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LOANS.

A RUGBYTOOTBALLPROBLEM

eyer.

What are the qualißcations, asks Tha The "death" of "H.E. Don Luis Pastor," MR. SIMPSON DECLARATION. "SHANTUNG'S BUDGET-JAPANESE

Tes apart from skill in the game, Eavoy Extraordinary, and Minister Pieni-

which should rightly entitle a rugby foot potentiary of Spain, at Peking, which of extra-territoriality will 'unt be a pro- A demand by China for the abolition

ball player te inclusion in one or other of occurred on Monday evening after allen of practieki" polities for 10 or

General Tien Chung-yit, military govthe four international teains! This ancient ernor and concurrent civil administrator controversy is today, more acute than kness, once more raises a question which possibly 15 years emphatically stated of Shantung, went to the provincint as has previously been lightly touched upon. B. Letos Siùppon, Adviser to the eiat position of Shangtung for the 10th her best players to the Northern Union,

Wales in particular, already," - sembly recently a dispatch on the final-smarting under the detection of some of in these columns, namely that of the President of China and virtual director year of the Chinese republic (1021). The seems to suffer from the vague and some position of Doyen of the Diplomatic of the bureau of information of the Chi-tea aual revene of Shantung. he wait times contradictory conventions of the Body. The late Spanish Minister, whose Foreign Office when seen at the penditure amounts to nearly twelve mil connexion with the famous Newport club, was exactly ten million dollars: but ex present system. Her chief grievance is in was formaly nécredited to China in April, Grand Hotel at Yokohama. Mr. Siniplion dollars The Shantung provincial which, though Newport happens to be in 1910, has officiated as Doyen on several sou, niore widely known by his pen name, per annum and the remaining fies is essentially a Welsh combination, to say army costs about seven million dollars osmouthshire and therefors in England, occasions, notably at the formalinaugu- | Putnam Weale, was en route to Americsons are spent on civil administration, nothing of the fact that the name of the ration of President Ynen Shih-kal, when and Europe on the steamer Apres of ich as polige, educational and various county is commonly bracketed with that Sir John Jardan, who was senior to him is and it was in connection with the merd, two million dollars will be saved of the English side which recently de other purposes. Through disband of Wales in otheial documents. Yet two by nearly four years, was absent from purposes of his trip that the subject of every year from 1921, so that the expeli-feated Wales at Twickenham belonged to Peking. After his return From leave apme extra-territoriality came up.

ture will squad the income of the province. Newport, while a third, though he has months ago, he automatically succeeded

But on account of the Hunan expedition China will not demand. the abolition in 1917, when this province sent tuo

aver played in Welsh football is a Welsh- to the office as the result of the retire of extra-territoriality, antil her legal arms divisions to Changsha and Yochow The Welsh themselves, on the other hand, man by name and, it is said, descent. ment of the British Minister The which will take close to 10 years longer. lean of four and a half million dollars playing in the London area (except for a codes are completed," be continued, in the hope of subjugating Kwangtung, have an unwritten law that no Welshman Minister next in seniority to him, who know that certain of our friends have was contracted from the Japanese Bank university or hospital) will be picked will now become Doyen, is H.E. Batalha prend about the information that I am of Korea and the Sino-Japanese. Indus de Freitas, the Portuguese Minister, who the abolition of extra-territoriality, but in addition to the amount of thres mil anomalies arise in all four countries. To going to America and Europe to work for trial Development Corporation of Peking, or Walex unless he is a member of the London Welsh. From time to time has just returned to the Capital from a there is not in grain of truth in.it.' Mr.lion and two hundred thousand dollars trip to the South.

la most Diplomatic centres the office which he is going to Canada, the United also for military purposes by the former to one of the four may himself he born in Suupson, then explained the mission on of short-term Japanese loans contracted take, for example, an extreme but possible ted care, a boy whose father belongs hy blood of Doyen of the Diplomatic Body is a States and Europe, a trip which he provincial governments of Shantung with a second, live or go to school or college nominal one. The senior Ambassador or expects to take him, from six to eight the sanction of the Tuan Chi-jui and the in a third, and play as n young man for Minister merely takes precedence of his months...

