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the Rev olu} The results of cxaminations held under THE RECENT COLLAPSE OF assistant compradore at Mears. Showan, TELEGRAMS.

soldiers. She was to have given the signal

interpreters in the languages stated:

the plan prepared by tionarios at Wuchung, the Revolution the provisions of the Army Regulations

to have itself was

been opened by relating to the study of foreign languages who had previously been to are published in Army Orders at Home, Shanghai to orgaviso a corps of women The following officers are qualified to be by throwing a bomb at the Viozney, but Second Class, Captain A. M. Cardew, The owing to the accidental explosiour of a trombR.E. (Chinese); Capt. L. U. Unwin,

Hampshire Regiment (Chinese). following have passed the examination in Japanese heid during their course of study in Japan:-Lieut. J. L. Mitchell, R.A. (second year); Licut, L. R. Hill, R.A. (second year); Lieut. J. W. Marsden, R.A. (first year); Liaut, H. J. Simson, Royal Scots (first year). Lieut. F. W. Thicknesso, R.G.A.. has passed the colloquial test in Hakka at Hongkong. Capt. F. G. Turner, R.E.. has passed the colloquial test in Pekingese at Peking.

in the house in which these implements of warfare were being manufactured, the Revo lution began two months in advance of the time fixed. In the subsequent warfare corps of Amazons participated, and when the war was over we heard of Chinese suffragettes marching in force on provincial Assemblies and into Parliament itself, demanding "Totes for women," and if we remember rightly a good deal of damage was done ou one of these necasions by the angry Amazons We have heard little of this unsatisfied demand of late, but there has been plenty of evidence in the Chinese Press to show continues to that the militant WOME

Dr. SUN be a fores in Chinese politics.

THE MAGISTRACY.

ALLEGED LARCESY. Pour men who were charged with the

HOUSES.

THE INQUEST RESUMED.

The inquiry into the circumstancès sur- rounding the collapse of Nos. 7 and 9, lost their lives, was continued at the Upper Station Street, whereby 18 persons Magistracy yesterday before the Coroner, Mr. F. A. Hazeland, and the following jury: Messrs, J. H. Backhouse, A. (), Lang, and James Hunter.

Sam Nam, of 24, Sai Street, first floor, ¡dentified the body of Kwok Kwan, a Chinese male, who was a clansman of his, and who was killed in the collapse, in Upper Station Street.

Tomes & Company, and told him that the tenants of those two houses, and f the whole bluck, complained that the houses required repair, and he replied, "All right. I have translated the letters and banded them over to the manager" repaired at once, and was afraid that if He pressed the compradure to have thera they were not repaired there would be n collapse. In fact, witnesa, as practically the owner of the houses, was rather frightened, but had no idea that they would come down so quickly. Witnew went to the compradore three times about general repairs to the block, twice before the and once afterwards, the last visit being receipt of the complaints from the tenants, in connection with Nos, 7 and 9 only le told the compradore that the houses The com- were in danger of failing. -pradore replied. "All right, the manager knows about it." Witness said he did not know if the repairs were carried out.

(THROUGH REVTER'S AGENCY.] WAR IN THE BALKANS; THE BELLIGERENTS AND THE POWERS.

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LONDON, July 3rd. Greeco has sent a Note to the PowerS accusing the Bulgarians of attacking for the purpose of securing possession "of territories in dispute ponding the settle ment of differences at St. Petersburg, Greece, the Note adds, cannot allow this

the Bulgarians have game to continus, and Greek troops will advance until evacuated the territory seized.

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Bulgaria and Servia have also ad- dressed the Powers from their respectiva

the Powers standpoints, while strongly urging all three not to allow themselves to be dragged into war, bal to open the way for arbitration.

Wong Kun, a widow, who formerly resided at No. 7, said she remembered that her house collapsed on the 14th June. Witness was out at the time. She was the principal tenant of the ground floor, Willies let out six cubicles, and there

The Crown Solicitor-If you were so were 15 adults and five children on this

She came to anxious why didn't you see that they were the house in November of last year. She carried out--Well, the compradore said, reason why the house All right," and I thought he bad could give no collapsed, and she had riever heard any carried out the instructions.

