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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 25D, 1914.

and of the ruin that faced Chinn as the Four lots of Crown land are advertised TELEGRAMS. TELEGRAMS. TELEGRAMS.

result of the change that she had made. Anyone who has studied the course of trade booms knows that it is seldom, if ever, possible to assign them to any single cause, and that often the causes from which they

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The English mail of the 3rd January was delivered in London on 30th January,

It is announced in our advertisement columns that the misincs at Canton

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luck" that some people enjoy, while in the case of China the phenomenon is also influ- enced by the fact that she is but a partially developed country; but, without going into these questions, it is fair to conclude that there is no sign of the change from the WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS. Empire tothe Republic having done commer

cial China any harm. These revenue figures naturally recall the desire of China to raise her tariff, eitlier by the periodical revision provided for by the British and United

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TOKYO, January 31st Mr. Pooley, who has been the repre

[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] TERRIBLE ATLANTIC SHIPPING DISASTER.

PASSENGER STEAMER SINKS IN TEN MINUTĖS;

Rear-Admiral Huguet, of the French sentative of Reuter's Agency in Tokyo, Parliament yesterday.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

SOUTH AFRICAN LABOUR PROBLEMS

LEGISLATION TO BE DEFERRED.

NORFOLK (Virginia), Jan. 3 st. CAPE TOWN, Jannery älst.

The passenger steamer Monroe, bound Lord Gladstone opened the Union

for New York, sank in ten minutes from In a speech

The effects oi a collision in the fog. was before the Procurater all day on reviewing the events of the past few Squadron, made an official landing on Saturday morning, at Black Pier. A Friday, for examination in reference to months, he said that Ministers deem it Twenty-three passengers and twenty-four guard of honour from the Indian regis connection with the Richter black-advisable to defer legislation dealing with of the crow perished. The stemmer ments was provided. His Excellency called upon the Governor, who later re- mailing case, and he was arrested. turned the call..

Amongst the passengers who left the

To-day there has been a domiciliary search of his residence and incriminating

labour problems until the present feeling subsides.

States Commercial Treaties to an effective Colony on Saturday by the Devant for documents from Germany are stated to drawing martial law and indemnifying

WHISKY.5 per cent. ad valorem, or to the 123 per

Hume was Colonel St. John, R.F., and his

family. During their residence in 11 mg kong they made a wide circle of friends, and many were present at the wharf to bid them farewell. Col. St. John took a very active interest in religious and philanthropic work in the Colony and ne will be greatly missed.

The well-known German firm of H. Diederichson & Co., with head office as Kiel, and branches at Hamburg, Shang- hal

Chinkiang, Hankow, Tsingtay Tsinanfu, Chefoo, Tientsin and Peking.

have been found.

Toro, February 1st Mr. Herrmann, the Manager of the Tokyo branch of Siemens-Schukert, has beer before the Conft.

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cent. that those Treaties sanction condition- ally on the abolition of likin. The Per Cass Par of 1 Dos, Bot. reasonableness of the former proposition is incontestable, but as all Powers are not A-THORNE'S BLEND

317.80 $1.50 similarly bound to accept periodical revision,

Two of the Company's B-WATSON'S GLENORCHY,

Choice Mellow Bland'... 18.23 1.55 the provision is a dead letter, and many

employes have been arrested. C-WATSON'S ABERLOUR-

classes of goods continue to pay less than

Mr. Pooley is being examined daily. GLENGIVET (Peat Whisks)

19.50 1.65 their proper contribution to the ravenge. THORNES OLD VAT, No. 4,

China's eagerness for this adjustment is

occupies a four-mat room in the ini.

