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ONSIGNEES of Cargo are hereby informed that all Goods are being landed at their risk into the hazardous and/or extra hamardous Blodowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd, whence and/or from the wharves delivery may be obtained.

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All broken, chafed and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will he

examined on the 13th inst., at 11 A..

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GIBB, LIVINGSTON & "Co., Agoute, Hongkong, 6th May, 1914.

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THE P.&O. 5. N. Co's Steamer

"INDIA,"

Arrived Hongkong on 6th May, 1914, FROM BOMBAY, COLOMBO AND STRAITS. Consignsos of Cargo by the above-named vessel are hereby informed that their goods are being landed and placed at THRIB 21 in the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company's Godowns at Kowloon, where osob Consignment will be sorted out Mark by Mark and delivery can be obtained as the Good are landed.

svessel brings on Cargo From London, &o., ex 8.5. “Maloja." From Persian Gulf, ex 8.6. B. I. 8. N.

and B. & P. S. N. Co.'s Steamara. Optional Goods will be landed here unless instructions are given to the contrary within 6 hours,

This

Goods not cleared within 8 days including date of arrival will be subject to rent.

No Fire Insurance will be effected by me In any case whatever.

Damaged packages must be left in the Go downs for examination by the Consignes, and the Company's Burveyors, Measra. GODDARD and Dorotas, st 10A.M. on MorDANS and THOESDAYS. All claims must be presented within ten days of the steamer's arrival bere after which dato they cannot be recognised No claims will be admitted after the goodi Lare left the Godowns..

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AKI MARU, Japanese str., 4,000, I, Koma, 10th May Shanghai 7th May, Gen oral-Nippon Yusen Kaisha ANDEER RICKMERS, German str., 2,073, IL Tommermann, 10th May-Tsingtan 8th May, General Order. ANNA, Norwegian str., 1,017, A. Arntsen,

7th May Saigon 30th April, Rise-to-day Chinese Z BELLEROPHON, British str., 5,744, J. A. Bebb, 9th May-Seattle 15th April, General.-Butterfield & Swird. BULLMOUTH, British str., 2,007, Hill, Srd May Shanghai 30th April, Ballast Asistio Petroleum Co. CHINGCROW, British str., 1,195, J. Doyle, 10th May Kwang Yen 7th May, Stone.Shewan, Tomes & Co. Curves, Chinese str., 1,177, Ross, 8th MayShanghai 6th May, General Chinese.

Cairo. MARU, Japanese str., 7,250, W. W.

Greene, 9th May-San Francisco 11th EMPRESS OF ROSSIA, British str., 8,789, W. April, General Toyo Kisen Kaisha.

Davison, 5th May-Vancouver 16th April, General. Canadian Pacific. Railway Co.

GEMINI, British str., 1,368, E. Jones, oth MayBangkok 1st May, Rice,

& Critish st

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sent critical position of affairs in Great Amongst the many dangers of the pre Britain not the least is that which arises from the concentration of publio interest upon the Home Rule crisis. The insistent menace of civil war naturally diverts from many Imperial problems of Greater Britain, and from urgent questions of would otherwise receive. It requires no foreign policy, the attention which they gift of clairvoyance to foresee that in many regions of the globe more than one earth-hungry Power will proceed swiftly to develop the opportunities which will be theirs in the event of civil war Rebellions," in which he traced, from the occurring in the United Kingdom. Not

