The
Hongkong Telegraph.
December 9th, 1912, Temperature a.m. 59, p.in. 64; Humidity...74, 60.
No. 8965
TELEGRAMS.
巍二初月一十年子王
TELEGRAMS.
THE WAR.
THE RAILWAY STRIKE.
THE TÄRABOSH INCIDENT.
WILL IT SPREAD ?
Reuter's
[Service to the "Telegraph."]
London, December 9.
Reuter's
[Service to the Telegraph."]"
London, December 9.
(ESTABLISHED 18813) Copyright, 1912 by the prietor
TUESDAY,
TELEGRAMS.§.
LOAN TO CHINA.
A £25,000,000 PROPOSAL.
Router's
[Service to the "Telegraph."]
DECEMBER 10, 1912.
TELEGRAMS.
WEATHER FORECAST
FAIR
Barometer 30.28
December 9th, 1911, Temperature a.m. 70, p. 72 Humidity. 68, 70,
二拜祖
靛十月二十共港香
TELEGRAMS.
TELEGRAMS.
PANAMA PROTEST.
CALIFORNIANS' ADVICE.
Router's
BRITISH TRADE BOOM,
SOME REMARKABLE' FACTS.
Router's
THE OPIUM TRADE.
AN INDIAN PROTEST.
Reuter's [Service.to the "Telegraph."]
London, December 9.
The Indian Banks and mer- chants are making strong repre-
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NEWS FOR BUSY MEN.
TELEGRAMS.
THE NEWS CONDENSED..
The British Admiralty has pur- chased one German and one' Frenol dirigible airship."
Indian aukera and merchante
soutations to the India andre protesting against the Chiness Foreign Offices regarding the closing their ports to opium. closing of Chinese ports against opium.
[Service to the "Telegraph.""] [Service to the Telegraph."] London, December 9.
London, December 9.
Lindon, December 9, With reference to the Turkish Up to the present the 3,000. It is understood that the Router's correspondent at San The papers are, making a sortie at Tarabosh on the 6th men who came out on strike on British group in the Sextuple Francisco says that prominent special feature of the remarkable inst, it appears that a Moqtene- the North Eastern Railway have Loan Syndicate has been ex-Californian residents have peti-trade returns. grin officer, blindfolded, was con- received no accession to their tended by the incorporation of tioned President Taft, urging on Despite labour troubles, the dacted within the Turkish lines strength, but considerable auxiety Daring's, Schroider's, the London honourable settlement of the Bri- value of trade has not only in nd handed over a telegram from is nevertheless felt regarding to County and Westminster, the ish protest in regard to the Pans-creased by 894,000,000 in eleven Nazim Pasha announcing the day's developmonte.
Paris and the Hongkong and ina Canal Aot, doglaring that it is months, but the proportion of mistins, but the Turke refused As the Christmas trailerie als Shanghai (1) Banke, and probably better to suffer some multation of unemployed is the lowest for THE DOGS OF WAR. believe in its authenticity, and ready suffering, it is foured that
freedom in legislation and com- years. Merely two per cont, of opened fire.
unloes the dispute is sattied in a
mercial disadvantage than to dis- Trade Unionists are idle, which is few days it will spread to other
regard Treaty obligations. regarded as boing irreducible. A SERVIAN DEMAND. A Belgrade wire states that systems, developing into Guential Servian merchants national strike,
A number of meetings were
petitioned King Peter, urghold by railwaymen in various Ping that Servia's claim for a
port in the Adriatic sea should be towna strongly upheld.
THE PEACE DELEGATES.
un
Tho
another.
representatives of the Sextuple Syndicate will meet in London on Friday to discuss a proposed loun of £25,000,000.
BRITISH HOPES.
There is evidently some error in this wire or eu er's part, as the the North-Eastern Hongkong and Shanghai Bank already ayetom yesterday and resolutions for part of the Suxtople Syndicate wore passed to support the A special telegram from our Shargmunication strike, and to protest against the tai correspondent dealing with the The Balkan delegates to Lou-infringement of the civil liberties question appears on Pago. 6 ]. don are being appointed. M. of railwaymen. At some places, Dane, President of the Cham- however, notably Hall, it was ber, heads the Bulgarian dolega tion. Although Greece has not igned the armistice, she also is sending representatives to Lon- don, including tho Promier, M. Venizelos.
The Turkish Mission is not you completed. All the Missions will be accompanied by expert advisera.
THE TRIPLE ALLIANCE. The renewal of the Triple Alliance was expected, but its announcement on the eve of the
deciried to take no action.
FEARS BEING REALISED,
Later,
further grivanced
The strike is spreading and aro being bronglit up.
