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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JANUARY 23RD 1914.
The consceration of the Rev P TELEGRAMS. TELEGRAMS. TELEGRAMS.
Norris, D.Das Bishop of North China, then the 2nd inst., took place in Canterbury Cathedral, The last consecration of Bishops in the Cathedral was hold exactly 13 years ago, when Dr. E. A Parry, Ho of a former Bishop of Dover, was 001-
in the future of railways in China that ensures steady progress and development, The Vice Minister mentioned that Peking.Makdon line made a profit of $14,000,000 on last year's working. and S. WATSON the Feldag-Hanko lius a profit of & CO., LTD.,
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$15,000,000. But the Government's object secrated to the See of Guiaus The in pressing forward with the construction Archbishop of Canterbury was the con of railways was not, he said, simply to get secrating prolate, assisted by the Bishops profits, but to improve communications, of He spoke of the great improvements waish had been made in Chinese railway enter WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS. Prises in recent years, and also of the changed actitude of the people towards such enterprises. He rocalled how the Jate Lt Horo-orang was abused prior to
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{THROUGH NEUTER'S AGENCY.] THE RELATIONS BETWEEN CHINA
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TOKYO, January 22nd:
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tares
THE PANAMA CANAL.
THIRTY FEET OF WATER IN CULEBRA CUT.
{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] THE SUNKEN SUBMARINE FOUND,
LONDON, January 23rd. Commander Seddon has proceeded from Sheerness to Plymouth on an aeroplane for the purpose of assisting in the search for the hapless submarine 47, from the
LATER. The sabmarine has been founit 83 fathoms deep. air.
LATER.
Oil floating on the sea led to the dis covery of the submarice.
Lord Michelbam, in a letter to the Lord Mayor, suggests the starting of a per- manent national fund on behalf of the dependants of victims of aubmarine
disasters.
PANAMA, January 2200°
BERLIN, January 22nd. In reference to Carl Richter's allega. tions against the Siemens-Schuckert firm of electrical manufacturers, who have a staterent pointing out that, as is custom which aroso on account of the killing of subjects at Nanking vaa branch in Tokyo, the firm has issued and a peaceful settlement of the crisis
ary in countries outside Europe, all the
largely due to the Anglo-Japanese At the Magistracy yesterday, before firm's Naval business with Japan was the year 1900 for building railways, and Mr. F. A. Hazeland, two engineers from one through native agents, who were Alliance. He dwelt upon the remarkable The firm growth of Japan's trade with China and mentioned that though popular hostility to off the Russian steamer Gorgo were
charged, the first with being drunk danturally paid commissions.
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commissions, direct the increase of Japanese residents in railways had gradually disappeared, the disorderly, and the second with obstruct ever objection to foreign loans for railway in the police. An European constable indirect, to officials of the Japanese China, construction, which was so much in evidence told the Magistrate that he had to arrest | Government. just prior to the Revolution, still lingered the first man owing to his condition and
was made to blackmail the firm, they to a certain extent. One of the aims of the conduct, and the second defendant came National Railway Association is the diffu- up and attempted to get him away. In reported the matter to the Public Pro- Bion of knowledge on railways," and it answer to his. Worship, Insuector Psecutor. and seems to have done valuable educational | O'Ballivan said that the first man was Government. work in this direction if it is really very intoxicated, but the accond was not entitled to the complimente paid to it by so drunk. The men were fined $7 each,
or 14 days hard labour. the various speakers, when referring to the changed attitude of the people towards railways. It was said to be largely due to the offorts of this Association that railway projects do not now encounter the same amount of opposition that they did a few years ago. Mr. LIANG SHIE-I, the Chief Secretary to the PRESIDENT, pointed out OTERE WELL-KNOWN Brands SUPPLIED TO with much satisfaction that Government
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as the Peking-Mukden, railways such Tientsin-Pukow, Shanghai-Nanking and Cantoa-Kowloon lines, though within the area of the fighting during the Revolution and the subsequent disturbance, suffered practically no damage. He attributed this
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The Pcking Gazette is publishing a series of articles on "The Revision of the Chinese Cusons Tariff," by Sir Robert Bredon, K.C.M.G., who ought to know what he is writing about, as he was a member of the Commission of the Tariff Revision in 1911. Sir Robert says:-
This
is therefors now the position. China saye to the Powers:-I am entitled, on a well understood principle which you all have admitted, to have as per ceft, tax on foreign imports: I am similarly entitled to clain decennial revision from each of you if I consider a tariff made over ten years ago no longer gives me
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LATEN
THE STOLEN CORRESPONDENCE. At the Richter trial quotations · were read from the stolen correspondence.
