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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, JULY 18TH, 1914.

army into the field to mound TELEGRAMS. TELEGRAMS, TELEGRAMS. TELEGRAMS.

he has managed to hold together

With

force, which ay con ued the paign of murder and pilla unrelenting ferocity A Peking telegram which we printed a few days ago mentioned during the short time that WRITE raversed Shenai and Kansu he

wenty-four perfectures in the nce and twenty-five in the as added that while the back MHITE WOLF's force is cetimated men, of which 5,000 are mounted, rigands are accompanied by 20,000 alita whom they have picked up en route ecently they have captured-without a nggle-the important frontier garrison

of Chinsekuan, which is described as onghold on the border of thres Pro -Honam, Hupoh and Shensi," The force at Chintsekuan consisted of le (of about 500 men each) under: J TIEN 190-180, four gine of old- troops commanded by L. CHENG and two yins under the command of To-Laya, the last mentioned having sent there as reinforcements from

(Nanyang) only recently. It hat us soon as these troops laurat

White Wolves "

were only some distant they became quite demer. and Hed. The inhabitants of the city were panic-stricken and the brigands were able to enter, the city without a atruggle The success with which WHITE Wour and his brigaad force have managed

to continue their campaign of brigandage

may not affect the stability of the Govern

(THROUGH BHUTRE B AGEBUT. HAY

THE HOME RULE CRISIS.

GABINET AND THE AMENDING BILL

LONDON, July 17thi

It is stated that at yesterday's meeting of the Cabinet no decision was arrived at regarding the course to be followed when the Amending Bill comes up for second reading in the House of Commons on Monday The Cabinet meets again to-day,

There is much talk of communications behind the scenos, and the concensus of opinion is that matters are still at deadlock.

BIG LONDON BANKING FUSION.

LONDON, July 17th. The historic banking firms of Contts & Co. and Robarts, Lubbock & Cox have amalgamated. This represents the inva sion of the City by the West End.

THE BISLEY MEETING.

LONDON, July 17th.

THROUGH RELIER'S AGENCY:]

A BULGARIAN LOAN.

LEADS TO UPBOARIOUS DISCUSSION

[DER OSTASIATISOREE LLOYD' SERVION.1

Maroon July 17th- The Sobranje discussed the per cent. loan of £50,000,000 sterling which a German syndicate secured at the price of 84, with industrial concessions, after laborious negotiations.

The debate was of an uproarious nature The Opposition end Socialists vehemently opposed the loan as being dishonourable and Intal to a country whose resources were being squandered without any return. They declared that the signature to the contract would be n crime against Bulgaria's dignity and credit

The President finally declared the Bill

passed, and then closed the sitting.

THE MEXICAN SITUATION.

PRESIDENT WILSON'S WATCHFIL WAITING

POLICY.

WASHINGTON, July 17th. President Wilson continues his watch The Ashburton Shield was won by Sedbergh with 406, and the Spencer Cupful waiting policy, as he believes that by Baker of Sherborns.

the other nations will decline to recognise Australia won the Mackinnon Shield Soñor Carbajal or any other Government until the United States attitude is with a score of 1,631.

indicated.

THE TURKISH ARMY

CONSTANTINOPLY, July 17th.

quality has establisheditsrement, but such instances of the utter useless- In the Chamber of Deputies, the Minis

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

WATSON'S

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very old

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ness of some of the troops on which the Government is relying certainly does loss of military prestige," It was said in a

Peking telegram we published a day or two ago that the Government feels confident that WHITE WOLF has abandoned any plan he may have had to attack Sianfu, and that his forces will gradually assemble at their old hand-quarters at Lushan, in Honan, to reat. This is a difficult district to uttack, the telegram added, “but the Government troops are now drawing a cordon round that territory, and they hope to strike a

ter of War expressed the hope that the army, though smaller, would be able to efface the black days of the past Govern ment. He applied to the Chamber for a credit for five millions sterling for military armaments.

MR. AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN'S

SUCCESSOR.

President Wilson has also informed

the resulting

General Carranza that if he arrives at an agreement with Señor Carbajal for the transfer of power, administration will be recognised in accordance with the terms of the Niagara protocol.

TRAMP STEAMER ENGINEERS' STRIKE.

CHINA SERVICE.

CHARGES AGAINST A POLITICIAN:

PERING, July 17th. President Yuan Shih-kai intonds to transmit to the Chancery Court the charges preferred by the Censorate against Helung Hei Ling in connection with the 6 per cunt. Interior Loan and the disappearance of Chinese antiques

from Johol

{"DER OSTASIATISUJEN LLOYD BERVICE.

THE LATE GERMAN MINISTER TO PEKING.

