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begin to show a rapid decline in the num- her of cases, and by the end of August the epidemic is at an end. We believe we are correct in saying that there has not been half a dozen cases of plague in the Colony since the end of September. Why there should be this sudden cessation and a recurrence
Mr. B. G. Tours, British: Consul a TELEGRAMS. TELEGRAMS. TELEGRAMS.
Swatow, has been transferred to Nanking and will be succeeded at Swatow by Mr. Pitzipois, from Chingkiang.
A building site measuring 8,360 square feet, situated in Macdonnell Road, above the Union Church, has been sold at publið
A. S. WATSON of an epidemic some few months later auction by the Public Works Department
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for $6,100. The upset price was $2,509. graphs that an official despatch describes Mr. Li was the purchaser.
the Greek occupation of Salonika and
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STOLEN CROWN JEWELS RESTORED.'
LONDON, December 10th. The Daily Telegraph has reported that the Irish Crown jewels, the mysterious
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RAILWAY STRIKE ENGLAND SPREADING,
LONDON, December 10th The strike is spreading, further gries- aners being brought up. The men con Mr. James Ernest Thompson, of Belays that the Bulgarians accepted the disappearance of which in 1907 created tend that the engine driver Khos, who'
a great sensation in the country, have had been 37 years in the service, was un
ing the evidence as very unsatisfactory on both sides.
fast, late of the Hongkong and Shanghai hospitality of Greece and sheltered in
apparently dedos explanation by the expert scientists who have devoted their energies to plague research. We are led to touch upon this subject by the perusal of an address by Surgeon General Sir C. P. LUKIS at a Sanitary Congress held at Banking Company, who died on August Salonika' from the bad weather. They been replaced intact in their original justly couvicted, the Magistrate describ Madras last month. In summarising the 16th, left personal estate in the United were under the command of the Grock position.
Kingdom valued at £7,784. He
commander of the town. discussion on papers relating to plague, Sir bequeathed one-eighth of his residuary Charles Luris mentioned that a question estate to his brother William Thompson,
SCEPTICAL TURKS AT SCUTARI. had arisen ne regards the iminunity of now or lately in South Africa, provided
À message from Cettinje states that
It is understood that the British group Madras. Ono speaker held that this was that, should bis whereabouts not be dis- the Turks at Scatari persist in dis-of the Sextuple Loan group will be ex- chiefly due to climatic conditions, while covered within two years of the testator's another speaker controverted these deduc-death, the said one-eighth shall be divided believing that an armistice has been tended by the incorporation of Baring tions. It appears that experiments and among the other residuary legatees.
arranged, and fighting has been resumed Brothers, Shroder & Company, the inquiries are being made by the Indian
Confectionery. Plague Commission on the influence of
FULLER'S-
Chocolates, Salted Almonds, Marzipan Almonds, Crystal-
elimatic conditions. The conclusions at which the Commission arrives should be of interest to Hongkong. Another point made in the discussion was to the influence of grain, and the remarks of the President of the Conference on the subject are thus reported: "Captain WHITE bas
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THE SENTUPLE LOAN GROUP.
LONDON, December 10th.
Hartlepool, Bishop Auckland, Bird other sections have joined the strike,
while a number of other towng have re fused. Many meetings were adjourned after lively scenes.
The Company and the strikers are loch
A fire broke out at No. 9, Hillier at Tarabosch, the Turkish sortics being London County and Westminster Bank, adopting a very firm altitude. Street, on Monday afternoon, but luckily repulsed. The Montenegrins threaten to Parrs' Bank, the Hongkong and Shang- was not of a serious character. The out-exclude Scutari from the armistice. hai Bank, and probably another. break originated, it is conjectured, THE PEACE DELEGATION. through a lighted candle falling on some
A message from Constantinople states coils of galvanised wire, which estimated at the value of about $400, that the Ottoman delegation to the Pence The fire was extinguished by the era Conference at London consists of Salib ployees of the shop, and the damage to Pasha, Rechid Boy, the Ministers of
a representative year between imports of outbreak was also reported from a dwell- grain into sach, trade block and the amounting house in Yaumati, but little damage Nizam Pasha, Minister at Berlin,
ized Rose Leaves, Crystalized clearly shown that there is close relation in the wire is covered by insurance. A small Marine and Agriculture, and Osman
Violets, Assorted Sweets,
The representatives of the Sextuple Group will meet in London on Friday to discuss the proposed 25 millions loan.
