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MILITARY GOVERNOR OF KWANGSI.
VISIT TO HONGKONG
facture of any kind of shol brings the Friday evening, reached us carly On output up to twenty-eight times that Saturday morning. Shortly afterwards recorded in the first year of the war,
we were asked to return it to the Censor, Nor will anyone begrudge the advances as it had been issited in error. It was made to our gallant Allies and Domin- sent back to un little later with an,
CHINA AND GERMANY, ions, which on the 31st of March will | intimation that it should not be publish-
There was an interesting gathering a have reached a total of no less than od until we received further instructions the Chinese Club, yesterday, when H.E. £800,000,000 The Dominions are to be in regard to it. There the matter rested Chan Ping Kwan, the Military Governor congratulated on still being able, in very until midday on Squday, everybody of Kwangsi, who is on a vitit to the great measure, to finance themselves,
having, apparently, forgotten all about Colony, was entertained to tilin by the Their demands recently are reported to
it. We then communicated with the Pross members of the Club On Monday, the have been much less than the average for Consor's office, and, as there was no re- Military Governor, who arrived by the the twelve months,
sponsible person accessible, we gave a Chinese gunboat l'o Fit, was the guest message to be copied down by the telens tiffin of H.E. the Governor, Sir Henry phone attendant, painting out that May. similar information had appeared the The Chinelo Club was decorated for Previous evening in one of the English the cocasion, and, during the repast, a newspapers. Some time later we received string band discoursou selections. The a reply from the Chief Censor suggesting Military Governor was welcomed by Mr. that we should address ourselves on the Un Kam Wah (President of the Club), subject to the Colonial Secretary, and and Mr
When Mr. BONAE Law naked for a Vote of Credit for £400,000,000 in the middle of last December he announced that Great Britain's total public expon diture, including the cost of the normal civil government of the country, since the war began was £3,802,000,000. Colossal as this, figure was, he said,
he did not think it was appalling, adding that in his opinion, to newsong Kwong Tin (Secretary),
He pointed out how, in such a war as this, every sort of effort, is put forth without reservation and without any idow of going on for an indefinite time, as Governments were able to contemplate doing in the struggles of a century ago. Obviously the capacity of even so wealthy anation as Great Britain to continue to Sauce war upon this scale must be strictly limited in time. Mr. BONAR LAW, however, declared hie conviction that we can gu on long enough to make sure that it will not be through financial engses if we fail to socure the victory" That assurance seems to encourage the
that the duration of the war will not greatly exceed the estimate which Lord KITORENER formed at the outset There is already abundant evidence that Germany, no less than her confederates, is, growing weary of the strife in which she plunged the world, and that the recent * peace overbures” were not dictated by these altruistic motives which their ori ginators profeud. Tas Central Euro uro Dean Powers know that the Allies, now fully prepared, will be in a position to put forth their supreme effort in a few months time when the weather conditions improve, and that a definite result can
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It is this which explains Germany's despairing effort to achieve by a policy Foffrightfubess at sea the access which has been denied the policy of frightfulness on land. that her evil designs will again be frustrated
Messi, Chau Sui Ki, Mok Cho Chuen, among those also present were
Chan Kan U, Kam Foot, H. K. Hung, Ip Wing Cho, Tsun Nin Chau, Lo Cho Shan, etc.,
After the healths of King George, the President of China, and the gnext hud, been heartily toasted,
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ought not to be published until it was officially confirmed, The Colonial Secre- tary, in turn, advised that we should communicate with the Governor, and so finally, just before ten o'clock on Sunday night, we were at liberty to publish a perfectly accurate and innocuous piece of information which had been in our Mr. Un Kam Wah mude a short posses fon for thirty-six hours. Had we speech. He said that the Tot been very persistent, the telegram why Hongkong capitaliste did would have been, withheld until our issue of Tuesday morning, that is to say,
to Kuangtung and Kwangsi twenty-four hours after the news bad protection from the Chinese Government, was because they did not get suficient bean called out by neuter from England! It was up to the Government of China, The incident we regard as extremely to give this protection. If the minos of discreditable to the Censorship, which, Kwangtung and Kwangti were develop- it should be remembered, carries with it ed on the right lines they would enrich responsibilities as well as privileges, both the mine owners and the capitalists The authorities, we venture to think, in Hongkong Industry enriched mor- would find it extremely difficult to chants, and when merchants became rich point to the clause in the Defence of China would become powerful. - Chinn the Real Act which justifies their action had done good service to the Governor in holding up the message at all. The General of Kwangai, especially in the censorship of foreign news was with last rebellion, and it was their wish that drawn in Great Britain some months ho would transform Kwangsi into a model province which other provinces would copy as an example. If this wore done Į
ago, and there is no excuse for continu ing to exercise it in this Colony. The information in this case was not of such a nature that, if subsequently found to be incurrect, it would have caused a deep fit of depression to settle down like a pan upon the local community, and, in such circumstances, the newspapers are the best custodians of their own honour.
