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THE HONGKONG DAISY PRESS, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 141, 1912.

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government. But to return to the reern- descance of poppy cultivation about which "Porto Montauban, 1880," has been so much is heard. It must be remembered discovered by the workmen engaged in that at the time of the signature of the the destroying of the Shanghai Native Opium Agreement in Peking last year, City Wall. The stone was found in JAPANESE EMPEROR'S FUNERAL. there were only three provinces-Manchuria, Chinese territory and no light can be Chansi, and Szechuan-that had been thrown upon it by the authorities. proved to be free of opium, and where

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bibition of the Indian drug, Consequently, accounts of increases in other provinces should be accepted only with great caution, for where the cultivation of the drug already exista it needs careful investigation by skilled observers to form any idea of the erset extent of any increase, whereas it is very saay to generalize on what is seen in the course of a day's journey, and to pass an opinion involving a whole provinca un the strength of what has hean observed in a single district. We do not minimize the seriousness of a well-established increase (however small) in the cultivation

Austin, is now open at Moutrie & Co's This is the last entertainment that will be given at Mt. Austin this season, and a especially strong variety programme has been arranged, including Professor Toho Hams in an exceedingly fine exhibi- tion of jujitsu.

Between two and three o'clock last

{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] CHINA AND TIBET. TOKYO, September 13th. The weather is most favourable for

Losnox, September 18th. Router's correspondent at Simla tele- to-night's procession, and the route is already densely crowded.

graphs that the Chinese troops are com- ing through from Lhasa. Fifty thousand students assembled at followers noon opposite the palace.

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(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

THE MIKADO'S FUNERAL.

LONDON, September 13th. A message from Simla states that the Japanese colonies in Simla, Calcutiin, Bombay, Rangoon, Daces and Mergui will observe strict mourning and funeral rites on the occasion of the funeral of the Emperor of Japan. All flags in India will be half-masted.

Wo need hardly add to this that similar tokons of respect were shows in Hongkong yesterday.]

NOTABLE SPEECH BY MR. CHURCHILL,

(THEOUGH REUTER'S AGENCY. } MB LLOYD GEORGE AND THE MIDLOTHIAN ELECTION.

LONDON, September 15th.

Mr. Lloyd George, in a mesange to the Their camp newspapers, says that the Midlothing Bra largely composezi of election proves that the Tories cannot win Tibetan wives and “half-bred" children.scats without the help of the plural voter. The Scotch missionaries at Kalimpong and that this campaign against the Insur are endeavouring to place some on the ance Bill is rapidly losing force, because, Darjeeling tea gardens.

even with the increased pluralist vote, the Tory incrense was only 300, and Midlothian, by the large majority of 3,000, urges the Government to push on with reform.

FRANCE AND MOROCCO.

COLONEL MANGIN'S POBITION,

LONDON, September 13th.

kesh is not by any means secure.

Colonel Mangin's position at Morra- His main body has not entered the city but encamped on a neighbouring bill lost they should arouse the fanaticism of the 50,000 inhabitants, who, though glad to be rid of El Hiba the Pretender, do not welcome the French. It is uncertain whether he will hold his position or re- tire, though roinforcements have been despatched from Kabat.

On Thursday a man was taken to the Kwong Wa Hospital at Yaamati suffer- ing from burns caused by having had boiling, sugar poured over him. Apparently he was employed at a sugar candy factory, and a quartet arose, in which one man poured a ladle of boiling of poppy in China, but we would urge sugar over him. His assailant was that China should not be condemned arrested, and brought before the Magis offhand, but that judgment be reserved trate yesterday charged with doing until it is possible to obtain more exact grievous bodily harm. He was remanded, evidence that we at present possess. But his victim being in a critical condition there are also the provinces that were given in hospital. a clean bill last year--Muuchuria, Shansi, Lad Szechuan-and at all events in the last¦ named of these we have a large increase reported by the Commissioner of Customs, Szechuan, moreover, is in an exceptional Tayabas, Philippine Islands, and after position in this respect it has always been ticing and gagging the postmaster, looted the biggest opium growing province of the safe and escaped. Atimonan is the China; it used to produce two-thirds of the

