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the rebel troops," who on his arrival in Canton a fortnight ago 1graphed to General Luse; We will live or die together and tears, he said, were failing

from his eyes as he wrote this pious decla ration. Again, before these friends of &ten years standing" could meet, Tex

or Buust, as he is most often called in Kwangtung was a fugitive from the country and after enjoying in Hongkong. for nearly a week the protection which the British flag affords to the political refugee, left for the South yesterday to seek that hospitality in other port Next we may fake CHAN KWING-MIEG, CHEMISTS, DRUGGISTS AND the man who, while holding the office

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THE BALKANS,

TURKEY'S EXPLANATION,

LONDON, August 12 Replying to the representations of the Powers, Turkey declares that she had endeavoured to comply with the Protocol of London, but the Bulgarian atrocities bad forced her to take action with & view to saving Mussulman survivors elsewhere she had confined herself to re- occupying territory which was strictly necessary for insuring the safety of the capital. No mention is made of Adrian.

KAISER AS THE ADVISOR OF ROUMANIA. Roumanie, with the loss of scarcely a single man, has gained an extension territory beyond her fondest hopes, and has secured the complete predominance of the Balkans.

of Governor-General of Keangtung, took the lead in declaring the independence of that province, representing it to be the unanimous decision of the Provincial Assembly, ln his blatant manifestos beople,

undertook to protect the province,** and at the same time announced that ho himself would proceed North in command of 60,000 troops forming" the YUAN Punitive Expedition," though it appears that the total strength of the Army in Kwangtung is only 20,000. We Á safe and serialo cure for corns, warts know what happened to Mr. Chast as soon

as it was reported timt General Luna of and busions. Effective and painless..

Kwaugsi, with a force not exceeding 5,000, had announced his intention to march on Canton and had offered a reward of $60,000 for CHAN's bad. CHAN suddenly dis covered that he had not the united support of his troops, o confidently counted, and he, too, quitted the country-taking with him, according to current report, a sum of something like $700,000 to console, bingelf with in his exile. The Tutubs in the other recalcitrant Provinces have likewise shown that discre- tion which has been described as the better part of valour, while YUAN. SHIE-xal, the

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AMERICAN CHARGED WITH MURDER AT SEOUL,

KILLS CHINESE EMPLOYEE WHO RAVISEES 119 DAUGHTER,

SEOUL, August 12th.

Mason has been sentenced to eighteen An American mine manager opamed

months' imprisonment for killing a Chinese employer who committed a rape on his daughter..

Mason pleaded the

unwritten law."

AMERICAN REPRESENTATIVE ARRIVES IN MÉXICO.

WASHINGTON, August 12th.

Mr Lind, ex-Governor of Minnesota, who recently landed at Vera Cruz, has sigried for Mexico City,

LATER.

[THROUGH, KRUTER'S AGENOT.]

AN AERONAUTIC TRIUMPH.

SUCCESSFUL FLIGHTS WITH NEW BIELANE,

LONDON, August 12th. A French Captain named Felix has

made some famous aerial flights.

and Boulogne on a biplane invented by From Morocco he flew to Eastchurch

Lieutenant Dunne, which, it is claimed, has solved the problem of automatic stability.

The new machine is shaped like a broad

arrow..

THE APPELLATE JURISDICTION

-BILL

PASSES THIRD READING.

LONDON, August 12th.

In the House of Commons the Appellate

Mr. Lånd has arrived safely at Mexico Jurisdiction Bill has been read a third City.

THE CHARGES AGAINST THE GOVERNOR OF NEW YORK.

time

The Memorandum says that the object of the Bill is to increase the law lords to sis, and that the proposed Bill is the NEW YORK, August 12th.

first step necessary to give effect to the Governor Sulzer, of New York, cate-resolution of the Imperial Conference of gorically denies that he used campaign Innda for speculation. He acknowledges

NGRATULATES THE KING that certain campaign cheques were

OF ROUMANIA

message from Bukharest states that the Tsar has telegraphed to King Carol of Romania congratulating him or the conclusion of peace, the result of which, he slate, is an indubitable success for

King Carol replied thanking the Russian Emperor for his fresh and

deposited in his personal account, but says that he afterwards paid the amounts to the Campaign Committee.

FUNERAL OF COLONEL CODY.

FAMOUS AVIATOR ACCOBDED MILITARY HONOURS.

LONDON, August 12th. The funeral of Colonel Cody, the famous aviator," took place on Monday.

FOET

INDUSTRIAL TROUBLE IN ITALY..

OVERWHELMING FORCE OF SOLDIERA

CALLED OUT.

MILAN, August 19th. An overwhelming force of Infantry, Cávalry, and Artillery is holding strate- gle points at Milan owing to a proclama tion of a general strike by Syndicalist Socialists. thousand bad characters

GOVERNMENT MONIES.

