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used it as n xmintorium to which the British Fleet annually resorts in the summer months. Great Britain acquired the tarstory of Weihaive, and

nud the adjacent watera "for so long a period as Port

Arthur may romain in the occupation

Whilst a Chinese couk, of N TELEGRAMS. TELEGRAMS. TELEGRAMS.

Shangaa Street, Yaumati was away from the house in Mundyy, surde person stole from his bed two blu kets and some clothing.

In our advertisement eolumirusit ta announced that the newly formed University Lodge of Hongkong will be consecrated by the District Grand Master at Freemasons Hall on Monday, the withi inst.

THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.

THE DISASTER TO THE

*VOLTURNO!”

FURTHER NARRATIVES BY SURVIVORS

[THROUGH REUTER'S

ANTI-HOME RULE MEETING,

LONDON, October 14th. Mr. Austen Chamberlain presides over an auti Home Rule meeting to be held at Birmingham Shortly at which Mr. Bonar LONDON. October 14th. Law and Sir Edward Carson wif deliver

addresses,

SECOND OFFICER'S GREAT GALLANTRY,

The Rav, Arthur Sowerby, so well and popularly known throughout North The following is a further instalment China, has left Tientsin for Peking und of the narrative of the German survivor entered on his duties as, tutor to the Trintepohl family of H.E. Yuan Shih kai, says the V6. Daily News.

Members of the Hongkong Philharmonic Society are reminded that the annual genera), meeting takes place this evening at 3.15 in the City Hall, when His Excellency the Hon. Mr. Chud „Severn has consented ta preside.

."

PRINCE ARTHUR OF CONNAUGHTS MARRIAGE.

ROYAL RECEPTION AT ST. JAMES FALACE.

LORDON, October 14th.

[THROUGH ABOISA'S AGENDY-}--- LORD CHIEF JUSTICE EESIGNS.

LONDON, October-14th.. Lord Averstone, the Lord Chief Justice, has resigned. A successor, will be appointed in a few days, and thero. is reason to believe that he will be Sir Rufus Isaacs, the Attorney-General.

THE SUFFRAGETTES AND THE ROYAL WEDDING.

LONDON, October 14th. The Suffragettes held a meeting yester. day, at which it was decided to hold donionstration at the wedding of Prince Arthur of Connaught..

B

ARRIVAL OF H.M.S. YARMOUTH.”

When the flames reached the cont bunkers the task of extinguishing was rendered impossible. An explosion occurred in the evening, creating a panic. Despairing people, when Goat from the Their Majesties the King and Queen Groiser Kurjucret not under the stern of held a weeption at St. James' Palace the doomed vessel, jumped overboord and yesterday evening in honour of the so were rescued.. The boat was out for approaching marringe of Prince Arthur

∙and· was

nearly lost of Connaught and the Duchess' of Fife. 2x hours

The second offcer of the Valturno Theivs were 500 guests present, including Henr Colirane, arrived at Hongkong showed the greatest gallantry. He fell all the Royal family, and no uniforma 20 feet while repairing the wireless were worn. installation, but continued fighting the fire, and later made a perilous journey in a boat to the Grusser Kurfurst."

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condition of the agreement between Russ aud China that the lease may be extended by mutual agreement between Russia and China, and as, with the consent of the Government of China, all rights, privileges. and concessions connected with or forming part of such lease were transferred and usaigured to Japan, it presumably followe that Japan has acquired the right under the agreement to negotiate with Obina for the extension of the lease. T would be absurd to suppose that there is any likelihood of a retrocession of Port Arthur or Dairen to China in 1928. Chira by forec majeure will be obliged to extend the lease, and, according to what is presum bly the British interpretation of the We harwei convention, Great Britain's right to

We learn that before entering the The Manila authorities believe that in

Harbour the Yarmouth was attacked by retain. Weihaiwei would be simultaneously

the Submarino Flotilla very successfully axtended for so long as the lease of Port arresting Ignacio Syyap, a prominent Chinese infrchant on the Escolta, antl Arthur-isoxtanded. Weihaiwei w

us C.30 got as close as two cables (400 Antonio Boncan, also a well-known, mer leased in order to provide Great Britain chant, they have captured the lenders of

yards) to the Farmouth before she was with a naval harbour in North China and one of the biggest if not the biggest

