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Mr. H. W. Denison, the Foreign Advisor ta the Japanese Foreign Office, arrived in Hong- ong yesterday by the N. D. L. steamer Buelo American Consul-General in Korea, was also a passangor.
from Yokohama, Mr. T. H. Saminous, they
SUPREME COURT,
Tuesday, January 24th.
IN CRIMINAL JURISDICTION.D BEFORE HIS HONOUR MR. F. A. HAZELAND
(ACTING PIINNE JUDGE).
A "NOLLE PROSEQUI." Wong Toz Kin and two others were arraigned on a charge of conspiracy to mardor,
His Lordship informed the acensed that the Altorpoy-General had entered a neile prozegać, and that they were discharged.
The jurors were then discharged, and the Sessipas adjourned sine die.
MURDER IN HONGKONG.
A wander was committed at the junction of Monday evening: Several men on the street guarrelled about something, and one man drawing a knife
Des Voeux Road and Hill Road ou
passing through the victim's body. The un- fortunate man, who was a boarding-honsa runner, expired immediately. No arrests have been made yet.
THE STEAMBOAT COMPANY · DIVIDEND.
MACAO NOTES.
[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]
MAOAO, Jan. 16th.
officials. Th Government would be well advised before experimauting at the cost of rate- payers to direct its attention to the public build lags, some of which are badly in wood of repair," For instanco, the Post Office; the Saint Domingo Market, the Monts Fort and the Harbour. Olos sadly need repairing and re-painting. As. for the order not to use yellow paint, if the colour is objectionable to the Assistant Director of Public Works, why does he not cause it to be removed from the Police Station and the Flora
Barracks?
It appears to me that the Director, before con- sidering artistic improremonte, would be better engaged if hodoroted his oergies to the com- pletion of urgent public works. For instance, the four white elephants, or hopper barges, which cost the Colony more than $50,000, are still rusting on the mud. They are badly in need of an overhaul and painting, and unless official attention is soon directed to then they will sooo pass into the historic collection of ruins which grows s the prosperity of the
a danger unfenced publio wells, which are to the community, and the Avenida Vaso co da Gams and other pablis gardens are going to rack and ruin for the want of a little timely
attention.
CHINESE NEW YEAR.
TELEGRAMS.
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"DAILY PRESS" EXCLUSIVE SERVICE.
JAPANESE ANARCHISTS
EXECUTED.
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Tokyo, January 24th. Twelve of the condemned, anarchists were executed this morning, including the woman.
The news has created general surprise in Tokyo ou account of the haste with which the sentence has been carried out,
JAPAN AND MANCHURIA.
TOKYO, January 24th. Count Komurs, the Prime Minister, in his speech in the Diet on the coun try's foreign relations, emphasised the determination of the 'Government to maintain the status quo in Manchuria.
PLAGUE IN THE NORTH.
PEKING, January 24th. There is a general lull in the plague epidemic. The Government intends to suspend the regular railway traffic throughout North China, Dr. Setoo (F) has become convalescent at Harbin. This is the first recovery and is due probably to inoculation.
(BBUTER'S SERVICE TO THE " HONGKONG DAILY. PRESS. "]
[FROM THE "N.O. DAILY KEWS."}
- INVASION OF ENGLAND.
London, Jan. 17th. The second edition of General Sir Ian Hamilton's book, "Compulsory Service," contains nofos furnished to Mr. R. B. Haldane, Secretary of State for War, by Admiral Sir Arthur Wilson, G.C.B., G.C.V.O. First Soa, Lord of the Admiralty, which show that, even if the sea-going fleets were absent, the mobile defence that a force of mosquito craft would make would render | impossible an invasion of England by a force of seventy thousand men, which is the minimum useded for an invasion.
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The real danger, Admiral Wilson points out, is not invasion, but the interruption of trade and the destruction of mercantile ship- ping,
REDISTRIBUTION OF NAVAL COMMANDS.
London, Jan. 18th. Vico-Admiral Sir Francis Bridgeman-
ed to the Command of the Home Fleet, Bridgaman, x.c.v.0., K.C.B., has been appoist-
replacing Vice Admiral Sir William May, 3.c.v.0., x.0.8. Vico-Admiral Prince Louis Alexander of Battenberg will take coun- mand of the Third and Fourth Divisions of the Home Fleet, replacing Vice-Admiral Sir Georgò Neville.
