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PEKING NOTES.

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PERING, November 23rd.

MARINE COURT POWERS. SEQUEL TO FIRE AT KOWLOON

DOCKS.

FAR EASTERN MEN

THE WAR.

AND

News has been revived in Kobe by cable says the Japon Chronicle, of the death at the front of Mr. G. W. Hawkins, who was for some time in charge of the Yokohama office of Messrs. Samuel & Co., and of which firm he was a managing director. A very brilliant business-man he was very popular with his staff, and the news of his death in battle will be received with real regret,

News has been received from the War Offics hy Mra. Martinson, says the Y.-C. Dady News, that her son wounded on November 24th. He had been back in France a month, after being on. five months' nick-leave recovering from his first wound.

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Second-Lieutenant F. M'F. Ross, Royal Scots, who has been awarded the -

ftary Cross for conspicuous gallantry during a raid, is the youngest son of the late Rev. J. Ross D.D., of Mucken, and brother of Mrs. McClure Anderson, of Tientsin.

A HONGKONG RESERVES.

ORDERS BY MAJOR WAKEMAN, 0.6, 1.E.V.2.

Tuesday, 5th December. The following

members, of “'A" Co. will parade at Blake Pier at 3.30 p.m. for Musketry, Dress Drill order-Ptes. A. G. Coppin, A. J. J. Brock, J. Carr, T. W. Mackay, A. R. F. Raven, N. E Kent.

(Sgd.) G, K. H. BRITTON, Captain, Adjutant, H.K.V.R. Hongkong, 4th December..

HONGKONG POLICE RESERVE.

INTER-BERVICES SHOOT.

PARADES.

Muskotry Sergeant Fisher will arrange and skipper the Police Reserve Team in the above Boxing Day Shoot.

Tuesday, December ätb.-No. 2 Company, Wednesday, December 8th.--All Recruits. Thursday, December 7th.—Nos. 3 and 4 Companies. Also Ambulance Platoon, Friday, December 8th,-Nos. 1. 3 and 4

Sections of No 1 Company.

sidered a triumph for the Kunmingtang, but the interesting fact associated with the proceedings is that they have been accomplished through the medium of n politician of ille old school, Mr. Hsu FINANCIAL

being one of the most conservative of the

THE S.S." POLAVÉN."- The event of the week has been this older generation of administrators.

However, he seems to have inspired Pre- announcement that the Continental

Legal argument regarding the Hong sident, arliament and people with con- Commercial Bank of Chicago has, with fidence in his disinterestedness and tact, kong Marine Court's jurisdiction to the support of the Washington Govern-u confidence which will certainly not be enquire into an outbreak of five on the misplaced. Other changes are not im ment, concluded a loan of one million probable.

5. Polaven, when the vessel was in the

sterling to the Chinese Government. TheyOUNG CHINA."

Kowloon Docks on November 2nd, was loun ja to be issued at 075 and to bear

The overthrow of the Manchu dynasty resumed at the Marine Court yesterday. interest at six per cent., and the and the establishment of the Republic The foldren, which was being con- security is the Wine and Tobacco taxes. were regarded as the preliminaries to averted into an oil vessel for the Asiatic There is no doubt that full Parliamentary rejuvenated China Yuan Shia kai may or Petroleum Company, caught Bre in the assent will be given to this loan, may not have interfered with the plan of engine room, and considerable damage

