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present Mongolian situation before this Sex. tuplo Loan is completed; (2) the French Minister on the 22nd instant discussed the Loan with an official of the Finance Department and "explained why France objected to making advances"; (3)
A. S. WATSON that the negotiations have failed and
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Yesterday was the birthday anniversary | ALLEGED COUNTERFEIT COINING)/
BY CHINESE. of H.M. the Emperor of Germany.
Mr. J. F. Olesen has definitely accepted the Co-Directorship of the Inspectorate General of the Salt Gibelle.
His many friends will be glad to learn that the Hon. Mr. C. Montague Ede, who has been laid up for some weeks, was able to return to his office duties yesterday.
At the Magistracy yesterday Detective- Sergeant Grant proceeded against four Chinese on charges of making counterfeit coias, and also with having in their poɛ- session plant and implements for making base coin.
Mr. Davidson (of Messrs. Hastings & Hastings) defonded the first and third defendants, Mr. Dennys, jun, (of Messrs. Dennys & Bowly), the second, and Mr. Goldring the fourth.
Sergeant Grant said that on the 4th
The
TELEGRAMS.|TELEGRAMS.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
THE COUP D'ETAT IN TURKEY.
UNCENSORED ACCOUNT OF THE MUNDER OF NAZIM PASHA.
LONDON, January 27th.
{THROUGH KEUTER'S AGENCY.} MONGOLIANS APPEAL TO RUSSIA FOR MILITARY ASSISTANCE.
LONDON, January 7th. The correspondent of the Daily Tele graph at St. Petersburg telegraphe that the Mongolian Anibassador on Saturday visited M. Jilinsky, the Chief of the
A graphic and uncensored account of General Staff, and begged for futuro
golian Forces agniust a possible Chiness A crowd, numbering over a hundred, attack in the Spring. At present, only
At an extraordinary general moeting of the Shanghai Ico, Cold Storage, and Re- trigeration Company, Limited, beld last week, the shareholders voted to sell the Group are not yet agreed as to the method of company to Mr. Herbert Birkett for Tls, inat, the police executed a warrant, under Thursday's happenings has come through military assistance to organise the Mon-
200,000, 4,230 shares out of 8,000 were the Counterfeit Coin Ordinaneb, at 151, from Constantinople. represented at the meeting. A letter of Queen's Road West, second Boor, where protest from 45 shareholders, representing the four defendants were found.
first man kept a medicine shop there, and, and beaded by Enver Bey, on horseback, two Russian officers are at Urga. They 320 shares, was read at the meeting.
he was a leading partner in the firm and and other members of the Committee of asked for at least ten more and a corres- The report that Bir Francis Figgott is transacted all the business. The second Union and Progress, entered the main |ponding number of subalterns an instruc- leaving Peking would appear to be in defendant was also a partner and super-gateway of the Porte, the guned offering fors. accurate. We note the following pars-intended the outside business. The third
no resistance. Enver, Nadji, Talaat, and graph in the Peking Daily News of the was a foki, employed by the first min, 18th inst. We hear with regret that and the fourth defendant was out of other officers entered the Grand Vizierate, Lady Piggott, owing to continued ill work, but was formerly in the service of where n Council of Ministers was sitting. The officer minutely Kianil Pasha's aide-de-camp faced the health, is returning to England on Tues-the Government.
demonstrators in the ante-room of the Council Chamber, but he, Nazim Pasha's aide-de-camp, and a secret agent were
nominating advisers. Meanwhile we note that there appointments are being made. Mr. Quaes, for instance, who a few years aro Was Commissioner of Customs in Canton, has definitely accepted the post of a director of the Salt Gabelle, the revenues of which are pledged as security for the loan. It is difficult to gather from all these reports what the situation is exactly. It is reported that, under the terms of the loan the Bextuple Group would advanco £3,000,000 | immediately after the signing of the loan, £3,000,000 the next month and £3,000,000 in the succoeding month. That is to say that the Sir Countries represented by the
Mr. Hazeland, however, thought it Group are required to provide a total of
A Parsee living at No. 4, Rose Terrace, would be better if they inspected the pre- eight million pounds storling within the Kowloon, reports to the police that promises, and accordingly the solicitors and next three months, and the accepted: perty in money and jewellery to the value others concerned in the case accompanied explanation in China of the failure to make of $1,374 has been stolen from a safe in his Worship. an immediate advance is that "the bankers his room. The residents left the house evidently and that in the present state of early on Saturday for a day's outing, A
THE BANKNOTE CASE. the money markets of the world they will boy, aged about 16, was left in charge, not be able to float the loan for some little and at two o'clock, when one of the party
At the Magistracy yesterday, the hear 1.50 time and if the Balkan situation grows returned, it was found that the boy was ing was resumed before Mr. A, D. Mel- worse the flotation may have to be post. I missing. The robbery was eventually dis-bourne of the case in which oight Japan- poned still longer." Further, a good deal covered by the owner at 9.30 in the even-
arrest, are charged with being in posses- police.
sion of a large amount of forged bank- 2.05 of the advances will have to be made in ing, and he reported the matter to these together with a Chinese not under
notes,
day next. Sir Francis remains in described the various implements he Peking, but in the circuinstancos has been found on the premises for the manufac compelled to abandon the idea of residing ture of the coins, and proceeded to in the house which has been renovated describe the situation of the rooms and
cubicles in the building. in Chun Kiang Hutang."
