The
Hongkong Telegraph.
(ESTABLISHED D 1881.) Copyright, 1911 by the Proprietor
MONDAY, JULY 31
NEW SERIES No. 8581
SPECIAL
TELEGRAMS.
EMPRESS OF CHINA.
RESQUE ABANDONED.'
(Tað "ŢELEGRAPH” CORRESPONDENT }·
Tokyo, July 30,
MAVAANTERI
REUTER'S
TELEGRAMS.
"NO SURRENDER"
London, July 29, 9 p.m.
There has been a meeting of the Unionist Party at Grosvenor
REUTER'S
TELEGRAMS.
REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.
The Government has shattered ENGLISH BY-ELECTION. the constitution at the bidding of | · · Mr. Rodmond,, the Nationalist Leader, and has grossly abused their position us advisers to the
The rescue of the liner Empray/ouso, the company present in-Sovereign. Surely, he says, the of Chinu is despaired of and hxcluding Lord Halsbury, Lord Sol-time has come when every citizen
now been abandoned.
The whole crew have left the ship and have arrived at Yoko bama.
REUTER'S
TELEGRAMS.
NAVAL AGREEMENT.
BETWEEN THE COLONIES.
bourne, Lord Salisbury, Lord Willoughby de Broke, Lord Lovat, Sir George Wyndham, Mr. 1. E.
Smith, Sir Edward Carson, and Lord Amery.
AUSTEN'S LETTER.
At the meeting a letter was read
from Mr. Auston Chamberlain,
:
[SIRVIEK TO THE “TELEORara." urging that, whatever happens,
London, July 29, 8.30 a.m.
the Unionist Party should adhere From Ottawa comes a message
to the policy of "no surrender," slating that, in the House of Commons there, Sir Wilfrid hereby saving the Party from Laurier, the Prime Minister, disgrace and disaster.
placed on the tablo a naval a grec- 16 was afterwards decided to mont arrived at between Great hold a public meeting in London.
Britain, Canada, Australia and Now Zealand, which provides
that the naval services of the Dominions shall be exclusively under the inspection of their own Cloveruments' training and die- eiplino; and be uniform with that
of the British Navy.
Tha Dominionships will fly the White Ensign as an emblem of the British authority of the
Crown.
LORDS WEAKENING,
London, July 30, 12.45 am.
It is anticipated that when the
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should be awake to such dangers.
ADMIRAL TOGO.
AT THE CORONATION.
SERVIOS TO TAN " TELEGRAPH."']
London, July 30, 7.25 a.m. Admiral Togo, on the ove of his departure from London, after at Lending the Coronation festivities,
ho states that he will carry back to has published a mossage in which
Japan memories not to be forgot
ton of the Coronation coremonials and of his cordial treatment by the Government.
"I have been," he says, "greatly impressed with the loyalty shown to thoir Majesties, and could not restrain crying in my heart Ban- zai for thoir Majesties and the Inition,"
AUSTRALIA,
LIBERAL WIN,
[SERVICH TO THE "THINGRAPH,"]
London, July 30,7:25 a.m.
*
1911.
魏一卅月七共湘香
REUTER'S
TELEGRAMS.
FAILURE OF CROPS.
IN RUSSIA'
(SERVICH TO THE "TELEGRAPH."}
London, July 29, 8 p.m. Despatches from St. Petersburg,
REUTER'S
TELEGRAMS.
KAISER ON TOUR.
·AT SWINEMUENDE.
$80 PWR ANYONE,
SINGLE Corr 10 Omurs.
CHINESE TELEGRAMS.
SERIOUS RIOT IN SUN WUI..
BUILDINGS DEMOLISHED.
("BHAT Po" Samyzom)
Onaton, July: 80.
(SERVION TO THE "TELEGRAPH."*].
London, July 29, 1.55 p.m.
Two days ago, a serious riot Kaiser William bas arrived at broke out in Sun Wai on account
say that owing to the failure Swinemuonde from his trip to Nor-of some forms of taxation. The
of the harvest in South-east Way
Russia and in the Siberian Steppe
region, the Government havo de- cided to sell corn at cost price.
In the by-election contest for. South-west Bethnal Green the
voting was as follows :-
Masterman (L) 2,745.
Holgaard (C.) 2,561.
Scurr (Socialist).. 134.
[It will be remembered that Mr. C. F. G. Masterman траны unsosted in West Ham North organised. through malpracticos on the part of his political agent.
