The
Hongkong Telegraph.
(ESTABLISHED 1881.)
Copyright, 1915 by the Proprietor.
WEATHER FORECAST
FAIR Barometer 38,48
December 31, 1913,
Temperature a.m. 46. p.m. Humidity
2681,晚伍只二十年丑奏
TLLÉGRAMS.
10
34,
TELEGRAMS.
55
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THE TEST MATCH.
ENGLAND WIN AGAIN.
MAWSON EXPEDITION.
SUCCESS. WITH WIRELESS.
$36 PERASA
BINGLE COPY, 10)
December 30, 1912,
·Temperature sa.m. 55,
B1:
Humidity
WEDNESDAY
DECEMBER 31,
1913.
三拜體:第一卅月二十英港香
TELEGRAMS.
TELEGRAMS.
TELEGRAMS.
EUROPEAN POLITICS,
MEXICAN UNREST.
BRITISH PRECAUTIONS.
SITUATION EXPLAINED,
SWEDEN'S LOSS.
QUEEN DOWAGER DEAD,
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London. Received December 30.
London. Received December 31: Router's correspondent. at Johannesburg states that in the Recond Test Matoh England beat South Africa by an innings and - 12 rans.
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The South Africans oarried their second inninge' score to 231, Nourse knocking up 56.
Barnes took nine wickste for
103.
لیے
TURKEY AND GREECE,
FRESH CONFLICT FEARED.
London. Recalved December 31,
London. Received Decembar 31.
London. Received December 31. Professor David, of the Mawson The reply of the Powers of the Reuter's correspondent st Expedition, has arrived in Lon-Triplice to Sir Edward Grey's Stockholm states that the Queen note has not yet been presented | Dowager" of Sweden has died owing to the holidays.
suddenly of inflammation of the lungs.
don."
Interviewed by a Reuter's re presentative, he stated that be A conference of the Ambass received a wireless message from adore of the Triplice will be held the Aurora on the point of leaving | this evening upon the return of Macquarie Island for the Autaro M. Lichnowsky to London re- tic to pick up Dr. Mawson, who
London. Received December 30, H.M.N. Lancaster has landed bluejackets and marines at British Honduras to prevent armed Mexi- cans crossing the frontier and gut-running.
garding the time and method of SUFFRAGIST OUTRAGES. LONG DISTANCE
is expected to reach Australia by the presentation. It is explained the end of February. Wireless that having regard to the fact telegraphy had been a huge sue that the Aegean Islands are not cess, and consequently the Com-mentioned in the reply, and that monwealth Government would in view of the premature revela maintain the Madquarie Telandtion of the term of Sir Edward station.
Grey'a note, it was considered
A YEAR'S DAMAGB;"
London Received December 30,-
Dr. Mawson had done continu-well that a reply regarding one ous scientific work. His magnetic part of the proposal should not
The total losses justained by records would be of unique value, be delayed until the Ambassadors suffragist outrage during the Dreadnought which is being taneously observations between their discassions of the other
probe by Turkey of a as he had made absolutely simul of the Triplice had concluded year is estimated to exceed hall
A million pounde; built at Elawick for Brazil has Melbourne and the Antarctic. part. caused a stir, as the warship is Dr. Mawson's researches regard- one of the most powerful in the ing storm forces would save many world.
shipwrecks in the future.
The purchase entirely alters the aspect of Turec-Greek naval rivalry, and it is feared that there. will be a fresh conflict over the Aegeon Islands,
The price is said to be between two and three million sterling,; and the first instalment will be paid from money borrowed in France.
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SAFETY AT SEA.
INTERNATIONAL
CONFERENCE.
MONTREAL'S PLIGHT.
ANEW AUTOMATIC GUN.
Successful Demonstration at "Bisley.
UNITED NIGERIA.
SIR FREDERICK LUGARD- GOVERNOR,
TELEPHONY,
London and Switzerland.
TELEGRAMS.
MEXICAN AFFAIRS.
WILL HUERTA. ABDICATE P
[Ostasiatischer Lloyd Barrics]
Berlin. Received December 30, Recent reports from the United
NEWS FOR BUSY KEN.
TELEGRAMS.
CONDENSED.
The Queen Dowager of Sweden is dead.
In the second Test Match
States to the effect that President England beat South Africa by an Huerta would abdicats are une true, but there is a possibility of innings and 12 rane, the Marican Distator personally leading the campaign against the
The total losses due to suffragist
rebels as quarrels between his outrages during 1913 generals have frustrated his sac estimated to exceed half a million oess.-Der. Ost. Floyd.
sterling.
