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Telegrams.

{Renter's]

Student Riots in Paris.

LONDON, 15th December. There have been riots in Paris, by the medical students, who protest against the

· new examination rules.

The Republican Guards charged the rioters, and many were injured,

Cast of the Battleship Cruise. The cost of the cruise of the American battleships 'is £10,000,000, the coal alone costing £5,000,000.

Venezuela.

President Castro, interviewed, said he would not hamper the new Covenient from settling the country's disagreements with foreign nations, even though it involved his own withdrawal from activity.

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The Biots in Paris. Fifty-two police and Republican Guards were injured during the recent riots; fifty-six

4 . 26th December.

of the rioters will be prosecuted.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH MONDAY DECEMBER 28, 1908.

SHANGHAI PROSPERITY.

CONTRIBUTORY FACTORS.

It is only in certalä lines of business that, as yot; we can say there has been a change for the better in the trade conditions of the satile ment. Just as one sees outside the mouth of the Yarglia, while still in sea water, lines and atreaks of the silt beating current which a little Farther on is to occupy the whole area of the estuary, so is it now in the sea of depression through which we have been ploughing our

AN EXCITING CHASE.

PAUL FLOER ELUDES ITIS GAOLER.

The following report from the Shanghai Tima, of, grå lost., gives particulus of the escape of Paul, Floet from police custody, re corded in our telegram of that date 1-6 father sensational termination followed upon ita com plation of the arson trial in H. B. M. Supreme Coull on Monday when Faul Floer was sen tenced to two years' imprisonment, for before be could be safely lodged fo- His Majesty's gaol,

THE REVOLT OF WOMAN

IN CHINA

The changes that are taking place in the Far East are amazing in their rapidity and com pleioness. This is ploved by the testimony of many witnesses, as readers of the current news. Papers and patiodicals may easily learn rushes from one extrame to another and follows suddsaness with which the Oriental mind the light as soon as 11appears is amply proved by the last fifty yasamalstory of Japan. But China is not to be left behind. Political, in

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Further particulars from

weaty way for the past three years. We are Floor had eluded bis gaoler and' was at liberty tellectual, and social life are undergoing: TxXFITH the permission of, the Stewards, scription, Five Guinesajatte

not yet in the full carrant of success, but there

was soutanced few minutes

o'clock, and a cada che miles before her Gaoler, Mr. J. A; Chandler, whose doly it was to convey him to H. B. M's Gaol which is situated in Amoy Road. Here Floer was to two years, in addition to the period of nine months to which he was sentenced last month on a charge of extortion. The night was exceeding ly dark, with a heavy and incestant rain falling: and the gaoler procured a couple of rickabas for his own and the prisoner's conveyance. The two left the British Consular compound shortly after six o'clock, and went along the Yuso-ming-yuen Road for a short distance, before entering the rickshas. The prisoner took the Brat ricksha, the hoad of which was up, bis gaoler following in the other, clase behind. At Peking Road they turned to the right, and from here the gaoler kept his eyes, upon the sicksha immediately in front of him,

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metamorphosis. Peking has decreed a con. W Hongkong Jockey Club, the Under- tatives; the old educational system bas been stitutional government and a house of represen revised by a Chinese Richalian. The exclu sive study of the so-called "classics* bas given place to a broader system is geography, phy-next, the job December sics, mathematics, and other branches of a Western carriculum are prominent. This is set forth at some icogih is a series of articles published by Albert Maybos in La Recue (Paris), in the number of which he shows how far reform has invaded Chinese social life and aroused the self-assertion of the tender sex. Th's writer recards the remark "of many Orientalists" to the effect that i

If under the breath of reform the family. which is the essential basis of society, falls to pieces, and modifies its present constitution, we shall then be able to predict the dawn of a new Chine."

} Assault on President Fallieres

While walking in the morning in Paris, with his secretary and A. D. C, President Fallières was seized by the neck by a waiter named Mattis who tried to pull the Presi] markets may tura rabim.once meie ? Shanghai Runds the ricksha in question turned off in the Kingdom. During these centuries the daughter

dent's heard.

Mallis was arrested:

He is supposed to be a Royalist.. He grappled with the President and rolled him on the grund.

President Fallières, whose car was scrat ched and stick broken, proceeded with his walk and lunched with his usual appetite.

