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merchants and gentry--if the latter do Out of twenty-six new Fellows of the TELEGRAMS. TELEGRAMS. TELEGRAMS.

scription of citizens of a Republic be per-Royal Geographical Society sixteen are miscibla-are wealthy enough to lend to the women. Government all the money it needs. But when the wealthy Chinese at home and abroad were invited to demonstrate this to

the world, the meagre result of the appeal ought to have satisfied Dr. SUN TAT-SEN and those who shared his opinions on the subject that their dreams were vain. If the wealthy Chinese are indisposed to invest their capital in “Patriotic Bonds having a Government guarantee, are they likely to subscribe more largely to the domestic lan whereby Dr. SUN YAT.BEN hopen to raise the caormous capital needed to carry out oven a tenth part of his grand

Mr. Thomas Adkins, J.P., Evesham, Worcestershire, for twenty-four years in Consular service in China, left estate

valued at £39,305.

Licut, Colonel H.. D. Staepole, Army Pay Department, lately "Command Pay• master at Hongkong, has been appointed to the London District for Juty.

It is not expected in Macao that Senor Machado will return to the Colony as Governor.

Senor Mansilla is reported

to have been appointed Colonial Secretary.

Lient-Col. A. J. Mullins, R.G... and Officers of the Royal Artillery are "At Home" to their friends at the U.S.R. Club, Kowloon, on Saturday afternoon, when Regimental Sports will be held.

The cruiser Rogal Arthur, which is now route to the China Station with relief crews aboard, was due to arrive at Sings pore on March 25th and at Hongkong on April 1st. She will leave Hongkong on

port on June 4th

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THE BALKAN WAR.

BESIEGED ADHIANOPLE.

"A GENERAL, ATTACK. message froni Sofia: states that general attack upon all fortified positions at Adrianople was made on Tuesday morning, and all the fortified points on the eastern sido we carried by assault, A message from "- Constantinople saya that lighting was continuous throughout Monday, and was continued on Tuesday The Turks are rushing up reinforcements to withstand the attacks

AUSTRIA AND MONTENEGRO,

Montenegro, however, will take steps for the departure of the civil population. A Note was also banded to the Austrian Legation informing Austria of this decision and of the protest to the

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)

(THROUGH RUTER'S AGENCY.]

SUFFRAGETTES IN PRISON.

LONDON, March 26.

Mr. McKenna on Tuesday introduced Bill in the House of Commons provid ng for the temporary release of prisoners whose condition readers it advisable.

THE TORNADO IN AMERICA,

HEAVY FATALITIES AND ENORMOUS DAMAGE

LONDON, March 26th. The death roll in Omaha is 162, utan , Berlin, Terra Haute 18, Council Bluffs 19, Chicago 5, and other points of the storm each two or three fatalities.

Reports are still coming in of enormous | WELCOME RAINS IN AUSTRALIA, damage having been done.

LONDON, March 28th. A telegram from Melbourne states that beneficial rains have fallen in Victoria, South Australia and New South Wales.

The tornado in Indiana was followed by floods, several towns being submerged. Five people have already been reported drowned.

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of cities have been inundated in Ohio and Indiana, Many lives have been lost, scores of railway bridges and miles of track have been destroyed. The damage is estimated at £2,000,000. A blizzard in

JAPANESE STEEL INDUSTRY,

SUCCESSFULLY COMPETING WITH Vis. AND EUROPE.

Stocks and crops have been ruined, and the people are fleeing to the hilla. Forty were drowned at Ohio and In a circalar Note to the Powers Mouthousands of people are homeless, there tenegro complains of the action of Austria-Hungary in reference to Skutari

as well as elsewhere.

According to well-known steel makers Disastrous fools have followed the in America, there is reason for apprchen- which she regards as a breach of

tornado in the United States, and dozens. Rion in the tremendous activity of Japa- neutrality.

