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The Hongkong Telegraph.

NEW SERIES No 5288

CONTENTS.

Births, Marriages and Deaths, Leading Articles:-

The Hongkong Tragedy and a Suggestion, Commercial Morality in Hongkoak..

Stranded in Hongkong.

Kowloon's Lawbreakers.

Canton Railway Schemes.

The Shangbai Docks,

The Rise in Silver.

Telograms:-

Vah'Ka-der Executed.

Fracas in Shanghai. Vladivostok...

Japan's Mitary Notes. King's Regulations. Fires in Canton, Obituary.

Japanese in Manchuria. Fire at Shanghai. Shanghai Docks..

Sir Claude MacDonald.

Meeting :-

Sanitary Board, Legal Intelligence :--

Unpaid Board.

Claim for Goods Sold. Fir Planting Extraordinary,

Junks in Collision.

Criminal Sessions.

New Law of Evidence.

Special Jurymen.

More Perjury,"

Police.

Fireman Refuses Duly..

Kidnapping a Girl,

Alleged Grand Larceny.

An Obstreperaus Japanese.

Miscellaneous Articles and Reporis:-

The Purning of the S.5. Hankow.

The Italian Couvent,

The Volunteer Camp,

Kowtoon-Canton Railway.

The S.S. Kinikan.

The S.S. Hankow.

New Harbour Master.

The Dock Strike.

Indian Soldiers Again.

Chinese Minister in Hongkong,

A Love Tragedy.

Fatality at Wanchai.. S.S. Neil MacLeod. Canton Day by Day. Canton-Whampoa Railway, Canton-Samshui Railway, The Yuct-han Railway. The Kwangsi Railway. The Safnam Piracy, An Ancient Law-suit. Kowloon-Canton Railway. The Boycott Leaders. Chau-Tung Shang's Estate. Viceroy Shum's Petition, The Canton River Traffic.

Kulangsu Municipal Council.

The SS. Yuentavg.

North Chine Insurance Co., 1.d.

The Hongkew Fracas.

The Trial of Vah Kah-der.

The Kiangman Arsenal Dock.

Boat Races and Shanghai Tuotai, The British Post Office at Tientsin. A Gallant Rescue.

Death of Mr. F. E. Guterres.

The T.K.K. and the Pacific Service. Japanese Ship-building Industry.

... Deposits in the Japanese Banks.

The 5:S. Aitat Sale.

Shipping Magnates Coming Eastward."

The Hongkong Typhoon.

New Apcar Steamer.

Commercial:-

Yarn Market.

Exchange.

Local and General.

BIRTHS.

On October 6, at Shanghai, the wife of ALFRED JAMES WALKER, a daughter,

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(16th October.) Amid the multitude of disasters which have recently occurred in the Colony comparatively little attention has been given by the general public to the signi- ficant strike of ship carpenters which began last week. People had a plenitude of other events to engross their thought, but now that there is a full-which we camestly trust will be prolonged in the congkong, the subject of the strike will series of catastrophes which have overwhelm

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ernor is entitled once again to request. from Viceroy Shum an explanation of this threatened violation of the terms of the agreement subsitting between the Govern ment of Hongkong and the Government of Canton, Again, it will be remembered that when information came to hand that it was proposed to construeda new railway connecting Cantan with Vampoi, aud proceeding thence to Amdy, we suggested that therein lay a gubtle scheme

engaged at home for a Manila firm and found the temerity to chase the constables to the, have occurred. His Excellency the Gor on arrival there that covenanted labour was very doorstep of the police station. What illegal, had to return to Hongkong penniless renders the latest outrage more disgraceful brought to the attention of the Government is the fact that the men were armed with and well-nigh hopeless. The matter was than the others with which they are charged and eventually the men were sent back to rifles and bayonets, and it was with England on board the Ajax. That was an instance where the parties concerned were their victim. This is carrying, the matter bayonetled weapon that they foully struck engaged to work in a foreign country little too far: mere, it casts a stigma on Doubtless, if they had taken the trouble to the regiment. We do not believe for a mo inquire, they could have learned in England ment that the entire regiment is to blame before leaving that labour contracted outside for these unwarranted attacks on Kowloon

