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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, MAY 17TH, 1912.
commiting engineer to the Suez Canal Com- There is a Obinese cook looking for workTELEGRAMS. TELEGRAMS.e grown effective naval furcos
in Ipoh with the following testimonial "The Bearer, Ah Sin, is a first-class cook He leaves me a rich man.'
Surgeon Arthur R. Fisher, R.N. of H.M.S. Minotaur, who was proceeding with his ship to Colombo there to be trans-
pany, are also, curiously enough, convinced that ships are in the comparatively near future to be very much larger. They do not think that the Panama Canal, whose Rock will take vossola 1,000 feet long. 110 feet broad, and over 40 feet draught, is excessively large. Will the loss offered to H.M.8. Spartiate, for England, the Titanic, and the new regulations which are certain to be imposed on ships, reult in a modification of these views? The disaster
was directed to stop at Singapore and proceed to Labuan to join H.M.B. Merlin, surveying, ship.
Carson of the Merlin has unfortunately
Surgeon William
had a serious accident and is suffering from a fractured skull. Surgeon Fisher will remain on duty in the Merlin until Surgeon Carson's relief arrives from Eng
land.
{THROUGH RELTER'S AGENOT.]
THE LATE KING OF DENMARK.
·KRITIBA, COURT IN FULL MOURNING.
LONDON, May 10th, Instead of proceeding to Aldershot yes terday morning. Their Majesties, dressed
House and condoled with Queen Alex in deep mourning, drove to Marlborough
andra and the Empress Marie. consulting with Queen Alexandrs the King and Queen left for Aldershot in the
afternoon.
After
The Court being in mourning is likely
to affect the London season.
ETHROUGH REUTER'S AGENOY.]
DEVELOPMENT OF THE NAVY
IMPORTANT SPEECH BY MR. CHURCHILL.
OVCIRCAR.
great Domisions Then we would be able to make the truo division of labour between the Mother country and the daughter states, which is, that we maintain sea supremacy against LONDON, May 16th.
all comers at decisivo points, and that they Mr. Winston Churcbil), speaking as the guard and patrol all the reat of the
the organisation now developing at the those developments should take, though guest of the Shipwrights Company in Empiro, I am not going to attempt to London, aid the principles governing forecast or prescribe the exact form which
Admiralty were that constant and inti the march of opinion appears to be pro- rate connection must be maintained beceeding on thoroughly practical lines. tween constructive science and the AdThis, I venture to say that the Admiralty
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miralty on the one hand, and the officers see no reason why arrangements abould
to the Titanic was of an unprecedented character. In no ordinary shipping acident would it be likely that the entire side of a huge ship would be torn out, rendering the whole of its watertight compartments ueless and the foundering of the vessel inevitable. In constructing what they regarded as`an The Malay Maż understands that Mr. “uasiokable ship” the builders had based. Henry Plummer, of Oxford University,
In Great Britain the Court will be in influence of the latter should be made full measure of control of the movements their plans on the experience hithertogained eldest son of Mr. W., Plummer, Direc- as to the causes responsible for the tor of Bidston Observatory, Birkenhead, full mourning till the 6th June. foundering of ships. That a huge ship and nephew of Mr. John I. Plummer;
The Sovereigns and Parliaments of would by any aischance be driven at practi-Inte of the Hongkong Observatory, has WHISKY mountain of ice would never enter into the land. Mr. Plummer, who is one of the sympathy to Denmark,
The King had been at Nice resting, as builder's calculations. We have seen no rising astronomers of the day, has done
some excellent work at the Lick Observa-he was suffering from arterial sclerosis, suggestion made that in any other way tory in Arizona. His younger brother is The body, which is laid on a mass of bow- could such damage have been done to practising as a chartered accountant in A BLEND OF THE FINEST PURE great ship as was done to the Titanic. The Singapore.
first icsson, therefore, was that the lanes.
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of the songoing fleet on the other. The not be made to give the Dominions a
effectively operative upon designs and in time of peace of any naval forces types peculiar to their own arms. He
which, with our help, they bring to effi- was deeply sensible of the kindness with cent existeres. In time of war we know
one wish, to encounter the enemy wherever there is need and the danger most severe. The important thing is that the gaus should be filled so that while we in the old country guard the decisive centres our
cally full speed along, the ragged side of a been appointed Astronomer Royal of Iminany countries have sent messages of which the new office had been treated by our countrymen overseas will we only
after the loss of the Tilanic. It is no con-
for a divisional command in India. Aa! a brigadier-general he did excellent ser vice on the north-west. frontier. RECEPTION FOR DR. SUN VAT-SEN
of aavigation across the Atlantic should be MAJOR-GENERAL ANDERSON, C.B. moved further south, to avoid the iceberg
The Pioneer military correspondent danger. That change was promptly made mentions that there is probability of denration of the leviathan ship that one ing at Hongkong, being selected later on Major-General Anderson now command should have been lost. Hundreds of ships, many of them not much smaller E has maintained the re-than the Titanit, had been constantly taking the same course, and though many putation of the FINEST doubtless had suffered more or less seriously by collision with loo, and one or two ships SCOTCH WHISKY in the
an known to have foundered, yet it required the loss of the world's largest ship and FAR EAST.