The fears of fire" during the Montreal water-famine hava besp
TURKEY AND RUSSIAN, realized, and 20 buildings were
TROUBLE IN ARMENIA
Berlin, Received December 30,
destroyed.
A stir has been caused in naval airoles by Tarkey purchasing a Dreadnought being built Elewick for Brazil.
The International Conference onSafety at Sea," "convoked as a result of the Titanic disaster, in still sitting in London.
In the Shackleton, expedition. two ships will be engaged, one going via New Zealand and the
THE GERMAN MISSION, other via South Americs:
UNDERSTANDING ASSURED.
Arrangements for direct tele- phonic communication between
The Russo-Turkish frontiers London Switzerland are now in en advanced stage. The necessary bordering Armenia are in a edit agreement had been signed by the ious state. Turkish subjects in British and French Governments Armenia are armed with amug- and is expected to be signed on gled Russian weapone. behalf of Switzerland at an early The Powers are urging an early date. When that is done, the understanding with the Forts as organization of the service will to reforms. Der. Ost. Lloyd. be put in haud and London will be placed in communication with Basel and Genova, It will be London, Récnited December 31. 0 month or twa. yet, The Gazette announces the however, before this service will At the invitation of the Bir amalgamation of Northern and be open to the public, but ex• mingham Small Arms Company Southern Nigeria.
perimental talking has shown that no technical difficulty stands
Berlin. Received December 30, a party of about 150, which in- oluded representatives of foreign
in the way. The possibility of Mission to Turkey an understand- Regarding the German Military London, Received December 30. Governments, the War Office, and
placing telephone communication ing between Germany and Turkey Router's Montreal correspond-[the Admiralty, journeyed to Bis-
Mr. A. G. Borla (formerly between London and Basel and on the one hand and Russia and ent states that the fears that fire ley to witness a demonstration and Colonial Secretary for Southern Geneva on a commercial basis is Turkey on the other is now might break out and do carious the firing of an antomatic macbine Nigeria) and Mr. C. L. Temple direct result of the improved type asentad-Der. Ost, Lloyd. damage through the lack of water gan which has been designed by (formerly Chief Secretary for of loaded telephone cable laid ba have been realised.
Colonel I. N. Lewis, formerly of Northern Nigeria) are gazetted tween Dover and Calais lost year, A Gre broke out and spread the United States Army,
respectively Lieutenant Gover-which has increased the range from blook to block until twenty More than ordinary interest nors of Southern and Northern over which speech is possible, buildings were destroyed before is at the moment being taken in Nigeria.I
These are the only Swiss towns to it was got under control;
in machine-gans in Great Britain Sir E. A. Speed, formerly Chief be included in the initial services. Hose had to be carried half a for it is known that the Admiralty Justion of Northern Nigeria, in There are now four telephone General d'Amade, who is well ale to the River, St. Lawrende, is on the look out for amasde Chief Justice of Nigeria on cables laid in the Straits of Dover known for the part he played in and then only a feeble stream was new weapon, while the War the amalgamation of the two and a considerable traffic is the Morocosa campaign, is men- obtained.
Office is still experiment-Supreme Courts. “
conducted between London, Paris, tioned as the nest French Am
FIRES BREAKS OUT.
Safe.,
any given moment, Colonel Lewis
Sir Frederick Lugard (formerly Governor of Hongkong) is garett ed Governor General.”
is
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FRENCH AMBASSADOR.
Berlin. Received December 30.
ARABIAN AUTONOMY.
Berlin. Received December 30. Arabian chiefs have initiated A report from Cairo states that
mon stops for the recognition Turkey of Arabian autonomy. -Der. Ost, Lloyd.
BIG SPANISH FIRE.
Berlin. Resolved December 30,
Professor David, of the Maw- son Expedition, has arrived in London and given some details of the work done by the expedition. Mr. Robert Sievier, the well- known sporting journalist, his bean committed for seat on charge of blackmailing a book maker.
H.JM 8 Lancaster has landed bluse sokete and Earings, British Honduras to prevani azEGO- ed Mexicans from, crossing the frontier,
NEWS,
An interesting letter by a boy begger appeara'in this issue.
The review of the year is con eluded to-day on an extra and on page 3.
Outlook was mentioned in the The case against the China, Summary Court to-day
report of yesterday's Sanit ary Board meeting appears on page 4 of to-day's immo.
