WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16, 1911.
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THE STRIKE RIOTS.
It is believed, added Mr Churchill, that all the transport workers have realised the advantages already secured and the folly of jeopardising them by further opposition.
Mr Churchill pointed out that the FIRING BY THE TROOPS.soldiers in Liverpool had not fired at the people but only at individual houses from which missiles had been thrown.
(Reuser's Service to the China Mail),
LONDON, Aug. 15.
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The newspapers are already discuss ing the prospects of a national railway strike.
GOVERNMENT CONFERENCE.
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Mr Asquith "presided at a conference The managers of the principal railway hold at Downing Stroot, at which Mr Companies met yesterday, and decided Lloyd George, Mr Sydney Burton and to fight rather than grant the men's others were present. The Conference Under considered the whole strike witnation demands without arbitration. the Board of Trade conciliation scheme, and heard the views of the representatives › the managers declare that if there are of the employers and he men. fanits in the working of the scheme they are easily remediablo.
MORE SKIRMISHES.
Several 'akirmishes occurred between the police and the strikers yesterday.
The military ware requisitioned, and the disturbances were quelled without mach difficulty.
INCENDIARISM.
Several fires, believed to be incendiary,
have occurred, the most serious being at the offices of the Shipping Federation, which were gutted.
During a renewal of the disorders
RAILWAYMEN'S THREAT.
The Amalgamated Society of Railway Servante has decided to order a strike throughout the whole country within 24 hours unless certain demands are granted.
DURBAR NOT BE CANCELLED.
Reuter is authorised to state that the idea of cancelling the Delhi, Durbar has has not been considered for one moment
HOME RULE REVIVED.
early this morning the military were BIG GOVERNMENT CAMPAIGN „again called out, and it is reported that
firing took place.
'A BAYONET CHARGE.
LATER.
It appears that the troops were called
out because the mob was wrecking.
(Reuter's Service to the China Mail.)
Lostos, Aug. 15...
A Liberal party organisation is being prepared to conduct a Home Rule campaign in the Autama.
The Master of Elibank has for sonie.
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AN ENGLISH PATRIOT.
ANONYMOUS GIFT OF £10,000.
Reuter's Service to the China Mail. )
LONDON, August 15.
An anonymous duner signing himself "Englishman: from Beyond the Seas" has offered Lord Haldane a sum of £10,000 as w gift to the nation for the purchase of a rifle rungo near one of the thickly populated districts in England. The donor emphasises the growing impulse of the Empire towards united action for purposes of defence. FRANOR AND GERMANY,
MOROCCAN NEGOTIATIONS
BESUMED.
THE CHINA MAIL.
NOTES ON WILD LIFE-
In Hongkong and South China.
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(Specially writtani for the Chita Mad by Rev. G. A. BUNBURY MAX-
"Amphibious Animals.
It may well he asked why animals in Appearance so nong akin`as snakes and frogs, ar lizards and nowts, should be separated into two classes The answer is that the life history of the second member of each pair is absolutely different from that of the first. The snake or the lizard is a make ora lizard from lia be- ginning to its death, whereas the adul frog or the adult newt began as a tab. There was a time when it had gills not its adult form it has lungs, not gills, and langs, and died if taken out of water; in can be drowned like any other animal that has lungs. This class therefore is called amphibious not because it can live either in land or water, but because each animal in different stages of its oxistence is able to live only in water or on land..
Among this class of animal differences of (Reuter's Service to the China Mail)fem are considerable. "Frogs and toads.
L
LONDON, Aug. 15
are tail-less; nowta" and salamanders hare
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which is transparent, is from time to time cast in a single plece in all, glands are developed which secrete a milky fisit
THE CANTON AFFAIR.
EXECUTION STORY UNTRUE.
(Wall Tax Yat Po's Servics.)
CANTON, Aug. 15.
which can be ejected when the animal is soder the influence of rage or fear; in all the root of the tongue is hinged to the front of the lower jaw, (is thus is turned right over when put out, and when at rest lics with the point directed down the The report that the prisoner arrested throat) lastly, in all, ribe are aither ped. in connection with the attempt on the mentary or entirely wanting, and the life of Admiral Li Chur has been execut-soimal is therefore obliged to swallow the
air which is to reach its lungs.. ed proves to be untrue.
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In reality the man who was bebeaded a soldier who had joined the
Newts
Of the three classos into which the
He is Rison Again, by Charles Morics. In Fancy's Mirror, by Violob 4. Simpson. The Indiscretions of a Lady's Maid, by
William Le Quar
A
Mysterious Lover, by Alice M. Diahl.
