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CABLES.

LATEST CABLES. [YWZQUÒA - AKUTER'S AGENCY:] “

LEAGUE OF NATIONS.

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INDIAN REFORMS.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS. THURSDAY, MARCH 12TH, 1925

SOME CONFLICTING, OPINIONS, OF MUDDIMAN-COMMITTEE.

Bousur: March 10th. The report of the Muddiman Com- inittee, appointed, last year, to enquire. ADMISSION OF GERMANY UNDER into the working of the reforms, is

DISCUSSION.

issued in majority and minority

port

GENKYA, March 11th. The question of Germany's admission to the League of Nations was examined at yesterday's private deliberations of the "League L'ommeil." It was decided to refer the matter to the full Assembly: in September as the only authority com- petent to deal with the question.

FRENCH FINANCES.

LOUCHEUR SAYS BUDGET IS

PERFECTLY BALANCED.

PARIS, March 11th. 1uterviewed by L Journal about France's &nancial situation, M. Loucieur, a former Minister, emphasized that the budget is perfectly balanced but the atmost level of taxes has now been

reached.

The former observes thas insufficient time has elapsed to form ra opinion

regarding the success of the constitution, but there is no convincing evidence that it has failed. The minority differs in

FAR EASTERN CABLE POLITICAL SITUATION

NEWS.

{THROUGH RESTER'S AGENCY.]

RUSSIAN FACTIONAL FIGHT.

REDS AND WHITES IN CLASH

AT WOOSUNG.

SHANGHAI, March 11th The Shanghai Times states that: thrvo Russians were surjoitely wound as the result of fuctional fighting between Whites and Reds at Woosung yesterday

this, and bolds that the reforms have afternoon. been given a fair trial.

The majority report recommends a relaxation of control by the Secretary of State over the Government of India, cases affecting purely Indian

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terests; joint deliberation between the two sides of Government on important questions, and the Governor, with minor exceptions, should not dissent from the opinion of Ministers; further" recom- mendations are designed to give more effective hearing to the dissenting min

For years there have been two’umalj boats, manned by refugee White soldiers from Vladivostock, lying within harbour limits at Woosung Is is reported that yesterday a number of Red partisans

Woosung and tried to wize the

went to boats. A little ensued between men

hoard and the Red attackers: many shots were fired and it is reported that machine-guns were used to stem the attack of the Reds. One of the ships is stated to have bên, captured by the attacking

ATTEMPTED SOVIET COUP.

LATER.

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IN CHINA.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY,}

́DE. 'SUN YAT SEN,

HIS FRIENDS' FEAR END IS.

DRAWING NEAR

Paxine, March 11th.

-Members` of Dre Sun Yat Sen's entour-

age fear the end is drawing near.

Br. Krig remained all night long with the patient dis temperature is normal, pulse 130 to 180, respiration 18.

EDUCATING. THE MASSES. LEAD BY THE CIVIL GOVERNOR

OF.PEKING,

LANTATIC NEWS SERVICE.]

CANTON - NEWS,

(F10) OCK CHINESE CORRISPONDENT-]

BLACK MONEY.".

black

POPULAR ERRORS.

SOME FALLACIES CORRECTED OR

DESTROYED.

HOW TO GET- DISLIKED.

** Official "gift," known as money."sually paid to Chinese ofhuals fas

Of all the ways of getting oneself dis by persons seeking favours from the authorities, is now legalized by the Milked, the most infallible ia to go about depriving one's fellows of their pet tary Funding Bureau. According to a

illusions (writes Ward Muir in a Lon- public notice insterted in the principal

don, paper). So when Eircommend, as Canton newspapers, this Bureau is calling

an interesting wideline of study, the sub- for tenders for farming out the Faatan

jeet of Popular Fallacies, I make the gambling monopoly in Honam, Tsingyu proviso that it is a branch of knowledge and Kongpo Sze. For the island of Howhich should not be paraded. Piiak nam, opposite Canton City, the Bureau, in addition to asking for $1,000 in pay ment for the monopoly or franchise, and $1,700 daily license fee, also calls for an official gift of $70,000" For Tsingyun and Kongpo Sze, official gifts of $3,000 and $3,000 respectively are called for.