The Farmouth is very much like the for the better protection of British co-op smuggling syndicates in the

euchatle class in external appearances, merce in neighbouring seas"-reasons Orient..

but there is a great difference in the which still hold good, and they would not be

Baron Seckendorff, neting German

armament of the two ships." The satisfied by the offer of a port in the South, Minister at Peking, has been given the so close to the international settlement of title of Privy Councillor The Emperor Reuter's correspondent.nt New York their batons, while those on the platforms mouth's armament consists of a sineh Shanghai. The Peting Gazette in a com has at the same time ordered that the says that wireless messages diave been and the audience used their chairs, many guns and 2 21-inch torpedo tubes, whereas ment on the question remarks that from German Minister at Peking shall always received from the Groseer Kurfuerat which were sninslied in the confusion of the Jewcastle has 26-inch guns and 10% be entitled to the title of Excellency stating the fro on the Folturno was Miss Pankhurst escaped, but Mrs, Leigh, during his term of ofhite-studatischer started by an explosion in the forward a well-known leader of the movement, in 27th January, 1919, and launched 12th

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It is announced in the Shanghai papers that mails now close for Europe at the Chinese Post Office twice a week, namely, on Sundays and Wednesdays at 19 p.m., these naile heing sent by (rain Pla Pakow. Hongkong mails, presumably are not sent that way.

China's point of view it is not easy to sea what adrentage would be gained by allow ing another Power, however well dispused," | Lloyd. to develop a second Hongkong in such eloss proximity to her chief trade murt. For it must always be borne in mind that while Shanghai owes its prosperity to the Inter national Settlements and the French Con-

cassion, in the normal course of development

The Chinese gardener at Dubree Ville, Shaukiwan, who tendered a false state. went to the police in regard to an alleged armed robbery

this --- employer's recidence, appeared before Mr. F. A.

Hazeland (Senior Magistrate) yesterday

charged with the theft of clothing which he had sail the robbers purloined. The caso was remanded until Friday.

The liner Czar arrived at Rotterdam to-night

passengers, from The Volturno will be sent to a hotel, and sens on to New York at the earliest possible

moment. The American authorities have agreed to admit them without passports, as they have lost everything....

hold at sevengu 'clock in the morning of Thursday. The messages dwell on the spectacle, and state that the flames were eighty pet in the air, and that fifty or more of the crew and passengers were

killed by the explosion and the fire.

POLICE COLLIDE WITH

SUFFRAGETTES.,

FIERCE FIGHT IN LONDON,

LONDON, Oetober 14th,

SURPRISED BY A SUBMARINE The light cruiser Farmouth, Capt.

n. p. yesterday on entering sho saluted the Commodore's flag with eleven guns.

Miss Sylvia Pankhurst was addressing observed by those on board the cruiser, en moeting at Bow Batas when the police rushed in, and attempted to arrest her A fierce figat ensued, the police using

wes arrested.

FOUND IN THE SCHELDT.

SUPPOSED BODY OF HEER, DISSED.

LONDON. October, 14th,

A budy, believed to be that of Horr

4-inch, and 2 18-inch torpedo tubes.

The Farmonth was laid down at Govan

April, 1911. She has a foot more, benin and is 400, tons heavier in displacenient than the Newcastle.

THE UNIVERSITY OF HONGKONG.

THE KING EDWARD VIL. SCHOLARSHIPS

At the recent Matriculation Examinin

The Carminia has arrived of Fish | Budolf Diesel the inventor, has beention of the University of Hongkong, two- guard The Captain declined to make a ↑ found in the Scheldt."

the administrative control of the port will revert to China, just as the foreign settle ments in Japan and Koses have reverted to exoliisivo Japanese control. There are,

At the Magistracy yesterday, before statement. A passenger, however, relates our contemporary adds, many obvious Mr. J. B. Wood, a clerk named Modesto that two of the Volturno's boats were A. S. WATSON & CO.. economic objections, to the creation of an Romero, aged 95, was charged with safely launched, If these are lost, as is

important commercial centre under alien assaulting a ricsha coolic in Connaught feared, the death roll will be 170. control at the mouth of China's chief water. Road. It was stated that the defendent

H.M.S. Donyat has been despatched" “Nor are the objections limited to engaged the complainant's vehicle, and these alone. Letovernment has fre-wheir the cuolie asked for his far he was from Ladlash to destroy the Polturno, raising their capital by £1,500,000. The scholarships is that the holder must be a

kicked by the defondant

LIMITED,

ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS.

