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July 18, 1913,
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NEWS FOR BUSY MEN.
NEW APPOINTMENT.
CABINET CONFER'S
NEW SESSION PROGRAMME.
CARPENTIER-SMITH AGAIN,
WIN FOR SCOTLAND,
KENNYMORE BADLY BEATEN
Router's Service To "The Telegraph." (Reuter's Service To The Telegraph."1 Beutor's, Service To The Telegraph." [Beatar's Service To "The Telegraph." IReuter's Service To "The Telegraph.". Reuter's Bervice To The Telegraph."
London Received July 18. Two Fall Cabinet meetings were held to-day to consider the Irish situation, making the fourth meeting this week.
Situation Unchanged,
London. Received July 18. Londen. Received July 18.
At Bisley, in the shoot for the: Another fight between Carpen- tier and "Gunboat" omith is being Elobo Shield (15 abots at 900, arranged for after Carpentier 1,000 and 1,100 yards) the scores meete Wells.
London. Received July 18. Speaking in the House of Commons Mr. Asquith said the New Session would start the last week in November and continue to the first week in December.
He also announced that many Billa would be dropped, but the After the second meeting of Government intended to pra the the Cabinet the views of the East African Soudan Loans and Government on the demand for hoped to pass the British Natur-with the unsatisfactory result. the exclusion of Ulster were abalisation, and the Anglo-Persian "mitted to a mealing of Opposition Oil Bills.
Frontbenchers to form a counter proposal. The decision of the meeting thereon was conveyed to the Cabinet. An agreement has not been reached and the situation is unchanged.
Loter.
Mr. Asquith had an audience with His Majesly the King last evening.
FRONTIER INCIDENT.
ZEPPELIN FIRED AT.
LABOUR MENACE.
MR. LLOYD GEORGE'S WARNING.
London. Received July 18.
Speaking at the Bankers' Dinner, at the Mansion House, Mr. Lloyd George alluded to the imminent menace of industrial trouble owing to the unparalleled
The columns of the evening papers are full of last night's decision.
he is disgusted Carpentier says
"Gunboat" Smith declares that the fight should have continued, as Carpentier's Manager jumping in the ring was a foul sufficient to give him (Smith) the win.
MORE DESTRUCTION.
SUFFRAGIST SLASHES
PORTRAIT,
“ག་ ་་ London. Roceived July 18,
A Suffragist slashed Millais'
combination of 2,250,000 trans-portrait of Carlyle at the National part wolors and minors. He Portrait Gallery. uttered a solemn warning to the ellest that the prospect of a settlement of these dangerous disputes was complicated by the situation in Ireland. If they led to industrial strife in Ireland during the next few weeks, the situation would be the gravest with which any Government Led
HOME CRICKET.
were!--
Scotland.
..1,912.
· England............ 1,899. Ireland.1,871.
[Scotland also won last year. with a acore of 1,732, England scoring 1,722 and Ireland1,669.1.
CHICAGO RAILWAYMEN.
London. Received July 18, Reuter's correspondent at Chicago states that the striking railwaymen have asked for Federal mediation.
ANOTHER STRIKE FEARED.
London. Received July 18.
The result of the Eclipse stakes in as follows:
London. Resolved. July 19... Lieut. General Sir William Edmond Franklyn, Military Secretary to the Secretary of State for War, has been appointed Mr. E. Cholmondeley's Haps- Governor of Malta. burg (Foy) 1.
Mr. Sol. Joel's Honeywood (Donoghue) 2.
MEXICAN TROUBLES.
Sir John Thursby's Kennymore UNCONDITIONAL (Clark) 3.
The Race.
SURRENDER,
London. Received July 17. Reater's correspondent in Thirteen ran. Hapsburg won by Mexico City reports that two trains two lengthe, three length of Constitutional troops en route separating second and third for the capital are expected to night. General Carranza says Kennymore delayed the start, the Federals must surrender Hapsburg led throughout and unconditionally prior to any won easily. Cantilever was negotiations." placed fourth. Time 2 mins." 11.1-5 secs.
by
Jockeys Changed.
