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less than

pronounced

unworthy of

THE HONGKONG TELEG

most

They would have been Trust

in-them

and unworthy of their own reputation For tunately they have risen to the occasion and A. 8. WATSON & CO., in them lies bave to the utmost of

their ability done their utmost

utmost to justify the confidence of their compatriots. But if the committee of the Tung Wa-which is the responsible body when matters affecting Chinese affairs are concerned-have done their best, It is to be feared that red tape and scaling wax are still capable of successfully opposing anything like bustle and energy, even when the lives of hundreds of Chinese are at stake. The old circumlocutory methods of officialdom still serve to thwart and delay progress even in a matter of life and death, and up to the time of writing it would seem as if the Government of 'ongkong had utterly failed to realise the importance of expedition, or at all events are not convinced that there is any special necessity for a display of haste. Of course

CHEMISTS

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APPOINTMENT TO HIS EXCELLENCY THE

GOVERNOR And HaugenOLD.

WATSON'S HYGIENOL.

AND

BUBONIC PLAGUE.

It has been proved by repeated experiments that "WATSON'S HYGIENOL" is the most potest agent for the des'raction of feax, especially rat fleas..

It is a well known fact that Plague is como secure the means essential for the dis veyed to human beings by means of fleas from

rats which have died of this disease.

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All risk of infection can be avoided, by washing the flrors, etc, or sprinkling where the fleas are likely to be with a dilute solution of "WATSON'S HYGIENOL." A tes spoonful to a pint of witer, or a teacupful to three gallons, makes a solution of the strength required for this purpose.

The subject of Ch perennial interest on the Pacific

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24-

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the original obj Forid

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give the

ly owing to the attitude adopted by the all-merclianice, touriste, etc, powerful labour unions who control the effect of this clause is political machine. As die consequence of officials greater control over the situation, the agitation instituted in San Francisco, that is, larger discretion in refusing adwis the Government of the United States found slon itself in a serious predicament, for at one possibly have the effect of putting a stop to the exemption clauses. It may time it seemed R if the agitators were the practice of bringing Chinese house opposed not merely to the landing of Chi servants in a students and sending them to bese coolies but were against the admission the public schools for a year to qualify, If of all Chinese irrespective of the purpose of it were further provided that after a specified their visit or their standing in China. When period Chinese students must return to their the Cantonete declared a boycott against own country, all the legitimate objects of the American producis as a retaliatory measure exemption would still be attainable but its and made it an effective force from Shang. use for the purpose of evading the poll-tax hai to Penang, the foreign exporters on the would be less feasible." Pacific slope began to realise that unless they modified their attitude towards Chinese immigrants one of the greatest potential markets in the world would be closed to them;

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

THE and O. Company's steamer Aubia left

to the valus of £30,334 for Singapore, Tilk retief crows and ratings destined for the Chios Squadron will not be, despatched to Hongkong till after the naval marizuvres of June and July,

Ar the approaching Oxford Commemoration the honorary degree of D.C.L. will be confer red upon Sir Ernest Mason Solow, formed British Minister at Peking.

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THE Hongkong, Canton and Macho Steambon! The Hai Song will be placed on the run; bor Co. are reviving the Macan-Canton service, initial trip is advertised for the 1st July. wise the ss, Catherinr Apoir was leaving the harbour for Singapore yesterday, a would-be emigrant jumped into the sex, and was rescued by the tender Stang, The min was picked up in his last gasp, and was turned over to the Water Police,

West River Floods.

CANTON RELIEF ORGANISATIONS. CHILDREN KIDNAPPED BY RODDER BANDS, From Our Dion Correspondent

Canton, 23rd June The reports which contions to arrive from so, perba the inundated districts down the Fe sed West | vince. Rivers fully corroborate the earliest accounts of

here on

enings of

SY PATH record food in these parts. Emissary after the art instant, with rice the gravity of the distress brought about by thebe Kwang Chow emissity on bikalf of the suppl'cants for urgent the flooded districts, bis not yet returned 10 succour continues to arrive at home hourly Camion and as each presents his tale of woe to the board of management of