Did you never go to any of those houses

The Servinns are jubilant aves thin complaints about the condition of the

defeats of the Bulgarians and declare that houses, except that there were rat holes to see if the repairs were done? No, I

Did you see the compradore about, it--the latter supported by 260 guns forced She had never seen any cracks in the did not. walle; if she had she would not have lived there.

YAT-EBS, before his election as Provi. lareny of a long saw and three angers floor, all sleeping there.

that sional President, ha indicated Universal suffrage for men and women would be the 2010 to which the tune of the new Republic would be koged. Expecta- tions in this respect, as in many others, have been grievously disappointed, and perhaps it is on this account that we find women prominently associated with the plots té assassinnte leading members of the present Government who are regardel as obstructing the establishment of "the true ropublic." Many have been arrested in Tientsin and Poking during the past two or three months, with bombs in their posses sion, but the Court. Martial, by whom they

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WATER, were tried, came to the conclusion in most cases that they were bit the tools of unscrupulous men, and let them off lightly, Some have been summarily executed An American feminist leader who visited China a little while ago has telling the Suffragettes of England and America that the Suffragette organisation in China has become an important force in Chinese-politics--a view which the recent admission of China to membership of the International Suffragette Congress has par- laps confirmed to some extent-but we cannot say that much evidence is afforded ia China at the present time of the existence unce. Undoubtedly the Revolution has 8... WATSON & CO., of a vemen's political union of any import produced among the women of China gray e discoutent with their present status, both political" "Ana" BOCK!; ana-actoring to taG testimony of missionaries some very exag. gerated notions of the freedom enjoyed by wonen in the West are now prevalent. a mission* One instance recently quoted by ary was that of a young woman who sent a proposal of marriage to a young man fo whom she had not been introduced, fully under the impression that this was a Western custom, and evidently satisfied that this was much better than the old Chinese way of getting a girl betrothed without per mitting ber to have anything to say on the question. Much is likely to be heard in the years to come about "the cause of woman " in China, and the readiness with which young girls are persuaded to join the tacn in such societies as "the Blood and Iron Society," whose cultis political assassination by means of the bomb, suggests that the women of 'Chius ony in time become as "militant as the Suffragettes of Great. Britain in their fight for the vote.

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At the Marine Court yesterday a buatan was fined $10 for carrying three excess passengers.

at the new railway station at Tsiru-tsa tsu were disebarged by Mr. Hazelanil yesterday.

GAMBLING,

Juspector Mellardy proceeded against 16 Chinese for gambling at 203, Queen's Road East, second floor. The first man was fined $75 or one, month, and the remainder were fined $5 or 14 days.

HEAD FIREXAS SERIOUSLY STABBED,

Wong Chon, a married woman, and the principal tenant of the first and second floors at No. 7 before the collapse, said she Inspector Kerr proceded against a fireman on the if ang Wait for maliciously sub-let the first floor to 18 persons, five wounding the head fireman on the vessel, of whom were children. There were five The latter hail an artery in an arm cut cubicles on this Boor, and three of the through, and had to be removed to hos-tenants occupied bed spaces in the pass- ital. Defendant was sentenced to three ages. On the second door there were 25

months' imprisonment.

FEARED THE CONSTABLE,

Before Mr. F. A. Hazeland, a Chinese was charged with being in unlawful possession of 18cwt. of coal. It appeared that when P.C. Wittamus approached in a sampan defendant and another man, who were also in a sampan, jumped over- board. The latter got away, and the defendant was arrested only after a great deal of trouble. He was fined $50 or two months' imprisonment..

WILFUL OBSTRUCTION,

Before Mr. Hazeland, a Chinese was charged with wilful obstruction in Des Veens Road. It appeared that P.C. Swan told the people in both to remove it. They observed a ruck outside two shops, and

persons, exclading witness, nine being children, and there were seven cubicles.

Witness had rented these two floors for six years, and paid the rent to Au Yeung Chiu. At the time of the collapso witness was out. She had no iden 'what caused the collapse, and had no reason to suspect that it would fall. None of her tenants

had complained as to the dangerous nature of the houses, and she saw

cracks.

No.

SERVIA'S JOY.

