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it appear that the Japanese authorities are questioning the fairness of the Court in actuated by some sinister motives, the main failing to call the witnesses asked for, one being the wiping out of the Christian prove anything. Counsel hare the power movement in Korea. This astonishing if they think the Court is in any biassed, to appeal to another charge is actually contained in a statement way.
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THE REVOLT IN TIMOR SUPPRESSED.
A DIO CASUALTY LIST,
LONDON, August 25th.
A Lisbon telegram states that the Governor of Timor has telegraphed that the revolt there has been suppressed, The rebels lost 3,000 killed and 4,000 were
THE AMERICAN PRESIDENTIAL
CAMPAIGN.
Continuation Committee of the Edinburgh oven to carry the matter to a still bigher Conference, drawu up before the opening Court. This the Counsel have now done in of the trial of the accused. "We now the compirney case, causing a temporary believe," say the writers of the statement, suspension of the trial; but it is nothing A fire broke out last evening at the "that the programme as laid out ex-new, and does not show that the Court in | new Post Office in St. Martin's-le-Grand, tends to the point of wiping out the Korea is more antagonistic to the accused caused by a fused wire. It paralyzat
ia Koren." The than the general rau of Japanese Courts, the telegraph service of the country for captured in battle. Christian movement proofs they offer are not convincing how-where such appeals are not uncommon. ever. In the first place, they show an The whole procedure is not such as appeals three hours. utter ignorance of Japanese Criminal pro- cedure. This procedure may be good or bad; we think it is bad, though not wore than French,or German procedure, on which does not differ from that of trials generally on the third floor, when a cloud of smoke it is based. But obviously the Japanese authorities cannot be expected to alter the | procedure to suit cases in which Christians are concerned, and naver before has such a plea been put forward, in Japan or else. where. Considering that the missionaries spend this greater part of their lives in the country they are seeking to convert, it may
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Japan, we way well hesitate to oudorse the view that the prosecution is part of a pro out the Christian gramine for wiping movement in Korea.
About a thousand operators, mostly girls, were on duty, at the busiest time of the day, in the huge provincial gallery
belcard forth from the test box where the wires serving the whole country were concentrated.
The officials throw sand on the fire, but this proved unavailing. They wore The Bandman Opera Company open driven out by the suffcenting fumes from to-night with The Mousine."
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Mr. E, A. Irving, Police Magistrate, | ing.
ALLEGED GRANYS TO REPUBLICAN FUNDS.
LONDON, August 24th.
["DAILY PRESS" EXCLUSIVE SERVICE.] THE LATE JAPANESE EMPEROR'S FUNERAL.
TOKYO, August 25th. The Diet has voted ons and a lif million yen (yen 1,800,000) for the funeral of the late Emperor.
THE CONSPIRACY TRIAL IN KOREA
Toxro, August Bati. The conspiracy trial at Seoul was re- opened on Friday.
The Procurator declares that all the allegations of torture being used to extort. confessions are false.
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A casage from Reuter's correspondent at Washington states that Mr. J. D. Archbold, of the Standard Oil Company, giving evidence before the Congress Com-JAPANESE EMPEROR · HONOURED. initice, admitted giving 8125,000 (gold) }, to the Roosevelt Campaign Fund in 1004.
LONDON, August 24th. His Majesty the King has conferred He was unaware, however, whether Mr.
the Order of the Garter on the Emperor Roosevelt knew it was from the Standard of Japan, and Prince Arthur of Con-
has been remored to hospital suffering All left the building, perfect dissipline Oil Company. He added that the connaught will invest the new Emperor
from an attack of lever.
being maintained.
tribution was not returned, · It was therewith during his visit to Tokyo, The firemen were summoned and extin- specially stipulated that Mr. Roosevelt
should be informed of the contribution.
On and after 1st September, uncil fur ther notico, the western end of Welling-guished the fire. ton Street, is to be closed to vehicular trafic.
A Chinese reports having been victimised by a compatriot who, posing as a police- man, "arrested" him, and relieved him
of three dollars.
A scaffolding in front of a building in Connaught Road collapsed on Friday. and two Chinese workmen were thrown from the height of the second storey to the ground. They were removed to the
It will take days to restore the service.
