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THE POLITICAL OUTLOOK ference to
week embodying STUPO theTutun of Kwangting, wi successful suppression of mutiny at Hang- kiang, near Swatow it was stated that the seven persons who were executed were alleged to be subordinate emissaries of the rebel party. It also mentioned that three from Son Tarsus bad fled. and the PRESIDENT directed the officials to do their utmost to capture them. These emasuries of the rebels are alleged to have aprend sedition amongst t
the troops at Huangkang, Haochow, Heichow and Yang king. Closely following on this comes the report of a "rising" being crushed at Lok
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FAST FIFE UNIONISTS NOT TO
OPPOSE ME. ASQUITH.
A meeting of East Fife Unionists, which decided not to oppose alt, Asquith, did so because it would be patriotza to LONDON, April 3rd. That the political outlook is much support Mr. Asquith in the present brighter is evidenced by the fact that the cris, and defending the Army from King has left Town for Windsor and attacks of unscrupulous persons, Also that the Unionist headquarters are authorised the Executive to change their making local Unionists not to oppose Mr minds if circumstances justified. Asquith at East Fife.
There has been a strong and growing
feeling among the moderate men on all sides agarost risking civil war, since the Federal and other suggestions for a
They
Mr. Larkin, the Labour leader, says that at present he does not intend to
oppose
Mr. Asquith. Mrs. Pankhurst has gone to East Fife. FEELING STILL RUNNING HIGH The Liberal papers are angry at Mr.
THROUGH REUTER BAGRNOY] CHINA'S NEW CONSTITUTION.
DICTATURIAL POWERS FOR THE PRESIDENT.
SURSA PEKING April 3rd.! The Convention which is amending the Provisional Constitution has unanimous ly adopted Yuan Shih-kai's amendmente, and are now drafting a new Constitution
the President practically giving dictatorial powers
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A THIRD REVOLUTION
*** STATE OF SEICE : PROCLAIMED IN MANY
TOWXE,
PEKING, April 3rd.
The Tutuhs report the greatest activity on the part of rebels striving to brin about a third revolution.
The Tutub of Hunan reports, that six- teen rebels, all members of the new Tung Mon-hui, have been arrested at Changsha, Large quantities of arms and ammunition were seized. The local leader, Tung Meng, has been found to be in connection
Ching in the Shun Tak district, so that settlement of the Ulster problems. Lo Ballour's speech yesterday, and declaro ng 170, went adrift among iceffoes in with Sun Yat-sen and Huang Hsing.
Fifty bodies of men either For dying have already been
the Province of Kwangtung appears to be Hugh Cecil has made an important con-
that he preached the doctrine of optional blizzard. in a state far from favourable to the tribution towards peace by giving notice prosperity of trade, And this state of motion; that the Home Rule Bill obedience to the soldier thus checking | dead things is not confined to the province of Kyangtung. A Peking telegram we pub.
WHISKYlish to-day says the Tutubs report the
greatest activity on the part of the rebels, who are striving to bring about another revolution, and the announcement that the citas of Wuchang, Changabe, Nanchang, Chinking, Foochow and Canton, are order ed to be prepared for deg shows the wide spread character of the unrest. One would hardly imagine that any effort at organised rebellion would obtain the slightest support, moral or financial, after the experience the
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China, and the general conditions which have resulted from the last two revolutions are entirely favourable to the success of such rascals. WHITE WOLF's force, for example, is said to be mainly composed of disbanded suldiers and deserters and includes profes. sional robbers and many rendered destitute by the operations of the brigands. We do
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sent to a Committee of thirty to frame suggestions for presentation to the Hous of Lords in accordance with the provI;
the conciliation movement and keeping recovered. alive the issue of the Army eeraus the People Feeling is still running high among the members of the House of
Another steamer, the Youthern Orozs, Lieut. Shackleton's old ship, which was returning to St. John with a full catch of
stato of siege has therefore been pro claimed at Wuchang, Changsha, Nan- chang, Chinking, Foochow Canton. THE LOAN NEGOTIATIONS.
PERING April 3rd The Government has informed the
sions of the Parliament Act, and to take i any steps they think expedient in the Commons, and it is possible that the 20,000 seals, is missing. There were Quintuple Syndicate that it is ready
interests of peace and the good govern ment of Ireland. This would enable the exclusion of Ulster, combined with the Federal or any other plan.