The Reoon Riots in Paris. The unpopular medical examination has been withdrawn and M. Clemenceau has censured the chief of police for introducing police into the examination hall simulating

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deformed by artificial means; she lived within was a mero chattel, her feat were crippled and the walls of the women's apartment, in careless- ness and ignorance; she was married without being consulted as to her choice of a busband.

of the social reform movement, who has been In 1891, we read, K、ng-yeau-wei, the leader styled "the modera Confucius," published, as the time for a democracy la China wherein the masses takes part in the government and the looked upon as "the founder of Chinese femi- two sexes abjoy, equal liberties? Thus he is is This movement has since then be the preservation of natural feet was first in coine organized. An associating to promote stituted by the wife and two daughters of the Viceroy Tusa-Fang. But associations of much more radical character were soon multi-

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are signs that we shall arrive there in time

Meanwhile it will be worth the trouble to consider for a few moments what really are the fictors on which the prosperity of the sette Venezuela has resumed friendly relations ment depends. What is it that makes the difadergo bis imprisonment with bard labour for with Columbia.

ference between a period of depression such ar we have been passing through and a time of buoyancy such as was seen in 1905 7. In a sente it may all be summed up in one word, Trade With trade Shanghai is happy; without it, miserable. In the rough that is true. But without some an dysis it does not help us much. Trade is made up of imports and exporte: To be Teally healthy the one shopid balance the other is not to be expected that China can for ever buy without selling. The first thing, therefore, for the importer to think of outside his own particular sphere of action, is how he can aid in the increase of Chicese exports. Is it 100 mich to hope that same day the native tea grower may be induced to copy bis lodien con to which he understood Floer to be riding.show, have appeared in the family institution Disintegration, renovation, he proceeds to temporary and prepite his tea in such a man-But in this he proved to be mistakes, for, on as it has for centuries existed in the Middle aer that the British, American, and Pussian reaching the junction of Cheklang and Feking influence should be used unceasingly to this opposite direction to the gapl, to the surprise end, for certainly here we have one of the of the gaoler. The latter's surprise became factors of our past prosperity, if not of the pre-even greater when he jumped out of his own sent. So with some other, usples we might ricksha and found the vehicle in front of him to be occupied by a Chinamas and not Similarly western influence should be brought Floer, who by this time was missing. In to bear as much as possible in the develop the circumstances the gaoler did the only ment of all the natural resources of China thing possible for him to de, viz raise the the main principle of his teaching, "Now is Japanese Pirots seldom occurs. Wer mineral wealth is hardly touched as yel alarm. This ha did by communicating with To Shanghai it is a matter of secondary im- the Central Police Station, and from there reiga money. When it is done, China will police it visas to tara out their men to intercept nottance whether this be done by pative or prompt, orders were issued to all the other be so much the richer, and so much the more the escaped convict. The detectives responded prepared to boy; for her people, though with promptitude and instituted inquiries at all thrifty, are 001 miserly, and will bay lux the shipping offices, searched every steamer uries when they have the wherewithal. Wes leaving and about to leave, in fact did every tern education, then, should be pushed a thing in their power to prevent the prisoper The Duma has adopted a resolution warm discloses new sources of wealth, and predis casvict, was not stlived in prison clothing; he much as possible. It creates new tastes, it from leaving the Settlement. Floer, though a ly sympathiting with the kindred. Slav puo-pses these who benefit by it to a wider and wote a light check suit, brown shoes, soft brown ples, and hoping that the Government will more enlightened intercourse with the rest of hat and a blue overcoat, His description was

afeguard their interests.

the world.

Circulated to all policemen on duty, who kept a sharp look-out for the min all the night. To Constable Walls, of the nongkow Police Station, fill the credit of Floer's capture with in a few minutes of one o'clock yesterday. morning. The coastable himself had never seen Floer before and all the more credit is therefore due to bim for his smut piece of work. Fleer was proceeding in a rickahe along the Hanbury Road from the Boone Road and wis first noticed by Constable Walls as he was passing the Hongkew Fire Station. The hood of the ricksha was up and his suspicions being aroused the constable ordered the coolie

ment: to stop. He then questioned Floer, who did It may take time: it bas taken time to get not deny that he was the man wanted, and ̧ due attention paid to another prime factor. ip-willingly accompanied his.captor to the Hong our well-being, the conservancy of the river. kaw Station where he was at once identified as. But at last that is being done, and io due Paul Floer.. He was searched and in his post course we may hope to be so much the better session the sum of Siz was found-seven silver off by reason of the work Mr. de Rijke is now

dollars in his pocket and a five-dollar bill 'con- doing. At the same time, it must not be im cealed inside his hat. When he left the Court, agined that in tackling it we are tackling a Floer is said to have had no money. In the problem which can be begun and finished at mezatime the detective force had been scour any fixed date. That can only happen when ing the whole of the settlement for the missing the river has ceased to run. Though skilled man, while two of their number had journeyed direction can do much to make a stream take by trolley to Wooung and there chartered a care of its own course it cannot do everything. Junk by which they visited the various and, especially at the mouth, efficient scouring steamers. There was a continual downpour can be secured only at the cost of constant of rain all the night, and practically every detective who took part in the search got a thorough drenching.

candidates.

