The Hongkong Telegraph.
(ESTABLISHED 1881)
tion.
NEW SERIES No. 8582
SPECIAL
TELEGRAMS.
SPECIAL
翶十三月三年三室
FRIDAY,
TELEGRAMS.
CHINESE
TELEGRAMS.
THE WRECKED ASIA.
INCENDIARISM AT
CANTON.
ADMIRAL LEADS. THE
TROOPS.
BURNT TO WATER. EDGE
7
AND LOOTED,
APRIL
28 1911
五拜禮
reported, the able and energetic the interests. A mob in Cantoh Viceroy has takon evory precau- when it is inflamed is a very dan
This morning a
gerous thing. Humber The U.S.3. Wilmington is now of launches were poon on under orders for Canton. She the river currying many regals to-morrow, but should any ments of braves who have been thing serious transpire in the sont to Canton from various menntume will leave at once. triots to watch any sign of troulle. The American Consulate Gone The trouble between the recriteri here lins, received inessages und the police early last year Kas froinalie Copsal tieneral at Canton whipitate that the people are all these troublesome recruits in quiet and hatho does not antici- restraint, and hope is entertained pate any danger. that nothing will happen.
VIOMROY'S YAMEN FIRED FIERCE FIGHT IN FRONT taught the officials a lesson to keep
"[THE "TELEGRAPH "ConnEuroNDENT || [The "Teleoraph" Cornesrondent,
Shanghai, April 28, 10.35 p.m.
The latest information is to
the offoot that the wrecked 8.5.
Asia has been burned to the water
odgo.
Canton, April 28, 7:30 a.m.
The Yamon of the Vicoroy of
Canton fired last night
at 7 pm.
Was
Fortunately the Viceroy was
saved from the consequences of
This is probably the act of
fishermen, who had looted almost | the conflagration
overything they could carry
away.
Shortly before midnight, on Sunday news was received here! that the P.M.S. Asia, bound for Hongkong to Shangbai, had mot with an accident at Finger Rock, neur to the Taichow Islands and about 200 miles from Shanghai, says the "N. C. D. Nows." "The first intimation received by the agent, Mr. R. O. Morton, was through the courtesy of the Con- sul-General for Japan, who stated that a mossago had been receivoi to the effect that: Taipeh iad re- ceived a wireless tologram that the P.M.S. Asin, bound from Hong- kong to Shanghai, had met with an accident at Finger Rock. A Inter message through the same sourcos road that: Tho Asta seeths to bo unable to wire. America Maru
The guards opened firo on the
incondiarios, and several of the
would-be assassins were killed.
.
A number luve been arrosted.
The fire was got under control
altor burning for about an hour.
The city gatos have been closed,
but the people are quiet,
MARTIAL LAW PRO-
CLAIMED.
RIVER BOATS BEING
"OF YAMEN,
["SHAT Po" BIRVIOL]
Canton, April 28, 9 a.m. At soven o'clock last night revolutionaries, armed with rifles
and bombs, gathered in forco and
marched upon tho Vicorogal
Yamou.
Nows of the throatoned attack
procoded them, and Admiral bi
gathered together his troops and
prepared to meet the ultuck.. Ho
lol them in
рогон.
From other sources wo learn rumour is ourront that the newly trained soldiers are in league with revolutionists and thint to-morrow the city will be seized.
The army officers noting on these rumours lavo takon pre- cautionary measures and have ordered that all rifles in the lands of troopa should be relieved of certain parts of their mecliamm in order they may be rendered usoloss. This action will greatly minimise the danger from the rebellious soldiers, if rumour should proved correct, and they will have no arms with which to fight.
We-lonra from a Hankow mossngo to the "Jiji" that the Viceroy of lupoh lins sont back to their homes 1,200 people who had emigrated from fiupol to Manchuria, but had been sent back. Of this number 150 have died of various complaints.
MANCHU STREET. ATTACKED.
RISING TOOK PLACE TWENTY-FOUR HOURS TOO SOON. MAILS STOPPED FROM HONGKONG.
leaving
The wife of the late TartarThe revolutionary rising at Canton took place twenty-four Goueral in the younger sister of hours too soon. Shoung Chi Hang, Provincial
* was timed for to-morrow, and Treasurer of Fukion, who is oftre- A fierce little fight one, moly grieved at the death of his large number of supporters of
the movement were brother-in-law, and sorry for his Hongkong and surrounding dis- The Admiral and his men fought sister in her sad bereavemdithtricts to take part. Each mani Owing to the rise of tho was to wour n white band across determinedly and eventually
anarchical element in Canton, his forehand, and had been provid- the Provincial Treasurer ooned with a small sum of money. succeeded in driving off the re-sidora it anale for his The Yamen was to be the contra happy ajstor to remain in the place. He line accordingly sent his oldest son to Canton to conduct the wife of the late
volutionaries, but not before they had suffered some loss. Several
Viceregal braves were killed and
wounded, but the attackers suf-
Tariar General to Fukion, “;
wirod to Asin that she was going SEARCHED AND DETAINED. fored much more heavily, many as to the moaning of this Canton
to the rescue and received in roply "01." Thoro was no further
answer. Yostorday afternoon the| (Tu# "Telegraph" Correspondant.]
