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We have som Turkey undergo what was practically a bloodless revolution. We have seen other smaller States attempt to take advantage of the situation by which Turkey has to devote all her energies to internal affairs by endeavouring to improve their ows positions, and

we have sesa how Austria brought Europe to the brink of war by violating the Treaty of Berlin and annex ing two provinces which were given hor to police. Having passed through that period of auziety to a entisfactory conclusion, it is, to say the least, decidedly unfortunate that the whole question should practically be reopened by the events of the past week in Turkey and in its Amalie province of Armania. The revolt is not particularly easy for outsiders to understand. It appears to be largely an acute divergence of opinion between political theorists but as their methods of settling differences do not belong to the school of peaceful persuasion, the result is civil war. Amid all the strife and turmoil one feature stands out clear; it is the non-interference of the Sultan. From a despotic autocrat he has apparently passed into the most harmless countitational ruler, little better than a figurehead. Ministers are changed, but not by the Sultan. All power seems to be lodged in the hands of the Committee of Union and Progress,

Whether they can maintain their position remains doubtful in the light of recent telegrame, bat the change, following the appointment of a new Cabinet, cannot be A. S. WATSON & CO.. very serious as the new Grand Vizier was a member of the previous administration.

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good faith.

What is perhaps more arious is the outbreak of the massacres of Armenians. These people, who are not unlike the Jews in that they bare preserved their racial individuality and their religious individuality, perhaps enjoy as great freedom under Ottoman rule as under the sway of a nominal Christian power, but it frequently happens that fanatical cutbreaks, for which both Moslems

to Seamon). It will be held during the after- noon and evening of Wednesday May 5th,

Last week there were seven, cases of plague notified in the Colony, none of which occurred in the city of Victoria, Sir of the cases were fatal. One case was notified from Kowloon City yesterday. This brings up the total num- ber of onses for the year to 34. Twenty Eight of them have been fatal,

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THE STRANDED "INDRANI"

SUPREME COURT. Monday, February 19th.

IN CRIMINAL JURISDICTION.

BEFORE HIS HOFQUE SIR FRANCIS PIGGOTT

(CHIEF JUSTICE)

EMBEZZLEMENT BY A DANK SHROFF

Young Kwai Lenng, alias Young Pak Shan, was arraigued on the charge of embezzling $52,747.71 from the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank.

THE DELIMITATION OF MACAO.

The following is translated from the Macao Bepaper Vida Nova

It appears that at Shanghai a meeting of Chinese from Canton has been held in order to discuss the Macao boundaries question, the meet- ing being held at the request of the Canten Self-Government Society. It was resolved at the mesting to send a reply to Canton that dug attention will be given to the matter and that the latest information was required for their guidance.

Fortunately, a long correspondence signed

TOKYO, April 19th.

Hon. Bir Henry Berkeley, K.C., seting at The latest news regarding the

torney-General, who was instructed by Mr. *Indiani" is that are refloating the steamor. The prosecuted, and Mr. H. G. Calthrop, who was Daily News contradicting the unfounded char- damage is estimated at yon 100,000.structed by Mars. Wilkinson and Grist, gos made by the Canton Society against the Por

appeared for the dofeuilaut.

tuguese re territorial invasion and demonstrat- She is expected to reach Kobe on

Prisoner ploaded guilty, but naked hieing that the intention of the Self-Government Society, as it was formulated in the meeting, Thursday.

Lordship to take into consiibration his youth,

was not to discuss the question of the delimita and to deal leniently with him,

tion but their aim was to expel the Portuguese from Macao. What they demanded was as follows: "The revocation of the Laso, Chase treaty negotiated at Pokin in 1887 between the Portuguese Minister and Prinos

And Ching

**** the Mitsu: Bishi Dennys, jr., from the Crown Solicitor's office, by a "Portuguese " has appeared in the N-C.

DAILY PRESS"]

Sir Frank Swettenham, KC.N.G.. formerly Governor of the Biraits Battlements, has been appointed President of the Commission appoint- |- ·"[REUTER'S SERVICE TO THE "HONGKONG ed by the Earl of Craws, Feoretary of State for the Colonies, at the unanimous request of the unofficial members of the Legislative Council of Mauritius to quite into the finances, etc., of that Colony

The return of visitors to the City Hall Library

and Museus for the week ending the 18th April, 1907, (exclusive of Enter holidays) shows that of non-Chinese thine were 375 to the Library and 223 to the Museum and of Chinese 173 to the former and 2435 to the latter. The Library was therefore, used by 548 persons and the Mussam by 2663

Another instance of the daring of the Chinese thief has come to light. The Public Works Department hare recently erected an iron rail- ing at the eastern end of Kennedy Road and during the past fortnight the greater portion matter was reported to the police last week and of the lower walls have been taken away. The since then another batch of railings has bean removed.