The Chin Provident Loan and
generally, Ching would be a prosper- ous country. In conclusion, tho Pre- sident said he would like to China Join the Al, and, by so doing, main- Lain friendly relations (Applause.)
wita Japaær.
in tac curse of his reply, the Military Governor expressed the piensure 1: gave auto ue decided in the way be neck. boon. It was, he said, much better wi wealth to receive tuens cordial
there is, happily, every reason to believe, Mortgage Cos annual meeting is adverwelcome ne urged the tongsong The first week of unrestricted sabmarinistised to take place on the 23rd inst BIRTHS:
has only resulted in an increase of fifty The Director of Education, Mr. E UBA118th
February, at Lauriston to Mr. and Mrs K, S.Per cent in the rate at which tonnage Irving, will distribute the prizes at the MORRISON, daughter,
was previously being destroyed, the Victoria British School on Friday next. 1293 RAWORTH At No. 11, The Peak, on
daily total being 18,000 tons as against February 13th, the wife of A Bis 12,000 tons. While this represents well delivered at the Helena May Instituto The last lecture on Ruskin will be RAWORTH of a son (John Smith).
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over half-a-million tone a month, it 18 on Friday next, the 16th inst., at 10.10 apparently, caly half what the Germane anticipated, and experts are sanguine that the rate of loss will be reduced as the counter-measures deviced by the British
House,
AMBER AMARRIAGE, My MAIK-BULLMOROn the 12th instant, at St. John's Cathedral, Hongkong, Hy the Bishop of Victoria, asisted by the Bev Copley Hoyle, FREDERIC W
Commissioner of Custoas, Admiralty come into operation. This is Tientsin, to LAURA J BULLMORE, youngest daughter of the late Edward welcome news, for our mercantile marine A Bullmore, formerly of "Oakwood"uns been aptly described by Mr. Lova Station and Rockton Ipswich, Queensland:
GEORGE as the nation's jugular vein. Upon it depend not only the imports of food and raw material to the United Kingdom and the exports of merchandise which are so necessary to our financial stability but also the preservation of the lines of communication between the Allies. Indeed, it may justly be said that Britain's sea-power and Britain's credit constitute two of the main supports of the Alliance. Though both are being sub
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The Daily Press.
Hongrown TM FRURUARY, 1917,
THE COST OF THE WAR.
CENSORSHIP DELAYS,
A FIFTEENTE Vote of Credit for the purmatted to a very severe test there is no poses of the war was introduced into reason to doubt that they will prove the House of Commons on Monday by equal to it. Mr. BONAR Law, Chancellor of the Exchequer, who placed the requirements of the country up to the end of next May at no less sum than £650,000,000. This will bring the total of the Votes of
During the week ending February 10th, 47 cases of gall-pox were reported in the Colony (one British and the rest Chinese, one imported) of which 41 proved fatal,
There was a fatal Chinese case of plague in the Colony during the week ending February 10th. In the same period there were four Chinese cases of diphtherin, three proving fatal, and non-fatal Chinese case of enteric fever.
The first edition of Mr. Moss' book Britons. Germans in Chine has been completely sold out, As there is still a strong demand for copies for Eng. lead and the Coast Ports, a second edition is being printed, and will be ready by the end of the week,
METCOINS Leu-operate with the mor- chants in Lain, and proceeded to re wark that is they wanted to do anything nothing could be dulc, any Chinese then money was necessary, without money baif gone abroad and had brought back; now knowledge, hence thus last rebellion.