U.S. gunboat Helona left Shang- hai to proceed to the seone of the accident, and at a later hour, the Kochion Transportation Co.'s tug- boat Shunfung, which had been requisitioned at an early hour by Mr. Morton, loft Shanghai fully equipped. The position of thá Asia is said to be about Long. 121.51 E., Int. 28.34 N.
Tho T.K.K.S. America Maru left Shanghai for Hongkong on Saturday night and, from tho time that the wireless message: wero received, it is supposed that alie must have passed the scene of the accident boloro receiving the call for assistance, but would thon pat back and stand by to ronder assistance,
THE PRIZE RING.
WOLGAST WINS.
[Tus "Trimorară” CORRESPONDENT
London, April 27, 10-p.m.
Ad. Wolgast managed to beat
Hogan in two rounds.
[Wolgast, who is sliort in atsture and reach, is bost at close quarters. He is a hard fighter." He was the amateur champion.]
of them being killed.
The other Yamous and public
Local Opinion. Speculation is rife in the Colony outbreak. The warning against ships being sent to. Canton has naturally caused a good deal of excitement, and the question is,
of attack, but it would appear that the concerted movement has been, spoiled, happily, by the sudden action of the compara- tively small body who fired tho Yamon.
1號八十月四其浓香
$30 ren ANKUM, BINGLE COPT 10, Cars,
OUR DIARY.
Friday, 28th April. Bijou Scenic Theatre, 9.15 p.m. Empiro Cinematograph, 9.15
Condort 9.15
P.
Phillurmonic
P..
Lady Lugard At Home,
drawing from Pienma rumours are boing, circulated throughout" his provinco that Sun Won has. ordered some of his followers to join the British forces and the poople aroiu astate of greataların, flo has hoard that two members of tho Rovolutionary Party, a Cantoneso by the name of Pang Chu-sheng and an Anhui man called lung Chang-chuan, have secretly ontored Shanghai and Kiakinng for the purpose of buy ing bombs and sulphur to be sent to Yunnan to blow up the Modern
Entries close for Lawn Bowls Army, Ho theroforo requests Open Singles Championship. that the Customs authorities be Hongkong Football Club asked to make careful and scoret nual Dinner.. searched for such articles. AH Price and Company, Ltd., telegrami says that a large num- Annual Meeting, 12:30 pm. ber of revolutionaries have arrived there with up-to-date weapons för the purpose of raising a rebellion. The officials are much alarmed.
JAPAN'S CAMPAIGN AGAINST SOCIALISM,
Saturday, 20th April, Departure of Coronation Con tingont.
Corintling Yacht Club Yacht ing. 5. p.m.
Butries closo for Lawn Bowls Open Singles Championship.
Monday, 1st May. Shanghai Spring Race Meet ing.
Tuesday, 2nd May. Organ Recital at St. Johna' Cathedral.
Several good things were
An ostinuta for the appoint- ment of additional polico-inspoo, tors having been approved by the Diet in tho last.session, three.to five such officers are to be appoint-RUSSIAN ́APHORISMS. ed to each prefecturs." Their duty is to see that "dangerous" social ideas among the poople are sup- pressed. We learn from the quoted by Prince V. Bariatinaky "Jiji" that it having boon found in a lecture before the Royal Soci difficult to find candidates with oly of Literature on Alexander for the office, the now inspectors the special knowledge required Griboyedoff's comody, "The Mis- fortune of Being Too Clever." uro first to receive a course of
Here are somot... instruction in sociology before being distributed among the local be a father of a family!
governments;
STREET MENDING. "SHOW AND SURE" THE
MOTTO OF LOCAL.
WORKMEN.
It does not.take a wise man to
It needs a board of management to run a grown up daughter,
It is not the sin that matters, but the scandal about it."
