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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SATURDAY APRIL 25 1908.

CHINA AND STAM.

THE PROPOSED LEGATION

NGKOK

· [By couriery of the "Skinny" M6,""]" Peking, 17th April.

capitali.

SHANGHAI-HANGCROW-

·NINGPO: RAILWAY.

Shanghal are doomed to fade into "insigal of the opiniopayef such men, as Reuterdahl ficance, On the contrary, they are ready to who is merely a painter of marine pictores, confess that it is highly improbable Macila and seems to have na „technical knowledge will aver, be able to hold up its head' with || whatever of Daval vesteln except such lies Hongkong on the basis of the shipping tonnage he has picked up in conversation with entered, and although that is but a half-hearted naval officers. As for the criticisms which admission. It is sufficient. Not so very long were made in a recent magazine article,. ago, it was the pride and the boast of every Mr. Dickie states that they all refer to moot good Masilian that his port would in rather points which have been under discussion in all' less than no time eclipse Hongkong, that all pavies for the last twenty years and upon which:

The Government hus, decided to China would look to Manila for their foreign there is some difference of opision. The ma goods, and that aven London and New York ring artist merely look up with those opinions establish a Legation at Bangkok, would cast, envious eyes on the American from which he could make the most slushing

It is very probable that Wu Kwok Colony in the Far East Indeed, we remem and saleable magazine article. In a leading ber reading an official report on the future of article, the San Francisco Chronicle says: Our Lim will be appointed the first Mapila ar's port in which the highly optimistic ozval officers andyanlisted men may be asun-Chinese Minister to the Siamoso writer saw visions of great steamship lines re ed to have the same dislike to risks outside the fusing to visit Hongkong and adopting Manila line of necessary duty that other people have as their terminus. The entrance to the port-They certainly know all about the ships upon was to be dredged and deepened, and all the which they sail, and the fact that they are: defects of nature were to be remedied by the proud of them and confident of their superior genial of mankind. It was a fine picture, that ty and ability to meet the ships of any the official etched, but it was not exactly con other nation whatever should be satisfact vincing. It was too elaborate; it resembled ory evidence to the rest of or that they are youth's ambition ruo riot it made one to as good ships, as are made. When. Mr. smile. Now, if we are to judge by an edit Dickie comes to express or rather let people orial in the Afanila Times, the rose-coloured | infar—his, opinion, of the bureaucratic me glasses have been removed and the vista beds which prevail in the Navy he is on quite is viewed more soberly, Referring to the los other ground. There is no question that nage which auters Hongkong every year, our bureaus is America and all other countries be- contemporary observes, a triffe patronisingly come conceited and soobbish. They do not perhaps, but still graciously: Wo do not approach with open mind any propósities what begrudge our neighbour port its place of "pre-ever which ariginates'outside their own num.. ominence, rather do we congratulate it on itsber, and in reading Mr. Dickic's amusing success. Nevertheless, we trust the time is account of his tilt with the U.S. naval construc. 'coming when, if we may not challenge Hong;tion board one cannot but wonder that with bis kong for its place among the world's leading long experience he should have ever imagined shipping centres, we may at least more that the board would ever evas consider"any nearly approximate its position." No one would object to such a laudable desire, and we cao cordially wish Manila ovcly success, Especially must we be cordial That Maoin will ever rival Hongkong as a busy post hardly needs dis claimer. In spite of our dreams and our maps in which Manila figuras 'ne the distributing centre of the Orient, we can never hope to

when wo road

designs but their own. It is, of course, a fact that continued service in any corps has a deadening effect on originality of any kind and that, prima facis, the design of any civilian poval architect of long experience in building ships of war is almost certainly better than any desin which emanates from naval constructors constrained by precedent There is also in all military services an habitual deference

a junior officer, no matter how talented, a oft er be rich would lead to prevent even hinting at anything vor already sanctified by the approval of those higher up. but one way to get the best designs for naval vessels, and that is to admit everybody to the competition and submit the designs unmarked by the dams of their authors to a board of which ne member has offered any design of his owa or is connected in any such way as to make it probable that he can detect the authorship of any design. But nothing but an act of Con- gress will aver cause the U.S. Navy Depart

