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ship carried lifebelts more than sufficient for all on board, but while these may have served to keep their wearers afloat, they are of small value as lifa-preservers when people are precipitated into waters sovering a field of ice. Unless they were quickly ricked up, death would speedily come from

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At the Magistracy yesterday a Chinese TELEGRAMS TEL EGRAMS.]

was oberged with the theft of Mil of brass from Stonecutters belonging to the War Department. The hearing was ad journed until Thursday,

The death took place at Home on the 11th inst. of Dr. T. Ronnie, medical

officer, Maritime Customs at Nantai, Foochow, and the nows of his sudden demise has come as a great shock to his many friends on the China coast.

[THROUGH BRUTER'S AGENOT.]

THE “TITANIO" CALAMITY.

ACTION BY SHIPOWNERS.

LONDON, April 22nd. Shipowners are hurriedly providing

[TEROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

THE RIOTS IN FEZ.

SAVAGERY OF THE MOB.

LONDON, April 22nd. It is officially announced that altogether

SUPREME COURT.

Monday, April 1st.

IN CRIMINAL JURISDICTION.

Bon Mx, H. H. J. GOMPERTZ (PUISNE JUDGE).

FIVE YEARS FOR EMBEZZLEMENT AND FALSIFICATION OF ACCOUNTS.

During the week-end no fewer than liners with collapsible boats, in addition eight French civilians and 18 military in- guilty to five charges of embezzlement and

seven dead bodies wore picked up into the existing lifeboats. various parts of the Colony. In one case death was apparently due to small-pox. One body was found Boating in the harbour off Kennedy Town, death having been due to drowning.

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The Peking Daily News learns from Tsingtao that anthracite coal from Honan is now arriving at Teinanfu, coming from the district of Huchinglu. It is shipped from the port of Huangho to Lokon by. junks. This coal is smokeless and is steadily increasing in demand by the Chinese as house coal.

exposure, and in this way, no doubt, perish ed many a victim of this appalling disaster. There is no need to emphasise the very obvious duty of the Governments in all countries in respect to the need for seeing |that henceforth no ship, whatever her giza, should leave port without suficient life WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS, boats and rafte to carry all on board. This requirement is now being enforced by the Managing Director of the White Star line, and doubtless by every other large shipping company; but this will not absolve Govern- ments from the responsibility they owe to the travelling public to see that all vessels are properly equipped with a view to saving life in the event of the vessel sinking from any cause whatever. The next lesson learnt is the need for moving the "lanca" for Atlantic liners further south, in order to avoid the perils of icefloes. Nothing, it may be remarkod, bas been said in the telegrams regarding the precautions taken to steer clear of ice, though we may suppose that after the ship had been advised by wireless telegraphy from another ship of the pre- sance of icebergs in the Ocean, a careful look-out for such dangers was kept. We have been told that a berg was sighted by the look-outs when the vessel was within a quarter of a mile of it. Mr. Ismar descri-Piggott, the Chief Justice, retired inst bed it as a low-lying iceberg." If it was sighted at a distance of a quarter of a mile, it would be instructive to learn why it was impossible to avert the disaster. No doubt, 31.40 2.70 every effort was made to save the ship from contact with the iceberg; but we have it that, though the ship was not running at 37.40 3.20 full speed she was making 21 knots an

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What was described as an armed robbery was reported to the police as having taken place in the early hours of

Sunday morning in a fisherigan's hut at Telegraph Bay, Seven men, two of whom were armed with choppera, entered the hat, and collected a few things, the total value of which did not exceed three dollars.

The big will case, from which Sir F.

week, was commenced de novo yesterday before the Hon. Mr. Rees Davies, K.C., Acting Chief Justice. Mr. Slade and Mr. Potter appeared for the plaintiffs, and Mr. W. V. Drummond, from Shanghai, and Mr. C. G. Alabaster · appeared for the defendants.

