The Hongkong Telegraph.
(ESTABLISHED 1881.)
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晚三十月二年三統宜
Telegrams.
NEW SERIES No. 8499
Telegrams.
Telegrams.
PEACE DINNER IN NEW YORK.
PLOTS IN PORTUGAL.
SIR EDWARD GREY
INVITED,
[THX ““TELEORATU" ConnerENDENT,]
London, March 22, 9.30 p.m."
Sir Edward Groy, Secretary of Slate for Foroigri, Affairs, Ims been invited as a guest to allend
the Posca Dinnor at New York
on April 8th
THE PLAGUE.
MANCHURIA RESTORED TO
NORMAL CONDITIONS.
[INDEPENDENT NEWS" AGENCY.
Tokio, March 23, C
Manchuria is now restored to normal conditions,
The railway traffic thus far
suspended or impe la: owing to the plague was resumed today, how being carried
on with its usual briskioss,
The oflicist and volunteer
"plague fighters have licen dis banded, and life generally has resume to brdiñary routine.
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JAPANESE DIET.
INDEPENDENT NEWS AGENCY.]
Tokyo, Murel) 23.
MONARCHISTS AT WORK,
[THE “TELEGRApa !' CornaspordENT"}
London, March 22, 0.30 p.m. - A serious monarchical military plot has been discovered by the
authorities in Portugal.
Numerous arrests have been made, and considerable oxcite-
ment has been aroused through
out the country.
almost jovial, cordiality in Dom
Miguel's bearing that charms you
MARCH 23
Telegrams
DELHI BURBAR.
1911.
Telegrans.
三拜閥
PARLIAMENTARY TRIP
TO THE FAR EAST.
COMESPONDENT }
TO VISIT HONGKONG.
at once, though while we talked TO BE HELD IN DECEMBER.
for an hour at tes about Portugal
his manner changed to a deep fra "TKINOR LUN
carnestness.
London, March 22, 0.30 p.m.
The.grost durbar at Delhi is to
It was not tho manner of an ambitions prince, eager to regain the throne which his house" hnd lost, but of a conscientious man bo hold on December 12th this who bolioves lie' may soon be call- od upon to rendor service to his country; who scos a hard and evon dangerous path before him, towards which ho feels himself
duly,
your.
Thoir Majestics King George impelled by a simple sense of and Queen Mary will start from "Whether my country will England about the middle of call me back," he said, "I do not yet know, but if they do, or if the November. path of duty otherwise opens elearly before me, I shall go and sacrifice myself to the uttermost on anarchical condition. This to roscue Portugal from her pre-
republican government cannot lust..
IMPERIAL SERVICE TROOPS,
Allahabad, February 17.-It is expected that, from twelve to fourteen thousand Imporial Ser vice troops will take part in the grand paraile at the Delhi Durbir
[A1 tim request of ex-King Manuel that the inventory of his property should be expedited, the Minister of Public Works inspect- od tho treasure chamlier in the
"I do not think my cousin Domit subterran vaults at the Paleo Manual will be recalled to the Necessidades, wherein were dothropo. Though have never met him, bolove he had good in posited the Crown jöwels and per- Honal valuables of the royal family.tentions, but was illecounselled Those consist of a superb table and surrounded by placo-seek- service of solid German silver rs. The Portuguese will soon weighing över one ton, the crown and sceptre of solid gold studded with previous stones, and several bricks of gold, the largest weigir ing fall. The gem collection consists of a safe fulk of resplend Tent jewels, among which is the diadem of ex-Queen Amelia, also the norklare given by her father, the Compte de Paris, valued a 1,000. The time contents of the treasure eller are valu-
ed at 2650,000.
In au shcial noto published
is understood that the
(TOR "TELNORAPII " CORRESPONDENT
: Singapore, March 22, 2.30 pm,
Sir Herbert Raphael (Libomi
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CHINA WANTS PEACE..
NO PREPARATION FOR
HOSTILITIES.
THE VETO BILL.
EFFORTS TO COMPROMISE (REUTER'S BARVICE}
London, March 22nd.
