1911-03-10 — Page 1

The Hongkong Telegraph.

NEW SERIES No. 8487

FRIDAY.

豌十初月二年三統宜

Telegramis.

Telegrams.

Telegrams.

FRONTIER QUESTIONS.

YUNNAN CRISIS.

VICEROYS HURRIED TO

PEKING.

("Suzano. Po" Bravica)

Peking, Murch 9.

The Prince Regent hus askod'

the Grand Councillors and the

other Ministers to recommend

Bome officials who are well versed

in frontior questions;

Peking, March 9.

Tho chief telegraph office in

Paking has issued a proclamation prohibiting the people from send-

ing privato telegrams concerning

the frontior disputes.

["SBAT PO SERVICE.]

ANOTHER. SOCIETY

FORMED.

SHEUNG PO" SERVICE.]

Poking, March 9. The Viceroy of Yunnan has telegraphed to Peking saying that theProvincial Assembly in his

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[Sarong Po" SERVICE.]

Poking, March 9.

The Grand Council intends to

ank tho Viceroys of Hupch and Chili to come to Poking to discuss important Stato affairs.

(ESTABLISHED

MARCH

Telegrams.

1881.)

IU.

THE PLAGUE,

BEAN TRADE RUINED.

["BUAT PO" BRAVICE.]

Poking, March 0.. The Bourd' of Agriculture has telegraphed to Viceroy Hui Liang of the Three Eastern Provinces The Board of Communications to report full particulars of the

1911

五拜禮

選十月三英港香

(Paris Edition), recounted somo of his own experiences. He has already worked in China, Cochin China, and the llo de la Rounion during outbreaks of the dinoase,

Sont into the contaminated districts, he found the vil lage streets doserted. All doors were locked, and ho was unable to take care of the sick, who some- times lay bosido the dead in the houses.

footed districts in Ching to be Inoculated. He has himself, in the course of his exporionco in dealing with plague, inoculated somo thousands of persons in varions countries, with results that have been very effective. Nothing, of course, he pointed out, can be un absolutely safe remedy against plague, but the vaccine is the host preventivo,

As to the danger of the plague spreading to Europe or other countries, no one,"

he said, can tell what may happen. If there is always a danger of its it extends very minch in China, gotting such a hold that it will spread in spite of the measures Furopean doctors are profound that may be taken to guardly distrusted in China, and against it. Happily, there is accused, sometimes, by the small likelihood of its reaching fanatical peasantry, of bringing England in the pneumonie form the disease which they nfo ufixious unless Russia becomes infected. to fight,

provinco has formed a society for has placed a special train at their boan market ruined by the out- We are a long way off, and, bo- !

this protection of frontiers.

The object of the society is to

soo the presunt disputo sottled

amicably.

disposal.

CHINESE OFFICIALS.

THEIR STATUS.

"SHEUNG Fo" SERVICE.]

Peking, March 0.

The Vicoroys of the Throo

break of plague in Manchuria.

Taking, March 9.

The plague has completely disappeared and the railways

havo resumed normal traffic.

Poking, March 9. Vicoroy Isi Liang has nem-

The traditions of the country render most difficult the taking of sanitary measures. If a filter besides the corpso, often for dies, it is the son's duty to watch several days.

sides, the Local Government PLAGUE IN HONGKONG Board aro wateling it as keenly AND CANTON.

e anybody." ADVANTAGES OF COMMIS- SIONS.

Peking, March 9.

Poking, March 9.

The Viceroy of Yunnan has

Councillors intoad to send Viceroy at the Board of Foreign Affairs Eastern Provinces, Chili, Naui-rialized the Throne that the on, relay would be an

It is reported that the Grandlegraphed to the Grand Council

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A PEEP BACK IN HISTORY. The Bombay Gazotto" regales Touching upon the Inter- its renders with a summary of national Commission that is going plague history in China and out to China, in response to the particularly in Hongkong and request that the Government of Canton, and in the course of its that country has made to Great remarks, which are interesting Britain and other Powers, Dr. if only ns an expression of Simpson remarked that the ob-opinion, says: When it first ject wonld be to study the dis-originated is not known, but oase, and

also to see what the earliest reliable accounts measures can be dovised for pro- begin with 1844. Epidemics venting it fromspreading to other occurred in Canton in 1850, and 1804 and in the carly seventies able, he pointed out, to prevent it was known to be endemic in

sions of Inquiry could nover do none of these places was notice that. There were half a dozen taken of sporadic enses in timo. Commissions of Inquiry when "It requires something about and there were only some won al," says the loading Shanghai the plague broke out in Bombay, which thero can be no doubt at thousand crises, but they did not journal," prevent the disease spreading and, destroying sover millions of the

SIG PER ANNUM, SINGLE Copy 10 DENTE

The Weather Forecast.

