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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH TUESDAY JUNE 8 1909.

clined to doubt whether the correspondent | Ma, Amor P. Wilder, who has been appolated is a Chinauian at all, but some rabid mis sionary instead. It is just as bad to ridicule the idea of war as it is to persistently foster the notion until it becomes a fixed impics. sion. The writer goes on to say. With a regard to my abhorrence of the descriptions

CANTON DAY BY DAY.

to succeed Mr. Charles Denby as Consul Gen-

WIST RIVER FLOODS. eral for the United States of America at Shang hal, arrived there on 1st inst. from Kobe by the

[From Our Own Correspondent.) R. M. Empress of Japan and is at present staying at the Palace Hotel.

Canton, 7th June. The gentry of the Ko Ming district yesterday MESSES. Wm. Simons and Co, Limited, Ren-hastened to Canton to report that the embark

monts of the Tai Ska Wai gave way for the second time on the sth instant owing to the excessive rainfall last week, and the whole- district bas boon badly inundated. The gentry earnestly appealed to the Central Relief Com mittee for urgent assistance to be, dispatched to the sufferers.

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WUCHOW FLOG JED.

The West River, has risen considerably, being over twenty feet above.ibe_normal-level-

As there are comparatively large numbers of lepers in Kwangtung province the Viceroy has deputed Dr. Cheng Hao as a delegate to the

Chang, who studied abroad, will make'a further study of European and American medical supposed to be a result of the collapse of the sciance on his way.

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embankments in the Ko Ming district.

APPEAL FOR PRECAUTIONARY MEASURES,

The local officials have beso in receipt of an urgent telegrasa from Kwangsi requesting that precautionary measures should be taken to pro- veat the fonds, which are now prevailing up country, from working destruction in the river. ine districts in the lower section of the West River. PRISON MELEE.

Telegrams.

'HONGKONG TELEGRAPH"

SERVIOF.

A COMPREHENSIVE SCELEME.

TO COMPETE AGAINST FOREIGN SHIPPING.

[By courtesy of the "Sheung Po

Peking, 7th June.

H. E. Hau Shih-chang, president

munications, has submitted three pro- posals to the Central Government, They include

1. The recovery of the postal pri vileges.

2. The competition against for- eigners in shipping.

readiness of the daughter States to rise in defence of the old grey Mother. If the time of trial.come, we would not too closely in- quire hose is the quarrel. But, at the same time, is but right that it should be re- cognised by these to turn that it may become A. S. WATSON & CO., needful for the Mother to uphold their

cause. Io all' their local provision for de- of the war between Great Britain and Ger-frew, have received an order from Messra. Sir fence, therefore, they should have regard for many, I must refer to the instance in which John Jackson, Limited, the well-known con- the efficiency of the whole. Now there is an advertiser's aeroplane of English make tractors, for a Bowwell Barge-loading Bucket something very patriotic in the idea of get-was made the subject of a groundless fear Dredger, to be employed in carrying out the ting, the colonies to contribute towards the of an attack, by Germany. It is plain that important improvements now in progress at

Singapore. upkeep of the Navy and inducing school the English public have been affrighted by children to hand over their pennies for the the editors, and now Germany ridicules same laudable object. But we in Hongkong Britain for her over sensitiveness. It is a and-Singapore are already saddled with a shame that the fears experienced, if fears. heavy incubus in the shape of a military they can be called, by the editors of the coming.conference in Norway-on-leprosy at Wuchow. The city is also flooded; this is of the Ministry of Posts and Com- contribution which runs away with a fifth of our annual revenue, so that if we fail to do our duty in one way we live up to the mark in another. As a matter of fact all this talk about Dreadnoughts is getting rather wearisome. By all means, waken the country to a realisation of the fact that the best way to preserve peace is to be prepared for war, but if the Navy is in such a déplorable state as some of our mentors would have us believe what have the Lords of the Admiralty been doing? Sir John Fisher it generally admitted to be a tower of strength; Sir Percy Smith has been inventing new gun appliances once more; Lord Char les Beresford is prepared to give his country the benefit of his advice at any time and on the least provocation, and Colonel. Cody is that "WATSON'S HYGIENOL "

