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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, JUNE 25TH, 1014.

declares "The proposal by the Govern ment that Ulster counties shall have on opportunity of voting on a question that for six years they shall be excluded from the operation of the Home Rule Bill will of course be rejected by the Unionists of

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while the section of the Nationalist party that follows Mr. REDMOND bas assenfod to this proposal, it is improbable that they would sccept its further extension to the principle of defcite and unlimited exclu- sion, even with the option that Ulster might be entitled to accept in the future

CHAMPAGNE the principle of the Hill and join with the other provinces in an Irish Parliament.” difficulties After dwelling upon the which would arise from the permanent exclusion of Ulster, and saying that the

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details of exclusion would, tear up present Irish arrangemate and institutions by the route, and leave us face to face with many and serious difficulties, we nevertheless find Sir HENEY asserting that "eren this solution by disintegration, if settled on a permanent basis, might at the last be accepted as an alternative to the fathoms horrors of Civil War, were there no other means of avoiding that desperate issue On the other hand, we have Professor Dreer in the same number of the leading British Review saying "If Ulster should be excluded from the Bill, then the measure will not give satisfaction to a single Irish Nationalist. It Ulster is included in the Bill, it will kindle the deadly indignation of every Professor Protestant throughout Ireland." Dicer's way of solving the enigma is by # direct appes to the people. For the sake of obtaining, if it be possible, a real settlement, for the sake of justics to Ulster, for the sake of avoiding oivil war, let the $58.00 appel he made," he says. "Unioniss as $60.00 prepared to how to the will of the nation, but we are not prepared to succumb to the will $63.00

of a faction." But the proper interpre tation to be put upon this declaration is that the Unionists are propared to how to

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PEKING, June 94th Owing to the continuance of the com Our advertisement columns anounce positors strike, the Peking Gazette, an the holding of the first meeting in con- nection with the Pagan Gymkhana of the English newspaper publishing in Peking, U.S.RU., for which most interesting cannot be published The strike has been programme of events has been stranged.

in progress for about a fortnight. brown-faced Nipe healthy-looking,

THROUGH REUTER'S A AGENCY Chiness fishermen from Aberdem were charged by Sergt. Brazier at the Magis HOME RULE AMENDING BILL IN

HOUSE OF LORDS: tracy yesterday with gambling. They

LOED LANDSDOWNE B GRAVE WARNING. were all fined 95 by Mr. Melbourne,

Capt. W. B. Cooke now commands the p0. Himalnym, having relieved Capt. Evans, the former Commander, who will take charge of the company's now vessel Harmela, which leaves London in August, on her maiden voyage.

The engagement is announced of Major F H. Dickinson, D.C.L1, eldest son of Mr. Arthur Dickinson, of Somer ton, Somerset, and Clara Dorothy, fourth daughter of the late Mr. C. N. P Phipps and Mrs. Phipps, Chalcot, Wiltshire.

LONDON, June 24th. The House of Lords was thronged when Lord Crewe introduced the Home Rule Amending Bill.

THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY,]

TURKEY AND GREECE.

PEACE PROPOSALS ACCEPTED.

ATHENS, June 24th.

(THROUGH REUTER'Ą AGENCY .] BRITAIN'S NAVAL AIR SERVICE

LONDON, June 24th.

The Admiralty announces the creation of a Naval air service with its own ranks and distinctivo uniform. Civilians will

It is understood that Greece accepts Turkey's proposal for the reinstat mont and compensation of the refugees who be permitted to enter the service direct remained in Asia Minor and on the Quast, The new service will take over the coast Greece also becepts the proposal for the guard service where air and const-guard exolange of populations and property in stations are at the same place.

TRAGIO DEATH OF SCOTCH regard to Turkish or Greek refugees who

·BARON: have left the Turkish or Greck territory,

TOUR OF BRITISH FLEET.

