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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 1ST, 1913.

Lord Mousex puts it: "We shall be the Commander P. H. Waterer has been TELEGRAMS, TELEGRAMS. TELEGRAMS,

honest broker, but au honest broker with these interests (ie, those of our Indian frontier) will keep his eye open, I will, in fact, be a tripartite con- ference, and we shall be partins both to

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angiointed to the cruiser Farmouth on commissioning for service with the Ching Squadron.

An unknown person on entered the house of a Chinese micrehant, Saturday at Robinson Road, and "stolo jewellery, clothing, and money to the value of about 8738.

The Government Casette of Federated Melax States notifies tirat the thirty-six Chinees and one Tamil base be banished from Perak, and ten Chinese from Selangor.

It is notified in the Government Gazette

is cancelled.

convention, which we hope will be the result." I will readily be ear that it would be an easy matter to discover a parallelian between oor attitude towards the Tibetan question and that of Russia vla-via Mongolia: in each case the theocratic rule of a State tributary to China has thrown off her yoke, and the European Power claims to intervene on the ground of that, Mr. F. J. Halten having returned CHEMISTS, DRUGGISTS AND possessing territory that is conterminous to the Colony, Government Notification the dominions of the rebellious No. 151 of the 14th May, 1913, cancelling theocratic patentate, but here, as we his commission as a Justice of the Peace, have pointed out on a previous occasion, the paralel ends.

Our interests are confined to preserving friendly relations with States adjoining India and maintaining peace on the border, while the Urga Convention shows that under all Russia's actions with regard to Mongolia the for- I ward policy is at work. The simplicity of A man has been sent to hospital suffer- our aim should, as far as China and Tibet ing. from injuries to his fuce and arins. are concerned, make it easy of accomplish-He was found in a back yard at Praya wurtament, and it is rather in the reconciliation East, and it is believed that he was in

of the rival claims of Ching and Tibet that the act of committing a felony, when h

moet with the accident." difficulty will arise. China professes to have abandoned the idea of converting Tibet inte a province, and to be prepared to confine herself to the position of suzerain without aiming at sovereignty, but presum ng China's good faith in these assurance

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who is to decide where the functions of a suzerain end and those of a sovereign begiu This problem is especially complicated in the case of Tibor: the European conception of suzerainty would certainly not give the superior Power the right of appointing the temporal head of the subject State, yet, a8 WATSON'S BA

is well known, Peking exercises this fune- LAVENDER TALCOM POWDER | tion in respect of the DALAI LAMA and hus also, on occasion, deposed him, and even Au invaluable Toilt and Nursery placed a perpetual interdict on the rein- roquisite, soothing to the most sensitive carnation of one such potentate. Will this skin aid a useful adjact of our well-power be preserved to Feking by the confer

co? And if Peking is to be permitted to appoint the ruler of Tibet, and even to dispose of his soul before his death, what is to be the criterion of "abstaining from interfering in the internal administration"? A. S. WATSON & CO., It may be remarked that if the appointment

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TYPHOON IN JAPAN.

FEARED LOSS OF A STEAMER.

·TOKYO, August 31st, The steamer Satsuma Maru, consigned to Messrs. Dodwell & Co. Ltd., is overdue at Kobe and is believed to have fouerednd in a typhoon experienced last Wednesday. The typhoon caused havoc in the country,

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY:]

THE DUBLIN STRIKE.

STRIKE LEADER DURNS A POLICE PROCLAMATION.

LONDON, August 30th, At a meeting in Dublin on Friday night one of the strike leaders who had beari arrested on a charge of inciting to riot and seditious libel, and who had been admitted to bail, burned a Polico Pro- clamation prohibiting a meeting on *Sauday, in support of the strikers. He

cesty.

(THROUGH REUTHEʼN AGENCY. | THE MEXICAN SITUATION.

A PRELIMINARY AGREESIENT FOR PEACE,

WASHINGTON, August 30th. President Wilson has received a long despatch from Mr. Lind. While absolute silence is maintained at White House regarding the situation, official circles are of the opinion that President Huerta's Government and Mr. Lind have reached i a preliminary agreement te iding towards

peace.

LATER.

A message from Mexico City states that The most serious disaster is the declared he would hold the meeting at all the President of the Mexico Senate Las fourth attempt E hold the Promenade. Concert où

telegraphed to the New York repwsenta ground is announced, to take place on of 32 school boys and teachers who being drafted in

the Cricket loss of eleven lives among the party

Strong reinforcements of police aretive of the Mexico Telegraph Company Wednesday night next when it is to be

requesting him to profest to President hoped the Clerk of the Weather will be

Wilson against the withdrawal of Ameri- in an obliging mood..

en citizens from Mexico, declaring that the American Colony in Mexico is satis- fied with the present situation, and that its withdrawal will result in tremendous damage.

