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Hongkong Telegraph.

(ESTABLISHED 1881).

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY. & 1919.

日七月弍十三

MENAGE TO CHINA'S

MONUMENTS...

REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.

FIRST SEA LORD.

NO CHANGE CONTEMPLATED.

London, January 6,

It is officially stated that no change is impending in the office of First Sex Lord.

Admiral Sir Rosslyn Wemyss and Rear Admiral G.P.W. Hope are proceeding to Paris as principal naval representatives at the

Peace Conference.

OUR MANILA LETTER.

(From Our Den Correspondout)}

Manila, January 4.

Officials of the Bureau of Agriculture of the Insular Govern-)

it is

C

bel

LIBERALISM.

MR. ASQUITH'S STATEMENT,

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of

NEGLECT OF MASTERPIECES.

Whilethe architectural tres-

to use

France,

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TO-DAY'S CHINESE

TELEGRAMS.

·三拜禮 號八月查英港香

DAY BY DAY.

We are glad to hear at Mr. Denman Fuller, who has been so seriously ill, is now much better Hospital in a week or so. and hopes to leave the Pask

to

this

WEATHER FORECAST,

RAIN.

Barometer 23.94

Temperatum 2m. 67

Humidity

pr. 99

SINGLE COPY: 10 CENTS. $36 PER ANNUM.

CHEER FOR RICHSHA - AND; THE MOST PRECIOUS GIFT.

CHAIR COOLIES.

A FUND OPENED.

BY LADY RHONDDA.

I suppose that each one of us In Shanghai, & collection is if we were asked what gift we made every Christmas to provide hohl most precious of all, both cheer for ricksha coolies. The for ourselves and our children, Telegraph has been asked to open would answer freedom. We havS a like fund here and has much fought for it for so many genera pleasure in doing so. Christ- tions, we of the English speaking mas is gone, but the Chinese races, that, the craging and the

There are.

CANTON GOVERNMENT.

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are

Mr. Systematic search for objects of began immediately. He also have not found a house. I came being circulated on the market, attain health; secondly, that the dicate that the Shipping BoardGladston 1 am not sure thar art of archæological value, and declares that he will not assume here to search for my brother.", at

the

the menace to the records of

have

half

("Chinese Mail Service).

Shanghai, January 8. Li Shún (Tuchun in Nanking) sures of Europe are suffering from transaits telegrams from Tong the ravages of war, neglect and Shin-yee and Lauk Wing-ting vandalism are producing no lass insisting that the Southern and The Hongkong Hotel is a sane lamentable results among vener Northern troops in Faktinius sanctorum, according to the able masterpieces of architecture and Shengi must each retire Pulice. A Chinese hawker held and sculpture in China. To

view

contrary cosmopolitan lovers of the beauti-100.is from the places they atļa ful, the article by Mr. Roy Chap-present cecupy, leiving alb-local | with

the result that he New Year is approaching, and man Andrews in the Museum disputes for settlement at the courted disaster this morning it would be gratifying if a sub-ed for it is bred in our bone. Journal (New York), in China's Peace Conference; otherwise the Mr. Melbourne Tell him that stantial sum could be obtained And, as we have grown, so in Ancient Monuments, will South will not send delegates. hawkers are not allowed near the before then. If the response is qur eception freedom has provide shocks as painful as those

It is reported that owing to Hongkong Hotel.” Our hawker good, we intend saking the Police: slowly broadened down from In the course of a recent speech gathered from the record of bom-Ng Kwong-un's unwillingness was crying out some vegetables Authorities to see to the distribu- precedent to precedente

bardments in Flanders, Cham-

to return, the Hupeh Govern- for sale. There was no notice tion of the fund. inent are preparing to conduct Mr. Asquith made the following

Until latterly we have come to pagne and Italy vigorous campaign for the pro-striking observations on liberaA memorial was addressed to Chai-kwuds as chief commander are about near the precincts thair coolies in Hongkong, and freedom from bodily slavery, İment intewis appointing Lung on ile wall, that hawkers many hundreds of ricksha and mean not only freedom obnations, duction of corn throughout the list as a cred:

President Yoan Shib-kai of the Philippines in an attempt to avert

Liberalism is not the creed, it Chinese Republic in 1914 by fifty of the emergency army in Upper of the hotel. To "Stick no bills without them the public would be freedom of thought, but, most in a bad way. Their lot is not a essential, freedom of opportunity. A serious food crisis which is

should in future be added happy one, and a little additional, We ask now that each generation foreseen as a result the failure of, ever has been the creed, of two American institutions of art, Yangise.

