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CHINA'S SHORT-LIVED MONARCHY.

HOW IT WAS RESTORED

Full Text of the Imperial Decree.

balcyon days we should re- ascend the Imperial Throne in order to save the souls of millions of our subject, etë, "Another memorial was subraitted by Chu Hung-chi and others stating that as the Sats is now in danger and the minds of the people are wandering we should again hold the reins of Government so se to obey the will of Heaven, eto. Li The following is from the Yuan-hang also memorialised us Peking Daily News of July 25-begging to be allowed to hand Former Emperor Hausa Tung back to us the Government for re-secended the Throne at the welfare of the nation, etc. o'alock yesterday morning, the We bare perasad the several oaremonies being abort and memorials and are deeply mor- simple. Two hours prior to this ed by them and we find grand occasion, General Chang that they all express Hsun held a conference at his genuine feelings. Whilst not residence, which was wishing to trust the beavy re- attended by General Wang Shib-sponsibility of maintaining the chen, General Chiang Chao-existence of a great Empire to our chung and other leading 'mili-youthful person and delicate con- tary men. Then and there be stitation we are unwilling to declared the decision to effect disregard the enfferings of the the restoration of the Manchu people merely on the ground of Emperor to the Throne. Imme-protecting the interests of our diately afterwards, Liang Ting Family, so that after carefully feng, the Imperial Guardian, weighing the situation we cannot accompanied by General Wang bat obey the will of Heaven and -Shih-cheä and two others, called ennaider the wishes of the people. upon the President and requested We have now decided to re-ascend him to retire, promising to him the Throne on the Thirteenth liberal pensions.

day of the Fifth Month of the Ninth Year of Hsuan Tang and

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NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES,

S.S." COLOMBIA," From SAN FRANCISCO. HONOLULU, JAPAN PORTS, SHANGHAI &, MANILA.

vessel

The abovementioned having arrived from above ports, Consignees of cargo are hereby informed that their cargo is be- ing landed at their risk into the hazardous and/or extra hazardous Godowns of the Hong- kong & Kowloon Whart & ¡Godown Co., Ltd, Kowloon, and

stored at Consignees Risk,

Consignees of cargo are hereby nctified that they must produce an Import Permit signed by the Superintendent of Imports & Exports Hongkong before bills of lading can be countersigned.

:

All broken, chafed and damag- The following is the approxied goods are to be left in the Go- mate statement of the Hoogkong dawns where they will be ex- amined on Saturday 14th, inst. Tramway Company's traffic

at 10a.m. receipts for the week ending Joly 7, 1917:—

Aggregate Receipt Receipts for for week. 27 weeks. $16,078 $380,727

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will begin life with our people The-Ministry of Communica Chang Heus. Prince Henan, anew. Henceforth the sense of tions has just decided upon the father of the Emperor, beaming daty sad the religion of loyalty dismissal of "all the unnecessary This Year: ... with smiles and looking happy, shall be the basis of our unwritten foreign advisers" from the various Last Year:.. 15,124 distributed fifty coppers to each Constitution, and we shall endear railway lines, says the Peking Incrasse... Sof General Chang Hean's soldiers oor to regenerate the people by Daily Nera. The order issued to Decresse:

se a royal favour.

inculcating in themgood manners, Mr. Tsang Kaat-bus, Director of The following Decrees were honour, integrity and self-respect the Peking Hankow Railway, promulgated early yesterday All officials high and low, shall approving his dismissal of a morning, and the circular sele- mest one another with sincerity foreign lawyer, was the first one gram to the provinces explaining and

merely of a series of orders to be issued the reason for the restoration of adhers to the letter of] to different railway offices for the the or-Emperor to the Throne, the law in carrying out enforcement of the retrenchment signed by the leading military the administration of the country people in Peking, was dispatched We shall search our hearts before

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The Imperial Decree.

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policy. It reads:

All claims must be presented within a month of the steamer's - arrival here, after which they cannot be recognized.

No claims will be admitted after the goods have left. the

370,759

ing undelivered after July 16th. 10,032 1917, will be subject to rent.

No fire insurance whatever will be effected.