Another significant feature of the only in Europe, but in all the Seven Seas, social conditions of the country, the present situation which the conscience of jealous eyes are watching, eager hands endemic origin of the bandit" rebels," Christian nations would do well to can are making ready to take advantage of political charecter and threatened the the foreign garrisons in and near Poking whose operations have so often assumed a sider lica in the fact that the presence of Great Britain's embarrassments. And in no part of the world is this fact more stability of the State. The Taiping and tends to reasure the metropolitan oficials significantly indicated by the swift march Mahomedan rebellions of the middle of in their fatalist acceptanes of the wide- of events than in China. Around that the nineteenth century revealed to Euro spread misery of the people and to make sorely stricken ancient State the eagles pean observers something of the causes there regard White Wolf" ne a Heaven are gathering, greedily expectant. The which, under Mongols, Mings and Manent visitation. Whatever happens, they day of partition draws steadily nearer gone to be brigandag & bone that Peking to legotiate way ard bearer, and those who have closely business profession in Chine, recognised continuo, therefore, to negotiate new watched the development of the latest and sometimes actually encouraged by the loans, to discuss currency reform and "spheres of influence" policies at Peking mandarins. They served to explain how, those projects of "reorganisation" which realise that, if once England's protective throughitt Chinese history, many a man hold out prospects of administrative influence is destroyedor seriously who, like White Walf, has begun as expenses." In other words, the presence diminished, nothing can serve to avert it has ended by founding a new dynasty in expectation that foreign money may still thecaptain of a troop of vagabonds," of foreign troops in North China and the Looking back over the events of the his own person. The Ming dynasty was be available for the maintenance of past two years, since the abdication of overthrown by a freebooter in command Tuan Chi-jui and his men are factors the Manchus, no student of history can would have been expelled by the Taiping pitiful sufferings of the central provinces. of an army of brigands; the Manchus which undoubtedly tend to prolong the fail to be impressed by the persistence of bandits sixty years ago had it not been the popular delusion, so prevalent among for the help rendered to the Central the sentimental school of politicians, which looks ever for the miraculous Government by Okinese Gordon and his In the old days of China's isolation birth of nations as the result of changes

4ever-victorious army."

these ever-recurring crises of bloodshed in the form of their government, which

and pillage usually came to an end, after continues to proclaim its pathetic belief

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decimating vast regions, by a simple in the triumph of political formule over Peking and Shanghai who now express was reduced to a condition in which the correspondents at process of exhaustion, because the country the forces of evolution and human nature. How often, since the revolution, has the foreste action of Yuan Shih-kai's profession of brigandage ceased to be world been assured by the well-meaning creasing activities, might find more than such as the rebellion" of Li Tzu-ch'eng forces in the face of White Wolf's" in profitable. In certain historie instances, enthusiasts who seek to find Utopia by the one parallel to the present situation in (1632-1844), the bandit movement finally light of these formule, that China has definitely embarked upon an era of the annals of the pust two hundred years; gained such force as to overthrow the unexampled felicity by the substitution of itself with monotonous regularity. Little times the State has been saved by the KOJU MARpanese str, 2,836, O. A for in this matter Chinese history repeats whole fabric of government; at other representative for autocratic methods of government? Hos often, in articles are than a century ago, for instance, emergenen of sonic loyal and honest fight decorated with the portrait of Sun Ynt the Emperor Chia Ch'ing issued a pathe-ing man like To Toung-tang. But, as a seir, have we been told that the earnest, tie and plain-spoken Edict, in which he rule, the fever of disorder has run its intelligent, patriots of the new dispensa severely (but vainly) rebuked his generals devastating course, and thereafter the tion would speedily bring Ching to then the field for their failure to supprese union's recuperative powers have come forefront of civilised nations, and abolish the White Lily" rebellion. The into play in productive periods of peace all the abuses hitherto inseparable from Commanders-in-Chief," he declared, "are ful industry, Heretoforo, in such crises, her social and political systems? Con apparently not in the least anxious to China has, so to speak, consumed her own fronted by a delusion so widespread and suppress this rebellion, since they are able smoke. so enthusiastic, they have preached to

to enrich themselves and wax tat at the deaf cars who maintained that the expense of the disturbed districts. Chinese race, in its present stage of social and economic evolution, is utterly incap able of self-government.

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Java-China-Japan Lijn. 2nd May-Saigon 98th April, Rice Viadvostook HEIYO MARU, Japanese str., 2,368, 8. Hakodate

Hoxokond, French str., 739, Marquerite, 9th Nagan

Okutani, 5th MayKchsichang 23rd Toldo April, Rice and Meal.-Order.

