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Of

The

Manila Observatory yesterday TELEGRAMS. TELEGRAMS. TELEGRAMS.

morning reporteil the typhoon to be in about 124deg, Long E. and 17deg. Lat, N, moving W.N.W. A chart of the track of the typhoon issued yesterday by the showed the Hongkong Observatory typhicon to be a little Bast of Aparri at

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A MILITARY ATTACHE'S SUDDEN DEATH;

TOKYO, September 3rd.

Deep regret is felt in Peking at the death of Toug Kai-sen, Director of the

Major H. L. Wigmore, the Military Hsinghwa College, whose funeral tock

to the United States place in the College gronads recently in Attaché the presence of the American Charge d'Affaires, Mr. Willians, and many Embassy in Tokyo, died suddenly Chinese and foreign friends of the to-day

deceased. Tong Kai-son was a member of one of the frst parties of students sent to America by Li Hung-chung. He was formerly Secretary of the Waiwnpu and represented China at The Hagus Opium Conference, white, with Chow Taz-chi, he organized the Hsinghwa College and arranged for the engagement of men and women as teachers. He died at the age of

after a long illness.

reduced ideal was impossible of attain ment, and it was consequently further whittled down to $15,000, the present paper establishment of Home Defence int in to any, about one-third of the number originally considered a reasonable &estimate. But even of the present minimum,

which Lord Ronents describes as "Gilber-noon. tian," the country is at the present time some 60,000 officers and men short. the bare 255,000 lei, 40,000 are under nineteen years of age, 50,000 last year failed to pass the very modest musketry test, and 35,000 were absent from the summer train MERCHANTS ng camps." And Lord RonsESS xchims, Such is the arany, which, to save our. pockets and our personal effort, we propose to pik against the finest regular battalions of Europe." The position is clearly unsatis. factory, and this much appears to be recognised by Colonel SeeLy, the Minister of War. In a short article which Lord Eonents has contribined to the August number of the Britisk Reciem it is pointed out that though the Minister of War him. solf has dissociated the Goverment from any polies of do-nothing," it is not yet. apparent that any, practical result has ncerned from his expression of opinion. He emphasises strongly a recent admission by Colonet SELLY that if the price of liberty is etornal vigilance, the price of voluntary ser vice is the willingness of all to serve," and

He was sent to prison for a month, and Lord Rouguis drives home the fact that this scoured the articles, by lawful means, price is not being paid and that there is no.

ordered to be publicly exhibited in the reasonable hope that, rider present condi-stocks for four hours. tions, it over will be paid. In times whon every effort is being made to increase the strength of Coutinental armies, no British floyerament can afford to see its defensive

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strongth full so far below its reasonable estimates." "The loss of votes is a small matter compared with the loss of national security. Yet the whole question rests

THE MAGISTRACY.

[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.).

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

TERRIBLE WAY.

ACCIDENTS.

MIDLAND EXPRESS DASHES INTO STATIONARY TRAIN.

FOURTEEN PERSONS KILLED AND MANY

INJURED.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

AUSTRIAN LOAN TO CHINA

TO BE DEVOTED TO, THUS ACQUISITION OF AUSTRIAN-BUILT CRUISERS.

VIENNA, September 3rd. Three banks have taken over £1,200,000 Chinese six per cent. Treasury bonds of an average currency of four years. They are guaranteed by the annual receipts of The major came into the Estate Transfer Duty.

LONDON, September 3rd.. Two Midland expresses from Carlisle,

both southward bount?

collision, one tumming at full-speed into the rear of the other on a big ascent year

Hawes

The official figures are that nine are killed and 10 injured.

portion will be devoted to the acquisition of three cruisers, to be built in Austrian yards,

BULGARIA AND TURKEY.

SUGGESTED ANTI-OREEK ALLIANCE.

LONDON, September 3rd.

The Bulgarian delegates, General The Savoff, the ex-Commander-in-Chief, and

AN AVIATOR'S AERIAL SOMERSAULT. FRENCHMAN'S MARVELLOUS EVOLUTIONS IN AN "AERIAL LIFEBOAT."

LONDON, September 3rd.

A later message says that the Glasgow M. Pegoud's feat of turning a somer sault in a monoplane in midair was most express had stopped at Aisgill, bear astounding. The machine was a Bleriot Hawes, through want of steam. nonoplane, fitted with n new arrange-Aberdeen Edinburgh express dashed into General Tocheff, who, was formerly Mini- ier Belgrado, accompanied by two It is unusual for a Chinese to picadment of ruddera and levere, which M.

