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The Hongkong Telegraph
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(ESTABLISHED 1881.)
Copyright, 1914
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MONDAY," JUNE: MV11014, less
June 1, 1913,
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EXPEDITION SHIP'S FATE.
THE PARTY SAFE.
THE PACIFIC RUN.
AN "EMPRESS" RECORD.
HINDUS IN CANADA.
HOME CRICKET.
COMPATRIOTS' OFFER OF BAIL.
LATEST RESULTS.
Jan 1; 1914,
THE EMPRESS DISASTER,
GRAPHIC ACCOUNT OF THE TERRIBLE HAPPENINGS.
TELEGRAMS.
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OVER A THOUSAND LIVES·LUST; HONGKONG PASSENGERS Johns says the expedition ship
MISSING.
[Reuter's Service To The Telegraph,”] ·
London. Received May 31.
The King has telegraphed sympathy to the Canadian Pacific Railway Company over the Empress of Ireland disaster and Mansion House Fund has been opened.
London. Received June 1 The OP.R. steamer, Emprees of Russia broke the Yokohams to Vancouver record by & lioars 20 minutes.
"London. Received May 31, Router's orrespondent at St. Karluk was crushed in the ice in January, but the ore lauded on Wrangel Island and all are well. (The local office of the CP, R. (A telegram from Ottawa, dated Company has received a notified December 9 last, stated that tion from the Yokohan office to Captain Stefansson, the Swedish the effect that the Empress of Rus-
London, Received May 30,
Reuter's correspondent at Victoria says Hindus in Vancouver have offered £100,000 in cash and property as bail for their country- men on the Koinsgats Maru if cominander of the British sia, which left there on May 31, they are allowed to land pending Scientific Expedition to the ex-arrived at Vancouver at p.. the decision of the courts. The treme north-west of America, had on May 30. covering the distance sent a message from Barrow in 210 hours' steaming, which fight will be carried to the Privy Point on October 30 to the effect works out at an average: spoed
Council. that his ship the Karluk had been of 18.86 knots.] frozen in some fifteen miles off
a
The Eureka, the Government vessel which was first at the the winter. scene of the disaster, has found fifty bodies.
tradictory announcements,
A Survivor's Story,
London. Received Muy 91. Kent drew with Leicestershire
at Catford.
Essex beat Lancashire at Man- chester by 166 runs. -
50,
SINGLE COPY 10 CENTS "436 PER ANNUM,
TELEGRAMS.
NEWS FOR BUSY MEN.
CONDENSED.
Latsal oricket results are given
to-dag.
The Empress of "Bursia bas broken the Yokohama to Van- couver record,
A/Mansion House Fund has been opened in connection with the Empreet disaster.
It is officially announced that 1,032 lives were lost in the sink". ing of the Emprées of Ireland,
A million dollars worth of Surrey bant Warwickshire at silver bullion was lost on the the Oval by an innings and 197.inking of the Empress of Ire-
land.
The expedition ship Karluk was crushed in the ice in Jan- uary, but the party is safe and
well.
the shore aince August 8th and that he believed she was fast for
ment Act they were quite unable time in Ireland, whichever side objects and methods were entirely Cautain Stefansson and six to make that Bill into a better one, won, all hopes of a peaceful set different from those to which they others went ashore hunting on The Unionists were really masters tlement would disappear and an held very firmly. Their appre
and Mrs. W. D. Graham of up. They returned to the shore Government could not alter the would be established, creating a without justification, far ben Hongkong are not among the list and found that the ice had gone Bill unless the Opposition agreed, feeling which would prevent the southern and western Irish of the survivors in the Empress and the Karluk, with 25 aboard and they had gone a long way peace in Ireland for a generation had had a free hand the cou- disaster, was also missing.
