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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, MAY 11mm, 1912.

Mr. J. Quinn, steward of the Hong TELEGRAMS. South Africa, could be compelled to chey, homogeneous and strong that no power in

kong Club, who is leaving for Home to- day, was presented at the Folles Club last night with a purac of sovereigns subscribed for by friends in the Colony B. G. Knowles and his talented com pany gave a most enjoyable entertainment last night to a good house. The stories and the patter of the great" R.G." kept everybody in roars of laughter, and those who need a tonic should not miss the opportunity of hearing him.

[FÉKOUGH BEUTEMʼN AORNUZ.]

THE HOME BULE BILL.

SECOND READING CARRIED,

TELEGRAMS.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

LONDON BANKERS' DINNER. THE PREMIER'S SPEECH.

majority of the Cabinet are in favour of a sories of smail loana, sufficient to meet the

would we have passed the Bill or sent emergency. Then there are those who

British soldiers to enforce accent- believe that all the money the Government

ance That was the only analogy, Mr. needs could be raised in China by appealing

Bonar Law said it was impossible to the patriotism of the people in other words, by using the demande made by the

to maintain this part of the federal sys

LONDON, May 10th, Bankers Syndicate to create an anti-foreign

tem when the Government was destroying

Mr. Asquith, speaking at the Bankerss agitation. For our part we are inclined to

its unity by establishing a separate cus-

Dinner in London, said I have just cyse think that the Government cannot appes

tom house within the United Kingdom,

tom witnessing a spectacle to which T to the people for any large sum of money

disregarding the colonial practice. When with much hope of success. In the last six

suppose there has never beon a paratief Mr. John Redmond said that under Australia was federated, New South in the history of the world, the Great Hi- or eight months they have contributed

The following paragraph appears in lying all the arguments against the Wales recognized the necessity of abandonish feet which is now assembled under handsomely towards "The Cause." In the aggregate a very large sum must have been the Shanghai Mercury of the 4th inst. :— given with no iden of its sver being regard." Miss M. Monteith, of North Soo-bill was the assumption that all parties ing her free-trade principles.

chow Road, nake us to mention that she under the new treaty would be animated by nonsense to talk of legal safeguards oyes and in the presence of the King is not the Marian Monteith mentioned bad feeling and malice instead of a desirs, such safeguards existed in the case of the teliere, in the same space of water such

GLENLIVET ed ass Govorament interest-bearing losu.

WHISKY.

Guaranteed entirely distilled in

Scotland and thoroughly matured

by age, heing shipped from our

Highland Bonded Warehouses,

Greenock, Scotland.

The Chinese people have done in this way about sa much as can be reasonably expect ed of them, and when it is proposed to ask there to purchase Government loan bonds they will doubtless be found equally as reluctant na the foreign banks to part with their capital before they are thoroughly satisfied of the safety of the investment. This is well understood at Peking, and will explain the interesting report that the Chinese in Government circles in Peking are discussing among themselves a forced tax! It would be laughable were it not so tragis. We do not suppose for one moment that such an amazing act of folly would be countenanced by the President and Cabinet, but when we get such an idea pro. mulgated in the political circles of the Capital it throws a flood of light on the

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in last night's issue as having been having charged at Hongkong with obtained money by false pretences at Shanghai.

Hotel Cecil, was accepted as aurety in that sum

LONDON, May 10th. The debate on the Home Rule Bill in the House of Commons was resumed yesterday.

to make the best of things. Why should this malicious folly be attributed to Irish men when it was never committed by any other section of the Empire to which home rule had been granted? It would be Ire land's highest interest to safeguard her constitution, work it with moderation

It was

dominions, but no government would dream of exercising them. No Dominion would allow us to exercise them.

Mr. Asquith, in winding up the debate, said no serious attempt had been made in the debate to meet his argument based on the character and persistence of the Irish

demands. Such a demand any parlia-

ment was bound to agent to, subject to

At Bow-street Police Court on 10th ult. Count Andor Festetics, 28, a Hungarian subject, giving an address in Piccadilly, was brought before Mr. Marsha for extradition on a charge of committing and success, and for the first time in her fraud in Belgium. The Magistrate bistory to do the utmost to promote the agreed to allow bai! in £4,000, and Mr.unity and prosperity of the Empire. He Henry Bush, a retired banker and a con- believed that all the old party divisions safeguards for minorities and Imperial cession owner in China, staying at the would quickly disappear, and that respon-supremacy. The British people refused to sibility would have a steadying and be frightened from doing that which they moderating effect on men of all political believed just by the language of intimide views, Nationalists, both in Ireland and in tion as regards Ulster, America and in the dominions, accepted the bill as a final settlement. From the viewpoint of foreign policy and military strength the bill was the most urgent stap that could be taken to safeguard Britain's future, to ensure the solidarity of the empire, and to remove every obstacie in the way of a natural understanding with the great English-speaking republic...