Military advisors, bare left for Constan guilty at the Magistracy to larceny, but Bleriot, in an article, asserts gives the its rear with terrific force at two o'clock

tinople to conduct the negotiations. man who was charged with the theft of 10 pieces of clothing, valued at 40 aviator complete control in any position, in the morning. The engine went clean

The scenes | regarding Adrianople and other yending M. Pegoud turned the machine

terrible, to

being questions between Turkey and Rulgaria. admitted to Mr. Hazeland that he had and will even quble him to fly upside through the end carriage.

upside down, and flew 100 yards with the incinerated. down,

wheels upwards.

Rescue trairs with ductors were sent to the scene with the utmost dispatch.

A. VERÁCIOUS THIEF.

ALLEGED LSRÇËNCY BY YACHT BOYS

Detective Inspecter Watt charged three Chinese-cmployed ou plusure yachts with attempted larceny at Tai Pak.

appears that the defendants, one of whom

M. Pegoud repented his marvellous evolutions before a throng of civilians and military.

He ascended till he was

were

coaches

11.00 m

Turkish circles are beginning to incline vory strongly to a close understanding with Bulgaria, as a most effective alty against Grece, and evou an. Alliance is | mooted.

The right bank of the Maritza will be

A Glasgow telegram says it was rain- It lost in the clouds, and then descended

vertically with the tail upward of a norting and very dark at the time of the the most knotty point in the negotiations. After recahing 500 metres accident. The express which had become The Turks apparently intend to insist terrific rate.

of retention

Demotika, the aviator with head downwards and almost stationary through lack of steam, u pon

was employed on the vacht of Mr. A. W van Andel, manager of the Holland China Trading Company, went ashore at

the

ultimately with those who have votes to midnight, and were chased by villagers Wheels in the air, shot forwards, Aying had almost reached the summit of the cartukeuy, and other places, but way Land afterwards by sampan people, who thus for 30 seconds before he resumed his Pennines, and the utest steam was up possibly be ready to affect a deal by

give,

the

and notwithstanding what National Service League, with Lord Roserts at its head, has done to educate the country to the point of recognising that the time has arrived when every uble bodied yong man should be compulsorily and efficiently trujued to defend his ecuntay, the day seems still far off when a A. S. WATSON & CO., | British Government will have the courage

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alleged that they had been attempting to steal copper from the bottom of a lighter which had been sent ashore during the recent typhoou. The defendants were arrested in Hongsorg. remanded.

The case was

It was.

· gave

He then normal position. topsy-turvy evolutions for half an hour, landing amid indescribable ovations.

Flowers were showered upon him, and he was carried round in triumphamid continuous cheering.

Europe is amazed at M. Bleriot's con- quest of the sir, and the machine described as an aerial lifeboat.

THE DUBLIN RIOTS

STRONG ACTION=

CONGRESS..

RIVAL CLANSMEN GIVE TROUBLE, Before Mr. Orme, Sergt. Mackay charged thres men two with fighting in the public stree and another with to go to the country, in time of peace, assault. Mr. P. W, Goldring represented with a meastiru so widely regarded as the first defendant, who, he said, was a alien to the traditions of the race. But person of highly respectable position. - tes, egle. Auch 418 Tardly likely, Mr. Goldring contended, fgrcist Continental forces, constitutingas they that a man who was an elder would be

LONDON, September 3rd. do a growing menues to our national security, seen fighting in the street with a coolic

The Trades Congress at Manchester has something will need to be done to bring the as a matter of fact, his client was being

assunited, and called out "Save life" resolved to immediately send a Com defensive forces of the United Kingdom up He was about to bring his assailant to mittee to Dublin to address meetings in to the standard deemed to be reasonable the station when he was arrested for favour of free speech, and enquire into The question is one which forces itself on

street fighting-Sergt. Mackay said there public attention with growing insistance, was a great deal of trouble in the village: The Dublin Coal Merchants' Association

the allegations of police violence. and unless there is an abatonsent of with the rival clansoon. The first minarism in Europe, compulsory service defendant was very quarrelsome, and was has decided to look out all workmen

to come in Great Britain. von now hound over to keep the peace belonging to du Transport. Union, We have seen traditions" go by the for six months ander ons four

ths board in the case of the enactment of months ago Mr. Goldring said the trouble arose out of the fact that the compulsory insurance, and

rival clansmen werd jealous of the posi-a one met u Brisighs race

tion of his client, and tried to annoy him. It was only when the men in the street attempted to annoy him that he interfered with them. The first defen- dit was bound over in the sum of $100, the second in $20, and the other was discharged."

is bonud

We

have in

murtured in all its? traditions of freedom,” procaining by their example the fact that there is nothing inconsistent with the honour of a free man in giving, under compulsion, sous portion of his thine to military training to cuable him the better to discharge his patriotic duty of defend. # WAY ILL-On the 20th August, at Shanging his country, if called upon to do so.

hai, fou (LADYS, daughter of

Davis-On August ed, at Yokohama, de vile of S. Kissa Davis, of a

DEATH.

son.

