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THE REVOLT.

LATEST NEWS FROM THE NORTH

Telegrams from the North go to show that the Northern troops continue to meet with success in their encountera with the rebel troops, and Li Lich Kwan, the dismissed Tutuh of Kinngai, who started the revolt and put himself at the head of the rebel foret, is reported to have disappeared.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 2380, 1912.

being sent on a tour of investigation" throughout the province. This motion on the part of the Tatal has been taken in consequence of the minerous charges brought against the district officials, bath civil aid military, by the people.

·DEFRECIATION OF CANTUN NOTE.'

to

North, nor to any party sentiments. The people should, therefore, peacefully carry The Civil and Military Governors of on their trade, but some foolish people Anhwai Province have wired to Yuan seem to be much perturbed, as if a great Shih Kai contradicting the report that disturbance is pending. There are also this Province has declared its indepen-kome dishonest traders, who wickedly

dence.

ALL LOVERS ARE MAD.

ALIENİSTŲ' 'ATTACK OF AMERICAN MOTHERS.

"Tore

· SLAVERY · IN THE PHILIPPINE. ISLANDS.

"Shall human flesh be openly bought and sold under the American flag i

PAYMENT OF MEMBERS IN CHINA,

We take from the Peking Daily News the following report of the proceedings in the Bonate when the salary of legisla tors was fixed at 80,000 per annuin

On Article 91, of the proposed Law of the National Assembly, the Vice-Speaker be discussed whether the public allowance announced that the question should first of the members of the National Assembly

WE

INTIMATIONS

The following paragraphs are extracted Soune remarkable theories have been ad- Vanced by delegates to a National Convenious report on the subject gress of Alienists and Neurologists, in Commissioner Dean C. Worcester: session last month in Chicago, v

Without hesitation. I assert that the Dr. H. R. Morris declares that 611 existence of slavery and peonage in the lovers are insene, and should be re- Philippines presents the greatest single Another notification states: The aber strained. "It is awkward," he says, to problem which there confronts the Govern taken by the Government is solely to accuse a healthy young woman of insanity ment of the United States, in its effort to punish Yuan, Shik-kai; it is not due when she is sitting in the moonlight build up a respectable and responsible any hostility between the South and the beside a man of mediocre mentality, ¦ electorate and to establish representative should include a daily allowance or not.

whom she believes to be a tin god; never- | Government. theless, it is a species of lunacy which prompts her heart to Butter and her eyes victim of the same hallucination. to shine. The young man likewise is a should be only secondary in matrimony. taster Healtby persons with similar should marry whether they love or not. Dr. H. C. Norris declares that the Anerican method of bringing up children is a potent cause of insanity. "Instead of being trained to be a member of his said Dr. Norris, "the boy of family

is taught to be President of the

allowed their own way until they get an exalted idea of their own importance. “Negritos, Hugacs, Manolos, Mandayas, Mothers are continually exploiting their Moros, Tagbantne, and Filipinos have and this causes the children to develop to obtain them, killed their parents or children as the brightest in the world, been captured by armed on who, in order

Then comes a lack of self-other natural defenders, and have subse should be $6,000, and the reason he ad-

Chiang Tseng-kwan more that it perfect egomania. control, and anelly nervous and mentalquently been sold as chattels, held as vanced was that if the yearly allowance oasting combine to give you breakdown, which leads to the insane chuttels, and compelled to render services be lower than that amount everybody such deliciousness as, we believe, asylum." Oilier delegates have raised a

for which they were not paid.

would prefer to become an official either storm of protest in Chicago art centres

Members of all the above-mentioned of the executive or judiciary organ, leay no other Coffee has ever attained. by subscribing to the theory that all

tribes, as well as Christian Filipinos, haveing the legislative organ destitute of artists, poets, and sculptors of great ability

been kidnapped and, subsequently sold, talent. ··

-"LOTUS" COFFEE. The motion of Member Chiang was Mr. French, director of the held, required to render services as above. balanced. have egomania, and are essentially un-

"Negritos, Ifugaos, and Christian strongly objected to by Chen Kuong-tao, Chicago Art Institute, replies as follows:

