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HIS CONFIDENCE IN CHINA B FUTURE.
LONDON, June 20th.)-
Dr. Morrison, Political Adviser. President Yuan Shih-kai, has arrived in London from China. He expresses his utmost confidence in the recent progress in China and the peaceful outcome of the recent changts: When he left Peking, he
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HONGEUNG, JUNE 27TH, 1914.
It is very satisfactory to observe that the weekly returns of plague in the Colony --have been showing a steady decline in the number of cases during the past month. A month ago the rotoras were showing over two hundred cases a weak; the return for last week showed but a fourth of that
number. For twenty years past the plague has been an annual visitant in this Colony, and we seem to be almost as much in ignoranes now as we were twenty years ago '48 to its real origin, that is
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FIERCE BATTLE IN MEXICO.
TERRIBLE LOSSES ON BOTH SIDES,
LORD BRASSEY ARRESTED AT
KIEL
LONDON, June 16th, The fight at Zacatecas lasted four days, and was most ferocious. The hillsides, which were covered with trenches and redoubts, and the streets of the city, are heaped with the dead
BUSPECTED OF ESPIONAGE BY THE POLICE,
· Loudon," "June 2ûth-- The Times correspondent at Kiel says. that Lord Brassey, while rowing in the Harbour in a dinghy from his yacht Many prisonera, along with ammuni Sunbeam, approached the Dockyard,
tion, were captured at Zacatecas. The and was arrested by the police on
Į" DEE OSTASIATISCHER LLOYD"
SERVICE
CHINA SERVICE.
MILITARY UNREST IN CHINA.
TROOPS IN REVOLT AT KALGAN AND SHANBI,”
PRKING, June 28th.. News of the outbreak of a military revolt at Kalgan has been confirmed. About 5,000 mon of the First Division are involved. This Division consisted formerly entirely of Manchus and was an elste body of men. The muntineers sacked the town and outraged women. BRITISH SQUADRON AT KIEL The part of the town near the railway station was suveď by 400 loyal soldiers. THE÷KAISER AS A BRITISH (ADMIBAL
The plunderers left towards the break of LONDON, June 28th..
day, crossing a mountain pass and the When H. M. the Kaiser visited the Great Wall, moving in the direction of flagship of the British Squadron at Kiel | Mongolia,
robols lost heavily, the losses including suspicion of espionage. His Lordship was two Generals.
detained for 14 hours before satisfying the authorities or his identity..
The Federal losses are unknown..
casualties among the Robol officers.
it had been at any time in his experience, He denied that Yuan Shih-kai had cut himself off from the Young Chine party or that he aims at a family dynasty. He
LATER General Villa was in the van of the had endeavoured to draw advisors from every part of the State, and had even attacking force, and five of his staff were approached men who were formerly wounded. There were exceptionally large reputed to be his leading enemica. On the President's staff, Dr. Morrison added, there are at least forty men trained in England and America, and sixty or more trained in Japan. He concluded by re- marking that the recent attacks on China's financial position were unwarranted. PARLIAMENT AND THE FINANCE
BILL
MN LLAND GEORGE'S MILLIONAIRES.
LONDON, June 28th. The House of Commons continued the debate on the Finance Bill.
Mr. Bonar Law, leader of the Opposi tion, taunted Mr. Lloyd George with surrendering to his millionaire sup- porters, and declared that the Chancellor of the Exchequer had broken every Liberal principlo.
Geners! Villa Federals lost 4,000 killed and 2,000 wounded, and 5,000 captured, while
cstimates that the
the losses of the Rebels he puts at 500 killed and 800 wounded.
MEDIATION PROCEEDINGS, BUSPENDED,
The conferences of the Mediators" at Niagara Falls have been suspended pend- ing the discussion between the representa tives
of
Carranza and Huerta Carranza's delegates are expected to arrive within a few days,
“MR. ROOSEVELT AND THE PANAMA CANAL
PRESIDENT WILSON'S POLICY ATTACKED.
New York, June 20th.
