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but fix or six. It is not improbable, we think, that the great conspiracy in Formosa will be found to be equally devoid of any substantial truth.. The main features of the conspiracy," we read," were that the Chinese Revolutionary forces wers to come to attack Formosa shortly, and that men should be collected in Formosa who would rise siniullaneou-ly with the advert of the Revolutionary forces and massacre the Japanese." According to a confession alleged to have been made by one of the the loading spirits of the movement, WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS. Obines were to tell the Formosans that they came from Chinese stock and that the Chinese deeply sympathised with them is their subjection to the tyrannical rule of the Japanese and had therefore sent leaders to organise an army of a hundred thousand Formosans who would act in concert with the Chinese force when it landed, in killing off the Japanese and ensuring The of Chinese rule. restoration newspaper reports say that, "Among those who joined the codapiricy are found teachers of public schools and assistant policemen, who are fairly well educated, othere who once held such posts, and some who received Japanéso education at medical, Japanese language,and other public schools, VERT SUPERIOR OLD PORT WITH and even men of good means, bigli personal reputation and knowledge, and respected as men of high local standing. When arrested by the police they were perfectly composed even arrogant in their behaviour." They are represented as ready to die for "the cause." There is one little item of
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Colony last week (all fatal); four cases of diphtheria (ono fatal) and three cases of enteric fever Three of the diphtheria. cases were British, and one of the enteric
cases was a German,
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
THE EMBARGO ON ARMS IN ULSTER,
The Church Missionary Gleaner pub-
TOAXING THE POLICE. lishes a very interesting article front the pen of the Rev. N. C. Pope, Chaplain
LONDON, December 8th. of St. Andrew's, Kowloon, under the
The Chantoms authorities in Ulster are caption of "A Wide Open Door." The article is written up from notes extracted most active, scouring the coasts from the rev, gentleman's diary concern.
.on
The situation is not without its ing his journey to Yunnanfu with the bicycles to prevent gan-running. Bishop of Victoria last June.
ludicrous side. The police at Portrush, learning of the arrival of a consignment of arms, hurried to the Station and opened a number of cases, amid the jeers of the crowd. The cases were found to contain dummy wooden guns, destined. for the local Boy Scouts.
on
The Royal Humane Society has award ed to Mr. G. W. Sewell, cashier in the Deacon, Looker, service of Messrs. Deacon & Harston, the Society's honorary vellum, for testimonial inscribed having on the 22nd June. 1913, gone to rescue of Tsu Fuk, who was in imminent danger of drowning in harbour at Hongkong and whose life he gallantly saved.
the
EXPLOSION OF CARTRITKINS IN A GARAGE There were exciting scenes at Belfast at a fire in a garage belonging to a local The death occurred last week.at Shanghai of Mr. Henry O'Shea, n wellstockbroker, in which a quantity of cartridges were stored. There were con- known journalist, who had been con nected with three or four Shanghai tinuous explosions for about 20 minutes. papers during the past twenty years or The showers of debris prevented the
was the correspondent of more, and several leading British and American approach of the firemen, por of whom was Papers. He had been ill for many weeks hadly injured. and succumbed after, a surgical opera tion. He was 49 years of age.
Much excitement was created', in the neighbourhood of Nathan Road, Kow.
THE HOME RULE CONTROVERSY.
LONDON, December 8th. Mr. Devlin, M.P., the leader of the
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FOOTBALL JOTTINGS. Saturday's league game between, the Club and the Royal Engineers provided it is a many things to be remembered. long time since I saw the Club display THE WHEELER CASE.
anything approaching the excellence of TOKYO, December 8th.
their football against the League Cham The appeal by Mr. Wheeler, of Messrs.
picns. The whole side worked together. Genz, Wheeler, & Co., against the sentence magnificently, untiringly, willingly, and passed upon him some time apo for as a result of their efforts they garnered Mra well-merited paint from the reluctant alleged fraud has been confirmed. Wheeler will now appeal to the Court of solliers. One feels that one cannot write too enthusiastically in praise of the Cassation.
civilians, but the risk of being accused of engaging in flights of imagination" is one to be avoided if possible.., * How- ever, I cannot be said to be guilty of romancing when I assert that the Club were infinitely the better team, that they
the very first kick, and that it was only had their doughty opponents beaten from that grim spectre in the shape of evil. fortune; shadowing every step of the Clubmen se persistently, thạt kept their just deserts from them.
