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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JULY 28th. 1918.

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SIXTY YEARS A QUEEN”

in 4 parts.

A faithful. graphia and iminate record of the life of Victoria the Good,

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SHIPS AND FREIGHTS.

RUSSO-JAPANESE BANK.

MINING IN KOREA.

A FAMOUS MEMORIAL PLATE WASTE OF TONNAGE.

THE DISCOVERER OF HAWAIIAN | ⠀⠀ Striking instances of the wasteful usc view of the inconvenienow arising from The Chugai Bhogyo reports that in

ISLANDS.

It is evident that the mining industry of cargo vessels since the outbronk of war the lack of banking facilities between

in Kores is attracting a great deal of aro cited in the report, just issued, of the Japan and Russia, and because they Hawaii bowed to defeat last month at

Great Britain and the Territory of attention by capitalists and business- sub-committee appointed by the Union cause a delay in the execution of war the hands of a woman, when Deputy men, says the Seoul Press. This may be ist War Committee to consider the prob- orders, the Russian Government and Sheriff Patrick Gleason, at, Honolulu interred from the fact that a great many iem presented by the present shortage bankers have deemed it necessary to after vainly trying for two years to get applications for permission to work now tonnage and the resulting higa organize Russo-Japanese monetary possession of the famous copper plate mines continue to be received by the reights. The sub-committee consisted of medium, Views have been exchanged which marked the place where Capt. Government-General. the following: Mr. A. Shirley Benn, Sir with the Japanese bankers. Now it is re- James Cook fell in 1770, meekly returned official report the total number of such According to an J. Fortescue Flannery, Mr. H. P. Hous-ported that a Mr. Junker, a prominent a writ of reployin, with the words writ applications received during April was ton, Mr. H. Mackinder, Mr. J. T. Russian banker, has informally made teu across it," Returned unexecuted.” Middlemere, Sir Owen Phillips, and Mr. proposals to

774. During the preceding month as Lesile Scott

the Japanese bunkers, To those who are familiar with the many as 843 applications were received. through the Russian Ambassador, Mr. long and bitter Right which has been This was a record. It is accounted for They conclude that any general attempt Krupenek Nothing definite is known, waged for the possession of this historic by the enforcement of the new mining to fix freights arbitrarily would fail, and but the Chugai says it has reasone to treasure, the return of this writ that the remedy is mainly to be found in believe that it means the establishment of excouter is taken to mean the complete applied for working tungsten mines. It un-regulations, by virtue of which many the less wasteful use of steamers and in Russo-Japanese bank for which both failure of the two governments to wrest is stated that the total amount of mine more rapid shipbuilding. Thero should Russians and Japanese may also be further restriction of imports, capital in equal amounts, that the pro copper memorial, which was lost to the is roughly Y.10,500,000, showing an in- invest from Mrs. Mary, Ellen Leslie the ancient rale gathered in Korea during last year and measures should be adopted for the posed bank may mainly engage in ex-world for many years, and was then orease of about 1.2,000,000 as against speedier discharge of cargo and distri- change between Russia and Japan and found by the late Capt. Fred L. Leslie the preceding year. The figures are sub bution of goods,

that the bank may act as an organ for on the beach at Napoopoo. That there was a wasteful of ton- foating of Hussin bonds in Japan. Moor

ject to slight alteration as some reports nage is, says the report, notorious. The Tokyo hankers appear to be of opinion

A HEROIC FIGHT.

still remain to be received by the Gov Government has recognized that efforts that in view of the Russo-Japanese rap monished her to guard the relic carefully, greatest

Given to her by her husband, who ad-ernment. - As usual gold contributed the should be made to avoid such inefficiency, prochement, both commercially and fin-re, Leslie has fought without yielding Y.7,301,458. Besides this, gold ore to tho amount, being valued At and from time to time Committees have anieally, some sach measure would be been appointed to exercise control in quite necessary, though they have not yet the return of the writ.

1 quarter, and with success, as shown by value of Y.099,994 was obtained. various respects.

Her home has At the present time decided anything definitely. there are some twenty separate. Depart

been searched for it, every place where. ments, Comunittees, and other authorities

its concealment seemed possible has been directly or indirectly controlling or

investigated, but no trace of it has been otherwise dealing with our shipping, and

found.

Leslie for the plate.

