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ULSTER DAY.
LONDON, Siptember 30th.. Ulster Day in Belfast passed off with out disorder, save for a scuffle following sho display of green figs by football Mrs. Catt. President of the Inter-enthusiasts returning from the match
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entertain so foul a belieffer it evidently to have taunted the Koreana with a lack of has passed boyond the stage of mere suspicion that foreign missionaries should courage and decision; half a dozen other be engaged in plotting to pasinato, the missionaries were alleged to have been Governor-General of Korea, or anybody else. entrusted with the charge ofa âve orange No European or American, howovor pre boxes filled with revolvers. If the Judges; number of prisoners brought from the Yesterday a record was created in the judiced he may, ho aga inst Christian missionary propaganda in the East, can read did not beliero that the missionaries were! castern district to be placed before the these vile sapersions against foreign involved, it seems to us that the whole cast. Magistrate.
sionaries and not be amazed that
The number was 54, 38 of judge of one of the highest tribunals set against the accused failed. Having regard to whom were arrested in one gambling ap by the Japaness in Korea should give the nature of the whole of the evidence raid. to these monstrous fabrications the slightest credence.
brought to supporis charg› of conspiracy, In its criticism of the article the Japan it is ridiculous to argue that the refusal of Mail ventured to think that in making the the Court to call the missionaries as wil abore romarka wo were not taking into esses may be taken ajuplying that it did account the peculiarities of the Japanese act consider such evidence as relevant to lagal procedure, and our ontemporary the case. The Public Propirator relied laboured to show that the only knowledge greatly upon the so-called confessions of the case which the Judges in a public Ho poured ridiglo upon the retractations! Court have according to Japan's legal pro-in the public Curt, and not gno word cedure--is contained in the dogier which is has been said by the Procurator or hiuded to them from the preliminary the
Court to indicate disbelief in Court, and our contemporary proceeds to what every European and American must
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regard as the ablutely incredible alloga It is their duty to read this evidence, test tions mado against the conduct of some drawn by the preliminary fudge are sound
the open court. In the case in question,
national Women's Suffrage Association, between Belfast Celtic and Distillery, has best welcomed in Peking by the Women's Suffrage Union. the addressed The police promptly suppressed the dis- a meeting attended by over Gop women turbanco. - and about 1,000 men.
In the evening Sir Edward Carson on the balcony of the Ulster Club reviewed The programme of the last Gymkhana of the season, which takes place at the the march past of the Unionist Clubs, the Race Coarse on Saturday afternoon, has members of which subsequently drew him been imed, and the entries for the in a wagonette to the quayside. various events give promise interesting afternoon's sport..
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(TAÑOVON #KUIRE'& AGENCY. ] THE TURBULENT BALKANS,
WAX BELIEVED TO BE JURYATENING,
LONDON, September 30th. The latest news from the Balkan is conflicting.
A sensational rumour is circulating in well-informed circles in Belgradh that a joint Bulgaro-Servian Note has been seat to Turkey demanding autonomy for Macedonia, and stating that war will be declared unless a satisfactory reply is forthcoming.
is growing in diplomatic circles that peace will be maintained.
It is believed that the Bulgarians have asked Servis to supply 50,000 men, and it Ho afterwards embarked tho is stated that the Servian Reservists aro steamer for Liverpool amid cficering, tho boing quietly called out and sent to the Mr. Melbourne at the Magistracy singing of the National Anthem, the frontier in small batches. its accuracy and see whether the conclusions twenty foreign missionaries in Korea. The yesterday, in imposing a fine of $25 upon
On the other hand, the feeling in Con- or otherwise. The preliminary court makes condemnation of a hundred or more Korean a man for being in unlawful possession firing of rockets and pistols, and the
of a revolver, observed that the weapon; blaza of the honfires on the hills on both stantinople is optimistic, and the ở no discrimination in the evidence. It doos Christian converts, who according to not reject what is incredibles and retain only the evidence given under torture or would have been more dangerous to the sides of Belfast Lough. Signallers flash what is credible; it passes the whole on to threats, wero acting largely under the man who bred it than the object at whom est messages of farewell to the departing the extracts from the evidenes given by our guidance and adrice of foreign mission. Hougkong contemporary, wherein the nafosaries, implies a belief by the Judge: BLEND OF THE FINEST PURE of foreign missionaries are mentioned, are in the allegations against the missionaries,
founded on the evidence of the preliminary! court. The judges in the open court did and we shall be interested to see what not introduce the maOS of the foreign action the missionary: bodies will take in found such extraordinary statemonts in the msinre on their own initiative; they regard to the mater. The Japan Mail says evidience given in the preliminary court the fact that the preliminary Court took and they somewhat maturally desired to test action on such evidenco (as involved the them. Nor did the preliminary court drag missionaries] shows how much credence it in the names of the foreign missionaries on their own initiative. The occurrence of the placed in it.” By" no action" we presume A queno hunt was responsible for a names must have arison through statements is meant that they refrained from arresting man being knocked down by a motor ear Alderman Salvidge presented Sir necessity for the promps application of made by the accused or by witossses at the and charging the missionaries as conspira on Sunday night. The victim was wear- Edward Cars with an address amid refurus in Macedonis in order to facili- preliminary examination. Statements in the evidence quoted by our contemporary tors; but if the public Court had placed ging a que and when this was discovered tremendous cheering, the band playing tate the pacific efforts of the Powers, support this. "But you admitted all this credence on the attements implicating the by a number of men in the street oy and the gathering singing "O God, our
The confidence felt in Constantinople at the police headquarters, did you not?" missionaries, we repeat, the qttom would gave chase, and in his anxiety to escape shows that the question asked by the court
case against he ran in front of a motor car. Ho was was founded on the preliminary evidence, have fallen out of the while the following remark of the court their protégés, for if the body of afterwards removed to the hospital. "There was no possibility of the authorities evidence on which the charge was based knowing all this unless you said so yourself"
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HONGKONG, OCTOBER 1ST, 1912.
