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URING - Supension of the Through

ditional

D. C. Work has been formed for the purpose of receiving and handing over to the Relief in Japan Paris of Second-hand Emopean Clothing ચ

for Adults an descriptions Children.

The Committee will be in attendance at the CITY HALL Daily from MONDAY, 17th var

SATURDAY, 22ND INST, between 11 st. and 12 NooN.

Parcels went by tassengers should be al

sed to the Japanere Earthquake Disaster

By Onler, Hongkong Relief Committee.

D. F. BLAIK,

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JAPANESE EARTHQUAKE DISASTER.

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[FROM THE "DAILY BULLETIN."]

CHINESE

GOVERNMENT'S.- FINANCIAL STRAITS.

table conference. With the de jare The Capton Tity raw of yesterday FAR EASTERN CABLE President" (General Li Yras Huso) assays:-T. T. Ching, the former Manag President of the Council there are to being-Directer of the Provincial Bank of nasovisted with him on the Council--if Kwangtung and Commissioner of Finance, the scheme matures-Marshal Enano Tuo- | who was found guilty of embezzlement of LIN. Dr. SUN YAT SEN. TUAS Cut the Provincial Bank to the extent of more General Lu Yuso Hstase, and certain than $3,800,000, and sentenced to death on authorities of the South-Western Pro-September ath, was pardoned by the

PERINO, September "20th. vinces." The intention is that this Privy Generalissiin, Dr. Sun Yat Sen. He was

The Government is in more serious Ceuncil shall be established in Shanghai. Į released

yesterday aftemcon by the

Gancial straits than during any previous It will be phserved that the names Commissioner of Public Safety, General festival, though its propagandists are include no representative of the Chihli Techen Wu.

issuing reports that there will be no dif Group-the group responsible for General

Thanks to the assistame of the Press ficulty in tiding over the festival It's overthrow in the Capitul.

in calling special attention to the "in! One report, which is untrue. is that interview with a newspaper representa. tive at Shanghai, General La said on this tensive course in Pitman's Shortland, Hongkong bank agreed to advance. subject If the Chihli Party are pre-which has been opened at the Hongkong $1,200,000 for eight months served on the pared to respect the law of the landl and Technical Institute, Queen's College Salt Surplus.

Meanwhile, the Government is being live within the Constitution, and can be (writes Temporary Teacher ")_n_great

deal of interest has been aroused-even | pressed on all sides for cash, governed by law instead of relying on furce or intrigue, it is to the national as far away as Shanghai. On the apen. fing night of the course the Institute, was advantage of all parties that they should

positively besieged, so that it was dithcult | co-operate, but, overtures must come, from to find sents in the classruoni for all the they expenses following Chang Hu's pro-

the Chibli Party." General "Lijs ir students who offered themselves.", Asia doubt as to General We Pra-re's attitude, result, a beginners' class, a revisión class It will be advantageous to co-operate it a speed cláss have been formed, ench with-General Wc Paire and General meeting three times a week. This sulte

A Chihling mandate was issued to-day FENG Ye-ustaso if they are willing to division makes it possible, now, to necept:

approving of this proposal und authoris- whide by the law of the land arid wörk a few more students in each class.

ing the Ministry of Finater to inform the for the publier good, bat

it Wo

Me H. E. Goldsmith, Executive Engi- Inspector-General of Customs to this PRI- commits himself and throws in

is now being bottled his bt with Tsao Kus in pushing-hinneer in the Public Works Department,

at Leith, Scotland

By Orler.

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D. K. BLAIR.

Secretary. HONGKONG RELIER. COMMITTEL. [1287 Hongkong 10th September, 1923.

and a "Label to that" effect is affixed to the back of each bottle.

into the office, then Wr Part is not has been encouraged, by the reception working for the public good." What the given to his work on "Modern Roul prospects are of General Lt forming his Constraction and Maintenance" to pub" Coalition Government, it is perhaps toolish a revised and enlarged edition of early to say, but the present indications the work. The volume is now one of the of the attitude of the rank and üle of juges not counting the plans and illus. some of the groups concerned, us it is trations. Its production is a credit to Mesars. Kelly and Walsh, Ltd., the pub- cellected in the vernacular Press, canoot Eshers, and as for the information it gon

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the Japanese Earthquake Baster Hongkong Messrs. Macdonald & Muirido, he favourable to the success tains, a technical journal says the book of the plan. The general idea is good, should he in the hands i everyone

interested in the present important que but it seems hopeless to expect co-operation of the construction of ronds untiry tion mal mutuņi publie service by the the altered conditions of traffic. Mr. men in the different political camps in Goldsmith is the Executive Engineer in charge of ads in Hongkong, and the China

volume deals in a comprehensive and practical manner with mad construction and maintenance as carried out by him in Hongkong, from observations made by him in the United Kingdom, Australia and America. We think it is generally agreed that the roads of Hongkong with stand comparison with the roads un where in the world,

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BONGKONO, SLrtember 22, 1923.

