The Hongkong Telegraph.
March 13th, 1912, Temperature a.m. 64, p.m. 59; Humidity..... 00, 04.
No. 8734
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(ESTABLISHED 1881.) Copyright, 1911 by the Proprietor.
THURSDAY, MARCH 14 1912.
WEATHER FORECAST.
RAIN.
March 13th, 1911, Temperature a.m. 02, p.m.,-07-;-Bumidity...,00,-87:
TELEGRAMS.
四拜禮
雙四十月三英港香
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TELEGRAMS.
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COAL CRISIS.
CHINA IN TRANSITION.
PUBLIC SERVICE.
TRIPOLI WAR.
SUGAR CONVENTION.
SUBMARINE TRAGEDY.
A HOPEFUL TONE.
A KANSU ARMY.
COMMISSION OF ENQUIRY.
DESPERATE FIGHTING.
RUMOURED AGREEMENT,
[Service to the "Tolegraph."] Bombay, Mar. 14, 7.20 a.m. - "A Cabinet Minister stated yeş- torday that an early settlement of the strike was certain if the same good spirit continuod ng is now shown.
PREMIER'S SUGGESTIONS.
It is officially stated that the Coal Conference continued the
general discussion as to the best ineans of arriving at a settlement. It has boon adjourned to enable corisia suggestions made by Mr. Asquith to be considered.
TOWARDS AGREEMENT.
(Our Own Correspondent.)
Shanghai, Mar. 14, 9,30 a.m. Vicoroy Sheng Yun of Kansu, with 10,000 troops, is advancing on Tatung-fu.
[Service to the Telegraph."] | [Service] to the "Telegraph."]
London, Mar. 13, 8.5 p.m.
"A" Royal Commission lius boon' appointed, under the Chairman
The Kansu guild at Shanghai ship of Lord Macdonnell, to on- sent him a message not to advance quire into the methods of ap on. Poking, but Sheng-Yun-has-
Jointinent and promotion in the dispersed the revolutionarios and declares that he will restore the civil, diplomatic and consular Emperor.-Renter.
sarvices.—Reutor. •
EXTRAORDINARY
DEVELOPMENT.
London, Mar, 13, 5.15 p.m.
regarded as mythical, has defeated the Government troops and in marching on the Kalgan railway.
The Minors' Fodoration yostor- Router's correspondent at Rek- day unanimously expressed its ing statos that an army from willingness to enter into negolia-Kansu, which has hitherto been tions immediately with the coal owners in the various districts on purpose to souro a settlement on all points of dispute at the or
The army consists of tent thousand men who are will-armed. liest possible moment.
The General, Sheng Yun, saya QUESTION OF RESUMPTION. that he is coming to restore the
Emperor. The Fedoration also considered
Envoys nccredited by President the question of the mou resumYuan Shih-kai have gone to meet ing, leaving certain matters for the army and explain the situa future adjustment, though it tion.-Ronter.
esulid not alviss a rosumption antil the minimum wage woa conee forl.
The coal owners also conferred,
ant the joint conferencɔ reissom- bled in the afternoon at the Foreign Ollies.-Router.
PREMIER PLEASED.
London, Mar. 13, 3.25 pun, At the conference Mr. Asquith express: gratification at the course taken by the negotiations. SHEFFIELD WORKS OLO BE.
At Sheffield works, after mak- ing stupendono efforts to keep going, are closing down one after the other.
The owners consider that it is cheaper to close down than to pay 320 per ton for coal.— Reuter,
THE MILITARY ELEMENT.
Shanghai, March 13.
The Governors General of thei various provinces will hereafter be styled Commanders-in-Chief of the provincial garrisons, and will tako no part in the civil administration."
TANG AND TSOI.
Tang Sho-yi and Taoi In-pui are procealing to Wuchang to visit LA Yuan-heng, the Vice
President,
CABINET APPOINTMENTS.
