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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 1914.

univeral massing of the rural populations in villages, which are really miniature cities, is regarded by the author of Chinese Characteristics, as another illustration of mutual suspicion. And so he goes on to show how this trait is amarked characteristic eren of domestic life. It is an extraordinary" characteristic as Hia EXCELLENOT said, but we fancy there must be many Chinese who would be inclined to disagree with the suggestion that mutual confidence among Chinese never exists. Certainly on the surface WINE& SPIRIT MERCHANTS. of things one might find something to confute such an ides in the realm of For politica as well as in commerce. example, would such a movement as the revolution of 1911 have been possible but for the existence of a very real and wide the leaders of the movement as well as

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WAS IT THE TIGERT TELEGRAMS.

HEAVY BULLOCK KILLED AND DEVOURED AT

SHEXO.

At about 8 o'clock on Monday morning,

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGISOT:]

MEXICO.

AMERICAN INTERVENTION

THREATENING.

THE TIME HAS PASSED FOR

TEMPORISING.!

a women having at Shek O, in the Shauki CRISIS REACHED IN wan district, put out two bullocks and a calf to graze on the hillside. Several hours later, at about mid day, one bullock and the calf returned in a frightened The woman went out to see condition. what had happened to the other bullock, and found it lying in Wong Chan Sac Gap, near Cape D'Aguilar, with wounds on the neck, both sides, and on the hind- It appeared to have been quarters. attacked and bitten by some wild animand. On the following day, she again visited the place, and found that the bullock had been removed a distance of about 50 yards, with the exception of a few bones. The

WASHINGTON, April 18th When the foot which has now been ordered to Tampico arrives, there will be eleven dreadnoughts, besides vessels of

TELEGRAMS. TELEGRAMS,

[THROUGH NEUTER'S AGENCY.]

JAPAN'S NEW CABINET.

PROMISES TO REMOVE, EVILA.

TOKYO, April 16th.

The Okuma Cabines are inviting the co-operation of the patriotic Press, and says that a new era of constitutionalism has begun. It also promises to remove the evils of bureaucracy.

["DER OSTASIATISCHER LLOYD"

SERVICE

CHINA SERVICE,

THE CHANGLI AFFAIR.

JAPAN EXPRESSES · REGLET AND PAYS

COMPENSATION.

PEKING, April 18th, The Changli affair (when Japankre soldiers attacked Chinese police, killing ROYAL VISIT TO FRANCE. and wounding several) was settled yester.

day, The

Mr. Japanese Minister, PREPARATIONS FOR THEIR MAJESTIES, SAFETY,

Yamada, in the name of the Japanese Paris, April 18th.

Government, expressed his regret and Elaborate preparations are being made handed over 226,000 to be distributed

spread spirit of mutual confidence among and had there been completely devoured, every branch of the Navy. The landing for the safety of Their Majestics King among the relatives of the Chinese police-

force will aggregato 16,000. The Beet

George and Queen Mary.

The whole of

among their supporters? Or, again, in the animal, which weighed 300 catties, was actually at Tampico is sufficient for & the railway from Calais to Paris will be

realm of commerce, how has it been pos- sible, without mutual confidence, for Chinese traders to develop their remarkable system

worth $40.

We learn that a dog betonging to the same owner has also disappeared,

Two British residents who have inspect of guilds; and-what is still more pertinented the remains of the bullock have no

to the question-bow is it that the merchants doubt that it is the work of the tiger.

THE PLAGUE.

A HEAVY WEEK,

mere demonstration.

The despatch of such an enormous force is interpreted as showing President Wilson's determination to intervene un. less Huerta complies.

Huerta

has

HUERTA'S RESOLVE TO UPHOLD MEXICAN SOVEREIGNTY. Meanwhile President sont a Note to the United States to The return for the week ended April the effect that he cannot see where the It shows a Federals have inflicted insult, and points 11th reached us yesterday. total of 199-70 cases occurring in the out that the salute would be an admission. City of Victoria and 69 in districts The United States was exercising an undue influence, and be added that Mexico is a free nation and that he (Huerta) will uphold the honour of the sovereignty at any cost,

have been able to gain so bigh & reputation for commercial integrity ? There is & solidity in the bearing of Chinese mer. chants," says Mr. T. R. JERRIGAN in China's Business Methods, "that impresses their superiority over other Asiatic mer- abants, and causes less hesitation and circumspection in dealing with them; and this characteristic is worthy of retour to other than the City of Victoria." All but their credit whom the system of the Chinese one (a Filipino) were Chiness cases. The Government, in practical administration, deaths during the week totalled 96. tends to cultivate suspicion and distrust.” The incidence of the plague was greatest But even though it be far too sweeping anat Yaumati, where 45 cases were reported, assertion to say that no man in China with 28 deaths. Tsim-tsa-tsui remains really implicitly trusts another, there free of plague and only one case was is abundant justification for regarding reported at Hunghom.

