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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 24TH 1913

Association is to attain its maximum of The latest plague returns bring the TELEGRAMS. TELEGRAMS. TELEGRAMS.

tility. That much good is to be accom plished in this way is shown by the success that has attended the Bradford Dyers" Association as an agency for combating in

number of cases for the year up to 399. Of these 301 wore fatal.

WATSON British interests the products of continental in Mong Kok village was walking along

& CO., LTD.,

ESTABLISHED 72 YEARS,

manufacturers of aniline dyes. The cases are not perhaps quite on all-fours with each other, but there is sufficient in common between the comparatively simple de business and the machinery trade, with all its ramifications and varieties, to make the illustration instructive. In each case there HIGH-CLASS

is the reel not only of capturing an existing CONFECTIONERY market, but also of creating a market where there is none. Each requires a constant study of native conditions, in order that there may be the necessary adaptation to local. needs, and the differences between the fau damentals of the two trades are diferences of degrea rather than of kind. The great agency through which the Bradford Dyers Association has extended its influence has been its use of a large staff of trained

SELECTIONS OF THE PUREST AND FINEST QUALITY, IMPORTED FROM THE LEADING LONDON, NEW YORK AND PARISIAN

HOUSES.

CADBURY'S

CHOCOLATES.

In fancy boxes, in great variety. Bournevillo Nut Chocolate.

FULLER'S CONFECTIONERY

Assorted Chocolates, Marzipan Chocolates, Chocolate Cara mels, Creme de Mentle Delight, Caramel Mou à la Creme, Almond Taffy, Pepper- mint, etc., etc.

LOWNEY'S

CHOCOLATES

ALB. AND 1LB. BOXES

CHOCOLATES.

KOHLER'S

in great variety..

JACQUIN'S

NOUGAT FIN

As a Chinese married woman, residing

Queen's Road on Monday she was necosted by two men, who by means of the confidence trick, relieved her of her gold bangles, valued at $25, and made them. selves scarce.. No arrest has yet been made.

The return of communicable disease in the Colony Jaat week shows 4 fatal ensés of plague; I case of cholera not fatal; 7 cases (3 fatal) of diphtheria; and 2 cases (I fatal) of enteric fever. Two of the diphtheria cases were Portuguese and one British. All the other cases were Chinese C

An alarm of fire was raised at about 3 a.m. yesterday, as the Police Ball was concluding, at No. 10, Bonham Strand. A number of firemen left the City Hall

[TRIOUGH REUTER'S AGENOT.];

GREAT BRITAIN AND GERMANY

INTERESTING ESSAY ON POLICY BY COUNT VON BUELOW.

BERLIN, Peceniber 23rd. Count von Bulow in an interesting essay which he has contributed to a book entitled Germany under William II, attributes the British attitude towards German naval and political expansion to

THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

ANTI-TRUST LEGISLATION.

-UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT'S THREAT.

{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENOZ.]

MR. LLOYD GEORGE AND THE.

· FARMERS'

ALLEVIATION FOR INCREASE OF LABOURERS

WAGES.

WASHINGTON, December 23rd. As a result of the Government's threat

LONDON, December 23rd. to make the anti-trust legislation more

- Mr. Lloyd George, addressing a meet- stringent, a number of Corporations having at Pwllheli, and speaking in Welsh, taken the initiative and are reorganising said that the Government intended to their constitutions in conformity with grant to farmers, in districts where the a traditional British policy opposing the existing Inws, hoping thereby toward | Jabourers" - wages were compulsorily

the strongest Continental Power, Count off the unfavourable conditious. von Buelow maintains that this attitude is unjustifiable in the case of Germany, since her aims are fundamentally differ-

ent to those animating Great Britain's rivals in past ages. Referring to Mr. Joseph Chamberlain's overtures for an alliance at the opening of the Boer war,

AMERICAN CURRENCY

CONTROVERSY.

raised, facilities to obtain a reduction in.

