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INTIMATIONS

AT THE WELCOME DINNER

of the

MEDICAL

CONGRESS

held in London on the 6th ultime, at the RITZ HOTEL.

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not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more." But here we are, more than two thousand years from the days of Tatan, doing just the reverse-obeying mther the proclamation of Jeep Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning books into spears: lot the weak say I am strong." And so it seems likely to continue. It is well to hold up the ideal of universal poace, but we see little justification for the anticipation

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that the third Peace Conference, which is due to take place in 1915, will be produce tive of "more substantial and more lasting. benefits than its predecessors." It is a

consumation devoutly to be wished, but he hoped for. Scientific per- bardly to fection in the engines of war will probably do more to put an end to war than all the talk in the Temple of Peace. We repro- duced a few days ago some particulars of an invention by a young Italian by which rays of light may be utilised to ignite, the enemy's explosives wherever they may be CHAMPAGNE stored. As the report put it, "Torpedoes

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will be exploded on board their own ships, and charges inside the guns. Airaltips with motal envelopes, like the Leppelin, will be foredcomed, and it is impossible to see how far the whole art of war may not be revolu- tionised, if war itself be not rendered almost abstard by an invention that readers the position of explosives more dangerous to

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their owners than to their adversaries." When reproducing this account a few days ago we mentioned in a footnote that it similar invention is claimed by a Hongkong resident who, privately, gave some demons- trations on a small scalo about eighteen CHAMPAGNE months ago, Mr. Lasies, the gentleman to whom we referred, has since called upon DE ST. MARCEAUX

sus in reference to the paragraph in which be was, naturally, grently interested. He has no doubt whatever regarding the appalling uss which can be made of this invention war. The Italian system described is different from his in that it is worked by light rays, while Mr. Lanzius had experimented with electric waves, which ho. regards as more certain in their effect then light waves. His experiments were made only on a very minuta scale, but they were entirely successful in demonstrating the certainty of producing the electric spark in any desired spot, and it is merely a matter of making the apparatus suff- ciently powerful to destroy whole fleets by this weans. The very deadliness of the discovery, he tells us, inade hit loath to develop it, and the same

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WITH every circumstance of regal and international solemnity there was opened at The Hague last month a Palace of Paco, dedicated through the munificence of Mr. ANDREW CARNEGIE "to the securing of a just peace." Mr. CARNEGIE in 1903 hauded over to the Netherlands Governmentthesum of £300,000 as a foundation for the purpose of erecting and maintaining at The Hague in perpetuity a Court House and Library (Temple of Fauce) for the Permanent Court of Arbitration established by Treaty of July 20th, 1899, "believing that the establishment of such a tribunal is the most important step forward of a world- wido humanitarian character which has ever been taken by the joint Powers, as it must ultimately banish war." The Dutch Government placed at the disposal of the Foundation £60,000 for the purchase of the site, and all countries have contributed, after their kind, to the adornment of the Palace. Mr. CARNEGIE, as everyone knows, is a peace enthusiast, and the opening of the Palace has afforded him another opportunity of talking on his favourite theme. Evolation, he told an interviewer, is proceeding which is true enough--and in† time** the true gentleman will be ashamed to exercise the profession of a mankiller." Christendom has been familiar with the prophecy of universal peace from the days of Isaran who declared that the time would come to pass when the people would beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into prauning hooks; "nation shall

reason

is said to have actuated TRONAS EDISON, who is reputed to have made & similar discovery, but has hesitated to give it to the world. Meanwhile we gee the nations of the world constantly striving to increase the deadliness of their engines of war, but if it should ever come to pass that a single individual. by the manipulation of electric waves or "Bight rays," from a distance of

may miles can destroy a whole fleet of warships by creating the necessary spark or lightning" in the maga zines, it must do more to drive the nationa into conference in the Temple of Peace at The Hague than all the alluring appeals that Mr. ANDREW CARNEGIE and his friends. can make to them. But what would happen to M.. CARNEGIE and his funds," asks a London contemporary, if War were abolished and no more armour plate was ordered from the

great steel works in Pennsylvania that. supply him with his fortune and British

Mr. A. B. Sorensen tua taken over

charge of the Hongkong Station of the TELEGRAMS. TELEGRAMS. TELEGRAMS

Great Northern Telegraph Co. in succes sion to Mr. J. P. Islef.

