The Hongkong Telegraph.
February 9th, 1912, Temperature s.m. 62, p.m. 64; Humidity...44, 54.
No. 8707
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SATURDAY FÉI
號十月弍英潘香
TELEGRAMS.
TELEGRAMOS.
TELEGRAMS.
TELEGRAMS.
HOME RULE.
THE REVOLUTION,
OBITUARY.
FLOODS IN EUROPE
BRITAIN AND GERMANY.
A STRUGGLE OF HEROES. DEMAND FOR ABDICATION: GERMAN FIELD-MARSHAL.--
THOUSANDS HOMELESS.
· HALDANE'S VISIT,
[Service to the "Telegraph."]
TELEGRAMS.
HOME RULE.
Text of Mr. Churchill's Speech.
FRIENDS INSTEAD OF FORS.
[Service To The "Telegraph"}
London, Feb. 9, 2.10 a.m.,
(Our Own Correspondent.)
Shanghai, Feb. 10, 9 am.
The opposition of the Revolu
"Why, in these days, when Irish Catholics arc assailed with so much ill-nature, are they never to be tionaries to the perialist pro- remembered too? I cannot help posals is increasing. The Non- thinking of scenes whereof I was'a witness: when the boat of Tuking Assembly declares. that gela were stormed, when Lady abdication must come before smith was relieved, on the crest of
further discussion. hill, facing the fire of sixty guns,
The Revolutionario smeanwhile in a veritable whirlwind of explod- ing shells, stood the vallant Boers..
are carrying on their military! Up the Boer slopes marched un- flinchingly the Dublin and finis-preparations in order to have
That was a killing Fusillers.
100,000 mon availablo, with their base at Wuchang.
really necessary for your safely and welfare that this natural sentiment af Irish loyally should be repulsed? Must the, Empire be made for all time to stand out of all advantages therefrom? Aro British Govern- mens to be condemned to maintain a perpetual quarrel with the Irish nation?-for it is a nation. Are British Governments to be com polled to govern then only by THE ROAD TO PROGRESS. fore, as a subjugated race? •.
London, Feb. 9, 1.40 a.m. London, Feb. 9, 1.30 a.m. ·
"But it was Dublin Catholic, "The population of Ireland,"
Nationalist Dublin-that gave him said Mr. Churchill, "has ebbed
the warmest welcome of all. It away, but elsewhere all over the is this that makes me put my first world the Irish bave held their own question to earnest end generous and in every country where. Eng-minded Unionists in Ulster: Is it lish is spoken the Irish are a power, a power for good or for ill, a power to harm us or a power to help us, a power to unite us or a power to keep us asunder. What are we to say of those Irishmen who, we are assured, ord in their own island Incapable of managing their own affairs, but who in every other part of the English-speaking world have wrn their way out of all proportion to their numbers to positions of trust and affluence and authority particularly political authority Speaking as an English Minister, must say that on the whole, in varying degrees, no doubt with riotable exceptions, they have been They have been filled with feelings of resentment and anger against the British power and name, and they have worked
our enemies.
FULL OF HOPE.
London, Feb. 9, 1.45. a.m. "Are we to be forbidden on both
struggle of heroes ranged by fate and duty on opposite sides.
London, Feb. 9, 2.15 a.m.
"What a tragedy, what a cruel sides to achieve a friendship so fullity, that such noble breeds of men ofhere and benefit for all? Surely at the very least, it is incumbent on Ulster Unionists, if they take that view, to offer the gravest and most substantial reasons, to make clear to the British public and to the Colonies who are also enquir- ing) that they are not swayed by obstinacy or partisanship, and to justify, if they can, with patience and heart-searchings, an altitude
PEKING GARRISON.
Shanghái, Feb. 0. Two regiments of the Imperial troops have been transferred to Poking from Paotingfu.
FACE-SAVING EXPEDIENT
should be locked together in hate. fut carnagel And now we have get thein both. We have made friends of our enemies. Can we not make friends of our comrades
The edict regarding the ab. 1002 Can we not win and keepdication of the Throne does not nem both, and all within the shel include the word abdication. and which, for all the disparagement of simply says that a president will modern times, still raises her broad shield against every foe that
ter of the great Mother-Emplri
[Service to the Telegraph."]
