March 10, 1914,
The Hongkong Telegraph
Temperature 6 a.m. 65. 2 p.m. 65 Humidity
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THE HOME RULE QUESTION.
TIË PRIME MINISTER'S IMPORTANI STATEMENT
WHAT THE GOVERNMENT IS PREPARED TO OFFER.
[Reuter's Service To The Telegraph,"]
On one hand, if Home Role
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TUESDAY, MARCH 10.
TELEGRAMS.
THE HOME RULE QUESTION.
THE PRIME MINISTER'S. IMPORTANT STATEMENT.
(Router's Service To The "Telegraphi."]
London Received March 10,'.
TELEGRAMS.
ITALIAN POLITICS.
GOVERNMENT TO RESIGN,
WEATHER FORECAST
FAIR
Barometer 29,02
March, 1913, Temperature 6 am. 39, 2 p.m. 68,
Humidity.
二拜波 第十月叁英泡巻
1914.
TELEGRAMS.
TELEGRAMS.
TERRIBLE FIRE.
A MAJOR'S DEATH,
GREAT CLUB DEVASTATED,
GIFTS FOR THE WIDOW.
Reuter's Borvios To The Telegraph."Bouter's Service To The "Telegraph,"] [Router's Service To The Telegraph."]
London. Received March 9. Reuter'a correspondent at Roms.
DERBY FAVOURITE.
THE BREAK-DOWN RUMOURS.
Further Details.
Later.
The Missouri Athletic Club| TBs a most exclusive Club. The a damage is estimated at a million dollara (gold). The building is now a mass of bricks and twisted iron.
London, Rovelyed March 10. Reuter's correspondent
THE BOAT RACE.
CAMBRIDGE FAVOURITES.
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NEWS FOR BUSY MEN.
TELEGRAMS.
CONDENSED.
The Italian Government about to resign.
For the Boat Race, 6-to 4 in
The Missouri Athletic Club at St. Louis has been gutted and à hundred people are missing,
London, Received March 10, Reuter's correspondent at St. The newspapers, as for several days past, are full of talk of the were carried, there was a prós. in Dublin. It was ant such says the newspapers annience Louis report that eight-story Teheran states that the Regent laid on Cambridge. pronouncement, which Mr. Aspect of acute dissension and even difficult problem, as it seemed that owing to a defection of Radis building, the Missouri Athletic and the Government the Regent quith is to make to-day. civil strife(Opposition Cheers): The Police, Land and everything cal supporters desirous of deme-Club, has been burned down. giving the widow of Major Ohlsen
Five thonsand Mexican rebeln A hundred persons are missing (Sweden) who was killed in the have defeated the Federal troops The forecasts practically agree | On the other hand if at that stage connected with Land, Purchase cratic reforme now that questions that there will be an offer of three Home Rule were to be shipwreck were, under the Bill as it stood, connected with the occupation and seven bodies were found in fighting between gendarmes and at Altamira,
Naaridwars at Kazerun, a sum of years' exclusion for any of the ed or permanently matilated or reserved services and did not pass of Tripoli are closed, the Govern the street.
£1,000. Ulster counties voting in favour indefinitely postponed, there was within the province of the Irishment will resign on Tuesday.
A Committee of Persians are Dr. Christian Ginsburg and Sir The deaths are sunounced of of accepting it.
in Ireland, as a whole, at least as Executive. The Unionists seem to think formidable an outlook-(Cheers) As regards what "was left➡ |
also subsoricing for a present of A. W. Mackworth. that the people of Ulster will not The hazards in either event were namely, Education and Local
house in Sweden. accept it, while some point out such as to warrant in all quarters Government-it seemed to him the likelihood of Catholic Minor not indeed a surrender of prin- that these things might very well ities in Ulster objecting to sxolu-ciple, but an approach which be in the excluded area and be sion, to which the Catholic could load to an agreed "settle-administered by some local au- hierarchy is understood to be meat, and it was obvious-there thority; while an regards factory strongly opposed,
was no use blinking faots-that and workshops administration, such a settlement would involve, that would remain, as at present, in the first place, the acceptance under the Secretary of State by the opposition of Home Rule Whitehall. His proposal regard with a legislature and Executive ing legislation was, though it had hand, on the Ministerial side, quarter, that Ulster should retur: in Dublin, and, on the other met with little apps frame and some form of special treatment like the rest of Ireland, represent for Ulster.