- BIRTH.

Mions-On 14th October, at 4, Century Crescent, Kennedy Road, to Mr. and

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Mr SIDNEY MICHAEL, A BOIL.

MARRIAGES,

MACOUN-MCMOLLAN.On the 8th inst., at Shanghai, JoUN. HORATIO "MACOUM, Commissioner of Customs, Nanking, to IBOBEL MCMULLAN daughter of Mrs. Mc MULLAN of County Down. HELSBY HUTCHISON. On October 8th, at Shanghai, FREDELIOR "GEORGE HECARY, to SOPHIE FRANCES, elast daughter of Mr. and Mrs, H. Do FLON HUTCHISON.

HONGKONG Obrice: 10, Dre Four ROAD C LONDON Chic 13, Fleet STEIKT, E.C.

The Daily Press.

HONGBONG, OCTOBER 15TH, 1913.

TELEGRAM to the Oeslasiatischer Lloyd mentioned recently that the Peking Correspondent of the Daily Telegraph, discussing suggestions male with regard to British policy in Chian, recommends the strengthening of the British alliance with Japan and the oxchang of Walhaisei, which China desires to use as a naval base, for the land of Chusan which has an excellent Tangtuve-rondstead and which promises to be one another Hongkong and a basis of the British commercial claims in Central China. We doubt if this suggestion is ever likely to be seriously considered either by the British or Chinese Government. While the Chinese Press of the North Las for many years past given currener, to reports indicative of a desire on the part of the Chinese Govern went to regain passession of Weibaiwež as a naval base, and it lms even been more than once ststell--incorrectly, we believe- that the British Government had bean sounded on the subject, we have never observed in tl parts any indication of a disposition to offer other territory in

it likely that the Chinese Government would nowadays lu persuaded to de so. The offer of a las of Chuyan in exchange for Weihaiwerah be tempting, because

way

will

quently considered the advisability of converting Nimrod Sound into a strong wavel base, and a glance at the map show that any such intention would be stultified by the leasing to a foreign Power

Defendant which is endangering shipping offered as an excuse for the assault a

Interviews with the Caruman's passen who have arrived in London,

King Edward VII. Scholarships, of the annual value of £40 each, and tenable for four years, were to be awarded to the two candidates who returned the most satis factory papers. One scholarship was to be given to La Engineering student, The atfer to a student in the Are Faculty The only condition attached to thes British subject, irrespective of race,

Of the entrants for the Engineering Faculty. Mr. Lo, Cheuk Shing was the. successful candidate Mr. Lo was born and educated at Penang.

THE HAMBURG-AMERIKA LINE

CAPITAL TO BE RAISED BY £1,500,000

LONDON, October 14th. The Hamburg-Amerika Line proposa

Company announce that they expect to declare a dividend of at least 10 per cent.

POOR PROSPECTS FOR INDIAN HARVEST.

Among those who passed into the Arts SIMLA, October 14th.

Facuity there were no British subjects, graphs of the burning of the Folturno,

The continued failure of the September therefore it was not possible to award a taken from the restaing ships, give vivid rains has resulted in a partial failure of Scholarship. In consequence, it is pru- pictures of the disaster.

the Autumn harvest in parts of the posed award the vacant scholarship ou Though an authoritative account by the United Province, Rajputana, the Central the rests of a Matriculation Examina tion which is to be held at the gid of the still lacking, all stories concur that the Government has sanctioned advances to Survivors and erow of the Patterng is Provinces and Central India,, and the

present term,

loss of life was due to the destruction of

statement to the effect that the coolie took an hour and a half to go from the Canton steamers Wharf to Che Lung Street. He wireless messages received from the also alleged that he was assaulted by Graeser hurfuerat, Krvanland, Devonian, of un island not more than fifty miles other coolies, He was fired E, and Ozar and Touraine, and Striking photo-

SIR HENRY AND LADY MAY IN BERLIN

The following is an extract from letter received from Berlin-

arrival of the liners.

