The
Hongkong Telegraph
December 10th, 1912, Temperature a.m. 60, p.m. 67; Humidity...72, 53.
No. 8966
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THE WAR.
城三初月一十年于壬
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(ESTABLISHED 1881.) Copyright, 1912 by the Proprietor.
WEDNESDAY,
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WEATHER FORECAST:
December 10th, 1911, Temperature a.m. 62, p.m., 63; Hamidity...
DECEMBER
11,
1912.
拜酒
望一十月二十英港香
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"FAIR.
Barometer 30.28
836 rax Ams
8ısalm Cory 10-CsHts,
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HUNTING ACCIDENT.
THE RAILWAY STRIKE
DISPUTE WAXES HOTTER.
MR. CHAPLIN INJURED.
TURKS DOUBT ARMISTICE.
Reuter's
[Service to the " Telegraph."]
London, December 10.
THE CHINESE REPUBLIC. THE STRAITS DINNER. PANAMA CANAL TOLLS.
ANOTHER LOAN?
[From Chinese Sources.]
Peking, December 10,
It is reported that Dr. Sun A message from Cottinje states Yat-sen has opened negotiations
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MR. HARCOURT'S EULOGY,
PRESIDENT TAFT OPPOSED,
Reuter's
(Service to the "Telegraph.”] „
London, December 10.
Reuter's
GERMANY IN CHINA.
INCREASE OF TROOPS.
Reuter's [Service to the "Telegraph."]
London, December 10. Herr Zimmerman, Under Seare-
инфи
Reuter's
[Service to the "Telegraph."]
London, December 10, The industrial fight, of which
Renter's
[Service to the "Telegraph."]
London, December 10, The Right Hon. Mr. H. Chap-
[Service to the "Telegraph.”] London, December 10. Mr. Shelford presided at the. In his annual report to Con- that the Turks at Sqatari persist for the raising of a foreign loan Straits Settlement dinner, bold in greas, Mr. Stimson, Secretary for tary of the Budget Committee, the dismissed engine driver Knoxlin, Conservative M.P. for Wim- is the centre, waxes more furions, bledon, while out riding with the in disbelieving that an armistice to the amount of £15,000,000 London, last night. The Right War, opposing the views of Pre-speaking in the Reichstag, made The Magistrates have made a Anytchley Hounds, was thrown has been arranged, and fighting from a European Bank, and Hon, L. Harcourt, MP. (Colonial sident Taft, urges the repeal of a statement concerning the necess statement that they have not the at a fence and fractured two ribs. has been resumed at Tarabosch, that, a French Bank conducted Secretary), Sir John Anderson, the Turkish, sorties being repul negotiations for the group. The Sir George Fiddes, Sir Frank the section of the Persia Canalsity of reinforcing the troops in slightest doubt that Knox was sed. The Montenegrias threaten loan will principally be used in Swettenham, Sir Hugh Clifford, Act exempting American coasting the Far East. He said though drunk; the railwaymen, on the Foontrary, say they are prepared to to exclude Soutari from the the development of railway en- und Sir William Treacher were vessels from tolls, which he there was a trustworthy man at produce credible evidence of his NEWS FOR BUSY MEN. armistice,
terprise, and in the promotion of among the guests.
declares to be equivalent to the head of the Chinese Govern sobriety. They have issued a Mr. Harcourt, responding to TURKISH PEACE DELEGATES. native industries.
the tonst of "The Guosta," spoke nationally subsidising an industry ment, fresh disorders were still manifesto repudiating the idea A message from Couatantinople!
THE MONGOLIAN QUESTION.in congratulatory terms of the not needing such assistance. states that the Ottoman delegation to the Peace Conference ut Lan- don consists of Salih Pasha, Roobid Boy, the Ministers of Marine and Agriculture, and Osman Nizam Pasha, Minister at Berlin.
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romarkable prosperity of the Straits Settlements. As a result of freedom from dution Singapore
The Russian Minister at Peking has asked Lu Ching-clicung to delimit the boundaries of the
Independent Mongolis the Eastern world. He eulogised Shot Po."
the energy which had procured
possible. Other Powers were that they would support a drunk- mare strongly represented in ard and saying they are prepared China than Germany, which must to submit the case to an impartial protect her own interests; and it tribanal,
had been made the entrepot of IRISH CROWN JEWELS. could but be desirable for China DISASTROUS EFFECTS.
hor the best equipped docks" in
"London, December 10.
