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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25г¤, 1915.

in a way that nothing else could have done. Į So much for the Agreement itself: of recent eventé affecting it the most important are a recrudescence of poppy planting; the deli- barata destruction, under official auspices, of seven chests of Malwa opium at Anking | a couple of months ago; and the determined efforts of the authorities of eersin

A public notice with respect in sign-TELEGRAMS.|TELEGRAMS

boards is published in the Gazette.

The English mail of the 26th October was delivered in London on the, 22nd November.

(THROUGH NEUTER'S AGANUT.].

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THE BALKAN WAR.

We have received from A Fong a sorica of excellent photographs taken at the Fire.

A. S. WATSON provinces (notably Kiungsi and Chekiang Brigade display last Thursday.

& CO., LTD.,

ESTABLISHED A.D. 1841,

High-Class

His Majesty's proclamation of neutrality on the occasion of the Balkan War is published in the Gazette.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

THE AUSTRO-SERVIAN DIFFERENCES.

TELEGRA MS.

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BRITISH POLITICS.

LONDON, November 24th. Mr. Asquith, speaking at Nottingham, said that Great Britain and the Powers

HOPES OF SETTLEMENT,

The Austrian and German newspapers Reutor's correspondent at Sofa wires have been full of details concerning the that the Cabinet is considering the posi-macbilisation of Russia and Austria. The were still co-operating to limit the field tion of affairs, and it is believed to be opinion in Berlin is that both are bluffing, improbable thut hostilities will Two Chinese have been arrested in con- [ immediately be resumed. There are indica as the prospects of a peaceful settlement construction of the House of Lords. the revolution, of the storia restrictive nection with the Hunghom murder. The tions that Bulgaria is conciliatory and garded as being much improved.

to put an arbitrary oad to the sale of Indian opium within their borders. It is easy to give too much weight to the recrudescence of planting; it is a symptom of the relaxa- tion, in the period of flux consequent on

measures that had been in force before, and we have little doubt that the symptom will pass away on the restoration of normal con- ditions. In any case, it is probable that the total amount of opium raised in China this year is woll under 50 per cent. of that raised in 1906, which is all the Treaties call for, though any statement on this point must rest largely on guesswork. The diffi culty, in the absence of an authoritative investigation, of gotting at the exact facts is well illustrated by the fact that, almost

Confectionery. oa the same day, one Shanghai newspaper

FULLER'S-

Chocolates in Fancy Boxes.. Bourneville Nut Chocolate, etc., etc.

states that the anti-opium measures in Homan seem to have taken a vacation, while another says that they are being enforced in that province with redoubled stringency, Still, the revival of poppy growing in certain districts in an established fact, and must be accepted as such until the Republican authorities have shown that, they are as

Chocolates, Salted Almonds, Marzipan Almonds, Crystal ized Roso Leaves, Crystalized capable of putting it down as were their Violets, Assorted Sweets, Imperial predecessors. For the recrudes. Paté de Guimauve, Pepper-cence in one province we have the testimony of Mr. MARSHALL BROOMALL, the well- mint Lumps, and Creams. known missionary and author. As a result of personal observation, he states that, with CADBURY'S-

the exception of one district, the crop this year in Shansi was not equal to one-tenth of what it used to be. The district (actually, two) excepted used to be among the fore- most in poppy cultivation, and Mr. Brooм- HALL estimates the production there now at one-third of ita formar extent. According to the former Governor, the amount of opium produced in Shansi in 1904 was about 40,000,000 ounces; ́on Mr. BROOMHALL'S etatement, it would appear that, allowing for ais excepted districts, the production this year was 2,500 piculs, ornearly 10 percent. of the quantity that India may export this year, and this on the testimony of a writer whose sympathies are strongly with the sati-opium movement, in only ons of the

PARISIAN CONFECTIONERY-

Almond Pralines, Nougat Fin, Cerises du Lys, etc., etc., etc,

A. S. WATSON & CO.. 22 provinces, und that, too, one that was

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ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS.

