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LONDON, January 21st. Mr. Winston Churchill has issued. A statement declaring that all the news- paper statements about the Cabinet.
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SAFETY AT SEA.
RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE CONFERENCE,
LONDON, January 21st.
The Conference which has been dis- cussing problems connected with safety at sea has finally adopted the reports of the various Committees, and closes to-day,
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GERMAN TYPIST CONVICTED IN BERLIN.
BERLIN, January 21st, Carl Richter, formerly a typist in the Tokyo Office of Siemens and Schuckert,
electrical manufacturers, has been sen
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ULSTER'S LOYAL WOMEN,
TRAINING 18, TELEGRAPH ISTS AND SIONALLERS,
LONDON, January 31st.
In connection with the meeting of the. Ulster Women's Unionist Council n
Belfast, at which Lady Londonderry and Sir Edward Carson were the principal
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phrased dementit do nothing to dissipate the impression. So long as other Powers refuse to fall in with Mr. CRACHILL'S “Naval holiday" proposal, it is impossible for him to retrench, and a Government which followed Mr. Laovn GEORGE's advice in this tatter would be soon driven from
often.
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Thie statement that the trusted.
space available for fitting Admiralty had expressed its intention of davits, pontoon rafts may be provided for resigning was also untrue
20 per cent of the passengers on board.
The Conference also recommends the
When Mr. Churchill made the state.
slealing important documents belonging
the varied activities of the Ulster women
to the office, and attempting to use them during the present campaign. Besides
for the purposes of blackmail.
to
traini documents related to orders for the as signallers and telegraphists in order
The evidence showed that the stolen doing ambulance work, they are Japanese Navy Richter offered to sell staff post-houses, which have been already them for £2,500 sterling The firm established in forty towns, in the event of
Mr. LLOYD GEORGE, after his ment, he, with the other members of the establishment of an International ser refused, and had Richter arrested and postal facilities being cut off with
holiday at Criccieth, either said too little or too much. The First Lord of the Adiniralty is his public speeches lins shown that he is in satire agreement with the "stormy patral" of the Cabinet in hie condemuation of the ever-growing expendi- tura on armamente. but on one country can afford to ignore what its neighboure VERY SUPERIOR OLD PORT WITH are doing in the matter. It has been well
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vice for the purpose of ico observation, and the destruction of derelicts in the North Atlantic, under the control of the United States. It further recommends that all masters shall report With regard to Mr. Lloyd George, it is dangerous ice and derelicts also the stated or his behalf that he will most adoption of the International signal certainly not resign.
code. It further recommends a number of STRENGTH OF THE BRITISH NAVY construction rules regarding bulkheads!
and double bottoms, and a periodical survey of vessels, etc. For this purpose, all vessels are to be divided into two classes, the now, and existing, the latter to be exempted from the rules according to the discretion of the authorities in the countries concerned.
Other recommendations are that all
SPEECHES BY CABINET MINISTERS;
LONDON, January 21st. Three Cabinet Ministers spoke on the Navy last night,
Mr. Percy Illingworth, Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury, speaking at Bradford, said it was a disappointment
extradited.
The prisoner alleged that the firm had bribed high Japanese officials.
London.
CANADA'S NAVAL BILL.
ORAVI AND IMPORTANT CONSIDERATIONS.
The Court, in giving judgment, said the illegitimate manipulations of the firm
OTTAWA, January 21st. which, to a certain extent tempted the prisoner, constituted extenuating circum-answering Sir Wilfrid Laurier, declared In the House of Commons, Mr. Borden,
stances.
that the Senates rejection of the Naval Bill brought discredit upon Canada, and that the hostile majority in the Senate would not be given another opportunity to repeat the performance. He affirmed
GERMAN SCIENTISTS SAFE.
NATIVE CARRIEWS KILLED AND EATEN.