"
The "Daily Telegraph" says it GENERAL HOMER LEA.
is reported that the Irish Crown
Chinese Adviser.
down.
civil engineering, and in July, 1899, sailed for China. When the Boxer rising came he joined
that a Power like Germany, up- Meanwhile 8,000 man are put holding the integrity of China und congestion is increasing. No and the open door," should be fewer than 80 ships are held up THE TRIPLE ALLIANCE,
the possession of the Crown, and REPORTED TO BE REPLACED. in a position to assist China in on the Tyne alone, while furnac A LOAN APPOINTMENT. Kanter's correspondent at Ber
referred to what the Straits Settle-
the protection of German interests es and other industries are closing lin wires that the inspired Tientsin, December 10.
ments had done for defence. Ba
in places where they existed. "Koelnische Zeitung", in an A German Commissioner of spoke of the national gratitude article anent the renewal of the Customs, has arrived at Peking. felt towards the Federated Malay Triple Alliance, admits that the It is reported that he has been States for their splendid gift, and object of the Allies in publishing asked by the International Bank- said that, while not a possession the announcement at the presenting Group to act as superintend-of the Crown, the Malay States so juncture was the desire to give ent of the salt revenue in case highly valued their loose attach jewels, the mysterions disappear. An American View of the late the troops of the allies that mar- the world prior to the London the loan be successfully raised. ment to the Empire that they had ance of which in 1907 created a Conference unmistakeable proof Whether the Commissioner will made a gift which was a symbol great sensation in the country, of their complete accord.
accept the engagement or other-of gratitude for our Administra... AMBASSADORS TO MEET. wise, is at present uncertain tion and a testimony to our have been replaced intact in their In the House of Commons, Sir "Slist Po."
supremacy on the seas. He ab- original position, solutely denied that this gift was Edward Gray announced that the
pressed from Home, and declared Powers had cordially approved of
that it came as a great surprise! the suggestion that the Ambas-
to the Colonial Office. He regard- sadora in one of the capitals in Europe should engage in formal The British Consul General ated with sympathy and admiration the unrivalled progress of the non-committal consulations
Malay States, and was convinced A to the future success of the Federated Malay States and the Straite Settlements.
..
VISITED THE PRESIDENT. Shanghai, Decern her 10.
inShanghai called on President order to facilitate the exchange Yuan this morning, end left of views between the Powers Peking for Shanghai the same. "It will not be a Conference",day." Shat Po." added Sir Edward, "and I cannot "give detaile nt prosent.
AUSTRIAN AFFAIRS.
MILITARY RESIGNATIONS.
at
NIPPED IN THE BUD
The Hon. Mr. C. W. Darbishire, who responded to the toast of the Chingtao, December 10. evening, dwelt on the community Yesterday the Governor Generalf the interests of the Statos and tho Straits Settlements, and urged of Sze-chuan arrested an evildoer, who had incited the people to union for the common good, sink- create trouble on account of the ing all differences. Mongolia question. Peace now prevails, and the salt people
have resumed business as usual. -"Shat Po.
BOXING.
Jack Cordell Fit,
NOTHING KNOWN.
Later.
The Lord Lieutenant says that nothing is known in Dublin of the replacing of the Crown jewels.
ENGINEERING FOR
NATIVES.
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iversity of the Pacific, and Leland- Stanford University.
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THE NEWS: CONDENSED.
Mr. Chaplin, M.P., has frao- tured two ribs through being thrown while riding to hounds.
The names of the Turkish dele- gates to the Peace Conference in London are pablished elsewhere.
In the welter-weight chom-
cod to the relief of Peking After
The Austrian Minister of War
"recently
that ho disappeared, but travel-and the Chief of the General Staff The Telegraph published the British view of the lers in China beard from to time have resigned for political res late General Homer Lea. The of a twisted little man seen in sons. following, from the New York various places among the natives. When he came back to America Evening Post
The railway dispute waxes hot- gives the iu 1901 he said he was a lieuten-ter, and 8,000 men are now out. American version,
nat-general in the Chinese army; Eighty ships are held up on the Gon. Lea was born, Hays our offered commissions to some of Tyne. contemporary, in Denver, Col., on November 17, 1876, of Vir his former college mates, and ginis stock. He attended the began drilling Chinamen in San Occidental College of the Un-Association was formed on the pionship of Great Britain, Johnny Francisco. After the Young China Pacifto Coast he began to Summers beat Sid Burns on He was a little wan, only five teach the young men in San points.
