The Hongkong Telegraph.
November 28, 1913, Temperature a.m. 68, p.m. 75; Humidity...84, 51,
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晚十三月十年丑癸
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HOME RULE.
THE AFRICAN TROUBLE.
CABINET IGNORANCE.
Reuter's
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London. Received Nov. 26, Mr. Hamar Greenwood Liberal
THURSDAY,
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CEYLON COLLEGE.
WEATHER FORECAST
FINE
Barometer 30.03
p.m. 72; Humidity.75, 50"-
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魏七廿月一十英港香
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MR. A. CHAMBERLAIN.
NO CABINET DISSENSIONS: PROGRESS OF THE SCHEME. JUEST OF MR. CHURCHILI.
Reuter's
[Service to the "Telegraph."]
London. Received Nov. 20. Mr. Birrell, speaking at Bristol, emphatically denied that the Cabinet was divided on the sub- ject of Ulster.
Colonel Hickman, Unionist M.P. for Wolverhampton, is buy- ing rifles, and enrolling past and procent officers of the Army and Navy to help Ulster.
The New Force.
Reuter's
[Service to the "Telegraph."]
London. Received Nov. 26. The London Committee, under
Reator's
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London. Received Nov, 26.
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VOLTURNO ENQUIRY.
A REMARKABLE FACT...
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JACK JOHNSON.
SUCCESS AS WRESTLER:
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London, Received Nov. 26. Reuter's correspondent at Paris into the Volturno dienster, counsel says Jack Johnson, the notorious
London, Received Nov. 27. At the Board of Trade enquiry
JOHANNESBURG RIOTS,
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It is stated that 10,000 persons enrolled in the National Volun tears at the Rotunda Bink, Dublin.
"Mr. Harcourt has reftised to see.
Mr Adaten Chamberlain is the guest of Mr Winston Chur chill on the Admiralty yacht En- chantress.
The Times states that Mr.
M.P. for Sunderland, speaking at
Colonel Sir Henry E. McCallum, Austen Chamberlain will be the the West Cadian Club, deplored
has drawn up a scheme for the guest of Mr. Winston Churchill, for the Board stated that the pugilist, appeared at a music hall a deputation of Indians in the establishment of a college, which on board the Admiralty yacht, steamer carried nineteen boats, as a catch-as-catch-asa wrestler, United Kingdom on the African
German named problem. the ignorance of members?f the Cabinet of the condition existing
will now be considered by Ceylon. Enchantress, after the launch of accomodating 150 more than the defenting a
It was a remarkable fact, after in the Dominions. Nothing was
The Committes bas seked Pr.the oil Dreadnought, Warapite, number of passengers on board. Urbou in two falls. frought with greater danger than
fessor Wyndham Dunstan, who is at Devonport.
Political circles are much in the experience of the Titanio, than the hasty, and sometimes
atout to visit Ceylon, to repre sent the Committee, and to confer terested in the meating, owing to that the loss of life would have abusive criticism of General Botha
with the Board of Agriculture, the similarity of views of Mr. been less if the Volturno had no in reference to the Indians. It was not in the interests of Imperial Eight thousand people as and also the Ceylon Planters Churchill and Mr. Chamberlain boats, for all the boate used came unity that the head of the Union coinbled at the Rotunda rink, Association with reference to apon the federal solution of the to grief, drowning many of the occupants. The Volturno's cargo The financial subcom-friah problem.
consisted of barrels of tar oil, Government should be borated Dublia, to earol in the Nationalist details.
Some of the mittes, which has been soliciting
peat moss and straw.covered in a public dispatch by the Volunteer Force. Viceroy.
speakers having employed free the support of planting and other Sir G. O. M. Birdwood, in labour, the transport workers tommercial firms in England, bae a letter to the Times, states outside were riotous, and there made such satisfactory progress, that the great error of the ladians was some revolver firing. Stud that it is hoped to give effect to and the scheme in the course of 1914. has been in associating themselves ents exploded fireworks, with Central African blacks in windows woro smashed, complaining of the colour bar. He says that the Hindu caste system is impregnably based upon the colour bar..
Deputation Turned Down.
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London, Received Nov. 27. Indians in the United Kingdom have approached Mr. Harcourt, Beoretary of State for the Colonies, asking him to receive a depatá- tion In reference to the South African_position.
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Mr. Harcourt has written re- gretting he is unable to receive a deputation, but saying he is quite prepared to receive any statement in writing.