mutual distrust as a national characteristic. We all know how fatal this mutual suspicion has been to public progress in Cuina. Suspicion of the motives of the Government has delayed the reforms which China needs, and may it not be said that BRANDY.mutual distrust and suspicion have been

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larger factors than any other in wrecking the new-born Constitution? A republican form of government is manifestly impos sible while this lack of mutual confidence prevails. The authorities of public schools like St. Stephen's College do right to make the building up of character their chief aim, for mutual confidence is but a result of faith in the strict moral integrity of the individual. His EXCELLENCY's remark is manifestly trus that the Chinese would carry more weight abroad and would manage their affairs in their own country far better if they would cultivate the power of work. ing together with mutual trust and cou fidence. That spirit would be a tremendous asset to ('hina, and moulders of Chinese public opinion would be rendering the State A great service by sedulously preaching the necessity for cultivating this as a new national characteristio in place of one which is fatal to sound progress and development,

In the City of Victoria, which is divided into ten health districte the worst were districts No. (between Eastern and Western streets) with 20 cases and 17 deaths; ad No. 2 (from Garden Road to Wanchai) with 19 cases and 14 deaths.

THE "CHILDAR PROSECUTION.

CHARTERERS AND CAPTAIN VINED,

At the Marine Court yesterday, Com ander Basil Taylor gave his decision in the case in which the master of the 4.8. Childur, Capt. Neilssen, was charged with way carrying more passengers than. allowed by his clearance certificate, and the China Steam Navigation Co., the charterors, for knowingly consenting to the same.

the both

Huerta of the

It is learned that when Mr. O'Shaugh messy, the U. 6. Charge d'Affaires, apprised President proposed naval demonstration, Huerta argued that the episode of the arrest of the orderly was a subject for arbitration by The Hague tribunal,

guarded by the police and military at intervals of a quarter of a mile, and soldiers will be stationed at all bridges and crossings.

MILITIA FIRE A VOLLEY AT A RACE MEETING.

TO STOP GAMBLING.

men who were killed.

EUROPEAN SERVICE.

TRIPLE ALLIANCE AND THE EUROPEAN CONCERT.

BEELIN, April 15th. Commenting on the Conference of Premiers at Abbazia the Wiener Fremden blatt says that both Austria and Italy should be thankful that they have succeeded in pressing home their views in the European Concert, due in some measure to the fact that Germany had

NEW YORK, April 18th. It is reported from Tulsa, Oklahoma, that acting on orders issued by the Governor to prevent gambling on the race-course the State Militia fired a valley stood by them unwaveringly. overhead, as the horses were coming down the straight, thus breaking up the race.

The Adjutant-General says that if another race is run the soldiers will shoot down the horses.

FLIGHT FRON PETERSBURG TO PEKING.

PARIS, April 16th. The Ligue Nationale Aerienne has President arranged with the Russian Aero Club for Wilson emphatically replied, through a flight from St. Petersburg to Paking, Mr. O'Shaughnessy, that the time for probably early in June. delay and evasion had passed and that the United States would temporise no

longer-

OFFICIAL STATEMENT BY THE

U.S. GOVERNMENT. President Wilson summoned a number of Senators and Congressman and ex- plained the Mexico situation. He said that if Huerta did not comply the first step would be the seizure of Tampio and Vera Cruz,

THE GENERAL ELECTION

RUMOURS,

LONDON, April 16th. Mr. Asquith, in the House of Commons, announced that there was no truth in the rumours of a General Election in July,

MR. LLOYD GEORGE'S INDISPOSITION,

LONDON, April 16th. In the House of Commons, Mr. Asquith announced that as Mr. Lloyd George's voice is not very strong yet, the Budget would be taken the week after next,

AUSTRALIA AND HOME RULE

MELBOURNE, April 18th. Notices of motion bave been given in both the Federal Houses of Parliament in favour of Home Rule for Ireland.

