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GENERAL NEWS.

Torture at Hanyang. The "O. O Post" says that torture was used in a trial at Hanyang the other day to extort confessions from two thieves. The torture system was nominally abolished before the end of the Manchu dynasty.

Knowledge of Baseball useful,

Helens, Mont, Novembar 2. Charged by a wounded deer and unable to use his rifle which had jammed, Mr. Clark Griffith, man ager of the Washington American League team, saved himself from probable serious injury by his oldtime skill as a pitcher. Seizing a stone the size of a baseball, ha threw and struck the animal on the head, felling it. He then killed the deer with the butt of his gun..

Strike on Canadian Pacific, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Novem ber 5-Fifteen hundred em- ployees of the Canadian Pacific Railway are on strike to-day, de- manding a wage increase of from 15 to 20 per cent. The men who went out are members of the Canandian Brotherhood of Rail way Employees, and are com posod principally of olorks in the 'freight department. The com- pany claims the places of the strikers will be filled by to-night The system west of Fort William, Ont., to the Pacific Coast also is affected.

A Quaint Collection:

SERVICE MATTERS.

Midshipmen's Annual Exam. 'Abolished;

The Admiralty have directed that the annual examination of midshipmen is to be abolished. No examination was therefore held last month.

R.G.A. Instructor Colombo,

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H. M. S. DEFENCE.

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With a

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view to ascertaining whether any definite information had been" received as to her forthcoming departure, a Times of Ceylon re presentative boarded her this The Times of Ceylon," of morning and sought out Com- November 30 has the following mander Douglas W. Hamilton For some time past the General regarding H. M. S. Dalence which, Gorden. "The public of Colombo Staff have been looking anxiously it will be remembered, passed have shown an extraordinary in- to the Universities to play a more through Singapore, under sealed terest in your arrival and the prominent part in the officering orders, Westward-bound, about fact that you have been so long of the Army and the Auxiliary the middle of last month. awaiting orders, in view of the Forces. There are encouraging Apparently she has not been war in the Near East. Can you Separation of Civil Authority, signs of a response in a general in such a harry to leave give any information as to when The "N. China Daily News" inclination to forward the study the precincts of the Colombo you will sail, and whither? the states tht the Shanghai Prefect of the military science, by means break-water as she was to depart representative asked... has received an order from Tutuh of lectures and otherwise. It is from Tanjong Pagar wharf With sailor-like .directness and Oben, of Nanking, to effect that understood that University Since Friday, November 22, precision came the answer: “ We inasmuch as peace and order have College, London, has taken a . M. S. Defence has been in the sail at four o'clock this afternoon, been restored, the separation of step further in the required harbour awaiting orders. Only bound for the Mediteranean. civil authority from the military direction by the institution of six months ago she proceeded to And whether we shall get there or is essential. The President has degree in military science. The the China Station and was not we don't know," appointed Mr. Yin Teh-hung to syllabus for the June course for at Wei-hai-Wei undergoing The scene on board, was one of be Administrator of Kiangsu, and the first year-which will be her somual the Tutuh has handed over mat available for these sitting for the The officers and

practice. quiet preparedness. There was men were no rushing about and nothing to ters of a civil nature to his cou intermediate examination next

just getting need to the indicate that anything out of the tról, so all orders on civil affairs summer, and for those who are place and becoming acclimatized, ordinary was going to happen. issued by him in the name of canditates for commissions in the when the war broke out in For eventualities the ship bad Tutub, shall be regarded ass Regular Army--includes tactics, Turkey. The Defence received been prepared. It will be re- issued by the Civil Aministrator map-reading, and field-engineer orders to quit Chinese waters in membered that we have already who, in future, shall have inde ing; and for the second term, five hours. When the sealed stated that the men were not pendent authority over civil plied tactics and field-sketching orders were opened directions were allowed ashore except for a short questions,

Any move in the direction of found that the ship was to sail to period. All were aboard this raising the standard of military Colombo and there await fresh morning and the only thing that Washington, November 12.- education in the Army, and the orders. There were many con- remained to be taken up was the Aged, musty text books, no matter provision of a reserve of really injectures on board as to what the gangway. And so we lose our how begrimed or dilapidated, are telligent officers, is to be com- future work of the vessel would mysterious warship. wanted by the United States mended.

be. Would she be going to the The ship steamed out of the Bareau of Education. The Bur-The New Naval Appointments: Mediterranean to fight the harbour exactly at four o'clook, eau has issued an appeal to those With regard to the more im- Italians? or the Austrians or the the ship's band playing: several who may have some relics from portant offices, it had already Germans? were among the ques- well-known songe, concluding the days of the "little red school been stated when he left the tions which were asked and which, with "Say au revoir, but not good- house," and who might be in- Admiralty last December that naturally, pending the orders bye" and "Auld Lang Syne". The duced to part with their keep- Vice-Admiral Sir George Egerton which were to be received at other warships in the harbour sakes. The intention is to make was to get the Plymouth com-

collection of rare textbooks and mand when it became vacant. It Colombo, remained un-answered. saluted her, and the band on For a period of nine days the R.M.S. Newcastle also played to add to the existing pedagogic is, however, somewhat of a sur-

Defence has been awaiting "Auld Lang Syne?: library which the Bureau hores prise to find that Admiral Sir

orders," and we had, almost to build up until it is the best Alfred Winsloe, who assumed equipped authority of its kind in command, in Chins in March, come to regard the ship in the same light as the poor-always the English-speaking world. 1010, is to be relieved by a

Consular Change. Awards to Chinese Firms. rear-admiral. This is an indi with us. Two troopships were in the harbour yesterday-the

The Gorman Consul-General at The oficial list of awards at nation, perhaps, that the Eastern the International Exhibition of Fleet will in future be under the Rohilla, carry 1,181 units for Yokohama has been appointed Turin has now

been issued. supreme command of the admiral Southampton, and the Soudan Minister to Abyssinia. Herr von While the International Superior flying his flag is the Australian with 025, bound for Bombay, Syburg was appointed Consul Jury specially appointed to revise Squadron. Apparently, also, the where more time expired soldiers General at Yokohama on Febru- the awards proposed by the post of Chief of the War Staff would be taken on board. A ary 21, 1903, and with the ex- special juries has used consider may become an annual appoint correspondent suggested in our caption of a brief interval in 1909, able discrimination, thus avoiding mont, and in future be held by columns that the Defence may be when Herr F. Thiel, now Consul as far as practical the recrimina- an officer of higher rank. Rear- the escort to these two troopships, in Kobe, was in Yokohama as tions common to similar exbibi- Admiral E.O.T. Troubridge, who but up to the time of their arrival Acting Consul-General, has re tions, the list includes not less takes command of the Mediter- no disquieting news had been presented his country's.com- than 30,000 names. Among the ranean Cruiser Squadron, is to be received. So the Soudan sailed mercial interests in Yokohama Chinese firms or individuals to relieved by Vice-Admiral Sir by herself for Bombay yesterday for nearly ten years. whom prizes were delivered, is Henry B. Jackson, from, the afternoon, the Rohilla got under the Han-Yeh Ping Iron and Coal Naval War College. This change way last night for her destination, and the Defence still remained Co., to which was given a Grand creates a vacancy with ie to be within the shelter of the harbour Prix. Those interested may see filled by Rear-Admiral the

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