THE POLITICAL CHAOS

Information has been received by the Colonial: Secretariat that quarantine re- strictions imposed by Newchwang against Hongkong have been withdrawn."

The Lusitano Ilvereation Club's Aquatic¦ Sports will take place to-day at the Victoria Recreation Club, commencing at 2.p.m.-ADIT

A Mukden report states that Marshal Chang Tao-lin contributed cereals, 'cloth-'

...

ANGLO-CHINËSE MARRIAGES BISHOP LANDER'S WARNING.

Wu Pei Fu has requested the Ministry of Finauce to furnish $250,000 for mili-

miso to the Chinese bankers to arrange. for the amalgamation of the Ninety-Six Million Loan with the Consolidated Lesats.

Service

effect.

It is generally below that Sir F. A Aglen will refuse to agree to much an amalgamation.

FINANCE READJUSTMENT

COMMISSION.

PERINO, September 20th, The innaguration ceremony of the Commission of Readjustment of Finance took place yesterday at Yinglai, within. the President's Palace,g

Kao Ling Wei, the acting head of the Government, attended on befall of the Government, and a number of advisers, technical experts and others were pre

sent.

COPPER NOTE SLUMP.

FERING, Sejtember 20th. A serious situation has ariscit in Peking - Luver the rapid depreciation of copper notes, which during last month dropped to 900 to the dollar, yesterday slumped to 26), nini to-day fell to 300-

This fulls heavily on the poorer mam-

A warning against white women marry-bers of the community, who make" their ing and other supplies worth half a uniting Chinese appears in the Liverpool | purchases. in "this currency

It is alleged that the Government have Bon dollars to the Japanese Earthquake | Dinerun Gazette from the Right Rev.

C. H. Annder, for any years Bishop of been printing and issuing too many as 2 Relief Fun

Victoria (Hongkong). He says:

A military oficial at Shishing, on the Wrst Riger, has been intercepting junks coming down laden with firewood. has commandeered the cargoes and given receipts, which are declared to be worth

время,

Mrs. Stanley Smith, widow of one of the officers who lost their lives by the foundering of the 8.8. Longong in the typhoon of Augat 15th. left for Hon by the P. & O, steamer Hongule, with her Bale da aghter:

The Canton Hoard of Education has sent subscription hooks to all the schouls in Centon asking the students to help raise funds for the relief of the suffering Chinese students in Japan and the Japanese people.

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make us hve them.

It is under

"Those who know the Chinese people means of raising revenue. have great respect for their many excel-stood that the troops and gendarmerie lent qualities. Their intelligence, indus- try. sobriety, courtesy, power, of endur. around Peking have been paid with these notes, and if the present depreciation. ance, scuse of gratitude, and good nature

entertained that Having said continues fears" ars this, I shall not be misunderstood if 1 trouble mity ensw. orge English clergy in this country to use the utmost caution and to make diligent inquiries before soleusing the marriage of Chinese men to English yomen. The. latter in most cases do not realise how

ifferent are the social conditions in Cuina. There the family, not the indivi dual is the unit Marriages are usually arranged by the heads of families-par ents or grandparents-not by the bride and bridegroom themselves.

ALLEGED JAPANESE GENDARMERY SCANDAL.:

OSAKA, Siptaker 20th. An Anthi "extra" reports an alleged seaudai in the Tokyo Gendarmery, wherby a etrtain gaptain has beeu congt- muartiled.

Socialist namej

IN CHINA.

THE problem of the Presidency in China SULS ÁGENES FOR UHINA —

In this connection, the reports

GREEN'S PATENT ANCHORL

still awaits solution of some kind.

Chinese young men, except the very the coinpubory retirement of Colonel SAMDEL WALKEN & U Ino. (Sheffield), The Republic of China has been now more

porcst, are married before they attain Oyama, Commanding the Tokyo Gendar High-Class Steel Manufacturers (Tan) than three months without a President

the age of twenty-one. A betrothal prob mery, and Major-General Koizumi, Band).

a de facto President at all events

is very diment to break off, though the and the replacement of General Fukud ally takes place years hefore that, and Commander-in-Chief of the Gendarmery, All the plans, prepared apparently at

contracting parties have never inct. Even Commanding the Troops in the devastate considerable cost, for planting Marshal

were a Chinese young man free when he ed area, by Generul Yamanashi, ex- left China, bis parents may since then Minister for War. TSAD Kux into the vacant Presidepey

The nature of the captain's office is Dr. Sun Yat Sen has given orders for have afneed him to Chinese girl, even Meanwhile the have gone agley.

without his knowledge.) Monogamy, not revealed..

