The
Hongkong Telegraph.
January 15th, 1913, Temperature &.in. 60, p.m. 64; Humidity...84, 73.
No. 8995
"TELEGRAMS.
HOME RULE BILL.
艴十初月二十年子壬
TELEGRAMS.
UNIONIST POLICY.
(ESTABLISHED 1881.) Copyright, 1912 by the Froprietor.
January
THURSDAY,
JANUARY 16,
1913.
TELEGRAMS.
TELEGRAMS.
TELEGRAMS.
1912, Temperature a.m. 57, p.m. 57; Humidity...95, 89.
PANAMA CANAL DISPUTE LINER'S EXPERIENCES.
六十月正英港香
TELEGRAMS.
936 PER AKKAL AS
Sisery Cort 10 Ozuri.
TELEGRAMS.
EAST AFRICA.
LLOYD'S.
ITS REJECTION MOVED.
NO LEADERSHIP CHANGE.
A DISASTROUS YEAR..
·A SETTLEMENT PROPOSAL.
ADRIFT FOR 50 DAYS.
Reuter's
KING ALFONSO,
LEARNING OF SOCIALISTS.
SANITATION IMPROVEMENTS.
Router's
[Service to the "Telegraph."]
London, January 15. The House of Commons was crowded when the Home Rule Bill came on for third reading.
Mr. Balfour on entering was cheered by the Unionists and then by the Liberals, the latter demonstration being intended as
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London, January 15. The year 1912 was a most dia- natrons one for Lloyd's, the total over shipping losses being £7,000,000.
OBITUARY.
LORD ASHBURNHAM.
Router's
[Service to the "Tolegraph."]
London, January 15.
Reuter'a
Reuter's [Service to the "Telegraph."]
London, January 15. In the House of Commons, Mr.
[Sorvico to the "Telegraph.”]. [Service to the Telegraph."],
London, January 15.
London, January 15. Sonator Elihu Root has intro-
Reuter's A most dramatic story of the
correspondent at duced in the Senate at Washing-recent storms is furnished by the Madrid reports that King Alfonso Harcourt announced that he is ton a Bill to amend the Panama Furness liner Snowdon Range. is striking out on & new line, considering, in consultation with. Qual Act by eliminating the She was buffeted about without He is summoning the Republican the Governor and expert advisers, exemption of American constwise rudder in the Atlantic for 50 and Socialistic lenders to the the best means of improving the vessels from payment of tolls. days and was given up by Lloyds Palace to learn their views about sanitation of Nairobi and the East
as lost when she was picked up different political questions. Africa Protectorato generally. by the liner Welshman and towed 500 miles. She had to ba aban- doned in a storm within sight of [Queenstown. Two tuga made fast to her but were compelled to leave.
A GLOOMY VIEW OF CHINA.
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A naval tug then went out but returned, and reported that the Snowdon Range had been driven
Furlous Weather.
JAPANESE STOWAWAYS
Discovered on a Steamer for Australia.
the
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NEWS FOR BUSY MEN.
TELEGRAMS.
THE NEWS CONDENSED.
London, January 15. Mr. Bonur Law, leader of the Unionist Party in the House of Commons, replying to the memor inl recently presented to him and to Lord Landsdowne by Unionist The losses would have been members of the Blouse says: much more serious but for the "It asks us to retain the leader-remarkably fine salvaging of the a tribute to there-adoption of ship while altering in one im-P. & O. liners Delhi and Oceana. Balfourian Tarifi Reform.
portant parcular, not indeed the Altogether there were 6,031 Mr. Balfour, in moving the re-policy of imperial preference, but casualties and 228 ships were jection of the Bill, said he did the method whereby it can most totally lost, 82 of which were
The special correspondent of not deny that the Government effectively be carried out. This British. throughout bad had substantial modification is that when the
Every claim was promptly and the Daily Tolograph" at Peking, in the course of a recent despatch majorities but the circumstances Unionists are returned to power, fully met.
to that journal; expresses gloomy under which the Bill was carried it, aller consultation with the
Eleven Japanese males and two made that support utterly worth-Dominions, it proves to be de-
forebodings as to the situation in Obina. He writes:--
by the gale into the Harbour, females were arrested on less. The whole proceedings sirable to impose food duties, reminded him of the old come-they should not be imposed un-
Complote mystery envelops not She passed over the dangerous Yawata Maru, when she was about only China's future, but also Graballa Rocks, but last evening to leave for Australia yesterday, The Duchess of Connaught diea of intrigue wherein the leas they have first been submitt-
what is taking place to-day. A struck a bank off Spike Island. They were stowed away in No 2 has further improved. chief schomer gained the supported at a general election. While of the subordinato characters by this modification does not involve
species of political paralysis is She now lies on a soft bottom and cargo hold. L. S. Wills supervises combined with unconcealed ex-is safe.
