The Hongkong Telegraph.
October 14, 1913, Temperature a.m. 70, p.m. 81; Humidity...34, 26,
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THE OCEAN DISASTER.
HOME RACING.
VIVID RESCUE STORIES.
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London, Received Oct. 14.
The Carmaria has arrived at
Endangering Shipping." H.M.S. Donegal has been den patched from Lamlash to destroy the Volturno, which is endanger- ing shipping.
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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER
15, 1913.
TELEGRAMS.
COLLIERY DISASTER
CESAKEWITCH PROBABLES. LARGE DEATH-ROLL FEARED
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London, Received Oot. 15, An explosion has recurred ht
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THE SUFFRAGISTS:
WEATHER Į MORECAST FINE
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October 14, 1912, Temperature a.m. 75, p.m. 80, Humidity.,.78, 64,
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號伍十月十英港香
TELEGRAMS.
CABINET MEETING.
INDIAN HARVEST.
ANOTHER ARREST.
ELABORATE PRECAUTIONS.
Reuter's
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-London. Received Oct, 151 Miss Sylvia Pankhurst has been
OBITUARY
SIR JOAN BATTY TUKE.
POOR PROSPECTS.
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THE NEWS CONDENSED.
The deaths are reported of Sir John Batty Tuke and Sir David
Baird.
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London: Received Oct: 14. London. Received Oct. 15. Beuter's correspondent al The Cabinet mesting is regard- 'Prince Arthur of Connaught failure of the September rains years. Elaborate precautions Major. has resulted in a partial failure against suffragist attacks on of the Autumn barvost in parts Ministers have been taken. of the United Provinces, Raj. It is expected that the Cabinet Mr. Diesel, has be found in the putans, the Central Provinces will deal with the Irish probleam Scheldt. and Central India, and the Govern- the Laud Campaign, and the ment has sanotioned advanoes to Chief Justiceship of Galway. the amount of thirty lakhe for the United Provinces.
PLAGUE IN JAVA.
If the plaguo boundary is more
A body, believed to be that
The probabla starters and jockeys for the Cesarswifeù are give to-day:
Over 400 miners are entor
to the west of the proposed route, as the result of a mine
then the wall line would have to near Cardiff
Fishguard The Captain declined, starters and jockeys for the the Universal Colliery near Car-arrested while entering a suffrag-Simea states that the continueded as the most important for has been promoted to the rank of to make a statement. A passen- Cesarewitch, (2) miles, run at diff and the gravest fears are en-st meeting at Poplar. ger, however, relates that two of Newmarket to-day).
tertained that there will be a the Volturno boats were safely:
st. lbs large douth roll. Frantic women launched. If these are lost, as in Rivoli (F. Woulton,
have gathered at the pithead,| 8.10 feared, the death roll will be 170 King Midas (Templeman) 8.1 while reauue parties from all parta
Fantasio (Walter Griggs) 80 ellorts at rescue. Warlingham (R.Orist) 80 are making the most gallant Wagstaff (Piper) ...
According to 7 12 the latest information there are Mistinguette (Clout)
77 780 below. Of these 327 are Fiz Yama (Herbert). 77 alive, six bodies have been Nighthawk (Wheatley).
711 brought up and it is estimated Dalmatian (Foy) 75 that at least 150 have perished. Lavaine (Whalley) Himan (Smytb)
**** 7 3 Grave Greek (Calder) ... 7:2 272 The Guller (Ledson) Aneoy W. Beasley) Augur (Marsh) Candytuft (Cooper) Widthorpe (Patron) Charlton (Ringslead) Auctioneering (Buckley)... Farukabad (E. Huxley) Kingaborough (Plant) Pearldiver (Front) Corleta (T. Clark)
Bridge of Sighs is a
Interviews with the Carmanis's passengers who have "arrived in London, wireless messages re- ceived from the Groseer Kur fuerat, Kreonland, Devonian, Czar and Touraine, and striking photographs of the burning of the Volturno, taken from the rescuing ships, give vivid pictures of the Gin Exploded. Though an anthoritative ac- count by the survivore and crew of the Volturno in still lacking, all stories concur that the loss of life was due to the destruction of the boats which were launched be.
disaster.
fore the arrival of the liners
The explosions of the evening are variously attributed to flames reaching one thousand cases of gin in the hold, and to detonators and rockets stored in the chart room exploding.
Forty Killed.
The panic among the passen garp
was intensified by these explosions which, the Grogker Kariuerst eaye, killed forty pec- ple and injured the captain.
starter.