A Chinen, who could not be persanded by the

conductor to wait until the car stopped, jumped from a tran our while it was in motion on Sun day. Of course the inevitable happened. Hə turned a somersault and as his heul struck the ground with considerable force, he became un- conscious. He recovered shortly afterwards. Since then it has been discovered that he is a character, whose acquaintance the police with to make, and a search is being made for him.

A number of thefts from verandahs have re-

THE ARMENIAN MASSACRES.

Bir Henry Berkeley informed the Cmart that the prisoner was one of a large number of shroffs employed in the Hongkong and Shanghai Bonk and one of his duties was to receive money from persons who went to the bank to make a deposit On June 3rd last one Lo Lím Shan wout to the' bank to deposit $52,747.71 on behalf of the LONDON, April 19th.

Inspector General of the Imparial Chinese Two American missionaries have Custom This man pair that large sum of been killed at Adana,

money to the prisoner, and gave him at the same time his paying-in boost, which contained a foly, the retrocession of Macao, or in the alterna- and a counter foil. The prisoner received a

tive, the re-imposition of the annual tax and the knowledgment of China's Boereignty over the Colony. Should these demands be refused, then the Society desired that measures should be

are

The Chinese Minister Sun, by which China has confirmed Art. II of the Lisbon Protocol dated the 26th March 1887 recognizing the occupation and government of Maono andits dependencies by Portugal. Second-

Three French war vessels hurrying to Mersing where the cheque for $40,000 and the balance in osh. He has become desperate. got the cheque noted as being good for ita face situation

value, went through the usual formalities, signed Foreigners and Christians are seeking the paying-in slip, tore it out of the book, kept adopted to enforce the same, →→

in the consulates.

refuge

LONDON, April 19th. The missionaries at Adana are be

graph Company. leagured in the houses of the Tele-

One thousand persons are reported to have been killed at Tarsus and Alexandretta.

THE TURKISH REVOLT.

LONDON, April 18th.

It is reported from Constantinople that the troops at Hademkoi demand the punishment of the ringleaders of

cently taken place at Kowloon, and yesterdayesday's revolution, and promise not Inspector Langley placed a native before Mr. to enter Constantinople pending the Kemp charged with stealing a bassinette from fulfilment of this demand, on which the house occupied by Mrs. Mason in Nathan

the Ministers are now deliberating, Read, a binyols from the house tenanted by Sergt. Ford of the Buffs in Austin A veuns, and All political parties, committees chair from Gunner Day's house in Humphreys and associations in Constantinople, Avenue The police caught him as he was com- ing away with the biogels and he confessed respective of race or religion, have that he wok the other articles. He was sunk their differences and formed a sentenced to six months imprisonment and four Committee of Ottoman Union to defend hours exposure in the stocks,

the Fatherland and the Constitution.

TROOPS MARCHING TO THE CAPITAL

An interesting vaso came before Mr. Kemp at the Magletroy yesterday when free men who had been speakers at public meeting held at the Chn Nam restaurant, West Point were charged

with holding a gathering without the permis and Armenians have been to blame, disturb sion of the Governor. It appears that the

LONDON, April 19th.

part for the bank's chock and returned the other

It is believed that the Chinese Government part of the slip to the depositor duly signed. will not and canot endorse auch pretentions The cash the prisoner ought to have paid over to from the Self Government Society, which re- the note shroff the cheque, after being noted presents no authority on the question at issue as good, he ought to have placed in a box from and a quito ignorant of the history of Macau. which in due course it would bova been taken. The Chinese Government are bound by solemn

by the shroff whose duty was to remove it. In-ngagements in the matter sach as the protocol stead of doing this he cashed the cheque and of Lisbon and the Luso-Chinese Treaty of 1837, walked out of the bank. No suspicion was as said above, and the mutual accord arensed antil evening when the accounts were ceatly celebrated at Lisbon between the Chinese being closed for the day, and it was found that

the cash was short.

