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THE HONGKONG DAILY PREEF, THURSDAY, AUGUST 15th, 1912.

Itribal rule. The contrast between the uu- The body of a Chinese male child was Froken success of the Tibetans and tribes-tonnid on the CPR. buoy on Tuesday."

aen in Chiness territory and the slow progress and even apparent failure of the DALAI DANA's advance on Tibetan soil is very remarkable, und calls for some explana. WATSON tion. The colution is, we think, that in the & CO., LTD.,

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one case the people are fighting for their own independence, while in the other they are waging war on heluff of an unpopular ruler. Though Tibetan in blood and speceb, the tribesmen of Eastern Tibet and Western Szechunu are--or were until the advent of Commissioner. Cato-independent alike The large Stales of Peking and Lbasa. of Derge, Chinmde, and Draya were all ruled by their own gioros or kings, and it was they, and not the Centrál Government at Lhasa, who euffered when the forward policy of China was put into effect. The fortunes of the DALAI LAMA are of small moment to them, as

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a speedy conquest, for he is eredited with the intention of adopting the patient tactics that China has used before in her border wars with great success: we are told that he is going to cultivate the land, and grow crops us be advances, and so maintain his line of communication and his commissariat at the same time; the one vital objection to this strategy is that rice will not grow at 31.40 2.70 an altitude of 10,000 fest and more. So much for the state of affairs in the Marches, where everything points to a great access of 37.40 3.20 power and independence to the Tibetaus. In Central Tibet we find dissension and vacillation the oider of the day, and it is past doubt that the DALAI LAMA is dis- credited even in his own country. Possibly this is partially due to his formal deposition 49.40 4.20 from the pontificate by the Imperial Edict of February 25th, 1910, which decreed that "hereforth, no matter whether ha returns to Tibet, he is to be seated as an ordinary person." This in itself might

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On the 18th July, at Oakwood avenue, Beckenham, the wife of J. K. Hurros, of a daughter.

DEATHS.

On July 17th, at "Lanadrau," Woking. F. PEARS, eldest son of late Andrew Pears, aged 42.

At the Government Civil Hospital on the 14th inst. WILLIAM STUART (Police Sergeant), native of Banffshire, Scotland. Hanexong Office: 101, Duo Venur ROAD O. LONDON UNIOR: 131, FLAT STREET, 2.0.

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ling factor in the course of events: what a wrecking the DALAI LAMA's chance of regaining his pontifical throne is his own unpopularity and weakness, and the diesen cions among the lame. Of these dissen. sions there has been no lack of signs. It is only a short time ago that the Abbot of one monastery was crucified and fourteen pro-Chinese priests tortured and put to death, and there have been many tales of lamaseries held by one party against the other. These dissensions have no doubt been helped on by the fact that China subsidizes (or did subsidizo. until the revolution) the Tibetan regular troops and the three principal monasteries. The result of all this dissension and vacillation is that Contral Tibet is moving towards anarchy, and the DALA! is realizing his inability to cope with the situation, though under a more capable and energetic leader the patriotic. Tibetans should find no dificulty in overcoming

We learn from a native paper that an Austrian resident of Shanghai kas been engaged by the Chapai Administrative Bureau as adviser at a salary of $300 a

month.

At the Magistracy yesterday two cases of coolies carelessly driving trucks came before the notice of Mr. Irving, in which two small boys had had their feet injured, The two lefendants were remanded for a week.

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The Chinese Government has granted Tis. 3,300 as compensation to the relatives of Dr. Olesen, who succumbed to over- work in the treatment of wounded sol- diers at the hospital in Hankow during the revolution.

The fourth gymkhana of the season is

set down for Saturday next, weather per mitting. The programme cmnbraces seven

events, and at the close the ponits

The New York Su states that as the result of discussions between Secretary Knox and Mr. Suizer, President of the Foreign Committee of the House of Re presentatives, it has been decided that tho. United States of America will not re- cognize the Republic of China until a

strong permanent government has been established and, moreover, that the United States will not take any action in the matter without the agreement of the other Powers.

Mr. Sulzer was respon sible for the recent interpellations in the House of Representatives garding the recognition of the new republic.

We have received from Messrs. Kelly & Walsh, Ltd., the publishers, & copy of a new Handbook of Shanghai Rubber Companies, having estates situated in the The book Malay Peninsula and Jaya, has been compiled by Mr. H. H. Road and is published at the price of 81.50. investors in this stock should find the

handbook useful. It gives full particu- lars of each company-date of founda.

tion, capital, directors; and principal

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THE SITUATION IN ULSTER.