The Li Shan requests, the Govern- "Stick no hawkers." Sergeant comfort would not be a miss. The which has its own work to do, its the rice crop. On account of quic-cence or doubt. It holds learning, and humanity.

increasing, immediate result was the pro-ment to cancel the amate or Aris sakod the Magistrate to me following subscription has been own ideals to fight for, shall be drought, the labour shortage due, that there to the trancazo epidemic, and the purpose through the ages, auil mulgation of an edict making dering the arrest of Sun Yat-sen, a heavy sentence as Peller's received:

of China's in order to enable Tong Shiu-yee Street was a sacred place. It was "Labourite "

.$10.

given freedom in the sense that ravages of the typhoon which that in the tree self-develop legal recognition swept over Southern Luzon and mentemtuities lie all,guments and antiquities and go to Nanking. The Govern also one of the most important We shall be happy to acknow- each man shall be ses free to a portion of the Visayan Islands the hopes of the best future of ging national cooperation in meus is willing to amply with streets of the Colony,Mr. Mal- ledge further sums,

gire, and to obtain the best their preservation. Moreover, the on Christmas Day, the rice crop-humanity. It is the very nature Governments of the United States,

the request.

bourne: "Tell him and caution.

that he is capable of giving estimated. will

and attaining to. Chu Kai-kim telegraphs that Now don's come up again. I will

We have coma about one half the normal yield of such a creed that its articles, Great Britain and

to look upon ourselves as in soms On top of reports from Saigonegative or positive, cannot be through their Ministers atPeking. the Peking Government will make it 5 next time."

sort instruments, and we have that the rice crop of Indo-agraved once for all upon tables instructed chairConsulathoughout allow newspaper reporter

The Liberals who China

come to recognise all possible attenil the Peace Conference, so

the bitter China is below normal the food of stuur,

I did not steal the $5 note,

injustice, both individual and - situation for the Philippines secured almost at the evat of a endeavours to further the suppress that the public may know the

bus picked it up. A thief pick- LOAN FROM TAIWAN BANK, social, of treating any human demands prompt and drastic revolution the modes: Reform sion of vandalism on the part of true euadditions

instruments in such a way sa to On receiving a report that Luced the complainant's pocket. The い 1882, action, according to officials. An Act

would have their citizens." effort will be made to secure the been more than surprise! and fortunately political con--rik: the Southern Admiral, the got the note and ran away. The Canton Government is render them for erat incapable largest acreage of corn

ditions in China soon nullified officially assumed the Fue was seen by a Police officer contracting another loan from of giving and doing less than ever the bulk of them, I fancy this excellent step, and in this planted in this islands in the hope). not a little seared, at the measure subsequent chaos the despoiling Kien Civil Governorship in Can-am chased. The thief dropped the Japanese Taiwan Bank, ac- the very best that they

the note → betwen that this quick maturing crop will which is this week making a of China's monuments and anti-tou, the troverament has undered

Sincere'a cording to the Canton Times. capable of giving and doing." and Wing On's I took it This time the amount is $1,900,008. furnish a rice substitute. Corn

That is why to-day the idea of comparatively smooth passage 'quities has progressed unchecked.hite to enquire into the trae is already Anding favour as anj

up and someone came up and the interest being 714%, giving a Health Ministry is on everyone's article of diet in certain parts of through the House of Lords. In the last years, says Mr. naval conditions in the South.

demanded it. I refused to hand the Canton Telephone System as lips. We have come at last to Lord John Russell, the most Andrews, "foreign collectors have Lai Yuan-hung wrote to the the islands.

