The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1906-03-02
CHINA QUIET
rs A PSALM
AT LEAST THIS Is THE impress
SION THAT GENERAL CORBIN
WOULD GIVE.

According to Major General Corbin
former commander i'm chief OF the
American forces i'm the Philippines, the
boycott of American goods by the
Chinese is ended and there is no foun-
dation for the alarming rumors of i'm
pending trouble i'm China. He is a
through passenger on the $. S. Korea
for San Francisco, as he is to become
chief of staff of the army.
In the course of an interview here he
said: There is no foundation for the
alarming reports being sent out re-
garding the trouble in China. The
boycott of American goods caused
some concern, but the matter is rapid
ly adjusting itself. I do not know who
started the policy, but l can say with
certainty that it did not have the
! sympathy of the Chinese government.
It is now practically stopped. 1 am
! told by leading merchants of Hong
/ kong, Shanghai and Canton that things
are coming round and assuming their
normal conditions.
There is certainly dissatisfaction in
! China, but it is directed against all
! foreigners holding conc ssions from the
| government that do not pay taxes com
mensurate with the importance of the
grants given them. This feeling is
quite as intense against the German
and English concessionaries as against
the American. 1t is true beyond ques-
| ton that the Chinese feel that they
| should own and control their own fran
chises. Particularly, is this true to-
wards the railroads, which they are
very much in favor of but which they
wish to build themselves for their own
use and benefit.
There have been some outrages per-
petrated in the neighborhood of Can
ton, but those most competent to testi-
fy place the responsibility entirely up
on river pirates Army officers and
others who have been investigating and
getting at the facts in these matters
are my authorities for saying this.
Along the coast and on the river
at Canton there are half a million peo-
pie living i'm junks and boats and these
have about the same relation to law
and order as the ladrones did in the
Philippines They are bands of or
ganized robbers, making raids into the
interior and robbing, plundering and
numbering They kill and rob Chinese
much more than they do whites and
the Chinese government has put into
commission a number of small gun
boats to clean them out.
Il have made careful investigation
and l am prepared to say the Chinese
government is losing no effort to pro
tect the lives and property OF all for
eigners, especially Americans notwith'
standing that there is a feeling gen
orally of distrust and dislike towards
the missionaries
General Corbn also stated that
there was no chance of the United
States giving up the Philippines to
Japan or any other nation. He PAID
an official call on Acting Governor At
hnson yesterday.
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ria, March 10. He came here as the
representa- We of the Japanese Soldiers
Families Relief Association, and has
made general canvass of the islands
Mochizuki has collected about &c., 0C
among japanese laborers here and il
now seeing white people with a view
to collecting subscriptions, which it il
expected VIII considerably increase hi
total. The ten thousand secured from
Japs was largely in the form OF small
? contributions from plantation laborers
d He is meeting with much encourage
e ment and will probably add materially
to the sum already secured, before h
leaves.
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