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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESH, MONDAY, JANUARY 19TH, 1914.

INTIMATIONS

in the political status of the country, caused

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Mrs. Tillery, of 2, Patell Villas, Kow-ru

tailoring shops in Hongkong and this Treaty toon, has been the victim of a theft of TELEGRAMS. TELEGRAMS. TELEGRAMS.O

porta to spring into existence like a valuable watch and chain with a mushrooms, and very large orders were pendant, and 8480 in bank notes. One of plazed by Chinese merchants with European the house boys has absconded. firms for suitings. For example, the Customs

The meteorological observations made at the Royal Observatory during Decent her show that the mean temperature for | the month was 61.0, as compared with a mean of 59.8 for the corresponding period last year. There were 121.8 hours of sunshine, and 1.385 inches of rain.

Mr. FA Hazeland dismissed the

WATSON Report for Shanghat for 1912 mentioned that woollen and cotton goods had shown an increase in value of over 1} million Haikyun taele, mainly under the headings of tweeds, sergea and vicunas, imported to satisfy the estimated demand for foreign clothings; the total quantity of these WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS.goods imported at Shanghai in 1912

amounting to over

two million yards, charge of keeping a disorderly house This feature of the trade at Shanghai in Preferred against Clara Grosvenor of 44, 1912 was common to most of the treaty tecmical point.

Lyndhurst Terrace, on Saturday on &

porta. A reference to the Analysis of mitted that under the Ordinance the Foreign Trade published by the Customs summons should have been taken out by shows some astonishing changes in the the Captain Superintendent of Police and character of the imports.. Thus compar- not by a subordinate officer, as had been

HIGH-CLASS WINES.

WATSON'S

D. PORT

VERY SUPERIOR OLD PORT WITH

STYLE AND CHARACTER,

Per Dezon $29.80

WATSON'S

D. SHERRY

Mr. W. K. Hind sub-

[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] THE SOUTH AFRICAN

SITUATION.

COLLAPSE OF STRIKE ASSURED.

JOHANNESBURG, January 17th. The collapse of the strike is now assured. The railwaymen are streaming back at Brainfontion and other points,

saying that it is useless to continue the strike as they have no leaders. It is expected that the normal service will shortly be resumed. Most of the mines are working steadily.

MORE ARRESTS.

The leader of the strikers at Witbank

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENOY]

THE JAPANESE EARTH- QUAKES,

EXAGGERATED REPORTS,

TOKYO, January 17th. Reuter's correspondent has arrived at Kagoshima in order to ascertain the actual conditions. About 200,000 people

[THROUGH REUTEN'S AGENCY.]

SUBMARINE DISASTER OFF

PLYMOUTH.

HOPE OF BAVING CREW ABANDONED.

LONDON, January 16th. Submarine AT has been lost offi

Plymouth. There is little hope that the crew will be saved.

The submarine sank in Whitesand Bay. The parent ship is now communicating with the crew, who were still alive at 5. o'clock in the afternoon. A salvage tug

took refuge in mountains and forests, but

The death roll has been much exag orentually reached points of safety.

gorated; it numbers about 600,

Ashes are everywhere, and the roads are is on the spot, and is hopeful of raising. obliterated.

the vessel.

The Submarine Flotilla were exercising [An official communique from the Japanese following Consulate-General

gives the

ing the statistica of 1909 with those of done in this case, and the point was Colliery and two Natal lenders have been account of the calamity:On the 12th inst. in the morning, and as the others rose to

--

1912. we find the import of "Woollen upheld. Flannel" had trebled; * Woollen Goods,

unclassed” had nearly doubled; "Woollen

arrested. Twenty members of the Strike Seven stowaways who were brought up in Committee and others have also been arrested at Pretoria, including the Mayor. The latter was released on his own recognisance.

the volcano at Sakurajima erupted, burning

about half the number of houses on that the surface it was instantly noticed that was about 3,300, ali inhabitants taking refuge Island. The total number of houses there 47 hud not risen. There has been anxiety by ship at the opposite shore. The exact since 19.30. A Lieutenant and 12 men are number of those killed or injured is not

aboard:

LATER. yet known, but it is not large, most probably 1000 in all. The eruption is strong, but the

The vessel was still under the water at rumblings have subsided. In the city of The men arrested in the Trades Hall Kagoshima there were earthquakes, and

8.30 Though it is stateil that her crew are being imprisoned preliminarily for ashes fell. The inhabitants shut their doors

and ran away! Those killed or injured are are able to live submerged for 12 hours,

The houses are more

or less 21 days, under the Peace Preservation about 20.

graph and telephone has been resumed. The

The tapping of the imprisoned sailors, extent of the damage done is under investi- Ordinance. Graver charges will be pre damaged. Communication by railway, tele- the officials have almost abandoned hope, gation, but it is not so severe as newspapers in reply to the tapping of the divers, ferred against them later.

have reported. Other volcanoes, Kirishima

6 o'clock in the evening. and Aso, also rumbled and ashes fell in the censed when the latter re-descended neighbourhood, hut no damage was done in at

are unable their neighbourhood.]

and

a

The Burghers and troops instituted house-to-house search at Henoni, and hundreds of stribers have been arrested.

