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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 2xD, 1913.

before. The world to-day is facing the anomaly of making its navy less adequate by increasing it. For when new vessels are built with their more powerful armament they reader useless the smaller warships, save for const defence." Mr. DANIELS said that such an agreement, joined in by Ger many, England, France, Russia, Japan, and the United States, would result in the greatest benefit to humanity in general from an economic standpoint. **Unleas some agreement is soon reached, ho said, "every citizen will figuratively be carrying a soldier on his back." The problem is more complex than it seems CONFECTIONERY at first sight. Restriction of armaments, if

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An organ recital at St. Andrew's Church, Kowloon, is announced to be given on Thursday by Mr. Deniuan Fuller, organist of St. John's Cathedral.

Yesterday was H.M. Queen Alexandra's sixty-ninth birthday. The British war ships in the harbour were dressed in honour of the occasion and a salute was fired at noon,

The school which the Government has decided to establish at the Peak is advertised to open on January 5th. Until a building is erected the school will be held at the Prak Hatch. Mrs. Main will be the headmistress."

Mr. Thomas Sammons, the United States Consul-General at Yokohama, has been chosen to succeed Dr. Amos Wilder as Consul General at Shanghai. Dr Wilder, who recently resigned, is shortly leaving for Home in rejoin his family and

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{THLOUGH REUTER'S AGENCE.]

THE ANTI-GERMAN FEELING IN

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JUDGES AND PUBLIC PROSECUTOR ARRESTED

BY SOLDIERS.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] NEW ZEALAND RIOT SEQUEL.

WELLINGTON (N.Z), Dec. Ist. "Two of the strike rioters have been sentenced to nine months.

ANOTHER JEWELLERY THEFT.

LONDON, December 1st.

TERRIBLE SHIPPING

LONDON, December. 1st. Further details of the Zabern affair, are most astounding. After the fight of the The Daily Mail says that the police are crowd, the troops arrested people indis-searching for a quantity of jewellery criminately, the prisoners including two belonging to Prince Arthur of Connaught, Judges, the Public Prosecutor, and a reported as missing. solicitor, just as they were leaving the Court House. Most of the prisoners were confined for the night in the barrack cellars. In the morning they were brought before the Magistrate, who inmediately released them, apparently on the ground that arrests by the military without the co-operation of the civil nuthorities was illegal. The Chanceller has ordered a strict enquiry to be unde.

DISASTER,

FOOTBALL JOTTINGS. The chapters in the story of Hongkong civilian football are becoming a trifle monotonotis—even to the most forbearing. Another leaf in this season's book of records was turned over on Saturday, and: the men from the Minulaur blotted

rather luckily, it is true, but the stain remains there nevertheless. The Clubmen were, the victims of heart-breaking mis- fortunes time and again. They were from beginning to end the better of twn uninspiring combinations, but they could only sigh after all was over for what might have been." The last touch' which crowns the work of a united forward line they could never obtain, and it was hot a little discouraging to see the leather carried well into the sailors' preserves time after time unfruitfully. There was one goal, in fact, but this solitary ewa lamb would, with a bit of what footballers call fuck, have been but one of a flock.

A terrible shipping disaster is reported In sever

directions there was improve- from Fort Arthur. A small stenaneriment in the Club ranks. The attacking named the Tak-yn belonging to the China parts were welded together more firmly. Merchants Steam Navigation Co, and for some little while, but the skilful and collaborated as they have not done

employed on the consting trade in the placing which sets a forward going immediately at an advantage was con- how a sunken rock at Sam-to-wui, near Port spicuously absent. No matter

accurate may be the direction of a pass Arthur, and quickly foundered. The

from one forward to another, if the ball number of passengers and crew on board goes head high the transfer is rendered at the time is given as about 280, and of nugatory, except in the case: of Army

The Leams composed of "six-footers." these only about 30 were saved.

ABOUT 250 LIVES LOST.

Wellington Street, was carrying several THE INDIAN TROUBLE IN SOUTH vicinity of Chefeo and Port Arthur, struck

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AFRICA.

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it ever is to be effected, must be a simul- taneous movement among all the great Powers of the world, and a restriction of military as well as naval armaments must be considered at the same time. French critics, for instance, have been pointing out that if Germany decided to fall in with the suggestion to save outlay on ships at the present time she would certainly expend her savings upon the land forces, thus increasing the military straia upon, the Republic. Germany has a well-defined In fancy boxes, in great variety. naval policy and she is not to be deterred Bourneville Nut Chocolate. from faithfully carrying it out as it is laid packages of cigarettes, valued at $67,

AN INTERESTING SUGGESTION. down in the Navy Law, British Servico along Kennedy Road when he