South, they wished to be as one and to it was absurd to say that the North of China wished to be separated from the belp each other in general advancement. China was slow, there was no doubt of that, in general advancement, because she was sort of knowledge and for many other reasons, But China would become
HON. MR. CLAUD SEVERN, tary added tant the Chinese interpretp
CAM.G.
perfect in time, and her sona would go abroad and bring back knowledge and rondoned views. He would have liked to say much more, but he had not time to do so, All he would add was a wish that the Chinese merchante in that Colony would co-operate with their brothers in Chius, and so nasist the general development of the Republic. Mr. Wong Kwong Tin (Secretary of (Applause) Sock the Club) said that as this serious moment, when China had sent » Note tu a great and oppressive nation, his advise Allies (Applause.) They should jom was that China should join with the with the Allies and keep out the Ger mans, and cripple the Germans in China for ever. By this means they would im The Germans were competing with every prove their opportunities for trading. country, and it was up to China at this tirac to do something to improve ber trade. If they co-operated with the British they would have a good and powerful Ally (Applause.) The Secre tion of Germany was Pak Kwok, mean- ing Pirtuous, but he did not think that be need reming those present tha It was announced yesterday that His Germany was by no means virtuous, he Majesty had been graciously pleased to cause shy had no humanity. They had emparsise that fact. At that time the Distinguished Order of St. Michael and Kaiser issued a proclamation, when there against the arbitrary and capricious thousand millions sterling. It it, wo attitude adopted towards them by officials 3 George upon the Hon. Mr. Claud was to trouble in the North, to suppose, inevitable, in the circumstances were inexperiented in their duties Severn, Colonial Secretary of Hongkong soldiers could lay hold of. That was not slaughter all the Chinese the Gorman that the daily expenditure on the Army, and afflicted with very exaggerated views M.A. (Cantab.), Law, com- humanity. The speaker naked the General The Hon. Mr. Claud Severn, C.M.G, the set of a man who was the guardian of Navy and munitions should have rise. by no less than 2 million sterling as com
Round garn! as to their importance. It still hap
to do all he could to protect the Chinese menced his career as a Civil Servant a and to encourage business, between the Fmnished, for 3 or 4 months from 1st Jan, the period under review. This lacrease legitimate cause for complaint. A care in the Librarian's Offito at the Foreign H.E. Chan Ping, Kwan, known in the
To 2 GOUGH HILL (No. 102, THE PEAK pared with the first airy-taires days opens occasionally, howover, that there is
quarter of a century ago He was first Chinese abroad and the Chinese trader
in china. (Applauss.) No. 25,
SHELLEY STREET
is due to two factors larger expenditure in point is furnished by the delay which Office; where he served from 1881 to 1892. Mandarin dialect as Cheng Bin Kucen, BROOMED HOUSE Mount Kale on munitions and foodstuffs. In go far occurred in releasing for publication the He left for the Straits Settlements and recently came down from Kangai to Passisted for 5 or 6 monthe
as it is attributable to the provision of nows that China had identified hereelf the FILS. in 1884, where he served in Kwangtung with the object of trying to material, with which to tatter down with America in protesting against Gervaring capacities, including those of persuade General Luk to agree with the Germany's resistance and facilitate the many's threat of unrestricted submarin Acting Federal Secretary, and Acting vinco, Chu Hing Lan. It was Chas Private Becretary to HE the Governor Civil Governor of that disturbed, pro- advance of our troops to victory it will ism and announcing that, if the protest be unanimously regarded as money well were disregarded, diplomatic relations pent In this connection it is reassuring would be severed. cable from our to learn that the growth in the output Peking correspondent giving fully the of munitions is as continuous as ever. contents of the Note, which wae handed Even the smallett increase in the manu to the German Minister at 6 o'clock on
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Secretary to the High Commissioner. He Ping Kwan, ako, who fought against the Hongkong on January 28th, 1912. From lared independence, and when General was appointed Colonial Secretary in late Yuan Shikai when Kwangat de March 16th to July ard, of that year, and Luk left Kwangsi to fight against. Lung from August 21st to December 24th, 1813, at Canton, Chan Ping Kwen became
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