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THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 1912

THE

BY TELEGRAPH.

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“TITANIC” WRECK.

LATEST NEWS OF THE DISASTER.

(Reuter's Service to the Chias F)

Loros, April 17.

The Mayor of Southamption appeals for the opening of a Mansion House Fund on behall of the dependents of the crest of the Titanic, who were most ly residents of Southampton.

PRECAUTIONS.

The principal-Trans-Atlantic-Steem ship Companies are changing the track of their vessels to a more southerly course on account of the icefields.

NEWS OF THE CARPATHIA |

Reater New York.corempandent states that the Carpathia, which has the survivors on board, sent w wireless message at 11 pm. on Tuesday stating that she was 600 miles from New York,

MANSION HOUSE FUND. The Lord Mayor of London ba opened Mansion House Fand on be half of the dependents of the member of the crew who parabed in the disaster.

THE "SURVIVORS.

BY TELEGRAPH

[CONTRIOED.]

TIBETAN TROUBLE.

SEVERE FIGHTING AT LEASSI

THE CH

Yesterday there was

"the"

NA MAIL.

which commenced at about (11) the morning, began through a Chinese cost- we gher quarrelling with a Japanese tally clark, and the dispute soon dareloped into « free fight balwoen Chinese and Japanalo durin ; which knives and walshovels were

Pure

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(Reuter's Service to the China Mail)rely odd result in Chinese and and a practical knowledge

Lowboy, April 18.

A message from Simla states that

one Japanese were so severely huit that they had to be taken to hospital.

of their properties, are the This morning there was a sequel to the h

while three Chinese wera cross-summotied

business of the

MODERN & UP-TO-DATE

it has been reliably reported there affair at the agissey, when twa, Japan two chief essentials in the that in the fighting at Lbassa these fase of whom had his hand in banidadian) Chinese were worsted and took re-were charged with cutting and wounding, fuge in a monastery in the vicinity.

Unconfirmed reports through the by the Japanese, for assault, six others Dalai Lama's camp at Kalimpong being unable to appear owing to being state that the trouble began at ennfined to hospital. The cases wera in Conferencs called by the now Chicharge of Inspector Kert, of the Water nese Council at which the Tibetan Police, while Ale E. Davidson represented Oracle was so outspoken that the the Japanese. Chinese ordered his execution. The Oracle then fled to Ser Monastery three miles from Thassa and the Chinese pursued him and bombarded the monastery.

Inspector Kerr oked us a rema stating that one of the man would not be out of hospital Before the 35th inst, kann

Me Davidson applied for bail in the cake of the Japanese, and this was granted in A general Tibetan rising fallowed, some of $100 each, wh le bail for the A carefully.compiled list of the and in the street fighting many Chi-Chinese was fixed'in $25.esch. survivors shows that the names of, 79nese were killed and burat alive.. await-men, 253 women and 13 children are

AN ANXIOUS TIME. Friends of passengers remained throughout the night at the White Star offices in London and New York ting news from the Carpathia,"

AN AWFUL PROBABILITY.

The Captain of the Parisian reports ~that if any escaped from the Titanic on pieces of wreckage as she settled dow

knowa, while of the remaining 540.it

in estimated that about one hundred are LOANS FOR CHINA. members of the crew.

JOURNALISTIC IMAGINATION.

In the absence of authentic news, the

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·THE POSITION EXPLAINED.

A GRAVE TENDENCY Ör THE DAY.

An interesting article on the grave t dency of the present day appears in the Daily Graphic from Mr Harold Owen. He writes :--

When the nineteenth century was closing everything that roomed abnormal

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they must have perished from exposure New York Herald and other papers in Reuter's Service to the China Mail.) | excused, if not explained, by the comment:|

before the arrival of reaching steamers,

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The editorials in the newspapers generally speculate as to whether the disaster will impress shipbuilders with

New York published sensational des- criptions of the wreck sesass, which, however, proved to be pure invention.

