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INTIMATION
WATSON'S
VERY OLD LIQUEUR
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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRES, THURSDAY, JULY 18TH, 1912.
of making one of the most momentous decisions which have ever been demanded of them.
"The Government," he say
soll.
For stealing a door valuted $8.30 a Chinese was at the Magistracy yesterday sentenced to three weeks' imprisonment.
woman
Gruesome stories continue to reach the Indian Press from Tibet, where the abbot These additions will render the fleet asof Tongeling monastery is said to have strong as the Mediterranean fleet has ever been crucified and fourteen other Tibetan
been since the dotermination of the Unionist Government in 1904-5, to concentrate its maval forces in the North Sea." If that is the tris position, the alarm which is raised over the so-called abandonment of Great
for
TELEGRAMS. TELEGRAMS.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENOT.) RUSSIA AND JAPAN.
A VIRTUAL ALLIANCE,"
Losos, July 17th.. Ruuter's correspondent at St. Peters- barg states that it is asserted in well- informed quarters that negotiations
between Tokyo and St. Petersburg for the conclusion of a virtual alliance are practically completed, and that Prince Katsura, who arrives in St. Petersburg on the 21st instant, is coming to put the final touch to the labours of the Ambas- sader.
AFFAIRS IN TIBET.
CHINESE POSITION IMPROVED.
LONDON, Judy 17th. The correspondent of the Starreman at Kalimpong says regarding the rumoured
THROUGH BRUTER'S AGENCY.]
INSURANCE ACT TROUBLES IN GREAT BRITAIN.
LONDOS, July 17th.
On the arrival of thy Anchor liuer
Media ab Glasgow, the dockers refused to work us the foreman insisted on engaging only men with insurance cards.
Two doctors have resigned appoint-
National Memorial Scheme and wind nients in connection with the Welsh
other appointees have received letters from the British Medical Association
suggesting that they should follow that example, as it is essential that they should not accept posts which would facilitate the working of the Insurance Act util the demands of the profession are met.
work of the squadron in time of peace will: lie outside the Mediterranean. It is trus that for the time being the strength of the ** having apparently dotermined virtually to squadron has breu reduced by the renovni
A fine of $150 was imposed by Mr. abandon the navel defence of the Mediter- of the Swiftsure and the Triumph, vessels of Melbourne at the Magistracy yesterday ranean, what the nation must decide, and comparatively little fighting value as buttle-un a man for being the keeper of an that quickly, is whether or not they will ships nowadays rank, and whose crews wem opium divan at Wanchai and 20 othora permit the weakening to breaking point of required argoutly for the manning of the were fined $2 each for smoking there. what is the main link in the defence of now Dreadnoughts, but it has beba Isfin-
At the Magistracy yesterday a Chinese the Empire." He goes on to say that the itely stated that when the George F. the from Taumata was convicted by Mr. Taption of the Government is the natural Centurion and the Ajaz join early next Melbourne of having stabbed, a
development of the policy of reducing the year the first battle fleet, the four ships of with a sword. He was fined $25 or on Navy which was initiated in 1901. To-day the Dancau type which compose the squad-month's imprisonment for the assault and the squadrons which protected British ron will be strengthened by the addition 10 or 14 days' for being in unlawful interests in every part of the world are of the Lord Nelson, the Agamemnon, and possession of the sword: The weapon, an either withdrawn or greatly weakened the Dreadnought, the first of its type, and d police sword, was confiscated. Naval force is concentrated in home waters, that a fourth ship will be added later Six out of the 13 naval bases abroad have in the your to make up the total eight been diamantled. The garrisons of the ro-battleships of all but the beat afloat. maining seven stations have been reduced. their armament decreasul, and their stores
dignitaries tortured pro-Chinese The patrolling cruiser foren was largely withdrawn, and the ships wore
are said to have become so fierce from sympathies. The bazaar dogs in Lhasa broken up, so that there are now no more
ferding on the slain in streets that they than about 20 ernisers, instead of some 60
