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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 28TH, 1913.

not experience much difficulty in getting on the track of the principals concerned in this abominable outrage, Taking advant- age

of the General's known enthusiasm as a collector of porcelain, the murderers

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to oxamine it, the supposed treasure was entrusted to his servant to convey to his, but when the lid of the box was being removed in the General's presence, both the General and his servant were instantly

CORRESPONDENCE.

NAME, PLEASE!

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE HONGKONG "DAILY PRESS."]

Six-Some little resentment has been caused bong the heavyweights who patroniso the Peak Tram by the statement made by a learned Counsel in the Supreme Court (as reported in the Daily I'ress) that "chair conlies carried 100lbs.

TELEGRAMS. TELEGRAMS. TELEGRAMS.

(THROUGH · BEUTER'S AGENCY.]

THE BALKAN SITUATION.

BRITISH OFFICIALS FOR TUKKEY,

Reuter states that Turkey recently approached the Foreign Office, requesting a loan and the services of several British

killed by the explosion of a bomb whicheecasionally to the Peak Tram station." officials to assist in the execution of the box contained instead of the porcelain.

Nobody in Cours shouted out."Name,reformis in Asia Minor. The choice of treasuro. We shall hope to learn that the

please!" and consequently all Peak

men was left entirely to Great Britain, men who have been so vigorously denoune residents who are above the average ing the assassination of Mr. SUNG CHão-weight are being eyed questioningly by which has acceded to the request. No JEN, & political friend, are no less vigorously the public on the tram station, as if to official has up to the present been men-

tioned or selected. denouncing this cold-blooded murder of say, "Can it by you that he referred to?" General HHU PAO-san, who was an object of their political hatred, and that they will render to the police officers the utmost assistance in bringing the perpetrators of the crime to justice. When a "Dare-to Die Society," armed with bombs, was organised as part of the Revolutionary force anme eighteen mouths or more ago, wo falt and said that a frightful error was

Those who have been directly challenged by their friends have been heard to deny with vehemenee that they are anywhere

that they are near 28 stone,

Many residents will recall in ocension when a chair was put to a severe test of

this character and miserably failed to stand the strain.

When Mr. Taft paid

his first visit. 10 Hongkong ars ago, and was invited to get into a chair to be carried by four coolies, the chair collapsed under his weight imme Mr. Taft can cor dirtely he sat in it. tainly give many pounds to any resident on the Peak, but I believe he is a long way from 28 stone,

What prompts me to write these lines is that I have been eyed suspectingly, and

am, sir,

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Per Box of 50 ... $4.70 being committed and that its mischievous effects would be far-reaching and would endure long after the military operations of the Revolution had come to an end. And this has proved, indeed, to be the case. The idea has been inculcated that the surest means of destroying the influence of a political opponent is to murder him, and not- $1.50 withstanding that the military authorities, when hostilities ceased, disbanded the "Dare-to-Die" Societies, and called in the

SIBERIAN MAILS. bombs or other engines of destruction with which these corps had been equipped, we

There appears to be no end to the are constantly reading of bombs in associa vagaries of the Siberian mails. The Post (Alhambra).

tion with political plots, and one wonders Office notices indicate that the Chenan Manila Cigar Per Box of 25 $4,25 that outrages of the kind are not more

is expreted to-day with the London mails numerous than is actually the cass. Judgingiz Siberia of the 9th inst., and the from the number of reports which appear. in the Chinese papers, especially of the North, of persons being arrested for carry Per Box of 50 $3.75ing bombs or other high explosives on their person, or having them in their house a Other brands in stock. All in it is quite time that the Government enacted some stringent law, if one does not fine condition and matured.

already exist, making it a capital offence for any person, not duly authorised, to manufacture, sell or possess these diaboli A. S. WATSON & CO..al instruments of destruction. We can

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THE MAGISTRACY.

THE CHAIR COOLJE NUISANCE

Two clair coolies were fined one dollar

each by Mr. Melbourne yesterday for demanding more than their legat hire.

THE FUTURE OF CYPHUS. Beuter leazas on good authority that the report that Turkey has ceded Cyprus to Great Britain is unfounded.

THE PEACE DELIBERATIONS. The Ambassadors met for two and a half hours on Monday, and the Con- ference was adjourned until Friday. It is understood that they generally wished that the peace draft should be signed quickly and without modification.

The Greek and Servian delegates-met and decided to ask Sir Edward Grey general Conference

to

summon

immediately.

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In the French Senate M. Pichon en- nounced that the difficulties in connection with the preliminaries for peace were narrowed down to the objections of Greece to the delimitation of Southern Albania, which put Greece and Italy in opposition. There were serious difficulties between the was being Allies, whose antagonism accentuated, but he hoped this painful France would spectacle would cease. interpose if necessary to play the part of arbiter. He concluded by declaring that France would not allow the questions in Asiatic Turkey to be settled without her.

