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ĮTENOUGH BENTER'S AGENCY.) THE OPIUM CONFERENCE.

reached.

HAGE, July 3rd.

THE SUFFRAGETTE LEADER.

LONDON, July 3rd.

The

The Union has potitioned the King to pardon Mre. Pankurst,

EAGUE, July 3rd.

Indics proposes that the establishment of

THE PEKING PLOT.

THE EVIDENCE AGAINST GENERAL HUANG HSING.

We utke the following from the Peking Daily Newm:---

were involved in the case, it was con- sidered inexpedient to effect openly the

Ben to keep scoret surveillance, while on

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JULY 4TH, 1918.

BANQUE DE L'INDO-CHINE.

ATE

INTIMATIONS

$

HAVE 90. MUCH confidence in our Coffee

we know the extreme.

of advances on goods, the Following of thought and care that go into the producer until its shipment. This will making of every pound. the rice from its harvest by the Annamite

to which the exaggerated facilities

The

and the exact accorded to Chinese merchants have thorough double cleaning, the exposed. Indo-Chinese trade. The import perfect blend business was, although no larger, more

the navy shall be defrayed equally by the A man named Liu Sz Ting was arrested of Luan Chow of Chihli province, 25 for 1892 to 1901 to show what China maytions of the Pnom-Penh and Battambung

Netherlands and by the Indies, including uine Dreadnoughts, five of which shall

at

to

accumulated. Thirty-five years is fixed manual cost of which is 454 million florins, táquid-fuel-i-to-be used..........

THE TERRITORIALS.

LONDON, July 3rd. Colonet Hesly, speaking at Hounslow, said that up to the present this had ben the best recruiting year for the Terri- torials, there being an increase of 20 per cent. compared with the corresponding

quarter of 1912.

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delivery to Tai.

were seized.

says the repor“, .

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I have never, deposited in Tai's house at San Li Houng, hao Tieh Chiao, Chong Yu Siu,

Au interesting review of the economic and in Hsia Wei Sung's house. Chong Chow Tu Teo and others. Yu Siu al mysul last month brought wot Buang Fu Sung and Cheng Yu Siu, two baths to the Han Tang Hotel, Butor Bela Was Sung, the Chief of the situation in the countries of the Far East if Financs Department I know they are during too past year appeurs in the the police detectives found this out.

Commencing with Cochin-China, the scaped arrest through the help of ilsiaveled with the Society through annual report on the Bank of Indo-China. which only gave a total of 551,000 tons Wei Sung and Tuan Tee Chan, who went information from other fellow-members, to lead me out. I felt a little repentant I have no ideas to all other cireum report, dwells on the inferior rice crop, This is time cridace upon which the for exportation, a decrease of 180,000 on instituted proceedings the previous year, whose gures had also On the 11th day of the 5th moon a girl then. After the President proclaimed the mors. The above are all true inch.

been very reduced. Several suspensions of Chow Yu circumstances concerning the Sung Mur-

der Cam and the Lean, the Tubuhs and Government

crisis. which The majority of the Powers represented student under the game

of payment produced ́a demonstrated the necessity for European ut the Opin Conference are dispound Ching voluntarily presented herself at the Chambers of Commerce of the various against General Huang Hsing.

gayu Peking and 121 Martial Count

honas to renosace dangatons metrods of to rality the Convention of 1912.

information to the effect that for the provinces telegraphed their opposition to

working and restrain the credit facilities A PORTUGUESE PLAGUE-SPOT,

accorded to Chinese manufacturers. Gerwan Ministu wa behalf of Germany; purpose of disorganizing and overthrow. further destructive measures, and the

Under this caption the Peking Daily Apparently, a result, a transformation Government, so I became aware that America and Russie, proposed that they the Government, Huang sing Bent foreign countries one after the other wy psassias to Peking and Tientsin to extended recognition to our Republican

Nares of the 5th ult, nas the following of commercial methods is in, progress in this and other respects. In accord with Dutch Government be asked to approach organiza a Bloody Light Society in thea Huang Heing's suitement that we had a two places, which undertook secretly to