LONDON, December 1st. FULLER'S CONFECTIONERY circles, while giving credit to Mr.CHURCHILL crusted by five men. One of the number for sincerity of political purpose, regard hisenatched his bundle, and all of them then

decamped

The Morning Post, in an article criti- pechas a blundar. "The superficial attempt which has been made to put There were four intal cases of plague.cally examining the demands for a Gormoy in the wrong," says a Service in the Colony last week. Five cases of

collcages awkwardly, and at such an journal, is deplorable, and a thoroughly diphtheria were also reported, three being Imperial Government intervention on Captain (a Norwegian) and some member, peatedly, the Clubmers nulliked their unpracticable and vague proposition hun English, one Scottish, and one Japanese, behalf of the Indians, voiced by the Daily of the crew were picked up after they smart work by transferring their beon not with dignity in the Fatherland, and there were six cases of enteric fever, News, Lord Ampthill, and in other had drifted about in a heavy sen. for altitude that nothing useful could be

three being Chinese, the other patients quarters, shows that the consequence eleven hours on a raft. Germany is known to be strengthening her being one Fronch, one Indian and he would be that the Union Government

were probably, mostly fleat for adequate reasons, and the revival Norvegian (imported case.)

would resign like the Natal Government coolies. There is a large movement of of the Russian Navy is one of them." The enteric cases proved fatal.

of 1906. Mr. Smartt, having rade it clear coolies along the coast at this time of the crities of the proposals are on ärm ground when they assert that there is no basis of

that he would support Bir Louis Botha, year, for thousands nigrate from this negotiation which any foreign country will

no other Government was obtainable. part of China to Vladivostock in the

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South Africa and risk a rebellion, or give numbers of small steamers. The large if he happens not to possess that sympathy position to see what might be done, and presents the view that of all the nations of

To talk death roll is presurably to be accounted which a footballer himself should have the world the British have least reason to

Way As in did in of the Finest Quality in great groan about the cost of the Navy. It

says As the return issued the other day/ Peking, Sir John was welcomed by the foolish to scold and abuse. The Colonin, the coldness of the water, the temperature to be harsh. The faults which are at the variety.

by the Admiralty of the expenditure of the great naval Powers shows, we are paying A. S. WATSON & CO., very little comparatively for the Navy. The expenditure upon the soven great rival fleets

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Sir John Jordan, British Minister in Peking, and Lady Jordan returned to the capital on Saturday. the 22nd alt. President Yuan Shih-kaj sent Admiral Tsai Ting-kan to Tientsin to. meet the Minister and accompany him to Peking From Harbin to Feking at every station where the train stopped military honours were accorded to the Minister. At Legation staff, representatives of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs and

a guard of honour from the British Legation,

1900.

The passe

for by the heavy sens prevailing and by

of intervention was foolish; it was also Imperial, and Indian Governments must make the best terms they can by friendly this time of the year being about

is only about 13 per cent. more than it was in Yokohama in the early '70's, coming outing a really satisfactory settlement. The

from England in company with Mr. W. B. Mason to join the telegraph department in the Japanese Post Office, in which service he remained twelve years. He was responsible for the installation of the Duplex" telegraphic system, and sent the first message by the system between Yokohama and Kobe, In recent years Mr. Abbey has been associated with his son, Mr. Tom Abhey, in the auctioneer-¦ ing business of Jno. W. Hall. His death resulted from cancer of the threat.

A KOWLOON HOUSING SCHEME.

AK IMPORTANT CO-OPERATIVE ENTERPRISE,

There was sold at auction at the Officer of Public Works Department yesterday a piece of Crown land measuring about

representations, but in view of the balance of parties in South Africa, and the racial feeling aroused by the Indians' methods of agitation, there was little hope of obtain- Imperial Government might, however, provide refuge for Indians refusing to submit to conditions which they regard as intolerable, by framing a colonization scheme, say, in the Soudan, where inagni- fictat land, coming under irrigation, urgently requires cultivators. A generous scheme on such lines would both beneft the Soudan and show the Indians that the Imperial Government was still deeply interested in their welfare..

Mr.

AMERICA'S NEW NAVAL PROGRAMME

WASHINGTON, December 1st. Daniels, the Secretary for the

freezing point at Port Arthur.

THE RECENT HARBOUR COLLISION.

THIRTEEN MORE BODIES RECOVERED,

accomplished through the pass. Then, too, the right man didn't always get the ball. There were occasions when the right wing was plied with passes, while being covered by two or three defenders, the left wing at the same time standing unitarked and with a clear field.

