JAPAN'S FINANCIAL
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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY Sur, 1915.
PRISONERS OF TSINGTAU.
DOMICILIARY SEARCHES
CONDUCTED,
سعيد
A Moji dispatch to the Asahi gives the following accounts of the domiciliary searches recently made at Taingtou by the Japanese military authorities as given by a passenger just arrived from Tsingtan: Tsingtau, and it was reported that many There were 380 German residents at of them were Army reservists. On the visits was Legun. The military authorities had held a secret conference the previous night lasting till midnight, at which they draw up their scheme of operations, and at three o'clock in the morning gendarmes and soldiers armed with rifles and with bayonets fixed were posted in the streets. The cavalry were also called oat, and all wayfarers were shadowed. Of these there were not many, as a violent storm was
WEATHER REPORT.
On the 2nd at 11.15,--Premure bas gives way at mest staticna and is now con siderably below normal over the whole China coast. The Manchurian depression has passed into the Pacific, while that over Indo-Chins has deepened and spread eastward. A shallow depression is indicated over the Eastern Sea.
The "high" noted yesterday has remained intensity. prastically stationary and has not attained
Hongkong rainfall for the 24 hours ending at The forecast for the 24 hours anding at roor to-day is my followa
FORECAST.
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Hongkong & Neighbourhood Formons Channel
marble bridge--no finer in all Peking loads to the foot of a flight of 100 steep. stone steps. At the top of these stands the Yunan, Everlasting Peace temple, HARD TIMES NOT DUE TO WAR also built by Kang Hai for Lamas from Tibet and Mongolia Immediately in According to Mr. Honda, Editor of front of it is a Buddhist shrine, filled the Zaiser Keirai Jiko, who sets forth his with brazen Buddhas, many of which, curiously enough have women's faces; views in a lengthy article in that journal and on the west in the White Pagoda, for the current month, the hard times in of lovely proportions. All round about alluded to above, a building 200ft. high, Japan are not owing to the world-wide are groves of old trees, in the midst of war-muel less to the Snancial policy which one discovers dainty pavilions, still pursued, by the Okura Cabinet, as is de haunted, to the imagination, by the night of the 13th inst. a sories of official 10.m. to-day, 0.10 inches, clared by its opponents. The Russo-laughter of those impossible little Court Japanese War and the post-bellum works ladies whom one sees in old pictures are answerable. With this view Mr. Z. Beside one of these pavilions stands u Horikoshi, proprictor of Messrs. Horiko broes figure holding up the daw shi & Co, Tokyo, writing in the receiving tray. It was believed by Fitsugyo-no-Schai, concurs. Mr. Honda drinking the dew collected in this. tray states that for the last decade national the Emperor could attain everlasting finances have been finkered up solely by life, foreign money, It was like spurring and Farther on one comes to a spacious flogging a thoroughly exhausted nag lako on the far side of which is the Foreign borrowing has now become almost Chinhsinte, the most beautiful hall in the impossible for Japan, and without this whole of Peking,, where are such wooden spur Japanese finance shows signs of com- fretwork, carving, and tracery, the work ing to a standstill.
In the Yamamoto of the finest Chinese woodcarvers, as the Cabinet, Baron Takahashi, the Finance world does not contain elsewhere. Here Minister, one of the staunchest champions it is intended that the eunuchs of the of the positive policy, endeavoured to late Court shall sell refreshments to carry into effect his financial principles. visitors. Facts are stubborn things, however, and could be invented for "the rats and foxca
No more fitting punishment even then the financial conditions did not who through China's history have brought allow of the execution of the positive so many dynasties to their ruin; and policy as it was understood previously looking round on the faded scrolls and As it was, the Baron's line of policy verses of dead Emperors, which adorn largely savoured of a negative plan. As the hall, the eunuchs may well reflect For the Okuma Cabinet, it has left finan bitterly on the scheming, the arrogance, cial affairs to take their
course, and intrigue that have brought them to having no definite financial policy of its their prosent humiliation. Own. Hence the Okuma Cabinet is noither the promoter nor the reliever of bard times. Nor is the European war ro sponsible for the depression, though its true that it has promoted it in some measure. Not that the war has had no adverse effect on Japan's trade, but it would appear that to the popular vision the tradel susceptibility in war-time, is greatly magnified in this country.
·UNHOUSED TREASURES.
