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THE HONGKONG DAILY PREM, THETSDAT, MAY 23RD, 1911.

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There is to be a King's birthly TELEGRAMS TELEGRAMS. TELEGRAMS.

parade by the Troups on Monday mera- ing, June 3rd, on the Hongkong Cricket Club ground.

The master of a licensed fishing junk reports that while fishing off Waglan the steamer Loongsang collided with his jank and caused two boys to fall overboard, both of whom wers, drowned.

TAFT is to be condemned for this, the whole policy of the Government of the United States from the very beginning of the occupation of the islands must fall under the same condemnation. Eat this is not what the supporters of Mr. BooBrver desire." They rejected at a recent meeting in Masila an amendment to their platform, which submitted that the further continuanos of the present unsettled condition of these W. C. Jack, of Messrs. William islands is a wrong to all the inhabitants Jack & Co, who has been in a poor ente thereof; that the Philippines must always be of health for some time past, left by the and must remain American territory; and Mongolin on a holiday. Dr. J W. that future dealings batween the govern Noble was o passenger by the samo mount and the Filipino people should be

stearner. frankly on that basis." Though few at the meeting appear to have had the courage to support this amendment, the "Roosevelt platform" drawn up in Manila means pre- cisely that or nothing at all. This mani- feste suggests that it should be made clear to all that the geographical position of these islands, the central and most important

WHISKY part of the insular fence which guards the coast of Asin, must forever prevent the possibility of the setting up of a weak nation, another Kore to be the prey of A BLEND OF THE FINEST PURE nscrupulous neighbours, to the undoing of the native inhabitants and the destruction of our own Asiatic interests," auf further that "it should be mele clear to the Filipino people that a diplomatic service and an adequate army and navy for the defence of these islands would involve the imposition For over 30 Years WATSON'S of taxes so heavy as to be beyond the power of the people to pay, and, unless Ber "E" has maintained the resources of taxation could be found, would lead to speedy national bankruptcy and putation of

the FINEST foreign occupation." The utter futility of attempting to preserve neutrality or even SCOTCH WHISKY in the

the "open door" in the near neighbourhood of nations which are armed, powerful and FAR EAST.

ambitious, by meux paper treaties" is re- cited, and the document goes on to state the belief that the Filipino and American peoples should be made to realise that "the Filipino people are not ready for independence, that there is no real prospect that the day will come during the life of any now.

S. WATSON

& CO., LTD.,

ALEXANDRA Buildings.

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but are these

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Four dead bodies were discovered by the police on Tuesday. One was found off the rocks at Cosmopolitan Dock, the second was at Hunghom, and the third was at Samsuipo. The fourth was found on a buoy in the harbour, having appar- ently been dumped from a sampan.

{THROUGH BEUTER'S AGENOT.]

THE SIX-POWER LOAN.

"THE AUSTRIAN" APPLICATION.

LONDON, May 22nd.

[YHROUGH REUTER'E AGINCY.]

LIFE-SAVING APPARATUS ON

SHIPS.

{TARGUOS REUTER'S AGENCY.]

FRENCH POLITICS.

LONDON, May 22nd.

M. Delcassó has declined nomination for the office of President of the Frencia Chamber of Deputies.

LONDON, May 22nd. The House of Comnions discussing the A Parie telegram states that it is vote for the Board of Trade, passed severe understood that it has been intimated criticisms on the Marine Department in that the Austrias proposal for inclusion connection with life-saving apparatus. in the Six-Power group would make the Mr. Sydney Buxton said the Government scheine unworkable, but that every, was consulting with Germany with a view facility would be offered to Austria for to convening an International Conference London School of Tropical Medicine in that connection. This, however, would £10,000 bequeathed to him by Lord financial: participation in, the loan.

not delay the issue of amended regula-Wandsworth, for the purpose of medical tions by the Department. The time was research.

THE OPIUM QUESTION.