London, Feb. 9, 4.5 a.m.
·Renter's correspondent at Ber- lin reports the death of Field- Marshal Hahnke.-Router.
MR. WILLIAM MCCONNELI..
London, Feb. 9, 5.35 p.m. The death is announced of the Glasgow ship-owner, Mr. William McConnell.-Router.
U, S. AND MEXICO.
A STRANGE MOVE.
[Service to the "Telegraph."
London, Feb. 9, 3.10 p.m.. There have been sporadic ro- volutionary outbreaks in Mexico, and for several weeks constant fighting hrs been going on near
the American border.
Orders have now been given to
American troops in Texas, and concentrate a hundred thousand directed to form a Government there is much speculation as to
bo elected. Yusn Shih-kai is
counter to our interests. As years which attempts to bar the path at threatens, still keeps open what is in conjunction with the gentry, what this porteuds,-Router."
liavo passed, especially since Clad-once to Irish hope and Imperial stone rallied half the British nation needs.
to the Home Rule cause, things A NEW, CENTRE OF UNION.
have got better and a gentler feel- Ing has supervened, but still tie Irishmen overseas have done us
much harm in the past. They have been on adverse force in the Colonies.
NO NATURAL BARNIÈK.
London, Feb. 9, 1.35 a.m.
"For our part, we look. forward
perhaps upon the whole the curval road of human progress?
and southern provinces.
IMPERIALISTS DESERT.
to the time, which has been long THE IMPERIAL ARGUMENT. of General Uhan Hsun in Heu-
retarded, but which we believe is new near, when this island, instead if being a disruptive force in Empire will be transformed into a
London, Feb. 9, 2.15 a.m.
"That is the Imperial argument,
The troops un 'er the command
chow have deserted their campa in consequence of the lack of funds.
A CRYPTIC MESSAGE.
new centre of union, when the To those whose minds are dark- The Empress Dowager has ened by bigotry, or those less ex-instructed Generals Fang Kwok-1
harsh, lamentable cry of reproach
ALL MUST VOTE.
ARGENTINE LAW.
[Service to the "Telegraph."]
London, Feb. 9, 3.10 p.m. Router's correspondent at
which has so long jarred in the cusable whose hearts are rank with chung, Koung Kwai-tai and WaBuenos Ayres says that the Con- compulsory for all citizens to king." Sheung-Fo." Chun to maintain order in Pe-gress has passed a Bill making it
vote.-Renter.
mox."-Reuter.
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concert of the Empire will die hway, when the accursed machin-action, these sentiments will not appeal, but we believe there are
NEGOTIATIONS, cry whereby hatred is manufacthousands of Protestants in Ulster, tured and preserved will be broken
Yuan Shih-kai is conferring as there are tens of thousands of for ever, when from every country Unionists in England, to whom the with the Republican Government where our language and institu- "They have more than once untions are established hands will be/Imperial aspect of the Irish question/in Nanking regarding the allow favourably deflected the policy of joined across the scas in peace and will be at least as important as disance to the members of the Im- cussions about ne temere o: proprio porial family and the right of inheriting the titles by their the United States, and they are in cordiality.
descendent. POLITICAL TRAFALGAR. now the most serious obstacle to A
We
London, Feb. 9, 2 a.m. Anglo-American friendship.
"Then, indeed, would be a vic- have got along despite all that. We
tory worthy to stand for ever with' have got along, despite a great Trafalgar and Waterloo. Every many things. I speak not only to part of the Empire would join in - you; but to a great audience in all our rejoicings; every Parliament in
Crowds paraded the streets of „parts of the Empire, all those who its bounds and in the United States Belfast in the evening, but there would approve and applaud our-de wore-no-disturbances. Sir Ed. follow the Home Rule'cause on one cision; the self-governing domin- ward Carson, delivered a speech side or the other. Only think, if ions would draw more trustfully from the balcony of the Ulster Club. - we had their aid Instead of their towards the Motherland, the diffi- He said that if the meeting had 'opposition, how much smoother ullies of the federation of the been held in the Ulster Hall there
CARSON'S SPEECH.