BRISBANE, January 21st. Advices from the Bismarck Archipelago that when the Government was able to show that the German scientist named pass the Bill through the Senate, it Deinger, who it was previously reported would be their duty to consult the had been murdered by cannibals Imperial Government concerning these Neu Mecklenburg, escaped with a toma grave and important considerations Ho hawk wound. His companion scientist,
pointed out that if the Powers agreed to who was also reported killed, escaped
any restriction in armaments, Canada
were murdered and caton.
described as a game of "beggar-my-naigh bour." Mr. CHURCHILL has twice called a halt in the game, only to discover that the other participators in the game ATO unwilling. Mr. Exorn GEORGE will never persuade the people of the United Kingdom to act in this matter quite independently of what the other Powers are doing. If his recent pronouncement on the subject means no more than an SUPERIOR PALE DRY.
to the Liberals that they were unable to vessels with fifty or more on board must endorsement of the pious aspirations. the For Dosen $24.30 First Lord of the Admiralty has often reduce the expenditure on armaments. carry a wireless installation, which must
expressed, then there is still room for both The Government was pledged to make the be continuously worked on fast passenger unburt, but eight of the native carrier would gladly review the position, other- in the Cabinet, and all that Mr. Grouca Navy sufficient and rio more than steamers, and those vessels voyaging over has to do is to explain how and by what sufficient, for the protection of their five hundred miles from port to port, and practical means "Liberalism is to seize the shores. They had given foreign nations seven hours a day for others. present opportunity" to put a stop to this evidence of their intention to reduce their "organiasd military insanity. The following expenditure, but that had not met with figures showing the growth of expenditure the success which had been expected. He on Naval armaments in the last quarter of a
assured the Liberals that not a penny century contain much food for reflection:-
1888.
1919.
more would be spent upon the Navy than 213,172,538 £46,899,300
was considered essential. 8,054,000 18,620,755 3,620,489 $4.477,487 2,381,060 22,887,870. 4,725,410 10,269,460 1,153,113
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In the majority of cases further increases are certain in the present year, and the
THE BRITISH SUBMARINE DISASTER.
MOURNING FATHER'S APPEAL
LONDON, January 21st. Colonel Morrison, father of Sub Lieutenant Morrison, one of the victim of the submarina disaster at Plymouth, in a letter to the Press, expresses the hope
..
AMERICAN BUSINESS. METHODS
AND PUBLIC OPINION,
PRESIDENT WILSON'S MESSAGE TO CONCREIF
WASHINGTON, January 21st, President Wilson has forwarded "a message to Congress in reference to Truste. He proposes legislation prohibiting the inter-locking of directorates, empowering on inter-State Commission to regulate the raising of money by rail-reads, explicitly
wise they should proceed in due course with the construction of three ships. He reiterated that Canada's permanent Naval policy would be submitted to general election, as he had given his pledge in the matter.
DEATH OF LORD STRATHCONA.
LONDON, January 21st. Lord Strathcona died peacefully while
Mr. Walter Runcimau, President of the Board of Agriculture, speaking at Batley, said he believed in fully protecting their ahores, but every unnecessary Dread that the disaster will arouse public defining the hurtful restraints of trade, R.S., LL.D., P.C., and D.L
WILB
nought
abstracted from great beneficial purpose, and from the financial wealth of the country, which ought to be
pinion to demand that the risks incurred
in a sleep. He death occurred in London. [The Into Baron, was a Scotsman, being formerly known as Dosald Alvanndes Sizeith. He was KC.M.G., G.C.M.G., G.C.V.O., He⋅ wax High Commissioner for Canada from 1896 to 1911, being frequently referred to as the G.OM. of Canada. He entered the Hudson Bay Company at an early age and was the last Resident Governor of that Corporation as a governing body. He was a Special
in the Red River Settlements, and was
strangest thing about it all is that this used to help those who were unable to help as obsolete, and practically death-traps, facts proven, and judgments given, in Commissioner during the first Reil rebellion
synchronises with a growing conviction that the world is
is becoming more “civilised," and that reason is taking the place of brute force in the settling of inter
and ensuring penalties falling upon the by those who man submariies shall be proper individuals, prohibiting the so- minimised. He describes the "A" class called "holding" of companies, and enabling individuals to sue for redress on
and says that it is incomprehensible that
Government suits. President Wilson thanked by the Governor General in Councily Mr. McKinnon Wood, Secretary for a great nation will continue to permit
which he occupied were: Member of the Scotland, was heckled at a meeting at the pluckiest of her sons to be sacrificed appeals to Congress to approach the for his services. Glasgow when he referred to the subject in worn-out boats, merely
themselves.