Our readers may have noticed & Keatore English banks and European firms, the Bank of Indo China is considering the non adhering Powers with a view to transport dangerous materials and to bad Government was not true and that

the establishment of store-houses in the inducing them to associate themselves throw bombs at the fallowing important his objel was to struggle for political leading article:--

personages, viz., President Yuan, Premior power for his private interests. I tried with the Conventions. No decision was thao, Tutul Feng, Liang Chi Chao and to perstate my comrades to dissolve, but tolegram from Canton which appeared in

She further stated that the they..nil were deformined to act upon our columos last week stating that the important contres, and of river transport ; others. Society kept dangerous materials in the scheme and my germanion was of no Feurbain Tai's house in San Li Ho and avail. Considering that it would bo! Macao authorities had called for tenders enterprises which will permit,-by-means-because

impossible to establish my innocence when for the renewal of the opium farmi for a suggested that these be seized speedily.

Subsequently her elder brother Chow once the trouble was created, I thereupon period of five years from August 1st next Yu Tao also pat in his appearance at the voluntarily presented myself to give at an upset price of $460,000 per annui. London Graduates Buffragetto | Martial Court and gave similar state. information for the arrest of the Society In view of the stronuous efforte now being henceforward obviate the periodic cries watchful selection of berries, the

members and I. also presented for made by Chius to free herself from the monta view of the fact that many persons inspection the dangerous materials that opium evil this item of news deserves were stored in Ta's house at Ban Li Io.borious consideration. Macao, as every I shall enquire as to the other dangerous one on the China const knows, is chiefly DUTCH EAST INDIES DEFENCES.seizure of the dangerous materiale, and materials stored in other places and famous as a gambling resort and an remunerative than in 1911, principally roasting combine to give you therefore the Court on the one hand sent repart again, I am not werking for pri- opium sinuggling contre, and there cannot owing to the higher value of the pisstre. such deliciousness as, we believe, vate gain by betraying the Society, but I be the least doubt that the renewal of the Despite the rather unfavourable circum- only to the Cus active and gave satisfactory results. The report of the Royal Commission of the other detectives were ordered to am only actuated by the intention of opium farm for another five years will stanices, the operations of the bank's no other Coffee has ever attained.

tome report upon the trade of Luppa, Cambodia likewise suffered from the Chow Yu Too depus di I am a mutive which appeared in the decennial series mediocrity of the crops, and the opera- Tientsin to make investigations of the a bona fide facts. enquiry into the defences of the Dutch accompany the brother and sister to try. All I have said in honde con in opiunt. We need profitable illicit trade branch at Saigon were on the band's When the revolutionary anticipate: During the decennial 2008 agencies shrunk slightly, in Tong King accomplices in order to effect their arrest.

Farmer at the Tientsin Railway Station on the years of age.

For local consumption here the year 1912 saw now and marked pro- to the development of industrial and 15th of the same month and on his person banner was flying at Wuchang I was the were found 4 bonibs and percussion acting as a Military Officer in Kiangpeh, chests.

When escorted to the Martial Kiangai and Nanking. After the adop-ported having boiled down 250,466 balls, gress, due to successive good crops and. tubes.

the Macaotion is increasing, and rice exports rose be constantly stationed in the East Indies, Court lan stated that he joined the tion of the Republican Government was which were the equivalent of 7,514 picud mining affairs. The area under antivu

As the promulgated I lived in Tientsin doing or a yearly average of 751 piouls. Society through: Chow Yu T80. supported by a large number of torpedouaney available in Tientsin was all spent, nothing, At the end of the 3rd month course,"

The he was coming up to Peking to get money of the presut year. Huang Fu Sung seat wants are nothing like so much-20 piculs from 190,000 tons to the record total of Jinport business also boats, destroyers, and submarines.

