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means of railway penetration— the Yunnan-To-day being Good Friday there will be TELEGRAMS. TELEGRAMS. TELEGRAMS.
no issue of the Hongkong Daily Fres Chungking line from the South, forming a link with the French Colony of Tonkin and tomorrow..........
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The Chinese Customs will be closed to-day
Inspector R Macdonald prosecuted a Chinese for bringing 37 unatamped letters | into the Colony from Maso yesterday, and the defendant was fined $30.-.-.
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THROUGH REUTER'S AGEMUY] VANCOUVER LADY MURDERED BY CHINESE BOY
LONDON, April 9th The murder of Mr. Milliard, the wife of a Canadian Pacific Railway official at Vancouver, by a young Chinese house servant because he had been reproved for
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strength Win opinion is gaining among the back-benchers of both Parties in the House of Commons that a settle ment of the Ulster problem must, as a
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PERING, April 0th. Liang Shi-yi, Secretary-General to the
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influence in the province. This aspect of the situation we have dealt with before, and the probable outcome of these various concessions is certainly grave enough, doubtful whether even though it is they will have more than a political influence. The past history of the Lao- khai-Yunnan line goes a long way support Lord Duzzon's opinion that & railway nerose Yunnan to the Yangtze could never be a commercial success, and the improbability in even stronger now, when the feasibility of steam navigation on the
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throughout British Columbia, where such servants are most numerous, and is lend- ing to various local enactments against Orientals.
BRITISH INTERESTS IN THE YANGTSZE
QUESTIONS IN THE ROUSE OF COMMONS,
LONDON, April 8th. In the House of Coinmons Sir J. D. Bees asked the Government whether Japan had acquired the controlling interest in the China Merchants Steam Navigation
WHISKY. Upper Yangtse has been amply demonstrat sensen which takes place at Happy Valley Company, and also whether the Govern-
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od and the steamer service is increasing its hold on the traffic every year, than it was ly good one judging by the entries. The ment proposed to take action to protect
in 1907, when Lord Cuazon expressed the opinion that "the idea that if it were built, the wealth of Szechuan would stream
down a single metre-gauge line while great arterial rivers flow through the heart of Szechuan itolf, which are petent to carry its trade
to
British interests in the Yangtze by assisting China, with a loan for purchas
A shopkeeper in Bonham Strand Easting the China Merchants Company and has complained to the police that some the Hanychping Corporation, which had person broke open a show-case, bang also been acquired by Japan.
outside his shop, and stole therefrom ten telescopes and jewellery, to the total value of $150.
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Mr. F. D. Acland replied in the nega- tive in regard to the China Merchants and Navigation Company, Steam added that the Government were fully alive to the necessity of safeguarding there could be no question of a loan.
THE PANAMA CONTROVERSY. THE PRESIDENT POLICY CONDEMNED IN NEW JERSKY,
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MR. ASQUITH'S ELECTION
the Ustasiatischer Lloyd tast the revised A-BEQUEL. The Carlow Hant Sportsmen'e Baces draft of the Constitution will be handed have been abandoned on cocount of the to the President for approval in 20 daya' farmers of County Carlow having re-time The Haien Fatre Hul, the newly- quested the withdrawal of the Military elected Committee, will then make the Cup event as a protest against the final rovision It is not expected that the Chinese Parliament will be convoked attitude of the Curragh officers.
before the lapse of two years. A Senate, elected by the people and consisting of about 100 members, will meanwhile not as Parliament, beginning in about three. months from date. Until that time D Court of Advisers, composed of the Political Committee, is likely to assist the Hsu President and the Government. Shi-chang, according to Liang Shi-yi, is himself not yet certain whether he will accept nomination to a responsible post.
THE NEW CHINA LOAN.
PERING, April 9th.
LONDON, April sth. Mr. Asquith has been returned anop posed for East Fife,
THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.
LONDON, April 9th. The House of Commons has been adjourned until the 14th inst.
ANGLO-FRENCH FRIENDSHIP.