The Japanese contestants in the great Olympic Games, to be held at Stockholm

stocks of Old Whisky in the West obstacles to progress imposed by the politi,at the end of June and beginning of July, cal ignorance which so widely prevails. A will leave Tokyo on the 18th May and forced tax is quite out of the question. One expect to arrive in Sweden on the 1st of June, The chosen athletes ar Mr. of the first results of the revolution the

Yahiko Mishima, brother of Viscount people have expected is a remission of Mishima, President of the Specie Bank, taxation. To attempt to raise by a forced

and a student of Tokyo Imperial Univer- contribution the large sum the Government sity, and Mr. S. Kanaguri, a student of needa in order to discharge its liabilities the Higher Normal School. They will be and to lay the foundations of reform and solid progress would simply create turmoil accompanied by Mr. Hyozo Omori, who has made arrangements to take cine- and strife throughout the country and add matograph pictures of the races in which inmensoly to the already overwhelming the students will take part, for exhibition

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BIRTHS.

On May 4th, at Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. E. W. SHARPLES, I BON.

On May 5th, at Shanghai, the wife of JOHN MCGILLIVRAY, of a son.

On May 5th, at Shanghai to Mr. and Mrs. H. A. ATKINSON, & Son.

difficulties of the Goresanient. There soon

no hope for China without foreign capital, and the opposition which very naturally exists towards any foreign control of fiu auces has to be conciliated. As Sir EDWARD GREY recently declared in the House of Commons, nobody wishes to infringe the

in Japan. These races are the Marathon

..

and the 400 metres. Mishima made this distance in 59 seconds at Haneda some time ago, but with practice he reduced the time to su seconds. The world's re- cord is 48 seconds. The furtunes of the young athletes will be eagerly followed in

Mr. Russell said the Protestants of Southern Ireland were prepared to a quiesce in Home Bule, but the growing minority in Ulster was opposed to it. He ridiculed the notion that Ulster would

fight,

Mr. Ramsay Macdonald, Labour M. P., sympathised with the religious pre-

On the vote being taken, there voted: For the second reading... 372 Against

271.

101

at Weymouth. There has never been, I

destruction, and as I went round the fleet an aggregation of the implements of

and inspected at close quarters some of these magnificent, if monstrous, achieve- ments of modern science the thought could not but occur to me whether the time might not some day arrive perbaps within the lifetime of some of the younger of those who are sitting at these tables,

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when this gigantic expenditure would be diverted into more fruitful, fertilizing channels and the world be saved from the incubus which at present rests upon some its best aspirations. So far as wo are concerned and so far as the feet of Great Britain is concerned, we know it to be, and the world knows it to be, an instru- ment not of agression but of defence, and, with the countless ever-multiplying in- terests of which we are the trustees and

Majority Members of the House of Commons assembled in the Palace Yard and a crowd outside gave an ovation to Mr. guardians, wo cannot afford, so long as Asquith and Mr. Redmond on their dethe world remains in its presont temper, to parture from the House. Many sang “A neglect any means for making these in- nation once again.”

terests secure against every danger. The

There had been the greatest efforts to maintenance of the supremacy, of our in-

secure a majority of 100 on the second disputable and invincible supromacy st

reading. The Opposition voted at full sea, is the first and fundamental condi strength except five who paired with tion not only of the integrity of the Bri- Liberals. A Liberal Member, Sir Clifford tish Empire but of the life of the British Cory, voted against it and another people.

Mr. Asquith proceeded to discuss bank- Liberal Member, Sir G. Kemp, abstained.

ing affairs, and expressed satisfaction

independence of China, but if Chim desires Japan and, indeed, over the whole world. judices of the Protestants in Ulster. Only three Nationalists were absent, two that the propersity and stability of Bri-

to borrow money it is for the lenders and the governments concerned to fix the con- ditions with a view of affording proper security. The President of the Republic of China publicly declared only last week that "there are at present very few of our people | who are financial experts, and such as we have are lacking in experience." Add to this the sense of insecurity engendered by the stories of peculation with which the Treasury records of China must abound and we have all the justification needed for the resolute attitude takou by the Interna tional Syndicate of bankers on the question of foreign supervision. A foreign board exercising supervision over the flounces of China for a generation would be the soundest guarantee the nation could have of steady progress and prosperity.

-The Far East.

LOCAL SPORT.

LAWN TENNIS.

CC.C. V. CHINESE Y.M.C.A.

This tennis league fixture will be play. ed this afternoon at & p.m., on the C.C.C. ground.

represent the The following will C.C.C.-H. H. Tayler, Ch A. Hancock, L.A. Rose, R. Phillips, J. V. Brags, and R. A. Carvalho,

THE GREAT RAYMOND " SUED.

