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INTIMATIONS

A. S. WATSON

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, AUGUST 5TH, 1913.

A Washington telegram in the Manila papers says that Resident Commissioners having accepted the designation of Oscai Manuel Quezon and Manuel Earnshaw Terry Crosby as governor general of these islands, his appointment is now deemed to be almost unquestioned."

as a legal prastice? The Persinest him- The English mail of the 5th July was self has admitted that the most pressing delivered in London on 2nd August. problem before the country is that, of the education of women, but it must occived from the Manila Observatory Yesterday morning a telegram was re- confessed that the Ministry of Education reporting a typhicon South-West of the CHEMIST MY APPOINTMENT. TO HE. THE does not appear to share this view, for, Ronin Islands, moving N. E. or ENE

GOVERNOR.

boyond a passing reference to co-education, the recent Central Educational Conferones}" seems to have given no attention to the subject. The Ministry would no doubt urgo that its new scheme is to be univeral and to apply to girls and boys alike, but, even if that was the intention when the scheme wes drafted, it is safe to assume, in viow of the recent history of medoni education in China, that local educational authorities will get ou the assumption that, unless the contrary is expressly stated, the word "child" includes those of the male sex baly There is, it must be admitted, very much to

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TELEGRAMS. TELEGRAMS.

TUROUGH REUTEN'S

THE BALKANS.

PROGRESS TOWARDS A

SETTLEMENT.

LONDON, August, th The Bulgarian counter-proposals to those of the Allieà, in regard to the new frontier suggest that the boundary start near Djamathala and terminate at the

Egrips lauke, Kratore, Kochang. Ishtis, Gall of Orfang, including within Bulgaria

Doiran, Serres, Drama, Demirhear, and Kavilla. The Bulgarians refuse to pay an indemnity ur enter into an under- daking regarding the Aegean Islands,

-Diplomatists regard these terme as the

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REBEL LEADERS EXPELLED FROM PEKING.

PERING, August 4th. The Knomingtang have complied with the Presidential Mandate and have expelled the Rebel leaders,

[TAROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)

MOSLEM AGITATION IN INDIA..

SERIOUS ELOTS AT CAWNFORE.

CALCUTTA, August 4th,

A must meeting of Molens has been

'TSINGTAU, THE BRIGHTON OF CHINA.

[BY A VISITOR FROM HONGKONG.)

steamship companies gaido books as the Tsingtau is described in some of the

Brighton of China," but probably the writer of the guide book was a German : whose knowledge of English watering otherwise he would have found a more apt places was not gained at first hand, comparison. Without doubt, Tsingtau is the health resort of China. Its location is more pictareaque than that of the English watering place, and its natural charms are far in excess of those to be found at Brighton. In Hongkong and South China Tsingtan is little more than a name, associated mainly with Germany's colonial policy in China or with the boor which is one of its greatest products, so perhaps the impression of a visitor from Hongkong me have some interest for the general readé!

inadequate if they were to be established Island Cement Co., Ltd, that they have maximum, and are of opinion they win f held, and violent articles appear in the Far East. Manila has a certain old-

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purchased the steamer Conxucio, 1,917 tous register, formerly owned by Ms, E. S. Daniels, of Manila, and have applied for permission to change her namo to Chirigehow." We understand that the steamer has been purchased for the can- veyance of lime stone supplies from Indo- | China or elsewhere.

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the fact that the need of education for the women and girls of Chinu is officially recognized, and that it is realized that even they are intellectual beings and hot mere donostic animals of the human species. In proportion to the need, lamentably little ha been done, and for even that little the

The return match in this competition Chinese themselves can scarcely claim the

was played between Taikoo and Kowloon crelit, which rightly belongs to the English, resulted in a win for Taikos by 18 points, "at Quarry Bay Saturday and American and other missionaries who inve One of the features of the game was the been the pioneers and kave done such scoring of Ferguson's team against notable work in this fold, None the less, Russell's. In th the 13th and 14th heads even this little constitutes an inuicuss they scored 7 points, taking the game advance from the traditional attitude. Up from 11-10 in favour of Russell to 14-11 PULVOSMIDROSIS to a few years ago, the last word on the in favour of Ferguson. Teams: ----

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BIRTHS.