Filipinos have been bought outright for who said that it must be remembered the incarcerated in a large madhouse." that all doctors uro insane, and should be cush from their parents or other near the members of the National Assembly relatives, and sold, held, and required to pro representatives of the people, and render services as above.

that they should not consider their posi- tions as a road to fortune, They must know that the financial situation of the More- country is a most critical one. over, the standard of living in this country is far lower than that of any other country.

depreciate the value of the paper currency. The Governors of the Provinces of The Government guarantees to accept its Yuunao. Kweichow and Szceliuan have paper money at its face value, and if there telegraphed to the President assuring should still be persons depreciating the him of their loyalty and of their inten- value of Kwangtung notes, they shall be United States. Children are petted and tion to do their utmost to maintain the

severely punished." authority of the Central Government.

Notwithstanding the above notification, The Government has appointed Fung Canton actes are to-day quoted at al per Ewok Cheung, the Governor of Chihlicent. their face value, and some merchants Province, and a well known soldier, to be

are reluctant to accept them at this rate.: second in command of the troops sent to The following circular was issued and quell the disturbances in the Southern distributed broadcast by the Chamber of

Commerce yesterday:- A Peking telegram reports that the

Gentlemen,We, the merchants and the members of the Senate are demanding the resignation of Cheung Kai, President people, have hitherto been accepting the of the Senate, who is a member of the notes issued by the Kwangtung Govern- Kuomintang and a favourite of Dr. Sunt as legal tender. Following Governor. Such statements lead artists to believe

The proposal was that members, of both Houses should receive an annual lowanço of $4,000 and ip addition a sum$10 for Must the constitutional provision of each attendanco, as well as travelling ex the Philippine Bill that neither slaveryponses varying in amount according to the nor involuntary servitude, except as a distance of the constituency from Peking punishment for crime whereof the party and the facilities for communication.-Ea. shall have been duly convicted, shall exist | I.D.P.] in Bald Islands reinain inoperative Tang Yi moved that no such allowance

HAVE SO MUCH because the Assembly refuses to pass the as referred to by the Speaker should be

confidence in our Coffee necessary suppletory legislation to give it given. effect criminally, or will the Philippine Yang Yung tai and Chen Min-chion| because we know the extreme Commission bring the facts to the atten- strongly advocated that there should be tion of Congress and request that body daily allowance, because it would thought and care that go into the to act?

Induce the members to attend the session, making of every pound.

When put to the roto it was decided watchful selection of berries, the The that there should be no daily allowance. should be the annual allowance.

The Vice-Speaker then asked what thorough double cleaning, the blend and the exnet

Provinces.

Yat-son.

Dr. Sun Yat-sen in very strong terma has wired to the President resigning hia appointment as Organiser of a Central Railway Corporation to draft plans for national railway system, and also requesting him to stop the war.

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The Chinese merchants at Shanghai have held a meeting at which they re gistered their disapproval of the

rébellion.

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Northern the

General Chan's announcement of the Government's political views, however, the ruinds of some of the people have been filled with doubts, which havo developed into misunderstandings.

The money

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NEW USES FOR NURBER,

Future

Filipino slaves have been shipped to China,

Filipino school children have been In the course of a lecture on The secretly entiers from their homes by false 2004 promises of education and remuneration, market has been tight and, coupled with

the Rubber ̈ ̈ ̈Industry,' of

and have been said into slavery and the crisis engendered by the people delivered at the Chemical Engineering

Tong Yi said that the annual allowance should be at least 80,000. Even a Senior exchanging these notes for coius, they Exhibition at the Agricultural Hall, Dr.Peonage;

The Commissier, says the fables Clerk in the Ministries receives $300 per Philip Sebirowitz referred to the ques- have been heavily discounted and some tion of finding new user for rubber in backs up his statement with a veritable month, and it would be ridiculous that alarm has been created. We must know view of the expected large increase in avalanche of facts and figures in support the member of the highest Legislative that this political question has nothing to the production of the plantation variety of each and every contention. Provinces Organ of the country should receive a and municipalities, Christian and no salary lower than that of the lowest The Cuatones in Peking are also show - do with trade, and that we are responsible in future years.

