THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1913.
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INAUGURATION OF THE ther so happily our Governments
PRESIDENT.
The Second Anniversary of the Republic.
The Frcond unrealy of the Republe and the inauguration of President Yuan were calebrarid
the delivery. There were, in Siberian.-Arrived the e.s. Gneison Friday with great rejoicing.
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The foreign Ministers in Paking were decorated with the Order of the Chiaobo.
A fall description of the in this fashion. It is quite apliko German.-Closes per s.s. Gooise-in
taken from the North the Daily Mail to be a day behind
China Dasty News, appears the fair. That it came overseas we ́
nau at 9 a.m. to-morrow. below, know, but there is nothing on the American and Candianolose per
The President Takes Oath. wrapper to show that it Aver
arrived in the Hongkong Post Office; merely a London postmaris adorns the wrapper, and that is all. It may, of course, have arrived all on its lonesome by the French mail on Saturday, or is it possible that it arrived by the English mail on Thursday and got overlooked somehow ? We merely ask for information, though| we are not likely to get it.
London-Hongkong,37 Days.
"The date of the paper sheds a
little light on the matter, but
what light it affords merely serves
to
accentuate the darkness, as
it
were. The date is Soptember 6,
and it was posted on the same day
88. Mexico Maru at noon
to-morrow.
at
Siberian Close, per e.. Kleist
2 p.m. to-morrow. American.-L. ft per ss. China
to-day at 3 p.m.
A Suicide.
Volunteer Dance.
bably to hold early in the season.
WOMAN DOCTOR'S. EXPERIENCES.
Dr Ross of the Glenlogan Relates her ·Adventuras.
had an ladian cavalry regiment It is not every lady who has
and yours to day will be lighten- ed in the future. The Corps Pip- lomatique is assured that this will be the case through the valu- able co-operation of the Chief of the Chinese Stato. The Corps is happy to offer your Excelleney the wishes which the Corps has formed for the beneficial result sent out to bring her home, but of your administration and for that is what happened once to Dr Ross of the s.8. Glenlogan. Dr Ross your personal happiness,"
is the first woman doctor to sot on board a ship-by the way she insists on "woman dooter" rather than "lady doctoṛ.”
A Pledge to the Powers.
Peking, Oot. 10, President Yuan Shih-kai em- bodied the lloming very im
This pi neer of woman med-
portant undertaking in bia Pre-1009 on board ship can talk sidential address :-
well of her experinces in such a career as falls to the lot of fów "The Attitude of Foreign women, and a Telegraph repre- Peking, Oct. 10 Powers towards us has always sentative was certainly interest Wet weather seriously marred been that of peace and fairness ed in the brief chat be had to-day's Presidential inauguration given us cordial assistance when with the doctor on board. Sha ceremonies, and the crowds in the ever occasion arose. This, of was fittingly attired in a kind streets adjacent to the Forbidden course, is due to the civilization of uniform with shoalder straps, City Welé naturally, therefore, of the world; yet all the sanie we and she laughingly complained. conspicuously thin.
highly appreciate the goodwill of the fact that very little illness was to be found among the crew.
But in any case the fact that of friendly Powers.. the proceedings were confined to "It is most important that all At the same time she spoke in the precincts of the Imperial Pa- the qitizens of the Republic should pleasant terms of the courtesy The Police report that a Chi-restricted to all but the favoured deavour to strengthen inter- the captain of the ship, Captain lace and that participation was clearly understand this and en- that had been extended her by nese at Tai O has committed aut few prevented any manifestation national friendship with sincerity. McGregor, and it might here be cide by taking poison."
of public interest.
"I hereby declare that all added that he, in turn, bad al- The foreign Ministers, in full treaties, conventions and other ready spoken enthusiastically of uniform, arrived at the southern engagements entered into by for- his woman doctor. gate of the Forbidden City about mer Manola and Provisional Re-
In Persia. 'Arrangements' are now afoot for nine o'clock and were accomodate- publ. Governments with for- the Hongkong Volunteer dance ed with chairs, in which they eign Governmentashall be strictly interviewed but, after a laughing Dr Ross was not keen on being which, we are informed, will pro-were transported to the ceremon- observed and that all contracts exhortation by the captain to be ial hall, followed by their staffs duly concluded by the former charitable, she consented to give. Government with foreign com-some statement of her ex- Mr. Beilby Alaton, the British panies or individuals shall be
periences. Charge d'Affaire, was escorted to strictly observed; further, that all
"I was in Fereia about six yeara,” she remarked, the gatsa Ly a guard of British rights, privilegesand immunitities
and came back mounted infantry. His staff enjoyed by foreigners in Ohins by about last spring. Principally. I the Lagation chaplain, Mr. T. H.ments, national enactments and leading tribe of the Persiana." consisted of Bishop O. P. Scott, virtue of international engage was with the Bakhtiari tribe the Lyons, head of the Secretariat, established usages are hereby
"But why did you go?" Mr. 8. Barton and Mr. Harding, confirmed.
