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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY OCTOBER 2181, 1812.

H.M.8. Kent arived from the Worth TELEGRAMS. TELEGRAMS.

yesterday.

A man was fined $300 at the Magistracy on Saturday for being in possession of opium worth $225.

THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

THE BALKAN WAR. GREECE JOINS THE

3.CONFEDERACY.

[THROUGH REUTEB'S AGENCY.} THE INDEPENDENCE OF MONGOLIA.

MINISTERING CHILDREN'S

LEAGUE.

SUCCESSFUL FANCY FEYE.

the upsetting of a cart is enough to throw the whole of a tramway service into disorder. A motor-car service, on the other hand, being formed of independent units, runs no such risks. If a car breaks down the passengers can be transferred to another with the minimum of time and trouble. As there are no rails, a temporary obstruction in the traffic causes no more difficulty to a motor-car than to other whealed convey auces, and the mending of the road, alwaye a matter of difficulty where there is a tramcar service, can be expedited by simply divarting the traile to other routes. The motor-car carries its rails with it; it does not leave them in the road to block the mentioned, and, owing to the absence of vanced into Bulgaria, where a battle was eated the decision with great pomp, sented a pleasing appearance. The many

Gazette that H.E. the Governor has re- It is announced in the Government, appointed Mr. Ng Hon-taz to be a mem ber of the Sanitary Board for a further period of three years from the 14th prox. On Saturday, at the Magistracy, the charge against a man of taking 330 from letter at the Post. Office was again

a witness, was remanded for a week.

Capably organised by the efficient body of enthusiastic workers, ended by Mrs. Irwin, as Hon. Secretara Bazar and Fancy Feto was held in the Volunteer Parade Ground on Saturday, the pro- charities to children and the Hongkong ceeds being devoted to various locat

from the Balkans are meagre, and some M. Korostovetz, had an audience with

Cot at the M.CL. Home at Ottershaw, what conflicting. The Turks have ad- the Kutuchts at Urga and communi- decorated with flags and bunting, pre- The grounds, which were tastefully

LONDON, October 20th

· „BATTLES “ÎN PROGRESS,

Reater's correspondent at St. Peters burg telegraphs that Russia has recog Greece has joined the confederacy and the war has become general. Telegrams Mongolia. The Russian Special Envoy, Surrey

independence of North

expected on Friday. The Serviaus are reported to have entered Turkoy, and one of their armies is believed to be co-operat ing with the Bulgarians.

The Greeks

nised the

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the scene. The Novyo Premye graphically describes

The audience with M.

LATER. Korostovetz

'The Criminal Sessions open today The list, which is rather heavy, includes three charges of murder, and several of robbery, larceny, fraudulent misappro-have also crossed the border and are occurred on the 11th inst. It was attend- priation, housebreaking, receiving, child believed to have engaged a Turkish army.ed by all the Princes and Lamas. M, stealing, etc.

They have also declared a blockade of Korastovetz pointed out the necessity for Turkish ports.

weather in the China Sea. The reception on board, for which invitations have been issued, will therefore take place this afternoon, between 4 and 8 o'clock.

POSITION OF ROMANIA.

LONDON, October 19th. Router's correspondent at. Bukharest

reports that it is stated in semi-official circles that Roumania has decided to prepare for mobilisation of three Army. Corps, considering her unpreparedness would be dangerous to herself in the.

Consequently, upon a serious Bulgarian event of success resting with Bulgaria.. victory she will abandon her waiting

trafic and cause accidents. This touches- another point where the electric tramear compares unfavourably with the motor car. and that is in the degree of obstruction to other trafic. All traffic has to get out of the way of the tramcar, no matter how crowded the thoroughfare or how much delay is caused, while equally the tramcar, being unable to deviate from its fixed. The new M.M. steamer Paul Lecut path, itself obstructs the thoroughfare which was due from Europe yesterday and causes numerous accidenta. The afternoon on her maiden voyage to the motor-omnibus, on the other hand, ranite Far East, did not arrive until late last with any other vehicle in this respectight, having heen delayed by typhoon It gives and takes with the width of the thoroughfare and the nature of the tratic. There is one thing, however, which the motor-car requires but which the tramçar can dispense with: it requires good roads to ran over. The tramway with its Oxford Local Examinations, forwards us Mr. T. K. Dealy, local secretary of the BRAND rails can disregard the condition of the a copy of the results, so far as Hongkong other parts of the road along which it runs, Schools are concerned, of last July and outside the cities and towns it can Oxford Local Examinations, made up attitude and secure her own comprusation became, in the absence of roads, an electric from early copies courteously supplied, before a Bulgarian victory decides the railway. This is probably the reason why" Siberia, by the Secretary in Oxford,

