The Hongkong Telegraph
(ESTABLISHED 1881.) Copyright, 1914 by the Proprietor.
WEATHER FORECAST
FAIR
Barometer 30.01
Temperature 6 a.m. 71, % p.in, 73.
April 15, 1914,
Temperature 6 a.m. 702 pm 73. "Humidity
88.
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April 15, 1913,
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一弌月三年食甲
WEDNESDAY,
APRIL
* 15,
1914.
三拜 號伍十月自英
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OIL IN SOMALILAND.
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ROYAL COMMISSION REPORT.
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London Received April 15,
[Reuter's Barvice To The "Telegraph."
CONCESSION TO EPIROTES.
London! Recolved April 14, la the committee stage of the The report of the Royal Com
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London. Rebf8 April 18.
London. Received April 14. George Mitchell, the son of the Realer's correspondent at the well-known sporting Bradford Hague states that in a chees
London. Received April 14.
Mr. Allan Ostler, a special
East Africa Loan Bill Mr. J. O.mission on the Civil Service will Reuter's Service To The Telegraph mill-owner, who went to Paris to tearnsment, England defeated correspondent of the Daily Ex-
Wedgwood moved an amendment he published shortly. The Daily understanda thai to omit Nyasaland from the Bill Telegraph
on the ground that it would drastic proposals will be made, never be a white man's country.
Mr. Harcourt emphasised the fact that roads and railways were aroessary to the development of Nyasaland. They would benefit the natives se much as the whites.
which will include the complete discontinuance of patronage.
The Recommendations.
London. Received April 14. engage in a semi-private fight of Holland by twelve games to four. Router's correspondent ateix founds with Carpentier, was Athens states that the programme beaten in the first round.
of Albanian concessions to the Epirotes includes a sort of local self-government with scholastic] *London. Received-April-13, · ·
and religious autonomy, on The fourth Report of the Royal condition of Immediate submis- Nyasaland was well entitled to a Commission on the Civil Service sion by the pirates. share of the loan for she con- has been issued. It deals with tributed greatly to the industry the Home Civil Service and re- of Britain. The loan would not commeude a closer co-ordination cost the British taxpayer a penny, of the educational ́systema and The amendment way defeated Civil Service examinations, and by 188 votes to 25.,
More Amendments.
2.
greater facilities for progress from the primary to secondary schools and Universities.
HOME POLITICS.
PREMIER RETURNS TO .
COMMONS.
It is also recommended that As the debate proceeded, it when a person is appointed became evident that a number of through patronage to a high
London. Received April 15. amendments, mostly by Mr. administrative position, a state.
In the House of Commone Mr Wedgwood, were down. ment of his qualifications, etc.. Asquith received an ovation on One of Mr. Wedgwood's am- must be laid before. Parliament. again taking bis seat. The endments, enabling money to be There are various regulations of business of the week will be spent on mineral resource, war 1 eimilar nature restricting mostly routine and consequently rejected by 157 votes to 32, Mr. patronage in professional and the Ulster Unionist members will Montagu declaring that three technical appointments.
remain with the volunteere millions would not be adequate.
Mr. J.M. Hogge. Liberal mem bor for Edinburgh East, moved a resolution restricting expenditure to works owned and controlled by the Governments of the Pro- tectorates.
A CYCLE OF CATHAY.
Private History of the Court of Peking.
when it would be more advan-9ays: tagecue to employ a private Com pany.
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themselves, but rather a
com-
pilation by them from other native books, "typically representative of the Oriental outlook on life and death and the business of Govern meat." They say:
RAILWAY DISASTER.
COLLISION IN SCOTLAND.
London. Received April 16.
An accident befel the Scottish express train at Burntisland when going at high speed.
The express collided with a hunting engine and became derailed.The engine, four vans, and a carriage landed on to the golf
courge.
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The driver atd fireman of the express were killed and eight passengers, mostly natives of Dundee, were injured.
KING OF SWEDEN.
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London, Received April 15. Reuter's correspondent Blogkholm states that his Majesty the King is rapidly increasing in strength, and is well on the way to recovery.
