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FAR EASTERN PROBLEMS, IL-EVILS OF THE MILITARY GOVERNORS.

In this article in The Times, Mr. J. O. P. Bland considers the most urgent condi

(the estimato is 200 millions of dollars) in RAISING THE “LUSITANIA” connection with a vague scheme for a FRENCH SCIENTISTS PROPOSALS. per cent, reduction of the country's, milio tary forces, to be carried out by the Ministry, of War in consultation with the provincial authorities, at their own time

tion of the reconstruction of China, name and in their own time and în their own proposal is to construct & floating

As follows:

the

Regarding the raising of the Lusitania interview with M. a report is printed by the Ezesistor of nai

Emile Bertin, the scientist, a member of the Institute of France, and a former director of engineer in the French aavy. The paper saya: Tv: the disbandment of the armies of the way. rarapious Tuchun, or Military Governors, That way madness lies. If L'hing is to height which would be attached to the chamber 300 yarda lang, 100 wice, 20 in without which the restoration of order and be saved, it is essential that no further wreck at low tide by means of some 300 good government is impossible. He writes loans of any kind be made to her except the wreck from the bottom as the tide rose steel cables and so manipulated as to raise under conditions which shall rid the Once lifted and supported by this floating "It is evident that, in the first place, the country, once and for all; of this loeest-like chamber the wreck would be towed towards Military Governors of the provinces soldiery and replace military despotism by hers and deposited at the most con- (Tuchung) and their rabble armies, must competent evil administration.

pumping operations might be carried out. Thare

M. Bertin ex- go. for long as they remain to batten must be no more independent subsidies by part of the proposal is, connected, with press the opinion that the problematic without restraint upon all forms of pro Japan or by any other Power, no further beaching the vessel when it reaches the ductive industry, there can be no hope of yielding to the plan of Marshal Tuan and had once the decousty cables have been Ha ses po insuperable difficulty his friends, that failure to supply them attached in raising the wreck from three The Tuchun. as evolved out of the with funds will entail a rising of their to four metres nearer the surface by taking chars of the revolution. affords an instrue mutinous troops, with the usual pillage and wreck has been brought above the level of advantage of each tide. Once part of the tive example of the results of endeavouring bloodshed. to apply the theories and principles of ment and the complaisance of money in fact that no dry dock exists which would By the help of this argu- the sex the work of the divers would be greatly facilitated. The difficulty will be self-government & race which is by lenders, the Tuchuns have been enabled to be capable of receiving both the floating nature and education unfitted to receive a vast wealth during the past five the site of the hull, of course, and this chamber and the wreck. It depends upon it. These predatory barons of the East

JURIS. mandarins all are the very last word in 1

A revolution "would be far cheaper we can may nothing about ab prosent but self-determination. Under their despotic

in the long run.

if the ship can be got to the coast there ought to be no serious difficulty in accom. and rapacious hands every provines has

plishing the task. It may be possible to But there will be no revolution, for all save the whole ship or it may be necessary the part where the torpedo cerned, is only too anxious to see the made by the torpedo measure twenty-five

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FARCE OF CIVIL WAR,

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NOTICES TO CONSIGNEES

INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION

COMPANY, LIMITED. NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

FROM KOBE.

ARE Steamship

having arrived from the above ports, Consignees "YATSHING"

foods are being landed at their risk into the of Cargo by her are hereby informed that all hazardous and/or extra' hazition Crodowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Whart and Godews Company Limited, hence, and for from the wharves, delivery may be obtained.

Goods not cleared by the 19th July; will be subject to rent.

to be left in the Godowns, where they will be All broken, chafed, and damaged packages at

presented within 10 days of arrival, otherwise. examined. Claims against the steamer must be they will not recognized...

No Fire Insurance will be effected by us in any case whatever.

Bill of Lading will be countersigned by

JARDINE, MATHESON & CO. LTD.,

General Manager.

:

Hongkong, July 13th, 1920:

ARD

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NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES. CCEAN STEAM SHIP COMPANY, LTD CHINA MUTUAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY, LTD.

CONSIGNEESuper Company's Steamer

become a perfect paradise of Home Rule (hint, except the parasitic officials con- entered. If, as we may suppose, the halo C

without the benefit of clergy, at war

Therefore, the fumediate problem

in

of the kind ever attempted, The vessel appears to lies in a depth of 230 feet. The process would be long and costly but the Lusitanin in spite of the length of time she has been wader water would be well worth the effort, to say nothing of the moral importance of recovering the bodies of the 1.100 people entombed..

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will lie at Consignee's risk. The Cargo will be tady for delivery from Godown on and after Jaly 16th.