A man who takes leave of his home for three years takes leave of his love for over,
Nevertheless, the rising is serious. Manchu Street, Canton, rioters, or revolutionaries and has been forcely attacked by the great deal of domingo been done. In this street live the Wooden blooks are being Inid smaller Manchu officials, tho down, and to the uninitiated the men runners, and minor work appears to progress at the rato of one block per hour. It line The General Post Office here not boen hastened by the washing arrived at Shanghai Saturday, The str. America Maru, which has been notified by the Canton-out by the recent heavy rain of
The masterly inactivity of the that Mr. Lynn Bishop, veteri
The Poking" Daily News" states. workman now engaged in ronary surgoon, arrived lately from subject of much cominout in the American Governmen laying lee House, Lane is to Manila to purchase anulos for the Colony,
Canton, April 28, 11.15 a.m. offices were not inalosted, but the being asked: Is it the revolution "hangers-on."
A lender of tho Korean insur gents, who had been condemned to death by a court martial executed Monday last,
Martial law has been proclaim-tolographic oflico was closed to by both foreigners and Chinese, Macao Steamship Company that nuoli of the work accomplishod, brought Tls. 800,000 worth of
od in Canton.
The Viceroy is taking the most
stringoat measures to put down
the revolution.
The rivor boats are being de-
gined and sourched carefully for
arms which it is kaown the rebels
luck.
The trains have stopped run-
ning.
The rioting outside the Vico,
roy's Yamen was of a serious
Character, and the foreign buiki-
inge of the Yamon have boon
burnt,
FINANCIAL NEWS.
BUANGHAT SHARES. Shanghai, April 24. Maats- chappij, etc. in Langkat, Ld. Tls. It is amusing to read the 100 cash. Shanghai and Hong- American papers ro Wolgust. Cheng Rubber Tls. 3 1.2 onslı, kow Wharf Co., Ld. Tla. 85 caslı. The latter mot knock-out' Brown at the Now York, N.S.C. Consolidated Rubber Tis. 4 cauli. on let Marali. Brown is describ- Auglo-Java Estates, Ld. Tls. 0 1.2 ed as 'a little cock-eyed Dutch Cash, Shanghai Ice C. 8. & 1. Co., Ld. Tla: 121.2 cash. Shang-
all but official messages.
Steamers from Hongkong are being rigorously searched for
arins.
The rioters word a white band on, their honds, when they set fire to the Viceroy's Yamon.
Steamers Stopped.
("BUAT PO" SERVICE.)
Canton, April 28, 12 p.m.
For forty-eight hours...tho, rumming of steamers between Hongkong and Canton has been
suspended.
RUMOURED NATIVE RISING.
ALLEGED MUTINY OF CAN-
TON RECRUITS,
A SERIOUS POSITION. RECRUITS ARMS RENDERED USELESS BY OFFICIAL ORDER
man, who never claimed any pre hai Gas Co., Ld. Tls, 105 enali, tensions to being anything but a rough and ready, fighter without and per cent. debentures 1900 | (Tux "Timoner" CORRESPONDENT
6
at Tls 104 cash. Shanghai Mutual Telophone Tla, 05 caalı.
any foolishchampionship nations, yet he handed out a terrible lac ing to the alleged light weight champion. In the second round One of the largest audiences of Brown almost put the kiboshi on of Chinese young men over the champion. Anyhow Brown gathered in Shanghai orowded, best Wolgast badly; ho nino later the Martyrs' Memorial Hall on dploated one-round Hogan, yet Saturday night to hear Mr. Shor neither of these pugilists would wood Eddy give the first of his comment to meet Moran.The services of addresses on National Asian
Ideals."
como at last?
The affair is rogarded as serious The fight in front of the Yamon, in which the admiral in person led the garrison, has caused a stir, and little doubt exists that the outbreak is one that calls for the most determined handling. It is many years since rioters or revolutionaries dared deliberately to engage the officials in armed conflict. Hongkong Native Boarding
Houses Crowded. The threatened rising in Canton has caused an extremely largo number of worneu and children to seok rofugo in British territory and during the last ten days ar- rivals in Hongkong have boon numerous. The native boarding houses are crowded. “
All Shipping Stopped.
no bouts will leave for the Sha The re-blocking of this oxtroma-Bycce amongst her cargo. meen at least to-day. No mails ly busy but inadequate thorough- Mr: Valentine Chirol, of "The therefore are going to Canton. fare is causing much annoyance Times," is returning to the East, The telegraph also is congested, tomany hard-working entmercial hia immediate destination being
A representative of the "Tele-men of the Colony, and we sug the Persian Gulf.: graph." in conversation with a gest that the contractor bo spurred local European official. Journed to more activo efforts by these in that the rising is regarded with a authority. good deal of tropidation by those in authority. "But," said he, "if this outbreak is scotched China will have peace for several years
+1
"Slow and sure"
Inay be a good motto, but in the case of Ice House Lane the "slowness" is apparent, while the "surenoss' is, if ono to como."!