THE LATE "GENERAL BOOTH.”
LONDON, Angust 24th. Reuter's Adelaide correspondent states that the South Australian Assembly has passed a resolution expressing apprecia- tion of "General" Booth's work on behalf of humanity.
A WREATH FROM THE KAISER,
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eulpable ignorance on their part. It is usual in starting a controversy to make oneself acquainted with facts; this the missionaries have failed to do. One of the charges made by the missionaries is that
On Friday afternoon a wreath from H.M. the Kaiser, composed of white At the Magistracy on Saturday four lilies, was placed on "General ? Booth's coolies were charged before Mr. Melcoffin, the representative expressing sym- bourne with having driven a truck on
THE LYING-IN-STATE.
private ricksha, damaging it, and injur ing one of the coolies in charge of tiệ
The lying-in-state of the deceased latter. The defendants were each find!"General" attracted continuous crowds, fifty cents and ordered to pay 6 cent
despite the drenching rain. On the oak each as compensation.
coffin were placed the "General's" cap The centre of the hall was
It is notified in the Government Gazette and Bible.
Mr. Roosevelt declares that he was not informed and that Mr. Archbold is delib erately falsifying the truth for political
purposes.
LATER.
THE DECEASED EMPEROR,
LONDON, August 24th. Mr. Secretary Knos, who is reprevent ing the United States at the funeral of the late Emperor of Japan, has sailed front Beattle on the cruiser Maryland,
THE IMPERIAL GENERAL STAFF.
Mr. Roosevelt has demanded to be heard by the Senate Committee in cons
Losdos, August 25th. nection with his campaign expenditures,
Reuter learns thas the Overseas section in order to refute the assertions made byof the Imperial General Staff in London Mr. Archbold.
how cousists of Colonel Legge, of Austra- THE POLICE SCANDAL IN Ha, Colonel Robin, of New Zealand, and
NEW YORK.
Colonel Thacker, of Canada. South Africa wall undoubtedly send a repre- WOMAN ALLEGED TO HAVE BEEN MURDERED.
sentative in due course. Their duties New York, August 25th,
have not yet been exactly defined, but Irish govern€88, named Julia
they are broadly to forward advice and Curran, has been found dead in a low information to local sections of the Gen- class hotel. She is believed to have beeneral Staff and conversely to supply the murdered by a man who lured her there.onoral Staff and the War Office with ins The police described the death as from formation from the Dominions.
An
"Natural Causes," but the Coroner's surgeon suggested that the police were
trying to hush up a crime in order to save the reputation of a graft protected house.
REVOLT IN TURKEY.
LONDON, August 24th. Reuter's Constantinople correspondent states that 400 Malissori, led by priests, attackeů. Durazzo (on the Adriatic), but were eventually routed by reinforce entire absence of weeping, the Salva-ments. The Malissori lost 30 killed and tionist ukurners passing by silently with
70 wounded, but the Turkish casualties grave, earnest faces.
were few.
It was noticeable that there was in
the accused were tortured during the pre-that the names of the following Companies surrounded by officers of the Salvation liminary oramization, and these accusations have been struck off the Register-Amoy Army, holding flags. The lid of the have since been made by nearly overy Engineering. Company Limited, The prisoner as far examined in open court. Kwong Kee Ferry Company, Limited, coffin was of glass, this revealing the de- This is the only charge which is The Hotel Metropole Company, Limited, ceased's features, which were sleep-like, deserving of investigation. Naturally it Lewingdon and Company, Limited, Sale except for the pallor. The "General" the statements of the and Company, Limited, The Oriental I was dressed in full uniform, with a red rests only on accused and the evidence of those who dustries, Limited, The Canton Nanyang saw marks on their bodies where the torture Tobacco Company, Limited, The Savoy, jersey showing at the wrists and collar. had been inflicted. There is unfortunately Limited, Bradys, Limited, The Lai On too much evidence that the lower class Fire and Marine Insurance Company, polico-officials are in the habit of getting Limited, and The Oriental Construction confessions from accused persons by means Company, Limited. which are the reverse of legitimate; the method of private examination lends itself te such abusOM. If the missionaries ad confined themselves to this point and had forced the Japanese Government to make an investigation, they would not only have
BRITISH CROPS RUINED.
