1911-12-12 — Page 1

The Hongkong Telegraph.

December 11th, 1010, a.m. 62, p.m. 03; Humidity...64, 74.

No. 8657

TELEGRAMS.

THE

REBELLION

TANG SHAO-YPE MISSION.

[Our Own Correspondent.]

Shanghai, Dec. 12."

職二十月拾年三萩窯

TELEGRAMS;

(ESTALISHED - 1881.)

Copyright, 1911

December 11th, 1011, Temperature .m. 61, 4 p.m., 65; Hamidity...85, 66

DECEMBER 12

TELEGRAMS.

1911

TELEGRAMS.

THE LIQUOR TRADEL

THE ESTIMATES:

THE WAR.

ITALIANS IN SMYRNA.

REFERENDUM IN NEW"

ZEALAND.

A NOVEL PROPOSAL.

[Service to the Telegraph,]

Durban, Doc, 14, Renter's correspondent at Pera HE. Tang Shao-yi, the Impor-stics that as a role of friendly ial Poses Commissioner, holds a German representations the Porte preliminary conference at lau- has dee'dod not to expel the Ita kow and will then, proceed to ions from Symraa. Renier. Shanghai to join in the general conference with the representá-

tives of the provincas particgut-

NEWS FROM PEKING:

Poking, Dec. 11.

OBITUARY.

́SIR JOSEPH NOOKER, Service to the Telegraph.]

Durban, Dec. 11.

The death is announced of Sir

An Imperial Ediet has been Joseph Hooker, the distinguished issued 'appointing General Funguturalist.-Router.

Kwok-sheung, Commander of the

Imperialists at Hankow, as Com-

mander-in-chief of the Imperial body guards to sucecad Prince

Tsui Tho, who hide boen or·lered to resign. Another Edict a

ap points Laung Put as "Commis

sioner of the Army Advisory Council.Sheung Po...

NEWS FROM SHANGHAI. Shanghai, Dec. 11,

Chang Yun-jen, the late Vice:

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THE JUBILEE PLUNGER.

[Sarvice to the Telegraph]

Vin Durban, Des. 11, 10.15 am,

The donth is announced of Mr. Er-

Best Benzon, the famous Jubilee |

plungar" of 1887. Is hone was

in Genova, where he has been con fed for two years.-(Reuter.

FINE FEATHERS.

Not very long ago one of our Jealing Suffragettes was very roy of Nanking. Jag rived at There was rothing very startling ittor on the subject of Man.

Peking front Dalny, and is stay about this, of course, but the cur-

ing with H. Yuu Shih-kai.

ious thing was it was not his in- tellect

or his possession of a vote

in Honami aro now marching to

it

wards Chong-chow and are at

[Service to the "Telegraph.”|

Durban, Doc. 11.

Rentor correspondent at

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[Service to the Tolograph."]

Via Durban, Dec. 11, 10:16 am.

A memorandum, signed by 244 Liberal, Conservative and Labour Wellington reports that a members of the Commons, in favour [referèndum in regard to the naof a standing Committee on the Es- fional prohibition of the liquor timates, is being prepared for presen- traffic has breu completed. Fifty-tation to Mr. Asquith. The suppor- six per cont of the total votestors, claim that, such a Committee, were in favour of prohibition, being able to review the current ex- but sixty, per real. were required penditure, would achieve complete to enforca it; therefore, prohibi-Į control over expenditure by the

tion, is not aloptod.-Reator,

Ho-Houter.

THEIR MAJESTIES TOUR,

RAILWAY COLLISION,

[Service to the Tolegraph."] Via Durban, Dec. 11, 10.15 am. Four persons have been killed and

a number injured through a collision at Nord Station, in Franco-Reu |tor.).

THE POST OFFICE.

EMPLOYEES SATISFIED,

誠二拾月二十英港香

TELEGRAMS.

CRICKET.

A DRAW.

