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DISMISSAL OF THE BUNUCHS.

EX-EMPEROR'S EXPLANATION: A MATTER OF ECONOMY.

SURVIVAL OF A

PUNISHMENT. ⠀

The Peking and Tientsin Times reports that the following statement has been' authorised by the Manchu Emperor, and we are asked to state that any reperts

na to reasons for the dismissal of the eunuchs are erroneous

the establishment of the

"Since

1988

COMPANY MEETING.

SHANGHAI DOCK AND

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GOLF AND GOLFERS.

[BY DREAMER."]

Naturally, on the conclusion of the

THE SHANGHAI ARMS SMUGGLING CASE.

CAPTAIN KEARNEY IN COURT, Capt. Lawrence D. Kearney, arrested The 17th annual general meeting of Great War everyone was sick and tired near Ningpo in conection with the alleged shareholders in the Shanghai Dock and of war, and the politicians of all nationa" arms running case, came before Mr. N Engineering Co., Ltd., was held on Julyį had various ideas as to how an ever. E. Lurton, the U.S. Commissioner, at 28th. Mr. John Prenties presided, sup- lasting World Peace could be achieved. Shanghai on July 25th, Numerous ported by Messra, H. W. Loster, P... L. One popular idea was that International spectators had gathered both in and out Knight and A. Brooke Smith, and Mr. rivalry in sport would draw all nations side the U.S. Court in the tops of seeing arnold Dawson, overstars, and there was together in a friendly spirit and help us the prisoner, but only a few were alle an attendance representing 3,195 shares. to gain admittance.

to understand each other better. I am inclined to the opinion that this iden it

complete failure.

Kearney, who looked exceedingly pale. The CHAIRMAN said:-Gentlemen,-The Republic the number of eunuchs employ and seemed to be much inconvenienced report and accounts, having been in your ed in the Forbidden City has fallen by the heat, had to be helped to a chair hands for some days, with your permis. from over 3,000 to about 1,100. The by the court officials. He shook hands numbers being still greatly in excess of with his lawyer, Mr. C. S. Franklin, and sion, we will take them as read. actual requirements, it was,cently with the latter's partner, Mr. P. E., Fai- The serious depression in shipping, decided. on the personal initiative of son, al "Messrs. Williams, Franklin and the Manchu Emperer, to effect a fur Faison. Mr. L. G. Husar (the District shipbuilding and repairing continued ther large reduction in staff. Yesterday Attorney), Mr. F. Fessenden and Major during the whoke your and up to the (July 15th) the entire body of palae C. P. Holcomb appeared for the US pres there are no streng signs of in and so we are, in accordance with our eunuchs with the exception of about Government. thirty, ware discharged from service in the Forbidden City. Each of those dis- charged will receive from Paince funds a suitable gratuity proportionate to his length of service, and, those who wish to return to their native districts, will be granted travelling expensca. The discharged eunuchs (over 1,000 in nam ber) have already left the Palace.

The question of the discharge of superfluous Palace servants has been under the Emperor's consideration for a long time past, the main object in view being a much needed reduction in the expenditure of the Imperial House hold. It is also. recognised in Palace circles, however, that yester "ay's netion involves the practical abolition of the eunuch system in China-a system which has existed for thousands of years. This aspect of the matter re ceives, emphasis from the fact that in future ne Vunuchs are to be engaged for

service in the Palace."

"AN ANCIENT PUNISHMENT,

The Manchu Emperor is to be con- gratulaced on the drastic notion he took to sweep out from his imperial House- hold all but thirty of the 1,100 eunuchs still retained in the Palace, states the Peking Daly Nero. He has thus done away with this barbaric relic of the Im- perial system, which has been in existence for more than two thousand years. The continued existence of this form of In perial retainers, after, the fall of the fsing House, is absoluety incompatible with the onlightened age in which we live and the social system of the Republienn Government. It should have been abolish ed 11 years ago with the allication of the Manchu Emperor in 1912

Taking into consideration

There has been more International” ill- feeling displayed in the "British Open Golf Championship, judging by reports, than one came across in war. We. Bri- tons pride ourselves on being sportsman,

own leas,, of what a sportsman" should

codes of other Nations? Obviously, to those of us who have had experience of International rivalry in Sports, the an swer is "No." Well, by continually bringing together a body of men to re-

The District Attorney said that theprovement. prosecution would oppose bail in any the conditions, ruling the result of the be; but do pur ideas coincide with the lesser sum. than G. $5,000.

year's working is, in our opinion, very satisiactory.