He said that on the whole he thought Christian, from one end of the archipelago oficial in the Administrative Organ. ing themselves out of sympathy with the for the circulation of the notes issued by it might be said that, while the practi- to the other are included in the port: Moreover, the Legislativo Organ is the revolt, and declare that the troops in the Kwangtung Government. There can cability of rubber-paving for roads and persons and places, dates and place which is established to protect the are cited in bewildering | liberty and freedom of the people of the Canton cannot be relied upon *be no unexpected contingency in regard remained to be proved, the problem was anents, they are rearuited largely from robber to these notes. If we do not place our

at least worthy of a serious experiment, multiplicity.

country. Just think of the heavy burden. But there was scarcely an industry or Nor does the Commissioner stup there.imposed upon the shoulders of the people hordes, and will doubtless desert confidence in them and use them, our trade in which novel or more extensive He rings his respects to his friends the for the maintenance of the huge army of troops businesses and properties will be put in applications for rubber could not be sug-enemy in no uncertain language, with the country, while really the people gested. Thus for road work, while it Quezon and Tracey.coming in for special receive very little protection from the make their appearance in the pro- dangerous position. A few days ago, might be impracticable to use rubber mention. The argument of the former, army. Why should they not support the vince. The Cantonese residents in Governor-General Chan intimated, at a paring as such, there were many possibili; that slavery does not exist among my members of the National Assomeli ho Peking are asking that the recently ten-party (which was attended by repre-ties in connection with rond

carpets."!

people, is riddled with a broadside. As can afford more effective protection to appointed Civil Governor of Kwangtung sentatives froux all circles), that he would or compositions containing small propor-for Jure Tracey, Mr. Worcestor remarks their privileges?

tions of rubber. Architects and builders

Some moved that the annual allowance (Chan Chin Bhung, late of Kirin shall proceed to Kwangtung to take charge guarantee the notes being accepted at had scarcely yet awakened to the wide that he is not responsible for what the should be $3,000, and others suggested

$3,000. their face value, and he has since deputed utility of rubber for constructional and judge does not know.

To those who assisted him with facts to decorative work, and the furniture and bis representatives (Messrs. To Kung house-fitting trades might certainly avail partienlar instances of slavery Mr. The Board of Military Affairs has ghek and Cheung Yum Ting) to this themselves to a far greater extent than Worcester gives thanks and credit; but for $3,000 and $3,600 were defeated, and asked the British Minister to stop the Chamber to announce that he accepts the was now the case of the remarkable pro- those who hampered his efforts by with shipraent of arms for the rebels from full responsibility of preserving the peace perties of the material. In the engiücer-holding information to which he believed The with the construction of plant and former director of constabulary, General ing trades, and particularly in connection himself entitled are not spared. machinery, there were many openings, Bandholtz, is given no ungentle rap, as is In those, as in the case of many other | Audito Phipps. They are both accused, industries, the possibilities of rubber were in effect, of refusing information which to a great extent ignored, very frequently wonld have been of material assistance in because the right types of materials for the compilation of the report in question, special purposes had not been put for- The Assembly is scathingly arraigned. ward. In the chemical industries rubber Not only does Mr. Worcester place upon legislation in the Christian provinces, but he also charges three of its members or ex-embers with the crime against which they refused to legislate, and abundant videner is submitted to prove the accus

without further delay.

Shanghai and other Treaty ports, and the Minister is understood to have promised to comply with that request:

The steamers of the China Merchants S. N. Co. running between Northern port and Hongkong will not make their usual call at Canton until the present.

tronhla is over.

H.M.S. Fame was dispatched to Canto about ten o'clock last night with a party of Marines. There are now four British gunboats as Canton the Fame, Oler, Robin and Sandpiper.

of Kwangtung Therefore, we should enrry on business as usun and accept Canton notes as legal tender, otherwise we might sustain heavy losses and a serious disaster might result

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When put to the vote both the motions

it was passed that the annual allowanco should be $8,000.