still pottering away his British aroplane most potent agent for the destruction of feas, The writers whose business it is to invent especially rat flgas,

scares are proving to their own satisfaction day after day that the United Kingdom is in a parlous condition and we are told that conveyed to human beings by means of fleas it is the urgent interest of the Teuton Powers that be to inculcate in all classco in from rats which have died of this disoase.

Gerniany the opinion that " England is pre- pared to relinquish her naval predominance; otherwise the persuasive arguments of Herr Sydow and his tax-imposing myrmidons would be futile. The German tax-payer would certainly not disgorge at his present rate if he were not convinced that a golden. three gallons, makes a splution of the strength opportunity is at hand. The world domi Luion implied by sea supremacy is unrolled before his cager gaze; he knows full well that German commercial prosperity will be in the future, as it undoubtedly has been in the past, measured by German strength at

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H.E. Wang Ta-hsieh, who has returned from England after a study of the Constitution, has submitted, a history of the evolution of france in England, which has been found to contain important and practical suggestions, The Ministry of Finance has crdered copies to be printed and given to the financial commis signers,

CHARLES Collins, A. B. of H.M.S. Kent, died from injuries received in a fall of eight or nine feat from the bridge to the deck during a recent vayage from Yokohama. The funeral took place at Urakami on the morning of the 20th ulimo. Seamas Collins was the winner of the "Battle Royal," in the recent Boxing Toursa. most held in Japao."

THE China Merchants' S. N. Co, recently dis- patched a foreign officer to inspect a river boat, which had been built by the Fanchow Government Dockyard, 'probably with a view to purchasing it. Ho estimated the price at T. 350,000. The Vicarne, who is Director of the Yard, has telegraphed referring the offer to the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of

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various papers should be extended by their garrulous pans in mawkish twaddles to the English public, thús aggravating the sus- picion against Germany. The public, in THEN. C. D. Nas is Informed that the pack. fact, would not have known anything but for ing establishment at Hankow which is export ing frozen pork to England in the P. & O. S. reading, these articles." If a Chinaman Palermo is entirely controlled by, the firm which wrote those last two sentences we congratu-manages the cold storage of Manchester. The late him on the range of his vocabulary. utmost care is being taken in the inspection of It seems to us that he would do away with all pigs before they are slaughtered for sport. newspapers altogether if he had his way. And now for his peroration:"The craving for war may be excited through reading the exaggerated opinions of those dangerous people who, though veiling themselves under the came of peace-loving men, are in reality serpents of the most venomous type, and are consciously and purposely drawing the two powerful nations towards a crisis, the result of which may be a catastrophe and a down fall to either one of them. So all Engliali- men take warning, and be not proud and desirous to show your strength, nor haughty and contemptuous to your rivals, nor servile and cringing to your superiors, nor brutal and tyrannical to your inferiors, for pride goeth before a fall and a tremendous fall too." Again we say if a Chinainan wrote that he may bo' congratulated on the force of his diction. We are not by any means supporters of "yellow" "press methods, but there is a middle" course and, after all, Euglishmen are not solely to blame for this war fever. There are others equally responsible. In a short reply to this effusion another correspondent signing himself "A British bull dog" has a few truths to submit when he says:. "It is only fools that take notice of a lot of wild and ridiculous cor- The throne, the aristocracy, and the respondence in papers and magazines. It is military element may dream of national glo- the governments of nations who make war ry, but the level-headed German bourgeois or peace, not a few canters. Besides, Mr. is more concerned with the tangible and Editor, these articles do a great deal of good monetary results. Now we learn from the in a way. They, make the nation more correspondence columns of the Straits Timer cautious and ready. The people feel their that the Chinese in that Colony are taking responsibility and are more willing to come an interest in this question and some to their country's aid. It makes them look WRITING under date, Shanghai, 3rd instr

