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The Hongkong Telegraph

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CONTENTS.

Birth, Marriage and Deaths. Leading Artioles

American Trade-marks in Japan.. Bankruptcy Reform,

The Financial Condition of Japan. Trade Depression in the Philippiass Features of the Flood Relief Fund. Why Not the Governor ?

An Extraordinary Allegation.

Telegram:

France and Chioa...

Old Monuments,

Chinese Telegraphs.

Constitutional Government..

A Hongkong Bank Loan.

"An Expensive Guest.

Sugar.

Retrenchment.

West River Flood..

China's Government. Chinese Legations Abroad, Strike at

Heat in Peki Compulsory Education. Shortage of Funds. Storm in Peking.",

* China and Sweden.

Parliament for China, Meetings:

Legislative Council. Legal Intelligence :--

·A Matter of Jurisdicti›n.

A Skipper's Claim.

Repairing a Ship.

A Granite Dispute.

Damages to a Juok.

Female Litiganis. Follow:

The Dock Co. Charge,' Alleged Attempted Murder. Alleged Forgery.

Opium "Running,* Insolent Chair Coolies.

Correspondence:~.

Amusements Wanted. Miscellaneous Articles,and Reports:-

West River Floods.

Hongkong's Sympathy.

MAIL SUPPLEMENT.

興大和月六年四十三精光

ESTABLISHE

SATURDAY

rupt to have kept propar books of acce within two years preceding his bankrupt

Jongkang elegraph without excosa, the committee

ARAN, SMAIL SUPPLEMENT,AND DANS

make an offence punishable by imp It is suggested,

where the liquids

ISSUED GRATIS TO SUBSCRIBERS, should only upcy axceed 5200

HONGKONG, SATURDAY, JULY 4, 1908

AMERICAN TRADE-MARKS. IN JAPAN.

debte proved in sad that no prosecution is to take place before the lapto of ftwo years from the passing of the law. The committee state that a dubtor abould [not be held to bays committed a punishable offence if this omission to keep proper books was bonsel and excusable, and did not cond tribute in his

buted (oby raptor contr..

for fallure to

court

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will be possibilities of the dependency but their does might be.efforts in this respect have beet greatly will

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doubt be scanned by a few ok handicapped by the trust

anleg people, pigeon-holed for future: ons," | "Americk Alle Godgrens/

toho refer ice, and eventually i forgot com willing to make a breach in the tariff wall in if the merchants, and manufacturer of the but natur- favour of those products of the Pallippins Philippines, keep pegging away at the sub- thy of the name Islands which do not come into commercial:ject: they may soblave some measure of the unfortunate confilet, with similar products in the States, ccess onéi these fine days,

and for all there is a distinct and well-organised paris) record con opposed to the free shtry of such articles as ↑ affairs which | sugar and tobacco, the cosaufacture of which of) wild-cat fotations. |is in the hands of a few millionaires who do trade the total volumé, not hesitate to employ their wealth in order table figure, to prevent the introduc:od of competitive theloss ofany substantia) partofn dabtor's estate of

an in- goods. I has petition framed by the merg within the year precedidg bankruptcy

on chantsḍn! Manila is of a soibewharapologetić; punishable, the commilles say should be made pun

which was "and" "plaading" character) of Thet signatories: The general question of registration of firms.

2). On taking say that Slice the 13th day of Auguri) other than their own, the report fiates, is, ore. and persent carrying on business io, namas

separately, we, 1898, the affairs; économic and political; of of great importance to the trading community

exports, was yes the Philippine, people,” have been under which should not be overlooked in considering

increase of absolute control of the Odvernment of the the causes of insolvency, and the compulsory

31) or over a per cent United States. We recognize the fact that registration of the names of all persona Carry-

fat in the preceding year which was yen ↑ during the ten years this relation has con- log on business in other than their own names would not only assist in preventing the c evils

