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to the quick when an underpaid German clerk awoke them from their dream. The awakening was a rude one, but it is better. to be roughly awakened than to sleep on lapped in such vio imaginings. A little practical experience of shortcomings does $56.00 more good than reams of moral axioms, and the fact that such corruption is possible, $6.00
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HONGKONG, JUNE 22ND, 1914.
Twenty young trees have been planted daring the past week on the footways in Royal Square, in place of those removed soms titne ago from the centre of the road. The black typhoon signale were hoisted on Saturday afternoon. They remained until just before noon yesterday, the typhoon which was reported on Saturday to be near or over the Balintang Channel, having then gene northward.
Mr.
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THE VOLUNTEER FORCE.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE"" HONGKONG.
DAILY FRESH
Hongkong, 20th June, 1914. Si At the present time there is some discussion going on regarding the ques tion as to why more men do not join the Valunteers and Reservists. Amongst many reasons given, the chief ons is the organisation or want of organisation,
TELEGRAMS. TELEGRAMS, TELEGRAMS.
THROUGH REUTER'S AGENUT,]
A CHAPTER OF DISASTIES.
TERRIBLE COLLIERY EXPLOSION IN CANADA,
WINNIPEG, June 20th. About 225 minors were killed in an explosion at Hill Creat Mino, Fernie.
The accident was the worst in the an instance of this, at the history of Canada. Over 100 bodies have
To give Annual Parade the men were kept waiting been recovered.
on the Parade Ground some very con The explosion occurred at a depth of siderable time before the actual Inspection 1,2 took place. This may seen a very small thing, but to men who had to moise spesial
efforts to be on Parade in time it was
annoying.
The great majority of Britishers in Hongkong are in more or less responsible position and are accustomed to doing business and arranging things on pro perly organised lines, and while they are
interest and good of their country, they willing to give up their time for the
object strongly to having their time wasted. Yours truly,
BUSINESS MAN.
SUPREME COURT.
Saturday, June 20th,
IN ORIGINAL JURISDICTION.
BEFORE THE CHIEF JUSTICE, MR. H. H. J. Gompertz, and MB. I, A HABELAND, PUIGNE JUDON.
t
A PROMISSORY NOTE CASE, Mr Eldon Potter (instructed by Mr. CF Mason, of Messrs. D'Almada & Mason), on behalf of defendant in the Summary Court action of the Holland China Trading Company Chin Tin Cho, applied for leave to appeal against the judgment of Mr. Justice Hazeland, which was given in favour of plaintiff, on the ground that it was erroneous in law.
Mr. Potter explained that the action
was upon a promissory note endorsed by defendant, and added that no appeal was sought from the facts. They accepted the fees as found by the Paiste Judge There were, however, certain facts in the case which did not come before the Puisne Judge affecting the law. These showed that the defendant was the person who was entitled to sue the plaintiff, if anything. As a matter of fact the defen- dont signed the note when it was complete, and was a subsequent party to the note, consideration having passed before he signed it. Counsel cited a case upon his submission that defendant, in the circum- stances, was liable to subsequent holders, but not to prior parties to the note, and their Lordships subsequently granted leave to appeal.
A NEW SOLICITOR.
1,200 feet. The colliery superintendent, Mr. Quigley, was killed..
FIRE IN A BELGIAN MINE.
LIEGE (BELGIUM), June 20th. A fire in the Maríhaye Colliery out off 200 colliers, while a further 200 managed
to escape.
LATER,
All the imprisoned miners have been rescued.
RAILWAY TUNNEL COLLAPSES IN FRANCE.
NICE, June 20th, About people were buried through the llapse of a railway tunnel which was being constructed in the vicinity of this city. Twelve dead and seven injured have so far been dug out.
TERRIBLE AUSTRIAN AVIATION MISHAP
MILITARY BALLOON EXPLODEA
VIENNA, June 21st
A Military balloon exploded at a height of 600 feet. The occupanta, a Captain, four Lioutenants, a Naval Officer, and a civil engineer, and two soldiers, were killed.