DEATH OF MR: W, DENING,
Tokyo, December 8th. The death has occurred of Mr. Walter Deuing Professor of English at the Second High School, Sendai, at the age of $7.
[The late Mr. Dening was originally a missionary under the Church Missionary Society, but relinquished holy orders in 1886, and took service nader Elle Japanese Educational Department.]
JAPANESE PRINCE ILL.
Everybody was surprised in the first ten minutes of the game, the soldiers TOKYO, December 8th.
defenders probably the most of all. The His Imperial Highness Prince Higashithe, eager forwards of the Club team Fushimi fa il
at
WEDDINGS. CLARK-HUMPHREYS,
varitably swarmed round the Army citadel, and never have I seen a defence. pitiably thoroughly flustered, so demoralised. The restless, irrepressible attackers simply could not be driven off,
information in the mase which when the Joon, sesterday, at about a quarter-past extrême section of the Nationalists Dorothy Humphreys, daughter of Mr. minutes of this great game, I marvel how
was tackled by three European soldiers, but the Indian held them at bay for sams while. He took a belt from one of the soldiers and used it effectively as a weapon of defence and offence. Ulti- nately the madman was cowed with bamboo poles, and having been bound with ropes, be was conveyed to the mili tary compound.
speaking at Hathorum, said that if the principle of an Irish Parliament were conceded, the Nationalists would go a
They did not great deal further than halfway to ment
want separation. the Unionists in Irelauil,
INTERNECINE STRIFE IN
ALBANIA.
A very large congregation assembled and we had the rather unique-spectacle St. John's Cathedral yesterday of seeing Coxon and Morrish kicking
to witness the afternoon
marriage wildly, or missing their kick altogether. Mr. Douglas Edward Clark and Miss As I reflect calmly over the first fow The Rev. V. the Engineers came out of it with an Henry Humphreys.
Shot after shot was Copley Moyle (Chaplain of the Cathed unblotched sheet,
the halves, joining in ral) officiated at the ceremony. The bride, rained in, the whole forward line, and who was given away by her father, wore occasionally a dress of charmeuse, with train of satin the bombardment. We were on tenter- and silver brocaded ninon. The bride hooks, expecting a store every second, but The lively bit of maids were the Misses Dorothy and Alix it never came
to рабв the R. E.'s Gordon, who were attired in dresses of leather declined
There came
Jull in white crêpe de chine, with coatces of pink god line. and blue-flowered crêpe de chine, and the attacking, and then the Engineers black picture hats with large pink bows took their turn at offensive tactics, to. Mr. W. D. Jupp discharged the duties meet with a defence of the very first of best man." The service was fully order, a defener which owned, no loop- choral, the hymes sung being "O. Father boles, a defence that approached perfec- all creating" and "O Perfect Love," tion as nearly as possible. and at the conclusion of the ceremony
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Courts come to investigate the affair mayne, when an Indian suddenly ran amok, supply the key to this very sensational He frightened several people by chasing hittle adventure. We are told that hose them, and upset a Chinese cyclist who who joined the conspiracy were each made happened to be riding in the vicinity. to contribute a sum of from fifty to eighty He yen, while those who undertook the work of recruiting and organising bodios of men Por Dozen $24.30 were promised appointments as Commanders or Generals, according to the number of men they enrolled, the salaries attaching to these appointments ranging from 10 yen to 80 yen a month. Presumably the 270 "suspects* ar men who have paid the membership fees. What is Jacking in the reports we have seen is any statement as to payments out by the men who by four men. The house was occupied between two Albanian clans at Skutari. Mr. Denman Fuller played Mendeis | penalty-a penalty which was withheld. collected the memborship fees. In abort, by a married woman, who, hearing a The International authorities intervened sohn's wedding march. A reception wae Early on, in the game, Coxon heat the A.S. WATSON &CU.... the whole story suggests that it is a little knock at the door, went to see who was whereupon the combatants retired oatsid afterwards held at home, "lan Mor, sphere down with his hand but a few
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Au armed robbery was attempted at
No. 37, Elgin Street on Sunday night
enterprise on the part of the leaders in the there. One of the men said he had a conspiracy for netting "membership letter to deliver, and the woman. accord- feer." The statement that the "Revolutioningly opened the door, whereupon the ary forces in China" entertained an idea of robbers rushed into the house. Two of an expedition to China is too transparently then were armed with swords, and they She screamed, absurd to be seriously discuerod, and if, as threatened the woman. is alleged, a letter purporting to be signed however, and a robber then struck her on by YUAN SHIU-KAT has been used to the head with his sword, causing a nasty
BANOVINARY CLAN FIGHT.