Several nese steel making endeavours, years ago, possibly five or six, the steel" plants in Japan and China amounted to practically nothing, two small poorly The Japanese then started to branch out equipped plants only being in operation. with new plante, and the Chinese followed

ploying more men than any steel company in the world with the exception of the Steel Corporation, and about one-third The tornado caused enormous damage as many as the latter. Both plants are manufacturing a good grade of pig iron, fair sheets, plates, galvanized products, hars, billets and bloome.

They are making a fine grads of Bosssmer rails, from pig iron that contains a s quantity of phosphorus. Good ore is found in both Japan and China Bach of the plants employs about 26,000 men and women.

Powers.

Router learns that Austria presented

come when Russia attempts to take it. April 18th, and drop anchor at Deron altogether four Notes to Montenegro, Omaha is intensifying the sufferings of suit. To-day in two plants they are em-

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A colored man employed on the ss. Billater was at the Magistracy yesterday centenced by Mr. Hazeland to fourteen days' imprisonment for assaulting another member of the crew. The captain said the defendant had been logged for threatening to kill the steward.

The first was with regard to the treatment of the Skodra, The second, referred to the murder of a priest at Djakova. The third was with regard to the forcible conversions. The fourth was regarding Skutari All had a strongly - worded demand for undolayed satisfaction, in

the victims.

principally at Omahe.

A message from Springfield to lay states that a dam burst at Piqua, and it is reported that 510 people were

drowned in 13ft, of water,

There are rumours that at Dayton 5,000 perished and 20,000 were vendered

homeless.

THE NEW FRENCH CABINET: -

LONDON, March 26th.

The French Chamber of Deputies has passed a rote of confidence in the now Cabinet by 225 votes to 182, but it was notable that there were 164 abstentions.

The impression in the lobby is that

milway sohome? Dr. SUN is apparently Surgeon Goble has reported to the obsessed with the idea that China is to police that while riding in his private become the first Great Socialist State,"riesha a public ricsha collided with his and many of his projects seem to ho based vehicle and he was thrown to the street upon this visionary idea. But his views on and his ricsha, was damaged. other questions in which China in interested We observe appear equally amazing. that he told an interviewer at Kobe, who questioned him regarding the aggression of Russia in Mongolia, that he did not consider that Russia really wants a desert like Mongolia." "My opinion," he added, "is that Russia is after India," and he gratui 21.00 1.80tously expressed the further opinion tha England · is not strong enough 22.50 1.90 to restrict her should the time ever

38.00 3.25 22.00 185 The looseness of thought in this statement is too obvious to need emphasis, and wo 23.50 2.00

campot but regard the ignorance it reveals 23.50 2.00 ns being assumed for a purpose. We know of as other (hinese, taking the ranks of statesman, who shares Dr. Sux's belief Chat Russia does not really want a desert Its annexation has been like Mongolia." advocated for years by responsiblo publicisto

The Annual Report of the Institutioncluding the reconversion of the converted in Russia, for political as well as commer cial reasons. Mongolia is not the worthless of Engineers and Shipbuilders of Hong people by the Catholic Archbishop of Montenegro replied by pro- desert Dr. Sun represents it to be. Its kong shows a total membership of 411, of Prizrend. commerce is important and its mineral whom 197 are ordinary members. Thomising investigation into the Skodra resources are believed to be abundant. financial statement shows an income of affair, agreeing to an inquiry by the

tton working of If Mongolia were merely an arid desort, why $14,333 and a profit on. should China be organising a military ex- $120.95, which has been transferred to Archbishop of Prizrend into the murder of the priest, but objecting to the Austrian pedition and threatening a war with Russia Reserve Account.

