FRIDAY MAY 8, 1912.
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THE "TITANIO " CALAMITY.
BRITISH INQUIRY OPENED.
Imposing Array of Counsel.. (Reuter's Service to the China Mail
Loxtos, May 2.
The Inquiry into the cause of the loss of the Titanic was opened to-day in the London Scottish Drill Hall Westminster.
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Sixty counsel including many of the most eminent--are taking part in the proceedings. Sir Rufus Isacs, the Attorney-General, and Sir John Simon, the Solicitor General, repre- sent the Board of Trude; Sir R. B. Finlay, Solicitor-General in the last Conservative administration, repre- sents the White Star Line.
Lord Mersey, who presided, ex-
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CHINESE NEWS.
(Wah Tsz Yat Pols Service)
PEKING, May 3. As the Russians have occupied Kulga, the Minister for Foreign Affairs has wired to. China's repre- sentativa in St. Petersburg to pro- teat. No reply has yet been received, Tun Chi Sui, the Minister of War, proposes that each province should be allowed to keep only one division of soldiers, ice. 12,500 men.
It is reported that Great Britain
JAPANESE SAILORY WAGES INCREASED.
(Independent News Agency's Service to the China Mail)
ToRYD, May 5,
The Nippon Yusen Kaisha and other Japanese steamship companies have increased the wages of the seamen, as the result of the recent strike.
has asked extension of Kowloon texTHE DALAI LAMA'S ritory before she is prepared to re- Cognise the Republican Government.
CONDITION OF VEDRINNES,
AGENT.
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(Router's Service to the China Mail.)
LONDON, May 2.
A mesinge from Reuters St. Feters burg correspondent states that Burist Djorieff, the Dalai Lama's agent, has
pressed sympathy with the relatives (Reuter's Service to the China Mail.) arrived in that city.
of those who had been lost, and admiration in that the best traditions of the sea had been maintained.
LONDON, May 3.
M. Vedricnes, the well-known French aviator, who met with a serious accident, has now a chance of recovery, as he is now having intervals of consciousness.,
HOME RULE FOR IRELAND.
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THE PORTUGUESE NAVY.
(Reuter's Service to the China Mail.)
Sir Rufus Isaacs, in outlining the course of the inquiry, said that it would be full and complete. No of cer's certificates were involved, as those responsible bad succumbed. The Inquiry was adjourned."
Note The Assessors appointed, i -connectidit--with-hidup sayaro ----- already stativ in the China Mail," Admiral Gough-Calthorpe, Captain Clarke, a Board of Trade Inspector, Commander Lyon, an
ankeskin of the Admiralty Court, and Professor Biles.(Reuter's Service to the China Mailboat EL., CM.]
THE "OSBORNE 'JUDGMENT.”
BILL FOR ITS "REVERSAL.
(Reuter & Sorcier to the China Mail
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MR. BALFOUR'S DENUNCIATION.
LONDON, Muy 3.
LONDON, May 2
Renter's correspondent at Lisbon tele "graphs that the Minister for Marine has introduced a Bill fixing the naval force at 4,600 to be distributed over five cruisers, fourteen gunboats and a torpedo
destroger.
TURKEY AND THE DARDANELLES.
THE CHINA MAIL.
TXARBARIGN THE TOP COAT
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substitution be recour fuel fororuda
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cost, and a referecon to the efforts a TO SUBSCRIBE TO OUR the Coal" Smoke Abitemons Society, are contained in a statement","meda::tojm
"Standard" representative by a foCIRCULATING visitor who has studied the problem alonely in its world-wide aspocka...
