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INTIMATION

THE HONGKONG DAISY PRESS, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER JIE, 1912.

Chinese leaders of the Republic imbibed their Republicanism chiefly in the United States. To the American there is nothing ridiculous or at all undignified in speaking or writing of the President of the United States as Mr. Tart, or of the Secretary of State as Mr. Kxox. Nor, again, is it insulting to the French to refer in speech

WATSON'S or in print to the end of the French

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VERY OLD

LIQUEUR

SCOTCH

WHISKY

Republic as M. FALLIERES. Why, then, should the Chinese not have us speak and write of their President as Mr. (or M.) TOAM SHIH-KAI, or of the ex-Premier as

When Mr. TanG SHAO-TI?

a Chinese happens to possess a foreign title or degree it is customary among foreigners to use the handle- Dr. SUN TAT-SEX, Dr. We TING FANO, Sir Kat Ho Kar, etc. It forms an interesting contribution to this discus. sion to note that in the Hongkong Civil

The application of the Opium F TELEGRAMS. TELEGRAMS. TELEG RA MS.

for the 828,000 worth of opium found on the 6.9. Fuen Sang has been adjourned until the return of the ship,

The Chinese, who stands charged with the murder of a compatriot at Yaumati by throwing a bomb at him which ex- ploded, was yesterday committed for trial.

Messrs. Caird & Co., of Greenock, have received an order to construct a now vesach of 11,300 tons for the P. & 0. Steam Navigation Company. liner will be 525 ft. long.

The new

The police are dealing with mendicants at present. Beggars have become rather uumerous of late, and a number wore arrested on Tuesday and more on Thura- day. Most of them will be banished.

·{ŸRROUGH REVIER'N AQMNUS.]

BRITISH ARMY MANCEUVRES.

{* TERRITORIALS' IMPORTANT PART.

LONDON, September 19th.

A battle is imminent in East Anglia, where the troops of the opposing armies have concentrated by splendid marches, Ferritorials holding Cambridge, which is strongly entrenched, form the defenders' left Bank, and Territorials are largely responsible for the right flank, thereby filling an important role.

The King again spent the whole day in

the field yesterday, paying great atten-

tion to the work of the administrative services. To-day he will watch the fight-

A meeting of dealers in and exporters of Chinese and other produce is to be held at the Old Chamber of Commercoing Room on the 8th prox, to approve of the rules of the Association formed at the meeting in July last,

Service List we find War. Yux's ' name printed in the list of members of the Legis lativo Council as the Hou. Mr. Wei Yox, and it may be added that it is customary in Departmental Reports and in the newspapers of the Colony to use the prefix "Mr." when mention is made of the names of any

A fire is reported from the village of Chinese gentlemen of standing. It has Sheung Shui in which three cows were been suggested to the Chinese by one writer burned to denth. It is thought that the on the subject that since they have abolish- [ outbreak was caused by some livo ashes ad honorific titles it would be more dignified | which had been placed in a corner of the to do without empty and meaningless titles cow shed being blown among some dry A BLEND OF THE FINEST PURE altogether. Yet the advocate of this, we ven grass. The value of the three cows is set

ture to think, would not attempt, for in-down at 870, MALT SCOTCH WHISKIES.

stance, to address an ex-Minister as TANG SHAO-TI, without feeling painfully aware that the omission of the prefix sounded extremely

forces.

The troops greatly appreciate His Majesty's intercat.

Lord Roberts on borseback, accom- panied by his daughter, is following the operations keenly as a non-combatant,

AN ACCIDENT,

General Rawlinson fell from his horse during the manœuvres and had his leg

broken,

SUDDEN TERMINATION.

{THROUGH MEUTER'S AGESOX.]

THE FUNERAL OF GENERAL NOGI.

Toxyo, September 19th. General Negi was interred with great military honours. The procession num- bered 50,000 and included Ambassadors and special envoya. H.R.H. the Duke of Connaught and suite attended.

“HARAKIRI” PREVENTED IN

AMERICA

(THROUGH REUTBR'S AGENOT.]

