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TELEGRAMS.

"HONGKONG TELEGRAPH "

SERVICE.

CHINESE ANTI-FOREIGN.

FEELING.

WARNING FROM JAPAN.

[From Our Own Correspondent.]

Shanghai, 21st February, 1.45 p.m. An official communique from the Japanese Government has been issued to China on the subject of the anti- foreign spirit of the people.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 211 1906.

CORRESPONDENGA.

We do not necessarily endorse the opinions expresand by

Crrespondent in this column

MARTIN'S TABLES.

Although the adoption of the metric system has been onder consideration for a consider CONDITION OF HONGKONG STREETS. able period now, Great Britain' still clings to

TO THE EDITOR or the "lamukong TelugxATH,"

SIR-Now that the visit of Prince Arthur and the Faces are past, the authorities might give some attention to the streets, especially Queen's Road West." This thoroughfare has been in a horrible condition for some time past, and it is only within the last week or so that any steps have been taken to remedy the defects. Fven at present the sidewalks are a disgrace and it is wondered at that they cannot be romedied.

As for the streets themselves, why should they not be in first-class condition at all times? The traffic is light, practically nothing compared to other cities the size of longkong, and yet the highways have to be kept in continual repair. Wint would happen if we should have heavily laden trucks? I hesitate to reply, but Japan warns China that immediatet geeins there would be a continual sea of steps should be taken towards this mud, let along pavement of any sort.

Also, why there su mach delay in repairing suppression of the movement. when pipes have been put underground? People seem to take their own good time in this matter, nor it is ulten months before the thoroughfares are respectably passable, and then they are repaired in a manner which compels them to be relaid over again.

Take, for instance, Wellington St.; if there The Kaiser has received Baron de Chur-ever was a case this is one; also the slices cel, the special French Envoy, on board a adjoining for they are about the worst in the German warship at Copenhagen, showing city. Connaught Road might also be included, for from the Canton and Macao pier, east, the sidewalks have been, or been not, relaid in any suitable manner. Why is there not some law regarding the manner of paving, alio a time limit of some character ?

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Germany and France.

! LONDON, 19th February.

him marked courtesy.

The German Navy,

It is stated that the King of Denmark has been made an admiral of the German navy.

Later.

The Opening of Parliament. Parliament was opened with the usual ceremony, but it was shorn of some of its splendour owing to the Court mourning and the absence of the Queen, the Prince and Princess of Wales and the Duke and Duchess of Connaught.

The King walked with a stick, but looked remarkably well, and read the speech in a loud and strong voice.

The Chinese in the Transvaal.

Sir Henry Campbell Bannerman has an- nounced that Chinese in the Transvaal, de- sirous of returning home, will not be detain" ed against their will.

And again why is it allowable for coolies to carry cumbersome loads and wear their large broad hats on the sidewalks? Such a thing is

THE ALGECIRAS CONFERENCE. Į stay, no one can tell. Still, they are pleasant,

SOME POINTS AT 189UE,

Nothing has over shown the absolute hypo-" crisy of all Europe more clearly than the Con. lerence at Algeciras, with the possible exception of the international filibustering expedition to China a few years ago. Germany, France, England, Spain, and the rest of the Powers are

to assemble to dispose of the future of a coun-

try which neither desires nor needs their in terference. As far as is to be discovered from the various "white" and "yellow" and "blue" books, published by the various Governments. the one Power (sic) which is to have no say is Morocco herself. The only people whose in- terests are not to be consalted are the Moors.

the pounds, shillings and pence, rather than adopt a standard of tens, Those who have lived in the Enst know how much easier it" is to calculate values in dollars and cents than in the currency of the United Kingdom, but the people of the old country were ever averse to change. In measurements, also, the simplicity of metres and kilometres is so generally re- engnised that engineses prefer that method of enlculation to yards and feet. Mr. Alfred J. Martin is an enthusiast in advocating the metric system and for a number of years he has been publishing a book entitled Martin's Tables," which gives both nicthods of calculation in all forms, and proven con- clusively the superiority of the "one lan- gunge.in commerce" system to the intricate processes which have to be overcome by the British schoolboy and merchant. Some time ago the Colonial Offics invited the Governors of British colonies to state their views, as to the advisability of adopting the setric system. The reply from this Colony was: Hongkong would take action with other colonies." Marlin's tables is a mine of information on every conceivable subject connected with measurements and culculations. It is publish-tast.five hundred years. ed by Mr. T. Fisher Unwin, Adelphi Ter race, London, W.C. and 2 6.

