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half the previous figure. On December. 23rd, with reference to the suggestion that A new Tibetan Convention should be con. eluded, China said that the present Treaties, signed by the Manchu dynasty, define the

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the Christian Union Meeting to-day at 5.30 p.m. at St. Paul's College,

The Hon. Mr. H. E. Pollock, K.C., and Mrs. Pollock were among the passengers who left for England by the P. & O.. steamer Assaye on Saturday.

Captain Wade, for many years in the service of the Nippon Yusen Kaisha, died in the General Hospital at Yokohama on

the 24th uit, from pneumonia.

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Mr. Dertiano has arrived in the Colony to take over the charge of the Peruvian Consulate, and Mr. J. M. Macedo, who has been here for the last five years and has been promoted to Iquitos, leaves to. morrew by the s.a. Korea,

Notice is given in the Government regarding our reply, so that the Chinese Gov-Gazette that & portion of the piece of ernment may be able to consider the question ground known as West End Park was to and a satisfactory solution be reached." be re-appropriated by Government So the door is still to be kopt open, nor is it from the 1st of February. difficult to discover causes that may explain this vilte farce. For one thing, the expedition from Szechuan bad resulted in a fiasco-the Chinese troops at Batang had been defeated, the reinforcements at Yachon refused to advance, and General Yın himself was in retreat. This of itself would be sufficient 1.90 to Recount for the Wai-chiao Pu's with. draval from its chauvinist attitude, 2.50

especially if the reports of massacres of Chinese garrisons at Batang and Litang 3.40

were true. Coupled with theso ill tidings came the news of the treaty between Tibet and Mongolia, by which the DALAI LARA, in addition to declaring his own indepen-

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[IMROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

THE BALKAN WAR.

TURKEY PREPARING.

A telegrain from Constantinople states that all Turkish officers have been ordered to join their regiments within twenty-four

hours.

GREEK PLANS,

A telegram from Athena states that the conscripts of 1912 are largely joining the colours in view of the resumption of hostilities.

Greece is confident that she will success- fully carry out her task in the Epirus, and be able to give the Allies effective help

at Chataldja.

THE TURKISH COMMANDER. A case of suicide was reported to the

A telegram from Constantinople states police on Friday last when the body of a Chinese about 40 years of age was found that Izzet Pasha, Chief of the General hanging by the neck from a tree off the Staff, has been appointed Commander-in- Pokfulam Road, west of the University. Chief of the Army. He has addressed a The deceased had the appearance of hay-general order to the troops urging that ing been a scaman.

The Gazette announces that H. E. the Governor has been pleased to appoint Mr. Edward Jones to net as Assistant Har- bour Master and Mr. Arthur Edward Davey to act as First Boarding Officer during the absence on leave of Com mander C. W. M. Beckwith, R.N.

ably correctly-to the influence of the 1.90 BURIA DORJIEFF. In view of DOEJIEFF*R notorious Russian propensities, it is but a 2.05

small step to add that Russia is involved. in the compact; and then, with the St. Petersburg Agreement of 1907 to be taken into account, it becomes necessary also to add England's name, 80 that finally Britain and Hussin are, according to Before Mr. Hazeland at the Magistracy Dame Rumour, to be constituted joint on Saturday eighteen men were charged guardians of Tibetan autonomy, in return by P.S. Adlington with using a house in for which service both are to be allowed Third Street as an opium divan. to send goods into Tibet duty-free, as wellfirst man, who was found guilty of being as receiving other privileges. One Chinese the keeper of the place, was fined $150. A. S. WATSON & CO., wspaper, indeed, even went so far as to and the remainder were fined $1 each.

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DEATH.

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On February 2nd, after a long and painful illness, Maud, the beloved wife of ARTHUR COURSE.

Hongkong Orrion: 104, Din Vœux Road 0. LONDON OFFICE: 131, FLær Start, E.C.

The Daily Press.

HONGKONG, FEBRUARY 3RD, 1913. CHINA's course of action with regard to Tibet appears to be taking a characteristi cally tortuous form; the status of the country was first broached in formal diplo

The

Many in Hongkong who remember the force some seven years ago and went to live in his native town of Dufftown in Scotland, will regret to learn that he died on the 24th December last at the com. paratively early age of fifty years. cording to the Banffshire Journal, he had not been in robust health, and his death was not unexpected. He was unmarried.

at this critical moment in Ottoman his- tory they should prove worthy of their glorious traditions.

AN UNUSUAL PROHIBITION.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

SENSATIONAL BYE-ELECTION.