A LOAN BY THE MERCHANTS The residue of the Yunnanese forces in Canton, under the command of their own fellow provincial, General Yang Hsi Min, PEKING, March 2nd.

have succeeded in getting the Cantonese Haich To Pi, Civil Governor of merchants to agree to provide them with Peking, is endeavouring to devriop edu- #800,000, without which they said some cution for the common people of China,time ago that they would not fight. The Recently he issued invitations to ex-Pre- mier Hsiung Hai Lin, Mr. The. The Sheng and many other leading pool who are interested in the promotion of modern education among the masses of China, for a special educational con-

ference

Mr. sich has established Ching Te Educational Hall in the Governor's yumen for this purpose and it will also be used for lectures on the administrative func of civil officials' toward tions and duties

Ex

The fighting among the Russians the Pier Haiung, Mr. Tao and the

orities whether Ministern or officials or The present involvement of the Trea-members of the Legislaturë; "it reéom-party. Bury is consequent upon the excessive mends that increased representation be rate of interest which at present pre-given the depressed classes; and advises · rents launching a loan of consolidation.revision of the Meston settlement as soon Therefore, an expectant polie unst be as there is. à favourable, opportunity, followed for several years, during which The minority report demands the dis pears to have been the result of a Soviet the Treasury could float foreign loans. appearance of dyarchy and substitution coup deal, which was aimed at splitting Loucheur advocated the stabilization of provincial autonomy. It hopes that aap the last remnant of the Far Eastern of the frane only, when prices and wares serious attempt will be made in the near Cossack group, aboard the two ships are reduced, in order to avoid trouble future to put the constitution on a per-Mongagai and Okhotsk, tying in the for national production and exporta.manent basis, with provisions for further diver here. It is reported in White Baras.

Russian circles that the cop was spired by the Soviet,

CHEAPER TEA.

THE RETAIL PRICE EXPECTED TO FALL..

LONDON, March 11th. According to the Westminster Gazette. the retail price of ten will decrease two pence per pound next week. Thereafter there will be a further decline, owing to the glut on the market and Tack of baying.

· EARLIER VABLES.

SUSPENSION TERMINATED. AR KIRKWOOD REINSTATED IN HOUSE OF COMMONS.

Losos, March 10th. The Honey of Commons has unanimous. ly passed the resolution by Mr. Baldwin terminating Mr. Kirkwood's suspension.

DE VALERA'S REFUTAL. DENIES ALL KNOWLEDGE OF BELGIAN INVITATION.

DUBLIN, March 10th

Mr. Eamonn De Valera, denies all knowledge of the invitation mentioned in

automatic progress.

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FOOTBALL' 'AT HOME.

LATEST, RESULTS IN SCOTTISH

CUP AND LEAGUE.

Loxton, March, 10th.

In the Scottish Cup fourth round re- play, Geltic and Nt. Mirren drew, one all, after exted time.

In the Scottish League, Queen's Park lost to Dundee, the latter winning by one goal to ni.....

YEOM THE DAILY BULLETIN."}

GOLD TRANG QUESTION,

Cantonese authorities on March 8th 'sug- gested to the Canton, merchants that they should comply with the request for the "loan, and accept from the Yuaninese promissory notes redeemable at the next payment of ordinary taxes. THE LANDS OF THE BANNERMEN,

somebody (for instance) refers to Columbus's discovery of North Amerion, it is well to refrain from pointing out that John Cabot in the true claimant to that honour. John Cabot discovered Newfoundland in 1497. The drst land of the New World discovered by Columbus was one of the Bahama Is lands; then came Cubs and Haiti (which he called Hispanota); and fo was on his third great voyage, in 1488, that be his the mainland-not of North but-of South América:

ERRONEOUS TRADITIONS.

