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A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD.,

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, JANUARY 13TH 1913.

zaal for the betterment of the people! should manifest itself in

The new regiment-the Duke of Corn-

this form wall's Own--is due hete to-morrow, and TELEGRAMS. TELEGRAMS. TELEGRAMS.

The following are the returns of the average amount of Bank Notes in cir. culation and of Specie in reserve in Hongkong, during the month ended 31st December, 1912, certified by the Managers of the respective Banks:- Amount: Specie. Chartered Bank of

instead of battling with many of the crying the K.O.Y.L.I.'s bid farewell to the

The Colony on Friday. evils that abound on every band. barbarous practice of foot-binding is an instance that at once comes to mind. Appreciable progress has made towards the abolition of this custom, thenits largely to theportiuacious efforts of Mrs. LITTLE, whose propaganda, we are glad to see, is new to be taken up afresh with the support of Dr. Wo TING-VANG. A worse evil, however, that attracta comparatively little notice remaine WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS, unchecked-we allude to the girl slavery that is to be found in almost every part of

ESTABLISHED A.D. 1841.

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China. The mention of the words "Chinose

slavery" inevitably suggests" terminological inexactitude," and doubtless some people will object that the conditions of employ- ment referred to do not constituto slavery, Por Per Dozen Bottle, but are merely a form of domestic service, ...913.40 $1.15 while others will maintain that the lot of 165 | these girls is not an unhappy, one, and so RED SEAL CAPSULE 1980

Whether we call it slavery or not is immaterial-the fact remains that, these children are taken away from their homes at a tender age, being either kidnapped or eleo sold by thoir parents, to become the

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1.90

2.50

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3.40 absolute property of their purchaser, until they reach such an age that they must be thrown on the marriage market if only they live so long. This being the normal state of affairs, and the slave-girl being a mere domesticanimal, it is easy to see that the cases of kind and considerate treatment that are

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adduced by apologists must be exceptional, and that from the nature of things the reverse must be far more common. Glimpses of what may happen are occasionally furnish- ed in the proceedings of the Mixed Court at Shungbai. There tales are heard of cruel beating, of arms and legs snipped with scissors or tortured with red-hot needles, 2.55 and similar berbarities. And if these things happen in the Model Settlement, where there is always a lingering fear of police interfer enco, what must be the state of affairs in the interior of China? If the Peking Government only realized it, girl-slavery constitutes a far worse blot on the land than

We can Recommend the above us Wines of the Finest Quality and Vintage, spesially salented and procured from the best Oporto

and Keres Growere.

ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS.

does the epiam question, and if a fraction of the energy now expended on illegal A... WATSON & CO., interference with the sale of Indian opium were devoted to the abolition of this LIMITED,

national disgrace, China would stand in a higher position before the reat of the world. Can we regard se civilized a country in which helpless children of six or seven years can be deprived of their liberty, be made the property of a stranger, and be liable to the most barbarous forms of ill-treatment or even to murder with no possibility of redross The degree of success attained by China in her campaign against poppy cultivation shows that the power to affect such a reforma as the abolition of girl- silvery is not lacking, if only she possessed, the will. The new-fledged Republic, it will be remembered, tried to assume a lofty

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attitude towarde Holland nud protested against the condition of the coolies who had emigrated to Java. The Yellow Press of China delights to call this omigration, as well as that to the Straits Settlements, slavery: what term, then, will it apply to the condition of the unhappy girl-slaves of its own land P Yet for these nothing is done. The one ray of hope is that the presont administration of China includes many men eager for social reform, but even they seem utterly apathetic with regard to this question. The measure of success HONGKONG, JANUARY 13rz, 1913.

that has rewarded Mrs. LITTLE's campaign ALTHOUGH We have had occasion from against foot-binding shows the degree to time to time to call attention to the weak-which China is influenced by the opinion of nesses and faults of the new administration the outer world: here, then, is a matter in China, and to criticize the errors of which calling even more strongly for propagandist it has been guilty, we do not overlook the effort. If the governing classes of the land many respects in which it is superior to the could be brought to see the question in its oid régime, and perhaps the most marked of true light, and could be led to realize the these features of superiority is the fact that disgrace that this girl-slavery is to their the governing officials of the Republic land, they would not rest until it was include so many men who have at heart abolished, and the surest way of affecting not merely the good of their country, but this end is by demonstrating to them the

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India, Australia and China... 85,329,419 $ 4,000,000

Hongkong and

Shanghai Bank-

ing Corporation.. 19,784,469 Mercantile Bank of

Indin, Limited...

