1911-03-03 — Page 1

The Hongkong Telegraph.

NEW SERIES No. 8482

Telegans.

HOME POLITICS.,

ANGRY SUENE IN THE

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

[TUE," TELMONAPR "GORBEJPONDENT }

Lo lon, March 2, 10.5 p.m.

A very angry scone took place in the House of Commons to-day ́in the course of a debate on the

Voto Bill

Mr. Bilfour geaid the Liberal Government of committing a

fraud with the dertorate of the

country.

The Prime Minister, Mr.

Asquith, rmid wild ; seous, stremba dy rapuolitol the allega-

Lion,

Excitement ranhigh while the i

debate was bɔing enried on.

晚三初月二年三統宜

lectual notions, which vaguoly. ain at a kind of ToryCiovernment which ovon his father would never have led after 1867.

Telegrays.

(LSTABLISHED 1881.)

FRIDAY MARCH 3, 1911.

Telegrains

TO VISIT VIENNA.

五拜禮

Teligrams.

MILLIONS SPENT IN

poses (on second thoughts its LONDON CORPORATION. FIGHTING THE PLAGUE. first were that the Veto Bill should he passed) faintly to encourage the Lords to resistance. I predict that the voice will grow faintor and fainter as time goes on, but there is just a whispor of it now. Thouggestion is that the Govern-IT mont are to "Wallenged " to call for the creation of peors. Well, let the be challenged. They will be created.

"TELCORAPU" COURESPONDENT.}.

London, Mareli 2, 10,0 p.m.

The members of the corpore

tion of the city of London havo decided to visit Vienna in Sop- teinber next.

Bath those authorities soon to think that they can get rid of this election, and, the election before that, turn the thrice vanquished, into victors, stay the evolution of popular government, upset the Constitution, and produce some, thing which will somehow stop theso horrid Radicals from gol ting into power: Neither soems to imaging that these things are beyond their power, or any man's power, to compass. We are go

NKW PEERS. ing to put the House of Lords under the onse of Commons. It will not be necessary to Wo are going to have done with erante 500, or 300, for if the Voto aristocratic rule. We are, going Bill in thrown out-which I do to make the will of the people, not for a moment beliexo-the exercised through their repro-majitg will not bo of the charne- sentatives, prevail over, any unter of that which rejected Home representative power in læse Rule. Wo can summon the noces- reals. The House of Lards issary imler of able, represon THE MACAO QUESTION. going in be ma le just thrinfarior, tive, experienced, and highly- midportant hat respectable, as-

trained men without the smallest sembly that Sound Chambors difficulty, and with a trifling ox. PORTUGUESE MINISTER TO are in toy part of the British penditure of time,, Thirty or Empire but our own. The. Vet forty much mon could be pricked Bill is the menus. this end. at one of the list of New Year The nation his willed that means honors. The nation will approve twice over. Aard the Vets Bill is the crifice, and if it hiughs a little going to pass this spring, in suite (at the poors), will applaud still of anything which die Speetamore. We shall then have a Lor and Lord Hugh. Cecil ean House of Lords that will be Favy, or do.

Liboral for at least five years or so, somewhat unwieldy, but a much, mora enlightens body then the present Assembly. Wat shall thvi be saved the trouble of 4

THE CONSTITUTIONAL POSITION

Well, and wheat, en day da? Bath, be it abervel, urgerourses |ofananaliditviole wo kotly nation-,

VISIT CANTON,

1

l" SHEUNG ło* Bearics]

Poking, Mar. 2.

The neting Portuguoso Minister

Poking is about to leave en

the two years delay involved in ronte for Canton, where he will the Vet Bill, which again will

question of the delimitation of

the Macao frontier.

MANCHURIA,

TiGesund Po Service.]

Peking, Marel.

The Tuchipu(Board of Financo) has reported to the Throne that

the Three Eastern Provinces have

spent more than Tls. 10,000,000

in the fight against the plaguo.

The Bond begs the Throne to forego in view of this, Manchu's animal tributo to Peking.

request has been granted.

A

·三月三英港香

Telegrams.

AUSTRALIA.

NEW GOVERNOR GENERAL,

APPOINTED.

(Tar “Teleorara” CoRBESPONDENT

London, March 2, 10.5 Lord Donun has been

-586 PER ANNUM,

LE OFF 10 CENTR

POLICE COURT.

