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CONTENTS.
Birth and Deatha,
Loading Artlolos -
Americas Financial Diplomacy in China. Departmental Autocracy,
Trade Conditions Alleged to be improving. Telegrams:-
Viceroy Tuno Fang.
Copper Currency....
Naval Hoard,
"Admiral Sah.
Envoy to Russia.
Grand-Councillors III.
Chibli Province. Manchuria
Railway Concessions.
China thians. *
Macao's Delimitation.
Chang Chib-tong,
Grand Councilor Luk. Tungkuanshan Concession. Prince Chen.
Canton Gambling Farms. Chinese Students. Viceroyalty of Chibli. Constitutional Government. Railway-Losos.--- Canton Viceroyalty, Swatow-Chanchow Railway. Wei-bai-wei.
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HONGKONG, SATURDAY, JULY 31, 1909.
AMERICAN FINANCIAL DI-
PLOMACY IN CHINA,
(28th July.).
Many must have noted with surprise that the American Government should have in- sisted on participating in the railway loans to China. So far as Great Britain is con- cerned there has been no desire to thwart America's legitimate desires in this di rection, but it is, clear that the question is more political than commercial. The Natim,
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Peking, 23rd July. Admiral Sab, who was to have left. Peking on a tour of inspection of the proposed naval bases, has postponed his departure.
ENVOY TO RUSSIA.
TAI HUNG-TZE'S RETURN.
[By courtesy of the " Sheung_Po."]
Peking, 25th July. Tai Hung-tze, special Envoy to Russia, returned to Tientsin from St. Petersburg on the 23rd inst. and left immediately after for Peking,
GRAND COUNCILLORS ILL.
CHANG CHIH-TUNG AND LUK CHIN LUM.
[By courtesy of the “Shrung. Po."]
Peking, 25th July, Chin-lum are seriously ill.
Both Chang Chih-tung and Luk
CHIHLI PROVINCE.
FINANCIAL POSITION.
· [By courtesy of the !! Bheung-Po"],
Peking, 25th July."
warded a confidential memorial to
Acting Viceroy Na Tung has for the Central Government reporting that the funds misappropriated do not appear to be quite as large as the amount stated at first."
few weeks ago, it was announced as a timely to the application of any section of this Act establishment of Fair Exchange Leagues, in Os July 31, 1909, at Sunoghai, the wife of 7. and welcome achievement that they had to any person, as to the amount of any an- order that the standards of value, as factors obtained the assent of the Paris Bourse to aulty or allowance under this Act, &c.," influencing the condition of commerce, may An effort at interesting French capital in shall be referred to the Treasury; certain be brought into more wholesome subjection. their one-half-billion dollars United States other points are to be referred to the Educa- It is a matter of enormous difficulty, how Steel stock-the apparent purpose being tion Department; "and the decision of the ever, to bring about any great change, though to get foreign capital to take part of Treasury or Education Department on any the need of it must be as apparent to the it off the hands of American investors. question so referred shall be final. Wo..gold bug as it is to the silver Bea, or even to On July 20, 1909, at Shanghai, JoH, ALBERT As the Aation puts it clearly, emphatically night cull several similar examples fror the amphibious. bimetallist. A Monetary OLSEN, of the Harbour Master's Dept., M. and to some extent dogmatically:It is recent legislation as to pensions. Unde Common is sitting at Washington, and "Customs, aged 36 years.