LONDON, August 14th. The Belfast Epening Telegraph states: that the Government has decided not to auction any further miniature rifle clubs in Ireland unless the list of members is submitted to Dublin Castle.

THE EARTHQUAKE IN TURKEY.

WHOLESALE DESTRUCTION OF LIFE AND

PROPERTY.

caused by the earthquake are more serious The distress is intenso, and whole families are stated

than was at first believed.

to have perished either through the earth-

[TÜROUGH REUINN'S AOWNCY.)

KAISER'S SISTER ROBBED.

LONDON, August 14th. The Princess of Hesse, the Kaiser's | sister, was' robbed at Victoria Station,

London, of her dressing bag containing a gold-mounted toilet set and a Bible with her father's autograph. Her Royal High- ness is believed to be the victim of a lark,

FRANCE AND RUSSIA,

LONDON, August 19th,

An authoritative French statement has LONDON, August 14th,

[been published summing up the effects of A message from Constantinople states M. Poincare's visit to Russia. It says that the destruction and loss of life that while the Alliance did not need strengthening the exchange of leas has resulted in a clear definition of views, and an agreement was easily reached on all question pressing for solution in the Fast and also on all the great problems. exciting public opinion in Europe. It says that though the Naval Convention is disieting, there is none to prove that Russia while attentively following events in the East is far from detaching herself from her allies in the West.

quake or through fire.

The British Dyllaan and Kongaj will be put up for otheials, area uniber of trees, output, cost of estate, buildings available, work- sale by auction.

Seamen's Hospital has sent stores for the There was to be a strong demand foring capital, last dividend (in the few

cases in which dividends have been paid). | relief of the distressed, and the Embassies raber by the thieving fraternity of the will surprise raest people to learn have offered their guardships to convey

that there are no fewer than 30 Shanghai | the supplies. Colony. Six or seven local brokers who

wn rubber tyred rickshaw have recently Rubber Companies. Of these only seven been robbed of their tyres, but we are

companies were formed in 1910. not aware that the police have been able have yet paid a dividend. Most of the

to trace the thieves in a single instance.

A woman who appeared before Mr. Irving at the Magistracy yesterday charged with selling opium was dismissed, cent pieces although two marked ten supplied by the police to one of their agents were found upon her. She said that she received the money for some- thing else.

News which has reached the Pioneer (Allahabad) from Yaanan describes the province as in a state of disorganisation. The military authority is supreme at the capital and officers of the army plotely override the civil administration. Some of the disbanded troops are said to have taken to brigandage.

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TURKEY AND MONTENEGRO.

LONDON, August 14th. Fah Reddin Bey has been appointed Turkish Minister to Cetinje.

BULGARIA AND TURKEY.

LONDON, August 14th.

DEATH SENTENCES COMMUTED.

Mr. M. J. D. Stephens, who defended two Chinese named Fong Yuct and Lo Chan Fat on a charge of murder at Pok-

A message from Sofia states that a futam, received yesterday an official in- tination that His Excellency the Gov-demonstration of protest against the ernor had been pleased to commute the sentences of death passed upon the | prisoners to imprisonment for life.

INDO CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION

COMPANY, LIMITED.

With reference to certain statements which have recently appeared in the local, Japanese and Home Press, to the effect Far Eastern buyers, a London contem-that negotiations for the sale of the assets porary says, have acquired the West of the above Company are in progress, W4 are authorised to state that such Hartlepool steamer Eastry, lately owned by Messrs. Siverwight, Bacon & Co. Slic reports are entirely unfounded. is of 2,908 tons gross and 1,924 tons net register, and was built at West Hartle- pool in 1892, with dimensions 314ft, by The price paid is 40.5ft. by 21.2ft. believed to be about £15,000),

Directuat the China Merchants Steam Navigation Co., including Dr. Wu Ting-fang and Wen Tsung Yoo, were lock ed in their meeting place in the China Merchants' offices at Shanghai for four hours and a half last week while angry employees of the company attempted to compel them to grant a bonus of Tla. 907,000. Had it not been for the arrival of the police brought by directors who managed to scape from the windows, the siege, it is said, might have lasted much longer.

An armed robbery is reported from Pingshan, where five men masked and armed with daggers entered a house in which a visitor wae passing the night. The robbers must have been aware of the fact that he had 174 in his possession, for after binding and gagging tha inmates they took this sum from the visitor. One of the robbers did not have his face sufficiently covered, and way

victim, or winding over their recognised by the pro-Chiacsa brethren, and in re-establishing information the police succeeded Tibotan authority at Lhasa. This is not arresting him. a question to which Great Britain can As Sir EDWARD afford to be indifferout.

POLICE SERGEANT'S DEATH.

