The Hongkong Telegraph.
December 20th, 1912, Temperature a.m. 58, p. 68; Humidity.73, 62.
No. 8979
TELEGRAMS.
A DISMAL CHRISTMAS,
AWFUL WEATHER.
Reuter's
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[Service to the "Telegraph."]
London, December 26.
A gale with continuous raio
most dismal on record.
MANY ACCIDENTS. Besides many shipping casuali ties there was a crop of fatal accidents. On Christmas Eva & family of four perished in a fire
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TELEGRAMS.
LORD HARDINGE.
SATISFACTORY" PROGRESS.
Renter's [Service to the Telegraph."]
London, December 20 Router's correspondent at Delhi
THE VICEROY'S POLICY.
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Copyright, 1912 by the Propriek
FRIDAY,
TELEGRAMS.
BOXING.
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LANGFORD BEATS MCVEA.
Reuter's
DECEMBER
WEATHER FORECAST
CHANGE. Barometer 30.08
December 26th, 1911, Temperature s.m. 61, p.m., 60; Humidity...73, 82.
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27.
1912.
TELEGRAMS.
TELEGRAMS,
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THE KING INDISPOSED.
QUIET CHRISTMAS DAY.
Router's
TELEGRAMS.
THE BALKAN WAR.
"INSURANCE ACT.
DOCTORS AT VARIANCE,
Reuter's
THE COUNTER-PROPOSALS.
Router's
[Service to the "Telegraph"]
London, December 26,||
[Service to the Telegraph."]
London, Decembar 26.
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NEWS FOR BUSY MEN.
TELEGRAMS.
THE NEWS CONDENSED.
Langford beat Moves in the thirteenth round at Sydney after a fierce fight...
[Service to the "Telegraph."] [Service to the "Telegraph." London, December 26. London, December 26, Reuter's correspondent at Syd- His Majesty the King caught a The differences of doctors at A mesange from Constantinople
alight chilton Christmas Day but the meeting of the British Medi-states that the. Government on The Christmas shoot at San- has made Chrisimae one of the telegraphed on Wednesday even-ney telegraphs that the heavy is well again to-day
cal Association on the subject of Wednesday
y** telegraphed the dringham had to be abandoned ing that Lord Hardinge was pro-weight contest between Langford His Majesty attended the the Insurance Act is reflected counter proposals of the Porte to because of inclement weather. gressing most satisfactory. and MeVes (20 rounds) ended festivities at Sandringham on throughout the country, though the Turkish delegates. Later. in victory for Langford in the Christmas Eve, but was unable to panels to work the Act are now
The Turkish Government tale- Router's Delhi corresponden: thirteenth roun f
attend Church on Christmas Day being formed in the majority of
Apbed counter-proposals to its wites that Lord Hardinge was The fight way fiercely contest- with his mother and other mem- district
A meeting of doctora and the In many respects they present delegates in London on Wednes at Islington. Fire broke out in a better on Wednesday night. Heed and McVea was most plucky, bers of the Royal Family, or to jute warehouse in Dundes; the said in the evening that the but was outcissed by his oppon- participate in the dinner party Middlesex Insurance Committee marked divergences from English day.
given by Queen Alexandra. at Westminister was picketted by practice. The rail gauge is, like " jute, swollen by water, harst the attempt
doctors representing the Asso-ours, 4ft 8in., but the loading
Christmas at Home was one mi wall of a house which fell, kill-changed his feelings towards
ciation, who kept 45 doctors out-gauge is higher and wider. The
the most dismal on record, the side. ing four children, another one
average distance hauled is greater, being extricated from the ruins
and the proportion of balk features being a gala, rain, and a uninjured.
freights in very maor higher than crop of accidents.
The British fruit steamer Turi Alba, one of the new line trading between, the West Indies and New, York, wont ashore in a snow-
on his life has notut.
India and her people and wouk! make no difference to his policy.
He could only feel sympathy at THE P. AND O. COMPANY. affairs is pat at.£85,000, whilst the shame and horror with which India will be filled.
LATEST BULLETIN.
Later,
The deafness from which Lord
OVERSEAS ENGINEER-
ING.
in this country. Hence, whilst
me still think 300 or 400 tons a
The condition of · Lord' Har-
heavy freight train, the standard freight train of the Grand Trunkinge is most satisfactory; he Eco-Bays the attempt on his life will Pacific weigbe 2,000 tons.
storm on the coast of New Jersey Hardinge suffered in his rigbech issued, says the "L and incurred or losses estimated in A Host of Interesting Mattersonic haulage is important in a make no difference to his policy,
She summonned help by wireless, The crew and sixty passengers sang carols while awaiting the lifeboats, and were rescued with difficulty in the high seas... ROYAL SHOOT ABANDONED,
pre-
im.
