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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, JULY 25TH 1912.

CHARLES BERESFORD and Mr. A. H. LES (who was Civil Lord of the Admiralty in the last Unionist Administration) declared that Ministers were making war inevitable, but we are not told what coures they would have Ministers pursue.

Mr. KAMGAY MACDONALD, who bmcketted with Lord BERESFORD_And_Mr. Lez no taking this view, argued that the Goverment was building in a game and was ussuming the worst, The answer to this is that they uro bound-1s Germany does--to" assame the worst," or they might one fine day fed

in themselves landed" fools' paradise. It scarcely needs to be stated that the naval programines of all Powers ostensibly rest either on **assumption of the worst, or on ambitions of territorial aggression, but, whichever consideration way form the er. cuse for an increase of armaments the stereo- typed form in which the case is presented is that such increase is necessary in the interest of the country's defence. Japan under this plea built up a powerful unsy

TELEGRAMS. TELEGRAMS. TELEGRAMS.

The Chincae junk Ningpa set sail at Jr Shanghai on her second attempt to cross. the Pacific Ocean for San Francisco last week. Various improvements have been effected and Captain Scurr believes that given good weather the Ningua will this time manage to reach her destination cafely. The crew, has been augmented-

from "a" dove to mineteen, and the old tiller has been abandoned in favour of a wheel and drum which was formerly found on many sailing vessels.

In the House of Commons last month, Mr. T. C. Taylor, who is prominently identified with the Anti-Opium Society, complained of the tardy action of the Government in their endeavour to sup press the opium tralie in our Colonies, and asserted that the reason for. it was that a large amount of revenue, was still derived from that traffic. Government had commenced action in Hongkong by suppressing the piam dcns nothing had been done to prevent the people addicted to the vice

Whilst the to take

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCE.]

BRITISH NAVAL POLICY.

DSLATE IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS.

LONDON, July 24th. In the House of Lords Lord Selborne draw attention to the gravity of the. situation revented by Mr. Churchill's

statement, with which he dealt in detail, He said that the Government's proposals, especially for the Mediterranean, were temporary makeshifts which proved conclusively that we were at least eight battleships short. He heartily endorsed

Mr. Churchill and Mr. Asquith's re ferences to the Dominions which marked a revolution in the history of the Empire.

Lord Crewe admitted the gravity of the

position, but emphasised that there were ne divisions in the Cabinet on the subject.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

RUSSIA AND JAPAN.

STATEMENT BY S12 EDWARD GHEY.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

THE SETTLEMENT OF TRADE

·DISPUTES.

TUZ BRITISH GOVERNMENT TO LEGISLATE.

LONDON, July 24th.

Mr. Lloyd George surprised the House

LONDON, July bath." Replying to a question in the House of Commons regarding the Russo-

Manchuria and Mongolia, Sir Edward that the Government had decided that the Japan understanding as to spheres of of Commons late last night by announcing Grey said there was no reason to sup-time had come to reconsider the winde

Mr. O'Grady opened the debate by demanding that the Governtent should

pose that there was any agreement or problem of the settlement of traike lis

purtas. understanding made or contemplated| adversely affecting the principle of the open door or British commerce there. intervene in the strike of Lendon dorkers. He called attention to the Russo-Japanese Mr. Lloyt George said the Governinuf. convention of 1907 vecognising the in- at the present time had no power verpli Gependence and territorial integrity of to hold an enquiry with a view to con- China and the principle of equal ciliation. It would be a mistake to deal with this particular strike, which raised the general issue of non-adherence to "agreements" The Government would shortly introduce legislation to deal with fabour troubles as they arise, and it wild be applicable to both sides.

BRITISH DOCTORS AND THE INSURANCE ACT.

