The
Bjongkong Telegraph.
(ESTABLISHED 1881.)
Copyright, 1914 by the Proprietor.
WEATHER FORECAST
FINE Barometer 80.40
-January 12, 1914,
2690 晚七十月十年
Tomperature a.m. 62. p.m. 66 Humidity
89,
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January 12, 1913,.
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MONDAY,
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JANUARY *12,
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1914.
一拜號二拾月正英街
TELEGRAMS.
TELEGRAMS.
NEW YORK AFFRAY.
THE ZABERN AFFAIR.
COMPREHENSIVE MEASURES.
A COMMITTEE ATTACKED.
THREE ACQUITTALS,
NINE MILLIONS STARVING.
THE AFRICAN TROUBLES. THE AFRICAN TROUBLES. FIGHTING THE TRUSTS.
NATIVES Attack Whites.
POLICE OPPOSED.
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[Reuter's Service To The Telegraph." Router's Service-To The "Telegraph." (Router's Service To The Telegraph."Reuter's Service To The Telegraph."
London. Received January 10. There have been, two attempta
London. Resolved January 10.
.correspondout àt.
London. Received January 11. Renter's Johannesburg corras-
Router's
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London, Received January 11, Router's New York correspond.
JAPANESE; FAMINE,
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Landon Received January 11. Reater's Tokyo correspondent
Löndan. Received January 10. : Ranter's correspondent
NEWS FOR BUSY MEN:
TELEGRAMS.
CONDENSED.
The Peking Parliament has been dissolved."
Mr. Ho, manager of the Com-
to dynamite trains in the Transpondent esys a crowd at a strike Washington says a tentative draft ont slates that gunmen have been Siraseborg says that both Col. says the official report of the mercial Press, Shanghai, has been vaal, The engine of the Cape meeting prevented the police of the anti-trust legislation pre- troublesome lately. An extre- von Reuter and Lieut Sohad have Famine Relief Association says assassinated. mail train was damaged and the from arresting Mr. Bain, secretary pared by the majority members ordinary affray occurred, a gang been soquiited.
that 9,000,000 persons are star-
There have been terrible gales
rails torn up but nobody was of the Trades Federation. The of the Judiciary Committee of the of them firing upon the reception Lieut. Foerstner, who was ooving in Hokkaido and the North around Danzig, groat damage be-
hurt,
latter in a speech said he had House of Representatives covers committee when arriving at avioted on December 19, appealed The Government has acted cable to the Labourite members the interlocking of directorates danes on the Bowery,
against his sentence of 43 days' eastern prefectures. most promptly. It has mob lieed of Parliament in England to see trade relations, the regulation of The committee dfew revolvers imprisonment and was to-day all the Union forces in the Trans- that justice is obtained. He prices, iujunction proceedings and outed their assailante, the acquitted. vaal and arrested seven labour assorted ihat :-" "To-murrow'a and damage suits by individuals. only victin' being an old man leaders on a charge of seditions mass-meeting will be of greater The Bill inhibiting interlocking who was passing. He was killed. significance than the Fourth of of directorates applies to banks, language..
July."
Flour Rising.
The price of flour has risen 1 in Johannesburg which is only supplied with provisions for s week.
Further Demands."
Martial Law Likely,
The Government has not yet prohibited the meeting, but it is believed that they are consider. ing the proclamation of Martial
Law.
A Inter measage slates that the local Defence Corps at Capetown, numbering 1,800, is mobilising
Situation In Hand. Lendon. Received January 12,
Johannesburg weare the aspect of a city under siege, but the authorities have complete com- command of the situation.
A thousand burghers have ar rived from Lichtenburg, being commanded by Genaral Delarey. They are proceeding to., Germia-
DAM BURSTS.
VILLAGE FLOODED.
trast companies and all industrial corporations engaged in inter- state commerce. and will pormit the contro' of aff irs to pass to un army of new mon instead of re- maining in the hands of a few,
MEXICAN UNREST.
London. Resolved January 12,
Reator's correspondent at Pre- THE VALON A TROUBLE.sidio states that General Vills, with the rebel forces, ha oc- cupied Ojinaga
TURKISH TROOPS TO BE SENT BACK.
a
MR. LLOYD george.
VISCOUNT BRYCE,
Loudon. Received January 12.
London. Received January 11. Router's correspondent at
Mr. Bryce has chosen as his Algiers states that Mr. Lloyd title Viscount Bryce of Dechmont. George has departed for Mar- seilles.
DINNER TO THE POOR
ing done to surrounding villages.
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Colonel von Reuter and Lieut. Sohad have both been acquitted on the charge in connection with the Zabern affair.
The American Legation is pro- testing against missionaries at Foochow not being allowed to return to the interior.
Thare is a growing conviction that the African Government is faced with a situation more in the nature of a revolution than a mere strike.
