October 28, 1896.7
The resolution was carried.
CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
with which the deeds were perfo addition to the narration of military have at the end several chapters on such as the Japan Steamship Company, the Bank of Japan, and the Red Cross, and in appendices are given the text of the treaty of peace, the Japanese text of the war songs, and other matters connected with the war. The work is profusely illustrated, portraits being nu- merous..
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ties to take e action (Applause). I was very Hollond in the discharge of their duties and those gratified hear from the President that the of all their subordinates. I have read with much League has taken up the question of the pleasure the address which our President re- defence of the colony on naval lines. It seems ferred to by Lord Charles Beresford before the to me that there are two weak points of the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce. I think the first magnitude in this colony-the Chinese spirit of it, sir, is most admirable. There is no territory on the north side of our harbour unkindly feeling expressed at all; all is modest and the south shores of the island itself, which, and gentle and careful. There are points of the public know, are at present absolutely weakness to which Captain Anderson has re- undefended. I do not know that it is neces- ferred and some which Lord Charles Beresford hold of and which cannot sary to say very much more on the matter. I has taken
too have a lively recollection of what took place be strongly and deeply impressed Monsieur Paulot. By HUBERT E. H. JERNING- upon the public mind. He says that we are daring the last Russian scare.
Author of "Reminiscences of an Attaché" and "Diane'de Bretenille. Lon- from home came one day and were counter sixteen thousand men short of our actual re-
don: J. Fisher Unwin. manded the next and the Commodore's quirements and, including ships which are hands were bound by red tape. It is to building, we are no less than 27,500 men short THE latest addition to the popular Century Li- be hoped that the influence of the Navy League of our actual requirements, and whereas in the brary is interesting not only for the tale itself in the future will prevent the recurrence old times fishermen could be made into sailors but for the clear cut picture it gives of French. of idch a blunder. (Applause.) I have been in twelve months or two years, now it takes life in the provinces. It is a tale of the simple- very much gratified myself by the words which five to seven years to make a steam man-of-hearted devotion of a plain man, and the contrast have fallen from our worthy President. (Ap-warsman, and therefore urgency must be marked drawn between M. Paulot and Count Amédée plause.)
in all matters connected with the manning of is very effective. Mr. Jerningham's readers the British Navy. He says in one line-" Wė will also derive a little information as to the ows our riches and our strength as an Empire working of the French law of inheritance in to our enterprising merchants and our mer- certain directions, but perhaps the majority will cantile marine, and this should be defended by consider that portion of the book & trifle tedious. the Navy. What we wanted was British ses- men on both fleets.”
That is all he says upon that important point which has been brought so prominently forward in the Australian colonies and other parts of the world-the
▲ question of employing wholly British seamen on board the mercantile marine. He says we want British seamen on both fleets, and the question arises whether in the face of that £50,000 by which the services of the mercantile marine are subsidised in time of war, there should be some discrimination in the bounties which are granted for the employment of wholly British sea- men; but in order that he may not cause any offence he says in the same breath that restriótions are most injurious to com. merce and therefore we must avoid restric- tions unless we can put the same restrictions upon foreigners simultaneously. I think there he is very right and good. I can only hope that the words of the Right Hon. Joseph Chamberlain will be fulfilled, that the British Empire in its gradual and sure extension will become a more potent factor for the promotion of the world of the peace and civilization
world than Empire the
has ever known, and I think the Navy League, Mr. President, will help towards that blessed con- summation. (Applause).
The CHAIEMAN-The next business is to elect a Committee. I regret the absence of our hon. Secretary today. He is serving his coun- try in another place. Mr. Mitchell desires to relinquish his duties and I am sure the Branch is very much indebted to him for what he has done for us. The Hon. Mr. Pollock has kindly consented to take over the duties of the secretary ship should be he elected a member of the Com- mittee. (Applause) The present members of the Committes are-Captain Hastings, Captain Tillett, Messrs. J. J. Francis, Q.C., A. M. Marshall G. Stewart, E. Osborne, E. W. Mitobell, R. Cooke, and A. Coxon.
Mr. RITCHIE proposed the re-election of the Committee, with the addition of Mr. Pollock.
Mr. EDI seconded. Carried.
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The CHAIRMAN-I beg to thank you for your attendance. That is all the business
Mr. FORBES proposed a vote of thanks to the Chairman, which was unanimously carried, and the proceedings concluded.
REVIEWS.
Heroic Japan: A History of the War between China and Japan. By F. WARRINGTON EASTLAKE, Ph.D., and YAMADA YOSHI- AKI, LL.B., Principal of the Chautauquan Association of Japan. Kelly and Walsh, Ld., Yokohama, Shanghai, Hongkong, and Singapore.