Capt. and Mrs. H. A. Wavit, aged

years and are months.

Hongkong Office: 104, Des Forx Road 5.

AUL OF ARMS AND AMMUNITION ON THE

**EXPRESS OR RUSSE."

Two Chinese were charged before Mr. G. N. Orme under the Arins Ordinance

Four Nationalist. Members of Parlia eat have asked the Lord-Lieutenant for inniediate enquiry into the conduct of the polico.

The excitement increased in the evening. through the elapse of two slum houses. burying thirteen families. Seven dead bedire have been recovered, and 30 are

missing.

CANNIBALISM IN NEW GUINEA.

WHITE MAN'S HORAIBLE FATEU

BRISBANE, September 3rd.

The guard saw the sparks of the oncoming! train. The crush is described as being! most terrible, reverberating over the steep mountains.

The rescue parties did most heroie work in extricating those who were pinned under the wreck. The heat was extremely ferce, and twisted the rails. Almost ini- mediately after the smash, four carriages burst into flume.

1.30 p.m.

return concessions.

THE MARCONI SHARE

TRANSACTIONS.

HEATED CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN WH. MOYD ONORGE AND LORD WOLMER.

LONDON, September

A long, correspondence hatan Lord Wolnier and Mr. Lloyd George in regard to the Intter's purchase of shares in the America Marconi Company has been published. Mr. Lloyd George took exception to a public statement by Lord Weimer that the Chancellor of the

children, and two men, and three whose sex is unrecognisable. Fire broke out owing to the bursting of the gae tank. The driver and fireman of the Edinburgh Excehonor and his friends accepted al tip and | from a Government contractor, by which

he might have made £20,000. This Mr. Lloyd George heatedly denied, to which

express

stick to their posts marvellously estaped.

Even a passengers, who were unis- jured, arrived at St. Pancras weeping, and many could not speak shout the

accident.

2.25 pim.

The dead have not up to the present been identified.

Thirteen persons have been extricated. ten being in a most serious condition..

Sir Arthur Douglas, formerly Minister of Defence in Now Zealand, sustained sovers burns and lies in a critical condition. A London stock broker, named George Lindsay, is also in a scrious condition.

Eye-witnesses relate heart-rending nar

Commander. Basil Taylor, RN, yestern with being in unlawful possession day imposed a fue of $500, or six months of 22 Browning pistols, four Mausers, Advices from Papus state that John ratives of seeing several people under- LONDON OPPien: 131, FLEET STREET, E.C. Kau-chuen, master of the ss Corf, for the Empress of Russia, and the other Warmer, naiddle-aged mineralögist, pinned and dying in the finines with,

The Baily Press.

HONGKONG, SEPTÉMU 4TH, 1913.

The figures given in a telegrain to-day relating to the compulsory training of the youth of Australia for detento supply & convincing answer to those who have been so eager to anticipate the Kuilure of the legis lation enacted by the Commonwealth in 1909

ne

imprisonment in default, upon Chan; and 0,470 rounds of ammunition, on board

leaving the waters of the Calong with 77 passengers without being in possession of passengers' certificate. Lance-Sergt. G. Fox, who proved the case, said defendant had cleared" for 12 passengers and he had 80 on board. The vessel was bound for Wuchow.

descent, was

with aiding und abetting. It appeared of German-American that Chief Inspector Gourlay and Sergt. exploring for radium when he was killed Pincett went on board the Empress of and enten by two native companions, who

sin, and found the defendants sitting

opposite one another in a enbiri, engaged cacaper

in conversation. The articles concerned THE PEARL NECKLACE THEFT. in the charge were found on the bunk. Both men were then arrested

FIVE MEN DETAINED IN LONDON,

incredible heroism, spectators weeping silently and praying the while.

The similarity of the neident to that at Hawes Junction at Christmas, 1910, is remarkable

5.0 p.m.

Lord Wolmer retorted that if the Chan- cellor lost, it was because he held their too long. The correspondence then goes over old ground, and concludes with a sharp passage of arms on the subject of Lord Weimer's grandfather and father.

THE PAINTERS' STRIKE IN LONDON:

LONDON, September 3rd. The London painters have rejected the master decoratars' offer which was an immediate grant of a penny an hour extra, the other half penny to be referred to arbitration,

BRAZIL'S TRADE,

LUNDON, September ärd.