atives to both the Upper and The Conditions. Lower Houses of the Irish Leg- It was to meet that situation islature, but when any law was that early last autumn persons of passed by these Houses respecting great authority enggested the Ulster and the majority of Ulster project of a conference. His representatives
were opposed opinion was, and it bad not been thereto, it should not come into. modified since, that a round-table force until it had received the conference of respresentatives of sanction of the Imperial Parlia the different parties and views, men
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The Liberals also fear that a powerful section of the Conserva- power determined to reject the
offer.
will be taking action in connec A story that some of the Lords tion with the Army Aunual Bill, which expires on April 30th, is revived. The Daily Chronicle says that some of the "Die-Hards"
of
are planning to insert an amend ment prohibiting the use troops in Ulster.
There is reason to believe that the Cabinet is taking steps to prepare for this eventuality.
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without anything in the nature That was going a much longer
The number of dead is not London, Received March 9, known, and will not be till the debris has been cleared away.
London. Received, March 10 of the statements which have been
The Sportsman says that none. Fifty people were injured.
The latest betting oo the Bat published respecting The Tet the entire building was in flames, the favourites, 0 to 4 on being When the Fire Brigade arrived, Race shows that Cambridge are rareh have been issued by anyone and men and women were jum leid. stable, and that Mr. Madalmont fourth. A score of people escaped immediately connected with the ping from all floors above the (who now owns the horse) is too by jumping on to the roofe of good sportsman to leave the smaller adjoining buildings. public in igualsace should an fact that The Tetrarch cantered sapouncement be necessary. The
six furlongs on Saturday proves that there is no immediate ground for alarm.
Derby Betting. London. Received March 10.
The latest betting on the Derby
BIG LAND SALE.
The House of Commons was even more orowded than when the Home Rule Bill itself was in- of a preliminary basis for agree way than many people expected is 5 to 1 on the field, offered. troduced, there not being a vacant ment, would have tended rather to or desired (Cheers) But it bad space anywhere. The Archbish- frustrate than to advance theobject the advantage of completely meet- ap of Canterbury and other in view. He proceeded to em- ing the question of possible prominent Peers, among whom phasize the conditions laid down administrative oppression. It also wes Lord Dunraven, were co-in his Ladybank speech and re-started Ireland with a fully repre- spicuous over the clock, whilst iterated, firstly, that nothing sentative Irish Parliament and Lord Stamfordham, the King's must interfere with the setting preserved the Imperial veto Private Secretary, was seated in up in Doblin of a subordinate regarding legislation which might the Pears Gallory.
Trish legislature with
injuriously affect. the Ulster Executive responsible thereto minority, be was not going to (Cheere). Secondly, nothing was
press that suggestion now, to be done towards erecting a
although he parted from it him- permanent bar in the way of elf with regret and reluctance. Irish anity; and thirdly, while it had the borious drawback of
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Mr. Asquith, on entering, re- ceived an ovation from the. Minis. terialists, Mr. Bonar Law and Sir, Edward Carson receiving an equal ovation from the Opposition. A later message alates that
there was a rush of Commoners from 8 o'clock onwards to secure appropriate seats to bear Mr. Asquith speak.
The Nationalist Spokesman.
The Nationalist members of Parliament held a conference and unanimously decided that Mr. John Redmond should express their views during the debate.
Mr. Asquith's Speech. The House of Commons was packed and Mr. Asquith was
loudly cheered on rising to make
his statement on the Irish situa. tion, on the second reading of the Home Rule Bill
He said that those who support
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London. Received March B. decided to sell 200,000 acres in The Dake of Satherland has
Sutherland.
OBITUARY.
LEVER BROS.
BIG PREFERENCE ISSUE.
London Received March 10,
Mesara. Lever Bros. have made a million issue of £1 Preference shares at 21s. They have been largely over subscribed.
MANY INVENTIONS.
A Chat with Edison.
:
Thomas A. Edison, who is now nearing sixty-seven years of age, was not long ago voted first among the Ten Most Useful Americans'
THE MARCONI
COMMITTEE. LORD LOREBURN'S POSITION
The House of Commons was orowded when Mr Asquith de livered his great Ulster statement,
Lord Loreburn has joined the Marconi Committee on corfain conditions outlined in a telegram to-day.
