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HAS CANTON DECLARED

INDEPENDENCE ?

IMPORTANT. Statement by PROMINENT GOVERNMENT Official,

WHERE IS THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL?

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"In fature, Palismoat will have a proper say in all matters. There will no longer be a one. man Government. "Most of us are in favour of a Republic on the French lines, with a Cabinet chosen by the people and not by the President. Then everything is bound to go emoothly, and progress in all branches of social and political fin general educ-

The two questions of the from first to last, has been, and is ation and so forth, must follow. moment with regard to Canton to get asn Shik K'ai out of as a matter of course."! are (1) where is Ohan Kwing office and to establish a proper Ming? and (2) has the Province' Republican Presidency. declared its independence or has

he was in the coquiry, that he!

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THE SITUATION IN CANTON. Of the condition of affairs in Canton, so far as it may be judged from the surface, our re presentative writes:

There is absolutely nothing

unitative who spent yesterday in it not? A "Telegraph" repie Independence" Not declared !

"So I am actually to tell our hunting through Canton for the readers that independence has not Governor General heard that that been deulerad?" gentleman was in Hongkong, that)

"Just so." "What is the feeling here now

that he had disappeared, no one was snug within the yamen, and in regard to the ex-Governor?."

"Friendly, in the main. Some knew where. Even some of the of the merchants may have lost the demeanour of the people or police authorities

in him, professed confidence

but the condition of the oity to lead ignorance as to his whereabouts, most intelligent people are while othere maintained that he satisfied, that he did bie a stranger to suppose that a crisis. wae in the yamen.

best for the Republic. No doubt of any sort has been reached cr When our representative reach he has many bitter opponents in is impending. All along the ed the latter place he was Hongkong but the only thing Band, and in the various quarters informed that the Tutub was that the general pablic of Canton

busy with his advisare and can possibly have against him is of the native city through which commissioners." One of the latter his repayment of loans and his passed, there was no sign white said, "The Governor Ge oral has sending his storetaries to study ever of excitement. I beard, lates deputed me to act as his mouth-at the expense of the Govern- that some of the bigger bustless piece and to give you any mout. I read very carefully the information that you may require; into view with him which the bus bad closed, but in all such information you are Telegraph" published Bome clisses of shops, fur "ne regurd as thought it came direct, short time ago, and I am in agree. I c.uld £3, trade a orod quite ment with all that be said about noimal. Occasionally one met [him all Icin vouch for the

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from himself."

Telegrams Censored

mented on the huge and unsight ly builders' yard which has sprang up on the land immediately in adjoining the main road which leads up from the ferry whaaf. One case of plague was reported We believe this land belongs to during the twenty-four hours proportional. Subegriptions the Government, and, if so, the ended noon to day. There were for any period less than a month will be charged as for a facts of the matter should be 18 case last week and 14 deaths.

made known. Since we last The daily issue is delivered free when the addrosa is accessible to wrote, the evil bas grown in leten- nesasngor. Peek subsoriboi a can have their copies delivered at sity, and the oresions have b:-

On its being represented to him close friendship Letween him and small groups of men reading their residences without any extra charge. On copies sent by come a positive blat on the lande

A woman found in possession that telegraphic news has been Chan Kwing Ming of which he Grament proclamations which post an additional $1.80 per quarter is charged for postage. cape. But that is not the worst The postage on the weekly issue to any part of the world is $100 Gange of or lies and cayera of of a loaded automatic pistol was very contradictory, and now was spoke; both of them were, and my guide said were assurances to wood appear to reside on the fined $250, or in default three not forthcoming at all, the Com-are, actuated by the same motives, the merchants that the'r busines por quarter. Single Copies, Paily, ten cents. Weekly, twenty-five cents (for place, and the noise which they months, at the Polites Court this missioner said We are bound, and I think that the time will ees.would not be allowed to suffer

at any rate for the present, to come when the Assembly will!

in this new political move. Cash only).

make ae night, a well as the morning.

observe a certain censorship over support him in the line of action

The Eve-barred flag, was j Advertisements and Subscriptions which are not ordered for a fixed smells which arise from the buil

period will be continued until countermanded.

all' telegrams. You had better which he took," have no news at all than falee! What about Dr Sun? What as much in evidence as usual; to European residents who live

the locality. Kowloon's The Hon. Treasurer of the news. For instance, it has been part will he play in the new and a "finest site, indeed. has now Alice Memorial and Affiliated our Province has declared itself

reported all over Hongkong that movement?

