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NEW SOLICITOR

-ADMITTEDA

Mr. C. ELLISON.

HANTUNG AND SIBERIA,

THE HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH.

real

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way being recovered and run by,{ the Chinese Governïment, there will be great facility in establish- THE JAPANESE VIEWPOINT.Jing connection with the Peking Hankow railway and the Shan Confmenting on the report that tung railway. Furthermore, in view of the fact that the northern Prior to the opening of the the Shantung problem has been section of the Tientsin-Pukow Cachminal sessions, this morning, decided agreeably to Japan's The Attorney General (the Hon. alaim, the Kotzmin (the Militarist railway, when under German Mr. H. E Pollock, K. C) mored Bureaucratic organ) says that itmanagement, really served as a for the admission of Mr.. Cecil is premature for the Government supply line to the Shantung rail- Hines Lyson to practice as a to boast of success. The details way, and also in view of the object with which the Shantung solicitor in the Courts of the are not yet known. Even suppos- Colony. In doing so, the Attorneying that the Japanese claim has railway is to be placed under the General said he was going to been adopted in its entirety, it is joint conduct of China and Japan, move that Mr. Lyson, a duly nothing but a termination which it is essential that theGovernment qualified solicitor of the Supreme was expected as fast and proper should be firmly resolved to give Court of England, might be from the beginning It cannot be overthe railway tonove but Chins. Anyhow, continues the Koku- approved, admitted and en-regarded as a surprising stroke of rolled as a solicitor to this diplomatic success. . On the con-min, the Shantung problem has beez settled for the present, and honourable Court, in

Legal trary, if the Japanese peace de the mind of the nation, which practice. His Lordship would legates had managed the matter

from the affidavit filed properly at the time when the was in much tension, seems to by Mr. Lyson that the latter left trouble broke out, it might have have been relieved in some de Hongkong for England in 1911 been easily settled without cans-ree; also the Foreign Office for the purpose of serving his ing so much complication and so authorities appear to be feeling a But articles and was duly articled to much anxiety to the nation. Be-little revived. Nor may this be Messra Gibson and Weldon of sides, this is not a real solution of altogether unwarrantable. London. Afr. Lyson passed the the matter, for, in the opinion of the Shantung problem really was not a problem. Shantung hasi contemporary, the solicitor's final examination in our

been taken at the cost of our March, 1917, and was admitted solution of the problem depends blood. the Kakumin proceeds, on May 1, 1917, and his certi-on, the negotiations

and by our arins. We have only ficate of admission had been de China and Japan hereafter. The formally made ours what really posited with the Registrar of the question of when Kiaochau is to

was ours." It will never do "for Hongkong Court together with be restored to China is not de-

us to run away with an excessive affidavits duly proving identity. finitely fixed, but it is to be re-joy over the matter." At the outbreak of war. Mr. stored immediately the conces-IBERIA NECESSARY FOR JAPAN. Lyson obtained leave from the sions are duly transferred by

Turning to Siberia, the Kokumin Incorporated Law Society to Germany, and the details and

continues: In the too great sarved with His Majesty's armies conditions of retrocession settled. preoccupation in what is going and on September 1.,1914, he The first condition is to be the on in Paris, the nation seems to joined the University of London opening of Tsingtan as a com-be off its guard over what may Officers Training Corps and onmercial port. but, in order to happen at its feet. What does June 22 be received a commission sure

of this the nation mean to do with the in the R.A.0.C. He was after condition, it is necessary for Siberian issue? As

a problem wards given special leave to sit Japan to insist on the second con-affecting the living of the nation for his examination. He rejoined dition, namely, the establishment and as a problem of national his Corps in due course, serving of an exclusive Japanese sertle-!

preservation, the Siberian problem with it until demobilisation which

ment in such locality of Tsingtauis exceedingly grave and im- in his case took place soon after.

designated by portant. We have asserted over herself and It might be mentioned that Mr.

that it should and over again that an army of Lyson was still on the reserve include the Three fortified 79,000 men has been sent to list of officers. Mr. Lyson hills at the back of Tsingtau, Siberis and several thousand returned to the Colony on April because not to retain them in lives have been lost and several

and 1. 1919,

technic-Japanese. Wes

'control, world

bunded millions of yễn spent ally not entitled to practice tantamount to authorising China by way of military expenses, and until.. after four months to make a naval port of Tsingtau. what has been gained as a result 2 residence, as was required by the It appears that British, France. Submitting and yielding in every Ordinance, but as His Lordship and the United States were instance, the Government is now would see from the papers before unjustifiably apprehensive that at a loss to know what to do. It bim of the Law Society that no this would facilitate the military. is impossible for US 10 objection was raised in the matter arrangements which Japan might look on such diplomatic failure of Mr. Lyson's immediate think fit to make there. The without comment. The authori- proposed construction of an ex-ties are trying to keep the truth His Lordship They practical-tended railway, between Tsinan- of the matter secret from the ly support him?

fu and Shunteh, and between nation; and the nation, knowing Kaomi and Hauchow, also seems the fact, is as unconcerned as to have aroused the suspicion of about a fire on the other side of a the Powers that the scheme river. We are angry with both is formed chiefly with a view of them. The Shantung problem to the convenience of military

may be important; but the operations, because Japan pro-Siberian problem is by far more poses to lay the railway on the

important still. How can the lines previously fixed by Ger-nation do without knowing what many when the place was in her direction they are to move in the control. But in order to make matter?" full use of the Shantung railway for the economic development of Tsingtau, it is necessary that

admittance..

The Attorney General: Yes, my Lord.

His Lordship, after referring to the fact that the applicant had qualified himself not only in his profession but in patriotiam said. he had much pleasure in granting the application and trusted that Mr. Lyson's career in Hongkong would be as satisfactory as his past record..

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CENTURY-OLD MINE FIRE. railways should be constructed An accident occurred recently in the shape of a cross with a Maxwell Colliery, six miles Kaomi at its centre. "Other im-from Girvan, resulting in the portant questions connected with death of two miners. The night The need for national town. the disposal of Shantung relate before.fumes from a disused mine planning as opposed to local to the abolition of the civil ad-close by, which took fire nearly a planning was emphasised by Mr. ministration and the disposal of century ago, were left by the Ebenezer Howard, the founder of the northern section of the Tient- Maxwell pit miners, and work the Garden Cities and Town | sin-Pukow railway. Planning Association, in an in- terview with the Daily News. "My view is," he said, "that we ought to develop and distribute the railway is still under in- mine is known as "the burning The question of the disposal of by the fumes. The site of the old our towns on a planetary system, vestigation in connection with bills which send up jets of steam under which smaller towns would the problem of the disposal of be grouped around the larger Germen properties, and it is un-

and kill all vegetation." centres in systematic order, each

certain how it will be settled. encircled by a belt of country. Should it perchance be placed. each with its own housing accom-under international management, modation at a convenient dis- tance from places of employment, management in connection with Reservoirs on May 1, 1919.

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of such a conversion. It is the larger industrial and shipping it has so far carried on diplo centres that present the higmatic affairs, it is impossible to problem, which, I consider, can feel reassured. Seeing that the best be solved by the creation of southern section of the Tientsin- new outlying, towns, These would ralieve existing towns of Pukow railway is under British reas Pugh c industrial and social overcrowd. management, it, is not difficult to To ing, and give them space to town-imagine that Britain may desire EMPLEOREE

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