The wise man may know all this. He may hold the belief that the Vikings. (whose name has nothing to do with King by-the-by, but means

creek dwellers cross the Atlantic long befors any other Europeans. But he will only get himself bated as a prig if he fasista

on dethrong Columbus.

He was a general,

Alfred probably never burnt the cakes Tradition is stronger than history. But does it matter? The Colossus of Rhodes was not planted at the entrance the harbour, it was not a striding to hin statue, and ships never passed it. But the conception is fine, Julius Caesar was not an

of Rome. and a dicta- tor:

bat never Emperor." Cleopatra" was not Egyptian, but the last of the Ptolemys, who were a Greek dynasty in Egypt Othello was not a black Moor; for two reasons: (1) that Moors are not black, and (2) was a Venetian, and there- fore not a Moor at gi Diogenes did not live in cub,

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"Soneen, 300 years Inter, merely happened to say that "a minn so erabbed

did

The Taiping Yang News Agency leáris that the. Kuomintang authorities, up to March 9th, had inspected more than 4,000 derds of lands owned by Manchurians in Canton, fiued more than 600 land owners magistrates of the twenty-four districts for late application for inspection, col assembled at the Ching Tze Hall, last lecting in anes over $3,000, and declared

more than 3,000 properties to be con Saturday and lectured to thousands of people about the necessity of educating seated o children whose parents are either too

ARBOUR DAY. poor or too ignorant to have regard to the importance of education..

Canton school children will celebrate Furthermore the Civil Governor hasMarch 21st as Arbour Day and tree plant; in-Opened & Ping Min Hauch Hsiao oring will this year he done in the Yellow school for common people within his Flower Hill, outside the ancient East own yamen in Peking. This school will Gate of the City. The Yellow Flower serve as n model for similar institutions Hill (Wong Fah Kong) contains the tomba tub like a dog ought to have lived in in the twenty-four districts of the Spun-of the first 72 heroes of the Chinese The magistrates have Revolution which resulted in the present tien Prefecture. been ordered to make it their business Republic of China. to population

education for the poverty. stricken

The wealthy people can take care of their children without oficial assistance. Mr. Hsieh has also appointed official who will give usefur lessons to all public employees and servants of the various departments of the Governor's yame so that they will understand their own duties and refrain from receiving bribes in the performance of their official tasks. Pablic, screants, who have complected their cours of instruction will be dis- tribute over the 21 districts as tutors with

a view to checking corruption and promoting honesty the Chinese public

PRESS REPORTS OF SETTLEMENT ARE PREMATURE,

PEXING, March 10th. The persistent reports which

the virateðlar. Proses publishing to the effect that the gold franc question has been settled are, to say the least, premii

ture.

services.

DAVIS CUP TENNIS.

SOUTH AFRICA WITHDRAWS HER ENTRY,

The new work of the Civil Govern JOHANNESBURO, March 10th. the report says that Li Shih Hao dia

bag aroused a great deal of interest Owing to the leading players being cussed the matter with Chang Tao Lin among Chinese officials and is strongly unavailable, the Lawn Tennis Union has during his recent visit to Mukden, pro-tion for the Development of Education supported by the members of the associa cancelled South Africa's entry for the posing a settlement on the basis of pay for the masses of Chipa in the hope of Davis Cup international lawn tennis comment at the rate rxisting when the last gradually extending it to other parts

of the infant republic. petition.

(REUTERS AMERICAN SERVICE] SPAIN ENTERS.

New Yonk, March 10th. Spain has challenged for the Davis Cup.

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indemnity money was paid, in 1917, and Chang Tso, Lin is reported to have agreed to-this, but well-informed persons point out that this solution is unlikely to meet with French approval.

According to another but unconfirmed report, draft proposnia have been for

an earlier Brussels message, which states REUTERS AMERICAN SERVICE) Warded to the French Government.

that be, was asked to lecture there by the Activists but has been denied entry by the Belgian authorities.