Last Saturday night at Raymond's per- formanco in the Theatre Royal a man, responding to Raymond's invitation, was

but the Protestant workers there were. beginning to discover that the present agitation was more economic than re ligions The Telfags

Ifast ascendancy nowa days was over Labour and not over Catholics The Bill would strip the veil from the enemies of Labour who were re- sponsible for the Orange agitation and would prove an enormous gain to trade

unionista.

being in Australia and one ill. O'Brienites voted with the majority Four Liborals were unaccounted for.

CONSERVATIVE AND UNIONIST AMALGAMATION,

Thetish banking institutions had remained unaltered. The deposits at banks within forty years or less had risen hy between four hundred and dye hundred millions Moreover, banking facilities had enorm. ously increased.

Referring to the fall in Consols, Mr. Asquith mentioned three causes-enlarge

LONDON, May 10th. A representative conference of Conser vatives and Liberal Unionists has decided to amalganiate. The Duke of Abercorn, tent of trustee securities, general de- mand for higher interest, and trade Sir G. Kemp, Liberal M.P. for N.W. Lord Charles Beresford, Lord Halsbury, activity. Finally, the fall in Consols Lord Londonderry, Mr. Bonar Law, Mr. had taken place most markedly during Walter Long, Lord Lansdowne, the Duke the series of years when Parliament roade of Devonshire, Mr. Austen Chamberlain provision at a far greater rate than ever

Manchester, opposed the Bill, which would be supported if Ulster were allow- ad a separate parliament.

Bir Gilbert Parker, Conservative 1.P. and prominent members of both parties before for the reduction and extinction for Gravesend, referring to the resoluttended the conference. Mr. Balfour of the National Debt. We may say tions in favour of Home Rule passed by and Mr. J. Chamberlain wrote approving without the overseas legislatures, said he thought of the amalgamation.

Sir Frederick and Lady Lugard landet handcuffed and succeeded in liberating that they misunderstood Ireland's posi

at Plymouth on the 19th inst. from Hong kong and proceeded to London.

At the Magistracy yesterday a Chinese was sentenced to one month's imprison

himself from one. The conjurer declared that the handcuffs had not been properly locked. The other, however, claimed the £100 which Raymond had promised to anyone who succeeded in liberating him- self from the handcuffs. Apparently, the

HONGKONG OPTION: 10A, DES VOUX ROAD 1ment and four hours' in the stocks formatter has not been settled, and legal.

LONDON OFFION: 131, FLEST STREET, EC | soatching from a

The Daily Press.

HONGKONG, MAY 11TH, 1912.

Tag deadlock in the negotiations for the International Loan to China still continues,

Bay.

woman at Causeway

A watchman employed by the S... Post was at the Magistracy yesterday convicted of having been asleep on duty and was fined $10 or fourteen days in prison.

Newe was received in Shanghai last week of the death of Mrs. B. G. Holt, which occurred at San Francised on April 4th Mrs. Holt was well-known in Shanghai as the wife of the former agent of the Pacific Mail there.

but the news that the Premier, Mr. TANG SHAO-XI, has retired from the negotiations and that the new Minister of Finance, Mr HSUIN HAI LIne, has been invested with full powers to re-open negotiations with the bankers, means apparently that the dead-

An interesting experiment is being lock is to be broken, that he demands of the bankera as to supervision and inspection tried at the Bijou Scenic Theatre. will be conceded; that the now. Minister of vaudeville side of the programme has Finance will shoulder the responsibility, and been eliminated, and the entertainment is that the Premier, who bus resolutely refused to afford the guarantees of safety the bankers required, will thus "sare face." That would

The

now purely cinematograph, but the pictures are of the best. Those who are fond of motion pictures are invited to give their support to the innovation. The

seem to be the randing of the present situs prices of admission have also been re- tion, China is in urgent need of the money duced, which ought to tend to the and the vital necessity of the loan is the

popularity of the entertainment. justification for the belief that an adjust- ment will soon be reached.

We gather The water return dated May 1st is that although the Frasident, in the recent interesting, as showing that the storage speech he made to the Advisory Council in in the five reservoirs in Hongkong regard to the financial condition of the amount to 254,897,000 gallons as against country, publicly recognised the necessity 204,094,000 at the same period last year, for employing trained and experienced while in Kowloon the storage smonnta te foreign experts, the Premier has been 223,940,000 gallons as against 205,520,000 resisting the appointment of a Financial gallons at the same time last year. The Adviser, and has declared that if the Inter- consumption per head in the city and national Syndicate will not put at China's bill district was 18.3 as against 16.8 last disposal the means needed, he could get the year, and in Kowloon it was 11.1 per money elsewhere.. It would appear that a head as against 80.

proceedings have been institated,

In the Summary Jurisdiction of the Supreme Court yesterday, Mr. P. W. Goldring, rising before the list was opened, said-I have a ease in which appear for the defendant, who is leaving on Monday or Sunday week. If your Lordship will give us Wednesday, it will suit, I think. My friend, Mr. Harris appears for the plaintiff. Ferhaps I am not in urder in rising firat, but my client is leaving on Monday week and is not likely to come back again. ad

Mr. Harris Will your Lordship fix next Wednesday.