four watchmen at the instince of
A Russian barque has been & different version of his plan any principle preventing us from
Mr Gabriel, of the Government wrocked on St. Mary's Island, asperation at the general un-
Later, and then duped them all (Loud loyally supporting the ration cheers). He soverely criticised desired by the majority of the
workability of the Republican The Snowden Range has been service in Australia, who was in
ten being drowned. formula. Yuan Shih-kai has towed off and is but little Hongkong some time ago, to the Bill on its Federal aspect and party, nevertheless it would have
less hold to-day on the gen-damaged.
search for any stowaways for In a cricket match noteworthy aid he was shocked at the utter been more agreeable to us and,
London, January 15.
Australia on the ateamors of the for high scoring New South Wales and dangerous want of compre in our view, more in the interest The death is announced of the oral situation than two months
Furious weather continues, and E and A, N.D.L, NY.K, and beat South Australia at Sydney. hension of the Ulster problem..of the party, that a change of fifth Earl of Ashburnham, at the ago. The basic reason for the
A Solemn Warning.
mothed should be accompanied age of 72 years.
present impasse is the fact that a Russian barque has been B. and S. If stowaways arrivo in
Mr. Bonar Law and Lord Lons- Continuing, Mr. Balfour ap by a change of loaders. The The Earldom was created in no system of provincial federation wrecked on St. Mary'e Island, Australia and are discovered, the
shipping company will be fined downe have agreed to retain the pealed to the Nationaliste to try memorial, however, urges tha41730. and the deceased succeeded was adopted from the beginning ten of the crew being drowned.
£100 per head.
At the Police Court. to-leadership of the Unionist party. to be fair to Ulster. He asked change of leadership would be his father in the title in 1878. He of the proclamation of the Re were the fears of Ulstermen un fatal to the host interests of the was Chairman of the British public. In China the province is AEROPLANE FATALITY.
day they were charged..
King Alfonso is summoning to I was stated that money from the Palace the Republican and róasonable in view of what had party and the country, and we loro Rule Association in 1886, the solo unit, and if the unity of
'The air claimed two further happened in Ireland in the past fool that in view of such expres and owned about 24.000 acres of the country on a workable basis and in view of the anti-English sion it is our duty to comply with land. The title and estates now had been made the first desider victims on December 15 at Wemb-100 to 175 Yen had been paid to Socialistic leaders to learn their
the storekeeper on a promise to views. : attitudo of the Nationalists? Ho this request, and this wo are descend to the ileceased's brother.ntum the history of the Unitedley, Lieutenant Wilfred Parke, and the people at the first port the Hon John Ashburnham, who States would have been faithfully RN., meeting with a disaster they touched in Australia. All warned the House that if calaini-prepared to do."
was formerly in the Diplomatic copied. The Provinces, as self-while flying a Handley Page mon
It is considered in London that ties arose and if blood were spill-
Service and is 67 years of age contained units, show in many oplane which caused the immedi. be malo defendants were pearl
a little fighting will prove the ad-which God forbid-then the
cases rauch progress, and graduate loss of his own life and that shera and the women were shortest way to peace in the real assassins would be those who
Ally create order by forcible of Mr. A. Fardwicko, the manager never had the courage to face the
But difficulties are being of the Handley Page Aeroplane obviously an an agent who had situation in Ulster.
met, and in Hona struggle Company, whom he was carry passed them on board ship and Senator Root has introduced a The Premier's Reply.
is procceding between infantry ing as a passenger. : There
blowing gat one of the arow to smuggle of American coasting vessels pay- Mr. Asquith, in reply, empha
regiment surrounded by thousands
wind was a strong Rized that what had to be faced The "Morning Test," though
of baudits armed with rifles. The at the time, but evidently it was was the undiminished and vital it shares the apprehensions of Mr
L.S. Wills said such was the ing Panama Canal tolle. regiment has lost many officers,and not sufficient to deter the airman, demand of tho vast ma Austen Chamberlain, that the
is now being succosted by an who had had large experience of aer, as some of the defendants
had receipts for the money they disastrous one for Lloyd's, the The year 1912 has been a most jority of the Irish people change in policy may be diens
ontire division. Meanwhile the | Mongolian wound is bleeding many sorts of aircraft. A good had paid. for Home Rulo. This le trous, and points out the defects
start was made. The monoplane, mand had been maintained for of a merely negative policy of
One of the defendants said he shipping losses totalling over steadily. Dr. Sun Yat-sen has which was fitted with a 70-h.p. Govern- a generation with unvarying denunication of the
been sending Yuan Shih-kai strength (cheers). He regretted mont, hapas that a basis is now
Amasage from St. Petersburg amazing telegrams, proving that engine and a device intended to was going to Manila to engage in seven millions sterling.
asist in maintaining even bal-pearl fishing.
