The Hongkong Telegraph.
February 15th, 1012, Temperature a.m. 63, p.m. 01; Humidity...77, 83.
No. 8712
TELEGRAMS,
HOME PARLIAMENT.
LABOUR AMENDMENT.
[Service to the "Telograph."]
London, Feb. 10, 6 p.m. Mr. Ramsay Macdonald, leader of the Labour Party, has moved a Labour amendment upon the Address in Reply regretting that
F
there had been no mont'on of logislation to secure a minimum
living wago, and nationalization of railways, mines and other
monopolies, o dwelt upon the worldwide labour anrost. The
voice of labour demanded legis
lation.
They could not allow Labour and Capital to fight out their battles while they looked on. le was convinced that the your would be a troublesome one, full of trials and difficulties.-Reuter:
HEATED EXCHANGES..
London, Feb. 15, 3 p.m. The debate unexpectedly col- lapsed following heated passages between Mr. H. H. Asquith and
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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16:
LIQIZ.
TELEGRAMS.
TELEGRAMS,
TELEGRAMS.
„TELBORAMA,
TELEGRAMS.
HOME PARLIAMENT.
THE REVOLUTION.
·OPIUM CONVENTION.
THE. DALAI LAMA.
THE DELHI WRECK.
HALDANE'S VISIT.
YUAN AS PRESIDENT.
DOUBTS EXPRESSED.
BACK TO TIBET.
ENQUIRY OPENED.
MINING DISPUTE.
London, Feb. 16, 6 p.m..
Renter's correspondent at Cal-
[Service to
the "Telegraph."
London, Feb. 15, 5.55 p.m.
At the Board of Trade enquiry
[Service to the "Telegraph."]
London, Feb. 15, 3 p.m.
The Lords have voted the
Address. In the Commons, Mr. Asquith explained that Ford Hal-
dane's visit to Germany was in response to a desire, by Germany
that a Minister should discuss botter Anglo-German relations. He believed that good results would
of
be realised. There was evidence of an camest desire for a better understanding without effecting the relations with the other Powers. He hoped that there might be even poslitve results. It was a lament- able fact, said the Premier, that the Anglo-German friendship was recently clouded. Masses people in Germany were believing that Britain in the sutumn had meditated an attack upon Germany, and he emphasised, that there was not a shadow of foundation for such an extravagant fiction. Lord Haldane had had frank and in- formal conversations with German Ministers, and the discussions covered a wide area.
(The following is the tologram which we announced yesterday had not come to hand. It forms part of Mr. Asquith's speech, the remainder of which appeared in yesterday's issue.).
EXPLODING A FICTION.
It was not doubted that it was
(Our Own CosMRFONDENT.)
Shanghai, Feb. 10, 9.5 8.m. Last evening the National Assembly unanimously elected Yuan Shih-kai President.
Ho will take up binduties upon
[Service to the Telegraph."] [Service to the "Telegraph."]
London, Feb 15, 2 p.m.
The "Times" says it is hoped that the signature, to the Opiur.
LABOUR TROUBLES.
[Service to the Telegraph."] London, Feb. 15, 12.30 p.m.
The special conference of the.
Convention of all the nations will culta statos that the Dalai Lama in regard to the wreck of the Miners Federation on the mini,"
be secured at the end of 1912, but is returning to Lhasa and that it has good reason for thinking
his arrival at Nanking, which that another Conference at the there is much excitement reniains the capital until the Hague will be necessary to deal the Tibstone.-Reuter.
with the questions arising out of decision of the Convention is the present Convention. The mado known.
fortunes of the anti-spinmrcve The Customis have been in-nient in China will hence! rward structed to hoist the Republican depend on China, lane, but the
flag.
TRIBUTE TO SIR JOHN.
JORDAN.
London, Feb. 15, 2 p.m.
Hoferring to the situation in China in the House of Lords, the Earl of Crewe paid a tribute to Sir John' Jordan, who, be said, throughout the difficult times had shown tact and ability of which it was impossi. ble to speak too liighly.