PARANG GOLD MINES,

REDUCTION OF OUTPUT,

It cannot be said that the interior condition of Morocco constitutes a menace to Europe, We have yet to learn, writes R. B. Cunning- hame Graham in the London Morning Leader, that Moorish army is likely to threaten France, Spain, or Great Britain. The Riff pirates have long disappeared. In the country itself there have been no murderous outinges on Europeans. At least two-thirds of the claims that the various Governments have pre- sented to the Sultan on behalf of their subjects are bogus. Life and property are no more unsafe in Morocco than they have been for the

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merry, bardworking men enough, and blend far better with the Moors than either Germans, English, or the French, and make a beiter blot upon the landscape than the rest.

WHAT THEY MIGHT DO. Germany is in a different case. Hor emperor with his hands tied in Europe by the Sucialists, made the excursus that is now history, 1 sup pose, into Taugier. He came, he saw, and went away again. No doubt he would have liked a port, say Caso Blanco, or, perhaps, Mogador; but the bluff failed, and he was

euchred for the nonce.

We virtuously gave up our claims, such as they were, for other claims possessed by no̟ one, in another place. In our fell haste to settle all in Egypt, we forgot to stipulate that Tangier should be neutralised, which we could easily have done, as Rustin at the moment d'di not count. Now France and England practi cally can do anything they like.

They hold the Sultan in the hollow of their hands. What they do not hold is the people

of the land.

Ten milhon men, mostly well armed with modern rifles in' a country compared to which the Transvaal was a bowling green, and whe all hate a foreigner more than they hate the devil, may present complications' which it would not be profitable for anyone to solve,

What can be done at Algeciras (for the If the interest on the different loans; granted Moors) is latte, for they want nothing from us to the Sultan, is in danger, it deserved to be so, but to be let alone, Tiue, we can stop the as the rate at which they were obtained is Sultan getting money unless he uses it to scandalously high, and the conditions extreme-benefit the country, and not fur follies for hint ly onerous. The Moor, Arab, or Beiber who would ask for European intervention is not yet born. The conditions of life, though.not fitted for Europe, do not appear unbearable to the inhabitants of the country themselves,

THE CONTENTED MOOR.

self. We ought to stop the drink traffic, but 1 suppose it will not even be discussed.

We might abolab the. Protection system, which as it stands, is a disgrace. Foreigners living in Morocco should be taxed. They now Escape scol-free. The reason is because the countries that they come from all are strong, and that Morocco is too weak to stand up and protest against this scandal, and against

The Raul gold output for December, states the Pabang correspondent of the Straits Timur, is returned as 591 ounces from 3,696 tons of ore treated, valued at approximately $21.000, the 3 royalty on which would be $575. From the published figures for last year, it appears, strictly prohibited in all large cities, and there that the export of gold from Pahang has fallen for long, for no taxes have been collected for at many others which exist. France might i

off considerably as compared with the year previous to that. In 1934, 18,004 ounc5 werd

seems to be no reason why such should not be

the case here.

It is not only a menace to the public, but a perfect aasiance.

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Knowing many parts of the empire well, am in a position to stale that as regards money, the Moors are better off than they have been

least three years. Possibly the Sultan and his Court are in difficulties; but they deserve to be so, as they la e wasted their money in buy. ing futile European toys instead of useful

away the treasure that should have been devot- ed to making roads and bridges, and drilling and equipping their army, in balloans, in divingbells, in automa'ic sweetmeat stands, in moter-cars, in photographic apparatus, in cinematographs, and in fully of all sorts and

מון

In the recent Ordinance it has been the only working 'gold nine in the State, and agricoltural implements. They have frittered except under projection from the European

prohibited, temporarily; why not make it permanent?—I ani, etc.,"

RATEPAYER,

Hongkong, 21st February, 1906,

ADMIRAL, NOEI. in danger.