LATER
The dirigible, named the Adering, had asconded to take aero-photographs, and
[THEQUGH BEUTHL'S AGENDY.]-
THE BUELOW FLOATED."
LONDON, Jina 20th. The ND.L. liner Buelow, which went ashore at Weymouth, has been floated..
“ EMPRESS " DISASTER INQUIRY.
THE ALLEGATIONS OF ZEFECTIVE STEERING GEAR."
[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.}
ITALY'S FORCES IN THE FAR
EAST.
FOREIGN MINISTER AND QUESTION OF RETENTION.
Rome, Juna 20th. The Chamber of Deputies have approved of a vote of 203,000 for the Military and Naval contingent in tha Far East. The House rejected the
QUEBEC, Jane 21st.. Sovoral witnesses from another steamer testified that the Empress of Ireland amendments aiming at the withdrawal dangerously zig-zagged in the St. of the forces. Lawrence on her last outward trip.
The Third Officer of the Started, crose examined, said that just before the colli sion he put the helm hard apert, without the Captain's orders. He did not think that this caused the collision.
The helmsman admitted that the Storstad did not answer her helm quickly
THE KOMAGATA MARU.""
COMPELLED BY THE INDIANS TO REMAIN AT VANCOUVER.
The Marquis de San Guiliano said. that he was not enthusiastic about the retention of the Forces, and since China desired the withdrawal of all European
contingents the question might ultimately be the subject of negotiation. The sola reason for the retention of the Italian forces was the protection of Italian subjects. He recognised that, China bad proved her ability to maintain a civilised government.
BHOOTING OUTRAGE IN PARIS
BARON NI DE KOTAHUHILD WOUNDED IN THE LEG
PARIS, June 21st.. As he was leaving the Opera last night Baron Henri de Rothschild was wounded by a revolver shot. His assail-
LONDON, June 21st. There is no immediate prospect of the Komagata Muru proceeding to the Orient. The owners of the vessel had ordered her immediate return, but the Indians, controlling the situation, refused in the to allow the Captain to sail. They are ant was a sexagenarian retired dairyman determined to test the Asiatic exclusion who declared that he had been ruined by legislation in the Courts. The Captain philanthropio dairios. had already decided that he would ask The man was arrested. Baron Roths 100 Marines from a Japanes cruiser to child was able to go to his home keep order on the return journey.
FRENCH LOAN BILL CARRIED. JAPANESE CRUISERS ENTER
TAINED AT VANCOUVER."
PARIS, June 20th.
LONDON, June 21st.
The British Columbian Government is
entertaining the Japanese cruisers deams and Azuma. Rear Admiral Kuroi visited the Liuetenant-Governor afterwards sailed for Koenigsberg Half accorded a guard of honour The orewe and was given a public welcome and
an hour later a biplane, piloted by two
are being banquetted by the civil Lieutenante, followed the dirigible,
authorities,
MEDITERRANEAN:
circling round it. Then the aeroplane, in attempting to fly over the dirigible, THE BRITISH INTERESTS IN THE caused a rent in the latter's envelope. There was an explosion, and the balloon became affame. The bodies WOTO
charred.
Losnos, June 20th.
The Chamber of Deputies has adopted a Bill authorising by 439 votes Lu 108 a Joan of £32,000,000 at 3 per cent.. redeemable in 25 years.
The Senate unanimously agreed to the Loun Bill.
FRENCHMAN IMPRISONED FOR
EMBEZZLEMENT.
[FORMERLY COMMISSIONEE OF CUSTOMS AT CREMULPO.
PARIS, June 20th. At the Seine Assizes Ernest Laporte,
The Daily Telegraph states that it is formerly a cashier on the Feu Tark The two occupants of the understood that the Admiralty intends te Herald, was sentenced to three years' accelerate the despatch of the Squadron, imprisonment, with the beneft of the aeroplane were also killed
of Dreadnoughts to the Mediterranean. First Offenders Act, for the embezzle-- Four battleships are proceeding to Malta ment of 43,000 francs. Laporte was soon after Christmas, and it is hoped that for 20 years Commissioner of Customa
three battle-cruisers at present at Chemuipo. at Malta may be based at Gibraltar with THE OPIUM CONVENTION, the New Zealand as the nucleus of an Imperial Squadron.
