The Hongkong Telegraph.
January 6th, 1913, Temperature a.m. 57, p.m. 61; Humidity... 68, 50,
(ESTABLISHED 1881.)
Copyright, 1919 by the Proprietor.
WEATHER FOREGAN FAIR
Barometer 2018
January 8th, 1912, Temperature a.m., p.m.
69; Humidity.....64, 71.
∙1913.
驚七月正英賽
No. 8987
TELEGRAMS.
艴一初月二十年于壬
TELEGRAMS.
TUESDAY,
TELEGRAMS.
JANUARY
TELEGRAMS,
THE BALKAN CRISIS.
The tariff PROBLEM.
LORD HARDINGE.
IMPROVEMENT CONTINUÈS.
THE BUDGET.
BIG FIGURE NAMED.
FRESH TROUBLE.
Router's
[Service to the "Telegraph."]
London, January 6.
a deputation representing 150 officers at Chataldia have arrived to urge the appointment of Izzet Pasha, the Chief of Staff; as the Minister for War, thus replacing Nazim Pasha,
War Unlikely.
A NEW SUGGESTION.
Reuter's
[Service to the "Telegraph."]
London, January 6:
a bounty to the home producer. | The money for this purpose would be found by the taxation of foreign manufactures, and thus both the workers and agri- culturists would be benefitted...
The scheme at present is view. The conferences among the ed favourably, though time is Ambassadors and diplomatists on naked to consider its detaile, Saturday and Sunday apparently had the effect of inducing a sal- especially from the financial view.
Later.
mer frame of mind all round.
The Turks will to-day propose new concessions, and negotiations will continue. Both Turkey and the Allies equally appreciate the fact, which the Powers emphati- cally urged upon them, that a resumption of hostilities would entail the most dangerous com- plications, as the Powers will not intervene until Adrianople sur renders, which is expected, at the outside, to happen in ten days. It is believed that the Turkish Government is desirous of reliev ing itself of the responsibility before its own people by perforce yielding to a united Europe.
Later.
point.
GERMAN FIELD: MARSHAL'S DEATH.
London, January 8. The death is announced of Field-Marshal Count Schlieffen, who was for fifteen years Chief of the German General Stuff.
KIDNAPPED IN HONGKONG.
vessel
Reuter's
TWO FAILURES.
Singapore's Unfortunate Experience of Aeroplaning.
feats.
The First Attempt,
Router's [Servios, to the "Telegraph.”].
London, January 6. The "Daily Telegraph" states
cribes. Attack on Mountain
Fort...
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TELEGRAMS.
BELEGRAMS.
LADYSMITH'S DEFENDER THE PANAMA DISPUTE.
A PROPOSED MEMORIAL,
Reuter's
[Service to the Telegraph."] London, January 8.- An influential Committee in-
AMERICAN WOLVES.
Important Paleontological
Discoveries.
or
NO HAGUE ARBITRATION,
Router's
[Service to the "Telegraph."]
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$86 PRA ANTUent
SINGLE COFT 10 Units.
NEWS FOR BUSY MEN.
TELEGRAMS.
THE NEWS CONDENSED.
The death is announced of
Some of the characteristics of Herr von Jagow, the probable now German Foreign Minister, are given in a telegram.
fow teeth, he could found his description on care ful comparative study of fif
"A calmer frame of mind all ty complate skulls, with op-
full round is reported in the Balkan take into portunity to
more
to
back teeth which could crush
LOCAL
The Daily Telegraph” states that the next Budget will amount [Service to the "Tolograph."]
approximately to 6200,000,000. London, January 6.
