The Hongkong Telegraph.
August 18th, 1912, Temperaturo a.m. 80, p.m. 87; Humidity...... 03, 68,
No. 8868
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AUGUST 19,
MONDAY,
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THE MIKADO'S FUNERAL.
AUSTRIA'S REPRESENTATIVE.
MR. FISHER SPEAKS.
A STRAIGHT HINT,
THE BALKAN CRISIS.
'AUSTRIA'S' ACTION. ·
TURKEY & MONTENEGRO.
A CHRISTIAN RISING.
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been selected as the Labour Tokyo will represent the Emperor Loudon, August 10.
at the funeral of the Into Mikado: candidate at Midlothian. London, August 17, · Router's Melbourne correspon- The invitation of Count Barch A Reuter's message from Cet M. Poincare having returned states that the Hon. Mr. told's (Austro-Hungarian Foreign tinje states that the Christians to France, an official communique Andrew Fisher, in the course of Minister) to the Powers to ex-bavo rison in the Turkish district has been issued at St. Petersburg
speech, said, while not desiring change views on the Balkan of Berane, seized two villages stating that the result of the con- have been arrested for alleged force of Albanians.entering the In Shanghai three foreigners Uskub, Turkoy, through a largo town. The versations between the two Gov-armed highway robberies, down, pillaging and releasing would not stand by and allow any The inspired Austrian Pross is Turkish roops of His Majesty's Dominions to careful to explain that interven-nonading the Christian villages, plete agreement. The ties uniting suffer disabilities or injuries with- tion in the affairs of Turkey if The Christians thorenpon attack-them were never stronger. Thoy out being with them in the strife. not conteinplated. Austria more-ed and razed three Turkish block-recognised that the entanto con-
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London, August 18. Router's Vienna correspondent statos that the Austrian Ambassadent dor at Tokyo (Baron Call zu Rosenburg and Culmbach) will at the funeral of the late Mikado,
represent H. M. Francis Josoph to injura anybody, Australia question, is much commented on. and plundered lied, can-ornments re-affirmed thoir com-
TROUBLED TURKEY.
ALBANIAN ONSLAUGHT.
London, August 18.
A panic has been created in
Uskub, Turkey, which has been
NICARAGUA.
FIERCE FIGHTING.
London, August 1i). Router's Now York corren-
Captain Couverio, the Portuga
ly wants to assist Turkey to carry houses on the Montenegrin bor-secrated an unchanging foaling ose Royalist Jeader, has become
ut her desire to conciliate thoder.
and can progressively be adopted various nationalities and to con- Fighting near Borane conto all necessities which can be thoroughly discouraged and has vince the latter of the necessity tinued day and night with heavy foresoon. The Alliance remains
resigned his command.. for facilitating the task of casualtios. The Turks threaten a precious guaranteo of this ponco | appongement
to exterrainate the whole of the and equilibrium of Europe. The European Press genorally Servian and Christian population cautiously approves of the sug-in the revolted district. gestion.
Later.
entered by a large force of pondent says dosperate fighting the point that thore is no idea of Albanians, who are pillaging and is taken place at Managua, in releasing prisoners. They now the Nicaragua, Republic, wherein threaten to march in Salonika, the Government forces sustained 150 usualties and the Itevol»-
Three thoumnd are reported to have reached Kiuprili.
TURKISH POLITICS.
A GOVERNMENT APPEAL.
London, Augu1t 18. ́
A message from Coustantinople states that the Government has
issued a communique which says
tionaries 400.
There is a considerable force of Americau taurinos in Managua.
AUSTRIAN EMPEROR'S
BIRTHDAY.
A BISHOP STABBED
London, August 19, Heuter's Vienna corresponden. says there were brilliant relobras that the period of revolution ions of the birthday of Emperor innagurated in 1908 must be Francis Joseph, but they were onded and that evolution be married by the act of a lunatic, bogun. It emphasises a desire who stabbed the Suffragan Bishop to pursue a policy of conciliation. of Vienna while the latter was
proceeding to the Cathedral in his canonicals to colebrate the Moga,
IMPERIAL ORGANISA-
TION.
