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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, JUNE 17th 1912.

resort, when all hope of civilisation is We understand that a Christian Science TELEGRAMS. | TELEGRAMS. ĮTELEGRAMS.

lecturer will visit Hongkong in the middle of next month and deliver a lecture under the auspices of the local Society,

(THROUGH REUTER'S JOENCY.]

THE DOCKERS' STRIKE.

TERRORISM IN THE EAST END.

THROUGH REUTER'S AGENOT.]

ANTI-HOME RULE DEMONSTRA-

TION.

[FROM THE CHEUNG NOOI SAN FO."]

MUTINY IN SHANTÙNG.

SHANGHAI, June 16th,

LONDON, June 15th.

The soldiers in Tainantu, the capital Mr. Walter Long and Sir Edward Car- of Shantung, mutinied on the 14th inst., son wore the chief speakers at the grant owing to dissatisfaction caused by arrears Shops were looted, and the anti-Home Rule demonstration in the of pay. Albert Hall, which was attended by dele-Governor sought refuge in the Beman gates from the whole Kingdom, including Catholic Mission. Subsequently the Pifth strong contingents of Ulstermen and Pro-

Regiment succeeded in suppressing the tentants from South Ireland.

revolt and restoring order. All the fervent enthusiasm was displayed.

foreigners in the city are safe.

The most

abandoned. We have reached a point in the industrial life of the world when in the same way strikes should be regarded us ultimate measures, not forbidden by the law, indeed, since every man has the right to sell his labour at his own price, but rendered less necessary by the provision of Bome machinery to affect conciliation. Such machinery is provided in the Australasian Dominions in the shape of compulsory Arbi tration Courts, and although the working of these has not in all cases proved as satis factory as could be wished, they give tho germ of a scheine, which, minus the cou- pulsory classes, might be adopted in Great Britain. The great objection the men have to the Australasian legislation is that it deprives them of one of their strongest means of attack-that is, a sudden strike, leaving the masters helpless. Under the New Zealand law, all strikes must be preceded by a certain member of days' notice, under penalty of a fine. This, of course, gives the masters time to replace the men ant on atrike, who may find themselves shut

At the Magistracy on Saturday, a out. This can only result in further ill-feeling, which is quite contrary to Chinese woman who had been accusted the purpose of may conciliation schemes, by a Jukong who suspected her of having The compulsory element in the Austral.kidnapped a child was charged with vised the men to resume work, as the men asian legislation is also objectionable, attempting to bribe the constable. Mr. in the other ports had not come out, as

Stokes- & Lewis (Johnson,

Master) expected. since it presupposes that the men workl rather strike than appeal to any con-appeared for the defendant. The lakông stated that the woman promised him Som omy and put her hand in her stituted authority. It is unjustifiable to suppose this, however, and if

pocket to get the money out. As, how

give him any money. discharged.

General Digby Barker, on whom the King has just conferred the G.C.B. de

LONDON, June 15th. coration, is the father of Lady May. He

With signs of the defeat of the strike, was the General Officer Commanding here in the early nineties, and in 1891 he was appointed to Administer the Government there are many instances of terrorism in during the interval between the retire the Enet End, where the strikers are ment of Sir Williun Des Voeux and the maltreating the workers. arrival of Sir William Robinson. Barker The Rov. Lionel Lewis, Vicar of White- Rond was named after him.

chapel, writes that there are a thousand The tide of Chinese Immigrants to workers hiding in the docks afraid to go

Sir Edward Carson, who was the chief Singapore Fays the Free Press, is not flowing quite so freely just now-despite home. Ho further states that gangs of the crowded junks and tongkangs occa-strikers wait in the back streets, where speaker, said that Ulster was determined sionally to be seen, In May 1912 32,529 they beat and kick the workers; they that the Home Rule Bill, even if passed, arrived as against 6,246 in May 1911, escape unobserved, leaving their victims would become dead us an Act of Parlia and an average of 24,065 for the last senseless. A regular reign of terror pre-ment. Ulster accepted the Government's ten years. The totals for the five months vails, and he emphasises that the troops declaration of war. Sir Edward Carson: of 1911 and 1912, are 141,500 and 119,483, should protect the docks, leaving the concluded:-- We are not altogether unpro- against an average of 108,471 for ten palice to protect the workers in the pared, and now is the time to take a stepmates the western wheat crop at 2,500 years."

a board was

Defendant

streets.

