MONDAY, JUNE 17, 1912.
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PORTUGUESE ROYALISTS
A STEAMER DETAINED
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LONDON, June 15.
A steamer has been detained at Zubmgge while embarking many Fortu- guess Royalists and lonting a consign
want of munitions..
PORTUGUESE POLITICS.
Loxpes, June 16
Reuter's correspondent at Lisbon ele graphs that the Chamber of Deputies has adopted a scheme for establishing
Jewish Colony in Angoks.
Benbor Duarte Leite has formed.n cabinet representative of all parties, with Senhor Vas Concellos as Minister for Foreign Affairs.
THEIR MAJESTIES AT HARROW.
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[COPYRIGHT.] AMERICAN PRE- SIDENTIAL ELECTION.
WHY MR ROOSEVELT WENT
TO CHICAGO, I
(Router's Service to the China Mail.)-|
LONDON, June 15,
[Corrment.]
THE CHINA MAIL.
MESSRS. ED. SASSOON, AND CO.S
." INSURANCE CASE.
Appeal Diamined.
In case decided by the Fediefd Com-
WATKINS, LIMITED HONGKONG
HONGKONG NEW YORK
REGULAR SAILINGS via FORTS and SURE CANAL
FOR "NEW YORK-
SOLDIERS MUTINY AT mitte of the Privy Council on 27th May. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an With liberty to call at the Malabar Coast and to proosed via The Cape of Good Hug
TSINANFU.
E. D. Sassoon-and Co. claimed from the respondents, the Western Asurance EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEET- Company, under a contrast of marino
insurance, in respect of a loss of spiun ING of the,abora named Company will | stored upon a bulk noored my thin Wheng--| poo River, and they appealed from a
(Independent News Agency's Servies to the China Mail:)
TOKYO, June 17. The no-payment of wages to the Chinese soldiers and the disbandment of the arniy has caused a revolt at Tianfu capital of Shangtung.
river Whangpoo, which they used as a Blouses were pillaged and set on fire,tere. In this hulk they placed are subjoined resolation which was passed as wire from New York states that and the Provincial Government Office pigm, on which they effected an in|
surance with defendants against marine an extraordinary resolution At the risks. The policyarns a time polley run
judgment of the Supreme Court for bo hold at the Company's Off, WATKINS Shanghai, which dismissed the claim.
Lend Shaw, who delivered the opinion BUILDING, ON WEDNESDAY, the 19th of the committes, said plaintiffs were tho owners of a wooden hulk moored in the day of Juse, 1912, at NOON, when the
A telegram from Chicago states that the National Committee has awarded President Taft all the contested delegates în Oklabama and Tennessee.
Roosevelt stated that he was going to Chicago in obedience to-the-tanimous demands of his delegates. Ele is denouncing the knot of professional politicians on the National Committee who are, he asserts, stealing the right of the people to make a nominatiou.
THE VISIT DENOUNCED,
기
LONDON, June 16.
Owing to the National Committee which organises the Repablican Conven- tion deciding almost every contested (Rauter's Service to the China Mail) delegation in favour of President Taft,
LospoN, June 16: Their Majesties visited Ilarrow on Friday. The King, replying to an address, anid he was confident that the school would continue to furnish men who would serve in the great work of governing and defending the Empire.
as the supporters of M; Roosevelt declare fraudulently, Mr Roosevelt has gone to Chicago on the very eve of the Couren- tion. His visit is denounced by his opponents as improper and unpamlleled, but Mr Roosevelt's followers are re- joicing and are convinced that his pre- sence will not only destroy President Taft's chances, but will also prevent the RAILWAY DISASTER
selection of a compromise candidate. NEAR STOCKHOLM. The followers of the President "control the Convention theoretically, but they EIGHTEEN KILLED: SIXTEEN-know that Mr Taft has little chance of
INJURED.
election. Meanwhile the political heat in Chicago in prodigious, the delegates (Router'a Service to the China Mail.) even going to the extent of fisticuffs.
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Lexpox, June 16.
