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INTIMATIONS
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESE, THURSDAY, MAY 14TH, 1914.
the Report of the Committee is non-com- mittal. It may be hoped, it says, that steps will be taken by our own Governmont to see that the Yangtze Valley is better ear. marked for British industry than it has been hitharto." The attitude of 18 MAJESTY's Government towards this question of
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HOME RULE AND WELSH DISESTABLISHMENT: aphere was more clearly deaned by Mr. later. Mr. Peake, the manager of the ACLAND in the House of Commons on the 21st Estate, and Mr. George C. Whitelawy of
STATEMENT BY MR. ASQUITH.
went in procession from Buck The draft for the new provincial system alt. in answering questions put to the Secre. the Seremban Dispensary, Ltd. (formerly
LONDON, May 13th. ingham Palace to the Guildhall. There provides for three grades in the rank of tary for Foreign Affairs by Sir J. D. Rees, of Hongkong) wheeled the coffin from the
In the House of Commons yester-were the gayest decorations in white and officials only, viz., Hsu Nan Shi or Mr. ACLAND then announced that His hospital to the cemetery during a violent.
thunderstorm, getting two men to meet day, Mr. Asquith made statement gold. Their Majesties wore greeted with Governor, Kuan Cha Shi or Tactai, and MAJESTY's Government are fully alive to,
the suggestion regarding
stoge of the necessity of afeguarding British in them at the cemetery to lend some assist-
loud cheering all the way along the roate. Haion Chi Shih or district officer. terests in the Yangtazo Talley, and theyance. A doctor read the burial service,
the Home Rub Bill, He emphasised The Lord Mayor, members of the Royal
Admiral Sa Chen Ping has been called a minister being unobtainable. were taking "all possible steps to that end,"
that the speeches of the Opposition Family, Members of Parliament, and to Peking. but he added and this is where this danger.
leaders
showed a complete aversion prominent City mon welcomed their
The post of Director-General of the lies-"if the bon, member suggests that Has
to the principle of
Rule. Majesties in cordial speeches, and dwelt water police at Shanghai and Woosung MAJESTY'S Governmen: should themselves advance money for the object, such action is
He made no complaint about that. If on the family and commercial ties of the has been abolished. there was to be a settlement by agreement two nations. not contemplated, especially as there are
it could be reached only through the British firms which are ready to take up
course. He would introduce an proper projects which are properly secured and
amending Bill for which the Government offer a fair profit." Following upon this Sir
would make themselves responsible. This, J. D. Rges pertinently asked:-" Are these British firms now prejudiced by the fact houses and demanding 50 cents from the and the Home Rale Bill itself, would sitated by the demise of Sir George of the very new with the very old which
that other Goverments are assisting their nationals, and what steps can the Govern ment take other than financial!" And Mr. AOLAND #Dswered." We do pot propose to Gasuce doubtful propositions in the Yang taze Valley, and if a concession is not worth taking up on its own credit it is not worth
our financing it when other people will not do
At the Magistracy yesterday, before Mr. J. R. Wood, the case come on for hearing in which a Chinese was charged with obtaining money by false pretences.
P. W. Goldring appeared to defend, but defendant did not answer to his name, It appears that the alleged offence consists in the defendant, representing himself to
be an official of the Sanitary Department, going round to a number of Chinese
Home
become
law together, He trusted there would be a settlement. They would take the third reading of the Bill before Whitsuntide.
BYE-ELECTION AT GRIMSBY.