he great matters to which it On July 20, 1959, at Shanghai, CHRISTIANE, quite true that in 1901 we got in the way of the provisions of the Local Government act, aged 18 months, daughter of Monsieur Rousse-talking about "overflowing capital," and of 1888, compensation to an official who suffers is
its attention is the effect of the New York as the money centre of the world. loss by the abolition of his office or by di- fair Lacordaire, Deputy Postal Commissioner,
pange upon United States' trade We invested in British ecosols and German minution or loss of his fees or salary is fixed with a and other silver using countries treasury bonds; not to mention the hand-by the County Council. But even if the The other day Mr. J.J. Hill, president of some contributions made by our markets to Council proceed, in the exercise of their the U. S. Great Northern Railway, while the Japanese war loans. But these very discretion, on a wrong legal basis, the ap travelling in Canada, pointed out that investment undertakings have demonstrated peal is to the Treasury, the decision of which "Consuls in Asia wara us that at the present the real nature of the situation. The Ameis final. We have not in mind appeals as rate of silver exchange Asia has ceased to rican allotments of the British Exchequer to matters of a purely technical character: import American wheat, flour, or lumber," loans have practically all been re-sold to It is meet that they should come and that the Shanghai merchant who London; so have the German bond;. so, in before a body of experts upon appeal as well eighteen months since bought a sovereign very large measure, have been the Japanese as in the first instance. But it may be noted or five gold dollars with five tacls must issues. This is not because of doubt about as characteristic of the change in policy that now pay ucarly eight tacls. The result any of these investments; but, in the main, the appeal from the declaration of a surveyor is disaster, because he po longer buys." because American capital can do better at as to the condition of a passenger steamer Of course that is old news but it is none the home, or immediately contiguous states lay to a "Court of Survey" consisting of worse for being kept in mind. Mr. Moreton which naturally depend upon U.5. markets. Judge with two assessors. A great change Frewes, that indefatigable agitator for moue But if the lending in China is-as the State was made many years ago when the Charity tary reform, holdsthat" The theory of Ameri Department's intervention seems to indicate Commission was created; and in some can protection is to equalise the labour cost primarily a diplomatic move, it opens up quarters there were complaints of the in-here and abroad through a duty on imports, interesting considerations as to the longer trusion of an executive body into the field and particularly to protect your workers future of both finance and diplomacy. of the judiciary. But, apart from the fact against the competition of those races, such that its business was mainly administrative, as Mongole and Hindus, whose standard of there were given ample facilities for appeals living is alien to your conception of the re to the ordinary Courts. Scarcely less dan spect due to the white races. This being so, New York journal, in dealing with this
gerous in the long run is the habit, as ex. the fall in silver last year has had this result; subject remarks that a short time ago certain
emplified in reccat Acts, of withdrawing if the amount of protection in the Dingley English, German--and French banking It is a well-known fact that colonial ad matters in dispute from the forum of our Bill for your labour against Chinese labour biuses signed an agreement for a tripartite ministrators are much given to the practice Courts and referring them, to some species was 55 per cent. ad valorem, the fall in silver participation" in the loan, that is to say, the of framing Jews which are largely exercised of arbitration, and not necessarily of a kind has reduced it to 10 per cent ad valorem." Hankow-Secbuen railway loan of 5,500,000, by the Governor-in-Council, or some equally which the parties concerned would choose Of course there is another side to this, which the present diplomatic demonstration ap mysterious and irresponsible body.