JAPANESE TROOPS FOR
KWANTUNG,
"Times" doubts the efficacious en forcoment on Chius of regulations dealing with morphine and cocaine. It is understood that the United, States has undertaken to approach
among
PRINCE OF WALES.
ENTERS UNIVERSITY.
P. & O. steamer Delhi, Captain
Hayward deposed that he visited mum wage question has been
the cabin of the Duke and adjourned indefinitely.
Duchess of Fife at 9.30 on the
evening of Doo. 12 and returned The conduct of the dispute has.. to the bridge at 11.20.
A sharp look-out was kept for been left to the National". Exe- the Spartel Light, but the night cutivo which, it is understood, is was very "dirty" and glasses
were useless. The Captain be aiming at international notion,
came uneasy at midnight as the
light had not been picked up, so probably in the direction of
ho slowed down and had sound-
the South American Governments [Service to the "Telegraph."ings taken. Deep water was preventing the import of coal---
in order to secure adherence and co-operation. (Beuter).
London, Feb. 15, 7.10 p.m.
The Prince of Wales enters
COUNT AEHRENTHAL, Magdalen College, Oxford at
CONDITION GRAVE.
Service to the "Telegraph."]
London, Feb. 15, 3 pm.
A message from Reuter's cor respondent at Vionna says that a bulletin which has been isquod alates that Count Achrenthal is suffering most pro- Reuter's Tokio correspondent from leucaemia of a states that the Chinese revolution-pounced character. His condition
is grave. arica have ignored the protest of the Japanoso Governor-General in Kwangtung against the violation of the neutrality of the peninsula. A regiment of infantry has been des- patched from Port Arthur to en- force noutrality---(Router).
BIG-OUTLAY.
[Service to the Telograph."]
Mr. Bonar Law, culminating in the farmer's most indignant repudia- tion of charges of corruption. He sald these were the most serious a most lamentable fact that the GERMANY'S AIR FLEET. charges which could be brought traditional feelings of Anglo-Ger- against a democratic govern-man friendship and goodwill had ment. Aud Mr. Bar Law w been seriously overclouded during bound to prosecute them on the the last few months, when the floor of the House. He challenged atmosphere of suspicion was at the Opposition to move an amend-once created by the fletion whichi readily replaced facts, and legends which at other times would have MUCH EXCITEMENT.
been dismissed as incredible were The address was followed by a easily accepted and widely be long pause, which was broken by leved. He had been told, for Mr. Ramsay Macdonald moving an instance, that there were masses adjournment. The lobbies were of people in Germany who firmly full of excitement, and the discusbelieved that some time last sum- sion was chiefly on Mr. Bonar mer or autumn Britain meditated
ment.
TROUBLE IN FRANCE,"
WINE DESTROYED..
Servier to the "Tolegraph."]
Londen, Feb. 15, 4.15 a.m. Reuter's Paris correspondent wires that fresh disturbances have accurred in the champagne district, and Altoen wine-growers at Mailly had their wine, destroyed.
RADIUM AND CANCER.
Michaelmas.-Reuter.
GREAT SNOWSTORM.
MANY FATALITIES.
[Service to the "Telegraph."}
London, Feb. 15, 4.15 .m. A message from Reuter's Bt. Petersburg correspondent states that many persons perisce Auto
a snowstorm at lahim, in Biberis, ou the 1st inst. Bo far sixty-three
bodies have been found.
found. Ho steered in a westerly direction for an hour. A second | Reuter. Bounding revealed sand and lie returned to the old course,
A CONSULTATION. Ho hold a consultation with tho second officer and dooided that they could not have passed Spartel as there was too much sea all the time that he had tried to pick up the Spartol light.
Whon he saw the breakers be ordered full speed astera."
The Captain attributed the obscuring of the light to the local baze.-Rautor.
4
A NEW GOLCONDA.
at
THE FOOD OF LOVE,
A Great Russian Says Mutton.