Godowns and all goods remain-

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From SAN FRANCISCO, via HONOLULU; and JAPAN PORTS.

Godown.

ed on all cargo remaining un- delivered on 16th July, at 5 P.M.

No Fire Insurance whatever will be effected.

No Claims will be recognised after the goods have left the Steamer or Godown.

Consignees are requested to send in their bills of lading for countersignature immediately. PACIFIC MAIL S.S. CO. R. C. MORTON,

General Agent. Hongkong, Sth July, 1917.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES. THE Steamship

"COCONADA."

Goods not cleared by 17th

All broken, chafed and dam- aged packages are to be left in the Godowne, where they will be examined by Messrs. Goddard and Douglas on 16th instant, at 10 am

"Your dispatch recommending acy Decree is issued, lest we be the dismissal of a foreign lawyer in the wrong, for we have no Tang tong" has been received, Imperial Decree issued this the desire to endanger the nation and we observe you have already Thirteenth Day of the Fifth simply to satiate our own desires. notified him that his services Month of the Ninth Year of Moreover, at a time like this would not be required after the Esuan Tong:-

when every department of the expiration of his contract on the Government presents an air of 20th September 1917, as there is Whereas

The above named unfortunately

steamer not much work for him to do in having arrived, consignees of succeeded to the Imperial Throne stability and the vitality of been

cargo are hereby notified to having arrived. Consignees of when we were still in childhood the nation has almoet

your office.

by her are notified we constantly felt grieved owing exhausted and when a question

We observe that you have send in their Bills of Lading for Cargo existence of concerning the

countersignature, and to take that

ali 10 lack of our ability to cope the Empire is engaging our strictly followed the retrench immediate delivery of cargo from lan-led Geode are being at their risk into with the many difficulties of the

the hazardous and/or extra haz- limas. In the year Hainbai when attention we shall proceed with ment policy. However, there are alongside.

Cargo remaining undelivered ardous Gedowns of the Hong- the Revolution broke out, Her our work with the utmost care as many other foreign employees in

11th July, at 5 PM, will keng & Kowloon Wharf & Go Imperial - Majesty the late if we were passing a deep pre- your office who have no parti- on Empress-Dowager, moved by cipics or treading on thin ice cular work to perform, and with be landed at consignees risk and down Co., Ltd, whence andfor We dare not take delight in the the exception of those who have expense, and delivery must then from the Wharves delivery may her highest moral quality and deep love for bumanity mere fact of re-assuming Imperial made contracts with the Govern. be taken from the Company'e be obtained. and being unwilling to allow the Powers and thereby allow ourself ment, all the unnecessary forsige people to undergo misery and to live a life of pleasure. You, advisers, etc., should also, betrage charges will be assess-instant, will be subject to th

Ministers of all ranks, should dis dismissed. enfferings magnanimodely ед trust to the former Minister, of chargs your respective duties with a clean conscience and rid State, Yuen Shih-k'ai, the bequest yourselves of all corrupt habita. of Her Majesty's Imperial Anoes-

all bear in mind you

5.-All treaties formally signed tors together with the lives of millions of Har subjects, ordering the sufferinge of the people and with foreign countries previons bim to establish? Provisional exert your utmoet to enable the to this day of the Fifth Month of Government so that Her Imperial people to earn their livelihood you the Ninth Year of Henan Tang Majesty might be enabled to ab- will be prolonging the life of the sad all loan agreements on which dicate and vast the powers of nation. It is only by so doing money has been paid to the Gov- government in the people of the that you can svert the extinction ernment shall continue to be valid.

the

6.—The system of raising whole Empire, anarchy might be of the nation and secure

guidance of appressed and the people might sympathy and

Heaven. Urgent matters con revenue by stamps established by enjoy peace and tranquillity. How ever, since the republican form of carning the government of the the Republic shall be abolished government was adopted, political country have, in consequence of forthwith in order to relieve the financial stringency of the people. struggies and civil war have the revival of the Imperia with regard to other forms of os. repeatedly visited the country,

pressive taxation the Viceroys and zobbery and extortions have been 1-In accordance with the Governors of the various provinces committed with impunity and

HE Steamship bribery and corruption have been Decres of the late Emperor are hereby ordered to make practised openly. The annual Kwang Hen the powers of govern-investigations and report to ma

“s.5. TJILIWONG." revenue has been increased to ment shall be vested in the where abolition is necessary.

