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SERVICE, .-
CHINESE LABOURERS
· FOR SAMOA.
GERMAN RECRUITING
SANCTIONED.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 23 1909.
V. 8. C., SPORTS.
FIRST DAY'S FKTE.
BNGLISH IN THE BAST..
THE SCHOOLUASTER ABROAD,
It is not often that any nation gats, twice in In ideal weather, the opening events of the Interport Contest came off at the Victoria Re-the same year, such an opportunity of extending creation Club this afternoon. Great interest its language by peaceful means as England has The this year in the Near and Far East. Yet, in all was manifested in the various events. spacious premises of the aquatic institution probability, the English people will let both were packed to its utmost capacity with memopportunities slip by without utilising them, bers and their friends, while the edge of the praya held crowds of spectators several lines deep. Following are the results of the opening events up to the time of going to press Ewatow, 22nd September. 4.90 p.m. 1-HALF MILE INTERFORTCHAM- The Swatow authorities are will-PIONSHIP. C. Humphreys. 2-A. A. Clax ing to grant permission to the Ger- Prince (Shanghai). mans to recruit six hundred labour- ers for Samos.
~[By courtesy of the "Sheang Po."]
400 3-R. W. MacCabe (Shangbai), 4-E.
Time: 65-3/5 BC.
Humphroys won easily.
4.30 p.m.2-TWO LENGTHS (Open
to
Hongkong
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In China, as is well known, English has got a tremendous start över all its rivals, even over Japanese. It is spoken, though in a mutilated form, by several millions of datives in the Treaty Pòrts and surrounding districts;, and is the lingua franca of the country to the same extent as French is the lingua franca of the Ottoman Empire. The University scheme new proposes to English from the bongs and the docks to the universities, and than to place it in a position somewhat similar to that occupied by Latin during the Middle Ages in Europe. But because this scheme is not being conducted under missionary auspices, the Rev. Lord William Gascoyon-Cecil denounces it'as "ua- First Heat-1-P. M., Remedios. 2--A. H. Christian" and proposes to frittor away Eaglish effort and English money on the establishment, in the centre of China, of a college whose mis.. Second Heat-1-H. C. Sayer. z-A, B. sionary leadings and proselytising endencies
Time: 1 mín. 44† secs.
Army, Navy and Police). 1-Gunder Birch, R. G. A.-Corporal Burke, The "Buffs,”.
Time: 46-1/5 secs
한
4.45 p.m. 3-FOUR LENGTHS, Handicap. (Members Only) a Heats.
Carroll.
NAVAL COMMISSIONERS. DEPARTURE FROM 'NANKING. *[By courting of the "Sheng Pó.")
Shanghai, 22nd September." Prince Shun Pui-lap and" Admiral Sah Pen-ching, naval commission-narros. ers, left Nanking on the 21st inst for Hankow.
They did not land at Wuhu.
Time: 1 min, 42 BECS,
JAPANESE IN CHÍNA.
The Echo de Chine of 14th inst, contains an interesting article translated from the columes of the /ên Cham Ni Pan The author of the
condema it in advance to sterility. On this point, we might profitably take a lesson from the manner in which the Germans are support ing their admirable scheme for a Chinese high school (undesomisational, of course) at. Kiao
chow,
article is a Japanese, whose object is to ndveis cata a vigorous policy on the part of Japan in her financial and commercial dealings with China. The N. G, D. A nice translates some of the more salient portions of this article, the
importance of which cannot be overlooked:
THE ENGLISH POINT OF VIEW,
TRN, POOCHOW TYPHOON,
DETAILS OF THE DISASTER.
The Foochow Ecão, of 15th inst., reporta :— In the early hours of Wednesday, the 15th inst, Foochow was visited by a typhoon of nousual severity and although it raged for no more than six hours it easily ranks as the most violent of any typhoon which-bas visited this Port for the past twenty years. On retiring to rest on Tuesday night very few of the com manity had any idea that before morning they
would be roused to do battle for their houses and homes and, in fact, the Chinese floating
population, usually so correct in their judg ment as to the near approach of a typhoon, sidiculed the idea of any such thing impending The evening of Tuesday was calm with bright starlight and certainly gave no indications of being the forerunner of a storm of such great severity. Therefore, it is not to be wondered at that when the wind commenced at about three a.m. practically no one was prepared and the toll taken from the river folk was exceptionally heavy. The wind increased in violence rapidly, reaching its full force at about 6.30 am. wher the barometer in the Club registered 29.10, and there is no doubt that bad it continued at its full strength for any considerable length of time few hontes would have been left in Foochow As it was, practically no house escaped unscathed, all being more or less seriously damaged and presenting all the evidences of the fury of the wind, Several houses were proofed, others lost shutters and walls, while in the case of Jardine's house the chimney fell through the roof and on to the bed of the manager who, luckily enough, had just left that particular spot. At the Chinese Girls' falling immediately in front of a girl who was School a chimney fell through, the debris singding in the door frame in the room below.
