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ESTABLISHED 75 YEARS.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, MAY 20гm, 1918.

Mr. and Mrs: C. Clementi rolned to transit passes are, to say the least, om unsatisfactory expedient, for it has been the Colony yesterday having travelled but too well proved that they are an ineffi-out by the Siberian route. cient protection to goods in Chinese bands in the interior-it is always possible for a likin station to fabricate somo tale of irregularity in the document or of an auth- orized sale on route, and the unfortunato Clinoso mer hant bas either to pay the

demands or be submitto! to delay and pos

sibly the loss of his market if he wishes to fight the charge. There is, moreover, growing class of goods in which foreigners CIGAR MERCHANTS have the sole Interest which it is impossible

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Telegraphic communication with Can- ton and Shimeen, which had been inter- rupted by a strike of operatorg, is now resumised, -

A Chinese youth was knocked down in Praya East yesterday by a motor-car

driven by Mr. Lauriston, proprietor of The youth

W. T. Harbord, Esq.

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Prisoners in Canton under sentence for minor crimes are now being kept in a special ward, where they are instructed in different branches of industry, so that when their sentences expire they may be.

TELEGRAMS. TELEGRAMS.

[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

AN OPIUM TRAGEDY.

SAYAGE CONDUCT OF CHINESE TROOPS,

SUANGHAL May 19th.

The local Press report that in Western Hunan the locul geatry and farmors, resenting the action of the troops in uprooting opiurs at Shenchowting, as sembled in a temple to discuss the sitna tion, whereupon the troops set fire to the building and 07 perished.

RELATIONS OF JAPAN AND AMERICA.

LONDON, May 18th.

Daily

{THROVOU REUTER'S AGENCY.] THE TRANSPORTATION OF

TROOPS.

LONDON, May 19th. The Morning Port states that the Government experts are visiting the ship building yards and examining the vessels in the course of construction, as well as the plans of future vessels, with the object of finding out what transport facilities

ships will be slightly altered so as to they afford. It is understood that some

permit of the transport of troops and horses, &c., at the slightest notica.

PRESENTATION AT AMOY TO

CORRESPONDENCE.

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THE CLOCK TOWER,

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "WONGKONG DAILY PRESS."!

SIR-Why not settle the vexed quess tions of the Clock Tower and the wasto land in front of the Hongkong Club by re-erecting the former upon the latter ?-- ---1 am, Sir, etc.,

** SIMPLEX.”

THE CHINA AND MANILA STEAM- SHIP CO., LTD. (PHILIPPINES STEAMSHIP COMPANY).

[THE EDITOR OF THE BONGBONG DAILY PRESS."]

Six,-As a shareholder in the above Company I rend with much interest letter under the signature of "a Share- holder" which appeared recently in the local Press. The letter in question pre- sented an unanswerable case for the

earliest possible date.

able to earn their livelihood in an honest Daniels, the Secretary for the Navy, has mony took place in the Masonic liquidation of the Company at the

WAY.

A court-martial was held on board the Temir yesterday, under the presideney of Captain Hill, a ship's stoward named Hugh Price, of H. M.S. Sandpiper, boing charged with falsification of accounts. He was sentenced to 18 months imprison

the Dragon Cycle Works.. died on the way to the hospital.

The Hon. Treasurer of the Alice to protect by transit passes: Coal is brought Memorial and Affiliated Hospitals begs lewn from mines in the interior for ean-to acknowledge with thanks the following

donations to the funds of the hospitals: ..$50 sumption at the Treaty ports, or

Leung Sai Chun inaterials are similarly purchased with foreign capital for use in foreign factories in China. Those goods not boing for x- port are outside the scope of transit passes, s, in spite of the fact that they are the property of foreigners and are destined for foreign use, they have to be subject to the exactions of every likin station they pass. The absurdity is patent: raw materiala purchased to le made up in China, so giving employment to Chinese labour and adding to the wealth of the country, are peralized as against those exportel to foreign cour- tries, which benefit China only to the extent of the purchase price. This anomaly is of comparatively recent development, butment, and was dismissed the service. it is growing from day to day, hud coa stitutes the most cogent reason for the abolition of likin, or, at all events the standardization of the system. There are aw, many new features to be considered in connection with this question which did Det obtain when the MACKAY Treaty was negotiated, chief among which is the move-

