1911-05-08 — Page 3

THE REVOLUTION,

COUNTRYSIDE QUIET AND

"UNDISTURBED,

A special representative of the "Hongkong Telograph" spent Sunday in investigating the dis- triot, between loro and Canton,

The villagos are quiet, although briganda and other bad characters are taking advantage of the pro sont disturbanco to cause troublo. Thio attack on the Canton Kowloon Itailway, which the "Telegraph" published on Satur day, is in no way connected with the Canton revolt. The revolt tionarios roro not implicated. This troublo has arisen becauNG of the antagonism of certain Chinese employees of the road to one the European engineers. There is no political significance what

over in this affair,

EXECUTIONS IN FRONT OF COLLEGE DOORS.

[THE "TEINGRAFE" Conexspondent ;

Canton, Muy 7

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH MONDAY MAY 8-19/1

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ling. A native critic, comparing the murder of Fu Chi with that. of Governor En Min in 1907, has Out of the 3,740 Chinese stud shown that the Anhui atrocity onte at the Japanese capital 1,000. lantoned the publication of the are supported by their respective Mr. Wong, inspector of a college. It may be that the unrest in Con-schools or educational bourds

Constitutional reform programme. provin

provincial governments, homa for pupil teachers has sent a strong ton will similarly hasten the which transmit to them regular protest to the Educational Com- reassembling of the Tezeclion- missioner in Canton regarding yuan; and it is possible that such monthly allowances through the the action of the Pun U Magis-relief to the general pressure. "Hankow Daily News," The WEDNESDAY, the 17th day of a - Courso would afford somo Chinese Minister there, says the trato in selecting the front door There seems little reason to boys are taking grant pains of the college as an execution doubt that Poking is indeed boy ground for the anarchists arrested alive to the situation, and that it in the selection of the educators in connection with the recent has good then both in high and who are to rejuvenato Chum to tumult in Cantou. As a con- subordinate places who might make sure to send conservative Bequenco all the studionts in the introduce changes for the better, competent men tos college have left and the school wore they allowed time. But the evolutionary mechanism going in suspected of having taking tragedy of Poking is thint it is and the ardour of the radicals horo part in this outbreak. He has allowed no time because it receives is being repressed to eliminate of how received a reply from the no confidence from the reform any somblance of a revolutionary Comissioner assuring him that party. It in thon the question whet tendency in the movement." The this kind of unpleasantness would her the debates of the Tazeehen- students are inaugurating their not occur again..

yuon would be more likely to compaign in a very business-like add to or appease popular dis- manner. All their sessions are content; and the only answer orderly and deliberate, only the Rooms to be that a Boreaming Chinese language is spoken as a Moreover how any uprisings metically sonlod boiler. Blind number of Japanese reporters safety valve is better than a hor. precaution to secreoy and while a nerves of the people wore intense, have thore been in recent yours in and incoherent is the actions- of lave sought information as to the-

differont parts of China with China's popular representatives proceedings no one has been ablo TH aaught but abortivo results? How, have appeared to bo, it is beyond to find out much about them. Six many opportunities have been question that they have exerted a more representatives will be sentr given to prophets of evil, olevou if the movement be directed workers will be left in the field, loavening influence. The movo, off in a short while and those sessed by the want of coherence by a light invisible to Western the free being gradually in- aroused, until the moral and social. uplift bas been carried throughout the Empire and old China holds up her head to assume the rank of world power among the nations! Whilst one is able to do nothing else but admire such a scheme, it seems to us that those studenta young and generally hair-brained, Buangh-1.

have a long, a very long way to go before China's "rojuvenation"

which the writer so enthusiasti- Hongkong, 1st May, 1911: cally onforces, upon one's mind) will take place.

