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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27TH, 1913.

-the public must begin to wonder whether TELEGRAMS.[TELEGRAMS. TELEGRAMS. DISASTROUS COLLISION IN THE

peace and order se e assured in China, as

it is officially declared to be. It will doubt- lose have been noticed that the notification: published by the TUTUH gives no indication

WATSON the spacial cause of dissatisfaction which

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conduced to this alleged plotting. There is nothing to show that it was inspired by any patriotic ideal, and we are left to assume that these soldiers or ex-soldiers

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(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENIY3

THE INDIAN UNREST IN SOUTH AFRICA

A FATAL COLLISION WITH POLICE.

DURBAN, November 26th. Indiana have broken out at Esperanza, on the south coast of Natal. In a collision with the police three Indians

were killed and 20 wounded.

· Reuter's agency has been informed that an exchange of views is in progress betweeen the Indian and the Colonial The latter is communicating Offices. with the Union regarding the Viceroy's Memorandum,

Sir Luis Botha's announcement is viewed in official circles as sound and

to whichever side offers to pay them best. But, if it is somewhat alarming to learn for the first time from an order for the summary execution of ten conspirators that preparations for a "third revolution" buve been in progress, it is at all events satis factory to learn in the same way that the Cauton authorities are exercising auch, and one is hoped front the mission The situa vigilance that they are able to frustrate of General Smuts to Natal. these evil designs. Nothing but harmsion, however, is regarded as béjno full can come of these "revolutions," and the of difficulties, and not one for Imperial Turcu will be congratulated upon

this

interference. The real need is exercise evidence that he has the situation well in

of moderation, more especially as both les from their own points of view are in the right.

[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY:]

THE HOME RULE CAMPAIGN.

BUTING RIELED AND ENROLLING OFFICERS,

LONDON, November 20th. Mr. A Birrell, apeaking at Bristol, emphatically denied that the Cabinet was divided on the subject of Ulster.

Culond Hickman, in the course of an aduress at Wolverhampton, said that he was buying rifles, and enrolling past and present Officers of the Army and Navy to help Ulster.

LATERS,

It is stated that ten thousand were enrolled at the Rotunda, Dublin, A manifesto which has been issued says that Volunteers will form a permanent element of national life under a National Govern- mene as a guarantee that the liberties of the Erish people will be secured.

RIOTOUS SCENES IN DUBLIN,

Eight thousand people assembled at tho. Rotunda rink, Dublin, to enrol in the Nationalist Volunteer Force. Some of the speakers baring employed free labour,

workers outside,

the transport

were

[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] MARRIAGE OF PRESIDENT WILSON'S DAUGHTER.

WASHINGTON, November 26th. President Wilson's daughter, Jessie, was married to Mr. Francis Sayre, of Thers New York, at the White House.

was

brilliant assemblage of four

hundred guests, including Ambassadors

in uniform.

The bride and bridegroom are both energetic social workers. The bride gave up her ambition to become a foreign missionary at the instance of her family, and Mr. Sayre has abandoned lega) work and becomes an educationalist.

OBJECTION TO THE WORD "OBEY,' The word "obey" was omitted from the marriage service of President Wilson's daughter, which was Presbyterian. MR. A. CHAMBERLAIN THE GUEST OF MR. CHURCHILL

LONDON, November 26th. The Timer states that Mr. Austen Chamberlain will be the guest of Mr.

the

Winston Chirchill. on board Admiralty yacht, Enchantress, after the

HARBOUR.

JAPANESE STEAMER SINKS YAUMATI FERRT LAUNCH.V

As the result of a collision between the Japanese steamer Soihu Maru, belonging to the Owako Shosen Kaisha, and the Yaumati ferry launch Wà Sang, a nume ber of people were drowned in the Harbour yesterday morning. The guesses range from 12 to 40, but only fixe dend bodies have been recovered.

