ATE TELEGRAMS,
(From Manila Papers:)
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, MAY 29, 1912.
European in Trouble at
Shanghai,
Taft men are straining overy LETTING CHILDREN BEG. nerve to scouro a victory which shall offect the defeat in Ohio, and are already making state- London, May 23-All Greatments to the effect that they are ritain is watching with great confident of victory. The Roose interest the political battles now relt forces are equally active, and going on in the United States, believe that the Ohio reault was Dispatelies of English corres the signal for a wave of progres- pondents from the United States sive outhusiam which shall engulf fadicato that Roosevelt's victory Taft and his chances.. in Taft's home state, Ohio, ras
Negro Rising. dismayed the Taft supporters.
Washington, May 23,
The victory seoms to bo various
John Mills, unemployed, was oharged before Mr. King at Shanghai for that he did on May 18, having the custody, charge or care of two female children under the age of sixteen yours, American lives and property procured the said children to be in Jy interpreted, although the are seriously endangered by the certain licensed promises, and general feeling is that Roosevelt's negro uprising in Cuba, and the insistence on a general recon-roparts of conditions in the island also in a certain street, for the straction of political ideas and roaching the state department purposes of bogging or receiving conditions appealed to tho popu- from official and private sources alms or inducing the giving of lor instinct.
It is beginning to be believed action imperative.
aro of such a character an to make alms contrary to the Children's that the condition of sixes and
Act, 1908. Bovens obtaining in the Demo-has decided to take mesures for Mr. O. G. Kirk, who prosecuted cratic ranks will loud.. to the the protection of its nationals, aud on-boat-of-the-Police, said that nomination of Bryan.
necordingly ordore were issued this was the first prosecution un- Roosevelt's Message. to-day for the immediate dispatch Washington, May 2-Theo- to Quantanamo of a force of 700 der the Act of 1908 in Shanghai. dore Rouanvelt in a public mes-marines, equipped for activo ser. The two children, one agad sage to the American people fast night, said:
The victory in Ohio is not alone the victory of the plain people of the Republican party, but that of every good citizen of the United States."
The United State
government
vice. The men will only be used if the nood becomes imperativo, but it is considered in well in formed circles in the capital that there is little doubt that they will be forced to tako u hand. :। It is further understood that American newspapers aro the United States stands roadly at speculating on the effect of the an instant's notice to back up this
GENERAL NEWS.
Changes at Aldershot.
The cavalry barracks at Alder shot are to be re-named, the East Wost, Willems; and the South, Barracks becoming Warburg; the Beaumont.
at
Clan Party Leader Executed.
MORE PIRACY.
Nine Arrests.
Another case of piracy came to light lato on May 22 when Inspector Mellows of the River wore on board a Japanese steam Police arrested nine pirates who launch which had put back to Shanghai. The launch which
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ing to the "Shanghai Times" the Police had. They were taken hundred hands are thrown out of wore found. They were taken to
employment and the situation is the Nantao Court for a hearing. causing uneasiness.
home and the defendant, who was the father, admitted having sent them out. The Act was ob-
Ohio victory in the national con-forco with a more considerable viously for the protection of vention. Some of them profess body of fighting mon,
to see in it the death knoll off
Taft's hopes and the power TO ASSASSINATE YUAN. which will turn some of tho
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southern delegates from the Taft Serious Charge Against' Chinese side to that of Roosevelt. Papora supporting the president in the
children, and it was to this sort of cases that it should apply
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The U. S. S. Saratogu, which was at the Tuku Bar during the recent storm, hud instruments in position to ascertain the velocity of the wind. The "Shanghai Times" notes that the instruments registered the velocity of the wind at 75 miles an hour during
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This prosecution had not been rushed into hurriedly, nor had the defendant beon without warning. campaign, while much chagrined At the Mixed Court, Shanghai, A police officer and a lady con- over the rosult, do not conccite on May 23, before Mr. Kaan, neetod with a charitable organiza-
Shanghai Prisoner's Escape that it means Taft's defeat but Magistrate, and Mr. Johnson, tion visited the defendant at his to ton years' imprisonment from A prisoner who was sentenced rather that it is indicative of a American Assessor, To Yuen-teu, house and the latter then said Harbin Road last your for being close fight at Chicago, the result leseribed as a newspaper editor, that he could not get work, but concerned in an armed robbery of which will be a Taft victory. of Kaifong Road, was charged on he had had a job of $50 or $00a was recently taken ill at the gnol Final returns from Ohio show a warrant that he did 'en May 20, month offered him, but that was and was sent to the Police. Hos- that Roosevelt is pratically. cer1912, then being editor of a cor-not enough. He, therefore, badpital in Iannon Road for trent tain of 38 of the 45 delegates and tain Chinese newspaper.called the only himself to blame for being in mont. About 4 a.m. the other day that Roosevelt men will be in "Ming Chuan Pao," unlawfully the Police Court. He did not want he managed to elude the vigilance ab-oluto control of the state con- print and publish in the said news to work, and would rather sand of the constables on duty, and vention which is soon to meet to paper a certain paragraph or or-round his children, whose sex and escaped from, the hospital by adopt an Ohio platform for the ticle, and by means of such did ago mado people dispense charity. means of one of the back win- national convention.
