1906-08-11 — Page 1

The

NEW SERIES No 5228

CONTENTS,

Births, Marriagos and Denths. Leading Articles:-

A-Sanitary Experiment.

The Tram-wreckers,

Sogar Refining Industry. Singapore Finances.

The Opium Revenge. Commercial Parasites.

H.E. Maj-Gen. Villiers Hatton.

#Telegrams:-

Shanghai Apienities.

Hungbulze Activity,

Japanese Salvage Operations.

Japaness Tramways.

Japanese Naval Programme.

Mootings --

Sanitary Board!).

The United Asbestos Oriental Agency, Ld.

· Logül Intelligenes:—

The Flour Mills.

Lendor v. Cuirantur.

China Sugar Traile Marks.

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Clain for Interest.

Sales by Auction.

Claim for Goods Sald.,

Polioo.

A Plot that Failed.

Alleged Embezzlement. Canton Boat Thievest- Stabbing Affray at West Point, Prisoner escapes from Custody. An Impertinent Fitter,

Malay Crew Refuse Daly. Gambling Kaid

A Careless Jeweller,

Careless Truckmen.

Robbery on a junk,

Hongkong Manufactured Rides,

Alleged Theft of a Diamond Earring,

Correspondence

Police Salaries...

Rider-man System Condemned. Miscellaneous Artiolos and Reports:-

Home."

The Governor on Hongkong. II. E, the Governor at Hongkong and Whampoa Duck Co., 140. Fun for the Sailor.

New Pier Sites.

A Concrele Question:

The Royal Hongkong Golf Club

Water Katurn.

Governor Nathan at Macao.

Canton Notes.

Canton Hotels and Loding-houses, The Boycott Hera, Amoy Notes

The Chefoo Naval Tragedy.

Macao Canton Railway.

The Satnam Piracy..

The Shanghai Mixed Court,

Bill Broking in Shanghai,

Interpart Cricket.

The Philippine Currency.

The Death of General Kodama.

The Late General Kodama

Baron Oka and the General, Staff

Yokohama Harbour Improvements. The Japan Sugar Refining Company. The O.S.K. Foreign Capital. The Opening of Manchuria,

The Chungchuses.

Chungchuses near Dalny,

The Singapore Sensat on.

Singapore's Pride.

Mr. Jacob Sassoon,

Commercial:-

Varn Market.

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Hongkong Telegraph.

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for careless residents to allow foetid matter accumulate on their premises, and people would have the guarantee that the city was made sweet and clean every morning, The experiment, we remarked, would be watched with much interest in Hongkong, because the question of the removal of night soil is of as much importance in this Colony as in the south. Obviously, it is extremely desirable that the authorities shoul control the cleansing of the city and the disposal of the night-soil instead of leaving such matters in the hands of private individuals. Ju highly civilised centres the municipality might safely trust to the sense of the people to see that the househuid refuse was periodically removed, but where there is a large shifting population whose sense of the value of cleanliness is not too highly developed and

MAIL SUPPLEMENT.

(ESTABLISHED 1881.)

"SATURDAY, AUGUST 11, 1906.

六拜禮

“女一十月八英港香

"$13 PER ANNUM. SINGLE COPY, 25 CENTI.

it is through his pracht, sihat such · blg differences occur on al days. At home, the broker and Jobber are distinct and in separate classes, ach having bit oan department on the Stock Exhhango; but out:-/ here there are brokers who act in a chunk 4 capacity and the mix-up is dangerous to the. stability of any sound. concern whose stock is mercilessly attacked."

H.B. MAJÄGEN.. VILLIERS HATTUN.