An Awful Calamity,
Later,
London, Received Oat: 14. The death is announced of Sir John Batty Tuke, M.D.; FRORE, FERS.E., LLD.. 5 member of the General Medical Council of Registration and Education, and President of the Neurological Society of the Reuter's correspondent at Car-United Kingdom. diff states that the explosion 0 12 appears to to developing into an
awful 6. 9. calamity 6 9 Mi 6 T 8 6 6.5
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Cut off by Fire."
It is oficially stated' thất 931 ... 0 0
men desconded the pit. The ex- 60plosion was on the west side of doubtful the pit and was followed by a
The betting e as followe:-
8 to 1 Fantasio
8 to 1.Wagstaff
10 to 1 Nighthawk
100 to 9 Annecy
13 to 1 Gravo Grook 100 to 7 Rivoli
25 to 1 Mistinguette 100 to 3. The Guller 100 to 3 Tlmatiur 40 to 1 Fukorábad
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HOME RULE.
B RMINGHAM MEETING.
Most people aboard the Car manis paced the decks all nigit. some praying for the boats which were helplessly tosaing on the seas and unable to reach the Volturno, upon which the Car wania had focussed a searchlight. Burologike Haystacks. The flames, according to desariptions by the passengers of the Carmania, ascended to a night of one hundred feet, and wore.
London, Received Oct. 14. like a dozen hayatecks burning.
Mr. Austen Chamberlain pre- The most heroic sight witness sides over an anti-Home Rule ad was that of two officers work- meeting to be held at Birminghum ing like demons with axes and shortly at which Mr. Bonor La orowbars ripping up the deck to and Sir Edward Carson will prevent the fire spreading nit deliver addresses, where the survivors were haddled.
Difficult Rescue Work. "
The difficulty of rescuing by boats was made evident by the faot that a boat of the linor Minneapolis was carried off by the wind and current and her rudder broken. She was sighted by a searoblight of the Carmania, which steamed to her assistance, and as the last ocoupant climbed aboard, the boat was smashed on the Carmania's side. The time thus lost accounted for the Carmania not joining the final rescue, Capatain Barr of the Carmanis, signalling the other captains that he would stead aside if they rescued the passen gera.
Red Hot. When the boats were s'ongside the Volturno, her plates were red hot, and clouds of steam were rising from the waterline, hut
LORD CHIEF JUSTICE.
LORD "ALVERSTONE'S
SUCCESSOR..
outbreak of fire. Themen entomb. ed number 420. The west side is cut off by fire, but the men on the east side have been brought op. including sen dead bodies and sme injured men who are in a terrible condition..
485 Missing.
The Government mine inspector states that it is impossible to eva: novone till the fire is extinguish [ed. The position to-night le:
445 rescued and 485 missing.
Hope Abandoned.
Sir David Baird.
Sir David Baird, third Baronet of Newbyth, is dead. Deceased served in the Kaffir War, 1851-2; in the Crimes, 1864; and in the Indian Hatiny, 1858.
TRAINING FOR
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COLONIAL
"Preparatory Schools"! With Varied Curriculum.,
Plans to Prevent Spread of
Infection.
be longer than the one now in view, as a great circuit would have to be made to avoid the rivers. It
The Carmania bas arrived at Fishguard... but the captain de
is estimated that the length of the clined to make a statement
With re-
The attempt to combat the whole line would be between 200 plague in Sourabaya by the dea- and 220 kilometers,
Miss Sylvia Pankhurst, h traction of rata has had to be gard to the wall itself, the follow been arrested while entering given up as futile, says the ing is suggested. The wall would auffragist meeting at Poplarz Sourabaya Handelsblad. It has te let half a meter into the copt a great deal of money and it ground. A portion of this part
The continued failure of the has been found impossible to would be made of cement con- September rains has resulted i exterminate these rodents The crete. The wall would be raised the partial failure of the autum medical authorities have noticed above the ground to a height of (?) harvest in Central Indis. that such districts, as for instance 75 centimetres, about 20 inches,
from
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Lord Alverstone has res
LOCAL,
事
appear
The Chinese Y:M.O.A; hostel
LIFE.Malang, Kediri, and Madiosa, and would probably be made of The oruiser Donegal has been which get their rise from Soura-heet iron. Where the railway despatched from Lamlash to bays, are veritable botheds of and tram lines cross the wall a destroy the Volturno, as the plague, whilst *othera (not far eart of gateway would be placed wreck is endangering, shipping, removed from Soursbays) that where of course a gate-keeper There is little excuse for the do not get their rice
would have to keep watch.