The newly married wife of one of the lieutenants who were killed arrived in a motor-car the very moment the airship crashed to the ground.
It appears that the aeroplane was attacking the balloon in connection with some manœuvres. Eyewitnesses state that the airship's propeller caused a whirl wind, into which the aeroplane was
sucked.
At the Supreme Court on Saturday, Mr. Charles Alexander Hooper, who THE SCOTCH EXPRESS DISASTER. recently arrived in the Colony to become a partner in the firm of Messrs. Johnson, Stokes & Master, was admitted to practice in the Colony by the Chief Justice, Mr. H. H. J. Gompertz,
Mr. H. E. Pollock, K.C., who moved the admission of Mr. Hooper, said that he was educated at Clifton and Trinity
LONDON, June 20th. Details of the mishap to the express train at Carr Bridge show that a thunder- storm deluge broke the bridge as the train was passing and burled three carriages
into the ravine. Four bodies have been
the
The journal suggests that the ships of the new Imperial Squadron mould convey the representatives of the Dominions to the Imperial Conference; starting at the Cape, then voyaging to Australia, return ing by Vancouver and the Panama Canal. THE HOME RULE AMENDING BILL
ME LLOYD DEORGE'S STITEMENT,
LONDON, June 21st. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, speak ing at Denmark Hill, said that the Home
county in Ulster the option of voting itself out of Home Buld until twe General Elections had occurred in Eng land. hody
A fifth body has been found.
THE ATTACK ON DURAZZO.
INSURGENTS ABX FOR TWO DAYS ARMISTICE. the
The Ulsterites need not shoot any All they had to do was to go to polling - booth and record their
The revelations of corruption among the oficers of the Japanese Navy have naturally ust proved palatable to the Japanese people. Much has been heard in the past about the "Soul of Japan," the Yamato Damashii, which was supposed to be a spirit peculiar to the country, distinguishing her from other ruces, and from time to time Wontom rapsodists have waxed eloquent over that high sense of patriotism which places the good of the country over every private con- sideration. Those who more in inside drcles in Japan, however, for a long time pist felt disinclined to endorse such ex- travagant sentiments, and the revelations that have now been made come to them as no surprise, Of course it would be absurd to go to the opposite extreme and deny that the Japanese are not capable of carrying into practica a very high standard of patriotism. They certainly are a patriotic rize, but their patriotism is not greater than the temptations to which it is some times subjected. Like other races, they often fail to practise what they preach: they are not rein wed above the weaknesses of human nature and not entirely cast in an
Mr. Herbert John Morse, who has been Mr. I WEL. Peole, also a partner in broto mould. It may be said that the
may 1
the sccountant in the Hongkong office of that firm. The affidavit of identification relations will do no harm, either in so far the Standard Oil Company for the past was sworn by Mr Gedge. authay affect Japin herself or the estimate five or six years, is being transferred on
His Lordship, in
in admitting Mr. Hooper, said he trusted his career in the Colony
College, Cambridge, where he took his recovered, and it is feared that there are Rule Amending. Bill would give every Freear has postponed his entertainment at the Theatre Royal B.A. degres. Afterwards he was articled others ander a carriage lying in the till Saturday July 4th, so as not to clash with the firm of Menirs. Gedge, Kilby & stream. with the entertainment at the Peak Club,xamination of
Millot, Westminster, He passed his final
which had been announced for next
the Law Society of Saturday before Mr. Fredor had fuzed his England with honours and then became date, Mr. Freear, who visited Canton managing clerk to Messrs. Gedge, Kilby on his way North a couple of months ago,& Millet, For the past eight years he pays his promised return visit to the had been managing clerk in the well- known firm of Messrs. Lewis & Lewis, Shamsen on Wednesday.