A. REMARKABLE AERONAUTIC
FEAT.
Londor, Jau 19th. Dispatches from San Francisco state that Mr. Ely, un aviator, started from a point twelve miles south of the city in a Curtis bi- plane, landed on the deck of a cruiser in the larbour, and returned to the starting point.
NAVAL MANOEUVRES.
who profess to have knowledge of the secret treaty. It confesses that the foundation this knowledge is impossible to discover, and but for the fact that the
STRANGE GOVERNMENT MANDATE. rumour is widely spread and is beginning |
A notification in the Boletim Oficial, at the to work its way into certain nowspapers it An interesting little function took place last Director of Public Works, orders that all the foot of which is the name of the Acting & CO., might be loft uncontradicted." The foreign week at the headquarters of the Shanghai Rewhouses in the Colony are to be colour-washed or Offices of Great Britain und France, at any ing Club, Mr. Arthur Hido, the Captain of the re-painted within sixty days. How is it possiblo been admitted to. the Club, being presented with a silver solver, and a to get some 3,000 houses colour-washed in 60 rato, have not "secret," and dismiss it as an absurd gold bracelet for his wife. The salvor, which days unless we import an army of painters
of the enemy. Our enter was beautifully ornamnated, bore the following According to instructions, no builling is to be invention prising London contemporary endeavours ascription: -Fre ented by the member of the
Shanghal Rowing Club to Arthur Hide, painted white or yellow. This strange order is frace the origin of the rumour December 7, 1910, on the occasion of his causing much comment and the public aro wondering whether white and yellow affect the by darkly hinting at what might have hap marriage,
oycaight or the nerves of certain Coloniál DE ST. MARCEAUX Pred when the Cean and KAISER met a few weeks ago.. Then we are reminded of the & CO.,
fate of the suggestion put forward by bir KNOX, the U.S. Secretary of State, aiming at the international control of the railways in Manchuria. It was already common knowledge, the writer says, that Russia and Japan were on the point of concluding au agreement with regard to their interests in ENGLAND, GERMANY, Chius. Mr. Krox's proposal hastened and RUSSIA, AUSTRIA, BEL confirmed that agreement. As a matter of GIUM, ITALY, DENMARK, fact, that agreement, which was in any case an absolutely necessary one, was not signed &c., &e.
until several months after replies were 10 Mr. Knox's inquiries However, to proceed :-" It IS at this point that rumour with the assertion that Germany was admitted into this treaty, or rather into a secrot treaty, having for its object the part tion of China among these three Powers.' stabbed another in the back, the weapon Celony,deolines. Thon there are numerous Russia, it is said, has been frightened into her old allegiance to Germany, because the Emperor WILLIAM rattled liis subre in St. Petersburg during the late Balkan Crisis.". The writer goes on to say that an obvious and inevitable consequence of such na agreement would be to release the German military forces on the eastera frontier and to leave Germany a free hand in dealing with Great Britain and France. Germany would thon, be without restraint in Europe
LONDON, January 24th. and Russia in turn would be at her mercy
Apart from tho incredible treachery
A Teheran telegram states that
which this rumour imputes to Russia, it
Great Britain's reply to the Persian Note of the 30th is impossible to see what advantage such
ult. expresses an agreement could give to the Russians."
satisfaction with the measures takon Coming to the case of Japan this is described
to maintain law and order in Southern aseven more ridiculous. "The attitude of the
Persia, but states that as the recent German Emperor during the Russo-Japanese
security of the war and his denunciation of Great Britain
Shiraz road is probably due to the
Washington, Jan 20th. for having entered into an alliance that. I very much regret to say that the expenses of
severity of the winter, Great Britain
The Democratic lenders in and out of threatened Europe with the Yellow Peril the Cathedral have exceeded the revenue during
Congress endorse Representative Champ reserves the right in the event of the Clark of Missouri for the next Speaker of A. S. WATSON & CO., are not forgotten in Japan. Why should 1920 by $1,346. Our expenditure during the invite a great and unfriendly mili-four previous years exceeded our income by au Japan
failure of the measures to insist on the the United States House of Representatives. tary Power like Gerinauy to become her average of $3,550, so that there is 'aufortunately no improvement to report is this respect, in spite
At the Magistracy yesterday J. M. C. Lopes, employment of officers of the Indian No other member of the party has sought neighbour in China? Whatever may be of the fact that the accounts show an increase of in the service of the Hongkong and Shanghui
to be its candidate for the speakership. the faults of the Japanese it is acknow-8390 in jew rents, of $313-in donations and of Bank, was summoned before Mr. B. R. Hal-Army to organise a road police force,
In reference fo Persia's request for DEATH OF MR. PAUL MORTON, adged that in everything affecting their $251 in collections, or $954 in all, is addition to lifex for shooting wild birds without a licence relations with their British allies they have special military contribution of $252 for services in the New Territory on January 22nd. Mr, consent to a surcharge of 10 per cent.