King George was prevented by A chill from participating in the Christmas Day festivities, but
The Sandringham Shoot had to at bank premises in Chand price of the shares, more especi make the actual result and the railways and civil engineering gradients which would reduce was reported well again yesterday.
be abandoned owing to the clemency of the weather.
TERRIBLE BOXING DAY,
POLICE ENQUIRY. A police enquiry is proceeding
in-aichowk Street...
The magnitude of the rewards offered for the arrest of the assail ant has had a marked effect on
London, December 26. A most dismal Christmas Day was followed by a depressing Boxing Day.
A gale blow and rain prevail- ed, while there were numerous
wreoks along the consts,
STORM IN THE WEST.
THE TUNG WHA HOSPITAL.
Wa
out
Delhi.
Differences among - British
which is no light one at any importance of his works. time, by the appointment of Mr. It was perhaps unfortunate fore the Canadian haulage problem the crew and passengers were
LOCAL:
The Police Ball takes place to-night at the City Hall.
the additional cost of the coal More than usual interest at- supply and expenditure on cosl aches to the report of the Pen- entailed by the Transport. Work
addition, the further expenses... insular andl Oriental Steam No-ers' Strike came to £33,000. In vigaton. Company that has just ear, in consequence of the injuries,
freight on the branch service came The many rumours
to £14,000. The three items Mr. Robert Elliott-Cooper thinly populated country and American an- has improved, and the Viceroy's Express."
come to £132.000, and with the touched an attractive yet little Canadian and wounds are now painless. He respecting the company and of
are realising m're gineers possible amalgamations, working slopt well on Christmas night.
and more clearly the sgreements; and suchlike led to provision for the two wrecks the discussed subject in his considerable fluctuations in the sum of a quarter of a million sidential address to the Institu
sterling is reached. These faots tion of Civil Engineers the portance of avoiding excessive ally, of course, of the deferred
The mangitude of the rewards shares, which take the surplus increased dividend of really works of the British Empire speeds and necessitate dupliont- profits after the preference divid greater potentiality. We may overseas (Indin excluded). Few ing or triplicating the locomo-
Pacifio the ruling gradients Hardinge's assailant has had a fleet have been fitted with wire could read through this long yet of the astern division of the marked effect on the natives of end has been provided for. No re-note that 51 out of 61 ships in the engineers indeed few laymentives. Thus, on the Grand Trunk offered for the arrest of Lord the native community.
forence appears in the report to
less telegraphic apparatus, and simple record of great ex any such rumours, or to the alarums and excursions that were that more than 5 per cent. has to gineering works conceived and Rocky Mountain section are 1 in
ander
250 against eastbound traffic WORLD'S GREATEST.
special 50 frequently indulged in. But be written off for depreciation carried COMMANDERS..
Terrible weather wasexperieno- the report does reflect the batter because the class of vessel of what and frequently difficult con- and 1 in 170 against westbound. times that shipping has experi- over type moves upwards with itions without fooling a glow of On the western division the Successes of Youthful Generals. enced of late, and notwithstand each new construction, and re- pride in the civilising work of the gradient against westbound traed at Homs on Boxing Day, a ing strikes and increased labour placement comes out at more than engineer and an inspiration to file is 1 in 203, the reason for terrific storm raging through jake part in similar useful and varying the gradient according to Devon and Cornwall and doing" The dash and brilliance of costs, autwithstanding also the the vessel replaced.
An altogether interesting report, courageous works. The history the direction of traffic being that great damage. A terrific, storin swept over Bulgarian strategy has been at grievous losses of the steamerk Devon and Cornwall. There was tributed to the youthfulness of Delhi and Oceana and the neces to which we have thus briefly of our overseas engineering is on Canadian transcontinental lightning: torrents of rain fell; the Bulgarian generals. General sity to make provision for the alluded, tells us of the approach-inextricably bound up with the railways the full freights flow ing appointments of two new social and political histories of mainly in one direction within two passenger steamers and other Savoff is now only fifty years same, the accounts make a very Managing Directors, thus revert-our colonies, and in studying it well-defined areas. "As a result of doctors over the Insurance Act wessels were driven ashore; tele- of age, bat he was scarcely forly fine record, and the enhanced graph end telephone lines were when, in 1904, he was entrusted price the deferred shares have ating to what was the former cus- the student is introduced to a these easy gradients the standard are still apparent, though panels broken down; and much damage with the complete reorganisationtained is justified by the increase tom. For many years Sir Thomas host of other interesting and im 2.000-ton freighter can be handled to work the Act are being formed to property was sustained. ofthearmy-how well he did it the of the dividen 1 to 15 per cont.after Sutherland has been not only portant matters which are full of by one locomotive from Winnipeg in most districts.