Yesterday Mrs, Pooley, after seeing her as supplied to the House of

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husband in County returned home, killed E-WATSON'S VERY OLD

in no greater increase than 10 per cent. in the revenue collection it would at once give her an unimpeachable security for a can of has just opened a branch at Canton. Mr. her pet dog and with a razor attempted

Pfaff, who has been fourteen years with to cut her own throat

She was removed to hospital. some ten million pounds, even supposing Messrs. Carlowitz & Co., twelve years of with such security she could get no better which were in Canton and twn in Hong-wound is stated not to be serious, terms than those of the Quintuple Loan.kong, has been appointed to take charge [Et was to Mr. Pooley that. Mr. Shimada, All this, however, is in the realm of of Messrs. Diedericlisen & Co.'s interests in speculation; still more so is the question of Canton. Mrs. Pfaff who, instead of going all the results that would follow the home for the summer as she intended, goes abolition of likiz and the increase of the tariff to Canton with her husband, will be missed to 12 per cent, but China's finances yet in musical circles in the Colony, where her provide many hard facts for consideration. talent as a vocalist has on many occasions

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by a record collection and of forgetting

Tho

Nantucket, with which the Monroe collided, rescued 31 passengers and 55 of the crew-

Mr. Smuts gave notice of a Bill with

Survivors from the Monroe state that the Government for the recent acts, and the liner turned turtie, Some of the prohibiting the return of the deportes passengers and crew got on to the exposed (Loud Ministerial cheers and Labour cries bottom, but were washed off as the vessel of "Shame," the Opposition remaining nk. One man swam gripping his wife's

Mr. Cresswell and other Labour mem bars made repented attempts to raise a debute, but the Speaker stedfastly ruled them out of order.

silent,)

In view of Mr. Smuts. Bill, Lord Gladstone said that that Session would deal only with the most pressing legisla

tion.

VIEWS OF BRITISH POLITICIANS.

hair in his teeth till they were picked up. Tho wife died from exhaustion.

The crew behaved splendidly, and the women were the first to be placed in the

boats.

RUSSIAN RAILWAY LOAN.

PARIS, January 31st.. The Tempe correspondent at St. Peters- burg states that French Banks have signed an agreement with M. Kokovizuff,

Mr. F. E. Smith, K.C., M.P., speaking at Hull, said it was easy for the Home

Russian Minister of Finance, for the issue M.P., referred in the Diet the other day country to put difficulties in the way of

of the first portion of £24,000,000 of the when he inquired of the Government way they had not arrested Mr. Pooley, who was a Bill of Indemnity for admittedly illegal widely alleged to have been connected with acts in South Africa, but who would Russian Railway Loan, which the Richter affair, and Mr. Pooley's arrest is doubtless a sequel to this interrogation, replace Sir Louis Botha, whom the South arranged during M. Kokovtzoff's visit to as when Mr. Pooley's lawyers published in African people obviously supported į.

Paris the Press a letter charging Mr. Shimada with using the privilege of his position as a Mr. Percy Illingworth, the Chief THE LONDON BUILDING TRADE meniher of the Diet to vent his hatred of

the Naval Bill by making these insinuations, Government Whip, addressing a meeting

that only a very slight increase may be HONGKONG AMATEUR DRAMATIC Mr. Shimada replied by threatening to give at Clayton, said he wished to sound G

CLUB

THREE ONE-ACT PLAYS TO EE GIVEN.

It will be seen from our advertisement columns that our local Amateur Dramatic Club intends opening its present season with a number of one-act plays or episodes-to be presented at the Theatre Royal on Saturday, 21st February-the last day of the Races-and Thursday, 26th

February at 9.15 p..