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The Daily Press.

whole of the missing property has been recovered.

will modify the conditions of peace which she has specified. A strong feeling pre- vails that the Turkish main objection to the Bulgarian terms is the evacuation of Chataldja, which is vigorously held, and resumption of the

that therefore a

Capt. F. A. Powlett is taking over com- mand of the Newcastle from Capt. G. P. E. Hunt, D.S.O., and will recommission her at Colombo. The new crew is coming out to Colombo on H.M.S. Gibraltar.

Quartermaster-Sergeant J. Allen and negotiations, especially in view of the Colour-Sergeant W. Mack and Colour-conciliatory statement from Sofia, is not Sergeant E. Phillips, King's Own York-improbable. shire Light Infantry, have been granted

the silver medal for long service and good and Generals Fitccifi and Savoff as Bulgaria has appointed Count Daneff

conduct.

Plenipotentiaries to proceed to Chataldja immediately.

A Chinese who was employed as 4 painter is alleged to have committed suicide at 1, Haiphong Road, Kowloon, on the morning of the 22nd inst. about three o'clock. He is alleged to have taken

star anisceni.

It is announced that Major-General Sir James Macdonald, late of the Royal Engineers, has been granted a Distin guished Service reward. In China in

1000 Sir James acted as Director of Balloons and Railways, and during that period received the brevet of colonel. In Tibet in 1903-4 he was in command.

The police have been formed that a matched at Cheung Chau, occupied by has been destroyed by fre, Mrs. Barrett and the child, who were in the shed when the fire broke out, escaped without injury. Mr. Barrett is connected with the Oriental Agency at Cheung Chau. The police tried to subdue the fames, but their efforts were unavailing.

a Mr. Barrett and his wife and child,

A telegram from Bona states that the Greek Minister and the military attach at Sofia have been chosen to represent Greece in the negotiations for the Servia and Montenegro will armistice.

be represented by Bulgaria...

TURKS REPULSED.

Reuter's correspondent at Sofia states that the Turks made a sortie from Adrianople on Wednesday and attempted to recaptare Fort Kartalteje, hat were repulsed, leaving 350 dead.

OPENING THE WAY TO CONSTANTINOPLE.

Reuter's correspondent at Sofia tele

graphs that the Bulgarians have cocupied Dedeagatch and Malgara, midway between Dedeagateb and Robosto, thus opening

the whole country westward of Con-

The Pegante, cruiser, Com. F. H.stantinople to the advance of the Allies.

Mitchell, on passage home from the China

SERVIAN SUCCESSES.. Station, on which she has been tempor-

Reuter's correspondent at Belgrade arily serving since her withdrawal from the Australian Squadron, is ordered to states that the Servians have occupied pay off at Chatham Dockyard on Decem- Resna, which is situate to the west of ber ath, and to recommission the next day with a new crew, drawn from the NorDibra, to the north-west of Florina and Depôt to relieve the Pandora, cruiser, Com. H. C. R. Brocklebank, on the China Station.

Theatre-goers will have no cause to com- plain of lack of amusement this season.. We are informed that amateur perform- ances

the south of Monastir.

ré-

A

of the Austro-Servian conflict are

Prague newspaper asserts that Germany has called up 130,000 Reservists in the Army Corps.

of a possible conflict. The Government were also carefully considering the re-

Mr. Redmond, at the same meeting, described the Home Rule party as being on the eve of victory.

Sir Edward Carson, speaking in Lon- don, said the action of the Unionists ou KAISER ASKED TO MEDIATE,

the 13th inst. was deliberate, and they The correspondent of the Frankfurter would do it again. They did not care if Zeitung at Vienna, stats that the Kaiser the House of Commons was ruined in view has been asked to mediate between of the Government's misuse of power. Austria and Russia,

BRITISH NAVAL APPOINTMENTS.

LONDON, November 23rd.

announced:---

The following naval appointments are

THE HORRORS OF WAR.

A message from Sofia says that the Turks at Adrianople heavily cannonaded the Bulgarian entrenchments on Friday night and Saturday. Deserters report that the garrison has been restricted to one crust of bread each for three days.

BULGARIANS RAVAGE TURKISH VILLAGES.