CHINA AND THE OPIUM TRADE.
LONDON, December 10th. Indian banks and Indian merchants are making strong representations to the
Paté de Guimauve, Pepper- of plague from which such areas have was done, and the services of the Fire THE RENEWAL OF THE TRIPLICE. Foreign Office and to the India Office
mint Lumps, and Creams,
CADBURY'S-
Chocolates in Fancy Boxes. Bourneville Nut Chocolate, etc., etc.
This is a
Brigade were not requisitioned.
IMPERIAL DEFENCE.
suffered in the past; and he also shows
LONDON, December 10th.
regarding the Chinese closing ports that grain stores and grain markets have a
Twe of the items on the programme of
The renewal of the Triplice was exagainst the importation of opium. large influence on the persistance of plague the forthcoming Ball at Government infection in a given locality; and he further House are the composition of Miss Dixon, pected, but the announcement on the eve advocates preventive wensures along who is at present a guest of His Excellency of the London Conference is significant
LONDON, December 10th. these lines.
point which will and Lady May. The orchestration of and is regarded an a demonstration of require very careful consideration, because these two dances has been most capably the solidarity of the Triplice in view of In the House of Commons at question
carried out by that talented musician, it is a measure which is likely to involve andmaster F. G. Moss, the King's the possible hitch which was expected. time Mr. Churchill, First. Lord of the considerable expense if carried out.":
Own Yorkshire Light Infantry. The Hows ver, the Conferenes will be of short | Admiralty, again emphasised the state This further extract we may bake from SirTamavna" Two-step has a swing and duration, all parties being most anxious rent that the Canadian Dreadnoughts to C. P. Lukis's address: "Lastly we come CONFECTIONERY— to Major LISTON's admirable paper in which 50 in it that should delight the Two for a settiment.
steppers of the Colony. The "Loloma Waltz is full of character and has a pleas- ing melody running through it. We can confidently predict a successful future for this debutanto in the musical world.
PARISIAN
Almond Pralines, Nougat Fin, Cerises du Lys, etc., etc., etc.
he deals with the question of plague as a disease produced by an unimal and advocates that measures be taken against the rat in the same way as they are taken against the dog in the ease of rabies. I don't think we can get away from the fact that these
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fectly possible to take measures against the rat without committing wholesale destrue tion of the animals. Presuming that the rat is infected, you can deal with him (1) by cutting off his food supplies both by house tidinese, by improvement in scaveng. ing and prohibition of housing of animals in the vicinity of human dwellings; (2) by abolishing dark places and providing light and air in houses; and (3) by instructing the public and making them realise that although the rat is a perfectly useful animal in its own place, that its place is not the human habitation. Finally, as Major LISTOs point out, the rat is only dangerous to mau when it is infected by plague, and therefore our chief object should be to prevent the rat from becoming infected, and in this connection it is desirable that an attempt should be made during the quiescent period to ascertain those villages which are likely to carry over the disease into the following year and then to
THE CHEUNG CHAU PIRACY.
多年
LATER.
Reuter's correspondent at Berlin wires
that the inspired Koelnische Leitung in an article anent the renewal of the Triple Alliance admits that the object of th allies in publishing the announcement at the present juncture was the desire to At the Magistracy yesterday the three women who are charged in connection give the world prior to the London Con- with the Cheung Chan piracy again apference unmistakeable proof of their
The man who was arrested at poared.
complete accord. Maeno, but who could not be brought to the Colony owing to illness, has now been removed to Victoria Goal. The case was remanded.