issue. the electric car is more popular than the These results will be found on page 6. motor-car in undeveloped countries, where Division lists, supplementary tables and the roads are few and badly made, yet certificates for distribution, which always, there is much to be said on the side of good come by parcels post, are not due in roads and motor-ear traffic as opposed to Hongkong until about the middle of bad roads and electric tram-car trafic. For November. one thing, the road is for the use of all- pedestrians, bicyclists, carters, equestrians, all who travel from one place to another benefit by it. But a tramway is only for

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No anonymously signed communica. tions that have already appeared in other papers will be inserted.

A private telegram has reached the Colony to the effect that Mr. J. Macedo, the Consul for Peru, in Hong kong, has been promoted to a higher post

a South America.

reived no official confirmation of the ap

Mr. Macedo has re- pointment and does not even know to which part of South America he is being sent, but as he has served in Hongkong the customary period of three years, be is. due for transfer, and expects official con- firmation of the private message by an early mail.

THE FIGHTING.

TURKS BEAT SERVIANG.

Reuter a correspondent at Belgrade states that the Turks have recaptured Prijpolje, driving the Servians across the frontier.

Servian losses were heavy, including A Constantinople casage says the

rifles, ammunition and provisions..

MEAGEE REPORTS,

Mengre reports of the fighting, which are up till now mostly from Turkish sources, show general ighting on all frontiers.

SERVIAN ACTIVITY.

The Serviaus claimed to have recaptur. ed Prishtina, but a later telegram from Belgrade says this is premature. They have merely captured a small town. The Turks are destroying the railway.

One Sérvian army is believed to be

Three other armies are invading Old

has been preliminary to a big battle. Sorvia, where the fighting up till now

GREEKS AND TURKS,

The Greek army attacked the Turks yesterday in the region of Melruna. North of Larissa, where a battle is in progress,

CERETANS ASSIST GREECE, Detatchments of Cretans have arrived at Athens and received a great ovation.

GREECE BLOCKADES-TURKISH COAST.

Greece has notified the Powers of the blockade of the Turkish coast.

one means of locomotion and serves only to benefit the company owning it. A service of motor-cars provides all the advantages of a tramway, and at the same time leaves the thoroughfare free for all to use as they think best. At the time the locomotive was invented and railways constructed in England the coaching service had reached a high degree of perfection. The roads were well kept, the building of cosches was greatly improved, and the breed of trate's Court Capt. V Graves, of On Saturday, at the Marine Magis. horses was maintained. The advent of the the s.e. Glenegle, was summoned for fail-co-operating with the Bulgarians. railway destroyed the whole organisation, ing to report the death of a Chinese and since that time practically fill within passenger, which occurred on his ship on the last twenty years there was no progress the 24th July. Mr. H. Craig, Deputy in road traction. The horse tramway and Shipping Master, said information was the electric tramway served to provide some received by the Coroner of the death of relief for local traffic, but also served to a Chinese passenger on the ship. Defen- prevent any improvement in the construedant deposited his log book at the Mer- tion of roads. Then came the bicyclist, cantile Marine Office, and the ship's who gave back to the roads a reflection of doctor gave a certificate which was sent their former glory, and finally the motor to the Tung Wa Hospital. When he got car. This last invention has proved the the book back he forgot to enter the greatest factor in the improvement of roads,

