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CONSTITUTION.

RAILWAY SABOTAGE: :

IN CHINA

ADDRESS BY DR. WELLINGTON KOO. DISCUSSED BY CANTON RAILWAY

SELECTS THREE MAIN ISSÕES,

COMPANY REPORT:

SHANGHAI AND HONGKEW WHARF COMPANY.

to

SPORT.

TEKNIS.

HONGKONG CRICKET CLUB. ANNUAL

TOURNAMENT.

The annual tennis tournament held by the Hongkong Cricket Club was continued yesterday. A fair number of matchoar

Dr. WELLINGTON Koo made the address, taking as his subject Seine Aspects of wrecking, on the road in question, Mr

Demolition and attempts at train China's Permanent Constitution:f ·Dr.

Boothby stated, have always becketho Koo mid that on the face of the matter work of regular gangs of pirates acting China's progress seems slow suce it is either in conjunction with, or under the just the years ago that the first Parlia orders of, one or other military faction ment in 1813 started to draft a constituor, when there has been a brief spell of tion. This, as compared with the work political rest, acting on their own behalf dend of Tha 12 per share making. Tls, done by the European states created by for the sake of robbery. In no case bave 15 for the year. It is proposed to devota the Versailles treaty, is slow. However demolitions been carried out by regular Tis 60,000 to ordinary repairs and re ho said that in all of these ten years, due troops, bat during political crises, ex- to disturbances, it has not been possible to have any more than a year work all plosires may have been provided from naval or military sources for the pirates told.

to work with

OFFICIAL

At the annual meeting of shareholders Sabotage on Chinese Government rail in the Shanghai and Hongke Wharf The Social and Political Science

measures Co., Ltd., Mr. B. D. F. Baith presiding, and the precautionary ways Association held a well attended meeting Liken to combat the depredations of the said:

credit of profit were played off, and satisfactory progress. on March 9th at its boqdquarters" in gangs of pirates and robbers engaged in The balance at

was made generally, La the open cham- Peking to give welcome to Sir Ronald railway demolition was interestingly and less account for the year amounts to pion singles Mr. Busschaert, secured an Macleay, who in responding to the intro- dealt with in a paper read before the Tis. 796,700.68 which is the best result we cash victory over Mr. M. K. Lo by 6-4, duction by Dr. W. W. Yen, President of Engineering Society of China at Shang have

6-1 6-1. A hard battle was fought in vet been ablo

Attain, the same event between Mr. N. Trambitsky the Association, said that he was present his recently. The paper was written by and Burpasses our record year and Mr. Yow Man Sun, the latter event-- at the birth of the Association, so to Mr. B. T B. Boothby, of the Canton-Kow- of 1906. Į

may say that thisually gaining the day; the scores were speak, and was very glad to come back to loon Railway, and was read by Mr. A. C. gratifying showing is mainly due to 6-3, 7-6, 6-7, 37, 7-5, find it grown to be a full man.

The day's results were as follows: Ckar

the increased earing capacity of our pro.

OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP SINGLES that have been in progress for the past perty resulting from the developments

Round 1.

few years. We paid last August an 6-1. interim dividend of Tis. 3 per share, and it is now proposed to pay a final divi.

This 1913 Parliament worked for five months, the result of which was the so- called "Temple of Heaven Draft” and then they had to leave Feking and not until 1016 was there any Farliament sitting. This second body started to work on the constitution but had not been able to get very far when, in 1917, they were dissolved, with the resulting five years lapse vati! Parliament met again Inst

'sunamer.

work, referred to the inelasticity of the present provisional constitution: Benliz ing that three, Parliaments have been working over a period of ten years and not yet agreed on a draft, the speaker said he could but touch on a few of the aspects in the time available. Hence, he

PATROL OF TRACK.

newals, and Tis, 60,000 to special repaire and romawals, the latter being, required for the most part to cover the cost of

The author described the methods of replacement of two transit sheds. With track patrolling and then gave instances the proposed transfer of Tis. 75,000 to of track demolition, the first serious caso equalization of dividend fund and Tis. being that of a wreck caused by a gang of 60,000 to depreciation fund, which will 100 pirates in August 1914, when two passengers were wounded and all were bring the credits of these accounts to Tis robbed. Fortunately there were no 200,000 and Tis. 175,000 respectively, we deaths, but the running af night express

passenger trains was discontinued. A are materially strengthening our faxn- second wreck was caused or the same spot cial position as these reserves

üre

E. Busschaert best M. K. Loj` &-4, 6-1,

Yow Man Sun beat N. Trambitsky, 6-3, 7-5, 57, 37, 20

F: Wheeler beat L. Jack, 6-0, 6-4, 7-5, Pand e R. E. Worthington beat S. H. Ismail,

-: "OPEN" CHAMLIONSHIP DOUBLES.

