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WEDNESDAY MAY 1, 1912.

THE CHINA MAIL.

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THE "TITANIC" CALAMITY.

SAD SCENES AT HALIFAX.

Bodies Piled On Deck.

Bells Telling: Flags Hall-Mast.

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Losbox, May 1,

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FORTHCOMING CRICKET TEST MATCHES,

SELECTING THE TEAMS,

(Renter's Service Toshe China Mail.)

LONDON, May 1.

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LIBERAL RETURNED

UNOPPOSED.

(Reuter's Service to the China Mail.)

Lotos, May 15

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HOME RACING NEWS.

THE LATEST BETTING,

(Beuter's Service to the China Mail.)

Losses, April 80. In connection with the forthcom

Drugs

and a practical knowledge Mr H. Webb, Liberal MP: for Foresting Two Thousand Guineas race of their properties, are, the The Board of Control have ap- of Dean, has been returned unopposed. evens are being laid on White Star; pointed Messrs. Fry. Foster and Note.The bye-election was necessitate 9 to 2 on Sweeper 11. and Hall two chief essentials in the Shuter to select the English teams ined oring to Me Webb's sppaistment of Cross: 7 to 1 on Jingling Geordie; connection with the forthcoming test Lord Commissioner of the Trossary in 9 to 1 on Cyigad.

place of Sir A. A. Haworth. On the death matches. Mr. Fry has been elected of Sir Charles Dike, a bye-election took

The probable starters in this race captain.

place in the Forest of Dean division on February 25th last year, the result being Webb (L.) 6,174; Kyd (U) 5,106: Libers tanjurity, 3,008,-EB. Q.M...

120 THE HOME RULE BILL.

A telegrams from Beuter's corre apondant at Halifax. Canada, states ' that on the arrival of the 8.8.plackay. Bennett the church bells were tolled and flags lowered half-mast. bodies, for which there were no cof- Ans, weze piled on deck forward; 70 bodies, including Astor, the million- aire, were in rude boxen aft, while 110 bodies were buried at sen owing to lack of accommodation and of their state of decomposition. It took four hours to sruusfer the bodies to the « Morgur.

MR. CHURCHILL'S OPINION.

(Reuter's Service to the Ching Mail.)-|

LONDON, May 1.

Mr. Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty, in moving the second reading of the Home Bule Bill for Ireland, said that Home Rule had never been a separatist movement, was moderate and reasonable. Never before had so btle been asked, but never before had ad many asked if autonomy. it was not eveu a demand for Colonial

"MR. MARCONI AND THE SELLING and that the present "demand "

DF NEWS.

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Losnos, April 30,

Mr. Marconi on being recalled. says Renter's Washington correspon- dent, was asked by the Chairman to discourage the practice of wireless operators selling news." He concur red and added that he attributed the Carpathia's silence to the response to the official enquiries to the fact that the operator was busy communicat ing with the relatives of survivors. The Chairman asked if it would be possible to ascertain what messages were sent by Mr. Ismay and others trom the Carpathia, whereupon Mr. Franklin said that Mr. Ismay and the White Star Company would gladly permit them to cable to the wireless companies to communicate the messages sent in connection

therewith.

SAN OPERATOR'S REPUDIATION.

Mr. Sammis, Marconi's chief engi- neer, repudiated the assertion that be was the means of suppressing the news from the Carpathis, though he arranged the sale of the opemtors' personal stories in order to brace them up. The operators each got 750 dollars from newspapers. None of the officials of the company got Anything

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LONDON, April 30.

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283 HOPELESSLY ENTÖMDED. (Reuter's Service to one China Mail.)

LONDON, April 30.

