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CANTONESE, INDIGNATION,

OUTCOME OF WEST RIVER PIRACIES.

TEXT OF TELEGRAM TÓ, PEKIND [From Our Own Correspondent.] ·

Shamten, 20th November, 1997.

In my telegram, the other day, on the sub ject of the West Hiver Patrol Service, made allusion to the telegram which' the 'mass meeting had drawn, op for transmission: to Peking 1 now append a free translation of the full text of the telegram. It was adopted at the indignation meetin convened by the Canton (Chinese) General Chamber of Commerce, held at the headquarters of the Anti-Oplum Association, in the Wah-lum Monastery, on the 19th inst. The translation is as follows:- ja

To members of the Grand Cabinet, and Board of Förriga Affairs and if 'Agriculture, Indushy and Conuserce..

Sip-The right of patrolling the West River blongs la cor country, The British

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH FRIDAY NOVEMBER 22, - 1907.

ACCIDENT, 10.7HE S.S. “KIEV.”"

STEAMER PUT BACK.

Qo Wednesday the Russian an. Kiev left Bongkong bound for Singapore. Before the vaisel had proceeded far on her journey it was discovered that her port tail shaft had broken Capt. Orauvadery decided to pat back for Hongkong. The Ri, accordingly, retraced her course and was steered for Hongkong; she regained the port under her own steam The accident is not believed to be of a serious character, and there will be 'no necessity of rocking the vessel to effect the repairs.

THE CHEKIANG RAILWAY,

TERMS OF THE CONCESSION,

THE PROGRESS OF ROYALTY.

A correspor dent of Tha Peking and Tientsin thod in which the Emperor and the Emprous Timis gives the following account of the me-

Dowager journey through the Capitai :-

I was called out to the North West Corner of the City on the same day that the Empress Dowager, the Emperor, and all their retinue were returning from the Summer Palace to Peking. 1, found myself in a small street, which was not only small be quite crooked, and as 1 turned one of its benda I saw carriages and carts, besides people on horseback and people on foot, 1erhaps a hundred feet in Iront I saw a cloth curtain across the end of the street where it opened out into the large rect. This large siteet was the tine of march. for the Imperial party and hore. I was stopped.

Over the top of the curinin could be seen the In response to a memorial from the Waiwg points of spears and tops of banners, and the pu, an Imperial Rescript was issued on Octo.bobbing edges of umbrellas moving towards ber 25, sectioning the proposed loan of the south, towards the Palace, Once or twice £1,503,0:0 for the construction of the Souchow the curtain was drawn and an official, on horse. Hangchow-Ningpo railway from the British back or in some sort of a conveyance, cume and Chinese Corporation, writes the Peking rotrespondent of the A. C. D. News on 19thgh. He had done his duty as an escort and was on his way elsewhere. One ro inst.

cognized as General,Ching, one of China's best warriors. He bad apparently just got off his house and into his carriage for the large charger was being led along behind the carriage. These carriages are of the very latest type of closed vehicle, I noticed a tendency on the part of the officials to bave a bell put under the front of the driver's box, to be operated by his foot.

According to its terms the concession for the construction of this railway was one of the five railway concessions granted to the corporation by the Chinese Government in 1898, the other four lines are:-.-Tientsin-Chekiang line. 3.-Pukow-Hsin.

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Government encroach upon mur sovereign rights by any interference on the ground that some of their steam-launches have been pirated. Your Excellencies have actually acceded to their representations. The power of a country shows itself where her military influence is felt. The nieschalts and people | 2-Cantos-Kewloon line along the Canton liver consider your pet in yang line. 4. Honni-Yangtzekiang line, acceding to the BritishTM Minister's demands through hanei. I am informed that the loan equivalent to altering their auntry. This will be made under the following conditions— precedent if inchecked, will be taken advanta Loan of £1,500,001 at "five per cent in age of by other counties order the most terest per annum.

· favoured-nation" clitse of the reaties.

Loan will be guaranteed by the Plovin Then, also, might our power along the Yang cint Governments of Kiangsu and Chellang tsz-klang River be considered as good as instproportionately instead of by the line in ques

for ever

The altitude of the Custoins and the Lek offices in driving off Chinese owners of vessels to seek protection; under foreign: :gs is likened unto the diving off of birds from a wood. If this practice, is to he checked nothing short of the refers of the Customs and of the system prevailing at the Lekin barrien, with a view of bringing about their equal treatment of foreign and native vessels; will have to be effected.