JONCKBEER. At 28, The Peak, on 4th August, the wife of J. JosCHEER, of MEYER. On the 29th July, at Shanghai,

Mrs. V. MEYEE, of a daughter. HONGKONG OFFICE: 10, DES Vaux Rosp. LONDON OFFICE: 131, FLEET STREET, E.C.

The Daily Press.

Longong, Acaust Sra, 1913.

We remember seing some time ago a cartoon illustrative of the new hopes sup

to disagree with such a statement as Rearing the silkworm and weaving cloth

Dinnin

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Hall Alexander Cooper

Frast Taylor Crawford

le probably modified. They expect that page will be signed on the basis that the points upon which an agreement has been renched stall be reserved for the decision of the Powers.

Tsingtau is unlike any other city in the Moslem Press, denouncing the Cawnpore world European appearance which is authorities for demolishing a portion of receiving modern touch at the hands of

the Americans. a Alosque, with a view to a street improve pretty picture from the water, but the Hongkong presents “a ment The offeinl defence, that the impossible to look upon it as suggesting close proximity of Chinatown ninkes it demolished part wes not sacred, is a European city. Shanghai has more the described as untrue.

appearance of a bustling English city, A similar agitation prevails elsewhere obtrusive us to remind the visitor, that he but its Chinese characteristics are so

4 telegram from Vienna says that the Bulgarian counter-proposals are con-in India and Burma, and on Sunday is in the Oricat Not en Taingtau sidered as ridiculous as those of the Allies, afternoon

Looked at from the sea, it delights the Moslems, carrying

eye with its pleasant situation, beautiful and exorbitant, but it is expected that paraded the streets of Calcutta demanding white walled houses with red roofs show-

flags,

modifications in the Greek and Servian justice. demands will encourage, the hope for a

A later telegram states that there has tion of the Powers. successful settlement without the interven been serious rioting at Cawnpore. A mob

Bukharest Conference are considered as lished portion of the Mosque, and the The Serrian and Greek demands at the endeavoured to reconstruct the demo

altogether inacceptable. The majority of police intervened, but they were stoned the Powers are in favour of Bulgaria and pursued to the Station. The crowd obtaining Kavalla, together with suffi declined to disperse, and the police were forced to make a charge, 33 rioters being killed and 30 injured, and one policeman was killed and 40 injured. Many arrests were made.

cient hinterland,

LATER.

A message from Bukharest says that the Bulgarian and Roumanian delegates have finally agreed in regard to the frontier

ing against a background of green. It is a piece of Germany which has been has boon improved in the process. transplanted from the Fatherland, and

which indicates the Telefunken wireless

As the steamer entors the extensive inlet which is known as the Bay of Kinocha and makes for one of the anchorages, the visitor has ample opportunity of impress- ing the features of the settlement upon his mind. The signal station on the hil with the high standard erected close by station (perhaps the most powerful in the buildings, the German-Chinese Univer Far East), the imposing Government sity, the museuur, and the barracks are one to the other the beauty of design and pointed out, and as the eye travels from stability of construction, so characteristi- The Lieutenant-Governor has gone to landing and making use of the comfortable

cally German, become more apparent. "On-

are the most important of the employments Drummond of a female; preparing and serving the Perrie food of the household, and setting in order Ferguson (Skip) 29 Russell (Skip) ts and other Houmanian claims. Bulgaria Cawnpore.

Bateman

the ancestral sacrifices, follow nest in order, Dickie

Hamilton

Whibley MacDonald Lambert, W.O.

undertakes to vase the fortifications at Rustchuk and Shumla. The Bulgarians

and ench of these duties must be attended Scott (8kip); 29 Milroy (Skip) 17 and the Servians and Greeks have up to

to Study and learning can fill up the time after these.". It is no small step from this to the PRESIDENT's recognition of the urgent importance of femala education, or to the request made by Chinese officials to a missionary body to establish a school for girls, the officials themselves guamnteeing all the expenses. Recognition of the need, and one or two isolated requeste for assist. ance, do not, however,

far Curry

need,

CHINESE FEATHER TRADE.

the present been unable to agres to the frontier. Therefore Roumania will pro- poss the extension of the armistice for three days.