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THE APPEAL COURT.
AN INTERESTING QUESTION.
A. S. WATSON & CO experts who are to supervise the revenue Council. Could the two Hongkong
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The case was remanded.
The Japanese interpreter gave evidence in regard to certain documents and letter found on the defendants, and the case was again remanded.
He
THE MAGISTRACY Inspector Cameron proceeded against four Chinese for street gambling. said it was a daily occurrence, and Mr. Melbourne fined the men 83, or in default seven days' kard lahour.
shot dead.
"Nazim Pasha, on coming out of the Council Chamber, fell dead with a bullet through his head,
Enver Bey told Kiamil Pasha that lie must either swear to continue the war or resign. Kiamit, who was very cool, chose to resign.
The Ministers remained prisoners till two o'clock in the morning, when they wore released....
The crowd outside increased by several. hundreds, and patriotic and warlike sporches were delivered, prayers offered and chants sung.
Two British Indians harangued the Moslem gathering, and said that India was with the Turks heart and soul.
The opponents of the Committee were hunted, and they took refuge in the
Embassies.
MOVEMENT OF FOREIGN SHIPS,
.H.M.S. Dartmouth arrived at Salonika
According to a telegram from Malta, the King Edward and the Zealandia híve gone to the Aegean Sea.
silver, and the leading Shanghai journal says that although there is a big stock locally, the stocks in London and Bombay are together less than the total at Shanghai, Hence, if advances are to be made in quick The newly constituted Appeal Court of succession, the result might be not Hongkong concluded its first session you- only embarrassing to the banks, but terday with the termination of the very costly to the Chinese Government.hearing of the appeal in the disputed At the close the question There is in the northern papera no mortgage case.
was raised as to what would happen in suggestion of any difficulty regarding the event of an appeal from the judg the method of appointing the foreignment of the Full Court to the Privy and expenditure, a matter which one would judges grant the necessary leave to ap-
Sergeant Cooper prosecuted a Chinese imagine was discussed and settled long ago, peal, or would it be necessary to have the
The Ordinance was con- for being in unlawful possession of Jot- Yet if it be true that China is receiving third judge? maay offers of financial help from other salted, and was found to contain no state-tery tickets. Inspector Gourlay asked his for Saturday night.
It was suggested Worship to take a serious view of the case. sources, it seems strange that the Sextuplement on the subject. Group should regard the financial situation
The maximum penalty was $1,000. Mr Melbourne fined defendant $200 or Six as being so adverse in Europe and America as to suggest failure to find eight million
werks hard labour..
pounds sterling for China within 'the next three months. But one of the telegrams definitely states that the Bankers have made those representations to the Chinese Government, and we are told: "The Chi- nese Government, having finally recognizad the political utility of contracting a Loan with the Sextuplo Group and having accepted practically all the stipulations laid down by them-including the cancellation of other loan agreements which conflicted with the Sextuple Loan-is naturally disap. pointed." And 80 we have again the: suggestion that the negotiations havo failed. and that China is apparently free to borrow elsewhere, and that as heavy obligations fall due next month there is no time to be lost. The whole position is inexplicable to the general public, but the general idea que derives from the information available is
On January 21st, at All Saints, Marthat the difficulties in the way of an advance garet Street, London, W., by the Rev. A. 3. Kroenig Ryan, M.A., assisted by the in February are not of a character that Vicar. Captain THOMAS ARTHUR, lite of cannot be surmounted. the Judo-China Steam Navigation Co., to G ENLLIAN, eldest. daughter of the Rev, T. B. WILLIAMS, Llangattock Rectory, Crickhowell, Breconshire.-(By cable.)
On January 22nd, at H.B.M. Consulate- General Shanghai, JACOB EZRA SALMON, Barrister-at-Law, to ANNIE LEWIS, only daughter of the late Michael and Flora Lewis, of London, England.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT. Mr. CHEUNG PUI-KAI and Family beg to thank their many kind friends for their wreaths and condolences with them in the their recent sad bereavement.
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H.E. The Governor distributes prizes at the Diocesan School and Orphanage 'to-morrow.
in announced for the 7th and 8th of March The annual Flower and Vegetable Show
in the Botanic Gardens.
