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The Hongkong Telegraph
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Copyright, 1914 by the Proprietor.
WEATHER FORECAST ·
FAIR
Barometer 30.15
March 28, 1914,
Temperature 6 a.m. 62, 2 p.m. 65
76;
Humidity
2741
二月三年寅甲
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Temperature 6 a.m. 60, 2 p.m. 66,
March 28, 1913,
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SATURDAY, MARCH
28,
1914.
大拜望
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號九弍月套英心
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THE ULSTER CRISIS.
THE ULSTER CRISIS.
THE GRAND NATIONAL.
MANSLAUGHTER.
STOKERS' REVOLT.
WATERLOO.
LATEST DEVELOPMENTS.
LATEST DEVELOPMENTS.
FAVOURITE UNPLAGED.
NAVAL OFFICER
LIEUTENANT SENTENCED.
PRESERVING THE
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(Reuter's Service To The "Telegraph."]
London. Received March 27.
Routers Service To The "Telegraph."]}
General's Reply Awaited.
London. Received March 27, After a prolonged Cabinet The papers, notably the Liberal journals, contain sympathetic meeting, Mr. Asquith announced articles in regard to General in the House of Commons that French, saying that he has been Field Marshal Sir John French loyal and straight-forward thrand Lieat. Gen. Sir John Ewart oughout. He favoured severe but resigned. The Government punishment of the officere at the bad requested them to remain and Uarragh who sent in their papers, were awaiting their final 'reply. He and General Ewart reluctantly signed the paragraphs which were subsequently repudiated by
the Government.
Further Resignation?
It was rumoured last night that many officers at Aldershot have resigned.
Early Election.
The probabilities of an early election me regarded as having been strengthened.
The Times says it is under- stood that Lord Elaldane iz
Sir Edward Carson. Lator General Gough is still at the Curragh.
Sir Edward Carson has left for London.
RUSSIAN HORSES.
London, Received March 28. Russia has prohibited the exportation of horses.
drafting an explanatory document" WHITE WOLF" which may be addressed
General French to General Gough
to the satisfaction of both.
Army's Solidarity.
The conference of the principal Generala at the War Office yeater- day was privato but it is learnt that the opinion was unanimous that the solidarity of the Army is unimpared.
The King's Wish.
Possible Cabinet Changes.
jouter's Berrice To The Telegraph."] [Reuter's Bervice To The Telegraph."]
London. Received March 28. The Grand National Steeple- chuse resulted as follows:-
Sunlock (W. J. Sraith) ..1. Triano III (Hawkine) ......2. Lutteur III (Carter).......... Twenty started and the race was won by eight lengths, a simi- lar distance separating second and third. Sualoch took the lead at the second fence and made the remainder of the running. Rory O'Moore was fourth. The time was 19 minutes 53.4-5 seconds.
The betting was 100 to 6 against Subloch, 100 to 8 Triano III and 10 to 1 Luttear II. Clovert Coat was the favourite at 7 to 1.
Sir Halbert and Lord Rivers did not start.
Causes of the Government's through Takshan, and, I am told,
Failure.
Liuanchow, March 13.
London. Received March 28. Router's correspondent at Metz. states that a Supreme Court Martial has sentenced a Lieuten ant to eight years? penal servitude, removal from the Army and lose of social and civil rights for a decade, for the manslaughter of an onsign.
THE BLIND.
APPEAL BY WIRELESS,
London, Received March 27,
An appeal on behalf of the National Institute for the Blind will be sent out by wireless to vessals on all the seas to morrow.
It
Three Phases of Chinese Rule.
In looking back over twenty
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(Reuter's Service To The "Telegraph."] [Reuter's Service To The Telegraph."}|
London. Received March 27, “
London. Received March 27,
The Admiralty has suspended It is reported from Brussela the Commander of the battleship that oth the Senate and the Zealandia pending inquiry into Chan herf Deputies have passed the recent insubordination of a Bill for the preservation of the stokere on the vessel, which re- battlefield of Waterloo, and to projected building Bulted in a series of court-martials prevent at Vigo, at which eight men ware thereon. ench sentenced to two years' im. prisonment for refusing to obey, ordere."
SHORT SERMON.
VARSITY SPORTS.
CAMBRIDGE WIN.
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NEWS FOR BUSY MEN.
TELEGRAMS.
CONDENSED,
The newspaper are sympathetio with General French.
It is rumoured that Colonel Soofr has again resignad.
The Grand National Steeple chase was won by Sunloch.
Some possible Cabinet changes are inuicated in a telegram.
It is rumoured that many Aldershot officers have resigned. Several officers have left the Curragh for London.
