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THE HONGKONG - TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, JULY 29,“ (1914;

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THE MEXICAN TROUBLE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

TAI ON PIRACY:

The Agenda for To-morrow's Meating.

THE WIDE DOMAIN OF HAPPI NESS HAS NEVER BEEN MAPPED, BUT SORROW HAS BEEN SURVEY- ED AND KNOWN IN EVERY PART.

The Weather, Lower level 8 am. Temp 84; dull.

At the Park 8 am. Temp 77;

Chinese Revolutionists in Japan, Japan should know her own

■ business better than we Hritinhoru can teach it to her, but is abo altogether wise in throwing the country open wholesale to Chinese political refugees? We stated last night, in our General News column, that a religious sarvios had been held at Tokyo, by some five hundred 'Chinese, in memory of those killed during last year's r's "revolution." Although no fog. disturbance cocarred, several

The Mails, inflammatory speeches were English Mail.-Dae per delivered, the speakers denounc- Delta today at 4 p.m. ing the Peking Government. After Siberian Mail.-Das for the service, a secret meeting wÜB |

Chenan 'to-day. held to discuss certain affairs. Canadian Mail Dus per Japan, like England and Empress of Asia to-day America, realises, or professes to

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VIEWS OF A VISITOR TO HONⱭKOÑO.

'Chamber of Commerce Fund.

A meeting of the Legislative The Secretary of the Hongkong Council will be held to-morrow, General Chamber of Commerc when His Excellency the Governor forwards us the following parti will more the following resola-colars and correspondence with This Council desires to record its Firacy Fund ---*

regard to the Chamber's Tai On. deep sorrow at the death of Bir

The amount collected from ite Kai Ho Kai for 24 years one of members by the Hongkong its most brilliant and devoted General Chamber of Commerce, members; and to tender to his and including a donation of $445 widow and family its heartfelt from Mr. Dowley's Fund, totalled sympathy with them in their $2,245, $500 of which was ap

As Eye-witness' Experience. Hongkong Americans, in general way, have made no secret tion of their dissatisfaction at the manner in which the Mexican difficulty has been handled by the Democratio Government, at Washington. To these, then statements made to the Telegraph by an American mining engineer s..who just contrived to escape from Hexico with his life, should not be without intorest.

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portioned to each of the two The orders of the day are:- surviving British Officers, and First reading of a Bill entitled the widow of Chief Officer Mr. Harold T. Mapes, who is An Ordinance to amend the Evans, whilst $200 each was not now staying in the Colony, gives Deportation Ordinances, 1912 and aside for the surviving Portago it as his opinion that the Wilson 1913. Government has dous one foolish

ese watchmen and the widow, of First reading of a Bill entitled Silva. thing on top of another and An Ordinance to amend the Australian Mail-Closss per s.8. that all the regrettable happenings Widows and Orphans' Pension presented with a gold watch and Captain Wetherell, who was Aldenham tomorrow at 10in Mexico during the past few Ordinance, 1908. months lie at its door.

chain before leaving for home, First reading of a Bill entitled requested that any balance due Mr. Mapes was one of two part- An Ordinance to amond the law to him from the fand should be nere in one of the largest mining relating to the observance of handed over to Mr. Evans' widow concerns in Mexico-the Gaano-

and further to this the Chamber jasto mine. In consequence of First reading of a Bill entitled bavo added the small balance of

precautions against Piracy. the Vera Cruz incident of April An Ordinance to exempt certain $145 left over from the fund 21, the mine shut down and it secarities on imported goods from became to the interest of all the oporation of the Bills of Sale Chamber's Fund is therefore as The apportionment of the Americans to save themselves as Ordinance, 1888. best they could.

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ehe permit gatherings which can Siberian Mail.-Closes per ae. YE OLDE ENGLISH LAVENDER WATER.

Delta to-morrow at 10 a.m. An exquisite Perfume.. Put up in Elegant Bottles, makes á delight-only make bad worse and which, in the long run, may even injure ful adjunct to the Toilet.

Japan herself? The Japanese, we know, are loyal to their empire by instinct; but when enough mud is thrown, some of it is likely to stick; and, if the youth of the country, through listening to unreliable hotheads from China, imbibe revolutionary ideas, Japan

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Count the Columes. More Muddling.

