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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, AUGUST 6TH, 1912.

her docks and harbour works. Her resour- ces are well exploited and modern industries of all kinds are initiated and developed by ber own exporta. Her lawened their adminis. tration have been brought into line with Westera ideas of justice, and her national progress in all directions has been such, in

the short space of half a century since the country emerged from feudalism and isolation, as to make her an important factor in world politics. We do not imagine that China in fifty years could do what Japan has done. The mind AINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS of a huge nation like Chiun cannot be

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An armed robbery is reported from Cat Island, where siz men entered u shop on Sunday and stole goods and money to the value of $300. As they were leaving they fired on the shopkeeper, who returned the fire. One man was eventu ally arrested.

· (THROUGH REUTER'A AGENCY.}

A WINTRY BANK HOLIDAY.

SNOW AND PROST IN GREAT BRITAIN.

LONDON, August 5th. The weather roporte for the beginning of the holiday month are of a “Christ

It is the coldest massy" character. August for half a century. The Gram- pian Mountains are snow clad. haymakers at Stainmore in Cumberland engaged in a snowballing match. There are sharp frosta, even soven degrees of frost, in many parts of England.

STORMS AND FLOODS.

BUY SCOUTS DROWNED)

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LONDON, August 5th. Yesterday vas a day of storms and floods, and many drowning fatalities are reported.

The death is announced of Mr. David moulded and directed so easily as the inde Campbell, manager of Messrs. Lane, |fatigable Reformers of Japan were able to Crawford & Co., Shanghai. The sad | change the sentiment of their nation. They event occurred somewhat unddenly last were confroated at the outset by difficulties Wednesday. He had been at business two of a very similar chamcter to those which days previously, but was compolled to confront the stateamen of China to-day- remain at home on account of indisposi Suspicion and jealousy of the foreigner tion believed to have been the result of Mr. Campbell had were widespread. Suspicion has long the unusual heat. ceased to exist and what jealousy re-been long resident in Shanghai. He was maing is of a kind which is common first in the firm of Weeks & Co., but in all countries which have to meet joined Lane, Crawford & Co. in 1890, foreign-comp-tition in trado. It is as and was appointed manager about the

A-cutter containing-23-Boy Scouts and noute in England or in Germany as in year 1901. He was a prominent Mason Japan; but the best minds of all nations and a life member of the Recreation Club. other passengers capsized off Shoppey recognise that there is an element of good. He leaves a widow and two step-daugh-and' nine scouts wore drowned. Coast- aces in international rivalry, and in newly ters, and a son who is in the firm of But-guards rescued the others,

Four Boy Scouts were drowned while Awakened countries like Japan and Chinn terfield & Swire at Hongkong. the foreign standard is one which represents-

Mr. Sugden, the Commissioner of Cus-bathing at Rottingdean, near Brighton. the goal yet to be reached and for the attain- toms at Hankow, notes in his annual re-

SUCCESSFUL AEROPLANE TRIP woat of which the national energies must port that the amount of tes used on

ENDS IN DISASTER. he best. Japan has shown China the path steamers has increased greatly, 24 million of progrese. The leading spirits of the lbs. being bought in 1811 on the London Revolution in China have carefully watched market for this purpose; but the quality Japan's progress; are aware how much she provided, he says, is generally a disgrace is indebted to foreign advice and instructo owners, who appear to consider that tion; but there seems to be a self-sufficiency as, tea is most welcome to passengers, the #coolie" quality is good enough for about so many of the Chinese students

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LONDON, August 6th. Mr. Moorhouse, an English airman,

with two passengers, has crossed the English channel from Douai to Ashford in an aeroplane built to carry five per- The machine was smashed on

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THE NAVAL SITUATION IN

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THE REVOLUTION

The following remarks on the Revolu tion are made by Mr. R. do, Luca, Commissioner for Nonking, in his annual report:

LONDON, August Bib.

