NEW SERIES · No
SPECIAL
TELEGRAMS.
-STEEL FOUNDER'S
FORTUNE.
The Hongkong Telegraph.
[TH="Telegraph" CORRESPONDENT
London, May 1, 7.10 p. m.
Mr. Willing Strang, steel foun-
der in a Rangoon firm, left a. fortune of £970,624,
THE BRITISH NAVY.
·ADMIRAL PERCY SCOTT
RETIRES.
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職四初月四年三統宣
REUTER'S
TELEGRAMS.
His next big success was to capture the Doggett's Cont and Badgo, but the culminating point of his career was the win over Towns in October 1908, thereby socuring the championship of. England.
Bowever, the event most in the public memory is undoubtedly his meeting with Arnst of Now, Zooland on the Zambesi. Tho raca was an easy win for Arnst, who led by 7 longthis at the finish.
REUTER'S
TELEGRAMS.
(ESTABLISHEDE 1881.)
TUESDAY,
QUEEN OF THE BEL-
GIANS.
ARRIVES IN LONDON.
:
REUTER'S SERVICE TO THE "TELEGRAPH."
London, May 2, 7.50.m. The Queen of the Belginne has arrived in London.
CHINESE
TELEGRAMS.
THE PLAGUE.
CONFERENCE CLOSES
SESSIONE
["Baruno Po" Service]
Poking, May 1. The International Plague Con- forenço at Fongtion in Manchuria has been closed for il sessions and the representatives aro on
二拜禮
號二月五英港香
<
$86 PER ANNUM.
SIMON COFT 10 Cats,
REBELS SEEK REFUGE IN POLICE COURT.
Mr. Harris said, that with ro gard to the defence, lio was going. SIU PAK NUNNERY. At the Magistracy, to-day, bo- to submit that the clause of the foro Mr. Wood, rickshaw coolie ordinance of 1911, under which THREATS TO KILL NUNS.No. 295, Wong Kin by nome, was the charge was faid, did not apply, charged with the larcony of 42 to the defendant. The clauso was [THE "TELEDUAFU." CORRESPONDENT, pieces of clothing, a gold bracelet in the nature of a penal statuto
Canton, May 1, and $15 in money,
and must be construed strictly. Sines His Excellency's escapo
Prisoner pleaded not guilty. The position of the defendant Inspector Robertson prosecuted. was that he held a licence in Hong- from the fire, he has been staying The story for the prosecution kong, for the sale of liquors. That in the Admiral's yamon, while his showed how a party of fivo, three had been granted to him under family have been accommodated women and two mnou, arrived in the ordinance of 1808 as amended in one of the gunboats as already Hongkong by the night boat. in 1000. It was granted for tho roported in your columns. His They engaged six rickshaws, the paymont of certain fees and un- Excellency now finds that the Adoxin-one being for the luggage. der specific conditions. It was miral's yamen is not very suitable This one they do to run in thoa contract between the govern for the transaction of business, middle in order to keep an eye mont and his olient, whoroby so and has now taken up his quarters on it, but opposite the Bailors long as he fulfilled conditions he in the military training depart Home, the luggage rickshaw was should have power to carry on ment, while his family havo left the missing. One of the women tho business of a publican. The gunboat and been put up in the straightway informed the police ordinance of 1011 had been pass- Provision Bureau attached to the nt No. 7 Station. On being ques- od in which additional condi military training department. tioned the woman's coolio denied tions, which had not been est Deputies have now been appoint all knowledge of the other man, out in the original licence, She was given & most cordial their way to Peking to be received" od
to investigate into the but on being pressed he gave the-had-been-imposed. His client cost of repair of His Excellency's missing coolie's address as a under the licenco, had the vested reception.
by the Throne. They ufe expect yamen, part of which has been house. in Wanchai. The police right to carry on his business for
burnt down, while other parts want there at 4.30 this morning a whole year under certain, con-“ od at the capital to-morrow,
have been damaged by bombs. and discovered the alleged thief ditions, and there was no power. The defeated rebels are trying asleop beside his spoils. The in the logislature to impose other. EXPERIMENTS AT to wook shelter in the houses value of the stolen goods was conditions unless it was provided
› MUKDEN.
of the ponconble citizens. Some $323.
that the ordinanco was retrospec live and the ordinance of. 1011 A Mukden telegram to the rebola, soon after their defeat, "Poking Daily News
was not. He submitted that un Imanaged to conceal themselves that the Plague Conference has in a numery in Siu Pak street.
