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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JULY 26, 1913.

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WHAT OF

KWANGTUNG?

VILY WITH THE GOVER` CF-GENERAL.

"But suppose the Powers should side with him ?."

"I don't believe such a thing possible. For them to do so would be to ruin China, They must be well aware of that. Nor will 10 gard for the world's comuneros allow them to help him; of that' I am confident, If the Powera withhold money the whole "mat- ter will soon be at an oud. I hope they are beginning to understand that all we ask is the deposition

30.000 TROOPS READY FOR THE NORTH. As much interest has been felt he himself appointed, and who of Yuan Shih K'ai; without him locally as to the whereabouts of have Las me more disgusted the the whole country-will-be-peace- Governor General Chan Kwing more they were able to make pro-able and prosperons." Ming, we are able to assure corpor.enquiries into his misgovern- "Assuming that the fighting yemen at Canton. Yesterday a(Au Young Mo) and Anhui (Sun entirely successful, what will Our Celebrated Every old Liqueur Scotch Whisko Wyndham Street, the dish of the fatal duges were reported, making readers that he is within the ment. Take the Tatahs of Kiangei ends quickly and that you are

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HONGKONG, SATURDAY, JULY 26, 1913.

NEW HIGHER EDUCATION SCHEME.

in

heard

for a long time.

Nearly Another Case...

tory

Exemption.

General Kelly.

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into the Commons, hinted that the Government was prepared to pay tusa their activities with mach Officers and Beads of Dapattion of injuring me, by pole the Tutuh of Kwangsi (who is for Yuan to have held communica

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1.

I know that tion with bim of late?""

-"How do I know? This in a political querrel: Iknow nothing:

No Quarrel. Mon of their personal relations."-

"Your predecessor 'bas stated twice Istely in out paper that he and you are are on clore terms of friendship."

"That is quite true, We worked together throughout the Revolution and bave never

"And who will bis auocessor be?". the fray to injured that 1913, amounted to 36,723.20 tons recognisable from a less good enemy."

*Your Commissioner told me

I have absolutely no idea To be is taken to the Station and the salea during the pariod, likeness than that with which

ola We have A

ant to 29,083,62 toas,

many people in Hongkong are on Sunday that anything which me it is immaterial; all I want is ro stirring a

familiar. Though recent occur- he imparted was to be taken as a constitutional President; one Conceit Postponed,

Do you who will fulfil his promises and "The promenade concert an- rences have shown him to batcng coming from you. nounced to be held on the Cricket to the nitra-advanced party, the confirm all that was said in the his agreements. Let us ese such Club ground to-night has been general impression which the "Telegraph's" published inter- a man as that as President, and Kwangtung, and every other Pro postponed until August 9. Tickets Britisher gets of him is one rather view with him ?***

"I would like to make one vince, will readily promise him We very nearly witnes id for already issued will hold good for of conservatism; one seems, in

that date.

fact, to be looking at the. Cui-correction. He told you that, if full support. To get Yuan out ourgelves such another daring in-

Leave...

aeae of picture and tradition; the Treasury ran short, I might we will fight till the last, and will cident on Thursday evening. We Privilege leave to the neigbour-blaud, inscrutable, of an amazing seek to borrow of the Straits and die rather than yield an inch.'

"And

you cannot even nămê a watched constablo B204 stop coring countries, is granted to force of character, and to the Hongkong Chinese. That is not tain boys from leaving this ollies Lents. S. M. O kaon, 21st Pan Western mind-utterly incom- so at all. The money which the possible successor to him?"

Province haa will last for a good

"I cannot.". with papers. We have bia oanabis, atrobed 26th Punjabis, and prehensible.

What of Dr. Sun? word for it that he was acting LT. Torrio, 26th Punjabis, from

while, and, should it fail, I have "I have not left Canton."

"No one seems very clear as to under the instructions of bis 31st July to 28th September, Speaking

Mandarin) many other means of raising

say,

Doctor Sun is superintendent, which (so he said)

1913.

through an interpreter, the Tumore; as, for instance, by private what part, if were later confirmed by the ser-

tub raid that he had been greatly borrowings. My Commissioner taking in all this. Can you tell gesat on duty. His duty was to pre. It is notified that the following amused to hear of his various ap apprehension. Apart from this

must have been under some mie me?

