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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, F#BRUARY 5т¤, 1913.

Mr. G. Fricaland lectures at the German lab this evening on "Winter Sports at St. Moritz."

The Tokyo Race Club, at Meguro, has been burnt down. Twenty-two racehorses were destroyed in the fire.

the northern papers are followed by a telegraphic announcement from Harbin that the Chinese Minister at St. Petersburg Las resigned, owing to illness, which is presum- ed to be diplomatio. Dr. E. J. DILLON, the well known! writer on foreign affairs, has a very informing article in the current issue of the English Review entitled "The Chinese Tale of Settlement," in which he deals fairly exhaustively with the Mongolian Question. He sums up in those terms: "Russia foels bound

glis Honour Mr. Justice Gomperiz, to hinder at all costs the influr Puisne Judge, has been appointed acting of Chinamen into Mongolia. Mongolia Chief Justice during the absence on leave would rather bo swallowed up whole of Sir William Rees Davies, K.C.

It is semi-oficially stated that the Mongolians are negotiating in St. Peters burg for a loan of two million roubles.

The body of a child six months old was found in a basket in à street in the

The usual fair, a feature of the approach of China New Year, is in

progress in Chinatown. The stalls do not seem quite so numerous as on former occasions.

INE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS by the Teardom than become a province of the Republic. And for China it is a matter of life and death to keep open western district. The child had apparent for colonisation her vast territories beyondly been abandoned by its parents, the Wall which are now being systemati. cally closed to her. They are the lungs of the Chinese nation. Is there a statesman who could harmonise these conflicting aims and interests without an appeal to tho word?" We long ago expressed the view which Dr. DILLON now states that before & settlement can be reached the two rival Powers must appeal to the sword and that the only uncertain element in the matter is time. Dr. DILLON very truly remarks that Mongolia asserted her right to stand alone just long enough to enable her to siga away her muddenly revived independence. "From Chinese it has become Russian.

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Monday night three men entered a house The police have been informed that on

at Lyeemun orcupied by an elderly couple, and after using violence to the inmates secured money and jewellery to the value of 880. One of the villagers set out to report the matter to the police at Kowloon City, and while passing through Yaumati saw one of the robbers, whom he arrested. The latter was found to be in possession

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HONGKONG GYMKHANA CLUB TELEGRAMS. L'ELEGBAMS.

The annual general meeting of The Hongkong Gymkana Club was held on Monday evening at the rooms of The Hongkong Jockey Club, Mr. H. P. White presiding.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

THE CHINA LOAN,

LONDON, February 4th. The accounts for the season 1919 were Reuter's correspondent at Peking tele- passed unanimously, the Chairman re- marking that the meeting of the Club graphs that the loan agreement with the appeared to bo becoming even more and Six Power Group has been cabled out. more popular cach of the last five &asons, It provides for the payment of interest showing a considerable increase in patron-at 6 per cent. The re-organisation has age over the previous ones.

Draft rules were laid on the table, dis-been completed, and the agreement was cussed and approved.

be signed on Tuesday. The gold lean will amount to £25,000,000, The Group advances £2,000,000 immediately, after which it intends to issue bonds at an early date, but if the markets be unfavourable, the Group will advance further £2,000,000 in February and £3,000,000 in March. The price of the loan will be six per cont. below the nominal valuo of the bonds, which will be issued in London at not less than £08) and in Paris at not less than £971.

The remaining members of last season's committee, namely, Messrs. White, Gedge, Brutton and the Hon. C. H. Ross, were reelected and it was unsimously decided that the Honorary Secretary should ask

Captain Dickinson, D.CL.I to fill the vacancy occurring through the departure from the Colony of Captain Aga

K.O.Y.LI.

Mr. R. F. C. Master was re-elected Honorary Secretary and Treasurer and votes of thanks to him and Mr. Blason who kindly audited the accounts were unanimously passed.

This concluded the business.

THE MAGISTRACY.

