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HONGKONG-CANTON

LINE.

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(available also for retart

by day stemmer) Single Fare by Day Steamer

Return

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FRIDAY, 1678

JUNE, 1916,

5 am. HONAN

5 pp. KINSHAN,

8 m. HEUNGSHAN.

10 p.m. FASHAN.

8. HONAM.

10 pm. KINSHAN.

SATURDAY 17TH JUNE, 1916.

&am, HEUNGSHAN,

6. p.m. FATSHAN,

HONGKONG-MACAO

B.S, TAIBEAN, Tons 2001,

LINE

8.8. SUI TAI, Ton 1,651.

Work days at 3 a., HONGKONG TO MACAO Lok Sires When

Sundays si 9 am and 1 pim. from the Company's Wing Lok Street Wharf,

MACAO TO HONGKONG

Week days a, 7.30 m. sad p.m. Sundays at 7.30 a.m. and 3 p.m

EXCID ON TO MACAOJ

SUNDAY, 18TH JUNE, 1916.

*TAISHAN

The Company's New Steamship

Win depart from the Company's WING LOX STREET WHARɔ +1 8 am., and retar Leom. Kfsono af 3 p.m. sa

NB-The Company will also ran a Steamer from Mioto on Sunday at 7.30 ar and from Hongkong si 1 p.m., from the Company's Wing Lok Street Wizards

FARES AS USUAL

MACAO-CANTON LINE.

8.8. SUI ANJ

Departures from Musso to Cazken on Monday, Wednesisy and Friday, at 9 pm Departures from Canton to Macno on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, at 480 pit, JOINT SERVICE OF THE HONGKONG, CANTON AND MAQAC STEAMBOAT CO., LTD. THE CHINA NAVIGATION CO., LTD. AND THE INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION CO. LTD. CANTON WUCHOW LINE.

8.8. BINAM, 589 tong, nad 8.8. NANNING, $69 Boar Oss of the abor. Stemmer lower Canton for Washow every Monday, Wedamday on Friday, at about 9 am, and the other leares Washow for Canton on the same days st 8.30 am.. Bound trips take about 6 days. Pamongere enn rekare to Hoarkong or vice versa be the Company direct Steamers LINTAN SANUL Theses hara, superior Chair sorommodation and are lighted thengfrost by electricity. Electric Pas in sach Cable,

Booking Office opes dally (Bunday excipled) 9 am to 5 pm Further particulars may be obtained at the Offion of the m

HONGKONG CANTON & MADAO STEAMBOAT CO. LTD.

Hotel Mansions (Finet Ploce), Ongonide khe Blake Plar.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JUNE 16TH, 1916,

FORMOSA LETTER.

[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT]

TAIHOR, me 8th. EMPIRE DAY.

P. H PEARSE.

THE PRESIDENT OF THE IRISH REPUBLIC!!

CHARGE OF EMBEZZLEMENT.. DEFENDANT COMMITTED FOR

TRIAL AT SHANGHAI.

COMPANY REPORT. NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA The fifty-second report of the Nippon Yuson Kaisha to the shareholders for the Some efforts were made here to promote half-year ended March 31st last, states:--- a concert or social gathering on Empire

The surplus of earnings after deduct- Day, but the project had to be abandoned, ing current expenditure for the past half and, instead, a collection was made in year amount to Yen 11,997,304.206, out of aid of the Red Cross Society and Stwhich there have been deducted John's Ambulance Corps, to which gen: Depreciation of the Co.'s

Heat and property erous donations were made by almost

Insuranco fund every member of the foreign community Ships' structural

Zund Although there are few Britons here, a branch of the Patriotic League of Bri-- tons Overseas has been formed and con- tributions towards the many. War Fands have been regularly remitted to head quarters. The moving spirit is undoubt edly Mr. S. R. Ford, who plays the double råle of Secretary and Treasurer the directors and auditors' fees, and own hearts and of the dormant potentia 17. reduction of bail stating that such un

never a visitor.

VISITORS.

repair

The directora now propose that Yen 480,711.300 be added to the reserve fund, and that Yen 105,000 be allowed as

.C.

P.

