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NEW SERIES No, 5504

OONTENTS.

Hirths, Marrings and Death. Leading Articles:

The D. P, W.

The Franco-Japanese "Eulente".

Chinese Engineering and Mining Co, Ld. Singapore Dairies

H. E. Chow Fo.

Independence Day,

The Police and the Press.

Japan's Foreign Trade.

Tolegram:

Anti-Opium Crusade..

Viceroy Shuni. -

Exit Chow Fu.

Wa Assumes Charge.

Meotings

"National Bank of China, Ltd.

Sanitary Board...

Hongkong Wate. Pole Association. The Yangise Insurance Association, Ltd. The Bangkok Dock Co, Lid,"

Legal Intelligen00

The Man On Insurance Co:

The Altered Assignment Case),

Aeal in Molansos.

The Deserting Doctor.

House Purchase in Hungdom.

After the Typhon.

Palice Accused of

Police:-

treament.

The Indian Murder Trial.

Carrying Dindly Weapon.

A Wayward Son.

A Deaf Defendant.

Correspondenca→→

Bishop Hoare Memorial,

Arrest of Mt. Chung Weng Kwong, of Canton

Misoslianssue Articles and Reports!-

Alice in Wonderland.

Viceroy Chow Fu in Hongkong.

A Hongkong Descrier,

Hongkong Gymkhana Club.

Hongkong Volunteer Corps,

Mr J. R. Michael,

Propa ty Sale,

Water Polo

The Mutiny on the Ashtabula..

Exciting Trip of the 5.5. Maori King:

Theft Aboard S.S. Minnesota.

Kwang Viceroyalty.

Swatow Harbour Fatality,

Canton Day by Day.

The Fonchow Customs Service.

The Middle Man.

South China Riots.

The An Opium Crusade..

The Suppression of Opiuni Smoking..

The Prohibition of Opium.

The Return of Vireroy Tiên,

The Aftermath of Famine.

Shanghai Harbour Regulations,

China's Miliary History. Intrigues and Counter-intrigues. Another Shanghai Horror." Peking Appointments,

The France-Japanese Agreement. The Japanese Question in America. Important Martue Insurance Case Yokohama Specie Bank. The lapanese Financial ituation. The San Francisco Question. * Chinest Eastern Railway. The Formaran Aborigines, Impudent Theft in Köle. Train Stopped by Worms, Straits Trading Company, Straits Queen's Scholarships.

Hongkong Telegraph.

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mission, and the injury, if any injury has been done, is suffered by the French Police, unless it was the Intention of the Municipal Police to dispense with the formality of ob taining French permission, to take in fact "French leave and were thwarted by the premature publication of such Intention. But apart from this incident the gener relations of the Police with the Press have not of late been cordial, and the incident; we have referred to is only one outcome of the Police attitude. Like the Police, the Press also bas's day to the public, and the, importance of that duty is a side issue which needs no discussion here. We do not be

eve there is a desire among those who conduct any of the Shanghai nempapers to do anything which will render the duties of the Police more, onerous than they already are, but there are legitimate items of DORE which the public has a distinct right, to be placed in possession of, and the Police are the only medium through which they can come to light. Street accidents, fres, crimes,” all come within their cognizance, and all are s of public interest. In the majority of in- stances there would seem to be no reason.. why information should not be freely furnish- ed when it is asked for, but, far from that being the case, pressmen who daire, in the course of their duties, to learn any facts which may be known, are forced to resort to all kinds of subterfuges, and to risk insult. There are some fourteen courts in Shanghai before which the Police bring cases. It is impossible for the Press to attend each one, and even if they could, the language difficulty.

would render the time wasted. The Polica

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know are legion, and they are very seldom: truthful. There are too among police officials those who have their favourite press men, and to these individuals they unbosom themselves. This is noticeable more than anywhere else at Hongkew. Nor have wer found any great rererve adhered to by those police officers who have axes to grind.......... If any kudos is to be gained, the official who wante an advertisement knows where and how he may get it for nothing," though' a corresponding readiness to oblige can not always be looked for by the Preas

a curious fact that however. But it is many orders are issued from headquar ters forbidding communication with the Press, there are always certain newspapere which appear in a miraculous way to be exempt, and whose representatives succeed where pthers, be they never so pollte, fail.' So long as the Police continue this oyster- like and absurd relicence in matters which the Press regard it as their duty to make public, so long will incidente like that drawn attention to at the Mixed Count occur, and it is to be hoped that the acting head of the force will recognise that while ensuring that public interests are not adversely affected, it is better for all concerned that reliable and, ungarbled information should be placed at the disposal of the Press when it is civilly and properly, inquired for, rather than to force newspapers to publish only partially truthful reports gathered by roundabout means.