"Dr Sun's keen patriotism vent the "

Hongkong Telegraph Societies have been exempted by

"It is in Hongkong. pearances

naturally makes him desire boys from proferring papers the Governor-in-Council from re strenge," he said, " that though matter, I confirm all that he said." Yuan's retirement. He loves his to the public hud be is to L3 con gistration ander the Soieties everyone seems to have ren me,

General Lung... gratulated on the fact that he did Ordinance, 1011-rcial (Chi: hardly any two people agree as to

"The rumours as the General country but he does not love not shrink from drawing his baton nese): Kwan-Hing Hoag To Wut where, or under what circuma Lung's whereabouts and inten-politice; in fact he has finished and standing at our very dear, in Sbo and King Koi Ngoi Yu. Hongkong people who are interested in the education question order to stop here stalwart villains

tances. Will you mention in your tious are very contradictory. Can with them, and I fasl sure that he would refuse any political position me anything about:

that mght be offered him. Of will see in our telegram of Thursday, which relates to certain who stood at out the height of Major-General FH. Kelly, paper that I have not left Can you tell

when my predecessor was made "Well, it is not true that he is course he can give Yuan good proposals by the Right Hon. J. A. Pass, matter for at ulation, bis knee. Have the polies nothing C.B., having strived in the Comton since shortly tafore the time him?" approvat, and perchnoes condempation as well. Briefly, the Pres-oise with which to engage their mond on 24th instant, is taken on Tutnh. This is only one out of expt sted down here from Was advice, and has done so, but it has

atontion? Are there n ether the strength ecclingly. Generals of runours which are show, ether to help or to attack not been taken."

"Are they sufficiently friendly ident of the Board of Education, while introducing a certain Bill dire stions in which they might Kally will call Comadig pond with the deliberate in en-me. He is very friendly with the expenses of a scheme for linking up the elementary schools with more profit is the community? meat at the headquarter office, who are against me. Oh yes, I neutral); and

There are "more tailors msitsra at 10.30. a,m. on Monday.

have made enemies. I vantanced he has promired to help the the têniversities, and for compelling the local authorities to provide going on under their very noc id to Rope Company's Tramway,

ia Hunan. secondary schools.

which they are apparently blind. In the exercise of the powere one or two miling officers to revolutionaries If they wish to time the laugh- vested in him by the provisions death for grave. acts of dial-He has but 5,000 men with him dienos,andthis basest their finde all from Kwangtung Province The policy invaiably maintained in these columns is that ingstock of the community, that of the Rop Company's Tamway education, even of the highest, and whether in Hongkong, or in is their own look out; but we have Ordinance, 1901, the Ripe Com- against me. There are a few-and therefore in any case would whose loyalty. I dare not "Then what is the exact mil- Europe, should be-f all were right with the world as readily not the heart to as them I come pany's Tramway (val) Overy few of the ldiers on have none to spre for hire." 6btainable by the son of the working man as by the son of the duke that without venturing a word of dinanes, 1913, and otherwise, rely; the rest, I am convinced,itary position of affairs at the

kindly counsel.

His Excellency the Governor-in- Council hus ordered that the will fight for me to the last, and pros ant moment?" Indeed England now stands almost alone in making the road to

would die tomorrow for my sike. "In the first place, Yusn will duration of the lights, powers Do you see anything to support not attempt to bombard Canton. learning so cruelly hard to the poor man's son. For over a century

The Davis Cup) -

and privileges grapted under the the stories of mutiny? Have you Whatayer fighting remains to be quarrelled. I don't wish to actions during Scandinavia, Germany, France, the Low Countries, Switzerland and

It is evidently to lea eat provisions of the Ordinances on the least siga of discader in done will be carried on in the critics his

his Governorship, the more Austria bave offered every educational facility to the clever lad of

struggle for the possession of the named shall be extended for n

Yorgtes distriot. I have sent no the poorer classes who had brains, and, for some years past, the Davis Lawn Tennis Cup, which period of ten years from the 15th the city? All I ask is that you troops. North yet, but I have so that I am convinced that he

will tell your readers-snd par-

moment's acted for the best, and that his Latin countries have been following suity while in Greeca meobanics Britain is defending against day of Demler, 1913.

ticularly thors who are Chinees 30,000. ready at a Ordinances Approved.

and I believe his Batifactory; and peasant formers have been krown to be universitymen, and the America. This year there was n and it is significant record entry,

I shall still have a big reserve of dismissal was entirely owing to His Excellency the Governor exactly the state of the city as notice; and, when they are gone, governing was, in the main, most same may be said of Seyfad. Why should England still sund that the issue was eventually left has given bis as ent, in the name you have seen it.