The Indians are much die- satisfied as a consequence.
Editor Arrestad.
Beater's correspondent at Del hi states that the arrest of Mr. Woat, the editor of Indian Opanion, published in Durban, is regarded as a severe blow to the Indian community in Africa, placing them at a serious disadvantage.
It is stated that ten thousand were enrolled at the Rotunda, Dublin. A manifesto which bas bsen issued says the Volunteers will form a permanent element of national life under a National Government as a guarantee that
PRESIDENT WILSON'S
DAUGHTER..
the liberties of the Irish people AN INTERESTIng wedding. will be secured.
OBITUARY,
SIR ROBERT BALL,
· London. Received Nov. 26. Reuter's correspondent At Washington says President Wil- son's daughter, Jessie, WES married to Mr. Francis Sayre, of New York, at the White House. There was a brilliant assemblage of foar bundred guests, including Ambassadors in uniform
London. Received Nov. 27. Renter's correspondent at Johannesburg states that tep persons bave been sentenced to bottles. The oaptain and those terms of imprisonment varying who knew believed that the ship from nine months to fours years might sink at any moment The for the part they played in the captain, the chief engineer and
The Launching. London. Received Nov. 27. The battleship Warspite has been launched at Devonpart,
Mrs Austen Chamberlain per two sailors laboured throughout strike riote in July last. formed the ceremony of christen-he night making rafts which ing the new warship, and Mrhaply might save some of the 300 or 400 on board; and when Churchill was present,
the rescuing boats arrived. the oaptain told the emigrants to jump into the ses. They refused,morrow instead of to-day, the and thereupon the engineers and ship, having been delayed, we are several seamen jumped in to show informed, at Manila.
THE CAIRO VISIT.
FLEETS DÉPART FOR PIRAEUS,
The bride and bridegroom are | London; Received. Nov. 26 The death is announced of the hoth energetic social workers. Lord Kitchener and many pro- well-known astronomer, Sir The bride gave up her ambition ainent Cairo.cficials attended a Bobert S. Ball,
to become a foreign missionary a ball given to the Flest by (Deceased, who was born at the instance of her family, and Britisha s as Alexandris last Dublin was Lowndoan Professor Mr. Sayre has abandoned legal night. of Astronomy and Geometery, work and becomes an education- Cambridge; Director of the Cam-list. bridge Observatory since 1892;
The word "obay " was omitted. Royal Astronomer of Ireland, from the marriage service of 1874-92; Scientific Advisor to the President Wilson's daughter, South Commissioners of Irish Lights which was Presbyterian in forma.
from 1884; ex-President of the Royal Astronomical Society: ex- Preaidant of the Mathematical Association; and ex-President of the Royal Zoological Society of Ireland. He was the author of
A Clergyman's Mission,
DESTROYER'S NARROW
DR. ELIOT ON THE FAR EAST.
the way.
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Lord Desart, presiding, asid the gallant tradition of the sea was
followed.
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modern
Tesources.
Jense,
Korea Delayed, The s.e. Korea will arrived to-
A great battle in Mexico bet- ween the Federal troops and thei rebels resulted in a victory: for the latter,
Mr Augustine Birrell, speaking at Bristol, emphatically denied
that the Cabinet was divided on the subject of Ulster...
Mr. Arthur Bennett writes to the Times from Yunnan-fu urging certain measures for improving. British trade in China.
Jack Johnson, has appeared of a music hall in Paris as a catch. To Consignees. Consignees of cargo by the as-catch-can wrestler, defeating a Hongkong Mara are reminded German named Urbach in two that, goods undelivered after falls. to-morrow will be subject to rent.
Auction of Ships......
Falled to Appear.
...
Miss Jessie Wilson, the daugh
The London Committee, under Sir Henry McCallum, for the promotion of a college of tropics agriculture for Ceylon has draw up a scheme.
Mr. Ashton, secretary ⠀⠀o" the Miners' Federation, in 6 statement condemning Larkin methods, says a national strike would be a silly thing,
H.M. s.s. Handy and Janus ter of President Wilson, has been are to be sold by auction by married to Mr. Francis B. Bayre London. Received Nov, 27. shoot.
turned It
over Messrs Hughes and Hough on of New York at the White no the republic Gov-December 10. The ships are to be House. The British Fleets have left to Alexandria and Port Said for the ernment organization in the broken op.
Do national
Unexpected, Piraeus.
