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PUMPS
“ANDERSEN,MEYER & COLTO. Á
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
(ESTABLISHED 1881).
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 5, 1921.
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REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.
REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.
THE TEST MATCH..
Australia's Easy Victory.
THE IRISH SITUATION.
A Town Fined.
London. January 4. The Military have introduced a new method of punishing dis- loyalty in Ireland. They fined Fermoy £100 for tearing down & Pro clamation.
Government Aiming at Peace.
London, January-4.
The Dale Meil states that General Strickland's sanction of the burnings at Mulleton has surprised the Government in London. The General acted under Martial Law without consultation with Sizi Hamar Greenwood and the ther civil authorities. The Cabine:.) however, support General Strickland.
Melbourne, January 4
·England made 157 in the second innings. Australia won by an innings and 91 runs. Wooley made fifty.
THE MONTAGU-CHELMSFORD SCHEME.
Inauguration of Responsible Government in India.
Delhi. December 3.
Simultaneously, the Government is pursuing definite endeavours. Responsible government under the Montagu-Chelmsford scheme to secure peace in Ireland. The avenue to peace has been was constituted in all the Provinces to-day. Governors, Executive broadened lately and negotiations are being continued. The Sinn Councillors, and Ministers entered office with the customary Fein leaders are preparing to hold a meeting of Dail Eireann in ceremonial. accordance with Mr. Lloyd George's recent offer of safe conduct t
The Councils will be formally opened by the Duke of Connaught all except a few specified members. All the leaders in the United in the course of January. States have been recalled to Ireland, and negotiations are proceeding through intermediaries as regards the time and place of the
Release of State Prisoners. assembly.
ANGLO-JAPANESE ALLIANCE.
Contains No Secret Clauses.
London, January 4. Reater has been informed that a high British authorit announces that the suggestion from the United States that there are secret clauses in the Anglo-Japanese Treaty is absolutely without foundation.
Article IV prevents any contingency of Britain siding during war with Japan against America, a viewpoint in which Japan fully concurs.
It is realised that events arising out of the war and the League of Nations necessitate an adjustment of the Alliance, but it is unlikely that any consideration thereof will be possible until the Dominions have been consulted.
SHIPPING DEPRESSION.
Scandinavian. Owners Lay Up Tonnage.
London. Jacuary 4.
Calcutta December 4. The Goxemar has released all State prisoners to commemorate the inauguration of the new Bengal Government under the Reform Acta.
MISSIONS IN CHINAN
The Pope Receives Two Priests.
Rome. January 4. Superior of the Chinese Mission Society at Omaha, Nebrasks, which His Holiness the Pope has received the Rev. Edward McCarthy.
was accompanied by the Rev. John Bloniovich, Superior of the is composed of secular priests devoted to missions in China, and whol Irish Society for Missions in China. Both reported on the develop ment of the Missions, the funds required and the number of pupils instructed.
FRENCH SOCIALISTS.
The New Party's Programme.
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CORRESPONDENCE.
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The Hon. Mr. Hallifax's Speech.
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ARMED ROBBERS IN KOWLOON.
Portuguese Lady Injured.
On the pretext of having
letter to deliver from Mr. T. F
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THE DOLLAR.
From 6s. 2d. to 2s 11d. Last Year.
The fickleness of the Hongkong
Gomes, two Chinesa yesterds, dollar is well illustrated in a Sir, I do not proposa to afternoon obtained entry into his summarised batch of exchange reply at length to Mr. Tso's residence at No. 1 Saifee Terrace, Stat.stice which we have just letter which appeared in your Kowloon, whilst he was away at received from Messes. Siswart paper on the 4th inst., for I am work, and at an hour when Mrs. Bro, till and bullion brokers, af quite content to leave it to the Domes was the only iamate of longsong. The publication con- judgment of the public as to the house. It was Mrs. Gomes as a summary of exchange, bar whether or not my letter was who opened the door and who co silver and Bank rate of discount fair criticism of Mr. Hallifax's realising ber position, put for the year 1720, as well as Mr. Tso's letter is a fair criticism speech and as to whether or not up bard #truggle with the bigbest and lowest úgures under of mine, In 80 far as there is a
robbers, in
of these headings for the years from difference of opinion between Mr. with
the fact that they were armed)
1981 to 1920, daggers. She received
Dealing with the dollar, wo I am content with such difference, endeavouring to wrest the dagger than any twelve months covered Tso and myself in any matter, several cuta on the hands in find that the year just ended has witnessed greater ductuations But silence on my part may be from one of the robbers, and was construed as a slight on Mr. Tso eventually stabbed in the mouth. by the statistics. The highest entirely unintended by me, and Freeing herself, she ran out into point reached was 6s. 21. in make a few observations by was made the robber realise that the December. 83, with your permission. I will the road, and gave the alarm which February, and the lowest, 2a. Uld, of reply to his letter.