The social allowance for the Speaker and the Vice-Speaker was then discussed. Chen Kuong-tao said that if any amount be spent by the Speaker or Vice Speaker on his personal account there should be no difference between the Speaker and any ordinary member, but if it be spent on account of the public the Speaker or Vice-Speaker may record

oved you at present prices, be emit the anus for the present lack of punitive of the Houses.

decided that this allowance should be

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The Vice-Speaker then put to the rute manufacturer was scarcely (and the fault

whether this allowance should be dis was not his) alive to the potentialities of suitable and high-grade soft and hard

pensed with. It was decided that there rubbers. In the paint and varnish trade,

should be a social allowance. It was also in the fermentation industries; in the

included in the public allowance of the Speaker or Vice-Speaker, heating, lighting, and power industriction, many applications for rubber suggest The whoh history of slavery immediately. The amount was then discussed. Some

American from themsolyes present the various de preceding and during the

moved that it should be $2,000 for tho velopments indicated were necessarily occupation is discussed, as is the record Speaker and 31,000 for the Vice-Speaker. slow for the reason that that which was of the Commission in dealing with it, the some moved $2,000 for the Speaker and everybody's businese was no one's busi refusal of the Assembly to act, and Mr. $1,000 for the Vice-Speaker, some moved lly The formation of a central body Worcester's own part in the suppression $4,000 for the Speaker and $3,000 for the with ample funds, organized for the pur- of the evil. The much-discussed delay Vice-Speaker and others moved $5,000 for pose of working out the various problems on the part of the Commission in passing the Speaker and $3,000 for the Vice- and of placing information at the disa anti-slavery law before the creation of Speaker. posal of users, appeared to him to be the Assembly is explained, as well as the Whon put to the vote the last motion well worthy of the consideration of the reason for the present controversy, which was adopted, and the Speaker will receive crude rubber interests.

was occasioned by the reading in the an additional allowance of $5,000 and the ingal United States Senate of a private letter Vice-Speaker $4,000 to their written by Mr. Worouster. Mr. Worcester income. grimly remarks that had be known what was to become of his letter he would have supplied at that time all the details anybody could reasonably want and thus forestalled the onslaughts of his critics.

We learn that the rebel government at Canton has taken possession of the Post

Despite the unfortunate political dis and Telegraph Offices, and had also con- templated acquiring control of the rentes which exist in China at present, all parties are united in one thing, the -venue-of-the-Maritime Customs, but that nocesier for new railways, writes the

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Tienten, under date of June & last. uy seizure of the Customs revenues,

The latest expansion in this direction is which are pledged to the service of the Pukew-Hsinyang line, which is now foreiga loans, is likely to result in active being surveyed by an able British engineer appointed by the Board of Communica foreign intervention.

Lions in Peking for the purpose. This line is a complete answer to the Russo- Belginn enterprise, the Haichow-Lanchow Railway, which is to run through Kiangsu and Kansu provinces. The new line will have one terminus at Pukow, and, traversing the provines of Kiangsu, will reach Hsinyang, in the province of SCOTTISH UNION AND NATIONAL Honan, there connecting with the well- INSURANCE COMPANY, known Peking-Hankow line.

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This Company held their S8th nan actually granted to the Anglo-Chinese meeting at Edinburgh. This old and Corporation, made up of the Hongkong prosperous Company has a history of and Shanghai Bank and Messrs. Jardine, solid and continous progress, and the Matheson, & Company, in 1888, through accounts for 1912 are the best the Com the efforts of Sir Claude Macdonald, the pany has ever published. They show a then British Minister in Peking. This continued increase in the premium was at the time when the Powers were all income, and the nett profit amounts to trying for concessions for railways cle. £397,161, as against $244,879 the previous and France and Belgium, in addition to Great Britain, obtained valuable railsby

The usual dividend of 17! per cent, was construction rights. For some reason not declared, which absuche £12,500 only, and casily discernible the British concession after placing £40,000 to Investiment Con- aires did not avail themselves of the 1896 tingency Fund, the balance of £231,067 concession until recently, and it seems that is carried forvant to uext year. their doing so was because of the Russo- Belgian activity in connection with the Haichow-Lanehow line.

THE REVOLT OF CANTON, (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT,

HOLDIERS GOING NORTH.

Its reported that Governor-General Chans making arrangements for one hattalion, under the command of Brigadier-General Lum Chun and Cheung Ngaw Kune, to proceed North, and that, later on, another battalion will be despatched vé Nam Hang..