One quotation from a letter sent by the head office at Berlin to the Tokyo branch in 1911 says:It was really griminal: agreement with to conclude a commission Admiral Fujii in London when our old agreement with Admire! Iwasaki still Why then exists, working faultlessly. arrange with Admiral Fujii for 5 ner cent, on the ship to be built in England and 21 per cent. on all other orders for the Japanese Navy !!
A NAVAL COMMANDER'S DEATH.
LONDON, January 22nd.
It is announced that there are now 30 fest of water in the Culebra Cut, which is the only part of the Canul yet to be At the inquest, ab Plymouth, on Com- completed. A large ocean steamer ander Hamilton-Gordoa, consin of the could traverse it now, and it is intended Ent of Aberdeen, who was found dead Panama railroad steamer in his bunk on the destroyer Thrasher, að to send a
verdict of death from natural causes was returned. He was in command of the through, probably in April.
sweeping operations for the sunken sub- marine in the bitterest weather. There CANADA'S GRAND was evidence of heart disease and the
beginning of double pneumonia.
THE DEATH OF LORD STRATHCONA
WORLD-WIDE TRIBUTES TO
OLD MAN."
LONDON, January 22nd. World-wide tributes are being paid to the memory of Lord Strathcona, anif Canada is in mourning.
The keynote of the tributes is not wholly
sorrow, when a man has lived the lives of more than two urdinary men, and been an Empire-builder whose work will never be forgotten.
THE NEW COMMANDER OF H.M.S.
BRAMBLE."
LONDON, January 22nd. Lieutenant Branden, one of the officers
sentenced some time ago to imprisonment in a fortress for espionage in Germany, has been appointed to command the destroyer Bramble on the Chinn Station. QUEEN VICTORIA MEMORIAL.
The other quotation is from a letter sent by the Tokyo branch in referencr to the fact that Captain. Ide, then a member of the Naval Commision in London, had been ericising Simens prices. It doprecates any considerable reduction and says that the orders are all given in Tokyo, and recent orders hade as a token of respect to the late Lord Victoria Memorial Special Committee,
shown the firm's friends in the Ministry
of Marine to be working reliably. If Captain Ide continues to annoy us, he
The Into Feor will be buried beside his wife in Highgate Cemetery.
LATER.
The Canadian Parliament has adjourn
Strathcona.
Mr. Borden and Sir Wilfrid Laurier
LONDON, January 22nd. Lord Esher, the Chairman of the Queen
has reported the completion of the Memorial to the King, who replied
must go. It will not be hard to mana aid eloquent tributes to his great expressing his gratification at the accom
it." The letter mentioned that another Japaness
jess official
had a mission to find out what members of the Commission were not working for the firm and according to the firm's wishes. Our friends here will see that they are removed or rendered harmless."'
qualities.
Mr. Lewis Harcourt, Secretary of State for the Colonies, and Mr. Austin Cham- berlain in speeches last night paid to the life work tributes
of Lord
Strathcona.
to the concerted and enthusiastic work my due. It is more than ten years since. of the Association Another equally in-ny import, and more than fifty since my toresting, statement was made by a high export, tariff has been revised. They are official in the Department of Communica- now both equally entitled to a decennial revision: I feel that revision is both tions, when he pointed out that an important factor in the success of railway enterprises necessary and due, and now ask you to in China was to be found in the undertake is in consultation with me as a matter of principle and justice and fact that, unlike in other branches
she might add, and I don't expect any Government activity, the men engaged quibbling use of legal technicalities to A. S. WATSON & CO., on the State railways are not being con- stand in the way."
tinually transferred from line to line, but
om line to li remain as a rule on the railway to which thoy are first attached, his point being, presumably, that the local knowledge and experience thus gained make for increased. efficiency of service. These few gleanings from the speeches delivered on the occasion will serve to show that the foundations are being laid for sound development. An
HONGKONG, January 22nd. Association such as this, comprising as it
DEAR SIR-With regard to Investiga does the leading mon engaged in railway-
this construction and management in China tor's" letter published by you (including, apparently, some foreigners), has morning and to his complaint with the iteni in the accounts regard to it in its power to render the Government
"amount invested in shares 9971,918.70,” invaluable service in the furtherance of
the Meniorandum of Association does not its schemes to improve and extend the
appear to authorize the purchase of system of railway communications in China, shares in other companies, nor do the
MELBOURNE, January 2nd. and public confidence in the future of Articles of Association (which cannot in The Ateamer Makumbo bas arrived, and railway enterprise in China should be any case extend the powers contained in reports that the whole of Ambryn Island strengthened by the evidence this gathering the Memorandum) authorize the Com has been altered. The site of the Mission affords of useful and effective co-operation. pany's funda to be spent in the purchaset
of shares May. I be permitted to suggest Hospital is now 13 fathome beneath the that "Investigator" should ascertain in sea, while two miles of hilly country have what companies shares have been pure appeared where previously was the sea. THE INDIAN POLITICAL MURDER. chased, when they were purchased, and During the eruption the island was a for what prices, and by what authority" It is officially stated that the Corona did the directore act in so spending the seething mass of lava. The sea was boil- tion of the Emperor of Japan will take Company's money I am, Dear Sir, ing, and turtles and fish rose to the
Sacrifices to yours faithfully,
surface cooked. Smoke rising from the place on November 10th.
