The Hongkong Telegraph.
April 20, 1913, Temperature a.m. 73, p.m. 80; Humidity...92, 76.
(ESTABLISHED 1881.) Copyright, 1912 by the Proprietor,
WEDNESDAY,
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WEATHER FORECAST
FAIR
Barometer 20.80
April 20, 1912, Temperature a.m. 78, p.m. 70; Humidity... 87, 80.
APRIL
30, 1918.
三拜禮
號十三月四英港香
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THE BALKAN CRISIS.
THE BALKAN" CRISIS.
SITUATION COMPLICATED.
FINANCIAL PANIC.
DUCHESS OF CONNAUGHT,
OPERATION PERFORMED.
HOME RACING,
TWO THOUSAND QUINBAS..
"FUTILE AND FARCICAL."
Router's
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London April 29.
Reater's [Service to the "Telegraph."] ·
London, April 20..
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Reuter's [Service to the "Telegraph."]
London, April 20.
The latest move of Esend Pasha Reports that Austria has de- The Duchess of Connaught has is regarded as seriously complicided on independent action been operated on for intestinal cating the situation.
against Montonogro momentarily trouble. Austrian circles, have not con- demoralised the Stock Markets,
A bulletin states that she is as cealed their irritation at the re- especially on the Continent, well as can be expected: luctance of the Ambassadors to though they afterwards partially agree to further pressure upon recovered. Montenegro, and declare that At present London has no off- Austria will not agree to inde-cial confirmation of the rumour, finite delay, but will insist upon Montenegro being forcibly com- pelled to evacuata Skutari. They do not believe that this will roces eitate fighting.
Russian Opinion.
Ia Rnesian quarters the opinion is expressed that there will be gravo difficulties should Austria not alone.
Ambassadors Confer.
Router learns that the Con- ference of Ambassadors, which took place on Monday, lasted three and a half hours, the long- net sitting up to the present. Sir Edward Grey presided. The Conference WGS adjourned to Thursday, by which time it i believed it may be found possible to convey the information desired by Austria regarding the Powere'
intentions.
Montenegrin Intentions.
The "Wienerallgemeine Zei- tung" saya the meeting of Am- bassadors on Thursday will do eide which, if any, Powers shall participate in the possible coer eive action by Austria against Montenegro in the event of King Nicholas not unconditionally yielding.
TROUBLE IN INDO-
CHINA
HONGKONG OR CANTON CONCERNED.
CALIFORNIA & ALIENS.
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT'S
WISH.
London, April 20. A message from Sacramento statea that Mr. W. J. Bryan, Secretary of State, addressed the executive at a joint session with the Legislature and said the national Government asked that the Californian Land Ownership logislation should stand over till next session as the matter could bo sottled diplomatically.
The Californian View.
Later.
Renter's
[Service to the "Telegraph."]
London, April 29.
MARCONI COMMITTEE. THE LISBON TROUBLES.
STATEMENT BY PREMIER.
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NEWS FOR BUSY LEN.
TELEGRAMS.
THE NEWS CONDENSED.
Prince Pánilo has, arrived in Cetinje and handed the keys of Skutari to King Nicholas.
The health of Mra Pankhurst renders her removal to prison inadvisable at present
The Duchess of Connaught has undergone another operation, and is as well as can be expected
Reatar's [Service to the "Telegraph."]
[Service to the “ Telegraph." London, April 29.
London, April 29. The probable startera and Mr. Churchill's outburst has
Reuter's correspondent at Lie- jockeys for the Two Thousand afforded numerous newspapers bon states that, in the Chamber of Guineas, to be ran at Newmarket the opportunity of demanding Deputies, the Premier read a over a distance of one mile on the closing of the Committee of statement on the subject of the Wednesday, are as follow: Enquiry into the Marconi Con conspiracy, in which he declared Roseworthy (Stern), Kings- tract, whose proceedings are that the Government were aware borough (H. Jones), Halos (E. condemned as futile and farcical. of the preparations and knew the Templeman), Fairy King (F.
ringleaders, but they did not in- Woolton), Shogun (W. Huxley),
An earthquake is reported from tervene before the outbreak ag Radiant Craganour (Saxby),
they wished the people to see the Canada, but there does not ap (Martin) Biohelor's Wedding
criminal anti-republican inten-pear to have been much damere (Donoghue). Rouvois (Reiff),
done. tion of the conspirators. Sanquhar (Maher) Day Comet (Clark) Mooting flows (O'Neill), Mouthpiece (Higge), Nassau (Earl), Ramsgate (Herbert).