indeed to endeavour to bridge the at least. (Hear, bear.) At pre structive political genius they A graphic account of the sink- Tho Karluk added the tele The best account of the disaster so far received is that of gram, may have broken free and gulf between them-Bat in all sent the King's health was drank had shown had not been of a very ing of the Empress of Ireland is London solicitor usmed Duncan, who when in bed heard two blasts steamed oast, but she probably negotiations there mer been in only one quarter of Ireland. If reassuring nature. Irishmen had given by Me, Duncan, a London of the whistle, signifying that the vessel was stopping. Mr. Dan- remained fast in the ice and absolute minimum and the abso- the northern men were thrown to had a free hand in America, too, can then heard the engines reversing and went on deck, where he drifted with it. Capt. Stefansson lute minimum so far as he could the dogs, he was sorry to say and it would not be found that found a heavy fog. Suddenly there was a terrific orash and the followed up the coast towards the judge and he knew he was that in his opinion the King the average American citizen The captain of the Empress of sound of tearing plates. There was no panic. The crew attempted west as far as Point Barrow, but speaking for a great many other health would not be draak in was content with the political Ireland tried to beach the liner to help women and male passengers by handing them their own the Karluk was not sighted. members of the Unionist party Ireland at all. But it was their rule of Tammsay and other after the collision, but the engines
The Karluk's staff included M. was that the time limit should be intention to salve out of the organisations which had come to were useless in three minutes. lifebelts, but there was no time to organize enything. The vessel Keuchst, the French anthropolo- taken off the offer the Government wreck of the union that part of be chiefly ander southern Trieb Hindus in Vancouver have lurched and everything was hurled into the sea. There was a ter gist and Messrs. Mackay made with regard to the exclamor Ireland which desired to remain influence. The Nationalists had offered #100,000 as bail for their rible noies made by drowning people and then an ominous silence Mamen, MoKinley, Murray and of Ulster. (Applause.) If they loyal. (Applause.) All they seked been in control at Dublin for the fellow countrymen on the Kom- in which some fought in tenth-gripa Mr. Dancan felt naked Mallock, besides the crew and allowed Ulster people time to was that they should be allowed last quarter of century, and there agata Maru if allowed to land. bodies underneath his feet. He was in the water for an hour. The five Esquimaux.)
watch the working of Home Kale to salve one quarter of Ireland, housing conditions were in a very
than that they backward state; indend the| Mr. Cox Edwards (formerly of officers faced death fearlessly and the Captain remained on the
in other parts of Ireland, and it and less bridge doing bia utmost under hopeless circumstances.
There is much indignation over yesterday's delays and con- September 30 and a storm sprang of the situation; because the Anniversary similar to the Boyne hensions on that score were not Y
Hongkong Passengers Not Accounted for.
The list of survivors includes Mr. Cox Edwarda, of Yokohama, but not Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Graham of Hongkong.
Mr. Cor Edwards died after being landed.
Later.
It is officially stated that-1,032 persons were drowned,
How the Accident Happened.
THE ULSTER CRISIS.
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NEWS.
General news and an article dealing with rabber plantation reform appear on page 3.
Dr. G.H. Thomas is enrolled as: the first graduate of the University of Hongkong.
DON'T FORGET.
TO-DAY.
Bijou Theatre 9.15 p.m. Victoria Theatre: 9.15 p.m. Hippodrome Cirous-Causeway
the legislation was found to be would not take. (Applause. This housing of Dublin was a by-word Hongkong) was rescued in the sound and ressonable and sweet Government found Ireland happy and gaunt / povertygetalked disaster to the Empress of Ire- to the taste, it was quite within and needed only to pave the through the streets. In Belfast land, bat died after being landed. the bounds of possibility that good work Unionists had done the housing was of a very super- When the Storelat iruak the Ulster would gladly and willingly, there to come to fruition to solve for class and the proportion of Empress of Ireland, the lattere Mr. Gershom Stewart's Charge within a short period, join with the whole difficulty. At the be pauperism was lower than in any skipper requested her to continue the rest of Ireland. But a settle-ginning of the present century town in the United Kingdom ahead and fill up the hole, bac ment would not be brought about the beautiful prospect of a trans(Applause.) By what process of the backed away. On May 1, Mr. Gershom Stewart; if they tried to coerce her. If formed Ireland was coming out tairness or reason should the M-P. for Wirral, late of Hongkong, they tried to coerce her at the into the enbehine; now Ireland north be asked to submit its
Some splendid musiq addressed the members of the present moment they would was like a boiling cauldron. But industry, liberty, life and
destroy the possibility of united however much they might regret prosperity to the prentice hand heard at last mass at St. Joseph'e Constitutional Association of
and his yesterday. Wallasey, Cheabire, at their on-Ireland for a hundred years to the peevish impatience of this of Mr. Badmond
Government, however much the followers? Why should men,
The gymkhana passed off very nual meeting, on the Ulster come.
