The Hongkong Telegraph.
November 10, 1913, Temperature a.m. 69, p.m. 72; Humidity...83, 72.
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THE GUILDHALL BANQUET
IMPORTANT SPEECHES BY PREMIER AND FIRST LORD.
MR. ASQUITH ON THE INTERNATIONAL OUTLOOK.
[Reuter's Service To The Telegraph."]
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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER - 11
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"GUILDHALL BANQUET.
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BALKAN AFFAIRS,
TURKBY AND OREECE.
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THE NEWS CONDENSED."
The Guildhall banquet was & brilliant affair,
Latest Tarco Grock develop-
ments are outlined to-day.
Comments on the bye-elections
Service to the "Tolegraph."} [Service to the "Telegranh."]
[Service to the "Telegraph."] London. Received:Nov. 11. London. Received Nov. 10.
London, Received Nov, 10. It WIS on March 31, There were popular rejoicings
Mr. McKinnon Wood, Secretary bofore the prosent Admi-at Reading till an early hour yee Athens states that after numer for Scotland, addressing a mest- nistration ol tho
Unite llerday. Captain Wilson, the ous delays, the Turkish pesosing at Edinburgh in furtherance Slates had the opportunity of successful candidate, in a speech delegates have received the long-of Home Rule for Scotland; said follow purely on party lines. making any declaration of policy after the declaration, said that waited instructions from Constan- the present method of conducting when the British Government 70 Rading had struck a crushing tinople, but these have moment-Scottish business was ridiculous. Popular rejoicings over the oognised President Huerta na Pre-blow to Home Rule, and the arily disappointed any hope of a He advocated a Scottish Logis-Reading. bye-election were held
ident al interim of Mexico. It Government must take notice of speedy settlement, as the Porte lature with the widest franchise, until an early hour. liten, because, having neither the condemnation of their sotions. not only makes no concessions, to include women. tho will nor the power to intervene, The Liberal candidate, Mr. but formulates fresh demande
Press Opinion.
•
THE COURT CARDS.
A Delightful Evening at the Theatre Royal.
Speaking at the Guildhall, Mr Asquith lengthily dwelt on in- ternational questione.
A message from Vicsoria states that 200 labourers on the Van- couver Fort George Railway have struck work.
The Rt. Hon. T. McKinnon
for Scotland.
LOCAL.
Details of the Christmas mail
The steel sorow steamer Modasa was langoked at Taikoo' Peek this morning.
Lonilon. Received Nov. 11. that the apprehensions had been Lord Mayor's Day was cole completely falsified. It was true brated in showory weather. The that events revolved themselves decorated streets were thronged Fometimes in a fashion that seem with people. There was an uned to inence, indirectly, the usaally fine military display and suspectibilities or interests of par alea a representation of a Lord ticular Powers and that thero had Mayor's procession of the seven-been moments of grave anxiety it was bound to deal with what Goooh, said that the forces of pro- The Greek Foreign Minister has but by the exercise of 'pationce ever was for the time being the gres were divided between two declined to discuss the latter toonth contury, when the new river scheme was completed. Sir and tact of self-restraint in some de facto Government, and because candidates, and there had been pending their consideration by Samuel Bowater, the new Lord quarters, or stronuous goodwill there appeared na element, except systematic misrepresentation.
the Cabinot. Mayor, was warmly ohcored. in others those difficulties had what President ports offered, of A Plain Intimation.”
Oerman Opinion There was the usual brilliant bon overcome, and they in Lon any prospect of restoration of Mr. Bosar Law telegraphed to. Reater's Berlin correspondent company at the Guildhall ban-on might recall with pride Hie stability and order. That was op Captain Wilson as follows: statee that the Norddeutsche quet, including Cabinet Minis, united voice with which Europe March 31. Since then there had "After Lilithgow, the wonderful Zeitung discussing the Turco- tera, diplomate, pears, the Aroha asoribed the loading part in been no change of policy by the victory at Reading is a plain in Greek situation, says that the
The Secretary of the Labour bishop of Canterbury, Sir Rafus this arduous and beneficent took British Government. Britain timation to the Government that aspirations of the individual Many parties of after-dinner Federation announces that the Issaca, naval and military officers to Sir Edward Grey-(Cheers). gladly assumed that the United their frish policy is impossible." Balkan States will not be serious entertainers have come to Hong Unions in Wellington, Christ- and prominent city gentlemen.