On the 11th October the revolu tion aiming at the overthrow of the Comment on the Franco-Russian Naval Manchu dynasty and the establish- Corvention, which it is proposed to ment of the Republic of China began-

its victorious carter, at Wuchang, enlargo, is chrystallising into speculain. Hupoh, and the excitement it tion as to how it affects the Mediter-caused all over the land was immedi

ately intense at Nanking. Grout appre- rancan, and whether it will provide horsion and anxiety prevailed in official for the co-operation of the Black Sea circles, as also among the gentry and the Fleet in certain eventualities.

well-to-do mercantile classes, a collision appearing possible at any inement be- The Austrian Press discusses the postween the Manchus of the Tartar city, sibility of the establishment of Russian, under Taxtar General Tich Liang, and the modern-drilled troupa. The more French and Italian naval bases in the wealthy of the Nanking population soar -Acgoan islands, in which case Austria commenced departing to places of safety principally to Shanghai, and as the end would certainly submit a similar claim. of the month approached the exodus bu came more general, carriage traffic along The Times Paria correspondent says be the Maloo to Siakwan continuing un- has good reason for believing that an interruptedly night and day. With the help of General Chang Haun commanding exchange of views between France and the river defence forces of Kiangnan, the Great Britain preceded the conclusion of Viceroy, Chang Jen-chun, was able to

control the situation-until-the-night-of- the 7th November, when an apparently prematuro revolutionary rising at the modern gaol in the city led to matters being practically taken out of his hands by General Chang, who assumed supreme authority and ordered all the city gatea to be kept closed on the morning of the 8th. Permission was obtained for the exit of foreigners, and the foreign women and children were sent away on that and the immediately following days. During the ensuing fortnight the gates were opened daily for about a couple of hours Order was maintained inside the city; but nevertheless, panic reigned, and huge crowds abandoned Nanking pouring out of the Wei Feng Gate or Feng Gate as it is more generally called, through Sinkwan, with as much of their more, valuable belongings as they could carry. It is calculated that at least two- thirds of the population departed al-

the Convention.

IMPENDING CHANGES IN THE BRITISH CABINET.

LONDON, August 5th. The Times says it has reason to believo that changes in the Ministry are pead ag involving a bye-election in Scotland.

Rumours that the Mastor of Elibank is | relinquishing his duties as Patronage

Secretary are revived.

LORD GLADSTONE.

LONDON, August 5th. It is possible that Lord Gladstone, who

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This delusion has to be shattered before In his annual report the Commissioner substantial progress is made in China, of Customs at Hankow writes:- With Apart from the engagement of Dr. Mozz-local desolation and general disturbance, SON as Political Adviser to the President, it is hard to prophesy when Hankow will recover-an öld, experienced Chinese mer-

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chant holds not sooner than 30 years; the writer, with eight years experience of its growth under great difficulties, expects that the third year of a settled Govern- ment will see its trade greater than ever, Immense sums will have to be spent on the new city and raising the land be hind; but it is only reasonable to sup- pose that China as a whole will come to the aid of the place which has been destroyed in establishing the Republic. The local leaders have shown sense throughout, and may be expected to re- build the city property."

WATSON &C there is no news yet of any other Adviser

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having been appointed. The report of Sir FRANCIS PIGGOTT's appointment as Tegal Advisor till remains unconfirmed, and even the Ministry of Communications, we believe, has been without A Foreign Adviser since the Revolution. In this Department especially a Foreign Advisor would room to be urgently necessary, if the report is trao that the Department has decided to dispense at this early date with foreign management of the Postal Service which the late Sir ROBERT HABT so recently Inaugurated, and which has been develop ing Tapidly iuto a grout national

The Hunanese people have the reputa organisation under the fostering care of tion of being anti-foreign. Mr. G. E. S. the Maritime Customs Administration. In