will remember, how specially insistent His

patriotium, just as Trafalgar Day might have touched the sensibilities of our friends of Excellency was with regard to the reform achieved by Mr. Chatham and in his address

the entente cordiale. But all that "s past he said:s regards heads of departments

His Excellency Chow Fu, who has held and done with, long ago and far away," it may seem invidious to specially mention

the important and dignified office of Viceroy and the fact that Britishers are as willing some where all have done good work, but I

of the Liang Kwang Provinces for the short to join with their cousins in celebrating the should feel wanting in gratitude if made

period of barely eight months, arrived at occasion in the time Fonoured fashion of no reference to Mr. Chatham, to whom and

Hongkong yesterday en route to Shanghai, Anglo-Saxons is evidence of how the past to the hard working engineers under his

having demitted duty, on the appointment of is forgotten and the present only consi- able direction, the Colony owos so much."

His. Excellency Tsen Chun Hsuan to the dered. In Hongkong especially the relations Mr. Chatham is an dinburgh man, educai-

post which he formerly occupied as Acting between the two families whose national ed at the Varsity of "Auld Reekie." After

For some time past, the Singapore news. Viceroy. Within the space of a few months tongue is the English language were never graduating he went with a firm of civil papers have been engaged in the laudable would it be impossible for any administrator more cordial than they are at present, thanks engineers and afterwards became. assistant duty of directing the attention of the Go of a great and populous district to ac in great measure to the genial qualitles of to the engineer of the Bristol Docks.vernment to the conditions surrounding the complish much of which will prove of ulti the Consul-Ceneral of the United States, 1800 he was appointed executive rengi mil trade of that. Colony, and the danger. mate permanent value to the people Mr. Amos P. Wilder, and the banhamie of neer in the Public Works Department of which exists of engendering and disseminat-

or to stamp his personality on the the rest of the hustling, band of Americans

The most that he resident in this. Colony," At the Consulate.] this Colony, and eleven years later was aping the germs of disease unless vigorous Government. printed to the important and responsible measures are enforced to provide that hope to achieve is the forwarding of the to-day all nationalities offered their felicita position which he now occupies. It is adequate sanitary arrangements are observed beneficial projects of his predecessor and tions, from bls Excellency, the Officer Ad- needless to dilate upon the many public Their severe comments on many cases of the initiation, of some few schemes of ministering the Government downwards, and movements with which Mr. Chatham has unsatisfact ry precautions being taken to reform which may lead to the ameliora: enjoyed the hospitality of the Consul General tieen connected. Probably at the present prevint, the spread of disease have been now

tion of the conditions under which the peo and his staff. It may sometimes happen that time the most important of those might be amply supported and corroborated by Prople he has been called upon to govern are commercial men in Hongkong will look considered his scheme for the better hous fessor Simpson, the expert who was engaged placed. While there are certain features of somewhat askance at the efforts of our sty of the Chinese population which he sab by the Government at much cost to investi. His Excellency Chow Fu's viceroyalty which neighbours in the Philippines, which have mitted some five or six years ago, but in this gate the sanitary conditions of the Colony will not probably secure the approbation of for their object the wresting from us of our trade with the Pacific, but the" know. crinection that subject might be considered and to suggest measures for their betterment his critics, it must be admitted that, after a suh judice. He has been prominent as In an important B'ue Book which has licen fair and impartial review of his work, in the ledge of that fact should only help to spur member of the Sanitary Board, unfailingly compiled on the subject by Professor Simp. limited time at his disposal, His Excel them on to greater energy in order that endeavouring to secure the amelioration of