Police Sergeant Stuart, who was nd mitted to hospital a week ago suffering from dysentery, died in the Government Civil Hospital yesterday afternoon, and the news of his death came as a great shock to bis many friends in and out of the foren. Deccased, a promising young officer, had been in the Hongkong Police for about five years, having joined from the Dumbartonshire Constabulary, and was in the finger-print department. He was keenly interested in sport, and it is particularly sad that he had reach ed the semi-final of the lawn bowls chani- pionship and was regarded by many as likely to win the championship. The funeral will pass the Monument this afternoon at 5.20.

THE HONGKONG UNIVERSITY.

APPOINTMENT OF A PROFESSOR OF CIVIL AND MECHANICAL ENGINEERING.

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We understand that exclusive of the on whose students of the Medical College, who are in exempted, there are about 20 applicants

Kochans massacre took place. There was a procession in which black flags were carried, the bells of the churches were A tolic, and the shops were shut. resolution was passed demanding the Government to do ite utuust to deliver the Macedonian Bulgarians from the Turkish yoke.

SAVAGERY IN MEXICO..

A MERSEY FLIGHTY

LONDON, August 14th. Mr. Hill Fenwick propaeus to fly nerass, the Mersey in a monoplane, a small low- powered machine of his own invention.

THE EIGHTH TEST MATCIL

ENGLAND DEATS SOUTH AFILICA.

LONDON, August 14th, England beat South Africa in the eighth test match by ten wickets.

The weather was dull, but there were hont 5,000 spectators on the ground. The wicket was difficult.

South Africe only scored a in thờir, 12. second innings, Nourse making Barnes took 8 wickets for 3 mins, break- ing superbly both ways.

LONDON, August 14th.. Telegrams from Mexico report that the

South Africa having made 155 runs aftes anbushed t. vellers by railway (men- tioned in a telegram in yesterday's issue)gether, 12 more than England's first in- were tortured, mutilated, robbed. and wings, the home team batted again and

scored 14 without the loss of a wicket. fually burned.

OBITUARY.

They include Mr. Strauss, the United Stater Consul in Uraguay.

The Zapatists captured Ixtapa and killed the entire garrhon...

A hundred men from the rural dis tricts and a hundred from the towns are now advancing towards Taluca,

FATAL EXPLOSION IN PRUSSIA

LONDON, August 14th..

Beuter's Dortmund correspondent tele graphs that a slag heap at the Neesch Works exploded, engulfing twenty-two inen. Only four were rescued alive.

ICE - DANGERS IN THE ATLANTIC.

LONDON, August 14th.

The ice in the Atlantic Ocean is abnormal, and shipowners have decided to maintain the southern route.

THE PANAMA CANAL BILL.

LONDON, August 14th.

Reuter's correspondent at Washington wires that a Conference between the Senate and the House of Representatives on the Panama Bil! has taken place, and, contrary to expectations, the House

is expected to concur in the amendments proposed by the Senate relative to the castwise trade,

THE PLOT AGAINST THE KHEDIVE.

for the entrance examination of the Hongkong University which takes place Inspector Kerr placed before Mr. Mel- on the 19th inst, and the following days.

There is no doubt that the newly-creat- Gazy said, in view of our Tibetan Conver-bourne at the Magistracy yesterday a man

ed University at Hongkong will prove tions and the connection between Tibet and

on a charge of being a rogue and a vaga.& great factor in the solution of my HONGKONG, August 15th, 1912. the Indien frontier, "this Majesty's Gov-bond and also with having stolen several of the problems to be dealt with in China articles from the boys' quarters at Kow-at the present time, and we are pleased

School. Suci newe as we are now gotting of the rament have a right to expect that an

His Worship asked to record, says Engineering, the appoint ment of Professor C. A. M. Smith, M.Sc. progress of the struggle in Tibet is both effective Tibetan Government shall be loon

to the post of Professor of Civil and During the ineagre and apparently inconsistent. On maintained with whom they can, when Inspector Kerr if he had not had a lot

at the East Lon- the one hand, the DALAS Laxa in finding beary, treat in the manner provided of trouble at Kowloon, to which the Mechanical Engineering.