HEARTY WELCOME AT KIEL

KIEL June 24th The British Bret battle squadron has arrived. 16 formed a stately procession amidst the German Dresdnoughts. The sen was alive with launches and excursion

Lord Crewe affirmed that the more he heard of the sentiments of Ulster theters, and a stirring welcome was more convinced he was of the profundity give to the Britishers. The British of the roligious difficulties, which made ships are moored in line with the German

suze form of exclusion imperative He dwelt on the injustice of total exclusion, and said that the Bill consequently A complaint has boon lodged with the embodied Mr. Asquith's proposal, made police by an accountant living at No. 69, Des Voeux Central that while walking in March of exclusion by county, and along the Queen's Road, near Gough the Bill provided for this necessary Street steps, someone extracted 850 in adjustments toward this, both financial bank-notes from his pocket and then ran and administrative. He assured the Opposition that any amendments would way.

receive careful consideration.

The Marquis of Lansdowne, Leader of

Mr. Jome Tien-yu M.Inst.CE. (Cb Director, Canton Hankow Railway), has been appointed Director-General of the the Opposition in the House of Lords, Hankow-Canton Szechuan Railway. Mr. Chou Ping wel has been appointed Co-expressed his profound disappointment. Director of the Hankow Cantan-Szechuan He agreed that it was advisable to defer Railway.

H.E. the Governor of the Strait Young, Sir Arthur Settlements, KCMG, with Lady Evelyn Young are

ships.

THEKOMAGATA MARU

PROBLEM OF GETTING SHIP AWAY STILL: UNBOLVED.

VICTORIA (B.C.), June 4th. Further orders have reached Captain Yamamoto, the master of the Kamagata Meru, to return immediately to Kobe, but the problem of getting the ship awar is no nearer solution.

LINER ASHORE AT LAND'S END.

LONDON, June 21th *The liner Guthland is ashore on the rocks near Land's End A steamer has

the debate, and pointed out that the Amending Bill merely embodied Mr. gone, to her assistance. which had been:

It is feared that the Gothland is a total Now Lord demolished and

Asquith's projected.

LATRE

LONDON, June 24th. Baron H. C. Gammel-Forbes, the pro Futler DGN

of Scotland, was found dead with his throat out in a hotel at Dundee.

[The deceased, who was M.A., and D.L., was the representative Peor for Scotland. since 1874. Deceased was the 19th Baron, and owned about 13,700 acres. I

TROPICAL MEDICINE.

A RECOGNITION OF SERVICE

LONDON, June. 24th The Right Hon. Lewis Harcourt, Seire- tary of State for the Colonies, unveiled bronze portrait reliefs of the Hon. Joseph Chamberlain, and his son, Mr. Auslen Chamberlain at the Royal Albert Doelca hospital in commemoration of their ser vices in connection with tropical medicine.

FORGERY OF A TRADE MARK

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At the Magistracy yesterday a Chineso. was charged with the forgory of the trade mark of Dr. Williams Medical Company, on certan pills. Mr. H. L. Dennys (of Messrs. Dennys & Bowley), who pro secuted, mid that he was willing to with- draw the charge if his Worship would allow him, as the defendant bad undertaken to go to Shanghai and, asist the prosecution to trace the goods with the... forged trade mark. There was & summons

the will of the nation because they journeying Home on the Prim Ludroid Crewe grilelessly submitted them as the loss. Two boats were launched but against another partner in the firm of are confident that the will of the nation on leave. They were given & mist hearty Government's utmost offer. The Governized, and the occupants were rescued the defendant, but he understood that is opposed to Home Rule. Suppose, send off. His Excellency was also pre- ment knew that the Bill could not prevent Eight hundred passengers were trane this man, had seen the prosecutor and A. S. WATSON & CO. however, that the contrary proved to sented with an illummated address by the Civil War.