Yuan Shih-kai has recoinmond- ed Leung Bi-yi, Tuan Ki-sui, Chiu. Ping-kwan and Wụ Wai- tak for appointment as cabinet ministers.
WIRELESS AT PEKING. A wireless apparatus lias been installed in the legations at
A REASONABLE ATTITUDE. Peking, and it is now possible to
London, March 13, 4.5 4.m. The "Daily Telegraph" states that after a joint conference the miners' executive decided to re- commend to the federation accept ance of Mr. Asquith's suggestion. for district conferences, but that none of the districts return to work 'till a national settlement is effected. --Router.
POLAR EXPLORATION.
MAWSON'S PARTY,
[Service to the Telegraph."] London, March 13, 4.5 a.m.
The Hobart correspondent of Reuter says Mawson's ship, the Aurora, has arrived, and reports
communicate with Taku, whenca messages will be transmitted by: Japanese cruisers.
SUPPRESSION OF OPIUM.
Ki Shih-ring commissioner for Dr. Sun Yat-ren lias appointed
the suppression of opium.-. "Shot 16.'
SUFFRAGIST OUTRAGES,
OFFENDERS SENTENCED..
[Service to the "Telograph."].
London, Mar. 13, 5.15
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Bombay, March 14, 7.20 à.m." There has boon desporate fighting at Benghazi. The Italians attacked the two osses to
[Service to the Telegraph."] London, Mar. 13, 12,80 p.m. Renter's correspondent at Brussels says that it is undor-
tho north-east of Fojat and routed stood that Russin and Germany the Turks, pursuing thea with
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Tho Turks and Arabs had over allowed to export 150,000 tons of a thousand killed and more sugar during the present season, wounded. The Italian casualties
and 50,000 tons during each of wero 26 killed and 62 wounded.
the next two seasons.-Rontor.
FIERCE ATTACKS. There was also fierce fighting
at Tobruk on Mar! 11: The FRANCE IN MOROCCO, Turks attacked a now fort in
[Service to the Telegraph."
London, March 13, 5.15 a.m.
process of construction, but the three Italian regiments engaged FIGHT WITH TRIBESMEN. in the work drove back the p.m.
enemy by means of bayonet The woman suffragists concòrn-
charges. They wore aided by od in the recent outrages, at the a mountain battery. Rossions received sentences rang. It is officially stated that the ing from six to four months, some tulion casualtion were 17 killed and 73 woundel. This enomy's with hard labour. Two, upon pro- mising not to repeat their
lossos wore enormous.-Houter.
duot were bound over with a Baroty of £100 and sent to the next sessions.-Neutor.
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PENANG DOCKS.
QUESTION IN PARLIAMENT.
THE NAVY,
LIGHT CRUISERS.
[Service to the
Telegraph."]
Banbay, Mar. 13, 12.25 a.m. There is speculation concern-
[Service to the Telegrapli."]
London, March 13, 1.50 p.m.
In the House of Commons, Mr. Harcourt, replying to a question by Mr. Joynson Hicks, said he entire-
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ing the provision of light cruisersly approved of the conditions in- in the naval estintos. They posed by Sir John Anderson upon are believed to be a new de- the Eastern Shipping Co. of Pe- parture in construction; an in-
nang, in connection with the bulld- provod kind of scout, effective but cheap.
ing of new docks.-Revier.
It is stated that the Dread- nought presented by New Ze land will join the Home Fleet instead of the China Squadron. -Router.
HOME POLITICS,
LIBERAL CROAKING,
DISTINGUISHED COAL
HEAVERS.
The learned judge who recent yst himself to break stones in order to test a case submitted for his judgment was, after all, only
The French column sustained casualties amounting to two killed
and nineteen wounded in an all-day
fight on the 9th inst. with the Zommur tribesmen in Morocco,
There is an anti-foreign outbreak at Marrakesh, and a German and
BODIES RECOVERED.
[Service to the "Tolograph."]