suficient to make a record in this particu lar case the increase certainly is considerable, and follows on similar increases, but it does not justify more than a tempered optimism. The case with which record Sgures induce over-sanguine views is illustrated by a statement contained in a REVTEB's message: "The revenues ars A. S. WATSON & CO., sufficient to meet all charges on them, including the paying of the entire Bozer LIMITED,

indemnity for 19 13." The collection

Lastead of choosing the usual play of amounted to Tls. 43,960,000; under the

an evening's duration, it has been decided Peace Protocol of 1901 the total Indemnity to follow the lines of many of the leading charge (interest and amortization) for 1918 theatres at Home by presenting a number. is Tis. 42,299.300, leaving only some Tle of small plays that have recently been 1,700,000 to meet other charges. But the successful and become established fav Boxer Indemnity is not, of course, a first ourites. Besides allowing for consider charge on the Customs revenues; the able variety, these onc-act plays offer various aste-1900 loans the Russian loan greater opportunities and wider scope to of 1895, the Anglo-German loans of 1896 a larger number of actors than a long. and 1898, etc.--require nearly a half of play, in which, as a rule, only two or three the total Customs revenue for last year to characters predominate. meet their claims, so that there is still left, roughly, one-half of the Indemnity charge to be liquidated out of the revenues of the Native Customs and the Salt Gabelle. There is nothing new in these figures, but” we do not apologize for repeating them for they may serve as a needed corrective

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The Daily Press.

HONGKONG, FOBRUARY 2ND, 1914.

ONE of the miracles of present day China is the way in which her foreign trade, as reflected by the revenue returns of the Maritime Customs, has thriven in the most inauspicious circumstances; revolution, political disturbances, and rebellion, so far from upsetting the course of trade, seem to have acted as a healthy tonic, and the revenue figures, instead of declining, have gone ahead by leaps and bounds. The revolutionary struggle at the end of 1911 kept several ports inactive during the whole of the last quarter of the year, yet the total revenus figures for the year constituted a record. Last it should be said that this was due solely to the increased opium dutice, 1912, another year of chaos and uncertain

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Mr. the name of his foreign informant. Pooley, we understand. ceased to be Reuter's note of warning as regarde events in representative in Tokyo at the end of 191, South Africa Interference with indes the agency being given to a new Japanese Corporation, with which Mr. J. R. Kennedy former'y the representative of the Associated Press of the United States in Japan, is prominently associated: 1

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AMERICA:

RBAR-ADMİ BAL VREELANDS ON JAPANESE NAVAL EXPANSION.

WASHINGTON, January 31st. The evidence of Rear-Admiral Vreelands before the Naval Committee of the Honse of Representatives at Washington has again fauned the anti-Japanese agitation. Bear Admiral Vreelands is reported to have advocated the laying down of four

DISPUTE..

.WILN

LONDON, January 31st

The Building Trades Federation recon.. mends the withdrawal of labour from all

pendent Assemblies, upon which our jobs upon which the Master Builders' Empire is based, would bring down the Association is engaged. whole fabric in ruins. The action of the One hundred thousand fen are South African Government was the action involved. of a Sovereign Parliament. An attempt might be made to saddle the responsibility

on the Home Government, but it was entirely blameless.

AMERICAN ARBITRATION

TREATIES.

SENATE COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS RATIFICATION.

WASHINGTON, January 31st. Tho. Foreign Relations Committee of the Senate has passed a resolution recom rending the immediate ratification of the

ENTENTE CORDIALE.

PROBABLE VISIT OF THEIR MAJESTIES TO.

*FRANCE

LONDON, January 31st.

It is officially announced that, circum- mances permitting, King George and Queen Mary will visit President Poincaré in April next.

INVESTMENT BOOM.

LONDON, January 31st. The boom in investment securitie, con-

The plays to be presented; in the follow. capital ships instead of two, owing to Arbitration Treaties with Great Britain tinues, and new loan successes are becom

ihg order, are:--

The Ghost of Jerry Bundior,' by W.

W. Jacobs.

"Between the Soup and the Savoury,'

by Gertrude Jennings.

