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was concluded at the Magistracy yester day, the defiudants being discharged.
There is great activity at the Taikos Dockyard in mosting the demand for lifeboats for steamers trading here. At present surae fifty are under construc tion.
TELEGRAMS. TELEGRAMS.
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-TRANSPORT WORKERS STRIÏE.
LONDON, May 30th.
Mr. Sydney Buxton, President of the Board of Trade, and the strikers had a conference at the Board of Trade Offeş, t which they discussed the preliminaries for. Friday's conference. The men desired Yesterday was Decoration Day, the day an nesurance that every section of the ou which Americans give special thought employers would be represented and that to the heroes who died in the military any agreement would bind all transport service of their country. The binrinckets
employers from the Wilmington visited the cemetery." at Happy Valley and plated wreaths upon the graves of American soldiers and sailors buried there, while the warships in the harbour fired minute guns af nion.
While on the way to the Tung Wahl: persist to a considerable extent. To that
a Chinese suddenly respect Chinese would find themselves in the Hospital yesterday, good company of sections of the people of expired. France andsections of the people of Portugal.
The hearing, of the charges of intimida- But it is safe to say that though Chine has,tion against four Chinese revenue officers as it were, ouly just ombraced the principles of republicanism and has not yet properly assimilated these principles, there is dia- tinetly loss likelihood of a reversion to monarchy in this great land than there was in France or Portugal at the same period of their republican history. The characteris- tic apathy which leads the masses of this- country to accept existing conditions as a mat- ter of course and which led them passively to acquiesce in the establishment of a republic proves that there is no ardent sentinient of loyalty to the deposed monarch' or any other possible monarch dominating the people, and as the educated men of to-day are largely in favour of the now rigime, in spite of whatever personal jealousies they uay chorish, the possibilities of a return to
therefore very remoto. China, indeed, was never more united that it is to-day under the provisional republican government with A BLEND OF THE FINEST PURE YUAN SHIR KAI us its President. The old- tine jealousies, differences and prejudices MALT SCOTCH WHISKIES.
VERY OLD LIQUEUR
SCOTCH
WHISKY the monarchical form of government are
ALLEGED: OPIUM DEFICIENCY.
The ease in which two partners in a firm of Chinese opium dealers were charged, on remand, with being deficient
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THE FRENCH IN MOROCCO.
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SERIOUS SITUATION,
THE NEW COMMODORE AT HONGKONG.
The Naval and Military Nesurd, gives the following particulars of the career of Capt Robert Hamilton Ansteuther, CM.C., who has been appointed Coin- madare: Second Class and Naval Officer LONDON, May 30th.
in Clarge at Hongkong in succession to The rumours yesterday regarding a Capt. Eyres, will be fifty in June next: wholesale massacre of Europeans at Fcz. As a midshipinau he served on the Medi- are dispelled by a message from General | tetrancan Station in the Téméraire, Jaů-- Lyautey stating that on Monday follow-uary, 1878, and the Superb, March, 1881, and as a sub-lieutenant in the Champion, ing the night attack the Berbers returned on the China Station, September, 1958. to the walls of Fez and kept up anHe was promoted to lieutenant in June, inersant Gring, rendering it impossible † 1890, and served in the Phartan, on parti. to leave the town or mount the ramparts, from April, 1886, to July, 1693--- He cular service and in the Mediteranean, but no attack-was actually made on the collaborated with Capt. Setembrini, of || A mass enceting attended by 15,000 was
the Royal Italian Navy, in the production LATER. held at Tower Hill. Mr. Gosling, in
of an Italian-English nautical phrase addressing the meeting, mid that Sir The Times Tangier correspondent tele-book_in_1893. In October of that year he Edward Clarke decided that they were graphs that 20,000 rebels are besieging | was appointed to the defire, flying the broad pennant of Commodore R. H. not entitled to refuse to work with a | Fez, and that the French garrison, num-
Ilarris, commanding the Training: Squad- man-unionist, but this was what they | hering 6,000, is in a grave position.
rou. He was ther first lieutenant suc- were going to do. The garmen, who wereTHE ANGLO-FRENCH ENTENTE.
