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SUPREME COURT.

Tuesday, July 5th.

IN ORIGINAL JURISDICTION..

BEFORE HIS HONOUR 8m W. REES DAVIES

(ORF JUSTICE).

CHINESE PARTNERSHIP ACTION."

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 3078, 1914.

THE REVOLT: LATEST NEWS FROM THE NORTH

MORK FIGHTING AT SHANGHAL.

Lu the native city at Shanghai on the same night three fires occurred. Numbera of Chinese are leaving this quarter and seeking protection in the ferviga settle. mont.

On Sunday evening two Chinese cruisers. sailed for Woosung, and it is believed that they intend to attack the forts.

CANTON.

[From Our Own CORRESPONDENT.]

CANTON, July 28th. TUTUMIS-NEW BEAL

A

INDUSTRIES IN CHINA.

trade.

SILK,

A first

8

A

bribery and partly by assault, and pro-]

from Japanese competition. High pricca | FORTHCOMING PERFORMANCE BY claimed the Republican capital. Work-

for cocoons, duo partly to increased taxa-

CHINESE MAGICIANS. tion in Chekiang, combined with a decline ing with vedeauic energy he massed there a fresh army of 50,000 men, who were The following articles appear in thein aries of steam filature silks, caused prepared to attack the Imporialists Time Textile Suppliment" :-

some of the Shanghai filatures to be closed,

The Chui Kwan Lok Hing Company of the weakest quarter. But the apostle of the Revolution, Sun Yat-sen, had not been

Again, the pongee trade that year was magicians from Peking has arrived in the On the night of the 28th instant, during idle, and by means of a curious cross-play The silk industry of China in reputed revival, and when the final returns are for

affected by plague. In 1012 camo a sharp Colour and engaged thọ Theatre Royal an engagement between the rebels and the he had won by diplomacy what had been

to be 4,000 years old and for 2,000 years published the volume of trade many prove (Thursday) night at & p.m.

performance to-morrow Northern troops, a few hombs fell into the denied to rebel arms.

The silk

The Com- Hung Hsing and his army was there the country has been noted for its silk,to have established a record. foreign settlement Shanghai and fore left in the air.

at

The man To-day. this product occupies the premier dull opening there was a brisk demand known in China and has just returned crop was above the average, and after a pany, we understand, is one which is well- A ease was set down for hearing inexploded, injuring three Europeans, two shrugged his shoulders and waited.

your has gone by since then. Ho in still among its exports, accounting for for silk in July, August, and September. from a foreign tour. They appear to be which Ho Chiu Lam, alius. Io Yiu Tong, men and a boy, i plaintiff, and Ho Sau Lam, alias Bo

waiting. That is the chief point about per cont. of the value of goods sent Any falling off in the home consumption Huang Hsing. He is the man who is abroad. At one time China supplied the may now be set off by the sudden rise an exceptionally clever combination. Ngok Lau, is defendant. Plaintiff claims

West with all its silk products; within silk exports to India from Shanghai were formance says: Sheang Fu and Su

in the demand from India. In 1919 the quaintly-written description of their per as a partner in the Po Cheong of Canton

waiting. Remember that.

the last 30 years it still supplied half the double those of 1911 and were slightly Kwai Hark, two of the players, are very and the Wa Keo firma of Hongkong,

It has now been overtaken by more than the exports to the United against the defendant for (1), a dissola

Japan and has to be content with less than States. This year it is hoped that the clever in playing with jars and porcelain tion of the partnership entered into by

a third of the world's trade.

conclusion of the International loan of ware, which they turn round and round an agreement dated the 19th April, 1904;

In 1910 £25,000,000 will so far remove the financial like wheels on their shoulders. They can Japan's contribution was 36 per cent,stringency from which China has suffered also make a dish fly like a butterfly. (2), the appointment of a receiver of the

China's 31, Eastern Europe 19, and the of late as to give fresh impetus to the Two other players named Mon. Tin Fu partnership property; (3), the taking of

The Governor-General has made a now | Levant and Central Asin 11 per cent; general trade of the country. the partnership accounts; (4), an injunc

scal, bearing the characters Governor-| The Chinese silkworm in the must.