BERLIN, July 16th. The Chinese Minister, H.B. Yen, on behalf of President Yuan Shih-tai, has placed a wreath on the grave of the late Herr v. Haxthausen.

H.M. the German Empress has also expressed her sympathy in an autograph to the widow.

The interment of the late Herr v Haxthausen took place with great core mony, the whole staff of the Foreign Office There were also numerous attending. ropresentatives of the Army and Navy. The Rev. Goens eulogized the work of the deceased, on behalf of German-French REPE

g:

amity, and said that he had been rewarded with the thanka of H.M. the Kaiser for bis faithful offices on behalf of Germany

in China

THE BRITISH NAVAL MOBILISATION:

THE NEW QUINTUPLE LOAN.

PERING, July 17th. The Shun Tien Jih Pao reports that the representatives of

of the Quintuple Syndicate decline to grant an advance on account of the new loan of £20,000,000,

WHITE WOLVES" ON THE

MARCH AGAIN.

PEKING, July 17th. As hands of White Wolf's" brigands and Lu are marching from Pao Fa Shan in Honan on the Sui Ping Station of the Ching-Han railway, martial law has been proclaimed at Bui Ping,

EUROPEAN SERVICE.

THE FRENCH ARMY

BERLIN, July 16th. Paris papers are constantly reiterating STEAMER'S EXPERIENCE IN that the French Army is as good as the

A TYPHOON. German and better equipped.

The German Press rocalls how the French Press started a campaign of untrue statements about German artillery materials during the Balkan War, and DRASTIC DECISION OF EXECUTIVE." mentions that the French Chamber of LONDON, July 17th. Deputies has appointed a Committee for The Executive of the marine engineers the investigation of the state of the war have material independent of the Committee returned unopposed for East employed in tramp steamers

decided to withdraw the engineers from of the French-Senate. [31r. Leverton Harris will represent the berinin He was MF. for Stepney from

LONDON, July 17th. Mr. F. Leverton Harris (Unionist) has been

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BIRTHS.

Something of this sort has been reiterated 1007 to 1911.3 constantly for the past six months or more, but it looks as if it will be a long time yer before that final and successful" blow will be actually delivered at the bandits.

The French mail of the 16th June was delivered in London on the 16th July.

We understand that the decision whether to hold the Gymkhana at Happy Valley this afternoon, or again postpone the meeting, was reserved until this morning.

It is stated in the Chinese papers that the Ex-Emperor Hauan Tung has con- ferred honorary titles upon four concu bines of the late Emperor living at the Imperial Palace,

At the Marine Court yesterday two junk masters were charged with permitting their two vessels to lie in the cable LINTON. On 17th inst., at Sorey, Jersey,¦ reservation between North Point and

the wife of A. R LINTON, of a son.

[952 Hunghom, Defendants were fined $15 SAEER-On July 13th, at Shanghai, the each.

wife of R. M. SAKEB, of a daughter... Schwanz-On July 13th, at Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. MAX SCHWARZ, 8 daughter.

DEATH

Detective-Bergt. Wills prosecuted two men at the Magistracy yesterday for being in unlawful possession of 470 tacls of GUTTEREES. At Shanghai, MARIO M. S prepared opium on board a sampan at Blako Pier. Chinese detectives made the

GUTTERRES, aged 21.

HONGKONG OFFICE: 10A, DES VIEUX ROAD C. LONDON OFFICE: 181, FLEET STREET, EC.

The Daily

Press.

HONGKONG, JULY 18, 1914.

We notice that Dr. MORRISON is credited in a London paper with the statement that "it is apparently not generally known that WHITE WOLF himself was executed in Honan three months ago." This informa tion certainly is not generally known, even in China. It is true that WHITE. Work was officially reported about three months ago to have been killed in an engagement with the Government troops, but that statement was received, as most official reports from the scene of operations have bear, with due caution, and ~ aub. sequent information seems to establish as a fact that the report of WEITS WOLF's death was

“Very much exaggerated." Less than

ago an official report was published which mentioned of an engagement among the details of an enga that Ware WOLF had been wounded." Still later news bas referred to WHITE WOLF as though the wound had not seriously interfered with his activities. The latest news of him is that notwithstanding the fact that the Government has put a

month

THE USE OF TROOPS IN CIVIL DISTURBANCES.

LONDON, July 17th.

The strike began at the English ports on June 16th. The engineers are demand- ing an increase in wages of 40 shillings. monthly for senior and 80 shillings monthly før junior engineers ] ...

STEAMER ABANDONED.

BUENOS AIZES, July 17th. The steamer Mendota, which went. near Punta Magotes, has been ashore abandoned. the

Mr. Percy Illingworth, Chief Liberal Whip, has given notice to move in the House of Commone for the appointment of a Select Committee to report upon circumstances under which troops may be employed in civil disturbances or threatened disturbances.

