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HONGKONG, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19th, 1911.
THE SZECHUAN rebellion.
4
DAY BY DAY.
one out.
loft ostutes of about the same.
A large quantity of burners have been stolen from strest lamps in MacDonald Road, and Caine Rond,
CRIMINAL SESSIONS.
KOWLOON CANTON RAILWAY
Opening the Chinese Section.
Wo learn that the latest
us far
a boy The woman took the child to the Yaumati Railway Station, The Criminal Sessions were where the suspicions of a Chinese resumed before Mr. Justice Gomomsteblo were aroused. The pertz, Acting Chief Justice, at the Constable removed the child's hat Caro to our collin adds a nail
and noticed that the load was no doubt..
A small boat belonging to the Supreme Court this morning.
that of n girl. He questioned And every grin so merry draws K.O.Y.L.. has been found float-A Re-Trial
Tsang Mnk, who was charged the woman and took both her and ing off-Aplichow,"
yesterday with kidnapping a 11-the child to the Police Station, rangements made for the opening The Siamese Ministry of War your-old boy on August 22 last where the woman made a slate of the Chinese section of the Kow-
in whose case a re-trin was ordered mont, in consequence of which, loon-Canton, Railway provide Humourists Twain and Gilbert has sont a telegraphic order to by the Court owing to disagree-toy went to a house in Shanghai a visit to Hongkong by H.E. tho Col. Gorini in Italy, to send au mont of the jury, was indicted on Stroet, which was the house of Viceroy of Canton. The Viceroy size-approximately halfa million Italian band master to Bangkok the same charge before a fresh the second defendunt. The wo dollars. The controversy as to in order to practice the military jury, which was composed as main pointed out the second de. and his suito will journey a which was the funnier of the two bands for the Coronation festivi- follows:-Mosare. A. Kahn (fore-fendant as the person who gave ns Sumcliun, where they will be man), A. A. de Jesus, J. Q. V. her the child, which the second met by H.E. the Governor. The therefore remains unsettled.
Ribeiro, A. Keith, FA.defendant denied.
usual courtesios will be ex- Mackintosh, V. Franco and H. The jury without retiring enchanged and lunch served. Aftor Detmers.
The Attorney-General, Hon. Mr. guilty in respect of the first that the Vicoroy will come to C.. Alabaster, instructed by Mr. prisoner and not guilty against Hongkong, where he will be enter- P. M. Hodgson, Crown Solicitor, the second. The first defondant mine by a banquet at Govorn- prosecuted. Prisoner was un-was accordingly sentenced to five ment House. He will return ito! defended and entered a plea of years' hard labour and the second Canton in a Chixese
gunboat... not guilty
defendant was discharged. Plans are under way for laying
Wo understand that the ne- a now Atlantic cablo by the most
Rather than pay a $500 tax on The Attorney-General outlined
gotiations dealing with the com- northerly routs yet attempted, his $16,000 yacht, Eelin, Lind-the facts of the case, which
pilation of the through time table from Scotland, via the Faroesey Lorin at Boston on Aug. 15, were published in these columns
are just about completod." Tho
The Australian Government has refused to subsidize the mail sor vice between Vancouver and Australia.
islands, Iceland and Greenland, to Labrador.
An Italian photographer has, been fortunate enough to got u good picture of the only coffision ever known between eroplanos in midair in which both aviators were.injured.
Treatment Was All Right'', "Let me kiss those tears away," he begged tenderly.
ties.,
We are informed by Mesars. E. S. Kadoorie and Co. that they have received cable advice from London to-day that the Henwood Tin and Rubber Estate Ltd. have declared an interim dividend of 10 per cent.
set fire to the craft and totally destroyal it. The tax was im posed because the Eelin was foreign built vessel.
yesterday, a
This morning at the Magistracy bofore Mr. Hazeland, a Chinese woman, owner of some paddy fields, summoned Mr., Keating of the brick factory Aberdeen, for allowing his horse to stray and damago ho crops. The case was dismissed,
tered in unanimous verdiet of
M. STOLYPIN:
Evidence was called, at the It is too soon yot to estimate the conclusion of which prisoner position that M. Stolypin will task has been one of difficulty mado a lengthy statement.
The jury rotired, and after an: take in the eyes of posterity account of the conditions to be done. For instance- absence of a few moments, re-mong the worthies of Russin, under which it has lind, turned with a unanimous verdict The St. Petersburg correspondent of not guilty. The accused was of "The Observer," writing in the day is shortened considerably
April this year, said -
by the fact that Chinese will not accordingly discharged.
