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The Hongkong Telegraph.
October 22, 1918, Temperature a.m. 70, p.m. 76; Humidity...81, 57.
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TELEGRAMS.
PORTUGUESE TROUBLES.
THE ABORTIVE RISING.
Reuter's
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER
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TELEGRAMS.
MEXICAN TROUBLES,'
a startling äffair.
HOME POLITICS.
BRESLAU SCANDAL.
READING BY-ELECTI®N.
EIGHT CONVICTIONS.
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London, Received Oct. 22. Reator's correspondent at Note
Router's
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London. Received Oct. 22. A Breslau message states that
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TELEGRAMI.
TELEGRAMS.
THE AISGILL DISASTER. AUSTRIAN EMIGRATION.
DRIVER FOUND GUILTY.
Reuter',
[Service to the "Telegraph."]
London. Received Oct. 22. At the trial of the driver of the
TOURIST OFFICE CLOSED.
Router's
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London. Received Oct. 22. A Viouna telegram announces
$36 PER ANNUM SINGLE COFT 10 CENTS,
NEWS FOR BUSY MEN.
TELEGRAMS.
THE NEWS CONDENSED.
Mr. Buckmaster will re-contest the Keighley seat in the Liberal interest.
The Times unnounces that Sir
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London. Received det. 22. Mr. G. P. Ganch, ex-M.P. for Bith, who is representing the store have been right convictions second train in the Aisgill dieas that a tourist office which repre- Beauchamp Duff has been ap Liberal interests in the by. arising out of thascandal reported ter on a charge of manslaughter, sented the Uranium Steamship pointed.. Commander-in-Chief election ut Randing states that on September 29 The acaused the jury returned a verdict of Cura, any has been closed, and India. he is a whole-hearted defender have been sentenced to terme guilty. They supplemented their the manager arrested on a charge
cholauaster and an insurance
Lisbon show that some fighting York state.. that a telegram from
there took place
in
Mexico says that the constitu- nection with the rising. Large tional leader, Senhor Villa, holds crowds attackeil the police sation as hostiges, at Torreon, twelve posts pud also the Republican British subjects, and about one of the Government's past achieve.f imprimat ranging from verdict with a recommendation of amuggling emigrants in dis- Viscount Lascalles has 'been guards. Many of the nitickers hundred French, Germans, and mouth, and also of the present is the to three yours. They for mercy. Sentence has been guise across the frontier. It is adopted as the Unionist candi- were arrested and the others fled. Spaniards. Ho. declares that all mensurré.
include a business-manager, a deferred.
believed that many such em- date for the Keighley Division of will be sacrificed upless the Meeting Raided.
The Unionist Outlook," manuf.cturer, a musician, ԱԼ
igrants were aboard the Volturno, Yorkshire. The authorities raided a meat-attempts to recapture the town The Reading Unionist papereficial.
The Sentence.
which was recently burned in the ing which was taking place atanare abandoned."
express much disantisfaction at
Atlantic. Ambroidery factory near the
the Insurance Act and the Shops A telegram dated Septanibor
London. Received Oct. 23. prison at Limoeiro All present The Washington Clovernment Act, both, Liberal
22 stated that the Berlin' press The driver of the second, train Avere arrested after a struggle. It hve mikla represgatation to Captain Lolin Wilson, who contained revelations of a grave bas been sentenced to two mathe is pastimed that a conspiracy was President Hueria demanding the poses Mr. Gnoch, will rely scandal at Breslau in which in the Second Division.
foot to liberate the prisonera, protection of the foreignere chiefy on 16r's opposition to seventy-two schoolgirls were con The Government haa, nanounced detained at Torreon.
the Homo Rule Bill. that it is nware of all the 'designs of the Monarchists and has the situation in hand.
Complete Failure.
The Arrests.
business people to despair.
Later.
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The Home Rule Question. Speaking at Bristol,, the Right on C. E. H. Hobhouer, M.P. for the meters portion of that city, remarked that he was con- fident that Flome Rule could be tld by accord...of the two parties.
At Keighley...
Later.. Viscount Lascelles has been
"OPIUM STOCKS CASE..
cerned. Fourteen wealthy men had been arrested for meeting the girls at a house, and there had
officer and a police official.]