Log book appears on page 6 A fire at Sebastian, Spain, hae to-day, commerical notes on destroyed the theatre, circus, pages 8 and 9, and Our Contem- barracks and many houses. Der. poraries on page 2. Qst: Lloyd
· London. Received December 30. The International Conference од safety Ot son, which was called as a result of the Titanic disaster, ia still sitting in London. The proceedings are
The damage done by the fire is ing with a view to finding The amalgamation involves the and other parts of France. This bassador to St. Petersburg-Dor being held in camera, but an estimated at a million dollars one suitable for цве with establishment of a Nigerian is likely to increase in the near Ort. Lloyd. American delegate nomed (gold).
aeroplanes. There are several Council consleting of various future, as the goale, of charges Feruseth, who resigned sa o
patterns on the merket, and the Official members and seven Un-has been reduced and protest against some of the de-
chief technical difficulties in their officials, of whom three will be zone scale put in force. To Paris cisions, enys that the Appliances
design many be said to relate to nominated by the Chambers of and a number of small towns and Committee decided that buats for
A STEAMER'S PLIGHT. the cooling arrangements and the Commerce and Mines and four by cities in the first zone, the charge 75 per cent, of the persons aboard
feeding of the cartridges into the the Governor. "Six natives will for a three minutes' conversation would be sufficient, with rafts for
chamber. For the purpose of the be nominated by the Governor. now 48.; to towns in the second the the remainder. They refused to.
London. Received December 30,
former water is usually employ- The Governor only given effect zone, of which Lycus is one of accept the suggestion that al!
Renter's Melbourne correspond-ed, but this procedure has certain to Council resolutions if he thinks most important, 6s, ; and to third passenger tickets should stato
zons towns, including Marseilles by whether or not the vessel carried ent says alwireless message the objections, not the least being ft.
Bordeanx, the charge has been bosta sufficient for all, and de-Tasman (ashore in the Gulf of the difficulty of replenishment at
zoduosd to 8s, for three minutes. ferred the requirement for various Papua) states that there were 15 improvements to davits, etc., until feet of water in the hold, and it has therefore adopted the prin The gan was tested both for These are the ordinary day rates. 1920. Resolations defining the was gaining rapidly. The rescue ciple of air-cooling which he effects rapidity and accuracy, and it For the service to Switzerland the by fixing on the barrel a close-sequitted itself exceedingly well. charge is to be about the same as need for efficient bont hands, and steamers had not arrived.
fitting jacket of aluminium with It was also fired from pa zeroplane for the third zone. ⠀ the fixing of each. boat he con“
radiating longitudinal fine, sur which was down over the Stickle sidered to be most unsatisfactory.
rounding which is a thin tabular down Ranges and a high percen steel casing some four inches in tage of his was recorded on a diameter. This casing extende white sheet placed on the ground.
A marine named William Gor beyond the muzzle of the jacketed This, however; was merely a
died at the Naval Hospital yee- barrel, and as the gases of explo-demonstration of the accuracy of Mrs. Sarah Fox Verdie, of Warrant Against Ex-President terday, following a fall over & sion emerge behind the bullet the firer ander unusual conditions, Hove, who left £15,949, beque- The United States. Attorney-cliff at Stonecutters, they act in the manner of a pampaa the seroplane was one of early athed 8250 to animal protection General, at the request of the plunger inside the extension and design and consequenty the flight societies, and directed that her Nicaraguan Government, has suck currents of fresh, cool air could throw to light on the eat and dog should, as soon se iesned an extradition warrant London, Received December 30.
through the longitudinal passages various problems connected with possible after her death, be taken against ex-President Zelaya, of In regard to the Imperial
formed by the above-mentioned this form of attack. Interest was to the lethal chamber at Brighton, Nicaragua, who is charged with Trans-Antarctic Expedition of
fins on the exterior of the barrel with the weapon, which through 1914. which Sir Erenst Shacleton
Aluminium being a far better out behaved-admirably and is an
It was announced at a recent tion of two Americans, Mesars. bas definitely announced that he
conductor than steel, the heat doubtedly a machine-gun with a meeting of the London City Grace and Cannon, in 1809, while will load, Sir Ernest, in an in-
from the barrel is conveyed rapid- future in front of it its simp Corporation that the Bridge Senor Zelaya was dictator of terview with a representative of
London, Received December 31. ly into the fine and thence is plicity when taken to pieces is House Estates Committes propo- Nicaragua. Senor Zalaya, who Rauter's Agency stated that there Beater's Berlin correspondent carried away by the continuous very noticeable, and the feeding sad to invite British architec's to recently arrived at was ington will be two ships engaged in the states that details of the attack air currenta. It is found that arrangement worked perfectly end in designs for the new St. from Europe, has now disappear expedition. One will travel via on a scientific expedition by can- during the first few hundred Whether its construction ie suit- Paul's Bridgo. Promiams of ed, and it is believed that he has New Zealand in August, and the nibals at Non Mecklenburg (New rounds the temperature rapidly able to the strain and knocking $300,"£200, and $100 would be fed to Canada, other will go by way of South Guinea) show that the natives rises to 330 degrees Fahr., and that about which it would receive offered for the designs placed America in October, "The total attacked the expedition and killed then it mounts more slowly, until an service could not of course be first, second, and third by the staff will only amount to thirty. five native soldiers and four at the end of 1,000 rounds of rapid tested, but there seems no reason SBESSSCT.