· Harbouring
To-day, heavy storm-clouds travel early, and also that the Before the samo jury who tried the above case, Chan Kui hang over the Tsardom, and gatos at Canton are closed at about everyone can see for himself how 6 pm. The first train out of was charged with harbouring a three-year-old child on June 4 siniple, well-meaning man in Canton each day will be at 8 a.. vested with power, can wreck one last with intent to deprive the of the greatest ompires of the und will reach Hongkong at 12.30 parents of the lawful possession
Clouds of Butterflies- She foll-into his arms and he Obscuring the sky to a height was busy for the next few of 100 feet, myriads of butterflies minutes. And yet the tours to-day are infesting the forests defended.
The Attorney-General, stated his capacity for Parliamentary Canton at p.. At present, we flowed on.
between Montgomery creek and "Can nothing stop them? Burnoy, suya Redding, Califor that the child was taken away strategy and tactics, incapable of understand, the managements of nia, telegram, dated Aug. 15. from Canton by a woman named grasping complicated positions
of the same. Prisonor was unworld, flonourable in character, pn., while a train from Kowlcon patriotic in intention, mediocre in will leave at 8 am, and arrive at
ho asked broathlessly.
"No," she murmured,
to take into a veritable genius for bringing consideration the fact that they aro
it is The insects, most of which are Lum Chun Lo. The mother with firm clutch, M. Stolypin has foth sections have hay fever, you know... But go on/aboat one inch in length, with a saw the child being taken away is Government into scrapes and running over a newly opened line, wing expanse of an inch and a half but she did not object, as the the regime into discredit. Five and this foot has had to be borno were flying southward.
know the woman and thought years experience has not enlarged she was going..
with the treatment,'
150
The Deadly Ḥatpin.
Another important stop has been taken in Germany against
The Rubber Industry
AR
to take the his vision to the range of states in mind in drawing up the time The Confidence Trick
child out for a walk. The usual variation of the con-
themonship nor sharpened his eye table. As matters stand at pro- 11, matter of fact, idonee trick has been played, on child was not being taken out for and changes which his unsteady and a half hours, so that if a pas- sufficiently for the sudden shifts sont the journey will take four the use of long hatpins. Tho
little boy this time. He was a walk at all, but it was. taken hand so often brings about." railway administration of Saar-walking along a street with a away for the purpose of being sold. brucken has given orders to its bundle of clothes under his arm The child was sold and had never
The occasion for this outburst senger wislios to rolura the sims The admission must be made that the news that comes through dress is transfixed-by-these-wen--who wiked him to pawn-the-custom reported. The wore bringing certain legislation into or so in Canton, or vice versa.. officials that Indies whose head-when he was accosted by a coolie been recovered. The won Law was the action of M. Stolypiu in he will only have two hours from Szochurin, as it is almost all from Chinese sources, leaves the pons are to be requested to remove tomary gold ring: Unly too roady last Sessions for kidnapping the existence by the exercise of the However, it is hoped as time goes ordinary person with a rather hazy julen as to what has really up- thom..
to oblige tho-youngster went off child and was now serving a term Imperial prerogative in direct do on to speed the trains up and thus pened. It is certain that there have been disturbances on a scale
with the ring, leaving the clothes of imprisonment in Victoria Caol.nce of the wishes of the Duma to enable a longer time to be spent that seems to warrant the use of the word rebellion; and-that foreign
NBcurity, The clothes have The woman would be called to Whether in the long run it will missionaries have been forced to flee. Also little doubt can be entertained that some, at least, of the troops have been untrue to the rubber share market dated richer in wisdom. The ring was that she went with the child to a Stolypin was a man who realized trains will only make two stops on In their mid-weekly report on lisappeared, but the lad is the give evidence and she would say prove that Piotr Arkadiovitch other terminus. Through their alleginace and inve rendered possible the initial successes August 17, Messrs. Zorn and brass.
house or to the back of a house that an unpopular action taken at the run, and will not have to stay. gained by the revolutionaries. The actual cause of the outbreak is, Leigh-Hunt state that so far as Air Brake's Power. in Bridges Street. She left the the right time often inds its justi Samchun, while ordinary local to some extent, shrouded in mystery. Ostensibly it is the Govern the outlook, for the rubber indus
Some idea of the power of an chill with the defendant, who fication in the future, or was an ment's policy of nationalizing the railways that has led to the revolt, but that this is the real cause fow will believe. The men who find it is concerned they see little air brake may be gained from the showed the child to various people, out-and-out supporter of the old trains will have to stop thore ho..
cause for uneasiness.
following fauts: It takes a power-Although the woman did not regime, time will show. In any fore proceeding either way. The advantageous to bring about a state of anarchy are not those who
ful locomotive drawing a train of actually so the child, sold the event his name makes one more return fare for the whole journey have money to invest in railways or other dividend earning services,
10 passenger cars a distance of must have known of the sale, tondd to the long list of notable will be about 88 first class, while It is probably true, however, that the railway nationalization policy
about five miles to reach a speed because she was subsequently Russians who have given up the fares for the other classes will of 60 miles on hour on a straight given part of the purchase moroy their lives in the service of their be in proportion.