Mr. Roosevelt has arrived here. Ho
vehemently attacked President Wilson's
the Union as head, as the Kaiser is an Hon. Admiral
of the British Fleet,
"and":
mutinied at the mast The Shansh troops
plundered Pao Tou-chen at the begin-
BRITISH SQUADRON IN THE
BALTIC
ning of the month. The town lies on the Hoangho, in Mongolia, and near the Shansi border. The mutineers seek to establish a connection with White. ST. PETERSBURG, June 28th, Wolf. The people on the Mongolian side Rear-Admiral Beatty and his offcors of Shansi are very excited and fear attended a sitting of the Duma, and similar outrages. afterwards were present at a reception givon by the President of the Duma.
JOHORE PLANTERS ALLEGED
FORGERY,
A ECHEME TO MAKE MONEY,”
AN ARREST AT:COLOMBO:
Those are the headlines given in the
LATER. The mutiny of the troups in Kalgan is. nscribed to the machinations of White Wolf's" agents. They spread a rumour to the chfect that the President intended
to dissolve the bodyguards and the First Division in the coming fall, and to order the men to settle on the arid lands in Mongolia The Commander of the troops.
Mr. Asquith, the Premier, exhaustively foreign policy and affirmed that the Singapore Free Press to the following heard of these rumours, and arrested
defended the Finance Bill, and especially that part which referred to local grants. The Cowrnment, he said, had had to abandon grants temporarily under stress
of Parliamentary time. He repeated Mr. Lloyd George's statement with regard to unfavourable comparison, but prove, ratlier, the great value of the efforts the Sanitary the sugar tax, though he himself, he added, Department staff are constantly making to did not consider the sugar tax a serious
check the spread of the deadly spidemic | burden. which they cannot entirely prevent,
The Hongkong Ice Co, Limited, has. declared an interim dividend of $2.50 per share.
The Manila Observatory yesterday re ported a typhoon to be N.W. of Yag, moving N.N.W, or N.
Wednesday next, July 1st, is a General Holiday, in accordance with the Public Holidays Ordinance of 1912.
Mr. N. F. Blanch, General Manager of Messrs. Thomas Cock & Co.'s Agencies in the Far East, and Mrs. Blanch have returned to the Colony, after an absence of thirteen months.
Mr. Justice Hazeland yesterday in the Supreme Court refused an application to restore to the list a case which was struck out last week because the plaintiff failed to appear, his Honour remarking that when a plaintiff issued a writ he should be present in Court at the proper time to support it.
Mr. Hayes-Fisher's amendment, regret ting that no provision had been made for grants to local authorities during the current year, was rejected by 303 votes,
to 265.
from voting and the O'Brienites voted Some of the Radical members abstained
with the Opposition,
The Labourites abstained from voting, with the exception of two, who supported the Government. Mr. Luke White was the only Liberal to vote against the Government.
United States acquisition of the Panama Canal was absolutely straightforward. The proposed payment of 825,000,000 to British Colombia was simply payment of bolated blackmail. It would be better to abandon the Canal bag and baggage than to pay this sum. pay/thie s
LARGE AMERICAN FIRM IN DIFFICULTIES;
OVER-EXTENSION OF UREDIT2:
NEW YORK, June 25thi Official Receivers have been appointed to deal with the vast wholesale dry goods
sale and retail connections throughout the firm of S. B. Claflin, a firm having whole
country.
The liabilities of the firm are stated to be 835,000,000 and assets $40,000,000 The failure is attributed to the over-extension of credit.
reporti
four of the robber Chief's agents, where upon the troops under his command mutinied.
News to hand of the suppression of the mutiny by the Bannerman, who are Manchus, is discredited. It seems that
ber Estate, Johore, of which Mr. R. J. C. A man named Richardson was a little while ago employed on Batu Anam Rub- Jewitt is the manager. This man's sud- dan disappearance led to the issue of a warrant for his arrest on charges of for- gery and theft. In response to a telegram, the Colombo police a few days ago arrest ed a passenger on board the N.D.L. the Bannermen left Kalgan to the Luetrow, travelling as M. A Riley He mutineers. was brought up at the police court and charged, says a Colombo contemporary, The police ultimately, restored sono with forgery and the theft of 81,750 on semblance of order in the sacked city. May 25th,
the sack
THE WHITE WOLF."
