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limited number of firms or individuals, but to the lasting discredit of the commercial honour of Europe We are all i with Mr. HARVEY's plea for moderation and his protest against unreasonable claims

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the property of foreigners received daring the revolutionary struggle, and whatever may have been the case in connection with the Boxer rising, a definite State-aided anti foreign movement, punitive damages are not justified in the present instance-but none the legs we find it difficult to follow his argument. We find difficulty in identify- ing the "exceptional opportunities which China has freely given to foreigners in her midst during the last two years," the “ doors opened to travellers and residents, and the "trust" for which foreigners are making so ungracious a return, while the "unusual privileges"

enjoyed by foreigners in China can mean nothing beyond extraterritoriality, for the existence of which Chins certainly cannot claim the credit. So long as Mr. HARVEY protests against remote direct claims and exaggerated direct claims-some of these latter inevitably recall Don PAOrvice's famous curtains--he is on safe

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ground, though in practice it may be found difficult to draw a hard and fast line betwem Our Celebrated E very old "direct" and "indirect" For instance, one

of the rules laid down by the Interdepart Liqueur Scotch Whisky is

blend of the best Potmental Committee appointed by the Chinese Government to deal with claims directs Distilled Scotch Whiskies. that compensation for damage to property It is of great, age, very fine, is to be confined to that done by actual and mellow. Its superior military operations, and is to exclude

sona who have already been compensated by quality has established its re- the insurance companies. The latter proviso putation for over 30 years as is unexceptionable as it stands, but when THE LEADING SCOTCH the insurance company puts in its claim, will that be "direct" or indirect" It can WHISKY IN THE EAST.

scarcely be argued that because the loss has been transferred from one foreign firm to another, the Chinese Government is entitled to get off scot free. Cases of mortgaged property, too, might furnish some interest. ing problems as to where the line between direct and indirect claims is to be drawn.

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DEATH. HUMPHREYS At Brighton, on 25th March, JESSIE HUMPHREYS, widow of JD. HUMPRESYS, aged 67 yeSTS W

Mr. Ho Tung returned from the North on Saturday by the 8. Liangchow.

A notification in the Gazette mentions

THE HOME RULE CRISIS.

that St. Stephen's College, 8h Paul MR. College, and St. Stephen's Girls College, aro exempted from the provisions of the

Education Ordinance 1813.

The Gazette notifies that His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint Mr. J. H. Kemp to act as Attorney General during the absence on leave of the Honourable Mr. J. A. S, Bockpill, KC, with effect from the 28th March.

ASQUITH OPENS HIS ELECTION

CAMPAIGN.

GREAT UNIONIST DEMONSTRATION IN HYDE PARK,

THROUGH REUTER'6 AGENCY.]

TRIUMPHAL PROGRESB.

LONDON, April 4th.

The current issue of the Gazelle con tains a copy of the following dispatch Over 200 Liberal Members of Parlia from the Secretary of State With rement asembled at King's Cross Station, ference to Mr. Lyttelton's circular

and numerous addresses were presented despatch of the 9th of January, 1901, have the honour to inform you that the expressing the wish that he might be provisions of the German Law authoris returned with redoubled authority to r ing the grant of most-favoured nation maintain the traditions of the Army, the treatment to the British Empire, which authority of the Crown, and the power have from time to time been projonegd

of the people beyond 316 December, 1905, have now, by a Law dated 13th December, 1913, and notification of the Imperial Chancellor Progress, and there are enthusiastic scenes dated 19th Decembar, 1913, been extended at the various stopping places en route until 31st December, 1915.

Mr. Asquith is having a triumphal

to his constituency,

TRIBUTE TO THE ARMY.

TELEGRAMS.

THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]:

The right hon. gentleman continued:- "We believe that a settlement by consent is in the interests of the country and of Those both the great political parties. who believe in Home Rule do not desire to see a new system started under most. unfavourable conditions, amidst clouds of darkness and civil turmoil On the other hand, those to whom Home Rule is repugnant cannot face with equanimity the problems which the government of Ireland would present if by any mix adventure the hopes and expectations of four-fifths of the Irish people were to be dashed to the ground." (Cheers.)