The quarterly Lopportunity was more favourable averages were January to To begin with, then, I say that for an immediate ascape than the March, 53. 3.15/16d.; April to I am greatly impressed by his execution, of the mission which June. 4. 2.15 16. Joly to "judicial ignorance"-if I may be they had in mind.
September, 43. 0363.; October to
me
pardoned for using a legal phrase Notwithstanding the search December, 33. 7.7/164. The --which caused him to be "struck subsequently made by the Police, Fear's average works out at 49. by my writing to the English, and the robbers were no: found. The to- 3.11/164. not to the Chinese. Press "on aljurs which Mrs. Gumes received.
Taking the dollar rate on the. subject which entirely concerns from the stab in the mouth was 31st December for the years 1908 the Chinese themselves. He is not very serious, it is stated in to 1920 inclusive, we see that the suficiently Boquainted with the official report issued by the lowest point tourbed was 15, 8341,
to know, I feel Police this morning.
in 1908, and the highest, 43. 101⁄2ed.
composition. I could no: haze VENEREAL DISEASES. in 1903, and the highest sure. that. baring forgotten
in 1919. From the years 1901 to
written an elaborate letter to the. much of my Chinese literary
1920 inclusive, we notice that the lowest average rate was Is. 814d.. Chinese Press without friendly
3.11/161, in the year just eaded aid and be really mus: not expect
Bar silver (ready) fuctuated me to inpose on the public by
greatly during the year just closed. passing off is my ow letters:
thabhighest quotation being 891 in February and the lower 397% in December,
Public Meetings in Hongkong..
auspices
of
the
which I would have been quite Arrangemanja, have been fade incapable of writing. Morester under the Me Haillere speech was pub- Hongkong General Chamber of), lished in the English Press; y Commerce for the holding of a
pentant, therefore, to have com- Commission con ing Chinese; I feel quite unre-coanection with the visit of the comtuents concern English-speak.number of public meetings in
English Press.
the National
In view of the grave depression in the shipping trade, Scan- dinarian owners are reported to have decided to indefinitely lay up ships representing 400,000 tona now lying at the Tyneside. Con- Party, 23 now distires from the Communistic Party, a declaration
Paris, January 3. In the course of the first meeting of the New French Socialist tracts for new ships have been cancelled at heavy sacrifices. The was read outlining its programme, including the continuation of the municated my boughts to the Council for Combating Venereall Scandinavians attribute the depression largely to American com traditions set up by the great Socialist leaders, Jaures, Gaesde and petition in carrying coal from the United States to Scandinavia.
Vaillant The declaration ascribes the splitting to Communistic partiality and submission to foreign interference. upholds the old party principle of opposing any new war.-H.
The programme
EX-GERMAN VESSELS.
Big Liners For Sale.
London, January 4. The Times says that 120 out of the 300 ex-German vessels allotted to Britain have now bees sold. The remainder include the liners Imperator and Bismarck, which may be purch:-ed by the Cunard and White Star linea respectively.
FORMER KOREAN MINISTER IN LONDON.
London, January 4.
Mr. Komatsu, ex-Director of Foreign Affairs in Kores, has arrived in London fruin Washington on a special missio..
THE NAVAL HOLIDAY?
Japan Said to be Expediting Building.
Washington. January 4, Admiral Coontz, Chief of Naval Operations, who is a principal witnes befor the foreign Relations Committee, opposed ang per- centage of reluctions in naval shipbuilding.
Is the course of a discus on the Committee was informed that! Japan, in order to expedite her building programme," was having] three large battleships built in England.