Russia..

SUGAR IN JAPAN,

REPEAL OF DUTY ON UNREFINED; SUGAR, URGED.

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FOR SWATOW, AMOY AND FOOCHOW, THE Company's Steamship

"HAICHING,"

Captalo Passmore, will be despatched for the

plied, declares Mr. Maybon. To quote his above Ports, on FRIDAY, the ist Jan., 1909,

words:

more numerous. Oftentimer, under the pre “Such associationtare day by day becoming text of opposing the fashion of le feet,' they make it their object to effect a compléte reform in the family relations. In a large aumber of places the young women no sooner found a club than they proclaim themselves. girls who intend to follow their own, will, They take an oath that they will choose their to their happiness, they will rebel ag last the own husbands, and, if they think it necessary

orders of their parents."

These women also take a keen interest in politics, as we learn from the following sta'a-

For in-

"The feminist propaganda is largely promot. take part in political discussion and furnish a ed by these associations of women, who now

new impulse to political' movements. stance, it was the young women of the province of Che-Kiang who protested at their mestinge against obtaining a loan from England to build

At the moment ase of the maid lactors of our prosperity is quite beyond our control We refer to a stable currency. China has no stable currency. Her new fael coins when on the market, if they ever get there Referring to the rebite on sugar daty, which will be just as unreliable, just as sub bids fair to become one of the important ques-ject to outrageous rise and full as the tions in the forthcoming session of the Diel, Mexican dollar or the lump of sycee. It will the Jifi Shimpo says that the operation of the ant he possible for China to face the world with sugar day rebate law now in force will expire a coinage which will give the security which on March 31st, 1959, and much discussion is steady trade wants till she has a backing of now going on as to the advisability or other gold, as India has. This is a matter on which Rise of continuing it in force. According to we should never be silent till it has been settled the provisions of the existing law in the according to the highest and best principles. event of refined or rock sugar being manu- factored and contumed in the country from imported material below No. 8 Dutch stap- dard a rebate of Y145 per 100 kin is allowed, white on qualities between Nos 8 and is the rebate made is Y1.05. Fumber, if the sugar is exported the rate of sebate allowed is Y1.65 and. Y2.2; respectively. The repeal of the law will greatly affect the interests of sugar manufacturers, and it is not therefore surprising that they should do their utmost to ensure its continuance. The present rebate is based on the import duty on unrefined sugar, the or- rangement being that in case of export the whole ofthe duty, and in case of domestic con- sumption about to per cent lets than the duty,appervision. is to be returned. This complicated system One factor in the anccess of the Settlement of rebates is due to the desire 'of G vero we have long had with us-efficient Municipal As to Floer's movements between the time ment to afford protection by ineaos of a management. The occasional periods of ad- of his escape' and his re-capture the reports are tariff policy to manufacturers of refined verse criticism of our Councils have but marked somewhat contradictory, but it is probable that and comfined sugar at the same time. All the rule of general satisfaction. It is à question after getting clear of his gaoler he went along

Even the Government at Feking finds itsell sogar below No. 15 Dutch standard is used whether or not we have now arrived at a time Peking Road as far ar Sirza Road and then by compelled to recognize the growing spirit of exclusively as material for refined sugar, and if when a change would be for the benefit of the Carter Road to Bubb'ing Well Road. Here he feminism, One imperial edict has made the Government was desirous of encouraging Council itself as well as for the community. It appears to have met an acquaintance with honillegal the mutilation of the feet and another the sogar industry the importation of unrefined might well be nigued that a growth of five huo, he had a conversation, afterwards proceccipe has made, the education of girls compulsory sugar should have been allowed doty free;

dred and more per ceurin population, revenue, by way of Mohawk Road into Frenchtown TD the words of tbil document," "The good The existence of the import daly on the pra and expenditure might well call for some and to the Kashing-Bangchow Railway. Being education of the citizens of the Empire depends duct, however, was suggested by the desire to modification in the metbed of government. unable to find a suitable means of exit from upon the good education of our women." And protect Japanese manufacturers of unrefined. We have already suggested that the. Com the city by rail so late at night he returned to a little farther on we read," Women as well as sugar against foreign competition. Properly muuity shold consider the question of an this side of the Saitlement, only to be re-

men ought to practise a profession. "They speaking, continues the Jij, the duly an enlargement of the Council and of the inclusion captured. Yesterday morning he was brought ought not to pass their life in eating and refined sugar.'should also be increased to a in that enlargement of some Chinese Council-up to H.B.M.'s Consulate where it was ex-gossiping without say serious employment,*/

