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at least, is a colonial army sufficiently power. ful to act on the defensive in time of trouble without, having to draw so largely upon the mother country as would be at present. necessary. How many of our colonica, we HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21, 1901. | should like to know, could defend then-

NOTES AND COMMENTS.

To-day's Collapse. The fact of another collapse having occurred to-day! and a fatal one at that, though luckily attended by the loss of only one life, naturally leads one to ask the question, when is this state of affairs coming

to an end? The answer to this is not difficult. Houses will continue to collapse. and lives will be lost until such time as a thorough inspection of the city is made and all delapidated or jerry-built structures pull- ed down.

But one half of the town is jerry-built or un- safe, we are told, and what is to be done with the people who are turned-out owing to the fact that their houses are unsafe. For them some sort of accommodation would have to be provided and it would cost money. Very true, but still we think that a few thousand dollars would be a very cheap price to pay for the prevention of another such disaster as that in Cochrane Street and the money. ought to be found. Could not some means be found of making the landlord of a ruin bus building responsible' in some way for the housing of the evicted ones, if it could be

already grasped the fact that she must not be, dependent upon her fleet alone for the protection of her colonial possessions.

TELEGRAMS.

We note that H.M.Ships Kelipia and Daphne were still at Amoy at data of latest advices, It is quite unusual for two British warships to bo at Ainoy together for so long a time, and it is therefore evident that there was more in our last scars than appeared upon the i surface.

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OUR JERRY BUILDINGS)

ANOTHER FATAL COLLAPSE

At about half-päst eleven this morning an selves in the event of a disaster to the Navy, A JAVANESE paper says that it was reported her collapse occurred, the roof and floors of cutting them off, as it would do, from ali from Seoul on the foth inst. that the Corean the kitchens of No. 21 Lower Lascar Row fall help from the mother country? This is Govemment will withdraw the embargo on ing in.A gang of man, under Mr. Wolfe, was a question that might well be pondered Cereals as soon as the 100,000 kokt of Annam immediately sent to the scene of the disaster upon, particularly as Germany seems to have tice is imported by the Frenchman who con from the collapsed houses in Cochrane Street, tracted to supply the rice to the Government a

and they started work at once on the debris few weeks ago.

which was blocking up the kitchen on the ACCORDING to Consul Guenther, at Frankfurt, ground floor. From this was extricated, a in a report to the State Department at Wash Chinese bricklayer who, it is surmised, was ingion, an English engineer has worked out a plan to connect Alexandria, Egypt, directly at work in one of the upper kitchens when the with Shanghai, China, by railroad. The pro-collapse took place, fell through with the floors, posed road, which will be about 6,400 miles was buried in the debris and smothered, He long, will have three divisions. The middle

was quite dead when taken out and the body" one of 3,125 miles already is in existence.

was sent to the Mortuary. It was that of a Ir is stated that more than thirty cases of man of about forty years of age. typhoid fever occurred on board the Japanese cruiser Akashi during her stay at Shanghai and on her voyage from there to Sasebo. The patients were all removed to the naval hospital at the Admiralty port, and the vessel subse quently arrived here to undergo thorough dise infection at the local Megami Quarantine Station, where she now lies.

SPECIAL TELEGRAM. Special to the “Hongkong Telegraph."

NORTHERN NEWS. THE SHANGHAI TRAMWAYS. THE SCHEME THROWN OUT. (From Our Own Correspondent.)

SHANGHAI, 21st August.

3.39

p.m. The adjourned ratepayer's meet- ing to consider the tramway scheme took place to-day.

Mr. Ziegler's scheme was, ou a

THERE is a very fine theatre on Kowloon Point. At least we conclude it is a fine one from the manner in which the Chinese flock to it. Kowloosites 'don't object, to the theatre itself, because it isn't a nuisance; but what they do object to is the fearful 'row made by the audience at the close of the performance. If

only they would wait to discuss the merits of

The lower kitchen, from which the body was taken was inhabited by an old woman and her.two children. At the time of the collapse she was chatting with some neighbours in U Yam Lane, on which the kitchen fronts, and her.

two children were playing about near her, so that the three had a very lucky escape from what must have been certain death had they been in the room,

So far as is known, the cause of the collapse is to be found in the fact that the men engaged in inking some alterations to the houses had piled up some three tons of building material bricks, tiles and so-called mortar) in one of

shown that he had been aware of the dan show of hands, carried by 92 to 57 the local Irving and Sarah until next morning the upper kitchens, with the result that the

gerous state of his property?

Things are certainly in a bad state and too little supervision is exercised over the builders. Look at Lower: Lascar Row, where, as pointed out elsewhere, relieving arches have been cut through to make doors.

