REUTER'S
TELEGRAMS.
CHINESE
TELEGRAMS.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SATURDAY JULY 15 1911
London, July 13, 7.15 am, The Ministry has sent Chan Their Majesties the King and Kam Tao, an old Queen's College Queon, with the Prince of Wales boy, to consult with the and Princess Mary, got au on-representativos on the matter. thusiastic send-off in Dublin on
the occasion of their departure after the Royal visit to Ireland.
CHINESE
TELEGRAMS.
Poking, July 11. The Admiralty in Peking has instructed the building yard at Nanking to lay down for construc- tion four gunbonts of 1,000 tonn displicement.
Poking, July 11.
Peking, July 7. The Ministry of Education has complied with the request of the The Royal Party proceed to Chinese Minister at Washington Carnarvon to attend the investito send female scholars to comtions intends to nationalize the The Ministry of Communica turo of the Prince of Wales. ploto their education in America. China Merchant S. S. Co.
oreut..
Peking, July 7.
Peking, July 11.
At Carnarvon great propara- tions have boon made for the The Ministry of Foreign Affaire bo allowed to preserve an interest The morolants, however, will coremony and thoro are splendid has requested the Ministry of in the Company in order to pro- decorations in honour of the Law to draw up a series of remote the shipping trade.
His Majesty has conferred a raised by Chinese residents, who].
gulations upon which all disputes number
of knighthoods and have returned from abroad, can Victorian Orders, mostly amongst bo soitled. officials,
The King has issued a message
Poking, July 9, theclaring the joy of himself anded to the Viceroy of Szechuan and The now Cabinet has tolegraph- Queen Mary at the spontaneous and the Amban. of Tibet to the effect hearty loyalty which characteris-that the western part of Szechuan ed their reception in Ireland, and the eastern part of Tibet are "which," sys His Majesty, "has to be amalgamated inorder to form groatly touched our hearts and mindo a pornnént impression a new provinco. upon us that we will never forget."
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At Grand Hotel, Hongkong, o the 12th inst, to the wife Cosil 11. Wood of Masu, Swatow, of a Daughter.
[1260 LANDER-On July 14th, at Rodbill Wert, The Penk, to the Bishop of Victoria and Mrs. Lauder, a son."
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in Turkey, neither Hakki Pasha, polished diplomatist though he be, nor Talaat Bey, nor Djavid Boy, the Salonica Jow, turned Mussul man, can rival Mahmud Shevkot in prestige or authority in the of a powerful section of the community, and developments in Turkey Ottoman Empire. Added to his personal influence is the backing may in the near fature-bo determined by the contest for power, between this man and his party, and the Young Turks. The axis- tonco of this struggle has created a situation which by sheer ambi- guity alone may create a crisis. This was foreseen months ago, and a crisis is just what is wanted by Mahmud Shovket and his party. It affords an unparalleled oppor tunity for a military coup d'etat, and the investment of Mahmud Shovket with a military dictatorship. It remains to bo soon whether this is to be the outcome of the prosont state of affairs, and should it come to pass, it can only be viewed with great mis- giving. A foat of arms would be necessary to consolidate the dictators' position, and the logical result of the coup d'etat would ho general war throughout the peninsula. The flual word will como from Austria-Hungary and Russia, and little us thoy may desiroit, the time may yet como when they will have to tako action to readjust the status quo in the Balkans and protect Turkey from herself.
tion.
AFFAIRS IN PORTUGAL.
(11th July.)
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Dowager, the young Emperor By order of the Empress will commonco his studies on the 7th moon at the Yuk Hing Paluce. Shum have been chosen as the Sintes ballicahip Maine, in Havana harbour, and the consequent Idea In February 1898 the whole of the civilized world was shocked Luk Yun Ohang and Chan Pao by the awful disaator, which involved the sinking of the United Emperor's tutors.