To-day's Advertisements.
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NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES..
FROM. EUROPE, COLOMBO AND
STRAITS.
A NAVAL REQUEST, REFUSED BY VICEROY CHANG. [By courtesy of 3xx" Shang-Pet-
Shanghai, 22nd September. Viceroy Chang Jen-chun has notified the Waiwupu that a certain foreign man-of-war has applied for permission to drill a company of marines on a specified ground on the that is in our power to obtain our due fioancial jag into the country in greater numbers every remedy, while the telephone services-native soon as the Goods are landed.
THE SCENE ON THE HILL
HB Company's Steamship
"KITANO MARD," having arrived from the above Ports, Coa- aiguaes of cargo-are hereby informed that their Goods are being landed and placed at their risk in the Hongkong and. Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company's Godown at KowicoD, where each consignment will be sorted out mark by mark and delivery can be obtained as
In Turkey ao Western European language so largely read and spoken as French; but, strange as it may seem, many of the Young Turks.regret ibis fact, and are at prescol mak ing a great effort to replace French by English While admiting the great value of French literature and French civilisation, the leaders of Now that Occidentals are coming to under-
this movement are strongly of opinion that En. stand that China is a country in which theylish literature and English civilisation would can enrich themselves, they will come pouring be far better suited to the spirit of the Osmanli. into the country to engage in commercial enter-
In support of their statement, these meo point prises. If we Japanese to-day do not do all to the objectionable French novels that are pour
rights in Chiun, in ten years such rights will
year. They also tell how remarkably Turkish have passed entirely into Occidental bands.
boys thrive in English schools with their at We are of the opinion that our Governmentmosphere of gathes and sport, an atmosphere in should send immediately many of our fellow which the Osmanli is as much at home as the junks were huddled together in every conceiv·' \ will be subject to rent. countrymen into the interior of China. Siaca Britisher. Finally, they are frankly delighted withable style of confusion, Many junks were our language and race are similar to those of the Chinese, it would be very easy for us to THE MANCHURIAN AGREE become merchants and professors. It would
be much easier for us than for white people 10 the adoption of those views would be the sal boats with decks awash were to be step at all' ten days of the steamer's arrival bere, after MENT.
banks of the Yangtze..
Viceroy Chung has refused sanc- tion and has detailed guards to watch the place.
-FOREIGN="JEALOUSY. [By courtesy of the “ Sheung Po.")
bave close commercial relations with the Chin-
esc.
Eight years ago we started in Shanghai"the" Tung College. This school has Tseg, Wupplied with 220 sudents, who Peking, 22nd September. have a perfect knowledge of the Chiness Germany, France and the United language, both spoken and written. They have penetrated into the interior of the. States, and also other Foreign Pow-country and are now able to engage in business with the natives without the intervention of ers, considering the recently con-
compradores, What benefits might not accrue cluded Manchurian Agreement de to us were we largely to increase the number of trimental to their interests and in favour of Japan and Russia, have notified the Waiwupú accordingly, urging for a modification of the Agreement.
MUZZLING THE PRESS. STRINGENT REGULATIONS
WANTED.
such students
For ten years we have entirely ignored the financial state of China. Since last year, how. ever, many Japanese hooks have appeared
which treat of Chinese finnacial and commercial
matters. To speak frankly, if we are now ac quainted with the pecuniary and financial situa tion in Chien, it is because we have founded the Tung Wen College and have sent one hundred of our young men foto the eighteen pro. vinces of Chian, to make a study of commercial matters. If we continue on these lines we shall assuredly come to have a yet better knowledge [By courtesy of the "Sheung Po.") of the financial state of China....
Peking, 22nd September. Let our capitalists and merchants be of one mind for the development of their industries The Waiwupu has requested the and their commerce. If they can act in this Board of Civil Affairs to enact strin-way, in ten years it will not be the white people but we who shall obtain the financial rights of gent-regulations-in-order-to-muzzle-China, and the Occidentals, no longer able to compete with us in China, will return to the Occident and give way to profound despair.
A KING'S EXPENSES.
INADEQUATE CIVIL LIST, OF THE
the press.
Later.
The Censors have jointly memor- ialized the Throne to the effect that the Waiwupu's attitude towards the Press, in regard to affairs affecting the Three Eastern Provinces, has been quite disappointing to the Press, and they do not consider it right.
