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Other changes acted in the punishments include tint kidnappers and, trafickers in girls, shall receive long terms of imprison. ment with hard; labour, instead of abort terpis. A third alteration, an intovation acting much on the same lines of the reformatory and industrial schools in England, in that the culprits are boys who will be taught a trade, deals with mischievous youths and bove from the age of 16 down- wards who have got beyond the control of their parents and who have found their way into the Police Court. They will be ordered to be detained in prison ander special care proficiant. they will be returned to their parents, who will benefit from them for the CHAMPAGNE time they have lost while under restraint.
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The Dallas Comedy Company last night gave a repeat performance of the Glad Eye" before a good house at the Theatre To night "What Every Woman Knows" is to be repented.
(THROUGH EXTTEE'S AGENCY.]
THE BALKAN WAR. TURKEY ASKS THE POWERS TO CONCLUDE PEACE.
THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.
THE BURDEN OF ARMAMENTS. DISCUSSION IN FRANCE AND GERMANY.
LONDON, March 3rd. The question of increased armaments is to have offered P10,000 for the life ofit oter a correspondeat at Rome telebsorbing French and German public
assador has
opinion. Yang Shu-wen, the Consul-General, aud
The French Press regards the re-adop informed Marquis San Giuliano that an American police sergeant has been graphs that the Turkish detailed for his protection..
Turkey, plavos herself in the hands of the tion of the three years military service
Chinese boycotters in Manila are stated
-LONDON, March 3rd.
[TREOUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
STONEY IN DARKNESS.
AGASWORKIES' STRIKE
Lonnor, March 3rd,
A gencrul strike of gasworkers plunged the city of Sydney in tárkniés,
affected. hospitals being most seriously. The shops and hotels are using candles. The strikers have repudiated an grea-
and will be taught a trade. When fully The Frankfurter beitung reports that Powers with a view to the conclusion of as assured, as it is the only reply to the which the Hon. A. D. Corriand,
Herr H. Knipping, Gorman Consul at Tientsin, will succeed Herr von Buri as Consal-General in Shanghai, and will be
other
ment
Minister for Education, and signed on
A fourth charge deals with the question of/ succeeded in Tientsin by Dr. Wendschuth. expected. It is understood that the expired men rallying to the colours for their behalf with the employers for
ST. MARCEAUX deportation. A
of Nanking. per
The recont ruthices burning of lepers by order of the Tutub of Kaangei bas
At the present there it is not easy to re-expel a prisoner who has return
now Co. ed from banishment. What it is.
proposed to do with those returning from REIMS,
expulsion is first to sentence them to a term of imprisonment, depending on, the nature of the crime and the length of the recolectand the remote sets. expulsion, and then to hand them over
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created great indignation at Kucilia, and the members of the Provincial Assembly have proposed to impeach the Tutuh. When the Assembly openssl. The pap
President Yuan Shih-kui makes his
German expansion. Popular feeling is peace. The reports from the capitals indicate that similar notion is evidenced by the action of the time
Powers will make took to ascertain if the Allies are willing to accept the mediation of Europe,
A- TURKISH PLOT FRUSTRATED,
a fresh term of service. -
The German Press is now agreed that the cost of the increase in the army wil
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The
apppiatment of a wagon board. Premier snow presonted an ulti matum to the strikers summoning them to
AN AVIATION INCIDENT.
LONDON, March 3rd.
comitate an expenditure of fifty millions return to work forthwith, It is reported from Constantinople sterling, of which amount eleven millions forty that a ploty headed by Lutfi Bey will be annually recurring, while, fo Secretary to Princo Sabed Din, millions will de non-recurring and will
upon his exclusive right to appoint the discovered official communique Premier as well as the Ministers of War
Without that, a clear says that the plan was to lead and the Navy.
