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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, MARCH 31ST. 1914.

arrested, had confened that the instigators TELEGRAMS. TELEGRAMS. TELEGRAMS

A. S. WATSON general rising. The Canton Government

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DAILY PRESS EXCLUSIVE SERVICE.] THE JAPANESE POLITICAL CRISIS.

Torvo, March 30th.

of the attack were entrusted by Sux YAT. BEN, HUANG HSING, and LT LIH-CHUN with the mission of effecting an alliance with Wmrz WoL in order to launch a

by issuing a proclamation last week offering large reward for the arrest of CHAM KWING NING Lad ethers connected with last year's rebellion shows that it fully shares the belief that the rebal leaders are actively engaged in promoting another rising inChina When we recall SIN YAT-SEN's Account of is now the likeliest of the Yamagata

An exhaustive search is being made for a Premier. Prince Tokugawa and also Count Okuma bave refused to serve,

The 7 states that Viscount Kiyours

DER OSTASIATISCHER LLOYD"

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CHINA SERVICE.

HUANG HSING AND THE "WHITE WOLF" MOVEMENT,

PERING, March 30th. According to a report, by the Japanese

WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS. hew, prior to the first rebellion, he travelled henchmen, proving that the Gerro in Tung Pao, Huang Hsing (one of the

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VERY OLD LIQUEUR

SCOTCH

WHISKY.

putation for over 30 years as THE LEADING SCOTCH WHISKY IN THE EAST.

widely in Chias, under a disguise, organis fluence is still a strong one.

ing the rebel forces while the Government were still offering a heavy price for his head, many people perhaps, will have no difficulty in crediting the reports that some, at least, of the leaders are now in a revolu China secretly carrying on tionary propaganda. We may infer from

THROUGE ESTER'S AGENCY. } HOME RULE CRISIS.

A LABOUR MEMBER'S VIEWS. LONDON March 30th.

[DEBOSTASIATISCHER LLOYD"

SERVICE

KAISER AND MILITARY QUESTIONS.

RUSSIAN GENERAL'S INTERVIEW WITH

HIS" MĀJESTY.

BERLIN, March 20th. Official information from the St. Peters-

SUPREME COURT.

Monday, March 30th.

IN ORIGINAL JURISDICTION. BEFORE THE CHIEF JUSTICE, B18 W

Bees DAVIES, KO.

JUDGMENT IN THE $85,000 CLAJ SE, The Chief Justice gave judgment in the action in which the plaintiffs, the Great Western Smelting and Refning Company of San Francisco, claimed from the defendant, T. P. Marques, of Macao, 885,452, being the balance due under a

burg Bureau states that General guarantee for the payment of $200,000

loan to this amount.

leaders of last year's rebellion) is Suchamlinow has had an audience with given by the defendant that Messrs. expected soon in the Yangtze valley, in H.M. the Kaiser, during which military Arndt & Co, Hongkong, would repay a connection with the White Wolf questions only were touched upon to the

Mr. E. H. Sharp, K.C., and Mr. Eldon absolute exclusion of political questions. Potter, instructed by Mr. Benvis, of movement.

Messrs. Wilkinson & Grist, appeared for plaintiffs, and MA HE. Pollock, K.C., and Mr. F. C. Jenkin, instructed by Mr. Leo D'Almacko, was for the defondant,

The Tutuks of Hapeh und Anhui have recommended to the President the recall

what has recently been happening at W. Brace, Labour M.P. speak of the Minister of War, saying they could

Peking,

that the however, that Govern ment is kept well informed of their whoreabouts. It is known that they are still bayond Chisese jurisdiction, for the Administrative Assembly has recently been considering ways and means of procuring their extradition to China. Most of the rebel leaders are believed to be either in Japan proper, or in the neighbourhgoi of Dalay enjoying Japanese protection, while some

Our Celebrated Every old Liqueur Scotch Whisky is a blend

the best Pot of the men for whose arrest the Kwang Distilled Scotch Whiskies. tung Government is offering rewards are believed to be still in the Federated Malay It is of great age, very fine, States. If these are abusing their and mellow. Its superior right of asylum as political refugees by quality has established its re-making their place of exile the base of operations endangering the peace and public order of China, the Chinese Government has only to make proper representations to the Governments concerned to have a stop put to it. But it sems incredible that men of SON YAT-SEN's type can be associated with the campaign of brigandage conducted by the WEITE WOLF, who does not appear to have any political object in view whatever, and most men, we think, who have hitherto regarded SUN TAT-SEN and hiy asociates simply as misguide 1 political enthusiasts BRANDY. will wait for clearer evidence of their co- nection with the revolting atrocities which Finest very old BROWN the WHITE WOLs brigands have been BRANDY, Guaranteed 25 years perpetrating, and which they continue to perpetrato notwithstanding the large

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ing at Cardiff, said that had the Cabinet not withdrawn Colonel Seely's communi- cation to General Gough they would not have remained in office 24 hours longer.

