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The Hongkong Telegraph.

NEW SERIES. No. 5798 联四十月五年四十三赭光

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CONTENTS.

Birth, Marriages and Deaths, Loading Articles ་ *r

The All-Red Route...

Chinese Labour in India.

The Navy League,

The Oplam Crusade.

Japanese Financial Readjustment. A Question for Property owner. Telegrama

The Tattu Maru Affair,

The Opium Campaign.

Chiba'” New Navy.

Shangbai Dimculties.

Constitutional Government. Yuan Shib-kai's Soc. Tuang Fang Impeached. Colonel Martin Drowned. Press Lawa.: Hankow.Szechuan Railway. Chinese, Telegraph. The Yannau Riotais. Chiou's National Debt." Riot at Soochow

Hongkong Maru Ashore. Sudden Death at Shanghai. Anti-Christian Riots. Female Education. Switzerland and China. Lottery and Opium. The Empress of China,, Land Subsidence.

The Yuonon Rebellion. Gormany at Tsingtau.

Meetings:--

Legislative Council.

Eastern Extension Telegraph Company. Manchester Chamber of Commerce. Külangsu (Amoy) Municipal Council. -Legal-Intelligence!-

The Shatia Murder.

An Immigration" Agreement."

The Florida Water Cate

An Advertising Dispute,

Proposed judgment Reverzal

Pollog

Allaged Larceny of a Cheque, Robbery on the Canton Wharf, Scene in the Post Office, :

A New Regime.

A Good Capture..

Chair Coolies' Behaviour.

Burglar Captured, 2

A "Wily *Coolie.

Correspondence:

"A Legal Anomaly

Miscellaneous Artioles and Reports:

The Pawan Disaster.

A Sensational Incident..

Jonghong clegrap

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THE AIL-RED ROUTE..

(6th June)

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FRIDAY JUNE 2

THE NAVY LEAGUE,

That the Navy League has been passing through troublous times during the past year. has been manifest to all who have watched the course of events. It was apparent that

and abolished, the ef- being saved. Notably Cand of Toncomalee, which ada

base for sailing ships, would have cost, it fitted to deal with. vast amount of money, modern” würth This fact rendered the transfer of the naval base to Colombo both wisel and, in some ice of ways, economical, b efficiency was entailed ther

arrange gard & Esquimalt menis) have been Canadian Governm ministation" of them at the dispos should necessity! this matter it must Dominion

MA

address withdrew most of the

raised loan after loan in quick succession is not infallible, and carried out the expansion of the Army and Navy to an undue extent, but also ace the clause which he bad formulated, at complished the nationalisation of railways previous sitting, but we are inclined to In face of much opposition. All the relieve that he was actuated more by the iden modiái measures now being adopted by the that it was useless to run his hand against Government are of atemporising nature and stone wall than because he was convinced are not calculated to place the country the excellence of the Government proport fibance on a really sound foundation. It The question of the probable. is not likely that the financial stringency will new cls use on investments in

nows the be relieved even though the condition of romains And as everybody economic circles be improved, and so long property market has been in a very depre as the national finances remalny weak vandi stato for the last few years. Anything that adds cing vacillating a speedy resumption of economic to the Intricacies of the problem whether it activity can hardly be expected. A really is rise to invest in property is bound to have ith effective remedy for the financial malady, ad injurious effect on the market, and at a the continues the Takrojournal, citi only be time when the assessed value of land and Its found in the introduction of drastic measures. houses in Hongkong is stationary, and buyer of sea power,That is, the Government should readjust its are the revere of importunato a proposal to attention to the

fako its share Bondce so as to keep the expenditure strictly import new conditions into the purchase of recogming that Can

ntegrity of the within the revenue, and at the same time pro property is of extremely doubtful benent. in the printenance of

