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CHINESE CREW OF FOUNDERED OIL-TANKER.
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London, September 16: Thirty-seven of the Chinese crew of the oiltanker Patila, which recently foundered of the coast of Portugal, have been landed at Liverpool.
THE ALI BROTHERS ARRESTED.
Proceedings Against Nationalist Leaders for Discouraging Recruiting.
Simla, September 16. Muhammed Ali and Shaukat Ali, the Mahommedan Nationalist leaders, and several others have "een arrested. The proceedings being taken against the Ali brothers relate to speeches made at a Khalifate conference in July and to attempts to discourage the recruiting of Moslems for the Indian Ariny
Lo. N.'s Proceedings.
Assembly Favours More Publicity.
Geneva, September 16. The Assembly unanimously adopted Lord Robert Cecil's resalu. tion in favour of more extended publicity for the Council's activity
in the future.
VICTIMS OF THE R 39.
British Cruiser Reaches America with Bodies.
New York, September 16. The British cruiser Dauntless bringing the bodies of sixteen American victims of the R3S his arrived, escorted by Laited States battleabips, destroyers, and aircraft.
QUEEN WILHELMINA VISITS FLANDERS.
The Hague, September 16. Queen Wilhelmina vis ted Dutch Flanders and was received aborad the ship Hydrographe a: Terneuzen by Caunt de Denterghem, Governor of Belgian Flanders, representing King Albert.
EARLIER TELEGRAMS.
THE IRISH SITUATION.
London, Sept 16.
AWAKE AT TIMES.
A Returned Wanderer on
Government Activity.<
stands
RIVER MASTER'S DEATH
CINEMA NOTES.
Panline Frederick At Her Best.
•
dogged for long
Tragic End at Home.
Nows has been received by us It was Andy Dale, if memory from Home to-day of the death. serves aright, who said that "in ander tragic circumstances, of be depended upon to make the Paulins Frederick can always this world, the way God made it Mr. Alexander Galt well-known most of a good part and in "The we canna bave everything we in the Colony as a master of one
Pesce of Roaring River" she want." It is just as well, too, that of the river steamers.
does not disappoint her numerous we cannot for a pretty mess we
Renter's cable states that Mr.admirers. Her part, to be sure, should make of things if we.wers Galt died of hemorrhage of the
consists mostly of what our allowed our own way. But in brain in London Police Station.
American friends term sob-atuff, this Colony, if one is any judge. His many friends here will hear bas it is nover the rather mean trick of blaming the news with regret.
for Providence when things go l
moment отег The late Mr. Galt had been in
done. As the heroine velves when matters fall out as was one of the best-known figures by misfortune, her work is excel. and taking all the credit to our-Hongkong for many years and illness, is
who, aften
Д
we wish is not indulged. Proin river shipping circles. He pro-lently done, trying as it rapat be vidence
acquitted-to ceeded Home on leave in February to sustain the mood throughout speak more by the book, is not las: and was due to return soon. even charged-in the matter of: things undone or things done wrongly or untimeously, all blame being rested on the Government. A local Government is a handy thing to have about when the liver is a litle out of order. Why, only this morning a mad I know blamed the Government for that
According to 27 American the water in his tap was not ron.
wireless message received at Hao- ning freely.Taken a blessed kow from lebang on the 9th inst hour to balf-fill the bath-only there was firing by the opposing half-fill, mind you yet they from both banks. Etray sides all through the previous rainfall and 200 days' supply of publish figures about heavy
water. What's the good of figures? I want water. I want
a bath. Curse the Government!" If buzzing or burning ears keep People off their sleep at nights the members of the Hongkong Government must be a bollow- eyed set in the mornings.
for
FIRING AT ICHANG.
Shots Fall in Foreign
Settlement.
shots fell in the foreign secilə mat, but no casualties ara r ported. though the Customs House, the NY.K. building and the gunboat Toba were struck. The Chinese of Hankow ATH
be organising reported to volunteer defence forca. FOREIGN NAVAL COMMANDERS" DECISION.
But The Peace of Roating River" is not without humour and plenty of it. Lydia. Yeamans Titus as an Irish boarding-house keeper pro- viding most of it. Her joy over "the funniest thing she ever saw (the drapping of a flat iron by an Irishman on his wife's head) was quite delicious. the story is minus 4 villain, but Sopby Me-Gurn (Corinne Bark. er) quite makes пр for his absence. A fresh, open.
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PODOLSKY PERSONALITIES.
ANNA EL TOUR.
Soprano.
These three talented artistes will appear to- night at the Theatre Royal
VERA MIROVA, Dancer'
LEO PODOLSKY, Pianist
air story, well told and well- ON THE WATERFRONT.d the Allan Steamship Line on
acted is
The Peace of Roaring River." The rest of the Coronet's Programme has been well-chosen and proves very attractive.