"There is little of the Asiatic in such terms

chitaïo degree so as to compensate sugar manu- facturers for the loss they are obliged to iccur by the use of materia's which are taxed. The Government, however, is naab'e to do this owing to the x fence of the Conventional tariffs, and basˇconsequently been.compelled to resort to the complicated system of rebates now is operation.

important rallroad, and proved the sincerity of their words by their deeds, for they immedi afely invested $100,000 in the stock of the Chi- that the childless widow and the divorced wife nese company. It is, thanks to such socletins

misery. Such unfortunates are given new in are not abandosed, as heretofore, to a lot of terests in life and furnished with positions in the government offices and in banks or hospitals Those who are educated are sent to Japan to take up Courses of study. If they are without resou ces, they are provided for by their associates."

3.

at ra o'clock Noon.

For Freight or Passage, apply.id.

DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & 00. General Managers, Hongkong, 28th December, 1908,"

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COMPAGNIE DES MESSAGERIES MARITIMES.

FOR SHANGHAI, KOBE AND YOKOHAMA,

THE Company's Steamship

7:20 1

LIMITED.

TIME TABLE

WEEK DAYS.

7.30 am to 9.30 a.m. ... Every 10 minutes. 9.30a.m. to 11,00 s.t. ...Every 15'ministán en £1.30 8.m. 10 13.45 pim....... Every 15 minutes. 1245 p.m. to 1.15 p....Every 10 minutas

1.15 p.m. to 1.45 pmị...«Every 15 minutes". 5.45 p.m. to 1.15 p.m... Every ja minutes. 3.15 p.m. to 3.00 p.m....Every 15 minutes. 5.30pm to 500 Every 15 minutes 5.00 pm to 8.00 p.m....Every 10 minuter,

NIGHT CARE. (8.45 pm; and 9 pm, 945 p.m. të. tf 13 pm

Every half hour. SUNDAYE 8,00 sm, to -9,00 am...Every 15 minutes. 9.00am to 9.30am. ...Every jo mlantes. 9:30 am. 10'10,30 a.m. ...Every 15 minutes. 10.30 am, tọ: 11.00-8.30, 39, Every-10 minuten. 55.45 8.m. to 13.00 0000.....Every 15 minuten," 15.00 Noon to 1.09 p.m....Every 10 minutes. “ 1.00 p.m. to 5.00 p.m...Every 15 minutes. 5.00 pm to 6.00 p.m....Erazy za minutos, 6.00p.m. to 7.00 p.m. «Erary 15 minutes 7.00 pm to 8.00 p.to....Kyory, in milasta=

NIGHT CARS as on Week Days, SATURDAYS.

Extra cara al $.15 p.m., 11.30 pm, and 18:45 pm. SPECIAL CARS by Amangement at the Captain Rebufat, will be despatched for the Oompany's Office, ALEXANDRA BUILDINAL

Des Vans Road Central

SYDNEY,"

above Ports on of about the 4th January, 1909.

For Fraight or Passage, apply to

P. NALIN,

Acting Agent. Hongkong, 28th December, 1908.

BEN LINE OF STEAMERS, NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

5.S. BENVORLICH,"

'FROM MIDDLESBRO', ANTWERP, LONDON AND STRAITS.

informed that all Grods are being landed CONSIGNEES of Cargo" are hereby

Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co. Ltd. at their risk into the hazardous and/or extra hazardous Godowns of the Hongking and whence and/or from the wharves delivery

may be obtained.

-No Claims will be admitted after the Goods hare left the Godowns, and all Goods remain. ing undelivered after the 1st prox. will be subject to rent.

All Claims against the Steamer must be pre- sented to the Undersigned on or before the 7th prox, or they will not be recognized.

All broker, chafed, and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on the 31st înst, at 21 ÁM.

