1914-08-06 — Page 9

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 6TH, 1914

PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL TOYO KISEN KAISHA.

POR

STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY,

LONDON and ANTWERP VIAN

STRAMMES

TO BAIL

RRMARES

SINGAPORE, PENANG, SYRIA................. COLOMBO, PORT SAID; and MARSEILLES...

Capt. C. R. Longden, B.N.3. }

About 6th Aug

| Freight and Passage

Capt, J. T. Jeffery ni

Capt. A. L, Valentini

Noon, 15th Aug.

Bee Special Advertisement,

SHANGHAI, MOJI, KOBE SARDINIA

And YOKOHAMA

LONDON VIA USUAL FORTS) ORIENTAL

OF GALL

All the above Steamers are fitted with Wireless Telegraphy. Subject to immediate alteration without notice.

For Further Particular apply to

Hongkong, 6th August, 1914

CHINA NAVIGATION

Abont | Freight and 7th Aug. Passage.

E. A HEWETT

Superintendent.

SAN FRANCISCO LINE.

PROBLEMS OF MODERN JAPAN.

NEW VIRTUES FOR OLD.

EVOLUTION OR REVOLUTION,

[FROM "THE TIMES" TUKYO CORRESPONDENT]

Less than a decade ago Japan was revealed to the world as a nation of

VIA SHANGHAI, MANILA. THE INLAND SEA, marvellous prowess in arms, brave as she

JAPAN AND HONOLULU.

Bailings from Hongkong-Babject to Change Without Notice

Displacement Tent and Speed,

Steamer

1,000 -- 18. knota „TUESDAY,

Leave Hongkong. TENYO MARU 22,000-21 knots... TUES.,

25th Aug.

NIPPON MABU....

8th Sept. SHINYO MARU 22,000-21 knots... TUES.,

22nd Sept. CHIYO MARU 22,000—21 knols...SATUR., 10th Oct.

• Via Manila omitting Shanghai,

£71.10.........RETUEN (6 MONTHS) £120.

£96.10, £68.

CO., LTD. FIRST CLASS TO LONDON

FIRST CLASS TO NEW YORK £60. SAN FRANCIS00 £45.

SAILINGS SUBJECT TO ALTERATION.

STRAMBKS "ANHUT"

*YINGCHOW"

FOR

SHANGHAL.........

SHANGHAI and TSINGTAU ...

MANILA, CEBU and ILOILO.

"TEAN

SHANGHAI

SHANGHAI..

WEIHAIWEI and TIENTSIN.

"LIANGCHOW"

"LUCHOW"

"KUEICHOW MOR

"TO BAIL

On 6th Aug., 4 P.X. On: 8th Aug., M'night. On 11th Aug., 4 PM. On 11th Aug., 4PM. On 13th Agn., 4 P.M. On 16th Augë 10 AM,

MANILA, CEBU and ILOILO....... "CHINHUA" Mumior. On 18th Aug,, 4 P.K.

DIRECT SAILINGS TO WEST RIVER, Twice Weekly.

8.5. "LINTAN" and B.8. SANUL”

MANILA LINE-TWIN-SCREW STEAMERS “CHINHUA," "TAMING" #06 “TEAN." Eroellent Saloon socommodation Amidships; Electric Fans fitted; Extra State-rooms on Deck, aft, on "TAMING” and “TEAN."

SHANGHAI AND TSINGTAU LINE, — THE TWIN SCREW STEAMERS "ANHULCHENAN? “SHAOHSING" and the SS. TANCHOW" "LIANGCHOW" "LUCHOW" and "YINGCROW," having excellent sccommodation, with Electrio Light throughout and Electric Fana in the State- rooms and Dining Saloon, maintain a fast schedule service between Canton, Hongkong and Shanghai, leaving Hongkong for Shanghai direct every Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday, taking Cargo on through Bills of Lading to all Yangteza and Northern China Porta.

The Steamers leaving Hongkong on Sundaye proceed from Shanghai to TSINGTAU, leaving there on Tuesdays for Shanghai, Hongkong and Canton

N.BPLesengers must embark before Midnight on SATURDAY for the SUNDAY Morning sailings. A Co.'s launch leaves Murray Pier at 10 o'clock every SATURDAY Night.

These Steamers Land Passengers in Shanghai, avoiding the inconvenience of the transhipment at Woosung,

REDUCED FARES:-

HONGKONG TO SHANGHAI :-SINGLE $45. RETURN $75.

TSINGTAU :-

For Freight or Passage apply to-

$78.