Total ...

496.323

$ 25,610,211

• Securities with the Crown and 11.200,000.

(THROUGH REGTEK'S AGENCY.]

UNIONIST DIFFERENCES.

The

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THE CHINA LOAN.

on

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THE BALKAN WAR

ROUMANIA AND BULGARIA.

Lospox, January 11th.

LONDON, January 19th. Benter learns that the Roumano-Bul- Mr. Ronald McNeill in the House of

bankers associated with the garian conversations in London liave been Commons privately presented to Mr. Sextuple Group met in London resumed. At the conclusion of the inter- Bonar Law, the leader of the Opposition, Friday. A statement was not issued, but view between M. Mishu and Dr. Daneff | the Unionist memorial bearing 220 signa- the meeting was adjourned until next |the latter telegraphed to Sofia,

tares. Mr. Bonar Law, in reply, said he day. The l'imre learns that satisfactory A REPORT DENIED.

would consult Lord Lansdowne and give progress was made. his answer as quickly ne possible.

*

The report of a skirmish at Chataldja

16,000,000

is officially denied at Sofia.

80,000*

20,080,000 gout, £63,000

The death occurred at Vancouver last month of Lieutenant Claude E. Daniel, R.N.R., late second officer of the Empresi of Trulin, as a result of double pneumonia contracted during the voyage across from Japan,

The funeral took place on

The members of the Unionist Front Bench have not signed the memorial as

BEA OF MARMORA MINED. The Bulgarians hure sown the coast of it would be contrary to etiquette. the Sea of Marmora with mines. BULGARIAN MINISTER IN RUSSIA. The Bulgarian Minister of Finance has arrived at St. Petersburg.

THE AMBASSADORS' ADVICE..

A telegram from Constantinople states that the meeting of Ambassadors drafted

the text of a note which will probably bo

presented to the Porte on Monday. It is understood that the note is colourless and

LATER.

CHINESE OFFICIAL BARBARITY.

LONDON, January 12th.

A message from Shanghai states that the Catholic Mission at Nanning reports a barbarous massacre of thirty-nine lepers by the provincial authorities, who drove the lepers into a pit filled with It is announced that Mr. Bonar Law timber and kerosene and shot and burned

Mr. Boner Law had a prolonged con- ference with Lord Lansdowne on Satur day afternoon.

and Lord Lansdowne have reached com- plete agreement regarding the Memorial..

The Lincolnshire Farmers' Union has

resolved to be no party to any fiscal change excluding agriculture from its

advises the cession of Adrianople, but benefits. there is no question of pressure.

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The Ambassadors met again at the Foreign Office on Friday night and sat

December 4th, and the pallbearers were all Royal Naval Reserve men, Captain Betham, Captain Pybus, Captain A. H. Reed (the Harbour Master), and Captain A. O. Cooper. The circumstances of the death of Lieutenant Daniel, who was well liked by his brother officers, and who held a double first for torpedo work and gun-for two hours. nery, were peculiarly sad, as, had be been well, he would have left port with the Empress of India promoted to the posi- tion of first officer. He was only married some eighteen months ago.

THE TRAM BOYCOTT.

There seems to be no doubt that the boycott of the trams is practically at an end, but the Chinese have not shown the enthusiasm that many expected with regard to bestowing their patronage on the undertaking. On Saturday there was

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DEADLOCK CONTINUES.

to

A copy of the resolution was sent to Mr. Boner Law.

WELSH DISESTABLISHMENT.

them in the presence of a large crowd.

RUSSIA AND MONGOLIA.

LONDON, January 12th.

A special Mongolian Mission consisting of seven persona headed by the Monogo lian Minister for Foreign Affairs, has ar rived at St. Petersburg.

ANGLO-JAPANESE RELATIONS,

OF BEST POSSIBLE NATURE.

AN IMPORTANT AMENDMENT.

LONDON, January 11th.