MRS. PANKHURST.
STILL IN NURSING HOME.
London, April 29.
BOOK WORLD.
The Salats of Formosa.
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The Austrian press is most impatient, and one of the organs demands breaking of the con- ference. Later.
The Chamber and Senate un- The "eiok man" of the For East is now one of the most inanimously passed votes of con- teresting of convalescents. This fidence in the Government. book offere in a naive and piquant fashion fresh light on his charac- ter, and is, moreover, most enter- taining. We were wont to regard bon states that a vague official:
Further Disturbances. Reuter's correspondent at Lis-
It is reported that the Kuo-
all Chinese as yellow, flatnosed, account of some disturbances on mingtang is pressing Chen. Teh- almond-eyed. Oloser acquaint- Monday night mentions firing chuan, Tutuh of Kiangsu, bes ance reveals that one has a aboard the cruiser San Gabriel come "President of South Chi Roman nose, another a Scottish at two o'clock in the morning.
Newspapers are demanding the countenance, a third a Grecian The crew were immediately lined The medical inspootor to the air. The slowness, patience, da- up, but the officers did not disclosing of the Marconi Com Narsing Home to which Mrs. Pankhurst was recently removed plicity, and, in particular, the cover the culprits.
There is now perfect tran- reports that the health of Mra,atolidity attributed to all as
are quillity, Pankhurst renders it inadvisable characteristic of the race
Rauter's correspondant at Sacramento wires that prior to the adjournment of the confer- ence between Mr. Bryan and the legislators, the Governor spoke in defence of the majority plan. He declared, that it was California's CLAIM AND COUNTER right to follow the lead of other States, which was not questioned.
mittee, whose proceedings are condemned as futile and farcical.
The question of the imprison- ment in Japan of Mr Wheeler, of Genz, Wheeler and Co., has been brought up in the House of Commons.
to remove her to prison for the generalizations which intimacy The Government has taken the modifies to a great extent. necessary steps to deal with the present."
There is, perhaps, but one situation.
Two bombs thrown from the person better qualified than the simple missionary to succeed in barracks at Trazos Montes did overcoming the obstacles which much damage.
Thirteen arrests were made at Trouble is reported from Indo- confront the white man who wishes to gain a friendly footing Coimbra, the accused being China, it being said that a plot tisans of Kwongte, who are direct-clusion of the speech was that the
The general feeling at the con- What Transpired in the Solicitor's with the yellow races, and that charged with attempting to in-was devised and a bomb prepared
in Hongkong or Canton.
London, April 29. The Governor of Tudo-Chins, in a dispatch to Paris, refers to an outrage at Banol, and states that it is attributed to the par-
ed by the agitator Pharn By Chau, determination of the majority to at present in China. The Gover-
revolutionaries. The
possible advance or to occupy the police have discovered bombs in Tarabosh-Boyana region which Saigon.
pass the Bill specifically debar-
The conference will be
CLAIM
Office
is his medical confrere, says the fluence soldiers. "Athenseum." The barriers of Another Mysterious Statement.
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The Stock Markets on the Con...
reports that Austria is taking independent action against Mon tenegro.
The departure of the Montene nor is of the opinion that the plot ring aliens ineligible for citizen- This morning in the Summary a ghostly-pale face, awkward According to a later message, regarded as indicating an inten-ed in Canton or Hongkong, where mained unchanged. grin troops from Skutari is not was dovised sud the bomb preparship from land-owning, has re- Court, before, Mr. Justice Kemp, attire, eyes of uncertain hue another mysterious official state-tinent have been demoralized by
Puisne Judge the case was oon- and peculiar form, alien man-ment says that the naval barracks
or lack of them, the and the warships are quiet. tion to yield to the Powers, but the Chinese revolutionarios are
continued in which Arthur Curtners rather that they are going to advising and subsidising the Au-tinued to-day (Tuesday), Seidel, carrying on business as a over-refinement and delicacy of The newspapers describe the Cettinje and Antivari to resist anamese
machinery import and commis an unknown civilization, fall various happenings as the move- sion agent, York Buildings, saed more easily before the lasting ment of visionaries and sa a comic Man Shin Ohi and the Wing Fung kindness, good temper, and skill intermezzo.