THE ROYAL VISIT TO FRANCE,
PARIB, April 9th In connection with the visit of their Majesties the King and Queen to France,
As Chinese negotiators in connection with the second large foreign loan, Chou the newspapers publish articles and inter-Te Chi, Sua Pao Chi and Hauen Yuan views, including interviews with MM.
impossibility of guaranteeing holders' powe will be kept for them until British interests in the Yangtze, but Toumergue and Pichon, on the subject of head of the Coinage department), have
delivery during the summer months, and the frequent breaks occasioned by land, the Tonkin- slides, combine to make Szechuan trunk line ineffective as commercial competitor with the Yangtze We have no fear that the trade of Beechuan will be diverted from Hankow and Shanghai to Tonkin, but we cannot blind ourselves to the political possibilities under lying this penetration of Ezechvau in all directionsby French railways, and to the great strides that France will make, by their aid,
towards building up a sphere of interest of
her own in Western China as watertight as that of Germany in Shantung. It cannot be claimed that the British and Chinese Corporation's concession will affect in any way the situation in Western China, but this agreement for the construction of the Nasking Nanchang line under British auspices is a very important step towards
After that all seats will be
The retirement of Mr. C. A. Tomes from the firm of Mesara, Shewan, Tomes
LONDON, April 9th. The Panama controversy in daily
Co. is announced in our advertisement. columns, and it is also notified that: Meurs. L. E. Gilmas, H. F. Campbell and Mr. J. A. Young are authorised engendering increased beat, greatly to thị to sign the firm's name.
According to an investigation made by the Financial Department, the total number of foreign tourists
the approaching tenth anniversary of Anglo-French friendship.
THE NEWFOUNDLAND SEALING DISASTER;
SEARCH FOR SOUTHERN CROSS TO BE ABANDONED.
ST. JOHN'S (NEWFOUNDLAND),
April sth.
The search for the Southern Cross is to
detriment of Anglo-American relations.
The Republican opponent of President Wilson's tolls policy has been elected by be abandoned to-day. The sealing ships sweeping majority as a Congressman are returning owing to the poor prospects for New Jersey, which is President for the remainder of the season. Wilson's State, replacing a deceased BERS | Democrat
during 1813 was 21,888, an increase, of 4,822 over the previous year. They included her from the United States of America, and 4,193 from Great Britain,
The Bishop of Victoria today (Good Friday) will confirm and preach at Holy Easter Day he will celebrate the Holy Trinity Church, Old Kowloon, Oa Communion at the Cathedral at 8 am,
5.45 p.m.
The Straits Times of the 23rd ult.
FRENCH AIRMEN'S FATE.
MURDERED BY MOORE,
ROYAL ASSISTANCE.
His Majesty the King has forwarded £106, and Her Majesty the Queen £50, toward the Newfoundland sealers rohet fund which already totals £2,423 m London, The Canadian Parliament bas voted £2,000.
THE KING OF SWEDEN
STOCKHOLM, April 9th. The King has not taken to his bed. He
the purpose of constituting a Provisional Government under the Crown Prince. His Majesty enters Sophia Hospital to-night and will be operated upon
LONDON, April 9th... The bodies of a Captain and Corporal of the French Aviation Corps who com- menced flying from Casa Blanca towards Fez on the 5th inst. have been found in a believed valley at Wedhuregred. It is
graph Co.'s cable ship rived at SAN says:-"The Eastern Extension Telethat they landed, owing to an accident, presides at a Cabinet meeting to-day for
the aeroplane has been discovered. make a local repair. The work was com walking to the nearest post. No trace of
and before leaving Penang from Singapore on Thursday to and were murdered by Moors as they were pleted the same night, and for the South the vesse marked a buoy to GERMAN AERONAUT DETAINED IN indicate the position of the sew cable from Perang to Hongkong The latter is expected to arrive at Penang on board the company's Colonia early next month. The Penang-Hongkong cable having been Far East generally will go straight to completed, the traffic from the Straits and England, independent of the Indian Government's system.”
