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, THE OPIUM QUESTION,

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "DAILY FREEL"] SIR-It may be taken for granted that Mr Clement's most valuable analysis of the opium statistics of China will be communiostad to the Colonial Office, and it is ferrently to be hoped that it will be printed asa Parliamentary Paper and circulated for the information of the

members of the British Rouss of Commons who

The Criminal Sessions were opened yesterday the 7th July. before the Chief Justice. The only prisoner was Loung Tad, who was charged with robbery at. THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. of missionary wells) as to the alleged alarming

Pri

Porno years' imprisonment,

sent there was found to be valuslesz and the

LONDON, June 13th, - Mr. Taft has been nominated for the

PROPOSED NEW THAMES DOCK.

telegraphs, which had been necessarily lingly listened to, and if well founded, delivered in London on the 18th inst.

In connection with the recent poisoning cass worked under foreign supervision, remained righted; the now school pariake of Susno tacitly under similar control. The Chinese KUNG-PAD's methods, and take no account in Wallington Strost, when two men expired Government had, in tot, no competent staff of the corresponding rights of the others, shortly after eating a fowl, an accountant who for the purpose, nor was any request made A question of patrolling fourteen fest along resided in the house yesterday was brought for the transfer, so things simply want on

one side of a municipal road in Shanghai before Mr. Wood at the Magistracy on a charge of being smearned in the death of the two men. has been made a pretence for aneroashing Detective Inspector Hanson prosserated and in the traditioanl doctrine that the per-on rights surrendered sixty-two years ago Mr. F. W. Goldring defended. Evidence was quisites of office are the personal property under Imperial instructions, and in no-called, and the prisoner remanded, of the holder, and must not be enquired cordance with the Treaty of Nanking, and into, SZENG KUNG-PAO is the champion of of similar character are most of the other the old as opposed to the modern dogma of claims put forward for the "restoration the responsibility of offles. So this inter- of Ching's lapsed rights. The tale pra West Point on 23rd May on which day he with ference with what he conceives to be his own sented to the Lisbon Conference is only one others entered a house, bound and gagged a personal monopoly has been grating honvily of a series, each one more preposterous than woman inide, and ransacked the place. Asked on bis mind. That it was entirely due to the others. Unfortunately the intriguing to pload, pr sonor replied.I don't know what to Bay. your Lordship has it down in writing bis owa maladministration, is, with officials parties, who are patently trying to stir up that I, plead guilty then I must say I am guilty. Presidency of the United States. of the Surro type, and unfortunately they the old strife, are for the most part men, His LordshipIt is for you to say that. are stilin the majority, no propor reply to Like Hang KONG-PAO, whose position ioner then pleaded guilty and was sentenced his complaint. His were the telegraphy, any other country than China would act and his be intended they should be for all as a deterrent. These men had experience time, and not the EMPEROR himself, or what that it has been mainly owing to her own in SHENG'a mind was of far more co-faithlessness and disregard of engagement sequence, the EXPRESS DOWAGES, even if that it has been necessary to take the ad- she wished, which of course SKENG took ministration of these things out of China's care by a judicious course of watering, she own hands necessary for the carrying on of should not lo, bad any business to enquire any intercourse whatever. Yet with all the as to the methad in which they were con Leasons of the past we see a return to the ducted. This, it is hardly necessary to old councils of Canton in the old East India mention has been for all time the accepted Company's days becoming, under evidently rule of Government in China, and SHENG in high inspiration from Peking, once more, constituting himself its special champion is the order of the day. only giving expression to the feelings of Returning to the Shanghai incident it is nine out of every ten of the ruling class. no good sign for the future relations of

Another nominal Government under-Chian, that the man Yves Sac-guy who taking in which Sauro KUNO-FAO occupies notoriously was the instigator of the Settle a like position is the short line of railway ment riots two years ago. so far from from Shanghai to Wusung. As in the ese meeting with disgrace, has at the instance of the Telegraphs, to say that SHENG is the of the DowAGER EMPRESS been promoted leading, or sole spirit in the management, is to high office, and has recently been eppaint to imply nevosarily that it is bungled.ed Governor of the important province of Unfortunately the line forms part of the Shantung. So long as mon who have abused Nanking System, where the other day we their ofices by such misdeeds in place of had occasion to refer to the disastrous effects degradation, meet with high promotion, so of the interference of implied private jong must we look upon the regeneration of rights with the financial success of the China as a thing inc ipable of realisation. railway in the imposition of private likin dues on a nominally Government owned and controlled Bailway.