to their guns. A Chinaman's view of bravery Messrs. Wheelock & Co. state:-Our home articles as "fanistic or rascally correspond- and honour must be very dormant. The ward freight market bas fallen off slightly since ents." Under the heading of Anglo-Gerway he writes of the "Victoria Cross" stamps fast writing but only temporarily as we expect man War of 1910-A Chinese View," a cor him at once as ignorant, of its origin and tea to be coming forward soon in fair quantities. respondent says that when he sees such purpose. 'Murders, brutal murders, etc. for the worse during the past ferioight and the Coastwise:-There has been a decided change articles la the newspapers concerning the This cross which adorns the breast of a man expected and "dreaded" war between Great stamps him as one of the bravest men of the to a standstill owing to the long continued ab. 128 Britain and Germany, "it is with feelings English Army-and-e man to be proud of.sence of rain, in consequence of which there is

of deep disgust that I throw them aside. The cross is awarded for some exceptional no water in the inland creeks and it is impos after reading only the main topics of the day brave deed, for having the life of a comrade sible for the native boats to get down to their or the current serials and articles, and I am against awful odds, for risking his own life, shipping ports; coat freights have also declined almost inclined to be angry with their editors for having the heart to print such unsavoury pot for murder." From all this it will be id sympathy and there is very little demand 'in

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Hongkong, 17th March, 1909.

17 in stated that Admixal Sah has submitted a suggestion that San Muu Bay in Chekiang should be converted into a central naval base for Ching. It is proposed to raise Tis. 19,000,000 for docks and other necessaries in the barbour. With part of this amount It is in- tended also to organize, traising schools and build three cruisers of 3,000 tons, one transport of 1,000 tons, eight gunboats of pop tons, and our torpedo-boat destroyer. These vessels and the ships now existing will form the first squad. ron of the Chines Navy.

export from the Yapgtsze has practically come

MARRIAGE, HARRIS-DRANS,-O¤ jih juns, at St. Jobo's Oathedral, by the Rev. F. T. Johnston, Frank, second son of the late Archdeacon Harris, of Akaroa, New Zealand; to MARION, daughter of the late John Deans of Riccaiton, New tommy-rot. I am quite certain that shout seen that the questips of Dreadnoughts and any direction,

Zealand.

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he Hongkong Celegraph

Hongkong, Tuesday, June 8, 1909.

PREPARING FOR WAR

war with Germany are of prime interest to

On the gth instant, at 4 p.m., the prisoners in the. Namboi prison through some unknown reason engaged one another in a desperate hand-to-hand encounter with knives, iros bars and other weapons, with the result that one of the convicts named Leung Hung Pol was killed and seven others more or less injured. When the fighting was, at its height, the Namboi

the Kwangchow Brigadier and a number of magistrate personally went to the prison with police to restere order. The Red Cross Society. has the care of the injured. As the dutcome of the disturbance, the officer in charge of the prison has been removed from office.

MACAO BOUNDARY,

HE. Ko Yu Him, the Imperial Special Com- missioner appointed to conduct nego intions with the Portuguess for the 'délimitation of

Macao, who left here for Chin Shan a week ago,

-on an unofficial visit to the place and Macao, returned to Canton yesterday by the cruiser Kiang Ta...

SHUN TAK PRISON OUTBREAK.

3. The redemption of the two railways: one in South" Manchuria and the other in Tsingtau.

CHINA'S CURRENCY.

FINANCE MINISTER'S PROPOSAL.

[By courtesy of the “Shưng Po,”]

Peking, 7th June.

Duke Tsai, President of the Minis try of Finance, has applied to have the founces of the Empire established on a sound.basis.