The U. S Government has made representations to President Enerta demanding, the protection of foreigners at Torreon.
very peccasary, too, in this Colony, because a man must be respon-
The Portaguoso Government sible for bringing stuff into the announces that it knows all the Colony. If he was responsible, designes of the conspirators, and
been seven suicides, including any, the Crown now asks for a and the opium was not found bas the situation in hand.
large fine because he didn't find where should be, then he was it out before them. It is a
liable, It was not sufficient for The driver of the second train most extraordinary thing, and him to come into Court and say in the Aisgill disaster has been if they went to him at the that the Ordinance was of no use, found guilty of manslaughter time he would
have given and that he knew nothing about with a recommendation to mercy.
The
ND
date at Reading, says that he is Mr. Gooch, the "Liberal candi-
a whole hearted defender of the past achievements of the Govern- ment.
·
The Rt. Hon. O. E. H. Hab-
The Russian Minister of War will shortly submit to the Dama Bill extending the service with the colours of the one-year clasa
in the suburbs of Lisbon, were believed him to be the bost mith Mr. Gourgey, and these chests have pot proved that at any time in asking such a thing. It Mr Slade: They are taking by three months.
to enter simultanennaly. Risings on the spot.
wore planned to occur at Oporto, Braga, Evora, and Vianna,
The telegraph wires and ono railway line were actully out, bat the damage was promptly repair- ed. Armed bande have appeared Alba, at Montalegre, Baros, Figuera, Coaael Rodrigo, and PenamBoor.
The Governor of Oporto, hus issued a Proclamation announc ing the crushing of the insures- tion, and says the movement possessed greni ramifications over
OLYMPIC FUND.
MORE MONEY NECESSARY.
Londou. Received Oc). 22. Speaking at a meeting of the
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The Mexican constituational leader Vills holds as hostages at Torreon, twelve British and about a hundred French, German and Spanish citizens.
The Portuguese Government has circularised the Legations an nouncing the complete failure of an attempted rising throughout the whole country.
President Huerta has imposed
Heavy Import Tax. - President Horta has imposed no increase of 50 per caut. on all imports from the 28th inst. This, The Portuguese Government in addition to the 10 por cont, max has sent a circular to the Inga-lready. leviol, has driven the tions, announaing the complete
Mr Slade:-Could then a cases Inilure of an attempted rising.
freltation in Washington, over the whole 'country, in con- London. Receivad Oct. 23
have been opend in your godown them every possible information, it. The movements of this opium, nection with which fighting hok The fact of Sir LE G. Cardon
without your knowledge? Not and every chance of finding out the actions of the defendant, and
Governor. of Oporto for themselves and tracking the the curious situations in re-announces the crushing of the place in Lisbon yesterday. The living presented his credential-t
quite I think.
Mr SladeThat is the case for man who stole it. There was just ard to this $20,000 worth of insurrection, and also states that Government declares that the to President Hue ta the day after whole country is tranquil, and the laster's declaration of dictator appointed Unionist, candidate at the defence. Well, the submis- the possibility if prompt action bad opium, were, he submitted, extra- the movement has great ramifica that sone connected with the ship appears to have given Keighley. The Women's Liberal ion is first of all the Crown has been taken on October 1, of being ordinary, and was not the sort of tions. Army and Navy have participat-brage at Washington in view of Association has passert a real-not established their care, a case able to got at the perpetrator of the position they would expect to find in any act of salition.
the latter's declurel policy to inn pledging itself to support under this Ordinance. First of all to him they simply arrested him. His Worship-le there any
competent to obtain a conviction theft; but no, instead of applying man like Mr Gourgey in wards President fluorta. Mure Mr. S O Buckmaster, who is a The arrests up to the present, over the statemost ascribed to Suffragist.
toe Crown has prove the case, without any application of any question of the forfeiture of the number 100, including, however. Sir Lionel Carden, that "the"
The Socialists at Reading have a secondly. I have made a kind or desc iption. If they were opium? besides six police, a number of United States do not understand adopted a candidate in the per- complete answer to any case they going to make a charge it was Me Hodgson --No, I think not. Naval officers and potty officere, the conditions in Mexico" has son of Mr. Ratlar, of London, the ion 20, is amended by an Orgy and say. We have made the fae, the Ordinance is ourions
have made. Now the Ordinance, easy to have applied to Mr. Gour you are with me, with regard to most of whom were captured at nos tended to allay the irritation organiser of the Socialist party. firee of this year, and it reale search of largaquantities of opiumy worded as to that, and it would house says he is confident that the Naval Barracks, and also Some American-pipers base
if any raw opiem, is found on in certain chests which come in mean a very large sum. I leave the question of Home Rule will several people of social standing started the iden that. Sie J. Carsten The newspapere any that the really represents Mestre, Pour-
inspection under this ordinance, from the Kowloon godowns and it to your Worship as to what to bamissing fromthe place stored what purported to be the same penalty, that is assuming you are" be settled by accord of the two movement was directed by two sons oil interest which the
parties. Commitees, one thiyil and the British Governinent is supporting.