HONGKONG TRADE.
Chamber of Commerce Report.
Ready For Launching.
The first oil-tank steamer built in China will be launched from the new shipbuilding yard of the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Company at Kowloon when the
Paludios slides down the ways
2. 5 o'clock, the hour set for the veremony-
The fortnightly price current and market report published by 8.400
of Commerce, states:-
firm
tong
is
are ..33
On all bands since I arrived back here I have heard the Gov-the British, US and Japanese A Shangbai paper states that ernment blamed, mtly things left undone. I began to
naval commanders at Ichang think that the Government ought "bave decided to use force unless The Prime Minister's blant decision, cancelling the proposed I had a long ramble around the
to be sent about its business until the field of battle is respored to Irish Conference at Inverness
another vicinity.' in consequence of the obdorate attitude of Sinn Fein, is approved on all hands. Mr. Lloyd George's ago. There I met one grumbler outskirts of Kowloon some days action is undoubtedly dictated by the recognition of the fact that who plaintirely asked: "Why games in bold type and head the the people of Britain consider that the Government has gone to the doesn't the Government plant Ther deserve to go down to utmost limit in a desire to attain a settlement.
list Toe Kowloon Swankers. The disappointment trees along each side of Waterloo is eran more scate in Ireland than in Britain and a feeling of Road as it has done along Corona-posterity. Instead of which we consternation was produced in Dublin where Mr. Lloyd George'stion Road? step was totally unexpected. The London presa with a few exceptions important as the other." New Kowlooo..
The one is just as may continue our tour round comments briefly on the situation owing to the lateness of the roads both and fine roads, but
Ono bad a look, of course at publication of the correspondence. The papers dwell, however, on how came they to be made at all the new Garden City: Ho Mun-e home values. Poss bly such will be the initial one from the new the unquestionable evidence of the fact that the Irish outside the The only explanation that occurs in which is growing and which Sinn Fein Government are hungering for peace." The view is freely to us in that the Government has now a railway halt all to expressed that Mr. De Valera and his associates do not represent like Wanton
Wully
Oliver) itself. And the origins Garden the present Irish feeling and it is thought that the short respite lost the place" and constructed City is also beginning to look up afforded for the delay mentioned in the Prime Minister's letter may them in a 6t of sheer absence of One was particularly interested mind. Whatever the explanation.in these new suburbs because the job has been well done so far away back in 1912 one wrote
cause this feeling to become vocal.
Mr. Lloyd George's Indisposition.
the Atlantic. Before that the steamship operating department of the C.P.R. had no title of its OWD.
The
She
The delay mentioned in Mr. Lloyd George's telegram to De/48 it is completed. Perhaps the quise hopefully of the scheme in further appreciated $4 to $8 per day by officials of the Taikoo be Valera is due to the fact that Mr. Lloyd George has a chill and will Government will forget itself:hese very columns. There were bale in sympathy with the excite Dock. The vessel left the fitting. Larrived at Hongkong last night
possibly be laid up for a few days.
BRITISH TRADE SHIP SCHEME.
London. Sept. 16. Earl Grey, describing the British trade ship scheme, said two years would elapse before the vessel could start on her journey. He did not believe there would be any quick revival of trade but he was convinced that this ship, when the time was ripe, would attract much attention and especially that it would open the door to immense possibilities in trade, Commander H. W. Day, the author of the scheme, suld that when in the East before the war he saw German ships running at a loss hut paving the way for German trade.
Salse
agriculture, Tokyo,
Australian Steamer In Port.
clipper-bow steamer Changsha arrived at Hongkong early this morning from Australian ports with passengers mail and Cargo. A fine on Faturday afternoon next, at Voyage Was reported.
in brought
297 tona of cargo for discharge here, The Paludina is one of four including 40 tons of frozen meats,
butter and cheese and other fresh” deadweight bulk the Hongkong General Chamber oilcarrers the Kowloon Dock produce. There are 57 tons of
Cotton Piece Goods and Fancy the
transhipment cargo for Canton constructing for
and considerable sales have been
Anglo-Saxon Petroleum
and North Chins ports. There Cotton Goods: There is a dis- Company and will be the first of were 19 cabin, and 51 Chinese tact improvement in our Market the sister-snips to take the water. and 27 Filipino steerage passed-
The
[2018. effected.
dimensions The prices at which follows:-Length between per-
Big Coal Cargo. some White Shirtings are report-pendiculars 412 0"; breadth 53 coal arrived at dongkong yester ed to have been sold are dis-15"; and depth moulded 31' 0".
