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TPB HONGKONG DAILY PRESS SATURDAY, FEBRUARY, 2611, 1321.

NEW YORK POLICE DINNER: GUESTS BRING LIQUOR IN SUIT CASES.

FIFTH TEST

MATCH:

ENGLAND'S FIRST INNINGS.

NEW AMERICAN

CABINET:

MR. HOOVER'S APPOINTMENT.

LATEST CABLES.. {THROUGH XEUTER'S AGENCY.] FIFTH TEST MATCH. ENGLAND'S FIRST INNINGS.

SYDNEY, February 25th, In the fifth test match, England made 904 in the first innings, Woolley contri buting 53.

Helleway took 4 wickets for 27 and

·Gregory 3 H 2 (1).

Australia has compiled 70 runs for a wickets in the first innings.

POLICEMEN'S NIGHT OUT. NEW YORK-NEWSPAPERS TAKE AN EXCEPTION.

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NEW YORK, February 5th.

New York papers severely comment on the police lieutenants' benevolent fund annual dinner at which there was abundance of whisky, and the speakers wore inpudible owing to a disturbance.

NEAR EAST CONFERENCE M. VENIZELOS LEAVES LONDON..

BEPARATIONS CONFERENCE.

POSSIBILITY OF A COUP D'ETAT IN GERMANY.

THE IRISH UPHEAVAL.

THE OROZIER LETTER

Logos, February 24th. BERLIN, February · Sith,» The Crosier affair was the subjecs of As the result of a violent pan-Jerman further question in the House of Com propaganda following the decisions of the mons to-day. Sir Hamar Greenwood Paris Conference, apprehensions are denied that cadets had been returned to entertained of the outbreak of disturb duty and reiterated that they have been ances in Germany during the London sent back to enable a complete investiga Conference. The possibility of an attempt tion to be made The Tuggestion that Colonel Crozier's letter was due to the at a coup d'etai is oven being discussed.

The Allgemeine Zeitung, the organ of frustration of his efforts to secure a high Herr Hugo Stinnes, publishes a warning standard of discipline was unfounded against heedless action, which, it says, The fact was that through a miscarriage would only renew foreign suspicion 91 of General Tudor's letter Colone) Cropier Germany's military leanings, and would thought he was ignored, but was not be imputed by the German proletariat to Sir Hamar Greenwood felt bound to sup- the whole middle class instead of to a Port the chief of police, especially in view faw political adventurers.

of Colonel Crozier's unwarranted state HERR VON SIMONS ATTITUDE. ment that indiscipline was being condoned,

BARLIN, February 25th.

The Speaker accepted a motion by Capt. Redmond to adjourn the House for the With the approach of the London Con ference, Herr von Simons' intransigeance purpose of a debate, but suggested post appears to be wavering. Pressed at the ponement for a week, in order not to delay the passage of the Unemployment Economic Council to say whether he was prepared to oppose an unequivocal N Instance Bill. This was agred.“

INDISCIPLINE IN IRELAND. to the Allied demands, Herr von Simons

Loanos, February 24th. recollected that the Paris decisions were not brought forward at random, but were the result of fierce conflicts. He urged The 1913 frontier in Europe, fixing taking into account Allied unity in draw- frontier in Asia Minor by agreement being up counter-proposals, especially as the tween the Turkish and Arab majorities French newspapers are saying that the

Loxpos, February 28th. M. Venizelos has left London. He does Dot now intend to confer with M. Calo geropoulos..

TURKISH DELEGATES STATE THEIR CASE.

LONDON, February 24th. The Near East Conference sat all day. Turkish delegates attended in the morn- ing, but Tawfik Pasha was absent, being indisposed. Mustapha Reshid announced, that both delegations were in agreement, and asked the Nationalist Bekiraami Bey to state their case The Nationalist delegate demanded:"-

an in the respective districts."

The frontier east to be the pre-war Turco-Persian line, and

the Turco-

London Conference has not been called to discuss the revision but the execution of the Paris decisions, in which case Berg

In the Equse of Commons, Sir Hamar Greenwood stated that as members of the Forces in Ireland had been arrested for robbery and other offences since January

1st.

DISASTROUS EXPLOSION AT-

-YAUMATI

MANY KILLED AT A FIRE GRACKER FACTORY.

THE CANTON FUNDS. FURTHER INJUNCTION, GRANTED.