From a gentleman who has After evidence had been hoard, stop the same train from a speed
heen along the Chinese section of 60 miles an hour in 700 feet the jury retired to consider their Roughly it may be stated that a verdict. On their return, they
we learn that the soonery viewed w train may be stopped by the brakes aunounced a verdict of guilty by
Though Hongkong has for- from the line is exceedingly pret irrabout 3 per cent of the distanco six to one and sentence of thres Gunately osonpoil the visitation that must be covered to give years' hard labour was passed.iciently near during the last soon rolling pinins and pine-cap- another typlioun, it came ty. All along the route are to be Kidnapping Again.” it its spped."Science Con- spectus."
Land Sale.
Ex-Tastal of Shanghat.
Imperial Trade.
The Protean Sausage.
defendant.
~The~~Typhoon....
used in connection with the crop-
The sale of a piece of Crown has boon réprosdata to tie pat attunemy and the beginning of a Land in Kennedy Hoad yostorday: snoroachment upon provincial resulted being and level track. The brakes will system of centralization that is opposed to long prevailing custom in China. But, behind the anobs who are burning dwellings and down to Mr. S. H. Arculli at the pillaging their neighbours. in Szechuan are, in all probability, the upset price of $4,000. There minor provincial officials and gentry who were taking illicit tolls was no competition. from the railway funds while their disbursement was under their
Scotland Wins Again. Cont pervades southor China, lave boos able to bring about Last ovening a Scottish town control. These men, aided by the anti-dynastic sentiment disturbances which must certainly have occasioned the Poking drawn from the police not a team Government to feel much anxiety and embarrassment and which it bowls match for spoons presented from the Civil Service in a lawn
A Chinese woman named Chan twenty-four hours to make its polillooks with imony a prosper is no doubt hoped will cause it to reconsider its railway policy,
Land a man named Wong. Lai presence felt. During the night dus village and, big stretches of Chun were charged on two counts the force of the wind was greatly paddy fields. Itis not anticipated It is most sincerely to be hoped that the Central Government by Mr. Fisher of the latter club.
The Civil Service were badly In the House of Commons on of kidnapping and harbouring "
augmented and no small amount that there will be much local carri will act firmly and not, at this critical stage, commit an act of weskuess that would set back indefinitely the cause of reform: The bonton by 21 points to 6. The Aug. 16, Mr. Lloyd George aited twelve-year-old girl: Prisoners which had not been proper ago for produce, except perhaps
of damage was done to windows terms were Scottish team, that the royal commission to in-
Chek-loon it being mondation of H.E. Shong Kung pao, who may fairly be termed one Hardy, and W. Cameron; Civil development of the empire had the full offence of stealing the policy of railway nationalization was decided upon on the recom- Mossre. K. McLennan, W. Mcvestigate trade resources in the pleaded not guilty.
The Attorney-General said that lysfeguarded. In many parts from.
lof the city the banging generally thought that most goods of the ablest Chinese publicists of the present day. It Service, A. Blowey, W.S. Wiggins, not yet been appointed. This child would be confined to flie of casements horalded falls trate will be between Canton and argument in its favour, but the most powerful, considering that . E. Biett, O. Bond.
was due to the lack of correspon-female prisoner. With regard to
of broken glass, Otherwise
Kowloon direct. China has friends alie, distrusts on her frontiers, is the strategia, Obviously the military value of trunk lines running north and south
dence fiunt Dominion premiers the male prisoner, Le was merely not much damage was done who were being consulted as to charged with detaining the child, though the piledriving apparatus and east and west would be greatly enhanced if they were under centralized control. Although the case is not absolutely. analogous It is reported that an ex-Tutaithe personnel of the commission. The evidence against the first de-ion of the Star ferry pior sank INDIGNANT FELLOWS.” Australia supplies a "dreadful example of the result of the short of Shanghai arrived in Bangkok
fendant was clear. As regarded sighted policy of allowing provincial considerations to outweigh the on September 1, dressed in
It is to Westphalia, Prussia, the second defendunt, the jury last night, and could be seen this morning with just ite upper requirements of national safety. The gauge of the lines in Now European fashion. It may be that we must look for the sausage could form their own opinion on South Wales, Victoria and Queensland, for example, differ, with added that this gentleman seeins in all its glory. There, it is said, the evidence which would be portion above the water. During the morning there were muny the result that if it were desired to concentrate suddenly troops to possess the enviable faculty of a trader will name you no lower calle against him! Anything falls of rain though after_tiffin from the southern states in Queensland the work would be ham- being simultaneously in a number than four hundred different kinds, that the woman said against the
the weather assumed' a pered and delayed by the necessary transshipment. Some such of farly removed places. While and they present a bewildering man would not be evidence disadvantages and others that will readily suggest themselves extradition proceedings are pro-array of divers substances in their against him, but-if-the-man-said aspect.