The advent of artificial silk may sooner and Len Lau Ying, having learned the tion to restrain the defendant from con-

General of Kwangtung and Commander-favoured districts is by nature the best or later exercise its effect on the Chinese spell of the Ng Chi five gods in their verting the Tsung Hing theatre into dwelling houses or in any way interfering

in-Chief of the Punitivo. Expedition." the world, producing naturally from het, even if the imports to China childhood, can walk up a hill with knives the best mulberry the largest quantity of it may be unimportant; the increasing on and hang up a rope, stabbing two with the structure thereof, and to restrain attempt to take the arsenal, being driven All documents relating to Military affairs the finest silk; but China has made no America must be reflected in the demand daggers on their bath sides.

use to which this silk is being put in attempt to counternet by scientific

they have neither wounds nor scars on remedies the effects of disease or to apply for Chinoso silk.

them and so obtain the applane of the scientific metands to the industry. The capacity of the Italian silkworm is tour own silk for possibly a score of centuries this spell of the gods and have no equals result to-day is that the producing

It is strange that the country which had spectator on the spot. They only possess bines that of the Chinese. By exposing should have been a thousand years behind in the world. There are also some other the eggs to frost and snow it is probable Indie in making use of cotton. But the little girls with bound fees who walk on that the Chinese prasant is more success caltivation of the plant and the spinning wires as on a floor and as swiftly as clouds. ful in eliminating the weaklings than hus of cotton. ends. There is no muruscipical examine. In the fact that there was apparently performances which are

into yaru European rival;" but there

were probably Besides the above there are some wonder- nis science known to China until the 13th century tion, afterwards, and in the case of fully much opposition in China to the introiraited and attractive," The booking is 50 per cent. of the eggs hatched out the cluction of cotton as a textile, we may at Montrio's. Further particulars appear silkworm will die before the cocoon stage find some connection with the established is renched.

in our advertisement columns.

him from interfering in any way with the partnership assets.

As the Chin. Merchants-steamer–Sin-

Chai was passing Woosung she was seized by rebels.

Throughout Sunday night the rebels again made a determined but unsuccessful

back by the Northern troops.

Twenty shells and 200,000 rounds of ammunition which were being conveyed to the rebels at Shanghai were seized by Chinese Naval officers at Seochow.

Ching Tak Chuen, the Governor of

are henceforth to be sealed with cliis seal, while documents having reference to all other testlers will continue to he stamped with the old seal, on which are characters representing "Tutula of Kwangtung.”

RECRUITING SOLDIERS,

Mr. M. W. Sinde, K.C., and Mr. P. C. Jenkin, instructed by Mesers, Otto Kong Sing and Leo D'Almada e Castro, appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. E. Nanking, who recently escaped to Shang

Governor-General Oban Kwing-ming H. Sharp, K., and Mr. C. G. Alabas-hai, has ordered the Government troops in has issued a notification, inviting those tar. instructed by, Mr. M. Reader Harris Soochow and Chinking to proceed to who have had military experience or have {ot Messrs. Wilkinson Grist),

Nanking to give battle to the rebels. served in the Army to join the "Punitive represented the dofendant.

General Cheung Fun has arrived at | Force." All applicants are required to Youngchow, and is marching on Nanking produce testimonials or certificates for with a strong force.

inspection, and to submit detailed state-

grandfather's professions, etc. ! ments of their own, their father's and

The statement of claim set forth that in or-about the year 1878. the plaintiff, defendant and three others becnine part-

-

EX Yeeroy Daun, Generalissimo of the rebel forces, who came down to Hongkong on Menday, proceeded to Canton by the Kishan the same night.

THE CHINESE DANTON,

GANTON-KOWLOON RAILWAY.