States policy would lavo regard
so long as the Powers do not kong, but it is no exaggeration to church and Dunedin are to bo Mr. Winston Churchill, reply:
to the legitimate commercial fa- Comments on the results of the allow themselves to be enticed say that none have eo completely called. ing to the toast of the Imperial Continuing, Mr Asquith waiterests of Mexico as well as their elections ran on purely party into partisanship. This should captured the local public as have "The Court Carda" and their Forces, éaid that next year we the Foreign Offices in Europe barn. The exchange of views lines. Linlithgow Splendid," not acopr. The Norddeutsche
Joker." When Mr. Warwick's should have a force of 150,000 plenty of business still before with the United States had been" Reading Magnificent is the endorees the remarke of Bir Ed sailors and marines the largest them in connection with Alb: nin marked by perfect cordiality, and kernote of the Unionist papere, ward Groy in which he stated little company visited us for the Wood, Secretary for Scotland, on record. He emphasised the and the Balkans. It would be too thing could happen to disturb which declare that it would be that there was plenty of trouble first time it was not slow in gain- epoke at a meeting at Edinburgh part played by Londoners in the much to say that they were satis- the common resolve to maintain a sheer madness for the Govern for the Foreign Offices in Europe, ing for itself a reputation of the for the furtherance of Home Rule
to ignore the warninge which, however, had not pre-
The public re- highest order; Davy. They met that night in fied with auch settlement as had friendly and sympathetic underment circumstances frear from danger already been made, but they were lone more to foster, that spirit
tanding (Cheera) None bad against Home Rule.
occupied the attention of the guised the sheer talent of its to European peace, but there at any ralo resigned to it, and
The Liberal organs, on the Naval or Military departmento, or members, the daintiness of the contrary, maintain that local caused apprehension among other performances, the happy blending must be no relaxation of effort. they were prepared with good will than Mr. Bryce (Cheers, The estimates for 1914 showed a and a common desire for the con- Mr. Asquith concluded by factore and the unpopularity of nations, as also it does the state of humour and harmony Loving for Home are given to-day substantial increase and he de tinuance of peace to make the pointing out that there were signs the Insurance Act were mainly ment made by the Russian such an impression behind, it was clared that even in the region of best of it. Another cause for on the horizon portending au ia responsible for the losses.
Premier, that he was confident certain that when they returned the air the navy need not fear satisfaction was that the Asiatiu evitable slackening in the volume The Times Bays the results that reece, like fervis, would to the Colony again "The Court comparison with any other pour Provinces of Turkey ba not bio and velocity of the tide of trade show that the country does not bow to the will of Europe and Cards" would be assured of a try..
involved in the conflict-
Thorn hat! been an initiation al. like a policy leading to civil wer that Bulgaria will not rush into a magificant welcome. That they
The Morning Post declares that fresh conflict.
secured last night, when they Dominion Troops at Manoeuvres. (Applause). It was the Guvern mosteverywhere of costly schemes
opened thair season at the Theatro General French expresse bisment's desire that the integrity of social reform, and, in addition Ministers cannot continue to be
Royal. For patrons it was a satisfaction at the presence of of these dominions should not be to the waste of wealth and Lu opposed to the demands for a
aight of full realisation of great which most of the best-known numbers of Dominion trops at infringed. In them were the holy man material in actual warfare, general election.
there had been unprecedented The Daily Telegraph expresses
expectations; for Mr Warwick and plays of Shakespeare were hu the Army mancouvrea. This be places of the Mahommedan
the opinion that if
his little company it was ample mourously condensed in song, a esid, attested to the growth in religion, bold sacred by the whole ddition, both on load
proof that Hongkong likes them verse to each. A very taking effoiency and strength the of the busulmans, may million sen, to the apparatus of organised ment normakoa ou other to later
and likes them very much, too. I number was the "Dreamland” overeca portion of the army of whom were loyal and devoted lestruction," "All that imposed it will have to be on generons
Since "The Court Cards were song of Miss Palmerston; while
! subjects of the British Crown dangerous strain on the taxable lines. The Balkan Conflict.
last here, there has been a slight The Joker (Mr Warwick) great Britain, aldo Mrpacity and the credit of the The Daily Mail considers that
reshame of the pack, if we may ly tickled the audience with his Mr. Asquith, who was cheared, (Cheers) replied th tonat of His Asquith, would gladly offer any nation, which must react on the in face of such verdicts no
London, Received Nov. 10, term it. There are three now fuaniosities. After a magnifi- Majesty's Ministera. Ho said help to the prosecution of which springs of industry and on the Government can attempt to use
faces among the party, and none cently rendered unaccompained Reuter's correspondent at Vic- who saw the show last night will mule quartette, Miss Maude Fane, that a year ago they were witness the Turkish Government might general progress of material well-armed force in Ulster.