Wakefield, the Acting Commissioner of the matter of railway construction, however, Customs at Changsha, contradicts this the Government recognises that this is opinion in his annual report. He says: Held in which foreign aesistance is essential, "Though it may be held that there is a The appointment of Mr. COLLINSON, of strong feeling of Bunus for the Hun Shanghai-Nanking Railway fame, to super. ane and that foreign enterprise has intend the construction of the Hupah sec

not been welcomed in the past, and tion of the important trunk line of railway although there have been three attacks on On August 5th at the Government which is designed to connect Canton foreign lives or property during the past Civil Hospital, the wife of Mr. J. Nwith Hankow, bas bosa confirmed by the twelve years (due in cach case to some new Government, but, mutit the country special cause), yet it can be said truth- becomes more settled than it is, there some in any

fully that in no part of China, or even country in the world, will little prospect of rapid progress with this foreigners receive consistently great undertaking. It is marvellous, when courteous treatment than they do in the we reflect on the whole position, that, interior of this province." Mr. Wake- handicapped as the Government is by want field states from an experience of four of funds, it has succeeded in keeping the and a half years in the province that he unruly elements, so well under control, has never heard one rude word addressed Tas appointment of Dr. Mosaises as But Chins is a perplexing country and to a foreigner, Political Adviser to the President of the cannot safely be judged by ordinary Chinese Republic is a step in the right standards. The outlook has seemed direction. This recognition of China's need exceedingly dark, yet there are glimmers of competent foreiga assistance tends to of light which encourage the belief that she strengthen confidence in the stability of the will somehow muddle through," but if new régime. All who sincerely wish to see China aspires to emulate the rapidity of Chica progress, politically, economically Japan's transformation, sho must not and socially, will hope that this appointment despise the means by which it was so largely is but the first of many in various branches effected.

OLLIA, of a BOD.

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of the Government. When Japan, balf a century ago, decided to bring herself into line with the Western nations she began by engag.

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Yesterday a child fell from the second storey of a building in Lyndhurst Ter- race and was seriously injured,--

more

LOCAL SPORT.

LAWN TENNIS LEAGUE.

KOWLOON THE CHAMPIONS.

The deciding match for the League

Championship between Kowloon and

Queen's College was played at Happy Valley on Saturday, Kowloon winning by 52 games to 47.

LAWN BOWLS.

TAIKOO, POLICE.

NOMINATIONS.

MR. ROOSEVELT'S CANDIDATURE.

return to South Africa.

TURKISH POLITICS.

On the evening of the 15th the staff at the station and the rolling-stock of the Shanghai-Nanking Railway were with drawn, and although the river steamer LONDON, August 5th, service proceeded as usual-a feature 'Reuter's correspondent at Constan- being the enormous number of passengera

carried in every available foot of accom tinople wires that the situation is die modation, including the decks and the quieting. The Committee of Union and cargo space-trade cams practically to a standstill. On the 25th, for the firnb Progress bus induced the Chamber to time, the 1 Feng Gate failed to be opened, adopt a motion to interpellate the Minis and this was due to the approach of the Republican forces along the railway line According to news from Chicago, forty-ter for War, whom they accuse at com- from Chinkiang. They advanced from the south-east, and their attack was seven States are sending delegates toplicity in the Military League which directed against the T'ai Ping Men, the the National Progressive Convention, demanded the dissolution of the Cham-Ch'ao Yang Men and the South Gates. which opens to-day, for the purpose of nominating Mr. Roosevelt for the Presidency.

LONDON, August 5th.

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women delegates, who Suffragists, will take an important part in the proceedings.

CENTENARY CELEBRATIONS AT

KRUPPS.

ber.