I have been informed that the share progress, but, at any rate, the restoration was done. holders of the Chicago Dank are mostly of Parliamentary institutions was to The enquiry was held at the instance Germans, and it has been suggested herald the day of Young China, the day of the Asiatic Petroleum Company, fur that this is another Huit expedient for when the western-trained Chinese would wkom Mr F. C. Jenkin (instructed by maintaining Teutonic influence in China. apply here the political, industrial and Mr. Hooper) appeared, and the Hong- Without wishing to ascribe any virtue economic doctrines which they had kong and Whampoa Dock Company was to the enemy, I think we may be permitted acquired abroad. Alas! young China has represented by Mr. H. W. Looker. to doubt this. The transaction is purely proved to be just as Chinese as the older The Court was comprised of:-Com a financial one. But there are other generation. Corruption and bribery are mander Beckwith, B.N., Commander points which might be mentioned.. The as rampant as ever, and a perfect Eng Gibson, R.N., and Captain Walker, loan is of a nature which meets with lish-speaking, immediately western garb-f At the previous hearing Mr. Looker the disapproval of the Consortium ed Chinese official is, generally speaking, contended that, the Marine Court had no baoters, and cannot be very acceptable no better in this respect than his pre-jurisdiction in the case, and an adjourn to the American firm of Lee, Higginson decessor who spoke only his own tonguement was made to allow Mr. Looker to & Co., the bankers who disposed of and did not know the sartorial delights prepare argument to support his con- Chinese Government bonds a few months of the Occident. Young China has been tention. ngo/on very advantageous terms. Still, tried and found wanting. This is so on At the outset of yesterday's proceed"" the Government may possibly have all its own admission. Who are the menings the President mentioned that since financial needs met from this source, as called upon to help the country in the the last sitting of the Court in connec it is believed that the Continental Com present time of deadlock and trouble?tion with that case, he had received a mercial Bank of Chicago could put up Not the smart glib-tongued members of letter from Messrs. Deacon, Looker, 200 million dollars, the amount of the Parliament, whose political sugacity and Deacon & Harston, asking if there was loan which China would require for re-high-souled patriotism have been so often any information showing that the organisation purposes. If the Chicago proclaimed from the housetop, or, to be master, officers or any of the crew of the bankers can oblige to this extent, then more precise, in their own party organs. Polaren were on board at the time of there is no occasion to consult the Group No, the young China" of the moment the fire. Messrs. Johnson, Stokes Bankers in the matter, but, should tar is composed of the septuagenarian Hsu Master replied to the effect that when Anerican financiers find themselves un Shih-chang and Wa Ting Fang, whose the fire occurred neither the master nor able to advance such a large sum as combined ages are not far short of 150 crew were on board. As to the question indicated, the last condition of China years. Another "young

man of of articles, the letter added, that had would be worse than the first. Guar seventy is mentioned for the Ministry of been referred to the Admiralty. antees that would be acceptable would Communications when the present in Mr. Looker then went on to say that not be easily found, and it is not imcumbent vacates it either by retirement that inquiry was into damage which probable that in such a contingenoy some or dismissal. The Premier himself has happened to a ship by fire at a time form of foreign intervention would be reached the allotted span, and his chief when tho had neither master, officers, cone absolutely necessary to save China officers are met almost as youthful" as nor crew on board, nor were there any from, herself.” An International Com himself. Obviously, the day of Youngjurticles existing on which any master mission for the supervision of the. China has not yet arrived,

for officers were borne. national anances may he derogatory to THE COUNCIL OF ELDERS.......-- the dignity of a sovereign State, but if

An anomaly of Republicanism y apexisting. China cannot make proper use of, the money loved to her then, in the interests parently to be set up in China in the of the lenders and of the borrowers, such form of Kuo Lao Yuan, or Council of supervision becomes an immediate neces Elder Statesmen, which is expected to be maintained that there were no articles This is a existing on which any master, officers or sity. What graver indictment could be sanctioned by Parliament. laid than the culpable mismanagement proposition of the Government for an were borne: He went on to con- which WRS responsible for the two ex-constitutional body of advisers akin to tend that there was no power in the national banks being forced to discredit the Gearo of Japan, and the extra-local Ordinance to investigate a case of that kind. In this connection his first, their own note issues, thereby shaking ordinary fact that it is proposed by an the national credit and dislocating trade ultra constitutional President and likely point would be that the Ordinance and commerce throughout the country? to be approved by an ultra-democratic Part 5, section 39) must be read purely After five months the embargo Was Parliament does not seem to disturb any in a nautical sense. That was apparent

Again, the would result would be that the other side removed from the Bank of Chins, but of the Chinese publicists, with the ex-from the whole Ordinance. not from the Bank of Communications. ception of Sun Yat Sen, who has written Court must be satisfied that there was would hear the whole of the evidence on Yet the attempt to rehabilitate the

long letter objecting to the establish some question of the safety of life and which they relied to defend any claim. national credit, as seen in the so-called ment of such a body. But his is a voice property before it had jurisdiction to That was the object of bringing the case investigate the case. And if there would before the Marine Court, he thought. resumption of specie payments by the crying in the wilderness."

be no question involved of safety and Mr. Looker concluded by remarking that Bank of China, cannot yet be described THE LOU ESI-KAI AFFAIR.

life and property in the course of it was not in the province of the Marino as successful. The run on the bank for

Since the friendly offices of Sir John navigation, then there was no jurisdiction Court to inquire into the cause of the silver, which must have been apticipated Jordan in the Franco China dispute to investigate. This was emphasised by fire. is proving a serious embarrassinent, and