It has been announced in Manila that beginning next January, all steamers of the Pacific Mail Steamship Co.'s service will call at Manila on the outward trip. and intermediate steamers will call there on the homeward trip.

[JAROUGH RELTER'S AGENOX.]

HOME RULE QUESTION.

THE RECENT VISITS TO

BALMORAL.

LONDON, September 24th. The Evening Standard says the belief grows in political circles that the visits

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENOT,]

THE BRITISH FLEET AND THE MEDITERRANEAN.

́IMFORTANT ADMIRALTY ANNOUNCEMENT.

(THROCOH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

BRITISH POSTAL EMPLOYEES DEMANDS,

REPLY TO STATEMENT ISSUED BY POST OFFICE. LONDON, September 24th.

LONDON, September 24th. An important Admiralty announcement

The Postal employees manifesto, issued has been issued, in which the Board in reply to the statement made by the intimates that it has decided to send a Post Office on the 22nd instant, denies detachment of the First Fleet, consisting that the recommendations of the Cora- originally came out to the Hongkong | Balmoral will result in a conference on of four battleships, the Third Cruiser mittee will involve an expense of one Daily Press in 1901 and was connected with the Homs Rule question, and that in the Far East ever since.

Straits papers announce the death from

cerebral hemorrhage of Mr. E. B. Helme, sub-editor of the Pinang Gazette of Ministers and Opposition leaders to

He was 38 years of age. Mr. Helme

this paper for four years,

He has been undoubtedly there has been

oxchange of views.

The new N.Y.K. steamer Katori-maru, just built at the Mitsu Bishi Yard, Nagasaki, was delivered to the Nippon

Yusen Kaisha on the 11th instant.

She

was to leave Nagasaki direct for Yoko hama on the 20th instant, and will start on her maiden voyage to Europe October at.

The French Consul General at Shang-

bai, M. Dejean de in Bâtie, who recently received the decoration of the Légion d'Honneur, has received a higher appoint- ment in Europe, and M. Kahn, who has for some time been in charge of the French Consulate General, bas

been definitely appointed Consul-General to succeed M. Dejean de la Batie.

ΠΟΠ

Squadron, the First light Cruiser Squad-

a friendly ron, and the Third Flotilla, under the command of Vice-Admiral the Hon. Bir Stanley Colville, to cruise the Mediter ranean early in November, returning at Christmas The Fourth Battle Squadron

The Pall Mall Gazette says that import ant communications or conversations have informally passed between Ministers and Opposition leaders on the Irish question, and prospects of an attempt to com- promise have been sensibly improved.

ARRANGING FOR A PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT

IN ULSTER

are

Unionist papers

devoting much speco to the proceedings in Ulstor.

Sir Edward Carson and General Richardson met the Unionist members of the House of Commons at Craig's House, Belfast, yesterday evening to discuss the establishment of a provisional govern Au uitknown Chinese went into a shop ment which it is expected will be an- at 50, Reinacker Street and presented announced at a meeting of five frundred order, purporting to come from the Wing

On Wo shop, to take delivery of 20 bags delegates of the Ulster Unionist Council

to-day. of rice, valued at $247. The man had a truck and four coulies, and promised to On Saturday Sir Edward Carson pay on delivery. The rice was supplied, but the shopkeeper, who did not know the

man, afterwards ascertained to his chagrin that no such shop as the "Wing On Wo" exists,

inspects fourteen Belfast regiments, each 800 strong, with complete commissariat, signalling and ambulance units.