IS RAIN

STORMY

CHANGE

FAIR

VERY DRY

On the 10th at 11.55 a-Tho depression lying over N.E. Japan yesterday, is moving away over thie Pacific..

aiderably over the N. part of the Son of Japan, and fillon moderate- ly to slightly over N. China and at the stations in the South.

The baromoter. has, rison con-

An elongated depression lies over Tongking, the S. coast of China and the S. part of the Eastern Sea.

Prossure remains high over N. China.

Unsettled squally weather, may be expected over the Northern shores of the China Son.

Hongkong Rainfall for the 24 hours ending at 10 a.m. today, 1.03 inchios.

Forocast District. hood, S. winds, moderate or fresh; 1.--Hongkong and Neighbour- squally, showery

Isi Liang and Viceroy Li to in- to negotiate with the Governmont king, Ilupoh and Yunnan have plague is showing signs, of dit spreading in Chin: Commis Yunnan and Hainan island...In and variable winds, squally.

spect the frontiers and to appoint to withdraw the British troops u

H.E. Tsang Chins Viceroy of the

Three Eastern Provinces.

Peking, March. 9.

1.E. Chang Ming Chi, Viceroy

of Canton, has telographically 10-

ported to Poking sx ways of

coming to an amicable settlement

with tho British Govorniment

about the frontier dispute.

his provinco, as all the schools hurve closerl on account of the pre-

sence of the troops.

...

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JAPANESE TROOPS IN MANCHURIA.

TEN DIVISIONS TO BE

DESPATCHED,

["SHRUNG-PO SERVICE]

The Throne, on receipt of the

telegram, hasinstructed the Ching.

Poking, March 9.

Wu Chu and the Board of For-

Japan intends to placo ten eign Affairs to consider the sug-divisions of troops in Münchuria,

gestions.

The news from Loking that the Viceroy of Yunnan is somewhat- perturbed by the presence of a British force on his border is only what might have been ex- pocted. He is winked at the settlement of Chinese colonists in tho Maru Kachin country west of the watershed between the, Sal- ween and Irrawaddy basins, which is the boundary between Yunnan and Northern Burma, and now he has to recognise that this "pouceful penetration" into Bri- tish territory brings certain con- soquoncos with it. The colonists Jave coolly appropriated the most fortile lands in the valloy wost of themountain chain and have oust ed the tribosion from their hold- inge. If this process of land-gral:- bing were not checked, there would be a continuous' stream of Chinese settlers pouring across the frontier, and the Kachins would be forced into the jungles, there to make fresh clearings for their cultivation. As the valley which thoy occupy is such British territory as other Kachin country, it is obvious that tribal interosis must be protected. It is with this object, writes the "Pioneer," (India) that a small force has boon

sent into the valley and the civil

officers with it will enquire fully into the position. It is not at one point, but at saveral, that the Chinoso have overflowed from Yunnan, and honce the present complications.

and already eight divisions have

arrived.

MANCHURIA.

CHINESE LABOURERS'

DEBARRED.

"SHEUNG Po" SERVICE]

Peking, March 9. The labourers from Shantung have been prevented from going into Fongtion (Manoburi),

CHINA AND OPIUM.

PROTEST AGAINST TAXES,

["Burena Po" SERVICE.]

Poking, March 9.

The foreign merchants in Hangchow are strongly opposed

to the steps taken by the Chind

C

o

government levying taxes on pro-

pared opium in Hangoltow.

sent representatives to Peking to discuss the status of officials.

The Grand Council has asked this representatives to submit the opinions of their Viceroya, and has fixed a date to consider the

questions.