'NATIVES' REPATRIATED, ¦

AN AUSTRALIAN RELIEF FUND,

the, Marine Court at Singapore last week and Cotton Mixtures, unclassed" showed a

must-have had about the most uncomfort. total net import direct from foreign able voyage down to Australia on record. countries of 4,839,188 yards in 1912 as They were part of a company of thirteen compared with 1,282,311 yards in 1909 Macao Chinese who for eleven days lay the import of "Woollen and Cotton Flautiel" concealed beneath the flooring of a hold, was double in 1912 what it was in 1909; in a space two fect, and two inches in while Cotton Gooda, unclassed," showed the depth. Food was brought to them, but. epornious total of 54,841,448 as compared by whom they would not say-declaring, | with 6,648,808 yards in 1909. For a brief indeed, that they did not know. Before time the well-to-do Chinese and those of the setting back in Singapore, under arrest. mercantile clerk cless deluged the tailors the band of thirteen had diminished to shops with orders for European clothes, seven, two of the men having died. and four having to be left in hospital at Balik and in any congregation of Chinese in Papan. The prisoners were sentenced to Hongkong or the Treaty ports the pro-four weeks imprisonment each. portion of men in European attire twelve months ago was considerable, Group

At the weekly meeting of the St. photographs of the Parliament when it Andrew's Men's Christian Union on was inaugurated at Pelring last April Friday Dr. M. E. Asger, dental surgeon, showed something like 75 per cent. of the read an interesting paper on members to be in European clothes. Hygiene," which he explained to be the These Wines specially Within the last six months a very marked Rospel of the cleanliness of the mouth, ing, but, despite the calm, martial law

cleanliness of the teeth and.cleanliness of change has taken place, and to-day the the threat. He declared dental decay to will not be relaxed until the strike is recommended, being of Superior number of Chinese to be seen in the streets be a factor of ill-health second in impor absolutely ended and normal conditions Vintage, Old, and thoroughly wearing foreign clothes (hata and capa tance to no other affecting the human restored. The arrests continue. Among the

excepted) is probably about one-twentieth race. Attention was called to what was the persons arrested are the Natal matured and in fine condition.

of the number which might been counted being done in the world to spread a Legislator, Mr. Boydell, and the Chair- s prosperous districts of the Father twelve months ago. The result of this knowledge of oral hygiene, and the reversion to the old style of dress is that lecturer remarked that he had been in man of the Labour Party, Mr. Kentridge befallen the nation are due to the failure.

formed that there were only two schools toas of cloth are at the present moment in Hongkong where there was dental was arrested while discussing with the of tho Arny to accomplish its duty to.

SUPERIOR PALE DRY.

Por Dozen $24.30

are

A. S. WATSON & CO..

LIMITED,

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HONGBONG, JANUARY 19TH, 1914.

"Oral

THE SUBMARINE TRAGEDY. coMMANDER A FORMER HONGKONG OFFICER.

lying in the godowns. Whether this inspection the Victoria and Kowloon reversion to the native dress is likely Schools. In the United States, he said, to be permanent remains to be acen, the authorities appointed dentists to It was largely induced, of course, by the inspect the children's teeth in all schools. suspicion which fell upon Chinese in European dress after the abortive political movamente last summer. Generally it may be said that they were associated with the revolutionary party, and the flight of the revolutionary leaders, followed later by the proclamation and suppression of the party with which they were identified as being seditious organisation," caused those clad in foreign attire to receive an amount of attention from the police in China which was distinctly embarrassing. Whed affairs

In consequence of the outbreak at Jagersfontein on the 9th inst. 3,000 natives there have been repatriated.

MARTIAL LAW NOT TO BE RELAXED.

LONDON, January 17th. Everything was quiet on Friday even-

MELBOURNE, January 18th. The Lord Mayor has opened a Relief Fund for Japanese rendered destitute by the calamities.

THE FAILURE OF TURKEY'S ARMY,

ENTER BEY'S MISSION. CONSTANTINOPLE, January 17th. Enver Bey, in a proclamation issued to. Army, declares that the loss of the

fand and the disasters which hars

I appears that the Mayor of Pretoria-

the Sultan, who is profoundly affected by strike leaders with a view to mediation,

this and has ordered him to prepare the The Hun, Mr. J. C. Stauts (?) has

Army with a view to preventing a repeti- thanked all the Commandoca, partícution of these disasters He states that larly those who had achieve such he will require absolute obedience and splendid feats of mobilisation as enabled

incessant effort from the army. them to reach the Rand in time to enable

time the Government by its own resources to deal firmly and effectively with a national danger....