from a Hein Wei Sung and to discuss me a wire asking 18 to go down to per month or 240 picals a year being more 254,000 toas,, of which 73,000 went to principal base 'shall be established ways and moans to push on the scheme in Shanghai. Heated that as the present than ample for her requirements: so the France, against 21,000 in the previous in all sorts of criminal acts, the only way China." It is more or less common increased, the reste being improved Tanjongpriok, where three ports are view. The letter. found on his person from Government was despotic and indulged balance must have been smuggled into twelve months.

a Hua Lun to a Yun Wen was in be constructed as subsidiary basca, and tact written to Hsia Wei Sung by Chow to attain a true Republican Government knowledge that since the issue of the results from the bank's branch at Hai- in other points of the archipelago huge Yu Tso. The bombs and percussion tubes was to overthrew the present Government above report the smuggling of opium into phong and the agency at Hanoi. The stated that Hung Hsing had already indulged in, and as this plague-spot in developed in a remarkable fashion. Con importation of opium for at least another abnormal duration of dryness in Annam stores of provisions and fuel are to be wero also handed to hint by Chow for and to organize another one. He further China 24 Maeso has been extensively transit from Yunnan to Hongkong has On the night of the 18th the detectives giver him $10,000 to proceed to Tientsin South Chinn is to be kept open to the Linaing, the report points out that the exports somewhat diminished the opera- We then returned tgling will now proceed upon for the completion of the scheme, the accompanied by Chow Yu Ching pro- for the purpose of organizing an asenssi five years it may be predicted that snug-damaged to crops, and the reduction in!

cceded to enquire as to the whereabouts nation organ.

One would scarcely expect a Portugues. tions of the Tourane agency. In brief, in Annam, the of the dangerous materials. Chow first Tientsin separately. When I subsequently larger scale taan in the past. went to see Hsia and ostensibly told him interviewed Huang Fu Sung and Chao that as Liu's arrest led to the exposure Tich Chiao, they stated that they had Dependency which pursues a parasitic despite the mediocrity of the crops in uf all secrets, The bombs and kindred gathered together more than 30 men in existence by catering to the vices of Cochin-China and

a few days und organized a Bloody Light foreigners and Chinese to abolish a source economic position in Indo-China re things should be kept in a safe place to

Haiz replied that Socisty, the object of which was to over- of-income which can be made to yield mained favourable. The production of prevent discovery. under, such circumstances there was no throw the Government. To push ahead £40,000 out of a total revenue of £187,300, rice, white is one of its principal ele for Cochin China alone. The and other prominent men of the Cabines, represented at the International Opium permit exports of not less than a million other course to follow but to send them the work of assassinating President Yuan were it not for the fact that Portugal was ment, is likely in the current year fo to Tai's house in San Li Ho.

At the request of the detectives, pistols and bombs were prepared.. When I Conference at The Hague, and apparently tons

While no definite the troubled and unstable situation, gendarmes and police were despatched on subsequently found that the actions approved of the International Opium budgetary situation is likewise equally The morning of the 17th day to Pe Ku hitherto taken by the Government were Convention signed by the Delegates on satisfactory. As regards China, despite seution the contracting Powers undertook than could have been hoped. The local Ying to summon Hsia. In the meantime not without reason and that its explana- January 23rd, 1913,

adopt the neccusary measures to

operations of the Hongkong agency show Chow Yu Ching accompanied Detective tions published concerning the Sung reference was made to Macao in this Con business there has been much more active Lu Sz Kwei to Tai's house at Sun Li Ho, Murder Case and the Loan were based on and 3 bombs, 3 packages of explosives and reasonable grounds. I then realized that to a bundle of fuses stored there by Elsin Huang Hsing's statement that the Govern- restrict and control the habit of smoking an increase, and the brancher as Shanghai OF FINEST QUALITY AND High Precision,

It was known through ment was bad was only a fabrication and opium in their lead territories, settle

suppress pari passu with the Chinese actively in the increased trade. With questioning that Hsia was a Senator, and alse that this was only a pretext usidents, and concessions in China, to and Tientein Lavs also participated very a letter was immediately afterwards sent for the purpose of grappling for power.

of opin in R, and the Bank's agency at Singapore to the Senate to the effect that when the When I considered that the whole nation Government the opium dens or similar regard to the Straits Seetlements, the ense came up for trial in the Court Hsia had not recovered from, the effect of the establishments which may still exist there, your 1912 was a particularly favourable should appear.