LATER though in theory the rule, is by no means depoact President, whe 's now in Shaug another general attack to be made op

The captain, whose name is Amakasu. hai, continues to proclaim himself as Walchow, and it is statel that he has the universal practice in Chinn. A rich

arresto! nud court-martinile. de jure President, and announces his offered a reward of $123,000 to those who man will have as many wives as he likes, wa intention to work in order to bring capture the city within three days from and be none the les respected by bis according to the Thi, cring to his

neighbours. The position of secondary summarily killing ra wives" is such as no wlf-respecting Eng-Osagi Sakare, who was formerly expelled about the establishment of law and the start of the attack.

lish woman can endure. Almost every from France while under his detentiona arden" He think or at least it would

The police as Canton are attempting to Chinese man intends to return to China without consulting his superior officer. he more correct. to any he hopes-that stof the eiren'aten of the story that sooner or later. In South China I came this can be done by peaceful means. His two-third of the population of the aerous several European wives of Chinese men, who told me that they had lived ambition is to for a Conlition Govern world will be killed by earthquake, happily enough, with their husbands til ECHO OF PEKING; TRAGEDY ment He has been having conferences typhoon and other kinds of natural they went back to China; after that, in with representatives of various political calamities at the ecming Mid-Autumn almost all cases, they acknowledged that

they had made a mistake. I had fre groups. Among the prominent figures in Festival,"

quently to get the auistance of benevo

The following from the London Heily. Chinese politics ha has met at Shanghai ¦.

fent friends to melt these unhappy

Extraordinary interest has been arousal colonics. Upper-clau Chinese parents are Mr..TANG, SHAO-YÏ, former Premierp & O. steamer Dangoli were Mr. tuil worrien to return to England, or, the Mail, General TSEN CHUN-HSUAN, former Vics-1x C. F. Malthy, Mr. Malthy, who has are generally strongly opposed to their by the fortheuning trial at Ancona of the Matohen Amanda Darazan, who is char ruy of Kwangtung, Yunnan and Sze, ben a member of the loc staff of the sons and daughters marrying those of chunu; Mr. CHANG TAI-YES, a famous

another race. The prospettive children ged with having viniently saulted Maria C with a horsewhin on of Juse th, 1941, in the Hotel sidered. It is happily quite true that those of mixed parentage are in no way that she has in the use of her hands,

des

inferior mentally, physically, or spirit while her health has been permanently ally to persons of pure European or A813-affected. The Marchen Durazzo is the tic blood, but as things are at present wife of the late Italiars Minister in Pek- the Legation, Cape they are in danger in many parts of the ing. An attache att

n intimate friend of world of suffering disabilities owing to tain Piiri had been un Christian Church and the progress of until he obtained his appointment in Tek grant and unjust prejudice. The Sigmorn Cici in Italy for many years Western thought are gradually countering. He was there admitted to the Min.. neting those disabilities, but ignorant ister's family circle and used to give lesso

to the marchesa's children,jot prejudice and cruel customs die very

owly, not least in the East

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transferred to Rangoon and he carries with him the good wishes of a wide cing'

UST ARRIVED.-Cheque Perforaters, and Tual). Bassay Co, Beaconsfield Areale. LIPH CRES, a well-kuwa revolutionary leader. It appears that General Lis

of friends, in Hongkong. plans contemplate the appointment of General Tras Chut as Premier, and in the ease at the Criminal Sessions we gather that in addition to the Cabinet is which à Chinese was charged with it is proposed to set up a Privy Council having two coining dyes and a number patterned after the system of the Seven of counterfeit coins in his possession, Directors adopted in the 6th year of the remark by the Chief Justice was reported Republic. This refers, of course, to the yesterday a forms which reflected on ** Alpinistrative Council of Seven the Hongkong Government rather than which was set up in Canton. As

on the Government of Kwangtung. The Clark & Co., Refmeting and Manu- ralent it is not a very happy one, paragraph should have read: “Here is a for a most renders will recollect, the case of the Hongkong Government pro- facturing Opticians the most competent. optical establishment in South China-disagreements of the members of the secuting a man on behalf of the Kwang located in 53, Queen's Road Coitral Courrit of Seven were acute and its ting Government for having in his passes bride and her friends should have their later Captain Pitri visited her. On re brief history ended after the manner of on their counterfeit coins and they (.. eyes open to the peculiar difficulties that the tale of the famous Kilkenny cats. The Kwangtung Government) do not take may await her, and, at least, the need for special prayer for the grace of God paper the scheme anticipates the the trouble to send their principal sitta mest trints to faith, from which those aucch of Sir ROBERT Ho Tusa's roundness to aid the prosecution.

who marry in their rice are happily.free.

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Later Signora Cicci arrived in Peking. The marchesn sought an interview with her Of course, if the bridegroom is an

at her hotel, with the object, it is stated established and consistent Christian some of these perils are greatly diminished by the precation, of persuading her to We do not forget that in Christ Jesus ease Peking. Soon wounds of a violent we are all one, and the clergy will doubt altercation were heard, and Signora Cioci was eventually found in a fainting cumi- tion covered with blood. She was taken less in all cases ascertain that the man ís o haptised Christian. But even so, the to the English hospital, where three days

turning to his rooms he blow out his brains. The marchesa, a young and beautiful woman, admits having used a horsewhip but declares that Signora Cire out her ewn wrists in an attempt at suicid“.