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Inspector Cameron prosecuted a TELEGRAMS. TELEGRAMS. TELEGRAMS.

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To510, March 5th. The investigation into the naval scandal has not yet been concluded.

MR. POOLEY STILL IN GAOL.

TOKIO, March 5th. Mr. Pooley is still in gaol, the question of bail being uncertain

OBITUARY:

straitened condition, only the most sanguine of prophets could discover any sign of hor Chinese, who was found in the Shaukiwan attaining anything approaching the position district, for returning from banishment. of a Naval Power,

In a memorandum He told Mr. F. A, Hazeland that the on this subject prepared in 1904, Sir man had been banished five times-on ROBERT HART estimated th

that the initial the last occasion for 20 years. His Wor- THE JAPANESE NAVAL SCANDAL

hip ordered him to be confined in what he with cost of providing China considered an adequate fleet would be about Victoria Gaol for twelve months, and to be publicly exhibited in the stocks for £100,000,000 for construction alone, with

four hours. out allowing anything for annual mainte

The Singapore Free Press of the 24th nance. For this sum, according to his estimate, Chins would acquire three equad.ult. contains a very appreciative article rons, each consisting of tan battleships, ten on the Hongkong University. The con- cluding observation of the writer is:--- It should not be forgotten that the and accessible centre for advanced study Hongkong University makes a convenient and professional training for the Chinese. and other Asiatic residents in the Malay Feninsula, Java, Sumatra, Siam and Borneo Indeed, although Calcutta is a more accessible University for Chinese in view of the improvements and increased students from Rangoon, the social and cost of construction that have come into national reasons for proceeding to Hong being during the last ten years, the hundred kong in preference ure strong indeed."! million pounds would scarcely meet the bill now for these 240 men-of-war. But if China's prospect of obtaining something worthy of the name of a navy has to be indefinitely postponed, her need of a naval force of some sort is. none the lega immediate. Many a long year must pass before she will be able to build up navy

torpedo boats, when the total personnel of her Davy would stand at $1,500. Needless to say, this programme would notinclude Dread- noughts and super-Dreadnoughts, nor, indeed, anything above the calibre of a second-class cruiser the estimated total complement precludes anything larger-but

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that would in any way be either a menace or a serious consideration to Japan-for, when China does em bork definitely on the competi- tion in naval armaments, it must always be with reference tothe programme of the Island Empire that her estimates will be drawn up but the present danger on her sese, creeks, and rivers is not at alien foe, but native

POLICE INSPECTION.

H.E the Governor inspected the various sections of the Hongkong Police Force yesterday afternoon,

The Hon. Mr. Claud Bevern, Colonial Secretary, was also present, and the Governor was accompanied by his Aide de Camp, Capt. Alison.

Mr. McI Messer, the Captain Superin- tendent of Police, was in command, and the other European officers present were Deputy Superintendent King, Assistant Superintendent Sayer, Chief Inspector Gourlay, Det-Sergt. Pincott and Sergt Gerrard.

We regret that owing to pressure on cur space the remarks of H.E. the

TORIO, March 8th.. The death is announced of Baron Matsuda, Minister of Justice,

[The late Baron began politics under Itagaki. He was in the Okuma-Itagaki Coalition Ministry, in 1898 he was Minister of Finance and was in the Lite Ministry of tion, and President of the Lower House from March, 1904, until January, 1903, when he entered the Cabinet and the Justice Office at Tokic ]

1900-01. He was also Minister of Educa

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(TELODGE REUTIE'S AGENDY.] THE SUNKEN SUBMARINE.

MEMORIAL SERVICE TO BE HELD TO-DAY-

LONDON, March 5th. The funeral service for the victims of the sunken submarine 47 takes place on board the parent submarine ship Forth to-day, over the spot in Whitsand Bay where the submarine rests. Vice Admiral Sir John Jellicoe and the Rt. Hon. Sir F. J. S. Hopwood will be on board the

THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] RUSSIA'S ALLEGED WARLIKE ATTITUDE TOWARDS GERMANY.

An

AN ABSOLUTE INVENTION."

[TENOUGH REUTER'S AUKNCY:} HOME RULE CONCESSIONS

Logos, March 5th. The Westminister Gazette, a Liberal

A FORECAST

LONDON, March 5th. article has appeared in the organ, gives prominence to a forecass Koelnische Zeitury denouncing the new of Mr. Asquith's Home Rule concos Russian Cabinet as anti-German and sions, and says that the Nationalista are prepared to accept a provisional asserting that immense new armamenta are directed against Germany: Although arrangement giving the Orange counties the semi-official inspiration of the article temporary option. They will not, how- is dicclaimed, it is considered that it ever, accept permanent dismemberment

The journal adds that, foreshadows fresh Naval and Military from Ireland.

the Liberals will not yield to threats, demands.