INDIAN CLERK CHARGED AT THE MAGISTRAGY,

At the Magistracy yesterday, before Mr. C. D. Melbourne, Second Magistrate, Ali Khan, formerly employed at the Supreme Court as a clerk and interpteter,

Au charged on five, counts with embezzling various small sums of money, amounting to about $75 in all, between

Government. September of last year and the 13th June of the present year, the property of the

The Crown Solicitor (Mr. P. M. Hodg son) prusecuted for the Crown, and Mr. F. C. Jenkin (instructed by Mr. J. H. Gardiner) represented the defendant,

Mr. Jenkin remarked that by the laws of the Colony the offence with which the defendant was charged was indictable, and if conimitted for trial at the Criminal Sessions the learned Judge could only try him on three charges, and therefore he would say that the Crown must be put on their election to state which of these This was in conformity with the Home five counts they would proceed upon, procedure, Ordinance 3 of 1880...

The Crown Solicitor decided to proceed on the first, second, and fifth charges. In regard to the first Mr. Hodgson said $11.50 in reference to a certain estate, by, that defendant was given the sum of the deceased person's sister, for the purpose of obtaining the letters of administration. Defendant duly gave a receipt for this amount to the woman. Defendant told the woman to come back again, and she did so in about a week or so, but nothing was done, and she again called about the matter. Up to the time of preferring these clnrges, the letters of administration had not been granted. The defendant should have first of all prepared a petition for the woman, and aflixed the necessary stamps thereon, Moreover, he should not have taken the money at all from the woman until that petition had been prepared. Defendant

skin and a useful adjunct of our well- by the majority of his countrymes, and by infinitely precicus evidences of friendship. The coffin was placed on a gun carriage, have been arrested, and the authorities entered the application for the petition,

known Lavender Water.

the Foreign Powers, as the one strong man capable of dealing with the political chaos which the Anti-Mancha Revolution created. We can only hope that the signal failure of

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GERMAN EMPEROR OFFENDS

AUSTRIA.

Heuter's correspondent at Vienau learns that the despatches oxchanged between the Kaiser and King Charles of Roumania have given great offence at

believe that the strike will be a failure.

Tho strikers have been resuming their attempts to promote a general strike here and at other centres, including Rome, but

and Horse Artillery, the Band of the Black Watch, and thousands of soldiers, reprezentative of all the arms of the entire Flying Corps, formed a procesion reaching to two miles in longth The nearly everywhere their efforts proved a route to the Cemetery was lined with failure.

A firing party fired

FURTHER SUFFRAGETTE

OUTRAGES

impression in the minds of the troops as well as in the minds of the civilian popula tion. There is no disguising the fact that Vienna They are regarded as revealing crowds of people, the loyalty" of the troops, in South China at least, is a very rotten reed to lead upon, long-suspected Austro-German differences a volley across the grave, It was less than a month ago that General of opinion regarding the Orient, and as Luxe, the man who is now regarded as the showing that Roumania no longer con- personification of loyalty in Canton, was siders Vienna, but Berlin, as the central reported as having sont a telegram to Qua connecting link of the Triplice. Count KWING-MING commending the traitorous Berchtold's Balkan policy is described as action he took and saying: "I shall be

a fiasco. ready to lead the sturdy men under me and execute your orders, and in conjunction with yourself will endeavour to punish traitors. General Luna's views as to who

REPORTED ATTACK ON CAMEL TROOPS IN SOMALILAND..

ADEN, August 11th. Three hundred troops have proceeded to Berbara owing to a report that a Camel Corps has been cut up in Somaliland.

SCENES OF WILD DISORDER AT WHITEHALL.

LONDON, August 12th. Suffragettes again interrupted a service at Westminster Abbey by introducing THE DEPARTURE OF SHUM CHUN had been made in connection with this.

BULGARIAN, DEPRESSION AND

their Látany prayer for Mrs. Pankhurst. BITTERNESS.

Subsequently there were scenes of wild Since it appears tolerably clear that disorder at Whitehall following a meet-

are the traitors have evidently undergone there will be no revision of the Peaceing held in Trafalgar Square at which disembarked from the Chigo-Muru on/afixed, and apparently the remaining 6

a very sudden change, and judging. from the references to "funds" in the Treaty, the tone of the newspapers in appeale addressed to him from Canton, Sofia indicates the extreme of depression it rather looke ns though patriotism and bitterness. The Treaty is described

in his case as in the rave of so many of as the iniquity perpetrated in Buk the politicians be is now opposing is butharest." They say that the present peace|| another name for pelf. In the circum-

enn only perpetuate disorders, and that

GREGORY.-On 8th August at Bourne stances we can only trust that the available Macedonia will be soaked in blood,

funds are ample enough to ensure the possibly in the not distant future. permanence of the era of peace which is declared to have dawned with bis arrival in Canton.