His Lordship-Will it take all day i Mr. Goldring-I think so, my Lord. Wednesday was fixed for the hearing.

tion. Moreover, they had an eye to the value of the Irish vote in their own domains. Mr. Churchill and Mr. Samuel

bad misled the House when they said that Ireland's position was analagous to that of South Africa. He was astonished that the Nationalists were willing to accept the subordinate position of a province. If Natal should attempt to stand out of the Unton the reply of the latter would be" You shall not go."

Mr. R. V. Harcourt, Liberal M.P, for Montrose Burghs, advised Ulster to pro- fit by the example of Natal and negotiate, It would be tuore effectual than revolvers, Mr. Bonar Law, the Opposition leader, exhaustively criticized the financial pro- visions of the Bill and ridiculed Mr. Asquith's expression Ireland should be united by the cash nexus." In view of the ridicule Mr. Asquith poured on the idea of

The claim against Raymond as by material interests consolidating the Em

pire in the cast of the Colonies when he Henry A. Law for $1,000.

ssid such things were sordid bouds " Mr. Bonar Law aaked Are the Irish differ eat from the Colonies! He considered the community of economic interest on

A JOURNEY THROUGH WESTERN CHINA,

POPPY CULTIVATION IN KANŠŲ,

THE CHINESE LOAN.

LONDON, May 10th. M. Virstraed, director of the Russo Asiatic Bank, is coming to London to participate in the meeting of the inter national bankers concerned in the Chi

mese loan.

منصة

undue

and

· arrogance-

self-

complacency that our position and our

action compare very favourably with. those of any European State.

Mfr. Asquith proceeding to the discus gion of the relations between capital and labour, and there were signs in the in- dustrial sky which ought to warn them against complacent optimism. Despite the unexampled prosperity of trade last year the relations between capital and labour had rarely been more severely strained. The recurrence of incidents

GERMAN MINISTER TO LONDON.

LONDON, May 10th. Heuter's correspondent at Berlin tele Graphs that Count Metternich's resigna. like the railway and coal strikes made tion has been accepted. It appears that it the duty not only of the Government it was tendered a year ago, but was post but of business and banking committees poned for various reasons, including the to look beneath the surface and dis- tinguish between the money and real value coronation.

of increases, whether in wages or profite; above all, to study the economic fabric not piecemeal but as a whole. Many of the

A FRENCH APPOINTMENT,

LONDON, May 10th

M Raindre, formerly French An bastador to Japan, has been selected as the President of the Societé des

Etudes in connection with the Trans Persian Railway,

TOM MANN IMPRISONED.

LONDON, May 10th. Mr. Tom Mann has been sentenced to

of the strongest ties of nationality, but six months' imprisonment in the second

division for inciting soldiers to mutiny.

GERMANY AND MIXED MARRIAGES.

LONDON, May 10th,

antitheses which people were accustomed to take for granted in describing “irre- concilable interests" such as those of pro- ducer and consumer, employer and em- ployed, turn out apon careful examina tion to represent the growing interdepand ence of all our own economic intereste and the increasing inter-relation of produe- tion and exchange all over the world, These are the governing factors of modern trade. He concluded by inviting British bankers to contribute to the solution of the problem of industrial unrest by sag- gestion and wise and fruitful experiment. THE PREMIER.

in this case the financial clauses tremed A correspondent at Peking, cabling on

with subjects of friction wholly based A telegram received from Lanchaufu, on the principle of the British Govern- the 19th ult. said: the capital of Kansu province, announces ment acting solely as tax collector. the safe arrival there on Tuesday, after ion, of Major Pereira, formerly Military Colonial example, especially the South

In the Reichstag the resolution arging. a peaceful journey from the New Domin- Ministers were fond of dwelling on the Attaché at Peking, who for a year past has been travelling continuously in Mon- African, but both races in South Africa

The Times understands that Mr. golia, Chinese Turkestan, and the New desired union. Ulster could not be com the legalisation of marriages between The telegram states that Major Pereira pared with Natal, which agreed to wait whites and blacks in German protectorates Dominion. found that the poppy had been replanted till a referendum had been taken. If there has been passed by the combination of the Asquith at Whitentide will visit Malta throughout the province.

had been a minority in South Africa 60 Clerical party and the Socialists.

LONDON, May 10th,

to meet Lord Kitchener.