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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26xm, 1911.

Minister and several members of the Diet. inauguration by the Exrenox, whose acts

The British Society, it may be explained, is are removed from the realms of controversy. TELEGRA MS.

an organisation intended to bring into. There was a good deal of pressure brought close contact British subjects and those to bear to make up the necessary funds, and Japanese who have visited Enghud officially the organisation being entirely in the hauda or otherwise. The majority of its members of the oficials the subscriptions almost are thus fluent English speakers, and no one amounted to a tax va auearned increment.

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would think that fifty years ago the late Mr. FURSZAWA, in commencing his study of the language, could find no one in Tokyo who had any but the slightest knowledge of it or was even able to tell him how to set hout learning it. Mr. WEBB was, perhaps, rather surprised to find such a number of English scholars, for the Japanese have the undeserved reputation of being bad linguists Certainly his remarks, which, it is reported, were listened to with profound attention, could not have come at à more opportune time. Their refreshing quality lay in the fact that they did not consist of mere empty encomiums, which, na ono Japanese at the meeting remarked, seemed the only mental activities which the majority of visitors were able to show; nor were they, on the other hand, hyper-critical. Mr WEBB Car fully picked his way among the shoals, praising and blaming. Thus he saw no

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ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF NEW

TARTAR-GENERAL.

Canton, October 25th. There was another bomb outrage

a further increase in the widening gulf be tween the rich and the poor, its inauguration will be regretted. The introduction of in- dustrial capitalism iuto Japan is undoubted- ly breaking up the family system, and with the break up of the family system there will end that great co-operative movement which has in the past kept pauperism down to the very smallest proportions in Japan. In hers to day, an attempt being made view of Mr. WEBE's contention as to the to assassinate the new Tartar-General, accessity of prevention, which of course applies to pauperism na well as sickness, it achieved under the family system not by is interesting to note that this result was

indiscriminate doles among the family or equal division of property, but by pressure ring brought to bear to prevent any mem- Wash apparently regards the system as bor of the family becoming indigent. Mr.

dooned, but he thinks tho task formerly

Many people were injured.

[FROM THE “CHÚNG NGOA SƯ -PO."]

TARTAR-GENERAL DEAD.

CANTON, October 25th. The new Tartar-General was killed

was thrown at him to-day.

The Viceroy has memorialised the Throne to this effect.

The mardared official was previously Tartar Goal of Kinchow, in Hupeh, He passed Canten, and appears to have been sasassinated through Hongkong on Tuesday on his way to

yesterday morning while proceeding to the Immen.]

TELEGRAMS. TELEGRAMS.

{THROUGH MEUTHE'S AGUNOT.]

THE MEDITERRANEAN WAR

HEAVY FIGHTING AT BENGHAZI.

LONDON, October 25th. Reuter's correspondent at Rome wires

hazi.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

REASSEMBLY OF THE COMMONS.

LONDON, October 25th, The House of Commons has re-assembled. Mc David Mason asked why the Govern→ ment had not offered their good offices in

that heavy fighting has occurred at Bengringing about a settlement of the Italo

Turkish hostilities.

Mr. Asquith replied that it was not cur-

present was desirable. sidered that a public announcement at

ed by 3,000 Arabs, and they lost 490 killed Six hundred Turkish levies were reinforc

and 1,200 wounded.

The damage occasioned by the bombard. ment is officially described as not gress.

THE BOMBARDMENT OF BENGHAZI

LATER. Reuter's correspondent at Malta wires that letters from Benghazi state that the

caused a panic.

The British Consulate was badly damag el, and the Consul, Mr. Francis Joues, was wounded.

Mr. Asquith announced that in addition to the Insurance Bill, it was hoped to passt the Shops Bill, the Mines Bill, the Naval Prize Bill, the Finance Bill and the Scottish Land Bill, The Government proposed to allocate 18 or 19 days to the Insuraves Bill.

Mr. Balfour said the allowance proposterously narrow.

