INTIMATIONS
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aritiemetic will show that if there are CRIMINAL'S LOVE OF HONGKONG. TELEGRAMS. TELEGRAMS. TELEGRAMS.
eight times as many Japanese na British residents in China, and the total volume of Japanese trade is only one-third of the British, the average property of each Japanese in this country cannot amount to
more than one-twenty-fourth of the average property of each British resident. But even if we take one-third (..., eight times the real figure) as the proportion, and believe the laws of chance to have operated in such a way that losses among British and Japanese during the Revolution were WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS suffered in proportion to their respective woalth and numbers, the utmost direct damage
that the Japanese could have
SCOTCH
21.00 1.80
Prosecuting a Chinese for larceny and returning from banishment at the Magis tracy yesterday, Inspector Dymond told the Magistrate that the man had been banished four times. Each time he
returned he committed a larceny, and in June last he was banished for 20 years. The man had told him that he could not live in his own country. The Magistratë sentenced defendant to twelve months' hard labour and four hours' stocks.
THE STAMP ORDINANCE.
Several cases under the provisions of the Stamp Ordinanes canic before Mr.
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SENSATIONAL MURDER IN
SHANGHAL
EUROPEAN LADY HORRIBLY MUTILATED.
SHANGHAI, January 23rd. One of the most sensational murders, in the history of Shanghai was committed in the small hours of this morning.
Mrs Neumann, wife of Mr. Richard
(THROUGH BEUTER'S AGENCY.]
ZONOV 6,LOS HUQURL] BRITAIN'S NAVAL EXPENDITURE. THE RECENT INDIAN AGITATION
IN SOUTH AFRICA,
PASSIVE RESISTERS ? TO BE RELEASED.
an. LLOYD, GEORGE FACED WITH A DEFICIT,"
LONDON, January 23rd.
The Daily Chronicle states that the expenditure for the current year has
to for the ou exceeded the estimates by £5,000,000, which, with the, normal increase for 1914- 1915, will micke £8,000,000, which Mr. The Lloyd George will have to find. Chancellor of the Exchequer, for the first
PRETORIA, January 23rd.
It is announced that the Indians promise to await the repert of the Con- mission into the allegations of hardship and cruelty, made by Indians in South Africa before renewing their passive resistance. The authorities now agree to
ters and wait the recommendations of the Commission, and then bring in appropriate legislation.
suffored would not exceed $4,000,000, and J. R. Wood at the Magistracy yesterdayNeumann, a well-known German butcher time, is faced with a deficit in the Budget. release the imprisoned "passive resis
NO CABINET DIFFERENCES. The Daily News says that there is no Naval erisis in the Cabinet, which it declares is essentially agreed on a policy
of economy.
The Daily Chronicle says that Mr. Churchill conferred yesterday with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the The jewellery and estimated value of subject of the Naval expenditure.
the money abstracted from the honge is nearly £4,000, but the peculiar brutality RICSHA COOLIE SENT TO PRISON of the crime seems to suggest a deeper
FOR THEFT:
motive than simple robbery.
Mr. Neumann is at present in hospital, and his wife was alone in the house with a Chinese boy, but the latter is not suspected.
that, it seems to us, would be the maximum In a case in which a man was charged in a large way of business, was found in with failing to properly cancel a receipt her bedroom horribly mutilated, the head that the Japanese Government could claimstamp, Mr. Lewis appearel for the being nearly severed from her body, which WHISKY. without exposing itself to the charges made defence, and contended that the stamp so was dreadfully mutilated. One ara
against it." The argument is ingenious had been effectively cancelled, and that it
was almost hacked off and several fingers Por Case Per and very plausible, but such claims ought did not matter so long as the stamp was of Doz. Bot,
never to be made on such general principles, affixed at the time of payment by the were cut off, evidently as the quickest The way of obtaining the rings the lady was person who received the money. A-THORNE'S BLEND $17.80 $1.50 and after all that has been said of B. WATSON'S GLENORCHY,
the way in which the indomaity claims Magistrato adjourned the case sine die wearing. Choice Mellow Blond 18.25 1.55
arising out of the Boxer emeule were made
to consider the point, and also referred C.-WATSON'S ABELLOUR. GLENLIVET ¡Peat
Peat 19.50 165 up, we may be quite sure that the lack several other cases in which similar Whisky)
claims now presented will be carefully charges were concerned. THORNE'S OLD VAT, No. 4, as supplied to the House of
examined by the Chinese Government Commons
bofore they are accepted. Though it E-WATSON'S VERY OLD LIQUEUR SCOTCH
appeals to be by no means admitted by 22.50 1.90 WHISKY
international jurists that individuals when "KILTY" LIQUEUR WHISKY
Great Age, Very Fine 38.00 3.25 they sustain a loss from acts of insurgents V.R.O WISEY
2200 1.85
or rioters can claim compensation from THORNE'S BLACK SQUARE 23.60 2.00 WATSON'S O.B.G.
