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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, JULY 22, 1913.

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"Depend on no man, où no or occupant of any ficksba ori carriage-so rune part of a new friend but him who can depend on Yuan Appested to by Hongkong regulation made by the Govern himself. He only who sota con- ment under date of July 17. And soientiously towards himself will"

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INDICTMENT OF YUAN. JOTTINGS BY THE WAY.

Charged With Serious Crimes.

Canton, July 19. Our sports specialist reporte Yesterday Governor General that the police bowling team liqli Chap Kwing Ming" attended the heen defanted by the elders of Little fu,thor, definite nens as Provincial Assembly, denounced Cheung Chan. Interest is ded

the restriction is imposed none tos sot so towards others, and vice to the wate of affi in Canton Yuna Shih-kai and charged him to the announcement by the fact

soon. Almost every privately owned

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enforced. But as we writo we

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has reached the Colony.' "A with twelve serious crimes. After that the baby of the Cheung Chan | rickeha in the Colony, where the

private letter received today a lengthy spacch he persuaded the team celebrated his eighty-first states that should, General Lung Assembly unanimously to adopt birthday last week. No news is owner is a Chinese, has in the past been atted with a bell of American Mail-Arrived per 8.8. succeed in getting to Canton from a resolation proclaiming the yet to hand as to the date of the some kind. Not that anybody

Wachow, serious lighting may be province of Kwangtung independ- return match.

The Assembly elected would object to this were trang German Mail.-Due per 8.8. looked for. We stated yesterday ent.

Princess Alice at 8 pm, to that the former pirate obief was Chan Kaing Ming to be Governor discreetly; bat we all know that

Attorney General re- day.

said to be already on his way General of Kwangtungand the pocupants of riokehas so fitted appear to take a peculiar delight Australian Mail-Dae per

down the river. In Canton it in Commander-in-chief of the Army marked, at the Legislative

that "schools are Prinz Sigismund this morn-doubted that General Long has a and authorised him to punish Council meeting Isat Thursday, ing..

sufficiency of troops with him to Yasa Shih-kai. they possess a bell, and that they

anol invasion.

Assembly and of Governor Gener-mastera with a chronic thirst is a blend of the best Pot Distilled Scotch Whis-re about to pass. We congrat Siberia Mail.-Duc. per se embolden him to attempt any In the name of the Provincial like public houses." Local school-

Chanan to-morrow. ulate the authorities on issuing

It is rumoured that the Kuei-al Ohan Kwing Ming, an urgent complain that this is yet another the advantages pertaining to Hong- entirely loyal to their fellow- Houses of Parliament, countryman Chan Kwing Ming, Military and Civil Governors, the kong schools, American and Canadian Mails. are wavering and that many of Provincial Assembly and

Another wite about that -Close per 9.8. Mexico them are no longer to be relied Army Commanders of every Maru at noon to-morrow. apon.

Well-informed Chinese province acousing Yuan Shih-kai Scottish Temperance Bill."A. There appears to be consider-Siterion Mail-Closes per s.s. here say that should "Yusa send of having committed twelve cap-nompromise likely," anya Renter. Prinzess Alice at 5 p.m. troops down from the Northital crimes, and asking them to Darned if we didn't think so. they will not enter the Canton join Kwangtung in sending anTrust the Scot; you don't get over able divergence of opinion as to

Baci: Again.

River at all, but will land along expedition to punish him. The him all in a hurry. Canton, but if all we hear be true, the likely course of events in

Me and Mrs Marshall Darrach the coast and march across coan-crimes are enumerated as fol- the new movament does not com mend itself to the merchant, class arrived to-day from Manila by try. The general iden here seems lows either here or in the Southern the s.a. China. capital. Be that as it may, there is no doubting the feeling of un- rest which has been created. It therefore baboves the Hongkong Government to keep its eye on the activities of local political societ

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Plague.

the

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An American paper to hand,

to be that the Southern troops could 1. Having without trial put to make but little stand against any death the two meritorious re- atatea that the Duchess of Oon-

'one of England's popular re who of the troops from the North who volutionists, Cheung Chan Monaught is staying at Aldershot,

have been trained by Europeans. and Fong Wai.

