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The Hongkong Telegraph.
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· (ESTABLISHED 1881.) Copyright, 1014 by the Proprietor.
TUESDAY, JANUARY 20,
January 20, 1913,
Tomperature 6 a.m. 61, 2 p.m. 61, Humidity.
76,
88.
1914.
二拜路號十二月正英卷街
TELEGRAMS.
TELEGRAMS;
SUNKEN SUBMARINE.
A KINDLY ACT,
January 20, 1914,
2697 五廿二十年丑癸
TELEGRAMS.
AFRICAN AFFAIRS.
STRIKERS NONPLUSSED.
TELEGRAMS.
BOXING.
CARPENTIER'S LATEST,
TELEGRAMS.
TELEGRAMS.
MR. JESSE COLLINGS. POPULARISING SERVICE.
TO RETIRE.
IRELAND V. WALES.
CINEMATOGRAPH FILM USED. INTERNATIONAL FOOTBALL.
[Router's Service To The "Tolograph."] [Runter's Service To The Telegraph." [Router's Service To The Telegraph."] [Reuter's Service To The "Telegraph.") (Router's Berylos To The Telegraph.'"] [Router's Service To The "Tolograph,']
London. Roadived January, 20:
London. Received January 19. Reuter's correspondent at Capo- town says that reports from all
sources enhance the talo of the strikers' discomfiture.
The Rand minors, who are still on strike, are apparently at sixes sad sevens on the question of remaining out,
The Railway Outlook. The railway strike has practi cally ended, except to a limited extent in Durban and Pretoria,
but in neither of these towns is there any interference with the restoration of the normal service as a whole.
At Pretoria, a number of on- gine drivere, firemen and guards start this morning, but the work- shop employees are still undecid-| ed, though it is expected that some will follow the example of; the running staff.
Troops Demoblished. A proclamation has been issued, demobilising all regiments and commandosa excepting those on the Rand and in the Protoria and Fauresmith districts, which means that 30,000 are still in the field.
London. Received January 20.
London. Received January 20,
London. Recalvod January 20. .*
London Roosived January 18,
$36 PER ANNUM SINGLE CORY, 10 CENTS.
NEWS FOR BUSY MEN.
TELEGRAMS.
CONDENSED.
The trial of. Mr. Sievier on a charge of blackmailing a book- maker has ended suddenly, the prosecution being withdrawn.
Reuter'a correspondent at Mr. Justo Collings, M.P., an- In pursuance of the campaign In a most strenuous game Reuter's correspondent at Rome Nimos.states that Carpentier, the nounces his retirement with Mr. popularising service in the Army between Ireland and Wales at says it is announced that the famous Franchi pugilist, has Joseph Chamberlain and ex-inematograph film representing Wrexham, Gillespie scored for Italian Government has placed All the regiments and com- knocked out Pat O'Keefe, presses his deep gratitude to his the various stages and aspects of Ireland in the first half. In the the steamer Anteo, built in mandoes excepting those in the The victory was brought about Bordesley constituents for their life in the Army has been pro- second half Ireland played with a Holland, which is now of Fly Rand, Pretoria and Fantesmith through the agency of a right twenty-seven years loyalty and duced under the auspices of the man short. The Welsh team were mouth en voyage to Italy, at the districts have been ordered to hook to the jaw, which was do- kindness, and adds that he had War Office and Lord Roberts, shooting wildly. Gillespin and disposal of the British Admiralty demobilise. livered in the second round. consulted with Mr. Chamberlain One thousand men representing Evan Jones both scored, the latter in connection with the search for
na to his retirement.
the Aldershot Division witnessed from & penalty,
the sunken submarine A7. the first production.
Ireland won by 2 goals to opo.
DREYFUS AFFAIR
RECALLED..
GENERAL PICQUART DEAD.
London. Received January 20. Router's correspondent at Paris reports the death of General Picquart, the ex-Minister of War. who was prominently connected with the Dreyfus, affair, through
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their burning homesteads to find ultimately a refuge in the soli- tudes north of the great lakes, and to lay there the foundations of a mighty, nation. The straths are decolate, and the deer wander. over the ruins of the crofters' homes; but across the Atlantic the seed blown from those stratbe has made the plains to stand thick with corn and the desert to blossom as the rose.
LORD STRATHCONA.
HIS CONDITION SERIOUS.
Lendon, Regged January 20. Lord Strathoc is sinking.
"A" Class Condemned.
London: Received January 20. Naval parties are assiduously searching for the submarine.
