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A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD.,
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JULY 21ST, 1914,
Stwow, the wealthy Hindu who chartera TELEGRAMS. TELEGRAMS. TELEGRAMS.
the Komagata-maru to take this consignment
of Hindus to Vancouver, was making it knove that he had not abandoned his origi.. nal intention to establish a line of steamers
THROUGH BEUTEL AGENDY
ISSUE NARROWED DOWN:
KING CONVENES A CONFERENCE OF PARTY LEADERS.
to bring Hindus to British Columbia and THE HOME RULE SITUATION. carry freight to this side of the Pacific. In a latter to a Vancouver paper he asks for the insortion of the following advertisement →→ "Wanted, agents for four ships per year up to five years for India with best class of cre kind of lumber. Apply with price list and spocimens of lumber.". Nothwithstanding WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS. that the police and the immigration
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authorities have been taking precautions to prevent the Hindu agitators residing Vancouver getting into communication with their countrymen on the ship, the crowd on board seem to be well primed regarding the part they are expected to play in the game, and it looks as if blood will be shed before
LONDON, July 20th. The Morning Pest and the Daily Mail state that, acting with the approval or on the advice of Ministers, the King has summoned a conference of representatives of all parties, and all have acquiesced They meet to-morrow,
The Times states that the conference,
which will consist of two representatives cach from the Government, the Opposi-
franOUGH REUTER'S AGENCY:] KOMAGATA MARU'S HINDU
IMMIGRANTS:
DER OSTASIATISCHER LLOYD"
SERVICE
CHINA SERVICE. ABOLITION OF TARTAR-GENERALS.
PEKING, July 20th The Government has decided on the abolition of the Tartar-Gonerals, with the exception of those at Sui-yuan, Jehol and
· A FIGHT WITH THE POLICE.
VICTORIA, B.C., July 20th, The Hindus on board the Komagala. Maru beat off over a hundred armed Vancouver police who attempted to board and force the vessel to sail for Hongkong || Chahar. A number of the police, including the Uhief, was wounded by missiles burled. from the deck.
CANADIAN BAILONS TO REDUCE THEM TO SUBMISSION."
Orrowa, July 20th. The Government has instructed the
HSIUNG HSI LING.
PERING, July 20th. Hatung Ling, Director of the Oil Bureau, has again applied for leave, and it has been granted to him.
"SUI TAI AND ON LEE" IN COLLISION.
· MARINE "COURT, INQUIRY.
An exciting West River indident was described at the Marine Court yesterday when Commander Beckwith, R.N., heard a case in which O. Hughes, master of the str. On Lee, was summoned at the instanes of R. D. Thomas, master of the atr. Sus Tai, for failing to observe the Inter- national Collisions Regulations, Articlos 20 and 24, while navigating the str. On Lee on the West River on the night of July 13th.
Mr. D. V. Steavenson (from Messrs. Deacon, Looker Deacon & Harston) appeared for plaintiff, and Mr. Dixon (from Messrs. Wilkinson & Grist) defend- ed, and pleaded not guilty,
Captain Thomas of the Sui Tai said he left the Wing Lok Street wharf at 7 p.m.,
they are overawed, Previous telegrams tion, the Nationaliste, and the UlstCommander of the Dominion cruise. It must be surmised that his resignation the On Lee having leit just before. The
have told us that the owners of the steamer have sent imperativo orders to the Captain to bring the vessel back, but he apparently is ufraid to take the risk unless an armed guard is
WHISKY. put on board adequate to cope with a
mutiny among the passengers. Sometime ugo the Captain was stated to have asked the Japanese warships on the Pacific Coast of America to furnish a guard of a hundred marines for the voyage, as the Hindus al declared that they would use violence and ren murder before they permitted the ship to sail for India.