Liberals might choose to spoil the the results of whose labours successfully on Saturday, The The dun-Runnings
picture, Unionista meant to hold proved them to be in the results appear to-day. Router's correspondent at Montreal says it is authoritatively question.
Mr. Stewart said that the Referring to the recent gan last and firm to those men who very forefront of Anglo-Saxon stated that the weather was misty but the Empress saw the lights
Our Contemporaries" appears of the Storstadt. Captain Kendall gave the order to halt and present predicament in which running exploit, Mr. Stewart said had held fast and firm to them enterprise, be asked to offer whistled. The Storstede answered and was then two miles away. the country was placed was the that while the Radicals were hold through fair weather and foul. themselves up for vivisection and on page 2, and log book on page
(Applause.)
experiment and allow the Nation- 0. Captain Kendall sent the Empress sutera. The Storstads appare result of a great political mising up their hands in horror and
alists to cut their legislative teeth ently thought she could cross the Empress' bone but the prow judgment; he did not want to saying that the Irishmen had done missed the Empress bows and plunged into her starboard side use very hard words, otherwise a very wicked thing, it was by no piercing her plates like tin. The Storstadt then backed away he might call it political means clear that the importation They were told that if the Home on their liberties?
cowardice on the part of the of arms into Ireland was af ülegal Role Bill were passed some new leaving a yawning gap.
Twas the political act. (Hear, hear,) The present sort of Irishman was going to
Even if the Government were One milli dollars' worth of silver bullion was lost with the cowardice of the Liberal-pant had done their beet orice some milk-and-water edi-
that brought about the surrender to make this & legal, not because tion of the whisky-and-water guilty of the mad folly of employ Empressreland.
o Paul Kruger of Majuba Hill, they repealed the Arme Act a few Irishman they all know up to the ing the budgeon and the bayonet dator's correspondent at Rimouski says Captain Ken laull of which was really the origin of years ago, with the result that the present time. (Laughter.) There he still believed it would find Empress of Ireland, giving evidence at the inquest, confirmed the South African War, and south and west of Ireland had were only two things that led coercion impossible. The hon. the statement he made yesterday and added that, when the Stor which caused the sacrifies of been arming steadily for years Irishmen astray-one was neat gentlemad went on to argue that stadt was a ship's length distant, he (Captain Kendall) megaphoned twenty to thirty thousadd men past. When he was in Olare whisky and the other the political the Mother Parliament would to her to back-water and simultaneously fall speeded the Empress and coet as £250,000,000, He recently he was shown a little agitator. (Laughter.) If they have little control over a Parlis ahead. After the collision he asked the Storstadt to continue ahead believed the political misjudg gunsmith's shop, the proprietor had neither one nor the other, ment set up in Dublin. The parent and fill up the hole, but the Storstadt backed. Captain Kendallment or cowardice of the Liberal of which, his informant told him, he believed there was not a administration had as much then tried to beach the Empress but the engines were useless within ally in surrendering to Parnell had sold 000 revolvers within single men in Ireland who would control over so called subordinate three minutes, and as the ship was filling he ordered the boste to be im had within it much greater the previous twelve months. Every wish to dissociate himself from Parliaments as had a duck over launched. There was no explosion.
daogers even than the fatal error man in Clare, Mayo, Galway, and the advantages he enjoyed in his her ducklings once they took to made in the surrender of Majuba all over Irelsad, had a revolver, preferential partnership with the the water. The example of Sonth Hill. The aurreader of the and if it was right and proper that United Kingdom. But they had Africa was now before us. One Liberal party to Parcelliem began a Nationalist should be allowed to to take things as they were. They of the earliest things the South
Crown Land Sale P.W.D.-3 the day after the assassination of walk about with a six-shooter in sympathised with the Ulster African Parliament did was to Lord Frederick Cavendish and his pocket, why should it be a people who, being Imperialist in deport the nine Labour leaders p.m.
