The Hongkong Telegraph
March 27th, 1013, Temperature a.m. 67, p.m. 63. Humidity.....40, 39.
0063 晚十二月二年丑癸
AFTER THE TORNADO.
TERRIBLE TALES OF FLOODS: FAMINE AND FIRES.
TOTAL DEATH-ROLL SAID TO BE 6,000 AT LEAST.
[Reuter's Service To The "Telegraph."]
London, March: 20.
The tornado has caused enor mous dapiago in the United States, principally at Omalia.
A messago from Springfield, Ohio, to-day, states that dam baret at Pique, and it is reported that 540 people were drowned in 13ft. of water.
There are rumours that at Dayton 5,000 porished and 30,000 were rendered homeless.
Terrible Floods.
Later,
Reuter's correspondent at New York states that the telephones are bringing details of the foods.
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THURSDAY,"
TELEGRAMS.
VISCOUNT WOLSELEY.
TO BE BURIED IN ST. PAUL'S.
Reater's
[Service to the Telegraph."]
London, March 28, The remains of the late Field
MARCH $27 1913.
TELEGRAMIR
WEATHER FORECAST
SHOWERY.
Barometer 30:14.
March 27th, 1912, Temperature a.m. 62, p.m. 80; Humidity...81, 60,
勝七十月三英香
TELEGRAMS.
THE INDIAN MURDER.
THE FRENCH CRISIS.
LT, CLARK" EXECUTED,
·A· PRECARIOUS POSITION,
Reuter's [Service to the "Telegraph."]
London, March 26. Reuter's correspondent
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It is reported that St. Elizabeth Hospital with six hundred Marshal Viscount Wolseley will Allahabad reports that Lieutenant patients has been wrecked. be interred at St. Paul's CatheJlark has been executed...
The people are without eitherdral on Monday. gue or electricity and are faced with famine, and there is no drinking water,
APPRECIATED RAINS, (London, March 28, The rescuera say that the.
A telegram from Melbourne estimate of five thousand dead states that beneficial rains have is not exaggerated, and even fallen in Victoria, South Australis stronger buildings are collapsing and New South Wales,
The flood reached its height at midnight and is now slowly subsiding. Later the wind veer- ed, causing further fires.
Hundreds Die.:
It is already reported that two hundred thousand people are The latest dispatches from homeless in Indiana, Indianapolis state that the catas: The most terrible news is that trophe is due to the breaking of from Dayton where there is a the Wabash leves (dam) and seething river of one and a half hundreds ore lead.. miles on each side of the City'e At Delaware seventy-five are main thoroughfare. A school of dead, while among the flooded four Lundred children is entirely cities are Fort Wayne, Lafayette, submerged.
Richmond, Kohoma and Logan The horror of the situation is Spit. Their total fatalities num heightened by the outbreak of ber fifteen. fires of which a dozen can be soon blazing.
Collapse of Reservoir.
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Reu'or's correspondent Ohi- cago states that there has been
drowned.
TIGER HUNT.
M. Barthou has declared that the Government is convinced that the Three Yeare Service Bill alone will assure the defence of the national honour. It was im- possible to make compromises when the very life of the country was at stake..**
BINGEM Oory 10′′ OMTI.
NAVAL ESTIMATES
INTRODUCED.
MR. CHURCHILL ON THE NEW SITUATION.
THE INCREASE IN EXPENDITURE explained.
[Reuter's Service To The Telegraph."1
Another Vote Possible.
im-
ther advance h11101 orgwer and size of the new and more expensive torpedoes led to an increase in the number of torpedo-tubes, and a further in- crease in the supply of torpedoes. Larger ships and guns involve larger dooks and an increase in the scale of all appliances and
The Future
Router's [Service to the "Telegraph."]
London, March 26, Reuter's correspondent at Paris says the impression in the lobby
A message received on the
is that the position of the Minis-
London, March 26,
vessels we shall require to cons 10th inst stated Retters cor- try as the result of the vote of In the House of Commons to truct each year, sed that Law, respondent at Allahabad wires confidence is precarious. The day, Mr. Winston Churchill, and the Mediterranean require- that Lieutenent Clark and remain points of their policy an- First Lord of the Admiralty, in ments, have still more increased Fulham have been sentenced to nounced in the Chamber are the troduced the Naval Estimates. At the number and proportions of death for the murder of Mr. Ful introduction of the Three Years the outset he explained the causes ships which must be maintained ham and for abetting in the mur der of Lieutenant Clare's wife. Military Service Bill and Electoral for the increase in naval expendi- in the highest condition of The sentence on Mrs Fulham
Reform.