N. H. N. MODY.
Islands of Paama and Lofevi is now his Imperial ancestors will be offered on November 13th.
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Six months' imprisonment sentence passed by the First Magistrate on a Chinese who had defrauded Chinese shopkeepers through the medium of forged documents.
A SHIP'S EXPERIENCE OF THE EARTHQUAKE,
THE RECENT AUSTRALASIAN
ERUPTION,
A NEW ISLAND CREATED.
SYDNEY, January 22nd.
CANADA'S FOOD TAXES.
OTTAWS, January 22nd. The Minister of Finance has emphatic ally refused to remove the duty on food ́stuffs, affirming that the present time is unpropitious for a downward revision of the tariff. He did not be.love that duty- free food would reduce the cost of living,
affect industries it would while employing 52,000 persons, and having an annual ouput of $23,000,000,
HINDUS EXECRATE THE MURDERER.
CALCUTTA, January 22nd... It appears that the murder of the! Detective-sub-Inspector Ranath Ghose is causing a breach between the Moderates and Extremiste among
the Indian
plishment of the scheme and the generous support given it throughout. the Dominions.
THE HOME RULE QUESTION.
LONDON, January 22nd, Mr. Austin Chamberlain, speaking at Southampton, said no Colonial statesman would recommend such a solution as the proposed Home Rule Bill. Such cowardly surrender wes unparalleled in history. Ulster in the last resort would save herself by her own right arm.
THE KRIPP CASE.
RENTENCES REDUCED ON APPEAL.
BERLIN, January 22nd, The Appeal Court has reduced the sentences on the officers in the Krupp case, convicted last August, and acquitted
two.
THE STATE OF BUSINESS IN NORTH CHINA.
The writer of The Week's Finance": in the N-C, Daily News saya lese
There has been an all round improve ment in business during the week, and although part of it is speculative, a great deal has been due to genuine demand. It is a remarkable commentary on the pro
Nationalists.
Up to the present they ress of China that, in spite of the fact That deliveries in 1913 were much more common cause in such than in 1912 as a rule, the country should- A description of the volcanic eruptions have made
steady flow of business for the past two The Bank Line steamer Kafur, which at Ambryn, given by Mr. Dowie, a subjects as the grievances of the Indians still be wanting cargo. There has been no Now, however, the years, for obvious reasons; but the coun- in South Africa arrived in port yesterday, passed the missionary, says that one by
Bengalis are denouncing the crime. The vicinity of the Kagoshima earthquake on mountains burst into flame till ten were the 13th inst and experienced “
a pitch."
murderer was made by a Hindu cobbler, Darkness prevailed from 1.80 p.m. to emitting molten lava. The 2,500 natives police admit that the arrest of the alleged 3.30 p.m., and the ship was thickly did not panic, and most were conveyed to covered with fine volcanic dust, Later safety. About 100 perished, some in Also, at the creation of the officer, the ship encountered heavy weather with
HONGHOBO JANUARY 23RD, 1914. WHEN Dr. Sus YAT-SEN announced hit scheme for covering the map of China with a network of railways, and said he meant to get about 200,000 ii of railways (75,000 miles) constructed within ten years, he was widely regarded as a fit subject for a lunatic Asylum. But the Minister of Interior has just publicly testified that in this connec. A Northern Chinese paper reports that tion, at least, Dr. Sun's dream was not. so American capitalists have proposed that wild as it seemed at the time, The Minister the Government should establish iron- was speaking at a meeting of the members works at Hanyang for the purpose of
exporting pig-iron to America. of the National Railway Association at Peking, which was attended by upwards of a Three matsheds, belonging to the con-high seas, thousand persons representing the different tractor who is engaged in constructing a railways and political organisations. It ne was at the last annual meeting of this body that Dr. SUN YAT-SEN outlined his scheme, and the Minister of the Interior, who is the
A petition Iron the Premier, Hsiung port on the 20th inet, with reliefs far. Honorary President of the Association,
H.M.S. Eclipse is referring to this, called attention to the fact Hsi-ling, requesting the abolition of the the China Station.
