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Telegrams.

"[Reuters,

The Financial Crisis in the

United States.

London, gih November, The Cabinet has decided not to call a special session of Congress to consider the financial situation, but it is expected that President Roosevelt will recommend a cur rency reform legislation at the opening of the regular session on the and Pecember,

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH THURSDAY

THE PROSECUTION OF THE WKOREK- DAILY"NEWS".

GOVERNMENT BY INJUNCTION,

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NOVEMBER 7, 1907.

TORRENT OF ALINN BLOOD.

THE WORLD. MENACE OF JAPAN. To the corrent issue of the Cosmopolino Professor Goldwia Enith contributes no article in his asslillumipating style on "The World Menace of tapan." He says (u part:

To-day's Advertisements.

ANTED for a HIGHWAY

ROBBERY on Plantation.) Road, Peak, at 2.20 p.in. on 8th instant.

A man 5 feet 4 inches in height

Intimations

THE

between 25 or 30 years of age, slight ROBINSON PIANO scars on face, looks like a cook or a house boy, dressed in dark blue cotton jacket and dark trousers, shoes and rather neat in appearance,

Hongkong, 7th Nov., 1907. [978.

MR, BETHELL'S COMMENTS. The Kores Dally News published the following editorial article on Del 27-We had not intended to make any comu ent upon this car ( King . È T. Bethell) which 'concluded so suddenly and unexpectedly on Tuesday of last week. We felt that no remarks which we might mke wn't be of benefit to anybody and silence emed to us to be the simp'est resort. However, as we find that the result of this trial and the proper meaning of the charges on which tha trial was based have been greatly istorted at the hands of the Japanese correspondents in Seoul, who supply the world with the greater part of news of Corea, we owe it to ourselves to correct the droneous impressions which have already obtained publicity. The foreign newspapers published in Japan have published transla tions from their vernacular contemporaries wherein it is alleged that the proprietor of The Korer Daily New was reprimanded by the British Consular Court in Seoul, was The Minister narrowly escaped being heavily fined, and was told that a repetition of

his offence would lead to his deportation, cius, testified)is degenerate and must be brought questionably, by his autocratic edict, the edict the 14th November, 1907, at 11 AM at their bombed at Askbabad.

And so now we give the text, of the judg ment of the Court. It is as follows:-,

Russia.

The Noom Premyn publishes the result of the Minister for Railways' journey in Southern Russia, the Caucasus, and Central Asia.

The Minister found the railways controlled, by revolutionaries who were planning an armed rising.

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Later,

The Sensational Trials in Germany Another sensational trial opens today in Berlin, in which the journalist Brand is charged with criminal libel for accusing Prince Buelow with the grossest offences

The 'th Lancers.

The affair of the 5th Lancers is keenly discussed in military circles,

No official explanation has been given, but it is understood that the decision was

taken by the Army Council, and is believed

to be traceable to the autumnn manœuvres on Salisbury plain. -• *.

THE BIDDLE, VASE,

THE PRISONER CONÝ CÌÈ... BY JUNGE WIL-.

purpose

Tuesday, the fifteenth day of October, 1907 Ernest Thomas Bethell of Seoul come is personally before this Court and acknowledges self to owe to our Sovereign Lrd King Edward the iuin of three hundred pounds stori ing to be levied on his goods if he fails in the condition herein indorsed..

E, T. BETHELL, Before me HENRY COCKBURN,

Judge.

The condition of the within-written. re-

cognisance is such that if the within named Ernest Thomas Bethell be of good behaviour for the term of six calender months now next

void but otherwise shall remain in full force."

ensuing then the said recognisance, shall be

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PUBLIC AUCTION.