Plans for these alterations must have been

sent in to the P. W. D., we presume, and,

if so, how was it that the fact that these arches were proposed to be cut through was not noticed and permis

sion for the alterations refused? And even if the matter did not come to light in the plans, it ought to have been seen long before the work had reached its present stage. There is something rotten

some. where and the matter ought to be looked into. What a crop of pertinent questions

Mr. WINTEHEAD will be able to have on hand shortly!

A German Colonial Army.

It is very evident that Germany is striking out as a colonial power and intends to push ahead. along the new path she has chosen. During the last seventeen years her colonies have grown until she now posscases close of which she has obtained in the above upon 1,035,000 square miles of territory, all

mentioned period. In Africa she possesses the Cameroons, German East Africa, Ger- man South-west Africa and Tongoland; in in the Pacific, the Bismarck Archipelago, German New Guinea, the Marshall Archi- pelago, Samoa, part of the Solomon Islands, the Caroline Islands, the Marianne Islands and the Pelows; and in Asia, Kiaochau, These Colonies form a long list, but, with the exception of the African ones, they are not of very great importance. In fact with the exception of German New Guinea they are all composed of groups of small islands, mostly totally unfit for colonization by Euro- peans (as, indeed, is New Guinea) and from which very little benefit in the way of trade is to be expected.

It will thus be seen that Germany's most valuable possessions are her African colonies

and her small settlement of Kiso-Chau, and it is probably to the latter, though so small in extent, that she looks for the greatest benght, for Germany hopes to make of Kiao-Chau a German Hong- kong which shall control the trade, of the north of China. Others of course say that Kiao-Chau is poorly situated in being some distance removed from the mouths of the great waterways, but Germany. hopes to overcome this drawback by the construction of railways and so drate off the trade from the rivers, which have, from time immemorial, been the routes of commerce.

As yet of course, Germany, as a colonizing or colonial power, is in her infancy, but she intends to push ahead and not only to foster her trade but to extend her possessions as much as possible. In order to accomplish this she has instituted heavy subsidies for her steamship lines which have, as we have all seen, grown at a prodigious pace under this system of Government irrigation, and, in order that her steamships may not be un protected in time of war, she has commenced the construction of a navy which will not be shamed by those by those of other Powers And her latest move is to be the formation of a colonial army, about as wise a step as

any Power aiming at expansion could take. But what sort of a colonial army is Ger- many about to form? That is the question. To us it appears that her colonial army will be colonial in name only, for it stands to reason that with her young colonies she can not yet have a sufficiently large colonial bred German population to form even the neu- cleus of a cadet corps. This being the case it means that she is either about to form an

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REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.

GERMANY TO FORM A COLONIAL ARMY.

LONDON, August 19th.

It is stated that Germany has decided to form a Colonial Aamy.

THE CONFLAGRATION IN LONDON.

premises of Messrs. Walker and Thomas, and 'The recent fire in London occurred on the

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many a weary Kowloonatic would be thankful.

floor collapsed and brought away the roof with THE rain still seems to be hanging about it, getting the whole of the back part of the and if it keeps on much longer it looks as if we premises. An examination of some of the shall have the greater part of Hongkong falling about our ears. We have had an Insanitary beams taken out showed that the ends were Properties Commission, a Food Supply Combadly eaten by white ants." mission, and various other Gommissions; we

have applied for a Sanitation Commission and now we shall want a Jerry Building Commis- sion. Would it not be cheaper and better to remove the whalecity to Lanta and start fresh?

Messas.. POWELL & Co, Ltd., are making tremendous preparation for their selling off on September 1st. Their whole stock has been subjected to a thorough overhauling and they are determined to clear out everything that is not quite up to date. From what we saw this morning price seems no object, the only thing room for the large stock of new goods coming aimed at is to clear out at any sacrifice to make forward. Full particulars will be furnished inter.

I Mr. Chater takes any interest in the road which bears his name in Kowloon, we wish he would trot down and have a look at it. He would then probably go and ask the D. P. W. to rename the road or repair it. At the present time a good part of it resembles a bottomless bog more than anything else, and the coolies using it have had to build a neat little causé- way of granite chips through the worst part of the quagmire in order to prevent loss of life. We do wish the whole of the Public Works Department would get bogged in it. Then perhaps they would think it was about time for something to be done.

THE other day a correspondent enquired of us as to whether "whilst the French troops have had their little differences of opinion with the Chinese in the North, the Foochow Arsenal, under the supervision of Frenchmen, has been

We published the query in the paper with a note to the effect that perhaps our Foochow contemporary could afford the necessary in formation. That journal, however, replies diplomatically as follows:

Whileon the subject of this collapse washould like to point out to the Authorities that it is ap parendly the intention of the owner to put hang. ing verandaks on this row of houses. To do this it has been necessary to turn the windows into doors, and we notice that those on the first floor have been cut clean through the relieving. arches above the shop fronts. Why, we should. like to know, was this allowed? Unless the work is stopped immediately. and the builder prevented from carrying out the job, we shall have another disaster similar to that which has occurred in Cochrane Strect, as soon as these houses are completed and inhabited.. It looks to us too, as though preparation's were being made for the addition of another storey, and if this is allowed in the present ruinous state of the building, the person responsible for it should be made to live in one or other of the houses. It would be a quick way of preventing further negligence and, would save rope.

THE COCHRANE STREET COLLAPSE.

Work still continues on the ruins in Cochrane Street. Nearly the whole of No. 32 has now been cleared, but it is impossible to get out? some large beams and pieces of flooring until No. 34 has been cleared, for, as we pointed out the other day, it is necessary to shift the

The steamer Islander, belonging to the turning out ammunition etc, for the Chinese struts which hold up the surrounding walls the Canadian Pacific Navigation Co., of Victoria, British Columbia, in returning from the Yukon, struck an iceberg, and sank in twenty minutes. Of the crew and passengers on board, 65, were drowned, and 111 saved.

RUSSIA AND FRANCE.

French Military manoeuvres at Rheims,

The Tsar of Russia will be present at the

WEATHER REPORT.

The Observatory report says:-

On the 21st at 11:55 am. barometric changes are slight Pressure is highest over the N.E. coast of China, and gradients continue slight for winds on the coast, and for 5. winds over the winds, fight; showery. middle part of the China Sea. Forecast:-E.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A TELEGRAM from Kobe to the N.C. Daily News says that Captain H. J. Purvis of the 3rd Bombay Cavalry died in his bed at four o'clock on the 15th inst., at Maruyama, Onsen,

Kioto.

A SKETCH map of Mr. Hans Ziegler's tramway scheme for Shanghai reached as in the Merciery just to hand. The map and proposition was to be laid before a special ratepayers meeting on

the 19th inst.

THE French mail of the 18th July and the English mail of the zoth July, were both de- livered in London on the roth instant. It will soon. be quicker to arrange to miss the French mail if you want your letters to get home on time.

WE hear that there will be no inquest in the case of the woman who died so suddenly in Lyndhurst Terrace the other day. It was at first thought that death was due to an over-dose of morphia, hut the postmortem shows that alcoholism was at the bottom of it all.

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is going to draw upon her. colonies for 'a native army. We fancy that the former will prove to be the method adopted, for the only natives under German rule who would: be suitable for fighting men would be her Africans, and we very much doubt if she would care to use them for service in her Pacific and Asiatic possessions. Of course Chan, but it would not be a colonial discharged

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THE alleged case of manslaughter with which police Sergeant Chu Kwai Lam was charged was concluded to-day. Mr. J.J. Francis, K., for the defendant, made a masterly defense. The jury, after retiring, brought in a unanimous verdict of not guilty and the defendant was

TEA men would no doubt be glad to hear of the extent of the damage done by the recent fire in Loodon. That is to say, how much ten has been lost by the fire? If a very large stock has been destroyed, then the result might cause somewhat of a fillip to the China trade, We hope that Reuter will enlighten us.

whole time as the work goes on. A very good impression, has been made on No. 34 to-day, and it looks as though a very few days mora. will see the whole of the work of clearing the debris completed.

We have heard several complaints at the slowness with which the work has been car ried out, but we would remind critics that the job has been both difficult and dangerous,

and that the Chinese employed in clearing · the rubbish have been exceedingly difficult shirk as much as possible, having to be to control. They don't like the job and

The Foochow Daily Echo is not prepared to give any information on the subject."

Really, one would think the Echo had been educated in our own Colonial Secretary's Office, so very "official" is its reply, APPARENTLY the Russo-French alliance is growing stronger than ever, for Reuter tells us to day that the Tsar, is to be present at the French military manoeuvres at Rheims. There is therefore all the more reason for keeping a sharp watch upon the actions of these two. Pawers in the Far East. M. Doumer's refer- driven to work every time a body comes ence the other day to blocking India into light By far the greater part of the Afghanistan and Yunnan is significant and work has been done by the Europeans them looks as though the French were inclined to selves and every credit is due to them for lend Russia a helping hand in the great south- ern march which has so, long been her aim. the way in which they have stuck to an un What Russia would like to see would be a pleasant job. One of the European workers Russian Asia, and what could be more probable told us lo-day that he tasted putrifying, flesh than that she would consent to France holding with his meals and dreamed of corpses all night, a small slice so long as she herself obtained the larger share?

and we don't wander at it.