Other important. posta
national disputes. Yet the Powers-one of the Navy, He said that their maritime Parliament paper strength satisfy subject in the spirit of friendliness first Executive Council of NW territory;
and all of them-deem it necessary for their defence--each against its neighbour-to strain its financial resources to the utmost to provide itself with the most scientific engines of war, and plenty of them. It is a strange world we live in Some day, no doubt, the dream of silent war drums, furled battle-flags, the Parliament of Man and the Federation of the World," may come to pass, but meanwhile "Keep your powder dry and add to the stock" is the accopted motto of each of the Great Powers.
•
H.M.S, Yarmouth returned to the
Colony from Shanghai yesterday.
H.M.S. Thiele, which is visiting the Coast ports, la expected back in Hongkong on February 4th
Ten cases of tinned butter, of the value of $420, are reported to have been stolen frem the Kowloon Godowns.
force must be maintained in a position Ceaseless trawling has failed to dis which would enable it to defend their cover the whereabouts of the ill-fated shores and commerce. Any further submarine. expansion was a mistake.
PRESS COMMENTS,
The newspapers are engaged in heated controversy on the subject of to-morrows meeting of the Cabinet which will decide the Navy Estimates.
ENGLISH NAVAL COMMANDER FOUND DEAD.
LONDON, January 21st. Commander Hamilton-Gordon, of the instroyer Thrasher, has been found dead in his hunk at Devonport..
THE KAISER'S HEALTH.
The Conservative papers insist that Mr. Winston Churchill and his colleagues are at logger-heads, and declare that the meeting will decide whether he or Mr. Lloyd George will guide the Liberal Party on the question of Naval expenditure, They are confident that Mr. Churchill being untrue. will carry the day.
The Daily News and Leader says that there is no basis for the Tory press to attempt to force the Government into a new plunge of reckless building, and declares that it is the nation's duty to build two and not four Dreadnoughts in
the coming year.
BUMOURS DENIED,
BERLIN, January 21st. The Kaiser is in the best of health, all the runours to the effect that he is
£30,000 FOR A HOLBIEN,
LONDON, January 21st. A London dealer has purchased Hol bien's picture of Thomas Cromwell, belonging to the Earl of Caledon, for
230,000.
We are not surprised to receive an authori tative contradiction of this report that there. is a possibility of the early resignation of the First Lord of the Admiralty from the Cabinet, followed by the resignation en Bloc of the entire Board of Admiralty. Mr. CHURCHILL himself is responsible for the contradiction. It will be noticed that while.
Miss Ethel Morrison, of No. 49, Holly the story with regard to the other members of the Board of Admiralty is omphatically wood Road, has reported to the police branded as “untrue,” the dementi so far as it that she has missed three gold bracelets, relates to differences in the Cabinet on Naval worth $250, from her room policy is not šo omphatic: it merely says that A small Ero which broke at No. 60 such statements are based upon surmise Chatham Road Hunghom, was extin and gossip and should be uniformly guished without great difficulty by police distrusted. Nor is Mr. LLOYD GEORGE and inmates. The outbreak originated to go. It is stated on his behalf that be from the overturning of a kerosine lamp of the first acts of the Government in the 100th Indian Regiment have been shot certainly will not resign," but the state- A fine of $100 was imposed at the coming Session will be the introduction dead by a native soldier, an act of ment neither confirms nor denies the Magistracy on a Chinese for being in of supplementary estimates, which the revenge for a sentence of a fortnight's report that grave differences exist in the unlawful possession of a revolver. The Daily Chronicle declares will be four and imprisonment Cabinet on the subject of the Naval weapon was "encard is a mircor," which a half millions, in addition to the esti programs. That much indeed has been the man was carrying on one of the mates for 1914-15, probably approximat known for a long time past. As a sort of wharvės..
ing £50,000,000. The Daily Chronicle
New Year's message to the Liberal hosts, The Chinese Foreign Office contradicts
All the papers admit that the estimates of last year have already been exceeded, the result largely of acceleration in placing three Dreadnoughts in lieu of the Canadian ships. They anticipate that one
does not question Mr. Churchill's inten-
the London Daily Chronicle, the ficial the report that Russia has protested on to lay down four more Dreadnoughts orgau of the Party, published on January 1st against the opening of the new trade in 1914-15, but declares that he is guilty
of an error of judgment in accelerating! an authorised statement of the results of the marts in North China. No protest, at Chancellor's Christmas holiday study of the any rate, has been made to the Foreign tha building of three Dreadnoughts as a armaments problem. The Chancellor thinks Office, either in writing overbally. the present the most favourable moment for twenty years for overhauling expenditure on armaments for three reasons-firstly, the inkuitely friendlier relations with Germany, secondly, the Continental nations are direct ing their energies to strengthening their
COLONEL SHOT AT ADEN.