their rents. A temporary reduction would likewise be obtainable in times of depression: The days of the infamous WARRINGTON, December 23rd. leasehold system were numbered and he The Currency Conference sat all night wished to dead fairly all round, but if on Saturday and terminated on Sunday agricultural economy was necessary t morning, having accomplished an keep people on the land, it would he

native travellers who visited all parts of at once, but on their arrival they found the Count says that absolutely bind arrangement on all points. There had better to economise on parvons than o

the country with collections of samples Chinese agents versed in all the works of modern engineering would be harder to find than men capable of taking orders for dyed. piece-goods, and samples of machinery do not lend themselves to being carried about all over the country, but such a staff of Chinese agents would be invaluable in finding cut in advance particulars of forthcoming public works, in discovering industries in which there was probability

that the outbreak had heen extinguished,

A beam in a chimney flag had become ignited, but was soon put out. damage done was trivial.

The

at

For resisting Inspector Dystond West Point in the execution of his duty a Chinese was fined $50, or a month's

hurd labour at the Magistracy yesterday. The officer's suspicions were aroused by a bundle which the defendant was carry- ing and he told the man he desired to search it. This the man declined to

of him he resisted..

of the use of foreign machinery, and ganer and when the Inspector, took hold ally in reconnoitring the industrial field and reporting to a British expert. Mr. BENNETT's proposal requires some 20 or 30 foreign experts who would reside in all the provincial capitals-the Treaty difhoulty that they have no right to reside in the interior could probably be easily evaded and principal ports of China, each of whom would be prepared to leave his station at a moment's notice and proceed to any district where contracts were pending CRACKERS This is obviously borrowed from the plan of a well-known German firm, and would of the Finest Quality in great meet one of the needs that have to be supplied if British engineering is to secure variety.

its fair share of contracts. One of the strongest weapons of our continental com- petitors is their "intelligenca" department, A. S. WATSON & CO.. through whose assistance they are always

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engagements would have been necessary, and this would have brought Germany into antagonism with Russia. He declares frankly also that it would have been u mistake for Germany to have joined an anti-British Continental coalition at the

been deadlock concerning the com-labourers. position of the Federal Reserve Board, but this ended by the majority agreeing to rotain the Comptroller of Currency on the Board. The report is to be presented to both Houses to-day, and efforts will be

THE LEEDS STRIKE.

MEN RESOLVE TO CONTINUE THE STRUGGLE.

LONDON, December 23rd.. The hope of a settlement of the strike

tims of the Beer war, although public made to ensure its final passage before at Levils has been shattered. A meeting

opinion would have favoured it.

THE GERMAN DOMESTIC TRAGEDY.

A ROMANTIC WOOING.

POSEN, December 23rd..

and Countess

The history of: Count

the night.

THE MEXICAN REBELLION.

REBEL LEADER'S DRASTIC MEASURES AGAINST JOOTING.

of the strikers on Monday evening resolved to continue the struggle. Mr. Will Thorne, M.P. advised the men to | go out on the streets and use their fect

as well as their fist

POLICE DEMONSTRATIONS IN

LONDON.

LONDON, › December 23rd. About 300 policemen, mufti, and

LONDON, December 23rd.. The rebel leader at Chinhuahu has ordered the execution of anyone found roting or molesting the property of foreigners or Mexicans. Six rebels who carrying a red flag, holt a demonstration sacked the residence of a Mexican were in Trafalgar Square in support of the shot. All the Spanish stores that have proposed Policemen's Union, which has been confiscated have been closed and bren prohibited by the Authorities. scaled, and orders have been issued that Speeches were delivered by civiliaus the property of Spaniards must not in denouncing Mr. McKenna (the Home the future be molested.

Secretary), and others. There was little enthusiasm.