[BOMIDASTIC DECLARATION. OF WAIL

THE BRITISH NAVAL MANŒUVRES.

ADMIRALTY DETERMINED TO ACQUIRE WATERPLANES QUICKLY.

LONDON, August 4th The Dury Mait says that the result of

MORE TROUBLE FOR VENEZUELA, the Manoeuvres is an increased determina tion on the part of the Admiralty to acquire waterplanes Og

speedily as possible, the possession of large numbers being regarded as of urgent necessity. The Treasury has a ready supply of ample funds.

New York, August 4th.

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The United States Consul at Hongkong reports that the export trade in feathers from China, which has grown to materia proportions in recent years, was inter fered with somewhat during 1912 by high exchange. The total exports of chicken and duck feathers from all China runs A telegram from Caracas states that from $850,000 to $875,000 in value yearly. Hongkong handles about half of those ex-President Castro has issued a fourth of the whole, and Belgium and exports. Germany takes directly fully aclamation at Coro, in which he declares Great Britain also are good customers war against the lazy and ferocious Exports to the United States have President Gómez, who bears on his generally be made through Hongkong, forehead the eternal marks of the traitor. China's direct shipments usually not exceeding $10,000 to $12,000 annually, Heroic Venezuela calls me to vindicate. The feather business in Hongkong has her rights. A slave to honour and duty, come to be E somewhat important material quantities from all the coast industry. Feathers are collected in I accept."

ports of Ching, though chiefly from the which supply a third of the total exports Pearl River delta and West River points, of feathers from all China. There are education was almost that of a elenued the gouds, and the industry is upon a several establishments in Hongkong for. sorting, straming, cleaning and biling

WASHINGTON, August 4th. slate, and the outlook was certainly one to well-established basis with considerable

The proposed United States Protectorata discourage any but the most zealous. Da stocks on hand at times. In the local of Nicaragua, suggested by Mr Bryan, Lestablishments the feathers are gathered

towards the meeting of that Evou in male education China has still very much leeway to make up, but a comparison between what has been accom plished or attempted in this field with similar efforts in respect of female education would indicate that the latter brauch of the development, of the Republic has not aroused nearly as much enthusiasm as tho former, The reason is plain the education of the rising generation of manhood has | always occupied a prominent place in Chinese affairs, and there was some basis on which to work, but the state of female

the other hand, the general statu, of women in Chins might have served as an additional incentive, for all the evils to which we have alluded can be eradicated only by a general elevation of the sex, such as would follow

"NICARAGUA'S FUTURE.

·PROPOSED AMERICAN PROTECTORATE

ABANDONED.

PIT FIRE NEAR GLASGOW.

TWENTY-THREE MEN ENTOMIED.

LONDON, August 4th..

near Two

A fire is raging in Cadder Pit, Glasgow, and 23 men are entombed.

atteripts at rescue have failed.

SUFFRAGETTES' GROS8 SACRILEGE.

ricshas or horse carriages, it is seen how scientifically the city has been laid out.. Certainly, the Germans have little to learn in the way of town planning, and Tsingtau stands as a moaurent to their genius and to their diligence. The streets are wide, well made, and beautified by tries planted on the edge of the broad footway. The houses, standing as a rule in their own grounds, are all built in accordance with German architectural ideals, and it is safe to say that no two houses are similar in design. Not single Chinese ercetion mars the beauty of the city, but wealthy Chinese, mainly refugees from the first revolution, occupy houses of German design

THE CHINESE QUARTER.

The Chinese quarter outside the city is reputable structures which do duty in & revelation. None of the dirty, dis- other cities on the coast for Chinese residences are to ho seen. An improved type of building has been adopted by the German authoritics, tasreby increasing the standard of comfort enjoyed by the Chinese and at the same time keeping their settlement as near as is possible in China to the ideal of the city beautiful." God made the country, but man made the town," is an oft-quoted maxim which, however, does not imply any indictment. so far as Tsingtau is concerned. It is indeed & charming city.pk

TSINGTAU'S ATTRACTIONS.