a mob to the Palace and demand the dig sighted policy, he says, is impossible,
missal of the Cabinet, the arrest of the TARIKA SMO Six cases of smallpox, were reported
$58.00 to the native authorities. Who candidacy for the Presidency dependent the Government has bebe largely expanded upon new fortresses irmon Faito in attempting to
360.00 end of forty or more lepers being driven $83.00 into a pit, and there shot, covered with → » Splits
parufin and burnt, by order of a provincial CHAMPAGNE zovernor under the new regime; and
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It is the must popular wie in England and Europe today, and invariably igäres on the menus of Baugusta Dinners, and Suppers given by faighing Monarchs, Ministers of Stite Merchant Guilds Sporting Cina, etc., eto,
CREME
when we read of men and women being publicly shot by official order for smoking opium, is it not hypocrition, to talk of flogging for the crime of highway robbery, being "barbaric and a remnant of pre- Revolution daya? Flogging for such offences is in fact a well-recognised paftish- ment in more advanced countries than China. At the London Criminal Sessions and by Judges at the Assizes, for example,
awarded in
совет
flogging is very frequently awar of robbery with violence. It may be barbarie," but the only effectual way to cheek serious crime of this character D'EPERNAY as experience in Hongkong has shown is to award the only form of punishment
in the Colony last week, four ending fatally. All were Chinese. No case of plague was reported. One imported case can) was notified and of diphtheris (American) was two Chinese cases of puerperal fever.
The Chinese polite forte at Weihaiwei is being added to considerably, soum forly en being sworn in for duty along the by one of the foreign inspectors of police, boundary line, and will be superintended who will reside at one of the outports.
ent of a Cabinet to concludo Ministers and their supporters, and the appointment. pexec on terms which would exare the non-interference of the Powers for thirty years. ITAV 31
CHINA AND MONGOLIA. CAUSTIC REPLY TO PRESIDENT':: REPRESENTATIONS.
B court message
A message from Paris states that the from Mourmelon to Switzerland, wores Com- on the eastern frontier used
Tho_official Journal Norddeutsche | pelled to discord for petrol at Metz, nuounces that the huge increase of where they were simètéli by the German
ACLARAR plane and return to France. expenditure is to be ret by a special-levy, police, and obliged to pack facir, mono-
upón property in addition to the regular property tax The Federal Council was
convened yesterday to
discuss the
NEW AIRSHIP FOR RUSSIA.
MOLONDON, March 3rd. AROTASANDS OF COUT BITAAS
A Blin message reports that the The papers state that owners of pro
Parseval airship, built for Russia made successful flight of 140 miles on Satur- "perty of the value of fifteen hundred
pounds sterling and under will be exempt DEL MURAN
dayAKAAW JURTARAN
VYLOT from the special levy, but the federal
Ro Princes will be asked to relinquish the IASI (PR)denta SAGMEHE LONDON, March 3rd. exemption from taxes which they have
de The death is announced of Sir Robert proposals will be Hamilton Lang, KCMG, at the age hitherto enjoyed. It is anticipated that the Government's
The late knight was associated throughout at the time of his death was on the London determinedly opposed in the Reichstag, of bond and
of, which he was for some years the Director. Committee of the Imperial Ottoman Baak. session during the
General at Constantinople.]
LONDON, March 3rd A telegram from Urge to St Peters barg states that the Kutukhta, in in reply to Pre sident Yuan Shih-Kai's representations,
and recommends Yuan Shih-Kai to devote to speak of sympathy for Mongolia, nd save the himself to homo affairs and Chinese from fresh evils and partition
A CHAMPAGNE, OF FINE QUALITY. likely to prove deterrent. In Hongkong of seventy-two points the Americans says, that it is useless for China which will probably meet for a special his life with financial affairs in Turkey and
The Ice Championship of North China which was held in the American Rink, Peking, on February 15, was won by the American Guard ice team. Out of a total scored sixty-seven. They also won every 2 Doz Pints - $36.00 with flogging those who steal ornamente
and chattels from the person
of any woman The Church Body of St. John's or child, and only a few months ago the Cathedral have clected Mr. W. L. Patten Legislature gave the Magistrates power-den is Hon. Secretary, Mr. Pattendon Dr. Clark has again to award fogging, in cases of indecent is not new to the Work, having previously 4. S. WATSON & CO.. assault, when such cases are dealt with held that office.
