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INTIMATIONS

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 21st, 1913.

TELEGRAMS. TELEGRAMS. TELEGRAMS.

authority saya the crime is much more common in the South of China" thay in the North," where it often seems to be wholly unknown," though other

writer

have described it as quite a common practice in some northern provinces, notably Shansi. AFFAIRS IN

A. S. WATSON & DE. SMITH remarks that the number of

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UNITED STATES AND MEXICO,

SUPPOSED MEXICAN ULTIMATUM.

MEXICO CITY, August 20th. The Mexican Government has handed

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] ·

ULSTER AND HOME RULE.

PROPOŠED. GRAND MARCH PAST OF VOLUNTEER

FORCE

CANTON DAY BY DAY,

[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

CANTON, August 19th.

NEW PROCLAMATION 9.

A proclamation has been issued by Wong Sze Lang to the troops asking all those who have gone away to return to the service and they will be pardoned.

THROUGH RECTER'S AGENCY.]:

THE BALKANS,

VERY ENT - RECEPTION OF GREEK KING.

LONDON, August 90th. Unbounded enthusiasm was displayed at the King of Frecce's entry into Athens.

life of female infants in any region were carrying miniature Greek flags and United States and bas sent another letter march past of the whole of the later tions against the pirates. direct testimony to the destruction of the The streets were thronged with crowds

Blegitimate children can never be small, and there is everywhere the strongest motive to destroy all such, whatever the sex," "And, again, he observer, Even if

muel less than it is, it would be a moral

burial alive of a child of three in order to facilitate the support of its grandmother is held to be an act of filial devotion, could not possibly be free from the guilt of destroying the lives of un volcom female infants."

a letter to Mr. Lind demanding the recognition of the Government by the

certainty that a people anong whom there branches. The people broke out direct to Washington. This is regarded in izdo fervent cries of Long live Constan- New York, as an altimatum, as the tine the Great." Long Live Constan- United States are given till midnight to recognise the Mexican Government. It is tine, Slayer of Bulgarians,"

the understand that a refusal would mean The Royal procession went to Cathedral, where the Te Deum was sung, the severing of all relations between the and subsequently proceeded to the Palace, two countries. crowds running behind the cortege shout- ing for joy,

By Appointmest ro ILE. The Governor. | Dr. Auchun Baru is a recognised authority on most things Chinese, which is more than can be said of “J. C," the river of the article in the Journal of Tropical Medicine. Mr. DEC BALL in his "Things Chinese!! prefaces his article on Infanticide with a

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WATSON'S

HOPE FOR BULGARIA. Bulgaro has been informed that the

LONDON, August 20th.

In view of expected developments, it The soldiers are being sent off in hundreds

will act as guards and punitive expedi is understood that there will be a great to different parts of the delta, where they Kongo,

Younker force at the end of September, which is in the Sun Ning district and Colonel Wallaus, the Grand Master of the right in the middle of the delta, has been Orange Order, has already appealed to a happy hunting ground for these robbers, all members who are not yet enrolled in the and to this part quite a lot of soldiers

have been despatched.

Another pro- force to enrol immediately, and now Sir clamation much on the same lines as his Edward Carson has sent a letter to the previous ous has been issued by Unionist Clubs in Ulster urging all who Tạng Chai Kwong telling people that are eligible to join without, delay. He there will be no more trouble and that he says that even old men can guard their has the situation well in hand. homes and property, releasing all the young and active men for whatever work may be necessary.

ADMIRAL LI CHEUNG.

The nativo. Press make quite a lot of the fact that Admiral Li is coming back to Carton. He could not be said to have great popularity when he left at the time of the revolution and it is difficult to Ler for East Limerick, speaking at know how he will be received. He is to Limerick, said that he had

be commander under Lung of what might

HOME RULE BY JUNE.

Mr. Thomas Lundon, Nationalist mein-

The officials at Washington deny the receipt of the ultimatum. Mr. Brynn announced that he had only received the news of President Huerta's rejection of Powers will take encerted measures with the American suggestions for a peaceful a view to compelling Turkey to respect settlement of the Revolution. the Treaty of London.

President Wilson and the Ministers are plainly disappointed at the rejection.

Government has done all that a friendly Home tule, with the consent of the King. neighbour man. The only interest of the would be the law of the land by next United States now is to protect lives and | June. property, to claim indemnition for losses, and to withdraw American citizens.

ROUMANIA'S · PROMISES.

a message

Roumania has now ratified the Treaty The legislators take the view that the from Mr. Redmond to the effect that be called the Water Army, as opposed to

of Peace.

