1913-07-24 — Page 4

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, JULY 24, 1913.

A. S. WATSON & Co., Ltd.

ESTABLISHED 72 YEARS,

Wine and Spirit Merchants.

WATSON'S

E

DAY BY DAY.

"Interest in the insk is the key that unlocks the latent power QË workers; and interest means right placing.

Very old liqueur Scotch Whisky.

Our Celebrated E very old Liqueur Scotch Whisky is a blend of the best Pot Distilled Scotch Whis-from kles. It is of great age, very fine, and mellow. Its superior quality has established its reputation as THE LEADING SCOTCH WHISKY IN THE EAST

"

Commodore Anstruther,

Plague.

WATSON'S E BRANDY, the year total to 232.

Finest very old BROWN BRANDY Guaranteed

Telephone Breakdown,"

·

THE TROUBLE IN CANTON

"FEELING AMONGST HONGKONG" CHINESE.

ANXIOUS TO SEE BLOODSHED AVOIDED.

for

.

Minister of War.

COMPANY MEETING.

China and Manila Steamship Co., Ltd.

render them final and con- olusive for all practical" affect 88 regards the Company in Hongkong it is necessary htt ay discussion of these scout should be hold now, and for t'i.t An extraordinary general meet-

reason it is incumbent to review ing of the above company was the operations of the Company for held this morning at the offices of the past year, and as well as I can the General Managers, Messrs. Shewan, Tomes and Co., to con- to give you'an'idea of its present

position. sider the following resolution :~~

That the China and Manila credit balance of about $65,000, "The accounts show a working Steamship Co., Ltd., hereby autho-which probably would have been rises and requests E. C. Barnes at least #75,000 had, it not been

!

25 years age, in wood. The finest liqueur BRANDYdown in the telephone main in ling how they can form a protect-troubles of the people, who are as- there were also present Mesars H.net renewed it. We are sorry to

on the market.

NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.

The rates of Subscription to the "Hongkong Telegraph be as follows:-/

Daily issue-$30 per annua. Weekly issue--$13 par annum. The rates per quarter and per

full manth.

m, proportional. Subscriptions

for any period less than no month will be charged as for a

The daily issue is delivered free when the address is accessible to esanger. Paak subsoribors can have their copise delivered at their residences without any extra charge. On copies sent by post an additional $1.80 per quarter is charged for postage. The postage on the weekly issue to any part of the world is $1.00

per quarter.

cash only).

+

period will be continued until countermanded.

(Payable in Advance.)

By Order,

"HONGKONG TelegrapH."

The abject of this paper is to publish e rract, in ommation, U serve the truth and print the netos without fear or favour,

Cable Address Telegraph, Hongkong.

Telephone: No. 1 AB.C., 5th edition. Western Union

the ss. Paul Locat, which left here on the 17th June, 1913, was delivered at Lyons on the 21st

instant.

Fon

Concert at Canton.

a

A

.

ty

that

The

The Malls. Siberian Mail-Arived for 8.8. Obenan at 1 pm, te-day. Siberian Mail.-Despatchel per 8.9. Prinzess Alies at 5pm. yesterday. Canadian and Siberian Mail.- Trade with Canton still re-lof the President. It is farther Esq., as the proxy in Manila, to for the unfortunate accident to the Due per s.s. Empress of maine at a standstill, and the announced that the resignation of vote for it and on its behalf at the Zafiro," and this improvement Ladia to-day, at p.m.

merchants here are full of anx the Minister of Foreign Affairs, next Meeting of the Philippines over the previous year, when the Torpedo Boat Returns. lety. At the mesting of Chinese Lu Cheng-being, is not accepted. Steamship Co., in favour of pass-Working Account was $2,000 on Torpedo boat 038 1eturned merchants on Tuesday, which we

ing the report an audited ac- counts of that Company for the mainly by increased earnings of wrong side, is accounted for the West River yesterday reported in yesterday's issue, it

Toan Chih-jui, the Minister of rear ending the 31st December, $33,000 and reduced expenses of was decided to appeal to the Commodore Anstruther return. Government for advice. So far, War, has been promoted to gen- 1912; and particularly in favour of

have hit eral and appointed to command treating the freight and passt.ge $30,000, ed from the West River Inst the merchants

