1911-03-14 — Page 1

The Hongkong Telegraph.

NEW SERIES No. 8493

Telegrams:

晚四十月二年三統宜

Telcaran.s.

Telegrams.

HOME SPORT.

FOOTBALL, SEMI-FINAL.

TO BE PLAYED ON THE 25th.

{Tam "Talgonavn" CORRESPONDENT ]}

London, March 13, 10 p.m In the football cup semi-fina's, --to be played off on Saturday, the

25th, the matches are to be asj follows:-

Blackburn Rovers meot Brad-

ford City, Newcastle United meet

Chelsoa.

[Somo magnificent contests should be witnossed when the somi-finals are played, as most of the teams have hold prominent positions in the table for

many yours. Last year it was a Titanic struggle, for Nowcastle, United boat Barnsley (2-0, after a draw). The game was replay- od at Everton.]'

PRESS MUZZLED.

(ESTABLISHED

TUESDAY, MARCH

Telegrams,

CRICKET IN AUSTRALIA, THE GRAND NATIONAL.

ANOTHER WIN FOR SOUTH (Tor "Txleocaph" CORRESPONDENT ;

AFRICA:

(THE "TELEORNER COLLESFORDENT Į

London, March 13, 10 p.m.. The South Mrican town has borton the South Australian re-

prosentatives by six wickets.

The result of their tour is follows: Out of 21 matches play

of the South Afkans have won

11, loat 7, and down 3.

CHINA'S WIRES.

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INVESTIGATION TO BE'

MADE.

[SUAT Fo" Envies.]

l'oking, March 13. The Board of Communications intends to send 4 special aloputy

London, March 13, 10 p.m. Jorry M. has been scratched for the Grand National,

[Tho Liverpool Grand National (4 miles 850 yards) takes place on Friday, March 24th. It was won in 1000 by Luttour III: in 9m. 53/45soc. (Parfrement riding),

when 32 ran, and last year by

Jonkinstown in 10m. 4/4.5socs. (R. Chadwick riding,) when 25 [ran.]

BOXING IN AMERICA.

CRUSADE AGAINST IT

STARTED.

[TUE "TELEGRAPH CORRESPONDENT ;

London, March 13, 10 p.m. The New York police have it stituted an anti-boxing crusade.

EXPRESSION.

[It is rathor significant that the APPEAL FOR FREEDOM OF to investigate all the tolo-police in New York should havd started amovonicut" of this graphic comniunications througli- character. There can bo no doubt

["Shar P

SERVICE)

Peking, March 13.

Grant Conillor Chu Shai Chung has asked Prince Ching

out Cluna, before reorganizing 45 whole forvica

VIEWS OF VICEROYS.

and Grand Councillor Na Tung, ON FRONTIER DISPUTES,

to withdraw the endor prohibiting the nativa pross froin publishing|| Bonsational articlésabout disputes bolween Great Britain, Russia and China, so as to free this people) from anxiety and suspenso.

{"Suzuya Pe" SERVICE]

Peking, March 13.

THE PLAGUE.

VAST IMPROVEMENT

REPORTED.

[Shat Po" Service. J

1881.)

14: 1911.

二拜禮

Poking, Müreli 13. The Japausso Ministor at Peking hus notified the Board of Foreign

Affairs that Port Arthur and Dai-

ron (Tailiwan) are free from plague, and has asked the Board

Telegrams.

驼四十月三英港香

AMERICAN NEWS.

[VIA MANILA.] *** left, Manchuria of late years. It chard A. Ballinger has at last Washington, March 8-Ri- seems probable that the primary resigned as Sacrotary of the cause of the prosent Manchurian Interior, outbreak of plague was the infec-appointed Waltor L. Fisher, of President Taft has tion of a rat-like animal known as Chiengo, to succeed him. the tarbogan mannot.

is

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Washington, March 10- Modern research into plague Ambassader David Jayne Hill, still only in its infancy, says

United States representative in "Tho Tinies," but already it has Berlin, has been ordered to Wash- suggested the lesson that we must ington for a conference. It is awake from the dream that the rumoured that the conference has now civilation is necessarily exempt from the graver forms of but this is doniod at the State to do with the attitudo of Germamy toward the situation in Mexico, cherish that delusion weò mag pestilenco. If we continue to

Department. have a rude awakening,

$80 PER ÁFNUM

SINGLE COPY 10 oara.