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Imperial Edicis, of which there has been a plethora of late, are not infrequently windows through which one may discern something of the workings of that lescrutablo, mystery-ike Oriental mind. If any one were able 10 com prehend for himself and to explain to others The question as to the admission of Japanese what these utterances really mean, and no less is common to Canada and the United States. important what they do not mean, he might Bet in the case of Canada the settlement ofthe well claim to be qualified to write a history of question rents with the Imperial government, contemporaneous China from the inside, instead which remains supreme in all things, weither of commenting in general terms upon apparent the Dominion as a whole nor any one of its phenomena from the outside. The Chinese mind | provinces having anything analogous to stale is deeply saturated with reverence for "Li" or rights; though the Imperi i government always Reason: All that is necessary to win popular fests itself morally bound to pay attention to approval for any action, or course of sclido, in colonial opinion. What, in the case of the to show that it has li," and there is an end of United States, are the relative powers of argument. On this account the typical Im- the Federal government and the government pesial Edict is skilful blend of historic of the state, it is for American, judes allusion, philosophical comment, caustic crito decide. What'stems certain is that there ticism, stern commands, and more or less im. can be domestic legislation by treaty with a passioned exhortations. Often it becomes ne foreign power, though domestic legislation THE Underlined have received instructions

to sell by centary to his at the paliny days of Yan and may follow as the accessary consequence of a

PBLIC AUCTION, Shun, to suggest that the wisdom of the Han treaty. When, for instance, the French-eme

FOR ACCOUNT of the concerned, and the Tang has provided for the present peror made a commercial treaty with Great

དྷ」," ON emergency, but that the current age (as Confu. Britain and carried it into effect, though rather

MONDAY, up to the ancient standard before there can be net the treaty, was the legislative act. hope of improvement. Thus the way is cleared

CANNOT EXCLUDE JAPS," The admission of Japanese to Canada cin for an, incidental mention of the particular theme in baod, which, in these strenuous times, hardly fail in some degree to affect the question is generally that of finding means to adapt regarding their admission to the Pacific Stiles China to its new environment. That there is of the union. But admitted to Canada the so much difficulty in accomplishing this desir Japanese, their government, insiste upon it, able end is parceived to be due to some posi apparently must be, the relations between tive or negative defect on the part of officials

Great Britain and Japan being, what they or the people, or of both. This is the point at dow are. This Anglo-Japanese alliance is which Imperial Edicts become luminous. Per the last outcome of the anti-Fussian policy haps few such scathing indictmeots of the of England, which dates from the Crimean Chinese are anywhere to be found in coatem war, a war into which England was proce poraneous literature as may be culled from the tically drawn by three men, each of them columns of the Peking Gazette, where there is with a motive of his own, that of l'almerston generally no hesitation in calling a "spade a being antagonism to Lord Aberdeen; that of spade, Whenever there is banded in a parti Sir Stratford Canning, resentment for a per:

cularly mordant mémorial complaining of evil

practices which it is alleged are at once ruin

something--after whichi peace and tranquility will.resume their interrupted royal rule.

A sheaf of decrees issued at the end of September and the beginning of October will show how delity and effectively these objects may be accomplished. The first one deals with the chronic troubles between Chinese and Bannermen to which it is now sought to put an end. The evils which have accrued from centuries of pauperizing the Munchus are mentioned, the positive measures to be taken

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that of the Emperor of the French, military

LIMITED TO MALKS..

... If the Japanese and Chinese are to be ad mijted at all, it would seem that they must be admitted freely. The exhction of a large fine an Admission prevents them from, bringing their wives, the limiting the emigration to the male sex, to which obviously there is grave objection. Americans, it seems, are beginning to look with misgiring at this vast jnrush of immigra- tion which, especially in great cities, the cen ties of politics and the press, must presently tell on the character of the nation, and, through is character, on its institutions.

· NO CONSTITUTION PERFECT.

At law, this judgment is incontrovertible;ing and disgracing the country, the awesome glory for his throne and perhaps the assertion but we may remark en passant'that it is reader and inaccessible Shadow who "edits" the | of his place in the circle of royalties, by whom ed in accordance with Orders in Council whose | Ganetia frequently appears to take delight in ❘ha had been treated rather as a parvenu. antiquity, in comparison with the rapid develop. ciling its exact terms, neither modifying nor menis in the Far Eas: during the past forty mipifying them. By what process are these years, command respect, it will be rememshy spirits to be lured from their vasty deeps? FLKY ACQUITTED ON APPEAL.