PREMIER OF PRUSSIA.

BERLIN, March 19th.

Herr Marx has bein re-glected Fremier of Prussia by 232 out of 443 votra.

OBITUARY.

SIR ALEXANDER HOSIE.

LONDON, March 10th. The death is announced. of Sir Alexander Hogie.

In

BIG OIL DEAL. MR. EDWARD & DOHENY SELLING MEXICO WELLS,

It is believed in many quarters that the matter is virtually settled, but that fforts are being made to and a formula

which would save the face" of the New York, March 11th.

Chinese Government while practically The New York Tis learns that Mr.granting the French demands. Edward L. Doheny is negotiating the vale of all his oil properties in Mexico to the Standard Oil Company and the Indiana Blair Company and a certain British in- terwat....

The deal, if consummated, will involve nearly $125,000,000, and will probably

result in the readjustment of the affairs of the Pan-American Petroleum Company by segregating its Mexican from its

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BARLIER CABLES.

-U.S. ATTORNEY-GENERAL. SENATE REJECT NOMINATION

OF ME. WARREN.

WASHINGTON, March 10th. After over a month's debate, the Senate

LUXURIES IN JAPAN.

BILL OF AMENDMENT TO GO BEFORE DIET.

TOKYO, March 10th.

proposed to the Diet by the Government Amendment of the Luxury Tax has been

and a Bill will be introduced to-day,

The Bill proposes to exclude from the Luxury Tax, inter alia, sonps, perfum-

silk bisstea

MORE COLURUMS SURRENDER:

NEUVA ECIJA „TROUBLE NOW.

BELIEVED FINISHED.

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Ex-Premier Hsiung, in his address. spoke of the progress of the School for controlled by him since 1917 and he erz- Orphans at Biang Stan which has been phasized the importance of educating the Chinese inasse, especially the poor children of the rising generation of China

The meeting was brought to a close hy an exhibition of moving pictures de ing the progress of education for the children at Cheloo and other cities of Shantang province.

VEGETABLE SUPPLIES HELD UP. It is reported that, because of the hout men's strike in Canton against additional war taxes, fruit and vegetable supplies destined for export to Hongkong and other places, are being held up in early districts or in Canton City itseli

THE BOATMEN'S STRIKE ENDS. The boatmen's strike in Konguidon iso as a protest against more taxation there hud, consented to postpone the ended on March 9th, when the authorities. operation of the new imposts. During the strike, only one tow-bont of the fleet noon and Canton operated, causing con- of more than 20 plying between Kong- siderable inconvenience.

THE TUCHUNATE SYSTEM.

A GENERAL'S ADVICE TO

“ABOLISH IT.

St. Augustine Christianity into England. St. Alba

not introduce

had suffered martyrdom on account of the Christain faith more than two een- turies before St. Augustine landed. Dick Turpin did

from Lendon te York in 20 hours.

This feat was per- formed by another highwayman; and in any case Black Beas, the horse, was an invention of Harrison Ainsworth.

not

Vide

But though the Press pours forth his turies, encyclopaedias, and every sort of work di reference. intæhich the facts about these things can be verified, the mis- takes about them persist, for though Truth is great and will prevail, it is rather slow about it, and meanwhile, AN Martin Tupper remarked, Error is a hardy plant.

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spoil

"BIBLICAL QUOTATIONS. Particularly is it hardy in relation to non-authentic quotations from the best- known and most read book in our com munity-the Bible. "Spare the rod and the child," "Pouring oil on troubl ed water," "God tem

tempers the wind the shern lamb," and In the midst of life we are in death" are commonly al- Inded to as Biblical but nowhere in the Bible do they occur. The phrase To sleep the sleep of the just," is

is quother trap for the unwary; and, indeed, no

who coined it

it, an less we are to accept the explanation that it

originated (in French, of course) in a passage of Racine's "Port Royal" tion of the Chinese system. Gen which makes the more mysterious its 1 Tupan system and the troop-disbardment versal popularity in Lu says that unless the abolition of