The memorialists
that liberty urge should be granted to the Press to report on questions relating to Man- churia and to make aucli 'comments' | thereon as they may think fit, PLANTEK'S TRIP TO THE POLĖ,
MERRY SKIT PROM ISLE OF SPICEX BREEZES. The following, says the Geylon, Olmerter, will add to the gaiety of 'nations in this tight little island, where the climate is almost the opposite pole to either of the other Polos ---
PURTUGUESE MONARCH.
The commities appointed by the Portuguese Parliament to investigate the royal finances ex-
the English'view of marriage, of home life, of politics, of jaamalism, of Liberalism, of Parlia mentary Government; and are convinced that
was one of unexampled devastation and rula. Trees of some 200 years old have been uprooted and damage to the shade trees bus been done to au extent such as will take many years to
and foreign-have been wiped out: The banks of the river for mites were littered by the wrecks of the various craft, while large ocean-going
Optional Goods will be carried on unless instructions are given to the contrary before Noon, TODAY,
Goods not cleared by the 30th September
♪
Intimations.
CHEESE
CHOICE CANADIAN
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60 Cents per lb.
THE
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PILSENER
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AND
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BEER.
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REFRESHING
SUMMER
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No Fire Insurance has been effected. asbore on the end of Chop Chow island, the houses at that point having been smashed by Godown for examination by the Consigabe's Damaged packages must be, tek in the the undesirable visitors. House boats without and the Co's representatives at an appointed masts, sampaus and boaie baitom up, cargo.
hour, All claims must be presented within
vation of Turkey.
which date they cannot be recognised." No points, while the homies all long the banks of claims will ba admitted after the goods have This Anglophils_goes_so_far that it has the-fiver-were-banging-in-all-conceivable left the Godowns,
though they had been
NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA. already taken practical shape in the form of a shapes, as scheme for the establishment of a great Anglo-struck by dynamite. The pontoon and jetty Hongkong, 23rd September, 19091458-459
on the Ewa Bund bad disappeared, two deep | — Turkish school on the banks of the Bosphorus.
water sleamers ware lying alongside Messrs. The leading spirit in this enterprise is Tewfit Fikret Bey. This gentleman is the leading Siemssen & Kiobo's jetty and kerosine (from the outside world as the cables from Sharp Turkish poet of the present day, and his the many boats which had sank with cargoes Pank were interrupted and had been ever since splendid allegorical song, "A Mist on the
from the various depots on the other side of the typhoon. They were also informed that it Bosphorus, did much to rouse the men who
the river), was floating in oily masses on the would be several days before they might carried out the evolution of July. Under the surface of the water. As for the Oll Installa expect the sprvice to be resumed. The Tele- old regime it was circulated largely in manus tions, the Match Factory and Sawmills on the graph Co, are now ananging to forward their cript, and became familiar to all the Young North side all these caught the full force of messages by steamer te Amoy and Bhang OBTAINABLE AT Turks, especially to those living in Macedonia, the blow and the demage done to buildings hai respectively but, naturally, such makeshifts cannot be other than unsatisfactory to the
THE EVOLUTIÓN. OF TURKEY.
there has been enormous. They look more as
Tewfik Bey is, however, something else than though they have gone through a bombard-tea-merchants who are, or rather wore before
ment than of having-met the force of a gale of some six hours' duration.
a post. He is an educalionist of very great ability, organising power, and sympathy, and es director of the groat Turkish school of
Up to the time of writing we have not re- Salata-Seral, Pera. Constantinople (to which,ceived full advices as to the damage done by the way, all requests for information re
AT PAGODA ANCHORAGE, garding this enterprise should be addressed), although we understand that the Customs he has already made a profound impression in there has suffered severely and all the gigs Turkish educational circles.
have been lost with the exception of one. It is quite impossible for us to state with any degree of accuracy what the death roll amounts to but we are thankful to say that we have not to re-
As regards the objects he has in view, the following extracts from his prospectus will be of interest to English readers —
"The New School "proposes to make of the.
boys who are confided to it young men capable of directing their course in life and even of becoming of valuable assistance in the re generation of the Ottoman Fatberland.
Thanks to an elite composed of such citizens. the Ottoman Dation will be able to withdraw itself io time from the pernicious influcace of a decadence that has been going on for cen turies and which has been accelerated by the wospeakable despotism of recent years, and will assure the duration and the fruitfulness of the political evolution so happily commenced.