A little Chincee girl took a gold watch belonging to her uncle and sold it to a man for 25 cents. The man was arrested and was brought before the Magistrate yesterday and fined 8100 or in default six months' imprisonment for receiving the watch knowing it to have been stolen
The watch was worth 825.
A small fire took place in a house în
It is stated authoritatively that. Tuf Extraordinary scenes wero witnessed at has abandoned the manœuvres at Liverpool, The steano Patriatic con-rianople, and has substituted separa
Edward Carson, veying Sir
Lord exercises for each military district. LL F. E. Smith, and
is hoped that this will calo the feeling Londonderry, Mr.
in Bulgaria.^. due to Lord Charles Beresford was errive at 7.30 on Sunday morning, but the quays were crowded by Unionists long before that hour.
help in ages past."
THE FRENCH FLEET IN THE MEDITERRANEAN,
The Russian Ambassador at Constan- tinople, in a long interview with the Foreign Minister, has emphasiseit the
is reflected in the announcement that tho special mission to investigate the Malis- sori grievanem, which was to live travel led by the sea route, leaves to day, vil Servia and Montonegro.
shows conclusively that the court in asking is to be believel, the missionaries are the questions was not making the "foul as deeply involved as any one-were, in Sun Wai in the centre of the city on
INDON, September 30th. on its own initiative. allogations"
The fact, the most active instigators of the Sunday night, caused, it is believed, by a foul allegations" emanated from the
Router's correspondent at Paris tele- aspersing their friends. If no trust can be the dossier, and, as a result one hundred and some sawdust and shavings. Fortunately semi-official not denying the accused themselves, who were thus actually alleged plot. Thepublic Court has tested" spark from a drying stove in a carpen-
ter's shop adjoining being carried among graphs that M. Poincaré kas published a placed in these "foul allegations" made hy six Koreans have been found guilty of con the outbreak was extinguished by the arising out of the polenic between the no trust in them then the verority of tho "piring to assassinate the Governor-Genera; { inmates and the police before much French and German newspapers on tho and three Generals who are likely to re- the accused--and, needloss to way; we place
rumoura
RAILWAY STRIKE IN SPAIN.
necused is further impugned. The fact that and have been sentenced to terms of i.
damage was done. the preliminary court took no action on prisonment; and as no worl appears to
subject of the French naval concentration such evidence shows how much credenco it
Two Hongkong Chinese were victimised in the Mediterranean, and declaring that placed in it, but it not being the duty of have boon said by Procurater or Judge that portion of the judicial bely to comment indicating disbelief or even doubt in their by the confidence trick on Sunday. In the concentration of the French fleet in upon or reject evidenco, the statements were minds concerning the very serious and one casa a shop cootie parted with 877 to the Mediterranean was decided a long simply passed on to the open court as made constantly reiterved accusations in the men who represented that they were on-time ago and is due exclusively to-naval We were perfectly well aware that the dossier against a score of missionaries, trusting him with a buodio of notes considerations. examination in the public Court was based
those allegations bara bean widely which they had picked up and which upon statements contained in the dossier
eredited in Japan, as
they wished him to cash. In the second the comments
instance the victim was, a shepkeopar, handed up from the preliminary Court, but ia the Japanse Press sufficiently.