occurrence. Defendant was cautioned even the old coaching roads proving insuf-

und discharged. ficient to meet the requiraments of higher speed. The future of road traffic is now in the bands of the motor-car, and it may be confidently expected that the construction of thoroughfares will be greatly improved in future. The great desideratum, after an increase in width, is, an improvement of the surface and the invention of some cheap yet serviceable road-covering material would WHILE railways, and probably electric prove a great step in advance. The above tramways, will always be a necessity despite considerations may be taken in connee whilst the sergeant was arresting the aeroplanes, airships and other methods of tion with Dr. Sox's great railway Chinese the other defendant interfered, conveyance, it may be doubted whether the scheme. Would construction of afterwards going to the Police Station to value of the motor-car in all its different the railways he advocates prove of inquire about buil for the first man. He aspects has yet been realised. In the big greator benefit to the country than was then charged by the sergeant. cilies of Europe, it is true, the motor-car is the construction of good roads by which in uso other than for purposes-of-pleasure, the motor car, the motor omnibus, and the but so far as compating with the railways, motor-lorry could pass from one end of the or rather acting as an adjunct to the mil-republic to the other? Provide the ways, is concerned, but little advance has roads and the motor-traffic will provide itself been made. That the motor-car, in the without any assistance from the State, for form of the motor-omnibus, can compete maintenance demands a large amount of while construction of a railway and its with the electric tramway is shown by their

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The Daily Press.

HONGKONG, OCTOBER 21st, 1912.

OBSTRUCTING THE POLICED;

J. M.

A Chinese was charged at the Magis tracy on Saturday with selling cigarettes without a licence and with assaulting Indian Police Sergeant 599. Souza, a Portuguese, was also charged with obstructing the sergeant in the execution of his duty. It was stated that

His Worship fined the hawker S on each charge, or one month, and the Portuguese was fined $20 or one month.

SECOND PERFORMANCE OF "THE COOK."

The Theatre was again crowded on

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A BULGARIAN SUCCESS.

Three Bulgarian armies concentrated near Mustapha Pasha and advanced tuwards Adrianople, where the Tarks left

garrison of 26,000, the bulk of their forces holding the field works stretching

astwards to Kirk Kalisseh. Friday between

Heavy fighting took place all day on Ortakoi on the Arda River, West of Kirk Kalisseh and Adrianuple.

defining Mongolia'a relations with China] and Russia. He was entrusted with the. mission of discussing these relations and the rights of Russian subjects and trade in Mongolia.

NEW BRITISH MINISTER TO

TOKYO.

tam Greene, K.C.B., now Ambassador to Copenhagen, will be transferred to Tokyo, It is understood that Sir W. Conyng-

LONDON, October 19th.

ILLNESS OF THE PREMIER.

LONDON, October 19th.

stalls were laden with both useful and ornamental articles, and they were well patronised, the large company present including Lady May, who is President of the League, and the Miasos May.

The stallholders were:- Naval Stall-Mrs. Hastings. Toy Stall-Mrs. Jordan. Military Stall-Mrs. St. John. Kowloon Stall-Mrs. Aitken. Fancy Work Stall-Mrs. Chatham and

Mra, Montague Harston. Peak Stall-Mrs. Armstrong. Sweet Stall-Miss Rowe. Ice Cream Mrs Ormiston. Tea Stall-Mrs. Wrigley (USA Christmas Tree --Mrs. Lammert, sen 'St. Stephen's Girls College and C.M.S. High School Stall-Mrs. Hazeland. Packing-St. Stephen's College girls.

•Dolls' Tableaux-Mr. Irwin. Belilios Public School Stall-Miss

Pearce,

Tableaus in boxes were a new fea-

The Prime Minister, the Right Hon.ture, for which prizes were presented. H: H. Asquith, is suffering from an

These were won by:-1, French Con- inflammatory growth on the shoulder. Convent..

vent; 2, Belilios Public School; 8, Italian He will probably be operated on during

the week-end.

LATER.

Mr. Asquith is now much better and A slight operation may be necessary at will not be operated upon this week-end.

a future date, but it will be so trivial that an anesthetic will not be needed.. ABDUL HANID, THE EX-SULTAN.

LONDON, October 20th.

the Sultan has sanctioned the transier of A Constantinople telegram states that

Abdul Hamid to Constantinople.