The Court Cards and their Joker have been having a successful tour in the North. They are now in Japan and will Mielczynski reads like a chapter from a probably reach Hongkong about the stromance. The Count became enamoured or 9th of January. This will be their last of the beautiful Countess and when the performances in the East, as the popular. litle Company, is proceeding to England, marriage was opposed by the Countess We are suffering from an unusual dearth family in 1995 he attempted to commit of entertainment at this season of the suicide by shooting himself, whereupon year and the reappearanes of the Com the father of the Countess relented, and pany will doubtless be welcomed.

the couple were married. The marriage The Acting Judge at Shanghai last was happy for years, but then the Count weck refused an application by the China began to object to his wife's friends. Mutual Insurance Co. for leave to appeal Eventually she left her husband, who The Mexican rehels have informed to the Privy Council against the recent adveres judgment in the claim of Lief devoted himself to his absorbing hobbies, Lloyds Agency that all vessels, of what- The Countess ever nationality, bringing munitions Due against the Company. His lordship politics and painting.

inherited 1 large fortune. corsigned to President Huerta, will be gested are hearing by the Full Court, recently He had previously remarked that if Friends effected a reconciliation, but the destroyed. It is believed that the threat he amount in dispute was over 2000 loave friendship of the Countess, who was 38 is somewhat empty, as the rebels possess would be granted, but he imagined the 4ount in dispute was only about years of age, with her nephew, who was £100, the present value of the policy 14 years younger; soon became notorious Plaintiff's claim being for the return in the neighbourhood, and culminated in of premia paid and the rescission of the

the terrible tragedy. contract. There was one question of law outstanding and it might very well be that is learned brother might settle the matter one way or another finally, or that in the course of argument it might be shown by the present applicants that that was a difficult question of law, and it was quite probable that if they did that, that the Full Court would grant them leave to appeal to the Privy Council. But his Lordship did not think he ought to do so now for those reasons, until the local

exhausted. means of appeal.

po. ships.

The American gunboat Wheeling, haa been ordered to proced to Timpico, round which the rebels are again press- ing closely,

BIG. BLAZE IN LONDON.

SPLENDID WORK BY FIREMEN,

prepared for future developments, and are often in a position to forestall and control them, while in many cases it will be found that the first move came from the foreign firm who subsequently obtained the contract The history of many electric light contracts in the interior, for instance, would often be found to date from the visit of a German agent who, having ascertained through Chinese sources the possibilities of the place, comes prepared with suggestions, advice, and persuasion, so that, by the time the local authorities have been induced to believe that an electric light installation is desirable, they have so got to associate the idax with the German firm that outside competition is practically hopeless. The scheme proposed by our correspondent would place British manufacturers on the same footing in this respect, and under it an emissary of the British Engineering

The Count, in his evidence, insisted work was performed by the fire brigade,

by the fore Association would play the same part as P. & O. CO, AND THE CONVEYANCE that he was searching for burglars, and who eventually checked fames the German, and would put the local authorities in touch with representative British firms from the first. We think it

The Hon.

OF DOGS,

Mr. Hewett, C.M.G., Superintendent of the. P. & O. Company, informs us that he has received advice from his managing directors in London, that in view of requests received from the

travelling public, they have decided that

LONDON, December 23rd, A fire broke out in a block of flats in

At a judicial enquiry, the Countess maid testified that the nephew had been spending the evening at the Castle. He drank a quantity of wine, and wanted to borrow money from his uncle or aunt, and after the Countess had retired her nephew came to her room, despite the Hyde Park Chambers, Knightsbridge. Countess argent entreaty not to do Two upper storeys blazed furiously,

A waiter was He was returning to his own room where illuminating the district. the Count arrived, and the tragedy then killed on returning for his money, and three others were injured. Magnificent

occurred.

rescues

found the two together in the Countess There were exciting

from Udroom. He then fired while in a state fats eight-storeys high, in which Mr.

Locker-Lampson, M.P., and other uncontrollable fury.

Knightsbridge residenta assisted strenu ously.

