The Hongkong Telegraph
(ESTABLISHED 1881.) Copyright, 1914 by the"
Proprietor.
WEATHER FORECAST
RAIN
Barometer 20.78
May 18, 1914,
Temperature 6" Humidity
2799.晚四弍月四年资甲
TELEGRAMS.
MEXICAN AFFAIRS.
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JAPAN AND CHINA.
NO INDEPENDENT ACTION,
I!OPES OF PEACE.
[Router's Service To "The Telegraph." Router's Service To The Telegraph."]
London. Received May 18
London. Received May 18. The Peace Mediators will meet Rouler's correspondent, at Tok- at Niagara Falls on Wednesday.yo states that Count Okuma, The Mexicans are travelling addressing the Governors of the slowly and by indirect routes, Provinces, dwelt on Japan's re wishing, apparently, to avoid lations with China. He declared landing in America.
that it would be impossible for Hopes are cherished at Wa Japan to take independent notion, shington that Huerta may be and in the direction of dealing induced, through Spanish media- with Obioa, Japan must act only tion, to gracefully retire, after the fullest co-operation with
the Powere.
Renter's correspondent at Vera Oruz Bayathe Rabels have occupi- ed Taxpm, routing the Federals, who fled to the hills.
Mexican Promise.
London, Received May 17.
The Mexican Foreign Minister has promised a searching investi- gation into the case of the miss ing marico, Parks, ·
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Delegates at Washington,
London. Received May 18, The Moxican delegates have arrived at Washington en route for Niage ra
A message from Washington states that the Spanish AmbasRL- dor on Saturday dined with the mediators and the American and Mexican delegates in order to enable them to become acquainted one with the other.
CREMATORIA.
Hongkong's New Regulations.
A
Anglo-Japanese Alliance.
The Premier emphasised" the- benefits of the Anglo-JopaseRS Alliance, which, he said, werd greater to-day, then ever before. Ile believed that the Alliance as- Bared bonefi's to China, which would undoubtedly have been disintegrated in the recent revolu-
May 18, 1913,
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MONDAY, MAY 18,
1914.
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DISABLED STEAMER.
A TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE,"
ALBANIAN PREMIER.
IMPORTANT VISITS.
HOME CRICKET.
THE LATEST RESULTS.
Temperature 6 a.m. 73 p. in. 76 Humidity
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London. Received May 16.
STEAMER STRANDED.
BEDOUINS' SHAMEFUL ACT. [Reuter's Service To "The Telegraph." Renter's Service To The "Telegraph." [Router's Service To "The Telegraph.") Boutora Bervice To The "Telegraph."
Landon. Received May 17,
London. Received May 18.
London, Received May 16, Reuter's Tobrak, Tripoli, eaye the steamer bourne etates that the steamer Tarkhan, is visiting Rome, whereham by nine wickets...
correspondensat Reuter's correspondent at Mel- The Albanian Premier, M.
Notte bent Sussex at Notting Colferino is stranded near Bardia. Osirabill, bound from Sydney for he has been received with great Bedouins fired on part of the Stettin, broke her tailshaft on crew and passengers as they were March 31 off New Ireland. Fif-honours. He starts to-day for
Middlesex about to land in a boat, and teen white men and nineteen Vienos to confer with Count University at Cambridge by eight killed two and wounded four. Chinese took to the boats and Berchtold in connection with the Three steamers have gone to the after a trying experience theyifficulties of the new State. rescue, as others are a ill aboard. bave reached Rabaul, in the
Biamarok Archipelago,
AFTER MANY DAYS.
COLUMBIAN'S THIRD BOAT FOUND.
London. Received May 18.
The American revenue cutter Seneca has notified by wireless that she has picked up the third
tions in the absence of the boat of Alliance.
THEIR MAJESTIES.
VISIT TO ALDERSHOT:
London, Received May 16. Their Majesties have gone to Aldershot for a six days! visit. The King will make an informal inspection of the troops, who are mapmuvring daily.
7. No cremation sball he allow- ed without a permit in writing signed by the Head of the Sanit ary Department.
the British steamer Columbian, which was missing. The First Officer and three of the crew were alive," but eleven had died from exposure and had been dropped overboard.
The Seneca arrives at Halifax to-day (Monday).
(It will be remombored 'hat the
Columbian was burnt while on a voyage from Antwerp to New York, on the 6th. inst. It was then reported that there were nineteen people in the missing third boat.]
