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INTIMATIONS

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 22ND, 1914.

satisfaction a statement in the corres pondence published yesterday that the question of establishing a station for the quarantining of patients suffering from yellow fever, or of contacts" with

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It is unofficially stated that a Liboral meeting is to be held to-day and promises and influentially attended. The avowed object of the meet- ing is to support the Nationalists.

The Daily News states that the Royal coup d'etat constitutes the gravest crisis since the days of William IV., and asserts that the King may withold his assent to Home Rule unless the Amending

It is a wise and desirable precaution, GRAVE POLITICAL SITUATION, to be numerously though we think it right to add that there seems good reason to hope that the possibility of infection will not be greater after the Panama Canal is opened than it is to-day. There is more

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ROBBERS IN EX REGENT'S

PALACE.

[THROUGH REUTER'J 10INUX.] THE NEW REGIME IN MEXICO. Maxxco Crry, July 21st General Carranza and Soffor Zapata have been communicating with each other with a view to rasching AD agreement. General Carranza'a Arroy in hurrying

PRKING, July 21st. Armed south to secure a peaceful entry into the

robbers who forced their capital.

entrance into the Palace of the ex-Regent, PUERTO MEX100, July 21st,

Prince Chun, last Saturday, wero cap- Ex-President Hueria and his familytared and shot yesterday.

for Jamaica. There was no demonstra-

tion.

East than is generally appreciated. Ac with an czcited throng when Mr. Asquith Bill is appended, on the ground that the have sailed on the German cruiser Dresden cording to statistical information published by the Chinese Government, the Chinese settlers in North and South America number about: 188,000, There is an

announced that in view of the grave political situation, the King had con sidered it right to summon sentatives of all parties, both British and,

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Parliament Act.

The Daily Chronicle states that there

THE CHINESE LOAN

- PRKING, July 21st. General Carranza has intimated that be

The report of the Commissioners is willing to grant a limited armistice as deputed by President Yuan Shih-kai to

act of generosity, but intends to investigate the 8 per cent. loan (in the

Irish, to a conference at Buckingham is no evidence that the King has acted large numbers of emigrants are returning The invitation had been accepted by two is Majesty is entitled to hearty support prosecute those responsible, for the down-floating of which Hsiung Hsi Ling had a

Palaco to discuss the outstanding issue otherwise than constitutionally, and saye

increasing stream of Chinese emigration to the South American Republics, and no doubt to China every year from the yellow fever countries. creover, there must be a not inconsiderable quantity of cargo comug from South American ports, in which the

infecting mesquite might be carried. We

for his attempt at reconciliation. ARRIVING FOR THE CONFERENCE. The Speaker arrived at Buckingham Palace an hour before the conference com-

throw of President Madero..

FRENCH RAILWAY COLLISION.

TOULOUSE, July 21st. As the result of a collision between two

representativos esch of the Opposition, Ulsterites, Nationalists, and the Govern- ment. The Speaker, at the suggestion of the King, would preside at the conformenced, and the crowds wore to dense that passenger trains four carriages wore was hoped would begin he had to enter by a sido gate. The next destroyed; six people killed, and 30

Mr. Redmond, who was loudly chooted by the Liberals, declared that he and his colleagues had no responsibility for calling the conferencs. He would not express an opinion whether it would be useful or otherwise. The invitation was a commsad, and ne Buch it would forth with be obeyed.

Edward Carson who arrived together and were checred. Then came Mr. Redmond, and Lord Lansdowne afoot, and finally Mr. Asquith and Mr. Lloyd George arrived, and were chocred

have seen it stated that the particulaence, which it species of the mosquito which spreads day (Tuesday),

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HONGKONG, JULY 22ND, 1914.

AFTER reading the correspondence between. the Chamber of Commerce and the Govern

Hongkong, where climatic conditions may

be more favourable to its development, and while we hope that fears on the subject will prove to be entirely groundless, it is satis factory to know that the subject is engaging the attention of the Government of the Colony. But, apart from this problematical matical danger, the case is strong enough already for the demand which the Chamber of Commerce makes for the provision of a permanent and well-equipped quarantine station. It is a discredit to the port that it does not at the present time possess even the semblance of a quarantine station.”

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Mr. Ginuell (Nationalist) enquired whether there was any precedent for the act of the Premior in advising the King to place himself at the head of a con spiracy to defeat the wishes of the House of Commons.