The police have closed a Trades Co. 102 Connaught Road, claim-which win the love of the people ing the sum of $100, for work through the medical mission than Union in the centre of Lisbon, alleged to be done and material before the exhortation of the and two newspapers have cessed supplied by the plaintiff to the preacher, as the author one of to appear defendants,
the latter freely admits. Medical missions remove prejudice, but it is typical of the faculty for seo- ing himself as others see him that
Montenegro demands as compon- The message does not indicate sation for the loss of Skutari. the nature of the outrage].
Greeks and Bulgarians.
A message from Salonika states that the orders for the withdrawal of Bulgarian troops from all places occupied by the Greeks have been counterimanded.
The General View.
"Climax Nearly Reached.
CANADIAN
EARTHQUAKE.
BIG AREA AFFECTED.
FUNERAL SERVICE
WHILE ALIVE.
Strange Ceremony at a Japanese
Shrine..
Old Japan is not dead yet. The following advertisement appeared recently in several of the Tokyo papers:-
Mr. M. J. D. Stephens appeared for the plaintiff and Mr. Leo D' Almada e Osatro for the defence.
Chinese Laundries in West
Australia.
Perth, March 28, The A.N.A.
In a counter-claim which was the author is also, sensitive Conference rejected the proposal filed by the defendant, it was to the suspicion which some- to admit other than Australian- alleged that the parties agreed times arises from the expenditure born, and passed a motion that that the plaintiff should erect on of money by foreigners and the Government compel all per- establishment of clarit sons engaging Asiatics to engage the defendant's premises a rice the
It
The Conference of Ambasadors, shows that the Powers are not prepared to adopt warlike men sures in the case of Montenegro.
It is now generally accepted that the surrender of Skutari vena the outcome of a preconcerted. arrangement between Essad Pasha and the Montenegrins.
LOCAL
Hongkong Volunteer orders up-
The latest tennis and billised
Some facts concerning the Anglo-American Players, who are to open at the Theatre Royal shortly, appear to-day.
"The undersigned, in view of the political situation, havo now decided to start on a very import London, April 20. ant mission at the risk of their It is now generally accepted
polishing machine, and if it were able institutiona, "Even our and pay them through the pear in this issue. lives. that the aurrender of Skutari was A message from Ottawa states
They desire, therefore to hold superior to the one already posses- neighbours, the French or the Colonial Secretary's office. the outcome of a preconcerted that an earthquake was felt at arrangement between Essad 7.40 on Monday evening in East-a farewell meeting with their sed by the defendants, they Russians, would be distrusted if also passed a resolation that Paska and the Montenegrina with orn Ontario and Western Quebec. acquaintances before the graves should buy the machine at a cost they opened an orphanage or branches have the right to expel a view to a future settlement of It was also felt in Montreal and of the 47 ronin and drink water of $450. It was further agreed founded an seylum in some British any member who patronises a results will be found to-day un-
A resolution der the heading of local apart. together, and at the same time to that if the machine proved to be town, especially when it was seen Chinese laundry. the Albanian question which | Ottawa.
was that their methods, medicines, in favour of proportional repre- should be convenient to both. A telescope in the Dominion hold their funeral services while defective and the rice
polished in an inferior condition to instruments, were unfamiliar and sentation was carried, but the Observatory was wrecked. This they are still alive.
They request all those who that done by the defendant's at variance with precedent. But proposal for elective Ministries would join the function to come machine, the plaintiff should what if the philanthropists came was rejected. to the Senka-kuji Temple, Tak- remove the machine. On trial the from some unknown or almost anawa, Shiba, at 19 a.m. on machine proved defective, and unvisited region? February 15,
the polished rice inferior to that "The exact date of their death put out by the defendants' ast nor the antagonist of missions NEWS FOR BUSY MEN. superintendent at Victoria GOL is not yet certain, but the priests machine. Damages to the extent of will find in those frank pages will read Scriptures before their $249.40 were claimed.
anything that will violently sub- coffins as in a funeral service. An interesting argument arose vert his point of view; but from Upon their death, no further on a question that Mr Stephens the unvarnished tale of success ceremonies will be held, nor any wished to put to a witness as to and failure it may be gathered wreaths accepted.
what transpired in the office of that an undoubted cleansing of (Signed) Kanjiro Tsuda, the defendant'a solicitor. superstition is in progress, and "Gitaro Goto, Mr D'Almada objected on the that the influence of the few "Mohei Miyaji." ground that the witness was in converts is out of all proportion This strange announcement the employ of the plaintiff, to their numbers. "Deermouth
A later message states that everything tends to confirm the fact that a climax will be reached at the meeting of Ambassadors on May 1.