summanly. The Judges of the Supreme consented to hold the office of Họn. Court of late years have found it desirable Treasurer
PER CASE : 1 Doz Quarts $34.00 the Magistrates are empowered to punish
* Doz. Splits $38.00
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CHINO-JAPANESE RELATIONS. LONDON, March 3rd. Dr. Sun Yat-sen was to leave Japan His speeches indicate on Monday.
commercial and that the real object of his visit was to foster Chino-Japane
summer.
The Norddeutsche urges the necessity of passing: the Army Bilf by Whitsuntide with a view to enabling the War Ofice
bo
carry out the necessary changes by the qutuma
THE GREAT FIRE IN TOKYO. IN TOKYO. LOSSES BY THE INSURANCE COMPANIESS
apanese papers publ
publish the following
A debate took place in the Reichstag on Baturday on the naval estimutestable showing the loses muffered by-the Routarkable speeches were made by the foreign and Japanese companies in the
recent fire in Tokyd
FOREIGN COMPANIES, A Chinese youth was charged before
leaders of the Centre and National in the public interest to supplement long
Liberal parties, dwelling upon the pres terms of imprisonment for robbery with Mr. Melbourne at the Magistracy rester violence, by corporal punishment, witli day with stealing $1,678 in Hongkong the gratifying result that there has since Bank notes I was stated that he was
torpedo boats, been a very noticeable decrease in this class sent to change a large quantity of sub- of crime. We are not aware that law.sidiary coin, and kept the nctes, alleging political ententes and offered important Bress of the German Navy, especially in Labiding. Chinese in Hongkong entertain any they had been stolen. He was sentenced concessions to bankers and manufacturers craft, and the need of maintaining a sentimental objection to the admistration to two months hard labour){ ;
of corporal punishment for serious crimp of The police have beon informed that on the nature above indicated. The victims of Saturday night three men broke into the these crimes as a rule, are Chinese citizens, house, 3, Coronation Terram, Calne and, so far as we have been able to learn, Road, gaining access to the premises of a window at the back by Chinese public opinion in Hongkong on,
unt One man held the Chinese occupier corporal punishment is certainly averso to its inflation for the crimes to by the throat, while the others demanded which it is expressly restricted by the local the keys. The robbers took away jewellery Ordinances. Tot in Shanghai we are asked and other property to the value of 3500 Pag (Onelman was arrested yesterday at Kow to believe that the law-abiding. Chinese failway station as he was about to community are greatly incensed because the leave for Canton, some of the stolen pro Consular Body hap doomed the rentrerts being found in his possession, duction of flogging to be necessary to
SUFFRAGETTE MEETING BROKEN
UP.
JAH LONDON, March
submarines and air-
respect. powerful fleet commanding Admiral Tirpitz mentioned that new
3rd.aerodromes will be laid down at Wismar
There were rowdy soches at a Buffragette Meeting held in Hyde Park
Commercial Norwich Union
Liverpool
South British
Phenix
New Zealand Sun Scottign
Yen.
50.000
60.000
10,000
$20,000.
2,000
25,000
7,500
$,000
L'Union
:20,000
JAPANESE COMPANIES.
Thr: Tokyo, eg 1463.
Kyodo
380,000
370,000
300,000
240,000
200,000
160,000
150,000
120.000
120,000
$20,000
· 180,000
100,000
80,000
:40,000
60,000
100,000
50,000
Yokohama
Nippon Namwa
and Rostock,
A special levy will be made once only? Toyokan to cover non-recurring expenditure on fortresses and buildings. The permanent
met by permanent taxation. Lucrease on recurring expenditure will be
wh
LATE
At another meeting at Wimbledon which was attended by huge crowds many women pelted the freakers with pieces of turf, bouts, sticks, de, and popular songs were sung, drowning the speeches. The
Germany's gigantic spurt in the race polies had the greatest difficulty in preof armaments, which has exceeded all ex- venting the wrecking of the stands, and
Paris & at all cussion. The papers comment in guarded chools the increasing crime the Sets The annual meeting of the Kowloon conveyed the Suffragettes to the Station pectations, is the principal topic of dis wents, and the Chineso Magistrates are Bowling Club was held last fight at the
Club House-Mr. G. L. Duncan presiding in a dishevelled condition.