CETINJE, December 8th. A number of persons were killed and wounded in a sanguinary faction fight
the town, and resumed the conflict.
DUBLIN STRIKE ENDED..
AGREEMENT ON ALL POINTS BUT ONE.
LONDON, December 8th. An official statement by the Dublin
the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Humphreys, where a very large number of friends assembled to congratulate the newly-wedded pair. The honeymoon is being spent in Japan.
There is a tale to be told concerning a
The Clubmen yards from his goal. immediately and justifiably claimed that the referee should order the leather to the 12-yard mark. Apparently the official, whose control of the game was in every way irreproachable with this see the solitary exception, could not A very pretty wedding took place on infringement, his view being obscured, Saturday, the 20th ult; at the Roman and long sighs-of-disappointment_were.
GUTERRES-GRILL:
satiefy, doubling Formosans that the wound. One of the robbers was esptured, employers says that an agreement has Catholic Church, Kobe, the contracting emitted by chagrined civilian spectators
MR. K. H. CROFTON APPOINTED.
TO ZANZIBAR.
Mr. R. H. Crofton, chief clerk in the Colonial Secretary's Office, has beer appointed Assistant Chief Secretary to the Government at Zanzibar, and will be leaving Hongkong about a month hence
to take up his new post.
Chiness Government were in earnest in the but the others made good their escape. matter, we may be sure that it was a forgery. Ignomat Farmosins may have been deceived by such a trick, but the very fact that the PRESIDENT of the Chinese Republic is represented as backing the designs of " the Revolutionary forces in China " plainly indicates that th's "great conspiracy" may turn out to be nothing more than an unscrupulous effort on the part of a bandful of individuals to profit by the cupidity of the natives. At the same time, if any large number of people of "high personal reputation and knowledge" bave TAVARES-On November 28th, at Shang- been duped by these representations, it is
hai, the wife of J. M. TAVARES, of a
evidence of grave discontent, the causes of daughter.
DEATH.
which the Japanese Government would be O'Sura.-On December 3rd, at the General | well advise to investigate.
Hospital, Shanghai, HENRY DAVID PATRICK O'SHEA, aged 49 years. HONGKONO OFFICE: 10A, DES Vaux Road C. LONDON OFFICE: 131, FLEET STREET, B.C.
BIRTH.
The Daily Press.
The English mail of the 3th November was delivered in London on 5th December.
Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Gedge returned to the Colony yesterday, arriving by the s.s. Siberia.
Mr. Crofton, who is a B.A. of Cam bridge, cute to Hongkong in 1903, having previously been an examiner in the Exchequer and Audit Department, Lon- don. Six months after his arrival in the was appointed Colony Mr. Crofton Acting Local Auditor, which post he held for nearly twelve months, and in March, 1905, he was appointed Chief Clerk in During the Colonial Secretary's Office. the greater part of the period which has since intervened. Mr. Crofton has been Acting Assistant Colonial Secretary and Clerk of Councils.
Mr. Crofton will carry with him to Zanzibar the best wishes of a wide circle. The Police Authority in Peking has of friends in Hongkong by whom he is issued a
proclamation prohibiting the held in the highest respect and esteem, purchase of girl slaves by houses of
MAIDEN TRIP OF THE S.S. ill-fame.