The Canton Navy cannot give miversal pro tection along the waterways witheitt an annual contribution of $10,000 from, the Custome revenue towards the expenses for the maintes ance of the feet in an efficient gardition.

Your Excellencies 'did not give the 'fore. going matters iny consideration; but, nu the contrary, have simply handed over the exercise of power to eutsiders: The searches that will be instituted and r rests made on n'a ïve crafs, and the conflicts that will arise between afficers and villagers might, be likened metaphorically speaking sunto the burning of a judes-sinne hill or the

surrender of a prari-producing sta.

[Translator's note:The figures of speech mear, that, under the inposed system, of river patrol, innocent prisons will be implicated and a valuable privilege given up without any ade quato compensation being made therefor."

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tion.

The chief engineer shall be an English man, to be engaged by China herself, on the condition that he must be recognized by the

corporation.

4-The line will be built and controlled by the Chinese.

The corporation spices to "conclude a specist agreement with the Chinese Govern- ment concerning the loan and construction of the line, which are to be deals with separately and not in the manner fixed by the regulations of the Shanghai-Nanking railway.

6.The natives of the two provinces shall be permitted to purchase the shares under similar

·cónditions as foreigners.

7. The funds which have already been spent for the construction of those sections of this line by the people of these two provinces are to be added to the capital over and above the £1,500 000.

8-Interest will be paid out of the net profits of the line in future.

Although the natives of the two provinces are still protesing against the loan, it is believed that the dispute may be se'tled satisfactorily in the not distant future for H.E. Yoan Shih-kai has telegraphed to the directors of the Chinese railway companies at Soochow and Hangchow advising them to persuade the natives to send their representatives up to Peking to see the Government in person, so that differences may be cleared up and no injury done to the mutually good relations of Great Britain and China.

On two occasions 1 have seen the Emperor zon his way through the City, but since then the rules have been made so strict that it is im possible to see Kim. n former days if one placed himself somewhere along the line of march in nut tuo conspicuous a place, ons was allowed to remain there and see the procession. But.now-a-days there is usually a notice sent round from one's own Minister to the effect that he has received notice from the Chinese authorities that on such a date the Imperial party will move from such a place to such a place and he requests all his nationals to avoid the line of march at that time.

The street during the procession is always lined on both sides with well armed and well drilled troops, generally taken from Yuan's old army. These do not stand more than four feci apart. Before, the Emperor, or whoever in may be, moves, hours before, people of every class in life can be seen hurrying toward their destination; men in gaily calaured garments Carried gaudily dressed childen, men on horse, and Chinese, gaily coiffured From the dress on foot, in carts and carriages, Women, Manchu one evidently has something to do with the ber of some gu rd, and if colours and queer. culinary department, another must be a mem

ness b. garb mark a jester a third most cer- tainly belong to that class.

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with a feeling of intenso satisfaction that we are able to zonounce definitely that Hankow within the above mentioned time will have a really modern'up-to-date hotel of its own."

Mr. G. J. Shekury, the well-known shore- bruker of Shanghai, who has been in Harkow for the past week, has been successful in pur. chasleg lot 13 on the bund in the British Con- cemilan for this purpose, and so his retum to Shanghai for which port be left last evening, he will immediately commence work on the new enterprise. With Mr. Shekury's well-known experience of hotel construction, it is need.

up-to-date hotel with all midem conveniences less to say that we shall have a really

and that visitors to our port will at last” have a place where they can stay in comfort. Our

reasons for the above statement, cannot be

doubted when we are able to affirm that Mr. Shekury was gely instrumental in starting the Palace Horriff" Shanghai, and the success of this concern is a living monument to his energy, in his capacity of managing director.

The necessities of such a hotel being con. strocted in Ḥankow are too numerous and obvious to need mention, and we are cerla n' that the Hankow public will readily invest the money required to start their share of the ball rolling.

to let the grass grow under his feet, we may To show that Mr. Shekary does not intend

mention that he has already obtained a licence from the B.M,C.in conduct a hotel on the site purchased.-Mankow Daily News.

CHINA'S 'NEW INVOY TO WASHINGTON.

AMERICAN BOCRETARY'S PREDICTION, Mr. E. T. Williams, secretary of the United Fiates legation at Peking, says that, despite the fque 1 reports to the contrary, Wu Ting Fang, the distinguished Chinese, minister; will never retura to America to resume duties he has conducted successfully in past years. Mr.

Wiliams reached Seattle last month from China 'on the steamer Tango Maru. He is accom

panied by his family, and will spend four months at his home in Columbus, O.