AVIATION AT SHATIN.

'INTERVIEW WITH VAN DEN

BORN, THE AIRMAN.:: Tho aviation moeting at Bhatin next, at which Mr. Charles Van on Saturday, Sunday and Monday den Born, the well-known Belgian airman will givo an oxhibition of the art of flying, promises to be exceptional interest.

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In the first place Mr. Van don Born is of the gradually growing school who devote all their on-

they devoto less time to derising orgies to improving the noroplane into a commercial article, that is, sensational Rights tlu u to oxperi- Washington, March 10.-Pre-ents with a view to making the sident Taft loft Washington to-day airship a public convoyance. for Atlanta, Georgia, to attend There is, therefore an exceptional- CHINESE VOLUNTEERS. the Southern Commercial Con-interest to bo takon in their flights, sinco tho nmn-in-the-street- might do the same himself with very little practice, or may be a passenger without risking life and limb.

gross.

Washington, March 10.-News received at the State Department Diaz Government is tottering to its fall. This bears out the press dispatches received within the last few days. It is also reported that Lower California is engaged in a movement looking toward the establishment, of a separate yostor-independent, government. This

to exempt the ships plying be- MOVEMENT IN SHANGHAT from Mexico indicates that the tween Chiawangtao, Tientsin and these ports from medical inspec-

tion.

["Sakura Fo" BRAVICE.]

district. is not involved in the

Shanghai, March 13. *A meeting was hold here day, at the International Commer-general revolt and is not co cial Union, to discuss tlie formation but has a plan of its own which operating with the insurrectionists of a Volunteer, corps for national opposition from the Ding forces, it is promoting so far without

1" Suruxo Po " BERVICE.)

Poking, March 13, The International Association niesting for combating the plague défonce. The meeting was well at Fongtion (Manchuria) was at-attended, sovoral thousands being teaded by a number of foreign present.

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doctors.

The Board of Foreign Affairs intenis to send a special deputy to receive the visitors at the associn-

THE RAILWAYS.

ANOTHER ENQUIRY.

:

{"Buat Po" Bravich.)

Poking, March 13.

that public fesling in many quarters has been stirred over many fights which have beention meetings; brought off in the States, some of them having unfortunate results. Of course, it may bo readily assumed that the police aro acting un ler oficial instructions, and these have been issued owing to the strong public feeling which that we are likely to get in Shang-investigato into the management has found ultorance both in thoai. It is easy to see how pneu- Press and in the pulpit.]

Stanley statad:The outbreak of Lecturing at. Shanghai, Dr. pnoumonic plague in Manchuria and North China is as far as I know unique, and I do not want

you to think that that is the form

The Board of Communications

intends to send a deputy to

monic plague has spread in the of the Szo-chwan Railway. north, During the intensely cold weather the pauplo give up

Nearly all the Viceroys an MACAO NEGOTIATIONS. their work qut of doors to a

(fovernors of the various pro- vinces have submitted their

opinions to the Prince Rogent

TRAVELLING STUDENTS. regarding the frontier disputes.

("Suerso Po" SERVICE,]

Poking, March 13.

The Board of Communications sroquested the Board of Foreign Affairs to withdraw tho "privilege of allowing half rates on to Blinghai Nanking Railway for students. The request has been

Complied with.

The Viceroys of Chili and Non-

large extent and live under 'very insanitary conditions in houses which are tightly closed

CANTON VICEROY WIRES. up. A case of pacumonje plague

and the Prince Regent is great'y graphed to the Board of Foreign displeased.

Affairs that the Portuguese are harassing the people of Chinsan. This step o charactorises as highly improper.

YUNNAN TROUBLE

SETTLED.

[“ SHAT PO” SERVION]

LADIES' COLUMN.

THE TROUSERS-SKIRT.

sucosa

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on account of thoar ing too busily engaged elsowhere.

LOG BOOK.