Strong rumours are current in
the House of Commons lobby that
"SHEUNG RO" Savior.] the constitutional crisis will not
Poking, March 22. be settled before the Coronation,
The Prince Regent has instruct M.P. for South Derbyshire) is and that the Voto Bill will not be od II.E Na Tung to settle the organising a Parliamentary plea-passed before the end of August.disputes with Russin amicably, Both the "Morning Post" and and on no account should China the "Daily Chronicle" stale that
prominent. Liborals and Labour-
ites have latoly been unofficially sounded relative to their willing- ness to consider a compromise.
suro party to charter a liner for the purpose of visiting the Far
East.
Their itinerary will include Singapore, Hongkong and Yoko
Darbar.
CHINA AND JAPAN. GRAND COUNCIL ADVISED
man@envres of the troops ordered ham, whence they will return to to concentrate on Delhi for the Calcutia in time for the Coronation Durbar in Decoinbar will take place in the Girgaon district.
THE MILITARY DISPLAY. want a ruler of their own race, Simla, February 22nd.-Army. and the house of the Bragauzas Head Quartors are busy making is the only royal line, that re-preliminary arrangements for the main.
military display at the Delhi Dur- NO PROGRAM ARRANGED. bar. It will take the form of a "It is hard for nie to tell you great maneuvro in districts sur- what, would be my political pro-rounding Delhi which represent gram if I were recalled to Portu- the famous battle fields of Indian gal. So much would necessarily History. It is settled that 60,000 depend upon the actual circun-regular and 14,000 uporial Ser-las telegraphed to the Grand stances. One of the first things Ivice troops will take part in the Council stating that the Japanese would do would be to summon a camp of exercise. The cost, it is Diet has had several privato dis- convention of the eories, an as-said, will be high and some place
:
("SHAT PO" SERVICE)
Peking, March 22.- The Chinoso Minister at Tokio
of
sembly of the leading and in-the figures at about seventy-five cussions about the devolopruent in the Press the Minister of Fin-uontial mon of all parts of the lakhs. The camp office of the thie Three Eastern Provinces. ance states that all valuables country. To them I would intrust Q. M. O.'s divisions has now been which are proved to be the private the task of re-establishing the openou at Duit is expected tako precautionary measures Ho urged the Grand Council to property of ex-King Mannol and government on the lines of the that representatives of Foreign Queen Amelia will be handed old and well-tried Portuguese over in thein, and that those cortes system. For seventygers -which belong to the Stato, mel Portugal's politics have been in as the crown and septie, will the lands of two rival parties, be placed in the National professedly political and really Musenin.]
place-seeking,
GANZA, AWAITS A CALL TO THRONE.
carried out.
Powers will be present at the against the Japanese plans being manœuvres.
CANTON'S TARTAR- GENERAL.
["8nzuno Po" SERVICE]
Poking, March 22. A Imperial decreo luas baan issued appointing Sing Fun to be the Tartar General of Canton, and instructing Tsang Chi, the ex- Tartar General of Canton, to stay in Peking to await an appoint- monk,
Karachi, Fob, 28.-A requis tion signed by nine Councillors of the Karachi Municipality has been sent to the President of this "Secondly, the national finances Municipality to call a special DOM MIGUEL, OF BRA-must be roformed. There is much general meeting under Section corruption. Those with political 20 on Wednesday, March 22nd, intlichce oden escape paying to discuss the following proposi taxes altogether. If overy Portution to be moved by the Hon'ble quese paid his fair share the na- Mr. Harchandra Vishindae, Muni- The Imperial Diet Closed to-day | PORTUGUESE PRETENDERtional exchequer wald have a cipal Councillor:-"That on
surplus: Eshould favor legislation half of the Karachi Municipality encourage agriculture. Port- the President do take steps gal is rich in un levoloped re-invito His Majesty the King sources. I should do all I could Emperor to take his departure to promote works of irrigation. for England from this port in country is to encourage the upper Durbar at Delhi."
Another of my ideals for my convection with the Coronation classes to work. Many gifted young Portuguese of moans aYS now content to lead aimless lives, or at most to hold. a sipscure ob tained by family influence.
for the recess,
Thoekasing coremony was largely attóndol, and was most impressive.
BRITISH SECRETARY
FOR WAR.
NOMINATED FOR A
PEERAGE.