ST. PETERSBURG, March 5th.

and that the Bill will be passed whether The Ministry of Finance declares that the concessions are accepted or not. It the report in the Kochnische Zeitung of predicts that the concessions will be so Russian war peparations on the Western generous that it would be imposible for frontier has caused uneasiness on the the Opposition to advise a policy of

·resistance,

A full Cabinet deliberated upon the position yesterday.

Paris bourse, affecting Russian securities, while the St. Petersburg bourse yesterday was in a state of extreme consterna- tion." The Ministry declares the report

Lord Stamfordham, the King's"? to be an absolute invention.

Secretary, visited Downing Street while THE ARREST OF A MISSIONARY. the Cabinet was sitting. He waited until

the Cabinet rose to see Mr. Asquith.

PORTUGUESE GOVERNOR SAYS IT WAS

JUSTIFIED.

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HONGKONG, MARCH 6TH, 1914.

NAVAL Bffairs in almost any part of the world always possess a peculiar interest of their own in view of the necessity of maintaining unimpaired Great Britain's supremacy in this respect, but China has as yet Ecarcely succeeded in arrasting attention by her activity in this connection. She possesses, it is true, a Navy Board which from time to time gīves some reminder of its existence, and during the last year or so its activities have attracted a desultory interest. One of its early acts was an investigation of the condition of the fleet, with the discouraging result that China was found to have no more than five effective unite on which she could rely in time of war; later came the news of the Naval mission" of Captain CHRISTIAN and other British officers; and on February 1st of

if they were to be lastingly effective, fully all the time of all the fleet China occupy is likely to possess for some years, a would also provide an excellent training ground for the officers and crews, as well as keeping the fleet in constant efficiency. The modification made by the Republican

Government in the contract with the Bethlehem Steel Corporation-that, instead of battleships, China should purchase boats of a lesser rating-would indicate that this is the present intention of the Navy Board, and if it is carried out effectively money to. spent in providing the nucleus of a mary would be quite as much A productive investment as if the funds were sunk in the construction of a railway that could never be useful for other than military purposes, to, say, Kansu or Ili, The Colony Ins had so much experience of the depredations of the pirates in the Canton delta, that there is no need to elaborate this point, for is the Canton delto the only region in which this plagus is rampant the pirates of the Chekiang coast, for instance, Are notorious. But if China's naval force most for the present le content to perfort nothing more dramatic than police work, it is certain that her ambitions will not be fulfilled until she has a fleet sufficient to give weight to her words in the councils of the nations whatever fleet she could build would be an ineffective guarantee against invasion, with Korea and South Manchuria in Japan's hands and Mongolia little more than an appanage of Russia However much pacificists may deplore the fact, the importance of a nation in the present-day world is rated in proportion to its naval and military armaments, and this nonsideration, it is to be anticipated, will Chinn on to build up, as soon as

Spur funde permit, a navy for which she can never have any actual use.

H.M.S. Dorie preceeds to the North today. She is going up to Nanking.

The Chinese cruiser Chuo Ho, with

to-morrow.

Date

The Unionist papers state that the visit was connected with the Government's pro- posals regarding Ultser.

SOUTH AFRICAN LABOUR

TROUBLES.

During the

A POSSIBILITY.

LONDON, March 5th. The Portuguese Acting Governor at San Salvador, Congo, justifies the arrest of the Rev. Mr. Bowskill by alleging that he acted as the leader of the revolt of the disaffected natives and allowed the

CAPETOWN, March 5th.·

Committee debate în ing the Admiralty. The Forth, with the siege of a Portuguese fort.

Assembly, on the Indemnity convoy of submarines, will be moored over

At & meeting of the Committee of the the COMPENSATION FOR AN INJURED the scene of the disaster and be encircled

FOOT.

by three rows of battleships. Simultane Anti-Slavery Society in London yesterday, Bill, the Labourites strenuously opposed clause. Before Mr. F. A. Hazeland at the onsly, a memorial service will be held in it was declared that the arrest was due the inclusion of the names of the

deportees in the banishment When Bain's name came up. Mr. Andrews, a Labour member, hinted that he had received information that there is a possibility of the workers in Great Britain refusing to handle South African products, like fruit and wood.

TWO HOURS' FIGHT AT A

MEETING.

Magistracy yesterday, the cass came on for hearing in which a Chinese youth

summoned a compatriot for injuries to this foot, caused by the defendant's negli genes with a truck

Inspector Dymond suggested that the defendant should pay a sum as compensa- tion to the complainant, as it was a accident.