Australia-except for special reasons which the corps, which should be stamped out by the Philippine Islands was prohibited by residents, but it is plain there is an infusion law, just as it is in the United States, of rowdies, not to say stamps, in

are clearly detailed and probably in other the officers. No regiment is immaculate, countries. But there are some people who although many of them may claim that dis. never think of taking ordinary steps to find inction, and it frequently happens that the discover their fatuity when it is too late. out what they accept on trust, and only best fighting men are the most uncontroll- ble in times of peace. But that occurs

and even then the ruffians have some sense

the fleet of junks and sampans and which and shiprepaizing yards are working at the They have themselves to blame, of course, only in a few individual cases, not in batches,

'among a certain'section of the community because they are not as the natives of the Far East are. As a matter of fact there are

pinful have occurred in Europe and America; where men have ruthlessly crushed and trampled women and children under

instances inmeralde where scenes equally

presumably respectable artisans or clerks although it is always disagreeable to see

the ordinary leachcomber. A case has obliged to associate or be associated with occurred in Hongkong however, which is quite distinct from the usual run

About a

of decency as a rule. If this state of things

come into prominence for more reasons than are generally realised. There can not be the slightest doubt that the workmen were knowledge that at the present moment when inspired to demand higher wages by the

as a result of the typhoon, the shipbuilding brought ruin and desolation to many a home highest pressure to overtake the orders in it had been considered that the apex of disaster had been reached. But the burning sary, if not att slutely indispensable. They their books, their services were most neces

is allowed to continue we shall hear of of the Hankose strikes a sharper chord of horror in the mind of the spectator, thought they saw their opportunity to force

their houses in fear and terror lest the women and children barring themselves in accompanied as it was by scenes which

the hands of the employers of labour and antappily show the inhuman side of lifeompel them to grant their demands. One of such instances, and exhibits some furing the day time is a city of women- Baluchis have a fit of passion. Kowldon when face to face with death. There has principle that it's an ill wind," etc., they special features which should commend it kind; most of the males are employed in been a tendency to suggest that such an.

were resolved to profit by the misfortunes of

Longkong, leaving their wives and families event could never have occurred except

their neighbours-a, fact, which is all the to the attention of the benevolent more to be deprecated in face of the generyear ago an Englishman, or at least a British protected on the peninsula. Should the among Chinese, and a smug complacency as response of the general community to the subject, was engaged in British Columbia tu. Baluchis break out in a fanatica) attack on relief fund which is being organised for the superintend the erection of some machinery the helpless women the result would be too in Hongkong. The terms, were very favour- terrible to contemplate. Perhaps the pic. benefit of the sufferers. The ship carpenters, able, as they must necessarily be before aute is overdrawn but what can we infer however, had no thought except for them. selves, and no object but to line their pockets abandon the prospects to which honest efforthese and now on Europeans? It behoves skilled workman will leave a certainty and from the assaults made repeatedly on.Chi- at the expense of those who have been most seriously affected by the storm. When it offered, the roseate picture of the possibili on the men under their command, other has entitled him. However, the high salary the officers of the corps to keep a firmer grip is stated that something like a thousand car fout in the mad rush to escape from a build benters are employed at the Hongkong and lies drawn by the intermediary, and every-

wise the people of Hongkong and Kowloon non finity is very much the Whanga arks alone it will be realised thing else induced the Britisher to embark will be under the necessity of considering same the world over. The unio

that the situation created by the defection for Hongkong where he probably thought whether the Baluchis shall be allowed to part of it was that

no strong-willed compatriot could be found on board the of the workers in this branch of the ship would make his fortune in ather less remain in the Colony.

than no time Unfortunately for him, while rank to draw order out of chaos. Therebolding and shiprepairing industry required he was on the bigh seas travelling with a strong measures of suppression. In these was no reason why the entire 2,000 pas days when companies as well as individuals bounding, heart across the Pacific, the firm gers should not have been saved had the have to fight continuously against the keepest in Hongkong which had engaged his services people been marshalled. While it is truc

went into bankruptcy. When the covenant-

(17th October.) that the ship was a flaming mass in five competition of rivals and even a temporary ed, man arrived here he landed to a series

Notwithstanding the terms of the agree cessation of labour may inflict permanent of difficulties and misfortunes of which he minutes after the outbreak was discovered, it is also a fact that a theatre audience of damage, the outlook. from the masters' point could have had little experience in the past, and the Viceroy of the Hu Kwang with ment between the Hongkong Government several thousands has been known to leave

of view was far froth promising. Moreover, He found the partners of the firm, who respect to the employment of foreign en an increase of 20 cents per day per man endeavoured to keep up his spirits by allar-gineers in the construction of the Canton within ten minutes of the fall of the curtain.