LONDON, February 1st. The bye-election at Londonderry, caused by the death of the Duke of Abercorn, has resulted as follows :—- Mr. David Hogg Lieut.-General Pakenham

Majority

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One result of the clection is that Ulster now returns a majority of Home Rulers.

{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

BRITISH NAVAL CUTTER SWAMPED.

DISASTER IN THE PERSIAN GULF.

LONDON, February 1st. The Admiralty announces that a cutter attached to the cruiser Perseus with a landing party consisting of Lieutenant Walter Smith and nine seamen has dis- appeared in the Persian Gulf. The cutter was last seen leaving the land and pro-

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*De Westminster Gazette and the Starseeding out to sea, after which a galo The search by the warships give prominence to the 'Derry Election, sprang up,

proved unavailing, declaring it to be a death blow to the Tories."

"ULSTER WILL FIGHT."

LONDON, February 1st.

The Ulster Unionist Council has adopt- ed a scheme for a Provisional Govern ment and has appointed an executive.

MR. BALFOUR DENOUNCES GOVERNMENT'S POLICY.

Loxnon, February 1st,

Mr. Balfour, speaking at Nottingham, on Friday, said that the Government's Irish proposals were dishonourable and

The Admiralty announces in a con- tinuation of the despatch of Friday that a rumour reached Linga that a Tangistan dhow with rifles on board met the cutter at South Malul Island and shot the officer in charge. The dhow escaped. H.M.S. #piegle has been ordered to search the coast and adjacent islands.

AUSTRIA AND RUSSIA.

LONDON, February 2nd. Reuter's correspondent at Vienna tele- graphs that Colonel Prince Hohenlog, the Emperor's Chamberlain, will shortly proceed to the Court of St. Petersburg

It is officially announced in Sofia that idiotic. To sacrifice Ulster was an excess bearing an autograph letter from the Em-

military attachés will not be allowed to enter the theatre of war.

HOPES OF PEACE,

The inspired Koelnische declares that the Powers will do their utmost until the last moment to prevent the resumption of hostilities, and hints that Germany has already given salutary advice to the Allies."

Though the representatives of the Allies continue their uncompromising assertions that hostilities are inevitable unless Ad- rianople and the Aegean Islands are eeded, inspired articles in the European

of Turkey's Reply to the Note, and ex- press the belief that the moderating advice of the Ambassadors in London and the British Foreign Office will induce the Allica to resume negotiations.

between Great Britain and the DALAI LAMA Police Inspector Gauld, who retired from Press pay a tribute to the conciliatoriness providing, inter alia, that Great Britain skal keep a garrison in Tibet for the preservation of public order, and shall help the Tibetans in the formation of their army. Among this crop of rumours, there is bound to be some substratum of trath, and it may, at all events, be taken as assured that negotiations are going on between Class and Urga, and there

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bo little doubt as to their final outcome. Mr. Lu CHEN-ESIANG, the Minister for Foreiga Affairs, cannot have forgotten that it was the Mongolian impassi that drove from office his predecessor, Mr. M. T. LIANG, so when, a week after sending bis curt refusal to Great Britain's proposals, ho hears that a Tibetan envoy has arrived

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AMATEURS AT THE VICTORIA THEATRE,

Ac-

TURKISH DESERTERS.

A, Solia message reports the arrival at the Bulgarian headquarters of Turkish decerters, who declare that they fled from the persecution of the Young Turks and To-night at the Victoria Theatre the allege that sanguinary conflicts took biggest bill of the present season will be place between officers and soldiers at staged, as in addition to the regular per-Chatelja. formance of the Hughes Musical Comedy Co., the amateurs of the Army and Navy will be given a chance, and some excellent

at Urga, it is not difficult to understand turns" are anticipated. The manage

GRAND VIZIER'S STATEMENT.

A message from Constantinople states

has issued a statement in which he says

of insanity and a political crime com- pared with which all crimes of the past paled into insignificance. If Ireland desired to separate we would not fight to retain her.

ANOTHER BYE-ELECTION.

LONDON, February 1st. The death of the Earl of Crawford and the succession of Lord, Balcarres to the

a byc-election title

Chorley

necessitates

THE

DISAPPOINTED

SUFFRAGETTES.

at

LONDON, February 2nd. Kensington, Hampton Court, Kew and Helyrood Palaces have been closed to the public for fear of suffragette raids.

A suffragette daughter of the actor and author Mr. Mark Melford was fined 30/- or in the alternative one month's ini- prisonment for discharging lead ballets from a catapult from the top of a motor- omnibus at the windows of buildings in Victoria Street.

The suffragettes in Birmingham tore up turf and burned the motto Votes for Women" with acid in the putting greens

of four golf courses.

