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INTIMATION

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18TH, 1912,

Government has been defeated by a majority | The Volunteer Corps Orders by Major

of 22 in a division in which practically twos). Macdonald announced that HE the TELEGRAMS. TELEGRAMS.|TELEGRAMS.

thirds of the mombars of the Houss partici. pated. The fact that the Cabinet appears to have discussed the question of their resignation for two hours suggests that they do not altogether regard the division as one the significance of which can well be minimised. We are inclined to believa that

WATSON'S men of all shades of political

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MALT SCOTCH WHISKIES.

opinion recognise that it would be extremely inconvenient to change the Government at the present crisis in the affairs of Europe, and it is probably this consideration more than any other which has influenced the decision of the Ministry to regard this

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division" as something which cannot count as a knock-out blow. We presume that the Government will now submit to the House some slightly modified proposals in place of those which have been rejected,

Governor hus sanctioned the formation of a new Company, to be known as the Civil Service Company. The Company will be trained as a Machine Gun Coy. Capt. A. F. Churchill is appointed to command the new Company.

We are informed by Mr. F. J. Halton, Hongkong agent of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, that the s.8. Siberia will sail from Yokohama for Hongkong rid Japan ports on the 13th inst, and that the U.S. mail will undoubtedly be transferred to another steamer in Japan, the name of which is not known up to the present.

AN OPIUM PLANT.

The ingonuity of the opium smuggler is astonishing, and as is well-known this

[HOUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

BRITISH GOVERNMENT.

The

DEFEATED.

on

(THROUGH BRUTER'S AGENCY.]

THE BALKAN

WAR.

-ATTACK ON CHATALDJA, A message from Constantinopla states A DIFFICULT SITUATION,

that the Bulgarians began an attack on tho Turkish advanced position at LONDON, November 12th. Goverument

Chataldja on Sunday and the fighting! defeated S

the finance continued on Monday. Many wounded Monday on a division on provisions of the Home Rule Bill. The are arriving in Constantinople, where the hospitals are already congested. figares were

Many have been sent to Broussa.

BULGARIAN RECKNESSNESS.

Against...............

For

228

206

Opposition Majority...... 21 The House thereupon adjourned amid

A belated despatch from Lient. We gener, the correspondent of the Vienna Reichsport, dated the ath inst., reviewing

["DAILY PRESS " EXCLUSIV V108.] JAPANESE NAVAL REVIEW.

TOKYO, November 12th. The Emperor to-day reviewed 118 warships off Yokohama, the Crown Prince being present in the capacity of suh- lieutenant. The splendid weather drew enormous crowds to. Yokohama,

[THROUGH RENTER'S AGENCY.] DISASTROUS RAILWAY COLLISION-

IN AMERICA.

LONDON, November 12th. Reuter's correspondent at New Orleans. telegraphs that 30 people were killed and 50 injured in a collision which occurred

and it remains to be seen whether or not the ingenuity manages to baffle the scent. of /Breat excitement and amid wild Oppost the strategy since the beginning of the st Yazoo by a goods train running inté

whole Bill will not be wrecked on the financial shoal. An announcoment of the Government's intentions will be awaited with considerable interest. Were a General Election to take place within the next few months it is by no means improbable that the prevailing discontent in regard to the

even the most sleuth-like detectives and Honrchers, as it is common knowledge that opium is exported from the Colony in fairly large quantities despite all the precautions to prevent it. An example of the cleverness exercised in defeating the detectives is furnished by the discovery of Revenue Officer Wilden on the s.3.

tion cheering..

An authoritative statement issued states that the Government will not resigu in consequence of to-day's snap division.

The Cabinet sat for over two hours and meets again to-morrow. The defeat has undoubtedly created a position of dit

war, makes an interesting admission as to the strength of the defence of Adrian- ople. It says that the sanguinary fight- ing at the end of October was not inter- rupted, the Turks bravely displaying,

The Bulgarian siope were excellent but insufficient the mitative. guns

the rear of an excursion train on a

THE DIVORCE COMMISSION,

IMPORTANT RECOMMENDATIONS.

LONDON, November 19th. The Divorce Commission has issued its report. It recommends simplified pro-

Tusurance Act would be suffic'ent almost in Persia on Sunday morning. He found eulty, but a Whip states that the Govern. Some of the Turkish positions of modern cedure for the local hearing of cases where

itself to give the Unionist party a majority at the poils. The longer the present Government can stavo off the next General Election, however, the stronger, it seems to us, will they entrench themselves in office. Mr. CHURCHILL some time ago publicly intimated that the country need not think of another General Election till 1915. The wish is no doubt father to the thought. What inspires the idea is plain. By that time the public will have become more FINEST reconciled that it is to-day to the

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principle of national insurance and this

that a steel mast of the ship had had a piece ent out, a cavity made, and the In the cavity was cover screwed on. found 642 tins of prepared opium. No one claimed the drug and, the officer appeared before Mr. Irving at the Magia tracy yesterday and applied for the for- feiture of the opium to the Crown His Worship granted the application,

ment has decided to go on.