SHACKLETON..
at
London, Received December 31, Beater's
oorrespondent Sydney states that the Tasman is safa. A Japanese liner is towing her and she is expected to keep
EXPEDITION. afloat.
THE PLANS OUTLINED.
THE NEW GUINEA OUTRAGE.
GERMANS NOT INJURED.
"Péta to be Destroyed,
New St. Paul's Bridge. murder arising from the exequ-
As the vessels will be cil-driven, bearers. The Germans, Herr fire, it does not exceed 446 degrees.to doubt that it would not 4 Motor Side-car Lights.:
Accountant's Lose.
A Chinese accountant com-
Frank Wild will be second in Deininger and Herr Kempf were The other principal interest of the survive this ordeal. It remains With reference to the recent plains that between 10 p.m.
command, and there, will be six not injured. picked men to accompany me
Boross the Continent.
Altoge
ther the staff, apart from those
Lewis gun centras in the feed to add that the peok equipment mecheniam, which has been in which two guns are carried on epecially designed to avoid fama mule is a peculiarly neat one. ming. It consists of a balanced
for the ships, will be about a CHARGE OF BLACKMAIL. rotary magazine in which the
a dozen, and there will also be a
biologist, geologist, and a physic ist for each ship. My plan is to
MR. SIEVIER COMMITTED.
London. Received December 31.
eroes the Antarotio from the Weddell Sea to Ross Ben, which
Date Fixed
decision of a Divisional Court to yesterday and 5am. this morning the effect that the carrying of someone broke into his verandah, at 12, Queen Victoria Street, and rear lights on motorcycles is re-stole a grey woollen overcoat, a quired by law, a Local Govern- ment Order has ben issued ay waistcost, purse, and three choius, as well as five dollars amending the terms of the pre-in twenty cent pieces.
sent Motor Cars (Dee and Con- struction) Order, and exempting motor bioycles from the obligation
Only a Chimney,
cartridges are placed radially, and which is quickly and easily substituted when empty. The In the Summary Court, this weight of the gun is only 26) lb., morning, before Mr Justice Gom- it is ges-operated, it can by as- pertz, the Sun Yes shing sued Ip to carry these lights. In the cars A small fire broke out laat is the biggest polar journey ever At Bow Street Police Court, sembled or dismounted in 30 sao, ka, for the sum of 8729, 13. Mr. of motor bicycles to which side- evening at about six o'clock at attempted. It will possibly he the well-known sporting journalist with no other tool than the point Heywood (Mr L D'Almada care are attached, the Order pro- No 11, Lok Hing Lane. The Fire accomplished in five months. The Mr. Robert Sievier, was com of a ballet, and the recoil is res Castro) appeared for the plaintiff. vides that they shall carry either Brigade turned out, but on ar first eight hundred miles will be mitted for trial to the Old Bailey markably small. The normal and Mr Buss, of Mesere- Goldring a lamp showing a red light to the rival it was found that only a quite a new route, but with luck on a charge of blackmail on a rate of fire is 500 rounds per and Russ, appeared for the defand rear. Or, as an alternative, the chimney was on fire and that their the whole journey of 1,700 miles book-maker.
mlunts, and this can be varied by auta. The care we fixed for bear devion known as a "reflez" services were not required. The will be new ground."
He was granted bail in #100. adjustment of the gas inlet porting on Tp morning pest.
damage was infinitesimal,
DON'T FORGET.
TO-DAY,
Victoria Theatre, 9.15 p.m. Kowloon Dock Ball--9 Bijou Soenic Theatre, 9.15 p.m.
TO-MORROW. Children's Sports, Kowloon. Friday January 20 Taikoo Club Ball-8,45 p.m. Monday January 5, cint Peak School Opens.
Tussday, January B.
G. Fenwick and Co, Ltd., in liquidation--General meeting of shareholders, No. 6, Queen's Road Central doon, c
Friday January 9. Volunteers go into Camp. Organ Recital: St.
Cathedral 5.80.
Friday January 16. gingers Ball, City Hall,-9
Saturday January 17, Entries close for Eongkong
Races.
Monday January 26, Obiness New Year.