A Suffragette who smashed a glass case containing the Order of Merit in the

his anxiety for a reply from the Britishment has offered a cash prize of $15.00 to that Mahmud Shefket, the Grand Vizier Tower of London was arrested, Government “at as early a date as possible." the winner of the first prize and $10 to Her failure over Mongolia would appear to the second. have convinced China's Foreign Office that

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THE TRADES UNION BILL

LONDON, February 1st, The House of Commons on Friday

Mr. Bonar Law declared that the Opposition would not oppose the Bill, as the amendments had gone a long way to make the protection of the minority real. MR. LLOYD GEORGE PRESENTED

peror Francis Joseph to the Tear. It is

regarded as reflecting the friendly rela- tions existing between tho Austrian and Russian Courts.

CHINA AND GERMANY.

LONDON, February 1st.

A China Parliamentary Group has been formed in connection with the Reichstag similar to the groups formed in the Bri- tish and French Parliaments. The Chi-

nese delegates and Mr. Hain Jan Kia, who was the prime mover, secured the support of upwards of 100 members of the Left, including Herren Weimer nud Haase, the chairmen of the Radical and Socialist parties.

THE TURF.

LONDON, January 31st. "Jerry M" has been scratched for the Grand National, He has developed into.

a rozrer.

THE AMERICAN PRESIDENCY.

Lownnn, Fobruary 2nd. The Senate has resolved in favour of a armendment in the Constitution enacting a single presidential term of six years. This would prevent the possibility of a president running for a third term.

EXCLUSION OF ILLITERATES.

LONDON, Febraɛry 2nd, The Senate has passed the Immigration Bill excluding illiterates from the United States.

OBITUARY.

LONDON, February 1st.

The death of Admiral Sir Frederick

The death is announced of Lord Ilkes- ton, a prominent member of the Liberal party, who was raised to the peerage in

1910.

that the troops at Chatalja were never There have been numerous entries even the Great Powers are not always to be already, with more to follow, as the iden more united, as the enemy will find to trifled with, but it yet remains to be seen seema to have struck the fancy of the their cost. It was believed that Roumenis passed the third reading of the Trades' Bedford is announced. whether the impending negotiations over Army and Navy men, not only for the would reach an agreement with Bulgaria, Union Bill.

cash prizes put up but to see who really but he was never one who shared the Tibet will be for any practical purpose, or

could count од will merely consist of interminable verbal is the best "Artist" of them all. There

is great competition amongst them and to belief that Turkey subtilties, admirably adapted for marking

He hoped that Roumania time, but of very little use otherwise. The night promises to be a banner night with Roumania. most disquieting feature of the Tibetan everybody's friend out to see that he gets would not have occasion to regret her

the proper amount of applause. situation at present is the reported re-ap pearance of DonsterF, whose machinations were the ultimate cause of the YOUNG HUSBAND expedition of 1904, as the necrod. ited agent of the DALAI LAMA, We have only too good reason for believing that his presence in and about Lhasa bodas no good

or not.

H.M.8. Minotaur and Kent have re- turned from Saigon.

Bishop Price has returned to Enochow, having come ont from England vid Siberia.

Tiu names of the amateurs are: Gus

Daniels, Joe Cayley, Bill Henroy, L. C. Jukes, Wilkie Bard, and Musical Trio.

MILLIONATRES IN JAPAN.

A TUDY IN THE DISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH.

attitude.

GERMAN AMBASSADOR'S SPEECH.

island people, especially during the Last few months. The Government and the Kaiser considered it their paramount duty to work in accord with Germany's Allies and the friendly British Govern-

WITH PORTRAIT,

LONDON, February 1st, Mr. Lloyd George was on Friday pre-

sented with his portrait from the National Liberal Club. In accepting it ko said

future was the emancipation of the land. The conditions of thousands of workers dependent upon the land should make a great empire hang its head with shame,

not

tax food The remedy was nor to crush the land under fresh taxation. The matter brooked no delay. The investigations by the private land committee were completed, and the results were startling. Reports based on these would shortly be issued.

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INTERNATIONAL RUGBY.

LONDON, February 2nd. Wales defeated Scotland at Edinburgh on Saturday by 8 points to nil.

THE GOOD AND BEAUTIFUL..

