WEDNESDAY, JULY 23, 1913.
BY TELEGRAPH. BY TELEGRAPH.
(Reuter's Service to the "China Mail.) (Reuter's Spreice to the China Mail.)
THE BALKANS WAR.
BULGARIA APPEALS TO THE KAISER,
ARMY HORSES STAMPEDE.
MEN AND HORSES INJURED.
THE FOURTH GYMKHANA.
LIST OF VESTA, **
THE CHINA MAIL.
LAND BAILIFF'S DEATH.
The death took place at the Government Civil Hospital on Monday night of Me The programs of events for the fourth F. J. W. Last, who, 'ainen 1934 nd hold meeting of the Gymkhana Clah, to be held the position of land bailiff, of the Newe at the Happy Valley on Saturday, June 30, Territories. Mr. at who was 42 youre contains even evonta. They comprise the of nga served for five years in the Marinos Gymkhana stakos; s. Est ruce from the two before joining the Hongkong Police forc mile post once reuud; solo pony sourry in 1000, On his appointment to the peas, LONDON, July 29. hurdle racs; quarter mile fat handicap of land bailiff he very soon" became so Two hundred and fifty horses of the tent pogging in pairs; and no-and-squainted with every inch of the Now Tur." Queen's Bays picketed at Elstond quarter mile at handicap For the ritaries of which his knowlodge was. LONDON, July 12,
stampeded owing to a night attack by Gymkhana Cap to be presented at the end recognised sa being second to nons in the Reuter's correspondent at Brahi-infantry. The camp was thrown into of the season Claris makes the running with Colony. Mr. Last's genial and kindly -horouk talegraphe that it transpiros un indescribable state of confusion. oight marks, Forest and Sweb William spirit gained for him a wide circle of chst King Ferdinand of Bulgaria basand men and officers worked gallantly being bracketed accord with four each, and friends, and he will be greatly missed. The
to quicten and secure the torrified
Entries for all events must roach the hon, tolographed appealing to the Kaiser of animals. Eight horses had to be desir Bedisero third with two, the subject of the Roumanian invasion. stroyed and it is feared that twelve
more will have to be shot. Five men secy Mr. R: F. C. Master, as the Club, ba- The nature of the reply is unknown.
were sent to hospital, one of them, fors 7 o'clock on Wednesday, August 20, In sergeant farries, being gravely in. TURKS DEFEAT BULGARIANS.jured. Sixty horses galloped back to
their stables at Aldershot.
Turkish daspatalos of yesterday Latute that the Bulgarians opposed the -Turkish occupation of various strategic polats, compelling the Turks to give battle, with the result that the Turks have succeeded in capturing Kafeli-) burgas, luelburgas, the Ergone Bridge
dd Baboski, taking 136 prisoners.
SHOOTING AT BISLEY
-BRITAIN WINS THE KALA-
TORE CUP.
LONDON, July 23.
The following are the scores in the
STATEMENT IN THE COMMONS. competition for the Kalapore Cup--
In the Houan of Commons, Mr.. F D. Acland, Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, said that the latest information egalding Turkey was occupying the attention of the Powers, but he could not state what action they might agres to take.
THE AMBASSADORS, CONFERENCE.
The conference of ambassador held An London has longtbily diseased tho. question of the Turkish advance and.
Great Britain..... Australia....... Canada
790.
777.
..:-756.
South Africa Guernsey......
749. 742.
HOME CRICKET.
LONDON, July 23. Warwickshire beat Derbyshire at Birmingham by an innings and 31 rans. Hampshire beat Worcestershire, at Dudley by in innings and 20 runs.
Kent brat Lancashire at Maidstone by nine wickets.
Gloucestershire best Yorkshire at Sheffield by 2 runs. Last year York
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the necessity that the belligerents
hould come to an early arrangementshire won by 74 runs. "The Conference is unanimously of the opinion that the attempt of Turkey to effect a revision of the decision of the Powers on the subject of the frontier absolutely inadmierible. The Am- bassadörs expect instructions on the 24th instant regarding the action to be taken at Constantinople:
The Middlesex v. Surrey match at the Oval ended in a draw. Same result
last year.
Northaste best Sussex at Horeham by 50 runs.
A STATELY CEREMONY."
SPORTING.
Water Polo.
1
funeral took place last evening at thi Happy Valley,
The
THE LATE MR. ANGUS HAMILTON.
