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advance of two million tacle to Sun's re- presentative at Shanghai. Within ten days a further advance of a million tools was mado to meet the immediate needs of the

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, MAY ɓræ, 1018.

All the hotels in Peking a full up and the tourist season this year is expected to beat all previous records.

The last of the present series of demon- Peking sath ritios, and letters were exstrations of the kinetophone takes place changed dying the conditions under in the Theatre Royal to-night.

which these two advances were understood to be made. These conditions gave the Banks "firm option" for furnishing the monthly quota of funds which the Repub- lican Government would require in the ensuing six months, and a conditional option on the urge Reorganisation Loan WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS, which the Government contemplated rus

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HONGKONG, MAY 5TH, 1913.

Mr. Matheson Lang has received an TELEGRAMS. TELEGRAMS.

invitation from Sir Herbert Tree, to appear as "Charles Surface" in a revival of

The School for Scandal at His

his season with Westward Ho." The Mujesty's Theatre, on the termination of revival, which is to be on the usual IL.E. the Governor has been pleased to sumptuous fines associated with His appoint Captain E. M. Conolly, R.H.A. Majesty's Theatre, is to have a remarkable (T.), to be his private spactary and extraente, including Sir Herbert Tree as Sir Aide-de-Camp, vice Captain the Hon. Peter Teazle," Miss Phyllis Neilson-Terry Fitz Roy" Richard Somerset, Grenadier Guards, with effect from the 5th Febru- ary, 1913.

Information from Peking says that Mr. Schmidt, formerly engaged as teacher by the Pinghsiang Colliery, has been appointed by the German Government ns Director of the German-Chiness Schools in China. He will come out to China in the autumn.

Mr. Hau Shih-yin, Minister of Justice, has tendered his resignation on account of the proposition for the formation of a special Court to try the Sung case, to which he strongly objects on the ground that sich a procedure will be highly prejudicial to the Independence of the Judicature," says a Peking telegram.

The Anglo-American Players are due to They will begis arrive here this morning on the Hirano Morn from Shangbai. their local engagement at the Theatre to-morrow night in the farce- Royal comedy, Mrs. Temple's Telegram." The booking has been good for the opening night and a notable gathering is expected to welcome the players.

as "Lady Teazle," and Mr. Matheson Lang as "Charles Surface,"

The police have been informed by Mr. A. Vieira, of 15, Caine Road, that on Fri- day evening, about 8 o'clock, when he

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THE BALKAN WAR. AWAITING AUSTRIA'S DECISIÓN.

A message from Vienna states that Count Berchtold presided at a Cabinet The aviator Takeishi from Cenzeil held on Friday of the Ministers America while flying at Osaka on of the Dual Monarchy, the Austrian and

TOKYO, May 4th

Finance,

a Curtis machine met with a disaster, Hungarian Premiers and Ministers of his machine being smashed aud himself seriously injurėd.

JAPAN AND

CALIFORNIAN

LEGISLATION.

TOKYO, May 4th.

Europe is now awaiting the decision of Vienna, where on Friday it was officially intimated that the decisions of the PoweĽK must be carried out as quickly as possible.

was at dinner with his sister-in-law, some Chinese knocked at the door. He opened it and four men entered, carrying cooking utensils which they said were for the amah. They suddenly caught hold of Mr. Vieira and the lady and then gagged them. The robbers purloined $300 in

told made an exhaustive explanation of money from a chest of drawers and also took a watch valued at $25. Mr. Vieira left to investigate the Californiament from Vienna says that Count Berch- the situation. The discussion showed that suspects that one of the robbers was house boy formerly employed by him question. The public is now calmly They left behind a chisel, a cap and an discussing the matter and showing all the Ministers were ananimous as to earthenware pot. probably bears marks of his encounter disposition to leave the matter to the the course to be pursued, but the Austrian with the lady, who stabbed him in the

two Governments. chest with a fork and also bit, his arm in the struggle.

