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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, JULY §ra, Luis.

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PART II.

A Directory of 2,500 Teachers in Universities, College and Schools in which English or other foreign languages are taught, and other people connected with Education in China

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THE BOLSHEVIK IN

TURKESTAN. A INTERVENTION DECIDED

SWATOW NOTES FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT]

SWATOW, June 20th. Reports of the frightful disorders in SOLDIER'S SERIOUS OUTRAGE ON AN AMERICAN Russian Turkestan continue to reach Peking

DOCTOR

Russian telegrams show that, after the semi-local fighting going on more or less The absorbing question is the local or Bolsheviks had captured Tashkent last incessantly. The soldiers on both sides November, the Semiretchens Cosssekr declared their independence and notindholding on, but the Nortberners are not are increasing The Southerners are China and the Allies accordingly, out| the Bolsheviks asserted their supremacy in March. A counter-revolution in April reinstated the Cossacks while another in June restored the Bolshevik control, after which the Bolsheviks run amok.

receding. Fongkong, a town near the

and not far from Swatow, is held by the Northernera At this same town both American and English Missions are established, but only American residents are there...

MIN RIVER IMPROVEMENT

SCHEME. APPROVED BY A PUBLIC MEETING AT FOOCHOW.

A meeting was held under the auspices Foochow on June 25th, to consider the of the British Chamber of Commerce, questions of the Min Rivor improvement present representing a different national from Pagoda to Nantai. There were 3

ties.

The Chairman of that Chamber, Mr. C. Skerrett-Rogers, who presided remark ed that the object of this meeting was to discuss and if possible reach a decision Colonel Ionoff, the Chief of the

on the scheme for the improvement of the Semiretchensk Cossacks, and Djanykoff. A very serious attack was made upon project drawn up by Mr. von Heidenstam Min River, as set forth in the technical the President of the Mussulmans Confer the American doctor who has devoted his and presented to the foreign mercantile ence, representing the Mussulman Cos-energies to the service of the people and community of the port, with a scheme for sacks, on June 5th telegraphed to the with much success. He was cruelly the necessary financial basis, etc., by Mr. Allied Ministers in Peking imploring aid baten by the soldiers and endured much T. Ferguson, Commissioner of Customs, against the merciless conduct of the suffering. How far the soldiers intend-Tho Chairman expressed himself as very Bolshevil who were murdering mened to go in, perhaps, open to doubt, but pleased to see such a large representative wholesa violating women, destroying they proceded in a manner which would gathering, indicating the degree of inter- the crops, and forcing the inhabitants to lend to the conchision that they fully in cat taken in and the importance attached seck refure in China.

Thousands of refugees at Kuldja have.

tended to do their worst. Fortunately, to the question now brought forward.

together a more representative meeting of took the next step which was to call all those interested belonging to allied and neutral nations.

ENTRY OF VESSELS INTO MANILA,

REGULATIONS IN FORCE The forernment Gazette contains the following regulations governing the en-

The south change! leading ÷ from sea- ward into Manila Bay has been closed to trance of shipping into Manila Bay:

channel extends from Caballo Island on traffic and is protected by mines. This

the north to Restinga Point on the south. The south channel from Monja Island to Limbones Island has been closed to traffic at all times. All traffic is limited to the North Channel between Guardia Shoal and Moja Island, and only between

has been granted and instructions given sunrise and sunset and after permission

by naval patrol at entrance. All enter ing vessels must stop outside Monjo Island and await instructions from patrol vessel or Cochinos Point Signal Stalion. Compliance with these regulations will bo.

enforced.

Island and the shore of Bataan Province The north channel between Corregidor

is closed to traffic inward from sunset to

in public service.

regulations may result in the destruction of the offending vessels.

Failure to comply with any of the above

appealed for the Allies to send an expedi.one of their number prevailed over the The British Chamber of Commerce, hay sunrise, except to certain vessels engaged tion to restore order in Semiretchensk. murderous crew and succeeded in liberat, at a general meeting of its own, The next appeal cane from the Russian ing their sorely-tried and wounded accepted. the scheme in principle, now Tartars and Sarts, who said that the victim. How such conduct was permitted Bolsheviks were exterminating the civil by the authorities is most difficult to population while a further appeal said understand, and demands the strictest that the Bolsheviks had murdered investigation. We are thankful that thousand Chinese Musculmans during a Newman escaped alive. punitive expedition. Concluding, it said that the Cossacks were holding out in Semtretchensk, where

way sistance

N OBEURE POSITION.