But Tsingtau is not only one of the most beautiful cities in China: it is one of the most healthy. Its moderate climate, its health-giving breezes, and its perfect. hygienic eonditions, make it a resort which has only to be better known to A party of forty Suffragettes interficent bathing beach, with scares of bath- become increasingly popular. Its magni-

PARODY OF THE LITANY IN ST. PAUL'S,

LONDON, August 4th..

posed to be dawning for China with the inevitably from general education. Again is only one grade of chicken feathers now to transmit a new Nicaraguan Treaty, Emmeline Pankhurst! Spare her! Spare and for golf, provide most things that.

feathers are graded into four classes, Nos. exported from Hongkong, but duck mited strictly to the proposed purchase to 4, and come as a rule, from Canton, of the Canal route and the Naval points in Kwangsi, respectively. Gouse Nam-hing, Pak-kai, and from various Concession.

her ""

BAGGAGE ON CHANNEL

STEAMERS.

from the interior in rough balcs. They will probably be abandoned as the result arrive in more or less unclean condition of the action of the Foreign Relations rupted a service at St. Paul's Cathedraling boxes of different sizes and designs, sound and dried by the Committee of the Senate, which has on Sunday by singing a parody of the its lovely walks on excellent roads through and are sorted and graded and then then pressed by hydraulic power into bales instructed the Chairman to ask Mr. Bryan Litany, beginning with the words "Save drives by horse carriage or motor car, its forests, its opportunities for enjoyable of 14 pients (2001h) net for export. There

facilities for shooting, for lawn tennis, revolution. At the foot of a plinth or the obstacles to the education of women are

are needed to appeal to those in search of. pedestal were grouped figures emblematic in the main of the same sort as confronted

a now holiday ground. of the struggle--wounded and dying soldiers China in her boys' schools, the chief being

Moreover, the evenings are rendered very agreeable by -while above stood, side by side, a the Inok of qualified instructors. This is feathers come in two grales,white"

the almost nightly selections played on representative of Young China and a being gradually overcome in the one case that the market for feathers depends to a

THE HOLIDAY AT HOME.

the public ground by the beat hand in the and gray. It is interesting to note

Mr. Hamung, president of the British East, a military band, of course. Chinese woman with an infant clutching at and will become less and less as years advance large extent upon the rice crop. When

Chamber of Commerce in Paris, has had

The administration of the settlement is HOLIDAY RESORTS OVERCROWDED. her skirts. The woman stood, with uplifted and the educated men of China form a larger there is an abundance of rice the farmers

au interview with M. Branet, Director excellent. Perfect control is discernible Loxnos, August 4th,

General of Customs, with regard to the in even the smallest matters. haud and eyes raised to heaven, and, with a proportion of the population; and it would be in the producing contres can afford to

In the possibility of Customs &xamination of regulation of the street traffic, it tho diguity of pose worthy of a Roman matron, also in the other case, if only the problem were

keep large flocks of chickens and ducks The continued fine weather has resulted Dover to Calais, in order to save time for everything that pertains to good order hand luggage on steamers crossing from conduct of the public services and in welcoming the advent of the new en tackled with real determination. Nothing export incress accordingly. The feather

and the quantity of feathers available for in a phenomenal number of arrivals, at passengers. M. Branet promised and government there is an attention to Beautiful as was the conception set forth could be more inefficient than were fand October-November when the slaughtering instances have been obliged to find secom.

stason in Hongkong commences in seaside resorts, and

thoroughly to examine the whole subject-detail which is most impressive. This by the artist, his cartoon really portrayed still are) some of the new boys' schools of ducks for canning and drying purposes

police in many and to send inspectors of the Calais ser- aspect, was described by a visitor in one vice to Dover to cffect a trial examination, of those exaggerated statements which one of the defects common to and inherent but they must improve in the natural order für Chinese use begins, and generally the modation for the visitors, nambers of decision in the matter. in the Chinese and other Oriental races, of things, for even from such poor instru-The trade has been comparatively whom slept on the sands.

after which he would take a definite suggest a truth. He remarked, "If you lowest prices of the year obtain at that