This is the scheme which the that two of the Volturna's bosta A Carmanie passenger relates woman who colonises nowadays, thin source are fre: from the and who arrives at her destination disease, Such plague free dia. medical and technical experts were safely launched. If the to and life very much more diflriets are Probolinggo, Banjoe who are andeavouring to exter were lost, as is feared, the deer calt than the imagined,
wangi and other plass in the minst the plague, are taking roll will be 170 ** One may, in fact, live a colonial end of Java. Tjipoo and Ben into consideration. Of course, a life at home before starting, in bang that also get their rice from rat may occasionally get on without incurring much trouble Cemarang have remained on the other side of the wall and bioco or expense. Intera of learning tested. The medical authorities but the medical experta are ed in a few De by bitter experience that house. are therefore forced to the con- agreed that an
infected rat reason to believe he will keeping in distant parts of the elusion that the plague is spread is an abandoned by floss when Sir Rufus Lesace. The fire is still raging and world is a little more complicated by the transport of rice from an it leaves its nest, so that there is there is little hope that any of the than imagination conceived it, infected place. It is hoped that danger of spreading the plague men pre alive. The rescuers have even when goaded by memories by the disinfecting of tracks con- by a stray rat or two. Many
"Jottings by the way penetrated only fifty yards of the of colonial novels, the different taining rice and similar foodstaffe difficulties will have to be gat workings and as most of the schools of colonial life, which are attracting rate, something might over before the wall can be built. in this issue. el.tombed, men are two miles springing up all over Britain, done to check the spread of Kampongs may have to be shift- ed, and many undertakinge further in, hope has been practi- prepare a prospective colonist the dircase
Interesting notes on various But there exist other plans to whose lands may be cut into two forms of local sport appear to cally abandoned. One woman admirably for the existence which
prevent the introduction of the portions which would be entirely day. lost her husband, three is before her.
Where there was bace but one plague from East to West Java. separated from one another. brothers and four sons,
institution which fanght theThese plans are not new but would have to be compensated.
An interesting organ recital Klog's Sympathy.
mugher kinds of homemaking, owing to certain difficulties that The cost of the wall, needles was given at St. John's Qatar dairywork, ocaking, baking, and have to be surmounted they have to say, would run into hundreds last evening. London Received Oct. 15. all the other home arte which had, to to considered for some of thousands of guilders. On the The King bas telegraphemust be combined in one person time. The main idea is to build other hand, West Java will almost
The annual general meeting The Queen and I are, appalled at oversess, these schools can nowej grating wall from the outer certainly by protested against the of the shareholdere in the S the terribile disaster and deeply be counted probably by the score, st boundary of the already in spread of the plague from the Laundry Co. Ltd. was old
ympathise with the families in It is possible to take a long fected region, that, that is, to the Eastern portion.
to-day. the lure of their dear ones. course of a your at lonat. During west of those places where plague Meanwhile the authorities await this time fruit-farming, with fruit infected rats have been found, Dr de Raadt's report. When this preserving, dairy work, and poul- right through Java, from north has teen handed in, a survey will fund is progressing steadily. Sub- try keeping amongst many use-touch. Of course, there be made by the technical experts THE WHITH ANT
ful accomplishments, may
bs will be anormona difficulties in to fix the track along which the scriptions are coming in latis.
factorly. learned. The prospective emia work of this kind. In the first wall will proceed. The white ant is a creature grant, who bas but a short time plus, it would be necessary to de London. Received Oct. 14: with which we are only too fami- at her disposal, may in a few termine the true boundary which Lord Alverstone, the Lord Chief iar in India, and many of our weeks oram as much knowledge would reparate the plague infeu Justice, has resigned. A successor readers may have opportualités on all these subjecte as the can, od region from the rest of Java, will be appointed in a few days, for confirming some observations together with auch purely dom Dr. de Bindt, the chief of the
When Miss Wilmot, a dress- and there is reason to believe that which have recently been repost- estic work as she may not already medical corpe entrusted with the be will be Sir Rufus Isaacs, the ed. Profesor Bugnion says that have at her fingera ende work of combating the plague,
maker, of Sheffield Hotes, Hat- while exploring in Ceylon, when
look, was walking recently. Attorney-General.