The lower level tramway service was interfered with yesterday by the com mencement of operations for the relaying of a portion of the track in Des Youx Road

PICKING UP BODIES. The steamer Mackay Bennett, which was sent out specially equipped to search for bodies, has arrived on the scene of the wreck, and has begun searching for bodica, a number of which have already been picked up by another vessel.

ALLEGATIONS AGAINST THE NAVIGATING OFFICER. A steward of the Titanic asserts that be overheard two lookout men declaring that they informed the "bridge" of the sighting of the iceberg a quarter of an

hour before the disaster, but that the report was ignored. The stoward swam alongside the raft- until somebody died and made room for him.

THE CALL TO THE "FRANKFURT."

A Bremen wire states that the Captain a wireless

of the Frankfurt has sent message to the owners denying the testimony of Bride, the surviving wire less operator, and declaring that he responded immediately to the call.

This is practically borne out by the Captain of the Virginian, which has arrived at Liverpool, who reports that shortly after 5.45 on the morning of the 15th, while he was hastening towards the

structors were murdered in the mutiny at

Fez.

General Moinier in the fight on entering the city had sight killed and 17 wounded.

LATER.

A Paris wire states that the total military casualties during the Fez riots were 25 killed and 60 wounded.

The papers publaih terrible narratives of the savagery of the mob, which paraded the streets carrying horribly mutilated bodies and heads of Europeans on spears Unbridled licence prevailed for three days, the Jews being particularly singled out and barbarously ill-treated. Many were thrown from the house tops, and girls were violated. Four thousand Jews took refuge in the palace. The French killed 800 rioters.

GERMAN AVIATION.

LONDON, April 22nd. Reuter's correspondent at Berlin tele-

graphs that the Committee formed to organise a national aviation fund has issued a stirring appeal to the patriotism of the people irrespective of party, creed or class, signed by Prince Henry of Prussin as patron. Herr Posadowsky, a former Minister of the Interior, ia president, and Herr Von Mendelssohn, a great banker, is treasurer, while the committee includes

Edwin Berkeley Ayris, who bad pleaded falsification of accounts, was brought up for sentence.

Alabaster, said the prisoner had pleaded The Attorney-General, Hon. Mr. C. G. guilty to five charges, the first of em- bezzling 8160, the second of embezzling $60, the third of ombezzling $70.06, and the two last charges of falsifying accounts in respect of the sums of $024, and $200, moneys of the South China Morning Posti Co., Ltd.

Hie Lordship-Are there any other do- ficiencies?

with amounts totalling a little over $1,000, The Attorney-General-He is charged but there is a total deficiency of more than that

Prisoner was sentenced to five years' hard labour on each count, sentences to run concurrently.

The Attorney-General-I don't know whether it is necessary, but the prisoner was not called upon.

His Lordship-Well, the sentence. I have imposed is the minimum I can possibly give..

FIVE YEARS FOR FORGERY.

Francis Lucas Picard pleaded guilty to having forged an authority, for a cheque.

book, and with having forged and uttered two cheques of $120 and $50 respectively, on the Yokohama Specie Baak.

Mr. R. E. Delilios instructed by Mr. behalf of the prisoner. Leo D'Almada e Castro, appeared on

The Attorney-General said the prisoner was formerly in the employ of Mr. Vernon, of the Boa Vista Hotel at Macao. He

hour, and this leads to the supposition that the momentum was too great to enable as obstruction at that distance to be avoided. Into this aspect of the matter, as well as into Central from the King Edward Hotel to Titanic, he was in communciation with the Emperor's brother-in-law, Dake Ernst signed by Mr. Vernon, for a Yokohama

the precautions taken to keep clear of ice- floss, the Board of Trade Inquiry, when it takes place, will no doubt make a thorough investigation. It is the practice of ships in

the northern "laues" of the Atlantic“ to

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the proximity of a hidden icefield; but presumably this can be no safe indication when ships are travelling at 20 knots an

the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank.

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temporary system of points had to be utilised, and the maneuvring of the cars over this yesterday attracted considerable

attention.