Fuch Practitioners shall certify in the Form 3 in the Soledate that to the best of his or their knowledge and belief the death was not due to poison or to violence or to any illegal oper- ation or to privation or to neglect; or
(c) the Magistrate discharging the duties of Coroner has puthorized the disposal of the body.
The Commonwealth has been asked to send a warship to search for the Cairnhill, on board of which are still the Captain and four officers.
AVIATION DISASTER. .
RESULT OF EXPLOSION.
London. Received May 18.
NATIONALIST
VOLUNTEERS.
A DETERMINED SPIRIT.
London. Received May 17. The Limerick County Council has unanimously adopted resolution supporting the Nation alist Volunteer movement.
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Mr. Lundon, M.P., in support Renter's correspondent at Bering the resolution, said that when in states that a military biplane Home Rule was on the Statute- fell at Pforzheim in consequence of the explosion of the motor.
The wreckage became ablaze and the pilot was burned and a passenger killed.
book 200,000 Volunteers would parade in Dublin to prevent the withdrawal of a measure dearly
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CONDENSED.
Latest County cricket results are given to day. six days' visit to Aldershot.
The King and Queen are on a
The Albanian Premier
is
beat Cambridge paying a visit to Rome and
Vienna.
A military biplane foll at Pforzheim, the pilt being burned" and a passenger killed..
Northants beat Gloucestershire at Northampton by an innings Had 61 runa.
Hampshire bent Leicestershire at Leicester by 100 runs.
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DESTRUCTIVE
SUFFRAGISTS.
RACECOURSE BUILDINGS
FIRED.
London. Received May 18. Suffragiste havd eet fire to the grand-arand and other buildings
Birmingham Racecourse.
All the buildings are complete ly destroyed.
The Japanese Military Mission has arrived at Badi Pest en route to the Balkans,
A telegram tells of the trying experiences of 15 white men and 19 Ohinese from the disabled steamer Cairabili.
The Mexican Peace Delegates havo arrived at Washington en routs to Niagara, where the mediators meet,
The steamer Solferino stranded near Bardia, and Bedouine fired on landing passengers and crew, killing two.
The suffragists have destroyed by fire the grand-stand and other buildings on the Birmingham Racecourse,
The Limerick County Council has passed a resolation support- ing the Nationalist Volunteer
movement.
The Mexican Foreign Minister has promised a searching invest- igation into the whereabouts of the missing marine, Parks.
recent
13 The Regulations above
f British colonisation doubtless referred to, save those prohibiting AN EASTERN CLAPHAM? rests on its indomitable power cremation cxcaptina crematorium
thus to transplant its houaobold. Count Okums states that in of the opening of which due
gods on alien soils and there to dealing with China, Japan must 8. No permit for cremation shall
notice has been given and
maintain them intsut. Bat this act only after the fallost co- be issued by the Head of the
prohibiting the cremation of the There are two Japans which existance of the average English operation with the Powers. Sanitary Department unless ap-
remains of a person who has left confront the traveller newly person in the Far East seems op The following regulations bave plication therefor be made in the
written direction to the contrary, arrived on the soil of Nippon,xistence very remote from that Washington that Huerta may be Hopes are oberished in been made by the Governor-in-Form 1 in the Sobedule by an
the remains of a deceased person the Westminster Gazette. There rae indigenous life of the land. do not apply to the cremation of writes Mise Violet Markham in of the races to whom belongs the Council under Section 5 of the executor or by the nearest sur-
induced, through. Cremation
Spanish Ordinace,
who has already been buried for is, first, the political and industrial 1014, viving relative in Hongkong ol (Ordinance No. 5 of 1914):—
For a European to live in the mediation, to gracefully relire. he deceased or by the duly
not less than one year and in Japan of to-day, the Japan for Far East does not necessarily Maintenance and Inspection o
futhorized attorney or agent in
According to Uouat. Okuma, respect of which a licence to which, rightly or wrongly, her mean that his personal acquaint bat for the Anglo-Japanees All Crematoria
Hongkong of either of them:
10. On the production of the exhume has been granted under neighbours in the Far East enter ance with the inner working of fance China would have been Provided that if there be no necessary certificates issuer in Section 9la of the Public Health tain so keen a dislike. Secondly, the Oriental mind is any greater disintegrated in the 1. Every crematorium shall be executor or relative of the decens-accordance with (a), (b) or (c) "ol and Buildings Ordinance, 1903, there is the land of the Japanese than if he lived at Clapham. In revolutions.