LONDON, May 22nd. ripe for the extension of wireless, and he Sir Edward Grey, replying to Mr. Was considering the expediency of some Recs, in the House of Commons, said form of compulsion. Ninety-five per cont. that the Government understood that the of the shipowners assured him that they

TROPICAL RESEARCH,

LONDON, May 22nd, Sir William Bennett has given to the

OBITUARY.

LONDON, May 22.

The death has occurred of Sir Julius

H. L. Holma, RG.A, Lieut. C. A. present Provisional Chinese Government intended to provide their ships with Wernher, a member of Wernher: Beit &

Major A. D. Waring, R.A.M.C., Capt. Hume-Spry, R.G.A., Lieut. A. P. W.

was as earnest as its predecessor regard-suficient boats to accommodate all on Wedd, R.E., B.G.A., 25 men of the

board. R.E., 20 N.0.0.'sand men, lating the suppression of opium growing, R.O.Y.L.I. and various ether details but if any reluctance was displayed to have returned to Hongkong from take over its obligations in that connec Hankow.

tion, the whole question of the agreement would be raised.

THE MAGISTRACY.

THE MOTOR CAR PROSECUTION.

The Indian chaffeur who was charged. by the Hon. Mr. Clementi with hailing to give notice of the approach of his motor car was fined $10 or 14 days in prison.

AN UNLICENSED DAIRY.

GERMAN FORCES IN CHINA:

4R STRIKE THREATENED. |

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DEATH OF MR. A. J. BASTO, OF MACAO. LONDON, May 22nd.

Macao has just lost by the death of The transport workers seem disposed to take up the cause of the London lighter-one of its most prominent and must highly Commendador Antonio Joaquim Raste,

men, bringing to a complete standstill the trade of the port of London, and even a general strike is regarded as not im

LONDON, May 2nd. The Budget Committee in the Reich-probable.. stag has sanctioned the supplementary estimate for Kinuchau, amounting to 650,000 marks, to cover the expense of

LATEE

Mr. Sydney Buxton, President of the Board of Trade, speaking in the House

of a Court to inquire into the dispute in the Port of London,

Inspector Bullen, of the Sanitary De protecting German iatorests during the of Commons, announced the appointment Mattos, and subsequently went to Coa

"partment, prosecuted Wong Hing, of 109, Queen's Road East, ou a charge of keep ing a dairy without a licence. He had a licence for an eating louse, but lailed to take out one for the dairy. He was. fined to by Mr. Irving.

ENATCHER PUNISHED.

disturbances.

THE LATE KING OF DENMARK.

LONDON, May 22nd. Prince Arthur of Connaught in re-

respected citizens, and members of this Portugueso community throughout the Far East will learn the news with the deepest regret. He died on Monday night at his residence. The deceased was educated at the Royal College of Bt. Joseph at Macao in the early sixties, under the Jesuit Fathers Rondina and

(Portuguese India) ・to study law, where he obtained his diplome As advocate and has since been practising in Macao (and occasionally also in Shanghai). For forty years be contioned Mr. Bonar Law addressed five thou-Ito enjoy a well-earned reputation as the

East. He served several times Attorney-General or. Delegate of the

INDUSTRIAL UNREST.

LONDON, May 2nd.

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A Chinese was sentenced to two month presenting King George at the obsequies sand Unionists at Glasgow, and dealt leading Portuguese barrister in the Far

PETTY THEFTE

living when they will be ready, that hard labour and tom strokes vitor the when they are ready they will no birch for larceny from the person He more desire it than do the inhabitants of with another had followed a little girl any other part of the national domain, and into Graham Strect, where she had gone that is very truth the best proof of readi. to call her brother. The two mon snatch- ness will be the disappearanes of any desire ed the rattan bangles, mounted with gold, therefore," This may be all true enough, from her wrists and made off, bat the girl having given the alarm a district Views of Mr. ROOSEVELT? If so, his views must have watchman gave chase and succeeded in undergone considerable change since he arresting the defendant. occupied the White House. In his last