The defendant waived the preliminary hearing, and was committed to take his trial before the Supreme Court, bail being fixed in a cash bond of $3,000, or two securities of $25,000 each.

Mr. Fleming at once applied for m

He suggested that $5,000- amount was utterly beyond the defend- would be sufficient.

ant's means.

[BY LOUIS J. WALSH.]

In the U. S.-Consular Court, Shang- hai, before Mr. Krisel, A. M. Baldwin In 1890 the Gaelic League was a very was charged by Wang Vun-kum, obscure organization occupying a couple Szechuen Road that he, having received of rooms up a dingy staircase in O'Con$25,00 to be paid out or refunded under noll-street in Dublin, and few people for certain conditions, failed to account for, saw that it was destined to wield the the money and was thereby guilty of potent influence which has since fallen to embezzlement by bailee against the laws. it in Irish life. It was at that time of the United States. Y.1,325,438.020

District Major

Holcomb, attracting hardly any attention in den- 783,711.740

demic circles; and i remember it was Attorney, appeared for the prosvention, tooked upon as a happy augury by the and Mr. WS, Fleming (with whom was 303,92%.240

League authorities, when they succeeded Mr. J. B. Davies) appeared for the do- Y.2,383,073.000 in attracting a small batch of university fandant.

students to a class which they had formed leaving a balance of Yen 10,50,840,115, specially for our benefit. There were, including Yen 946.618.200 brought for-think, less than a dozen of us altogether, and the teacher we had assigned to us was ward from last recount.

an earnest, studious-looking young man, with glasses, naim Patriek H. Pears.

Strange how little we know even of our Yen 350,000 for the employés as special ties that lie within us. Had a prophut in grant for their services un connection '99 foretold the red ruin that was to come with the war, From the remainder, the on Ireland in 1910, I don't think there directors recommend a fividend at the would have beon anyone and least of all rate of eight per cent, per annum, besides himself to venture the opinion that the two per aut, as special dividend, and ashy, hands, palo-faced young student farther ten per cent, as extra special was likely to be the leader of the coming dividend, which three items, put revolution, to hold for a fleeting hour the gether, will absorb Yen 2,835,809, leaving office of President of the Provisional a balance of Yen 7,029,537 854 to be car Government of the Irish Republic and Fied forward to rest account,

Commander-General of the Republican Army, and to suffer death under son- tence of a court-martial at the hands of n It seemed far more likely that the man firing party in Dublin. wonid live and dia in the quiet seclusion of some seat of learning, and be remem-

Mr. Paul Sellier; manager for the was absorbed at the time in his en Peking branch of the Banque Industriello - thusiasm for Irish linguistic studies, and de Chine, has returned to Chiun from his admiration for Gaelic literature. He the front. He left China with the first raved about the simple beauty of our detachment, in September, 1913, and. folk songs, and loved to descant on the after arriving in France, was given one strange, old-world Celtic eloquence" of

of this bynnel.

There are few things to exciting to the handful who have their being in this locality as the advent in their midst of a visitor from the outside world. En pire Day may be all but ignored, but The foreign residents trip over-each other, guratively, in The large increase of earnings for the their eagerness to give him or her a good term under review is due to the abnormal Even the most lethargic worlddition of the shipping trade, con consideration should be. wake up and fish his dinner jacket on hand, on the great war. On the other of his trunk. This is ram place truly, given to the enormons risks which are be ing run by the Company in operating its and I suppose, somehow, people get sea-steamers during the war, and the com-bered merels for the books he wrote. He soned to rum situations.

petition on an suprecedented scale and business depression of a serious nature, Considering the nearness of your port which are sure to be experienced upon the te this, it is strange that visitors from restoration of peace. With these ven Hongkong are few and far between. Itualities in view, and the end of the war being still far from sight, the directors

time

sequent

time arrives.

The District Attorney opposed bail was decided that counsel should confer being fixed at so small an amount and it and apply to his Honour in chambers.