Bombay, Mar. 13, 12.25 a.m.
The bodies were removed from
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OBITUARY.
MR. ARTHUR SASSOON.
[Service to the Telegraph."]
London, Mar. 18, 12.30 pm. The donth has taken place un.
the submarine A 3 at midnight expected of Mr. Arthur A. D, Sassoon, a friond of the late King and wore conveyed to Haslar, Edward, nt Mr. Leopold de where the funeral will take place. Rothschild's house at Ascot, to-day-Router.
Router.
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INQUEST AND FUNERAL
Bombay, Mar. 14, 7.20 a.m.
Tho inquest on the bodies taken from the A 3 took place at Portsmouth.
Thero was a holo six feet wide in the hull. All the crow had been drowned,
The funeral of the victims, with naval honours, took place this afternoon to Haslar comotory Renier.
QUEEN VICTORIA OF SPAIN.
An Ideal Mother and Possessor of Many Accomplishments.
The Queen of Spain, who has just made herself very popular with the Spanish people by in- flaoncing King Alfonso to grant elemeney to the revolutionist Chato, is only twenty-four years old. Bho has four living children. and has lost one.
She herself was born in 1887, the first jubilee year of the lato Queen Victoria, She was the first royal child born in Scotland' since the birth of King Charles I. there in 1000. Like all members of the English royal family, the young Princoss Ena received a DISSENSION AT NANKING broad education and has many
Cabinet and Assembly:
The following is from "China Press" of March 7:-
News has reached Shanghai of
accomplishments.
From her mother she inherit- ed a love of music. She herself sings and plays well. She is fond of the drama, and ps s child, says a writer in the "Queen," she' became a clever and competent With happy re-
a new cause of dissension which little actress.
is widening the breach between collections of her own childhood. Dr. Sun Yat-sen and the Nanking Queen Victoria is an ideal Assembly. The Assembly's latest mother, and intensely fond of a Swiss have boen wound-grievance against Dr. Sun and his children. She also takes a koon Cabinet is based on their refusal interest in the children of the to join with the Assembly in its poor, and not long ago presented impeachment proceedings against a handsome sum to a creche that Chih-yu, Vice-Minister of had been opened at Seville
Queen Victoria has kept up her Laws. As a result two more re- signations have been added to the love of outdoor life. Her stable number which roaigned because is one of her chief delights, of dissatisfaction with the policy She owns many fine English of the Minister of Finance.
horses, and often has a favourite
ed. It is reported that the troops fired, killing several Moors before. order was restored:-(Reuter.)
THE BRAHMAPUTRA FALLS.
the Great River.
The latest to resign aro Wamount brought out to her in the Ching lien, dolegato from Muk-courtyard of the palace, to feed with bits of sugar, carrot and apples. den and Kang Pao-cbung, from
When at Madrid the Queen Shonsi. A fow daya ago, Mr. Lu suggested that a delegate should her daily visit to La Granja likes nothing better than Attempt to Solve & Mystery of be punished because of some slip (Spanial for farmhouse), the on his speech, and the Assembly royal estate near, the capital, promptly impeached him.
President Sub, in answer to the which has exquisite gardens and In connection with the opera-nction by the Assembly, explained rival those of Versailles. Here fountains and torrao.a, which tions in the Abar, country, and that though Mr. I had suggested King Alfonso plays polo, and the the intention of the Indian punishment, for a member of the Government to explore the lower Assembly, no stops had been Queen smuses herself with trout
fishing. section of the unknowa Brahma- token, and it did not amount to
Queen Victoria Eugenie has putra, an expedition, consisting action. The fault could only be
her mother's love for lace, and "careless étato- of two British officers with an rogarded as a escort, has been despatched for ment." The President said that owns the wonderful lace brought the purpose of setting the location while legislative rights should be
to England close on 400 years of the reported great falls of the respected, administrative powers therine of Aragon, when she came ago by a Spanish princess, Ka- Brahmaputra.