ZTAISHAN."
HONGROSO, DECEMBER 9r 1913. JAPAN is much concerned at the present time over another "conspiracy," not in
Lieut.-Colonel. F. J. Moberly, D.S.O., Korea this time, but in Formosa, where, it is alleged, a number of Chinese and 25ch Punjabis, who arrived from India Formosan natives have been plotting toon board the P. & O. s.s. Delta, on 5th drive out the Japanese Government and inst.. has been taken on the strength of restore the island to China. Upwards o£270 the Command "accordingly.
to take
SUFFRAGETTE LEADER
RELEASED,
per-
and players alike.
There are ten chances to
One
but there is the odd chance that the
been reached on all points but one, includ-parties being Mr. J. M. A. Guterres, of
One can only speculate what would ing the abandoning of sympathetic strikes, Kobe, and Miss Camilla Maria Grill, of
the
ceremony being no strike to be called without a ballot, and Macao,
given. the re-organisation of the transport formed by the Rev. P. Fage. The bride have happened bad the penalty been was attended by two bridesmaids, Miss Guterres, daughter, and Miss Carmelita that the Club would have received such workers on Trades Union lines. The re-
Pereira, cousin of the bridegroom, and encouragement from a score se early in instatement of strikers was the only out-
was led to the altar and given away by the game, that they would have held the Whip-hand ever onwards, and have annexed Mr. A. T. Guterres. The witnesses were both points by more than a goal majority, standing question, and this led to a collapse at the last moment.
Mr. F. A. de Jesus and Mr. N. F. Guterres, Mr. B. M. Botelho presided at the organ, and played a Roman Engineers, being stung to desperation, March, by Clarke, as the bride entered might have experienced a renewal of the church, and afterwards played their forces and abilities. The desperate fighter is ever the most dangerous, and Mendelssohn's Wedding March.
After the religious ceremony a recep- I an inclined to fancy that that distinct tion was held at the residence of the trace of lethargy and indifference which bridegroom, where friends of the happy was to be found among the salliers' ranks couple gathered to offer their congratula-would have disappeared as the darkness tions. The wedding presents were very
before the light of the sun if the Club numerous, amongst them being some very The honey- pretty and valuable gifts sent by the had but once get home.
friends in China. bride's moon is being spent at Miyaneshin. HONGKONG ASSOCIATION LEAGUE DIVISION II.
LONDON, December 8th. Mrs. Pankhurst has been released from Exeter prison after three days' "thirst" strike..
The announcement of the release was received with wild enthusiasm by the Suffragettes at a meeting at Earl's Court, at which £14,000 was collected.
THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY STRIKE.
BETTLEMENT A SEVERE BLOW TO STRIKERS.
LONDON, December 8th.
The settlement of the strike in South- Wales is a most severe blow to the strikers. The Company was very firm in refusing to reinstate the two engine- drivers.
The Hongkong, Canton and Macao Steamboat Co.'s new steamer Taishan
Mr. J. Thomas, M.P., warns the men made her first trip to Macao on Sunday with a good number of excursionists and complement of general cargo on board. to profit by their present fatal mistake, The voyage was a most successful one and to check the anarchy which could
THE JAPANESE NAVY.
TOKYO, December 8th:
eney head of steam she took the lead of all competitors and led the way on both trips. This steamer is a distinct advance in confort and suitability for the trade and the Steamboat Company deserves the support of the public for placing such struction provides for three battle- an up-to-date boat on the be, while the cruisers. Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Co, merit
The new programime of Naval con-
MATCHES FOR DECEMBER.
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There were three men in the Hongkong. team on Saturday who surely played the ganies of their lives. Stalker at back was absolutely impenetrable, unbeatable. He has played some sterling games for the Club, but his exhibition against the Tuesday 9th 88 Coy. R.G.A. 2. Moslems Engineers easily ranks as his greatest. R.C. Military Ground at 4 p.m. The soldiers' could never quite overcome Referee:Mr. F. W. Eager.
him. Their fancy
winger, Lewie, Saturday 13th, 83 Coy, R.G.A. Moslems
matches in the
representative R.C. Military Ground at 2.30 p.m. who did good service for the Colony Referee:Mr. J. Moran
one occasion did he show Saturday 20th, Boy's Own Club r. Mus- Shanghai, was nonplussed, and onl
lems R. C. Military Ground at 2.30 he could do, and that effort caused a p.m. Referee:-Mr. W. E, Doe Saturday 27th, 88 Coy. R.G.A. v. Boy's Own Club Military Ground at 4.00 p.m. Referee: Mr. E. J. Tyler. ROYAL HONGKONG GOLF CLUB.