CANADA AND OIL FUEL

OTTAWA, December 23rd. The amended regulations governing the

HONGKONG, DECEMBER 24TH, 1913.

may be accepted as beyond question that it THE letter from Mr. ARTHUR MOORE is the careful spade-work" of German and BENNETT, of Yunnanfu, published in yester- continental firms that is giving them such a day's issue of the Daily Press, amplifies the hold on the Chinese machinery market, and it telegraphic summary we published recently is not surprising that a demand should come in future "assengers may convey their issue of the new leases of the oil lands of a letter addressed by him to The Times, for a concerted British effort to attain the

dogs with them in the Company's and enables us to discuss the subject again same end. The other part of Mr. BONNErr's steamers. The passengers must, of course, in the light of this fuller statement of his proposala in concerned with the share of the comply with the quarantine regulations at views. Mr. BENNETT, as we assuined, wasS Government in pushing British engineering the port of disembarkation, and as at writing with particular reference to the interests: Le would put the whole of the certain ports dogs from China are not extent to which British engineering and organizations under three Commercial permitted to be landed under any circam- machinery firms find themselves handi- Attachés, at Peking, Shanghai, and Canton, stances, they must ascertain at ports capped, as compared with Cantinental firms. who would have full control over the agents route whether it is permitted to take. in the competition, for contracts in China who are hia" second line." Desirable as dogs in transit ashore before doing so, The frequency with which local or municipal such an arrangement might be, there is, even if only for exercise. works--waterworks, electric light installa. we fear, little hope of its immediate tions, and so on are entrusted to German realization: the traditional policy of firms has become a commonplace, and has laisser-faire and non-interference is too

SAYINGS OF A WEEK.

Never in the whole history of the world

almost ceased to attract the attention it deeply rooted to permit such a radics have the poor been made rich by making deserves: the fact, quoted by Mr. BENNETT, rausformation as this would imply, the rich poorer.-Mr, Bonar Law

| God has so made the British Empire that it cannot be destroyed except by ourselves. Mr. Norman Angell.

There is no hope for you in democracy or economic Socialism unless you develop your spiritual life and spiritual deter

nation first,--Mr. Bernard Shaw Cosuption is the very basis of the system under which we live. Sir George Kokewich,

that for a decade not a single contract in while it would be objected in some quarters Yunnan and Kweichow has gone to any but that however important the British engineer German houses is a striking example that ing industries may be, they can scarcely may serve to sum up the situation. An claim to have three Commercial Attaches attempt has been made by the establishment devoted to their interests alous. The day in China-of-a-branch of the British will doubtless come when this traditional Engineering Association to stem the tide attitude will be modifiel and a new con- that is taking orders away from Great ception of the duties of a Commercial Britain, and a Commissioner has been sent Attaché introduced, but until that happens out to China by the Association, but, as

it would seem that the British Engineering Mr.BENNETT rightly points out, the influence Association itself would have to meet the one such agent, however able and expense and serd three of its Commissioners energetic he might be, would be lost in so to perform these duties. Whether his pro- large a country as China, and even if he posals are adopted in detail or not, however, spent all his time travelling, he could never the question of the advancement of British tinderstand woman, Mr. G. E. Chester

of

get into touch with the needs of the whole of the country. Large reinforcements will clearly be necessary if the work of the

enginearing in China, to which Mr.BENNETT draw attention, is one that cannot be too often nor too emphatically urged,

To have no ideals is to be satisfied, an I to be satisfied is to rank with the well-fed pigs. Mr. Keble Howard,

in the North-West territory, provide that the Admiralty shall have control of the wells and their output in time of war,

FAMOUS TITIAN. SOLD FOR £70,000,

LONDON, December 23rd, Sir Hugh Lane has sold to Mrs. Emery, at American collectress. Titian's famous portrait of Phillip II. The price is stated to be £70,000.

SIL LIONEL PHILLIPS PROGRESSING.

JOHANNESOURG, December 23rd. A second bullet has been extracted from Sir Lionel Phillips, and the patient is now as well as can be expected.