The Governor-General of Indo-China,
the consolidation of British interests in aofficiate at St. Stephen's Church at no less important area that of the Lower 1 a., and preach at the Cathedral at Yangtre. Important as the line is in itself as an artary of communication to the Province BIRTH HELILING-On 30th March, at Foochow, of Kiangsi, it is still more so 29 an extension China, the wife of JAMES HELBLINO, of the already existing Shanghai-Nanking
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Railway. The concession, too, includes an ENGLONG OFFTON: 104, Das Vœux Hoan C.extension to Changabe, where it will
the branch from Changteh of Messrs. PAULIKON Shani-Singyi line; is, when both these lines are completed there will be à direct line of railway, constructed under British auspices, leading from the ocean at HONGKONG, APRIL 10ru, 1914,
Woosung right through the Provinces of Tare development of the railway situation Kiangsu, Anhui, Kungsi, Hunan, and of one or two short in China advances so rapidly from werk to Kweichow to the Yunnan frontier, while,
with the exception week that it is not always easy to ree the whole question in its proper perspective, railways built with Chinese capital, all the and it is useful to consider occasionally lines in the Yangtza valley below Hankow the commercial and political effects of the Shanghai Nanking, the southern section
branches of the network that is of the Tientsin-Pakow, and Nanking now at Home, has written a long letter Chaurshs, not to mention the British sbare to he Depeche de Toulouse energetically gradually being built up on paper, is bound to be a feeling of unreality about in the cosmopolitan Hukwang Bailwaye combatting the views of a writer on a such an examination, for few of the lines will be essentially British. With two proposed exchange of the territories of that are to have such far-reaching effects British railways traversing the Province Indo-China for territory in Africa, M. ita capital, a Barraut affirms the necessity of maintain- concentrating And "prolimi ary have advanced beyond the
The great work of agreement" stage it would be waste of preponderant British influence in Hunan ing the integrity of the French position that when colonisation accomplished in Indo-China, time to refer to the multifarious visionary should be secured, while it may not in Asia, praises
protesta against the futile and schemes that are proposed from Chinese be too much to hope
Nanking, Nanchang lines com and I sources-but even the conclusion of a proli. the minary agreement, especially when it is pleted, it may le possible to secure an deplorable dissertations both in the extension of the concession to cover the Colony and in the metropolis upon a pretended projects which would constitate fortified by the payment of
the abdication of the great national duties
cel the world money, gives the contrasting Power a
and interests of France strong first option and puts it in a favour
HE the Governor and Lady May were able position to establish its bold, as well as putting an obstacle in the way of any other
responsible for the concert at the Bailors Power that has designs in the same
end Soldiers Home on Wednesday. The was Banjo duet, H.ES. programme dircation. This being so, the small number
I hear you calling of concessions gained by Great Britain in
me Mr George Lammert; song and Beaman Harrison recita comparison with the magnitude of the
lamphire
dance, Leading interests acquired by her continental rivale by Chinese capital is scarcely to be antici has been and rightly so the source of sted. Even without this Southera ezten much heart-burning, but the recent grant | ion, however, the British and Chiases, The Quare Gander'!) (IS. Le
There
argain
on
Nanchang Shiuchow line. This
with the extension of the Nan-Bean (Nanchang- Kavkang) railway to link it Canton Hankow system the scheme is of Chinese origin, but, so far, of the 87 miles included in the original line, only 35 (From Kawking to Te-ngan Hsien) are
so that the construction of the whole ing
to the British and Chiness Corporation of a Corporation's concession, together with that concrasion for the construction of a railway from Nanking to Nanchang and Chengshs not only goes some distance towards redressing the adverse balance, but contains
previously secured by Mese78. PAULIN ontains great possibilities of addin Great Britain's prestige and commercial area of the first imp
in itself such possibilities that it furnishes is on to be hoped that they will not, an
030venient landmark from which
envisage the situation afreshUp to
this
time the outstanding feature has been
was the cass with the Singyang-Pakow live, be allowed to remun is the embryonic state until complications arise, but will be
to fruition.
Time was
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been appointed. *
The Chinese are disinclined to accord supervision of the Chinese Lauperial Bank to the Foreign Advisers, which the repre sentatives of the Quintuple Syndicate require,
SHANTUNG RAILWAY
AGREEMENT.
PEKINO, April 4th. Dr. Betz, German Consul at Tsinaniu, Herr Cordes, manager of the German Bark at Tientsin, and Dr. Günther, Privy Councillor and Civil Commissioner at Tsingtau, have been named to-day to the Woishiapu by the Imperial German Legation at Péking as Germua Commis- sioners for the settlement of the details of the Shantung Railway Agreement.