L. 8. Wills stated that Japan-considering the beat means of the absence of Sir Edward Carson provided for united and deter-states that the Czar has confirmed he is a visionary and has gone ance, rose to a height of about
The Imperial Government is 090 were not allowed to on- owing to illness, for he had been minor action to carry out Mr. the decision of the Council of openly mad. Like Pythagoras, 150ft, and this altitude was main
in consistent, courageous and resour-Glamberlain's programme by Ministers to extend the Russo- he now asseverates that numbers tained while the machine remain
pearl fishing in improving the sanitation of Nairobi and East Africa generally." cofal on behalf of Ulstor. He (Mr. instalments.
Chinese Commercial Treaty of are the sole elements out of which ed in view from the Hendon Manila. One of the women "Asquith) would gonny length in
1881 for a further decade, simal the universe is composed, and Aerodrome. The approach of the paid £4 in English, money, and The Furness liner, Snowden
the other 30 Yen to be landed in protecting minorition, but theplan
taneously rendering inoperative therefore demands the immediate machine was watched by a fairly Manila, where they wore going to Bango, after exciting experiences, the provisions appended thereto despatch of half a million Chinese large number of spectators, and
went ashore at Spike Island, but for duty-free tendo on Russian soldiers to Outer Mongolia, next those appear to agree that, Lien-bedresmakers. territory within the fifty yerst year two millions, and so on, tenand Parke, coming to the con-
Mr. Hazeland said the people has been towed off with slight
damage... zone along the Russo-Chinese raising the total in the third year plusion that the wind was too were not real stowaways, as the frontier.
to six millions, when Success
strong for the sucrossful accom-passage money to Australia was
It is stated that Raphael's ngainst Russia will be certain.'
"Madonna della plishment of his journey, made up only $80, and they were being his mind at Wembley to return smuggled. He would fine them masterpiece
has been smuggled EXCESS OF PASSENGERS, to Hendon. He succeeded in turn $150 or two months' hard labour Quercia "
ont of Italy and has arrived in each.
London. ing the machine, and had began
DEATH IN VICTORIA GAOL.
put forward was absolutely fatal |
Press Opinion
The Unionist nowspapers generally welcome. Mr. Bonar Law's letter with relief and thank falnoss and are of the opinion that the future may now be faced with calm confidence.
to democratic government. He MASTERPIECE
ridiculed the idea of perpetual
friction between the Parliaments'
SMUGGLED.
ARRIVES IN LONDON.
RUSSIA AND CHINA,
COMMERCIAL TREATY
EXTENDED.
London, January 15.
of Ireland and Britain, saying com- mon sense and self-interest were the safeguard, besides patriotism and public spirit. When he heard Mr. Balfour, comparing the Gov-
London, January 15. | AUSTRALIAN CRICKET. eroment to assassins said he could
It is stated that Raphael's mas not help recalling Mr. Balfour's denunciation of the Transvaal terpiece "Madonna della Quer no noro, than six years ago, cia" arrived in London gestor- The Premier concluded with anday having been smuggled out eloquent appeal to exorcise the of Italy. It is now in an hotel in baneful influences separating the the Strand guarded by detectives. two countries and to unite them.
in a fruitful and enduring union.
THE BALKAN CRISIS.
AN IMPROVEMENT
REPORTED..
SOME BIO SCORING.
means,
EL
widows.
Mr. Hazoland said, there was
them through to Australia...
Balkans.
Bill to eliminate the exemption
At the Marine Court to-day, to descend, just olearing a clump before Commander Basil Taylor, of trees which skirts the golf
Liberal M.P.'s to the number RN, Li Tai, master of the S.L. couree, when the wind appeared
of 174 have politioned Mr. Lloyd Bailey was charged with carrying to strike the tail and turn the
George for a reduction of the At the Police Court, this after-taxes on tea, sugar and other 49 passengers in excese of the machine completely upside down, number allowed by his licence in causing it instantly to plunge noon, Mr. Hazelund, and a jury articles of food. Victoria Harbour on January 10. headlong to the ground,
consisting of Mesare, C. C. Hick- The defendant, who was re- Dr. Goddard, of Wembley, who ling, R. C. Graff, H. Davidson A committee of independent presented by Mr. Davidson of was summoned, found that in each and Abdul Gaffoor Suffiad in-experts is to report within three lesers. Hastings and Hastings, case life was extinct. Shocking quired into the death of a pri- months on the merits of various injuries had been sustained, in-soner named You Sam, aged 60, wireless systems, regarding the pleaded not guilty.