$125. BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE Hongkong, 6th August, 1914, TELEPHONE 36.

AGENTS.

THE EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN

STEAMSHIP CO., LTD.

MAIL SERVICE TO AUSTRALIA

A MANILA.

MAIL SCHEDULE.

SUBJECT TO MODIFICATION C

ARRIVE HONGKONG PROM AUSTRALIA,

LEAVE HONGTORO FOR AUSTRALIA.

EMPIRE

ST. ALBANS

EASTERN

STEAMER

22nd August. 12th Sept.

On 26th Aug.1 21 On 18th Sept. 10 AM On 9th Oct, 10 am.

AM.

The above Steamers are fitted with Refrigerating Machinery, ensuring a plentiful mpply of Loo. Freh Provizious, eto, and are lighted throughout with Bloctricity. AState-Rooms have Electrio Fans. A daly qualified Doctor and Stewardess are carried.

For further particulars apply to

GIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co.,

AGENTS

BRITISH INDIA S. N. CO., LTD.

APCAR LINE.

REGULAR SERVICE BETWEEN

CALCUTTA, STRAITS, SHANGHAI AND JAPAN PORTS.

EASTWARD

5.8. JAPAN 6,013 tons, Captain C. P. Sedden, will be despatched

› for KOEE and MOJI on 12th August

WESTWARD

"S.H. "DILWARA," 5,378 tens, Captain G. N. Hamage, E.N.E., will be despatched above on 7th August..

The above Steamers have excellent Baloon accommodation for Passengers and are fitted with all modern conveniences and carry a duly qualified surgeon.

For Freight or paange, apply to

Hongkong, 4th August, 1914.

SASSOON DAVID

& CO., LED,

AGENTS.

149

DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP CO., LTD.

HONGKONG-SOUTH CHINA COAST PORTS.

IGHEST Clase, Fastest and Most Luxurious Steamers on the Coast, having Splendid Hommodation for First Class Passengers Electris Light. Excellmat Cuisin

FOR

SWATOW AMOY AND FOOCHOW

STEAMSHIP.

"HAITAN":

"HAICHING"

HAIYANG”

AND BETURN.

(Occupying 9 to 10 Days).

CAPTAIN

Capt. J. W. Eranz

Capt. W. C. Passmore

Capt. A. E. Hodgins

* The 6.L., “ aitan" will not call at Swatow

L SUMMER RATES TO JAPAN.

SPECIAL

NAGASAKI-

$120.

KOBE $135.

YOKOHAMA $150.

Passengers parchasing Trans-Pacific Return Tickets have the option of returning from San Francisco by Steamers of the PACIFIC MAIL 8.8. Co. or from Vancouver by Steamers of the CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY CO.

SPECIAL RATES given to NAVAL and MILITARY, CIVIL SERVANTS MISSIONARIES, ofc.n

ROUND THE WORLD Tickets issued in connection with all the Principal MAIL Les and the Trans-Siberian Railway.

Fassengers may Travel by RAILWAy between Porte of Call in Japan free of charge.

SOUTH

AMERICA LINE.

VIA JAPAN PORTS, HONOLULU, HILO. MANZANILLO, SALINA CRUZ, CALLAO. IQUIQUE AND VALPARAISO.

THENCE BY

TRANS-ANDEAN ROUTE TO BUENOS AIRES.

Displacement Tons and Speed

Eteamer

For Fall Particulare ne to Passage and Freight, apply to-

TELEPHONE 291.

INDIAN

Baile

S. MORIMOTO,

King's Building.

AGENT,

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was poor, as compact in spirit as she was small in area. To day the echoes of war have died away and with them the applause Since she no longer occupies the centre of the stage Japan is forgotten, or, if she is remembered, it is by those who know her, not, at second-hand through the idylle of the writer, but in practical fashion as bankers and traders, or as students in search of truth. She is described as a nation with a "thin veneer of civilization ''; she knows the Western arts of war, perhaps, but she has a glimmering only of the Western arts of peaen she has a standard of honour on the fold, but none in the counting house; she is conceited and presumptuous, dis playing all the ill-manners of an upstart, she has lost her old virtues (such as they were) and failed to acquire the new ones."

This, or something like this, is the indictment brought against modern Japan by the disappointed foreigner. But it is not brought by the foreigner. alone. Japan has suffered a fall in her own esteem no less than in the esteem of others and is plunged into a mond of self- questioning introspection.