NEW GERMAN AMBASSADOR, ·

LONDON, October 19th. Renter's Berlin correspondent tele- graphs that Prince Lichnowsky, the new German Ambassador to London, in the course of an interview stated that he is! going to London without any cut and dried policy, except with the hope of arriving at a reasonable settlement of all questions regarding the respective navies.

he did not ace that an agreement was Without going into the technical side,

theoretically impossible. He believed that the Anglo Germen tension was slackening.

ARREST OF THE CHAMPION PUGILIST.

LONDON, October 20th. Johnson, the negro pugilist, has been A Chicago telegram reports that Jack

arrested on a charge of abducting a whits girl, age 19, employed as cashier in his restaurant

AUSTRALIAN RACING.

A telegram from Soha reports that two.

Johnson was released immediately on Bulgarian battalions on Saturday took the girl denying that she had been Mustapha Pasha, an important position | abducted. on the railway towards Adrianople.

Reuter's correspondent at Sofia tele- graphs that the King, and the Princes stood on a hill and watched through Seld

LONDON, October 20th. glasses the troops taking Mustapha the race for the Caulfield Cup was won A telegram from Melbourne states that Pasla. The King met the first wounded soldiers and congratulated and decorated by Uncle Sam by half a length from Royal Scotch. Twenty-eight ran. The betting was 5 to 1 against the winner,

ENGLISH RACING.

LONDON, October 19th.

the

PORTS BLOCKADED. The Turkish fleet is blockading Varna and Burgas, on the Bulgarian coast in

quccess in London along the routes served by capital concentrated in the hands of one Saturday night when the performance of the Black Sea. both methods of traction. Figares pul management, motor-car services have no lished seem to show that the public prefer be maintained in the hands of one person or as to number, A service may tho motor-omnibus to the electric car and

limitations as

companies. Roads have in the past proved a great civilising factor, and it seems that they will prove no less an impetus in that

direction in the futura.

Sir Alexander Hosie, K.C.M.G., left for Home, via Siberia, on the 9th inst,

Lieut. Crouse's very amusing comedy The Cook an Idyll of the Peak was repeated. The house was as en

exaggeration, we think, to say seldom in the history of the Theatre has that comedy been staged which has haul more delighted admirers than “The Cook," and the author and all concerned in the production of the picce have every reason to feel proud of the success they

have achieved.

LATER REPORTS.

Mohem is in the district of Razlog with Stakes, to be run at Newmarket on the While Sofia reports the capture of The betting for the Cambridgeshire the bayonet, Athens announces the cap-30th inst., is as follows:-10 to 1 Polketris,

1 Willaura, 100 to 3 Saucy Vixen. RESULT OF THE MIDDLE PARK PLATE. The result of the Middle Park Plate, run at Newmarket yesterday, was follows:

as

A cinerastograph exhibition was given under the supervision of Mr. R. H. entitled, "Snow White and the Seven Stephenson, and a dainty children's play,

tion of Mrs. Hastings. Dwaris," was presented under the direc

The characters wore well sustained by the following

Melisande Rosalind, Queen's Mažais, Gladys Brock and Elaic Court; The Queen, Joy Hearl; Princess Snow White,

Fred. Day, Willie Maco, Percy Maddicks Dolly Bishop; The Seven Dwarfs, Willie Christmas, Cecil Maddicks, Ernest Sears,

and Eric Ponsford; The Prince, Hedley Day; The Prince's Attendant, Ernest Bears; The King's Hunter, Ernest Sears; The Mirror, Cecil Maddicks.

A well-executed Grecian dance was

given by Miss Hettie Tomes, and a fairies dance was a deservedly popular item, the fairies, being Bessie George, Gladys Dorothy Stewart, Lucretia Tooker, Doris Windebank, Elsie Court, Pellatt, Gladys Stewart, Edna Elson,

Two concerted items were wontribute? as follows:-"Japanese Love Song"-- Edna Smith, Mary Phillips, Cissio Phillips, May Cutler, Aubrey Robinson, Albert White, Ernest Smith, Bidney. Cos Hurluar, Edward Phillips, and George Teddy Bear Song"-Winnie Edser, Florrie Murray, Winnie Asping, Nellie Purden, Patsy Moore, Dolly Wall, Stella Plock, Ada Bower, Elizabeth Sand- ford, Lily Matthews, Cissie Halbird, Marjorie Barnes, Maudie MacSevern, nolds, and Winnie Murray. Kitty Plock, Gladys Hunt, Norah Rey-

FRENCH CANADIAN LOYALTY.