London, January 6. According to. Reuter's corres Router's correspondent at Delhi
Lord Hardings is improving, It is stated in a message from The Conservative papers are Renter's correspondent at Con- giving prominence to the idea of reports that Lord Hardingo is that mainly owing to the in- elading Lord Haldane, Lord pondent at Washington, it has and may preside at the Indian
not favour the Panama arbitra-pet. stantinople that interference by Sir Joseph Lawrence, Chairman improving; the wounds continue areased cost of shipbuilding and officers is again threatening of the Linotype and Machinery, to heal, and there are hopes that the under-estimation of cost Landsdowne, Lord Roberts, Lord now transpired that Mr. Taft does Legislative Council on the 27th political crisis. It is stated that Ltd., to grant a bounty of 2/he will be able to preside at the of the Insurance of the Budget Charles Beresford, the Right tion being held at the Hague, quarter un Colonial heat in- opening of the Legislative Coun- will amount approximately to Hon. L. Harcourt, Col. Seely, Mr. but rather by a special board
£200,000,000,
Bonar Law, the Lord Mayor of made up of an equal number of Field Marshal Count Schlieffen, stead of taxing foreign, and also oil to be held on the 27th inst..
London, and the Bishop of Lon-American and British citizens. It for 15 years Chief of the German
is stated that he expressed the General Stuff. don, hard issued an appeal for view that at the Hague the anti-
The interference of Turkish Altogether, the function was funds for a national memorial to American moral pressure which more like an experiment in the Sir George White, the defender would be brought to bear on the officers in demanding a new first days of hydro aeroplaning of Ladysmith, in the form of a tribunal-would be enormous, 25 Minister of War threatens
political crisis. rather than a display of a highly-statue. The London newspapers all Europe is interested in the
tolle question. developed science, and the public warmly support the project. felt itself rather ill-served." Thi Hongkong appears to have failure of the second attempt was been more fortunate than Singa- explained afterwards by Mr. At pore in the matter of flying exhi-water to have been dus to" super- bitions. The following, from the fluous water in the pontoon." "Straits Times" deals with an The cause of the first failure, the exhibition advertised to be given broken propeller, might be justly by Mr. Atwater, who, it will be regarded as an unavoidable ac
A vanished ago, when packs of account the variations of age, orisis and a resumption of hos remembered, was recently in cident but, without professing any Fongkong but did not fly intimacy with hydroplanes, one is the great "dire wolf," largest sex, abnormality, and individual tilities in rather improbable,
Several thousand trustful peo-inclined to think that a leaky and most powerful of fang and character. Previous efforts could.
An appeal has been issued for ple paid a dollar each to reo a pontoon on such a craft is a re-jaw of all the wolves America arrive at no adequate description hydro-wroplane exhibition at the mediable fault which ought never has never known, hunted camels of any phase of the dire wolf's funds to a national memorial to Seaview Hotel on December 29. to have occurred. A steamer go and ground sloths in California, structure. But with the skele- the late Sir George White, the They certainly saw the machine ing to sea with a leaky hall is has been revealed, says an or tons of whole packs to deal with defender of Ladysmith, in the hat there was very little exhibi- about as good a parallel as one change, by Mr. J. C. Merriam, pro he could now elucidate the nature form of a status.
plain-dwelling, tion. Other people, more confid-{ can think of.
fessor of paleontology in the Un- of "this beast iversity of California. Packs of heavy-headed, five feet and more
The Allies, being dissatisfied to the scene on the steamer Kaka,
SAW BATTLE IN THE ese wolves are found to have been in langth from mazile Chinese Girls Taken to America, ing still, paid $2.50 to be taken
sleader in its with the Turkish terms submitted mired countless thousands of years tail-tip, BALKANS. Disgnised as members of the and they saw even less. By four
ago in the tar pools of Rancho La logs than the great timber wolf yesterday, have suspended the more satis Chinese crew of the steamer Nipo'clock-the advertised time of
Bred. Now these creatures, long of to-day, like that from the Conference until a Conference Suspended.
pon Mara four Chinese girls were starting the seafront was lined by caught being smuggled ashore a multitude of spectators of all Retiring Minister to Greece Des-extinot, have again booz brought Susitas River, in the Moant Mo-factory reply is received.
to light by Dr. Merriam's excava-Kinley region of Alaska, with
It now transpires that Pre- The Peace Conference sat for San-Francisco at ten o'clock on nationalities and classes, while a
tions near Los Angeles. They which he has made detailed com an hour on Monday and then the night of the 25th, ult,, by Wfleet of between twenty and thirty
are described by him in a paper parisou, and so less. fleet of foot, sident Taft favoure arbitration adjourned.