The British fruit steamer Tari event shows and he was actually having for so many years received Chairman of the Company, but suggestion to those who desire to over the prairies and Rockies to
the sole Managing Director. He see the status of the engineer ad-Prince Rupert. a general and Minister of War at a distribution of 13 per cent. per is now to be assisted in his task, vanced in accordance with the
On the Canadian Pacific Rail- Alba went nshore on the New the age of twenty-eight. Similar-anonm. The return is remarka
way, which was constructed be Jersey oast in a snowstorm, and ly General Kutinoheff, in comble when we consider that during mand of the Third Army: and the year under review a sum of J. M. Shields and Mr. F. Ritchie that, Egypt being politically out was fully realised, the ruling rescued with difficulty. General Radko Dimitrieff, the rather over £250,000 has had to hero of Kirk Kilisse, are under be provided over what may be to seats on the Board, with side the British Empire and In-gradients are four times as steep The "Land C. Express has fifty. General Ivanoff, head of considered as the normal rate of view to subsequently becoming dian engineering having already as on the newer Grand Trunk First Army besieging loss and expenditure to be pro-Managing Directors. The services been treated of by a predecessor, Pacific, whilst on the Santa Fe the following At the Congress the of the Far Eastern Association of Adrianople, is only forty-five viled for. The coal and dock rendered by either of these old two more than usually interest-road, in the States, they are near- employees of the company needing fields of British overseas en-ly six times as severe. All the attikes, we learn from an ap Tropical Medicine, Sir Frederick years old. Lugard made a reference to a But all the world's great compendix wrought much havco in no mention to our readers. They gineering were not dealt with by older roads are, however, now re very interesting, and, in fact, manders have been young men or many directions. For instance, it have served at many stations and Mr. Cooper. Enough remained, ducing their worst gradients and
Ale in noted that considerable difficulty
in diverse capacities, and the ripe however, to indicate the principal easing the sharpest curves. unique institution, the Tung men in the prime of life.
The Ferris Hartman compaty Wba hospital. This is entirely xander the Great set out to was experienced in the discharge experience gained has fully classes of work which go to make Harbours and waterways are overseas engineering. In required in every considerable managed and controlled by an conquer the known world at the of cargo, especially refrigerated qualified them for the additional
sense there is no limit colony. The British Empire steged "One Night Off" at the annually elected board of Chinese ago of twenty-four and died at the produce, owing to the scarcity of responsibilities of their new post
to the variety of this, work, afforda
examples. In Theatre Royal laat night, gentlemen, under the supervision age of thirty-three. Hannibal bo-insulated conveyances and one
but here we are mainly concerned Eastern Canada the canal system on the Registrar-General, and gan his great march against Rome steamer (Maloja) discharged ap
The "Cleveland" left the har- with a government inspecting when he was twenty-nine. Cesar, plss at Rotterdam. Several con- WORSHIPPING THE DEAD with the work of the civil en-dates back more than ninety gineer, In the opening up and years and, thanks to the Great merlical officer. Primarily when he invaded Britain, wassignments of copper and general IN AFRICAL
improvement of new countries Lakes, is anything but a sleeping bour this afternoon for Taingtau, hospital which admit annually only forty-five; he was soarcely cargo for New York were sent to
the most important classes of en- partner of the railways. "In Aus Japan, Honolulu and America. ΕΤΟΣ 4,000 patients, with over fifty when he "crossed the Rotterdam for transhipment to
in the wards. Rabicon," and by the time he destination. Coaling of mail The Rev. John Roscoe, Leaturer gineering works are the railways, tralia look of water has prevented of about 25, treated in equal pro-was fifty-four he had completed steamers was also effected there: in the Anthropology of Africa harbours, and irrigation systems, any notable inland waterways be portion at their choice by Western the defeat of the Pompeians The Bombay mail voyage of the for the Cambridge University Roads, with the exception of town ing constructed, but a good deal of by Eastern methords, together and was ruler of the Romans. Egypt from London was Board of Anthropological Studies, streets and half-formed tracks, useful, if not particularly striking. the have usually to wait until the harbour work has been successful- with a clientele of 110,000 to Empire. Napoleon at the age blanked, the Caledonis being in the History Theatre, p 120,000 outpatients, it is in of twenty-six took command of brought back from Egypt to Mar- Manchester University, the growing density of population..ly carried out. South Afrios, too, reality ab institution with a much the French armies in Italy sailles to take her place and anil third of series of six lectures on calls into existence a consider farnishes excellent examples of wider sphere of usefulers. It and was only forty-six when without freight; whilst two cargo the "Sociology and Animum of able intertown local traffic. Even British dock and harbour engi containe a refuge for the ailing he met Wellington at Water steamers, the Sicilia and Nubia, the Northern Bantu Tribes of then road-making in the colonies neering, although probably none, poor and destitute, and special loo. Wellington himself was partly loaded at outports, returned Africa dealt with the praise of is something of a lost art, al even Table Bay harbour, equals ilities for vaccination; it only a few weeks older than to Tilbury to recrive passengers, people in certain part of iron though the motor-car promises the fine harbour recently completed