Mr. Asquith recapitulated his tempor-

ary

exclusion plan, and while admitting its disadvantages said it had the grent:

immediato

merit at least that it got rid of any. question of coercion, and it gave the populations concerned the arbitrament of the ballot. “I am anxious for peace," he affirmed, "kat, and I say

Without going into the incidents connected with that change, be declared there had been genuine misunderstandings and bonest mistakes, but in his deliberate opinion there had been nothing in any stage or in any quarter which throw the least doubt upon the integrity or honour of those immediately or directly con- cerned. (Cheers.) None had better reason than he to know the zeal and devo- tion to duty and the sense of respon sibility pervading the Military, as well as the Naval, forces. The very fact that the Army rested upon a voluntary and Mr. Paul R. Josselyn, American Vice At Newcastle Station, Mr. Asquith, in Dot a mercenary basis was the best safe and Depaty Consul General in Tientsin, the course of a few remarks, said: We guard for

the maintenance of the has been transferred to a similar position are living in searching times, when splendid and untarnished traditions of at the American Consulate General a fundamental principles are being called its redoubtable past. (Cheers.) *** I nus right hon Canton, says a Tientsin paper. His place in Tientain will bo filled by Mr. Horace into question. The fortunes of great causes certain," went on the Remillard, from the American Consulate are at stake, but given steadiness and gentleman "they can be counted on, from of a Home Rule Bill on the Statute book. General at Baukow. During his eighteen unity among the Progressive forces, we the highest to the lowest, without excep- months work in Tientsin Mr. Joselyn hall consolidate and complete our great tion, to undertake the duties which they

to fill an onerous upon has been called and important post and it is safe to say that in the discharge of his many duties he has earned the esteem not only of the American community but of the whole of the Consular Body in Tientein A deep student of Chinese life and character Mr. Joselyn's relations with Chinese officials have always been of the most cordial description and in no other quarter will his loss be more keenly felt than at the Foreign Bureau of Chilli province

CANTON ROWING CLUB REGATTA, The following are the results of the open events in this annual fixture-

Cameron Challenge Cup, for A.R.C. fours-1, Canton R.C.; 2, Royal Hong kong Y.C. Won by the narrowest of margins after a desperate struggle.

Time, Smain, sees.

work.

this for both sides, it must be peace with honour.

(Cheers.) In any settlement that is come to we must secure the placing

We hope and think that that is not incom- patible with careful provision to meet the

may be required to discharge. The Army convictions and susceptibilities of the Replying to addresses at Berwick, Mr. in this country is not, I pray, to become minority. I firmly believe that in time. Asquith said he was sure that if the a political instrument. It has no place and after experience, there will be a con- Liberals were sympathetic to certain and no voice in framing our policy or vergence of forces in the direction of (Loud cheers.) complete Irish unity." susceptibilities and at the same time in moulding our own lawa. (Cheers.) It

They must see, he continued, that same process applied, with is true that the doctrine of Army Administration, was laid down by the elder William Pitt, but it is no worse for necessary variations, and without andue delay to other parts of the United having been laid down 170 years ago.

Kingdota in the conviction that

determined to pursue & just and liberal policy, they would see a satisfactory solution to the difficulties.

Speaking at Edinburgh the right hon gentleman said that if his opponents thought that he either hoped or feared

that their intentions would affect him, it was high time they disabused themselves In a speech at. Kirkcaldy, Mr Asquith said he was glad to be again in Fife, which had never been represented by a Tory and would not be now.

Mr. Asquith did not speak at Cupar,

Continuing, Mr. Asquith said it was

The

his duty in the post which he had such reconstruction of Constitutional assumed, by searching personal enquiry Organisation would lead to greater and with the co-operation upon which he efficiency in the conduct of both local and could count, to see that the Army was fit Imperial interests

quickened in the ever-shifting conditions for its patriotism of every part would stimulate primery and elementary duty The Army the larger patriotism of the whole. would hear nothing of politics from him,

and he expected, in return, to hear

nothing of politics from the Army,

strictly direct. The rule stated by Fir Open fours-1, Canton R.C. 2, from whence he motored to Kilmarnon (Cheers).

Victoria RC. (Hongkong).

Interport Senior pairs Canton R.C.

Castle

SEMI ASQUITH'S SPEECH AT

LADYBANK

THE NEED FOR UNITY.

The right hon. gentleman dealt briefly with other subjects of political importance Welsh Disestablishment, Plurg! Voting, and Land Rating problems-and said. there remained one very sexuus“ point. The responsibility for the preservation Ho emphasised that if they studied the

A COMPLETE GRAMMAR O

OF ANARCHT":

uf domestic peace lay with the Magis bye-elections of the last two years they trates and Police. Under normal condi

A ful report will appear in our nest Favoured with fine weather, Mr. issue.