LONDON, May 13th. The bye-election at Grimsby, neces
Doughty, the sitting member, resulted as follows: ---
TICKLER (Unionist).... 8,471 BANNISTER (Liberal) 8,193
EAST AND WEST,
Once again (says, the Times in a recent leading article) the stimulating contrast
tenants stating that he would send rat traps. He is alleged to have collected several sume before he was apprehended, His Worship ordered that the bail, 280, he estreated, and issued a warrant for the arrest of accused, Mr. Goldring having the right, in the event of a mis understanding, to mention the case again, the Government supported me of 1.1, 7,205, 1. mar. T. H. Wing House to meet death outside the capital
THE TIGER,
so." That is clearly evading the question. The Belgians, with whom are associated the Russians, have obtained a concession for a railway through the Yangisze Valley
According to the latest reports concern which will have its terminus within fortying the ubiquitous tiger, he was seen on miles of Shanghai, and the Japanese seem Barker Road at 9.15 p.m. on Mouday, and to be making every effort to secure a sub-although witnessed and fired at by soldiers from the military sanatorium at stantial foutbold in that Valley. No less a personage than Count OKUMA, the Head of Magazine Gap, Stripes' charmed existence the Japanese Government, has even gone again prevailed. On the same evening, and on the same road, and twice since, so far as to suggest an Economic Alliance the tiger was seen by police, & sentry, between Great Britain and Japan for the
and some Chinese workmen. To catch a purpose of exploiting the Yangtze Valley and one of Japan's most prominent business men, Biron SHIDUSAWA, is at this moment in Peking endeavouring to secure indus- trial concessions in the Yangtze Valley The Foreign Office is viewing the position in China with too much complaisance. As A. S. WATSON & CO..the Report of the Committee of the China
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SEQUEL TO THE TAI ON” DISASTER,
FAILURE TO RENDER ASSISTANCE.
WELSH DISESTABLISHMENT BILL. The Premier then remarked that
amendments to the Disestablishment Bill, and consequently there would be no advantage in baving a suggestion stage, (Opposition uproar,). The failure to have & suggestion stage did not detract from the House.
the ultimate power of
Unionist majority
978
The figures at the last election were:
(L.), U. majority, 698.]
MILITARY AIRMEN KILLED,
LONDON, May 13th." At Aldershot last evening two fast military biplanes collided at no great height, and were smashed to atoms. Captain E. D. Anderson and a mechanic accompanying him: were killed, and Lieutenant C. W. Wilson was severely injured.
A FAMOUS HERKOMER SLASHED.
(Opposition dissent.)
Mr. Bonar Law affirmed that such an the liberties of the encroachment Opposition in any other country would lead to a violent outburst. The minority's only protection was a sense of fair-play, He denounced the Parliament Act, which wrecked representative government, and did not share the Premier's hope that the Amending Bill would bring peace. It At the Royal Academy yesterday after was six months since the first conversanoona Suffragette slashed in three places tions. The Government simply drifted, with hatchet Herkomer's famous She
SUFFRAGETTE, OUTRAGE AT THE ROYAL ACADEMY.
LONDON, May 13th.
and were drifting still. The crux was portrait of the Duke of Wellington. between Mr. Asquith and Mr. Redmond was arrested. alone. The Nationaliste, he declared, would be overjoyed at the passing of the The Ulaterites felt that their Bill
of the mileage of the railway concessiong At the Magistracy yesterday before Mr. granted by the Chinese Government within. R. Wood, John Jones, of the Inishan, the past six months have gone to foreign and Owen Hughes, being then masters syndicatos. It may be that there is still respectively of the Lintan and On Lee, ample scope for any number of lines in the were charged that they did unlawfully position was becoming worec, and it was Yangteze and Souther« Provinces-anough neglect to render assistance to divers impossible to exaggerate the danger to keep English engineers and inazufac persons on board the Tai On found at ahead.
sea in the Canton River, off the island of turers employed for the next twenty years'
Ki Au, in danger of being lost. but the point which it seems desirable to emphasise is that other people are looking out for these opportunities, and the danger is that having the financial backing of their Governments they many secure all the Concessions which are likely to prove most
BIRTHS. GRIMSHAW-On May 7th, at Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. RUPERT GRIMSHAW, daughter. LOEW.-On May 6th, at Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. BRUNO E. LOEW, daughter,
MARRIAGE. WATSON-HAERLOOP-At Hongkong, on- Wednesday, May 13th, NOWELL LAKE, youngest son of the late ANTHONY remunerative, WATSON, of 21, Inverleith Place, Edinburgh, to ADA, only daughter of F. H. L. HAESLOOP, of Bremen, Ger- many, and Swatow, China.
