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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 201a, 1911.
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FRANCE AND GERMANY.
Lorios, September 19th. Herr von Kidorlin-Waechter has Haute- to M. Cambon Gerinany's reply.
AERIAL TRIUMPH IN MOROCCO.
LONDON, September 19th. The Frenchman Bregi carryinga passenger in his neroplane flew from Tangier to Fez. A farge crowd witnessed their arrival and showed their great amazement. The Sithin afterwards received the aviator in audience
"ANTARCFIC EXPLORATION.
Losnos. September 19th. The State of Victoria has given a donation of £6,000 towards the expenses of Dr. Mawson's expedition..
The total contributions from Australian governments now amount to £22,000.
STRIKES IN IRELAND.
damage to commerce and shipping-thongh, curiously enough, during this period, Hongkong-roached the zenithofita prosperity, but where is to be found the justification for saying that Hongkong has sent out death ?" It is, of course, what one would naturally expect to happen when a dreadful epidemic discaso esta- blishes itself in a great shipping port like Hongkong, but in actual experience this has not been borno out. Notwithstanding that Hongkong since the year 1894 has suffered from plague almost annually, it was not until last year that the first case of the disoase appeared in Shanghai whera steamers frou Hongkong going northward invariably WINE & SPHKIT MERCHANTS, Lall, and we do not remember to have heard of a single case in Singapore at which port steamers leaving Hongkong for Europe also call invariably. It it.' were true that Hongkong has been sending out death, surely we should have expected that plague would long ago have been as prevalent in those two ports as
as in Hongkong, for if the conditions in this Colony are fitly described as "grossly insanitary," the description equally fits the two ports we have named. Dr. FREMANTLE wegather, admits that the conditions in Hong- kong have been improved of late years by the local authorities, though much remains to be done. The writer's great remedy for the Colony's ills it appears, is that Kowloon and the mainland should be developed into a business and residential city for the Chiusse
The strike is spreading in the most al- and the slums of the jaland gradually abandoned; further, that the now-cityarning manner and threatens a complete should be allowed to grow up only accord-stoppage of all Früfie-in and out of Dublin. ing to a pre-arranged plar. The author's
The passenger service is restricted. 2.50 ⚫uggestions to this end ware apparently laid
The men at Limerick have struck in before the Government of the Colony after
sympathy. his visit, but he refuses to recognise the 3.40 difficulties in the way as insuperable, and sticks to his plan. The difficulties however, are very obvions to anyone well acquainted with the Colony. The Government has not neglected the opportu- and is disorganising the American mails. nities afforded by Kowloon for the relief of
LATER. the congestion of thepopulation on theisland.
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HONGKONG, SEPTEMBER 20TH, 1911.
LONDON, September 10. Railway strikes have taken place in Dublin arising out of the refusal of two men, one in the goods yards, to handle timber belonging to a firm whose men bait
доло on strike.
The Royal Fusiliers are being hastily recalled from the maurenvres at Wicklow,
LATEL
The strike has extended to Queenstown
evila which have given a bad name to the The strikers have burned the house of c City of Victoria, and it is useless to disguise signalman who remained at work at the fact that wherever Chinese of the work-
.. LATER.
The Executive of the Amalgamated Society of Railwaymen have gone to Dablia to consider the position.
ing classes live we shall never get the sanitary Thuries. Two revolver shots were fired, conditions of a European city until the and the signalman had a narrow escape. people are educated to an appreciation of the elementary prind low-of-hygiene, and these they are very slow indeed to learn. To have the City of Victoris remodelled on something like Garden City lines is a beaux- tiful, but, we fear, an impracticable: aspiration. There is, however, plenty of me last night at which it was resolved not room on the other side of the harbour to further submit to the degrading conditions
There was a meeting of the Irish railway-
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
JOHNSON-WELLS FIGHT.
LONDON, September-19th.- The promoter of the Johnson-Wells fight having offered to abanden the fight if indemnified for the loss, the Nonconformist minister the Rov. F. B. Meyer accepted, and offered to raise a fund for the purpose, but stipulated the exclusion of personal The combatants, referee and expenses. promoter were unable to agree to this exclusion.