The net profit for the year, including

DETAINED ON A JUNK. Mr. Franklin said that two of the three accused, against whom identical charges had already been levelled, nu heen ad- the amount brought forward from last mitted to ball in the sum of G.8500. The year's accounts, after paying all charges defence could not see why there should be any exception in Capt. Kearney's case.

and allowing for all liabilities, amounts He had delivered himself into the cus-1 to Tls. 516,534.76. This we recommend tody of the Court as soon as he had been be dealt with as follows :-- released by the Chinese authorities, after hearing that there was a warrant out for his arrest. He was on board a juuk until he was released. On his way from Chinhai he met the Marshal and gave himself up. This was not a case where a man had tried to escape from the officers of the law, or wilfully kept out of their reach.

The District Attorney replied that the authorities had been searching for Kear ney for weeks, and hundreds of dollars

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414,000.00 And carry to new account...... 102,334.76 Tla 510,534.76

We trust these recommendations will most with your approval.

present one nation agarint another, are we all gradually going to adopt one code of sportsmanship) Here again I say "No," the Briton is not going to give up his ideals for anybody, nor, I imagine, are the athletes of other nationa. It is extraordinary how often one finds that 80me of the best athletes are the worst sportsman they are so accustomed to success that when they meet with a re. verse they cannot help showing their annoyance. Unfortunately, but not un- naturally, the Press draw attention to Buch ill-mannered behaviour and the We did not consider it necessary to add man in the street who reads the reparts had been expended in that search. The anything to the special reserve or depre-judges the whole nation by one man, prosecution had no information that

and puts them down as a thoroughly: un. Kearney had voluntarily aurrendered to ciation funds. There now stands as sportsmanlike crowd for whom he has no the U.S. authorities. On the contrary it was not so many days ago, perhaps a week. since certain steps were taken whereby it had been made impossible for the prisoner to hide any longer. He d not been able to enjoy any further the protection that had been recorded to him. Therefore it followed that he was account. not, particularly anxious to come before the Court. If low bail were granted, it was natural to suppose that the U.S. authorities might he put to the same trouble all over again, and perhaps the next time, they would never apprehend hin.

NOT AN ABLE-BODIED MAN,

M. Franklin I can assure the Court

follows :--

General reserve fund

refireciation fund

. Maintenance has in a as usual, been charged

use.

Ils. Im prompted to make these com 1,250,000ments as a result of reading some un

Gus,000 pleasant remarks made at Troon, after departments, Americans, Ingen und Sarazen. There the Open Championship, by the___two to working is no doubt that their remarks will create a lot of ill-feeting, and that is extremely hard on such good sportsmen as Oiruet, and so many other Americans who have entered for British championships. Ali the good these sportsmen have accom- plished is undone by two disappointed men who have not learnt how to take a benting with a good grace.

A resolution to give £3,000 to the Sailors War Orphan. Eund "will be put ater, and we feel sure it will meet with your approval.

The alterations to the Ccuinopolitan Dock were suspended during the year on

that Capt. Kearney delivered himself into account of the great depression in dock the custody of the Court as soon as heng, no prospects of improvement in heard there was a warrant it for his docking requirements for some years to arrest. He is not au able-bodied, mane couse and the high cost of timber, etc. He is 61 and has had the misfortune to The work will be resumed during the lose, both legs. If the other able-bodied | defendants can be released on .8500, year,

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Aparently, the American golfers have This system originally grew out of one

heen disfiguring the faces of their iron of the five forms of punishment practise

clubs for the purpose of putting stop in ancient times. The seriousness of it

on their hall, and the trouble arose from and the shame attached shewte was cou

the fact that the Govering Committee sidered to be next only to death itself.

the use of such clubs would be banned. only intimated at the eleventh, hour that. But as time went on, and by virtue of

Hagen, after the championship had been their close nasociation with the Imperial

won and lost, is, reported to have said: family, some of the eunuchs came into

“An alteration of clules should not have power and wielded great influence over I do not see why Capt. Kearney cannot Return of Capital-The return of Tls. been made at the eleventh hour it was the Emperer and thus over the Govern- niso. ment of the country. And then some of Kearney's surrender was one of those per share has been made on 4,871 an unsportsmanlike thing to do."

"I am not im not yet having been this Mrs. Hagen udded: | shares-326 shares the men who could find no other way to physically voluntary nets and not +

pressed with Scottish sportsmanship." make a living had themselves castrated to mental one, rejoined the District Attor. ant in for endorsement.