Inspector CJ Modder, of the Fort About 700 of the mutineers left Kalgan. Police, said that ho arrested the accused, with arms and ammunition in their that morning on board the Luetzon on a provisional warrant issued by the Court possession, under the name of Thomas Anthony Riley at 2 o'clock. The accused was travelling.
answered to the description, given in the and had booked a passage from Penang. to Colombo. He found that the accused
telegram, of R. Richardson, alias Graban, alias Comes, but the accused denied that he was any of these, Found amongst the luggage of the accused were 20 envelopes Hotel, Singapore, There were also several and 2 sheets of notepaper from the Raffles
General Kiang Kuei-ti has been sent hotel bills and wine chits made out in to inspect the Government troops at favour of M. A. Riley. A diary bearing
PEKING, June 20th. White Wolf's" bands have arrived at Lung Chu Chai in South-Eastern Shansi, near the Hopan boarder.
Thirty of the subsidiary dry goods the name of R. A. Richardson contained a Kaifengfoo. The Bill was then read a second time atores in the country will continue busi-a letter addressed to Mesare. Harrisons,
letter addressed to Mr. R. Richardson, and Tho without a division.
ness under Receivers.
Ea
THE AMENDING HOME RULE BILL.
LONDON, June 28th.
Sir Edward Carson, in a statement, declares that the Home Rule Amending Bill marks no progress, and he appeals "all the men of Great Britain to see us through first.” (sic,)
to
THE IRISH NATIONALIST
VOLUNTEERS.
Captain Wetherell, one of the heroes in the piratical attack on the str, Tai On,
LONDON, June 26th. who has been in ill-health ever since that.
The numbers of the Nationalist Volun- dastardly affair, left for Home yesterday tears are still awelling It has been on the P. & O. Nellore, and hopes to return after a few months' stay in the Homeland. men in Dublin. to the East with recuperated strength arranged to form a Corps of 500 mounted
A Hankow contemporary reports an interesting real estate transaction, in that port. Lot No. 8 in the German Con cossion, belonging to the Standard Oil Company, has been sold to the Nord- deutsche Lloyd for which Messrs. Melchers & Co. are the Agents. It is believed that extensive additions and improvements will be made to this property.
Ireland for a month to raise funds to Special collections will be taken up in buy modern rifles.
The
be
AUSTRALIA'S NAVY.
ANNOUNCEMENT OF A MODIFICATION..
MELBOURNE, June 28th. The Australian Navy Minister, the Hon. Mr Millen, announced in the Benste a modification in the programme to say, how it comes about that the rate his Report on the work of his Department and two submarines would be built in The Secretary for Chinese Affairs in for the next five years. Two light cruisers become infected with this deadly disease for 1913, says: "The year's work with which is communicated by means of the women and children generally presented would be ordered from England.
stead of destroyers. The submarines rat flea to man.. In this connection wo
a number of new and difficult problems, cost of the modification would would like to draw attention to the curious owing principally to the distress in coincidence that whenever plague is severe North China
£1,700,000. and the
unrest in in Hongkong the pine plantations of the Canton.
The Northern distress Colony suffer from ад extraordinary was responsible for arr increase i visitation of caterpillar. This is notably number of purchased children sold the cune this year, when we have had an it would scom in the hope of epidemic of plaque unequalled in severity ploring their lot, brought through 0-3. since the dread disease made its first were detained and released on bond or on Hongkong. Some few of these children appearance in the Colony, in the year 1894. adoption: but in the majority of the cases Over 2,000 cases bave been notified in as it proved impossible to return them to the Colony since the beginning of the year their homes, and as they were probably We believe we are correct in saying in any event better off in the new con that this number has been excreded only ditions, no action was taken. once, and that was in the year 1894, «hen
TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS
LONDON, June 26th. Gore bent Jarvis.-6-3, 6-3, 6-2,
MINING INTERESTS IN MEXICO.
AN AGREEMENT. FOR PROTECTION,
WASHINGTON, Juno 26th. An agreement has been reached between Great Britain and the United States for the protection of mining properties in Mexico
THE CALIFORNIAN LAND LAW.
JAPANESE HAVE NO RIGHT TO HOLD AGRICULTURAL LANDS.
WASHINGTON, June 28th.