Thainexorable logic of geography is against us, A glance at our shipping reports, also, wherein we are confronted with the fact that the net tonnage of the foreign vessels entering Manila during the fiscal year 1907 was only 59,936 and the tonnage of those cleared 141,133, also tells the story of impossible achievement." But the motto of Manila must be NII desperan de and our contemporary puts the position in a nutshell when it says: "Nevertheless, there is no need to be discouraged. We are making progress and, though the day may never come when Manila will be able to hold up its head with Hongkong on the basis of shipping tonnage entered, we believe the day is coming when it will surpass that port in other waya which tell in the making of a'great city," Hongkong

has a past; we are only entering on our future." There is nothing like optimism, and so long as Hongkong stands where she does to-day we can and will rejoice to see Manila the "great city" of our neighbours

meat to adopt that course.

Telegrams.

There is

** HONGKONG TELEGRAPH ”

SERVICE.

dreams, for the simple reason that the prosperityE JAPANESE BOYUOTT. and advancement of Manila must menn la creased prosperity to Hongkong. Therefore, to adopt Glasgow's war dry--Les Manila fl surish..

THE LALE PREMIER,

(23rd April.)

Sir Heary Campbell-Dangerman is dend, and by his death the Liberal party in Parlia ment has lost a leader by whose per sonality and character it was guided through

ose of the most stormy panods of its existence

and

opposition. It

PRINCE CHUN and tang SHAO-YI AS PEACEMAKERS.

[By courtesy of the "Sheung Po."],

Peking, 18th April.

On account by the Cantonese boy cott of the Japanese, the Govern- bortion, it cannot for a moment be main. Uhun and IL. B. Tang, shao-yi, co tained that the late Premier was a greai H.E. to parliamentary notability, nor is to be expected that his name will be remembered object was to maintain the integrity of the party intact, to reconcile warring discords, to | secure mutual sympathy and support among strangely varied elements, and he was probably

by future generations. His whole aim and

proceed to Canton to explain to the people there the recent negotiations between the Government of China and Japan.

The Commissioners will be charged purpose man who could have achieved his also with the duty of appeasing the

purpose in these respects with any degree o' success. There are few who could have fote. told that Sir Henry would one day become Premier of the United Kingdom, particularly, when it was remembered that he was the primary cause of the Liberal Government's defeal in 1895, when as Secretary of War he had to confess to an alarmed House that the -stock of cordite was wholly insufficient to mbet the wants of the troops in the event of the country being involved in war. And the faci 'that'when war was declared by the Transvaal Republic, in 1899, he denounced the methods and the policy of the Conservative Govern ment in power as having directly led to this result was not calculated to enhance his popularity at a time when a wave of martial

minds of the Cantonese.

MISSIONARIES STATUS.

· NO ÓFFICIAL` RECOGNITION.

· [By courtesy of the “Sheung, Po"]"

Peking, 16th April. The Waiwupu has memorialised the Throne to abrogate the custom of according to missionaries status according to their clerical rank, The Government has canctioned

the

enthusiasm was passing over the country. Nevertheless, he clung to his convictions, and never besitated to give them expression, rememorial and has decided to regard gardless of the enmity which his views aroused among the general mass of the people, Those missionary claims, in future, in ac were the days when a Liberal, who was not an cordance with Treaty stipulations. Imperialist of the Rosebery type, stood in dau- ger of his life when he announced that the Boars were not wholly depraved and debau.... ched, and 'several of the Liberal Ministers of to-day had to resort to strange shifts in order to escape the fury of the moh. We do not re- member, however, that Sir Henry's utterances ever-led to the unseemly-brawling-which-at- tended the meetings of Mr. Lloyd George at Birmingham, or that he was ever personally abhorred by the populace: Whatever his

