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statement, I may monition that for the hat Captain E. H. Rymer has been appolat TELEGRAMS, TELEGRAMS. TELEGRAMS.
twenty-five years the Bank has been doing a very large business with Chinese in Shanghai, and we have never yet met with a defaulting Chinaman." At the time when that testimonial was given, the foreign merchant could, with good reason, be equally generous in his praise of the honesty of the Chinese merchants. But
ed to succeed Capt. Streathfield in cum-
and of H.M.S. Triumph.
We are informed that the cook who was
fined for drunkenness at the Magistracy
on Wednesday did not belong to the Hazara Mountain Battery, as reported
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY. }
THE IRISH SITUATION:
URGENCY OF AMENDING BILL.
LONDON, July 16th.
In the House of Commons, Mr. Asquith
times have changed since then. The BanEngineering Co., Ltd., will recommend at announced that the Government were
can no longer claim that it has never bad a defaulting Chinaman, while the foreign merchant is finding the new generation of Chinese merchants vastly different from the old in respect of business bonesty. We are led to these reflections by the nunounce ment that a meeting of the metal importere of Hongkong is convened for Wednesday next to approve and adopt, if thought desirable, a form of contract, and also to consider whether or not an Association of Metal Importers shall be formed.
in
Metals,
The Directors of the Shanghai Dock and
their forthcoming annual meeting the payment of a dividend of Tls. 5 per share.
anxious that the Amending Bill should be considered at the earliest practicable -moment. He would provisionally fix
Monday for the debate.
Mr. Bonar Law emphasised that it would be a real misfortune if there was any delay:
Sir William Hyndman Jane Chief Justice of the Strait Settlements, has tendered his resignation as from July 3rd. His retirement is described by the Straits Timer as a great loss to the
Last night Sir Edward Carson con- Colony. The Hon, Mr. J. A. 8 Buck-
ill, K.C., Attorney-General of Hong-ferred with the Unionist leadors. kong is at present the Acting Chief Justice of the Straits Settlements.
Twe Chinese porcelain vases realised £8,680 at Christie's on 17th it. They came from different anonymous pro parties, and were both beakers of the Kang-He period, beautifully enamelled: The largest stood 2710, high, and fetched £6,040; the other 18in. high, and fetched
The day was £1,020,
one of high bidding, two Chinese famille-rose cisterns of the Kier-Lung period realising 21,029
10s.
we need scarcely say, form an important branch of the Colony's tande, and represent a very large tomover each year. I former years no class of merchants in Hongkong had better reputation for a motel business honesty. than the merchants. Bat recent years, and especially since the Revolution, that reputation has suffered to such an extent as to need the regulation of the trade by such means as the meeting to which we have referred has been convened to consider. As the old men whose word was as good as their bond" pass off the stage their places are taken by younger mea who are found in too many cases to have conceptions of commercial morality which are fast undermining the fair fame and enviable repute of the Chinese mer- chant class. They show little hesitation about evading contracts if the market rates are not in their favour when the goods Junes, Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Joseph arrive. A little rust on a cargo of iron is Mr. Walter E. King, Mr. W. Thurlow frequently an excuse for making a demand Lay, Mr. and Mrs. C. W. May, Mr. 1. for compensation to an extent which not H. Perry, Mr G. M. H. Playfair, Mr. only robs the foreign merchant of his profit and Mrs. E. A. Probst, Mr. Oliver G. but mulcts him in considerable loss into the Ready, Mr. and Mrs. W. Bruce Robert bargain. Formerly such claims were unson, Mrs. Tones, Mr. and Mrs. A
The sudden recall of Sir Edward Carson to London, and the visit of the Secretary for Ireland (Mr. A Birrell) to Dublin are regarded as significant. The Irish outlook to-day is supposed to be more hopeful.
LATER.
The Daily Chronicle says that hopes of a settlement of the question by consent are fading. Sir Edward Carson has re- turned to Belfast more determined than ever for a "clean cut," while the Govern ment are firmly wedded to the idea of exclusion by county option.
There have been rumours that a minori
THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
PRESIDENT HUERTA LEAVES MEXICO.
[* DEL OSTASIATISCHER LLOYD'
SERVICE
CHINA SERVICE.
THE NEUMANN MURDER AT SHANGHAI
SHANGHAI, July 15th. The Mixed Court at Shanghai has
ASPERDY RESIGNATION CEREMONY.
MEXICO CITY, July 18th. President Huerta's family, relatives, and friends have left for Vera Cruz They are escorted by military trains. It is believed that President Huerta and transferred the trial of the four Chinese, charged with the murder. of Mrs. others will leave the capital to-day.
*President Huerta boarded a German Noumann, to the Court at the Chinese City, for reasons of competency. The cruiser at Vera Cruz. His family are on
accused are unable to prove their alibis an English man-of-war.
