THURSDAY, MARCH 27, 1913
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THE CHINA MAIL.
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THE NAVAL ESTIMATES.
CAUSES OF INCREASED EXPENDITURE.
TURCO-BALKAN WAR.
AUSTRIA AND MONTENEGRO,
LONDON, March 26. A message from Cettinje says that that Montenegrin envoys have been sent to Skütari to notify Essad Paaba that the civilians will be allowed three days in which to leave the town.
THE ALLAHABAD TRAGEDY.
LONDON, March 27. Reuters Allahabad correspondent telegraphs that Lisut, Clark has been
executed.
[Note: It will be remembered that Lieut. Clark and Mrs Fulham ware aan- fanced to death for the murder of Mrs Fulham's husband. The death sentoses In Mr. Fulham's case was commuted to one of penal servitude for life, as she was anciento.-Ep, C. 4.]
THE BILBSTER AMUSING EXPERIENCES.
For stealing eight bucket of pepper from the British steamship Bilbstor (which is at present in Hongkong) sight: men wera sentenced each to one manth in jail as Talbahuano, Chile, according to officers of the vessel. Those su board say that as every pet of oil on the West Const pilferers were at work on the Bilbaber and most of the lime of the officers was taken in detecting thefts by the gangs loading the British trap.
A Tutealinano a whole gang of the Chilena equivaleus for longshoremen made
Loxes, March 27. Mr. Churchill, First land of the Admiralty, introducing the aval estimates at the outset of his speech explained the causes of the increase in Naval expenditure. They were firstly the decision to increase the
According to B telegram from number of ships maintained in full commission in consequence of the Vienna, it is expected that the Powers new German Navy Law, and the will shortly make representations, to resolve to increase the numbers and Belgrade and Cettinje with a view to notably the pay of the personnel.securing speedy svacuation of the FIELD MARSHAL WOLSELLY. Eight of them were vanishing over the The second cause was the increas in territory they have assigned to Albanis, the size and speed of ships, and the including Skutari. Hauce the departure zorresponding incrense, in the cost of the urnaments and equipment off of the civilians from Skutari-is-super- warships, of all kinds rendered necesfacus.
sary to enable the British Navy to
LONDON, March 27.
The body of Viscount Wolseley,will be interred in St. Paul's Cathedral on
Roep pace with similar vessels huil THE DEAD KING OF GREECE, Monday,
ing all over the world. A third factor
in the increase was the introduction of new services, particularly oil fuel. Aircraft and wireless telegraphy. Pourtaly the increases were due
from THE DISASTROUS TORNADO.
The remains of King George of Greece have been removed Salouská and conveyed in the Royal Yacht to Athens,
general increase in wages and prices. particularly of coal, cil, steel
British, German, Italian, Austrian, and all materials used in shipbaiki- ing; and Sithly to the arrears of ship-Russian and French warships are building which had accumulated in escorting the remains from Salərika to the last two years by reason of the the Piraeus. failure of the contractors to earn their proper instalments, us manifested by The delays which had arisen in the exeention of the current programmes.
The estimates would have been substantially higher but for the pre sent congestion in the shipyards. which arose from the extraordinary demands made upon the shipbuilding plants und especially apon the skilled Labour supply. If better progress is not made in executing the pro- grandes, Mr. Churchill inned. Ait will be necessary for ask Parliament later in the year for further supplementary estimate. The Navy is passing through a point not murely of expansion, but of swift, Leeuseless development
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GERMAN NAVY LAW'S EFFECT.
ADRIANOPLE ENTERED BY
THE BULGARIANS.
TREMENDOUS LOSS OF LIFE PROPERTY,
AUNT DAM,
LONDON, March 26. A message from Springfield to-day states that a damn burst at Piqua, and it The Bulgarian cavalry has entered is reported that 540 people were drowa Adrianoplo.
A BOLD ATTACK,
Reuter's correspondent at Sofia tele graphs that the Bulgarians at dawn made a hold attack and captured the whole eastern front of Adrianople, including six forts, with all batteries.
