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INTIMATIONS
activity
trade and
arident which
BIME MINIS
have to be sufficien
WATSON'S
CARBOLIC
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS THURSDAY MARCH TH 1914
eaks will
tive to
induce Eligible young
to join the defensive forces in preference to accept ing
civil employment at home, or emigrating to seek it alroad. So long as trade continuer active-a condition which
TOOTH everyone desires and a long as emigration
POWDER Pleasant to use, CLEANSING and POWERFULLY ANTI-
SEPTIC, Destroys disease germa which invade the mouth, and so
PREVENTS GUM DISEASE
and DENTAL DECAY.
continuca to be attractive, the question of compulsory national service in the British Isles must necessarily command increasing public attention when regard is bad to the efforts which are being made to increase de to increase the strength of the standing Armies on the Continent of Europe. The nation has been told by the SECRETARY OF STATE FOR WAE that in the opinion of the Government and the Committee of Imperial Defence the danger of an overwhelming invasion is not one which there is any reason to fear, and the PRIME MINISTER Only laat
TELEGRAMS. TELEGRAMS. TELEGRAMS. TELEGRAMS,
THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.
THE HOME RULE CRISIS. PREMIER TO MAKE HIS STATEMENT ON MONDAY
OPPOSITION EXPECTATIONS;
LONDON March 4K
THROUGH REUTER'S AGESUYA
THE DEATH OF MR. BENTON.
STRONG STATEMENT BY SIE EDWARD OKEY.
LONDON, March 4th. Sir Edward Grey, in a statement in: regard to the death of Mr. Benton, said
THROUGH HRUTZE'S AGENCY.];
THE BRITISH ARMY
DISAPPOINTING RECRUITING,
LONDON, March 4th The annual report on the British Army shows that on the 1st October, 1913, the
Mr Asquith announced in the House of the persistent difficulties in the way of Regimental strength was 247 250-the creatod the strongest lowest for a decade compared with 253,789 Commons that the completion of finan-investigation cial business had been arranged, and presumption that the Mexicans who were in 1912, there being a deficiency of 8,580, consequently he would make his promised responsible daired, and inte led The strength of the Torritorials is given statement in regard to Home Rufe on conceal the truth. He dwelt on the efforts
Monday,
Under the Parliamentary Act, Mr Birrell to-day introduces formally for a third time the Home Rule Bill for the first reading, without discussion.
After Mr. Asquith's statement on
and
The as $46,000, a deficiency of 65,269. United States, made by the
disappointing recruiting is attributed to emphasised the fact that Britain uust the increased competition with the Navy, reserve the right to secure reparation the working of the Government Labour whenever it
powerExchanges, and the continued activity in
was in her to do so He pointed out that the iden of Great Britain sending a force to
y emigration.
week emphasised the point that an Monday only the leaders will speak, and Mexico was fantastic, while a blockade of REBELLIOUS GREEKS AT EPIRUS.
important sub commitles of the Defence
PRICE 40 CENTS PER LARGE TIN. Imperial Committes was equsidering the
WATSON'S
PURE CARBOLIC
SOAPS
whole question and had practically come to anonimous decision which would shox that the Navy was as capable as ever it had been for protecting the country_from invasion. But if the Government still con- siders it essential, as Lord HALDANE year ago said it did, to have for Home
defence a force of about half a million com posed principally of Territorials, the present position, as it is revealed by the Army
two or three weeks will elapse before the second reading is begun in order that all parties may be able to digest the now
proposals,
LOBBY VIEWS.
the port would only assist those from whom they were demanding reparation,
WASHINGTON, March 4th,
DER OSTASIATISCHER LLOYD'
SERVICE
CHINA SERVICE. THE MURDERED TUTUR.
PERING, March 4th. President Yuan Shih-kaj intenda
resident - Ku
raising a monument in bronx to the murdered Tutal of Chili, Chao Ping chnen.