Eighteen people have been killed and },- sixteen injured at Malmo, near Stock- holm, in a collision between is express and a"goods train at Malmstaett Station.
THE IMPRISONED # SUFFRAGISTS,
RESOLVE TO HAVE A
HUNGER STRIKE."
Router's Service to the China Mail.)
LONDON, June, 16.
Ata Suffragist demonstration held in the Royal Albert Hall, Londen, it was announced that the Sufragistsin prison, including Mra Pankhurst, and Mr and Mr. Pethick Lawrence, had resolved upon a hunger strike until all alike were treated as first class misdemeanaols.
CANADIAN WHEAT CROP,
A RECORD.
-(Routar's Service to the China Mail.)
LONDON, June 16. Fenter's, correspondent it. Ottawa states that the Department of Agricul- tare estimates the western what crop at 2.800 million bushels, exceeding the 1911 crop by 70million bushels
ANTI-HOME RULE DEMONSTRATIÓN.
FERVENT ENTHUSIASM.
MR ROOSEVELT ECEIVES A GREAT OVATION.
LATER.
burat down.
A number of Japanese residents also Buffered in the outrage
The Governor-General has taken refuge out of the city, which suit remains in "utter confusion."
HOME CRICKET.
LATEST RESULTS.
(Reuter's Service to the China Mail.)
LONDON, June 16.
Middlesex beat Yorkshire by four wickets. Surrey defeated Essex by 5 ruas. The matches, Sussex to Kent and the South Africans . Notts were
drawn.
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CORRESPONDENCE.
MOTORS IN THE COLONY.
(To the Eili or of the "CHINA MAIL.") Sir,I am lost to trespass further on your space, but I feel that the letter of your correspondent Sympathiser calls for a Jeply.
"
ring from July 6 to August 6, 1908 On Extraordinary Meeting of the Company, July 20 the bulk sprank a leak and the
opium was damaged by the perdating held on the 31st day of May, 1812, willi water. This leak a wholly dis to the
rotten, condition of the hulk. The condi-be submitted for confirmation as a Special tion of the bulk was unknown to plain-
tiffs, the "weak place being covered up Resolusion-
by some copper sheathing. In these cir. cumstances, plaintiffs brought their action. Defendants by their plan. denied that the damage to the opium was by the perils insured against. This denial raised the only question in the case.
The risks covered by the policy were the risks usually described in such a contract-namely,peris of the ora and all other perils, losses, and aislartunes that have or sail come to the hunt, detriment or duniage of the, stál v.
gels." I was not contended on plain-
tiffs' inhalf (nor could it have been) that those words" covered any tisk except the 'risk of damage by perils of the scm; but it was said that the loss was du to such a peril. The learned judge held that the damage was not due to à son pedi at all, but was solely due to the weakness of the hulk, and he thereupon" disanised the action. Their krdships were d opinion that the learned judge was right. There
and there was
ample authority for so holding An at tempt was made during the argument to attribute a different meaning to the ex
www no wenther, not any other fortuitous circumstances contributing to the incur sion of the water: the water merely Sympathiser asks me to point to any evidence of prejudice in letter gravitated by its cnn weighs through the cuntend that it is to be found in the fact opening in the decayed wood and so dam- nge the pinm. It would be an abuse) that he cutteinis motor cars because of of language to describe this as a loss the indescretions of a few wild spirits who, due to peris of the sea. Although ses are them as a ments to gratify their own
water damaged the goods, no peril of the desira for a form of plensure which ad- sea contributed either proximately or A telegram from Chicago states that mittedly causes namsyance to many peace-remotely to the loss, Mr Rocsevelt arrived and received aable residenta. But it is senseless to great ovation from a coincourse of people. eandem the cars because they are misused. Motors can be made to run practically Brasa banda met bim at the Station, noiselessly by the one of a proper and he drove to the hotel amidst cheer-silencer, and the senseless booting of ing crowds.
which Sympathiser complains in certainly not necessary to their ranning.