bered that, as recently as February of this year, By the familiar legal-process known as Io Another of the criminal cases decided by

some new Orders in Council were promulgated junction. Two objects are to be accomplish Judge Wilfey, of the new U.S.District Court dealing particularly with the conduct of news ed-to show what_is_the_matior,-and-to" for Chinh, has filed to meet approval of the papers published under the privileges of extra-order somebody to do something—or not to do superior court in the States. A king am was fereitosiality in the Far East. A very con- received at the Americ n^. Consulate to-day servitive contemporary, the Hengkung Tela» (October, ojaddressed to ̊C. Biddle and signed graph, in publishing this Order, described it as Lamme," informing the pristner that he was aimed directly at the Korea Daily News. After acquitted on appeal Bidd., it will be remem- many months the Japan Mail and the Seoul bered, was coLvced last January on a Pear heard of this Order and rejoiced in print; charge of fraud, pr. le sed by the judgn and and we, in reply, said that we had fathing to District Attorney, mising out of a civil suit fear. In this respect, we were right; the new in connection with the leasing of the Chi Order in Council was so specific that we found ness Grace St-nd to Chinese for gambling no dificulty in keeping within its provisions; He was relused a rehearing by bu, to our surprise, the procedure of the Cours the Judge and held pri oner by the Court, harked back to ancient Orders in Council pending his appeal, which he has now won, which cannot in equity be held to fairly but at the cost of lacing the wild anew as apply to present conditions We were found completely ruined man, his property destroyed guilty of having published matter which in or all gone, he himself a bankrups, while his the opinion of the Judge might lead to wife died from the shock of his wrongful convica disturbance of the public peace. Lion nan felon. The extraordinary powers coude desided that we had done so and the The ferred by Congress upon the Court to dispense proprietor of the Korea Daily News was accord. with frors or assessore and to entrust, the ingly bound overbit to repeat the offence for nur subjects with equal vinduess and clereacy," Power and place. But the Republic has been most vital questions, involving life and six months. All of this is in accordance with property to the tender meicies, prejudices law and the decision of the Judge is absolute and fallible judgment of ens man are and final; so that ever we had wished to in this case largely to blame for the terrible protest, we could not have had any recourse, injustice done to the unhappy ex-manager

We have one point to criticise and, upos ibis of the, Metropole Hotel. Even though we think, we shall command the sympathy of the mills of the law have ground e pall who have hitherto believed in the Bri- soner to powder, as it were, in this cultishers right of free speech. During the trial, way, the Chineze gambling syndicate has not it is significant to note that the Prosecutor, who yet got back its money, which Biddle was

was, we are convinced, acting at the lasti quite ready to repay, if he had not beengation of the Japanese authorities here, made not the slightest attempt to disprove any of the statements which formed the basis of the charges against us. Putin k nutshell the charge against us is that werlage in publish news of the trouble in the interior which our acousers have not disproved, and which "we have every reason to believe are train

arraigned upon the criminal charge which the Court of Appeal has now pronounced to have beep false and the proner, wrongfully can. victed. No fare part culats are given in the cablegram From his layer. Mr. Lamine, we proceeded sira glit to the States to fight the case. It remains to ye been what reparation the

to provide them land instead of pensions are alluded to, and then see how strongly the whole matter is dealt with in few sweeps of a bambou pen: "The Ministry of Finance is commanded to have

let there be no alisy our racial distinctions, ready the required money for this work, and Let each one ho'p us in our object to tress all

No political, constitution is perfect or will near forever. Time; the great, innovator, im. pairs if you do not ment. Franklin saw deiccis in the work of the founders, though he kept his doubts to himself he adoption of Montes- quieu's erroneous theory of separation between the legislative and executive spheres has inter fored with the production of trained statesmen. Worse than this, the nation has been divided

ciples new largely belonging to the past, tato two organized parties, formed upon prin. sec still carrying on a perpetual war for upbald by the character of its people. A enough to reassure an observer who had felt short residence in a country town has been misgiving about the political stability of the Republic. The character of the people was American, but how much more dɛlution it will bear, especially with elements so alien puliti- ally and generally so unused to republican overement as the Semitic, the Calabrias, the cut to siy. The public schools, it may be said, will accomplish the assimilation in time. But this will take time, and the assimilation, after all, may be rather intellectual than poli

Chinese, and the Japanese, it would be diff.