Three

His Worship asked the defendant what he was prepared to pay.

Defendaal-Oh, & few dollars. or-fiver your Worship.

Complainant, asked what he was pared to accept asked for (Laughter.) -

$100

His Worship Oh, nonsense, Inspector Dymond said that $10 should meet the cas, and this was ordered to be paid to the complainant,

INDIAN CONSTABLE AND THE WHITEWASH

VERY PODE JOKE,

B

the barracks at Keybam.

THE RULER OF ALBANIA

A DIFFICULT POSITION,

LONDON, March 5th. The Prince of Weid and his Conso t embark a Trieste to-day for Durazzo, escorted by an international fleet.

The difficultien awaiting the new Sovereign are evidenced by the spread of the revolt in the Epirus and the outbreak of intertribal fighting among Albanians, while a Cettinje telegram reports that the Mahommedans at Boutari have decided not to send a deputation to greet the

Prince.

THE MILITARY COMMAND IN SOUTH AFRICA.

LONDON, March 5th Mr. Harcourt, Secretary of State for the Colonies, replying to a question in the

An Indian constable prosecuted

General Sir James Wolfe Murray would. Chineas painter at the Magistracy yester-House of Commons, said that Lieutenant- day for damaging his uniform.

shortly take over the command of the

to over the Imperial troops in South Africa,

According to the constable's story the defendant, who was limewashing a wall suddenly swished a lot of whitewash over him from a brush, covering him all over, He turned round to arrest the man, when he guished another lot over him.

The defendant alleged that the co- stable was teasing a Hakka woman, and when he (defendant) remonstrated with him he threw a etone at him.

The Indian constable denied this and said there was no woman about ab the time. He could only suggest as a motive that defedant plastered him out of mischief

Inspector Dymond told his Worthip that the constable came to the station in His paggarce, hair, deplorable mess.

Lieutenant General Sir Reginald Hart has been promoted to be a full General.

TROUBLOUS MEXICO.

NOGALES, March 5th.

The Government gunboats, Morales and Guerrero attacked the rebel gunboat at Tampico in the harbour of Topolobampo, the result being ineffective. The Federal guphoats withdrew undamaged.

to a Portuguese attempt to impress 1,500 labourers for the cocoa plantations, and a resolution was passed calling upon the British Goverament to insist upon & searching inquiry and to demand, the instant release of Mr. Bownkill.

THE RENTON AFFAIR

EL Paso, March 5th. General Carranza has appointed his own Commission of three members to Betances attending investigate the

the shooting of Mr. Benton.

FAILURE OF AUSTRALIAN BUTCHERS STRIKE.

SYDNEY, March 5th. In view of the firm attitude of the Government, the meat strikers are resum ing on the old conditions.

STRIKE OF MESSAGERIES MARITIMES OFFICERS.

SKIPA HELD UP AT MARSEILLES.

MARSEILIES, March 5th. Fifteen steamers, running to Egypt, Black Sea ports, Madagascar and the Far East, are held up owing to a strike of officers and mechanics of the Messn geries Maritimes..

BIG STRIKE AT A RUSSIAN ARMS.

FACTORY

AND A GRUESOME TRAGEDY.

ST. PETERSBURG, March 5th. Fifteen thousand men have downed tools" at the Patiloff Arms Factory as a protest against being ordered to parti- Sir Lionel Carden, the British Minister cipate in the celebration of the emancipa

BRITISH MINISTER. SAILS FOR ENGLAND, NEW YORK, March 6th.

Admiral Yeo on board, arrived from and uniform were covered with at Misxico, has sailed for England. the North yesterday.

The fine new P. & intermediate steamer Khiza arrived yesterday on her maiden trip to China,

Mr. and Mr. Duncan Clark returned to the Colony yesterday after an absence of twelve months at Home.

H.M.S. Welland and Kennett, which went to Amoy on the occurrence of the recent disturbances there, left for long- kong yesterday,

this year a deunite step towards Lue re- The cinematograph pictures of the race organization of China's fleet was taken meating are to be exhibited to-night and

LONDON

This was a most unusual thing, and beOYAL VISIT TO THE YMCA IN thought the man intended to throw the wash at the constable from behind first, thanking that he might not notice it, and become a laughing stock"

LONDON, March 5th. The man Their Majesties the King and Queen said nothing about a Hakka woman at visited the headquarters of the Young the station when asked his reason for Men's Christian Association in Loudon throwing the stuff.

and stayed an hour. BRITISH COLUMBIA AND ASIATIO IMMIGRATION,

His Worship I think it was a joke, but it was rather a poor joke.

Defendant was fined 815, or a month.