If Poking has gained in material com- forts, it has unquestionably lost something of that tremendous majesty and mysteri ous aloofness which made it unique among all cities of the world, and a visit, to the Peihai cannot but heighten the contrast. A great debt of thanks is due to President Yuan for opening it to inspection. In recording that debt suggestion may be made. For some time past there has been talk of founding a museum in Peking for the ancient art treasures of China. The conscience of the people has begun to be stirred by the manner in which these treasures are being torn from China, and the article on this subject recently published in The Times has aroused no little interest and comment. The works of art left by bygone Emperors at Jehol and Mukden have been brought to Feking within recent times; and, although much, has gone abroad, there is still ample to form a valuable nucleus of a museum. Why not onshrine the collection in the Peihni, where it could be properly guarded, and would bring in fresh revenue from those who would hasten to see it? ready to hand, a porfect setting, the There are buildings appropriate atmosphere. No more fitting repository could well be found for the treasures of the dead Emperors than this, the favourite of their haunts.
True, continues Mr. Honda, the returns show a substantial decrease in the volume of Japan's foreign trade since the com- mencement of hostilities, but mere figures do not furnish an unfailing and actual idea of the extent to which the war has affected trade. Among others, two points call for special consideration:-First, the war breaking out at a time when not only was depression reigning in financial and economie circles, but showed signs of in- ereasing, the probability is that Japan's trade has not been affected by the war to the extent indicated by the figures in the returns; secondly, the fact that, imports having suffered for the most part, the financial blow might rightly be said to be of leas serious.cffect on general economics than a blow of the same magnitudo dealt at exports. The writer avole that the war has simply accelerated the dimination of importe, which must take place in the nature of things as existing in Japan without the outbreak of the war, and which was already actually beginning to manifest itself before the war broke out. For the last few years, capital sunk in new business enterprises in this country has been yearly on the depredac
Thin betokens a growing depression, and, in a 'sense, indientes further aggravation in store, for at a time when financial circles are so hopelessly depressed that projected enterprises have to be dropped, no new projects will crop up. absorbed over Y:200,000,000
That last year enterprises, according to
terest. the Bank of Japan returns, points to the fact that financial depression has not yet reached its climax Added to this is the more momentous probability that when the war
the European belligerents will los no time in absorbing gold and withdraw ing capital invested abroad, and the editor of the Tokyo journal concludes that the worst is yet still to come for Japan when the warring nations sot about rehabilita tion worze after the Chronicle.·
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MODERN PEKING. OPENING OF A PUBLIC PARK.
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STAMPS AND THE WAR. OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE
COLLECTOR.
The philatelist is watching the progress of the war with the kernest possible in
"We simply do not know where we are," Mr. C. J. Phillips, the managing director of Stanley Gibbons, Limited, the famous firm in the bound, remea representative of the Pall Mall Gazette. The dealers and collectors of the world seem all to be after German Colonial stamps. We could have sold our stock out ten tims over."
What is the procedure with regard to stamps when a colony is seized ?
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METEOROLOGICAL
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2ND FEBRUARY, 1915, AM
At daybreak searches of the leading German business houses wore begun Before this some houses were starched for evidence of the concealment of Government property as private posses sions, resulting in many buildings being alarm was felt in German circles. put uador military occupation, and mucl searches were conducted as if the town were under martial-law. The principal places searched that day were the residence of Mr. Gunther, former head of the civil administration of Tsingtau, the offices of Sietas. Plambeck & Co., the largest general store in Tsingtau, the Hamburg- Amerika office, the Tinytau Gazette, the German Printing and Publishing Com- about twenty in all, These premises had pany and other first class. German firms, not been touched before. What evidence was seized as the result of the searches 3 not known, but judging from the large number of German military trunks and other goods carried off in carts to the
Viadrostock military headquarters, it is surmised that Hakodate there was no lack of quantity. More than Tekic
Nemuro
half the German residents at Tsingtau Koobl were packing up to go home by the PM. Nagtenki steamer Korea from Shanghai on the 22nd Kagoshima December, and this may have caused the Oshima... authorities to determine on collecting Naha their evidence. without delay.
lahi'ima On the 14th, from 30 to 60 Germans were
Behin Is summoned early in the morning to the Chefoo... military headquarters, where, under a
Weihaiwai
they were examined one by one in regard strong guard of gendarmes and soldiers, Hanko Ichang to their connection with the army. Not
Kinklang a few proved to be men who had discarded
Chargeha their military uniforms and were going Gulaal
Shanghai about in civilian dress, professing to be Sharp Peak non-combatants, and to these formal Amoy notice was served that, having parti Swatow arrested as prisoners of war. Those who Taloku cipated in the fighting they would be Talhoku it was believed would not attempt to Tainan abscond were allowed go home for a time Koshun an.. ander escort of gendarmes, and the rail-Fescadores ... way and steamers were strictly forbidden Canton to take Gerinan and Austrian luggage on Hongkong board. The residences of the prisoners Gap Rock....... and the entrances to the city were strictly Wobow
Masso guarded by gendarmes and troops to Prevent any prisoners from absconding. Pakhad...
