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MAIL NOTICE

FOR

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EY MONEY JITTERs-Tha Pest Ofice conigining bank notes or jewellery, and where NQUIRIES into alleged bikes of Kucha Postal

Mails for Aros, WucHow and end at 6 pm until further noties. Sued

A hail for Mao despatched per the mail for acne, is closed at 3 HÀ,

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS MONDAY, NOVEMBER 2718, 1011.

TELEGRAMS. TELEGRAMS. TELEGRAMS. TELEGRAMS.

LIVERPOOL.

«HARBOWING SCENEI,

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Tuesday,

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OIL MILL EXPLOSION AT

THE

MEDITERRANEAN

WAR.

Changisho...

28th 2.00

DARDANELLES TO

Japan

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Tuesday 28th Noon Tuesday, 28th...... 3,00 m Tuo

28th, 3.00 PM Wednesday, 29th, 10,00 a pr Thursday, 30tU, 11.00 AM Thursay, 30th, 3.00 r M DECEMBER Friday Deo: 1st

Printed Butter and Sam-

LONDON, Nov. 24. Ten people were killed and 50 injured result of an explosion in a'ni oil mill at Liverpool.

Eye-witnesses tell of heart-rending 10.00 A Marones. The workers rushed out with hair burned off, and many were nerecog nisable and several bad arms and other limbs broken.

Registration... 10.00 A M.

With late fee, to 10.15 Kowloon 1.0. 10.00 AM Saturday, 16th,

Printed Mintter and Sam ples ... 10.00 A M Registration... 9.15 A

(Registration, with late fon of 10 coula, up to 11.00 A31.) Igistration, Kowloon

933.A at

NOON.

B.O. 1. No late foo. Li Ictios. dealines ali zarpen chility for an registered letter Registration has been neglected WILL MAKE NO nits 121.

Kaygani will be closed on 'wank-days at 9.00 am Ou

s.s. Shi, Ay con wood-days at 7.15 am.

Mail: for NANYAC and SABUR ar sad aver - wakulay at 5 porn Maile for

*Koxamaox, and *Konehus ar jebooed on workofags at te pon. Curdays the mails are closed at mm.

A mail for Long Island (heung Chpw) will by despre par sa len

chow daily at 1.30 p.in.

No nails are despetched to these places on Saturday ovaiore qu'a s previously notifi

PETER'S

THE ORIGINAL

He: She:

aple

MILK-

CHOCOLATE

Have you ever seen anyone milk cows?

No, but I've seen Peter's Milk Chocolate."

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THE RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT

ORDERED

Brains of Steel

A noise like the firing of cannou shook the vicinity and almost instantly, despite furious outbursts of flames, there were host of volunteers on the scene cager to 1 end a hand in the work of rescu These were followed by doctors" and urses, and soon the Northern Hospital was crowded with patients. Vehicles hurried to the spot to convey the victims to Bospital."

LONDON, NOV. 26.

At the time of the explosion thers were 400 workers in the building. Everybody was hurled to the ground, and the floor seemed split with fames which shot through the roof, which was

blown off.

Showers of stones, bricks and other debris, mixed with human remains, des cended in the neighbourhood, and then the walls collapsed.

rescues were

Some most gallant effected the bodies taken out being 33 killed and 75 injured.

·BLOCKADED..

LONDON, May 25 Reuter's correspondent as Constati- tinople wires that a meeting of the Council of Ministers and conferences

between the various. Ambassadors have given the impression that Italian naval action is to be no longer delayed, and that the objective will be a blockade of the Dardanolles or even forcing the Dardanelles with a view to dictating peres to Constantinople....

The Russian Government has pointel out, and also presumably informed Italy, that e blockade of the Dardanelles would be contrary to the London Convention of 1871.

In the House of Commons Mr Aclaus, Under Secrefury for Foreign Affairs, announced that the Government has no information of a blockade of the Dard- apelles..

LONDON, Nov. 25. The jewellery belonging to Allul Hamid is to be auctioned in Paris nost week when the proceeds will be devoted to the buying of warships and munitions of war.

HOME POLITICS.

LONDON, Nov. 251

THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

LEGATION GUARDS TO BE REINFORCUZD.