(40,164), whiletheimports | tinued, much has been accomplished for the which now arise from andischarged bankrupt amounted to yer 494,000,000 (50,614,754) advancement and uplifting of this race and using names and persoon for the purpose of

of yếm 76,000,000 (£7,786,886) the development of industry in these Islands. carrying on business, or taking part to trading or 18 per cent on those in the preceding We are not insensible to the benefits of the on credit without disclosing their identity, bot which came up to yen 418,000,000 grest public school system ; nor of the fiscal would also tend to prevent the giving of credit

7,869). A comparison of the im- system yanor of the system of railroads and to other paisons who are not entitled to it, and

id exports shows an excess of the public improvements that have been inaugu would to that extent tend to diminish the causes of P

slice of audit, the forest amounting to yen 63,000,000 rated by and with the energy fidelity and convincy-reaming that it should be a cri- (469521459). In 1906, after the restora genius of the American people. Yet, while 'committee Permmand; ins 'minal offence for „a'

a' undischarged bankrupt to tion of peace, the market bad recovered and, the United States has done so much for us, obtain credit for more than without disclosing moreover, as the economic world in Europe so that will make for the security and that fact, and that it should be a misdemeanour and America was in a favourable condition, stability of prosperity in the future, there is punishable by imprignoment for a backup it led to the activity of the Japanese export" one thing that could have been done which, while undischarge, to trade vader an assumed came unless his true name and position be dide; and the long succession of excess of if done, would have prevented much suffer closed. The report is not in far of doing away imports over exports was the result. At ing and disaster that has overtaken a large with the two years minimum period of taspen the beginning of 1907 It was believed body of our agricultural population. We sion of a'discharge where bankruptcy offences that the same tendency would be continued refer to the removal of the tariff barriers of the are proved, except that the Court should have a and that the year would show a more or United States from products of the Philippine discretion to suspend discharge for less than two less excess of exports. But the events belied" Islands." It might have been added in this con years, when the only fact reported against him is that his assets are not equal to Jos in the thesa espectations. The export trade, it is nection, that while the United States refuses As to the method of obtaining discharge, the true made from the beginning of the year a to admit on fair and equitable terms the pria proposal is that after a bankrupt has been put very favourable progress; but from Septem-cipal products of her greatest Colony, she cly examined, a day should be appointed as ber the depreciation of silver became more nevertheless proposes to estrange that Colony which his affairs are to be constrered in open and more accentuated and dealt heavy frogs her neighbours by imposing protective A report by the Official Receiver on the blow to the trade of Japan'in China trade, duties which will have the effect of turning bankrupt's conduct and affaire, and a report by the depreciatich of copper in the latter half away foreign trade. The petition goes on the trustee on the realisation and position of of the year seriously affected the export of to say that: While sections of the archi the esiste, shall be read, and all parties that metal, and anally the great panie which pelago that yield hemp, copra and rice have sent shall be beard, The Court shall thes determine on what conditions the backrupt's took place in the United States in October continued during recent years under a fair discharge shall be granted, exercising the sams and November resulted in the reduction of messure of prosperity, the country has lacked powers over him as the Court can now exer the tale of raw silk for export to that country" the stimulus of capital; and the producem of cise when annpplication for a discharge is heard. Thus, from these various causes the export many articles, notably sugar, have laboured he committee make suggestions regarding trade in 1907 was, at the season when that under conditions that precluded success; married women the first being that a married trade is usually most prosperous, in an exactly and during the present year the low prices account, whether apart from her husband or opposite condition and so failed to justify the that have prevailed for hemp and copra, not, should be subject to the Bankruptcy Laws high expectations that had been formed of it together with a partial failure of the rice a married woman is made bankrupt the With regard to the import trade, there was a crop, have prostrated industry and, preci- Coort should have power, on the application marked increase in the quair of gonda pitated an acute economic crisis. We earn. of the trustes, to order that during the cop-ourained from abroad, consisting principally estly, direct your attention to these facts licuance of the bankruptcy the whole or part of Perindustrial raw materials and machinery. That while it is true that labour in our her separate income which the is teatraland from anticipating be paid to the trustee for dis. The excess of imports over exports. was 62 fields is poorly paid, there is good reason. tribution amongst the creditors, but shall on the million yen. We note that in the Estimates why it cannot be better paid. The same hearing of the application take into consider for 1908-9, there is an increase in the amount law that applies to and controle other in the source from which the property pro of the subsidies to be paid for the encourage industries applies also to the agricultural ducing such income was derived, and the nature ment of navigation and shipbuilding, but industry here. If the cotton, trade" lan and objects of the provisions of the will or set what the precise sure in that the Gover-guisher, the wages of your mill operatives are flement relating thereto...

