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INSPECTION OF

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JUNE 4TH, 1915.

CHINA AND THE SILVER MARKET.

INTERESTING SHIPPING

JUDGMENT.

MANCHURIAN MINES.

THE TERRITORY WHICH JAPAN

TERRITOR

HAS ACQUIRED.

MARINE-INSURANCE POLICIES. Messrs. 8. Montagu & Co. in their latest report state:-An element of un-

The Court of Appeal has delivered a con-

According to the latest investigation made by the Japanese Colonization. certainty is introduced by the fact that sidered judgment which had been awaited over a million sterling of silver is held by shipowners and anderwriters with un- hero on China account, and at any opporusun interest and with some degree of Bureau of the Three Eastern Provinces, tunity deemed favourable for stich an anxiety inson hand wild nad in Mukden provinca operation China is prepared to unload insurance policy contains a clause in some-is 194,400,000 cha; 243,000,000 cho in

A of

THE CHINESE PATRIOTIC TAX.

province.

When cultivated these tracts

GERMANY'S, LETHAL GASES.

NATURE OF THE POISON. The following letter was received by the Secretary for War from Dr.J8. Haldane, F.R.S.-

General Headquarters,

British Expeditionary Force,

27th April, 1915.

OUR NEW MODEE their unanimous opinion in favour of tion in the value of the cargoes. The average rate of returns is and toy other means, I ascertained that the

for War, portion of its holding, possibly to be what archaic language protecting the aanred province; and, 361,800,000 cho in Amar To Earl Kitchener, Secretary of State

against "restraints and detainments of all

My Lord, I have the honour to report replaced later on. This has her experkings, princes, and peoples of what nation of land would be sufficient to support a Goed during the week. 690,000 ozs. has been made from Sadition and quality seover"; and their population of 20,000,000.

Japan has obtained the right of freely that as requested by you yesterday morn were called upon to define the Francisco to Hongkong.

meaning and scope of these words. The working mines and owning land in Maning, I proceeded to Franco to investigate

placed them by the

charia by virtue of the prospective treaty, the nature and effects of the asphyxiating interpretation Bhick Justice and Mr. but, that does not mean the immediate gas employed in the recent ping After reporting Justico Bray, Lord Justice Swinfen Eady outburst of enterprises in those provinces. the German troops.

In South Manchuria money has been myself at General Headquarters I pro dissenting will make necessary some modi fication of the risks included in marine invested in land by the South Manchuria ceeded to Bailleul with Sir Wilmot insurance policies, should the House of Railway Company to the extent of 4,000 Herringham, Consulting Physician to the Loris uphold the decision. The plaintifs cho, and by other private persons to the British Force, and examined with him In reply to telegram inviting opinions in the action were the owners of eargoes extent of 7.000 cho, all in the form of several men from Canadian battalions The South who were at the No. 2 Casualty Clearing of linseed shipped in "British sterners lease from the native owners. regarding the collection of the Patriotic Tax by levying on additional tax upon at Buenos Aires and consigned to Ham. Manchuria Railway Company has selected Station, suffering from the effects ng

a barren land with the object of convert-gas, burg lust July. After war bad broken the land, the Governors of the provinces out the vessels, upon approaching these ing it into paddy fields. The lets have These men were lying struggling "or have wired the Government, expressing" were diverted by the Admiralty to been bought at 9 you and some expenses breath, and bine in the face. On examin

ports, and there was soam consequent have been spent on them for developmenting the blood with the speroscope and scheme. To show the Government their

In South Manchuria be 12 per cent. willingness to support the enforcement of Meanwhile trading with the enemy had been

There auy abnormal pigment. this policy, the authorities of Chilli prohibited by proclamation and the continin there is no extensive wilderness calculated blueness wus, tot due to the presence of

of the province have promised to rais: 3500,000 tion of the voyage the steamers becaizë

to make good paddy fields. Vegetable nothing to account for the blueness farrus can he got at 30 yen or upward per (oyanosis) and struggle for air, but the year; Kwangtung, 8500,000; Kiangsu, illegal, Iu these circumstances the owners $500,000: Szechuan $200,000; and Hopeh, of the cargoes claimed for a constructive

one fact that they were suffering from $700,000

SOLICITED.