PROTEST BY THE TIMES
LATER,
The Times, "in the public interest of the Empire" says the Johnson-Wella fight should be stopped, Can anyone, it asks, who considers the Empire's special trustee- ship of coloured subject peoples, persuade himself that scientific. sport is worth the lenat possible exacerbation of relations between black and white?
M. STOLYPIN DEAD.
LONDON, September 19th. A bulletin issued yesterday evening states M. Stolypin is suffering from peritonitis and his condition is very serious..
SUPREME COURT.
Tuesday, September 19th.
IN ORIGINAL JURISDICTION.
BEFORE MR. H. H. J. GOMFERTZ
ACTING CRIFF JUSTICE),
CORRESPONDENCE.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "HONGKONG““-
DAILY PRESS."
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THE TYPHOON BIGNALS.
Hongkong, September 19th, SIR,-Is it....not-time that the RED Local Typhoor Signals were abolished P
K-DNAPPING CULARGES.
Theas signata indicate that the centre of a Tsang Muk, alias Young Pi, was re-tried on 2 skarga of kidnapping, the jury empanelled in typhoon is believed to be more than 300 mijex away from the Colonya fact of no interest to" the previous day having disagrood,
Prisoner again ontored a ples of not guilty, any person unconnected with shipping, and of and the following jurors were sworn in Anonse whatever to shipping people, who rely on Kahn (foreman), A. A. da Jesus, J. C. T. the very efficient code of signals displayed on Vieira Ribeiro, A. Keith, F. A. Maskintosh, V. the yard-arm of the Storia Signul Must at Franco and K. Delmers,
The Attorney-General (Hon Mc Q G Alabaster), instructed by Mr. P. M. Hodgson, assistant Crowa Solicitor, detailed the facts to the jury, and evidence was onlled.
The jury returned a verdict of not guilty, and prisoner was discharged
Chan Kui pleaded not guilty to a charge of kidnapping, and the same jurors sat as in the previous case.
Blockhead's..
From the yard eem sigaule a shipmaster cau lopate avery typhoon reported and shape his course accordingly.
The masthead (conto, dram and ball) siguals.. aronty useful to the boat people ast landamen and ungu of those want to be worried and upsat -by typhoon scares before the stormcentrè orosses the 300 mile limit; whou that limit is crossud, there is ample time to repair to the typhoon anchorages or put up typhoon shutters,
The Attorney General said the prisoner was 'At the sight of thosò anaecossary red signals charged with harbouring a young child with overy boatman flies to Causeway Bay, as he intent to deprive its mother of its custody, knows it in "first come first servod" thors, and The child was taken away from Canton by n if too late, he may bo shut out; then follows Chinese woman known to its mother, the day of idleness, causing untold loss to shipping, mother thinking she was taking it away to buy to boat people and to the trade of the Colony. a cake or twe. Instead, this woman brought the child to Hongkong, where it was sold by the defondout and had ever beau recovered. The woman who brought the child here was arrested, tried at the last Criminal | Sessions, convicted, and was new serving a term of imprisonment in Vistoria Gaol. She would say that she left the child with the defendant to soll. She did not know whether he sold it, but she did not so it again, and the defendant gave her some money, which was probably a share of the purchase money.
Bizon the introduction of the China East Storm Code (yard-orm ngnaiz) the Red Lodat Siguals are an anachronian, as useless aud as" obstructive as that old Dedo the Clock Tower, and thair discontinuanos would be equally wel- como to the Colony.
Yours truly,
TAXPAYER.
HONGKONG AND THE RICE PROBLEM.
LATER. Kief telegrams state that M. Stolypin's conditions-is-regardled as hopeless. Con- siderable agitation prevails in the town as a ↑ Lordship-sentenced him to three years' impris-wise, hasing regard to the fact that the cost of
pogrom is feared. The streets are being patrolled day and night,
M. Stolypin is dead.
LATER
SIR ROBERT HART ILL
LONDON, September 19th. The Daily Telegraph states that Sir Robert Hart is lying seriously ill at his residence at Marlow.