The

The jury asked that the correspondence their way to the plateau of Ovcepolyo, about the repairs should be produced, and which is the key to Macedonia,

Tuesday, the Crown Soliciter undertook that if Servians at first were driven back, but

The hearing was further adjourned gained the upper hand on

evening after fighting believed to ba possible they would be produced.

bloodier than any in the Turkish war, and drove the Bulgarians to the river Zletovo until this afternoon.

and to Bregalnitza. Fighting continues.

$200,000 FROM £140 LOAN.

A loun of £140, which Dr. B. Higley, of Wellston, Ohio, made a quarter of a century ago to Charles Froelich, a struggling farm lad, was repaid last month more than a thousand times in the form of a legacy amounting to £200,000.

According to Belgrade 4,000 Bulgarison surrendered. It is admitted that the

THE FIGHT AT SALONIKA.

BALONIKA, July 3rd. The casualties in the fight over disur ming the Bulgariana on Monday were:

Servian casualties amounted to 2,000.

15 wounded;

Wong On Ning, a widow, said that she was the principal tenant of the ground floor of No. 9, and had heen there for about eight or nine years. The floor was sub-let to 11 adults and 10 children. the collapso she found a crack in the party wall, her attention being called to it by a Sanitary Inspector. The crack was Witness remembered that a month before

nodded their heads as if in resent, but on

The Inspector handed -Oui secky konice man ran the first Anne returning half-an-hour later the truck horizontal, and was a few inches below out of one of the shops and pushed the witness a noto about this crack, which truck into a side street, but directly it she gave to the rent, collector, and then SIE ROBERT BREDOX ON BRITISH was brought back to its original position.workmen came and filled up the crack, Defendant was fined $5, or 14 days' hard which was the length of a cubicle. Wit ness had never heard any complaints from Jahour..

the tenants of the first and second floors that there were cracks in their sections. of the building.

Bulgarians, 64 killed and 20 'wounded; while 1301 were taken prisoners.

With the borrowed money Froelich entered a college, graduated as a mining noengineer, and emigrated to Australia,

Eight years ago, grown beyond reagui- Greeks, 16 killed and tion, the former farm lad walked into the doctor's house and paid back the £140 with compound interest. He informed big benefactor that he had been successful Australia and South Afrien. After stay Last month Mr. Henry Thorncroft, a beyond his most sanguine dreams in Averal werks he returned to Aurali lawyer at Melbourne, visited Dr. Higley to nutify him that Mr. Froelich had died and left his entire estale to the benefactor seventy years old. of his early youth. Dr. Higley is now

A WOMAN'S VENGEANCE. A woman was charged before Mr. C. D. Melbourne with stabbing a Chinese at Peng Chau Island, near Lantao. Defen- dant alleged it was an accident. Inspector Kerr told the Magistrate that from what he understood the complainant told had that she defendant's husband "another gentleman," and she took her revenge by inflicting with a chopper a severe scalp wound, in which nine stitches had to be sewn. She nearly severed com- plainant's thumb also, and he was too The case was adjourned ill to appear. to Wednesday.

Lau Pat, the principal tenant of the firat Hoor of No. 9, said she was very four cubicles Оп her floor, and 23 nearly killed in the collapse. There were occupants, 16 being children. Ten of the children belonged to one family.

The first witness, re-called, said her sister was the principal tenant of the A BOMB FACTORY AT TAIKOKTSUI, second floor of No. 9, and she was badly

AN IMPORTANT CAPTURE

Before Mr. Melbourne, Inspector proceeded against six O'Sullivan Annamites for being in unlawful posses-

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Au Yeung Chiu was the next wit ess.

POLICY IN CHINA.

At the annual dinner of the China Society in London last month :-

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including a mosque, and defended them- selves with rifles and bombs. Bulgarians occupied twelve buildings,

GREEK KING AT THE FRONT.

SALONIKA, July 3rd. King Constantine proceeded to the frent in order to take the offensive. The sound of guns, probably at a distance of 30 kilometres, Salonika.

Was heard round

intervene

ROUMANIAN PREPARATIONS.

BUCHAREST, July 3rd. Mobilisation is expected to-morrow Sir Robert Bredon, in proposing the When the houses health of the Chairman, the Hon. Sir unless there is better news to-night.