MR. BORDENS BELIEF.
Jøndon, August 18. Mrs. Borden, wife of the Priine Minister of Canada, Inuochod at
The wound was a serious one. but the Bishop's condition is not dangerous.
MIDLOTHIAN,
THE LABOUR CANDIDATE.
London, August 18. Glasgow the steamship Niagara, has been adopted as the Labour Provost Brown, of Dalkeith,
built for the Canadian-Australian service.
Mr. Borden, in a speech, sid
the launch marked another stage
of development between Canhela
candidate for Midlothian.
SITUATION ALARMING.
Lator.
at
Reuter's correspondent Cetinje wires that reports show the situation on the Montenegrin frontier to be alarming.
The Austrian Press emphasises
summoning a. European con- feronco. Conversations will be conducted by the Ambassadora.
Some European newspapera attribute the invitation to a desiro to anticipate the notion of Russia district are continuing, and tho as a result of the conversations at frontior is crowded with refugees." St. Petersburg, and my it is A general stato of excitement significant that Count Berchtold
prevails.
The massacres in the Bernno
Thero is grant auxioty in France regarding the situation in South Morocco owing to the ac- THE CHINESE REPUBLIC.tivity of the Pretender, El Hiba
CONSPIRATORS' SHOT.
The Turkish Government has
isaued a communique omphasis ing its desire to pursue a policy of conciliatiou.
(From Chinese Sources.)
Peking, August 17. Vice-President Li had tolo- is returning to the European fold,
graphed to President Yuan that. Desperate fighting between Go- The Malissuri tribes are thres-Cheung Chun-wu and Fong Wai verament forces and revolutionar- which the late Count von tening Sentari. Acrenthal shumped.
lavo planned a rining against the ios has taken place at Managua, Provincial Government of Tupoh, in the Republic of Nicaragua. and that thore is substantial {evidence against them. He naked
Later.
The Austro-Hungarian Press
to ensure
TERRIBLE REPORTS,
continues to emphasise that the TURKISH EARTHQUAKE, the President to diave them nrrege- has been no suggestion that-the Powers should interveno in Turkey's alluirs, but only 'n dosire tranquility in the Balkans till, the new Turkish Government has been given full opportunity to meet the demands of the various nationalities in the Turkish Empire. At the same time the Powers will give pacifi-pondent states that the American entory advies to the Balkan States, guardship Scorpion, having re-
MINISTER DECORATED.
London, August 18.. has decorated Count Berchtold The Eniperor Francia Josopla with the Order of the Goldon Fleeco.
TURKEY SURPRISED.
London, August 17. Reuter's Constantinople corres
turnod to the scene of the earth- quake, reports that affairs are much worse than the estimates killed and at least 6,000 injured. indicated. Over 3,000 have been
It is almost impossible to up proach some of the villages owing to the stench from the bodies.
ed at Peking and put to death. During the Ulster demonstra President Yuan at once destions next month the Loyalista patched officers to arrest the two will attend a special religious conspirators and on the night of service and take u pledge and the 15th inst. the contents of the solemn covenant. telegram from Vice-President Li were road to them and they were shot, Thirteen of their followers trial.Shat Po." were conveyed back to Huppb for
RUSSIA'S. WARNING.
Shanghai, August 18. The Russian Minister at Peking Obines Government against the is reported to have warned the
despatch of Chinese forces to Outer Mongolia.
HOPES OF UNITY.
After heavy fighting, the Italian forces have occupied an import ant group of heights in order to cut of the supplies of the enemy from the Tunisian frontier.
A panio has been created in
prisoners.
earthquake show that over 3,000 Reports concerning the Turkish have been killed and at loss. 6,000 injured. The distross in
acute.
he
Prosidant, Toft has stated that favours allowing foreign nations to test the question of the free passage of American slipe through the Panama Canal, in. the United States Courts.
It is reported from Constantin- ople that informal private pour- parlers have begun between new Turkish dologates and Italian representatives with a viow to discovering a basis for the con- clusion of ролсо,
LOCAL
Mr. Melbourne,. at the Polico this morning, offered the opinion that, in the matter of lying, Indians were better than Chinose.