THE THREATENED RAILWAY attendance of members. The oyer a good threatening to resign if the change in s enforced! There is an element of opera report and balance sheet was adopted
STRIKET⠀⠀ LONDON, bouffe about it all, and we suspect that the after some discussion. The election of
ada Pom/DON, March 3rd The directors of the Midland Railway President, Mr. A. action of the Young China organisation ofce-bearers for the ensuing year re Shanghai is not so much inspired by suited as follows: pathy for the briminals as by Sentoase of Raminy, Vice-President. Mr. R. Hall; in a long statement, in justification of the foreign authority over the Mixed Courthon secretary, Mr. P. J Taxior; hon.
ne disobeyed the pew, working arrange: According to Berlin telegrams the They have yet to learn that robbery with treasurer, Mr. D. Cooper; committee-dismissal of Richardson, maintain that violence is more barbaric" than flogging Messrs, J. Tully, W. Russell, W. John- as a method of punishment, and the scoperton, FL Frost, D. Harvey, J. Mment under which traffic was operated by that is recognised the better opinion will endodonand W. Brown. the world form of the new rigine.
IETADLISUE
February London on the 1st.
The English mail of the fol!!
delivered in was
inrch.
Mr. Duncan Clark, of Lane, Crawford & Co., and Mrs. Clark leave for Home by the Derfinger, this morning on s holiday.
ydar's
Nr. William, 1 Calloun, American Minister at Peking, with Mrs. Calhoun, are passengern. by the ND.L. str. Derfingeringat sa dara
HORORONG, MARCH 4TH, 1913. Quite a storm of indignation, rb gather, from a Shanghai newspaper, has been aroused port by the Bmong the Chinese of the report that, in view of the growing prere lence of cermin crimes in the Settlement, the Consular Body has resolved to empower the Mixed Court to add flogging to the m penalties for robbery with violence. The objection to the change, we are told, is that flogging is "barbaric and a rem- nant of pre-Revolution days"! It seems that the proposals of the Consults Body are that a culprit caught engaged in highway robbery or in snutebing will first be taken to the Municipal doctor tisch how many
participating strokes he is capable of bearing. Then he will ribe taken to the Mixed Court, and, if found Lady May will loÁb Home'
gailty, sented to receive not lower than Gowrpment House on Monday, 17th ughteent lashes The pauishment will be init from 4 o'clock tule o'clock. There administered by Sikhs, this being, ordered würde deonis aunqu
litary manouvres commenced in the Kowloon hinterland yesterday.
Tho
It
THE HONGKONG REGATTA.
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oral instructions, which was in accord ance with the Board of Trade Regulations. O rafused Richardson was the only man who
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Nippon Marine
2.942,500
Grand Total terms, evidently awaiting more explicit
According to investigations made by information, but generally it is pointed the Kanda Ward Office, within whose of houses destroyed is 3,598, and the out that the only hope of preserving jurisdiction the fire occurred, the number (one tsubo being equivalent to six square perce is the maintenance of the balance of area devastated measures 50.000 tsubo power. Consequently Great Britain feet))) @gæti huoni woul
PRE-MORTEM FUNERAL SERVICES, faced with a prospect of far larger
/// STRANGE STOLY YCOM sacrifices for life assurance.