London, Feb. 9, 2,45 p.m.
A SPLENDID MEETING.
HOME POLITICS.
THE ADDRESS.
[Service to the "Telegraph."] The Republican Government
London, Feb. 0, 4.5 a.m. et Nanking has appointed Chan
Sir H. C. D. Verney is to move In-ting, Chan Ki-mae and Kwan Tza-mi as new managers of the the address in reply to the King's China Merchants Beamship Co. Speech in the House of Commons, The Republican Government has and Mr. Gladstone is to seconá ordered the directora of this comit-Router. pany to resume their duties, Yesterday the military governor at Shanghai called upon the directors requesting them to hold
TEST CRICKET.
M.C.O. START WELL
LORD CHAMBERLAIN.
[Service to the "Telegraph."
· London, Feb. 9,8.5 p.m. The Lord Chamberlain, Earl Spencer, haeresigned, it is stated on account of ill-health-Reuter,
AVIATION'S TOLL.
[Service to
the "Telegraph."]
London, Feb. 9, 4.20 s.m..
The floods in Portugal and Spain are the most serious for forty years.
[Service to the "Telegraph."]
London, Feb. 9. 3 p.m.
As an example of the apocular tion aroused by Lord Haldane's visit, the "Taegliche Rundschau" Besides the enormous damage to-day saya that important... ne- done to property, thousands are gotiations between England and workless and famino-stricken. Germany are proceeding with a view to reaching an agreement by defining the spheres of econ omic and political interest throughout the world.
Reuter.
WIDESPREAD HAVOC.'
Diplomatists are now deter- mining, as a preliminary, all the points whore English and Ger man interests clash,
Bombay, Feb. 10, 7 a.m. Router'a Madrid correspondent says that many rivers in Andalu-
WHAT OF. FRANCE?. sia are now unitod and form a
Router's correspondent at Paris mighty son which is sweeping overything bofore it.
says tho newspapers there are ex- King Alfonso and the Premierercised as to the visit. Some ex? have started for Soville, but press a fear that the visit por- now turn in British whether they will arrive at their tende a destination is doubtful.
policy. Others are confident that Portugal is suffering equally France will also benefit in any with Spain.
advantageous results of the visit!
BENGAL'S GOVERNOR.
CHOICE OF TITLE.
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London, Feb. 9, 8.5, p.m. The "London Gazetle" nounces that Sir Thomas David Gibson-Carmichael, the newly appointed Governor of the Pre- sidency of Bengal, takes the title of Baron Carmichael of Skirling, Peebleshire.-Router.
DISCOUNT RATE.
81-3 PER CENT.
[Sorvice to the "Telegraph."]
London, Feb. 9, 9.5 à.m. The banks' discount rate is 34 per cent.-Reuter.
TRIPOLI (WAR.
BRITISH-DOCTORS...
[Service to the "Telegraph."]-
TOWARDS AN ENTENTE.
London, Fob. 9, 2.30 p.m. The "Daily Chronicle" says: thut it is convinced that the visit even if it is privato, is a step toś???;
|DINNER WITH THE KAISER.
London, Feb. 9, 8.5 p.m.
Lord Haldane has dined with the Kaiser.
LUNCH WITH THE EM- PEROR.
· Bomboy, Feb. 10 7 a.m. Router's corresponent at Berlin states that Lord Haldane lunchéð with Their Majesties and sat next the Emperor.
The Chancellor, the Minister of War, and Admirals Tirpitz and. Mueller were present.
OTHER POWERS NOTIFIED
Reuter learns that Britain has notified France and Russia that if Lord Haldane disoneses politi- oal questions in Berlin they will be kept informed.
