The Hongkong Telegraph.
March 27th, 1012, Temperature a.m. 65, p.m. 71; Humidity.95,
No. 8746
十初月二子玉
TELEGRAMS.
COAL CRISIS.
M (ESTABLISHED 1881.)
Copyright, 1011
WEATHER FORECAST.
March 27th, 1011, Temperature am. 50, p.m., 01; Humidity
TELEGRAMS.
THURSDAY, MARCH 28
1912.
四洋禮,就八廿月三英港香
TELEGRAMS.
TELEGRAMS:
TELEGRAMS.
COAL CRISIS,
CHINA IN TRANSITION. MARRIAGES IN JAPAN.
HOME RACING.
BILL GOES TO LORDS.......
GERMAN ACTION.
ACT PASSES LORDS.
LIVERPOOL CUP.
Bill's Passage Through the House of Lords.
FAIR.
$56 PER AFFUM
SINGLE COFT 10 Gam
TELEGRAMS.
CYCLONE DAMAGE.
MANY CASUALTIES,
LORD LANSDOWNE'S TRENCHANT CRITICISMS.
[Service To The "Telegraph." }
London, Mar. 27,4,30 p.m. The House of Lords was crowd od when the Coal Mines Bill was
road for a second time. All tho
London, Mar. 27, 4.55 ) p.m.
To-day over four thousand
ore working in the pits.
incu
[Service to the "Telegraph."]
Bombay, Mar. 27, 1.30 p.m. The Coal Bill passed the third reading, by 213 votes to 48, at
The Minors' dolegates are loav. stages are to be taken to-night.ing Loadon for the various dis-**
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tricts.
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BILL WILL NOT FAIL.
NO RECOMMENDATION, Lord Crowe doclined to assumo
The ballot will bo completed the possibility of the Bill being a failuro. It met the minore' on April 3. Tho Minors' Fedora- wishes so far they could be mattiou make no recommendation to by legislation, and he hoped that the on how to vole.
they would accept it,
'DANGERS'AVÈAD. Lørd. Lansdowno during the debate on the address said that the Government had rejected the principle of a minimum wage and hal beon' converted, not by the grievances of tho minors, but by the appearance of a colossal con- spiracy making the miners' grievances a pretext. Ho feared that the Government did not
realize the dangers ahead. Tho Bill did not secure finality and loft the men's leaders the power at any time to septence the coun- try to starvation and ruin; to humiliato and paralyse the nation, perhaps at a time when it most needed its whole strength.
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OPPOSITION DOUBTS.
FREE MEALS.
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The London County Council has suspended the Enstor holidays for the schools in order to feed the poor children.
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2.50 o'clock this morning, Tho
Lords immediately sat and gave the
Bill a first reading. Mr. Lloyd
Goorgo voted with the majority on
the 5s, and 2s. minimum amend-
mont. The minority included 50
Radicals, and a number of other
amendments, Including several
moved by the Government, were.
disposed of.
A STRIKING SPEECH,
A notable speech in the debate
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One hundred thous nd persons receive free meals daily in the was by the Minors' Federationalist, Mr. Welsh. He said that when the polleries district.
Bill passed every well-wisher of the country would make the best of it, Our citizenship, he said, ought to
be higher than
our
trade unionism. The Daily News" says the Miners' Federation will to-day con- sider the Government, proposal to establish a National Wages Board to consider the 5s. and 29. minima London, Mar. 27, 0.30 p.ni. on the understanding that the
Router's correspondent
at miners fesume Immediately, thes Vienna states that the Reichsrath two points have been seilled. The has rojected a revolution calling number of miners working yester- upon the Government to introduce day was 3,200. a Minors Minimum Wage Bill.
AUSTRIAN MINERS
DEMAND.
BALLOT OF THE MEN.
Bombay, Mar. 28, 0.55 8.m..
The Miners Foderation this
RESERVES TO PROTECT
WORKERS.
The "Times" says the Govern- mont hope the miners will seize
on the Bill
excuse to rotura
to work.
an
[Service to the
[Service to the Telegraph.]
Bombay, Mar. 28, 6.55 a.m.
· Bombay, Mar. 28, 6,55 a.m.- The Reichstag Budget Com-
The House of Lords has passed mittes las voted a grant for an the third reading of the Japan extra 500 men for Kiaochau, Marriages Act. the garrison to bringing up. 2500. The Foreign Under-
Secretary said that the grant was
demanded in consequence of the
continuod disorders and constant
appeals for help from many
quartere.