The question was ignored, and the debate was postponed.

THE AUTHORITY OF PARLIAMENT. In the House of Lords Lord Courtney raised the question of the authority of Parliament as affected by the conference,

Lord Crewe afirmed that there was no

any inten

The King received the representatives in the Bow Room and addressed them. The proceedings were as strictly private

Cabinet meeting.

FAILURE ANTICIPATED. The Unionist headquarters in Ulster anticipate that the new effort of a conference will fail.

A meeting of unofficial Liberal members of the House of Commons has been sum

moned for to-day to consider the position.

SEIZURE OF ARMS, The report that a yacht, with 3,000 rifles for the Nationalist Volunteers, has been seized on the Irish Coast is confirmed.

abrogation of Ministerial responsibility FRENCH PRESIDENT IN RUSSIA. pr „departure from constitutional}}/ practice. "There cannot tion to supersede the authority of Parlia tent," said the noble Lord, and no such result will occur...

** HOPELESS CONFUSION."

All parties have been taken by surprise at the latest developments, and all is hopeless confusion. The Ministerialiste and Unjonists are suspicious as to the possible outcome, but it is believed in

Judgment in the appeal case of FP Marques v. the Great Western Smelting and Refining Company will be delivered les on Thursday morning.

The Chiacs who pleaded guilty to

SPEECHES ON THE ALLIANCE.

LONDON, July 21st- President Poincaré and M. Viviani. arrived at Kronstadt aboard the battle- ship France. The Tsar, who was 打能 board the Imperial yacht Alexandra, moet he guests and conveyed them to Peterhof. At a banquet at Peterhof, the Taar, proposing the toast of President Poincaré, said that the satisfaction be experienced

injured.

BULGARIA AND ROUMANIA.

Soria, July 21st. ing a varbal

Note to Bulgaria, Roumania, demands an International on the enquiry into the incidents

frontier.

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ARMY AVIATION FATALITY.

LONDON, July 21at. An Army biplane fell 120 feet. near Lieutenant Hordern was Gosport. killed, and a Sergeant named Campbell was seriously injured.

ENGLISH COUNTY CRICKET.

LONDON, July 21st. Surrey beat Lancashire at the Oval by an innings and 158 runs.

OBITUARY

LONDON, July 21st,

share) is ambiguous, and a new Board of Commissioners has been convened, cop- sisting of Thai Ting Kan, Tsao Yue Lin and others.

TROUBLE IN TONNAN.

PERING, July 21st. Chiang Chuan reports from Yunnan say that trouble has broken out in the Chao Tung District in that province. The people are rising on account of the now regulations relating to the status of real estate holdings and they are hostile to the missionaries also. The populses wek to gain communication with

the

robbers. Troops have been sont to repress them."

EUROPEAN SERVICE.

AUSTRO-SERVIAN RELATIONS

BERLIN, July 20th.

The wish expressed by the Norddeutsche Allgemeine for the localisation of the trouble is described at Vionna as a worn- ing to France and Russia not to interfere in the Austro-Servian disputes Germany, although not intending to

The death is announced of Major-interfore, would not leave Austria n General Inigo Richmund Jones, C.V.O., herself in the case of Russia's meddling. C.B. who a few years ago was in Com- THE BURDEN OF ARMAMENTS mand of the Forces in the Straits Settle-

IN RUSSIA

ments.

PEKING NOTES.

[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

PEKING, July 8th.

NEWSPAPERS TERZORISED.

The recent ementes at Kalgan and elsewhere have not been reported in the Chinese Press, and the Ministry for War

regard to the suppression of such is taking care that its wishes with new will be respected. Not long ago a Chinese,

ment in regard to the lack of suitable quaran-snatching a gold neck-band and append many quarters that the conference would in welcoming the French President was editor who was confronted with soldiers

age from a woman in the West Point never have been summoned unless a prac district, and to stabbing two men who chased him, was committed for trial by Mr. Wood yesterday.

tine accommodation at the port, published in our yesterday's issue, the reader must wonder how the Colony has managed in past years to keep itself free from a serious scandal in this connection. It is somewhat startling to read that the second largest shipping port in the world, situated as it is practically in the tropics where epidemic

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tical agreement was asenrod.

MR, REDMOND'S INSTRUCTIONS.