EXCLUSIVE AGENTS:

MOUTRIE'S.

ON A HOLIDAY

ORDER THE

HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS

[31-6

CANNED GOODS TRADE IN

CHINA.

total loss. The Court, in dismissing thecho, but the Japanese farmers can not

and labour from the farms.

WHA

appeal from the decision of Mr. Justice Bail. I expect any large returns for their moses acute bronchitis, such as is caused by

A CARGO DISPUTE.

the

the

inhalation of an irritant gas. Their statenients were that when in the trenches they had been overwhelmed by an rud gas produced in front of the German trenees and carried towards them by gentle breeze.

One of them died, shortly after our A post-morteia examination.

The ex- was conducted in our present sion, of Glasgow University. arrival. Loutenant MeNee, pathologist by profes amination showed that death was due to acute bronchitis and its secondary effects. There was no doubt that the bronchitis and accompanying alow asphyxiation were due to the irriinnt gas,

Ta

laid down the principle that no actual

In East Mongolia the roads of force is necessary to constitute

South of Chenchiatun are so bad that no the restraint of princes; it is sufficient if the master of the tessel has abandoned one except the natives can carry on any the voyage in obedience to an uet of agricultural enterprises in those part

Moreover, there is little room for aliens Stato. The position is now that under tlio

to secupy any place. The districts avail- The Beard of Trade have received from restraint cause in its present form a British

able for the Japanese are, therefore, only the British Embassy at Washington a subject insures himself against loss caused trade in the Far East, issued by the or the commands of his Government, but he strip of land to the North of Changchia the views held by the authorities of the BEFORE LEAVING FOR HOME copy of a report on the canned goods by a compliance with the laws of his country barren lands in South Manchuria and

United States Department of Commerc. does not insure himself against a loss caused the in East Mongolia. Such is at least South Manchuria Railway Company and It appears that the trade with China in by a defiance of those laws or commands.

the Kwantung Government General. canned goods is carried on by wholesale

The investigations into the land questions merchants in the Treaty Ports-mainly in

in Manchuria are indeed very defective Scarcely any Shanghai and Hongkong.

and incomplete. Even the Agricultural canned goods go beyond the Treaty Portst

The present except to the missionaries.

churia Railway Company have. [no yesterday the body of a Canadian gör. demand for canned goods in China is LONDON PRIZE COURT JUDGMENT Station belonging to the South Matt Lieutenant MeNec had also examined limited practically to the foreign elemnt,

In the Prize Court, London, on 26th April, adequate materials for the supply of any geant, who had died in the clearing Personal observation and inquiries on- firmed the impression that canned gods before the Right Hon. Sir Samuel Evans, the information regarding the subject. The station from the effects of the gold

company is said to have decided to this case, also, very acute bronchitis and armed tea to many of the untive case of the Felicitan wat andemmation despatch a commission composed of excedema of the lungs caused death by Chinese, yet it is noticeable that any Crown claimcil, inter alia the western customs have crept in, and in of 100 larrels of fish oil and 574 Japanese perte: to those districts to complete the asphyxiation

Mineral deposits also are not so rich in deposition by Captain Bertram, Sta- matters of food there is a tendency to oak logs sold by Masuda & Co., of Yoko investigations regarding land.