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a fellow-labbler in the art, he is apt

the matter of chanee-which enters into the question pretty substantially-might be easily remedied, with a little care and thoughtfulness, and that is my purpow in pointing them out, Once The Clubmen's feet' have turned round the

root of the Club's ill-success, apart from

The police have recovered the bodies of corner of the larg Inne of misfortune. ten male persons, two females, and an through which they have been groping, infaut from the Harbour waters on anil oneg they have, thrown off the few Sunday. It is believed that these were noticeable examples of inferior workman- among the victims of the recent disastrous ship, we shall expect something from them collision. in the Harbour between the different from that to which we have heen ferry launch a Sony and the Japanese accustomed of late. steamer Soshu mara. This makes a total of 18 bodies recovered since the disaster

THE MAGISTRACY.

There is talent enough and Lo spare within the Colony, but it it is rather a pity that the players are all of about average merit. There are noti In answer to a charge of stealing cleven men whose individual capacity wooden boxes, a Chinese at the Magistracy thrusts llem out above the many other yesterday said I took the boxes. I followers of the code. The difficulty of have nothing more to say." He will selecting a representative team is not an The claims of cach doubtless serve his seven days' imprisoninecnsiderable one. ment just as philosophically..

Mr Wood told a complainant in an

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and every member have to be consulted and respected, and consequently the com- position of the team is continually alter-

233,225 square feet, at Ho Mun Tun, Navy, recommends that the American assault case at the Magistracy yesterday, ing. Better results would be obtained,

Kowloon, on a 75 years' lease, with the option of renewal for a further 15 years,

Naval programme

submarines.

for 1914 be two

The American Navy would soon

1180

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I nie sure, if eleven men were played in three or four consecutive matches, in order that they may be given a reasonable opportunity of adjusting their own play. to harmonize with the methods of their confrères.

a man named Otto Brutton, that he was for what had Dreadnoughts, eight destroyers, and two largely responsible

happened,

He would have to behave himself. He had also to be thankful that the rizsha coolies with whota he had a row were not there to prosecute him. 125,000,000 gallons of oil fuel yearly.

Whilst a goldsmith was engaged in The display of the Navy luen was urged the acquisition of their own oil wells, quoting from Mr. Winston Churcounting money on the counter of his shop frankly disappointing. They were chill's annual statement on the Navy whon in Queen's Road, a man suddenly dashed obviously ont

practice, and were he introduced his oil fuel scheme for the up, grabbed $100 in notes, and per wandering all over the ground for the formed the vanishing act with remarkable. celerity. The shopkeeper says that he can British Navy.

recognise the man, and the police are looking for hirn.

on the eve of the laying down of the Dreadnought. By this one act, by this change of battleship design, we throw upon other Powers an immense liability. They had to recast their naval organizations, rebuild their Jooks, and, in the case of Germany, incur an expenditure of between €11,000,000 and £12,000,000 in enlarging the Kiel Canal, an expenso which, though undertaken for naval purposes, is not included in Germany's naval expenditure." Statistics are quoted to show thuit the pres sure has been so great during the past eight or mine yours that cruiser construction abroad has been almost at a standstill. except in the case of Germany, who will have on March 31st, 1915, 28 as compared with Britain's 47, and that, therefore, British.commerce in all parts of the world' was “never so secure against attack as it is TORSDALL--On November 25th, at Sheng-to-day." Nevertheless it is urged that the

- hal, wife of J. H. Teesdale, a conditions being what they are, the fore- The lot is situated between Waterloo

daughter.

DEATH.

casted programmes of the British Admiralty Road and Argyle Street Extension, and BERTHET. On the 25th November, at for the next four years are transparently is very near to Yaumati railway station, Shanghai, LINA, the beloved wife of inadequate for the Empire's needs. Even if Mr. Colbourne Little, architect, was the J. A BERTHET, Chinese Maritime Customs, aged 40 years.

Nasonable provision is made for increasing purchaser for a client, ut $18,645, the our battleship strength, adding, as we must upset price.

The client is Mr. F. P. de V. Soares add, more cruisers and greatly augmenting our flotillas of torpedo craft, the expenditure who is the promoter of a co-operative upon the British fleet in future years will building scheme. Plaus have been pre- not be out of proportion to the wealth pared by Mr. Little for converting this which it protects.

The average level site into a very attractive residential area on the lines of a garden city. Forty- Leaded citizen who contrasts our expendi-six residents of various nationalities have bare with the size of the empire and its booked sites on this land, on which they THE only word of encouragement which population, the tonnage and distribution of will build their own residences. Many of roof midway between Kalta and Sevas the British First Lord of the Admiralty the mercantile raarine, and the vast wealth the houses will be detached, others will be repol. Her position is critical, and there received from any responsible quarter con- which the British people always have afloat sini-detached, but each will have its own is a heavy swell running. A cutier from cerning his Naval Holiday" proposal will conclude that the sum which we spend little plot of ground. The levelling of came from United States Secretary for the

upon the Navy, even if we ignore ita rôle as Navy, Mr. JOSEPHUS DANIELS, but a telegram the primary protection against invasion, which we print to-day in another column is exceedingly modest." It may be impera- shows that Mr. DANIELS is not prepared to five y muassay,, but fox of us can recommend that, the United States should regard it as "exceedingly modest," but set an example to the world-not, at any it is surely an anachronismi in our boasted rate, in 1914 The American Government, civilisation that it should be necessary for like the British, can only afford to observe the Naval Holiday if all the first-class the nations to be continually strengthening instead of diminishing the system of terror nations agree to stop or-eurteil the

