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I which also is situated some little distance from the police station, and so men were posted to shoot the constables as they came upon the scene on hearing the commotion which the raid naturally crested among the villagers: A raid by

Afternoon teas in the lounge of the Hongkong Hotel have been instituted this week on a plan which is now to the Colony. A small boy, attired in white uniform and cap, wheels to the customer which there are eight different

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CORRESPONDENCE.

THE CHEUNG-CHAU ROBBERY,

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS."]

Hongkong, 21st August, 1012 armed pirates in such numbers could not canisters each containing a

SIR. In view of the recent outrage at but meet with success. They insured safe variety of ten, and the customer makes

choice of the kind preferred and brews Cheung-Chaw a reprint of the following flight with their booty by sizing the two his own. The "les things"-silver-plated extracts from a letter of mine, which you launches then on the spot, disabling one, so

good enough to publish last as to render pursuit impossible, and making hot water jug and sugar basin, a dainty were

Japanese teapot, with cups and autumn, when the estimates were under their escape on the other, probably taking saucers to inatch, together with cakes discussion, may be of interest:--' their junk in tow, and abandoning tha Jaunch for the junk when they were within and bread and butter-are brought in on a silver-plated tray covered with cloth of WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS easy reach of their destination, somewhere drawn thread work. The tea is most in the neighbourhood of Macao. No effort daintily surved and the innovation is ono. must be spared to trace these desperadoes which is certain to appeal to ladies to their lair. A successful escape is resident in the Colony as well as to the certain to inspire now enterprises of large number of tourists who are con- the kind, and this raid brings hometinually passing through the Colony.

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to the Government the fact that we are living in timer when the out-stations are very inadequately protected. Mr. Bowner, in a letter which appears in another column,

GUARANTEED recalls attention to come very peitinent comments made by him in a letter which appeared in the Daily Press last autumn, in which he drew attention to the neglect of PURE GRAPE the Government to link up the outlying

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released their hold altogether, with the tion. If the Police Stations of Cheung result that the track dashed into bis chau, Tai-0. Tung Cheung and Lamme," ghair, smashed it, injured the leading Mr. Bownex wrote, "were in electric com.bearer and threw Mr. Harker into the side channel, In fact had it not beeu munication with each other and the Central for the wheels of the track catching on Police Station, and a torpedo-boat stationed the gutter, the accident would have been at each of them, the pirates would have little before Me: Irving at the Magistracy The coolics were brought more serious chance of escape." The advice foll on doaf

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HONGKONG, August 22nd, 1912.

Taipo and the trans-Alpino nerve- centres (as indicated by Polico Stations) are being linked by wads, but the com- munications with Sai-Kong, Hang-Hau, Tsan-Wan and all the islands are still in much the sama primitive condition when the Last of the Sungs sat on the big boulder on the foot of one of the "Nine Dragons" gazing with despairing eyes on the South-Easternmost corner of his lost Empire.

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The enormous island of Lantus and the busy fishing mart of Cheung-Chau have indeed three Police Stations; but what is the use of a Palice Station without tel phonic or electric communication with head-quarters How our Yankee friends must laugh at our primitive mothads!

A telephone line to Cheung-Chan and Tai-0, a' ricksha road from Samaipe to Lai-Chi-Kolt and Tsun-Wan (the former bridge over the Lal-Chi-Kok stream has bern washed away, thanks to our vigilant Public Works Department), and a ricksho road from Ngan-Sbi-Wan to Sai-Kung und the waters of Mirs Bay at Ki-Ling-Ha with a branch to Hang-Hau-these are the most pressing works necessary to con- stitute the least possible system of com- munications (in the New Territorios).

Thipo is the spoilt child of the New Territory family upon whom all the money is lavished: it is the duty of a parent te be impartial and to look after all his scattered progesy.

Are not the pineapples of Tsun-Wan and the fish of Hang-Hau, Cheung-Chat and Tai-O as important to the Colony as the mad Bats of Taipor

Communication and sanitation shoul come before reclamation.

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TELEGRAMS. TELEGRAMS,

[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.}

THE CRISIS AT PEKING.

LONDON, August 21st.

A telegram from Feking states that the Assembly declares that the explanationa demanded from Yuan Shih-kai as to the execution of the twe generals is unsatis-: factory and demands the attendance of

the Premier and the Minister for War

to-morrow.

The Government is remarkably un- concerned in the face of the violent hostility and is prepared to take strong

Measures.

It maintains that it posseSUCH proofs of the guilt of the excreted men.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] THE PANAMA CANAL TOLL QUESTION.

A SIGNIFICANT DECISION.

LONDON, August 21. The United States Senate Committees an Inter-Oceanie Canals by 8 votes to 6 decided not to report President Taft's suggestion for un amendment of the Panama Canal Bill, believing that President Taft will not veto the Bill as it stands

THE POLICE SCANDAL IN NEW YORK.