THE CULTIVATION OF LAND:
PEKING, March 4th A Presidential Mandate provides for placing under cultivation all the available unused ground near rivers, forests and mountains, the right being reserved to Chinese exclusively.
THE EXAMINATIONS FOR DISTRICT OFFICIALS
LONDON March 4th.
PERINO, March 4th. The situation at the Epirus is somewhat
Tho Shun Tien Ji Pao says the purpose like that in Ulster. The self-proclaimed of holding at Peking the examinations
Sir Edward Grey's statement, which autonomous Government refuses to be for district officials was to sift out the President Wilson read at the meeting of annexed to Albania, and relies upon the old and tried district officials of the the Cabinet, has relieved the anxiety Greek troops refusing which was felt regarding the possibility annexation upon their compatriots, and of Great Britain bringing extreme pres even deserting to help them.
The view taken in the Lobbies of Mr. Asquith's proposed statement is that there will be a dissolution by June at the latest.
It is authoritatively stated in the Lobbysure to boar apon the United States in that Mr. Asquith's statement is sweeping view of the drastic netion which had heen
Highly recommended by the returns, is manifestly an unsafe one. In and will involve the extensive administra takon with regard to Mr. Benton.
Medical Profession for the Bath
and Toilet. In three strengths
20 per cent., 10 per cent. and
5 per cent.
A.
the circumstances the National Service tive control of Ulster through its elected League, which has a very strong backing members, with the option of withdrawal is not from the rest of Ireland at the end of a already" throughout the country, likely to relax its efforts to persuade certain period, Parliament to impose on all British subjects over eighteen years of age the obligation of serving in the Territorial Force for four years:
Tsingtan har been added to the list of the Yokohama Specie Bank's branches
S. WATSON and agencies. & CO., LTD..
CHEMISTS, DRUGGISTS AND PERFUMERS,
Dr APPOINTMENT TO HIS EXCELLENCY
THE GOVERNOR.:
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HONGKONG OFFICE 104, DER Vaux BOAD C LONDON Ormons 191, BLT STREET, E.C.
The Daily Press.
HONGBONG, Much 5, 1914. THE recruiting returns of the British Army for 1918, as reported in one of REUTER'S telegrams to-day, are of special interest in view of the PRIME MINISTER'S recent reply to the important deputation which waited upon him for the purpose of advocating the cause of National Service. That deputation was headed by Earl Bossms and Field-Marshal Sir Everys Woon, and Mr. Aquira in his reply to their representations told them that be considered, looking at the presest con- dition of the Navy and Army, that the Deputation's apprehensions were ground. less, and that he did not favour compulsory
service. It will be dificult even for the PRIME MINISTER to derive any satisfaction from the sanual Army Beport just pub- lished. It shows the regimental strength to he lower than it has been at any time within the last ten years, and is 8,580 below the strength in 1912, while recruiting for the Territoriala has been even more nuastis.
Mr. AR Peel, the British Minister to Siam, will be leaving Bangkok to-day for England on leave.
The Lobbyists of both Parties indicato that the Opposition are not disposed to accept the Government proposals unless they are based upon the exclusion of Ulster.
STROKO PEZSA COMMENT.
The Daily News, in an editorial under the heading, King and Country," stated that they only needed a new league launched by Lord Milner to reveal the
We are asked by the Bev C. H. Hick-true character of the conspiracy which ling, the honorary secretary, to remind
It would was confronting the country. Intending Candidates for the July Oxford Local Examinations that March 10th will be a mistake to any longer ignore the be the last day for receiving entry forms, more sinister aspect of that conspiracy The coxswain of the P&O steam- Appeals to the King to intervene had been launch Jeannette bas complained to the revived with great emphasis during the police that some person stole a sum of past few weeks, and there was a wide. $50 from his cabin on Tuesday. Two of the crew of the launch have disappeared, spread belief, which they shared, that and he suspects them of being connected those appeals had not been revived in with the robbery,
vain. The editorial concluded hy express ing its confidence in the King not to
The Water Police have sent an Indian
to the hospital suffering from injuries follow in the footsteps of "such sustained in a fight, in which several blunderers" as George III, and William compatriota were concerned. Five men