The earnings were credited them the lat. Army Corps to act ander monies colleated by the late Com-with $9,444,44 proportion of sub- evening.

upon no plan : selves; they

anxious the supervision of General Lipradore and unaccounted for by **0 Yesterday there were four fatal | to take whut steps they Yuan-bang, and is appointed him, amounting (lees commission) aidy received from the Philippine

Government for cases of plugue notified, bringing can to avoid bloodshed, but feel proificator of Kiangai.

to $75,234.11, as a loss to that

the period uncertain how to prc :ad. There- A Sop to Klangsi.. Company to be written off the said from June 1st to December

slet.

The fore they have approached the A long Mandate sketches the Accounts accordingly."

contract expired Foa May Yesterday there was break Government in the hope of learn-situation in Kiangsi, deplores the

31st this Mr C. A. Tomes presided and year and the Government have Queen's Road near the Soldiers' ive association, and, at the same sumed to be grinding their teeth P. White and D. W. Oraddook miss the revenue but there is Olub, resulting in the Eastern time, not transgress the laws of at Li Lieh-chun, and promises (Consulting Committee) A. Tem some compensation in being free district being cut off. We under the Colony. So far, we under-them compensation for their losses perley (Secretary), R. R. B. Han-from strict adherence to sailing stand that the matter has now stand, they have received no from the Government."

cook, H. F Campbell, P. W. dates which sometimes entailed will been put right.

reply to their application, and Rumour persistently reports the Goldring, V. Atienza, O. A. Oor- additional expense and lost as mattera remsin at a deadlock. assassination of Sun To-sen, who deito, M. A. Figueiredo, D. K. cargo and passengers. Independence Anniversary, The Peruvian Consul will be

An official organ in Canton has was recently appointed Tatah of Moss, V. F, Soares, R. Henderson, Government contributions to at his office 31 Wyndban Street, reported that Hongkong mor- Anhui, at Anking. Colour is last C. Klinck, O A. S. Rass, H. earnings outside of the subsidy on the occasion of the Indepen-obots are subscribing generous to the report by the statement that Seth. J. McMurtrio, Ng Hon Tez, were disappointing. dence Anniversary of the Republy to a fund started on behalf of the local troops refused to obey A. S. Ellie, U. S. Galazzi, A. L

The trade the steamers are en- lic of Porn, from 11 a. m. to the new revolution, and states his orders and demanded the ro- Shields, H. H. Tayler, E. Soth, gaged in has suffered further

a well-known Hongkong turn of Pah Wen-yu, the former C. Smith, J. A. Young, A. G. vicissitudes, p. m. on Monday the 28th, that

and it would Chinese gentleman has under-Tatal.

Gordon, J. H. Seth, J. S. Perry, esem inst.

taken to make collection

these constant Silk Deliveries.

The Verge of A Crisis.

Chan YuiTong, Oban Ngsu Chou, changes are inevitable. It is The cargo of raw silk shipped throughout the Colony. "Even

8.8. Magellon, the women of Suck Tong Sui," official circles and it is believed Woon Cheung, Ng Tank Pak and downs, with a preponderance

The greatest alarm prevails in I. Bass, Tong Fuk Tong, Cheng

history of upА and on board the which left this port on the 3rd continues this amazing report, "are

Peking that China ie W. E. Van Eppa, shareholders. of downs in later years. The Single Copies, Daily, ten "cents. Weekly, twenty-five cents (for Jane 1913, was delivered at New | contributing to the fund." The on the verge of a crisis of the The Secretary read the notice General Managers have entertain- York on the 20th July, 1913. wildness of such a story has creat-first magnitude. Should events convening the meeting." ed during the last year or two Advertisements and Subscriptions which are not ordered for a fixed The raw silk shipped on boarded great amusement in well-in-fall out as suggested by the above

formed Chinese circles here.