UNFRIENDLY ALLIES. According to a telegram from Belgrade the Greek Minister has requested the Servian Government to protest to Sofia Two Chinese were charged by Sergt.in connection with the Greco-Bulgarian Wille with breaking and entering No. 6, incident at Nigrita. Canton Road, Kowloon, and stealing

BREAKING AND ENTERING.

[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] OPIUM SUPPRESSION IN CHINA.

THREE PROVINCES CLOSED.

LONDON, May 27th, Reuter is officially informed that the provinces of Shantung, Anlui

and Hunan, in which-poppy growing has been officially declared to be suppressed, will

be closed to the importation of Indian opium fortwith. The officials all report that the suppression is astonishingly thorough.

THE RATIFICATION OF OPIUM TREATIES.

THE HAGUE, May 27th. The Government has again convoked the International Opium Conference, to be held on the 1st July, to come to a decision with reference to the ratification of the Treaties, despite the fact that not all the States have adhered to

Convṛation.

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INTERPORT · SHOOTING,

SHANGHAI'S EXCELLENT SCORE,

SHANGHAI, 27th May. The Shanghai team fired to-day in connection with the interport rifle shooting competition. Scores:

Barrett... Collaco........... Crighton.......

Lynch..........

Main...

.99

....99.

..99

..08

..96

.95

.06

Lancaster.. Ransom...

Souer....

.91

.90

.90

Total 952

Mills.

Bowen

[Singapore scored 931 and Hong.

kong 893, so that the northern port carries off the honours for 1913.]

LONDON, May 27th. Great Britain has favourably received the Chinese proposal that Wen Tsung Yao be specially appointed to settle the Tibetan question. The negotiations will be carried on in Darjeeling and not in London as originally suggested. PRESENTATIONS TO LADY SCOTT.dispelled yesterday morning, says the

LONDON, May 27th..

Lord Curzon, at B mooting of the Geographical Society, presented Lady Scott with a casket containing two gold medals awarded her husband, a gold medal to the widow of Dr. Wilson, and a gold watch to Liontenant Campbell.

Lord Curzon aaid no effort would be made to disturb the bodies of the heroes.

Lady Scott is lending her husband's diary to the Society.

THE KING AND QUEEN IN GERMANY.

BERLIN, May 27th. Their Majesties the King and Queen paid a flying visit to Neu-Strelitz to the

more believe the suggestion that this latest crime was directly instigated by the political organisation which is distin- guishing itself by its opposition to the PRESIDENT and his Cabinet, any more than articles to the value of 88.20. They were the Servian Minister at Sefa hay com- { Queen's aunt, and returned in the even

found guilty, and sentenced to fomunicated to M. Guechoff the demand by months hard labour and to four hours Servia for the revision of the Bulgaro in the stocks.

Sorvian Treaty,

we can credit the allegation that the SUN murder was instigated by the PRIME MINISTER. Both cases will doubtless be exbaustively investigated by the judicial authorities, and we can only hope that both the Government in the one case and the Kuomintang in the other will be able to completely clear themselves of the imputation of being concerned in organised conspiracy to accomplish the death of these men by assassination.

Four cases of plague, at latal, were notified yesterday,

H.E, the Governor is to present the prizes to the Volunteers at a concert on Friday evening.

Capt. C. V. S. Skrimshire, Staff Officer of the Hongkong Volunteer Corps, has been granted two months leave of absence.

The Mitsui Bussan Kaisha has been awarded a contract for 20,000 tons of coal to be supplied to the Army in the Philip pines during the ensuing fiscal year.

who are

HONGKONG, MAY 28TH, 1913. THE dastardly assassination of the Chinese General HSU PAD-SAN adds another element

It is stated that in order to embark on of danger to an already grave political their present tour round the world situation in China. For many weeke past the Cherniavsky Brothers, the political leaders and newspapers repre- to give another concert in Hongkong on senting the Southern party have been Monday next, cancelled British engage vehemently declaiming against the Governments to the value of £3,000.- ment in Peking because certain documents seized in connection with the arrest of the reputed chief of the Chinese Criminal Investigation Department in connection

Owing to the decease in 1912 of the late Mr. William Keswick, M.P., and the recent retirement of Mr. John Matheson Macdonald, the board of Matheson &

A HOSPITAL CARE.

A man who had been arrested for re- turning from banishment jumped from the verandah of the police station and was injured so much that he had to be sent to the hospital. He had recovered sufficiently to appear before the Magis trate yesterday, and was sentenced by Mr. Hazeland to six months' imprisonment.

EUROPEAN LADIES' PLIGHT.