Our Celebrated E very old Liqueur Scotch Whisky is a blend of the best Pot Distilled Scotch Whiskies. It is of great age, very fine, and mellow. Its superior We assume that the Japanese Naval quality has establishedits re-authorities will not supply the naval guard, putation for over 30 year as and since the Canadian authorities are THE LEADING SCOTCH unable to induce the Komagata muru to leave, WHISKY IN THE EAST. they have decided to send a force from the
Their threats, it was said, prevented the firemen from working.
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HONGKONG. JULY 27T, 1914,
mary is not clear, but no doubt the
put will be considered in the ponalty imposed in the action which is to be taken against them for their failure to comply with the deportation order. In any event, GURDIT SGH, we imagine, will have. considerable difficulty in finding another shipowner prepared to accept a charter from him for further enterprise of the kind.
Mr. Moe Cheung, the well-known photo grapher, has taken a series of photographs in the flooded districts of the West River which give a good idea of the nature of the damage done by the floods.
The Cantonese merchants at Pnom-penh, | Indo-China, recently organised a "grande kermesse" for the benefit of the victims
of the West River floods. H.M. King Sisowath patronised the effort.
Covenantors,
Sui Tui followed the On Lee until they got to the west side of the Canton River. Then the Shin Lee was noticed to be coming down, and when near Swashiwai Point the On Lee was still ahead on the
CHOU TZE MSI.
PERING, July 20th. Chou Tre Hsi has already twice been granted leave of absence, and ramours of port side of the Sui Tai, which had set his impending resignation are spreading. TENG KUO CHANG RETURNS TO NANKING.
Ituinbur to send a detachment to the cannot be averted. meets at Buckingham Palace to-morrow. The numbers wil Komagata Maru to reduce the Hindus to submission with a view to their deporta-. be: Mr. Asquith and Mr. Lloyd George, Lord Lansdowne and Mr. Bonar Law. tion on the Empress of Japan, which in Mr. Redmond and Mr. Dillon, and Sirsailing on Thursday. The Government Edward Carson and Captain Craig.also intend to take legal proceedings Mr. Asquith is expected to announes against the master and the charterers of the Komagata Maru for failing to carry this conference this afternoon.
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out the deportation order. The report that a conference will be held between representatives of all parties has been oficially confirmed.
NEWSPAPER COMMENTS ON THE POSITION.
The papore generally agree that the Home Rule issue has been narrowed down to a struggle for the possession of Fermanagh and
Tyrone, the latter
county, in which the Protestants are in a majority only in the south, being the chief difficulty.
The Standard and the Daily Telegraph shy that as the result of negotiations thu Unionists have tentatively agreed to the inclusion of Donegal, Cavan, and Monaghan in the Home Rule area, and that the Government are abandoning the County option and the six years limit.
The Morning Post says that the Opposi tion have already rejected the offer to
divide Tyrone, and that the position still remains that of a "clean-cut" fight.
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The Daily Chronicle says that Sir Edward Carson insists on the exclusion of the whole of Formanagh and Tyrone, ·
The papers agree that after Mc Asquith's statement to-day the House of Commons will adjourn and the negotia tions will be resumed.
The Daily Telegraph states that M Lloyd George will be taken off the Finance Bill in order to assist in the negotiations in the remaining stages of the Home: Rule
Bill.
The Finance Bill will be in charge of the Rt. Hon. H. L. Samuel and the Rt Hon. Sir J.A Simon,
GREAT BRITAIN'S FLEET.
OF FIVE HUNDRED WARSHIPS.
LONDON, July 20th.