importation or from the place cheats, and it is for you to explain. with me whether it means it where it is situate, elsewhere than Be careful what you any beanage it must be confined to one cheat, or other Military. The signal was Router is informed that Britain
hur "boen to be givad by the murder of the is solely anxious to see settled
authorised by any night be used in evidence against which consigament, or the three Continued from Page 10. Ministers and officials, upon condition obtain and thai she.
permit, and accrding to such you, you are perfectly clear it is consignments in this pass." which three columns, org inised recognised Huerta because she godown, On September 13, 1 permit it ought to have been probably a criminal charge.
His Worship It says for Pceived six cheata on behalf of storel, etc. Now the Crown There WOB
no improprioty every chest. have now been removed to David when this opium was held under is quite proper for the defonce the missing opium ne chests, the Samoon's godowns. They were permit, that the ches's were 19 do so, but this is a serious charge is missing opiam not taken there on September 17, larger than they are at present error on the part of those con:
chests. and they are there now marked Thapina goes to the Kowloon ducting operations. If they did Mr bdgson Missing opium S, diamond, I to 6. Those were done and is weighed in, and that there was a "fair chance of equivalent to fifteen cheets, reveived from Kowloon godowns, then Mr Gourgy applies for ageing at the perpetrator of the
Mr Slade-You say in the Que of the employers of the firm permit. This may be what wentheit, but what is the use now? charge that it has gone out, you went over to the Kowloon gout, I don't say it was, of the You can only go on working cannot say that the chests are down with the rermit and go Kowloon godawand was a email secretly and quietly. He said missing. these, chests on three different sized chest. "It has never bean he is taking steps, There Mr Hodgson: Of course on the premions. It was the same man proved, an therefore when Mr is no doubt he a You evidence, your Worship, parts of o each occasion,
all these chests were Gourgoy applied for it he don't want to work publicly, you
stored. Mr Slade-Is that man in thought he was asking for a per- can't work publicly and we have You cannot mean that the cheat Olympic Games Committee in flongkong now?-He has gone to mit for a big chest, he in fact at done our best to bring the facts means the word, that would ba London, the Chairman said that the country becauas he is very that time only had a emill chest. before the burt, and I submit an absurd, reading of the Ordin. unless. £25,000 was raised by the in.
They bave not proved at any time that first of all they have not auce.. end of the year, the Committee Later.
Mr Hodgson: Can you tell me Mr Gourgey knew of this shrink-proved in any case at all, the per- Mr Slade-Chest meane pack- would not feel justified in con- if you have any other cases in ing taking place. The Ordinance mits we appplied for were not for age. correspondent st Madrid states that it is officially tinuing the preparations for the your godown, marked Z 29 to said, "If retention has been order-those chests, and that they Mr Hodgaon-If you are go
sending of a toum of athletes to 322-No, sir."
ed alsowhere, it must be so ord we e not in the same condition as ing to contend that a man can announced that the Governow of the Provinces of Orense and Berlin.
Nor any cases marked 2 41, toing to the permit." There has they are now. Supposing it took take out some of the opium stored 45 ?—No.
The cast for "Twelfth Night' not a hint or a suggestion in the place on a cargo boat in to pro- in a clear in a godown then you Or any other cares marked 1 to evidence Lean given that these cess of removing. It is notorious cannot prosecute him.
is given today.. 6?-No, sir, all the cases with chests are not according to the there has been a number of most. Hi Worship-If there is a such marke ive been moved permit, and the perin if i ply ingenious thefts in transit ncross possibility of finding fifteen cheats A full report of the opium does not specify any size or the harbour, and ware aware it should be suited in the charge, stocks case appears in to-day's Did you write that book up weight, or any dimensions what that there are clever harbour you have only stated a portion. yourself?YSA.
ever of any kindar description, thieves who can get into a securely His Worship1 may amend From another book ? copy and simply sait is marked so fastened tin hox and fill it up again he charge. Do you mind Mr it direct from the permit. and solice, and so and so, with worse articles, and then sab- Slade?