It is reported that H.E the Viceroy, whe of the darply moved by the distressful various charitable institutions, the pressing last week, proposes to proceed. character of the aid which must be forthwith make ad inspection of the taut rendered is brought home to the guardians of Admiral, Li Chub, soon after his that all are putting their shoulders to the same riverine districts, and lost no time the poor. To their credit it must be recorded Hongkong, heard of the

wheel with a deformigation to press forward the to ascertain the state of offers. He bat dow measures of relief which admit of no dilatorio'urned to Canton and bal Submitted. report pers in their execution; if the hundreds-may, on the disastrous inundation to the the thousands, oflife which are crying out lathe devastated" hills and" plios of the

HONGKONG'S SYMPATHY. ow that an approximate estimate

civering

of Hongkong, are to be saved. I mention

Hongkong because do urgent appent has one forth to the Chinese merchant princes. of your Colony for co-operation in funds and kind in the work of relief which the Go

city to carry out without a moment's delay. vemment and people have joined hands in this

CANTON UNDERWATER,

the

eding.

-begin-

the dister which overlook Lis Ind Southern

Provinces bust week, it was to be expected allied as Hongkong is in athipity and comme with the mill ons of Kwangiung, if but slig estranged from the inhabitants of Kwangsl, the Chinesa residen's in this Colony wou'd have been the first to be appealed to for material Although the rain has ceased to fall in help in relief of their compatriots in de torrents for the past three days and the lion and misfortune. The fall and extended weather seems favourable enough, the flood observer inrough the entire length of the

report

or of the flood as it appeased to a close

its subsidence appreciable Tha stieris in the day's issue, will have prepared the citizens of rise in the water does not continue, acilber is which we were enabled to give in. our: Mon, shows no sign of abstement. It is true that the f

affected districts from Wuchow to Saidam,

some are two to three feet while others from must reach the Colony, as it did arriva in. west in suburb of Caulon have been flooded Hongkong for the appeal which inevitably, four to five feet under water. A veritable lake three urgent telegrams which were received in has been formed in the district and sampans Hongkong within twenty-four hours of inn font and glide along in the streets with na much freedom and safety as on the river. The directors of the Tuog Wa Hospital of Hongkong. publication of our first and detailed report: The

were handed three telegraphic despatches from a

houses being soded, residents have to grect

AMONGST a number of Empire Day greetings high stands on which they place the perishable Canton, in quick succession: yesterdaya An

sent from British Colonies to the Daily Mail is the following telegram from Sir F. 1. D. Lugard, the Governor of Hongkong: "The

goods and articles to prevent destruction.

GOVERNMENT RELIEF. Members of the gentry from several of the

emergency meeting of the Board was at once summoned to consider, the telegrams. At the same time the Registrar Ganstal, who is er

the fact that a certain number of people are fand a compromise was reached when it was London on 23rd ult, with specie in cola silver districts to the binevolente of Caning and even bing" to be formed of the xest and gravity of perishing at a certain place or places for agreed that only Chinese coolies should be wänt of bicid, and are likely to fall victims excluded, merchants, tourists and students to starvation after having been rescued from being freely allowed to land. That con- drowning, may not appeal with such force to cession greatly cleared the air and the ban those in high offices as it does to the Chinese against American goods was for all practical community who understand the situation, and purposes removed. In Canada the problem for that reason the inaction shown may be part of Chinese Immigration was largely solved doned. Nothing more clearly indicates how by the imposition of a heavy poll tax of $500 extremely grave is the state of affairs on con- gold which it was believed would serve to ceived by the members of the Tung Wa than act as a barrier against the coolic class. labour resorted to new tactics. If the Chi- the speedy manner in which they went to work Naturally, the enterprising agents of Chinese patch of relief to the famine-stricken sur.nese coolie could not be imported except vivors of the flood. The Tung Wa members after the payment of the tax then he must be received telegrams at 8 p.m. last night, out smuggled into the country, and a brisk trade lining the conditions prevailing along the in contraband Chinese immediately sprang route from Samshui to Wuchow; the com- into being. The authorities took steps to mittee were called together and the conclu check the illegal traffic, only to find them sion was immediately arrived at that "a big selves checkmated by a new phase of the calamity had befallen them, not only in law; Last year, a number of Chinese were Kwangsi but the whole Province of Kwang arrested in Montreal and sent to gaul on the tung." Such language coming from said, charge of being in Canada without having austere and thoughtful "Chinese is highly paid the poll-tax. It was shows that the from the reserve fund of the Tung Wa as an and to the lay mind it looked as if they were emergency loan, and the members on, the