ARMY FOR CHINA.S

RECRUITING ORDERED

FORTHWITH.;

Poking, 16th April. The Ministry of War has directed opinions might be, he had a happy manner all the Provincial Authorities to re- which induced the average'elector to admit that after all there were always two sides to a crait soldiers forthwith for the new question and that possibly there might be

a sub-stratum of truth in what he said. Army. They should make no ex- Besides, his pawky Scotch humour was irresis cuse for delay in complying with' tible. His very appearance was suggestive of the instructions.

good humour and his style. was pre-eminently waited to attract his hearers. After the war, Mr., Chamberlain cast his thunderbolt in the shape of tariff reform and on the tide of frea food, the Liberal party was swept into office with an overwhelming majority. That majority has been considerably reduced but it is still -a¿maguificent one, súfficient to "enable the party, to carry gut, the reforms it has in contemplation without recourse to the aid of "the small, but jaundiced elempat"which"has developed socialistic tendencies., What the

TERRITORIAL WATERS.

DELIMITATION DESIRED.

[By courtesy of the "Sheung Po"]

Peking, 16th-April. -- The Waiwupu and the Ministry

futare bolds for the Liberals it would be rash of War have conferred together and In the extreme ti consider, bật it lẹ to Sir-

Henry Campbell Bannerman that it owes it

decided to depute officials to delimit

present position to-day, for lacking his admir- the territorial waters of China.

able diplomacy and his, power of making parsoval, friends the party would have beco scattered to the winds under a multitude of namm long before this time, Sir Henry never recovered from the death of his wife, which

• occured about a year ago, and the slightest Over-exertion caused him to break down. He -wai lu his 72nd year, and it is contain that his demiss will be, mourned, by political ·friende and foes alike,

KOREANS AND CHINA.

„THE_QUESTION OF NATURAL,

IZATION,

[By courtesy of the "Sheung Po");

9. BAZZLESHIFS.

Peking, 16th April, 1908; (24th April,).

The Throne has issued instructions rejection of President Roosevelt's to Viceroy Heu Shi-chang, of the proposal to Congress for the construction of Three Eastern Provinces, that Ko four battleships for the United States Navy,

Jo McGeo. W. Dickies reans desirous of naturaliging them. one on the famiciency of the American ba selyos as Chinese subjects should be

раву

SAWAY OMAN Zamos 19 polympe allowed to do so

RE-PAYMENT OF THE REDIMP- TION LOAN

By courtesy of the Sheung Po,""]

Poking, 17th April, The loan for the redemption of the Shanghai-Hangohow-Ningpo railway coucession is to be repaid within thirty years.

The cost of the redemption is Tls. 3,000,000, of which Kiangsu and Che kiang have to contribute Tls. .000,- 000 each, the Ministry of Finance The 300,000, and the Board of Posts and Communications the balance.

THE PEKING TRAITORS.

REPORTED ACCIDENTALLY,

ELECTROCUTED.

[By courtesy of the "Sheung Eb."}

tho-kai who is persona non grata with the launc owners."

The aunches resumed running to-day

SHANGHAI POLICE:

"ACTION: "FOR DAMAGES.

CLAIM BY A DETECTIVE SERGEANT

DISMISSED.

[From Our Own Correspondent,]

Shanghai, 20th April. 2.25. p.m.

In the action for damages brought by Sergeant Bookless of the Shang- hai Municipal Police, claiming 10,000 tacle from the Municipal Council for wrongful dismissal, the Court of Consuls has delivered judgment.

The action is dismissed with costм against the plaintiff.