DUKE OF BEDFORD'S LONDON ESTATES.

LONDON, December 23rd.

type erected henceforth in this country is who recently sold his Covent Garden Every school building of the ordinaryIt is stated that the Duke of Bedford, a wicked waste of the teacher's health, the estate, has also sold parts of his Blooms children's lives and the nation's moneybury estate for £500,000. Dr. Saleeby.

There has been far too much trying to

toug

Nineteen out of twenty children's ail- menta could be better treated by nurses than by doctors-Lady Chelmsford.

ABYSSINIAN MONARCH DEAD.

ADIBABEYA, December 23rd. The death of King Menelik is officially announced.

DISASTROUS BUSH FIRES.

HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE HOMELESS IN AUSTRALIA,

MELBOURNE, December 23rd. Two hundred houses and camps have been destroyed by bush fires, and hundreds of people are homeless.

LATE MR. ARTHUR CHAMBER- LAIN'S FORTUNE.

LONDON December 23rd..

Mr Arthur Chamberlain, brother Mr. Joseph Chamberlain who died 28th October, has left £143,000.

INCREASED PAY FOR FRENCH ARMY OFFICERS,

of

on

PARIS, December 23rd.. The Chamber have passed & Bill inereas ing the pay of the Army Officers and non-Commissioned Officers. M. Caillaux replying to questions, foreshadowed an increase in the salaries of civil officials.

ARRESTED JOURNALIST

RELEASED.

LONDON, December 23rd. Mr. Alan Ostler, the special correspon dent of the Daily Express in Somaliland, has now been released.

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THE HOME RULE CRISIS.

LONDON, December 23rd. The Bishop of London has sanctioned a service of intercession for the preserva- dou of the peace in Ireland.

OBITUARY.

LONDON, December 23rd. The death is announced of Lieut. Colonel Sir C. A. A. Frederick, K.C.B G.CO., formerly Master of the House- hold

BIG SILVER DEAL,

INDIAN SPECIE BANK AGAIN LARGE LOSER. BOMBAY, December 5th. The sale of four and half crores worth of silver by Messrs. Sharp & Wilkins to a big London syndicate, mentioned by Reuter's, will involve the Specie Back in The a further loss of thirty lakhs. syndicate is expected to make a large profit, since the Government of India, it. is believed, will be purchasing silver shortly. The syndicate is composed of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, the Chartered Bank, Samuel Montagu & Co., Mocatta & Goldsmid and others.

PETITION AGAINST A NAVAL OFFICER.

HAMMOND HAMMOND,

A petition by Eleanor Mary St. John Hammond for restitution of conjugal rights came on for hearing in the Kings Bench Division London on the 26th alt.

Mr. Clifford Mortimer said that the petitioner was married to the respondent, Cyril Edvard John Hammond, In engineer commander

verander in the Royal Navy, Chester-square, London. They lived to- gether at St. Leonards, at Hongkong, and other places, and there were no children of the marriage. In August, 1012, the respondent was appointed to his Majesty's ship Victorious at Devonport. He set out to join his ship leaving the petitioner at St Leonarda. And it was arranged that she should join him later; & year passed, and the respondent did not invite her to rejoin him and made no attempt to provide her with a home at Devonport.

Accordingly on August 15, 1913, she wrote in the following terms to the respondent

Dear Cyril,We have not now scen cacti other for just a year, and I am writing fo ask you whether you intend to and will return to me and to live with me as my husband again Yours,

EERANORM. HAMMOND To this the respondent replied on August 21 that he had no intention of returning to her and that moreover, he had been unfaithful to her since he had left her at St. Leonards; he added further that their married life had been intolerable on account of their utter uneuitability of temperament

In consequence of that letter the petitioner had begun the present proceedings.ahawk

Evidence having been given in sunnart of the petition.

Mr. Justice Bargrave Dearie pro- nounced a decree of restitution of conjugal rights, to be obered within 14. days after service, with costa.