The holding of a Council at Viennn im mediately following the Conference of Ambassadors has somewhat disquieted'

Two members of the Diet have diplomatists in London. An official state-

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One of the robbers

Mr. W. S. Davidson, a well-known resident of Shanghai and Chairman of several rubber companies, of which the firm of J. A. Wattie & Co., Ltd., are agents, appeared in H.B.M.'s Police Court last Monday afternoon, before Mr. F. S. A. Bourne, C.M.G. (sitting as Police Magistrate), charged as follows:-- For that he, being a partner in J. A. Wattis & Co., the Secretary and General

Insurance Co., Ltd., and being entrusted Managers of the China Mutual Life with the sale of certain securities the

The China Critic (Tientsin) says:- Many of the vernacular papers comment upon the accumulation of arms and ammunition at Peking, and think it points to a very rottea state of affairs. Every arsenal in the Empire has been called upon by the Central Government to

Insurance Co., to wit, certain shares, did expedite the manufacture and dispatch of property of the said China Mutual Life

A Bad Sign?

sell the same and did fraudulently convert these munitions of war,

Before Mr. F. A Hazeland at the to his own use, or to the use of the said Magistracy on Saturday, a Chiness was J. A. Wattie & Co., part of the proceeds charged with stealing four straw hats and thereof, being various sums of money a number of glass bottles from the Kow. amounting in all to the sum of Tis. 2,070." toon Gadown Company's wharf. Inspec tor Kerr stated that whilst the Sumatra was discharging cargo at the wharf a

Chinese detective saw the defendant take hat from a case and kide it under & tarpaulin. Other hats and some glass bottles were afterwards found under the

CHARGE AGAINST STEAMSHIP A

CAPTAIN.

At the Magistracy, before Mr. Hazeland. Hermann Oltmanns, master of the 5.8. summoned for, on March 8th, allowing Hong Koi, a Chinese passenger ship, was

while the unconvertible note idea is one which cannot commend itself to any reapons ible statesmap. Thus was Government compelled to fall back on the Foreign Banks, and to resumo negotiations which had been cover. Defendant was sentenced to one his ship to clear and proceed to sea on a interrupted, and it is not until these have month's imprisonment and four hours voyage of more than seven days-to Bang-

been brought to a conclusion and the loan arranged that Dr. SUN YAT-BEN has ap pealed to the peoples and Governments of Europe to defeat the purpose of negotiations which have been in progress for the past eighteen months. When Dr. Sun resigned the office of the Provisional President of the Republic in favour of YUAN SHIH-KA1, he told the Nanking Assembly that Mr. YEAN was "a man of political experience, upon whose constructive ability our united nation looks forward for the consolidation of its interests," and that upon their choics of Mr. YUAN depended the happiness of the country Dr. Sax bas apparently ceased to believe in this; but more practical men will recognise i that there is no other man visible on the

stocks.

∙had

kok-conveying twenty-four emigrant

Captain Péri, chief of the radio-tele passengers without a licence. Mr. Lewis graphic service in Indo-China, has just(of Mesars. Johnson, Stokes & Master) arrived in France. In order to test the defended, and asked for an adjournment Inspector Kerr said he new station at Hanoi, which is provided for a month to await the return of The Magistrate ob- with an alternator of the Béthened the ship.

up had no objection. fitted type, Captain Péri a receiving station on board the boat served that he did not think the case Mr. Lewis said he would appear on which he was travelling, and, despite would take long, as it seemed a simple from Hanoi, he succeeded in receiving before the Court and give a week's notice messages at a distance of 1,800 miles. He when the ship was returning. The case also aucceeded in receiving messages from was adjourned sine die. the Eiffel Tower, just after leaving the harbour of Djibatil, at a distance of 8,750

the chain of mountains which cut him off one.

railes.