The collapse of the economic and financial "boom" which followed the war has had its counterpart in the minds of the reasoning and educated portion of the people, so that to-day one appeal follows. another from the mouths of the leaders in thought and action for strenuous and sustained efforts to keep pace with the ether nations of the world-appeals which are, accompanied by admissions that Japan is still far behind the Western Powers. Such confessions were common in the period of national self-contempla tion provoked by the death of the Emperor Heiji and the opening of the new era of Taisho and they are still common to-day after the troubled months through which the country has since passed. They endorse the verdict of almost every out sider that politically and socially, as bation and as individuals, the Japanese are undergoing a process of profound change.

AFRICAN LINE founded schools and built factories and

Cargo carried on throngh Bills of Lading from HONGKONG to BEIRA, DELAGOA, BAY, DURBAN (Natal), EAST LONDON, PORT ELIZABETH and CAPE TOWN with transhipment at COLOMBO to Steamers of the INDIAN AFRICAN LINE.

FEOM HONGKONO :

19th Aug.

PROPOSED SAILINGS:

"NANERIC””

FROM COLOMBO:

· EXCELLENT ACCOMMODATION YOL 1ST AND 2nd Class PASSENGERS.

ORIENTAL

AFRICAN LINE.

Begular Direct Service from JAPAN, CHINA and STRAITS to BEIRA DELAGUA BAY, DUBBAN, EAST LONDON. PORT ELIZABETH and CAPE TOWN, calling at MAURITIUS on rente, and affording the Quickset Fraight Transport from the ORIENT W¡SOUTH AFRICA.

331

PROPOSED BAILING.

From Hongkong : - "SALAMIS": 25th Oct

FIRST CLASS ACCOMMODATION FOR PASSENGERS. FITTED WITH WIRELES TELEGRAPHY. For Haden of Freight and Passage, apply w

THE BANK LINE, LIMITED,

MANAGING AGENTS,

THE OLD ERA AND THE NEW. Japan is the only Eastern nation where the generation now coming into control has grown up under the influence of the full flood of Western thought. The fathers of the Meiji era introduced the trappings of the modern State, the formos of a constitutional government; they laid down railways; they established a modern Army and Navy. Japan must be strong, they said, if she is to exist. as an independent self-respecting State, and to be strong she must have the apparatus for making money and for self-defence. Their gospel was nationalist and was based upon the retention of the old virtues of loyalty and filial devotion, upon which they thought they might. rebuild the edifice of national activities. Every one should be taught to read and write, because only thus could factories be run and guns be manned, but every one should be taught also that his life was the property of the Emperor and the State, that the noblest act was its sacrifice in the cause of the heaven-descended ruler, that unquestioning obedience, duty, and discipline were the root principles of conduct.:

The task was carefully and bravely performed, but to-day it. is apparent that the statesmen of Meiji have left as great a task to those of. Taisho as ever they undertook themselves. A microcosm of the problem is, presented in the student, girl or boy who at home reads Spencer and Ibsen, Tolstoy and Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde and Maupassant, and at school hears his or her teacher extol the

Throne and Family and the seat of moral authority, as of political, must be transferred from the few above to those below, go as to embrace n fuller recognt tion of the rights and obligations of the individual. A

TASE OF THE FUTURE

In a word, the task of the new ora i to IDRIST a strong people capable of resisting internal enemies. Japan proved a match for one of the foremood Powers of the world because on the battlefield it is unity and uniformity of action and purpose that count for most But when it comes to the arts of poaco to industrial competition, diversity and originality must be developed wherever they can be found, and all depends on the individual. Yet if one compares to-day the man in the street in Tokyo, with his fellow in Now York or London there is a vast gulf between them. The former's work is cheap, and so is his value. Ho hus not yet even formulated the demand for a Habeas Corpus Act or the right to organize in his own interests. In politics only is his voice beginning to be heard. But the sound of it there is significant of much that is to come, for it is like the trumpet call that marks the opening of the now fray upon which Japan is entering. It indicates the fermentation of modern thought in the minds of an Eastern race.

MEN-OF-WAR ON THE CHINA AND JAPAN : STATION.

BRITISH.

alacrity, despatch boat, 1,700 tons, 4 guas, 3,000

hp, Coandr. A. Cochrane, Kobe, Weihai- Atlas, admiralty tog, 615 tons, 1,400 tons,

Hongkong

Bramble, yanbost, 710 tons. 500 i.h.p. It..