day after day laying traps for the tram-cars motion to appoint a committee to investigate Governor had stated that if the price paid sound stock are dangerthanalfacted, whilst the knowledge that the police were on his the report and accounts. The speaker for Tanjong Pagar should prove exorbitant track would deter him from risking his thought it strange that the company, which the Colony might have to wait before carry. liberty. In some countries the accused for many years had carned such large profits,ing out other improvements and would have would have stood little chance of ever should have lost so heavily in six ronths to look out for new sources of revenue. That reaching the gaol precincis after being The motion was followed by an amated was the situation now upon them. Who is caught laying obstructions on the car lines. debate, and finally the Chairman stegested going to make good the interest on this loon He would have been lynched on the spot, that the meeting be adjourned a night, how to be raised? It must fall upon the and possibly there would have been few and in the meantime that the accosts be revenues of the Colony. To preserve the who would have pitied the victim although carefully examined by shareholders be trade of the Colony the development they might have deplored the act. But here fore approval. This suggestion was adopted, of Tanjong Pagar and the improve- we are law-abiding and imbued with a keen It has been stated that Japancee competent of the Singapore river are necessary. sense of the majesty of the law. The action in the sugar träde must be reckoned After another speaker had described the pre- cused was taken before the magistrate, and with in the same way as in other branches sent as a crisis in the history of Singapore, what happened then? He was ordered to of commerce. To appreciate the deter-The original resolution was put to the meeting receive a whipping at the hands of his maination our allies istend to exercise in and carried with but two dissenting votes. It parents. Does anybody pretend to believe order not to be felt behind in the race for was also agreed that the Committee of the that the punishment fits the crime? The commercial supremacy, we need only cite Singapore branch of the Straits Settlements camp had endangered the lives of half the fact that the Dairi Sugar Refining Com Association be requested to convey to his who are inclined to risk the danger of dis those living at West Point. He had done so pany has decided to increase the capital by Excellency the Governor the terms of the case rather than expend a trifle in securing nut once or twice but repeatedly. If he had Y1,000,000, as also has the Osaka Relining motion carried at that meeting. It is hardly the service of night-soit coulies, it is the not been the actual culprit on each occasion Company. It is reported that the Osaka: conceivable that the Straits Government duty of the city authorities to undertake the it is safe to assume that he had a guilty company is to establish a branch in Formosa. will stultify itself to the extent of withdraw work by the creation of a special, depart knowledge of what was being done. True, 4. refining company is being floated in ing from the ambitious schemes into which ment, such as exists in every city of any size he is only 14 years of age, but sampar Yokohama with a capital of V2,500,000, and it had committed the Colony. That they For pretension in western countries. The people of 14 years have the wisdom of the the shares are now on the market. A pro- are projects of enormous magnitude none experiment proposed in Singapore was there serpent. They are reared in a rough school posal is on foot among capitalists of Osaka van deny, but that it should be difficult, if fore of more than passing interest, and ¦ and have to fend for themselves from and Tokio to establish a refinery in not impossible, for Singapore to raise out of if there were any who failed to appreciate childhood; there is little they do not Formosa with a capital of Y1,000,000, and its ordinary revenue the soms required for the scheme, they were content to await the know. They have a full sense of their another company will probably be formed interest and sinking fund, it is equally result of the experiment before declating responsibility. A whipping to such people in Nagoya, It is probable, that greater certain. their objections to it. But the proposal is like an extra breakfast in the morning, Japanese competition will have to be faced has been killed before it has been acted Supposing that the accused charged to-day in the future than in the past, but we have

is the member of a gang of hooligans banded confidence énough in the administra upon, and that by no less a person than Professor. Simpson, the sanitary together to damage the cars, is a whipping live abilities of the local companies to ex-" expert who is to reform the health con likely to give them a wholesome fear of the press the conviction that, given a fair field ditions of Singapore. Professor Simpson | consequences of continuing their dastardly and no favour, Hongkong can hold its own wrote to the Colonial Secretary remarking | practicus?. Hardly. The Magistrate, we against any competitor. that he had ascertained frum careful-in-ient, was unduly lenient-and-the-young-rogue- spection of houses in Singapore that night may congratulate himself that he did not soil is removed daily from houses in the teme up for sentence before a tribunal' of more crowded and central districts of the tram-car patrons, for he would have rued town and that removal is effected at a cost the day that he commenced to obstruct the » from 25 cts. to 50 cts, a month,' whilst al lines. However, there is some consulation a uumber of factories where there are a large

in the fact that the police have managed to bring one-offender to book. It may lead to the demoralisation of the gang, bat we trust that no effort will be relaxed to discover any others who may be concerned in the attempt to derail the cars. Such projects against life and property must be stamped out so that people hay travel by the cars in perfect safety. The next person accused of being implicated as a tram-wrecker will, we venture to hope, receive a lesson from the Magistrate which will last him through life and strike fear into the hearts of his com- panions, in vice.

number of latrines the charge is yo cts. The

SUGAR REFINING INDUSTRY.

(7th August.) -

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SINGAPORE FINANCEN

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THE OPIUM REVENUE.