Consul participating in the inquiry. in order to recover possession of it? And if

George Edwards, the boatswain on the and proposing a mixed commission of Russia is after India, as Da. Sur profossos Empress of India, was charged at the Austrian and Montenegrin civilians to to believe, why should she want

Magistracy yesterday before Mr. Mel-

Montenegro bato at Urga, en many bourne with behaving in a disorderly investigate the conversions. hundreds of miles away? If Dr. manner and using threatening language refuses at present to give a direct reply SUN TAT-SEN is the sound student towards a man named Grath, formerly on the subject of Sicutari. of affairs his admirers consider him to be, employed on the shi After a bearing accepted the first and third points, but points of their policy announced in the he would know enough about the general international position to recognise that no action on Kassia's part is more extremely improbable than an attack upon India. Not only would she, in that event, be unable to count upon the support of France, her Ally, but she would provoke another war with Japan, who by ber Treaty of Alliance

Ho statement on the Balkans.

said an with Great Britain is under an obligation

agreement had been reached between the to come at once to the assistance of her.

Powers regarding the northern and the Ally. On the other hand, the present

eastern frontier of Albania. They had European situation enables Russia to count

strongly counselled Montenegro to desist upon France giving hir total support to her aggressive policy in Mongolia, and the

from purposeless bloodshed involved in silence of Japan on the subject can

again attacking Shutari, and had strongly only be explained by the supposition that

counselled Turkey and the Allies to it hun been bought by Russia on torms

accept the mediation terms. They discour which have yet to be publicly disclosed.

aged the idea of an inderanity from There is probably some method in the

Turkey. He said that the outstanding apparent madness of Dr. Sua's suggestion.

questions for the Powers might be trouble He went to Japan, ho it remembered, with

some, but they were not a cause for the object of paving the way for an alliance with China, and, in view of Japan's relations

nnxiety One result of the

sult of th agreement with Great Britain, it is not improbable Kahn & Kontor, art eurio morchants, of should be the cesation of hostilities in that he conceived the idea of ultimately Queen's Road, to Messrs. Komor & what was and would be Albania. He inducing Great Britain to join in this Komor of Des Vœux Road, is alliance. Muy it not be that he hoped to officially notified by advertisement on hoped that if the Powers' decision was there would be no page 4. Mr. S. Komor, of Messra. Komornot respected DR. BUN YAT-BEN continues to an achieve this object by representing Russia & Kontor, is continuing the sale of the separate action by one Power, but united the world by his utterances on 趄 ns the common enemy of the three Powers? stuck in Queen's Road for a short time, pressure by all, variety of subjects. His railway scheme when it was unfolded, took away the That is the only possible motive we can and afterwards will continue the business discover for the extraordinary suggestion | at Alexandra Buildings, Des Vœux Road breath of practical men, who, of course that Bussin is making Mongolia a base of Central under both firm names. recognise the advantages which would accrue from the construction of a net-work Operations for an attack upon India. Dr. of railways covering the whole map of Sox is welcome to believe this if he likes. China, but they appreciate the difficulties but the fact that he does so is unlikely to ensa agy alarm either at Dalli or in London.

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The Daily Press.

HONGKONG, MARnox 27th, 1913.

in the way, which Dr. Sox evidently does not. He would scow to have taken a map of China, and, with pencil in hand, covered it with a cobweb of railways and presented it to an astonished world as his "scheme”—a scheme to be translated into actuality in a quarter of a century or less.. of The cost of it Dr. Sus evidently has

A Chinese shopinaker has informed the police that a man by means of the con- fidence trick obtained from him ton pairs

valued at $16.

A small free four place on Theory evening in Wing Fung Lane near Arsenal Street, caused by people burning joss paper and igniting vegetables.

which was characterised by much shouting the charge was dismissed.

Austria

rejected the reply with reference to the

murder of the priest,

IMPORTANT STATEMENT BY SIR- EDWARD GREY.

Recently, the Japanese concorn bought

spend $10,000,000, or $20,000,000 yen, in improvements. The plant already has a production of 15,000 tons of high grade Bessemer rails, which are much in de- mand. The Japanese now supply the greater part of the rails for China and The a large portion of Japan's needs. company recently took a considerable rail order for the Philippine Islands on which American, British, and German pro- ducers were hidding,

the Chinese plant, and is preparing to

The extensions to the Chinese plant will include blast furnaces, open hearth furnaces, rolling mills, by-product coko the position of the Ministry as the results and gas producers. This will put. the company in position not only to: of the vote is precarious. The main supply its works with pig iron, but will allow a considerable tonnage to be shipped to our Pacific Coast, states the Wall Sreet Journal, from whose columns we make this quotation, where it can compete successfully with the Ame rican product.