most important town on the Pacific coast total amount of opium consumed in Chins, side of the island of Luzon, and is the so it has always been looked upon as the terminus of the coast to coast automobile great arcas in England which might well Sazoneff, will visit the King at Balmoral road, which begins at Manils, and onds have conscious political identity, and at the close of the army maneuvres, at the former town. It is the centre of ted a number of smaller pueblos in that dis- Africa and Australia.

in Canada, South

when Sir Edward Grey will be in at- triet, and is quite a shipping point,

tendance. Mr. Churchill said the Government in- was tended that Irish Home Rulo would be

E" has maintained the test province. Consequently, it bas suffered far more than any other from the the reputation of

FINEST drastic prohibition of the poppy, and it became necessary to inflict beavy taxation SCOTCH WHISKY in the on the people to make up for the loss of revenue from opium, and this, by the FAR EAST.

natural perversity of things, at the very timo when the interdict of their most pro fitable crop made them least able to bear it. It must be remembered also that Szechuan suffered from disorder and anarchy before any other part of China (the railway riots took place a month before the storm burst at Wushang), and that the struggle there has lasted much longer, and, further, that | all this took place just about the time for sowing the opium crop. The wholesale abolition of opium in that province was ut the time suppose to be the personal work of a strong Viceroy-what wonder, then, when the Viceroy is murdered, the officials are all fleeing, and law and order are tom. porarily in abeyance, if there is “u widespread increase of cultivation "P Sure ly the marvel is rather in the other diree tion-that cultivation is not once more taking place on the old scale. With no strong Viceroys, and with no official repres sion, we find a province that, from being the greatest producer of the drag was in a short space of time absolutely denuded of it, has still exercised wonderful self-¡ restraint in view of the great opportunities offered to it, and it is such facts as these that show that there is an influential public opinion at work in China that will, we believe, eventually assert its weight in public affairs and prove the salvation of Civil Espital, ELSIE VERA, youngest be a work of time: for the present On September 13th, at the Government the commonwealth. That, however, will daughter of JOHN LAMBERT, R.N.R., we find (except in the case of rebellions Surveyor to Lloyd's Register, aged 12 Hugan) that the republican officials recog Funeral will pass the Monumont tonize the importance of poppy suppression (1088 as much as did their imperial predecessore, and we fully believe that it His Majesty's Government avails itself of the right to

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DEATHS.

day at 5.30.p.in.

On 6th September, at Shanghai, HAKEY HINTSEMRISTER, aged 21 years.

On September 8th, at the Isolation

Saturday morning a band of four armed

men raided the post office at Atimonan,

BRITISH FEDERALJEM.

LONDON, September 13th. Mr. Churchill, in a speech at Dundee, made a striking utterance in favour of Federalism, instancing Yorkshire, the Midlands, etc., and said there wore four

fedoration

Sanitary Inspector Fincher responsible for the captura of a snatcher the forerunner of a general system of on Thursday. While in Queen's Road

he heard a woman call out, and seeing a self-government for all the four countries. max crossing the street he gave chase. He was not dismayed at the prospect of eventually capturing him. Prisoner when arrested had the gold ear-rings

ten or twelve legislatures for the United which he snatched from the woman Kingdom. The Government's land policy hidden in the fold of his trousers. He would not be one of confiscation, but a was brought before Mr. Melbourne at the sober policy which would have regard to Magistracy yesterday and was sentenced

existing circumstances. to six weeks' imprisonment, four hours in the stocks, and 12 strokes with the birch.

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BRITISH AND RUSSIAN RELATIONS.

LONDON, September 13th. The Russian Foreign Minister, M.