Powers Reluctant,
Reuter learns that at the Con- ference of Ambassadore it was! shown that the majority of the Powers were not prepared to adopt warlike measures in the oase of Montenegro, although they apparently are prepared to con- sent to the occupation of a coast town in the event of continuous recalcitrancy.
Austrian Impatience.
is the only damage yet reported..
A later mossage from Ottawa wires that the earthquake did no damage there.
THE WHEELER CASE.
QUESTION IN HOUSE OF .COMMONS
London, April 29,
Neither the missionary enthusi
TELEGRAMS.
THE NEWS CONDENSED.
Further disturbances are re-
Lord Haldene has been made à
Mr. B. H. A. Craig, sæistant
has retired and Captain Rogu D. C. L. I. hoa bean temporarily appointed to the post.
DON'T FORGET,
Answering a question in the excited no small curiosity not to and Was Bent by them in a town of 20,000 inhabitants.ported from Lisbon. House of Commons on Monday say sensation in the Japanese to see him. He submitted that When a church had been opened regarding the sentencing in metropolis, for the signatures anything which transpired on there for about three years, no Japan of the Englishman, Mr. were recognised to be those of that occasion, was privileged, as more than twenty persons muster Knight of the Order of the Victoria Theatre 9.15 pam, W. A. Wheeler, of Gonz, Wheeler three notorious soshi (despera- between solicitor and client. ed for worship on Sunday, and Thistle.
The Chinese Senate has passed
a resolution repudiating the newly-concluded loan.
TO-DAY.
Bijon 9.15 p.m.nda
Kinetophone, Theatre Royal 9 p.m.
TO-MORROW Bijou 9.15 p.m.
Victoria Theatre 9.15 pu
Friday, May 2. H.K.F.O. Dinner
Mr R. Stephenson's Benefit, Bijon Theatre 9.15 p.
Saturday, May 3. Hongkong Electrio Co. mest
& Co., of Leicester, to four years' does), and, as everyone know, the Mr Stephens claimed that the these were chiefly drawn from penal servitude on a charge of political situation remained in a man was employed by the plain-country villages. Yet the heathen. The probable starters and jook- The Austrian press is most im- obtaining £10,000 by telling very unsettled state. Moreover, the tiff and that when he went to refused to contribute for some eys for the Two Thousand Guineas patient and a military organ obsolete knitting machines above place selected for the pre-mortem Mr D'Almada's office, he was not idolatrous rite in one of their are given in a telegram. demands the breaking off of the their value, Mr. Acland said he ceremonies was significant, says asked what He could say, but told temples, on the ground that the had telegraphed in Japan for a the "Observer." It was there that to say something he could not. Christians had no such custom," conferences.
full report.
the samurai retainers of a sixteenth That, he submitted, was a fraud Again, in Lambay Island three thousand were shamed by a con- Prince Danilo at Cottinje.
century Daimyo, after avenging and therefore not privileged. on the person of a rival chief the His Lordship ruled that the gregation of ten members into Renter's correspondent at Cot-
death of their lord, committed questions were admissible, but abandoning the practice of female tinje wires that Prince Danilo bas
harakiri and were buried amid told Mr Sephens that he could infanticide. arrived there and has been given
As a presentation of missionary is regarded as "seriously coming-noon. every mark of popular approval, not lead.
Wednesday May. anovation. He handed the
An enormous crowd thereforce The witness was then called effort in rural China, this book plicating the Balkan situation.
Licensing Board -2:16 pm. koya of Skutari to King Nicholas
repaired on the advertised date to but though he remembered going bears the stamp of absolute can-
Mr Bryan has conferred with Extraordinary General miner and then proceeded in a process
London, April 29.
the historio shrine, where the to Mr D'Almada e qfice, could not dour. ion to the Cathedral, being so companied by the Queen and Viscount Haldene, the Lord programme as set forth in the remember anything that took The Saints of Formosa: Life the legislators of California re- Royal Hongkong Golf Uh
and Worship ina Chinese Church garding the Alien Bill, but it 5.30 p.m.
Baturday May 17. other ladies, each supporting a Chancellor, has been made a announcement including the place there
After bearing farther evidence By Campbell N. Moody, (Oliphant, appears that there is no change
Anderson & Ferrior.)
in the latters' attitude,
Bankruptcy Court wounded soldier. The populace Knight of the Order of the funeral rites was carried out to
Elis 0986, was adjourned. the letter, throw flowers at their feet. Thistle,
LORD HALDANE HONOURED.
The latest mors of Esad Paala