"This declaration I make with
"I went because I wanted to Chinese Secretarios, Mr. W♫ P. Ker, Commerical Attache, Major a view, to maintaining inter-get experience in some surgery. That is very difficult for a woman A Chinese has reported to the D. S. Robertson, Military Attache, national amity and peace."
It is understood that the Cabi to get an introduction to the chief to get, and so I went. I happenend Mrs CHAN KING-WAL wishes to convey her thanks to theter of this kind. We are not the police that during his absence Major Jones, Commandant of the
cm, proportional. Subscriptions for any period less than ne month will be charged as for The daily issue is delivered free when the address is accessible
messenger. Peak subscribers can have their copies delivered at their residences without any extra charge." On copies sent by post an additional 1.80 per quarter is charged for postage.. The postage on the weekly issue to any part of the world is 31.00
per quarter.
.
as it was published, so that it took just thirty-seven days to reach this office. The Daily Mail, for September 10, on the other hand arrived bore on Thursday last, so
Brown Paper Stolen.
"A hawker has, reported to the Single Copies, Daily, ten cents. Weekly, twenty-five cents, (for that it took just seven days less on Yauranti lice that some one has
asah only)...
the journey. A puzzle of this kind stolen two rolls of brown paper Advertisements and Subscriptions which are not ordered for a fixed adds a zest to life. There are
period will be continuel natil countermanded.
any number of possible ex-from outside his house at Sai (Payable in Advance.) ·
planations, and you have very Street. little chance of discovering the right one, A Fost Office usually keepa a "wise" silence in a mat-
'By Order,
*** HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH."
'INTIMATION.
Stolen Bed Clothes.
on foot,
+
many friends, who attended the funeral on Sunday, the 12th in-grumbling. After all, there was yesterday, someone entered his Légation Guard and several junior net is preparing a Bill providing of the triba and he asked me to
in her bereavement.
which was of real value to us.
stant, of her husband, and for their kind expressions of sympathy not much in the issue in question houss at Yaumati and stole bed and its late arrival provided us clothes and clothing valued at with a subject for these two notes$7. We have lost. nothing on the transaction, Still-! But per-' hops we had batter leave it at that.
he object of this paper is to publish a tract information, 12 the serņa iruth and print the netes without fear or favour..
###XXENT** Cable Address: Telegraph, Hongkong,
Telephone: No. 1 A.B.C., 5th edition Western Union.
The Hongkong Telegraph.
HONGKONG, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1913.
VOLTURNO DISASTER TALES.
UNIVERSITY SCHOLAR-
SHIPS
A Chance for Young British Subjects.
Philharmonic Society.
members of the Consular Service that the President's salary shali
President Yuan Arrives,
be $130,000 with $40,000 for President Yuso, who was a ear
y an hour ate, arrived on the scene in a carriage and at the
allowances.
:
Interred at Mount Caroline Cemetery.
50 and act as doctor to his people, and I agreed."
Continuing sho said :-There was a lot of inter-tribal fighting going on and there were ampute done.
Sometimes the doctor won't into camp with the forces when there was any fighting, and, as aberemarked with an enthusiastic
Attacked.
WAR
Members of the Hongkong gates changed into a chair borne LATE CHAN KING-WAH. tione and all sorts of thing to be Philharmonic Society are remind-by eight bearers. His entrance, ed that the Auuual General Meat-amidst a company of bodyguards into the magnificent courtyard ing takes place c-morrow at 5.15
between the Wumen and the Tai- p.m, in the City Hall, when His homen was distinctly impressive. Excellency the Hon, Mr Claud Immediately after his disappear- On Sunday the remains of smile, "F liked it very much.” Sovern has consantod to presidence inside, the guests were mar-Chan King-wah, the late Chief of
shalled in the Taibotien, probably Police who was shot in Cantou, tainess of the tribe weren't you?" "But you ware made Chief- The Aga Lights,
the finest hall of the kind in were interred at Mount Caroline The "Aga" lights mentioned China and formerly used by the Cemetery. Originally the inter-tribe was called after the Prince "Tea; the grandson of the At the recent Matriculation!