IV. were charged in connection with the affair at the Magistracy yesterday morning, the case being remanded.
At the Magistracy yesterday a Chines was charged with gambling and with assaulting a Chmese constable. The man was caught gambling, and when arrested struggled violently with the lukong and struck him, For the assault the defen-
Mr. Walter Long, in a letter to the
NOGALES, March 4th General Carranza has summoned all the rebel leaders to discuss the Benton
affair
JAPANESE NAVAL SCANDAL
BENSATIONAL DEVELOPMENT.
TOKIO, March 4th. Commander Buzuki, chief instructor at the Naval College, has been dismissed
from the service and placed under arrest
sk in connection with the naval scandals.
GERMAN EAST AFRICA
HUGE SUM VOTED FOR NEW RAILWAY
BERLIN, March 4th.
The Budget Committee of the Reichstag has approved of the vote of £1,570,000 for
the Taboraruanda Railway in German East Africa
AN AMERICAN GAMESTER HEAVILY FINED.
NEFARIOUS METHOD OF OBTAINING INSURANCE
MONEY
New YORK, March 4th. The New York gamester, Sylvestro, 18: to be indefinitely imprisoned for 31 to 0. years, and has also been fined $1,000 før. tenement house The evidence revealed wholesale bomb-placing for the sake of obtaining insurance money.
to enforce Manchu Dynasty from the student off-
INTERNATIONAL LAWN TENNIS,
NEW YORK, March 4th. England, Australia, France, Belgium, Germany, and Canada have challenged the United States to lawn tennis contests for the Davis Cup.
cials of the Revolution time. The latter failed without exception
CHINESE REBEL LEADERS IN
#JAPAN
PEKINO, March 4th. A report from Tokyo says that the rebels have founded near Tokyo a mili tary school, styled The Battlefield's debt of blood;" under Japanese leadership. The pupils will mostly be Northern Lo the draw for the cup, Germany Chinese, as being better adapted for the and France have secured byes, Australia military calling. It is aimed at winning
meets Canada, and Great Britain will oppose Belgium in the first round. Germany will meet the winner of the former and France will oppose the winner of the latter avent.
LAST TEST MATCH
SOUTH AFRICANS AGAIN WELL BEATEN.
PORT ELIZABETH, March 4th. The M.CC. won the fifth, and last, Test Match of their tour in South Africa by 10 wickets. Replying to Bouth Africa's Grst venture of 193, England made 411,
and then got their opponente out for 228 Booth taking 4 wickets for 49 and MC Bird 3 for 38 in the second innings England scored the eleven runs required for victory without loss.
HOME BOXING.
WELLS SECURES HEAVY WEIGHT CHAMPION-
SHIP OF GREAT BRITAIN.
LONDON, March 4th. Bombardier Wells defeated Bardsman
them for the Southern cause.
FRENCH INDEMNITY OLAISE FOR
INDIRECT DAMAGES."
PERING, March 4th. The Ji Tao reports that the Foreign Minister, Ban Pao chi, has energetically refused the demand of the French Minis- ter, M. Conti, for an indemnity to the French for damages indirectly caused by the Revolution.
RAILWAY CONSTRUCTION IN
SHANTUNGA
PERING, March 4th. Preparations are being made for the opening of the Lunkow Railway linking" up with the Tsinanfu line. Collaboration of the Ministers of the Interior, of Foreign Affairs, Communications and Industry with the Tatuh of Shantung is ordered.
·EUROPEAN SERVICE.
CHINA AND THE POSTAL UNION.
BERLIN, March 3rd. HE Dr. Kraetke, the Postmaster- General, announced to the Reichstag that. Union and would be represented at this
Press, appeals for support to the manifesto placing a bomb in the hall of a crowded Blake in the fourth round in the light China has joined the World's Postal
of protest
Tho names of further influential signatories to the manifesto have been published.