General Richardson will be the Officer Commanding, and will be accompanied by his staff.

A very wide circle of friends in Hong kong will be interested to learn that Captain P. H. Mitchell Taylor, 32nd Lancers (Indian Army), who was A.D.C.

A feature of the display will be the and Private Secretary to Sir Frederick unfarling of the largest Union Jack Lugard during his tenure of the in the world, and instead of a general Governorship of Hongkong, was to be salute there will be three cheers for the married on the 30th alt. to Miss

Union. Gwendoline Dorothy Smyth, daughter of

RADICAL COMMENT. Colonel Hugo Scott Smyth, late York and

The Radical Lancaster Regiment, and of Mrs. Smyth

papers Bayford, Broadwater. Miss Smyth proceedings as Sir Edward Carson's staying with the Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Homo Rule Bill, and declare that the visited Hongkong about three years 80, last desperate effort to smash the

Pollock.

describe the

manufacturers of Belfast are alarmed at

The Chung Hua, a sea-going suction dredger, which has been built by Werf his reckless spreches, fearing that the Gusto, Firu A, F. Smulders, Schiedam labour troubles prevailing in Dublin may (Holland), to the order of the Hai-Ho be echood at Belfast, where the situation

million pounds yearly, and declares that more than a decade will clapse, tofora such an increase will be incurred. The manifesto goes on to say that it is mean and untrue to suggest that the recom-

will join the detachment at Gibraltar, mondation will cause additional taxation, and manoeuvres will then be carried and oxhorts the public to remember that out in the Western Mediterranean with the present discontent is not the work of the Mediterranean Fleet. At the the leaders, who counselled 'moderation termination of these exercises à combined but were overruled by an overwhelting.

vote of the members of the Parliamentary Committee.

Fleet, consisting of eight battleships. three battle cruisers, eight cruisers, and right light cruisers, will proceed to cruise

At a conference of telegraph and postal as far as Alexandria, visiting various clerks held at Liverpool i was resolved to instruct the Executive to remedi- porte.

The Third Flotilla and 18 moderately agitate for an all-round increase destroyers will remain in the Mediter- of wages commensurate with the increased ranean, the destroyers at present there then returning Home.

ROYAL VISIT TO NORTHAMPTON.

LONDON, September 24th. H.M. The King while the guest. of Earl Spencer at Althorp Park paid an official visit to Northampton, whore there were great jubilations, and from thence proceeded to witness the operations in the Army manoeuvres in the vicinity.

ROYAL BETROTHALS

BUKHAREST, Sept. 24th. The betrothals are announced of Prince Charles of Roamania and the Grand Duchess Olga of Russia; and of Princess Elisabeth of Romania and the Crown Prince George of Greece.

RENEWED FIGHTING IN THE

BALKANS.

ALBANIANS CAPTURE BERVIAN -FORTIFICATIONS.

BELGRADE, September 24th.

It is reported that 20,000 well-armed

Conservancy Commission, Tientsin, for would be most serious with the populace/Albanians, led by Austrian and Bulgarian

the dredging works at the Taka Bar, has left for her destination under her own steam The vessel is 38 metres long by 10 metres beam, and is capable of sucking at a depth of metres. She can discharge the spoil into barges, moored alongside, or fores it ashore by means of a pipe line to a distance of 3,000 metres. The craft is equipped with two compound engines of 250 i.h.p. each for navigating purposes, and with a compound engine of 500 h.p. for the two sand pumps, as well as two boilers:

ANOTHER BANK NOTE CASE

Before Mr. J. R. Wood, two Chiatse were charged with being in unlawful possession of a large quantity of Kwang tung bank notes.

Mr. F. B. L. Bowley (of Messrs. Dennys & Bowley) prosecuted, and Mr. F. C. Jenkins (instructed by Mr. Leo d'Almade) appeared for the defendants. The notes concerned in the charges were

armed with rifles and revolvers.

