SATURDAY, JANUARY 20, 1912.
THE CHINA MAIL.
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FIGHTING IN TRIPOLI.
DETERMINED TURKISH ATTACKS REPULSED,
HEAVY LOSSES.
(Router's Servics, to the China Mail.)
LONTON, Jan. 20.
Severe fighting took place at Derna "yesterly,
The Turks stincked the Italians, who were repairing the aqueduct. They had taken up positions behind the Iulian walls despite searchlights and watch dogs, and they also occupied the neighbouring heights.
The Italians brought up mountain
Artillery which proved most effective and the Turkish fort was carried by assult. The Tarks were dislodged after four hours fighting.
These thousand Turks and Arabs -retreated after a seven hours' engage mant. They left over mo" hundred dead on the field and also arms, ammunition and grenädes.
Few Italians were killed.
LATER. Another Gerce all-day battle took place at Prepoli 'yesterday. The Italian casualties wore fifty...
The Turkish losses were reported to
be beavy,
The Turks attack the Italians, who were erecting two forts at Cargarso,
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FRENCH IN MOROCCO.
COST OF THE PROTECTORATE
[COFTMORT.]
FRENCH AVIATOR'
KILLED.
“After reading
one
| holp but exclaiming. “God mve Ireland.”,
YOU
ARE INVITED
Goetha did with the words "More ag
light upon his lipa Alexraed Judge TO SUBSCRIBE TO OUR
who dispense law and uquity within the Colony of Hongkong evidently joins issue
(Reuter's Service to the China Mail.) (ester's Service to the China Mask) with the Sege of Walmar, for he complain CIRCULATING
LONDON, Jan. 19.
Router's Paris correspondent states
that M. Poincare, the Premier, address ing the Senate, committes as the Franco-German agreement, mid that with the establishment of a protectorate the estimated expenditure in connection
in Morocco in 1012 would be 31 millions sterling. The army of occupation |numbered: 38,000, but this would be reduced with the creation of a Moorish" army, with French officers.
SOCIALISM IN GERMANY.
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(euler's Service to the China Mail.)
London, Jan. 19.
that the Government's attempt to or Reiter's corespondent at Darlin atates
ganise n biec of non-Socialist parties ballets has been shattered by the refusal against the Socialists on the second
of the Liberals and Radicals to enter the combination. The prospects of the Socialists are consequently improved.
CRICKET IN AUSTRALIA.
M.C.C.. BALLARAT XV.
(Renter's Service to the China Mail)
LONDON, Jan. 19.
"The English cricketers have com-
LONDON, Jan. 10, The French aristor Lieutenant
of the strong north light which pozvades his Court. Evidently his Honour thinky that the Herce light which beats upon a
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LONDON WELCOME TO
THRIR MAJESTIES.
Reuter's Service to the China Mail.)
LONDON, Jan. 19.
The "Corporation of Londoa has decided to invite Their Majesties to a luncheon st the Guildhall on their return from the Durbar.
TURKISH CHAMBER
DISSOLVED.
Reuter's Service to the China Mail)
LONDON, Jan. 19.
Chamber.
The Salman has dissolved the Turkish
WEDDING AT ST. ANDREWS.
A quiet wedding was solemnized Att. Andrew's Church, Kowloon, this morting whn Miss Mary Stuart Backwell as macried to Mr, harles William Jeffries The Ker. H. O. Spink, B.A., conducted the service. Mr. C. Fittock giring the bride away. 'Mr. H. Munay Bain was bost men'. Blackburn-ith when the bride had bron After the ceremony Mr and Mrs L. J.
c quced unpatch against a Ballarat fifteen.staying since her arrival from South frien
The Italiana, repulsed the Turks, hut The weather was pleasant, the attendance were themselves compelled to with;
muderate and the wicket good. Ballarat draw at nightfall us the defences were second 291 for 9 wickets, Edmund incompleted.
The Iulian warships tonilardedering who has just been selected as Blane's cholar, scored 55, while Morris Zaniaco.
fèrring. bis veteran undle, knocked op 129.
ITALIANS SEIZE FRENCH
MAIL BOAT.
(Reuter's Service to the China Marl.).... .....
LONDON, Jan. 20, Renter's correspondent at Marseilles says that the Italians have seized and conveyed in Cagliari the French mail boat Manouho, which was proceeding to Tuzia.
COTTON DISPUTE
SETTLED.
MILLS RESTARTING.
(Beuter's Service to the China Mail)
LONDON, Jan. 20. The Colton dispute is settled, and the mills restart on Monday.
THE COAL TROUBLE.
STRIKE NOTICES USUED.
(Reuter's Service to the China štail)
LONDON, Jan. 20.
In pursuance of the recent ballot, the
THE BLIZZARD
MANY CASUALTIES AT SEA. -HEAVY SNOW.
