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CABLES."

LATEST CABLES, [THROUGH BELTER AGENCY.]

AMERICAN STEEL STRIKE

TWENTY STATES AFFECTED.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS,

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NEWS.

[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.}

PEKING PESSIMISTIC ABOUT

**PEACE,

PERING, September 24th. Naw Yous, Septembed 3rd. Peking is extremely pessimistic re- The first tiny of the steel strike showgarding the outcome of the Shanghai that 20 States are affected. Disorders Conference.

are reported from, al few places only. The guards shot seven persons in Newcastle.. Pensylvania, the mortally, Naerous arresta were made in various centres,

Reports for the wind day record several gains for the strikers, particular." ly in Ohio. Many additional works Chicago and Pittsburg have closed down Rioting continues in several places and encounters with the guards have occurred.

The casualties ar hitherto one dead and there (probably fatally) wounded, Scores were hurt.

A telegram from Pittsburg states that the Steel Workers "Union announces that there are 397,000 strikers,

GOVERNMENT INTERVENTION

POSSIBLE.

WASHINGTON. September 23rd. The Seance has decided immediately to' investigate the strike situation in view of possible Giuseringeng intervention.

DOUBLE INCOME TAX.

FOR THE WHOLE EMPIRE,

"

POLITICS IN PEKING.

Kung Hsin-chan'i resignation of the Premiership is certain and Chin, Yung- peng's succession probable,

This denotes a closer communion he tween Than Chi-jai and the President. and a definite split in the Anfu party.

CABINET CHANGES.

PEXING, September 25th. thin Yung-peng assumed the Premier- ship this morning.

Ei Shih-no, the Vior Minister, taken charge of the Ministry of Finance. There are no other changes,

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THE SINOCZECH TREATY, The Chinese suggest reciprocity as the basis of the Sino-Couch Treaty, which is expected to become the basis of all other Treaties

DESTRUCTION OF OPIUM. There was a big opism burning at the Temple of Agricultuer on Sunday,

4.

LONDON, September Meri. Sir James Meston (representing India), M. G. H. Knilks (Australia), Mr. W

LONG SERVICE MEDALS. L. Griffithe (Canada), and Mr. James Burns (South Africa), attended a meeting PRESENTED BY HI.E. THE OFFICER of a sub-tommittee of the Regal Code | ·· ADMINISTERING THE GOVERN- mission on Incon-Tax, which is consider ing the question of it double income-tax within the Empire,

The representatives indicated their e spective Government's attitude and ex plained the general principles on which they thought taxation should be imposed. It was the b-Committee's general view that reciprocity is between the various Governments must govern the granting of any relief for admitted hardship.

MENT.

H. E. the Officer Administering the Government' presented long service medals

the

CORRESPONDENCE.

THE SHANTUNG QUESTION. TO THE EDITOR OF "THE RONGKUNG

EDITOR

DAILY PRESS."]

- read with interest. Mr. Albert Woodall Smith's, contribution to your

to-day's issue.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26r8, 1919.

THE NEW GOVERNOR LANDING. AT:10 A.M., ON SEPTEMBER 30TH. H.E. Sir Reginak Edward Stubbe,. K.C.M.G., who is travelling to Hongkong on the P. & O. s.3. Khint, left Singa pore yesterday morning. The steamer is

and Military officers, the heads of the local Judiciary, the heads of the Govern ing residents. ment Departments, and a few of the lead

THE LATE PROF. ERNST HAECKEL..

FAMOUS BIOLOGIST.

The death is aanduneed of Dr. Erast Harekel. He died during last night as bis ume at Jena, after a long illae. His in the ideas which prepared Ger materialistic writings played no small part

any for the war-Reuter.

the

In his

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Weismann, in his * Germplasm Theory,"" advanced the opinion that only those characters can be transmitted to subse quent generations that were contained in rudimentary form in the embryo.” On this subject Haeckel wrote:-

the hereditary transmission of sequires phenomena in biology, and is proved by thousands of morphological and physic- logical experiences. It is an indispens

I bald with Lamarck and Darwin, that

characters is one of the most important

His Excelleney will then inspert the enormous advantage in commencing, sejen father Darwin has adhered to his

Further, the President is reported to have said that France and Britain could not honcurably violate the secret treaty with Japan. That is only a matter of course..90 much so that we hardly need such a great statesman to assert it; but, strangely enough, Mr. Sinith seems to find a point of doubt lait. As for me, I think that neither Britain nor France was so unjust as to have concluded an unjust treaty, but Mr. Smith's tone of argument rather suggests the contrary, Iyo triumphal arches are being erected

one at each end of Statue Square.