At for themselves. It is right to take note of the neither the consuls nor Mr. Frewen seem in- pears to amount to a demand for the right almost every meeting of the Legistative usual excuse for this usurpation of judicial clined to notice, remarks the Straits Times. of American participation. There are several Council unofficial members plead that, the powers by executive bodies. The action of If China has to buy in gold may she not sell points of view from which this incident may full objects of an Ordinance shall be stated Courts of law, it is said, is so uncertain; and in gold also? If she gives eight taels for five he regarded. The fitst is clearly political. in the 'rdinance itself, as in the case of the if one appeal to them is permitted, there gold dollars worth of goods, as a buyer, docs The much-worn maxim that trade follows Railway Bill but the result is invariably the must be others. The excuse is insufficient. he not get eight taels worth of gold the flag" has of recent years given place to same. The members are told that proper There is not guarantee that executive bodies for five taels worth of goods as a sel- Another maxin, whose truth has as yet been regulations will be drawn up by the Gover will be consistent in their decisions. If they ler, and does not the advantage in one imperfectly tested, that "rade follows the norin Council and there the matter ends. One are, so much the worse, it may be, for the direction go a very long way towards lending of money. In one sense, the might almost be inclined to think that the public. Some, departments will, indeed, equalisiery argument we recond maximis confirmed by experience. Governor.in Council was infallible. and that keep to one-line-of-policy; but that may That is a very specious argument which wo Certainly, England's export of merchandise because it pursued its functions in secret it
mean that's certain class of petitioners will fear will not hold water and although we are to new foreign fields has in the past gone was necessarily less biassed than other cor have small chance of success. The tendency tempted to discuss the matter now we will hand' in hand with its exports in the form of porations, but there is no evidence that such which we describe is growing. It pleases leave it till a more promising occasion. Pro espital for investment in the same fields. is the case. Indeed there is reason to doubt the fancy of so-called strong administrators. ceeding, the writer in question saysThat Not to mention the British colonies, the whether the wisdom of the Colony is centred It can be recommended to the House of Com it would be an advantage to all if silver and case of Argentina and Egypt is much in in the few gentlemen who honour the moos by attractive allusions to the costliness gold bore a fixed ratio oue to the other does noint. But in these admitted instances, Governor with their advice. With at least one and uncertainty of legal proceedings. There not admit of doubt. The problem is how to Indo-China Steam Navigation Company, Ltd. there was some dotilit whether export trade of these members we have time and again had may come a time when we shall have a droit fix a ratio without wrecking far more than if Japan Treaty Revision."
or investment capital went first. The familiar good reason to disagree, and. if that be so administratif according to which the Treas-is possible to save. Gold is the measure of English plan of building up trade in a for- when the individual in question addresses his ury, the Local Government Board, and one value (or, probably, four-fifths of the world's eign locality, sending out younger sons of a remarks in public, what is the result likely or two other departments will have powers total wealth, and we have never seen any mercantile house to represent on the spot to be when he speaks in private with the to do as they please without review or con- way in which its ratio to silver can be fixed lishing a British, colony-at-Buenos-Ayres to the ears of those most vitally concerned? do no wrong, There will be a little economy tion and quite artificially raising the value of or Alexandria, would of itself lead to.. Not that we would suggest for a moment rather than follow in, the path of invest that the members of the Executive Council many officials; but something vital and Union and the open mints in India kept the to a few persons, and a saving of trouble to the other fifth. It is claimed that the Latin ment in railway and industrial enterprises. are other than supremely conscientious and precious will have been lost or impaired., balance steady, but the fact is questioned, and Continuing in the same stain, our conten anxious to act according to their lights, but
In an editorial commenting on the Times' certainly it did not prevent the occurrence of
RAILWAY CONCESSIONS. porary observes that during the fifteen years it occurs not infrequently that these same review of the situation, the singapors Free prolonged spells of commercial unrest and or so in which the called "colonial lights are little better than allow dips from the Press, while admitting that it is sometimes depression. Granting, then, that fixity would OBSERVANCE OF TIME LIMIT. expansion movement" has been among all public point of view and where are we then? necessary to invest high executive officers be a boon, it is clear that no scheme has a the European Powers, two other principles This question of withdrawing from public with certain autocratic powere, holds that chance of adoption which is based upon the seem to have heen the basis of action of control administrative rights which properly there should be a limit to the enacting of making of purely artificial agreements that
