The Hongkong Telegraph.
March 11th, 1912, Temperature a.m. 65, p.ii. 75; Humidity...94, 85.
No. 8732
晚四月正年于壬
(ESTABLISHED 1881.)
Copyright, 1011 by the Proprietor.
WEATHER FORECAST.
FAIR.
March 11th, 1911, Tomperature a.m. 72, p.m., 70, Humidity...00, 02,
386 FIL AXXUM,
TELEGRAMS.
CHINA IN TRANSITION.
TUESDAY,
MARCH
12
--1912.-
二拜禮
魏二十月三英港香
TELEGRAMS.
TELEGRAMS.
TELEGRAMS.
TELEGRAMS.
COAL CRISIS.
THE SOUTH POLE.
HOME FOOTBALL.
U.S. IMMIGRATION,
TELEGRAMS.
SUFFRAGIST OUTRAGĖS.→ SUBMARINE TRAGEDY.
SINGLE COFT 10 Omr.
TELEGRAMS.
AMUNDSEN'S STORY.
ENGLAND AND WALES.
TAFT'S VIEW.
A HUNGER STRIKE.
A 13 RAISED.
PARDON FOR PRISONERS. THE JOINT CONFERENCE.
(Our Own Correspondent.) '.
Shanghai, Mar. 12, 0.45 a.m.
The Government has pardoned
[Service to the "Tolograph."]
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རྩྭ་
Bombay, Mar. 12, 7.15 a.m. The Miners' Foderation has all prisoners except murderersunimously decided, to recept and robbers."
Mr. Asquith's invitation to inect ́Ovor-duo land taxes have boon the owners. remittod. The okl laws are to
apply except whore hoy nee POSITION IN GERMANY. contrary to republicauiam."
SHANGHAI IN DANCER.
An outbreak'in Shanghai has bean narrowly averted by the payment of 5,000 troops,
VIGOROUS ACTION.
London, March 11, 3.55 a.m. The Tientsin correspondent of the "Daily Mail" states that the Inniskillings were to march out at dawn to apprehend all Chinese soldiers within the limits of the concessions. They have orders to shoot resisters.-(Reuter).
Bombay, Mar. 12, 7.15 a.m. Reuter's errespondent at Easy in Prussia states that there are in ligations of the strike failing. The average percentage of strikers is thirty-four and many of the mines have their full strength.
[Sorvico to the "Tolograph."
· Bombay, March 12, 7.15 a.m.
[Service to the "Tolograph."
London, Mar, 11, 5.15 à.m.
Router's Chicago correspondent
[Sörvice, to the "Telegraph."]
London, March 11, 4,50 p.m.
The Association international The Daily Chronicle" pub-
match at Wroxham botwoon Ushes interesting, interview England and Wales was won by with Captain Amundsen at Hobart, the former by two goals to nik-in the Jowish quarter on the giving supplementary details of the
on
dush for the Pole. The expedition
first travelled 'fifteen miles in five hours, and spent tivo hours eating, They rested the remaining seven- teen. hours. This resting was found too long, so they marched the same distance in six hours, fed two, and slept six. They break- insted, and started anew. An over-
age of twenty miles was attained daily during the latter part of the
Router.
HOME RULE
AN ANNOUNCEMENT.
[Service to the "Telegraph."
London, Mr. 11, 5:10 p.m. Mr. Asquith announced in the House of Cominons that the Home Rule Bill will be intro-
LABOUR IN FRANCE. The French miners havo struck for a day to call the Govern- ment's attention to their gries-juurney. Going towards the Pole,inged during the week in which
anco“.
a height of 16,000 feet above sea-} Puliament reassembles aftor level was sometimes, reached, and Eastor.-Reuter.
anys that President Taft, speaking
subject of immigration, remark
[Service to the Telegraph."] London, Mar. 11, 6.35 p.m.
Mra. Pankhurst is ill; sho is! suffering from bronchitis.
The woman suffragists who were sentenced to hard labour are striking against taking food.
--Router.
ed that some said that the United GLASS-BOTTOMED BOATS.
States should not tako so many
hamigrants, becauso foreigners wore not always fitted for popular government, but they had tried found the experiment and foreignora fitted for liberty.
Reuter.
NAVAL AND MILITARY NEWS.
[Service to the "Telegraph."]
Bombay, March 12, 7.15 a..
Tho submarino A 13, which was sunk by a collision with tho gunboat Hazard near the Isle of Wighton Fob, 2, has been raised, ---Itouter.