means an immense aggregate total at the But of course there must be discipline and end of the year, and might possibly ing tales of what they intended to do in the Hankow railway, evidences are not wanting absence of excitement; conditions which seem to be impossible to the untutored

swallow up a large proportion of the immediate future. They might be bankrupt that the Yuet-ban Railway Company is now, but brighter days were dawning Anclined to vary those terms without con mind. The officers were powerless, being taking. Accordingly, the employers, both profits of the most successful under- occupied with other duties and there was no European and Chinese, met together Yar

that was necessary was patience, together sulting the Government of this Colony, with that virtue which springs eternal in the When it was mooted that the Railway Com- one to culm the excited, throng. Many

concerted action and decided to resist the human breast. Meanwhile they lodged and pany was in negotiation with a Belgian gallant rescues are reported to have been claims of the workers to the uttermost. The fed the victim of their misfortunes and even

engineer who had been offered the post of made by men of if Navy, by European an incident occurred which scarcely reflects The Britisher was a quiet, steady, honour-ency the Governor sent a communication managed to pay his salary for two months. assistant on the proposed line, His Excel- civilians and by Indian policemen, but of

credit on one firm which had not agreed able and straight forward man-not a young to the British Consul General at Canton, in Course it is impossible to set forths the names of all, who are entitled to credit.

to abide by the decision of the majority. The European companies, with a solitary man by any means, nor addicted to gadding which he requested the latter to interview noble deed like the proverbial flower is born,sception, and all the Chinese employers atout. le had passed the age when the the Viceroy and to point out that under the to blush unseen and events which took place loyally remained true to their promise, but the frivolitibe and follies of youth appeal to the terms of the British loan by which China

Many

at three o'clock in the morning can seldom be adequately represented, but it is à satisfac- tion to know that the higher instincts of man.

sion uses.

In these circumstances we would suggest

under the relief gants. The fund' will certainly reach $250,000 from public sub-

exception in question quietly went behind the backs of the others and continued the concession of increased wages demanded by the men. The form in question is of no great

was still hoping against hope that the ma- imagination. At the end of six months he chinery which he was engaged to erect would appear, but that machinery had long since been returned to the makers, and

CANTON RAILWAY SCHEMES.

was enabled to secure the redemption of the' Canton Hankow Railway from foreign cun- cessionaires, China had agreed that, in the event of foreigners being called in to give the benefit of their advice, she would re-

of call and as a terminus was endangered. to revive the glories of Whampoa as a port, and that the prestige of Hongkong as a port

Not only that, but the value of the Kowloon. Canton railway--which has been pushed forward with so much vigour, largely through the interes: which His Excellency the Go vernor has shown in the project-was in a fair way to be nullified should the scheme be carried out. It is understood that the British Government made representations to the Board of Commerce on the subject, and. that body sent orders to the Viceroy to stop all operations in connection with the Canton-Whampoa line pending consideration seriously affect the utility of the Kowloon of the British protest that the line would

Canton railway. The Viceroy is obdurate, however, and despite the orders from Peking he has decided to proceed with the railway and has given instructions to that effect. al these matters must necessarily interest the people and the Government of Hongkong, and will be taken to thwart the Viceroy's schemes.- it is to be hoped that the most vigorous steps

readier to regard the just obligations to which Possibly in Chow-fu we may find a Viceroy

his Government stands committed.

THE SHANGHAI, DOCKS,

AMIESON, daughter Mr. and Mrs. WM. On October 8, at Shanghai, the wife of pledged to contribute "a sum equal to the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Company could not sue his 'so-called employer be he would be acting ultra vires; and it erected suitable for Chinese employees.

H. R. H. THOMAS of a' daughter.

scriptions alone and as the Government is aggregate collected by the Committee the total amount will in all probability excret

On October 9, at Stuttgart, the wife of Lieut.-500,000. It is hardly possible that the

Commander SEC ETAN of H.M.S. Teal of a Committee will require that amount in dis. the typhoon, may be reckoned smart musi

daughter,

Sept. 10, at Holgate, York, wife of a CHAPMAN, Hongkong Civil Service, son.

On October 13, at Shanghai, the wife of H.

W. FORBES, of a son,

At Shanghai, the wife of H. RUMCKER, of daughter.

a

On October 14, at Shanghai, the wife of I.. M. DARRAH, of a daughter.