The animal and eloquial-English. pians

worlds are out, the result Carried of the

which rich in possibilities of easy, but mis- is sitting in Peking, will by

call Jerusalem by that name if they do not

did-

from... The misunder

General Lu Yung Hsiang, Tupan of Kings, is reported in the Chinese press to have wired to the Government pro Posing the abolition of the Tupanate at As a practical step towards the

be

ed to withdraw

of

one scrins to

ion: Coplestiest and CARR

FLI never

Verssalem ar

Why

MILITARISTS AND RAILWAYS. A MEMORANDUM SUBMITTED TO „REORGANISATION CONFERENCE.

According to a digest published in the Chinese Press of a long memorandum which the Minister of Communications has submitted for consideration by the Reorganisation Conference, the total ["debt of this Department to foreign and they should not be permitted to interfereated almond as opposed to the

native creditora is $707,300,000, and it is stated that unless effective reforms are introduced without delay these debts cannot be paid,y came

that, owing to non-payment by maili Another statement in the memorandum

turists of telegraphic charges incurred by them, foreign cable companies have threatened to cease transmitting Chinese masazes unless accounts are settled re- gularly.

a mere waste of time and money. At

At Artichoptions. the same time, he suggests that General come, Sun Shunn Hang of Crops fun, the due to our incorrigible habit of mis-

Chekiang be instruct- Jerusalem t Kiangan borders so that both provinces pronouncing foreign languages, for the

name may enjoy real peace without fear of

is a corruption of the Italian armed conflict. All the national troops girusale

which Kiangsu, including the Fengtien

a species, fordan he anys, should be stationed at almonds, similarly, have nothing to do chowfu, northern Kiangsu, after the with the River: Jordan.

Their name is abrogation of the Tupanship and receive merely another awful "bloomer in the orders only from the War Ministry, ba way of engheasing from a strange ton- paid out of the government treasury, and gue Jordan" originated in the French

in, garden,

und

indicated the amall French beans are not French They come from South America, Rosewood is not the wool of the rose Efee. Its name is due to the faint smell of roses in The tuberose has nothing to do either with tubes or roses; its botanical name is Polyanthus tuberosa, and this bas caused the misconception.

in any way id politics. General Lu wishes to retire into private life after the abolition of his post ne Tupan' at Nanking-

fruit of the wild almond.

INTERNATIONAL SETTLEMENT. certain Brazilian timber when first ent

"EXCLUSION OF CHINESE, FROM

SHANGHAI PARKS.

THE SHA

PHILOLOGICAL TRAPS.

Westminster, recently

At the meeting at the Central Hell, called by the Student Christian Movement, Mr. 1. Z

But, not being anation of philologista, Koo remarked that in the blue Eastern we shall go on blundering about various gown which he was then wearing the elementary facts in patural science, just English in Shanghai would not allow him we blunder about notorious episodes in their parks or public „places.

history In connection with this statement, culent bird. t

the

for example,

the

and characters in

Bir Alexander Rosie, M.A., LL.D., F.R.G.S. who in the course of a long and busy life did work in China which will prove a lasting memorial to him, was born in 1853. He was educated at American properties, with the company the Grammar School, Old Aberdeen, conning its activities to the developamented oils, mixed wool-silk, wool-cotton and King's College, London, and Aberdeen

In former times, says the published University. At the age of 23 he became of the petroleum industry in the United

extract, the receipts of the Chiaotungpu Student Interpreter in China, and six States, especially on the Pacific Coast

(Communications Department) were years later was employed on special ser-:

sufficient to meet all requirements and, vice at Chunking. He became 2nd As

consequently, there was ao default in the sistant in 1856, and 1st Assistant in 1851.

