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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, APRIL 14, 1914.

in all that concerned the welfare of women in Japan amounted to practical leadership She leat not only the great influence of her name to causes of progress and charity but showed intense personal interest in these

A Chinese cook employed on the Douglas TELEGRAMS. TELEGRAMS. TELEGRAMS.

steamer Haching, which was lying along- side the wharf, became extremely drank and disorderly. He "book charge of the ship," and created such a noise that the violent, and was conveyed to the Police Station in a chair At the Magistracy yesterday he was fined $10.

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Japan, for instance, had her teeth blackened until the late Empages set the example of discontinuing the practice, So, too, the EMPRESS Bet the fashion of wearing European dress. "The ENFRESs herself, wrote Professor CHAMBERLAIN, would Would indeed look charming in any garb. one could say as much for all those with her and for those that have followed since.

No caricature could do justice to the bad figures, the ill-fitting garments, the screeching colours that have since run riot." From the aesthetic point of view, the change was motagain to Japan, but it is probable that it produced great moral effects, and it is not improbable that it is this consideration that prompted the change. Atany rate it was contended at the time when the subject was much discussed that a Japanese lady was treated more respectfully by her husband when she was

LTHROUGH REUTER'S AGENOT.}

BRITISH NAVAL POLICY. AUSTRALIAN MINISTAR'S TRENCHANT ORITICISM.

d announces

(THROUGH HAVTRE'S AQKNOX.] THE TURKISH LOAN.

LONDON, April 13th, The Daily Telegraph's correspondent at Constantinople states that according to the Bill ratifying the provisional Loan Agreements of the 10th inst., the loan amounts to £25,400,000 (Turkish)

KAISER TO VISIT THE KING OF ROUMANIA

SYDNEY, April 13th. Messrs. Hughes & Hough are selling at

The Daily Telegraph (Sydney) says comprehensive public auction this afternoon a small collecthat Mr. Millen in tion of curios, and they announce en auction of a very valuable collection of statement on Naval Defence severely Chinese porcelains, screens, embroideries, traversee Mr. Churchill's recent speech, ete, for Saturday, Monday and Tuesday which he declares, involves the destrny-

BIXHAREST, April 13th. next. This collection includes many rare tion of the bases on which the Australian

The Emperor of Germany will shortly specimens and the advertisement Navy was organised and

pay a visit to the King of Roumania, ✨ announces that the vendor certifies for vital departure from the policy agreed upou, without previously consulting or

In diplomatic circles it is declared that the genuineness of each individual lot.

even notifying the Governments of the the object of the visit is to strengthen the Dominions. It places an interpretation relations of Roumania with the Triple on the effect of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance in view of recent Russian efforts Alliance which Australia does not accept to obtain influence over Roumania. as justified by circumstances.

SIR IAN HAMILTON AND AUSTRA LIAN DEFENCE MACHINE.

Taking advantage of the commotion caused by the fire at Samshuipo on Saturday, & Chinese appropriated several rolls of cloth which had been thrown out from one of the burning shops, and took them away to his shop, where he concealed them in a box. He was apparently seen to take them away, and as he failed to return them ho was arrested, and prosecuted by

̈n European dress than when, by retaining Sergt. MoKay veeterday for the larceny

of the cloth. He was sentenced to month's imprisonment..

Mr. Millen says it is impossible to entertain Mr. Churchill's proposal for the despatch of Australian battle cruisers to Home waters.

Mr. Millen demands a fresh conference at an early date

AUSTRALIA DETERMINED TO CARRY ON OLD POLICY.

MELBOURNE, April 13th. Mr. Millen, the Commonwealth Minis-

The British garrison of North China is to be kept at a strength of 2,071 of all ranks and arms in the coming year, says a Home paper, which adds that the pro- portions of the various arms will be as follows-Legation Guard, Peking, 53 ter of Defence, is of opinion that Mr officers and men Royal Garrison Artillery: Winston Churchill's Naval statement in Infantry, two British battalions, 1,866; March, in the House of Commons, prac Army Service Corps, 40; Royal Army tically meant the shandonment of the Medical Corps. 24; one battalion of Indian Infantry, 956, and various details of departmental troops make up the

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BYDNEY, April 13th.

has Commonwealth

presented General Sir Ian Hamilton, the Inspector Gonoral of the Forces, with a charger, which he will take to England, Sir Ian Hamilton, in the course of an interview, said that Australia might rest well satisfied with the defence machine which was being built up by young citizen soldiers who were keen and, willing to learn.

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AN INTERESTING EXPERIMENT.