The Chairman said:-This several proposals for the sale of In addition to the general Government will be seriously men, to overcome a technical dif- vessels, but only one negotiation indication, the position of the meeting has been called, gentle-one or both of the Company's meeting of merchants, another threatened. was held on Tuesday which was

With some 40,000 troops in ficulty which has arisen over the appeared serious and we did think well attended by bankers and volved in Mongolia and practical proxy given by this Company to at one time this would lead to A concert will be given, on business men who discussedly no reinforcenments available Steamship Company in Manila, however found he could do noth- the officers of the Philippines basinese. The intending buyer Thursday July 31 at the Can- the depreciation in the Kwang-in the north for despatch to the

gay technical difouling. There are no funds available. Club, the Shamean by tung notes and the possibility south, Yuan Shih-kai has to

of keeping up their value.

bachuse that iЯ Frances Hewitt Mott. The pro-

the from this year's working for de depend upon 20,000 northern gramme will take an interesting Chinese gentleman gives it as a troops now in Kiangai and at the moment of the objection boats remains at the same figure only understanding wo bave preciation and the value of the form showing the progress of a opinion that the accumulation of rough unpolished vocalist to a thess notes in the Colony will in upeh, for the maintentenance of raised to the ordinary method of 1s for the last six years. All trained operatic singer. The no way affect the coming into the other hand the Governmont Passing accounts as in previous shipping stands now at a higher in charge of Masers. Watson foreign paper money on August Southerners whenever they meet respondence that the proxies did booking which is going strong is force of the new Ordinance against troops ought always to beat the years. On the first objection from value than it did three, four or The Company's steamers could 1. "The law is the law," he said. on soything like even terms, while not wish to undertake the react be replaced at their book

The Ordinance having been The marriage took place at Fuseed, there is no purpose to be Hata and the Wuchang priay ro compradore's defalcation, and to operation fails to bring or holda if Chang Tao-lin and if Chang sponsibility of writing off the value to-day it is true, but if their Plainfield, New Jersey, on June served in trifling with it.".

main loyal, Yuan Bbib-kai, when meet this objection we drew up ont no hopes of dividends the- of Mr Ncel George Evans.

there has been time to withdraw and circulated the first notice only reasonable course would and Mra Violet Truall Johnston.

forces from Mongolia, will be calling for an extraordinary meet seem to be to accomplish a sale The bridegroom resided for The account of the fighting south of Kiukiang, which we some years at Hongkong and

position from a military point of subsequently to cancel on learn to put the boats, on, and this in in an overwhelmingly superior ing, but this notice we were forced or find a more remunerative run published yesterday, leads one to suspect that the present rebellion Shanghai, and was until recently

ing from Manila that the objection will not be of long duration. The engagement extended over with the International Banking

was not based on this reason, but Corporation in Yokohama and three days and, though it was not of a sanguinary nature, it apparently lea at the head oflice, New York,

on the fact that the terms of the left the Southern troops disinclined for more fighting for the time The bride is a well-known and In conversation with an officer

instructions were inadequate, and that a more detailed form of in- being. That defeat, followed by the non-success of the Southern attack highly esteemed resident of Plain-of a west River Steamer, we were the Government.

informed that the island about

There has been a further inva struotions, which you have now He is reported to be moving before you in the notice calling aion of regular liners between here. upon the arsenal at Shanghai yesterday, will probably take the heart field, NJ.

two miles from Wuchow, spoken south to meet the Nanking troops, this meeting, was necessary. Sir Frederick Lugard, D.C° L. '

and Manila which adversely affects out of the Southern troops. If the South-ever possessed any reason-

As briefly stated in our wire of of in English ng Chicken Basket

Activites at Nanking.