It is officially announced that President during the night of the murder. Nover Huerta will resign to-day. He will be theless, they dony their guilt, although succeeded by Senor Carbajal. All the they have become entangled in con
tradictions. Cabinet Ministers under the, Huerta ro
gime have resigned.
LATER. MEXICO CITY, July 16th. President Huerta's retirement was of a speedy and quiet nature.
· Congress accepted the resignation by 121 votes to 17, and Senor Carbajal then. took the oath and proceeded to the Palace, where he received an ovation,
read a fareweil The ex President message to Congress and then entrained for Puerto Mexico, to which place H.M.S. Bristol and the German cruiser Dresden sailed hastily from Vera Cruz.
Among those present at the China the Trocadero Society's dinner at Restaurant, London, last month wers Mrs. N. d. Stubts, Sir Robert Bredon,ty of the Cabinet Ministers are willing to Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Hill, Mr. and Mrs accept a "clean cut," hence the depata Byron Brenan, Dr. and Mrs. L. Giles
tion of Liberals, who asked the Chief special committee has left for Celaya Sir Walter and Lady Hillier, Mies Hillier, Mr. and Mrs Gerald Hillier,
Government Whip to convey to Mr to arrange for the Constitutionals peace- Mr. and Mrs. A. E Hippisley, Mr. H. Asquith their strong objection to furtherful entry into the capital. E. Hobson, Mr. H. E, R. Hunter, Mr. concessions. George Jamieson, Mr. and Mrs. H. D.
Townsend, Mr. and Mrs. £. T. €. Wheeler, Mr. and Mrs. G. Wingrove, Mr. A. G. Wood, Mr. and Mrs. R. T Wright
SHAMEEN MILITARY MURDER RECALLED.
IBRAHIM EXPLATES HIS CRIME
own, except, of course, in cases where the cargo was seriously damaged by water in transit, and then an amicable settlement was always possible; but nowadays excessive claims for the most trivial rust-which is practically unavoidable in transit through thetropics are common enough, and the new generation of Chinese merchants will have nothing to do with commercial arbitrations. which do not ensure full eatisfaction of The Afghan Sepoy, Thrahim, who wAS their claims. The time has, therefore, come when the trade must be put on a new footing. It is in the interests alike of Chinese metal importers of good standing and of the foreign merchants engaged in the metal trade that the steps outlined in the notice calling text Wednesday's meet ing should be adopted The reputation for business honesty which the Chinese mer- chant has so long enjoyed is a rational asset of the greatest value which it is worth a great deal of effort to preserve.
Sir Havilland de Sausmarez goes Canton to-day, where he is to try a case.
to
The appeal in connection with HUME. On July 8th, SARAH EDITH, wife Chinese succession claim will be com
of T. J. HUME, of Singapore.
menced at the Supreme Court on Monday,
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The Daily Press.
HONGKONG, JULY 17TH, 1914. THE Chinese merchant has long enjoyed & reputation for business honesty in his relations with the foreign mercbaut, -so- much so indeed that it may be said that even in circles in Europe whers little oles may be known of the Chinese, it has become
The output from the Tronoh Mines, Ltd., for June is as follows:-From mire 2,307 piculs, from tributers 129 piculs, total 2,520
According to Straits papers, Mr. Frank Hayter, advance agent for the Bandmann Opera Company,, who arrived in Singa pore from Hongkong on the P. & 0. str. Himalaya, is suffering from
a sharp attack of malaria fever.
Three Chinese went into a shop at No, 7, D'Aguilar Street, and examined sever
a known and accepted article of faith that rolls of silk, bit went out withcut making the Chinaman's word is as good as his
a purchase. The shopkeeper discovered bond. To borrow the words of a well soon afterwards that one of them had known writer, "Without generalising to
to managed to steal, take, and carry
a roll of silk worth $20.
a degree which might be precarious, away
it is safe to say that there must be
The marriage arranged between Cap.
Mrs. Percy Alexander Howden, of Lansdowne-road, Tunbridge Wells, will take place quietly on August 22nd at St James's Church, Tunbridge Wells.
sentenced to death at the Criminal Sessions in December, 1912, for the murder of Subadar Ali Shala, at Shameen, Canton, was executed at Victoria Gaol
at dawn yesterday.
The Subadar was murdered on the night of the 4th September, 1912. The jury disagreed at the first trial, but Ibrahim was found guilty by the second jury.
A period of over a year and nine months transpired between the commission of the crime and its expiation on the scaffold.
An inquest was hold on the body at the gaol yesterday afternoon by the Coroner (Mr. J. E. Wood), and a jury composed of Messrs. S. H. Dutton, Karl Wehle, and Gerrit Vermey.