cessively of the Ruby, April, 1994, and of the worst: poid class in the contmunity,
the Champion, October, 1995, both in the Loynes, May 200h. Training squadron, and at the end of were making the Government for
The Times editoriul on the 'recent dis 1807 was advanced to commander. IA
Channel squadron, July to October. 1898; strength of the cordiality and 1900; in command of the forkutrice, attached to the Mediterranean station for mutual regard of the nations. This very fact is a reason against the transforma in command of the Hearty, engaged
service on the Danube, January, 190; and
tion into a formal alliance of the en- 6shery protection duties under the ad- tente which has already been tested in miral commanding constguard and re- serves, July 100%. He was promoted cap- The Shipowners' Federation have writ- ait actual crisis and proved equal to tain in June, 1904, and after completing ten to Mr. Buxton declining to attend the strain. The situation is certainly to-morrow's conference, and declaring | notone for pessimism. With the facts that they have loyally acted up to the of the European and Imperial situation before them the discussions of the agreement of last August, which the men have broken by the present-strike.
Ministers and Lord Kitchener at Malta is not likely to take a despondent turn.
THE KING AT CHELSEA HOSPITAL
which tomled to keep separate the people in quantity of opium, and with having minimum wage. They demanded a final cassions on the Anglo-French relations this rank he served in the Dinden, a the of the different provinces still exist, but given false particulars when applying settlement with machinery for adjusting hav: Ind an excellent result in showing the Edgar on particular service, Felruary,
they have been worn down almost to artine tian Ander the unifying influencos at work Re- prior to and during the revolution. foxmere hailed from every province. Heroes
For over 30 Years WATSON'S
E" has maintained the re-were not the monopoly of any province, and as the men is different parts of the the FINES Empire worked for a common cause. they putation of
lave achieved a greater success than the SCOTCH WHISKY in
more sanguine could have anticipated, and a national conception has been formed "FAR EAST.
which should, in course of time, mould the heterogeneous peoples into a nation imbued
the
with the common sim and love”, of the fatherland that are the characteristics of the other great countries of the world. This |unity, with all its hopes for the future, is demonstrated by existing conditione.
A. S. WATSON YUAN SHIR KAI in Northerner. Yet
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he has the sympathy and support of the men from the South. Who are the chief men of his Government? They are nimble-witted and clever inen from the Southern provinces, This combination of North and South-for
for the removal of the opium in question, future difficulties,
convey-
was resutant at the Magistracy Yester- Some hundreds of non-unionists are
Mr. day, Lefore Mr. Irving.
P. M..
unloading meat at the ducks and Assistant Crown Solicitor,' Hodgson, appeared to prosent, and Mr. Eldoning it to Smithfield. They have not been Messa. Hastings and Hastings, for the Putter, instructed by Mr. Crew, of molested.
defendants, only one of whom was pre-
t
Inspector Wilden, recalled, said the in iu the box produced wore those size on the pranises of the defendant, but they did not look like the tins which were originally in the box. The tins in the other cases were different kinds of opium." - So far as he knew. packing was Bat used in order to keep the tins secure in the boxes.
LATER.
The feeling at Covent Garden is more cheerful, and business is expected soon to be working smoothly,
Huge consignments of meat renched Mr. Potter, addressing the bench, said Smithfield yesterday from the docks and
were charged under! the defendants
section 57 that they gave false parti- From Southamptori, hundreds of tons in culars, and that those false particulars, excess of the corresponding day last moval of six chests of opium, it was were that when they applied for the re-
tur The prices of meat fell.
THE DEFENCE CONFERENCE. found that two of the chests contained coal instead of opium. He submitted
LONDON, May 10th. that section 87 did not contemplate any
Reuter's correspondent at Malta teles graphs that Lord Kitchener arrived. Mr Asquith and Mr. Churchill arrived-
such case
clearly covered by other sections of the
as the present, which
Ordinance The section in question really contemplated the act of a man
Under section sĩ, in
later...
LATER.
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LONDON, May 30th. H.M. the King, inspected the Chelsea Pensioners yesterday. This is the first review of this bundy by a reigning sover eign since 1805.