Kochi May Hoihow 8th May, General-A, R. Kagoshima Marty. HSINCHANG, Chinese str., 1,002, D. D. Naha.........

Ross, 6th May-Chefoo 1st May, Gen-

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Jebsen & Co.

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*** 99.92 9th May-Haiphong 7th May, Gen- Sharp Peak.... 7. 28.59 eral--Butterfeld & Swire..

68 29:69 71 90 Cowin, 9th May-Miike 3rd May, Coal Tihokn529.81 LOVAT, British str., 3,995, R. Glogg, 4tb

-Mitsui Bassan Kaisha.

Taichua May-Moji 29th April, Coal and Keahun... LEEENOOK, German str., 1,259, Abatangen,

General Jardine, Matheson & Co. Pescadores 8th May Saigon 4th May, Rice MAUBANG, British st.; 1,344, C. Mathews,

Chinese,

7th May-Saigon 2nd May, Bice. Jardine, Matheson & Co. PAKLAT, German str., 1,018, Wenzel, 7th MayBangkok and Swatow 6th May, Rico.-Butterfield & Swire.a PHUYEN, French str. 1,292, Ribault, 6th Cape St. James

May Saigon 1st May, Rice and Gen- MATHILDE, German, str., 856, Schlaikier,

eral Bradley de Co.za | Manila

th May Hollow 4th May, General, Ba

Legaspi

MINNESOTA, American str, 20,718, J. M. Lab.

1st May Seattle, 28th March, General. Nippon Tusen Kaisha.

Jebsen & Co.

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of Cargo from alongside.

Cargo remaining undelivered on this 11th irst, at Noon, will be landed at Consignees risk and expense and delivery must then be taken from the Company's Godown

No Fire Insurance whatever will be effected No Claim will be recognised after the Goods have left the Steamer or Godown, and all Gooda remaining undelivered on the 16th inst. will be subject to rent and landing charges.

All chafed and otherwise damaged Cargo to be left on board or Godown, and examination of same to be held on the 16th inst., at 10a.m.

All Claims must be filed on or before 23rd inst., otherwise they will not be recognised.

S. MORIMOTO, Agent

Hongkong, 9th May, 1914.

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But this elementary process of read justment is no longer possible. Because Incredible though it may appear, it is of the financial liabilities which China true to-day, as it was a hundred years has incurred abroad, the wasting of her The same delusion, equally calamitous go that brigandage is not rigorously resources and the dislocation of her trade in its resuits, is even now being mani- suppressed in Ching, breause, like are no longer purely domestic affairs tested with regard to Mexico, where, famines and floods, it affords military Booner or later they must involve national according to President Wilson, cocommanders and mandarine with oppor- bankruptcy and the repudiation stitutional order is to be restored" (after tunities for "enriching themselves and obligations, which, in their turn, mean the elimination of Huerta) by the waxing fat at the expense of the dis- the forcible intervention of the Powers concert and energy of such of her leaders turbed districts"; that is to say, at a concerned in the administration of the as prefer the liberty of their people to fearful price of misery endured by the country. That which common instincts common people. The love of money is of humanity sould not do will eventually the greatest of English philosophers has declared, that politicians and philan- root of this unspeakable evil. There is holders. The rulers of China are well thropists are Alike opposed to acceptance power enough at the disposal of Yuan aware that intervention would already of the fact that human untare, though Shih-kai and his generals in the field to have taken place (it was imminent after indefinitely modifiable, can be modiñed have wiped out White Wolf and his the sacking of Nanking) were it not that institutions and appliances which count been used, it is chiefly because of the jealousies of the Powers mark it in but very slowly, and that all laws and bands long ago. If that power has not the conflicting interests and mutual on getting from it, within a short time, official class, with all its consequences of advance as an earthshaking adventure. much better results than present ones, demoralisation in the public service: But intervention is now only a matter will inevitably fail.":