Round 1.

|00-4, 6-3,

S. E. and D. S. Green .o. Horaza Lo and C. Chost a mat

O. and H. D. Rumjahn w.o Yen Man Sun and Ho Wal Hing

Round 1

A. Evelogh and A. & Lindsell boss G. Sayer and F. A. Redmond, 6-2, 4-5, 6-0, 6-4

re: 102.

CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP. Bound 1

G. W. Sowall beat ✪ Miskin, 6-3, 6-4, -

Bound 2.

R. E. Worthington w.o. J. B. Lloyd, E. R. S. Doda wo R. H. Wild

HANDICAP SINGLES,"

Bound 1

JR. Lloyd beat W L Thomis, 6-4.

Dr. Koo in placing the reason for some of the difficulties facing Parliament is its in June, 1816, when two coaches telescoped, muneratively employed in the develop- two passengers were killed; nine seriously injured, 26 slightly injured and all were ment of our property, which in order robbed. Another wreck was caused in that we may utilize it to the fullest and February, 1915, but no pirates were seen most economical advantage requires con- abont on this occasion. In 1820 during military operations further casos of de stant additions and improvements. Dur molition occurred and last year also, the ing the current your provision will wreckers attentions being chiefly directed require to be made for the repayment of The first of these was the need states:-

to bridges. Ta conclusion, the paper

Tl474,100 debentures falling due on at striking systemTM of checks

"Armed robberies from stations and June 30th next. ... Of one thing shore. 1.6-3. and balances in the constitution staff quarters, on the line on which the holders may rest assured, the company. whereby the executive department and above incidents have been described, have the legislature would work harmoniously Should the executive be able to dissolve Parliament on one hand and on the other

selected threo main issues.

6-2

C. C. Stark boat T. H. King, 6-4, 6-3. L. Forster beas A. B. Raworth, 6-4 6-3. G. Miskin beat R. E. Valentine, 3,...

HANDICAP DOUBLES.

Bound 12

been constant and too numerous to refer is now in a better position than it has to in detail; trains have been held up ever been before to take full advantage V, Mark and B. H. Wild, 46,

should Parliament be able to unseat the by robbera climbing on to the engine and of any increase in the trade of this port 6-4. executive by calling for a vote of nou- the passengers robbed and carried off for which will undoubtedly come as the rel confidence? The question involved the ransom, and employés of the Railway salt of a favourable settlement of this matfer of interpreting bad will of the have suffered similiarly thefte of track unfortunate country's internal strife, and people to the greatest degree and deter fastenings and of signal wire and fittings sufficiently optimistic to look for mining whether the legislature or the are also been a constant tribulation,

considerable improvement in this respect executive department wore to represent

XO EASY REMEDIUM

in the not far distant future. A that will. One plan is possible in the way "It is not easy, under present condi of permitting the executive to dissolvations in China, to suggest a remedy for the lower house with the consent of the a state of affairs, which is so detrimental apper house. Here Dr. Koo referred to to the public welfare, and which is so the peculiar clause in the new Polish con-prohibitive of profitable and efficient atitution whereby the executive may

MINING INDUSTRIES IN RUSSIAN FAR EAST.

GOLD DEPOSITS MUCH RICHER THAN KLONDIKE.

VLADIVOSTOCK, March 9th.

A Mackenzie and B. H Valentine beat

TOOTBANG

UNITED SERVICES LEAGUE.

The final matches in the above league will be played on the Garrison: ground, ab... Sookunpoo to-day

Juniors-Kick-off 3 pm, Hawkins ve

King's

Bealors Kick-off, 415 p.m., King's v

The Trophies and medals will be pro sented at the close of the Senior match

GOLF.

The Bogey Pool Competition, played at

CRICKET.