Mr. Lloyd George, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, intimated in the House of Commons, yesterday even- ing that part of the surplus might beater's Tokio correspondent wires necessary to meet losses due to the that the Ubari coal mines have been coal strike. It was proposed meet the expenditure of £600,000 for the wrecked by an explosion and that 283 Navy from the previous year, the people are hopelessly entombed. Government having decided upon this step owing to the uncertainty for the Navy. Mr. Churchill (First that prevailed of possible liabilities

Lord of the Admiralty) had made it

clear that if Foreign Natal Pro- grammes were altered, the House of Commons would ask for further

The Vienna correspondent of Re ter's Agency states that M. Berchold, the Premier, has just addressed a pacific speech in the Hungarian Delegation, in which he emphasised the unchanged character, of the Triple Alliance. It would be, he powers. said, the Austro-Hungarian Govern-

ment's sincere endeavour to cultivate

the Government even now did not know what the position was, nor what their Naval liabilities might be.

Mr. Lloyd George affirmed that

Anyhow," he added, whatever it

able.

THE "TEXAS" LOSS.

(Reuter's Service to the China Mail)

LONDON, April 30. Reater's Constantinople correspondent states that the estimated loss to the "Texas" vary, but it appears that the explosion injured many,

THE DEATH ROLL.

LATEN.

Reuter'a Smyrna correspondent wires that the "Texas" struck a submarine

good relations with Great Britain now that the misunderstanding which had momentarily arisen over the annexation of Bosnia, had passed is we shall have to face it." The mine at the entrance of the Gulf of away. With reference to the appre subject would be raised in the Corn-Smyrna and sank. 140 people were hension regarding the Dardanelles,mittee stage of the Budget, when drowned. he pointed out that Italy had given further information might be avail- asstirances at the beginning of the war in which she stated that she in- tended to maintain the status quo in the Balkans: and he (M. Ber. chold) had every reason to believe. that Italy would not depart from these assurances. Meanwhile, his THE MOTOR BANDITS. writes Mr G. K Chesterton in Government had intimated to the

After Mr. Lloyd George's state- ment, the Government's majority dropped to. 47.

!

MR CHESTERTON AND GOOD MEN.

There are many people guing about to- day anaverating that morality should always be positive, and seldom, if ever,

the Eye Winess.

How it can be either without being. both is beyond my narrow medieval mind;

Porte that they hoped the Durdar MORE EXCITEMENT IN PARIS. but it is in practice rather than theory that elles would be re-opened as soon as the imminent danger was over.

ANGLO-GERMAN RELATIONS.

STATEMENT BY MR. ASQUITH.

Loxpos, May 1. Reuters Washington corespon (Peuter's Service to the 'China Mail.) dent telegraphis that Mrs. Louise-

London, May 1. Robbirs in suing the White Stur The Prime Minister, at question time Company, Ltd., in the Admiralty Court for the loss of her husband, in the House of Commons, said that Who was impened in the Title Anglo-German relations were on such a footing as to enable frank and friendly Mr. Ismay and the surviving off-discussion on matters of mutual interest. cers have been summoned to testify. Herr Kiderlen-Waechter, the German Minister for Foreign Afairs, in the TAFT AND ROOSEVELT.

ATTACKING AND DEFENDING.

Another Seige...

(Reuter's Service to the China Mail.)

LONDON, April 30.

Intense excitement prevalle in Paris in consequence of the fact that two men named Garnier and Vallet, accomplices of the bandit Bonsott, who was shot on Sunday by the police, have been traced to a suburb of Paris, where they are

now surrounded.

The accomplices are stated to have regular arsenal" beside them, and sro prepared to resist to the death.

the notion is generally prised. It is specially urged in connection with adues. tion; and we are told to offer a child the affirmative ideal and pever the negative commandment commonly attached to it.

THE NEGATIVE COMMANDMENT. "Thus we must not forbid little Arthur to pull his uncle's ncea. We should rather expatiate upon the beauty of the nose in flower; and our eulogy should leave to, be its unpalled state, poised like an unplucked inferred the improbability of the nose, moulded into a fairer thing. We must the most skilful hands, being refrain from telling Oswald in a mang words that he is not to stay in the dining- room.

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We must rather exclaim, in a "eort of abstracted raptare: How maguidoent, box magotic, is the wall-paper in the hack bedroom; how la possible it must bo for young and ardent spirita to resist | rushing upstairs this minute to look at it! The truth, in that this praise of the against the negative is not only an of justice, but it would be a very

course of a debate on Defence Bille, PORTE AND THE

DARte curtailing of liberty. Intend- [

which were mainly of a confidential nature, alluded to Germany's negotio tous with Great Britain, which were continuing,

GERMANY AND INDIAN

LABOUR.