On October 14, at Shanghai, "the wife of

WILLIAM COBES, of a daughter.

Ga October 14, at Ramburg, the wife

GUSTAY GIFTERICH, of a daughter.

of

desirable the unfortunate widows and orphans:

The services of the British Chargé d'affaires at Peking were enlisted and he représented assist a couple of men who had not been the attitude of the British Government, as sugged for Hongkong at all but for a sponsors for the local authorities, to the assist one who came direct to Hongkong on information which might have been quite rusworthy at the time but proved un- founded before he had reached the Colony is case is sadder than that of the young men who went to Manila and found a closed door. It is certainly an instance of mis- instance, we submit, which is worthy of the fortune piling on misfortune, and it is so attention of the authorities.

(18th October.) Another important phase in the history of the Shanghai Dock Co. will be marked in the sale--if the proposal is carried out-of a portion of the properties owned by the Company in Shanghai. Our telegram to day announces the fact that a meeting of Engineering Co., Ld., has been called for shareholders of the Shanghai Dock and the 1st November to consider a proposition that had been received by the Directors for the purchase of two separate lots of property. at Hongkew and Pootung owned by the Com pany and considered disposable without pre judice to the expanding business of the ship repairing and building yards in the Northern port. The power of sale is exercisable by the Directorate under sub-section (i) of section 3 of the Memorandum of Association of the Company The section reads:"To sell the undertaking of the Company or any part thereof for such consideration as the Com pany may think fit and in particular for shares, debentures or securities of any other Company having objects altogether or in part simular to those of this Company." The lots involved by the proposed sale are the two excellently situated sites for godowne and wharves, viz., (a) the whole of the Old Dock property (with existing buildings) situated in Hongkew in the 6th section of the harbour, having an area of land measur ing as per title deeds 20 mows, 2f. 81. gl., and a river frontage of 264 leet, with 22 feet depth of water at low water spring tides. (b) Part of the property. between the Cos. mopolitan and International Docks, situated on Pootung side in the lower section of the harbour having an area of land of about 110 mows, and a river frontage of 1,300 feet, feet at low water spring tides. To the with an average depth of water of about 25 south of the property 108 houses, are It has been known for some time that a "Syndicate" in Shanghai had been formed for the purpose of acquiring the two valuable sites. When the question was discussed not long since in the Model Settlement the Chine Gereffe stated tharthe price to be paid for the Dock's property, If the scheme is ever carried out, would amount to about Tls. 1,500,000, and that the development of the acquired land, ie, bunding, wharves, go. downs, &c., would absorb another Tis, 1,500,000. The capital of the new company would therefore be at least three million taels. To raise the required capital the scheme further provides that the present shareholders in the Dock Co. would have the option of obtaining a share in the new company, in lieu of receiving a Turn in cash upon the sale of the Old Dock and the Poolung property, and that the balance of the capital required would be raised by the issue of deben- tores, the underwriting of which, it is al- leged, has been guaranteed by "the Bank." Although some doubt was raised as to the bona fides of the existence of the Syndicate, dissipates any idea that it was a purely the meeting called for this day fortnight nebulous scheme that was being talked about in Shanghai. As a master of fact some of

are believed to be closely identified with the movement for the forming of the new Whart & Godown Company. It has been well- known that warehousing business in hang- hai has been most profitable since the con- clusion of the war and offers special induce ments for the starting of a new Company to meet the growing demands in that line of property of the Dock Co., now offered for business in the North. As the Hongkow sale, is believed to be the only available site in that locality suited to the business of a wharf and godown company, the new under- taking will be showing considerable fore- sight by acquiring this valuable property be fore it is merged into the assets of some other existing concerns of a similar char- mention of the figure offered for the come Our special telegram makes no

kind are no lacking in itongking when occe How many escaped from the

importance, perhaps, but their methods were fiery cauldron will probably never be known calculated to encourage the strikers in their there was no sign that the partners in the ognise Great Britain's claim to first con- husus as may, were rendered penis attempt to coerce the other companies into bankrupt firm were likely to be in a positionsideration. In other words, that, no fore- homeless and fatherless by the typhoon su

to start in business again. He was still igner would be appointed unless it were we may take it that hundreds will be affect-omplying similarly with their dentands being fed and lodged at the expense, as he found that no Englishman was prepared to ed by the terible disaster on the Hunk Many divergent opinions are held on thought, of those who had engaged him. the subject of commercial murality, but wu