ULSTER'S COVENANT.

PREPARATIONS FOR SIGNATUREN.

LONDON, September 18th. The arrangements being made for the Signing of the Covenant in the City Hall Daska of Belfast aro most elaborate. stretching for a third of a mile will bo placed in the hall enabling 540 people to sigu simultaneously, The Unionists an- ticipato that 90,000 will sign there alone.

Huge processions are arriving in suc- cession throughout the day. Carson will be escorted to the Hali by Sir E.

purpose of drawing lots for one of them guard of 200 ex-service men carrying to commit harakiri in consoquence of the Union Jacks, and will he received, along death of the Emperor of Japan.

with Lord Londonderry

and other The police broke up the meeting and leaders, by the Corporation, Harbour arrested the leaders.

Commissioners, and Water Board. Six Edward Carson signs first. The table will be covered by a Union Jack.

LONDON, September 19th. At Grand Junction, Colorado, fifty Japanese hold a secret meeting for the

TURKEY AND ITALY.

RENEWED FIGHTING.

LONDON, September 19th, A message from Rome states that fierce attacks by Arabs and counter-attacks wore made near Derns on the 17th inst. The Arabs were repulsed. The Italians had 61 killed and 130 wounded. The | Arabs, it is estimated, had 1,800 dead and a proportionate number of wounded,

For over 30 Years WATSON'S discourteous, or that he was guilty of undue Festerday charged with harbouring tea after a day of scattered fighting, being while 41 were taken prisoners.

FINEST

"E" has maintained reputation of the SCOTCH WHISKY

FAR EAST.

A.

Two men and three women appeared The British manœuvres in East Anglia before Mr. Melbourne at the Magistracy suddenly teminated, the dispositions,

girls. It was stated that the men were boarding house keepers, and the case such that a decisive battle was impor against them was remanded, bail beingsible. In the absence of an official state- allowed in the sum of $500. In the casement the papers escribe the stalemate to of the women bail was fixed at $1,500.

familiarity. The Paking paper makes the paint which, however, is not so strong as it mem-when it asks ironically whether it in leas harmonious to the delicate foreign ear to say Mr. YUAN and Mr. TANG

A passenger on the ss. Awongrat from in the than it is to use the same courtesy title with Canton to Hongkong was arrested on the equally distinctive names of the gallant Wednesday night for stealing a bundle allies of England, as Mr. KINOSHITA, OF of clothing belonging to another passen- Mr. Ismash? This difference has to beger, When he appeared before Mr. noted: the Japanese in their own language Irving at the Magistracy yesterday he already possess a courtesy title, only it is was charged in addition to this theft ased an a suffix, as KINOSHITA-SAN and with returning from banishment. The | ISHIBASHI-SAN. It is different with the hearing was adjourned.

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HONGKONG,

EPTEMBER 20тα, 1912.

the efficiency of the aeroplanes nullifying every tactical movement.

The King was ten hours in the saddle.

FIGHTING THE AEROPLANE.

LONDON, September 18th.

In addition to armoured decks the new warships will be equipped with four-inch guns capable of shooting at aircraft at

aight by the band of the K.O.Y.LI. in degrees and at a height of 4,500 yards at a The concert to have been given last a height of 9,900 yards at an angle of so the Gardens had to be abandoned owing distance of four miles, to the rain. H.E. the Governor' and. Lady May and suite and a number of Poak residents proceeded to the Gardens but as it was impossible to pro- coed with an open air concert in the con- ditions they returned immediately.

ACCIDENT ON BRITISH BATTLESHIP.

LONDON, September 10th, The breech block of a large gun blew off prace on M.8. King Edward at

and several seriously injured. Colousay. One bluejacket was killed,

THE SITUATION IN THE MEDITERRANEAN.

IKANIE AND ITALY,

In the evening & procession escorts the loaders to the Liverpool steamer.