The coffee exported from Brazil for the first seven months of the prezent year reached the figure of 4,751,000 bags, n decrease of 274.000 compared with 1912.

It is officially announced by the Mid-Rubber was exported to the amount of 22,708,000 kilos, decrease of 1,972,000 kilos. land Railway Company that the fire was due to the coal being wattered from the colliding engine,

Messrs. Hughes & Hough pat up to

auction public

The first defendant, giving evidence on on Tuesday .M.S

LONDON, September 3rd, his own behalf, said the arts and fucrity and the torpedo-boat destroyers

Five men are detained by the London Janus 'and-Handy, The luggity was unition belonged to him. The other

man went on board to buy them from police in connection with the recent theft

Doctors declare that those who perished |him, He came on board on his own or a famous pearl necklace, and arewere killed instantly and were afterwards account, and was not sent for Witness

́À L'INS.

stolen on the 15th

burned:

IN AMERICA

LONDON, September 3rd.

LOSSES ON PARIS BOURSE.

The French political economist Tiery, the editor of the Bonniste Européens has calculated that French investors have lost over three milliards of francs, since

of the slump in prices that most securities have undergone on the Paris Bourse, In making this calculation, he has only taken into consideration 162 of the best. An almost indentical accident to the known stocks, more or less gilt edged secnrities all of them, such as French disaster

England occurred on

Rentes, City of Paris Obligations, the

to provide aniore sifisfactory defensive knocked down for $57,300, to A Japanese före than had hitherto existed. Our of bidder, who afterward dated that he was 17,194 male inhabitauts reaching the age bidding ander some misapprehension, of eighteen this year, and who have there and consequent the purchase was not declared he had never seen him before, experted to be brought up at Boy Bercet

They had agreed upon the price when on Thursday. completed. The reserve prices: op the fore become due to join the Citizen Ary destroyers were not reached and ne sale the police came in

fewer than 16,840 have responded took place. The bidding for the funds Inspector Gourlay said the defendant appearance, and two of them are believed These figures must give removed zest reached siu.oun and for the Handy who had just given ovidence was not the

to be foreigners. Some of the missing man he wanted to arrest when he went. Great Britain to the discussion of the $8,000.

on board. He was a substitute, and was pearls are said to be in the hands of the proposals for compulsory training which

Our attention has been drawn to a pleading guilty to possession of all the Police. eloquently and so persistently have beru

The necklace placed before the country by Field Marshal Paragraph in a recent issue mentioning a Lord Rozgars. When the Territorial British section of the Canton Koloman took him on board the steamer to July, spparently in the post between Tuesday on the Newhaven railroad.

It was valued at section of an express was standing near scheme was first devised by Lord HALSANE Railway is being sued for $1,000, the first defendant at all the police Paris and Landon,

Much mystery was attached Wallingford when the second section and his advisors, it was reasonally estimated The paragraph in quistion did not came before his friend returned. No £150,000.

that this is not a

money was found on him, so be could not that 900,000 men were pecessary for the make it clear

be buying arms, and he did not know, in to the affair, as the box was delivered dashed into it. Eight people were killed

and 50 injured. etlicient defence of the British Isles. But private debt, but a claims against the fact, that any arms were on board.

with the scals intact. Chief Inspector Gourlay told. the it was quickly found that, under the purely Railway Administration. We willingly

Magistrate that the second defendant was

OBITUARY. voluntary systems, that number was not make the correction

shopkeeper near Macao, and came to The

LONDON, September 3rd:" forthcoming, and the standard was lowered regrets for any annoyance the original this Colony, on the 29th August.

on board paragraph may have caused. The nature first man was a messsboy" has As Lord ROBERTS

Professor Baelz, formerly physician to to 600,000.

the steam: V of the case was not disclosed when it was

They were ined the maximum penalty the Mikado, has died at Stuttgart. baen pointing out, even that greatly

mentioned in Court,

--8230 each.

case in which Mr. Winslow, the manager

and finder our

The second defendant stated that a

look for a fricud. He did not speak to

LATER

A

Credit Foncier, etc. and has reached the

result already mentioned by comparing the prices quoted on June 30 of this year with those ruling on December 31 of the previous year. But, as the result of the stocks have been steadily falling in price first War in the Balkans, all these since October last, so that if the losses incurred during the last three months of Sixteen persons were killed in the 1912 be added to those already taken into account the entire loss brought about accident, which was followed by horrible by the fall of prices on the Paris Stock be less than hve milliards of hardly scenes, the track being strewn with Exchange during the last ten months can

trance mangled remains.