The Hongkong Telegraph.
Juno 12th, 1912, Temperature a.m.. 7, p.m. 82; Humidity...04, 85.
No. 8811
TELEGRAMS.
·晚八廿四年子
TÉLEGRAMS.
(ESTABLISHED 1881.) Copyright, 1912 by the Proprietor,
WEATHER FORECASÍ,
SHOWERY,
June 12th, 1911, Temperature a.m. 85, p.m., 85; Humidity...71, 75,
THURSDAY, JUNE
13,
1912.
四拜望
TELEGRAMS.
TELEGRAMS.
TELEGRAMS,'
THE TEST MATCH.
THE HOME STRIKE:
THE HOME STRIKE,
HOME CRICKET.
BIG AVIATION race.
A WIN FÖR ENGLANIE
25,000 MEN OUT..
COUNTY MATCHES.
BERLIN TO VIENNA.
Reuter's
[Service to the Telegraph."}
London, June 12,
Received 13, 11.30 am.
The Tost match between Eng- land and South Africa concludod at Lord's to-day.
Heutor's
[Service to the "Telegraph."]
London, June 12. Itecojvod, 7.10 p.m.
MISAPPRÉHENSION.
Reuter's.
(Service to the "Telegraph.']
Bombay, Jung lộ, 8.45am. Received, 12,22 n.m
It is estimate that only 25,000
The statement he made on mon are on striko at presont. Thursday, was uttered under a Those me at Bristol, Southamp-misapprehension. It did not re- England won by an inaingston, Plymouth, Swansea. Man-fer to the Pursot case but to the
and (2 runs.
In their second venture the South Africans mado a total of 217, towards which Llewellyn con- tributed 75.
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Barney took six of the South African wickets for 85 runs.
THE CHURCH IN WALES.
THE OTHER SIDE.
London, June 12. Received 13, 11,30 am.
London is invaded by 15,000 Welsh Churchmen who hold a domonetration against Dis- establishment in the Albert Hall.
Mr. Bonar Law moved in resolu- tion calling on the Government to submit the Bill to the country, and the motion was carried with great enthusiasm.
The Albert Hall was parked The Archbishop of York presided, and. in the course of a speech ho
critivised
Mr. Lloyd Goorge's spooches, which, he said, alone ahowed any enthusiasm for the Bill.
Special trains bringing the Welshmon arrived from 4 o'clock in the morning onwards.
TIBETAN SITUATION.
VERY LITTLE CHANGE
chester and Llanelly.
SAILING CANCELLED,
The sailing of the White Star liner Majestic from Southampton has been cancelled,
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NO PROGRESS.
Laler.
The triko is making no pro- gress. The vast majority of the ports are normal, while the Port of London is busier than hitherto, 111 ships at present being
unloaded.
A ballot among the sailors and firemen is proceeding, but that. there will be the necessary two- thirds majority in favour of strike is most improbable.
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THE VOTE OF CENSURE.
Bombay, June 13, 8.45 am.
Received, 12.2am.
In the House of Commons, Mr. Austen Chamberlain, in tho absence of Mr. Bonar Law who was at the Albert Hall, moved u voto of consure on the Govern- ment in connection with Mr. McKenna's recent statement that
"was the Government's dirty to assist employers in acts, liko the importation of strikebreakers, which were-calculated to provoko disorder."
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"RAVE AND NOVEL."
action of Houlder Bros. in filling the ship Lady Jocelyn with free labour and endeavouring to bring hor to Lon ton. He adhered to his assertion that such action was provocative, for if the ship had been allowed to enter by protec tion of black-legs, who wore so hated and loathed by the strikers,
Renter's [Service to the "Telegraph.”]
London, June 12, 6.40 p.m.
Received; 13, 781 am.
Following are the latest county cricket results:-
Yorkshire drew with the Australians at Bradford.
Bristol by five wickets.
Sussex bent Gloucestershire at
Leicestershiro ant! Worcester- shiro drew at Stourbridge. wickshire at Northampton by Northamptonshiro beat War-
four wickets.
London, June 12, 2,15 p. Received, 13, 1.10 am. The death is reported from the Peace movement. Paris of M. Presy, a pioneer in
it would have necessitated the PEACE ADVOCATE DEAD, withdrawal of so many of the police protecting the envoys that that work would have been almost completely stopped, there would have been bloodshed and a con- pleto sacrifice of the public inter- est: The police ought not to he withdrawn to protect such mou under such circumstances. Ju Justification of his action he pointed to the result-London in
REPUBLICAN CHINA.
the midst of a strike lasting for ILL-TREATMENT RESENTED weoks and still peaceful, without
a rise in the price of food, or the use of exceptional means of pro- tection.