[lo.the above action l'etective-Sergeant Ar- chibald Bookles claimed 10,00 taels in name of damages for wrongful dismissal.. in his pleadings, the plaintiff alleged that under agreement dated the 15th of May, 1902, made between the plain it and vice of the de the plaintiff entered into the service of the de fendants as police constable (3rd class) for. period of five years. The plaintiff commenc- the sand of Juse, 1902, and continued to serve ed duty in Shanghai under the agreement on

the defendants under the terms.of that agree meat ustil the sand of June, 1937. During the term of his service the plaintiff from time to time received promotien ja the defendants' Police Force and in May 1906 attained the rank of detective-sergeant. This position he continued to hold until the said azn of Juna, 1907, at which date his pay and al- lowances amounted to "Ts. 147] and $8. At the end-of-five years he received thieet mooths salary as bonne and a free second- class passage to England. On the 16th June, 1907, he signed a new agreement to serve.for for a further period of three years. On his retard in March last he reported for detective duty wherespon the following order was issued "Delectiva-Sergeast Bockless having returned On their way to Kalgan, it is re- from long leave will revert to uniform duty at ported, they were accidentally elcotro-Hongkew station from Monday next, gth in cuted near Paotingfu.".

Peking, 17th April.

Kao Erb-chio, and Chung Hao, accused of being political spies, were sentenced to be exiled to Kalgan.

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stant C, D. Brace, Captain-Superintendent.” That order, the plaintiff claimed, 'was in effect a degradation in rank and, moreover, deprived BANK-NOTES IN SHANGHAI, him, of allowances at the rate of Tls, 25 per month and Mexican 58.and and was in con. travention of the instructions and rules incor- CHINESE ISSUE UNACCEPTABLE.porated in the plaintiff's agreement of 19th June, 1907, which provided that a foreign member ou return from leave, shall be rein. stated in his relative position, in the Force. he plaintiff thereupon wrote to the Captain Superintendent of Police resigning his. iitus. tios, but the latter replied he would not be allowed to resign but would. be dismissed for insubordination." The plaintiff turiber,urged

REPRESENTATIONS TO THE DIPLOMATIC CORPS

[By courtesy of the "Sheung Po."]

Peking, 19th April.

The Waiwupu has made repre- sentations to the doyen of the Diplomatic Corps to the effect that the foreign Banks in Shanghai have decided not to acept the notes isided by the Chinese Bank.

that: The defendants have agreements with and other companies and corporations carry. the Shanghai Tramways Company, Limited, ing on business in Shanghai and elsewhere in China by which the said companies and cor-

PUPPY IN CHINA,

ANNUAL REDUCTION IN "CULTIVATION.

[By courtesy of the "Sheung Pp."]

Peking, arat Aptil. The Board of Civil Affairs has decided on the annual reduction in the acreage of ∙land under poppy cultivation in China. ***

The Board has, accordingly, memorialized the Throne to that effect.

SIR ROBERT HART.

DEPARTURE FROM PEKING.

[By courtesy of the "Sheung Pa"]"

Peking, 21st April.

Sir Robert Hart, Inspector-General of the

Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs, look his departure from Peking on the 20th inst.

CHEKIANG-BAILWAY,

· APPOINTMENT OF BRITISH EN- GINEER-IN-CHIEF

[By courtesy of the "Sheung, Po."}

Peking, arst April.

The Chekiang Railway Co. has decided to appoint a Britisher as the Company's engineer-in-chief,

THE JAPANESE BOYCOTT,

DESPATCH OF "A JAPANESE SQUADRON [ By courtesy of the “Sheung Po”)

Shanghai, aand April.

It is rumoured that, owing to the Canton- one boycott of Japanese trade, the Japanese Government has despatched a squadron for a cruise, proceeding Southward, via Foochow Amoy and Swatow, to Canton, by way of a naval demonstration.

THE PRESS LAW. ··

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TO HE PUT INTO FORCE AT SHANGHAI

[By courtesy of the Sheung Po.").

Shanghai, aand April. Shanghai Total to put the Press law into Viceroy Tuan Fang hos instructed the force forthwith.