SIR E. CARSON AT ENNISKILLEN. Eighteen special trains filled with Unionists and Orangemon poured into Inniskillen, The town was gaily de- carated. Union Jacks being overywhere, Sir E. Carson arrived by road and drove to the mcoting escorted by two squad- rons of yeoman, a large body of men drilled to resist Home Rule. The crowd in the streets and at the windows cheered, and the band played the National Anthem on his entrance to the meeting. He said that Unionists need not fear. Their cause was just, and the greatest cause for which men had fought was the government of their country. · God would

IMPENDING MARRIAGE OF THE

CHIEF SCOUT.

LONDON, September 19th. Much comment is being made concern- ing an apparently inspired article in the Frankfuerter Zeitung accusing the French Press of bullying Italy in con-defend the right. nection with the concentration of the French fleet in the Mediterranean, and declaring that the provocative tome of the French Press has been noticeable sinco M. Poincare's visit to St. Petersburg.

In connection with the polemic pro- cending between the Franco-German ou the subject of the Mediterranean situa- tion, the Frankfuerter Zeitung makes the interesting revelation that Italy fearing that the Mediterranean is being trans- formed into an Anglo-French sca de- manded as a condition of her renewal of tho Triplice in 1913 that her interests

LONDON, September 19th. The Daily Graphic states that General Baden Powell is engaged to Miss Olare, daughter of Mr. Harold Soames.

THE ALLAN WILKIE COMPANY.

SHE STOPS TO CONQUER."

titles are abolished, possess no designation corresponding to the courtesy titles in the West or in Japan. Since, however, the aim of the Chinese leaders of public opinion is to break down, as completely as they can, the barriers which isolato China from the rest of the world, we can sympathise with the idea underlying the protest against foreign Press without the courtesy title

At the Magistracy, yesterday Mr. customarily given in the case of nearly he remanded the case so that they might Irving informed two defendants that if every other race, and if the educated bring special evidence and be then found Chinese themselves res nothing derogatory the evidence put before him to be correct or undignified in the names of the President he would fine them more heavily for and Ministers of State being printed with wasting the time of the Court. The hint

LONDON, September 10th.

is believed that the proposal is being fav-which is brimful of funny situations and a rich wein of comedy, was admirably the plebeian prefix Mrs the caac of that honesty would be the cheaper policy

The Committee of the Railwaymen's curably considered in Berlin.

presented by a strong cast, the most high personages in the Americau und was taken and defendants pleaded Society has expelled a member for en-AUSTRIA'S FIRST DREADNOUGHT. | conspicuous members of which wore Miss French Republics--why should the English-guilty. man object? One Chineze has mavocated the adoption of the French "Monsieur," in

TRADE UNION INCONSISTENCY.

couraging the pickets of the Clerks Union The chargo against Д stoker from who are watching the headquarters of H.M.9. Prometheus named Foster of the Railwaymen's Society, the clerks em-

The run of success achieved by the last night when & good house applauded Allan Wilkie Company was continued

to the echo the performance of the play The play,

in the Mediterranean be guaranteed. It" She stoops to Conquer."

Hunter-Watts in the role of Kate Hard- LONDON, September 10th.

wastle, Mr. Allan Wilkie as Mr. Hard- A message from Vienna skates that the castle, Mr. Goodsell as Young Marlow, first Austrian Dreadnought, the Veribus, Mr. Hicks, as the jolly host, and Mr.

SIR WILFRID LAURIER ADHERES TO RECIPROCITY.

THE NEW C.P.R, LINER.

INCREASED STANDARD OF HAPETY.

order to escape the objection which having behaved in a disorderly mannerployed there having gone on strike in accomplished 21 knots in bor speed trial. Pittar na Sir Charles Marlow,

at Wanchai last week and with having demand for the trade union rate of assaulted P.C. Cotton in the execution of

|wages." The Committee now incur the his duty was heard before Mr. Melbourne at the Magistracy yesterday. It will be charge of victimization in addition to, remembered that the case was remanded underpaying. for a week as the policeman, who had pital. After the evidence yesterday, Mr.mittee's resignation. been kicked in the stomach, was in hos passed resolutions demanding the Com-demonstration of Liberals at Sturgeoneering Company, Glasgow, launched at Melbourne imposed a fine of $10 14 days for the assault and a fine of 88 for the disorderly conduct.