have taken to attacking the living. vemols, available for the protection of the trade routes. The increase in the size of Britain's traditional policy in the Mediterrat Littleton, who died up 15th ult, surrender of the Tibetans at Lhassa that strike against the establishment of the Rear-Admiral the Hon, Algernon warships has left the docking accommodaraneus would appear to be entirely justi-in his 69th year, entered the Royal Navy tion totally inadequate. The Fleet is so fied. We have had this week the welcome in 1856 and served in the Sans Parcil A BLEND OF THE FINEST PORE short of men that it is constantly found to be assurance from Sir EDWARD GRɛy that Great during the China War of 1857-58. He impossible to recommission a ship without Britain's relations with the Foreign Powers was present at the capture of Canton taking a crew which is entitled to an inter-are entirely satisfactory, and "excellent "in and carried the Colours of the Naval val of leave. The perpetual shifting of the the case of Germany, which has long been Brigade at the assault and capture of men from ship to ship and the depriving looked upon, not without reason, as Britain's Newtow, where he was wounded, For then of their legitimate leave creates a die- arch enemy. If it is the passibility of war these services he received the China content greatly to be deplored. "There aru
with Germany that prompts this alarmedal with clasps for Canton. at least 20,000 men short of requirements. about the evacuation of the Mediter. lieutenant in command of the Salemia in Parliament has been continually assured by canean," it is as well to remember that since China he was specially commended by the His Majesty's Ministers that the number of war against Germany would "either be cd to the shipwreked crew of a British Commander-in-Chief for services render- the permanel was adequate." Such is the against Germany alone-in which casa there general situation, and it must be admitted would be no need to send a battle floot to that it looks far from satisfactory. Lord waters in which not a single Germau battle- A Chinese whose age was given as 76, CHARLES BERESFORD agrees that as regards ship is or is likely to be stationed or it appeared before Mr. Melbourne at the the meunce of one foreign Power in home would he against the Triplo Alliance, in Magistracy yesterday charged with watora, the Admiralty bare adopted the which case the duty of guarding the obtaining money by false pretences on right strategy in concentrating forces to
Mediterranean would fall on France, which board a steamer in the harbour and also meet it. But the fact that, in order to is calentlated to have at present a superiority with being in possession of three apurious effect that concentration they have bees of about twenty-five per cent. to Austria coins. He told his Worship that when he has been appointed Governor of East without a result having been arrived at obliged, first, to withdraw squadrons from
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foreign waters, and now abandon the
Hungary and Italy combined, in addition to
the great aulvautage of a unitary as opposed an allied fleet. Therefore when the promised debate takes place on the Naval reorganisation the Government will have fairly effective reply to make to its critics,
straum:r.
.:
When
a fretarer and had received the was young he was a tailor but now he
Mediterranean, affords, he says, indis- to
spurious coins as subscriptions from thone who hard him lecture. As regards the putable evidence that the naval policy
fals pretences be collected for a hospital of the last ten years has failed to
at 71, Second Street. Sergt. Wills said provide for the needs of the Empire Yet if we look at the Naval expenditure of
the place was used as a coolie house. De frndaul took care, he said, to collect from the country, we find that in those ten yours it has increased from 20 millions sterling
ships at the buoy and not from ships at The Darkani University decided last the whart. He would call a ship's cap. to more than 44 millions sterling Led mouth to confer on Sir Frederick Lngardtain who had given defendant $1 in the CHARLEN BERESYOED nevertheless charges the D.C.L. degree.
belief that he was subscribing to a hos the Government with deliberately choosing to resign the Naval supremacy of the
pital maintained by charitable contribu- Francisco de Paula Cembrano, late of
tions. A police witness said that there country. He writes: **The policy of the Richmond, and Manila, who died on present Firat Lord of the Admiralty bas April 2ud last, aged 50 years, left estate was no doctor at the place, the doctor who' been distinguished by two departures. One in the United Kingdom of the gross value had been in charge having gone to Canton. His Worship said the police is the substitution of numbers (an Army
of £23,515, with net personalty £23,515.