DETAILS OF ZER TEKOKÖY,
New York Buraid of June 1
A AND GCOVK. D.O.L.I. ». “B AND E" thus reports this tragic death of the late
Cor. 1.0.L.L
Mr. Angus Hamilton, at rne-time Editor These terms played a Gascoigne Loague of the South China Morning Poet": match at the Naval Ordnance Cember yes- Penniless and owing two weeks rent for his rooms there, Angus Hamilton, author, terday evening.
lecturer and correspondentia ten European and Asiable war, cut his throat with '
Teams," and "Coy's-Challenger; Farmer, Bloroy; Baldwin; Shale, Oussell, Smith.
razor in his apartment in' the St. Louis
*B nad H. Guy's. - Johnson; New-Hotch, in East Thirty-second street, pester
Bailey.
combe, Casey Cactor; Read. Withers, day. Hie dorth followed soon after the hotel management had made the second request that he pattle the unpaid bill for two of the three weeks he had stopped there,
Referon, Leo. Cpl. Brown, R. E... From the commencement, it was seen that B and A" were no match for their opponents. Johnson, saved from Cussell and Smith; and at the other and Farmer pulled Cartor up near goal. Withers also missed narrowly and then play went to the opposite, end; Johne u scraped out a shot from Cussell bat Farmer opered the scoring. The same player added two more before the interval when "A and GTM were leading by 3 goals to mil.
The racond half was mostly in favour of A Bad G Cay's. After Withers had had good shot saved by Challenger, Farmor was all in the other and where the scored the fourth for his side. Cusseli notched the Aftb, and Farmer the sixth and seventh. Withers mede serural good attempts but was poorly supported. Far- mer thus scored six of the seven goals. Result A sad G "Cop's. D.C.LI. 7; "Band E" Coy'a 1.C.L.Í. D.
the Balkan AI-
Waning public interest in the Balkan war is declared by those who know Mr. Hamil- ton to be the causn for the suicide. He came here from Fngland, fullowing bis cpture by the Turks paige, and bagan a lecture tour. : His leo. ture was illustrated by moving pictures of the armies in action, but the venture did not yield the financial results. Mr. Hamil ton had expected." He showed evidences of despondency when his financial difficulties. caused him to give up his rooms at the Astor Hotel three weeks ago and move to the more modest accoratiation he was occupying at the St. Louis,
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The following letter appeared roccatly in the Manchester Giardian":
Sir,-At the sponing of the Manchestercentry was in Carnegia Hall. Lathe BORDERS & EDGINGS Exhibition of Chinese Applied Arts at the spoke in the Academy of Music, in Brook- A FLOOD OF DESPATCHES
LONDON, July 23,
City Gallery on June 18 a jarring note was, and filled engagement in. Buton,
novarač: Capadian cities. The re-inauguration of King Henry more than once struck in the speech of Sir Cleveland, Pittsburg, Philadephin and in Mr. Hamilton was a stoparin of Sit Communication between Bulgaria the Seventh's chapel at Westminster Barcules Rand by his use of the term
Ho was the eldest son of Captain Johu your report in today's Manch ster and Europe, which was interrupted Abbey as the chapel of the Order of the var for Chinese." And I see in Arthur Pinero, the English playwright. the term appens twice. It was Angus Lushington Hants, of the Second oving to the Roumanian advance, has Bath was, the cocosion of a stately Guardian
the Chinese laundryen on the Pacific West Indian reginent; and was tried in now been re-opened; conséquently there ceremonial. There was a procession Cost of the United States to whom the 1906 to Miss Helon Frances, youngest daughter of the late George Stiles Reilly, is & flood of Sofia despatches, whion from the House of Lords of the com- name was first given. It was strange are mostly official accounts of the all-manders of the Bath, after which the hears speaker from s responsible garter He was of the branch of the Hilton
as a term of contempt. the head. aged atrocities of the Serviana and King, in robes of crimson silk, with Chinese is regarded on try educated family of which the Duke of Abercorn is Pages of Honour, was preceded by the One listened with full respect to Sir In the Boer War, fr, Hamilton rep' rtod Hercules Read's speech, though one's own the siege of Mafoking and he want throngh Duke of Connaught. Noticeable am anxiety na to come within sight of the the Borer aprising as a correspondent. In the processionists, who were robes and numerous Tare objects of which he spoke. the Boer campaign he was accompanied FLEEING FROM ADRIANOPLE. quaint headgear, were Earls Roberts, It seemed indeed. that one never had always by his dog, Mr. Maleking His Kitchener and Grey and Field Marshal seen and never again would see such book on Corea attracted wide attention at objects of suity on there we were to look the time of the Rilla Japanese' War, dur- The civil authorities and population Sir Evelyn Wood, and Lorda Methuen, upon in that exhibition. Yet with oating which he was in a correspondest.
oz two exceptions there was no class of He reported as well the Somaliland oper confOUS PASE IN THE FACIFIC OCEAN. work with which I was not at onto familiar.ations, the Balkan-Macedonian troubles At Adrianople are deeing to Bulgaris, Beresford and Brassey.