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be the case. Would these accept the Bill

se. Would t who signed the solemn Ulster Covenant pledging themselves to stand by one another in defending, for ourselves and our children, our cherished position of equal eitizenship in the United Kingdom, and in using all means which may be found neces- sary to defeat the present conspiracy to set up a Home Rule Parliament in Ireland One of the means which they find necessary. to do this is to create a trained force of 110,000 men who are described by Military Officors as "highly trained. The Nation- alists have been emulating the example of the Ulstermen, and we have Mr. BEDMOND appealing to the Irish in America for funds to strengthen the Irish Volunteers toenable them adequately to confront the attempt of a minority to forcibly suppress the liberties of the Irish people." Hence, it is clear that things have reached such a pass t civil war seems inevit in Ireland that able. BURKE'S mying that "an armed disciplined body is in its essence dangerous to liberty undesciplined, it is ruinous to society" is sometimes quoted in justifica tion of the creation of these Volunteer forces, and in Ireland, above all places, the

aphorien hat much forts. The organisms. tion of these forces has given into the hands of a for men

Chinese community.

Two merchants of No. 8, Ving Lok Street ware brought up on remand at the Magistracy yesterday by Detective-Sergt. Wills and charged with being in posses- ion of a pistol and 40 rounds of ammuni- tion respectively. Mr. P. S. Divan was for the defence. The first man was dis charged and the second fined $100,

A Manila contemporary states that A Manila contamo

nephew of Sir Paul Chater, Mr. J. S, Bagram, ia at present staying at the Manila Hotel Manila Mr. Bagram is a graduate of the Royal School of Mines, Manchester, and is shortly to accompany Mr. Eissler, a well-known mining expert, to Baguio for the purpose of examining that country.

for forgery.

The Bill was read a first time.

A COMPROMISE PEASIBLE i Though the Irish Unionist Members of the House of Commons declare that nothing will satisfy them short of a clean cut of the whole of Ulster, the general view is that a compromise is feasible with Do great difficulty except in regard to the position of the disputed counties of Fermanagh and Tyrone, in comparison with which the time limit question is regarded as a minor matter.

THE INCOME TAX, MUDDLE.

LIBERAL MEMBER SUPPORTS CENSURE WAMENDMENT, S

LONDON, June 24th. In the House of Commons, Mr. Luke

White, a Liberal member, announced that

An inquest was held at Victoria Gaol by the Coroner (Mr. J. R. Wood) yester day on the body of Lui Chuk Ban, who had been serving a sentence of five years he would support Mr. Hayes-Fisher's Evidence was given that amendment regretting that no provision while in goal the man suffered from had been made by the Chancellor of the heart affection, and he was given no tasks Exchequer for grants to local authorities to do. He died in hospital from valvolar discuss of the heart.

A ferdict of during the current year, death from natural causea was returned.

ASP,

The Liberal dissentients to Mr. Lloyd

Mr. George Roberts, on behalf of the C Labour members, announced that the Before Mr. C. D. Melbourne yesterday. Sergeant Clarke prosecuted ton Chinese Labourites would abstain from voting. for frequenting an opium divan. The firet defendant, alleged to be the keeper, told the Magistrate that the police informer had been in the habit of coming to his pine and getting money from him, and because he failed to get any money on Tuesday he informed the police that he (defendant) was keeping on opium divan.

This defendant was fined $50, and the others were fined $2 each.

men a more perfect contro over the situation, and we can only hope, WiLL there be Civil War in Ireland ? The answer to this grave question cannot

whatever may be the result of the now be long delayed The Government has deliberations on the measure now before introduced its Amending Bill in the Hope Parliament, that those who have charged of Lords, and Lord LANSDOWNE, as the themselves with the grave responsibility of leader of the Unionist Party in the Upper creating these military organisations will House, declares that it merely embodies be able to persuade them to continue to Mr Asquith's proposes which

coise the self-restraint they have hitherte He exercise the self- been demolished and rejected."

