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CABLES
LATEST CABLES. (THROUGH BETTER'S AGENOT.] FURTHER FIGHTING IN
DUBLIN.
THE REVOLT BROKEN,
Loxion. July 3rd, General O'Day, Chiel of Staff of the National Army, when interviewed, stated that he was absolutely satisfied that the revolt in Dublin was broke.
A communique issued at 3.30 this morn ing states that the last position of the Irregulars is O'Connell Street has been surrounded and the thoroughfares leading into the street have been barricaded to
provent, exCAPES.
REBEL'S BIG
LOSSES.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY
LATEST, CABLES.
IMPENDING BRITISH CABINET CHLANGES.
MK, BALFOUR TO BE FOREJON SECRETARY.
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WORLD'S TENNIS
CHAMPIONSHIP, ANGLO-AUSTRALIANS LEFT 15
GENT'S, SINGLES,
LONDON. July,, ärd.
JULY" D18, §
FAR" · EASTERN CABLE NEWS.
(THROUGH EXUTEK'S aqpstr.] CHINA'S UNIFICATION.
At Wimbledon, in showery weatherCANTON PROVINCIAL ASSEMBLY'S before a moderate attendance, the re 1 MESSAGE TO PRESIDENT. maining ave fourth-round inatches resalt-
ed in the elimination of the two remain-
LONDON, July 3rd. newspapers state important Cabinet changes are impending.
It is anticipated that the Rt. Hon. Mc.ing Continentals, Cochet being beaten by Edward Shortt, K.C. (Minister for Home Affirs) will be elevated to the Bench.
The Rt Hon Mr. Stanley, Baldwin, (President of the Board of Trade) will leave the Board of Trade. for the Homs Office.
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TINO, Inly 4th. President Li Yuan-hung rvezived a tele- Anderson 6/2, 6/0, 6/4 and Flaquer by gram, ti-day, signed by all the members O'Hara Wood 6/2 6/4, 11/9. The of the Canton Provincial Amembly pro singles are now a purely Anglo-Australian posing the abolition of the Canton affair, the fifth round contenders being Government in favour of the Central Lycett Darison, Marrogordate, Gilbert, Goverment, Anderson, O'Hara Wood, Patterson and the Hon. Cecil Campbell, who are paired Tar Itt, Hon, Lient. Colonel Sir Hamar in the order given. Therefore, the great "Greenwood, (Chief Secretary to the Lord Anderson-Patterson ineeling will probe Lieutenant of Ireland) and the Rt. Hon.ably neene, in the semi-final. Charles A. McCurdy (Joint Parliament ary (Patronage) Secretary) will both be candidates for Cabinet posts,
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It is estimated that there are only from one to two hundrell Irregulars holding ut. This estimate will probably include de
It is thought that the Rt. Hon. Sir Valers and the other laders. The rank (Alfred Mond may leave the Ministry for and file are clearly tiring of the fight, Health to succeed the Rt. Hon. Mr. Stan many having deserted and the total ley Baldwin. casualties since June 29th are estimated
60 killed and 200 woardfied,
HQUECHING THE COUNTRY NEBALS
Mr.
SÍNO-JAPANESE COMMISSION. FURTHER AGREEMENT REACHED.
PERINO, Julefth.'
At today's meeting of the Sino
advanced into the fourth ruand.
Mallory, and Mite." Longlan Progress was made in all the doubles Commission, the first business beat Miss Nicola and Miss Lumley Ellis general report of additions and improve sections. Mrs. Stocks and Miss Mekane was the persentation of the Japanese by 09,ģ
ments to the Tsintao Tsinan railway, since the Japanese administration began; "pending the submission of a detailed
tabir.
ed..
AMERICAN RAILWAY
ACCIDENT.
Second, the Chinese made proposals for the execution of an understanding concerning contracts and coquuitments, also regarding the recent railway duder takings.