of two hundred and fifty inon, who comprised the crew. It was not that a revolution has broken out in Portugal in favour of the mou- Though the Portugueso Government has repudiated the report Poking, July 12. only the appalling nature of the event, but the terrible accusation archy the telegrams, which have come to hand, are of a most disquiet- A coetsin British firm has ap-that followed that the Spanish had been guilty of tho most awfuling nature, and point, if not to an uprising, at least to the near plied to the Ministry of Communi- treachery. It might be said that the Spanish-American war was possibility of one. Of the continental nations, Portugal has had a Peking, July 9 The President of the Ministry Canton-Hankow Railway,
cations to secure the work of the precipitated by this, though the misrule of Cuba by the Latin race vory chequered career, and it looks, evon now, as if the republican London, July 13, 8.10, a.m. At the departure of their rialized the Throne strongly of Communications has mono-
had been arousing the netive sympathies of the States for some time party has to encounter many stormy seas before it will reach suflicient Majcaties from Dublin Bay the recommending the appointmont
Poking, July 12. previous to that and relations between the powers wore strained.calni for the working out of the destinies of the nation on lines differ crowds "Come back to af Cheung Hau Sui as assistant has telegraphed to HE Shun foulost of crimes was alleged, and war followed. Now, the im-ing, since the assassination of King Carlos on February 1st, 1910, tho The Ministry of Foreign Affairs Then a fine ship went down in what were Spanish waters, the ent from those that the ill fated royalists took up. Practically speak- Erin."
Director-General of the Sze- Ngai Sum, the Chinese Charge mediate cause of the precipitant has been found to be non-existent Portugueso monarchy had existed only on sufferance, but whatever On the arrival of the Royal chan-Hankow and Canton-Haa-d'Affaires at Mexico, to return to Spain's. escutcheon has been cleared of the foul stain that has chance Manool had of continuing on the throne of his fathers Party at Holyhead the Welsh kow Railways. Choir boarded the yacht and
Peking at once.
for the past decade adhered as only infamy can adhere. Yesterday was gradually swopt away by the bad service of the Royalists who performed a programnic of Weish. It is reported that the arrival of the Charge d'Affaires is due to an an expert naval and military engineer, has made a ropart their old policy of "Rotativam"
Huph, July
It is reported that the recall of telegram from Washington, stated that General Bixby, not having learnt their lesson from the disaster of 1910 continued eight warships at lehang repre-impoachment presented to the
connection with the sinking of the ship and has sist and Regenerador parties, without any serious reform, such as was Carnarvon is swarming with conting England, America, GerThrone by 11.E. Chang Yam given it out that the explosion, which involved the foundering, apparently desired by the country at the time...
or alternation between th Progros- multitudos of people anxious tony, Franco and Japan, has Tong, Chinese take part in the national festival caso a panie among the in-Washington.
Minister
could not havo been caused from the outside, and that the real origin at the investiture of the Prince of habitants thorn.
will never be explained. Time has entered a verdict of “Not guilty" discrediting the monarchy, and wore aided to a great extent by the During this period, the republicans were exceedingly activo in Wales.
Peking, July 12.
and Spain no longer stands with a smear of dishonour across the collapse of the Credito Predial, due, it was alleged, to maladministra- Thousands were unable to find
Peking, July 9. H.E. Chau Chin Sheung, the pages of her history of the last century. Prince Ching and the Pres-overnor of Kirin, has been im-the war of 1898 has. Immediately upon the report of the disaster a personally, at the critical moment he found few active de dont of the Ministry of Communi-peached by a cortain censor, for cry for vongeanes went up from the people of the United States, and fenders, and without a
If over anything lias shown the danger of jumping to conclusions tho revolution. If there were no animosity against King Manoel, The scandal reacted on the dynasty and procipitated cations intend to raise a long of ability. starting a $400,000 for the purpose of
in view of the evidence then available they were perfectly justified he was forced to give up the heritage of the house of Braganza. It is blow being struck on his behalf Poking, July 12. nowspaper
in demanding that fall reparation should be exacted. Spain at the possible that, had the republicans pursued a policy of conciliation The Governor of Kiangsi ' official organ.
same time felt the terrible insult that had been lovolled at her with regard to northern Portugal, where the royalista are still strong, atemorialized the Throne on. Peking, July 9,
national honour and it seems, now, that time allows us to look at the country would havo settled down to the new rule, it is possible tlut Yesterday the President of the returned to his native country eritable outcome of the existing state of affairs. A war followed, true progross would have been made, where little had existed before, half of Censor W who lately things with the dispassionato view of distance, that war was the in- the ship of state would have been steared into quiet waters and that London, July 13, 11,35 p.m.