ULSTER CASUALTIES. -
WOUNDED BY BLÀNK,
CARTRIDGES.
London. Rosolved April 15. During the Ulster manœuvres, two Volunteers were wounded by blank cartridges.
No, they assert, some hundreds artistic circles, resulted in an in- or thousands of foreign degrees junction being made, restraining taken by its students cannot alter Maestro Monleone from further the fact that the: Ohinese people producing his opera unless the remains in the patriarchal stage libretto was rewritten. of development; and that there
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Huerta's forces at Tampico are
reparation for the airest of American marines."
condition
A sort of local self-government Press, telegrapha from Aden that
mining expert, who has bean will be granted to the Epirotes"
immediate investigating on behalf of the op Government, pronounces the recently discovered oil land at
submission.
Dagashebeli, Somaliland, to be of An amendment 10. "omit such excellence sa to warrant an Nyasaland from the East Africa expenditure of £20,000 on ex-Loans Bill was defeated in the perimental boringe.
Commons,
PROTRACTED STRIKE.
OVER AT LAST.
London. Received April 14.
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A message from Calamet says the copper miners in Michigan have voted to end the strike which began on July 23, 1913 The mon have waived their Idemande.
The bears seem to have been having it their own way, and many holiday-makers have gone
A Scottish express train collid- od with a shaating engine at Barneland, the driver and and fireman being killed and eight passengers injured.
NEWS,
An artiole on motor lifeboats appears to-day on page 3
General news appears on pago 3 and log book on page 6.
A meeting of shareholders of the China Borneo Company was held to-day.
A letter regarding an alleged incident" at the Canton Regatta appears in this issue..
The Hongkong Tennis Leagne
away with heavy hearts. Unless avoning meeting is being held this Mr. Montagu, Financial Seoro-
the news regarding the week's tary to the Treasury, approved of
output, which should be publishThe Childar pirasy onse was In the Express, Charles Lowe "We have not sought by any mast consequently be a reversion Monleone, whose workliad beened next Tuesday morning, is opened at the Police Court this the principle of the amendment, but said the Government should writing of Messrs. C. Backhouse means to emphasise the brutali- to a form of government better much appreciated by cutics and favourable, there seems to be little morning when an interesling have a free band. This might and J. O. P. Bland'a Annals and tics, debaucheries, and cruelties adapted to the historical develop-public alike, courageously under-prospect of rates improving. It story was told. be the case, though it was unlikely, Memoire of the Court of Peking, of the Forbidden City; we have ment and present ngede of the took the heavy task. And the is known, however, that there is a
not looked for horrors nor repro-pig-tailed Celestiale. Dr. Johnson is somewhere reduced anything which the Obi- ported by Boswell to bave nese themselves would consider Mr. Harcourt said there was remarked that London opinion to be outside the range of common
We have aimed OPERA COINCIDENCE. no possibility of financing private was sure to be much more deeply experience.
reproducing from individuals for their own profit, affected by the hanging of a man simply at but it was for the Government, at the Old Bailey-or something Ohinese sources, a series of im both at Home and in the Colo- of that sort than by the news of pressions true to life; not life as nies, to take the best steps for the massacre of 10,000 man- the sentimental humanitarian providing suitable means of communication.
The amendment was rejected by 137 votes to 45.
MEXICAN TROUBLES.
U.S. Forces Uathering.
Lendon. Received April 15.
The announcement that Poo- darins in China. It is beyond prefers to imagine it, but life. asaini is composing an opera, the question, as a matter of fact, it was yesterday and will be novel "Two Lite Wooden Shoes," libretto being taken from Ouida's that distance, while lending morrow, in the light that beat enchantment to the view, does upon the Dragon Throne and on has had an interesting sequel, s the fact has been disclosed that Mascagni, the popular composer
at the same time also tend the dark shadowa behind it."
The Eastern Mist.
avowed
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opera, with new libretto which, large bear account uncovered.. although it is set to the same and should the output for the music, relates an entirely differ-next week or two be good, these ent story, was produced in Flor-two factors should help the mar ence a few weeks ago, with inket considerably. stant succes8,
May it be so.