ment proposes to pay under this head it is impossible to discover. There is to be no issue of public loans during the current financial year except such as are intended for productive undertakings such as railways, telephone extensions, and the establishment of a steel-foundry, for which some 40 million yen will be required altogether, The Korean Government is to receive a loan of 19 million yen in order to meel present expenses, the money to be raised by the Japanese Industrial Bank by the issue of debentures on foreign markets,, Under the heading of Agriculture, industry and commerce we naturally looked for some reference to the patent laws and trade mark registration, but beyond stating that the present system is based on the Patent, Designs and Trade marks Laws of 1899 nothing is saldas to the result of their operation, whether satisfactory or otherwise, Who are the best customers of Japan? There can be no doubt on the point Americans are far and away the leading con- sumen of Japanese products. Last year the United States took goods from Japan to the value of over 131 million yen. China comes next with purchases to the extent of over 85 millions, while the other customers were Franco 421 millions, Korea, 34 millions, Great Britain dearly as millions, etc. Of course, Bittish consumers may have as a matter of fact showp an actually higher pro portion because the exports to Hongkong, mounting in value to 24,384,762 yen might in part be attributed to British purchaser.

woman who carries on a business on her own.

(27th June.) America has taken time by the forelock in negotiating a treaty with Japan on the ques- tion of trade marks. By this time our allice must be considerably tired of the innuendoes: which have been freely submitted regarding Infringement of international trade-marks and the new arrangement with the United Staten marks a step in advance. The pew treaty has reference to trade marks in China and Korea, or at least to those territories over which Japan has actual, or nominal control The treaty having reference to Korea sets forth that the Japanese Government shall cause to be enforced there the laws, andre gulations relative to Inventions, designs, trade-marks and copyrights similar to those at present exlating in Japan. These laws, and regulations are to be applicable to American citizens in Korea equally as to Japanese and Korean subjects, and the U.S. Government engages that in case of the in- fringement by American citizens of copy. rights, trademarks, or designs, such citizens shall be under the exclusive jurisdiction of the Japanese Court in Korea. In this par- ticular America has waived her extra-terri- torial rights, but an impression that she had given up all her rights which has become current, must here, be corrected. She still maintains her extra territoriality in all other respects. Trademarks, etc., which have been registered or duly patented in Japan by citizens of the United States prior to the enforcement of these laws and regulations, shall without further procedure be entitled to the same protection in Korea au ir or may hereafter be there accorded to the same industrial and literary propenic similarly, patented or registered by Japanese or Korean subjects. Inventions, etc. duly patented of registered in the United States by citizens or subjects of the two parties or by Korean subjects prior to the operation of the present convention shall similarly be entitled to patent or registration in Korea without the payment of any fees, provided the inventions, designs, trademarks, and copyrights are of such a character as to per- mit of their patent or registration under the laws and regulations above mentioned, and provided further that such patent or regis tration is effected within a period of one year after this convention comes into force, The apanese Government engages to extend to American citizens the same treatment in Korea in the matter of protection of their commercial, names as they e joy in the dominions and possessions of Japan under the Paris Convention of March 20, 1883. Hong marks shall be considered to be com- mercial names. The treaty with regard to