There was a prolonged meeting of the Nationalist members in the afternoon to discuss the instructions to be given to Mr. Redmond

The charge of conspiracy against A. F. Remedios and R. O. Guiterrez was again mentioned before Mr. Wood yester- day. The case was remanded until LABOUR PARTY PROTESTS. Friday inorning at 11.30, when the The Labour Party held a meeting in hearing will be resumed.

one of the rooms the House of resolution unanimously protesting against the con- ference as an interference by the Crown calculated to defeat the Parliament Act, and regretting the inclusion of two nem- hers who were practically rebels, as indicating that henceforth the organisa tion of force will be oficially considered

the Magistracy yesterday two Cominone, and passed Europeans, named William Randolph and Charles Senny, employed on the Empress of India, ware charged with behaving in a disorderly manner outside. the Hongkong Hotel Sergi. Patterson fruitlessly endeavoured to get the men to go away quietly, and he was compelled to take them into custody. They were fiued 85 each.

BERLIN, July 20th. The Rjesht complains of the heavy burden on the Russian peasants on account of armaments, through the French Alliance; and expects that President Poincaré will support a Russo-English naval agreement.

The Gaulois says the conditio sine que now for such a naval agreement would be a new cutente of Russia with England on the Persian Question.

THE MODERNISATION OF THE TURKISH ARMY.

doubled by the pleasure of again meeting in his sanctum, who had come to take an old acquaintance with whom he was action because certain news items to which the War Obec objected had charmed to form personal relations two appeared in his journal, had the presence

BERLIS, July 20th. Talaat Bey read to the Turkish Chamber years ago. He did not doubt that the two of mind to explain that it was not his allied countries would continue to enjoy news, but that Router says so." This of Deputies the Government's sccount of the peace assured by the plenitude of week the military have bese trying to the work of the Cabinet up to the present (Leir forces

induce the police to make searches in time and acknowledged the earnest President Poincaré, in reply, assured certain newspaper offices, but the police endeavours on the part of the German the Tear that France would continue to have declined to be made the catspaw of military mission towards the modernisa work for peace in intimate daily the War Department or its officers. And tion of the army. collaboration with her ally.

so the game goes on THE PARIS POLITICAL MURDER.

"MADAME" CAILLAUX ON TRIAL.

PARIB July 21st, Thus trial of Madame Caillaux in cun- ***nection with the murder of M, Calmette, the Editor of the Figaro, has begun. The Court was crowded,

BOMBS.

A TURCO-GREEK CONFERENCE IN

The police made quite an exciting

BRUSSELS, discovery outside Chienmen Station a

BERLIN, July 20th. few days ago. À parcel had been left at the station by a passenger, and as no

The Grand Vizier will go to Brussels owner seemed anxious to claim it a towards the end of July, and will weet coolie had the resourcefulness to take the Greek Premier, M. Venizelos, and possession. He opened his trophy outside discuss with him the Islands question and the station, but by this time the police came on the scene and found that what a Grasco-Turkish rapprochement looked like a box of cigars, was really a

THE SITUATION IN ALBANIA. of coRISO, A* CHILLING BILENCE IN THE faltering tones of her unhappiness owing bomb. The coolie was arrested,

to fears that M. Calmette was about | but he could give no explanation, and

PRINGS ADVISED TO ABDICATE. to publish private letters which would the matter remains almost as great a

mystery as the Hongkong tiger. poison her life.

Madame Cailloux, who was dressed in most effective in industrial as in political | black, showed emotion when indicted on a charge of wilful murder, and told in

disease is most common, has "not even the semblance of a quarantine station." It is the more surprising therefore to note that the Chamber of Commerce in its letter to the Government strongly insisting upon the advisability of providing the barbour with a permanent and modernly-equipped quarantino station" should not have been able to strengthen their case by a reference to a single occasion in the past when anything in the nature of a public scandal has been caused in consequence of the absence of suitable

Notice is given in our advertisement disputes. quarantine accommodation. If we mistake columns of an important, extraordinary yes, there was, at least, a very near approach of the hunts of the Hongkong to a scandal a few years ago when the

medical authorities had to deal with shipload of people among whom cholers had broken out while on the voyage from the Straits to Hongkong. Certainly a port like Hongkong ought not to be without a properly equipped quarantine station. In the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank addition to bubonic plague, cholera and Ordinance of 1866, in the manner indicated small-por, to outbreaks of which the in the various resolutions which are set East is always liable, the Chamber of Comforth in the advertisement merce points to "the grave possibility of

and Shanghai Banking Corporation, to be held on August 22nd. At the conclusion of the ordinary meeting. The meeting is called for the purpose of authorising the Directors to take the necessary steps for the introduction of an ordinance to amend

COMMONS.