Mr. F. E. Smith has returned from Ulster to take up his duties on General French's staff at the manoeuvres as a lieutenant of Yeomanry.

ULSTER LEADER'S ORATORY.

LIBORAL GHOA'S STRIKING COMMENTS.

LONDON, September 24th. The Westminster Gazette strongly endorses what Mr. Fred Maddison, the Labour leader, says in his letter to The Times on the subject of Sir Edward

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Carson's speeches, and says:-"Suppose that Carsonism is established recognised method in British politics, how Would it fare with the Tories, when in power, in attempting to impose a tariff, to repeal the Trades Dispute Act, or to pass other legislation distasteful to any Suppose powerful section of workers t executing a search warrant. The notes Mr. Lloyd George and Sir John Simon were found in a safe, the key of which,

hamlets with free libraries that have to be upported out of the rates? Mr. CARNEGIE builds the Palice of Peace from the sale of the machinery of war, just as Sir ALFRED found by Sergt. Wilson and a body of MOND devotes so much money to the Freepolloe at No. 1, Wing Sun Street, when Trade cause from the profits of a protected industry. To the simple-minded all this is vastly entertaining, but we must never forget, as Sir ALFID MOND Kindly reminded us. that a man, be he Cobdenita or philanthropist, must remember his shareholders!”.

Liang Shib-yi has returned to his former

of post Secretary to the President's Office.

Street when he accidentally fell into the harbour and was drowned.

officers, have captured the Servian forti- cations it Dibra, and that the Govern ment is hastily sending reinforcements.

cost of living, and failing a satisfactory reply within six weeks, the conference will be again convoked to consider further action.

TRANSPORT WORKERS' FEDERA-

TION AND DUBLIN STRIKES.

LONDON, September 24th: The National Transport Workers' Fedoration, at a meeting in London, decided to inform the Dublin Trades Council that it regards it as futile to afford any help to the Dublin strikers, except to place the machinery of the Federation at the disposal of those desiring to terminate the dispute. That Federation is prepared, however, to appeal for funds for the sustenance of the sufferers.

The Trades Union Congress has decided

to send a shipload of provisions to Dublin at a cost of £5,000 to aid the strikers. THE RECENT RAILWA V., JUALLIMACAN AT AISGILL.

CONTRAST OF JURY VERNICTS,

LONDON, September 24th. As a contrast to the verdict wturned

by the jury who sat at the inquest'an other victims of the Aisgill disaster held

A message from Belgrade says it is on the 19th instant, the inquest held on officially announced that there was a Sir Arthur Douglas, formerly Minister determined battle, lasting two hours, of Defence in New Zealand; on the 6th between Albanians and two companies of instant, has resulted in a verdict of Servian troops at Dibra on the 22nd manslaughter being returned against the

driver of the second train. instant.

The Servians withdrew" towards Ritchevo.

A LABOUR LEADER'S STOCK EXCHANGE OPERATIONS.

The Albanions are six thousand strong. £12,000 MADE THROUGH ADVANCE KNOWLEDGE

GREEK PREMIER HONOURED BY

FRANCE.

PARIB, September 24th. President Poincaré has conferred upon M. Venizelos, the Greek Prime Minister,

the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honeur.

EXPORT FACILITIES IN NEW

SOUTH WALES.

LONDON, September 24th. The Minister of Lands in the New it was alleged, was handed to a Chinese joined forces with the Miners', Transport

South Wales State Government is deter- Workers' and Railway Unions, and mined to cheapen and facilitate the constable by the first defendant.

LONDON, September 24th..

M. Garros flew by aeroplane from Touton to Tunis, a distance of 500 miles, oversee, in seven hours,

OF INDUSTRIAL TROUBLES.

LONDON, September 24th.

A story is circulating in both Radical and other papers that a prominent Labour leader made £12,000 by "bearing” the stock market, on the basis of an advance knowledge of the Labour crises.

THE LATE GERMAN SOCIALIST LEADER'S ESTATE.