The Chief of the Police Department has written to the Commissioner of Finance for a sam of $23,400, for the erection of The following pen portrait of-the-18 fortified police stations along the Car principal actor in the present revolution is by the well-known writer on Chinese-Kowloon Railway line. These atrne affairs, Putnam Weale--

tures are deemed

for necessary

'GOVERNMENT PAY IN CANTON.

the

Yesterday the Governor-General had a meeting with the Heads of the various departments, at which it was decided that, enmmencing with August, half the salary of every civil servant should-be paid in Government Bonds

VARIETIES OF SILE

COTTON.

INTIMATIONS

However,

Biost

LIL-

Hold that silk had on the country. To-day ners in a business for the purpose of

the cotton industry is co-extensive with The silk of China comprises white, China Proper. The native staple is very giving theatrical performances in Canton

yellow, and wild silk. Of these raw white short, though in certain districts of good and Hongkong, and it was agreed inter

Esilk (ine tsation of the European market) | fibre," and is only adapted to weft and at that one Ho Tian Lat should have

is the most important, supplying 50 per short-end work. Experiments, with new four shares, and the plaintiff, the defen

Cent, of the total exports of silk. It is seed, however, in Mancharis have resulted produced for the most part within in the growth of a cotton of longer staple, dnut and the two remaining partners, one

radius of 150 miles around Shanghai and it is generally believed that with -share-each. The partnership business

in the neighbourmood-et-Canton. How reasonable care China could produces a was and still is carried ou in Caston under the name of the Po Cheong, and in

yellow silk 19 produced in Szechuan and cotton that would compare favourably Shantung provinces, and in small quarti- with that of America. The question has ties in Yunnan. Wild silk, the product received the attention of Provincial Hongkong under the name of the Wa Kes.

The second actor is Huang Hsing, the protection of this Railway from attacks of a silkworn fed upon oak lenges, comes Governments, and with stability and a On April 13th, 1801, the partnership Pauton of the Chinese Revolution. There by rothers

¦ mainly from Manchuria and Shantung. fuller exchequer in Peking improvements agreement was for the first time intru- this man, something that seems to mark is something particularly engaging about

It is coarse in comparison with white and in cotton-growing will gure among the duced into writing. Plaintiff and defen-him out for violent and commanding

yellow suks, and provides the bussals und first practical reforms of Republican a curious story-a truly

pongecs of commerce. dant were now the only two survivors of roles. His is

Government. Already the consideration Eastern tale.

Steam hlátures are to be found at eight of the latter has been enlisted for the the five original partners. Since 1897 the

Huang Hsing means. Yellow Star, and

of the treaty ports and together they were removal of certain handicaps from which defendant had had the entire control and

is the legend of the man's birth. When

responsible in 1911 for an export of raw the industry suffers, notably in connection he was horn in the historic province of

white silk amounting in value to 20,890,000 with the excise duty on the product of strong men-Hunan-the story geas that

out of a total sak export of 17,370,000. China's catcon mills, which is levied at yellow comet appeared in the skies and

This step With the exception of the products of the rate of 70 candaceous (Haikuan taels) blazed forth a lurid light, frightening the has been decide upon, owing to the short-these malls the industry is almost exclu-(2%) per pieni (1381bs) of yarn, a

HAVE WE populses and hastening soothsayers to the age of funds in the Treasury and the sisely in the hands of the peasantry. Each candarems (about 2d.) per piece of

confidence in our Coffee house of the new-born babe. Setting to

farmer reels his own cocoons, with the sheetings, and 18 candarions (about 24d.) because we know the extreme anticipated military expenses. In the statement of defence, defendant heavens in

work, these wise men read the sign in the By the way, it is said that, out of the assistance of every member of the family. per piece af drills.

conjunction with certain

What they proclaimed $3,000,000 remitted from Feking to relieve both cleanliness and uniformity are alike amount of cotton produced annually in making of every pound.

The process is of the most primitive kind; said plaintiff was not a partner in either geomantic sigus.

