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THE DONGKONG DAILY PRREN, MONDAY, APRIL 29ra.

THE FAIL EAST DR. MORRISON'S ADDRESS ON THE OUTLOOK.

Dr. G. E. Morrison, official adviser to the Chinate Government, delivered an

address at Melbourne on the Far Eastern problem. He said that sooner or later the development of this problem would compel "the carnest attention of every thoughtful Australian. Only two weeks

HIOT OF RICSHA COOLIES

AT SHANGHAI.

-TWO FOREIGNERS HURT, ONE

COOLIE KILLED.

TRAMS SMASHED UP.:

The portion of the tram lines, in Shang- hai, in Carter Road between Avenue and Sinza Roads was the scene of a riot the morning of the 17th inst, in which a European is ported to have been

in the

China, with four-and-a-half million Aires bit with stones and iron bars, n square miles of territory and 325,000,000 Chinese killed and two wounded. The people, with an annual increase greater than the population of Australia. China wag cudowed with every natural gift,

and embraced the richest area of uncs ploited country on the earth's surface at the present time, Although such a coun try lay within such a short distance of Australia the Australians took little interest for it." Prudence should suggest that our people should do their best to bring their products to such a market China, was practically a free trade coun-

try. The import duties were only namin.

ally 5 pez cent, and netually low than 4

· 1918.

SPORT

LAWN TENNIS.

HONGKONG C.C. TOURNAMENTS.

In the Hongkong CC. Tournaments

cipinted between Ng Sze Kwong and the on Saturday a keen struggle was anti-

Rev. C. Cooper-Hunt in the open Cham pionship Singles. Cooper-Hunt had done exceedingly well in all his previous matches. The first art was 'carried to

two sets, however, were disappointing,

Ng Sze Kwong obtaining a run-away victory by 6-1; 6-0. The results of Satar- riot was the result of the high feeling MIXED HANDICAP DOUBLES,

day's games Were na follow- amongst the ricsha pullers aroused by A. B. Raworth and Miss Robinson (owe 1/6) best Major Ardoine and Mrs the police endeavours to make them con- Dreaper (owe 2/0)-04; 30; 0-2 form more punctiliously with the traffic. Irvine, and Mrs. Rodger (see:) regulations Previously they had been beat. Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Boult (rec. allowed a freedom on the streets of 1/6)-04; 53 Shanghai which was one of the obstacles MANDICAP DOUBLES to the proper control of traffic. Instead of keeping to the stands allotted then they were accustomed to roam up and the opinion that the rioters seem to down the streets, in search of custom. have held was that these regulations would tend to decrease their carnings,

the whole watter were the Tramway Co., a rival concern. Rioting broke

out at

and that the people at the bottom of

F. A. Redmond and A. Morse (owe 1/6) beat Major Mayhew and H. A Phelips (owe 1/6)—6-1; 64. - Capt. H. Smith and M. Woliera (re

3. Stalker and E. Abraham (scr.) beat 15)-6-3; 61 6

OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP SINGLES,

Ng. Sze Kwong beat Rey C. Cooper

Hunter 6-4; 6-1; 6-0.

OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP DOUBLES,

CANTON NEWS. {BY OUEATEST OF TAN **CHUNG KOOI

BAR PO."

DEMAND FROM SWATOW

GASTON, April 26th.

demanded, that the Tuchun shall allow Commander Chan Kwing-ming has him to draw $100,000 from the salt revenue office to meet military expendi- tares. Chan adds that this is the fina) "request" and he will not hold himself

responsible for the possible troubles, if the request, is refused.

MILITARY MOVEMENT.

Various lenders, who took part in the fighting in Ko-chow, have reported their departure from Ko-chow for Canton Commander Li Lieh-kwan's army, which left Kochew the other day, will, it is said, arrive in Canton to-day: LUN'S MEASURES.

We are informed that Lung's leaders, the Canton troops, have received instrue in view of the evacuation of Ko-chow by

Lions to resume their attacks. Wo learn

that General Lung has ordered his

brother, Lung, Yu-kwong, to lend armies

per cent. What a favourable tariff this two separate spots almost simultaneously H. A. Nesbitt and R. Hancock beat A. from King-chow to Lui-chow. Tha

was for Australian products.