Ternuchi Cabinets. Further, with the club in the fourth. Which of the selec colleagues at all State functions, and sets, Mr. Simpson's mission to foreign coun- exception of these Japanese loans, there tion committees has a just claim on his as their spokesman in the conveyance tries is mainly to gather information are about one million and three hundred services Has England or Scotland the of joint congratulations, or messages of regarding the attitudes and, the contem- thousand dollars treasury bonds, which are botter right to a player of Scottish condolence. Meetings of the whole plated policies of "the governments of the to be redeemed this year. As these are descent (and possibly accent) who joins Diplomatic Body, ne rarely if ever held.

foreign countries regarding foreign due this year, the provincial government na English club in London or the Mid- Only on very exceptional occasions would affairs, especially affairs concerning the proposes an increase in the land tax to lands, the Doyen have to address to the Garern-formation to the Peking Government, of five years. It is estimated that about sion should depend neither on the birth-

Fur East.

There is, we believe, only one He will transmit that in 60 dollar cents on every tael for a period answer to all auch questions. The deci ment to which he and his colleagues are which will make use of it in formulating ten million dollars will be collected in place, nor on the place of residence, nor accredited, joint representations of other its foreign policy. than a purely formal character. In Nations is in the melting pot now he milion dollars per annum if the bill on the nationality of his father, to b

The League of the next ten years, that is to say, two on the club of the player in question. but Peking, however, the office of Doren is said, and the Chinese President and meets with the approval of the provincial ascertained and registered when he first one of the utmost importance. The Treaty Cabinet want to know what the lending assembly. The inferense in the land tax begins to play club football. In Europe, Powers have numerous interests in com nations of the world are going to do will cease after five years and the pro-it must be remembered, there are not tour mon arising out of a succession of He expects to spend from one to two ceeds will be specially kept for the pay but fire countries concerned in the ques Treaties conferring most favored months in Canada, the United States, ment of the Japanese loans and treasury tion." nation treatment, regulating the Cus-England anil France and then return and bonds." This is the first time a proposal Scotsman or Welshman to be asked to It should he as impossible for a toms Tariff and procedure, excluding report to the Eeking Government. for an increase in the land tax has been play for England or Ireland because ha their nationals from Chinese jurisdic tion, and providing for reparation for the vour to disseminate some information con- that the big will be rejected by the it would he for a Frenchman in the Incidentally Mr. Simpson will ended- made in the country and it is expected belongs to an English or Irish club ag Boxer Outbreak. Hardly a week passes cerning the Orient while he is in foreign assembly. that questions do not arise that nece countries, thus giving out as well as receiv

same parition. International mitches are sitate joint representations from the ing information: He now has an engage-

essentially not club affairs Their whole Diplomatie Rodly to the Chinese Government to speak at Carnegie Hall, New

interest depends on the national genias meut. And if the present system were York City, and expects to give addresses,

and psychology of the play and the abandoned, and each Legation took upon or features, in Washington, Chicago and

playera. They are racial tests or they itself the duty of addressing requests and several other cities. Mr. Simpson is new recruits for service in the Three fast rule on the lines here suggested would With reference to the enlistment of are nothing. We submit that a hard and protests to the Chinese Government, cad-accompanied by Mrs Simpson, Eastern Provinces of Manchuria and the be, more likely than any other plan to less confusion and overlapping would re-›Advertisers sult. The Doyen, therefore, has a posi tion of great responsibility. He not only presides over the conferences with his colleagues. To him are. entrusted the duties of drafting circulating and trans

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SZECHUAN PORTS.

Owing to the existing unsatisfactory situation in Mongolia and the ever-in- creasing menace of the Russian Bolshe- rists from Siberia, the presence of large

HOSTILITIES.

THE LEIPZIG TRIALS.

Government.

circulating the Chinese Government's re plies. A good Doyen, supported by an efficient staff, and familiar with all pre-According to one of the local Japanese cedents and previous correspondence, can. save his colleagues endless trouble, and pers, a scheme is being launched to military forces, is required for the sup-

Sir G. Hewart replying to Mr. Bottom- also materially assist in guiding their start a neaplane service between Iching pression of the lunghutzes or mounted in Parliament, detailed the steps decisions. While a Doyen who does not and Szechuan ports.

bandits and for various other preventive which had been taken to bring to possess an adequate staff, or the requisite It will be remembered, states the purposes in Fengtien, Kirin and Heilung trîil knowledge of the issues that have to be i

at Leipzig forty-five Germans report, that some time ago a seaplane quired for guarding the Chinese Eastern ing hostilities. Seven of the names on

kiang.