"The Marquess of Curron's ills ren- MANY KILLED AND WOUNDEL, dering his return improbable conse
New York, July Bird, quently the tt. Hon. Arthur James Bal An express loaded with excursionists on the Philadelphia-Reading Railroad four. who has been carrying oat
his
travelling at seventy miles per hour duties, will become Foreign. Secretary. missed the points at. Window Junction Loxtos. July 4th.
and fell over the embankment. Nine are The Japanese agreed to set in accord A cominique from "Dublin" reports THE HAGUE CONFERENCE,
know to have been killed and 75 jujurance with the stipulated terms of the substantial progress in the country dis- MORE COMMUNISTIC BOUNCE”
understanding reached at Washington,
tricts, and all the important centres in
Taz Hard. July 3rd the midlands are
held the The Soviet delegation, in the course of Nationel force including Kilkenny, a statement made prior to today's meet- Athlone, Mullingar, Longford, Trim anding, acknowledged Kassia's pre-war debts Keongh T56 local volunteers at South and declared that Russia will pay them, Tipperary assisted the National troops but she must have credits. It she does in expelling the Irregulars from the roads not get credits the Russia will not pay
JOW
FAMOUS GERMAN PUBLICIST and to reply to the Chinese proposals Third, the commission exchanged views
WOUNDED.
after further consideration. ·
OUR LONDON LETTER. DOWNFALL OF MR. HORATIO BOTTOMLEY.
THE LONDON "SEASON" IN FULL SWE
AGAIN. ME, LLOYD GEORGE
HEAT WAVE IN LONDON
for
THE END OF HORATIO BOTTOMLEY,
Homtio Bottomley's conviction fraudulent conversion of monage entrusted to him by the public and the sentence of seven years' penal servitude have provided plenty of material for gossip. To ba per- fectly candid, it must be coafenseil Chak AND HIS CRITICS,
while everyone applied the punishment as just, there is a certain amount of (FROM OỤN OWN CORRESPONDENT.) sentimental feeling for the arch-regts who has been laid by the heels at last. The Lorax, June 1st.
story of Bottomley's career is more like a novel by the elder Dumas than a record nỀ real life. Starting as an office boy in the After one of the unkindest SpringtimesCity, he raised himself by sheer ability to ou record Summer das come in with one Parliament and a position of authority is In the curse of a day and night the (and some of them did) envy. As financier, stride, bringing a heat-wave as a present. the country which Cabinet Ministers might temperature went up 60 degreca; and company promoter. lawyer. newspaper instantly those who kept the newspapers. proprietor, journalist, demagoga, politicia anpplied with maledictions about the the owner of race horses, and true Bohemian weather by complaining that it was too
in wrerything he did, he was a Diost re- hot. That, of course, is the way in England, often that the phrase is thread-bare that cold began to complain because it was too markable personality. It has been mil so where there is no climate, as the smart Bottomley could have occupied with honoar American said, but only samples.
ang position hecho if only he had kept straight. But there was a kink which made him prefer crookedd ways. MILDLY SURPRIS
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Our result of the hot spell is to driva people out of doors lu take the air. The
and piezic. The world and his wife, who sun thing is to motor out to the Surrey hills, or into Epping Forst, in the evening cannot afford motor-curs, are able to share in the pleasure of an evening jaunt by
metor bus or charabano.
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There is no lack of these vehicles, and the big companies have laid themselves out to cater for pleasure-seekers desirous of get ting away from London streets for a few hours after work for the day is over. A few shillings can now give Londoners change of seene and air amid picturesque surroundings that was impossible before motoring facilities bene general and inexpensive.
EMPTY THEATRES,
however, had the effect of emptying the The sudden advent of hot weather hus, theatres, Although the London Season is
traordinary carcer for so many years, and People had watched Bottomley's ex- had seen his hair-breadth escapes from the clutches of the law on so mant NCRATETIK, that his conviction over the Victory Bonds Club andother similar ventures canis almost as a surprise. They thought his diabolical cleverness would enable him to get ont of this tight corner na he had out of secres in the last thirty years. As a fact, it was only by a series of accidents that the affairs of his club becam capable of in vestigation. He could not baru foreseen and provided for accident. Hitherto be had always been able to "mudly the track" so that investigation was hopeless.