The H. A. L. 8.8. Uckermark revenues, no trustworthy army, no efficient navy, no roade, no arrived in port this afternoon system of taxation, no national with the Siberian mail on board. police, no courts or body of laws She was notified by the Post in the Western'sease, no public Om as arriving to-morrow. health servica nothing, in. Admiral Promoted. fat, but numerous embarrassing Cintra admiral Grof von Spee concessions to foreign countries has been promoted to the rank and corporations, many crippling of Vico admiral and definitely ap treaties which pawn the national pointed Chief of the German The numbered Cruiser Squadron in the Far
Col. T. E. Hickman, Unionist masses of the Chinese people East.
M. P. for Wolverhampton, is superstitions, are ignorant,
At the Police Court, this mor- buying rifles and enrolling past almost childlike, and have no con- Writes of China's Troubles and ception of the meaning of aaing, a man who was charged and present officers of the army
with the unlawful possession of and navy to help Ulster. democracy or a constitution, Japan's Progress.
One of the chief difficulties a revolver and fifty rounds of appear The Carnegie Endowment for which the Chinese statesmen en ammunition, failed to London. Received Nov. 20. International Peace has publish-counter in the organization of the when called and his bail of 850
An Official Viältor. Reuter's correspondent, ated, for publio distribution, the new republic arises from the lack was estreated.
Before taking up his post as Smyrna says the French torpedo report of Dr. Charles W. Eliot, of trained natives competent to destroyer Spahi, with the French president emeritas of Harvard administer the public offices, and Consul-General and party, wee University, describing his ex-a distrust of experts named by Governor of British North Borneo, The Governor- A SUGGESTION FOR BRITAIN. returning from Vouria to Smyrna, periences and impression in the foreign governments for eucli Mr A. O. Pearson will spend some and when passing a mine field trip to the Far East which he service. Too often in the past, time in Chics, accompanied by
it appears, these foreign experts Mrs Pearson Viceroy's Sympathy.
one of the mines exploded. There made in 1912 under the auspices have Herved the nation which elect and his wife arrived. in Matters will be found on page A message from Heuter's cor-
London. Received Nov. 27. was great excitement, but fortun- respondent at Madras states that
his afternoon. named them rather than the Hongkong by the German mail Mr Arthur Bennett, in a letter ately no one was injured. the Viceroy, (Lord Hardings), in
country which paid them. the coarse of a speech, reviewed to the Times from Yunnan-fo the position of Indians in South urging measures, in view of the widespread and perfect organisa- Africa, and, referring to their pastion of American and German sive resistance to the Immigration Aot, he said:"In all this they agencies, to secure for Britain a have the deep and burning larger share of Chinese contracts. sympathy of Ladia and also of all suggests dividing the office of the
In view of the imprisonment of numerous publications on mathe- most of the Indian leaders andmatical, astronomical and physi the consequent feeling in India, cal subjects.] the Rev. F. O. Andrews, of St. Stephen's College, Delhi, on intimate friend of the post Tagore, leaves immediately for South Africa to ascertain the facts and report on the situation.
CHINESE TRADE.
ESCAPE.
LAKKINISM,
those who, like myself, without Commercial Attache in Peking TRADE UNION
CONDEMNATION. being Indiane, sympathise with into three one at Peking, one the people and the country." He at Shanghai and one at Canton,
London, Received Nov. 26 concluded by saying that although each with an Attache and full
Mr. Ashton, Secretary of the the allegations of ill-treatment of staff, these to be asei-ted by 20 the Indians were denied, even the or 30 agents is the Provincial Miners' Federation, has issued
atatement condemning Larkin dental contained admissions ren-spitale and obief porte. dering it imporative that the The Times, commenting on the and his methods. He says that a Union appoint an impartial Com-uggestion, says that during national strike would be a silly mittee of Enquiry on which recent Indians should be represented.
of the Endowment in pursuance of its plan for international visits of representative men, with a view to acquainting the peoples of the various natione, more fully with the history, institutions, and ideals of other nations.