Romania has assured Bulgaria that the evnenation wil be complete by the 28th inst., and that she will indemnify the population for all losses sustained. She will also hand over the railways to-iny: (Thursday),

romark about authors who have egregiously simed in writing about a small portion of A safe and sætain vera for corns, warts China in which they have resided, and have judged of the whole of a vast empire by a small part of it, reversing the mathematical axiom that the whole contains its parts into "one small part contains the whole." That is the mistake which "J. C." evidently ha male. By those initials the author will be readily identified by many of our reader It is rather surprising that cuyone-specially

A later. Klegram from New York says. anyone whose experience of Chinese life

that there was a conference between Mr. was gained more than a decals ago, should write as though Chinese infants were just

Lind and President Huerta late on as carefully murtured us infants in any.

Tirsday night, and it is believed to have Western country. Mr. FEES. BALL wrote

resulted in an understanding and to on this subject; "The natality amongstles that the Turkish troops advanced render possible u continuance of the infants in China is awful With death statistics in Hongkong, if reliable, it is possible to form some idea of what it must be in China, where no statistics are available.

PRICKLY HEAT LOTION An insuitable and most effective mandy, Immediately allsys the irritation.

WATSON'S

A TURKISH DENIAL According to a message from Constan-

inple, the Grand Vizier emphatically

into Bulgaria proper, but admits that the negotiations.

HLE. THE GOVERNOR GOES HOME

LAVENDER TALCUM POWDER As instable Toilet and Nursery requisite, soothing to the most suitive skin and seful adjunct of our well. Out of 1,000 Chinese infants born in this the north of that city, have been occupied OVER A HUNDRED PERSONS KILLED IN MEXICO, Secretary,

known Lavomler Water.

Colony only 72 survived for a period of twelve mouths in 1900." This does not necessarily mean that this was entirely due to infanticide. It is very well known that injudicious feeding

A. S. WATSON & CO.. is very largely responsible for the enormous

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The Daily Press.

HONGKONG, Augusr 21st, 1913.

Wu learn from a littlo notice of the latest issue of the Journal of Tropical Medicine that it contains an article on children in China by a writer who refutes the accusa- tion that the Chinese are prone to destroy female children. We bare not seen the full text of the article, but the short notice of it in a review states that the writer's observations on this matter go far towards

infantile mortality in Chise, but there is also overwhelming testimony that in many parts of China infanticide is common onough. Dr. Duoczos, in a pamphlet on. "The Diseases of China." described infanti- cide as quite a common pret e in Shansi, *The teachers," he wrote, deny that female in nts are thus killed, but the common people readily admit that they destroy many of their girl babies. Thiore are comparatively few old women of the poorer classes who have not teen guilty of the crime. This writer says it has been cal- culated that of every thousand girls born in China sixteen are smothered at birth, to avoid the "calamity and disgrace" of having another girl in the house; while Mr. DYER BALL declares that from enquiries made in some villages in the Province of Fokion "it was ascertained that an average of 41 per cent. of the girls were thus murdered, as we call it, but aeither Chinese law nor opinion seem to consider it as sach" "J. C." is not such an authority upon life in China that his ipse dixit on such a subject will be accepted as the last word.

The daily plague sheet was blank yesterday,

Engineer Rear-Admiral Fielder, who is well remembered, in Hongkong, has retired.

ON LEAVE.

the land Army under Wong San Lang..

in command to Wong, and all are work- Lang's brother has been appointed next

ing in harmony.

STREETA BUSY AGAIN,

The streets of the city are beginning to take on their natural appearance and His Excellency the Governor left for they are no longer deserted in parts, Quite the usual number, of coolies are to Shanghai by the N.D.L. steamer Luction he found carrying about merchandise und last night, en route for England business seems to have got going again." Siberia.

His Excellency goes on four The pedestrians no longer have a scared months leave

look about them, and the slightest noise During his absctice the

no longer causes people to start and look Hou, Mr. Claude Severn will be the Off all round them. Goods are being taken

even some of the looted shops have cer Administering the Government, and off the foreign Coneessions again, and

re-apeurd. The "maskee spirit of the Chinaman is very evident at a time like this, and he takes all this late trouble ass a matter of course and looks upon it in the light of a dose of medicine which has to be taken but which is nothing out of the ordinary. There was a conspicu- ous absence of soldiers in thas streets and on the Bund this morning, and almost the only armed men to be seen Were the police.

right bank of the Maritza, as well as TERRIBLE DYNAMITE EXPLOSION: the Hon. Mr. A. M. Thomson Colonial Demotica and other strategie points to

This was solely to defend the railway, which follows the right bank of the

Maritza.

BULGARIAN GARRISON. OUSTED.

The Turks have occupied Kuchuk kakvak, in the Gumuljina district,

inflicting casualties on the small Bul- Kavian garrison.

THE PRESS AND RUSSIA'S ATTITUDE.