VOTE REJECTED.
The vote was eventually noga- tived by 337 votes to 200.
27.
SIR RUFUS ISAACS.
UNIQUE APPOINTMENT. ;
Mr. Chamberlain acknowledged that dissatisfied workmon' were entitled to strike, but claimed that the satisfied work man hid ̃an equal right to work. Mr. McKenna's attitude and stato- ment were so grave, and novel, and wore fraught with such serious consequences for the in-Isaacs, Attorney General, to a dustrial future, that the mattor could not be left where it was,
A REMINDER.
London, June 12. Received 7.10 p.m.
Telograins from Lhasan show the situation to be more or less unchanged. The Chines are
The Government, ho snil, was again making overtures for peaco, prepared to call out the trumps in but the Tibetans give no encour-Belfast when they were wanted to agemont. Fighting continues.
AVIATION DISASTER.
U.S. OFFICERS KILLED,
London, June 12. Received, 7.10 p.in:
protect the right of free speech, and they were at least equally bound to protect, the right to work. Mr. McKenna WOR arrogating to himself a dispersing and discriminating power having no basis in law or justice.
MR. MCKENNA'S DENIAL.
Mr. McKonna's stated that thoro had been more labour protected during the
present strike, without the summoning of soldiers and the breaking of heads, then ever before. He denied that. men wishing to work had beon prevented from doing so.
London, June 12, 4 nm. Received, 4.55 p.m.
The appointment of Sir Rufus
seat in the Cabiaot is unique.
(From Chinese Sources.)
Tcking, June 12.
The Central Government has | decided to despatch commissioners to investigate into the alleged ill-treatment of Chinose in Manilo and Java.
MILITARY ADVISOR, - Provident Yuan has ongaged Mr. Wong Chu chuong as advisor in military affairs.
Router's [Service to the Telegraph.").
London, June, 12, 1.15 a.m. Pradeepa Rocoivall, 5.50 p.m.
三十月六典港香
TELEGRAMS.
THE CABINET CHANGES.
MORE POSSIBLE.
Reuter's [Service to the "Telegraph.
London, June 12`p.m.
Received, 7.10 p.m. - 、
In the aviation raco from
Colonel Seely's appointment Berlin to Vienna there were as Secretary of State for War is seven starters. A German com- not yet officially confirmed. petitor named Hirth, wasthe only one to finish, doing the 400 miles
in 336 minute.
THE TRIPOLI WAR.
AWFUL LOSSES.
London, June 12, 4.15 am.
there may be a further shulling The "Daily News" says that of portfolios.
GERMANY BEWILDERED.
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SINGLE COPY. 10. Quar,
NEWS FOR BUSY MEN.
Telegrams.
The appointment of Ool: Seely as Minister for War is now off- cially announced.
The national strike is proving a failure, most of the big porta being normal and London being far busier than for some time past
A huge demonstration of Welsh Churchmen was held at the Albert Ball yesterday, when Mr. Bonar Law moved a resolution, which was carried with enthu- to submit the Welsh Disestablish- siasm, calling on the Government
ment Bill to the country.
England, won tho Test Match against South Africa by an in- The German Press is bowilder-nings and 62 rups. ad. Thoir comments on Lord Hal- dane are based on the cherished theory that his mission in tho Cabinet was to effect nu Anglo- German understanding. The
Yorkshire drew their match with the Australians.
Fence movement, is dead.
M. Passy, a pioneer in the
Received, 5.50 pm.papers are unable to decide The German Press are unable
to decide whether Lord Halane's
A message from Constantinople whether this appointment, syu- says that the Turkish commander chronising as it docs with the new appointment augura for good at Tripoli reports that the fighting arrival of Baron von Bieberstein, or evil so far as Anglo-Germanre at Zanzur was desperate. Tho as the now Minister to London, is lations are concerned. Turks were compelled to retire an evil or a good augury for An- Two American Army lieutan-". in face of overwhelming odds, glo-German relatione, some ex-ante have been killed while flying losing 100 killed and 300 wounded, pressing the opinion that Lord at the Army Aviation School in He asserts that over 1,000 Italians Haldane has been sholved to the Maryland.
detriment of Barou von Biebor- stein's chances of success.
were killed.