The Hon" val

souvenir of his connection with the

organisation. Lieut. G. E. Stewart will assume command of the Scouts Company on the departare of Captain Ross.

THE SCAVENGING OF THE COLONY,

Mr. F. B. L. Bowley, pursuant to notice, will ask at to-morrow's meeting of the Sanitary Board the following ques-

tions:-

1.-Between what hours do the last- carts and coolies with dust baskets patrol the streets of the City of Victoria and who supervises them f -Is the regulation with reference to closely-fitting covers to dust-bins enforced 9

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] THE REPUBLIC OF CHINA.

RECOGNISED BY AMERICA.

The

LONDON, May. 3rd.

ROW formally United States recognises the Chinese Republic.

CHINA'S FOREIGN LOAN.

DR. SUK YAT-SEN'S FEARS.

LONDON, May 3rd. In a letter published in the nowspapers,

papers state that the Council merely ap- proved of the military dispositions. They point out that the Ambassadora in Lon- don are not acquainted with the reply of King Nicholas to the Powera, or of the action of Essad Pasha at Tirana.

MONTENEGRO'S FIRM ATTITUDE.

Montenegro's reply was unexpectedly delivered yesterday morning, after the Russian demarche of May 1st. It ex- plains at length the reasons for insisting upon the question of Skutari being dis- russed by the Allies and Powers with the demarcation of Albania. It declares that

Governments and t'ei. peoples to preventing the evacuation of occupied territories Dr. Sun Yat-sen appeals to the Foreign the Powers violated neutrality in demand. the Loan to the Peking Government, and and the cessation of hostilities. It does declares that the effect of a liberal supply not wish to defy the Powera, but demands of money would be to precipitate a

justice, terrible civil war,

DUCHESS OF CONNAUGHT.

LONDON, May 3rd.

The alight improvement in the condition H.R.II. the Duchess of Connaught was maintained last evening.

THE PRINCE OF WALES.

LONDON, May 3rd. The Prince of Wales is to spend another year at Oxford.

RACQUETS CHAMPIONSHIP.

LONDON, May 4th. A message from Philadelphia reports

won the professional racquets champion that Jock Soutar, of the United States,

Charles Williams, of England. ship of the world by defeating the holder,

MRS. CHAMBERLAIN.

LONDON, May 4th. Mrs. Chamberlain, who is sojourning with her husband at Cannes, was operated

The political situation is somewhat con- plicated by the fact that Montenegro replied officially, though described in the morning as unofficially, through M. Popovitch, as given on Thursday. The reply, however, failed to satisfy Austria. who, according to Saturday's semi-official Fremdenblatt,

proposed regards the territorial compensation as outside the region of discussion.

KING NICHOLAS INTERVIEWED.

King Nicholas, interviewe 1 by the cor- respondent of Le Temps, is represented as saying: "We will not submit to Austrian violence. If attacked we may be beaten, but our defeat will cost Austria dearer·· did Russia, or the Transyun did Great Britain." than Algeria did France, the Caucasus

BULGARIANS QUIT SALONIKA. A telegram from Athens states that the Bulgarians have finally evacuated Salonika, only a company of infantry, remaining.

ESSAD PASHA'S MOVE A telegram from Corfu states thes

for autonomy Tirana, proclaiming Albania, under the suzerainty of Turkey. upon for appendicitis. Her condition is Essad Pacha has formed a Government at

He has hoisted the Turkish deg. satisfactory.

MARTIAL LAW.

THE ENGLISH TURF.

ONE THOUSAND GUINEAS.

LONDON, May 3rd. The race for the One Thousand Guineas,

Jest (Rickaby)

Taslett (Wheatley)

1

2

3

Are householdere permitted to place rug at Newmarket yesterday, resulted as dust-bins in the Breet over-night? | follows:-- If yes, are each bins kept covered? 4.Is there any regulation to prevent the searching or scattering of the e ntents of dust-bins and dustherps in or near streets? if so what is it? and how and by whom is it enforced and are there any means of prevent- ing animale from similar actions? p-How often daily and between what

hours are the streets swept?