Franklin'e Manners would be inevitable were the trunk lines in China to be under ceeding at Kinoshio, he is ap-composition. At a German anything which was untrue, then the control of different provincial governments or privato com-parently also at Tientsin, in Japan sausage exhibition, held net so it could be taken as some evid Franklin collected thirteen of publishing a placard which panies. Moreover, while the action of the Central Government and in Siam.
long ago at Bern, in Switzerland, once against him. The facts of principles to cover the small made its appearance towards tho can be defended as necessary and expedient, it is also an endea
there were displayed 1,785 kinds the case were that some two years amenities of daily life. Each end of last week, and contained vour to assert the power of the Throne in the provincos. There
of sausage from various countries. ago, the parents of the kidnapped week he picked out one and an account of the allegol male lias baon in the past too much power in the hands of the pro- The German Society for the It is said that a good German Johild sold the child to her pre-practised it diligently, thus creat vincials and, though over-centralization would be disastrous, it Exploration of Palestine will sond would ratherinvent a new sausage sont lawful guardian for $220 as ing a liabit. It took three months factions of the rics dealers.
According to “thio indignant is a step in the right direction to seek to assert the paramount an expedition to the Dead Sea in than anything else. Atany rate, a slave-girl. The child wor ed to cover them all Each year he authority of Peking. The, present advisors of His Highness the October to study and investigate there is told the story of the with her mistress since that time practised onch one four full weeks. fellows who have published the Prince Regent, though there may be room for much improvement, what is regarded by marine stu- young Prussian who, though he and prove herself quite a good He kept this up for many years
placard, certain of Include in their number some men of progressive and enlightened dents as the most remarkable of had received in, axpensive train-eervant. The child was missed The uncouth Franklin of early ideas. Something inay be done to scoure orderly reform if the inland waters. The expedition ing as a chemist, shut himself up on the 7th of this month. The manhood who found fault with morohants have sent out their power of the Central Government is preserved and extended, but will be under the leadership of in his laboratory and; instead of child would say that she was out his wife for giving him a silver fokis and assistants to nothing can be expected from provincial officialdem, which, in the Dr. Ludwig Bruh, of the Berlin devising a new dye, safety matoli, on that day and was mot by the spoon and a china bowl for his every scrap of rice available majority of instances, is as corrupt as it is conservative. That the Royal Tnstitute for Marine Studies, motorengiao,explosive, roplane first defendant, who offered her bread and milk instead of a per retail and wholesale disturbances in Bzechuan will be put down with a strong hand who will be accompanied by three or photographic lons, too. pork, some banana, which slie did not for spoon and earthenware crock, Instead of being allowed to subside in consequence of the Central other Europeans, and will start voal, olives, pepper, fennel, old want to cat The woman forced according to Mr. Harrington Government, weakoning, will be the earnest hope of all well-wishers out from Jaffa. They expect to wine, cheese, apples, cinnamon piece of the banana into the child's Emerson, "in the Engine of China. The despatch of HE Shum formerly Viceroy of Canton, pass six wooke in collecting data and herrings roes, and from mouth, whereupon this latter be Magazine" for August, devel to Szechuan, in a hopefal step. Shum has had practical knowledge as to the conditions and nature of them evolved of revolutionary outbreaks, and though his methods in Kwangtung the Dead Sea The cost of the totally original did not always commend themselves to the foreigner, they were expedition is being defrayed by of its kind, He Juan dabidedly effective. He is certainly the right man for the work that Herr Oskar Tiets, & private mem- considerable for
Deosemary in Szechuan
The Dead Sea
ber of the society.
brighter
lorful
The child was into the statesmen and man and came etapefied
then taken to a house the bost
hore world who the a remained all night The bert Englishmen the adu
and she was d
the child's oloth
ichman, and
An Astonishing Placard-
Some Chinese have gone to the
connection extent,in alleged local cornering
with
rice,
Tho