A Chinese aviator has introduced the shown, and at the same time work for a

to the Federated declares, moreover, that the Government krows that the Bill cannot present Civil

aeroplane industry to Malay States. The Malay Heil says War. We can at least confidently feel that

"While no very definite plans have yet besu settled by the aviator, it may be the Government sincerely hopes and believes that it will. No one desires civil war. But Two big Chinese chops have failed at said that the machine is here for business seemingly the position has been reached Penang with liabilities amounting to and not merely for pleasure, it being the when civil war hus

become inevitable $200,000 and $60,000 respectively aim to form a business for the designing and construction of aeroplanes, for which whether the Home Rule Bill' becomes lay,

Kuala Lumpur may act as the base for as it stands, or whether it is at the last

a large portion of the Middle East The moment abandoned. Thus the only hope

aeroplane has already created something of a sensation.

peaceful solution of a very grave problems, and so ultimately be able to disband these forces, their tanks unthinned by civil war,

Six new recruits have just arrived from Home for the Hongkong Police force. Five of these are Scotch and one Irish.

The Cherniavaky trio and is Mand Allan are now in Australia. They were

of avorting war is by compromise. They say

Government has made concessions to this eud, and from what Lord CREWE said in introducing the Amending Bill in the

to go even farther, for his Lordship

It is a fact which cannot hi disputed, to appear in the King's Theatre, says the Peking Daily Newsy dat Peking Melbourne, on Saturday last

itself is more free from crime than even House of Lords, it seems prepared at the Magistracy yesterday & Ühinese

Hongkong or Shanghai. This 10ay be asured the House that any amendmenta was fined 225 for carrying anstamped partly explained by the greator would receive the Government's careful letters from Mauritius to Hongkong, and amenability of the northern people to consideration,

The question is: What 50 cents for being in possession of wine law, and partly uplained by the strict. A control exercised and, the severity of the without a licence, hope is there that a settlement will eventu

punishments mated, aut to those who ally be found on the lines of this Amending At the District Hospital, Kuala deserve them, but the fact remains that Bill ? Writing in the Nineteenth Century for Lumpur, the other day, no less than 217 the capital onjoys an immunity from April, Sir HerET BLAKE, a former Governor managostean stones were removed from a scrions and from netty crims unknown of Hongkong, who has taken promi. Chinaman, whose apparently mysterious in places contiguous to foreign settle- neet part in the coatrovarer, emphatically death had gecessitated a post-mortem.

menta

George's financial proposals have formed a group for the purpose of shaping a Liberal policy in the direction of economy.

WIRELESS IN CHINA,

REPORTED £2,000,000 CONTRACT WITH MAROONI COMPANY:

ferred to another steamer,

The Gothland is a steel corew, four-masted steamer of 7,860 tons crose. She was for merly the Gothic, and was built in 1893 by Messrs. Harland and Wolf, Belfast, for the Soo. Anon, de Nav. Belgo-Americaias]

FRENCH POSTMEN ON STRIKE.

PARIS, June 4th

The postmen have recently been agitating for various improvements in the service.

Angered at the Senate, on the Post Office estimates, rejecting one of the chief demands, they barricaded themselves in the chief Post Office yesterday with vans and sacks of mails, after a fight with the police They prevented the usual deliveries, and are recciving provisions | through barred gatos.

LATER

The disorderly postmen left the Post

had consented to the course he had suggested above. The defendant was one of three partners in the Chun Hing firm, Ko Shing Street.

The Magistrate granted the discharge of the defendant.

SEBING BY WIRE.

ELECTRICAL TRANSMISSION OF IMAGE

The annihilation of space by the wonders of modern science has teen carried a step forward by the latest aden tific discovery. What has tolephono has done in the transmission of sound is dow equalled by an invention for the trans- mission of light by wire Briedy, the new invention enables the image of any object to be transmitted by wire and reproduced before the eyes of a spectator: miles away, just as the telephone trans- aits and reproduces the tones of a

VOLCO.

The inventor-Dr. M. A Low, u Lon- don consulting engineer-last month gavo. a short description of the apparatus and method of the new wonder. The trans- mitter is a screen composed of cells of selenium, the electrical resistance of which element varies according to the Over this screen light that touches is.