Dr. Morrison then dealt with China's relations with Russia, America, Groat Britain and Japan. With regard to Russia, Chine, with her undefended

border line running for thousands of

at the junctions of Avenue Road and Sinza Road with Carter Road,

Shortly after 8.30 o'clock Inspector C. Aters, who was walking down Budding Well Road to town, noticed at the junction of Avenue and Carter Roads a large crowd of Chinese attacking a

stationary tram car. The men were

using stones, sticks and iron bars. Though he was unarmed, Inspector Alers went into the crowd in an endea your to put a stop to the attack. He was at once set upon and severely mán. handled. A stone struck him on the back of the head and he was beaten about the

body with sticks, etc. Inspector Aiets

German,

H. Crook and L. Forster--6-3; 6-1; 82

The following were Friday's results — S. F. Green beat F. W. Cary~~~7-9; 6-1;- 6-2, 6-4.

· CHAMPIONSHIP SINGLES.

HANDICAP DOUBLES,

beat W. J. Morrison and J. R. Irvine A. H. Crook and A. L. Boult (rec, 3/6) (rce. 4/6)-2-6; 7-5

PROFESSIONAL PARIS.

colleges had been erected by American twice, injuring another 3/6) beat Capt. Henderson-Smith and

Tuchun has reported that a certain leader of Lung's is about to send troops to re-attack the district Young-kong. This- army, it is said, will attack Chick kai. they will attack the Poison and San vii. and make it their base, and from hove

districts.

HUNAN AFFAIRS.

Comomader, Tam Ho-ming hus reported that he was re-captured Seung-tam (soutir of Hunan). It is said that Tam Yin-ngos, the ex Tuchun of Hunan, went recently to Hunan after bo had interviewed General Luk in Kwangsi. THE CIVIL GOVERNÖI.

A message from Shui-hing states that the Civil Governor, Li Yew hon, bas ordered certain military measures to be taken there The people are excited, and it is rumoured that the Civil Governor, under the Peking Government, has declared indepondence in Shui-hing This rumour is unconfirmed..

iniles alongside Russian territory, had always been afraid of her powerful military neighbour. On the part of

C. C. Stark and F. E. Joseland (sor) Russia there had been the constant fear

best J. Jonkheer and C. Winkler (red. of an influx of Chinese into Siberia, and

16)-&-7; 7-5, 6-4. measures had been taken to prevent this Now that Russia had been destroyed by

HA. Nesbitt and H. B. Phelips bent the action of anarchists, this influx could

R. P. Thursfield and A. Morse-6-1; | gn on unchecked, P was all but overpowered; and tottering 6-0.

AMERICA'S ASSISTANCE. from the effect of the stone which bit his H. Murray and A. B. Raworth beat hend, when a gentleman, believed to be P. H. Cobb and A. Abraham-6-2; 40; Regarding Amorica, her policy for ra

caught him before he fell. 33, n fong time, past had been to uplift the At this moment, or shortly before, H. and R. Hancock beat R. E. Hallifax people of China. She had worked cun Chief Inspector Aires arrived on the and A. G M. Fletcher-00; 6-3. tinuously in this direction Schools and scene and fired his revolver once or MIXED DOUBLES HANDICAP.

killing one of the rioters and F4 Redmond and Mrs. Bell (owe philanthropists for the education of the Chinese Ewo million pounds sterling Apparently Inspector Aiers arrived on Miss Wise (rec, 15)-7-5; 6-0. out of £5,000,000 of the American Boxer the spot as the first tram car passing over indemnity had been diverted towards the the Avenue Carter Road junction was education of Chinese in America There being attacked. As the car reached were 1,850 Chinese students in Harvard, Carter Road a large crowd of Chinese Yale and other American colleges. Great was noticed numbering well over 200. activity, hnd also been shown by America The driver rang his fell to attract the in developing trade with China Rela conductor, and gained the attention of tione had not always been so harmonious. the crowd. With a yell thirty or forty In-1905, owing to the insensate stupidity of them made for the car, armed with. with which the immigration laws had crowbare, sticks and bamboos. They

This match at the Happy Valley, on bech administered in New York wide stormed the car, tore the notice boards Saturday, concluded the second division spread indignation was created in Chins from the front and back, took away the programme: By their victory, the with the result that the greatest boycott iron bar used for shifting points and Chinese team won the League, and, at the ever known in the world took place at commenced to wreck the car and trailer, close, they were presented with the Cup the exponer of Auris autoctone of Saving done this bodies of them moved anlendidly throughout, the two backs and

to American manufacturer £8,000,000 sterling. The boycott also had up Avenue Road apparently in search goalkeeper being in especially fine form the effect of bringing the Chinese people of another tram ent. A European who The Chinese defence was good, but the together in a greater measure than ever obtained possession of a revolver used it shooting of the forwards was far belowdered, and some of the Northern leaders happened before, It awakened them to for the purpose of cowing the crowd, championshi form, and it might almost the consciousness of their nationality, with some effect, but another foreigner be said that the Athletic deserved to lose have fled.