A St. Potersburg salon was discussing some years ago, says the "Journal des Dobats," the diet advocated by the Russian painter Riopin. It was vegetarianism in fits most extrome form, the artist maintaining that the grass of the földe was better adapted than any other vegetable to nourish the human frame. The doctrins was being handled in ironical fashion when M. Stolypin, the Radical Prime Minister, the root ma kimanlı destroyer of venerable:
precedente, happening
The reported discovery of a naw diamond-held Bloemhof an agricultural district Vall River, about one hundred miles north of Kimberley, has the salon, went up to one of created considerable interest in the group discussing the matter, London. The English diamond and said in a very serious voice: "What are you laughing at? merchants have not yet received
I have given a great deal of study any stones from the new field,
IN SEARCH OF SNOW..and little is known of it in to the question, and have come to
Switzerland's Valuable_National |
Asset..
official circles.
the conviction that diet exercises
According to the "Daily Ex-an enormous influence on a man's press" correspondent at Johan life. The great actor Kean dis nesburg, diamonds were first covered this a long time ago. discovered in the Bloombof dis-Not content with studying his It took lulf a century of per triet several months ago, and the parts and choosing his line of in sistent and expensive advertising secret has been preserved with terpretation with the very great the construction of funiculars and great care. Since the nows loak-eat care, he did his utmost to get hotel "palaeos," and the boring ed out, however, some days ago, to the very heart of the characters of long tunnels to develop Swit-a big rusli has broken out, and he had to portray. And his London, Feb. 15, 4.15 n.m.
zerland into a summer play thousands of diamond-seekers method was this: For a whole ground, Fifty yours have been are flocking from all parts of month before the play was put on Router's Berlin correspondent
occupied in proving to the people South Africa to the new Gol- the stage be confined himself to s
diot that harmonised with his o states that in the Reichstag the
in the Old and New Worlds that conds. Secretary to the Treasury intro-
Bloemhof is just inside the part. If he had a heroic part, he A satisfactory result has come Lucorns was lovely, Interlaken
with self with a soaring spirit; if he duced the Estimates, and insisted to light regarding the treatment was interesting, St. Moritz superb, Transvaal border, and is in direct ate birds in order to imbue him- that the extra ondlay for defence of cancer by the radium method and in building up the vast railroad communication
"Fremdenindustrie,"
as it is Cape Town, Johannesburg and was studying the role of a humble at King's College Hospital.
Pretoria. Already 12,000 miners of pork as a means of filling him shopkeeper he consumed massée most be covered out of current
A largo cancer growth had to called.
Then silently the snow came and other people have reached elf with low instincts and basely revenue, as finances were part. of ba dealt with, An operation had the sinews of war, and Germany's previously been performed, but along-ho despised and neglect the locality, and a mushroom material desires. When he had
·· Remarkable Case at King's
College Hospital,
'.
Law's attitude to the Insurance and oven prepared an aggressive credit must be maintained. He he cancer returned with renewad) ed snow-and in its winter deplus] canvas town has sprung up to set the lover. **
Bili. His undertaking to repeat it attack on Germany.---Reuter.
evoked tumultuous cheers from the Liberal benches, which Mr. Asquith emphasised, dramatically exclaim- ing "I now know that the repeal of the Insurance Bill will be the flest plank in the platform of the new Tory, leader."
"A BIG BLUNDER."
Mr. Bonar Law's letter of ex- planation is described by Liberals
OBITUARY.
EX-KING OF SAMOA:
[Service to the "Telegraph.”]
London, Feb. 15, 4.15 aim.
'Router's Melbourne correspon
"
as a case of second thoughts went wires that the death is an- attempting to remedy a big blunounced of Matsals, ex-King of der. Unionist papers deny that Ramos, who resisted the treaty the collapse of the debate was dus Powers in 1808.
to the consternation bf the Union-
ists, but was the result of the state-
ment made by the Leaders on the Insurance Bill. They declare that the Unionists were waiting for Mr. Ramsay Macdonald to mövs z Labour amendment. Moreover,
ADMIRAL SALMON,
"
London, Feb. 15, 2 p.m. The cleath is announced of Admiral Mr. Bonar Lew's attitude was in of The Test Sie Nowell Halmon, accordance with Mr. Forster's V.C., G.C.B,, who served on the Amendment on the Insurance Bis Chis station from 1988 to 1881.-
asked for the construction
duction,
of
only.