And having We hear on good authority shat a

2. Having introduction laws arts." Quite so.

recruited. "there," (we presume number of telegraphic messages relating to the appointment of H.R.H. will proceed to one of the has been sent by Hongkong officials without referring them alubrious and palatial river-side guilds (headed by the raw hide to the National Assembly.

villas at Woolwicb, prior to winter- guild) to the President, asking 3. Having paid Mo Shi Ying to

There were four cases of plague, This brought the year's total to

DOWBIGGIN-CLARK.—-On July 19th at the Church of St.ies, more especially as there is all fatal, notified yesterday Lawrence, Oxhill, Warwickshire, by the Rev. J. Carter M.A., Hector, assisted by the Rev. F. T. Johnson M.A. (formerly Chaplain to St. John's Cathedral, Hongkong) Hugh Layard Dowbiggin to Hilda, only daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Francis Clark, Hongkong. (By cable),

casuistry.

The Hongkong Telegraph.

·HONGKONG, TUESDAY, JULY 22, 1913.

THE CANTON DECLARATION.

more than & probability of the Colony being invaded by bordes 224, of agitators and hotheads keen on keeping the element of discord alive. Particularly should the

the operations of

local Kuomintang Scoiety be observed, as this is the party of strife and turmoil. And it is an offence

who man

is

Silk Arrival.

The silk shipped from Flong: kong by the se. Monteagle on 21st June, reached. New York

21st July..

Jelunga's Corgo,"

Removing Sand.

He

him : to 'Food

A

abode, was picked in an uncor-defeated in Kiangai. Rcious conditions in Ice House There is still considerable provinces to reduce the army and

Southend.

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dowa a assassinate Sung Chiao Jen, having in game such fashionable military force to prevent any ing purposely allowed Hung Shut pot as Eofied, Bermond boy or disturbance ja Canton. People Tao to abscond, and having mur- from Canton have also been send-dered Mo Shi to destroy evidence.

A local contemporary says that 4. Having contracted the big ing similar messages from here,

stranger from as the Clanton telegrams are still loan without submitting it to the encentric

Swatow who elected to crawl into under censorahip. It is also said Parliament, that

mer- the Hongkong

5. Having given his whole hole in the rocks at Causeway" The 8.8. Jolunga, which arrived chants have decided that no attention to China Proper and Bay, "was found to be insane," to was therefore. sent against the laws of the Colony in part from Moji and Kots to- money will be subscribed thus neglected to settled affaire and for a society to aid in fomenting day, brought to Hongkong 2,000 by them fowards the new move in Mongolia.

the hospital.". The reasoning

Other unrest in the adjoining Province. tons of coal and 460 tons of ment in Canton, and that any 6. Having agreel to the Rosso-has subtlety in it. Hongkong must not be made the general cargo.

idea of a revolution is being re- Chinese Treaty, which means the hospital patients, past, present happy hunting ground of the dis- Fell from a Height

ceiver with the utmost disfavour abandonment of Outer Mongolia, and future, kindly note. And, by arbers of peace and tranquillity. A Chinese who was working throughout the Colony. One and gives rise to the intended the way, this particular patient

on a new building in Kimberley report

Bays that DO goods occupation of Tibet by Great Bri-explained that "the devil got It will be soon from the interview with one of the leading/ School of Oriental Languages Road, Kowloon, fell from a boight whatever are being shipped from tain and of Manchuria by Japan. him into the hole." Useful old