The coal "crisis," he said, "should, maka thoughtless people think about the barbarous combination of ornde coal which is permitted in such asvage and un- organised manner in the midst of dur
Think of your u semi-civilization. scientific use of coal, resulting in your sxcorable. London fogs. I was talking a
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little time ago to yone' Sir Oliver Lodge, PURCHASER of ons Novel from Hongkong. On or about Conestog at Odiratta wish on de, about
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at $1.00 becomes a ment- wanitary in the long run than the us obscuring atmosphere in which warti ber and is entitled to exchange fcially arrange to live. Those who try
to imagine that coal amoke grerts a dis-same for any other novel on infecting influence 'are, deceiving them
selvan. The amount of disinfestant fatal payment of 20 cents cash, Hong to disenso garms rould assuredly so kong currency, for every change. be fatal to other gazisms; and, besides, who wants to live in a plague of disin- fectant, diffused through the roumon atmosphere, any more, than in a plague of anything else
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YRESHITS OF INEOUS FCZNE
The burning of crude "cost involves * long and troublesome serica of opereo Heatery of Rod Marsh Farm, by A.H. tiona, apart from the fouling of the air,
The Turning Wheel, by Dick | from the time of the mining in this pits The Ruby Heart of Kishgar, by A.
Marchment. to the carrying away of the sahes after The Forest on the Hill, by Eden Phillpots. it is burned. If gaseous fiel were used The Written Law by E.G. Enowles-Foster the whole system would be greatly The Hired Girl, by Mr Conson Kernahan. simplified. There would then be Mollie the Hazaiful, by Florence Warden. The Order of Release, by E. De Vere
་ Staspoole.
The getting of the cost as beforu. **The conversion of it into gan, either at the bottom of the pit or nest its
mouth.
The conveying sway of the coke and the manura products to where they are wanted.
Mr. Balfour, in the course of the debate on the Home Rule Bill, said that the restrictions to the Bill, though necessary were absolutely in- consistent with the contention that the Bill gave frishmen au opportu nity of developing their own affairs.(Reuter's Service to the China Man.) Written large all over the Bill was
LONDON, May 2, that such control would never give ........ A telegram from Constaninople states | "The undergrand distribution of all
The transmission of gas in great pipes to the distant fown, just as water is npw transmitted, with such occasional / pumping station ay may be necessary, driven by the power of a small portion of the same gaan, ett
Carnival,
by Compton Mackenzie, The Girl with the Blue Eyes, by Lady
Troubridge.
Ruth of Bowldrh by Mrs Stanley
Wrench.
Views and Vagabonds, by R. Macauley. The Children of Alzos, by Rané Bazin. The Drunkard, by Guy Thorne.
The Town of Crooked. Ways, by J, S.
Flatcher The
Mr Campbell
Boly of His Desire, by
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The Principal Girl, by J. C. Snaith. Fire in Stubble, by the Baroness Orczy. Jesse of Cariboo, by Roger Pocock.. Roddles, by B. P. Neemann, Acrom the Footlights, by Fargas Hame.
protection to the minority or enable that the Cabinet has decided to re-opening of a tap, in a manner whiel will Marie, by H. Rider Haggard. Loscos. May 3.Irishmen to get the advantages which the Dardanelles, reserving the right to
they at present got from their con-
Mr. Asquith, the Prime Minister, has announced that a Bill reversing the Osborne Judgment will be intro- duced in the House of Commons before Whitsuntide.
[Nore. The "Osborne ludgement" has referones a decision in 1911 against the une of Trade Union funds for political purposon.-E., Q. M.]
ROYAL MAIL LINE'S NEW ENTERPRISE.
(Reuter's Service to the Ching Mail.)
LONDON, May 3. The Royal Mail Line offers, 600,000 of Ordinary Stock at 110. The capi- tal is required for the construction of new steamers and the general dove- Jopment anticipated with the opening of the Panama Canal; and to afford an opportunity for developing the valuable connections of the Company. in the Pacific. ·
BRITISH EAST AFRICA
FINANCIALLY FLOURISHING.
ALLEGED DEAL IN LAND.
nection with the United Kingdom. close the passage again in case of (It would prevent Irishnen of public necessity,
spirit and wide views-from-entering the Irish Parliament; and if interior men came in the status of the As- JAPAN AND MEXICO. sembly would be lowered. The Bill threatened to destroy she House of Commons; and it would not give Irishmen an Assembly, which they would regard with pride, affection and ¦ (Reuter's Service to the China Mar.) respect. He concluded by asking a series of questions designed to show that the Bill was opposed to all prificiples upon which history had shown how the Federal System could be built up, and the Government were pursuing precisely an opposite
course.
THE “TEXAS
INCIDENT.