Capt. James
90-15 75
847-77 90-1377 90-12-78 94-1678 100-22-71
what
The work of a cold, creepy sort of feeling down the bomu supporters' spine. Cyril Wilkie and Goldenberg on the left wing was the most brilliant, I have yet sten in the Colony. These two compare tively small, light forwards combined
Wilkie gare us did most damage- glimpse of what he is really capable of doing, and his centres were wonderful- centres of which inside forwards dream, and dream again. The only fault that conld be found with the forward line was that they failed in their shots, aud in some cases failed rather badly,
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- persona who are suspected of having been Me, E. T. Williams, who until lately concerned in the plot are under arrest await has been American Charge d'Affaires aud everything worked quite smoothly. I only end in disaster to themselves and RUNNING POOL, FAN-LING, NOVEMBER, 1913. beautifully, and it was this wing that ing trial by Courts which have been specially at Peking left last week
up the post of Director of the Asiatic No risks were taken, but under an ruin to the trades unionists participating. established for the purpose. If we may venture to formu an opinion on the basis of Bureau in the State Department. the reports which have been sent from
Mr. Jolin Quincey, the fifth son of Mr. Formosa and published in the Press of Williama Quincey, a pensioner of the Japan, we should say that there is as little Hongkong Police Force, and now Police weed for the Government of Japan to feel Deputy on the Shanghai-Nanking Rail alarmed over the security of her hold Formosa as there was for apprehension way, has passed with honours for his over the "great conspiracy in Korea a year or two ago. It will be remembered that when the Courts bad investigated the allega- tions made against a bundred and tweply 'Koreans whom the Police had arrested on a charge of being implicated in a conspiracy page.
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final London BA degree.
The attention of travellers to North China is directed to the new schedule of the express service on the Tientsin. 0117 front Pukow line, advertised on
The trains on this line connect
great praise for their work of construct THE FRENCH POLITICAL CRISIS. ing such a noble vessel.
The Steamboat Co.'s str. Heungsha has gone to Kowloon Deck for her repairs and annual survey.
which the police evidence sought to prove with trains of the Peking. Mukden line,resumed her run yesterday, relieving her had been largely encouraged, if not initiated, the Shautung-Eisenbahn and the Shang- -American missionaries—all were liberated hai-Nanking line.
The Sui Tai, having passed her survey. sister-ship, the Sui An, which went over to the Dock.
PARIS, December 8th. M. Doumergue is confident of being able to form a Cabinet ef Radicals. M. Caillaux will probably be Minister of Finance and M. Viciani Minister of Instruction.
Capt. H. T. Dobbin .. Mr. E V. D. Parr Mr. A C. Davison... Mr. F. W. Cary Mr. J. Jeck Mr. E. C. Staples Mr. W. D. Kraft... Mr. E. D. Mathews Mr. C. A. Tomes Mt. J. Clark ... Capt Spirer
Mr. B. B. Bead
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Rev. Foster Pegg ....
Mr
K. W. Camming Mr. R. O. Hutchison Mr. A. M. Thomson Mr. P. P. J. Wodehouse Mr. A. Ritchie Mr. R. Henderson Mr. F. Milner-Jones
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After this exhibition, the Club can look forward to their future engagements. with a confidence in their own powers which has been sadly Jacking in the past.. and no team will need any warning from me that they will have all the way to go Before leng the against the civilians, Club are going to do that which the croakers declared they would never do they are going to win, and the men from the Tamar, who will provide the opposi tion in the next league match, will have to look to themselves, or they will be the first victims.
GREEN AND WHITE.