Mr. Van den Born told a repre- sentative of the "Tologiaph to-day that he is quite prepared to build an aeropland-not an airship-capable of carrying from feu to a dozen passengers a non- stop distance of thirty miles.

easy," he said. "Thirty miles is This is certain, and quite

that stops me building such a low figure, and the only thing

coat. vessel is the present prohibitivo.

I could build it with one powerful motor or two ordinary motors and it would be as safo and as sure of light ng my own small machine which I will uso at Shatin

namging, mane amount-

In his suit in the court of first "Prizes of ton, fifteon and, instanco (Manila), against the twenty thousand dollars are offor- Bucknall Steamshup Company, fed for sensational flights, but the. George E. Worcester hins secured day is not far off when prizos for Ajudemmit.muonating ka.D1,9KR Tor six packages of personal bag-ing to only a thousand dollars or gago lost at Singapore when a so, will bo mado much larger, and large quantity of the cargo of then you will 500 a change in the sluip Kalomo was jettisonodaoroplane construction."- in order to save the ship in a caso of fire in the hold,

Mr. Van den Born soos no danger in aeroplaning whatever, The persoant belongings con provided the most ordinary pro- thined in the six pieces of bag- cautions are taken.. Ho lays the gago were shipped from New blame for the numerous fatal ac York in October 1008 and the cidents upon the too grent daring claim was made in court for their of aviators, who attempt things value last year. The sum of no machino could accomplish. court to P1,256, as cortain of the then stopping the engines and P1,500 asked was reduced by the The rising to a great height, property was of a nature that swooping down in circles is a should have been declared by the fruitful cause of accidents, for it owner at the time of shipment. puts the seroplano to a use for

which it was novor intended.

The water in the lower Yangiso has been rising rapidly of lato and much of the anxioty felt in navigating the channels owing to lack of water has been removed. On March 2, with the Hankow water-mark at 15-ft., 21-ft. of water wore found in the Gravener laland Channel and the same omount in the Christmas Island Channel.

The aviator made sonto, very successful flights at Bangkok.. which were attended by the Royal Family day after dayThe Crown Prince

Van den Born on his departure.

wasa passenger, and many officials and officers, and several handsome presents were modo Mr.

comes into one of these houses Further inquiries among the and nearly everyone else in the tonding couturiers (writes a Paris ["SUNG PO SVICE.]

house gets it and they all die. correspondout)serve to confirm the There is a scare and people do not statement the Morning Leader' Feking, March 13.

know what to do and run here with regard to the trousers-skirt.

Mr. Van den Born made his and there spreading the disease If the, foromost houses decline

first flight alone in January, 1010, to other houses. The indoor life to commit themselves as yet with

The total number of steamers art continually without serious and since then has practised tho

·A PRIVILEGE WITHDRAWN. klog have, however, not done so, Viceroy of Canton, has tele conditions for the widespread now croation-its chances of during 1910 was 125 as against dle height, with keon groy oyos, H.E. Chang Ming Chi, the with no ventilation furnishes regard to the future of the arriving at the Bund, Tientsin, accident. A young man of mid-

prevented? (1). By preventing all have their models in the ward- diffusion of paeumonic plague.

466 in 1909, whilst the total ton-ho impresses one with a sense of or oven existence-it How could such an epidemic bo is none the less a fact that they ago was 400,001 tons.

coolness and nerve and as being The ice in Tientsin river was an eminently safe person with people moving about and spread-robes, ready to be brought forth reported to have broken up on whom to fly. He hopes to take up ing the disease to other places. at the request of their customers. March 4, leaving the river open to passengers at Shatin, but his (2). By reporting all people that The lesser couturiers, on whon navigation. Six steamers were machine is small and the ground are sick and examining all cases the shackles of responsibility waiting at the Bar to proceed up being of soft sand the additional suspected of plague (3) By weigh less heavily, are not so when the channel cleared. The first woight may prove too much for it. isolating those found sick or sus reserved,

vessels to arrive at the Bar were However, his exhibition is sure to pected of plague, (4) By proven The tronsors-skirt will make its the Wonchow and Onslu Maru, attract much interest. It will be tive inoculation with Halkine's entree a few days hence, as I have while the Staats Sekretar Kraotke confined to various movements in [It is regrettable that His Ex-vaccine which renders people said, in a play at the Boulevard. was the first to got up to the sight of his audience, no flight celloney the Viceroy should have immune to plague somewhat in It will next be presented on the Bund on the evening of the 4th. boing made that would take tho

