The Hongkong Telegraph.
December 5th, 1912, Temperature a. 50, p. 68; Bumidity...68, 56.
No. 8962
TELEGRAMS.
聯八廿月十年子壬
TELEGRAMS.
THE WAR.
ATTITUDE OF GREECE.
IMPERIAL DEFENCE.
CANADA'S NOBLE GIFT.
Renter's
[Service to the Telegraph."],
war.
London, December 5.
ABULGARIA ANNOYED..
Reuter's
[Service to the "Tolograph."]
London, December 5.
(ESTABLISHED 1881.) Copyright, 1912 by
Proprietor.
FRIDAY,
TELEGRAMS.
THE CHINESE REPUBLIC.
TANG TO VISIT HONGKONG,
DECEMBER
TELEGRAMS.
THE REFERENDUM.
UNIONIST TACTICS,
Reuter's
[Service to the "Telegraph."]
London, December 5, Lord Landsdowne, speaking at a Unionist demonstration in Lon-
TELEGRAMS.
WEATHER FORECAST
FAIR
Barometer 30.19 -
§886 PËR ATBAL
Bixazz Cort-10-Okkar
NEWS FOR BUSY MEN,
December 6th, 1911, Temperature a.m. 71. p.m., 70, Humidity...80, 80.
五洋歳
戴六月二十英港香
TELEGRAMS.
A NEW OFFENCE.
NO AUXILIARY WIRELESS.
MIDDLEWEIGHT CHAMPION.
Reuter's [Service to the "Telegraph."]
London, December 5. Router's Boston correspondent telegrapha that Captain. Hall, of
BOXING.
Router's
[Service to the." Telegraph."]
London; December 5. Reuter's correspondent at Paris
TELEGRAMS.
THE NEWS "CONDENSED,
The Grecian attitude bas ex oited annoyance in official cirolea in Bulgaria.
In Belgrade the armistice is welcomed, as it is believed that:: Servian aspirations will be ful- filled.
telegrapha that Papke beat The Austro-Servian outlook don, replied to Mr.. Asquith's the steamer Numidian," has Bernard in the seventh ronnil for is regarded as more favourable oriticisms and declared that the been arrested for alleged violation the middleweight championship than hitherto pledge to submit Teriff Reform to of the Wireless Telegraphy. Act of the world. the referendum, at the last eles on the ground that his vessel did tion, was conditional on a similar not possess an auxiliory equip pledge being given with regard ment sufficient to transmit mess to Home Rule, The Unionists, ages 100 miles. after careful consideration, had decided that that pledge cannot.
forendum for Tariff Reform only. would be unfair to use the re
(From Chinese Sources.]
Shanghai, December 5. Ex-Premier Tang Shao-yi left It is officially announced at Beuter's correspondent.at Otto-Tientsin for Hongkong to-day on Athens that most friendly relawn wires that Mr. Bordon, the his way back to Heungshan, hia tions have not ceased to exist Premier, has introduced a Billuative country. between the Allies, and confidence into the Doininion Parliament for A NEW ATTITUDE. is expressed that the pourparters increasing the effective naval Hung Hsi-ling is severely which have begun between the forces of the Empire. By the criticised by the press for his Allies regarding torms of peace Bill it is proposed that Canada action in opposing the raising of will result in a common resoln-shall give a sum of seven millions foreign loans. tion to achieve the objects of the sterling to His Majesty the King JAPANESE AFFAIRS.
for three. Dreadnoughts, to be
The Chinese Cabinet has tele- built in Britain and be placed at the disposal of the Admiralty for graphed to the Chinese Minister hold, the field all the time. It the common defence of the Em-into the alleged resignation of at Tokyo asking him to enquire A Sofia telegram says the piro.
the Minister of War, who is re attitude of Greece extities annoy. Mr. Borden laid emphasis on ported to have differed with the ance in official circles and arouses the point that the great outstand Premier over the question of in- apprehensions of future difficulties ing fact in the present position of creasing the strength of the among the Allies,
It is under-saval power was that twelve years Japanese forces in Korea, stood in Sofia that Greece has not ago. the British Navy and flag signed the Armstice because she wore predominant in every ocean desired to annex some islands in in the world, whereas to-day they the Aegean Sea.
were predominant nowhore except in the North Son. He considered that the situation was aufliciently grave for Canada to give the Mother Country immediato aid. Mr. Bordon read a long Memoran-
LEAGWE PRACTICALLY
EXPLODED.