EXTRAORDINARY SCENES IN
THE DUMA,
The Deputies and public cheered themselves hoarse and the debate had to be suspended.
ed in 13ft. of water.
There are rumours that at Dayton 5,000 perished and 30,000 were render ed homeless. :
The tornado caused enormous damage principally at Omaha.
RESERVOIR COLLAPSED.
Renter's Chicago correspondent states that it is rumoured that a reservoir bus collapsed at Hamilton, Ohio, and one thousand people have been drowned.
200,000 PEOPLE HOMELESS.
Reuter's New York correspondent states that the telephones are bringing in details of the floods already reported.
"Dr. Daneff, the President of the Bulgarian Sobranje, and the Bulgarian Two hundred, thousand people in Minister at St. Petersburg, who hap-ndiana are pened to be in the House, were carried
homeless. The most
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horison with as many buckets of the pungent condiment when Capt. David Cantell sent 6 › whale local police force in pursuit. e than half an hour was occupied in handcuffing the fugitives aftar they had been surrounded and gas merg her of the force had an apoplectic seizure through intemperate anozing,
CHEW, RAN LONG JOURNEY. Most of the crew grow lugubricus yes- terday afternoon when talking of the prospect of getting back home. At each port of call sinus they left Cardiff, they have hoped for orders that would take them back there. (aplain. Cantell, the skipper, however, has had to dash the
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Since leaving Cardiff the Bilbster he steamed three times the circumference of the earth; she has burned up 24,000 trays of enul, 4,000 gallons of headlight oil and 19000 gallons of engine oil. The eargo tonnage runs into many thousands.
The Rilbuter's first port of call after leaving Cardiff was Montevideo. Thence she stemmeil to Bambery, Wold Australia, had thoney to Enpe-Tawn, South-Africa- Later she made a spend voyage to Bun- bury. Odes pets of call in the Kilb. sler's two years' wandering are :
Delagos Bay, Calcutta, Colombo, Bem- bay, Sanz, bagnavor, in Indis: twenty ports on the Chilean coost, Iquique, San Francisco, Tacoma and Seattle.
GUESTS OF MAHARAJAR
At Bhagnavar "Captain Cantell · and Chief Engineer W. E. Kirby were the guests of the maharjah of that place. The maharajah bad a habit of keeping s Jos of chitals playing about the palace,
The Intest German Navy Law las A telegram from St. Petersburg increased the muber of vessels watates that the news regarding
equire to construct such year and chat law and the Mediterranean Adrianople caused remarkable scenes requirements have still or in in the Duma. greased the number of ships which must be Burintained in the highest condition of readiness. To man and maintain the resulting war toets u continal large increase of officers and men of ab maks and ratings is equired, and the general ineren in the size, cost and speed of epital shoulder high by the Deputies, who terrible news comes from Dayton where while dozew of lions tugged at their ships compelled by general develop were followed round by the President there is a seething river of 19 miles on kennet chains, which looked rutdur frail.
At the end of another year the owners ments in naval seiene and the types and Vice President of the Duma. each side of the city's main thorough- building abroad is marked by an un-
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TERRIBLE SCENES AT ADRIANOPLE.
A telegram from Sofia states that
a dozen of which can be seen blazing. Fire brigades are unable to reach the oil fuel, is serious, and shows no
occupants, who are faced with death likelihora of imediate abatement.
either by fire or water. Hundreds of
ATHLETICS SHORTEN LIFE. The adoption by Gensang, America and Italy of lager guns, for the pri
houses have been washed away with inary armaments, ale larger and the Turits set fire to all the atores, halpless people. It is reported that
eix American college athletics, American St. Elizabeth Hospital, with more numerous guns for secondary argaments has nevessitated further arsenal, artillery depot, barracks, and advance by us.