CRICKET

C.B.C.C... UNIVERSITY, This friendly match will be played on the Civil Service ground to-morrow. C.8.

ROYAL COMMISSION RECOMMENDS TOYAL

EXCLUSION

VICTORIA, B.C., March 5th. The Royal Commission recommends the

tion of the seris

A foreman killed Captain Stahl, who had command of a section of the works, with a crow-bar and then jumped into the electrical machinery, his body being dreadfully mangled.

RUSSIA'S COMMERCIAL

RELATIONS.

MOVEMENT FOR LIBERATION FROM ECONOMIC DEPENDENCE ON GERMANY.

KIEVE, March 6th.

A Congress of Russian exporters passed a resolution urging that Bussin should be liberated from her economic dependence

LABOUR

Losnov, March 5th. Mr. Ramsay Macdonald, while address. ing a Labour meeting in Farringdon Strast, was violently interrupted through- out his speech by Suffragettes and advanced Bocialists-When the lutter were removed by female stewards, a two hours fight ensued, chairs and windows being broken. No arrests were made

THE DAVIS CUP

NEW YORK, March 6th. The matches for the Davis Cup have been fixed for August 13th, 14th and 15th, but it has not yet been decided where they shall take place..

THE IMPERIAL ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION,

LONDON, March 5tb. The Gove homent has granted £10,000 to the Shackleton Imperial Antarctic Expedition.

THE DERBY BETTING.

LONDON, March 5th. The betting on the Derby is 4 to 1 against The Tetrarch,

SWEDISH POLITICS. Y

STOCKHOLM, March 5th. The Riksdag has dissolved and the elections will probably take place April.

PANAMA TOLLS.

WASHINGTON, March 5th. President Wilson addresses the joint Houses to-night, advocating the repeal of the exemption clause in the Panama Tolls Act:

THE RISING IN SOUTH PERSIA.

BUBHIRE, March 5th The gendarmerie have re-occupied Kazerun, and it is reported that the tribesmen are fleeing.

SUCCESSFUL RAID ON A CHINESE CLUB

Detective-Sergt. Wills and a number of

when the Government formally adopted to-morrow in the open-air, in the groups team-R. EO. Bird (Captain), E. W. total exclusion of Asiatics owing to the on Germany, and suggesting the develop the agreement, made by the Manchus of the Wigwam Lawn Tennis Club Low Hamilton, C. Bars, C. J. Higginbotham, impossibility of their absorption, even ment of commerein relations with Great detectives raided No. 237, Hollywood before the Revolution, to purchase from loop. We direct attention to the adver-

the Bethlehem Steel Corporation warships tisement.

Hon. Mr. Claud Severfi, Foster, J, Mackay, A. O. Brawn, A. E. Wood, W.

H. Edmonds, and E. W. Dawson.

though they become Canadian citizens.

JAPANESE MINISTER AND FRENCH PRESIDENT.

PARIS, March 5th.

to the value of four million pounds. This

Sir Richard Dune, the Associate Salt addition to China's fleet (which, the

The following have been selected to re- Director: left Canton on Tuesday in the Republican Government has arranged, is to Maritime Customs cruiser Kapan for the present Kowloon in their lot XI League take the form of minor vessels instead of Suitung district, where he will inspect the fixture against Craigengover "C.C. on

The Japanese Ambassador has entertain- the battleships provided for in Mr. SonwAB'e salt works in the neighbourhood. While Samirday, commencing at 9 p.m.-J. P. W. Kay, J. E. Mead, W. 17 Elson, W. original contract) is scarcely likely to upset in Canton Sir Richard interview the Robinson, K, H. Macaskill, F. J. de Rome,ed President Poincaré at dinner. MM. the balance of power in the China seas, and Tutch, who invited him and the Commis. L. Weaser B. D. Evans, ÁR. 1. Save Doumerge, Caillaus, Monies and Lebrun

F. Button, sod Dr. C. Forsyth, with China's financas in their present sioner of Customs to lunch.

were among the guests."

Britain, Italy, and other nations.

BRITISH POLITICS.

NO ELECTION THIS YEAR.

LONDON, March 5th.

Road on Wednesday night on a gambling -warrant.

The premises are used a9 Chinese Club, and when the police got there they found the door locked and bolted. It was only with great difficulty that entrance could be effected, the Ser- geant finding it necessary to break open the spy-hole to get at the bolts. Nine men. were arrested, and were charged before. Mr Wood at the Magistracy yesterday

The Daily Chronicle afbrms that the with being in & common gaming house,

the country this year. Government has no intention of going

to

execution of their dutyThe case wea remanded, bail being allowed at $20 each,

and with obstructing the police in the