The Magistrate said that

The Government has issued an official evidence clearly proved that defendants were guilty of the offence statement enumerating not only the charged against them, but in different arrest of the Marines, but also the arrest degrees. He considered the charterers of an orderly at Tampico when going for were primarily to blame for the breach

mails; the interception of the United of the law on the part of the ship, in so much that they instructed the master to States official despatches which had re- clear with only fifty passengers, and then peatedly occurred, and other offences preceded to sell 235 passage tickets for against the rights and dignities of the the voyage, without informing the master United States. It also stutes that the that they had done so. The master was

apparently been to blame in a lesser degree, in so much United States had General Lefevre, Commander-in-Chief that he took no steps to discover how singled out for manifestations of Mexican in Indo-China, has just been promoted to many passengers he ha" on board before will and contempt, and expresses the Bose RoNG OFFIOR: 101, Dee Vaux Help O. the command in Paris of all Colonial sailing, nor did he cause the increase in one that Mexico will see the propriety to Mexico, has been appointed Minister Larron Orrich; 191, FL Bar, E.C. troops. General Sueillon succeeds him in numbers to be reported on the re-opening of giving satisfactory evidence of its bo

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HONGSONG. APRIL 17′′a, 1914.

The assertion made by H.E. the Governor in a speech at St. Stephen's College on Wednesday that he could truthfully say that he did not know two Chinese who really trusted each other is startling, but general experience lends to such a statement a great deal of support. Nor is His ExcELLENCY alone in giving public utter ance to this defect in the national character Tu. Arthur SmITH in Chinese Charac: teristice has somo very interesting observa tions on the subject. While the Chinese" he says,!' are gifted with a capacity for com bination which at times seems to suggest the usion of chemical atoms, it is easy to ascertain by careful inquiry, at the proper sources and at the proper times, that the Chinese do not by any means trust one acother in the implicit way which the external phenomena might imply." Dr. SMITH gives two reasons why they do not trust one another: "First because they do not know one another, and second because they do." He points to the lofty walls which enclose all Chinese cities as

Indo-China.

The Colonial Secretary's Office informs us that information was received from Saigon yesterday that the Government of Indo-China has declared Hongkong a plague-infected port.

At the annual meeting of the Hongkơng Lawn Tennis League, Dr. Forsyth was elected President, Mr. A. O. Brawn Vice- President and Mr. W. Secretary and Treasurer.

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of the Harbour Office on the Monday morning, He (the Magistrate) did not consider that either of the defendants They would both be wilfully offended. convicted: Capt. Neilsson would be fined $10, and Yung Ling Kov, manager of the chartering company, $200.

ROYAL HONGKONG GOLF CLUB.

H. Viveash FANLING COMPETITION, APRIL 12TH AND 13TH,

Twalve Chinese cases of small-pox (10 fatal) were reportet in the Colony last weak, only one being in the City of Victoria On Wednesday a European sailor on the steamer Solveig was removed to the Government Civil Hospital suffer ing from small-pox.

The Empress of dein took away a very large number of passengers, the list in- cluding the names of Sir William and Lady Reas Davits, the Hon. Mr. A. M. Thomason, Mr. G. M. Young, Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Graham, Mr. 0. A. Tomes and Mr. A. H. Tomes General Kelly and his Staff Officer, Major MoHardy, and also Lieut. Col. Radclife were passengers to Shanghai,

The following superannuation allow manifestation a which attracts the strangers ances on retirement through ill-health are included in the latest Civil-Bervice

Les the first following supersion

attention to the chronic suspicion prevailing Estimates Mr. H. L. Higgs, Vice in China. The firm foundation on which Consul, Ningpo, after 18 years service, rest all the many walls in China is the £319 16. st., Mr. R. ủo B. M. Lagardı distrust which the Government entertains Consul General, Kobe, 32 years' service, of the people.' The lofty walls which £777-1's id., Mr. & H Mortimore, enclose all premises in China, as in other Consul General, Chengtu, 32 years ser- Oriental cities and towns, are quoted as vice, £663 159. 2d.; Mr. a. J. Sundias, another exemplification of the same traits Consul, Amoy, 26 years service, £822

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'A DIPLOMATIC APPOINTMENT. LONDON, April 18th.

Mexico

UNFOUNDED RUMOURS.

BERLIN, April 15th. There is no foundation for the rumours of meetings to take place at. Bukharest and Budapest between H.31. the Kaiser on his return and T.M. King Carol of Roumania and the Emperor Franz Josef. THE ORTHODOX RELIGION IN

ALBANIA.

BERLIN, April 15th. Russia has lately been emphasizing her interest in the protection of the Orthodox people in Albania

GREECE AND THE EPIRUS.

BEELIN, April 16th. The Greek Government is asking for a reduction in the demands made by the Epirotes.

BARON ♥, MUMM.