repayment of foreign and native loans In 190 he was Consul it Wuchow; and,

and” debtn." In order to prevent the was appointed Consul-General for the

bankruptcy of the Chiaotangpo finances, Mr. H. G. Simms, a former Chairman of not originally imported into this country Province of Szechuen in 1902. He held

the militarists must refrain from seizing the Municipal

To London and Bristal Council at

cil at Shanghai, from Turkey,

the the same post at Tientsin from, 1908 to

were brought by traders who railway receipts and utilizing railway writes to The Times as follows: 1912, as well as acting as Commercial

There properties as security for loans. MANILA, March 10th

hiefly with the Near East, and Attaché to the British Legation in China

Shanghai is an International Settle dealt meat ander Treaties with Chins for the hence were called Turkey merchants, bet must be no illegal interference on the between the years 1905 and 1909,

Hos A total of 840 Colurums have surren- part of the militarists with the employ use of foreigners-ie, honthines and actually the birds had come from India dered in Neuva Ecija. Many are poorment of railway officials nor must roll the control of an International Municipal the latter year he officiated as British

Their name parks and public places are under

French menus is dinde on and dindon Le, poule d'Inde.) Even Delegate to the Shanghai International by 41 to 39 rejected Mr. Warren's nomina-homesteaders seeking food.

ing stock, be seized for illegal commercial Council elected by foreign residents, and an, the turkey seems to have been Opium Commission, and in the following

per pore be detained unfinited Approved by the Consular Eddy introduced into South-west. Indin by the year was appointed personally to investion to the Attorney Generalship, which

beforcibly

The Shanghai, and do not belong to Egg- Portuguese. It is really a native tigate the production of opium in China President Coolidge bad supported.

issuance of military free passes by the fish, nor is the majority of foreign

America Sir Alexander, who received his knight"

commanders must also cense, with a view residents in Shanghai British. The

has recent Another bird, the plover hood in 1907, retired from the Conmilar

to increasing the daily receipts of the Shanghai Municipal Council about two ly come out in its true colours for many various lines Under the pretext of years ago went thoroughly into the ques of us, and we no longer venerate it, to February 1920, he served as Special

military necessity, commanders have destion of throwing the parks open to the producer of plovers' eggs. Last Attaché to the British Legation in the

agitation against the gormandis Chinese capital. His publications in

troyed railway bridges and other works Chinese, and the assistance of the Chin- spring's agita

ese Advisory Committee WAS invoked but ing of these delicacies was aimed at the clude Three Years in Western China,"

For th “Manchuria, ita People, Resources and

Un account of the heavy pressure of no solution could be arrived at without preservation of the lapwing. so-called military and official telegrams; osa. With the ever-increasing foreign lovers' egas, and is being exterminat discriminating between classes of Chin is the lapwing for peewit), which lay Besent History:" and "On the Trail

which are despatched before commercial population of Shanghai it becomes more ed by our epicurean appetite.. of the Opium Poppy." The Intteṛ wak

message the receipts of the Chinese tele-

and more

physical difficulty to throw in this in the case of the osprey which published in 1914. Sir Alexander was dollars gold, as an instalment on the Ger- . Dr. Rafgel Palma has been appointed graph administration have decreased con

open

the

limited park apace to a papala bird of no value to the dealer. twice married, his first wife dying in

man Government's purchase of fifty mil-President of the University of the Philipsble for the payment of material pur therefore, Mr. Koor is not correct in attri ospreys, but from the estat, a species of

siderably so that there is no money avail: tion of close on a million of Chinese, Usprey feathers do not come 1905. His second, whom he married in

Bfrom% 1013, survives him.]

pines.

Ichased from Foreign firms.

buling the situation to racial prejudice." "/

Two rebel flags were captured.

The trouble is believed to be over."

A wave of applause swept the galleries

DE. HAFAEL PALMA,

service in 1912, but from November, 1919, when the rejection was announced.

GOLD FOR GERMANY.

New Youx, March 10th." The local Federal Reserve Bank has shipped to Berlin two and a half million

lions

NEW PRESIDENT OF UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES,

MANILA, March 10th..

at their sweet will,

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