would have to prove that this was not custom) for the traditional nauus of the
Amongst the presentations to His one of the many Chinese charitable squadrons of the Fleet, the squadrons them" (Majesty at a Lévee at St. James's Palace institutions, and remanded the case for salves remaining as they were. The other on the 13th ult. was that of Sir Frederick | further inquiries. is the evacuation of the Mediterranean, Lagard, G.C.M.G., C.B., D.§.0, on involving the complete reversal of the con-fappointment as Governor of Southern ditions which for centuries have been hekland Northern Nigeria, by the Secretary by British statesmen to be essential to the of State.
The medical officer of health of the
IMPERIAL UNIVERSITY
CONGRESS.
the 3rd inst, Mr. Balfour
Sir Frederick Lugard read a paper in which he concluded that those teaching the requirements of the East, instead of Orientals should adapt their methods to attempting to loist a Western system an
the East,
Sir Theodore Morison mid secular education in India had been a splendid
success.
Dr. Exing (Punjab), Sir Thomas Raleigh, Hon. Sarvad Hilary (Calcutta)
language among the Filipinos, says a part in the discussion.
The spread of the use of the English and Rev. J. Russell (Madras) aleo took Manila contemporary, is demonstrated very clearly in the number of books that
fare daily taken from the shelves of the
EFFECT OF NEW JAPANESE TARIFE.
a number of Tibetans have fled because
At Liverpool thus men who went out on
clearing house to work the Insurance Act they lacked ammunition and supplies. have decided to resume work to-morrow, All the lamas at Drepong monastery, the labour lenders having satisfactorily numbering 8,000, have gone over openly explained the working of the clearing to the Chinese, whose position at Lhassa | house. has improved.
The Dalai Lama is reported as mobilis. ing troops, but he has not met with much success. Apparently there is no founda-' tion for the report that the Dalai Lama is returning to India,
NEW GOVERNOR OF BRITISH EAST AFRICA.
BIR PARCY GIROLAND LEAVES THE SERVICE,
LONDON, July 17th. Mr. B. C. Belfield, Besiclent at Perak,
in succession ter Sir E. P. Girouard, who has resigned. Africa
The Timer states that Sir E. P.
Girouard has accepted an important position in Armstrong's There is no question of friction with the Colonial Office or with the settlers,
STRENGTHENING THE BRITISH
NAVY
THE DOCKERS STRIKE.
- LONDON, July 17th. Negotiations continue between the lead- ers of the transport workers and Lord Devonport. Mr. Asquith in the House of Commons again postponed the state- went which he had promised to make.
The Strike Committer had an inter-
view with Mr. Asquith and Lord. Devon- port at Downing Street at midnight, but it broke up at one o'clock in the morning
A NEW YORK GAMBLING SUANDAL
A WITNESS DELIBERATELY KILLED.
LONDON, July 17th, New York is deeply stirred over thus murder of a man named Resenthal, who was the chief witness in the inquiry begin- ning on Tuesday into the charges against the police of corrupt connivance of gambling bell's. Rosenthal, £ well- krywe gambler, was accused by the polies of participating in the profits. He was Mr. Churchill, First Lord of the Ad-called out of his hotel to the street and miralty, announces sapulementary esti- mates amounting to £1,000,000.
Reports in the newspapers indicate a heavy outlay for the Mediterranean andante escaped. increasing the pay of the seamen,
ŠUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES.
Loxpon, July 17th
killed by a fusilade of shots from a motor. with six occupants, two of whon were recognised as policemien. All the occup-
SOUTH AFRICAN MAIL SERVICE, A Departmental Committee is being established to deal with the manning of
LONDON, July 17th.
the Navy and the increase of pay. Lord
The conferences between the South Fishor has been asked to preside over it. African Minister, Sir D. P. Graaf, with The Timer slates that a Royal Com-Mr. Harcourt, Mr. Samuel (Postmaster mission, presided over by Sir John General), and the Union Castle Line have Fisher, will be appointed to investigate resulted in an agrement which is on the fuel of the Navy. It is hoped that the point of being signed settling satis- it will also be able to inquire into the Factorily the long-pending controversy rates of pay with a view to the removal Cover the South African mail service. of grievances.