at Colombo in Ceylon affords a temporary shelter for Napoleon. Marlborough was the but loaded no
The future of British oversens cargo in the worshipping the dead as it is to revive it. destitutes pending repatriation oldest of eminent generals, but Thames. Other ailings or load practised there. This, he said, is Mr. Cooper opened his review
a consideration of the engineering offers full scope We are informed says the “N. (generally at its own cost) and he was only fifty-four at the ings were similarly interfered without doubt the earliest form of with free barial for those unable to battle of Blenheim and fifty-with, and each steamer which worship at any rate in Central engineering worke of Canada, for judgement, courage, inita China Daily News," of December afford the cost, averaging some nine at the battle of Malpla came to London between the end Africa. Ancestral worship it was Railways have played a great tive, an organising power, 20 that there is. no foundation for $3,600 per annum. In addition, quet, Napoleon's famous generals of May and the end of July was called in the early days, but he part in Canadian development, coupled with high technical the statement erroneously made in it is the recognised agency Marshal Ney and Marshal directly affected by the strike, thought we had better drop that especially during the Western ability. Within the Empire alone this column yesterday that the for collecting subscriptions Murat were in command of vic whilst since the latter date and say worship of the dead, boom of the present century. The a variety of development work is E & A 8. 8t, Albane w for famine and destitution in torioas armies in their thirties, to the prosent time the ill-which was a much better term first railway in Canada was the in band or in contemplation, aground for a short time on China and for other charitable and were executed, Murst at the effects
hamper Sickness was supposed to be cans La Prairie and St. John's Kail whilst in other lands such as Tuesday morning in front of the handling ed bymagio or ghost influence, and way in Quebec, seventeen miles Chins, Siberis, and South America, Public Gardens. The steamer purposes in or beyond, the colony age of forty-four and New when the Company in by Chinese in all parts of the he was forty-six. Lazare Hoohe, cargo both inwards and outwards. when death occurred the relatives in length, and built in 1832. Te-as great things will be required was being turned in the deepest world, who are eager to employ the wonderful young commander It is pointed out the quality of of the dead did all they could to day the tract mileage is over as have ever been done in the part of the river and was never it as a medium to transmit their of the French Revolutionary labour is poor, and to a great ex- propitiate the ghost leat it should 24,000 and the capital outlay in past. In the past work of this within 100ft, of the shore. Owing collections. It administers an in- forces, was only twenty-five when tent inexperienced in handling seek to harm them. Thus the volved nearly three hundred mil olass was, taking the world as a to the quantity of traffic come of about $100,000, per ex-ho led the famous army of the the class of work. Stowage of dead were veritably worshipped. lion pounds. The first whole, preponderatingly British at the time, she tem num, of which only $8.000 is Mosalle. Against this list of goode in the vessels was conse-The wearing of black as a sign of and still the only Canadian Its successful execution has given dropped her anchor, and 1 aubsoribed by government, and young men some orities, might quently bad and much space lost, mourning, in this and other coun- transcontinental railway is the our overseas engineers experience the ebb tide was mal It is in charge of various obarit pat Lord Roberts, who went out the earning capacity of the steam- tries was, he thought, arelio or Canadian Paoific which was which should prove useful in the signalled to the Alexandra to able funds amounting to about to South Africa when he was ers being greatly reduced. Four survival of the primitive custom completed on November 7 Euro That fature looks hope- assist her to her berthi. In pub- $100,000. It has just opened a sixty-eight, but it must be re-mail steamers had to be despatch of the mourning habit among 1805. Two others are rapidly ful, although perhaps two impor- lishing the above correction we branch in Kowloon, similarly membered that he left his ed without any freight so as to these African tribes. When these approaching completion, tha tant dangers are visible. One is would also express our regrets to managed, and capable of socom- younger Chief of Staff, Lord Kit maintain the mail service, whilst people began to mourn they were Grand Trunk Puoifle and anundue preference for traditional the Captain of the St. modating about 70 patients in its chener, then fifty years of age, to half a dozen other steamers were not allowed to change their cloth the Canadian Northern. The British practico..and the other at the hot on bout
elner of & 8. Company, for the ma ward, as well as a cow small-pox carry the war to successful endi only partly loaded with great diff. ing. They had to wear the same sifiking features of these railways Batonishingly feeble educations as well as to the agent of Link hospital to correspond to the one Lord Kitchener by the way, is culty sud af enomous expense. The things while the period of mourns are not to be found merely in the foun.in.ion for this
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The Civil Service Cricket Club!
had their annual Christmas tree yesterday, and the occasion as usual; a huge succese.
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