H. J. Deasy, customs guard, who steamers and launches, contain-"
G. H. Moses, retiring Minister on "Canidae" in "The Fauns of but with a strength which enabled on the Panama Canal dispute by The Turks presented proposals was stationed at the gangplanking some more hundreds of pay- of certain cessions of territory of the vessel. Wearing long ing spectators, had taken up to Greece and Montenegro, was Rancho Le Bres," just published it to tear apart the carcasses of a board of American and British northward of Adrianople, but overcoats and soft hats the girle stations round the area of the present at one of the battles in by the University of California in large animals, and with massive citizens, not by the Hague.
proposed display, Meanwhile the Balkans and has described its memoirs series.
In pursuit of ang or leaping heavier bones than oun the Sir Joseph Lawrence has pro- excluding the city; and also unfollowed close at the heels of the machine, Curtiss model it. He said he was at the capital dertaking to renounce their Leong Moon, Chinoso interpreter. rights in Crete provided no other for the Toyo Kison Kaisha com reposed complacently on the top capital of Montenegro, Cettinje, and tearing at the gigantic timber wolves, the largest of posed a new tariff scheme, grant- of the sea-wall. Shortly after when war was declared, and be ground sloth, following the wolves of to-day. True timing bounties to Home and Colon- islands were demanded.
pany, as he left the The Allies thereupon consulted and went across the Embar-four, the engine was tried, which watched with great interest the relentlessly after a young, aged her wolves seem never to have izl wheat, and taxing foreign and drafted a resolution resoly-cadero to their meeting place. encouraged the spectators to think mobilizing of the troops of the or injured bison, or a panic been abundant in the south- manufactures but not corn.
When returned to the steamer pleasantly of the forthcoming small kingdom. He declared the stricken mare they had cut out western United States. The dire ing that since the Türks had not
people welcomed the announce from a herd of wild horses, the wolves were the dominant species replied satisfactorily to their last and stripped of their disguise.
mant of war, and entered upon it pack of dire wolves would drive in California during, the last proposals, they suspend the anys an American paper, the labours of the Conference. Chinese girls looked more like At the same time, Mr. Atwater with great enthusiasm. Mon-their victim across the rolling period before the present and Subsequently a general conver-mad babies than human beings, began to think, apparently for tenegrins, he added, had been plains near what isnow Los Angel-timber wolves were very rare. sation occurred, during which it They had been confined in the the first time, of how to get his complaining that for the past es. In the way opened some marshy At the present time the coyotes was explained that a rupture was coal bankers during the voyage craft from the sea-wall down to thirty years they had had no real spot, where oil oozed to the are the common wolves of Cali- not intended, but there would be of 21 days from the Orient and the sea. A start was made to put fighting. He described the sold surface. The fugitive plunged fornia and the timber wolf is a suspension until a more satis were hardly recognizable as wo an inclined plane of planks down iers as being over six feet, a man in, became entangled in the practically unknown. factory reply, more consistent mon. Their food and water had at the spot where the machine under that height being consider strickly mass, and lay helpless,
The wolves plunged in after their TOBACCO AS A DRUG. with the Allies' terms, has been been lowered to them in a pail at rested, but that idea was soon ed a weakling in Montengro.
Mr. Moses witnessed the victim. Now victims themselves, received.
the end of a rope through a hat- abandoned, and a body of soldiers chway. They had lived in total was requisitioned to transport the shelling by artillery, under they became inextricably mired Amusing Sequel to a Patient's
Gen. Martino-in the tar, and, died to become Powers Save Rupture.
craft to another spot. Carrying command of
a for a museum exhibit at Berkeley in A curious problem "concerning The respondent in the Li The Turks left an excited and darkness.