Mr. SHARP-I think, Mr. President, as we are here to-night and have lost the oppor- tunity for our walk which we should have enjoyed to take-in fact, I think it was & great mistake appointing five o'clock for our meeting, as it excludes a large number of people from attending-but as we are here I think we may say a little in encourage. ment of this institution which we have joined and of those who are connected with the British Navy. I feel a strong timidity in touching upon home politics. It is a matter we have byen so little connected with that it seems to be rather strange and unfamiliar. This is really a bona fide political meeting and it is almost unprecedented in Hongkong. We are so busy, so pressed. I suppose there is not a mian at this meeting and there are not half a dozen in Queen's Road who, during six months of the year, are not really pressed almost beyond measure, and we have so little time to think of home matters and naval and military matters, and if they were not brought prominently before us by the presence of their representatives in Hongkong they would almost be forgotten. I confess myself that on Tuesday last when I sat down to breakfast and saw the last two numbers of the Navy League Journal lying upon the table which had not been opened I thought to myself, Dear me! Do we really want Navy League in Hongkong? Have we not enough to attend to without it? There is the meeting this afternoon." I took up those two magazines, opened them, and I read them through, and my feelings and my heart were changed altogether. I do not think there is anything which brings us into closer sympathy and oneness of heart with our home land than the reading of the contents of these monthly magazines. I believe there is no place in the world, no port in the world, where naval and military men are more cordially received than they are here, and I feel that it is our duty, and it should be one of the effects of this Society, to strengthen the hearts of those men who come out here to fight Britain's battles should the necessity arize. (Applause.) Ever since the days of Jardine, Matheson & Co., and Dent & Co., when each rivalled the other in keeping open house in princely fashion for the army, and navy, down to the present time,
has been that generous hospitality and The primary object of the book is to give a feeling for our naval and military collection of individual deeds of hero'sm dur- 1. and I am sure we shall do good and ing the war. These have been divided into have done good if we can encourage the groups, each preceded by a description of the heart of our Admiral Buller and our Commədore | battle or particular operation in connection
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THE compilation of this volume, we are told in the preface, has been an undertaking of great magnitude. The authors have aimed at absolute accuracy; every word in the book has been thoroughly and repeatedly revised by the autho- rities concerned, and several chapters have thus been written and re-written six and even more times. We are told, too, that the antbors are "fully aware of the defects in a work of this kind." The defect that strikes us most strongly is the absence of literary skill. Heroic deeds should be told in heroic language; let the language be as simple as you please, exact and unexaggerated, and yet the skilful author will so frame the narrative as to inspire in the reader an enthusiasm in some measure commensurate with the heroism of the act narrated. There is little of that in the book before us. What form the narratives may bear in the original Japanese we do not know, but in the translation they fail almost entirely to touch the imagination of the reader.
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Twenty Lessons on the Development of the voice for Singers, Speakers, and Teachers, By GEORGE THORF. London: Robert Cocks - & Co. !
VERY useful little mannal, with exercises for developing the various organs employed in producing vocal sounds, and explanations of the functions of each of these organs. Mr. Thorp is evidently at home with his subject and has a facility for imparting bts knowledge and making the subject plain. The lessons, we are. told, are not written to take the place of an instructor, but to demonstrate, to the student that there are resonators and resonance cham- bers in the body which must be developed or made use of before the voice has its fullest natural power."
ILLEGAL ARREST BY THE CHINESE LGATION,
The following Reuter's telegrams have been received:-
LONDON, 23rd October. A sensation has been caused in London by s Chinese doctor called San Yat Yen, who it is stated has been concerned in a conspiracy in Canton to overthrow the dynasty. It appears that he has been imprisoned since the 11th in- stant in the Chinese Legation in London. It is reported that he was inveigled thither by the Chinese and that he has managed to secretly in- form his friends of his detention.. Detectives are watching the Legation day and night to pre- vent his clandestine removal to China.
LONDON, 23rd October.
Lord Salisbury in a sharp note demanded the immediate release of Dr. San Yat Yen, whose real name is Sun Wen. In the afternoon an official of the Chinese Legation handed Dr. Sun Wen over to the Foreign Office, reserving the question of diplomatic rights.
[Dr. San Yat Yen was born in Honolulu. His family belongs to the Heungshan district, near Macao. He returned to China at an early age and received the first part of his medical education at Dr. Kerr's Hospital, Can-- ton, and afterwards came to Hongkong and studied at the Hongkong College of Medicine. He then, went to Tienstin and while there ad- dressed a long letter to Li Hung-chang on the necessity of reform. After this he returned to Macao, where he opened a shop for the sale of foreign drugs, and then went to Canton and established himself in practice as a doctor. He was there at the time of the abortive attempt at rebellion in October, 1895, in connection with which six hundred coolies went from Hongkong to Canton. After this he came down to Hong- kong and remained bere about ten days Some months ago he was reported to be in New York.]
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