ANOTHER TIGER STORY.
LONDON, August 25th. Another tiger story has to be told. The
The continuance of the heavy rains is schoolmaster of Tien Taze village in the district of Sai Kung has reported that making the crop prospects in Britain
TROUBLED MOROCCO..
FRENCH ACTIVITY.
Reuter's
LONDON, August 24th." Puris correspondent states
ROYAL MOTOR-BOAT BREAKS.
DOWN.
LONDON, August 26th.
to
A message from Ilaliias, Nova Scotia, states that Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Connaught were
motor-bout proceeding in
Bt, Andrew's Island last night, when the antor broke down, and they drifted for two hours before they were taken in tow by a fishing steamer and brought to their destination.
SIR GEORGE ASKWITH.
LONDON, August 24th.' Sir George Askwith, of the Board of Trade, has sailed for Canada, where ás will investigate labour conditions and the
HONGKONG Orrior: 101, DES Vaux ROAD O. benefited their clients, but the purity of on the night of the 21st instant a tigermore desperate than ever, and experts that the Council of Ministers has consid.working of the Canadian Industrial is- LONDON OPTION: 131, FLEET STREET, B.C.justice generally, As it is, their ill-con-1 visited his premises and carried off a prophecy an indefinite prolongation offered the events at Marrakesh, and it is putes Act.
The Daily Press.
HONGKONG, August 26rn, 1912.
sidered attack has but made the authorities more unbending. As we stated in some recent remarks on all the trial, the accused in open Court withdrew the confessions made by them at the preliminary examination, on
weighing over 100 catties and worth $20. Next morning he found part of the the rains
LATER.
carcase on the hillside some little distance The continuance of the disastrous wea- off. He informed the assistant district
officer, who with a party went off in 'ther throughout the country. is causing beyond his spoor.
understood that a decision has been come | OPIUM SMOKING PROHIBITED IN to not to extend field operations to the Southern capital.
LATER.
The Times correspondent at Paris wires
INDIA
LONDON, August 22th.
Reuter's correspondent at Simula' maya
THE Korean conspiracy case continues to the plen that those confessions were wrung search of the tiger, but found nothing August to be described as the "terrible that Colonel Mangin is now 76 miles off the Government of India has instructed
In this connection it is worth
month."
and is preparing to make a dash towards the Provincial Governments, including that of Burma, to prohibit absolutely Marrakesh with 4,000 men.
Resident General Lyautey is now going opium-smoking in saloons, or at gather- ings exceeding two persons in number. southward and may join forces.
The Government also propose to reduce
AVIATOR'S SERVICES.
A military aviator is rendering-re the amount of opium which any indivi- markable services in maintaining comn-dual may lawfully possess, increase the munications between the French posts price, and revise the regulations for the and columns at Fez, Rabat and Casa-sale of morphia and allied piu com-
rex the outlying waters of Japanese diplo- from them by torture-physical or mental.
Widespread havoc has con macy, and seems likely to do so unless the Many of them appear to have believed that Government takes advantage of the death if they confessed to some erime it would be quoting the following remarks of the wrought, the whole harvest is threatened, of the late EMPERON to grant the accused a casier for, them, while most of them, even District Officer of the New Territories and serious foods have taken place in free pardon, though this, of course, can only the most educated, were quite unaware that "There are well authenticated cases in the Midlands. There is no sign of any change. There have been thirty hours follow a verdict of guilty—a verdict which the preliminary examination would be which tigers have visited portions of the New Territories and even the island of has not yet been given owing to the followed by a public trial-the first cor-
Two tigers were killed by of continuous rain in Derbyshire. objections raised by the Counsel for the responding to the English police-court trial Hongkong.
Chinese in a cave in the bills near Shim The condition of the 10,000 troops defence as to the constitution of the Court and the latter to trial in the criminal court.