Then we have Master Sarazen-who, ney. "With reference to the other de pass into the Imperial Household.

train to London 20. One of the blackest blots registered in fendants in this case, they were very the Chinese history took place in the Har easily apprehended. One of them has

three infant children." Dynasty, when the foremost scholar of

the time, See Ma Chien, was castrated be cause he offended the emperor for defend- ing the conduct of one of the braves generals of the age, who after winning ninay victories, took his army far into his chemy's wrritory only to find himself surrounded by an overwhelming fores and his little band of 5,000 soldiers cut off from retreat and all but angibilated. lle at last surrendered himself to his enemy The history of China, written by, this scholar while in imprisonment and the letters exchanged between him and the general after his release still remain among the classics in Chinese literature,

DESTROYERS OF EMPIRES.

Mr. W. Van Buskirk, the Deputy Mar-

After a moment's, conversation with

Kearney, the Commissioner said, that he would accede to the prosecution's request in the matter of bail, which would be fixed at G. 85,000.

shal, who excented the warrant

Kearney cannot $5,000," said Mr. Franklin. -

possibly raise The Commissioner ordered a retunnd until a date to be fixed by arrangement between the prosecution and the defence.

THE SALE OF A RACE

PONY

Your directors" have ceided to start a provident scheme for the bencnt of the toreign statt of the company, the date of

the establishment is to be stay, 1923, - report and accounts, I will be pleased "Before" proposing the adoption of the

to adtwer any questions to the best of

my ability.

-There were no questions, and the usual resolutions were formally carried includ- og tite following:-

To

We learn took minuten after he had failed to qualify. apparently not a bit interested in the doings of his fellow countrymen—saying : St. Andrews"

Thy shouldn't have such autocrats at

Now all this is very foolish, and ["am" aure all true American sportsmen will be amongst the first to condemn these out- bursts.

Let us consider Hagen's grievance. In order to have an advantage over bis op- Proposed by the Chairman, seconded by panents, he wished to use a club which Mr. H. W. Lester:-That the director's obviously was not in conformity with the report and statement of accounts made form and make of a golf club as laid up to April 30th, 1923, as printed and down by the Rules of Golf Committee circulated be adopted and passed, and two years ago. He was not now. to that the directors be authorized to pay British Golf he know that in the pre- a dividend for the year of Tis. 7.50 per vious championship the ribbed club had share to shareholders on the register at heen barred why then, did he take any.

dute.

MALAYAN COLLIERIES.

DECISION IN PECK-RUSSELL APPEAL CASE.

The eunuch

eunuch system is identified in. Chinese history, as a destroyer of empires. An action was mentioned in the British Not a dynasty since the golden age of Consular Court, Tientsin, on July 17th, the Chow Dynasty is without its curse, before Mr. Pratt, relating to the sale of and some of the downfalls of Imperial a pony named "Why Not." The plaintiff houses are directly the results of the cor- was Mr. H. E. Arnold and the defendant ruption and intrigues of the eunuchs: So Mr A. H. Mackay, Mr. K. Mounsey much so that it has been made" by morë, appeared for the plaintiff and Mr. R. T.

the Supreme Court at Laan ole imperial family the rule of the Evans for the defendant. The plaintiff's Lumipu, 3rd, judgment was dynasty not to use the euchs in any claim was to reject the pony "Why Not" given in the Peck-Russell appeal case. capacity except as servants. And yet bought by him from the defendant' and Sir Lionel Woodward delivered they crept into the body politic by hook for the return of the sun of Tis. 2,000

Kuala

riak. He was playing in England some time before the championship, and had plenty of opportunity to enquire whether his clubs were legal or not. He must- have had a doubt at the back of his mind as to whether or not he would be allowed to use them in, the championship, what, ever other Committees, runuing local com- petitione, pay have been agreeable to. In any case, I understand that Hagen did use these clubs in other competitions, and achieved no greater success, withi them than he achieved in the "Open." To win it une year and finish only one stroke behind the winner the following year is a great achievemcat, and, whet ther he be British or American, the taken their hats off to him and acclaim sportsmen of both countries would have od bint a great golfer, instead of which the Press are deriding him for hot being

or crook. The first emperor of the Tsing paid by the plaintiff to the defendant lengthy judgment, allowing Mr. Peck's Dynasty went so far as to have a menu therefor or is the alternative the sum of appeal Justice Watson and McCabe