The jury found the prisoner guilty, and his
onment with hard labour.
the
Chan I and Wong Nai Chang pleaded not guilty on counts of kidnapping and detaining, and the same jurora wore evornu în...
The Attorney-General mid be would drop first charge against the accond defendant, and only charge him with dotaining. The evidence against the first prisoner, a woman, he thought was clear. The evidence against the man, the jurors could form their own opinion about after they had board it. They should remember that anything the woman said, against the man
710 t evidenco-agsilist kim, On the other hand, if the men appeared to make a statement which was untrue, that would be oridence that he had guilty knowledge when he detained the child. The child's parents■ld her to her present guardian as a maid-servant about a year ago. for 8220, and since then the woman who bought She was subsequently beached and the her had boon her lawful guardian. She would hold flooded.
FIRE ON THE "LUTZOW."
Loxpor, September 19th. Fire broke out in No. 3 hold of the N.D.E. steamer Luftare, from Japan viù ports, while unloading at Antwerp..
The mails and passengers are safe..
SIR WILFRID LAURIER.
For
now cities, and in this connection of labour obtaining on the lines, and it is
we may add that there is every proba-hoped that the Executive of the Amal-induced under the influence of a drug to bility that at no remote period a Garden
WIS
Hongkong in still vory much concerned over the supply of rico. It could not well be otline-
the better class of the staplo food is doubled, and so serious is the situation that roprésenta. tíva Chinese have approached the (tovernment with a view to inducing the Government to buy rice from the south and well it
at cost price plus the cost of importing, It is suggested that the Government should bay
the rice and entrust its disposal to a committee of Chinese gentlemen or to the Tung Wali Hospital, and if there were any lass on the transaction it would in all probability be mude good by subscription.
Placards have been posted in the city calling qpon the people-to-take wisasures against cer- taiu "traitorous traders" who are attempting to create a corner by sending out their fokis to bay rice in Hongkong and in Canton. The plucard anys that if the people do not immediately take steps to consider the situa tion they will not be able to save themselvea from starvation. It calls upon "gentlemen" te awake, and adds that the man concerned "deserve to be killed." The signature is rather amusing: "Advertised by indignant fellow."
That there is considerable speculation in rico is not to be denied, but whether the Goreen. ment should take steps to prohibit this is a moat point. However, the subject is, wo understand, being considered, and some definite scheme should be made public in a day or two.
It is now reported that the Government of Indo-China have prohibited the export of rice from Saigon and Haiphong,
say that she missed her on the 7th of the month, and the child would say she was out on the 7th. Then the first-prisoner, whom she did not know, approached her and gave her a banans, which she did not want to eat. The woman put a piece in her month, after which she felt atupifled Lonnor, September 19th.
She was taken to a house, where she saw the Sir Wilfrid Laurier has informed Mr-second prisoner, and it would be proved that Leduc (his opponent who àvers that he was the second prisoner was the toast of that house. he remained there that night, and next morn- ing her clothes were changed and she was
then took her to the Yaumati railway motion. A. Chinese constable there notised what appeared to be a girl dressed as a buy, and immediately became auspicious. He removed the child's hat, and discovered that it was a girl, and as a resolt took the wemasa and girl to the police station At the police station the woman made a state The 220 yards Amateur Swimnnement, in consequence of which she was taken overeating and is injurious to a clear mind, Championship of England was won at to the house of the second defendent at Serious disturbances are taking place. Sheffield last evening by Hardwick of 35, hanghai Street, and pointed the second The telegraphs have been cut..
City will be created thore for Europeans granted Society will call out all fellow withdraw his nomination) that if the allega dressed as a boy by the female prisoner, who below what we may call the Peak level," workers in support of this resolve.
who are yearly finding increasing difficulty
in securing house accommodation on the island of Hongkong..
THE STRIKE SITUATION IN SPAIN.
LONDON, September 19th
A general revolutionary strike has broliga
A boat with the name Kayli was discovered out at Valencia. adrift at Apliabau or Monday.