Further, it was provided that the con- all its operations showing a notable On the same night the last revolution, I came to the conclusion and to prohibit the use police were again accompanied to Tai's that no more destruction should be toler places of entertainment and brothels.participated in this important movement, house at San Li Ho and seized three ate, but as my fellow-members were tracting Powers having Treaties with advance. Despite wo successive bad packages of black powder, 4 large and firmly determined to proceed with the plot China would, in conjunction with the erops the financial situation of Siam

Chinese Government, take the necessary remains favourable, and at the Bangkok THE PRICE OF THE HOWARD 3 small bombs, 16 bundles of fuses and there was to remedy, but there was the

perilous state. As I could not suffer this Chinees territory, as well na into their fashion and gives every satisfaction. a roll of insulated wire, all stored there prospect of plunging the country into a measures to prevent the smuggling into agency business is developing in a regular by the Society.

On the 18th day another man named state of affairs to happen, 1-cou Far Eastern Colonies and into the leased Incidentally we may note that the circnia- Wong Pao Sin was arrested and stated voluntarily to the Court to report the torritories which they occupy in China, tion of the Bark's notes, which is limited

and present the dangerous of raw and prepared opium, morphine

on Juary 31st, 1912, Lo f.80,000,000 that Liu introduced him to the Society. matter, The rest of his statement was almost the materials that have been kept in Tai's cocaine, and their respective suits," etc. exclusively to the French colonies in house at San Li He for destruction. I It is quite clear that the Portuguese Gor which it works, advanced from f.65,000,000

to the other ernment, intends to abide by neither of sainio as that given by Chow Yu Tso.

On the 20th day the Martial Court shall make enquiry as

order to find revenue for a decadent December 31st last. transferred all documents and evidence dangerous materials stored elsewhere. these provisions, but on the contrary, in July is, and stood at 1.81.000.c0G KA per-bearing on the case together with copies All I have stated are true facts.

Liu Sz Ting deposed; I am 21 years colony, is determined to perpetuate the of the depositions to the Procuratorate General. The Chows, brother and sister, of age, a native of Tientsin of Chihli facilities for the smuggling of opium into When the revolution to the latter in the past. The administra tion of Macas by the Portugues has been were summoned on the 22nd day to answer province and a gradua of the Military China which have proved so embarrassing questions and on the 20th day Haia was Middle Schoni.

The trade of the Colony as been emrades in Luan Chow and mys If at a scandal to westem nations for years, summoned, but he did not appear and it broke out last year i Wuching, som is since reported that he absconded.

has been the centre of almost every The statements made by Chow Yu tempted to organize a Military Govern- park Ching and others are given hereunderart of the North, but the scheme was throttled by a system of monopolies. It

Chow Yi Ching deposed-1 am afrustrated and I then returned to mytionable enterprise in the Far East the Levent trade was recouped by the In the 4th month of the Coolic traffickers, and others have found development which took place in the trade native of Luan Chow of Chihli province, native home. 20 years of age, educated in the Tientsin present year with East. A School for girl teachers. I joined the Yu Tso and Huang Fu Sung, hartog by methods which would be tolerated incurred in the number of passengers Revolutionary ranks at the request of organized a Bloody Light Society, weate the revolutionists in the North after the to ask me to join them. The object of TIBET.