Arising from the Titanic disaster, Messrs. Ramos de Ramos, of the Victoria Theatre, are giving a monster entertain- ment on Friday evening, on behalf of the

the California, Carputkia, Frankfurt and Baltic, all of which were hurrying in the direction of the Titanic. The Car pathia sent a wireless message, telling him to turn back, as everything was all right.

It appears that the Californian was

of Schleswig-Holstein, and a hundred men, members of nobility and men prominent in finance, industry and politics.

SLAUGHTER IN THE SIBERIAN GOLDFIELDS.

LONDON, April 22nd.

forged an order purporting to have been

Specie Bank cheque book.

Mr. Vernon

afterwards stated that the signature was a very clever forgery. Prisoner left Macao and came to Hongkong, where he lived at a Japanese hotel. He paid his way with

forged cheque. Another forged cheque " was found in a room at a certain house in Sampan Street, where prisoner had been living-

Mr. Belilios said he would rather Me Vernon had been present, as he could

hour, or the United States Hydrographic sufferers of the Titanic. The enter only seventeen miles from the Titans Petersburg states that 107 men were shot speak as to prisoner's character. He per

Office would not deem it necessary to order

Manchuria.

but failed to pick up her wireless.

HEROIC POSTAL CLERKS.

drowned.

An oficial statement published in St.

dead on the goldfields on the Lena and that 294 were wounded, of whom 84 died. The affair has caused intense indignation The strikers, whose leaders have been ar- rested, against advice, were advancing towards one of the mines when the troops barred the way. There was some stone throwing, whereupon the troops fired

volley after volley.

GERMAN NAVY BILL.

sonally suggested that the company pri soner had kept had led him to forge the cheques: His only ples, however, would be for a mitigation of the sentence. Oa the facts before the Court, prisoner did not look like a hardened criminal, as his methods were crude and clumsy. His Lordship-How old is het Mr. Belilios-He is twenty-four. Prisoner was sentenced to five years' hard labour on each count, sentences to run concurrently.

INSUFFICIENT EVIDENCE.

Abdul Rashed pleaded not guilty to a charge of having unlawfully killed a Chi- nese named Ng Luk Chee.

tainment is under the patronage of H.E. the “lanes" to be moved 180 miles further The Officer Administering the Govern-, South. The British Board of Trade inment, H.E. Major-General Anderson, and quiry into the disaster will be awaited with U.S. Consul-General George E. Anderson.

It is officially stated that a report has much interest. In the circumstances of the By kind permission of Col. Hamilton und case the inquiry conducted in America can

Officers the band of the K.O.Y.L.I. will been received by the Postmaster-General only be as Reuren describes it rather render selections, as will also, by courtesy. Bt Washington to the effect that two Eng. perfunctory, though prolonged. The Titanic of Cant. Dixon, the band of the 88lish and three American postal clerks on was a British ship. She foundered, not in

board the Titanic, disregarding their own American waters but on the high seas, and the proper authority to make inquiry into

sacks of registered mail to the upper deck, safety, worked incessantly and carried 200 the disaster is the British Board of Trade

hoping that it would be saved. They con- Why Mr. IamAY, au Englishman, after he has

tinued to work to the last and all were given to the Senate Committee all the infor mation in his power bearing upon the disaster. should not be allowed to return to England at will, is not obvious, nor is it at prosent clear that any authority in America has any legal right to detain either Mr. Iamar or the members of the crew of the ill-fated vessel. If there is any culpa bility chargeable against any one of them, entertain the venerable priest at a lun- furnish wireless apparatus and operators but that Britain has declined to accept A. Henderson, G. W. Barton, B. K. Mehta, they are clearly responsible only to the

to ships, on payment of £100 yearly, on The Colonial negotiations, on the con- British authority, When all is said that is

condition that the shipowners pay the to be said as regards responsibility for the

од any A European lady while walking from the Government three per cent. loss of the stup, and so many of the lives it Star Ferry Wharf to the Hongkong Hotel salvage money earned through the use of carried, the memory of the splendid heroism just before 7 o'clock last night had her the wireless. The Government equipment displayed by the Captain and his crew and purse snatched out of her hand in the

is to be made obligatory on Austrian by the passengers will remain indissolubly | middle of Chater, Road. The thief bolted associated with this great and unprecedented down the alleyway to the waterfront passenger ships plying east of Suez. calamity.