(a.) maintained in good ed or attorney or agent of either of the foregoing Regulation the Such remaina may be cremated print and screen, a fairy country many cases he knows no more of The third boat of the s.s. them in Hongkong and a written Head of the Sanitary Department subject to the conditions of the where sachantment and delight native life and habits than what Columbian has been picked up: (b) provided with a sufficient direction signed by the deceased shall issue a permit in writing in licence to exhume and any such claim you for their own; where he may have learnt through his the First Officer and three grew number of attendants; and in bis lifetime requesting the
the Form 4 in the Schedule ao oremation in which those coadi- you move among a smiling race of cook or compradors. Hence the are alive, eleven have died of (a.) kept constantly in a cremation of his remains be thorizing the oremation of the tions are not observed is to be courteous men, of gay delicious power of the catch-word in the aleanly and orderly condition: produced to the Head of the
remains at a place to be deemed a contravention of these women, and of the most adorable East, and the fluency with which
jexposure. Provided that any crematorium Sanitary Department the Head of
named in the permit and Regulations. may be closed by order of the the Sanitary Deperiment may ization shall give not less than the person receiving such author
babies slung on their mothers' it passes from mouth to mouth. Sanitary Board if not less than (subject to the other provisions two hours' notice of the time and
backe or tumbling about on one month's notice be given by of theso Regulations) issue
temple steps in their tiny many advertisement in the Government cremation permit.
14. Notwithstanding the fore-hued kimonos-such babies as place of cremation to the Inspector going Regulations the Head of the have no peers for bewitchment Gazette, and by written notice fixed at the entrance to the hali be lesust by the Head of be handed to the person in charge the cremation of the remains of a how it is very difficult to recon 9. No permit for cremation of Cemeteries: auch permit shell Sanitary Department may permit in any other land. And some crematorium.
be Sanitary Department unless returned by him to the lead of certified to be still-born by a them side by side, and realise of the Crematorium and shall be still-born child if it be cile these two Japane, to pat The lead of the Sanitary either Department shall give notice in
pletion of the cromation: the Sanitary Department on com- registered Medical Practitioner they belong to one and the esthe writing to the Colonial Secretary
nation. after examination of the body. of the opening or closing of any "crematcrium.
working order;
2. Every crematorium shall be open to inspection at any reason- able time by any officer authorized by the Gvernor for that purpose, or by any member of the Sanitary Board or by any officer of the Sanitary Department who may be directed by the Head of the Department to make such in- spections.
Conditions Under Which Cremations May Take Place.
3. No cremation shall take place except in a crematorium the opening of which has been authorized in writing by the Sanitary Board, and approved by the Governor-in-Council.
4. It shall not be lawful to
oremate the remains of any person who is known to have left a written direction to the contrary. 5: It shall not be lawful to oremate human remains which have not been identified.
B. Any act which is authorized or required by Part B of these, Regulations to be done by the Head of the Sanitary Department
may be done by any officer of the Sanitary Department appointed by him in writing for that purpose,
(a) under Subsection 2 of Section 17 of the Births and
Deaths Registration Ordinance, Provided that the Head of the 1896, a certificate of the chore Snitary Department in any case
IMPROVEMENTS AT THE PORT OF BOMBAY.
NEWS,
S meflections on toxing are contributed to this issue.
General news appear on page. 3 and log book on page 6.
Our Contemporaries appear on page 2 of this isane;
DON'T FORGET.
The Government is making As regards the Japan of policy The Bombay Port Trust, arrangemente for a bathing place and commerce any traveller may through their consulting en bear Kennedy Town. of death has been given by a in his absolute discretion may remains of a decessed person the counts of the treacheries and per-J. Wolfe Barry and Partners, bers of the Legislative Council 15. After the cremation of the listen for hours on end to long as-gineers and agents, Mesere: Sir H. E. the Governor and mem- registered Medical Practitioner, decline to issue a permit, or if a who hasnt ended the deceased permit has been issued may with- ashes shall be given into the dies of the Japanese; will hear have placed an order with Messra paid a visit to Tai Tam Tak during his last illness, and a draw such permit at any time charge of the person who applies of their grasping and selfish W. Simons and Co., Ltd., Ron-reservoir on Saturday. further certificate in the Form before the cremation bas taken for the cremation if he so desires, national policy; of their utter na frew, for a very powerful bucket 2 in the Schedule by another place.