A strong agitation has arisen "I don't know," he replied. "But I want to find an island against the A class of sub- marines. The authorities assert, where I can live with the people however, that the idea that they and study their characteristics. What I write will
"Impressions?
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جنون
Latar.
are dangerous is not warranted." The Anteo is especially design- "Yea-Impressions and gome-ed for raising submarines. thing more. I don't write for people whose only idea is to gat
to the end of the book. 1t
is more Futurist-Staccato."
:
The speaker then decided that it was time for breakfast, disdain-
Canada of Long Ago,
And in the track of the exiles falling from his horee at Amiene of the eighteenth century followed owing to the icy nature of the the adventurers of the nineteenth. A WORLD TRAVELLER. ed the use of a lift and, as he ran
ground. Blood poisoning super-One day, seventy-five years ago,
venod
THE SIEVIER CASE.
LORD ST ATHCONA.
PROSECUTION WITHDRAWN.
London. Received January 20.
A Character Study.
about the time, when the girl Queen, Victoria, was being crown-
Island.
od in the Abbey, there reached Danish Writer in Search of an Labrador, to take up duties under the Hudson Bay Company, a lad from Forres, in Morayshire his namo Donald Alexander Smith,
down staire, explained that he was tired of lifts. He had lived in a place in New York where he had to catch an
express" lift
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to the tenth floor and change to a "local" for the eleventh where was his room; and the
Futarist writer was tired of it,
Prize Distribution,
INDIAN UNREST.
POLICE OFFICIAL SHOT.
London Received January 20, states that Sub Inspector Dripend Reuter's Caloptta correspondent Ranath Ghose was shot dead when alighting from a tramcar in a
crowded street.
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A new body called the Rifle Union has been formed to sup- port the National Rifle Associa tion in promoting shooting throughout the Empire.
NEWS.
A startling increase in the price of Indian certificated opium is reported.
An' interesting article on Chinese newspaper methods will be found on Page 3.
Detaile of
the appalling Christmas tree tragedy at Cola- met appear on Page 5.
A character sketch of Lord Strathcons, who is seriously ill, appears on Pages 1 and 4.
Page 10, Log. Book on Page 5. Commerical news appears on and General News on Page 8.
A Chinese has been arrested
A final dividend of $1 is re-
A distinguished Danish writer When you find an indisputable and painter Mr. Ebbe Kornerup,
Two men have been arrested Highlander claiming kinship with
on auspicion, one being a student is connection with an alleged the great family of Smith you Morheusen, is at present staying
who is travelling with Th
from Dacca, who carrying a attempted fraud on the Chartered
Bank. may suspect that there is a tale
partly-loaded revolver.... The trial of Mr. Robert Sievier, It will be seen from our tele-of old, unhappy, far-off things" at the Hongkong Hotel for a day
The deceased had a long a the well-known sporting journal-graphie news that Lord Strath-behind the disguise. Manya or two before proceeding to Lady May has consented to dis- distinguished record, being ist, who on December 30 was sens, formerly High Commission- Highlander who had been "out" Manila. Mr. Kornerup, who in bis tribute the prizes at the anaunal prominently concerned in all commended by the directors of committed for trial on a charge er for Canada, whose illness was in the lost cause of the Stuarts in travels is representing the "Ber- prize distribution to be held at political essen in Caloutta. of blackmailing a book-maker, reported yesterday, is sinking the '15 and the '45 re-emerged Tidende,"
ingake Politiakoog Avertissements- the Diocesin Girls, School, kow. haa opened at the Old Bailey and fast. The following character under some homely patronymic
the oldest Danish loon, on Friday next at 11.30 a.m. eaded suddenly,
sketch of this wondoriul "Grand that spelt safety; and the ances-newspaper, is, to use his own
New U.S. Consul. way with Old Man of Canada", contributed tor of young Donald was probably the Pacific Ocean, so that he can The proecution
words, in search of an island in drawo, and the parties agreed not to the Daily News less than a among the number, to attack one another in the your ago, will be read with future.
interest:-
Thereupon a verdict of Guilty" was returned.
DUBLIN STRIKE.
PRACTICALLY ENDED.
Not
London. Received January 19.
The Dublin strike now seems practically ended.
inon
to JOA&MB
A Man Killed.
BISLEY SHOOTING.
A NEW BODY.