23.50 2.0 the State, the Chinese Government has already accepted liability and earmarked OTHER WELL-KNOWN BRANDS. SUPPLIED TO£2,000,000 of the Quintuple Loan to meet the claims. Apparently, the Govern ment has resolved that this sum shall Our Celebrated E very old not be exceeded. It has been advised Liqueur Scotch Whisky is an apparently inspired newspaper
"refuse to baggle over the half out of his pocket. The coolin a blend of the best Pot article to
noticed this, and snatched the notes, but Distilled Scotch Whiskies. claims, and to address a simultaneous was detected by the complainant. The centre of the Settlement, being close to the It is of great age, very fine demand to all the Powers concerned that coolie was disinclined to give the money the claims be submitted to The Hague for back, and Mr. Valdez had to take if from adjudication," but it is quastionable him. The coolie alleged that the money whether in view of the many precedents fell to the ground, and that he returned for these claims in China, the Chinese it to the man iramediately he asked for Government would have much to gain from following that advice.
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and mellow. Its superior quality has established its reputation as THE LEAD- ING SCOTCH WHISKY IN THE EAST.
Capt. C. R. S. Bromley, R.G.A., Hong-
.S. WATSON & CO. ons, has been posted to No. 2 Depôt,
LIMITED,
ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS.
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HONGKONG OFFICE: 10, DES VEUX ROAD C. LONDON OFFIOR: 131, FLEET STREET, E.O.
The Baily Press.
HONGKONG, JANUARY 24TH, 1914.. We have recently had it reported in a telegram from Peking that the PRESIDENT has decided that all the foreign claims for indemnity for damage incurred in the Revolution in China in 1911-12 must bo brought within the sum of £2,000,000, which is the amount set aside out of the Quintuple Loan to meet these losses. In our issue of yesterday we published particulars of the claims sent in by the various Powers, showing a total of $23,547,000, but addition to this Japan has put in a later claim for about $11,000,000, which is fifty per cent of the amount available out of the Quintuple Loan as compensation for all foreign losses. This claim has been sererely condemned as extortionate. The
Gosport.
The Bishop of Victoria will preach at St. Peter's Church, West Point, to-morrow
(Sunday), at 11 a.m.
Detective-Sergt. Clarke, when executing a warrant at No. 8, Victoria Street, seized 338 tins of margarine, supposed to form part of the quantity stolen from the
Kowloon Godowns.
According to his own story, a salesman carrying on business at No 93, Wing Lok Street, has lost the sum of $487, which he alleges was stolen while he was walking along the public streets.`
on
It is announced that as the birthday anniversary of H.M. the Kaiser Tuesday next falls on a general holiday, Dr. Crull, the German Consul, will be "At Home" on Wednesday morning.
A Sergeant at Wellington Barracks has informed the authorities that a sum of 16 was stolen between. Wodnesday and Thursday from a safe in the mess-room, the thief opening the recaptacle by means of a duplicate kay
At the Magistracy yesterday morning, before. Mr. F. A. Hazeland, a ricsha coolic was prosecuted by Francisco Valdez, taird mate of the lio. Pasic, for theft. It appeared that the complainant engaged the defendant to pull him in his ricsha to the American Consulate. taking out some subsidiary coin to pay the coolie, the man also drew out $7 in paper money, leaving it hanging half in
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The Magistrate sent the coolie to prison for a month, with four hours' Blocks
CHINESE FIRMS APOLOGISE.
The murderer appears to have entered through a new extension of the shop which is now in process of erection.
The tragedy is unequalled in the annals of crime in Shanghai,
MR. J. CHAMBERLAIN'S SEAT.