Lilamani, by Maud Divor
Dorrington Our Lady of the Leopards, by Albert When the Red Gods Call, by Beatrice
Grimshaw,
Long Bow and Broad Arrow, by Major W.
P. Drury,
Kenanly,
Thus Saith Mrs. Grundy, by Anneslay The Groen Mouse, by Robert W. Chambers. The Irresistable Husband, by Vincent Hazel Grafton, by Mary S. Crawford.
Brown. The Horseshoe, by Mrs Fred Reynolds. Life and Its Puppets, by Otto Rothfeld. The White Pescock, by D. H. Lawrence.
property. A crowd, hiding in the time past been getting ready to meet the Revolutionista, and when the execution amphibian animals are divided, one, the Tillers of the Soil, by J: E. Patterson. ivicinity of the Courts, threw bottles a; active campaign which will be waged was witnessed, rumours" got about that snake-like forms (Cascilia) soom to be absent | The Legacy, by Mary S. Watts.
the soldiers and injured several
Later the soldiers charged the mob with fixed bayonets, afterwards fring devoral volleys. The number of casual ties is unknown.
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Sixty-six arrests have been effected.
: General HacKinnon is present in
Liverpool:
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The Strike Committee has declared strike of all transpert workers, including railwaymen.
THE LONDON TROUBLE.
LLATER..
The Port of Lordon Authority has offered to re-instate the strikers provided they agree to being placed on probation
for half a year.
PRESS BUSY.
The papers are devoting pages to re
against Home Rule on the Unionst side.
It has now been arranged that the Liberal organisation will be placed under the auspices of Mr. Winston Churchill, the Master of Elibank and Mr. Robert Harcourt.
A small executive committee has been formed, of which Mr. Churchill is chair- mad, Mr. Robert Harcourt honorary secretary, and Mr. Wallace Carter salaried secretary.
the condemned man was Admiral Li's would-be assassin.
ADMIRAL LI'S ACCOUNT,
(Wah Tu Yat Po's Service.)
CANTON, Aug. 15. Admiral Li 'Ohun has scat a' letter to the Viceroy in reference to the attempt on his life. He says the man
employed in the tailer's shop opposite
from this district; the Salamandors and Newts have at most two or three repro sentatives, while the Frogs and Toads are very abundant,
Salamanders differ from Newts, whose hind lege are Bre-toet, by the possession of four toes only. The giant salamander is found in Japan and in Central China sa far South as Che-king, but appears to be unknown in the South. It is replaced here by the Newis, of which however the
Thurston.
The Ring of Pleasure, by Paul Creswick The Garden of Resurrection, by E. Temple The Street of To-day, by John Masefield. The Escape Agents, by O. J. Catalo
Hyno. The Jesuit, by Joseph Hucking.
Heath Hosken. The Muzzled Or, by Coralie Stanton and
Members of the Family, by Owen Wisker. The White Owl, by Kate Bom.
MANAGER: CHENG KAM MING late Head Dispensar, Government Civil Hospital). PRESCRIPTIONS ACCURATELY
· · DISPENSED."" PURE DRUGS.
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C. KAMMING & CO., LD Mr. Donald MacLean, who has been
species are few, one being found in Kwong- THE EDWARD DISPENSARY, associated with the Liberal Headquarters which the affair took place are not the other in the mountain streams of these notes who remember the ects in their new system of establishing concerned in the matter, neither are the Kwong-tung Province. Readers of federation areas throughout Great Bri. the shops in the neighbourhood. which they used to catch as boys in the CHEMISTS, DRUGGISTS, etc. tain, is the bonorary treasurer. Until Therefore none of these people should posds at home, are advised to loup a look- recently he was the principal official of be arrested; if they were the matter out for their tropical representatives, which 1. Molge palustris (7) Called by the Chin- the Free Trade Union. Mr Wallace would be on his conscience, especially are zare
u" (dog-fish) brought from Carter will also be on a strong literature as the folk in the tailor shop treated commities, of which Mr. J. M. Robertson him moet kindly when he went their ese "Kal will be the head. Some well-known for refuge. These people should be Kwong sai, and sold in the fish-shops of also should those who Canton as a delicacy; two dollars being rewarded, as
paid for a specimen weighing abouts pound. Liberal publicists will be associated shot any of the rebels. with this branch of the Organisation. The arrested and," says Admiral LA, Length, 10-12 ins; body, flattened; colour. It is expected thee a separate organies must be tried carefully and must be dark and light brows mottled; tail.com. pressed. Fore feet, "four toes; hind, five. tice will be formed for Scotland, acting asked where he comes from, to what Said not to be found in the West River cast
society he belongs, and how many men of the Shiu-hing Gorge. under the authority of the Scottish.
bers there are. The Admiral adds that whip, Mr. Galland.