The Schoolmaster quotes a passage from Franco from Within," by Mdlle. Claire de Pratz. "In French 'education necessarily of brains. A man may have a good education avoir une bonne education-while possessing very littlo instruction. But in English to be well educated

signifies to be well trained mentally, or as the French would express it avoir une bonne instruction." The phrase that one is continually hearing in France," Il a recu une bonne education et une solide instruction, is

is equivalent to

When and has been well educated." saying in English," He has good manners young English mother chides her naughty little boy for bad behaviour, she will say, "You must not do that, Johnny dear; it is wrong." Thus from the very begin ning the young Anglo-Saxon is taught to judge life by standards of moral good and evil. This conviction is so strong in the mind of the English mother that, should her child persist in his evil-doings, she will add. If you do that again, Johnnie, I shall have to punish you"; thus imply- A remarkabio feature of the recent pro-ing a moral obligation

herself. for

Buc when the French

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Prince Lichnowsky, the German Ambas- To-morrow night the company will present the American Texas Tommy"sador to the Court of St. James, at the matic correspondence in Sir JOHN JORDAN'S

contest, in which all the members of the Raiser's birthday dinner in London, company will participate. This will be dwelt on the Emperor's consistent efforts memorandum of August last, since when the Wai-chiao Pu has blown hot and cold for Great Britain or for India whether their farowell performance-before their to foster good relations with their kindred that the foremost Liberal task in the near signifies a cultivation of manners, but not

A reply was first sent to the he is there as a recognized Russian agent departure for Manila and Australia. by turns. DALAI LAMA, and took the form of a flat refusal of all that was asked. Then came the Premier's conciliatory statement to the. Advisory Council, which gave grounds for hoping that in at least this one instance China was to prove herself amenable to reason. Months passed, but no further move was made from the Chinese side, until, or December 23rd, a much-belated reply to the British Minister's note was received, and banished, for the time, all prospect of a speedy and satisfactory settle- This might have been considered as closing the matter for the present, but it was merely a piece of bluff in the game of bargaining, for less than three weeks later another letter is sent to the British Legation by the Wai-chiao Pu, proposing to reopen negotiations so that a settlement satisfactory to all parties might be evolved. This speci- men of diplomacy irresistibly suggests a street hawker who first insists that to part

ment.

The Asthi publishes an interesting list, showing the total number of millionaires in Japan. According to this list the ment to maintain European peace. He number is not more than 501, of whom 24 hoped the Ambassadors in London would

In are worth more than 10,000,000 yen.

The Balkuu The English mail of the 4th January compiling the list, the Osaka journal has attain the desired goal,

places such as registry offices, tax offices, States had been advised to exercise and private sources. Of the 24 wealthiest moderation in order to prevent further mue, 21 are citizens of Tokyo and 3 of

bloodsbed. Osaka.

was delivered in London on the 31st | collected January.

The Hongkong interport football team for Shanghai left on Saturday night on board the B. Ankui.

Mr. Arthur Kingdon, a well-known re- sident of Yokohama, died on the 24th ult. from double pneumonia.

The China Navigation steamer Ting- chow is reported to have lost her propellor off the coast of Luzon. The Tean has gone to her assistance.

The usual warning appears in the Gov with his wares for less than some ezo bitanternment Gazette that the firing of price would mean dead loss to him, but, crackers within a certain area except when the prospective customer walks off, ander permit issued by the Registrar-Gen- runs after him offering him the article at etal is unlawful.

information

different from

According to occupation Japanese mil- lionaires may be divided as follows:-

Commerce

Of no cecupation

Company Directors

Agriculture

Manufacturing

Moneylenders

Bankers

Stock Exchange Transport Miscellaneous .....

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92

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GREEK DELEGATE'S VIEWS.

A number of the Balkan Delegates leave London on Monday.

THE MARCONT INQUIRY.

LONDON, February 1st.

The Greek Delegate, M. Venizelos, in-ceedings in the Marconi Inquiry Commis- formed Reuter before be left that the sion has been the searching cross-examina- departure was more an au revoir than antion by Mr. James Falconer, M.P., of adieu, as he was persuaded that they Mr. Lawson, journalist, whose articles In this list agriculture includes forestry would be back in a few weeks to conclude, against the Marconi contract excited gen- and fisheries, manufacture includes min-the peace negotiations. Turkey, how-eral attention. Mr. Lawson was obliged ing and salt-refining, moneylending in-

must transportever, cludes pawnbroking,

and

first admit

defeat and under cross-examination to withdraw & includes warehousing. Those described assign the peace preliminaries on the battle-number of his allegations, including those

of no occupation · are Peers and non- cultivating landowners.

field.

implying official corruption.

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ce n'est

says "ne fais pas cela, mon chaves, she pas joli, and creates in the child's mind & conception of what is beautiful and what is ugly. She avoids evil not because it is wrong, but because it is ugly, end therefore repulsive. If the French child still persists in his bad behaviour, she will make an appeal, not to his sense of right and wrong, but to his young and unde- veloped feelings: "Si tu fais cels, men Perhaps the last is a method too little cheri, to feras de la peine a ta mere. used in English schools.