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The Hongkong Volunteer Corps orders announce the resignation of Captain M. HONGKONG OFFIC: 104, DES Vœux Roan C., Northcote as from the 14th ult. LONDON OFFIC: 181, FLET STBERT, E.Q.
The Daily Press.
HONGKONG, MAY 14TH, 1914.
Mr. Geo. E. Anderson, U.S. Consul General in Hongkong left by the Empress of Ruania yesterday en route to the United States.
Prince Tai Lan, brother of Prince Tasi Chen, who represented China at the Coronation of King George, arrived in
London last month.
M.
The Crown Solicitor (Mr. P. Hodgson) prosecuted, and Mr. E. J. Grist (of Messrs. Wilkinson & Grist) appeared for both defendazis.
A NEW PHASE IN THE SITUATION. A new phase of the Home Rule situation was opened up by a speech by Mr. John Redmond, the leader of the Nationalists,
in the House of Commons yesterday even- Mr. Grist said that this was, heug, in which he disapproved of the believed, the first prosecution under the Amending Bill to the Home Rule Bill Ordinance, and he proposed to plead
unless a previous agreement had been guilty, and to ask his Worship to adjourn the case until a day next week convenient secured, holding himself free to deal with to the Court, g
The Crown Solicitor said he was ready to go on, but if his friend wanted an adjournment he had no objection, The Cases would be taken together unless his friend raised an objection.
Mr. Grist intimated that he had no objection to this course of procedure. No doubt the evidence called by the defen- dants theirselves would only affect the individual defendants,
the situation when it arose.
After Mr. Redmond's speech Sir Edward Carson telegraphed to Belfast,
Redouble your efforts."
PRESS OPINIONS The Conservative papers consider that Mr. Redmond's threat to the Government destroys all hope of settlement.
The Liberal organs are of opinion that the Government made a strategical mis.
His Worship-The cases for the Crown take by making declaration on the Amend
ing Bill at the present juncture.
are the same 1
The Crown
The Rev. George Owen, late Professor of Chinese to the London University nearly. College, and for 37 years a missionary in China, left estate of the value of £3,740
The Chinese Post Office at Shanghai announces that it will not in future send Pakol on Mondays at 12 noon and on mails for Europe via Dalny, but viá
Thursdays at 9 p.m.
syste
Solicitor-Yes, pretty
The case was adjourned until Wednes day.
A PIRATICAL ATTACK FRUSTRATED,
Another attempted piracy 18 reported from the district of Kwangchauwap. On Thursday last, a junk containing a num ber of passengers for the Cheong
SMUGGLING OF GUNS.
A small steamer evaded the destroyers on the North-East coast of Ulster, and landed 20 machine-guns, which were conveyed inland by motors.
BANKRUPT IRELAND.
LONDON, May 13th. The Irish, expenditure for the year exceeds the revenue by £1,275,000.
THE CIVIL WAR IN MEXICO.
HATTLE AT TAMPICO,
MEXICO CITY, May 13th. The Federals claim to have repulsed the Rebel attacks on Tampico,
VERA CRUZ, May 13th. Refugees from Tampico declare that the Federal troops ovacuated Tampico on Sunday...
RUSSIAN WAR MINISTER.
DEPARTURE FOR THE FAR: PAST..
ST. PETERSBURG, May 13th. The War Minister, M. Sukhomlinoff, has left for the Far East by order of the Tsar.