As you are aware the method on prezenger business; Chinese able prospect of success, these reversee must very nearly have that date, at a Convocation held at Leland, is being fortified by troops shattered it. Whatever reward was promised the Southern troops Durham University on June 24, who appear, to judge from a A council of war, consisting of previous occasions has been that shipments seem steadily, though must have been of a rather nebulous character, and want of success the Vice-Chancellor, Sir George hasty inspection from a passing Huang Heing, Pah Wen-yu, Li the accounts as audited lap not greatly, to decline, and there in the field will push it further out of reach than ever. In these Hare Philipson, presiding, the boat, to be constructing ramparts Lich-chuu and Teen Uhun-hsuan proved by the Consulting Com is no probability of a resumption has been formed at Nanking. The mittee and General Managers have of the cattle trade. Proposed honorary degree of D. C. L. was circumstances it will be a task of no little difficulty to hold an army conferred upon Colonel Sir The West River is quist, our leadership of the revolutionary been passed in Manila by the officer changes in the American tariff together; and to win over adherent must be almost impossible. Frederick Denltry Legard. informant continued, but there troops has been entrusted to Taen- of the Company there holding have helped to a small extent in the proxies from the China and way of restoring some of the sugar Presenting Sir Frederick Lugard, was a remarkable scarcity of Chun-hauan. Bishop Tucker referred to the small boats as compared with a The commander of the Kiang. Manila Steamship Company, and trade to China, temporarily any- It appears to us, however, that this second revolution was fact that Sir Frederick was asso-month or eix weeks ago. Where yin Forts, who refused to sarren- the accounts so adopted have way.

Referring again to the accounts ciated with him et acritical period they have all gone it is hard to say, der the forts, has been shot by the afterwards been embodied in the foredoomed to failure from the start. The tales that have been told in Uganda's history. Sir Fred-bat their disappearance is con- Governor. Martial law has been accounts. presented at each ane rendered, I must deal with the nual meeting of this Company, meet serious item thatcomes before of President Yuan, and the denunciations of his despotism and the erick bad proved himself an sidered by no means insignificant, proclaimed in Nanking. liko, are exactly similar to those which formerly were hurled at the excellent soldier, a capable ad-{

The whole territory south of The Manila proxies have found, us to-day, this most deplorable de B friend of

the Huaiho is said to be in the presumably through their legal falcation on the part of the Com Manchus, are just as true or untrue, and are believed no whit more ministrator, and

hands of the revolutionsries, advisers, that now they must have pradore, of which by their writers, But the day has gone by when educated and Christian missione.

definite and detailed instructions learned from the circulars priv wealthy Chinese can be won over by this sort of tulk.. It has now

on each separate occasion from staly jasued to all shareholders. cass to impress them. The result is that the moneyed class, ATTEMPT TO WRECK AN

The situation in Manchuria the parent company before they Speaking for myself I want to A telegram received in Hong-gives rise to much speculation, can undertake the responsibility confess my deep distress and which would have provided the sinews of war, has not joined the new

kong from Shangbai, about eleven and the view is freely expressed of passing accounts, and it is to chagrin over the unfortunate movement; hence every day's delay in recording a success meine a

o'clock this morning, states that that the Manchus will support the enable us to give these instruc-occurrence, and my sympathy drain on Southern resources which are not being replenished-ns the

the rebels are fleeing from Shang-South in its endeavour to remove tions on behalf of the China and with the shareholders, of which leaders of the movement had hoped. It is not difficult to get ignorant An attempt to wreck a London hai. The stock market is very President Yuan Shih-kai and tht Manila Steamship Company the General Managers are, I peasants to fight, if the promises be fair; but oven they will have no and Soath-Western Waterloo to much better. Cotton shares have Chang Teso-lin, Commander-in-that this meeting is called to-day might say at the outset, by far the

Chief in Mukden, is prepared to Plymouth express in a tunnel at advanced very considerably. great heart in the business after allow defeate.

Devonport was made last month; Dr. Sun-A Startling Rumour, join the revolutionaries. After all, the thinking and educated Chinese is, by training and | A rail motor was proceeding The native press reports that experience, just the man to look ahead and to consider the chances slowly through the tunnel on Dr. Sun has been requested to before he leads his aid to a movement of this kind. And he knows the up line when it ran against leave the French Settlement at -no one better-that even if the present rebellion were successful, an obstraction. The driver Shanghai,

The Hongkong Telegraph.

"HONGKONG, THURSDAY, JULY 24, 1913.

THE CHANCE OF THE SOUTH.

The cause of the South seems in rather a bad way,

:

and Co.