offer his services or was of sufficient ability venture to submit that such action as that When a year bad elapsed, the parties res

to All the post. In referring to the action dat the Committee in charge of the fundfened to will be considered reprehensible ponsible for his visit to Hongkong told him of Sir Matthew Nathan on that occasion we for the relief of sufferers by the typhoon ven by those holding wide views on this that they had no use for his services, that said: "The Viceroy has replied rather more should consider the advisability of ex tending to those bereaved and ruined Particular question. The fact that the firm they could not maintain him any longer, in promptly, than usual, but still with his fact that they had not maintained him for tongue in his cheek. He has no power to by the latest catastrophe the benefits question deliberately promulgated the

The railway is announcement that they were prepared to nine months back, and that he must find deal with the matter. which it is intended, should be conferred offer higher wages than any other firm in his way back to British Columbia as best he in the hands of the merchants. They The Colony, the object being obviously to in his pucket, without the prospect of earn

could. Here he was then, without a penny are responsible for its management and attract the skilled carpenters from Hing

jis progress If they think it desirable kong's largest industrial undertaking the ing board and lodging, liable to be kicked and proper to engage a Belgian engineer, into the street at a moment's notice. He well and gond. He cannot interfere; when that enterprise was busily endeavour- g to repair in part the damage wrought by

cause there were no effects on whitch he 18 impossible to say what his Imperial mus- could recover. The case commended itself ter or mistress would think of such con- to a gentleman who became interested in ess, luft it was scarcely sound policy. It sim-

Juct." Such in effect was the Viceroy's Paul be recurs at the copy fomented bad feeling among the men, charity. The old man is incapable of work-odged at the instance of the Governor of him and he is temporarily dependent on his inswer to the perfectly reasonable protest and it would be an act of charity to help in

and engendered the strike. Fortunately the whatever manter may be considered most coup is hkely to rebuxind on the heads of ing his passage across the Pacific with the Hongkong, but the matter did not and there. who have lost their bread winners through those who engineered it, and all their ingenuity result that the outlook is gloomy in the exireme. If the Government was able to the fire on the innkow. We take it that is likely to lead to their own undoing. For it is not one of those who contributed to the reported with some degree of authority that relief fund inaugurated by His Excellency the will reann. to work 10-morrow morning foreign country, surely then it is bound to Wajwupu. Of course it was perfectly clear

the strike is at an end and the carpenters Governor would have the slightest objection or, at the latest, in a few days, at the old

why the Yuet-han Railway Company, if to part of the ntoney so collected being sate of wages,

Already a considerable

they required foreign engineer at all, diverted to the relief of the latest hand of number have given up the fight as futile

should prefer a subject of Belgium, for they. miserables. After all it was a very small number who escaped from the unkor and and withdrawn from their adhesion to the

reasoned that should any trouble arise be- At Anderston Parish Church, Glasgow, on although they are unknown at present they strikers. It could hardly be otherwise when

tween the mechanician and the Chinese authorities, the latter would be in a position can probably be traced to their homes. the carpenters are without an effective or

to defy the Belgian Government. Ар B.D., EDWIN RICHARD HALLIFAX, Hong may be argued that imposters would battenganisation, without funds, and without the kong Civil Service, to EVELINE, daughter of on the news that relied was to be dispensed sympathy of the public. There was also

tive at Peking had its effect, for nothing parently the protest of the British representa- the late John Wilson, and of Mrs. Wilson, 10, to the survivors of the Bungon but the the possibility that the Government would Nelson-terrace, Hill-bead, Glasgow.

more has been heard regarding the employ On October 6, at Shanghai, MICHAEL JAMES suffered in the typhoon. If it be possible to such action in times of necessity and trial same contention applies to those who have stepped into the breach and given the strikers plainly to understand that

ment of a Belgian. But a new phase TIMMINS of Liverpool, England, to ELIZABATH discriminate in the one case, it is equally so would not be tolerated in Hongkong. Not

of the situation appeared when it was HADLEY of Shanghai.