uprising broke out at Wu Han, and the Society is to overthrow the present travelled to and fro between Peking and had Government and to re-establish a tile In the ingin Colonel Yate (Melton, Opp.) asked the Titatsin to speretly transport-materials Republican Government. Secretary for Foreign Affairs on the 11th for assassination purposes. I resided inning of the 4th month Chow. Yu Tso and Tientsin after the adoption of the Repub and Cheng Yu Sia went to Shanghai and uit, whether he could give any information form of Government was proclaim returned to Tientsin a week latter. They tion as to the present relations betweened. Huang Fu Sung asked me to proceed told me that Hsia Wei Sung would bring China and Tibet; if he had any official 10 Shanghai, and through his introduo- money up and that money might be information that a great L'hinese expedition I met Huang Haing, Huang Ssing requisitioned for from him in future. tion was on the march against Tibet; that stated that the present Government was Chow Yu Tso told me to go up to Peking reconquest was considered to be an despotic and indulged in all sorts of on the 15th day of the 5th month. Wher, I essential preliminary to bargaining; and criminal acts and that the only way to got to the Fallway Station on the mornin that the Chinese meant to put forth great attain a true Republican Government was of that day Chow In-tao came and handed Huang letter, all for delivery to Hsia Wei-sang efforts to crush the Tibetans; and, if so, to overthrow the present Government and me a paner parcel and an introductory whether he would adhere to his first to reconstruct another one.. declared intention not to acknowledge the Hsing then directly gave $10,000 to Hunng at Peking personally, I asked what was Ropublic of China till the question of Fu Sung with instructions that the latter in the package and Chow said it was ex- China's failure to adhere to the terms of should proceed to Peking to organize an plosive powder. But the police detectives the Tibetan Agreement had been satis assassination party there to assassinate found this and brought me to the Tientsin President Yuna, Premier Chan, Minister Procuratorate, whence. I was escorted to factorily mottled.

informing them of my arrest and of the

A remarkable pitition, signed by THE EYE Mr. Acland (Cornwall, Camborne, Min.), Tuan of War, Politician Liang Chi Chao, the Martial Court at Peking. I at once

seventy-four people, has been laid before facts asked for by the hon, and gallant of Foreign Affairs, Tutul Feng of Chihli fact that the whole plot was known and who replied, said-With regard to the Minister Chow of Finance, Minister Lu wrote to Chow Ya-tso and Wang Pag-sin

the French Chamber by M. Georges Berry, & deputy for Paris. It is a claim on the meraber I can add nothing to the reply provinces and other important personage, advising them not to proceed further.

French THE ISSUE OF CHINESE BONDS.

Government for £200,000,000, given to him on May 27th No doubt so as to overthrow the present Govern When I communed with myself as to the there is force in what the hon, and gallantment Immediately afterwards Huang past when the late Manchus ruled in a

Mr. Bridgenian (Shropshire, Oswestry, repreting the amount, with accrued member urges in the last part of his Fu Surg proceeded to Tientsin with the despotic and absol ncmanner, it was right

hiery, which, the petitioners allege, was question, But the recognition of the money and I followed a few days later. for me to co-operate with my friends at

it is the responsibility of every one at the Opp.), on behalf of Mr. Norman Craig test, of the fortune of one Jean Chinese Republic now forms the subicct When I interviewed Huang Fu Sung and Loan Chow to create a rising there, but

mbezzled by Napoleon in 1797 on behalf present time to constructive of international sultation, and it Chao Tish Ching they secretly told me that a Bloody Light Society had been would be undesirabk. that I should give established and that Huang Fu Sung had to attend to master (Kent, Isle of Thanet, Opp.), asked the

What. I have House of Commons recently, whether his body of France at that time.

The original fortune is said to have an undertaking that night prevent his Majesty's Government from acting with been elected as its Chief, Chao Tich Chiao pentant for my foolishness in having thus Secretary for Foreign Affairs-in-the of the French Directorate, the governing

its Vice-Chief, Yun Ting Chief of the been deceived by others.

Majesty's Government exercised any and ather Fowers when the time comes.