At a meeting of the Jockey Club held on Saturday it was agreed to purchase

were making an ascent of Mt. Koma- gatake and got caught in the storm.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

TERRIBLE TYPHOON IN JAPAN,

THOUSANDS OF ROUSES SUBMERGED IN TOKYO,

ToxYO, August 30th. Scures of people have been killed by a

LATER

Serious strike rioting bas cecurred in Dublin, and the night police have been repeatedly charged by a crowd of several thousands and subjreted to showers of

stones and bottles.

Many people were injured by the use the police made of their truncheons.

a number of subscription ponies at a typhoon. In Tokyo alor, 15,000 houses THE LONDON PAINTERS' STRIKE, price of $140 each; also a class of griffins three special racey will probably be at the rate of $125 per pony, for which

arranged.

it is stated that toe Chief of Police, ut Laaten is sending down an expert to 198:st the Hongkong Police Ti the examination of Kwangtung bank-notes, Colony, with the object of detecting false seized during the past few days in the

UNTY,

The P&O. Co.'s steamer Woollan, which left London on July 25th, took the fellowing specie for: Singapore, coin gold $1,000, Singapore, bar silver £805; Singapore, coin silver £1,850; Shanghai, bar silver £20,000; Shanghai, coin silver £8,500.

The Court Cards Company, which had au exceptionally successful tour in the Far East early in the year, has lost one of its most talented members, Miss Marsden Oway by death from enteric fever at Mussoorie, in India. The deceased was an exceptionally talented

vocalist.

lost while climbing Mount Komagatake. were submerged Seventeen children were

The railways have been damaged and the crops have suffered. ALLEGED. POISONING OF YUAN BY

SOUTHERNERS.

A SENSATIONAL STORY FROM. JAPAN.

TOKYO, August 31st.

A sensational story current here declares

that the reason Yuan Shil-kai massed his troops in the Yangtze and prepared for war was because he was poisoned with arsenic in May by Southern agents. His life was only saved by the most violent

medical methods.

[We believe there is not the slightest foundation in fact for this report --ED]

GREAT BLAZE NEAR QUEENS-

TOWN.

ŽINUTEJACKETS SAVE GOVERNMENT STORËS.

LONDON, August 31st. Great excitement was caused by a fierce blaze on Saturday afternoon at the canteen building on Hawlbowline Island, Queenstown, which is close to the large

of future Dalai Lauas is to be vested in the Tibetans themselves-either in the National Assembly or in the Council of the Three Monasterios-there is a prospect of even greater dissousion and strife than the Republic of China may experience in her The reductions in the rates for Presidential elections. The houndary quea.telegrams announced by the Eastern Ex- tion, too, may be the cause of argument and tension Australia and China Telegraph dispute: ordinarily the frontier would be

Co., Ltd., and by the Great Northern placed just west of Bating, but the Telegraph Co., Ltd., represent about 20 President's unropealed Mandate of May nearly 25 per cent, on the rate to Japan Thres hundred blurjackets succeeded in per cent, on the rates to Europe and Government stores of coal, eit and powder. 29th last puts it much further west-130 miles east of Lhasa, as a matter of fact

These reductions extinguishing the outbreak before it and this would seem to indicato su intention

spread to these. oa China's part to try her hand at laud- grabbing. All these problems. however, directly concern China and Tibet alone,

and Chosen (Corea). come into force to-day.

Two cuolies, employed by the Public Mr. Hazeland at the Magistracy" on Works Department, were charged before Saturday with being in possession of a

LORD HALDANE IN NEW YORK.

New Yonx, August 30th.

The Lord Chancellor has arrived at

MASTERS OFFER DIMEDIATE INCREASE

LONDON, August 31st.

The master decorators, have offered an

immediate increase of one penny an hour, and the submission to arbitration of the other half-penny required by the men. A ballot of the men will be taken on the offer.

BRITISH LEGISLATORS IN

NEW ZEALAND.

WELLINGTON (N.Z.), August 30th. A party of British Parliamentary visitors has been entertained to a banquet by the Government.

AEROPLANE ACCIDENT IN

ENGLAND.

LONDON, August 31st.

An aeroplane, while flying from, Hendon to Farnborough for delivery at the War Offico, fell a distance of 100 feet at Maidenhead. The pilot, Debussy, and two passengers sustained fractured limbs. THE BALKAN MASSACRES.

INQUIRY AUANDONED.