To supplement the work of existing he shot someone during the affair, but Home Rule organisations it is un-whether it was a rebel or act be could not derstood that the organisations of the say. This had better be enquired into. League of Young Liberale, of which Mr Rancinan is chairman, and the Young Scots Society, of which Mr C.
(Wah Taz Yat Po's Service) E. Plice is chairman, comprising a
Peso, August 15. membership of 180,000, will also conduct
On the 13th inst. a memorial was an active campaign in the country. While the Conservative journals blame Limehouse" as having fomented the The Ulster Liberal Association are to received from the Viceroy of Canton in disorders, the Daily News warially send members of their body. to speaks reference to the attempt on the life of
porting any appearance of menace or uurest thoughout the country, which it is impossible to cable in detail, though It is significant that a number of
milwaymen, mostly of the goods de. partments, have come out at Manchester, Warrington and Sheffield.
Specimens of the head lines appearing Are as follows:-"Incendiarism by Mob; Army ander Arms for Liverpool; ' "Anarchy;""Rain or Sanity?"
laments"the brutal tactics of the police ⚫ of Liverpool.'
SEVEN VOLLEYS FIRED.
LATER. This morning a riot occurred in Great Romer Street, which is the dividing line between the Nationalists and the Orangemen.
throughout the United Kingdom,
NEWS REACHES PEKING.
2-Molge japanensis ("Hang Kau "- gully dog-fish) I have found this specics twice in the moantain streams of the Now Length, 4 ins; tail 3 ins. Back, dark Territory but it is ins from common. brown with a red line; belly, black with orange-red spot; tail, coth presed. Toes as in the above. The Chinese observe that ducks will not eat it; ita secretions probably affect them as a toad's 'the dog which tries to seize it.
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2. The ponch-tree frog ("To Shu Ka") colour, kef and brown; length, inch: mid not to grow bigger; head very powerful; skin rough.
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as Mr Redmond, Mr Dillon and other Nationalist members, are to take active part in the campaign, which will begin in about five weeks' time.
TO FIGHT THE MOVEMENT.
LATEIL
Regent with all speed, and be by telephone instructed, Prince Ching, ELE. Na Toug, the Mingster for Foreign Affairs, to go to the Palace and consult on the subject. This they did, the conference lasting a long time,
CRIMINAL SESSIONS.
3. The "Ng Ong," not I think known in No one who has red long in Hongkong only the pumbers but also the variety of District. Back, dark brown; belly, gros; the frogs which he has seen. In the Delta toos, padded but not wobbod; length, 5 the conditions are uncenally favourable inches. This species is much feared by the and it would almost seem a though each Chinese, and I could get only one men, a district had species peculiar to itself, a person of superior education, to touch it. Well as others more widely distributed To The last representative of this sub-order any reader of these notes who wishes to is the tood, well known probably to all residents in the upper roads at Hongkong. realize the variety of species. I would sugToads differ from frogs in the following gest this plan: get a small Chinese boy. give him a bottle with a big mouth, and promiss him a cent for one frog of each kind caught in a few hours be will return with overal kinds. Such a bottle one day produced, the following specimens from the neighbourhood of Kowloon City (Ido not know the scientific names).
It commenced by two policemen
The Unionists are actively preparing Seven cases ars down for trial at the Criminal Sessions which commence at the attempting to arrest a man who was quarreling with a woman. The neigh for an Autumn anti-Home Bale cam bour, who sided with the man,paign. The Unionist party organim Supreme Court on Friday. The list is s seriously injured the police and drove tion is joining with the Union Defence follows:-Ngo Tax Sau, offences quder the back the Reserves, whereupon the Longue for this purpose. Numerous Bankruptcy Ordinance; Lk Chiu, man Seven meetings will be held, and speakers sinughter; Wong Keng, administering Yorkshires were called out. vollage were fired over the heads of the from Ulster will actively participate, atupefying draga; Un Tau Wo, offering 1. The and editle frog ("Tin Kai " mob before the troops succeeded in both in England and Soctland.
driving the rioters to their homes.