The probabilities of an early General Election are strengthened by recent events.
Mr. Illingworth says if every soldier resigned, the Government would not flinch in their task,
A renewed political crisis. Is Cambridge won the Varsity feared at Home, and Unionists forecast the resignation" of the H. S. O. Ashington, of Cam Cabinet.
London. Received March 28. "
You've seen that Italian work- ing on the railroad. He wasn't much to look at, perhaps. But he wasn't hired for his looks-Sports by six events to four. he was put on the job because
he could do a day's work. And bridge, cleared 23 feet 61.4 obes The Belgian Senate and Cham- he's doing it. When you stop Miles was done by G. M. Sproule, preservation of the battlefield in the Long Jump, while the Three ber have passed a Bill for the
of Oxford, in 14 minutes 34.4-5 of Waterloo. seconds. Both these were 'Var sity Sports recorde.
to consider that he's up against some of the hardest pro blems of life-physical and moral the marvel of it is that he's doing so well.
It's rather a curious thing that
life.
"The Commander of the battle- ship Zealandia has been suspend- ed over the recent insubordin- ation of stakers..
The Daily Chronicle says it is
Personal Jealousy. General Mo, who took his ten regiments along the only road to- SCANDAL.warde Yetsib on February 2 and 3, followed the bandits back
was actually within sound of the firing when Commander Kan wIS trying to keep the brigands cut of fluo-sban. He even camped years, I cannot but notice three The elders are busy taking there. Another story told of hiin phases of Chinese rule, each, in we take the weakest of our kind census. Each ward is not only is that, when the advance party its own way, detrimental to na- and subject them to tests whic
But we need not put it up to impossible for Colonel Seely to counted independently of the
under Commander Wang Shot-tional progress. First, practical. would break down the very best others, but dwelling houses and
ting (of Liuan) was being firedly all powerful magistrates, pro. of us, and then we oriticise-the rich in the church, exclusive- remain longer at the War Office. criticies "is putting it mildly- ly, or even primarily. There are- The conference of 'Generals in shops are being counted separate.
The counting is not finished in one of the valleys by the vided they were not too rapacious, The majority of the Enfer yet, at one of the elders of the rubbers, this doughty genem could do pretty much as they when they fail to come out of the to-day about 175,000 Protestant is unanimous that the solidarity
retired ten li. Evidently there
liked. That phase continued for ordeal unscathed. We pay them ministers in the United States. of the Army is unimpaired. officers in Ireland ly westward told me a few days has been a lot of friction between many generations,
the smallest amount of wages Of Roman Catholics and Hebrews,
An appeal on behalf of the go to Ulster op aforory ago that out of 526 dwelling Ma and Wang, that the latter is Next came the rale of the that they will stand for. We and others not coming under
National Institute for the Blind that this was in xard, üce witt bonses 514 had been burnt.
now repressing local robbers in students. After a stroke of the compel them to live in homes these three divisions, there are the King's wish.
When the shops are counted up the north-western, area. The vermillion pen had abolished the which are insanitary. They are many thousands more. Suppose is to be made by wireless on all I think the percentage will be us
old style of eight-legged competi- forced to live in communities in that they should say, unitedly eas to-day. camping
Cambridge won the "Varaity high, if not higher. The ward same remark about " It is rumoured that Colonel undoubtedly suffered mast, for and preving on the people" estive examinations, and another which every influence has a ten-that social justice and sanitary
Their children are subjected to make for greater brotherhood records being croated in the long Seely has again resigned. It is it was most thickly built upon, applied to Ma as well as Pao. If stroke of that some psn ordered deney to break down moral fibre, conditions shall be such as would Sports by six events to four, believed in the Lobby that Mr. and, I think, the busiest. Nearly this is the General Ma who got the establishment of "Colleges of
of 50 per cent, of business of the an Order of Merit for his work Western Learning in every the worst temptations of city among men the preachers alone jump and the three miles. Lewis Harcourt, Secretary
NEWS, We "segregate" vice, we could do the job.