Yesterday the Telegraph We wonder what on earth the published 30 colamas of solid P.W.D. is ap to in again tearing reading matter. To-day there

troops," said Mr. Mapes, "bat for It formed a sort of financial boy- up the new approach to the ferry will be 34 published. pier at Kowloon. The other day

what purpose I have not yet cott with England to keep Mexico we drew attention to the

discovered. So far as Ican see, from raising money. The next lamentable lack of foresight dis played in dealing with this atrip Kama Mara for Japan included marines were killed quite need-Then, presently, in order to favour The passengers leaving by the the only result was that nineteen step was the, embargo on arme. of roadway. First of all a new, the Rev. J. K. Maconachie and losely and that the Mexicans in Villa-who is a blackguard- narrow roadway was laid down, Mre, Maconschio, bat on second thoughts it was

the Interior immediately set about the embargo was raised: things slaughtering whatever Americans were made easy for him, and now found necessary to widen it, and in the process the whole of the left for the North, Dr. Stedman forty in all, including my own that have been used to kill Am By the Kamano Maru there happened to come their way the very rifles and ammunition new metalling had to be torn up, and Major and Mrs. Stansfield.

partner. The whole thing has ericans are those which have been been ridiculous. We who have supplied by America. The whole lived in the country and know

Now, for some reason or other,

'The object of this paper is to publish correct information, foturva tha truth | we must ask in vain,

and print the news without fear or favour.

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VI The Hongkong Telegraph.

HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, JULY 29, 1914.

CHINESE AGRICULTURAL METHODS,

P

The Use of the Truncheon.

Gone North.

:

my

opinion,

follows:-

8400.00

0 500.00

Capt. R. B. Wetherell (Gold Watch and Chief Engineer, Mr. T.

Ohaio). D. McCartney, (Money Mrs. Kathleen Evans.

Grant). D.

(Widow of the Chief Watchman A.

Officer) (Money Grant) 745.00

Jose Conceisso, (Money

(Money Grant):

Grant).

Dias,

Mrs. Silva, (Widow of

200.00

200.00

the Waiohman Silva), (Money Grant).

Yet

200.00

$2,245.00

Chamber's letter to

McCartney.

Hongkong, 20th July, 1914

T. D. MoCartney, Esq.,

229 High Street,

Ayr.

after the widened thoroughfare: Opium Possession. has only just been completed, geogs of workmen are to be seening, a Chinese was charged with the position; the Washington has taken has done other than At the Police Ueurt, this morn-ional conditions can understand thing is laughable. So far, not a single step that Washington once more making holes in the being in unlawful possession of administration does not. In new surface. It may be all very 4 taels of opium and two taela of

sggravate the situation. in the first Mesara. Wilson and. Bryan are necessary, but once more may we opinn drosa. A fine of $275 place, Washington should have eve 7 day disregarding the state- ask why the P.W.D. does not was imposed, or in default three recognised Huerts; England ments of men who have seen the exercise a little intelligent months' imprisonment.

or France would have done so situation and know it thoroughly. anticipation? But we suppose

right away. I am well aware Do you know, it's a common say- Cutting Pine Trees. that many people say that it was ing in Mexico, You can't insult There is a lot of this going all to do with the quarrel between the United States. I and my Our Chinese police or that on," Inspector Garrod informed the Persian and the Standard Oil friends have been robbed, and section of them known astukonge Mr. J. R. Wood, at the Police Companies, and that Washington many have been killed, and the Sir,

are not famous for activity, but Court, when charging three was infiuenced by commercial whole thing can be laid to the there is at least one respect in women with outting down pine considerations; but that doesn't Washington Government.

Referring to the conversation which they do a little too much-trees on the Peak. They were amount to much either way.

had with you in Hongkong after At the time of the Vera Oruz the piratical attack on the ss. namely in the indiscriminate use each £zed 810.

"Look at it from a practical incident I was at the mine Tai Ou", it was with much re- of their truncheons. Outside the

point of view. In America we've at Guauojuato. Before Victoria Theatre last night

we gret that I subsequently learned got a sohool-master at the head of new where we were, we were cut you had left Hongkong for home one of these individuals, in keep The suspicions behaviour of a the Government, who thinks that off from cable communication without my having had an oppor ing back the riokaba coolies, Chinese at Kowloon led to his Mexico in to be governed by and, if we got our private letters, tanity of again seeing you, made very free use of this weapon. being arrested and charged, at white men's methods the very it was after they had been opened Without the slightest provocation, the Police Court, with being a thing you can't do. Madero's and read by the Mexicans. A verbally, the defence of the Tai-

As I have already informed you he whipped out his truncheon rogue and vagabond. Nine pre- following consisted of bandita day or two later we heard that On" by the Officers and part of and began prodding the coolies invions convictions were proved who looted wholesale; but when Huerta had started systematically the crew attracted wide spread the ribs. We are all in favour of against the man,

whom he got into office he found that to destroy American property." notice throughout the Far East Thereafter, according to Mr. and all felt that in behaving de from moneyed or influential Mapes account, life was not worth you did, you, and your comrades, people, or, indeed, from the army. living in the country. In Mexico to the full lived up to the highest As a result, the moment he got City hand bills were circulated traditions of the British Mercan- into office he tried to disband the stating that looting of American tile Marine.