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A NEW YORK SENSATION. LAWYER QARQED WITH MURDER OF COUNTESS.

LONDON, September 13th. Reuter's correspondent at New York wire that a lawyer named Gibson has been arrested on a charge of murder.

A client of his, the Austrian Countess Szeby, foll overboard from a rowing boat on the lake and Gibson tried to rascur Jior.

The polies allege that ho strangled ber with a jujitsu grip, and that she was not drowned.

THE BLUE MOUNTAIN TRAGEDY.

LONDON, September 13th-

A message from Wythesville, Virginia, states that Floyd Allon, son of Claude Allen, has been sentenced to electrocution for the murder of a judge in the Blue

PARIS.

TURKISH BOMR OUTRAGE.

LONDON, September 13th. Reuter's correspondent at

Salonika

bomb outrage at Dairen were mostly THE ELUSIVE CHRISTABEL" IN telegraphs that the victions of the Mountain district on March 14th last,

Moslems. The authorities have been successful in preserving order. garian smuggled in the bomb in a sack of flour and placed it in the square, BRITISH MILITARY MANEUVRES.

LONDON, September 13th. The troops engaged in the maneuvres are being subjected to a most severo test by cold and rain, bivouacking two nights in a downpoar of rain without fres, yet their health and spirits are remarkable. A column of 30,000 marched twenty miles

PARLIAMENTARY INVECTIVE. Mr. Churchill defended A ricaba coolie was charged before Mr.length the Insurance Act and said with stealing $10 belonging to John Melbourne at the Magistracy yesterday

the Government were confident that Leveridge, a private in the K.O.Y.L.I.they had duns their duty

va be. The complainant got out of a riesha half of the masses unhceding the noar Murray Barracks and paid the Tory obstructor enolic. While doing so a ten dollar note

and the Socialist dropped from his pocket unnoticed by wrecker snarling, sneering, and gibing at on a single road, including the narrow him. However, it was observed by a the great enterprises they would never streets of Thetford, In perfect discipline. sentry, who informed the complainant that he had seen him drop something and that he had seen the defendant stoop to the ground and pick up something. His Worship discharged the defendant.

THE PEAK BURGLARIES.

The Chines who was arrested after attempting a burglary at the residence of Mr. E. A. M. Williams, appeared before Mr. Irving & the Magistracy

$8.73 on the night of August 28, the pro- yesterday on a number of charges. They were: stealing a silver watch valued at

perty of Mr. J. R. Wood, Director of Education; and with feloniously enter ing on the night of July 8, morning of July 9, the house No. 8, Peak ar the Road, and stealing one gold mounted amber cigar holder, value 85, a book of tram täckets and one ferry ticket, & pair

Hospital, Shanghai, David JOHN HUGHES, continuous investigation of China's poppy of glasses, value $25, a cigarette case, |

aged 18, dearly beloved eldest son of Mrs. C. Williams and the late David Hughes of Llamboidy, Wales.

HONGKONG OFFICE: 104, DES VEUX ROAD C. LONDON OPTION: 181, FLEET STREET, EC.

The Daily Press.

HONGKONG, SEPTEMBER 14TH, 1912.

have the wit to conceive.

He did not anticipate any political crisis before 1915.

FREAKISH CONDUCT OF A SUFFRAGETTE.

A suffragette who was turned out of the ball went to the Post Office, pinned a card on her breast, and asked to be posted express to Mr. Churchill's resi- dence. The official complied, but Mr. Churchill's secretary refused to admit her.

BRITISH WEATHER.

LONDON, September 13th.

year. Gales and floods caused consider Yesterday was the coldest day of the

able damage on the East Coast. GERMAN MILITARY MANCEUVRES,

THE KAISER'S ACTIVITY.