ULSTER VOLUNTEER INCIDENT. Colonel Hacket Pain, Chief of Staff of the Ulster Volunteers was thrown from his
dant was fined $10, and a further fine of
n was imposed on him for gambling,
We are asked to state that the Portu horse while inspecting the Donegal Regi steso Amateurs are giving their secondment. He was kicked in the face and was performanes at the Club Lusitano on otherwise seriously injured Sunday next. Owing to the great success achieved at their first performance, a general request was made to have the play repeated. The proceeds go in aid of the funds of the Associação Portugueza do Soccorros Mutuos,
The number of plague cases notified in Hongkong since the beginning of the year total 80 to the end of last week. return of communicable disease in the Colony for last week showed: 0 cases
The
BRITISH SUPPLEMENTARY NAVAL ESTIMATES.
SCENE IN THE COMMONEN
LONDON, March 4th: There was a scene in the House of Commons during the discussion on Lord Robert Cecil's motion to reduce the Navy Supplementary Estimates.
actory, for this shows a deficiency of of plague with 7 deaths; 2 non-fatal Mr. Leif Jones (Liberal M.P. for Rush-
66,989. The figures as they are given in case of diphtheria; 6 Chinese cases of the telegram show n Regimental strength enteric fever, with 3 deaths, and 4 fatal on October lat last (when the Report was cases of small pox, all Chinese
compiled), of 247,250, while the strength
the Territoriale was
debate
of
Vice Admiral Naws of the Japanese
INDIA'S INCREASED REVENUE.
for the heavy-weight championship of
Great Britain,
In the first round both men manœuvred warily, and, following some infighting, Wellis broke clear and made the bandsman wince with blows delivered sharply from left and right. There was nothing of note in the second round, but in the third a clinch was followed by two rushes on the part of Blake. Wells, how-
DELHI, March 4th. The Hon. Sir W. 8. Meyer, Finance Minister of the Supreme Government of India, in his Budget speech, referred to the growth of revenue despite the unfavourable agricultural conditions. over, had the better of the fighting, and was He said that famine reliefs in the able to land with several telling punches,
year's Postal Congress at Madrid.
SIAMESE PRINCE IN THE GERMAN NAVY
BERLIN, March 3rd. Prince Mahidol of Siam has entered the German Navy
THE IMPERIAL CHANCELLOR AT
HAMBURG.
BERLIN, March 3rd. The Imperial Chancellor, Herr v. Beth- mann-Hollveg, has visited the Elbe Tunnel at Hamburg and inspected the Hamburg-
drought arca were limited, but the people Blake became groggy under the heavy Amerika Imer Imperator, as well as the were of good heart, and their staying punishment, but rallied magnificently sistership, the Faferland.
power had increased."
SENSATIONAL RUSSIAN PLOT IN HUNGARY.
BUDAPEST, March 4th, After nine weeks, the trial has concluded of 94 Hungarian Ruthenians, who were charged with com- in a Russian plot to convert licity
clife, Notts) attempted to speak amid at Marossriget persistent Opposition cries of Divide and Ministerial protests.
before the gong sounded. Soon after the fourth round Wells succeeded in breaking away from a clinch and showered blows upon Blake's head, finally sending the bandsman to the mat to receive the count.
OBITUARY
LONDON March 4th. The death is announced of Cardinal Kopp, Archbison of Brestau.
RUSSIA'S WARLIKE ATTITUDE
TOWARDS GERMANY-
ALARMING ARTICLE."