The next example is from, a decree of the same date dealing with the novel and unexploited theme of local self-government for the people, There is to be, we are told, an "Imperial Assembly to discuss ffairs of State of which "the people" have not been suppos ed nor intended to know, anything. Now how is the wide and fathomless chasm between ignorance and intelligent discussion to be bridged? All that is wanted is "nobility of thought" and "patriotic aims, How are these to be obtained? The people most first be educated and taught that they, must cultivate loyalty to Sovereigo and love for country alicat or moral. the ground-work for knowledge; for without

* TORRENT DY ALIEN BLOOD. education how can the people obtain know.

When the fathers of the Repuplic opened an ledge and without being given the opportunity asylum for humanity, they were perhaps think for local self government how can they obtain

"SILESIA,"

Captain Bahle, having arrived. Consignees

CỌ, LD.

OFFER THEIR ENTIRE

STOCK OF

HIGH-CLASS

PIANOS

AT

25% Discount..

For CASH.

of Cargo are hereby requested to sond in their Bills of Lading for countersignature by the Undersigned and to take immediate To make room for New delivery of their goods from alongside.

Optional Cargo will be forwarded unless notice to the contrary be given before TO-DAY.

Any Cargo impeding her discharge will be landed into the hazardous and/or extra hazard, ous Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Limited, and stored at Consignees' tisk, and expense.

All Claims must be presented within ten days of the stewer's arrival here after which date they cannot be recognised. ́ ̧ ́

No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns and all Goods remaining

undelivered after the 13th inst, will be subject

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All broken, chafed and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be -examined on the 12th insti, at ‍3 P.M.

No Fire Insurance has been effected.

HAMBURG-AMERIKA LINIE, Hongkong Office. Hongkong, 7th November, 1007.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

THE P. &.0.5. N. Co.'s Steamer.

"SYRIA,"

FROM ANTWERP, LONDON, MALTA,

PORT SAID, SUEZ AND STRAITS, vessel nra hereby informed that their Goods are Consignees of Cargo by the above-marned

Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown being landed and placed at their risk in the Company's Godowns at Kowloon, where ench

consignment will be sorted out mark by mark, and delivery can be obtained as soon as the Goods are landed.

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Optional Goods will be landed here unless "PERFECTION" instructions at given to the contrary before,

hours.

Goods not cleared by the 13th instant, at 4.P.M., will be subject to rent.

No Fire Insurance will be effected by me in any case whatever.

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Damaged Packages must be left in the Godowns for examination by the Consignees and the Company's representative at an appointed hour.

American Goverment will now try to make. fact and in detail, have offended 'King Edward the requisits experience to govern the whole ing more of the unfortunate and the persecuted date they cannot be recognised.

VII. and the effect of the judgment will be that, for a period on si refore, it is newspaper will The gag"éd; and therefore no further reports of

But so far the Distict Court ficials say they will not take notice of the telegram or move until they get offend advice, and specific instructions from fierica

This is the second criminal case of import. Japanese revers can be published in your me fruitful day was designed to prepare for tatour of certain kinda and domestic service it

Country hey must, mireover, eschew all evil gration question is, in fact, the most serious have left the Godowns.

than of this forrent of alien blood. The 'mmi- thoughts that may lead the country into that is before the American people, touching,

ance in which Judge Waffey has been com- pletely overrul d by the superior courts at home--the ather one being that of Price for the alleged attempted shooting.-Chisa Gosette.

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INCOME: PER MINUTE.

ROCKEFELLER'S REVENUE FROM, HIS

·STANDARD "OIL COMPANY STOCK.

The following tabulated statement compiled The following report is from Mr. F. G. Figg from figures adduced by Deputy Attorney Director of the Hongkong Observatory dem

General Kellogg at the hearing in the Oil Trust On the 7th at 1205 p.-The barometer "is

suit in New York server to show, appri ščˇm- rising over N. Ching, and falling in Japan,

ately, the enormous wealth of John D. l'ocke- A depression appear to be passing from E.

feller, in Standard Oil stock alone; and his Manchuria fo-tie . part of the Sea of Japan.income per year, month, day, hour and minute The depression, probably, a typhoon, which

from this source. ile bas, of course, other was situated to the Southward of the Banin

sources of revenge which the average man Islands yesterday, has moved Nothwards and would regard as more than adequate to meet

the requirements of á millionaire - Standard Oil Golipa s'à. capital,

.891 Shares owned by John D. Rocke.

feller

is bow to the N.E. of the Group,

Pressure is high over Central China. Strong monsoon may be experied in the Formosa Channel and the N. part of the Chiga Sea

Hongkong Rainfall for the 24 hours eading at to a m. to-day, 0,00 inches.