A man on the ss. Clintufu was found in possession of 18 taels of prepared opium on arri- val at Saigon o was takon bo- fore the authorities at Saigon, and find 8000. Photine was not paid, so he was locked up. Meanwhile the ship was held up until the fine was paki.

Consequently tho, Captain paid $400 fine, and the

was released after sorving four days' imprisonment. Whon m. the ship arrived in the colony the Captain gave the man in ap-charge, and he was brought before Mr. E. R. Hallifax this morning to answer to the charge of smuggling opium out of the Colony.

pointed to succeed Lord Dudley as Governor General of Australia.

Lord Denman was Deputy speaker of the House of Lords, mel was born in 1871. Educated at Sandhurst, he served in South Africa as Capt. commanding the 35ti (Middlesex) Squadron of The Imperial Yeomanry, 1900 (wound-

(SHAT PO" SERVICE.]

Poking; Mar. 2. The Princo Regent has in- structed Liang Tin Yen, now in

America, to strive to obtain the

good offices of the Government

qt Washington-with a view to

al will, an eat smplat the he a very distinct gain. Thas discuss with the Viceroy the [ rejectiini of the Veto lidl by the | not only tho political influence of ! THE VETO BILL. House of Lords. What peisely the pers, but their sosial status Lord High-mivans do camp isos 1 | will ba struck out, and two birds WILL, THE LADŠ PASS IT? can quite is ther from the will be killed with one stone.

impassioned naturs of fijs fetter | Nothing could be botter. to the "Spetat;"; __ apparently

For these Condi a great mang There is really a mething he wants the L'aloni to press m res reasons I think the Lords, KIANGNANG ARSENAL. a settlement with Russia. endiarly audacious in the thefies of the Opposition, so far asitem Kia ; not to create pears to will pass the Veto Bill-IT, W. bo called a party possessing kuchome the recalcitranes of the Massinghata. a thing as thetics all. For in-per Hrie, Wat em they dort, as sometimes happens ind? The Constitution picules palities, Torica an thinking loss from beige-rallel in as of what the bills propose to advisers. I believe I am comeet

do than of whil their suppio and stating that all through the friends and red enemies in their crisis on the Budget King Ed-

THE CRISIS.

ESE FROM MONGOLIA

own ranks are paposing to do toward consistently declined oven GREAT EXODUS, OF CHIN. 1.ການ The Protezionists, foto discuss that question with any- instance, know Cat a gro at in woody but his dan ditution al- mat is on to get rid of Tariff | visera. That was the proper, the Raform, mi that Mr. Baumilattitude of a constitutional four is the more or less willingontrol King Cleorg will ears

So that inly not depart from it. agent of this matenare. nearly all their onegies or hot then, what conre' will they take? Da foreing Mr. Blour to drop the Orgánico mostin 22, pavests, and Roferendum, an if he will do the rest of it. Well, let them. y this, ondeopping Mr. Balfour him- The world will say: "Very im-1 self. The Molerates mul Free Provice, na doubt. But why

Wall.

"SHEUNG Po" Sanvice.]

Peking, March 2. The Governor of Hoilungkiang

Fonders, who taugh they countin't yet win the election, and his telegraphe lo Peking sapori- for litt'e in numbra, he always the election before flnt?. You.

been strong at the Tory, head- quuters, are on the opposito tick of. perunding the louder that

Tariff Reform is hopeless policy

haaten in thros eloctions, and destine l

had your plan, put forward.as an alternative to that of the Governing on the situation. › ' mont

It was rojected. The country only wanted to say that

An enormous exodus has taken

if we wills were in emflicts, it place of Chinese before the Nus-

was usedsstry 15 mile it quite

ty drag the party or that, after reionable dělaysian advanes, and tens of thon- these excursions and and discussion, that of the rèpre-

ni thing, to destruction.

Now

alarm indirety affect the sentative House ought to prevailsands of these homeless people aro Tory attitude to the fovernment All this fuss and demonstration

antha Veto Bill. As in cam too lats. All the proper now in Heilyngkiang. the Sulney-st, figli, ricogitation which Lord Hugh 'pró-

chot shot

often hits

come poses will fizzle out like a damp ting or som bolat which it was squib.

Some

BOARD OF WAR SUGGESTS

ABOLISHMENT.

[“SHEUNG Po" BERVICE]

Peking, Mar. 2. The Board of War proposes to abolish Kiangnan arsenal, as it

sent service needs, and to replace

"it with an up-to-date structure.

od.)