The Finance Minister proposes that all silver coins, copper coins, and

With reference to the outbreak, on the 3rd bank notes should be issued only by instant, in the Shun Tak gaol, whereby a oum-the Ministry of Finance, and that ber of prisoners effected their escape, the the Provincial Authorities should not'- Kwangchow Prefect, Ko Kuo Cheung, by order of the Viceroy, arrived at Shun Tak on the be allowed to issue any form of cur following day to investigate the matter. Pre- fect Ko has allowed a period of fifteen days to rency. the former Shun Tak district Magistrato, Lai -Shik-Kam;tore÷capture the escaped prisoners.

Prefect Ko returned to Cistan yesterday.

-TRICKS THAT FAIL,

WILY PLANS by schemers AT

WEST POINT.

This proposal meets - with hoarty approval of the Prince Regent.

HANKOW-CHENGIU RAILWAY."

CHANG CHIH-TUNG'S DILEMMA. The Wast Point, polico distingui had Įbam- recovering some rather expensive property, selves by making a very smail capture and [By courtesy of the "Sheung. Po"} which was stolen from 'n shop at West Point some days ago; The parrative was told in the

Peking, 7th June. Police Court, this morning, by inspector

Chang Chih-tung has agreed to Roberston; of No. 7 Police Station, when a the appointment of a German en- the second police magistrate (Mr. F. & gineer on the Hankow-Chengtu Rail- man named Wong Mak was arraigned before

Hezeland) to answer a charge of burglary. stant, a shop at 258, Des Voeux Road West was Province are opposed to the appoint Some time during the night of the 3rd in-way, but the people of Szechuan entered by burglars. discovered until the following morning, when

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The robbery was Doment.

the shopkeeper discovered that fifteen pieces of They insist on Mr. Jim Tim-yow,

pewler ware, which he valued at $190, were

missing. Alter very minute investigation the the Cantonese, being given the ap- police discovered a clue, which led to the cap.pointment for preference:

Chang Chih-tung is exceedinly embarrassed over this matter.

these exciters of a rascally band of corres people in Singapore and to a section of the DISPUTE BETWHEN TRADERS,ture of one of the burglars and the recovery pondents be clamorous for the war, as indeed

their articles in almost every instance seem

Chinese population in that Settlement. we should like to have a glimpse of that Nobody will object to healtly criticism, but

Chinaman who predicts war in 1910.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

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On Monday last the Waiwapu gave a farewell banquet to Mr. Rockhill, the U.S. Minister. H.E GRAND COUNCILOR Chang Chih-tung will be appointed Chiel Tutor of the Emperor

THE appointment of M.. P. de Margerie, French Minister in Bangkok, to succeed M. Bapst as Minister in Peking appears in the French Official Gazelle.

Kuachsiang in Hangchow. Over six hundred A LARGE fire broke out on Sunday last at bosses and shops were burnt to the ground and a few people were injured.

to imply, war will sooner or later take place, and that the result may prove disastrous to the English," Not very complimentary to the English but then allowance must be made for the 'writer's indignation and disgust." The correspondent proceeds to declare that: "The Englishman is ratner jealous of the As readers must have noticed it is practic-German, and so is the German of the Eng- ally impossible at the present moment to lishman, and the slightest provocation, if open a home journal without finding some well delivered; (and who does it well if not thing.in it about the Dreadnought question, these editors'?) will bring the two nations to Hso Tung. possibly a list or two that Sir John Fisher a terrible conflict. The soldier is merely a it about to resign, and perhaps a flamboyant satellite revolving about the centrai sun- THE Viceroy of Manchuria bas revived the speech by Lord Charles Heresford, 10 read his commanders, who in their turn are only embargo on the exportation of cereals, except All these things one might be inclined to automatons in the service of the ministers." ing beancakes, on the ground of the bad.