The ferry, left the wharf on the Hong- kong side of the water at about 8.30 am, having on board about 60 passengers, out whilst she was coming round one of Some little distanco besides the crew.

the two Blue Funnel steamers moored almost in mid-channel, the Sochu Jaru, which was heading eastward and was making a passage between two Blue Funnel liners, eat right into her, and sho sank almost immediately, the crew and passengers being precipitated into the Water. Several launches Inckily happened to be in the vicinity, and about thirty of the passengers were picked up and con- voyed to the Kowloon wharves where. doctors were employed for some time. attending to those who had suffered most by the immersion. An “Admiralty launch picked up two coxswaing, two fremen, twa sailors and one or two passengers.

All the passengers on the launch were Chinese with the exception of two-Mr. Curwen, headmaster of

It is pointed out that Mr. Fisher saw Lord Crewe and Mr. Harcourt on the

Moreover, it is stated publicly riotous, and there was some revolver unch of the oil Dreadnought, Tarépite the Government Scheol at Yaamuti, subject.

that a modus pirendi is possible if the Indians are moderate. Therefore it is felt that while the just grievances of the Indians are admitted it is not in their interest to raise fresh grievances and keep changing ground.

lisad and is well-informed as to what is happening. There is still no confirmation of the news that His EXCELLENOY has been somewhat seriously wounded by a would-be assassin, among his body-guards, and it will be hoped that this report has no basis in fact. There is one feature of the notifi- cation which will not, wo imagine, sscape the attention of the Hongkong Government. We refer to the statement that the con- spiracy is engineered by rebel factions in Hongkong and Macao. The evidence given at the Court-Martial would seem to have very conclusively pointed to this. If this be so, the proper course for the Canton" Government to adopt would be to com FIN, municate this evidence to ibe Hongkong the law which was not carried out has excuse for a strike Government and ask for its help in the given Indians an matter. In its own interests the Hongkong | which would otherwise be wanting. Mr. Government would be only too anxious Fischer when in London emphasised to to prevent this Colony being used as the the Imperial Government that the sugges of the Finest Quality in great headquarters of a criminal organisation tion of an Indian enquiry would be variety.

plotting rebellion in the neighbouring interfering in internal affairs, and would

thus be unwelcome.

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Province, and if there exists good evidence. that the hospitality of this Colony is being so A. S. WATSON & CO., abused the Canton Government ought from past experience to feel well assured of the readiness of the Government of Hongkong to take the necessary measures to suppress such an organisatiou and to punish the plottergator

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AUSTIN-At 58, The Peak, on the 20th inst., to Mr. and Mr. A. R. Ausris,

HMS Manalaur and Newcastle arrived in port yesterday from the North, The Japanese cruiser Tatsula also arrived.

We notice that on Trafalgar Dhy ni large laurel wreath To the memory of Nelson from the Hongkong Branch of the Navy League" was placed at the N. W. corner of the Nelson Column in Tratal gar Square, London,

On the other hand

a declaration on the Indian site that South Africa promised an amendment to

Mr. Hamar Greenwood, M.P. speaking at The West Indian Club, deplored the ignorance of members of the Cabinet of the conditions existing in the Dominions. Nothing was fronght with grestor danger than the hasty, and croctimes abusive criticism of General Botha in reference to the Indians, and it was not in the interests of Imperial unity that the head of the Union Government should be herated in a public dispatch by the

Viceroy

Sir G. C. M. Birdwood, in a letter to The Times, states that the great error of the Indians has been in associating them-

Major Gilbert Drage, who was last eives with Central African blacks in employed in command of the Royal complaining of the colour bar. He says Marine detachment in H.M.S. Minotaur, that the Hindu caste system is impreg on the China Station, from March, 2011.nably based upon the colour bar - to May, 1912, has retired, having com- pleted his twenty-third year of service,

Mr. F. W. Carpenter, who for the past twelve months has been the United States

Minister at Bangkok, has relinquished the appointment to the great regret of the American community in the Siameso capital. Mr. Carpenter is proceeding to America wiù Japan.