Uptional cargo, will be handed, unless notice has been given poor to steamer's arrival.

within itself and with its neighbourhan's troups disbanded. As a corres metres square it would be impossible to are hereby notified that the Cargo will be din Chinn.recognized as such by the Chinese Pradent in Hunan province, writing to the stop up. This would be the greatest feat charged into Eloit's Wharf. Kowloon, where it theitelees, in how to get rid of them in North Chink Held (March 5th). puts it, dependent sacraps and to restore law and as far as the Chinese people are concert order "under" the Central Gerament, ed it is not a case of being for the North or for the South, but simply a queion together with the fiscal machinery required which of the military parties inflicts the for its support.

If Chinu ly to escape new perils of dis The Tuchus are well aware that publie

greater degree of suffering." order and final disruption, the disband-pinion is all against them; when they mens, of the Tuchung' armies is a matter know that there is no mere foreign money of imperative neremity. Not only the to be had as the price of their "loyalty," | Chinese Government, but the Chinese the face of civil war in China will be Army most be centralized and its numbers brought within the smallest limits compat ible with the maintenance of constituted

authority.......

SUGAR AND ALCOHOL. EFFECT OF PROHIBITION IN AMERICA.

to be left in the Godewas, where they will be All broken, thafod, and damaged goods are examined un uy Tuesdays and Fridays between) the hours of 10h, and Noox within the free storage period.

No Claims will be admitted after the Goods, have left the steamer's Godown, and all goods. remaining undelivered after July 22nd, will be. subject to rent.

All Claims against the Steamer must be presental to the undersigned on or belure Aug.

th, or they will not be recognised.

No Fire Insurnace will be effected.

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE," Agente

Hongkong. July 15th, 1995, [121

*GLES LINE OF STEAMERS, LTD.

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ended. Their armies have thriven on booty, not battles, and, the last thing that they desires real fighting. If the Our Scottish correspondent writes: Powers show that they mean business, dia- Judging from the extraordinary increase A solules of China's difficulties on these bandment will be only a matter of time! in America's demand for vogur, de would Tines may seen at hot sight to be in and determination. Certain Tuchups in almost seem as if Prohibition had brought practicable; but in reality it red cut be the more remote: provinces may defy the about something like a "disturbance in be 30. Everything must depend, in the last Government for a time, but the fact re balance of nature," Alcohol is a near re resort. upon the readiness of the commina that there can be no stomach in any lative of sugar its chemical grandchild... merejal Powers chiefly concerned-that in Chinese rebellion without loot in front and in fact and their chemical formule ata Japan-Great Britain-and-the-Eaited moary behind it. State--to work loyally together in a Let the work of disbandment begin is, of course, quia diatinet from the desire

curiously similar. The craving for alcohol)

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES common self-denying policy of reconstrue stebiatically in the northern provinces, of the body for sugar. Yet the gratifien- FROM UNITED KINGDOM, CULOMBO tion. Thus regarded, the attitude of the where the millionaire Tucbuns are likely tion of the former undoubtedly means the Japanes Government beenmes a deter.

Let eacli discharged allaying of the latter. People who con- |

AND STRAITS. minant factor in the situation. But, for dier's pay be issued to him, in exchange me a fair amount of alcoholic beverages

to prove amenable. reasons which will be explained later on, for his riffe and equipment by a respon with their meats are notoriously high- I am convinced that the resources of diploidle representative of the Consortium; minded about desert. They wave away the macy should prove sufficient to attain the possessed of expert knowledge. Thereafter proffered pudding: a fact which may con- end desired and to secure a renewal of the let the administrative and executive Baths sect itself with Coleridge's observation Anglo-Japanese Alliance under conditions rity in each province be vested in a Civil that there must be something morally wrong ultimately beneficial to Chidal DAN Governor, supported by an adequate police with people who don't like apple dempling, JAPAN'S CO-OPERATION NECESSARY,” force, and let such small military forces Such people, too, are inclined to be con- From personal observation incline to is may be necessary be under the direct temptuous about the feminine taste for the belief that the Liberal elements in orders of the Central Government. Japan are honestly anxious to adopt sich half a dozen provinces north of the Yang O as has been done in America, and they Lot chocolates. But deprive them of 202 H6 a policy towards, China us shall cultivate taze be thus dedit with, and the Central will spend their days seeking for CB H her friendship and maintain her indepen Government will have secured the nucleus U., whether in the form of cakes, candies, dence. Obviously if it should prove that of a national revenue. It may safely be said puddings, or soft drinks. the reactionary military party in Japan that once Peking is in receipt of regular short, having ceased to convert omnch is still stronger than the Liberal movement, revenues and assured of the moral support grain into a certain amount of what has if Japan should finally decline to co-ope of the Powers, the combative ardour of the rate in an international agreement for the southern malcontents will melt away like reorganization of China, then the problem snow upon the desert. becomes insoluble, and the unfortunate

crisis arises.