"A Chinaman was brought up
der the existing licence a man had socured from the neighbourhood They threatened to kill the nuns for belaving in a disorderly man every right to employ a woman of Manchuria station twelve more if they created alarm, and or nor in West Point, and also with in the bar up to Novembor 31st live tarabagans at great expense
dered them to give up their being drunk. He was fined $10 next, despite the ordinance of London, May 2, 7.5 u.m.,
and trouble. Upon their arrival owne Afterwards they die- or in default one wook's hard 1911. It was an important right there, they were given to Dr. guised themselves as nuns. But labour.flo chose the latter. that a man should have a woman. Thera-has-boon-a-marked-Fetric to examine whether they
this news soon reached the cars When arrested the prisoner de-on the place, though she may not were infected with flchs. These of the troops, who in turn dis-clared at ho was a revolutionist. bon-barmaid, to look-altor the was launched to-day by Ladyrovival of anti-Semitic feuling in aniials were put under chloro-guised themselves as nuns and
ANOTHER DREAD-
NOUGHT.
[Tar "TELEGRAPu" ConnrifonDENT }
London, May 1, 7.10 p.m.
LAUNCHED BY LADY PENTLAND.
POGROMS FORECASTED.
Admiral Porvy Scott is retiring. REUTER ́S SERVICE TO THE
The retiring admiral is one of the most prominent men in tho British navy to-day, and his name will always bo kloutified with Ladysmith, because of the part he played during the roof. Again, it was claimed not long ago that Sir Percy Scott's newly invented devicofor more accurate- ly directing the aim of a vessel's gaus will revolutionis
naval gunnery. Trials just carriód
out on the Good Hope, the only ship fitted with the "director,' Iond to the expectation that tho hitting power of the Fleet will be increased to the extent of from 80 to 75 por cont. By its means ganlaying by seamon in barhettes
"TELEGRAPH.”
London, May 2, 7.5 1.11.
Tho wontioil brownought
Fentland at Glasgow.
This is tho Conqueror, of
1,
22,680 tons burden, and carrying
ten thirteen and a half inch guns.
ALBANIAN REVOLT,
is, writes O correspondent, TURKISH TROOPS TRIUM-
abolished and control of the gan
and oven of a series of guns from
the firo control-station-is-ab-
soluto and under the onliro
PHANT.
**TELEGRAPH."
personal control of one man, REUTER'S SERVICE TO THE the gunnery officer of the ship, who takes the range of the on- amy's ship and___automatically directs the whole of lim own gur fire on it. Tho now "director" is entirely electrical in action and consists of a series of instruments
Tondon, May 2, 7,5 am..
Official advices from Constan-
placed in the fire control station tinople state that the Turkish in the foretop, and connected with olectrical motors in the barbetto. forco under Edhim Pushs en- Those motors rotate and elevate
the barbette guns in sympathy countered and repulsed the with the movement of instruments.
SUSPICIONS AGAINST THE
Russia.
JEWS IN RUSSIA,
Jews
The people are again agitated over the rumours that the slaughter Christian children for the purposes of their ritual,
MITI MIETOATA BANT be put some
AT OUTBREAK.
·PRAISES THE WORK OF THE VICEROY,
states
form and thirty-six fleas were went to the hunnory in question
found. The colour of these fleas to have them arrested. is yellow and the size le about
that of ordinary flots. Those constitute a spocios how to Entomology. Of them
60mo
were preserved in alcohol and
others wore put in test tubes. The lattor lived and bit tho men in experiments. In biting. hait of the flea is as in- fected three subcutaneous and three cutaneous with the bacilli from the prosent epidemic. Four of these died within fifty hours with baboos, and they died quicker than guinea piga. The remaindor are still living but very ill. Those experiments are the most important and are the first ever known. There will bo further exporiments on inhala- [TIM "TELEGRAPH " CORRESPONDENT)tion, which will take place some
Canton, May lat
CIVIL AND MILITARY AUTHORITIES FREED FROM BLAME.
timo this wook.
MUTINY IN NORTH CHINA.
•
EXPORT OF SUGAR FROM FORMOSA TO HONGKONG.
The case was romanded till to-morrow."
The Indian watchman of
Madamo Flint was fined $10, or in the alternativo 3 wooks impri- sonment, for behaving in a dia. orderly manner in Des Vaux Road on Sunday.
Chinoso,ote. Finally, if his client were to be proceeded against, it under which the licence had been must be under the ordinance,
granted, and not under one passed
since..
Mr. Hallifax adjourned the case till Saturday morning, when he will give his decision.