When the late Viceroy at Nanking, H. B. Liv KwEX-I, arranged for the extention of the boundaries. K. V. E. A, to-day and to-morrow, at the Singgang diatrists have sent in him and

There were twelva plague cases yesterday, making the total 810.

There will be a Fool Competition by the

Ponk Ringes.

An enquiry into the loss of the sa, "Powan" will be held on Tuesday at 10,30 at the Hashouté

Ofice,

have been so grossly misled by the missionary bodies and globetrotting members of Parlia ment (who have sought the truth on the surface

provalecos of the opium smoking habit in China and its demoralising effects.

..

What impartial student of the question in china can honestly endorse the assertions which are referred to in the opening paragraph of Mr. Clement's paper? They all te miad a story told by ME W. E. Cooke, the Times correspondent who came out to Chins in the Inte fifties. The outory against opium was sastrong then as it is to-day; men were even decapitated for smoking opium, Mr. Cooke and some friends, anxious to see for themselves the aril· consequences of the babit, had taken a min-

alonarga galde. They mama norom sa plā emaciated man who could sosroaly hobble sing. TheThe missionary st once bild him up

Three men in a boat recently arrived at Tongming and persuaded the Chizeso Magistrats to advanos them $15 on a cheque

LONDON, June 19th. signed in the name "Gillan" purporting to be" The Government have proposed the payable in Shanghai The cheque on being construction of a dock on the north number disclosed the fact that it had been taken side of the River Thames. from the same book as the valueless one recently presented to the Central Stores by the extensions and dredging are estimated for something as to the quantlig of opium the mau Carm for whose arrest warrant has been to cost five millione pounds. issued by the American Consulate-General The cheque book in question is numbered from 799001 to 799050 and residents of Eivor Parts KOREAN NEWSPAPER TRIAL. would be viso’to take no risks with cheques- on

the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank bearing any of these nambers,

An authoritative statement has been issued of

the Japanese osso against the proposed Hein mintun-Fakumen Railway. It lava emphasis on the principle that one railway, near enough to another to enter into competition with it, must be regarded as belonging the same neighbourhood. The policy of the open door does not prevent railway exploitation. But British, Russian and American agreements with Chies also forbid the constrastion of cem petitive lines, while Germany's rat:way mono poly in Shaufung necessitated the division of the Tientsin-Pukou line into British and Gar. man spheres. Historical procedent, it is added,

no less than considerations of reasonable precea.

tion, warrants the Japanese vets on the pro posed lins in South Manchuria,

The gentry and notables of Quinssu sigued by a large number of aames to the Governor at Boosbow, complaining that sings the construction of the Shanghai Nanking Rail. way Foreigners have been visiting their districts in increasing numbers to hunt and shoot wild" fowl, eto. There have already been instances where fights between Chinese and foreigners have been averted by the rastest chance, but as

Toxro, June 19th.

The trial of Mr. Bethel, the pro- prietor of newspapers published in the. Korean-language, for sedition has just concluded at Seoul after several days hearing, Sentence of three weeks' im- prisonment was passed and defendant was ordered to enter into a bond of 1000 yen, to be deposited with the Court, for his good behaviour for six months. Mr. Crosse, barrister, of Kobe, defended, and the Resident General was complainant. Judge Bourue of

Shanghai presided. The action was instituted under an order of Council.

[REUTER'S SERVICE:]

THE OPIUM QUESTION.

horrible example.". The inquirers wanted to

man was accustomed to smoke, and it was promptly discovered, that the masa hadhiever smoked a pipo of opium in his lifel

Still, I suppose it is not to be doubted that "horrible examples" do exist, and in vier of the strong and emphatic sections made by representatives of the religious bodies, 1, for ons, Eare had a mind open to conviction; and, as daring a residence of more than five years I have not by hissed come sorom any striking

evidence of the destructive and demoralising evils of the habit. I have purposely sought for evidence in this Colony which Mr. Theodore Taylor, M.P., includes among "the blaskont opium spota in Chins." I lave visited to oalled -“-opium-dens"- of various degrees of rompacta- bility-from the "rst class" to the "lowest land am simply amoned at the grossly exaggerated ideas which are propagated about these places. My moral sense has often been ahooked in England by the soones which may

