The Liberals are evoking strong popular hostility to the proposed legislation, declaring that the Chinese will be slaves under the Ordinance. and urging the employment of white workmen, of whom they Acelare there is an ample supply.
It is anticipated that the debate on the immigration of Chinese to South Afrien will be of the most heated deserin'!>..
Altogether, the Session promises to be very lively.
Ist February, Both of the new warships, ordered by the Japanese Government from Messrs.
ers, Maxim and Company, and Messrs. Arnistrong and Company, have been commanded by the Japanese Government to be delivered within eighteen months.
the battleships are to he capable of firing eleven tons of metal within one minute, as compared with the most powerful British warships which are under tract to fire nine tons of metal per minute.
The Liverpool Chamber of Commerce as addressed to the Foreign Office a memorial on the subject of the effects of the Russian aggression in Manchuria The memorial states that the British interests in Manchuria are affected, especially in Newchwang, and the Government is petitioned to safeguard British interests there and throughout Manchuria.
2nd February, The British Government has intimated to certain large Japanese steamship lines that, in the event of war, their ships will not be permitted to sail under British ro. gister unless they are actually transferred to British owners.
Ningupare, Quid Bebruary, The new Japanese cruiser Nyssin arrived in Singapore this morning, The Kasuga is following.
The sensational yarn of an attempt to. blow up the Nyssin while lying in harbour ut Genoa, telegraphed to the Far Rust, was evolved from the penny-a-liner's brain, No such attempt was ever mad The voyage out has been quite 0 eventful.
The Nyssin proceeds outward tomorrow, Wednesday, morning.
London, srd February.
The Marquis of Lansdowne, speaking in the House of Lords, yesterday aiter-noon, stated that the idea that the Government had made a suggestion to the effect that one hundred thousand Asiatics should be imported into the Trans-yad was incorrect.
The proposal was to introduce ton thousand Chinese labourers as an experiment.
The leadership of the House of Commons, in the absence of the Premier, Mry Av d. Balfour, was shared yesterday by the Home Secretary, Mr. Akers Douglas, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Austen Chamberlain, Mr. Austen Chamberlain replied, on behalf of the Government, to the ious attacks of the Opposition.
Singapore, 4th February.
The Japanese cruisers Nisshin and Ticasuga have been delayed by rough sot in harbour here.
Goaling has been hindered; but the cruisers, it is hoped, will proceed to Hongkong on Friday.
London, ith February.
The opponents of Chinese labour are conducting an active campaign throughout Great Britain. They now include a very considerable number of Unionists. 1 The South African Blue Book, just published, includes a despatch ' from Viscount Milner dwelling upon the trade depression and the falling revenue in the Transvaal Colony. According to Lord Milner, unless the situation soon changes, fa great exodus of the white population is inevitable.
As a results of these visible facts the of Colonial opinion as t: rned most decisively in favour of the importation of Asiatic labour as the only possible way out of a serious situation.
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