What I was endeavouring to conriuce Sympathiser of was the fact that the police had suply powers to deal with persons | guilty of disorderly conduct, auch as the shunting and singing which is complained of, and if they had done their duty belter some of the in- considerate joyriders would long ago have appeared in the police court. Then probably the cause of complaint would soon hase disappeared, and legitimate motorists"OUT, OUT, BRIEF, CANDLE." might not have had to user 'under regulations so harsh and utterly absurd as one or two of there which have just been enforced.
THE MONSOON.
(Reuter's Service to the China Mail.)
Loscos, June 16.
A telegram from Bombay states that the monsoon has burst.
THE GENERAL STRIKE
COLLAPSES.
MEN ADVISED TO RESUMË WORK.
(Reuter's Service to the China Mail.)
BONDON, June 15. The Bristal strike committee has advised the men to resume work, as the men in the other ports bar not come oat, as expected.
COLONIAL HELP PROMISED.
LATER.
The Strike Committee, in manifesto issued yesterday, declared the positioni more promising than ever, even though Mr Ben Tillett assured an audience of strikers that the workers in Australia, New Zealand and America were prepared to help them.
STRIKERS' FAMILIES
STARVING.
(Reuter's Sérvice to the China Mail.)
Lopov, June 15. Bir Walter Long and Sir Edward Carson were among the chief speakers at the great anti-Home Rule den118AB- tion in the Albert Hall, which was
"The final collapse of the strike is attended by delegates from the whole expected daily owing to the apathy of Kingdom, including strong coctingents the provincial ports and the privations of Ulstermen and Protestants from of the strikers' families, many of whom South Ireland. The rest fervent, en-
are starving, thusiasm. was displayeri.
"
Sir Edward Carson said that Ulster
was determined that the Home Rule THE LIBERAL CABINET,
Bill, even if passed, would become dend As an Act of Parliament. Ulster
sccepted the. Government's declaration
of war. Bir Edward Careon concluded : !
RADICAL ELEMENT
WEAKENED
We are not altogether unprepared, Reuter's Service to the China Mail.)
and now is the time lo tiko a step forward in the campaign.
DISGRACEFUL....
THE PREMIER GROSSLY- INSULTED.
LONDON, June 16.
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The fact that motor cars are not made in the Colony is no sort of argument in favour of the imposition of this harsh and repressivo legislation,
In conclusion, I would point Sympathiser to the fact that at Home, despite the tremendous number of cars in use, night and day, one seldom hears any complaint such as the one he has called attention to the reason being that such disorderliness which might as easily occur in a horse driven vehicle were such common in the Calony-instantly suppressed.--Ian) Sir Yours etc.
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PROGRESSIVE.
DESTROYING AEROPLANES.
Eagles Trained to Attack Aerial Craft,
pression" perils of the sea when used in a policy on goods from that which it bears when used in a policy on a ship; but no authority was aited for the dis- finction, nor would it be right in prin- cipte to make any such distinction. In this case the damage, though doubtless proximately dum to sea water, was not any sense due to sea perit. It did not, therefore, fall within the policy...
Their Lordships wero of opinion that the appeal should be dismissed with
costs.
Extinguisher Prematurely Pat
on Nova, 1912,
Commenting upon the gradul fadug away of the news the which was discovered near the Gemini constellation by a Nor- wegian astronomer, on March 12, and was christ-net "Nura, 1912," a Temps cor- respondent obaves that its light will not go out altogether. It will go on getting feebler and feebler, its light changing from itself with a nebulous cocont. white to yellow and red, until it rounds
There was a similar case of a sudden birth of a star in February, 1301, when. for some days, the new creation shone in the heavens with brilliance only inferior to that of Sirius. Now it has diminisheil to a ster of the twelfth order of agnitude. The most celebrated of all thes startling appearances. probably caused by
the collision of two dark stars, which, like the earth, conceal beneath a cold eitzziorn raging furnace, was that of the wonderful Pilgrim," noticed in Cctober 1572 by Tycho Brahe. He was on
hie my
iTun Germany to Denmark, and was stopping pt the old nonastery on the Emnitzwaldt, "L'Armee Moderne" tells of some stay in
belonging to his uncle. Here he would big chemical In boracay till ingenious experiments which are now nightfall, and one evening, when he was being carried out by officers of the mili-studying the heavens, be noticed, dear the tary aviation corps ut Nies, with a view zenith, in the constellation of Cesiopes, a In spite of the special guns invented for anbject of an optical delusion he made the to finding means of destroying aeroplanes. To satisfy himself th t he was not this glorious star of extraordinary plunder.