The King visited the Hospita), but Sir George White, the Governor, was too ill ro receive His Majesty.
NEW P. & O. STEAMERS.
LONDON, May 30th,
The P. and O. Line have ordered two
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war course and passing as an inter- preter in German, October, 1906, was ap- pointed to command the Sirius, in feserve at Devonport. In April, 1908, he co- missioned the Brilliant, for service on the North American and West Indies station, where he remained until March, 1909. He received the C.M.G., in June, 1907, for service on the Newfoundland fisheries. In 1908 he was studying at the Royal Naval War College again, and in October of that year was appointed to command the Cereas in the Home feet at the Noro, Since then he has been in command of the battleship Currallis in the Mediter ranean, August, 1910, to April, 1912.
THE OPIUM AGREEMENT.
In the House of Communiona on May th Sir J. 1). Rees (Nottingham, E., Opp.) asked the Under-Secretary for India what reasons the Government had for confi- dence that with the restoration of order in China the Chinese Government would be able speedily to secure compliance in the provinces with the reciprocal stipula tions of the opium agreement; whether
and, if so, on what, official or other s- poris; whether the restoration of order in the provinces was yet in sight a whether the loss of revenue and probable need for additional taxation are already threatening the Indian taxpayer.
Reuter is informed that the reports steamers of the Ballarat class for their such compromise was founded on any.
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international politicn!
YUAN SHIM KAI carries Northern opinion with him-is the best guamates for the maintenance of peace and the solidarity of the Chinese people under the rainbow ban ner of the republic. It is easy to exaggerate the importance of provincial repudicau jealousies, but we believe that once the neces sary foreign lean-has been obtained and the who applied for opium, knowing there
was a shortage. republic recognised, China may be expected to surprise the world still more than sharder to convies either of the defendants, did at the revolution by the capable manner
the Crown must prove a guilty know! attributing ledge of the false particulars. A foki, character to the meeting between Lord in which she proceeds to the task of setting who filled in particulars, knowing they Kitchener and Mr. Asquith and Mr her house in order--a big undertaking, and
were false, would be liable, although he Churchill are wholly unfounded. It is one fraught with innumerable difficulties,--
was only a foki, and did not sign the known that Lord Kitchener is taking an undertaking which should not be beyond particulars. It was impossible for the the capacities of the men who brought the Crown to prove guilty knowledge in advantage of the Ministers' presence near republic into baing and who have steered regard to Chang Wing, one of the de- Egypt to express to them his views on the ship of State through stormy waters fondants, because' be was admittedly the situation in the Mediterranean, but with undeniable success.
out of the Colony at the time the false greatly exaggerated inferences are drawe particulars were given.
It could alses therefrom, be proved that Chang Wing did not give the false particulars Knowing, before out's correspondent at Malta tele- he left, that dealings in opium would grabs that Lord Kitctioner, contrary to Six months hard labour, was the sen take place, he filled in a number of blank his original intention, will not visit tence imposed on two Chinese at the forms, without giving the particulars tibraltar. He is returning to Egypt an Magistracy yesterday, for returbing. On March 21st they applied for a permit board the ss. Hampshire, probably on from banishment.
to remove four chests of opion, in consequence of a request for delivery from the man who had already bought The Times in a special article points them as far back as January of this out that the British naval changes in year. The whole facts of the case. Mr. the Mediterranean do not constitute au Potter said, showed that the defendants',
Labandonment of the Mediterranean now acted bond-fide throughout, because they wold the pium and asked for permission or in the future, and prints extracts from Mr. Churchill's speeches of the to remove it, knowing that if they did nut the purchaser-
would demand 18th March and 15th May, remarking. delivery of it
that in view of these, it is dificult to
understand how the idea that we are about to entrust our interests in the Mediterranean to anything but Ple
Bererul dead bodies were picked up in HONGKONG OPPION: 10A, DES Vœux ROAD C different parts of the Colony yesterday.
LONDON OFFION: 131, FLEET STREET. SO
The Daily Press.