New York, Jan 20th. acted with almost unprecedented houour rendered by the Cathedral Chaplain during the F. P. J. Wodehonso appeared in support of the in the customs tariff in South Persia
Mr. Paul Morton, former Secretary of the absence on short leave of the chaplain to the prosecution, and Mr. L. d'Almada appeared for the proceeds to be devoted to the and frankness. Why, then, should they be suspected of treachery, apart from the tically the same as in 1909, with the exception Sergt. Korr, stationed at Sheung Shui, spoke preservation of order and security, the suicidal fully of deliberately. "bringing of a
to having on the 22nd inst. seen the defendant reply says that as this would mainly Germany into the Asintic compoti-to England to which the chaplain and the in possesion of the two birds produced at
entitled under Fauling. They were ring doves and had been affect British trade, the Government the organist respectively
their agreements. There are
few freably killed. They were fully grown. They of Great Britain is unable to agree whole matter would be that it is a sittinge in the Cathedral which are not already were not blue rocks.
unless British officers are employed to farrago of nonsense not worth a moment's rental-perhaps if more of these rented sitting
By Mr. d'Almada Ho bad been in the Naw consideration except as an illustration of were also occupied thera would be less dilenity Territory about 14 years. He had been cut organise the gendarmerie. what may be done in the domain of politics in meeting our expenses-ard all the members shooting, himself. Ho had shot both at homo by writers of fiction. We are not surprised of the Church Eady are very averse to any to read that the whole story is treated in the increase in the charge for sittings, so that our German Press ironically. No one acquainted only hope of an increased revenue lies in an appeal to those who alrently contribute to give with international pulitics affecting China more largely of their abundance, and those who could take the talo seriously.
have not hitherto supported their national Charch in this remote diocese of His Majesty's Dominions beyond the Seas, except to claim her
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BIRTHS.
On January 19th, at Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. GEO. S. AVEVARD, a daughter.
On Jauary 2018, at Sanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. F. GRFIN, « SOR.
DEATH.
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At the Magistracy yesterday a number of
obstruction,
On January 20th, at Shanghai, KLEMENZ J. Chinoso shopkeepers vars fined $5 each for
MU LLER, laty of the I. ST. Customs, aged 33. HONGKONG OFFICE: 10A, Desur ROAD C LONDON OFFICE: 131. FLEET STREET, EC
The Daily Press.
HONGKONG, JANUARY 25TH, 1911.
A FEW weeks ago the London Daily Mail gevo prominence to a tale of a triple "plot" to partition China. Though one of the numerous headlines described the reports & "mischievons," they were evidently regarded by the Daily Mail as umaking a good news paper sensation, and so although no one with knowledge believed the rumour" a column was written about it under head- lines occupying a space of fully four inches. "No one who comes near to current gossip
It is understood, that the three submarines of the C Class which are to be sent to Hongkong will leave Tugland on February 10, under convoy of the Diana, cruiser. They will proceed as far as Malta under their own motive power, and from there will be towed to their
destination.
The Directors of The Hongkong, Canton and Macao Steamboat Co., Limited, will recommend at the half-yearly meeting of the Company to be held on February 21st that a dividend of $1.55 por share be paid to shareholders, that 36,344.00 be written off book value of properties, wharven and lighters, and $20,000 bo carried forward to New Account.
ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL.
The annual meeting of southolders and subscribers of St. John's Cathedral was held yesterday at 8t, Paul's College. His Lordship the Bishop of Victoria presided,
Dr. Francis Clark, the hon, treasuror, in sabmitting the fungia statomout said
Forces. Our expenditure has remained prac
of $2. 11 on retura passages stm
were
very
sig on their marriage or her consolation in times of national or of personal sorrow, that they should prove their faith by remembering that it is not only in mundare affairs that the labourer is worthy of his hire.
