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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, MARCH 24TH, 1914.

once join issue with him. The Unionists have proclaimed their adherence to the true principle of representative government by directly and formally challenging the Government to put the question to the test

Lady May has kindly consented to distribute the prizes at the Lusitano Recreation Club's Athletic Sports fon Easter Monday..

A Chinese who was knocked down by

A. S. WATSON of a Referendun. This challenge has been motor-car No. 7 near Observation Place

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absolutely ignored. If the Government were really so satisfied as they profess to ho that they are supported on this question by the great majority of the electors of the United Kingdom, why need there be any besitation on their part to accept the chal lenge? The only reason which has ever

WINE& SPIRIT MERCHANTS, been given for not resorting to the Referen

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was sent to hospital suffering from

juries to his head and arms.

A Chinese woman living in Swatow

Lane has suffered the loss of $264 in money, seven articles of jewellery, of the value of $154, and $23 worth of clothing.

Shanghai St Patrick's Society received greetings on Tuesday last from Sir John dum is that the method is expensive Jordan, British Minister in Feking, Sir surely a ridiculously inadequate excuse Conyngham Greene, British Ambassa- when the alternative is civil war! Mr.dor in Tokye, Sir Henry May, Governor Asquire, indeed, has ventured to suggest of Hongkong, Lord Kitchener and Tient that the Unionista might not abide by the sin Irishmen verdict of the Referendum if it proved ad- verse to their object, but whatever the Pro- testant Ulstermen themselves might do in the circumstances, we cannot for a moment entertain the thought that the whole body of the Unionist Party would be prepared to disregard the principle of representative government and continue to resist by physi- cal force a low which a majority of the

THE SITUATION IN ULSTER.

REVOLT OF ARMY OFFICERS.

SEVENTY CAVALRY OFFICERS TENDER THEIR RESIGNATIONS.

GOVERNMENT BELIEVE THIS TO BE DUE TO

HONEST MISUNDERSTANDING **

[THEOUGH REUTER'S AGENCY)

TONDON, March 23rd. According to trustworthy accounts the position in the Third Cavalry Brigade at the Curragh and Dublin is unprecedented,

TELEGRAMS:

DAILY PRESB EXCLUSIVE SERVICE]

JAPANESE POLITICAL CRISIS.

18 THE BUDGET, IS NOT PASSED.

TOKYO, March 23rd.

The Asahi states that if the Budget is

not passed in the House of Peers the

Cabinet will resign and Parliament be

prorogued:

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENUT-]

GERMAN MAIL SERVICES:

BERLIN, March zand.

A Bill has been presented in the Reich

the Chancellor to On Friday morning the War Office requested officers who were unprepared stag authorising Singapore Thespians have followed the

contract with a German firm for regular the Triple Bill." example of the Hongkong A.D. C. for active service in Ulster to sond in their papers within twelve hours.

Seventy, out of seventy-five, including General Cough, V.C., did send in mail steamer services between the Far by producing

East, Australia and the Gorman posses The pieces performed were Wynn Miller's

their papers. Faces" comedy Dream one-act Bernard Bhaw's How he lied to her husband," and "The Ghost of Jerry Bundler" by W. W. Jacobs and C. Rock

Besides the cases of plague reported

As a result of the conference at the War Office on Friday night, General sions in the South Seas in return for a

The services will begin on October 1 and Paget, the Officer Commanding the Troops in Ireland, conferred on Saturday maximum annual subsidy of £55,000. with the senior officers who had resigned.

there will be a line from Hongkong, việ It was intimated that the War Office was willing to accept the resignations Rabaul to Sydney with sailings at

Rabaul to Byd WHISKY. electora had unmistakably approved.

That would be anarchy pure and simple, elsewhere there were 9 Chinese cases of of General Gough and Major Kearsloy, but not the others, who, if they disobeyed intervals not to exceed four wooks,

Another line will be from Singapore to. and government would be rendered abso-small-pox in the Colony last week, eight orders, would be liable to be tried by court-martial. lutely impossible in the country. It is being fatal. Seven of these cases occurred General Gough and Major Kearsley declined the special treatment offered Samos via New Guinea, with sailings at obvious that the KINO's position in this in districts other than the city of

Genoral Paget then intimated that the movement of troops at present a blend of the best Pot crisis is very delicate one indeed. Before Victoria. There were 5 cases of choles and said they would stand or fall with their brother officers.

the Act comes into force it must receive the (all imported), 1 ease of diphtheria, 1 assent of the KING. HIS MAJESTY cannot of enteric fever, 1 of paratyphoid and was only for the protection of Government property and to assist the Police withhold for long his assent to an Act 1 of puerperal fever. passed by the House of Commons without

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in maintaining order.