BERLIN, September 24th. Herr Bebel's estate is estimated at

This £47,000.

includes the £20,000.

mann.

STILL BURNING FOR VOTES.

LARGE BUILDING DESTROYED BY SUFFRAGETTES IN LIVERPOOL.

LONDON, September 24th. Suffragettes fired on Monday night large house at Beaforth, Liverpool, which was in course of re-construction for the housing of imbeciles. Great damage was

done.

The case against the first

man drilled and armed them, proparing for a transmission along the coast and the bequeathed to him by Lieutenant Kall- was first proceeded with. Mr. Bowley general strike backed by physical force? said that at the time of the seizure Such a dangerous hypothesis is unthink- exportation of the wheat crop by opening new ports and introducing the bulk nobody claimed the notes, but subse-able." quently a letter was received by the The journal further declares that system of bandling cargo, Captain Superintendent of Police from Carsonism will inevitably lead to a

AVIATOR'S NOTABLE ACHIEVE- Ms. Leo d'Alinada claiming them on repetition of the fate of the Unionists in

MENT. behalf of a client. He would prove that 1900-10, and that it is the business of the towards the end of July of the present Government to stand firm and fearless One of the fokis at a shop at 128, Des year a quantity of unissued notes were Voeux Road West, was going on board the

sent from the Canton Treasury to the against the threats, while renewing and Heung Shan junk at Queen Victoria Governor-General's Yamen for the pay-repeating the offer of a Conference which ment of the troops. Chan Kwing-ming has been on record since the Conference had declared his independence of the of 1010. Central Government, and held the position of Independent Governor of the Province for a week or so from the 3rd or 4th of August, and then disappeared. Subse quently a large quantity of notes were found to have been stolen from the So far as Governor-General's Yament. the new notes geized by the police were. concerned. they were in consecutive num- bors, which proved conclusively that they were newly-issued notes. Some of the notes were tied up in bundles with the red tape as used in the Treasury, and they were practically in the same condi- tion as when they left the Treasury.

Evidence was given, and the case was adjourned.

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Lieutenant James, of the D.C.L.I., has been the victim of a theft from his room of a watch, a cigarette case, three cigarette holders, and $12 in ready cash, the total value of the articles being $112,

An applicatior was made to Mr. F. A. Hazeland it the Magistracy yesterday by Mr. Willson (of Messrs. Stephens & Willson) for the re-bearing of a case in which a Chinese had been found guilty of being in unlawful possession of a quantity of opium and fined $2,000. The Magistrate fixed the tearing for Friday.

DISAPPROVAL OF GOLF AMONG OLYMPIC GAMES.

LONDON, September 24th. The Royal Ancient Club has dis- approved of the inclusion of golf among the Clympic games.

MEXICAN REBELS TREACHERY.

TRAIN BLOWN UP AND 50 FERSONS KILLED.

LONDON, September 24th. Mexican rebels blew up a train at Seltillo with dynemite, killing 40 Federal soldiers and 10 passengers.

MR. JUSTICE BUCKNILL RETIRING.

INCREASED INTEREST ON ALBERTA BONDS.

LONDOS, September 24th. The Legislature of Alberts has passed

LONDON, September 24th. Mr. Justice Bucknili has announced his impending retirement from the Bench.

[The Hon. Sir Thomas Townsond Bueknill, who is in the 70th year of his age, lus been a Judge in the King's Bench Division since Government securities from 4 per cent. 1:899. Prior to that he had represented to 43 per cent. The Opposition sup Epsom in Parliament for seven years. Mr.

♫, Bill increasing the interest

Justice Buckmill on his retirement will be ported the measure, but urged that the entitled to a pension of £3,500 a year. The bonds should not be sold at less than par Hos. Mr. J. A. S. Buckhill. "Attorney-

.accept the General in Hongkong, is a son of the retiring The Judge.]

Premier, did nat

suggestion.