FAR EASTERN MEN AND THE WAR,

Pte. F. Eastwood, who was recently at the International Cotton Mill Co, at

shot. Pootung, is with the R.A.M.C., at Alder-

cannot be for want of attraction, as For deem it appropriate to carry the greater on Irish prose writers. Indeed, he month's training and immediately sent wounded. The wound, which was from. mosa s many places of interest and part of the profit to next account for rather jarred on some of us, who cherish to the front. Two months later he was a rifle bullet, was received at Avucourt, some beautiful scenery, to say nothing of suitable adjustment when an opportunced the old conception of Ireland & Nation" with the ardour that every the spa which offers excellent hor-spring

young Irishamn who is worth his salt hear Verdun, on February 27th. 1016. Mr. Sellier regiment was sent out to sulpho-radium) baths, Now, that the

forls, by his insistence on the doctrin charge a trench and he was shot while that the centuries-old aspiration was trying to crawl under some wire entangle. O.S.K. are running a few fine boats be

never destined to be realize in the wayments. The bullet entered near the top tween Hongkong and this island, and the

we had always understood. Pacifics are calling regularly for lea there ought to be special summer rates for passengers.

FREIGHT.

agencies here were held by American

LI YUAN-HUNG'S FIRST MANDATE.

TRIBUTE TO THE LATE PRESIDENT.

THE OSSTINY OF THE GABL

"Others have been struck before now;

His wound

of the left shoulder, deflected, passed around through the back without harm, he said in the course of na address whiching the lungs, and took its exit through

the right shoulder blade. h delivered in October, 1887, t a young The first Maadate of Li Yuan-hang, men's literary society, by the fact that sept him in hospital 15 weeks, after scence leave. Then, it being clear that The two Japanese shipping lines whose dated Péking, June 7th, is as follows: bundreds of nedie roun- and true hay which he received four months""convale». he was unfit for further militur servien, fought and bled for the emancipation of By order of the President:-1 1, La Inan-bang, assume the office of the Guelle race, and yet have all failed. he was permitted to return to China. firms, have, since last year, been trans ferred to Japanese hands. This change, the President on this day, the seventh Surely, if ever cause..was worthy of suc I am conscious of my own uncess, it was the capse for which Laurence in the case of the K.YK has enabled worthiness, and i tremble at the task berprayed, for which, Hugh of Dungannon a certain firm to secure for itself about fore me. However, i shall obey our laws planned, for which Hugh Roe and Owen and consolidate our tepublic, with the Rou fought, for which Wolfe Tone ant 70 per cent. of the allotted space in the object of creating a law-governed ition. Lord. Edward and Robert Emmet. But cours ORDERS BY LT-COLA CHAPMAN, Y... ships. It is possible that, owing to their Our officials, scholars and people are all their lives, for which Grattan pleaded,

expected to understand my aim and to for which Moore and Davis sang, Government paying a subsidy, to their help nie, with their united strength and which O'Connell wore himself out willte. AR. S. Miller having joined is

inst

HONGKONG VOLUNTEERS,

JOINED

allotted Corps No. 2010 and posted to Scouts Company No. 1 Section. PROMOTION

1019 Corp. Davies to be Sergeant

with effect from this date.

DESIGNED.

No. 1471 Spr. W. V. Pennell is permitted to resign from the Corps with effect from 20th inst. on leaving the Colony.

steamers, space has been specially reheart in the attainment of this object.toil Yet these men prayed and planned ed for Japanese shippers. Nevertheless, critical. 1, the President, having sudden

At present, our situation is very and fought and bled, and pleaded aul' it was a great hardship to foreign hongs ly assumed this responsible post, would wrote and toiled in vain. May it not be No. hers in 1915, when there was a dearth of require loyal befp in the transaction of that there is some reason for this? Mav Civil and military it not be that the ends they struggled for tonnage. The forecast for 1910 was,all State matters.

officials in and outside Peking are hereby were ends never intended for the Gact

The Gael is not like other men; therefore, glowing in view of the La exhorted to continue in the performance Follette" Bill coming on imp of, it all, of their duties as usual and to unite with the spade, and the loon and the sword me in tiding over our present ditheifties, are not for him; But a destiny more bat, contrary to expectation, the present They must not try to shirk their respon glorious than that of Rome, more glorious outlook is 100st favourable to shippers sibility in the feat. The than that of Britain awaits hun; to be. The establishment of the Republic was come the saviour of idealism in moders lexe, both as regards rate and bottoms, du-to-the supper given to republicanism intellectual and social life, the regenere

tor and rejuvenator of the literature of thanks mainly to competition in freight during the rising in 1914 by the former

President, who restored pear and de-the world, the instructor of the nutí s, the preacher of the gospel of nature vised plaus day and night without rest.