Francisco and Los Angeles-milit fest three inches in height, and a
Two hundred platers engaged hunchback, but he was early reary tactics. All the time he solved on a military career. He was keeping in correspondence told his fellow students at Stanford with Kong Yu-Wei, then the head on the battleship Queen Mary at Jarrow have struck for a mini- of the Chinese Empire Reform that he was going to be a big Association. When Kang Yu-Weimum wage for odd jobs. commander in Chian, and help to
went ahout Europe adverti ing in overthrow the Manchu dynasty.
The Turks at Scatari persist in Wallace Irwin, one of those the new China, Homer Lon went
with him. When in June, 1005, disbelieving an armistice has fellow students, said of him:
Kang came here, the most been arranged, and fighting has "He was a quiet little chap London, December 10.
and talked rather large, as I important member of his snite boon resumed at Tarabosch. Renter's correspondent Vienan telegraphs that General
recall, bomastic, you might say, was Lea, who was duly called Auffenburg, Minister for War, arid
but there was an earnestness general by the Chinese that
swarmed around the reformer.. about him that impressed one." Field Marshal Schemua, Chief of
Shanghai, December. 10:
Homer Lea came into "contract Nobody ever regarded him as a the General Staff, have resigned,
President Yuan has appointed and are succeded by Generals Admiral Sir Sali Chun-ping as ercise went three rounds with country. The conditions go-warrior, for how could they? in San Francisco with Dr. Sun Yat-sen. It was thus that the Krobaten and Howzondorff res- Commander-in-Chief of the Navy. McGhee, and Mr Kelly, of the verning engineering operations chammed with what we called
American became the confidential pectively.
and Rear Admiral Ching Pui- Grand Hotel. Cordell happened in India are widely different the Oregon bunch in college, military adviser to the man whom In the Reichstag Herr Zimmer- No explanation is given, but it is believed that the reason for the wong and Shum Shan-kwan an in the course of his dust up with from those which hold in Great fellows that came down from that China was to elect as its first Pre-man made an important states:
Admirals."
McGhee; to stroke his jaw in Britain, and the complete system State and kept together a good sident. He was also with Dr.ment concerning the reinforce resignations is political.
nanner that caused the receiver of teaching requires to be plan- deal. Probably, if I could
looked forward
Sun at Nanking when the proment of German troops in the RUSSIAN JAGORESSION. to make for the boards. It is ned to meet Indian requirements. have
visional assembly elected Sun Far Esat. accepted by Cordell that on Primarily the distinction arises seen what his future was to head of the new republic. After The Governor General of Saturday night he will have to from the differences in methods be, I would have been more
The U.S. War Secretary oppose, Président Taft on the Panam MORE LABOUR TROUBLE. Feng-tien has telegraphed to the travel on a bit if he is going to of supply of materials; for in interested in him. As it is, what the triumph of the republic he
bas secretly established a Con-heavy weight champion of North years ago by Colonel Ottley, him seems to be those poker drillmaster, but a writer. He of the exemption of American Lea was not only a soldier and Canal question, urging the repeale Central Government that Russia beat Gunner Yore, RG.A. the India, as was pointed out some. I remember most vividly about returned to this country.
China.
'from the day you begin to parties to which he was always
Vermillion Pencil," a coasters from tolls. Tho Governor General of Cordell is now on a tour of the log out your levels you have got inviting the fellows. He was
novel, in 1008: The Criminal Turkestan has telegraphed to the world; he told a representative of to do everything; you have got to one of the coolest and best poker Spider," a drama, in 1909, and The clause of the Home Bulg Government that 2,500 Cossacks the "Telegraph" to-day, and after find your earth and make your players I ever know. He never have crossed the frontier into finishing his perigrinations in bricks; you have got to find your took any part in sports, of course, Turkestan, and have refused to China he will devote his attention limestone and make your line, except to ride a bicycle, but he political development of China. Bill providing for the continua, intended to arouse the United of the present civil servants has тав his hobby evacuate, in spite of the protests to Australia, and if he is as suo and in many cases you have got loved to talk politics; world The Valor of Ignorance" was tion of service and compensation
cessful there as he has been in to teach your man to do the work." policies.
that time. This States to the danger they were passed the Commons, the States and. Manila, he will There is no doubt that native In-at-
running through the lack of pre- At the Straits Settlements din
BATTLESHIP BUILDING
DELAYED,
London, December 10. Two hundred plators at Jarrow engaged on the construction of the battleship Queen Mary have gons on strike for a minimum wage for odd jobs.
The builders 'declined to con- aider the demand unless tho ghen returned to work, but the latter remain obdurate,
BOXING,
SUMMERS BEATS BURNS.
London, December 10. In the National Sporting Club's welter-weight championship of Great Britain, twenty rounds, Johnny Summers beat Sid Burns on points.