The Tenth Conviction.

a proper supervision of traffic, but Mr. Wood sentenced to three he was going to get no backing the limits of necessity in this months' imprisonment,

of his

The Chinese have won for themselves an enviable reputation in respect can very well be over- the way of utilising every little scrap of available land for agricul- stepped, as it often is by these tural purposes.. It only needs the most casual observation, when lukongs. At Home a constable walking through country districts occupied by Chinese, to prove dares not make use bow industribus the people are in the pursuit of husbandry. The truncheon except in the last odd-shaped little terraces, green with crops of rice and other extremity. Here, with the vegetables, which one sees dotted about on the hillsides, as well as Chinese police, it is distinotly on low-lying ground, provide all the testimony that is required otherwise. And it is about on this point. But there is a difference between industriousness time the abuse were remedied. and wise methods of labour; the farmer may work his soul out, and yet be, all the time, proceeding on altogether wrong lines so far as getting the beat out of the soil is concerned. And it may Tory well be doubted whether the Chinese, with centuries of agri cultural life behind them, have been proceeding on lines which conduce to the best resalta in the long run.

LANGKAT OUTPUT.

Ji

SANITARY BOARD.

A Very Short Meeting.

army, but immediately be found property was permissible, and The Members of the Hongkong that only about fifteen per cont, even a list of American properties General Chamber of Commerce of the soldiers were going to was published. There were then being anrious to show their listen to him. His own adherents, fifty Americana at Mr. Mapes sppreciation of the courage and such as they are, are still fighting mine, and, for some little time, devotion to duty displayed in the in North Mexico, and they will these held at bay an innumerable attempt to defend the lives and continue to do so till o man mob, armed with guns, knives or property entrusted to their charge, The fortnightly meeting of the arises strong enough put them clubs. Then two hundred Federal desired to present a testimonial to Sanitary Board was held yesterday down by force.

soldiera.come down to the mino, the defendere of the "Tai On?! "Mind you, Mexico had been and the defenders, unable to hold and to this end a fund was raised afternoon, but did not last long. Mr. D. W. Tratman (President) having thirty years of good out any longer, gave up. Through to which practically all the We are led to raise this point after glancing through a report

presided and those prosent were government under President Por the help of local natives who had Members contributed. The Langkat output for June the Hon. Mr. E. A. Hewett,

firio Diaz. Disz knew how to married Americans and so were Captain Wetherell has accept- written by the Commissioner of Customs at Mukden, which forms was 8,663 tons and the average O.M.G.; Colonel Irwin, Dr. F. handle the bandit element. I more or less sympathetic, Mr. ed a watch with suitable insorapet one of a series for the period 1902-11 in relation to the condition daily output was 288.78 tona: and development of the Treaty Port Provinces. In the section deal-

Olark (M.0.11.) Dr. W. Pearse have seen him in the outlying Mapes and his party, suffering ticn, and a proportion of the ing with agriculture, he states that the land around Mokden is advise us that the output for Goldring, Mr. Ng Hon-taz, Mr. of a bandit mob and hang him, and thiret, were enabled to reach Mrs. Evans, the widow of the late Messrs. Wright and Hornby (Asst. M.O.H.). Mr. P. W districts take every filth man'ont terrible hardships from hunger subscriptions has been sent to divided into small fields, in which farming is carried on in the July is:- intensive manner practised in China proper. He goes into the 1st July...

Chan Kai-ming, and Mr. E. W. and, on top of that, he would say, the oast, the Brazilian Minister Chief Officer, or begint c 283 tone Hamilton (Secretary).