EUROPEAN SERVICE,
PRINCE HENRY OF PRUSSIA IN CHILE
BERLIN, April 8th. H.R.H. Pro Henry of Prussia met with a most splendid reception in Chile. The President, in an address of welcome, emphasized the mutual friendship of the two countries, and expressed the hope further be still AUSTRALIA
that it woul
trengthened. MELBOURNE, April 9th The State Premiers Conference has con- The newspapere state that the Kaiser has written to the Tsar a personal letter cluded most successfully The Conference at Perm on a charge of espionage after mier's intimation that the Commonwealth & record balloon voyage from Germany were prepared to contribute £150,000 regarding an aeronaut who is detained expressed its gratification at the Pre- in which he requests the Tear to do his yearly to promote immigration, best speedily to close the unpleasant incident-
WOMEN CANDIDATES DEFEATED IN CHICAGO.
ALLEGED ASSAULT ON DUBLIN POLICE.
LONDON, April 9th. Captain White, who was arrested for an alleged assault on Dublin polica NEW YORK, April 9th. Nino women candidates for an Alder recently, has been discharged the prosecu- manship in Chicago were overwhelmingly tion withdrawing the case. Captain The majority of the women White said the whole matter was due to supported the male candidates, but out a misunderstanding- side Chicago the women voters succeeded in closing a thousand bar-rooms, in the smaller cities and towns.
defested
THE PANAMA CANAL NEW TREATY ECTWERK AMERICA AND COLUMBIA
NEW YORK, April 9th
A Treaty has been signed between America and Colombia giving both equal rights in the Panama Canal, the United (Lehr), States paying Colombie a heavy
indemnity for the loss of the Panaran.
AVIATION TATALITY AT BROOKLANDS.
Fanu) Bir Henry May sung when I royed the Mountains! Mr. Lammert, selection, mandolin and guitar hard H.MS Hampshire, song,
4her Las rested. (Lahr)
Mrs. Cromies song, Petty Officer Steven- the Hampshire. There was a large
es who thoroughly enjoyed the Hearty votes of thanks tertainment.
LONDON April 9th
A sergeant named Deane was aeroplan were accorded to His Excellency anding at Brooklands for & pupil's certificate, the threatened conversion of the rich Pro-seadily persisted in and speedily brought Lay May, and to the ladies and gentle and had ascended 1,000 feet, when he vince of Szechuan iato a French sphere by
who had assisted,
f men
made, a spiral too sharply and was killed..
THE NEW ADJUTANT GENERAL.
LONDON, April 9th.
It is officially announced that Lient. General Sir HC Sclater will succeed Lient General Hi J. 8. Twart as Adjutant General of the Forces. THE CALCUTTA POLICE MURDER
ACCUSED DISCHARGED
CALCUTTA, April 9th The man Roy, who was acquitted by the jury or a charge of being concerned in the murder of an Indian sub-inspector of polic but was detained by the Judge, has now been discharged,
A great crowd was intensely excited by
a report that Police Inspector McGill had been shot dead. It was, however an which arred when the ospector was inspecting revolvers,
KING OF SWEDEN UNDERGOES AN OPERATION:
BERLIN, April 8th. HM the King of Sweden has been operated on for an abscess in the stomach. CZAR AND ZARINA IN THE ORIMEA
BERLIN, April 8th. Their Majse the Czar and Carina. have departed for the Crimen, where it is
the Grand Duches Olga, with Princ expected the engagement of their daughter, Carol of Roumaniz will be made public THE GERMAN IMPERIAL CITANCELLOR
The Imperial Chancellor, Herr Bethmana-Hollweg, has had to defer bia voyage to Corfu until after the Easter Holidaye, on account of the serious illness 61 his wife.
RUSSIA AND THE KURDS:
BERLIN, April 8th. The Turkish Press affirms that the participation of Russian arm and funds in the rising of the Kurds has been established
THE RISING IN EPIRUS.
BEELIN, April 8th. The Epirotic revolt weakening for Lack of money
si