The defondant mlmitted [the charge, and said ha brought it from Shanghai. On taking it on board a man, told him that ho could not take it to Hongkong, so he locked it up in his box. He did not bring the opium out on arriving in the colony. It was left in his box.

His Worship then imposed a fine of $500, or three moitha'. hard labour.

Lowd Dudley, who rotires, las boon Governor-General of Aus- tralia sineo 1908. · Laily Dudley,

A Chinèse received fourmonths* who has beon'ill in Australia, isprisonment and six hours' stocks for returning from banish- a past mistress of all the liberal

ment. arts. She plays, sings, paints, and shines as a linguist. Once

the Hippodrome she had a novol experience. A Japanese juggler, who was performing a trick with a caged canary, was surprised to see the bird fly-nerosa the footlights anul take refuge in her ladyship's lap. Tho countoss. delighted at this unrehearsed effect, offered to by the bird, but the gallant Japanese insisted on her falting it as a gift. She took the canary with her to Australia, where it occupies the as to the progress of plague in post of honour in hier ladyship's Manchuria and Mukden in parti- aviury.] cular,and whathesayscorresponds to a great extent with what you have published. Your correspon dent up there, however, luas not mentioned a point on which my brother writes very strongly, viz., the behaviour of the Chinese

A correspondent writes to the "N. C. D. Nowa"-My brother in Mukden writes me very fully

CHINESE AND tibet.

("Sarung Po" SERVICE.]

Poking, March 2.

The Board of the Interior pro-

is not adequate for China's pre-foreign trained doctors and medi- cal students, and sanitary workers. He says that they have earned the lasting rogard of the foreign-poins to appoint Captain-Super ors. in Mukion by

their splendid conduct, the enormous intendents to various districts of amount of work they gel

THE

CORONATION.

1 Baruxa Fo" SKAVICE.)

Poking, March 2.

Prince Chun has postponed his departure for Englund, where he The governor asks that steps will attend the coronation of King George as Chinose special

be taken at once.

The Waiyapu, on being in-.

But supposing that miracle the King were to refuse constitutional facilities for on- foreing what, so far as I know, formed that the frontier notice every constitutional authority re-

gards as the supreme power in posts in Mongolia had been des the land, the will of the nation recently declared at a general troyed, has instructed the Li Fan election. Well, the Government

not nimel, And so the Tories THE “GUARANTEES," arela by their internal hates and dissensions to modify, half consciously, their attitudo to Liberalism qad its policy. The Protectionist want to set up their Humpty Dumptron the wall from which the Referendum toppled him. So naturally they care little hout the Lord; in fact, the stoner from their point of view that question ismottled and out of the way the batter, seeing that it handicaps Proteation's bid for the first place. But the Balfourians, having got Humpty Dumpty down, want to keep him thero and pre- vent him over sing again. So they insist on fighting the Con-

onvoy.

[It was reported some weeks ago Envoy to attend the coronation of that Princo Tsai Chen, the Special

King George V, on behalf of the Emperor of China, will leave for

might go; but then those short-dun, or advisory council on fron-London in the beginning of April |

sighted factioalsts would have

subjected the Monarchy to the full tier affairs, to send a deputy to brunt of party warfare, and to a

loss of influence such as it has not investigate the mattor. aufforol since the deposition of James I. And for what? Not

stitutional isso a outrance, and Throne, its place as the arbiter of stop that she has taken in deliver-

in the process teynys outbidding | each other in violones.

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and will take with him as Secret- aries and Attaclies Ulm Ying- Lyuan, Senior Councillor of the Board of Commercs, Shao Fu ying, Junior Secretary of the

Singh and Isor Das yesterday on Sorgeant Wills arrested Moola. Haiphong Road at Kowloon, mud charged them this morning with ombezzling $244.25 from Weng Kai, dairyindu, on the 31st of Jamary at Kowloon.

Mr. J. II. Carliner appeared on behalf of the defendants, and asked for a remand. This was acceded to.

A mumber of ricksha coolios were fined $2 oach for causing an obstruction in Queen's Roud Last.

A gambling warrant was oxc- cuted sous time ago at Chung West, a number of arrests mede, Hing Hotel, No. 423 Queen's Road

and all were convicted. To-day- Sergeant Wills prosecuted the two liconcees of the hotel for allowing gambling to be carried on on the promises.

The first defondant said he did not see any gambling going on in the hotel, and should he havo scen if he would have stopped it im- mediately.

Tho second defendant stated that he was in the country. He would not have allowed gambl ing.