A report from Salonika, dospatched on the 18th inst. by an indirect route, says that the Bulgarians en route to Salonika ravaged Turkish villages mercilessly. Immediately they entered Salonika they began to pillage systematically. continuous fusilade was kept up on the 10th and · 11th between the allied troops and the Christian ia-. habitants. Thore were several casualties, including a stoker from H.M.S. Medeo,

to the Plymouth Command.

Vice-Admiral Sir G. Egerton, K.C.B.,

Vice-Admiral Sir Henry Jackson, K.C.B.. to be Chief of War Staff.

Vice Admiral Arthur M. Farquhar, to the Command of the Coastguards.

Rear Admiral Hon. A. E. Bethell, to the War College.

to the China Command.

Rear Admiral Thomas H. M, Jerrani,

Rear-Admiral D. Beatty, R., to the A Comniand of the First Cruiser Squadron. Rear-Admiral F. C. D. Sturdee, C.V.O., to Command the Second Cruiser Squad-

who was in a pinnses alongside the ship.

The Consuls' protests to

the Greek

authorities against the housebreaking

was fruitless, as was also a protest against an anti-Jewish outbreak by the Greek soldiery. The relations between Greek and Bulgarian troops are most strained.

GREEK SUCCESS.

took the defiles of Pisoderi, together with 20 guns. Rain and snow fell alternately, The pursuit continues.

A telegram from Athens says that the Crown Prince telegraphed from Florina The Servian Force at Alessio has cap-Greek cavalry pursued the enemy and that after the battle on Wednesday the

tured one thousand prisoners and two guns. Another force has joined the Montenegrins at San Giovanni di Medua.

TURKISH WARSHIP DISABLED. Router's correspondent at Constan- tinople states that the warship Hamidich has been towed in, down at the stern, having been apparently torpedoed. She

· MONTENEGRĪNS AGAIN OFFENSIVE,

A message from Rieka says that the operations against Scutaci were resumed owing to the news that Turkey had re- Com-jected the peace terms.

given a clean bill by Sir ALEXANDER HOBIE two years ago and from which Indian opium is accordingly excluded. The fact remains, nevertheless, that if every part of China were no worse than this, she would bave more than accomplished her share of

are to be given shortly in the the Agreement. The attempt to enforce an arbitrary exclusion of Indian opium from Theatre Royal by a combination of well- certain provinces is a far more serious known local artistes, who will present matter, especially as the Central Government that amusing little comedy by W. w. seems incapable of coping with the situa Jacobs entitled "The Boatswain's Mate " tion. Article III of the Agreement of 1911 The comedy on each occasion will be lays down as a condition precedont to the preceded by an excellent variety enter- was immediately docked. exclusion of Indian opium from any prothing entirely new to the Colony will be officers.

tainment, and we are assured that some-mander eulogises the conduct of the We have already had occasion to refer to vince that that province must establish by offered for the delectation of those acck- the difficulty in which the Central Govern- clear evidence that it has offectively suping something really amusing. The pro- BULGARIANS ON THE DEFENSIVE sending to Constantinople a special ment of China is finding itself involved on pressed the cultivation and import of coeds from the entertainment will be given. account of its incapacity to compel the opium." It is evident that this condition to local charities, and the booking opens provinces to observe the Opium Agreement was intended to be strictly applied, if only at Moutrie's to-morrow. of 1911, but there is so much misconception to serve as a spur to the several provincial among natives, as among cortaia classes of administrations. Negative evidence of a foreigners, on this question that an exami-very inadequate nature is the most that nation of the salient points of the dispute could be actually looked for, but such

HONGKONG, NOVEMBER 25TH, 1912.

THE VOLUNTEERS.

The Volunteers, who have been under struck tonte yesterday after a very success canvas for about ten days at Fanling, ful period of training.

CHINESE HOSTILITY TO TRAMWAYS.

The

not mention pourparlers for armistice, but on the other band Sofia expects

'negotiations for an armistice to begin, within the next 24 hours, and considers that the immediate resumption of hostili ties is improbable, declaring that the Bulgarians are ordered meanwhile to Temain on the defensive.