REMARKABLE OPERATION

existing at Shanghai, Tientsin, Chefoo Mr. Ferguson mentioned the precedents

and Newchwang, and explained how the procedure which had thus come to bo established, of foreign consent to a special

A remarkable operation has been per- surtax combined with foreign share informed on a soldier at Leeds Infirmary. the control, had come to be practically harbours or rivers at the open ports im China's only means of getting any of her A piece of shrapnel, weighing 61 grains,

clement

the Concka and Early Settlers and place the frontier la fiercely contested and Proved, thus laying upon the foreign or one-seventh of an ounce, was extracted

It is difficult to expiscate the present urgently required.ro a

Confirmatory telegrams from Taching conditions of the belligerents. Both sides report

ort that 400,000 Kirghiz have joined are very reticent At more than one formed a Council of Defence, which appealed to China to ammunition to supply

The outbreak of Bolshevism was even more striking in Bokhara where the anti-Bolsheviks took refuge in Tashkent. Papers declare that Red Guards in armoured trains mowed down the pin-

backed and burned right and

including the Emir's palace,

from the anterior walls of the heart in which it was cubedded

The patient is Private John Britland, East Lancs Regiment. He was struck in the side while fighting at Arras on April 11th last year. After receiving treatment. in several hospitals, he was taken Leeds Infirmary. Britland said:

to the

a certain moral responsibility for arms and with little advantage on either side. So any serious opposition laid in the way

far as we know, the Northerners are held long as the conditions offered were equit of such measure for the public good, so If numbers and ammunition count, the able and no serious adverse interests North should gain ground; but if pluck involved. A review of the pros and cons from a purely business point of view was and dash count for more, the Southerners, then given, e. the benefits to accrue santa working in the fields, locted Ker from all accounts have the advantage, Customs duties actually paid) which was firmary who had a bullet removed from

ugainst the small surtax (5 per cent. on drove The situation is truly a strange anomaly proposed, regarded both in its broad effect off the cattle and, then, on March The operation, and 1 began absoluto demanded the reaignation of the Emir and on April 7th disarmed his

troops exceeding 19,000, commandeered all Peking over the new President that his wiedern weapons, seized Rs 40,000,000 ying in the Bekhara branch of the intelection should be not by an oligarchy and imposed a levy of food stuffs hut by the full voice of the eighteen On May 30th they proclaimed Turkestan

republic of the Soviet Federa Provincca. This, of course, is in keeping trou and, after

Province is in communication with

There was another soldier in the in-

near the heart. He told me about his faith in the surgeon. It was put to me that if the metal was left where it was. I should go on living, but that I should to run the risk might have the metal feel discomforts, whereas if I was content removed, though I might die in the opera

immediate effect upon the books of the merchant Incidentally it how Foochow trade was influenced by the the strong inference that the immediate shipping facilities available, leading to trade of the port still had much to gain by a better communication with the sen. tion. Mr. Ferguson then launched a strong I had not much doubt about y

sympathizer American with

local policy, but it is strange to be diatribe against the opinion advanced choice, and after knowing what your

they had received

Sinking are jointly assisting the rehand, if Peking should concede the prinples in America in support of his of the gus I felt like a new man, and

Tugees, while the prompt action taken by General Yang Teeng-hsien, the Tuchun of ciple at stake prace might be forthcom Sinklang, drove the marauders over the ing. Peking, however, seems determined border, beyond which the horrors con on attaining peace by victory, and by that tinue unchecked. Heuter.

lone. A fortnight should furnish in formation as to the probable results of the present fighting.

Finally,

announced that recognition. talking so in the midst of the most de that Foochow water approaches should now should choose the operation every The Russian and Chinese authorities in sparate fighting, and yet on now be await the building of railways, quoting time. As soon as I had got over the effect

the doing away of the soon I shall be as well as ever. mentioned as one of the most important haneful Foochow cargo boat system was benefits to he looked for from a ing of the river between Nantai

deepen

and Pagoda." Mr. Ferguson admitted that the scheme of taxation had been drawn up more with a view to extreme simplicity than to strict equity and could be

casily improved as soon as the scheme had A it would be to bring it into a reached the hands of those whose business for reference to Peking British Consul, final shape

INTERVENTION URGENT. tes

THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS,

have cleared and the sun is shining with After the continuous rain the skies all its might, so Jane is going out in a wave of heat. The rainy weather, bow- ever, was over lang, and the rice crops are not expected to yield anything like in average crop. Rice is dear, and the sweet potatoes, owing to the destruction wrought by the late frosts, have yielded very little provender,

MACAO NOTES. FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT-]

MACAO, July 2nd.

