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"A" Co. started well in the second half, but their opponents were a much improved team, and it was not long before Pagh narrowly missed scoring, just rolling the ball the wrong side of the post. "A" Co. next ran down and from a free k'ok placed the ball into the goal "without its touching anyone. The game con- tinned mostly in "H." Co.'s territory, but when they got away the four forwards were surpri- singly effective. They threw away, however, one splendid chance of taking the lead through failing to follow up. Their front rank was playing cleverly, while Smart and Edwards at full-back were strong and sure. Darkness was now coming on and the remaining time for play was only marked by a corner to "A" Co. After the regulation hour and a half the score still stood at one all, and the game will have to be replayed.
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men. He has already engaged several Japanese officers, and is consulting as to the engagement of more. A foreign trained army, or rather a Japaness-trained army, has been the one measure that has urged with most foros and greatest approval. In a few years in North China there will be a stronger army than China has ever had, which will be under Japanese guidance and ready to join with a Japanese army, as has never been possible bofore.
It is hardly likely that China will again make an attempt to drive out all foreigners, but she has not given up her warlike ambition and her If a China-Japan antipathy to foreigners. alliance should develope, China will more likely begin war where she can have the real co-opera- tion-nay leadership- of Japan. The natural direction of such an alliance will be against fu ture encroachments of Russia in Manchuria and At heart Japan would join with China Corea. against the high-handedness of the Catholic Missions and native converts, but it would be hard for the situation to become so bad as to force Japan to enter into a crusade against France or Christians.
for the lease of Port melee one of them kicked it through, equalising | "negotiations'
the contiguons the score. Half-time followed, with the game | Arthur, Talienwan, and
territories. Parliament and the country got one all.
| "roused" about it and there were clamorous ories to Lord Salisbury that while Russia was building a fabric of Empire in East Asia in the night watches British Ministers did noth- ing but look on and rub their eyes at each morning's addition to the fabric. So it came about that Lord Salisbury, in something of a panic, required a lease of Weihiwei to offset Russia's acquisitions on the opposite side of the Gulf of Pechili and Great Britain was gradually soothed into the belief that ber Ministers had done a very fine thing, had quite baulked Russia and bad spiked all the guns that Russia could ever mount on Port Arthur battlements. New, however, after four years, the truth is confessed, As a matter of fact the experts from the start refused to admit that Weibaiwei from a naval point of view could ever be of much use against Russia's system of defence on the Liaotung peninsula. Even at its narrowest point the entrance to the Gulf of Pechili is over 50 miles across and Weihaiwei
The Chinese now look for more advantare is nearly 100 miles from the entrance to the gulf. As a harbour and as a sort of base," from an alliance with Japan than Japan can might be of some use to Great Britain in a possibly guarantee. Nevertheless it is more and naval war in Chinese waters, but all the damage mora appirant that China is now leaning to a British fleet could do in these waters could Japan more thau to any other country. "Ja- most probably be done as easily from Hongkoug. pahese are pressing into Peking and becoming Without doubt the new move is of importanes. friendly with the Chinese as those from other The scheme, as we take it, is to introduce Wei- countries stand no chaucs of becoming. We haiwei to the commercial interests of the Farve already referred to the large Japanese School where all the instructors, some ten of East as the most desirable distributing or trans shipping centre for North China and them, receive no pay from the Chinese but are The carbine competition for February took Manchuria. The scheme therefore is a clever supported by the Japanese Government, or place on the Tai-Hang Rifle Range on Satur-stroke at both Japan and Russia. The Russian Japanese society. They might be termed day and Sunday. Sergt. J. D. Danby scored anthorities have been devoting huge sums of Japanese missionaries, as they depend for salary, money to the equipment of Dalny as a suitable not on China, but on their own people. The a win in the No. 1 Cup and also contributed the best score towards the No. 2 Cup. Gunner centre for the North China and Manchu: ia Police training school in Peking is likewise in C. G. Danby scored his first win on the No. 3 trade and recent accounts of the works com- Japanese hands. Prince Ching is as much in favour of using the Japanese as are Viceroys Cup, and Sergeants Danby and Plummer, pleted, or in course of completion there, show
that Russia is sparia; no expense and no effort Liu Kung-yi and Chang Chih-tang. The Corporal Libeaud and Gunner Danby each won spoons. A Spoon Competition at the disappear to establish Dalny in the premier position. matter of small pay is a great consideration.
The political advantage is the other. ing targets was held on Sunday, when Gunner Whether Weihsiwei, with its lat: start, cau now overtake the Russian port remains to be C. H. P. Hay returned the best score with five
seen, but its chances ought to be good enough hits out of seven shots, a very good performance.
to be worth speculating on. Its situation should Gunner Danby and Corporal Edwards each
be more favourable in respect of the North scored three hits.
China trade, although its position in respect of Manchuria is, of course, more doubtful. Clearly, however, it ought to compete seriously for the commercial spoils which may be expected from the future of China and Manchuria.