Office at midnight offer holding up the then a synchronously running malls since 6 p.m.

their grievances.

rollor consisting of a number of pices, which are alternately conductors and M. Thomson, the Minister of Commerce, insulators. The roller is driven by a Posts and Telegraphs, promised to redress motor of 3,000 revolutions per minute, and the resulting variations of light are transmitted along an ordinary conduct- ing wire. The receiver is made up of a series of cells operated by the passage of polarized light through thin slats of steel, and at this receiver the object which is befor the transmitter is

reproduced as a flickering image.

U.S. BATTLESHIPS FOR CREECE

WASHINGTON, Tuns 24th:- Greece i urging President Wilson not to oppose the buying of the battleships

Idaho Fresiteippi and

President Wilson said that he favoured the sale if system bas incant peace in the Mediterranean.

Turkey has protested against the sale.

LATER.

The House has passed a vote authoris ing the sale of the battleships to Grecco.

The Senate had already authorised the

LONDON. June 24th. The Financial News says it is reported sale of the battleships. that a contract to the extent of £2,000,000 has been entered into by the Chinese Government with the Marconi Wireless Telegraphy Company for the construc tion of wireless stations in China.

AMERICA'S FOREIGN RELATIONS

TO DEFEND THE AMERICA CUP.

WASHINGTON, June 24th. Giving evidence before the foreign Relations Committee of the Serato, Mr Chamorro, the Minister a Nicaragua, BYE (Connecticut), June 24th. said that certain Germans had urged that The Revolute beat the Tanite by the sum of $3,000,000, which had been fourteen minutes În a thirty miles Ameria Cap trial race in Long Island offered by the United States for the ceral Sound. The Defence was hopelessly in rights at Nicaragua, was inadequate. Mr the rest.

LAWN TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS.

LONDON, June 24th. Fruitheim heat Hope Crisp 6-2, 3-6, 6-2, 6-2.

Ritchie beat Roper-Barrett; 4-6, 6- Dous best Germot 8-1, 3–6, 2–6, 0—4, 6-2

(—), 61.

Gore beat Kingscotor 6-4, 6–3, 6–3. HOME CRICKET:::

LONDON, June 24th. Derby drew with Northampton. Worcester beat Essex, by 180 runs."

Chamorro said he interpreted this as being a German move to outbid the United States,

THE OPIUM CONFERENCE,

THE HAGUE, June 24th. The Opium Conference has agreed to an Anglo Chinese proposal to fix the date of the application of the Convention for December 26th, 1914, allowing the non- ignatory Powers to adhere later.

The process is described by the inventor as a kinematographic application of common electrical principles. The

been

Losted through. ย resistance equivalent to a distance of four miles, but in the opinion of Dr. Low there is no reason over far

why it should not be greater equally effective

distances over for

Dr. Low discussed the future of the invention in view of the adaptation of it for wireless transmission,

The tones of the human voice, of which there are hundreds of gradations (said Dr. Low), can be reproduced by wireless telephony The gradations of light are far simpler than those of sound, and it should be possible to devise a wireless means of transmission. I will commit myelf to the prophecy that in 50 years' time people will look back with winder at the days when it was necessary to be at a person's side in order to see hitn. When this day arrives consider how it will change the conditions of wartare, Imagine the altered methods of military operations when you can sppening miles away.

What is

of

At present the image reproduced is the size which the eye of a camera would

take. It shows variations of light and shade somewhat in the degree of a half- tone block, but it does not reproduce

colour.

in London 1. Dr. Low

a consulting engineer and has engaged in laboratory research for the Govern ment. A number of inventions starte his credit, including the low high- pressure motor and a high-pressure The experiments in petrol engine. connection with light by wire have extended over five years

In the transmitting screen Belonium may be replaced by any diamagnétic material. The cost of the apparatus is considerable, as the conductive sections of the roller are made of platinum.