J

STRITEL.

President Wilson is said to

expected in Hongkong at 7 am.. on Tues- have day next. September 30th. rights, not China's." He is quite correct stated that Japan obtained Germany's The official landing will take place attinental writer of science in recent times.

Probably no German or even Conable foundation of the theory of evalu- la nim. His Excellency will be received has had so many British readers as Fro

tion." the report is true, for what Japan goten the jetty by the Hon. Mr. Claud

In support of this view, Harckel refers fessor Ernst Heinrich Haeckel, and that to the inheritance of rudimentary crgans, before the eyes of the world are the rights Severn, C.M.G., and will be introduced complished naturalist, and he was for simian ancestors, but are now utterly for two reasons--he was himself an de which once were serviceable in our that were possessed by Germany and not

to the members of the Execative and is in Germans. by China.

years the foremost apostle ok

Dar

useless or even injurious-as. for ex- Legislative Councils, the senior Naval of research Haeckel rose to the front rane ample, the appendix, which is the cau

line of the

of Appendicitis. But this is really not biologists 18th, 184, be was intended by his it is the inheritance of acquired charac Potsdam, where he was born on Febru-useless rudimentary organs is admitted

of hisday, A native of the point at issue. The inheritance of

father for

medieul studied medicine and science at

profession. andres which denied whether these quali

arz- ties be useful or ornamental. burg, Berlin,

Sir and Vienna.

had an

Francis tife work under three of the most famous

view, as did Herbert Spencer to of recent masters in

the end: but the majority of British the Fatherland biologists, we faney, agree with Weis Johannes Müller,

The influence of these master-tuinds de legist Vircle the eminent physio- the great pathologist:

XONISTIC PHILOSOPHER. and Kiliker, the famous anatomist Ernst Haeckel bad restricted his termined Faeckel's devotion to

de literary output to natural history his tobiology. and it

reputation would have been unquestioned. 1937 actually began to practise as a doctor

Unfortunately he carried his evolutionary bad graduated that, though in

unted as M.D. in Berlin, and

and theories

into the ruins of philosophy Er son gave up editing for morals, and

which spheres, natural history, and, later in life

it must be confessed, he figures us. congratulated

of dis- he had tinction. and more congelador cumparative Welträtsel

An extraordinary translated into

into English us Institue at Jena, and three years later anatomy and was appointed in a chair of zoology that it had been a real contribution to philo

The Riddle of the Caiverse. Girector of the Zoologien

bad gical large circulation in this country and"

was hailed by some simple souls as though bad been specially established for his sophie thought. bencft. At Jena for forty-three yearskind.

It was nothing of the he remained building up a wonderful museum of evolutionary biology and Haeckel laid down propositions in phy Among other "bases of speculation, creating for Himself a reputation as a zogist of the first order.

I guard-of-honour, which will be supplied by the Hongkong Defence Corps, with a

Blake Piar. He will then motor to the platoon of Cadets, stationed outside City Hall by way of Statue Square. The route will be lined with troops.

In the City Hall, Sir Paul Chater, the himself and his patients that curiosity rather than as at Dia

trust the statesmen of these countries too mach to agree with Mr. Smith's view, for, indeed, I cannot think they are so stupid A to have committed shen a grave blunder carelessly and without any aim, nor de believe they are so villainous as to have utilized an unjust treaty in their own interests. Of course, all these matters only concern their own nations, though if the situation were as Mr. Smith suggests Stubbs

Committee and senior unofficial member Chairman of the fineral Reception of the Executive Council, will read the public address of welcome in the presence of the Committee and such other mem hers of the general public as inay be pre seat. All of cours, are invited.