Asquith opened his campaign in East Fife hons the Army's aid could not be, and would find that, perhaps with one excep on Saturday at Ladybank and there were ought not to be, invoked by the civil

be, inve

notable scenes of enthusiasm.

tion the loss of a seat to a Liberal had been due to split in the forces of

ERNEST BATOw with reference to the Boxer indemnities was that Damages are to be assessed with a view to putting Govern ments, Companies, Societies, or private individuals into the me position as they would have been if the anti-foreign move- ment of 1000 had not taken place." Obviously this could not be done without

A meeting in the village assembly room were happily rare that any such call could Progress. Upon the great issue of Home including all losses, direct and indirect, and in so far as indirect claims are excindad reports of the tiger which had been opened the formal business, including the be addressed to the Army, and when such prowling around the residential district adoption of the Premier as the Liberal of The Peak, we had come to assume that the animal had disappeared from the island as mysteriously as he came.

TWO TIGERS ON THE ISLAND. As for a week there have been no

candidate

Mr. Asquith, his wife, and daughter were given a rousing reception.

Sir James Scott, presiding, welcomed Mr. Asquith asthe greatest Parliament arian they had known." (Cheers.)

power. It was only in emergencies which

Rule the bye-elections pronounced with an

in the present instance, foreiguera will,

an occasion arose it was the duty of the overwhelming majority in favour of the It was indeed a soldiec, as well as it was the duty of the Government policy. apparently, be in an impaired position as the result of the Revolution and have a grievance

civilian, to comply with the demands of melancholy thing for those whose hearts the civil power. These present Tory were bound up in the future prospects of accordingly, but provided that in the pay-

Stripes, however, is still with us.. Two

doctrines struck at the very root, not only wise democratic legislation to find the ment of direct losses the interpretation of

tigers, in fact, were seen in the neighbour- the term is not unreasonably restricted, we hood of Aberdeen on Saturday afternoon.

of Army discipline, but of democratic democratic army split asunder in the government (Cheers) Where did they face of the common emmy, and it was do not think this grievance will be a very Commander and Mrs. Basil Taylor, with serious one, for the simple reason that MP. 8. Dizon, were walking along the Mr. Asquith returned thank for his lead to? They set a precedent which was time that such a state of affairs came to China is not England, and business is done, forestry:

try path above the Aberdeen adoption as candidate, and said it was capable of an infinite number of applica- an ond (Cheers) It would surely be prices fixed, and terms a arranged in the reservoir, when Mrs. Taylor's chair coolice,

a novel experience for him to be contest- tions much more disastrous in its childish in the great issues before them, BoNazona Orvice: 101, Drà Vœux RoSD former country on lines conformable to the who were following about forty yards inga bye-election. They lived in strange conséquences than the one which went which could only be brought to succesa

behind, suddenly caught sight of two large tigers ahead of them on the hillside abreast of Commander and Mrs. Taylor, Greatly scared, the coolies raised warning shouts, but before Commander Taylor was alle te seertain the cause of their terror the tigers had disappeared into the thick

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scrub.

This is the first time that two tigera

If they were to by unity and loyal co-operation, if they before it. (Cheers.) recognise the existence of a dispensing should allow comparatively trivial and discriminating power they must differences upon issues not vital to divide

hues, and in no respect were they more the way in which strange than in credulity dogged the heels of invention, and invention strove, but strove in vain, to keep pace with credulity. In the in the men, and not only in the Army, course of the past fortright they had had but in every body of public servants a ridiculoas legend circulated that the

Two years ago in this hall he described

less settled political nad social conditions prevailing there. To return to Mr. HARVEY's view of the position of the claims in inter- quotes OPPENHEIM to the national law: ha effect that The responsibility of States does not involve the duty to repair the lesses which foreign subjects have sustamed Tus essentials of the indemnity-or com- through the acts of insurgents or rioters. pensation, as we should prefer to style it~ Individuals who enter foreign territory must question have by now been discussed from many points of view, but an article by Mr. T. EDMUND HARVEY, M.P., in the last number of the Contemporary Review sug geate one or two remarks. The exorbitant elaims of certain Powers unquestionably go far to justify his tifle International obtendea itsalf; moreover, China is bound allow in colour, with long tails, The Secretary of State for War for the pur

Extortion in China," but in spite of this caption, he treats the question on the whole with strict moderation, and though he cites authorities on international law to show that foreigners residing in China have no

take the risk of the outbreak of insurrections

recognise it not only in the officers but

the force which, united, was irresistible.

(Cheers.)