The same day the forts below Nanking, at Tiger Hill; Mo Pu Shin and Wu Lang Shan surrendered peaceably and were Eighty officers, partisans of the Com-

occupied at once by the Republicans, and mittee of Union and Progress, at a meet-thus the investment of the city began. The following day the above forts opened ing at Liberty Hall, resolved to prevent fire on Nanking, and exchanged a number the illegal dissolution of the Chamber.

of shots with the Lion Hill Fort at the north end of the city, overlooking Sink- The Cabinet, sitting late, is believed, to

wan, while the attack proceeded at the have decided to act vigorously and ar- south and south-east. On the 27th several men-of-war flying the new flag camo up rest a number of officers.

from Chinking to support the opera- tions, which now showed signs of mero directly affecting Biakwan, thus render- ing necessary the departure up river to a place of safety, in the vicinity of Wylie Point, of the hulks belonging to Messrs.

LATER.

LONDON, August 5th.

The Senate at Constantinople has Router's correspondent at Essen tele-adopted a Government motion inter-

preting the constitution. graphs that the celebrations in conner- tion with the centenary of Krupps were inaugurated by a meating in honour of the 821 long service eruployees. Herr

BOMB OUTRAGE IN TURKEY,

LONDON, August 5th.

Krupp Von Bohlen Halbach, head of the firm, paid an eloquent tribute to Ger- rouny's first workman, the Emperor. An old foreman replied, eulogising Krupps.in the market place of Uskab, killing two As many as 71,000 will participate in the

five days' festivities.

The Emperor and Count Bethmann von Hollweg will attend.

ENGLISH YACHTSMEN ARRESTED IN GERMANY,

LONDON, August 6th. The Lokal Anteiger states that five English yachtsnien have been arrested on suspicion (of espionage ?).

Two are alleged to have landed and photographed new torpedo-slipoting elande. The yacht was scarched and many photographic plates of harbours were found.

THE RECENT EMEUTE AT KHOTAN.

CHINA CONCEDES RUSSIA'S DEMANDS.

LONDON, August 5th. Router's correspondent at Peking tole graphs that China has agreed to the Rus sian demands in respect of the killing of

A message from Salonika states that on Friday two bombs were exploded

Jews, four Moslems and 32 Bulgars, while three Moslems and 11 Bulgars were wounded,

FIGHTING IN THE BALKANS.

LONDON, August 5th.

An Irado dissolving the Chamber is Jardine, Matheson & Co., Butterfeld & Swire, Melchers & Co., and the Nissbin expected to-day.

Kisen Kaisha respectively, which were towed up the river by steamers of the companies concerned-a fifth bulk, that of the China Merchants Steam Navigation Company, remaining in port. The Custom House and the post office were temporarily established on board of junks hired for the purpose, which order to enable work to be carried on as were also transferred to Wylie Point, in

far as possible. The foreign men-of-war in port moved up stream out of the line of fire, but not very far. Heayy firing, especially at night, continued during the week, and the lower peak of Purplo Mountain which had heen held by Reuter's correspondent at Cetinje tele-General Chang's me, was finally carried; so that on the 1st December the back of graphs that fighting took place be the defence was broken and General tween Turkish and Montenegrin frontier | Chang endeavoured to come to terms. guards, lasting till late in the evening. Not being willing to accept the conditions The Montenegrins allege that the Turks gether with the Viceroy and Tartar offered, he escaped from Nanking, to- were the aggressors. The Montenegrips General, through the Han Hsi Mon stormed the Turkish entrenchment. during the night, when the attack was Fifty Turks were killed, the Montenegrin being pushed with great vigour. On the of the 2nd December the city casualties being 12 killed and 15 wound surrendered and the Republican troops entered at once by the Tai Ping and South Gate. Soon after a.m. the white flag was flying on Lion Hill, the Drum Tower, and other prominent positions. Measures were taken to maintain order and protect property; but, unfortunately, certain troops got out of hand on the ard and it proved impossible to restrain them from practically destroying the Tartar city, including the Tartar General's Otherwise neither the city nor Saikwan had suffered any damage worth mentioning, as the bom- At the annual meeting of the share bardment was restricted to the forts and holders of the Royal Dutch Petroleum gaton Customs work was retransferred

Siakwan and the Carton House WAS Company the management de toe opened again on the morning of the 4th. whether attempts had been made to pre The post office was also reopened and the vent the concessions for the exploitation hulks towed back to their moorings in

THE BOXING CHAMPIONSHIP.