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$295,000 245.000 235,000

The present tender is $365,000; being a decrease of $70,000 per month. The offers. are for the combined farms, however, Simply for the opium licence the amount ten- chered is $240,000 and for the Spirits $5,000. The revenue in the Singapore Estimates for the current year works out to give the following.

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Diminuti Present Licence, Future. fer it. ........ 245,1200 140,000 Splits 500 Malpera Opium beri] Malacca Spirits (g) 30m.

$5,0

TELEGRAMS.

** HONGKONG TELEGRAPH "

SERVICE

"SHANGHAI AMENITIES.

VOLUNTEERS CALLED OUT.

OBJECTIONABLE MIXED COURT BUILDINGS

DEMOLISHED.

[From Our Own Correspondent.]

Shanghai, 6th August, 220 p.m.

The Shanghai Municipal Council issued an ultimatum to the authori

Major-General Villers Hatton and the com

The many friends in the Colony of H.E. munity in general will regret the departure of the General Officer Commanding the Troops in South China, who proceeds on leave. to-morrow pending the accomplishment of his period of command. General Halton has identified himself in all the social, sporting and public movements in the Colony ever since he took command of the South China Garrison, and gave to the public the benefit- of his advice and experience in the delibera- tions of the Executive Council of Govern.. : ment as well as at the Legislative Coun cil. In the "Orders" issued to the General Staff this morning, Major-General Hatton's tenure of command is recorded as having been made a very pleasant experience by the assistance rendered him (9th August.). The prospects of the revenue of the Colony ceived from Commanding Officers of De- by the Stall, and by the support he has re- under the head of Opium Farm being partments and of Units, and from all ranks maintained at presunt figures, when the new -a cheerful service in a most trying climate, grant is allotted, 1.ave already been stated to which he wishes publicly to acknowledge. be anything but reassuring. Indeed, it may, Two matters he looks upon with special he expected that, from a number of causes, (8th August.)

pleasure one that the important subject of the Colony cannot hope to be offered any mobilization for war has been mastered the Recently we dealt at some length with the thing except a notable reduction in the price other that the conduct of the nien has been subject of the finances of the sister colony for the exclusive privilege of dealing in very good. He wishes all a happy future of Singapore in view of the number of gi opium within the Colony and its depen and success in that noble profession in which gantic schemes projected for the Southerndencies, for the next triennial term. The they have ciccted to, serve their King and cost of collection an alternate days was

colony involving millions of pounds sterling, uices obtained for the various farms Country. We have the assurance that Ifis estimated at $20,000 per annum independ

it was 'amply demonstrated that, unless some In the Straits Setilements have, in the Excellency's good wishes are heartily recipro ent of the cost of disposal at sea, and this

very unexpected-new source of revenue past, furnished an indication of what Hongcated, and echoing the sentiments of a was to be for one of the smallest sanitary

discovered, it will be practically impossible kong might be led to expect for the same section of the civil community we tender districts covering a few acres which, when

for the Straits Government with the present, tonopoly during a like currency of the the gallant Officer Commanding the best compared with the portions of the town

cr even immediately prospective source of licence here. The tenders for the which would have to be ultimately served,

revenue, to meet the obligations which the siennial period of the Opium and Liquors wishes of the Colony for his long life and

prosperity. is not a twentieth part. In his opinion if it

various schemes of harbour and dock im Farms in the Straits, commencing January were not too late the scheme should be

provements must certainly impose upon the,1997, were operied at the Colonial Secre postponed and the existing system continued

taxpayers in the colony. A large gathering tariat at Singapore on the and inst. From under strict supervision until it was decided

of about three hundred representative bust-the Singapore Free Press it is learnt that what system should be adopted for the whole |

ness and professional men met at Singa three tenders were received by Government, whole town, The President of the Singapore

pore the other day to consider the financial for the Singapore Opium and Spirit Farms, Municipality explained to the Commis.

condition of the Colony, especially in view of | viz., sioners, who looked as if they felt inclined to

the Tanjong Pagar Award. Mr. Buckley mov Chop Sin Chin Ho Bec (present disregard Professor Simpson's advice, that