S. S. "MAORI KING", CONDEMNED AS FORFEITED TO THE CROWN.

[from Our Own Correspondent"}}

Shanghai, 23rd April 14.5 p.m. The case heard, at H.B.M; Supreme

Juuge, beforen F1.5.M.'s Consul-Sentra aft Shanghai, Sir Pelham L. Warren, .K.C.M.O, lerested in the steamship Maori Kiny,, de plaintiff, and the owners and parties in fendants, has been concluded.

parations agree not to employ any person who has bees dismissed from the service of area. fendants, Moreover the defendants are a between powerful corporation and use their influence as that, if the report be true, the action of the same clas as the plaintiff who have The Board of Foreign Affairs urgetuch so far as they are able to prevent persons of the foreign Banks might affect the precipicha ais delvis where in Chinn.

ployment in Shanghai and elsewhere Shanghai money market, thereby in their reply the Municipal Council alleged giving rise to a possible disturbance to the Captain, Superintendent's order was

the populace.

among

The Waiwupu requests that steps be taken to remove the disabilities imposed by the foreign Banks against the Chinese note-issue.

The Waiwapu has also telegraphed to Viceroy Tuan Fang instructing him to address the Foreign Consuls with a view to removing the Banks' restrictions against the notes of the Chinese Bank.

LOTTERIES IN CHINA, PROPOSED ABOLITION

[By courtesy of the "Sheung Po.")

Peking, 10th April.'s "The Board of Civil Affairs has memorialized the Throne asking that instructions be issued to the f various Provincial authorities to stop the issue of lottery tickets in future.

FOREIGN LOANS,

* TANG SHAO-VI TO NEGOTIATE [By courtesy of the "Sheung Po"]'; Peking, 19th April. Tang Shao-yi is detained in Pek, ing.

His Excellency's services will be required in connection with the prospective negotiations for foreign Joans..

THE CANTON STRIKE,

· LAUNCH-OWNERS, GRIEVANCE

REDRESSED.

PROPOSED DISMISSAL OF MARINE: SURVEYOR,

[By courtesy of the "Sheung Po."]

Canton, 19th April. On behalf of the launch-owners, Thotai Won Tseung-yao and the magistrates of Namhoi-and Panyu petitioned the Viceroy to do away. with the European survey of steam launches and to have un

officer ap pointed by the Sin Hau Kuk (Board of Organisation) to perform those, duties.

The Judge ruled that the s,s. Maori King be forfeited to the Crown,

An appeal against the decision is in-

timated,

not a degradation but merely a transference from one duty to another of identically, the same rask, and they submitted that the issue the order given by the Captain-Superintendent Consul General at thangbai claims to have to be determined by the Court first is whether The plaintiff an His Britannic Majesty's was a fawful order. If it is, the plaintiff'se the ship or vessel known as the Maori King fusal to obey it is submitted and all other registered as a British ship in the Register matters introduced into the petition became kept for the registration of British ships at His irrelevant." In the course of the evidence Britaonic Majesty's Conunlate-General at evidence was heard in the course of the cross- beard on The 15th lost. some curious Shanghai as No. 96689 (No. 10 of 1905), con- examination of Chief Detective Inspector Armstrong. The following passages may be quoted:You are a Scotsman-Yes. And a

demned as forfeited to His Majesty for violá. sign of the 69th Section, sub-section so, of the Merchant Shipping Act 1894 (57 and 58 Vic.c.

Betish national character on the ship then or at spy subsequent tien prior to the writ la thi action being served and they were-during the whole of such period honestly under-the, ini- pression that they were entitled to use the British fisg and assume the British" national character on the ship in pursuance of such registration as aforesaid, orange

The Crown Advocate and Mr. Dhunčan McNeill appeared for the plaintiff | Mr. W. V. burg & Co. and Mr. Ellis watched the caus Drummond and Mr. Oppe appeared for/Glus- on behalf of Mr. J. McDow.

BMPEROR FWANG SU ILL

CHINESE PHYSICIAN SUMMONED.

[By courtesy of the "Shoung Po.");

Peking, 23rd April.