turo, which were-Firstly, owing readiness.." · To ̈*: 'mar and was commuted to penal servitude
to decisions of policy to increase maintain the resulting war for life as she is enceinte ]·
the number of ships maintained fleets, a continual and large in- in fuil commission in consequence crease in the number of officers OBITUARY.
of the new German Navy Law, and men of all ranks and ratings and the decisions to increase the is required. The increase in the GENL. SIR W. CAMERON, Sportsmen's Adventure in Korea.
the personnel; secondly, the in-ships is compelled by the general numbers and, notably, the pay of size, cost and speed of capital
The mountains of South Chonal
London, Larch 26. Province are the haunts of General Sir William Gordon
orease in size, speed, armamente, developments in zaval solence The death is "sanounced of Korean tigers and stories of Cameron..
equipment and coat of warships, and types. Building abroad is of all kinds, necessary to keep marked by uncensing increase in pace with similar vessels now speed, which affects not only. adventure are frequently received [Deceased, who was 854 years
attacks of plague, from that part of the peninsule, of age, was & Crimean veteran.
and building all over the world; third-capital ships but destroyers, light the recovered organisms ly, from the introduction and cruisors and submarines. This says the Secul Preas." Only He entered the army in 1844 and agglutinated with plague serum. development of new services, increase in spoed involves i Makpo told of a Korean girl being service in the Urimes, Turley and dence, had also not been out of and wireless telegraphy; fourthly, The increased cost of fuel, par a few days ago a report from retired in 1895, after having seen This woman, from reliable evi- principally oil, fuel, air service mense increases in horse-power. carried away by two tigers. An Abyssinia. He was Commander the Philippine Islands daring the from the general increase in ticularly oil fuel, is serious and other report from the same port in-chief for Hongkong and the past few years, At a near-by prices and wages, particularly in shows no likelihood of immediate just to hand telle of a thrilling Settlements from 1885 to 1889 ] food store, where the woman is rogard to the cost of coal, oil, abatement. adventure experience recently
The adoption by known to have purchased her steel and all materiale used in Germany, America and Italy of The fire brigados were unable
with a big tiger by two Japanese
food supply, four dead rate wore shipbuilding; fifthly, from the larger guns for primary arma- to reach the occupants, who faced
hunters living at Muan.
These, men had heard that PLAGUE IN PHILIPPINES. Bureau of Science for diagnosis, fast two years arising from the numerous gans for secondary found. These were taken to the arrears of shipbuilding in the monts and of larger and more death by oither fire or water. a collapse of the reservoir at
Hundreds of houses have been Hamilton, Ouio, and that oneigers were seen in the mountains
but the post mortem -and inocula- failure of contractors to earn their armaments has necessitated t washed away with helplass peo- thousand poisins have been of Kamakwon and they set out
Hongkong" a Plague-focus. tion experimente have proved proper instalments, as manifested ple.
for the mountain, oach armed
negative.. with a rifle. Climbing up the
by delays in executing current In the Quarterly Report of mountain they soon found spoors the Bureau of Health for the has been introduced by infected
It is possible that the disease programmes. of tigers in the snow and tracing Philippine Islands Second quar fleas, although, in view of them they pushed forward into According to a telegram, from the depths of the mountain. In for an absence of sin duda has awan, and by observera in Mr. Churchill stated that the
ter, 1012-Dr Heiserstates that cases reported by Dr. McCorinne Vienna, it is expected that the the afternoon they discovered a Powers will shortly make repre- tiger creeping along a mountain man beings and five years among India, food infection cannot be Estimates would havo boon stiba sentations to Belgrade aad Coltin lope Yato took aim and fired. rats, plague was again found in the completely dierogarded. If the tantially higher but for the con- je with a view to scouring The bullet hit the animal which 1912. A Filipino employed as a ed fleas it would seem most likely out of the extraordinary demand.There is, I fear, no prospect
Philippine Islands, on June 17, disease was introduced by infect gestion in the shipyards, arising yard machinery, peedy evacuation of the territory rolled over. The two bunters at watchman at No. 235, Calle San that they reached here on upon shipbuilding plants and they have assigned to Albania, once ran towards the beast to Jacinto, in the Chinese district, sick rats including Skutari. fence the give it the coup de grace, but brasiled at No. 920, Calle An- cargo, like crates of onions and supply. If better progress is increases in the Naval Estimates in especially upon the skilled labour of avoiding large and continuing departure of the civilians from when they came within twenty tonic Eivera, was found dead at potatoes, baskets of eggs, garlic, made in executing programmes," of future years unless the period Skuteri is super flous.