BULGARIA APPEALS TO RUSSIA.

LONDON, July 3rd. as to the Nine others any that wo collapsed witness was on the ground floor, E. R. Freemantle, G.C.B., welcomed in

As to its The finca correspondent at Sofia states and the floor fell down, but witness was him an old acquaintance. He went on to enclosed in a clear space.

with Athens were in the same position, and all were immediate future of China. covered with dirt and dust. An Inspector ultimate future he had no doubt under that Bulgaria yesterday urgently spregled

to no serious Englishman present who had to Russia to were rescued dug a hole through to them, and they the sun in his own mind. He had spoken

had any experience of China who was not and Belgrade, and undertakes to desist from a hostile movement during the next on the whole satisfied that whatever optimists might say or pessimists predict,

24 hours, but there are fears that the simply of patience towards the Chinese nation. The Chinese were looking for the longer suspension of hostilities is impos- the wise policy for us to adopt was one sympathy of the world. They would all sible owing to the excitement of the tell you they trusted and honoured the Englishman, that they trusted your troops.

ITALIAN ROYAL VISITORS. honesty, and all the rest, but they did feel they did not get as much sympathy from

LONDON, July 3rd. us as they did from other people. There injured in the catastroph and was in was nothing to be done for China but to

The King and Queen of Italy on arrival leave her to work out her own salvation Hospital at the present time. There were in her own way. There was a great deal

at Kiel en route to Stockholm wero 20 people occupying that floor, three of good commonsense at the back of every

Chinaman's head-(cheers)--and if he warmly welcomed by the Emperor and four being children.

only got the chance of bringing it out he

Empress. HONGKONG. JULY 4TH, 1913.

would evolve something the speaker

WE note that Lieut.-General CHANG

Au Yeung Sik, to collect the rents of sort of system, but it would be a stable Three boat people were at the Marine sion of material for the mannfacture of He said he was employed by his claneman.would not say whether a Republic or what This duty he had been Government and the foundation of a described as Military Adviser to President

Court yesterday fined $5 for obstructing bombs. It appeared that on the 16th ult.

Sergt. McKay visited No., 1, Soutar Kos. 7 and 9. YUAN SHIH-RAI, now on a special mission to

Street, Taikaktsui, and on the second doing for a year or two. Tho rents were great nation. The policy of the British England relating to the opium question, his the P. & O. Wharf.

A

Chinese deck passenger jumped floor, occupied by the defendants, found advanced some time in November of last ration in Chins should be sympathy, was going to happen he would quote Mr.

Wait and bcen giving his views to a London reporter.

in thres large boxes complete para year, and since then no reduction or in-patience, and assistance, and as to what on the Suffragette problem in England, overboard from the Arratoon Apear on ***Force," he said, “is a very good argument, the voyage up from Singapore 4-boat-ph-rmilia for the manufacture of explo-crease had taken place. He heard about Asquith and say,

was lowered and sent in search of him. sives. aspector O'Sullivan said he was the 20th May that there was-a-crack_in | (Cheers.) but it seems jacompatible with the id als

directed to ask his Worship to inflict the the party wall and that the wall leaned The

MATHEMATICS MADE EASY. that one always associates with women.

Mr. H. F. Merrill, Commissioner of They are both damaging their own women-

Customs at Shanghai, who is going home maximum penalty, as it was a very towards No. 7, leaving a space.

The first defendaut did not principal tenant of the ground floor of

SHORT ROUTE TO THE CUBE ROOT. hool and their cause." There is nothing on leave, was presented by the native and serious cuSH

The miners have gone on a strike which The announcement that the French. strikingly original about this observation, foreign members of the Shanghai Customs deny want he wanted to use the seized No. 9 pointed it out to witness. He was

is assuming grave proportions, and in which is ous that a man of any race may be staff last week with a handsome silver articles for, and in his statement admitted given a notice in English, about the same he intended to take the material to Annam date, which related to rat runs, and these

The first runs were later blocked up. Witness had scentist Quinton has discovered and exported to make.

