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MALT SCOTCH WHISKIES.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS
URSDAY, MAY 16ra, 1912-
1 filed to fulfil some at least of her promise TELEGRAMS. TELEGRAMS. TELEGRAMS.
to pay, sime the Bevolution broke out; nor is there need to maint that while a nation may faithfully discharge its obligations when ite debt is small, it does not necessarily follow that it could met its opligations when its indebtedness is trebled, especially if, as must be die case, a large amount of the capital borrowed is expended anproduc- tively. Mr. JAMIESON, the retiring President of the China Aascoiation, in the interesting speech we report in another coluan, shows that supposing China gets a luau of £60,000,000, it means that her total in debtedness will be about £200,000,000, and the annual charge on this would amount to quite half the present ordinary revenue of China. To meet these new obligations Bath
she must increase her revenue. the President and the Finance Minister in recent public speeches bave foreshadowed how this is to be done chiefly, by raising the import tariff (on the condition agreed upon in the Mackay Treaty of 1908), and by
reforming the land tax. MI, JAMESON
declares that any sudden great increase in the land tax cannot be met. Fet half a
dozen years ago the late Sir ROBERT HART
[THROUGH BRUTER BAGUIOT,
SUDDEN DEATH OF KING OF DENMARK.
LONDON, May 16th. A telegram from Hamburg states that the King of Danmerk died suddenly in a hotel there last night.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY)]
THE FRENCH MOTOR BANDITS.
ANOTHER HOUSE BESEIGED AND STORMED.
LONDON, May 18th. Garnier and Vallet, accomplices of the bandt Bounot, who was recently shot by the Paris police, have been tracked down and are being besieged in a house at
(King Frederie VIII was born on June 3rd, 1943, and married in 1880 Louise, Princess of Sweden and Norway. He succeeded to the Throne in January, 1906, Nont-sur-Marne." They are Bring on on the death of his father King Christian the police and the crowd, and a police and has thủs, reigned a little over, eix tam years. The Heir to the Throne is Prince sergeant has already been wounded and Christian, who was born in 1870, and taken to hospital. married, in 1896, Princess Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. The late King Frederic Vill. was a brother of Queen Alexandra of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and conse- quently Uncle of King George]
THE CHINESE LOAN.
MEDING OF THE BANERES.
LONDON, May 15th. The first meeting of the bankers repre- sention the six Powers concimed in the w China, was held today at the offices of the British and Chiness Corporation office
A BLEND OF THE FINEST PURE advocated this tax in an illuminsting memo- proposed beso of £60,000,000. 1
randum. La HusG CHANG alw say great possibilities of revenue from the land. He reckoned that two-thirds of the land could
M. Verstraete, Director of the Russo pay land tax. Sir ROBERT HART, to be within the mark, assumed that only one Asiatic Bank, on arrival in London to half paid, and he estimated the possible reprosent Russia, immediately concerned revenue at 400 million tools, which is just with the Russian and Japanese Am-
For over 30 Years WATSON'S "E" has maintained the re- of the FINEST putation SCOTCH WHISKY in the
FAR EAST.
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A telegram from Columbus states that Mr. Roosevelt has opened his campaign in Ohio. He declares that the fight is between plain people and the boss, and is the greatest since the death of Lincoln
FAMOUS TRAVELLER DEAD.
DANGERS OF BLASTING.
CONTRACTOR FINED.
At the Magistracy yesterday before Mr. Melbourne, Un Lau On, contrac for was charged with blasting without uking the necessary precautions in the construction of the new road from Cham- berlain Road to Plantation Road,
Mr. Edwards, building inspector, of the Public Works Department, prosecuted and Mr. Lewis defended.
was
Mr. Edwards stated that Dr. Stedmair on Plantation Road on April 30th in his chair when he heard an ex- LONDON, May 15th.
plosion as of blasting, and The death is announced of the con-dropped just behind him and his coolics.
a'stone
tenarian Osboldeston Mitford, the famous traveller and author, who accompanied Dr. Layard on his first Eastern expedi- tion, and then made his famous journey overland to Ceylon, where he ented the Civil Service. He was the father of Bertram Mitford, the novelist..
PRINCE OF WALES IN FRANCE,
Mr. Lewis stated that blasting had been. going on on the rond for a long time.