IN COLLISION WITH AN ELECTRI CAR.

abiained, but in 1903 only 9,0ha reduction of almost half; this is due to Runb being now

to the list of closed mines being a long one- Ponjum, Seleasing; Kechau, Tekkai, Tui, and Sepan. This is the first time during the past eleven years that the gold export bas failed to reach five figures, and, in this connection, it is interesting to note that the total output for the

∙last 16 years, (that is, since the commencement

of British Protection), but 231,269 ounces, or, an average of 14,454 a year.

THE NICARAGUAN CANAL.

STRANGE TALE OF A JOINT ENTERPRISE BY

BRITAIN AND JAPAN,

every degree.

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It is true that there is a rebellion which has lasted several years; that there is a person whom European newspapers have dignified with the name of "the Pretender," in the field But this rebellion has damaged na European; either in person or in property, to any great ex'ent. As for the " Pretender," to the Moors The is unknown by that name. They know him as El Roqui (The Common One), and remem- ber that such persons have appeared periodic- endared for a season, and then fallen into oblivion.

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left the right to police her frontier, but the pulice force for Tangier ought to be Belgian, Danish, Dutch, or come from some small country without the strength to interfere

Powers. We ought to stand up for a perpetual economic open door, and even yet strive to get Tangier neutralised, remembering that a strong. Power with an effective feet, which held the place, could close the straits, and make Gibral- tar of as little use as Easter Island or the Old $375 AND UPWARDS,

Man of Hoy.

"MEKTULE."

The army might be reorganised by officers of several of the Powers, though France, no doubt, will want it in her hands. The Sultan ought to be helped to put the Roqui down, and shown how to frame some sort of reasonable taxation scheme, for at the present time he has no revenue. Concession-mongers of all kinds ought to be dealt with shortly, with all those who sell the natives drink. And rifles on the

What might have proved a very serious, ac cident occured just in front of the entrance to The Imperial Government will provide the British Legation on the 27th ult., says the funds to repatriate them, and will disallow Stam Observer, Mr. Ralph Paget, H.B.M. the judicial punitive methods sanctioned by Minister, and Admiral Sir Gerard Noel, were the recent amending of the ordinance.. starting out for the Royal Bangkok Sports Mr. Chamberlain, in the House of Cota-Club Gymkhana at Sapatoom in Mr. Paget's mons, and lord. Lansdowne in the House motor-ear, which he was driving hia.sell. is alleged to have been obtained from a con- ally in the history of their land, that they have siy. If what hint at briefly should, be done, i

of Lords have challenged the Government to express their views regarding the Chinese slavery election posters.

Austria-Hungary.

The Japan Times reproduces from a South-

the conference could do but littie harm. But as it probably will look upon Morocce but as a field for international exploitation of the un-

lucky Moore, I fear the worst.

Three of the European Ministers, the British, Spanish, and talian, know the country well.

Count Tattenbach also must have learot, not a little in his six months at Fez. The rest are spective principals, and their part will be small. Once more the European nations have a chance to prove their faith and honesty.

American journat the following story, which filential source:-It is stated in private circles that Great Britain and Japan are proposing to unite in the building of a great ship canal across Nicaragua, the capital to be supplied by Great Britain and the labour by Japan, which will utilise, in this way, the services of thousands of her soldiers now returning from Manchuria, This canal, it is confidently believed in London, Canal was ready for traffic. And it is said that the British Government regards the work as essentially a great strategicat undertaking, it being certain to enhance the eifective power of the natives of the two nations. Japan, who has already planned for increased trade with South-America, would make large use of the canal. The matter is of the greatest interest to Central America as well as to the great vexatious delay to Mr. Paget having his carastions of the world." It will be interesting, to settle all old grievances. In doing so they will look down frostily through the clear air,

They emerged from the Legation grounds by the gate to the north side of the Queen Victoria Memurial and were run into by a fram-car, the second of two proceeding city-warris at appar ently their usual speed. The motor car had one at its wheels knocked into pieces and its from The Budapest Diet is surrounded by portion considerably damaged but fortunately (roops,

neither the Bijtish Admiral or Minister was The Royal Commissioner sent in a rescript injured in any way. The whole thing seems could be constructed years before the Panama when I was there. Others are as safe as merely, so to speak, bottle holders for their re- !