A Chinose was sentenced to fourteen Message to Congress (December, 1908) Mr days' imprisonment for being in unlaw BOORVELY commented on the marvellourful posscasion of fancy goods. success" which had attended the introduction of self-government in the islands, and said ho trusted that" within a generation” the Filipinos would be able to decide for them selves whether they would continue to enjoy the protection of the United States or onter upon an independent course. We have no recollection et Mr. Tarr giving to the

A fine of ton dollars or fourteen days in prison was the punishment meted out to a Chinese who was convicted of steal- ing a quantity of building

Wanchai

egterial from

A passenger on the 8.8. Kwongtung wa ordered to receive twalve strokes with

of King Frederick and has started for Copenhagen. Queen Alexandra and the Empress Marie will leave later.

THE PRINCE OF WALES.

London, May 2nd. The Prince of Wales has arrived at Toulon, and proceeded on board the battleship Dantan, on board which luncheon party was given in his honour. Afterwards the fleet weighed, anchor and

proceeded to aca.

LORD HALDANE FOR GERMANY. AGAIN..

LONDON, May 22nd. The newspapers announce that Lord Haldane starts to-night for Berlin, where

the birch and to be detained for sight he will stay for ten or twelve days on

Order for extra sapien of DAILY PR Filipino politicians a promise more welcome hours for having stolen a bundle of cloth-purely private busines

should be sent before 11 am. on day of

publication. After that hour the supply

10 limited. Only supply for Cash.

Telegraphic Addr: 12.985

Code: 4.B.C. 5th Ed. Ener

P. O. Bon., 84. Telephone No. 12.

HONGKONG. OFFICH : 104, Dus Vœux Roan

NDON OFFION: 131, FLEET STRANT, EO

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Daily Press.

HONGKONG, Max 25kd, 1912.

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It is now announced that Mr. Haldane is

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Crown and Revenue, and as Judge and Protector of the Chinese. He took a very active interest in public affairs in Macao,” and had served three terms as President.

with the causes of industrial unrest. said the one remedy was co-partnership, but the State could do much by a change in the fiscal system.

Mr. Bonar Law made attack on of the Municipality of the Colony, and.. Home Rule,

BRITISH NAVAL DEFENCE.

LONDON, May 22nd. Mr. Asquith and Mr. Churchill have left for Genea for a naval innection of

Malta and Gibraltar

THE NAVAL ESTIMATES.

LONDON, May 22nd. The Morning Post says it is under- stood that the question of adding a Dreadnought to the naval estimates under discussion.

ATTRACTIONS OF NAVAL SERVICE ́

LONDON, May 22nd.

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had long been a member of the Govern- ment Council. In the course of his career the had neted as Secretary of the Portu- guese: Diplomatic Mission to Japan and Sigm for the revision of treaties; and for fifteen years acted as French Consular Agent in Macao, subsequently being appointed honorary Vice Consul there. When he resigned this office, Mr. Besto received from the French Government a Flatter of cordial thanks for the services

he had rendered.

Mr. Basto had many decorations, in- cluding the following-Chevalier and K.C of the Military Order of our Lord Jesus Christ (Portugal); the Order of the Rising Sun (Japan); the Order of the Crown of Siam ; the Order of Redemp- tion of the Republic of Liberia;; and Chevalier of the Legion d'Honneur. Mr.

than this. Now, however, the supportersing from another traveller on the steamer. of Mr. BoosEvaLz'a candidature for a For stealing a bird in a cage which third torm as President tell him that was hanging outside a shop in Wanchay naking his annual holiday trip to Ger- The Admiralty is considering the ques- Basto was a fellow of the Geogiaphical

the

experiment of granting extensive |political power to the Filipinos has been a failure, and that "justead of their having demonstrated their right to an inercase thereof, appropriate steps should be taken to provide necessary restrictions as safeguards." Whether these views commend themselves to Mr. ROOSEVELT or to the majority of Americans in the islands we do not know The Roosevelt Club has a membership of 650, and we learn from one of the speeches at the recent meeting in Manila that there are 5,000 Americans in the islands of whom 4,000 are Republicans. So far as declara-