If such person does not desire to reliability in matters of business hopper dredger for the "im- registered Medical Practitioner
receive the ashes they shall be As a traveller and paster-by I do provemente of the port and registered under the Medical ing the duties of Coroner has its and in the absence of any of truth there is in all this, but I axiom with naval architects that 11. If the Mug strato discharge retained by the cremation author not presume to judge what degree the approaches thereto. It is an Registration Ordinance, 1884, given notice that he intends to special arrangement for their am bound to record the constant the length and beam of mone whose name also appears in bold an inquest on the body the batial or preservation shall be and repeated fact of the assertion. steamers are only limited by the "the Medical Register" then Blead of the Sanitary Department decently interred in a barial In the Far East catchwords play depth of water in their trading most recently published under aball not allow the cremation to the Medical Act, 1858, of the take place until the disposal of ground or in land adjoining the very important part, for the ports, while the cost per ton mile Imperial Parliament, and it the body has been authorized by burial of ashes. In the case of any sort of effort to study the extent by the carrying capacity crematorium reserved for the number of Europeans who make is also determined to a very large 'shall appear from both of such auch Magistrate, certificates that the death was
ashes loft temporarily in the language and customs of the of the ship. To mest the demand not due to poison or to violence mains of a person who has died and not removed within a reason- extremely small.
12. In the case of the recharge of the cremation authority people among whom they dwell is for greater depth of water the or to any illegal operation or to in any place out of the Colony able time a fortnight's notice shall
Suez Canal Commission have privation or neglect; or
Nothing astonished me more decided to increase the prevailing (b.) a post mortem examination of meat may accept a declaration applied for the cremation before the essentially English life creat-natural consequence of that devi- the Head of the Sanitary Depart ba given to the person who throughout China and Japan than depth of water in the Canal, the the remains has been held by a containing the presoibed particu- the ashes are interred. Medical Officer appointed by lars if it be rosde before any the Governor under Section person having authority in that
ed and sustained by the English sion boing that Port Authorities commanities wherever they exist, further Eat than Suez have had 6 of the Coroner's Abolition place to administer an oath or to
These social centres of Anglo- forced on their attention the Ordinance, 1888, or under tako a declaration, and he may
lands on the dimly comprehended of water required by the mer 16. A register shall be kept in Saxon activity float like alien is- increased and increasing depth Section 17 Sub-section 5. of the accept medical certificates if they English by the person in charge and coloured son of Oriental cantile marine. The Bombay Port Birtha and Deaths Registration be signed by any Medical the crematorium, showing the life. Ordinance, 1898, or by any two Practitioners who are shown to date of oremation and the name,
Trustees by placing the order for registered Medical Practitioners, bis entisfolion to possess quali-, sex and age of the person whoes country clubs all transport one capable of dredging to a depth Tennis, golf, dancing, riding, this large new dredger, which is Then me of one of whom a least fications Hobi tantially equivalent remains have been cremated and into the very atmosphere of home, of 50 it, have shown in an un- sppears in the Medical Re- to those prescribed in the case such register, shall be open to and in this atmosphere for the most mistakable fashion that they aro gister above doceribed, and of excli certificate by these inspection by any member of the part the European population are very much alive to the needs of such Medic 1 Officer or both of Regulatica,
public at any reasonable hour. well content to dwell. T'hestrength the shipping industry,
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TO-DAY. Bijou Theatre 9,15 p.m. Victoria Theatre 9:00 p.m.. HippodromeCiroue-Causeway
Bay-9.15 p.m.
TO-MORROW.
Bijou Theatre 9.15 p.m. Victoria Theatre 9.00 p.m. Hippodrome Circus-Causeway
Bay-9.15 p.m.
Wednesday May, 20. Annual meeting of deatholders, Union Church-5-45 pm.
Crown Land Sale, P.W.D.—3
Tuonday May 26.5
p.m.
Peak Tramways Co., Ltd.,
Wednesday May 27,
meeting="noon. V
Thursday May 28, Star Ferry Co. Ltd. Meeting of Shareholders-12.30.