A large shipment of Hongay appointing in view of the increas-
which is being discharged into The launching of the Paluding day on the C.P.OS. freighter sales represent a clearing out of yard of the Dock Company.
Mattawa. There were 6,000 tons old stocks. Dyed goods bare also: barn dealt in extensively on more
lighters in the bay. Trial Trip of Kwangchow. | Labour Delegates on Kitano advices.frm Manchester indicate Kwangchow-proved to be highly or less satisfactory terms. Recent
A local product-the steamer
Maru. that prices are hardening
Japanes~Governmsat-isbour Cotton yarn. The lower counts trial trip which was 'run yester
satisfactory on her preliminary delegates to the third Internation- al Labour Convention which will held at Genevs shortly again one of these days and plant not wanting bard-headed men ment in Cotton and a very moder-out berth about 10 o'clock and some trees in Waterloo Road, but who said, "Pooh idealistic. ate business resulted. Latterly returned at 5 p.m. after having ano Maru of the N.Y.K. Heading on the European Line steamer Kit- no one need lose any sleep if it's all in the air-all in the air." dealers are holding off for the time ran the measured mile as laid the delegation is Mr. K. Inuzuka, delays the matter for a time. The To be sure it was in the air at that being Quotations are:-No. 10s. down by the Admiralty on the trees in Coronation Road are still time. That was why one took $135/196. No. 123. $170/203. No other side of the island. A speed the League of Nations and two director of the Labour Bureau of young and they have not yet it seriously. A scheme is mos: 16s $200 225. No. 208. $215/249 of jst over 12.5 knots was the professors of the Imperial Univer bad so much of a start that if important when it is in the air
Arrivals 1,500 bales. others were planted in Waterloo It can be easily moulded then. 3,000 bales. Shipments nil.
maximum trashed and steam was sity. besides the director of the Road next week there would be It can be shaped and reshaped
easily maintained. The turb nes Department of Commerce and angthing between them in size and the alterations discussed gains 10,000 bales.
Unsold Stock 1,000 bales. Bar and gearing ran smoothly and no ten years heare. Larger views before the final shape is decided
htch marred the trial perform Woollens-Small lots of Sergeance. Mr. J. Reid, manager of the must be taken than, to complain upon. When it comes down to have been released but otherwis-dockyard, and Mr. R. & Greiz. ground and assumes a concrethe market remains unchanged. chief engineer, watched the form part of its importance is gon- Raw ottons-Values are fitm vessel do her trial spin and they because its pliability is gone. and show some appreciation. Anglow, here is the garden city. Nominal
xpressed themselves as
well quotations not, to be sare, quite in the form follow-Indian grades at $26:31
Asatisfied with the Kwangchow. originally proposed, but nice. per pical. Chinese grades have been drawn and the fire
osi was the fuel used. Fires $29/38 per picul City across the Peninsula That which the railway company is is a splendid bit of work. Whole sitting up and beginning to take certain amount of enquiry, and hills have been removed-and not notice. And all round are little small business has been booked by faith. which
hills which with their tops shaved in Swel Bars at $5 40 to $569, day n xt week. mountains, (but not in Kowloon.) off would be finely suitable for Tinplates at $10.30 to $10.50. "FATTY" ARBUCKLE.
Probably the unbelief of the
'desirable residences." as the Reports from London indicate the vessel are all of local man The bull, baier and fittings on KR.A (or whatever it is) advertisements put it. And why strengthening After the grand jury's indictment of Fatty Arbuckle on a charge faith. Anyhow, bere has been hillsides which lie nicely open to work and requiring protracted double reduction geared type were militates against the working of got grow fruit on the sheltered continental works filling up with The Brown-Curtis turbines of the tendency, with ufacture and were made at Taikoo. of manslaughter the judge fixed tail at $5,000 cash, but the district fine scheming followed by solid, the sun? There is nothing deliveries. Wire Nails and Gal- attorney declared that bail was impossible until the charge of murder hard work, and the incomplete Utopian in the idea. One can vanised Wire bare again supplied by Messrs. Scott of was settled. It is noteworthy that the charges mentioned yesterday result promises better than well readily conceive of this part of the vanced in prices. Several bun- relate to the single case of Miss Rappe.
If the rate of improvement is Peninsula as the most attractive dred toas, of Steel Plate Cattings
C.P.O.S. Changes Name. maintained Kowloon ten years part of the whole Colony in have been booked at $3.99 to That a change has been made in bence will be a place worth visit- appearance, provided that it is $4.00, and Bar Croppings have the name of the Canadian Pacio ing, especially if that popular properly laid out and is not allow been placed at from $4.10 in 14.30. Ocean Services, Ltd., was announ- government comes into power. ed to develop in a haphazard and Locally prices are inclined to sag ced in Hongkong this morning government? The opposite of an the Diocesan School is to be plates are down to $11.50 against of the company here. By the way, what is a popular stratic fashion. One hears that nearer to replacing costs Tin by Mr. P. A. Cox, manager unpopular government? Well re-erected on top of one hilt of an $12.50 and $13.00 of a few weeks new title of the company is Cans theo, if an unpopular government extent of 17 acres.