Correspondence between Japan and the United States relative to the Californian
countries. Replying on the 24th inst. to land question has been published in both
a Japanese communication of ten months ago, the United States Government de clares that the language of the Treaty excludes Japanese from the right holding agricultural lands
of
GREAT FIRE IN AMERICA.
BUSINESS CITY SWEPT
SALEM (Massachusetts), Juns 28th. A fire swept the business section of the city, burning an area of 40 acres in the leather manufacturing district, while 50 houses were destroyed in the residential distriót.
The wind changed its direction in the Dawson beat Decugis, 6-4, 4-6, 6-1 of the city, which is threatened with evening, and the fire neared the centre
destruction, Nineteen injured persons Mavrocordato beat Doust, 60, 64, have been removed to hospital.
Parke beat Caridia-62, 6–2, 6–1.
HOME CRICKET
LONDON, Jun 26th. Northants beat Somerset at North- ampton by an innings and 197 runs,
OBITUARY.
LONDON, June 26th, The death is announced of the Dake of
Arsenal
at
EUROPEAN SERVICE.
al at Shanghai has and Crosfield, Batavia, applying for the despatched considerable quantities of post of stenographer, was signed by R. Richardson, Together with that (which
arme and ammunition to Peking, for uso was found by Sergt. D. Lloyd in the in the expedition against White Wolf." trunk of the accused), was a copy of a testimonial in favour of R. Richardson by Messrs. Anthony & Co. Written by ed to this firm, Hongkong, China, signed the same hand was an open letter address-
by M. A. Riley. Mr. Modder said the letter, bat he denied that purporting to scensed admitted having written this
be written by R. Richardson, The hand writing was identical, There was also produced a blanket and two counterpanes marked with the letter "R" £20 in gold, a five pound note and some other loose coin.
The accused said he was Morris Riley. The telegram referred to him, but he knew
him. He was not Richardson. He wished
ANGLO-RUSSIAN UNDER-
STANDING.
BERLIN, June 25th.
in honour of the British Squadron, the At the banquet given at St. Petersburg
British Ambassador, in the presence of M. Sassonow, declared that all the
othing of the charge brought against conditions existed for a frm Anglo- to reserve his statement and had no ques-Russian understanding.
time, pending the arrival of the warrant, tious to ask h
Mr Modder asked to be given a week's
Mr. F. R. A. Pereira appeared for the and the accused was remanded. accused.
events leading up to this arrest at Color- Rather a remarkable story is that of the bo. Whilst the man Richardson was on
DEATH OF THE DUKE OF SAXE- MEININGEN.
BERLIN, June 25th, The nonagenarian Duke of Saxe-
Meiningen is dead. The Press eulogizes
the Johore estate, it is stated, a letter bia merita on behalf of the Drama.
INSURRECTION IN SOUTH
ALBANIA
from Hongkong, really for him, was deli- vered to another man of the same name, who naturally opened it. This letter is said to have set forth a scheme to make money in an unconventional manner. The letter was handed to the Johore police, who showed it to Mr G. H
BBELIN, June 25th. May, Cro. of Bingapore. Mr. May had South Albania is in open revolt. the letter photographed, and a facsimile forwarded to Hongkong, firms in which Elbassan has been captured, and Valona Colony were referred to in the letter is now consequently in danger. There Maanwhile, Mr. Jewitt, through illness, was unable to attend to his work on the
has been a revolt at the latter place and estate for three days. This was the time the Governor has sent an urgent request when Richardson left the estate somewhat for Austrian and Italian men-of-war. unexpectedly. Afterwards, Mr Jewitt
absenes from duty These cheques had and the Dutch Government has requested discovered that three cheques had been Tho rebels have taken two Dutch officers, Laken from his cheque book during his been forged for differing amounts, one the Control Commissioners to effect their. being for $1,760 The polica sought to
trace Richardson. They discovered that liberation.
LATER
a man answering to his description had stayed at Raffles Hotel for a day. It is The Bertiner Tageblatt says that the holioved he took a sampan from John-
ston's Pier and boarded a steamer in the two Dutch officers who were captured by harbour. The man in custody at Colom-
bo, as stated in the police court, booked the rebels have been liberated con- his passage on the lustrow from Penang. | ditionally.