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THE HONGKO“ G DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13m, 1911.
Lady Lugard is returning to Hongkong from
go in Japan, where only great ware can Jepati by the French mail stormer due on the TELEGRAMS TELEGRAMS TELEGRAMS.
| had a respectable period of life, as Ministries
prolong their existance to the normal period 25th inst of, say, a British Farliament Parlopa_if -we-looked-a-little-deeper wo should-find in this apparently unused resiguation of Ministries a desire to save the face of the
A. S. WATSON Ministers, who have no wish to confront
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Chat ultimate defeat which lurks in the neighbourhood of too long lived govern- ments, but prefor diserest retirement while yut a cortain amount of favour is shown to
H. E. The Governor entertained a number of residente at an At Home" on the lawas at Mountain Lodge yesterday.
For salting trees na the hillside two mon were at the Magistracy yesterday ordered to pay a fiue of $3 each. -
The prisoner who macaped from Vistoria G sol on the 22nd June, 1998, has been re-captured at
them. The Karsura Ministry has certainly last and identified by means of finger printa. done some important work, which deserves the approlation of the public. For one thing it has revised the treaties with the Foreign Powers and has given a people UNE & SPIRIT "MERCHANTS, somewhat 100 susceptible to real or imagin.
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ary inequalition that tariff autonomy of which they have, so long · dreamed. On the whole the trusty negotiations have ho singularly successful. Japan las in most cases got all she wanted, more especially that reservation of the coasting trade to her own nationals upon which she laid so much stness. In the tariff conventions she has Beau forced to concede a littlo-moro than. she at first anticipated. and there has been a little grumbling among her mer. chants. As the merchants of the foreign Powers concerned have also not shown themselves over enthusiastic at the new arrangement, however, it may be suspected -that-hongues are pretty fairly divided—An—
The American Asistio Squadron arrived at Shanghai Isst week from · Vladivostock. Admiral Murlook contemplated taking the squadron up to Yangtaze the Saratoga and New Orleans going as far as Nanking, and the
Helena as far as Hankow.
Forty engineers are to be employed 'undar- Mr. A. H. Colinson in the construction of the Cautos.Hankor railway. It is said flint the
Peking Government wants to get the line finished in throw years, and that an unusually large staff is needed to put through six hundred miles in that time..
A native paper published in Poking alates fate that the Cabinet has resolved to adopt nu ["active policy" in regard to the settlement of the Macao boundary question. It is ander
stood that both the Ministries of the Navy and my are exerting themselves over preparations to put this reported policy into effe at:"
The public meeting held in the Victoria
Theatre, Singapore, convened by the Straits
WHISKY other great work accomplish by the KAT-ta association to consider a Basolu
BLEND OF THE FINEST FURE
MALT BCOTCH WHISKIES.
For over 30 Years WATSON'S "H". has maintained the ro- putation of the FINEST SCOTCH WHISKY in FAR EAST,
tion "protesting against the propost that the control of municipal affairs should be taken on! of the hands of the Ratapayors," is described Los a racord gathering of all classes of the com.
SURA Ministry hna heon the annexation of Korea, certainly a very popular stop in Japan, though protests have been raised, nud will no doubt continue to be raised, as to the administration of the an nexed torri-munity. tory: These complaints have in seine men-
sure overchuuled the enthusiasm and by the annexation. Finally the Ministry has to its erelit the revision and prolongation of The Alliance with Great Britain, which, the whatever Japango extremists" may say has forced Japan to improve her relations with the United States. Any hapa of an arbitration treaty with the States must be abandoned for the present, more especi- ally in view of the fate that has overtaken the Anglo-American and Franco-American arbitration treaties, but the exemption of the United States from the provisións of the Anglo-Jupanose Alliance is certainly a step towards fostering Japan-American relations. The proposal of Mr. KNOX for
denationalisation--or the
internation it may
hetter he de
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yesterday on a charge of having 182 counterfeit twenty cent pieces in his possession. It was alleged that man went to defendant's_shop-in- Des Yeux Roul and tendere: two dollars, for which bọ received five dollars of the spurious coin. He was convicted and sentenced to sins. months' imprisonme: i.
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Are ing between the Board of Communications a formiga firm for the Peking and avnstruction of a railway bridge across
the Yangtzo at Hankow. The estimated cost of the bridge is ten million tarla, and the bridge has to be completed in four years. The money is to be obtail from a Belgian Bank, the repayment of the low boing spread over period of ten year.
- A report was recently published that the Rev. Mr. Soothill, formerly of Shanni Uri versity, had been selected na President of the Wo-Han University (which the Oxford and Cambridge Universities propose to set up in Hanków). We observe a correction of this raportin п Paking contemporary. Mr. main duty will be to travel in America and Boothill, has been appointed Secretary, whose
England and miss the monessary funde”; A sum of £250,000 is needed.