Crowds cheered their Majesties and Sie Herenles Read rendered, and sery and acted as correspondent for various It might not saem vory okay to steal It is reported that Enver Bey com- amends the captors.
Princess Mary while driving to the rightly an, warm tributes of praise to the English newspate and pblications in thi
actual arrangement of the oibibits, and country, Australasia, the Far East, Central islands from Power like France, yet Abbey.
thas is praise which none can see the Anix and in Assam. He was tho possessor Boreral nowspapers simultaneously seem to exhilling and thhold. Its chief, and of several war medale, a fellow of the Royal have discovered that the Colonial Depart inderd only, lack is of more. percographical Society and of the authorsment, so to sponk, kas kad, ita Fecife, fect backgrounds, which could have been, Club and the Royal Societies of London.
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EFFORTS OF THE POWERS.
The Rt. Hon. H. H. Asquith, in the course of his speech at Birmingham, waid the Powers had been doing"their utmost to bring the disputants together
WELSH DISESTABLISHMENT.
DISCUSSION IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS.
LONDON, July 22. unt a peaceful conference. He added. In the House of Lords Lord Salisbury that if Turkey in ill-advised enough to on behalf of the Opposition, moved that defy the Treaty she must be prepared the House decline to proceed with the for the bringing up of questions which second reading of the Welsh Disestab- will not be to her interest, and which ishment fill until it had been submilt- will bring into debato cortalo of hered to the country by force of a actions,
AMBASSADORS AWAITING
INSTRUCTIONS,
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The Ambassadors at London expect i to be fully instructed-in time for their nart moeting, which takes place to
referendum.
Lord Haldane maintained that the Bill was righteone and its policy a true
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Eaglsa is oext accused of having sur reptiti tely sonored the Unen, Ducis, and
wall formed by banging two of tree Before he killed himself Mr. Hamilton Oven pocket picked severd timea lately. Chinese paintings (which were within placed several small pieces of jewelry in a The first case was discovered by the cruiser reach of the Committed had they so ohosen) ate and left a hot directing that the case Callast, which found some Mexicans in in each soum, sa illustrations of the works be sent to Mr. Agus Hamilton, No. 13 passion of Clipperton Island, in Oceania of the panters engtemporary with the Catherine street, Buckingham Gate, Lon and they refused to evacuato it. The case wicks of tLe porter. Thons are mandarins don, 8. W. Un a pile of manuscript was bas baca brenght before the tribunals, and í k color, and such-ike in abundance, but are remling For Mr. Parane Tobis still pending. This was aboutßte years
es, with their almost modern tichnasa lied for. The peace beliese it was to ga and gorgepast cis strikes noto list carco Me. Parn that Mr. Hamilton-sent the
Handorson Islatris, in the Preiße." Accord- by echoes the note of an old pottery kiln. letter which oft the botel to mail Friday Then, robes are unt of ancient date. bat night.
ing to the French story, Mr. Simons, the chi By belong to the eighteenth century.
British Counul at Papeete, asked the French Govornar to inaet a notier in the Oficial. Especially the list room of all would old Chinese paintings' have proved such valu.......
Gazette of the inland informing the publis ahle nequisitions. The two cases, right
that the above mentionet kalunde haring and left on ostetig, noed other back
loon conceded in private companies it would ground than that which is afforded
henceforth be forbidden to land on them. A Blank wall space, and the framed pictures
short while ago mo trifing incidentall on the side walls, being the joint effort of
Although it has not yet allowed its owned the ownership isto question, but in the needlewomen and painters of a dynasty no carlive than the Ming (which began in 1888 hitth-rata to sit to the abuormally low face of the official proclamation there was and ended in 1644) are schot and pour lire of two of Laren of its western and nothing to be done, and the islands romsin companions for the Lady Kwan Yin whose more plessure seeking suburbs, Berlin has sta cly bgare i garded as the culminat
BERLIN'S POPULATION,
STEADY DELLINE AİT ZELE DIETH BAZE.