unlawfully solicit, encourage and Thoy got a good deal of money dows. He then made his way HOTEL persuado all such porsons who and the father found it more through the Victoria Nursing Washington, May 23. The ox-might read a copy of the said Incrative than working.. pected battle between the main newspaper to kill and murder
Home and passing the watchman granies of the rebels, and federal four persous mentioned therein, Mike licensed where he unde off towards the PLUNKET'S
Sgt. G. spoke neoing at the gato gained the road ists in Mexico has begun, necord- viz: Tang Shao-yi, Yuan Shil-kni, premises, and he then called Dat. country. As soon as he was ing to dispatches received here leiung Isu-ling, and Chang Rye. There were about thirty missed a search was made for from Rollano. Since the defeat of Ping-su. the rebels at Orozco they have Mr. C. C. Kirk appeared for people in the bar and the letter him, but no trace could be found. been concentrating their strength the prosecution and Mr. J. C. E. was taken round to them all. The Two Chineso constables who were at Rellano, and have thore Douglas defended.
lottor, addressed to all whom it on duty wore charged at the guthored a force of over 5,000 Mr. Douglas said he would like may concern," stated that the Mixed Court with negligence in father hand boon out of work for allowing the man to escape, and to ask the Court for a romand,tteen months. Then there were were sentenced to three months'
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The federalists have thrown all having only been instructed that their available troops against the morning, in order that he might rebel position, and the battle is have prepared a translation of the even now proceeding. So far it article upon which the charge is impossible to predict the out-was isoll. He understood the come, and the fight is expected accused had been arrested on to be somewhat protracted. Both warrant. Rides evidently consider the issue'
tion.
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The Royal Society of Literature and the Astor House, and he was The last recipient was George spont his time in the Palace Hotel Medal to Mr. Thomas Hardy thore nearly every day drinking. Morodith. The medal is to be pro- The Magistrate's Difficulty. sented to Mr. Hardy on his birth- His Worship said that he bo-day on June 2,
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had no doubt that Mills had is composed for the most part of people fame in the United States, has in high authority. It therefore committed an offence and he Chinese mine employees. It is beon placed on trial for bribery apponted that it was in the him, but he was in a difficulty as the Kuantan river, from the const. would anter a conviction against situated thirty miles upstream, on in connection with the trial of the nature of political writing, and at confessed dynamiter, James B. such a time as this it did not to what sentence to pass, as there No details are to hand yet, but it McNamara, now serving a life seem very clear why the police be sent. If he had the accused the whole of the Chinese village was nowhere for the children to appears that the firo destroyed! term in San Quentin prison. had taken the action they had.
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prisoner to gaol and under which is a comparatively small which cams to so sudden an end Court, or at least the Assessor, Section 58 the Magistrate could section of tho settlement, »ek. when the McNamara brothers would know that in n democratic send the children to an industrial intact. The distress created is pleaded guilty to the crimes with country people said very frank school. Here he had to consider very acute. The dishoused in- which they were charged. things about their President and other it was any benefit to the habitants have had to be accom- An important part of the case people in high posititions. Even accused or his children to send modated, with little ceremony, in for the prosecution will be the a President and an ox-President
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kitchens, and outhouses attached sworn confession of Bert Franklin, had been known to say very frank Proceeding his Worship said to the bungalows of the mines' a detective for the McNamara de- things about each other. He ask that he had no pity at all for the staff and as the shop, and their fonso, who has already confessed ed for a remand, and that the ac-accused because he could not there is a shortage of food and stocks went in the conflagration to an attempt to bribe a MeNama-cused be let out on security. conceive a white man going s0
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Mr. Kirk said with regard to low as to send his children out other necessitios. The manage The trial is attracting wide in the warrant being issued, that it begging. He would imagine that end of the mines is doing what terest throughout the United was not unusual at all iu news a man would do anything rather it can for the sufferers, but its Statea especials in labour circles, paper cases for a warrant to be than that. To send his children sources on the spot are limited. GRAVING DOCK where Darre eld in high es esued for the arrest of an Editor, to beg that he might live was Orders have therefore come to 78716, by 88ft. by Sift bin. teem for his
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