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Mr. Thomas Sammons, who The lad reached the solitudes live on it with the natives and goes to Shanghai to be United of Ladradore alone, unfriended make a book of it. From here he States Consul-General, is expected If your way of life carries you and poor, having travelled hun-goes to Manila, Australia and to arrive there, accompanied by in these days to the great, public dreds of miles on suor-shore. It Now Zealand. In the Philippines Mrs. Sammons. on Sunday, dinners and functions of the Lon- was the lonolicst outpost of a
he will go fishing and live with February 1. don season there is one figure that lonely laud. Canada, three-fishing folk. Perhaps he will write
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that
the
that he he sees
Arrival.
NEWS FOR BUST MEN.
TELEGRAMS.
CONDENSED,
Lord Strathcona is sinking.
the H. K., Canton and Macao Steamboat Co.
An interview with the Panama-Pacific Exposition Com- missionere, now visiting Hong- kong, appears to-day.
Company reports of the Hong-. kongkong Land Investment Co. and the West Point Building Co. appear on Page 7.
The funeral of the late Inspector E. O'Sullivan of the Hongkong Police, took place at Happy Valley, last night.
The African railway strike is practically ended.
The sunken submarine A7 has Two prosecutions by the Build- not yet been located.
ing Authority were brought be- fore the notice of Mr. Wood at. Carpentier has knocked out Pat the Police Court, this morning. O'Keefe in the second round.
General Picquart, who was s
Sub Inspector Dripend Ranath Ghose has been shot dead in a |Calcuttà street.
Id the International football match between Ireland and Wales, Ireland won by two goals to one.
The Dublin strike now seems practically ended, and a general resumption was expected yester day.
DON'T FORGET.
TO-DAY, Victoria Theatre, 9.15 p.m. Bijou Scenic Theatre, 3.15 p.m.
TO-MORROW. Victoria Theatre, 9.15 p.m. Bijou Theatre, 9.15 pm... H. K. 8. B. R. A. Sports 3.30
pim...
Friday January 25. Volunteer Ball.
will be more memorable to you quarters of a century ago, was
a book about it or incorporate his than any other. It stands out still an undiscovered country, for experience in other volumes which
Captain F. G. O. Sanderson, from the background of con- more remoto than Australia is
ho will write.
126th Baluchistan Infantry, Mr. Kornerup, who described arrived from India, per P. & 0. ventional figures like a solitary to-day. The sailing vessel that snow peak from the browns and carried young Donald thither had the nature of his writings as par- greous of the valley. It seoras occupied six weeks over
taking of Futurism, told the. Devanha on 16th instant, and and is taken on the strength of divided from all the rest. by a journey, and it was not until later Hongkong Telegraph
the Command accordingly.. Mr. Larkin, immensurable gulf of years. We in the your
what writing the first wa
Military Promotion. at a-private meeting in Croydon are of to-day and yesterday, but passenger steamer from England; and feels about native life. ia Park, is reported to have told the from what remote past does this the Great Western, arrived in various places, using fiction more It la notified that H.M. the
work and a venerable guest come into our New York harbour. West of they ass means of conveying his general resumption is expected midet? What tale does he bring settlements on the St. Lawrence idone. In search of material being has approved of the promo
tion of the following officer of the to-day.
of far times and farlands? The there stretched
lived for a year in fadio as a solitude to 息
Indian Army,—Major to...be figuro ia bowed, but still agile; the fat Pacific shores. Over Hindoo, entering into Hindoo After the meeting there was the head,
a splendour of white, the vast territory, afterwards life and embodying his opinions Lieutenant-Colonel, William prominent figure in the Dreyfus some disorder during which a hair, white 33 the driven knows
and the result of bis observations Hugh Wooldridge. Dated 20th affair, is dead, province the
July, 1913. mar was killed, his assailants snow, heavy white brows over of Ruperteland-the Manitoba, which, consisting of a Hindoo in "Khadio" the frontispiece of being unknown."
hanging the keen and searching Alberto, and Saskatchewan of to-
Shanghai Temperature, oyes, white beard, complexion day-the Hudson Bay Company youth offering a chaplet of flowers white. It is like an allegory of held dominion. Here and there, to an idol in a temple, he painted During the first three days of the Great White North. And the but at incredible intervals, a little himself.
last week the maximum temper suggestion is not wholly fanciful, fort of the company was planted
Previous to that the dis atare at Shanghai went up by ten For this is Lord Strathcona, and in the trackless wilderness-one, tinguished visitor who, despite degrees a day. Beginning on it is from the frozen shores of as it were, in Kent, another in his youthful appearanus his Sunday about 51 degrees it went Labrador that he brings the snows Lascashire, a third in Scotland. been travelling for the last to 81 on Monday and actually of winters of long ago.