it over. I arrived in the Colony security. This money will be recognise three things firstly, eminent of them, showed in his visited many remote corners of President on the 5th just asking

that the Peace Conference beWhere do you

on the 7th."-Mr. Melbourne: used to redeem the Bank of

that we have absolutely failed to dispatches News

reaching fold age signs of being shocked, the eighteen provinces on

live? China notes which are still the dicalism Manils during the past week in-st

៨ discount. The present great mass of our ill-health is has taken drastic action in the M. Glaone himself the must China's ancient civilisation has the responsibility of kuburator. master of trans-Pacific freight illustrion chief that our party assumed alarming proportions the Diplomatic Corps, the Earoo pocket has been foan was paid over to the Bureau infinitude of physical suffering worth of the notes is but 91, to preventible; and, lastly, that the Have you any money? According to information from pocket has been picked-

92% of the face value. Some great tragedy of ill health lies not. rates which have now been reduce has ever had, would not have The Chinese themselves

$500,000 of the million-dollar alone, or even chiefly, in that ed to $30 a ton for Japan and been a little seandalised us taken part in this work of spolist-pean Peace Conference will China ports and $25 for

of the late dag developments of ion. Last but not least, to the riscass matters concerning Kian Picked! Although the lefend- of Finance of the Canton Gov- towards which, with the carious Philippines. Action was taken. it is understood, after the Secret its activity. myself, if I may damage done by man has been clow, the three Eastern Previure fut was in tears. Mr. Melbourne ernment last Friday. Aside from stoicism of our race, we minin ary of Commerce, Mr. Redfield. moment be a little egotistic, added that due to the unchecked and Mongolia. The astronomical forgot to stretch out his hands the loan, the focal merchants tained at indifference

to the Poor Box, but instead gave have organised a trust company had interested himself in the who have been for nearly ten operations of nature: the decay instruments seized by Germany weeks.

of the ancient and neglected will be returned to China:

A very interest-$2,000,009 to guarantee the Bank puritanical in instinct, bai even more in the dulling and orippling situation. The reduction in rate years by the frie choice

of China notes. buildings has proceeded apace.

ing story. Will make nice will be welcomed by importers of of its members its leader In Peking. The Temple of

of our powers of thought" and table talk. the Orient especially since the have had a band during that Heaven, with its golden dome

action; that is interferes, in fact, "On my second visit, in 1916, assurance is given by the Ship time in the disestablishment of a glowing like a great ball of fre after an absence of four years, I

with our concaption of freedom, ping Board that there will be church, the enactment of Home above the purple tiles of its alop- was appalled at the signs of decay

"And all the earth sought to

and so it has touched us at last plenty of ships furnished for the Rule and the clipping of the ing roof, the white marble altar The ancient temple of gray wood, Solomon to hear his wisdom, Two Chinese clerks from the in 3 granitive spot. Nationally Pacific trade.

wings of the House of Lords, open to the sky, made sacred by with faded

magnificent which God had put in his heart. Post Office, one of them being we are awake and we shall act most columns, yellow, blue, and green,]. And when the Queen of a member of the Police But how? The inter-island steamer Quan. That would have been regarded the worship of China's tice of the US. Shipping Board, by some of our Liberal forefathers illustrious emperors, the beautiful was full of cracks and rifts. It Shebs heard of the fame of Solo-Reserve, had so little respect for Everything may depend on the p'ai lou, and the marble walks was already leaning and seemed mon she came to prove him with the Police uniforma as to assault wisdom we show during the next pretty revolutionary belong to China's posterity as about to fall. In place of a behart Company, which was wrecked in record, And yet I have no doubt records of her ancient glories.autiful pai lou which formerly

questions. She

Are we going to came au Indian Coustable and rend few months. the typhoon of Christmas Day off that in the secret-perhaps not But such rare treasures need care faced the stupa, lay a heap of Jerusalem with a very asunder the sacred garments use the experience garnered dur Tables Island with a loss of 21 the secret-judgment of our more to protect them from the ravages plaster, stone, and yellow tile. It t

train, and when the which covered him. Mr.ling these last terrible years?