THE DEBATE IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
Parliamentary Golf Handicap will be men aboard. abandoned in consequence,
General Macready is mentioned as successor to Sir John French
A QUEENSLAND LOAN.
LONDON, April 3rd. The Government of Queensland has issued £2,000,000 at 4 per cent, at the price of 50 -
THE MURDER OF A CALCUTTA POLICE OFFICER.
LATER
The disaster the worst in the history of the Colony The fleet were returning from a successful season when they were overtaken by a blizzard.
The sealer Bellaventure has 30 of the crew of the Newfoundland aboard badly frost-bitten, Forty of the Newfound- land's crew are dead and 30 are missing POSTPONEMENT OF A FRENCH FINANCIER'S TRIAL.
to negotiate regarding & French loan for £4,000,000, and an English loan for £5,000,000, it the Syndicate will agres to monthly advance payments. PRIVILEGES AND DUES OF THE IMPERIAL HOUSE
PEKING, April 3rd, Yuan Shih-kei recommends to the Com- mittee on the Constitution that all the privileges and dues promised to the Im perial House should be laid down in the Constitution.
In the House of Commona, in the debate, on the third reading of the Home Rule Bill Mr. Balfour said the reason for the entirely different atmosphere prevail- ing had nothing to do with the Army, but because of the fact that the Govern
CALCUTTA, April 3rd. ment and their supporters realised that Ulster was determined not to submit to The re-trial of the man Roy in con- a Home Rule Government, and the nection with the murder of an Indian
A Presidential mandate orders the majority of Englishmen agreed with sub-inspector of police, named Bhoso, Rochette case, while not attacking the Ulster. He never believed in a Federal resulted in the jury acquitting the
personal probity of M. Caillaux and Minister of Education and the Civil
MINISTERIAL INTERFERENCE CONDRAINED
PARIS, April 3rd. The Commission of Inquiry into the
EDUCATIONAL MATTERS.
PEKING, April 3rd..
t doubt that the composition of the bands United Kingdom, but he would not stand prisoner, although the Judge summed up other ministers, severely condemned the Governors to conduct the welfare and which have been at work in Kwang in the way of any moderate form of against him The jury were discharged Ministerial interference with the course advancement of the Empire. At the same: and other provinces is very similar. As we have said before, it is scarealy possibla dovolution if it would avert civil war. but the accused was detained in custody the law for the purpose of postponing the of the national school books.
to believe that Buy Yat-sen and his friends
are seeking to forward their altruistic aims by means of such rascala. We are told to-day that the Convention which is amand- ing the Provisional Constitution has unanimously adopted TUAN SHIA-CAT'S amondments which give the PRESIDENT practically dictatorial powers.Whether this will assist the restoration of order Tims will show. The Peking cores pondent of The Times in a recent dispatch attributes the futility of the Government's efforts to end the career of the WHITE WOLF , to the
Mr. Herbert Samuel said the most
remarkable feature of the debate had been the support of the principle of Federa tion. The prospects of any Conference or Commission representing all the partics in arriving at a Federal solution of the dificulties would not be bright if the question of Home Rule for Ireland were still unsettled. Only after the present Home Rule Bill, with the temporary ex- clusion of Ulster, had been placed on the Statute-book would it be possible for such incompetence of a Commission calmly to discuss such Con- stitutions! alterations. Before the next stage of the Bill, however, there must be a considerable interval, which could be utilized for conferences, at which various Muggestions might be advanced which might germinate into more fruitful pro- osale for accommodation. The whole of the Government hoped that it would be unnecessary again to use coercion in Ireland, but the Opposition must not use the Government's reluctance in order to wreck the Bill He appealed to the Opposition to realise their share in the common responsibility to effect a ecttle ment
MURRAY KIDD.— On March 28th, at Chinese officialdom in general and the
Shanghai, ALICE MARY, beloved wife amazing inefficiency of the Army. of G. MUEBAY KIDD, Chinese Customs.
Obviously the same causes encouraga dis- Service, aged 40 years. Y THOMAS-On March 28th, at Shanghai.content and aurest far beyond the territory HENRY ROPUS HEREST THOMAS, aged which Wire WOLF's brigande have been 33 years
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the Army it will be impossible to have confidence that peace and order will be long
maintained in China.
Mr. E. C. Wilton, of the British Legation staff, who has been seriously ill has left Peking for Japan.