ANOTHER SIDELIGHT.
to Mr. Secretary
&
It is reported that Lord Kits chener will next year succeed Lond Hardinge aa Viceroy of India,
All the Missions to the Balkan Is the "London Magazine" Peace Conferenco are to be ao- The Lanenshire cotton trade is under the above tille, Fred T. mill girls are buying jewellery les which are to tell the plain particularly prosperous, and the Jane commences a series of artic-companied by expert advisers. lavishly.
truth about our Navy. The one before us, in Sight of Mutiny, is pecially diequisting. Speaking of the Spithead gathering in July, he asya
There is even talk of importing labour, to cope with the boom.
Resources oF THE EMPIRE
The Soxtuple Syndionto, slight y reconstructed, is negotiating a on of £25,000,000 sterling to China..
The Foreign Office publishes despatch from Sir Edward Grey, Foreign Minister, to Afr. Bryce, British Ambassador to America, dated November 14th, for com Knox. It recapitulates in detail
Spread out, the ships night At an early date Mr. Asquith the British arguments regarding
have reached the moon. A bit is to move and Mr. Bonar Law the Panama Counl tolla, refuting those advanced by America, and
more spread out to Mars. But second a "resolution regarding concludes that Britain looks!
when the great fleet weighed in Canada's naval offer. THE CORNISH TRAGEDY. with confidence to the Govern-
clior, in every ship there was at Dealing with the appointment least one man-in many ships neat of the United States to en- of a Royal Commission to inquire more than one who wondered the Canadian Dreadnoughts, "if Mr. Churchill has declared that sure that in promoting the in-into an report upon the natural whether when the order came the presented, will be in addition to terests of United States shipping, resources of the Empire, Nature" fleet would refuse duty, and what the Britiel programme. nothing will be done to impair saya-Some changes have taken would happen then? the safeguards guaranteed to place in the composition of the British shipping by Treaty. Commission since it was appoint force of his long and first-hand The Imperial Government will
ed, but neither originally nor now, so far as we can find, does need to maintain the "two keeletion in East Africa; the cost of a
study of the subject the urgent pay for a high power wireless at the Commission include a single. to ope" standard. Whatever else low power one will be borne member prominently associated with some branch of scientificy or may not happen, whatever locally.
may or may not be, there is 'ono knowledge. This is the more great fact of modern naval war surprising because it may be fare, and that is that there can be value of British trade for the Despite labour troubles the remembered that in March last, a month before the Royal Cow naval warfare is too doadly. Dis 94 millions sterling; the boota no "muddling through." Modern
past eleven months increased by At a recent Ministerial Council mission was appointed the British aster cannot be retrieved. It is President-Fallieres signed a de- Scienos Guild issued a report physical impossibility to con- continues. Minister of Finance, appointing under the chairmanship of Sir period. There is a definite limit
FRANCE'S
DEPOPULATION
President Fallières Appoints
· Body to Discover Remedy.
*|
Mr. Jane reiterates with all the
London, Decomber 9. The man contend that the dis
It now transpires that Mr. De missed engine-driver, Knox, who has been 37 years in the service Lay, who committed suicide at of the Company, was unjustly Newquay recently under strange convicted, the Magistrate deserit-ircumstances, married in Novem ing the evidence as very unsatis-ber, 1911, a Mrs. Young, who in earlier years was divorced, Mr London Conference is significant factory of both sides.
De Lay, under a resumed name. and is regarded as a demonstru- Hartlepool, Bishop's Auckland tich of the solidarity of the Triple and other sections have joined in being the corespondent. Alliance in view of a possible the strike, while a number of hitch. It is expected, however, other towne have refused to de that the Conference will be of so. Many meetings had to be ad- THE CHINESE REPUBLIC. cree presented by M. Klotz, prepared by one of its committees, struct a warship inside a certain short duration, as all parties are journed after lively scenos. mont anxious for a settlement.
GREEKS AND BULGARIANS.
Reuter's correspondental Athens says an official despatch describes the Greek bedupation of Salonika and says the Bulgarians accepted the hospitality of Greece and sheltered in Salonika from bad weather. They woro undor. the command of the Greek com. mandor of the town.
BRITISH EAST AFRICA.
PROVISION OF WIRELESS.
London, December 9. During question-time in the Tlouse of Commons, Mr. Hurcourt, Secretary of State for the Colonies, announced that the cost of a high power station to be erected on the highlands of East Africa under the Imperial Wireless Scheme would be borne by the Imperial Government. It was also pro- posed to erect a low power station at Mombass, for which the East African Government would pay.
INDIAN VICEROYALTY.
LORD KITCHENER MENTIONED.
· BOTH SIDES FIRM
The Company and the strikers are mosi firm in their attiludos.
CANADA'S OFFER.
