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DEATH OF A CHINA WAR VETERÁN. startlingly apparent to everyone who has

One of the few remaining yeterans who fought in the China war of 1840-18 has crossed the continent. Whether they can just died in the little Cornish town of hold together will some day be for the Bodmin. He was named John Crossman, United States the most vital of all quesChinese he took a hand in fighting the and after re had done fighting the tions." It will not be surprising if the flavors on the West Coast of Africa. But issue that will strain them to breaking or the illness of his mother he would have point proves to be one connected with the gone to the other extreme of temperature determination of the white men on then soeking adventure, for he was accepted Sir John Franklin on his ill-fated ex- Pacific Coast to preserve their territory as one of the party that was to accompany as a white man's country. Just as the pedition. Northern States cannot understand, the Southern attitude towards the negroes, so

notable absentees was Sir Richard Dane, the Eastern States, are miles asunder fing the vote of thanks to Dr. Morrison

but he had declared immediately on his arrival in London that he had merely come to escape the hot weather in Peking and was more bent on catching trout in Scotland than talking politics or con forring on finance. He also, however, ex- claimed in. wonderment at some of the cables from China with which we are

regaled. I do not wonder much, for one or two correspondents in Peking have been foretelling shocking crises for the morrow almost every day for six months, and it is harrowing to the nerves of the oleoid Briton to be kept sa lanzan tanter fouka and then to be denied a sensation after all..

from the sentiment of the West respecting Asiatics.

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urged the remission of part of the Boxer Indemnity, after the example set by

For the Far Eastern section America.. has decided to memorialise the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and the Chancellor of the Exchequer, urging that

Mr. Stewart at the Cannon Street Her the remission of the indemnity would he a popular move with City men, who realise that America made an astute renunciation when she led the way in this matter.

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II Mr. Godfrey Isaacs is right, we may some day be telephoning by wireless to Hongkong and Shanghai. Not that he has put it that way as yet, but he doeae sum of not less than 2000 EAST INDIAN CONDIMENT CO.” speak with positive optimism of talking to vided out of future indemnity receipts New York before this year is out. As our from the Chinese Government towards trang-Atlantic cousins would say, that is the foundation and endowment of a "guing some." But he has some solid British University in Central China. facts behind his predictions apparently, The Section also urges the British.. for Mr. Marconi, the wizard of wireless Government to press China to suppress discovery, has conducted and insig Chiness waters. Judging by loss experimpondon and Chelmsford, while his regular method of communicat ing from his house on the Solent and his THE BISLEY MEETING. office in London is to call up on the wire- less, and the staff declare they can hear Bisley, which opens its famous niceting him more clearly than on the ordinary next week, has again gathered representa- telephone. Moreover, he can also fire & tives of skill in marksmanship signal gun at a distance in foggy weather from the four corners of the or light a lamp on a distant buoy by wire Darth. Official teams

on hand legs, go who shall say that the age of

miracles is past? from Australia, Canada, and India, while i'ie expected that Gueracsy and South Africa will also enter the contest for the Kolapore Cup. Men from New Zealand, the West Indies, Mediterranean, Egypt, China (the Shanghai Rifle Asso- ciation), the Straits, und Burma, will also compete daring the meeting, so the Empire will be thoroughly represented The Rangoon Volunteers are sending six men, and among other forces represented will be the 2nd Bombay, Baroda und Central India aitway Volunteers, the Kolar Gold Fields Volunteers, the Cat. catta Rifles and the Nagpur Volunteer Rifles.

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THE FUTURE SUBMARINE.

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THE END OF WHITE WOLF.

A Beturned Exile."--possibly from the East has provided a good summer topic for the papers by writing an account of his experiences with our hotels and inns to The Times. His story of a trip to the ecuntry is so characteristic of a certain type of country hotel in England Mr. Alexander Richardson, in Braascy's

that I cannot emit a reference to it. Her went down on a hot day, he says, and dis- Naval Annual, has some wonders of a difierent, kind to talk about. Marine

covered this hotel in the country and folt. engineers, he says, believe that the near at last he would have a cool evening of future will develop submarines of 2,000

pleasure. Behind the hotel he saw a tons, armed with four six-inch guns and

broad expanse of lawn with tables dotted an increased number of tubes for ter about and on the buffet he espied a fine pedoes. He adds" As great an advane 330rtment of cold meats. So he asked to 1 proportionate to the size of the ship, hashavo his dinner served on the law. been made in submarine boats as in any

was met with a surprised refusal. "Oh, craft, and thus the task of the engineer hus been greatly increased. This is due no sir, we never dream of serving dinner. only to the desire for higher speeds, but the open. Ten, if you like, but never

dinner

It is little things like that. greater fighting equipment. In this re which make our holiday makers trek to spect Germany is making marked progress France in the summer time. in site as well as in numbers. Obviously other Powers must follow, and vessels of at letet 1,700 tons displacement may be quite frequent in the near future. DR. MORRISON TO VISIT CANADA. the trend is for larger guns, it may be justihable to speculate, on the basis of