INVITATION TO VETERAN STATESMAN'S SON,
LONDON, January 23rd.
The Unionists of Birmingham have The decided to ask Mr. Austen Chamberlairi
stories of their personal differences are to become their candidate for the seat idle tales, though certainly Mr. Churchill which Mr. Joseph Chamberlain is vacat
ing. has been spending at the Admiralty with a ducal disregard of money.
LATER.
REVIVAL OF INVESTMENT BUSINESS.
The Liberal papers are most emphatic
LONDON, January 23rd. The City of Calgary (Canada) bas in donying that there is any friction between Mr.Lloyd George and Mr. Chur-issued £719,800 worth of debentures at chill, though they admit there have been serious difficulties in regard to adjusting the Estimates, which the Daily News says were only brought down to £50,000,000 affer the most severe pruning by the
The Neumann's residence is in the Treasury, amounting to several millions.
PROLONGED CABINET MEETING.:
Astor Hause Hotel.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
THE ILL-STARRED A
DIFFICULTIES OF RAISING SUBMARINE IMMENSE.
LONDON, January 23rd.
It is officially announced that the hapless submarine d is lying at a depth
At the Magistracy yesterday, before of 23 fathoms at low tide. The dificulties Mr. F. A. Hazeland, Mr. Dennys, jus.
Divers found the submarine lying at an angle of 45 degrees, her bows up and her stern buried deeply in the mud. This further increases the difficulty of lifting
(of Messy Dennys & Bowley), appearing of raising the vessel are immense, oving for Mesere, WB Loxley in their roto the weight of the hawsers and the secution of two Chinese firms (the Wing inability of the divers to work efficiently Shiu Wa and the Kwong Yat On) for
on account of the depth. infringement of trade mark intimated that the prosecution wished to withdraw the cases. He said that the defendants had given them every information in their power as to the source from which they had obtained the singlets complained the vessel. of, and they admitted that it was a gross.] : Commander Seddon's fight of 350 miles infringement of the prosecuting firm's
The defendants had paid to the scene of the salvage operations, trade mark. the costs of the prosecution, had consented with a mochanie aboard, was a wonderful to the forfeiture of the singlets, and. would make a public apology to performance. He flew at 60 miles per clients. Under these circumstances ho hour, was instructed to ask for a withdrawal. His Worship complied with the request,
FROM SHANGHAI TO EUROPE.
THROUGH REGISTRATION OF PASSENGERS
AND LUGGAGE VIA DAIRENNAN
There was a full meeting of the Cabinet After- yesterday, lasting for 2 hours, wards Mr. Lloyd George and Mr. Wins- ton Churchill left together and walked up. Whitehall,
Mr. Lloyd George and Mr. Churchill went together to the Admiralty, where they remained for an hour's conversation.
LATER
It is understood that the question of the Navy estimates was not finally settled at yesterday's Cabinet meeting,
in the morning, but it met yesterday at Mr. The Cabinet usually uncots at 11 o'clock three o'clock in the afternoon. Churchill and Mr Lloyd George had previously discussed the position, and it is understood that their proposals are in the direction of adhering to the pro- gramme laid down in the last session, and subsequently sanctioned by the Cabinet
ANTICIPATION
SUBSTANTIAL REDUCTION IN 1915-10
The Daily News says that as a result of the great increase in the Estimates, a definite settlement has been effected with Admiralty for the future, and a sub- the stantial redustion in the expenditure may be anticipated in 1916 16. Mr. Churchill THE CHINA TIBET CONFERENCE had obtained authority to lay down four Dreadnoughts in 1914-15, but did not press. for ships to replace those offered by Canada The acceleration of the past. year will be moderated
CONSIDERING INTRICATE QUESTIONS.
DELHI, January 23rd.