There was something grimly ironical in his accounts to the extent of nearly 400,000 the defence be set up that discrepancice in and this was only a portion of the total in full swing, is is traditional and proper involved, which amounted to over £100,000 Two men attacked Maximilian Harden, Karding the relations of the Shanting at the beginning of June, nobody wantsoas dos to bis unbusiness-like methods. дос play. Managers complain that For, of course, he was for years the ad who was carried unconscious to his house mines and the Tsingtao-Tsinau railway houses are as empty as in the middle vocate in and out of Parliament of a "Busi with five, wounds in his head. Two the discussion on which will be resumed of a sultry August. A round dozeness Government." This was his theme supposed assailants have been arrested.
plays are coming off at the end of every week in John Hull, He got over Maximilian Harder, a German Jour
this week, and I hear that this is not 900,000 from the public for his clubs, and nalist, first cune prominently inta
the end of the story. There are more had no accountants, or trustees, or auditors. notice in pre-war days through his fear.
to follow, or least, the fortunes of several and not even a record of moneys receivel less exposure of the Berlin camarilla
more are in the balance. The best stager and disbursed. scandal in the journal of which he was
still is The Beggars". Opera," which proprietor and editor. Although he was a great friend of Princë Bismarck, he
proudly announces its 828th. performance anything unless he was well primed with was twive brought into coalligt with the
next Monday: and it continues to attract wide. Every article under his signature in pro-law, owing to his attacks on the Kaiser.
not only the stranger and sojourner within John Bull represented a magnum of cham- and he was sentenced for leze majesté
the gate but also the seasoned London pagac, and he made no secret of the fact any The attack reported above suggests an-
theatre-goer, as mentioned in this corres that he relied upon this for his inspiration. other monarchist or militarist outrage,
pordence a short time back in a reference liability regarding war debts,
as Harden" during and after the war
to the ups and downs of life in Theatre- THE CRAZE FOR TEXNIŠÍ WAR MEMORIAL TO B. a. T.[exposed the intrigues of Junkerlom.]
land in these days.
In Clonmel, where the regulars huone penny. The fact that Russin is a rich
voncentrated and mined and entrenched their positions." These Irregulars resort. mito conscription.
untry constitutes her chief guarantee, Russia is not prepared to restore pri vate property to the former owners, but will grant concessions" on private admit
The National forces soured further Ancerves at Donegal, capturing a sun-perty. Ber of Irregular går isons, and controlling all approaches by land and sea, dhus making it impossible to reinfores the Irregulari
Russia will not
CO.'S FALLEN EMPLOYEES.
A SPLENDID RECORD.
A letter from Kenny, in the laphoe arra, states that an extraordinary.ibei-
Laxons, July 3rd. dent occurred to the garrison of National Sir Worthington-Evans. Secretary of trops at Glenfarg Barencks, in Teitrim Was, unveiled a memorial at Westminster close to the six-county border. They were House, Millbank, at the offices of the attacked simultaneously by Irregular | British-American Tobacco Company, in troops and Ulster-specials. From different honour of the firm's employés who fell in directions, and compelled to yield to the the war. He said the fallen were brothers in the spirit which moved them to leave CLOSING IN ON, REBELS STRONG. penceful callings and hasten to the aid
of King and Country.
combined force,
HOLD.
LATER
Sir H. Caulfite-Owen (Vice-Chairwan After a day of relentless rifle, and of the Company) mentioned that h5 of machine-gun firing. the Free State troops the company's employés had joined the ure gradually closing in on the rebels. stronghold of barricaded hotels in Sack forces during the war. Of these over one sille Street, the fall of which is regarded tenth, amely 3 were killed or dird imminent. It was reported late last from wounds. One in every fifteen earn night that one of the buildings was aflameed decorations, including one Victoria
ind that the Irregular remnants estimat.
ed to number 500 were hemmed in în a audius of 700 square yards.
Cross.
TU.S., COAL MINER'S
CONFERENCES ADJOURNED.
WASHINGTON, July, 3rd. The coal miners conferences have been Guvernment forces are conducting ex adjourned for one week. in response "tɔ] fensive house-to-house searches.
It is rumoured that. de Valera hus esculped.
REBEL CONCENTRATIONS. Rebel concentrations are reported in the enguptains near Dublin, alsó în Cloamet Dunleer, East Donegal, County Sligo and Helsewhere.