THE SCENE DESCRIBED. It was Sir Frederick Banbury's amend- mụnt limiting the sum payable by the British Government to the Irish Ex- chequer to £2,500,000 that caused the defeat. Sir Frederick, who was one of the tellers, emerged from the Lobby wav ing a paper. All the Opposition leaders Bonar present, including Mr.

J. Balfour, Mr. Austen A

ferro-concreto are exceedingly strong. The Bulgarian assaults were reckless and the losses were cruel. In one instance only two companies returned out of two

battalions.

the joint income of the married does not exceed £300, also for proceedings in forma

peris, limitation of the powers of the summary courts to gran: separations to meet the necessities of the case, the ap- plication for a permanent separation to be made to the High Court by the simple process of placing the two sexes on an divorce. The grounds of divorce are to equal footing as regards the grounds of

be adultery, desertion for three years, cruelty, incurable insanity, incurable habitual drunkenness, and imprisonment under a commuted death sentence. The

SERVIAN ENTHUSIASM. Frequent demonstrations in favour of the Balkan States have been manifested in the Southern Slav portions of Austria, the Servian National Anthem being sung. At Agram King Peter was cheered as King of Croatia. The municipality at grounds of nullity should be incipient

SCOTCH WHISKY in the question would doubtless by that time be occurred in the City of Canton for many Chamberlain, Mr. Walter Long, etc. Hats Spalato arranged a torchlight procession, insanity, epilepsy, communicable venereal

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The Baily Press.

HONGKONG, NOVEMBRE 13TH, 1912-

Tus defeat of Mr. ASQUITH'S Government on the financial proposals of the Home Rule Bill is indeed surprising intelligence, but more surprising still is the authoritative information that the Government do not intend to resign. They claim that the - division taken on the finance proposals: in the House of Commous was a snap division," and that this being so, the circumstances do not call for their resigns. tion. It will be noted that no fewer than 434 members took part in the division, and the claim that this was "a suap division," in the usual sense of the term, requires a good deal of explanation which the tele grams so far received do not afford. In a House of 670 members the Liberals secured a majority of 120 at the last election, and though revent bye-elections have gone strongly against the party in office the Gov ernment's normal majority in the House still remains in the neighbourhood of 110. Just after the last election Mr. Asqurra clained that the intentions of the Government re-

AUSTRIA'S "DANGEROUS

THE GREAT FIRE IN CANTON. Our Canton correspondent in his report were. on the fire says it is the largest that has ever Law, Mr. eliminated from serious political controversy years. The conflagration commenced

somewhere near Shewan, Tomes? Godown and papers wore thrown into the air, carrying the flags of the Balkan States. The Unionist Party would scarcely uo dertake to repeal an Act of this character about 8 pm, on Saturday and got a firm and pandemonium reigned. Eventually after it had been three or four years in hold on a few flimsy buildings. A strong Sir F. Baubury was able to shout the operation. However, it is by no means wind almost of typhoon force was blow figures, amid a tremendous scene and

great cheering. certain that Mr. CHURCHILL's predietioning and the fire spread rapidly. Within The Government's no time it had got the length of the

Mr. Asquith then arrived, accompanied will be fulfilled. defeat on the financial [clauses of the Chinese Post Office, where a halt was Home Rule Bill looks extremely significent called for a short time. The Post Office by Mr. Samuel. He consulted moment natural solution of the Balkan question, reports should be prohibited till the cases and, contrary to their expectations, it seems is more or less isolated and it looked as arily with Mr. Illingworth, the Chief of which the Servian demand for a portare finished, the judge to be empowered

probable that oa the question of Home Bule-the chief plank in the platform of the partythe Government will sooner or later be driven from office.

if the fire would stop there, but an extra gust of wind carried not only sparks but fames far beyond the Post Office, and in no time this important building was burning merrily. The fire spread to the Customs building and burned down what ased to be the Customs, but finished at

this spot, because here there are many

The English mail of the 12th October was delivered in London on the athmore open spaces, -November.--

Mr. C. V. Koenig, manager of the Tor Hotel Kobe, has been appointed ager of the new hotel at Manila.

The transport Rohilla went alongside the Naval Yard wall shortly before 8 o'clock yesterday morning and landed a number of troops,

We are informed by the local manager of the Yokohama Specie Bank, Ltd., that an agency of this Bank has been opened at

Harbin.