(30th June.) China provides for the protection of trade-

The extraordinary aptitude of the Japso- marks, designs, etc, against infringement as i

ese for abstruse statistical details is never accorded in the dominions and possessions illustrated to better advantage thau in the of the contracting parties. In case of infringe publication of the "Financial and Economic ment in China by a citizen or subject of any nnual," the eighth issue of which we have of the parties, the aggrieved party shall have just received through the courtesy of the in the competent territorial or consular courts vice-consul for Japan at the request of Mr. the same rights and remedies as citizens of Matsude, the Minister of Finance in Japan. subjects of such contracting pasty. The Con The volume is an amazing mass of figures vention of 1883 in the matter of protection of relating to the financial condition of the commercial nutes is to be applied, and it is agreed that the present treaty shall be encountry and the explanations are severely forced so far as applicable in any albergoun official in tone. There seems to be no try in which either contracting party may ex-doubt, however, that the moderate optimism ercise extra-territorial jurisdiction. Any per-xpressed by the compilers regarding the future well-being of Japan is fully warranted. son amenable to the provisions of this coone of the most satisfactory features of the The Shanghai Dock and Engineering Co., Ltd.vention.who possesses at the time it comes Budget for iga7-8 was the fact that the into force merchandise bearing an imitation receipts from taxes and duties were higher of a trade mark owned by another person than those in the previous year, so that the and entitled to protection under the conven- tion, shall remove or cancel auch false trade-idea which was generally entertamed that mark or withdraw auch merchandise from the the country was unable to meet further market in Chinx within six months from the liabilitica could not now be justified. Deal date of the enforcement of this convention, ing with the economic situation, the Govern Unauthorised reproductions by the citizens ment of Japan does hot hesitate to admit that or subjects of one contracting party prior to following the war an extraordinary period of the operation of this convention of the works speculation ensued, ending in many cases in disaster. Commercial ventures of every of literature and art as well as photographs description were finated and gigantic schemes of the citizens or subjects of the other party, were evolved as if Japan were rolling in published after roth May, 1906, and antith ed, to protection in virtus of this convention, wealth despite the exceptional expenditure shall be withdrawn from sale or circulation required by reason of the war. As the writer in China within one year from the date of in the Annual observes: The economic the enforcement of this convention.

world in 1907 felt the reaction from the mania for enterprises which suddenly arose aʼter the war, and the market remained con- stantly in a depressed condition on account of the heavy fall in stocks, the panic in America, and the depreciation of silver, The report of the department committee However, although the bubble companies to the bankruptcy and administrues which were projected when the mocks com was issued on 25th alt and shald prove of manded high prices had either to be given interest to readers in Hongkong who favour up or to be dissolved upon the stocks fall the idea of the registration of parizerships, ing heavily, those new companies which bad, The document is one, which contains a. num. been established on a.frm basis" and cos- bar of highly important recommendations.comed in enterprises of a profitable charac Tha committee hold it expedient that the ter commenced business and preapered. law should baʼallered 10 Das to provide the acts or defaults of debtor, which are now. Ab yell, in spite of the depressed or hereafter may be, made offences under a state of the central money market the Deblo Acts and the Bankruptcy Acis, be resources of the agricultural classes in the to the success made punishable on summary conviction be proving

them

"Al Fresco" Bazar.

Widows and Orphans Fund.

The Ponas Disaster.

Outbreak in Yunnan. -

'A Gold Brick."

The Oplum Crusade.

Harbour Fatality.

The Gillant Coxswain,

The Bishop of Macao,

Sporting Notes

The Far Eastern Review.

Boatman Cuts his Throat.

Hongkong Volunteer Reserye Association, The

China Squadron.

Hongkong Gymkhana Club, Gymkhana Postponed. Australia and the East.

Quick Passages by the Afinstenta.

alunteer Corps Orders,

Canton Day by Day.

The Unrest in Yunnan.

The Anti-Opium Campaign.

The Recaptore of Hokow

Mr. Clement's Memorandum.