Many of White Wolf's bandits are of brief time, and for this very reason ex-soldiers who have preferred the pro-the mandarin is the more busily and Seldom has history afforded more confession of freebooters to the "squeezed "recklessly engaged in making hay white vincing proof of this truth than that pay of Government troop troops. The the sun shines. In a later article I pro- which confronts us in the actual state of forces whose duty it is to restore law and pose to discuss Yuan. Shih-kai's foreign affairs in China, in the violent reaction order are notoriously more concerned policy and its latest results. which has taken place against the demo with the matter of pay and opportunition oratio ideas of the Western-educated for plunder than with that duty. On Cantonese, and in the present disorgani- more than one recent ocension they have, sation and disorder of the State. (The declined to move against the brigands, recent revival of Confucianian, heartily for the reason that the latter had so com approved by the masses, and the restora-pletely plundered the countryside that tion of the old autocratic régime of there was nothing left worth fighting for, government at Peking, merely prove ones As it was in the first days of the revolu: again that every action is inevitably tion, so it is now; the assault and defence Vincent. followed by some reaction, and this, of walled citice are matters of ransom again, by other reactions; so that it is money for commanders and loot for the impossible to compute the effect wrought troops. in any general direction by some addi- tional force (such as "Western learning") by any observations extending over a few years, or even a few generations.

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matter for surprise, when we find the Sydney for Tandjong Priok.

That this should be so is scarcely

April 7, German str. Stolberg, from Chinese Press openly accusing Yuan Shib-April 2 German str. Solingen, from The restoration of autocratic govern Honar, of being privily in league with April 9, German str. Kybfele, February

kar's brother-in-law, Chang, Tutuh of Tjilatjap for Tandjong Priok ment by President Yuan Shih-kai points White Wolf" and sharing with him the clearly to the re-establishment of the plunder of ruined cities. Similarly, we 11, from New York for Soerabaja. monarchy a one form or another at no see the Minister of War, Tuan Chi-jui,

April 9 Dutch str. Tambora, distant date. The swing of the pendulum Yuan's protégé, returning to Peking after April 9, from Batavia for Rotier dani. is now as violent in the direction of two months of masterly inactivity at the April 10, Dutch str. Dardanas, March Conservatism as it was, in 1911, in the front, to demand the immediate raising from Leith for Batavia. direction of iconoclasni. How far. this of new loans to meet the expenses of his

April 10, British str. Talander, from reaction will succeed in the essential campaign," We see the Auhut and Christmas Island for Singapore. matter of restoring law and order in the Hupeh Generals holding out threats of

April 12, British str. Theseus, from sorely harassed provinces is hard to disaffection unless adequate rewards are Batavia for Amsterdam.

forthcoming for their services in quell- April 12, British str. Ferment, from But Yuan is encompassed about by they order the summary arrest of the April 12, Dutch str. Arakan, van

ing the rebellion, while at the same time Kobe for Westward. dangers and difficulties far greater than editor of a Hankow newspaper for Ronkel, from Rotterdam for Batavia. those which confronted the Manchus, and having dared to declare that the troops from Rotterdam for Batavia. most of the men on whom he relies to help will not fight White, Wolf" because the

April 12, Dutch str. Sindaro, van Een,. him have proved themselves in the past pecuniary inducements are not sufficient

April 12, Dutch atr. A aromata, Schuur- to be thoroughly incompetent and self-

mao April 12, from Batavia Amsterdam-

foretell

seeking opportunists. The Government's

consequent inefficiency is undoubtedly a

A remarkable feature of the present.

contributory factor in the truculent situation, which was observed also during indiscipline of the provincia! gentry, in the Taiping rebellion, lies in the tacit

the discontented fatalism of the masses understanding, between the bandits and

for

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To appreciate the significance White Wolf's activities, it is essential which underlies this profession of brigan of clearly the cold-blooded business instinct

to remember that the fundamental cause dage, and which perceives that foreign Maru, Polynesies, Prinz laudwig. of chronic unrest in China is not politi-intervention would be fatal to its con- cal, but economic; that the motive force tinuance. The murders of Father Rich April 28th Ambria, Benvenue. Den of of disorder which impols large bodies of and Dr. Frayland