$86 ANNIK

Bineta Corr 1) Cr«r, ***

TELEGRAMS.

THE NAVY.

REDUCED ESTIMATES.

[Service to the "Telegraph, "];

Via Bombay Dec. 11, 3.10 p.m.

(Service to the Telegraph.) Via Durban, Dec. 11, 12:10 pm:

The match againet au Australian

The Daily Nows tays a reduc.. Eleven was continued at Brisbapo Intion of two to four inillions is ex-

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hot weather. The attendance was pected in the coming, navy estimates, madorate, and the wicket good. The though everything depends on Ger Australians scored 347, Crawford many's programme It is anticipat notching 110 through vigorous of that the German navy aw will cricket during the 110 minutes le remain unrevited owing to the in- was at the wicket. M.0.C. scored

crease in taxation involved by the 279 for the loss of four wickets. Tho

revision--(Reuter.) match was drawn.(Router.)

AFRICA.

Service to the Telegraph."

Via Durban, Dec. 11, 10.15 am.

At 'a' mass meeting of post office

employees at Birmingham, satisfac-

tion was expressed at the Govern

ment's concessions. The dangor of a Christmas strike has been avorted scored 89 not out by masterly (Service to the "Telegraph.”]

EXPLOSION AT LIEGE.

KINGLY CONCESSIONS.

FIFTY PERSONS INJURED.

(Router.)

[Service to the "Telegraph."

Durban, Dec. 11.

[Service to the "Tolegraph."]}

Vin Bombay, D::. 11, 3.49 μym.

The "Daily Mail " correspondent

Rouler's Liege correspondent

ntatos that an explosion in a cine-at Delli states that the King will

matograph thoatro caubell announce at the Durber on Tuesday

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.... INDIVIDUAL SCORES.

Durban, Deo. 11.

Mend made fifty, while Hearno

ZANZIBAR.

erickst. Hearne did not givo a

chance and his score included aloven fours-Reuter.

THE NEW SULTAN.

AN EDITOR'S LOT.

frightful panic, during which Af-administrative réforms affecting the [Service to the Telegraph."]

ty persons were injured.

The police believe that the ex-

whole of India, giving the visit an

importanco altogether unequalled.

Via Durban, Dec. 11, 10.15 a.m. Soyyid Khalifa, a cousin of the ex-

ANGLO-GERMAN BOUNDARIEST

Via Durban, Doc.'11, 10,15 a.m.

Sir Harry Johnston, writing to the

Times," hopes that some future re-

arrangement will be made with re-

gard to Anglo-German boundaries in

Africa, enabling the completion of the communication between the Cape- and Cairo by the cession to Britain: its little worries, but the discharge a small area between the north

Not a Happy One.

The post of Editor always has

of editorial duties in Hongkong.

plosion was caused by a houk His Majesty will also grant higher Eultan, has boat proclaimed Sultan is fortunately unaccompanied, by end of Tanganyika and Uganda,

but the motive for the crime is.

unknown.-Router.-

Your obedient

SERVANT.

comulissiens to native officer.of Zanzibar.-(Reuter,)'

Router:

TRAGIC OPIUM ORGY.

Three Chinese Suffocated in

Steamship Fire.

STRANDED DANCERS.

Trials of a Cingalese Troupe.

A troupe of Cingalese dancers who came to Europe, hoping to

a constant apprehension of assas-**** sination. In Peking it is differ (Routers.) on. In a recent issue of the "Poking Daily News" the Editor publishes, without comment, the two following bloodthirsty let ters To The Editor

Peking Daily News. Sir-Exceedingly sorry that you, being a Foochow man, are so unscruplous as to go diametri- cally against your conscience by advocating for the abominably

WOMAN'S HEAD IN.

A BOX.

Strange Discovery at a Nice

Bank.