WIL

In reply to Mr Balfour, Mr. Asquith said

statement on foreign affairs, including he hoped Sir Edward Gray would make a

Morocco, within a fortnight. The Gover

ment would not refuse the Labour debate

It is estimated that the casualties among if there was a general demand for it.

the inhabitants number 4,000.

reason to think that the agricultural system carried out by the family devolves by right by the explosion of a bomly which bombardment wrought great havoc and of Japan, which he rightly described as upon the local governments, with the assist- admirable, was inevitably doomed to destrucance of grants in aid from the central gov- if Japanese statesmen took careernment. To establish any organisation for to preserve it, and he pointed out the relief of pauperism as such he holds to several methods by which the posant be a fatal mistake, which can only end in farmer could-be assisted without being producing that-large indigent population pauperised. At à moment when Japan is which weight so heavily on England. seriously considering the question of the Especially does he condemn the lumping sufficiency of her food supplies this defence together of young and old, aich ani strous of présent conditions is particularly interest in pauper institutions, the management of ing. There can be no doubt that Japan is which has no special knowledge of how to outgrowing her supply of home-grown rice, deal with them. The health of the people, and if she is not to fall into the condition of he holds, should be dealt with by the health England it is on her peasant farmers that authorities, whether they be indigent or he must roly. Their present lot, however, otherwise. In the same way the children is not satisfactory. They have to pay à fall under the educational authority, the high land-tax, their access to the markets is out-of-work under the labour bureau or. harred by heavy freight rates on the Gorganisation, and so on. Only in this way can erument railways, and they have the bitter. sickness be prevented, pressurs brought to ness of eecing middlemen and manipulators ear on parents to clothe and feed their child on the rice exchanges amake suorons profits, and the unemployed kept from sinking lently recommend then se mature and out of their produce-profits which should into the gulf of pauperism. Japan has come

have come, they feel, into their own pockets. The question of the middleman is attracting

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CANTON'S ATTITUDE TOWARDS THE REBELLION.:

CANTON, Uctober 25th.

A meeting of the gentry and mer- chants of Canton was held to-day. Tang Wa Hei, formerly Governor

to the parting of the roads, and great of Anhui province, and Leung Ting follow the delusive beams of benevolent Fan, formerly Provincial Judge of importance attaches to her next steps. To

at the end the workhouse, the stone-yard charity down the wrong turning and to find Hapels, were elected Chairmen, and all the other paraphernalia of pauper organisation in Western countries would evidently be to take a fatal step.

some attention among the authorities, and attempts to gamble with the food supplies WATSON & CO., of the country are likely henceforth to be dealt with severely. What seems wanted, LIMITED,

however, is some kind of co-operation among the farmers, by which they can approach the consumers direct, as well as improved. A letter from Mr. F. B. L. Bowley on the inothods of agriculture and a greator spirit"British" Schools of the Colony is held over of enterprise. The farming class in Japan, until to-morrow. as, indeed, in most countries-is conserva- tive as a whole, and efforts to move it out of well-worn grooves must be very persistent to have any effect. The rice supply cau, of course, be augmented from abroad, but the Japanese do not care for rice that is not grown in their own country. Somo en thusiasts have proposed that the national

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The meeting decided that no troops

The Maltese church partly collapsed,. eight people being killed and ten wounded. Several British Jews who took refuge in the Consulate during the bombardment. were killed or captured. CARRYING OF ARMS PROHIBITED. A number of Tripoli Arabs who on the 23rd instant shot a number of untives found carrying arms have been arrested.

Some of the will be tried by court martial, and others will be expelled from

Tripoli.

the carrying of arms under penalty of death. A decree has been issued which penalises

GERMAN EMPLOYEE SHOT.

of the Court Martial a Kavass employed in It is reported from Tripoli that by order

f money should be sent to the North the German Consalate was shot publicly

to assist the Imperial troops.

The circular calling the meeting |

for stabbing a wounded Italian soldier. BRUTAL MURDER AT MONASTIR. The brutal murder and mutilation of the

At the Magistracy a Filipino was share represented that there was a possGreek Metropolitan of Gravena and two

with driving a motor car at excessive spead and bility of a rising in Canton and that attendants in the Villaget of Monastir has was fined $30 by Mr. Wood.

Saren boatwomen were at the Magistracy yesterday fined $10 each for making fast to the property of the Wharf and Godowa Company at Kowloon.

The House resumed the committee stage- on the Insurance Bill.

RUSSO-CHINESE TREATIES.

AND THE FUTURE OF MONGOLIA.

LONDON, October 26th. The Novoje Vrintya (St. Petersburg) is urging the Government to take advantage of the crisis in China to secure the com- pletion of the negotiations proceeding at St.

Petersburg for the revision of Russo-

impending arrival of the Mongolian Khans Chinese Treaties, and states that the

is to explain their grievances, to secure the autonomy of Mongolia, and ita delinité establishment as a buffer state.

HEAVYWEIGHT BOXING.

DURNS ANXIOUS TO MEET THE CHAMPION,

Losnos, October 25th.

Ports that Tommy Burns has arrived at Reuter's correspondent at Auckland re-

all troops and money would be need-excited the greatest indignation in Greece, that port, and says he is ansious to meet ed in the province.

where the Young Turks are unhesitatingly Jack Johnson again, preferably in Austra accused of conniving at the Roumanian lia. propagandists' plan to carry out the crime..