10 have been caused by the carelessness of the tumn-car driver as, had he been on the look out, he mut have seen the mater coming through the open rail work or through the southern gateway. Had the car gone through the latter it would have been different as there the trees and buildings to some extent mask the view of the roadway. As it is there is a nice liule bill for someone to pay, to say nothing of the

dissolving the Diet, reserving the question of summoning another.

The Lower House unanimously returned the rescript unopened, and adjourned.

The commissioners of die. Delegate sub- sequently read the rescript to an empty house and the troops cleared out, and the

officials scaled the doors.

MISSIONARIES OF THE

FATHERLAND.

laid up for repaits for perhaps three months or

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the Japan Times remarks, to see how resident Roosevelt will receive this implied, challenge from Lord Lansdowne, British interests in THE EFFECTS OF THE CHINESE Nicaragua and vicinity are large, for Central

America owes huge debis in London.

BOYCOTT.

PACIFIC COAST FLOUR MILJS PARTLY CLOSING.

-THE SEIZURE OF DOLLAKS CASE.

IMPORTANT RULING.

judgment was delivered by the Court of ppeal in the Straits Settlements in the case re the exportation of Straits dollars which, it will be remembered, created a great sensa- tion last year among the Chinese merchants of January, 1995, one Khao Sen Yen, a member Penang and the Straits generally. On the zoth

To readers of the newspapers, Morocco ap pears a country given over to battle, to murder, and to sudden death. In reality it is much as it always has been for ages past. Certain roads, as that from Tangier to Tetuan, are closed, or were so, at least, in July of last year, Piccadilly, and any tourist can go, taking with him wealth in guns, in horses, and in money (which seems enorm us to Moors), to Fex or tu Marrakesh,, almost as safely as he can go from London to Edinburgh or to Inverness.

The central government being weak, and the ruler more occupied in taking photographs and looking at dissolving views than mounting bathed steeds, the tribes take the opportunity

interfere with no one outside of themselves, and kill but few of one another, owing to their cautious way of making war. So much, then, for the interior condition of the land, as it appears to me. What, thes, are the reasons for the conference?

WHAT THE NATIONS WANT,

in the first instance, France wants to join her flats, between the frontiers of Tripoli and Tunis, to the Senegal. A fair enough ambition, and one that we, who poured out blood (the blood of others chiefly) for the same reason in de Soudan, cannot but justify.

What will they write upon the slate? Will it be China once again, or what? In any case, nothing they do, even if all act for the best, can really benefit the Moor.

They wil' smile quietly, and say "Mektule," that is, it all is written. And Allah, I suppose,

all unconcerned.

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of the firm of Jin Yio Long & Co, remitted iniem were inconsiderable. Still, she can fairly. the ordinary course of business the sum of ask for leave to police her frontiers, and with 506 to tongkong, but prior thereto be called

of

The service circular which the German Government has just despatched to all its consular officers in foreign countries sets an example which our own authorities should not be slow to follow, the Pall Mall~- Gazette observes. The German Consul has al-

The Seattle Post Intelligencer states that ways been recognised by his countrymen as the first aid to foreign trade, and the circular the Chinese boycott is injuring the business now bids him to be even more enterprising in of the merchant millers on the Pacific Coast, reporting to Berlin opportunities for commerce according to the statements of men connected which might occur in the country or district in with the flour milling industry. A representa. which he is resident. He is to placé himself tive of the Hammond Milling Company said unreservedly at the disposal of any of his

on Jan. 6: "To give you an idea of how pur countrymen, being manufacturers or merchants, business is suffered, I will say that we love who might call upon him or otherwise require aut sold'anything in China since the end of bis assistance, and he is instructed to give last September. Most of our business is trans.