After

this ceremony, Si Reginald will proceed to the Connell

Was

too

The

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theory, as indispensable for a truly manisties must lay down the following these, which are involved in Vogt's pvlnotic ria of substance, and one that covers the whole feki of organic and inorganic natures.

sies, of which be evidently knew very i carnet but wonder how these Govern- [ Chamber, where Sir William Rees Davies, work fell into Haeckel's hands, just a statement:-

It was in 1834 that Mr. Darwin palmit, Professor Sir Oliver Lodge quotes little, and which no physicist would ad lished the Origin of Species." meats, controlled by popular votes as afr.K.C., Chief Justice, will administer. the he was on the threshold of his scientifle

from him the subjoined extraordinary Smith puts it should be tolerated by Sath of office in the presence of a combined career, and he weepted the theory of na British or French electors. As for me, meeting of the Executive and legislative tural selection without hesitation, or 1, one of the citizens of Japan, am quite Copacile.

qualificating. confident of the righteous settlement of

He was the first German biologist to do so, not a few men of dis- Lady, Stubhs is not accompanying Stinction regarding the new doctrine, as the question in the great Conference of Reginald on the Khiva. She is expected or two of the most eminent, ret it with sweeping a generalisation, while one the World, having been openly discussed in the Colony towards the beginning of a vehement resistano. Among the latter before all the world's eyes."

was Haeckel's old master Virchow, who, when the iden was hrouched that man was descended from an anthropoid clared that it would be

old ape, de say that human beings were derived from as reasonable to sherp or an elephant, which was a singularly irrational judgment. Haeckel was as little disposed as any man But

bulk of German zoologists on his side. to how to authority in science or in any thing else, and he soon lived to see the

According to Mr. Smith, rumour has

and Pte. J. H. Underwood, of the Hongcially sold to Japan by China's rulers. I to Capt. F. D. C. Wolfe, C.S.M. Kynoch it here that Shantung has been substan kong. Defence Corps, on the Parade

can tell you that the rumour is not only Ground at noon yesterday. Amongst groundless but doing harm to inter thow present were H.E. Major-General national friendship, and, first of all, Ventris,, C.B., - Captain G. F. Stewart seriously insulting the Chinese statesmen (adjutant of Hongkong Defence and Chinese nation, How can rumour Corps), and the Hon. Mr. W. Chatham. say such a thing in face of the fact that [C.M.G.

Japan has promised the return of His Excellency, addressing Company Shantung with full sovereignty Sergeant-Major Kynoch, of the Engineer | China. What Jagan retains are the fow It was decided to consider the remedialing Co, said:-Sergeant Major Kynoch, economic rights involving Sino-Japanese suggestions, reerived from the various Clovernments at the next meeting.

Ti was decided not to enll witnesses a- the Commission has collected full evid

Ande

BRITAIN'S EXCHEQUER.

INTERESTING RETURNS.

LONDON, September 3rd.

that the receipts were £431,62,558 and the expenditure £301,821,829, compared wish £330,020,802, and *£1,109,581,585 for the curresponding period of last year.

Co

notice from your record that you were railway enterprise, etc., which rights, four years in the Glasgow Second Posi- am quite certain, Japan is justly entitled tion Field Battery, Lanarkshire Artito retain as her compensation from Ger lees Volunteer Corps; then the rest of many. I would advise Mr. Smith not to Fyour service was passed in the Hongkong believe in the rumour to which he refers.

Volunteer Corps and in the Defence

On the whole, I am gratified that we

Tess.

."

next year.

... [DY COURTESY OF THE CHINA MAIL"}

ARRIVAL AT SINGAPORE.

al

SINGAPORE, September 24th.

morning accompanied by Mr. Melirath Sir Reginald Stubbs arrived this

(Private Secretary) and Capt, Lee Warner (A.D.C.). He is the guest.to-day of Mr. H. Marriott, the deputy Officer Adminis tering the Government. He gas aboard after dinner tonight, and leaves morrow,

MACAO NOTES.

ic.