Sixteen men were charged by Inspector Dymond with playing fantan. The first man was fined $50 for being the keeper, one man, who failed to appear, had hia

bail of 85 estreated, and the remainder

were fined $3 each.

C. D. Melbourne yesterday charged with Two coolies were brought before Mr. stealing type from the Hongking Daily Press. One, a presa coolic, was convicted, and sentenced to three weeks hard labour, the other being discharged.

We take the following from the Japan It was stated at the Magistracy yester- 190 What are those interests of Russia which | Gazette: "The many friends of Mrs. | day that fights at street fountains were seem to Dr. DILLON vital? The article Shallard, who was so well-known here not so numerous now as they use to be, gives no Rassian official views on the sub- fermerly as Miss Addic Page, are delight-one explanation being that there are more fountains BOW than formerly, One ject, but quotes two unofficial declarations ed to see her in Yokohama once more,

Chinese who was convicted by Mr. Haze- as representing the views of unofficial while regretting that she is to make a Russia. From a book entitled "Some short visit. Mrs. Shallard arrived here land yesterday of assaulting an elderly man by hitting him over the head with Data about Contemporary Mongolia" by from Hongkong with her husband and Count BENNIGSEN, & striking page is quoted family last Sunday, and intends staying a bamboo in the course of a quarrd while from which we take the following sentences: she will spend a few days in town before pay a fine of 37 or go to prison for 14 in Kamakura for a fortnight, after which waiting to draw water was ordered to

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returning."

Lovers of music should make a note of

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"War against China is inevitable. If it be waged in the near future, the theatre will be almost exclusively Manchuria and Eastern Mongolia; that is to say, our troops will not the Philharmonic Concert on Saturday A. S. WATSON & CO., encounter serious resistance anywhere else. night next in the Theatre Royal.

To-day we need only a single army Philharmonic Society bas departed LIMITED,

in Manchuria and Priamur, in a few years screwhat from its usual custom in giving we shall also require one near Lake Baikal, a concert version of an opera, but judg

As we shall never bocome China's ing by the booking Merrie England" friend the sooner we equip ourselves for the will be performed to a large house. The tussle the better. Which of the two alterna-music of "Merric England," whilst it is tivos ia more to our advantage, to consolidate light and melodious, is at the same time ourselves in the East, to lay out enormous original and classical enough to satisfy sume on the work and in the end to be the most fastidious taste. The work has forced to begin the contest just when been specially scored for this production it suits China, or else with a relatively for band by Mr. Denman Fuller, the emall outlay to demolish that nation when conductor of the Society, and the soloists

are all well-known amateurs.

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The Daily Press.

HONGKONG, FRbruary 5th, 1913.

it is to our advantage to do sofand to cripple it for many years to come? This

days.

A

Creek named Christodoulo

was charged before Mr. Hazeland yesterday with unlawfully removing tobacco, cigarettes, papers, labels and manu- them to P. Bofhetti, the owner. Mr. P. factured cigarettes and refusing to return

Goldring. whu appeared for the prosecutor, suggested that the case should be adjourned, and added that he wished to see his Worship in chambers with a view to a settlement. The case was re- manded for a week, bail being Exed at

$1,000.

THE ALLAN WILKIE COMPANY.

"THE CARDINAL.

The Allan Wilkie Company on their A new paper has just started publica-return from Manila opened another short season at the Theatre Royal last night,

THE FRENCH MOTOR BANDITS.

LONDON, February 4th. The trial of the rotor bandits has Paris, the Court being opened at

There were 304 witnesses, the thronged. indictment extended to 100 pages, and the exhibits in the ease constituted a perfect

armoury.

CANADA AND PREFERENCE.

LONDON, February 4th, Reuter's correspondent at Ottawa tele- graphs that it is announced that the pre- ference to British goods will be extended to the products of the remaining colonies and dependencies which have not enjoyed this preference up to the present, includ- ing the Malay States.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

THE BALKAN WAR.

PEACE PROSPECTS. In order to rid itself of the responsibility for the renewal of fighting, the Porte has ordered the Turkish delegates to remain in London till hostilities Gave been re- sumed. The Turkish troops will wait for the energy to fire first.