LONDON, August 21st. A New York telegram states that the grand jury has indicted Lieutenant. Becker and a gang of alien eriminals. for the murder of the gambler Rosenthal, who accused the police of participating

Manhwhile the southern papers are fan- ning the flames of party strife.

DEATH OF "GENERAL" BOOTH.

London, August 21st. "General" Booth, whose life's work is the Salvation Army, died on Tuesday even-in gambling profits. ing at 10 o'clock. He was 83 years of

ago,

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THE TURCO-ITALIAN POURPARLERS.

LONDON, August 1st. It is understood that the Turco-Italian pourparlers with the cbject of discovering a basis for peace negotiations is making

"General" Booth was unconscious for 48

hours. Iis list words referred to the promises of God, and he said repeatedly, They are sure if you only believe:" He joyfully referred to the prospect of meet- | headway. ing his wife and daughter.

It is understood that he left soaled documents bearing on the future of the

Army and its successor. It is thought that Bramwell Booth will succeed.

The Daily Telegraph New York corre- spondent states that Eva Booth attempted up to the last moment to reconcile Ball-

If the Police Stations of Cheung Chau, Tai-0, Tung Choung and Lamma were in electric communication with each otherington Booth and his father, but was and to Central, and a torpedo-boat stationed at each of them, the pirates unsuccessful.

The would have little chanco of escape.

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devote newspapers A similar anachronism exists with rememoirs and appreciations of "General" gard to the Peak Police Stations, which are not in communication with the Public Booth, the greatest apostle of the age.

They speculate whether the Salvation not to be without this and other meanst for the Central Government.

If a burglary Telephone Exchange. immediato communication--rockets,

happene at the Peak the vietim can only Army will now decline. for example.

The new postage stanips which are Evidently the police being issued to commemorate the Revolu call up the Police through the Central PASSIVE RESISTANCE REVIVED. these outlying stations are unprovided evention will be of two varieties: che set will Police Station, and bis message runs a with rockets, or they would have been used hear the likeness of President Yuan Shih-great risk of mutilation by Chinese kai surrounded by a wreath of kaoling on this occasion perhaps with great advan- leaves representing the north; the other operators in transit. tage, as help might Мате reached a portrait of Sun Yat-son, surrounded them sooner from Lantas as well as from with a wreath of rice leaves, typifying the Hongkong, and the pirates, if not captured, south. Others for general use, will hear

might at least have been followed to their destination. Then there is the suggestion nude by Mr. BOWLEY that a torpedo boat should be stationed at each of these islands, Wo have heard the further suggestion made that small detachments of soldiers should be stationed on the islands. It is obviously desirable, especially in the case of an island

a map of China.

The latest manil news from the North

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says that the experts who are likely to be engaged by the Chinese Government include the German doctor, Hemeling, of the Imperial Maritime Customs, adviser to the Salt Gabelle, the Austrian merchant, Emil Fischer, of Fischer & Co., Tientsin, as adviser to the Kung Shang Pu; M. Brandt, a Russian professor who has been director of the Russian College for the past nine years, as adviser to the Shiad Yu Pu.

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It is to be hoped that provision will be made for, these matters in next year's estimates, if not sooner-Yours truly,

F. B. L. BOWLEY.

THE BURGLARY EPIDEMIC.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "HONGKONG DAILY PRESS."]

Hongkong, 21st August, 1912. 618-May I suggest the following interesting question as a supplement to

the series propounded by the Hon. Mr. Murray Stewart with reference to the recrudescence of the Durglary Epidemio which has synchronised so remarkably with the stoppage of motor traffic at night?

"Is it a fact that the recent prohibition of motor traffic at night was imposed on account of complaints from the police that the motor horns kept them wake at

night? and, if so, will the Government

like Cheung-chau, where-upwards of bundred Europeans A.IO now residing during the summer months, that bettor

Prince Na. in an interview with the protection should be afforded from maraud

China Press correspondent at Peking, ing expeditious like that of Monday night, declared inest positively that it was his Fortunately, on this occasion the Europan belief if he could simply go to Mongolia residences escaped the attentions of the and tall his compatriots what the new Government concedes them, he could gang, but the raid has shown that the surely induce their renunciation of the jundequate policing of the place leaves the declaration for independener. He desires lives and property of Chinese and Europeans nothing more and does not intend to head alike entirely at the morcy of bandit gangs. militantly regaining Mongolia, but needs

expedition for an

After this experience the Government a bodyguard of several hundred men

The thousand. cannot be content to leave mattere as they probably less than are, and it way usefully be suggested, we permit this bodyguard, says the corre question now arises whether Russia will think, that small Committee should be spondent. It has already firmly declared appointed to inquire into the whole question that it won't permit a military expedi of the Colony's police organisation and tion. Prince Na said the declaration for independence came during the Manchu arrangements.

régime, when the Mongola were viciously oppressed. Now that the conditions have changed and the new Government has granted new rights, he feels certain that piratical attack on Cheung-Chau Police when these are explained to the leaders Station were interred at the Happy of the independence movement they will Valley. The cortege left the mortuary reverse their action. Russia naturally

Mr. B. A. Clarke has been elected

a director of the Yangtze Insurance Association, Ltd., replacing the late Mr.