His Worship imposed a fino of $100.

through, and their utter dis-Tibet.

AMERICAN NEWS.

The Weather Forecast,

rogard of the risks they run. Several of them have died, but the surviving men in Mukden hammer away at it in a manner that, he says, does them lasting

[VIA MANILA.] honour. They have to overcomic Washington, February 28.- the prejudices of their own poo- The House bill providing punish- ple, whose opposition to sanitary ment for espionage has become a measures becomes stronger slaw. The bill was the outgrowth time goes on. He also speaks voy of the spy stories originating in highly of the Viceroy and othor oficials, more especially of the the Philippines, and was onnetod former's action in connoxion with to remedy a situation in which the young Jackson's death. Alto- | authorities of tho islands found gether the opinion hold by themselves when they arrested a foreignera of the batter class of Japanese obtaining military in- Chinese has undergone a very formation of a dangerous character great change for the better and and found themselves without the tion, when before he was inclined my brother says he is all admira power to prosecute. to contempt.

THE CARNIVAL.

HONGKONG PLAYERS

BEATEN.

"TELEGRAPA" CORRESPONDENT]

Maniļa, Mar. 3, 1.20 p.m. The tennis players from Hong

to save, its own veto, but that of Feb. 19.-American papers are same Board, Li Kun,,s Secretary the peers. The popularity of the freely abusing Russia for the hasty of the same, and Chou Chih-chi (THE our politics, Likingin turnitaloading the ultimatum. They freely and Lin Fongshu, Councillors of from each successive Ministry, its assert that it will be the canso of the Waiwups, and others]. THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE. friendship with the organised involving, the United States nud Take Lord Hugh Cocil and the democracy, are to be sacrificed for Japan in trouble. One journal Spectator, Neither is really a wretched, divided, distracted states that Russia will bring practical political force. The faction, which cannot win an Mongolia into the sphere of in "Spectator" roprosents the Whig-election, and spends most of its fluence, and that England will Tory mind, ounge, angry with strength in abusing and discredit-occupy Thibet, Socialism, Liberalism, Lloyd Ing its loaders, The King may Gorge, democracy, the Badget, very well respond to such an the whole fashion of modern invitation Thank you for polities. Lord Hugh is just anothing! old Tory, ungenial and unimagi- The Spectator" at least scos mativo, full of half realised intel- the folly of this course, and pro-

,

The marriage of Mr. Vyner Brooke, cldest son of Rajal Brooke, of Sarawak, and the Hon. Sylvia Brout will was to take place in London towards the end of According to a Peking telegram February, received by the "Herald," it is said that, as a result of the Itussian ultimatum to China, Japan and Russia may enter into a secret

understand.

During the week ending 4th February, 26,911 seizures and 22 230 dentlus from plague were roported in India.

kong were beaten in the doubles championship at the Carnival.

A cable received in Calcutta states that the Russian Govern ment has ordered 300 aeroplanes from British manufacturora,

CHANGE

RAIN

FAIR

STORMY.

VERY DR

Washington, February 28.- On the 3rd at 11.55 a.-Tho Your correspondent has learned depression lying over the Sen of that on Thursday three reports Japan yostorday, is moving into will be presented to the House of the Pacific to tho North of Representatives by the Committee Hokkaido.

Pressure is highest over the E. coast of China.

Moderate monsoon may be ox- pected over the China Sen.

Hongkong Rainfall for the 24 hours ending at 10 a.m. to-day, 0.00 inches.

on Insular Affairs, on the · friar The biromoter has fallen ovor lands investigations, None of S. China and Tongking and a | these reports finds that there was depression appears to be develop-

intentional fraud on the part of ing over the Yangtzo valloy, the Philippine authorities. One of them, the majority report, fully sustains and approves the admin- istration of the triar lands by the Philippine Covermant, Re- presentative Cooper of Wisconsin, who was formerly claiman of the Comunittes of Insular Affairs but was removed by Speaker Can- non because hoespoused the cause of the Insurgents, has announced that he will fight the adoption of the majority report by the Houso. No. 1.

Washington, February 27.- 3.-South const. of Ching bo Tho rivers and harbour bill as tween Hongkong and Lamocks, passed by Congress carries an eque as No. 1... increase in the appropriation for Army engineering work through Zout the United Statos,

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Forecast District

hood, E. winds, moderate ; fair.

1-Hongkong and Neighbour

2.-Formosa Channel, samo as

4.-South coast of China ba-

tween Hongkong and Hainau, same as No, 1,

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