saidi the lives, is a total loss, having been ardent spirits. I am beginning to of time and westher..

constable's Are we going to achieve is a very, very old temple but with Queen of Shebs had seen all King pounded to pieces on the rocks. be looked upon as what our Am-] "When I visited the Temple a little care could still be made Solomon's wisdom, she said to tunic was torn in Jubilee Street, a Ministry of Health based on ons The vessel was formerly the Ger erican friends call a 'back num of Heaven less than two years, to stand for years."

the King. It was a true report but Mr. Goldring, for the clean, clear, simple conception man steamer Lyeemoon, seized in

The numerous fine photographs that I heard in mine own land of defence, said it was torn in (as every successful, undertaking ber or at any rate as disposed ago, I found its spacious court- Manila barbour at the declaration

to shiver on the of war. The body of Judge

brick yards choked with uncut grass with which Mr. Andrew sartiole is thy acts and of thy wisdom. Thy Cockburn Street. When, however, has been based since the beginn

and its beautiful walks and tile-illustrated include views of build-wisdom and prosperity exceedeth the constable pat thefing-of-time), whose business it Reyse, a leading Filipino Judge of the current upon which of the Court of First Instance for they are eager to launch away capped walls almost obscured ings whose aspect has long been the fame which I heard." This damaged coat on; in Court, it will be to watch, to suggest, to Mindanao and Sulu who lost his. Another factor is the Browing weeds. The tiny roots familiar to us of the Occident,

Two buttons had also inatters-which, in the closest life in the wreck, has been re- enormous and, indeed, incalcal were slowly but surely accom- from their frequent representation moming our local Solomon (Mr. was seen to have been torn in the advise, to control on all health

J. R. Wood), was visited in his middle. plishing their deadly work. The in books of travel, encyclopædias, covered and brought to Manila. able change in perspective, both marble slabs were stacked, the and schoolbooks, but the air of Court by the Chief Justice from come adrift. The dispute will touch with experts on the one Funeral services will be held domestic and international, which tiles broken.

hand, and with lay public opinion, and the walls dilapidation that invests them is Formosa, the Secretary to the be settled later in the day, on January 11.

the war itself has brought about, crambling the great round a novelty. They painfully re- Chief Justice of Formosa and the JAPAN BRITISHERS THANKED, and especially woman, on the and which though it leaves temple itself was filled with dust enforce such descriptions as the Japanese Consul General at The British Ambassador to other, will have both the know- Due to the new salary law

Liberal faith in and decay. In a very few decades following--

Hongkong, who came to hear of Japan, H.E. Sir Conynghan ledge and the power to suggest, which comes into effect on January

Although Greene, has addressed is con- to advice, to co-ordinate 1 for all employees of the Philip democratic government not only this almost sacred spot will pre- "The Hall of Classics is a Solomon's wisdom. pine Government in the classified unassailed but confirmed, vitally sent only a heap of ruins over group of temple-like buildings in Mr. Wood's Kingdom is small gratulatory, circular letter to all and list, under which rather extensive affect the proportion of things, one more page will have been Chinese classics is kept engraved unlicensed hawkers, ricksha pal-residing in that Empire, thanking administrative detail (since a grown with grass and weeds, and a large garden where the text of (his sceptre being swayed over the British ladies and gentlemen cumbering itself with endless salary reductions are made, a and brings within the dominion torn from the book of China's on

!

stone tables, There is a number of the American pro- of the possible, and even of the history.

wonderful p'ai lou, and in the lers, larceny mongers and har- the whole community for the Ministry which attempted to ad- fessors of the University of the actual, what only four years ago, "The "Fellow Temple." not far centre of a beautiful lake bourers of married women) biswis services and efforts during the minister itself all matters relat

war, and pointing out that there ing to health would require, not Philippines will probably resign. would have seemed to practial from Poking, is one of the most surrounded by a marble balus-dom is like gold and a multitude of were about six hundred men seven, but seven his seven Dean Wrentmore of the College men the stuff of which dreams sacred spots near the Capital trade stands a splendid temple, rubies and his lipa of knowledge available of military age, othe hotels to hold it !) but which will of Engineering who will suffer a