The passengers on the British transport Soudan collected $96,88 on behalf of the

INSISTENCE."

A message from Sofia says that the official journal Wir states that the Austrian insistence was preventing the

Whip, and then quietly moved the ad-in-the Adriatic was a sine qua non. Austria's action might sow the seed of a journment of the House.

future war which it would be impossible to localise.

The Unionists engaged in joyous de nonstrations, and patted Mr. Bonar Law on the back. Meanwhile Mr. Asquith walked out amid shouts of "Good-bye, The country is awaiting you."

DEFEAT INVOLVÉS NO MODIFICATION, An official statement says that the Government does not regard the vote as involving any, modification of their pro-

The Government would take

The native fire-brigades, which have been doing good work lately and which aré a tremendous improvement on what has before done duty here, were more or less helpless on this occasion and certain- ly did very little towards stopping the progress of the flames. At one point a few yards from the Post Office water was poured on to the flames for over an hour steps to ascertain the real opinion of the without the slightest effect, and near House. The statement explains that the Shamsen a building was attacked by the division on the motion was not even put fre brigades and afterwards abandoned. Fully twenty-four hours after the out break the interior of the Chinese Post

Ofice was a mass of flames and there was quite a respectable fire burning about a The hundred yards to the south-west.

gramme:

on the Order paper, but was hunded in in manuscript without notice. It was destrue tive of the resolution adopted in the

E stage on Thursday by

Committee

GREEK MOVEMENTS.

The

A telegram from Athens states that M. Venizelos has gone to Salonika. Crown Prince has asked the landing parties of foreign bluejackets to return to their ships.

The Greeks, after prolonged fighting, have occupied the fortified Pass of Centepicadia, which ja the key to Janine

PEACE TERMS.

A message from London states that on Monday evening, the Porte telegraphed asking the Powers what progress had been made in the matter of obtaining the terms of the Balkan States with a view to the cessation of hostilities, as up to the present it has received no reply

four men rescued from a wrecked junk river boats, of course, left the wharves at majority of 121. The statement recalls to its recent appeal to the Powers.

outside of Hongkong.

The health returns for the past week

show that there was one case of enteric lever and also one of puerperal fever, both of which ended fatally. -

Seventeen new men have joined the Volunteer Corps, according to the latest Volunteer Orders. Five old members have been permitted to resign.

the time of the conflagration, but have Bow returned to their usual quarters.

One of the many wonderful things.

100.

TAUNTON BYE-ELECTION.

ask if the Allies are disposed to accept and on what terms...

the Prime Minister's speech at Ladybank It is stated in Paris that the repro on the 5th October, when he said that hesentatives of the Powers in the Balkan about the fire is that owing to the strong would not allow his course, to be affected capitals have been instructed concertedly vind blowing sparks about, an opposi-by "snap" divisions. The Government's and have simultaneously communicated tion-blaze-broke out in Honam; while the majorities since had seldom been below Turkey's request-for-mediation, and to steamer wharves, which are nothing but timber, all escaped. The blaze in Honam was quite a big affair, but pales in con- varison with the city affair. An idea of the extent of the fire can be got from this, that from the bridge on the bund at A telegram to the N.. Daily News the China Navigation Company's new dated the 8th inst. says:-Sir Francis wharf to the old Custom House was for

is dangerously

mass five hours a

of flames, Piggott peritonitis, following upon his operation It is estimated that more than a thou sand houses have been burned to the for appendicitis.

ground and that more than five thousand return of people are homeless on account of the were:-1

from ill

over

A Chinese wom-u,

who was badly burned in her house by the accidentale. overturning of a kerosene lamp, died on News of this kind coming from Chinese Sunday shortly after admission to the sources, as it does, is usually more or less exaggerated, but looking at the ruins Netbersole Hospital.

and even walking though them one could not help thinking that the Homeless un fortunates would be numbered by the thousand.

The Cruising Company announes, that the Royal Mail steamer Dunottar Castle has been despatched on a voyage to India; China and Japan, and is due hore on the 7th inst. Only first-class passengers the river are carried, and the itinerary is a most interesting one. The local agents are Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co.

For a fire to spread from Canton across Honam is not unprecedented, but for the fire in Honam to obtain the hold it did is something unknown. If it had occurred apart from the more im portant affair it would have been a big

Before leaving the Colony, Mr. R. E, affair. Belilios is giving a mathematical prize.