ANTI-TRUST LAW.
PACKERS ACQUITTED.
[Service to the "Telegraph."]
London, Mar. 27, 5.5 a.m.
NO INTERFERENCE.
Yunn Shih-kai desorvol con- Reuter's Chicago correspondent fidence and the Government would be masters of the situation states that the ten meat packers if they got money quickly. The who wore charged with criminally, German Government was pur- sing, in the fallest agreement
violating the anti-Trust law havd
with the other Powers, the prin- been acquitted after a trial lasting ciple of non-istorferonce on the six months. The defendants includ- eventual understanding for com-ed the presidents of the Swift,
Amour and Morris companies, mon action.
THE OPEN DOOR. Gorminy would intervens agains: ali attempts at partition of Chins which must be preserved
ALPINE TRAGEDY.
in its entirety. This open door TEN TOURISTS KILLED, must bo guaranteed.
FORMAL RESIGNATION.
[Service to the "Telegraph."]
London, Mar. 27, 4.5 a.m.
Shanghai, March 27.
Ten tourist ski-runners have Dr. Sun Yat-sen formally · ro- signed the duties of the Pre-been killed by an avalanche at sidency yesterday,}) <
Hochschneeberg, in the Austrian
Alps.-Reuter
TROUBLE FEARED IN NANKING.'
The gentry and citizens of Nanking in anticipation of trouble which may occur through the
afternoon decided to take a ballot Failing a resumption, the Gover transference of the central govern-]
An attempt to alter the Bill,
of the men to discover whether
ment have planned effective
ment to Poking havo asked Tang
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A LETTER OF IM- FORTANCE.
[Service to the Telegraph."]
London, Mar. 27, 8.5 p.m.
The following are the probable
[Service to the "Telegraph."]
London, Mar. 27, 5.40 p.m.
A cyclone has done consider
starters and jockeys for the Liver-able damage at Buenos Ayres, pool Cup:-
Eight people have been killed
Wolfe Land-William Griggs, and thirty injured. The cyclone Dalnaorag-Winter.
has also ravaged the Junin dis-
Eaton Boy-Hewitt. Merry Task-Maher. Protostant Boy-Foy. Helot-Trigg. Dartoi-Piper. Royal Hackle II-Donoghue, Southannan-Wheatley. Willanra-Riokaby.
Forest Lassie-Ringstead. Persism-Dullor. Bryony Robinson. Atty-Shanahan. Adam Bede-Stokes, Jackdaw-Caldor. Zorzal-Whalley, Subterranean-Huxley.
OTHER PROBABLES.
London, Mar. 27, 11 p.m. Trigg rides Merry Task and Holot is still without a jockey. Additional probable starters are Dandypras with Maher up and Blar of Doon with Oriep riding,
Rentor.
SUGAR CONVENTION,
ADOPTED BY GERMANY.
[Service to the "Telegraph,"]
London, Mar. 27, 4.55 p.m. The Reiclistag has passed the Sugar Convention.-Reétor,
CANTON NEWS.
(The "Telegraph" Correspondenf.)
Canton, March 27,
triot whore there have been ten killed and twenty injured.- Renter
PRINCE OF WALES.
·VISIT TO FRANCE.
[Service to the Telegraph."]
London, Mar, 27, 5.40 p.m.
An official announcement states that the Prince of Wales is loay- ing for Paris on Monday on a visit to the Marquia do Bretouil.
He will probably stay for four months in order to study the language and acquire the correct accont under Professor Endoffler. He will also study literature and the drama,
It is stated that a German visit is also contemplated. Reuter,
THE FAMINE.
Men Worth Saving,
howover, would only embarrass they were in favour of resuming measures for the relief of distress, Shao-yi to take stops for their portant in the alphabet because be a source of danger to the in-cents or a dollar, is sufficient to
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the Government of the day and work ponding a settlement of the and will probably call out the Re-protection:
¿prolong the ansjense. The Of position would therefore not
move amendments, bat would place on record its doubts of the wisdom and justice of the mea- sure The Bill carried its own Nemesis, and would be epoch-
minima by the District Boards,
RAILWAY LOSSES.
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Bombay, Mar. 28, 0,55 a.m. The aggregate week's decrease on the receipts of British railways is £606,306,
EXPULSION WÎNIED.