SAYS THE REPUBLIC
CANNOT LAST,
Vienna, February 4.-Dom old Portuguese monarchical house Miguel of Bragauza, head of th which has been exiled since 1830, admitted a reporter yesterday to a long conversation, fe in a man to whom Europe in turning her eyes as the protable arbiter of the future destiny of his harassed country.
RAILWAY DEVELOP-
MENT.
A PLAN OF CAMPAIGN.
("Sutina. Po" BLEVICE.) It was dark when the roportor will be like this. The prosent "I believe the course of övents
Poking, March 22, arrived at the little village of condition of affairs will get worse
The Board of Communications Seebenstein, two hours' railway and worse. journey from Vienna, The
Before very long has instructed the chief district prince's butler met mo with a revolution against the republie, Bhansi Railway to have the above there will be another crisis, a engineer in charge of the lonan (THE "TELEORACH" CORRESPONDENT
lautern to guide the to the schloss, A commuge may be established railway completed by next year, a roomy country houso, standing in Lisbon. London, March 22, 0.30 p.m.
omong trees close to the station. In his large working room, stand- The Rt. Hon. Richard Burdoning in a circle of light thrown by Haldane, Secretary of State for War, has been nominated for a
peerage.
SINGAPORE'S POPULA
TION.
CENSUS RETURNS.
(THE “TELEGRAPH" CORRESPONENT
Singapore, March 22, 2.30 p.m.
The consus returns for Singa-
pore show an estimated popule
tion of 285,000 as compared with
228,000 in 1001,
a lamp on a desk, was the pro tender, atalmas with the bearing of a soldier, for Dom Miguel is retired colonel of an Austrian hussar regiment.
:
"Then, whion the revolution
BY A VICEROY!
is over, the Portuguese may say. AN AUDIENCE DESIRED. Wo must have a
Elis amarely is unbearable,
king during the course of the revolu tion the troops of the north might decide to raarelt on the capital and send to me, saying, Come to load 18. Then, de
["BHAT PO" BARVICE)
Reking, March 22. The Viceroy of the Three
CHINESE GOVERNMENT FUNDS.
Ilis smooth hair les closely to his head, with no trace of gray to spite the fact that I am at a Eastern Provinces hag naked the mark his fifty-eight years. His tinte of life when men usually Throng to grant him of audience, full face line the healthy og one of | seek rest and ponce, I should the open air man, mud the horns doubtless feel it my duty to go. and antlers that hang in row over row on the walls of the Schloss Biarritz, not for political reasons, "Soon I shall go to Pay of Scobenstein speak to his koonneBA na a hunter. His heavy, dark but for the warmer climate. I and carefully trimmed moustache shall probably be visited there by does not hide the mobile lines of in Portugal has been gaining for Fame of my supportors. My cause hio expressivo mouth,
Boveral QUIETNESS AND DIGNITY ing among a people distressed k
years past. It is spreads
AN INVERTIGATION,
CHINA'S FRONTIERS.
NO PUBLIC DISCUSSION.
["Sakuna Po" SERVICE?
Peking, March 22, The Grand Conholl has in- strusted the viceroya and gover ndrs of the various provinces to prohibit the people from holding moetinga aliout the frontier dis-
eocieties for the protection of putes, and from establishing
frontior questions,
China Is Helpless.
["6ɛoxa Po" SERVICE)
Foking, Mareli 22.
The newly appointed Tarlar Goneral of li has had a discus- sion with the President and Vice President of the Army Board, about the frontier disputes. They
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prepare for hostilities.
Russia Firm.
["BOAT PO" SERTION.).
Peking, March 22.
The Chitoso Ministor at St.
The scheme brought forward by the Unionist Peers in the form of Resolutions just before, tho. olections was an earnest of good Petersburg has telegraphed to. will. But the time was too short to Grand Council for instruc to eniblo the public fully to grasp its significanco, and it lund to face at once the fall torrent of mis-
tions, as tho Russian demands are very firm.