"If I hear of any more outrages accompanying them. matter very thoroughly, and remarks that the method of tillage is 2nd

Having As I gather from my conversa- I'll wipe the whole town out.' "very crade." Not only do these methode never fally realise the 3rd

The minute relative to authoris This is the only way to deal with directions they at last reached married, and duder existing been robbed and ill-treated in all tion with you that being un- value of the soil-they actually diminish it. The reason is that 4th

ing the Japanese crematorium at there is no crop rotation, and the state of affairs is aggravated 5th

So Kon For and the Sikh burning bandits and Indians, for these Puerta Del Merue, where they conditions you would prefer a by the continual taking away of the stabble for fael, thus depriv-| Oth

ground behind the Sikh Temple Spring from a strain that, as far were taken under the protection of share of the fund rather than an ing the soil of organio matter, whilst the scarcity of animals 7th

to be used as crematoria, was

back as the time of Cortes, have the British gunboat, H.M.Scctual. testimonial, I would now makes the price of manare prohibitive. Several suggestions are 8th

adopted

made their living by looting. Lancaster, of whose hospitality bog to sak, on behalf of the made by the writer of the report as to the changes which | Oth

Now Euerta is a man of the Mr. Mapes speaks very warmly. Members of the Chamber of. are desirable. Chief of these is the rotation of orops, so that nitro- 10th

old school-a Diaman, in fact,

"Even then," he added, "our Commerce, your acceptance of gea-consuming orops may be succeeded by nitro-producing crops, 11th ata, and next comes the desirability of animal husbandry being 12th taken up, this to be followed by improved methods of tillage, 13th involving the supersession of the inadequate native implements by 14th modern ones; and last, but not Ienet, afforestation is considered 15th imperative. But, as the Commissioner is at pains to point ont, 18th before these objects can be attained, one essential must be borne 17th in mind that the thorough adaptation of modern methods can be 18th produced only by the complete education of the people. "Thin, 19th an uncompleted work of great difficulty in Europe and America, 20.h he remarks," is a stupendous task in China, since modern sgrionl-21at tural education presupposes a prior elementary education, which 22nd not one farmer in ten thousand possesses."

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As we look through the report, it is gratifying to find that the 24th problem is receiving some degree of attention in Manoburis, where 25th variona institutions to foster agriculture and forestry, such as 26th agricultural schools and live-stock farme, have been established, 27th and are having excellent results. The point then arises na to what 28th we, as trustees of the New Territories, are doing in this direction. There is a fine opportunity for pioneer work in these territories, and if we are to keep abreast of the times we should make the most of it.

The application for permission to erect a trough closet in the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, Marino Lot No. 104, was opposed by the Hon Mr. F. A. Eewelt and refused on a unanimous vote.

Clatin to a Baronstey.

your career

who understood the Indians and troubles were not ended, for the the enclosed Bank Draft, Brazi never made way fool promises American ship to which we were I trust that your visit home he had the right backing he could paration for two hundred re to health, and that the effects of about granting them land. Had handed over had only made pre- will result in an entire restoration have straightened things out, for fugees; and taking us altogether your two auhappy experiences already he had the army with my own party and others on board the "Tai On" will soon bim. Yet, the United States there were six hundred of us, the disappear. Ou wouldn't recognise him. Instead, result being that we were more With all good wishes for your A Baronstage Committee of the they sent him an ultimatum to than half starved, before we health and further success in Privy Council gat last months to clear out in four days, Bad Huerta arrived at New Orleans. copeider a claim of Major James did as he should have done: told "The moral, of course, is that Bruce Wilkie-Dalyell of Binne to them to mind their own business. Amarion must either keep out of be placed on the official roll of It is the old tale over again; the such affairs altogether or elee hit baronsta: Lord Dunedin presided. reason why Latin Americs gets with a hard hand. At present After hearing Mr. Macphail' fed with Washington is that she is being langhed at in Mexico, Chamber's Letter to Mrs. Evans. statement for the claimant, Lord Washington will not mind its own and I may tell you thst une of Dunedin said that their Lordships business. I'm not speaking just the last things I saw there was a Mrs. would advise his Alsjesty that the on theory: I've had fourteen donkey, wrapped in the Stars and name of Major James Bruce Year' oxperience of Latin Am Stripes and wearing a mark to Wilkis-Dalyelly of: Binns should erica'

Hca and know what I'm talking represent President Wilson,

FRA) do |33 beaton literally to death in the Madamy about, be placed on the official roll of

***Here was Washington #plan baronets.

Believe me, la

Your obedient, servant, (8gd) E A. HEWETT,

-Chairman, A

Hoogkong, 20th July, 1814, O. O. Erang, Nursing Staff Quarters,

Presidency Hospital st

Calcutt

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