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The Daily Press.

HONGYONG, Augusr 13cm, 1913.

WHEN the historian at some distance remote from the present time comes to

The Manila Observatory yesterday morning reported a Typhoon near over Yap moving W.N.W.

or

the employ of Messrs. Jardine. Matheson Masagoro Kojima, aged 38, a clerk in

Information from various sources indi- cate that Turkey is determined to retain Adrianople, and she retains a large force there, while Bulgaria agreed immediately to demobilise.

BULGARIAN KING'S

EXPLANATION..

· King Ferdinand of Bulgaria has issued

& Co., Yokohama, Has been arrested for au Army Order in which he says;; “The

the firm.

the mounted police charged the mob.

Seventeen arrests were made, including Miss Sylvia Pankhurst, who was out of prison on licence.

RUSSIAN REPRESENTATIVE. AT URGA.

ACCREDITED TO MONGOLIAN GOVERNMENT.

ST. PETERSBURG, August 12th. The Russian Representative at Urga has been raised to the rank of a Diploma- tic Agent and accredited to the Monge- lian Government,

name.

THE MAGISTRACY.

sent

and he (the Crown Solicitor) thought he must have prepared the petition himself because the file had been given a number, which was usual. The sciual Ale was missing, and he was afraid it could not be found. The money received in respect to this charge was not entered in the Court fee book, in which all monies received were supposed to be entered. As to the second charge, the procedure appeared to have been the same as that employed before, but no receipt was given for the amount received. Coming to the third charge, the Crown Solicitor said that the sum of 830 was paid to the defendant. The value of $24 in stamps was afixed, and the remaining 93 were for Court fees. He would also. prove that during this time the sum of 225 was paid by an Indian and was Bisu not entered in the Court fee book and had not been accounted for, but no charge HẦUAN.

Another sum of 914.80 was also paid to the defendant in connection with another Mr. Shum Chun Hsuan, who since he estate. Stamps to the value of $8.80 were was obtained by the defendant. Defen which he had intended travelling North- dant left his billet at the Registry on the ward, has been accommodated in one of 30th June to take up a post at the Pust the officers' quarters at the Central Police Office, and was still in Government sy

vice. On the 2nd July the Registrar Station, left the Colony by the South found a drawer which was formerly occa ward bound French. mail steamer pied by the defendant tocked, and he

He booked for Singapore.

for the defendant Amazone.

to open Defendant accordingly unlocked Mr. Mel. Messer, Captain Superintendent the drawer, and inside оть the of Police, saw him off. Mr. Shum was top were found three probate Bles. not disguised nor did he assume another 10th July the Registrar sent for the These should not have been there. On the

defendant about the two probate casen where the fees were missing, and the defendant admitted that he had received the fees. On the 12th July defendant. sent the missing fees to the Registrar by letter, thereby, as be (Mr. Hodgson) sub- mitted, admitting that in these cases ha had received them and had omitted to pay them in. Throc days later the questioned him as to a number of missing Registrar sent for the defendant, and files, included among them being fles which were concerned in these charges. Defendant offered no explanation, and merely said, he believed, that he knew nothing about it. It was the duty of the defendant to look after these fles, and

missing and that the defendant offered no explanation, put enquiries on foot, as a result of which these charges were brought against the defendant. He should mention that the defendant id say to the Registrar at the time that other people had access to the files. Since these had been brought-in fact the

letter

the defendant larly barefaced manner. The defendant enclosing the sums of 80 and $11.50, two simply walked into a house, appropriated suns forming the subject of two of the night Mr. Asquith announced that the proceeded to open a box containing vari- then to the Registrat. He did not know a coat and put it on, and then nolly have received these monies and now paid charges in the case. He apparently must.

Government had agreed upon an enquiry,ous articles, He was interrupted and what explanation the defendant had as the precise scope of which they were con arrested. He was sentenced to a month's regards these monies paid.

He might very likely have a vory good explanation hard labour and four hours' stocks.

and he (the Crown Solicitor) hoped he A BANISHER'S INGENIOUS EXCUSE. had--but no doubt every opportunity was A young Chinese was charged before given the defendant on the part of the Registrar to explain to him and to show Mr. Hazeland with returning from him what had happened to these monies banishment. The boy admitted being long before these charges were ever deported for larceny some little time, thought of, but defendant chose to make since, and tendered as his excuse for re. no explanation. A search was made at the defendant's house, and he must say turning a statement that his uncle, who that they found none of these files, and was in the country, was addicted to they had been unable to trace them. gambling, and there was only one cow There were about 17 or 18 of them missing left. His uncle had three sons, who had found, which, as he submitted, was in The only thing that was altogether.

nothing to support themselves with, and any way incriminatory, was a quantity he came down to Hongkong to get work. of paper torn up, which appeared to be Defendant will have the dubious honour paper connected with certain documents, of labouring for the Government at Vic and also a piece of probate paper with a Very likely $3 cancelled stamp affixed. toris Gaol for a period of six months, the defendant had an explanation in and he was also ordered to be publicly exhibited in the stocks for four hours.