WHISKY | and a great arıny which no one naw double buying opium and smoking it in their To announce a great programme simply "pportunity in commerec and industry

-was-intended-to-aripple Russian poser..and. influence in the East, and it is no surrat BLEND OF THE FINEST PURE that throughout the British Empire the naval shipbuilding by Germany is regarded as being aimed at British naval supremacy. Ga no question is public opinion more unanimoire in Great Britain than that this supremacy must bo maintained at all costs to For over 30 Years WATSON'S the Empire. Lord CHARLER BERESFORD's

MALT BCOTCH WHISKIES.

own homes. He asked the Government to

of the Dominions, which must mean re- presentation of their interests in the huncils of the Empire. Our best powers should be used to consider how best this could be achieved.

MUTINY IN TURKESTÁN,

ix a date after which opium smoking spur en others was to defeat its own for all. should be illegal in our possessions. Mr. object.

He welcomed the participation Harcourt, the Secretary of State for the Colonies, in bis reply said he could give no definíte pledge in regard to the total abolition of opium smoking in our Eastern Colonies until he had seen what they could do in that House and by inter- national action to check the sale, produc- tion, and export of morphine and cocaine.

OPTUM IN YUNNAN.

PROVINCIAL DISREGARD OF TREATIES,

Telegraphing on the 18th inst. the Peking correspondent of the Daily

attitude is perplexing. The gallant Ad- "E" has maintained the re-miral has been one of the most treachant critics of the country's unpreparedness. putation of the FINEST Now he would seem to have seered round for he tells the Government it is making SCOTCH WHISKY in the

war inevitable by strenthening its naval position. We can only suppose the FAR EAST.

Admiral's attitude is one of hostility only ou

Advices from Yunnan state that a Cou the ground that he deems the programme pany is being formed there under the ans inadequate. When we leave the detailspices of the provincial government and with a capital of $1,000,000 for the purs and view in its broad perspective this pose of founding a farm for the cultiva to meet the local demand and for boasted civilisation ? our

for export to This province was recently

Nene says:-

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Lord Haldane agered - that in the absence of sufficient son power the gurti- sons were ludicrously inadequate. With adequate sea power no attack on these could be sustained. As for as the situation exists at present we are giving the garrisons the protection of adequate Ben power. Lord Haldane concluded-I nim far from wishing to speak in a tone of easy optimizmu. On the contrary, the country is face to face with one of the ruust trying naval situations, and the

naval rivalry, is it not a mortifying tion of opium to Tonly reported to Government has made up its mind that

comment on

A. S. WATSON JORN RUSKIN Wrote some twenty years he practically free from spiuni cultiva

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ago, "Observe what the standing of tion by Sir Alexander Hosie, but it is It now estimated that the farmers there have nations on their defence really means:

grown this season a total anunt of means that, but for such armed attitude, opium equivalent to four-fifths of the pro- each of them would go and rob the other; duction previous to the inauguration of This will be glad news, to the Indian that is to say, that the majority of active the policy of suppression. porsons in every nation are at present Government which, by the self-denying thiores." That is putting the whole questo China while the latter responds by de ordinance, reduces the export of opium tion in simple and expressive English. If veloping the cultivation for foreign sale, the sations of the world had faith in the thereby competing against India in the common honesty of each other they would markets of Indo-China.

shall doubtless soon hear of official not need to arni to anything like the extent protests from the Indian Government, and it will be interesting to see whether they have heu doing in recent years, but it the Central Government is able to exercise is just because they have no such faith that more control over Yunnan than it has they are each of them spending millions been able to exercise over Chekiang and every year in buying an increasing store of other provinces where the opium treaties

are being flagrantly violated.

panic. None can doubt that this makes a wer if not an inevitable at any rate extremely proluble eventuality,

Thefts of fittings from street lamps are now reported from Kowloon."

The English and French maits of the

London on the 23rd July.

A KOBE SHIPPING ACCIDENT.