Mr Asquith has delivated his Tister question. His peeph in momentons statement on the fully reported to-day,
The Ulster Womans' Associn-
London. Received March 10. In the House of Lords, Lord Lansdowne, moving the appoint ment of the Marconi Committee, tion has accepted a filly equipped said Lord Lorebarn had joined on ambulance formed in London for condition that the charges against service in Ulster. Lord Murray were as formulated by the inquiry, that they were limited thereto and a million issue of £1 Preferencs Messra Lover Bros, have made that the methods of the Commit shares, which have been largely tee should be judicial. Both oversubsoribed. sides of the House desired his sp- pointment.
specifio
The case which Bir Ceoil Lord Crewe still regarded the Spring Rice has ordered to be Committee as unnecessary: never investigated is that of the Boer theless, he agreed that it should ex-leader Sayman,
be constituted as strongly judicially as possible. He did not object, therefore, so the appointment of Lord Loreburn
the importance of the extension not commending itself to any of SIR ARTHUR W MACKWORTH. by out readers. He might also diamond point needle, Thou- of the principle of devolution in the parties concerned other parts of the United King-(Laughter).
dom was fully recognised, the claim of Ireland was prior in point of urgency.
The Second Plan.
London. Received March-9.
Association, H
NEWS.
General news and an article on the purchase of Prai Dook appear
page 3.
The Trend of Invention." What is the trend of invention? Application of electricity to all
Log book appears on page moving things,
The most significant invention and Commercial news on page D of 1013? Manufacture of am-to-day, monia from nitrogen and hydro-
be termed the Most Busy sands of experiments, chemical
A claim for $1,000, for alleged American, says the New York and physical, were needed to breach of contract, was heard in Independent.
battle with fingerprints, infinitesi- the Supreme Court to-day. The death is announced of Sir He has practically ceased mal spooks of dirt and other Arthur W Mackworth, who was talking for publication, be obstacles in the way of the perfect His invitation to an interchange The second read was that the retired Colonel of the Royal Encause be needs
to conserve phonograph, of views and suggestions was cor- whole of Ireland should in the gineers, and Chairman of the his strength and because dially and loyally accepted by the first instance be included for Monmouthshire Territorial Forces his cares of business and inven- leaders of the Opposition. The Legislative and Ezecative par-
tion werd never greater than conversations with Mr. Bonar poses in the Bill as it stood, bat Law and Sir Edward Carson, the option should be given, after
to-day. It was, therefore, special kindness on his part when he were rightly, he thought, carried the lapse of a certain time, to the
consented (amid extra barassment on under a seal of confidence Ulster counties to remove them- The death is announced of De. of preparations to go on a vacation which remained, he believed, and selves from the jurisdiction of the christian David Ginsburg, L.L.. trip to Florida) to give the would remain, unbroken. It Trish Legislature and Executive D., J.P., the Biblical scholar and following interview to the Inde. must not be inferred that any and revert to their present posi-writer, who was one of the origin-pendent's representative, Mr. John proposal to which he would tion. That was a proposal which al members appointed by Con- R. MoMahon. allude had either been submitted they considered before it was put vocation for the Revis on of the or rejected in the course of those forward on the high authority of English Version of the Old Teast conversations, Mr. Bonar Law Sir Horace Plunkett.
Dr. Christian Glasbury.
London. Received March 10.
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What work of your own during the past year is most important? Perfection of the recording of music by the new dias phono graph.
What of setting off explosives by wireless? It has been of no value, except for military murder: I radium to be harnessed ? It's driving a clook in Paris. R
and Sir Edward Carson, however, again, the proposal had the great ed the messure in all its stages would agree that the conversa merit of starting from the begin- were es convinced as ever they tione though they did not result ning with a fully representative were of the soundness of its even in an approach to an agree- |(rish Legislature. The practical/THE MEXICAN, OUTLOOK | he worked in his Weat Orang diam, so far, has only a scientific
The Ulster Problem.
FEDERAL-TROOPS DEFEATED.
DON'T FORGET
TO-DAY
Victoria Theatre-9,15 Bijou Theatre 9.15 pm.
TO-MORROW
Victoria Theatre-9.15-1 Bijou Theatre 1pm. Annual General Meeting.
Gymkhana Club 5.
Saturday March 14. Devonian Society Annual Din ner at the Hongkong Hotel.