We mentioned yesterday that Canton officials, which we published yesterday, that the Tutuh is Sir J.D. Rees had expressed dis. and sustained injuries such as here to Canton, though the 7. Having bribed and given Beelzebub! Ha bad need have a represented as having denied that the Proclamation issued on Friday appointment at the fact that out necessitated his removal to the trade with the other parts of employment to his favourites, broad back; for, from the days of the Kwangtang Privince is more and not dismissing Clino Ping Mother Eva oven udto now, WB or less as usual; and another,Chun, the Premier, who had over have been making him re- contained any Declaration of Independence for Kwangtung. The of nearly half a million pounds hospital. general impression was certainly to the contry and, even since voted for the public buildings] the Police Court, this mora that the trade with Canton is not a thousand people offering him sponsible for our own folly.

uf Great Britain, only $1,000 ing, before Mr. Hazeland, Lance

lion dollare; on the country having blame the devil. Poor devil! that interview was written, we have been definitely assured by a could be spared towards adapting Sergeant. For charged a Chinese actually stopped, though a move bribes amounting to over a mil. Whenever you get in a hole, gentleman who should, from his position, be entirely intimate with the London Institution to the with taking and from Shaukiment there is on the way.

the School of

Another ramour of a still more given him protection. wan without permission.

important nature is to the effect 8. Having extravagantly spent, Like a yoke in an egg," says all the facts of the situation, that Governor-General Chan Kwing purposes of

Oriental Languages. Really we was fined $10.

that, when Governor General in the capital elons, a hundred another lolksl contemporary. Bat Ming's Proclamation sets certainly a Declaration of Independence, don't see so much to grumble Picked up Unconscious.

Chan Kwing Ming issued his million dollars a year which he Yet, on looking at what purports to be a tranelation of the Tatah'st. The Government cannot be

A man named WC. Ramsay, proclamation, he was, unaware could not hand over to the Na-newspaper men are funny foke, and one is never quite sure if they manifesto we find that "he (Chan Kwing Ming) explains that his expected to provide funds for

9. Having ordered the Southern are jalking or not,

[Note, by thaeduasted "comp." proclamation of independence only severs the connection between every purpose on earth, and unemployed and of no fixed that the Southern troops had been tional Assembly to be audited.

though the importance of the

This b'long all same, bob. - Kwangtung and Yuan Shib K'i.". Some may call this a distinction study of Oriental languages must Strest about eight o'clock last uncertainty as to the recent more- disband soldiers while he himself without a difference; others may see in it a perfectly frank state-not be underrated, it is rather a

night, and

was sent to the ments and whereabouts of the enlisted troops every day. This bary, S'posin' yon no Bavey lite hospital. ment by the Tutuh of the real position; while a third group may matter for the individual than

Tatuh. Some Canton correspon- shows that he bad the intention ploper, more better you go school aide one time more, Hongkong Volunteer Lecture. dents still insist that he has never of overthrowing the Republic. quite reasonably claim that, for purposes best known to himself, for the general public." Usually

the young

Captain A. F. Churchill, staff left the yamen; while many 10, Having inficenced members school can teaches you spell num ber one topside. You lookgee... he--or the gentleman who acted as his mouth-pisce in the "Tele presently going to require officer, E. K. V. O., announces people here maintain that having of Parliament with money graph" interview-bas been exercising so rather subtle knowledge of Arabic, Sanskrit, that the lecture on Infantry he was in the Colony on Saturday and hinted to them to create Mandarin, or whatever it may be, training will be given by the

We rather fancy that this ulever." comp

of ours puts in is not unable to go to the expense Staff Officer at 5.30 p.m. on Fri-night and Sunday. Several par- trouble so that he might exercise

sona claim to have seen him here his tyrannical power. To demand Yuan's resignation, to proclaim himself Generalis of a tator, and by private study day 25th inst. instead of Thurs in a motor oar on Sunday; others 11. Harbouring and employing an odd holiday in Canton as a sime, to condemn, root and branch, the system by which the Pre he can break much of the ground day the 24th instant.