In view of this assurance the officers eventually agreed to go to Ulster, The former members of the Metro- politan Police now serving in Hongkong but definitely stated that they would not participate in hostilitice against held their second annual dinner at the Loyalists. Carlton Hotel on Saturday evening, nearly 30 being present. Sergt. Kent.

intervals of not less than eight works. There will also be a service between the

German islands in the Pacific at intervala

The ships must be built in German of not less than three months,

yards.

BOXING

FRENCH IDOL BEATEN ON POINTS.

This decision was telegraphed to Whitehall, and afterwards General Gough, who, with Sergt. Wills, was responsible Colonel McEwen of the 18th Lancers and Colonel Parker of the 5th Lancers for the arrangements, presided, Inspector were summoned to London, They visited the War Office yesterday,

Meanwhile the orders to move the Cavalry from the Curragh and Dublin £3,000. Carpentier northward have been suspended.

Churcher, of the Naval Yard Police, An enjoyable accupying the vice chair. smoking concert followed.

Colonel Hogg of the 4th Lancers has not resigued.

PARIS, March 23rd. Joe Jeannette defeated Carpentier on: points in a 36-round contest for stakes of was the cleverer boxer, but his blows made little impres- sion on his heavier opponent. Carpentier floored the negro in the first round, owing to the latter slipping. After this

was a great deal of clinebing, and incident, the contest was even. There Carpentier tired in the inter-rounds ne a result of Jeannette's steady, hard

sbaking the very foundations of the Throne; and, on the other hand, if His MAJESTY's assent is followed by wholesale resignations in the Army the same grave difficulty presents itself in an even more acute form. Were the Government to throw

the up sponge in consequence of the menace of a civil war in Ulster, what shall we say of the danger of civil war throughout the greater part of Ireland

A Chinese visited three houses in Kin

A number of officers left the Curragh yester lay on special leave. They engendered by the sudden disappointment Yan Lane, and informed the inmates that of a long sustained hope? Mr. REDMOND he had been sent by the master to take stated that their resignations had now been accspted because they would then has told us that in that event Ireland the zine sheeting off the houses. The be free to join the Ulster Volunteers. BRANDY. would become "absolutely ungovernable tenants suspected nothing, and made no

and when we recall the Nationalist objection.

Finest very

old BROWN campaigns of ten and twenty years ago, several large pieces of sheeting when the Brigades at Dublin, the Curragh, Newbridge, and Kildare, but up to the present bitting

mere rent collector chanced upon the scene all Infantry and Artillery ordered North have gone without demur, we cannot treat that threat

The Times learns that the attitude of the Government is that the BRANDY, Guaranteed 25 years

bloff" any more than we can so regard He saw the man, questioned him and as a result gave him in charge. At the land sentenced him to a month's hard

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The man had taken off

Many resignations have also been tendered in the Infantry and Artillery

age, in wood. The finest LIQUEUE the movement in Ulster. Would the Army, Magistracy yesterday, Mr. F. A Haze resignations are due to honest misunderstanding of the matter which had been

BRANDY on the market.

NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS,

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ONLY communications relating to the news column should be addressed to Tan Edison,

Correspondent must forward their names and addresses with "communíca- tions addressed to the Editor, not for publication bu as evidence of good faith. All letters for publication should be written on one side of paper only.

BIRTH. BOWLEY. On 23rd March, at Aberdare,

Mrs. F. B. L. BOWLEY, of a son,

HONGKONG OFFICE: 104, DES VOX ROAD O. London Option: 181, FL 81, E.

The Daily Press.

HONGKONG, MARCH 24TH, 1914.

while refusing to obey the behestu of a Liberal Government to suppress disturb-fabour. auces in Ulster, rafuse likewise to obey the orders of a Unionist. Government to su press similar disturbances in the other provinces? If it be admitted that rebellion is justifiable in the one case, we must be prepared for the claim that it is justifiable in the other and when we have influential newspapers counselling oficers of the Army

A handsome model of the Hongkong University buildings, in silver, is on view at Mr. Wang Hing's large store in Queen's Road Central. copied from one in wood provided by the architects, Messrs Leigh & Orange, and

taken four men in Mr. Wang Hing's Canton factory nine months to complete

tactlessly handled locally. There would be no panalization of the officers General Paget has been summoned to London,

PRESS COMMENTS.

The Liberal organs ascribe the resignations to political influences, and say they must be dealt with drastically, otherwise the Army's word will become the solo law.