-ism by which they seek 4-maintain the construction of battleships at the same time. “I believe such an agreement must be made peace of the world, and the obligation resis sooner or later for economic reasons," the upon statesmen in every country to strive

to drive this lesson home. U.S. Secretary declared. The hysteria of naval preparations is proving too great a burden for the people. We ourselves are epanding about $140,000,000-annually on our Navy, an equal amount on our Army, that he would get into trouble over the and that is but a trifle compared with what matter, left his machine on the ground the Great Powers of Europe and Japan are and bolted. The boy was only slightly spending, with new vessels superseding and bruised, however. The police Low have anaking obsolete all that have been built the machine in their possession:

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HONGKONG, DECEMBER AND, 1913.

RUSSIAN WARSHIP STRANDED.

SEVASTOPOL, December 1 The warshipraleis is stranded on a

the site, preparatory to building, will be the gunboat Kubancts, in attempting to begun without undue delay.

assist the warship, capsized, and five

persons were drowned,

The whole schéme contemplates a total outlay of about a quarter of a million qullars and when completed in acced- NEW PRUSSIAN BATTLE CRUISER. ance with the design prepared by Mr. Little we anticipate that it will make

DANZIG, December 1st. suct an appeal to a large section of the

The battle cruiser Zurtzer has been The vessel has eight twelve European community as to ensure further launched. developmenta on similar lines..

inch guns and will be propelled by oil Tel.

ROBBERY AT THE CENTRAL POLICE STATION.

A particularly audacious larceny was accomplished by a thief during Satardav night or Sunday, morning at the Central Police Station.

The inside

greater part of the game. forwards were clever enough in mid-field, bub they were dilatory. Hamilton and Van Vecren allowed them to dribble. At the Magistracy a Chinese wes round them a few times, but robbed them. charged with the larceny of a carpenter's ultimately every time. "Hammy the brace from a hawker's stall in Reclama Imperturbable" aluse broke their hearts Apparently the by the persistence with which he hooked tion Street, Taumati man went up to the hawker and asked him the leather off their toes, and ichbed it

The hawker

to the other end of the ground. Stalker the price of the tool. asked $1.80 for it, but the defendant would have made their task even mure offered $1.60. He took the brace up in his difficult had he been on duty, but he hands to examine it, put 20 cents down on preferred to play cricket, and showed his the stall, and decamped. The hawker versatility by knocking the deliveries of promptly chased him, and caught him. The defendant's demeanour in the dock the Engineers' trundlers to all parts of enve rettsonable grounds for questioning his sanity. He jumped up when his name The Police are to be condoled with in was called, leaned across the rail in an their grievous disappointment on Satur- A Second indolent, familiar altitude, and showed day Their opponents in

Division match, IL:M.S; Tamar Reserves, the not the slightest perturbation as

failed to make an appearance, and the The charge was read over to him. He was told referee had to call the game off. to stand up properly, and then he mechani appetite of the Police forwards has been whetted by their remarkable successey cally dropped his hands into his trousers during the past week or two, and they pockets, and remained thus during the were anticipating a nice little addition hearing of the cass. Mr. F. A, Hazeland to their bag. Naturally, they were dis- Explanations will doubtless be made in due course,

but this is not the said he would remand the case for a week in order that defendant might be first time this sort of thing has occurred It is to be hoped that the examined by a doctor, adding that, he this season.

bester himself, for incidents such as hesa are not pleasant.

GREEN AND WHITE.

the field.

FATAL TRAIN COLLISION IN ITALY.

ROME, December Tat A Chinese cyclist ran down & boat boy

The thief entered The Rome and Naples express collided on Sunday, and, apparently fearing that the accountant's department, and stole

from a drawer $6.53 in money, and also with a goods train in the station at

appointed. he had seriously injured the boy, and

the accountant's pipe. It is sup- posed that the thief expected to find a Geccano owing to a pointsman's error. amsiderable amount of money in the office, but he was evidently unaware of Bix third-class passengers and the point would not convict him. The man was negligent one, whoever he may be. will the precautionary measures always taken man were killed, and twenty persons were escorted out of the Court; still with his by the police in removing the cash to the

injured. stle in the charge-room.

bands in his pockets.