An American lady, a passenger on the 6.8. Minnesota, and a European lady resident in Hongkong, a friend of hers, appeared before Mr. Melbourne yesterday in support of a charge against two Chi- nese boatmen for assault. It appeared that the ladies engaged a sampan to take take them ashore from the steamer, and on reaching the shore the demanded one dollar each. When this was not forthcoming they caught hold of the ladies as they were about to enter richas. His Worship found the defen- dants guilty, and fined them 85 each and cautioned them.

MISTRESS ASP) AMAH.

boatmen

A message from Soba states that the semi-official organ Mir says that Servia's demand for the revision of the Treaty

Members of the British and German Royal families attended a performance of the opera Kekyra," depicting an

A STRANGE MARRIAGE STORY,

SCENE IN THE MIXED COURT AT BHANGĦAL.,

The gloom of the Mixed Court was

N.-7. Daily News of the 22nd inst., for an hour or so during the hearing of a case in which & Sickle lover figured

by a Pokinese lady who acted, in a prominently. The change was occasioned wonderful way, the part of Fortia in considered her brother's rights. The case was one in defending what she which a Shanghai girl, nineteen years of nge, became betrothed to a respectable young man and in the interim before the marriage the mother of the young woman placed her daughter in the service of a Chinese doctor, who becoming infatuated. with her made her his second wife. Tha manner in which the prospective bride- groom's sister assisted him in proving the girl's unfaithfulness came out in the evidence,

Earlier in the year the young man. on becoming betrothed, paid to the mother of the girl the sum of 800 in accordance. with Chinese custom, and everything went on well until the mother sent the girl to The girl was recommended to the doctor an employment bureau to seek for work. who carried on his business in the Chiness city but lived in the Bottlement. The ing and attended an opera,

latter engaged her as a raid and three The King and Queen leave for Home months later became infatuated with the girl and took her to the house 410 Amoy at 5.35 to day.

Road. In the meantime her fiancé had written to Peking inviting his sister to attend the wedding. She duly arrived in Shanghai only to learn that the girl had absconded.. As nothing of the girl's

sister called upon the doctor at his whereabouts could be ascertained the surgery and simulating sickness asked to be treated. The doctor prescribed for her and then suggested that she should take

She King George gave £500 for charitles medicine sufficient for five days.

promptly asked why she should take in Berlin.

The medicine for so long a treatment. doctor confided that he was about to tako to himself a second wife and for the next week or two his home would be în Amoy Road. Furnished with this information the lady called upon the doctor in Amoy Road with the object of persuading her brother's sweetheart to return to him. On arrival, however, it was discovered that the doctor had already married the girl, and a scene ensued that formed part. of the Court proceedings. The lady com- plained that she was assaulted by the doctor.

of Alliance is equivalent to the abroga- cient and modera life in Corfu, written tion of the Treaty. There is good reason and composed at the direction of the to believe that Russia supported the Emperor. Powers to do their utmost to prevent an armed conflict between the Allies:

An official statement published in Athens places the Greek losses in the Bulgaro-Greek fighting at 59 killed and

137 wounded.

SUEZ CANAL RECEIPTS.

·MOST FAVOURABLE ON RECORD.

LONDON, May 27th. The Suez Canal Company's report shows that, despite the fact that 1912 was followed by a particularly prosperous

year, and despite the reduction in the tariff by 80 cents per ton the present

Mrs. Ogilvie, of 2 Mountain View, the balance-sheet is the most favourable on Peak, summoned her umah for absenting record. Nevertheless, the Company does herself without lease and with using not propose to increase the dividend, abusive language, Complainant stated that on the 1st March the defendant which will be 105 franes net, but the asked For sumle Dioney, but she reserves will be considerably increased. replied that she would give her The results are attributed to the good

Some time afterwards later. some

harvest in India, the great activity and she gave the cook some money

INTERNATIONAL POLO.

NEW YORK, May 27th. The British polo team defeated Piping Rock by 11 goals to 41.

AFRICAN RAILWAY

DEVELOPMENT.

MOHSASA, May 27th.

A telegram from Mombasa states that the railway to Lake Magadi has been com- pleted to the shore of the lake.

SUPPOSED JAPANESE SPY IN RUSSIA.

ST. PETERSBURG, May 27th.. According to telegrams from Sevastopol, a Japanese Major, long resident in

for St. Petersburg when he was arrested Russia, was returning from the Balkans

on a charge of espionage. His rooms were searched, but nothing incriminatory

with the cold-blooded murder of SONG Co., Limited, has been reconstituted he promised to give the amah one or two between the East and the West; and the was discovered, and the authorities have

SUFFRAGETTE LEADER

RE-ARRESTED..