as guilty of the offence as the man who did spot themselves subscribed $5,900 towards tlie smuggling The courts, however, took the relief of their compatriots. As regards a different view and as a result of habeas THE King has been pleased to give and grant the Chinese abroad the imprimatur of corpus proceedings the Chinese were set at

unto Mr. Robert Mane, Chief Engineer of the the Registrar-General has to be obliberty on the ground that while they could Nippon Yusen Kaisha Steamship Nikko Maru, His Majesty's Royal licence and authority to lained before any appeal can be made be refused admission to Canada if they did accept and wear the insignia of the Sixth Class by telegram and although the Tung not pay the poll-tax, once inside Canada, who of the Order of the Rising Sun, conferred upon Wa representatives met that official to ther they paid the poll-tax or not, they could him by his Majesty the Emperor of Japan in day, and in accordance with his desire not be interfered with. The decision was re-recognition of valuable services rendered by sent him a written statement embodying ceived with consternation in British Columbia, him. A. S. WATSON & CO., the action of the directorate-and it must not be forgotten that the Registrar- LIMITED,

General is himself ex officio head of the Tunga Hospital-no answer one way or the other had been received this afternoon from the Government depart. (33ment. Thus while the matter is one of the

extremest urgency the philanthropic inten tions of the Tung Wa members are coldly frustrated by forms and ceremonies of pro- 'cedure. The worst of it is that inaction at the present inoment cannot but be re- garded as callous apathy and no amount of explanation afterwards will convince the charitable institutions of Canton that the The Raitor will not autoriwka, to be responsible for Chinese in Hongkong have not deliberately in the Canadian Senate specially designed tremen, which caused his death. The jury second mercifat errand as acob as the stores

significant. A sum of $10,000 was voted men, had been smuggled in by'a small vessel permanency of the Empire depends on the inundated districts have arrived here with officio a member of the directorate, was ap

LY HENOL IS A POWERFUL

DISINFECTANT AND GERMICIDE,

PRICES PER PINT50 Cents

GALLON $2,00

HONGKONG DISPENSARY,"

Hongkong, 27th May, 1908.

SOTICE." Allemansdictions Intended for publication it "The HONGKONG TELEGRAFIT." should be addressed to The Editor, 1, Ice House Road, and should be accompanied by the Welter's Name ant

Addres

Celinary business communicacions innuid-baä kiroved

to The Manager.

"any ́rajected MS; not to retim any Contribution.

SUBSCRIPTION RATES AN ADVANCE) DAILY-180 per ann WEEKLY-$13 par annn.

The postage on the weekly issue to any part of the

world & 30 conta per quarter,

decided-to-ignore the imploring appeals for aid addressed to them. However, the Tung. Wa members were fortunately in a position to buy up the entire stock of ship's-biscuits in Hongkong, some 2,000 piculs in The rates per quarter and per arasem, proportional.quantity, representing some 270,000 lbs, The dally inele delivered free when the addres i Part of that quantity was sent off last night aconible in messenger. On copies sent by post anand part went to day. The fact that biscuits füftional $1.80 per quarter is charged for postage instead of rice were sent, in the first place is without doubt admirable proof of the for- sightedness of the members, for it has to be borne in mind that the majority of those at the point of starvation are without the most primitive means of kindling a fire. All the country is under water and such a thing as fuel is out of the question except in a very few places skirtling or within measurable distance of the West River. Of course, the ingenuity of the sufferers will surmount that obstacle in time so that supplies of rice THE CRY OF THE STARVING.may be distributed, as is being done by the

Single Copies Nails, en conte Weekly, twenty

Avá centa.