X-rays and other the Swiss found a gold mine. Within the past few daya: 20,000
M. Stolypins's voice stopped, mentioned that an extra hundred rirulence, thousand pounds sterling had been treatment were then tried without For half a century nobody, per claims have been staked,
Success, and Grally 250 mil-ceived or realised in Switzerland Fifty of these claims go to the while his circle of liatonere were ligrammes of pure alium browhat a valuable national asset: Jay | discoverer of die digging, whilst on the tiptoe of expectatio
"Well, and what did he est, -coplanar and dirigibles, and £12,000 mide were applied for twenty-four undeveloped, what a valuable the owner of the land is entitled in order to strengthen the focant hours. The labes were or dowry Nature had bequested to 100 claims. When these have then?" asked the ladies. "MULA Kiro-ban. The duties on damnd. ranged that the d'eansed parts the Alps in winter. The "boom" been allocated, any white man ton," answered the Minister, to And what," asked a from South West Africa would be were subjected to a reda "cross came with staggering celerity over the bge of sixteen may take the great amusement of his
are" of the curative rays, and the about seven years ago, and like out a licence, for which he pays audience, amended in order to stimulato pro-application was repeate! once an avalanche gathers more force el per month, and can stake out voice, "do you think Kean would the farther and longer it travels. one claim of an ares of 150ft have eaten if he had had to play As a result of the treatment it It is the greatest "boom" of is stated that pain quickly consed the century, whose possibilities Once a month he may shift his the role of a statesmen?" "There
said M. Stolypin; he would' digging.
If the promise of the new field have adopted Riepin's method BRITAIN AND GERMANY. and the growth rapidly shrank up, and dimensions cannot yet belege until he finds a profitable no difficulty in answering that
so that at the end of five weeks it gauged; for it in barely out of its had completely disappeared, infance, Switzerland was famous is borne out, it is estimated that and eaton hay" Whether M." A doctor in describing the case as the country where there are fully 350,000 claims will be stak-Stolypin was strictly correct or not there can be no question as states that if this result can be Alps to ascend; it is becoming ed out before the spring. repeated and the technique of the more famous na the country. In a grent diamond or gold to the success of Kean, ireatment so improved that even where there are Alps to descend, rash the saloon-keeper and the thoroughly entering, into deep-seated tumours can be There are as many visitors in store man who get there first in-part. Byron-testified that, bis. [Service to the "Telegraph." brought under the radio-notive in- Swizerland now at the mountain variably make fortunes, Already acting bore the imprint of
fluence, there will be very good resorts between December and the saloonkeeper who has opened nature, and truth, without exi reason for supposing that the long the beginning of March as bo- rougla temporary hotel at aggeration," while Coleridge add. hoped for conquest of cancer is tween May and October-if not Bloemhof is reported to be mak-ed that to see Kean net re Vraa Shakespeare by flashies of more; and the Federal Gove Pinz a profit of £1,400 a month. The Portuguero Minister in indeed at hand.
Before, however, the final ment votes as much funds for ad- Some of the eating tents are lightning. As for the dieir Londou has informed: Reuter that
that a great actress who abhor Portugal was never less disposed verdict can be given, it shoulvertising purposes for the former making from three to five hundred mutton, it is interesting to
The price of stores in Bloemhof Kean and was most unlikely to part with the colonies, Eves berethembered that the successful as the latter period of the year.a month...
ition of such a thing was treatment of even several difficult Ice and snow¡¡ingtákd (of- being bus e Portugese patriotiamoses is not caribiont raj warreni osu.cs of despair, are proving is enormous The-outerprising adopt his method of There had been no negotiations, he the method being acclaimed as a priceless possetofor the whole storskeeper is taking £500 per great consumer of mu
amiton chops as Mrs, Siddo said or adrance from any: Power portain cure, Mesa, hile further, people, it was not, however, alla, a good deal of which will be was never such as women
will be eagerly awaited.
PORTUGAL'S' DENIAL,
London, Feb. 15, 4.15 am.
the mention"
on much a máthar.