The Berlin Tagchlait states that Ger- many has advised Bulgaria to show conciliatory spirit and to continue the negotiations on the basis of Turkey's reply to the Powers. Britain and France have informed Germany that they will give Turkey no pecuniary assistance till peace is concluded. Germany has replied that she will follow the same

Courgo France has intimated to the Allies that it would be advisable for their delegates to remain in London and continue negotia- tions even if hostilities be resumed, as was done in the Turco-Italian war.

It is reported that official quarters în Constantinople have not abandoned hope that hostilities will be prevented. It is understood that the British and Germanı Ministers have addressed urgent repre- sentations to Sofia, the outcome of which is eagerly awaited in the Turkish capital. Meanwhile the Government neglecting to take precautions to meet all eventualities.

are not

Bulgaria is willing to agree to the appointment of a representative of the Caliph at Adrianople after the cession of

the town.

Constan-

NEW AMERICAN INCOME TAX.

HOSTILITIES RESUMED. Reuter's correspondent at LONDON, February 4th.. The legislatures of three-fourths of the tinople wires that hostilities have been States of the United States, the minimum resumed with the bombardment of Ad- required to amend the Constitution, has riample and an insignificant skirmish at now approved of the proposed federal | Chatalja, both beginning, punctually at tax on incomes above $5,000. It is ex- seven o'clock on Monday evening. pected to produce 100 million dollars.

MONOPLANE ACCIDENTS.

LONDON, February 4th.

A Departmental Committee appointed last month to inquire into the causes of six aeroplane accidents has reported that they were not due to causes peculiar to monoplanes and that they saw no reason therefore to recommend their prohibition.

AUSTRIA AND RUSSIA.

LONDON, February 4th. Prince Hohenlohe, the chamberlain of the Emperor of Austria, has left Vienna for St. Petersburg bearing an autograph letter from the Emperor to the Tsar

ROUMANIA AND BULGARIA.

A message from Bucharest states that the Bulgarian offer embodied in the pre- tocol of the 29th January is for a straight frontier from Bilistria, excluding the town, which remains Bulgacino, to Saltchik.. It is not expected that

Roumania will accept this offer.

MARRIAGE OF THE CHIEF JUSTICE.

Hilda Kathleen

The marriage of His Honour Sir William Rees Davies, Chief Justice, to daughter of the late W. E. Blennerhassett Chaplin, second

Atthill, Esq., of Faversham, Kent, was solemnised yesterday morning at the Peak

question I leave statesmen to answer. tion in Shanghai in the interests of when they played Mr. Louis Parker's. which is understood to reflect the friendly Church, by the Rev. G. B. Berry, MA,

After a successful campaign wa could

Socialism numed the Hina Socialists. It assure our safety by forming two separate States out of Mongolia and Sin Dzian, and is partly printed in Chinese and partly in Esperanto The first issue has been deuy the Chinese admission by means of various restrictions," J. KUSEELOFF, the get up on a modest scale, but it is stated author of Mongolia and the Mongolian the scope of its work, especially in the that the paper hopes in time to extend Question," mentions the contention that direction of disseminating Socialist

formulated by Dr. Sun Yat-sen, who ia, as is well-known, an enthusiastic Socialist, were the overthrow of the Manchu Dynasty, the establishment of a Republic and the introduction of Socialism.

very striking costume play "The Car-relations between the two Courts. dinal." The play is indeed one of the most enthralling in the Company's reper-

BRITISH STEAMER STRANDED. toire and it is as much a matter for

LONDON, February 4th. drama did not attract a larger house, surprist as for regret that so notable a The British steamer Haddov. Hall, The Company has had many opportuni- belonging to the Hall Company, Limited,

The National Herald reports the re- venue of the railways in China in 1912. The following is the approximate 1st:--

Peking-Mukden Peking-Hankow

Peking-Kalgan

.$13,000,000 12,400,000 2,800,000

Tientsin Pukow**

4,000,000

Shanghai-Nanking

2,600,000

700,000 600,000

2,400,000

500,000 200,000 270,000

Honan Centon-Kowloon

GOVERNOR'S MATRIMONIAL

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TROUBLES.