A
NBWS.
MANDAG
An emergency meeting of the
He was then taken away from Federation of Trades at Johan
the Court room, but, he had bean The annual dinner to the poor nesburg demanded the release of
gone only a moment or two when and invalid was given by the
A large body of natives broke the leaders, otherwias tho Federa-
there were sounds of a souffle, and members of the Catholic Union at ont of the compound at the Jagera. tion would proclaim a generalion..
London. Received January 11.
A TRAGEDY IN those inside heard a voice, "If the Wanchi Convent yesterday fontein mine in the Free State, The forces concentrated on the Router's etrike forthwith. The leaders of
correspondent at
SHANGHAI
you don't stop I shall shoot," afternoon. It was a big success, and attacked the whites who the Railwaymen are now advanc. Reef include Artillery, Mounted Trieste says the Turkish officers
Robinson had apparently elud for no fewer than 125 inmates of opened fire, killing savoral. ing other demanda bosides the Rifles, Infantry,
ambulances and troops were not allowed to Foreigner Shot while Attempting led hia gaoler and without loss of the convent partook of the good reinstatement of the men lisand Commissariat. Mobilisation and at Valona. When they
to Escape from Gaol, time was out on the street. Mr. things provided. A number of The Transvaal Citizen Army is oharged on account of retrench is being carried out most emoth- arrived they were placed in
Kurore who is in fohares of the loost ladies and gentlemen asist mobilising with marvellous rapi ment, namely the abolition ofly and systomatically.
quarantine under a guard of As was reported by special American Consular Gaol, followed the tables which were profusely dity, and swarming into Johan- piecework, an eight hours' day The Tudoration of Trades Austrian marines. They are be-cable to the Tegraph on the 9th ed and it is understood that those covered with flowers, cakes, fruits nesburg and Pretoria, occupying and a standard rate of pay. A
1 bas renamended general sent back to Turkey.
inst, a startling and sensational in the vicinity heard him shout and sweets. The food, which was strategic points on the railway. mass meeting has been summon-atrike and has ordered all Uning
tragedy wie enacted on the streets repeated warnings to the fugitive, prepared by the sisters themsel- ed for Sunday to consider the to ballot thereon by the 13th.
of Shanghai on the 8th inst. An Those, however, passed unheed-ves, at their own request, was The Federation of Trades demands.
iast. The police do not intend REMUNERATIVE · GOLF,
American, who had already sorred ed. Mr. Kilgore had a revolver both plentiful and excellent. The Unioner at Johannesburg, de- to interfere with to-day's mass
a term of imprisonment locally, and four times a least fined visitors left with very pleasant mands the release of the labour moeting.
(Continued fr man Extra)
had just heen arrested upon two wide evidently in the hope of scar recollections of the hospitality of leaders, or they will proclaim Reu'er's Cupotown correspou The Englishmen were here just charger, and was almost within ing Robinson into submission, Just Sister Galli, the Superioress of
general strike. lent states that the General about 12 weeks, played in about the U. S. Consular Gaol when at the corner of Whangpoo Road, the convent, and of her staff. Manager of the railways at Johan 34 or 35 exhibition matches, open he made an attempt to sscape where the road leading to the
In the Bowery, New York, seburg reports that a section of ing their campaign at the White Warded by his parauer that an American Consulate meets the Arrived from Shanghai, the railway workere wish to marsh Valley Country Club in less he gave himself up he would main thoroughfare, Robinson WAS
Mr. Thomas F. Millard, manag-tion committee arriving for a gang fired upon a recap return to work. Fle anticipates match with Gill and Boa Nicholls. be shot, he paid no heed to the seen to drop, while Mr. Kilgore ing editor of the China Press, is dance. The committee drew their that normal service will be resum- In addition, they played in the warning, and finally fell wounded returned to the Donenlate, an-staying at the Hongkong Hotel.revolvers and routed their as- ed to-morrow. The Native Outbreak..
A detnobment of open tournament of the Sawace on the road. At first it was nouncing that it would be neces-
To Consigness.
sailante, the D-fonce Corps is guarding Country Club. For those exhibi- thought that bis injuries were not sary to bring a doctor to attend Consignees of cargo by the e... London. Received January il. the docks
tion matches they were paid from exceptionally secious, but about to Robinson.