"I can give you no information trome a big eyesore. Canuot

Hospitols bage to acknowledge independent. This is not so." jon that point at present." the abomination be remedied?

with thanks the following don

"But what about the proclam- "Britisher" or "Briton"?

A Home paper is greatly exoration to the funds of the

"There was a proclamation cised over tke us of the word pitala:-Anonymus, $20, "Britisha:" in place of "Britor." "Its employment," says the jour bal in question "is wholly inde- fensible, rad it is to be regretted that a work of Transatlantic origin should be used to large an extent not only in England, but also in the Colonies." With there sentiments we bave no.

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HONGKONG, MONDAY, JULY 21, 1913.

THE CRISIS IN THE NORTH.

dings, cavee intensa annoyance

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It is quite apparent from the unhappy developments which are at present taking place in the North that if Obino is to be raved from a bitter humiliation and a terrible crisis is toe averted, some- thing in the nature of a miracle must eventuate. The pat-up feslings sympathy. What does in mallor of party politicians have at length burst into angry action, bli od is

whether a word comes from

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Future Plans. "How about your plan of camp-

and

few of the shipa Government buildings had decrated themselves with strings of figs. The flag over the Custom House bad been run

yes; but there is no word in it aign for the immediate fature?" op upside down, but this may or Our place are certainly not may not have been an accident, as to Oban Kwing Ming's having! declared independence for Canton, matured. The upset, has come If the Canthoces were as supersti- and he hopes you will make this rather su idealy. All along, we tions as our owa seamen of the quite clear to the public. What bad hoped for a halutely old school, such en accident won'd was said was that the Provincial Peaceable esitlement through thej tave filled them with uncˇmləri" . Government had declared the agency of mant. But Tatah Governor General and broken. This not noise To Sne of the Police

his babe paticipations. promiss alter prou" Commander in Chief; that it de-Yuan Hung promised the Chief officials Flad to nounced. Yaan and demanded bis, Commissioner of Kwangsi that resignation, and that it assured protection. ta merchants and

tung-troops.

being shed, and the rival elements appear determined to carry the Boross the Atlantic or from Pelice and Kowloon on Saturday, others by means of the Kwang-that an order this effect was given women wore at work as though

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Police.

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B. L: Frost

M. Molver "'W. Russell

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W. Brown.

to

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ohair it. the would withdraw his goldiers through miles of native streets, from Kiangai; and the story goes and, in each of these, men and but was countermanded by Yusn none of them had heard a word Yuan's Resignation Demanded. himself. Thereupon the Com-of the trouble.

"We refure

The streets missioner, Au Yung Woo, ledge that Kwanglung has resigned.

seemned well policed, but I was separated itself from the Republic; What is your opinion of the assured later that, beyond a few on the contrary, it is the Govern- stories that are coming down extra squade of constabulary that ment-Yuan's government that from Shanghai as to the £ghting paraded parts of the Band with 16han separated itself from us. We in the North ?*

want no independence for any one] Province; all we seek is a pre

perly constituted Republic, and this we can never get as long as

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"I think they are as nearly fixed bayonete, the police arrange- possible accurate."

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Men and Money.

20 Yuan is in power. Therefore How are you off for money

Kwangtung demands that he and troops here?"