Mr. Asquith concluded by saying that

have been reported, but the description Government had selected the moment at the doctriness of the Tories as furnishing he placed himself unreservedly in their a complete grammey of anarchy. (Cheers.) hands as their candidate for the minth time. He did not know whether they or riots just as the risk of outbreak given of them tallies with that given by which they were making proposals for

others who saw the tiger which has been the settlement of the Home Bule difficulty 16 repeated now that these new dogmas, of other calatuities. It is, however dif. cult to apply the ordinary rulings of intere subject of previous reports. The to engineer a plot to provoke Ulster. He re

be invoked whenever a spirit of lawless should re-appear amongst them. During national law to matters concerning China, colis described both tigers as large one From the same quarters it had bee counter signed by the Tory loader, would would have a coulest. If they had, he

a little maller than the other--uniformly suggested thust be took his new office of

ness claimed to block the ordered his absence, however, he would be able for the principle of extraterritoriality at once

machinery of self-governing Society, to count on the co-operation of many

valued colleagues, Loud cheering:) (Cheers)

UNIONIST DEMONSTRATION IN HYDE PARK

by Treaty to afford the fullest protection to the persons and property of British subjects, so that, in spite of any provisions of international law to the contrary, China

length of their bodies they estimated at

x or seven feet,

It may be recalled that the tiger which has been the subject of previous reports was tries seen in this neighbourhood, and

is responsible to a greater or less extent the forestry path itself has been marked

pose of escaping for a fortnight the formidable ordent of Crossing swords with the Opposition. They declared also

HOME RULE BY CONSENT. Turning to Home Rule. Mr. Asquith that instead of stealing away to fight insaid the Bill, under the Parliament Act,

the twilight in disguise and by a devious which was not intended to be a dead

A great Uniomst demonstration wee held in Hyde Park on Saturday afternoon

Jegál claim for compensation of any sort for all such losses sustained through by many footprints of the tiger or tigers route, he went by an ordinary route, in letter was, far advanced on its road to to protest against the coercion of Ulster

for damage sustained at the hands of insur. acts of insurgents or rioters," It is sportsmen who are desirous of covering

not press this unnecessary to elalorate this point, but it themselves with glory and at the sam gents or rioters, he does not point, confining himself to argument based would be a bad day for all concerned if tms ridding the island of undesirable on sentiment: The Powers whose repre- Chins persuaded herself that she was denizens may be advised therefore to seek

under no liability to make separation to their prey in this particular district.. sentatives are now pressing claims upon her are surely making a poor return for the foreigners for losses occasioned by Chinese exceptional opportunities which Chion has violence, and that it would be an act of freely given to foreigners in her midst grace on her part if the did so. during the last two years. After the long

centuries of severs restriction her doon The German mail of the 3rd March-wne have been opened as mover before to travel delivered in London on the 3rd April.......... lers and residents, who also enjoy unusual

an ordinary way, and was met by expres the Statute-book. There was neither force Twerty two imposing processions were sons of welcome and hopes of good luck, nor plauility in the theory that the present, representing seventy-six col- That was what they called a electors were left in the dark regarding stituencies of Greater London, and there (Cheers.)

Finally, the Government's intention to take up were fourteen platforms. provocative act(Laughter)

The processions were headed by bands, in the co Bly of errors, the Unionists in Home Rule His supposed, silence on that THE BLAKE SHIELD

topic was a favourite theme of the Leader and Union Jacks and banners were East Fife were awaiting his sporen to The Blake Shield was fired for yesterday ses if they would oppose him Mean of the Opposition (Mr. Bonar Lav) He carried. It was raining and wind also

the Hongkong Volunteer Corps while anxious and panic-stricken, they quoted from his speech at St. Andrew's prevailet. Fifteen teama enterod and ten rounds

were to be kept on the tenterhooks of (East Fife) on the 7th December, 1910 in The Stock Exchange procession was a were fired, out of which, cigat were to count. The howitzer section cams first suspense. Was there ever greater politi which he dealt exclusively with Home unique feature, with 68, and the ten pounder section cal topsy-turvydom (Laughter.) He Rule That and other speeches on the The speakers included Sir Edward.

were

n short-sighted policy which answers this southern Visayas or northern blindanao with 65% The latter dropped inconveniences of an election because he the passage of the Bill under the Parlia-Milner Lord Selborne, Mr F privileges as regards the Chinese law. TNA cyclone or typhoon east of the cond after promising to be the was submitting himself to the hazard end subject were complece justification of Carson, Mr. Austen Chamberlain Lord

trast by taking advantage of China's was reported on Saturday by the Manila difficulties :o nuke a momentary gain for a Observatory to be filling up.

vinners,

21 points at the 500 yarda range.

bad become Becretary of State for War, ment Act.

Smith, and Lord Charles Beresford