Further, strong forces are recharged by the Allies with offences dur-.. dealt with, may be the innocent cause was tried at Nantaa by a returned stad Railway through which Russian Belsbe the list were put forward by the British of frequent delay and indecision in the ens from France, who will use the same presentation of the representations of the machine in an attempt to make a flight Chinese territory unless we are always marine commanders, two of whom were

vika and Communists might enter Diplomatic Body;

Three of these were sub- on the Yangtze River between, Ichang on our guard against their entry. On charged with sinking hospital ships. The It is notorious that matters were far and Chengtu. The machine is a French account of this, the Mukden Government other four were persons against whom satisfactory during Don Luis 1910 type, and is capable of firing 140 1 has given orders for the enlistment of acts of cruelty against British prisoners Pastor's last term as Doren. He suffered an hour from Ichang, to Chungking in 10 two new mixed brigades of infantry of war were alleged. Complete evidence from almost continuous, ill-health. He hours. Thirty passengers and mails can cavalry and artillery solely for, service against these men was compiled by the had not an nilegunte staff for the dis be carried on each trip, the expense of within Manchuria. For the maintenance, British Government and delivered to the charge of the additional duties that were which will about 37000. Each passenger of the new troops, the Peking Govern-German Ambassador in London for trans- thrust upon him. And deservedly popular will be charged 800 per trip and this ment is requested to grants the sum of mission to Leipzig, but up to the present as he was among his colleagurs, there'en together with mail-carrying fee is ex two hundred thousand dollars per month time the Government had received no hardly have been one of them, that did pected to bring in profits which will in from the Salt receipts of Manchuria information that any of these persons not deplore the transfer of the leadership short time repay the cost of the This amount of two hundred thousand had been brought to trial. Shame!") of the Foreign Ministers from the machine, $30,000. British to the Spanish Legation. It is not our purposes and would certainly not paper points out that, should the Bollars should be paid to the Fengtien Various technical difficulties had been be becoming, to make any reflections/heme prove to be successful, it will the annual receipts from salt."

Government every month regardless of raised by the German Government. It was in direct conflict with the facts to had represented Spain in Peking for atentions between Ichang and towns these "requests" bave been granted by dealt with by agreement or

According to telegrams from Peking, state that some of the cases had been upon the memory of the Minister who rently facilitate traffic and other com exactly eleven years on the day of his U the interior, of Szechuan, and will the Ministries concerned."

otherwise. He thought the time had now come when death But now that the responsibilties

prové a great convenience to everybody | "4"

it was possible to say there had been un pogrned." he endeavoured to shoulder with the in-a conclusion, the paper states that CHINA'S AVIATION DEPARTMENT. reasonable delay in bringing these men adequate aid of a single Spanish Scere the Szechuan railway project has been

to trial. Some of the accused, ho bo tary, and a British interpreter, have to talked about for more than 20 years but Department has been placed by Presidues contributed by the British Gov-

The Chinese Government's Aviation lieved, were under arrest. be transferred to one of his colleagues, it nothing has resulted from it; steamship ential Order under the command of the rent were as follows:- seems opportune to consider the question lines have been partly successful, but nistry of War with General Ting of the succession to the Doyenship.

Next in seniority to the late Don Linie not so much as their promoters like to Ching as its chief. He will manage the charged with having sunk without ward- Lieut. Commander Patzig, who was Pastor, as we have already mentioned, mentioned, but so far nothing has of General Chin, the Prime Minister, and with having afterwards fired on, and eces and an aeroplane service has been department under the direct instructions ing, the hospital ship Llandovery Castle stands H.E. Batalha de Freitas, Minister materialised.-N.-C. Daily News. But both General Teso Kun and General, sunk the bonts containing the survivors,