7.-The Penal Code of the Rs having arrived from the above $400,000,000 and yet there is still Imperial Government but all fear of a deficit, whilst foreign mattera concerning the adminis pablic is in many respects not port Consignees of Cargo by tration shall be decided in so-suitable for the country, therefore her aro notified that all over $1,000,000,000 and are still cordance with the tendency of it should be forthwith abolished. Goods are being landed at their public opinion. The country In the meantime the Penal Code risk into the hazardous and/or ncreasing. As a consequence shall be known as the Taching promulgated in the First Year of extra hazardous Godowns of the domplainte har6- bean heard throughout the country and the Empire and the form of govern Haan Tang shall now be tem- Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd whence ment shall be modelled after the porarily in force. people are down-hearted and

and/or from the wharves delivery weary of life. Thus, the beat examples obtaining in

may be obtained, Goods not cleared by 16th July, will be abdication of her late Imperial foreign countries, namely,

subject to rent. Mejty, which was carried Limited Monaroby.

loan obligations now amount to

out to relieve the conditions

Government, been decided sz follows:

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All chafed and damaged cargo will be landed into the Company's Godown, where they will be examined on 20th July, at 10 AM. filed after the 30th July. 1917.

No Claim will be recognised if

T. DAIGO, Agent Hongkong, 10th July, 1917.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNERS.

From KOBE.

THE

All broken, chafed and dam-

8.The evil practice of organising political parties shall be abolished and prohibited and 2. With regard to the expenssa all political offenders are hereby of Her Majesty' anbjecte ha of the Imperial Household a sum pardoned. As regards those who aged packages are to be left in been taken advantage of to ex of $4,000,000 shall be annually deliberately cause themselves to the Godowne, where they will be acerbate their sufferings. This appropriated as already fired. be fores kez by the people by examined on the 14th July, 1917, result was entirely unanticipated This sum shall on no account be oreating disturbances of the pesce at 10 AM,

we dare not hereby grant an by her late Imperial Majesty and exceeded. must be disturbing the tranquil-3-Le scoordance with the amnesty.

lity of Her departed epirits: We vetem handed down by the 9-All our Ministers and sab- ponfined in the Imperial Palaces Founder of our Dynasty members joots, whether or not they have as we have been, have daily pray of the Imperial Family shall be cat off their queues, shall have ed Heaven to show us a way out precluded from interfering in perfect liberty to wear their hair of this misfortune. Recently, administrativo affaire." **

socording to their individual taste 4.--All'ölass or racial distinc¦as set forth in so Imperial Decree owing to the renewal of dis putes between different political tions between Manobos and insel in the Ninth Month of the parties which again precipitated Chinese shall be abolished and Third Year of Hasan Tung.... civil war, the minds of the official posts formerly created for We hereby solemnly declars repablissa form of-govern the benefit of Mongol dr. Manettbar wa shell observe, and obey ment as proved to be unwork officials that have already been the share Nine Conditions toget able aux no means of seving the abolished shall not jore establish: her with our people. Heaven and Empire has been available. Changed. As regards intermarriage Earth witness our declaration. Heaa, Feng Kwa-chang, La Yan-between Manchus and Chinese This Dscrea is feeund for the ing have jointly memorialised no and other affairs connected with albmitting the view that on the the no-ordination of spois information of all our people.

tion of, the country has customs, responsible officials will Bahaken and the people are be appointed to draft detailed

old provisions for our spproval,

CHANG HISUN,

High Minister of the Council of Barnbor

Claims against the steamer must be presented in writing within ten days after arrival" of steamer, otherwise they will not be recognised.

No Fire Insurance will be effected by the undersigned in any case whatever."

Bills of Lading will be coun tersigned by

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Claims against the Steamer must be presented in writing within 10 days after a wing Steamer, otherwise they will not be recognised.

No Fire Insurance will be effected by the undersigned in | any case whatever.

Bills of Lading will be counter- signed by

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