SHANGHAI, April 18th The Japanese steamship Komagala Afaru leaves Shanghai to-day for Vancou ver with 400 Indian passengers, of which number" 200 were taken on board at Shanghai, 150 at

will embark

and the rest

The vessel hae

boen chartered. a wealthy Indian, Gurdit Bingh, who intends testing with this consignment the decision of the Canadian Courts, which says that it is illegal to close the country to the whereas the authorities of British Colum

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his latterly have repeatedly refused to | admit Indians into Canada. Should the landing prove feasible, Gurdit Singh will initiate a regular emigration service of Indians to Canada.

WAGES FOR CHINESE M.P.S.

PEEING, April 13th. The Minister of Finance has given instructions for the payment of $243,000, in sums of 81,200 to each of the former 203 members of Parliament. OPERATIONS AGAINST

WOLF."

"WHITE

PEKING, April 13th. The Governor of Shensi Province reports further victories over White Wolf."

her national costume, she seemed to say to bi and to the world: "I belong to the old school and acknowledge the subjection of women as inferior creatures." Writing four years after the innovation at Court, Professor CHAMBERLAIN said he had himself noticed the same lady walk into a room after her husband when dressed à la Japonaise, but before him when à l'Européenne. That, as be observed, meant a great deal, and in his own humorous manner be added. If one less to endure the spectacle of Berlin Wool tippets worked in stripes of blue yellow, purple, brick-red and bottle green, and of stays worn upside down, it is a

grim.

Messra. Siemens Schuckert & Co. some comfort to know that the least looking garments have it in their power to recently instituted a civil action against produce such mighty moral effects," Mr. Pooley, claiming refundment of a sum of Y.50,000. In this connection, the Whether the "emancipation of women " was the underlying motive of the change or Tokyo firm, through its legal utviser, attached a sum of money lying in the

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popular imagination was especially touched now learns that another action has been to the Anglo-Japanese Alliance, says that BROWN by the active interest HER MAJESTY instituted by Reuter's Agency, Tokyo, Australians are glad that Mr. Churchill Finest

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Detective Sergeant.

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1909 Defence Conferences scheme for the

He Naval defence of the Empire, especially in regard to the outlying Dominions, declared that Australia is determined to pursue the policy she embarked upon five years ago.

The

THE ANGLO-JAPANESE SALLJANCE.

LONDON, April 13th.

LONDON, April 13th, George Mitchell, son of Mr. Tom Mitchell, a well-known sporting Bradford millowner and nephew of Mr. Illing

to Paris to fight Carpentier six rounds worth, the Chief Liberal Whip, has gone semi-privately Only those invited will be admitted.

The match was arranged casually after

Reports from the Anhui authorities of victories gained over robbers are received sceptically.

Brigadier General Ho Chicheng in

in carrying out the Tutuh's orders for OPIUM SMOKING IN TRAINS

the suppression of White Wolf," but he The Government Gazelle contains snis at present ordered to continue in his

ment,

tion, with the approval of the Governor been made by the Railway Administra in-Council, under section 39 of the Rail- apan person shall smoke or chew prepared ways Ordinance, 1909, stating that no opium or dross opium on any train on the British section of the Kowloon-Canton Railway, or in any station thereof. Any will be liable on summary conviction, to person committing a breach of this rule notified the Peking Presa Association a fine not exceeding $96.

with China she supervised on the ground thas the money deposited ance of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance, and in the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank in Australians hope most heartily that the Mr. Pooley's own name really belongs to good understanding with Japan will continue indefinitely, but it is difficult to Reuter's Agency.

accept the Alliance as the reasor for departing from the adopted Naval policy. The Alliance covers the next few years, and Australis desires to be able to pro- tect herself and assist in protecting Imperial interests in the Southern Seas for all time.

the work of the Nursing Organisation, of which she was the President, and in both wars in Which Japan has engaged so successfully in the past twenty years Hun MASKOTY and the young PRINCESSES worked Chinese named Kwong Fun walking along day-after day preparing lint and bandages, in Bridges Street with a bundle contain Sbe rigorously ing 13 picoss of female clothing-in-hus and visiting the sick. retrenched ber household's expenditure in possession. The detective asked the man order that the contributions made to bese how he came with the bundle, and the volent societies might be the mors muni- latter replied that he had received it from ficent. HER MAJESTY had always been a woman in Shek-tong-teui. His answers liberal patroaras of the arts, and in the to further questions were far from satis direction of education she bad been untiring factory, so he was taken along to the in her promotion of worthy objects. Thus Central Police Station. The clothing was she had come to be universally beloved and carefully examined, and the name of a washerman on a tab on one piece gave the esteamed as a worthy Consort of an polied the required clue to the owner. Eurezon whose name is imperishably Enquiries elicited the fact that the cloth- associated with a period which will probably ing had been stolen, and at the Magie remain for all time the most notable epoch tracy yesterday the man was sent to gaol in the history of the nation.