Mr. Melbourne-You have no evidence. that blasting has been going on?***** Mr. Lewis-I do not dispute that blast ing was going on. It is admitted that there is a responsible person in charge of the works, and that he is responsible to the Government for the way it is carried LONDON, May 15th..
out by the contractor. If he did not to know everything that was going on on the
road it was his own fault.
The Prince of Wales will motor Toulon next week. He will attend the naval exercises and will be three days aboard the battleship Danton.
OBITUARY.
LONDON, May 15th. The death has occurred of Auguste Strindberg, the distinguished Swedish novelist and dramatist.
Mr. Melbourne-Mr. Xavier says it is quite possible for blasting to be going on on one side of the road without him know- ing it..
Mr. Lewis-Then it is up to the P.W.D. to get more overseers.
The siege of the house where Garnier and Vallet have taken refuge, coûtinues. Three of the police, including two inspes ten, have been, wounded, one seriously,
The scene is an extraordinary one, the soldiers pouring in volleys and the bandits replying Dynamita bombs were thrown at intervals, making breaches in the walls. The huge crowd was swelled by arrivals from Paris in motor, tram- way and train. Early in the evening, the bandits had fired several when hundred shots, the police, zonaves and godarmes made during rushes, protected Heavy stones were thrown by shields. from an adjoining railway viaduct, about double the present ordinary revenue bassadors. of China. Mr. JAMIESON recognises, as the In the course of
an interview crushing in the roof of the house. The late Inspector-General of Customs did, that with Beater's representative, he said that bandits increased their fire, the soldiers a large portion of what is extracted from Russia had no polítical motives or aspira-pated on the viaduct and the garden wall two new liners on the Eastern run, one the peasant proprietor never reaches the exchequer; but how, he asks, is that to be tions beyved safeguarding her special firing at the dim shapes of the bandits of them larger than any at present visit suddenly altered? Sir ROBERT HART drew interests in Mongolia and Western China whenever they appeared at the windowsing Hongkong via Bunz. This is the Paul the new steainers now under construction who were armed, were with difficulty for the Ching Line Particulars of this up a scheme for the reform of the adminis-All the Powers felt strongly that political The crowd was very excited and some, cal, which is described as the first of tration, in order, on the one hand, to ensure control of the sums of money in that all money collected reach the Treasury, contemplation should take procedence of strained from indiscriminate shooting. ateamer are:-Length 365 feel breadth
Passengers arriving in the trains at the 65 feet; depth 70 feet; twin screw; gross that a stone came out of the blast hole. and, on the other, to do away with the of Gnancial central, and held that it was actions from the people which formed so prominent a feature of the old regime, Mr. must important that the bankers should
vast
THE BRITISH INQUIRY INTO THE
TITANIC DISASTER.
LONDON, May 15th.
viaduct wero gesticulating from the vindows and shouting "Death to the
right with a weareblight. A council of war was held and it was decided to cut down the hedge surrounding the garden is a final effort to blow up the house..
THE END OF THE BIRGE
THE NEW M.M. STEAMERS:
The Messageries Maritimes or pulting |
tonnage 16,820 tons displacement 20,000 tons, speed 18 knots; 11,000 horsepower She will have seven decks, electric passen
Mr. Melbourne-Mr. Xavier said there was no clause in the contract abat blast- ing,
Mr. Lewis No, but it was contem- plated by the Departinant that blasting would be used. The Government had
closed the road and Dr. Stedman had no right there while it was closed by the Department.
Mr. Melbourne-Dr. Stedman said the road was clear when he passed along it.
Mr. Lewis-The road was until May 3rd. I submit that ne
not clear
саве
has been made out; they have not proved
Mr. Melbourne--The contractor did not
have a permit to blast and there is
ing, as far as I know.
JANSION is, of course, woll aware of the act on decisions taken by the representendits. The firemen arrived at mid-ger elevator, refrigerating rooms, twelve nothing in the contract regarding blast- HART scheme, but he portimently asks tive of the six Powers, and cooperate whether it is to be supposed that human with them. nature has been so altered by the Revolution that there will be no more paulation and waste. Time alone will show. In many parts of China the new authorities have dealt with cases of population from the pub. lic funds with the utmost rigour of the law At the outset of the Revolution the leaders repeatedly announced their intention of purging the administration. of cor-
will be fortunate ruption, and it deed for China if the new rulem succeed in this laudable enterprise,
in-
At the roumption of the inquiry to-day a searching investigation was made as to whether the Californian was the vessel whose lights were seen from the Titanic
when she was foundering.