Ministry of Financo, and the for permission to resign. Ministry of Communications hold An Imperial deeree has been her American possessions, and the remnant of the empire that she republic. Not content with the establishment of a form of govern-. Spain lost, and with her defeat cano her loss of the remainder of hut a short-sighted policy was commenced in the early days of the new A Borliu telegram says that the conference with to reprosen-issued complying with the Go had found in the west passed away. It was the milestone that ment, which was absolutely strange to the previous traditions of a Gorman warship Panther, which,tatives of the various banks to lis-vernor's request. on hor voyage from Dumaraland jenss the new currency question.
markod the completion of Spain's fall from the high position which people that had begun to look on the monarchy as a thing of to Germany, was diverted to the
Poking, July 12. Moroccan coast in view of the
sha occupied prior to the Elizabethan ero. Lak Yun Chang, Chan Pao| reatened trouble in that country,
Shum and Yo fuk Tan havo boon the Maine, and two civilized peoplos fought over an academie had become an inseparable part of the nation's political The real casus belli was lost in the popular cry "Remember of repression against the various time-honoured institutions, that perpetuity, the ascendant porly bogun to pursue an active policy h left Teneriffe homewards.
The Eber from Damaraland now
formally appointed as intors to mator, which might have been settled, but which was now thrown economy. the young Emperor. They are into the shadow, by what the Americans alleged to be a treacher-a big step that would take time to secure the approval of the whole
The abolishment of the existing constitution cels as touder to thecruiser Berlin, which now represents German in-
Peking, July 9,
to receive a monthly feo of Tls. jous wholesale slaughter. forests in Morocco, and will replace and the Ministry of Education The Ministry of Foreign Affaii's
1,000, Tle, 800 and Tls. 000 re-
If anything the present discovery, the complete exoneration of tent with one big alteration, an alteration that involved the sweeping of the country, but the drastic changes did not ond thoro. Not con- hur on the station shuild heave instructed all the students
spectively.
Spain from a charge of the groFest sin, should tend to make away of the house of peors, the government pursued a policy of active latter have to visit other ports for who have been chosen by the
Poking, July 13.
nitions more wary of war. The untoli mirery that existed through aggression against the Church of Rome. Whatever might be the faults coaling purposes,
Prince Chan, the special repre-
doaths of brave inen on either side, the sorrow of the mourner of the Church, it may be admitted that it had established a firm Ciovornment to proceed to foreign catative of the Emperor of China which has bec softened by time must again bo roignant as it hold on the sympathies of the people at large, and the suppression of countries to complete their educ- at the Coronation of King George becomes known that, unintentionally, America wronged herself and the various religious orders would do much to ation to meet in Shanghai pen-
has telegraphed to the Admiralty
nother nation when so terrible a charge, as trenchery, precepitated symptly from the government and tend to bring adherents to the alienate ding their departure next month in l'oking to the effect that the two the estranged parties into an awful war. Evil was done but good royalist cause. Poking, July 19; cruisers constructed in England of it. The administration of affairs in the Philippines has Prince Tsai Hom, the First have just been completed and been undoubtedly better. The islands have shown signs of im- great influencoou the off sirs of the nation. All Portugueso are not anti- We venture to think that this was un faux pas which will have a Lord of the Admiralty, intends with the cruiser Haichi.
