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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, MARCH | 10, 1914.
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Search for Two Macao Convicts.
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London. Received March 9-
London Received March 9,
London. Recalved March 9.
The Police of Hongkong are
convicts who are said to have continue as far as possible the noions, combative and self-reliant. It appears that about ten ascaped from Macao Gaol. Administration sa it was now. They had learnt, in the stress of days ago while and the Irish Executive would controversy most soute and most the two men, whose panies are have right of entry into an ex-apparently irreconcilable, to re-
peace "-(Lond Ministerial and Nationalist cheere).
at ohurch,
bo.
oluded area, as they ought and spect one another and renounce given as Rozario and Alves, seized Mr. Asquith, continuing bis and would, in any difficulty re-the falsehood of extremes: He an opportunity which offered. speech, said:Bath
these gording polics or land purobaes, concluded by saying: This is itself and managed to effect roads being blooked, they for they were reserved services a testing osse; the best traditions lieved to have come to Hong-
their escape and proceeded to explore
the Special provisions would have to of the past, no less than the un- third way, which went popularly be made for the remainder. diglosed and fateful issues of the kong. As a result Portuguese by the name of exclusion. The There would be no dificulty future, appeal to us to day with officials have come to the colony objections to exclusion were that about factory and workshop, ad they would be starting with au ministration, which would con-wa can, the way of unity and searching for them.
imperious acosate to pursue, if and the Police of Hongkong are Though "Irish Legislature not fully retinue, as now, under the Homs
their whereabouts is at pre- presentative; they would be ra- Office. Local government would
sent unknown the police are in uing the risk of stereotyping he dealt with locally by the The Speech Summarised.
possession of certain information traditions Inherited from the creation of some Administrative in the House of Commons, Mr. which may lead to their appre- past," which all hoped, and Board, and as regarde all their Asquith, speaking on the Irish hension. Photographs have been roany believed, the future would administrative matters the Im- question, said it was proposed supplied by the Portuguese, an soften and in time obliterate. perial Minister who under the Bill that a poll should be taken of the thorities to the Hongkong Police, None was manre alive than he was would remain in the House of Parliamentary electors of each
The men are now supposed to to the force of these objections. Commons to answer for all reserv Ulster county before the Bill have gone up north, but a draft The Unionists would, of course, ed services regarding the rest of became
operative, whether for money is lying at the local get rid of the difficulties of excln-Ireland, would also be responsible there should be exclusion. The branch of the Bank of Taiwan. mon by a simple denial of Home for every detail of administration electors would be asked:"Are Watch is being kept by the Rule, and Home Rulers, would in Ulster.
you in favour of the exclusion police on the bank in the hope get rid of them if ready to start Sir Edward Carson asked of the county for a period of that the men will. return and Home Rule in an atmosphere of Will you say anything about the years." If the majority was in claim the draft. discord and famult, But it
Judiciary?
favour of exclusion, the county appeared to him that Uaionists and Home Rolera alike could find in some form of pro- visional exolarino a vía media" to a surrender of principle sad an application of force. Exclusion conld only be put forward, not as a solution, but as an expedient which might pave the way in time to a final settlement.
Information which came late Mr. Asquith affirmed that if would be automatically excluded, to hand this afternoon state that They must certainly have some-term should be six years from Shanghai, necessary that ould be arranged. The Government thought the the men have been arrested in body who would correspond to the first meeting of the new the Attorney General in the rest Parliament. The excluded of Ireland and in an excluded counties would continue their representation in the Imperial
area.
Notes on the Various Events,
County Court Judges presented. Parliament, and the Irish Ex-SATURDAY'S REGATTA. no difinalty, but as regards Legative would not have control Judges of the High Court he was over them. The proposale were They then came to the practi- not at all sure that it would be the price of peace and he did not oal question as to how for the desire of an excluded area expect them to be received with
The main item of interest in arolusion could be adopted that procedure should cease and enthusiasm in any quarter. Saturday's Regatta is the Hong- without violating the principles nothing be substituted for it Sir Edward Carson's Views.
kong Challenge Cup, won last of either side. They had come to That was a point whereon he was
Sir Edward Carson frankly ad year by the Canton Rowing the conclusion that the only prac quite ready and indeed anxions mitted that some advance had Club by two feet after a very tical way was to allow the Ulster to come to agreement,"
been made. Be asserted that if exciting struggle. This year counties themselves to determine Turning to the rest of Ireland, the Government would remove the race is expected to be whether they desired to be ex when these counties had been the time-limit he would call an optionally keen. Canton have cluded. His plan was that any excluded, adjustments, both fiaan- Ulater Convention to consider the called upon the services of their county in the Province of Ulster oial and administrative, in the proposals, but not otherwise.
ald stroke, Imboof, while While Mr. Asquith was making R.H.K.Y. Club crea are consi- was to be excluded for a certain application of the Bill would period if.