MR. "ASQUITH'S INTENTION.
London, December 0. Canada's naval proposal was drawn attention to in the House of Commons today. Mr. Bonar Law asking whether, the Govern ment will afford the House an opportunity of expressing ite appreciation of the offer.
ADMIRÁLS APPOINTED.
[From Chinese Sources.]
Peking, December 9. President Yuan has appointed Sir Sah Chun-ping and Sing Shin kung as Admiṛale.
DR. SUN.
The announcement of the re-
an estra-Parliamentary Commie William Ramsay, KCB, FRS, to the number of men who can nowal of the Triple Alliance, sion to study all the national on the question of the conservato put to work on her. More though anticipated, is regarded as questions, social as well as fiscal, tion of natural sources of energy important still, however, is the significent on the eve of the Bal which bear upon
the depopula The British Science Guild Com-fact that nothing on earth oan ken Conference. tion of France and to seek to mittee was composed almost accelerate the time that a gun liscover a remedy. In the report entirely of expert men of science, or an armonrplate, to be allicient, preceding the decree M. Klotz who had given particular atten- takes to cool. The utmost that ing, the strikers declaring that The railway strike is spread- stated that in his opinion all the tion to the study of the questions can be done is to speed up the the dismissed engine-driver was attempts which had hitherto been with which the Royal Commission men who put things together, unjustly convicted on unsatie- made by successive Governments is dealing; and it is greatly to bend that is the most trivial item fratory evidence. to combat the depopulation of the deplored that one or more of their of the whole job. The human country had been half-hearted number, or other representatives element hardly enters. The crux
sumably only last woll inside:
Hang-chow, December 9, and only resulted in partial and of pure or applied science, have of the matter is a chemical one. the chief point about Canada's Australian papers consider that Dr. Sun Yat-sen arrived here inefective measures. The ques-not been appointed members. of The next great war will pre- proposals lies in the indication to-day by express train, and was tion was one of national defence, the Commission. accorded a hearty welcome by and would inevitably entail heavy the Governor General and other expenditure. The Miniator sag- s large gested that the recommendations officials. There waH number of spectators to witness made in 1902 by the Waldeck- the arrival of the ex-President. Rousseau Commission came to "Shat Po."
MONGOLIAN ACTIVITIES. Shanghai, December 9. It is reported that Uliastai has fallen into the hands of the Mongolian ruffians.
Mr. Asquith replied that he would probably fix a date for again resolution upon the subject, which he himself, would move and Mr. Bonar Law second.
have been put on the paper.
A number of other questions The proposals continue to be a topic of world-wide interest, and the Canadian publio are jubilant at the reception accorded the pro- posals in other parts of the Empire,
A STRANGE REPORT.
"
nothing because the financial aspects of the question did not receive sufficient attention.
THE LONDON WATER
SUPPLY.
A year. The utmost accolera that the Dominions intend to sup- tion which human ingenuity port the Motherland. producing can accomplish in
1'
warships is probably at the out- Prominent Californian Ter side a 1 per cent, advantage at sidents have petitioned President the best. The laws of physics Taft urging a honourable settle The eighth annual report of are beyond the wildest efforts of ment of the British protest against
We can only the Panama Canal Act. It is proposed, therefore, to set the Metropolitan Water Board buman desire. up under the presidency of the states that the total amount of make war with what we have in
A British official despatch looks Minister of Finance a commission water supplied by that body dur-hand. The question for the man composed of experts in each ing the year ended March 31, in the street is not the statistical with confidence to the United The Russian troops are alleged branch of the subject, who will be 1911, was 82,107,000,000 gallons, arithmetic of a problem of which States to do nothing in regard to to have seized the telegraph able to deal effectively with the representing a weight of 386 8 be cannot possibly grasp the full the Panama Canal tolle impairing bureau at Harbin." Shat Fo.". social, military, legal, and scien- million tons and a daily average technicalities; it is the far simpler British Treaty safeguarde.
tifio sides of the question. The of 225 million gallons. The tatal question of whether he will staka POST FOR DR, WU'S SON.
Grand Commission will be divid-volume of water abstracted from his existence on the views of those Shanghai, December 9,
od into five sub-commissions (1) the Thames was 49,062 million who demonstrate that a modioum The Ministry of Foreign Affaire administrative and legal, to gallons, the remainder being ob- will suffice, or in those who de has appointed Wa Chia-shu, son inquire into naturalization tained from the Lea and from mand a fuller sufficiency. of Dr. Wu Ting-fang, as President and marriage laws, the gravel beds, natural springe, and existence is the stake. There is of the Society for investigating question of infanticide and wells. The supply from the last no place in war for "also ran." foreign Treaties.
kindred evils; (2) military, named source amounted to 14,484
SPOKE ONLY FRENCH.