FORTIFICATION OF TIGER 19LAND.

Several hundred cases of ammunition and large number of guns have been transferred to the forts at Tiger. Island, and a strong force of soldiers is now station in that vicinity A corps of soldiers with machine guns is guarding the Government mint..

PARDONING ADDENEIES OF YCAN SHIH-KAI

A notification, dated the fath instant, has been issued by Governor-General Chan. pardoning adherents of Yuan Shih-kai, provided they at once desort

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Under the above heading, Bays the Peking Daily News of the 10th inst., we published yesterday a report to the effect that a certain Mr. Li Lokeng has made a practics of going round to houses of ill fame in certain hutungs, beating a Presiding at the general meeting of the drum, and calling upon members of the Java Rabber and Produce Company, Mr. Senate, if any bo within, to wake up, and A. L. Elwes expressed a hope that the attend the House. That such a statemesit uncertainty in regard to labour would eax seriously be made by a Chinese paper, be obviated in the future. · Coolies were and what is more, seriously accepted by being drawn away from the estate by the public, is an indication of the dis offers of increased remuneration. The repute into which the high office of Senator of the Republic. has fallen.. According to Chinese estimates no fewer STUDY than half the members of the Senate spend

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It might be mentioned that the Com- pany has just acquired the entire business The Pukowand assets of the successful City of suicidal policy it must be, but he was their nights in houses of ill-repute. We

PERTUSSIN.

directors in this country had been trying to remedy that state of things by point- ing out to the parties interested what a Hsinyang line, when completed, will be Glasgow Life Insurance Company, and sorry to say that this representation had cannot vous for the accuracy or other approximately 370 miles in length, and it the funds of the Sruttish Union and so far been without any material result.wise of this report, but as it may possibly is estimated that it will cost alent National will thereby be increased to over Mr. B, C. Wright, another directer, said have an important bearing upon the £2,000,000. As the country it will traverse ten millions sterling, a huge total indeed, he endorsed all that the chairman had question of the salary decided upon by is practically level throughout no great The Company's local fire, insurance said in regard to labour. He believed the Senators we think that a few really business is conducted by Messrs. Carlowitz that sooner or later the directors of Java patriotic Chinese might take the matter engineering difficulties are anticipated.

It will tap and take away an enormous & Co., and it has also agencies throughout companies would come together and up, make a thorough investigation, and amount of traffic which at present goes the whole of the Far East.

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acquaint the public with the result of to Chinking. Haichow, and Shanghai by

their inquiries. Such a statement as the. one do which we refer could not his made junk, or traffic that at present goes to Hankow by the Ching-Han lin- Later on

in the capital of any other civilized him, and forgiving them for whatever it will have the effect of opening up new

country without evoking widespread misdemeanours they may have committed producing areas in the Yangtze Valley,

indignation. When it is generally in the past. It also directs that the and will fake the bulk of the trafie of the

recognized that the majority of members of both Houses would consider themselves people shall peacefully carry on their proviners of Honum, Hupeh, und Sliensi,

swell of if they could be certain of o business; that they need not feel alarmed this bring a very serious competitor to

regalar income of $200 per month, the decision to pay themselves 500 per month Sn ord by avoid the temptation of Government clrekships is damoning evidence of the deplorable state into which Chinese politics have drifted. We wonder how many constituencies in China would confirm his salary if the matter were referred to them for decision. Nero's crime in fiddling while Rome was burning was mild in comparison with the conduct of Chinc politicians who vote themselves large salaries out of an almost empty treasury, to be squandered in haunts of

or move away; that they shall treat each other like brothers; and that they shall not encroach upon or insult (ne another Any persons neting contrary to these orders, the notification adds, will be dealt with according to martial law.

INVESTIGATION OF CONDITIONS. The Governor-General has notified the various Tranquillization Bureaux und district authorities to afford due protection to the Commissioners that are

the Haichow-Lanchow line. This will, of course eriously affect the Russo-Belgian financial group who are running he Haichow Lanchow scheme, but the obvic as superiority of the southern terminus Pukow over the Belgian terminus of Haichow makes this inevitable.

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