THE EVOLUTIOsist. Centuries ago the science of animal life was known as natural history, which it and Wallare produced their famous really became only in 1858, when Darwin' PAKAJ'S. 1 Then it was made evident that all

existing life was derived from existing life, and had been so derived throughout the geological ages The links might be missing, but of the exist ence of the chain there could be no doubt. out his first

pre-

Hen~

1. The two fundamental forms of sub- stance, ponderable matter and ether, aro not dead, and only moved hystrinio. force but they are endowed with tion and will (though naturally of the west grade); they experienes an inclina- tion, a dislike of strain; they strive after the one and struggle against the other. "Sir Oliver does not discuss this thesis. He merely observes, In Life and Mat and hence I refrain from characterising ter. My desire is to criticise politely, which is

sentence as a physicist should.”

is absolute nonsense.

is a bland

and way of saying that it Yet this is a fair sample of the kind of and on such theses Haeckel believed he had with which

demonstrated that there was no immortal the Eiddle of the 2 STRE

is padded:

soul, or free will. or personal God. Even in questions of natural history; when he attempted to philosophise, Haccke; wrote ith a similar crudeness. Thus, renk- ing of the work of the great English na turalist, he remarks:-

In 1882 Haeckel dott. This was species at onen gave us the salution of the

series

The Exehetjuer returns for the pering Corps. You were a private in the Volun have fore-sighted statesmen in Japan who ment of this Colony for from April 1st to September 20th show teer Corps, a Supper when you joined liberally think more of Chino-Japanese $150,000 for building a THW-

the Engineering Company and you rose friendship, promising to give up all polibeen approved by the Government here, to be Company Sergeant Major. Itical rights in Shantung that were taken which is now awaiting the sanction of 1s the great pleasure to present you from Germany by the war for righteous the Lisbon Government, "«" with this Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long Service medal. You were specially men

The feast of Our Blessed Virgin of the Medus, Rosary will be celebrated on October 4th. tioned, amongst many other, in the

And 5th at St. Domingo's Church. As the Church is in need of repair, the Directors of the Confraternity of the Rosiry are arranging a Fair to be held in the Church grounds for the benefit the Repairs Fund.

BXULIER CABLES.

The above are the true facts." What more true facts does Mr. Smith want to

WAYS AND COMMUNICATIONS Gazette for services rendered during the know I am, sir, Yours faithfully,

MINISTRY INAUGURATED - AT HOME

LONDON, September 3rd. A Ministry of Ways and Communica tions was inaugurated to-day, when Sir Eric Geddes commenced the task of bring- ing under single control the whole trans port of the country.

It is hoped that much economy will thereby be effected.

THE FIUME SITUATION. INSURGENTS NOT TROUBLED BY

THE BLOCKADE.

war.

I hope you will always continue to give the same satisfaction, and that you will live long to wear the medal.

Addressing Pt. J. H. Underwood of "D" Co., His Excellency said:-Pte. Underwood, you have passed all the service which entitles you to this medal. in the Hongkong Volunteer Corps and Defence Corps. You rose to a Captaincy in the Volunteer Corps and then patrioti- cally, when the Reserve was formed, began again as a private. Now you, bave father over five years to your credit as a private in the Defence Corps since the Erst day of the war. It gives me great pleasure to present you with this long service medal.

ROME, September 23rd. Gabriele d'Annunzio, in a communiqué, In addressing Capt. Wolfe, His Excel- states that, in spite of the blockade, prolency said:-Captain Wolfe. I have a visions are continually arriving at Fiume record of your services here, and I see from Julien Venetia and Italia.. Volun- that in three years you rom from a Pri- teers are also streaming in....

rate to Sergeant in the Cambridge

STRIKES AT HOME. GENERAL RAILWAY STRIKE. IMMINENT.

regiment is technically known

贴宫

T. HIGHBRIDGE." Hongkong, September 28th, 1919. SERVICE PENSIONS AND THE HIGH DOLLAR

(TO THE EDITOR OF THE MONOKONG DAILY PRERS."

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of

very The

tor

were

Monern,

whole animal creation into two cate-

Dartin's thingy of the natural origin of

question of all questions "the prem mystic problem of creation,"

"the great uf the true character and origin of mua hin- self.