Royal Hongkong Yacht Cigh Boxing Theatre Royal
9:15
Annual Regatta,
His Long Hours: The inventor of the incandes- dont lamp and phonograph is still addicted to long hours. A recent time card (he punches time cards like any employee) showed that
principle and its machinery-ment, yet made those participat-working of a Parliament for all
laboratory late at night several (Cheers) They regarded it geaning realise more fally, perhape Ireland would in a very few yeare
times in a week. During the past value. No one can predict attempt, at once sincere and con- more sympathetically, the diffi- show whether the apprehensions
year, while perfecting the disc There are enormous possibilities.
What of new sources of power?! siderate, to bass upon a solid culties that had to be encountered of Ulster were well-founded. If
phonograph, he organised and foundation the fabric of Irish by those honestly desiring settle- they were not, things would go
headed one of his oldfashioned - Sun engines of considerable self-government, and they believ-ment. They were difficultios, pot on as they were. If they were
London. Received March 10 somnia squads, which stayed power, 20 to 30 horsepower, ed that if it were placed upon imaginary, but substantial, and well-founded, the majority had a
Beater's correspondent at Vera with him, on the job, in the la-are working in Africa and Hongkong the Statuto book to-morrow as it indeed, inherent in the conditions constitutional door of escape. Cruz states that five thousand boratory and the works for five Arizons. There are many 15, p.m. stood, its practical operation of an unexampled situation. was also an excellent plau, if rebels defeated the Federal troops weeks without more than two or inventora working on the pro would involve no injustice or
could be made acceptable; but at Alta Mira, the latter retreating three hours' sleep in the twenty-blem. Barning coal at the month oppression either to classes or
to Tampico, whither American, four. A caterer brought food; of the mine, converting the power individuals in Ireland. (Cheers). by for the most serious of the
Continuing, Mr. Asquith said he was afraid it could not,
(Continued on an Extra.)
British and German men-of-war the men's wives brought occasion- into electricity, and transmitting. He emphasised that if he came difficulties was the question of
are bastening,.
al shifts of clothing. Mr. Edison's the power over long distances, with suggestions, which if accept Ulater. The Government had
wo time card showed then that has already been put into effect American's Body Recovered. n ed would require substantial ad tried honestly and seriously to
he was working 120 to 140 hours in Nova Scotis and in England. Reuter's correspondent st ditions and supplementary pro- meet that difficulty by three
How 8000 will ships be driven P.m. Laredo states that Captain His Incessant Labours, 5 by now power? Until we find a
Thursday March 19, visions to their plan, it was not different roads. There was the
Sanders and night American It is incredible how he labours practical method of converting The China Fire Insurance Co.. because they were running away expedient, which he confessed from it-Cheers-bat because, commended itself to much of his
ranchers, apparently on their own still and keeps in touch not only combustible matter directly into Ltd., Meeting of Shareholder above all things they were anxious judgement, called Home Rule
DETERMINED TO SEE THE body of the American Veragaras. tific research, but with the min- tinue to be driven by steam and Hongkong Fire Insurance Co.
initiative, have recovered the with the complexities of his soien-electricity, eteamboats will con- Noon. that changes which they believed within Home Itule. Personally
He was found to be twice shot in atim of a manufacturing business internal combustion motors, were inevitable in the Govern he had spent a great deal of time
the head and once in the neck. employing 5,000 persons,
Are not social machines dis- ment of Ireland, should start under conditions, securing from settlement on these lines. It was and labour trying to devise s
London, Received March 9. The head was crushed, apparently In returning the past year to placing individual machines; e.g1, H.M. the King has declined to with a rifle butt, while the fingers the perfection of the phonograph, the public laundry against the the firet the best chance of the essence of his proposal of what receive a deputation of Suffre of the left hand were charred. which he invented thirty-six years domestic washing machine? The ultimate success. (Hear, Hear).
was called Home Rule within 15
age, Mr. Edison was confronted individual washing machine will Mrs. Pankhurst has replied that Home Rule that, as regards
with a problem involving the hold its own for a while. Electrip administration, later should she will lead a deputation to the
The case which Sir Cecil fact that a fingerprint on a driven washing machinery suit What were the dangers which until the Imperial Government Suffragists say that this will investigated in that of the Boer microscopic bit of dust, will make y coming into use, and the
King at Bookingham Palaco. Spring Rice has ordered to be piece of glancar able for the small house is rapid ehead, which it was the otherwise decided, be entirely ty of statesmanship, it exempt from the administrative probably occur after Easter in ex-loader Bayman, who is locally, discordant the musical note labour is reduced almost to
called “Gameralı Soym possible, to avert? authority of the Irish Parliament the height of the season,
carried by the phonographic nothing.
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