The Abolition of Oplum Imports,

China and the Hague.

The Opium Traffic. Education

China,

China's Military Students.

Russia and Japan.

France and China.

Shipbuilding in Japan,

Japanese Volunteer Fleet Steamer.. Trade-marks in Japan.

The Fakumen Railway.

Storm in Japan,E

The Yara

A Frontler

Trade

Kuch

The Sentence on Mr. Bethell The Cancer Bacillus

Death of

fan old N. V. K. Officer,

Spinning Machinery Contracts, de

Progress of Singapore, t The Po Leung Kuk

Mysterious Find at Singapore

Chinese Boat Procession in Sarawak. The Informer.

Bombay Short reeled Yard

The Risks of Opium Prohibition,

An Ingenious Robbery,

The Beggars and Vagrants of Bangkok.

CommercialV

Freight Market.

Weekly Share Report

Exchange..

Local and General..

DEPARATE BIRTH, 2

Da Juan 15, 1908, at Port Edward, Welbal.

wi, the wife of ROBERT WALTER, Colonial Civil Service, of a son, MEN

BANKHUHICY NEMORM,

(29th June.)

into law its

Dr

THE FINANCIAL CONDITION OF JAPAN

fore magistrates, and that the provisions of the of the silk

DAVISEN TE MARRIAGE Summary Jurisdiction Acts be made applicable

On June 18,-1905, at the Windsor Hotel, Glasgow, DONALD, son of Donald MacDonald, Greenock, to CATHERINE CRAWFORD, daugh sor of William Beanie, Ardiss, Kelvinside, Glas

these offences, and that in which an order el à Bankruptcy Court Thr prosecution is made paths application of thio cial receiver, and based on his report ANNshould bare power to authorise him to cond DEATHS 2

bullón: before the court

ALFRED ADOLPHUS Loados, formerly of

posits

capl

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July.) resented a description, in ssible under the circumstanc of the destruction and "desplation ; wrou 1 by the extraordinary.

which swept down tho Fu dod West vera and endeavoured to picture in the mildest terms the misery of the poss who were famishing and; without the the result of the calamity, we expressed the bellef that the Chinese community of Hong-1 kong would rally as one man to the aid, ot, their destituto brethren, without waiting i Jadefinitely, for additional information on the subject.. in that estimate of our Chinesa fellow-subjects in Hongkong we were not in error. Unlike many of those who presume to know everything, and unlike some of our, contemporaries who were inclined to poob-↑ pool the disaster, as a mete trifle, mere ebullition of temporary interest, if of interest at all, the Chincie community, set to work with an energy, ability, and cohesion which bespoke success. When the telegrams: began to arrive from Canton describing the widespread ravages of the foods, the Chinese were already in a position to meet the situation, or at all events to despatch that first instalment of relief which was so urgently demanded. Later: reports not only confirmed our original states ment of the conditions prevailing along the West Rlyer, but daily magnified: the extent of the losses incurred by the people and the desperate plights to which they had been reduced. These reports supplemented as they : were by private advices spurred on the reprod sentatives of the Chiness community in Hong.. kong to still greater exertions in the effort to afford succour to the starving mulitude i at our very door. How they have succeeded. and how their campaiga in the cause of charity and mercy, lins progressed in known? to every reader who has followed day by day. the accounts which we have been enabled to publish. What should be remembered l this, that the results achieved by the relief? committee have been won at a time when The Colony is passing through's serious state of depression, with momy scarce and gener ally tied up so securely, that if cannot be: touched,and with the "future" "looming: black and ominous. Had the Colony been alive with basic prosperity and the future all sereno and assured the readi nes of the Chinese" merchants to con tribute of their means to the