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"Oh it is fin du siècle!" But how we are LONDON, April 19.

vot at the end of a contury, and so another coined "It is the spirit of the Reuter learns that it is unlikely hell, wheat is the mpisit the WE WANT and it care and

Ago. that there will be any opposition to If we are to judge by the most general

attention will ensure it. the Russo-Japanese conditions re-indication of tendencies, the spirit of the Router's correspondent at New York sarding the Four Nations, Loan to is the defiance of authority. Every will have Your Confidence.

Law And order FATE China. Negotiations between the body is in revnit..

contempt. Danorum is derided. Mauners the conviction that the limit of aize has reports that a wireless message received earious interests are now proceeding, aro dord. Salt-contol is despised. both reached. They point out the need from the Olympic states that the sole but until the Anglo-Belgian loon for revising the Board of Trade regula-survivors are those on board the Car- question is settled there will be no tions regarding the number of bosta pathin. The second, third, fourth and further advances on account of the fifth officers and second Marconi operator projected big loan which is to be ships are required to carry, suggesting

mad:. -that despite the White Star Company's are the only officers saved.

Basurances to the contrary, the Titanic's Some inter- boats were,, insufficient. national agreement regarding wireless telegraphy is also urged to prevent the dissemination of medacious messages

like those of Monday,

LEGISLATIVE ACTION.

member of the House of Mr. Mött. Representatives at Washington, has submitted a resolution providing for a -searching inquiry into the wreck of the

Titanic.

Mr. Hardwick has introduced a resolution requiring life-saving ap paratas to be kept on all vessels enter- fog American ports,'

President Taft and several members of the Cabinet have conferred with representatives of the Marconi Com- pany regarding regulations concerning wireless telegraphy. It is understood that President Taft will urga Congress

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HOME RULE,

I

*SUBSTANTIAL MAJORITY

FOR BILL.

(Beuter's Service to the China Mail):

LONDON, April 17.

The Home Rule Bill has passed its first reading in the House of Commons, the voting being :---

For....... Against....

364 .266.

Government Majority.........9 Sir Clifford Cory, M. P. for St. Ives, was the only Liberal who voted against Home Rule.

Hon T. Agar Robartes, Liberal M. P. for St. Austell, abstained from voting.

THE BILL.

o legislate with a view to proventing The Home Kale Bill has been. interference by amateur issued. The term of office for Senators further -operators.

is given as eight years, and the duration of the (Irish) House of Commons as five years. The Parliament is to be sum mcned on the first Tuesday in Sept. 1913, whereupon the the Irish members at Westminster will vacate their seats.

A¶CERTAINING THE SAVED.

Two cruisers fitted with wireless installations of the highest power have been ordered to meet the Carpathia and

re-transmit the names of the survivors to the Government.

ROYAL SYMPATHY.

Their Majesties the King and Queen have telegraphed to the White Star Company saying that they are horrified at the appalling disaster and deeply -sympathise with the relatives of those. who have perished. "We feel for them in their great sorrow with all our thearts"

Queen Alexandra, R. M. the Kaiser and Prince Henry of Prussia have also telegraphed messages of sympathy.

~TO RECOVER THE PERISHED

LATER. Reuter's correspondent at New York wires that the White Star Company is Alting out the steamer Mackay Bennetta an order that she may search in the zon

of the Titanic disssier for bodies of -chose who have perished. The vesse

Will "take" tons of ice and scores

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PRACTICAL SYMPATHY.

Subscriptions to relief funds are pouring in rapidly. Speyers bave given

thon and guiness, the Rothschilde five hundred guiness sad the Shipping Federation two thousand.

The Alexandra Orphanage offers to nake 29 orpheon of the crew.

MEMORIAL SERVICE

LONDON, April 18 memorial servico "be held in Paul Cathedral on Beldas

MONARCH TOMON

IF

SOLAR ECLIPSE.