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be daily witnessed in any large city there, in the neighbourhood of public-houses, but I am bound to say that I sought in rain for the sight of

anything so demoralising and bestial. In the

opium dens. Instead of enfeebled and ema- ointed crowds lounging with pipes in their months around the opium lamps, 1 saw strong. looking, robust men, especially in the places to which men of the coolis ole resort. My moral sence was certainly not shocked by what I saw of the use of opine, but I may take this opportunity of saying that I was, in one or two instances, much surprised that the Govern ment should have licenced aneb structurally. unsuitable and insanitary hovels for a publia.

of the Foreign Settlements at Shanghai, the obstacle in the way was this same BRENG SWAN-HWEI, in deference to whose control)- ing influence in the Wusang Rail way, a huge gap was left in the middle of the amended Settlement, lest as an evil conscience on the subject suggested, his mismanagement of the railway should ONLY communications relating to the news com become too apparent. Until the other day raw, of the whole provinos. This Fair is to be safest way would be to put a stop to these pro commissioners to represent the United States purpose.

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the management of the Wusung department of the line, bad effectually shit off all municipal and public access to their line, learing only a small space for the admission of passengers. As a natural effect, of this, sided by a prohibitory tariff, the traffic on the line was of the smallest, and hardly covered expenses. The new managemant of the line after its opening to Suchow, filled. up SrExo's ditch, which had effectually prevented access to the station and threw it into the public road. This ditch, some

The members of the Local Self Government Society of Kwangtung province, whose head. quarters are in Canton, have decided to open an exhibition of the producte, maanfactured and held in Canton and the opening date is fixed for June 21.

naval divers to recover the body of Colonel H. The exhaustive operations undertaken by the

Martin, of Hongkong, who was drowned in the Take at Chusanji, bave been standoned, as thers was no hope of their meeting with success. The ships of the Chius Squadron which have been visiting Japan left Yokohama on June 10th for

Weihairai...

Foolish people say women are not logical. Mark how a brief tale shall put them dows, The perfect lady was charged with brosking have you to say?" quoth the magistrats an umbrella over her friend's host. What It was an accident, your worship" "Did

people cannot be so fortunate every aime, the

miscuous visits of foreigners who do anything and shool anything they please when they are. in the country. This practics will be exceed the districts concerned if permitted ingly dangerous to the peace and good order of d to continue any longer.

The directors of the Peking Syndicate, have sent a copy of the syndicate's joint sonsulting mining engineers' report to the directors, dated the 13th May, from which we take the follow- ing exinets:-Sinea our report, dated February 3, 1908, considerable development has been made, both by additional boreholes and sinking Noa 3 and 4 shafle. In consequence of the depth if 416ft. at borehole No. 12, referred to proving of good anthracite coal 17ft. thick at in the said report, the energies of the staff have

you not mean to hit her, then?" "been mainly devoted to proving the ares in the Bat not to break my umbrella.”

14 ft. wide, had formed the boundary of the Settlement, up to which the Settlement Police had patrolled. On the other side of the ditch on the railway property, watched a body of a slightly improved native police, As a fence had been put up along the new boundary of the road the Settlement police naturally patrolled the whole road, and ons day one of the municipal police was We have recently had occasion to refer to attacked by some of the others who the disgraceful mismanagement of the pre- attempted to drag him off violently. The prefecture, whose oropa had been in danger of proofs and progress to which we have referred

HONGKONG, JUNE 20TH, 1808

tended Imperial Telegraph Administration man, who

WES

sufficiently powerful,

of China, which under the name of being naturally resisted and made the others an Imperial service had really, according to

irns Chinese tradițional custom, become a family affair in the hands of that most reactionary of Chinese administrators, SHENG KUNG.PAD. The animadversions cast by us on the present service are re-

immediate neighourhood of that borehole, and Au suswer has been vouchsafed to the Im-sicking shaft on this site, now known porial prayers.. A telegram from Peking reports that on the 11th instant the Capital was visited by a great thunderstorm daring which copious rains feil. This, it is hoped, will relieve the fears of farmers of the Imperial

No. 4 shaft, and also upon the sinking of No. E shaft. This policy has been adopted so as to secure an early output of coal pending the uo- watering of Nos. 1 and 2 shafts, and the development of the other parts of the syndi ́cate's concession... In our opinion the

BUSINESS DEPRESSION. AT SHANGHAI

withering away owing to the heat and drought, are satisfactory, for they assure that & resson- They have some amusing ways in the Army.able output of good egal will be forthcoming in relinquish their hold. When they attempt. The rents of invaliding beards are reported comparatively short time, ed to repeat the manoeuvre a few days after, somewhat in this style." Amy Johnstons, the foreign policeman bla, bis whistle, with daughter of Sgt Johnston is recommended for ohange of climate to England, accompanied by the result that three native policemen were her father, mother, six brothers and sisters." run in and taken to the station, whence the Amy is quite a useful girl and deserves to bensit next morning they were brought up before by the change of olimate and the cheerful com-

afterwards,

Mesara Noel, Murray & Co of Shanghai In their latest plecorgoode sircular to lan alinde tes newspaper article which in noticing

LowDor, June Hi President Bousevelt has appointed three

of America on the proposed Internationa Opium Commission.