the most perfect from the marine architect's standpoint before the controlling authorities deemed it necessary to prohibit liners from inversing navigation lanes in which ice fices are liable to le met at a certain season of the year. This simply goes to show how confident everybody has been tha adisaster
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A Hamburg message states that the King was returning from the Riviera ac companied by the Queen and children,
LATER.
TEE GERMAN. NAVY.
men of every shade of politics. That showed the important fact, well-known to Great Britain, but which could not be too well-known outside, that though we have several parties, we have only one Navy. It is well that this should be so for comrades and brothers across the seas keep we live in times of increasing strain. Į the flag flying on the oceans of the world. Every month witnesses measured develop ments of tremendous forces against which we are bound to guard ourselves. My duty is to go again to Parliament this year for men, money, and material. The policy of naval concentration, which has lately been brought to its final act, has given a real measure of security to the heart of the Empire, but the fact that the fleet must be concentrated at the decisive theatres of European waters
creates a now want, a new need, and a new
ON SHAMEEN.
The Commissioner of Maze, had a
Customs, Mr. large garden party on
A message from Hamburg states that Tuesday, 14th, which was attended by last night the King was quite well Dr. Sun Yat-sen. Most of the Shameen and expressed pleasure at being able Foreign Community, including many efto return to Copenhagen in the best of opportunity for the great self-govern- the Consuls, were present and were inte duced to Dr. Sun. Tea was served on the health to-day. At about ten o'clock, ing Dominions. We should always be in lawn and Dr. Sun remained till about according to his habit, he went for a
a position to overcome the strongest com- He short walk, unaccompanied.
was bination of powers." We believe we are overcome with faintness near the hotel
in that position now and the immediate where Their Majesties were staying. He future, but the war may be protracted was not recognised, and was conveyed and indecisive,
It is more likely that
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and we save sem no suggestion nude that a ship so constructed could by any other conceivable accident defeat the ingenuity of the builders. Therefore, we doubt whether yesterday, a Chinese was sentenced by unconscious to hospital. His prolonged that was will never come in our time.
THE MAGISTRACY
a boat at Shaukiwan For stealing Mr. Irving to six weeks' hard labour.
A man was arrested in Water Street on Wednesday night for selling obscue pictures, and was charged before Mr. Melbourne yesterday with being a rogue and a vagabond. He was sent to gaol for
a month.
absence alarmed his suite, who took steps to discover his whereabouts, and in the early hours of the morning the body was brought to the hotel. His Majesty had been suffering from arterial sclerosis
LATER.
Meanwhile, pending the decision in the critical theatres, the general mobliity of our fleet, reduced at-present and for some years egne, we are only able to maintain sufficient margin in home waters at decisive points, but by making special
LONDON, May 18th.
Mr. Winston Churchill announced in the House of Commons that Germany's
extra new naval construction bill for the year totalled £42,456, of which £7,847 had been set apart for airships and the remainder for submarines. He informed Mr. Godfrey Collins that he should certainly have to present the sup- plementary estimates to the House of Commons.
BRITISH INQUIRY INTO THE "TITANIC" DISASTER.
LONDON, May 16th.
The curt was crowded when the Titanic quiry was resumed.
The second office of the Californian testified to seeing a number of rockets He admitted that they resembled distress siguals, but thought they were private signals He was sure the vessel was not the Tiurnis
the loss of the Titanic in these circumstances proclaims a halt to the building of bigger shipu. Larger ships, indeed, are being built at the present moment. Many years, no douts, will pass before we see such leviathans inthe Eastera waters, but the tendency in those waters is constantly towards the bigger ship. Most of the principal passenger stean- ship companies will have larger vessels en. gaged in the Easter trade next year-ships zaaging from 10,000 to 17,000 tons-and it a youth of bad character who was charged in the most brief and formal fashion-colonics whose vital interests are menaced that the vessel was the Titanic.
with snatching a gold earring. Another
is by no means uslikely that their number,
Six months' hard labour, four hours' stocks and banishment was the sentence imposed by Mr. Melbourne yesterday on
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The chief officer testified also that he took that view when told of the rockets. A wire from Copenhagen states that arrangements, effecting partial mobilisa-There were no references in the log book the Premier appeared on the balcony oftion we can in case of need fit out and the Amalienborg Palace, and announced despatch strong squadrons to aid any
of the events of that night
The third officer said he was satisfied
Lord Mersey, interjecting--That's my opinion, too.