whose los was much greater. He parted what our contemporary ignores is the very attest. The cortiction of the accused
with $1,010. important fact that all the soused, except Koreans, unaccompanied by any declaration the man described by his acquaintances as of the Court of its disbelief in the state, “crazy,” repudiated the assertion that the ments of the dossier involving the foreigu ably responsible for the strengthening of charges were made by them. They alleged missionaries, can only serve to strengthen the Hongkong Police Force The force that these charges, so seriously involving the impression already prevailing 802 to be sugmented by 30 Europeans and the missionaries--were formulated by the
widely in Japan to the discredit of 50 Indiens. With this addition the
LONDON, September 30th, pelice, and that by torture and threats and
Christian missionary propaganda in police should be able to cope with the M. Bazonoff and Sir Edward Grey have king representations they was persuaded
Korea. We hesitate to believe that the criminal element, but if more arrests are left Balmoral. to say "Yes" to them. The verdict in the Japanese Government itself is in any follow, what are the authorities to do made then at present, and convictions
case shows that the Judges disbelieved the
Come of the
were
The recent burglary epidemic is prob-
with the prisoners 1
They
LONDON, September 30th. The Spanish railway workers after a ballot have proclaimed a general strike.
RUSSIAN AND BRITISH
RELATIONS.
LORD KITCHENER,
LONDON. September 30th. Lord Kitchener and Mr. Asquith met at Venice,
LONDON, September 30th. Reuter's correspondent at Toulon wires that the battleship Paris was launched amid scenes of onthusiaen,
LATZH The Times publishes a message from Sofia which states that the crisis remains acate, and causa grave opprehension. Mobilization is expected momentarily
ecive commands have been received, já audience by the King,
Activity is already perceptible in mili- tary-circles, and the requisitioning of
horses has began.
It is hoped that Servin will follow suit.
A Convention between Greece, Mon- tenegro, Bulgaria and Servia is regore- ed as accomplished.
DOCTORS AND THE INSURANCE ACT.
LONDON, September 30th, Doctors are resigning by thousarla from Friendly Bociety poste us a protest: against the Government's refusal to. grant their demands in connection with the Insurance Act, namely for a fee of 18/0 per patient annually, and the restric- tion of medical benefits to persons whose
BANK COMPRADORE ABṚCONDS.
HEAVY LIABILITIES.
The chief topic of conversation in busi- ness circles yesterday was the reported disappearance of Lau Fun Chiu, com ENGLISH AVIATOR KILLED.
pradore to the Hongkong and Shanghai LONDON, September 30th.
Banking Corperation. I was known Longstaffe, an English airman, was difficulties, but it was not anticipated some weeks ago that he was in financial
aworn denials of the accused. met, and they hostile to Christianity, but having read the volumineus reports of the case Court accepted the statements in the dowaler
An interesting arms prosecution took so completely that it refused to allow under notics we fad it difficult to resist
the conclusion that it had its origin in place at the Magistracy before Mr. HongKong Offres: 104, Den Vœux ROAD C. the accused to call witnesses who would
Melbourne yesterday, vhen Sergeant LONDON OFFICE: 181, FLAT START, E.C. bave been able to disprove many of the antagonism ofkapanese police oficials to
Cooper charged a man and a woman, FRENCH BATTLESHIP LAUNCHED.income does not excood £2 weekly. the accusations brought against thou. the methods of the Christian propagandist residing at 23, Square Street, with being because they got emetly fit into the in unlawful possession of five revolvers missionaries who alleged to have been actively assisting in Japanese scheme of things ordained for the and 2,175 rounds of ammunition. this plot to assassinate the Governor. control and goromance of the Korean were found bricked up in one of the General were, in fact, out of the country at people. The result of the trial and cou-walls of the house. The women was fined EARLT in the month of August when the the time they were alleged to have been in riction of a many Christian converts will 8250 and the man discharged, trial of one hundred and twenty-three Koren inciting their protégés to assassina. obviously be to discredit the work of the
We understand there is a strong feeling Koreans-most of them Christian converts tion. The justification for our original missions, and it will serve as a warning to ---on a charge of conspiracy to assassinate condensation of the police and judiciary in young won who maluo their freedom that of discontent among members of the Police Force because the Governinent the Governor-General of Korea was sus-Korea lay in the fact that the preliminary association with the activities of a Christianhave not replied to & petition for BR pended in consequence of a protest against Court--to borrow the phraseology of the mission will but make them "suspect increase of pay. The police, it is stated, killed white flying from Hempstead to that he was so heavily involved as has the conduct of the trial made by the Counsel Japan Mail---bad “ found the accused guilty the eyes of the police. Is is impossible for are now drawing the saote rate of pay as Long Island. appearing for the defence, we ventured to and committed them for trial"; and that the missionary bodies to remain silent they did when living was cheaper by 25 draw attention to the serious and unbeliev-the judges in the public Court, judging under such a stigns.
per cent.," and many lancesergeant; are" able allegations made against foreign from the verbatim reports we have seen,
doing duty to-day for 85 a month less missionaries in the course of the case. The adopted towards the reused an attitude of
than they were drawing some ten years Japan Mail, which has for many years been undisguised hostility, even denying them,
Peking is now provided with a second regarded in Japan as a semi-oficial organ, what we believe is not the right but merely English paper, the Daily Telegraph, reproduced the whole of our article and the privilege in Japanese Courts, of calling which is to be ran upon independent devoted to it a column and a half of witnesses on their behalf.