In H.M. Supreme Court, at Shanghai, on the 17th inst., his Honour Judge Skin- ner Turner gave his decision in the appli- THE BUILDING DESTROYED.

cation made on behalf of the Peking For the second time, this year, an explo. Government for an injunction restraining sion has occurred at the Hoy San Fire the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank from Cracker Factory, established at the old parting-with-any-monies now in their smallpox hospital on a hill near Ho possession and standing in the name of Mun Tin, Yaumati. "There has been a heavy casualty list, although the first reports which obtained eirculation appear to have considerably, exaggerated the number of the killed.

Dr. Wu Ting-tang, and being part of the Government funds of the Republic of China, until after judgment in an action. commenced in the Shanghai City Court' by the plaintiffs 'against Dr. Wu.

Mr. H. Lipson Ward appeared for the applicarit. (Chang Shih-chno) and Mr. D. MeNeill for the Hongkong and Shanghal Bank

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So far, eleven bodies of women haye been removed from the debris and await identification at Kowloon Mortuary. The rubble of masonry to which the explosion

His Lordship said: This is a proceed reduced the building has been already fairly thoroughly searched over, and when ing similar in nature to that considered the work stapped at dark it was consider by me last year in a matter entitled ed unlikely that many more bodies would Chang Shih-chao

Hongkong and Shanghai Bank: in which I went into be found."

the principles that should guide this Twenty-eight women and one man have Court in an application for an injunction been removed to the Kwang Wah Hos- such as is asked here. I have gone through my former judgment, and I have pital; same, of these are very severely again carefully considered Mr. McNeill's injured and it is fenred that the death arguments and the authorities. I see no roll will be increased from among their reason to alter the view expressed on the former occasion, and I really ges number. It is some relief to find that no substantial difference in the facts young children appear in the list of between then and now. There is a fond, there is dispute as to its ownership" victims: the youngest is a girl of seven there is an action on this very matter in teen. As a matter of fact, the authorities have set their face against the employ. ment of young persons in a factory which is devoted to a trade, that comes within the classification of "dangerous."

Court which is exercising jurisdiction (I am going on the evidence before me in the matter): and the defendants claim no interest in the fund which is alleged to be under the control of one man and not necessarily in his official capacity. These to my mind constitute sufficient grounds on which the order asked for should be made.

One ex-policeman, who was present, was] Armenian frontier to be as fixed by the von Simons declared the Conference to refused an application for a writ of the bulk of it fell back into the building edition of Hart's Banking Law. quotes

arrested on a charge of being drunk and disorderly. Many guests brought sup plies of liquor in suit cases. BUILDING TRADE SENSATION. PROSECUTION OF WELL-KNOWN LAWYER.

NEW YORK, February 28th." The lawyer Mr. John T. Hetrick alleged to be the author of the code of practice for the plumbing trade, written

recent treaty between the Governments of Angora and Erivan.

Smyrna to be returned to Turkey after evacuation by the Greeks.

be futile.

FOR UPKEEP OF RHINE ARMY,

LONDON, February 24th.

Freedom of navigation and the demili-

In the House of Commons, Mr. Wil. tarisation of the Straits under Turkish liamson said the War Office had received from Germany 346 million marks in local sovereignty to be adopted.

Representation of Turkey on the Inter-currency towards the upkeep of the Rhine

Army, national Commission for regulating the Straits to be conceded, also the protection.

of minorities, and recognition of Turkey's judicial sovereignty.

...

GERMAN DELIVERIES.

LONDON, February sith In the House of Commons, Mr. Cham

The explosion occurred at 2 p.m. CONDEMNED SINN FEINER'S

yesterday afternoon. A sufficient quan "APPLICATION.

tity of explosives was ignited to lift the

DIFFICULTIES OF JURISDICTION. roof from the building. LONDON, February 24th.

Some of the

I have gone over Besson's case again: The Court of King's Bench at Dublin material was thrown to a distance, but I note that the reference to it in the last Kay E. J. as dealing with an order restraining the Bank from honouring drafts already" drawn. But I think did not pay sufficient attention last year to a point mentioned by me this time and emphasized by Mr. Macleod, I mean that of jurisdiction. It seems to me that

is

& country like China, where it impossible to get all the parties to a dispute like this before one Court, it is the more essential to be able to make

habeas corpus in respect of the Tipperary crushing to death those of the workers man, Alin, condemned to death by a who had not already been killed by the military court for being in possession of force of the explosion Simultaneously & revolver and of a book entitled "Night Fighting," the Court holding that it had a fire broke out. The first explosion was

court in a martial-low ares. a power to interfere with a military heard all over Kowloon and for over an hour afterwards there were minor explo GENERAL MAŬREADY'S APPEAL sions as parcels of crackers and bombs

ТО ТВООРЯ.

exploded in the flames.