barvest this year, fancy that Great Britain intended to fly at No doubt he is right in what he says, and Germany's throat to-morrow or vice versa. we are content to leave it at that. But now The contagion has spread to Australia and let us come to the really rhetorical part of New Zealand which have offered to present the letter: "Alas! what a pity it is to see Dreadnoughts to the Navy or their armies of innocent.gien opposed to each | equivalent, while even Singapora has come other in deadly câmbali to see their bodies to the conclusion that it might be advisable disfigured by bullets, bayonets, and swords! to have a local flotilla stationed there-to to see their corpses mangled by voltures, wage war against pirates and other rapscal crows and ravent! Oh! it is indeed horror lions and incidentally to scare the Dutch ip ineffable to see these things, and yet those the Netherlands Indies; In the official flini-hearted, callous and ornamental ministers publication of the Navy League we read that and so-called highly bedirened peers remain cach state of the Empire should remember indifferent and still recommend, that the that there are problems of sea-power directly if ever one should take place, should continue, `affecting its own safety. "Each one of them More money is spent for the equipment of the is not only liable to be the primary objective military and naval defences, and more human A LETTER from Government appointing Mr. of a hostile Power, but each one of them lives foot their precious lives' though!) sacri- P. N. H. Jones Acting Vice-President of the might provide the cause of quarrel which ficed for the sake of the country. And during Sanitary Board, in place of the Hon. Mr. W. would involve the Empire in war. It is, in the whole time of the war stage they remain Chatham, C.M.O., on leave," was read at the deed, the fact that some design against one quite secure in their comfortable homes fortnightly meeting of the Sanitary Board this of the self-governing states of the Empire or There is something to be said in support offternoon. soms infringement of its local interests the idea that the "bedizened peers" should THE trial of the Coxswain, Ho Kau, of the il more likely to be the cause of quar-be sent to the front in time of war and given steam-launch Yan Wo, for the manslaughter rel involving the Mother Country in over to "bullet bayonets and swords" to of a boy maned Chac Kus, in Yau-mail Bay, hostilities to-day than is any European say nothing of "vultures, crows and ravens.” on the morning of the rat instant, an the result quarrel of hors likely to involve the Empire. But wa begin to feel out of our depth, of a collision between the launch and a fishing The riss of Germany, the United States, and Why is this Chinaman so wrathful over a junk, was continued before Mr. J. H. Kemp, In the Police Court, this afternoon. Further Japan into the position of first-class naval question which really does not concern him evidence was taken, and the case again ad Fowars has profoundly modified the situation, to any great extent? Why so indignant, journed. Mr. P. W. Goldring appeared for the and Canada, Australasia, and South Africa | passionate and ireful? He is not likely to defence Inspector Langley, of the Water would do well to take note of the fact. We be called upon to shoulder a rifle in defence | Police Station, watched the case for the police recognise with affectionate gratitude the of Great Britain. Indood we ate rather in«, 'authorities,

Im its investigation" of the opium suppression

CLAIM ON. A NATIVE BORROWING NOTE,

Another promissory note action was heard in the Supreme Court, this afternoon. The claim was brought by Yau Yuco,' a trader, of 120, Des Vieux Road, to recover the sum of $65% from Tam Hin and the Hip Hing Lung firm, of 5, Jubilee Street..

of the valuables. “An examination proved. to them that the rabbers worked their way into the shop by scaling a law, wall at the rear of the building, and then by forcing open a securing the pewter ware, passed it over to his door. This was done by one-man, who, after accomplices at the other side of the wall. The thieves then went to Water Lane, where they hid their loot in a nullah, in the hope that the off would be washed out by the tide to & certain spot There they would regain the valuables, and make their disappearance. Their reckoning was wrong. Mr. Justice Gompertz asked where the repre- however. As a matter of fact the pewter pots

Mr. Reader Harris, of Messrs. Wilkinson and Grist, appeared for the plaintiff Mr. E. J. Davidson, of Messrs. Hastings and Hastings, represented the first defendant.

sentative of the firm was.

Mr. Davidson replied, that that firm had either changed hands or had ceased to do business.