Shui Po. Cattle have been killed in large under canvas at Salisbury Plain is de and a consequent delay in the proceedings Thojudge in the publicourt made no attempt numbers, especially in Lantas, where The accused are charged with hatching a to get at the facts of this alleged torture---
some 60 or 70 were killed, apparently by plorable, the camps being water-logged plot for the murder of Count TERAUCHI, eithing shirking it or dismissing it as an some beast with claws and tracks similar and reduced to quagmires. the Governor-General. A large number of hallucination. It would certainly have been to a tiger or a panther, during 1911. It persons are involved, those actually on trial, more to the credit of the Court if it had
was reported by one native living in a ambering 128, being eaid to bo only the gone into the matter fully. Another charge but on Lantao that a tiger was seen by ringleaders of a widespread conspiracy. has been raised as to the refusal of the him dragging a chain, and it is not The district from which the ringleaders Court to call witnesses. Many names of impossible that the beast in question come-where the plot is said to have been missionarics were mentioned in the course might be a tiger escaped from a local at Wellington states that Mr. McCarthy, desire to complete the perfect entente "and": atarted-happens to be the scene where the of the proceedings, and more or less grave menagerie. It would live mostly on dear, the well-known New Zealand brewer, has friendly collaboration with France in the at Doncaster on September 11th, is as
A HANDSOME BEQUEST.
blanca, covering 500 miles in six days.
THE SULTAN'S FRIENDSHIP. Resident General Lyautey has transmit-
LONDON, August 24th,
ted to M. Poincare, the Premier, a mes A message from Reuter's correspondent age from the new Sultan, declaring his
Christian missionaries have been most suc- charges were made against them of being but occasionally pounced on isolated bequeathed half a million sterling to work of peace and progress. cessful, with the result that a large number implicated in the plot. To clear their names herds of cattle; nor is there any reason charities. of thioee arrested are Christian converts Counsel applied that they should be called to doubt that it could swim over from one some being actually engaged in mission as witnesses, but this the Court refused to island to another. In one case in May. work or as teachers or students in Christian do.
By the Japanese criminal proce 1911, a number of cattle had been killed schools. It is but natural in these circum-dure, judges are given the power to decide in the South of Lantao, and the remainder stances that those arrested should appeal to what witnesses they shall hear, and, extra of the herd thirty in number was seat the missionaries, who, as foreigners, they ordinary as it may seem, this power is
over for safety to a small island a maile look upon us better able to confront constantly exercised to the exclusion of wit away; but within 2 days, 10 of these had the Japanese authorities than themselves, nesses which a British or American Court ber killed or badly wounded. An expedi The missionaries at first appear to have would call as a matter of course. But here, tion went out three days later, but by shown great circumspection, though one again. so now precedent has been started. that time the beast had probably returned
[At the last General Election, Mr. A. or two of them were led away to multe The accused Koreans, we are assured, are not to the thick cover afforded by the Lantao rather wild assertions, but from later news being treated any more unfairly in the Hills. It is said to have been seen again Thomas, K.C., (L.) was returned with to hand it would appear that while in matter than thousands of Japanese have early this year (1012), both on Hongkong 5,826 votes, Mr. Peel (U.) polling 2,315, Korea they have been circulating statements (been treated in the past. Nor does the Island and on Lantao."
pounds.
THE TURF.
THE ST.LEGER.
LONDON, August 24th. The latest botting on the St. Leger, rux
follows:-2 to 1 against Lomond, 5 to 1 Tracery, 100 to 12 Erlegh, 10 to 1 Hector, and 20 to 1 Pintadeau.
WELSH BY E-ELECTION.
LONDON, August 24th.
THE AGA KHAN,
LONDON, August 25th. The Times of Iulia, Bombay, states that the Aga Khan has abandoned his candi The bye-election at East Carmarthen-dacy for the Viceroy's Council owing to shire has resulted as follows:-
his approaching visit to South Africa Rev. Mr. Jones (1.) ................................ 6,062
and East Africa. Mr. Peel (U.)
3,344
GERMANY'S NEW FAST CRUISER. 1,089
LONDON, August 25th. A telegram from Kiel states that the cruiser Gocben on her trial trip made
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Mr. Williams (Lab.)
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HOME CRICKET,
LONDON, August 25th. The following results are telegraphed : Middlesex 21. Surrey, uk Lord's. Drawn.
Kent Drawn.
The Essex v. Hanta, Sussex v. North- amptonshire, Worcestershire 21, York- shire matches were all abandoned, point- less, owing to rain.
v. Gloucestershire, at Dover.