Opinion in Vienon is that the Balkan League has practically exploded before the division of the booty, due chiefly to the Greece-Bulgarian rivaliy for the possession of Salonika,
TURKISH BELIEFS.
dumby Mr. Churchill stating with careful comparisons relative
RÚSSIA AND CHINA. Russia will despatch # plani. potentiary to China to conduct negotiations with the Chinese Government on diplomatic affaire concerning Russia and China.- "Shat Po.'
YUNNAN FEELING. '
Yunnan, December 5. The people in Yunnan are
CAPTAIN HARDER'S
sudden death.
SIR C. CLEMENTI SMITH.
It is announced in Athens that A life-sized portrait of Sir most friendly relations have Cecil Clement Saiith, G. C. M. G. not ceased to exist between the has been placed in the Hall of the Allies,
The tragically sudden death Mercers' Company, Cheapside. took place yesterday afternoon of To Sir Cecil is thus paid the
In Paris, Papke beat Bernard Capt. Harder of the s.8. Liang same tribute as accorded to in the seventh round for the Chow, who arrived at the Hong his fellow Mercer, the Earl of Middle-weight Championship of koug Hotel only a very short time Selborne, likewise for a bril the World. before his death. We learn thou liant Colonial record, says the
HEAVY WEATHER.
Caledonien in a Typhoon,
shortly after bis arrival he went. & C. Express." The artist. It is understood that Greece The French Mail .e. Caledon-to see his doctor who, after exam-Mr. R. G. Even, has depleted did not sign the armistice because en has had a hard battering by ining him, told him to go home to Sir Cecil in the robes of the Or- she desired to annex come islande
Ho went to his room dor, seated, and with his face in the Aegean Sea. the sea prior to her arrival in bed at once. Hongkong early to-day. at the Hotel with his wife when turned three-quarters, and the
In an interview with a repre- sentative of the Hongkong" Tele. graph" on board, her Captain anid
"
was sent for, but before
we
The London papers comment on the sensitiveness of the Russian
and French press on the sabject of the German Chancellor's re- cent speech.
he suddenly collapsed. A doctor likeness is exceptionally in- Lord Lansdowne has declared. Incisive and Charnoterislio. Sir that, the Unionist pledge to sub- arrived, Capt Harder died, death Cecil Clementi Smith, after a not-mit Tariff Reform to the Referen- being due, it is said, to hearable career at Paul's School and dum cannot hold the field for all and Germany and also that of gotian affair and are determined off Cape Padaran, and when we to the naval strength of Britain greatly irritated over the Mon- "A typhoon was signalled to us failure. The deceased gentleman, Corpus Christi, Cambridge, was are informed, niso suffered elected one of the first student other Powers, that Britain at pre-to despatch troops on an expedi-were to the South of the Paracels, from asthma.
interpretere for Hongkong. He sent possessis 18 Dreadnought tion. into Mongolia, Li King the full weight of the gale strack
Captain Harder, who was 62 remained there until he he battleship cruisers, against 10
years of age, had been for many came Colonial Treasurer. After owned by the other Powers, while, the leader of the Republi
On the second of December, at rears connected with the China warda transferred to the Straits in 1915 the figures will bo 35 to can Society in Yunnan, is on his 51 rospectively.
way to Peking in connection with 10 a.m. it blew a terrific gate from Navigation Company on their Settlements, he was given the this matter." Shat Po."