White Magic was ridden Randall and Lord Godolphin by Robinson.
Betting.
Many Troops Leave. "It is regarded as significant that the Constitutional General
CONDENSED.
Scotland won the Eloho Shield at Bisley,
Latest Home oricket results are given to-day.
Hapsburg, a 10 to 1 obanco, won the Eclipse Stakes.
Lieut. Gen. Sir W. E. Franklyn has been appointed Governor of Malta.
A suffragist has slashed the Millaia portrait of Carlyle in the National Portrait Gallery,
Another fight is being arranged between Smith and Carpentier, after the lattor has met Wells.
Neither Smith nor Carpentier are satisfied at the result of the big fight.
A German Zeppelin crossed
Gonzales, with 68 train loads of the Russian frontier accidentally troops, have left Saltillo for the and was fired at.
South. Banhor Carbajal" has
ordered the immediate release of
all political prisoners.
General Carranza gaya the Federal forees must surrender unconditionally.
Carbajal to Retire. Renter's correspondent st Mexico City states that Senhor
The new session of Parliament. Carbajal says that he intends to The betting was 11-8 against Carranza.
retire in favour of General is to meet in the last week of HOLIDAY WANTED.
Secretary Bryan November.. London. Received July 18.
Kennymore, 10-1 against Haps-applands this effort towards penca. Reuter's correspondent at
London: Receive July 18.burg and 25-1 against Honey- Berlin reports that an Army Zeppelin accidentally crossed the
A-strike of 3,000 engineers is wood.......... Russian frontier; the Russians had to deal for centuries. For at Southampton by eight wickets, threatened at Blackburn, the fired upon it, but it recrossed that reason all should strive to (Last year Hampshire won by employers refusing to grant the
men a holiday. undamaged.
secure a reasonable composition, two wickets). "
ANOTHER MAN CHARGED."
Denials and Contradictions.
London. Received July 18.
Hapahice boat Worcestershire
Place Betting: 6-4 against Hapsburg; others in proportion.
the place. He was shown a knowledge of the Astor Road photograph of the house, an crime, he had never heard of it interior, and a photograph of the and of the neighbourhood, and mutilated body, but maintained's of the conveyance of valuables stolid expression and said he up country. know nothing about it.
In answer to Mr. Newman, ao.
At this point the hearing was adjourned until next day.
Later.. Senhor Carbajal says he in- Rentar'a correspondent attends retiring from the Presiden Brownsville, Texas, stata that oy of Mexico in favour of General the tow a of San Luis Potosi has Carranza. surrendered to the rebels.
Mr. Lloyd George, speaking at the Bankers Dinner, alluded to The defence force at Chintse-the menace of industrial trouble
kuan consisted of six yins (of caused by the Labour combine. about 300 men each) under Geners! Tien Teo-ling, four yine of old-type troops commanded by inet and the Opposition Front Negotiations between the Cab. Lia Cheng-hus, and two yina Bench for an Ulster settlement
under the command of Liu Yo!
ling, the last-mentioned having leave the situation unchanged.
been sent there as reinforcementa
NEWS.
THE NEUMANN MURDER.recognized in this way, Tau had Counsel-Did you tell him said that he had never been in your reason for asking thees ques- Hongkew, and had never in his tions?
Witness-No, I simply asked life crossed the Garden Bridge. He was asked if he know Hong-him to state what he was and give kew, and in what part of Hongkow an account of his movements, he used to wait with his ricksha, The Assessor referred again to and for some unknowa reseon the question of the time of the The Unknown Garden Bridge. he volunteered the statement that murder, saying they understood Investigation of the Neumann he did not know where the from the doctors that it was aftor!
cused said he did not know the FLIGHT BEFORE "WHITE
WOLF** murder case was continued in the Garden Bridge was, and had 1 o'clock. At that time the boy robber ohief except as a friend of i Mixed Court at Shanghai on the never crossed over it. He further was in the house.