That is ago.
dian Pacific Steamships, Ltd., and can mo78 mountains and good. One hears also that in this Flour market report.-Stock: it will go on all publicity and reclaim
from very quarter which shouts its About 1 0,000 saaks. Quotations: stationery of the company at great patches the 69% (vide Yaumati) desirability for building purposes American Patent 64 5 per sack, pace, the change having become what could not #
popular the Government has set aside a American Cut off $3.30 per sack, effective on September 8. government do? On the hillside as a Chinese cemetery. American Straight $3.25 per sack,
No explanation whole, do
know-bar Godelpusaill you
Why
could be Shanghai Flour $3.30 per sack.
offerred by Mr. Cox as to why the who am I, newly-returned, to slaughter-house and a mortuary approach local politics?
while it is about the business?
company should make the change as all matters concerning it have humorists is that they will not By the way, an old friend The worst of these dry officia!
been transacted by cable. "There is a very good reason undoubted- complete their jokes.
ly," said Mr. Coz, "int until the
UNIQUE LIBEL SUIT.
London, Sept. 16.
about a few trees.
On the whole the work done on the other side of the harbour ba surprised me. In places the whole face of the landscape has been
According to a New York message a unique tibel suit will shortly changed. I had a look at that be heard in Chicago where the municipality is suing the Chicago 100-feet wide road from Kowloopen little suburb all the same of Tribune for £2.500.000 (2); also, the Chicago Daily Nere similarly for criticising the mayor's administrative financial policy which had gravely impaired the city's credit. The unrepentant papers have published a vigorous reply.
San Francisen, Sept. 16.
DUTCH ORDER FOR ADMIRAL HODGES.
The Hague, Sept. 16. Queen Wilhelmina has conferred upon Rear-Admiral Hodges the Grand Cordon Order of Orange and Nassau; also, lower grades on four other British naval men recently in Holland.
SOUTH WALES COAL FOR THE EAST.
London, Sept. 16.
An improved demand is apparent for South Wales coal for the East, tonnage being chartered at the Baltic Exchange to carry coals from South Wales to Sourabaya at eighteen shillings a ton.
OBITUARY.
London, Sept. 16.
Can rumove
The death is announced of Sir John Bramston, Attorney General resident in Kowloon gravely tells me that it does not really walk
in Hongkong from 1874-1876.
INDIAN AGITATORS ARRESTED.
Simla, Sept. 16.
It is understood that a number of prominent agitators have been
not
on its heels. "There are" (I Just the same the Government
are
Metals. There has been
BEITISH REPRESENTATIVE AT VATICAN.
she is fiued and a second trial oxes will be changed to oil burning apparatus, with which will be made with oil-fuel one
Greenoc
The
A petition from 27,773 persons mail comes to hand I know no quote him) "four or five people is not standing idly like the in Lancashire praying for the more than has been announced% who do swank, but the rest of us Scots army at the Battle of withdrawal of the British repreThe distin, dive na ue of Oh me have met all five, then, and I'am to have its moments of softwify, ward Pack in golem 1"1 are quite humble folk. I must Flodden) all of the time. It seems wentative at the Varican ham ben
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The vessel carries 145 paaseng- 4,000 tons is on board from Japan. ere all told and a cargo of nearly
New Blue Funnel Tug For Shanghai, To-day the new towboat Ap- hrodits. I will leave Hongkong for stationed in connection with Shanghai where the will
manded by Capt. T. Johnatane, harbone operations of the Blac Funnel Line. The vessel is com-
a mate of the bina Navig stion Company. A crew _ of here several days ago to man the 12 Chinese szilors arrived.
horse-power of 300, She was built feet long and has an indicated small craft. The Aphrodite is 80
with the Hermes, a sister ship, ΠΟΥ in commission in the harbour,
News in To-day's New Advertisements.
Pesting letter this week-Page 3.
Lazarus reproduces an inter-
The first Podolsky Concert takes place to-night at the Theatre Royal-Page 4.
The C.P.O.S. Ltd haye changed their name to Canadian Pacífic Steamships Limited.-Page 420
The Hongkong Theatre is rm- ning Moral Suicide" and a Harold Lloyd called." We Never Sleep"-Pago 12
To-Day's Exchang The olemmer rate of the AGüne
demons