SRCRET AGREEMENT

REPORTED.

CHINESE PRINCE AND

RUSSIA..

["BIAT PO" SERVICE]

Peking, March 9. The Board of Dependencies has sent a special deputy to vestigate into the conduct of

cortain Royal Prince; who has

ppoarance in Manchuria.

formation from the China Wo gather the following in Critic":"In consequence of Dalny having been declared an infected port, freights for pro duco of all kinds, eluding cond and boans, have risen froin 50 to 100 por cont to pll-China const ports."

The British Government las

THE BLACK DEATH.

PLAGUE IN CHINA NO NEW THING.

BRITISH AUTHORITY'S VIEWS.

inhabitants of India."

Dr. W: J. Simpson, profossor of bygiene at King's College, and the author of an important in-Trontise on Plague," pointed out

in an interview with a roprosent-spread." ative of the "Pall Mall Cluzette," : that the danger of the present Jepidemic in China is that it uny spread throughout the country, and assumo vory great virulence indeed.

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CHINESE SOURGE RE- SEMBLES THE GREAT

2.- Formosa Channel, N.E.

3.-South const. of China-bo- -

samo as No. 1:

tween Hongkong and Lamocks,

tween Hongkong and Hainan,

4.-South coast of China be-

same as No. 1.

CANTON NEWS.

[THE "TELEGRAPH" CORRESPONDENT

Canton, March 9.

to awaken a sense of hygienic alarm in the unsop- histicated Chinese mind to which death certificates are unknown. As to the good results that But when deaths per day riso are due to Commissions of from units to tens and from Inquiry; Dr. Simpson recalled tons to hundreds, then the city

About three weeks ago, an arm- that when the Japanese Govern- idols have an outing," Those mo- selected Dr. Roginald Farrar, akong, before the outbreak in not seeing fit to intervene, Canton Kowloon Railway's office ment sont Kilisato to Hong-thods proving futile and the gods od robbery was attempted at the medical inspector of the Local Bombay, and when the French native tradition and ingenuity at Shekwan, Bock Lo district, and Government Board, to proceed to Government sont out Yorsin, suggest that people die because nows of the outrago was telegraph- China in connection with the hath at about the same time, the demons of the other worlded to H.E. the Vicorey by the Re- plague. Ho has already had con- but acting independently, dis are in want of coolios. To secure sident Director of the section. siderablo-plague oxperience in covered the plague bacillus, immunity for themselves, people The Viceroy asked the magis. India.

Tut," he said, "was an who are regarded as wise, place trates of Bock Lo, Teong Shing enormous step. The commissions offerings of food, burn incense and Tung Kon to run down the in Bombay, two years later, were for the entertainment of passing robborn. An accomplice has now able to extend that knowledge, and demons and straw and water for been arrested by the officers of the confirmed that the rat and lower their horses. When plague broke Tung Kon district and has ad-.. animals suffered from plague. out in Canton in 1804 there was mitted having taken part in the In India the Plague Commisno sanitary board, Government robbery. The news of the arrest sion is further advanced our adopted no sanitary or preventive of the prisoner reached Canton knowledge in rogard to the in- measures, there was no isolation of yesterday. fluence of the flea in producing cases, no renoval of filth or rub- the bubonic form of plague. Un- bish, no water supply, no system H.E. the Viceroy is in receipt of doubtedly, therefore, these com- of drainage. Chiness methods a telegram from the society in missions have a useful effect in and Chinese medicine hand full and connection with the question of increasing dur knowledge of the unrestricted sway. Hongkong delimitation of the boundary bo mode hy which the disonso is suffered at the same timo and, tween China and Macao. Tho says the "China Medical Mission contents are of an inflammatory [ary Journal" of that time "it will nature. The sonders of the tele- surprise some to know that with gram hold that the Portuguese all the offorts of the authorities were wrong when they broke the there, the plague disappearod Chinose embankment in Chien from Canton just as soon as it did Shan and say that in case of hos- from Hongkong." Twenty thou- tilitics the fault lies with Portugal. "Plague," he said, "luis been

sand coffins wore distributed to The Viceroy is requested to take in China a very long time. It is China.

those unable to purchase them up a firm attitude on the question. endemic in Yunnan, and has been there for hundreds of years."