"The
The following extraordinary story an An extract from a chapter of old Japan:- A strange advertisement appeared in special lovy will probably amount to 10/-
avery £100, with excinption of property pears in the Jazin Times, and reads like valued under £1,500. This is regarded
some Tokyo journals a few days ago es an astute move of the Chancellor to which rendered into
nto English, tends as view of the poli- to obey such instructions. Moreover, when she meet people
disarm the Socialists, but the poor man follows KLARNE his will undoubtedly be hard hit by general tical situation, have now decided to start on a very important mission, at the risk A Regatta is to be held on Saturday, conducted himself offensively to
of their lives. Therefore, they desire to hold & farewell meeting with their ac 28th March, under the joint auspices of superiors and told the Board he would taxation
quaintances before the graves of the 47 the Victoria Recreation, Club and the
accept, verbal orders, even from, the
JEAN PAUERIAN AND RUSSIAN RECRUITE
romin and drink, water together, and at The not
General Manager, if he thought they were Royal Hongkong Yacht Club.
the same time to hold their, funeral services while they are still alive. They events are
CHALLENGE CUP-Forcontrary to written orders.
In function to come to the Bengakuji request all those who would join the Shiba at 10 am. Temple, Takanawa, on February 15th
NATHAN Fourcars tut ken
AUGMENTED.
be
The exact date of their death is not
yet certain, but the priests will read. scriptures before their coffins Casin a funeral service. Upon their death, no more ceremonies will be held, nor any wreaths accepted
#Kanjiro Tsuda.
Gitarn Goto.
. It is reported from Austria that the
Or A T feanwhile the men agitation in annual contingent of recruits is to THE HONGKONG CHALLENGE CUP-For favour of Richardson is growing apace, increased from 150,000 to 170.000 Four-pars. Open to crews representing sind at crowded meetings in London, creases in the Russian Army are likewise
THE PANAMA CANAL TOLLS any Amateur Rowing Clubs
INTER CLUB PAINS --Open to crews re- Leeds, Stockton, and Derby resolutious indicated. 25 presenting any Amateur Rowing Club, have been passed demanding his re-
Logos, March 3rd THE UEWOA - CHALLENGE CUP For instatement. HONG" FOURS Open to members and
The British rejoinder to: Mr. Secretary subscribers of the RH KY.Ch only
Knox's letter of the 23rd January has 2/Moltei Miyaji." answers the contention that the British bong presented at Washington. grievance is only hypothetical, and that the protest therefore is premature, and subway mits that arbitration, for which there is already ample provision, should precede rather than follow actual friction. Mr
Mr J; H. Thomas, JL.P., the organiser Volunters, including the Scouts, are Tur CRAIKAN'S CHILLENDE CUP. For of the Railwaymen's Union, declares that Four-ours. Open to members of the it a strike is decided upon it will be a national one and would begil without | V.R.C. only-pa dun apurahat
OPEN FORTS-Open to any Amateur notice. Crew not competing for the Hongkong Challonge Cup. Bas Offers of the Fleet in Naval Gigs and
Oriens Grds) AND WHALES-Open to IT Whalers, ARUANNE COASTE
NAVAL GIGS AND WHILLES-Race o De SIX-CARED GIGS (Military Crews) — held under Service Rules and Conditions.
ments and Corps.
to prevent the Ciffness policoren from death shark ka
Pho National Council adjourned for air and one day as a mark of respect to the late
ing too leniently with the prisoner. He will
LAUNCHED. GERMAN DREADNOUGHT
LONDON, March 3rd.
A Dreadnought has been launched at
Kaiser and christened Koenig.
It
It was quite difficult to understand what all this ceant, says the Times, bab by those who knew that the three men are of some dotoriety, the advertisement regardedigestive, and renough to incite curiosity, inow of the present tangled political situation and on the prescribeddede, 1sagreat many people all the functions were carried out as- gathered in fengakui Temple, and
going to die as victims to a great deed remains to be soon.
then undergo a term of imprisonment Doteger Empress All the Logations pat Open to the European Garrison by Regt. Wilhelmshaven in the presence of the Knox has reserved the reply for his announced. But how the three men aro
addition, if the charge is suficiently serious thoir flags at half maat.
Buccessor.