should not be slighted and onto that country as Queen of
Vice-Minister These falls are, according to impeachment of the copying the excellent, example rumour, situated about halfway of Laws on account of views Henry VIII. This lace balonged set by Judge Moss, who or one between the northerm bend of the expressed in a private letter was left it to. Princess Henry of to the late Queen Victoris, who occasion travelled specially to river and the plains of Assam. lu unwise. Bethesda to investigate the con- the unknown section of 130 miles
He called attention to the fact Battenberg, who in her turn pre- sented it to the then Princess ditions under which quarrying there in full in altitude of some that for a hundred years there Ena at the time of her marriage. was done, to help him decide a lawsuit Io. seized tiu trucks thing like 7,000ft, and the river have been only a few impeach-
A queer turn of fortune's [Service to the Telegraph."] and Lushed the Limself with must defcend by grent and ments in the American Con-
numerous rapids, or by one or a gress against execative officials, wheel has brought this old Hpan- ish lace into the possession of a With the exception of the "Dally
Mr. Justice Warrington has series of great falls. Many at which showe mutual respect News," which says the estimates
leo toiled as hard as any col tempts have been made by natives between the government and the Queen of Spain who was born an
Englishwoman, heaver. A few years ago some falls but without success.
of India and others to locate the legislature. He said the Assem-
This recalls to mind that price- represent financial disaster, the eighteen tons of coal near his re-
bly need not go to the bottom of statements and construe an ia members of the Englialı royal less lace is owned by different sidence set up combustion, and The distance to be explore 1 ia papers approve Mr. Churchill's all his servants there were called not great, but as the lie of the tention to mean an offence.
family. Queen Mary has a rare The Assembly members re- [Service to the "Telegraph."] estimates presented in difficult upon to remove it urgently to the Brahmaputra is at right angles to garded this reply as partial and ounce of Honiton lace that was
and delicate circumstances. Some took his whee barrow and worked mountains in the world, the London, March 13, 5.15 a.m.
on the wedding gown of her open. His lordship thereupon and through the greatest range of
the resignations followed.
Dt. Wa Ting-fang is inclined mother, the late Princess Mary. of the critics regard light cruisers | vigorously with the rest.
difficulties to be encountered will Two hundred thousand German miners have now struck, making as an indication that the day of the was similarly found working in
Five years ago a German count be of the severent description. The to belittle the storiesof dissension Duchess of Teck, and also come fixing and measuring of these falle at Nanking, but says he is not splendid point d'Alencon· laca which once belonged to Queen. well posted sa to present affairs. the number on strike seventy-five protected cruiser has passed, They railway coal-yard as a common regarded (saya Reater) as among every Congreas, or Parlia Adelaide. The Duchess of Con- labourer, though he had a differ- the -chief - unsolved probleihs:
naught has a large and very vilua. per cent. of the whole coalfield. think the new departure is attributent season for his action; for, of geographical science. Some 30 ment," he stage there and cum ble felin of Youghal poin
ber of irrepressibles. People can been cashiered from a crack re have gone down the river, but
coss Henry of Battenbarg owns been a few resignations from tie and value which was a presenzah ge, ló at once, took a situation / returned without any maps or Assembly, but he did not Queen Victoria at the time of hex
anything but the vaguest reports, regard the matter, as serious. --
GERMAN TROUBLE.
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MORE DISTURBANCES.
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both bands.
There were further disturbances at able to the probability of an exten- owing to his dissipation, he had | years ago a native was reported to not all be of the same mind and bor by Queen Victoria, nád Prize: sivo use of armed merchant and giment, and, being a man if after having been captured and of course disccasions and debotes and wears old lase of great beauty, that Mawson's party landed in the the ol'ce, of whom mang ca commerce
Antarctic on January 1st.
Hamborn yesterday evening, the strikors stoping and firing upon
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as coal-beaver,
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