The matter throw your oigarette end on the ground and foreshadowed the impossibility of the ments there will be developed a generation dull for some time owing to the high

of the time-saving has been raised in a man comes along and sweeps it up." articles in and letters to newspapers, in speedy birth of a

In closing, a few words may be per which it is suggested that the time taken mitted to indicate the great transforina- new Chinseith a that have some modicum of education the gold price at which feathers can be Twenty drowning fatalities are reported, might be reduced to five hours and a half years ago Tsingtan was a dilapidated

The list of accidents is growing hourly. civilization worthy of a modern State. A unpossessed by their parents. If the same probably han lled in the United States the victims including five girls a> Sligo

axelange value of silver, which bas caused

in travelling between London and Parition which has taken place here. Fifteen moment's thought was sufficient to make were to be done in respect of fomalenud Europe to represent to low an

fishing village, but it has now grown into apparent the gulf between the Chinese education-if schools of any sort were sot quivalent in silvoc in Chine to make A motor-bus overtarned at Hoddesdon,

abandsome city, with a flourishing woman of the cartoon and her of real life, up everywhere--the immediate fruit might experienced in the past few weeks, how Herts, and three teanfeasters

trade possible. With the fall of exchange

RACE BOUND THE WORLD. mercantile community and a considerable and all the elevation of life and sentient scanty, but there would grow up a ever, the movement of the product is killed and 26 injured.

number of manufacturing establishments, FARE BY AKROPLANE I PER MILE

gixing promise of good profits and farther implied in the attitude in which she was generation of women to whom the iden of increasing. The supply of feathers avail

development. The attention given by the shown by the artist served only to make education would be familiar, and who would almost solely upon prices. Any materi

able in China is very larg, depending

According to a wireless message relocal administration to the commercial, OBITUARY the contrast with the real woman of China be less and less tolerant of inefficiency increase in price at any time-- Jowering

ceived from the Cunard liner Mauretania, agricultural, and mining development of last month, John Henry Mears of New Shantung has largely brought about this all the more painful. It is a truise that therein. We do not advocate the establish. of exchange bas the effect of increasing

LONDON, August 4th, York, who is attempting a record-break happy condition of affairs, and it is. the degree of civilization of a country wayment of inefficient schools as such, but even

prices in silver to the Chinese producer

The death is announced of the Hon. Sir coming on to London from Fishguard by British shipping companies enjoy a large, ing non-stop journey round the world, is gratifying to the Britisher to know that be judged of by the six of its women, they would be better than nothing and importer is followed by immediate

and of lessening the cost to the America William John Lyne, KCMG, at the aeroplane. An enterprising aeroplane if not the larger, share of the carrying. and our this basis what are we to say of a would nourish the seed that would, niter increase in production or of collection age of 60.

company, so the message states, has trade to and from the port. As we know country whero female education is in so many years, coure to full fruition. But Prices reported at present in tius market,

undertaken to provide the machine at the from the annual discussions in the f.om the interior at exporting points. backward a state where girl slavery is alus! it is to be feared that in this as in so

The late Keight occupied any positions rate of 1 per mile. Mears hopes to net c.i.f. New York, are as follows, in in Australian political life. He was Premier complete the globe circling trip on August Reichstag, Tringtau in not, like Hongkong. case in Shanghai, concabiuage and the constitute, for the present, an insuperable 14 cents, No. 4, 15.7 cents; goose-No. 1. 2901-1 and 1905-7, and has been Treasurer 10wered to leave Paris of July 9th and future may be safely left to take care of rampant, and where, as shown in n recent many other matters, lack of funds mar gold, us: 1. --Chicken, 7.0 cents; duck for two years from. 1899, Minister for Trade night on that date he will have travelled the German authorities have shown in the and Colonial Treasurer of New South Wales th. If he reaches New York before mid- a paying basis, but the confidence which

purchase of secondary wives is recognised obstacle.

and Custons, Commonwealth of Australia, lowered the record by nearly five days, the growing trade of the port, and its 20,000 miles in thirty-five days, and future of the place is already justilled by

of the Commonwealth since 1907.]

No. 1, 10,7 cents; No. 2, 15.7 cents; No. 2,

21.3 cents and No. 2, 19.8 cents.

were

Moscow on July 11th.

itself.