of Colonial s the N.N.W., and the seas were Northern run., He leaves behind post
Secretary, CHINO-AMERICAN ALLIANCE.Ruch as I have never seen before, a wife and a young daughter both and nine years later was appoint-
Greek gunboats have bombard- Shanghai, December 5. On the third and fourth of Decem-of whom arrived in the colony oned Governor. In the meantime
ber the same weather continued, Dec. 4. The occasion of the de- he had noted as Lieut-Governor ed Valona, but have withdrawn Dr. Wu Ting-fang has accepted and I reduced my ship's speed to censed gentleman's visit to Hong and Colonial Secretary at Cey on a protest from the President the appointment plenipotentiary to Amerios, in one quarter of her power. Then kong was to enable his ship to lon. Sir Cecil is a great authority of the Albanian Provisional order to form an alliance between it began to rain. It not only undergo her annual inspection and on matters connected with the Government. America and Chion. Dr. Wu will wh with the sens, washing generally well known on the coast Rev. John Smith, Rector of overhanlat Taikoo Dook. He was Far East. His father was the rained, but it literally poured!! shortly proceed to Peking.
clean over us, and the rain com run and was popular among aen-Buckhurst Hill, Essex, and his ing down in sheets, we were faring men,
mother a daughter of Clementi, thoroughly soaked!
Seen to-day by a representative the well-known composer.
The only condition of the armistice mentioned in the officia!! announcement in Constantinople A UNITED EMPIRE. is that the troops remain in their
In the Memorandum which Mr. present position, but it is believed Borden reid, Mr. Churchill there that the Turks will be added:-"Any action by Cannila allowed to provision Adrianople to increase the power and mobili and Scatari daily.
ty of the Navy, thus widening the margin of our community will be recognised every were A most significant witness To the united strength of the Empire and a renewed resolve by the maintaining its integrity." Dominions to take their part in
;
GREEK BOMBARDMENT.
Rauter's correspondentat Rome telegraphs that two Greek gun
bonts bombarded
Albanis, thoshells falling between the Italian and the Austrian Con- sulates. The Grooks withdrow on a protest from Ismail Koinal. President of the Provisional Albanian Government.
SERVIA CONFIDENT.
The armistice is welcomed in Belgrade, which is convinced that the Servinnspirations will be fulfilled. The Austro-Servian outlook is regarded as being more favourable than hitherto.
"AN ABSOLUTE
SCANDAL
"3
FIRST BRITISH MINISTER
TO JAPAN.
IN
Chinese
SALT COMMISSIONERS. President Yuna has appointed La Ping-cheung as 'Salt Com missioner for Kwangtung and Kwangsi, Chang Hu an. Sal Commissioner in Chekiang and Kiangsu and Ng Ngor-bo as Salt Commissioners for Fukien."Sai Kai Kung Yik Po."
SUCCESSFUL SEARCH.
Proceeds of Robbery Found."
"I estimated," the shipper of the Hongkong "Telegraph" Mr went on, that we were about Stewart of the China Navigation 250 miles from the centre of the Company expressed, his personal typhoon when we experienced regret and that of his company at the worst, weather, and I think the death of Capt Harder, who that we have done very well to be had served the company for more
than twenty years. only thirty hours late.
a storia,"
Wharves.
ADJOURNED AGAIN.
a
A FREAK OF NATURE.
Through the courtesy of Mr. F. P. Soares we have been given sight of an exceedingly wonder
Ball-Firing From A Biplane.
Canada is to give seven millions sterling for three Dreadnoughts to be placed at the disposal of the Admiralty for the common de fence of the Empire.
Capt. Hall; "of the steamer Numidian, has been arrested in Boston for an alleged violation of Actual firing with ball am the Wireless Aot as his ship did, munition from a quick-firing gun not possess an auxiliary equip mounted in a biplane took placement. last month at Ash Ranges, near Aldershot, Mr Geoffrey de Havi- land was the pilot and Mr Wilson the gunner, both of the Royal Aircraft Factory at Farnborough. Three specially prepared targets
LOCAL.