The Peak tiger paid a visit to Mr. A. Denison's garden on Saturday night

for three months with hard labour.

THE POLITICAL SITUATION IN

GREAT BRITAIN.

PREPARING FOR A DENERAL, ELECTION.

LONDON, April 13th. The Standard says that news from the various provinces indicates a general election in July. The Radical agente in South-East Lancashire have been in- structed to have their organisations ready, AMMUNITION IN A HAM.

as they may be required at an early date Among the many cunning devices of the

AUSTRALIA AND IRELAND.." Chinese arms amuggler none perhaps

LONDON, April 13th. Mr. E. Mackay has been elected-known to the authorities was more Chairman of the Shanghai General clever than one which bas just come to

Bir George Reid, who has just arrived Chamber of Commerce, and Mr. CE light. Whilst searching the Blue Funnel

in an inter- Anton Vice-Chairman.

liner Talikybius, which had arrived in the in London from Australia, M1, Henry Stone, an Englishman in Harbour from America, Sergt. Pincott view published in the Daily Telegraph He turned it has appealed to British statesmen on the Japanese Communications Depart came across a fine bam. ment, was on the 31st ultimo decorated over speculatively, and on looking more behalf of Australians not to allow & with the first-class Order of the Sacred closely at it found that two large holes disastrous explosion to occur in Ireland. Treasure inrecognition of services had been fored into the "preserved pork, rendered by him regarding international from the thick end. Into these holes had telegraphs,

HOXOFONG, APE L 14TH, 1914. Tun death of the Empress.Dowager of

been pushed 175 rounds of ammunition. The owner of the ham, an elderly Chinese, Japan will be mourned in the Island

Those intercated in the Ophidia of the was arrested, and at the Magistracy Empire with a sorrow as deep and roal as was felt on the occasion of the death of the Colony will be interested to learn that a yesterday he was fined at the rate of a MEIJI EMPEROR, DOW nearly two years ago, python considerably over eight feet long dollar a round. for HEE MAJESTY bad shown herself was captured at Shek-be, on Sunday last, thoroughly in sympathy with the progressive by Mr. Charles Cooke. It is an excellent tials of the ExPERO and had always been regarded throughout the imperial dominions as the very embodiment of

MAJESTY:

specimen and well worthy a place among ALLEGED THEFT FROM A P. & O

LIGHTER others of its species in the museum

On Sunday morning, at about 5 o'clock, The China Import Export Lumber all the womanly virtues. The English Co., Ltd., for which lesers. Arnhold, Sergt. Pancots and a couple of Chinese author of Makers of Japan says of Hra Karberg & Co. are the general agents, detectives who were patrolling Yaumati

There is not man" or

announce the opening of a Lumber Yard Bay Lourded 2 P. & O lighter, on which woman in the Empire who would allude to and offices at North Point. This Com they found the master and three fokis, HER MAJESTY in terms short of the most pany is now established in the principal whom they arrested for the larceny of 50 profound and respectful regard, and the parts of China and is doing, we inder bags of crockery, valued at $700, belong- people yield her bomage not more by right stand, a flourishing business in supplying ing to the P & O. Company. The polies of her exalted station than in their universal Oregon pine, hard wood and railway recognition of her queenly attributes and sleepers,

"

personal charm, For forty-four years she

also seized a cargo boat which was lying

YANGTSZE INSURANCE

ABSOCIATION.......

The Directors of the Yangtze Insurance Association, Ltd., besides recommending the payment of a dividend of 25 per cent (812 per share) out of the balance at credit of 1918 account, recommend also a special dividend of 5 per cent, (83 per share out of interest account, for 1913), and the transfer of $50,000 to credit of. Re-insurance Reserve Fund, and $10,000 to credis of Building, Reserve Fund.

OIL-ENGINE-PROPELLED SHIPS.

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THE NEW PRESS LAWS.

PEKING, April 13th. The Chief of Police at Peking han

that the Police had received orders to carry the new Press Laws into effect with the greatest striotness. Hence it must be assumed that the written petition of the Association to the President, asking for

a revision, has had no suc0289.