Offers of different sizes and from differ ent sources have been made to Mr. She has refused them promptly. Once in 1913 she in tempt thus to control our mercantile

We are of opinion that, in the atonedings of the Inquiry into the loss of the relie to the British Museum, if thesures should be adopted with regard to To anyone who hay folkiwed the protimated that she would be willing to sell points were discussed:-(1). What mea- Lonnage, fresh difficulties have arisen the Chiyo aru, recently held by the offer of purchase came through the proper orders by Chow Chun in Szechuan and the disobeying of Central Government owing to the delays and conflicting views Marine Court at Tokyo, the judgment channels. necessarily involved in such multiplicity as delivered by the Court on the 8th in Brooker, of the British warship Algerine, Lung Chikwang and Li Lich-chun in

This was when Commodore of authorities. We think that the fane-etant, whereby Captain Bent's certificate interviewed her with the view of purchas Kuangtung where fighting still going on; tions of these Committees should be more was suspended for four months, while ing the tablet for the museum. The com- (2) how to make revolutionaries in Hudan effectively correlated under one central Chief Onion Sakai was exonerated from modore failed to reach any agreement and Shangtung obey the orders of the control. There is a possible danger of all islame, cannot appear as anything but with Mrs. Leslie.

Central Government though hostilities panie in regard to our food supply, and extraordinary. it is essential, therefore, not only to

SUIT INSTITUTED.

have been stopped in thene Provinces; Soon after the Algerine left port the (3) how to instruct the Chief Authorities secure that the necessary control be ex

replevin suit was instituted by the Ter-in those provinces, where poscs and order ercised with the minimum friction and

ritory, acting, it was reported, on behalf have been maintained during this in- delay, but also that confidence be given to the general public."

of England. The complaint alleged that terni strife, to weed out "tufeis" With this object in view, the Bub-Com-cers of the ship..

Mrs. Leslie was wrongfully in possession native handits hereafter. After much mitteo suggest:~

of the relic, and that it properly belong discussion, the results were telegraphed ed to the Territory. It was described as to all the Provinces. a copper plate, twelve by twenty-four inches, with the following inscription

JAPANESE JUSTICE.

it is inevitable that the outlook of each THE "CHIYO MARU” JUNOMENT. of these bodies should be relatively re- stricted.

During the hearing of the case the testimony of the Chief Officer, who was on watch of the time of the disaster, was on several important points directly re- futed in evidence, given by the other of

Thac Ministry

The Presiding Judge in summing up of Shipping the case threw the blame entirely upon should be constituted on the lines of the Captain, charging him with culpable the Ministry of Munitions, and that negligence in that proper caution was the Minister should be a member of not exercised in regard to fog. the Cabinet, definitely responsible to It was shown that when the Captain Parliament for the correlation of the turned in at 1.16 am. the weather was. work of the existing Departments and Committees."

It was not until 4 a.m. Perhaps (they remark) the now Minis that the ship, then in charge of the Chief try might be based on the existing

Offeer, ran into haze, the standing orders Marine Department of the Board on board requiring that the Captain trade. Ministries of Munitions and of thall be called in case of any change in Blockade have already been constituted, the weather, The Chief Officer, notwith- Our nerchant shipping is no less vital to standing, kept the ship going apparenti Life conduct of the war, and its mamieny a undiminished speed,, nor was the ance comes second only to that of the foghorn sounded. It would appear prob doyal Navy,

able that if the foghorn had been sound-

perfectly clear.

NEAR THIS SPOT FELL

CAPT. JAMES COOK, ‘R.K., THE RENOWNED CIRCUMNAVIGATOR WHO DISCOVERED THESE ISLANDS A.D., 1778

HIS MAJESTY'S SHIP

INOGENE,"

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OCTOBER 17TH, 1837,

WM. CARY, Scuplt

TABLET NAILED TO A TREE

UNSETTLED CONDITIONS IN CHINA.. Premier Tuaa has had an audience with H.E. Li during which the following

OF

TIRED OF POLITICS THE INVESTIGATOR OF KUANG- TUNG TROUBLE.

When Admiral Tang Helang-min, ex- Tutah of Hundo, arrived at Peking he asked five days' sick leave. Instead of proceeding to Kuangtung to institute. an investigation on the troubles between General Lung Chi-kuang and the Kou Min Tang men, be submitted to the Pre- This tablet was nailed to an old cocoa-sident a memorial stating that be is tired THE FINANCIAL DIFFICULTY,

ed, the echoes from the cliffe of Tamkan nut tree at Kawanino, Hawaii, and there of politics after his three years' experi In regard to more rapid building, the island would have warned the officers on remained for many years. It was ro onco in Hunan where he met with all Sub-Committee consider that the Minin watch of the proximity of dangor (pre-moved, but just when is not certain, and kinds of difficulties, and requesting that ier of Munitions should be approached, sence of land) and the disaster might was found by Captain Leslie a few years the mandate appointing him Investigator FULL BAND TO-MORROW NIGHT (SATURDAY) Performance contentes at 3.15. provision of engines, which at the pre-shown by the evidence of the 4th Oficer

shore especially with reterenes to the have been averted, It was sufficiently before his death.