No estimats can be formed of the thought and care that go into the was startling; it was hard to believe, the Canton Government's financial the Po Cheong of Canton or the Wa Kee Yet the handwriting was absolutely clear straits, only $25,000 Las actually been at a discount. Silk piece-goods are woven China. In 1910 and 1911 the movement

to watchful selection of berries, the drawn by the local Government, and that on hand-looms by small weavers, who through was it not on the very skies? It was nothing less than this: the child would the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank has either buy raw silk from the fairs and 179,045,000lbs, and 132,130, 138lbs. respec. thorough doublo cleaning, the one day overturn the Throne and become received instructions to stop paying over sell the manufactured articles themselves tively, of which 50 per cent. in each case

blend and the exact Emperor. In a few days this nowe spread any of this remittance to the local or weave to order silk supplied them by was exported. Imports of raw cotton for perfect

These methods lead to an these years amounted to 27,465,33lbs, and roasting combine to give you so far that it reached the ears of Manchu authorities. officials, who

promptly ordered the

enormous variety of kinds of silk picco 5487,800 b. But naturally the figures parents to be arrested as disturbers of the

we believe, public peace. Warned in time the father wondrous babe, convinced that some day this miracle must come true.

management of the business in Canton and Hongkong. Defendant had never rendered an account of the partnership business, although he had been 'constantly pressed to do so.

of Hongkong, as he ceased to be a partner in both firms in or about the year 1902. Defendant said it was in consequence of the death of Ho Tsun Loan that a new agreement of partnership was drawn up on the 13th April, 1894, Accounts were

SOLDIERS RECALLED.

*

inerchants.

the

Customs amounted

SO MUCH

The

The severa regiments of soldiers that gonds each weaver tending to specialize bear re relation to China's total produc- such deliciousness as, were despatched to Chaochow, Koenowne or more kinds. His output istien. The requirements of the local mills taken and rendered in or about the year and mother speedily fled with their Weichow and Kingchow some months age bought by collectors on behalf of the silk for 1912 were put at 690,000 bales for no other Coffee has ever attained.'

brokers and is classified for market 400lbs.). The average yield per acre is purposes.

reckoned at 4001b. of seed cotton, or 176-46lbs. of clean cotton

1002. when plaintiff retired from the partnership, and all accounts due the plaintiff were paid to him, or to others on his behalf at his request, and there was nothing now due to him, Defendant also said that plaintiff's claim was barred by the Statute of Limitutions.

1885, when, the business having grown considerably, he winde Chern partners. He kept four shares of the business, and gave each of his four brothers one share. The

are being recalled to Canton.

CHINESE TOURISTS.

During the month of June, 44 applica- tions for travelling passports to America, Canada and Australia were received and granted by the Commissioner for Foreign

Asia as old as the story of creation and Well, this kind of story is very old in the story of the Floud, both of which have a strictly scientific basis. Whether in the present. instance it is precisely true or not is unimportant. The important Affairs. point is that it is accepted as true, and that after Yuan Shih-kai--and perhaps even before hin-luang Hsing is the strongest man in the China of to-day.

THE MAGISTRACY.

THEFT OF AN OPIUM PIPE.

a

A Chinese received sentence of a month hard-labour yeaterdos for stealing an opium pipe in Wanchai.

UNLAWFUL TOSSESSION OF AMMUNIT ON.

Before Mr. Melbourut, a Chinese was fined $100, ur six weeks' hard labour, for being in unlawful possession of 300 rounds of ammunition.

SERTUES CHARGE AGAINST A MESS ROY.

LACK OF STATISTICH.

of

Canton office was apparently the headuction-Sun Yat-sen the dreamer. Toge Faithfull

types. Huang Hsing was the man of shipping Company, and Mr. R. C. domestic consumption about as much sil

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The nature of the Chinese silk industry The first colton mill in Chitin was prevents the compilation of any exhaus-Chinese-owned and was erected in 1891.. tive statistics, even as is not the case The right to foreign ownership was at any Government statistical bureau had first challenged, but the China-Japanese attempted to gather the information. Treaty of 1505 conceded to Japanese the Mr. Jenkia read the pleadings.