DISORDERLY SCENE AT A FOOTBALL MATCH:
the Far East presents is thrust forcibly upon our minds, On Thursday the Dowager Empress of Japan died in the Numadza Palace Next day the lifeless body made its State entry into Tokyo. with the same pomp and circumstance. accorded to living majesty. It is not bofitting for a member of the Imperial and when death visits one of them beyond the walls, custom immemorial prescribes. that the corpse shall be treated as a living person until it has been brought within the precincts where tradition ordains that Royalty may die. There is. something magnificent in an etiquette which can ignore death itself-sourcing, too, quite inconceivable to our Westera modes of thought. The whole Japanese people do homage to the amazing conven”,
on. In the Palace where the Empress had died her dead body gave farewell audiences. Or its arrival at Tokyo,. Princes and nobles, Ministers and officials, attended to receive it, s though it lived. It was, driven through the streets at a trot in the same carriage and with the same escort. The garde troops lined the route and the same masses of people watched the procession on its way. Only their unbroken silence, as the State coach passed in the moor- light with its drawn blinds, showed that they knew the grim burden that it hore.. Thon came the mest dreadful part of the strange ceremonial. At the door of the Imperial Palace the living Empress had to welcome as yet alive the poor remains of her dead relative. The function was not yet done. The corpse must be escorted to its apartments and put into possession of them, Thon, and not till then was it permissible to proclaim what all the world know, and to acknowledge that the Dowager Empress was no more. Within the Palace it was etiquette for her to have died.
Like the messages which the most advanced of Chinese Republicans deliver ed at the Imperial tombs, like the attribution which Japanese heroes made of their successes in the war to the virtues. of the reigning Emperor and of his sacred ancestors, like the declarations of the Emperor himself when the Constitu- tion was established, and like the rites at his burial, this grim yet impressive ceremony reveals how immense is the gulf: between the thoughts of the East and of the Weat The news of the Empress's illness or death was sent by telephone. It was at the railway station that the great officers of State went through the ghastly form of paying to the dead the homage proper to the living. The Ministers who were present belong to one of the most enlightened and progressive governments in the world, The troops, which escorted the corpso are amongst the first and most highly trained of modern soldiers. In every detail of the story, 48 our Tokyo Correspondent tells it, the most modern of the material dis- coveries of the West come sharply into contact with these customs of a civiliza tion going back for six-and-twenty centuries. The convention that members of the Imperial House must not die except within the appointed area is doubtless connected with the cardinal doctrine of Japanese religion and of Japanese patriotism, that the Emperor is the descendant of the gods who sits upon. the throne of a lineal succession nn- COUNTY CRICKET AT HOME.
broken for ages eternal," and that to his virtues and to the virtues of his ancestors. LONDON, May 13th.
the prosperity and the glory of the Em Surrey beet Somerset by 241 runs. pire are due. That is the faith upon which the greatness of Japan and of her Leicestershire defeated Lancashire by people is built. The Emperor rules by
BELFAST, May 13th. There was a faction fight at Belfast yesterday during a football match. A section of the spectators, singing" Dolly's Brae," rushed on the field firing revel vers. The police repeatedly charged them with drawn batons. Several people were injurned by being struck with bottles and.
stones.
34 runs.