Outside these tiny sheltere, the twelve years, spent three years to 71 on Tuesday. Sydney Smith Faid of Macaulay primeval forest and the wanderliving as an Arab daring which "A New Novel, As an outcome of the Army that he was "like a book in ing Indian. One of the chief of time the Sahara was his home, Council's proposed alterations breeches." One may say of Lord these cases was Fort Girry, with and his only friends the inhabit- Mr. T. Fisher Unwin published regarding Bisley shooting a new Strathcona that he is like Canada a white populati sa numbering a auts of that sandy waste. In the on December 8, The Rocks of A. cinematograph film of ser- body, called the Rifle Union, has in swallow taile. He is not so few score. To-day Fart Garry is Sahara, he penetrated spote Valpre," a new novel by Ethel vice in the Army has been taken been formed to support the much a man as a legend the the great city of Winnipeg, untrod by other Europeans and M. Dell. Her two former works, with a view to popularising ser- National Rifle Association in legend of half a continent, You the centre of the uhief agri again a book "Hede Zoner gives "The Way of an Eagle" and vice. promoting shooting throughout shake hands with him and it is cultral industry in the world an account of his experiences. The Knave of Diamonde," have the Empire. The founders are or se if you shake hands with a Bec-||
These books are at present in achieved a phenomenal success
Mr. Jesse Collinge, M.P., is to have been Bistoy competitors.. tion of the Britiab Empire. You
Danish, bat translations throughout the English speaking retire from Parliament simultane-ary talk with him and it is as if
alreadyin hand world, and have also been traneously with Mr. Joseph Chamber- Canada is before you telling her In this mighty transformation and they will eventuallylated into many foreign languages. Iniu. astonishing story. And if the no single influenco has played so be published in English.
The present story, which is accent still betrays some bint of great a part as Lord Strathcona. In accomplishments Mr. Kor thrilling and life-like from The African minors strike is the Highlands that only makes Canada would have developed nerup appears to be a veritable
start to finish, opene at collapsing, and everywhere the the impression more complete, for without him, of course. But it Admirable Crighton for his draw- Valpre on the French const, discomfitare of the strikers ia the eminent Canadian usually would not have developed so ing is of a high nature, his com- Among its mysterious. rooke a apparent, hushia -roots
in Scottish rapidly or in the same direction, mand of languages good, while London. Received January 19. Boil. Thero have
been He brought to it at a critical time among the sketches which he young girl, still in the school-
room, meets with an adventure Lord Chelmsford leaves for Lord Chelmsford is leaving for two. great currents
west- a constancy of purpose and a showed aninterviewer were spirit which threatens to wreck the Canada on Saturday in connection Canada on Saturday to submit to ward from those islands across steady faith that were of incalouled drawings of heads, and whole of her life. Eventually a with the scheme for Dominion the Canadian, Government plans the Atlantic. One has flowed able service. His very limit careful pictures of subjects of
and self-sporifice of a young for the expenditure of two and a from Ireland to the United States; stions where largely the secret of botanical interest seen under the tragedy is averted by the chivalry offices in London. half millions sterling under the one from Bentland, to Canada. his wower, Romantic though microscope.
Frenchman. Readers will gladly A strong agitation has arisen Aldwych saheme for London Both have had their source in the his career has been, there is no At present, however, Mr. Kor-recognise in this book na even at Home against the "A class affese, for Canada and the other same tragedy the tragedy of the touch of romines in his tempera nerup is in search of his island, farther development of Miss of destroyers, but the authorities Dominions.
land. The Highlanders fed from (Continued on Page 4)
Where is it?-be was asked. Dell'e astonishing powers, deny they are dangerous.
London. Received January 18.
THE DOMINIONS.
ADVANCING ALDWYCH
SCHEME,
·
Frugal and Generous.
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Monday January 28. Chinese New Year."
Wednesday January 28, A.K. Land Reclamation Co. Ltd. meeting. 11.30 am.
The West Point Building Co. Ltd. general meeting.—1145,
H.K. Land Investment and Agency Co. Ltd. general meeting
-noon.
H.K. Hotel Co, Ltd, extraordin
general meeting-12.30. p.m.
Saturday February 7. Philharmonic Society's Concert 9.15 p.m.
Tuesday, February 10. Organ Recital St. John Cat- hedral-5.30 p.m.
Hongkong, Canton and Macao Steamboat Co. Ltd., general
noon
Wednesday, February 11. The Idola Eye. H.KADO. Theatre Royal,5 p.m.
Monday February 16. Jockey Club Race Meeting
Happy Valley.
buraday February 19, Ball at Government House.