The Captain of the Californian gave evidence to the effect that be spoko vessels It
A cartridge containing two pounds of nelinite was exploded at two o'clock this morning, partially destroying the house After the explosion the police launched dogs at the breach, and the crowd listened breathlessly to their barking. Then came
fro, Garnier was found killed. Vellet
is perhaps too early yet to judge of with lights showing, and afterwards sawolleys and after several minutes of cross their success, but it was disappointing rockets a few miles off, not far from the to fnd on the recent publication spot where the Titanie actually struck,
of China's budget estimates that the but he was positive it was not the Titanic, revenue shown was no larger than it has which would have been tumistakeable, been in any other year since a national
He was mable, however, to indicate any
died on the way to Paris. Two policemen
were wounded and sent to hospital⠀
arched by torchlight. The bandita were The house was stormed and the ruins
Mr. Lewia-No, Estrongly submit that
dining rooms, and saloons (social ball, | Mr. Lewis-There must have been. music room, smacking room, her room, Everyone knows that there has been blast- reading and writing room, café verandah on the seventh deck), accommodation for ing on the new road for the past six 750 passengers, including 350 first-class months.
Mr. Melbourne-Do you want a re passengers, with 67 single berth cabins and cabins de luxe, the other cabins being two-mand? berthed and all of them containing a dressing table, wardrobe, writing table, there is no case. van de mirror sideboard, sofa and arm chairs.
His Worship did not agrée, qui Mr. Lewis then called the contractor, hot and cold water and every other con venience the occupant may require. The who stated that the work on the new road vessel has the latest cargo handling had been in progress for about six machinery with five hatches which will months. The work had been carried out take in the bulkiest cargo for which she under the direction of Mr. Xavier, and
has accommodation for about 4,000 tons.
The other steaner which the Mesagerica Maritimes are putting on the run is the 8.8. Hagellan, a twin-screw steamier, which
South America. She is a sister ship to has been running between Bordeaux and
budget was compiled. The struggle over other vessel, to which the lights could have earthed and carried out to the waiting the ss. Toarane, with a displacement of April 30th.
the huge loan has been useful to the rulers
of China in that it has emphasised the bolonged, as being in the locality at the
weakness of China's financial administra-
time.
motor cars, and the crowd rushed in to
yrich them.
On the conclusion of the alege Lapins, the Profact of Police, we's mobbed,
tion, and in so far as it serves to bring An apprentice on the Californian testi- about honesty in the administration the fed that he saw a vessel which fired many
Lumiliation" to which so many Chinese rockets, and seemed to be listing heavily the crowd breaking the barriers and try- LONDON OFFICE: 131, FiRT STEST. EConsider they are being subjected will prove to starboard.
a great blessing in disguise.
Kosazora Orion: 10A, Das Yœut Road 0
The Daily Press.
HONGKONG, MAT 16TH, 1912,
JUDGING from reports through Chinese
Thos. Gillespie, of the steimer On Song, was charged with having been drunk and disorderly in Wellington Street. He was
fined $5.
The typhoon signals were boisted in
THE RELIEF FUND.
The fund in aid of the sufferers from the Titanic disaster now totals £400,000, Mr. and Mrs. Ismay have contributed £11,000 towards the fund for the widows
ing to carry him in triumph.
-18,000 tons.
She has accommodation for
under the supervision of a Chinese over- seer of the P.W.D., who was always pre- sent at the work. From the very begin. ning of the work them had constantly been blasting, which had been done with
In conse the consent of Mr. Xavier. quence of the work, two gates were erected on Plantation Road. They were up until Mr. Melbourne-Is it not a fact that Witnose-No, the gates were still there Witness further stated that there nothing in the contract about blasting.
Mr. Melbourne-Don't you know that it is necessary to get a permit to blast?