Are

Provinces

OBITUARY

Governor of Hongkong, Sir F. H. May

His Majesty the Kaiser had invited theats which were launched before the the amount of thirty lakhs for the United

Lady May and their eldest daughter to attend on the 2nd September the Aurumun variously attributed to fames reaching

The explosions of the eve Review of Troops and later in the evening one thousand cases of gin in the hold, the Gala-Opera. To the deep regret of and to detonators and rockets stored in the Kai and, the Court Military the chart room exploding.

ircles, at the latest, moment news was

The pans among the passengers was

LONDON October 14th. The Right Hon: Sir Ford North, P., F.R.S., F.R.M.B., K.C.. has passed away received, that, owing to the political un-intensified by these explosions which the at the age of 33. rest in China, Sir Henry had had to Grosset Kurjuers says killed forty and The deceased Knight was appointed s postpont his voyage and could not arrive injured the captain.

A SHATTERED IDOL-AND AN INJURED WORSHIPPER.

Whilst Chinese was engaged in devotional exercises before his joss" at Shatoko on Monday, he allowed his cigarette, which he irreverently held. lighted in his mouth to drop into some gunpowder, which, was lying about There was an explosion and the an 8, now in hospital, suffering from injuries to his hands and face, while the joss was shattered to smithereens

distant. Strategically and commercially ordered to pay the coolin 81 compensa- the exchange of Oman for Weibarweition. would be a bal bargait (for Chian). If the filand offers such tremendous commercial possibilities China herself should undertake its developinent. Nor, to look at the matter from the British point of view, do we sce any immediate advantage in founding a rival port to Shanghai, where British interests have always becp, and are likely for many years to be, supremu." With this view we think there will be general agreement among Chinese and British subjects alike. Chusts, it is interesting to recall, has been three times in British occupation. It was occupied in 1830 as a step towards opening direct nego tiations with the Chinese Court in the

Cudge in the Queen's Bench Division in North; it was held by Great Britain again in time in Berlin. As Lady May and her Most people shoard the Carmanin 1881 and was transferred to the Chancery aite, the Treaty of Nanking in 1842 pending previously, and information thereof had for the boats which were helplessly

danghter had arrived in Berlin some time paced the decks all night, some praying Division in 1881, resigning in 1900.] the payments of the iddemnity of cight been given to official circles, they were tossing on the seas and unable to reach

The death is announced of the Right million dollars, spread over three years. invited to the Review and A regular Government was established Opera. The German Che Gala the Folturas, upon which the Carmania Hon, James Stuart, P.C., M.A.. LL.D.,

at Hong- had focussed a searchlightRNA at the age of 70. there during that period of occupation, kong, Dr. Vorciszch, who is at present The flames, according to descriptions The deccused Privy Councillor was a It was evacuated in 1846 when China paid on leave in Germany, was informed and by the passengers of the Cermania, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and up the last instalment of the indemnity; he undertook the guidance of the two ascended to. a height of one hundred feet, Civil Engineers. He represented Hackney an associate member of the Institution of but twelve years later it was reoccupied by ladies on this day. The weather was and were like a dozen haystacks burning in the Liberal interrues in 1884, Lord ELGIN's expedition as security for the excellent and the Review passed off The most heroic sight witnessed was returned for Hoxton (Shoreditch) in 1885, payment by the Kwangtung Government of "plendidly Lady May and Miss Way that of two cfficers working like demons sitting for this constituency for five years and sat for Sunderland from 1906 intil There were conveyed to the Review in a Court with axes and crowbars ripping up the 1910] an indemnity of two million taels, orists & Convention, negotiated at the equipage and stopped close to the coaches deck to prevent the fire sprending aft