Mr. Newman said this idea was down from a camp at Yong- Wong Tez ziaug. They came 13th. In the absence through told the police that he had never illness of Magistrate Kaan, Mag-seen the woman Lib Sing-zi based apparently on rather flimsy show, not a robbers' camps istrate Wong accompanied the before and did not know her, but evidence, if he might put it go. soldiers' camp, Wong had Germen Assessor, Dr. Schirmer, his own father, in a statement There was considerable discussion
when he came A telegram to the Chinese On the bench. The sitting was a made to the Police, said that this on the point at the time. It was down and seemed to be in alla press from Peking dated July long and laborious one, says the woman was his niech. These rather more, theory than anything ence, but witness did not ask any states that as soon as the report to Peking by Wa Ching-tung, North China Daily News and deniale were auspicions and, else.
questions. Accused denied that of the fall of Chinteekaan, a
General news and come in- Military Governor of Nanyang, provided many instances of the Counsel suggested, justified the immense difficulties, which the placing of Tau's name on the call Dr. Kreig to give evidence on he paid travelling expenses, asietronghold on the border of three only a few days ago, who added teresting polo notes will be found
the other acoused said, he had provinces, Honan, Hupob and that he had reason to doubt the on page 3. done, He denied seeing a gold Shensi, reached the Headquarters reliability of Liu Cheng-hua's watch at his house, or a revolver. at Peking, an urgent telegram force.
The Assessor-We intend to
the point.
The House-boy's Evidence."
inquiry involves. A new piece of charge sheet.
evidence which may prove of some
importance led to a fourth man-
a rickebe coolie named Tsu Dah-
three men already charged with
the murder.
Mr. K. Newman and Chief Det.
Inspector Armstrong again ap- peared for the prosecution.
five days before the murder?
Witness-Yes.
Policeman and Conductor...
a. fur coat
Loss of Important Frontier Town.
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from this place (Nanyang) only recently.
It should be mentioned that Hongkong Twenty-five Years Liu Cheng-hus, the commander Ago appears under the heading
of " 1889" on pago 4. of the old fashioned troops, had never accompanied his men to Chintsekuan under the pretence
"Our contemporaries" will be of indisposition; and his continued found on page 2 and log book absence was noticed and reported rn page 6.
N.. Daily News.
Pigs In Crates.
DON'T FORGET.
TO-DAY.
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TO-MORROW..
A special article dealing with The Court then proceeded with Although he bad worked in was sent to General Tien Wen- The brigands, finding not one The house-boy spoken of by the examination of the accused, Shanghai an a policeman and alieh at Kaifeng by order of the soldier to oppose them upon cruelty to animals in Hongkong shih-being bracketed with the Counsel was then called, and said and Wong Lob, the ex-policeman, tram conductor, he had never Generalissimo, expressing die arrival, entered Chintsakuan at appears on page 4.
he had been in oustody since was called up. He stated that he been over the Garden Bridge, appointment and indignation at their leisure and in decent order. January 24 last. He identified left the police five or six years He now remembered that he had the precipitate retreat of the A very large quantity of supplies the prisoner Tau aga ricksha coolie ago, and became a tram car bean to the tramway office to pay senior commanders, Tien Tec and arme left behind by Govern- he had continually seen outside conductor. He left the tram in money, but he had no idea of ling and others, before the ment troops fell into their hands. the restaurant in Astor Road. cervice on account of sickness and the Astor House hotel on the brigands approach. These Suspicious Statements.. Counsel Did you see him there obtained employment as a right. They were all foreign officers have held posts of honour, Mr. Newman, in announcing
detective in Chapei. Afterwards houses there, and he did not know and trust and have received very that the name of Tau Dah-shib
he started in the busineen of one from another:"
generous treatment in ordinary had been added to the charge, Counsel Did you see him hiring out riekehus. Wong Tez Accused was again shown times; and their cowardly flight
The "F.M.S. Railway has said that the Court would remem there on the day before the mur ziang (another of the accused) photographs, a photograph of the and abandoning of this very bar that Wong Loh, Wong Tez-der?