Here are buried the garments' of It is the Hall of Meditation," are a precious jewel. Our Kings than Government officials and reduction of 3,000 pesos, has are made,

holy Taali lams who came as but now is deserted and covered of Sheba were carefully emmin-British Indians, of which 217 went really view health matters from an ambassador from Tibet to with dust; dust is everywhere, ing the fountain of Mr. Wood's to the front, 308 registered sa will the big, the Imperial standpoint, it is understood, and a number of January 18, This was one of the Peking. It was the lama Panchan blown in from the Gobi desert wisdom and were seen fumbling ing to serve but were exempted which will make knowledge other Americans are preparing to largest German interests in the Bogdo from Tashi Lumpo, who by whirlwinds from the north, with a book through which he either as physically unfit or as in circle with the winds? de likewise. The only way out Philippines. The sale of the died of smallpox in 1870. The The fine desert Band of the dilemma is to retain the Oriente cigar factory which was ashes of his cremated corpse.were powdered thickly

is draws his inspiration when bis dispensable, and of the rest many Buch's Ministry, wisely guid instructors under contracts, a affected last week, was made to sent to that, but over his clothes stately throne and paneled screen,

went home on their own sccounted, would earn the andying mind is clouded. They should plan which members of the Board Walter E. Olsen and Company the artist emperor, Chleb and has dulled the colour of the take this book to Japan and the Chinese Lado ao Compete at gratitude of all the generations

Labour Corps, & most to come, of Regents

are hesitating to for a consideration of 2,350,000 Lung, erected stops in red-lacquered wood and golden Formosa. It will prevent innocent creditable record. employ. The salary law has pesos.

old Hindu style; a mausoleum ornaments. In other hails stand persons being sent to gnol in already operated to secure whole-

of marble, and gold. When I classical texts engraved on stone, | future.

DON'T FORGET, wale resignations of American

Following the discovery of visited it first, in 1912 a yellow but between the sacred tablets are officers in the Philippine Consta three trunks of opium worth robed priest showed me with piles of boards and benches. An bulary especially among those 200,000 pesos, Captain Arleguei sorrow in his exes, the atrocious atmosphere of neglect, decey, and who were granted leave to enter of the Customs Secret Bervice, destruction which had been inflict dilapidation resta on the Temple the United States Army for wax has arrested Anotonio Barretto ed on this, sacred monument in of Confucius. Not only is the The North China Daily Mad League of Nations. This wES and Song Heng, two Chinese, 1500. This was during the Boxer material dust of the Gobi desert says From an authoritative the first public appearance of against whom complaints will be Rebellion, when Japanese soldiers sprinkled over it, but something source we are informed that Viscount Grey since his retireme. Mr. Moffat, in charge of the filed by the City Fiscal. A wantonly knocked off the heads like mental dust as well, and one certain well known shipping ment from office in 1916. The affairs of the Alien Property separate complaint will be of states with the butts of their leaves it with a feeling of sadness interests have offered to furnish meeting was called under the joint Custodian in the Philippines, brought against Barretto who will rifles and damaged bas-reliefs, that China's most precious China with all the necessary suspices of the League of Nations announces that the business of be charged with offering a bribe but fortunately only a small part treasures of adom and beauty transport that is required to re- Society and the League of Free Behn, Meyer & Company will of 10,000 pesos to Captain of charvelous detail was gra jeft untended to perion from pariste the 1940 odd lenemy be disposed of at a public sale on árlegusi.

e destroyed for this act of rendalism, the earth.

subjects at prevent in Chian. Nations Association.

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GERMANS IN CHINA.

ASSAULTING" TRE POLICE,

ENTER VISCOUST GRET Viscount Grey addressed public meeting at the Centrad Hall, Westminster, recently, on President Wilson's policy of s

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