LARGE MANGANESE MINES PURCHASED.
American Corporation's Big Deal.
New York, January 4. -Mr. Garg, Chairman of the United States Steel Corporation, has announced that the Corporation has purchased one of the largest manganese mines in South America at Morodamina, about 300 miles from Rio de Janeiro. He says that the purchase makes the Corporation independent as regards supplies of manganese.
MEXICAN BANK SUSPENDS PAYMENT.
New York, December 4. It is reported from Mexico City that the Paris-Mexico Banking Company, (capital 14,000,000 million pesas) has suspended payment in consequence of heavy loahs to cotton and sugar centres, of which prices have been falling. The Bank hapes to reopen in a month and to liquidate the claims.
DUTCH-BULGARIAN RELATIONS.
Most Favoured Nation Treatment..
LATEST SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.
(From Our Oven Correspondents.) SHANGHAI SHOOTING AFFAIR.
Trial Begins on Monday.
Shanghai, January 4. Furbush pleads not guilty. The trial starts on Monday. Judge Lobingier has overruled the defence motion to quash the charge.
Disessus-
EARLIER
SPECIAL TELEGRAMS,
Mr. Tso says, of mys-1f. "If To-morrow acroing, at 5.30|(From Our Own Correspondent;} he thinks that any English-spast o'clock, a meeting for men of the Fing Chinese bay suffered a the European community will take H.M.S. MALAYA.
grievence from Mc. Hillipur in place at the Chamber of Commerce. his endeavour to get into deser Room. Chartered Bank Build.
Singapore, Jaɔ. 4. The Lonelos correspondent of the ruch with the Chinese-speakinglings; whilst film lectures for merchants, then de,&c." Was European men and women are H.MS. Malaya carries a model Singapore Pree Preax states that Mr. Tso so struck by the fact tha: to be held at the City Hall on my letter appeared in the English Friday and at the Helena May of belf, mas minutely complete, Presa :bat he could notInstitute on Monday, the 10th which cost £31,000. Bis a gift to read through it at all? For instant.
the Fedusted Malay States, I do
like to im.
Particulars will be found in car) pate against a Man ike advertising columns. Mr. Tso that he intentionally put words into my words which I had expressly disavowed.
SIAMESE STEAMER SUNK.
Singapore, Jan. 4.
I said Wei Yak and all those other letter that no one was likely to are now performing public ser- of Siam and wook. at the very beginning of my English-speaking Chinese who Swatow struck a rock in the Gulf A Siamese steamer going to
dispute with Mr. Hallifar that vices, that of course was evoked lost.
No lives were
The accused. Henry B. Furbash, third engineer of the Adchill, he should get into much dower by Mr. Hallifax's statement that is charged with causing the death of Mr. R. F. Hazelton, head of the touch with a large proportion of those who had learned to speak,
Singapore, Jan. 4.
Order Department of the firm of Messrs. Gaston, Williams and that huif-million to which reference English well must, of necessity-NEW BANKS FOR STRAITS. Wigmore, who was shot in the abdomen in the cloakroon of the had been made; I also said "By in a place lika Hongkong, bave "Eldorado," a low class bar in the "franches" district, while attempt all means encourage the Chinese their views tinged with English ing to pacify two sailors from an American merchant ship.] Cenerally to take a deeper interest ideas and it was just this English The Asia Bank sad Bask Voor in public matters; if they could, tinge-speaking for his office-Indie have opened branches hore. as a whole, be induced or they wanted to get rid of". Were educated to take anything not the first two named gentle like the same interest that evinced by any of the Watchmen's Committee; are not as men members of the District Europan democracies, half of at least 7 or 8 members out of the the political troubles of China 12 of the present District Watch- would have been solved". Indeed, men's
"
NEW BANK IN SHANGHAL
Shanghai, January 4. The Equitable Eastern Banking Corporation, & branch of the Equitable Trust. New York, opens to-day.
TO-DAY'S CHINESE TELEGRAMS.
Peking, January 3.
TO-DAY'S EXCHANGE.
perature:-58. Humidity 53.