Chamber are the introduction of the Three Years Military Service Bill and Electoral reform. M. Barthou declared that the Government is convinced that the Three Years: Service Bill alone will

The Hon. Treasurer of the Alios Memorial and Affiliated Hospitals bega. to acknowledge with thanks the following donations to the funds of the Hospitals: Sir Edward Grey made an important assure the defence of the national honour,

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Five fatal cases of diphtheria (one case imported) were notified in the Colony last week; also eight cases of small por (six ending fatally). One was a British case, the other seren boing Chinese, two being 'imported cases. There were also three cases of enteric fever, one proving fatal. A notable feature of the return, for the time of the year, in the absence of plague cases,

The sale of the business of Messrs.

DETERMINED SUICIDE AT:

SOURABAYA

now

In the House of Commons on Tuesday

Mr. Asquith expressed the hope that it would now go forth as the opinion of the House and of the Government that

hostilities should cease.

THE CIVILIANS AT SKUTARI.

It was impossible to make compromises when the very life of the country was at stake.

LABOUR CONFERENCE AT MANCHESTER,

WOMAN SUPERAGE AND PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION DEMANDED.

LONDON, March 26th.

Costs of manufacture In China and for that class in the world, Rollers, the Japan are low, labour boing the cheapest

"best paid operators in a steel mill, are paid $4 to 80 per month in China com>

pared with 38 to 810 per day in this coun try. All other wages are in comparison. A number of women are employed with men in the Chinese and Japanese plants and those labourers and Jabouresses are paid only 5 to 7 cents por day, jon- pared with 69 per day for common Inbour

In this country

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China and Japan ang rich in ore and coal, of high grades. Of these two minerals, there is enough explored to last. the steel making capacity for several hun- dred years, and there are thought to be enormous tonnages yet undiscovered.

THE WHEELER CASE IN JAPAN,

The text of the finding of the Pre

The Independent Labour Party, which is holding a Conference at Manchester, has resolved to oppose the Plural Voting and other Electoral Bills until the Govliminary Court in the charge against crament introduces a measure enfranchis- ing women

The Conference also passed a resolution in favour of proportional representation. Mr. Snowden, M.P., estimated that 80 Independent Labourites and Socialists would be returned under a system of pro-

portional representation. DEATH OF VISCOUNT WOLSELEY.

LONDON, March 20th. Viscount Wolseley died at Mentone, on Tuesday,

The King and Colonel Seely have seat messages of sympathy to Lady Wolseley

[Field Marshal Viscount Wolseley was horn in 1833. He entered the Army in 1852, sorting in the Crimes War and in the Burmese war He was severely wounded in

the Crimea and his services were recognised by the brevet of Major, medal with clasp. was made Knight of the Legion of Honour, and received the 5th class Majidio Turkish For his distinguished services in the-Colonel, solving a medal with class

receiving Afterwards he took part in the China War. He commanded the Red River Expedition

A message from Cetinje says that the A young lady, twenty-three years of | Montenegrin envoys have been sent to age, Miss Klein, committed suicide at Sourabaya on February 26, by taking a Skutari to notify Essad Pasha that the large dose of arsenic. Her mother and sister were out shopping at the time. On civilians will be allowed three days in their return she informed them of what which to leave the town. she had done and also warned her sister

According to a telegram from Vienna, not to drink out of the glass she had been using. Medical assistance was immedi- it is expected

that the Powers will medal), regarded as a mere detail. We observe that

the seidoto of the girl refused to take shortly make representations to Belgrade he has been telling the people of Japan that

antidolo of white of eggs which the doctor had prepared, so it was necessary and Cetinje with a view to securing a he is determined to flutice these railways by

to use force to make her take it. It was speedy evacuation of the territory they only when her strength began to wesken means of "domastia loans only." Not only

that they managed to get her to take the have assigned to Albania, including thia. He advocates the reclamation of

She was determined to die and rights for railway constraction and control We have been informed by Mr. Gough, during her conscious moments kept saya Skutari. Hence the departure of the which have in the past been granted to Acting Superintendent of the Great that he hoped it would soon be over civilians from Skutari is superfluous.