Minister and the Portuguese Minister for Foreign Affairs. It is however, dreadful to note how the Chinese agitators fail to speak the trath! We can assure them that on the part of Portugal there has not bean the least violation of the Treaty of 1887, not one inch of Chinese

sad was ever occupied by the Portuguese since the signing of the Treaty. The agitators wish

the English cemetery

was bailt behind the

Mr. Calthrop said the prisoner's story was that after the $40,000 had best paid, over to him he found he was $10,000 short. Then he took the whole amount and went to consult a friend That friend was most unsermplons person. Ho told the defendant at once that no one would be

that the old wall of the City be considered “the lieve his story about losing the $10,000 and that he might as well take the whole lot. The friend mit of Macao," but beyond this wall in the took care of the $40.000 and gave the prisoner Gnis" mountain, the well known Guia fort about $2,000, and promised to assist him to get was built in the year 1637!-The village of away, which he did. The accused went to Can, Monghe was already ocempied, when in 1848 tou and then ap north, where he remained for some years. Eventually he turned up at Shang-Pagods of the same village. The forta f Mônghá and D. Maria were built in 1851. The hai and was arrested. His Lordship could soo that the defendant was a very young man. He was only a little over twenty-one at the time of this occurrence, and a man who must have been in a respectable position before he entered the bank There was this sudden temptation; he had to account for $10,000 and was led away by this other person who was very much older than himself, and foolishly yielded to temp tation, This was not a case" where 'n man had committal a series of by!

frauds,

is of Lung-in-chita lios 100 metres from the "Flora" palace, the summer residence of This building wo the Governor of Macao. erected in 1843 by a Portuguese priest, Fr. Almeida and it was subsequently transferral of Vice Admiral Sergio as Bonsa between to the Government during the administration

872 and 1873,

The little huts of Lungtin-chün were expropriated în 1907, their owners receiving

but a case where a young mas enddenly the equivalent valne in cash, and in conse Nineteen thousand Committee of Fielded to temptation. Mr. Calthrop asked his guance of an epidemic of plague they were or

All letters for Elication should be written on the peace of the land and help to call attention meeting of Chinese engineers numbering ba.rogress, troops with seven batteries of, Lordship to view the case with all the leniencydered by the Government to be burnt down.

one side of paperly.

inverted,

society and representatives were present from Quarry Bay, Cosmopolitan Dook, Hanghom Dook, and the Naval Dock, Mr. C. F. Dixon from the office of Messrs. Hastings and Hast ings sppeared for the defence and the hearing was adjourned until to-day,

No anonymous signed communications that to Turkish misrule. Whatever justification tween 500 and 600 was called to form a trade have already appeared in other papers will be there might have been for this in the past Ordere for sathe "copies of DAILY PRESS there can be little doubt that Turkey should should be seat for 1 h, on day of be given full opportunity to work out bar publication. Ale that hour the supply is limited. Only suply for Cash,

own salvation. The possibility of sucess is Telegraphic Areas: PRESS. Codas : 4.3.0.th Ed. Lieber,

by no means remote, as is evident from the fact that all sections in the country have formed themselves into an association, irrespective of race and religion, to protect the Father land, and with the hands of the government strengthened there should be little fear that steps will be taken to suppress these outbursts

P. O. Böz, 54. Telephone No. 12.

DEATH.

At the Generalflospital, Shanghai, on the 11th April, at the sgef fourteen, NzLzIE, daughter of Robert Kay. reply regretted.

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The Jaily Press.

HÖNGEO, APRIL 201H 1909.

The depression in trade has affected Saigon considerably. Failures among Chinese traders and difficulties among Europem merchants are matters of common talk. The number of bank- ruptcies is, however, not large, owing to the unwillingness generally, of the creditors to of sectarian beling in the outlying provinces enforce their claims to the uttermost in the of the Empire, Admittedly there are many hope of a composition or of things mending. obstacles in the way of a bealthy regenera-For all that, the crisis goes on without any sign tian of Turkey, but the past year indicates of improvement, especially in the import trade

that that achievement is not improbable ; Exports differ as to the why and wherefore of and when we remember that it has takes the crisis. Some lay the blame on the fall in silver. Others say that it has all been brought centuries and streams of blood to free the

about by reckless trading and dealing. advance nations of Europe from the oppression of tyranny we shall not expect Turkey, which is not much beyond the stage of the Middle Ages, to skip over the period necessary for its historical development.