HONGKONG POLICE RESERVE.

ORDERS ISSUED BY MR. F. CJENEIN, G.B.E.

DEPARTMENTAL ORDERS, revised copy of the Department Ordus Book is to be issued to all ranks dur. Sergeants and constables will receive ing the week commencing Monday, July 8th.VN/

copics through their respective In Member, of the Staff will obtain copies

spectors by application at this office between the hours of 10-12 noon and 2.13-1.30

The Kokusai Agency (Tokio) learng from a reliable private source that the situation cast of Za-Baikal calls for speedy action in order to prevent the intrusion of German influence. The people there are ready to make friends of

Mr. Wilkinson, whomsoever is sufficiently powerful to

was desirable and that Mr You Heiden- while admitting that the improvement maintain good order. They are united

stum's project seemed promising and not in feeling that such power cannot ho

excessive in the way of cost, did not share expected from their own people, and it

Mr. Ferguson's sanguine views as regards is necessary to depend on an outside

the efect pra the trade of the port. He Fource and Japan is thought to be the best and most able. It is true that a

himself held the opinion that nothing feeling against Japan exists, but once

would lift the trade of Foochow out of its All the good effect of Japanese intervention

present jow state except a railway connec is unifested this opposition will cease

tion with the interior and Kiangsi, He There is reason to believe that the ques

pointed out that the charge of upkeep .of tion of armed intervention has been

the proposed improvement, when once seriously considered by the Government,

completed, would be but there is a bad want of

had that the surtax, now rable, and there Public which is hesitating, however,

THE SANTA CASA DA MISERICORDIA, be support,

fore probably from memory some state come to stay Mr. Wilkin The new French Ambassador, when on

son then quoted his way to Tokio, was received by Presi The new Committee of the Santa Casaments made by Mr. Von

him. Heidenstan lent Wilson and he is known to have da Misericordia is composed of L-Col. never supplant Pagoda through lack of self, which proved that Nantai could strongly advocated the advisability of Santos, A. do Oliveria, A. de Silva Soares smaller coasting steamers standing to Japan's speedy armed intervention in

harbour

space

and wharves, only the Siberia

(appointed by the Government), F. de benefit together with launches and cargo Those closely in touch with official Menozes and A. Viana Novo (elected). eireles are inclined to believe the

view of French and British opinion that Japan OLD MEMBERS OF THE SENADO IN OFFICE. is now in a position where she can not longer withhold the despatch of troops in it is thought impossible to defer the final sava Biberis from further disaster and

decision in this matter to later than August.

THE MANILA OPIUM CASE. NO EVIDENCE OF THE IMPLICA TION OF THE " YUENSANG,”~ At the inquiry at the Custom House into the possible implication of the officers of the steamer Yuensany in the attempt to smuggle opium valued at P500,000 into the Philippines recently, the Government Failed to establish either that the officers knew of the opium having been on board, or that the ship was in Philippine waters when the contraband drug was put over board to the boatmen waiting to receive it. Captain J. McAnis, of the Fuensang, swore that he did not believe that the

The members of the Senado who were elected on June 2nd to serve from July have assumed their duties yesterday, but 1st, 1918, to December 31st, 1918, should

a cable from Lisbon was received direct ing the old members to continue in office until further orders,

TEĘ NEW SVENTE

ranks will be held individually re- sponsible for daly obtaining the new B.O. Book, which will be in force on and from Monday, July, 1918.

POLICE SCHOOL..

All members of No. 1 Platoon, Water Police, and Mounted Police who have not yet attended for examination will do so on Tuesday, July, oil, at 5.30

Tuesday p.m.

All members of No. 2 Platoon who have not yet attended will do so on Friday, Medical and general exempts are required

July 12th

Those men who have been ordered to

to attend.

attend for oral examination. will attend on special dates to be notified, and will not attend the above fixtures.