also have been vision should be made for the annual refund Mr. Stewart was curiously optimistic on the Empir The fact recorded that Australia is determined to ing of the loans so that the greater portion of subject, but, 'no' doubt,, he had adequate. have a Navy of her own in order to guard her the latter will have been redeemed twenty grounds for his optimism. In his own words shores presumably, against a Japanese inva or thirty years bence. Apart from the ex-the element of uncertainty remains, but it sion. is a somewhat astonishing fact penditure of the Army and Navy, what is obvious that's contingent liability to con that such an important circumstance should proves the largest drain on the treasury is tribute towards the cost of improvements is have been passed over, but the report is full payment of interest on the loans. The ex- less of an objection than a similat likblilty to of omissions of no less interest Germany,isting leans aggregale 2,000 million yen in contribute towards the cost of improvements as usual is held out as the bugbear of Eng- amount, and when to this is added the rail- and compensation as well. I under lish Naval expansion, although no mention way nationalisation loan amounting to 500 stand that the opinion of these recognis is made of the fact that the deficit million yen, the total will come to 7,500 ed authorities on property has undergone between the revenue and expenditure millions. The annual payment of interest considerable modification as result of of the German Empire for the past on these loads will not be less than 100 mil the concessions made in the matter of com was something like lion yen. It is proposed to pay interest on pensation, and that in their opinion the re twelve months £50,000,000. The report calls aloud for the railway loan out of the profit accruing maining objection is not serious enough to the expansion of the North Sea Fleet in from the railways, but in the present state of warrant continued opposition to the proposal. order to thwart the machinations of Ger things this will be impossible, as the railway In these circumstances, I do not feel justified many. From the League's point of view profit is lasufficient to meet the expenditure in pressing my individual objection to the alarmist stories may menu good business, required for the improvement and repairs of clause on this ground. I object in principle but why should Germany be perpetually the permanent way and rolling stock. When to the imposition of vague and indefinite dragged into the limelight as if she were everything and every possibility is taken into contingent liabilities upon any property the only country in the world that Great due consideration the only way but of the of any kind unless it can be shown to Britain has to guard against? Germany has difficulty must lie in the readjustment of the be an absolute necessity of the public more to lose by an unsuccessful attack on loans and a reduction of the military and welfare. I am not persuaded that this Great Britain than she could hope to gain naval expenditure. Again, thit will be the necessity has been made out. But I am if the raid proved to be successful and only way to maintain the financial credit of not prepared to ride my awd idea to death.” despite all the cries of the so-called patriots the country at home and abroad. If the Se that Mr. Stewart still stands in the posi the Empire of Great Britain is not to be Government continues to seek a temporary tion he took up at the previous meeting of swept to atoms in a single day, even if a relief by its bolstering up policy, the financial the Legislative Council. All that has been German Army were landed at Yarmouth skein will become still more entangled a few gained by the opposition to the claurs in and the North Sea squadron wiped out of years hence and may reach a stage where question is an elaboration of the authority responsible for the demolition, of chrtain. exis'ence. The balance sheet of the League no measure of remedy will be of avail,

buildings in Hongkong. Whether, that shows £547 at its credit.

concession will suffice to meet, the designs of the resumption scheme, whe ther it will tend to the 'eradication' of plague in the Colopy, still remains to be seen. After all, the supreme power rests with the Governor-in-Council and how the Governor-in-Council arrives at his decisions nobody can tell.

THE OPIUM CRUSADE...

(oth Jane.)

A. QUESTION FOR PROPERTY- OWNERS,

Sir Frank Swettenham's letter to The Times

After reading the speeches delivered at on the subject of the reront resolution of the the Legislative Council yesterday on the House of Commons concerning the Opium Trade: Prawy attention to the difficulties attend subject of the compensation which it is pro- fog, all aliempts to prevent opium-mokposed to award those property owners whose ing; as well as, jo the loss of revenus which houses may be reduced in size, the average prohibit will inflict upon British in the Far reader will wonder why Mr. Follock, the East. 16 only active way to prohibit the champion of the proletariat; should have re consumption of opium is to preves! its cultiva tion, whether in India, Chine, or Persia. Theremained quiet. At every tum Mr. Pollock's in the danger of resort to Licohol, and when name creeped up. It was introduced by the Asiatics ako to excess in alcohol they are Governor.when he referred to the vigorous ad

Telegrams.