God-worship... worship, hero-worship. such, Mr. Chairman, is the destiny of the Gael

traffic between this and the Pacific Cong, in which two British lines particularly are participating.

...

Wit the restoratioir of the American tag in the tans-Pacifle service, we shall yel me at no distant date freight going back to the gure ruing pre-war

days.

EARTHQUAKE.

A sharp, but fortunately short, earth- quake shock was felt here, at 3.45 am on June and.

—————KINO'S BIRTHDAY SCHALRIPTION.

I understand that a subscription was raised here to provide beds in some of the Tonton hospital. dome of. His Majesty's subjects here would have bren glad to contribute their mite if the list had gone round to them. One naturally resents being considered of no account. It is hoped that the emission, was only due to an oversight.

the President, having been acciated

other morning in Dublin to give th

When he faced the firing party

supreme proof of the unselfishness of his love, for Ireland, did these seemingly pro. phetic words of his early manhood come back to him?

As Heaven has refused to grant him a longer life, he fell ill and passed away from us for ever. In recollecting his past services, universal sorrow, must be felt. with him in times of adversity, an the more deeply pained. Let the Cabinet, in struct the officials concerned to draw s programme of ceremonics to be observed at his funeral and the burial, after study- ing both Chinese and foreign precepts, but on a very grand basis, in order totically to an end about 1902 and after that show the desire of the Government to hennar and requite the virtuous and the meritorious, d

JAPAN AND AUSTRALIA.

APPLICATION OF ANGLO JAPANESE COMMERCIAL

TREATY.

My university life in Dublin came prac

say but little of Pearse personally but think that all his old pupils of the Garlic League class watched his career with affectionate interest.

He was called to the Bar in 1901, and I remeiner his being congratulated by the judges of the King's Bench on a bril- liant argument he made; but his bent way more literary and educational than legal, and he never set himself to acquire a practics.

I

No.

LEAVE

159 Pte. S. H. West is granted month's leave of absence with effect from 27th inst.

PARADES.

Parades for today.

5.30 p.m.Defaulters drill at ea - quarters under Co. Sgt. Major Wil- chell Recruits Right Section B.G. Co. Squad drill at Headquarters, Gan Artillery Battery Cun drill Club Hill. Sergt. Bradly will at tend, Hongkong residents fall in

5 pm. Star Ferry Wharf, Hou kong Scouts Co, Nu. Sretion H13 Musketry Instruction quarters.

at

Saturday, 17th inst

p.m.--Arty Batty. Gum escort (nes de tailed by O.C. Arty. Batty,) at Heut quarters.A

Sunday 18th fast.

8, 15 a.. Artillery Battery, 2 N.C.04. and 18 B.F. Scouts Co., to Signallers" (as detailed by O.C. Scouts Co. an O.C. Signalling Section) on Crick Ground for 10 pdr. 8,L. Gun pras tice. Dress: Drill order khaki (n- sidearms) with haversack and water hottie (filled), Sandwiches will provided.

Instead, he rapidly built up a reputa tion as an Irish scholar, edited with great ability for a time the Gaelic League bilin Soluis The Sword of Light), and gual neespaper," An Claidheamh H.KYR began to produce some exquisite Irish

prose, taketa

DETAIL

Next for duty 16th to 22nd inst. Next for duty 23rd to 20th-Lt. Prestua.

A F CHURORILL. Capt..

Adjutant, HEVC.

A COLLEGE POR TAIHOKU.