The Police, under the Assistant Super orders such as the one prayed for to LONDON, February 25th.

assist the due administration of justice. Further cold-blooded murders of the intendent of Police, Mr. T. H. King, and in England, as the author of Hart's Bank- police and soldiers are reported" from the Fire Brigade were early on the scene, ing Law points out (p. 339) notice to the Ireland.

customer from drawing on a fund would General Macready, the Commander-in- also was the Hon. Mr. Perkins, banker of an injunction restraining bis of the the troops to maintain discipline" even attempt to quell the fire was greatly cheque drawn in disregard in the face of provocation such as would hampered by an acute shortage of water. apply. It has never been suggested that injunction: here no such condition can not be indulged in by the wildest savages of Central Africa." He says that, un-The place had practically to burn itself notice to a British Bank of an injure- doubtedly, the crimes are a deliberate out, and only those could be saved who tion granted against its customer by Ang other than a British Court would affect. aftempt to tempt the troops to break discipline and so assist the scurrilous could be reached at the doors and that bank and prevent it from bonon

And under campaign of propaganda on which the windows. Only through the most streaming that customer's draft. rebel leaders rely for sympathy,

ous efforts were the 20 injured rescued those circumstances it seems to me that. admitting the jurisdiction to make such from the "building. Of others injured, an order, it is one of these cases where

with the object of preventing compenforeign and Turkish jurists to modernienberlain, stated that deliveries in kind so Chief, has issued an order appealing to Director of Public Works, but the compel the Bank to dishonour any

in bidding for contracts-has been con victed on a charge of coercion and con- spiracy with three co-defendants. Sen tences from six to three months in the penitentiary have been imposed. This is the sequel to the Brindell ("King of the Building Trade") prosecution.

The appointment, of a commission of

the judicial system is also proposed.

far allocated by the Reparations Commis It is also proposed that there be suffision to the British Empire were 3,181 cient military and naval forces to ensure international order and to defend the tons of dyestuffs 104 ships of a tonnage coasts and frontiers; reorganisation of the Gendarmerie with the assistance of of 1,508,000, of which 262 had been sold foreign officers; withdrawal of foreign for £13,609,000, from which £3,100,000 was troops from Constantinople and Turkey after the ratification of the Treaty; com deductible for expenses and repairs. plete financial and economic independence for Turkey; and valuation of the dam

and mutual reparation,

NEW U.S. ADMINISTRATION. The conference adjourned after having

MR. HOOVER ENTERS, CABINET, NEW YORK, February 25th. Mr. Hoover has accepted the portfolie

heard the Turkish statistical statement. claiming that the Turks were in a majority in Smyrna and Eastern Thrace which should be assigned to Turkey.

After the Turkish delegates had with geropoulos to submit the Greek statistical statement, as to Smyrna and Thrace.

ARMY OF FRANCE.

NO FEAR OF AGGRESSION.

PARIS, February 24th-

in the Chamber, during a debate on the Army Estimates, M. Barthou (War

HOURS OF SEAMEN.

who were not rescued, there can be little INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF doubt that they perished by fire or

OWNERS AND MEN.

suffocation.

we administer English law only as far as circumstancen admit." In my opinion then, the plaintiffs are entitled to the in- junction they ask, which (as it in agreed that this application shall be treated as the trial of the action) will be continued till judgment in the action now pending in the Chinese Court I give liberty to all parties, including Dr. Wu Ting-fang,

order as to costs.

of Secretary of Commerce, but will condrawn, the Conference invited M. Calo Minister)"declared that the French Army in London to-day to consider the reducis being practically taken piecemea! into to apply at any time.. There will be no

tinue as Director-General of the Allied Belief Administration."""

PROBLEMS

THE DANE'S POSITION..

As a convenient method of removing LONDON, February 24th. Under the auspices of the International the debris expeditiously the building Labour Office, a joint conference of ship a one-storeyed brick and tile structure owners and seamen of all countries met

a ravine near by. Only the walls are at present: did pot need to fear any mili- tion of hours. The discussions are ex-

pected to last a month. It is hoped that left standing and they are considerably A POSSIBLE SOLUTION.

tary aggression on the part of Germany. by careful readjustment of the shifts the damaged by the force of the explosion. Mr. Ward asked for costs. Ho pointed LONDON, February 23rd. M. Doumer (Minister of Finance) deviews of both parties may be met.

The factory is owned by the Hitt Flash out that in the circumstances it would EARLIER CABLES.

The proposni nade at the Near Eastcla ed that the Army had excellent war

The have been perfectly competent and proper for the defendants to have given the Conference to appoint an Anglo-French material for a hundred divisions. Italian Commission to proceed to the spot SELECTION OF MR. HOOVER.