Dr. Ganry› E. Newm, who risigasd his post us Director of the Bureau of Agriculture in the Philippins Islands remntly, is now ou lewe of
scribed of the Manchurian railways caused a greater commotion in Japan than was perhaps suspected by the world at large, and was not conducive to the maintenance of confidene in American relations. This regrettable incidentis now in a fair way to be forgotten, however, and would certainly be more easily consigned to oblivion if the two countries could come to some definite agreement on Far Eastern policy. In many minor matters also the Ministry has deserv ed well of the people. Apart from the improvement of foreign relations-notably absence. He is making preparations to go to with Russia-there has been a steady de the United States on the Sheridan, learing velopment of home industries-all the more
Mauile to-morrow (146) 'inst.). He will visit steady because progress has not hon interfer-Cabs, Hawali, and Louisians to inspect sagar el with by, those wild scrambles which follow-plantations and sugar milling operations. Ho 01 the wars with China and Russia. The intends to return to the Philippines after several reaction from the last "bom" las certainly months apost in social investigation work and created an atmosphere of depression, but encare in the sugar industry in the islands what may, comparatively speaking, be Me Harry T. Edwarda, assistant to the director, described as depression: from another point of view, si merely a return to normt activity. The high taxea, resulting from a
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TONGKONG, SEPTEMBER 13′′. 1911.
["DAILY POER9" EXCLUSIVE SERVICE.]
SERIOUS SITUATION IN
SZECHUAN
CHENGTU ISOLATED.
PEKING, September 12th.
It is impossible to deny that the situatio" in Szechuan is now causing gravo auxiety.
·Chengte is still isolated..
Chungking customs officials telegraph that the gates o* Chong tu are shint.
The Chungking authorities have issued proclamation calling upon the Railway
Bureau to dissolve.
Unconfirmed Japanese reports státo that the troops at Chengta are disloyal.
THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.).
FRANCE AND GERMANY.-
UNSATISFACTORY REPLY FROM
GERMANY. ·
THROUGE REUTER'S AGENCY
LORD ENNISKILLEN'S SON DEPORTED FROM SOUTH AFRICA.
LONDON, September 12th. LONDON, September 12th.
Mombasa telegrams state that the Order. A semi-official report published in Paris in-Comeil-by, which "Mi, Galbraith Coku, states that M. de Selves, the Minister The
Lori Enniskillon's son, is being deported, Foreign Affairs, is carefully examining the will not be cuforced immediately, and he German observations and will probably will be allowed a month for the settlement receive favourably those tending to establish
and strengthen the economic equality' of the Pewers in Morocco, hut it is expected that he will consider it impossible to gut Germany a privileged economic position, which would be contrary to the above pro
visious and might provoko hostility on the part of the other signatories to the Algeciras Agreement.
An Ediet was published to-day reviewing the situation-It-states-that-it-is-cloar-that--Other points of the German reply also the agitation is not alone due to railway raise the most serious abjections, rëndoring it probable that the pourparlers will bo matters and orders the Viceroy to use. the troops promptly to suppress the dis
prolonged for some considerable time.
turbincos. It admits that on Thursday
the infostion of burning it and killing the thousands of men attacked the Yamen with
officials, and that they wounded several solliers. Nevertheless the Edict orders the
authorities to discriminate between actual
HOLLAND NERVOUS. The Amsterdam correspondant of The
cancelled all military leave and is prolonging Tiners reports that the Government has
the training of the militia to the utmost in order to be prepared for eventualities.
GERMAN SUBJECTS MURDERED IN MOROCCO.
of his affairs.
The Timer pablishes on its principal-pago a column from a correspondent defending Mr. Cole, especially in his relations with the natives, and declaring that every party in the Colour would unite in opposing the
deportation.
The Daily Neuca says that the Cole and Lewis cases prove the breakdown" of the jury system in black and white cakes.
LATER The Westacinister Gazette says that if Mr- Harcourt is not going to use his reserve powers when trial by jury falls he may as wall retire from the lasiness of Government-
by a good previous tocord his example is In propontion as the settler is distinguishenk
clearly more dangerous, The journal adde that -st
is is glad to find that the Lewis case has caused the gravest misgivings among the men of both parties iz South Africa, and concivules that shouting at sight is at first coufined to offences against. women, then it spreads to solicitation, then to sheep-stealing. That was the inevitablo gic of lynch law, and must be stoppal in the beginning.
agitators and those jo ug under compul. ~ Tho, Daily Telegraph has a telegram sion. Jenjoins upon His Excellency Tuna from Tangiers stating that four Gorman Fang to hasten and settle railway matterineralogists-have-bean-murdered in the Suss region (the southernmost provisee of Morocco).
in Szechuan.
The Peking police have forbidden the Szechuanese to hold meetings in the capital.