The Hongkang Telegraph

PONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 1908.

de-

prised of the object of the meeting. At veren o'clock in the evening the members of the Committee met at the board hall. Mr. Tam Hck Po, chairman of directors, presided, and

there were also present Messrs. Het Kom

consideration of the faterests of each unit, imparts of the calamity and the, prevailing dia Trotni Pitial justice to all races, and the willingness dress to the provincial authorities.

Chang, the Numhoi mi,istrate, has proceeded to make sacrifices for the Empire's defence,"

on board another gunboat with rice and a supply of gunny bags a cruise along the flooded distr cts to distribute food to the people in want and to furnish the bags to this employed in Top, Chau Biu Ki, Lau Chu Pak, Chiu Yen embankment construction to stem the flood, Lok Churn and several others, After ex- Tin, Ng Hop Chi, She Tat Choy, Chan The Government laugh Shine Foo has Bio-plaining the object of the meeting the been out for two days with rice sad guany chairman preceeded to read the telegiams which. bags for distribution among the unfortunates had been received from the Nice Charitable The Sain Fed returned to Cantonas son as her Insitutious and the Seventy- wo Merchants

for it seemed to put a premium on smuggling, THE King has been pleased to give and grant since, regarding the Chinaman as contraband, upto Edward Gordon Lowder, Esq. a Com. the high duty would naturally tempi adven-missioner in the Chinese Imperial Customs turers to get them ashore. The matter was | Service, His Majesty's Royal licence and au- brought to the attention of the Canadian|thority to accept and wear the insignia of the Government, which was called upon to enact First Class, Third Division, of the Imperial additional restrictive measures which would Chinese Order of the Double Dragon, confer have the effect of providing against the China, in recognition of valuable services ren led upon him by his Majesty the Emperor of continuance of an obvious anomaly. "Ifaded by him. man who had been smuggled into Canada without payment of the poll-tax become inquest was held at the Magistracy, this thereby а

afternoon, as the body of Erio-Nielsen, 39% whole intention of the law was

citizen of Canada, the Swedish engineer, who died in the Victoria feated. Last month, we learn, a Govern the House of Detention on Monday Jast as a Goal, this morning. Deceased was sent to ment measure was read a second timevagram. Last night he developed delirium to deal with those Chinese who have landed Messrs-O-Weisinger, E. TR. Well and on Canadian soil without leave. r licence. Welter-returned a verdict of death from The Bill enacts that: "Every person of

"natural causes." Chinese origin who-(a) lands or attempts to land in Canada without payment of the tax payable under this Act; or (b) wilfully evades or attempts to evade any of the pro- visions of this Act as respects the payment of the tax by personating any other in dividual; or (c) wilfully makes use of or attempts to make use of any forged or fraudulent certificate issued to any other person for any purpose connected with this Act is guilty of an indictable offence, and liable to imprisonment for a term not ex- ceeding twelve months or to a fine not ceeding five hundred dollars, or.to boils, It is also provided that: "Persons of Chinese origin shall, if guilty of an offence under the last preceding sub-section in addition to safe prerasties, aloo celinable ta dition to the

stock on board was exhausted, “

GYING FOR HELP.

2.1.

Guilds In substance the telegrams were

An appeal to the Tung Wa Hospital to co-operate with the Chaton: Chalitabia Institutions to raise subscriptions for the. purchase of rice in aid of the sufferers. 2-A quest to the Tung We Hospital to cib'e to the Chinese residents in the out mazes portacand÷in foreign countries in collect

subscriptions for the Flood Tellef Funds. 3A reques: to purchase two thousand piculs of ship's biscuits for immediate shipment Canton for distribution within the inun- dated districts.

In the course of her mission of mercy, on the 21st inst, the Skin Foo which was proceeding up the West River came across numbeilers sampans whose occupants were crying sloyd help: On the embankments crowds of them could be seen from the deck of "150

their neigbhcurs for help to pair the dykes. launch sigorously sounding gougs appealing to

The villagers ware pursuing their hfa and Ideath task with grim determination. From all directions heart-reeding cries for brp could be heard by those on board the Shin, Foo, totion-war-adopted on the motion of Mr. Ng which the voices of men mingled with those of Hon Chi, seconded by Mr. Hung Chi Leung, The Shin, Fod will again be loaded with the women, and the aged with those of children. vi. necessary supplies and despatched on can be got on board,