ig point of this exhilation, as well as being now to take one of the lowest places in the unwarthy to be catalogued with examples scale of the municipal birth-ratos of Ger of aboiont pottery much, for instance, many, and through this and other causes were illustrated in your paper of a day or for the Brst time in the history of moders Twa Chincas paintings are exhibited in Germany, it has to face the feet that it the firet room, and described as long role population is actually diminishing Thay aro makimono, but lie in cases not To day the population is approximately entirely suited to their style of beauty2,080,000, but this is 20,500 fewer than and, overbung with carpate and examples of embroidery, they give it once the ides two months ago. Not only in the birth that they are there to lead a fariera hope, rate declining, but the number of in
the properte of the British comprom,
under the British
PEARL FISKERICA.
Probably awakening to the possibillion) how in the foregoing cues, two nativas of Tab ti demanded conversions of you been islands for another-el-pearl fakering Before granting them the Governor orders! an inquiry Into, the ownership of those ende and in dus coarsen nadironsmod Tsaron, who joins the functions of nativa him. He pastor at Tabiti with several other datio claimed tist these belonged produced quantity of documents, most
of which proved to be forgeries.
LONDON, July 231 The death is announced of the Rt Hon. Sir Ralph Hoary Knox Haring THE LOWERS AND TURKEY entered the War office in 1655, he
was a member of the committee which They are described in the catalogue as habitants who withdraw from the city work of the Ming dynasty. In would have proper is constantly increasing. The build- worked out Lord. Cardwell's army ze been interesting to have had the names al ing industry, which has experienced's most the only shadow of title "pomazed by: The "Lokalanzaiger," which is reform, and of the Royal Commission on the artists nad a nearor idea of their date remarkable decling, during the last toroo Tasrda soems to have beon that one of his garded sa a semi-oficial journal; atatea Indian Financial Relations, 1826, Civil and any other particulara possible, since years, is now practically at atendakill, a fact. Anopalors was, formerly, shipwzakodom that it disbelieves that anything beyond Sercice Superiannations 1902, and they are the only two puotings in the which can cause no great eurprise when ons one of these islan"s in company wi
exibilia. It would, Fon have been learns that no fewer than Dumerous other mariners, Meagre as the diplomatic preature will be applied to Milito dad Volunteers, 1903. He was kinder to the publin, ospecially as the ant and ate at stand empty 2,000 houses title, was, however, Teards contrivedi to too democratic charge of one shilling in Though Derlin; or, in diminishing in gl. various of his properting to foreign made for the cataingas-Yours, nic,
population, Grest Berlin, the city with its companies.
The Preach Goremment has now entered manufacturing suburbs on the cast and a criminal action against the worthy native matte Jouw, HilOTTEN.
north and its residential soluzbe to the land civil, oser, arsinat the companies) in 5, Warwick Road, Chorlton-cum-Hardy, westand sopili in still showing an increase in the audeavour, la regain possession of the
Manchester, June 19.
population. Tek hire, also, there is ground Islands for the French Government." "It for ballering that for the present the dimax was high time to do this, as oight days Inter has been reached. In Schoneberg one of statutory limitati ma would hava muda all' now the more luxurious suburbs, which in. Tearod sales valid and confirmed the pur DON'T NEGLECT YOUR FAMILY moet entirely a prodant of the land or chasce and ownership
A soron years, the firth rate la now lower than WH
JHEN you fail to bravide your family that of Paris. With a popnition of bearly with a bottle of Chamberlain's Colle, 183,000 it showed an increase last year uf Chalara and Diarrhoss Remedy at this some .000 head, due to removes from. semson of the year, you are neglecting other ce tree, but the access of hirt: 'over them, as bowel complaint is sure to bo death was only-00. A low figure is cus Prevalent, and it is too dangerous & malady temury here, for the surples has never boen to be trilled with! This is expecially tras higher than 147, Eut although only a fifth
the Porte This is honily reconcile seventy seven years old. able with Mr Asquith's stalement yesterday evening at Birmingham.
The important factor of the present situation is the coincidence between the interests of Actoria and. Resin, botli of whom are equally desirms to proven! excessivo humiliation to Bulgarisi
PEACE NEGOTIATIONS.
bos apparently bien seited that negotiations which are entirely at of the armistice negotiations rill balde, a Bigais.
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