Condensed milk hamn, to Hesse, Newman & Co. Manchuria crept the mines being worked Canadian Battalion, was carefully taken The goods were ship by the Japanese at Fushun, Yentai, Kuan Bertram was then in the clearing station, down by Lieutenant MeNoc. Captain adopt western dishes has become an important article of import burg and Bremen.

which the British steamship Felicina, in

chents, Huoshibling, Niutsintal, and suffering from the effects of the gas and into both China and Japan, and has been ghartered to a German firm, und was

Among others the principal from a wound. From a support trench. unly a small amount of adverting, cued in the London Docks in September veins in Manchuria are at Hilaushi, about 600 yards from the German lines. trated into the inner parts of China ith running in the Rickmers Line. They were Penchiha With the exception of the trade in on last. Mr. Maddocks appeared for Masude Saimassu, Hsinchiu, Fuchou, Chiapikon, densed milk, it appears that in Japa, as & Cd, who claimed that they had exercised Tungkuangling and Chienslanchi. They he had observed the gas in China, the imports of canned gods right of stoppage in transit, and that the are mostly worked by natives on a small of all, a white smoke rising from the Mr. If scale. Even if Japanese capital be employ German trenches to a height of about 3ft. are sold principally to the foreign pol goods land roverted to them.

ed a greenish cloud, which drifted along tion, and each nationality, of course, Stringer, on behalf of Mr. "A bred Bucked it is doubtful if they will yield much Then in front of the white smoke appenr- Serving with H.M. Forces, preât. The copper, gold, and alllut the ground to our trenches, not rising prefers the canned foods of its own a mill,

the Mercantile Bank of mines also are of insignificant value

more than about 7ft. from the ground try. If there is to be any great incripse in the sale of these foods it must be to heared for

when it reached our first trenches. who had a claim as pledges, owing to the small percentage of pure ore

In East Mongolia also there in these trenches were obliged to leave, Japanese themselves. The report may be cinsel on their behalf admitted that their contained." consulted by United Kingdom films laim was covered by the decision in the are some mineral veins, but nothing is

effects of the gas. He made a counter- interested at the Commercial Intellige Odeon (31 The Times J., 146), but their known about them. In any event it must and a number of them were killed by the Branch of the Board of Trade, 73, Basing time for appeal was extended until the long before they are worked.

into attack about 15 minutes after the gas hall-street, London, F.C.

came over, and saw 25 mer tying dead from the effects of the gas on a small.

tronches to the supports. He was himself stretch of road leading from the advanced much affected by the gas still present, and felt as if he could not breathe.

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Oder appeal had been heard. The lenmed President said that the only grand now put forward by the claimants was that by reason of the failure of Hesse, Newman & Lo to set their acceptances given for the price of the goods and, or by renson of their insolvency, In the couse of a written reply o gles Mets Masuda & Co., before the arizuro ions regarding the issue of the Seer of the gels, had exorcised the right of stop lands Intian Loun the Minister for the page in frans, and that the property in the Colonies, Mr. Pleyte, states both view goods had therefore reverted to them. Coun of the floating debt of 1.100,000)co, it sol for the claimants had argued that this was necessary to issue Netherlands ndiay notice of stoppage in trans to hail been given before seizure, and that under Section 62, bands, and not to wait until pea hold Sub-section 3 of the Sale of Goods Act have been declared. For then it has to

he feared that owing to the great red of Hesse, Newnan & Co. must be decmed muney the rates of interest wold to be insolvent, as they had ceased to Ligher and the ternis of the loanmore pay their debts in the ordinary course of business. As to the first point, it was onerous.

and ouride the Nethennt's, both in under the pressure of the war, had how little inclination to take up a loan jard

by a creditor who came on the mark for lordship had pointed, but, as his |

fulfilling of his obligations. the Ministers opinion it was thus, it the circumstances, fully justifiable to the financial burden of the agres made with the hanking groups, eve at first only 1.40,900,000, viz., two-thir, of the loan could thereby be placed.

UNITED STATES BORN.

For conducting investigations those points every assistatier has been given by the Geographical Laboratory of the South Manchuria Railway Company If the result of the investigations be satis factory the company has never refus d any help and proved a great stimulant to the Japanese enterprises in Mantburiaso far, but not now that the company has been reorganized. In the Japanese bual Jess community therefore assistance from Chosen is eagerly expected-Asahi,

ARMAMENT TOOL STEEL.