Irregulars on the northern border art bolding up trains, seizing supplies and Fortifying Glenveagh Castle, West Done- Kat and have seized Lord Templemore's residence at Inch Island,"
a Government suggestion.
EARLIER CABLES. BRAZILIAN CENTENARY
EXHIBITION.
BRITISH NAVAL AND COMMERCIAL
REPRESENTATION.
LONDON, July 3rd.
In the House of Commons, askeil,
Beck, July 3rd.
GERMAN POLITICS,
UKELIN, Julyard. "The likelihood of the Reichstag die solving, mentioned on June 9th, has s appeared owing to the passage of the Grain Bill, despite strong opposition. FURTHER SLUMP IN MARKS,
LONDON, July 3rd.
on July 7th.
CHOLERA AT KIUKIANG-
IMPORTED BY TROOPS
Pixa, July #ril.
General Tsai Cheng Hsen's troops have vacuated Kiakiang, and the people who fed are returning, but cholera has broken put, apparently being brought by the troops from Habkow. It is reported that there are ten deaths daily among the popolace.
JAPAN'S TENTATIVE NAVAL PROGRAMME.
Torro, July 4th. The tentative Naral programme, which is expected to be completed in 1923, and which supplements the ressels completed. building and contracted for, as given out
GAIETT IN LONDOS.
Victoria
and the weather has blessed the
Of late years Bottomley was unable to do
well
It
There is an amazing vogue for the game of lawn tennis in all parts of the country, This is a great week in London the numbers in the last few years. It began.
| and, clubs, lave sprung ap in countless week of weeks in a social sense-with the when the workers were earning high wages, Derby prominent on the sporting side, and and has become a habit with all and sundry. scores of dinners and recaptions every night who never before handled a tennis racket. in Mayfair and Belgravia, where the titled They are not so well off now, but they and fashionable folk still keep open konse atill play the game. This summer the po despite taxation and other woes. The Kisnalarity of tennis amounts to, u-urate. and Queer hinra patronised the races at caught hobl of both sexes, and in con- psom, travelling by the Boral train from fine not merely to the young people of In London, German marka reached a new record-1915 to the pound. Ther-Navy Department, includes four 10-000-greatest sporting event in the world with both sexes but includes their elders as are sellers but no buyers. The fall is dus too, and four 7,100-ton cruisers; twenty-rental sunshine. to the situation in Germany.
In the Metropolitan districts of Greater fous, destroyers totalling 224,000 tons; and In the clubs the Derby sweepstakes bave London the demand for tennia is so great twenty two submaripes totalling 9,166 never been so largely supported as this that the London County Council have set year. In this and other respects just now out to cater for those who cannot afford to Compared with the former programme, the general evidences of prosperity so far become members of the various, tennis this is a reduction of one cruiser. 18 money is concerned gives the denial to clubs. Provision for these has been made destroynes, and 24 submarines, or 133 the "aton-broke condition of the coun-in the public parks under the control
recompanied by a
The announcement of the programme is try which is conveyed by dismal writers in of the L. C. C. No fewer than 685 lawn statement by the the newspapers. Everybody, seems to be tennis courts have been laid out in the Minister who says that Japan has every able to spure chongh to put a bit on a open spaces of the County of London alous. intention of abiding by her engagements horse" for the Derby. In the West End Play is only allowed on week-days. Payers at Washington, and her plans prove that clubs, where the ticket is £5, there has bring their own rackets and tails, but the the reports that she contemplates the been no falling off, and even in the few Council provides everything else. Hari expansion of her auxiliary feet are ill select and exclusive clubs where £10 is paid courts are also gaining in popularity, and founded and untrue.
for an entry the lists are well up to the several such are being provided. The fact average of the brave days before the war that the masses have taken to lawn tenuis Terly sweepstakes were so popular in the is a sign of the times. City that the Stock Exchange ran two each value £10,000.
11.
WAR CRIMES. ANOTHER ACQUITTAL.
Izirzio, July 3rd. Michelsohn, the Berlin doctor accused of The Supreme Court has acquilted
ill treating French prisoners at Germano hospitals in French villages during the war, although the prosecutor demanded sentence of a year's imprisonment.