son he states in substance that while there lency has succeeded in inaugurating a they and the Colony may retain what has the people and unswervingly faithful to the is practically no tuberculosis among cattle in number of improvements and reforms been won at so much cost and labour. It is heat traditions left by Sir Henry Blake, and Singapore, with very, few exceptions the which will prove of substantial and lasting no secret that Manila hopes one of these those of his-kin. He has ever strongly be conditions under which milk is supplied to gain, and should certainly obtain for him fine days to become the distributing post lieved in the construction of mads, and my the public are extremely bad, and are

niche which will be prominent in the Val for China, ousting both Hongkong and to day thank him for access la places in the

a source of "danger to

and halla of the Provincial Government. View Shanghai from the pre-eminence which they New Territory where formerly swamps and children who consume the milk unboiled. lng his regiment is worst, to begin with, the at present enjoy, mainly through their wi'derness prevailed. Mr. Chatham the The distinguished writer, of course, comes advantages to be attained by the revival of the respective positions as convenient centrês roughly well deserves his honour, and we are into conflict with other authorities when he Wei Seng Farm, the Pak-kap-piu and San for South and North China, but that day must be largely relied on therefore, but quite as much difficulty is experienced in persuadi, by no means the on y people who will impliedly praises the virtues of boiled milk Piu lotteries-which have exercised the most has yet to come, and there are features, in honestly congratulate him upon a distinction

as a preventative of the propagation of germs, baneful influences in South China-and the what might be termed the political Ufe of the ing those in charge at the Stations to give which none will so worthily honour and

but that is beside the point, in this case, granting of gambling onopolies, which Vice Colony, such as the opening by railway details of cases which have been before: which is specially concerned with the imy Shum had suppressed, are not quite comunications of areas which have hither the courts and dealt with, as an inquirer provement of dairies generally. He alates, obvious to the disinterested onlooker, Then, to remained undeveloped, that augur con- might meet with in attempting to probe according to one of our contemporaries in again, his apparent lethargy in the matter tinued prosperity for the port, despite the the recréts of the Foreign Office. the South, that: The milk trade in Singa- of repairing the sea-wall of the Bund commercial competition of our rivals in the is told that an order has been issued pore is conducted on two lines: (1)the dairyat Canton--one of His Excellency Shum's South. Even though there may be this that no information may be given to the In another section, we give the official man supplies milk direct to customers; and pet ideas-until the contemplated return of rivalry between the two friendly Colonics Press. Indeed the excuses made for with: text of the Franco-Japanese agreement. As (2) sells it by the quart to milk sellers, who his predecessor was announced, is scarcely such a consideration is not allowed to intr-holding from the public news which it should showing in what light the compact is re- then carry it round to the houses hd retail susceptible of favour. It is true that since fere with the celebration of Independence garded in Japan, it may be well to ascertain it either per bottle or per pint. In the first the appointment of the energetic Shum was Day. We can only trust that the conpection the opinion of Japanese papers regarding instance, the cans and bottles are kept and reported Chow Fu has evinced an entirely which binds Hongkong to Manila, the remedy the defects business interests which join this port with the entente. In dealing with the question of washed in the dairy; in the other instance, laudable desire to the material advantages which France will which represents the bulk of the milk trade, caused by the ravages of the river in flood, the Pacific Stope and the mutual regard derive from the Franco-Japanese Agreement, the bottles and cans are taken to the dairy by sending a host of labourers to repair the which prevails between the members of the some of the vernacular contemporaries con- by the milk sellers and kept ckaned, or deficiencies, but that cannot excuse the countries in the Colony may long con tinue to subsist, become increasingly expan sider that France will gain substantially in rather should be kept clean by them at earlier lack of interest in the work."

sive and more markedly ířatérnal. the reduction of armaments in Indo-China, home The bolts are carried in any the other hand, His Excellency Since the Russo-Japanese war, the French dirty old cloth, or inside the milk cans witnessed the actual commencement of the nation has, the native Press allege, been much and has bathed in the milk. Certainly waterworks scheme, which will eventually concerned as to the defences of the colony.we have got beyond that rough and prove one of the most important public'im As the result of the Franco-Japanese ready stage in Hongkong, where the larger provements effected in Canton, and the