Bat there are 215,000 Pro-
Mesars. Wright and Hornby's State for the Colonies, and Colon- city was done in it. This census near Show chow in August, he anty city, the one time power-
arena of the town, we license
testant churches in America share report appears on page 9. el Seely will exchange offices, is no doubt in connection with seems to have been negligent ful magistrates had to meet the permit saloons only in certain daaco balls-but though Lord Emmott (formerly the $35,000 granted by man enough in this affair to forfeit wishes of the students or
1889" will be found on page "strike" took place, and he lost low-down
having a combined member: Deputy, Speaker and now Under-date for Liusu and Hoosban..
of 22,000,000-suppose 4 of this issue. 1 Secretary of State for the "Distrust of Soldiers. For a time about fifty cooling his office. Many lawless doings always are these debssing agencies ship Colonies) is also mentioned for When the bandits returned left here daily with steamed on the part of the students bad and influences placed within the
In addition
Boxing nowe appears in this things?
to the
issue. the Colonial Office. Some Liberals through Tahahan on February 4 bread, but now bread and flour to be winked at, and the people area in which the poorest, the they should declare for these regular church members, there are suggest that Mr. John Burns will or 5 and burnt part of the town, are sont out at longer intervals had to bear with things. Those weakest, the most needy of the
probably 50,000,000 adherenta, The Telegraph Acrostic appears go to the War Office.
We do these things collective-These are all more or less under on another page. shey did en, it is said, because General Ma was camped near oppressions were not very far people, are compelled to live. The Daily Chronicle declares three of their dead, for whose Mapo, or almost at the place reaching, but the revolution that it is impossible for Colonel burial they had paid well, had where Commander Wang tried brought them to an end to allly as a municipality, perhaps the influence of the members of
but can we deny that every last churches. Then we must reckon page 2, and log book on page 6.
Our contemporaries appears on one of us is responsible for this in the Catholica, too. Can any Seely to remain longer at the War been dug up and burned by the to stop the brigands with seventy intents and purposes, Office in view in view of the people there to vent their spleen, or eighty men on January 20-21
perfectly inhuman treatment? body doubt that this aggregation This spirit, which was manifested A soldier told me this morning latest developments.
The Worst Phase,
Talk about the ancients giving could do business, and do it better here, as well as in other places, that they had returned from
the early Christian to the lions than any other agency? It is might have proved a powerful pursuing the bandite from Laibu-
Even these bad a better chance because I believe that they can The revolution, however, In the House of Commons, instrument in the hands of the belen and Yingehenhsein because
escape both here and bring in the kingdom of God that bereafter-than have many I am in the church. orowded to its utmost extent-no military, had not the conduct of the latter had dispersed. As I brought the soldiers to the front.
great circling They were bribed by each party, of the children whom we are Cabinet Minister, however, being officers and men raised a bitter expected, present-Mr. Galland announced feeling among the people. The movemente have taken too long, and even last year at Noaking that the Cabinet was still sitting, bandits might have had the start, If not now, I fancy that when such tactics caused much, if not giving to the beasts of the eity and that Mr. Asquith would but the people with local know the cordon is drawn tightly, they all, the actual fighting there. jungle. make his statement later in the ledge could have led the military will find the centre void of evening.
by paths unknown to the robbera The newspapers are of opinion and so overtaken them, or coma that the postponement of Mr. upon them unawares. Asquith's statement regarding tunately the general impression Field Marshal Sir John French is that the soldiers, if anything indicates the extent of the pressure are worse than the bandits.
TEBiguation.
Later.
``TO-DAY'S WIRES.
A Fresh Crisis...
London, Received March 28.
The protraction of the Cabinet
meeting, coupled with the aum-
Unior-
half a dozen orders.
bandite.
the
Difficult Country,
h
'a
soldiers would unless the President finds some
to
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DON'T FORGET.
TO-DAY,
Victoria Theatre--9.15 p.m. Bijou Theatre 9.15 p.m. Bandmann Opera Co.--Theatre Royal 9. p.m.
I began with reference to an Italian. He is merely typical of
TO-MORROW. Until we have individually others of his class. Why should
Victoria Theatre-0.15 p.m. Like the subsidized students they entered our protests against the we be interested in his daily life
Bijou Theatre 9.15 p.m. realized their power, and now
Monday March 30. they are masters in the land, evils which are perfectly obvious with its burden? Because of our to us all, and which our united charitable or philanthropic..dis-
Bandmann Opera Co-Theatre Officera and people are slaves to
Royal-9. p.m. ⠀ If on the other hand the bandits the soldiers to a tenfold greater indifference has made possible or position? Not at all. We should
is attacking ours. Every working ahareholdera-China Sugar Re-
Ordinary Annual Meeting of. we are blameless, had attempted to hold ont among degree than Indians are to Briti permissible, we cannot feel that attack his problems because he the mountains, they could have shereas the students used to say
Does anybody imagine that the man that is doing a day's work is inflicted untold damage on the only a year ago. They are prov-hurch as a whole can free itself making a contribution to the fining Co. Ltd.-11 a.m. Faulty Manœuvres.