Anotion Sale of shoas sto.-G. Mr. Burke, and very nearly had heinous crims for an Ulsterman, to mind, know fall well that any and the British Labour party who
most terrible development in have a rifle to use if he considered small provincial Parliament born helped to create, that Parliament P. Lammert's Sales Rooms something approaching smse-itnecessary? (Applause)Whether of animosity to this country and were now spending their time sacre in the North of Ireland, the happenings of a few days ago nurtured on the strictest ideals of phasing it and calling upon the within the last few weeks. were legal or illegal, they showed provincialiam, would be a very mother country to take drastic Uniopiats believed that the union that the Government's action of poor substitate, for the Parliament measures against this latest-born of the United Kingdom was the three weeks ago had so alarmed by which they were now govern free State. The danger was much The local office of the C.P.R. Company yesterday received the beat form of government thin the Ulstermen that Sriffitheyed. An Irish Parliament would greater where our sister isle was following offioial account of the disaster:-"The steamer Storstadt collided with the Empress of Ireland about six miles N.E. of Father country could have, but some of were attacked they meant to be a sort of political backwater, concerned. It was difficult to them were prepared, in view of defend themselves perfectly with which the Ulstermen, being know what would happen if the Point, 160 miles below Quebec. She struck the Empress abaft the the present position of affaire, to human and English attitude for energetic and Imperially-minded, proposed Irish Parliament, took after funnel, tearing a hole to the propellers. The steamer sunk abate some of their principles men to take up (Applanee.) If saturally would not be content, the law into its own hande and in 14 minutes. 150 of the passengers and 327 of the cow were and to meet, if they could he the Ulster Volunteer Foros hund A the ecclesiastical differences did thisge of which its pareill
did not approve Bithermo- saved out of a total of 1,480. Beuter's are cabling a list of the impasse which the folly and not beepin existence, there would existing in Ireland, and their wickedness of the Government have been sporadic fighting all bearing on the situation, he would Doubts as to the fate of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Douglas Graham, had brought about (Applause.) over the North of Ireland. It may very little. The people of would have to submit or recon- After referring to Mr. Chur- was because these Volunteers the North feared that the pass quer the country. Here was the of Hongkong; seem to be set at rest by the announcement that chill' soffer and Mr. Asquith's state were an organised and drilled ing of the Home Rule Bill main Unionist objection to the they are not among the list of the survivors Residente in Hong- kong for many years, they made a large circle of friends, who are ment that it was not made on behalf body that the brace had been would make them subject to a grief stricken at the news which has come to hand concerning of the overament, Mr. Stewart kept, and if the Ulsterinen got Parliament controlled by an creation of any Home Rule Par did not agree, mentation in the House of Com them. Mr. Grahom, who is a cousin of Mr. F. Grahsin, manager of said if there was no offer before lair treatment the pesce would ecclesiastical with liament. The Irish over repre- the Hongkong Electric Company, na general manager in the East them they would have to treat be always maintained a Please which they
the Home Rule Bill as it stood. God, some way out would still be At any rate, they were quite For More. Wilkinson, Heywood and Clark, varnish, lone The Government admitted that it endd. For it matberemom certain that they would be placed mons was the cause of all the ler Parliament crolled by trouble in Ireland at the present colocar merchants. He had been uuatics of the Pence here since was a bad Bill, and yet by the bored that if a single the
whose ideals, time. (Applause) 1906. Mr. and Mrs. Graham, who had on children, realde as terms of their own precio a Parlias fired in anger. At the present souret societies,
Shanghal Passenger Saved.
Later.
Mr. Darling of Shanghai (Mr. M. D. A. Darling, Secretary, Santuel & Co. ?) was saved by Sir Henry Seton-Karr forging a life- belt upon him while he went to seek another.
Mäved."
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