HOME RULE.
ADMIRAL SAH RECOGNISED.
sulate in Tonam.
of the Governor General.
There is every reason to wel. come the effort now being made to revise the general scheme of educating and training natives Last night at the V.R.O. Jack of India for engineering and Cordell spent an hour training industrial work in their own and after some ball punching ex
and
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A JAPANESE DEMAND. make for Europe, firstly calling fans, with an imperfect knowledge before he announced that he was The Chinese Minister at Tokyo at Singapore, then to France and of the English-language; have in going to Obins. has telegraphed to the Chinese England. He likes Hongkong: the past experienced considerable "I was among those who laugh Cabinet that the Japanese and says that in his opinion dificulty when they have entered ad when I heard of his declara Government has insisted on the it is a much nicer place than English engineering colleges, for tion that he was going to be a big lease of Liutung peninanlar Manila, and better for a man the reason that lectures and books Chinese general. I thought it permanently.
in training. He cannot as yet say, upon technical subjects have was just another case of a little how it compares with Manila|nt first been unintelligible fellow talking big.! AN IONORED ORDER. from a business standpoint, and to tham. Moreover, consider When the Spanish war came, The Ministry of Internal Affairs it is to be hoped that he will find tion requires to be given to the many Stanford boys went to the has directed the Board of Trade the sportemen of this Colony as circumstance that the native front, but the little hunchback to force the Merchants in Tientsin
accept the bank notes issued ppreciative of a good boxer, and Indian reaches his prime at a could not. For all that, he join- by the Russian Bank. However, what is more a "straight" boxer, comparatively early age. The ed a college oaganization that 8 they are across the way." ohief requirements consequently practiced military drill. Irwin the people take no head of the Much has already been said about appear to be that technical and has told of that, too: order.
to
i
.....
wrote
had in preparation a history of the
paration for war, and their neglect!
A report states that the Irish Crown jewels, mysteriously stolen".
the Lord Lieutenant denies it.
in 1907; have been replaced, bat
.
of inte national complications ner in London Mr. Harcourt said. into which they might be drawn as a result of freedom from dubon His "The Day of the Saxon," Singapore has been made the en published last summer, dealt intrepot of the Eastern world. somewhat similar fashion with the strateglost problems and di- foulties of the British Empire.
SOUTH AFRICAN
TRAWLING,
LOCAL.
The first olags Russian cruiser "Askold" arrived in the harbour: to-day.
An interview with a German. Vice Admiral appears in to-day's issue.
the morite and demerits industrial training should be made "We organized a cavalry "Ineludod ARBITRATION REFUSED. of the mon ho is going to available for comparatively young troop," he said...
The new fishing industry which those. As he considers the three meet, but
interested natives, and that while about a thousand freske, I think has been established at Darban demands presented by the in the meeting can rest ass certain amount of it should be the lame, the halt, and the is having its fair share of difficul
A very interesting organ re- Russian Minister in Peking re-ured that the men who step in the given in technical colleges, special blind, and some ex-cowboys. A ties. Three steam trawlers are cital was given yesterday evening garding Mongolia tend to the ring with Cordell will have to importance should attach to prac fellow called Daffy Happy led the now at work on the coast, Bad in St. John's Cathedral by Me loss of China's sovereignity, Lu fight and go all the way. Thoro tical experience on public works freaks. It truly was a wonderful two others are expected in a few Denman Fuller. Chin-chenn, Minister of Foreign will be no "mulling" and if the in India. In any case, the aim corps, but little did we realize weeke, Big hauls of fish have The House of Commons has Affairs, has written to the French opportunity comes Cordell's way must be to anstain the genius that it was part of the training of been secured, but unfortunately
for the consumer as well as the This morning the case was con that set up India's temples, and a Chinese general." adopted by 202 voles to 178, Minister at Peking declining to out they will go.
There might be some interest to nourish the minds of those Then the young man began to company the retailers and others tiuued in which a claim for dam Clause 33 of the Home Bule Bill accept the service of the French which relates to the continuation Minister in arbitrating on the ing nowe from the boxing world from whose race proceeded so pick up Chinese from Chinese possessing vested interests in the ages is arising ont of have not taken between funk and of service and compensation of affairs of Mongolia. Sai Kai likely to cause a stir in Hongkong important a part of the basis of students or Chinese cooks or any fishing business h
available: Chinese. He studied kindly to the new venture/ Kung Tik Po.
In a day or two. present civil servante,
all quantitative caloplation,
London, December 10.