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terest to the people of Hongkong and to all those who are affected by the use of Chinese labour. In referring to may, the question of Chincio cheap labour in Bengal, Mr. Larmour said, “It is certainly a fact which my experience has proved that Indian, or more strictly speaking the Beh gali, carpenter is being slowly but surely supplanted by his Chinese competitor. What the Chinaman's system of training may be I am not in a position to say, but it un doubtedly is far superior to anything that the Inno part of the world is the All-Red Indian carpenter can or does get Again, Route idea, more in evidence than in Canada, speaking from my own experience, this where the Imperial sentiment reigns gradual dying out of the Bengali carpenter supreme. Despite the vagaries of Kiplinge is very materially due not only to his lack of genins, particularly with respect to the feel-training but also to the disinclination of Ing in Canada-and Kipling had to atone parents to let their children follow the call for what Canada considered a grudge on ing of mechanics. I have known several account of his poem which seemed to de- instances of Bengali carpenters in my own scribe Canada as the land of ice and snow- employ bringing their sons to me to be the true Canadian has ever entertained a taken on as clerks in my office, with real-regard for the mother country and her an entrance or first-arts qualification colonies. This is evidenced from the fact Twenty-five years ago our workmen that Vancouver considers herself allied rather were nearly all Bengali Hindoos, and there to Hongkong than to Yokohama, Kobe or was not a single Chicaman in our employ Shangbal. On the question of the link and one or two Mohammedans, Now we have which joins this Colony to Vancouver, the a large number of Chinamen, and among 'World, of that important port, has some the Indians the Bengalis are in a very small interesting comments which are bound to minority, The Chinaman, it is true, gets Interest people in Hongkong. The quolas larger wages, but he earna his money to the tion to which attention may be called hilt, works readily, takes only one or at runs in the following terms:-Whether most two holidays in the year, is sober, it be the all-dominating sentiment for punctual, and intelligent, and does not need economy, or that the Imperial Govern to be continually urged to his work. The ment, like Mr. Wilkins Micawber, is pausing Bengali, 1 am constrained to day, livery preparatory to a great spring forward, the much to the contrary. He gets small wages fact remains that the "Overseas Maile is certainly, but he earns for his employer even not now in operation. The train which less than he gets... As a rule he takes little bught to have left Montreal last Friday or no real interest in his work, and if not did not leave because the money which carefully watched will scamp his job. This, makes both trains and mares go was therefore, is an argument which forcibly not forthcoming. There is some ground brings to the front the necessity that exists for the hope that the non-renewal of for some system of training that will im the subsidy is less due to an indis- prove the status of the Indian mechanic." position on the part of Mr. Asquith's ad- We are not surprised to learn that the China ministration to renew it than to sheer inad man is far superior to the Indian in the vertence and that the matter will be rectified matter of turning but good work: Evidences -in-time to permit the despatch of the "Oser of what the Chinese carpenter can do in the scs Limited" as usual next month. In the way of fancy work is before us daily. But it absence of information as to the causes is seldom that the charge is made againit underlying the failure to renew the subsidy the Chinese that they command better wages for a service which was doing much indirectly than their competitors. Rather they have to bring about the federation of the Em been described at blacklegs, willing to work pire, comment must necessarily be largely for a pittance sufficient to keep body and reserved. We may point out, however, that soul together In ore country, bowever, it the conditional, promise of an All-Red is clear that they stand at the top of the mail service some day in the indefinite market as wage-carders, and we may be quite future will not prevent the loss of the ad certain that their services would not com-. vantages which the Empire at large husmand high prices, unless they were well gained by the institution of the "Overseas," deserved. while, on the other hand, if the cessation is merely temporary it ought never to have been permitted to happen at all. We have always given cordial support to the All-Red project, but we have not been oblivious to the justice of the contention of the C. PR. that service instituted in com- petition with the pioneer lines which have` done so much to build up an inter-imperial / 2 section of the members was bent on utilis-prone to lose all self-restraint far more tapidly dress of the bon, member-last year on the sub- ing the League as a political instrument to than Europeans In Penang, and Singapore, Ject ofsanitation, and the arguments then used route, in the face of the splendid subsidies advance the Unionist cause in Parliament at any rate, the facilities for exchanging one were employed against his present attitude. paid to steamers sailing to American porte, Any stick is good enough to whip a dog vice for the other appear to be singularly ex-We hold no brief for Mr. Pollock, but wa sus