AUSTRIAN POLITICS.
be gifted to the Empire would be in addi tion to the British programme.
Mr. Asquith announced that all tho
Premiers at the recent Conference accepted in principle the proposal that representatives of the Dominions should be invited to attend the Committee of Im. perial Defence.
THE CORNISH TRAGEDY.
LONDON, December 10th. It transpires that. De Lay was married in November, 1911, to a Mrs. Young, who, in earlier years, was divorced, De Lay, under an assumed naroe, being co- respondent,
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SHIPYARD WORKERS STRIKE.
LONDON, December 10th. Two hundred pladers at Jarrow engaged on the battleship Queen Mary have gone on strike for a minimum wage for add jobs. The builders declined to consider the demand unless the inen returned te work, but the latter remain obdurate,
IMPERIAL WIRELESS SCHEME.
LONDON, December 10th. At question time in the House of. Commons, on Monday, Mr. L. Harcourt, Secretary of State for the Colonics, annouued that the cost of the high power station in the Highlands of East Africa under the Imperial Wireless Telegraphic Scheme would be born by the Imperial Government. It was also proposed to erect low power station at Mombasa, for which East Africa would pay.
DEATH OF MR. J. F. BOULTON.
We regret to learn that acws reached the Colony by mail yesterday of the death of Mr. James Fettes Boulton, A.M.1.C.E.. who for upwards of twenty years was an executive engineer in the Public Works Department of this Colony. Mr. Boulton was the son of Mr. William Boulton, who for fifty years was Burgh Engineer and Surveyor of Aberdeen, and served his articles with the well-known Aberdeen LONDON, December 10th.
firm of Messrs. Jenkins and Marr, after- Reuter's correspondent ut Vienna
wards entering the office of Mr. W. R. General telegraphe that
Smith, Harbour Engineer. He came Auffenburg,
out to Hongkong under engagement Minister for war, and Field Marshal
to Mr. Findlay Smith to We are informed that the Telefunken and the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Com-Sehemua, Chief of the General Staff, have
the Peak Tramway in 1885, but before: the opening of the line he went on_u panies have by mutral.
resigned, and are succeded by Generals recognised the validity of each other's Krobaten and Howzendorff respectively.
voyage to Australia, and thence to San Francisco. Returning to Hongkong a patents. The legal proceeding started by No explanation is given, but it is believed London, last night, and the Right Hon.
year later, he was engaged in making a both parties against one another have that the reason for the resignations is L. Harcourt, M.P. (Colonial Secretary), survey of a railway to Canton, and consequently been stopped and the law
Sir John Anderson, Sir George Fiddes, afterwards spent some time on the con- suits already filed in the Courts of several political
struction of a railway in Formosa. He Sir Frank Swettenham, Sir
Hugh wuntries withdrawn.
came back to Hongkong in 1889, and was Clifford, and Sir William Treacher were appointed an excentive engineer in the Public Works Department, and rose to among the guests.
the position of Second Assistant Director, Mr. Boulton was regarded, by competent
WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY.
agreement
THE MAGISTRACY. --
Inspector-Dymond-proceeded-against-
THE HOME RULE BILL.
LONDON, December 10th, The House of Commons has adopted by 292 votes to 178, Clause 33 of the Home
THE STRAITS DINNER IN LONDON,
LONDON, December 10th. Mr. W. H. Shelford presided over the Straits Settlements dinner, held in
Mr. Harcourt, responding to the toast
construct
BONOKONG OFFICE: 104, Dza Vaux Ron / deal with them in a à summary manner, six men for gambling at West Point, and Rule Bill which relates to the continua.of "The Guests," spoke in congratulatory | judges as an exceptionally sound engi
LONDON OFFICE: 191, FT ST, EO. While it cannot be said that the Madras Con-
The Daily Press.