The revolutionists" he con-recont rains, conspicuous by its may judge by the effect of the tinued, "are determined, but they absence. lack arms and ammunition. Had they attacked the arsenal first and succeeded in obtaining the needed supplies, the "Fiery Cross would have spread throughout the Southern Provinces of China and then to the North, and the Tai-
ping rebellion, but on a larger senle, would-be reproduced.
ان
1.M. Iegistrar of Shanghai is advertising for information con- Captain William Winch, who was Corning the whoreabouts
in Shanghai for a number of years, and who left England one five
yoars ago.
Capt, Brinkley, who line heen a and for over thirty years editor of resident of Japan for forty years, the "Japan Mail," is reported to be lying seriously ill at his ro sidence in Tokyo. It is rumoured in Tokyo that Mr. Montague Bell, the late editor of the "N.-C. Daily "is about to join Captain Nows," Brinkley with the Japan Daily Mail," and will shortly take over the whole managing editorship, as the presont propriotor, the original founder-ie now desirous of retiring, boing pretty well advanced in years,
“A representative of the "Hong-"Thore is no doubt that the rie- Conununder Beckwith, R. N., on the power of the Manchu, and it kong Tolograph" intorviewoding is a deformined attempt upon the matter, and was informed will need very strong measures that at 10.20 this morning, in- indeed to prevent it being the structions were given by His Ex-signal for a general insurrection. cellency the Governor, to stop all "I do not think that Europeans shipping proceeding to Canton. are in any danger. The revolu- tionaries are wise enough and suf- ficiently well led to know that the slightest interference with foreig. nors will bring to the aid of their epomies, the Manchus, the forces of the Powers. If assaults are made on Europeans they will be the work of common rioters,
"It is impossible to say, how
The two recent depressione off woll or badly armed are the main Tazon have, much to our discom
All vessole and junks have therefore been refused clonrance to Canton for twenty-four hours,
WILMINGTON UNDER ORDERS.
COOK'S TOURISTS HELD UP.
TWENTY VISITORS:
MAROONED AT CANTON,
The Weather Forecast,
GRAIN
STORMY
CHANGE
VERY DRY
FAIR
On the 28th at 11.55 a-Thá barometer has fallen slightly at Sen, and risen moderately over the stations bordering the China N. China and the N. part of the Ben of Japan. ་ ར་ . ”
An area of low pressure, pro- bably of slight intensity, lies over the N. part of the China Ses, and a depression is shown also over the Pacific in the neighbourhood of the Boning.
Pressure is highest over the Yellow Sea,
Fresh N.E, and Erwinds, and equally weather are indicated over the northern shores of the China Boa.
Hongkong rainfall for the 24
forces of the Ka Ming Tang. The fort, made, their influence felt hours ending at 10 am, to-day, premature outbreak leaves us in here, converting Tuesday and 0.01 inches, the dark. It remains to be seen Wednesday last into summor days, whother those in supreme com- with the thermometer indoors as
will be aflime.".
Canton, April 27, A large party of Cook's tou.mand will judge the moment pre-high as 82 whilst yesterday top Ever since the assassination of rists went to Canton yesterday, pious or not. Strong measures conts wero in evidence and worn the late Tartar. General, a rumour They are now held up there bellion. If not taken the country dropped to 68d. To-day at 6n.m. by the Vicoroy will kill this rewith comfort, the mercury having has been afloat tant a nativerising owing to the outbreak," will soon break out, coupled with The tourists for at least forty-
the thermomoter registered 62d, the mutiny of the Canton recruits eight hours, according to our
Farenheit. who aro alleged to have entertain- telegrams, must remain in the The Revolutionary Party. od feelings of discontent Of City of Rams, and while we do not The Viceroy of Yunnan has course this unusual and alarming anticipate any real danger for wired to the Shangliai and Kine report has given auxiety to be them, nevertheless we hope kiang Taolais to the effoot people here As I have already, the authorities will not neglect just as the British troops Are with
Sasebo and neighbourhood ex perionced the same sort of weather on Monday, 17th inst., as Naga that saki, including the violent hail
storm at noon,
Forecast District. 1.-Hongkong and Neighbour hood, N.E. and E. winds, fresh ↑ squally, some rain.
2-Formosa Channel, E. winds, moderate.
3-South coast of Chins be tweoh Hongkong and Lamooks same as No. 1.
1.South coast of China be tween Hongkong and Hainan Bains on Nov 1,