ADEN, January 21st The Colonel and a native officer of the
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be BAY'S both Roper,
representative of Winnipeg and St. John's in Manitoba Legislature; M.P. for Selkirk in Dominion House of Commons; also for Montreal West; in addition to which he was are officially connected with several large com ready to meet halfway in a common effort panies. He was D.C.L. of Oxford and of Cambridge, Cambridge; Hon. LL.D. to adjust business methods to public Aberdeen, Glasgow, Victoris (Manchester), opinion.
Dublin, Queenstown, Laval, Yale, Ottawa, and Toronto Universities; Chancellor of M'Gill and Aberdeen Universities; lord. Rector of Aberdeen University and subse quently Chancellor: He was created a Baron in 1897 Lord Strathcona was 94 years of age.]
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HONGKONG" LEGISLATIVE
COUNCIL.
First reading of a Bill entitled, “An
IN DESPERATE FIGHT WITH CONVICTS.
New YORK, January 21st. At MacAllister, Oklahoma, three convicts gained possession of revolvers and secured the goaler's keys.
They
A meeting of the Council is called for rushed the prison gates, firing on the this afternoon. The orders of the day guards and using a telephone girl as a living shield. They unlocked the gates and, dropping. the girl, who was wounded, jumped into a buggy. The guards kept up a fusillade from horse back, and in the course of the running fight they killed the convicts.
Three of the guards, and an Congressman who Was prison, were killed.
ex-
Ordinance to amend and consolidate the Law relating to "Chinese Passenger Ships S deûned by tho Chinese Passengers Act, 1865, and concerning Asiatic Emigrants generally.”
Firat reading of a Bill entitled, "An Ordinance to amend Ordinance No. 9 of 1910 as incorporated in the Pharmacy. visiting the Ordinance, 1908."
First reading of a Bill entitled, "An
NESTS OF CONSPIRACY IN INDIA. Ordinance to amend the Arms and
Ammunition Ordinance, 1900".
CALCUTTA POLICE AND THE RECENT ASSASSINATION:
CALCUTTA, January 21st The police take a very serious view of he assassination of Detective Sub- Inspector Dripend Ranath Ghose. They are of the opinion that it is now evident that there are wo
whole series of further
nests of conspireey, in northern Calcutta
THE VICTORIAN LOAN.
REVIVAL OF INVESTMENT BUSINESS,
LONDON, January 21st. The Victoria 4 per cent. loan of a
Second reading of the Bill entitled, “An Ordinance to amend and consolidate the Laws relating to Opium,” --
Second reading of the Bill entitled, "Az Ordinance to provide for the registration of qualified Dental Surgeons and other- wise
regulate the practice Of Dentistry"?
tr
Forest guards under Mr. Green, of the Botanical and Forestry Department, raided two houses at Wongreichong on Tuesday as a consequence of which two worden appeared at the Magistracy......... yesterday, charged with being in unlaw-
LONDON, January 21st. There was an informal lunch and inspection of the Llandovery Castle, temporary expedient in place of the which makes her maiden voyage Canadian ships, since the same contin
morrow. The vessel is furnished on a Leader voices a rumour
A correspondent of the Gold Coast geney again aries owing to Mr. Borden's
"that His postponement of Naval Bill. The luxurious scxle, being fitted with special million sterling, issued at 97, has been ful possess on of brushwood, picked from
Goverment Plantations. Excellency the Governor, Bir Hugh same paper also declares that if Mr tropical equipment for the East African fully subscribed and is now quoted at that the husband of one of the women in Clifford, will be transferred to the two Churchill is wise he will forego the build Nigerias to relieve Sir Frederick Lugard, ing of ships for the substitution of the trade. The new features include lifts, loan is regarded as symptomatic of a who, it is said, will proceed on to Egypt" ships promised by Canada.
Vienna café, and a swimming bath.
It stated
per cent. premium. The success of the
a forest guard Fines of $20 and $25 were imposed.
revival in the investment business.