Old Hongkong Resident Married.

EXPRESS.

3+

Ex.-Tutuh, Wu Hon Man. Ex-Tatuh Wu Elon Man left friends, two of whom were ladies, Hongkong accompanied by four for Shangbai last night by the N.D.L... Princess Alice.

Island Being Fortified.

of basket work and sand.

NOTES FROM THE NORTH.

Rebels Fleeing From Shanghai,

his position on the Yangtze. Ou

view.

General Chang Hsun Sound. There is nothing to show that General Chang Haun is disloyal to

Influence of the Manchus.

Peking Palace Dog Show,

:

Manila we assumed from the cor-ve years ago.

having the earnest attention of the Management.

The earnings so far this year more than cover expenses but are bolow the figures of last year.

you

have

I may add that the accounts, largost, as we hold approximately as made up and audited, baye half the shares in the Compan been completed for long time, and so any loss is I might sy and the fact that they have not half our own, and we have a been brought forward before is beary double interest as sharobl entirely due to this misunder dors as well, as Managers. The if Yuan were deposed, and a new President appointed, a year heaca stopped and found that a heavy It has Leen well known for There were fewer entries than standing of the functions and facts are that the late comprare was under strict scrutiny/for or two years hence the new President's alleged follies and crimes sleeper had been laid across some time past that the French usual at the show of the Peking power of the proxies in Manila. would be shouted from the housetops and spread broadcast in the the matale, and a similar authorities were averse to his re- Palace Dog Association in Bo-You will understand clearly sometime and we were und the shape of proclamations. That kind of thing makes no impression after sleeper had been placed across maining there as his presence gent's Park on 25th alt. The that this is not a meeting of the impression that all reaspable time. More, it renders suspicious the men to whom it is intended the down line. The express was bea nu sessitated special precaut-100-guinea challenge cup given Philippines Steamship Company, safeguards had been frown, to appeal. Yet it is bound to form, for a time at least, a serious already signalled, and the obstruc-ions for guaring him. by the late Mr J. Pierpont Mor- but of the China & Manila Steam- around the Company's fans. A factor in Chinese political life. That these "rebsls will be bearen tions were removed just in time Northern papers to hand fully gan for the best animal in the ship Company for the purpose of system of a separate form of r udmite of little doubt; bat how are they to be controlled after? to avert disaster. Fortunately the describe the situation in the north, show went to Chiampion Ko-Tzu giving instructions to the Philip ceipt for freight money, be How are they to-be rendered moderately content? That is the express, which left Waterloo at 11 There is anxiety in Peking. The of Burdorop, a dog owned by Mr pines Steamship Company to pass put in force several yes ago, biggest question before President Yuan to-day and no man knows.m. and was scheduled to reach Gazette of July 17 announced the Calley, of Swindon. He won the certain accounts. The Obina & and on those receipts we clearly it better. It need not be doubted that other risings will follow the Devonport at 3.46, was overdue. acceptance of Chao Ping-chan's Gordon Bennett and Braywick Manila Steamship Company's and legibly printed inimese present or that they will be suppressed. Only thus, indeed, will The tunnel where the obstructions resignation of the post of Premier, challenge cup, in addition to a annual meeting will be held and English that no recpt other the mulcontents be rooted out and will China pass through to attain were found runs under Devonport This concession to southern feel number of first prizes. Next to

than on this form and goed by her fullest strength. These outbreaks are but a phase regrettable Park to the station.

ing, it is believed, would have the new champion come Winger-1

As however the passing and a European in the empy of the enough bat inevitable-of her evolution. The more swiftly they are In some quarters the outrage eased the situation, two months worth Pi-Ohi, belonging to Mrs approval of the Philippines General Managers wavalid or suppressed, the more rapidly will Obina attain ber fall strength is attributed to suffragists, but ago, but it is regarded now as a P. Hanloke of Bucknell Manor, Steamship Company's accounts would be recognized

the police are very reticent. and her real place as a nation.

| symptom of weakness on the part Bicester,

by the Company in Manila might (Continued on page(0)

later.

new hd been