The special general meeting of the Hongkong General Chamber of Com-

on Thursday next. meres takes place

The death is announced of Mr. William Hollis Luce, who represented the firm of Dent & Co., Foxchow, during the fifties.

Otto Kong Sing, solicitor, of Hongkong, Miss Justine Kang Bing, sister of Mr.

is a successful Exhibitor at the Paris Salon.

be Higa Mass at the Roman Catholic On Thursday next, 25th inst., there will Cathedral, at 7.30 a.m. on the occasion of the golden jubilee of the priesthood of Rev. Father Andrea Leong, The Mass will be celebrated by Father Leong as sisted by Bishop Pozzoni and the Catholic clergy. The sermon on this occasion, which will be in Chinese, will be preached by s Chinese Priest from Canton. We under stand that on the same day the Chinese Catholic Community in Hongkong will cheon to which a limited number of foreign guests has been invited.

When the lady recovered from her fright she hastened towards the hotel where an Indian policeman was stationed, but as English was not one of the accomplish- ments of the policeman and Hindustani unintelligible to the lady, all ideas of a prompt capture of the thief had to be given up. Fortunately the purse, which was of no value in itself, contained less than a dollar in subsidiary coin, a Peak tramticket, a Ferry ticket and little else.

HONGKONG, APRT 23ED, 1912. The world now knows perhaps as much as it is ever likely to know concerning the foundering of the White Star liner Titanic. A British Board of Trade Inquiry has yet to be held, of course, but it is improbable that the survivors will be able to add much to the information which has already been given in evidence before the Committee of the United States Senate which opened its enquiry as soon as the survivors reached New York. There is much besides what has been published that the world would wish to know, but such facts as we have are adequate to enforce on all maritime nations the plain lessons of this terrible disaster. Imprimis, there is the lesson that the "un sinkable ship" has not yet been constructed. Confident reliance upon an assurance { „at it would be easier to sink a cork than this huge ship would seerd to have been respon sible alike for the loss of many lives that otherwise might have been saved, and for the neglect on the part of the Board of Trade to so bring its regulation up to date that ships of over 10,000 tons should be compelled to carry proportionally the saine bost accommodation as ships of smaller size, and capacity. The facts as we have them certified to carry

Count are that the Titanio was 3,500 souls, but she had boat accommoda- Ahlefeldt Laurvig, who has been attached to the Russian Legation, becomes the first tion for only 1,178; yet only 745 people

Minister. were saved, and some of these, according to the telegrams, were pioked up on rafts. In Last Tuesday in Manila the aid of the the statement made in the House of Com police had to be invoked to deal with the mone by the President of the Board of hundreds of noisy people who were unable Trade no mention was made of rafts. The to gain admission to the Great Raymond's put in connection with all sorts of charit

A few weeks ago it was mentioned in our columns that Mrs. A. G, Gordon is leaving the Colony in May, and the suggestion was made that in view of the fact that Mrs.

AUSTRIAN GOVERNMENT'S

LONDON, April 22nd. The Daily Mail understands that Ger- many has offered to withdraw her supplementary Navy Bill. and to abide A telogram from Vienna states that the by the old law upon certain conditions, Austrian Government is arranging to which the news received does not specify,

ACTION.

PROPOSED MEMORIAL TO

MR. STEAD.

Reuter's correspondent at The Hague telegraphs that the newspaper Vaderland writes that in Mr. Stead the world has lost

trary, are progressing satisfactorily.

AVIATOR DISAPPEARS.

LONDON, April 22nd.

"An Irish aviator named Allen, who was on a flight from Holyhead to Dublín, has disappeared, and no trace of him can be fonud.

OBITUARY..