Bellow The examinations were continued till the Paulien afternoon of the 15th instant, and those Tourke....... who were declared prisoners of war wers Cape St. James allowed to go home to pack up their things Aparri and take leave of their families. They Manila were then escorted Military Camp, to the number of 144. lailo
to the Moltke Legaspi Mr. Kuropatkin, who was Russian Con- Bacolod sular Agent at Tsingtan, is reported to have behaved as though he were still Labuan Russian Consul. He was dismissed from the service upon the outbreak of hostilities between Germany and Russia, and at the request of the Russian Government the Japanese authorities took charge of the Russian Government property in his office. He was detained at the gendarmerie
"As soon as the British authorities take over the colony, they go to the post office,station, a scim, the etanips, and surcharge them. The result of this is to create new sets of stamps. There are therefore the stamps in existence before the war, and then the surcharged stamps which bear the letters up to £55 each already."
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Whatever conduct may have led to the present position in which the new German prisoners find themselves, says the Asahi's informant, it is a situation almost tragics for some of them. On the 14th and 15th women and children were seen at the gendarmerie station weeping bitterly. One of the prisoners recently lost his wife. who left six children, the eldest of whom is 15 years old, and he has petitioned for freedom so that he may do something for protector. It is believed that special the care of his family, who have no other consideration will be given in this case.→
THE HAUNTS OF OLD EMPERORS. Visitors to Peking are stadied nowadays in a way that would astound those who remember the Peking of but a very few years ago, observes a correspondent of The Times. Readers of The Times vill
THE PENNY DISPLACES THS PFENNIG, recall Sir Valentine Chirol's vivid descrip- The Bamoan German 80 pf. has been com
"Yos
There are the sets for Samoa tion of bis first visit to Poking in 1894-verted into a Samoan British ed., and the or 1895, when Sir Nicholas O'Connor had 20 pf. into the 2jd-their nearest equiva to hold open the city gates almost by lents. There were, however, comparative foroo to let the traveller in a minutely few stamps in the Samoan post offio fapovi Chronicle, y two after sundown; when wayfarers at night were preceded by a colic carrying when the British took over the island, so anterns and when the dark, frowning from key ran out-one being available walls lanes of the city had their big supply from New Zealand. Now we from Berlin-the authorities obtained a Dounterpart in the sullen, inhospitable have New Zealand stamps with Samon looks of its residents. Now there luxurious hotels, spacious roads lighted printed oss them. The philatelist is with electricity, motor-cars, all the Baturally curious to know what is going Bights of the city are eagerly
to happen in Sanion and the other German open Colonies which have passed into our
possession,
to the erstwhile barbari
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To the number of these sights Bresident Why cannot there be a severely prac Yuan has lately added the most beautiful
ticals
side to philately under the
Mr. Phillips askedesant
of all the haunts of the old Palace. conditions? ""
xcepting, perhaps, the Summer”
RED CROSS STAMPS.
Indeed the Peihal, or North Sea Park, mean, why should we not do as France now opened to the public at a small fee, and Monaco are doing, raise money for the which is to be divided between main-
Red Cross by means of Red Cross tenance charges and the Ching Court, is
stamps?" In some ways superior to the famous Bha Yuan, for it suffered less in the Boxer. Mr. Phillips produced a parcel of year. The Chinese landscape gardeners French stamps. When war broke out the of the past were unapproachable in their 100. stamp was surcharged 50., the red handling of marble bridges, lakes, carved cross and the e. appearing in red ink, pavilions, and ragodas, and nowhere is Very soon, however, these were replaced their genius better displayed than in the by stamps bearing the Red Cross, and the Peihai It was favourite resort of the amount of the surcharge, as part of the great Manchu Binperors Kang Hei and design, on the stamp itself. The plates. Chien Lung, who reigned between 1007 had been prepared and the printing done and 1795, but an inscription by the latter in something like record time. Emperor, affixed to the Pagoda which, overlooks must of Peking, says that the aid of the Prince of Wales' Fund, the pro- If British stamps were surcharged in park was constructed during the Chin code would amaze most people.. Dynasty of North China, when the south was ruled by the Southern Sungs. Many he can to keep pace with the progress of "The amateur philatelist is doing all of the trem are several centuries old, and events, but the big speculative dealers of the nar
very valuable wood from the world are making strenuous efforts to Szechuan, of which some of the pavilions secure possession of the stamps of the vari are entirely constructed, was brought to ons German posessions before the war, the Peking many hundreds of years ago. surcharged German stamps after their The park has been kept in good repair.captures and the temporary stamps now and breathes an old-world charm and used as substitutes until fresh issues have dignity through verdurous glooms and been prepared. Big prices promise to winding mossy ways, such as only a rule. Keats could chain down to ink and paper.
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