Witness-No, I never göt permit to blast, because it is on a Government con-
tas first-class passengers and 185 second they were not up on April 30th!
and third-class passengers, and is well fitted with all modern improvements.
THE MOTOR BOAT INDUSTRY IN HONGKONG.
Raned SLCCESSFUL OCEAN VOYAGE FROM HONGKONG tract... TO MANILA,
NON-STOP OF 030 MILES,
waa
Garnier's mistress, a Women
Mr. Edwarda contended that the gatea must have been down on April 30th, other Vuillemin, who rushed out to the police
wise Dr. Stedman and his costes could during the firing, says that the bandits.
not have got on to Plantation Road.
In answer to Mr. Lewis, witness stated Advices to hand from Manile report the that unless there was a clause in the con- look no precantions against discovery, and thinking their disguises impenetrable, safe arrival thers of the two motor tract prohibiting him from blaiting, he
launches recently bailt by W S. Bailey was allowed to blast, by teen strolled about with the neighbours. They& Co. Ltd., for the U.B. Government, &
The foreman on the work stated that
the windows nud intended to shoot many.
sources the loun negotiations are beginning Hongkong for the first time this season of those who were lost while in the active had two thousand cartridges piled Dear description of which has already appeared the blasting complained of by Dr. Sted to take on a more hopeful aspect, and it yesterday. The Manila Observatory re service of the British Mercantile Marine police before blowing up the house. They in these columns. These boats are 70 feet man was carried out with all dus pre
looks us though some more or less satis ported the typhoon to be E.§.E. of Guam, factory compromise en the question of mooring N.W. foreign supervision of the expenditure of the projected loan is within sight. We gather that it has been agreed to entrust the Commissioners of Customs to supervise the disbursements to the soldiery whom it is intended to disband, and that a
RESULT OF THE FIREMEN'S
STRIKE
LONDON, May 15th. At a conference between the Liverpool
We learn from Japan papers that the Nippon Yusen Kaisha has decided to in- cream by two yen the monthly pay of its a chief firemen and seamen and ship's car enters, while ordinary firemen and sea
had made preparations for a week's defeuce.
THE NAVAL MANEUVRES.
LONDON, May 15th.
shipowners and the seamen and firemen, At the naval maneuvres Admiral May it was decided to raise the wages of the First Bea Lord, is Umpire in Chiel, Prince, Louis of Battenberg is in com-
commends the Ceniser Squadron
Mr. Melbourne remarked that the evi- in length, having Speedway engines of 100 caution. horsepower. They are named No. 1 and dence showed that there were no gongs No. 2 respectively and designed for a con-or flags to warn people of their danger. tract speed of 8 knots on measured mila! He fined defendant $100 or three months. trial. They left Hongkong at noon on imprisonment. 20th March under convoy of the U.S. transport Listum, reaching Marivales at SATURDAY'S ENTERTAINMENT AT
o'clock on the morning of Tuesday, the 23rd March.
Captain Barclay of the sum reports
men will receive an additional 1 yen per latter 10/- per month, except in the case mand of "A" Fleet, and Admiral Beatty that on the preliminary trial of these Grand Variety Entertainment at the separate Audit Department with a foreign month. This new scale wont into force of those employed on mail steamers.
financial expert at its head has been con- seded. The Government is also prepared to appoint a foreign expert to advise on the reform of the currency. This appears to be about the limit to which the Chinese Government is prepared to go towards con- ceding foreign control of the nation's finances, and it remains to be seen whether the Syndicate of capitaliste wlioure prepared
from the 1st inst.
The Garrison Orders announce that the following officiating appointments are made with effect from the 10th May, 1912:
Major O. H. Lawson, 26th Punjabis, to bo ojoisting 2nd in Cornmand vice Major LB. Walton, appointed Commandant Captain E. A. Maude, 28th Punjabis, to be oficiating D. C. Comuneder in addi:
TLSH DISESTABLISHMENT AND
HOME RULE.