Mr. H.E. Fulford, C.M.G., has arrived in Tientsin to take over the duties of British Consul-General there.
Inspector Mellardy proceeded against a Chinese for being in unlawful posses- MURDERS AT SHAUKIWAN ANDsion of lottery tickets. A Chinese detec-
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tive arrested the man in Queen's Road Mr. Hazeland imposed a fine of
A woman living in a bont at Shaukiwau East. was murdered and robbed by four men 8250, on in default three months im- who engaged her boat late on Sunday prisonment. night.
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boat. The miscreants assaulted the first woman, cutting her badly about the face.
They then and month with a knite. forced her into the hold and attacked the other woman, whom they killed by strangulation.
LOCAL SPORT.
LAST INTERPORT PRACTICE MATCH.
The last interport practice match will inke place to-morrow, 29th inst, on At Aberdeen on Saturday the body of the Hongkong Football Club's ground at an old woman, aged 68 years, was found. 4.30 p.m. against the D.CLL's regi- Sho was bound and gagged, and death was mental football team, apparently due to strangulation. The
The following will represent the inter- Swan body was discovered by the wife of an port team-Goal, R. S. R. adopted son.
(H.R.P.) backs, A. Hamilton (H.K. F.C.) and Colmer (R.G.A.); half-backs, C. Wilkie, R. C. Barlow (Capt.) and A. J. JAPANESE TRESPASSERS.
Brown (B.K.F.C.); forwards, Lewis NEW ARRIVALS POUND IN FORT AT. A
(RE), W. V. Pennell (H, K.FC), Pear- SHAUKI WAN.
son (R. E.), Green (R.G.A.) and, Doll- mann (R.G.A.) Referee, Sergt. A. Before Mr. Melbourne at the Magis-
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were Wilson. charged with trespassing on Government property at Shaukiwan
HONG KONG RIFLE LEAGUE.
that notice board prohibiting treset the Hongkong Volunteers in the Inspector Gourlay prosecuted, and said On Saturday last (25th inst.) Taikoo passers was erected on the pathway along hore league. The match was shot off in which defendants went. It was in Eng
The marriage is announced of Captain service.
lish and Chinese The first, was in the Taikoo lange and resulted in a vin the employ of the Formosan postal for the Taikoo Club by 73 points.
The following is a list of the stores Fegistered HONGKONG OFFION: 10, DES VEUX ROAD C Thomas Arthur, of Messrs. Goddard & the Colony only eight days, the first mari, Both defendants said they had been in
Simpson LONDON OBF:CE: 181, FLEET STATE, EC. Douglas, who is at Home on leave, and
Bannerman Booth will be returning to the Colony with his who could read and speak English, com
Danby bride by the Kitano-maru, due hore on ing from Formea and the second from
Japan. February 8th.
The Daily Press.
HONGKONG, January 28th, 1913.
A Peking telegram dated January 21
His Worship pointed out that there was
a large notice board warning trespassers,
So many stories have come into circulation/reports that Dr. Sun Yat-sen; on the pro and it was bound to be seen by anyone
lately concerning the delay of the Interna tional Financial Group in making an advance to the Chinese Government that one wonder why either the Chinese Minister of Finance or the Group itself does not give out some authoritative statement of the reasons for delay, and sŋ avoid the mischief which Cerroneous reports are likely to create. Not only have we had the statement that the Bankers are hésitating to make an immediate advance because of the unfavour- able condition of the money markets in Europe in consequence of the Balkan situa tion, but we see in the Chinese papers such statements as the following: (1) That Russia requires China's acceptance of the
vious day, returned the Government passing certificate for the Great Order of Merit 3efendants dedared that they did not which was conferred upon him by the set it President some time ago.
His Worship Did you not know there was a fort there -No, sir..
What did you want to go down there fort-We were just taking a walk down to Shaukiwan
The weekly return of communicable diseases shows eight cases of small-pox, two of diphtheria, two of enteric fever, one of scarlet fever, and one of puerperal
His Worship said they ought to have fever. Five of the small pox cases were known there wags fort there. They could fatal, all the victims being Chinese.
see it, and they ought to know it was a
News has reached Shanghai of the death very serious offence. He pointed out to at Amsterdam of Mr. Johannes de Bijke, the defendants that they were liable to the author of the Astrea Channel. Mr.a line of $100, but he would take into con- de Rijke was employed on conservancy sideration the fact that they had only work by the Japanese Government from been in the Colony a few days. 1873 to 1903. He was 70 years of age at would be fined $5 or a week's imprison- the time of his death.
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A message from Port Said says that the Duke of Edinburgh arrived there yesterday and almost immediately pro ceeded to Beirut.
From Paris it is reported that the Minister of Marine has ordered the despatch of two more warships to the East in case of necessity.