Chief Warder E. Pierrepoint stated that the deceased was received into the prison on the 16th December, 1912, under sentence of death, which sentence was duly carried out at 5 o'clock that morn ing. Those present at the execution were Mr. Franka (Assistant Superintendent of the gaol, Dr. Moore, himself, and the usual escort of officers.
Dr. Moore (Medical Officer to the gaul) stated that death was instantaneous.
The jury returned a verdict in accord ance, with the medical evidence, und
added that the deceased was executed, in the due course of the law,
MR. AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN'S
WELCOME.
LONDON, July 19th. Mr. Austen Chamberlain, who was returned unopposed for his late father's constituency at West Birmingham, took his seat in the House of Commons to-day amid general cheers,
PARLOUS CONDITION OF ALBANIA.
LONDON, July 16th.
Rumours that the Triple Alliance were preparing Military Expedition to
ི་ Albania to protect the interests threa tened in the Adriatic prove baseless.
The Italia Government declares that the mobilisation of troops was only done a view of interior dificulties. However the agitation of Italy against the Greeks in South Albania increases.
It is considered in Londen that the Albanian outlook is most nessimistic. SUFFRAGETTES USE DOG-WHIPS.
DISGRACEFUL ASSAULT ON SECRETARY FOR! BCOTLAND.
LONDON, July 16th. Two Suffragettes attacked the Secretary for Scotland (Mr. McKinnon Wood) with dog-whips as he was leaving his residence. The women were arrested.
THE BISLEY MEETING.
LONDON, July 18th. In the contest for the Humphrey. Cup, Oxford University beat Cambridge University, the scores being: 900; Cambridge, 822.
SCULLING.
Oxford,
LONDON, July 18th, Tann won the race for the Wingfield! Sculls, easily beating Wise, last year's winner, in 24min 80sees.
RUSSIAN FAKIR DEAD.
LONDON, July 16th. The Russian fakir Rasputin, who was
died
WASHINGTON, July 10th. The resignation is the first practical step a quick solution of the trouble in Mexico, and may pave the way for the entry of General Carranza.
to
ESPIONAGE IN GERMANY.
RUSSIAN MILITARY ATTACHE AT BERLIN. IMPLICATED..
BERLIN, July 10th The connection of the Russian Military Attaché Basaroff with the espionage in Germany on behalf of Russia, for which
A representative of the German Con- sulate General will be present at the trial in the Chinese City,
OFFICIAL APPOINTMENTS.
PEKING, July 18th.
The following new Civil Governors have been appointed
Hunan
Anhui
Kiangs Kirin
Lin Hein Yuan.
Han Kuo Chun.
Chi Yab Lin. Meng Hsien Yi.
It is rumoured that Liang Hsi Yi has intervened as regards the retirement of Hsiung Hsi Ling, who therefore remains at present in office.
FEAR OF THE SUFFRAGETTE. IN CHINA. -.
PERING, Joly 16th. The Minister of the Interior has advised the Civil Governors and Tao Yins to suppress all endeavours by Suffragettes. immediately there are any indications.
EUROPEAN SERVICE.
THE ALBANIAN QUESTION.
LONDON, July 15th." There is much pessimism hero regard-
a German Sergeant named Pohl bas justing the Albanian question. The Powers been sentenced to 15 years' imprison are not likely to accede to the Prince's ment, accepted unhesitatingly in Berlin,
A telegram received yesterday stated that the Military Attaché had quitted Berlin, but that the report of his connection with the espionage was not confirmed.].
FOREST FIRES IN RUSSIA,
BAIN NECESSARY TO PREVENT A NATIONAL
2. CALAMITY.”
request for military assistance, The Times pointa cut that Italy is mobilizing 50,000 men, and that Austria has begun negotiations with the view of obtaining a strategical position at Valona.
BERLIN, July 15th
It is not thought possible to hold Valoun,
unless rainforcements arrive as the Epirotes and Grecks are advancing. ST. PETERSBURG, July 16th.
The population is fleeing. The number The forest and cor fires in Russia are
of Austrian and Italian men-of-war at spreading, and only rain can prevent a
Valona is insufficient for the protection national calamity. Troops are fighting, of the interests of the Triple Alliance, the conflagration.
now threatened in the Adriatic. The Twenty-five houses were burned and military expedition to Albania, as four persons perished in a fire in the workmen's quarters of St. Petersburg last night. The fire is still raging.
CHINESE IN BATAVIA.
APPEAL FOR PROTECTION.
BATAVIA, July 18th.
The Chinese have appealed to Peking by telegraph asking that effectual measures be taken to prevent the shooting of gamblers, and the invasion of the colony by the Dutch police.