ME. JAMIESON, in hüs speech at the annual mesting of the China Association, reported on another page, remarked that perhaps the most important event of the year though so far it hug attracted little attention-wa the announcement made to the Chinese Government that Great Britain claimed a privileged position in regard to railway and industrial development in the Yangtze Valley, The Committee of the China Association, in a letter to the Foreign Office has pointed out that British subjects are in point of fact debarred from industrial undertakings in several provinces by reason ... Mr. N. 1.. Stabb, Chief Manger of the Portuguese-owned vessel, bound from of special rights claimed by other Powers Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Cor- Ewangchanwan to Macao, left the former and that the time has come to make an poration, left for Home yesterday on place for the steamer. The junk was leave. Mr. Stabb expects to be away chased in other craft by pirates whose election between the one policy and the
purpose it was to rob the passengers be other. "If it was to be the policy of the about six or seven months,
fote they got aboard the Cheong Wa open door, then it must be open all round,
Captain Agabeg, however, observed what market Stakes are as follow:
The probable starters for the New and if that could not be secured the only
was afoot, and immediately ordered his alternative was to assert formally their
crew to go in boats to the assistance of the White Prophet (H. Jones), Bir Eager Careyra (O'Neil), Hapsburg (Bickaby), preferential rights in the region which had ing against the Ching Press, Shanghai, passengers. They obeyed, and the pirates' (Clark). long been popularly regarded as the. Tis. 10,000 damages for publishing certain designs were frustrated. Four of them The Tetrarch was scratched at 5 o'clock ice, and when it is lukewarm spreads a conceptions of all things which this
yesterday evening
A man named Carl Weigel, who admitted in the witness-box that ho had been deported from Hongkong, is claim
British sphere." The announcement made alleged defamatory statements regarding were taken prisoners, and two others shot, by Mr. ACLAND in the House of Commons him in connection with the Neumann the remainder ercaping by swimming to on March 9th, Mr. JAMIESON said, settled murder.
the shore-no very great distance away. None of the passengers or crew were the point to their satisfaction, and since
Bishop Brent of Manila has been then it has been announced that the unanimously elected Bishop of New
seriously hurt.
British and Chiness Corporation will Jersey, to succeed the late Bishop undertake the line, connecting Naaking Scarborough. Bishop Brent has been over and the capital of Hunan province. It twelve years in the Philippines. He has is to be hoped that the satisfaction Mr. twice refused the bishopric of Washing | corned in the piracy of the Childar again JAMIROK expressed will prove to be well ton. He has not decided whether to appeared at the Magistracy yesterday,
and a further remand was ordered. grounded. The reference to the subject in accept the present offer
THE CHILDAR PIRACY.
The prisoners charged with being cou-
HOME TURF.
PROBABLES, FOR THE NEWMARKET STAKES.
LONDON, May 13th..
THE DERBY IETTING.
The betting on the Derby is 9 to 4 Kennymore; 7 to 2 Tetrarch; 8 to 7 Black Jester
INTERNATIONAL OPIUM CONFERENCE?
- THE HAGUE, May 13th. The International Opium Conference has been convened for the 15th June.
divino right in a sense very different, and far more political than ever were claimed Cambridge University lost to Haup by the proudest of Christian Kings. This shire by two wickets.
right is still freely and fully acknow- ledged by the immense majority of his Derbyshire overwhelmed Worcestershire subjects. The unanimity with which all by an innings and 158 runs.
classes have agreed in supporting the strange fiction that the dead yet lived indicates how general the acknowledgment still is, and how universal is the obedience of Japan to received tradition. But the
A curions method of hatching hens and ducks' eggs used by some of the Chinese
question inevitably presents itself how
m the districts near Amoy is mentioned long these beliefs and feelings can resist breeder roasts a quantity of unbusked That they must be affected by the new unmodified the impact of Western learn- in an American Consular report. The ing and of Western habits of thought.
in, layer in a wooden tub and places learning is daily spreading in Japan amongst thousands of keen intelletta about 100 eggs thereon; tuother layer of seems certam How they will be affected, Tice is spread over the eggs. Back tub what foria they, may ultimately adopt, has six layers of rice and five layers of what action in their altered form they eggs, so that there are 500 eggs in each exercise on the mind of Asia, and what reaction on the mind of the West, tab_The rice is heated once every 4 are amongst the greatest problems of the hours, the eggs being taken out at such future. We make no attempt to approach times. When the eggs aro again put in them even from afar. We only note the startling ceremonial of last week, as 2 the rice the bottom layer is placed on reminder that one of the most civilized top. The chicks and ducklings are pre- and most brilliant nations of the world duced in 20 to 30 days.
is passing through à pregnant phase in its development.