of Kuangtung Troubles be cancelled ro He came upon it unexpectedly. While that he may return to his native place POPULAR PRICE: $1, 60 Cents and 30 Centa

seat time are difficult to obtain even for that 420 am. was the hour at which he at Napoopoo, he saw a Hawaiian mend with his family to live in retirement. Soldiers and Sullors in uniform 30 Cents.

those hulls which are under construction. was cut down by the Chief Officer to calling his canoe with a piece of copper, and Facilities are required both in regard to the Captain. It was further shown, also, lost memorial. He purchased it from a the liberation of shops and of skilled by the 4th Officer's evidone that the Cap Hawaiian for another piece of copper on examining it found it was the long labour: Skilled men must he brought tain immediately jumped from his bunk and brought it home with him, and on back in large numbers from the front, and appeared on duty with all possible this death left it to his wife. It is also suggested that the speed of production of cargo ships might be in-

despatch. creased by the further standardization of vessels and engines.

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An important point touched on in the report is the difficulty which the financ ing of shipbuilding presents at the pre- sent moment. Shipowners hesitate to give orders at present prices, in view of the uncertainty of future values. It is therefore suggested that the additional cost of a ship over the pre-war price might be allowed in the annual expenses betore profits, and therefore taxes, are assessed.

The efforts to secure this valuable relic: caution during fog on the part of the have been uniformly unsuccessful, whe The finding of the Court of lack of have been almost innumerable. They Captain, and the complete exoneration ther in the guise of a tender to purchase of the Chief Officer, accus, therefore, it, or a fight in the courts for its owner strangely at variance with the evidence ship. as taken during the hearing of the case.

It was also mentioned in Court that the Chief Officer's certificate had been sus ponded for two months on a former occa

on for negligence of duty, though to this fact the Court does not appear to have attached any special significance. “ Unfortunately, the result of this case "British shipowners are handicapped would appear to stand out as another in to-day for the benefit of neutrals, who stance of discrimination against the for- get higher freights, run at less expense eigner in the Japanese Court of Justice. and pay no war taxes. Thus neatral-Japan Gazette. shipowners are accumulating great res serve funds, which will be used after the war to maintain the position they are winning during the war, British mer- chant shipping is menaced at the present Lime, and we think that measures excep tional to ocean shipping are justified by that fact, though they should be so con- trived as not to increase the profits taken out of the trade by the shipowners."

EXAMPLES UP WASTE.

As examples of waste of tonnage, the Sub-Committee quote the following:

(1)-Oil tank steamers requisitioned at a time when petrol and oil were wanted, and fitted out as transports for troops not used kept lying idle for months, and afterwards dismantled.

(2)Fast big measurement steamers taken off their regular trades and sent in ballast to West Coast Bouth America ports to load nitrate, in some instances making a ballast run of 6,500 miles, whereas tramp steamers would be more suitable for this class of heavy cargo

(3.) Large measurement steamers, used as colliers, kept at naval bases, with only 200 or 300 tons of coal in thems

(4)Requisitioned steamers kept in port for months at a time, and utilized only by military officers or for the intern ment of aliens.

(5.)-Steamers sent to the White Sea at a time of year when it was practically certain they would be frozen up for months, and either actually frozen in or brought back to this country.

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THE MOGUL LINE,

Owing to the large number of their vessels engaged in Government work, it is nearly a year since one of the Mogul Line steamers arrived at Shanghai from Home ports (says the N.-C. Daily News), A portion of their tonnage being released however, the steamer Pathan is scheduled to re-open the service, and is expected to arrive in Shanghai about the end of August.

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PENCHIHU COLLIERY

PROGRESS.

Some interesting items regarding the Ponchobu Colliery and Mines were given an address read by Mr. R. Shimaoka, Director-General, on the

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D.C.M. FOR A FORMER RAILWAY EMPLOYE.

Rifles, B.E.F., France, a former em Corporal H. L. Jackson, 6th London plot of the Shanghai-Nanking Railway. has been awarded the D.C.M for con spicuous gallantry and devotion to duty in the field.