will sail for China in company mense progress, but the fact remains that through on ignoranco of religious; evenamajority cannot be said to exist against it, and by their to raise foreign loans for the pur-
fact on one side, and the unreasoning Castilian anger of insult en grave error the republicans have thrown into the balance against them- pose of re-organizing the navy
the other, many lives have passed the rubicon, while they might yet selves all the forces that Rome has at her command. Naturally the Peking, July 13, and establishing two naval col·
Inve been spared to do further good in the world. Doubtless church will support the royalist cause, and people that otherwise would H. E. Liang Tan Yen, the new any hearts sigh and murmur "If we had only known.' leges at Tientsin and Nankingly appointed Minister of Foreign did not. That is only excuse for the war and if the discovery of a keen resentment that their church should be in any way attacked They have taken little interest in the affairs of the country, burning with Peking, July 10. Affairs las telegraphed to the General Bixby does nothing else, it will make other nations more will follow the church'e load. It would follow, in the circumstances, The Viceroy of the Three new Eastern Provincesas telegraphed strongly recommending the appeace till the marching of civilization, shall have, for over, laid, in the case in the north. It may be true that there is no revolution at Cabinet from America cautious, less roady to rattle the sabre, and help keep the world at that the monarchista have a strong backing and this is found to be. to the new Cabinet reporting that pointment of Yuan Shik Kai to the dust of the past, wars and all rinuours of war. the border troubles of Kirin and take his place as Minister of
At Portmader General Baden Powell anounced that the Prince of Wales was initiated lay as Chief of the Welsh Boy Scouts.
London, July 13, 10.25 p.m. ( The following are probable starters and jockeys in the race for the Edlipso Stakes:- Swynford, F. Woolton. Pietri, Muhor
Lomborg, Dillon.
Whisk, Martin.
Yellow, F. Tomplemani.
Charles, Donoghuo.
Wavelab, Trigg
CHINESE
TELEGRAMS.
Peking, July 7,
As an outcome of the conference the varions banks expressed their readiness to use the new currency cording to exchange. and to put it into circulation ac
Heilungklang are very critical and troops should be sent to these places at once.
?
Peking, July 10.
The Viceroy also asked for the The Prosident of t'a Minir-formation of a citizen ariny for try of Communications has protection. roceived an anonymous letter threatening to take his life. As a consequence, the Prosidont hos asked the Ministry of Interior to increase the number of his body guard for protection,
Poking, July 7. The Ministry of Communica- tions has instructed all the railway allicials to maintain the strictest secrecy in all railway affairs.
Oficials found divulging secrets will be severoly punished.
Poking, July 7.
..
•
HE. Chang Ming Chi, Viceroy
of Canton, has been impeached by
n Manchurian consor,
tions has asked the Government:
to appoint a superintendent in charge of rostal affairs,
Peking, July 10.
Foreign Affairs.
Peking, July 13
instructed the Viceroys and Gov- The Ministry of Commerce has orners of the various provinces to
Twelve students wore arrested.
Peking, July 13.
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BALKAN AFFAIRS.
(10th July.)
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presont in progress, but the possibilities are much in favour of an atbrok. Whether it will come, yot, romains to be seen, but we venture to think that the telegrams that have been published in our columns show that a smouldering discontent is existent in the north, which, should it be fanned by winds of aggression, will burst forth into the flames of sanguinary civil war. A king there was, a king
CHINA'S CONSTITUTION.
(12th July.)
The latest telegrams give very disquieting news from the Bathore is, and though he is without a throne, it yet remains to be seen ascertain the quantity of cigarettes kans, and it would seem that in the very near future the Powers will whether the actions of the republicans have not strengthened his The Viceroy of the Three to the taxation of cigarettes.
imported and report preparatory be called upon again to take part in the settlement of the affairs of a position and enhanced his chances of again occupying the throne of Eastern Provinces lns obtained a
plethora of little princedoms that have given more trouble than their his fathers. loan of $1,400,000 from a well
Peking, July 13. sizos rolly justify, The prosent crisis commenced with an known German bank for the relief
The students of the High School Albonian revolt, which involved practically the whole of Turkey's of distress in the Nowelwang Junan hold a noisy meeting op- this sphere of action, the Turkish troops have been able to make at Changsha in the province of estorn seaboard, and eventually became located bohind Lake market caused by the recent
Scutari and close to the Montenegrin frontier. Though limited to failure of a native bank.
posing the action of the Govern- little heailway and as an outcome of the present state of affairs the Peking, July 10..
nient in the nationalization of. The Ministry of Communica-railways, out of the cominercial Government of Montenegro has made active preparations for defence.
funds.