of to leave Devonport on March 1st with that since that date contracts have already Bureau of Merits for purposes keen made with foreign capitalists for the economy, states that two years' work has relief crew for the Yarmouth, which will resulted in 10.000 persons. reriving com- meet the Eclipse at Colombo and re-com- construction of railways whose combinedpensation and the granting of 30,000 mission there length would exceed 10,000 12. “It win rewards.
thus be seen," he said, "that it may not, after all, be impossible to realise Dr. SUN's dream within the next ten years." It would
Police Station at Chung Chau,
caught fire and were burnt to the ground damage created is estimated at $230. in the village on Sunday evening. The
Whilst a
shroff of one of the Chinese banks in Bonham Strand was walking to the bank, & pickpocket came up behind
NAVAL MOVEMENTS,
We learn that H,M.S. Doris left Devon-
one the
streams of lava, while others were drowned or boiled in the sa..
MORE INDUSTRIAL TROUBLE IN. ENGLAND.
LONDON, January 22nd. Eight thousand. London coal porters. and carmen have struck, demanding an extra penny per ton.
The Building Industries Federation has instructed trade unionists to refuse
Hindu onlookers shouted that the murderer should be burned alive with his victim.
More striking still was the action of a procession of Hinda ladies Whilst en rou's to their bathing they halted at the scene of the murder and solemnly cursed the assassin.
THE FUNERAL OF GENERAL PICQUART.
try has been taking more of foreign goods each year?
Apart from the demand for cargo there. have been other inducements to business during the past two weeks. The most local dealers to those who clear their siguificant is the offer of a discount by cargo before China New Year, The con- clusion to be deduced from this offer and the pretty general acccptance of it by output dealers is that money conditions. are gradually becoming easier. This is certainly extraordinary in view of the fact that the exports in 1013 have been the poorest for some years. The position, therefore, is that, with the gradual ristoration of confidence, wealthy men are bringing out their hoards, and such
money is being utilized in business
The withdrawals of Chinese deposits from foreign banke have also been free. AMIENS, January 92nd. ! as compared with the position only two The funeral of General Picquart was months ago. The native banks are also tired of sitting tight on their money, and to sign the undertaking, asked for in the attended by the Premier, the Minister for have been extending credit to a fair and War, M. Clemenceau, Major Dreyfus, reasonable extent. The unsettlement Builders" the Master
Association's
and M Laborî.
caused by the rubber boom, over-trading, revolution, and the recent rebellion have ultimatum, that they will not strike in'
been more or less rectified by the passing The following will represent the future against the employment of non-
of time. The only drawback to business is the culation of paper money, which has now taken the place of the unrestrict
HONGKONG CRICKET CLUB.
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There is now a like
be as well to bear in mind, however, that hint, and snatched $500 in notes from R.K. C.C. against R. E. Bird's XI: giving concessions is one thing, and getting his pocket. The shroff grabbed the thief's Tuesday, 27th January, play to commence unionist labour. 200,000 li of railways constructed within hand, and held him, a district watchman at 10 e.m., and lunch will be served in lihood of a general lock-out. the short space of ten years is quite another afterwards coming up and arresting him, the pavilion:-. Hancock (Captain), R.
The man was orosecuted by Inspector P. N. Andersin, A. Claxton, D. E. ILLNESS OF VISCOUNT WOLMER. the speeches delivered by the Minister, O'Sullivan at the Magistracy yesterday, Donnelly, A. G. E. Elborough, A L..
LONDON, January 22nd. and Vice-Minister, as well as by high and was sentenced to two months' hard Gace, R. Kennedy, M. M. Maas, S. 8.
Pearce, and R. P. Viscount Wolmer has been operated on officials of the Department of Communi labour and four hours' stocks by Mr. Moore, T. E
Thursfield. confidence Hazeland,
for appendicitis. cations, are marked by a
However, it is very gratifying to note that
THE NEXT ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION:
LONDON, January 22nd.
before the revolution.
Sir Ernest Shackleton has invited Sired issue of notes by the native banks Daniel Gooch to accompany him to the
Antarctie
[Sir Daniel Gooch is the son of the late Chairman of the Great Western Railway and M.P. for Cricklade.}
to China are also helping business The bright prospects of the coming kan considerably The regulation of paper entirely on the loan; and advancement of money and currency reform depend business depends consequently upon them.