BOXING IN LONDON,

QUNBOAT SMITE V. CARPENTIEB.

LONDON, July 17th

An attendance of 13,000 was present at Olympin to witness the fight between the Frenchman, Carpentier, and Gunboat Smith for the heavyweight white cham- pionship.

(The Mendoza went nshore in a dangerous position with 257 passengers aboard. Wire less messages were sent out and all the passengers were mibsequently transferred to another vessel.]

AUSTRIA AND SERVIA:

BERLIN, July 16th. The Austrian Minister of War, General Krobatin, and the Chief of the General Star, General v Hotsendorf, have gone on their summer vacations. This is taken by the Press as a sign that the Servian Affair will be treated with patience,

LONDON, July 16th. H.M. King George will inspect during the next few days at Portsmouth the entire British Battle and Cruiser Fleets. A special feature of the review will be the fying by the serial fleet in squadrons.

BT. PATRICK

ARRIVES IN HONGKONG WITH A. BADLY: BMARÍED STEM,

A large cargo boat with a badly mangled stem arrived in the barbour yesterday, having narrowly escaped foundering in the typhoon which swept the Formosa, Channel about four or five days ago. The vessel was the St. Patrick, belonging to Memar Rankin & Gilmour, of Liverpool, for whom Messrs. Dodwell & Co. are the local agents, and the brief story of how she sustained damages, which, but for the store and the chain locker, must have undoubtedly resulted in her foundering is a rather peculiar one,

The ship

to had the misfortune run into a very severe typhoon while on a voyage.from Moji to Iloilo. She was struck and swept by monstrous sous, and travelling as she was with the typhoon the vessel experienced forty-eight hours of those heavy winds and seas which can

while the ship was being thus tossed only be produced by typhoons. It was about that the accident occurred. With the blinding spray, very little could bo seen ahead, and before the skipper, Captain May, was aware of it, land suddenly loomed up. There was, as the Chief Officer explained to our representa- tive, a bump just a little more severe than those produced by the heavy seas," the vessel gave a shiver and the engines were at once reversed. Lights were noticed on the shore and then the ship was formed The to steam ahead again with the typhoon. Subsequently, it was discovered that admitted the

about twenty fest of the stem had been smashed in as the result of "the bnnip,"

the group of small rocks off the West coast which was really a collision with one of of Formosa, lying to the South of Keo lung. This is practically a surmise on the part of the skipper, but a survey of the

The Hungarian Premier, Count Tisza, said in the Chamber that Austria's relations with Servis needed clearing up if possible while maintaining peace, but should this be impossible, then even by the arbitrament of war.

GERMAN LOAN TO BULGARIA:

BERLIN, July 10th. The Bulgarian Sobranje at Sofia have passed the German loan after tumultuous scenes, induced by Russian pressure it Favour of a French loan project Russian Legation has arbitrary action of the Charge d'Affaires

Except for the first round Carpentier bad the better of the fighting. In the fourth round he floored Smith with a vicious right, and the American was down for nine seconds. Smith was further punished in the filth round, and in the Five Counsel will be engaged in the sixth round Carpentier, just failing to Chinese succession appeal case which reach Smith, overbalanced and fell to his commences at the Supreme Court on Kness Smith then rushed in and Monday: Mr. Sharp, K.C., Hon. Mr. delivered a terrific blow on the back of until the 3rd March last. For three Pollock, K.C., Mr. Eldon Potter, Mr.

THE P. AND O. COMPANY

BIR. THOMAS SUTHERLAND ON THE AGREEMENT WITH THE U. 1. CO.

general meeting. At an extraordinary of the stockholders of the Pontusuler and rental Steam. Navigation Co., on the 24th ult, Sir Thomas Sutherland, the Chairman, gave a history of the negotia tions for the alliance of the P. and Smith was disqualified in the sixth Company with the British India Co. ·Sir Thomas said that twelve years ago or round on a foul.

thereabouts he suggested to his friend Sir James Mackay, new Lord Inchcape, THE AEGEAN ISLANDS QUESTION that it would be an excellent business, if

BERLIN, July 16th. possible, to combine the working of the two companies, provided that suitable

There is a vivacious diplomatic exchange arrangements could be made, but the then Duncan Mackinnon," was so contented Chairman of the British India Co., Mr of views going on behind the scenes with the British ludia Co. as it was, and between Grecce and Servin regarding chart subsequent to the accident made so proud of his own particular position the question of the Aegean Islands. An this assumption very probable. With as Chairman, that he discouraged any

agreement is nearly reached. alliance with any other company, even with a company so respectable as the P. and O"The project was therefore opinion in Italy demands that pressure abandoned in Ton and was never revived be brought to bear on Greece for the months the negotiations were kept with evacuation of Southern Albania.