relief of reduced as business improves wages are their compatriots would not have been o-- advanced; and it would be just as reason counted so very wonderful-indeed nothing able to tell our hemp, sugar and tobacco less could have been expected of them. But planters that if their business is not paying the real spirit of generosity and charity i them, they must turn to wheat growing or exhibited when they dig deep into thes the raising of cotton, as it would be to tell pockets to extract practically, their last mite your cotton mill owners or your cotton plani in order that the sufferings of the destinite teri that when the cotton business is de may be mitigated in, some small derre preised they should turn to making iron and Who would have thought that the sum steel, or to raising sugar beets. We do not $50,000 could have been raised excitalvolt charge that the Government of the United by the Chipere community within a few days. States is responsible for the unhappy cond-after the opening of the relief propaganda tion of industry in these islands, but we do And when we read that the very coolles and maintain that as territory belonging to, con street hawkers are clamouring to be allowed tralied by and dependent upon it, moral to contribute their copper Cash and their obligation is loiposed that may not be justly hardly earned five-cent pieces towards the disregarded, to assist in every possible way rellet fund the nature of the Chinese, KS A the material interests of the people here. whole, inspired by the spirit of benevolence, The fact is, in our opinion, that the people reaches its apotheosis. It was stated in these of the United States seem to consider their columns yesterday that the committee of the duty to the Philippines, ended with the lung Wa Hospital were confident that their despatch of a shipload of missionaries who takings would not be less than; a hundred live on the fat of the land and some hun- thousand dollars, and all who have watched dreds of fledgling schoolma'ams who teach the the progress of the relict morement will minds of the untutored, Filipinos that it is certainly endorse that, opinton. Not.com far better to work with their brains than tent with the ordinary method of raising their hands. Education is all very fine is money by appealing to the generous its way but when it is introduced by a highly instincts of the people of Hongkong civilised-country to a parcel of people who the organisers of the fund in aid not so very long ago were running wild in tressed propose to increase the subscrip the mountains it is apt to have the most list through the medium of a bazaur disastrous results. Having, however, perides underlying that proposal is neither very formed what they conceived to be the full remarkable nor particularly original is you extent at their duty, the United States clefs will trike hex old Chinn hand fitba tons, or at least a considerable proportion of that Chinese of position have dec them, are not disposed to take much further of their OND ACCOrd to emerge at last from In the import section, Great Britain is uninterest in the Islanders. If they did, they the seclusion which has from time im- doubtedly the favoured nation, Japan taking would see that the agricultural and industrial memorial sheltered, them, in order to become goods to the amount of 16,245,000 yen, products of the Philippines had the right of active participators in the movement out of a total of 494,467,000 yen, the next préférential entry into the United States, labefriend, their kinsfolk on the on the list being the United States which order that the lengst trught on the subject Such A fevolutio in: the habiti sent goods worth 80,697,000 yen Hoog of isbour might be proved by the increased customs of Chin kong's contribution to the imports of Japan prosperity of the colonials. What makes the lightly regarded. It is a was valued at 820,610 yen. British India, people and the merch.nis in particular of the behind the throne had volunt it may be added, sent 741 million you worth Philippines angry la that the Porto Ricans pod forward to come under of products to Japan, de rooy On the hare secured without the slightest difficulty the limelight, wall, auciet and

bole the financial condition, of Japan jail that the Oriental Colony desires, and they conceptions as to the capacity of much better than many had supposed and say "We believe that we can pledge to women are shattered by this maga for that reason, the latest annual will be you for the Philippines an equal return in resolution to assist in the work of char scioned with decided interest). Y TARG commerce, in proportion" to population, if and for obce we are afforded

you will give to us the same legislation that the real strength and authority was enacted in the case of Porto Rico, and behind the actions of those who ¿where million Porto Ricans purc

twenty-five milllop, dollars worth of goods in the United States, eight million Filipinos of Independence Day, 21 ten years from the celabrated, on Saturday, then fra trade law, be puchi

mila intend to hold a dailimillion dollarworth:50h

of free trade betwe

thell people sand the United States/.

TRADENDEZRI

PHILIPPINES,

IN THE

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the regeneration of China from within, may, fairly anime that the Chinese ladies on the scene on this oce marks the beginning 001

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