A FINANCIAL ROCKET.
Exit Mr. Hooley.
from its
young man nanied Twosdale by false proteness.
For sometime past glass-bot-
The London correspondent of tomed launchos have been used at various places on the Westerii.and the "N. O. Daily News" wrote on South-Eastern Coasts of the Feb. 10-Ernost Torah Hooley, United States for the use of per- tho sometimo idol of fortune. sons wishing to inspect the won-huntors, the bonefactor of St. derful marino growths which Paul's Cathedral, whose gist of a flourish in these regions. The service of gold plate was subse-
quently rodoomed first boats designed for the pur- taint by a restoration of its value pose wero owned at Avalon, Catalina Islands, off the coast of to the victims of his finance, was Southern California, and details to-day, at the Contral Criminal are now given by the "Shipping Court, sentenced by Mr. Justice
Phillimore to twelve months' im.. Gazette "ofa large launch whichris reported to have been ordered by prisonment in the second division the Meteor Bont Company, of that for having obtained £2,000 from part, from the San Pedro Marhie Construction Company. The new
The sum mentioned in the glass-bottomed vessel is to be over! 100 ft. long, auil to possess to charge represents but a small 100 horse-power, four-cylinder part of the plaintiff's losses in his The transfer of the 1st Battalion engines, These boats have so far transactions with Mr. Hooley; in Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers from been as immune from accident as fact his whole small fortune of Telegraph" Correspondont.) Fientsin to India has been post-ordinary launches. The glass some C10,000 seems to have Can on, March 11, poned till next trooping season, of about an inch in thickness, and like all these financial cases, full bottom consists of a pano of glass gone. The case was, however, A telegram addressed to the or until the internal affairs of above this strip of glass, which of complications, and without Canton Governor-General, the China will permit of the move-runs along the keot-line of the adopting the view of Mr. Hooley's a hardship to cat dog-flesh. A few Provisional Council, the Chamber
of Commerce and the Pressment being carried out. This boat, is a trough with its sides leading counsel, Mr. Tim Hoaly, K.O., M.P., that the accused was of the dogs strayed and raided Sonioty, from Swntow merchants is a decided hardship on the fa-painted black, which acts as a
species of screen for the benefit of more sinned against than sinning, that Yuan Shih Kai, in an inaugura-Occanie from Sonthampton has some of the reserve depots, and esident, in Ilongkong, states that milies of the married non-com-those engaged in looking through ons finds it difficult to sympathize revolutionary troops under Commissioned officers and mon, these the glass. Should the glass break vory deeply with Mr. Tweedale. eleven survived the whole journey.mander Lam áro prossing liard on
young gentleman seems to Chit-chow and as a result bu-having already arrived at Mhow the Imush of water can be stom-
Invo entered into speculations med by water-tight hatches, siness is at a standstill. It Indin.
which are placed at the sides of involving liabilities far beyond the trough and cau bautomatical- his means in the hope of brought into use like the water-realizing huge profits. The one tight door on board a large vessel, over, whether Mr. Hooley contract- question for the jury was, howe so that the bonts are virtuallyod to sell an estate to Tweedale, double-bottomer,
IDLE. SHIPPING.
London, Mar. 11, 5.40 p.m. Shipping everywhere is by coming more and more ille and vessels to the extent of 200,000 toms are held up on the Tyne. Evory advantage is being taken to get the yousels into proper trim. The sailings of the trane A message from Peking stätes Atlantic liners St. Paul enit
YUAN'S AIM,
London, March 11, 2.10 p.m.
tion speech, says it shall be his en- been cancelled.
'deavour faithfully to develop the! Republic, and Increase the welfare
of the country. It will be his alm
to cement all the five races into one
AFFECTING THE COLONIES.
the altitude at the Pole itself was 10,500 feet. The expedition had full rations both ways, and at first some of the dogs were eaten. The journey towards the Pole proved delicious, and it was anything but
REASONS FOR SUCCESS.
Captain Amundsen said the Pole was situated on a vast level plain of snow, hence it was impossible
CANTON NEWS.
wid that the various consula have Lieutenant G. V. Stowart, called for protection and already Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, has soven war craft live arrived at been seconded for service with the Sweatow
Egyptian Arwy.
According to this message the
American Consul is said to have,
case of trouble.
The armoured cruiser Mon-
ly
POUND FOOLISH.