There was not
lines.
criticism. As the trial had re-opened before the slightest indication that the Judges We
credence in the allegations our contemporary's criticism mame under placed no
year.
understanl
that Lile
ago.
The vigilance of European constable No. 31 prevented a Chinese from success- fully importing 230 tacls of opium into The officer discovered the the Colony. Opinn our notice, we decided to await the Court's against the missionaries; quite the contrary gent is to be extended for another aroused examined the sack and found the Farmer's contract with the local Gorman carrying a sack on the Fraya at Yaumati and having his Baspicions decision before replying. That decision impression is to bøderived from a persusal of has now been rendered, the result of the the reports of the examination of the accused
opium. Defendant was brought before trial being the conviction of 100 of the by the Judges.
The Japan Mail says:
Mr. Irving at the Magistracy yesterday Sentence of six months was yesterday and was ined 81,000 or in default six accused, who have been sentenced to terms The refusal of the Court to call the mis- of imprisonment according to the degree of sionaries referred to as witnesses cannot be passed upon a man for having been found months' imprisonment.
a Triad Society certifiate in his thair guiltiness as adjudged by the Court, taken as implying a belief by the Judges In the course of our original article we that themissionaries are in any way involved said
in the plot. Indeed, it may be taken 23 in all, the names of about showing the reverse, the action of the Court twenty foreign missionaries have been implying that it did not ceqsider such connected with this anarchist plot. The authority for the statements appears to evidence as relevant to the use." have been known by all his acquaintances the evidence tendered by the police showed to be half-witted, and according to the the missionaries to be among the chief testimony of the other prisoners they had
representations to confess that these allega
were
Yet
with
posscasion.
AN AERIAL DREADNOUGHT.
since become apparent. The defalcations so far as the Bank are concerned form but a small portion of the total, and are, we LONDON, September 30th. understand, well covered by his security, The Ariny factory at Farnborough has it is believed that his total, indebtedness begun the construction of a gigantic air-in the Colony is somewhere about äve lakhs of dollars. Speculation in rubber ship for the navy,
is believed to be responsible for a largo part of the loss, and according to current rumour his amours have also been rather costly.
He is stated to have borrowedł considerably from local Chinese, mostly friends, and we have heard of a case in which he recently endeavoured succon fully to borrow's sum of $10,000 from a friend at the rate of 12 per cent, por month for a period of three months.
It has a capacity of 30,000 feet for gas, and is more than three times larger than the existing Army dorigibles.
A MINERS' DISPUTE.
LONDON, September 30th. Eighteen thousand authracite miners in South Wales have decided to sever their connection with the South Wales days he has been staying at a European We understand that during the last few Lately tho Peking Press has given Miners Federation, and further seces- hotel, and left yesterday morning by some prominence to the subject of an sions are threatones. impending revolution in Russia. following paragraph is taken from the Peking Daily News:- From latest ta'c- graphic advices, we learn that European Bussis is on the eve of a stupendous outbreak of Revolutionary activity, All Com available solders in Siberia are
An old woman at Shatin attempted to commit suicide by strangling in the police cells there. She was removed to the hospital in Hongkong.
Mr. A. H. Hyland, the Fastal
The
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OBITUARY.
train for Canton, though most of" bis friends appear to have berder the impression that be left the Zuzony on Saturday.
LONDON, September 30th.
Lan Pun Chin is a young man about Admiral Sir Frederick
William thirty-ive years of age, and we under Richards, who was Commander-in-chief stand that his appointment as com
all boon forced by police torture and lying movers in the alleged "conspiary." They missioner at Eankow, who has gone on being moved across the Urals in articina of the China Station from 1690-92, and pradore of the Bank some three years ago - tions were true! It is astounding and inciting the acensed to asipate the fix, formerly Fooohow.
alleged to bare nade speeches furlough, is being relieved by Mr, N. tion of and to cope with the impending Senior Ford of the Admiralty from was the ûrst position of the kind he had 2 would be beyond belief if it had not been publicly revealed in o. Court of Law that Governor-General; when an attempt was
danger.
1893-9 is dead.
held. His father was compadure to Six Paul Chater and Sir Hormusjes Mody.