LONDON, January 11th. The deadlock in the peace negotiations

In the debate on the Welsh Disestablish-

Sir T. Kato, the Japanese Minister in ment Bill, Mr. McKenna, the Home Sec- still continues. Rechid Pasha, inter- viewed by a representative of Reuter, retary, undertook, after an amendment London, in a farewell conversation with emphasised the point that the Ottomans submitted by Mr. W. Gladstone, M.P. Router's representative, said the Angle,

determined not

abandon for Kilmarnock Burghs, to introduce a Japanese relations were in the best Adrianople and the Aegean Islands, and achome for commutation of life interests possible condition and there was every

Why should all the concessions resulting in the future income of the asked:

States did not accept Turkey's proposals church being £203,000 or-only, £60,000 by the end of the week the Turkish dele-less than at present and a great improve gates would be immediately recalled. ment on the original proposals, Subse- quently a Unionist amendment with re- ference to compensation for curates was only defeated by 930 votes to 190, which elicited cries of "Saved by Redmoed."

erpanate from one side? Tf the Balkan

garia.

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an apprcoinble difference in the number also affirmed that whether the conference of people using the cars, the drawings was to re-assemble was a matter for those representing about $100 more than the who are abruptly suspending it with the average of the previous days, and this possibility arising out of the critical number was augmented yesterday, the situation between Roumania and Bal drawings being over 8400 more than the average of previous days. Doubtless it will be some time yet before normal con d'tions prevail, as the new will be slow in circulating that that there is now go reason for not travelling on the trams, though When the boycott was started the news seemed to spread with astonishing rapidity.

PIRACY IN DEEP BAY.

PASSENGERS HELD UP AND STEAMER LOOTED,

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ROUMANIA'S ATTITUDE.

The arrival at Constantinople of M. i

Filipescue, the Roumanian Minister for Agriculture, is drawing attention to the At the present notion of Roumania, moment it will certainly stiffen the altitude of the Porte.

ALBANIA'S FUTURE. A message from Sofia states that the semi-official organ Hir approves of the auggestion of the London newspapers that A piratical attack was made on the Roumania should be entrusted with the str Hang Ony which rune batween Hong-task of organisius a new Albania

Samchun. kong and

on Saturday. The robbery was of a most daring descrip- tion and was apparently carried out with-

The majority included 70 Nationalists, and the minority six Labourites. The Ietter supported the amendment because the artican was better paid than the

curate.

prospect of the continuance of peace and goodwill in the Far East. He could not estimate how far this was primarily thin to the Anglo-Japanese Alliance, but it

was, well realised that the ententea with France, Russia and the United States were also powerful guarantees for the maintenance of peace in the Far East. The continuance of rumours regarding Mongolia and Manchuria, though they might have some effect upon the public, left the official mind untouched, thanks to Japan's excellent relations with the Powers mentioned.

AMERICAN MONEY TRUST.

BRITISH EDUCATION QUESTION.

LONDON, January 11th. Lord Haldane, speaking at Manchester,

LONDON, January 11th. said the land question required great

A message from Washington says that, caution. He denied rumours of a condict giving evidence before, the Commission. in the Cabinet on the subject. The Gov-onquiring into the so-called Money Trust, ernment were studying the question, and Mr. Baker, Chairman of Mr. Pierpont when they had collected sufficient material Morgan's First National Bank of New would be able to make some suggestion. York, said the profits of the Bank sincs Mr Asquith and Mr. Lloyd George bad it was founded in 1863 were 380,000,000.- GROWING UNEASINESS. decided that Education was the next great Dividends had amounted to 225 per cent. The European situation is regarded social problem to be tackled. The time on a capital of $10,000,000 in the last with growing uneasiness owing to the con- bad come to take a great step forward. four years. The dividend in 1901 was tinued unhonding attitude of Turkey and Mr. Lloyd George was ready to throw 1000 per cent. (sis). the menacing attitudo of Roumania. All himself into the question as heartily as he the Powers are decided as to the necessity had into the Insurance Act.

It was a costly and colossal undertaking, but it was worth the sacrifice.

moment,

out a hitch of any sort. When the boat loft Hongkong there were 40 passengers on board, and when in Deep Bay 13 of them produced revolvers from bags which they had at the time, threatened to shoot Turkey giving up Adrianople and have if they were interfered with, and made agreed to present a Note to Constan- their "rank and profession" known. They ordered the launch to be slowed tineple to be followed by much stronger down, and a small boat came alongside, representations. The London newspapers three robbers coming aboard. The small are unanimous in denouncing the action craft was tied up astern, and four of the of Roumania, especially at such a critical pirates then stood guard over the coxswain and "gently persuaded" him to steer the launch towards Che Kung Min, in Chinese territory. The other robbers got. in amongst the passengers and purloined various articles from them, subsequently driving them like frightened sheep into the fore cabin, the door of which they fixed by hammering in nails which they had brought on board with them. The robbers then endeavoured to break the stop valve in the engine, but they failed in this

kept in the compradore's cabin, and this the men guarded, after taking the bolts off three Mouser rifles, which they threw

EX-COLONIAL OFFICIALS AND

DIRECTORSHIPS.

BLIZZARDS AT HOME.

LONDON, January 12th. Fierce blizzards have enged over Scot land and Wales and North-East England. Roads and passes are blocked.

FIRE IN KAISER'S PALACE.

LONDON, January 11th.

LONDON, January 11th. The Right Hon. Lewis Harcourt, Scere- tary of State for the Colonies, in reply OPINION IN THE BALKANS.

A message from Berlin says that a fire to Sir John Rees, stated that it is not occurred in the new imperial palace at Opinion at Sofa (Burgeria) and

worn-out chimney. Cettinje (Montenegro) is strongly in proposed to lay down an absolute rule Potsdam, due to n

that retired Governors and colonial offi The floor beams had probably been favour of a 'upture of the negotiations.

The Montenegrins are angry at thecials shall not accept directorships of smouldering for a long time. The Kaiser repeated sarties of the Turks at Tarabosh, companies carrying on business in the book the liveliest interest in the operations despite the armistice.

colonies in which they had served, but of the firemen, whom he afterwards re-

the personal good of the people of their horror and disgust that it arouses an object. The launch's armaments were Turkish flest made a sortie from the they had obtained the written consent of water.

The

A SORTIE IN THE DARDANELLES. retired colonial oficials would not be freshed from the Imperial cellar.

An Athens telegram reports that the allowed to accept such directorships unless valuable furniture was damaged by

Dardanelles; but returned on the Greck the Governor of the Colony in question. He added that during the first three years fleet burrying up to attack.

Two Annamese have been removed to overboard. Having appropriated sundry GERMAN BANKS AND WAR SCARES after retirement permission will as a rule

the hospital suffering from injuries said to have been caused during dynamite operations in a house at Tai-kok-tsui.

land. This virtue has, it is true, been foreigners. perverted into a dangerous weapon in the case of the anti-oplum campaign, but it is well to recognize that, among all the illegalities, bad faith, and disregard of national honour that characterize that movement in the present day, there are still Dany men whose part in it is derived from the sincerest conviction that the best interests of the people demand the restric. tive measures that are being used. For many years the PRESIDENT, for instance, has made no secret of his personal opinion in the matter. China's action is to be deplored, and will have disastrous effects for her for many a long day. She has

It is notified in the Government Gazette that the name of Dunning & Company, Limited, registered on the 18th day of July, 1912, bas been struck off the Register.

be refused except in the most exceptional circumstances.

LONDONDERRY ELECTION.

THE INSURANCE ACT.

LONDON, January litů:

It is officially announced that panela of doctors to work the "Insurance Act have been formed in every country dis trict and every borough in Great Britain, comprising over 16,000 meters.

THE DUCHESS OF CONNAUGHT.

revolvers, so rounds of ammunition, and quantities of jewellery aud clothing, three

LONDON, January 11th. A Berlin telegram states that at a meet- the contents of the Pingshan and Santin despatch bags-all buing to the value of ing of the Budget Committee of the Reich. about $1,800-the robbers decamped in the stag, Herr Havenstein, the President of the

LONDON, January 12th. direction of Che Kung Min. An extra-Reichsbank, made aur important state-

Lieut. Colonel Pakenham, in his address ordinary feature of the affair was the ment urging the increased issue of small to the electors, declares against food fact that the launch was searched by two Chinese detectives before she left Hong. notes, in order to economise the gold taxes and favours the taxing of foreign kong.

reserves, which must be increased as long manufactures and luxuries.

A Montreal message states that the The rainfall for December was 4.900

external pence was

R's not assured. CANADIAN FARMERS AND NAVAL Duchess of Connaught passed a better. inches, which was considerably higher STRANGULATION PREFERRED TO Owing to the war panies, the Reischsbank than that of the corresponding month in

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LONDON, January 12th.

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