THE SITUATION IN SZECHUAN,

PEKING, April 13th. The situation in Szechuan is outwardly quiet, but politically it is far from reassuring Economic conditions suffer

The chief interest in the annual report from the insecurity on the high roads and of the Bast Asiatic Company, Limited, the danger of an invasion by White associated with the oil-engined ships con Wolf. The Tutuh is confident, however, nected with the fleet. The vessels now in service are the Selandia and Jutlandia, and has sent troops to the Shensi frontier, each with Diesel engines of 2500 h.p., and which is said to be threatened. He is the Annam and Stamy with engines. 3,300 h.p. Regarding the year's working re-enlisting discharged soldiers. of the vessels, the directors state that they

THE COMING REVOLUTION."

of

PERING, April 13th. ̧ The PekingWih Pao reports that a great number of rebels prominent in the second revolution have left Japan for Shanghai, Hongkong and various places in China,

ENCOURAGING AGRICULTURE,

PAKING, April 13th

A Presidential order publishes regula- tions for prizes to be given for sucess in for instance, the raising of

have amply fulfilled the hopes expressed. in the two preceding reports, having worked satisfactorily in every respect, and realized considerably larger net profits than the steamers Work is lar advanced in the substitution of Diesel for steam engines in the Bandon, Chumpon, and langan, vessels of about The vessels are expected to be refitted. 4.480 tons, with machinery of 1,800 hp. In April, May, and June respectively in order to prepare a third revolution. AFFAIRS IN ALBANIA.

The steam engines taken from these vessels are to be fitted into the Transvaal, SATISFACTORY SETTLEMENT IN VIEW.

Rhodesia, and Natal, three vessels, each of 4.000 tons and 7,000 tons dead weight. BERLIN, April 13th...

The adoption of steam machinery in these The communication of the Triple vessels, in preference to oil engines, is pro- Entente regarding the form of the reply bably due to the fact that they are in tended for the South African trade, have been con- to the Powers to the Greek note crossed In addition, thero the proposal of the Triplice, which aims tracted for, to be delivered during 100 head of cattle, the production of this year or next year, five more motor- at a speedy

of Southern shins; the two largest, the Malakka and cotton or the application of modern Albania by the Greek troops, and methods of agriculture

dead weight Capay with engines of of 7,000 toms exchanger of views is now in progress. It 3,300 hp the

dead weight capacity with engines" of expected that a unity of all the Powers 1100 hp.. and the Falstria and Lolandra, ach of 7,000 tons dead weight. capacity, with engines of 2,500 1.h.p. The directors state that, to view of will be effected without difficulty.

the success of the Diesel motors, the company have decided to build a seiling ship of a little over 5,000 tons dead weight capacity, with a large spread of canvas, giving her a fair speed in the wind zones. The ship will be fitted with Greeks at Koritza motor of about 600 h.p., which will g ve

farming,

EUROPEAN SERVICE.

ROUMANIANS MURDERED BY

GRIEKS.

BERLIN, April 19th. Excitement is growing at Bokharest over the murder of five Boumanians, by Roumania holds

an auxiliary screw driven by a Diogel Greece responsible and demands

the

DANGERS OF THE AIR.

TWO AEROSALUTE SEVERELY INJURED

VIENNA, April 13th. A parachutist named Bourhis leaped alongside. On this boat they recovered from M, Lemonier's aeroplane when a the missing property, which had apparent His Excellency Sir Arthur Youngly been transferred from the lighter. The height of 1,300 feet had been attained, the ship speed of about 7 knots in calm punishment of the guilty. The Greek

calm and variable zones. This ship will Bege was the devoted Consort of the Emperor K.C.M.G., Governor of the Straits Settle three men on the cargo boat were also The parachute collapsed, and Bourbis weather, and so carry her through the metropolitan priest at Konitza is the Mursunito, and though the world may ments, and Lady Evelyn Young are taken into custody. At the Magistracy precipitated to earth He

foot and also crew for the company's motor and steam not know the full measure of her influence booked to go home on six months leave |

broke both his

vessels. The total Best of the company the larceny of the property, and an upon the great movements of the Merar by the Norddeutscher Lloyd mail steamer Vesterday all seven men were charged with

sustained internal injuries. Lemonier's will then have a gross tonnage of 37,000 additional charge of receiving was pre- period, it was it least known that she was Prinz Ludwig, leaving Singapore on

of 67,000 tons, and will be engaged not Lemonier jumped out of only on the Siam service, but on the consulted very generally by the ExPEROR June 15th. During Sir Arthur's absence, in State affairs and that she brought to bear the Colonial Secretary (the Hon. Rferred against the three men arrested on aeroplane lost its equilibrium and also tons, and a dead weight carrying capacity

case until Thursday afternoon, upon them a cnitivated intellect and shrewd Wilkinson, C.M.G.), will administer the the cargo boat. Mr. Wood remsaded the fall to earth

common sense, HER MAJESTY'S interest

Government.

he utilise for the training of officers and supposed instigator of the murders

routes-Engineering. the machine, but was severely injured China Japan, West Indian, and Pacifio

PROROGATION OF THE RUSSIAN DUMA:

BERLIN, April 12th. The Russian Dums has been prorogued until the and of April.