who seems to have offended the coolies the game for their shooting alone. At PRÍTIBN.RELATIONS.~*~

had to bolt from an

irate group ho meditated breaking a notice

ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL,

-HONGKONG LEAGLE, DIVISION IL

SOUTH CHINA ATHLETIC, 1; ST JOSEPH'S COLLEGE, 0.

a notice board or two least four goals should have been scored, over. bis head. we do two very easy chances in the arst half It would appear from the descriptions being allowed to go begging, and another given as by eye-witnesses (ease the early in the second half. Hyndman and Daily News) that the promptness of Co. had hard lines on one or two occa Chief Inspector and Inspector Alers, sions in their break-aways, but although bad much to do with ensuring the safety they did not combine at all satisfactorily. and the European who used a revolver the forwards worked well individually, of the other foreigners, in and about the headway. The score-sheet was blank ut about the and for this reason were unable to make

Great Britain's

's relations with China wore on the whole good. The British Government in all its dealings with the Chinese Government had loyally carried out its obligations. The position of Great Britain was predominant at the present the predominance. Dr. Morrison paid a Lavie, and our efforts should be to retain tribute to the work of the Borden, whose ter at Peking, Sir John tram curam knowledge of finance was almost unrival-

CON-

CANTON, April 28th-

YUNNAN TROOPS DOCUPY ICHANG.

The Tuchun has received u telegram from the Yunnan Tuchun, stating that Kunnan, troops, who were sent to attack Hupeh, occupied Ichang the other day. Numerous Northern troops have Auron-

SITUATION AT NAM-HUNG,

The

fighting in Nam-hung (north border) has stopped since the Northern troops were driven back to Kianget. It reported, however, that about 8,000

Vaia-hung again from the direction of Northera troops are on their way to

Kings, and a renewal of fighting is

expected

led, and who retained the entire rioters had attacked the tram cars took complete charge of the game, and is † THE LUI OBOW BRANT.

fidence of the Chinese people) sulagised the work of the British Consuls in China, who held an unblemished record of 80 years' service, and also the work of the British missionaries, Travellers in of these missionary

In the meantime there had been trouble the interval. For a time, after the ex at Sinza Road. Another crowd of resumption of play the Chiese players there. Their first cadeavour was to was only their weakness in front of goal derail the cars and with this end in view, which prevented them from obtaining a two garbage tumbrils were commandeered number of points. They were several and their contents dumped on the lines times palled up for offside, too, when with tilos, large pieces

they were peited they seemed likely to score. Johnson,

coal truck

Commander Sum Hung-ying has re- ported that his troops have attacked On Po city, where Lung's Headquarters are

were never more than five days As the cars came up of granite, and at centre half for the College played established. One of Lang's commanders is distance from a coal ilched from a Ped that at the far below bis usual standard. It was said to have been killed in action Sum

stations,

Referring to Japan, Dr. Morrison paid a high tribute to the work done in Koren, to the activity displayed in China, and the constant improvements of Japan's

relations with. Chins Terachi, the Japan ese Governor-General in Korea, had been the Cromer of Korea. The work be had done there was equal to any reconstruction work ever done in the world. Japan contained 33,000,00 people and the population was increasing st the rate of 880,000 a year number equalling the population of Queensland They had gained a great acccasion of strength by adding Koren, with its 17,000,00 people, to the Japanese Em pire There were now 135,000 Japanese in China In Tsingtau, the former Ger man possession in China, which had now fallen into the hands of Japan, there were 16 Englishmen and 18,000 Japanese

THE MACHINERY SCANDAL

IN JAPAN.

GERMAN INFLUENCE

In the preliminary findings of the Fukuoka, Kyushu, case it is announced that the number of persons found guilty total 23, including officials of the Govern ment Iron Works at Yahata and pro- minent, business men of Tokio sad Osaka.

The preliminary findings of the Court developed the fact that German “kultur" played an important part because a Japanese official who was educated in Germany, German firms, and their Japanese agencies, are alleged to have been the chief factors in the scandal.