HONGKONG, DECEMBER 11Tu, 1912.
ference has added much to public knowledgo of the subject, it is neverthless of some interest to Hongkong to see what is being done in other plague-infected parts of the world to solve the problem of these epide mics and to see that the task is as difficult
Mr. Hazeland fined them $5 each.
Charged with being drunk and dis-present, civil servants: orderly, assaulting a lukong and damag. ing his uniform, a European named Peter Shields, was fined $10 by Mr. Mel- kourne,
Charged with participating in
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PANAMA CANAL TOLLS.
THE DRITISH ARGUMENTS.
LONDON, December 10th. The Foreign Office publishes a despatch
BUBONIC plague has been epidemic in there as here. If the "chief object" is to drunken brawl in Centre Street, two men from Sir Edward Grey to Mr. Bryce, the what the Straits Settlements had done his residence in the Colony Mr. Boulton
Hongkong since 1894. How it came to the Colony nobody has been able to discover nor are the experts able to tell us yet how we are to get rid of it. Millions of dollars have been expended in the Colony during the past eighteen years on precautions against the recurrence of plague, yet the number of cases notified this year exceeded those of any year since 1894. As many as 1,838 cases have been recorded this Last year the total number was 261; the year before pingue was almost entirely absent from the Colony, The figures had fallen from 124 cases in 1909 to only 23 cases in 1910. This progressive decline had seemed to indicate that the
year.
prevent the rat from becoming infected, what we need first to know is how the rat becomes infected ? Given that knowledge greator advance towards extermination of the plague may be possible.
Yesterday, Mr. M. Slade, K.C., was welcomed on his return to the Supremac Court by the Chief Justice.
tion of service and compensation of the terms of the remarkable prosperity of the neer, and was entrusted during his service Straits Settlernents. As a result of free-in the Public Works Department with the. dom from duties Singapore had been of the most important engineering works designing and superintendence of some
made the enterpôt to the Eastern world.
ever carried out in the Colony. The He eulogised the energy which had pro-reclamation was one such work which cured her the best equipped docks in the earned him high praise among civil possession of the Crown, and referred to engineers. During the latter years of
were fined $3 cach. Another man who
was in a very indifferent state of health, figured in the scene did not appear, aug British Minister at Washington, dated for defence.
He spoke of the national and a holiday at home failing to set him 5 bail was ordered to be estreated.
14th November, for communication to Mr. gratitude felt towards the Federated up, he resigned the service in April last Five women were charged with dama- Knox, the American, Foreign Secretary. Malay States for their splendid gift, and year on pension. Mr. Boulton's age was: ing Government plantations by cutting recapitulates in detail the British said that while not a possession of the 54. He married late in life and leaves grass where young pines had been planted, $20 being the estimate of the arguments on the subject of the Panama Crown, the Malay States so highly valued & widow and one child aged about two- defendant $2 damage done.
Mr. Melbourne fined each Canal tolla and refutes the American a sense of attachment to the Empire that and a half years. Mrs. David Wood is
they bad made a gift which was a symbol sister of the deceased gentleman.
A charge was preferred against n Chi-arguments, and in conclusion states that nese for bringing 30 letters into the the British Government "looks with The body of a Chinese male child was fondant cffered as his excuse that a man
Colony with no stamp upon thera. De-confidence to the Government of the found on the railway embankment near gave him twenty cents to take the letters United States to ensure that in promoting Taipo yesterday. It was apparently to Po Yuen Hing, Mr. Melbourne fined the interests of the United States ship placed there by someone, to avoid burial him $49 or five weeks hard labour. expenses.
While on his way to interview a doctor
at Yaumati a Chinese, aged about 27, anddenly collapsed in Woo Sung Street, He was picked up by the police and re- moved to the Hospital.
At the Magistracy yesterday a Chinese ping nothing will be done to impair the was charged with keeping an opium divan safeguards guaranteed British Shipping Street, West Point, and 29 others were on the ground floor of No. 40, Centre
Treaty." charged with smoking opium therein. The first defendant was fined $200, two were discharged, and the others were fined 8 each.