1 disting

Ware

า

FROM OUR OWN. CORRESPONDENT. Į

monograph on the the beginning of a great study, and led In a second volume on the same subject September 24th.

in 1887, in which 4.000 new species munity of Hongkong made to the Governally was illustrated with exquisite skill. The request which the Portuguese treatise of the highest order, and artistic enumerated. Biologically this. Wam a

Upon which Sir Oliver Lodge remarks: ainan of Deep sen researches and the simpler forms patient observer and

It is a great deal more than that

and Calcareous Sponges, and to these a Philosophy was to him what Club has of life were his most attractive feld, and

to the volumes we have mentioned must his wiser disciples claimed it for him.

Charles Darwin, ever claimed nor have deep thinker, be added Siphonophora,

Philosophising was not Haeckel's of reports on the results of the ished Frenchman said of logic: Challenger

explorations:

*****Deep-sea Deep Sea Keratosa," and

de

'égarer avec methode. The curious others.

thing

about it is that not only did he minute investigation,

These products of ripe knowledge and fields, but actually came to think his Wander tray methodically in these put they were eclipsed in popular favour In view of the celebration of his with. were admirable: Munism a very essential part of his work. by Haeckel's General Morphology of mure.

spoke highly, and the still birthday, on February 16th., 1914, when king treatise,

innumerable friends had made known Schoepfungsgeschichte

Naturalicho 11 Natural His in honour of the day, the Jena professor their intention to present him with gifts tory of Creation

Fic divided the published the intention to decline ait It is understood that Macao will gories the Protozoa, unicellular, and

personal presentations and to devote all soon have a good water service.

Metazon, multicellular

moneys destined for anima's the foundation to be placed at the former

this purpose to a Japanese engineer who came here"a lew

remaining ence single-celled. while the latter were theory of Moniam is not new. built Sin, There must be quite a number of Senade to study the subject has reported come

This ex-Navy and Army men drawing penfavourably to the Senado,

weeks ago under engagement, by the hit up of cells innumerable. sions in Hongkong and China. Are they The Fazenda has sent out notices to from Monera, that is

Plotinus, studies the most striking out were monists in their way

Of Spinosa, Berkeley, Hegel, Schopenhauer. was the stem of the human Spencer put the idea rationally in sum- race, in which he traced the descent

Herbert all content to draw these pittances at a

of man through six-and twenty stages when he said:

ming up his Synthetic Philosophy," " 4. dollari Or are they all waiting for

simple struc somebody to start the ball rolling? open on October 1st, for receiving the chimpanzee,

up to the

He who rightly interprets the doctrine Pensions range from 10d. to 4%. daying the month will entail a fine of 3 per links betsean primitive man and the man-

annual house-tax. Failure to pay dur Japan, which he held to be the missing lation of subject and object, renders neces

erectus," buman remains.

of them (moniter or mind) can be taken as little enough, but reduced to an ab-

ultimate. He will we that though the E- Fuadity when paid at a 45. dollar. The Naval and Military authorities fought fairly hard to get a. 23. dollar for those serving, but, I think, made no mention of pensioners."

The serving men, of course, had a good in diepste for over 18 years, has been conclusions at which bave. Arrived-Ified with a higher title." It might b

Liciroz was a Spaniard who married a purchased by the Government for $50,001 Portuguese lady. Both died leaving no heir. It is said to be the intention of Spanish Government, if a legitimate heir the Government to send the money to the

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were

and

throughout their exist of the German Monist League Downl

the landlords that the Treasury will be tureless masses of pro Pitheca *** contained in this work will see that neithe

נו

Licarez, the possession of which has been The house belonging to the late Joan

does not appear.

like apes. When Darwin published his to us these antithetical conceptions a Descent of Man in 1871 he observed spirit and matter, the one is no less that of Crenkel in his Natural History the other to be regarded as but a sign of

had fully discussed man's

the Unknown Reality which underlies both. denied matter:

Men have denied mind and they have Haeckel conjectured "substance which was merely materialism

as the foundation of both-

observed of Haeckel, as Byron did of

digni:

Berkeley:-.

never

i

in a very able manner in his various the greatest mathematics conception of

cent, of the tax.