The increased size hospital in the northern quarters of patients has been wrecked. People trainers and their methods in handling and power of the new and more ex- Adrianople. Flames are devastating are without gas or electricity and are athletes are "knocked" in the Journal of faced with famine. There is no drink the American Medical Association just
athletes who have great college recorda lís to middle ags. Sprinters die of heart failure not exaggerated. Even the strongest frequently before forty years, it in said. buildings are collapsing. The cod
Instead of building up the body," it reached its greatest height at mid.rends, "prevailing method of training and night, and it is alowly subsiding.
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FURTHER INCREASES PRE- DICTED).
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There is, I fear, no pmspect of olding large and continuing is Letenses in the naval estimates in ufen years unless the period of jenste- rivalries “and of rapid scientific
ng comes to an end.
wildly flying in all the directions. CITY COMPLETELY OCCUPIED,
пож
the estimate of five thousand dead is
Later the wind veered, causing
Another tolegrain from Sofia states that
Adrianople is
entirely occupied, and that Commandant Chakri Pasha surrendered to General further fires. Ivanoff at 2 o'clock this afternova.
CHATALJA CAPTURED,
i
anaic through which we are pass-announces that Chatalja a bean mond, Kolomo and Logenspit
Of all the captured after two days' desperate total fatalities number fifteen. tations of the world we are perhaps sighting.
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At it should continue."
DEATH OF SIR Wm. CAMERON.
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LONDON, March 36. The death is announced of General ir William Gordon Cameron, 0.C.B., viso served in the Crimes, and after- ards commanded several important. districts. He was in command of Hongkong and the Straits Settlementa from 1880 to 1889.
THE NEW FREACH CABINET.
LONDON, March 26.
The impression in the lobby regarding the new. French Cabinet is that the position of the Ministry as the rosult of the vote is precarions. The main points of their policy announced in the
Hongkong, July 20, 1917,
ST. PAUL'S FOUNDATIONS.
Likelihood of a Costly New Schema,
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It is not improbable that a special method of duling with the foundations
Latest despatches from Indianapolis the combination of a healthy spirit with St. Paul's Cathedral will be proposed state that the catastrophe at Fern by what we call exercise. Such an attitude before long, said Canon Alexander re- the breaking of the Wabash leaves is almost unknown here. Instead therecently. A number of careful investiga- hundrede of dead. There are 75 dead. exists a form of overdoing that finds itations are now being carried out by Sir
with the cathedral architects. The Bulgarian Legation in London at Delaware, while among the coded chief reward in the applause of the mul- Francis Fox, the consulting engineer,
eities of Fort Wayno, Lafayette, Pich-titudo and later physical trouble.
Athletics have long been under the Great expense would be involved if this there of so-called "trainers, frequently work were carried out, added Canon Alex men of keen judginook and technical skill, ander, but he thought the feeling of the but without any systematic acquaintance country was so strong on the subject of with physical truth; The beat intellectual the safety of the cathedral that any sum that was necessary would be forthcoming. fenture of rival "contexts the encourage-
The work of cementing the cracks in. ment for each in to pat forth the best that
in him and to exerciss his own the upper part of the enthedral is making ingenalty in the development and main good progress. One of the buttresses of tenance of an efficient, superior body-is the Jome is already finished and work is suppressed by the advent of that "guardian beginning on some of the others. It is chriously unsafe, said Canon Alexander, saint, the trainer."Chiengo paper.
to add indefinitely to the waight of an utready overweighted structure unless Lomething is done to strengthen the foundations.
THE SYDNEY STRIK.
LONDON, March 26.
A telegram from Sydney states that the Forry Strike has been settled, the Companies conceding 96 hours fort- nightly instead of 126.
LABOUR CONFERENCE AT MANCHESTER.
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LONDON, March 26. The Independent Labour Party, which is holding a Conference at Manchester, has revolted to oppose the Plural Voting
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AUSTRALIA.
LONDON, March 26,
A telegram form Melbourne states that beneficial rains have fallen in Victoria, South Australia and New South Wales.
CHINESE NEWS.
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PEKING, March 27. In reply to the Sextuple Repre- sentatives the Finance Chamber have arranged to pay the interest first and The Russian Government has or- the capital in three instalments.
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