BERLIN, March 3rd. The correspondent of the Cologne Gazette at St. Petersburg sheds light on Russia's warlike preparations against The Russian army, already Germany strengthened, has made preparations, he says, for creating five new army corps. The completion of the preparations is to be reached in three to four years then there would be danger of a war. The carrying The USS. Wilmington departed yester out of the scheme for settlements in day morning. The German gunboat Tiger Mongolia begins in the coming summer. he also left. The Japanese cruiser Hasagi The former Russian Minister to Teheran fying the flag of Vice Admiral Nawa, has obtained the monopoly for the sale arrived yesterday morning shortly after of vodka in Mongolia. The Russian eight o'clock, and exchanged salutes with Resident at Urga has dezranded and the port
61 246,660. During a Navy made an official landing vester Mr. Winston Churchill appealed to both Ruthenians to the Russian Orthodox on the second reading of the afternoon, He was met by Capt. Allison, sides not to discuss the Navy with Party Church, and to undermine their allegi ance to the Emperor Francis Joseph The Army Annual Bill in the House of Lorde Aide-de Camp to H.E. the Governor, and hest, and observed that members were in April last year Lord HALDANE said the Capt, Edye, Aide-de-Camp to H.E. Major only anxious to divide in order to ascerchief prisoner, Kabalyok, was sentenced Government considered it essential to have General Kelly, Salutes were fired, and tain whether there were more Liberals to 4 years' imprisonment, Szabo to three for Home defence a force of from 400,000 after the distinguished visitor bad than Conservatives present. to 500,000, made up of 800,000 Territorials inspected the Guard of Honour, the party and the balance of Special Reserves and left for Government House, The Guard Regulars. The latest Army Report shows of Honour was drawn from th: DULI that a force of 800,000 Territorials does not now exist. Mr. Asquirm was probably not the hearing was resumed at the Magis
tracy yesterday before Mr. Fa majority for the Ministerialists of 140.
The Chairman called Mr Churchill to order, and the First Lord apologized.
The motion was defeated by 575 to 132,
daware of this when he received the Depurazeland of the case in which the The House of Commons afterwards
tation last week, because,
affirmed while he that the Territorials had shown vast im provement on the old Volunteer force, they night require more encouragement in some respects. As we are told that the decline in therecruiting returu a last year is attributabler Davidson (of Messra Hastings &
competition of not only to the increased recruiting for the Navy, but also to the working of the Government Labour Exchanges as well ag
extradition to China is sought of a adopted the Supplementary Estimates. Chinese named Lau Kwat, on charges of murder and kidnapping within the jurisdiction of China. The Crown Solici tor (Mr. JH, Kemp) prosecuted, and
to the continued
ROYAL AND POLITICAL BETROTHALS.
LONDON, March 4th Important political betrothals are impending. The Crown Prince of Grecs
years, and 30 others to 21 years. remainder were acquitted.
HURRICANE IN AUSTRALIA.
ISLANDA DEVASTED.
The
SYDNEY, March 4th The worst hurricane which has been experienced for fifty years has devasted che Cook islands at Aitutaki. A hurri cane was also experienced on the Hervey islands and a huge wave swept over
Hastings) defended. It is alleged that the defendant was "in love with the wife of the deceased, murdered he is engaged to marry Princess Elizabeth Mauki, destroying a whole village.
of Roumania, and the Crown Prince of Roumania is to marry
the eldest daughter
of the Tsar.
husband, and kidnapped her. The case was adjourned:
NAVAL NOTES.
HONGKONG CRICKET CLUB.
The following will represent the
obtained from the Hutuktuh a visit to, excuse himself for no having admitted him to the New Year Reception.
LATER. The evening papers state that the Ger
H. K.0.0. in the Triangular League man Government is not the originator of against the Garrison to be played on the alarming article in the Cologne Saturday, 7th March, on the Club Garette wherein a reason for disquietudo
might be
be sought, Ground, play to comments at 2 p.m. :---
B. Hancock (Captain), R. N. Ander-
DEATH OF AN ARCHBISHOP. son, A. & Claxton, P. H. Cobb, D. E.
The condition of the inhabitants is Donnelly, R. Kennedy, 8 8. Moore, T. E. Pearce, E. B. Reed, R. A. Stokes and pitiable
RLD. Wodehouse.
BERLIN, March 3rd. Cardinal Kopp, the Archbishop of Breslan, is dead.
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