Nothing has been officially given out regarding the Naval Committee,
CANADA AND THE NAVY.
THE DOMINION'S PLANS.
BISLEY SHOOTING.
LONDON, July 17th. Shooting for the Kolapore Cup re- aulted:-1, England, 781; 2 South Africa, 760 (winning the Colonial prize); 3. Guernsey, 795; 4, India, 724.
IMPERIAL CRICKET.
LONDES, July 17th.
interance of British interests.
Earl Curzon and Mr. Balfour address There are at this moment two courses open City of London has recently declareded the Congress of Universities of the to the country. The one is immediately to that the conditions under which frozen Empire on carry into execution the polioy laid down by pork from China is being imported are inaugurated the discussion on the prob all Governments; the maintenance of the far from satisfactory. He described the lem of the university in the East in mval suprenucy of Great Britain. This is inspection before shipment as unreliable relation to moral ideals. the course which the country has been led and the hutchering as being indifferently to believe the Government are pursuing.
carried out. The alternative is to resign our unval supre- After serving for nearly eight years in oney, to give up the koys of the strategic the Far East, the cruiser Astra (Capt. centre of the Empire, and to rely upon E. Le T. Leatham) arrived on 18th ult. system of alliances which has always proved at Sheerness from the China Station, The recent change effected in Britial disastrous in the past and which will She was
be paid off and recommission- Naval policy, especially in so far as it relates prove equally fatal in the future. This is with a reduced nucleus crew for ser to the Mediterranean, has created serious the course which the Government have vice in the Third Fleet at the Nors as misgivings in many minds as to the wisdom actually adopted." The political alarmist tendor to the battleship Albion.
LONDON, July 17th, of the change, and although the matter is is a useful person in many ways. He, at
At the House of Commons dinner given to to form the subject of early debate in the least, stirs up the apathetic public to
Mr. Borden and his colleagues, the Right House of Commons, Sir EDWARD GELY has look into the matter." But are the alarm
Hon. A. Lyttleton presided. He dwelt on deemed it necessary to assure the nation ining conclusions reached by the gallant
At the Imperial Cricket Conference the importance of the Canadian Mission, held at Lords on Tuesday the question of advance that the Government has no inten- Admiral strongly supported by the tion of abandoning the Mediterranean facts of the case? That the Government American Circulating Library by native
and said that our supreme idea for years the method of arriving at a final result altogether, though there is no quarrel in have no intention of evacuating the Medi-subscribers. These subscribers as a gen
had heen one Imperial Navy and within the triangular contest was deferred prospect in that region. It is unneces terranean is clearly ehown by Sir EDWARD eral rule seek the latest novels, for which Robertson, Under Secretary of the Board Replying to Mr. Peto, M.P., Mr.
that a voice in the control of the foreign till the necessity arose. It was proposed. sary, he explains, to keep a force in the Gany's statement this week, and more the demand has become so great that, in of Trade, wrote last month that he is relations of the Empire.