We are more interested tray as a token of esteem and regard.

for making explosive bombs, when the GENERAL endeavours to show how

The loss by an outbreak of fire last week as was sentenced to six months and never heard any complaints that the promises shortly to publish a short ent by much better they do these things in

tenants that he would reduce their rents be extracted mentally leads a mathe-processions of strikers are bringing out matical correspondent of the New Yor Chip than in England; "In China, at Messrs. Mackenzie & Co.'s cotton $250, or three wonthe respectively on two houses were dangerous. He never told the which the cube root of large numbers may likely to sweep the whole reef. Strong Times to soul in a method which he has the workers from mine after mine. Threa at godowns

Pootung, Shanghai, is charges, the others being discharged,

if they never left the houses. he told bis-interviewer.sluce the ustimated at Tl9 150,000. The insurance,

Au Yeung Sik, an accountant, employed long used and which needs no mathe generating stations, supplying the halk lishment of the Republic, won bave which covers the loss, is with Messrs.

by Au Yeung King, deposed that hematical genius in its employment. One úl afraid Butterfield & Swire, but about half was had more freedom, but I

1. M'Ivor (Kowloon) beat T. Glendin knew these houses in Upper Station commits to memory the cubes of the of the power for the mines, are guarded Street, and rented them from Messrs.umbers from 1 to 9, namely, 1, 8, 27, 125,

214, 343, 512, and 120, noting the last by troops. that freedom would be curtailed if they redistributed among other Shanghai

ning (Police) on Wednesday night at Shewa, Tomes & Company and sub-let figure of each which is made easy by the adopted wilitant methods. No one ought firms.

Taikou by 21 to 19. Glendinning had a them to the principal tenants of the fact that the cube of two ends in 8, and One result of developments in China is lead of 14 to 2, but M'Ivor recovered and houses, He could not say how old the the cube of 8 in 2; the cube of 3 in tu the PRESIDENT of the Chinese Republic, i that less money will probably be spent on the players stood level at 19. D. Me- houses, were. He had received lottera from the cube of 7 in 2; while in the rest, the thut if it is true that women have bad merk funerals than in the past, says the } Hardly-(Police) boat T. Worth (T.) by 21 the tanants of the houses, but simple original factor is the last figure of the

to be betterus re than the Military Adviser

LAWN BOWLS CHAMPIONSHIP.

FRENCH AVIATOR'S BRILLIANT RECORD.

see.

LONDON, July 3rd. M. Moulinais had a great rreeption on landing at Versailles and completing his record flight of 3,000 miles.

and

cube. Then the trick is worked in this

MINERS ON STRIKE IN

JOHANNESBURG, -

JOHANNESBURG, July 3rd.

ENGLISH COUNTY CRICKET.

London, July 3rd.

The match between Hampshire, and

more fr.elom in China since the establish-

Malay Mail. The modern Chinese realises

to 15, and K. McLennan (P.) beat A. R. handed them over to the mortgagocsin fashion. Taka 32,768, for example, and Oxford University ended in a draw, the

The letters were generally consider only the thousands; 22 is the points going to the latter. possession.

Surrey beat Bussex by an innings and cube of a number between 3 and 4, so 3 nient of the Republ, that freedom has that the huge sums formerly expended on

notices to repair the houses. Before tho will be taken for the first of the two

Then disregarding 168 runs,

Notte beat Kent by 62 runs.. been exercised in a very militant form. such occasions, was a senseless waste of Whibley (Kowforn) by 21 to 18,

collapse witness received a notice that the figures of the root. Though it might be true enough to say money. We do not know if the same view that militaut sufraging tacties do not will be takon about the expenditure on

be 2, and the complete result is 32. Is the A comparatively

recent

party wall was in a dangerous condition the next figures, consider the last one.. appeal to the modera Chinaman" they marriages.

And has M. Quinton a in America! He was not told that there were cracks in method familiar to amateurs of arithmetic certainly seem to have appeald rather Chinese wedding in Kuala Lumpur is

and advising him to have it repaired. It is eight, so by the rule the root must

He went to the better one to reveal? strongly to the China woman, since the said to have cost one of the parents nearly

the party wall, but that there was

birth of the Republic. According to $10,000.

From the Times: Young Anglicar Clergyman (Orphan), of good family and man, desires adoption into refined family address: University scholar and Honoura of means-Reply, the Times Office,

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