· Mr. Jenkin, in the course of his reply, anent the seizure of the Lou Hsi-kai by sub-section 2, which dealt with the con- the Bank has had to modify its origin the French authorities ended without stitution of the Marine Court. The said that Court was specially obtained by achemo. Now it only pays one-tenth silver of any notes presented for re-result, there have been no further Court was to be constituted by a Com the Government of the Colony to dis negotiations between the representatives manding Officer of the Navy, a Master charge one function only; to sit there sud demption. It is true that the long queue of the two Governments. This may be in the British mercantile marine, and inquire into the causes, if causes could bor is no longer seen outside the head office of the Bank, but that does not indicate explained, of course, by the natural dia other persung-cagineers or others of en found, of the fire on the l'oitzen; That position to wait until Wu Ting Fang gineering knowledge or possessing any was the Court's only function, and they confidence in the institution. A foreigner comes to Peking to take up the tangled special skill. It was clear from that that could not refuse to discharge that funt who opened an account in this bank on

skein of the Ministry for Foreign the Court must consist of persons who tion unless certain facts came forward the resumption of the specio payments

Affairs, Meanwhile, the French comwere experienced in all nautical ques which made it necessary for some other found to his mortification yesterday that the cheque which he had drawn on the unity in Tietsin is being made to suffer tions and it necessarily followed, he steps to be taken. No other Court would Bank was returned with the statement all the public and domestic inconveni submitted, that the investigation, if held, order them to stop their discharging. that it could not be collected. Moneyences of a general strike on the part of must be one in which a nautical question that function, It was a well-known prin- changers, too, decline to handle the notes, their Chinese employés. The public was involved. It was purely a question iple of law that where a special tribunal

services are suspended-there is Were they to discount them they would electric light, the streets are unswept, empowered jurisdiction to investigate.

no of safety of life or property which was formed for the purpose of inquiring into any specific happening that Court be liable to police prosecution. Therefore, they simply refuse to handle them. The Pulico duties have to be undertaken by Therefore the Marine Court had only must go through with it, no matter in what way its procedure might prejudios notes of the Bank of Communications, the Chinese fanguage, and so on while casualties as referred to in sub-section 4. Annamite soldiers with no knowledge of power to investigate shipwrecke, or

anyone. It would be inconceivable if the Courts of that Colony, which were from. which rose to 91 in sympathy with the families are reduced to great plights by This laid it down that for the purposes time to time formulated for looking into rehabilitation of the note issue of the Bank of China, bare dropped to 87, and the departure of cooks, hoys, coolier and of investigation in that port (Hongkong) certain disasters, were worked in any may go down a paint or two more amas. The boycott organisation is fairly a shipping casualty shall be deemed to other way. There was a good reason, Enough has been said to Show the powerful, wealthy Chinese assisting their occur when in or near the coasts of the also, for holding investigations of that financialhes for which Peking is brethren in humbler walks to vindicate Colony any British or Colonial ship was kind. The fire on the Paturer was at responsible, and to indicate the run their national dignity in this typically lost, abandoned, or materially damaged; engine-room fire, and it would not, per

Chinese manner.

and be submitted that the words mate haps, be any great news to the Court to ditions which might call for action on

rially damaged" must be read in con know that within a week, at the period. the part of the Foreign Powers interested. CHẲNG HISUN.

junction with lost or abandoned. And of the Polaven fire, four such fires on EXCONSTRUCTING THE CADINET.

the casualty there referred to was a four distinct vessels, occurred at the casualty which occurred in the course of docks. Therefore, it seemed to him, from ship's navigation, and when, in the every point of view, that it would be wise course of navigation, she is lost, if such a Court were held. The inquiry abandoned

The pig-tailed general is still a force in Last week 1 binted that the reconstrue the land. His birthday fell this week, and tion of the Cabinet was inminent. The the President and the Premier sent con- correctness of that forecast is borne out gratulations and gifts to him. It would by the events of this week. The former interesting to know how the fery Secretary of State, Afr. Hm Shin Chang, Young Kaomingtang members of Parlia has come up to Péking and has had coveralment regard this recognition of Chang

Hsna,

had succumbed.

a

Mr. Jenkin-That is not a correct statement. There are articles at present

Mr. Locker proceeded that he still

or

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Will parade in uniform at Central Station at 5.30 pm, on each Thursday during December for Squad Drill.

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(Signed) F. C. JENKIN;

D.S.P. (R.).

was held as the result of influence used in other quarters, and it was not held, as.

materially damaged, Again, power of investigation came far as they (the Asiatic Petroleum Con when or near the coasts of the Colony pang) were concerned, in order to ges interviews with the President, the impres

any British or Colonial ship has been hold of Mr. Looker's evidence; and thus stranded or damaged, and the word give them an opportunity of "getting sian created being that there was a per- 22 CALL OF DUTY. fect understanding between the President Leonard Clarke in the first of the mem-

damaged had to be read in conjunc;

over it," It was and Mr. Hsu and that changes would be hers of the Peking British Volunteers to tion with the worl stranded.