Many lives were sayed by the splendid self-sacrifies of Corporal Jackson. Dur ing an enemy bombing attack, a bomb was thrown into a trench in the front line, occupied by a machine-gun and its team: Without hesitation, Jackson picked up sixth anniversary:The agreement to parapet, where it, exploded harmlessly. Company's the live bomb and hurled it over the operate the Company under joint Sino-On another occasion, after extricating Japanese managemont was signed May himself from the debris in which he was 22nd, 1910. Mining work began on New buried by a German mine explosion, Year's Day, 1911. In July 1911, a com-Corporal Jackson saw that the team of u mitteo for the investigation of steel machine gun close at hand were all killed, manufacture was formed with she worked the gun himself and kept of the world is 33 531,503, but of this ment Steel Works, Edamisu, on the Fiery Corporal Jackson was awarded the The total tonnage of the sea going ships Ophins and Mr. Hattori of the Govern the enemy, at bay for over an hour until amount only 20,707,004 tons, or approxi- Japanese side, and Mr. Wu Hsiang

reinforcemonts came up. For these ser- mately 2 per cent, are available today tsao, of the Kailan Mining Administra D.C.M by the King, and the French for the ocean trade of the nations. tion, and Mr. Yen En-yu, a graduate awarded him the Croix de Guerro. level in the history of navigation, have the Chinese side. The committed roured hit by a march past of his own Ocean freight rates, now at the highest of the Imperial University, Kyoto, on General Sir N. Monroe pinned the much- coveted medals on his breast, and hon- withste of the corts of individuals, or ported favourably on the new venture ganizations and of nations to force then and as a result the first blast furnace Brigade. downwards. These efforts failed, says was blown in on New Year's Day, 1936. the Wall Street Journal, because 88 per. cent, of the people of the wealthiest and world are at war and their imperative most densely populated continent of the needs continue to overtax a short supply of ocean tonnage.

JAPANESE EMIGRATE TO BRAZIL.

The daily output of the smeltery passed MORE CHINESE LAWS ABOLISHED. 150 tons in April last and was increased fluences of the great European War, the Official Criminals, the Law on the later to 180 tons. Among the direct in- imperative necessity of placing the steel Punishment of Officials receiving bribes, The Mandate on the Special Control of manufacturing industry on a self-sup- and Regulations enforcing the same, Re- plying basis has been brought home to gulations or Badishments, Law on the the Japanese most forcibly. The out-

puts of the Fenchihu Company compare Lawsuits in connection with the Land favourably with Bengal and other best Measurement affairs, Law on the Protec- Indian products. They are peers of pig tion of the Rights of the selected" Japan sent about 150 Japanese emig, are available as being of a specially fine establishment of Higher Courts in To iron imported from Sweden, etc., and grade, judicial officials, Law on the rants to Brazil to engage in agricultural quality for the manufacture of muni yin's Office, and Begulations on Corporat pursuits three years ago. Most of these fions A new smeltery is in course of Punishment are bereby abolished emigrants have settled in that country construction which will entail the opera- and now prospering to a certain extent. tion of sundry chemical industries auxi Three Japanese emigration companies, liary to the manufacture of steel. the Morioka Emigration Company, the Oriental Emigration Company and the South American Emigration Company, aro co-operating. to take 150 more Japanese families-to-Brazil They will start from Japan by the Nippon Yusen Kaishin steamer Wakasa Marn early in August. If the plan is carried out eatie factorily, another largo contingent of Japanese emigrants will be sent to Brazil again this year.

FIVE MILLION HONEY BEES.

DANGEROUS MASSAGE

TREATMENT.

Lu an opinion given by the Acting Attorney-General of Japan, the practice of moxibustion and acupuncture come within the scope of the Territorial Medical Act and cannot be made use of by a person who has not a license to prac tise medicine.

This moxibustion and acupuncture is administered by the Japanese through

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BAND AND ORCHESTRA.

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August 8th Tuesday, August 15th; Friday, August 15th; Monday, August 91st Monday, August 9th; Thursday, August 31st. Orchestra August 10th, 17th, and 24th,

PARADES

All parades of the Police Reserve units, except of the Mounted Patrols and Recruita, are suspended until fur- ther orders.ne

The Omkar Asaki says that two Japan-puncturing the skin with gold or silver ese in Wakayama who are rearing bees on wedles, and is supposed to be a a large scale have recently made a new for muscular fatigue, anaemia and rheu venture in shipping five million honey matiam principally bees to the Hokkaido, a distance of 1,120 Negoro, representative of a body miles, in order to collect honey as well of Japanese interested in the treatments, as preserve the health of the insects, wrote the Attroney-General a few days All which are apt to be lazy in summer time. ago inquiring if they could be practiced It is reported that buckwheat, poar by one who did not hold a license to blossoms and other flowers rich in honey practise medicine. Mr. Carden answered ara in full bloom now in the Hokkaido. the query in the negative.

MOUNTED PATROLS.

ambers will attend stables in uni- form at 5.45 p.m. on Friday, July

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