Pending representations by the Powers some speculation exists in the papers. concerning a posible anti-Turkish action by Russia, in which connection the with- drawal of two Russian warships from the Beaphorus for Sevastopol is quoted by

The Times us a significant hint that they my retur in a less peaceful fashion, while Constantinople and Asia Minor are. eft anguarded, with the whole Army in Thrace.

the

MEXICO CITY, August 20th.

A dynamite truck exploded in a street

in the suburbs of Tacubaya, uver hundred being killed, mostly women and children.

THE OLYMPIO FUND;

SUPREME COURT.

Wednesday, August 20th.

IN SUMMARY JURISDICTION,

BEFORE HIS HONOUR Mn. J. H. KEMP (PULSNE JUDGE),

CLAIM FOR RENT

A case was called on in, which B. 11.

LONDON, August 20th. The Duke of Westminster has given | Conerption is sting A. Foster to recover £1,000 to the Olympic Fund:

AUSTRIAN EMPEROR'S BIRTHDAY APPOINTMENT.

VIENNA, August 20th. The Emperor, on the occasion of his birthday, has appointed the Archduke

the entire armed forces of the country. Franz Ferdinand Inspector General of

SCOTCH PIONEER'S DEWISE IN

AUSTRALIA:

MELBOURNE, August 20th..

at

The Daily Mail remarks that the diffi enlly for Europe is that the questions of Robbie, a nonagenarian, who was sup A pioneer Scotsman, named William

the future of Constantinople and Asia) Miner and

posed to be indigent, has died Dardanelles may well be me again Aberdeen University.

control of the Ballarat. He bequeathed £30,000 to the His relatives, none of whom are in Austraia. will receive £650, and Ballarat Hospital £50.

AUSTRALIAN WARSHIPS AT CAPE TOWN,

W

raised.

CURIOUS BULGARIAN CHARGE. AGAINST THE GREEKS. carious situation has arisen, the Bulgarians accusing the Greeks of informing

Lie Turks

the date of their evacuation of places so that

CAPE TOWN, August 20th, The Australian warships Australin and

the sum of 858, being as to 938 due for rent of the top floor of No. 2, Morrison Hill Road, and as to balance being value of certain partitions belonging to the plaintiff an wrongfully removed by the defendant from the said premnites, -

THE LAST FLICKER, OF THE REBELLION.

The rebels are still giving treable at Nanking and Kiting. During the past few days the Northern troops have successfully engaged them at both places, The rebel leader made good his escape. from Nanking. A force of 3,000 district watchmen, organised by the merchants saved the city from being looted, Kating the rebels abandoned the city. Mr. Mason asked for plaintiff's costs of but in their fight encountered the the day.

Northern Army's commissariat waggon

Mr. P W. Goldring, who represented the defendant, said that by arrangement the case would go into Friday's list with his Lordship's permission, with leave for defendant to file a counter-claim.

Mr. Goldring thought costs should be and captured them, in the cruise, by reserved.

Mr. Mason-The" defendant has had

till now. plenty of time to file a counter-claim up

Mr. Goldring-Yo were discussing settlement up till midday yesterday.

His Lordship reserved the question of cost, and the case will be mentioned in

Friday's list

PIRATES NEAR THE BRITISH BORDER

THE BALWAY EMBEZZLEMENT

CHARGE,

DEENDANT ACQUITTED.

A

The case inwhich Loung Kera Tseng, n stationmasr in the employ of the Kowloon-Canon Railway, was charged with embezzleent and falsification of necounts, cofiuded before Mr. C. ). Melbourne atthe Magistracy yesterday after a four lays hearing.

The prin-.

· Expelled from Canton without money cipal questionnvolved was as to whether but with arnis and ammunition, the the stationmer was entitled to the pirates have taken to the country, and fears profit on excnge of subsidiary coins;

tained not only in inland towns in South

yesterday for being in unlawful possession Bulgarians adhere to their statement and week, has been arranged.

the Turks night inmediately re-occupy Sydney have arrived at Cape Town. A of an invasion by thers have been enter-whether hia apropriating any such profit A man was fued $995 at the Magistracy them The Greeks deny this, but the programme of festivities, extending over China, but along the British border amounted to & intent to defraud, and, if of five tuels of opium.

declare that the Greeks have always

A Chino who was on board the Jiexico

exonerating Chinese parents from such an Mure has been conveyed to the Hospital, and in unison with the Turks against

odique charge.

Heromarks that the suffering from injuries caused by another the Bulgarians.

man who is now in custody. "

mortality dee to the widely-reported wh

are informed that the Pagul Gymkhana announced to take place of the U.S.R. C. ground on Saturday next has been cancelled.

PASSENGER STEAMER SINKS

NEAR ALASKA.