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Mr. Harris-The defendant, Tam Hip, ban changed the name of his firm

Mr. Davidson-That's an ex parle statement

my Lord. The defendant was only engaged by the Hip Hing Lung as a foki. He was not a partner.

Mr. Barris said that the claim was for Sgt. It was originally for $791, but certain sums bad that the defendant, Tam Hin, approached bjci, been paid on account. The plaintiff declared and saying that the Hip Hing Lung firm was

{his, asked for the loan to ride him over the cow

year.

Mr. Davidson bere raised an objection. He

were washed out to the seashore, but the police

were there before the schemers. This led to the arrest of Wong Mak, who was found guilty. of the charge and was sentenced to two months' hard labour. His assistunts are still At large.

JRYES FLUID.

REPLY TO MR. BHELTON HOOPAR'S

.1 QUESTIONS,

afternoon, Mr. Shelton Hopper, pursuant to notice, asked:--

"At the meeting of the Sanitary' Board (bis

Is it a fact that in February and July, 1908, Joyes Flaid, to the extent of 2,500 gallons, was purchased through the Crown Agents at a cost,

THE TUNGKUANSHAN CONCESSION.

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SIR JOHN KAYE'S POSITION,

[By courtesy of the "Sheung_Po."}

Peking. 7th June.. Both Chang Chib-tung and Tsai Cheuk hold that the foreigners' pori- tion in connection with-the-Tang kuanshan concession is untenable, and that it is impossible for China to give way.

VICEROY SIK LIANG, ALLEGATIONS OF INCOM

PETENCY.

[By courtesy of the "Sheung Po"]

Peking, 7th June. The papers in Peking ha

criti ex godown Hongkong, of 3/6jd. per gallon? cised H.E. Sik Liang, Viceroy of the been purchased locally at si par gallon, and

Also whether Jeyes Fluid could not have Three-Eastern Provinces, as a man of thereby effecting a saving of between 60 and no ability.

the Ministry of the Interior has discovered that said that that the document which his friend portion that points to the probability of entire only an ordinary Chinese borrowing note, and the licences for opium have decreased in a pro-called a promissory note was pol so. It was suppression in five years.

the plaintiff must sue upon an agreement or Consideration in respect of which the pole was £90. sigued.

Mr. Harris agreed that the document was a borrowing note. He argued, however, to amend the writ to that of money lebt.

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In what respect if any did the Jeres Fluid indented by the Government here differ from that obtainable locally?"

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The following are the replies to the above questions-

The Prince Regent has given in- structions to the Grand Council to cause investigations to be made into the truth or otherwise of the

1, 2,500 gallons of Jeyas Fluid wars received daring 1908 from the Crown Agents at a cost tions. ex godown Hongkong of 3/6). The consign-

This was allowed, and the case continued. Mr. Davidson said that the defence was that there was no cash paid over upon the signing of the note... The 5731 was the balance due for

"illegal contract," to smuggle Chinese into ments arrived in February and Ju'yayotte Iz is reported that the British Consti-General - the United States.

2. A Jeyes Fluid could have been purchased has suggested that as the wireless telegraph Mr. Harris said that was a special defence locally at 3/- per gallon, the same quanlity of apparatus has already been installed on

defence And as his friend had not told him so bafore, which would have cost roughly £66 less. Palace Hotel, it might be bought over by the re be would ask for an adjournment.

*The Jeyon Fluid Indented for from the Chinese Imperial-Telegraphs. The Walwapa Mr. Davidson argued otherwise,

Crown Agents had a guaranteed carbolic acid however, has opposed this surg coefficiency of over 20 for buolius Pestis,, That dered the Total to communicate with that. obtained locally was not so guaranteed and British Cooral-General and bacteriological fasts abowed that it bad not such removal of the apparatus, a'high carbalic acid coefficient.

‚without Chiness authority-..

*** Me, Harris anid: that the only intimation he had received from Mr. Davidson was that he intended to plead durress." The case was adjourned.