Manchas on the greatest Statement was to have been held on of Wales. I was there when he Examination of the University of in the budget speech by His Ex-
occasions.
Friday, but the coffin did not was born and I was made a chief- Hongkong two King Edward VII cellency the Officer Administering
Including Chinese, foreigners arrive on that day. There was a tainess The grandson Scholarships, of the soqual value the Government on Thursday and guards only a few hundreds large attendance of sightseers called. Edward." of £10 each, and tonable for four last, to be substitured for the pre-were present altogether. When all including many prominent years, were to be awarded to the two candidates who returned the 63nt lights on the two Fairway were assembled the President en- Chiness and a number of Euro-
fered, and standing on the dasi peans.
"After some years I went Later telegrams dealing with the Volturno disaster shed little most satisfactory papere. One Buoys and the Cust Rock Buoy, behind a small table took the
back into a town. I had been long light on the cause of the disaster, but they are interesting in them-scholarship was to be given to an will be lighted for the first time oath and read a speech, the con-
enough with them. I was one of selves as furnishing an account of what happened after the fire broke Engineering student, the other to on January 1, next.
olusion of which was marked out and it became clear that the outbreak was serious. Yet we student in th
a party which was attacked by Arts Faculty.
with obeers.
ASSAULTED THE COOLIE. robbere. I was the only European should be slow to accept that count as wholly accurate until it is The only condition attached to. Worshipper Burned.
After this he received the
in a large caravan. The caravan fully verified. The survivor Trintepohl, for instance, says that the these scholarships is that the English officers behaved splendidly and ordered women and chil-holder must be a British Subject, chinning the juss at Shatau-kok The Doyen of the Diplomatic
A poor fisherman was chin foreign Ministers and their staff
was attacked and some people At the Police Court, this morn- were beaten, while every thing dren to have precedence of the boats, but that the crew of Germane irrespective of ruce.. and Belgians behaved badly. The firemen, he says, rushed up on
when an ember from a cigarette Body, Senor Luis, Pastor, Ministering, & clerk named Modesto was stolen." Of the entrants for the Eng
Dr. Rose explained that even deck and refused to reurn. They were driven down by the captain incoring Faculty Mr Lo Cheukcidentally dropped into some of Spain, made a congratulatory Romere, was charged with as-
riokeha coolie în her topes and shoes were taken; who threatened them with a revolver. This may all be perfectly Shing was the auccessful can-gun-powder, and caused an ex-speech, which was duly respond esulting a
didate, Mr Lo was born and solemnity of the ceremony. The
plosion which disturbed the led to by the President.
Connaught Road.. true; equally it may be considerably distorted.
her instruments were smashed Prince Pu Luo was then re- The defendant said he engaged and she managed to To say this is not to suggest that any survivor would wilfully educated at Penang. present misleading statements regarding a matter of this kind. But
joas remained unmoved through caived as representative of the er-the rickeha at the Cauton Wharf get away from the robbers when Among those who passed into before such a statement can be accepted at its face value the the Arts Faculty there were no out the accident, and did not loud Imperial Family of the Ching dy at a quarter to twelve and when a distance of twenty-five miles narrator himself has to be judged. It is given to few, men, in the British Subjects, therefore it was supernatural assistance to the nasty, and made a congratulatory the coolie reached Che Lung from a British telegraph station. fervid worshipper. La fact so speech, to which the President Street, it was half past one. He There was an Armenian ia face of a great and imminent danger, to preserve an even and not possible to award a' Scholar-
much was the latter neglected responded.
then refused to pay the man. charge. She traversed those balanced mind. And this witness seems to have been considerably ship. In consequence, it is pro- that he has been sent to the
At the conclusion of the core-
A fine of $5 was imposed and twenty-five miles and had to stay that the soles of his boots were burned. Records of any Scholarship on the results of a
of about 18,000 troops, which was
Then she tried to leave and was the coolie. court show that, even in everyday happenings, it is hardly Matriculation Examination which
again attacked by robbers. Finally possible for two witnesses to give the same version of what is to be held at the und of the
witnessed by the President and
she had to return, to the station they saw, even though both apparently witnessed an incident at the present term."
guests from the top of Women.
and wait for an escort, the British same moment and from the position. Little things which one soos,
Diplomatic Congratulations
Government sending the British and on which he partly builds his version, are unnoticed by the
Indian Cavalry Regiment to bring other; and the same happens in the case of the other witness. The
her away. result is that two apparently conflicting, and yet perfectly truthful, versions of the same event may be presented by two witnesses who might be expected to agree in their accounts.
dazed as he was not aware, till his attention was directed to it, posed to award the vacant hospital auffering from burns 13monies, there was a march past compensation of $1 was awarded at the station for three weeks.