The statement was unanimously adopted. The Church Body, consisting of. Dr. Clark, Dr. Atkinson r. W. Armstrong. Hos. Mr. E. Osborne, Ciel St. Johr, and Mr. Bryor were re-electe n the motion of the Bishop seconded by Mrs. Stabb.
REPLY TO THE PERSIAN NOTE,
As in previous years, gumbling ad. lib. is ex-|-* pacted to be permitted during the holidays. Ou the 31st instant the streets in certain quarters | GREAT BRITAIN AND PERSIA. will be lined with dice tablos, and, as ho hears the shout of "Ouvre, Senhor," the pedestrian will have to withstand the temptation of a fas. cinating gapio of "coli, cola" as well as the mor- insidious fantan and other gambling games. The embargo against wholesale gambling is removed with the idea of attracting Chinese to the Colony, bat the object of the Government would probably meet with more success if taxos were reduced and the system of squeezing put down with a determined hand.
DR. MARQUES.
His many friends in Hongkong will fara
with regret that Dr. Lourenço P. Marques, who has been ailing for some time, has had a relaps, and that there is little hope of his
recovery.
A WILD BIRDS' PROSECUTION.
the defence.
and here.
Do you consider that the pigeons in the Hongkong Gardens are blaa rocks?--Yes,
Where did you get these two birds P-At the railway station.
And you insisted on taking them away from a sportsman? Yes. They were wild birds.
Discussion took place as to whether the birds produced came with the meaning of the Ordinance.
birds in Court.
His Worship said he should like to see them produced and have them described. But Mr. Wodehouse had better make laste because the birda would not keep very long.
Bushire Kazerua-
Á US. NAVAL BASE IN ECUADOR.
LONDON, January 24th. The Government at Washington admits that the question of the lease of Galapagos has been informally dia- cussed with Ecuador.
It is understood that the Congress
Mr. Wodehouse suggestod he should produce two blue rock pigoons to compare with the of Ecuador some time ago authorised the leasing of the islands which would form a desirable naval bare, but af meeting of citizens at Guayaquil reject- ed a resolution approving the offer of a base, considering it unpatriotic.
THE PORT OF LONDON
DECLARATION.
The case was remanded until Friday.
PROFESSOR GROSSI'S FAREWELL PERFORMANCE TO-NIGHT.
His Lordship said they were indebted tą the | numerons workers, and remarized that confri- | butions were now above the average of recent THE NEW FEATURES IN THE PROGRAMME. The Rev. F. T. Johnson proposed a vote ofWe are informed that Professor Gross! has thanks to the lay workers and to the Sunday been challenged to walk the chalk-line by
Return of visitors to the City Hall Library and Museum for the week ending the 22nd Janu ary shows that of non-Chinose there were and of Chiness 180 to the former and 3,035 to 459 to the Library and 285 to the Museum, years. the lattor The Library was, therefore, used by 619 persons and the Museum by 3,226
An official orisis has broken ont in the German Chinese Collage at Tsingtan. Two
School workers,
Mrs. Landar seconded and the motion was carried.
OIL FUEL FOR BATTLESHIPS.
INCREASED FAQILITIES AT PORTSMOUTH..
telepatio suggestion at the Theatro to-night
A well-known local gentleman who has sent the challenge will bring his own chalk, and bandage the professor himself. The only condition the professor makes is that a die- interested party, selected from the audience, will "Icad" him, through transmission of thought, Important extensiona mre being made to that is to say, the professor has to walk a chalk Portsmonta Harbour. The Admiralty has
European professors having been dismissed, the others, with the exception of the elementary teachers,, have resigned re a profeat. The or foreign relations," it began, "can have trouble has arisen through the projected the naval oilfnel works on the Gosport side of line drawe, no matter how or where, and rely for
reorganisation of the College ou English lines.
London, Jan, 20th." The British naval manouvres start to-day off the coast of Spain. Twenty-three bat- tleships and fourteen armoured crúivers will take part under twelve Admirals. Tho commanders of the opposing fleets will be Vice-Admimi Sir William May and Admiral Sir Edmund Poe.
[FROM THE MAFILA “CABLENEWS."}
THE US. SPEAKERSHIP,
Navy and President of the Equitable Life Aurance Company of Now York, died here last evening of apoplexy.
SOLDIERS' CLUB BILLIARD TOURNAMENT.