HONGKONG C.0. TEAMS,

dissolve the lower house with the con-working of railways. A solution may sent of the upper, whereupon the upper possibly be looked for in a general and house itself must resign. This, he would legalised agreement to observe and to not advise for Chino, since it was very respect the neutrality of railways during unlikely any apper house would commit political disturbances, and to, prohibit suicide by recommending that the lower entirely the use of them for transport

At a conference of representatives of house be dissolved when the same thing of troops or munitions. The obvious all mining industries in the Russian For Fanling on 17th, 18th and 19th inst. would automatically happen to it, difficulty would be to enforce respect for East, an interesting paper was read by

Another factor in this question was such an agreement, but, if the view is the geologist Palovoi. He stated that ins won by Mr. H. U. Ireland, i down, whether it would be wise for Ching to generally accepted that the railways are the ares from Trans-Baikal to Vladivo- make it possible to disolve a Parliament primarily intended for the benefit of com

stock, including Kamtchatka, Okhotsk, which could be elected only at great ex merca and for the use of the non-militant and all the northern region, and Bacha pobses and difficulty, and even then, due public, and that the prohibition of their in, only 20 per cent of the existing gold to the inexperience of the electorate, not use for military transport is to the Be sure to be really representative As general advantage of the country this enormous area, the Maritime region Hongkong Cricket Club on March 24th

deposits had been investigated. Of all

The following teams will represent "the- be understood it, the draft commission improvement in the present state of affairs had agreed on the system of Parliametis might be gained. A natural sequel would has been most neglected, only from 1 to (matches to start 2.15 p.m.): being able to take a vote of non-confidenca bo that special facilities for transport of 3 per cent of its gold deposits having First XI . Indian B.O, von Club on the executive department, but the soldiers at reduced, fares would be with. been examined, owing to the mining law ground.-T. E. Pearce, L. J. Davits, question of the right of the executive to drawn altogether, and if travelling by restrictions on working within 100 versta B. Farthing, A. Graco, II. Owen dissolve Parliament was still ansottled. *

railway (without arms) they would of the wast which had hitherto existed Hughs, L. D. Meicoll, E. J. R. Mitchell The second point brought out by Dr. travel as ordinary passengers. It would The average annual production of gold B. U. C. Morgun, G. H. Piercy, B. B A, Koo was the much discussed matter of also follow that a railway would require in the above mentioned ares in pre-war Webster, R. H. Wild whether China's new government shall be its own armed guards to maintain order times was 1,500 poods. Prior to the Second XI · Indian R.C. gad federal or national, that is, shall then the line and to cope with robbers and Boxer rising, Chinese fosaikers smuggled II at Sco · Kun Poo-IE. provinces be powerful or shall be central pirates; such a body, if wall paid and on an average 3,000,000 roubles worth of Hollands, J. D. Crawford, P. Jacks, A. K government In that respect it was possible to have a national constitution properly trained and equipped, would gold out of the country, but at the pre- Mackenzie, F. O. Miller. N. J. Perris enumerating the powers of the Central Bot need to be large, but would require sent moment they took aut a great deal E. Philipeon, H. Spicer, M. M. Watson,

Okhotsk gold was of superior J. R. Way, F. N. Young......... Government and permitting the provinces to be authorised to exercise wide powers more. to have their own constitutions in accord within the zone precincts of the railway." quality to that of Klondike and the de- posits much richer. It was estimated ance with the national document, or else to have the powers of the provinces enum-

that the total amount of gold ontained in the deposits which have been invasti- erated instead of merely recognizing for them the residuary powers left over from.

gated in the said area was 370,000 poods. the enumeration of the powers of the

Polevoi attributed the backwardness of Algernon Swinoura, the English poet, national government. However, to dis

mining industries in the Russian Far East wrote the Life of Victor Hugo for the cuts this matter in abstract terms would A JAPANESE AVIATOR'S PROJECT to the adoption of German methods and Encyclopaedia Britannica and said thes not solve the difficulty, and the final

to German influence. If mining was Hugo was undoubtedly the greatest settioment would lie in coming to a work- A flight between Paris and Tokyo, sif Hourish, ho said, it was necessary to writer born since William Shakespeare." ing agreement between the provinces and Siberia, & distance of 10,313 kilometers, throw out German systems and get rid Regarding Les Miserable," he said, it le the Contral Government What had been has been proposed by Mr. Incha Shirat of German influence, and anurage the the greatest epic and dramatic work of recommended by the draft committee was suchi, a Japanese aviator now employed entry of British capitalists by the free fiction over created or conceived; the eple the enumeration of the powers of the by the Farman Aomplaze Company of granting of concessions to the He of soul transfigured and redeemed Central Goverameat, with the residuary Paris. Mir, Shiratsuchi reocatly sent a powers to the provinces, and at the same letter to a friend in the Fajiya Hotel, Rated the forbidding of German purified by heroism and glorified through