(Reuter's Service to the China Mail.)

Loxson, April 17..

Let us take a glance through the columns of a single nespaper of single day. Civil War Conditures Possiblethni startling lieadline refers to the coal-atrike thatcoms over us, and for once the heading is not in advance of the

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DRUGGISTS.

Though £60,000,000 is mentioned Mr Ksir Evie's Atack on the CHEMYSTS & as the eventual amount of the loan, brutal vulgarity, an unintelligent dis the figure is not yet fired. It will for inscientious Sovereign, depend on China's requirements and Next, a few comments from a financial position, while the questionsgistrate, inspired by the behaviour of

yowing women

political of official control of the application outs on other w men:-"This is only offenders" this time) committing violent of the proceeds is also unsettled.

THE TURF:

(Reuter's Service to the China Muil)

LONDOS, April 18.

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another illustration of what is happening 81, Queen's Road Central. day after day, where young women show a complete absence of anything like sulf- control, R complete contempt for law sad order. The whole nature of the ser seems

to be altered."

Next, just to connect these phenomens directly and plainly with the spirit of anarchy itself, we have a strange English sect whose creed is to obey no law of the While training for the City and lood-** spiritual brotherhood" which Suburban Handicap, Sir Martin was

does not recognise the law, and whose members decline to give evidencerat a police pulled up lame after a gallop at New-court. I decline to help you in your market yesterday morning... dirty work ays one of the brotherhood,

the mag have not

strate promptly gives him seren: dara?

HUNGARIAN POLITI

CAL CRISIS.

(Reuter's Service to the China Mail.)

LONDON, April 18.

The Hungarian Cabinet has again resigned, this being apparently owing

Work hard to

help you eith your dirgly varying other spiritual brother,

and

tha

formula, and he gets seven days; he leaves the court gives this spiritual admonition to the magistrate. (though. it There are two ways open to you, either seems poor satisfaction for seven days): to repeat or hang yourself!"

TOWARDS A "MASH-UP.”

I turn the page to try to come serves

something a little more ressouring, and find to the renewed hostility of the Parthe principal of a well known school calmly fiumentary parties to the Austro- contemplating, if not actually predicting, Hungarian Minister for War (whom the smash-up of civilisation

Well, the refusal of the Emperor to remove they accuse of anti-Magyarism) and

they were

him.

BRITISH COLONIAL.

PROBLEMS.

The solar eclipse was witaeased under (Reuter's Service to the China Mail) superb conditions in Great Britain and on the Continent

IMPENDING BYE- ELECTION.

London, April 18. "During question time in the House of Commons, Mr. MacCullum Scott asked Mr. Harcourt to use his in fluence to mitigate the laws affecting Indians in South Africa. "

Mr. Fiszcourt replied that he was (Reuter's Service to the China Mail) in frequent correspondence with the Losvos, April 17-· Union Government on Lidiane mat-

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But tition and obedience by aathority.

hat accounted for the events of last August, and how it that even in England, the land of "settled garantar the land to which the refugees from and revolution in other lands have alwayi" (at fled, the had in which foreign potentates invent their money in prafbrence to their own insecure home securities-how WAI it that even wo in England became fami- liarised, in a week, with the whole ides of: revolution

THE BUFFRAGETTE" ROWMES,

I cannot my, or eren conjecture, but. perhaps something must be put down to the fact that for six years certain members of an anenfranchised hex have been openly proclaiming their defiance of law order

Mr H. Webb. Liberal M.P. far Foresters, and be hoped that the Immigra and Government; and to the fact that

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CHINESE AFFAIRS.

OBJECTION TO FOREIGN DEHANDS.

(Wah Tax Yot Fo's Service)..

Sandral, April 17.-

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The foreign Consubs in Shanghai Line for 1911 shows that the net prooted demand the payment of a sum of $8,600,000 borrowed by Tal Wai-on wang when he was Taoter of Bhart hst, and state that this amouif must boen

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