(Beuter's Service to the China Mail)
LONDON, Jan. 19..
The steamer Wistow Hall, wrecked off the Bullera of Barchan; Aberdeen ehire, was smashed to matchwood on the granite rocks in a few minutes.
and not have the temerity to illumine a Court Justied to the inconvenience of Judge and jury. I understand now the reason for binding a wrapper" round the vyan of the statuo of Justica which adorns this principal frende af the new Courts, the
poor lady can't stand he bright saclight of Hongkong, and those who serve boxenth- her are in similar case.
Certainly she would not have been put to much inconvenienes in this direction this past week for we have been living in | fog," mist, drizzla and at the long last, rain,
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for a solid ten-days. f-nover remember kong currency, for every change, such a dreary mid-January in Hongkong,...
·and I was glad on Friday to notice that the Clark of the Weather was at last rolunting and inclined to give us a change.
id
It is a strange coinsidance surely that Hongkong should be placed in quametine the week the Far Eastern Association of Tenpical Medicine assembles on our sheros in biennial conference. The warthy medicos who come from lands afar will be able to extend their researebes beyond the official syllabus should they frel inclined, while they may have ecular demonstration, should they no desire of John Chinaman's inveterate habit of "damping" dead bodies in the strects as soon as the slightest epidemic breaks out.
Reason Why, by Glyn. Adrian Savage, by Bialet. Long Hand, by blaguey. Wife Imperative, by Poer. Melvillo Celeste, by Knight. Centary by Blackmod Dan Russel, by Semerville and Love Lecks Diana, by Horn. The Soul of Margaret Rand, by L. T. The Quetchless Firo, by Silas Hocking.
Mende
Lord Straaleigh, Philanthropist, by Roberi
Barr
Ross.
The Twymans, by Henry Newbolt, The Courtier Stoop, by J. H. Yorall. The Ne'er da. Well, by Rex Brach The Gallant Graham, by May Wynne. A Safety Match, by Jan Hay.
Hilde RF Arnold Bennett
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Skien, by Joseph Conrad, The Smugglers, by 9. R. Crockett. The Ealing Miracle, by Horace W.
Newto. The Rajah, by F. E Pay. Queen of All Hearte, by E. O. Sontt. As Bows the Rivar, by Mrs Fred Reynolds For Henry and Navarre, by Dorothea The Case of Richard Meynell, hy
Conyers Humphrey Ward.
I suppose the lecture which Pastor at Thurstiny-entertained a few friends of Russoll delivered in the City Hall is his the bride and bridegroom at their residence, Kowloon. The cake baving been cut, Mr. favourite stock effusion, for he seems to Fistork propowed, the bealth of the newly bare given it in Japan and Shanghai, It which boast was duly honoured. reminds me that old fashioned Scottish Later the happy couple lait, under a shower free for Hongkong, and after tifin at
ministers had no scruples about presching the Hongkong Hotel caught the aftercoon the same sermon twice-or more-to the Under Eastern Skies, by Oure Tempest bout for Macio, where the hooeymoon is same congregation. Dean Ramsey has a A King of Vagabonds, by Bath Ellis.
aided p
to be spent.
Among the numerous presents received tory of a beadle who contrived to give a sly by the bride and bridegroom was a hand-hit at a minister guilty of this practics. às same tea service from the Kowloon Cricket they were lanving the church the ministar Club: the ride also brought a number of observed that the beadle had been laughing beautiful gilts from relations and friends as though he had triumphed over some of ia South Africa,
́SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.
Mr J. P. Why, dispenser at the Tung wah Hospital, has been appointed by His Excellency the Governor as a public
vaccinator...
The captain, who was rescued, said that His Excellency the Gorstuer has accept as the steamer was leaving the Tyne,ed the resignation of Captain W. A. Cake heavy seas killed two men, and seriously of his commission in the Hongkong injured himself and the mate.
Volunteer Corps. The fires were extinguished and the furnel swept away, and the vessed drifted about helpless, the anchor being unable to
hold bar.
FEARED LOSS.
Loudon, Jan. 19.
It is feared in Aberdeen that the coaster Frederic's Snowder bag founder ed and bar crew of fourteen drowned.
HEAVY SNOW.
LATES
Snow has been continuous in the
Me William Clark Russell, the famova author of many novo's the pen, who died on November 8, left cstate which has
been valued at £19,497.'
Inspector Dymond, of the Hongkong Police Fares, returned to the Colony pn Friday, and "will probably take up his duties in the We-tern District
the parishioners with whom he had con- versed. He asked the cause. "They | were saying," was the reply, ye bad preached an auldormor to-day, Lut I tackled them, for I tuld them, it was no an auld sermon. for ye had preached it no
months synd.""