PO. Joy deposed to seeing the cluding fractures of the legs and who died in Victoria Gaol. defendant's launch in the south skull. In each case death was fairway, and, as she appeared due to abook.
t
A. G. Passmore, the Chief War-
Imperial chain.
London, January 15, A message from Sydney says: that New South Wales, in their DUCHESS OF CONNAUGHT match with South Australia, com piled the huge totala of 513 and 314 rans, to which V. Trumper contributed 201 not out, O. G.
der,said that the deceased wassixty The Russo-Chinese Commercial Macartney 125 and 98, and W. Bardsley 90:
overloaded, he stopped her. Go- At the inquest, the jury return years of age. He was admitted Treaty of 1881 is to be extended verdict of Accidental to the gaol on January 3rd. hay for a further decade, with certain South Australia compiled 331 ing on board he say that in viewed a and 419, of which Olom Bill was of the quantity of luggage he had death," and expressed the opinion ing been convicted of being in deletions from the provisions ap- London, January 15. A message from Montreal says responsible for 138 and 77 and on board, defendant was carrying that the officers should not be possession of counterfeit ocios, pended thereto.
passengers in excess. There sllowed to make experimental and keeping an opium divan. He The Balkan Delegates have that the Duchess of Connaught's Moyes 95. informed a representative of health has further improved. She New South Wales won by 84 were 57 on board altogether, as flights without permission from was sentenced to one month's
well as 18 others who, the the authorities.
hard labour on the first charge, Reuter's Agency that they will has been able to take nourish-runs.
defendant said, comprised the The following is a list of officers and three months hard labour Moleonan in a billiard matob be ready to leave England im- ment regalarly and aleeps woll. mediately after the delivery of
PEACE PROSPECTS REMOTE.
the Alien's Note to Turkey.
In well-informed quarters there is but little hope that the resump-| tion of hostilities will be avoided,
Later. Well-informed people in Lon- don consider that a little fighting will prove to be the shortest way of securing peace, as Adrianople is not expected to resist another attook.
A message from Sofia says that King Ferdinand and bis Minis ters are proceeding to Mustafa Paabs to meet General Sayoff and she Commanders of the four Bal- garion Armies,
London, January 15.
FOOD TAXES.
LIBERALS DESIRE REDUCTION.'
London, January 15.
No fewer than 174 Liberal Members of Parliament have signed a memorial to Mr. Lloyd George asking for a reduction in the taxation of ten sugar, and other artioles of food..
IMPERIAL WIRELESS.
THE REPORT AMENDED.
Grow..
LOCAL
Sergeant T. Pitt defeated Mr..
of the Army and Navy who have on the second charge. The Government Marine lost their lives aeroplane acci- Warder Macaulay said deceased last night. Surveyor, Mr. McDonald, stated dent that his measurements showed the Lieut. R. A. Cammell, Sept. the hospital the previous day. space available for passengers to 17, 1911.
he 476 superficial feet, or space. Capt. E. B. Loraine, July 5, for 68 passengers. The space 1912. occupied by luggage was 418. Staff Sergt. R. H. V. Wilson, square foot room for 59 gansongers.| July 5, 1912. That number had to be deduoted. Capt. Hamilton, Sept 6, 1912.
The plea of not guilty was Sec. Lt.A. Wyners-Stuart, Sopt. withdrawn and a fine of $100 Sept. 6, 1912,
Lieut. O. A. Bettington, Sept. 10, 1912.
Seo. Lieut. E, B. Hotchkiss, Sept. 10, 1912.
London, January 15. The Marconi Inquiry Commit bas revised its interim Report to the extent of requiring a com- was imposed.
For carrying 22 persons in bis mittee of independent experts, with the Chairman having judi- cargo boat, the same not being oil or administrative capacity, persons in charge of goods or to report within three months on Laggage, on January 15, Lau Itus merits of varlóúd systeme." Kant-lar was food 30.
Meu W. Parke, R. N., Dec.
120,1078
was handed over to his care in
The annual meeting of the After being in the hospital for committee and scholars of the some time he showed signs of Peak School was held yesterday collapse, and expired later. Wit-evening. ness had summoned the medical.
To-day we publish a short officer in the meantime.
Dr. O. W. Kenny, Medical review of the stay of the King's Officer of the Victoris Gaol, Own Yorkshire Light Infantry in deposed to attending the de- the Colony. ceased. Death, in his opinion,
was due to chronic opium poison-
In the case in which a junk ing. Deceased had evidently been master sued the 8.9. Loongseng an opium smoker,
to recover damages for collision,
}.
A verdiet of natural enusos, was judgment has been given for the røftede 1.