Chine and France. A project skilled artirun, and had to make what he could cut of feaching that, in Dr. Garcettis
for a subsidized lins between Tourans and Nor opinion, was far above his heal.
The success of such WHE any relaxation granted in respect of parades Swatow, Feochow, Shanghai, Manila, Osaka, or other military duties. Surely a scheme that and Yokohama is on foot appears to have so much to recommend it is worth a better trial than this.
Japanissa ongagod for educational and ether work in China much can be dows to eradicate end ebock the present trend of public opinion
The object of the Chinese Goveremant to-day unmistakably what it was who first she cams into contact with the rangourd of commerce militant, and what that abject is 1 canent stats butter than by repeating the words of one whe wrate cu the subject of the Burlinghasis Mis sipa in 1809-Mr. Ross Browae, ex-Minister of the United Statos at Peking. Severely criticizing Mr. (now Sir Robert) Hart's plen for patience sed non-interference in dealing with Chipu's tardy perforiaanen of her promises of progress, he says:---
The object, therefore, was to prevent all progress inconsisent with Chinese isolation,
There is nothing in the history of China, since the beginning of foreign intercourse, to warrant the idea that the Imperial relers had the lightest idea of entering into such relations as contemplated by the law of nations. What they really wanted was tine-time to repeat on a large scale what they had done in the way of preparation to repel foreign intrusion at Canton from 1842 to 1857 and at Taku from 1858 to 1859; time to establisl: arsenals, build gunboats, poison the minds of the people Throughout the provinces, and in the end, when no longer able to portpens the orsoution of
LATEST STEAMER MQVEMENTS.
The M.M. str. Armand Behie, with the nort Frouch wail, will leave Saigon on the 17th inet., at 7 am for this part.
The H.A.. str Segovia, from Hamburg, loft Singapore for this port on the 15th inst., ... and may be expected here on or about the 21st inst., am.
The LG.M. str. Preussen, which left bere on the 14th Feb., arrived at Gotos on Wednesday, the 14th inst., at 4 pm.
The Indo-China str. Laiaang, from Calcutta and the Straits, lef! Singapore for this port on the 15th inst, at 5 pm.
a line must depend upon the improvement made in the ports of Tonrane and Saigon, which need new docks and godowns, coal yards and rice depots.
WEATHER REPORT.
The Hongkong Observatory yesterday inued the following report
On the 10th at 12.00 p.m.-The haromster has risen over S Japan, the Loochons and the E. caust of China
Fressure is highest over the E. coast of China and the depression is still shown to the N.E. of Japan.
Gradients are sight to moderats on the China coast, sad fresh monsoon may be expected in the Formosa Channel, and the N. part of the Chius 800.
Forecast:-Frosh E. winds, fair, eoudy.
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