LONDON, April 22ød. worker, a fighter, and a hero without

The death is announced of Bram equal, and suggests that if a grateful (Abraham) Stoker, M.A., the well humanity desires to erect a monument to known author, and authority on history his memory The Hague would honour and literature. itself in offering a site in the shadow of the Palace of Peace.

THE RELIEF FUND.

The Attorney-General said he had con- sidered the evidence very carefully when it was given at the Police Court, and he had come to the conclusion that it did not

justify a conviction. He therefore did not intend to offer any evidence.

The jury, Mesars C. W. Olsen (foreman),

F. R. Ormiston, W. M. Johnson and A.

H. Hewitt, were informed of the course to be taken by the Attorney General,

A verdict of not guilty was returned, and the prisoner was discharged.

ALLEGED ARMED ROBBERY. Three Chinese were, charged with at- tempted armed robbery in Yaumati Bay, on the 25th February.

All three men pleaded not guilty. The following jury was empanelled!- Messrs. O. W. Olsen (foreman), A. Hen- derson, G. W. Barton, B. K. Mehta, F. R. Ormiston, W. M. Johnson and A. H, Hewitt.

The Attorney-General in the course of his statement for the prosecution said that evidence would be called to prove that the prisoners on the date mentioned in the charge got into a sampan which was lying alongside a steam launch in Yaumati Bay, and asked the women in charge of it to row them to a salt junk lying further out in the bay. The women, of whom there ere three, carried out the instructions, and

According to the Cablenews-american, Manila is faced with a water famine, and The Mansion House fund now totale the necessity for exercising economy is on arriving at the junk they were told that that was hot the one. The prisoners then being discussed. £72,000.

seized the women and a revolver was To distribute his property valued at pointed at the head of one of them. A $2,000,000 among his eight children, Mr. demand for money was made and the

Dr. Sun Yat Sen left. Foochow by the steamer Tai Shun yesterday. He is pro Gordon, who is an accomplished singer, beeding direct to Hongkong and due has been giving pleasure to Hongkong. to arrive to-morrow

audiences on frequent occasions over the The Shanghai General Chamber of Com-long period of thirty years, some public merce sent a message of sympathy to the dered to her before she leaves. We now expression of appreciation should be ten- White Star Line Co. last week on receipt direct attention to the announcement of T. R. Jernigan (Shanghai), Hertford arranged a lottery with numbered tickets tracted the attention of people in junke At the country home of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Lander, of Yoakum, Texas, women screamed out. The screams at of the news of the loss of the Titanic.

n Concert to be given in Mrs. Gordon's County, North Carolina, the wedding and each ticket corresponding to the hard by and they came to the rescue. honour at the Volunteer Headquarters on took place last week of their only tickets were drawn from a hat by the ug to be taken from the water as they number of some part of the estate. The The men were arrested, two of them hav May 1st, and we are sure that the an daughter, Frances, to Mr. Stanley Win-children. They took turns drawing, and had jumped over the side thinking that nouncement will be widely welcomed. The borne. Mr. Winborne is about twenty-there being no blanks every drawing by doing so they would avoid arrest. promoters of the concert, certain old re-

seven years of age, and is associated in the family agreed to the scheme, and the attempted robbery.

represented a winning. The members of The defence was a total denial of the sidents and concert-goers of the Colony, the practice of law with his father, Judge luckiest numbers drew the best of the wish to show their appreciation of the Winborne. It is interesting to note that property. Mr. Lander is hale and hearty brought in a verdict of not guilty, and the After bearing lengthy evidence the jury work done by Mrs. Gordon on the concert both families have been intimate from at eighty-seven years of age, and the prisoners were discharged, platform for so many years, and of the American colonial daya. The bride and drawing took place on his birthday pains and trouble to which she has been bridegroom will reside at Murfrees

anaivorsary. He has been a resident of the state for sixty years and accumulated horough, North Carolina.

his fortune în land and cattle.

} It has been decided to establish

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BETURNED FROM BANISHMENT,

A Chinese was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment with hard labour for having returned from banishment.