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HOW IT OCCURRED.
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| (Rouler's Service to the Ching Mail.)
LONDON, May 8. Reuter correspondent at fon- stantinople reports that the Vali of Smyrna reported that a battery fired two blanks at the Texts as a warn ing against deviating the course of the vessel. As this was unheeded, seven shells were fired, dropping † around the Texas, which then struck u mine and sank in two minutes.
Lastor, May 9, Renter's correspondent at Washington telegraphs that President Taft informed the Senate that the State Department had no evidence whatever showing that there had been any acquisition of land or intention to acquire such directly or indirectly in Mexico on the part of Japan
Accompanying the President's message- is one from Mr Knox who attributed the rumours of Japanese activity in Mag dalena Bay to the unsuccessful efforts of an American syndicate to dispose of a concession there to a Japanese syndicate.
THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.
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COLONEL ROOSEVELT RI- NOUNCING VOTES)
(Reuter ́s Service to the China Mail,
LONDON, May 2. Mr. L. Barcourt," the Colonial Secretary, has announced that it will be found possible to substantially im The Military Commander says that (Router's Service to the China Mail) prove the pay of certain Departments 69 were drowned and 15 injured.
of British East Africa, including that
of the Administrative Staff, on the estimates of the current year. He was unable to give details as some matters were outstanding.
HOME RACING.
THE ONE THOUSAND GUINEAS.
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A BIG DROP.
LONDON, May 2, Reuter's correspondent at Oyster Bay telegraphs that Colonel Roosevelt hes renounced all claim to the votes of the eight Massachusetts delegates at large. He has telegraphed to them to vote for President Taft, who secured the eighteen regular delegates but failed to secure the delegates at large because 9,000 votes: to 640 on the announcement of the in Boston were invalidated owing to a
technical flaw.
(Reuter's Service to the China Mail.)
LONDON, May 2.
The shares of the Peninsular and
Orital Lice have fallen from 405
Company's statement, disposing of (Reuter's Service to the Chind Mail.) | Amalgamation and other rumours,
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LONDON, May 2.
The probable starters and jockeys
in the One Thousand Guineas race, OHANGES IN BRITISH
-1 Mile-which takes place at New-
market to-day trai-Lolette (Earl),
Sourabaya (Walter Griggs), Gay Laura (Clark), Silesia (Martin), Belle
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A DARDANELLES CATASTROPHE
VESSEL BLOWN TO ATOMS.
„Soldiers and Safiors Drowned.
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2 LONDON, Máy L Beutus Constantinople correspon lent telegraphs that a bug which had beers its ing, buoys thre
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LONDON, May,
The Admiralty has angunnad further important step in the recrgauis
Son of the Fleet,
1, this fuel and its utilisation by the turn
ensure complete combustion, with no smoke ne asli. no dirt, no trouble, and no_residual_product in carry away, eilber in curte, or clothes, or hugs.
ATAIRY: LAND.
"And the radiant heat would bos substitute for the sun of Italy in this- I had almost been ingracious enough" to say-infernal climate Years ago Pitts. burg was like nothing else but an in- faro of shoke and blackest fog. Then they discovered in.the vicinity natural gas cheap, handy, and useful. It was like magic. Not more than two days after its use became quite general the atmosphere cleared up, and the once black city was like a fairy land. But in ten years the natural was was exhausted, and Pitta burg once returned to crude coal. Again, an if by magle this time black magic-Pittsburg became, and has re- mained, a veritable hell upon earth.
**I was travelling a few months back Continent of Europe, and I found that after an American tour, through the
the efforts of your Coal Smoke Abate- ment Society were much spoken of in many town England is so often a land. where everyone is free to annoy Lis neighbour. In some Germen tɔway- Hanover, for example-the amount of smoke made by house fires is about ond- third what it was ten years ago. This in the result of strict laws strictly enforced. The whole civilised world is moving in the matter, and I am expecting to learn much from your coming conference here. in London."
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Why does the American woran come to London? Why is she so well regarded in London, especially during what we call the Season? A famous American, who wis once asked that double question said the
he trade more in the old world from a American woma comes to London because woman's point of view, than there is in the
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