Inspector P. O'Sullivan prosecuted a Chinese at the Magistracy yesterday THE KING WITNESSES A TEST NOBILISATION before Mr. Wood on a charge of returning from banishment. A robbery of clothing having been reported from the house in
His Majesty King George, and the which the defendant was residing, & Prince of Wales, accompanied by Mc. dotective was sent to investigate the matter. He saw the defendant there, and Asquith, the Promier, on board the although his suspicions, were directed Royal yacht Alexandru, passed down the against the man, he could find nothing to lines of the fleet assembled off Portsmouth assist him to bringing a charge against and hoarded five of the warships. him. However, the detective fancied be remembered the man's face as being that After a night of storm, the King, accom of a man who had been banished, so hepanied by the Prince of Wales, and Mr. took him to the West Point Station, where the man's fingerprints were taken, end, according to the police, his prints tallied with a man who had been deported. The
A Chinese was charged at the Magis tracy yesterday with snatching a gold neck-band, with appendage, from a woman in Shektongshui, and further with maali- ciously wounding two persons. The defendant pleaded guilty, but evidence was taken with a view to committing the man to the Criminal Sessions. It seemed that the ma suddenly tore the necklet off
LATER,
Asquith, aboard the Bayal yacht, led the mobilised Fleet out to sea. Soon there was a great modern Fleet under way. The Alexandra anchored to enable the Royal party to watch the ships pass. It took two hours, steaming line abreast, and was a superb sight.
THE FRENCH POLITICAL TRAGEDY.
LONDON, July 20th. Madame Caillaux has been taken to the in £ Conceirgorie, and is confined part of the building not far removed from Marie Antoinette's dungeon.
It has now been decided to admit a few privileged women to the trial, but they'
will be placed behind an iron railing, and out of sight of the prisoner.
THE PLAGUE:
There were but eleven cases of plague last week, resulting in eight deaths; one Portuguese and the remainder Chinese. Of the eleven cases, five occurred in Victoria, and six in the outside areas. Since January 1st, there have now been 2,104 cases and 3,951 deaths,
During last week also, there was one fatal Chinese case of diphtheria, one
British and on Chinese case of enteric fever, the latter being fatal, and a fatal Chinese case of small-pox
PERING, July 20th. Tung Kuo Chẳng returns to Nanking
EUROPEAN SERVICE.
THE GERMAN LEGATION AT
PEKING.
BERLIN, July 19th. A report that the Under-Secretary of State for tho Foreign Office, Herr Zimmerman, would go as Minister to Peking, is categorically denied.
It is more likely that Herr v. Hinter,. now at Mexico, will be appointed.
SERVIA AND AUSTRIA.
BERLIN, July 19th. The Norddeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung warns Borvia not to decline Austria's legitimate demands, and hopes that the conflict will be localized
ALBANIAN SITUATION
IMPROVING.:
BERLIN, July 19th. The Albanian tenaĵon is slackening The Greeks are evacuating the island of Sassino, in the Bay of Valona, and the
TALE OF AN OPIUM DEAL.
At the Magistracy yesterday, before Mr. J. R. Wood, two Chinese were
unlawful Epirotes have stopped their advance and charged with being in possession of and with dealing in 470 have begun to return towards the Greek taels of prepared opium, worth $2,820. | frontier. The second man, a sampan owner, was defended by Mr. C. S. Russ
A Chinese detective said that he- engaged a sampan at the Pottinger Street stono jetty, and moored it near Blake Pier Some time later he saw another. sampan approaching Witness boarded this sumpan, upon which were the two defendants. The first man asked if he (witness) had the money, and he replied in the affirmative, then asking the first defendant if he had the goods."..
The latter asked the second man to open a bag which was on the sampan, and when it was opened witness asked the first defendant if he had a licence to well oplum. He then know that witness was a constable, and tried to jump overboard,
but was stopped by witness, with the assistance of the second man. A second detective came on board and arrested the sampan owner, and witness seized the first man.
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Mr. Russ suggested that the story told by the detective regarding the second and that it was a little invention to defendant unloading the bag was untrue," chable him to bring guilty knowledge against the sampan man, bat the witness affirmed that his story was true. He did not know that the mother of the sampan man, who was on the boat, had her arm grazed by a bullet. He fired a shot into the sea from his revolver in order to fewer than 493 warships of all classes wow frighten the first man when he tried to
jump into the water. He threatened hi that if he jumped overboard he would shoot him.
[4 previous telegram stated that
to be fully manned for the occasion.]
TROUBLOUS MEXICO.