[By courtesy of the "Sheung Po."] investment marketsme, that the good will belong to the people has been the subject skeleton laws in which all the essentials are silver shall be considered equal to a six- of a foreign state could be surely gained by of an address by the Lord Chief Justice and embodied in rules made by the Governor-in-teenth of its weight in gold or any similar
Poking, 25th July. providing funds for its public or private useful comments on the speech bave been Council and in which the chief of police figure. The hope seems to be rather in the tions to all the Provinces that all The Waiwupu has issued instruc enterprises; the other, that existence of such made by a Times leader writer. He says and other officers are invested with discre creation of some system under which all investments in a country like Egypt or China that it is not surprising that the Lord Chieftion to adjudicate in certain matters without trade between different countries, whether railway and mining concessions would give a certain right to political inter-Justice has drawn attention, in guarded but appeal being allowed. It also remarks: they are silver users or not, thall be con should be treated as null and void vention by the Government whose markets, emphatic terms, to the danger arising from" Any departure from that wholesome prin- ducted on a gold standard basis-ie, the wherein the time allowed for the the modern usage of granting to some branch ciple of law. needs the most rigorous safe world shall have one standard only for inter that this mingling of diplomacy and finance of the Executive power to do, or forbear to guard, and while the integrity of the ad- national transactions, with a kind of Hague commencement of operations has has from the first assumed the most extraord do, important acis, and to interfere with ministrative officer exercising judical func-Tribunal of Commerce to settle any disputer lapsed. inary form. Tisastrously beaten by Japan private rights, without control by Courts of tions need not be impugned, yet in the that may arise. In this way it might be in the war of 1894, and with most of its law. No one can be familiar with modern proper spirit of departmental loyalty, if a possible to climinate the disturbing influence public revenues already pledged as security legislation without marking the growth of subordinate brings a case, which is not, well, of silver while leaving it free from restraints for carlier loans, the Chinese Government the habit of withdrawing the conduct of the conviccing, his chief will manifestly. be in as a medium for purely internal transactions Hongkong Water Polo Shield Competition had to face the problem of paying a-war-in-Executive from judicial supervision. Usually clined to support him. That is to say, he is in such countries as India and China So demnity of 200,000,000 lacls, or, roughly, it is the Treasury, of the Board of Trade, not impartial, as an officer exercising judicia! like everybody else our contemporary seer $130,000,000 (gold). One might have pictur. or the Local Government Board in which is functions should be. In years goue by the no way out of the difficulty and we remain ed unfortunate China going, hat in hand, to vested the power of doing as it pleases. Chief Justice used to sit on the Legislative just where we were. The Hongkong Canton and Macao Steam the various market places to negotiate a loan: But we note that other departments, Im-Council, and his advice was often of the ut
boat Company, Limited.
Not at all. A scramble eccurred among all perial and local, are, as is natural, desirous most value to that body, On the principle. the important European Powers to secure of obtaining similar privileges.
To an that the legislator should not be also the. the prior right to lend the money. England earlier, but not very remote, generation such interpreter of the law, the Chief Justice was was China's old acquaintance; Germany was a practice would have seemed dangerous relieved. from his legislative duties. If lis her new acquaintance; Russia would not and indefensible. To Blackstone the dead
was considered pecessary in the case of the only lend part, but would fuarantee personal-letter, as he termed it, of statute law ap-highest judicial authority in the land, there y the whole of the loan. Throughout 1895, peared futile to secure the actual enjoyment is surely strong ground for declining to These assurances that Codlin's your friend, not of the great primary rights, if the Consti extend the practice of giving heads of Short, were urged on the government at Peking tution did not provide certain other auxilia- departments judicial functions, without con.
which, in the end, succeeded to raising ry rights, of which the chief was that oftrol by the courts of law.” $80,000,nooontermwwhich Japan, in the days every Englishman to apply to the Courts
The Shanghai Tantai,
The Peking Syndicate.
Vladivostok.
Viceroy Chang.
Meetings:--
Legal Intelligence:-
Alleged False Imprisonment,
A Beer Runner's Claim. Particulars Wanted,. An-Indian-Disputer Claim for Money Lent, Receiving Order Made,
A Contractor's Affairs.
A Firm's Goodwill. Public Examination.
Pollos:-
Shipyard Mechanics.
A Desperate Woman,
Stabbing Affray at Yau-ma-ti.
Aftermath of a Piracy.