[The gathering nevertheless is regarded as in sympathy with the rabellion, and the object It is announced that the partnership hitherto of the resolution in simply to refuse assistance food should become bread, and the rice-existing between Mr. F. X. d'álmada e Castro to the Government] folds gonverted to wheat. This is but a. and Mr. Crowther Smith, solicitors, has been Area. To the majority of Japanese bread dissolved, and that sach will practice in the is a kind of cake, and to live on-it-would be Colony on his own-account; liko naking a European to live ou confec Honery. Moreover, rice is easily prepared at home for consumptim, whereas bread On October 18th, at Shanghai, to Mr. and i would have to be made by bakers, pe the Mrs. HEIN. MEKTENY, & faughter.

average Japanese has no accommodation for

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The Daily Press.

HONGKONG, OCTOBER 26TH, 1911.

At the Marine Magistrate's Court yesterday Commander Beckwith, R.N., find the muster of a junk $5 for anchoring his vonsel within the limits of the southern fairway on the 24th instant The junk master, who had visited did not know it was against the law to anchor Hongkong on five pravions occasions, said he where he did.

[THEOUGH"REUTER'S AGENCY,

GOVERNMENT STRONGHOLD.

SURRENDERS..

CANADA AND RECIPROCITY.

··LATE GOVERNOR-GENERAL'S OPINION.

LONDON, October 25th. The Rt. Hon. L. Harcourt prasided at

THE TURF.

LONDON, October 25th. The betting on the Cambridgeshire Stakes is: 100 to 15 against Mustapha; 7 to 1 against Trepida; 100 to 14 against Morcutio ;' to 1 against Mahsud: 10 to 1

a banquet given at the Royal Colonial and Sunbrightnet Brasted

Institute in honour of Earl Grey, the late 20 to 1 against Governor-General of Caundo.

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frey Y. Lagden. GENERAL YIN CHANG DEMANDS the exception of an occasional crank, there Earl Grey, in a speech, said that with

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against Atmah.

Grammont and 25 to L

ted, Winter: Mahaud, Martin; Atmah, Fox;

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The jockey who is to ride Radianey has not yet been selected.

LONDON, October 25th, On October 19th at Shanghai, THOMAS is preparation. It is true that bread is

Router's correspondent at Peking wires HENRY MALCOLM, late Master of the China now procurable in all the large cities and Navigation Company's 8 S. Tamsul, sgod 44towns in Japan, but if it ever supplants rice

that Sianfu, which was regarded as a

The guests included Sir L. 8. Jameson, The probable starters are: Mustapha, F. as the national food it can only be very

The police of Kowloon on Tuesday morning

Government stronghold, has peacefully

the Rt. Hon. Sir Walter F. Hely-Hutchin- Wootton; Mercutio, Trigg Lonovand, Hax.. gradually. At present its largely eaten arrested three men ander exspicious viream-submitted to the rebels.

sou, the Hon. Sir Richard Solomon, the lay; Pietri, Wam; Trepida, Rickaby as a remedy for kalike, the rice discuse. Kowloon School, and he was heard to whistle, staaces. One was found near the garden of

Hon. Sir James L. Hulett, the Rt. Hon. Tattling, Garner: Dandyprat, Wheatley; Whether Japan can continue to supply whereupon he was joined by two others. A secession of the historic refuge of the

Official circles are deeply impressed at the Alfred Lyttleton, Lord Minto and Sir God. Sunbright, Higgs; Labecasse, Piper; Brax- herself with rice is a moot question, how-number of larcenies have taken place in that over. The increase in the population hse so vicinity, but the police have not been able to Chinese Court. fu proceeded much faster than the bring these home. The men were charged with increase in the cultivation of rice, and being vagabonds and were romanded pending MR. SIDNEY WEB, the well-known writer

may bo on economics, whose monumental work un is no room for further expansion, under suspected that there

the appearance of friends. London's workers will prove invaluable to which circumstances Japan will sooner or Convent wishes to thank his Lordship Biskop The Rev. Mother uperior of the French future historiaus, has been lecturing in later bave to overcoms ber dislike of foreign Perzoni for opening the bazaar at the Clip Japan on economie questions. Mr. WEBB, rice. The import duty on rice, against Hall on Tuesday, and also to convey ber desp who was accompanied by his wife, did not

which an agitation is now being raised, gratitude to all the ladies of the Colony who receive quite snel a warm welcome in

seems to have had no effect on the progave their help both by belding stalls and by apan as has been accorded to some less duction and has only further impoverished purchasing numerous articles, and for doing distinguished of his compatriots, but prob those people who must eat the cheaper for with so much kindness and keen interest, ably he was thereby enabled to see more of eign rice or starve. Another point touched the sale or who took part in it in any way. She the country and the life of the people.Theon by Mr. Wenn was the provision for the begs also to thank the Philharmonic Socisty Japanese authorities, in view of the recent sick and poor. His remarks were attack for the loan of the piano which was utilized in erusade against Socialism, were no doubt a discreetly anonymous on the Saiseikai, the afternoon by Mille. Thomas, who played little afraid of taking official notice of Mr.