ADVISED TO RESUME WORK.

The Bristol strike committee has ad-

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COLONIAL HELP PROMISED.

LATER.

Though the Strike Committee, in manifesto issued yesterday declared the was position more promising than ever, Mr. Ben Tillett assured an audience of strikers that the workers in Australia, New Zealand and America were prepared Two cases of to help them.

E has maintained the re-constituted which by its absoluts impartiree, a crowd had gathered she did not

ality won the confidence of the men it is the FINEST only natural to suppose that the men would putation

prefer it to encountering the miseries of a the SCOTCH WHISKY in

strike. It might even be inadvisable to make the decisions of such an Arbitration FAR EAST.

Court binding on either side; the weight of public opinion would probably be suffi- cicat to cause either the masters or the men, according to which was concerned, to come into line with the finding of the Court. The

COLLAPSE EXPECTED.

Weismano's popular Café is having ifs business seriously disturbed by the Sanitary authorities. plague, we understand, have recently

The Anal collapse of the strike is ex- occurred on the large premises of which but Cafe forms part, Weismann's although the cases did not occur among pected daily owing to the apathy of th Weismann's employees, or on Weismann's provincial ports and the privations of

A. S. WATSON chief desideratum is souls independent, promises, the Sanitary Authority, has the strikers' families, many of whom are

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ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS.

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IN MEMORIAM.

impartial machinery, outside Government influence, to which such disputes can be referred, where the judges and assessor have an adequate knowledge of the conditions to be able to give a fair decision on the evidence. The Board of Trade is at present the only medium of mediation in such dispus tea, but however able it may be in other directinus, it suffers under the draw- back of being a Government organ and herefore connected with the coercive so strongly methods to which the men object. Attempts to establish rates of wages by law have always proved a failure in the past, and it is hardly to be hoped that the Minimum Wage Act will be more successful, oven though it does not make compulsory the scale of wages settled by the District Boards. But the establishment. of Courts prepared to arbitrate between

We are

ordered the removal of all the ceilings throughout the building, the object being the extermination of rate. inforined by Mr. Eckhardt, the manager of Weismann's, that when the ceiling of the Café was removed not a single rat was seen.

CHARGE OF GAMBLING.

At the Magistracy on Saturday, Mr. C. D. Melbourne had before him eight Chinese merchants and two house boys, who were charged with being in No. 25, Wyndham Street on June 8th, for the purpose of gambling. Mr. K. Hall Brut- ton appeared for the defendants.

starving.

BRITISH MINISTERIAL CHANGES.

NEW UNDER-SECRETARY FOR WAR,

LONDON, June 15th.

It is officially, announced that Mr. H. J. Tennant Financial Secretary to the War Office, has been appointed to succeed Col. Secly as Under Secretary for War.

Mr. Harold. T. Baker, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for War, sac-

eeeds Mr. Tennant.

LATER.

forward in the campaign.

TREATMENT OF CANCER.

DOCTOR RECOVERS DĀMAGES FOR LIBEL

LONDON, June 15th.

two

[TBRODOH ARUTER'S AGENCY.]

CANADIAN WHEAT CROP,

LONDON, June 1814, Heuler's correspondení al Ottawa sɛates that the Department of Agriculture, esti-

million bushels, exceeding the 1911 crop by 70 million bushels,

THE TURF.

ROYAL HUST CUP.

LONDON, June 15th.

The latest betting on the Royal Hunt Cup, run as Ascot, on June 19th, is as

Dr. Robert Bell, the well-known cancer specialist, who advises medical treatment and not the knife in dealing with this follows:-0 to 1 against Eton Boy, In to disease, has obtained

thousand

1 against Dorando, 100 to 9 against pounds damages for libel from Dr. Bas-Whisk Broom and Beaurepaire, 100 to 7 ford and the British Medical Association on account of an article in the British against, Long Set, 20 to 1 against Jaree- tiere and Cyllius, 25 to 1 against Mary Journot headed * Cancer Medient

H., Bannockburn, and Prevuyaut, and Credulity and Quackery," wherein Dr.