Correspondence:-
Aeronautics,
Miscellaneous Artioles and Reports:-
Viceroy Chang Jen.chun..
Green Island Cement Co., Ltd.
The Kowloon Railway
Hongkong Docks, ..
Soldiers
MANCHURIA.
THE VICEREGAL SEAT,
"[By courtesy of the ""Sheung Pa."="
Peking, 25th July.
the home establishment, and thus cstab-consciousness that his 'views will not come trol and, like the Sovereign, will be able to without exposing all that wealth to deteriora that the proposal to remove the Vice
The Merchant Service Guild and Lieutenant put up the necessary funds. It is in China
Shackleton, RMR.
Hongkong Gardens.
S. S. Empress of Jopon
Bathing Fatality.
Chinese Pigs in Great Britain.
-Steam-launch-Sack-
Fatal Accident at the Docks,
Forestry in Hangkong,
• Accident to a Fitter.
Accident at Viceroy's Yamen.
Boraca Stofops
Technical Institute.
British and German Methods,
A Wordy Warfare.
An Important Point to Shipmasters.
Flora of Hongkong.
Bamboo Ropes,
Trouble with Lascars.
5. S. China.
Volunteer Corps Orders.
Merchant Shipping Advisory Committee. New American Minister to China. Typhoon Waminga.
Hongkong College of Medicine.
........Opium in Indis.
Canton Day by Day.
Dock Competition."
A Trip to the Saddles.
Self-Government Societies.
Building in Shanghai.
Forelga Hospitals in Shangbai.........
Volunteering in Shanghai.
Britain's Commerce with the Far East. Japan Sugar. Refining Co.
T. K. K. Service to South America.
Fisherman Adrift' in Sea.
The New Order in Korea.
Diplomats in Peking.
Yokohama Dockyard Company, Prince Ito at Seoul,
Opium Smuggling, Sentenced to Death.
Sir Alex. Hosie's Opium Report.
Raub Gold Mining Co.
Burned to Death.
The P&O. S. S. Malacca,
Kidnapped by Brigands,
Marine Mishaps. Rubber lá Malaya. YORIO, Collisions at Bangkok. Motor Cars in Bangkok. Commercial ti
Yarn Markot
Share Marketi
Fraight Market. Weekly Shäre Report, (Exchange.inte Local and Questale
of her military success and well-organised for redress of injuries; life, liberty, and pro- fance of ten years later, was notable to comperty were not to be disposed of by board or od Atthepresent time the competition is commissioners or Civil servants, but by Jud- less strenuous, and even the Powers areap-ges and juries according to due form of law.
TRADE CONDITIONS ALLEGED 70 BE IMPROVING.
Telegrams.
“HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH"-
SERVICE,
VICEROY TUAN FANG.
ARRIVAL AT TIENTSIN.
to leave for Peking immediately
[By courtesy of the "* Sheung-Po"]
Peking, 23rd July. Viceroy Tuan Fang arrived at noensis intriguing, one against the other to Only recently, and lang after Blackstone Straits Times, has a very thoughtful article
One of our Singapore contemporaries, the Tientain on the 22nd iust, and was secure the master slice. The case, purely day, Parliament would have resented strong. from a financial point of view, is all the ly attempts on the part of the officials of a
on the general, state of trade, and the in- aftor: more singular from the fact that a Chinese State department' to obtain a position of fluence exerted by the fluctuations of silver. railway loan,.even granting its entire sound-privilege and immunity from control. Our The article is apropos of a speech delivered ness, offers no greater inducements than Courts have done much of their best work by by the Chancellor of the Exchequer to a many excellent bond investments already on exercising a strict and even jealous supervi- gathering of bankers, in the course of which the markets. The popular'notion that enor sion over the action and proceedings of the he expressed the belief that the increase of mous interest rates are paid is erroneous. Executive. They have called officials to ac-banking business, railway traffic returns and The $80,000,000 Chinen loan of 1895 paid count, disregarded the orders of the superiors one or two other forms of business justified 5 per cent., its issue price was 98 3/4, and of the impugned officials, and refused, failing the belief that the long spell of depressed the most explicit terms in a statute, to allow trade is coming to an end. It may be so
it has lately sold in London around 104.