Finance Department and I myself the stated is all true,

Wing Peo Sin deposed: I am 24 years what control over the price to be paid to amounted to £50,000,000. The descendants Colonel Yale-May I ask the hon, me

Chief of all the Detectives, all to push on the contemplated work. The funds of age, a native of Fei Siang Hsion of

the determination of the British group of the money from the French Govern- "Wo ask the Government, they were not sufficient, and Hsia Wei Sung Chihli ravines, formerly edicaid in the Chinese Government for the bonds of the first heirs have formed themselves and Cheng Yu Bin brought money up to the Military Oficers College. I was dis- recently issued or whether it was left to into. an association to demand restitution Peking from Shanghai, Hsin Wei Sung missed from the College because I over-in consultation with the rest of macct.

I went to bankers of the international group, to fix

a simple act of justice." They are, how. was then elected the Chief of the Finance stayed my leave of absence.

ernment.

with the French Cabinet for an equitable A WELL PAID EXPERT. Department and Yun Ting retired, having Tientsin to find employment, when I met the price to be paid to the Chinese Guys in their petition, to do no more than Sir E. Grey-The minimum price ever, prepared to come, to an arrangerment uo more to do with the affaire of the my College mate, 1 Sz ting, through

In fact I have been payable to the Chinese Government was The Ministry of Communications has Society. Cheng Yu Sin was charged with whose introduction I joined the Bloody appointed Mr. Jeme Tien-yiu to be the the duty of bringing together all members Light Society. Overseer of the Technical Experts. His of the society. It was afterwards found deceived. On the 14th day of the 5th settled by agreement between them and settlement.

The answer to the second rank will be similar to that of the Vice that the Society affairs were on the month I was arrested by the Tientsin the international group of bankers with.

up to Peking. I know that among the Government. Minister, and he will receive a salary of crease and Chow Yu Tso was also elected Police Detectives and afterwards escorted out the intervention of his Majesty's $650 per month, a salary higher than that as Vice-Chief. Dangerous articles were

secretly brought up to Poking and promoters of the Society are Huang Fu part of the question is in the negative. of the Vice-Minister.

LONDON, July 3rd. Alexandra Day realised £18,391 com pared with £18,328 the previous year.

THE CRYSTAL PALACE.

LONDON, July 3rd. The City of London Corporation has voted £20,000 to the fund for the acqui: tion of the Crystal Palace.

MALINI THE MAGICIAN. Those have seen Malini in his formances are agreed that he is a most marvellous man. His tricks are indeed wonderful, and his audience leave feeling The gathering at completely mystified. the City Ilull last night enjoyed Malini's magic and his quaint stories, and no doubt most will be glad to renew acquaint

ance with one of the greatest magicians of the day.

畜

THE CHINESE REPUBLIC AND

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ber if he has any information yet as to the supposed advance upon Tibet?

Mr. Acland-No, Sir.

CHINA AND AVIATION.

AUSTRIAN LLOYD STEAMSHIP, CO.

The working results of the Austrian 1912 were not specially affected by the Lloyd Staunship Company of Trieste in war in the Balkans, na what was lost in

no other port on the China coast. If it carried na compared with unch of the two now intends to prolong & moribwad preceding years, but the tonange of goods existence by continuing to offer facilities transported experienced a decline as con- for the importation and smuggling of trasted with 1911 and the strike of British foreign opium, it is high time for the other miners involved greater expenditure on

vision for the depreciation of the heef signatories of the International Opium the coal bill. The gross surpins on work- Convention (including China herself) to ing was slightly higher than in the to the amount of $214,000, as against £189,000, the accouste show net profits of take up the matter and express their dis- previous year, and after making

£107,000, as compared with £133,000, in approval in no uncertain terms.

1911. A dividend at the rate of 7 per cent. has been declared on the share capital of $1,200,000, this contrasting with o por cent on the previous year. Apart from. Peking received an unexpected visit the slips in course of construction the

trial flight over the city in biplace, 1015. from in aeroplane on the 24th it. The company intende to build four ocean

The Chinese Government aviator was Lieut. Lebon, who ingle asteaners, each of 9,500 tons, in 1914 and

has ordered fourteen aeroplanes of vari- carrying Mr. Caudron, his mechanic, as oss patterns from France and is oponing a military aviation school in the South Hunting Park

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