Lai Sang was fined $10 for Hongkong being in doubt who-having the necessary licence in The Colonial Government of keeping an eating stall without ther the importation into Hong Yaunati L.S. 7 prosecuted. kong of Formosan sugar was to be
SCHEME FOR ORGAN- At the Magistracy, this after- by the Internationst saga oturur.D__Halifax
ISING BRAVES. **LKASER DOERITFONDERTVE forence at Brussole, anys a Taipal Land we Live In" was summoned
Canton, May 1. dispatch to the "Jiji," no attempt for permitting a woman to serve Yesterday at the hall of the was made to exportsugar to Hong-in the bar on the evening of the Self-Government Investigation kong from Formosa. Recently 23rd ult. Det. Bergt T. Murphy Society, a scheme for organizing the British Ambassador in Tokyo prosecuted and Mr. Harris defend- a corps of braves for the main- notified the British Consul at ed.
tenance of local peace and for tho Taipon that the export of Formosa Defendant pleaded not guilty protection of local trade came up sugar to Hongkong was not to bo Det. Sergt Murphy said that about for discussion in consequence of subject to the Brussels resolution. 9.45 p.m. on the 23rd ult. he met the outbreak. Both the merchants As a resalt it is expected that P.S. 283 in Queen's Road near the and gentry present were strongly some activity will be seen in the defendant's hotel. They went up in favour of the scheme. It is export-of-Formosan sugar to to the first floor in a house on the reported that a certain gentleman. Hongkong. The Ensuiko Sugar other side of the road, and from has approached Admiral Li Chun II. B. the Canton Viceroy has
Company, of Formosa, which the verandah they had a good for the supply of arms and received a tolographic decres
received an order for the shipment view of the defendant's bar. He ammunition from the provincial from the Throne in reply to'lis
to Canada of 10,000 bags each, saw in a mirror, which was hangarsenal to the needs of the new weighing 168 kin, through the ing behind the counter, the reflec- movement. The Admiral has Excellency's memorial on 'tho
THREATENED ATTACK ON Suzuki company, of Kobe, shiption of a woman, playing the piano, complied with the request. outbreak of the tumult in Canton.
RUSSIANS.
pod the order from Tukow which was within the eastern door The Throno has been much sur-
Formosa, on the 15th ultimo by of the bar. After about 15 minutes IS LIFE CHEAP IN CHINA? prised to hear of the outrage The settlement of Khomokha, a foreign steamer. Owing to a British sailor went up to her and committed by the rebels at the on the Chinese side of the Amur, its low pries, the supply of appeared to sponk. She left the Viceroy's yamen but gratifiod was the scene of an outbreak brown sugar is congesting the piano and wont behind the coun- that through the prompt and among Chinese soldiers on the market in Formoss, the stock atter. The sailor then played the
10 April, says a report from Takow and Anping having instrument. About 10.30 p.m. ho "It has been remarked that life, energetic manner with which Blagovestehonsk to the "Novaya accumulated to 600,000 bags, saw the woman in question tak is very cheap over in China. Tho H.E. the Viceroy and Admiral Li | Zhiza.” A hundred soldiers holders not being inclined 10ing some coins out from the coun-world has become almost acous Chun gave orders to the troops in inutinied against their officers sell. The production of brown ter and put them in a drawer. tomed to seeing Chinese peasants suppressing this outbreak, the because the latter had forbidden sugar in Formosa this season is At 10,45 p.m. a civilian went carried off by hundreds of thous progress of the rising was checked to allow anti-European agitatora expected to be reduced to 10,-up to the bar and Joaning across ands by flood and famine. Yet to enter the barracks. Ons of 000,000 bags. The "Jiji" notes the counter appeared to speak to when you stop to reflect you will in time and that so many rebole the officors was killed and several that, the sugar companies in her. The defendant put a drink realize that the possibilities of the had boon killed and brought to others injured by the mutinous Formosa have agreed to direct in a bottle near the civilian. life of a Chinese peasant are on a justice. The Throne.las complied soldiers, who proceeded to plunder their energies more than ever After it had been pourod partly par with similar lives in all other with the Viceroy's request to free and demolish the promises of the to the export of Formosan sugar into a glass, the woman placed it parts of the earth. In one sense, wealthy merchants of the place. to China, partly to provide in front of the civilian and com- certainly, the lives of these un- the civil and military authorities With the spoil, the mutineers be- against overproduction, and partly pleted pouring the drink out. fortunates are cheap, for it has took themselves to the gold to extend the export trade of About 10.50 p.m. an American been estimated that they can bo The Throne also praises H.E. alluvial deposits, where they were Formosa. The quantity of sugar sailor. approached the counter savod at the rate of $2 a pieco. REUTER'S SERVICE TO THE the Viceroy for the precautions ho joined by a band of Chungohuses to be shipped to China by each and appeared to speak to the There was never before an opport and a part of the local Customs company is to be decided ac-woman. She turned round, took unity for philanthropy to accomp has taken before the outbreak, garrison. Thus roinforced, the cording to their respective pro- a bottle off a shelf, and poured out lish so much with so small, an and for the smartness he has dis- whole crowd, to the number ducing power. The associated a drink into a tumblor. The amount. And there was never a played in dealing with the sitas of 250, returned to Khomokle. sugar companies were to hold a sailorhanded some money to her better opportunity for the Ameri- tion. As Kwang Tung is a mari- The frightened merchants and conference recently in Tokyo Sho put it into a drawer in front can nation to secure the lasting At Bar-sur-Aubó a demonstra-time province which has boen, other residents of the placeappeal to decide the quantity of sugar of her and appeared to hand him friendship of China than by help-
ing in this hour of disaster,” and is still being, freely molesteded to the Russian authorities for to be shipped by each company. back some change.