The more recent Hankow-Shanghai railway the ordinary rights of citizens to be abridged but our contemporary does not believe it,
loan paid interest at 5 per cent, and sold at
99. The question is not of the wisdom a6
* GOPPER · CURRENCY. MORE COINAGE.
༧༽
[By courtesy of the "Sheung Po."]
Peking, 23rd July, Duke Tsai, president of the Minis
NAVAL BOARD.
by the prerogatives of public departments. Judging from the conditions prevailing in try of Finance, has given instructions They are still reluctant to believe that Parlia-the cotion mills of Lancashire and the walls to the Mint to despatch special offering such a price; the point is that in ment mearis someone to be able to do as he of doin the one race because their officers to Yunnan to ship a supply vestment finance has apparently acted with likes in regard to other people's liberty or trade with the Orient is becoming increas of copper to Peking for the purpose. a curious mixture of motives in the matter. property. That policy has been wholesome ugly stack. Coming to the silver question of minting copper coins. This conclusion is the more difficult to for all concerned. If our public depart- and we may state here that the article is cscape when we come to the diplomatic dements are, as a rule, to-day in a very headed "silver linings," which is hopeful, mand that American capital' be allowed to satisfactory condition, this is in no small the writer remarks that there has been a participate. American capital bas of recent degree owing to the fact that the sufferers years been impressed willf the fact that it from negligence or other default can has a good deal to do in financing its own obtain redress from an impartial tribunal. investment interests. In 1950, the Ameri- After giving some samples of recent legisla can markets were declared to have borrowed tion which fly in the face of public rights, $500,000,000 European capital for the pur the writer proceeds to say the Act of 1898 pose, and, even so, their now railway bond relating to elementary teachers states in one
propssain ballra in dod a waters. On
potion that any question which ariary ng
fractional increase in the price of bar silver, but it still hovere round 248. per ounce with persistency which indicates much doubt and hesitation about the future. meantime, those who believe that the secrèt of nearly all the great troubles we experience in traits can be found in rises and falls of
In the
AN OFFICE REQUIRED. [By courtesy of the "Sheung Po"]
Faking, 23rd July. Prince Choi Sun and Admiral
H.E. Sik Liang, Viceroy of the Three Eastern Provincos, has asked
celled. roy's yamen to Chang-teun 'be can-
CHINA LOANS.
A RUSSIAN APPLICATION.
-[By-courtesy of the "Sheung Pb."]
Peking, 25th July. The Russian Minister in Peking applied for Russian tea merchants in Hankow to be allowed to parti- cipate in the China loans.
Grand Councillor Chang Chil tung has strongly opposed the appli-
cation.
·
· MACAO'S DELIMITATION. VICEROY CHANG'S MEMORIAL,
[By courtesy of the "Sheung Po"].
Government, HE. Chang Jen-chun,
Peking, 26th July, In a memorial to the Central
Viceroy. of Canton, enumerates' the difficulties there exist in the of
way carrying on intercourse with foreign- ers in the Two Kwang Provinces.
The Viceroy also states that the question of the delimitation of the boundaries of Macao will be amicably settled, as HE. Ko Erh Ch'ion, the Special Commissioner, has had experience in conducting negotia tions with foreigners,
He (the Viceroy) holds the opia- ion that, the conduct, of the nego tiations being in H.E. Ko's hands, there nood be no apprehension of the loss of China's sovereign rights,
In the memorial Viceroy Chang points out also what steps should ba talcen to deal with the evil of gamb ling in the Province of Kwang-
aliyor are considering much; quantique me the Sah, the Naval Commisioners, proi-tung, aberbeckanuni gas firemna
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