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HONGKONG, May 31st, 1912.-
A. Chinese was yesterday admitted THREE seems little in the situation in to the Tung Wah Hospital suffering from China at the present vannut to support the severe bruises, caused by his being knock
'ed down by an earth truck. pessimistic prophecy that China ag constituted cannot exist, and that the out-
A Chinese was yesterday taken to the come of popular dissatisfaction will be that Civil Hospital, suffering from a stab in a kingdom will be formed in North China, the groin, inflicted by a countryman. while the South will adhere to the republican | The stabbing occurred in Sampan Street: principles already adopted. This prophecy is based on certain tendencies which are declared to be apparent to the most casua observer. It is alleged that the old-time jealousy and differences between the North and the South will not only persist but deepen. We are told that the North years! - for a king in the person of a descendant of the Mino monarchs or is the person of the descendant of CosFUCIUS, Some go so fur as to declare that YUAN SHIи Kat himself
is anxious to recure the purple. These are
The Senate of the University of Cam- bridge has conferred the degree of, Master of Arts on Mr. H. L. O. Garrett,
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muater at Queen's College (now an
leave).
A Chinese boy informed the police yesterday that while walking in Chinese territory he was attacked by a number of men. He was shot in the back, though not seriously, and robbed of 850.
no new notions.. It must be admitted that At the Magistracy yesterday, before"
The case was remanded.
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CORRESPONDENCE
THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH AND CELIBACY.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE HONGKONG DAILY FRESH."
Hoxgkono, May 25th.
June 2nd.
AMERICAN
PRESIDENTIAL
ELECTION.
LONDON, May 30th Mr. Roosevelt bas had the most sweep. DEAL SIR,--May I point out an inacing victory of the campaign at New there in a royalist sentiment in China, but Mr. E. A. Irving, a woman was charged curacy in the article "The Portuguese Jersey, where the returns indicate that that is not surprising. The same thing is with being in unlawful possession of and Clergy "published in your issue of yester- found in such an old established republic attempting to sell a quantity of oprans day! You state that The Timer correspondents won all the Republican as France. In the much younger republie On the first charge she was fined $30,dent at Lisbon said that the celibacy of delegates.
the Roman Catholic clergy is a funda- - of Portugal the deposed House of Braganza and pa the second 890 or two months.
mental principle of their church. For all
has many adherents" whose activities are Twenty-five Chinese were charged ·at I know it is not even a Catholic discipline,
Australian service via, the Cape,
GENERAL BOOTH.
Loxos, May 30th. The inflammation in General Booth's
eye has spread and seriously jeopardises the sight. His general condition is good,
HOME CRICKET.
LONDON, May 30th. Sonierset beat Glonerster by three wickets at Taunton,
In the match between Worcestershire and Warwickshire, played at Worcester, the latter won by 180 runs.
Leicestershire Jost to Northants ́nt Northampton by nine wickets-
The Hants . Kent match at Southamp to ended in a draw.
Essex won by an innings and 27 runs from Middlesex 'at' Leyton.
Notts beat, Surrey at Nottinghant by nine wickets.
WIRELESS IN THE DUTCH EAST INDIES.
There are at present four Government wireless stations in the. Dutch, East Indies. The most powerful one is at Sabang, a couling station and a port of call for the Dutch mail-steamers at the
Mr. Moutagu (Cambridge, Chesterton). --The restoration of order in Ching in-
plies that the central Government would then be in a position to enforce its will in the provinces and secure the observance of international engagements. To uphold such engagements is the declared policy. of the new Government. The Secretary of State cannot forceast the course of events in China, and can only deal with the exist ing situation. The Indian Government" continues to realiza for its opium prices considerably in excess of its estimates, and has provided for the expenditure of the present year without additional taxa-
tion.
BIG LINERS.
The advance in the character of the modern Atlantic liner is well illustrated by the following table, which summarises the progress of the past twenty-two years:
Ship.
Built. Tonnage. 1900 9,098
Teutonic.
Kaiser Wilhelm.der
Campania
1803
12,500
Grosse .....
1807
14,350
Kaiser Wilhelm II
1903 '19,301 1908 13,750
Oceanic 1898-17,274
La Provence
Kronzprincessin Cecilio 1007 19:400
Adriatic
Mauretania
Olympic
Titanic La France
boats.
