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WAR EASTERN PROBLEMS.

CRITICAL, CONDÍTION OF

CHINA.

THE ACTUAL SITAUTION.

THE HONGKONG

Now the central faers of the actual situation in the Far East are these

Registered and Farvel sila ar slosed 15 minutes earlier than the (1) That since the ablibationsime given balow unless other In the first of a series of articles of the Manchu dynasty thers has wise stated, and whore nails are tha Ti29, Mr. J. O. P. Bland/dean no effective Government in advertised to close at or before

China; that the small group of

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POST OFFICE.

TO-DAY'S SHARE QUOTATIONS.

FRIDAY, JULY 9. 1920

EXCHANGE.

{Opening Rate: closing Rate on Page il

THA NO.

OFFICIAL PRICES

SELLING.

1749.

Banks

TT!!! Demand

3/8

3/814

30 ds

3/33

E60

60 d/s

3/314

Marine Insurances.

#

3,95

INWARD MAILS.

July."

Cantons North China

395

IT Shanghai

Nom.

L160

TT Singapore..

157

195

TT Japan

139

Yangianos

1.

925

T/T ladis...

Nom, Na

A.

am. registared and parcel mails | There has probably never been predatory politicians and officials are closed at 5 pm, on the pre- EL.K. & S. Banta ka sa stime during the past Bre-and-protes to represent the ious day.

have Republic twenty years when the average Englishman has known of cared authority; that the provinces are less about the position of affairs mistuled and exploited by semi- independent Governors, each in

the Far East than he does command of his own military Japan-Per KWACHI M, 5thaios Jay. The cumulative results of

forces: that, in the absence of the war, the high cost of living, and the crowding anxieties of European politics have given him sufficient food for thought and left him little to spare for the

testinies of men in Barthast Asia. Nevertheless, I venture to say chal naverbas an “accurate sppreciation of the situation in the Far East been of greater importance to the British people than it is to-day, never has there been more need of a well-informed pablo opinion, to frame and direct policy. for the develop ment mad maintenance of our For trada in

region. looking to the future, if there be at a thing certain it is that Orea Britains hopes of financiK!" and economic restoration must

that

lie in a wide development of

July.

Australis

regular revenues from the prot Straits-Per TEXSHIN M.. 10th Far Easterns vinces, Peking continues to aver bankruptcy by means of new for- eign loans; and that, by miesos of such loans, Japan has acquired a position of ascendancy over the Peking Government and thus given cause for much internal [dissension and strife.

And Manila-Par CHANGSHA, 11th July. Japan-Fer KAISHO M. 11th B. K. Fires

July, Shanghai Japan-Per KAMO

M. 19th July. Saigon-Per AMAZONE, Pth

July.

t. 1 Demand, India ......

T/T San Fransisco) Telė

& New York./ FT Batavia.............................. 1882

8 30

ENTERTAINMENTS.

CORONET

TO-DAY from 11 a.m. to 4.45 p.m.

and

:

TO-NIGHT at 5,15 and 9.15 p.m. CONSTANCE TALMADGE

"A PAIR OF SILK STOCKINGS."

SMILING BILL PÀNSONS

BIRDS OF A FEATHER." PATHÉ'S BRIÐISH GAZETTE. "THE SILENT MYSTERY

Episode 3.

Nom.

Fire Insurancer.

China Fires

123

311

TT Marks

FT Francs

Skipping.

Demand, Paria

8412

BUYING.

4 m/s D/C

4/ D/F

3/104 3/105

6 m/s L/C

3/11

Douglasie HK Steamboats b. 24- s. A‡í Indos (Prof)

n.

(2) That there can be no hope of permanently preserving the in-Shanghai-Per SUNNING, 19th Indos (Def) I. R. . tegrity and independence of China

July.

Shelle

unless immediate stepa be taken Enrope (ria_Negapatam-Per Faries to estabilah and maintain at OLENTARA, 19th July, Feking a central Government Straits-Per AKITA M., 13th

July. invested with authority sufficient to enable it to collect adequate revenues from the provinces.