that England should visit South Africa' Mediterranean able to hold its own at any clearly shown still by an examination of the spite of the large number that have been aware that the imports of cottons and
woollens into Japan from Great Britain. Mr. Borden emphasised Canada's in 1913-14, Australia should visit Africa moment against all other Powers: all that Government's proposals. Mr. CHURCHILL acquired by this library of late, it has have fallen off since the new tariff came is needed is that the Government should in explaining them said the fourth battle been found necessary to restrict the time into force. As compared with the first
caracet eagerness to share the burden of in 1914-16, England should visit Australia maintain there a sufficient Naval force squadron, whose headquarters are trans- for reading to seven days to each render two months of 1910, the imports from the the day and the peril, and warned his in 1915-16, Australia should visit England
United Kingdom of cottons and woollens hearers that Canada would never will available for use at any moment and thus farred from Malta to Gibraltar, while being without the privilege of taking out the sol for as shown have fallen off this year
in 1016, and South Africa should visit eable Great Britain to be counted as available for use in the North Sen if any book again immediately for another seven by 80,000 yen only, and the exports of ingly accept a position in the wars of
England in 1917. The scheme is not One of the Mediterranean Naval Powers. emergency required its presence there, days,
such goods from Japan have increased self-constituted guardians. The next ten What has actually happened is that Mr. would also be available for use in the
by only 145,000 ven. Moreover, whilst The Garrison Orders notify that leave United Kingdom into Japan have de
and woollen imports from the history of the Empire, and he trusted sufficiently empowered.
to twenty years would be critical-in-the-definito, some of the delegates not being
CHURCHILL, determined to show that Mediterranean. From some comments on
of absence on private affairs, to the clined, imports of other goods have that in the future they would not have England would be, under his régime, în an the reorganisation published in a contom-Uailed Kingdom, is granted to 2nd Lieut. increased to a more than corresponding cause for vain regret aeglected overwhelming superiority to Germany in porary we take this pertinent extract. "In A. 0. Collis-Browne, 1st Battalion extent. The total imports from the
opportunities. the warrow seas, insisted that the head pint of fact, with three battle squadrons K.O.Y.L.I., from 24th August, 1912 to two months of this year by 3,500,000 yen United Kingdom were greater in the first quarters of the fourth battle squadron already in the vicinity of the North Sea, it 24th May, 191a; privilege leave on private than last year, and by 5,600,000 yen than should be transferred from Malta tois absurd to suppose that its real acti- affairs, to the neighbouring countries, is in the first two months of 1010. These Gibraltar, where it would be available for vity, except in case of emergency, will be granted to Captain J. S. Cobbe,. R.A., Japahose tariff as modified by the Anglo- results do not suggest that the new use in the North Sea if any emergency displayed anywhere wave in the Meditor- sath (Hazara) Mountain Battery, from Japanese Treaty has had an injurious required its presince there. But he also ranean. And apart altogether from a consid-ard August to both Beptember, 1012; effect on British trade as a whole. said it would be available for use in the eration which, if conclusive, may be styled furlough to the United Kingdom, for Mediterranean. Admiral Lord CHABLES hypothetical, the fact remains that the one year, from 1st August, 1912, or date Bærksfond bas strongly criticised this re-third cruiser squadron is still to have its of availing, is granted to Captain A. J. organisation in a very lengthy statement base for repairs and refitting at Malta, Orchard, sth Rajputs; and combined issued to the Press, in which he declares that and with it the cruisers attached to the leave to the United Kingdom, for 8 the new allocation of the British Fleet con battle fleet, showing clearly how far the months from 1st August, 1912, is granted fronts the British people with the necessity ! Admiralty are from thinking that the auti to Lieut. C., Steel, 28th Punjabis,
A
Mr. Borden had a long personal con- ference with Mr. Churchill to-day.
TEST CRICKET.
LONDON, July 17th. Continuing their first innings Australia. The Times Toronto correspondent rays
carried the score from 86 for two wickets interest in the Dominion is intense into 200, of which Kelleway made 102 and
the negotiations now proceeding in Bardsley 164. South Africa in their
London. It is understood that the
second innings scored 146 for the loss of Dominion will not give Dreadnoughts to the Admiralty, but build Dreadnoughts eight wickets. Asked as to a lawyer's bill of coats, a
at intervals of two or three years which witness at the Shoreditch County Court
The King was present at the match in said: "I am not a lawyer, but I have will be assigned to the Imperial Navy the afternoon, and the members of the sufficient knowledge of their pretty ways in time of war, but will be the chief
teams were presented to His Majesty at. to know that if they ring you up on
vessels of the Canadian Fleet, if one is the telephone you are buying the
the tea interval. telephone.
established.