the same way as vaccination pre-persons of graceful maunequins been compelled to wire in those vonts smallpox, (5) By the use terms, at the present moment, of masks on the face to prevent the racing season at Autovil, after large steamers in the United when negotiations are being car breathing, in the plague germs whiel; tentative appearances may Kingdom to carry oil from the

to the public at the opening of reported to have chartered severat tor's own model-out of view.

The Standard Oil Company are acroplane--which is of the avia-

ried out with respect to the do- when exposed to infection. limitation of Macao. These have

be looked for in the Rue de la United Statos to Chinese, Japan. The present outbreak of piaguo Paix and on the boulevards; so ese, and Australian ports. This the larceny of clothing from the bsen, up to the present, of a in Manchuria is the most formid that by the opening of the spring is, apparently, in reply to the residence of Miss Quinn, The pleasant if futile character, and able outbreak the world has seen meetings at Longchamp it should recent chattering by the Royal clothing was stolen at 4 a.. this the cable now sent cannot add for a hundred years. No one can appear in the first flush of Dutch Shell Combine of seven morning. After hearing the to the early and satisfactory yet foresee the possibilities it may triumph, solution of the problem which contain. It is possible thunt when

vessels to carry potrol from evidence the Magistrate sentenced has baffled Chinese and Portu- the warm weather comes thio

Each house has, of course, its America to China, to compete with hint to, six wooks' imprisonment guoso representatives for a long plague in Manchuria will coaso time, Another fenturoja connecto bo pneumonic and will gradully breadly speaking, from what I

own exclusivo creation, but, the Standard Oil Company. and four hours' stocks, tion with this question is tho assume the mare common bubonio can gather, the jupo-calotto, or Moru arrived in Manils on the 8th last night at No. 57 Woosung The Japanese steamship Seattle Thirteen mon were arrested movement which is now being form. Whether it will continue to trousers-skirt, will be something from Tacoma, after an uneventful Street, Yaumati, and were charged promoted by a violent section spread cannot be foretold. There is like the full trousers of a Zouave, trip of 33 days. On board were with gambling. Twelve mon of the Chinese in Canton. We no doubt that pingue has been in with an apron fore and aft. The 50 passengers. Of the 56 passon were fined $3 each, and the other pamphlets and circulars of an cribed as being present in Harbin the leg, thus ensuring freedom of money orough to escape tho - acted as an amateur lawyer for aro given to understand that Manchuria fersomo years. Itis des dividing line is on either side of gere, 55 were Japanese with $6. The man who was fined $6 diligently sont round, and their mic in Mongalis 12 years ago; In rapose the transers-skirt is being permitted to land.. It is inflammatory character are being years ago and to have been epide-the step.

migration authorities, therefore the rest of the defendants. rather than bridge the unfortunato described asepidemie 12,9,6 and with the directoire, it is the tall, farmers or carpenters they will six how stocke for an attempted contents are such as to widen while around Nowchwang it was not unlike the directoire dress; as supposed thatsince all of them are three the hard labour and A Chinoso was sentenced to

gulf which now separates the two 4 years ago. So that it appears slender figure that will appear to migrate to the Mindoro planta theft of sous cents from a money- utions,

probable that plague has never best advantage,

tons,

elangor at West Point.

PEKING PALACE.

WASTE OF MONEY ON IT.

[“Buzuxo Po" SzevICE.Į

Pokw -Mi roh 13. A certain censor has memorial izal the Throne not to spend nih uoney on decorations and ornaments to adorn the Palace.

Poking, March 13. Grand Councillor Na Tang luns dawn up an agreement, consist ng of six clausos, with the British Minister at Peking, about the Yunnan disputes, ~ ́~ ́~ Tlie, British Ministor agrees to the withdrawal of the British

With regard to the freedom of tade between the two countries,

the nature of the arrangement inado is unknown

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POLICE COURT.

A Chinese was charged with