Of late thieves have been removing bursiers from street lamps in Macdonnell Road and Caine Road.
proclaimed:
Martial law has becu
tion is true. he will resign and seek new
election.
SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIP.
LONDON, September, 19th.
Australia, his time being 2m. 33 seca.
The town is occupied by troops Riots have also taken place at Saragossa,
Yesterday morning a junk wis discovered edrift in the harboar. The police secured it, and the mob cheering the revolution and firing it was no sooner made fast to the China Meron the Civil Guard, who replied, killing and chants' wharf then it was claimed. It was laden
wounding several. with rice.
The confideuce trick was played again on Wɛ observe in a. House paper that a book
boy whom hemmot has recently been published bearing the Monday. A waa vished a title "A Traveller's Study of Health and the street to pawn a ring, and whence latter was agreeable he asked him to leave frith
him a boudle of clothes as security for his return. The boy went to the pawabroker's, only to find twit the prendo gold ring was worthless, and when be returned to the place' the clothes and the was were missing.
Once again Hongkong has escaped the
By
KITCHENER FOR EGYPT.
LONDON, September 19th. Malta telegrams state that Lord Kitchenor is expected to arrive there on the The disorders are only a little less serious 24th inst., whence he will proceed to Egypt
on H. M. S. Diana.
in the other towna,
LATER
Only eight hundred, or one per cent., of || FEATHER-WEIGHT COMPETITION, the total workers struck at Barcelona. THE BLACK AND WHITE PROBLEM.
IN SOUTH AFRICA,
LONDON, September 19th. Reuter's correspondent at Port Elizabeth
DISTURBANCES IN VIENNA.
Empire," in which some aucunt of criticism is devoted to Hongkong in connection with the healthy and economic planning of towns in advance. The author of the book is a Dr. FRANCIS FREMANTLE, who is described as a County Medical Officer of Health. We have not seen the hook, but in a notice of it we find the following extract quoted:typlioon which threatened to come this direc- cables that a native has been sentenced to Hongkong has been the kitchen whigh basin. An easterly gale commenced on Monday death there for criminally assaulting a white
evening and increased in violonço during tho sent out death and has damaged commerce night. In the morning the black cone indiested girl lust. May for sixteen years throughout the civilised that the typhoon was to the south, and Inter it world, and the cooking pot is the Chinese was shown as boing to the south-woel. quarter of the city of Victoria. It is burdly nightfall the signals were taken down." As was too much to say that, if the grossly insani- to be expected, shipping business was impossible fary conditions of this square mile or so of in the harbour yesterday. The earth's surface were to be abolished, die greatest danger to the world of future epidemics of plague would be entirely averted." Like most traveller's tales, this one has embellishments unwarranted by any known facts. It is the language of exagger- ntion to describo Hongkong as the greatest danger to the world of future epidemics of plague." It is true that we have had annual ly rocurring epidemics of plage during the
Two Chinese, who had decided to reduce their labour in carrying stones fer á contractor an
LONDON, September 19th. Disturbances wore renewed at Ottak Ring. Vienna last night, but were quickly suppressed.
LONDON, September 19th. The feather-weights Driscoll and Moran sign articles to morrow to fight for a purse of £2,600, probably on the 18th October...
MOUNT ETNA.
LONDON, September 19th.
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defendant out as the person who had given her the child. This the second defendant denied. When the second defendant was charged at the police station he said the woman asked him to harbour the child, and the girl also asked him to harbour her because she said her master struck her and did not give her rics to eat. If the jury believed the child's story, the statement of the second defendant must be a lie.
Eridonce was called.
The jare found the first prisoner guilty, and the second not guilty.
The first prisoner was sentenced to five years imprisonment with hard labour, and the second was discharged.
VICE OF OVERREADING.
THE MENTAL COUNTERPART OF THE HAMIT OF OVERFSEDING.