OBITUARY.
SIR A. J. OTWAY,
Loudon, June 12, 4 a.m. Received, 4.55 „Pasis. Tho. death is announced of the Right Hon. Sir Arthur John Otway, who was Deputy Speakor of the House of Commons from 1883 to 1885.
OFFICIAL.
Lator,
Colonial Seely's appointmen to the War Offico is now officially
announced:
THE HOME RULE BILL.
London, Juno 12, a.m..
So far President Taft has secur- ed 106 delegates to the Republican Convention, and Mr. Roosevelt
none.
The situation at Lhassa is unchanged. Fighting still con- tinues.
flown from Berlin to Vienna, a die- The Gorman aviator Hirth hiss
Lance of 400 miles, in 330 minutes,
Turkish accounts of the battle of Zanzur state that the Italians lost over a thousand killed; the Turkish casualties are returned at 100 killed and 300 wounded.
The vote of consure on Mr. Mo Kanna in connection with his free. labour declaration was negatived in the House of Commons by 337 votes to 200.
DEARER QUININE,
Received, 4.55 p.m. During the last few wooks, says
The first day on the committee the "China Prosa," the price of stage of the Home Rulo Bill has quinino has ingrossed, by about resulted in but little progresa, 30 per cent., after romaining The day was mostly devoted to stationary for many years. The the debate of an amendment pro- increase in price is due to the posed by the Hon. Mr. Agar reduced quantity of cinchona Rebartes, Liberal M.P. for St. bark (the raw material from Austell, retaining four Ulster The President, the Cabinet which it is extracted) shipped counties within the United King-employed in a salt fish shop at Ministers and the Vice-Ministers from Juva to Europe, and there domi.
NO SALARIES.
LOCAL.
Four Chinese wore fined this morning for assaulting a foki
Market Street, Sam-sui-po. Plain- tiff alleged that he was working
of the various Departments have are rumours that the reduced ship- The debate was sometimes of a not drawa their salaries. Only ments are due to an understand heated character, presaging in the shop when two men rush- the officials of the lower ranking which bas boon arrived at stormy future.
have received a portion of their allowances." Shit Po,"
NAVAL SCHOOLS.·'
Shanghai, June 12.
It is announced that it is
The Central Government in tonds to establish elementary entirely personal, and is not in-naval schools in Canton, Foochow teuded as a precedent.
Shanghai, Hankow, Ningpo and Nowohwang.
GENL. SIR G. WHITE.
London, June 12, 4 «m. Received, 4.55 p.m.
General Sir George White V.C., is slightly botter.
THE PRESIDENTIAL CONTEST.
REPRESENTATIVE. The Chinese residents in Java inve elected Choir Sum Yung to represent them on the State Council.
between the growers of bark in the Dutch West Indies, on which the world is mainly dependent for its supply.
BRITISH NEW GUINEA.
CANTON NEWS.
Manila Chinese Complaint.
(The "Telegraph Correspondent.)
ed in, knocked him down, and hit him with bamboo poles. They mistook him for some-one else.
This morning, at the Police Court, before Mr. Melbourne, a Chinose was charged with wrong. fully applying a trade mark to goods, with intent to deceive.
CLOTH FROM SEAWEED.
Canton, June 12. Mr. Cheh Man-kin, compradore The death took place last night, Interviewed, on his landing at to A. I. Marty, of Hongkong, and at the Government Civil Hospital, Sydney, by an "Evening News" other members of the Labour and of Mr. John Byron Scott, who for. reporter, Judge Murray, the Go- Commercial Bureau formed by thirty-four years had been con JAPANESE VISIT.
vernor of British New Guinea natives of the Pu U district re-tinuously in the employ of Baid "I am doing my best to get sidont in Hongkong, have peti-Messrs. A. S. Watson and Co., The members of the State as much of Papua under Govern- tioned the Governor-General that Ltd., as the firm's harbour repre Council will hold a banquet atment control as possible, to pre-representations should be made sentative, the Zoological Gardens in Poking vent conflicts and bloodshed by to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs The case in which five men are in honour of the Japanese mom- the natives. Just before I left, in Peking with a view to obtain charged with ormed robbery and bers of Parliament who are on a I established a new stationing an explanation from the murder on the Pokfulum Road visit to Peking.