FORECAST,

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púble and upres1.” Another decres of the

All claims must be presented within ten days of the steamer's arrival home after which No claims will be admitted after the goods

E. A. HEWETT.. Superintendent Hongkong, jh November, 1907,

COMMERCIAL.

"YO-DAY'S EXCHANGE.

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as it does, the very life of the nation, Masuaj

the Constitution," Alter pointing but that, the

teams necessary to import. A native American, scheme is due to the initiative of the Sovereign it may be assumed, seldom handles pick or ➡a fact which must be impressed on the minds spade. At the time of the Molly Maguire riots of all-the proclamation continues There a visit to the disturbed district at once satisfied must not be any misspprehensions on the sub. the inguiter that the disturbance was forcigo. Rarely or only under peculiar circumstances. fect. Officials have the right of government apparently is the native American woman Jeen and direction of the affairs of the people, apd, in domestic service. A large immigration

4 months',sight...1/1 5/16 they must work diligently and earnestly in ex-element therefore there must be.... But it ought, France-Bank.'.T. ............. plaining to these around them the right and if possible, to be so regulated as to preyed if America-Bark T.T.... proper path that should be taken by all,"

from affecting the gational character.

Germany-Back T.T. RESTRAINT OF CIVILISATION,

India T...ng Finally, even the fresh, and inexhaustible

Do. Ön the native American population the re-

demod "Missionary question" lends itself to the same straints common to all highly civilized races hanghai-Bank T.T. treatment. Explanation, denunciation, exhor-are no doubt taking effect, limiting its increase, Singapore T.T... mga tation and command follow in their wonted and, of course, its assimilating power.

Japan Bank 7. T. sequence. It would be difficult to conceive a

An to the Japanean, little more than half a Java-Bank T.T. é

Buying. higher ideal than is contained in the closing accosting them with republican frankness, re century has passed since Commodore Perry, injunction, "Let there be no attempt on the united them to the family of nations. The

months' tight LJC part of the authorities to a improperly in military and commercial features of Wottern fluenced by one side or the other, Let civilization they have fully made their own, be 10' made some of the commercial feature rather too fully the judgments given out

as those who have had dealings with them and that they will be joyfully recognized by contrast their character with that of the Chinese 256,854

all the litigants as imparted and accepted by know. But in tastes and habits, in moral, 8,33,38 us as just decisions" The world would like social, domestic, and political notions and

to believe that the simplicity of these homilies ideats, the Japanese still seem to differ esse 263,679

tially from the people of the west. There is is equalled by their sincerity, and that their something even in the character of the valour, 16,898,763 recepilon will be marked with the same com of which they have been making so splendid a |-Value in*May-1901; $937′′am

| "plete ubrance of worldly wisdom that their tone display, different from that of the ordinary Shrinkngs in value since. May,

(record price) ...... 223.701,718 predicates in their authors. No uobidden soldier, It has an air of fanatical self- devotion that reminds one of the three doubts would then ariso as to the practicability ligement of Timur, who, when ordered to prove ***** 105,801,958

officalsolf-government for an Asiaticrace in the to. ~ stanger their devotion by committing stage of social development which the Chinese suicide in different ways, at once obeyed.' in

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4-South coast of China between Hongkong and Halonu, same as No. 1.

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froth Sandant Chl00-1600 every Chinese official to take "the right and not played the part, which Christianity as a moralsystem has played in moulding the charac proper path" would appear more cosy than it ter af Christian nations, National feeling, lace Rockefeller's average income from

835,140 does from time to time in existing, clecom- | Japan has emerged from feudalism and become stances. The appearance of there Edicts,nation, is evidently very strong, and will be 27,638 however, indicates that we are now on the edge likely to delay fusion. It will, besides, always

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of a reformation; when full effect shall be given have a baris and source of renewal in their mother country. A mixed community of whites I to them, we shall then be well in the midst of and yellows could, therefore, hardly be 19 | the new Ching wN. G, P, hii]

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