The Royal Artillery &tal met the Royal Engineers B Team in the first round of the above tournament on Monday last. The first game was won by the. R.E., Corporal Rudd boating Colonel Chamier by 26 points. The Colonel had a load of over 60 at one period of the game, but Rudd gradually overhauled him and after the 200 was passed the .. representative
|got a slight lead; which he maintained to the
finish and wen as stated.
In the second game Major Kirke, HK.S.B. B.G.A. opposed Sapper Brown, R.E., and a good The B.A. Staf are now 48 paints in front with gamo resulted in a win for the R.A. by 74 points. six more games to play. Play will be continued throughout the week,
́GERMAN. STEEL WORKS
FOR CHINA. ·
It is well known that the Shantung Mining Company in Kinuchan possessos certain valu- able iron ore deposits, the Chint Times says. Thore is in influential oircles in Berlin a strong desire that theso deposits should not be exploited and the product exported manufactured. Japan, it appears, is ready market for this LONDON, January 24th. mineral, and negotiations wore far forward with. the object of delivering supplies thereof to Japan, The Conservative papers are con-which country, it is notorious, lacks iron ore de ducting a campaign against the posits. There are convenient supplies of "enable the Shantung concern ratification of the Declaration of the Port of London.
THE WAR IN ARABIA.
BIG FORCE OF NATIVES.
Joal.
to
to melt its own ore, and to produce its own steel. This is the goal aimed at by those who are now actively agitating that a steel works should be aracted at Bear Kindchan and they are delighted to learn that the negotiations between the company and the proposed Japanese buyers have broken down. The road is now clear, they think, for realising the subitions project of a German steel works on a large-scalein the For East-including, of course, rolling mills An. other advantago onjoyed by the Shantung Com- district, such being valuable as a flux. A fine pany is that there is a sufficiency of lime in the brown fron ore is found at Maschan, containing & } percentage of manganese which would be useful in the production of steel. All the iron and stool is said to lie about four miles from Shantung, and the deposite referred to can be worked in day. light, that is, they are practically surface bods and will need no shafts. The lime deposits are
escaped the rumours of a secret plot in which Germany and Russia and Japan era
given directions for additional tanks with a capa guidance-entirely upon the concentration-of It is stated that the Customs revenus at city of 24,000 tons and when the new works are thought by the disinterested party who will the conspirators. The scene is laid in Dalny in 1910 amounted in round figures to completed the total storage at the depot will walk a few paces behind him.
fmount to about 50,000 tons. In order to China, and the tocsin is to ring when the TIs. 1,080,000 against the record receipts of facilitate
the fuelling of battleships &
To-night Professor Grossi performs the feats her has struck for the overthrow of the Tails 1,100,000 of the preceding year. large pior de also to be built adjoining of auto-suggestion which formed 'the great Manchu dynasty,
And when the revolu. Considering the comparative dullness in the the Clarence victualling yard. The vassals will feature, of his long ongagement at the Hippo- tion comes in China this, we are told, is to bean export trade prevailing since the begin-into the double bottoms through landdrome, London. He will put into execution any ed at 60,000.
pipes Iappen: Germany, Russia, and Japan willing of the season and taking into consideration from the tanks. The vessels bringing the lignid material act in the thoughts of any person in his be found to have made a secret alliance and the abnormal inflation of the trade in the pre-fuel from the oil fields will pump their cargo in-audience, that is to say, he will do what Me.hetween Hodeida and Sanaa are inter- quite near to the proposed rita of the works,
ending season, this nominal decrease obarged to to the storage tanks by the same method. The Béné has been doing at the performances al- tanks, for which the contractors aro Mesars." will divide the Celestial Kingdom among last year should be regarded as meaning favour. Edwin Danks & Co. of Oldbury, Birmingham, ready given, but he will use persons in the au- them. This is the rumour-which the Daily able returns surpassing all sober expectations, are expected to be ready for use in about two dicace thementves as mediums. It is a wonderful Mail says finds credence with many people says the Dalny journal.
performance and should attract a crowded house.
mouths time.
LONDON, January 24th. News received at Constantinople from Hodeida states that the forces of the Imaum, Syyed Yahya, are estimat
The means of communication
rupted, and the garrison at Sanaa is on the defensive pending the arrival of reinforcements.
and good coking coal is to be found 20 miles from the proposed works. The last words in the report state that, as far as can be judged, the capital for working out the plan is assured.