KOWLOON'S LAWBREAKERS. announced that the Yuet-han Railway Sept. 12, at Calgary, Canada, RICHARD, SOD

in the other. The Committee in charge of

directors had telegraphed to an indi of late T. A, Chaldecott, M., of Hongkong to

the fund are in the position of trustees and ly were the interests of the shipbuilding

While we have no desire to cast any slur vidual named Smith, belonging to the. EDITH EMILY IDA, daughter of W. Delmar night fear to ipeur the responsibility of and shiprepairing companies in the balance

on the character or morale of the Baluchi United States,inquiring what emoluments be Cavandish.

facing the wrath of an irate subscriber to but the trade of the Colony was at sinke. regiment now stationed at Kowloon, it must would require if appointed assistant-engineer the original fund, but we firmly believe he feature of the movement, however, has appear to every disinterested reader that of the railway. Mr. Smith promptly replied On October 4, at Nanking, LILLIAN, daugh. that no such difficulty would occur. Foreign seen the methods adopted by the particular there must be something radically wrong that he was prepared to accept a five years' ler of the Rev. and Mrs. J. E Williams, of Grms would gladly see a portion of their firm referred, to in their endeavour to with the discipline of the corps when in engagement at an annual salary of $25.000,, the largest holders of shares in the Company Nanking, aged fourteen months.

subscription devoted to the relief of the outwit all competitors. There is an old dividual members are continually to be gold. That gentleman evidently had a high Yankee suffusers, for news of the disaster adage that be laughs best who laughs found menacing Europeans, prowling in appreciation of the value of his fervices has been flashed to every city of any import last, and few will deny that the laugh is with

forbidden grounds, assaulting innocent Chi when he ranged himself alongside ir Robert ance in the world. We may assume that

the majority of employers of carpenters who the extent of the calamity and the dreadful will continue to pay their men at the old rate nese who have injured them in no way, and Hart as a regenerator of China. Whether scenes on the vessel have not been mini while the "clever" and farseeing firm, who practically holding up the settlement in mised in transit with the result that the thought to glean advantages while their their spare hours. The latest report that the Yuct-han Railway Company, or has been broad heart of all nations will go out to

rivals remained inactive, will in all prob they violently assaulted a well-known Euro decided one way or the other is unknown. rate. Yet it is not a pleasant episode in impudently told him to mind his own nection with the Canton-Hankow, railway remonstrated with them for trespassing, and engineer should have been solicited in con- cumstances none of the firms which have the commercial annals of the Colony, nor business, is about the last straw. Kowloon reads rather curiously in view of the report, so generously come to the rescue of the un- fortunates would oppose any such step as

we venture to hope one which is likely to On October 11, at London, the dearly-beloy that we suggest, for after all when calamity occur again;

be permitted to remain in the which appears in another column, regard- control or at the mercy of a gang of ing the condition of the Canton-Samshui evil spirit those who suffer are all equally follows calamity with the persistence of an

soldiers many of whom. appear to be little line which was built by Americans for an better than bandits and lawbreakers gen American Chinese Company. That report entitled to a messure of relief. We trust

the Chinese constables become at the con- of the line are on the verge of collapse, and crally. It is said that so frightened have sets forth the allegation that various sections duct of the Baluchis that they flee at sight that over $1,000,000 will be required to of the soldiers who on the other band have repair the foundational subsidences which

MARRIAGES.

11th September, by the Rev. James Rabeitson,

DEATHS.

On October6, at Shanghai, ANDREW MILLER, late Chief Engineer C.M.S.N. Co., aged 54

years.

On October 7, at Shanghai, JAMES EDWARD BIRTLES, of Liverpool, aged 26.

the matter is still under the consideration of

of M.B.M. Office of Works, age 51 years.

On October 7, at Shanghai, WILLIAM COWAN, O October 9, at Hankow, the wife of H. E. the people of Hongkong. In these cir./ability be compelled to pay at the increased Pean in his own private garden because he But the fact that the services of an American

G135), of telanus...

On October II, at Shanghai, M. E. SWED- DER.G, Yangtze Pilot, aged ar,

ed wife of W. E. SOUTHCOTT, of Tientsin.

On October 14, at Shanghai, GUSTAVEBOVET,

aged 71 years.

Op October 14, at Chiakiang, China, FREDE RICK KNIGHT-CREGSON, Jon of tumor Gregson, P. DU, of Lowlyne, Kenthumber land, in his 53rd year.

STRANDED IN HONGKONG. that the Relief Committee will see their way stranded in Ilongkong through no fault of The unfortunate case of men who are to give this matter their considerat and to their own was vividly illustrated some time adopt our suggestion,

ago when two Englishmen, who had been

cannot

acter.

re-

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