Ordinary Annual Meeting of to induos a withdrawal of his The Tatung and Wuhu contin- soldiers sont against them. The ing very exacting masters, and, from the blame which is being common good.
shareholdera-Luzon Sugar, Re- gent, under Brigadier Pao, which four-possessed
That Italian working on the fining Co. Ltd.-11.15 am. *- we met on February 3 or 4 on have been an easy prey to fifty or method to bring them ander put upon it for allowing the con
H.K. and Whampoa Dook the way from Luobowiu, arrived 100 bandits rubing saddenly control, one or two years will ditions in our cities to go on, when railroad who is shovelling dirt in
construction сатр is Company general meeting--noon, here, and, after a few days rest, from one of the innumerable suffice to bring about a great one stops to think of its tremen-
making a debtor of the man Auction of Crown land at Ngan marched to bhucheng to prevent valleys, and, on each occasion, upheaval in China. The results done influence?
You say that the church people who will later ride over that rail- Shi Wan, P.W.D.-3 pm. the bandits from going on to An- the bandits' amerunition would of that will hardly bear thinking
aro not in the majority. Well and road track in his comfortable, Auction of Crown Land, Bowen King from Enoshan. As the have been replenished, for there about. lattor left Haoshan before General are atories of rifles and at- Some of the stories told of ex-good. But doesn't everybody Pallman, mado smooth-running Road, P.W.D.-3.p.m.
Tuesday, March 31. moning of General French and Pao. left here, the latter would munition being thrown down by periences by different people are know that church people are to because the Italian made a grod
H.K. Rope Manufacturing Co. the postponement of Mr. Asquith's have found that city in ruins with fleeing soldiers. In that district, heart-rending. Others are ludi- day dominant in practically every job of his shovelling. Everywhere, statement la interpreted in the the bandits well on the way to in 1906, about 1,000 soldiers, and crous. The son of an ex-Viceroy, aspect of life, and that while they in the lowliest places, iu slump and Ltd,, annual general meeting Lobbles as indicating a renewed Tongcheng and Anking, bad all the ordinary country force, and son-in-law of one of the may not have a majority of the factory, on the street and on the noon.
HK Club, Half Yearly Draw- such been their abject. On the tried in vain to catch one man higliest in China to-day, managed total number of votes, they surely road-everywhere, men and wo- The leading Unioniste prog- other hand, had General Pao named Chung Cheng-kin. One to pass as a watch and clock have influence enough, collective men and even little children are ing of 65 Debentares-11 am.
FI.K. Olib Annual General nostigate the resignation of the come up from Anking to Shu sab-Prefect and one magistrate mender, and, although taken ly, to wipe out any evil that bringing their contribution to the
great treasure house to which we Meeting-0.15 pm chong and Buoshan he would lost their positions over that captive, was only taken a short exists to-day. have been there before the ban-affair, and four head yamen run- distance. His water carrier was Think for a moment of the all come and draw freely the Monday April 6 dits, unless he had recuperated nera got a few years residence in dressed in his master's furs and men who are in the lead in the wages they receive by no means several daya at each place en Anking.
top boots. A widoir of an ex-business-financial and economio compensating them for the service noon Daring our absence the magis prefect managed to pass off as world to-day. Most of the rick rendered. To all these we owe n From Shucheng General Pao trate, and a special officer, called servant to a silversmith's wife, and the powerful are identi- debt of gratitude. The least we Mr. Peroy Illingworth, speak marded to Chongmeiho and later bere to inquire about our losses. Jumping over walls, and hiding fied with the church in some can do in return is to use our John's
Suppose that these influence in securing deceat ing at Blackburn" said if very passed on to Haoshan, where be They left a command with the door in all sorts of places for one or way. soldier resigned the Government and his men are now-“ keeper to inform them of our two days and nights, practically alone should say that the evile in living conditione, for them and
"camping would not flinch a sir's breadth and praying on the people" to return. I sent my carda round numbed with fear, has been the social life must go ? How long do in doing our share toward mak in their thek This statement wie
ass the expression of one man of week ago. They, like Christmas, lot of many N. Daily News you suppose the evile would being their lives richer and fuller
are still coming,
permitted to stand ↑
and froor, greeted with vociferous obearing.
sorrelpondent. note in the city,
crisis.
Cabinet,
General Gough and other of ficers left the Curragh for
Governmrat Determined,
London.
route.
li. K. Ice Co. Ltd. mooting-
Friday April 10, Stainer's Crucifixion," Cathedral 9:15 pm. Saturday April, 11. “ 1stGymkhana Meeting.
Monday April 20. Hongkong Schoola Athletia
Sports--noon,