No Firs Insurance has been affected. Bills of Lading will be countersigned by

GIBE, LIVINGSTON & Co. Agents. Hongkong, 28th December, 1008

JAPANKSB SUBSIDIES,

Now that so much discussion is going on with regard to the question of subsidies to steamship services, it is interesting, the Zodan trail remisks, to note exactly what this coun try it actually paying on that account. The following are the figures

Amount.in

loss whom we could trast. For it is almost peeted a charge would be laid against him in ce tain that without some such concession the police court, but silter considerable delay he as these exclaims Mr. Maybon. It is also a there is little chance of our getting the exten. was handed over once a: ais to the Chief Gaoleremarkable sign of the times that Chinese sina which has now become so necessary as who having pot on the handcuffs escorted him

women are growing beartily tired of the wear another factor is our succens.

back to the gaol where, after an investigation, some and grotesque legends, or the tales of he will he dealt with for a breach of prison domestic tyranny and intrigue, which their discipline.

native writers have hitherto supplied them with. They are now reading Jules Verns and Dafoe, them as with Earopeans. Translations of European.. and "Man Friday” is now as "popular with

books of travel, French and English, are eager. | Seattle

Last of all, and perhaps as important as any, we come to the necessity of a thoroughly good understanding with our native fellow-residents So long an the Government sims to protect That such an understanding has been growing manufacturers of both refined and norfiued of late we are delighted to think that it may sugar against the Conventional Latiff stipu- continue until every resident'pative and foreign fations, continues the Tokyo juaraat,the exist is fully convinced that our prosperity depends ence of such a system of rebater is intvitable. on our perfect good-w.ll the nas ja the other is It must be presumed that the cause of all what we earnestly desire. Then, if our sug the trouble is to be sought in the existence gestion is noted upon, if the Chinese Govern of an import tariff on unrefined sugar. Ifment is willing to let us expand as our needs this wors abolished the question would be require without haggling over every square easily solved, as there would be no neces- yard, thes, with returning confidence, there sity of retaining the system of rebates now should be such progress and such prosperity as in force. Some may think that the free | wa bavo rarely seen.~Shanghai Mercury, importation of unrefined sugar would dam. ago the Japanesa îndustry, buț thu laster Fas now progressed to soch a stage as to be able to hold its ground against the forsigo product, which, though it may be admitted duty-free, is handicapped by freight and other burdens. *Evan supposing it ware necessary to retain the import on unrefined sugar there would seem to be no necessity for effecting à rehate amount- ing to almost the whole of the duty on refined pugar intended for domestic consump

clades the:///

NEW JAPANESE 1orpedo.

Mr. Shigetaro Yamashita, an cogiseer in the Nagaura Onisance Depot, belonging-to-the- Yoksouka Nara!" Station, has invented a new style of torpedo which, according to the Japin Times, will strike what is aims at beyond au island or promontory lying between the point of discharge and the sim. It is so made as in mike arciecaitons coomse after striking an intervening, obstreis, when it will caute do The device has been bought by will be given.

the Návy Quic

Service,

ly bought, and the Looking Backward" [San Francisco

Yen. Company. 2,674,000 || N.Y.K 6$1,000 do. 1,010,000' T.Y,K.

dow

dog 140,000 0.8.K; 125,000 do, 809,000 Nisshin

ALLHGHD CRUELTY TO CATTLE cHARGES AGAINST STEAMER'S CAPTAIN, The complaints of the collector of customs of Bellamy is found in almost every Chinese Australia « in moun 425,000 N.Y.K. against the cruelty practised on certain cattle boudoir During the present year two import Adjacent Eastern Seas $30,000 ships in the business of transporting cattle from ant works of romance by native authors have Hakodate Sagbalica, 150,000 the China coast to Manila has come to a head appeared, one with the significant tille" Freerairan by the commencement of proceedings in the Myrsinga"; while the other is "The Stons of Hokkaido-Vindivostok Court of First Instance against F. W. Bull, the Nie-Wawan spology, which makes use of Yangift...... master, of the steamship Standard which, on figures in Chinese mythology to ridicule and the 2nd day of December steamed into Manila | satirizs old Chinese customs, social and re- with 677 head of cattle, without providing suit-ligions, and to promote feminism. It is said to able'means for securing such animals while in be a mixture of Swift and Rabelsir in style, and transit, so as to avold cruelty and unnecessary's object is “to awaken the people and to sej suffering to them.

de to them on the way to a new order of things,” On ikix, sublect Mr. Marbon concludes bis obrer- vation with the words i

It is charged that Captain Bull failed to provide stalls. for the animale in transit and suitable means for tylog and securing them, They were fied by their cones and the result was many of them seached Manilé dead or dying and others in a mutilated condition, These charges weis filed by the proseco

Attorney

Kison

Kaisha.

It appears to us very probable, our Yoko hama contemporary observes, that, in the case of some of the above services, the Gorimus will give the companies concerned the of having their subsidias 3Their lines without any Idition to the The old literature is doomed with the social. In both cases the comp conditions from which it originated. Amid a in practies for ellbar i

cut dow thuy.would

Translatio

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JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,

General Managern, ' Honghóng “ath Tuma, that,"

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