Leong did not submit to his it through the coconut grove vitch, of Detohuick,
a pipe or tobacco for a patient in family appeal case, now before perturbed state.
& sanatorium was disclosed at the Fall Court, has died and thus Six Kinds of Wolves: The Allies state that there arrest by Inspector Deasy without proved to be a slow business and tifled rock, situated high on a the succeeding geologic age.
Orown Prince Not the dire wolf only, but five recent meeting of the Dublin the case becomes more compli would certainly have been a rap-offering him a bribe. At first destructive, for some of the wires mountain road, on the way to
cated. ture but for the advice of the he insisted that the women were were snapped and had to be Tohipchanik,
members of the crew and were soldered together again before, Danilo, in command of the army, other kinds of wolves, now all ex-Insurance Committee. It seems friends of his going to visit China-eventually, the machine was lift advanced two columns of heavy tinot but one, have been found by that Sir Charles Cameron, who is infantry under the fire of the Professor Merriam in the asphalt the medical officer of Dublin, re-
The birthday of Siri Gura town. Finding this explanationed down to the beach.. was not satisfactory to Inspector By this time, it was well be artillery, and the place capitulat beds of Rancho La Brea. Four commended that one of the Deasy he offered him $250 to let yond five o'clock and the steam ed. The marksmanship of the of the six kinds he is the first patients should get a smoke. He Gobind Singh (the prophet of them
were gunners he praised as wonderful. scientist to describe. The "dire generously offered to pay for the Sikh religions) will be celebrated go. This amount he whistles of the launches
blowing an impatient summons The battle started shortly after woll" itself was first described tobacco, but the committee would by the Sikh community on gradually raised to $1,000.
Inspector Deasy, who receives in "denfening "chorua. Then, daylight with the exploding of a by Dr. Joseph Leidy in 1854froms not allow him to do so, and order. Friday. only $900 a year, turned a deaf about 5.20, the hydro aeroplane, shell over the fortified city. The single jaw bone and the cheek teeth ed that the smoke should be paid HERR VON JAGOW'S CLAIMS ear and marched his captives with Mr. Atwater in the driving city was believed to be strong which it contained, found on the for by the State. The patient back to the Nippon, where he seat, shot off the bench with a enough to hold out against an banks of the Ohio, Dear Evans- got a few puffs. Fourteen days discovered that four of his great whirr of engines and a tum attack for any length of time. The ville. Ind. Forty years lates E. afterwards, the faqurance Com- London, January 8.
prisoners were women who were ultuous sourry of water, and head-artillery, however, soon proved D. Cope found a few tooth and missioners for Ireland sent a letter could be fired other parts of the dire wolf into the committee requiring to Reuter's Berlin correspondent being brought to the United ed for the open sen: It skimmed that shells
a house in Queen's Road West in says it is semi-officially announced States to be anld into slavery. On across the water in a manner that from such a range, that the guns Texas. In 1873 Leidy described know from what fund they pro- that Herr von Jagow, the Am-orders from Depnty Surveyor promised big things but, after of the forts were useless in re-a lower jaw found by Dr. Lorenzo posed to pay for the tobacco.
Their reply was that Sir Chas, connection with gambling. At the bissador to Rome, will be probab-Charles A. Stephens, the girls going half a mile ont, the pro-turning the fire. After the bom-Yates in the Livermore Valley, ly appointed the German Secretary were locked in a room on board peller saddenly ceased revolving bardment had been going on for and in 1908 Dr. Marriam himself Cameron had recommended it as Police Court, this morning, two of State for Foreign Affairs. This the steamer until they were turn- and the plane was rocking help- several hours, the infantry began described a second California a useful drug which would be of them were charged by Inspec under the head of "Nicotiana sixteen with gambling, one har- is regarded as indicating that ed over to the immigrationlessly on the rollers. It was its advance. Under a heavy artil-specimen, a fragment of a lower found in all pharmacopoeias tor Dymond with "keeping" and
an lery fire, the two columns reached Herr von Jagow's hesitation is authorities. They were taken to towed back to land at
So scanty as this was the op- Tabacum," and that therefore, ing estreated his bail of $5.