Commr. V. R. Brandon, Shanghai. Firitomart, gunboat, 710 tous, 900 hp. Lient-

Comdr. P. B. Preston-Thomas, Hongkong Cadmus, British sloop, 1,070 tons, ih.p., 1,400

td., Captain M. 3. Fitzmaurice, Tacgtse herab, water tank and tag, 390 tons, 340i h.p.

Tungtong 1070 1.40

Chio. British sloop, 1070 tons, 1,400 3,hp..

Comady. Maokonale, Hongkong.

Colne, TBD. 560 14 guns 4.12 pr., i.b.p...

7,500 Ed. Comde, C Seymour, Weihaiwei. Chelmer, T.B.D. 56 10nr, gu,34-12 pr., i.h.p., 7,500 Lieut, H. T. England, Hongkong Fame, T.BD, Lt. Comdr. C. M, Binckma

Hongkong

Hampshire, 10.850 tons, 21,000 f.d., 14 guns.

Captain H. W. Grant, Waihaiwei. Jed, TB.D, 50 tour, gans 4-12 pr. i.bp,

7,500, Ident. G. F. A. Mulesk, Hongtong.

Kinsla, 616 fons, 1,200 lp., Comdr. H. Merlin, survoying ship, 1,070 tons, 6 guns,

Marryatf. Yengte..

***

1,400 11.p., Lieut. F. J. B. Gibson, Labuan

Minotaur, armoured oruiser (flagship: Vice- Admiral T. H. Jerram, R.C.B), 27,000 ih.p., Gopt. E. B. Kiddle, Wellmiwei. Moorhen, river gunboat, 180 tous, 2 guns, 600,

ih.p, Lt-Coudr. Alan Dixon, W. River. Newcastle, 2nd class cruiser, 4,800 tons, turbine,

22,000 1.4., Capt. 'F A. Pawlett, en route to Shanghai

Nightingale, river sunboat, 85 tons. 240 b.p.,

Lient-Comdr. Malcolm Murray, Yangtas. Rese, T.B D., 550 tons, 4 gans, 12 pr. l.h.p...

7.500 F., Lieut. F. A. H. Rassol, Weihai-

Ribble, T.E.D., 597 tons, 750 £d, 6 guar,

Liont-Comdr. Wilkinson, Weihaiwel.

Robin, river gua boat, 85 tona, guns 240 hp.,

Lt. Comdr. J. Flestwood-Nash, West River Boario, depot ship to Submarine, 980 tans, 1,400 lp., Lient Comêr, P. A. Cromis Sandpiper, river gunboat, 85 tons, 2guns, 2,400

Hongkong

hp., Lent Comdr. I, A. S. Hutton, West Kiver

Saips, river, gunboat, 85tons, 2 guns, 340 hp.,

t-Comdr. M. 1. J. Maxwell-Seatt Yangt

Tamar, receiving ship, 4,550 tons, 6 gaus

Commodore R. H. Anstruther, CMG Hongkong

Teal, river gunboat, 180 tons, guns, 800 i.h.p.. Lieut-Comdr. S. P. B. Russel, Yangtee. Thistle, gunboat, 710 tons, 900 bp, Lt-Condr.

G. F. 3. L. Page Weiharwei

Triumph, battleship, 11,985 tons, 12,500 h.p...

A. Commdr. A. 8 Suemann, Hongkong Osk, T.B.D., 590 tons, 7,500 f.d., 6 gam Light.

Mazwell, Weihaiwei.

OSAKA SHOSEN KAISHA. superhuman virtues of the Emperor, the Welland, F.B.D., 594 tons, 7,500 £d., 6 guns,

REGULAR SERVICES,

PROPOSED, SAILINGS FROM HONGKONG, (SUBIDOT TO ALTERATION).

THE AMERICAN LINE TO TACOMA AND SEATTLE.

In Connection with

THE CHICAGO MILWAUKEE AND ST. PAUL RAILWAY De

VIA KEELUNG, MOJI, ∞ †SHANGHAI, † NAGASAKI, KOBE, TOKKAICHI, SHINIDZU, YOKOHAMA AND VICTORIA, B.C.,

· Steamer "TACOMA MARU”

PANAMA MARU”

Captain

T. Hameda J. Kabeo

เบ

Leaving

* THURSDAY, 6th Aug., at 4 P.M. WED'DAY, A 19th Aug af 4 F.3, Thone Newly-Built Steamers of American Line have fair speed and are fitted with the Wireless Apparatus. Best adapted rooms for carrying Silk, Treasury and Parcels,

For BOMBAY VIA SINGAPORE. PORT SWETTENHAM PENANG AND COLOMBO,

Captain

Steamer

Leaving

FOR FOOCHOW VIA SWATOW AND AMOY.