Keay concurred. ment of brasa ericted in the Palace for Tis. 2,000 as damages for breach of bidding the employment of eunuchy in warranty given by the defendant to the The chief defendant in the action Peck government service. This warning of the plaintiff. Mr. Moussey said he was not. Russell is Mr. J. A. Russell, of J. A founder of the Manchu House could no prepared to go to trial of the case at this Russell & Co, Kuala Lumpur, Mr. mere keep out the cuuuch ovil than in juucture. He made two applications,: (1) Russell is a director, and his firm are other dynasties, Old China, hands can for pleadings, (9) fur transfer of the bear- geretarios and managing agents of e-sportsinan. For Narazen there' is some'. still remember the part played by Li Liening to the Supreme Court, Shanghai, Malayan Collieries, Limited Mr small excuse, for he is young and has Yin, a favourite eunuch of the old HaiDiscussion took place as to the relative Peck is a shareholder in that company not yet learnt-to-control his Italian teni- prise Dowager. He and his clique of number and quality of the witnesses at and he brings the action to recover profits perament.

in the instigation of the Boxer upheaval

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followers were responsible for many of the Shanghai and Tientsin. His Honour of large amount which he alleges to have In my opinion it would be far better if evil practices during the last days of the decided to report the cas to the Supreme been improperly made by the chief decach nation bald championships exclu Taing House, and their hands could be seen Court at Shanghai for instructions. fendant in connection with an option for sively for its own country men. Surely the purchase of certain colliery properties it cannot be a British Championship if in the Dutch East Indies Mr. Peck's an American citizen is qualified to enter. desired by Kuang Hou, Evon: great statesmen like Li Hung Chang and to, is well deserved, even if they were not defendant had no right to any special of Sport, confined to teams reretes, teams, contention 'is' thuit the option was obtain for it. I would far rather see our In. before yesterday without a home to god for Malayan Collieries, Ltd., and that Lernational competitions, in all branches Chang Chi Tung could do nothing dismissed in connexion with the thefts against the intrigues of Li Lion Yin.

and the obstructions to reforms so eagerly

·ROIZING THEIR MASTENS.

and the action had been long contem- prost on the transaction. The defendant Those contents are naturally taken seri plated, as we are given to understands by declaring that the option was ously, but not nearly so seriously as a With the formation of the Republic, the by the Imperial Household,

obtained by and, for big firin and was championship, and for this reason I con- eunuchs are, of course,' unable to do any This system is now gone and done sold to Malayan Colleries in the ordinary sider the Walker Cup an excellent idea eril in the matter of government, but away with Whatever may be the cause core of the firm's business.

for ereating a better understanding bo they have turned their hails to the that led the Mancha Emperor to take The point on which the Appeal just tween the two countries.

flaver' brilliant win in the spoliation of the country's treasures in this action, China is rid of this foul blot decided took place is subsidiary to the does not, I am glad to see, appear to Open!! the keeping of the Manchu family. It is on mankind. It also behoves the city maip issue just described. Briefly, the have been a flash in the pan. as he won known by the man in the street that pre authorities to look into the conditions of defendant stated that the right to su the 47,000 tournament at Gleneagles cious articles of inestimable value have some of these men who might never have was solely in the company, and that thtly afterwards. I do not know whe ben atolen and sold for a song. Some stolra anything, and who, in cose company had by special resolutions do ther presht-day golf is so much more of those valuables have been taken out of quence, may be left destitute on being so cided not to take action, and that, there exhausting then it was in the old days, the country, never to return. It is suddenly turned out from employment, fore, Mr. Peck had no lacus stands, but our younger generation of champions generally believed that the recent Palace after having spent many years in the was bound by the decision of a majority do not scem capable of staying the course fire was an act of going of the eunuchs to Palace. They may, therefore, havo no of the shareholders of the company. I like the old once did. Take, for instance, cover their thefts. It is rumoured that place to go to look for a living. Some opposition to this, Mr. Peck contended Duncan and Mitchell. We all expected. Tosses running up to millions have been of them are no doubt well off, that by reason of the defondant Russell these two men to carry on the traditions recently discovered in the Palaco, and result of their evil doings. But we holding or contralling a majority of of the great Triumvirate"; yet, after this is the principal cause that prompted must not forget the unfortunate ones. Aliarey, de company was rendered incat a few years they seem to have dropped the Buy Emperor to alfish the system It is those who are innocent that are in able of exercising its functions for pro from the top of the ladder and to be without any further ados The fate in greatest need of help now. While wetection of the interests of the independent playing no better than the great "Trina- which thesis teu are left, some of them may condemn the system, we must not shareholders. In the lower court-

Mr. virate themselves, which is were dairen out into the cold rain day forget the humane as philanthropie side Justice Farrer-Manhy found against Mr. not quite good enough to wit Chumpout

(Continued at foot of utal Column.)

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of the matter.