GENERAL GOUGH ON HOLIDAY General Gough has left Curragh Camp for a week's holiday at a place which is

Sky

He ordered the at present unknown. officers to give no interviews. It is stated in

in The Curragh, however, that the

guarantee the Army Council gave him

remains unrevoked.

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themselves, with the help of the adjacent provinces, effect the suppression of

White Wolf!

GOVERNMENT BY SINGLE CHAMBER.

PERING, March 30th.

It is learned from Government circles

be combined under the name of Tayiyuan that the Upper and Lower Houses will and will be the sole House of Representa

tives from 1915.

PRINCE CHING.

MONEY FOR PUBLIC WORKS. NEWSPAPER WARFARE.

PEKING, March 30th The week-end lull in political circles is

The Peking Ji Pao reports that the

Army

versu Feople," and "No Minister of Finance is ready to advance in nowise reflected in the newspapers. Military Despotism" are still the leading the sum of $3,000,000 towards the con- headlines in the Liberal journals, which struction of the Hu Lu Tao. ruake a feature of an alleged Unionist plot to seduce the Army," while the Unionist organs denounce the Liberal pictures of Army dictation as a slim election dodge, even more mendacious and unscrupulous than the Chinese Slavery cry. They devote columns to examining the supposed plot on the part of a portion had a conversation with Yoan Shih-kei, of the Cabinet to provoke an outbreak and ho (Prince Ching) would in the in Ulster.

The importance of to-day's debans in Parliament is admitted on both sides,

The papers announce that Sir John

PERING, March 30th.

A representative of the Ostasiatischer Lloyd was this morning received by Prince Ching, who looked in splendid The Prince said that he had

health,

RUSSIA'S AVIATION PROGRAMME.

BERLIN, March 29th. Russia's programme of military avia tion comprises. 325 aeroplanes of the ordinary kind and 10 air-dreadnoughts.

THE IRISH HOME RULE CRISIS.

Lu the course of a lengthy judgment the Chief Justice said that the construction. by the defendant of the contract was that- his liability was only to secure the repay. ment to the plaintiffs of the balance of $200,000, as should be inappropriated after the completion of the printipal BERLIN, March 29th.. agreement, and after payment of the last shipment of bronze and iron contemplated The Norddeutsche's opinion on the in the agreement, and that as the agree

shipment not been taken over, no is that one must make just allowances liability bad arisen under the agreement developments of the Home Rule crisis ment had not been completed, and the se

stated during the argument, he was. ditions. The careful manner in treating unable to agree with that construction. for the peculiarities of English con- of guarantee As he (his Lordship) had the political behaviour of the officers, and He could not see that the firm's liability was restricted to any balance The words: the precautions taken against the out-such part thereof as may be unappro break of civil war cannot be interpretedpriated from time to time clearly meant by the impartial as weakness,

INTER-CLUB BOWLING MATCH.

The Hongkong Club will be opposed by the Club Germania at bowls on the 2nd 3rd April. The following the the *and

players selected to represent the Hong kong Club :-- Messrs. J. H. Kemp, T. H. (Captain), B. O. Hutchison, P. R. Wolf, King, G. E. Stewart, G, A. Woodecek 1. D. Danby and Captain Harrison, R.N.