Those who are unequivocally certain regarding the real difficul ties between China and Russia are for any Power to define the dif- Russia against China. It is not sure regarding the demands of
ficulties. In the case of Russin
representation which is consider- od legitimate at elections and is,' indeed, their principal feature. If those Resolutions were now reduced to a bill and passod through the House of Lords while through the Commons, the country the Parliament Bill is going would have an assurance that the Pernate in earnest, and anoppor- this lines of policy regarding. tunity of considering their pro- Mongolia are very clear. China posals at leisure without the dis- Then when Easter was reached of her authority. Bat in the face traction of a. General Election.may produce evidence of arrange- ments thatprovo the consolidation the materials for a complete settle of Russian proof that military ment would be bofore us jointly evidence is given full play in contributed by the two Houses. Mongolia, there is no room for "The Times."
Chinese protestations." Singa- pore Froo Press."
| LAND TENURE BY ALIENS IN CALIFORNIA.
PROHIBITION BILL PASSED.
:
(BEOTER'S SERVICH.)
Bombay, March 23rd,
750 năm ....
A Sacramento message ports that the Senate of the State of
California, U.S.A., has passed
into law a Bill prohibiting aliens from holding land within
**
Stato,
the
Similar Bille which had been
Senato periodically were never previously introduced into the
finally enacted.
THE GERMAN NAVY.
NEW DREADNOUGHT LAUNCHED,
As she left the ways she was claristoned "Der Kaiser."
(REUTER'S SERVICE) Bombay, March, 23, 7:50a.m. The now Gorman battleship of nre of opinion that these disputes the Dreadnought type has boon must be settled amicably, as it is launched at Kiol, impossible for China to propers for war, since she is unable to protect her own frontiers,
Empress 'Dowager Consulted. But it is in his deep lustrous the present chaotte. condition of
("SHAT PO" SERVICE) eyes that the expression of the the country, disillusioned by the. The Board of Finance has th prince's face lies. There is al- vacillation and injustice of thoir structed the ex-Total of Shang The Prince Regent has had
Peking, March 22, ways a sadness in them, but there republican rulers, and alienated hai, Tasi Nai Huang, to proceed nu audience with the Empress is kindliness and quiet, inborn in their deeply ingraipod re dignity na well. They are the ligious sentiment by the assaulteto Voking to settle the misappra Dowager about the frontior dis- eyes of a king in exile who loves on the convents and attacks on priated government fandawithout putoa and the expenses of this his country. There is a warm, the church"
delay.
Imperial household,
"C" But Po": EXRVICE.)
Poking, March 22,
+
RAW OPIUM.
LIKIN BUREAUS · ABOLISHED.
"Buruno Po" SERVICE.]
memorialized the Throne to have
Poking, March 22. The Board of Financo has all she bureaus for levying likin on untivo raw opium in the various provinces abolished,
Bro
mero
The "Singapore Free Press' in an excellent article on the Russo-Chinese situation says:- If Russia chooses to push, China must take the push, or resist. The whole position is a perfect example of the ultimate basis of racial development-namely, the exertion of contrary pressures, and ̧ - the yielding of the weaker to the stronger. Statesmen may talk as they like of sentiment, humani- the rest of the stock clap-trap, but tarianism, universal peace and all whatever these amount to they
evanescent phases, temporary arrestments of the final forces-those of race, officiency, We are quite satisfied that all the energy and population power. arbitration treaties and Hugue Conferences are mere pills to cure an earthquake, and the earthquako when it does come will take no stock of these superficial pallin tions. For those reasons wo con- siler that Russian pressure on Mongolia is simply the registra
ou of a reading of a political stocin gauge. An overplus of pressure on one side moans a yiolding on the other. Collision le merely an incident. It will. change nothing. In the case of the Russo-Japan war raco pressures onding in collision left the case rather open, the advantage for the time boing with Japan. Nothing in heaven or oartli or hell edn altor the race pressuren, Diplomacy may delay. That is
all, and all the forces remain in play. For the prosent Russia, having reculer pour mieux sauter, is beginning again at the bogin" ning, that is extending her in fluence in Asia from the closest baso in Western Ili. Those who look at what is happening and is about to happen as a more edaual incident, capable of reversal, do not begin to understand. Those
thousands of miles of advance aro who soo in all this one rule of progress in a rigid programme of right. Casual incidents do not can. It is the eternal invincible process that mangt be considerad.