Leaving Steamer

Captain T. Yamamoto n "KAIJO MARU

WED'DAY, 12th Aug., at 2 PM.

FOR TAMSUI VIA SWATOW AND AMOY,

LEAVING

Etes:Der DALJIN MARU" "DAIGI MARU "

FOR SWATOW AND BETURN.

(Oompying 3 Days).

'HAIMUN” ... .. | Capt. A. H. Stewart -- {

During the Month of AVGUST FIRST CLASS RETURN FARES TO FOOCHOW will be subject to a Reduction of 20 per cent. on the fall Fares.

Beamers will arrive at and Depart from the Company's Wharf (neer Blake Pier). For Freight and Fassage, apply to

Hongkong, 6th August, 1914.

Captain

K. Murakami

S. Tokushige

FOR ANPING AND TAKAO VIA

[Blenmer

SOSHU MARU"

Captaini

3. Fattori

SUNDAY, SUNDAY,

Leaving

9th Aug., at Noon 16th Ang, at Noon.

SWATOW AND AMOY. CESARA Leaving

THURSDAY, 6th Aug., af Noon.

These Steamer of Coast and Formes Line have Excellent sccommodation for First Claes Fastengers and are fitted with Elestris Light and Fare.

These Steamers will arrive at and depart from Soon Tip Wharf (near the Harbour Office).

DOUGLAS LAPBAIK & Co.,

GENRAL MANAGKER.

For FURTHER INFORMATION, apply to

774)

Y. ASAL,

MANAGER, Secund Floor No. 1. Queen's Balding.

sanctity of implicit obedience to purents, the doctrine that the whole duty of woman is to be a good wife and mother, and so forth. Eks

THE FAMILY: CODÉ,

H

Not only from within do the stress and strain of modern thought dangerous thought," as the phrase goes in Japan to-day bear, heavily upon the officially-

Lieat-Comdr. Poignard, Weilaiver. Widgeon, gunboat, 195 tons, guns, 800 h.p. Lieat Comdr. A. J. Landon, Yangtre, Woodcock, ganhost, 150 tons, 2 guns, 550 h.p.

Lt.-Comdr. M, B. R. Blackwood, Yangtse. Woollark, gunboat, 150 tons, 2 gane, 550 hp. Yarmouth, 2nd class oru ser: 4,800 toas, Capt. Lt. Comdr. Robin W. Lloyd, Yangtze

H. L. Cochrane, Weilsiwei.

C. 36, D. J. McGillerie, Lient.

prescribed creed of a fendal era; they are Sabmarines: as strong and insistent frore without. The industrial structure of modern urban Japan resta uneasily upon the rigid family code which constitutes the chief legacy of the past. How can that code 0.38, H. K. C. Pope, Liert. live in the huge dormitories sheltering TB, 035, Lieut. Handley. thousands of factory hands whose condi

C. 37, J. A. Gaimes, Liont

tion recalls the industrial dark ages of TB. 036, Lieut. Wiles. England? How can it meet the problems T.B. 057, Lieut. Wyndham-Quir. of poverty, disease, and overcrowding T.3.038, Lieut. Seymour. which perplex Europe to-day? How can

it resist the increasing power of money and the temptations to fuxury, or what were better called a higher standard of living? It cannot.

no

ON SALE.

the DIRECTORY

The transformation of Japan must be completed, internally

Ices than externally, if only because the proletarait will not fit into old habitation. The centre of power in the State must pass from the few to the many and in the family from the parents to the individual according to his worth; the intellectual shams and superstitions must crumble away like the idols in the temples; the rigid nationalist ideal must yield before a recognition of the right of each man to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.".

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CHRONICLE

FOR

CHINA, JAPAN, COREA, INDO-CHINA, STRAITS BETTLEMENTS, MALAY STATES, SIAM, ·NETHERLANDS. INDIA, BORNEO, THE PHILIP- PINES, MO.

FOR THE YEAR

perilous To guide the nation along this peri path is the formidable task of the Japanese leaders of to-day, and upon their wisdom it may to some extent depend whether by revolution evolution the change shall be effected. But the success of the experiment will really depend upon the inherent worth of the people. It is not, of course, that there is no room in modernized Japan för those virtues which the Throne and the Family have been used for ages to buttress; nay, these virtues simplicity. To be Obtained at the Office of thrift, devotion, discipline, and self- sacrifice must remain in any nation that would-be sound. But the conception of them must alter with the conception of

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