It is not, as a matter of fact will, during his stay in middle he was working his way cautious only the bread-marking and Java endeavour is determine this
collie dog jumped at hor, bit both arms and tore her blouse wr ly through dense vegetation, his charaing, clasping sud, launder boundary, Middle Java itself, attention was attracted by a ing which are an invaluable. A one might any with certainty, is
men who went to her aid 24. curious rustling noise, which at girl who gres
Chengta, Ost 7. beat the dog off with sticks one of s out to keep her plague frea. When once, the firet auggested the presence of a brother's hatia în' some" für off boundary bas been determined Eastern Tibst remains disturb which was broken across the cobra. This poise was found to part of Canada or South Africa, with certainty, the mouted. The Tibetans are in possession animal's back, Miss Wilmot b come from a colony of white ants or who emigrates to be taarried difficult task then would be to of Lower Haiangcheng. Many
fered serious injurios, Termes obscuriceps, which had to a wanting fiance, takes the make the trace along which Chinese soldiers are leaving the formed galleries on the large subject of her preparatory train-the wall would have to be built. the interior and returning to fallen leaves of B Bread ng far more paciously.
This wall would have to be so Szechuan. It is alleged that the tree. The sound was .coused She goes in for couress on sick lad that it would not come to rearon for this is lack of pay. b the ants striking the nursing and ambulance, simple any river, however small, for in Yuin Tutuh is ssttling down Landon. Received Oot. 15. under surface of these leaves with dresatuaking and calling out, in that caee, even if the wall extend at Tachieniu. He has engaged Reuter's Chantilly correspond-their mandibles, and the object of addition to all the homely arte ed a little way into the river, carpontors from Yaghow to build reports that Duucan wou the it was apparently to give a war which we accept escaudhand in rats could very easily swim round him suitable premises. He pro- French Open Golf Championshipping of approaobing deugar, this country, but which devolve it. At present the authorities poses also to erect military har danger. Bagnion bed another on the bousskeeper where con- believe they have found a good racks at Yulingkong which is opportunity of making oberv-|ditious are less luxurious. We route for the wall, to the west eight miles from Tachionlu.. alions when about a hundred are only, in fact, beginning to of Somarang. This will run The King of Chals with his white aute took possession of a make an exact science of colonie over, the crest of the Som family and retainers has secretly small desk in his office. By ing, from the woman's point of bing to the south Cosetit Twahieuln for an unknown knocking on the outside of the view. At some of these obllege 42 advantage of this is that the destination. desk he was able to get responrea it is possible to obtain the sor wall need not be oarried to the The merchants of Taohienlu PRINCE ARTHUR PROMOTED. from the ants within. It is also tices of previous students who top of the mountain range, for at hava h en forced to refund $10,-"Twelfth Night,"
asserted that this signalling is the have bean out to distant parts of a certain height there exists no C00, which, the rebel commander Royal 9.15, p. spenial puty of soldier members the world, and parved, their, ap; food for vats, which will therefore Chung abstracted from the of a white ant community who do prenticeship there. They then cover be found so far up. This Treasury in Apgast, The Guancial London, Respired Oct. 15. eentry duty for the others, and return to add to the technical question, however, is if the pro- situation is causing Yain Tatah Prince Arthur of Connaught that different sounds may be die part of the training a practical posed route is the true dividing great anxiety. He is attempting has been promoted to the rank singuished among the different side, of bigh their own experi- line between the interested and to borrow money of Minjor
enon makes them able judges. non-interested part of Java, lomisaries,
GOLF.
the rescues were most methodical, FRENCH OPEN CHAMPION- and even the captain's dog was taken off.
Hull Still Ploating.
London. Received Dot. 15. The s.s. Campania in wireless messages reports that she steamed
SHIP.
with a score of 304.
'round the 8: Voltaron du Sun-ent
day afternoon. The hull is sound and making about a knot an hour and is liable to float indefinitely. They carefully searched for the! missing boats but with no avail. Another liner, also searobed fruit- Icaely,
LATE HERR DIESEL."
BODY IN THE SCHELDT.
London, Received Out. 14.
A body, believed to be that of Herr Rudolf Diesel, the inventor, bas boon found in the Soheldt,
ROYAL WEDDING.
species. :
MOR TIBETAN SUCCESS
Hopeless Chinese Outlook.
from the
Attack by a Colfle Dog.
DON'T FORGET,
TO-DAY. Victoria Theatre, 9.15 p.m. Bijou Soonio Theatre, 0.15 p..
TO-MORROW.
Victoria Theatre 9.15 p.m. Bijou Theatre 9.15 p.m.
Saturday, October 18. The China. Light, and. Power Co., Ltd.-noon. ̧
Saturday, October 25.
Theatre
Tuesday, October 28. 9.16 p.m.- "Twelfth Night," Theatre Royal
Toursday, October 30, "Twelfth Night, Royal-9.15, p.m