LONDON, August 5th.

A Sydney telegram states that Langford claims the boxing championship in view of Johnson's reported retirement.

DUTCH OIL CONCESSIONS IN THE spacious Faren.

EAST INDIES.

to

ing truined men by the hundred, some few of them as advisers to the State Departments, but the great majority of them as teachers

A fine of two dollars or soven days in merely, in workshops as well as in schools, prison was yesterday imposed upon a and she continued to engage this expert | Chinese convicted of cruelty to a chicken. their first reverse on Saturday at the Turkestan last month. The prefect and of the oilfields in the East Indies being pert. The Imperial troops at Pukow

assistance down to very recent years, until her people had gained sufficient knowledge and experience in the arts of government and in industrial science to enable the sation to stand upon its own feet as it were. To-day we see Japanese shipbuilding yards turning out some of the finest ships afloat! warships as well as freight and passen- Navy gor steamers; we are Japan with which he won the admiration of the world, and a huge mercantile marine, trading with all parts of the world, managed and now almost entirely arigated by her own uationals. Japan now stands in no need of foreign assistance in building ber rail sys,

its recovery.

حسب

Police, the League Champions, met

lands of Taikoo.

POT.FOR.

A lady resident in the Hongkong Hotel W. Gerrard. reports to the police that she had lost. Fenton. her brooch valued at $400. She believes. K. McLennan. that she lost it in the drawing room of D. McHardy

(skip) the hotel. She offers a reward of $50 for

A. Clark- W. Spillet. W. Stuart. For being in possession of 97 kaels of W. Cameron, opium a Chinese was at the Magistracy (skip).... yesterday fined $1,000. He told the J. Grant. Magistrate when arrested that he had A. Gordon. two babies in his arms. but he did not

D. Gourlay W. Pitt know where they were.

His Worship (skip) (Mr. Irving) did not attach any import- ance to the statement.

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A. Hamilton.

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Russian

Mussulmans at Khotan in

magistrate have been dismissed, and the officer responsible for the action of the troops will be tried in open court.

The

Russian Consul at Kashgar and the Chi he hoped that no concessions would be Pakow line to Suchowfu in North Kiang-

nese local officials will fix the amount of compensation to be paid.

FRENCH SEAMEN'S STRIKE ENDED.

LONDON, August 5th. A message from Havre states that the seamen who went on strike in June, re- cognising the hopelessness of their posi- 81 tion, have resumed work,

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granted to the recently-formed Dutch evacuated the positions they held there Colonial Petroleum Company. The and joined General Chang, who had manager replied that they would wait to crossed the river some miles above Nan- see how the Government would act, and king, and proceeded along the Tientsin- granted to combination of the su. The end of the month saw the Pro- visional Government established at Nan- Standard Oil Company.

Although it is reported that 51 porking, where the provincial delegates cont. of the shares of the Dutch Colonial proceeded on the 20th to slect Dr. Sun Company is in the hands of the American Yat-sen (Sun I-hsien), also known as Sun Petroleum Company, the manager stated Wen, to be Provisional President of the that no concession can be granted to the Republic of China. On the 29th and company without a majority of the 30th what might be termed a queue- touragement being Dutch.

cutting campaign was undertaken by After the close of the meeting the certain of the soldiers in and around the Amsterdam correspondent of The Times city, and astonishing numbers of queues learned that the Dutch Colonial Company fell in the streets to the somewhat vigorous may not exploit the concessions in India, methods of the extemporised hairdressers, but that the Government will probably who extended their operations even ka grant them to the Royal Dutch Company. I beggara.

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