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The new battleship Warspite
The Board of Trade enquiry
One direct result of Dr. Eliot's visit to China is particularly in- teresting. The Government was about to prepare a permanent NEWS FOR BUSY MEN, Dr. Eliot was the first American titution; and was confronted chosen to make each a visit and by the difficulty above referred bis report is one of the most to. Dr. Eliot ventured to suggest that the Carnegie Endowment interesting, penetrating, and sug- gestive publications that have might be able to help them to ever been made upon the internal obtain an expert adviser on this conditions in the two greas delicate and important matter. nations of China and Japanone Shortly after his return to Amer of them absorbingly interesting ica the Chinees Goverment naked at the moment, to students, of the Endowment to nominate an has been launched. political science everywhere, badviser, which it did in the per- cause of the recent revolution son of Prof. Frank J. Goodnow, there. Dr. Eliot was in China Estop professor of public law and into the Voltarap disaster, bse at a very critical period in the municipal science in Columbia opened. establishment of the republic. University, who is now in China, He describes with dramatis detail under a three years' contrast, and
most the extraordinary difficulties with rendering
service. which the Young Statesmen haye to contend, and with many of
Neod of Hospitals. whom he came into intimate
Another great handicap, Dr. London. Received Nov. 26. contset while at the Chinese Reuter's correspondent at New capital, and a large proportion of Eliot points out, is the absence of York says Freddie Welsh out-whom were educated in American any knowledge of modern me-
The Mongolian Mission has boxed and out fought Phil Bloom universities, and ate striving to dicine, Hospitals are practically
put into effect in China the ideals unknown and epidemirs are gonto Livadia where the Russian
Until Court is at ying of democratic institutions which frequent and terrible. they acquired by contact with the some system of public education American people:
years of exceptional thing. activity there has been a grow- ing disposition to pick and choose orders from "the most secure and most remunerative Bourges. This accounts for much of our lost headway in China, The pendulum is now on the downward swing, and such a FEDERAL TROOPS ROUTED, vast market aan no longer be left|
to the foreigner.
MEXICAN AFFAIRS.
London. Received Oct. 27. THE SECOND BALLOT. Reuter's New York correspond-
Ant stites that the Insurgont
General-reports a great battle to] NOT POPULAR IN NEW
rebels faced an overwhelming
ZEALAND,›
the south of Janrez, in which the
superiority of the Federal artillery
but ended in routing the enemy
Landon: Received Nov. 27 Reator'a correspondent
at
BOXING.
FREDDIE WELSH WINS.
in a ten-round contest,
THE
Mr. Hamar Greenwood, Liberal
West Indian Club, deplored the M. P. for Sunderland, at the ignorance of the members of the Cabinet concerning conditions: the Dominions,
NEWS
General News and Service
to-day.
The bank note case was con- tinued at the Criminal Sessions -to-day.
Log Book will be found on 6 and commercial news on page 9 to-day.
The story of a row at a Sikh: temple was unfolded at the Police Court this morning
Dr. W. E. Taylor, of Shanghai, furnishes some interesting facts regarding the Y.M.O.A. in China.
Farther details are given to day of the Yaumati Ferry collision
Mr West, editor of Indian with a Japanese boat when satisfactory Opinion, Durban, has been several people were drowned,:?
arrested.
The death is announced of Sir Robert Stawell Ball, the noted astronomer,
bas been put into force, and sev Ten people who took part in erol generatione have passed, the the Johannesburg strike riota. outlook for China is distinctly have been sentenced to imprison discouraging, although not with mant. out hope; because the people
Government a Sham. MONGOLIAN MISSION.
They have a herculean task London, Received Nov, 26. before them; they are confronted and capturing all their guns. Wellington states that a Bill Beater's correspondent at St. by incredible problems, such as
A Federal officer reports that repealing second ballot elections Petersburg aaya the Mongolian never before confronted a nation, industrious-and- the rebels excontod shirty Federal has passed by the House of Re- Mission has gone to Lividia, For Dr Ellot makes it plain that minded. The Western world,
(Continued On Page 10.) where the Court is staying. the Manchu Government wAN Volunteers,
presentatives.
a mase are
patient, peaceably
4 New York telegram says that Freddie Welsh out fought and out-boxed Phil Blom för tea rounds.
DON'T FORGET,
TO-DAY. Victoria Theatre, 9.15 p.m. Bijou Scenic Theatre, 9.15 p.m.
TO-MORROW. Victoria Theatre 9.15 p.m. Bijou Theatre 9.15 p.m. Auction sale at Highlands, Kimberley Road, Kowloon. Mr. G. P. Lammers-10:30 am
Auction Sale, Blackwood etc.
G. P. Lammert. Top floor 14, Des Voeux Road 2,30 pm.
St. Andrew's Ball City Hall, p.m
Monday, December 1 Crown Land Auction P:W.D. 3 p.m