Mr. Looker I suggested you were brought about which might reasonably be fall in the great adventure in Europe only on such occasions that the Marine asking for the inquiry in order to fish expected to result in a more harmoniously He was only nineteen. He went to Court could hold an inquiry. If a for our evidence. working administration. Opinion England some eighteen months ago and ship were at anchor, or in dry dock, and Mr. Jenkin proceeded that he was told divided as to whether Mr. Hou would obtained a columnission. Reports showed was having her machinery repaired, and the Polaven had articles, and that in become Premier or not, but it may be that he had been well, but this werk the during the course of that work the those articles appeared the names of the assumed that be will not do so as Jorg British community in the North were derrick snapped, and the heavy machinery officers of the ship. Those articles were as Marshal Tuen Chi-jui, prefers to con- grieved to learn that he had been which was being lowered crashed through in the Harbour Office. The master and tinue in the position, especially as the seriously wounded, and, later, that be the bottom of the vessel, that surely the other officers of the ship; excepting two men are on terms of friendship,

did not come within the scope of the the fourth engineer (Mr. Heck) who was in Court, were away from the Colony. The visit of Mr. Hon has been produc

A number of other members of the Ordinance; for the whole work was tive of two important results already. Feking British Volunteers, have been being carried out by shipwrights, and Mr. Heck was here and his name appear The obstinate Sun Hung-yi has been dis selected for commissions and will lose the ship had no master or offers. All ed on the articles. He was in the ship that Court. Also, if they had a fire missed from his office as Minister of fairly soon on the special work for which the Court could deal with was enfety of at the time of the fire, and he was before Interior, and, wonderful to relate, there they have been engaged. Their departure life and property at sea with a view to breaking out in the engine room of o was no apparent attempt to save his will mean serious depletion of the protecting everyone concerned. A Marine ship, surely it concerned a

matter of face. The mandate baldly ordered him ranks of the local company.

Court, further, could inquire into de life and safety of property, which it te vacate his office. There was no grant- Sergeant Kellacher, the popular Scot-finite charges, previously formulated, of was essential that that Court should er- ing of sick leave uor permission to bury tish instructor, is now wanted for the incompetency or misconduct on the part quire into? For those reasons, therefore, bis father or any other suitable dead rela Hankow Volunteers and will leave for of the captain, officers or crow whether he submitted that that Court must pIO--- tive. Nor was he ordered to vacate the the Yangtze port in a week or so.:

a casualty had occurred or not. The ceed with its function, and take the post in order to take up another, The Peking Volunteers are holding Ordinance only authorised investigations evidence of Mr. Heck. although his name has been mentioned their first rifle meeting on Sunday, when in casee where a master offers or crew Mr. Looker contended that if Mr. in connection with the Directorship of two cups will be competed for,

actually existed, and it was not autho. Jenkin's interpretation of the Ordinance the Bureau of National Conservancy.

rised where they did not exist, as in were upheld by that Court, then that The dismissal has, indeed, come as a

this case. When there was no person to be Court was entirely unrelated to any shock to the gentleman and his friends. The visit of the Howitt Phillips Com-served it was natural that an inquiry nautical question at all He also said The second important result of the pany to Peking for four nights proved could not be held. Mr. Looker went on that Mr. Heck was not fourth lenkineer Former Secretary of State's visit to the very successful. It was interesting to to say that if the inquiry were told if the ship at all; he was merely on board capital is that the Chief Secretary of note the number of Chinese who would inevitably tend to prejudice fature used in doing repairs. the Cabinet, Hsu Shu-cheng, who bad patronised the company.

proceedings which were threatened in become obnoxious to the Kupingtang in Lacal British Thespians will produce respect of the fire which occurred, particular, bas been induced to send in Jane, under the auspices of the then read two letters in which it was his resignation, which was accordingly Peking branch of the Patriotic League, stated that Mesars Johnson, Stokes & abeliaif of the Asiatic accepted by the President, who appointed next Wednesday,

Master, Chang Kuo-kau- his successor, The The British ladies of Peking do well Petroleum Company, held the Dock latter has held portfolios in previous in knitting socks for soldiers, forty Company responsible for the damage Cabinets since the Revolution. The repairs being dispatched to the front re-which was caused The prejudice which

oval of these two men must be con-gularly every week

(Continued at foot of next Column.)

MISCELLANEOUE.

He

a short retirement, Commander Beckwith announced that the Court, as practical men, were of the opinion that they had jurisdiction in that

Case, and forthwither said that he had not yet they proposed to go, on with the case

Mr. Looker been able to get his pridence together, and it was then decided to adjourn the case until Wednesday.