The match plaved between

Senegambia, r long ng it resulted in a win for. the Police conflict through to the bitter enil. It has long been the ciss in a nest and expressive word? by 17 points. Ecores:- China that the faction which can command the support of the For ourselves, we hope we are

Kowloon. soldiery will have its way; it is more the cass than ever to-day. At good pairiots as need be, and we

K. MeLennan, D. Craper

J. Allan. the moment, President Yuan and his Army are being challenged. used the word Britisher every

time. It is a more pleasing word W. Kent. Will they be able to hold their own? That is the paramonat query to the orr than Briton and it has T. Glendenning W.J. Crawford

R. Hall: of the moment. On their loyalty and their success bangs the fate less of the big drum about it. D McHardy

(skip)...33 (skin)... of the new Republic.

There seems altogether too much

J. Grant Fombast about Briton. In any Those who have taken care to follow recent happenings in the

caso, does not the foot that Brit-J. Watt Nortb, and to take note of the under-current of developments, knew isher is more generally used than Fenton

Within the past the other settle the question? It W. Pi well enough that the prosent upheaval must come. few months the whole of the Yangtse district has been seething with the majority of people, at Home (skip) intrigue and sedition, and popular temper was very vividly dead in the Colonies, favour the R. Watt monstrated over the murder of Mr. Sang Chao-jen. Indeed, we word, that is the best of all reas- F. Booker would go so far as to say that many of the fomenters of strife, who one for sticking to it. cared nothing about the crime itself, or who were in no way affected thereby, seized hold upon this incident with the very object of furthering the movement begun to discredit President Yuan Shih-kai and to undermine his authority. The present cataclysm has sprung from nothing else than bitterness of party feelings and covetousness of the spoils of office; or, at least, these have besn the main cause6 which have led to the inauguration of the new Revolution. It is a At the Police Court, this morn- Revolution without a doubt; for some of the Provinces have ing, before Mr Hazeland,a Chinese alteady declared themselves independent of the central Government was charged with recklessly rid- at Peking. Those who foresaw the coming of the escond upheaval, ing a bicycle in Nathan Road, also early perceived the causes which were loading to it, and it must Kowloon, on Sunday afternoon, Civil Service Win the League. fore must be influenced to give here be said that the agitators have not been without ample counsel and colliding with a perambulator and advice. Many appeals have been made, both from European containing the child of the Rs.1 and Chinese quarters, and the folly of working at arose purposea O. N. Pope.

LEARNING TO CYCLE.

Au Expensive Practice Spin.

J. McDan la

A. Milroy

D Harvey

A. Clarke'

W. Cameron

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Total

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LAWN TENNIS,

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ments were as usual. At every

corner almost, I saw a'constable, armed with truncheon and revol-

ver the latter not being, in one

shall resign, and is prepared to "We have plenty of both. There single case, free from rust. While force that resignation by means of is money in the Treasury to last I was standing in the office of the its army if necessary. All the as some considerable time, if it

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21 troops in the south, and most of comes to fighting; and, when that Board of Communications, one of those in the North, are with us.gues, we can raise more; possibly these guardians of orderssuntered 57 We bave made every preparation, from the Straits and Hongkong, across the floor, as comfortably

though it is unlikely that forcible

among other sources. As to drunk as any man ought to be meana will be required. Yusn for our fighting strength, gets tha, at most, he is but a can easily raisey twenty and, soon after, when one of the We at half past eight in the morning; provisional President; he hathirty-possibly even fifty- proved that he has no intention of thousand men, from Kwangtung armed aquads aforemention d raling constitutionally, and there alone. Preparations for meeting passed along the Band, (out of troops that may come down from step and with a royal dismay gard up his office."

the North are on foot, but I repeat for order) I noticed that the Friday's Meeting

that such preparations will prove hindmost "What about the faceting on to have been needless."

was re aling in a time of national uneasiness and peril has been force- The Rev. Mr Pope said he wa One of the closest games in the Friday? What happened?" "Bat surely Yaan ia quiogdronk, smiling happily, and fully pointed out. But the hotheads have had an ear for com-upstairs in his house and he heard Hongkong Low **Tennis League "Ohan Kwing Ming pointed to have something to say to all carrying his rifle atin angle mon-sense, and now they are bringing their cuntry, could they the baby orging. When brought was played off on Saturday after out to the Assembly that Yuan, in this when your Proclamation that might make soyons near him but see it, to the very edge of a precipice. As one of the Northern in by the amah the baby was very noon, when the Civ Service a variety of ways, had governed comes to his ears. What will he uncomfortable it the bayonet- papers recently, put it, what was needed was that every writer, dusty, but not in the least hurt. Mrb was at home to the European unconstitutionally; for example, do?"