100 to 3 against Oliver Goldsmith. Bell was mentioned.

AMERICAN PRESIDENTIAL

ELECTION.

LONDON, June 15th.

A telegram from Chicago states that the National Committee has awarded President Taft all the contested delegates in Oklahoma and Tennessee.

A wire from New York states that Mr. Roosevelt stated that he was going to Chi- cago in obedience to the unanimous demands of his delegates. Ho is denounc ing the knot of professional politicians on the National Committee, who are, he as- serts, stealing the right of the people to make a nomination.

IIOME CRICKET.

LONDON, June 18th. Middlesex bent Yorkshire by four wickets, Surrey won from Essex by 287 runs, Hants beat Derbyshire by 54 runs. The matches, Bussex Kent and the South Africans . Notts were drawn.

SUPREME COURT.

Saturday, 15th June.

IN ORIGINAL JURISDICTION.

BEFORE THE CHIEF JUSTICE (MR. REES DAVIES, K.C.).

THE INSURANCE CLAIM, The case was resumed in which the Wa Leong, Chenng Kee firm claimed from Lospos, June 16th.

the Prussian National Insurance Co. of Owing to the National Committee which Stettin the sum of 822,500 alleged to ba organises the Republican Convention due on three policies of insurance. Mr. deciding almost every contested delega- Eldon Potter (instructed by Mr. David- Inspector Watts said he instructed a burn and the appointments of Messrstion in favour of President Taft, as the sou, of Hastings & Hastings) appeared for the plaintiffs, and Mr. H. E. Pollock, number of Chinese constables to go to 25, Tennant and Baker are regarded as weak-

supporters of Mr. Roosevelt declare

K.C., with him Hon. Mr. C. G. Alabaster Wyndham Street, and on his instructions

Lord Haldane's succession to Lord Lore-

masters and men stands on a different foot to enter it on warrant. He followed, andening the Radical element in the Ministry- fraudulently, Mr. Roosevelt has gone to instructed by Mr. Shenton, of Deacon, ing. In disputes between nations we have in the room he found dien and counter. Mr. Massingham, in The Nation, says Chicago on the very eve of the Conven- Looker & Deacon), appeared for the

tion. His visit is denounced by his op- ponents as improper and unparalleled, but Mr. Roosevelt's followers are re- joicing and are convinced that his pre-

defendants.

Nr. Potter having concluded his ad- dress to the jury,

His Lordship summed up. He said the case was an important one and was a sence will not only destroy President serious one. There were three points Taft's chances, but will also prevent the raised by the defence, first that the goods selection of

a compromise candidate. claimed to be on the premises by the

plaintiff, were not actually there. The followers of the President control the second one was that the claim was fraudu

Ая with the connivance of the insurer.

The

and a special bowl which was an important that the late Sir H. Campbell-Banner- got so far as to establish an arbitration implement in gambling games. The sum man's first Cabinet contained seven Radi tribunal, the decisions of which are not of 87.20 was scattered about the floor.cals. New Mr. Lloyd-George is the compulsory save by the weight of public11e burst a door open to gain admission opinion. It, therefore, seems possible that to one room and in it found two men only definite Balical with Lord Morley the settlement of civil disputes by similar and opium smoking implements. As one and Mr. Vernon Harcourt Gladstonian tribunals is within the bounds of practical man got up a dice dropped from his Liberals, and Mr. Burns, whom it was clothing. He found various sums of difficult to classify. The rest of the body money on the different mer end one bears an Imperialist stamp. politics.

Many of The washout on the Kowloon-Canton hud $175 sticking out of his pocket. On Railway at Shek Tan has been practically the staircase there was a newly-built door the inner group which controls the policy Convention theoretically, but they know leut, and thirdly that the fire was caused

not in harmony with the staircase, which of the Government owe their parentage had a peep-hole in the centre. This door to the Liberal League, and the changestion. was half way up the staircase-and govern represent the deep-lying forces of Con Dr. Sun Yat Sen and daughters arriveded the means of access to the first floor servatism in English Society and politics. in Hongkong from Canton on Saturday from the ground floor. Anyone entering night and are staying at the Hongkong the ground floor could be seen from the Hotel. They are en route to Peking.