For sheer audacity we have had nothing for a very long time in the Colony to equal the midnight raid by pirates on Cheung rhau (better known to Europeans as Dumb. hell Island). It is evident that the raid had baon most carefully planned, and no im. portant detail apparently had een left unconsidered. The prates arrived at night by a juak As Cheung-ebau is an important

A Chinese was brought before Mr. centre of the fishing industry in the waters Irving at the Magistracy yesterday of the Colony, the arrival of a junk ut night charged with snatching an earring from is not a circumstance, which would attract. & woman in the street. He was die any unusual attention. To the men on charged. board the junk the police arrangements at

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any given hour on the island were presum- We direct attention to the announce ably well known, and in all probability ment in our advertiseinent columns that their modus operandi did not widely depart an additional train will leave Kowloon from the plan outlined in the report of the every Sunday morning and on public

holidays: affair we published yesterday. The police force on the island consisted of one Euro-

two Chinesa detectives.

consider the advisability of again permit- ting the use of these valuable irritants?"

Yours truly.

SIREN.

THE CHEUNG-CHAU AFFAIR... Yesterday the bodies of the three Indian polier who met their deaths in the

FIRST CARE UNDER THE INSURANCE ACT,

LONDON, August 21st.

It is believed they are being conducted in Paris by the Turkish Ministers fo Sofia and Cetinje, ambassador, and two officials of the Porte.

an Italian

THE MONTENEGRIN FRONTIER TROUBLES.

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LONDON, August 21×1. The Powers have invited Montenegra to withdraw her trouge from Bernan, where fighting still continues.

THE EARTHQUAKE IN TURKEY.

LONDON, August 21. The Emperor Franz Joseph of Austro- Hungary has sent £400 towards the fund for the relief of sufferers by the earth- quake in Turkey.

A Mansion House Fund has been opened.

The first passive resistance case under the Insurance Act took place at Wal

worth, where a prominent Liberal named Harlock was fined £3 on each of three M. Hummonses. The Magistrate ordered the contributions to be paid, and consented to consider an application to state a canc for appeal.

BRITISH CHOPS RUINED.

ENORMOUS DAMAGE BY FLOODS.

M. POINCARE.

LONDON, August 21sk Poincare, the French Prime Minister, has concluded his visit do Russin and has arrived at Dunkirk.

THE GROUSE SEASON.

LONDON, August, 21st. The record bag of 102 brnen of grouse has been secured by the Earl of Sefton's party at Wallow Dale in Lanenshire, the King contributing 149 brace

DR MORRISON'S APPOINTMENT.

CLƏNDƏN PALOS COMMENT.

Lonpor, August 21st. The rains have been especially destruc- tive to the hay crop. A common sight is to see ducks swimming in the fields of floating hay, It is estimated that the loss will be at least £5,000,000. On the other hand there is a glat of English applesing Dr. Morrison upon the occasion of Many English newspapers join in wart-

at Covent Garden.

A POLISH TRAGEDY.

LONDON, August 21st. Reuter's correspondent at Warsaw tele- graphs that a soldier belonging to an engineer corps, who had been sentenced to arrest, entered the flat occupied by Colonel Price Nicell Tumanoff, shot him in the lungs, and shattered the Princess'

does not desire this, since her demands just after three o'clock and was followed leg Officers rushed forward and killed regarding Mongolin are based, to a con- by a large attendance of members of the the assailant with their revolvers. siderable extent; on independence secti-force, European, Indian and Chinese,

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The hearse was covered with wreaths, and the Indians carried in their hands red flowers and chanted a dirge as they

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A project is on foot for the formation marched with suleran step. At the Monu- of a Company to manufacture beet sugarment the procession was joined by many in Korca. Mr. Ohkoga, a Tokyo mil- Bonaire, one of the propoters, recently other members of the force.

No additional information has come to proposed that the formation of the com-

five years, in hand regarding the outrage, but the pany be postponed ar order that full inquies might be made police are working hard to, trace the as to whether the exceedingly noxious disease peculiar to sugar beet could be pirates. prevented. Another promoter, Mr. It is significant that the authorities Odake, opposed Mr. Ohkera's proposal, have been anxious of late regarding pean sergeant, four Indian constables and tragic death of his second son, has left enterprise under his management,

H.F. General Anderson, owing to the pointing out that past experience of an Tai-0, and it is probable that the pirates How many Ces for England, travelling vid Siberia. Col. Was not so hurtful as represented on Cheung-Chau instead.