A GLANCE at the Manila newspapers shows that the excitement of the Prest dential Election campaign now in progress in the United States is being fully shared by Americans in the Philippines, Ations of policy by the rival candidates are **Roosevelt Club” has been formed there, concerned we have been unable to discover a "platform" has been published, dealing that they differ in the smallest degree as exclusively with the policy of the United regards what polies should be pursued by States as regards the Philippines, a meeting the United States in the Philippines, has been held, and delegates appointed

to the Republican National Convention at

The Rev. C. Moyle, the new chaplain

Chicago. In the "platform" we are told to St. John's Cathedral, and Mrs. Moylo that the one colossal blunder of the arrived here yesterday on board the United States in the islands can be Hirano Maruin, epitomised in three words,WILLIAM HOWLED TAFT The charge made against Mr. Tam by the Roosevelt Club is that in his governance of the Philippines be bas fostered, upheld and catered to the very Filipino politicos hota he at times, ao

A boy was sent to the hospital from the Connaught Aerated Water Factory at Wanchai suffering from injuries to his hand caused by the bursting of a bottle.

Four boatweinen wore yesterday fined 83 each by Commander Beckwith,

R.N..

a Chinese was yesterday sentenced to one month's hard labour.

possession of

any, which the coal strike in the easterntion of rendering the Service more Societies of Lisbon and London, and besides having written ectoral paniphlets he edited the now defuncthewspaper. counties compelled him to postpone. He attractive. The first stop will be an increase of pay to the seamen and will not visit Berlin..

Macemise. Mr. Basto, engaged in jour- stokere, and the application of canteen naliam for over thirty years, and was on GERMAN ARMY AND NAVY BILLS: profits to pensions for dependents of one occasion prosecuted by the Govern- men dying or disabled while in the Ser-ment for libel, but secured an acquittal

vice.

on appeal to the Supreme Court at Giða.

Socially Mr. Basto was one of the most genial of men, and extremely popular, and the deepest sympathy is felt for the widow and family in their ad bereave ment Mr. Basto leaves five sons and a little daughter.

LONDON; May 22nd. The Reichstag has passed the third reading of the new Army and Navy Billo.

DE REVENUE OFFICERS CHARGED.

The case was continued in which three revenue officers were charged before Mr. C. D. Melbourne with having assaulted Four Chinese and endeavoured to force them to make admissions concerning # charge of being in opium that has been preferred against them. The four men had been charged in the first instance with having been in possession of opium on the 2.8. Loongeang, and the witness called yesterday stated that the four of them

LONDON, May 22nd. were taken to the Harbour Office, where they were assaulted and asked to admit

The Reichstag has decided to postpone that the opium found on the ship be longed to them. They all declined to do the reduction of the sugar tax, in order so except the witness who, fearing farther to meet the new military expenditure. ill-treatment which he could not stand in his weak state of health consented to admit that the oplunk was his. The hearing was adjourned.

WHEAT-GROWING IN PLACE OF OPIUM.

The export of opium at Ichang last year decreased from 8,075 to 18 ewts. The Szechuan drug arrives at Ichang in likin junks from Chungking and is Maritime transhipped through the Customs. The value of the total exports from [chang was, in consequence of the

earnestly and truthfally condemned," and for approaching within thirty feet of the practical extinction of opium, only about

that be has largely ignored and neglected

2. Kutsany without reasonable excuse.. the real Filipino people who had been confided to his care! We beard othing of all this At a sale of Chinese porcelain in New when Mr. TAFT was elected President of York last month, Mr. John Gets paid The United States three years ago. He was 80,100 gold for a large club-shaped vase en hailed by the Americans residing in of the Kang-hei period, with a fine the Philippines as out who knew the landscape decoration. neods of the Philippines and who could be A Peking telegram says it is the trusted to do "the right thing." Mr. Tarr opinion of financial experts there that had bees President of the Philippines if the international loan is paid to China Commission and Governor-General of the in silver there will be an unprecedented Islanda, and to him had been entrusted the advance in the price of silver There is task of arrying out in the Philippines the some talk of recommending that the broad general policy of the Government as greater portion of the loan be paid in dictated by President McKINLEY and gold to prevent an inordinate advane adopted by President ROOSEVELT. If Mr. in silver.