In affectionate remembrance of MARY, the beloved wife of C. A ROBERTSON, 1.N.8., who passed away 17th June, 1911, at Victoria Hospital, Hongkong, after a abort illness. Sadly missed by husband and children.

(820 HONGKONG OFFIox: 10a, Das Vœux ROAD Crepaired, and trains are running over LONDON OFFICE: 131, FLEET STR. EO the place with a light engine.

The Daily Pres

HONGKONG, JUNE 17TH, 1912. THE latest attempt to bring the whole trade and industry of Great Britain to a standstill has signally failed, but, never theless, the disturbance caused to business by the efforts made in that direction makes it obvious, if trade and industry are not to

the

Six months' imprisonment was sentence inflicted by Mr. Melbourne on a Chinese who was charged with the larceny of brass and copper articles from the Naval Yard.

peep-bole in the door, across the staircase.

SUFFRAGETTES ASSAULT THE

PREMIER

LONDON, June 16th.

At the King's Birthday Reception at the

that Mr. Ta. has little chance of ele

Meanwhile the political heat in Chicago is prodigious, the delegates even going to the extent of fisticuffs.

AUSTRIAN ARMY BILL..

A Chinese constable corroborated the

LONDON, June 15th. Inspector's statement and said he had no

Reuter's Vienna correspondent states that, despite argent appeals by the Gov- difficulty in obtaining admission. When

ernment to pass the Army Bill, the Op-" asked by a man at the peep-hole who he the stairs. Immediately one of the men bers of the Royal Family, Mr. Asquith, position Deputies in the Reichsrath are wanted he rushed up the remainder of India Office, which was attended by mem- cried out that the police had come, He while receiving the guests, was thrice a obstructing the measure to their utmost. Before Commander Beckwith on Satur-heard one man call out a number and a-saulted by suffragist guests. One woman

other passed the remark "an old sheep?" Cross-examined by Mr. Brutton witness hit him on the head with her fan, and One spoke for five and a half hours and could provide was what he heard called said the only evidence of gambling he tried to tear off the spaulettes from the An usher, however, out and the shout that the police had ar- Premier's uniform. rived.

dragged her away.

be continually barrassed and jeopardised by day, the master of the launch Chi Wo strikes, that the Government of the country was charged with unlawfully failing to must speedily set about the task of provid stop his vessel when called upon by the ing means of obviating the strike and the police. lockout.

A fine of $50 or two months'

So far there appears to have hard labour was imposed been no attempt on the part of British statesmen to tackle the problem, unless we

One

Two Chinese who were arrested on the 2.s. Hipsung on Friday, were charged take the more or less temporary Minimum before Mr. Melbourne on Saturday with Waga Bill as an effort in this direction being in possession of opium. The procedure is to allow the strike to drag defendant was fined 816 or three weeks, du until the men's funds are exhausted, when, and the other $4 or seven days. after the anal disorders, they return sul- Jenly to work, only to again strike at the

The ship's carpenter of the s.8. Tean first provocation. Thus an endless round was arrested on Friday last, on arrival of strikes is produced, the inen's grievances, of the steamer from Manila. He was if they have any, being unredressed, charged at the Magistracy on Saturday and the masters' troubles untouched. Thus with being in possession of ten taels of the so-called labour-problem advances of opium. A fine of 8500 or three months'

hard labour was jumposed, uearer to a solution. There are two courses. which are open for a Government to follow

A BUFFRAGETTE HUNGER

STRIKE.

another for 13 hours.

THE UNBEST IN PORTUGAL.

LONDON, June 15th.

been A steamer has

detained

at Zubragge while embarking many Portu- guese Royalists and loading a consign

ment of munitions.

PORTUGUESE POLITICS.