[THROUGH BUTER'S AGENCY.]
RAILWAY TROUBLES IN CHINA.
Lopos, September 12th.
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A DIPLOMAT'S VIEW. Reuter has received the following from high diplomatie source:
“Although only a telegraphic summary of Germany's reply has been received in London, a feeling of great disappointment
withdrawal
The Globe says that Cle was following: the rough and ready justice of all new coun- tries, and adds that in the early days of Capio. Colony the British sentituental administra- tion extenroud to prevent such methods. One result was the great trek, and after a period of bitterness the local administr
A Peking telegram stutes that the popula: prevails. While Germany appears to agree the principle of a French pro resentment aga.ast the construction of the to Hankow-Szechuan Railway by the Anglo- tectonie, she makes reservations amount- tion was forced to allow the resumption” of French-Germano-American syndicate lasing almost to a
of her the practice for which Cole was exiled in resulted in disturbances in the province of assent, and her counter proposals place order to protest property. Szechuan, particularly at Changtu, with which telegraphic communication has been interrupted since Friday. The foreigners eft Chengta ou Thursday.
The mob attacked the Vicaray's Famon, and twenty people were killed.
Germany on an oquality with France as
LATER. regards railways and other public works,
The Morning Post remarks that the bring- practically involving co-dominion, political ing of illegality to the aid of outragest as well as economic. It is impossible for justice is no remedy for the failure of the France to grant such advantages over other jury system in East Africa, The use of Powers. Consequently the centre of inter- the Governor's warrant to deport a mem est now is not the extent of territorial who by law is innocent constitutes an un- compensation, but Morocco.
desirable precedent.. THE KAISER Herr Kiderlin Waechter has had a long Troops are massing on the frontier of the interview with the Kaiser. province.
British and American guoboats are proceeding to the disturbed districts.
Missionaries are concentrating in the
towns.
This amplifies the news given by our Peking correspondent yesterday.}_"
LATER.
SCULLING CHAMPIONSHIP.
Lornoy, September 12th. FRANCE FIRM.
The English sculling championship took -The Paris-Tops in voicing French opin-place-yesterday on the Thames froin Putney lou states that Herr Kiderlen Waechter's to Mortlake. Barry, the bolder," beat Pog- demands are rather puerile than annoying. well, of New South Wales, by 3 lengths- Frince is now prepared to reject the us
The winner's time was 22 minutes 14 vers, Fogwell led by two lengths from Harrols
THE STRIKE EXAMPLE.
LONDON, September 12th. A remarkable strike has taken place inacceptable demands. It is time the German is now acting Director of the Bureau of Agri-six board schools in the East End of London. illusions on this point were dispelled. culture, panding the arrival of Professor Fradaric The strikers- aro demanding a half holiday The Cabinet meets to-day to discuss the but Barry easily overhauled him and led by W. Taylor, the famous agrionlturist and berti-
every Wednesday and less caning. The French reply. It is expected that the reply six and then ten lengths, after which he cultarist, who is expected to arrive in Manila in
strikere armed with stones surrounded the will be most conciliatory but absolutely slackened his pace and won comfortably.
WHAT may be called a "political crisis" has too eager desire to pay off in one generation October and take over the duties of the director- schools, but the police prevented disorders.
the enormous expense incurred by the last
just occurred in Japiz, where, however, ench crises are but faint adumbrations of wave caused no little grumbling, but stil
they have been paid - without, apparently seriously affecting the standard of living of the people.
similar instances in the West. In Japan' a change of Ministry very rarely arises from political defeats, votes of censure, rejection
The new Ministry has been formed by of measures, or any of the other means by
Marquis Saiona, who hell the reins in which such adjustments are effected in
one that Europe. In the land of the Rising Sun the Ministry preceding the Ministry rotires because it is tired, or
has just resigned. The KATSURA Minis- a military because the public is presumably tired of it try has been described as and desires a change. Steadfastness is not Ministry, perhaps chiefly because it a virtue of the Japanese any more than it is was formed mostly of the same elements as of many other nations, and this applies not the Ministry that held power during the only objectively but also subjectively. New Russo-Japanese war. The new SALONI brooms weak out as rapidly there ae else. Ministry may be described as having a civil where, and the source of the broom's motive charactor, and may be expected, to devote power is equally liable to become dissatisfied greater attention to home affairs than its with its performance ou very slight provoca predecessor. tion--so slight, indeed, as to be invisible to an outsider. Thus to find any sufficient reason for the resignation of the KATSURA Ministry, which for the past three years has swayed the destinies of Japan, would puzzle the proverbial seaker of needles in bundles of straw, who would finally have to fall back on the suggestions given above-either that Prince "KATSURA is tired of the public or the public is tired of Prince KATSURA. The Premier himself selects the latter and assaulted two women. suggestion with apparent complacency, remanded,
programine
The
TI.M.S. Ke is expected down from Weihai- woi to-morrow...