THE VICEROYALTY OF INDIA,

Losoor, November 28th. The Times, discussing the question of the Viceroyalty of India, says that Lord Hardinge's official career หม never intended to end with the Viceroyalty. It is generally believed that he will in due course return to the diplomatic service.. probably as Ambassador to Paris, and

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DEATH. HANDEL-On November 20, at Shanghai, GERTRUD HANDEL, beloved wife of W. HANDEL, aged 28 years.

It is not the eneval rule of Alpinists Hongkong Office: 104, Des Vaux Road C. to visit the Japanese Alps after the Inte LONDON OFFICE: 181, FLEET STREET, E.C. sunnier, but four British naval officers circumstances may necessitate his doing so.

The Daily Press.

HONGKONG, NOVEMBER 27TH, 1913.

Ir is very evident from the news published yesterday from our Canton correspondent that the present state of Chinu is not quite so peaceful as it seems. The vernacular Tress has been effectually muzzled, so that

firing. Students exploded fireworks, and windows were smashed.

VOLUNTARY SERVICE IN

ENGLAND.

SCHEME FOR FOPULARISING THE

TERRITORIALS.

LONDON, November 28th, Mr. Asquith receives a deputation of the Council of Territorials to-day. It is announced that a scheme will be sub- nitted in order to popularise the force,

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TROPICAL AGRICULTURE.

the

who at Devonport.

and was quickly picked up, Political circles are much interested in an Indian, who had a most exciting and the meeting, owing to the similarity of extremely varrow escape from drowning. After the collision, he swam straight for views of Mr. Churchill and Mr. Chathe Pray, and was pulled asborc in an berlain upon the federal solution of the exhausted condition. He was removed Irish problem.

to the Wing Kee Company's premises ou

restoratives wera. Praya, where applied, and the man soon recovered,

Tickets are not issued on the Yaumati ferries, which are Chinese-owned, and it is therefore impossible to ascertain exactly how many people were on the launch at the line of the accident, and cengequently there are no means of learning precisely how many lives have been lost. The bodies so far recovered are those of three men

COLLEGE SCHEME MAKING PROGRESS.

LONDON, November 26th. The London Committee, under Colonel including bonuses and concessions to Sir Henry B. McCallum, has drawn up officers and men and preference for a scheme for the establishment of a college, Government posts. Also, employers will which will now be considered. be allowed 230 free of incometax for each has asked Professor Wyndham Dunstan, one woman and a baby

Territorial in their service.

SUGAR PRODUCERS' OFFER TO ENGLISH BUYERS

LONDON, November 26th. Four large Continental sugar producers offer a rebcie of lid per cwi. to English buyers The scheme is a topic of dis cussion in the market, and the opinion is expressed that as sugar is cheap enough without artificial aids it is unlikely to bo adopted.

HIGH FLIER KILLED,

LONDON, November 26th. M. Perron, the world's highest flier, whilst testing a new monoplane at an aerodrome at Bue, fell a distance of fifty feet and was killed, being crushed by the

engine.

LARKIN AND HIS METHODS.

|

Ceylon

who is about to visit Ceylon, to represent ibón the Committee, and to confer with the Board of Agriculture, and also the Ceylon Planters Association with. reference to details. The financial sub-

committee, which has been soliciting the support of planting and other commercial firms in England, has made such salis factory progress, that it is hoped to give effect to the scheme in the course of 1914. FRENCH DESTROYER'S NARROW ESCAPE.

SMYRNA, November 26th, The French torpedo" destroyer. Suhi, with the French Consul-General and party, was returning from Vourla to

Smyrna, and when passing a mine field one of the mines exploded.. There was great excitement, but fortunately no que

was injured.

JACK JOHNSON'S NEW ROLE.