That
pur
To big industrial concorns are anxiously awaiting the out- strong nailon, and he will retire come of to-night's meetings and
and secured part of the when the National Assembly ap if tho ducisions aro unfaventable to erect a permanent cairn of stones despatched a representative to mouth, Captain Laurence E. Pow-
chase money by means of a false declaration that it was unencum- point a permanent Prisident.the lines to the Culonies, hitherto
unaffected, beyond exercising the The weather was still calm, und enquire whether the Chinese
bored. On that point the ovid- (Reuter).
sevores economy, will be com- he thought that was the prevalent uthorities will be able to afforder, will shortly complete her com-
While most of us would deny onco scems to have been pretty pelled to emsidor the limiting of condition. He attributed his suc-ny pioteesion to foreigners in mission with the Chinn Squá-
dron, and orders have been issu-that we are in any sense of the clear; and the jury had no dif- the regular services.
cess to his splendid comrades, the Chun In-ping, a Hongkong ed by the Admiralty for her words "penny wise," we should ficulty in deciding upon their employment of skis, and the magni- merchant, has addressd a circular being recommissioned for further yet have to admit that we are, verdict.
*pound ' An interesting episode in the: REGULATIONS SUSPENDED,
ficen: dogs: When the members
Canton, attributing the outbreak of the expedition returned to the Peking to the straited financial that end a new crew will bo des- gold about (when wo have it) witness box, described how Mr. ship, they were almost fat. stato of the country. He draws patched from England to Colom-without troubling ourselves too Tweedale, when in temporary attention to the high salaries paid bo for the recommissioning. The much concerning how many pen-possession of the estate, sold off issged an address to the troop oxcess of the logul number, and whole time. One man had a tooth of running some of the dopart/crew will leave Devonport in thonies we have put by from week everything movable upon it, in- to week. This tendency to ex-cluding, Mr. Hooley's podigree
TROOPS AND DISCIPLINE.
Shanghai, March 12.
President. Yuan Shih-kai lite
impressing on them the necessity of maintaining discipline, o has asked the Governors-General of the various provinces to re- main at their posts.
COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF ILL.
London, Mar. 11, 6.35 p.m. The police have authorised the trams earrying fiftoon persons in
the buses liye.
INSISTENT DEMANDS.
Bombay, Mar. 11, 2.10 p.m.
Peace depends upon the meeting
They
had never washed or shaved the
drawn.—(Reuter).
WHAT OF SCOTT? Reuter's correspondent at Hobart
telegram to various societies in service with the squadron. To generally speaking.
foolish.' We like to fling our trial was when Hooley, in the
in
to officials and the immense cost
ments, and suggests a wholesale cruiser Europa about March 5 travagance-or shall we call it Jersey cattle, which, in apparent retrenchment if Canton wishes to for Colombo, where the Mon-princely generosity?--is indeed ignorance of their pedigree, went avoid the fate of Peking. mouth will be paid off and re- one of the Questions of the Day, at an alarming sacrifice.
Another distinguished finan- commissioned. The old crew of How shall we check it? Of
ADMIRAL EVANS AND HIS V LET.
of the Miners' Federation in London telegraphs that Captain Amundsen, to-night, to discuss the Govern-interviewed; thought it very pos Chu Shiu-ching, comniander-4 in-Chief of the President's body-mont's invitation for a round-table sible that Captain Scott had also conference and the minimum wage. reached the Pole. He hoped he had guard is seriously ill.
In the meantime demands for dras done so. Ho hibernated nearer the
e Government action are becom-pole than Captain Scott. King temporary adds to the user. undoubtedly be taken immediately ing more insistent, and this wit George has telegraphed his congra- if the conference to-morrow is tulations to Captain Amundsen.
(Reuter).
THE CAPITAL QUESTION.
The Chinoso residents in America have cabled their strong opposition to any proposal to make Peking the capital under the Republican Government.
FIRST REPUBLICAN
BUDGET.
fruitless.
TAXICAB STRIKE.