A man named John Allon was sent to guol for one month with fhard labour, by Mr. E. A. Irving orderly manner at the Reforma |to-day, for beliaving in a die-
tory, Causeway Bay..
This morning, after the open- ing of the Criminal Sessions, the Chief Justice offered a welcome, to the courts of the Colony, to the An official communique issued Hon. Mr. J. A. S. Bucknill, the in St. Petersburg says that the New Attorney-General, alliance with France remains a precious gurantee for the peace and equilibrium of Europe.
Later.
Others are simply charred heaps, The Chinese expeditionary The tremors continue. Damaged forces to Tibet have won several Count Berchtold's action is re- houses are collapsing. In one battles and it is generally expoct
The Chairman of the Indo- garded as inexplicable in Cons-village visited, the people wore ed that the Tibetans and the
China Steam Navigation Com- tantinople, because there is no still stunned, not attempting to Mongolians will withdraw their
pany denies the rumour withi question of decentralisation in help themselves, and sitting about declarations of independence, and the Emperor of Austria were Company by the British India The birthday celebrations of regard to the purchase of the Macedonia or of autonomy for the in groups brooding over thoir unite with the Chinese Republic. marred by the act of a lunatic Steam Navigation Company. has agreed are in accordance The Oecumenical Patriarch has Albaniane, The demands of the misfortunes. The relief work is Albanians to which the Porte active.
THE PREMIER.
who stabbed the Suffragan Bishop Promior Lu has asked for leave of Vienna. The sufferer's con- with existing laws.
Further development of Counterbury making an appeal to object and is trying to pursuade
wired to the Archbishop of Can-with the intention of resigning.dition ie not dangerous.
President Yuan las learned his Borchtold's proposal are consi-British generosity.
hita to remain at his post. "Shat Po."
and the Colonies. Overseas people PORTUGUESE ROYALISTS dered improbable.
were throughly conscious of the great problems of organisation in the Empire awaiting solution, and ho was convinced that British statemnen were equal to the magnitude of the task.
PANAMA CANAL BILL.
London, Angust 17.
A telegram from Washington states that the Sonate, by 48 votes to 18, has adopted the Panama
Canal Bill, a modified by the
t
THE LEADER RESIGNS.
London, August 17. Router's Madrid correspondent telegraphs that Captain Couceiro, the Portugnose Royalist leader, has issued a manifesto in which he states that he is thoroughly discouraged and bna resigned the command of the Portuguero Royalists. He also states that any attempt ngainst the Porta- failure. Rue o Republio is doomed to
HOME CRICKET.
WEEK-END RESULTS.
London, August 17.
results:-
The following are latest cricket
Lator
The Kaiser hins contributed 10,000 marks to the fagd for the relief of sufferera by the earth- quako.
A MARK OF HONOUR.
Poking, August 18. Triumphal arches have been ers led in front of the railway slation at the Eastern Gate of the capital, preparatory to the wol- como of Dr. Sun Yat-sen and TURCO-ITALIAN WAR. Huang Heing "Sai Kai Kung
Yik Po."
'AN IMPORTANT MOVE.
Australians v. Gloucestershire, at Cheltenham. Drown.
South Africans v. Sussex, at! Brighton. Coloniale WON by four wickets.
Warwickshire v. Surrey, at
London, August 17, Birmingham. Drawa.
A telegram from Rome atates Lancashire v. Middlesex, at that the Italians advanced from Liverpool. Abandoned, pointloss. Zuaba with the object of occupy-
The master of the s.8. Glenroy reports that the wreck of a Ohineso junk, with the after There has bona Christian part above water, is lying in the rising in the Turkish distriot of direct track of large steamera Berane, resulting in heavy fight between Hongkong and Shanghai. ing.
The Turks throaten to exterminate-the-whole-of-the Servian and Christian population in the district.
A man who was sent to prison for six months this morning, for returning from banishment, alleg- ed that he was taken to the wharf.