Thanks.
his bands and face,
JJ
Sir Evelyn Wood. Great sympathy will be falt with the Field Marshal," as he is always called in his own part. of the world, in bia recent bunting accident. It is not, however,
Peking, Oct. 10. «
THE TALE-TELLER,
Miss Ross said that when she
Before Trintepobl's statement is accepted, therefore, we having its appreciation of South new experience to Bir. Evelyn said, "We have come to felicit-robbery at that address, was at to wander in the world, but now
first to learn whether he is a man likely to judge calmly the events of such a disaster as this. Reuter'e telegram to-day describes his Bomewhat iacoberent," and that seems to settle the Bccount a
waters.
is
The Federal Ministry has teleg
ister at Peking, in a speech on be- who made the sensational report got home, she would go abroad
Senor Luis Pastor, Spanish Min- The servant at Dubree Villas rashed to Lord Gladstone expres-
half of the Corps Diplomatique, to the police of an alleged armed again. She had always wanted Africa's welcome to the Australian Wood, for he is too daring a horse ate your Excelleney upon your the Police Court, this morning she would like to settle down of its visit to South African man not to have had accidents election to the Presidency of the remanded until Friday on a in the East,
before. His horse, by the way, Republio. United for the first charge of stealing clothing found generally adorned with a red rib time since the institution of the on the hill-side valued at $48. Government House where she was Yesterday Miss Rose went to matter meantime. Mr. Spurgeon, the manager of the famous pub- The excentenary of Boccacbon on the tail, to signify that it lishing firm of Cassell, who sends the account is, by training, scio's birth was celebrated recently is well to give it a wide berth.
new regime at an official Chinese The police, as we reported yester- to stay while in Hongkong. man able to sift the wheat from the chaff in most stories and able at Certaldo, with which place the
fanation, we ask your Excellency day, found that the story of armed, to judge the capa ty of the narrator for presenting an unvarnished name of the celebrated Italian is
robbers entering was false. statement; and since he is careful to precode Trintepohl's statement by the remark that it is incoherent, it is fairly plain that be sends
Boccaccio.
indissolubly associated.
A Determined Aviator,
Hydrophola Germ Found.
to believe in the common wishes we have formed that your definite election to the first Magistracy of
Deaf and Dumb Wedding,
TYPHOON WARNING.
The Telegram quoted below was Mies Helen Maria Norris, of gulatel General, Hongkong, from received by the American Con-
it more because it is interesting than because it as to be accepted
Dr Hideyo Hoguchi, a Japanese the country may be the prelude as substantially accurate. What is clear, however, is that there was Marcel Desouter, the young research worker at the Rockefeller to an era of new prosperity in Strict observance of panic aboard, but this need not be wondered at in the circum- French aviator who through a Institute, is said to have discover-China. atances. We doubt whether a passenger steamer over went afire flying accident had to have his ed and cultivated the germ of treaties and usages will not alone without panic being shown. Equally there lua been great gallantry leg outputated, says that as soon hydrophobis, thus solving a pro- be a guarantee of pesos for China shown, and attention may be drawn to the telegram which tells of as he has quite recovered he will blem which has baflled medical and stability of the Republic, but Ilford, and Mr. John Gloynethe Manila Observatory at 10.25. the pluck of second officer Lloyd. Upon the whole, and despite fy again. He was at Hendon re- the allegation of cowardice, there appare to have beon much daring gently wearing an artificial limb. "It is added," anys the Central, and courago shown alike on the doomed vessel and by the orews of It will be recalled that the News New York correspondent, hose which went to her assistance. It is something to know that accident occurred there last that, contrary to general sup the lives which were lost on this occasion were not thrown away March, and he had to submit to position, the germis not bacterial
two operations,
"in character," without every effort having been made to enre them.
science for thirty years.
will assure this country develop-Veysey, of Clapton, both deaf' ment and wealth, in which for and dumb, were married at St., Pm, yesterday :-- sign nations have an interest to Alban's Church, Ilford, recently, Cyclone or Typhoon--Pacific contribute. We are confident the clergyman reading the service Ocean, about halfway between under these conditions that the alond and also conducting it in the Mariana Island and the cordial relations which bind toge: . finger language,
Leochpus. Inolining northy
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