of the Kaiser and Royalties, thus being where the survivors were huddled., Bogue in 1846 which provides that Chusan

able to obtain a good view of the passing The difficulty of rescuing by boats was shall never be teded to any other foreign of the troops. In the evening a box was made evident by the fact that's boat or created in Co Cark (North), by the sular Court at Shanghai last week. Fower and that the British would protect, it reserved for them in the Royal Opera the liner Minneapolis was carried off by demise of Mr. P. Guiney (Independent charged on a Consular warrant with the House, where they listened to the brilliant the wind and current and her rudder Nationalist), who was returned for the performance of Der Grosse König." It bruken. She was sighted by a searchlight constituency at the last election without may be mentioned tha at this Gala-Opera of the Carmania, which steamed to her opposition.

the whole Theatre was filled by officers assistance, and as the last cecupant aud, men of the regiments, who had

climbed aboard, the boat was smashed

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A Parliamentary vacancy has been

The death is announced of Sir John

TYPHOON WARNINGS.

The following typhoon messages were. received by the American Consulate from the Manila Observatory at 4.57 p.m. yesterday miles distant recurving N.E.

Typhoon E of Aparri, less than 300 Typhoon E.S.E. of Naha, moving N.N.W. or N.

A NANKING CASE REMITTTD TO. MACAO FOR TRIAL,

Oswaldo Martwick Rosario was brought ap on remand at the Portuguese. Con---

larceny and forgory of a cheque by which he obtained the sum of Ile 6.202.28, the property of the International, Import and Export Co., Nanking, during the month of August 1913-

flom invasion by others. These historical facts no doubt explain why Chusan should be suggested as a suitable exchange for Weihaiwe. There were times in the early history of Hongkong when the British

community for not preferring Chusan to Lady May and her daughter expressed

Jost accounted for the Carmanie not join- Hongkong, and a wholesale exodus to Chu their great satisfaction with the attention the final rescue, Captain Barr of the son was advocated on more than one occasion they received in Berlin-a-well as the Carmati, signalling the other captains on account of the general unhealthiness of great pleasure they had derived from that he would stand aside if they rescued

Hongkong might easily have been estab ward journey on the 6th September, but Sir Henry May arrived here on his home

When the boats were alongside the lished there in the early days of foreign will stay here only a few days. intercourse with China, but that i notaiser and all the Princes age, at present clouds, of steam were rising from the Newbyth, is also desd. Deceased served

The Volturno, her plates were red hot, and

likely to happen now, when Great Britain in Schlesion for the Maneuvres, so that waterline, but the rescues were most has good rens u tu be satisfied with a meeting with the Kaiser is not well methodical, and even the captain's dog in the Kafr War, 51-3; Crimea, 1854;

Gripen

excluage for Whuivel, Nor do we think authorities were much criticised by the attended the Review in the forenoon on the farmania's side. The time thus Busty Tuke, M.D., F.R.C.R.E., F.R.SE prima facie case had been made ont noi

Great Britain has not done so much Hongkong in the early days. A sacond attending the Review and the Opera the passengers...

at. Weikniver as to make her anxious to hold the place. Luch, commercially is never likely to be of any great value. Neither is its strategy value great, for the British Government years ago abandoned the idea of fortifying the pale and has

Shanghai as a commercial centre.

Tossible,'

whs taken off.

LED a miember my the Goaeral Medical Council-of-Registration and Education and President of the Neurological Society of the United Kingdom.

At the conclusion of a lengthy hearing- lasting four days, it was stated that

two counts, namely larceny and forgery. The accused would therefore be sent to Macao to take his trial before the Supreme Court at that port. - In the meantime he would remain at H. B. M.'

gol until he was sent South,

During the past week the cases of com- municable discaso reported were as fol-

theria, two, one fatal; Enteric fever, five, Sir David Baird, third Baronet of lows:-Bubonic plague, four, all fatal nod all Chinese Cholera, Ave; Diph- one fatal. The number of cases of plague.

and Indian Moring, 1858,

for the year totals 303, all Chinese, of which 329 proved fatal: