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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH TUESDAY DECEMBER, 191905.

"BIRTHS. On the th December, at Shangbai, the wife ple HERBERT JAMES ANDRAWS, of a daughter (still born)

On the 13th December, at Shanghai, the wife of ARNOLD LAMBERT, of a daughter.

MARRIAGE

On the 12th December, at Shanghai, NILS

Ma Takahira, Japanese Minister to the USA" NEHWANU left Washington on the joih instant, homeward bound.

The Kowloon Cricket Club are giving juvenile sports on the K. C. C. ground on New Year's point of Day.

outbreak. Nor are the members of the Foreign Settlements in

Foreign Resident" in a letter to the M. G Rgreement. A

Daily News speaks of the Council Over riding the rights of the Chinese," and says

The Chiness are coming to ERIC AMELON MOLLER 16 ISABEL ELISABETH standing up for their rights as they under stand them, even if it gives us foreigners a

tion whether the women should be detaimed shock." The fact seems to be that the ques

in the Court precincts or lodged, in the Municipal Gool was a mere pretext for the THE poris ss. Stuttgart and 56 Grra disturbance that occurred. There is some- with Russian troops on board from Vladivos

BLECHYNDEN...

DEATH.

On the 10th December, at Ningpo, ALBERT KLIENE, Tidesurveyor and Harbour Master, Imperial Maritime Customs, Åge dr years,

THE leasehold property, known as Nos, og and

for, Queen's Road Central, which was to have

drawn. been sold by auction this afternoon, was with

Keely on

water,supp

concerning the.

makes it clear that he has on fau

And

the proposal of the Director of Public Works

to restrict the supply to cartala hours of the day. His objection is that even at present with a full allowance the supply is inadequate. There is not sufficient furce, he states, to raise the water to the level of Son Wa Francis Street, or at least above the

The Houghong Celegraph thingband all out yet to tool tok to Odessa are due here on or about Twes floor of the houses in that locality.

HONGKONG, Tuesday, DECEMBER 19, 1905.

WHO WAS 10 BLAME!

day the 21st inst.

People don't clot and burn and kill because some women are imprisoned in one place LEAVE of absence to England on the recom instead of another. A Chinese Magis-mendation of a Medical Unard has been grant trate and a British Assessor do not fly ated to Colonal F. H. Haynes, Army Pay Depart

discipline. Quite true, this question of the cach other's throats over a paltry matter of men, from the sand inat to the 21st March imprisonment of womeri has been on the

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10 FOREIGN

"CHINESE MAINTAIN;

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Shan

December

We have received, under cover, a copy of the English page published in connection with the S.-C. Daily Journal of Shanghai, giving the Chinese version of, the' events duple'since May or June last, Granting that Ordnance. Department, han frons this date the Public Works Department could do, hements are open to-day:

Friday last he and his family have been obli ed to forego the waiutina) bath, and, indced the supply for culinary purposes is so meagre that be has had to hire cookies to carry water

Order was completely restored Inst from Queen's Road. As he romarks :: "I do not complain of the restricted supply, but I de night object when I find that the force of waterle All the aliops, and business LIEUTENANT Culonel E. H. Seymour Army of houses in Sdn Wa Fong." The least that tablishments in the oreign Se

insufficient to raise it above the ground floor

South China, vice Lieutenant-Colonel F. Wing the hours when the supply is assumed the duties of Chief Ordnance Officer, argues, is to provide a sufficient force of water: Bunny, proceeding to England, on completion turned on, so that all may get enough of resulting from the riot app

It is estimated that the casualties of tout of foreign service.

the "God-given fluid,” as he calls, it. For

which led to the rupture between the British Assessor at the Mixed Court and the Chi- nese Magistrate, Mr. Kuan, and culminated in the riots reported yesterday, So far it has been the English statement of the case which has been circulated, and in fairness to

the other side some attention, might be kiven their version. According to the Chi- nese, the Municipal Council, through the British Assessor, has been sedulously endea. WHISKY,vouring to encruach more and more. On the rights of the Magistrate (either by curtailing his power over the prisoners or interfering in cases where both the plaintiff and defen dant were Chinese). As we have seen, that is precisely the allegation put forward by the British Assessor-that the Chinese Magistrate was endeavouring to encroach, on the rights of the former. "The result is," the farmal proceeds, that the Assesio, has usurped the place of the Magistrate, while the Magistrate does not even enjoy the lawful power of an Assessor." These are assertions, so far, without illustrations. "So long as the Magistrate was caring only for the loaves, and fishes of his post, without standing up for his rights and the rights of his country; the Assessor and The Police managed the affairs of the Mixed Court pretty much in their own arbitrary way.". Mr. Kuan Chun, the present Magis. trate, is described as an intelligent and well- educated man, while his assistant, Mr. King, has resided in London and mingled in for sign, circles. They would not tolerate the arrogance of the Assessor of the assumptions of the Municipal Council, and the fraces, at 132 the Mixed- Court was "but the conflagra- tion, the inflammable materials of which

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the native population is not roused to fury over a matter which is largely academic, Then how have the susceptibilities of the natives been offended ? Did they object to

THE total output of Kaiping coal from the three mines of the Chinese Engineering and Mining Co., Ld, located at Tongshan and Linsi, North China, for the week ending and December, igos, amounted to 12,150 tons, and the silos for the same period 19,50 tons. CLUBS wishing to take part in this season's competition for the Hongkong Football Chal lenge Shield should notify the hon., secretary, H. C. Gray, China Traders' Insurance Co., Ldy on or before the 318 December 1935. Each competing club should at the same time send to the best, secretary of the Hongkong football cretary, and its distinguishing colours or costume, together with an entrance fee of $5.

competition the name and address of its se

four days our correspondent far been un-thirty-including Foroigh able to get'a baib. On Sunday he had to restrict himself to one cup of coffee, which

Chinese is not nearly enough guld refreshment

for any able-bodied man. And if he had not

Director of Public Works will devise means to

None of those who were wounded in the skirmishes has died..

One native, however, lies in a very Borious

condition

As a result of the riot, the Louan

police station has been partially burnt, the annex to the Hotel Metropole destroyed, and a foreign gunsmith's shop wrecked.

The Taotai huns issued proglama-

see their Chinese Magistrato flouted, if he were fouted, and institute a vendella against his detractors, ending in a general tumult which must have serious effects

been careful to fill up the filter on the preced- no matter how soon it is suppressed?

ing evening he might not have had even a Or rather, was this the spark which

single cup of the liquid that cheers but does set the smouldering embers alight, and,

nortnebriate. He adds pathetically that he hat if so, what did the embers consist of?

eight mouths suffering from the want of water It must be remembered that all accounts

and he has to stand by helpless while they thirst are agreed that the rioters were unarmed

He cannot afford, he says, even if he had the and unorganised. That does not seem to

inclination, to quench their thirst with beer or indicate that the officials had a hand in the

wines. In view of this appeal, perhaps the rising, although, of course, there are more

provide the people of Waocliai-for he asserts ways of killing a cat than by hanging it.

that his is not a solitary case-with a sufficiency he impression is left on the mind of the

of water, so that the residents in that district onlooker that there is something below sails Control l'olice Station was the celestion may be able to have a bath at least every other tions urging the nutive population to at the Central was the cause of morning and a plethora of cups of coffee on this turmoil about women's quarters in geothe Sharghai Mixed Court fracus, were re'eas Sundays: The spectacle of a citizen with eight maintain order, and to refrain from Had Mr. Twyman, by any action unrevealed, ed at three o'clock on Thored by by order of the mouths crying for water should appeal to the demonstrating against the Foreign become ‘a“ persona non grata with the Chin Consular body. The Chinese assert that the stoniest heart, and we trust that our correspone There are half a dozen ways of woman, Mrs. Li, is the widow of a Chinese dent's griovalice will be remedied as soon as

community. accomplishing one's object; did Mr. Twyman official who was on her way to Canton with the

possible. adopt the most conciliatory or was he need.rimains of her late husband, and that the girls were ordinary domestic slave girls, and that lessly rough and dogmatic? Tactai Yuan consequently there was no question of kidnap speaks of the "disgraceful trampling upon ping.. our rights." He declares that he will do his utmost to erase the shame inflicted on the Chinese Government." He commends the Magistrate for "maintaining against all odds the sovereign rights of China," and applauds his supporters for their " exhibition of public spirit and of loyalty to country." This is the language of a patriot who dares all for his country; not the speech of an official who sees a way out of a difficulty by diplomatic methods. We thoroughly be

ese?

A cpot.I was yesterday charged before Mr. F. A. Rateland with altempting to commit suicide by drowning himself in the waters of Yaumati Bay on the 16th inst. Inspector Macdonald said the man was found in the water and rescued, but refused to give any account fhimself or state how he got in the water. Defendant said he was an a sampin, His Worship ordered him to be put on Loard and when it gave a rofl be toppled overboard.

steamer, for Canton and sent to that part.

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'GRIMINAL SESSIONS.

ARSON.

The Criminal Sessions were continued this morning, His Honour,. Sir Francis Piggott,

Chief Justice, presiding, when Kwok Fa, and Li Kat Hin were indicted on the charge of feloniously setting fire to the premises No. 463,

Des Vœur Road, with intent to defraud the Prsianational Insurance Company, of which Messrs. Meyer and Company are the

local, agents, and the Meiji Insurance Com- pany, of which the Mitsui Busan Kaisha are the local agents, with which companies the premises and contents were insured jointly for

Bluejackets and Volunteers are still patrolling the streets, however, with the object of being prepared against further trouble.

the coolie class, ure in a very excited The Chinese, particularly those of

condition.

Some of the more inflammatory spirits maintain a threatening and menucing attitude.

[A rumour was in circulation in Hongkong this afternoon that the riot had broken out afresh in Shanghai and two foreigners killed,

had long been smouldering." The question lieve that all the truth of this affair has not THE Variety Club of the Royal Engineers gave the sum of $17,000. Sir Henry Berkeley, A but the foregoing, telegram received at ibisz over which the squabble arosc seems to have been told; there are wheels within wheels the first of two entertainments in the theftio | jomay-General, instructed by Mr. H. H. . office at 4 p.m., seems to brand that report as a,

for sober men seldom give rein to their at Wellington Barracks last night. There was Hursthouse, of the Crown'? Solicitor's office, fabrication,➡ED H.RTVAN

„been abuse. of contention between the Chinees officials and the foreign Assessors

lor some considerable time. The Assessors

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a fairly large audience. The programme was passions so plainly over a trivial matter that, excellent, and being. composed principally of the mob is incensed to riot. The British humorous torns kept the audience in the demanded that Chinese women and girls and foreign communities may be right; grastest of good humour. It is quite evident 'should not be imprisoned in the Chinese the Chinese may be right, but the Chinese that there is a vast amount of bistrionic talent well-developed among the Engineers. The celis of the Court on account of their have put themselves out of court by programme was so lengthy and diversified that filthy condition; the officials erected the behaviour of the rabble. For the cmcute it would be difficult to convey any idea of the which occurred the Chinese authorities must individual characteristics of the players, but special quarters for females and we 'are told that the German, American be held responsible, and in the aftermath of the best evidence of the audience's appreciation That we will, from the and Italian Assessors, expressed their the rising it is to be feared that the real or waerous encores. Uns of the past tans, on satisfaction with the new accommodation,iginal cause of the trouble will be forgotten.numerous encores. One of the best items on 14th to the 23rd inst. in-Not so the Municipal Council, who insisted it has been a mismanaged business from the programme was the duet Excelsior

rendered by two of the sentar non commission.. that Chinese female' prisoners should be sent beginning to end; there does not seem to be ed efficers. The second entertainment will be to the Municipai Gaol. The Journal hints much credit attaching to anybody for yester-given this evening, that the Municipal" Gaul is not all that it day's proceedings, But we would certainly should be, that no Chinese, sentenced to a like to get an inkling of the actual facts

which culminated in the riot... ever survives, and that Chinese women ab

clusivo, refund to our

customers, whose pur-term of imprisonment exceeding one..gear,

chases are made on any hor the place. The story of the disturbance in the Mixed Court on the 4th inst. is 'recit- day to bo subsequently ed. We have had it ad museam, and we will assume that there was a row in which

fixed by drawing be-the police acted as they usually do in such circumstances, by clubbing everybody into tween the datos above order. The question of the Door of Hope

and all the rest of it may be laid aside, al though it may be noticed that the Chinese mentioned,

are great supporters of that institution. In- deed, they say the question about the Door of Hope has been dragged in as a sort of red herring over the trail. The real question

50 per Cent.

of the amount of the puris this--was the disturbance premeditated? chase, either "Cash

Credit.

or

The drawing will take place at our Office on the

26th inst.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A FATAL. case of plague occurred in the bar bour to-day; it makes the 30th for the year.

A GRURBOME method of sepulture, which has been proposed by lierr. Karl Schoti, of Cologne, appears to belong to an earlier age than ours,

prosecuted, and Mr. W. Slade, instructed by Mr. D. Thomson, sppeared for the prisoners who pleaded not guilty...

The following jurymen were empanelled. --- Messin, William J. Croulford (Foremin);

Harry Hodge, Henry W. B. Kennett, Francis Campbell, John T. MacGregor, John I. An- drew, and Frank O. Reynolds. Chun Teo Vin

THE SHANGHAI BIOT

SUPPRESSED: Shanghai, 10th Dec.,

10.60.a.m.

The riot is now suppressC

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was called, but was challenged by the Attorney 'General, while Messis. H. C. Broedissen, and - [The above telegram was kindly, placed:

B. T. Captain, being both interested in Insur our disposal by Messin, Nemanded & Co. aplum ance companies, were released from attendance merchants, of Wyndham Street, ED in this case...

The Attorney-General, briefly stating the AN ALARMIST TELEGRAM, case, said that the first prisoner was a foki in the employ of the second prisoner who was the Meara Siemssen- &;! Co. received, a principal proprietor of the premises in question telegram from their Shanghai Agents thir November-last, and the evidence would show It was handed in at the Shanghal, office ar

The fire broke out at 8.m. on the sand forenoon which that the fire broke out in five different places,

"Riot renewed. Our own telegram,

and might possibly liave recommended itself the whole place, on the arrival of the Fire: 10:30 am. and read to the Egyptians or, the ancient, Manchus. Herr Schott would reduce the cemetery to its Brigade, being in flames and smelling strongly simplest expression by surrounding the bodies of kerosene oil, which would go to show that with masses of cement. Nothing would be

the place had been deliberately set on fire handed in simpler; the coffin itself would be of concrete,

whh the object of obtaining the insurance

The Viceroy át. anking has ordered three reinforced with steel if thought desirable, it gunboats from the Kawasaki shipyard at Kebe,would be furnished with an opening through THE programme for clearing Fort Arthur from which when the body was interred, would be mines has been completed. The autliorities poured a liquid cement that sets rapidly. The still advise precaution.

hardening would be immediate, and the body, impregnated thus with silicic acid and lime from the cement, would be actually petrified. But the inventor does not stop here; his utili tarianism appears in the proposal to build with these blocks of cement vist monuments that shall be the future cities of the dead.

SWEEPING changes have been made in the Japanese Navy. Captain Dachinai is appointed attaché at London, Captain Yoshiro at Berlin, and Captain Kamaya at Peking.

....

An editorial comment on the recent outbreak at the Shanghai Mixed Court appears on the

third page, and on page ? Are printed late telegrams from Peking and Tokio.

and to, by whom? The supporters of the British Assessor eniphatically declare that it was premeditated by the Chinese Magistrate, who was impelled by his superiors, TheA PEKING report, printed in the N. C. D. New Journal, voicing the Chinese side, says: says that Mr. Pokotiloff has utierly, failed to That the outbreak was premeditated by obtain information about the Manchuria the Chinese is without foundation, proved negotiations. He has been trying to extract

by the fact that only some ten runners were present; the gates were closed and locked by order of the Magistrates to prevent the crowd of indignant and infuriated Chinese outside from gaining access to the Court room." The attack is carried into the enemy's camp when the Chin-

ese' assert that the police went to Court that morning looking for trouble. There were sixty present when the Court opened, and a telephone message brought a large reinforcement, armed with rifles, within a few seconds. How are we to find the truth between these conflicting statements ? The

the Chiness press without exception condemns arbitrary decision of the British Assessor. On the other hand, the English newspaper in Bhanghal, are by no means [33) unanimous in fixing the responsibility for th?

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A large number of mbers aljended the ping matters, 200 yards range st King's Park on Saturday there is a lull and Sunday, the 16th and 17th inst, and some solute very good shooting was done

The principal scores Stubbingeyo, Dr. W. B; 70, J. C, Gom 69, E. Rogers 69, W. Part 69, T. P. Cochrade 69, G. II. Mu Once again the Masonic Hall, Zetland W. Kew 68, Rad Birekt, was en dit last night, the occasion this W. D. Baldwood time being the installation of Bro. C. Pitlock Phelips 65 JA as Worshipful Master of the Lodge Eastam Gibbs by Hi Scotia, No. 933.S. C. for the ensuing year, who A. P. Nobbs 65: 1 appointed bin officers as follows:-I.P.M. Wor 64, P. L Miller Bro. J. Graham J. S.M. Wor. Bro, W.C: Jacky Richardson 64, 1

w. Bio. A. Ritchies J.W. Bro, J. McGlashan; H. W. F Shampas, the Sinwinpoo, the Rastern Time Chaplain, Bro. W. Stewart; s.p.. Bro. Dang K. Haxton: 63. A the Universal Gasette and the South China Chen: 1 D: Bro. J. Chelland; Secretary, Won ins Daily Journal, have organized an association Bro: H. Horley; D. of C. Bro. S. Smith; D.M) G. A. Hastings 62, to be known as the Association of Chinese Wor, Bro, H. H. Bildges; Steward, Pro, H. M. Michael 62, J;8; Lewingdan Journalists. The objects of the organization Matthrey, and Bro. J. J. Sibbit Treasurer 61. J. R. Michael of, J.N. are partly social and partly educational Won Bro. C E Facken; Organist, Bro. R. Baines Law

Wilson: LG, Bro, J. M. Ramsey, and Tyler, Beavis 60, CL Bro F. Mila

PANTOMIME is at band, for the Zorillas have arrived and open to-night: It has been de cided, however, that the Company will not embark on pantomime right away--they are keeping that as a bonne bouche,. To-night, the Zorillas will stage the well-known burlesque Whirly Girly, a light, fantastic, giddy vande ville show, with an abundance of movement and kaledioscopic changes, so bawlidering fets the plo the spectator abandons himself

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