INSURRECTIONE AGAINST THE
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THERE can be little doubt that the trouble the Canadian authorities are experi- encing in enforcing their Immigration Laws, in the case of the 400 Hindus brought to Vancouver by the Komagata-case was reminded until to-day. maru, will immensely strengthen public sympathy in Canada with the attitude taken up on this question by the Province of British Columbia, and the subject of Oriental immigration will probably now be raised a more acute form. There is a strong feeling in British Columbia in
The charge against Mr. Russ client favour of excluding all Oriental labourers,
was withdrawn, and he was put into the and a proposal was quite recently under discussion to send a deputation to the the complainant as she stepped from s
to th
General Orozio, with 4,000 men, has first man engaged his sampan, and a Dominion
at Ottowa to restaurant, and then ran off. He had Government represent the desirability of an Order-in-been observed by two other Chinese, started an insurrection against the Con- coolie who was with him brought a bundle the boat. Council to that effect, The defiant attitude however, and these gave chase. The stitutionals, to the north of Aguasca- which was deposited on of the Indians on the Komagata maru, fugitive ran into Queen's Road, where his lientes, while the followers of General Witness did not know what this bundle pursuers followed him Ultimately the Zapatista, who has long been conducting contained until the police came on board. who are apparently encouraged in this
thief saw that he was being overtaken, an insurrection independently against The old woman whose arm was grazed defiance by the Hindu organisations in
and as his nearest pursuer came up to him the Constitutionals, is pillaging and by a bullet said that she received the British Columbia, has leat a sopport to the demand of the people of British Columbia he turned round and stabbed him with a burning villages in the vicinity of the wound when attempting to guard her
capital. sharp instrument. This man fell out of
son. She put up ber arm as the detective: fired, as she was afraid ber son would be shot, and the ballet touched her
which would probably otherwise have been lacking in the Eastern part of the Dominion Last month great meetings were held in
Vancouver to pass resolutions against the admission of the Hindus and demanding more stringent legislation to prevent such immigration. At the same time, GUEDIT
CONSTITUTIONALB..
INCIDENTS ON THE RUMANO-
·BULGARIAN FRONTIER.
BERLIN, July 19th.. Many incidents are taking place on the Rumano-Bulgarian frontier, gendarmes and soldiers have had some sanguinary encounters, and the respective Govern niente are trying to calm them,
RUSEIA AND THE POLES.
BERLIN, July 19th.
Announce
Russian
pewspapers canus reversal in Russia's policy towards the
the Prussian Poles, in view of possible Poles. She will endeavour to win over
future conflicts with Germany.
HUERTA GOING TO JAMAICA.
BERLIN, July 19th Huerta is being taken to Jamaica by the German cruiser Dresden.
DEATH OF MAJOR-GENERAL DEVILLIERS-HATTON."
her course for Kongmoon. When thig position had been securod he left the bridge in charge of the Chief Officer, and told him when he saw the red light at Wongmoon to call him up. Witness thon went to his room and shortly afterwards he anddenly heard the signal port helm,” and at this he rushed on to the bridge. He saw the On Lee coming on at an angle of three points, and within about fifteen or twenty. fect of the Sil Pair Witness t once gave the order "fall speed astern. The On Lee came on and struck the Sui Tui slightly, and then went ahoad and across her bows. He heard no signal from the put hard astorn he gave three blasts. The On Lee, but directly he had the engines. Sui Tat continued going astern for about two minutes, and the vessel was going full speed astern when the collision took place.
In reply to the Magistrate witness said that the impact was not great. The engineer said he did not know they had touched anything, and the second officer who was asleep at the time on deck lid not know anything about it.
Witness added that his ship: steered usually very well, and that on the voyage on which the collision took place he had 220 passengers on board and was also carrying a general cargo.
Cross-examined by Mr. Dixon witness said that the Sus Tai had always been a good steamer.
Mr, Dixon asked witness if he knew of an old quarter-master of his who had complained to him about the bad way in which the ship responded to his steering, Witness said ho recalled this, and added that this particular quarter-master was by no means satisfactory and had since been dismissed the ship. The ship had always steered well since he had been aboard her,
Replying to further questions witness said that there was 200 yards between his vossol and the land on the starboard side at the time of the accident.