The Daily News says that the Military conspirators against Parliament should be broken mercilessly, never re-admitted to the Army, and replaced from

in Ireland to resign rather than oboy the. The model, which is perfect in every the ranks,

detail, is a beautiful example of the Chinese silversmith's art. On the ebony plinth on which it stands is a silver plate bearing

The Daily Chronicle comment is in similar strain.

The Unionist papers laud the resignatione, an? declare it is the duty of

IMPORTANT DEBATE EXPECTED LAST NIGHT

the following inscription: the Unioniste to eve that those who have resigned do not suffer for their Hongkong University. P Presented to self-sacrificing patriotism. Bir F. J. D. Lugard, G.C.M.G., C.B., D.5.0.. by N. H. N. Mody Esq., son of the late Sir H. N. Mody Kt, donor of these baridings, on the occasion of the opening ceremony, 11th March, 1912"

about

CORRESPONDENCE,

PRIVET AND CATARNHAL TROUBLE.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE "HONGKONG DAILY PRESS,''].

Hongkong, March 23rd, 1914. SIR, A considerable number of resi dents, myself among the number---which is my excuse for writing upon the subject are suffering at the present time from

the head. There is a widespread belief sore throat accompanied by severe cold in

that this is caused by the flowering of the privet trec. Would it not be desirable.

to verify or negative the reasonableness of

to be any foundation of truth in it, this superstition, and, if there is found

would it not be possible for the Govern ment-in concert with the private owners

It is expected that Mr. Bonar Law will move the adjournment of the of land at The Peak, an in the suburban House lo-day and that an important debate will follow.

districts to take steps to extirpate it?

I understand that in Shanghai there is Lord Lansdowne will raise the question of the resignations of the officers standing Municipal regulation upon the

subject.-1 am, yours obediently,

There was a series of conferances of leading Ministers throughout. 35 years of the day and evening yesterday, and this is regarded as an indication of a very

orders of the Government for the time being in power and promising for them the support of the Unionist Party of the United Kingdom it is impossible to exaggerate the gravi'y of the situation which has arisen. It is important to bear in mind that if the Referendum test be accepted and the result were adverse to Honie Rule the Government whether Liberal, or Unionist would still be faced with an ** ungovernable -Ireland," The Intest A man named Gustav Petersen shot in the House of Lords to-day. information regarding the revolt in the himself at the Savoy Hotel, Shanghai, Petersen was a native: Army seems to point to the officers being last week. prepared to do their duty, so far as it of Germany,

He

as formerly a seafarer grave crisis. A CAREFUL study of the telegraphic concerns the protection of Government age, information reaching us regarding the property. We sincerely hope they may and for a considerable period held present situation in Ulster can leave 10 one never be called upon to do more than this the position of chief officer on board s in doubt as to the extreme gravity of the and when what is required of the Army local German coasting steamer. He gave know nothing of any report that they had been ordered to keep trains in readiness layman that great numbers of people situation which has been created by the is defined in this way and accepted we up the sea some time ago and joined at Aldershot for the conveyance of 10,000 troops to Glasgow and other ports.

The King has abandoned his visit to the Earl of Derby for the Liverpool Government's determination to take full think events will shape their course to a the Chinese Maritime Customs service

set'lement on the basis of the scheme out and was stationed at Hankow. He left Rocs this week. advantage of the Parliament Act to place lined in Mr. Asquisa's recent speech the Customs recently, and previously, the the Home Eule for Ireland Bill on the The Bill will be passed as it stands; Mercury

u says, he wroten letter to the Prior to the receipt of the above important dispatches we received the statute book of the realm. The Govern Ulster vill resist and the Government German Consulate wherein he announced following items yesterday - ment'a majority in the House of Commons will meet the difficulty by suspending its his intention of killing himself. The

A detachment of 50 Royal Engineers from Curragh Camp arrived at has been absolutely unshaken by the operation in Ulster in the hope that the authorities questioned him as to his weighty considerations advanced by the good results which are expected to accrue object in writing the letter and the con- Dublin, and later proceeded to Holywood Barracks, Belfast. Other drafts from Unionist leaders in the debate on the vote to the rest of Ireland unde. Home Rule clusion was come to that it was an idle Curragh Camp are expected to day. Thus the movement of troops toward Ulster of censure which they introduced to ohal will be an inducement to Ulster in the threat inspired by over-indulgence and continues. Already 3,000 Regulars, with two field batteries, have arrived there,

The Government & measures to preserve order lave provoked an angry langs dimatly the Government's „Home, course of a few years to come i

me under the nathing further was thought of the Rule policy at the eleventh hour. All Act There seems no other way out matter. For some days past it was outburst in the Conservative Press, but Sir Edward Carson's appeal to his efforts to affect a compromise have failed of the difficulty with any prospect of noticed that he was brooding over some followers to remain calor has been admirably oboyed. Belfast hears a normal and we are given to understand from the peaceful government in Ireland.