The Standard describes the ing a conflict betwton Turkoy invite her, without forgetting the being (Cheers). His last w.ri
to-night was to ask the question, resulte pe a staggering blow to toris reports that two thousand any that in the new-comers Mr. the inimitable, made a great bit labourers employed on the Van Warwick has been fortunate to with her "Great Blue-eyed Baby", and the allied Bukan States three other Powers who had a conflict which was no sooner end-sprcial concern in the well-being Was it not time for statesmen and the Government.
The Daily Chronicle declares couver-Fort George railway have obtain artistes who thoroughly turn, and a reappearance was ed than it was followed by an and development of Asia Minor, every man of business to take
counsel together to secure a saner that the Unionists fought mainly struck work for a minimum wage well keep up the reputation inevitable, She is as fascinating
The new as over. outbreak of hostilities between
and a more fruitful appropriation on Insurance Home Rule had of four dollars (16.81.) for en bitherto established. the victorious allios. The clash
The second part of the pro- Mr Asquith continued that kin17-(Cheer:).
of the common resources of man little place in the mouths of the eight-hour day, and to scoure the Queen of Diamonds (Miss Rogina
release of the miners imprisoned Palmerston) is an extremely finish-gramme opened speakers.
with most of arms had now happily ceased but thousands of lives had been there were other parts of the world wore confronted with spe gacrificed, millions of treasure which had been spont, vast tracts of cial perplexities and dangers. territory had been devasted, and, This had been the most critical above all the inevitable horrors year in the history of Cina. The of war, things had been done and Chinese Republic had now taken auffered which had shocked and its place among the politics of the
whole -repelled the
civilised world, and in common with other world.
Tuations Britain had recognised it. It would be impertinence. at this moment to comment on its internal affairs, but in view of pur relations in the past and the vast interests of Britial trade which
the
Premler on Chins
A Heavy Responsibility. It was too soon to draw up a debtor and creditor account and to say whether there had been or would be a balance gained or lost. Heavy indeed was the re- are bound up with its futuro de-
OBITUARY.
SIR RICHARD SOLOMON,
London. Received Nov. 11. The death is announced of Sir Richard Solomon, G.U.M.G.
[The deceased has been High
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VANCOUVER STRIKE.
RAILWAY WR ERS OUT.
The Daily News does not be-ia connection with the recented and vivacious performer, with dainty scena, set in Holland, with liovo the resalt indicates an anti-strike.
A voice of rare sweetness and the characters in Datch Government tidal wave, sad!
flexibility, and the reception she costumes; and then Mr. declares that the mandate of the
received laat night showed that Gastor contributedsome fine work Government has been maintained.
she will be a great favourite at the piano, inlouding NEW ZEALAND STRIKE. during the stay of the company very olever imitations of the mo
here. Mr. George Graystone (the dern pianola, the old-fashioned King of Spades) is a decided ac musical box and the street organ. DISAFFECTION SPREADING,quisition to the party; he hap a Miss Maude Fane came on again wonderfully deep and powerful later and the audience, would base voice, and he too, was soon hardly permit her toʻg
/go.
off, 80 in the good graces of the large delighted wore they with her audience. At the piano Mr Ed-work. Then there was. & mag
and Gartin proved himself & nificent success by Mr Graystono
MEXICAN AFFAIRS,
AMERICA.SNEERED AT.
London. Received Nov. 10. A Wellington telegram states that the Secretary. f the Labour London, Received Nov. 11. Federation has announced that sponsibility which lay on the velopment, they were only anxious Commissioner for the Union of Router's correspondent at New all the Unions in Wellington.ot talented musicidn. The old in the popular old song "Asleep in shoulders of the States directly to 608 the authority of a stable South Africa since 1910. He was York states that a telegram from Christchzich, and Dunedin will concerned for the future of the Government accepted by he Pro-barn at Cape Town, was a Barris-Mexios City reports that President call cut their members today. populations for whose intereste vinces and effective throughoutter of the Inner Temple, was pre-Huerta appeara ummoved and is under the new distribution of the whole of China. power in the Balkans they hal Beverally become trustees.
Blaming Europe
Mexican Affair.
the
declare that the waiting policy cannot be long maintained.
President Huorta merely re- iteratan there will be a "new election at which neither he nor Blanquet will, ba candidates,
:
IN DISTRESS.
TRANSPORT'S WIRELESS.
DON'T FORGET.