The influence of our surroundings ię Turkey being still very pernicious as a result of the
pressed the opinion that the yearly grant of 365 || This is indisputable. : contos of reis (673,000) is insufficient, and does pot enable the King to meet the current ex penditure of the rayal household, which is as follows, according to the official figures:-
£20,000
Maintenance of the Royal Palaces
and gardens Ceremonials, entertainments, etc, Charities
in 7,000 Salaries of Court officials.........
12,005
unfortunate legacy of the past, we muit remove our children from that influence, as soon as possible and educate them under such con- ditions as will enable them. to appreciate per- sonal dignity, their duties, and their social and political rights, and so that they will appreciate at its just value the happiness of moderd life based on
respect for the human personality. It may safely be con- cluded that, under these conditions, they will acquire av exact and practical under, standing of life and will even be able to coo stitute, later on, model families and groups destined to create the Ottoman society of to ∙morrow, a society which will definitely assure
the apraising of the nation.
cord any fatal results among the Foreign com musily although many narrow escapes took place.
At Kuliang,
THE HILL RESORT,
the cables parted, busily engaged in obtaining orders for the Oolong crop, the market for The best thing the which has just opened. Port could have done would have been to have called a Chamber of Commerce Meating, declared the Hoogs closed till the cables were again in working order and everybody here gone to sleep till it was possible to do some- thing in tes. There is only one style of busi- no possible at present and that is any trade connected with bricks and mortar.
·
WRECK OF 5.5. "TAIWANFOO." Just as we go to press the news reaches un that the sa. Taiwanfor has been wrecked on the White Daga with the loss of over 100 passengers and crew,Doubtless-we-shali- later receive fulfer details which will appear in
latër issue,
DAMAGE DONE TO CARGO HOATS. We have ascertained that the loss to the flee:
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enormous damage has been done to the mary houses dotted round the hills and had the 17.a phoon occurred a few weeks earlier we ATG certain that we should have had to record the death of some of the.occupants. Luckily of cargo boats amonats to over fifty boats, the enough, practically all the Missionarier, who available dumber to-day being about farty occupy the great majority of the houses daring only. July August, had already left but the ladies still remaining at Kuliang suffered a night of horror and anxiety. The house occupied by Dr. Churchill and family was entirely swept away and it was only after they had spent some hour and a half sheltering under a boulder that tey were able to reach a neighbouring house, there to obtain covering other than the night clothes in which they had escaped from the sulp's of 16,000.
their bouse. Possibly, as fuller details come to band, further dreadful experiences by other £65,000
sojourners on the hilltop will reach as la This leaves only £5,000 for private expenses,
passing, we cannot help remarking that every provisions for the palace, clothing, etc., which
now and again similar experiences are met is by no means adequate. To lessen the royal
with at Kuliang and we are apt to wonder how expense the maintenance of the Royal Palace
long people will be content to endanger their Necessidades in Lisbon and the country Palace
lives and limbs by occupying houses so to Pea Castle at Cintra will henceforth be borse
suited to the weather conditions which are to by the State; this expense is 'estimated at
be met with in such an exposed position as £1,000 per annum The committee further
The Ottoman and English languages will be Kuliang. Only the best and.finest, buildings suggests the reduction of the palace staff, com-
taught to all the pupile and general instruction | should be erected there and yet, with a few Discovered Norb Pule. Met all the Meri- prising many superfluous officials appointed will be given them in these two languages noteworthy exceptions, the class of house found dions and their families. Pleasant party. No during the reign of King Carlos, and generous simultaneously. After our national language there is quite unsuited to the strains it is signs of Cook-er Peaty' marspangled ban-ly maintained since by King Manuel,
we have adopted English is preference to all called upon to bear. A Bill whereby all futuro Ministers of Finance other European languages, because, it is that of ner; guess it was stolen. -
are to be held personally responsible for any people whose spirit of independence, and advances to the royal house without previous initiative ought constantly to be an example to consent of the Cartes has been formally preds. And is not language the means par excel- seated in Parliament by the present Minister fence of assimilation? of Figauce, and will shortly become law.
Proceeded via Morawakkorate, Superioten dent of Beverley vary hospitable: provided dogs and tea chosis. . allowed game tracks to Ko. lossa. Fine game country. Previous reports of ice around Polar Region quite erroneous, Was accompanied last stage of the "fourney alone by box cooly, Ramasamy,
Baita ran short at fgth parallel. · · Ram MENNÝ died. "Buried him in ico fons, I moan-game track. Borry he cannot corroborate. Dead men tell so tales. Food short on return Journey. Consumed fast rubber biscuit en- tering Bakwanky NA
Diabelleve all rival,cfalmants till I come. Have not seat my scientific'data by post to the South Pole,
Am not an American, and did not nail"
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Yours, till we meet.-ANTRİSA:
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