The Caledonien had a rough
ful freak of nature. It is a species had been constructed, and shote passage on her way north from
of potato or yam, dug up from were directed from the biplane
Saigon.
An interview with Bishop
We publish to-day an interest-
the ground in the New Territories, from heights of 2,000ft, and over. It has quite naturally taken the Two of the targets were flat on form of a gorilla in miniature. It the ground and the other in a Pozzoni appears in to-day's is some ten inches or a foot in slanting position. Several bullets paper. height, and is absolutely perfect penetrated the canvas of the tar- in proportion, and, moreover, gets, which were 30ft. by 10ft. every limb and feature is thar- One of the features of the flying interview with Mr. E. J. oughly pronounced. The going-gun operations is that the pilot Haberer, a journalist of Manila, on rilla" is in a sitting posture, and gets behind the gunner, who Philippine affate. its likeness to nature is all the signals when he is to discharge a more emphasised by the fact that volley, and being able to time his the form is covered with a fibrous movements, prevents undue oscil. growth having all the appearance lation. Other flying-gun biplanes of a hairy coat.
are in course of construction at the The freak is now being exhibit-factory.
Balaclava Survivors,
Navigation Company, died sud- Captain Harder, of the Chius denly at the Hongkong Hotel yesterday afternoon.
The ship laboured badly," the skipper added," and at3 p.m on the 4th December (quoting Discovery of a Monument.
from his log) the seas were eo great that the engines raced bad- According to the "Jiji" n tono monument in honour of the
ly. Enormous seas came straight away over the bridge itself, and late Sir Rutherford Alcook, the
we were fortunate in that no first British Minister to Japan. On October 10th a theft was serious damage was done. was discovered at Atami, the committed at Stonehenge, 5
"The average wind was N N.E, THE CHANCELLOR'S SPEECH- well-known hot aprings, Robinaon Road, the residence of and very heavy, but the glass Mr. D. Hashimoto, proprietor the Manager of the Nippon Yusen The London newapa pera gener- of the Takasagoya Hotel in tha Kaisha, and, there was stolen was remarkably steady for so bad ally comment on the sensitiveness place in November, 1911. On jewellery to the value of $1,850. The ship looks as though she of the French and Russian press the monument is an inscription The polico immediately commenc had had a sea-handling, but she regarding Herr Bethmann von in Japanese stating that Sired to investigate the matter, and steams again to-night, after hav. Hollweg's apaach. They affirm Rutherford on July 18th, 1880, $1,100 worth of the stolen proper- shat Great Britain is as loyal as left. Yedo, or Tokyo, on lave and ty has been found in a dealer's coaled at the Kowloon ever to the Entente,
ascended Mt. Fuji on to 26th of shop in Queen's Road Central, that month and visited Atami on where the stolen goods had been the 20th of the same month purchased in good faith. It is The monument; which is of alleged that one of the theives natural stone, measures about was in the employ of the manager four. feet in height and stands of the Nippon Yusen Kaisha, 18 on a stong basement, about three a cook, and that he is now under.' The case of alleged forgeded in Messrs. Graca's shop win- feet high, being thickly covered going a cantence of six months power of attorney.which has been dow, in Pedder Street, and is, we with moss. Mr. Hashimoto at imprisonment. It is also stated before the magestrate on several understand, for sale. once reported the matter to the that an order for him to be de- occasions, was again brought In calling attention to the dan Tokyo Foreign Office and the tained in the stacks for four hours before Mr. O, D. Melbourne, this geroas condition in which H.M.S. British Embassy in Tokyo, but was also made against him. afternoon.
Toroh " was permitted to go to
The CASO Woa eventually 885, Major Archer Skee, M.P., no notice whatever was taken
authorities by the drew from the First Lord the ad time. Sir Claude Macdonald, at the
adjourned.