VENEREAL DISEASE IN GREAT.

BRITAIN.

MANIFESTO, BY PROMINENT DOCTORS.

LONDON, August 12th..

In a manifesto, prominent doctors, and

NOT GUILTYS OF LARCENY! Before Mr. Hazelard, & Chinese car- penter was charged with the theft of three bed boards the property of his employers a contractor.. The man was seen or number of fokis to take the boards, and apparently he intended to sleep on them. His Worship said that a man must take things secretly to make him guilty of

write the history of what we may perhaps having embezzled a sum of money from struggle provoked by the trenchery of our also the Medical Congress, call attention larceny, hut defendant had taken the the Registrar, finding that they were

Mr. W. Meyrick Hewlett, H. M. ferred to Newchwang, where he will take Vice-Consul at Tientsin, has been trans

over the duties of Acting Consul-General.

former allies would have been successful

to the alarming spread of venereal dis for us if our strength had not been paracases in Great Britain, and urge the con- lysed by unforeseen political circumderation of the question and the noti We are exhausted, but unconfication and adoption of the most godern

malhuds to fight the scourge. orge.

GOVERNMENT TO INSTIICTE AN ENQUIRY.

The Order concludes by exhorting the

troops to return to peaceful occupations

and prepare their children and grond

work they had begun. children to complete one day the glorious

In the House of Commons on Monday

now describe as the recent revolt in Chino, be should te able to write an amusing chapter on the way in which the leaders of

The Bandmann Opera Company open the revolt, after valiantly proclaiming their a short season in the Theatre Royal to readiness to sterifies their lives in the night, when "The Pink Lady" will be

stances. cause, left it on the approach of danger ne staged. To-morrow night they play rats would leave a sinking ship. - 'To take

"The Dairymaids, and their farewell qured." In his performance on Friday will be "Autumn irst, the case of SUN YAT-SEN.

Manoeuvres, famous telegram to the PRESIDENT three- weeks ago SUN said the people were doter- mined to sacrifice their lives to secure Yuax's retirement, and that he himself was determined to oppose him as he did the Manchu ESPERORS if he did not accept "well-meant advice "and retire. YAN has shown no intention of accepting the advice and SUN has shown what his determina tion is worth by quitting the country for

Mr. W. P. Gregory, whose death is Japan, which he entered as a fugitive and in announced at Bournemouth, was a print- disguise General TANO-HSING, his chiefing overseer in the service of Messrs. lieutenant, who also published a number of Kelly & Walsh of Hungkong, and was Cathedral and back to the palace, follow-ajesty's departure for Balmoral. His manifestors showing an overweening con for some years in the Shanghai branch of that firm. He had a large eircle of fidence in victory and proclaiming to the friends in Shanghai and Hongkong, who world the willingness of himself and will regret to heard of his death Prior friends to "sacrifice much" for what they to his departure for Home on leave, Mr. the Greek and Mussulman inhabitants of professed to believe was the welfare of Gregory had been seriously ill in the humanity, also fled to Japan before any Government Civil Hospital, but he the territory allotted to Bulgaria are serious fighting occurred. Then we bave recovered and it was thought that the burning churches, mosques, and dwel- THEN CHUR HSVAR, the Generalissime of trip to England would recuperate him.

lings, and are fleeing to Greek territory. Manchester.

r. J. Fitzgerald Brenan, who is at pre- sent acting as Registrar, will take over the duties of Vice-Consul at Tientsin.

PREMIER'S LONG INTERVIEW WITH KING GEORGE.

BULGARIAN PEACE CELEBRATION. | sidering

A misssage froin Sofia statos that a Te Deum service was held in the Cathe dral in celebration of the conclusion of

peace.

The King and his suite walked to the

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by cheering crowds,

DREAD OF BULGARIAN RULES According to a telegram from Salonica,

LONDON, August 12th. Mr. Asquith had an unusually long inter- view with the King on the eve of His

Majesty is not expected back in town until about the middle of October.

ENGLISH COUNTY CRICKET.

LONDON, August 12th. Lancashire drew with Derbyshire at

boards quite openly, Defendant was bound over to be of good behaviour.

A COOL THEFT.

Inspector Gerrard, prosecuting a Chi- nese for larceny at Yeumati, told the Magistrate (Mr. F. A. Hazeland) that

the robbery was committed in a particur day-the Registrar received a

from

regard to that.

Evidenco was then called, and the ense was remanded,