BERLIN, April 16th, The renewed reports of the early return of H.E. Baron v. Mumm; ex- Ambassador to Tokyo, to active employ- ment in the diplomatic service lack confirmation,

ALLEGED THEFT OF COPRA -FROM A P. & O. "LIGHTER."

At the Magistracy yesterday the master of a P. & O. lighter and six other bost- men were charged before Mr. J. R. Wood with the larceny of a number of bags of copra, valued at $700, from a P. & D lighter.

Sir: Lionel Carden, the British Minister

Mr. D. Lewis (of Messrs. Johnson, Stokes & Master) appeared for the P. & to Brazil, but returns

O. Company, and Mr. C. F. Mason defended the last three men. The Hon. temporarily, YORKSHIRE MINERS TO RETURN Mr. E. A Herett, C.M.G., the Superin

tendent of the Iscal office of the P. & O., TO WORK.

was present in Court.

LONDON, April 16th.

A ballot of the Yorkshire miners result in a vote of 27,269 to 11,993 in favoar

desire to repudiste and correct this conduct

THE U.S. FLEET ASSEMBLING. NORFOLK (VIRGINIA), April 16th. The battleships Arkansas, Vermont, New Hampshire and New Jersey and the despatch-boat Tankton sailed this morning at full speed for Tampico, and of returning to work. the cruiser Cleveland has been ordered to The proceed to Mazatle immediately. cruiser Chattanooga is expected to follow in a fortnight's time. The cruisers Mary- land and Cleveland and the transport Buffalo have been ordered to prepare for immediate departure.

The Navy Department says that a de- monstration off the Pacific coast, has been ordered

The torpedo flotilla of the Pacific Fleet is now at San Pedro and the California has been ordered to be in readiness

PHILADELPHIA, April 18th. The battleship Michigan has sailed for Mexico, SAN

ANTI-AMERICAN FEELING. Some anti-American demonstrations are reported from Vera Cruz and other points

EAST AFRICA LOAN BILL

LONDON, April 16th. The East African Loan Bill has passed. through the Committee stage.

ANTI-VACCINATION CONGRESS. LONDON, April 16th. The International Anti-Vaccination Congress has opened at Rome.

DISASTROUS CYCLONE IN

MOZAMBIQUE.

LISBON, April 18th. A cyclone has destroyed Port Amelie, Mozambique. Many natives, but no Europcons, perished. The Europeans are transferring to Ibo.

His Worship intimated that if the facts of the case warranted he would commit the defendante for trial at the Criminal Sessions,

The case was remanded.

DISASTROUS BANGKOK FIRE,

TWO LARGE RICE MILLS GUTTED.

As the result of a serious conflagration two large Bangkok rice mills have been destroyed, the properties being known as the Kim Cheng and Tek Lee. The mills caught fire in a mysterious manner, and owing to unforeseen difficulties the brigade were late in arriving. When the firemen did arrive the two buildings were a mass of fame, and all that remained to be done was to prevent the flames spread- ing to adjoining properties. The official figures of the losses estimates that of the Kim Cheng property at Tes 250,000, and of the Tek Lee property at Tes. 600.000. An adjoining building, the Low Bang Seng mill was damaged to the extent of Tos. 20,000 The Kim Cheng mill is ENGLISH PRESS OPINIONS.

stated to have been insured up to the value LONDON, April 19th.

of Tcs. 250,000. It was a very valuable: The English papers dwell on the gravity

property, and was built in 1882, of teak. of the Mexican situation, and speculate

The Malay Mail hears that Major At the time of the fire there were 300 on the nature of American action and the General Stephanson's successor to the coyans of paddy in the mill, and about. possibility of complications with other command of the Straits Settlements 340 bags of milled rice. The Tek Lee Mill Powers, While the idea of an advance garrison will be Major-General Reade, was twenty-two years old and contained. who has a distinguished record as Com when the Ere occurred, about a thousand on Mexico City is scouted, the papers are mandant of the Royal Military College at cofans of paddy worth about Tes. 80 a of the opinion that it will need all Presi Kingston, Canada, for four years. It is covan. The paddy, in addition to the dent Wilson's firmness and patience to rumoured that Capt. M. F. Day, of the property, was insured. One of the mills avoid attempting to impose peace on K.O.Y.L.I., will succeed Capt. D. Eliott was roinsured at the end of last mon da

on April 1st, Mexico by means of armed intervention Cooper as Adjutant of the M.S.V.R. early and another, it is stated, was re-insured

next year.

THE DERBY BETTING.

LONDON, April 16th. The Derby betting is 5 to 2 against The Tetrarch and 7 to 1 against Kennymore.