Prinz Sigismund are reminded Reator's Capołowi correspond-
$150 to $200 apiero. Their two hours after receiving the The wounded man wae taken that goods remaining undelivered ent says a large body of natives
transportation, sa well at their revolver wound he died in the to the General Hospital where he after tomorrow will be subject The death took place on Satur- broke out of the compound of the.
living expenses up to the time of General Hospital,··
was attended to by Drs. Murray to rent.
day of Commander John F. Hub- Jagersfontein mine in Orange
the national open tournament, The victim of the fragedy was and Rusom. At first it was
Exempted.
bard of the Wilmington. Free State and attacked the
were paid by Lord Northcliffe, and named George W. Robinson. believed that the wound, which It is notified that the following whites. Five hundred white
it is possible that his generosity About last November he was was in the neck, would not be society has been exempted by the General news appears on page citizens defended themselves, and
many have gone farther, es lie is a taken into custody by the police necessarily fatal, and until seven Governor-in-Council from regia 3, Log book on page 6, and com.. the mine boys, in a frenzy, seized
great devotee of the game and upon a charge of nesault with a 'clock he appeared to be making tration under the Societies Ordin-mercial nowe on pages 8 and 9. all manner of implements, storm-"
believes there is no other game deadly weapon, and although at satisfactory progress. About 7.45 ance, 1811 - Miscellaneous. ed out of the compound and rush-
that will compare with it. Their first he claimed to be a British p.m., how ever, death supervened. (Chinese): The Livelihood Prac Some particulars concerning ed towards the town. The whites.
receipts for the 30 odd matches in eubject, the United States anthor At on inquest held next day, a tical improvement Society: (Man the late Mr. Alfred Hancock's intercepted them, for the purpose Reuter's correspondent at which they participated is based ities finally took jurisdiction. verdiot was returned to the effect Shang Shat Tenn Wai).
connection with Hongkong. ap. of protecting the women and Koeelis faya the dam between on the receipt of $400 for each Convicted of the offence, he was that deceased came to his death
1 pear to-day. children, and opened fire. Eleven the Baltic Sea and Lake Bukow match.
sentenced to six weeks' imprison- as the result of a bullet wound in
Curious Affair. natives were killed and thirty-six has burat and one of the villages
In neither the open champion-ment, and had aiace came out of the neck fired from a pistol in the
The accountant of the Hip wounded. A dozen white persons in the vicinity has been isship nor in the open event at goal. After regaining his liberty hands of W. B. Kilgore, keeper Cheung-hing shop at No. 8 Mr. Thorvald Hansen, Consul- were injured. The situation in undated.
Shawnee, the two big competitive he had been living in the Battle of the prison for American con A hundred villagers are miss-events in which the Englishmen ment, apparently doing no work, victs in Chins at Shanghai when Bonbam Strand West has made a General for Norway, which took The trouble arosa aver the ing and tropps are bastening to were entered, were they successful, and only on Tubaday Dr. Hinck-in pursuit of said George W. report to the police to the effect place in Shanghai the other day. death of a Bisuto, who is alleged inssist in rescue work.
and it was these largely, but parley, the U.S. District Attorney Robinson while escaping from that at ten minutes to seven yee-
Results of Saturday's oricket terday evening four men, two of to have been kicked by a white
The disaster was due to a ter brought them to this country.
ticularly the championship, which had urged
the such castady. upon him
whom were armed, one with a matches and an article dealing man. Four-hundro natives are!
advisal by of returning to
Kilgore Charge, returning to their homes forth-rific gale. The causeway between
Later in the afternoon W: B. revolver and the other with a with the financial results of the the sea and Lake Bukow burat Now it may be that both resent the United States where upon his Forty men of the Bedfordshire in th: co places, and the villages ed the publication of their ecm own showing he had a mother in Kilgore appeared before Mt. knife, entered his bonee. The Vardon-Ray tour appear on an
Johnson, sitting as Judge of the man with the knife wounded a extra to-day.
woman on the thumb and ear and regiment, and twenty-six officers of Damkerort, Nest and other ment on American players and very poor circumstances.
were overwhelmed.
courses, as reported by one of the
At the same time, however, the Consular Court, the charge being of the School of Masketry at Blom- The roofs at Damikerort are most careful of all golf writers, United States authorities locally one of manslaughter. Dr. F. E. ing farmers, were finally respon- just observable through a tole. Percy Pulver, who has been writ had very strong suspicions about Hinckley prosecuted, and Mr. S sible for controlling the Basatos, scope, and the water is wasbinging golf these many years and Robinson. He was anapected of Fessendon appeared for the de
who always knows what he is being a deserter from the 15th fendant. Assurances that their grie-
talking about and who never pub-fulsutry at Tientsin, and, as it After some argument prelimin- vances would be placed in the
Renter's correspondent at Dan-lishes in an interview remarke happened a warrant arrived yes-ary inquiry was fixed for Satur. hanus of the police have not zig states that a gale, has done that are not made. Ray and terday for the arrest of one George day at ten o'clock......... appessed the natives.