(3) That this central Govern- ment cannot be established by the

continued

Chinese themselves without for eign intervention. To make its ACTS938 markets for her mann-

establishment and Factores. It needs no powers of existence possible, the provincial ternation to predict that, with

armies of the Military Governors -ingreatly diminished resources. the nation cannot hope to be able(Tu-Chuns) must be finally dia- banded and the Tu-Chuas them-

a purchase the foreign food supelves replaced by Civil Governors dies required for the actual

directly responsible to Peking s palation of these islands unless

• an End means to pay for them task obviously beyond the re sources of the Chinese under present conditions.

ub the pr. fits of increased pro action and exports. If this be almitted, then the importante of

Chink, as the greatest potential

That no such repedial men- res are practicable unless and notil the Powers concerned land market in the world, becomes.

especially Japan) come to a de manifest

the And

present eritkal condition of China's infinite understanding and agree to ternal affairs and finances, the pursues common policy of read- justment and reconstruction based danger of disruption which can-

sincere desire to re- not much longer be averted upon a

establish the economic stability anless effective remedies are speedily applied, make it impera-China.

and political independence of tive that public opinion in this (5) That negotiations for the country should appreciate the

renewal of the Anglo-Japanese

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CALION, 10th July, 3 pm Shanghai and North China-Per

CHENAN, 10th July. 3p.m. Štraits, Bangkok, Calcutta, Aden,

Langs

Shanghai Loans S'hai Explorations! Rauba Tranehs

Dral Caspians

13

330

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Melbourna

30 d. Jan Francis)

co&New York/

4 m/s. Franca ... 9.40

| N. Engineerings

Lands, Hotel & Buildings.

Centrals

95 Demand. New York 723g

Ceylon, Mauritius, L. Mar Docks, Wharves, Godowas, &c. ques, India via Dhanushkodi, Durban, Cape Town, Santos.. Doaks Buenos Aires, Rio-de-Janeiro

S'hai Docks -Per SEATTLE M., 10th July. 3 p.m. Haibo & Straits-Per HUPEH,

10th July, 5 p.m. Formosa via Keelung, Shanghai North China, Japan via Nagasaki, Canada, United States, Central ¿z. S. -America and EUROPE VIA VICTORIA RC Per ARIZONA M. 10th July, Reg. 5 p.m. Letters 5 p..

SUNDAY, 11TH JULY,

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New York/London... 3.95%

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18

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TT Calcutta

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Demand, Mania

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fundamental facts of the situaAllianceld provide a good Swatow. Amoy and Formoss via Kung Tike

tion.

THE ANGLO-JAPANESE ALLIANCE

opportunity or coming to such an

aztament.

(6) That no satisfactory recon- struction of China is attainable by Another cogeït reason für the means of an international fanD.) vvival of imtelligent interest in¦cial Consortium unless the litter's be Far Eastern problem lies in organization and methods of pro- be fact that the time is at bandcedure are clearly precribed and for discussion of the renewal of suṭérvised under a comprehensive! The

alliance. agreement between the Powers Anglo-Japane Later on, in the course of the concerned. Unless its duties and articles, I shall have owcasion to responsibilities are definitely laid discuss the Japanese Gorezn. down, a financial, Cinsortium is ment's policy in China and th. bound to follow the line of least came which have recently cor-resistance, as in the past, in the tributed to make the renewal finitimate detriment of China. the alliance generally popular in Japan.

OBJECTIONS FORESEKN

Keeling Per KAIJO MLau Kong Mow ́D.

¡Orientals 11th July, 9am. Philippine Is-Por TAMING, S'hai Cottons

Tangiszepoos n. 1th July an.

Miscellaneous.

MONDAY, ETH JULY.

I

Japan via Kobe. Canada, United Cements

States. Central and South China Borneos America, & EUROPE VIA VIC Do. Light skie. TORIA-Per TYNDAREUS. | China-Providents b. 12th July. Reg. 9.45 m.Dairy Farme Lefters 10 30 a.m.

Electric H. K. £ Shanghai and North China-Per Electric Macae n.

SZECHUEN. 12ch July, Hongkong Ropes ». 3 p.m.

HL Tramways

b. 62 Peak Trama, old b. TUESDAY, 13TH JULY.

Do. да п. Amor, Shanghai & North China Sream Laundrien b.

Per STTYANG. 13th July-Steel Foundriss

a.r.

$ater-boats Swalow & BangYok-Pez NING.