According to the weekly return of com- ment towards centralization of all govern-manicable diseases, there were eight cases mental control and the opposition of the

of plague during the past week, all being provinces thereto. The MACKAY proposals, fatal; one fatal case of diphtheria, two if put into effect, would more than double of small-pux, one eading in death; and the reveaus from customs dues accruing to two of enterie fever (one British and one the Central Government, and would, incid- Chinese). The plague return for the past Per Box of 50 $3.75 entally. Enish it with so much the more

security for loans. This being so, the additional cases, bringing the total for All in Ceutral Government is not likely to regard the year up to 69. Other brands in stock.

she water with disfavour, but unfortunately fine condition and matured.

tho likin lovies have been allocated to the provinces for the cost of their administra- tions, and if, as would appear to be the

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The Daily Press.

HONGKONG, MAY 20TH, 1913.

In spite of the rain, that fine picture":

Les Miserables" has been drawing bumper houses at the Victoria Theatre over the week-end. It is to be shown to- night at the Bijou Theatre, for the last time in Hongkong, and those who have not seen it should not miss this opport unity. The booking is at Moutrie & Co.

48 hours shown that there have been nine.

IMPORTANT LEGISLATION.

IMPENDING.

FOREIGN SILVER AND NICKEL COINS TO BE

PROHIBITED IN HONGKONG.

MR. W. H. WALLACE. The correspondent of the

A very pleasant and interesting cère- Telegraph at Washington says that Mr.

Kulangsu (Amoy), on the 4th inst, when declared that the sensational papers which

the Foreign and Native community met are misrepresenting the relations between together to present to Mr. W. H. Wallace Japan and America are the enemies of on his retirement a token of their high peace, He has ordered every ship in the appreciation, and of the esteem in which the general managers for the past conduct Pacific to hold to its present anchorage, brause he knew that with the movement of one vessel there would be a hundred

different stories.

NAVAL BOAT CAPSIZED.

SEVEN MEN DROWNED.

LONDON, May 19th: A naval boat, containing 19 men of the crew of HM.S. Hehen, was capsized at Granton, in a high sea, and seven werd drowned.

AN ANTI-BULGARIAN ALLIANCE.

LONDON, May 19th.

he is held.

Apart, however, from the question of liquidation, there are certain outstanding questions affecting the responsibility of

of the affairs of this Company upon which shareholders are entitled to demand the fullest information:---

Dr. Meng, the Senior Consul, referring to the many sterling qualities which Mr. Wallace had exhibited during his 16 years' 1. What interest, if any, have Messrs. résidence in Amey, handed to him on Shewan, Tomes & Co. in the above Com behalf of the Foreign and Native company other than as general managerät munity an illuminated address, signed by 2. What commission, rebate and ex- nearly one hundred residents,

penses have they earned, received or ap- tray and a silver cigarette box. Dr. Merz propriated for their ability, judgment, expressed the hope that Mr. and Mrs. foresight and other services rendered by Wallace would live long to enjoy their them to the shareholders since 1906! hard-earned years of leisure.

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3. In what manner have they benefited. Mr. WALLACE in thanking Dr. Merz and this Company in connection with freighte the residents of Amoy, expressed his regrets at leaying so many good and kind receivable from other companies of which friends. He had enjoyed every day of the they were or are at present general man- time he had been in Amcy and now that lagern? the time of his departure was near he was sorely tempted to remain amongst them.

The address, which was handsomely bound in blue morocco and silver, read as follows:-

The Daily Chronicle's special corres- pondent in the Balkans says that Greece and Servia have concluded a Treaty in-Tef Valiane, Esquire, in the ficcasion

volving a common policy in regard to the an auti: conquered territories, and Bulgarian Alliance.

THE PRUSSIAN ELECTIONS.