An unusual-probably an unprecedent- ed-sight was to be seen in the Strand (London) on the 20th ult,, remarks a

Several branches of the Society have

BRITISH UNIONIST PARTY AND

TARIFF REFORM.

LONDON, Scptember 19th.

Mr. F. E. Smith, speaking at Darling-

attempts, in correspondence, to coufine the ue of Mr. to tradesmen and inferiors." The Peking Daily News states the case against this suggestion in terms which are worth noting. After remarking that the lingua franca in China in the Far East in English, not French, it proceeds to say It Englishmaou care to witness the supre macy of their longue as a means of ister- course in China-and all else of their civil- ization which is necessarily associated with the use of a language-it may be well for them to consider the wisdom of encour- Tax interesting question has been raised aging the use of a form or mode of expres- in our Peking contemporary (which Dr.sion which is singularly calculated to assist London papar, in the shape of two ton, said the Unionists would not return SUN YAT-SEN's paper in Shanghai recently other agencice described as "the bright appendage of the language in the intellectual soil of this of pavement hawkers.

firmly rooting the English Chinese, & woman and a boy, in the role to power without à definite mandate for Foreign Office") as to whether it is not dis-country." For Englishmen that must be tracting a great deal of attention and

They were at Tariff Reform. courteous to talk or write in English about the laat word on the subject. There is not, were driving a flourishing trade in some Chinese statesman or other important per nor has there ever been, any intentional sort of paper toys. They were shabby sonages without giving to them the prefix M. discourtesy in printing Chinese names or Mr. It is pointed out that we always in foreign

and poor-looking, while their clothes newspapers without the were an extraordinary mixture of East The death is announced of Sir Horatio gire Asquire his "Mr." and Enware almost universal courtesy title. It has arisen and West. GREY his "Sir," and that equal courtesy out of the fact that there is nothing corres, feet were in native shoes, but she wore an

The woman's tiny pinched Davies, who was Lord Mayor of London should be accorded thair prototypes in ponding to it in Chinese, and foreign papers vid black straw hat of English pattern. China. An English journalist has given to have merely followed in this matter Chinese this the answer that in the foreign papers, style. Moreover, is it not a style affected those published in China as well as those by the people of America? If, however, the published in Europe, Chinese entitled to the medical, legal or philosophical ap allation of " Dr" are invariably acorded the distinction, as are military men denoted by their rank. Thus, SUN YAT-BEN is always given his "Dr." and I YEAN-HUNG OF CHANG HBU their "General."

"Bat,'

Chinese themselves deom the appearance of! their names in the foreign Press without the courtesy title usually given in all other cases to be derogatory and objectionable, it is a matter, that will doulitless be rectified in course of time when it becomes better known that the absence of the prefix hurts their susceptibilities.

says the writer, "when it comes to YVAN SHIH-KAI, who is neither a doctor nor a sol- dier, we feel nouplussed, for to call him sim-

The dead body of a Chinese female ple' Mr.' goes against the grain, as if one child was found on the door step of were bordering on the ridiculous. To give the Italian convent establishment at the greatest man in Chins the saine prefix Happy Valley on Wednesday morning. which we accord to the smallest shopkeeper

TYPHOON WARNING.

The telegram quoted bolow was received at the American Consulate General,

Hongkong, from the Manila Observatory at I p.m. yesterday:

"Cyclone or. typhoon E. of Luzon more than 300 miles distant moving W.N.W. or N.W.

CRICKET LEAGUE.

OBITUARIES.

LONDON, September 19th.

in 1507-98.

Major William Edwards, who was decorated for his services in the Egyptian

War and who served in the Straits

Settlements and Hongkong, is dead.

who saw service in China in 1857, is dead. Admiral Sir Richard Vesey Hamilton,

The death is announced of Sir James T. Ritchio, K.B., who was Lord Mayor

of London in 1904.