Although the country is quiet it would be idle to deny that the soods of disturbance are gorminut- ing. In the villages along the riyor it was quite plain that the

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Thin "Telegraph's" representa tive was frequently warned that there wore "bad charactors abrond, and even in places where fooling of uneasiness was dis playod.

troops were stationed the same

The heavy rains of the last few "days have not added to the com- fort of the people. Two Chinose were drowned before our re- presentativo's eyes ut in ford sud- denly flooded from the hills. At one point it rose eluvon foot within an hour. Large areas are covered in water and the crops have been destroyed. It would seem, indeed, that nature is doing

her best for the rovolutionarics.

The general impression left on the mind, however, is that the Kwangtung Government with a strong and honest policy will espapo from its difficulties with flying colours.

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PARTICULARS and CONDI TIONS of the Letting by Public Auction Sale, to be held on MON..." DAY, the 15th day of May, 1911, at

in the rulings of Poking, to pro- nyes. phesy falsoly? The only thing of which experience has tight The "Shanghai Times" com- to be sure in China is that serious menting on the Canton outrage, trouble, not the sporadic outburst says:It is a signifiennt, fact of a day or two, comos as a thief, that the recent attempted demoli- in the night and for the most tion of the Viceroy's Yamon at frivolous reasons. Yet it cannot Canton came quickly upon the he disputed that China as a whole licols of the execution of Wan and the Southern provinces in Sing-ts'oi for the murdor of the particular are, and live for some Acting Tartar-General Fu Chi. time been, in a most dangorous Whether there was any connection frame of mind. The descriptions between the two events remains given recently by our Canton to bo soon, but the widespread un correspondent of the methods of rost in the south, coupled with the revolutionary propaganda are impressionable character of the extromoly significant. On oud Cantonese, and the ardent appeals occasion the steamor, on which to their patriotism and hatred of

ARTICULARS and OONDI- our correspondent was travelling, the Manchus made by the con-

Auction Sale, to bu held on MONDAY, was boarded by a young man detuned man as he was being ear- At the meeting of the above the 15th day of May, 1911, st V_p.m., who Imringed the ship's com-ried through the streets of Canton Council on April 18, Dr. C. at the Offices of the Public Works pany in impassioned strains, call-in a basket to the place of exe-Mor, Consul for Germany at Datment, by Order of His Exaul- ing on them to cast off the culion, suggests that there was. Amoy, informed the mombors leny the Govenor, of One Lot of Manchu yoko and deliver the Constantly thoman threatened the that he has handed over of charge CROWN LAND adjoinlog Gard n land from couturies of misrule. officials that if they put him to of the oflices of Senior Consul at Luto. 2. Caroline Hill Road, in the Newspapers, which find their way death his execution would be paid Amoy to H.B.M. Consul, Mr. Colony of Hongkong, for a term of 70 among the masses in spite of for with their blood, and that the Sandius, and that leave of absence years, commencing from 1st January, rigorous censorship, are never members of the society to which has been granted to him and that Canion, May 7th. weurying in fierco denunciations to belonged would rise and he has handed over charge of the PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.

of the dynasty. Public opinion massacre the whole of the pro-Imporial Gorman Consulate to Mr. The Board of Post and Com-is still further moulded by the vincial officials. The threats ludG Wilde. munications, in view of the trouble number of Chinese returning from the effect of striking fear to the The Secretary reported that the in Canton, entertain a four that abrond who can bring the weight hearts of the officials, who doubled depth sunk at the artesian well the railway lines may be destroyed of comparative criticism to bear their guards and took other pre- is now 128 feet 8 inches, by the rebels in case of a rising. on the Government's deficiencies. cautions to prevent molestation, Mr. Wilson tendered his resign- The Board has accordingly asked And underneath all is the tradi- and now that an attack has beonation as chairman, and a hearty the Vicaroy to dispatch more tional Toyalty of the South tomado it is certain to be attributed vote of thanks was passed to him. soldiers to guard the railways.wards the long-dethroned Mings, to the supporters of the executed Mr., W. H. Wallace was elected The Board farther requested the and the strong senso of an even if such was not the chairman. Mr. Wilson Viceroy, to allow the railways tionality which the Manchus caso. Official business in Canton, elected vico-chairman.