Early information

the from one of his mistakes that the Chinese has also reported that a transport full two places five cars with three trailers got through, and scored the only goal of were held up The crowd stormed them, the match Previous to this, however, and against their numbers the drivers

one

A

and conductors could do nothing. Every scorers by missing two penalty kicks window with the

öf exception the rioters, overlooked, was smashed to penalty was awarded them for "hands, atoms, the frames in some cases being but Omar saved in good style, only to left without a fragment of glasa in them. discover that a player had been over the By this time the number of rioters line, and that the kick had to be taken must have reached 700 or 800 altogether again The would be scorer this time while the street was also crowded with changed his direction, with the result sightseers. The police were arriving in that the ball went wide of the goal into suficiently large numbers and it was the crowd, Shortly afterwards the only a little time before the trouble Athletic scored. Johnson then went back, began to subside. The detachment of where he played much better, but it mounted Sikhs were called upon and was too late. St. Joseph's struggled large number of armed Chinese con gamely, but vainly, to equalise till the stables, whose appearance on Sinza Road end was sufficient to cause the rioters to disperse among the alleyways leading to the Soochow Creek.

N

fower than 11 car

cars and trailers were damaged so the extent of 81,200 ***** In all four arrests were made, three in the Sinza district and one in Hong kow. The body of the man who was shot was conveyed to the Public Mortuary

In the evening a considerable portion of the volunteers was mobilized and held in readiness at the Town Hall and turns on duty throughout the night. elsewhere, the men taking two hour

BONUS FOR BABIES.

STATE DOWRY SCHEME CHANGED.

Lord Knutsford's protest against a dowry for brides, and his suggestion that a bonus. for babies would be a better thing in the interests of the nation, has borne fruit. The National Health Insurance Bill.

Dr. Tokiji Magihara, the Chief of the words, provided that an insured woman was considered by the House of Construction Department of the Yahata Iron Works, who is a steel expert trained who marries and has a sufficient reserve

value in Germany, and his subordinates are receive a wedding present or £2 In in her approved society should alleged to have received, bribes amounting substitution for that Lord Sandhurst, on to Y.200,000 from Takata & Co and behalf of the Government, now moved a Okura & Co., who were the agents of the new clause providing that when an insur- German machinery merchants in connect woman foarrica and ceasen to be tion with the installation of German employed she shall receive. (1) sickness machinery. Dr. Hagihara is also alleged benefit of 58. a week for not more than to have received bribes from Biemens &six weeks in the first year, and (2) Co. and Illies & Commg

maternity benefit of 30s for the first birth

Among the guilty parties are directors

within two years of marriage. Lord

the amendment, and the Bill was passed,

of Takata & Co. and Okura & Co Knutsford thanked the Government for Reuter

Referee Mr Black.

OFFICIAL NIGHTS IN MAY.

The following table shows tho standard time at which Official Night ends and begins during May:

Date W Ends. May 18b, 6.40 sm.

2nd, 3.40,

6.34

Begins, 7.00 p.m. 7.00

"?

3rd, 5,39.

7.01

1.38

7.02

5th, 5.38

7.02

eth,

5:37

7,02

7th, 5.36

7.02

8th

5.36

5.36

5.35

5.34

5.33

14th,

5.32

5:32

5.37

.07

6:31

5.30

5:30

5.20

5.20

5.29.

24th 5.29

25th.

5/29

26th,

5.29

27th,

5.29

31st,

of ammunition, sent to supply Lung's

troops in Lun Chow city, was seized by

a gunboat on the Lui Chow coast. It is said that Lung's troops have decided to retire from On Po to Lui Chow city until the Northern troops bave entered the Province and sent them reinforce

ments

GENERAL LUE AGAIN.

General Lak Wing-ting, in view of the Governor's movements in Shai Hing, despatched a large body of Kwanger troops to Wuchow- yesterday, Luk has wired to various leaders stating that he is proceeding to Wuchow and will stay there to look after the two Kwangs. (It will be remembered that General Luk has been reported dead). HUNAN AFFALES

Commander Tam Ho-ming has, report ed that Northern troops in Hunan are continuing to retire from various fronts according to orders. Southern troops tra about to reattack Changsha, BOMB EXPLOSION,

AN

Over 30 loud explosions occurred L building near the Custone House rester- day afternoon. The building and the adjacent premises were blown up, and fire broke out. A number of persons were killed and wounded The third storey of the building was used as a club by some Yunnan troops, and the bombs were brought back from the Ko Chow front. They exploded owing to the closa proximity of a fire.

The Rev. John Hind, MA, Principal of the CALS Middle School, Footkow, China, has been appointed Bishop in Fukien in succession, to Bishop Price who retires after 31 years successful work in West Africa, Japan and China. In 1006 he was consecrated in Westmins ter Abbey as the first Bishop in Fakten He served as a Chaplain to the Forces on the Gallipoli Peninsula in 1913-16