hired rickshas from him. This man body, and an impression of finger important position on the frontier decided, writes a correspon ziang, and Tseu Fab-tze, the Witness I don't remember. and Tseu Fab-teo (the robber prints on it alleged to be his own. of Honan to the mercy of the dent, that it will not now three men first charged, all stayed Counsel-On the night of the chief) stayed at his house in He denied it, and said he had brigands without a struggle in carry pigs in split rattan together at a bouse in Chapei, murder you left the house at 11 Chapel in January last. They never been in the house. Directly the more culpable. General Tien baskets. And a good thing too. part of the house being rented by o'clock and returned about 1 were soldiers on sick leave, and afterwards, in answering another is ordered to ascertain the names Bat the poor boasts are still taken Wong Loh, and part by Ten's o'clook?
returned after five or six days, question, accused mentioned an of all the responsible commanders in local steamers to F.M.S. ports father. From what Tau, the new Witness About five minutes He did not mention this in his alleyway at the back of the Astor and officers, and submit a full re-in split rattan baskota and then prisoner, first told the police, it past one.
first statement to the police. He House GEN
port so that they may be punish-transferred to whole rattan bas seemed that he did not know very
Counsel-Have you ever seen was asleep in his house when Wong Taz-ziang was next ed. They will be shown no kets to satisfy the official anti- pathy to cruelty. Of course by much about the business, but it any of the other prisoners? these men left. Wang Tez-ziang called and examined at length: leniency... had been discovered that he was Witness-No.
from the time the poor pigs are Telegraphic paid their passages, and he offered He outlined his history as a a rinkaha coolie and had been in Chief Det. Inspector Arm- witness twenty-three pearls and farmer, rickshacoolie, and soldier, Nanyang confirm the above changed from one basket to
after the habit of waiting outside the trong said that he had taken asked him to sell them.
respect another many of them are bleed of Neumann restaurant, on various statements from the prisoner Ten He said they were only worth fighting of Nanking, he went in The troops at Ohintso- ing profusely: It's a shame,
Thursday July 23: Occasions during the six months on two occasions. He first aid ten cents each, but they might be at the gates and took $50, two kuan ander Lieut-General Tien There does not appear to be a
General Meeting Assooiacão preceding the murder. After that he knew the woman Tih who sold for thirty cents or more at fur coats, and twenty paarls from Tao-ling were quite demoralized, branch of the B.P.C.A. out here, the last heating, Mr. Neumann's came to stop at the house in Yangohow. There was one big the first dead body which be as soon as they learnt that the but the Government having Portugues de Scocorros Matuos. house boy, who was still Chapel, but he asked her to leave pearl. Witness did not try to sell came noroca inside the city. He" White Wolves were only some acknowledged that even a pig in custody,
any because she had a bad reputation. them. Wong said he obtained the had not any gold watches or forty li distant. Confusion ensued deserves some mercy might hesitation recognized Teu as He said she was a stranger to pearls during the fighting at Nan-rings. He admitted coming from among the troops themselves, who extend its charity by refusing ocolis he had often seen waiting him and no relative. He denied king.
Yangohow with the robber chief, soon abandoned this stronghold to carry pigs which have been cut Ltd at the door of the restaurant. It knowing anything about the Accused was closely questioned Teen, and associating with Kub and fled. Of course, an exodus to ribbons by the bratal split was his custom to look up the others, and said he had never been as to whether he know anything Tae, the robber supposed to have of the people, who thus became ratten. A basket at the beat is stairs on the watch for customers in Hongkow and had never cross-about the Astor Road neighbour- been ahot, at the house of Loh in quite helpless and alarmed; orual: a basket of split rattan in about to leave. Prior to being ed the Garden Bridge.
fiendishly-cruel. hood, and denied all knowledge of Chapei. Acctised denied all immediately followed.
without
in
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reports
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Wednesday July 23. Meeting of Metal Importers at Secretary's Office, H.K. Chamber
Commerce.
Monday July 27 Mesting H.K. Central Estates
noon.
Tuesday July 28. Lady May "at home," Mountain
Lodge