éd: "That in view of the altered financial

Farm Singapore) the feller from Government was practically a

The gloomy forecast, which the chairman position of the Colony caused by the Tanjong Mr. Chea Chen Eok.... "contmand to stop" the continuance of the of the Chin Sugar Refining Co., Ed., had Pagar Arbitration Award and of the urgent Mr. Chea Chew Ewe........ scheme. He personally regretted receiving to hold out 10 the meeting of shareholders need for improvements and developments at The letter as it meant putting the hands of the last March, had considerably damped the those Docks and Wharves in order to meet clock back three years or so and going on

enthusiasm of a large number of investors in the requirements of the trade of the Part, the stocks of what must be considered the and of the expenditure required for other with the old method of disposingtable garden. The Steamship Competition on the Bangkok The Singapore Free Press remarked sarcas leading industry of the Colony. The setting works more important and more urgent than

Line.

tically that "It is a compliment to call the side of eight hundred thousand dollars to the proposed work of constructing an inner present private collection a system: paid for provide for forward commitments in view of harbour in the Roadstead at Singapore, it is privately, arranged privately with irresponsible an adverse market, was a contingency such imperatively necessary in the best interests Chinese coolies, ai whose mercy the whole as none had expected but which had given of the Colony that that work should not be cause for considerable alarm in the earlier proceeded with." Speaking on the motion town might be placed, in case of a 'surike,

he said that it seemed a pity that Singapore The Raub Australian Gold Mining Co., La.. dispused at haphazard, and only kept from months of the year. That the provision was' Exchange.

being extremely rffensive by police regula. called. for the then outlook of the sugar should begin after 87 years of great pros Opium.

tions. The layman can as easily criticise the market of the world justified the extreme perity to run into debt. The Colony never The reduction is an appreciable one. Sinties of the Mixed Court stating that system as Professor Simpson can destructive step as a financial measure of precaution.cost Ingland or the old East India Trading gapore will have to do without 11,574,000, unless certain new buildings which ly criticise the attempt, at à system devised According to expert statistics of the world's Company a single cent. There must come annually, in the next three years' revenue. had been erected in the vicinity of the wants, however, is constructive criticisin. If been placed under cultivation in the beet venue cannol rise any higher. It seemed in

amun, but Singapore and Penang.together the pail system will not answer, is the Pro- growing countries of Europe. The crop had Singapore to be on the turn. Trade is not mark an annual decrease of $1,610,000; re- officials employed by the Council fessor prepared to recommend a system of been an inordinately bountiful one and the prospering. The conditions are changing salt, $1,572,000 less than hitherto. The would be obliged to demolish the water closets and underground drainage, consequence was that with a large supply of Trade once diverted is seldom recovered. proportion in the fall for Singapore alone structures. with a sewage outfall at a distance from the best at hand in Europe and the correspond. When the speaker first came to Singapore, represents 15.70 per cent. in the principal STEWART: AGNEW.-Op the 4th July, at town 7. Will be recommend the sewage to ingly lower prices ruling, the demand for forty-two years ago, there was a large num

source of revenue. Applying the same Rougham Parish Church, near Bury St. Ed-the sail," or to the sea?" It is indeed un cane sugar slackened and prices fell in ber of huge Chinese junks and other native ratio of reduction to Hongkong the munds, by the Rev. B, S. Fryer, HINTON fortunate that the scheme should have been consequence. The campaign for the year vessels in the harbour. Many of these come Colony might be prepared to be offered, ARTHUR STEWART, second son of linton D. blighted in the bud, and it is hardly con

was not at the tinie finally determined. | from far-off places. That trade has left that in round ligures, $143,000 against the Stewart, Esq., of 21, Courfield-road, london,ceivable low ja sanitary authority should Spring results were awaited before it could place on account of the extended steamer $170,000 now paid by the Farmers: The S.W., and Strathgarry, Elair Atholl, N, B., to DOROTHY, daughter of George W. Agnew, condemn any attempt to improve the be finally settled what would be the progress traffic. Singapore has always been an em- munthly difference to the Colonial revenue Esq., M.P., of Rougham Hall, Bury St. Ed-conditions of the city. It may be that the of the sugar-market in the Farther East. porium of trade, but its customers will not should then be one of $27,000, equal to ammur propre of the great health expert was Fortunately for sugar merchants and refiners, do their business here if they can do it $374,000 per annum. It may be premature wounded by the suggestion that the Munici- contrary to all expectations, the result of the at their own doors. Unnecessary debt is discuss the probable loss to the Colony pal Commissioners could have sanitary ideas later crops fell short of anticipations while the thin end of a wedge which may seriously by a diminished Opium licence fee; but which had not been submitted to the inspec- the growing demand for the commodity threaten the prosperity of the Colony. The judging from the results attained in Singa- tion of his highness. At all events he has continued unabated. Following the laws of speaker dwell upon the danger to the re-pore we should be in a position to arrive at given the scheme a set back. Whether he supply and demand the downward course in venue of the Colony through the peril in the approximate figure likely to be fetched will devise anything more satisfactory remains the price of raw cane was promptly arrested, which the Opium Farm appeared to stand. on the 31st inst. for the Opium, Monopoly to be seen. Now that we in Hongkong are