OLD AGE PENSIONS.

LONDON, June 17th. The House of Commons have passed the second reading of the Old Age Pensions Bill without a division.

PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT.

LONDON, Jane I 17th..

Mr. Bryce, who was present as charmanl The Chicago Convention has been opened;

belauded President Roosevelt, and described his refusal to stand again for the presidency as an abnegation to placing his name to fame beside that of Washington,

[N.-C. Daily News Service,] DR. KOCK IN TOKYO.

Tokyo, June 12th. Di. Koob, who arrived at Yokohams on board

the P.M.S. Siberia, immediately came up to

Tokyo.

Twenty-eight medical and scientific societies have arranged elaborate receptions in his honour.-

That, however, in beside the main point, to which I wish to revert for the purpose of quot idg the following extract from a spopch which Sir Henry Pottinger, (the fest Governor of Hongkong) after be had left Chins, delivazed at a meeting of the Bombay Chamber of Commerce, atty years ago. He said!

"I take this opportunity to advert fo oné. important topie on which I have hitherts Donsidered it right to preserve a rigid silence. I aliade to the Tradein Opium and I now anhesitatingly declare, in this public-manaër, that, after the most unblased and aurofol observation, I have become convinced, during may stay in hias, that the alleged demoraliz- ing and debasing evils of opium have been, and are, vastly exaggerated. Like all other infolgences, excesses in its use are bad aud reprehensible, but I here neither myself soon. such vicious consequendas as are frequently ascribed to it, nor have I been able to obtain authentic

proofs or information of their existence. The great, and perhaps I might say sole, bibjection to the trade; looking at it movared or heard of, it that it is at present and abstractedly, that I have dis-

contraband, and prohibited by the laws of Chins, and therefore to be regretted and disavowed bat. I have striven and I hope with some prospect of eventual success to bring about its legalisation, and were that point ance effected, I am of opinion that its most cbjectionable feature would be altogether removed. Even as it now exists, it appears to me to be unattended with a hundredth part of the debasement and misery which may be seen. in our native country from the lamentable abuse of ardent spirits and those who "so sweepingly condema, the opium trade, on that principle, need not, I think leave the shores of England to fad a far greater and beastting evil.

peated in still stronger terms by the Times the Mixed Court. As the magistrate was pany of her grateful taily on the trip and thes quist passing of Battling day," oom-run into by the steamer" Loongeng "off Wan alleged demoralising and debasing effects of

correspondent, than whom no-one from practical experience is more competent to speak. This Snese KUNG-FAO, better perhaps known by his official want of SEN SWAN-AWEI, which he bore before being granted his present title, has not only been uoted by the persistancy with which he

COLLISION IN THE HARBOUR.

Yesterday afternoon at 5.20 a coolis junk was menta upon the wonderful recuperative obai sad as a resalt tre coolies were drowned. not prepared to try the case, on his promise

powers" of the Chinese and mentiona some that they should appear the next day, they

This is said to be a breakfast story of W. E, imaginary system of co-operation whereby they The Loongeang" was leaving the harbour on

are cabled to meet were allowed out. Of course, the affair Gladstone. It is told in Cerubill.-At break Mesere Noel, Murray & Co. alate the netual How it ocurred is not very apparent yet, bas their engagements her way to Manila when the collision took place, having evidently been arranged beforeband, | fast this morning he told an excallost story fact to b3 tast the import houses are when those on boarl the steamer saw "That a the next day no appearance was unde, apropos of the Duke of Cumberland's and the carrying through the foreign banke, the huge collision was inevitabis the engines were pro.

stocks now

of. fancy notwithstanding the engagement of the Duke of Cambridge's habite of swearing. Lord tot of goods 30g here, mostly of the formptly reversed and the fores of the impact was magistrate, but three mounted men, armed; Mark Kerr had sworn at some troops at a re- the pott few years, when the market was 195soned. The junk was not ont, but swinging view before the Queen. The Queen Gent for buoyant, were able to fulfil their engagements, alongside the steamer after being struck was

a larger scale. Any measure

water. The pazzengers claubered up the other in the side, and as the accident was witnessed by those newer articles of fanoy gonde especially

example, until the trade

on board several launches soon a number of these -was-sluost-entirely in the hands of men craft were speeding to the assistance of the