Northern Telegraph Company, that cable She died at three in the afternoon. It foreigners. For this purpose more doincatic communication between Shanghai and is remarkable, says the Sourabaya loans will be required, we suppose. Dr. Nagasaki has been restored.

Courant, that the girl was in possession of an unusually large quantity of Sux, in giving expression to these notions,

ursonic-not the white arsenic that may is but reiterating his sublime faith in the

Police Sergeant Kendall has been rebe bought at the bazaar. She would enormous wealth of the people of China sworn for a further period of five years' never have been able to get such Twelve maths ago Dr. Sus was professing service, and is proceeding Home on leave quantity at one time from a dispensary.

The inference is that she must have been con yed in the Royal Yacht to Athens. the utmost unconcern about the failure of this wed.. Three men who have just planning suicide for some time, and was

British, German, Italian, Austrian, the negotiations for the international loan, arrived from Home, named, respectively, driven to the deed on receipt the pre- and indeed was inclined to welcome it, in the Henderson, Cornfort, and Croucher, were vious day of a letter breaking off her Russian and French warships are escort

engagement of- marriage. The matter ba

THE DEAD KING OF GREECE.

LONDON, March 20th. The remains of King George of Greece have been removed from Balonika and

Mr. W. A. Wheeler, of the firm of Gens Wheeler & Co., Yokohama, has been. published. The Court held that accused made an exorbitant profit and that fe delayed the supply of yarn to the pur- chasers of the knitting machines be sold. The finding, says the Japan Mail, gors on to quote a private circular received from the firm's head office in England, wherein it is pointed out that all

work must be carefully inspected before being accepted

and that

in England, although forty or fifty machines are Bold every week, most of the output is rejected. The accused caused these instructions to be carried ont delaying the acceptance of the goode and arranging to discontinue the business when he had sold a pre-arranged number of machines. The accused is therefore charged with obtaining by fraud the vo of Y106,800 by selling 802 machines, together with yarn and sample stock the offence coming under Articles do an 1 245 (1) of the Criminal Code

BRAVE ENGLISH GIRL.

RINGS NO MAN WOULD TAKE" IN THE

FIRING LINE.

American correspondents in Mexico

City express unbounded admiration for in 1870, and afterwards. had command of the heroism of an English girl, Miss the troops on the Gold Coast. On the Violet Hastings, during the carnage that conclusion of the Ashanti War he received marked the recent fighting. the thunks of Parliament and a grant of She knows six languages, and was of £25,000 for ** courage, energy and perinestimable valne in gathering news: severance” in the conduct of the war. He She repeatedly penetrated into the most was Governor of Natal in 1879, was Quarter dangerons sections of the battle some, Master General of the Forees in 1880. He chatting with Mexicans, Frenchmen, was Commander-in-Chief of the Exped Germans, Italians, half-breeds, und tionary Forve; in Egypt in 1882, and again Indians, and vitle generals, privates, and received the thanks of Parliament, a grant beggars. of £30.000 and was also mised to the Peerage. Later, he commanded the Gorden Relief Expedition, for which he received the thanks of Parliament, and was raised to the viscounty. He was commander of the Forces in Ireland from 1890 to 1805, and wi

1900. He has written a number of

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She took risks ways one correspondent, no man ventured to take, and experieno d adventures enough to make a thrilling sovel. Miss Hastings called the affair

jolly good sport Mrs. Wilson, wife of the American

women have enthusiastically praised ber for her courage,

confident bolief that Chios does not really yesterday sworn in as members of the caused a profound sunsation in Bourning the remains from Salonika to the Commander-in-Chief of the Army from 1895 Ambassador, and half a dozen American

need to borrow foreign capiral: that her Hongkong Police Force.

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