INTERNATIONAL JEALOUSTER.

hitherto been the most popular of sugar substitutes, is having to import an equival ent amount of sugar itself from the West Indies. Weido not guarantee the scientific

having arrived from the above ports. Consignees of Cargo by her are hereby informed that all

GLENAMOY"

Goods are being landed at their risk into the hazardens and or extra hasurdoox Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowkea Wharf and Godown Company Limited, whence, and or from the wharves, delivery may be obtained.

be subject to rent.

Goods not cleared by the 22nd July, 1920, will

to be left in the Golowns where they will be All broken, chaled and damaged packages are

July ad. 10, at 10s Claims against the America, in examined by Hewers. Goddard & Douglas, on Steamer must be presented within 30th days of arrival otherwise they will not be recognize1

No Fire Laraace will be effected by us in any case whatever.

Bill of Lading will be countersigned by

JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., Lrd,

Agents. Hongkong, July 15th, 1920.

(1216 *GLEN" LINE OF STEAMERS, LTD. NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

HUMOUR AT GENERAL ASSEMBLY.

Our Scottish correspondent writes:-- The debates in the General Assemblies of

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Fox UNITED KINGDOM, COLOMBO and STRAITS.

THE Motor Vessel

Chinese people must continue to suffer all Is it ponsible for the Consortium, Powers acurncy of this theory, but the facts on the penalties of chronic misrule abil, out to rise superior to international jealousien; which it is based seem to argue the neces of their disorders, a new international and to adopt a common policy beneficial tosity for increasing the area of sugar pro- China and to the whole world's trade?duction before Prohibition is extended to Assuming, however, that the Powers Time will show. In any case, the problem Europena countries. can come to such an agreement, there is much simpler than many of those with good reason to believe that the very wealth which the League of Nations hopes to deal which the. Tuchuns have amassed might be in Western Europe. Let us tagume that made instrumental in relegating them and the thing can be done. disbandment effect- their followers into private life, if once ed, and the provincial administration re they were persuaded that the Power's really established in the hands of the civil mean to support an effective and honestly authorities. Let us asume that Parlis- administered Government at Peking mentary Government can then be made

"GLENTARA "Fantastic the iden may appear to the more responsible and les corrupt,

The the Scottish Churches are often enlivened having arrived from the above ports. Con.. Western mind, I have beard many clear detail work of reorganisation will then by little jests and stories. The "Fathers signees of Cargo by her are hereby informed headed Chinese declare in all seriousness become possible--reorganization of the and Brethren" greatly enjoy these light that all Goods are being landed that most of the Tuch uns would be quite country's Bnances, transport, adminis interludes, for, truth to tell, most of the into the hazardous andfor extra hazardona their risk. satisfed to:hare their troops disbanded tration, and system of justice and it will ministers look upon an Assembly trip to Godowns of The Hongkong and Kowloon, for them, and paid off, by the benevolent require years of conscientious patriotic Edinburgh as a pleasant outing and a Wharf and Godd foreigner, so that they themselves might effort on the part of the Chinese them Here are two little jokes picked out of last may be obtained.

bright patch in their drab-coloured lives. Whence, and/or from the wharves, delivery Godown Company.“ *Limited, retire to the dignified leisure of their selves. But given peace within their well-feathered nests. As Tang Shae vi, the borders and the assurance of disinterested work's meetings,

Goods leader of the Southern party, put it, support from the friendly Power, the best is submitting the report of the Committee

The Rev. Professor Main, St. Andrews, will be subject to rent.

cleared by the 19th July, 1920, when I saw him in Januarr at Shanghai, elements in the nation would no loves on Probationers, solemnly told the Assem-re to be left in the God was her thouglas All broken, cisted and damaged packagos "I think they would like to resign so as come to the front. There is, believe bly to bave time to attend to their invest enough intelligence, ability, and patriotisur translate The Stickit Minister, and on 18th July, 1920, at 10.4.. Claims against

French student who set out to be examined by Messes Goddard de ments." It would, of course, be absurd available in the country to make China a bagan by making the title "Le Ministre the steamer must be presented within 10 days to expect them to abandon, their safe and united and prosperous nation within, a very Assassine," Lucrative profession wo long as foreign short space of time.

of TITL

otherwise they will not be On another occafica the Rev. R. H. recognized. loans are forthcoming for the maintenance Bug for the present honesty in the public Dunlop wished to make the point that, No Fire Insurance of their armies (most of which are on service. which must be the cornerstone of given sympathy, almost anything mighing Case whatever

will be

be affected by us in papery or for disbandment schemes,ach: réorganisation, can only be applied from be secured. A man carried down a pert-

Buff of Lading will be countersigned by as that of the reorganization loan of without. It involves insistence upon the manteau to the Waverley Station, he said,

JARDINE MATHESON & Co., LTD., 1913, which yielded fat pickings without proper and efficient andit of all official to oblige a friend who was leaving by train.