LONDON, September 13th. Despite this bitter inclemency of the

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THE BRITISH AVIATION DISASTER,

LONDON, September 13th. At the inquest on the bodies of Lieu- tenants Hotchkiss and Bettington, who not their deaths owing to the collapse of the military aeroplane in which they

LONDON, September 13th. Mrs. Christabel Pankhurst has been in- terviewed in. Paris. She said she was warned that there was danger of her being arrested, and left England before the warrants were executed.

She has been living near Boulogue. She announces a resumption of the milit- unt campaign in the Autumn.

CANADA WILL NOT WELCOME SUFFRAGETTES.

LONDON, September 18th. Reuter's correspondent at Ottawa saya it has been officially intimated that if she English militant suffragettes visit Canada they will be barred from entering, so

' undesirables."

It has been pointed out that noveral of them are disqualified from entry owing were proceeding to the manoeuvres, a to criminal conviction, and the Canadian verdict of accidental death was returned. suffragettes will not welcome the threaten- The jury recommended that a Governed invasion. ment inquiry should be made into all aviation disasters.

TYPHOON WARNING.

"Cyclone or typhoon Pacific Ocean about half-way between the Mariana Island and Luzon, almost stationary."

beep killed since the 5th July when using at the American Consulate General, Six members of the Flying Corps have The telegram quoted below was received monoplanes, and it is understood that Hongkong, from the Manila Observatory, the War Office has suspended the use of at 12 noon yesterday :- monoplanes till they are safer. Airmen profer the biplane as safer and moro stible, but the monoplang is more speedy. ITALIAN AVIATOR'S PLIGHT,

LONDON, September 13th. The Italian aviator Captain Moizo,

THE MERCANTILE BANK OF INDIA, LIMITED.

cultivation, as recognized by Article IV. of value BG, a guld chain and appendages the Opium Agreement of last year, it will value $100. & watch, value 85, one gold weather, the cold rain and the biting be found that the increases reported are safety-pin, value $7, one goli tooth-pick, only sporadic and temporary, and that, the value $6, a cigarette holder, value, wind, the Kaisar is daily following the interregnum being passed, the repression two large vases, value $160, & pair of manœuvres on horseback with indiffer- will go on as vigorously as before. It is, fold glasses in case, value $75, a silverence to the elements, proving his absolute while flying from Zuara towards Tripoli,branch of the Mercantile Bank bas however, especially desirable that this ice bowl, valus 220, two pairs of boots recovery from his recent illness. investigation should not cease, but should value $32, one pair of gold rimmed pince

be carried on throughout the whole period bez, alte 895 and $17 in money, the pro- covered by the Agreement, as the very fast perty of Mr. E. Ormiston,

SIxcz the patbreak of the revolutionary of its existence would be an extra spur to struggio fast Autumn and the consequent the zeal of China's officials, and we trust confusion of China's local Government, that the retirement of Sir ALSTANDEE much has been beard and written about the Hosir does not imply a cessation of the alleged widespread recrudescence of poppy work conducted by him. oultivation. It cannot be denied that there has been a recrudescence-though it must. be remembered that opium was still grown in some provinces in 1911 before thero was a hint of the impending disturbances-but we have no doubt that the accounts of the

Á man has reported to the police that he met a man in the street who under threats compelled him to take off his jacket and hand it over to him.

wangan

magnitude of the revival bave been made Yanmati having succumbed to his injuries The victim of the bomb outrage at the most of, and that there is more cause his assailant was yesterday brought for wonder that the movement is so restrict-before Mr. Melbourne at the Magistracy ed than for great alarm at its occurrence. on a charge of murder, and was remanded. Moreover, the phase of disorder is rapidly until the 17th. passing away, and with the advent of a: firmly established local government, we look to see the old repressivo measures enforced cuce more; and, indeed, attempts are already being made in that direction in the province of Kwangtung, and probably in others also. The case of Hunan stands in a category by itself: the problem there ie

day.

NEW GERMAN BATTLESHIP. :'

LONDON, September 13th. Router's correspondent at Berlin wires

of Police, who prosecuted, said there were Mr. King, Assistant Superintendent three other charges of a similar nature that the new turbine battleship Kniser

gainst prisoner. However, he would ask bis worship to take these two that did 23.8 knots on her trial trip.