Pans, November 26th. LONDON, November 26th,

Jack Johnson, the notorious pugilist, Mr. Ashion, Secretary of the Miners'

issued R. Federation, has

statement appeared at a music hall in Paris as a condemning Larkin and his methods. He catch-as-catch-can wrestler, defeating a save that a national strike would be a German named Urbach in two fails. silly thing,

-CANADIAN SLOOP RETURNS,

VANCOUVER, November 28th. have proved recently that such a trip is.

Considerably earlier than the end of The sloop Algerine, which was ordered possible. The Jajan Gazette learns from

1915, There is general agreement that to proceed to the west coast of Mexico, A zorrespondent a few particulars of an interesting journey made by Lieutenants should Lord Kitchener again become a has now returned, having lost a propellor. Lgerton and Boxton and Sub-Lieutenants candidate for the Viceroyalty, the post. Bevin and Evans, of H.B.M.S. Vinokur, would not again be given another. These officers started out from Kamikochi to climb the centre praks in the Northern Japanese Alps. They nearly made the ascent of Miyodaka, but when about thres or four hundred feet from the summit were compelled to vetrate their steps

INDIAN SPECIE BANK'S AFFAIRS,

BOMBAY, November 25th, The petition for winding up the Indian Specie Bank was dismissed. The Judge

no incitement comes from that quarter, owing to the thick coating of ice and to congratulated the manager of the Bank

himself and the directors by the share

holders,

THE PORTUGUESE COLONIES.

REMOURED ANGLO-ÒERMAN INTERVENTION

DENIED.

No fewer than ning vernacular newspapers a lack of proper Alpine appliances upon the unanimous confidence shown in have been suspended in Canton during the However, they ascended the volcans past few months for having published Yakodaki, the upper part of which was articles calculated to disturb the public covered with snow, and also made the peace, and in other places farther North the ascent of Kazumidaki, a rather striking Kuomintang newspapers, whether pub. peak immediately in front of Kamikochi lished in the vernacular or in a foreign Onsen. What struck the officers most was the magnificence of the autan tiats, language, have either been suppressed by especially in the valley of Shinji. order or have anticipated such an order by Even foreign Piesa voluntary suicide. messages on the situation in China have benn censored at the Peking telegraph

HONGKONG CRICKET CLUB.

LISBON, November 26th

The Foreign Minister, in the course of

ESPIONAGE IN EUROPE.

BERNE, November 26th. The Government has ordered the cxpul Sion of Captain Larguier, the French Military Officer attached to the French Ministry for War, and also his alleged accomplices, Menozzi and Rosette, in con- nection with the charges of espionage in Italy to the detriment of Italy, Switzer- land, and Germany.

BRITISH NAVAL OFFICERS AT CAIRO.

CATRO November 26th.

BOXING

NEW YORK, November 20th.. Freddie Welsh outfought and outboxed Phil Bloom in a ten-round contest,"

DEATH OF WELL-KNOWN ASTRONOMER.

LONDON, November 20th. The death is announced of the well- known astronomer, Sir R. S. Ball,

[Deceased, who was born at Dublin in 1840, was Lowndean Professor of Astronomy and Geometery, Cambridge; Director of the Cambridge Observatory since 1892; Royal Astronomer of Ireland, 1874-92; Scientific- Adviser to the Commissioners of Irish Lights from 1684; ex-President of the Royal Astronomical Society; ex-President of tho Mathematical Association; and ex-President of the Royal Zoological Society of Ireland. He is the author of numerous publications

on astronomy.)

THE CAUSEWAY BAY MURDER.

A REPRIEVE

We understand that H.E the Officer

Administering the Government has re prived the Chinese youth': who was -sentenced Lo death' at the October Criminal Sessions for the murder of a girl at Causeway Bay

It will be remembered that the verdict of the jury, who tried the case was a unanimous une, and the Chief Justice in sentencing the prisoner to death, said he did not think it possible for any person who had heard the evidence to have arrived at any other conclusion, and his Lordship added that so far as he knew there could be little hope for mercy for

the prisoner in this world.