The Chinese Tibet Conference is making We understand that in connection with steady progress. Intricate questions are the International Through Passenger being considered, inviting much dis Traffic Siberia, which came into cussion and detail, and it is impossible operation last year, through tickets are issued from Shanghai (and the principal to say whether the business is likely to intermediate stations Siberia) to end at Delhi or that the Plenipotentiaries London, Paris, and Berlin, and that the
will proceed to Simola again in April holders of these tickets are entitled to through registration of their luggage to
AMERICA'S RELATIONS WITH their destination. This arrangement will
JAPAN be specially welcomed by the large and Hongkong people who use the Trans increasing number of Shanghai and Siberian route for their trips between the Far Eastern Metropolis and the three European capitals mentioned, and, taken
WASHINGTON, January 23rd,
The cable Company's steamer Recorder Japanese reply is that a fair judgment returned to Singapore from the Cocus can only be reached when the number of Islands with Capt. Date, Messrs. Clunie Japanese residents in China, and the Ross, S. Howard, A. H. Young, C. F. Shields, L. H. Taylor, R. F. Moor, F number of cases in which damage was Matson, J. H. Johnson and C, H, Soper, inflicted upon their property, are taken into consideration. It has been explained by a The German Chinese Silk Industry Japanese official in Peking that according Company of Tsingtau and Berlin, is to to the census taken at the end of 1912, the be wound up. Most of the company was total number of Japanese residents in acquired by the firm of H. Diederichsen China was 98,605, and that there were 380 & Co., of Hamburg, which firm hs separate claims for damages arising out of already sold the Tsangkou mill. The last the Revolution, and it is contended balance-shee showed that £87,500 out of the fully paid-up capital of £100,000 had a comparison. of the Japanese
boen lost, claims with those put forward by other nations convincingly shows that Japan's:
The New Year holidays are responsible claims are by no means excessive. The for some changes in the time table of the details of the claims are not, however steamboat service maintained by the available to the general public for this Hongkong. Canton and Macao Steamboat Co. which will be found set forth in the purpose, and in default of this information
The Com- the Peliny Gazelle aLswers the Japanese Company's advertisement. argument by an attempt to show the value of announced to mako an excursion to Macao columns, the Philharmonic Society with they are prepared to submit.
that
Japanese and British subjects respectively as economic units in China. Let it be granted
that there are eight times as many Japanese
pany's new and fast steamer Taishan is
on
Monday
PETITION TO THE LORD' MAYOR.. A thousand prominent City men have
requesting him to convene a meeting in signed & petition to the Lord Mayor, the Guildhall in defence of a strong navy AUSTRALIAN NAVAL BOARD.
per cent, at a price of 97. The amount was over-subscribed in an hour, and the quotation is now 4 per cent. prémium.
The City of Gothenburg has issued €495,880 worth of debentures, and this
was also over-subscribed immediately.
The applications for the Victorian gan of £1,000,000 nt 4 per cent totulled £1,046,000,
THE BANK RATES..
LONDON, January 23rd. The Bank of England rate of discount is now 4 per cont
The Belgian, Swedish, and Danish Bank rates also have been reduced.
BERLIN, January 23rd. The German discount rate has been reduced to 43 per ceni.
DER OSTASIATISCHER LLOYD."
SERVICE
MURDER OF A FOREIGN LADY IN SHANGHAI.
SHANGHAI, January 23rd. Mrs. Neumann, wife of the well-known
German hutcher at Shanghai, was cruelly murdered last night in the absence of her husband, who is in hospital. eg
The foul deed was committed in her bedroom, which is above the shop. Even after death the fiends kept hacking away at the body.
It is évident that persons thoroughly familiar with the premises were the murderers. Footprints leading to the safe are apparently Chinese. The safe was opened by means of the keys and all the jewellery and money taken.
A boy who slept in the adjacent room with a large dog pretends that he heard nothing.
EUROPEAN SERVICE.. RUSSIA AND THE GERMAN OFFICERS IN TURKEY.
BERLIN, January 22nd. MELBOURNE, January 23rd.
The Russian Press generally denies that Captain Gordon Smith has been ap-
Russia has any intention of following up pointed temporarily to succeed Captain her original designs of frustrating the Hughes-Onslow, whose appointment as German Military Mission to Turkey, Second of the Naval members of the since the officers hold only Brigade and Board of Naval Administration was
Regimental Commands.. terminated by the Commonwealth Govern-
NEW EGYPTIAN LEGISLATIVE
ASSEMBLY,
In regard to Baron Making'a reference clares in conjunction with the recent introdue to California, President Wilson tion of Second Claas sleeping cars to the express trains of the South Manchuria that the next step in the negotiations willment in November. Railway, will make the overland route be along the lines of continued friendli
The negotiation of a even more popular than Intending passengers must, however, ask meas with Janao. specially for the International Through new Treaty depended first of all upon the Passenger Traffic pi Siberia" tickets in order to secure this facility, which is not debatable question whether California, in understand that the only booking agencies had violated the present Treaty, obtainable by the ordinary booking. Weenacting an anti-Alien land holding law, where these tickets can be obtained are the Nippon Yusen Kaisha (as agents for the South Manchuria Railway), Messrs. BRITISH INDUSTRIAL TROUBLES Thos, Cook & Son, and the International Sleeping Car and Express Trains Co from whom all information can be obtained.