LONDON, February 4th. The Divorce Court has granted Sir W. H Manning. the Governer of Jamaica and formerly Governor Nyassaland, divorce, subject to certain formalities, on the ground of his wife hav ing eloped with the aide-de-camp, Cap

tain Evan Llewellyn. undeforded.

The case was

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of Emmanuel Church, Plymouth.

His Excellency the Governor and Lady, May were present at the ceremony, and His Excellency gave the bride away. Captain Cayley, RN., H.M.S. Minotaur, attended the Chief Justice as best man," and he was supported by his Honour

Mr. C. D. Melbourne.

It is interesting to learn that the officiating clergyman, the Rev. G. B. Berry, is a distinguished graduate of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, which is also the College where the Chief Justice graduated.

Sir William and Lady Rees Davies left immediately after the wedding by str. Gochen for a fortnight's stay in the Philippine Islands.

A.L the

P. O, B., 84. Telephone No. 18. it is an absolute necessity, and, indeed the literature in Esperanto. There are at ties for proving its ability to present of Liverpool, while on the voyage from Mr. Justice Gompertz, tha Attorney- Haxorėno Orsion: 10%, Das Faux ROAD O juncture, to auner to Russia, Mongolia and Esperanto School in Nanking Road. The

only issue out of the present political con- present between 40 and 50 students in the successfully the most difficult of plays, Liverpool to the Cape of Good Hope, General (Hon. Mr. J. A. Buckmill) and Lemon Orion: 181, Fans Star, B.0,the northern part of Chinese Turkestan, as paper's policy, we are told, may be sun dinal" deserved the highest praise. Mr. lies in an exposed position,

and their performance of "The Car- went ashore at Saldhana Bay, where she far as the Grant Desert of Gobi, tracing marized in five words: -- Socialism,

Three the frontier along the line of the mountain. Esperanto, Woman's Emanticipation and Wilkie and Miss Hunter-Watts had, as

nativei were drowned, but it is reported chain Tian Shan, and further eastwards to Labour. This policy the China Republican usual, the leading parts. the town of Tao-nan-fu," The author fully says, coincides in principle with that of

To-aight the Company play "Trilby." that the crew are safe. concurs in that view and expresses the the Kuo-Min-Tang, for although the MILITARY Movements in the neighbourhood opinion that Russia's politico-strategical Party has changed in name, its policy

REVENUES OF RAILWAYS IN CHINA. of Mongolia are commanding a good deal of tank Jien entirely in depriving China of remains the same, nearly all its members public attention in the North. Chinese troops every possibility of advancing towards being ardent Socialists The majority of are moving from Kalgan to the chief places Russia's borders and getting a hold there. its members are recruited from the Tung on the Mongol border, extending from Kal-As to China's side of the question, we have Meng Hui, whose original aims as gan to Allollemor, and a Russian corres- never before seen it represented that to her pondent at Urga has reported that the it is a matter of life and death to keep open Chinese have captured Hoshun and Teun for colonisation her vast territories beyond sunit and arrested two Suait princes. He the Wall. Although the commonly received also states that the Chinese are fitting estimate of China's population is some out a second expedition which they are 400,000,000, every traveller agrees that it is dispatching in the direction of Daringanga. only in the most highly favoured districts, We further learn that the Urga Mongols like the fertile valleys of the Yellow River have sent two hundred troops to south-east and the Yangtse, that the density of popu Mongolia, while eight hundred are in the vicinity of Kueibwachang, Their plan of mpaign appears to be to harrass the biness border until the Chinese, naturally retaliate and march on Urga. In such an event the Mongols rely upon Russian assistance to see them through. TOKAUTA CHI, a famous robber chief, has been appointed generalissimo of the Mongol fores,

from the great Republic To write off Furniture and Fixtures of which his former followers are now the is a grievous blow to the newly-constituted flower, As they are batter than the State. It involves a change in the flag, and To write of Electric Light Installa- Mongols, the latter fear his power. The the affront is so serions that it can never be To transfer to Repairs and Renewals Russian GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Aur forgiven. Hence nu appeal to the sword is account Province has recently had a conference inevitable, and it would seem from the To write off Hotel Launch account with the Russian railway, military and military movements in the neighbourhood Carry Forward