Dr. Bruquet, who has spent and the epidemic only Insted from They say they can be killed but sovond yours in studying plague January to Muy.

their will cannot be broken. If Taking his "Treatise," and turn-bacilli at the Pasteur Institute, Dr. Kerr tells of a hospital, Portugal declares war against. A SENSATIONAL PRESS. ing to its maps, ho showed the lins been ordered by the French under Chinese management,

China, China should be prepared. representative how, some sixteen Government-ho is an officer, in whore a hundred patients lying or soventeen years ago, it spread the Army Medical Corps to pro- on the floor amidst filth and al- H.E. the Viceroy has devoted towards Canton, whence it soon eeed to China to the French troops most unattended, a condition much of his attention to the solu→ roached Hongkong, and spread stationed in Pechili, in order to of things which did not com- tion of the "clan fight problem." through Southern to Northern devise measures to prevent plague mend native methods even to His Excellency is of opinion that China and to India.

extension. He is taking with him their own people. Nevertheless unloss strong measures be taken "It is, therefore," he continued,

a quantity of vaccine prepared at the contrast presented in Hong-again there will be no end of "o now thing to-day, but is the Pasteur Institute, to be used kong between the methods of trouble of this kind." His Ex- gradually getting a hold upon for vaccinating the troops. the whole country. Its presont

Chinese and Europeans, as they colloney has instructed the civil The present outbreak, accord- were seen and experienced by 60 and military officials throughout the lungs, and is directly con- the Black Donth which visited the minds of many intelligent any robbers be found responsible form is poumonic, attacking ing to the doctor,greatly resembles many, produced an impression on the province to note the matter. If who happens to be near a sufferor flic doctors of that poriod were hads, which, it was anticipated, be beheaded, while those who are lagious. Any person, for example, Europe in the fourteenth century. po plo in favour of Wostorn met for causing a clan fight, they will when he is coughing is in great strange-looking, washable clothes would have a lasting effect. guilty of sheltering fightors will dangor of boing infooted by it. In as a precaution against infection. Soventeen years ago the lesson be severely punished. A soverer. this way many of the doctors and

They were made of morocco was taught; "but plague has been punishment will be given to those nurses have taken the disease. leather; covering the face was prevalont in Manchuria for ten who aro guilty of contributing The form is very fail, and worse a mask with crystal glasses and years. During that time the need money towards getting up those ovon than the bubonic."

a long noso like a bird's beak, of offorts to kill bacteria ought to fights. Hereafter, in case of a filled with essences. Dr. Broquet hava boon foarnt, but do not ap-clau fight, the properties and as modified this old model, and pear to have boon. When attempts estates of those concerned and area; it resembles, in its main the direct rays of the sun, they will be confiscated. The proceeds intends to wear it in the plague were nindo to expose their houses also the estates of their ancestors features, the quaint original.

nade a socrot agreement with

Itassin which is considered anti-

dynastic.

MINISTERS PROTEST,

BUAT PO" BzuVICE.]

Peking, March 0.

The British and Japanese Miuistors in Peking have ap- proached the Board of Foreign Affairs, urging the officials to

prohibit the nativo press from publishing sensational articles

concerning the frontier disputes

in Yunnan and Manchuria,

THE BEST SPECIFIC., Sometimes, as in the outbreak himself dealt in West Africa, the of plagio with which Dr. Simpson bubonic assumes thub penumonic form. The bent specilie against

VISITATION.

The Parisian papers are full of alarming reports of the plague in

to

resisted every effort made for their of the salos will be devoted ta The difficulties of dealing with protection, Little wonder that charitable enterprises. If a villa it is Haffkine's vaccine, and Dr. the plagno in superstitions China the disease hos spread to such an puts up a fight against another, Mr. and Mrs. A.-H. Ough leave Simpson said he would certainly are enormous. Dr. Broquet, in alarming extent and that the pro- the one which gives way will bo to-morrow morning by the Em-adviso Englishmen who may conversation with the representa-portion of recoveries is practically rewarded, while the other will press for a holiday in England, be travelling through the af- tive of the "New York Herald" nil

aa violing,