at Gooribari Island, which American Minister as to the harsh has been adjourned until Monday. came into prominence some time treatment meted out to Chinese JAVA'B
ago by the murder of a man entering Manila. The Governor- that cases arising out of the re- We are given to understand named Chalmers there.. A ma-General has acceded to the request, contly-issued regulations regard gistrate, with a white assistant and telegraphed to Peking asking ing the motor car traffic and the and 20 native police, was put for the removal of the restrictions closing of certain roads are to be there. Now wo have about half
Second Rising Peared. heard at the Police Court to- NANKING TROOPS.
the territory under Government Of late there have been con-morrow. control, so things must remain stant rumours of a second rising Vice-President Li Yuan-heng quiol, as where there is Govern in Canton in opposition, to the and Ching Tak-chuen, Governor ment supervision tribal warfare Provisional Government, and as a General of Kiangsu, have jointly will be completely checked. Right result considerable alarm is being telegraphed to President Yuan inland, however, there are tribal felt by rosidents. Fearing the A method has been recently Mr. McKonno said that there ROOSEVELT'S HOT WORDS. asking him to despatch Wong troubles. were now 8,000 men working at
insuffioionicy of the Canton forces perfected in England for using Uhu-cheung to Nanking to re- the docks, und there would be no
"We estimate the white popu-in such an event, General Lung the fibre of the Posidonia Aus- organize the troops there."Shat lation at about 1,000; and trade has realled two regiments of his tralis, which is found in the work for more as long as the lightermen were out. The em-
iu sisal, hemp, rubber, and cocoa, own troops to Chaton from Ko- Southern seas; for making cloth. POSTS ABOLISHED. is flourishing. English and Aus- chow. These arrived yesterday. After the removal from the ployers at the docks were, indeed; notually discharging men.
Shanghai, June 12, tralian companies are now auo- Funds from Hongkong. soaweed of fragments of so The Central Government has cessfully established there, but of The Governor-General has been debris-some soedlike object and THE PURELLET CASE.,
The "Times" correspondent at decided to do away with the course all native labour is em-telegraphically informed that at a very minute shells the limp, Washington states that Mr. Tartar Generalsup and the ployed. The rubber plantations meeting of Cantonese morchants straggling fibre is soft, pliable With reference to the refusal to send police to Purfleet, he only Roosevelt, in an article in the Adjutant Tartar Generalship in are expected to give a good re- held in Hongkong all present pro- strong, much like wool in its required the local authorities in "Outlook", says the contest for the provincos Bai Kai Kung turn. The trees will be topped mised to give their support to the disposition to curl and twist, and A Chicago telegram states that show that the case was urgent Republican nomination is narrow-
soon, their four years' life having raising of a million dollars to meet easy to spin in its raw state. almost expired. Then we have the urgent needs of the Peking It, takes dye well, except with the Republican Committee con- because the Metropolitan Police ed to the issue as to whether we
RAILWAY CAPITAL tinues monotonously adding Taf- were barely able to meet the do will permit the triumph of a
gold mining on the Marua field, on Government. All classes of Chi-rospect to green, when the result tiles to the list of delegatos nu-mands in London, and he sug-system of naked fraud and theft
backton Peking, June 12,
Woodlark Leland. The reel, 350 nese in Hongkong are to be asked is urally cloudy. Also thorised to sit in the Convention.gested that if the situation were from the people.
The Government in Hunan ft deep, is now being operated to subscribe, and the Canton Bank, requires a mild, bleach, to avoid intends to devote à partion of the|on with good resulte," The total number so far la 100 otherwise they might obtain
Ltd., of Hongkong, has been ap making the fibre tender. The Other passages in the article taxes to the working capital of Taken all round," copoluded pointed agente for the collection cost of the finished fabric supporters of Mr. Taft, and none polis from Birmingham. This indicate the possibility of Mr. railways Bai Kai Kang Yak Judge Murray British Now of funds. These loans from the put on the market 62 inches wid sepporking Mr. Boundvelt. wan done.
Boorelt holung
Guidon is in good condition people will be repaid in two years in 6d, in 7d, par Tard.
A telegram from College Park, Maryland, USA, states that two Lieutenants in the Army, named Hazelhurat and Welsh, were killed while flying at the army aviation Bohool.
TAFT V. ROOSEVELT.
London, June 12. Received, 7.10 p.m.
ENOUGH WORKERS,
London, June 12, 4 a.m.
Received, 4.55 p.m."
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