At the beginning of the match it looked odds on the non-favourites whose forwards were speedy and skillful; but they tired half way, while the H" Co. front men improved steadily and looked to suffer little by losing one of their number. Dobbs was as usual pro- H" Co. minent for them. At full back showed to considerable advantage. Neverthe- less, had "A" Co. the stamina of the other team they must have pulled through. HONGKONG VOLUNTEER CORPS.
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WEIHAIWEI.
The "form and body" of the various rumours that have been floating around the East about Weihaiwei is disclosed by the announcement just made by the British Government in Parlia ment. It is not true that Weihaiwei is to be abandoned, or receded to China, or handed over to Germany. It is only going to step down or to step up, which is it?-in rank as a British possession. It is to dof its armour, hand over its sword and begin a career as a commercial entity, pure and simple. The place which, as Lord Rosebery said the other day, was taken possession of by the British Government during a Whitsuntide recess of Parliament in order that that august [lody might be appeased when it came back from its holiday-appeased because of Russia's gobble of Port Arthur this place has been found vant- ing for the purposes and the destiny which alone it was designed to fulfil when "leased" to Great Britain by China. Finding it thus use- less for these original purposes it might be sup posed that the British Government would act on the principles that would hold in a private transaction of the kind, and hand the place back to China. This, however, is too ideal a morality for politics-for the politics of Bri- tish or any other states ven, so Great Bri- tain, seeing that it is useless as a naval out of it. port, decides to Modern statesmanship certainly seems to be based on principles that can accommodate themselves-accommodate themselves to any kind of a situation,
make money
Weihaiwei, it is perhaps unnecessary to remind a Far Eastern public, came into British bands during the scramble of 1898 in North China. It became British because Japan was barred from the legitimate spoils of her war with China. In the spring of 1898 Dr. Morrison, the Peking correspondent of the Times, was giving British Ministers a new shook day by day, wiring to his journal the progress of the Russian Minister to Peking's
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The move interests Japan in respect that it probably means the death of any scheme to open Kobe-or any other Japanese port. Japan might have caught some of the benefits of the great trans-Pacific trade wich is a certainty of the near future by opening one of her ports for trans-shipment and distribution purposes for North China and Manchuria, but two such promising competitors as Dalny and Weihaiwei must now put any Japanese port out of the running.-Kobe Herald.
CHINA, RUSSIA, AND JAPAN. We take the following remarks from a letter of the Peking correspondent of the N.-C. Daily
News :-
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The Russian Agreement concerning Man- churia still hangs fire. The Russian Govern ment is not urgent in the matter, being content with leaving things as they are or leaving them to the opportunities of the future. Chinese Plenipotentiaries, and especially Prince Ching, are also not keen to bring about a Convention for fear that their reputation will suffer. la this respect they are far different from the late Grand Secretary, Li Hung chang, who had the courage to do many unpleasant things in the face of the reviling of his country men. Certainly any delay will not turn out to the advantage of China or the Manchus. China has had all the help from Great Britian, Japan and the United States that she may ever expect in resisting any extravagant demands of Russia.
THE GUNTHER CASE.
We take the following from the Kobe Chroncile :-
Commenting upon the Günther case, the Japan Advertiser says:-"The accused was engaged in guarding the pr perty of his employers, and in that capacity, an emergency having arisen, and a virtual attack having been defend the property and himself is one which made upon him, the question of his right to would not even be raised in a Western Court." was conducted are, at least in English Courts, This is true, but the means by which the defence as a rule very closely considered, though we was acquitted who fired at and killed a burglar observe that in a case recently decided a man whom he saw break into his premises by the roof. It is a rule, however, that evən a burglar must not be shot unless the householder has rea- sonable ground for apprehending violence, and if the latter fired at and killed a man who was
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running away he would in all probability have to stand a trial for manslaughter. The real defect in the Japanese law is shown by consideration that if the defendant in this se had fired but had failed to hit any one, he could only have been proceeded against for discharg ing a revolver within a certain distance of a public road. That is to say, the Japanese law only takes count of accomplished facts. The ooolis who threatened Mr. Günther have not been proceeded against because he fired before they got near enough to strike him with the ugly weapons they carried. It is to be hoped that the Revised Penal Code now in the Dist will make the offering of menaces an offence second only to the commission of actual violence.
H. E. the Governor returned to Labuan from Jesselton on Sunday, the 19th, writes a corres pondent to the Singapore Free Press, bringing the welcome news of the voluntary surrender of twelve of the chief rebels. These were old adherents of Mat Salleh, who escaped from the fort at Tambunan after the death of their chief. Since that time they have kept Jesselton and Kudat in a continued state of excitement. The Viceroy Yuan Shikai has been granted Tls.policy of patrols and hustle has probably proved 6,000,000 year to train a new army of 1,000,000 too much for them.
Japan, the rival in the Far East of Russia, is showing equal foresight. She is succeeding in winning over a large number of the highest officials, and so is preparing for a future Alliance that will make the Yellow Race a Yellow Peril.
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