KIDNAPPERS RENDER PARENTS

DISTRAUGHT.

ber

After some discussion, the following resolu

That sum of $10,000 be temporarily leat from the funds of the Tung Wa Hospital. for remittance to Capton, which sum is to be refunded from subscriptions raised-from-- the Chinese community in Hongkong to-✨ wards the Flood Relief Funds,

When the business of the meeting had been, MR. J. H. Kemp, presiding as Coroner, order- "On the zist instant the embankments in the concluded the sixteen directors present raised ...... ed a summons to be issuet against William Samabui district collapsed. The villagers rad among themselves a sum of about $5,000, Webb Wilson, a Juryman, who failed to appear to the hills known as Pang Kong Shan with There were three individual subscriptions of tacy, this afternoon. Mr. Kemp stated that at the inquiry which was held at the Magis. | their familich for refuge, while the able-bodied | $590 each, others being of $1. 0, $30% and $200 this was the third occasion that jurors bad dykes, which were in a dilapidated con

men were busily engaged in mending the each. failed to attend when called; and unless the dition. As if the measure of their misery community are concerned it must be mentioned So far as the leading members of the Chinese missing juror attended before the conclusion of was not enough, a gang of robbers taking to their credit that they took immediate action the inquiry and apologiser, er give some good advantage of the abse co of the men, began to give effect to the touching appeal from their excuse for keeping away, he would impose the to ply their nefarious trade in the raidst compatriots in Canton. Within two hours af maximum pedalty.

of the surrounding distress, The brigands the termination of the mosting all the avail- DURING the continuation of the poisoning trist rushed up-to those bills and kidnapped able supplies of biscuits in Hongkong amount. at the Police Count, yesterday afternoon, in

a dumber of children from their helplessing to several hundred piculs were shipped which an accountant is a shoemaker's shop in mothers who were distraught with unfold on board the so. Ewingull and us. Fair Wellington Street is accused of administering misery. Upsa real sing the loss of their han for transport to Canton. By the ax Heungshan at 8 o'clock this morning, a second poison to three men, two of whom died from children, the women gave vent to mere

lot was despatched, and it is expected by the Bight beats to day that the order for 270,000 that of bigcnit will have been oxsented in fall-

the robbers, who had decamped, were too quick for the soldiers.

MORELIEF MEASURES,

By telegraphic transfers

els carly this forenpon the ten thousand dollars was transmitted over the wires to the central committee of the Ro

Vesterday

Canton At two o'clock ink had

purpose of taking steps at once to relieve the sum of money will be collected for when Institutions in Canton held a meeting for the afternoon the general subscription list was opened. It is confidently expected that a large food sufferers. Touched by the predicament seen by a member of our staff this mom of their fellow countrymen and the impending nga representativa member of the Chinese distress threatening them, the members of the community, what position to ex benevolent societies all promised to raise funds big calamity has befallen, not only Kwang presa ansuthoritative epicion, said: "A to buy forthwith all necessary provisions to be si bat our own pervince of Kangiang taken to the districts to be distributed to the Our people are thoroughly sympathetic and infortunates, who are now eagerly looking for realize the urgency of the call from our fellow lostance, vole a certain sum of money for the help. Each of the institutions will, in the first starvation.

countrymen who are reduced to the verge of

purpose.