tensive. As The Times in its own leader would be grossly unfair, and we are glad to with, and the League was to be the stick remarks, it would be deplorable if the British pect that since those early days of his career at see that Lord Strathcona disavows any such with which the blatant "patriots" of Great Empire should lag behind China and satain a the Legislative Council his views have alter- proposal. An intermission, however, in the fritain were to flail the Liberal Govern system of licensed opium dens in our Eastern ed. If any other conclusion can be arrived subsidies, if prolonged during the period Oplom Houses in Shanghai and Hongkong-necessary for the formulation of an All-Redment. As the result of the very decided Colonies. But, as Sir Frank Swettenham points at, of course we are open to conviction, but opicion expressed by a majority of the mem- out, when the mover, of the resolution urged at the two meetings which have been largely scheme, will occaalon the loss in the mean bera that the League should carefully abidethat the question was between-money and devoted to the consideration of this third time of the valuable advertising of the by its rule to be "absolutely distinct from sibienassess be offered a very incomplete storey" idea Mr. Pollock has been to

de&altion of its realities. Colonel Stoly was route, which the "Overseas" is providing all party politics," several of the more bigot compelled to admit in the debate that, all intents and purposes passive is On the other hand,the,, new More than that it will be the occasion of ed members threw up their membership and though the righteousness is our own, the tener incalculable loss of a kind not to be estimal seceded from the League. The fact is admoner happens to be that of orber people, blood in the persons of Mr. Murray Stewart ed in concrete terms. The prairies are fill-mitted in the annual report which has just The Hoof Commons sa liule too ready and Mr. Slade has been exactly the reverse. ing up with Americans and other aliens who reached us, but the belief is held that the to open the righteousness that exalteth Somehow or another Mr. Stewart han be a nation, at the expense of people who are come the mouthpiece of the unofficial have yet to learn the meaning of the Improspects of the League never appeared more perial sentiment, and surely it is worth hopeful. One of the rules of the League is too always eager or able to bear the cost members, and it was rather amusing, not to

incidental, to movements of moral regenera

THE OPIUM CAMPAIGN, something to have them feel the thril of the effect that caval matters should be urged tion. Gir, Frank's last paragraph is put in bls say instructive, to notice how he won his pride in their, new country which those born

on the attention of public men and in well-known caustic style. He virtually sug colleagues to his side, and how, hig

ANTISMOKING, REGULATIONS: under the flag feel when the swift train which, particular on members of Parliament, In gesis that the aphorism applied by Colone! ideas were bolstered up with facts by

RECEIVED IMPERIAL SANCTION. lethe connecting link between the grey emphasising that point the report observes Sealy should be brought home-that the morals the civilian element in the Council. The Governor in his introductory ad- hounds of two oceans flashes from horizon that "during the past twelve monthis a con- goodies any; should have their fling, and that dress, which was evidently a carefully

of the Straits and Hongkong, which are ar to horizon. Man does not live by bread siderable amount of discussion has taken.

the British taxpayer should be providing the

[By courtesy of the "Sheung Po"] alone even on the wheatfields, and there is place as to what the functions of the League ibpey, "As either is to lose so much of their prepared statement, made no something in the dashing passage of His really are. A section of its members were revenues by the moral resolution of the House to his personal views, but rather threw the

Peking, 5th June.. Majesty's mails, en route from London to of opinion that it was the duty of the League of Commons, the Chancellor of the Exchequer onus of the Bill on the speakers who address-