PEKING, August 12th. Dr. Morrison, I understand, is going the data already given as to the large

In a later telegram received from Chao on to Canada on his way back to China, German and Russian boats, onthe in order to study the Asiatic question in increase in size, and especially in engine. Ti, Defence Cominissioner of Honan, it is British Columbia.

power, to ensure 103 knots with guns of reported that according to the reports. British unemployed there who are writing greater power and range Four guns of received from various quarters and in- four-inch calibre iustead of the same vestigation, White Wolf was killed in the doleful tales home, so this Aeintic ques-number of 12-pounders with ammunition following circumstances:The troops_of Lion has gained a better grip of our would involve directly an increase in the Tien Tso-lin, Chang Ching-yao, Niu insular minds than it would otherwise weight of armaments of ten to twelve Kuei-lin, and Liu Pao-shan surrounded have done. Canadians and Americans tons, and the use of the same number of the White Wolf at Sanshanchai and other six-inch guns an addition of seventy-eight places and after repeatedly receiving White Wolf died.. The are both aware of the gravity of this issue fons 1,700-tons vessel would for Xound, he pushed his remains in the in the future. All other races are being twelve tons more weight become an, 1,509- more or less assimilated with the people, ton vessel, while for the seventy-eight tons vicinity of Shihchuang; and it happened for six-inch guns the displacement would that while suppressing the remaining tufei," Chang Chih-kung discovered but as the Globe commented a night or become 2,000 tons." At the end of the two ago From the crucible of American article Mr. Richardson says, It can be the remains and reported same, etc. As. nationality the Yellow races alone emerge accepted with confidence that our Ad- the White Wolf died of the wounds re- Even the Negro is pro-miralty officials are ensuring our supceived from Tien Tao-lin and others, unchanged. foundly modified by passing through it,remacy in engineering science as well as

in other departments of activity." though his stuff it too resistant to be effectively subdued, but the Japanese and

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THE PANAMA TOLLS DISPUTE.

PRESIDENTIAL MANDATES.

usurping merits as he did not mention the Chang Chih-kung's behaviour looked like detail in his report. Therefore it is just that he should he dealt with according to law. As Liu Chen-hua transmitted hie report without first making investiga- the Chinaman remain always the same. The children and the grandchildren learn our Ambassador in Washington, returns tions. he is indeed careless. However in to his post he will carry not only a letter consideration of the meritorious services

I hear that when Sir Cecil Spring Rice,

to talk English, but their racial type is from Sir Edward Grey but a message rendered by them in the suppression of at Fushuikuan, Taipingkon that of their ancestors, and their ideas from the King to the President, expresstufei * and aspirations are those of the Orient. ing satisfaction at the happy ending of and other places, no punishment will be America cannot assimilate them either the Panama Canal tells issue. It appears given to Liu Chen-hua and Chang Chih- kung. Bet the Presidential Mandate of that some of the Irish-American irrecon- physically or intellectually, and, there cilables are hotly endeavouring to make the 9th inst. granting them rewards, is fore, instinct warns her to keep them at trouble for President Woodrow Wilson hereby cancelled With regard-to-the arm's length. How to do so is one of her for pandering to the British," but as suppression of White Wolf, Chao Ti is Sir Edward Grey pointed out in the hereby ordered to institute an investiga- great problems, a problem which may in

House the other night all the correspond- tion and to request rewards for the de

before

present serving men. the future years become even more diCult than now presented by the Negro in the President came to the White House and There is a South. But she has yet another which whatever he has done has been absolutely will perhaps prove yet more abstruse. uninfluenced by England. North and South succeeded in uniting good deal of commercial activity, by the in anticipation of the opening of the way, after war, but between East and West Canal. I have just seen a whole group of American and Canadian timber men, there is a gulf which is steadily widening who are all bent on making early plans They are almost two separate races now, for the shipment of timber through the

canal to the European market.

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Chang Ching-vao, Major General of the Army with the brevet rank of Lieutenant General, and Liu Chen-hua, Lieutenant General, who were deprived of their.

tufe,"

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