MAN is born to trouble as the sparke fly upwards." Sul are the words of holy writ which present her a pessimistic outlook on life, and witbot being unduly pessimistia, they might be applied to the "Near Eat." That itle quarter of the earth, with its varying ethnologial elemente, ils innumerable reeds, seems also to be The English Mail of the 20th March was destined to trouble: Certainly it has become delivered in London on the 17th inst

Capt. A. H. Hurt-Synnot's promotion to the raak of major mas gazetted on the 16th ult.

A Chinese who was caught, taking young was fined $3 at the Magistracy yesterday. birds from a nest on Garden Road on Sunday

fined $50.

A fire of 5500 was imposed on a Chinaran employed on the ss. Amig & the Magistracy yesterday for having been found with s quantity of opium in his possession.

PHILHARMONIC CONCERT.

Owing to an alteration in the arrangements

of the Bandmann Co, who wore to have played

artillery have already passed Tchatalja They are perfectly equipped and well disciplined. The vanguard is within eighteen miles of Constantinople.

Other battalions are marching to wards the capital from Kuleli, Tsurges, Smyrna, Erzerum and Trebizond.-

TRAGEDY IN NEW GUINEA,

LONDON, April 18th.

A Melbourne despatch states that at Admiralty Island the natives attacked and killed Captain Komino, Japanese frader to New Guinea, and two of the native crew,

THE AMERICAN NAVY.

LONDON, April 19th. The U.S. Secretary for the Navy

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in

in Hongkong next week, the Philharmonia speech at Boston urged the mainten. Concert which was. to have taken place

on Friday April 23th has been postponed to fence of a first-class battleship Beet în Tuesday April 27th,

the Pacific sa well sa in the Atlantic.

We are asked to state that tiekate bearing the earlier date will still hold good

THE WARD COMEDY COMPANY.

IN BUNMARY JURISDICTION.

BEFORE MR. H. H. J. GOMPERTZ

- (PULBRE JUDGE,)

he could. It was a serious offence, but the “In the vicinity of Jap-sesk, where there is prisoner was young and Counsed thought the the fine asylum for the orphans auder the case story be told was true. It was a wrong thing of Bante Casa, close to the cemetery of 8. Miguel. and a wicked thing to have done, but the All the sheds, huts &o., were bought by the prisoner yielded to very strong temptation. Public Works Dept, and the human bones found. Counsel concluded by asking his Lord ship to there, while digging the ground, were sent view the case with all merciful consideration. to the Chinese Hospital Committee in order His Lordship thought he must regard the that the relatives of the deceased, if any, might offence, not from the amount of money stolen, take charge of them, the rest being buried by the bat from the nature of the offence at the Committee in the cemetery by the Hospital position which the prisoner occupied. He did Committee at Cathay. There is still this The not think he could possibly impose a less penalty cemetery as evidence of what we say, than five years' imprisonment with hard labour, boues were never thrown in the sea, an fuledy

The Sessions were adjourned sine die.

| stated at the meeting. The suburban villages referred to by the speaker at the meeting at Canton, for instance, Sakong, Salitan and, Ban Kin, have been compied by the Portuguese from time immemorial. The Salitan liza Patons as we now call it, which lies in front of TRIAL OF ISSUE.

the Camoes grotto, had formerly numerous Port The trial of su isene, arising out of the setion guess houses and it was surmised that this by Ho Sze against the Taș Li Lung firm, Len site was where the first Portuguese established. Hing, and Lai Chi Chin, continued. The themselves when they arrived at Masso, plaintiff was Ho Sze and the defeudant Patene and Tarrafeiro were formerly Europeen Lai Chi Chin. The question to be decided was districts where the wealthy people used to live. whetler the woman deswriting herself as Tusu | After a long time they trasferrod the A Choy was the same as Họ Aze, Mr. C. F. residence the Praya Grande, Dizon, from the office of Messrs. Hastings and "All these villages were cituated within the Hastings, appeared for Yuan & Choy, and boundary of "Torta Cerco" alias Kuan-chop Mr. F. P. Hoti, of Mesars Brutton. Hett, barrier, which the Chinese Gorerament made in appeared for Lai Chi Chin.

1573 to divide Macao from the district of Houng- After hearing evidence, his Lordship reserved shan. Clow to this Porte do Cerco there is now N/ his decision.