paint should chance to be faidy every speaker, every member of every political party, and every The parambalator was but, but YM.C.A. Interest in the game in fortifying himself against the "If he were a true Republican Cabinet Minister, should stand shoulder to shoulder in supporting no other damage was done. He was kraniaamuch as it was southern Provinces and in draw it be were working for the sharp.' the immense burben of responsibility that rested upon the nali at was simply taking the a stops on likely to decide the League. Playing up his official system without country's welfare insteall of

Except the sentries at the":" the moment. Not that differences of opinion should be sacrife, or behalf of the enfety of the com- was oloze and as a result the consulting the country. bis own the mere fact that Tamen I saw so armed soldiers that specific charges should go without investigation; but where munity.

Civil Beivice just managed to "The Tutub's remarks were re-he has been called upon at all, and the hundreds that there was something to be done, it should be done, and when it was Inspector Kerr :-There is any ran out the winners by the odd esived with very strong approval, in resign would be authoient to strolled about singly or in pairs, done, if done badly, allowance should be made for the difficulties amount of vacant ground over game in 98, the scores Loing and when at last he cried out, make him do so posceably. As looked as if they were merely ont of the situation, and more help given in the next task. That was there, at the back of the Poat 5049 in favour of homesters.

"Shail

wa go with Yuan it is, bo may gather hie forces holiday-making. Indeed, the the ideal how far short of realisation it has fallen, the events of the Office, where they can learn...

or with the Republic 2" with-the-intention of invading nearest approach to strife of any past few days have strikingly shown..

there was intense excitement, the South: I very much doubt sort was a heated argument be We have said that the main cause of the new rebellion has!

and Chan Kwing Ming was it, but if he comes he will find us tween one of my chairmen and a ** Kill that Fly 1 M ananimously elected General-prepared. For the present, at any coolie who grabbed him by the been the antagonism of political parties; that is, without doubt, the case. But it is equally so that that extreme incompatibility of

The Foleshill (Warwickshire) issimo forthwith.

iate, the fighting will continue arm and told him his opinion of "He is glad to have this op to be concentrato about Kiu-him so lengthily that I nearly lo viewpoint has been encouraged by the fact that in the first itevolu diasgow: Darkness at Midday. Board of Gaurdians have decided

the guide, who was on ahead. tion there was no opportunity provided for feelings to be given While violent thunderstorms to distribute throughout the portunity of contradicting the king, vent to:

all too smooth, top bloodless. People wanted to kill, were being experienced in various elementary schools of their district story as to any declaration of in- "And you really feel confident of Nor did see anything expressive to bank oities, to route their enemies; there was no need to do so. parts of Scotland, & dense pall posters showing how disease is dependence. I carefully explain- success for the Governor of ill will towards, foreigners, save once when a child habited But they have contained themselves as long as they on, and by settled over Glasgow, and at noon spread by fies, and requesting ed all this to the French, German, General ?"

"We are confident that Yuan like Adam before the Fall, who Belting party against party they have made the opening to give the city was plunged in midnight the children to destroy them Japanese and "American consuls,,

could just toddle, looked scornful- rein to their desire for war and not for passe. But they can gain darkness. Shortly afterwards whenever possible. The tesehers but have not yet had an op Shib K'at will have to give "P\\y up at me and piped out „Fans nothing in the long ran; their own nation and they themselves will heavy rain fell, and much damage are to be requested to deliver portunity of discussing it with the Presideny."

was done to gardens,:~:

the British consul. Dar sole, aim, And after that ?”

| kwel ar į" lectures on the subject. be the sufferers

it was

His WorshipYou must not learn on the public road. I order you to pay a fine of $5.

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