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Bie
LOCALI
An interview with Baron Cot- tu, who has just returned from Canton, appears in to-day's issue.
This morning judgment was delivered by the Chief Justice in the "human, hair"
0880.
AUSTRALIAN OPINION. The Australian press, says * GREAT MONGOLIA." which will examine the effect of million gallons. The month in Reuter's correspondent at Mel- hourne, considere that the most Fulon has changed its inme, the birth-rate on recruiting and which most water wassupplied was
A man with a Chinese name, "army organization; (3) social, to June, the difference between the into that of "Great Mongolia notable point in Ounada's pro- posal is that it is a definite in-and will be under the dominion lady infantile mortality, bygione, daily average of that month and but speaking only French, charg dication, that the Dominions in- of Russia. Attempts have been intemperance, and tuberculosis, that for January being 35 millioned another Chinese before Mr.
Tang Shao-yi, the first Premier tend to support the Motherland, made to get the foreign nations together with questions of assis-gallons, or five gallons per head C. D. Melbourne, this morn- The "Daily Mail's" Calcutta The scheme undoubtedly marks to recognise the independence tance to mothers and, of proper of the estimated population of the ing, with assaulting him, in of the Chinese Republic, arrived correspondent states that Lord an important advance towards the territory," Sai Kai Kung education of the sexes; (4) finan- Board's area, which is 7,009,871. boarding house in Des Voeux in the colony yesterday afternoon Road. He hailed from Saigon. per the se. Kweichow from Tien- Kitchener is mentioned as the co-operation in the defence of the Yik Po."
Mr Walker, of Messrs Deacon, tein. successor to Lord Hardinge, the Empire,
Looker and Dencon, defended. Viceroy of India, who takes up a
The case was remanded, on the politionl appointment in England
application of Mr Walker. "next year.
London, December 9th.
THE FOURTH ARM.
A WISE POLICY.
Later.
A BOYCOTT,
of
Poking, December 9. The people in Peking and Tientsin are boycotting the notes In the House of Commons, issued by the Russian Bank during question-time, Mr. Chur- The notes are only accepted at abill again emphasised the point20 per cent, discount. that the Canadian Dreadnoughts.
THE CHEUNG CHAU PIRACY.
The Chief Justice, sitting in Admiralty Jurisdiction to-day, commenced the hearing of the case in which there is a claim and a counter claim arising out of a collision.
cial, to decide how best to en- The average daily supply per courage larger families, and how head throughout the year was to help those which have become 31.57 gallons, a decrease from too largo for their parents' finan- 31.98 gallons in 1909-10. Detail- cial means; (5) a central embed tables, says the British Food commission to collate and examine Journal," show that residents in the reports of the other four sub the western area of the Metropolis commissions, and to draw up the ass most water, each individual final report.
taking 30.03 gallons, compared FOREIGN LOANS,
These sub-commissione will be with 28.18 gallona per head in The man arrested in Macao Negotiations for foreign loans presided over in the order named the Kentish area. Of the entire along with the three women who have been practically concluded by M. Bienvenu Martin, Senator population of the Metropolis it is have been on remand for some IMPERIAL CO-OPERÄTION. but the agreement has not been and ex-Minister; M. Coebery, estimated that 55 per cent., ware weeks in connection with the
Mr. Asquith announced that all signed. The article concerning Deputy and ex Minister; M. Jon- supplied with Thames water, 25 Cheung Oliau piratical attack, has To Succeed General Maxwell, he Premiers at the recent Im the superintendence of Olina's mart, D-paly and ex-Governor- per cent, with Lea water, and 20 according to the statement of Maj. Gen. the Hon. JEG. perial Conference accepted in Gnance has been altered into a General of Algeris; M. Caillaux, per cent. from springs and wells. Inspector Watt, to Mr. Hizoland, Byng, from command of the East The Admiralty has purchased principle the proposal that re- provision to engage foreigners as nx-Prime Minister; and finally The mileage of mains was no less at the Police Court, this morning, Anglian Territorial Division, haa one German Fuseval and one presentatives of the Dominions as advisors to the estimating the central anb commission will than 8,307, nearly 61 miles of now been brought to Hong- taken up commn of the Bask Franch Astra Tores dirigible air-should be invited to attend the departments, Sai Kai Kung hive as President M. Ribot, a new maine having been laid kong, à formal remand for three forces in Egypt, in suede lot to
Ormmittee of Imperial Defence. Yik Po
other x Prime Minister." Fduring the your
days was applied for, and granted. Lient Geu, Sir, G. Maxwell
ADMIRALTY PURCHASES.
London, December 9.
if presented, will be in addition
to the Brital programme, »