He saw, first

The symptoms and the other facts so far ascertained point to the use by the German troops of chlorine or bromine for purposes of asphyxiation.

There are also facts pointing to the use in German shells of other irritant sub- stances, though in some cases at least these agents are not of the same brutaly barbarous character as the gas used in the attack on the Canadians. The effects are not those of try of the ordinary products of combustion of explosives. On quite true that various steps were taken THE DEMAND FOR MOLYBDENUM.

Customs officers on behalf of the

this point the symptoms described left Procurator-General before the final act of

At the present time, there is an exep. not the slightest doubt in my mind. possession of the

Professor H. B. Baker, F.R.S., who the net of tionally large demand in this country for act of detention, the so-called special steels," that is to accompanied me, is making further in-

quiries from the chemical side. The evidence was that the goods wors say, steels which are specially hardened.

Tam, ny Lord, your obedient servant, detained on Sept. 2, and the final seizure took This class of steele is much used in con- armament work, and

·J. §. HALDANE. place on Sept. 11, when it was determined action with

the wear and tear of which bring the cargo into the Prize Court. It particularly for making machine

Dr. John Scott Haldane, F.R.S., who was not until Sept. 15 that the solicitor for tools,

War Office, is a brother of Lord Haldane. the claimants put forward to the collector in our large engineering works is just now has conducted the investigation for the of Customs the notice of

abnormally high stoppage relivi

of the case, but These special steels" are made by the Re is a graduate in medicine of Edin That was enough to that he would have addition of various comparatively rare burgh University and an M.. of Oxford his lordship would add FOREIGNquired a great deal of argument to convince metals, such as tungsten, manganese, and an LT, D. of Birmingham. For mor vanndum and molybdenum, to steel, and years he has been engaged in scientific him that

pay one people who declined to ceptance through brukers because of the their importance may be gathered from investigation, and has contributed largely utbreak of war had ceased to pay their the fact that in Germany all stocks of to the clutcidation of the causes of death He is Jebts in their ordinary course of business, these metals are being commandeered by in colliery and ming explosions.

the Government. In the United Kingdom the author of a work on the physiology Professor Baker, F.R.8., who is carry- molybdenum is at present in so great of respiration and air analysis. regnest that the ore is now selling at £10

ing out chemical-investigations-into the nature of the gases, is Professor of Chemistry in the Imperial College of Science and Technology, London. He was a Scholar in Natural Science at Balliol. He has conducted important experiments into the nature of gases.

on.

MACGREGOR&C. A the last census of the United Stated could be deemed to be insolvent

the statistics with regard to its foreign ithin the meaning of the Sale of Goods fe The goods-in-question would be born papulation were as follows IOE Putemued. WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS. Total population of the United

States. Born in the United States Born chewhere

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MITSU BUSSAN KAISHA HONGKONG.

HONGKONG METEOROLOGICAL

REGISTER

The

$91,372, 2001

per ton.

CHLORINE 4ED PROMINE.

The Imperial Institute has given con- siderable atleation for many years past to the materials from which these metals 69,798,864 NW P. AND O. STEAMER. are prepared. During 1913 more than 32,243,3521

half of the world's molybdenum cams now steamship Kalyan has been com from Australia, principally from Queens 991,072,980 pld for the Peninsular and Oriental Comand and New South Wales. But it i

Sir Wilmst Herringham, M.D. Ogon,, panat the yard of fears, Cammell, Laindidly though usually sparingly distri-ide

physician to St. Bartholomew's 4,242,618 & Birkenhead, and is fixed to begin buic troughout most of the British Hospital and Vice Chancellor of the 2,000,539 her tiden voyage in June, when she will Egilt occurs, for instance in London University.