Mr. J. R. Wood identified the watch forming the subject of the first charge as a chest of drawers before retiring, and his property. He said he placed it on on waking in the morning found it was missing.

Evidence was given by pawnbrokers with whom prisoner pawned some of the stable who arrested the prisoner, stolen property and by the Chinese can

man is the custody of the last vituess Sergeant Davitt spoke to finding the in plain clothes. and another Chinese constable, who were

SUICIDE OF JACK JOHNSON'S WIFE.

We are officially informed that the local

fell among Arabs, who captured the

received a telegram from the head office that the directore have declared an aviator and his machine. They were un-interim dividend for the past half-year injured, and were taken to the Turkish at the rate of 7 per cent, por annum free headquarters.

of income tax.

AMERICAN AVIATOR KILLED.

LONDON, September 13th.

A message from Chicago reports that Paul Keck, the American fight duration record holder, was killed by the fall of his biplane when attempting a steep

COMPULSORY WIRELESS,

LONDON, September 13th. Router's correspondent at Chicago tele-spiral descent. graphs that Jack Johnson's white wife committed suicide by shooting herself. She was the divorced wife of a New York! sportsman and married Johnson in 1011. A LABOUR COMEDY.

LONDON, September 13th.

LONDON, September 13th. Beuter's correspondent at Melbourne A sergeant interpreter said when be

telegraphs that the House of Repro- read the first charge to prisoner he re

sentatives has passed the second reading plied that he stole the watch from the Union at Euston Road has been the scene passed the Senate. It provides for com- The headquarters of the Railwayman's of the Navigation Bill, which has already Mucao, steamboat, Kwang Tung.

Sessions. committed for trial at the next Criminal

Prisoner, who had nothing to say, was of a labour comedy during the past three pulsory boat drill, wireless telegraphy daye. Fourteen ex-railwaymen, all on board, and a suficiency of life-boats. feloniously entering No. 127, the Peak, Clerks Union and demanded the mini-

A FURTHER CHARGE.

unionists, have been clerically employed Prisoner was further charged with there at 30/- per week. They joined the the residence of Mr. E. A M. WHE stances already reported, and prisoner per week. They were promptly dismiss has asked for an English team to visit

Mr. Williams detailed the circum. mum wage of the latter, which is 35/- was formally remanded on the third ed, and the Clerks' Union has since suc

cessfully picketed the premises.

Another armed robbery is reported to afternoon. It appears that several mer, have taken place ia Victoria on Thursday armed with knives, entered a house in Des Voeux Road under the pretence of pairing a window. They tied up the female inmate, threatened her with knives, and from a table stole a hair press not ons of opium, but of rebellious local worth $60. Three arrests have been made. charge.

INTERNATIONAL RUGBY.

LONDON. September 12th. The New South Wales Rugby League

there in 1913

FORTHCOMING MARRIAGE.

A marriage has been arranged between the Hon. Jan Colin Maitland, only son of Viscount and Viscountess Maitland, and ivy, elder daughter of Mr. and Mrs and grandson of the Earl of Lauderdale, James Bell-Irving. Rokeby, Barnard Castle

RUSSO-AFGHAN FRONTIER.

AMIR STRENGTHENS THE OUTPOSTS. The Pioneer's frontier correspondent states that the Amir has carried out his on the Perso-Afghan border and also in intention of strengthening the outposts

aetion of Russia in placing some 3.000 Afghan Turkestan, to the North of Herat. Local Afghan officials took alarm at the troops in Mashad under the plea of sup- pressing disorders in that part The movement of Russian troops was in their judgment a sign of future danger to Afghanistan and hence their suggestions

done and doubtless unusual alertness is that the Afghan outposte should be strengthened. This has apparently been being shown at the advanced posts of Herat province.