Michelsohn's case is the first of a fresh batch of war crimes trials at the instance of the French, and Belgina Governments. INTERNATIONALFEDERATION OF RADIO-TELEGRAPHISTS.
MEETING FORMUTATES DEMANDS.
LONDON, July 3rd-
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tong.
THE DERBY..
WINNER LAME „BEFORE" STARTING.
An acepunt of the running of the Derby saya--Well off, never cat of the first three and splendidly placed on the rails
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Another fact to be noted in the extra ordinary spread of the sweepstake habit among women. All the women's duba bare one or more; and for weeks the fair
Anxious moments preceded Captain THE PRIME MINISTER'S POSITION.
THE COMMONS AND THE DELST.
balance as I write whether it will fail or Hot, seeing that rival forces are marshall-
inter alia, that the Federation be repre-rattle's found to be lame and Donog-auntide recess with the, position of the of murder and looting which seems to be
In spite of expectations to the contrary, the House of Commons sat on Derby Day. Curiously enough, it was the condition of The International Federation of Badio
things in Ireland that caused Members to work while they might otheṛsize bave bean telegraphists was formed at a meeting at Tattenham Corner the crux of many members were more concerned about the enjoying the fun and excitement on Epsom and the morning Down The Irish Treaty suddenly became in Brussels. There were delegates From Derbies-Captain Cuttin took command health, of "Fogeland' Belgium, Denmark, Britain, Greece, in the run home and won in brilliant canter of "Captain Cuttle" than even the of pressing importance, for it is in the Holland, Italy, and Sweden.
style in the record time of 2 minutes 31st Society scandal. Resolutions were carried demanding, and 3/5 seconds,
sented
the
International Radio-
In the saddling pad- Parliament is adjourning for the Whiting on the Uilter border, and the campaign telegraph Convention, fixing the basis of dock he was an international winning scale, and hoe, after mounting. dismounted demanding the abolition of diluted loosened nail in a plate was the cause of Government to all appearance completely the normal state in the sister island has labour and the requisition of the English lameness, and this being removed the stable. This is in strong contrast to the lately become accentented. But for this and French languages by operators. coronet was dosed with cocaine: Still the position a few short months ago. The the House would have adjourned for the
symptoms of lameness were noticed at the varicus rections of the Opposition neither Derby. post, but vanished in the race yo fear nor hope for the early dissolution that, The sitting of the House, in the circum- There were thirty starters and the tapes was so confidently predicted at the time.tunces recalls old memories. A generation were broken twice. A lot of unruliness The only thing that would upset.calculations go even the Nationalist Members, always occurred before they were finally fairly on this score would be a sudden fare up a word warfare with parties well.away.
in Ireland or some other untoward de Parliament, abandoned Westminster for the OLD DERBY CONTED YERSY.
velopment that would make a General Elec course. It was the custon ta adjourn for the A London message to Indian papetion necessary. The much-heralded debate great sporting festival. Then for a space, New lamps for old" are being sup LONDOS, July 3rd..tioner's suggestion that the Orersens plied by the Board of Trade for the
on the Glenca Conference proved almost an the genml eastom was forgotten, until it The controvery has been revived re- anti-climax, so feeble and half-hearted was was revived a few years back by Mr. The attack was reopened in Dublin Department he requested to co-operate guidance of seamen in navigating perigarding starters who had no chance in the attack on the Ministry, so contradictory emtio Bottomley. Two days before this his morning on the rchol positions now with the Admiralty so as to profit by this lous channels and steering class of shoals the Derby. It is stated that the Epsomware the views of the critics, and so de- in the restricted ares mentioned. Ιπ
the interest of British and other dangers of the British ecast Clerks of the Course have resolved to cisive was the majority for the Coalition, opportunity in the morning, armoured cars and trade as an admirable one, which he line. One of the most intercaling recent make an additional forfeit stage to en- machine guns were again chiefly used would be pleased to communique to that
courage owners to remove entries without Mr. de Valera is believed to be in Department.
any expectation of winning. It is also Varmaan's Hotel, which is bearing, the
suggested that £100 should be charged to brunt of the attack.
run instead of £50.