TO, FIGHT CHOLERA.

The British Red Cross Society are

cholera section under an Indian officer ex- perienced in cholera.

CORRESPONDENTS HUNTED

DOWN.

A message from Constantinople says

takon to prevent Press correspondents that extraordinary precautions are being

visiting the lines, gendarmes hanting them down. Most of the correspondents are wearing the fez, hoping to be taken

C

BOLTON BYE-ELECTION.

A LIBERAL AGAIN RETURNED.

ron:

Rear-Admiral C. E. Madden, C.V.O., to Commend the Third Cruiser Squad-

ron,

Rear-Admiral R. H. Peirse, M.V.O., to the East Indies Command.

C.V.O., to the Cape Command.

Rear-Admiral Herbert G. King-Hall,

Rear-Admiral Cradock, M.V.O., to the Command of the Training Squadron.

Rear-Admiral E. C. T. Troubridge, C.B., to Command Mediterranean Cruiser Squadron.

HOME RACING.

LONDON, November 24th. The race for the Manchester November Handicap took place yesterday and re- sulted as follows:-

Wagstaff

Columbus

Election

1

題

3

Sixteen ran. Won by three-quarters of a length. The betting was: 8 to 1 against Wagstaff, 40 to 1 Columbus, 10 to 1 Election.

INTERNATIONAL RUGBY.

LONDON, November 24th.. South Africans beat Scotland in the International Rugby match at Edinburgh by 16 points to nil.

COLONIAL APPOINTMENTS. The departure of the Hon. Mr. Claud Severn, Colonial Secretary, for Home, on leave till March, has necessitated a appointments are notified in the Govern- re-shuffling of positions, and the appended. ment Guzette:-

Hon. Mr. A. M. Thomson, Colonial Treasurer, to act as Colonial Secretary during the absence on leave of Hon. Mr. Claud Bevern, with effect from 23rd -November.

Mr. C. McL. Messer, Postmaster-Gen- eral, to act as Colonial. Treasurer, in addition to his ordinary duties, with effect from 23rd November,

LONDON, November 24th. The bye-election at Bolton, which was necessitated through the death of Mr. G. Harwood, M. P. (L.), resulted asceiver and Registrar of Trade Marks, to Mr. A. G. M. Fletcher, Official Re follow :---

Despatches from Nazim Pusho say that the Bulgarians bombarded Buyuk Cheymedic, and the Fleet replied, silencing them. During reconnaisances on Thursday night they drove out the may not be out of place. Many of the negative evidence would be overthrows by

with heary loss, silencing the batteries, Bulgarians from the village of Ezettin objectors would scem not to have taken the the least degree of positive evidence to the tronble even to read the Agreement; contrary. Now, in the case of Chokiung,

which, however, opened again on Friday Sunday morning Was devoted to otherwise, they would not describe it as we have again the testimony of Mr. maneouvres in which the Scouts and morning, without effect. There was an rivetting the trade on China for another MARSHALL BROOMHALL. It must unfor. Reserves took part. The latter left Hong- infantry battle in the centre on Friday, saven years; they need not read further tunately be acknowledged that during the kong by train on Saturday night and and in reconnaisances they found the for Turkish officers, than the second article to see that, if only days of disorder in the spring of this year took up a position between Taipo and the China fulfi's her share of the bargain, seven a number of farmers cultivated the drug." camp, while the Volunteers moved out ground littered with corpses within a yours is the maximum time limit for the If it is known to foreigners that a numbering and took up & position on the neigh

from camp at three o'clock in the morn- radius of three miles. Nazim Pasha dues export of Indian opium to China, and that of farmers cultivated the drug, it is bouring hills with guns. The operations His Majesty's Government agree that the morally certain that there was a far lurger over hilly and difficult country proved export of opium from India to Ching shall extent of enltivation than was and is most interesting. coase in less than seven years if clear proof known to us, and it is in face of this that is givan of the completé absence of produc- Chokiang claims the right to exclude tion of native opium in China." These same | Indian opium--a right which is intended critics also claim that, in view of the fact by the Agreement to be a special privilege that Great Britain "forced opium ou China" to be honestly eained. Unfortunately, the As an outcome of the decision of the in the first place, the generous policy would Central Government is peable to bring the Hongkong Electric Tramway Company have been to voluntarily abandon the trade province to reason, and so demonstrates