LONDON, Nov. 26th

Peking telegrams state that the Foreign Ministers have decided that it is advisable to reinforme the Legation Guards... ATTACK ON NANKING IMMINENT

“["DAILY PERSS" EXCLUSIVE SERVICE]

JAPAN ON THE VERGE OF

BANKRUPTCY."

TOKYO, November 26th. The Cabinet conferences on the Budget are concluded, and the results are described as-a-triumph-for-Baron Yamamoto, the Minister för the Navy in favour of retrenchment.

The Minister addressed his collen-

LONDON, Nov. 26th, Renter's correspondeat at Chistiang teteves in the frankest, manner on the graphed on Saturday that the rebel attack perilous condition of the finances and on Nanking is immineat. 7.

asserted that the mution was on the

"A number of women have obtained per- brink of bankruptcy. mission to fight for the Revolutionaries.

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FAMINE IN RUSSIA.

PEOPLE ASKING FOR LAST "COMMUNION.

LONDON, November 24th.

St. Petersburg telegrama state that the horrors of the famine of 1891 gire recurring

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The Council agreed to defer the naval programe for two years, io abandon the proposed Exhibition in 105, the Conversion of the railways.

to the road guage and the harbour

at Orenburg, iu tho Turzai province. The improvement schemes, and economise town, asking for the luinistration of the famine stricken people are flocking into the to the utmost.

Baron Yamamoto's speech has creat- last communion.

this

year.

edi

a profound impression in the country. and there is considerable speculation as to its effects on business.

The crope at Orenburg aro 36 per cent below the

averago

The Bishop of Cheliabinsk is proceeding to the assistance of the starving people. that the medical and charitable societies Minister whose outspokenness is a Au extraordinary feature of the famine is The Pres pays tributes to the have been prohibited from adding the striken novel and significant sign of the times, people.

JAPANESE DESTROYER SUNK.

COLLIERY EXPLOSION IN STAFFORDSHIRE.

LONDON, November 26th.

TOKYO, November 24th.. The destroyer "Harusame" struck .

An explosion has occurred at the Jama reef and sunk at the entrance to

Matoya in Miye Vrefecture.

Altogether 71 Liberals voted for Mrmage Cullity in Staffordshire. Six persons › LATER. Ramsay Macdonald's motion in the House were killed and five injured. Liverpool telegrams report that 26 of Commons on the 23rd inst. regretting dead bodies have been recovered. More the refusal of the Railway Directors, to bodies are being removed from the meet the men and calling on the GoverH collars. Most of them cannot be idenment to arrange a conference. tified. The injured number 115“

THE SUGAR TRADE.

LONDON, Nov. 24. The West India Committee has pass- ed a resolution protesting against the withdrawal of Britain from the Sagar Convention on the ground that it would check the investment of capital in sugar ventures in the Colonies.

SLEEPING SICKNESS.

LONDON, NOV, 24,

--The Unionists construe this and the abstention of the Nationalists from voting. as evidence of Ministerial dissensions.

THE HITOHIN HYR-ELECTION,

LATER.

MR. LLOYD GEORGE AT BACH, PRONOUNCEMENT ON WOMEN'S BUFTRAGE AND THE INSURANCE TILL

LONDON, November 25th.

Twenty of the crow vore saved, but the number lost is not known.

LATER.

The Harusame คา

is submerged Mr. Lloyd-Georgy, speaking at Bath, e-The crow-mbered 70, of whom only with the exception of the funnels. forrend du ile frequent suffragette interrup-]

tion, and said that the vast injority of wo 15 ruched the shore," inen deplored the exhibition of tempor

The result of the bye-election has which was more anti-liberal then pro bean declared as follows :----

Lord Robert Cecil (E)- Mr T. T. Greg. (L.)

-5,542 2,909

2,033

Tinionist majority... [Noto. The bye-election was caused by the death of the late meraber, Dr Hillier | (U.), who polled 5,233 at the General Elec. tion, against 2,842 east for Mr Grog.-R.

LATER. Lord Hugh Cecil says that the Hitchin

tirely on the insurance bill.,

TERJUM 820TER'S AGENCY.]