Replying to M. Le Fevre (the ex-Wax IRISH AND UNEMPLOYMENT Cracker Company of America.

manager, a Chinese, had not returned undertaking asked for without raising and enquire regarding the questions of Minister) M. Barthou refused to state

But Mr. McNeill on from tiffin when the explosion occurred any objection. WASHINGTON, February 24th.

Smyrna and other matters raised by the the number of France's Divisions, but

and he has not yet been able to give an behalf of the Bank strenuonely oposed the application. Had he not done so, Mr. Mr. Hoover has been offered the Secre Greeks and Turks is welcomed in French he assured the Chamber that the first MR. BONAR LAW'S PROPHECY.

estimate of the number of work people Maslood would no doubt have consented and Italian quarters, and it is antici micasures of mobilisation mcessary to

Lospos, February 24th. aryship of Commerce, but he has asked pated that the Greeks and Turks will ensure the safety of France would enable

The opinion is held in Con-her to coerce any adversary unwilling to Mr. Bons Law, speaking at Leeds, who were in the building at the time. that the bank should have ita costs.

Mr. McNeill said he would leave the Mr. Harding whether he would be of accept it.

ference circles that this will bring a keep its engagements or to defend herself referred to Ireland. He declared that if It is unlikely, to say the least, that an

matter entirely in his Lordship's handa. more service there or as Director of solution with the least possible modifica against this adversary's aggression. His the Government gave for crime what they authentic account of the cause of the The points he had raised and discussed remarks were received with repeated ap- would not give to reason, crimes would plause. European Reliel. He has proposed totion of the Treaty of Sevres

spread and it would end the British explosion will ever be obtained, as those at length were matters which he considered AN ALLIED ENQUIRY. Mr. Harding that he should calarge the

Empire. As regards unemployment, if nearest to the place where it begna are the court should have, brought before it, as showing that the grounds upon "which scope of the Commerce Department, but

Labour were returned to power to-mor the least likely to have cacaped alive. Ait was contended the injunction should this a condition of his

-row, instead of cuirng unemployment, they would have a shaking of confidence clue may be obtained from such particu- be granted were not the same as in the everywher, leading to incalculable dis lare as could be ascertained after the previous case, and were insufficient. The bank came into court as trustees, and it explosion at the same factory last month. was not fair that they should be treated The carelessness of the workwomen as ordinary defendants.EUS DE ATEN appeared then to have been responsible. Mr. Ward-Trustees usually come into We do not mind what court and say: The magazine, where the principal storeorder the Court makes of all of gunpowder was kept, adjoins the

Mr. McNeill-A most rotten thing to women's lavatory, and on the last occasar. sion it came out in the course of inquiry invariably say it

olive Mr. Ward-It may be rotten, but they

that the women whose duty it was to His Lordship said he did not think get supplier of powder from the mage the defendants were wrong in taking the zine would surreptitiously smoke position they had done, and in the cir cigarette in the lavatory and were not cumstances he would make no order as always particular to nish it before to costs. collecting the powder and returning to the main part of the building,

made

haa nót acceptance,

AMERICAN SHIPPING. INCREASED "STEAMSHIP FARES.

New Yoas, February 24th. Shipping companies announce an in mediate increase of 10 per cent in bist class passenger fares...

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MANDATES PROBLEM.

LONDON, February 24th. The Near East Conference decided to aak the Turk and Greek delegations to- · PARLIAMENT'S JURISDICTION. day whether they were prepared to accept

Lonos, February 24th. the result of Allied investigation with regard to Smyrna and Thrace, and, sub- The question of Parliament's jurisdic ject theroto, to accept the remaining tion over mandates was again raised in (tormf.of the Treaty of Sevres Accept the House of Commons at question time. acca of the proposal will involve o ia-Mr. Chamberlain replied that obviously

MR. HARDING'S FRIENDSHIP FOR ENGLAND. SPEECH OF SULGRAVE INSTITUTE CHAIRMAN,

TORONTO, February 25th. Speaking at-the-Empire Club, Mr.-John A Stewart, chairman of the Board of Governors of the Bulgrave Institute, de- clared that no President of the United States was ever more friendly towards Canada than Mr. Harding, or possessed a keaner and truer understanding of the world necessity of the friendship of the English-speaking peoples.

ALLEGED GOLD DISCOVERY. DENVER MINERS' SENSATIONAL

ZOLAIM

by an Inter-Allied Commission. Parliament must decide what territory BRITISH PRISONERS IN ANGORA. should be administered by the Govern

LONDON, February 24th.