say that he was in a native bank as his confederates faction leaders sign-painter. Outside a hotel on sident is alleged to have governed Chion since bis provisional before leaving home. The Govern- Distinguished Visitor in Bonham Strand on the same oh as Wong Wo Shua and the Band there, you may read

while Colonel Sir Horace Beauchamp, day; election, and even to announce that he is about to invade the Northment, as trustee of the nation's

further Wong Shi Lung of Canton, the that the proprietor keeps "a first was also rebels of Kau Lung Hill in class cousine. -all these thinge taken together cannot be said necessarily to money, is surely bound to cons constitute a declaration of independence, either for Chan Kwing sider before laying it out how it who retired from the Army in ramoured that he

We wonder if the owners of Ming himself or for the Kwangiang Province; nor do they even can best benefit the greatest 1904, arrived by the 8.a. Chins seen in a chair in Glenealy Kiangsu, and the rioters of

to-day. He bas had an eventfal "muffled up, and with a Chinese Kiangai of late years. positively amount to that in affect. Nor, for that matter, does the number of persons."

military oarear, asing service in guard in mafti on either side of 12. Having seat his men to private chairs are aware that admitted severance of the Province from Yuan Shih K'ai. If, The Suffragist Trick.

Sudan in 1885, at Snakin in him."

attack the Shanghai Factory, so their coolies sometimes do a following a casuistic method of argument which, years ago, foolish; That little trick by which Mrs 1888, and in South Africa during We hear that Liu Cheung as to falsely accuse the Kuo-min- bit of overtime between the persons were wont to dub "Jesuitical" the Governor-General has Pankhurst and her confederate the Boer War, being mentioned in Hoi, formerly treasurer of Can- tang of having committed such a shafts of the hired or garden said (in so many words) "I do not apparate myself from Yuan tricked, at least for a little time, despatches in the latter and re-ton, has been seen within the crime. Baving paid Chan Yu vehicle. Recently, on entering the President, but from the Yuan whom my declaration the detectives who were sent to ceiving the C.B. decoration. Colony during the last day or King to give harself up as as one of these latter, we observed has reduced to a mere individual, a deposed President," then it arrest her will rejoice the hearts

two. It is also said that Chan an assassin bired by Wong Bing, that our front coolie was clad in must be owned that that he, or his Commissioner, had some justifi- of second-rate writers of romance. MOTOR CÁR CASE. Shu Shun, who was recently ap- and accused Wong Hing of having spotless white pants and had cation in deny that "Independence" had been declared. All that They are sure to serve up a similar

pointed Governor. Coneral of hired her as one of gang of dainty white sweat-cloth edged is wanting then is that the world should be convinced (and we incident, hot and strong, in their

In Sammary Court yesterday Canton, has arrived here from assassins to murder officials at with blas. We at once tried to look as if chair and coolie were greatly doubt if it is just, yet) (1.) that Chan Kwing Ming has next essays. The veiled lady,

to the story. The Taotai of Customa The Proclamation,

our own property, and we prayed either the right or the power to depose the man who appointed him, dressed to resemble Mrs Pank before Mr. Justies Kemp, the Mukden, but no credence is given Peking.

The following is a proclama-that we might encounter some of a fortnight ago, to the very office which he holds, and (2) that his harst, the arrest, the subseq E. Lauritsen sued the Exile Saturday and is supposed to be tion issued by Chan Kwing Ming our plebeian acquaintances for

for Canton arrived here on voice is the representative voice even of the South, leave alone of ent discomfiture of the detectives Garage to recover $309, damage bete inognito. This again is Tutub of Kwangtang and Com- the pleasure of turning them The position is one fall of nice intricacies; intricacies too fine saffragist leader-these incidents, alleged to have been done, to unconfirmed; and indeed there mander-in-chief of the Army to down, (but that the and too subtle, almost, for the British mind to thrid. Nor is this with a little colouring and a flay motor oar No. 27 by the negligent seems no reason why an official punish Yuan:-Wheress Yaan coolie was a most desperate driving of car No. 9 by the time for argument or for hair-splitting distinctions in terms. What our of romance, should form a defendants servant. The defen whose occupation frequently Shih-kai has violated and spoiled ragamuffin, and would have given concerns this Colony, and might even concern both China and the striking situation, in the phrase daats brought a counter plain brings him into this Colony should the universal peace and rebolled the show away). It was a ride world as a whole, is not the independence or non-independence of of the practised serialist. There