And did you in this case copy and nothing else. Therefore they mit the box to the most critical
Mr Blade-No, I don't tuind it from the permita ?—Yes, sir. are London. Received Oct. 22.
chesta according to that examinaion. This whilst going what he amends it. And when you send the cases permit and answering the descrip- across the harbour, I don'tknow if Mr Flodgson asked for the The Times, sny that Gongral Sir Beauchamp Duff, G.C.B.,out again, do you send the per- tion and every single requirement you remember the blankets case charges to be made alternative.
His Worship granted this re- mits allowing them to be moved? of the permit. A permit was that came before you some two or K.U.V.0., K.C.S.I., Secretary of-Yes, I look at the murk and the applied for and a permit for the three years ago, and the marvel-quest and roserved his decision the Military Department, India number..
removal of the obests into the lone way the harbour thieves until Wednesday next. Office, and Obief of Staff in India, So, you saw all the permits Ico Hoore Street go down was worked in that case. It is quita 1908-09, has been appointed authorising removal from your issued with regard to the identical possible, I won't say it was, but Commander-in-Chief
of His godown to Ice House Street ? cheets which am in Sasroon's go it might have been that here. Any Majesty's Army in India.
downs now, and the unfortunate way the fact is someone has got owner thought they were bigger, away with Mr Gourgey's opium, and thoughit omneously; he im- and the Crown are asking for aide car, driven by Mr D. Beil, of A 6-h.p. motor-cycle with a agined erroneously,at that time he heavy fire to be inflicted upon Tan's it a fact that you only saw was applying for a rermit to re-him because he did not discover Glasgow, has climbed to the top the permits and did not look at move thesechosts, that were thougit bolore. That is practically that about ten hours in the ascent and of Ba Nevis. Mr Bell oocupier the goods ?—Well I see good come ht to be in possesion of the full have tothing to answer. in but I don't weight then. quantity," but ware"not, and as s Eis Worship: Did this opium two and three-quarter bours in
You didn't pay and atten- matter of fact, ithad already been ever stand in the defendant's the descent. tion to them? Well as rule stolen from him, and that was name in Kowloon godowna?
Mr. Froest, J. P. Loudon, Received Oct 22. ll. We
we taken in the goods; that is what in fact the permit refers to. Mr Hodgson-No, he declared
Mr. Froest, formerly chief didn't take much What in fact he asked for was a it after, and applied for it to be the Criminal Investigation D.. M. D. Aucourt who started notice of them; they were permit to remove other cases granted him. from Isey-les-Moulineaux, for only there temporary. And there in Talati's gojovne, and he ask-Mr Hodgson said: The Or is now living a county life in partment of Scotland Yard, who London, Received Cot. 22. Schafhausen on the first stage of is other kind of goods, not raw ed to remove them from there to dinance stipulated, that the Somerset, where he is a county Realer's correspondent at a flight to Cairo vin Belgrado, opium, constantly removed into Sassoon's and they now are an opium must be
where the magistrate, says: "Four daye p Munich states that Dom Mennel Constainople, Konieh, Aleppo, our godown.
altered in any shape or form permit said it should be, and if week I sit on the B noh and and his Consort have gone to and Beirnt, descended at Sens in Have you ever seen Mr Gourgoy Beciuns the man has had the it was not then the law mid that every day I take a ten miles walk Sigmaringen
u gale,
in your godown 7--No..
misfortune to be robbed previous the man must be liable, it was and play golf."
ibe whole country.
Spanish Governors Removed.
Reuter's
Ponte Vedra which are adjacent to Portugal, have been relieved of their functions.
Insignificant Incidents.
London, Reveis ed Oct 25. Rautor's correspondent at Lisbon states that the Govern- ment knew that committees in Europ and Brazil were awaiting the disorders. The rioters c0*~* sisted mainly of amall groups off civilians. There wate rtalis. turbances in Oporto and the inoidents in the other places were insignificant.
RUSSIAN MILITARY.
SERVICE.
London, Received Od. 22 Renter's correspondent at St. Petersbury states that the Minia- ter of War will shortly subuit to the Duma a Bill extending the service to the colours of the one year class by three months.
DOM MANUEL'S CONSORT
i
INDIAN ARMY.
NEW COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF.
AVIATION.
FLIGHT TO CAIRO.
away.
Yes.
Did yourself actually ses there Casos moved into your godown?
Yes,
A
Motor-Cycle Up Ben Nevis..
in
increase of 50 per cent. on all imports from and including October 28. This has driven business, men to despair.
$1
issue.
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