4
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the Monmouth will work the course, it may be argued that cier, Mr. Horatio Bottomley, has since wo are now, all of us, eli-again been in the public eye this Europa home.
gible for, and, in fact, entitled week; but although he has been Captain Brian 11. F. Barttelotto, an Old Age Pension, there is in more than ono transaction Tho lato Alinirul Evans, has been appointed to the com- really no need to scrape and save associated with Mr. Hooley, I "Fighting Bd" as he was mand of the Monmouth on re-as our luckless forefathers, who would guard myself against lived before the golden age of being supposed to suggest that familiarly known, was the hero commissioning. Captain Bartolot Lloyd Georgiem, had to do. And the methods of the two men wors of many stories, and a Paris conjoined the service in December, the argument is rather strength-the somo The report of the Senior In his early days the Amal 1882, was promoted lieutenant in one by the wall-founded ex-Official Receiver in bankruptcy In cate valued inlet, 1889, e inmander in 1901, and pectation that before we are much upon the scheme by which Mr. older the Old Age Pension, will Bottomley projs ses to pay all his Japanese. Ilis accomplishments captain in Decemt er, 1906. He have become a Young Age Pen- creditors in full has been issu- wero manifold, ani lio' excellod as maitre d'hotel. He had no took four "firsts" at his ex-sion and we shall all be living ated within the part few days; equal in the way he angouneed, aujipation, and was latterly cap- the State's expense. Still, there's on it will hardly povo altogether "Dianer is ready, sir," Ono day tain of the gunnery school at many a slip, as another proverb chcering to the ereditors before tolle as, and it is just as well to when it is to be placod. Mr. the Japanese valet gave the Ad Chatham. The servod previously be prepared for a sudden return Hough considers that the value miral notice to leave, saying lio
to sanity on the part of English which Mr. Bottomley places on wished to go homo "Fighting on the Station. Bob
The following appointments voters, and the consignment of his assets in extravagant and that Was sorry to lose hus servant, and filled his place with have been made at the Admiral Lloyd George and his followershia unsecured indebtedness in n Hindoo, and forgot all about ty:-Commanders.-C. L.Lambe, to the wilderness for some thirty g oily understated, that there is the Japanese. Years later the to the Alacrity, and C. Seymour roars. How then, to come to the comparatively little prosently. soilles, and as there wiss Japanese Otter, in command, to date Fe racial tendency to spend not wise which Bottomley proposes to warship in port he paid a visit to bruary 8. Chaplains The Roy. ly but too well? There is only invest in trustees, and that its London, March 11, 3.55 a.m.
the vessel, Ho was received by W. It. F. Ryan, to the Defence to one effective method. Lotus future value is mainly a questión the captain, and after the inspec- dato February 23; and the Rev. form a gigantic "Anti-Sprxling of speculation or conjecture. This Anti-Spending Moreover, since the soliemo was Peking has informed the Pre-ruptcy. Indications of forthcoming The arbitration commilice aption accepted hospitality in the N, M. Livingstone to the Europa, Society." sident that the merchants' lossos pressure by the Trade Unions are pointed to deal with the taxicab bin. The Japanese coin:aunder for voyage out, to date March, Society will make it bad form for formulated, Mr. Bottomley has through the mutiny in l'cking, have been extimated at between beginning to be felt. According to strike of the 2nd of November have threw off his cap, and pioking a and to the Monmouth, on recom- anyone to spend anything, and been onlored to my newly £30, iowel placed it on his arm and missioning, undated, Burgeon.once a thing is firmly establishe000, together with seven, yeam thirty and forty millions teels. the "Standard" the mens' Icaders made art award largely in favour said, in the old familiar tones; I. A. Moncrieff, to the Eutops, as bad form, that thing is dead, interest at five per cont, to the They suggest that the sufferers consider the unbending attitude
was the astonished Admiral's and to the Monmouth, on recom-hard-up young member of the on a misfeasance summons, The should be compensated by the with regard to the fixed minimum of the most, who are to retain all "Dinner in ready, sir." Kato!" for voyage out, to date March 5, And now we are off to find a liquidator of one of his companion Republican Government.Shat schedule as no longer tenable." extras," and receive other con-reply, for the commander was the missioning, undated."L. & O. Very Simaciest But to become our creditors are to meet and consider
firat obairman. The "Globe." the scheme on St. Valentine's (Reuter
cension Reuter
Express, quondain valet,
Tang Shao-yi and Chan Kanı- tao are to prepire a budget, under the instructions of Yuan Bhih-kai..
It is now certain that two hundred thousand German miners will strike to-day, but it is expected that the stoppage of traffic will be short- lived. FACED WITH BANKRUPTCY. It is calculated that three million pounds sterling in wages have been already lost outside the mining in-
AWARD FAVOURS MEN.
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dustry. The Trade Unions are Service to the "Telegraph." Admiral found himself at Mar- to the Tomar, additional, for the point, shall we bat cheek this realiable value in the properly
COMPENSATION WANTED. | obliged to pay increasingly large sums to members out of work.
The Chamber of Commerce at Some of them are faced with bank-