Relief works are also to be.
He was afterwards proposed ROYAL VISIT TO COWES.
118 candidate for the Trades proposal was not accepted by the ton Division of Glasgow but the
Young Scots Party, who were determined to run their own candidato, and therefore Mr. Musterman'a candidaturo was re- yoked. He was before Under- Scoretary in the Home Depart- mant.]
OPIUM CONFERENCE.
POWERS AGREED.
{SERVICE TO THE “' TILEIRAFK."}
London, July 30, 7:25 am.
A Washington tolographic mes-
Lords' amendments to the Parlin- THE FISHER INTERVIEW. Bago announces that all the great
ment Bill are taken upon Wednos day, by the House of Commons,
it appears to be certain that the House of Lords will ultimately
་
[SRUVIOR TO THE "TELEGRAPH.")
Powers have agreed to take part
|in the Opium Conference, to bo
SIR F. YOUNGHUSBAND.
London, July 30, 8.50 a.m. Hon. Andrew Fisher, Premier opened at the Hague on the 1st of Australia; interviewed at of October. The Colonial warships, in for- pass the Bill, partly by wholesale the Imperial Conference, was in- Colombo, on his way home after eigu wators, will report to, and
abstentions on the part of the Op-formed that his statements in his take orders from, the Admiralty.
interview with the "Review of Also the Dominion vessels shall position Party or by a sufliciont
Reviews"
(published in the join the British Fleet in naval number of the Opposition voting "Telegraphi" a day or two ago), oxorcises, whon at disposal, in with the Government in order to had been the cause of agitation. Imperial manoeuvres and shall
He described the publication of
form an integral part of the Bri-cut-roto Lord Halsbury and the the "Review of Reviews" as a tish Fleet throughout the Fine of other so-called "Die-hards,"
War.
THE HALSBURY DINNER.
DENIALS.
BALFOUR'S MESSAGE.
IN BY-ELECTION.
(SERVICH TO TER" TELEGRAPH."}
London, July, 20, 11.5 am.
[SERVICE TO THE " TELRODAPH,"}
London, July 29, 8.30 a.m. Lord Waldegrave, Lord Roboris and the Right Hon. Winston Churchill dony that they attend-
In a letter to Mr. W. A. Howing, ed the Party dinner to Lord Hals- bury, though their names were the Conservative candidate in the
published by the "Daily Mail" by-election at Middleton, the
is amongst the guests.
Right Hon. A. J. Balfour, Leader of the Opposition, states that both
grotesque misrepresentation, and cabled to Mr. W. T. Stead that the report of the interview was grossly misleading,
A RELAPSE.
(BELVICE TO THE "TALNORAFE."}
London, July 30, 7.25 a.m. .Colons) Sir Frineis Young-
husband, who is lying with frao-
turo legs in a sanatorium it
[SERVICE TO TAN "'TELEGRAPH."]
London, July 30, 12.45 a.m.-
Thoir Majostios King George and Queen Mary lare gone on a
visit to Cowes,
'WORLD'S SOULLING
CHAMPIONSHIP.
WON BY ARNST.
[SHOK TO THR "TELEGRAPH,”]
Loudon, July 20, 1.55 p.m. A Sydney telegram states that in the world's sculling champion- ship, rowed at Pammalta, Arost beat Pearce by four longths.
The time, 19 minutes and 4
seconds, constituted a record.
PRINCE OF WALES.
,
AS A MIDSHIPMAN.
(SERVICE TO THE** TELEGRAPH."] London, July 30, 10.30 p.m. Tho Prince of Wales has been appointed a midshipman on board the battleship Hindustan.
Continuing, he said, "I told Verviersin Belgium, as the resule FOOTBALL IN BENGAL.
Stead in London that Australia's
objective is peace among the of an automobile accident, has nations, her policy is that of had a rolapse. effective defonco, and her aim is unity of Empire.
"The interview is Stead's, not mine. It never entered my mind
the flag." to use the expression " Haul down
"It is my ambition to keep the flag flying with all its best tradi- tions.
IN BIRMINGHAM. Other newspapers give prc minence to the resolution of the
Foreign and Imporiul affairs afford Birmingham Conservative As aociation assuring the Right Hon, abundant reason for anxiety, A. J. Balfour, Leader of the Op- The refusal of the Government, honour.