an organisation recently established under several magical solestions. All friends of the

She also wishes to thank all those who attended

Convent will be glad to learn that the bazaar

was a great suCCESS.

THE KIBIN-HUINING RAILWAY,

General Yin Chang has informed the Government that the rebels have 400 guns. He th fore demande additional artillery, and also money wherewith to pay the troops before he advances.

the rebels are making overtures to the A message from Sianfu states that

Molsunmedans of Kansu,

THE "LIBERTE" DISASTER.

Wabu's visit, moreospecially as he was some the auspices of the EMPEROR to give relief what bluntly-though, of course, correctly to the indigent sick. Mr. Wess acknow- described in one of the foreign papers un Socialist. As a leading member of the people for pauperis bad been followed in ledged that the same method of qualifying | Fabian Society Mr. WELD could not deny the past in England, but he held that efforts the allegation, and the difference between in that country were now more directed the militant Socialist and the Italian towards prevention than cure. Help the tause of 900 miles, will, says the Kakumain, be French cruiser Liberte declares that there Socialist being unknown in official cireles |

A LOAN FROM JAPAN, Work on the Kiria-Haining Hailway, a dia started in the near future under the direction

LONDON, October 25th. The report of the Commission of Inquiry" into the disaster which occurred on the

in Japan,. it is hardly surprising that the indigent sick, of course, but sitach me of the Chinese authorities in Kirin Province was no sign of foul play, and expresses the

was not a man to be found in 'Canada who was in favour of annexation. Reciprocity, whether, good or bad, was designed to TRAGIC DEATH OF A MEMBER OF and the fear of the contrary was the strengthen the Union with the Motherland,

PARLIAMENT.

result which influenced the elections, and proved that Canadians love their country

and the Empire, but that Canada would not support Imperialism founded on Jingo

aggressiveness.

CANADIAN POLITICS.

LONDON, October 25th.

LONDON, October 25th. Dr. A.. P. Hillier, M.P, has committed quicide.

for the Hitebin Division of Herts last year. [Dr. Hillier was elected Vaidaist member He was consulting physician to the Loudon Oren Air Banatorium, a councillor of the Royal Colonial Institute and a member of the Interna tional Committee for the Prevention of Taber- culosis. He served in the Kafie war at: 1878-79 88

;

trooper in the Colonial forces, and was 'a political prisoner in Pretoria 1895.96. Beuter's correspondent at Ottawa wires Prince of Wales as ons of the delegates of the

Deveased

asad was nominated by the that the last Dominion election at Yukon National Association for the Prevention of resulted in a Conservative gain:

Consumption to the Berlin Tuberculosis Can- ress, 1997. He was also the author of a number of publications, principal of which wore LIMITATION OF ARMAMENTS.

"Baid and Reform," South African Studies," Tuberculosis" and "The Commonweal, of the Federal System of Political Economy."] TONDON, October 25th. The German Press is greatly interested

chill as First Lord of the Admiralty, and

in the appointment of Mr. Winston Chur_

anthorities fought shy of him. However, importance to preventing them becoming The expenditure is put at Y.30,000,030 inslad unofficially Mr. WEBB received a good deal sick. There has been a good deal of heart-10,001,000 will be borrowed from Japanese

ist cost of rolling stock. Of this amount opinion that it was due to the ignition of of attention, and his lecture, which was burning in Japan over the Saiseikai, al financiers, and the remaining Y20,000, 00 will the powder in some of the cartridges, delivered before the British Society in though a free disc ion of the question be obtained from agricultural funds in Makden, Tokyo, was attended l-y at least one Cabineų

was somewhat bampered by the fact of its † Kirin and Amur districts. The Governor of possibly through some extraneous packing anticipates a renewal of British action to

Kirin Province will shortly diapa ch representa ires to Japan to raise a loan of ten million yen, material,

secure the limitation of armaments.

OBITUARY.

LONDON, October 25th.

The death is announced of Monsignor Capel, the original of Catesby in Lothair.