GERMAN POLITICS.

ITALY AND TURKEY

LONDON, May 22nd, The Italians have captured the island

of Gos.

UNREST IN PERSIA

LONDON, May 22nd.

A telegram frum Teheran states that the report that Yeprim, the Persian chief

AMERICAN PRESIDENTIAL

ELECTION

LONDON, May 22nd. A telegram from Columbus states that beavy voting is taking place in conser

The funeral took place on Tuesday. tion with the presidential primary elec

The large body of mourners included the tions in Ohio especially in the cities Church Body with the four crosses of where the voting is largely in favour of the four parish churches, and the full congregation of St. Joseph's College with President Taft. The famers, who are the Seminarists.

supposed to favour Col. Roosevelt, are behind with their corn pishting, and are not voting as numerously as was ex- pected.

FRANCE IN MOROCCO.

NAVAL SHIPBUILDING.

54 BRITISE VESSELS ON THE STOCKS."

According to Lloyds Register of Ship ping the tonnage of British warships under construction is as follows

Battleships Devonport and Parts- mouth two each, 48,000 tons displace ment in both At yards three of 57,500 displacement

LONDON, May 22nd. A telegram from Mogador says that the of police, was treacherously murdered is tribesmen of the Sus and Agloo districts discredited. He was shot from a fort have proclaimed Mala Min Sultan of which WBS believed to have been the Sus district. The movement is anti-00,450 tons displacement. M

one-seventh of the value of the previous year, Mr. Hewlett, the Acting British evacuated. Yeprim's followers after French, and is supported by influential Consul at Ichang, in his annual report wards stormed the fort and killed all Kaids. draws attention to the fact that wheat inside. appears in the returns for the first time. This commodity, he says, is now grown in many parts of Szechuan which were formerly devoted to the poppy, and the 1911 crop was exceptionally fine.

BILLIARDS.

Two more games in the billiard tourua- ment at the Seamen's Institute have been played Byan (str. Fatthan) best Gor- man (H.M.8. Tomar) by 20; and Turner beat Gate.

SENTENCED TO SIBERIA.

LUNDON, May 22nd. Mr. Acland, in his statement in the House of Commons concerning Miss Malecka, who had been sentenced to im prisonment for consorting with revolu tionarien, mid that the Russian Govern- ment had stated that there was incon trovertible proof of Miss Maleck's Russian nationality.

CROSS-CHANNEL FLIGHT.

LONDOS, May 22nd. The Belgian aviator Cronberg ascended at Nieuport Bains and few to Canter bury, dropped salutations to Britain, and returned in the direction of Calais with out alighting

CAPT. AMENDBEN AT MONTE,

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Armoured crisers.At Royal Dock- yard none. At private yards four of

Protected cruisers At Chatham one of 5,400 tons displacement. At private yards four of 21,600 tons displacement.

Third clas cruisers. At Pembroke two of 6,880 tons displacement,At private. yards none.

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Torpedo-bost destroyers-At Royal Dockyarde Bone. At Brivate yards of 20,580 tons displacement.

Submarines.At Chathan four of 3,160 tons displacement. At Barrow nine of 7,170 tone displacement.

Total of all classes: British, 545 f 319,770 tons displacement.NE

At private yards there were building at the end of the quarter, classified as foreign or not stated, three battle- LONDON, May 22nd. hips of 78,000 tons displacement, one armoured cruiser of 20,000 tons displace- Capt. Amundsen has reached Monte ment, one cont, and ons torpedo-bont

destroyer.