Six soldiers and nine civilians have
been admitted to hospital in connection with the affair.
BLOODSHED.
LONDON, Aug 16.
HOME CRICKET.
SOME BIG WINS.
(Reuter's Service to the China Mail)
LONION, August 15. Matches commenced on the 14th Leicestershire't. Surrey (at Leicester)
A crowd of 8,000 men at Liverpool resuited as follows: attacked a prison van which was under
convoy of a detachment of the Harwin for Surrey by an innings and 31 runs. Somerset 7. Kent (at Taunton) win The latter fired on the crowd and used
Kent by an ionings and 225 raas. their sabres, twenty being wounded and one killel
Sussex . Hampshire (at Horsham) win for Sussex by seron wickets.
GLASGOW STRIKE ENDE
The strike st Glasgow has collapsed, and. the full tramway service is now running.
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toos less webbed, and there are no teeth in particulars, the body is more awollen, the Mixed with Clifford-Wilkinson's original and only genmins legs ehorter, the skin rough and warty; the the upper jaw. Our local representative of the family is used as medicine is bowol
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field chicken). Mottled Fight and dark brown; no lines on back. Those are the frogs commonly sold in the markets- Their grosk, is often hoard in Kowloon
Below is the result of the Angust the middle of February. as early as The Chinese boliare that these frogs handicap -
Net scr. Foop. Grom ser quall.
180 1684 are sometimes changed into
Canton hought A. Humphreys 1484
80 1818 "A gentleman in
F. Martin 1538 three froga one night. Next day they had Eggers 1280 320 1600 gone. But ister a quail returned to be Ch. Christiani... 1378220
1283 eaten."
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Ch. Gregoraan... 2. The edible water frog ("Ham Kai"), E Haasemana
P. Kanzo 1414 Colour, much as the above, but with green w
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290
100
40
1368 184 1538 1415
1843
1514
1485
1481 180 1407
1.364
P. W. Goldring. 107 100 1201 260
1044
J. Hooper 748 scratch,
of the Portland and Astatic Steamship tint on belly. The small frogs of this species J. R. Wood Company, as they arrive at Portland and are urgen; of the former brown.
3. The 'green shoup" ("Tsing Yeung," G. Friesland discharge their cargo, will be turned over. to Moners Frank Waterhouse and Co. Ino,, and that here after the stems will be operated by that Company in whatever trade they may elect
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280
844
260
612
roll not
pr bably a corruption for "Thing Yeak, Capt. Eberius green band) so called from the free streak Capt. Barrett down the centre of the back, Broth of this H. van Zuylan frog is used sa nu sperisat for children.
0. H. Gale* 637 320
TANSAN' it is most suitable for Invalids.
THE DRINK FOR SUMMER.
3. C. Kutchison C 180 Completed Price $4.80 per doz. bottles,
4. The oil frog Yan Kap"): the user. Biden 443 250
is given from the smoothness of the skin; only relied on English Alleys
Germany Allegs. bock, light gray/belly, dusky, sidas, dark grey; length 3-4 ina.","
5 The sand frog, (Bha si") body,
ANTISEPTIC LINIMENT. (Reuter's Service to the China Masl
is unquestionably the most suc
YUTS and bruises may be healed: to LONDON, August 15. Tocefál preparation that has ever been dark green, with light green line; the
About one third the ume required by Woolley and Megd have accepted the produced for bowel complaints. Diarrhoea,
The bottle troduced abo two out of the usual treatment by applying Chamber sto quickly cared by it. It can always be
cases such injuries to heal without mistura In the House of Commons Mr invitation of the M 0.0. to join the dysentery, coic and pains in the stomach ion of the skin, rough.
tion. This liviment also relieves soreness Winston Churchill announced that the English cricket team to be sent to depended upon even in the most severe the three species of tree frogs mentioned lain's Pain Balo. It in an antiseptic and of the tansoles and rheumatic pain. For Cale by all. Chernista and Btowel seper. situation in London has improved. All Australia, the latter's accence being and dangerous casos. In almost every below, and a tondan
had been saved by ib.foe-asle by all- Cheminta sad Starecoepers. sections of workers at the docks are subject to the approval of the clampal neighbourhood there is someone whose lle
anthorities, refsening, though not in full numbers.
Of Tree Frogs (Dendyobat da) there are at least thra kind:
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