Night-firing will be carried out by the 125th Baluchistan Infantry on the King's Park Range on Friday sud Saturday, between the hours of 8.30 p.m. and 10 p.m.
Two mon were placed in the dock yesterday befors Mr. Wood charged with having with an other man boarded a house-boat at Shankiwan
The case
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SUPREME COURT,
Tassday, September 12th..
IN SUMMARY JURISDICTION.
REFORE HIS HONGun Me. H. H. J. GOMPLETE. (Puisne Jodor),
ALLEGED, BREACH OF CONTRACT. Vieris & Company were the defendants in three actions. The first was by Kwong Wo& Co., for 2655, this second by Wo Ping Co., for 8439, and the third by Fook Wah Lee Kee for 2950 these sums being claimed as damages for breach of contracts. Mr. J. H. Girdiner appeared for platatifs, and Mr. H. L. Danny appeared for defendants,
The claim of Kwong Wo & Co, was taken first.
Mr. Gardiner ad the plaintiffs were pleas goods merchants of 156, Queen's Road Contral and the defendants wern comraissión agents at
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firm. M. M. Caillans and De Selves and the Hundreds of scholars have struck in French Ambassador to Great Britain aro
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THE KILMARNOCK BY-ELECTION.
LONDON, September 12th. There will be a three-cornered contest at Kilmarnock. Baille McKerral is represent- ing the Labourites.
The Right Hon. Alexander Ure, speaking at Kilmarnock iu support of the candidature of Mr. W. E. Gladstone, justified the em- ployment of the military in strikes and saiā the Government was ready to repeat the action even if it imperilled their existence. Otherwise they would be unfit to govern a civilised country.
THE DROUGHT IN BRITAIN.
LONDON," September 12th. 50 and 52, Queen's Road Central. The goods i
The unprecedented drought in the United in question, were not delivered to plain-Kingdom is unbroken. The North is suf- tiffs and a portion of the goods were sold by the fering from a shortage of water, and old plaintiffs to a third party, and they were claiming wells are being re-opened, endangering the for damages. The defendante said they were public bealth. simply agents and were not liable for the por.
Manchester has only twenty-six days". formanos of the contract,
restricted supply.
Mr. Dennys said he did not rely upon sqency, It was a contract to order certain goods, and as commission agents they ordered the
the Ministry set
A typhoon warning was received by the goods. beforo itself when it was organised American Consulate General, Hongkong, from
Numbers of woolworkers in Bradford and district are thrown cut of employment in consequence of the shortage of water, and
Mr. Gardiner said the goods never arrived subscription lists are being opened for their has been completed-or nearly completed, the Manila Observatory yesterday afternoon. under the terms of the contract. The contract | relief. and the mental inanition which has set in The cyclone or typhoon was W. of the Ladrone was cancelled. demands rest. Moreover, the Ministry has or Mariana Islands. Its direction was unknown. The hearing was adjourned.
conferring this evening.
The Lokalanzeiger disclaims any idea of Germany seeking extraordinary privileges The question is one of guarantees affecting all nations.
Great disappointment regarding the strikes is the keynote of the British comment.
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GERMAN SOCIALISTS AND PEACE
LONDON, September 12th. - Herr Bebel, the German Socialist leader,
AEROPLANE POSTAL SERVICE.
LONDON, September 12th. The aviator Hubert started from Hendon
for a flight to Windsor, but his aeroplano struck a post and tilted. He fell a distance of 100 feet and had both thighs fractured.
Hamel carried the mails to Windsor at the tremendous speed of 105 miles an hour
LONDON'S LORD MAYOR AT THE
AUSTRIAN CAPITAL.
LONDON, September 12th. H.M. Franz Josef received the Lord
in opening the Social Democratic Federa- Mayor of London in audience, and said he tion at Jena, said that despite the Kaiser' rejoiced over the cordial relations existing peace speech at Hamburg, the cry will be between London and Vienna and the two for further armaments and a great Davy Arountries of which they are the capital cities. Bill would undoubtedly be submitted to the His Majesty in his conversation showed Reichstag to meet the cost of these while much interest in the forthcoming visit of many Germans were unable to obtain a
King George to India. sufficiency of food.
MOUNT ETNA IN ERUPTION..
THE LARGEST BATTLESHIP.
LONDON, September 12tl. LONDON, September 12th.
The Onion, the largest battleship if the Mount Etna is erupting lava and threat-world, has started her trials at Portsmouth. ening to destroy the forests and vineyards on the slops of the mountain.
The agricultural outlook in the South is The streets of Catania are covered with unfavourable.
Ashes.
Critics comparing her armament with that
of the Dreulnought say that she makes the latter a second-class.