The prisoner is little more than a boy and we presume the reprive has been granted on the ground of his youth.

A FAMILIAR STORY.

At the Magistracy yesterday, before the First Magistrate (Mr. F. A. Hazeland), a Chinese coolie was charged with being in unlawful pussession of a quantity of lily root. He alleged that it was given him by the godown keeper, and called the latter, who said his statement was truc. His Worship questioned the keeper as to whether the root Bolonged to his firm, and the witness replied that it did, and affirmed that be had authority to give it away,

Inspector Dymond said it was the old, old story. Had he known the defendant was going to call, the godown keeper bo would not have rosecuted. They had had several of these cases, and the same story was used. He could not call the owners of the godown, as they declined to prosecute, but directly the godowns began to lose a good deal then they rushed to the police about it,

The defendant was discharged, and big Worship ordered the godown keeper, when next he gave a coolie anything, to give him a chit also setting out where he got it from..

AN AFFRAY AMONG LEGATION GUARDS.

FIGHT BETWEEN JAPANESE AND ITALIANS.

The following paragraph is extracted from the Peking Daily News of the 14th

inst

a public lecture, formally denied theof the British Naval officers who are that I have recorded in this book was who The following will represent the Hong-recurring rumours of za “Anglo-German visiting Cairo, It was a splendid-entera jest, and so was the last 1 heard him bayonets with them and proceeded out of offices, and when such-notificatious are issued kong Cricket Club against the Royal | agreement in connection with interventiontainment, and proved a great success..

as those reported from Canton the one Navy in the Triangular League on indicating apprehension on the part of the Saturday 29th November, on the Club War Office over the reported return to ground, play to commence at 2.p.m. China of two or three of the rebel leaders R. Hancock (Captain), . N. Anderson, who recently Bed the country; the other G. E. Aubrey, F. K. Brownrigg, C. C. directing that ten prisoners, most of them Clarke, A. A. Claxton, P. H. Cobb, D military men, shall be shot forthwith for E. Dannelly, A. L. Gaca, H. Hancock, conspiring to organise a "third revolution"T. E, Petros, and It. P. Thursfeld.

in Portuguese Colonies. A large and distinguished audience applauded greatly. THE MONGOLIAN MISSION.

ST. PETERSBURG, November 26th. The Mongolian Mission has gone to Lividia, where the Court is staying.

Unfriendly feelings have existed be- tween the Japanese and Italian soldiere of the Legation Guards for sometime. On LABBY'S LAST JOKE.

the night before last, two Japanese and two Italian soldiers got into a dispute Mr. Algar Thorold, in his biography of and fought on a street near the legation. Lord Kitchener gave a ball in honour his uncle, Henry Labouchere says: The Japanese came back to the Guard The earliest remark of Mr. Labouche e's House and informed his fellow soldiers were on duty. Those maen-bad- utter. On the afternoon of the day before the barracks to the Glacis. There they he died, as I was sitting at his bedside, encountered three Italian soldiers, who the spirit, lump that kept the fumes of wire not those who had the previous fight. eucalyptus in constant movement about Neverilless the Japanese soldiers set. his room, through some awkwardness of upon the Italians, and attacked them. mine, was overturned. Mr. Labouchere. They stabbed one Italian soldier in the who was dozing, opened his eyes at the neck and another in the stomach, and sound of the little commotion caused by cut three fingers and injured the arm of the accident, and perceived the flare-up the third. The wound on the arm is

Flames?' he murmured interrogatively severe that the arm has to be amputated. Not yet, I think. He laughed quizzi- It is expected one or more Italians may. cally, and, went off to sleep again."

FRENCH MINERS' STRIKE CRUMBLES |

LONDON, November 26th.

has The French

strike crumbled, and the resumption of work is almost general.

miners

die.