**KUTSANG" CONDEMNED.

A Router's message from Kobe, dated the 18th inst., saya.;---

Great Britain's position depends on its We are told that the only sca power. Tower that is our rival in the most

LONDON, July 24th. The meeting of members of the British Medical Association approved the recum mendation made by a Committee of the

Losnus, duly 24th.. An official announcernent has been made in St. Petersburg that a mating broke out in Turkestan among the mppers near Tashkent on the 14th inst. About 130 of them fired the camp which burned from evening until morning. They were re- pulsed by the loyalists, but the mutineers killed two, and wounded sixteen, includ-Association that the negoliations with

Mr. Lloyd George should be broken off. ing four officers,

HOME CRICKET.

LONDON, July 21th. The match Kent. Worcestershire,

ILLNESS OF GOVERNOR OF

CEYLON

LONDON, July Zith.

for the former by an innings and teze

runs.

DEATH OF AN M.P,

The Times "sorrespondent at Colombo played at Catford, has rezulted in a win states that Sir Henry MacCallum, Governor of Ceylon, while on tour in the island, was attacked by broncho- pneumonia at Trincomalee, and his condition is causing anxiety.

PRINCE OF WALES HONOURED.

LONDON, July 24th.

LONDON, July 24th. The death is announced of Mr. Almt

Thomas, Liberal M.P. for East Cornar-

thenshire.

TRADE AND FINANCE IN CHINA.

The writer of "The Week's Finance”

in the W.-D. Daily News BBA;

friendly fashion realised that that is our view, and that in whatever efforts they

making still greater efforts than theirs. put forth they must reckon upon

We have said that we do that not with ay intention of aggression but because sta power is our life and in that we intend to remain supreme. That is the view of the Government, and that is the principle to which we have pledged our-sented the Grand Cross of the Legion of the Chinese have exhausted all means of

selves.

GREAT BRITAIN AND THE MEDITERRANEAN,

LORD, ONOMER ON THE IMPORTANCE OF

NAVAL PREDOMINANCE.

LONDON, July 24th.

Lord Cromer, in a letter to The Timer

Reuter's correspondent in Paris wires that President and Madame Fallières entertained the Prince of Wales to luncheon. The Prentics, the Minister for War, Marquis Breteuil, and other notable gentlemen were present.

the loan negotiations have been tem

With a feeling of relief one learns that | porarily suspended after all; and it will be time enough for the foreign bankers to come to the help of Chio if they Afterwards President Fallières pre- should then feel inclined to do so, after

Honour to the Prine, who warmly thanked the President for the high distinction conferred upon him and said he was delighted with his stay in France.

TURKISH POLITICS.

ROPTILITIES IN ALBANIA SUSPENDED,

LONDON, July 24th.

On May 7th while the Indo-China str. Katung was loading, she started uncx- causing a sampan, which was 22nd and 18th June were delivered inde, to upect, throwing fifty-six

coolien into the water of whom seven were regrets that the state of his health pre- drowned.

To-day the judgment of the vented him attending the debate in the that the Government has ordered the

The decision was Mr. J. R. Wood presided at the large Court was

Published LONDOR OFFICE: 131, FLANT STAAT. EC court of the Magistracy yesterday in the str. Kutsung was responsible for the acei-that the question of strengthening the has instructed the authorities to do their the second officer of the House of Lords last night. He declares suspension of hostilities in Albania and that Mr. absence of Mr. E. A. Irving,

dent, which was due to gross negligence. He was fined 500 yen; in the alternative

HONGKONG (FFICE: 10A, DES VEUX BOLD C

The Daily Press.

HONGKONG, JULY 25тa, 1912:

Yesterday the typhoon signals were.

a boat to search for the missing.

raising money within the equntry itself. The Minister of Financo has already been complimented by the provinces for the firm stand" he took in dealing with the proposale of the bankers, and a stun of 25,000,000 is reported to have been sent to Peking from the different proviners in- the first burst of cathusiasm over the failure of the foreign loan.