have traflio which was

trodden out of at least, is certain to be violently the proud Southerners. In such disorganised, especially as soveral powder-nine of feeling, the least of those concerned are in receipt incident will strike a spark to fire of threatening letters, and it is an oxplosion, and the assassina difficult to say when calm will be tion of Tartar-General Fu Chi was restored. The "Dare to Die no small incident. The manner Society," of which there happens in which that murder was com- to be an organisation in Shang- initfod, the bravery with which hai, is busy distributing letters the murderer mot his death were marking officials for vengeance, exactly calculated to inflame po- and ovon the constable who pular passion. He died for his effected the arrest of the murder- country, making war on the orof Fu Chi has been notified that Manchus and glorying in his his days are numbered. If this | GRANITE & death; and many persons "sighed reckless body is behind the attack deeply and shed tears when they upon the Yumen at Canton the MARBLE saw his blood on the ground." Government will find itself hard

Not the least noteworthy fea-pushed in these parlous times to Monuments. ture of the Canton disturbance palliate them. A grave mistake is the scrupulous care that would was made by publicly displaying seem to have been taken by tho a man likely to be apotheosized insurgents to avoid injury to for his deeds, and a graver. one foreign lives or property, says tho will be made if the officials now. "North China Daily News." In exhibit fear of his friends. Strong no senso, wo are told, is the move and prompt action is demanded. ment anti-foreign; and for all the sufely of Shameen is concerned, the foreign gunboats lying in the rivor night as well be at Hong- kong. It is not to be supposed Mr. Churchill, replying to Lord (THE "THLEoRAPI" Correspondent.} that foreigners are any. the more N. Crichton Stuart, in the House beloved than in the past; in Canton, May 7.

deed no small part of the com- of Commons, on April 11, suid:--- The Board of Foreign Affairs plaint against the Manchus I am informed by the London has telegraphed to the Canton is the humiliations to which County Council that there are Viceroy stating that although the they are declared to have known to the Council at the tumult in Canton has boon entire-exposed China from abroad. But

sont time twenty-two private ly suppressed, the Board is in fear the inevitable consequences of that similar risings may occur in interference with peaceful traders houses in London in which opium- The daily issne is delivered Ites when THE CHINA PROVIDENT other places. As Canton is a place aro now fully realized, and the smoking is practised, mostly by whore Chinese and foreignors immediate quarrel lios elsewhere. Chinese somon. In 1906, the come in contuct both in business The significance of such a policy date of the edict against opium-asy extra charge. Op reples sont by and privately,itis of the utmost im- is not likely to be lost upon Pek- smoking in China, twelve such post an additional $1.80 per quaiter portance that the lives and proper-ing; but in what way the Govern-houses were known to the Council, in charged for postage ties of the foreigners should be ment will act upon its deductions, In the interval opium-smoking. The postage on the weekly issue to any protected. The Boaril hus askod is difficult to see. There will, no has been prohibted by the London part of the world is 30 cents per the Viceroy to take overy precau- doubt, ben redoubling of the County Council by-laws in sen- tion in his power to prevent any inquisition against the entry of men's lodging houses: licensed by international complications which rebels and weapons into China them, and this has, no doubt, led will involve China in the payment which alreddy bears heavily up to an increase in the number of of claims and compensation. On on the people. But / these private houses in which facilition receipt of the telogram, the Viceroy ringsu aron of the order that for opium-smoking are afforded and Admiral Li Chun have jointly are not seen, and some more The Commissioner of Police be- Instrusted ill military authorities conspicuous sign of repentance is lieves that opium moking is on

if revolothe decrease

[Tam "Telegraph" COLRESTONDENT.}

Canton, May 7.

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