the purposo, it is generally considered nex working under him look in the saine imposible to fight against seroplanes, or direction, and they confirmed him. He j.over/ dirigible balloons, which have only heard later that na
ilmasters and other folk had
befure pparition the
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seen the
astronomers,
"That the, Company be wound-up
"voluntarily, and that ERNEST
"ALFRED MOUNTPORE WILLIAMS,
Incorporated Accountant" of
Victoria, in the Colony of
Hongkong, be and ha'is heraby
"appointed Liquidator for the
**purpose of such winding-up."
G. A. WATKINS,
CHAN Å FOOK,
General Managers.
Hongkong, June 4, 1912.
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but the Nice officers bare found the men of science.
di adversary which can reach high, or The new star surpassed even Sirias in i
brilliance. Lyn and Jupiter had to hide their diminished heads. In fact, it could's only be compared for magnificence to Venus when she is nestest the earth Persons passed of good sight could distinguish it in the day time, erca at mid-
aven higher, than the aircraft can pos- sibly rise-nothing less than the eagle.
They have trained six eagles for their experiments. Brat accustoming them to the noise of the propellers and gun shots, thon by placing tempting bait ou zaodern December of that year in glory had
when the sky was free from donde, Balloons and teaching them to rush furi sunk to the level of Jupiter a; in the follow." Lord Haldane's succession to Lord ously at the machines and tear them up ng January it was below that pinnot in föreburn and the appointments of Messra
as they would tear up their prey.
brightness. In April and May was only a star of the twelfth magnitude, and in There is no acroplane, say the March of the following year after a brof Tennant and Baker are regarded as periodical in question, and above all life of seventeen months, it passed out of SUFFRAGIST INCIDENTS,eakening the Radical element in the dirigible, which can withstand such anhuman ken altogether. While itshone there Ministry Mr Massingham, the editor attack. Given the rapidity of an eagle's were not wanting those who say in it the of The Nation, says that the late Sir fight ad the strength of its beak, and far that guided the three Wise: Men Lo Claws, there can he no doubt that a cero Bethlehem, and sustainity Wiggestel 80- thing of course, is LA. Campbell Bannermanle Arzt Cabinet
contained seven Radicale Now Mry of properly trained eagles could on explanation of the phemmanund Lloyd-George is the only debuite in tow instants, the most M. Henri Fincare remarks in n recent
powerfully-equipped serial fout!!*
volume that to an observer on firius.
Qur Radical, with Lord Morley and MỀ
even Jupiter itself, would be in- At the King's Birthday Reception at Vernon Harcourt, Gladstonian Liberals,
they onlin The todia Office, which was attended and Mr Burns, whom it was difficult-to-
members of the Royal Family, Mr classify. The rest of the body bears an Asquith, while receiving the gucate, wae Imperialist stamp Many of the Gov-H thrice nesaulted by sufragist guests accent owe their parentage to the on the head with Liberal League, and the changes ro, Ons woman bit.
off the present the the Premier uniform. Conservatiam
politica /dragged her awSY.
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and trak and the blausta Venus, &stora,
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| rowed light." "The universe is probably fall of these dark stus. We know something ERE in a runacy that will cute your of us of them, as, for instance, of
Why wasto mo and money Procyon's inviable summpanion, by experimenting when you can got prepare perturbation med in the orbits of their tion that has war a world-wide; rupuluion, glittering / neighborúru, Others woz pal z by its enres ! this is med pay always beconds nware when, with sagold ten
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