The Emperor.ie ill with swollen legs and

is unable to walk.

nese physician to the Palace to attend him.

His Majesty yesterday summoned a Chi

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IMPRISONED CHINESE EDITOR.

STARVING IN FRISON.

By courtesy of the Sheung Fo."}

*Peking, a3rd April, Tong Kai-sing, the manager of the Chin. ese newspaper who was recently sentenced to undergo a term of two years' imprison meat, has declined to take any food since his incarceration, notwithstanding the per suasion of his gaolers.

COMPULSORY EDUCATION.

INSTRUCTIONS TO THE PROVINCES.

[By courtesy of the " Sheung Po"]

Peking, a3rd April,

The Board of Education has issued

instructions to the authorities in the Pro- vinces, to institute a system of compulsory 'education within the territories under their

administration!...

Peking, 73rd Aprili The Imperial Government has instructed | all. Tartar· Generals to compel 'all-Bioner- men to send their children, above eight years of age, to school. Failing obedience to elder brothers will be punished. the Imperial command, the fathers and

The Tarlar Generals are also directed to establish manufactories for the teaching of industrial trades to the Bannermen.

CHINAMEN IN DUTCH COLONIES.

ALLEGED ILL-TREATMENT.

[By courtesy of the "Shewy Po"]"

Peking, 23rd April. The Chinese residents in Dutch Colonial

possessions having complained of alleged.

Dutch Minister at Peking with a view to ill-treatment by the Dutch, the Wairupu has placed itself in communication with the.

reforms being introduced in the treatment of Chinese subjects,

NATIONAL BANK OF CHINA.

FIRE IN MANILA.

EXTENSIVE DAMAGE.

THE NOTE ISSUE.

[By courtesy of the "Shrung Po").

Peking, 23rd April. In reply to inquiries, Viceroy Tuan Fang has informed the Chinese Government that the proposed rejection by the foreign Banks (0).

in Shanghai of, the notes issued by the very canny one?—I don't know. And a very Plaintiff's peittion stated that on or about National Bank of China, has been aban slow one too?-Perhaps so. (Laughter) —Î

October 21, 1907, in 'pursuance of directions | doned. don't like to have to put it to you but in it not from H. M. Minister at Peking, Mr. A. Rose, the case that there is a great deal of jealousy British Pro-consulin charge of H. M. Shipping between Irish and Scottish detectives 7-I don't Gffice at Shanghai, held an inquiry concerning know that Bookless is an Irishman, 1 thought the death of a Chinese coolie named Ma Yue. he was a Scotsman. He is described as a bai, which occurred on board the Maori King native of Peobles. Judgment was reserved.In the course of ibis inquiry it appeared, spon and now it appears that Bookless has lost his production of the chatter party of the said voy- case.-Ed, H.K.T.}÷

age, that though the registration of the steamer was effected upon the declaration of one J. M. FOREIGN RIGHTS IN CHINA. Dow, a Russian firm, trading as Ginsburg & Co., as owners, had in fact chartered the vessel to an American firm trading as 9. Zimmerman & Co. It further transpired that the persons on board and in charge of the said ship used the British flag and assumed the British national character for the purpose of making the said ship appear to be a British ship, and that the assumption

The fire department responded promptle; was not made for the purpose of escaping capture by an enemy or by foreign ship of and there were altogether assembled on the war in the exercise of belligerent rights, Plain scene 4 engine companies, 2 chemical com; tiff therefore seized and delaised the ships as panies, ladder company and an aggregate having become suhject to forfeiture under: Sec supply of 4,000 feet of hors, fmm Santa Cruz, 69, sub sec. 10, of the Merchant Shipping Act of San Nicolas, Intramuros and, Tandusy stations. 1894 and brought ber bere for adjudication. Under the personal direction of Fire Chief Plaintiff therefore asked for judgment, that the Dingman the situation was well in band in leas ship had become forfeited to his Majesty; an than half an hour, and although the dimes order for the sale of the vessel by the Marcostinued to break out again through the roof abal of the Court; the award to plaintiff of such and windows the effons to limit their scope to portion of the proceeds as might seem fit; and the smallest possible space proved altogether costs.