MEETING—ALTERATION.

boats, thus considerably discounting the **glorious vista" held out by the previous Speaker Coming to the financial side, Mr. Wilkinson pointed out that the im proving o of the main deterioration having been The meeting of Company and Platear

of the river was a duty devolving upon the provincial authority, a duty accentuated in this case through the fact

Commanders and Warning Officers will take place at 6 pm, instead of 5.30 pm, on Monday, July 8th. BAND-PRACTICE, O F.M.

caused by the stone barriers purposely laid in the river as a defence measure many years ago. In any case there was no right to lay a surtax upon any except such section of the trade as stands, tú. benefit directly by the improvement. The Tuesday, July oth; and Friday, July precedents quoted elsewhere strictly comparable with local conditions, were not

12th.

STRENGTH.

By Order

TI HOUGH A.S.P. (R.) and Adjutant. Hongkong, July 6th, 1918.

la a few days the new avenue joins the inner harbour to that Grande will enable the public to walk straight from the Inner Praia to the New as at those other ports it was a case of Po 803 Samy is invalided out, well soon be seen in that quarter of the ed by continuous deterioration or grow Macao Hotel. Very great improvements foreign interests being seriously threaten- city.

Being competition from without, whereas On July 9th the centenary of the birth Foochow had will be observed almost as a public holi of the Passeteao's hero, Colonel Mesquita

gone on placidly in well the fairly

Samo Manker

for day, and that part of the new avenue

and could easily survive a few years more. Its foreign trade? would which runs between the Senado and the Praia Grande will be named Mesquata's Avenue. The ceremony will be per formed in public at & p.m.

OPICM FARMERS. BROKEN CONTRACT.

drug was ever on his vessel and that he Pacap, having broken his contract with Leong-vai, the farmer for Sanpiu and had made two thorough searches en finding nothing that was not on the ship's the Government and forfeited the deposit manifest It

's money (566,666.60), new tenders will Faz established, however, shortly be invited. The hare is 8120,000 that the opium was on his vessel, that per annum,

it was put over the side early on Sunday CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW RESERVOIR. morning off Luzon Point and that

was no other steamer within 15 hours of A very important reservoir is under the Furusang, either before or after

The point was then zuised that, grunted The site is not a very high one but it is construction near the Harbour Office. the drug was lowered off the Fuensang, said that one could not have been selected it could not have been

the the higher up, because it is necessary to and this contention was not fully con troverted

not benefit nearly so much as the Coast and Junk trade. He held that the pro After further discussion, the following posed Government contribution was far

resolution was passed nem, con': Y too small and should amount to at least

"That this meeting heartily endorses half of the total cost. As to the foreign and approves in principle of the pro share a surtax of 23 per cent, should posed scheme for the improvement of the being double that amount. In conclusion and that all the details be left to the suffice, the tax on the Native Customs Min River between Nantai and Pagodz. Wilkinson said he would prefer to Consular Body, and representatives of the war and then a bigger geheme started one representative of such neutral and including the purchase of a dredger, etc., or allied foreign body of nationals, to be see the entire scheme postponed to after the Mercantile Community, consisting of

which would also give time to consider

arranged on an equitable basis with the be the Engineer-in-chief. Delay was no the important question of who was to

authorities concerned."

to materialise a scheme, and at other calamity; at Shanghai it took 30 years ports from 5 to 8 years. (Applause.)

The Chairman remarked that if it took

mile limit, or with with water, collect the waters that come down from so long to get a scheme through the more of this one m five years. He made it

The ship has been released under F1,000 and will make her regular run, pending the decision of Collector of Customs V. Aldanese.

the Penhao hills Ahouht 240,000 has been spent on the scheme, bat the Colony has money, and within a few days more than half a million dollars will come in monthly from the new Opium Farm.

Mr. Wilkinson mentioned that con- hereditary propensity for taking their servancy schemes in China have a strong-

itself lucky if it saw the fructification time and that Foochow might consider

reason there was for starting at once.

also clear that the merchants would not ade some remarks in support of his for ratification but most consider all Mr. Pontius, American Consul, then have the question referred hack to theat colleague.

further handling and decision to he (Continued at foot of next Columin.)- {committee and the officials concerned

henceforth in the hands of the mixed