on and obtained from Messrs. Adamson, out leave has always done so for the last ten advice or introductions in any case in which acted through our brokers in Blangkong, butan & Co., agents in Penang for the years, annexing here and there a bit of territory they might be needful. A similar circavas during this boycott a few of the mer 1. & S. N. Co., a permit for the shipment of by force or stealth, just as we now and then issued two years ago, but it was not stick to chants aut ilicre who formerly bought the said dollars, which perma was duly signed quite inadvertently (as appears) allow the peremptory or specific in its general struc- from them have ordered small quanti- by the flarbour Master and by the Assistant tions as the present one, leaving, as it did, ties from us direct. Our Japanese is holding authorised thereto and then exchanged by the beach of some quite suconsidered island or an- Treasurer of the Government at Penang, duly Union Jack-to float" out from a flagstaff on the much to the personal initiative or discretion of up nicely; in fact, we received a cable this said Messrs. Adamson, Gilfillan & Co. for a other, which shortly serves us as a coating the Consular officer himself.

morning for 20,002 batrels to go there. All the shipping order. The defendants say that the station.

Spain, for four hundred years, had held var business we will get from Japan will not be said permit, which is now in the possession sufficient to keep us running full blast, however, the Registrar of Imports and Exports and in

pursuance of which the said dollars were shipped ious passessions on the Moorish coast.

has the right to them as we have to Aden and and if the boycott is in existence at the end of

by them, gave them all the authority necessary thirty days we will simply be forced to run

Bend the said (if any were necessary) to

to Gibraltar-that is, she holds them by only one side of our mill." When asked from dollars to Hongkong. These dollars in the the sword, and quile against the wishes of the what country the Chinese were buying their course of transit were seized in the port of Moors. They are of little value, either to

Singapore flour at present, he said: "Most of it is being

The case first came before Mr. Justice her or anybody else, for it should never purchased from the Australian mills ai £8 155. Fisher and judgment was delivered by the be forgotten that in the main Morocco is a a ton, delivered. Mr. Ostrander, of the Cen- learned judge on the 15th November last year, poor and barren land, with bits of fertile tennial mills, told practically the same story: wherein be held that the seizure was lawful.

The defendants appealed against the de- plains between its mountains, but without "According tocable advices received within the cision contending that the seizure was con- minerals, except in the mind's eye of certain past week," he said, "the conditions in Southerntrary to the provisions of the Ordinance company promoters and the like. Spain, though China are no better. I sollerstand, however, XXIV af 1913 or to the provisions of the why nobody can tell, has always looked upon that there is a commission on their way to this prohibition in Government Notification, No. Morocco as her outlet, though it is pretty country to present their casa before Congress, 67 of 1905, or contrary to law.

Judgment in the above case was delivered thickly populated. Even when she had almost and I, helieve they will succeed in their an- an the 6th inst. the Court being of opinion; all America she still turned to Morocco with That it was a condition precedent to the order regret-a monomquia, resembling that of him published in the Gazette of tóth January, 1995, who has a handsome wife, and yet looks ever having any force that it should be approved by amorously upon his bousemaid, though she is the Secretary of State; that unit such approval was given the order had no force and effect dirty and a slut. Still, Spain has several thou- and that nothing done subsequently could give sand subjects scattered up and down about the it force or effect on a date earlier than that of ports, and congregating in and about Tangier, the approval. Under the circumstances there which in a measure gives her a claim upon the fore of this case the seizure of the dollars in place. Most of her subjects are miserably question was illegal and the plaintiffs claim

poor, and how they live, or why they came, or cannot be allowed.

It now appears, however, to be plainly the intention of the German Government to make of the Consul a trade missionary as well as a semi diplomatic representative. Yel no thing has been done, nor does anything seem likely to be done at present to amend the absurd regulations which more or less compel All our own Consuls to refuse information except that it be sent through the agency of their annual repons to the Foreign Office. Inquiries may, it is true, ho sent direct to a Cossular officer, but he restrictions imposed upon the manner and extent of the reply are such as to make the information given very rarely of any real avail.

Finally, German Consular officers are en- couraged to send home by any means any news of trade opportunities which might be of value to manufacturers and exporters, while it is on record that more than one British Consul has been censured by the authorities in Down- ing-street fox communicating commercial in telligence in response to inquiries, because such intelligence has subsequently appeared In the Prose, coa

deavour to have the proper treatment accorded to the representative class of Chinese who come over here. I am thoroughly conversant with the conditions governing this boycott; and I know that the Chinese Government does hot expect us to allow the coolies to land bere, They do insist, however, upon a square deal when it comes to such of their people as atud. ents and merchants,"

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