For fully 400 yards from the Chinese

of the annual value of $40 to the Benior Post Office into the city the streets are

LONDON, November 12th. The bye-election at Taunton, necog

the sitting member, the sitated by Hon. W. R. W. Peel, succeeding to the peerage on the death of his father, Vis- count Peel, has again resulted in the a. Unionist. The figures

1,882 1,597

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Wills (U.) J. E. Schmick (L.)

U. Majority MR. LANSBURY AS SUFFRAGIST.

CANDIDATE.

LONDON, November 12th. Mr. George Lansbury, the Socialist .P., is resigning his seat in order to fight Bow as the Suffragist candidate.

MR. BRYCE'S RESIGNATION.

LONDON, November 12th. Reuter's correspondent at Washington states that the final decision of President

ANOTHER CHOLERA OUTBREAK.

Cholers has broken out among the Bul- garians.

discass, and pregnancy by another, all if present and concealed at the time of mur- riage. Death will be presumable after seven years total disappearance, or the court to be satisfied on reasonable grounds. All matrimonial cases should be heard by the judge alone, and the publication of

to order the exclusion of any portion of any case from publication.

SHANGHAI AUTUMN RACE MEETING.

(From-aur-own Correspondent.)

SECOND DAY.

The Shanghai Autumn Race Meeting was continued yesterday, the results being.

as under:-

THE NORTHERN CUP.-Three-quarters of a mile.

Mr. John Peel's Drumlithie Meters. Winsome and Hasty The

Petrol

(Mr. Johnstone)

(Mr. Hill) 2 Mr. Paignton's Marengo (Mr. Rowe) 3

Time, Imin. 35 3-5secs.

THE CHINA CUP.-One mile.

Mr. John Peel'a Queensberry Mr. Tong's Baby Mine (Mr. Vida) i (Mr. Johnstone) 2 Mr. R. Macgregor's The Tipster

(Mr. Laurence) 3 Time, 2min. 12 4-seca. THE SHANGHAI STAKE-One mile and a half.

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Mr. Paul's Royal Rose (Mr. Burkill) 1 Capt. Hope'e Capello... (Mr. Vida) 2 Mr. F. B. Marshall's. Cherry Tree

(Mr. Crighton) Mr. Henry Morriss' Wingfield

(Mr. Moller)* Time, 3min. 22 -5secs. *Dead Heat.

THE PAGODA CUP.-Ong mile. Mr. Permy's Perchance (Mr. Laurence) 1 Mr. Blogger's Barford (Mr. Burkill) 2 Mr. Mohawk's Merlin (Mr. Morriss)-3

Time, 2min. 12 9-5secs.

THE LLAMA MIAU STAKES-Two miles:-- Mr.. H. C. Gray's Burwood

ant....

(Mr. Laurence) 1

(Mr. Hill) 2.

MR. ASQUITH'S SPEECH. Mr. Asquith's speech on Saturday, is universally applauded as moderate, states- manlike, and steadying amidst much aggressive talk on one side and the other. His deprecation of raising isolated ques-quarter. tions is regarded as applying equally to Mr. Henry Morriss Battlefield Austria and Servia, while the strong Mr. John Peel's Perpetual Motion emphasis on the harmony existing among

Messrs. Winsome and Hasty's Cormor Col. C. D. Bruce's Minstrel (Mr. Vida) 3

Time, 4min. 31sees. THE RUBICON PLATE.-One mile and a

(Mr. Moller) 1

(Mr. Johnstone)

the Powers is considered a testimony that Mr. G. D. Coulls Windsor

(Mr. Dalgleish) 3 Time, min. 49srcu. the situation is not nearly so acute as

THE RACING STAKES-One mile and a was represented.

quarter.

IMPORTANT CONFERENCES. A message from Buda Pest states that the President of the Bulgarian Sobranje has arrived and has conferred with Count Berchtold and the German Ambassador.

The Emperor Francis Joseph gave an audience to M. Daneff, the President of

Mr. F. B. Marshall's Rose Tree

(Mr. Crighton) Mr. Solway's Red Cloud... (Vida) 2 Mr. R. Macgregor's The Kn

(Mr. Johnstone) 3 Time, 2min. 44 9-5 secs- THE SYCEE STAKES.-Three-quarters of a mile.

Mr. Seth's Blackrock ... (Mr. Burkill)

Students of Queen's College. Not tower, impassable or account of the debris, and Taft to drop the British Arbitration than 30 students should sit for the prize, every few yards one finds a wall which Treaty was the chief cause of Mr. Bryce's the Bulgarian Sobranje, who then visited Messre.

makinata prithmetic is likely to collapse at any moment. One resignation.

Duke Franz Ferdinand.

Mr. Neville's Cantage (Mr. Cright^n};

Birchal and. McMick 1 Cat's-eye (Mr. McMel). Time, 1min. 35secs.