-1907 24,540
1967 31,938
1911 46,00€
1012- 1912
40,000 23,000 British Beet can have obtained credenc.orthern extremity of Sumatra. This We have a growth in the period named station has a range of 1,000 miles, which from the liner of less that 10,000 tons to brings it within reach of Colombe on the the liner of 40,000 tons and in length from ong hand, and Bingapore on the other. The the vessel of 505 ft. to the vessel of 850 ft. other three are at Sitoebendo (Eastern Speed has gone up from twenty-one knots Java), Balik Papan (Borneo), and Timer to twenty-six, and come down again in Koepung (the capital at Dutch Timor); the "Olympic" and the "Titanic" to while a kith station is in course of erec-twenty-one or twenty-two. It looks as toin at Ambeina, in the Molucca Islands, unless there is some great, revolution miles, and are inter-connecting; but, to see the high speed of the "Mauretania" All these establishments have a range of a marine engineering, we are not likely as far as Australia is concerned, not one
and the Lusitania" emulated by other of the stations will be powerful enough to
It is worth noting that during the communicate with the proposed me ut Thursday Island, the chitance from score and more of years to which the table Amboina, the nearest Dutch Station. been accompanied by no single catas refers the steady advance indicated has being quite 1,000 miles. Should it, how trophe.. This is surely the beat answer ever, be decided to erect wireless at Port to the suggestion that there is "mad com Darwin, then communication could easily petition in apced, and that it is time tr be effected with Timor Koepang, which is only about 500 miles distant. Several of a halt in the construction of big ships. The more rational view seems to be that Royal Packet Steam Navigation Com- been exceptionally fortunate in its avoid- the numerous Island steamers of the the modern Atlantic liner has heretofore pany are now fitted with the wireless ance of ice-bergs, of the danger of collision installation, the value of which, especially with which we have now a truly awful in the outlying parts of the Archipelago, lesson. There will naturally be a good deal ean hardly be over-estimated. The two of sympathy with the various suggestions new steamers, which the same company is which have been made with a view to the LONDON, May 30th. now building for its Java-Australian minimising of this risk, and it ship- The King has approved of the appoint-line, and which are to be delivered at builders cannot give us an unsinkable the end of this year, will also carry wire ship, as seems very doubtful, it is just ment of Admiral Hoc 19 his first less. The system adopted by the Royal possible that they may see their way to Marconi, although the Dutch Government tingeney which obviously demanda special stations are on the Telefunken system.
consideration.
THE MALECKA. CASE,
LONDON, May 30th. a real source of anxiety to the Repub- the Magistracy yesterday with keeping at simply a Zatin discipline. Even to- Fican authorities. Yet no one seriously
a house in Cross Street, Wanchai, as anday the Roman Catholic elergy in the
Router learns that it is now officially imagines that the France of to-day is readyum divan. One of the men, was Orient marry with the full approbation known that Miss Malceka's sentence does to receive a monarch of its own, nor does charged with being the keeper. Sergeant of the Holy See. It is true that such marot involve being sent to Sihoria.
you believe that-the-berian Republic is Gerrard, who prosecuted, said the keeper ringes must precede ordination syd not any less stable now that it was in the days was a former opium divan keeper, and follow it, but this restriction, besides being of its inauguration, though, of course, one when the Ordinance abolishing divans inconvenient, is without ralne in the eyes can never say what changes the future will came into operation he was compensated of sound reason and contradicts the prin- bring forth there. As the Chinese lave by the Government. He was told to disciple that in the judgment of the Itoinai been ruled by kings and emperors for ce continue keeping a divan, but had not Church there is no real incompatibility turies, it need occasion little surprise if the obeyed the order. A fine of $250 or three between the two sacruments of holy orders aval A.D.C. in succession to Admiral Packet Steam Navigation Company is offer additional nrotection against a con- feeling of veneration for the Throne should months' imprisonment was imposed, and and matrimony. Yours, etc.,
the smokers were each fined $2.
A STUDENT OF HISTORY.
NAVAL APPOINTMENT,
Beaumont,