It is to bo hoped that China will he able to manage without borrowing from foreign countries, and none would then be better pleased than foreigners them A mage from Constantinople states | selves. In the meanwhile, instead of"

going to the root of the trouble, že,

authority in Peking do not know provincial obedience to Peking, every thing else is being done to add to the pride of the provinces. Clearly the men whither they are drifting. A now stamp duty is proposed at a time when revenue. which usually accrues from the old taxes, is not possible of collection,

withdraw the troops within the chief

to be imprisoned for 250 days. The ship Mediterranean garrisons is a point of utmost to proily the Albanians and to taken down, and the shipping in the har-was severely condemned for not lowering purely subsidiary importance, notably bour resunod its normal activity, although violents squalls were occasional during the day.

The Colonial Secretary's office informs

us that Indo-China has withdrawn quar-

antine regulations against Hongkong, but | that Asiatics will be subject to medical examination before disembarking.

NEW C.P.R. HOTEL IN VANCOUVER. The following extract is from the Montreal Daily Star of Tuesday, June

-18th:----

as regards Egypt. Compared with naval towns, Predominance there cannot in a greator delusion than to suppose that the addi- tion of ten thousand men to the garrison in Egypt would materially affect the

FATAL FIRE IN LONDON.

EIGHT GIRLS PERISH.

Losinon, July 24th- situation. The only resilt would be to

Twelve girls were killed as the result add to the number of prisoners captured of a Gre in a celluloid factory in Silk

Ta specch which the First Lord of the Admiralty delivered in the House of Com mona on Monday is an interesting commen- tary on the recent statement-on Great Britain's foreign policy which Sir EDWARD

erection of the new C. P. R. Hotel in Contracts have been awarded for the GREY delivered less than a fortnight ago.

Vancouver, which entail before it is coMI“. The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs

pleted vin its entirely an expenditure of

in the event of haval defeat. Canaand Street, Mocr. Lane, and five were sent told the House, and the entire world, that

three million dollars. The work is com- A Chinese was brought before Mr. J.licated by the fact that the hotel will of the sea alone" connotes the possibility to hospital suffering from injuries. the country's relations with Germany are. Wood at the Magistracy yesterday be erected on the site of the present build- excellent, and that there is not a single charged with throwing stones at an ing, the business of which will be carried of holding Egypt, question between them which is not Indian watchman. Defendant alleged on throughout the operations. The old building will be underpinned, and the possible of an amicable setilement. In that the watchman took a pencil from him excavations for the foundations, as well this statement official circles in Germany while he was engaged counting some entirely concurred. Os the beels of trucks. The hearing was adjourned in this assurance we have Mr. CHURCHILL'S order to allow of further evidence being

produced. statement of Naval Policy, asking tho

country for a supplementary vote, and The Hongkong Cricket Club is about to intimating that this is but the first and make an innovation in the sporting his the smallest instalment of the extra expenditory of the Colony by throwing open its ture which the new Naval Law of Germany ground to croquet playing, and a tourna entaila on Great Britain. The general ment will probably be inaugurated next effect of this law, Mr. CHURCHILL said, was month. There is a considerable number the maintenance of four-fifths of the of croquet players in the Colony, and a German Navy in full and permanent com championship competition, which is sug mission," which meant that it was constant-ested, ought to attract a good entry, ly and instantly ready." Euch preparation.

LAND REFORM.

LONDON, July 24th. The Times lobbyist compares the pre- sent situation of the Liberals with that

It is interesting to recall that the stamp duty. was one of the innovations tried by the Manchu Government, which added to its unpopularity, finally leading to its downfall. By an irony of fate all measures for which the Manchus were condemned by the public are taken up by those who have stepped into their shors in Peking. What the result will be it is hard to tell; but it is almost certain that there will he very little permanent revenue to the State, especially from the provinces until after a long struggle, LATED.