ARRIVAL OF THE YACHT

NIAGARA.

such part as had not been, in the aggregate, deducted in respect of each shipment delivered, and as to that he could not see that the liability of the arm was in any way restricted, nor was it material as to how the default in com pletion of the agreement arose. As to the alleged run-disclosure and the sup- pored obligation to disclose, his Lordship quoted several authorities and cases, and applying the language of the authorities to the present cas the Chief Justice said the creditor had no communication what of guarantee, which was negotiated entirely by Arndt and Souza, or by Arndt soever with the surety as to the con

alone, and there was a substantial con- sideration of $40,000 moving between them. Might it not be fairly presumed. that the surety shou'd have taken upon himself to ascertain exactly what risk he was taking upon himself? In the absence of any evidence by the defendant to the contrary he was not able, as a fact, to assume the alleged facts of non-disclosure where the surety sought to avoid liability on the ground of fraud, was not sufficient for bim to show that the fraud was practised upon him by the principal debtor, but it must be proved that the creditor, or his agent, was aware of such fund and was a party thereto. On a careful consideration of the authorities be thought it might also be regarded as the authority for the plaintiff's contention that even if Pink had suspicions as ter the outcome of the Li Man Chi incident. there was no duty on bim to disclose it to the sursty. As to the currency swindles, he (Pink) swore that it did not come to his knowledge until the end of November, and he then informed the defendant of it at the fret interview at Canton in December. It was contended by Mr. Pollock that Pink was familiar with the 850,000 Li Mon Chi transaction, and that if he left matters to Arndt and Souza, he was responsible for their non-disclosure

age, in wood. The finest LIQUEUE Government ferees which have been put in French and General Evart have definitely assist the President powerfully during bour yesterday from Singapore via As a general pri ciple he plsserved that

BRANDY on the market.

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BIRTH. BARTON.On 29th March, at 8. Stewart Terrace, The Peak, the wife of Mr. G. W. BARTON of a daughter.

1189 DEATHS. HARMAN-On March 25th. at Shanghai, NELLIE, the beloved wife of T. O. B. HARMAN, Chinese Maritime Customs, aged 33 years. P HEWKIN-On 25th March, at Shanghe

DOROTHY MURIEL, beloved daughter of SAMUEL and CLARA HEWRIN. Hongkong Office: 10%, DES VEUX ROAD, C. LONDON OPPION: 191, FLEET STREET, E.C.

The Daily Press

the field against them. At present these reports associating the leaders of the late rebellion with the crimes of WarrE WOLF look rather like excuses for the miserable failure of the Government forces to suppress these brigands.

Whas the Bangkok Times describes as one more of the dirty places of the Siamese capital has been purified by fire. Not less than 320 houses were destroyed ou the Wih inst,, and the official estimate of the damage done is 300,000 ticals.

refused to withdraw their resignations,

GREAT MINERS STRIKE IN ENGLAND.

LONDON, March 30th. As a result of a wages dispute, 120,000 Yorkshire miners are to strike this week: causing every mine in the county to be idle,

RAILWAYMEN'S UNION RECOGNISED

LONDON, March 30th,

In connection with Mr. J. H. Thomas" Mr. M. Gutschke, who has taken charge of the Deutsche Asintish Bank in Hoog statement in the House of Commons, kong vær Mr. Timmerschiedt, who goes wherein he said that if the new Unionist Home of les, bus beer manager of the doctrine in regard to the Army held force Bank's Calcutta braneli. Mr. Gutschke the Railway Union would have to set is described in an India paper as one of azide a large sum of money for the pur- the best known business men in Calentia. chase of arms and ammunition, Mr

smen in HONGFONG, MARCH 31st, 1914,

Mr. W. D. Braidwood who is leaving Thomas announced in the course of a AMONG our telegrams to-day is one which Hongkong after a connection with the speech at Birmingham that the Companies states on the authority of a Japanese paper Colony extending over 20 years, was the had appointed a Commuties to meet the published in Peking that HWANG HANG, recipient on Saturday of a handsome Executive of the National Union of que of the most prominent leaders of the silver iray and a case of finger bowls as Railwaymen to discuss the whole situa-1 rebellion last year, is about to join 2 parting gift from the teachers and the WHITE Wour movement in the Yang scholars of the Ellis Kadoorie College of taze Valley For some months past. there have been rumours that the exiled leaders of the Koomingtang have been actively working to promote disturbances in China, but there has been little tangible or once of this, though it would seem that the PERSIDENT is satisfied that the reports are not withou, foundation, for they have formed the subject of at least three Mandates during the past thres months. In one referring to the Talifu ontbreak issued on December 27th fast, the dia

which he has been the Headmaster.

The number of imported cholera cases. reported to the Medical

Officer of Health last week was eleven. cases, were fatal. All were Chinese The uther case of communicable disease.