Up to the time of going to press 'no more bodies have been recovered, though several fragments have come to light. Many more are expected to be found under the ruins of No. 341. but it is impossible to reach them just yet on account of the dangerous state of the surround- ing walls,

*Apparently the Chinese do not take very much interest in their dead. Had such an ac

MUCIL.zegret will be felt by everyone, Chinese included, on learning that Mr. S. F. Mayers, of the British Consular Service, is about to leave Shanghai, says the N. C. Daily News of the 16th inst. Mr. Mayers has proved a most able and impartial Assessor at that most trying of tribunals, the Mixed Court, and has earned the lasting gratitude of all residents in the Seulement who have had anything to do with that Court. The improvements effected in the present Mixed Court are cident occurred in England, the scenes around mainly due to the excellent suggestions made by him to the Magistrate. Mr. Mayers the collapsed building would have been heart- week inrending, owing to relatives waiting and watching leaves here about the first September to take up the post of Assistant for the remains of their lost ones to be un Chinese Secretary to the British Legation at earthed in Cochrane Street one does not Peking, a post which with his knowledge of Chinese, he is thoroughly qualified to fill. The see anything of the sort, however. When pleasure which he unddubtely feels at this well- body is taken out nobody rushes forward to deserved promotion must somewhat lessen the identify it, and we are told that out of the regret felt by his numerous friends at hearing large number sent to the Mortuary, only eiglit the news of his departure. Mr. Campbell is to have so far been claimed and identified. So succeed Mr. H. C. B. Cockburn as Chinese soon as the bodies coming out of the ruins be came difficult to recognise, all efforts to find lost relatives seemed to cease, and so far as one can judge, there in more attention paid to Gen. Mei has returned to Tientsin, and it is the rescuing of clothing and property by the stated that he has succeeded in dispersing the survivors than to looking out for the bodies off, brigands in several districts, and has.killed- altogether several hundred rowdies. In an- friends or relatives. It may be a national trait, other place it will be observed we mention his but it seems somewhat strange when one takes defeat. We give both versions with impartiality, into consideration what elaborate funeral rites but one of them must be untrue, unless they are carried out in China, and how particular refer to different period of the gallant general's carcer.

the people are with regard to their graves.

Secretary.

The folowing items are from the P., S 7. Times of the oth just

Gen. Mei and Gen. Liu's men are reported It seems that the stoppage in the supply of to have had several conflicts with the lagre liquor to the worker oge of a misunderstanding in they not come off well. In one porary and all arose out conflict as they were getting the advantage a mine exploded as the Imperial traps were ad. vancing and killed 150 of them

Orders were given that the men were to have beer sent down instead of spirits and the mis take arose somehow owing to this. At all events, matters were righted as soon as Mr. May got to hear of it

ment in the true sense of the term. It would be simply a regiment of mercenaries, and those aliens, for we very much doubt if Ger- many can count a hundred Chinnmen

mounted Chineza, Police, is being, in either born or naturalized Gerroan subjects.

augurated for the protection of the railway, This project of a colonial array for Gér

with foreign inspectors. We fear that some risk will attend the experiment, lest the Chinese

The inhabitants of No. 27, on the many should awake our War Office to the

become involved in disputes or raids with the needs of the British Empire. If a nation THE Mitsui Bussan Kaisia send us a tabulated villagers along the line. Se side of the street, have had to clear out of t with so few foreign possessions feels the statement of shipments of coal from Moj and The Chinese police deputed by the Plchipa house, owing to a large crack having appeare necessity of a colonial army for the profec Kuchinotsu to various posts during the first centuries to preserve order at the gateway in one of the walls. If fact, it looks as thou tion of those possessions, how much more half year of 1901. The Mitsui Bussan Kaisha through which the railway enters, Feking, do must Great Britain require a colonial force? carried 523,135 tons from Moji, an amount their work by deputy, rigging up dummies the whole of the houses in Cochrane Street

245,210 ions were shipped from Kuchinotzu, all reported to Prince Ching, who was very angry,, We have, it is true, small forces in Canada largely in excess of other shippers, whilst with uniform, hat and sword. The matter was received a big jar from the shock and Australia, and even our Crown Colonies by the M.B. K Ca The coal for Hobgkong and for a few days the men put in an appear. have their local Volunteers, but what we amounted to 291881 fons from Moji, and 30s ance again. The deputies ? however are one think is really needed, in our larger colonies: Jons from Kuchinotrubia

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