This morning in the Marine eighth anniversary banquet at mission that "the Sydney dook the retiring British
Magistrate's Court, before Com-the Holborn Restaurant, London, Wireless for the Army. yard authorities had failed to bassador in Tokyo, on being in-
Am BAD WEATHER OUTSIDE
mander Basil R.N., of the survivors The committe recently appoin- for Boy oylar, sed in three attended the banquet last year. The rush to Australia continues, carry out the periodical survey formed of this extraordinary and the extent of her deteriora discovery later; started investiga-
ted by the Secretary for War to cases where boat people were but only nine of them were pre-says the Daily Mail." The Steamers coming into port have consider wireless telegraphy in found carrying persona in exoese sent last week. Hale and hearty applications received at the Gov- tion was not fully appreciated." tions regarding the matter, when experienced very bad weather, as the Army, held its first meeting at of the number allowed by their look the nine veterans, the oldest ernment offices of Queensland, This sort of failing must be! it was ascertained that the monu- the following reports will the War Office on October 31 [ficances..
of whom was eighty-eight and Victoria, and New South Wales chronic in that quarter. More ment in question is a genuine one. show than once attention has boon Thereupon the Ambassador sont a
The members are Sir Henry Nor· Ten boatpeople, charged with the youngest seventy-nine. The for assisted passages are still Pitsanulok, from Bangkok: Off man, M.P. (chairman), Colonel disobeying the lawful orders, of company stood in silence to hon- greatly in excess of the number drawn by. "Truth" to the want letter of appreciation to the is the Paracels encountered a heavy R.D Whigham, DSO, of the the Harbourmaster by anchoring our the toast. The Memory of of people who can be sent out of proper maintenance of our coverer for the trouble he hid typhoon, from thence strong N. General Staff; Commander A.E to the west of Proserpine Rooks, the Dead," and two buglers Queensland, which received 12, craisers on the Australian station. taken in discovering the monu- E monsoon with high seas. Silvertop, R.N., of his Majesty's were fined $5 each.
standing at the head of the table 863 emigrants last year, has been The case of the Prometheus wis an absolute scandal, it says, and ment, which had stood there Beneleuch, from Singapore: ship Verno: Major R.HH. Boys Wong Kam Shai, who failed to sounded "The Last Post." The seriously handicapped by the the Cambrinn, sent to her assis notion for a half contury, Experience etrang NW and D.S.O., RE, of the Department of oarry the regulation lights while King sent his best wishes for a shortage of boats. This tance when she finally pegged of the local people, is now plan-
Mr. Hashimoto, with the support N.E. winds and high N.E. well. Fortifications and Works, Lient under way in Violbria Harbour, anccessful evening, and a cheer- the 6,000 who have thu
Lord Darby, from Manila Colonel Hippisley, of the Ter had to pay $10.
ing telegram was received from to Queensland more out, proved, in little better plightning measures to preserve the Heavy NE winds and sen, no-ritorial Force Mr E. Russell For unlawfully anchoring, the Countess of Cardigan, the emigrants were sele
now back in Eng historical relis. The paper adds companied by heavy rain. Clarke, of the Inner Temple and within 100 yards of low score widow of the leader of the famous frienda. land, preparing to relieve the historie taliterford Rock awaatorio, Probe za Stronz Caplain of M. Henley, or the Gone marke til prostbited would but charge of the banquet was an cut be Pandora at the Cape, was per- In Tokyo when Is Kamonno northerly gales with high sentral Staff (secretary). The proces during prohibited hours, thres of the Balkolava Survivors Rellet Renta mitted to degererate into blame kami was assassinated outside the Teo Bal, from Tamsul Heavy ings of the committee are cou bostmen were aned 5.85 and Fund arm duck whilst in Australian waters. Bakarade este by the Mitéoroning i N.3) nieras till the sta
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idential,
BOAT PEOPLE FINED,
Judgment on the point of law "There are very few of us left raised by Mr. F. O, Jenkin in the to answor the roll call," said Mr. Canton murder trial, as to the W.H. Pennington, of the 11th Jurisdiction of the court to try. Hussare, one of the survivors of the case, will be given on Monday the Balaclava Charge, at the fifty-
Crowded Ships for Australia.