2 p.m. Barometer:-30.21. Tem-
The closing rate of the dollar oa I think it would not be unfair to Board to the
Committee (Advisory demand, to-day was 34/1 11/164. say that Mr. Tso's latter, besides
S. C. A.) men who had learned to indulging in insinuatiors of ques-English well "?
вренк Without Mr.
THE WEATHER. tionable taste about "self-seeking Tso's clairvoyance and inspira- English-speaking Chinese", and ti a. I can only coastroe Mr. appointed by Mr. Hallifax", the usual English canons. If English-speaking Chinese "dis- Hallifax's speech in the light of mainly of vebement those words meant what they g67. on imaginaty utter-obviously all these men, with "the never made by me; of English tinge," are undesirable | A mandate issued on the 1st of January permits Lung Chi-questions never in dispate; of office and should be got rid of
impassioned interrogations to from the view of the S.C.A.'s kwang to give up the title of Inspector of the Two Kwongs.but arguments based specially appoints him as Field Marshal.
Shanghai, January 3.
Japanese Minister has been instructed by the Tokyo Government consists
A very serious rumour prevails here to the effect that the that as the feeling between Japan and America is becoming more attacks strained and that China will be one of the Powers concerned, & secret ance arrangement must be made with China for mutual action,
to
LIGHTING-UP TIME.
Lighting-up time to-day is 5.53
9.0.
DON'T FORGET.
Today.
Coronet Theatre-5.15 and 9.15
Hongkong Tasztro-5.15, 7.15
on premises fn truth, the only statement in never subsomað. For instance, Mr. Tso's letter which has any Japanese and has put up at a Japanese residence,
It is reported that Chu Shu-toang has arrived here along with a letter for any indication that his allegation that my specific one would look in vain in my direct relevance to my letter is The Premier has complied with Chan Chi-chee's request that relationship between officials and are not borne out by facte. even held the opinion that closer complainte against Mr. Hallifax he be allowed to resign the post of Minister of Finance and assume Chinese merchants way anything Here, we the post of Civil Governor of Shengtung.
but desirable; that an English-differ. He is entitled to his
mast agree On hearing & report the Hsu Shu-tsing has secured a loan for
Peking, January 4. speaking Chinese's education was opinion and I to mine, but he need ammonition, and is now in Shanghai planning to reinstall Anfu employed to assist in bringinto attack ideas, which I did not
undervalued because it was not, I feel, take so much trouble p.m. influence, the Government has ordered all the provinces to take out the Chinese-speaking, mer-either directly or by implication and 9.15 p.m. precautionary measures. The Hague, January 4. Speaking in the Second Chamber, the Foreign Minister stated
chants"; that it is the sole aim express, or to give us so many that Balgaria had announced her readiness to apply most-favoured Government that all the riotous leaders in the province bays been high-standard education for astitutions.
Chao Heng-tek, Tuchun of Huoso, has wired to the Peking stitutions to provide a costly and education and of educational lo- Shanghai, January 4. and purpose of educational in-platitudes about the function of nation treatment on a basis of reciprocity to goods of Dutch origin, cleared out, and that the situation will henceforth be calm, the self-small number of Chinese so that till August 9, 1921.
St. George's Ball at City Hall.- government system be steadily carried out, and he will not have they may.acquire it for their own gratulate Mr. Ta on bis apparent
In conclusion, I can only con-Coronat Theatre -5.15,
9.30 p.m. dything to do with Sun Yat-890.
A report from Hagan states that Chuli district has been wholly to make them dealing Hghts half of the Tale Sr Kai Ho Kai, personal aggrandisement"; sad ability to speak, not only on be plundered by the passing Yunan traaps, and the magistrate has fled. among their own countrymen, so and the Hongkong Officials"
Hougkong The Lak Yae kwong, son of Luk Wing-ting, has had an interview dazaling that noms dare to look but on behalf of Mr. Halifax who
and 9.15 p.m. with the Premier, who will appoint him as one of the Committee of upon them: bat with awewe and in on leaves
so forth i
-DOWAGER QUEEN OF HOLLAND TO
UNDERGO OPERATION.
The Hague, December 4.
It is announced that the Dowager, Queen' Emma, who has the Union Reorganisation, Lieved from berais for some time, will shortly undergo operative
aliment by Prófössor Lameris, of Utrecht University,
To-morrow.