TUESDAY, MAY 21, 1912.
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STOCKHOLM'S OLYMPIC
GAMES.
2,250 ATHLETES,
(Reuter's Service to the China Mail.)
Loxbox, May 21. The entries to the various events. at the Olympic Games, now being beld at Stockholm, number 2260 exclusive of gymnasts, athletes. ridemen, etc. Great Britain is send
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THEIR LOYALTY TO THE EMPIRE.
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(Reuter's Service to the China Mail LONDON, May 20, The newspapers are giving promin ence to the speech of Me White, the Canadian Minister of Finance, and the
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sentatives.
THE CHINA MAIL.
CHELTOMERANK DEFLANT.
Speaklig at Wednesbury on April 10, Mr. Tuni Main, who has been soit to prison in the second division for siz munths, for inciting soldiers, D
boo late now for the employers to come along with whining statements concerne (Wah Tea Vat 20'sing the working community, The work
ers have owned nothing beyond their PRKING, May 21. Hung Hi Ling, the Financial in frest, for the capitalists have Minister, has announced the results assessed everything else. Parliamensis to be destroyed-I mean it. I shall of the negotiation between the pre-pwak as Truely hero as I have ever A number of press correspondents spoken. I shall withhold no principles. have had an interview with Hung Hi all dityothing Today I defy Ting and Tang Shao Yi on the sub the Government as thoroughly as I have ject of foreign loans, but, are stated done. I will let them know my ing 267 athletes, while 114 will re-apeeches of Senator Pearce and Mr to have been dissatisfied with the options although they may be conveyed to Scotland Yard. "I am going to rebel present British colonies. Japan is Andrew Fisher, the Australian Com-answers.
against society. If they were not fearful ending a sprinter and a coinpetitor monwealth Premier, and express warm i for Marathon honours.
gra'ification at the encouraging response
they would not have tried to the my tongue. Speaking in a loud voies and. made by Canada and Australia to Mr Churchill's suggestions, which hare not fallen on deaf ears.
"THE MALECKA CASE,
PRISONER PETITIONING THE TSAR.
(Reuter's Service to the China Mail.)
LONDON, Muy 21.
DENMARK'S SORROW.
KING FREDERICK LYING IN STATE.
Miss Malecka, the English woman who, at Warsaw recently, was sen-(Reuter's Service to the China Mail.) tenced to Siberian exile-for-life for consorting with revolutionaries, has petitioned the Tsar.
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Yuan Shih Kai has persuaded Tang Shao Yi not to resign as Premier of the Cabinet,."
Government, in Chang, the former Military with outstretched arms Mr. Mann, ap- Minister, has been appointed as ad-parently addressing the
said: Take your laws, take yourselves.. viser to the Foreign Department in order chiefly to strengthen the and go to the devil. The Government relations between China, and Gerare trying to drop Tom Mann liko is hot potato. I dare them to imprison him for The Admiralty has structed long. I won't be sorry if they say vp Chau Chi Mi, Governor-General of year. There will be a glorious time our
side. Shanghai, to ask Sha Ching Ping, the former Adrairal, whether he will accept the appointment of Com mander-in-Chief of the National fleet.
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NEW MARRIAGE TESTS.
Health, Wealth, and Domestic Training,
Lesbos, May 20. Renter's Copenhagen correspon- dent telegraphs that great crowds are attending the lying in state of THE QUESTION IN THE HOUSE OF King Frederick at the Castle Church.
The ceremony will continue to morment of Peking to request the Cor-declined to allow marriages to be solemn row and Wednesday.
COMMONS.
At Question Timer Mr. Achand said that it was inpossible for the
House of Commons to deal with the Malecku Case initit & complete record of the proceedings had been received. He added that there was uncontro verkhle proof of Miss Malecian's Rus- sian nationality, and that the Court had been mistaken in described "hor n■" otherwise,
A PERSIAN TRAGEDY.
CHIEF OF POLICE KILLED.
(Beater Service to the China Mail)
Losos, May 21,
A telegram from Renter's agent at Telibrum states that Yeprim, the famous Armenian Chief of the Police at Teherin, who had done Persia much service, has been killed, trea. eberously, it is alleged, while operat ing suinst the x-Shah's brother, Salar-E-Dowleh, near Hamadan.
THE TIBETAN TROUBLE.
CHINESE HEMMED IN.
(Reuterie Service to the China Mail.)
LONDON, May 21.
Beuter's Simla correspondent states that telegrams from Thass, dated the 15th inst, which passed through Gyungtre, say that the Chi Les die hemmed withia Unildinga in Lbe southern suburus, and that their supplies of cartridges are exhausted. Their retreat is blocked by 152000 besieging Tibetans, who are holding both sides of the river. The end is expected soon.
TOM MANN'S SEN. TENCE REDUCED,
BOWMAN RELEASED.
Reuter's Service to the China Mail.)
TONDON, May 21.
ANOTHER AVIATION
FATALITY.
SPECTATOR KILLED; THREE
INJURED.
(Reuter's Service to the China Mail.)
Lostos, Mag 20..
Lieut. Ashton, a military aviator, while descenlig at Amesbury, dashed into the crowd, one person being killed and three seriously injured, The nero- plane overturned, but the aviator, was
unhurt.
WELSH DISESTABLISH-
"MENT BILL.
THE GOVERNMENTS CON CESSIONS.
(Reuter's Service to the China Mail.)
LONDON, May 20.
The Daily roaice states that the Government is prepared to make the widest concessions in the committee stage of the Welsh Disestablishment Bill. The Churchill probably be left in possession of all endowments except
"tirbes.