piratical systems, such time permitting the provinces to have of Miyanoshita, in connection with the

as practised suffering the tragedy and comedy of their pen constitutions, proposed flight. The letter states that by Bryper and Hirsch, and of life as its darkest and its brightest of

humanity at its beet and at its worst. The third question take up by Dr. Koo he intendi tedy on a passager aeroplan on unworked claims like that to by s distinguished writer, as, next to dog-in-the-manger systems of sitting Les Miserables" has also been referred was the matter of interpreting the Con- now extensively used in France, which of Artzt." Thanks to German methods the Bible, the greatest work ever written, stitution. Should the law-creating body, has a speed of 160 kilometers an hour, and industry, the silver and lead mining which is Parliament in this case, or the and that he expects to reach Tokyo from in the Russian Far East was partiou Miserables," produced by William Fox, A magnificant picturization of "Lis executive, be the one to say what was Paris in about 84 hours, touching at fol-larly badly organised. The ore was mnt with William Farnum playing the part meant by the constitution. The America towing points en route-Berlin, Moscow, system of placing the power of inter Samara, Chelichinsk, Omsk, Chita, Har(which was the best market for silver); at the World Theatre to-day.

evan quoted on the London market of the immortal Jean Valejean, is show pretation in the judiciary (of the systán used in some Europesa states of mak-bit and Vladivostok.

whetens inferior ores of other countries ing Parliament the interpreter, could be

A fight between Europe and the Orient were quoted on that market. German adopted.

vid Siberia has never been contemplated methods, were quite unsuitable for the The discussion arises in China as to in the past,

dead and zinc deposits. The Australian which is the botter able to know what Mr. Shirateuchi · estimates that the system was the only suitable one for Qut of doors there is nothing so restful was intended. If the eply is made that total expense for the proposed working those, Parliament should, because they made the would be some 100,000 yen.

and comfortable for the eyes as the light Graphite, bismuth, wolfram, zbus,flected from groen folde and tros, the Constitution, the argument does not hold

and quicksilver wore, he said, to be found

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good say in twenty-five years when there

will be an entirely differant group of

PROPOSED PARIS-TOKYO

FLIGHT

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TRIBUTES TO AUTHOR OF « LES MISERABLES.!!

FIEUZAL "GLASSES

in dargo quantities in the Russian. Far abcorpion of the ultra-violet and orange East, but there was very little copper rays by the chlorophyll of the leaves;

main that body who would know no Chinese standpoint in that Dr. Yon the It was estimated that the total amount hence the introduction of fisural Glass, mons about the thoughts of the original presiding officer, was an ox-Prior of of good quality cos to be found in yellowish green in colour, which is pro draffers than the judiciary would, How the country as likewise was Dr. Wang

ever, the alaim might be made against the Chung-hui who entered into the dishe already known and investigated

heard the discussion,

most Bussian mining engineers, and ad-

latter that they were appointed by the cussion. The speaker, Dr. Koo is Chinese fields of the Far East was about duced in several shades, and lensos made expoalive. Dr. Koo said that there might Minister to London and was one time 40,000,000 tang. Of brown cual there was of this may be worn as a protection by arise circumstance against it, but at Minister of Foreign Affairs, and the about 23 milliards of poods over smailive eyen where it a degrable present ho considered that the power of Chairman of the Constitution Drafting

Polovpt complained of the lack of pro- to tone down excessive light and glara.. interpretation should be lodged with the Committee, Mr. Tang was present and per technical knowledge on the piouzal lenses of any proscription in judiciary. BARRENME

Following the address there was a die

voceted the introduction of foreign ex either regular on Torio forms are manu- suasion during, which Dr. Koo very ably

swored the questions arising. It was to the Government also catered into the next technical advice us well fatured by the Hongkong Optical Cu considered by all to have been a very But the Association wees present and many of the various forms

discussion. Over soventy-five members of thorough studying of the requirements cessful evening. It was notable from now names were roadChung Met News

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Agency.

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