We also hear that all three plays are to

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have very distinctive settings and that the stage pictures promise to be quite up to the standard we have learned to expect of late from our local Amateurs. Moreover,

"The Open Door" by Alfred Sutro. The three plays are distinctly on tho light side, and we feel sure that this to any extravagant hopes based on the fact interesting experiment will be looked for. that the Customs yielded last year reward to with pleasurable anticipation, all than four millions more than in 1912. That the more so as it is to be a Race week the increase, us far as it goes, is encouragentertainment, for which a better pro ing we should be the last to dispute: still gramme could hardly have been chosen. more, so is the improvement in the Salt We understand that some of our best local Gabella receipts under the supervision of talent has been secured, and as the plays Sir RICHARD DANE; but important as have been in active rehearsal for some these two items of revenue are, they time it is safe to predict an enjoyablo are only, ao to speak, the fringe of performance. the fioness of the Republic, and it is only indirectly, as satisfying foreign bond. holders, that they are of benefit to her. Sir JoнN JORDAN pointed out at the annual dinner of the China Association last October, a Government which lives on foreign money has only a precarious existence at the best, and until the Provinces recognize their obligations to the Central Government we cannot hope, I fear, to see the strong and united China' which Sir EDWARD Geer has stated to be the aim of British policy." It is then not so much to the returns of the Maritime Customs as to her internal revenues that we must look for the real test of China's stability and prosperity, and our satisfaction at the record receipts qualified by this consideration,

the invaluable services of Messrs, Lane, Crawford & Co. have once again been secured for the entire furnishing.

The booking opens at Messrs. Moutrie's on Monday, February 9th, at 9 a.m.

THE IDOL'S EYE.

rumours of a heavy Japanese programme, and to have argued that once the naval construction of the United States is allowed to lng behind, the Japanese immigration "question is sure to become

acute.

He is also reported to have declared,

and Japan, and other nations, numbering ing every-day occurrences.

24. The ratification of the Treaty with OPERATION ON LORD ROSEBERY. Great Britain was withheld in June

LONDON, January 31st. Lord Roselry underwent serious operation on the 12th inst.

He is pro

because some of the Senators feared that confirmation would entail a submission of the Panama Canal Tolls question to gressing satisfactorily. arbitration. Similarly, the Californian

that Japan could take the Philippines Land question was considered by some whenever she liked.

THE RESIGNATION OF THE ALSACE LORRAINE GOVERNMENT.

BERLIN, January 31st. The Governor and other high officials of Alsace-Lorraine resigned, because they considered the acquittal of Colonel von Reuter and other officers by court-martial a reflection on the Civil Authority. The Emperor is considering his decision,

RUSSIAN DEFENCE BILL

ST. PETERSBURG, January 31st.

M. Kokovtzoff announced to the Duma Committee an impending Bill, assigning funds for the defence of the State. He- said that this will swallow up a consider The booking for Mr. Crosse's musicalable portion of the Treasury balances, stunt" iz flourishing exceedingly. So,.

FRANCE AND THE PUTILOFF we are glad to learn, is the “stunt"

INCIDENT. itself, which shows brighter and brighter promise at every rehearsal,

The prin

ties, boat this record by nearly four million from that one department in 1913 must be cipals have now been finally selected and

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are settling down to their parts well. The chorus has been augmented and at the

PARIS, February 1st. The Putiloff incident is considered closed, at least for the present, owing to full orchestral practices which now take the explanations of the Russian Govern- place the balance of the various voices ment in response to M. Delcassé's repre does full justice to the talented composer's sentations, indicating that no participa- remarkably "catchy "score. The stage- management is in the experienced hands tion in Krupps would be sanctioned. of Mr. John Robertson, a nainstaking

FATAL MINE EXPLOSION IN The Austrian cruiser Kaiserin Elisabeth | impresario, whose name alone is

GERMANY. end the French flagship Montealm and harbinger of success. Our readers will

The Rev. A. D. Stewart will speak at the meeting of the Hongkong Christian aion at St. Paul's College to-day at 5.30 p.m..