We learn that that there is and people are angry with him, memory, and we keep living over one particular Province or provincial Tutuh, but the fact that at in a little hope for the suffragists to recover $565 damage to their make any secret of his arrival, against the Republic, both God that will dwell long in our Mr. Dennys, Jr. of Messrs, already an enormous scenmals- and he should not be allowed to again, in imagination, those bliss- least an appreciable section of the Chinese, both official and unoff yet. We had regarded them or

as oranks, pure and simple;

tion of Kwangtang paper live. I; au Tutah representing fal, fleeting, Tooting, aristocratio and Bowley appeared for has shown him to be strong, determined, a born leader of men, a

aving grace of humour. And

as we stated yesterday, is at a published his crimes and only occur once in a lifetime !-- man educated in statecraft (a quality much needed nowadays), and there is always hope for people

for defendant.....

huge discount. This accumule going to pusish him. His crimes one who can arouse and retain at least men's loyalty, if not their with a sense of humour. The The case concluded yesterday tion is interesting in light of the I have announced before the Pro- affection. The natural conolation, judging from appearance, Home Government has made afternoon after we had gone to fact that the new Ordinance with vincial Assembly should be civil war, But, se one of the Canton police, officials itself look foolish enough at times press, judgment being given for regard to China notes comes into observed on Sunday, China cannot afford civil war, The merchants of Hongkong and of Kwangtung want peace; so, undoubtedly, de over the arrests of suffragiat lead-the plaintiff on the claim and force in Hongkong on August I. most of the thinking mon, of no matter what class, throughout China.er, but the latest prank of the counter claim with costs.

ladies has made them seem more At present, then, we are perhaps justified in regarding the two con- tending parties as being not North and South, and not the Pre- supremely ridiculous than had sident and his avowed enemies, but the merchants on the one hand, appeared possible even in its case, whose knowledge of life tells them that there is something in the

Rivalry to Church Organs.. peace at any price idea; and, on the other, the student-politician

Four new organs have been olas, ready at any moment to plunge into warfare without counting The cost Gossip says that a compromiso will be affected; and we installed in four churches in shall not be astonished if, for ones in a way, nasip should prove to Guildford during the past four be in the right of i

the entire country.

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and their basty dash after the real

care was continued in which Mr.

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oil, is clamouring for the resignation of a man whose past career but evidently they have the and Mr. J. H. Gardiner currency in the Colony, which, the opinion of the people, have moments, Alas that such chances

weeks.

An Historic Table,

Scott Memorial for Navy. Four stained-glass windows

Yuan Shih-ksi has been accus- and two panels, which bad bean tomed to the use and employment placed in the Royal Naval Bar-

of cunning tricks and has devoted racks Chapel in memory of Capf- Brussele, June 22,

bis mind to influencing ignorant ain Scott and the other victime A monument erected by the people generally in order that of the Antarctic Expedition, were The Corporation of London Society of Les Amis de Water they should fall into his trap, dedicated recently by the Bishop possesses the gateleg table Bt loo" in memory of ste French Therefore those who follow him of Credition. They had which the Judges sat who adjudi soldiers who fell in the battle was or side with him, are really an- subscribed for by o cated on the disputes as to pro- unveiled to-day at Hougoumont aware of the numerous crimes of men serving in the barracks and perty that followed the Great Tarm. The monument as aimple Yaen Shib-kai and are conso abips based on De

((WorJirsed on page 5). been restored after having been a bronze eagle with outstretched Fire This historio-relio bus now column, of blue stone, crowded by quently "taken in by him. As which town Ospi neglected for many YÖNTE

native,

Scott was

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