yards of it, the tiger suddenly Fighting at Chatelja.. fose to its feet and ran away his home, on the date mentioned baskets of soy beans or similar continued Mr. Churchill, it will of acute rivalries and of rapid A message from Constantinople The two hunters hotly pursued it above, after an illness of about food-stuffs which arrive, arrive be necessary for me to ask Parlin scientific expansion through three days. On post-mortem ex- almost daily, in large quantities, ment later in the year for further which we are passing comes to says that fighting at Obatalja was but were soon out-distanced.
an end. Of all the nations in the continuous throughout Monday, While consulting as to what amination, typical plague baboes from China, Japan, and other supplementary Estimates. and was continued on Tuesday. should be done, the tiger reap and axilla. Smears made from have actually been observed in were found in the right groin plague-infected countries. Rata
New Facts.
world we, perhaps, are best able to bear such a strain if it should The Turks are rushing up re-in-peared on a rock scarcely a yard she spleen showed Gram nega such cargo, and it would be not at "The Navy is passing through continue.” forcements to withstand the in front of the hunters and attacks.
pounced upon one of them. The tive, bipolar staining organisme, all impossible for an infected rat a period not merely of expansion,
The final portion of the speech, man was severaly bitter in the and inoculations made into guinea to have been introduced in this but of swift and ceaseless deve right hand, but fortunately he had pigs resulted in typical attacks way. The officers of the Public lopment. The latest German Navy had not arrived at the time of bis loaded rifle in hand and fired of plague. The organism Health and Marine Hospital Ser-Law has increased the number of going to press. an-it point blank at the head of the which was recovered from vice located in Hongkong and been infuriated beast. The bullet en plague serum in high dilutions the danger of introducing plague the guinea pigs agglutinated Manila have long since recognized captured after two days' dos tered the brain of the animal the source of the infection in this way, but up to the present NEWS, FOR BUSY MEN. The debale was suspended, and
through the right eye and it is unknown. The nearest known time it has been impossible to Dr. Daneff, the President of the
dropped dead instantly. Bulgarian Sobranje, and the
The tiger was an unusually big there is no evidence to show entirely eliminating the dan focus of plague is at Hongkong, devise a practical method for Bulgarian Minister to St. Peters-
animal measuring more than seven burg, who happened to be in the
feet. The Japanese Municipal that this man had been out of the gor from the introduction House, were shouldered and
Office and Chamber of Commerce country during the past few years of rats in this manner without carried round, being followed by the President and Vice Presidents
London, March 26. have jointly bought it with the Test examination of rats caught placing prohibitive restrictions of the Dams.
The Independent Labour Party, intention of presenting the skin to in the different districts of Manila, upon commerce. The theory of The Russian and Bulgarian which is holding a Conference ai Count Teracuchi, the Governor-Particularly those from importers the introduction of the plague by arationsod, have been made at means of food is slightly support National Anthems were sung in Manchester, has resolved to op- General of Korea.
weekly intervals throughout the ed by the fact that, at the autopsy the Dum, and the Chaplains pose the Plural Voting and other Electoral Bills until the Govern.
year since 1907 and have always of the first case, ulcerated tonsils * Harbour Offenders. Bang a Te Deum,
proved negative.
were found, but as no cultures Afterwards, the Bulgarians ment introduces a mossure en-
The owners of eight boats were Houses in the vicinity of which were taken it is impossible to to franchising women. were escorted by the Deputies to
charged at the Marine Court the man resided, and where he submit anything definite under The Conference also passed a with anchoring their oraft worked, showed evidences of rat this head. their hotels.
resolution in favour of propor- within 100 yards of low mark in intestation, but an examination tional representation.
a prohibited place and during made of many hundreds of rats, Mr. Snowden, M.P., estimated prohibited hears. They were fla- caught there, failed to reveal any that 80 Independent Labourities ed in all-$24 and Socialists would be returned under a system of proportional
THE BALKAN WAR.
·ADRIANOPLE FALLS.
London, March 28. Renter's correspondent at Sofia announces from a well-informed source that the Balgarian cavalry --has entered Adrianople.
Reuters correspondent at Sofia states that, at dawn, the Balgari- ang made a bold attack and cap tured the whole eastern front of Adrianople, including six forte with all batteries.
Rejoicings in the Duma. Router's correspondent at St. Petersburg wires that the news of the Bulgarian entry into Adria. nople resulted in remarkable scenes in the Duma, the Deputies and the public cheering till they
were hoarse.