OVER 30 PEOPLE DROWNED,

LONDON, August 20th.

A good many forged notes have made

A telegrain from Juneau (Alaska) says their appearance in Netherlands Indies that the steamer State of California of late, and they are thought to have been | while proeeding at full speed struck manufactured in the Straits Settlements." an uncharted rock in Cambier Bay and

It was understood at Singapore that sank in three minutes. Chan Kwing Ming, who arrived there on

destruction of female, children when these ..... We are "not wupfed" is a wholly negligible quantity, “No race of people berish children more than the Chinese. Their desire for, and foodness of, children is proverbial, and cruelty to childreu is unknown. That children are often found drowned in harbours and rivers is a fact, but when it is remembered that the bost population of China pobera some ten millious, 'accidents to children eau“

be readily understood. The boat populathe 11th inst. by the N.DL. str. Forth, tion actually live on the boats; they have was going to Rangoon en route to India no shore babitation, but the family has its and eventually to Mongolia being from goueration to generation on the boats. Finding a drowned child now and again, therefore, cannot be wondered at, and foreigners are apt all too often to ascribe what is an accident to design."

THE WRECK AT THE PARACELS:

There are hopes of salving the Matsura- maru, the steamer wrecked at the

It is remarkable how widely writers on Paracels. She has a cargo consisting this subject differ. As Dr. Aarura SurTH mainly of shipbuilding materials for the remarks in " Chinese Characteristics" it is Mitsu Bishi dockyard at Nagasaki. The the most difficult of subjects upon which to captain has suggested the dispatch of 250 secure exact information, just in proportion coolies to lighten the ship by jettisoning

some of the cargo. to the public sentiment against it. This

Tho passengers were asleep at the time, and 25 or more were drowned, and also of the crew. The cargo and mails were

also lost.

NEW FRENCH AMBASSADOR AT

TOKYO,

PARIS, August 20th.. M. Regnauit has been appointed Am bassador at Tokyo in succession to M. Gerard, who has retired.

BELGIUM AND CONGO RUBBER

DUTIES.

Brussels,” August 20th. According to trustworthy information, the Minister for the Colonies is about to an urgent decree for the almost complete exemption of Congo rubber from the export duties.

OBITUARY

Reports were made to the Hongkong, whom. Worship held that thero police that large bands were roving the was no evidge to convict on the first country between Sham (hun and Namtao, charge, and the second, after hearing and that it was feared they night cross the defendan the Magistrate acquitted the border and pillage border villages, him. Mr. Perry Smith sat on the It would appear also that the authorities bench with s Worship to advise hima

with regard the accounts. The defen at Canton were notified of their presence in the vicinity of Shim Chun, for a num Goldring (oflessre. Goldring & Rus.)

dant was presented by Mr. P. W.

ber of Chinese soldiers were despatched to Sham Chum to protect, that town,

When the news was received by the Hongkong Police Authorities arrange.. ments were made for the prompt despatch of a large body of police should this be

ever,

no

was

LANGKATS.

› Informaty from the North points to

considered necessary. All Tuesday night the fact thaters big lots, mostly Cash": the men slept with their arms, and shares have jangid hands, the purchaser

"no" dividerid : world be accoutrements alongside them, ready for knowing duty at moment's notice, and the Rail- declared also that the output is way Administration kept an engine in expected the less. They have bought readiness to convey them without delay the shares hold, and will not res to the frontier. Fortunately, how part with.

·eall. for help

It is then that Hangkong buyers way regoired, and mothers of the force not be able, take up their purchases for LONDON, August 20th.

returned to their usual duties yesterday September livery and that they will be The death is announced of General Sir morning instead of, as some of them compelled re-sell back to Shanghai and It, Martin (Andrew). Dillon, G.C.B, a anxiously expected, proceeding to the this help short sellets there. Crimean veteran, at the age of 87. NEW YORK, August 20th. [The deceased served in the Crimea, the A telegram from Costinook (Quebec) Intian Mutiny China in 1860, and saya that Harry Thaw has been arrested Abyssinic.]

The vessel was valued at $500,000. The Captain and 40 athers escaped in -rults.

THAW CAPTURED IN CANADA.

at the request of the United States. Sheriff.

The death has occurred of Mr. Graham C. Kerr, Governor of Port Sudan..

border to have a brush with the pirates.

In the present instance the alarm however, Engkong buyers can finance proved a false one, but while these law-themselve he short sellers in Shanghai, less and ruthless bands of cut-throats are of whom re&e many, to the extent of roaming the country, there is no telling

when they may cross the harder into 10,000 to 1000 shares, will be compelled British territory, It is satisfactory to to pay ansiderably enhanood prie to know that the police authorities are over agst their forward sales. awake to the danger.