Whangju, had taught him that the were aware of this when they descended peradoes were engaged in this raid is not St. John, R.E., will take command dur- by Mr. Ohkura. definitely known, but the estimates rasgoing the General's absence.

In consequenen there was a little hesitation among the promot- from forty to seventy well-armed men, who

ers, and it was only after Mr. Okkura could warily have overpowered the small

decided to withdraw that the plan was For stealing a dog belonging to Police mooted anew. It is now stated that, in police force even if the latter had been able to faspector Kerr & Chinees was at the Tokyo alone more than half the entire. Mr. Zee Yee Lee, the Chinese aviator, unite in repelling the attack, but it is highly Magistracy yesterday sentenced to four-mainder will be taken up by the promot at Kiangwan lately, will probably go to

stock has been subscribed for.

The re- who gave a couple of flying exhibitions probable that the pirates know that the teen days' imprisonment. It appeared ers and supporters in the Western pro- European sergeant vas in his matshed that the prisoner attempted to sell the vinces and Chosen, and it is expect Nanking, where he expects to start an on the hill, some little distance from the dog, which was worth $50, to Mr. B. W.

that there will be uo shares available for aviation club The club will be con- the general public. According to the nected, it is said, with the aviation school the first payment on established by the Chinese army there. locality fit for European habitation; and for four dollars, but the latter being the company's

been shipped to Nanking. The club men- that the two Indian constables off duty, suspicious communicated with the police end of next month, and Korean gur borship will be open to anyone interested were probably asleep in their matsbed and the man was arrested.

refined by the company will be on the market towards the end of next year,

in the science of aviation.

AVIATION IN CHINA.

improvised police station, which is not in a Gray, of the Public Works Department, present Pr's stock will be made by the Mr. Lee's two Austrian monoplanes have

CANADIAN MINISTERS

RETURNING.

LONDON, August 21st. The Canadian Minister of Marine has sailed for Canada. Mr. Borden returns in a few days..

THE INSURRECTION, IN NICARAGUA.

LONDON, August 21st. Reuter's correspondent at New York telegraphs that the Nicaraguan insurgents have massacred the garrison of 500 in the city of Leon, only 70 escaping.

The following was telegraphed from London on the 5th inst. to the Tokyo Fichi Vicki:

his appointment as political advisor to the Chinese Government

The Pall Mall Gasette ndvises Dr Morrison of the fact that the Chinese Government is on the point of collapse, dent Yuan Shih-kai is scheming to estab while the Daily News declares that Presi

lish a dictatorship in China. The motive of employing Dr. Morrison is, asserts the Daily New, one of three that he desires to see bis dictatorship well received byth in Europe and America through the in- strumentality of his new political ad- visor; or that be desires to arouse through Dr. Morrison. British public opinion in favour of China against ic

ambitions of Russia and Japan; or that he believes it possible to revive the foreign-lean negotiations by dint of Dr. Morrison's efforts. But the Daily News believes that the appointment will not please Russia, who strongly opposed the Persian Government's employment of an American as its financial advisor and succreded at lust in her aim.

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Should Kussia desire Dr. Morrison's resignation," continues the paper," the British Foreign Office will surely face a movement in favour of Dr. Morrison, and there must ensue an embarrassing com plication. But there is reason to believe that Russia cannot reasonably object to any British subject acting as political advisor to the Chinese Government, for in spite of the provision in the Anglo- Russian entente that Russia shall not r

of Tibet, Russia terfere in the affairs proved some years ago the employment

the by Dalai Lama as his adviser of M. a noted Russian follower of the Dare a

Larao, though the activities of this Russian prompted the despatch of an pedition by the then Viceroy of India into Tibet. In any case the employment. Lordon, August 31st.

of this Russian was a breach of the The test match between England and Anglo-Russian agreement. There is also Australia at the Oval was resumed on some ground to believe that the British Tuesday in showery weather and before Foreign Offee has recently come to an attendance of 14,000. England carried fartain feare about Russia's activities in

Tibet." their score from 233 for eight wickets to

The Daily News concludes its articl 215. Minuett for Australia took four by saying that the appointment of Dr. Australia went to Morrison in Peking and M. Dorjieff in wickets for 34 runs.

Tibet shows relations are becoming cooler the wicket and made 51 for the loss of both in China and Tibet, as in Persia:

Nichi Nichi.

TEST CRICKET.

ENGLAND 2 AUSTRALIA,

two wickets.