The Board of Civil Affairs sub- Hongkong, something in the visible binding to be continually agitating on some point or asd the Colonial Secretary dold inform themed the Council a year ago, It is true he of the ends of the earth by a great Imperial other. They appeared to think that the that they need no longer pay 20 per cent, or expressed the thought that the clause should mitted, on the 4th, inst the anti- highway, something in the idea that one may League should consider its position with re-pos. Those who passed the resolution recommend itself to the Council, and that opium regulations. followthe setting sun halfway round the world gard to the Board of Admiralty as-similar to would then be paying for the privilege of their he trusted the members would adopt it up the code contains nine clanses: without leaving the Imperial jurisdiction, that of an Opposition with reference to a convictions. There are already symptoms of animously; but it is not the Governor's clause, which appeals to the imagination of native Government; but an overwhelming majority claims in Hongkong if the Government is not and wo are in the dark as to whether it is the born and immigrant alike and gives both a of the members declined to endorse this, ready to compensate the farmers for the Governor's idea regarding the papace The realising sense of the unity and splendour of and were of opinion that the position of balance of their term. With The Times, great point of the Governor speech, the great Empire to which they belong. The naval affairs was not then such as to warrant the SC.Express, which we quote, trusts that we quote from Hansard, ran in the following "Overseas Limited" and the racers on the an attempt to raise a public agitation. The when the Government took the decisive, and terms The third point I ask you to look in itself hatirely. laudable, step of ordering the at this clauss, from, ; Will this scheme The Freedom of the Press and Speech in All-Red-may not pay big dividends in new correctness of this opinion seems to have oplum dices in Hongkong to be closed, it took involve the Government in heavy ex business yet awhile, but they are the 15 been proved by the fact that no man of care to be assured that the fances of the penditure beyond the resources of the paratus of object-lessons in Imperial citizen-eminence or public position stood up on a Colony could be adjusted without prolonged

Colony? I have already pointed out it is ship which cannot be said to have a higher public platform for the purpose of declaring | dficulty.

much less costly than the present alternative value because they have a value which is not that the condition of the Navy wan, 11 a

of resumption and it

all can be applied commensurable with commercial value at all. whole, unsatisfactory. On the other hand,

Peking, 5th June. piecemeal I invite your attention to the a close and careful analysis of the various

fact that the clause reserves to the Govern HRH Prince Ching has re- fleets of the world, taking all factors into

ment in Council the right to put the scheme commended H.E. Yuan Shih-kai for consideration, showed that the relative (8th June.)

superiority of the British Navy was unimpair be question of financial readjustment is into operation or not. It cannot be forced The question of Chinese labour has re-ed, and that the two-Power standard was nowadays almost, a perennial topie of dit upon Government felther by an owner appointment as First Lord of the cently been agitating the seamen of Great actually maintained." That should afford cussion to the columns of the vernacular anxious to secure the improvement of his Admiralty which it is proposed to be Britain, while in other countries the interesting reading for those who clamoured Press in Japan. The Chronicle, of Kobe, property on the one band or on the other created for China, entire range of industries which have about the fatal results which wore says: The difficulty of post-bellum finance by the Sanitary Board, anxious to improvemen been invaded by the pertinacious Orientals bound to flow from the action of the became apparent, remarks the Mataich the general sanitation of the Colony to an SHANGHAI DIFFICULTIES SYM; Taylor, a son,

has been repeatedly under consideration, Ministry in keeping the cost of the Navy Dempor in the 39th (1906-7) fiscal year, extent which the revenue cannot bear," KAT

AS ABOUNDARY On June 2, 1908, at Shanghai, the wife of Mr. One of the stock arguments against the em within reasonable limits. All the talk about when the Government appropriated a largs In vulgar parlance, are we any forrarder? QUESTION OF FOREIGN Edward KilNER, of a 100.

ployment of Chinese labour by European playing into the hands of Germany was, it amount of the surplus of the war expenditure. Is this not a suggestion that the Government On June 3, 1908, at Shanghai, to Mr. and firme is that, the frugality of the Chinese, and seems, mere wind. Under the heading of Subsequently the Government was compel has no Iden what the expense will mean to viscolorat My W. FATYLER, LIÐA.

their's

r'manner of living enable them to work "The state and condition of the Nary" idi to abandon its loan projects, to consent the Colony-not to the well-to-do property HULE MARRIAGES.