Frue (Maher) Betting- to 1 against dest, 6 to 1 against Tnslett, and 9 to 1 against Prue. Twenty-two started. Jest won by a bead, half a length separating second and third, From a splendid start Jest made nearly all the running. Depeche was fourth. Taslets started favourite.

Austria has proclaimed martial law in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Greece has taken the same action in regard to the Aegean Islands, which she occupies.

The proclamation of martial law in Bosnia and Herzogovina is due to the necessity for maintaining order among a population actively sympathetic towards the Montenegrina. Similar action is expected in Dalmatia. After the pro- clamation the oficiale dissolved all Servian and Socialist organisations and seized their books and funds.

ACTION BY ITALY AND AUSTRIA IMMINENT.

The semi-official Norddeutsoke (Berlin) mentions the Montenegrin declaration of An objection lodged against Jest for Skutari as the future capital and the boring was over-ruled.

C. H. Ross, as the HONGKONG OFFICE: 10A, DEN VORUL ROAD ..political horizon of China who could hate Captain Commanding the Scouts Com- LONDON OFFICE: 131, Figer Simir, E.C

ancceeded half so well as YUAN SHIH-KAI has pany, was entertained at a farewell dinger done as the Head of a chaotic State. If Sox on Saturday by present and past members YAT-BEN could have propounded a practical of the Scouts Company of the Hongkong solution of China's financial difficulties Volunteer Corps. About 80 were present, which would have rendered recourse to a and speeches were made during the even: foreign loan unnecessary, his appeal to ing giving expression to the gratitude of to the members of the Company for the KEUTER informs us that "in a letter Europe would have been entitled

As it is, the only active interest he had shown in the published in the London newspapers, Dr. respectful attention. SUN YAT-BEN appeals to the Foreign alternative which he has suggested has organisation, and their deep regret at his Governments and their peoples to prevent proved a dismal failure. So for a way impending departure. It is intended to the Loen to the Peking Gorerament, danger of "a terrible civil war" in China present to Mr. Ross with a silver solver, declaring that "the effect of a liberal sup has existed up to the present, it has been inscribed with the names of present and ply of money would be to precipitate a through the lack of funds to pay the troops past members of the Scouts Company, as terrible civil war. To anyone acquainted and the officers of the civil administration; with the history of the Loan negotiations, if there is any immediate prospect of "a and particularly of their origin, it most terrible civil war," it seems to as it can aecm incredible that Dr. SUN YAT-BEN could only be created by an ill-informed public have written this letter, and the fact that he opinion which the irresponsible Dr. Sun in has repudiated so many things that have assisting to promote. been credited to him in the newspapers is additional reason for hesitating to believe that SUN TAT-SEN has sought to undermine the influence of Yuan SHIT- and his Onlinet in this cowardly fashion. We recall the fact that it was while Sun YAT.

SUEZ CANAL RECEIPTS BEN was, for a brief period, the Provisional President of the Republic, with a Govern

According to information received at ment of his own set up at Nanking, that in charge of the German Consulate at Miss Mow Fong and by Miss Boanas and the Board of Trade, through the Foreign the first overtures were made for the Hongkong during the almence on leave of Mrs. Buiter, and Mr. H. F. Hickman Office, from the British directors of the The second Buez Canal Company, says the Board of liberal supply of money" that he is Dr. E. A. Voretzsch.

amounted for 1912

1.135,720,000 now, apparently, protesting will precipilate

At the Magistracy on Saturday a Chi part of the programme consisted of Trade Journal, the Suez Canal receipts

# performance of a musical play-0,428,800), an increase of £1,710,000 Cottenham has died at Goring-on-Thames

as the result of a gun accident. a terrible civil war," "Tang Shao-31, after neo was sentenced to six wooks' imprison.