The submarine tragedy at Plymouth has

The Defence headquarters notifies that especially sad interest for many in Hung- kong, because of the fact that the Com mander of the ill-fated vessel was Lieut.

the Burghers who have been

called ou Wellman, who was with the Submarine are being engaged to replace the strikers Flotilla here until about a year ago. He when released from Defence service.

& promising young officer, very

SITUATION CALM. popular in the service, and he will be

CAPE TOWN, January 17th.

wha

in Chias become more settled it is quite remembered by the community at large

CANADIAN PARLIAMENT

RE-OPENED.

OTTAWA, January 17th. H.R.H, the Duke of Connaught opened Parliament. In his speech His Royal Highness referred to the remarkable expansion of Canada's trade, but he made no: allusion to the Naval policy. He

the returned thanks for

universal

GERMANY AND THE OLYMPIC MEETING.

The divers

Any

to

defects or damage outside, and it is assumed that the pumps went wrong. Hope has been abandoned, and operationa suspended.

LONDON, January 18th.

The Adairalty reports that the sub- marine is 18 fathoms deep. It was impos- sible to locate her before dark, and the operations were resumed at daybreak.

Lieutenant Welman, Sub-Lieutenant Grant Morrison, and nine men were aboard.

The vessel was constructed in 1904.

FRENCH PRESIDENT'S SYMPATHY. President Poincaré has telegraphed to H.M.. The King an expression of sympathy in connection with the loss of

the submarine.

H.M. the King has telegraphed to the Naval Authorities that he is deeply grieved to learn of the valuable lives lost In the submarine, and expressing his sympathy with the relatives

THE SUBMARINE NOT LOCATED.

LATER

The reports sent by local correspondents regarding the tapping communication between the divers and the men in the submarine are declared to be untrue.

A buoy placed to mark where the sub- parts sympathy extended during the illness of marine sank broke away in the rising sea likely that the demand for foreign clothing for his very successful appearance in the Press Correspondents in all will again set in, for it must be remem title role of Lieutenant Crosse's first of the Union telegraph that everywhere the Duchess of Connaught,

and the searchers up to the present, have bered that in China, as in Japan, the desire play, The Cook, performed at the the situation is calma, and that the men

failed to locate the submarino for foreiga clothing is prompted by no Theatre Royal last season. other consideration than to appear on a foot- | ing of equality with the European. Forsign attire is not more hygienic or less expensive than the national dress. nor-except

in the various strike areas are resuming.

AN UNFORTUNATE INCIDENT.

JOHANNESBURG, January 18th. Ernest Prescher, a private in the.

BERLIN, January 17th.

The rejection of the proposed vote of £2,300 by the Budget Committee to the Olympic meeting, announced yesterday,

MAIL STEAMER BREAKING UP.

LONDON, January 17th. The Royal Mail steamer Cobrquid,

wise the rejection of official patronage. Fundy, -is breaking up.

AMERICA'S NEW SURGEON-

It is hoped to

THE CANDLE SHOP FIRE.

The Magistrate has now released the in the naval and military services-13 premises in Cochrane Street which wero Transvaal Scottish Regiment was shot the appearance of the average Chinese or gutted by fire on Thursday, no fire dead by a picket his own Regiment. He ja merely a party matter, and signifies in which struck on an island in the Bay of Japanese improved by wearing it. Never inquiry being considered necessary. It is was patrolling the line near

Denver theless, we have no doubt that in time, at now stated that the outbreak originated the centres of foreign trade in Chine, in the cook-house at the back of the shop, Station, wearing a mackintosh instead of European attire will become increasingly where tallow for candle-making was being a military coat, and stepped down into

fashionable." for the reason already stated, boiled, a spark from the stove setting fire a culvert though that time may yet be too far ahead to the fat. to bring much consolation and relief to the merchants and tailoring establishments

who now have occasion to lament the sudden cessation of the demand.

The English mail of the 20th December

A NEW MAGISTRATE.

to get out of the way

of

passing 2

train.