a wages which would mean starvation for reference is made to various naval stations; to the postponement of Government under owners but to the ratepayers who have to fish Pilat Kaightsbridge, CHARLES, the white labourer. It is also contended but there is no mention of Hongkong, or of taking and to have recourse to further for every penny they make? Where in the Sünger son of M, Erilz: Reiss, of 47, Post-

13.WA Led ESME, third daughter of that the long hours which the Chinese work the withdrawal of the battleship squadron increas of taxes. All these expedients have, guarantee that the scheme will not cost as much LEENED, The Grove, Hellington, Soster man will cheerfully submit to and his pati- from the China Sea. It is related that homehed jule effect in saving the situa- as or more than the resumptiod of conserted under-top the present embarrassment is due areas? Neither was the answer to the ques- 000506/11, 198, at Shanghel, ETHEL ence under all sorts of conditions make him when Sir John Fisher In 190

the Jeckless expansion of the cration why if this scheme was so advantaged Forrest daughter of the late formidable and undesirable intruder in a took the duties of First Sea

the real to property owners had they failed D GORDON STUART VALEN-market which is dominated by organised the Admiralty, the Navy

GOT:cognise It In the HÁS Bidwell'

Leave a unions. It je not often, however, that a tri- many, and drastic chaoge

Portuguese Consulship,

The Taliu Maru Affkir.

The Bokkeri Buoy.

Suicide on the Korea.

As Echo of the Russo-Japanese War,

The Japanese Boycott,

Hongkong Volunteer Reserva Association, Hongkong's Shippjbg,,

Alleged Highway Robbery..

How Chinese Boycott the Goods of Japan. Dock Co's Opportunity.

The American Fleet.

The Civil Service Estimates,

A Scientific Discovery.

"West River S. S. Ca.

The Straits Sunday Labour Ordinance.

Accident at Causeway Bay,

Hongkong Gymkhana Club,

The Late Colonel Martin.

Inspector Wardork's Retirement..

Sampan Capsized.

Chinese on British Shippy'

Worries of Housewives/ Golf.

The Plague.

Volunteer Corps Orderi

Canton Day by Day,

The Opium Campaign..

China and Japan.

A Gunboat Squadron for Shanghai, The Anti-Opium Crusade.

Death of Captain J. C. Williamson.

Another Hankow Riot.

A Shanghai Wedding,

A Hongkong Chidaman-

Opium Prohibition.

Yunnan Aftermath,

Suicide ip Tokyo.

The spinese in Manchuris.

The Nippon Yusen Kaisha,

The Colton Yaro Lottery Scheme.

The New Imperial Yacht.

Shipping Subsidies in Japan,

Sugar Manufacture in Japan..s

Japan Tende:*

The Japanese Exhibition.

Japanczo Trade.

The Maich ladastry,

The Cattle Trade..

·Gommarcial:

Weekly Bhare-Report. Yara Market.

Exchange, Local 'änd General

FURTHS,

On June 1, 1908, at Shanghal, the wife of

CHINESE LABOUR' IN INDIA.

bute is paid to the quality of the work pro personnels

END, BEC 50, "duced by the Chinese artisan, and for that | In other

WILA

rossón a speech which was recently deliver to be SANDERS, Shan bat: od in the Babil Tehn

fros Council by almíny

of special in

JAPANESE

READI ZA

(ixth June.)

We are told that

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allusion

and

SERVICES

THE TATSU MARU” AFFAIR

· INDEMNITY CLAIM,

{By courtesy of the "Sheung Po

Peking, 5th June. Japan has telegraphed to China: that the repairs to the s.5. Tatsu Maru No. 2 have been completed,

An indemnity of about two hun. dred thousand dollars has been claimed fróm, China.

with twenty-three sections.

The regulations have received perial sanction

CHINA'S NEW NAVY.

PROPOSED APPOINTMENT,

By courtesy of the Shoung" F"]

GERMAN! ASSESSOR'S ADVICE, ina

[From Our Own-Correipondanif

June.