pormission to transfer their fami-
in the control station aloft, The Albanian insurgents with
heavy
sighting is done in the usual way,
and a range-finder is used: The loss,
officer in charge can fire gung
simultaneously or separately by
The Turkish force lost
forty
this moro pressure of a button.
the
There is no guninying in the bar killed and wounded, but
betta itself, but in the event of
the fire control station, which in Albanians suffered much more
'unarmoured, being disabled the
guu can be used in the usual heavily, way by the gunlayers. It is suid" that in experiments off the Nab Lightship the number of hits made was upwards of 50 per cont. in excess of those recorded un- der ordinary battle-practico con- ditions.
ROWING.
THE CHAMPIONSHIP OF
ENGLAND..
{TA= "TatBGRAPH? CORRESPONDANT.)
London, May 1, 7.10 p.m.
Barry bout Albany in the scull- ̈ing race for the championship of England, by seven lengths to day.
CHAMPAGNE TROUBLE
IN FRANCE.
་
"TELEGRAPH.":
London, May, 1st.
tion in favour of the inclusion of Aubo in the champagne area lod
to a collision with the police which several were injured and
number of arrests:were made.
in
a
A number of Chinese were dealt with at the Magistracy this morning for being in possession of quantities of opiam, without having licences permitting them
Barry has had a remarkable career as a Bouller. At the age of soventeen he won the Appren side's Coat against the plok of the Thames apprentice watermen, to do so
from blame.
by anarchists, the Throne aske lies and goods across the Amur H.E. the Viceroy to enforce string-into Russian territory to seek the ent measures for the apprehension protection of the Russian troops. of the revolutionists "so as The panic in Khomokhe was og to prevent the recurrence of gravated by the declaration of the the outrage. As regards the mutineers that they intended to rebels in this outbreak, who are burn the whole settlement and still at large, the Throne orders then, to march along the bank of the Viceroy to instruct both the the Amur to Aigun with the ob J. W. Mackay.....Rec. 9 1 down civil and military authorities to ject of recruiting all the garrisons H. R. Honeyman... Scr." try their best to bring all of them and the unemployed masses. A. Bullock.... ...Rec. 11)
not
"Grant's Oriza Outlook"
(America) contains the following interesting paragraph:
Mr. Harris:You saw all this GOLF.
through a glass-darkly 7-Oli A marriage was to take place in the Church of the Immaculate The following is the result of the Which part did you not Conception, Penang, to-day, of consolation cup competition which soo in the looking glass 7Miss Mildred Mary, daughter of was played on the 22nd, 23rd and The only thing Isaw through the Mr and Mrs R. L. de Souza, of 24th ult., at Shanghai, the con- glass was the woman playing the Pulau Tikus, to Mr Thomas ditions boing 18 holes against piano,
Harmin-Coombs.
Three hundred warships will bogey:
How did you know it was a woman?I saw it was.participate in the grand naval Did you go into the defendant's review to be held at Spithead on hotel that night?-I did not. | Jung 24th. Y
What tune was the defendant's wife playing?--I don't know.
Could you hear?-Ton a bit. Ps, 283, who accompanied the previous witness, gave corrobora
14) J. Dewar... Ser. H. P. Winslow Roo, 10) T. W. Mitchell.8) E, S. Little, Jun... 11)
There were thirty-three entries. I tive evidence.
to justice. H.E. the Viceroy is With these combined forcen a R. Wood............................ further requested to telegraph move was to be made upon the the names of the officials and Russian cities on the rivph Itis troops who had died during the stated that the leader of the out oncounter preparatory to allow break was a disgraced officer who ing gratuities to their families had escaped from prison..
The two American citizens who were arrested for taking photographs of the Naval Station, we learn from the Asahi," were released on Mon
(24th