Powers to participate in an ex-
Australia's invitation to the by a Chinese constable and left there. He had never loft the change of views regarding the Colony." Balkans has aroused much, com- Shanghai, August 18. ment... but the înspired Austrian The officials in Peking have press is careful to point out that entreated President Yuan to no intervention in Turkish affairs appoint Wan Chun-yao as High is contemplated. Commissioner to Tibat to pacify the Tibetans.
THE TIBETAN QUESTION.
At the invitation of Mr. J. Ajk“. Tarrant, secretary of Messrs. A. 8. Watson and Co., representa tives of the local press paid a visit on Saturday afternoon to the Despite warninge from the has been built at Shaukiwan "for new aerated water factory which HONOURING A CONSPIRA-
Tunginanghui political party and the firm. TOR'S MEMORY: President Yuan has granted a Sun Yat-sen has left Shanghai for pressure from his friends, Dr. ton. Abandoned, pointless, in order to out of the supplies of pension of $9,000 to the family Peking. There is much feeling
Yorks, Nott, at Harrogate, the enemy from the Tunisian of the late Chang Chung-wa, who over the execution of the two Kowloon nating in a suspicious A man who was found in Won by Yorks by an innings and frontier. They carried the pool has been shot for attempting a Generals at Peking and in some manner was arrested and charged 102 runs.
tion after a hard day's fighting, rising in Hupeh, and has allowed quarters the action is regarded as with being a rogue and vagabond. losing six killed and 08 wounded. the family of the deceased to bury the beginning of President Tuan He ploaded to-day at the Police Five officers were wounded, The him in accordance with ie Shih-kai's diotqtorship. Turkish lessos were heavy.
Conference of the Senate and the FRANCE'S NEW BURDEN. Hanis v. Easox. at Southamp-ing an important group of heighte House of Representatives.
PRESIDENT TAFT'S VIEWS.
Later.
TROUBLE IN MOROCCO.
ULSTER.
A SOLEMN PLEDGE.
military honours usually accorded to a general.
PEACE OVERTURES.
Later.
Court, that he was a stranger to the Colony: He was sent to gaol for 14 days.
London, August 17. Reuter's Washington corres Reuter's correspondent states pondent reports that the House of that there is considerable anxiety Representatives has ageead to the in France regarding the situation Conference report on the Panama in South Morocco, owing to the Canal Bill.
activity of the Pretender, El
JAPAN'S THANKS,
Mrs. Borden has launched at President Taft has informed Hiba. All the Europeans have
Wong Tai-shek, Chinese Minis Glasgow the steamship Niagare, callers at White House that he is left Marrakesh except the French
ter at Tokyo, has telegraphed to built for the Canadian-Australian
A man charged with kidnap not certain if he he could sign the Consul and Vice Consul. The
the Peking Government that the service. Mr. Borden took dooa- ping a boy was found guilty, at A message received from Reu- Japanese Government is very ion to deliver a speech, in which the Criminal Sessions, this morn Bill. The provision for free tolls task of the Resident-General
The programme of the Ulster ter's correspondent at Conetan- to American vessole, he says, is an arduous one, as this new Demonstrations, to be held in the tinople says it is understood that thankful to Obine for having he declared that he was convinced ing, and was sentenced to five would seriously embarrase the revolt is coming at a critical time latter part of September, show informal private pourparlors have despatched aspecial commissioner that British statesmen were equal years with hard bour, and United States. He favoured al- and the imposibility of dispatch that on September 28th the heen begun between new Turkish with Japan on the death of her eat problems of the organis Chief Justice expressed to
Express...) China's sympathy to the magnitude of solving the twenty strokes of the biroh. The lowing foreign natining to test the ing troops to repel El Hiba my Loyalists will attend a quecial delegates and Tallin representa pefor Fal Kai Kang Yi Salou of the Eupite which were that the tentenge would question in the United States delay the pacification of the religious service and take a dives in order to discover a pauls!
[whole country:
sblomu pledge and covenant, Tor Lus Conclusion of pašose
Couris
London, August 17.
Awiting solution,
deistrets to others.