INDIAN OPIUM- REDUCTION.IN SHIPMENTS,

more

auffrage. There was nothing the interrupters Toull buto more than-to-seo an cendment

inserted in the Government franchise bill,

LONDON, November 25th. Beuter's correspondent at Simla anoless conferring at broad demeeratie franchise!

that in the calender year 1912 no ou women. He pleaded eloquently that wo, than 10,000 chests of Bengal opium will` men should share the administration of the be offered for sale. Of this number kw. When women were voters, there would | 6,700 will be certified for shipment to China be no danger of Europe being drenched with blood. He further dwelt on the success

DEATH OF MARQUIS KOMURA'.

of the female franchise in the colonies,

LONDON, November 25th, The death of Marquis Komura is an- Speaking on the Insurance Bill, he said

never rest his calumniaters again: The

· LONDỘN, November 26th, bill was merely a contribution to social re-estatesman's patriotism and self abnega- The Times" pays a warm tribute to the Form, and nothing was possible until the lion, and says that sympathy with our allies ́land system was récust.

will bo universal in England, whore his name is indissolubly associated with the Alliancer

Mr Harcourt in reply to the missionary election has been fought almost en-that when he triumphed, the people would: nouncet; · He died of consumption.

deputation respecting sleeping sickness emphasised that the relation of big gams to the teetse fy was most complex, add-

200 “BRUNSVÍGAS" ing that if human life was endangered

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THE GERMAN CRUISER AT

AGADIR.

LONDON, Nov. 24. Reater's correspondent at Paris wirch that the Foreign Affairs Committee in ANGLO-AUSTRALIAN CRICKET the Chamber has drawn the attention of Mr Deleeese, Minister for Foreign Affairs, to i continued presence of the German craiser at Agadir...

LONDON, Nov. 25,

For the match between the M.C.C. team and New South Wales the

Sole Representative for Hongkong and Chian weather was muggy and the wicket wet. There was an attendance of 7,000,

There was no play before lunch.

HUGO C. A. FROMM,

HONGKONG, 4, QUEEN'S BUILDINGS. TEL. No. 960, Hongkong, 17th November, 1911.

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HONGKONG AND CHINA:

New South Wales won the toss and Marylebone were put in first. At the close of the day's play the score was 151 for the loss of four wickets, Guna makal ing 50.

MISFORTUNES,

Beutor's Sydney corres ident states that Mr Warner, the English captain, will be absent from the first Test Malch, but will probably play in the second.

AUSTRALIAN SEAMEN.

LONDON, NOV. 25. Renter's correspondent at Melbourne, Australia, telegraphs that the Feder Arbitration Court has granted the seamen an advance of wages and on eight hours day.

JAPANESE CRUISER SINKS,

LONDON, Nov. 24, LONDON, November 26th..

The Japanese destroyer. Harusams While continuing his innings yeater-foundered in a storm off Oshima, and 45 HUGO C. A. FROMM,' day, George Guns, the English bats of the crew perished.

HONGKONG, Queen's Buildings,

Tolephone No. 1960,

Hoehl

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Sole Representative for Hongkong and South China Hugo C.A. Fromm, Hongkong.

man was hit on the hand. Despite the great pair he confinned batting. It now appears that the metacarpal bone is brokon, and he has been forbidden to play for a fortnight,

CANADIAN POLITICS.

ENGLISH RACING.

LONDON, Nov. 24.

The probable starters for The Manchester November Handicap, to be run at Manchester over 11 miles on the Loxnos, Nov. 21. ·

25th inst., are:Sir Martin (Martin), Reuter's Ottawa correspondent wires Mirador (Jones), Dalmatian (Walter that Mr F. D. Monk, Minister of Publia Griggs), King Midas (F Wootton) Works, whose inclusigh in the Cabinet Coustwise (Escott), Cigar (Iluxley), Shan- Sir Wilfrid Laurier denannced on the ballyvore (Drake). Helot (Fox), Ruthen 21st inst., has declared that he voted for (Winter), Uhimus (Pullin), Persism the Navy Resolution in March, 1900, and Stokes), Othello (Ringstad). Donnez that be would give similar support to Moi (Tonghurst). The folicwing bare the defence of the Empire at any time 40 jockeys assigned: - Fort, Fomellaula of danger,

and Plume.