Laurier anid: If England be ever in

"Speaking at Cobalt, danger- nay, I do not

Wilfrid

England be ever even on trial, a say that it Canadian of French origin, shall be the first to go to the people and call upon them to assist her with all our might,"

Speaking at Haileybury, in Northern Ontario, to an audience consisting raainly of French Canadians, Mr. Rodolphe Lemieux said:

that you owed nothing to Great Britain. You, my compatriots, have been tohl You have been told that Sir Wilfrid Laurier was a traitor to his race and his creed. The time has come for plain speaking. Let me tell you that in so valled Catholic countries, in Portugal and Spain, yes, and in France, religious orders have been expelled. Where have

British possessions the world over, where England itself, in South Africa, in they taken refuge? Here in Canada, in

You did not know these facts, but I they enjoy the fullest liberty possible.

Now that you know under what benign prospered, would you still object to doing our share a good share, yes, an en thusiastic share not only in defence of whenever and wherever there is an hour. Canada but in defence of Great Britain. of trial! Away with prejudice and mis auderstanding! Bourassa and Borden allianco Away Away with unworthy with the appeals of the Monks, the Pelletiers, and the Nantels! It would be a sad day, indeed, for French Canadians if the old mother of freedom would do our part. was ever in danger. In such an hour ve We are free to da i. Nothing in the Naval Bill is com- pulsory: Under British rule there is no Conscription. The very freedom

ber them, and if ever in the future you patriots, to weigh my words and remem- for British loyalty. I ask you, my

are preached at by demagogues you will know how to answer.

the reason. One of the most noteworthy of a practically illimitable number of previous night. indced it would be no dislodged from the hills commanding it, to 7 Elon Boy, 100 to 7 Grammont, 20rule we French Canadians have lived and many speculations have been made ne great number of services, may be started thusiastic in its appreciation as on the ture of Elassona after the Turks had been 10 to 1 Lanco Chest, 100 to 7 Mordred, 100 challenge any man to deny them. these is that the motor omuibus can go to the curb to pick up passengere, while the tramcats can only be reached by going into the roail, which in streets where the traffic is heavy is avoided by the more timid. How. ever much truth there may be in this speculation, it points to one detail in which the motor car service is superior to the electric tramcar service; that is, in point of flexibility. A breakdown in one trámcar means a suspension of traffic until the Jelinquent car can be restarted, and

For stealing a coil of rope from the in 12 electric service,

alio,

anys.s. Guthrie, two men were sentenced to failure in the supply of power means six weeks' imprisonment and four hours' again & suspension of the whole tramway stocks cach, at the Magistracy on Satur system until the defect is remedied. Even day.

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The German mail of the 20th September was delivered in London on the 18th October.

Mr. C Bower Ismay's Craganour 1 Mr. E Hulton's. Shogun Mr. W. Raphant's Louvois

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Epirus and the occupation of Grimboro, to 1 and also the advance of the army into

The Turkish telegrams describe the fighting which has taken place up to the the Turks had the advantage. They de present ae merely skirmishing, in which clare that the Montenegrin capture of Tuzi was an empty success. The garrison The first part of the programme only numbered 400, most of whom retreat- the variety entertainment differed but ed, while the gurs taken were valucless slightly from that given on the previous bronze, night. The new items were some hurporous who played his own accompaniments, and to the Allies in which he prays for the songs well given by Captain Addison, The King of Greece has sent a message

appreciatively rendered by Mrs. Schofield, and the deliverance of their oppressed a quintette, Merrie England," very Almighty blessing upon the now crusade Mrs. Cousins, Hon. Mr. C. Severn, Dr. brethren. Let us, he adds, adopt the and second, the same between second and Schofeld, R.N., and Lieut. R. M. Crosse, device in hoc signo vinces.

GRECIAN TING'S PRAYER,

The betting waslil to against Cragan our, 300 to 15 against Bhogan, and 5 to 1 against Louvois

Seven ra. Three lengths between first

third