Happy, indeed, are those pressmen in Agreement the French Government may dairies are the real purveyors of milk and formation of the Canton Iron Bridge Cam- be able to reduce its military and naval where scrupulous attention is paid to every play with which a prominent Chinese com Hongkong who in t'e course of their duties forces in the Far East, and thus lighten itself detail of the trade. It would serve no good pradore in Hongkong, Mr. Lau Chin Ting, is are brought into connection with the police of a rather heavy burden. The Frech purpose to dilate on the unfortunate con-associated as chairman. His administration as compared with their brethren in Shang Asiatic squadron at present consists of theditions prevailing in certain of the quarters will, doubtless, be best remembered on ac hai. Instead of there being a bon cam- flagship d'entrecasteau, and two cruisers, of the Singapore milk-sellers whose premises: count of the uprisings which only recently maraderie between pressmen and police as five river gunboats, two gugboats, five dis-

were visited by Professor Simpson. It is occurred in South-west and North-east there is here, the journalists of Shanghai and troyers and four auxiliary cruisers. It is also

not a pleasant story he has to tell, and we Kwangtung, and it is to his credit that the police officials are, metaphorically pointed out that the French army in Indo are of the full belief that it would be im- prompt and effective measures were adopted speaking, at daggers drawn, the latter China consists of five brigades of infantry possible to discover similar objections to the probably on the advice of Admiral Li showing the chief exhibition of antagonism, with a small force of various arms. The dairies of longkong. In the case of the Chun--whereby the incipient insurrection. The following from a Shanghai paper illus annual administrative expenditure of French two important European dairies where every ploved abortive. Viceroy Chow Fu exhibited trates the position, and our confrères in the Indo-China amounts to about Y79,00% thing is done to ensure cleanliness and every considerable ability in the industrial con North must sincerely wish that their lives were made up of Y48,000,000 from local taxes in possible means adopted to meet the most cerns which were favoured by the Govern cast in the pleasanter groove of Hongkong. Cochin China, Tonking, Apnam and Cam-stringent requirements of the law, there can ment, such as the paper-mills, the talked-An incident which occurred at the Mixed bodia and other places, and Y31,000,000, be no reason for civil. And there is little of cement factory, the match factory and Court the other day in connection with a contribution from the French National or ro season to fancy that the native sup- of course, the principal industry of South, morning contemporary opens up the general Treasury. Cf this sum, from ¥8,000,000 to pliers are behind the European firms in this China, the silk weaving trades. He har question of the attitude of the Police authori Yro,co0,000 is spent upon defences, and respect. But it may be of interest to note give attention also to the prospective ties towards the Press ofShanghai. During the On June 1, 1917, at Tientsin, the wife of W,now that the Franco Japanese Agreement the conclusions and recommendations of development of the mineral resources of the hearing of a case an inspector of the Shang MORTON ANDREW, Chinese Customs Service, has been signed, France has no necessity he Professor, and it will be noted two Provinces, expert prospecting having bai Municipal Police, icting under instruc

of increasing her colonial burden, but an

that he cites Hongkong as an example been made for coal, iron, antimony, tions from the Acting Captain Superinten the contrary she may be able to reduce her to fo low, at least in connection with si ver and gold. Acting at the in, dent, handed to the Bench a copy of the military expenses by one-half.

the contravention of sanitary condi-stance of foreign representations against newspaper in question, with the observation, tions. Professor Simpson contends that the continuance of piracies on the West also emanating from the aforesaid source of CHINESH ENGINEERING AND

the imposition of small fines, even con River, His Excellency initiated a system wisdom, that the article was absolutely false. MINING CO., LD.

tinuously, is inadequate to bring about "the of patrol by detailing the fleet of fourteen The statement complained of was to the necessity reforms, as the dairymen find it launches to look after various sections cover effect that the police expected to find an (1st July.)