LONDON, May 19th. The elections for the Prussian Diet have resulted in the Conservative and Centre

ority of the Conservative-Centre Alliance is this retained.

of His Retirement. We, the foreign and native community of Kalanga, Amoy, Chinn, desire to express our sincere and hearty appreciation of the many valuable services you have rendered during your long residence in this port,

As Chainman of the Municipal Council, The Army Club, Tennis Club, inaugurator of the Flower Show, etc.. your long experience and sound advice have been of invaluable benefit to all classes and nationalities resident on the Island,

4. What was and is the practice as re- gards the supplying of coal and ship's stores and effecting incidental repairs to the two vessels of the Company 7

5. What is Messrs. Shewan, Tomes & Co.'s system of office inanagement whereby freight and passage monics equal to 12 per cent, on the issued capital of the Company were while under their man- agenient and control defalcated by their own late compradore?

0. What part, if any, of the missing monies was defalcated on or before the 31st December, 1911, and what explana-

be approved by her Parliament prior to

We are authoritatively informed that

Now that you are about to retire we all tion was given to the auditory of the Com the 15th May, 1012, which their ratification, the representatives of the the Secretary of State for the Colonies

unito in expressing our regrets at your pay on provinces may be relied upon to make a has approved of the early introduction parties seats, of which the

gain seven and the departure and in wishing that you may be enabled them to cortify that hard fight before giving up the likin in the of legislation to prohibit after a reasonable National

to enjoy the fruit of your life's work. I to exhibit a true and correct view of tho band for the conmmption tax and excise period of notice the importation into socialists one. The overwhelming superi-pared for many years in the best of health balance sheet is properly drawn up 80 as

asking you to accept this token of car high duty in the bush. The question, indeed, and circulation in, the Colony of silver

esteem we hope that the perusal of this bristles with dificulties, nor are they or nickel coins other than those belonging

address may at all times in the years to come recall many pleasant memories of your diminished when it is remembered that to the currency of the Colony, and to

fife in Amoy of problems solved and China has at presont no alternative to such prohibit the circulation in the Colony of taxes on trade. Economie purists will all kinds of notes other than those of the doubtless be found in the Chinese Parlia. Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Cor- poration, the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China, and the Mercantile Bank of India, Ltd.

ment who will object to the idea of taxing internal trade at all, and to maintain that, if there is to be any taxation of commerce, it should be on that with foreign countries. Sound as this is in the abstract, it cannot be made to apply to the case of China and extra-territorialized foreign importers and exporters, who are liable to Chinese taxa tion only in so far as it is agreed to by their own Government, for which reason China caaust be permitted to shift on to foreigners the internal taxation that she formerly adopted of her own voluntary

THE NEWMARKET ELECTION.

LONDON, May 19th.

The Unionists are jubilant over the result of the Newmarket election, which they describe as the most remarkable sign of the change of public feeling since the THE INTERPORT SHOOT:

Budget struggle. The Liberal Press ad- After being postponed from Saturday on account of the rain, the interport shoot mits that it is disappointed and declares that it fickle constituency proves any by the Hongkong team took place on Sunday, at King's Park, under conditions thing it is that the Insurance Act is still almost as bad, mist and rain alternating a trump card in an agricultural con- While the team were stituency, where wages are almost the with sunshine. shooting at 500 yards they had to stop lowest in England. about twenty minutes owing to rain. Consequently the total was a very poor one. The scores were:-

200 500 000 Total.

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Lance-Cpl. Willi G. H. Coles

F. D. Danby P. O. Pearce

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Mr. Denison Pender, the successful

specchi after candidate,

the declaration of the poll, said the result was absolutely staggering. It showed that the agricultural labourers were sick of the Government despite the promises

avished during the last fortnight...

Mr. Nicholls the defeated candi- his defeat to mis- dste, attributed representation of the Insurance Act, and to the opinion apparently prevalent throughout the division that the Govern Singapore's total is 931, and Shanghai has ment's land proposals would lead to the

Mr. Wilson, 14. A. F. Blan H. R. G. Elson Mr. Stewart T. Heari

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financial will and to meet her exigencies. Some of the burden, itik certain, will have to be transferred- to foreign trade, but internal trade must in justice bear its share of the burden also, and it is in finding the WHENEVER the recognition of the Chinese machinery to effect this end that the great Kepublic by the Powers ultimately takes dificulty is met with. The consumption place, one of its first corollaries will be a tax" of the MACKAY Treaty was a direct revision of existing Treaties. Apart from expedient to this end; an indirect one the often-rumonrod impending removal of would be the lovy of a proportioante annual the restriction excluding foreigners (apart tax on all shops and stores in the interior. from missionaries) from residence outside Those are but clumsy makeshifts, but the Treaties ports, there are many featured clumsy makeshifts are the best that can be yet to shant. in the agreements entered into by the looked for until, at some date in the dim Empire that are inconsistent with the idea Of Republic. Ons instance occurred early in the revolution: the former rule was that the Minister at the head of the Foreign Office should be an Imperial Prince, but, in view of the changed con- ditions, it would be impossible to demand that now. There would be many formal points of this sort to be regularized, but it is improbable that either party would stop there, and not seize the opportunity of changed conditions for a general revision of the Commercial Treaties, which will mean a re-opening of the vexed question of likin. The fact that this has already been dealt. with by the MACKAY Treaty scarcely bears

future, Chinese governmental roforms shall havo mae possible scientific taxation, and enabled China to forego in toto, and not merely transfer to foreign commerce, the income now derived from the taxation of internal trade,

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ROYAL HONGKONG GOLF CLUB:

FANLING COMPETITIONS DURING APRIL,

ROBERTSON CUP Rev. Foster Fegg Capt. Spicer Mr. N. L. Smith

* Winner,

810 81 02 9 84 94 787 31 entries. RUNNING POOL, BUT

H.M.S. Hampshire and H.M.S. Frag Mr. A. W. W. Walkinshaw 78 3 81 have for Weihaiwei on Wednesday

The bankers of the Quintuplo Group have advanced to the Government, in

two

amounting tn Peking, $1,200,000.

Street, when she lost her balance and fell, sustaining injuries which necessitated her removal to the Hospital

*ReviFoster Pegg

Mr, J. McMurtrie Mr. E. Lester Arnold Capt. Spicer ..

MR. F. Hall Mr. N. L. Smith *Tie for Pool,

81 081 84 2.82 9412 82 92 8 84 99 15 81 947 87 81-entrics,

THE WRECK OF THE SWEDISH STEAMER NIPPON."

A VALUABLE CARGO.

It is stated in the Manila papers that Mr. Knafeldt, of the Eastern and Pacifie

ploughing up of the Newmarket race

courses.

MINE EXPLOSION IN O010.

LONDON, May 19th. Sixteen deaths have occurred as the result of a mine explosion at Belpe Valley in Ohio.

MAY DAY IN RUSSIA.

LONDON, May 10th.

A message from St. Petersburg stater that 1,100 people who took part in the Rus- sian May Day demonstrations have been sentenced to three months' isprisonment. A MUNIFICENT GIFT,

LONDON, May 1th.

Mr. Edwin Tate has given £10,000 to the Imperial Cancer Research Fund. PANAMA CANAL OPENING DELAYED.

A Chinese woman was walking down on the ease, for the likiu clauses of that the stairs of her residence, 190, Third agreement cannot become operative until similar agreements have been entered into by all the Treaty Powers, which will give Chinese diplomacy ample opportunities for

Mears, Carlowitz & Co.'s packing Trading Co., Manila, shipped a cargo of

LONDON, May 19th. shelving the question indefinitely, if it co

godown at Hankow was completely 1,843 tons of copra on board the Swedish desires. The question, however, is urgent, destroyed by fire recently, the total loss steamer Nippon, which run on the Sear

Continuous heavy landslides threaten and its urgency is increasing every day. being estimated at over Tls 300,000. The borough reef, off Zambales, Philippine to delay the opening of the Panama The objections to likin are too well-known fire is reported to have been caused by the Islands, on the 9th inst. This cargo was Cannat beyond January, 1915, the date

valued at £54,000 sterling and was fully and too widely felt to need recapitulation; | spontaneous combustion of cotton.

Laxed

insured,

troubles and difficulties overcome, that make up a total of triumphs and successful endeavours of which you must always be justly proud.

state of the Company's affairs as at the 31st December, 1911,"

7. The chairman at the extraordinary general meeting of the shareholders held on the 20th August, 1910, represented that a "subsidy of pesas 40,000 per annum, if not more, could be secured and that the benefits to be derived are not at all problematical but quite definite and sub- Has the whole or any part stantial."

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of this subsidy, to date, been received by

B. Have the running expenses of the the Company? Company increased since the change of flag? And, finally,

D. What offers or enquiries, if any, have in recent years been received by the gen- eral managers for the purchase of the ships Rubi and Zafira Yours, etc.,

ANOTHER SHAREHOLDER.

GERMAN SHIPPING AND THE

PANAMA CANALIAAN

THE PRESIDENT'S LANDS AND OPIUM CULTIVATION. The Rev. E. W. Thwing, General Bureau, has addressed the following com Secretary of the International Reform munication to the Peking Daily News

In February, 1913, Dr. Carr, a British medical man who had been attending the China Medical Association at Peking, told me that he had reliable reports that opium was being grown in the Houan province on the President's lands or that of his relatives. This was not far from La I-hain, it was said, where a seventh brother of the President lived, who was also a relative of the Governor of Honan. I reported the matter to the President and he said he did not know of such opium enltivation but would find out. I also telegraphed to the Governor of Henan, and on March 8th received the following telegram from him :-

stating Regarding your telegram that poppy was growing in certain dis- tricts in Honan and also the report that my relatives were concerned therein, I desire to state that we are actively sup- pressing cultivation of opium and that I shall not spare any-one, even my brother, if they are found connected with the opium trade. We are now making the fullest enquiries.

The President also sent me a copy of A friend of mine just returned from a his order that the matter should be fully trip on the Pacific Coast while in Sau. investigated and also the reply that the Francisco made the acquaintance of a Governor vas doing so. About the same special representative of the Hamburg- time a correspondent of the China Press American Steamship Company, who was wrote to that paper stating that relatives on a mission to ascertain all facts regard- of the President were growing opium, ing trade and facilities at the principal In April the China Free printed another ports, including San Francisco, Portland, letter from this saine correspondent Seattle, and Vancouver, the object being Saying that he was glad to report that the to run a line of steamers, through the opiam plants referred to had been dug canal to these ports.

PREPARING FOR

INCREASED PACIFIC

TRADE.

COAST

The following letter appears in The Times of the 22nd ult.

Sir,If you are not already aware of the following facts, it may interest you to know what is being done by at least one German steamship company paratory to the opening of the Panama Canal.

pre-

At Portland and Vancouver this gentle- I am positive that President Yuan man was met by deputations of Germans Shi-kai would permit of no opium when the vessel arrived. They had pre- cultivation on any of his lands and if any pared a complete statement of data pe small amount exists it is without his accommodations, dues, trade (both freig knowledge Any case that may be dis

upon prospects for immigrants, covered will be severely dealt with. The and passenger), and a general report. My friend was informed confidentially President is most sincere in his desire to

that the Hamburg American Company stamp out this plague from the Republic of China.

the grants on the instalment plan, a stated The Editor of our Peking contemporary was selling tickets to prospective emi- appende to the communication following note:"A party of journalists sum per month being paid, so that by the including a special correspondent of time the canal is open the passage money the Peking Daily News, has just returned will be paid and as much additional as

requirements. from a trip to Changtefu, where they rods will cover the United States landing over all of President Yuan's property.

I do not know what is being done by Not only did they fail to find a vestige

the direction poppy, but the condition of the crope, British companies in which were well-advancs-1, indicated that indicated, but it is evident the aggressivo it was impossible for poppies to have German is to the front as usual, and as been cultivated en these lands during the British subject and an old shipping. current year. The result of this visit man I would like to hear of souse, inove-

Youre faithfully, d should effectually dispose of the reports ment by the English shipping companies. circalated by certain interested parties,

JOHN FREILE.. and brought to light by Capt. Kirton, that the poppy is being grown upon

1,123, 'Broadway, New York, April 9. President Yuan's own land,