Mr. L. D'Almada appeared for overcome and that he will accept Angel island to await deporte ignominious pace, with a broken the edge of the fortress and forced jaw, from Tulare County,
portunity for knowledge of the they proposed to discharge it out the port. His besitation was duetion. Leong Moon was placed propeller, by the NI.O.'s launch. back the Turks...
Mr Moses declared that Gen. greatest of the wolves, which once of the fund provided for drage, the whole of the defendants and to ill-health, and to the fact that under arrest.
This request ... was the Italian climate" suited him The girls-Tal May, 18 yearA Much righteous disappointment Martinovitch was one of the most ranged from the Mississippi Val- The Insurance Commissioners asked his Worship to remand better than that of Berlin. He is old; Ah May. 18 years old; Tai was voiced on shore and the launch powerful men in the small king- ley to Central Mexico, and from thereupon took the opinion of the case. 40 years of age and enjoys the Nou, 19 years old, and Ah Yen, parties expressed their feelings dom. In addition to being one of the Ohio River to California, a certain eminent King's Counsel, granted, bail in 8100 being special favour of the Kaiser. He 21 years old-fold a pitiful story for Singapore in a body, leaving he is also the Minister of War, that now exists, all the wolves wooke, they wrote to say that and second defendants and:85 by getting up steam and heading the country's foremost soldiers, wolf larger and fiercer than any and, after a further lapse of three allowed in the oase of the first won high commendation for his, of how they had been drugged in ability and tact in the earlier Hongkong and regained con- only a few sampans to mourn their Prime Minister, and Minister of that still infest wild places, from they could find no statutory each in the remainder.
Greenland to Mexico, and from authority enabling the Insurancs Commitsa to spend the money. months of the Turco-Italian war, sciousness in the blackness of the loss. The spectators on shore, Foreign Affairs.
Siberia to France. when the relations of Italy and coal bunkere. None of the girls having a temporary austainer in
The Dublin body, however, insist- Further Discoveries.
To Vialt Washington. Germany were strained owing to knew where they were going er watching the work of fitting on a
The Chilean Government is
Then come Dr. Merriam's ed that they were fortified with
The Countess of Aberdeen and the German publio's sympathy for what purpose they were being new propeller, loyally stuok to
drag was Misa Violet Asquith intend pay- with Turkey, Pringe von Buelow taken to a foreign country. They their posts. They were rewarded, contemplating an internal loan of abundant discoveries in the Los the opinion of their medical onos described him as the ablest had all come to Hongkong from after six o'clock, by another dis- £5,000,000, exclusively destined Angeles sephalt beds, which the adviser that the among the younger Germen the country to celebrate a Chinese play of skimming about as inter to renovate the workshops and generous permission of Madam necessary for the effective treating a visit to Mr. and Mrs. Bryde diplomatiste. He has an elegant holiday. They attended a theatre eating to watch as a motor-boat rolling-stook of the State railways; Ida Hancook Rosa has permitted meat of the patient, and that it at Washington, arriving shortly and polished bearing, contrasting together, and after the perform-rsoe, and hardly visible at that in also for adding a double track to the University of California to should be given, even at the risk after Christmas and returning markedly with his predecessor sauce fell in with a strange woman, the falling darkusse. There was, relieve the congested portion of perplore Where previous knows of aurchoras. And there the gland about, the middl
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GERMAN FOREIGN
MINISTER.
The Second Fallure.
Proposed Chilean, Loan.
Smoke.
The wedding took place this morning of Mr. Reginald Wilk. and Miss Mabel Brown.
The Allan Wilkie Company did finely last night in "A Bunch of Violets," and are to stage "David Garrick" to-night.
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GAMBLING CHARGE.
Nineteen men were arrested in