In the House of Commons, Mr. Harms worth said there were 22 British prisoners in the hands of the Angoraites whilst a number of Nationalisté were in British custody. The Angora Government re- fused to. discuss the release of prisoners, but he hoped the matter would be settled by the present Conference.

AMERICAN AVIATORS'

PERFORMANCES.

JACKSONVILLE (Flor), February 24th. Lieut. Coney has down from San Diego, a distance of 2,079 miles, in bours 32 minutes, actual flying time. PAIR MAIL FLIGHT,

NEW YORK, February 24th: The air mail (mentioned yesterday) was conveyed by relays of aeroplanes. It left. Ban: Franoisco at 4.30 a.m., on Tuesday, and arrived at 4.50 pim. on Wednesday.

SIKH BIOT AT SHRINE. MANY KILLED AND INJURED.!!

Lauona, February 24th.-

„DENYE (Col), February 4th. Two miners appeared at the Recorder's Office and dumped on the counter two Backs of gold, which they alleged they had i dug out of vacant land in the heart of the city. They hled claims for land Hany Sikhs were killed and wounded embracing ground beneath the City in a riot between Sith merchants and

ment.

COAL TRADE DE-CONTROL, ATTITUDE OF, MINERS' FEDERA-

TION...

LONDON, February 24th." The delegates of the Miners Federa tion, at a private conference. in London, passed a resolution protesting against the | proposed decontrol of the coal trade, declaring that the Federation would oppose 'de-control by every means in its

power.

UNEMPLOYMENT DONATIONS. GOVERNMENT ACCEPTS SUGGESTION.

LONDON, February 24th. In the House of Commons, in the course of a discussion on the Unemployment Bill, the Government agreed to increase the unemployment donation to 20s wockly, stayed

SOUTH AFRICAN SENATE, CAPETOWN, February 24th. The Senate ejection resalta, are na African Party-17; Nati

Labour 2

Hall a large part of the business district pilgrims at the famous shrine of Nanak follows: Banth of Denver, and the Union Pacific station. in the Punjab:

aster.

AFRICAN MINES. REDUCTION IN STAFF..

CAFETOWN, February 24th. The Kimberley Diamond Mines are reducing their white staff by 500, the Premier by 20, whilst the Wesselton in temporarily closing down.

HUNTING FOR COMMUNISTS,

DOMICILIART VIEITS IN FRANCE.

PARIS, February 25th. Continuing the search for undesirables, the police this morning visited ten hotels and other dwellings and made, forty-five

arrests.

CAIRO CONSPIRACY CASE. ALL CAPITAL SENTENCES “COMMUTED.

A FAMILY OF SCHOLABB,

A BENEFICENT RESULT OF GAMBLING AND OPIUM.I- REMARKABLE: SPEECH BY SIR ERNEST BIRCH.

Bays the Saturday ReviewIt seems only the other day that Master Anthony Asquith was a child of the Little Lord Fauntleroy sort.

About one hundred guests attended a Now he has just socured a scholarship at Balliol, follow dinner given at Penang by Chlah Keo ing the example of his father and Eo in honour of Sir Ernest Birch who brothers. We congratulate Mr. Asquith is re-visiting the Federated Malay States. beartily on this lateat of the academic According to a telegraphic message pub

Sir Ernest CAIRO, February 24th.

successes of the family. Scholarship in, lished in the Malay Mail, Sentences in the conspiracy case re of course, nothing to the world of to-day, in his reply to an eulogistic and fovery ported in October have been promulgat but the man of science notes with interest, speech by Cheah Keo Ee, said there had ed. Seven are condemned to death, in the steady reappearance in honours lists been too much interference from Exeter cluding Abdul Rahman Bey, local secre demanding brains of a few-gifted famili Hall that they must not gamble and ry of the Egyptian nationalist dele lica We hear a good deal of hereditary smoke opium and that these vices must There would gation. All theso sentences have been disease, here is a clear instance of heredi-be subject to legislation.

nnot have been money originally to build communted to fifteen years penal servi tary aptitude, which is encouraged, ne tude. Fifteen sentences of imprisonment" doubt, y tradition and environment A up the Malay States if there had not been are reduced-to periods varying from foreign Professor of Engenics once gambling and opium farms. Had it not twelve to two years. The punishment of selected a group of an English family of been for this money there would not prob thirty lashes on eleven of the accused has this sort from a heap of-photographs na ably be a single rubber tren in Malaya.

the best type he had ever seen.

The enterprise was dus to Chinese money. been annulled.