King Frederick is dead. Long live King or attacked. That is a duty we are able Christian the Tonth!" The King and proud to discharge. It is a duty we thereupon presented himself to the do not hesitate to run the risks of dis- normous crowd and announced the discharging. We do not hesitate to make
AMERICAN TRAIN ROBBERY, tressing death of his father. He promised sacrifices for the protection of the self-
LONDON, May 18th. devotion to the welfare of his country, governing. Dominions, and, when I speak and appealed for the support of all this, I mean not only by general sea bandits held up the New York express A wire from New Orleans states that patriotic Danes. His speech was received supremady which operates simultaneously meaHattisburg They dynamited the tion Ordinance for bail for a
The first application under the Deporta-with prolonged cheers.
and universally in every quarter of the express cay escaping with £28,000, The custody was made by Mr. Lewis (John-mark in Hongkong, has been notified by wan in [Mr. G. Friesland, Consul for Den- aton, Stokes & Master) before Mr. Irving the Ministry for Foreign Affairs at
passengers were not riolested. yesterday. Mr. Irving said he would Copenhagen that the funeral of His accept bail in a personal bond of $500 will take place on the 24th inst.]
Majesty the late King Frederick VIII, and a drety of $500.
ALLEGED SENSATIONAL STATE- MENT BY THE KAISER.
if not their size, will be increased within a youth who was with him was discharged. very few years after the Panama Canal is
Two Chinese were charged yesterday opened to trafile. The tendency towards the with lying the white pigeon," in other bigger ship has been a subject of serious words, endeavouring to obtain money by concern to ports like Southampton and the sale of a girt. The case was remanded, Liverpool, for it has involved heavy expendi-bail of 8600 being asked for. Mr. F. X. ture en dredging and dock works in order to d'Almada e Castro appeared for one of provide for the larger liners. When we have the defendents. the Paul Lernts of the Messageries Maritimesi the Bremens of the N.D.I.; the larger vessels which the C.P.R. and the N.V.K. companies are building for the Eastern traffic, not to mention the Minnesota, the big ships of the Pacific Mail, the Toyé Kisen Kaisha, the Holt steamers, and no doubt we shall pre. santly be able to add the larger liner of the P& O., the problem of accommodation
Three small boys appeared before Mr. in the harbours of the East will need Irving yesterday charged with stealing a WHETHER the loss of the Titanic on berserious attention. We have on previous cout and wrist watch the property of maiden voyage will check the growing ten-occasions foreshadowed the need in Hong-court in Kowloon on Tuesday last, Capt. Capt. Crawford, R.G.A., at a tennia dency towards the 100,000 ton ship is koog, and the announcements made by Crawford question likely to be productive of an shipping companies since have but served interesting discussion at the forthcoming to plusise the warning. International Navigation Congress at Phila- delphia, for the agonda which was propared
The Daily Press.
HONGKONG, May 17ru, 1912.
It has been directed that all revenue
said he Left his sant
on the court and went into the pavilion and when he returned his coat was gone. He identified a. watch produced as bis property. The first defendant was sen- tenced to ten strokes with the birch, and 48 hours' detention, the second to six
tion, and the third was discharged.
LONDON, May 18th.
telegrams from Strasburg reporting that A stir has been created in Germany by
the Raiser while conversing with the Burgomaster expressed his displeasure et the uncompromising behaviour of the newly constituted Alsace Legislature. He said he might show his unpleasant side to
and joining it to Prossia.
probable further increase in the size of additional Indian troops sent from India strokes with the birch and 48 hours' deten- the province by repealing its constitution
THE HONGKONG RIFLE LEAGUE
Matches fired through the season:-
The following is the result of the League
R. N. Dockyard
8.
P2
B
B
$
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7
5
2
-3
3
1
4. I
3
Taikoo Rifle Club RN. Musketry Staff H.M.S. Monmouth II.K. Volunteer Corps Volunteer Reserves... 5 K.OY.L.I.... Hongkong Police Volunteer Scouts Co.
LATER.
A Berlin message states that Herr. Colshorn, of the Guelph party, profiting
by a new rule, gave notice of his intention to ask a question in the Reichstag regard- ing the Kaisher's threat to Ale
·AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE ACT.