Under the Republic, however, the estab-right to engage in manufacturing indus- Mr. Slade, in opening, informed the

lishment of such a bureau is provided for tries and an impetus was at once given or contemplated and may in due course to foreign-owned cotton mills, Between Cours that the partnership was originally

And true to the predictions of the sooth-

be established. The returns Chinese Maritime Customs show the foreign, were erected. The latest avail the 1880 and 1898 11 mills, Chinese and between five brothers, and was in the

sayers he became a revolutionary from family now. In the year 1878 the second the start. Hardly had he finished his

movement of silk products from the able statistics give 1 nulls, with 83,12 brother, Ho Tsan Lam, came to Hong education that he returned to Hunan as

various Customs districts. In the case of spindles and 3,338 looms, representing a school-teacher, bubbling over with.

After kong and started a theatrical business in

pice: goods in 1911 the quantity passed capital of about £3,000,000. radical ideas, Finding his scholers all

through the various Customs districts xperiencing many lean years three mills which he was remarkably successful.. A too ready to imbibe his teaching, he began

amounted to 9,068,400lbs., valued at entered in 1913 on a period of marked year or two later, his success continuing, preaching to them the immortal protests.

£3,700,000. The exports to foreign coun: prosperity. Instead of having to bid he invited his four brothers to join him:tions of Jean Jacques to the best of his

tries were 2,244,933lbs., valued at ability. An- insurrection inevitably

against one another for such of the local They assisted him in various capacities followed, and consequently more than a

£2,320,000, of which 1,790,400lbs. went to cotton as is not exported to Japan, they in the management of the enterprise until | decade ago luar his life in Japan, hoy employed on the Empress of China would. Uus left in the country part to the high exchange, which militated Hlaing was already a Before Mr. C. D. Melbourne, a mess Hongkong for redistribution There had a ready supply to hand, owing in marked man hiding Here a new epoch dawned for him-he was charged with exporting 200 tias of 1,413,400lbs. II to this amount be addid

against export. met Sun Yat-sen. These two men, thrown opin, valued at about $3,000. Mr. the products that are not accounted for together by pure chance, inedintely R. F. C. Master (of Messrs. Johnson, in the Customs returns, it will be found

The main source of profit is from gara, recognized in each other complementary Stokes & Master) appeared for the that the estimate that China produces for

the manufacture of cloth being a defended, Mr. Faithfull as she exports is probably near the murk, negligible quantity. In yarn the Chien office, and all the accounts from the Hong ther the two founded the Tung-Meng-hui applied for a remand, and Mr. Master

ille have now bigun to challenge buth kong office were sent there and the For Sworn Brotherhood, pledged to free said that in that case he would

Indian and Japanese imports, their general accounts were kept there. Up to China from the Manchus and restore a ask his Worship to take the evidenon of. It is possible that the industry is reach-output being about 50 per cent of the purely Chinese régime. Years of quiet the Chief Officer, as the ship was sailing ing a critical stage. Apart from the combined imports of those two countries. the year 1893 accounts were regularly work followed. After the Russo-Japanese is upe, and would not be back for two deterioration of Chinese silk, due to the But with important additions being made

neglect of scientific methods of culture, kept, and a balance sheet of the business war these Disciples of Freedom thought and a half months. This suggestion was there is on the one band the persistent to several mill, it is evident that greater

the thus ripe and acted abortively-but agreed to, and the Chief Officer depored it is actually said that the revolutionary that the opium was not mentioned on the and ever-increasing competition of Japan, proclamations which were drawn from before his death he called all his brothers secret chests at Hankow and flung broad-ship notice which he received, but he where the Government is making mat werp which the people or their handloomas OF FINEST QUALITY AND HIGH PRECISION, and sisters round his death bed, and cast over the country so rapidly after the could not swear it was not on the manifest efforts to foster and improve sericulture in with a handspun weft of Chinese outbreak of 10th October were all printed as he would not see the manifest until On the other hand, the establishment of

cotton. While machinery has partially directed that the defendant should take in Tokyo at the time of the Treaty of it was closed, which would be a few the Republic has led to a change of dress replaced the spinning-wheel, it has made charge of the business in Canton; that Portsmouth.