Then if you had gone another 100 yards to starboard, as you could have done, the Decident could not have occurred I would not care to say that: At this part the channel is three-quarters of a mile broad,
and if we were only 200 yards from the
one side, there was plenty of room for other vessels on the other side. 17
The Magistrate The question is: if you had gone another 100 yards to star board, would there have been a collision Judging by the speed at which the Lee was travelling, and if she had kept the course she was following the threa points course-she would have bit us higher up the river.
Then your reply is that a collision would have occurred 1—Yes..
Mr. Dixon-If you had gone straight on and not altered your course there alter the course until we saw the accident would have been no accident. ?We did not
Did you hear anyone from the On Les shouting at you through a megaphone 1— No
On the day following the collision you called on the Captain of the On Lee and said, "If you had not had some of those fools on the bridge this would not have happened." What did you mean by that. did you mean European officers No, I meant the Chinese,
H. B. Baker, the Chief Officer of the Suz
After the accident your firm wrote to the owners of the On Lee asking for com- pensation for damages, and the Inter We regret to record the death of Major-denied any liability I believe that is so General Villiers-Hatton, C,B, late of the Grenadier Guards, whom many of our To whom the master left in charge of the bridge on the night of the collision, said readers will remember as having been in that when the master left the bridge the command of the troops in South China On Lee was about two cables ahead on the from 1903 to 1008, Major General port side, heading for Swashiwai light. Eventually the ships drew alongside, and Villiers-Hatton served with the Nile as a ship was coming down the On Lee Expedition in 1898, for which he was partly ported, and he (witness) did like- rewarded with the C.B., and the Egyptian wise with the Sui Tai Then the One medal and clasp. He had married in the appeared to port hard, which brought her across the bows of the der Tez, and coming
and Mrs. Burrall, of New York. Since to port," and then the Captain came upon returning Home from Hongkong he had the bridge, saw how matters stood, and been on half-pay, living at 34, Charles gave full speed astern. Despite this, Street, Berkeley Square, London, W. His the Sai Tax was struck on the port bow.
By the Magistrate-The On Lee was The memory of his association with travelling at full speed when she struck A certain amount of age is given at 61. Hongkong is perpetuated by a Peak road the Sui Fai- which was constructed during the period damage was done to the Sus Tat, but He did not hear any signal from the On of his command and now tears his name nothing which prevented her running.
Lee. If there had bean one he was certain. to have heard it can. Hatton Road.
Mr. Dixon asked-What do you think the On Lee should have done --She should have slowed down and run under our
MEXICO CITY, July 20th. box to tell his story. He said that the Previous year (1897) the daughter of Mr. hard over to the Sui Tai. He gare “hard.
TYPHOON WARNING,
The telegram quoted below was received Hongkong, from the Manila Observatory at 4.05 p.m. yesterday
the chase, but the second man pluckily
PUERTO MEXICO, July 20th. Ex-President-Huerta has postponed his continued, only to receive a stab wound departure for at least a day, and possibly Sergt. Wills said that the defective similar to the other pursuer. The thief for several days, owing to his failure to made so report of this to his superior at the American Consulate General, stern, was ultimately arrested by an Indian find a vessel for the friends who are officere, and his Worship asked the
Sergeant to report" the detective. constable. The two injured men were anxious to accompany him.
The defendant, who said he had been removed to hospital, but their wounds are
The number of military, refugees 16 a cook on the Korea, but took his discharge two months ago, was sentenced not serious. The case was remanded.
increasing.
to twelve months' hard labour
Cyclone or typhoon, near or over the Southern Ladrone or Mariana Islands, developing
The Magistrate-What kind of a bump was it?-It, was a sliding sort of bamp - she pushed us off.
Corroborative evidence was given by the pilot of the Sui Tai, after which the hear- ing was adjourned until Wednesday.