Of date seven

ported the Calons last week (in addition to plague cruses) were two fatal cases of diphtheria (Chinese, one im ported), and one British imported case of enteric lover and one Chinese case.

In Japan it is not lawful for

tion. This is the first time the Companies have recognised the Union.

BRITISH DESTROYER

RE-FLOATED

LONDON, March 30th The new destroyer Laverack which

the

future live alternately at Peking and

future Tientsin He did not think that Hsu Shi-chang would in the near

Mr. Howard Gould's yacht, the accept a responsible position, but would| Niagara, arrived in Hongkong har the impending reorganisation of the Manila on a voyage round world. She was chartered for this domestic political affairs.

pose by Mr. Joseph Leiter, one of the powers of Wall Street, who created a sensa tion in financial circles a few years ago PERINO, March 30th.

by his almost successful effort to effect received The President yesterday

“a corner of the world's wheat market Prince Isai Chen, the eldest son of He is accompanied on his tour by Mrs Prince Ching.

PRINCE TSAI CHEN,

HSU SHI-CHANG.

PEKING, March 30th. The arrival of Hau Shi-chang earlier than was anticipated is due to the

situation.

THE MINING LAWS. TO BE AGAIN REVISED.

PEKINO, March 30th. The now mining laws which are unacceptable to foreigners, are again to be revised.

PROPOSED ABOLITION OF THE COURTS OF LAW

PEKING, March 30th. A vehement debate took place yesterday in the Government Committee on the

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proposal of the Tutuhs for the abolition of the Courts of Law. The proposal has been referred to a Coamities.

EUROPEAN SERVICE. THE KAISER'S TOUR

اسية فراين

BERLIN, March 29th

pur

Leiter, Master Joseph and Thomas Leiter, Miss Frances Williams (sister of Mrs. Leiter), Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Geary, of Philadelphia; Miss de Forest Gary, Col. Cotgrove, Mr. J. Merriam, U.S.N., and Dr. W Marbury. The yacht left New York in September last and is due home again next September. The vessel, which is beautifully equipped, contains

a tapestry work of art upon which a big to the surety. That was a case of frau 1, value has been placed, ranging from and that contention assumed that the £15,000 to £20,000. The state room also contains a handsome mechanical pipe urgan.

PICTURE POSTCARDS.

IMPORTANT DECISION AT LEIPZIG.

A recent case in Hongkong leads local interest to the following report

defendant had, as a fact, no knowledge of the facts alleged to be non-disclosed However, on a careful consideration of the authorities he was of the opinion that there was no obligation on the plaintiffs to communicate to the defendant the facts. upon which the plea of non-disclosure was based. The onus in auch a matter was on the defendant to prove misrepresenta tion, non-disclosure, or any other ground of avoidance. In the absence of proof by defendant, such A plea must fail. Referring to the alleged alteration of the An end has just been put by the principal agreement without the consent Supreme Court of Justice at Leipzig to of the defendant, based upon a letter a controversy which has been waged for written by Arndt to the plaintiffs at San a long time past between a number of Francisco on 14th October, 1912, the Chief dealers in picture postcards and the Justice said that Pink in the witness-box. Crown Prosecutora, By order of the swore that the subject of that letter was. later a large number of so-called artistic outside the contract; it was entirely picture postcards that is to say post-tentative and, as a fact, no brass was cards with reproductions of classical ever delivered. His Lordship detailed the pictures have been confiscated on the statement of claim and said that in the west, ashore on her brials in Skelmorlie

ground that they were indecent, and the view which he had taken on the questions action has been upheld by the District of non-disclosure and variation, it became. Bay, Clyde, has now been re-floated.

Courts of Berlin. Vigorous protests have

the replication of afirmation of the GERMAN EMPEROR AT CORFU.

The Varddeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung been made against the attitude of the really unnecessary for him to deal with

Crown Prosecutors in the matter

by the

contract, Defendant had at no time. until his xays that the exchange of views between Royal Academy of Arts, the Association LONDON, March 30th,

tive bodies, but the Crown Prosecutors solicitor's letter on 8th January, 1913. *The King and Queen of Greece and the HM the Kaiser and the rulers of of German Artists, and other representa repudiated his liability

Prince of Grave welcomed the Austria and Italy at their respective have been supported by the Minister of Regarding the other contention by the In September last the Divisional Court of agreement was without his consent the turbance was attributed to the deceptions Bill was introduced into the House of Kaiser at Corfu. The attitude of themestings were favourable to a collabora Justice, and all protests were unavailing, defendant, that the cancellation of the tion of the Great Powers for settling the Berlin ordered the confiscation of forty Chief Justice said the relinquishment of Populace was most cordial

disputed points of the Criental question thres picture postcards, most of which the contract was an ultimatum which the were reproductions of pictures or scalp plaintiffs were powerless to avert, and His Majesty has expressed his liveliest tures recognised as works of art, and all here was nothing, he thought, to justify exposed to public view its description as a friendly arrangement satisfaction with the reception accorded An appeal against this decision was which prejudiced the rights of the plain-- A happening which might have at Venice especially the German heard by

at Leipzig, when the tention that the defendant had ng developed into a big blaze but for the ne

men-ol-wazi

Imperial Attorney admitted that the knowledge of the correspondence in cón- timely warning of a boy occurred at the

Berlin Court had placed a wrong connection therewith, although as a dot it. struction on the idea of obscenity The was not proved, he did not think there Grand Hotel last evening Shortly after

representation of naked persone was not, was any legal obligation on the plaintiffs 7 p.m. one of the hotel boys had occasion

he said, necessarily indecency, and he exo inform him. He gave judgment for to go to the storeroom on the first door

presed the opinion that there was no plaintiffs with costs, and noticed smoke issuing from the

more dange in young people seeing such Mr. Pollock expressed the opinion that ceiling. The cause could not be located

there was in their looking at the originals he material points; -There were 48 cases of plague in the

and the fire brigade were telephoned for. one of the rebel ensaries, stating that he Colony ast week, one Malay, one They arrived in quick time but for some sympathetically greeted and satisfaction reproduccns in shop windows than the Chief Justice had not touched on all squares, The Supreme Court quashed points which he had not touched upon could be employed to purchase arms and English and the rest Chinese (one imminutes the firemen were also perplexed. is derived from the fact that the Marquin museums, picture galleries, or public The Chief Justice remarked that any

It was then decided to open the ceiling di San Giuliano remains at the Italian the verdict of the Berlin Court, and were, in his opinion tot material. ammunition secretly for the "

and upon this being done it was die tone

ordered the case to be retried in another Mr. Pollock then applied for stay of Court The President of the Supreme execution for 14 days covered that one of the short circuit Foreign Office.

The estem of His Majesty the King for Court, in pronouncing the verdict, said This was granted, and it was also electric wires bad fused. This was quickly dealt with and the brigade left within

picture to be indecent because it repre paid into Court a security for costs. half an hour. It was most fortanate that Marquis de San Giuliano has been that it was inadmissible to declare a decided that the money which had been

sented a naked body.

should remain in Court during the stay the smoke was noticed before the fuse was able to obtain a hold of the woodwork emphasized ct. Venice.

woman

To attend political meeting. A private

practised on the people by Sex YAT-SEN, HUANG HSING, and LI LIEN OKUN, whom Representatives the other day to remove be characterised as "national robbers" this disability, but it did not even get through Committee. Mr. Shindo said On the 13th inst., in a Mandate referring to

that be beautiful manners of Japanese the depredations of WHITE WOLF in women would be corrupted if they went Honan, the PRESIDENT stated that the in for politics. He may be right,

bels abroad had sent their accomplices the Japan Chronicle; those of the men to agitate and create disturbances; had have certainly not stood the strain. conferred military rank upon WHITE of his associates ¦ WOLF had some and that S YAT-BEN had actually written a letter of introduction for

THE PLAGUE.

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ported). The fatal cases numbered 32. various places. In a Mandate issued on the The largest pumber of cases occurred in same day, dealing with the raid upon the the City of Victoria, namely 29 out of headquarters of the Emergency Corps at the 46. There was not a single case in inst, the PRESIDENT Tsimtsatsu, or Hunghom, but there were chang on the 6th stated that & member of the gang, on being 11 in Yaumati and 3 in Taikortsul.

Crown

FIRE NARROWLY AVERTED AT

GRAND HOTEL

THE ITALIAN CABINET

BERLIN, March 29th-1 The advent of the Salondes Cabinet is

of the Empreme Court of Justice tiffa against the surety, As to the con-

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