Communion at the Cathedral; 11.00 a.m. preach at St. Paul's Chinese Church 3.30 p.m., baptism at the Cathedral; &
preach at St. Andrew's Kowloon,
The debate was adjourned until the oth lost when Mr. John Redmond and Sir Edward Carson, leaders of the rival Irish
factions, will speak.
MR. ASQUITH'S DEPARTURE FOR EAST FIFE.
VOLCANIC ERUPTION IN SOUTH
RUSSIA.
SEMPHEBOPOL, April 3rd.
An extinct volcano near Theodosia suddenly became active and within half an hour 25 acres were covered with lava There were no casualties.
YORKSHIRE MINERS STRIKE.
LONDON, April 3rd. About 140,000 colliers are idle in Yorkshire,
THE ARMY CANTEEN SCANDALS
LONDON, April 3rd, The military and civilian defendants in the Army canteen commission” scandals have been committed for trial.
OBITUARY.
LONDON, April 3rd. The death is recorded of Herr Paul Herse, the German novelist, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1910.
HOME TURF
RESULT OF RACE FOR NEWBURY CUP;
LONDON, April 3rd. The result of the race for the Newbury Cup is as follows:-
Wrack Bluestone Brancepeth
Twenty-two ran, won by a length and a half, three lengths dividing Bluestone and Brancepeth
In & recent leading article the N.. Daily News romarks that something more than The engagements of the Bishop of kick of ready money and an impoverished Victoria to-morrow (Sunday) are as Treasury is readed to explain the crushing follows: -8.5 a.m., celebrate the Holy slagnation of trade of which the great majority of business men complain." The complaint is one which is as loudly voiced in Hongkong as in Shanghai, and the real explanation of the stagnation is doubtless
In the eastomary explanatory Memo- to be found in the uncertainty of the randam in the Army Estimates issued
Several Cabinet Ministers and a crowd outlook in China. There is wide-spread on 5th ult., the Secretary of State for fear of further trouble, and, as weWar remarks-I have also been able to of Members of the House of Commons pointed out a few days ago, these fears are make provision in these Estimates for will give Mr. Asquith a send-off at King's strengthened rather than dissipated by certain areas of the allowances to Cross this morning, on what the Liber 18 against Bluestone 100 to 1 against Presidential Mandates and provincial pro.officers and men in the Far Easterners describe 25 a new Midlothian clamations indicating a nervous apprehen- garrisons where, owing to currency move sion in official circles that an organisedments and to other causes, there has been effort is being made in various parts of the serious alteration for the worse in the country to promote a third revolution relations between income and cost of
living Since when Our Shanghai contemporery, in the article
campaign. There will be demonstra- tione at stopping-placos en route,
The Unionist papers characterize the alore arrangements, which were only known late last evening, as provocative, and state that if Mr. Asquith is co- saulting a Portuguese guard ate bative in his speech at Ladybank to- Star Ferry The complainant said that morrow the subject of the Army the he was about to remove an intoxicated
making how to decision of the Unionists not to oppose sailor from a cabin on one of the ferry boats when the defendant struck him two him will be re-considered
to which we have alluded, emphasises two At the Magistracy yesterday a private principal cause of unrest the growing in the DC.LI, was summoned for Time of WERE WOLF on the one hand had the deepening isolation of the Passi DENT on the other. It is only to ba pected that the Government's failure to effectually put an end to the brigandage in which blows on the chest. He called ao Indian
There were some hundreds of people WT WOLF and his gang have been constable at Kowloon to arrest the soldier.de pode engaged now for many months must have a The latter wanted to fight again on his on the platform at King's Cross when very disturbing effect throughout China. We way to the station, and complainant ran Mr. Asquith departed, and the right have some evidence of this in the commuci- away. Defendant said that the sailor, honourable gentleman was acorded an
Mr Dickinson, MP, in cation we publish to-day from our Canton who was drunk, belonged to Kowloon ovation. cot respondent, who writer of the operations The guard was about to put the sai
upeech, wished him God Speed," and of some eight or nine hundred brigands ashore at Hongkong
the crowd sang He's a jolly good fellow," and "Rule Britannia
he interfered in the Shun Tak district, where it is alleged and merely pushed the guard, away. Ho
decor that a conspiracy to start another rebellion looked after the stilar when he was was being hatched. To what extent these landed and took him home. The Magi- Ligand operations are inspired by political strate dismissed the charge
Betting to 1 against Wrack 100 to
Brancepeth
THE DEBBY BETTING.W
trial of M. Rochette, who was thereby. enabled to resume his operations. The whole affair, the Commission states, a symptomatic of the insidious financial influences invading the moral sense of the nation.