Airlie, Senegambia. were regrettable desperate men to paths of plunder springs incidents, fox these "White Wolf (who May 1st-Den of Ogil, Malto, Segovia, from an intolerable pressure of popala- loses no opportunity of declaring that

Phemius, Rhesus. tion on the means of subsistence. Look he has no quarrel with foreigners) has Konang Si Scandia, Africa, Siam, May 5th-Bentleuch, Ceylon, Idomeneus, ing back on the recorded history of China, we find the counterpart of White the hideous slaughter at the sacking of May 8th Goeben, Kamo Marui, Kitang:

expressed profound regret. Even amidst Gottingen, Tokushima Maru. Wolf on every page. Sixty years ago Kuangchow the word went forth, and was Maru, Nera, Peleus, Sachsen, Telan Mr Thomas Taylor Meadows, a distin Documents translated from or into Classical guished British Consul, wrote a remark observed, that Christiana were to be Falentia, York, Patricia,

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Hatakayama, 6th May-Hongay 3rd May, Coal. Bradley & Co. PARA NANG, British str., Scott. 8th May

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Karalsa 1st May, Coal A Bune

Pisa, British str, 2,120, Patrick. 8th May Pulo Sambo 2nd May, Oit-Asiatic RL, American str., 1,408, J. Miller, 8th

Petroleum Co.. May Manila 6th May, General SIBERIA, American str., 5,653, A. Zeeder,

Shewan, Tomes & Co.

oth May San Francisco 7th April, Mails and General-Pacific Mail S.S. Co. SHAOHSING, British str., 1,307, K. E. Tuebben, 9th May Shanghai 5th May, General-Butterfeld & Swire. Gr8IMAN, British str., 1,345, Hutchison, 27th April Manila 23rd April, Bal- Last Bune & Co. SOHU MARU, Japanese str., 1,119, K. Hattori,

8th May-Swatow 7th May, General Osaka Shosen Kaishia, TACOMA MARU, Japanese str., 3,330, T. Hamada, 7th May Manila 4th May, General-Osaka Shosen Kaisha. TAMING, British str.. 1,283. G. E. Ponne father, 8th May-Manila 6th May Hemp and Sugar Butterfield & Swire.

TAMON MARU NO. 12, Japanese str., 2,542,

Nomura, 30th-April-Moji 24th April, Coal--Mitsu Bichi Goshi Kwaisha.

TELEMACHUS, British str., 1,350, A. Fraser, 9th May-Saigon 5th May, Rico.- THIKING, Dutch str., 4.737, W. H. Lap, 9th

Chinese.

May-Macasser 1st May, General-Java China-Japan Lin

THOCLUS, British str., 4,623, G. W. Long, 9th MayYokohama 1st May, Gen- eral.--Butterfield & Swire.. VARO, Norwegian str., 373, J. Jebsen, 10th -May-Bangkok 2nd May, Rico. —

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2 TAMFERATURE, in the shado, in degress 8 HUMIDITY, in perpentage of saturation, the humidity of air saturated with moisture being 100,

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HONGKONG METEOROLOGICAL

REGISTER.

Hongkong Observatory, May 11th..

Previous On Date On Duke

Day at

at

Barometer Temperatury Wind Direction... Humidity

Force

Bain............ Weather in

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HONGKONG TIDE TABLE.

From 12th to 18th May, 1914. HIGH WATEE

Height

75

Height

LOW WATER.

H'kong

H'kong

Mean

Mean

Time

Time

h. m.

It u

12m 9.5777

38

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Wed. 13m 48 4 1 m 443

m 10 35 7 6 Thura. 14 m 2 10 3 0 m 4.30

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