Indian leondon for Bombay with the

Lieutenant McNee, M.B.. M.Ch.. $10,281,171 nuillybis vessel is the last to be delivered amongst other parts of the Empire, Bouth

and Western Australia, New Zeland, Glasgow, a Carnegie Research Fellow, ti class of 9,000-ton

Canedo, South Africa and India. In this assistant to the Preisssor of Pathology 21.039,205 of th

new crus-the-K class designed ocen met with in the

of poducte 32.218.382 rebecially to reinforce the P. and 0.

niany investigations of an important Chinpay's services

to Calcutta and to the Cornish copper and tin mines and in Straiterhing, and Japan. Notable features quarries in Leicestershire, and it is said character in pathology and chemical

to have been worked in Inverness, and

Pathology, of the teamers are the great breadth and

The Imperial Institute communicated HONGKONG TRAMWAY CO., LD.gth their chaltered promenade decks Cumberland.

the comfort and simple elegance of

The investigation which has been ci- thir plic rooms.

The main dining some time ago with the various producirg

countries in the Empire with reference to ducted by Dr. Haldare indicates the use following are the Company's stoom, fich is fitted with restauran

bles, i situated forward on the far the present special opportunities of dis-1 of ellorine or bromine in the asphyxiating

· Chlorine is a greerish yellow gas figures. for week ending May 29th--

output aid much heavier than air. It on uses a sef FIL k and extends through the width of posing of molybdenum, with a view to gas. ...$ 8,459

shining lighted from the sides and increasing the British Becripts

frard en by 16 large windows or port-encouraging prospecters in likely districts of suffocation when inhaled and rapidly 2,605. Onthe hurricane deck ab ve are the not yet worked

fit-class masic and smoking saloons; the Weoni root and a limited number of first- 21,470 deck cains. Accommodation is pro

5,815ed on the hurricane and npae decas for 79 and 63 secand-class passengers in cabins, majority of which are outside or 4 54 8 4 8 10 50 12 2. Flu Censor's blue pencil has her hole cabin or one or two persons only t of the abins are, furnished with 7m 5 600 24 15 & 2

eavily used on the Navy List, the first robes, writing tables, etc.; and the free 61451172 quarterly issue of which appeared recent pision in each cabin of an electric venti ly The most important section-tha fan and the attachment to every hed couts ining the names of all warships of novable reading lamp are conveniences with their officers and one or two details will be appreciated. It may be added! s to tonnage and gunpower hasbeerecting the five forerunners of the new taken ont bodily: while only the barve which have been placed in commission zams of merchant vessels commissioned aftervals during the past two years thn as H.M. ships and auxiliary craft are thhayo amply falalled the expectations

thdesigners and the travelling public. given.

Days of

Month

Height

Пeight. -

Tecrease compared with cut- responding week lest year... Aggregate to date:-

HONGKONG TIDE TABLE.

Born in Germany Born Austria-Hungary

Others "foreign born. Tutal "foreign-born

From 5th to 10th June.

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HIGH WATER

LOW WATEE.

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Hongkong Observatory, June 3rd.

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sets up inflammation of mucous mem branes. It is probably the most effective of all gases that might be employed" for the purpose of killing men in warfare,

The Times Military correspondent wrote

Bremion is a still beavier gas than cecently: There can be no doubt of the success of the new armies which are com chloving At ordinary temperatures ti pound of magnificent material, can marcha dark brownish red Houd of most Its vapour is yellowish right well, can shoot fairly, and will be irritating smell. It is very volatile and improves and with auxiliary services of red and becomes lesy transparent when found with artillery which will steadily boils at deg.

Large including troons already on the ground, irritant to mucous membranes.

good stamp. Without any doubt, adated. It acts like chloring as a violent we shall be able to place a million quantities of bromine are produced at in the field in the principal theatre this Strassfart, in Germany.

–Germany is a signatory to the Declars- summer, and we shall have in reserve at home more than a million more courtition at The Hague Corference of 100. use of naphyxiating all categories of our forces, and excludig interdicting the troops despatched to secondary theatres." gases