LAND IN NON-TREATY PORTS.

[By courtesy of the "Sheung Po.""]

Peking, 20th April, The Diplomatic Corps has agreed that properties in foreign ownership in the interior of China [se, in non- Treaty ports can be re-purchased by the local officials:

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The Waiwupu bas, accordingly, directed all the Provincial authorities to ascertain what are the properties held in China by Chinese Christians.

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KOREANS

CHINA:

WILLING TO ACCEPT CHINESE ŠUZERAINTY.

[By courtesy of the "Sheung. Po."]

Peking, 20th April. The Koreans. in Chiontao, on ac- count of their alleged ill-treatment -by-the-Japanese, ara reported to be willing to place themselves under the administration of Chinese officials

THE JAPANESE BOYCOTT. ADMIRAL LI CHUN. BLAMED, By courtesy of the Shtung Po

Peking, at April,

It la rumoured here that the Japanese Admiral LX Chun the blame for

"The petitioners" also urged the dismissal of Assistant Surveyor Kwok the boycott in Captons

DEFENCE..

A fire that threatened for a time to reach the Escolta, raged last night on calle David; ne- ports the Cablintas of 19th inst. The fire started in the bodegas of the Cosmopolitan Furniture Company, the entrance of which seems that" the Aimes faces calle. David. started in the upper story, and when iba alarm was turned in over box No. 12 the fire bad apparently been raging already for several minutes,

successful.

Chief Harding and Assistant Chief Green, of the police department, took personal command of the police forces, while members of the secret service department kept a sharp lookout for prospective offenders: ARRA KARANAS

Superintendent Hanson, of the street carcom→ pany, introduced for the first time hose jumpers and thus kept up an uninterrupted traffic along. the Escolta. The damages are estimated by Mr. Bachrach, the proprietor of the Cosmopolitan Furniture Company, to approach the 100.000 pesos mark, and he states that only half of this amount was covered by insurance. ft met e

In their defence, the defendants stated that they were Rosslad subjects carrying on busi- ness in St. Petersburg, and elsewhere, with branch office at Shanghai and that they were ́now and were' at the dates below mentioned the solo beneficial owners of the Afaori King, Defendants admitted that the British dag was used and the British national character was Assumed on the ship, but same, was, done in consequence of the abip having been register ed in the name of a British sabject la ac cordance with the law requiring such flag and rational character to be so assumed.

Load pizise was given to the heroic efforta: The ship was registered in the name of of the fire department by Mr. Anderson, of the one 1. M. Dow, a British subject and a clerk Manila Shirt Factory, and Mr Arthur Cohn, in defendants' employ on March 28, 1956, in of The Nobby, whose properties were for a few charterers who had Chatter is the reprints of certale-moments-la-danga

the ship and desired the same to be registered as British

thip and to be asiled under the Britlar day. A cooLin, about twenty-three years of age, wai Such registration was effected in ignorance-el-removed-to-hospital-by-the-West-Point police the law of Great Britain prohibiting,the same last night (19th inst.) to have bis injuries, which and in the belief that such registration, was be bad received in an accident treated," "The legal. Neither defendants nor their employee man, whose name is still not known, was stand." were warned by the officer in charge of the log at the junction of Hollywood Road Ind Shipping Registry at Shanghai that such Queen's Road West at about seven o'clock last registration was contrary to law." The defend evening when he was knocked detra by m Ente, ownership of the ship was about July bicycle ridden by an Indian policeman. My han 1956 mantioned by the defendants to the officer "picked up his fage: were found to be badly, i then favcharge of the Shipping Officerandi inceratedes, Hair expected to regiala in hospite defendants worn and informed that they hudyanı, al faz sevarni days : Hla Injuries, however, vre right to tise, the British, dag, and assume the“ not considered sezionamenti,

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