It has now reached elimar. By an unfortunate chain of cromaten out an fortauste people was vers all rescue with the market ins gone against them and the con- exception of two. Dae, an old woman, who

is a sequence general collapse. Out of four

was in the front part of the jack, was hundred palive firme who were dealing in drowned, and a man met with a similar fate. piece gode last year 70 per cent, are absolutely wrecked, and must have disappeared from the Another woman who had been under wawr fo seene. Those who have survived, are mostly the two or three minutes was pulled out in a very siaple makes of grey and white cloth, the

Thst statement, so fa, sɛ It relates to the

opium will be endorsed, I venture to think, by

growing habit, su-China-not-at-leert in the every impartial student of the question,

Oplum-smoking, I am conripood, is not a

blackest opium spöte" Sir Houry Blake, ous of our former Governors, in the letter to The Trees which you reproduced few days ago, Sir, warned the Government that the effect of their instructions to closs apiam divans would be to change the stimulant of the people

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elings to the traditional spoils of office, and commenced, in defiance of all regulations, the Duke of Cambridge, and said he must re-following up each transaction with orders on heeled over until her gunwale was under opium to alcohol. Personally I think the bange the opposition be offers to every project of te patrol the neighbouring atreets. As the primand Lord Mark, which the Duke did they net with incited othera

be

follows: "Lork here, Mark, H.M. hard you their awear, and she said she was damned if she'd stand it.”—

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foreign police have orders to arrest all financial amendment, but has recently armed natives marching through the foreign become one of the chief instigators of the olamour for the restoration of "China's quarters, chase was immediately given and

one of the lot was captured and run in. It is quite curious that of the American Sovereign Rights" which in certain cases,

A demand was made for his release which lawyersst Shanghai, who marshalled themselves owing to her own internal weakness, and

was refused, but the magistrate was given to attack Judge Wifey, not one comprehended the persistent maladministration of SHENG

to understand that if the men whom he had the law relating to Impeachments, and ignomine KUNG-PAO himself, and others of the

iously failed to frame a single allegation covered engaged to appear did surrender, the Coun by that law. There was in the van of this cil would consider the case of the ower. colort of lawyers the ex-Attorney General of men he have bonficed their attention to the exhausted condition and reveral of the others latest complaint of this nature proceeding SHENG himself, and is addressed to the tempts which have lately become destructive book with his testimony, wie informed by the been able to meet. Hundreds of summons have taken sabere on the police launches, and al none of all good relations to restore China's committee that he had not stated cue fact that been taken out in the Mixed Court (but it in were seriously hurt they were conveyed to Wan International Telegraphic Conference, being held at Lisbon. Owing to the notorious Sovereign Rights." Unfortunately for the brought his allegations witzin the law of in-only throwing good money after bad), to recover chai. The jank did not size bat was very much peachment. It is becoming clearer why some the losses pending, the extent of which cannot waterlogged. It was towed to Causeway Bay be averlained until the goods are sold and naladministration of the native telegraphs continuance of good relations, these at lawyers did not succeed in passing Judge cleared. That is the situation which has to be The steamer was delayed for some time but

it is too! resumed har voyage before darkness fell, when Manchurian administration was as for templa, so far from partaking of the nature Wifey's examination.

calibre, have dropped out of her hande. The

will come soon anenga without thixnow impetus. Whoever takes the trouble to inquire will and. that among the younger generation there is not mob inolination towards opiam, but that strong preferance. is developing for alcohol, and I think this tendency must have been very industry in Hongkong.→Yours truly. Patent to those who are dovaloping a browing

ANTI-HUMBUG.

THE CITIZENS' FIEST DUTY.

(30 Ta

from the Chinese ox, is directly the work of case was apparently one of these at the Hawaiian Islandu who, after filing a large lossen on which, though not triling, they have were injured in various ways. Thirty-two ware (DITOR OF THE "DAILY PRESE," T

I faced now, and a mighty serious

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SIE-I, as your correspondent anys, citizen's first duty is to be ready to fight for bicosntry, may I invite volunteer rat-catchers? Hongkong is at grips with an invasion of the plagus-bearing rodents; the Government's re- with the enemy; every able-bodied citizen ought

gular forces (the rat coolles) are unable to

I to qualify as a rat-catcher.→→Yours truly, “

ARMA VIRUMQUE.