Now as to my Preslamation. men to send up later if need be; almost alone? In pre-sformation times it was do ancommon thing to fought out by the 3 English and on behalf of His Majesty the

Yuan Shih K'ai." told you last Sunday is true; in the last day or two, preparations

Is there any final statement' to find the worker's son being taught Latin and Greek side by side speaking nations-Britain, Con- King, to the following. Ord. What one of my Commissioners so you will ea that, even within the stand which he took against

bave gone on apace."

that you

would like to make, with the noble's. The monks, ju whose hands lay the educationada and America. The Ameri-nances pased by the Legislative dependence is not declared, as

"You

feel confident tins bad a fairly comfortable win Council:- An.. Ordinance

through us to the Hongkong of the pople, draw no distinction between social lass, and denied over the Canadian team in the amend the Igal Practioners may be seen if the proclamaion

merchants ?" "Yes!" (emphatically.) schooling to no lad who asked for it, be he gentle or simple. At final of the competition, and thus Ordinance, 1871; An Ordinance is carefully read. When I ty

"You have no fear of Tuan's the Reformation, the colleges and schools which had beɔn "endowed qualified to face the British 198m2 provide for the regulation of that, I mean that there has never by pious benefactora were stolen from the Roman Catholic Church, in the challenge round. This Wireless Telegraphy; An Ordi- been any intention to raparate

latter match gar at Wimbledon nance to give effect to the change Kwangtung Province from the generalship?"

" is an able man, but he am asking is peace and justice and, consequently, from the poor. Certainly poor lads could still go yesterday, and so far as the play in the name and style of the Re- others, I have but done what six up to Oxford and Cambridge, but it was to get their education at has gone honours are easy. The gistrar General; An Ordinance other Provinces have done; declar-cauvot make either money or for China, at no matter what cost, to Yuan Shib Kai. (The other six have but 40,030 men at his com- solely. Though I am now well the cost of their independence, by "arving tables" and almost singles have b:an player off, and amend the Companies Ordinance, ed that we will pay no allegiance soldiers. At the outside, he can I am acting for the good ofthe Stats Provinces are Kiangai, Hunan, mend, and he has very little prepared for battle, I have not lost sight of my other duties. acting as lackies to the sons of rioh men; while Winchester and each side claims one. That those 1911.

contests were most cloɛsly waged

Anhui, Chebkiang, Fukien and money." other schools became solely the property of the wealthy.

is apparent from the fact that

Kiangen.)

"But how about the Loan You can eas for yourself that, both went the full fivets bafore

"Why should we acknowledge money? Can't he touch that ?" municipally, Canton is being welllcoked after. In a few words. England has been waking up in the direction of education,

The Gazette publishes in ex-Yuan,? Apart from the fact that

"The Foreiga Powers have not. though I am heart and soul in and the awakening has ronulted us in the first place it was almost worthy, t, that although the tenso the rules and regulations he has broken promiss after pro- turned over the whole Loan to getting rid of Yasn, I am acting

weat to Britain. оп to apply to a new bound to do—in a state of affaire more or less chaotic; a jumble of first

Chinese mice, and agreement after agrobim. The money was lent for locally just as though the whole the sel-core, the systems, overlapping each other to such an extent that it is as though player registered a game mere

American Permanent Cemetery at Aber- ment, he is not even, by my of industrial and general political country were peaceful and patie

ponente' own showing, legally a there were no system at all. To draw things into line, to aproot then his opt pent, while in

fied. You might tell them, too, to for fighting. It is provided that the promo- President at all. He was given purpo

Оде abases, to turn out aseless innovations, experiments and theories, the other the games worked out

of the cemetery shall, the office provisionally; his time If he wants money be must beware of fales reputa. will yet be a work of time, and one that can only by accomplished at 25 all."

Lafore the laying out of the has expired, and yet he has made satisfy the Powers that his of these is that I went to the lot and ita

It is. by strong heads and by minds uninfluenced by the hope of ultimate

utilization sa a no sign of withdrawing; he is object is a good one. It is pretty Consular bodies on the Shamoen, political gain. It seems to us that many of the most ardent edu-Who Will Win?

burial placs, collect among them therefore where he is, not by the generally known that they are seeking to borrow money.