QUESTIONS IN PARLIAMENT. Reuter's Service to the China Mail.)

Lognos, April 30,

DANELLES.

A CRITICAL SITUATION.

(Renter's Service to the China Mail.)

LONDON, April 30,

A wire fram Constantinople states that the Foreign Minister has informed the Ambassadors that the Porte regiotted that it was unable to comply with the request to re-open the Dardandles, in

ing to be much bronder than the old vetoes, it would be, in, strict practice, much narrower.

For the disadvantage of offering a ideal instead of a command is that com- pelled to choose be ideal and exclude everything else. Whereas, in the case of the command, we do, in the very net of the command, permit everything else.

declaration of liberty. Anyhow, it is boundless prairie of emancipation compared The negative commandment is

use attractive alternative; for that Lies. with the other theory of always offering down every man at the very moment when he niet goeds to be decisive and personal.

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LONDON, April 30. Beutels New York correspondent states that, the greatest interest is being taken in today's primary elec. tions in Massachusetts, where Pre- sident Taft and Col. Roosevelt are following each other, attacking and defending with an asperity unequal led in presidential polities. Up till The Hon. E, S. Montagne. Under view of the possibility of farther attack it may be arbitrary and invidious to put COAT CUT SHIRTS now of 672 delegates' elected by the Secretary of State for India, replying to by the Italiana, unless the Purem guar-your foot down; but it is a vast deal more Republican Convention 415 are for questions in the Bond of Commons, an anteed the security of the Straits. The The new principle of positive morality in President Taft, and 207 for Cal nounced that Germany had not yet made position is regarded as serious by diplomerá ozaggeration of negative. It is Roosevelt Massachusetts' chooses 80, but the issue is interesting, as it

any proposals regarding the importation matists. is expected that the State will vote solidly for one or the other."

-MORE TROUBLE IN CRETE

BRITISH CRUISER IN "ACTION"

(Reuter's Syrvice to the

of Indian labourers to Damaraland, and uniqsa auch a requent was received it? would be premature, to discuss details, Speaking generally, the Earl of Crewe, Secretary of State for India, would be indisposed to encourage any new scheme

CHINESE AFFIR

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PEKING, April 80,

of indentured emigration from India to The Canton Machine Gun Divi,

uncomfortable to keep your but in the air.

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Thou shalt pot command."

There is in our time a rai frood towards making idealis narrow by making it what is called positive, which means as far as I can make out, thinking only about agreeable things. It means that is, thinking only of the moral type that seems to as successful, and satisfying, and never about the types that would horrify as with us thinks of the type he thinks atcerantul their folly or failure. But #hen each of it becomes a very narrow type, sud the

places outside the British Empire sion, which has been stationed at Ladentured labour to Damaraland was Hanki, g, has started homeward. type of modern idealism is a verY DAITOW unlawful and could not be lawful unless

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tion is a dingy, gootlemanly business. # China Mail.).

was satisfied, and the Government ofing that a Commissioner be sent to GREY ONE GOON MANCIPE LONDON, April 30.

Tibet to suppress riots which are In the old roussaces it was the villain At Carca the British craiser Minerva visions as might be thought necessary The Consultative Department at the same. His black moustache, eyeglass invite attention to the NEW

the country made such laws and pro- taking place there

that was monotonous In the old mela dramas it was the villain who always looked fired a blank charge to arrest the pass and sufficient for the protection of Pezing has wired to the various and cigarette, were a sort of uniforma of age of a steamer in which the. Creten emigrants. At any mte, no steps would Provisional loseraments to send the internal service. But the good man deputies, who were irregularly elected to be taken without the Anglo-German newly elected members to Peking were of all conceivable shapes and colour

MODEL GRAND-and the fireek Chamber, were proceeding to Convention making full provision for without delay. Athens. The deputies were transhipped the emigrants welfare,

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