NEGOTIATIONS BROKEN OFF The Balkan States have decided to break off negotiations.
FAMOUS FIELD HARSHAL'S NARROW ESCAPE.
LONDON, January 27th. Whilst in full cry with the Essex Fox-
horse, was impaled on, a fence. Sir hounds, Field Marshal Sir Evelyn Wood's
Evelyn, who is nearly 75 years of age, kept his seat, and borrowing a gun from a farm near by, himself shot the animal. GERMAN AERIAL PATENTS.
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LONDON, January 27th.
A message from Mannheim states that the German Government has acquired the foreign patents of the Schuettelanz Air- ship Company, with whom negotiations have recently been opened with a view to the construction of their airships in England.
ROUMANIA AND BULGARIA.
LONDON, January 27th.
It is reported from Bucharest that the King presided at a meeting of the Cabinet Council at which the course to pursue in order to bring the negotia- tions with Bulgaria to an immediate issuo vi was decided upon. It was decided, not
solise the troops,
NAVAL DEVELOPMENTS IN
AUSTRALIA.,
LONDON, January 27th. message from, Sydney states find Cockatoo Island Dockyard has been transferred to the Federal Authorities.
The keels of the Brigugue, the first cruiser to be built in Australia, and of the destroyers Porceni and Derwent hav been laid.
MORE DUMPED RODIES. · The body of a newly-born Chinese female was found in the Harbour during the week-end, On some, waste ground at Yaumati the police discovered the dead body of a six-year-old child. Death in this case was apparently due to small-pox,
BABY EARL DYED.
LORD ALTAMOUNT'S EXPERIENCE IN THE
MUTINY.
Lord Altamont's experience as a baby is surely unique. Born in India, he was seven months old when the Mutiny broke out, and he was dyed, he has just related,
in a
lecture to the Haslemere Natural History Society, in order to look like a native child.
The Balkan delegates' letter will declare the Conference broken off owing to Turkey's refusal of their proposals. A draft of the epistle will be submitted at another meeting of the Balkanites to-day,
His father, the Marquis of Bligo, haud and they will then decide the time of been ordered to a bill station, and his presentation, and also whether the nego mother, who was only-twenty years of age, took her baby. to Bankipur. There they tiations shall end with the presenta-heard that the native brigade at Dinapur, tion of the letter or some brief period be becomes effective. In the view of the Allies, allowed to intervene before the rupture the Turks are alone responsible for the rupture, the change of Cabinet and the new Government's manifesto clearly in
dicating that the reply to the Fewers will
be in the negative.
and murder the European officers, six miles away, had decided to mutiny
The plot was betrayed by a Sepoy, and the Europeans hurriedly collected in the house of the Commissioner, which had been fortified. The place was crowded The wretched and the beet intense. people reroained all night, expecting every moment to hear the yella of the rebel soldiers coming to attack them.
To add to their terrors, one lady went out of her mind and rushed out and tried to throw herself down a well: Early in The opinion is held in some quarters,
the morning relief care, and Lord Alta- especially in view of a certain indefinite-mont's mother drove to an opium store, four miles down the river, which had also ness in reference to the immediate effects been fortified, to stay with friends.
Contrary to the wishes of her friends, of the Balkan delegates decision, which his mother drove back to her house at Bankipur to fetch clothes for herself and her baby. On the return journey the natives attempted to stop the carriage, and throw stones and brass cooking pots Thinking that they might be nt them. killed, she crouched down on the floor of the carriage, with her baby in her arms. After running the gauntlet for a quarter of an hour she arrived safely back at the opium store.
their statements do not assist to remove, that their action is a piece of bluff and
is intended to induce the Powers to exercise stronger pressure on Turkey. THE GREEK ATTACK ON JANANI. A message from Athens states that the weather having improved, the Greek Crown Prince has renewed the attack on the Turkish positions in front of Bizani. The Turks have been considerably re-daily scares that the mutineers were apon
inforced, an are offering a desperate resistance,
RUSSIAN SYMPATHY FOR MONTENEGRINS.
Reuter's correspondent at Cettinje tele- graphs that two million kilogrammes of corn, the gift of the Tear to relieve the distress of the Montenegrins, has arrived at Antivari.
It was the same spot where Lord Altamont's mother was attacked that some three weeks later Dr Lyall was murdered. In the opium store they remained besieged for a fortnight, their lives depending on the fidelity of a few Sikhs. There were
them.
It was after one of these scares that his mother's ayah suggested, as a possible means of saving his life, that he should be dyed and passed off as her child. This was done. At last, towards the end of June, a steamer enme down the Ganges, crowded with refugees and Lord Altamont and his mother were amongst those who managed to ret down to Monghyr. Here they remained in a fortified house, in a constant state of alarm, until the middle of August, when his father, who was the magistrate, was promoted and transferred to Hooghly.