MACAO LOTTERY TENDERS:
ENORMOUS INCREASE,
time is issued an order for the revision
TUAN CHI FUI IN PEKING.
PERINO, April 3rd. Tuan Chi-fui arrived at Peking rester- day afternoo
EUROPEAN SERVICE. PENSION FOR DR CARL PETERS,
BERLIN, April 280. Dr. Carl Peters, one of the best known. pioneers in Africa, who is now Our Macao correspondent, writing German pion under date of the 2nd inst., says at a sanitorin at Parten-Rirchen in the has been granted a Tenders for the Chim Pu-piu lottery Bavarian Alps;_b wore opened this afternoon at the pension out of the funis at the disposał Fazenda. The highest was $580,000 per of H.M. the Kaiser, annum. This offer was made by the old THE IRISH HOME RULE PROBLEM. farmer This contract will run from 1st August, 1814, to 31st July, 1019 (five VERTS). For the last five years the con- traet price has been only 15,000 per annum."
Evidently huge profite have been made since the Canton Government stopped gambling in Cauton.
INTER CLUB BOWLING,
HONGKONG CLUB DEFEAT THE CLUB GERMANIA,
The following are the complete scores in the bowling match between the Hong kong Club and the Club
Name
JH Kemp
on Hongkong
Germania ; —— ——
Gimb Alleys,
Club Alleys
Bon German
Totali
A74
TH King GE Stewart G&Woodcock
550
847
545
Grand total
3,285 (2,8186,003
PR. Wolff
$700 831
1,351 Capt Harrison 879 871 1,543 JD. Danby
748
$363 1.558
5.815
11,718
3,107 2,818
GERMANS CLUM;
The Derby betting is to against 9, Hutchmon The Tetrarch.
CHAMPIONSHIP GOLF.
Loxpos April 3rd.
At Sandy Lodge course, in the first round Vardon and Duncan, using rubber cored ball, beat Braid and Taylor, using Gutty, by 8 up. Then Braid and Taylor, using a rubber-cored ball, beat Vardon and Duncan, playing with *“Gully"" by 5 up. ---
BOXING
BOMBARDIER WELLE KKOLES OUT FRENCH BEAVY-WEIGHT
A LONDON, April 3rd. Bombardier Wells knocked out the French Heavyweight Champion. Lurie, Mr. Asquith speaks in East Fifo on in the seventh round at the Canterbury Baturday
Music Hall
O Mover O Becker
Tour
1,484
1.512
Er Haagemann.
1,208
regeri
1304
920 2,648
5,568
Adam
1. EggersS The Christiani
7080721 1,427 707 673 1380 751 1,359
2.7589848
Grand total
1,441
3,606
11,174
The British team thus won by 514
LONDON, April 2nd.
It is presumed that Mr. Asquith's tenure of the Secretaryship of War will be a short one, only in fact until public excitement has been allayed. He has declined an extra salary.
The latest meetings for the purpose of reaching a settlement of the Irish question tend towards a federalist constitution for the whole of the Empire, which would allow of autonomy for the Protestant parts of Ireland
AUSTRIA-HUNGARY AND ROUMANIA
BEELIN, April 2nd. The Viennese and Buda-Pesth papers are in bad humour over a demonstration which took place at Bukharest for the liberation of the Roumanians in Siebebürgen The Press demands that ther Triple Alliancs should repudiate Roumania, but in official circles attention is drawn to Kaiser Wilhelm's reassuring remarks on Roumania's polic
STRIKES IN RUSSIA
BERLIN, April 2nd. The Putilow Works Co, for the manu- facture of projectiles, the Siemens Halske Electric Works and other establishments at Bt. Petersburg have their men, aggre gating 60,000, out on strike.
RUSSIAN BANK BATE.
BERLIN, April 2nd. The Russian Bank discount has been reduced per centis
HONGKONG TENNIS TOURAMENT
The following now games have been decided
CHAMPIONSHIP SINGLES, third round. B. Penman beat R. FC. Master, 64,
SINGLES HANDICAP B Class, third Fround-Capt. Hattersly Smith (owe 15.3), beat C, Miskin (owa 40), 4-3
1
DOUBLES HANDICAP third round.-F. Maitland and A. H. Nobel (owe 30), beat Dr. G. E. Aubrey and A. B. Linton. (one 26), 2-6, 6-0, 86,