Agents in any way interfering with their right accounts where foreign loans are involved. to recruit new bandits a discretion.

[1188 to which the Chinese Government pledged The Chinese Government profemes to itacit in making the reorganisation tour desire the disbandment of these independ of 1915, but which it has, fersistently brad ent provincial armies, and the existing od. Insistence upon an effective Audit De four-Power financial Consortium has made partment with a foreign personnel need Damir disbandment, under effective foreign not conflict in any way with China's supervision, one of the conditions of the sovereign rights, ner involve any new do £6,000,000 loan recently under discussion parture. It merely implies the extension But all experience goes to show that is of a system which has been in fama for China something more than the authority 70 years with China's consent, and to her and prestige of a bankers' agreement will great advantage, Inasmuch us nearly be needed to make disbandment complete every available source of revenue in Ching and irrevocable. It will require a united, has now been pledged for the service of The Compagnie de Commerce & de 2 Kowloon Wharf & Godowns Co., Ltd, front and a clear-cut policy on the part of innumerable loans, the Consortium Powers Navigation D'Extreme Oriant of Saigon, Kowloon and stored at. Consigne's gill the Consortium Powers.

*** SQUEEZING”

ciple of foreign supervision in Ching-Since our last report prices slightly to be The hasco of the reorganisation own interest, and to last upon, it reincreased following the aimed at by the loan of 1913, proved clearly galar application. China's actual rented Burmah would stop her rics export. This All Claims, must be presented within a that the mandarins at Peking and in the should then be more than sufficient for the bang not correct, our market wek of the Steamer's provinces will not consent to the necessary Government's needs if one thee are propped again to the same prices as those which they cannot be effective supervision of expenditure except tected from clin Gingers of the official of the last two weeks. But Japan, Java

No Claim will Redhe Goods under very firm pressure; they will con squeezers,

and Philippine Islands have been asking have left the Godowns and all Goods remain- tiane s long as possible to play off, one Care the Consortium be made a practical for offers and there is every likchood that ing undelivered after 19th Julia ramai. barbarian, against another and to protect instrument for reconstruction working to this demand, our market will adject to rent. their opportunities of ""queeze." The, China, ander the direction of the Powers The total amount of rice exported from the effected.

recover, more or less, in the near future. No Fire Insurance whatever will disbandment programme submitted by Chu concerned? Is Japan likely to cooperate 1st of January up to the 6th of July, 1920 Chi-chlen to the Shanghai Peace Confer to that end? Personally, I am inclined to is 138,101 tons against 33,178 tons in Bill of Lading for

Consignees are requested to send in their once last year affords conclusive proof that, the belief that the is, because of the present 1918 We quote to-day: White Saigon rice mediately

counter-signature in the Metropolitan oficials, in collusion with economato End political conditions in No. 2 Jilted Japan quality Hongkong the Tuchun, bone to induce the foreign Japan. These will be discussed in ensuing 38.10 per picul 1.0.b. Saigon for July Powers to advance vast sums of money articles.

shipment.

THE POWEDS.

But he was stopped at a platform barrier because he had no ticket. He was

to the pmergency, however; be whispered anxiously to the ticket-collector, This bag is for my wither-in-law; she's gain by that train; and if she dina got collector murmured a sympathetic Nough that bag she'll come back? The ticket- said," and at ance stood aside.

SAIGON RICE.

Hongkong

19th July, 1950

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

8.8. * MAQUAN" FROM SEATTLE, JAPAN AND MANILA THE sbove mentiourd vessel having arrived from the above-mentioned Porta

Consignees

óf Cargo

are hereby informed that their cargo in being landed at their risk into the Hazardous and/or extra Bazardous Godowns of the Hongkong

are fully justified in extending the prin- in their latest report on the Rice Market eft in the Hodowns where they will be

broken,

chafed and damaged Goods are rumour that examined on 18th July at 10:

here, after

FRANK WATERHOUSE & ́CO., As Operators, US Shipping Board, Hard Floor, Hotel Mansion Hongkong, July 12th, 1990. (1189