LONDON, May 15th. The debates on Welsh Distablishment.
on
THE PEAK. Following is the programme of the Palace Theatre," Mt. Austin, boats around the island of Hongkong No,
PART I The Times remarks that the appoint 2 bost rau at an average speed of about Saturday-
10 knots an hour, with her engines work- ment of the First Sea Lord and the Naveling smoothly and not a hitch of any kind Overture Secretary of the First Bea Lord to com- during the three hours ran. No. 1 boat-Mental Telepathist...... LATTE RUPERT.
mmands in manœuvres is unprecedented
The Admiralty have given heavy coal and Hens Rule were sparsly attended orders to Cardiff, much in excess of the because it is generally felt that their customary monthly allowance passage through the House of Commons
to lead to China the large amount of capital tion to his own duties vici Major O. H. and their rejection by the House of Lords she urgently needs will regard these arrange Lawson, appointed ofheisting 2nd in Com-
mand
are equally certain.
THE AVIATION FATALITY AT
·BROOKLANDS
The passenger who
lost the spark, being delayed about 15 minutes, but still made the run in two hours and forty minutes with the
On the
machinery working splendidly. run from Hongkong to Manils there was not a stop of any kind with No 2, and she BRITISH NAVAL APPOINTMENTS. could easily have averaged 10 or 11 kucts
all the way over.
LONDON, May 18th Vice Admiral Colville has been appoint od to command the First Squadron, and Rear Admiral Briggs to command the
Fourth Squadron
THE ORCHESTRA.
Illusionist and Ropist...
THE BOY WONDER. 3-A Ditty THE WHITERAITS,” ANY MP. WORCESTER. 5-A-Ballad and a Berenade
HE Mr. CLAUD SEVERN. Monkey Dat
6-Violin Soloist Herr TIMERSCHEIDT Piano...Mademoiselle Lover THOMAS 7 Song
Mrs GORDON. (This will be the last appearance of
Mrs. Gordon in Hongkong.) Selected Item with Choru M18. WALESRn and THE “WHITEBAITS.
Interval of ten minutes.
8-A
PART II. synt THE CONVERSION OF NAT STURGE.
A comic play in one act by Malcolm
Watson CHARACTERS:
Soine trouble was experienced with No. 1, which had to run at reduced speed on account of hot bearings, which occurred twenty-eight hours after leaving Hong- ments as affording adequate security for
long and which vis probably the fault John William Patten, of "F" Co so large a loan. It is urged on the
of the engineer in charge of the boat, AB free Chineas side that
people K.OY.LL, was charged before Mr.
LONDON, May 15th. Rear Admiral Moore has been appoint la regard to stability Captain Barclay considers them unusually for sen-going would not stand the humiliation of for Irving with stealing 8100 from Wing Kee, a money-changer carrying on business in
who ascended at Brooked a Commissioner of the Admiralty and boats. He has always been in doubt about eign control of their national finances; Queen's Road. Defendant pleaded guilty. "besides," "ways one writer, the Chinese The evidence of the police was to the effect
two boats work over a distance of six The Bishop of Minterweir intendent at Gibraltar. have been known to the world by the that the money-changer was counting lands with the aviator Fisher, and who Rear-Admiral Brock, Admiral Super gasoline launches, but after going these
money on the counter, when defendant was killed by the falling machine, was Mr.
hundred and thirty miles acknowledges. that he has changed his mind. He sttri- Nat Starge, a burglar unfailing fullment of their promises to snatched it and made off Defendant Victor Mason, vice-President of the THE GERMAN NAVY ESTIMATES,
butes the success of the rant made by
A Capt. G.H ADDISON. pay their national debts, and this again is denied that the money was being counted.
these two boats to the superior quality of Raddles, his assistant ...................................... LONDON, May 15th.
their been lying on the counter, An officer of director of other mining companies. Ho a good security for an investment." We He would not have stolen it had it not Development Company of America, and
Mr. A. U. COLLIE BROWNE engines. Messrs. W. 8 Bailey & The Reichstag has passed the second Co., Ltd., are to be congratulated upon the Julia, The Bishop's daughter
MrL ADDISON need not stop to expose the transparent the regimont stated that the man bore a specicumess of the argument. There is no good character in the Army, save for a was on the point of concluding a big deal reading of the Navy Law Amendment Bill' result of their work and upon the excess
GOD SAVE THE KING. few minor offences. Defendant was sen-
find the Eupplementary Naval Estimates, of speed attained over the contract. Leed ofs reminder that Chins actually has tenced to three months' imprisonment.
in Londo
Capt. RE BOULTON.