Portuguese Guard Station built of brick and stone some tens of years before the signing of the Treaty of 1887.

WEATHER REPORT,

The Hongkong Observatory yesterday issued the following reporte

On the 19th at 11.05 an--The barometer has fallen quickly in Japan, and risen siderably over the E. coast of China. yesterday has reached S. W. Japan.

The depression which passed near Shanghai The area of high pressure is still shown over the Pacific to the D. of N Japan,

Fresh N.B. winds may be expected in the Formosa Channel and along the northern shores Hongkong rainfall for the 24 hours ending at 10 am, to-day, 0.00 inches,

It is of importance to bring to the notice of the publle in general that the Governor of Kuantung, Ung-tai-cheng, mentioned by the con-speaker at the Canton meeting was sent to Maco in 1887 by the Central (overnment to and out the truth of the complaints made by tho Heangshan people and after verifying de is the land occupied by the Portuguese, he made his Report. It was upon his Report think the Poking Government resolved to sign the Treaty of 1887 Consequently the Chinese Government was well informed of the whole tots. This narrative will enlighten the self. government Society and convince them of their grom error.".

the scene of almost perpetual unrest, but the worst asper of this recurring strife is not the unhappy state of the unfortunate

WANTED; A WIFE. people which it reveals, but the danger it creates to the pace of Europe. So many

Speaking at a meeting held at Lambeth Town conflicting intersta are involved in the

Hall, Brixton, recently under the chairmanship of Mr. Hinds, Kayer of Lambeth, to further supervision and protection of an empire

Two Russians charged with stowing away on

He claims of the Widows Friend Society-an which has sunk low as to be incapable of board the Hitachi Maru from Shanghai to The plow staged by the Company at the organisation which this year celebrates its defending itself but which offers a tempta. Hongkong were at the Magistracy yesterday Theatre last night was "The Man from Mexico," centenary, and which has done much to help a comedy fall of amusing situtions and the that he had received the following letter from a por widows--Mr. Brinsley Harper announced sion for some of the stronger powers to

olever interpretation of the piece by the man at West Hartlepool: "Please, could you dispossess it of some of its fair provinces

Company was immensely enjoyed Mr. supply me with sgood young or middle-aged girl that no one pour can intervene without

Ward made the most of the principal fora wife, who can share her living with me, for axciting the busy and suspicion of the

role in which he has to go to prison for poor wages cannot enable me to get a good girl

I am a stone-breaker for corporation, and got others. We remember the old days of the

thirty days, a fact which has to be hidden from 108. to 129, a week, but I got poorer wages in Armenian atralies when Britain was

his wife, who herself narrowly escapes a like winter. I am nearly 30 years of age. I am blamed for not tempting to carry out the

treatment for being found in a place of quos deaf and dumb, and I do not drink or moke,

I want to know you could get a young or The forecast for the 24 hours ending at noon bag and baggye" policy by clearing the

tionable repute whither her suspicions of her middle-aged widow, with few children, in this today is as follows unspeakable Brkout of Furope: The

husband had taken her. Miss Palotta as the town or any other town, who have shop for sell Hongkong & Naghbourhood (") suspicious wife plays her part with great ing tobacco and stationery or sellings chips and Formoss Channel............fresh-

N.E winds, Concert of Eurge could not agree as to the

fried fish for their living. If cleverness, while the other members of the com- course of action to be taken, but neither Before Commander Basil EH. Taylor, RNpany contilate not a little to make the pro- her my poor wages every weak. I have written

would be willing to become my wife I could pay South coast of Chins between? Sams as No. 1.

Hongkong and Lamocks, Russia or Briain, the two Powers most at the Marine Magistrates Court yesterday duction the mirth provoking performance that letters many religious societies and matri- South coast of China between directly interest, dared interfere. They three boatwoman wore fined $5 each for being it was. A feature of the piece was the number monials gencies, but they could not supply. A * Hongkong and Hainan....

Same as No. 1. were mutually jalous while the attitude of in Causeway Bay without the written permis- of songs introduced sud the Spanish dance in

good girl must is hearing girl-—not deaf and () N.E. winds, freshening; fins to clewly dam b.

and misty, cooler," which Mr. Ward and Mas Paletio participsta the other Power did not help to a solution son of the Harbour Master.

A man carted Garman who deserted from HM.S. Glory when she was on the China station nine years ago was arrested last month at Southampton, and handed over by the magistrates to the naval authorities.

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