The great Inspector replied that he had had to put past five years hi

don College has resalted in the publica: that his advance from Kalimpong to Lhasa by those two Conventions.”

stumbling-block now is the DALAI LAMA: a lot of extra men on duty in consequence tion of many scientific papers and con- Pro- is by no means a walk-over, and rumour even hints that he is intending to drop the If he cannot establish himself in a position of the tuany burglaries that had taken tributions to the technical Press.

his new appointment, has arranged to idea altogether, and to go instead to Shi. of authority even over the people in his own place. The prisoner was cautioned on the fessor Smith, who shortly loaves to take gafas and then withdraw altogether from province, it is to be wished that he would

visit Canada and the United States, in order further to add to his already wide withdraw in favour of someone stronger

knowledge of matters connected with Kitchener, and the Premier, have Tibet and settle down in Mongolia presum and more efficient.

technical education. On the resignation sentenced, one to fifteen years' of his post at the East London College ably at Urga On the other hand, the Tibetans and tribesmen of Khan and West.

from the staff, whilst his old students ero Szechung are carrying all before them,

also showed their good will in a practical sonment. and threaten to drive the Chinese huck to the ancient frontier at Tacbienlu. Batang, Litang, and the other strongholds have

A Portuguese engineer employed at the fallen, and the punitive force that Governor YIN is leading from Chengtu..against the Electric Light Company was yesterday victorious aborigives shows no signs of eager.fined two dollars for assaulting a coolie ness to ruich the front, while the column that employed at the works.

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For allowing mesquito larvae to breed on their premises three Chinese were at the Magistracy yesterday ordered to pay

a fine of $5 each.

first charge, but committed for three months on the second.

A serious collision took place in Shang hai last week at the corner of Miller and Yuhang Roads in which a foreign lady received a severe shock and a coolie wa

LONDON, August 14th, A message from Cairo reports that the Khedive, Lord plotters against the

LONDON, August 14th. The death is announced of the well- known composer Jules Massinet.

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BATHING AND THE EARS.

In the course of some remarks, in re- gard to sea bathing, Dr. Robb Watson, In the Western Weekly News, draws at- tention to an important matter, namely, the care of the ears. He says that many cases of complete or partial deafness data back to water entering the ear passage in bathing. Plugs of cotton-wool smear- beened with vaseline are simple safeguards, and should always be inserted, but if hard through over-sight or accident, water

he was the recipient of a token of esteem labour, and two to fifteen years' impri-does reach the drum, it must, by holding

manner.

TREASURE HUNTING AT COCOS ISLANDS.

badly injured about the body. A Muni cipal motor-car driven by Mr. W. J. Wi- liams, of the Electrical Department, was driving from the electrical works in the Yuhang Road, and as he turned in to the Miller Road, the car collided with a The steamer Melnore, formerly owned ricksha in which was seated Mr. Grace by the Great Western Railway Company, was to co-operate from Yunnan has boon Sir Alexander Hosis, who has been in Wilks, who was thrown out on to the is fitting out at Plymouth. She has been withdrawn altogether. There is, indeed, little the British Consular Service in China road with great force, receiving a severe bought by a London syndicate for a trea sure hunting expedition to the Cocos doubt that all the laborious work achieved since 1876 and is now Consul General at shock as well as a number of bruises, the Islands, where 20 millions worth of gold by CHAO ERH-FENG in reconquering, paci- Tientsin, retires on September 1st. coolie also being badly injured, while the and precious stones are reputed to have

over a century ago ficating, and partially assimilating the

Negotiations are also proceed. Marches of Szechuan and Eastern Tibet is trate against a Chinese man and woman

In a case heard by a Singapore Magis- ricksha was amashed. The car was stop been

ped and Mrs. Wilks was taken to the pirates.

ing for a rival enterprise, the conductors now to be undone, and the territory that was on a charge of selling a child, evidence General Hospital, where she was attended of which anticipate roaching the Cocos being brought under organized Chinese was given that the man did it to raise to by Dr. Murray, the coolie being taken Islands a fortnight before the London ex-

to the St. Luke's Hospital for treatment. I pedition. Government is about to revert to the old money for his wife's coffin!

MOROCCO'S BULTANATE

LONDON, August 14th. Mulai Hafid has arrived on the French cruiser Du Chayla at Gibraltar, where he re-embarked on the liner Maceddouice en route for Marcilles. He trans shipped to the British steamer to avoid the appearance of being a French prisoner. His barem have arrived at Tangier.

The French newspapers say that the

He receives an abdication will take the form of a letter

to President Fallieres.

Annuity of £15,000.

the car down, shaking the outside ear with the fingertips, and inserting a twist of soft towel, be coaxed out as soon and as thoroughly as posible. Even then, too, it is wise to wear a wool plug for half a day.

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SIR E. SASSOON'S WILL.

The late Sir Edward Bassoon's will contains no bequests for charities in Great Britain because, it says, he gave. means, and, secondly, nuing to what the will describes as "impolitic and prohibi- tive legacy duties." He leaves one thou sand sterling to the trustees to distribute may select, and a thousand to be similar- ly distributed in Baghdad or some other among such charities in Bombay as they

place with which the family is connected.