on a poll being become necessary, but he would his statement in the House of dered a good deal batter than taken of the Parliamentary not go into details beoause it was Commons, Lady Londonderry, last year, electora of a county balore the not on these points that chances as President of the Ulster Wo-
them:
the
the course and some
In the pairs the Canton Row- Bill came isto operation, a bare of settlement depended. Some mans' Association, in a drawing ing Club, the Victoria Recres- majority of votes favoured exclus amount of financial and room in South Kensington, for-tion Club and the R.H.K.. ion. He said the poll would be administrative adjustment was mally accepted a fully equipped Club will try conclusions taken in a county if a requisition necessary in every scheme of Ambulance Corps formed in Lon-over were presented signed by one-exclusion, total or partial, per- don for service in Ulster, nam hard rowing should be seen. tenth of the electots. It must be manent or provisional. He would bering 150, The Surgeon Com The entries for the Nathan presented within three months not commit himself to any out manding, Sir Alfred D. Fripp & "Ewa" cape are disappointing. of the date of the passing of the and dried scheme now. If the late Burgasu in Ordinary to His but the crews are very level and Hill, and persons entitled to vote broad principles could be agreed Majesty King Edward, presided, there should not be much betway were those entitled to vote at Parlia-pon they could afterwards work meatary elections. The questions out the details with something to be put would be "Are you like general co-operation. in favour of the exclusion of the He had endeavoured to explain oonaty from the Government of the proposals which he had put Ireland Act, 1914, for a period of forward as the price of peace- years; or are you against such (Cheers). No ono, he believed, eith- exolnsion ?" The poll would be for in Ireland or here, bad any love. taken by ballot, similarly to Par- for exclusion for its own sake or The University of Hongkong each boat may be expected to liamentary elections. If a poll upon its own merite. He did not has been presented with a valu- lend their encouragement from resulted in favour of exclusion, expect the proposals which able set of surgical instruments the slopes of the bathing beach the county would be automatical- be bad outlined to be received for teaching purposes
by at North Point. For the service enthusiasm ie ly excluded for a prescribed with
any Messrs A. S. Watson & Co. races entries may be made did ask who have thus followed the up to one hour before the race, period.
would include as separate coun-
quarter, but he
passionate
consideration
V
SURGICAL INSTRU- MENTS.
Presented to the University.
In the men's gigs one will see for the first time a contest between Novy and Army in a similar olass of bosts under service conditions, and a considerable amount of interest is being evinced. The partisans of
In speaking of a county Be for them deliberate and dis- excellent example set by many of so it is impossible to say how
the leading engineering firms in many boats may start.
"The Ladies Race is a short ties the Boroughs of Belfast and Cheers). To Home Rulers, Irish England in equipping the Engi-
or British, they involved at neering Faculty with up to date event that is sure to produce con- Londonderry. He did not least a postponement of a machinery. The Faculty of Me-eiderable interest, and it is hoped believe they could select a moro
complete and symmetrical system dicine have reason to be grateful to be the precursor of other practical area than a county of self government. To Unionists for this generous gift by a local similar items in future pro- sitleration, thought the period they implied necessary and un- firm, which will enable the welcome acceptance of an important subject of operative
The Government, after much con-
of exclusion should be six years
Legislature in Dublin.
grammes,
The Commodore and members
from the first meeting of the Irish Iriah Legislature and Executive surgery. to be taught practically of the Club will be. "At Home" in Dublin. On the other in the University'e Bchool of hand, they would hold for Home Anatomy. Rulers the prospect of an undig- ided Ireland, brought in time to
Sir Edward Carson bere inter jected-What happens at the end of aix years?
-
r. Asquith replied that they
its full measures of development, as he might hope and believe, not
EXTRADITION case.
The extradition case in which
had taken six years to ensure that by coercion but by consent; while bafore the period of exclusion to Ulstermen they offered an came to, an end there should be absolutely free choice, with a umple time to test by experience certainty that their status could a Chinese is applied for by the the actual working of the Irish not be changed without the assent Chinese Government on a charge of the Parliament of the United of murder at Canton, waa con
Parliament.
to their friends at the Club House after the start of the pro
Tamme, which is timed for 2 p.m,, and it is hoped that as many as possible will visit ther and help to make the afternoon a success, A Band will be in and tea will be provided on the attendance during the afternoon lawn. During the evening the members will entertain the Can- ton crew at a dinner to be held followed by a smoking concert.
They were Bure also that before Kingdom(Chsers). He saw no tinued at the Police, Court, this at the Club House, which will be
Bettlement
to
an agréed afternoon. the period of exclusion ended road
wherein the Mr. Kemp, Crown Solicitor, there should be a certain opport balanes of give and tako was preferred the application and Mr. unity for the electors of the United Kingdom to pronounce likely to be more evenly adjusted. Davidson, of Messis Hastings and whether or not exclusion should If there was one lesson which was Hastings, defended. come to an end-(Cheers).
more clearly than another taught by the history of the ancient Kingdom of Britain it was that
Mr. Asquith showed by ex- amples that there must be two the union of law and liberty had General Elections before the its source, and in moments of period of exclusion expired. They believed that was a fair and supreme urgenoy had its sanction, in a corporate sense of the com equitablearrangement (Cheers).
Garrison. Guards.
MANSLAUGHTER CHARGE.
At the Police Court, this af- ternoon Chang Kwai was charged with the manslaughter of Man Wai at Sa-lo-wai on February 18.
Mr. J.H. Gardiner defended, Sergeant Willis baving the oase
by an elder and
From the 18th inst. and until In reply to a question by Mr, mox intereste, and the common T
responsibilities. There were times further orders, the Garrison in hand... Bonar Law, Mr. Asquith said wherein they ought all of them Guards will be furnished as an- It was alleged that decessed they could come in after six years to be ready to sacrifice much of der Government House Guard was unless the Imperial Government prejudice, of prepossession; of 25th Panjabin. Headquarter was arrestating a robbery and otherwise deterrained. He em solid and deeply-cherished aims House Guard-25th Panjabis. whilst he was tied up waiting for phasised the point that the end ideels for the paramount New Magazine and Laboratory the police it is further alleged cluded areas during these good of the whole. If they had Guard-8th Rajputs.
Night that the defendant assaulted de years would continue their rep sentation in the House, of Com ns exactly as though they
• mot excluded. They should
been the pioneers of popular Guard, Kowloon Military Hos ceased causing his death, Government it was because the pital 128th Baluchistan · In- British people were keen, ten fantry.
The case was proceeding as we went to prese, t
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