Chang Tao-lin refuse, to put the branch with the consequent loss of 234 lives. Aviation departments in Paoting and Lieut. Commander Neumann, who was Mukden under the orders of the Central charged with having torpedoed, without Government. The two High Inspecting warning, the British hospital ship Dover Commissioners want to make the aviation Contle, when fully laden with sick and offices in Paoting and Mukden as units of wounded, with the consequent loss of six the Chibli and the Fengtien armies inde lives. pendent of Peking, so that, in case of emergeney, they can use the aeroplanes And aviators without hindrance or inter The Aviation Department has sent in

is

of Portugal at Peking, who nusumed office on January 24th, 1913. His staff consista of a single Secretary-Interpreter, who to the best of our belief was born and bred What this country wants at present in the Far East, and who can certainly at battleships; it wants five years at have had no experience of Diplomatic leset of steady industrial production and work of the character which he will now of diminishing taxation,ear Admiral have to undertake. The interests of dair Portugal in China are infinitesimal, and felt

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The seven

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Lieut.-Commander Werner, who was charged with having sunk the British steamship Torrington and with having crew, with the exception of the master, subsequently drowned the whole of the

last Customs, returns. Portuguese trade in this connection it should be enference... figures at 0.06 per cent of the whole, only six vessels of a total tonnage of phasized that the question would have. 1,409. having cleared in Chinese Ports in been solved automatically if the United a memorial to the President concerning by submerging while they were on the 1910. Conditions, therefore. bardly appsal to elevate the American Legation to service to be inaugurated in July or

States Congress had endorsed the pro- the proposed Peking Shanghai air mail deck of the submarine pear to warrant an increase of the Legate rank of An Embassy. The other great August this year. According to the me Heinz, who were charged with acts of tion Staff suficient to ensure the efficient

And Neumann, Trienke, Muller, and discharge of the duties of Doyen. We Powers would then have felt compelled morial, aviation development in China cruelty to prisoners of war at various doubt very much whether the Portuguese the Diplomatic Body would have her the hope is expressed that China will be Prison camps in Germany.

to follow suit, and the post of Doyen of has been divided into three stages and Minister relishes the idea of taking up taken in rotation by the ambassadors, able to manufacture her that office, though he will doubtless be pressed to do so by the representatives of The only argument that appeals to us in machines within the course of the next

own air.

other small States who resent the iden favour of what we should regard as ten years. Regarding the proposed fying IRRITATED & INFLAMED EYE that the post of Doyen should invariably premature step, is that it would restrict from Tokyo to Peking by students of the can be directly traced in many cases to be held by a Minister of one of the the succession to the office of Doyen to Japanese Governmenti aviation school fini

larger Powers. The treatment of the Diplomats whose stafle were adequate for May this year, the Chinese Government the Sunday Motorgrip and Goling. The smaller nations at Versailles, where the the scient discharge of its duties. has sent a note to the Japanese Legation dust from sections of the local road "Principal Allied and Associated Practical considerations, rather than agreeing to Japan's proposal under car contain a decided eye irritant. A og Powers" assumed control of the Pence those of amour propre, ought, however, tain conditions. Conference, is largely responsible for this

to convince the Chiefs of the smaller

gestion for these trips would be to keep resentment. It must be doubted; how Legations that insistence upon a tech- CHINA'S NAVAL HEADQUARTERS the windshield up and to use a pair of ever, whether the smaller Legations will nical right may impair the fulfilment of derive any permanent satisfaction from the tasks entrusted to the Diplomatic The Peking Government has sanctioned Sun glasses. Sun glasses of any pattern the acceptance by one of their number of Body in Peking, many of which enb only the removal of the headquarters of the with either Crookes, Luxfel, - Fieuzal, An office which cannot conceivably be carried out by joint-action And if Commander-in-Chief of the Chinese Amber, London Smoke, or Blue lense

led with efficiency to which the Diplo recent experience be repeated, the_re· Navy, Admiral Lan, to Naiangshan so matic Body became necustomed during presentatives of the Principal Allied that the Chinese Government Dockyard are obtainable at very moderate pricom the long-term for which the late British and Associated Powers may find it sm nt Kanchangmigo-eau-be enlarged. The from The Hongkong Optical Co., suces- Minister officlated. And rather than Peratire, while conceding to the Doyen Dockyard requires immediate extension sors to Clark & Co., Manufacturing and court inevitable comparisons and criti- the ceremonial duties attaching to the so as to make it one of the largest ship- Refracting Opticians he's wind he clem they would surely be well advised office, to form a smaller circle within the building yards in the Far East. The new to allow the office to pass into one of the Diplomatic Body, and conduct their busi, office of the Naval Commander-in-Chief Lent manufacturing optical octablishi larger Legations.

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