LONDON, June 16th'. -Reuter's correspondent at Lisbon tele

Mr. Brutton, submitted that there was no case. The fact that gambling imple- menta were found in the house was, ac- cording to the Ordinance, sufficient to prove that the house was a gaming house,

LONDON, June 16th- but the Bench had to remember that even e-pack of cards constituted gambling_im- plements, and on that finding nearly every At a Suffragist demonstration-held in house in the Colony was a gaming house. Albert Hall, it was announced that the If the officers went into the Hongkong' Club they would find there all kinds of Suffragists in prison, including Mrs. gambling implements and they could was a gaming house or club. In the Lawrence, had resolved upon a hungergraphs that the Chamber of Dopaties has. bring the charge against the Club that it Pankhurst, and Mr. and Mrs. Pethick hotels they would and dico if they search ed. The house was taken during the restrike until all alike were treated as adopted a scheme for establishing a bellion by a wealthy Chinese merchant, who had gone back to Canton, but had first-class misdemeanants. sublet a portion of the place to some friends, three of whom now figure as de- KING AND QUEEN VISIT HARROW. fendants in this case. These poeple were

LONDON, June 16th. all very respectable merchants in Hong- kong, they had some friends to see them,

Their Majesties visited Harrow on Fri and a friendly game was played.

One of the defendants in the witness-

The engagement is announced of lan in dealing with this question. One is A. Hossack, Public Works Department, repression and the other is intermediation Union Government of South Africa, son of The strike must be recognised as a weapon the late Garden Milne Hossack, Sherif in the hands of the industrial workers, but Clerk of Banffshire, and Mrs. Hossack, 4, box denied that they were gambling, and day. The King, replying to an address, they should not be allowed to use it indis. King's-gate, Aberdeen, and Mary Rose, criminately. The nations of the world are youngest daughter of Sir Patrick Man- Bow all armed with deadly weapons, but it son, K.C.M.G., and Lady Manson, 50, is recognised that their use is only as a last Welbeck-street, W.

another said that the winner had to give said he was confident that the school the money for tood.

Mr. Melbourne said there was no evi- would continue to furnish men who would dence, to prove that the house was a serve in the great work of governing and gambling house and he discharged defen-defending the Empire. dants.

Jewish Colony in Augola.

Senhor Duarte Leite has formed a cabinet representative of all parties, with Senhor Vas Concellos as Minister for Foreign Affairs.

THE MONSOON.

LONDON, June 16th. A. wire from Bombay states that the monsoon bas burst.

regarded the first point at issue, the onus was on the plaintiffs to prove that the goods did exist. This was denied by the defendants. As regarded the other two issues of fraud and arson, the onus lay upon the defens

His Lordship left the following ques- tions to the jury:-

(1) Were all the articles, the subject of the claim in respect to the three policies of fire insurances, on the premises at the time of the fire!

Is (2)

the claim in respect of all or any of such policies fraudulent?

(3) Was the fire occasioned by the wilful act, or with the connivance of the ak

mured?

(4) If the answer to (a) 2 all or any

what amount should the plaintiffs be indemnified for the fire?

The jury after a retirement of less than five minutes returned to the Court and gave the following unanimous auswers-

No;

2, Yes; 3, No evidence; 4, No damage.

Mr. Pollock moved for judgment with costs and neked his Lordship to certify for two Counsel in view of the importance of the case.

of the policies, (b) 3 is in the negative;

Mr. Potter applied for a stay of execu- Lion for fourteen days.

Mr. Pollock-1 must apply for imune- diate execution.

Mr. Potter-You cannot have imme diate execution until your costs are taxed.

Mr. Pollock-Oh, yes, we can. Mr. Potter-Can you? We will see about that.

His Lordship discharged the jury and tendered them the Colony's thanks for their services.

Mr. Pollock said that, in view of the evidence of the managing partner of the plaintiff arm, that they had no property in Canton, he thought they ought to have immediate execution. They wanted tv get hold of the man.

Mr. Potter-When that admission is made in a court of law it has been the rule of your Lordship's predecessors to refuse the application.

His Lordship-I don't propose to follow any exceptional course.

The stay of execution was granted.