to refuse accetance of Chinese silver, there A message from Sofa says that the Bul in toto (incidentally ruining a large number the solid foundation on which might rest has been aroused a feeling of hostility gerians are confident that the Turke will election, the Liberal candidate's poll of merchants and throwing the finances of the alleged refusal of Great Britain to attack by a number of Chinese upon a

which found expression yesterday in an be forced to yield ultimately.

showed a slight decrease, and the Unionist India into chaos). The question of "forcing recognize the Republic until the latter can at bankiwan.

car

A mob of mon The official organ Mir states-"The ad-polled slightly heavier. opium on China" has been well threshed enforce obedience to Treaties. The accepted gathered round the tram when it reached vance on Constantinople is stayed because out on many occasions, and we can only principles of international law demand that, the terrainas, and commenced, throwing we do not desire to interfere with the com- marvel that the tale continues current before a government established by a street refuse at the Car and

The police were speedily when it has such a weight of evidence revolution can be recognized, it should be passengers.

European interests. If the against it, including the verdicts of such able to demonstrate that its rule is really informed of what was talking place, and Turks refuse to understand this and wish unprejudiced men as JOHN QUINCY ADAMS, effective. So long as the Cheliang pro- in a remarkably short space of time to

Constantinople and the DE. W. H. MEDнuest, Dr. W. A. P. vincial authorities can defy the President Inspector Gourlay and a posse of police-Khalifate hey must make all the conces MARTIN, and F. B. Moase. It would, and the Central Government and fout a men were on the scene. They did not take sions demanded. Otherwise our aim will moreover, have been contrary to China's solemn Agreement, the Republic of China long to disperse the rioters, and the ibe to expel the Turks from Europe. own interests to make suddenly a clean has not fulfilled this conditio, and to sweep of the Indian opium trade, for the talk about Great Britain laying it down knowledge that the general reduction of the that China's qualification for recognition export from India was directly dependent depends on her power to compel the pro- on China's fulfilling her share of the bar vinces to accept qplum is confusing the gain acted as an incentive to Chinese officials issue, either wilfully or through ignorance.

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the

plicated

service was continued without further molestation.

It is reported that there has been talk

of boycotting the trams, but it is doubtful

retain

NO FIGHTING. Bouter's correspondent at Constan- tinople wires that no fighting was report- ing, as they must know that the Govern-ed on Friday. It is believed that pour ment will not allow such action.

parlers for an armistice are proceeding.

if the Chinese will attempt such proceed-

Taylor (L.) Brooks (U.)

10,011 8,835

Compared with the figures at the last

THE EMPRESS OF ASIA" LAUNCHED.

LONDON, November 24th. The Empress of Asia, 15,000 tons, was launched at Glasgow. It will be by far the largest ship in the Japan-American trade

BERLIN'S ROYAL VISITOR.

act as Assistant Colonial Secretary and Clerk of Councils during the remainder of the absence on leave of Mr. Cecil Clementi or until further notice, with effect from 20th November.

Mr.

Hugh A. Nisbet, Registrar, Supreme Court, to set as Official Receiver and Registrar of Trade Marks, in addi tion to his ordinary duties, with effect from 20th November.

Mr.. D. W. Tratman to act as Head of the Sanitary Department during the re- mainder of the absence on leave of Mr. E. D. C. Wolfe, with effect from 18th November..

District Officer for the New Territories, Mr. G. R. Sayer to act as Assistant

with effect from 18th November..

Mr. S., B. B. McElderry to act as Deputy Registrar and Appraiser of the Supreme Court from 20th November: LONDON; November 24th.

Mr. Norman H. Smith to act as that the Archduke Franz Ferdinand has District of the New Territories, with Reuter's correspondent at Berlin says Assistant District Officer for the Northern

arrived and was welcomed by the Kaiser, effect from 30th November.