LONDON, May 18th.
some time ago showed that one of the principal subjects of discussion was to be the and expenditure in connection with the ocean-going vessels. Mr. E. L. CORTHELL, for service
at Hongkong should be an American, who has written very learnedly
credited or debited to the Imperial on the subject on several occasions, and Government at Home. illustrate i his observations by means of much
Mr. William Preece, son of Sir William statistical matter, has compiled a paper Priect, the famous telephone export, has in which he predicts that in 1948 we shall been in Ipoh in connection with the pro- bare ships of 1,100 feet. Lord PIRRIE, pond acheme for long distance telephony who is well on his way to 1,000 feet in 1912, through the Peninsula. He is to report will probably consider that to be a pea on the scheme to the FM.8. Government. aimistio estimate, although it is based on the rate of progross in the past. Mr C The Chinese boatswain of the Biceph LEEMANS, of Amsterdam, is, at any rate, cl, who was caught marking small- much more heroic in the estimate which he Pos contacts with a chop, imitating that has prepared, for his belief is that in a few sed by the quamntine authorities, and years there will be "Atlantic liners of from sentenced at Singapore to six months' im- taking money for doing so, has been 70,000 to 75,000 tons gross, and in a genera-prisonment. tion liners of 100,000 tons gross. Mr. J. FOSTER KING, the chief surveyor of the At the opium sale at Calcutta, on May British Corporation, is also amongst the 1st, 1,770 chests were offered and the total prospective contributors of papers; but we proceeds were Rs. 60,60,175 againt: Rs. have not seen how for he is inclined to go in 58,04,175 for
same Timber of an estimate of the probable increase of liner cherts at the last sale. Exactly tile dimensions. Ship-canal experts like Herr same number of chests of Bihar and
A telegram from Melbourne states that YON THIERRY, of Berlin, who in a member of Benares opium were offered as at the last In the billiard competition at the Sea the Victorian Ministry will shortly be sels, but the average prices on May 1st Tamar beat E Silva of the Eastern T reconstructed, Mr. Watt to be Premier in the International Technical Commission of the Suez Canal, and M. QuELLENAC, of Paris, Proceeds were Rs. 60,30,178 against Rs. graph Company, the latter being at 100 succession to Mr. Murray, who, however,
3,791 and Rs. 2,701 at the April sale.
retains the office of Chief Secretary?
the
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INTERPORT RIFLE MATCH.
The Practices on Saturday and Sunday next will be held at Taikoo Range at 2.30
.m. and 0.30 am. respectively.
Riflemes are requested to attend these Practices as the team will as far as pos sible bo selected on Monday next.
BILLIARDS.
men's Institute, Barnard of H.M.§.
when the former ran out (260).
globe, but by the despatch, if necessary, of particular squadrons to any part of AMERICAN DISASTER. the Empire where special dangers might
LONDON, May 10th. menace our fellow-countrymen. That we
A New Orleans message states that the eŵn do now and next year and in the Hymelia lovee burst, ausing enormous years immediately before us.
Still we
damage, afecting 1,000 square miles and must recognise that with every new deve- i
60,000 people, lopment of the continental navies, with nyery step of the ceascless accumulation
in naval strength with which we are con- fronted, the worldwide mobility of the
And here is the great opportunity for British navy becomes sensibly restrictect
the Dominions, those strong young nations which have grown up under the shelter of the British flag, by the stimulus of its protection. They have already begun to seize it. Already we have seen the development in Australia of a strong
modern Beet unit. Now Zealand has con- tributed a noble ship to the general service of the British navy, and in Canada men
HOME CRICKET.
LONDON, May 10th. The Yorkshire and Surrey match ended in a draw owing to rain.
ENGLISH RACING.
LONDON, May 18th, The result of the Newmarket Stake is:
Cylgad
Tagalie
Catmint
9
3
Five ran. Cylgad won by two length, a similar distance separating second and third.
Betting: 00 to € against Cylgad, # to against Tagalie, and 100 to 6 against Catmint.
THE SUGAR DUTY:
LONDON, May 16th. In the House of Commons, Mr. J. C. Wedgwood, M.. P. for Newcastle-under- Lyme, moved that the sugar duty be abolished.
of all parties. and both races are deeply stirred over the problem of the share which the great Dominion should take A telegram from Broken Hill states that and of the guns whereby it and all the as a sequel to the fining of a Bocilaist for others paris of the Empire are to be kept preventing has son from drilling, the free from harm. We shall soon receive miners balloted on the question of the the representatives of the new Canadian retention of the Defence Act. The result Administration who are coming to consult of the ballot was favourable to the re-the Government, and the Admiralty as tention of the Act.
to the course of policy which should be
Mr. Lloyd George regretted his inability adopted in future. If the main naval
to accept the motion, because they were developments of the last ten years unable to deal with the matter immediate have begun a concentration of British ly. No resource was available except new flects in decisive theatres, it is
taxation if the sugar duty was abolished. not unlikely that in the main naval Therefore he could not encourage any developments of the next ten years there hope at the present stage.
VICTORIAN PARLIAMENT..
LONDON, May 16th
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