LANGKÁTS.
Shanghai Comment on the Recent Fall.
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The China Press of. April 11 enye:
The King of Sweden is well ou
The recommendations of the
DON'T FORGAT.
TO-DAY.
Bijou Theatre 9.15 p.m. Victoria Theatre 9.15 p.m.
TO-MORROW.
Bijou Theatre-9.15 p.m. Victoria Theare-9.16 p.m. "Botey" Theatre Royal-9.15
p.m.
Friday April 17, Annual Meeting, Union Insur- arice Society of Canton, Ltd., noon.
China Trader's Insurance Co., Ltd., Annual General Meeting 12.15 p.m.
⠀ " Botey "Theatre Royal--9.15
p.m/
p.m.
Saturday April 18.
Betsy" Theatre Royal-9,15
V. R. C. Sports, Happy Valley.
R. G A
Kowloon
U. 8. R.
Sste of Chinese Poreslsins oto Messrs. Hughes & Hough-2,30 pm.
Monday April 20.
to lesson our interest in the Chinese civilisation is said to of Cavalleria, is also at work tragedies of fe. For example, be the most ancient of any, but, on a libretto adapted from the did the recent earthquake io if so, there seems to be no corre same novel. Japan inluence us in the same sponding relation between its age way as the corresponding catas and its present quality, as in tho Maacagni explains that he first REPARATION TO AMERICA.trophe at Messina, which is a case of French wine, and even readTwo Little Wooden Bhoes"
much nearer our own doora?
of Highland whisky. It is not when he come to London, about Chinn is not quite so far away thus, for example, that Queen two years ago, to conduct a During the last two weeks London. Received April 14.
from us as Mars, and yet a Elizabeth-who, it is true, be- series of performances of "Cavel Langkat shares have fallen stead the way to recovery. Reuter's correspondent at
mesengs" from that planet has headed. Mary Stuart-or queen leria" at the Lordon Hippo-ily from Tla, 841 to Tls. 42, a Washington says that President Wilson has stated that Huerta's proved far more attractive to Victoria-who
that drome.
He olime therefore, difference of Tla. 22. When it forces at Tampico will salute the many than epistles from Peking." Lady ought to have a good priority in his choice. It is la realised that this represents a American flag as demanded by
licking" for prating about wo understood, however that, while total, decline in value of Tls. Excellent oil land is reported to Admiral Mayo. This is aa repara- There is something about the man's rights-it is not thus that Puccini's libretto folowe on the 5,625,000, or nearly 35 per cent., have been discovered in Som- tion for the unlawful arrest of history and affairs of the Celestials either of those rulers would have lines of Onida's novel to the end, it can be easily understood that aliland.
a few which the ordinary man cannot acted as did the late lamented Mascagni has had many new many-very many – people in some American marines days ago.
quite grasp. Everything in that Empress Dowager Tza Hai, better episodes introduced into his Shanghai, and Hongkong as well, During the manqouvres in two Volunteers were colossal country is so vague, known as "Old Buddha-the libretto, which in part has hardly do not view the approaching set- Ulster indistinct, and elusive. The very Chinese equivalent apparently any resemblance to the ilement with equanimity. Many wounded by blank cartridges.
novel.. aames of the people are a bar to for the Scotch auld body.
have already cut their losses, if The Federal Commander at their being properly visualised "Tza Hsi onreturning, was borThis is not of came, the first their bank account permits them Tampico is making difficulties and retained in the mind. In the rified to find that she was found instance of two oomposers being so to do; others, Micawberlike about salating the American flag. midst of Plantagenets, Todore, out. As was her wont she acted simultaneously replied by the are waiting for something to turn Royal Commission on the Civil He contends that an apology ie Staarts, Howards, Montgomeries, promptly. She ordered Yang same libretto. Bo Paccini and up, and the reatwell, many of Service are given to-day. sufficient. Reuter's correspondent Russells, and even Browns and a fashionable actor) to arise, and Masongal hov had a similar them won't be in a position to at Washington states that further Smith, we are right, but on handed him a cup of clotted experience befire. The former, Pay! investigation will be made regard- what peg of memory and char orsam, flavoured with spricot, having compoed! "La Boheme, ing the arrest of American marines acterisation can we hang such saying: "The Emprese of the learned with hell-justified eur-
The fluctuations in the marker Afrion Loans Bill will not cos before the Government takes names as Ming. Ao Par, Chao East (a rival dowager) will be price that Leon gavallo was com- have been erratic Although the taxpayer a penny. further action demanding a Bai, Cheng, Ki Tong. Kau Tang, back almost immediately, so you posing an operase adapted from much of this has been due to salute.