Miss K. D. Blake, the newly elected tress- urer of the National Education Association, declarar that overreading is just as possible as besides detrecting from atady and work. There is nothing particularly ori inal in the observa- tion, bat. like many another tenism, its truth
concealed by its very simplicity.
is
There are a hundred and one proverbs on the point. "Windows is the principal thing; thoroforo gat wisdom; and with all thy retting get under- "Knowledge comes, but wiedom standing lingers." And Pope, to go back no entlier than the mortal hunchback of Twickenham, spoke of
The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head. It was Herbert Spencer who reminded us that one of the dangers of modern educational methods is the tendency to prodzins intellectual fet as agai et intellectual muscle. But there are worse evils than fatty degeneration of the intellect Mental fat has certain compensations. The bookful blockhead, if he cannot make good use of his information, may get be used by
others.
A greater ovil is that seen in the man who is Tho Sessions were adjourned until 10 am not evan educated beyond his intellect, but who,
Laving overstrained his powers of mental diges this morning.
tion, has neither brain fat nor muscle. He is the man who illustrates the truth of Miss "Blake's contortion that we can overread as well
na overent to the point of dullaess.
of
EIGHT GRANDS PRIX IN THREE- TEARS,
Much of course, depends on tho purpose This is a magnificant achievement of which our reading. If it ba purely for enjoyment. the Leuco and Ora Company have reason to then the individual must be left to regulate his be proud. Eight Grands Prix in three years! own literary diet. On the other hand, if the The eruption of Mount Etna is subsiding.d these high honours have been awarded to purpose be to improve the reasoning-powers, it is their famous products Oro and Lemco solely well to remember that, just as the most formid- A GIRL'S SWIMMING FEAT.
en their merita in opon competition in such able general is not he with the largest army but world-renowned exhibitions as the International he whose army is bast disciplined, most easily Miss Hazel Bessie Langenour, of Berkeley, Exhibitions in London, Brussels and Baenos commended, most readily taken on and off the
field, so
so the most effective reasoner is not he earned the undisputed right to the title Girl Aires, and the
in London. Having ideas, but the man who facts and ideas are first swimmer of her sex to navigate the tre strength-and Intrinsic goodness of
ourselves had experience of the purity well arranged, easily commanded, most readily aberoua channel bearing that name that separates products themselves, we can well understand the brought into motion. the San Francisco peninsula from the Marin
me motive of the judges in awarding them such county shore. It was a feat of a high insignia of merit. Since their fos adation, that will long live in the memory of Cali fotnis, women, Kays a San Francisco paper, and as far back as 1865, the policy of the Liebig whenever deads of the fair sex are recanted, the Berkeley maid's complete control over the making of their pro- sof daring and pluck by members Company has never almaged. They exercise. exploit will be included in the list. The time ducts from the growing of the grass to the taken was just one hour and twenty-eight bottling up of the extract. They have always
Telethe man with a tight grip The wholesale arrests of anarchists which minutes to cross the Gate-not a very spoody owned their own farms; they have always rear
pat aus demonstrative of endurance, stamins ercising the pirictest superchion throat who performance or illustrative of powerful strokes, ed their own cattle, they have always by ox- and pure grit never excelled by any member of farm and factory, ensured the world standard her sex, writes the enthusiastic reporter. quality and absolate purity of their products
of the Golden Gate" last month by being the British Exhibition-British and Japan with the greatest number of stored up facts and
The district has been placed under martial the Peak by calmly knocking down part of the law, the inhabitants being ordered not to wall at 18, Treverby's, the Peak, and removing leave their houses after eight o'clock in the the stones, were brought before Mr. Hazeland yesterday and charged with damaging the wallevering. and stealing the stones. They pleaded that they
wars from the country and did not know the have been made in the strike centres has customs of Hongkong. However, they wore apparently caused an improvement in the each sent to prison for two months."
situation.
The ideally read man, is he who most resembles
the semi-illiterate farmer depisted by Lowell as
saying:
I don't go much on religion ;: Jenever ain't had no show,
· Bri Iso got a middlin' tight grip on handful of things that I know.
on his know- there every time and with both feet, ledge, whether it be a handful or a goodly store, Enesen never read beyond their powers of assimilation-San Fransisco Chronicle