RELATIONS
BETWEEN AUSTRIA AND SERVIA
BUDA PESTA, July-10tb-
In the Chamber of Deputies, Count Tisza, the Prime Minister, in an inter-
I will be remembered that Mr. F. C. Jenkin (instructed by Mr. R. A. Harding) applied for leave to appeal in forma pauperis to HM.'s Privy Council, on two grounds-first, that the jurisdiction of the stabbed in the abdomen by a women, has pellation regarding the Servian connec Court was not established, and secondly, that there was a grave miscarriage of justice by reason of the misreception of evidence. Leave to appeal was granted in May of last year, and the appeal was dismissed in the middle of March this
case could hardly have been made out.
TYPHOON WARNING The telegram quoted below was received at the American Consulate - General, Hongkong, from the Manila Observatory at 4 p.m. yesterday:--
Cyclone or typhoon E. of northern Luzon, more than 300 miles distant, moving W.
announced by the Arents, will not take place, and the Italian Government declares that the levy of reservists was measure produced by the domestic situation. The resentment is growing in Italy against the Greek doings in South Albania.
KAISER AND THE LATE GERMAN MINISTER TO PEKING.
BERLIN, July 15th. H.M. the Kaiser has expressed his heartfelt sympathy to the brother and wife of the late Herr v. Haxthausen, referring to him as "my" deserving, promising
H.E. the German Imperial Chancellor has also eulogized the faithful and valued services of this upright man."
THE FLIGHT OF HUERTA
BERLIN, July 15th. Huerta has arrived at Vera Cruz, and
tion with the crime at Serajevo, said that the Austro-Servion relations must be HOME RACING.
cleared up. As the question was still PROBABLES FOR THE ECLIPSE STAKES.
pending, he could not atate the method to LONDON, July 18th he employed. The Government were The following are the probable starters conscious that their interests were bound went aboard a German man of war, while their jockeys for the Eclipse up with the maintenance of peace but his family found refuge aboard a British Stakes, which is boing run at the State which did not regard war as the warship. Sandown Park to day:Cantilever ultima ratio could not consider itself a (Walter · · Griggs); Louvois (Saxby); Stató (Cheore.) Jameson (Speur); White Magic (G. McCall); Anmer (Jones); Halos (Wing); Kennymore (Clark); Hapsburg (Foy); By George (Piper), Honeywood (Donoghue); Carrick Fergus (Wheatley); Evans Dale (W. Harley) Quixtus and Lord Godolphin have not at present been
a good basis for testimonies of this tain John Cecil Hamilton Holliday, 122nd year, the judges remarking that a clearer and sort." Many years ago the late Sir Rajputana Infantry, only son of Mr. and CAMERON, of the Hongkong and Shanghai Mrs. Cecil Holliday, of Shanghai, and Bank on the uecasion of his departure Eileen Mabel, eldest daughter of Mr. and from Shanghai, gave the Chinese merchant class a testimonial which is enshrined in the pages of more than one popular book on China, and has probably done more than anything else to spread the faith in Chinese business honesty. I have referred," he said, "to the high commercial standing of tas foreign community, The Chinesa are in no way behind us in that respect; in fact I know of no people in the world would sooner trust than the Chinese mer chant and banker. Of course there are exceptions to every rule, but to show that I have good reason for making such a strong
provided with riders.
ENGLISH CRICKET.
LONDON, July 16th.
It is announced in London papers that marriage has been arranged and will take place in October at Shanghai between Commander Henry C.-R. Boucher, Royal Navy, son of the late Mr. Thomas Boucher and Mrs. Boucher The Heport of the General Committees of Hemingstone, Walton-by- Cleveland, of the Hongkong General Chamber of The Gentlemen beat the Players at Somerset, and Patricia, daughter of the Commerce for the year ended 3let Lords by 138, runs. late Herbert Keith und Mrs. Keith, of December, 1913, is now issued in the usual Sassez beat. Gloucestershire at Hastings uk, Hyde Park-mansions, W.
book form, and we are indebted to the Secretary for a copy of the volume.
by 364 runs
THE PLURAL VOTING BILL.
AGAIN REJECTED BY THE HOUSE OF LORDS. BERLIN, July 16th The House of Lords rejected the Plural Voting Bill for the second time under the
Parliament Act, the voting being:-
For the Bill
49 Against
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PRESIDENT POINCARE'S VISIT TO RUSSIA
PARIE, July 16th. President Poincare has left for Russia.
DEATH OF A RUSSIAN FAKIR
BERLIN, July 15th. Rasputin, the Russian fakir, has died of the wounds inflicted by a woman who announced her intention to kill the false prophet.
A CARTOONIST'S FLIGHT FROM
PUNISHMENT.
BERLIN, July 15th. The cartoonist Hansi has allowed his bail, which was collected by middle-class people; to become estreated. He did not enter on his term of punishment.