Japan sud Manila papers, by the way, are nut very complimentary in their romarka opou the business methods of Pastor Russell, who, it seems, is a great investor is zeni estate, runs a press- buienu, has an advance agent and other accessories after the style of a travelling showman. is income is said to run into a hundred
thousand a year. Shrewd man.
The following story, which I print with all reserve. has come to any ears from a very romcious source. I leave my readers to fake it for what it is worth or put their own construction upon it. It apposts that one of the onlders issued by the Consular Queco. Minry, it is said, has bad enough Fody on the Shameen, Canton, is that of the Bay of Biscay and will not risk an- when the at-rn signals are given all those ther crossing. She will leave the Meding who do not take an active part in the defence of the Sertirment are to retain in- at Malta and proceed to England overland doces. When the alarm was given the other danya British Naval Brigado, un'er cum- CS. Addia succeeds to the past mund of an officer, landed at une end of the vacated at the London'fice of the B. K.id suttlement. Here'
non-combatants
the proceedings. coarse, ordered.
Miner Conference at Birmingham has Midlands and the North of England, for sank by Mr A. M. Townsend, and Mrs British European
decided to despatch notices for a general
̈strike, beginning out the 1st of March.
thirty hours, and the roads and railways H. D. C. Jones, inte manager in Yekohama, these gentlemen away to their homes but
are blocked.
Intense cold has been experienced in Central Europo, several people being
---FRENCH AEROPLANES,frozen in death near Vienna.
A BIG SQUADRON ORDERED.
(Reuter's Service to the China Mail.) Losros, Jan. 20.
The French Government saka Parlia ment for £830,000, for the purchase of military aeroplanes.
IRISH CONTROVERSIES.
STRONG LANGUAGE BY BOTH SIDES.
COLLISION AT SEA
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Violent storms continue. The Cunard liner Veria is reported to have collided with an unknown steamer the latter having sank. It is
is believec that 11 people were drowned.
BIG GERMAN LOANS.
| (ficuter's Service to the China Mail)|
LONDON, Jan. 10.
saccearia Me Addis
His Excellency, the Governor has been pleased to appoint Mr. J. R. Wood tu net a chairman of the Chinese Vernacular Primary Education Board during the absence on leave of the Hon. Mr. A. W. Brewin, C. M. G.
the
pair re used to go, saying they had as much righ there anybody. After the officer vi explained that on such an.
ccasion
that the Shameen and úveryone on it were under martial inw. one of the men went quietly sway but the other still obstinately refused to budge:
ሊ፡
the officer whipped out his revolver and tred it into the air. The man at once took to bis heals and ran. They may in Canton he is running still,
A marriage has been arranged between Ms Vers David, daughter of MAJ. - Though we have compamtively few David, late of Hongkong and now u 18 motor cars in Hongkong, the following Enismura Gurione, London, S. W., and Tses will appeal to gud many people, Mr Percival V. David, only son of the for most of us have ridden in one, or in-
taxi, at least Honorable Sir-Bassoon J. David, Barti, of Under the spreading clustnut tree n stub- tomboy.
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bara motor stands.
And Smith, an angry man is he, with
trouble on bis hinde
He cusses softly to himself and cawis
beneath the car.
And wonder why it didn't bas. Lefore be
* got so far The carbureter sends to be the cause of all
his woofe He lightens half a dozợn bolts, but stål it
doesn't g And then he tries the steering gear, bat
Ende no trouble there
A txtman did not appear before Com Rouler's correspondent at Berlin teleader C. W. Beckwith, R.N., at the (Reuter's Service to the China Stail) graphs that a Prussian syndicata bas Marine Court this morning, to newer.
taken up the Imperial lot of four charge of unlawfully using his rowing boat LONDON, Jan. 19. million sterling and the Prussinn State ail of $10 wan estreated.
for the purp so of carrying cargo, and his A women's anti-Home Rule demon loan of twenty-one millions sterling stration was held in Belfast yesterday
A policeing
on Friday in Both bear interest at four por cent Wanchai Leng carrying a bag of ponder Till, wet with perspiration, then, ha quity evening.
.T and will be issued for public subscrip which weigblad eleven cattios. At the He squats beside the road to give his brain
in abger despair. Captain Chuig aid. Mr. Winston tion on the 29th, inst at the price of Magismoy this morire & bar in claviful
a chance to epol, Churchill would never aldres a meet- £101.40.
tiel defendant $25 being unlorful pepsision of the powder and sentenced him And pouders on bis training at the cor to fourteen days' imprisonment for Dot trapondance school
and Chintoo. And they be starts the fob once more," Raving it labelled in English a
Chinese
until by chance tie een
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The Revolutionisle are buty recruiting The entire of all his trouble is--he's out
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lins, g15 wldiers for the army and the little village of SAB Mei-has roponded to the call with over 100 men. They arrived in Honglong
Things are evidently maring in Po
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