taels; while, in spite of the rebellion that raged on the Yangtze last year, 1018 has outstripped the 1912 figures by over four million taels, the total collection amounting, roughly, to Tls, 43,960,000, and if the successive amounts are converted into sterling, the increase since 1910 is all the more remarkable. We do not go so far as to interpret these figures us a token of the blessings that have come to China as the result of her change of Government, though we have no doubt that if, instead of pro-

It is notified in the Garrison Orders appearing as gressively increasing to an unprecedented that on relief of the 8th Rajputs and 126th hepe jade eye" which gives its title to in figure, there had been a progressive falling Baluchistan Infantry, the 20th and 20th the play. There are several surprises off since 1910, it would immediately have Punjabis will be stationed in Kowloon in store and it looks as though playgoers been fastened on as a proof of the lack of and the incoming regimente at the out- are going to get very good value for covered, and 17 injured persons hate been

their money next week. There ought to

rescued. confidence that the new régime commanded" stations.

be packed houses at every performance.

the gunboats Vigilante and Argus arrived be pleased to hear that Mr. Cromé is in the harbour on Saturday.

himself taking a not unimportant part, a Chinese domestic who to unravel the mystery of the

22 DEAD BODIES RECOVEREDA

DORTMUND (Westphalia), Jan. 31st. An explosion from fire damp occurred the Achenback Mine, Brambauer. Twenty-two dead bodies have been re

EX-PRESIDENT TAFT'S COMPLIMENT.

ADMINISTRATORS.

politicians as an argument against ration STATESMANSHIP OF BRITISH COLONIAL feation of the Treaty with Jepan, but the view of the Administration that that controversy is ended his satisfied the minds of the Committee.

BULGARIA AND GREECE.

RESUMPTION OF DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS .1MMINENT-

SOFIA, February 1st, The resumption of Græco Bulgarian diplomatic relations is imminent, At first only Charges d'Affaire will appointed.

ARMY OFFICER SHOT DEAD BY A SEPOY.

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DELHI, January 31st. Captain Butler, of the Guides, who had been lent to the South Waziristan Milivia, was shot dead on Thursday evening by a Sepoy while attending a Sepoys' dance!

Wana.. The murderer has been arrested:

OTTAWA, February 1st. Ex-President Taft, who is at present the guest of the Duke of Connaught, delivered an address at a luncheon at the Canadian Club, at which the Duke of Connaught, Mr. Borden, Sir Wilfrid Laurier, and Cabinet Ministers were present.

Mr. Taft said that there had been no higher statesmanship than that of the British Colonial Administrators since the beginning of Queen Victoria's reign. He hoped that the happiness of the Canadian people and her loyalty to the Motherland and Empire would keep pace with the wonderful expansion awaiting her.

SAN FRANCISCO EXHIBITION.

-BIG APPROPRIATION BY: FRANCE

PARIS, February 1st, The French Government has proposed NORTH-WEST DURHAM ELECTION. to the Chamber of Deputies a credit of £80,000 for participation of France in the San Francisco Exhibition,

· MINISTERIALISTS' RETAIN THE SEAT,

LONDON, February 1st. The result of the North-West Durham Parliamentary bye-election is as fol lows:

Williams (Liberal)

17,241 Ogden Hardwicke (Unionist) 6,684 Stuart (Labour)

5,025

OBITUARY

PARIE, January 31st. The death is recorded of M. Paul Deroulède.

[M. Deroulède had an adventurous and varied career. He was called to the Bar in 1870, and served against the Prusions in Liberal majority 1,577

the same year. In rescuing his brother, Andre, who was severely wounded, he was The battleery of the Labour party was taken prisoner at Sedan, but escaped soon anti-deportation of the South African Labour leaders.

The figures at the last election were L. Atherley-Jones, E.C. (L), 8,998:

•Liberal Ogden Hardwicke (U.), 4,827: majority, 4.11.

aftorwarde. He was the Founder and

President of the League of Patriots. In the: year 1900 he was banished for having tried to substitute the Republican Plebiscite for the Parliamentary Constitution, but received 9 pardon in 1905.]