Stringency of money prevails through- out the country, and trade, even thongh Eight perished in the fire. Fifteen girls it is only now being done for immediate were trapped in the top floor of a five-demand, is proportionately hampered. storey building and four were incinerated, As a contrast to this there are now on deposit with the foreign banks in Shang- while three were killed by jumping sixty hat and Hongkong considerable sums of feet and falling on a skylight. One has ditions, would have been employed in Chinese money, which under other con-

No Are escapes wore.

trade. Let alone that, the Chinese de- positora might have helped the Govern ment with funds, if only they had non- fidence in it.

as the foundations themselves, will be completed before the actual work of demolition of the superstructure is com- menced. As soon as the foundations are finished, the construction of the wing next of the Unionists in 1903, when Mr. died in hospital. to Opera House Lane will be rushed. This will be used in conjunction with Chamberlain resigned in order to cam-available. as soon as the ground floor of the main paige the country with the sanction of the old building for hotel business, and wing is Snished, it will be covered with a temporary roof and used. Then, the old building will be torn down.

negotia

The Premier. The question is whether

PROMINENT SUFFRAGETTE

ARRESTED

It is an unfortunate circumstance that the revolution has checked production in the interior, and as a consequence there LONDON, July 24th. has been a very large falling off in the export trado. The Chinese have thereby Dr Elle Smyth, the well-known lost the money which they usually had Evon apart composer, has been arrested on a charge from the safe of produc

from this exchange has operated against of complicity in the affair at Nuucham the Chinese producer, and not a few of

the Chinese commodities find great diffi when two women were discovered in the culty in getting sold. vicinity of Mr. Harcourt's residence with

Mr. Lloyd George will resign in order and provision is made for extending the

The main block will be of ten storeys, to try to win an election on his land building to fifteen or sixteen storeys, the policy. matter now being the subject of tions with the sivie authorities. The ESPIONAGE IN GLASGOW. building is to be fitted up in the most Messrs. Kelly & Walsh were summoned ladies' loggia on the Georgia Street side, kumptuous style. For instance, in the

LONDON, July 24th. the right honourable gentleman added, was at the Magistracy yesterday to answer prominent artists will be set to work to

In the High Court of Justiciary at remarkable, and so far as he was aware, charge of permitting a nuisance at the paint the walls in the Italian Renaissancó Edinburgh a German named Karl Graves methylated spirits and tow. found no example in the previous practice rear of their premises by failing to be the finest on the continent--no less was charged with obtaining a note of the

style, The dining-room is planned to of modern aval Powers. As to what comply with a notice isued by the Sani- and there will he reason what justification-exists for alltary Department, to cleanse a latrine. a coating capacity of 600, which may be Beardmore's steel works in Glasgow and concert room having guns under construction at Mossra this preparation Mr.

CHURCHILL did Mr. May manager, said he had been used for all be six first-class merchant with having in his possession a code for

a ballroom. On Granville street that it is a menace to the naval position lord who was responsible, but as soon as There will be 600 rooms in the building occupied by Great Britain position he learned that the firm was responsible when it is of six storeys, and 900 wheu which her world-wide interests make it he had had the place cleaned. His Wor-storeys. The main wing and power plant, it is completed to its full height of 16

matters to a foreign. Power. essential she should maintain, needs no ship (Mr. Melbourne) diemised the de- for which the contract has

He was acquitted on the first charge now been and convicted on the second, being con- argument. The telegrams tell us that Lord fendant firm with a caution.

awarded, will cost $1,500,000.

tenced to eighteen, months' imprisonment.

It is really extraordinary that the exports from Japan to China should show. an increase over the figures of the pre- vious year, but such is the case. There has, however, been a great falling off in the exports of produce from China to Japan, the figures for the first half of the year showing a fall of over £1,000,000. For one thing, exports of raw cotton from It will be & good thing for the local industry if Japan is out of the market; but now that cotton prices have begun to soar up it is not improbable that Osaka may have to come once more to China for its raw material.

not venture to hazard an opinion; but under the impression that it was the land-shops, and a bar one hundred feet long the purpose "nf. communicating naval extension, the Port of London Authority China to Japan have practically stopped.

LONDON DOCK EXTENSION.

LONDON, July 4th. In addition to the South Albert Dock

has accepted a tender of £200,384 for deepening the East India Docks and has approved of 2 £240,000 scheme for berthing extension at Tilbury.