LONDON, Nov. 2b,

The ante-post betting is as follows:-- Reuter's correspondent at Ottawa 3 to 1 against Ultinius, 8 to 1 against wires that Mr Borden, the Prime Minie. Sir Martin and Coastwise, 100 to 11 ter, will take charge of external af- against Mirador, 10 to 1 against Othello, fairs, which will be made a separate 100 to 8 against Donnez Moi, 20 to 1 department of state.

against Rathlea,

ANGLO-GERMAN RELATIONS.

Lumos, November 25to. Colonel Seely, speaking at Mewcastle, pro- phesied that Sir Edward Greg's declaration on Monday world promote peace. It was assentiul that no should be an forms of peace and quity with Germany..

THE PRINTERS' STRIKE.

The general strike of the compositors and priating. nchinists of the Colony, which began on to 18th instant, continues, and owing to the fact that skilled workmen can only be replaced from centres far distant from the Colony we have to ask the indulgence of our subscribers for a few days more, when we hope to be in a position Ao again isevo the paper in its usual form.

RUSSIA AND PËRSIA,

Lospor, November 26th, Asso Lave already stated the strike was order- A St. Petersburg telegrain states that the with the idea that by paralysing the whole Tereban gendarmes have beer withdrawn the Government would be forced to cancel the printing and pushing business of the Colony From the Shuaes Sultanel's property and ordem f banishment issued against the officials have been replaced by Persian cossack of the guild who hate exercised a tyranny and The Foreign Minister in full uniforo poppression which had become unendurable. The sented an apology to M. Poklevsky, stafir merebers of the guild are probably realising that the Cabinet, during the crisis, was aloe now that it is vain to expect the Government to responsible for the delay,

stalify the action it fell compelled to take after Lepeatedly warning the executive of the guild.

Not one of the ton Chiness newspapers in the Colony has been able to publish since the 18t instant. They have not even beon able to issue. a joint production, as they had contemplated.

Most of the strikers aro stated to have gone to Centen. Numbers of them left their work willingly, and would, we think, be glad to return, but dire threats are held over them which they dars not disregard,

GERMAN AIRMAN KILLED.

LONDON, November 20th. Beuter's corrunpondent at Berlin states that Lieutenant Baron Loring Hoven, the best of the fernan military airmen, was killed by a fall after landing from a flight.

BKTTISH STEAMER WRECKED AT

SOCOTRA..

LONDON November 26: 1.

LOCAL NEWS ITEMS. We understand that the Admiralty tog Lloyd's agent at Aden telegraphs that "A been equipped with guns and de- the steamer Triesto" has picked up the

spatched to Paklol. first oficor, second-engineer, and three of the Lascar crew of the steamer "Kurk," Dundee to Singapore--which-is-on-the-rocka at Socotra. Natives are plundering the wreck.

ENGLISH RACING..

LONDON, November 25th. Following is the result of the Manchester November Haudiep, run yesterday:

Ultimus Fort

2

Donnezmai Seveste ram Won by three lengths, with a short head of ween second and third. Betting to against Ultimus, 10 to 1 against Fort, and 100 to 7 against Dounes

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THE AMERICAN PRESIDENCY.

. It is understged that the captains of the West Kiver stouters intend to approach the NaYAI Authorities with a view to obtaining a guard of bluejackets on each steamer daring, the present

state of unrest.

The remains of the late Mr E. J. Nicholson, the murdered chief officer of the "Shui On," were laid to rest in Happy Valley yesterday morning. A large number of seagoing and shoza frienda. attended to pay their last respects to the brave oficer, and the Rev. C, E. Thomson conducted the service at the graveside.

To ourjeb tuo funds of the various local and military clorities, a raristy entertainment was tell on Saturday night in the City Hall. The Forgiarent was well attended; the andienon items were all presented by amateur arfiste, many The including numbers of military people. of whom displayed considerable talent.

The lawlessness which his manifested itself of Inte in certain parts of the city was revealed again yesterday when a European constable who want to the assistance of.a lakong near the LONDON, November 26th. Mr, Rooseveli now earnestly hopes that number of rowdies. However four or fiva, of the Government Civil Hospital was stoned by a his friends will not nominate bim for the ringladers were arrested. Yesterday military Presidency.

pickets patrolled West Point.