LONDON, May 27th. Mrs. Pankhurst has been "re-arrested

dollars Complainant declared that the gradual development of the regions amah was lazy, but she had borne with beyond Sucz. her. On Sunday the amal left at four o'clock, without giving notice, hiz previously used insulting and abusive language. Defendant alleged that she' had not been supplied with a bed, but complainant denied this and explained that she had given permission for the defendant to sleep out, as her husband and again committed to prison forma was engaged at No. 119, the Peak. Acting breach of the licence under which she was Inspector Garrod, in reply to his Worship set at liberty after her hunger strike," (Mr. Hazeland), stated that the defendant had accused Mrs. Ogilvie of having taken her bag containing 540, but he did not believe this. His Worship imposed a fine

CHIAO-JEN in Shanghai are regarded as The present directors are: Sir R. W. establishing that the murder was notually Buchanan Jardine, Mr. Henry Keswick, instigated, for political reasons, by the M.P., Mr. Charles Henderson Ross, Mr. Peking Government. While these sensa Norman Matheson Macdonald, and Mr. tional charges are still being industriously Charles Ross Matheson. circulated, despite the appeals of the

Captain E. F. A. Gaunt, C.M.G., has Government for the suspension of judgment cceeded Rear-Admiral Erskine as com pending the adjudication of the case by the modore. In command of the Royal Naval Courts, we get the nowe of an equally barracks at Chatham. From September, horrible outrage which the telegrams sug- 1893, to October, 1899, he was Commis gest was inspired by the very party which sioner for Wei-bai-wei and administrator has been vehemently denouncing the other of Lin-kung-two. He was naval officer in auurder with a show of the most virtuous charge at Wei-hai-wei for some time after indignation. TIGER HSU," as the victim this, and upon the outbreak of hostilities in North China in July, 1900, became of the latest bomb outrage was familiarly commissioner and transport officer therep. called, was one of the PRESIDENT's most He was mentioned in General Gaselee's of $10 on each charge.

PARIS, May 27th. trusted Generals, and, as anch, was bitterly despatches of May, 1901, and received the

The police searched the offices of Trades bated by the_xtremists of the South. thanks of the Austrian and German Com- No nows is yet to khud of any arrest having mander-in-Chief for his services, as well

Bastern Engineering for May continues Unions and house of the anti-Militarista been made in connection with the crime,

as acknowledgment from the Admiralty, its series of articles describing and and found correspondence from soldiers though the information regarding the plot He was awarded the C.M.G. in the birth illustrating the plant given by British and vouchers for money orders sent to

them. contained in the brief telegrams suggests day honours of June, 1902, in consequence, manufacturers to the Hongkong Univer- that the Chinese police authorities should besides receiving the China medal.

sity.

MILITARY DISSATISFACTION IN FRANCE:

apologized

According to other telegrams, he proved to be a military attaché at Berlin. Ho leave was released, but ordered to Sevastopol.

LAWN TENNIS.

KOWLOON C.C. TOURNAMENT, The following matches have been decided:-

Championship-Beattie beat Pile 80, 61, 64. Beattie plays Hunter in the

Anal.

"O" Class Singles Handicap-Bier- mann has qualified for the final by winning his match against Jack 6-3, 20,

6-1

"B" Class Singles Handicap Doubles Handicap Abraham and MacAskill beat Crapnell 5-7, 6-0, 6-3. Stevens have entered the semi-final round by beating Mead and Haigh 6-3, 4-6, 6-3.

It canic out in evidence that the mother, of the girl did not inform the doctor that her daughter was betrothed, neither did she inform the young man that the girl She had entered the doctor's service. readily accepted the 850 from the young man and $200 which the doctor promised to pay for the girl

The Isdy from Peking made a lengthy address to this Court in Mandarin and judging by the attention and patience exhibited by the Ascasor and the Magis interesting. She told the story of how she learned the whereabouts of the girl trate her peroration must have been

by visiting the doctor and she repeated the appeal she made to the girl to return to her brother. M

The girl expressed herself as being quite satisfied with the arrangements entered into by her mother and she pleaded that she was quite contented with the bargain she had entered upon.

The Court in giving judgment said that they did not think that a criminal charge had been made out and the case would be dismissed. The girl could remain with the doctor, who would have. to pay the sum of $150 to the jilted young man as compensation.

Then occurred a pathetic scene. The. young man and his sister both entered. the witness-box and pleaded that they did not want the doctor's money but the girl. They were prepared to forgive her if she would return. As the girl was adamant and the Court had given its decision nothing could be done and the couple were removed from Court. Five times the sister returned to the Court and occasion when she was removed by three addressed the bence and on the last Chinese policemen and a foreign sergeant she turned to the doctor, who had been pat amongst the prisoners pending the payment of the B150, and said, "Why do you want to marry a young girl when you have a son older than her married and with childrent"