The adoption of foreign clothes in the appreciable impression on the hand- They had been ready for minutes before the ship sailed. Mr.

Master undertook that the manifest should place of the national costume implies alcem in China. It is true that the falling the plaintiff should take charge of the six long years.

When the fighting commenced, as an b: produced ut next hearing. Mr. Faith change from silk to wool. It may be to off in 1911 in the imports of Indian and property in the country, and that the

arrow speeds from the how so did Huangfull asked for ail, and Inspetor Kerr early to gauge the effect on the silk trede

Jupancy yarn was compensated by a fifth brother should take charge in Hong-Hsing rush to his native Human and com- said he would ask for $4,000, Mr. Faith with any accuracy, as each year sees the sharp rise in 1912, but it is probable that kong. He also said that the assets of the ence the organization of the Hunanese full said that sin was prohibitive. His industry liable to be affected in one way the actuations will not be found to Company amounted to atont 8300,000). army-all the while stiffening Li Yuan Worship observed that the case looked to or another by a temporary set of circum interfere with the steady progress in THE PRICE OF THE His Lordship would notice that the eldest hang by surrounding him, with his own be serious. He could not take less than stances. Thus in 1911 the general depres China's yaru industry.

lieutenants pledged to the policy of $4,000. The case was remanded until sin emanating from America was bound

WATCH brother was left out of the directions, winning or dying.

to be reflected in the Chineự trade, apart

IS FIXED Time was against Tuesday, bat, as a matter of fact, at the time he Huang Hsing, however. Most of his men was suffering from ill-health.

AT THE FACTORY. In 1834 were only recruits of two months' servico when Hankow having been

was produced, every year. In that year the founder of the business died,

Just

th

On

the defendant, as being in charge of the wrested from Li Yuan Hung's corps

the attack Canton branch, should have produced the by the Imperialists,

the neighbouring stronghold of annual balance sheet, but, having what Hanyang was commenced. The situation appears to be a constitutional objection to was so desperate that Huang Hsing producing an intelligible account, be did launched Forlorn Hope across the not do so, and had not done so to date, bridge of boats uniting the rebel strong

hold to Hankow-a forlorn hope com- The one thing, apparently, which the posed of the flower of Hunan-2,000 defendant would not do was to produce young men who were all blotted out, it is said being shrapnelled or drowned. an account if he could avoid doing so.

Subjected to a terrific bombardment and. The hearing was adjourned.

outnumbered by the trained Northern troons, Huang Hsing and the remainder of his men were rapidly thrust out of Hanyang, and for days Wuchang and the embryo Republic trembled in the balance. Sering that all was lost here, Huang Hsing rushed down the Yangtze and then

A privato in the R.G.A., named Green, way Lard 69 or seven days" for behaving in a 'sorderly manner at Wanchai, and

$5 or 11 days for assaulting an Indian down the coast to Cantor to bring un

constabie,

every trained Cantonese soldier he could to Nanking, already captured partly by

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WOOL.

China exports sheep's wool, mainly to the United States. There are 11 cleaning and packing factories. Woollen goods are manufactured on a small scale in five factories. In 1867 woollens amounted to 10 per cent. of all importa; to-day they reless than 1 per cent. With the change. in enstune that has marked the adoption of a Republican form of Government there will be an increased demand for. cloth. The market associated with China's millions, however, will respónd but slowly to the change of fashion st in Peking and the treaty ports.

Fibres, hemp, jate, and ramie appear first as an export in 1879 with 1,394,133lbg. The movement through the Custom In 1910 and 1911 was 57 and 54 million lbs. respectively, of which 38 and 33 million lbs, were exported, the greater part geing fo Japan. There is one grass-cloth fuctory in Wuchang, but the bulk of the

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