PHILHARMONIC CONCERT.
scason
the
LABOUR UNREST IN RUSSIA.
BERLIN, January 22nd.
An Appeal issued by the Social Revolu tionary Committee to the Labourers in
CAIRO, January 23rd. The Khedive opened the new Legislative Russia, for a general strike, has herm Assembly yesterday in great state. He seized; and a number of labourers and drove through the streets, which were female students arrested.
The Khedive, in the course of a speech, lined with English and Egyptian troops,
foreshadowed economic reforms.
THE DEATH OF LORD STRATHCONA
·REITISH GOVERNMENT'S SYMPATHY WITH
INTERNATIONAL LOAN FOR
ALBANIA.
BERLIN, January 22nd. Albania's proposed International Loan is safe
LONDON, January 23rd. The strike of the 'coal porters and car- men is spreading, and a sympathetic strike of 70,000 carmen is threatened
ALSACE-LORRAINE. to day. The masters have afirmed that
CANADA As will be seen from our advertising.
BERLIN. January 22, LONDOS, January 23rd. differences to arbitration. give its first concert of the present s
Changes in the highest and other official A lock-out in the building #rade of The Right Hon. L. Harcourt, Secretary on Saturday, February 7th in the Theatre On Thursday night four men knocked Royal at 915 p.m. The principal work London is regarded as certain Efforts for the Colonies, has cabled to the Duke posts in Alsace-Lorraine are coatemplated
for performance is the new concert in China as British, it does not necessarily at the door, of No. 447, Reclamation version of that popular comic opera "Les by the Board of Trade to arrange a coll- of Connaught, conveying the Imperial next Spring.
by Planquette. ference between masters and men have Government's sympathy with Canada in her loss by the death of Lord Strathcona. It will be given by a Band and Chorus proved unsuccessful. follow that Japan is therefore justified in Street, and announced that they had Cloches de Corneville,
Lord Strathcona will be buried at Once inside the
of 80 performers. In addition, the pro-
AUSTRALIA'S FIRST SUBMARINE claiming an indemnity eight times as large called for the rent.
Highgate. A funeral service will be held as Great Britain. "If we estimated that bouse, two of the men produced ugly gramme includes a Rubenstein Sonata for
violin
will and biang, which
LONDON, January 23rd. in Westminster Abbey on Monday. each Japanese in China possessed, on the looking knives, and threatened the wis
The offer of burial at the Abbey has tress of the house, a married woman, and performed by Frau Ernst Lund and Mrs. Grove, who are both known as amateurs
The first submarine for the Australian average, movable or immovable property to other inmates. The men then robbed the of the first rank; a Rhapsody for piano the value of one-third of the property owned mistress of two articles of jewellery, and orchestra on a very well-known air Navy has arrived at Portsmouth from been declined. After consultation, the from an equally well-known comic opera, her builders, and the crew of 30 now halutives informed the Colonial Office that by each British resident," says our Peking valued at $48, which she was wearing the solo part of which will be played by begin a course of instruction. The sister the late Peer's desire to be buried next contemporary," we should be aesessing the four boxes containing several articles of Mr. Denman Fuller, who is also the com
selection from Gounod's ship will be ready in a few weeks, whenie wife was so definite that the offer value of Japanese property in China at an jewellery, worth $45, one suit of clothing, Poser:
Faust and some other items. The both will proceed to Australia.
would have to be gratefully decline excessive figure. An ordinary sum in and $60 in money.
booking is at the Anderson, Music Co.
a
"1
be
Mr.
RUSSIAN POLITICS.
BERLIN, January 22nd.
the relinquished Radejanko Presidency of the Duma, as a result of a split in the Octobrist Party
THE BANK RATE,
BERLIN, January 2nd. The discount rate has been reduced
mal in Berlin and London.