As the time when the Royal per orageshould appear approaches, the crowd becomes more and more dense until at fills the strast. Then come up army of men carrying umbrellas. These much on the sides of the street in two sing'e files. Immediately before the sodan chair in which the Emperor rides a compact body of modern cops. These are in great contrast with asyny niebers of vadaus guards who have been almbg before. Some of the

Two Ting Fang, so far as semi-official re- After the settlement of the dispute the corporater were armed with boys and arrows, some instruct H. E.. Viceroy Chang, by wire, to take ation will probably proceed to hegotiate with the with swords of most antique påtterhs' some ports indicatel at the time of my departure from Peking, has retired from politics for active alepa towards the reform of the Customs Chinese authorities about the l'ukow-risinyang with guns that would make a sixteenth century and the establishment of an efficient Navy and Hanan-Yangtzekiang lives, as the loan musketeer nervous, flat locks, match-locks and good. He has gone to a private exalc Then, and not until then, will the sun shine on for the construction of the Tientsia-Chékiangfollows the chair carried by sixty-four bearers,ally belleved by persons familiar with condi muskets dating back hundreds of years, Then live," said Mr. Williams, "It is "gecer. the couplry to the sul of the Fire Mountains tronk-ine by British and German capital was After the Emp ess-pissed-the-curtain-wasiat Peking that the successor of Fang is

We, natives of the two Kwang Provinces, are bound to protect our lives and property, We earnestly request Your Excellencies to protest to the very last against the British demands, and further wenighest your to

(ie, peace and prosperity will reign in Kwang tung and Kwangs))..

(Sd.), CHAN CHANG PO and CHAN KI-KIN, for merchants, and people of Canin":

sest'ed tome, time ago and the work of con- struction will be begun next year. Great. Bain will build the south section in Kiangsu and Geady the north portion in Chibli and Shantung; these two sections being apportioned

o ened. The last of the excori wa aim mense party of men on horses who rede, in no Riven formation, just pushing forward in a mass, whose sole object seeme to be to keep

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according to the respective "spheres of in. as close to the Fimpress chair as possible. temperament. Liang Tun Yen has held many the letting by Public Auction Sale, to be

needed,

Telegrams, similar in tenor to the foregoing fluence in Cinna of the two countrier, though They were armed in every way, but not in a were despatched to the Canton (Chinese) Cham the line will be handed over to China section way that would be effective in case they were ber of Commerce at Shanghai and elsewhere, by section upon it's completion and be admin." The despatches concluded will the request inistered by the rhinese without the interference Joint co-optraigh in the piretost'; for, the signs of the British and German capitalists. tories urge, Unionis strength

·STUDEST, MEETING.

[From Our Own Cairest îndentă

Canton 211 November. Yesterday, meeting was held at the Nam Mos College at Hanam, of the representatives

CRICKET,

to be Liang Tun Yen; The capabilities of Liang Tun Yen are regarded as highly as those. of his distin.uished predecessor. He is a graduate of Yale and wholly progressive as to

important offices in China, gch of which he

filed with credit. "Reforms projected in China's government Then the street guards were formed up into duing the past year are at a point where actual their companies and marched off. There are, benefits have already been disclosed. The regular soldiers. Two troops of mauated infan- try, one Manche troop and the other a Chinese, election in which Chinese have been per- ollowed, and both gave one the impression that mined to participate was brought about a the men could render a good account of them.meath before our sailing. The spectacle was HONGKONG JAD CIVIL SERVICE? selves if they were really needed. After these interesting. It is stated to Chiua that plam of

came many soldiers armed with swords which Aague match between Hongkong "I have seen being made in the streets of the government call for an extension of the franchise beyond what is now allowed. Qua- cricket team rersus the Civil Service will be eking by hand and which can be bought for

filly Mexican cents. Not very serviceablelifications of a voter demand the possession of played on the Hongkong Club ground, to inor

weapons you will say,

property and education. A system of conduct. of the schools and coli-ges of the city for the team, Mackenzie, S. S. Logan,

college employed in choosing a president of row at 2.15 p.m. The following will represent

og elections along the lines of the electoral purpose of 'scussing matters in connection

the United States is now used. The method with the protest against the decision of the EA. Fowler, W. J. Daniel, C. Stewart-Lock- Waiwupu as regards the proposal to place the hart W. ET. Swie, A. A, Claxton, I. H,faily light burden hung on each pole.

thus far,has given satisfaction! patrol of the West River in die bands of Chalmers, Capt: Krickenbeck, P. 1, Wolf and foreigners, as well as against the alleged en-