The Surrender.
Later,
Deuter's correspondent at Solis wires that Adrianople is now entirely occupied.
The Turkish Commandant, Chukri Pasha, surrendered to General Ivanoff at two o'clock on Wednesday afternoon,
City In Flames.
A later message states that the Tarks set fire to all stores, the
Chatelja Captured,
London, March 27.
The Bulgarian Legation nounces that Chatalja has perate fighting.
VOTES FOR WOMEN.
ATTITUDE OF 1. L. P.
representation.
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THE SYDNEY STRIKE
A SETTLEMENT.
London, March 26.. Realer's correspondent
Sydney reports that the strike in
"Jack Jeffries.
A dispatch from Los Angeles says that Jack Jeffries is contem plating re-entering the ring because of the present poor crop of heavy weights.
plague infection, nor was there
which oamo
TELEGRAMS,
THE NEWS CONDENSED.
Lieutenant Clark, who was con- corded in the Agra, murders, has been executed.
LOCAL
The report of the directors, of the China Borneo Co. Ltd., appears in this issue.
The seventh day of the hearing in the bank note case was.com ́manced this morning, before, the Chief Justice.
Play in the Soldiers Club, Billiards Tournament, was res commenced on Tuesday when the Mr. Churchill's speech in in-87th R.G.A met the R;E: team(B).
extensively covered in à telegram,
troducing the Naval estimates is Mr. Crewe, at the Police Court
this morning, referred to the an-
It is announced that the Bal fairness of detaining prisoner.in garian Cavalry have entered gaol in prohibitive bail without Adrianople which has surrender-evidence being offered
ang history of anusual rat mortal- NEWS FOR BUSY MEN: CH ity having occurred anywhere in Manila.
The second death occurred on June 26, in the person of a Fili- pino woman, aged 4 at 1015, On Suspicion of High Treason; Calle Azcarraga, near the Arran
A Prussian officer, a relative of que Market. She was found alive, one of the highest officers in the in her house, and had been ill for Prussian army, has been arrested three days. At the time she was 01 suspicion of high treason, pre-transferred to the San Lazaro
TELEGRAMS.
THE NEWS CONDENSED
"Terrible news comes to hand of the damage and loss of life by fizoda in America, the death-roll being at least 6,000,
There was continuous fighting at Chatalja on Monday and Tues day, the Tarks rushing up rein- forcements to withstand the
The Sydney ferry strike has attacked
Arsenal, the Artillery Depot, the harracks and the hospital.
The northern quarters of the connection with the Ferris is sumably in the form of espionage. Hospital she had a temperature been settled.
settled, the companies conceding He was arrested on February 3 at of 41 deg. C. and was in a dying the men 08 hours a fortnight the instance of the Imperial De- condition. The autopsy showed instead of 120.
partment of Pablio Prosecutions slightly enlarged.
sity are in flames, which are
devastating many points.."
tha
The population is wildly flying
directions.
Position of Skutari.
age from Cettinje, says egrin envoys have to Skutari to notify that the civilians res days in
town
THE DEAD KING.
London, March 26. British, German, Italien Aas trinn, Rassion and Trench war ships are escorting the remains of the late King of Greece from Salonika to the Piragus.
the
Viscount Wolseley is to be at Leipzig. He was imprisoned left groin, but the her usual buried at St. Paul's on Monday. in Berlin, but released later on autopsy findings of pligue" were bail, said to amount to several conspicuond by their ubernce, The position of the new French hundred thousand marks, Daring Smear ~ pre arations the from Ministry is regarded as pre- his five days of arreat the pri the zoner was allowed to receive his sections. wife do
The ulmost secroo. Gra is observ with regard to the "nature of the Okarze,
guines
The
Plamal voting and other oleo oral Bills are to be opposed by
tes until the Govern the Labau ment introduces a Bill enfrün chising women c
akannounced of in William Gordon ter
The news of the
Commander Baeil Taylor this morning enquired into the cir cumstances attending g the collision between two stean launches as the result of which one was sunk,
DON'T FORGET.
TO-DAY,
tynd
Bijon 9.15 p.m. Victoria Theatre 9.15 p.m.
BERTO MORROW Bijon 9.15 p.m.
Victorin Theatre 9:15 pm Bandminan Opera Co., Theatre Royal, 9 pm,
Saturday March 20,476 Oxford and Cambridge Dinner, RHF Yacht Club Regatta ARGIA,Sports USE ON Kowloon 2p m.5
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