usually more remunerative to pay the finesing the inner waterways of South China. Is armoury of weapons in the prisoner's Prominence was given locally to a highly than to put their premises in proper order. Canton, Viceroy Chow Fu carried out several house when it was searched. This alleged improbabile report in one of the numerous The Municipality should have power to important public improvements, including false statement in the result, as the trial Chinese papers in Shanghai that the Chinese abolish the buffalo and cow sheds erected the widening of the streets, the suppres proceeded, proved to contain a very con Engineering and Mining Company is to pay on low-lying and unsuitable ground, and all sion of itinerant vendors, the abolition siderable portion of fact, although so loosely over to the new Company constituted of British notices requiring structural alterations, and of signboards, the introduction of electric characterised as untrue, and the main fault and Chinese capital Taels 4,000,000 and the premises to be placed in such a state as alarms for speedy notification to the to be found with it was that by anticipating appoi 1 Chiang Yen Mao Chinese Director- to all w of their being cleaned sufficiently police in cases of felonies and disasters, and the intentions of the Police, "it hampered General. In another form the substance of and drained, should he sent to the owner of other minor reforms which all tended to them in their work," to use the words of the the above telegram has found its way over the building or land on which the cattle bring the city more into line with modern Assessor to whom the report was shown. the wires to Japanese papers from Shanghai. sheds, and so forth, are erected, at the own ideas. One feature which is entirely to his That gentleman, while expressing that ignoring for a long time the decisions of the or buffaloes without a license should be his accessibility to foreigners generally and control over the paper in question, and He must also, we MAIL SUPPLEMENT,

1 on on Court' in the suit which Chang Yen prohibited, and anyone contravening the his reasonableness in dealing with their natbing could be done. ISSUED GRATIS DO SUBSCRIBERS, mao went to London to prosecute, the Lon sanitary conditions endorsed on the license requests. He received more official visits imagine, have regarded the proceeding of don Board lave lately altered their attitude should be diable, as in Hongkong, to a heavy from the foreign officials accredited to his complaining of a foreign newspaper, in the HONGKONG, SATURDAY, JULY 6, 1957. and have decided to carry out the judgment, fine, and the forfeiture of all animals ingre. Government and maintained the official manner adopted, as an exceedingly childish It has been settled," says that journalspect tothe keeping of which he had: ffended. anyenities better than any of his predeces one, and quite worthy of the youthful official THE D. P. 15

"that the Chink Board shall be form d, and The license should be an annual one, and it sors. With regard to the opium question, who instigated it. The Shanghai Times that the Company shall pay the Chinese a should not be granted unless the premises His Excellency has been indefatigable in his remarks that if that journal had been a (29th June.

large indemnity for all the trouble and are to the satisfaction of the Health Officer, efforts to abate, the evil of opium-smoking, Chinese publication the Mixed Court would the proper place to Everybody will be delighted to know that expense they have been put to, after Finally, he suggests that posibly the most and lately issued a representation on the undoubtedly be the merits and abilities of the Director of which Chang Yen-mao will have all satisfactory method of dealing with the subject to the river steamer companies re lodge a protest concerning it, and the less Public Works have been appreciated and his lost honours restored to him." It question would be to allow a private com- questing their co-operation by prohibiting enlightened Chiness law respecting the recognised by his Majesty's Government at was to be expected that such a report would pany, which is willing to erect a model the use of opium on the voyages to and from liberty of the Press might have been brought home and the bestowal of the Companion attract the notice of our contemporaries at dairy, under official supervision, to under. Canton, an order which will affect thousands to bear. But that particular journal fel a ship of the Order of St. Michael and St. Tientsin; for, in a recent issue, one piper take the work, with assurance that, if it con- of passengers. It was Chow Fu who con foreign production responsible only to its George is but an instalment of what may be observed that "whatever else the native tinues the business satisfactorily, the Hos cluded the Canton-Kowloon Agreement own authorities, and even then not to the ex- expected to recrue to him in the future. In papers may lack we have never found want pitals and other Government Institutions with the representative of the British and tent the head of the Police in Shanghai would * manner this decoration is a compliment to of confidence one of their attributes. Whe would take their milk from it. By such an Chinese Corporation, Mr. J. P. O. Bland, appear to like. The paragraph in question this far-off post of the Empire, which is re-ther the matter in hand be diplomatic or arrangement, a standard dairy could, gradual- A together, His. Excellency has proved a was stated as being calculated to lojure the membered amid a host of purely domestic social, political or commercial, with the ly, be brought up toa similar standard, Prac paternal administrator, and If he has done work of the Police in bringing criminals to problems which must perplex and try to the slenderest lead they will forge ahead in the tically the Professor gives a general com- nothing very wonderful as the result of his justice, and we (as the paper in question uttermost the acumen of his Majesty's Gov full assurance they have hold of the right mendation to the methods, adopted in labours he has, at least, fallen into few errors says) would be the fast to advocate Ginment. It is sometimes advisable to