í:

surmised that he failed to hear the

three challenges of the picket owing to the noises of the train and the adjoining The Government Gazelle notifies that Fraine battery. The picket was looking H.E. the Governor has been pleased to out for a man who had laid dynamite on appoint Mr. S. B. B. McElderry to the railway for the last four nights. be a Magistrate, with effect from the 22nd

was delivered in London on 16th January. November, 1913, and that His Excellency NATIVES BREAK OUT OF COMPOUND,

ALTHOUGH the Chinese Customs receipts for 1913 reached a record total, indicating a prosperous condition of trade, it is common knowledge that the Chinese merchants, in South China at least, bave been looking forward to the end of the funncial year with-considerable anxiety. We are now within a week of the New Year according to the old style--which continues to be generally observed in Chinose business circles (notwithstanding that officially the Gregorian calendar has been adopted). The absence of any news of impending failures on a large scale afford grounds for hope that the crisis due to the heavy depreciation in the currency notes of the Messrs. Hughes & Hough announce neighbouring Province of Kwangtung may an auction of mechanical and optical toys be successfully passed. Possibly the to-day. foreign loan which the Canton Government is reported to have negotiated will save the situation in Kwangtung, and in that case the business failures will be of niner importance. Some are expected to result

Mr. Paul Polinorsky; a guest at the froin causes other than the depreciation

Astor House Hotel, has complained to the of the arrency notes. Tailors and importers of cloth have been particularly police that he has missed from his room hard hit by the sudden passing of the craze a pearl scarf pin worth $600.

Messrs. Wra. Powell, Ltd., announce a four days cash sale, at great reductions in price, commencing to-day.

The Rev, G. E. S. Upsdell will conduét

the meeting of the Hongkong. Christian Union at St. Paul's College to-day, at 5.30 p.m.

GENERAL.

WASHINGTON, January 18th. President Wilson has nominated Dr.

save the mails,

BANK FAILURE IN PARIS.

PARTS, January 176h. The Bouree was unsettled yesterday, by Gorgas, who made his name famous in the announcement that the Societe Auxili- connection with ensuring the healthiness are de Credit had been compelled to go into of the Panama Zone, as Surgeon-General liquidation. The deficit is estimated at of the Army.

INTERNATIONAL RUGBY FOOTBALL.

ENGLAND WINS A STRENUOUS GAME.

LONDON, January 16th. enormous crowd assembled at Twickenham for the International

An

£1,080,000. The losses chiefly fall on brokers and small investors, but it is. feared that it will react in other quar ters. The bank had connections in China, In view of the fact that no action has been brought with reference to the failure. of the Bank, and the probability that is will be able to reimburse its creditors, it

has authorised Mr. McElderry to hold

A hundred natives broke out of the Small Debts Court in the New Vanryn Estates compound and "bolted" Territories at the following places into the plantation. They replied to a Tsun Wan, Tai O, Tsung Chung, Cheung demand for surrender by volleys of stones Chau, and Yeung Sha Wan, with effect

and bottles. The leader advanced and Rugby match between Wales and Eng is understood that there will be no threw a bottle at the Commando of bur land. The conditions were perfect. The ghers, who fired and wounded him. The Welsh forwarde, led by the Rev. Davica, natives afterwards. surrendered.

from the same date.

THE OPIUM LAWS.

A Chinese was charged at the Magis tracy on Saturday before Mr. J. R. Wood with being in unlawful possession of 20 tacls of opium without a certificate. The Magistrate observed that this was the first

CONDITIONS ALMOST NORMAL.

judicial proceedings,

ACTRESS.

were superb scrimmagers, whilst the LEGION OF HONOUR FOR FAMOUS Englishmen were good in the loose. Hirst goal for Wales, England replying with a try by Brown, from a fre

Practically all the Transvaal railway dropped a men have resumed work.

among the Chinese for European attire, and An American Association of North him. Mr. Geo. Hoggarth, from the THE ALLEGED MURDER AT JAGERSFONTEIN. we hear that there is a libelihood of no China has been formed to promote Ame Opium Farm, informed his Worship that

The miner, Stockenstroom, who

was

The conditions in the Orange Free State run by Poulton, and Chapman converted, At half-time England led by 6 points to case of the kind which had come beforeand in Natal are almost normal

4. The second half was most strenuous. The Welsh three quarter Evans got over

Then England's wing forward Pillman scored a try. Chapman again converting amidst the wildest enthusiasm, England thus winning by 10 points to 9.

fewer than five tailors on the Queen's Road rican commercial interests. Mr. Henry there had been one similar case before charged with the murder of a Basuto on with a try, and Bancroft converted,

He added that on and

closing their establishments in the coming Adams delivered an address, urging Mr. Hazeland. week. The great demand which set in increased efficiency in the consular service. after the 1st March, when the new Ordin the 13th inst, has been acquitted. among the Chinese after the Revolution He stated that Germany's commercial Buce came into force, it would be lawful for European clothes, presumably in order expansion was largely due to scientiac for any person to possess 20 taels of

opium. to emphasise the significance of the change study of the world's markets,

CRESSWELL ARRESTED.

The Labourite legislator, Mr. Cresswell. has been arrested.

PARIS, January 17th. Madame Sarah Bernhardt has been awarded the decoration of the Legion of Honour.

PRUSSIA'S FINANCES,

BERLIN, January 17th. Prussia has issued £20,000,000 Treasury bonds at 4 per cent, at a price of 97, in sixteen equal series, one redeemable each year, by drawings, at face value.