Mr. Fessenden suggested that onormous damage around Danzig. Vardon, before they sailed, said W. Robinson for desertion sad The sea is ruoning over the vil that, in their estimation, our for misappropriating some funds Mr. Kilgore might be paroled with lages of Karwenbruch, Zoppot amateurs could not hold their own collected in the regiment for Mr. Williams, the Marshal.
Dr. Hinckley said that he had Renter's correspondent at Pre-nnd Blapeninsula. Electricians, with their English cousins, and athletic purposes
no objection, it being understood toris says there is a growing cot-soldiers au bluejackets and fire that this country, in spite of the
About fir eo'clock in the after-that as Marshal Mr. Williama viction that the Government is men are going to the rescue in tremendous strides it has made faced with a eitration more in tl satrioken distriota.
in golf, ie still backward as com noon Robinson had called at the would be liable if he escaped. nature of a revolution than a mere
pared with England and Scotland, Consalate for the purpose of The was no expectation of any atrike.
Thea, to cap the climax, they ascertaining whether there we thing of the sort Router's correspondent at Koe opined that our courses were any chance of getting to Hong- His Honour agreed to this alin states that the missing vil-entirely too easy, with the excep- kong, and when in the Consular course. lagers have reached safely. tion of a certain few.
Court room he was charged upon The natural, if incorrect, reply the warrants which has been
now under control.
with.
fontein, together with neighbour-
More Like a Revolution.
Mobilisation.
The Transvaal Citizon Army is mobilizing with marvellous rapidity swarming into Jokan- nesburg and Pretoria and rccupy ing stratagetic points in the rail
way.
London. Recolved January 11.
around them,
Another Disaster.
Later.
* Villagers fate. London. Received January 12.
CHINESE POLITICS.
PARLIAMENT DISSOLVED.
Robinson Arrested:
to all this would be if our courses received, and there and then aro so wondrously assy, why did taken under arrest.
Struck Off.
It is notified in the Gazette that the name of the Shanghai the pair not make lower scores, Robinson denied the allegations Oil Company, Limited, his been why did Evane beat them at made against him, and offered to struck off the Register,
Major's
she, making su outery, caused the robbers to run off. Subse
connected with the affair were quently two men alleged to be caught in neighbouring houses,
Food and Drugr. Under the Sale of Food and Drugs ordinance, the following samples were taken during the in Hongkong:-Beer, 6; brandy, 3; bread, 2; batter, 2; cocoa 2;. coffee, 4; gin, 2; milk, 23; port, 4 ram, 8; toa, 2; whisky, 10, All wore genuine save one of but- ter, threa of milk and one of whisky, which were adulterated.
...
The death is announced of
DON'T FORGET,
TO-DAY, Victoria Theatre, 9.15 p.m." Bijou Scenic Theatre, 9.15 p.m. Court Cards Theatre Royal 9.15
p.m.
TO-MORROW. Vietoria Theatre, 9.15 p.m. Bij Theatre, 9.15 pm.
Thursday January 15. Concert at Seaman'a Institute.
Friday January 16, Engineers Ball, City Hall -9,
Stop Watch Last. Baby Saturday January 17, Mr. Enos Seth, of Messrs J. D. Entries close for Hongkong Humphreys and Son, has reported Races.........
to the police the loss of a metal between the race coures and the stop watch, valued at $30,
Wealoyan Chapol
· Monday January 19, bution-noon,
Queen's College Prize distri
Wednesday January 21,
·H. A, Sporis-3.80
Chicago, Egan out West, and proceed with the one there and Major Mel's the 8th Rej: The Absconding Foki... K. §. B. Ē. A. S
why did they permit a 21-year-old then. Mr. N. T. Johnson, Vice:
Renter's correspondent at Pretoria says a further mobilisa- tion proclamation which is being
youngster to lead them by five Consul, was on the bench, and pate, living at Aimsi Villas, street has complaind to the police. issued bringe up the total num
and seven strokes in the national Dr. Hinckley prosecuted, and in Kowloon, reports to the police that one of his fokis by making bor of men to 60,000, It is an="
London. Received January 12. championship? The scores upite of Robinson's desire for an that between 8 pm. on December himself out to be an accountant nounced that the strikers are
Reuter's Peking correspondent made by the professionals over immediate trait was arranged in 9 and 7 am on the 10th, a pair of the shop, has obtained goods enrolling 400 men from their own wires stating that a Presidential the easy courses were no lower fairness to himself that the case of shoes and a olook to the total to the value of 8740.00 from five ranks to preserve or 'er and to Mandate has been issued dis-than those they made over our should be adjourned to Friday to value of thirty dollars were stolen different firm in the city and bas.
absconded." prevent violence and hooliganism, solving Parliament.
allowed of his obtaining advice, from his house..
best courses.
Friday January 23. Volunteer Ball,
Monday January 28, Chinese New Year.
Saturday February 7 Philharmonic Society's Concert 0.15 p.m.