TO-DAY-UGINS Court Cards At Theatre Royal
16 p.m.
at their beat, and there was the concluded with a screamingly members of the company were also the Deep. The the programme asme happy co-operation evident fanny Bau-sliop", scape in which a on the occasion of the former all the members took part. viously a member of the House of A conspicuous figure in
visit of the party to Hongkong The Court Carda' will again. Assembly Cape Colony, legal cafes, where be indulges in re
Oce of the features of the occupy the boards at the Theatre adviser to the Transvaal Ad-laxation in company with military
opening programme WAS its Royal to-night. The Promior ad alchut Mexico Kitchener, Attorney General of
ministration and to ·Lord' frienda.
fro hness, there were any number It was an easy task to blacie was till in the throes of oivil the Transvaal, of which he was There is more uneasiness
of now i'oms, while even those which had been heard before were Europe, but, although they had war. There had never been, and lates Acting Lieutenant Cover aprarest in the United States
no delightfully given as to bear shown themselves impetent to could not be, dny question of polior, and in 1901 was the repre. Embassy than in the Palaca, provent or curtail the lamentable tical intervention on the part of senta jve of the Transvaal to the whore. it is frequently sneeringly
mich repetition. One of the most effusion of blood, yit to anyone Britain in the domestic concerns Delhi Durbar. From 1907 to suggested that the United States London. Received Nov. 11. striking individual numbers of ho remembered the history of of Mexico or any Central or South 1901 he was Agent General in will never intervene. Americana A wireless distresa call bas the first part was the song "Drake
Eastern question it should Amerion State. It was no part London for the Transvaal.]
bean received from the German Goes West, by Mr Graystone,9 rather be a matter both of ear-of our right or duty, in that part
transport Rhenauis, bound which was sung with plenty of Dares es-Salem (German Ersapirit, and secured a recall. Mr price and a tisfaction that the of the world at any rate, to pre- area of oflict had been circumvent Revoltions or to attempt to
Africa) with 800 troops.
Reginald Palmer was os funny AS preclude or control civil war. The Boribed.
ever is a new turn, "The Matri- atmost that Britain could do was
mo isl Handicap," which simply Mr. Asquith emphasised the to give what protection was possi
brought the house down. That fact that for generations past it had ble to British lives and property
delightful vocalist, Mr Sydney been the one main preoccupation in times of urgent danger and
Mannering, gave a magnificent of European diplomacy to pre- crises. "A umur found credence
rendering of the song "Softly the Harms'on's Circus. vent the reopening of that quas in some quarters that at a moment
the Summer Winde, and as an tion in the belief that it could not when the United States were tak
There was another fine attend encore contributed the old fay be revised without the cartaintying a line of their own in regard
ance at Harmston's circus last ourite "The Trampeler" in a of grave dissension and the grave to Mexico, Britain had entered a Russian Jew, Mendel' Beilias,
night when, in addition to the totally new setting with a finely
Tuesday, November 18. risk of possible war between the upon a new departure of polioy, has been acquitted on a charge of
agnal features, Private Hoyle impressive climar in which all Hongkong, and South China Powers themselves,
deliberately opposed to that of the having murdered a little Christi
London. Received Nov. 10. D.C.LI. attempted to break the the members of the company Steam Fisheries Co. Ltd, meeting The one feature of international United States and calculated an boy named Yushinsky for the M. D' Audoart in the course of weight-lifting record and came participated. An extremely own history of the past year over to thwart it There was not purpose of obtaining Christian his flight from Paris to Cairo, hen within an aca of succeeding. At funny item was "Shakespeare in Extraordinary General meet- which it was possible to look back the vestige of Lundation blood for use in Jewish sacrificial been compelled to land at Oha- tention may be drawn tot mor-Tabloid Form," by Messrs Maning, Hongkong and South China with unqualified admiration was for any such rumour.
taldja owing to a storm.
row's m tinse
nering, Warwick and Palmer, in Steam Fisheries Co. Ltd.12.16.
A.Gave Risk,
RITUAL MURDER "
TRIAL.
ACCUSED ACQUITTED.
London. Received Nov. 11. A telegram from Kioff says the
rites.
PARIS TO CAIRO.
FLIGHT INTERRUPTED.
A later message, however, states that the Rbensais in safe and is making for Lisbon,
Harmaton's Circus-9.15 p.m. Victoria Theatre, 9.15 p.m. Bijou Scenie Theatre, 9.15 p.m.
**TO-MORROW..
Court Cards at Theatre Royal 9.15 p.m.
Harmaton's Circus-0.15 p.m. Victoris Theatre 9.15 p.m. Bijou Theatre 9.15
p.m. Saturday, November 15, Sixth Gymkhana Meeting, Hap py Valloy-3 p.m. ://