You might selves and those Chinese who are people's will but by his own, for keeping a controlling hand over absolutely false. oationalists have never realised that the more money there is spent

Everything now hange on the in sympathy with the movement; the National Assembly has not funds, and that, since the Declara contradict, too, the story that I on undeserving cases, the less there is left for the deserving. At reault of the doubles, and it may the minimum sum of $25,000. elected a President, One Pro- tion, he can get nothing from them. applied to Yuan, for $20,000,000, the present moment Englund is spending millions in teaching be taken as a carainty that both The said sum of $25,000, together inc has ben quietly following Naturally they are suspicious of and received $3,000,000. Isaked children who would be happier and better off without education at sides will extend thome.ives, to with any sum or sums of money another in this rejeosion of him, for whereas (this is only one for nothing: I received nothing. all; which means, of course, that when the Government wishes to the utmost to cure the verdict. contributed or subscribed or his authority; and, even in instance) he was supposed to send benefit those worthy of higher education there is no money left to A slight advantage lies with the donated over and above that those which have made no public $1,200,000 down hero to pay off that the troops, of whom I meet expenses, and so either the deserving must go short or else Britishers, from the fact that they amount sball L3 handed declaration, the feeling against the Kwangtung soldiers, he has am Commander-in-Chief are will- the long-suffering rate-payers must be bled a little more. After are playing at home; but Amor-over to a Board of Management. him is decidedly strong. A pri- not done. I dare not attempt in to die for me, and I can con over forty years of education by the Government, for one poor ics ha repre-ating her playera The number of members of the vate wire that come to Canton this to say how much money he has, fidently rely on their adherence, scholar who has been materially and permanently benefited a who can rise above a circumstance Board shall not be less than 12 or morning (I have not yet received but it cannot be much; for, since Do you suppose that my Proclam hundred have been converted into idle, malcontents, forgers, of this kind, men who play a more than 20. The Government official confimation of it by tole the various Provinces broke away ation was made without first skilled criminale, or at beat into members of the most useless class strong, dashing game and who officers holding for the time being gram) says that Shansi, Mukdes from him, he is getting no revenue sounding the loyalty of the that England holds the city clerk typo, without a real trade or may be counted upon to make a the posts of Ditestor of Public and part of Stechnen are anxious from any one of them; there is troops and the officials? Kiang- profession and with little future but the workhouse; all of them gers show where so much de- Works, Registrer General, and to join Kwangtung in i's attack everything going out and nothing ei made its Declaration on people who, but for the board-school emastering, might have been pends on their play. Britain and Head of the Sanitary Department on Yuan. Kwangei still remains coming in. He may have means July 13; I heard this by of raising a little, of which we wire on the 14th, and I issued seful and successful mechanics. State education must give us Amerion are to-day keenly sttag- respectively shall be ex officio neutral, though the relation - know notuing."

my own declaration on the 18th: something different from this before we can speak respectfully of gling for supremacy in many members of the Bard; the re-tween us and it re exeadingly

"But you are sure of success? but in that four days I had time 1. And, by way of a beginning, we would suggest that the proposed departments of spots, but the maining meml sra, who shall be friendly. We met in our com- How long is the trouble going to discover that close upon sixty

thousand troops were scholarships to secondary schools, and from them to the universities, rival is of the friendliest xr. Unofficial Members, shall be ap mon distrust of Yusn.

1.to leat?

ready to ho reserved entirely for the sons of the leally poor, and forbidden If, aa seems just probable, Britain pointed from among themselves to the children of well-to-do tra lespeople who are well content for get the victory this time, it by the promoters and subs:ibers "Remember, too, that the lead-"If the Powere remam neutral, garye me and that the general the rate-payers to educate their children for them rather than go be some compensation for our of $100 and upwards in open arship of this new movement is Yuan maat inevitably be crushed, will stand by me to the end.

(Continued on Lago 10}} A defeat in the recent pola gentesja, meeting ensembled.

mainly in the hands of men whom and in a very short time." to that expense themselves,

the issue was eattled. It is nots-

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Will the Powers Intervene..

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"Will you tell them that all I "I want Peace and Justice."

"Once more I assure you