real or fancied trouble, but no one had aspect, and Sir Edward Carson has not emerged from the residence of Captain any idea that he contemplated suicide, Craig, at Craigavon, where be continues to hold counsel with his Lieutenants speaches of Cabinet Ministers that the

and no reason can be given for the rash The residence is guarded by armed sentries and orders are sent by telephone or Government is unanimous in its resolve

The Gula Kalumpong Rubber Estates, act. When the police examined the pistol despatch riders. The Old Town Hall, Belfast, which is the official headquarters now to pass the measure as it stands Limited, have declared a dividend of 1-it was found that two bullets had been of the Ulster Provisional Government, has been denuded of all equipment and believing, between the hours of I and.

documents and ciphers removed. ---

andeterred by threats or taunts." On the

other hand, wo have olear evidence of a frm intention on the part of the Ulster Protes -tants to resist such a law by force of are, and in this they have the avowed approval and support of the Unionist Party in Great Britain. Of still graver significanes is

per share, less lax.

fred, one of them entering the head, the Whilst working on board the Thongwa, second one missing, and this was later on a coal coolie was accidentally knocked found imbedded in the wall. into one of the holds, and fractured his skull,

It is true that practically the whole

TIGER SEEN AGAIN

An-Indian-wofer- car driver, employed

LAR [We were privileged to peruse a year or more ago a voluminous correspondence on this subject to which a large number of medical practitioners in the Colony, includ- The London and South-Western railway management state that they ing the Army medical officers, contributed.. On the one hand we had the statement of a

Lssiffer from catarrbal trouble during the flowering season of the privet; and on the other hand we had the doctors unanimously saying that it was not within their experi enco Our comment on this at the time was that people do not rush into hospitals or call in the doctor on account of irritating catarrhal trouble, even when it is persistent, and if the complaint common among residents who live in districts where the privet shrub flourishes, it ought not to he difficult to onlin the co-operation of such in an effort to litre the question thoroughly

The Conservative papers continue to publish alarmist reports, and assert that the men of the Dorset Regiment who mutinied are kept prisoners in the Barracks, but this is probably an exaggeration, as in fact all the troops in Ulster are momentarily confined. Barracka

The Observer, which was the first to publish the report that General Gough had resigned rather than take command in Ulster, exhorts all officers to resign, declaring that they would be supported by the Unionists

investigated. But nothing apparently was done in the mattor. En.

THE TIGER

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE HONGKONG

DAILY PRESS.

Hongkong March 23rd, 1014: SIE, On the principle that Seeing is

p.m today I made pilgrimage to the City Hall and naked to be directed Hongkong tigers footprints are said (in the Museum where the cast of the the columns of your paper, too, Mr. Editor) to be calibited, but was informed that this interesting exhibit had not yet arrived, and the Mussum was closed between the hours of one and two o'clock. Being in the vast majority of those whe the dissension in the Army. Many officers | Farrison turned out last night-but not

are engaged between the hours of ten and one o'clock and two and fro, o'clock, I have tendered their resignation rather than to bunt the tiger. The annual man by Messrs. Sa & Son, Pokfulam, has informed the police that at about a.m.

shall reluctantly have to join the amy fight in civil war against their own

of scoffers who ridicule the idea of a real on Saturday he saw tiger standing political consciences. 31r. LLoxD. GEORGE

For being in unlawful possession of 5 under a free outside his quarters. Upon

Colonel Seely, Secretary of State for War, had an audience with the King tiger being in Hongkong If there really have been footprints to make a cast of, is undoubtedly right when he says the gravest teels of prepared opium, other than observing him, the beast walked slowly

and afterwards saw Mr Asquith,

why can't they be shown in the shop- issue bas arisen since the days of the Government opium, and one tacl four away down the hillside

The police

The Archbishop of Canterbury visited Mr. Asquith and remained half-an window of some friendly mercantile firm Stuarts, but when be declares that repre- mace of opium dross, a Chinese was fined examined the place, and found the page sentative government is at stake impartial 8255 on both charges at the Magistracy of some wild animal leading from the hour Afterwards Mr. Asquith motored to the Palace and had an audience with who has the tareste of truth seekers at

the King, General French being present. students of the political struggle must at yesterday.

bungalow to the Reservoir.

were commenced.”

Mr. Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty, had two lengthy interviews with Mr. Asquith, Mr. Augustine Birrell, Secretary of State for Ireland, being present at the second.

heart Yours faithfully,

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