The following is from one of the news bulletins issued by the Contral China Famino Relief, Committee:The famine region. in North Kiangen end North Anhwei has been for many months the seat of war as well, and the two have combined to produce a condition of things that is simply indescribable. The situation is The natives of Shun-tak dis dark and unrelieved by any re trict doing business in Hongkong deeming feature, so that it is an have petitioned the Commissioner unexpected pleasure to run across for the Interior for the dispersal an incident like the following, of the followers of Wong Wo-One of the Red Cross doctors tells ehun from the Shun-tak district, that mothers, who with their It appears that the Contral Gov-ohildren were starving to death, ernment had intended to transfer bring the boys to the camps where these particular troops to the dis- they are bought by the soldiers.. The letter P. is the most im-trict in question and the men will The money, perhaps seventy-five
habitants.
keep the mother alive for some it loads all others in perfection.
Dr. Sun Yat-sen has received weeks. The soldiers treat the It is alike first in peace and pros-information from Chinese resi- boys well and supply them with perity, and gives to pleasure its dents in the Dutch Indies of a con- food and clothing, A number of aiderable traffic in slaves that is instances of such kindhearted- proper form. The Army Leigub at Nanking It is found in every enterprise being carried on by some of the ness as this have been found.
It has been noticed by a numIN" more unscrupulous Chinese. He have telegraphed to 'resident and aspiration, and without its in turn has communicated with her of men engaged in famine Yuan Shih-kat asking him to valuable offices our staunchest an- the Governor-General of Canton relief work in China that there expel Wong Yu-kap, Ting Si-yu obor of hope would be but a instructing him to keep a sharp are large numbers of women with lookout for kidnappers, who are children in nood of help, who commonplass Loe.
to be severely punished when have no husband on whom to de- and Yik Li-him from the league.
In importance it is decidedly convicted.
pend for support, The question LOANS AND REFORMS, the dominating letter. It has no The butchers' strike reported naturally, arose se to what had be- place in history, but it is fore- yesterday is not yet finished, and come of the men. Inquiry show- there appears to belittle prospected that as a general thing the Tang Shao-yi has expressed most in philosophy and gives of the buteliors coming to any men died first and the women the fear that the floating of
power to the pen. While always agreement with the pig dealers, and ohildren often survived them gome difficulty and he expects leads, in pardon and possesses in hand by the Commissioner for reason for this was found
finenco, and he proposes to uss that the men gave the lar that as a consequence, many sag great power in persuasion. drastic means to end the dispute, amount of food to the women gostod reforms will not be carried It is rich in the emotions and which will in a short time and especially the Bout for some time.
virtues, patriotism, passion, pe seriously inconvenience the com- thus sacrificed
order to give the EAGER TO PARTICIPATE.tienos, pity and poetry acknow-munity.
The report of an attempt to better chance. ledge it their very own, No hold up a train comes from Fan- Dr. Woods, the The Japanese merchants at point, or picture, or port, was mirisng on the Banning Railway, ent for North Kiang and South Wales coat owners Have Shot, thai lase despatched a ever made without it. It leads Robbers made an unsuccessful those who
ntative to Peking in con- all others in powe permanency attempt to stop the train and were | repres and neat with their request that and preciousness, Purpose has only driven: off! by the stre
defence of the guarde who Newport The South Yorkshire they should be allowed to paril. up meaning.
it, and pris Are on them, Troops are pon its base bipate in the losna raised for the mids are · bui
serves to protect workers. The "Timos" says a brief joint confer- once was held yesterday. As the result of a Government fuse, the coal owners went to Downing-st. to meet the Government, but were resentfuly surprised to find the miners' representatives there.
PREMIER FEELING STRAIN.
It is understood that Mr. Asquith.
Welsh leader, Mr. Hartshorn, in- terviewed, said the Federation were not weakening, and were
inaking. He asked whether the OWNERS ACOEPT THE BILL is suffering from strain. The foreign loans will be attended first is provocation, it likewise The matter hiss now been taken many weeks or months.
whole of the immunities given to
tlio union, under the Trades Dis-
putos Aoi would be appropriate
to the new conditions. He hoped
that the Bill would give a breath
ing space in which the. Govern..
ibnt could set italndustrini house
London, Mar. 27, 6.40 p.m.
A meeting of the coal owners seriously considering appealing to has accepted, the Bill. It was the transport workers and other resolved to thank Mr. Asquith organisations. The Monmouth for his courtoay and pationos.
In the House of Commons Mr. Mokenas gave assurances that adequate proleption would afforded to willing workers.
contributed $1,000 wach to relief funds at Cardill, Sivann
coal owners have given 502,000 for the relief of local distrar al
by
The
stationed along the line for sher protection
tion