into the Public Works

The Barbour Works have been merged that

essay had been written i should probably genealogy, and said he:--

•If this work, had appeared before my have completed it. Almost all the University Rifle Corps. I think that kick and had a harder one in reserve

and confirmed by this naturalist, whose the Is it possible that because the pensioners

knowledge on many points is much fuller Second.. Cambridgeshire, Then, soon had no such means of stirring the Naval

of sexual selection--be remarks that after than mine. Un another factor of great after your arrival in the East, you joined and Military chiefs that they

moment in Darwin's theory--the influence

When Berkeley said there was no matter, the Artillery section of the Volunteer ignored? If so, it appears to me to be

Species Haeckel was the only author he went out of his way to attack N thoug the appearance of the Origin of thinker of profound originality, though

It was no matter what he said., LONDON, September 23rd.

All the same, Berkeley was # deep J. H. Thomas, M.P., in a speech Corps as a gunner, rose to bombardier very mean,

who had discussed this matter and ie London, declared that there was im corporal, sergeant, Company sergeant-

I notice that there is an outcry, in

ita fall importance.' He had treated it ing that he bad

Been Calculus,' and merely aucceeded in show- minent danger of a general railway major and Enally became Captain in the Canada because Imperial pensioners are

no true works year 1917. Then the Defence Corps was losing 1/11 in the £1. strike because the Government's proposals.

Before the war

DARWIN AND WEJAMANN,

baoan history.

triumph in The Jena for the standardisation of wages made no formed, and you served as Captain in pensioners here were paid at the same

that for some time, being in charge of rate as the serving soldiers and sailors Berlin have threatened to burn them arisen on the question of the inheritance tween mind and embodiment, ar, as we

Since the appearance of Darwin's great

thought his dogma of immense import- professor allowance for the higher paid men, und, the Signalling section, which attained a

Germans in charge of 24 Zeppelins near has appeared among naturalists has nection between energy

the fundamental thought of the oneness work in 1859 the principal schism that of the Pensioners are now about to be paid at rather than deliver them to the Allies, as of acquired characters. In the first in-

of the indissoluble con- if the existing agreement for the war high state of efficiency. You have, there over double the pre-war dollar rate, required by the Fence Treaty. The Zep-stance, wage to terminate in December came into fore, had nearly twenty-two years' servic, which means a reduction of pension since peling are of 25 tons capacity and can Spencer, and most of their disciples sc. the naturalist, will be bank so

Lamarck, operation, this would mean a reduction in various corps at Home in the East,

Darwin,

between Herbert

world will not think By from Berlin to San Francisco, accordcepted the view that if parents acquired for aye; the monist will be deservedly of wages amounting to 14%, weekly in some and it gives me great pleasure to present

The Germans are said to be seeking per ing to German reports. Several of them any useful characteristic their you with the Long Service Medal of the

were built to carry forty persons each,

there. If this permission is not given or of naturalists arose, among them Weis He was only one of a conceited crowd,

Would

inherit it. This ring forgotten, or remembered only as a dar that the

erratic thinker. ing+ mission to Byte Zeppelies to the United the right arm of States, hoping to find buyers for them have exceptional strength. But a school ous by his

his

son would tend sume other satisfactory solution is not mann, offered, the Germans will destroy the air others, all true Darwinians. who failed days he had beld up Britain as Ger Galton, Ray Lankester, and one who had forgotten that in former *hips.

to find evidence of this inheritance; and many's model.-Daily Telegraph,

cases.

He urged the railwaymen, who were

anxious to not immediately, to avoid section strike, which would hinder the negotiations.

1914 of over 50 per cent.

papers, as my personal opinion is that I am sending this letter to all the Colonial Auxiliary Forces and--hope the ventilation of this injustice.-Yours all possible publicity should be given to faithfully.

PENSIONER. Hongkong, Beptember 24th., 1919.

that you will live long to wear it.

His Excellency pinned the medal on eneb recipient's breast and shook bands.

GERMANS THREATEN TO BURN ZEPPELINS.

ed to

also

world."

and

matter, be-

God

and the

Fight outbreak of the Great Wa

to-

1914,

like many more made himself ridicul

proof. England.