HONGKONG-HOTEL.

lation aproximates that of some European Company,--Limited, for the half year The profit of the Hongkong Hotel countries. There would seem to be aband. ending 31st December, 1912, amounts to ance of room in China. Proper for every son $85,618, which, subject to audit, the of Hau, if the country were properly governed Board of Directors propose to apportion and developed. In our opinion China's as follows 1-- opposition to the alienation of Mongolia is To pay a dividend of $2.00 on 11,000 inspired by sentimental rather than economic to pay a dividend of $1.50 on 8,000 reasons. The permanent separation of Mongolia

consular authorities at Harbin and has of the frontier that serious trouble will

proceeded to St. Petersburg. These items

break out at no very distant date.

oll shares.....

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36,000

12,000

Chengling-Taiyuan Taoching Kirin-Changchun Chuchow-Pinghsiang

With the single exception of the Chu- chow-Pingbaiang Railway the revenue in every case exceeded the average for the last three years,

CHINA'S STANDING ARMY. The Ministry of Wax has decided that

THE LIBERAL LAND PROGRAMME.

of THE MARRIAGE OF SIR ALEXAN-

DER HOSIE.

Vineyard Congregational Churd, Richmond, on the 2nd ult. Miss Dorothea Soothill, only daughter of the Rev W. E. Soothill, M.A., and Mrs. Boothill, of Lancaster Lodge, Queen's- road, Richmond Hill, was married to Sir Alexander Hosie, late of H,B.M.'s Con- Bular Service in China. The bride is of the Newnham College (Cambridge) and Bedford College for Women, London, and revolution in Peking, and is greatly in- was born in China, went through the terested in Chinese questions, whilst hor father is an ex-president of the Imperial Shansi University, and president-elect of the China University, of which Lord Wm. united universities' proposed Central G. Ceil is one of the principal promoters. The wedding was quiet, only the members of the family being invited, and the bridegroom's son, Mr. Alexander L Hosie, the well-known athlete, of Mag- dalene College, Oxford, was the best man. The service was conducted by the Rev. A. Johnstone, pastor, who was assisted by the Rev. Alfred Soothill. B.A., a member of Ashville College, Harrogate, and uncle of the bride. There was only one brides- maid, Miss Ellen Stott, also of Newnham and Bedford College. A reception was subsequently beld at Lancaster Lodge, and later the bride and bridegroom left for their honeymoon in Kent.

LONDON, February 4th The Daily News forecasts the Liberal land programme as follows:-Statutory minimum wage for agricultural labourers of £1 per week, powers to secure land for the strength of China's standing army cottages and allotments, land courts, and is to be forty-six Army Corps (or full urban rating reform. division) and ten sub-divisions, to be distributed as follows:--Six Army Corps in Chibli, four in Fengtien, two each in Kiria, Heilungkiang, Shantung, Shansi, 15,000 Honan, Szechuan and Shanei, three each in Hupon and Kiangsu, one Army Corps 10,000 and one Sub-Division each in Anhui

Chokiang, Fukien, Hunan, Klangsi and 10,000 Singkiang, and two Army Corps and one Sub-Division cach in Kuangtung, Yün- Dau, Kansu and Kuangsi. If this arrangement is passed by the Advisory Council, it will be immediately carried

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DEATH OF KING MENELIK.

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LONDON, February 4th. The African World Adisabeba announces that King Menclik is dead, and that his succesor Lidjujesu entered the capital on Sunday amid great pomp. [King Menelik, whose death has been reported several times, became King of Abyssinia in 1889. He was born in 1849.]