ANOTHER LONDON STRIKE PENDING.
(Beuter's Sérvice to the China Mail.) LONDON, May 20.. Owing to a dispute arising out of the employment of a non-unionist, the Loadon, lightermen have decided to
• SHANGRU, May 21. The Governor-General has been instructed by the Financial Depart
sula to hand over the bank bills and documents which were deposited by the former Tanotai Lau. Tik" Im.
RESULT OF JAPAN'S GENERAL ELECTION.
(Independent News Agency's Service to the China Mail.)
Tokio, May 21.
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The announcement from Chicago that Bishop Anderson and Dein Sumner bars
sed at the Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul unless couples are provided with cortifientes of good health has arousel considerable treat in Boston and in
parts of the Union. On April 9
#koller.Mübel H. Witham, pastor of the
Church of Immortalism, in Boston's ex-
clusive Back Bay quarter, announces her errdial support, and; as the newspapers put it,gous two better than Chicago."" The Rev. Mabet declared that pastors should refuse to marry couples unless The result of the General Election they can produce thren certificates. The for Members of Parliament wer is to be one from a doctor, stating published yesterday as follows that they have passed a medical inspec 200 seats were gained by members tion; the second must be from a banker of the Seiyu Kwai, of which Premier or other responsible person to the effect Marquis Saionji, the Premier. *that the would-be bushand, has demon- President; 91 seats by the Chuo Chubstrated his ability to maintain a wife in (the Central Club), and 51 keats by decent mireumastances; and, the third the Independent.inembers.
should certify that the brida has received a proper training in domestic science and the mysteries of bousehold management. This advanced pastor declares that "abe will introduce" these rules in her own ehurel, and the announcement has given rise to considerable discussion. She fur ther intimates that she would like a fourtly certificate-one certifying that the couple were really in love with one another but recognising the impossibi. ity of obtaining an unprejudiced opinion on the subject, she is willing to mire the question.
AN ALLEGED ROYAL
SCANDAL.
AN EXTRAORDINARY" CANARD.
(Reuter's Service to the Ching Mail)
Loxoox Mag 20.
A telegram from Brussels states that the Court officials have informed the King of the Belgians of canards which are widespread throughout fe of the Belgian Royal Family, Europe, reflecting upon the private
which includes a story of the Queen surprising the King and one of the Chamber Maids, who was shot.
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The King is very indignant at the basalesc" calumnice and hap ordered Ju Yetion to be tired against the dis. seminators..
A STORY OF THE KAISER.
A French newspaper tells a story fram Berlin, whigh we think will not appear in the journals the German Empire. Teuds recently to Experer who one of a hunting party in the North of Germany. He wished to meet a lady [Note:-Uneasy lies the head that wanrs residing in the neighbourhood who had a crown. --En. O.Af.]
erike on the evening of the 20th. Six THE HEALTH OF THE COLONY, thousand mea will be affected and the whole trade of the port will be threatencu,
The non-anicnist over whom the lightermen are striking is a sexagenarian
watchman:
BRITAIN'S IMPERIAL
PARLIAMENT.
MR. BALFOUR'S VIEWS.
Mr. Mekenia, the Hobie Secre- tary, has anounced the reduction by two months, of the sentence im- posed on Mr. Tom. Mann, the well- known labour agitator, who Was recently sent to prison for six
nooths' for inciting soldiers to(Reuter's Service to the China Mail)
LONDON, May 20. mutiny. Mr. McKenna has also an-
Mr. Balfour, until recently the nounced that Guy Bowman, jour- nalist, connected with the Syndic leader of the Conservative Party, alist," who had been sentenced to speaking at the Annual Meeting of nine months hard tabour, had been the Victoria Lugue of Empire, said released. Eowman, who had serred that he believed that at no distant nearly two months of his sentence, date u.scheme for the establishment had explained that the offences were of an Imperial Parliament would be incurred for the first time and in matured by which Great Britain and ignorance of Their" segirugners
her self-governing Colonies would be united. The whole trend of events s to bring closer the widely scat- frered parts of the Empire. He was profound believer of the truth that local patriotism properly understood was no obstacle to a larger patrip- kism
ANGLO-GERM • N TRE TY.
REFERENCE TO PORTUGUESE.
COLONIES.
(Bauter's Service to the China Mail.)
LONDON; May 20.
Mr. Lucien Whe the well-known writer on Inreign affairs, states in the Oraphic" that Count von Bieberstein's
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“ture of the secret Afgh-German Treaty
been married recently. The next day, the Kaiser was invited to the lady's home
to dinner. During his conversation with the lady ho was served with a cup of hot bouillon. The Sovereign, who was en- A return showing the number of cast's growed in the conversation, demanded of communicable diseases which have been from the servant some sugar sud cream, notified as occurring in the Colony during under the impression that the cup can- tained ten. The servant brought the the week ended May 18th, states that thore
sugar and milk, and the Kaiser helped have been 208 eyes of Bubonic plague, 179 bimself, but no one dared to tell His of which have terminated, fatally. Of the arrjesty of his error. He raised the cap 208 ensus 206 ware Chinese, one Japanese, † to bis lips, and disgovering his mistake. and one Portuguese. Two British subjects | drank the contents with a stoiciem at ara reported as having suffered fr : enteric which all wondered. Fever in districts other than the City of Vir- | toris, but no deaths from this disease ar recorded. Thus total esses? of small por notified during the week was 11 of which number there were 8 Chimes and 3 Portuguese, 6 deaths being recorded. The total number of cases of plague from January 1st has been 860, all being Chinese with the exception of 9 other Asiatics, and the number of deaths recorded in 771.
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