H. H. Taylor croachment on Chinese territory in the districts CHAICENCOWER F. KOWLOON. of Sua-on and leungshan and the interference" This League majch will take place on the with the waterways in the prefecipe of Weichow, fimet club's ground tomorrow at 2.15 p.m. by outsiders. There were present aver five The Craigengowet team will be-L.. Lam hundred persons, representatives of some flymert (cap.), M. E. Aiger, A. O. Braw, Rplanation; asking myself whether it was pos- colleges and schools of the city, Ilo Kim Basa, J. D. Kinnaird, E. Irving, R. Pestonj, ng was voted in the chair, He delivered A É. Ą. Roit, Dr. F: H.Kew, J, W, Stewart and speech before the assembly in the importance or the above questions as concerning the G. Evans, people of the province of Kwangtupg, ¿Ál' This meeting maps and charts of the above districts were produced, showing to what exiest and in what localities foreign. inter•. ferences have begun to be felt. The majority present agreed to send jelekta na to the Waiwupu to oppose the interference by joul siders. Me. Ho and four others were elected to be the leadels of the movement, and on association is to be formed under the style of -the "Association for the protection of the

national rights of the Nation."

CO-OPERATION PROMISED. Telegrams hire been received from the Cantonese, students residing at Shanghai and

·Chaochow expressing their intention of j sining" in the movement, and stating that they have also sent telegrams to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in suppoŋ of the prales!.."

* SAUDITIONAL CRUISERS TO BE BUILT,

Besides the gentry, merchants and scolars, who promoted iho agitation the Canton Man darina e fave also paid a great deal of atten tion to he questior, and the Provincial Gov. ernment has proposed to add four nere craisers to patrol the waterways and have, wired to the Central Government for authority, suggesting that Adpytral and Commander-in- chief Chua Ping-chik should be instructed lo ́separvins the coautepċ¦)...a of tosse cruisers.":

Teague Table,

beaters, perhaps there were a halldred pairs After a little there came a number of burden

of them, with a pale between each pair and

They did not walk straight out one after the other, but each pole was at an angle of forty-five degrees to the road along which they were going, so that they appeared to walk is two files. If there is anything that the Im perial family could have used ar needed while they were as the Summer Palace which was fails to bring it to mind. I hunted for an ex- not included in these various loads my memory

sible that there were no dup) cale sels so that these things need not be carried back and forth. Laler a friend told me that the cooking stensils were special ones, being blessed, s that even poisons mixed with food prepared in

The League Table remains unchanged since them would not harm those that ate it. After- last ppblished.

THE WEATHER,

The following report is front, Mr. F. G. Figg, sector of the Hongkong Observatory

On the 12nd al 11,550.—The depression has fallen maderately of the E. and NE, coasts of China, owing to a depression which has passed from the continent in the Yellow Sea near the mouth of the Yangize.

A high pressure a ea lies now over the Sea of Japan, and the barometer has risen rapidly in E. Jopah.

The monsoon is likely to feshen in the Formdas Channel, And the N. part of the China Sea during the next 24 hours.

Hongkong Fainfall for the 24 hours ending at to a m. to-day, o'o inch."

FORECAST,

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* 1.- Hongkong, Aud* seighbourhood, -N.E. winds, fresh; cloudy, mišty."

3-Formosa Channel, N.E. winds, moderne, to strong,

South coast of China between Hongkong and Lamocks, same si No. 1.

4-South coast of Chiba between Hongkong, and Hainan, Fame gy Nó, te

wards came carts with burdens too large for two men to carry: One had a sedan chair in it, another parts of a beautiful blackwood seat, highly lacquered. It might have been'a small throne,

At the gates of the city a mound hid been I built to make the road level and to bide the ge stone in the middle of the road, which The idea in the Chinese mind is that this stone forins a reat for the gates when they are closed.

is an obstruction, although there mishi he a perfectly plain path on either-side. They, therefore, made an uniform mound all the way across the way, which is a far greater obstruc tion.

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intervals green tubs of water had been placed,

Along both side of the road at regalar |

Mr. Williams said that reports occasionally reached Peking of internal disturbancer in which imperial troops were called upon to suppress disorder. However, none of im porlance was now known to exist, and the safety of all Europeans over the empire ap- peared to be assured, Floods and famine.com- during the past year, but so far as official ditions had wrought damage and suffering. returns had been made the conditions did not appear more serious than those to which the Chinese had become accustomed

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