LONDON, August 31st.. A telegram from Salonika. reports that the Carnegie International Committée of Enquiry into the Balkan Massacres has decided to abandon their task owing to objections raised by Servis and Greece to two of its members-M. Milickoff, of Russia and Mr. Brailsford of England, who are described as welknown pro- Bulgarians; also because traces of the

The Premier of New Zealand, Mr. Massey, affirmed the importance of atrocities have disappeared with the

THE TATE OF ADRIANOPLE.

Imperial "statesmen visiting the Domin- lapse of time. ions, and suggested that the Imperial: Conference should be held in the various Dominions alternately..

Lord. Ennott responding, dealt with the increasing usefulness of the Imperial

Conferences.

GERMAN BANK RATE.

REDUCTION DECLARED STIEL IMPOSSIBLE.

BERLIN, August 31st.

At a meeting of the Reichsbank, the Vice-President declared that a reduction in the bank rete was still impossible,

LONDON, August 30th. The Times correspondent at Sofia sajs that Bulgaria has decided to negotiate direct with Turkey in regad Adrianople.

THAW IN GANADA.

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OTTAWA, August 1st. The lawyers continue to wage e fierce struggle over Thaw, and the advantage Domentarily rests with the Chief of Police of Conticock, who first arrested Thaw at the instance of counsel for the State of Now. York.

The Chief has now been granted a Writ

Great Britain's weight being thrown in toaded revolver, two knuckle-dusters, and New York, en route to Montreal, where although the Bank's present bullion of Habeas Corpus, thus outwitting Thaw

the Tibetan scale only so much ng is

two knives in the PW.D. coolic quarters

necessary to balance the recent aggres at Prays East. The first oman was fined he is to deliver a legal lecture. He was 30 or the month and the second be surged by reporters on landing, and is defendant was fined $100 or one month.

This

represented as saying that England was able to transport troops round the world with greater speed and efficiency than any other nation.

TRIAL TRIP OF THE S.S.

TAI MING.!! The latest addition, to the fleet of the Kwong Sai Navigation Co., Ltd., the ALLEGED ESPIONAGE IN FRANCE Tai Wing, built for the West River

PARIS, August 30th. ť triel trip

service,

went

sions of China and secure a roversion to "The matus quo ante." But presuming China's suzerainty is satisfactorily defined, some- thing is necessary as 'a guarantee against tios of Tibet, and the one natural guarantee her interference in the internal administra.

is British representation at Lhasa. would, of course, involve a revision of the Petersburg Agreement, but the time for that wems ripe or other grounds. In a recent delare in the House of Lords, Lord Ekropena and Chinese residents of arrested on a charge of espionage. It is yesterday afternoon, and Sarre 60C A Sergeant named Guiou has been CURZON pointed out the unsatisfactory Hongkong availed themselves of the alleged that papers were found showing state of affairs produced in Persia by the invitation of the owners and the disproportionate area of the neutral zone, captain to make the trip in her.

that he had furnished Austrian and and the whole course of events in that wenther was all that could be desired. Luxembourg others with information

happy country clearly indicates the neces- The sea was like a mill pond, and regarding the Artillery. sity for a rearrangement of terms between throughout the afternoon there was only denised the charge, Great Britain and Hussia. Great Britain, an occasional puff of wind. Captain

looked after the numerous guests on too, is clearly entitled to some consideration Lewingdon and his officers proved admir- able hosts, and the manner in which they board left nothing to be desired.

The

The accused

A ROYAL MIDSHIPMAN.

LONDON, August 30th. Prince Albert, the King's second son, has been appointed a Midshipman on the battleship Collingwood.

VISCOUNT MOLLEY'S resent statement with regard to the part that Great Britain is to play in the hoped-for arrangement of the Sin Tibetao difficulty shows that we are to from Russiaforthe moral support given er verupy somewhat the same position as

in her Mongolian advances, and the extension Russia holds in the dispute between China and Mongolia, although Great Britain's to Lhasa of our right to station representa- position will differ from that of Russia in tives at Yatung, Gartok and Gynogtso.

THE BANK NOTE SEIZURE. one important particular. Russia's original is certainly not more than an adequate proposal was to mediate between the two quid pro quo for all that Russia has gained Before Mr. Orme, Sergeant Wilson MR. ASQUITH'S ASSAILANTS. disputants, and resist in finding a modsat Urga. The Chinese Government is charged a Chinese with being in unlawful dicandi between Urgn and Peking, but any scarcely in a position to refuse so reason-possession of $20,583 in Kwangtung bank

LONDON, August 20th." hopes she may have entertained of being able a requirement, the Tibetan Govern- notes.g

The Suffragettes who attacked the Prime accepted in this capacity were foredoomedanent, can be relied upon to see in which

The officer explained that the defendant Minister while he was playing golf have to disappointment. Before entering into way its own interest lies, and it would be a house in Wing Sung Street where the granted in £5 each.

was a foki to the man who owned the been remanded för a week, bail being negotiations with Paking she had already graceful concession on Russia's part to money was found. The latter, who had shown her, Laud in the Agreement and withdraw the interdict that is mutually run away and left the feki in charge, Protocol of November Sof, and consequently-imposed by the Petersburg Agreeman By previously worked in the Treasury at came into court, not as an unbiassed so doing she could bost give the lie to the Canton, and departed at the same time as arbitrator, but as an interested party. rumour referred to in the Nova Vremya ex-Tutuh, Chan Kwing Ming, taking the While Russia troated with each side that the Tibet-Mongolian Treaty is to be money with him. separately, in the forthcoming Siala confer regarded as constituting the two countries ence all three parties are to be represented, one sphere of influence-that is, of course, and as Great Britain has not previously of Russian influence. We pet no faith in phdred herself to either side, there should this rumour, but it would cost Russia be much less difficulty in ringing the little or nothing to disprove it in the most negociations to stressful issue. As effectual way possible.

was no

THE PALACE OF PEACE.

TSAR'S GOOD- WISHES,

deposit, was nearly £9,000,000 above that of August of last year, despite the transfer of over £1,000,000 to the war treasure. Germany had imported in 1973. up to the present time £11,000,000, and exported £2,250,000. Before lowering the rate they must see whether the present easiness in money was not merely tour- porary. It looked as if there would be a period of strain at the end of September.

NATIONAL YACHTING.

CONDITIONS FOR THE AMERICA CUP.

New York, August 30th. The conditions of the race for the America Cup have been announced. They do not materially differ from those of the previous racen, The time limit will be six

hours instead of five and a half hours.

The races will start on 10th September, 1914, and will continue on Thursdays, Saturdays, and Tuesdays.

The first and third races will be over

a course thirty miles to windward, and the second

over an equilateral triangle.

ENGLISH COUNTY CRICKET.

LONDON, August 31st. Surrey beat Teicestershire-at the Oval | by an innings and tot rund

Hauts brat Gloucestershire at Bourne- mouth by 315 runs. The Steel 2*

und Yorkshire match: at:

ST. PETERSBURG, August 30th.- On the occasion of the opening of the Mr. Orme said that ther

Palace of Pence at The Hague, the Tsar case against the defendant and he would have to dismiss the man. The police telegraphed Queen Wilhelmina expressing Hastings ended in L pointless draw. could take their own precautionary mica the hope that the Pulace would contribute Kent beat Middlesex at Lords by five could not detain the defeudant. sures with regard to the money, but they to peace, on which he had always laid store. Ho hoped it would form a frost hoid between the nations.

defendent was then discharged.

The

runs.

counsel.

New-York lawyTTE UIG HON 2017IONE" that Thaw will be deported.

THE INTERPORT AQUATIC COMPETITIONS.

SHANGHAI VICTORIOĆS,

The results of the events contested in the Municipal Swimming Baths at Shanghai additional to those reported in Saturday's Daily Press are as follows:

NEAT DIVING.-1, R. Borthet (Shang- hai); 2, LC. Souza (Hongkong).

220 YARDS.-1, J. C. Finch (Hongkong); 2. J. C. Cooke (Hongkong). Time, 2min." bisecs.

The water polo match was postponed: 440 YARDS-1, Finch (Hongkong); 2. R. Berthet (Shanghai). Finch won very easily in 6m. 6s.

TEAM RACE Shanghai won. Time 2. 13secs.

WATEE Poco-Shanghai won, scoring three goals to Hongkong's two.

The result of the meeting was a win for Shanghai who scored 32 points to Hong- kong's 27.

Feeling ran high during the water polo match, when there was some regrettable barracking by, the crowd which, our cor- respondent states, was severely reprobated yesterday in all quarters, pl

GOVERNMENT APPOINTMENTS,

The following appointments are on- nounced in the Gazelles-m

Mr. E. A. Irving to be Director of Education, and Messre. E. Ralphs and R. G. Barlow to be Inspectors of Schools. Mr. S. B. C. Ross resumed duties of District Officer,

Mr. E. D. C. Wolfe to be Postmaster General.

Mr. C. A. D. Melbourne resumed duties of Deputy Registrar, Supreme Court,

Mr. G. N. Orme to act as Second Polied

Worcestershire brat Somerset at Taun Magistrate. to by an innings and 35 runs.

Mr. N. L. Staith to net as Assistant Colonial Secretary and Clerk of Councils,