the effects, the survivor-Lam Kwong-sad-widering and their rich regard tour of

siderable distance, The guard boar to the denly collapsed while on the witness stand, and had to be sent to the Government Civil Has vicinity were communicated with the fact, but pital. The unfortunate man, it will be remem. gunboats sent from Canton. And the sooner That clause should certainly meet the rehered had been a week in hospital prior to the Prompted by a series of urgent and be that the Government of Hongkong authorises quirements of the Canadian law, and is commencement of the trist: The case WAY seeching telegrams from the guilds and the depatch of the cables abroad-the sooner entirely in accordance with Canadian sent immediately adjured, charitable institutions of Canton, pourtraying will all the necessary arrangemente for the ment The regulations governing the ad- «NIL CESPERAKDUM," writing from Hoag in vivid language the sufferings and misery systematic alleviation of the sufferings of the mission of persons specially exempted from kong to the Daily Broll, says: -Japan at the of those who have been the victims of the ho eless and ruined peasantry of Kwang-payment of the poll-tax have been revised present moment has two advantages over the almost unprecedented inundations both in tung and Kwangsi be completed. But the and now stand as follows:--Paragraph (c) of rest of the world, neither of which is likely to Kwangtung and Kwangsi, the leading re-assistance of the Government in formally subsections of section 7 of the sald Act is be permanent these are Government sub- presentatives of the Chinese community in acquiescing in the proposal of the Tung Wa repealed and the following is substituted sidies and cheap productino. Sub'idies are Hongkong have acted with an alacrity which committee should not end there. Would it therefore) (1) Merchants, their wives a merely ADDiber way of expressing loss, and benrays how keenly they appreciate the not be a gracious and worthy action on minor children; (a) The wives and minor cheap production Zepends on cost of living Decessity that immediate steps should be the part of His Excellency the Governor children of clergymen; (3) Tourists; (4) Therefore, provided we are ready to adapt our

To only one of the appeals from Canton has As elsewhere, this is rapidly rising in Japan, taken if the survivors of the visitation are to to adopt immediate measures of a per- Men of science; (5) Students under seven-selves to altered conditions, and produce the be saved from starvation. How Inoperative sonal character in order to express the teen years of age; (6 (Subject to such re best possible quantity at the lowest possible

noresponse been made yet. That is the cable it is that there should not be the very sympathy of the people of this Colony with gulations as may from time to time be made price, we need not lose heart.

supplication to the Chiness abroad. This being slightest delay in responding to the appeal. our neighbours in Kwangtung in the terrible by the Governor-in-Council) duly certified

An appeal will be made to the Viceroy to an action relating to what may be termed grant a sum of money towards the funds. The is, deferred peeding the concurrence of the the "foreign relations of the Tang W, action for help is evident from the character of the misfortunes which have befallen them? As teachers; who shall substantiate their status

Masa Stella Brumfield, of 49, Hollywood Road, Viceroy will, at the same time, be requested to Registrar General. Why this dalay, when tans telegrams from Canton, and that the Chi- we said yesterday, unless the victims of the to the satisfaction of the controller, subjectpaid $5 compensation this morning to the memorialise the Throne on ale calamitous of thousands of homeless had finishing peop neae community has not failed to recognise flood are tidel over their present difficulties to the approval of the b'inister, or who are ing yesterday. Accused, it was alleged, refused immediate pecuniary assistance. At the meet. The delay abould be capable of explanatio chair coolle, whom she was charged with assault state of affairs prevailing and to apply for are awaiting succour, it is difficult to exp the Imperative need for urgency is made by outside help, we shall see a marked re bearers of certificates, of identity, or other to pay the coolie his fare, and when he de-ing it was decided to at pace engage a steam plain by the fact that within two hours after crudescence of crime in the two Kwang similar documents issued by the Governmanded it threw two glasses of water over him, launch which will be loaded with ricon receiving these messages a large consign provinces which will still further affect the mentor, by recognized offcial or repre- and struck bin with the glass, catting big, pickled vegetables and other neceriary, food from the charitable innleder ment of food

od stu was on its way to commercial Interests of this Colony. Already sentative of the Government whose sub- Miss framfield admitted throwing the stads to harry to the Wes Canton, Had there been any tendency reports are to hand concerning the doings of Jects they are, specifying their occupation, water, addi shown to view the position of affairs with that lawless characters who are taking advantago and the ject in coming into Canada. calm incredulliy of superior wisdom affect

ed by he self-constituted quidnunca, the

of the opportunity to ply their nefarious. It will be seen that the law is in no' trade and pile agony upon agony on the clin

custodians of hincao charities In. Honge distressed people and this is only Ebo would have been guilty of nothing

existing loc

PASMAPPEAL TO THE VICEROY,

that the coolie had proveked her. Bureau will be opened to c

Kemp) aid he though

bad been committed, osation should,

and

In the coome, of the s. (dpons

Tong Wa Hospital received amoil

aparate

in

is an additional réc of biscuits. The deavouring