At the inquest, it was stated that the visit to Nanking, the sent, at that time, ment and four hours stocks by Mr. let with Ciaderails as its theme, the £68,400) over the receipts for 1911, not- of the Revolutionary Government, suggested Melbourne for stealing a box containing caste being as follows:-Miss Razsvet, withstanding the reduction of transit

Neil, Crosspatch; Miss Lee, Fairy God-1.10,000,000 (£400,000). The tonnage Countess, who was an experienced shot, smounted to 20,275,120 net tone, an in-

was found in the woods with a discharged to the Syndicate of Foreign Banks whose clothing from a passenger on the s.. Cinderella; Miss Gitions, Proudie; Miss dues, which is estimated to have cost representatives were at Teking that they Kinshan.

mother; Mis Long, Prince Charming:crease of 1,950,328 tons over 1911, & re- should undertake, to Bounce China to the

An oil pipe burst on board the s.. Miss Mow Fang, Bir Hector; Miss markable feature being the exceptional last, the tonnage of which amounted to amountof £60,000,000,in equal instalmenta Salahanji in the Hung Hom docks, and Boanes, Eir Holiday; Miss D. Tuxford. increase in the passage of vessels in bal-gun lying near by.. It is thought probable spread over five years. He was orgent in his boilermaker was killed and two others Hersid; Misses C. Gittens, R. Dodd, N.1,565,778 tons, or more than twice the that the Countess stumbled, the gun then

A verdict of Death from Misadven- the differences Vanstone, R. La Cheong, D. Razaret and figure recorded in the previous year. The going off.

Daylet was datward traffic was marked by the import ance of the consignments of metals.

Bulgaria. V. Ratavet, Fairies.

the performers machinery, and railway material, which ture was returned. capitally given and

amounted last year to 2,000,000 tons. deserved all the applause they received.

The concert at the Volunteer Head- quarters on Friday night under the auspices of the Young Women's Christian Association was well attended and proved very enjoyable. The first part of the pro- gramme consisted of a number of concert of Life," and joined Mrs. Hogg in the items, Mrs. Stainer gang "The Promise duet that we two were Maying"; H.E. the Governor has been pleased to Mrs. Wenborn sing "My dear Soul". recognise Vice-Consul Dr. Crull as being piano duets were given by Mrs. Hogg and

H.E. the Governor has accepted the resignation by Capt. C. H. Rose of his commission in the Scouts Company of the Hongkong Volunteer Corps.

demands for an immediate advance of two injured. The injured men were removed million taela to be made to SUN YAS-BEN to hospital, but the second engineer, at Nanking, and on the 28th of February European, who was scalded on the hands last year, therefore, the Bauks made a first and face, refused to go to hospital.

contributed a violin solo.

The

6. Is it not practicable to have the streets sprinkled with water before sweeping them in dusty weather? 7. Can the Head of the Sanitary Department suggest any improve ments in the present methods of refuse and removing household scavenging the streets or in the regulatione relating thereto

to

THE DERBY.

The botting for the Derby is:--5 to 1 against Louvois, Shogun and Craganour, and 25 to 1 against Rockflint. COUNTESS ACCIDENTAL DEATH

LONDON, May 3rd.

It is announced that the Countess of

Montenegrin occupation of the Albanian coast towns as facts unknown to the Ambassadore at the last Conference: hence it is impossible to anticipate the success of the influence of the Powers at Cetinje. Joint military action. by Italy. and Austria may be regarded as immin eut

THE TURKISH REPLY. The Turkish reply to the Powers accepts It states that Turkey has appointed pleai- the invitation to cease hostilities. potentiaries and suggests that the con- ference meets in London. It is expected that the first meeting of the Peace. Con- ference will be on the 12th inst.

SERVIAN-BULGARIAN DIFFERENCES.

The semi-official Mir (Sofia) announces that Russia is prepared to arbitrate upon between Bérvia and