and a reaction gradually set, in which has Following the last speaker Mr. Graham lay- when tenders fall due on that date. deprived of the lesson which would have since steadily sent up prices far above the pured the resolution. Before the expropria- been furnished by Singapore there is no average ruling for some time and allowing, intion of Tanjong Pagar, he said, the Colony reason why the idea should not be taken up faci, for a fair margin of profit to merchants had a revenue of between ten and eleven by our sanitary authorities, for we assume and dealers who, in averaging their purchases millions and an expenditure of practically that the majority of people would support between the two extreme rates that had the same amount. Government expected, the Board if it seriously proposed to under-uitained, found themselves in the comfort before the award was announced, that the take the removal and disposal of the nightable position of gainers by their timely and,revenue derived from the Docks would pay

as it proved to be, successful operations, the interest, and supply the sinking fund, on { Indeed, if our information does not er, at the debt contracted by the expropriation. he honesty and integrity of the business structions to take prompt measures one time it paid Hongkong to export the The position then was quite reasonable, but population are well-known characteristics of to suppress the Hunghatze activity raw cane sugar tu Buropean markels even when the award was issued the situation was of the traders in the gorgeous East, and at Liaotung. Much satisfaction will be felt by a large without passing the product through the altered. Tanjong Pagar cannot possibly when any disturbing factor arises to threa number of residents in Hongkong, and mills. Now that the refined article com meet the charges which will result from the ten the good name enjoyed by the expon- especially by that large section of the commands a favourable price in Eastern marketa expropriation and the additional works re- ents of the commercial interests in thesc munity which makes use of the tram-cars, it goes without saying that the wanted quired, and the balance will have to be parts, it always merits notice and considera- when it is learned that ope of the gang res activity at the East Point and Quarry Bay Laken from the general revenue. If the tion. As a body the representatives of the ponsible for the numerous attempts made refineries has been resumed, Japan at no trade of the Colony was increasing, and the Hongkong, stock exchange are gentlemen recently to derail the cars has been caught remote past was also considered a determin. Colony rolling in wealth, it would be pos- who have deservedly won high esteem and red-handed at his nefarious and rascally work. Fing factor in, the prosperity of the great in-sible to face the situation with equanimity, credit with investors and speculators in (6th August.)