CRICKET.

LONDON, September 19th. Sir Wilfrid Laurier, speaking at a

Falls, Ontario, affirmed his adherence to Reciprocity as being indispensable to the prosperity of Canada.

THE PARLIAMENTARY PANDEMONIUM.

The Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engi-

the end of last month the quadruple Brew turbine steamer Empress of Russia, which they have built for the Canadian Pacific Railway Company. The vessel is the first of two sister ships which are intended for service between Canada, China, and Japan, and will take the place of the three Empresses at present" on that route,

Each will be of 15,000 tona gross, and they will be the largest vessels on the Pacific. They will have accommodation for 300 first-class,··100 second-class and 600 third-class passengers Each of the vessels will be propelled at a speed of 20 Inots by Parson's turbines, driving four. atrews, and so designed that the outside

SCENES IN THE HUNGARIAN CHAMBER,

LONDON, September 19th. Reuter's correspondent at Buda Pest telegraphs that the members of the Opposition renewed the uproar in the Hungarian Parliament yesterday morn- ing. The members of the Opposition shout-Fort shaft will be driven by a high pres- sure turbine, the outside starboard ahait ed "acoundrel" to M. Benethy, the by an intermediate pressure turbine and tavo centre shafts by low pressure tur- Minister for Commerce. The latter bines, thus using the triple expansion first bime on large struck his insulter, and the members of principle for the

Each of the inner tan-going liners. the Opposition rushed at and felled the

carries a powerful astern turbine Minister with their fists. Members of the incorporated in the same casing as the ahead turbine. The vessel launched last Government came to the rescue.

month was named by Mrs. Wyndhars Beauclerk, daughter of Sir Thomas Shaughnessy, the president of the Cana- dian Pacific Railway.

Count Tiers, taking the chair, was the signal for an "inferral" concert with whistles and trumpets.

A strong force of police then entered, and the members of the Opposition left.public of late. This new vessel had been

RIOTING AT BUDA. PEST.

LATER.

Speaking at a luncheon after the launch, Mr. Alexander Gracie, chairman of the company, said that the question of safety at sea had been much befors the

so constructed that, in the event of any thing unforeseen occurring, she would LONDON, September 19th.

doat with any four compartments flood- The match between England and the There was further rioting in the streetsed, instead of two compartments, which had been the Board of Trade standard Mr. A. E. Asger informs us that on Champion County (Yorkshira) ended in of Buda Fest last night in consequence of of safety hitherto, So far as he was tries for the Hongkong Cricket League

launched in this condition. in Europe does not seem quite right, and chai district were charged before Mr.

Competition 1919/13 will close to-day at the victory of the former by an innings Socialist attempts to hold demonstrations aware this was the first merchant ship He under- Two coloured women from the Wan- the Hongkong Cricket Cinb at 5.30 p.m. and 122 runs,

in advocacy of universal suffrage, which stood that before long they would see ad- We feel that his name alone, distin

A meeting of the representatives of Ton Australian cricketers on Thursday the authorities had prohibited, and the vertised a trip round the world by the at the Magistracy

Canadian Pacific Company. Passengers guished as it is, requires noembellishment.”

with the Clubs concerned will then be held to left Southampton for America. Bardsley troops and police broke up the meetings, would be able to sail from Glasgow on This in an English—if we except France, snee on that charge and they were bound receive the report of the subcommittee

That was their first appear arrange the fixtures for the season, and is not going, and the eleven will be com

the vessel just launched, by the Eastern It is officially admitted that many were route to Vancouver, and thence overland but might say a European-point of view over in the sum of $50 each to keep them on the proposed formation of a Second pleted by Australian students in the

or & sister ship would be in waiting to bring them home.

Melbourne soliciting.

but it must not be forgotten that the peace for six months.

Division of the League.

1 United States.

injured-24 seriously-and that eighty

persons were arrested.

to Quebec, where the Empress of Britain