of Ely Place, London, and was now When the Zafro arrived at Manilo joining Messrs. Johnson, Stokes & Master 88 & partner. All the papers, were in last Monday the Customs officials dia covered that one of the quartermasters, order
and
for the first time all the named Gonzales, was endeavouring to provisions of the new Ordinance with traffic in opium. When Gonzales leaned regard to legal practitioners which was over the rail of the vessel the tin now booming generally known had been which contained the " dogs” was noticed complied with. Mr. Hooper produced the protruding from his pistol pocket. It highest certificates of character and was subsequently discovered that his tin fitness, the principal being from Sir contained 250 grams of opium, Gonsales George Lewis, Bart., managing partner was handed over to the police.
of the firm of Messrs. Lewis & Lewis, and
opinion. DUKAZZO, June 21st. The insurgents declare that they are SIR E CARSON AND HOME RULE ready to recognise the Frince of Albania, and ask for a two days' armistice, which
LONDON, June 21st. Sir Edward Carson, speaking at Bolton, has been granted.
The Austrian and Italian warships said if the Amending Bill simply repeated have been instructed to fire on the rebels the Governments offer of optional ex if the Prince or the Legations ara andan elusion for six years, Ulster would have gered by a sudden attack by the nothing to do with it.
insurgents.
TURKISH PERSECUTION OF GREEK EMIGRANTS.
A FRIENDLY SETTLEMENT.
CONSTANTINOPLE, Juge 21st.
BRITISH INDUSTRIAL QUESTIONS,
LONDON, June 20th."
The agreement reached in the London building trade dispute as the result of a conference between a delegation of the Trade Unions and the employers has been It is understood that the Porte may rejected by the men, who are of opinion formed of her by the outside world. The promotion at the end of this month to would be enjoyable and prosperous; he permit the return of the Greek emigrants that it does not settle the non-unionist latter was certainly inclined to exceed the Canton. During his residence in Hongkong was joining a very well-known and and pay an indemnity. limits of the truth, and no nation is bene- Mr. Morse has made a host of friends and
led by being placed on a pocostal themed evidence of his popularity was. foundations of which are ill-laid. To appear afforded on Saturday night when s very more than human ia sometimes a stronger large company of friends of many band of affection than to appear less than nationalities entertained him at a farewell
dinner at the Astor House Hotel, hurman, and much that has been written
established arm.
The first prize on the Calcutta Derby sweep worth £55,000, was won by Mr Comley, a clerk in the Calontie office of the Alliance Bank of Simlaras
This would
mean a settlement of the matter.
ATHENS, June 21st. The Porte's reply is regarded in official circles as showing a desire for a friendly
question. A national lock-out is possible.
The National Railwaymen's Congress at Swansea resolved to fix an early date after which members will refuse to work along. They also demand side non-unionists, Sunday as a weekly rest day,
THE HAGUE, June 20th. The Opium Conference has agreed,
that the Convention of 1912 can come into despite the abstention of certain Powers,
force when ratified by the signatories.
The Opium Conference unanimously agreed to an Anglo-American resolution asking the
Dutch Foreign Minister to make urgent representations to the signatory Powers to ratify the Convan
tion.
THE CALIFORNIAN LAND LAW.
WASHINGTON, June 20th. President Wilson denies that Japan desires arbitration on the Californian
Land Law.
THE MEXICAN MEDIATION
PROCEEDINGS.
Niagara, June 30th. The mediators announce that to-day's conference has been postponed. The Argentine delegate has gone to confer with Mr Bryan.
ECHO OF BEILISS TRIAL
BUSSIAN BAERISTERS BEST TO PEIRONA
ST. PETERSBURG, June 20th. The trial has concluded of 28 St. Petersburg barristers for eigning a resolution which was regarded as insult-
ing to the Department of Justice and the Court during the Beiliss trial.
Two of the defendants were sent to prison for eight months and the others for
six months,
JIM LARKIN RESIGNS
LONDON, June 20th. Mr. J. Larkin has resigned the General Secretaryship of the Irish Transport Workers Union,