Watsons PO. 13th July, 10 a.m.

Wm. Powell Straits, Bangkok, Ceylon. Magri-semans

tius. L Marques, S. Africa, India sid Ubashkodi. Egyp: & EUROPE VIA MAR-! SEILLES-Per KAMO 31.. 13th July. Reg. 9.45 a 0. || Letters 10.30 am. Swatow, Amoy & Foochox-Per HAICHING, 10th July. 1 p.

Hongkong. Juig 9, 1920,

TIDE TABLE.

5th to 11th July 1920,

Paoding the distant day of

fam well aware that some of League of Nations that shall all of these facts ajil he challeng- make all such covenants supered it quarters who upinions funus, both England and Japan amy na little weight, and parti have evidently much to gain colars the United States. the maintenance of an Alliance Thes will had puted, nodoubt, which, tant bleu que mal, bes by many

missionaries: Mood the test of critical times and teachers in China who.i -But no good purpose will be servflecause of their ower; implicit ed. when approaching the quest faith in the marc virtue of ion of its recewal in sharing our democracy, as a perfec" system of Eyes to the fact that a good gumment applicable. All many things have been done in rate ave become, so tomak, China, by the Japanest Govern the spiritual gulfathers of Young ment or its agents during the China and believe, against the past six years, which can by no weight of cumulativ • exilence. means be reconciled with either in the regenerating virtpe of the the spirit or the letter of the student movement. The will existing Treaty of Alliance. The be disputed also in influential main purpose of that pact was financial circles, because it is in „protect and preserve the integrity the nature of financiers to ignore f China as an independent State the cloud and see only the silver and to maintain therein the lining. Finally, they will be principle of the "apen dear" for vociferously denied by the vera- the commerce of all nations on alar footing of equal opportunity-Chin Any renewal of the Alliance because the idea of any kind which fails to emphasize and of effective financial control July 93. 12h 25m.-Nɔ zavina safeguard this principle, and to and of a strongly centralized from Japanese stations. Pressure Sat, 10 m 3 6 10 insist upon its equitable applica-{government, is just as distasteful changes are slight; the trough tion, would be not only useless to the present generation of of low pressure remains practi- from the British point of view. Chinese students and journalists eally stationary. but a certain source of trouble in as it was to their predecessors, Hongkong Rainfall for the 24 the men who rose to plata-and hour ending at 10 a.m. to-day.

the future.

Press which Young frspices and controls.

WEDNESDAY, 14TH FUL. Formosa vis Keelung, Shanghai, North China, Japan via Nagasaki. Honolulu, Canada. United States. Central and¦ South America & EUROPE VIA SAN FRANCISCO-Per! KOREA MARE, 14th July. Mob. Reg. 9.45 am. Letters 19.30

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WEATHER REPORT. Tườà m

District

In Asia, 1 in Europe, there power during the welter of sordid 0.03 inch. Total since January have been great changes since conspiracies which began in 1911. 1st. 50.24 inches, against a 1914. Strategically speaking and who have since displayedjevenge of 42.57 inches.

any things in the future must corruption and inefficiency far FORECAST FOR THE 14 HOURS depend upon the type of State surpassing the worst records of ESCING AT NOON TO-MORROW, which shall eventually emerge the mandarinate under the From the melting pot in Russia Monarchy. Nevertheless, the A. complete return to the sfulus facts, as above stated, are true, quo ante in China is clearly and their truth is recognized in impossible, for reasons which Chins, not only by the great will be explained in due course, majority of disinterested Eur-

· far 8.3 Great opean observers of the situation, British is concerned, the fund-but by a considerable proportion amental object of the of thinking men among the Anglo-Japanese Alliance remaja Chineze, sober minded officials, unchanged, and it should be our honest nebolsra, and patriotic definite sim to make it, when remerchants.

But

newed, an effective instrument

JEWISH MISSION COMING.

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A Jewish Mission has left Erg. Ciscussion of this question with a very clear perception of the land to Australasia, India, and ilus of China's potential trade the Far East, with the object of explaining to all Jewish com- band undeveloped resources, and

of the importance of Chinese munities the nignificance of the Peace Conference's decision con-

cheap labour as a factor in the cerning Palestine. economie Warfare of the fature.

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