SECRETARY FOR WAR OPPOSES THE
PRESIDENT.
In his annual report to Congress Mr.
of gratitude for our Administration and
a testimony to our supremacy over the
RUGBY FOOTBALL.
The following have been selected to play
for the Club . The Army to-day, at 4:45
p.m.
Full back, T. E. S. Robson; three-
Beas. He absolutely denied that this gift was pressed from Home, and declared that it came as a great surprise to the Colonial Office. He regarded with sympathy and admiration the unrivalled quarter backs, B. Chapman, V. M. Gray-
burn, H. S. Rouse, and P. Linton; half. progress of the Malay States, and was backs, à A. Claxton and J. Clark; for- convinced as to the future success of the wards, A. Murdoch, J. C. Taylor, A. F. Federated Malay States and the Straits Deane, L. M. Austin, T. J. Fisher, D.
Walker, E. H. Bone and C. O. Stark. Settlements.
In view of the approaching. Cap matches this fixture should be of parti- cular interest and the Army will no doubt when the Club beat them by two tries. Ee. keen to reverse the previous verdict The first Cup match will take place on Army and Navy will meet, and on the Wednesday, December 18th, when the
following Saturday, 21st December, the Club will play the Navy. An invitation has been scat to Shang to send a team dows at Christmatgich - it is con- fidently expected twill be able to In the National Sporting Club's welter-accept, and as they have now considerable has purchased one
talent at their disposal, including the weight championship of Great Britain, Scottish International, H. Martin, they twenty rounds, Johnny Summers beat Sid should be able to put a very strong tear
in the field. Burns on points,
Sanitary authorities had at length mastered the problem. There has been no relaxation of anti-plague measures since; yet in 1912 we have the returns reaching the appalling figure of 1,888. A Sanitary Board Com-
A Chinese was cloquently expatiating Stimson, Secretary for War, opposing the mittae, we understand, is engaged on the A Chinese, while waiting for a steam
launch at the Yaumati wharf, suddenly to a large crowd at West Point, brandish. views of President Taft, urges the repeal Mr. Darbyshire, who responded to task of seeking an explanation of these fell down and expired. He had evidently-ing a placard to add force to his argu- of the section of the Panama Canal Acte toast of the evening, dwelt on the fnctuations in the returns, and especially to heen very ill, and was being sent over to by a constable, who escorted him to this exempting American coasting vessels community of the interests of the States ments, when he was abruptly interrupted investigate the connection, if there is any Hongkong by his wife.
Police Station. He appeared before Mr. between the condition of the drains during
Hazeland yesterday, and was foed 95, from tolls, which he declares to be equiva- the dry months of the year, and the epidemic The "skipper" of the steam launch or 14 days' in default.
lent to nationally subsidising an in- and the Straits Settlements, and urged union for the common good, sinking all of plague which is most severe in the wet Chring Wa reported to the police that
The police annals of the Colony must dustry not needing such assistance. mouths. The singular thing about the while towing a cargo boat from Hong-need a lot of searching to find in them a Hongkong plague epidemics is that they kong to Yaumati on Monday evening, case in which intoxication has been BRITISH ADMIRALTY PURCHASE generally begin by a few sporodic cases in and when about to enter the new typhoon alleged against a Chinese woman, but one refuge, the steam launch Wo Sang, which conduct at West Point, and it was stated was charged yesterday with disorderly January, sometimes not until February, and the weakly number of cases gradually grows until the end of July, which is almost invari ably the worst month. Then the returns
DIRIGIBLES.
LONDON, December 10th.
was leaving Yaumati for Hongkong, that she had either jumped or fallen into The Admiralty steamed straight in between his launch the Harbour whilst in a state of intoxica and the cargo boat, damaging the latter tion and had to be conveyed to the Hos German Parseval and one French Astra to the extent of about $100.
pital by the police. She was bound over Tores dirigible, in 8100 to keep the peace for 12 months.
differences.
BOXING.
LONDON, December 10th.