Router's Berlin correspondent says that Baron von Stumm, Di- rector of the Political Division of the Foreign Office has conferred with Lord Haldane.-Reuter::
GREAT CURIOSITY.TOL
London, Feb. 9, 230 pil Bouter's correspondent in Berlin London, Feb. 9, 9.5 a.m..
slates that the population is all A British Red Cross, party, con- agog with unsatisfied curiosity, in sisting of four, doctors and three regard to the visit of Lord Haldane, dressers, will leave Marseilles for and interest in the opening of the The Reichstag is suspended. Lord Hal. Tripoll on the 16th Inst.
dane's Hotel was besieged by Turkish and Italian Governments
Journalists who refused to be con have been Informed.--Reuter.
tent with the explanation that the object of the visit was, priväčk, namely, an enquiry respecting the organisation of Universities. The "Daily Telegraph” is authorised by the Foreign Office to state this Lord Haldane, as President of the Royal Commission on University Education, has gone to Berlin po
LABOUR TROUBLES.
would be our path, how much Empire would be sensibly dimin-was no knowing what might have another meeting "to-day for the
ished by the reconciliation of Great happened. Unionists cheerfully let purpose of giving up their fleet RESIGNATION ANNOUNCED. quicker our progress, how much Britain and Ireland. And far wider Mr. Churchill go into. Nationalist of steamers to the Republican behaviour Government mocarity for a brighter our fortunes, what new even than unity of Empiro the great quarters. Belfast's possibilities would be opened up dream could be dreamed of good showed that Ulstermen were order-loan-Shat Po." and what old dangers would van relations the ultimate unity ofly and disciplined, and inspired nim teh. There is no final reason for English-speaking peoples all over with courage to fight Mr. Churchill. this antagonism between races or the world. Why should it not countries. The Irish people are hy come true? Why cannot this great character and tradition attached to settlement be made? Why cannot monarchical institutions. The idea wo all make friends? We have Mr. Churchill interviewed anid of a King, not only of Great Britain, | done It in Canada and South Africa, it was a splendid meeting. The but of Ireland, is familiar and grace- and much, perhaps, has been ac-wicked had digged a pit and ful to Irish minds. No natural bar-complished during the last few had fallen into it themselves. riers stand between the Irish people months in Bengal; meet the griev.
In perfect weather and before and Vie Throne. Here, as elseance, heal the quarrel, bury the hat-declare that Mr.
camo, saw, but did not conquer, a good attendance the fourth test
[Service to the "Telegraph."]quire specially into boteatise -education at the Universities: bit. where throughout the Empire, the chet, link the interosis, "concillate,
London, Feb. 9, 9.5 a.m. as he is well-known, to many loading" Crown may become the supreme consolidate and unity-thus, and and they criticise him for his fall match.commenced at Melbourne.
people in Germany he will doubtless contrat Ink of unity and acer planer. thus alone, shall we be able to surure to give a clear idea of the Bill; England won the toss and Bent
have general conversation To-day's meeting of the Cost Since his accession, the King has mount the toils, was perils which They further declare that he will the Australigns in to bat on [Service to the Telegraph." London, Feb. 9, 4.5 p.m..
Conference was adjourned, no political situation of the The Australians were dismiss. travelled videly. He has reviewed the futurs may have in store How not succeed any better than did soft wicket.
Reuter's correspondent ed for 191, Minnett scoring, 58, his flect and armies; he has often we have been reminded that Mr. Gladstone in carrying Home The Liberals bren to Scotland and Wales; he a handful of Irishmen fought against Rule by rhetoric.
at the aviation school there fell even as to whether the Conference lunched with the Germ has Journeyed through the vast us in the Boer War, Have we for offer. congratulations upon a tri: Barnes captured Ave wickets for Sevastopol says that two pupils announcement being made, no countries, Lord Haldage
The M.0.0. tamin' scored 84 and were hurned to death'owing will re-assemble or not. Much Chancellor, Herr provinces of the Indian Empire and gollen the brave Irishmen that umph over the forces of disorder;
Heater, many great and famous cities have rever failed in their duty to the and upon a magnificiat, unanswer runs without losing a wicket to the petrol" ostching fire pessimisus prevails as to whether was
ublu plea for House Bude --Reiler. | Renser, Crown and to the Aruty?"
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The Conservative newspapers|
Churchill
Service to the "Telegraph."]
London, Feb, 9, 0.10 s.m,
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TWO MORE VICTIMS,
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COAL CONFERENCE.