RUSSIAN HARVEST PROSPECTS. absolute secrecy, and the result broke

BERLIN, July 18th.. upon a surprised City world on May

There are reports of a further decline

seizure. The case was remanded.

G. Alabaster, and Mr. F. C. Jenkin. Carpentier's neck. Carpentier rose with Appellants are asking for the insertion difficulty and was assisted to his corner, of the words in accordance with Smith being vigorously boood and subse Chinese law and custom," in place of

quently disqualified, next of kin," in the judgment of the Chief Justice.

22nd last, Sir Thomas aid there was

nothing whatever of a speculative charse

Public

KING OF ITALY TO ATTEND GERMAN MANOEUVRES.

BERLIN, July 16th.

ter about the agreement. He explained at some length the terms of the conven- join The contest ended in pandemonium.tion, and the future working of the in the Russian harvest prospects.

combine. Lord Inchcape is to Carpentier's manager jumped into the the P and Q management from October At the Magistracy yesterday, the

link between the two companies Bir Chinese cook who created the scene at the ring screaming with passion, and Car 1st, and at be an absolutely necessary upper station of the Peak tramline on pentier was carried to bis corner in a Thomas Sutherland expressed the hope that Lord Inchcape would become the Saturday again appeared before Mr. dazed condition. Most of the critics are head of the P and O. Co, as soon as his Wood Inspector Garrod aid that Dr. of opinion that Gunboat Smith's foul was colleagues would allow him to retire from intentional, but the ill-feeling the active service which he had given for

so many years. Moore had stated that the man was not

The combine it was stated com- responsible for his actions. Several engendered may end the recent boxing

mands the employment of a capital of relatives had promised to take the man hoom.

£15,000,000 and a tonnage of 1,250,000 tons:

away to the country and see that he was Carpentier was welcomed by thousands properly looked after. The Magistrate on his return to his hotel, where he thereupon allowed the defendant to be appeared at a window, unscathed and handed over to the custody of these smiling. relatives.

English, French, and American Society was represented among the spectators, and 500 women were present.

HELENA MAY INSTITUTE FUND.

TYPHOON WARNINGS

were

The telegramis quoted below received by the American Consulate General, Hongkong, from the Manila Observatory yesterday:-

10.30.

MASONIC PROMOTIONS. On June 18th, the Supreme Grand

Cyclone or typhoon. E. of Aparri, more Council of the 33deg lecter! the

The Honorary Treasurer begs to than 300 miles distant, moving Wor Hon. Sir Paul Chater (31deg.) P.D.G.M. Hongkong and South China, and Mr. H. acknowledge with thanks the following W.N.W Percy Smith (31deg.) P.G.W. Staffs., to be members of the 32deg.

donations:

Ho Tung Exj. Rev. C. Bone

$2,000

H.M, the King of Italy will be the guest of H.M. the Kaiser during the grand army manœuvres near Hamburg.

GERMAN ADMIRAL'S

RETIREMENT.

BERLIN, July 18th. Admiral v. Herringen, retired, has been placed a la suite of the Navy and will be carried on the list of naval officers

such a huge rent in her sten it is marvel- lous that the vessel weathered the storm,

but Captain May brought his vessel to

about 4-o'clock yesterday afternoon. Hongkong for repairs, arriving- here

An engineer with whom our representa tive inspected the damaged stem pointed out the severe manner in which the steamer must have been carried against the rock. From four feet below the rail to several feet below the water-line the stem of the vessel was smashed in to an extent of about twenty feet, the plates being mangled bat being twisted inwards to the store and chain locker the water was prevented from rushing into the ship. It was fortunate also that the vessel was not loaded with cargo, otherwise ko many. feet of her damaged stem would have been aubmerged that it is doubtful if she would have reached Hongkong. Indeed, looking at the vessel as she swings at anchor with what looks like a huge bite having taken away practically all her stem, the fact that the typhoon was weathered and the vessel brought to Hongkong is really remarkable.

The serious nature of the damaged stem A DUTCH COLONEL'S DEATH IN may be realised when it is stated that the repairs will occupy about thirty ALBANIA

days

Bentin, July 18th. The remains of Colonel Thomsen, killed in Albania, have arrived at Amsterdam Cyclone or typhoon E of the Balintang and were received with military honours

wreath HM, Queen Wilhelmins sent & Channel, inclining northward.

6.44 PIL

The Muncaster Custle of the Castlo Line of steamers is due to arrive here to-day being two days overdue as the remilt of her having to put back to Shanghai because of a typhoon, the same typhoon which so badly damaged the St. Patrick