The papers are not enthusiastic with regard to the conference, and emphasise the chilling silence which prevailed in

the House of Commons yesterday except when it was announced that the Speakar would preside. Apart from jealousy of the infringement of the House of Com- mons prerogatives, it is the general feeling

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STRAINED AUSTRO-SERVIAN

RELATIONS.

SIGNIFICANT REMARK BY CROWN PRINCE

· OP GERMÁNYUM

BERLIN, July 21st.

BERLIN, July 20th.

WHAT 13 A BEIBE)

The Foreign Ministers at Duraza have The Council of State had quite an accepted the offer of the rebels for interesting discussion at its second most conference next. Wednesday ar ing on the Bill to ratify the regulations requested the rebels to refrain from their and have

for suppressing bribery. Apparently it

was not easy to arrive at a definition as contemplated general attack until they to what constituted a bribe, the Govern have made a last attempt to induce the The marked uneasiness on the Berlinment delegate's view being that all that that the conference is not likely to be Bourse is attributed to the anxiety an official was not legally entitled to get BUCUessful, as its decisions must be opa-

Prinos to abdicate. Kemal Picks has advised the Prince to surrender the reins

Judge Lobingier, of the United States Ermed by the respective supporters of the concerning the relations between Austria † was to be called a bribe," and the matter of government to the International Com

mon are less inclined to make sacrifices then they were two years ago. The only consolation is that the failure of the conference will make a general election

inevitable. practically

the introduction of yellow fever, a disease Coart of China, has filed suit in the members of the Conference. which happily up to the present has been Court of First Instance in Manila The Unionists declare that the Ulster unknown in the Far East, but which if it once against Metcalfe A. Clarke, seeking the obtains a footing here may spread throughout recovery of a sum of money advanced to the

whole

of Asia and Malaysia." Mr. Clarke for commercial purposes, Attention was drawn to this possibility in The complaint alleges that defendant, on the Daily Press quite two years ago, and October 1st, 1909, received from Judge it is a fact that the Medical Labingier, on a promissory note, the sum we believe i Departinent, in common with the Medical of 5,000, to be repaid within one your with interest of 12 per cent per annum. Departments of other Goverments in the But P.4,010, the plaintiff states, has been Fast, have been investigating the paid on the note in instalments, leaving possibility of the spread of this dread unpsid a balance, including interest, of disease to Asia when the Panama Canal is P8,117.40, for which judgment in asked opened to traffic, and we note with by plaintiff.

On the contrary, it is stated that at a story meeting of the Nationalists which was held yesterday after a report by Mr. Devlin on the feeling in Ireland, Mr. Red and promised not to submit to any concesions beyond those in the original Amending Bill.'

and Servis

The National Zeitung says that the Crown Prince's remark to a German bank director that Germany must keep her powder dry is much commented on at

the Bourse.

Lieut-General

missionera.

The second financial year of the Re

was ultimately referred to a sub-commit- tee. In this connection it is noteworthy that under the new regulations two Peking Magistrates have been impeneked for accepting bribes and have been recom- public ended on June 30th, but there has mended for the death penalty, and the heen no Budget, and no estimates have yet Profeet of Shuntien has been imprisoned been issued. But perhaps it is not fair to for selling offices and accepting bribes.

expect an over-burdened administration NAMAMAHA MUSEUM IN PEKING.

MILITARY APPOINTMENT.

LONDON, July 21st

A Historical Museum for the deposit to hustle in these summer days Bir A. Codrington, of ancient books, pictures, and other General Officer Commanding the London relics is to be opened in Peking, the The sum of 2,000,000 pesos lent by the District, has been appointed Military Government having set aside the old Government of the Philippines, to help Secretary to, the Secretary of State for Government College for this purpose the Iloilo apgar plantera is described by War, in succession to Lisut General Sir The Tutuka and Civil Governors of the Proxident of the Bank of the Philip

Provinces have been invited to send pines to be insufficient to meet all articles to the Munam

deserving applications.

W. E. Franklyn.