Thu Japanese Government is conduct The Dominican Fathers' long-cherished desire of having a school here is on the ing negotiations with the British Govern ete of realization. This is chiefly due to rent for the application of the Anglo the initiative of Father Fernandez, back Japanese Commercial Treaty in respecti ed by Father Noval and the Mission of Australia. The application of the The College of Sta: Emelda, as it is treaty, in respect of the British Domin-

STUDIES OF CHILD LIFE. be called, will be opened some time in ions and Colonies has been a long-pend

Probably the most enduring of his writ March next under the auspices of the ing question, and Japan succeeded in ing will be some of his wonderfully sym Spanish Dominican Procuration, Four persuading the British Government as

pathetic studies of child life among the ideas which re formulated and fried to languages, English, Spanish, French and regards its application to Canada sour Trish-speaking peasantry of the West out in practice in his Boys Secondary Japanese, are to form part of the curri years ago. In regard to Australia, how Pearse did not merely love children. He School of St. Enda's are destined to bare calum under the charge of Sisters of ever, says the sa, the negotiations bo-reverenced them with an intense realiza bigger consequences for Ireland than will even be the effects of the ill-starred to Charity specially qualified for their tween Japan and Great Britain Ive beention of the truth that of such is the different taskä,

pending without settlement owing to the

Pearse loved his work at St. Euda's ple of White Australia Since philosophy that women are wiser than for he held that there was nothing mu upposition of those who stick to the Brit Kingdom of Heaven" It was part of his solution which he headed.

men, and children the wisest of all interesting and more beautiful an all the the outbreak of the war, however, Great humanity, because they are most in touch world that the soul of an unspoiled boy; Britain has begun to show a favourable with the unseen. His short story and in a happier land and happier times attitude towards. Japan on this matter: "Iesagan" (the Irish peasant's affection-

the Spanish R. Cathedral here is the lucidentally it may be mentioned that finest in Formosa, and the Fathers work in the cause of religion is progressing

well.

SHIPPING NOTES,

STRIKE OF LONGSHOREMEN ON PACIFIC COAST:

JAPANESE SHIPS HELD UP;

Telegrams from San Francisco and

Seattle to Japanese papers report strike of longshoremen on the Pacific Coast on the morning of the 1st instant The crew of the Japanese steamer Trago war, which is lying in San Francisco, are discharging her cargo, but the work

is going on very slowly.

and there is a possibility of Australianate diminutive for "losa," "Jesus") is he right have been content to live aud dies being induced to agree to Japan's pro- one of the most charming idylls in litera within its peaceful precincts,

But it was not to be. The bold defiance posal under similar terins as those enact-

ture. It is the story-of an old man who of British law by Sir Edward Carson, ed in respect of Canada.

had lost his faith, but loved the little It may be remarked that the Anglo-

arms, decided the destiny of Patrick. Japanese Commercial Treaty is concluded ones; and because of this love little which won for Irishmen the right to bear un a perfectly equal basis, proceeds the Jesus" came with the bare feet and in tac H. Pearse. He joined the Irish Volun trahi, and in the event of its application tattered dress of a peasant child to winters; and the strange, patent, seductive="

to Australia the Japanese will acquire

him back to Himself

Hardly less tunching are some of his the right of free travel and residence in other, stories, such as Bairbre," an ex that country. As to the tariff, the Treaty

influence that lurks in steel and iron- awoke in him the unsuspected soldier. It

in which his school was situat held for can hardly be applied to Australinitquisitely sympathetic study of a little reay be, too, that the memory-laden place girl's love for an old doll; "An Sagari, him mysterions whisperings; for Sarah stands, as the latter pursues a protective treating of a boy's yearning to become a Curran had lived hard by, and everý- policy whereas the United Kingdon is a Free trade country. Some means must be priest, or "Little John of the Birdy visitor to St. Enda's was shown "Emmet which is a most affecting presentation of devised to overcome this phase of the the wistful loneliness of a peasant child Walk. I would boldly preach the antique faith that fighting is the only At Seattle the Shiauto-mgru, Annan question. In case of the application of awaiting the return of the migrating noble thing he wrote in the Irish Res maru, Shidznaka-maru, and some other the Anglo-Japanese Commercial Treaty birds in the spring of the m Japanese steamers are held up, being in respect of Australia, some measure of nable to leave port owing to the strike, restricting Japanese immigration auch of the longshoromen. The strike is wide as that in force between Canada and spread all along the Pacific Coast. Japan will have to be concluded

No less remarkable was P. H. Pear view of February, 1913, and that he only at peace with God who is at as an educationist, and probably the way with the powers of Evil."-Daly

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