We now discover that at least one of the dustry of our island. It will have to be but such was not the case. From no source Hongkong. Unfortunately, the same can. Some time ago we referred to a proposal perpetrators of these outrages, is a youth of reckoned with in the future; but the reverses could the Colony look for an increase of not be said of Shanghai wherewith Hong- which had been made by the Municipal | 14 years, and a saingan boy at that. When of one of its leading refineries give courage revenue. In some cases there might be re- kong maintains a community of interest by. Commissioners of Singapore to undertake case after case was reported of iron bolts to the locally managed concerns. The ductions. Tanjong Pagar could not bear virtue of its daily, not to say almost hourly, the removal of night-soil and deposit it being found wedged into the rails we natur result of the half-year for the Japan Sugar increased charges. They would only drive transactions carried on between the two where it would prove least harmful to the ally thought that some class, whose income Refining Company of Osaka has been most away trade. Not being able to increase the places. Reviewing the week's share business community. With the object of finding out was affected by the running of the cars, had unsatisfactory, showing a deficit of over revenue, the question was whether ex- on the and inst., Messrs. A. Sullivan & Co. how the system was likely to work, it was decided to revenge themselves by inspiring Y180,000. The unfavourable sugar marketpenditure could not be reduced. There thus comment on the birth of a set of com suggested that an experiment should be travellers with terror lest they be injured or is responsible, so it is said, for the loss. It would not be savings under this head mercial parasites whose existence it would be carried out within a restricted area, and if | killed as the result of the tram-wreckers' has been decided that the special reserve, to be relied upon to meet deficits. detrimental to tolerate and whose extinétion found satisfactory the entire city would-after-efforts. But what object can a sampan | amounting to Y250,odo, shall be drawn Pursuing further the line of argument of the it should be the duty and endeavour wards be included, in the scheme. The idea "man" hope to attain by wrecking the cars? upon to make good the deficit and to pay previous speakers, the Government were dea of honest investors and operators to secure. scenied excellent as compared with the pre- The deed savours of lunacy more than any, dividend at the rate of 8 per cent. The total cribed by the Hon. Mr. W. H. Shelford as The Shanghai firm of brokers observe — sont system whereby each householder is thing eleo. One would not be surprised amount of losses on the working for the the stewards of the public purse. Since the "Unfortunately, for our market's stability, responsible for the removal of his night soll, to find that the person who was accused half-year just ended has been Y201,344) (business men of the Colony were those who there is an ugly element springing up in our and is compelled to make the best arrange-to-day before the Magistrate at the At the half-yearly general meeting of the had to pay the piper, they should be per-midst which threatens diaster unless check- ments possible with the coolies who hire Police Court is not quite right in his Osaka company, the most heated debate mitted to call the tune. He stated that ed-that of the jobbing broker, who openly themielray out for that duty. Under muni- mind; that he is, in fact, a mono ensued on the report. Mr. Morishita, a 'when the expropriation scheme was being jobs in futures only and by whose mani, cipal management, it would be imposible maniac. No sano individual would go on shareholder, opened the proceedings with a discussed in the Legislative Council the pulations on paper the intrinsic values of the Japanese tramways.

Local and General,

BIRTHS.

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On the June 30, at Oldenburg, Germany, they the city Engineer. What the community sugar supplies an enormously larger area had a time in every place when the tide of re Malacca shows an advance of $48,000 per Court were immediately removed

wife of E. RUBSTRAT, 1. M. Customs, of a daughter,

On the July 26, at * Taikoo,!! Tientsin, the wife of G. T. EDKINY, of a son.

munds.

MARRIAGES.

"On the 25th July, 1996, at Bombay, Lieut. HENRY MORLAND, Royal Indian Marine, only son of the late Capt. Sir Henry Morland, Ledian Navy, in LILIAN, only daughter of W.. Crighton, Esq., of Whalley Range, Manchester.

DEATHS. 1

On the July 28, at Ardach, Kuling, ALICH, Hand unter of trend James Johnson, On the 3rd instant, at the Shanghai General Hospital, LEONILDA, wife of Mr. A, Hahn, of Hongkong,

Banker, Dumfries, Scotland:

Died at the Peak Hospital, on the oth Aug. 1966, SAUL Annulla Jósepit, aged 56, deeply

Shanghai and Indian papers please copy.

regretted.

The Hongkong Gelegraph

MAIL SUPPLEMENT, ISSUED GRATIS TO SUBSCRIBERS.

Hongkong, Saturday, AugUST 11, 1906.

A SANITARY EXPÉRIMENT.

soil.

THE TRAM-WRECKERS.

COMMERCIAL PARASITES.

It is not often that the Far Eastern com- mercial community have to call to question the probity of a section of the elements con- stituting the mercantile class--whether in the character of principals or agents-in China.

Fifty men of the emergency com. pany of Volunteers were called out to support the ultimatum and enforce the Council's mandate.

This morning the objectionable buildings had disappeared.

The Volunteers returned to head- quarters and were dismissed.

HUNGHUIZE ACTIVITY.

SUPPRESSION PLANNED,

CESTRAL OSHIMA'S. INSTRUCTIONS,

[From Our Own- Correspondent.]

Shanghai, 7th August,

12.10 p.m.

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General Oshima has received in-

JAPANESE SALVAGE

OPERATIONS.

"MIKASA" RE-FLOATED.

[From Our Own Correspondent.]

Shanghai, 9th August,

2.20

p.m. Admiral Togo's flagship Mikasa was successfully re-floated yesterday.

JAPANESE TRAMWAYS,

PROPOSED BOYCOTT.

[From Our Own Correspondent.]

Shanghai, 9th August," 2.20 p.m. The Socialists propose to boycott

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