Shu Ming, Kang, Li You, Yo had best be off. Here is a bevet Marger's masterpiece, La Vie strong ball and bear operations All the ships of the Atlantic Men, Ping Pong, and all the rest age from my own table, which de Boheme and although on the part of certain cliques, the Fleet are at Hampton Roads, and of them? We simply cannot dis-your may drink in my presence.
Leoncavallo's'opera never sohier chairman's speech at the annual the transport Hancock with 800 tinguish and remember them, The Battered minion partook of ed the engmone success of his meeting seems to have inspired-a marines is at New Orleans. The with the result that the Celestial the delicacy, and just managed to rival's work it was performed for feeling of pesemism in the breasts battleship South Carolina, which Empire has remained dimer to reach his home before dying in many years in fly and abroad, of many, as was obvious during was en route from San Domingo, us than any other country in the awful agony. The cup had cons and is still being produced in the week following the meeting. was intercepted by wireless and world possessing civilisation tained a large quantity of arsenic, Amerion and eleer here, all an ordered to Tampico, while the going back to the remotest times. the poison, which Tzu Het found torpedo flotilla at Pensacola has And then their Court and Go- most effective. been ordered to be in readiness to vernment affairs-what a tangle There are plenty of such and Rusticana by sestro Monleone Following th
meeting-rone Tampion is making diffialties China Fire Insurance Co. join the battleships at Tampico at of autoorasy, intrigue, decapi other stories, but too long to was performed th conspicuous week after, to be exact came about galuting the
tation and poison beyond the quote. After all, it is not so much zuccess Miles three years the news of the week's output fag Admiral Badger will have over comprehension of Occidental the past of China which interests ago, Mascagni, to dismay, being 2,102 tons, which means a score of large warships in Mexi-readers!
us as its future, Has the present found that Monleone's libratio was an average ontput of 300 tons a day. Margot beades can waters.N
These are not "mémoire in so-called "republican regime exactly the same as
hose people hovering It is believed that President the ordinary sense of the term come to stay regime which forthwith startede lawsuit
the placist The case, which the two opinions, became pessi Wilson is not disposed to hae that is, the experiences and re- there collaboratore derriba as
mists, and down went the market. last resort, grested tremendo force except as a last resort.. ¿V*
short notice.
collections of the present writers, paroxysm of demoralisation
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Whoa Cavalleria
his
Bull and Bear Movements.
Mr. Harcourt says the Eas
Mr. Asquith had an option on
returning to the Hope of Com
mons;
in the boxing match between Carpentier and George Mitchell the latter was beaten in the first round.
The Federal Commande
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Extraordinary General Meet ing of HK: Cotton 8. W, and D. Co. 11. 8.m
Hongkong Schools Athletio Spartanoon.
Bale of Chinese Türtolains ect. Mesars. Hughes & Hough-2.30 p.m.
Tuesday April 21. Annual General Meeting of Shareholders Green Teland Cement Co.-11.30 nm.
Sale of Chinese Porcelains Messrs. Hughes & Hough 2.30
Thursday Apr 25, 2 ExtraordinaryGeneral Meeting
p.m
A4sticann.
It is believed pat resident
zainet Me
Saturday April 28, H. K. Jockey Club half yearly Meeting-12.30 pm. *** /
Wednesday April 20.* to use
Annual meeting Peak Church, 100/100pt as a St. John's Cathedral Vestry