BARLIER CABLES.
MORE REBEL DEFEATS.
The prisoners whom three shells yea terday compelled to surrender from Alaran's Hotel were Communists who Shail been most troublesome snipers, Other rebels, retreated. V rough tunnels driven beneath the buildings.
whether the British Eropire was the only great Power not represented by the Navy at the Brazilian Centenary Exhibition at Rio de Janeiro, Mr. Lloyd George said that the Cabinet, son reconsideration, : had decided to send the Hood and the Repulse to Rio de Janeiro.
Mr. Lloyd George described the ques
A great crowd again watched the fight ing. All despatches from Dublin are now marked, "Passed by Censor."
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LATER.
ALADDIN'S · LAMP. LIGHTHOUSE LIGHT LASTING TWO YEARS.
Billys-
years Derby however, Mr. Bottomley found himself m "mother" place," this. being the first time En has failed to drive down in siste and take up a prominent position on the Grand Stand in a white topper. To quotes phrase he was fond of nog in Jone Ball one may well say,
What a game it is.HR. "SWEET" WINKER'S, HOLIDAY, CALCUTTA
GERMAN REPARATIONS.
additions is an automatic lighthouse,
There was a great out-cry when the which turns on its chemically created
Premier announced that he would address light when actinic light-values fall to a
the House of Commons on Genos after his certain degree of weakness, again extin-
critics had had their my. It was suggested guishing itself when daylight derclops prescribed power. A structure of the
that he was afraid to lay his cards on the table. Thereupon he took up the challenge kind has been erected at Barry Holmes, Calm and collected and with no wish to
and led off the debate with an account of the Gower, on the dangerous Swansea coast. be affected at her amazing good fortune Conference, although, as he pointed out, So completely automatic is the action the Calcutta sweep winner ( Liverpool there were so many subjects that it was A fierce battle has been raging in that it requires no attention at all except typist) stopped away on a fortnight's A journalist who drove in a jaunting Dublin intermittently all day long. The to feed it with chemicals from time to holiday, without disclosing her destina difficult to select beforehand what were car through Backville Street during a few. National Army afternoon commmiques holds supolies sufficient for about two reporters, who declared her to be as elo-informed In replying on the debate he shows ist, dur last a total of £3,250,000
time, and each of the gasometer like tanks tion: She cleverly outwitted the army of those about which the House desired to be hours' lull in the morning found scarce report a continued closing in of the ope an inch of glass left in the windows of rations for cutting the Irregulars contamall bat very powerful, and rises above friend stated that she seemed to take George is like a certain type of actor
The actual Impis relatively sive as the Scarlet Pimpernel. Her was at his best, as is usual. Bir. Lloyd ended March 31st last a total of £3,250,000 was collected by the Commissionera of by bullets. There were no signs of de- The Irregulars have been driven out of Board of Trade explained that the prin- one than in her prospects of how to spend of the play, and only comes into his true Act of last year. Of this sum £3,104,000 buildings, whose walls, were heavily pittedmunications within the restricted area. the main structure. An official of the greater joy in the way she dodged every is never seen to "advantäre in the first act Customs and paid into special account. under the German Reparation (Recovery). Fenders, but fighting was resumed at ten practically all poste on the south side ciple of the automatic lighthouse is being her winnings. o clock in the morning and was fiercest of the city and there have been cousidur rapidly applied, and it may be that in The lacky buyer of half of the Captain vain when the plot is reaching its climax in was paid to the Exchequer in respect at one o'clock in the afternoon, the rebels able captures of prisoners and arms, a short time lighthouse keepers will be Cuttle ticket is Mr. F. F. Dod, at present the third act. His strength consists of the costs of the Army of Occupation, responding vigorously,
whilst the National Bank was repossess altogether relieved of their somewhat in Calcutta, who strangely caonga, also mainly in his perfectly marvellous ability to leaving a balance pt March 1st - of (Continued at foot of next column. cd.
monotonous and hazardous vigils.
bails froze Liverpool.
hit ous after he has been attacked
years.
A Treasury statement issued in May
£570,000