1
position, and Lord Lansdowno, declares the ex-Premior, to 'deal Treader of the Opposition in the
"I never harboured the idea that Australia should break away from the Empire nor wish to escape the duty of defending its |
"I gave Stead seven minutes' interview. I never saw a proof
House of Lorde, of their unftinol with the question of Colonial pre-of the expressions credited to me, ing support,
ference, threatens to disintegrate which would have meant not The Litorala interprot. the re-
disloyalty but insanity, and would solution's a defiance to Lord Hale the whole system of our commer-
have been both brutal and bury and his unpporters.
| monstrous.
via) trovties.
HOME CRICKET.
INDIAN. VICTORY.
(SERVICE TO THE “TELEGRAPH,”] London, July 30, 10.30 p.m.
1 :
TO DISCUSS SITUATION.
London, July 30, 7.25 m.
Herr Borthmann Hollweg and
Horr Kiderlon Wrechter have gone
to Swinomuende to report on
the situation to the Emperor,
|
LORDS AND COMMONS.
UNIONIST MANIFESTO. [SRAVICE TO THE “ TELEGRAPH."*]
London, July 30, 8.50a.m. At the Grosvenor House moot ing of Unionists on the 20th instant, it was decided to issue a collective manifesto.
LETTER FROM MR.
BALFOUR.:
London, July 30, 8.50 ..
· Mr. A. J. Balfour, in a letter to
police opened fire on the rioters, killing four and wounding ten. The notion of the polico greatly enraged the rioters, and thoy demolished the taxation buroau and the police station.
"
NORTHERN UNREST.
CUINESE TROOPS FOR MUKDEN.
("BHAT PO" SLEVICE)
Poking, July 30.
The Army Board intends to sond a large number of troops to Mukden and Kirin as a propara- tion against ovautunlities.
MINISTRY OF EDU- CATION.
OPPOSES CONSCRIPTION,
1" Saruno Po," SERVION)
Poking, July 30.
The Central Educational Ass0-
of "conscription in Chius. The ciation proposes the introduction
a constituent, says it would scheme is opposed by the Minis be a mistake to use language
try of Education.
Buggesting that the Peers possoss
weapons wherewith to continuo
the fight against the Parliament
Bill, but that the country ought to
roaliso that the abuse of the Royal
prerogativo by a modern Minister was not loss fatal to liberty than the ancient abuse of the preroga- tive of the King.
Unionists, he says, will not and
cannot acquiesce in the new revo-
lutionary system and intend to substitute therefor a romodelled
Second Chamber with a direct
appeal to the constituencies in
[Corloin casos.
TENSION RELAXING.
A Calentia massage states AFFAIRS IN MOROCCO. COUNTY RESULTS.
that the Bengali toani Molian Bagan, whose prospects have (Sruvice to TAB “ĮKzE3RAF," engrossed Bengal for weeks, have
Landon, July 20, 11:55 p.m. won the Association Shield, beat-:ÉSERVICE TO THE ** TELZOLAPB.”] The latest County erickot re-ing the 2nd East Yorkshires by sults to hand are as follows:~~
two goals to one.
Nottinghamshire. won by 280
runs.
London, July 20, 1.55 pu.
There is a general relaxation
When the result was announced
apparent in the tension between oighty thousand Bengalis 'assem- blod on the Maidas, tore off and England and Germany concern- waved their shirts, and also ing the situation in Morocco, as choored the losers.
The European spectators were good humoured and the entire
Lancashire scored a draw. Warwickshire won by 198 runs. Middlesex won by an innings
and 211 runs.
Kent won by four wickete
of note,
indicated in the comments in the
Frouch and Gorman Press on the
absence of racinlism was a subject #pirch of fio P.emier, Mr. As-
PRINCE CH'ING'S
RETIĆENCE.
MILITARY AFFAIRS.
["SHIʊNG Po" SERVICE]
London, July 30. Princes Tsai Tsun, Tao and the President of the Army Board con- sider that Prines Ching reticent regarding military affairs and they are trying to force him to resign his position as president of the now Cabinet.
CALENDAR MONTHS.
·ADOPTION POSTPONED.
("Buna Po" Savion)
too
- Peking, July 30, Owing to the strong opposition to the adoption of the western calonder system, the scheme Las
been postponed, until the fifth year of the reign of Hsuan Tung, when parliament will be es.. *tablished.
The Weather Forecast.
CHANGE
IS RAIN
FAIR
VERÝ