Ilolations between the Principality nd the Porte havo moreover Among the many signs that Chinn is moving in the right been strained by the refusal of the latter to consuler a proposal mado path towards the establishment of a better form of government, by the former for the dolimitation of a neutral frontier zone. This han has hitherto existod, is the fact that within the last was desired by the smaller State for the purpose of further securing fortnight the authorities at Poking have memorialized the The Ministry of Finance lins tele- tonds to send
The Chinese Government in its integrity, for the people have been very jealous for their existence throne on the subject, and in reply to their suggestion, an graphed to the superintendents of settlers to Mongolia for the par-in 1878, This is all the more necessary because the Turks and legislative council. With the edict comes the institution of several number of as a separate State over since their independence was nekuowledged edict has been promulgated establishing a cabinet as well as The memorial has been held push forward the interests of the agricultural pursuita in order to the position of the State holds.
finance in the various provinces to pose of cattle rearing and other Montenegrins alike, have realised the great strategic value that Yamens such as the secretariat, the bureaux of appointments, de- branches of the Taching Bank and protect the frontier.
evations, statistics and printing, and the abolition of the Commission Poking, July 8.
to establish branches in the pro-
Beside the many inter-State political relations, that are moro or of Constitutional Reform, the Board of Civil Appointmonte, Impe- From enquiry made by the vinces where there are none at
Peking, July 13. less outside the kon of the man in the street, religious differences, riol Patent Office, and the offices which deal with the Im- Ministry of Education, there are present.
The Ministry of Agriculture, the intolerance of the Turk, and the persecutions that have been perial Decrees and memorials. The functions of these de- 598 male students and 52 female
Industry and Commerce intends continued oven to the prosent day, and the general discontent of the partmouts ATO Peking, July 11. Chinese students studying in
como within the province of the Prince Toni Tao, the Command-leaf throughout the provinces.
to monopolise the sale of tobacco majority of the many races, have gone far to keep the Balkan States Yamous of the newly organized cabinet, while, in the case of the America.
er-in-Chief of all forces in
in the ferment which has been a characteristic of the modern history Bureau of Translation, the responsibilty will be transferred from Poking, July 7. China is trying to curtail expenses the authorities at Chili and the prophesied by more than ons keen observer of the trend of affairs, say that other items concerning the official regulation and organi The Ministry has instructed of the peninsula, and, as far back as the beginning of the year, it was the Grand Council to the Hanlin College. The edict goes on to The representatives of the four for the coming review of troops in thres Eastern Provinces to put that a spark would set the whole place ablaze and entail another zatim of the metropolitan and provincial governments will nations interested in the big loan the Autumn. The cost of the the scheme into practice. lately advanced to China, review has been estimated to
period of sanguinary guerrilla werfare. Not that the various races also be further revised, nal the proposed revisions will be sent have over been at ponce, for thero have always been wara and to Peking so that, should they prove satisfactory, the completion rumours of wars in the cauldron of European politics, Fragment of a conversation
of the promulgation of reform will be carried out in due course. Prince Chun, the special repre- overheard the other day-lat of the ordinary, but a close examination reveals the fact that expected, of western origin, for on close examination it would Superficially examined the crisis appears to be nothing out The model for this reform is not, as would have boon perhaps ment of the new currency system sentative of the Emperor of China employee. I say, your brothor a general disruption, and war involving Bulgaria, Sorvia appear that the Japanero form of government had been in the will probably create a crisis in at the Coronation of King George, really working now? 2nd ditio, and Montenegro, is greatly desired by commercial circles and as a con-hastelegraphed to the now Cabinet No, not really working. He do- of the Turks. For the moment the problem seems to settle littlo, that makes for the liberty of the subject and it will be
certain scotion minds of the reformers. As in the case of Japan there is very... sequence, the second instalment stating that he will return to Peverivent Post Ofico only om round a mau, little-known to the outside world, Malunud Shekot found, as a consequence, that this highly responsible form of of the loan will not be paid, | king at the end of the month, ployed.
Paglia, who by common consent is the most considerable individual government dist is an idest of western life, does not at present sus
over.
have
notified the Ministry $500,000.
of Finance to the effect
that the immediate enforce-
Peking, July 11.
now to