the publication of facts which are really likely to interfere with the already difficult look for reasons for the conferment

work of the Police, as a general policy of decorations of this character, but in

for the Press to pursue. In this case, the case of Mr. Wm. Chatham it is obvious

however, we believe the journal was actuated that work, nous and energy have had mainly, If not entisely, to do with it. Looking back

by perfectly bona-fide motives: The house wards, however, those who took the trouble

to be searched is situated in the French to read between the ilnes might have sur

Concession and information was obtained mised that Mr. Chatham was marked out

that the French Police were about to insti- for honour. In his farewell address to the

tute a search on the night prior to the Colony, Sir Matthew Nathan, then Governor

publication, or next day. At all events there of Hongkong, mado special reference to the

were nu grounds, for, Asstiming that the work accomplished by Mr. Chatham in his

Shanghai Municipal Police would search a official capacity. Those who were present

house in the Franch Concesion without per

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The Hongking Celegraph The if contains the statement that after er's expense. The keeping of milch cows credit was his reception of consular officials, opinion, alsa remarked, that he had no

INDEPENDENCE DAY.

end of the story and their facts are un-Hongkong and enforced by the Government of judgment, which in itself is a tribute to impeachable. So far as native news is con- to observe the law. That solitary cases of his sagacity__ cerned. they are invariably naturally: fairly infringement occur now and then does not reliable, but in regard to foreign concerns and affect the main point, and it would indeed be doings they are as notoriously off the track curious place which had no cases at any as London papers in touching native time of such minor infractions, but the good

(4th July.) affairs often prove themselves." In this name of the European milk-sellers and the To-day, the inembers of the growing instance, we learn from the feking and watchfulness exercised by and over the American community in Hongkong Arm Tientsin Pims that, "though it is true native retail houses are sufficient to secure a celebrating with the characteristic energy that negotiations of a very satisfactory nature result, which is eminently, satisfactory. At and, Eclat of the inhabitants of the Great are in progress, nothing whatever has ret, all; events, Professor Simpson is cridently Republic the national holiday of Indepent been settled, and the amount named by the not inclined to think that, Hongkong has Jiji as an indemnity provokes a smile from deteriorated in this particular respect, which those concerned. There it every reason is good news for everybody concerned.

dence Pay Time was when the event would have brought bitter recollections to those Britishers who hold a certain form of

JAPAN'S FOREIGN TRADE.

(5th July.) From the Japanese Minister of Finance we have received a bulky volume entitled The Seventh Financial and Economic An- nual of Japan," which simply teams with in- formation and must prove a perfect mine of knowledge for those who desire to obtain an accurate conception of the progress which as been made by that remarkable kingdom. Facts and figures jostle each other through. out the report to such an extent that they' are apt to produce at first sight a motion of bewilderment, but a short survey of the work is sufficient to show how admirably the scheme of tabulation has been arranged. There are in all six sections devoled respec tively to finance, agriculture, industry and commerce; foreign trade; banking and money market; communications; and Tai wan and Korafuto. While there is also, under the head of "Appendly," important articles dealing with the financial affairs of. Korea, the finance and economy of Kwan tung Province, the financial system of Japan, and the currency system in that country, From these bald outlines it will be recognised that practically the entire com mercial interests of the country are encom pasted within the covers of this report, and that little or nothing which has taken definite shape and form in the way of com merce is left untouched, Manifestly, would be impossible to deal with all the intricate and thought-inspiring, statements and dissertations which have been brought together and tensely expressed in the " Fin ancial and Economic Annual in the space. of a single article,but the broad assertion may be made that the briefest study of the figures collated will afford a clearer understanding. why every Japanese, should have, as thei Scotch say, "a guld conceit o' himsel?"TŐ the foreign reader who ploda exrefully. through the statistics it is safe to say, tha the Japauese weights and meas necessarily crop up on almost will prove somewhat of a stoc even although there a table showing the British equivalenta: But that aside, of the annual erg absorblugly