Three Chinese seamen, in a . It is odd how, in a severely worrying over just The revolutionists at Sung-lokat she was

then. It was his apperance, Man,

practical age, we accept so many

stato of stupor following an opium make a fortune by their perform-corrupt cause of Manchus. Asan seems, collectively and indivi-write the most violent. letters to fumes from burning jute and Grimsby, and are being sheltered editorship of the Peking Daily paradoxical amenities. People hout were asphyxiated by the ance, became stranded at exceptional mercy we give you

three days grace to resign the A sirange discovery was made ally, is an ugly animal, and their enemies and start "Dear this fact sooms to have aroused in Jones," though, a point of fact, gunny on-board the steamship in the workhouse pending arrange- News, a Maneliu organ, or we will at of the large: Lenke at Nice tempting to démolishi the Peking- unjustifiable antagonism in though to convulso the writer of Harbour in search of assistance

devote your houses both in Foo-on Oct. 14 when the director ments for sonding them back to clo and Peking to flames and your came to opon a private safe rented broast of our fair authority. Por the letter with rage and frenzy in overcoming the fire. The Ceylon, Hankow Railway bridge over the sanally, we think she was right, in People, again, who mean to be Wentworth was bound from Cal-

guilty self to the knife of "D. to D.."

by one of the customers who had as a symbol of initiation for the Their leader, 8. Rataam Pulay, uprising in Poking.

died recently. In making an in. a sense. Under modern conditions, extremely compelling even if they how is it possible for us miserable have to go to law about it, ofentia to Dundee, and had a crew who, a few months ago, was a You are further instructed to ventory of the things contained

ten ubscribe themselves the all told, of forty-two.

ahow this to your colleague and in the safe the director came

Yellow River.

the mere sight of Jones' Ince is on Wentworth which put into Dover

-H.E. Yuan Shil-kai, has tele-mannikins to look anything but "lient servants" of their pow-It was stated at the inquest "on Planier at Gampoa, recently told toll him that Cantoneso in our graphed to. Po Fun, Governor of repulsive? Hats, clothes, boots, opless victims. And those spir- the three Chinomen that a fourth the story of the disastrous tour, party will give him a similar cross a small square wooden box,

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treatment.

Yours Patriolically,

(81) Determined to Dia Peking, November 23, 1911.)

very securely fastoned, the unusual, surroundings are all devised to wo regret to say, pormentes

appearance of which at once Honam, directing him to join the add to the ugliness of the civilians a "good morning, as cort-member of the crew was also Learning from a Gingales at Co- ain councillors of West Hartlepool found in an unconscious siste, lombo; who had been on tour

oxcited his suspiciou." It was hiu- front column of the Imperialists noble savage. He may not posway. The councillors of West

ised male animal. Consider the know well. It happened in this but hopes were entertained of his with a cirous, that there was a for

luty to hav

the box opened, and this was done. It contained a from the North with his troops seas much intellect but he is Tartlepool, at a mayoral meeting recovery. One of the dead men tune to be made in Germany by

human load packed in sawdust. a fine thing to look at. Why?cantly, refused to re-elect four hnd closely clasped in his hand an Eastern troupe, Palsy sold To The Editor of for the protection of Cheng-chow. Chiefly, wo think, because of the tiring aldermen, and elected a pack of Chinese playing cards, his ten-acro tea plantation, and The Peking Daily News.

The heat was mummified and Sir-Ro our letter dated the [new alderman. Ons of the defeated HE. Yuan Shih-kai, has dos organfeathers and bars he thereupon put off his ficial robes know the men were: opium- and tom-tom players, took them are again warned that prompt and trio wore called in believed it i

The captain said he did not gathering a troupe of dancers 23rd inst you and your eplleague totally without hair, but the police stick all over himself. Civilisation and excitedly pointed," we patched som naval officers to all very well in ig way, but one quote the report, to a portrait smokers, but had he been aware Germany. They, however, found implicit obedienco to our instrucbs that of a lindu woman. «

ofits undoubted cures is that it of his predecessor, whose robes of the fact he should not have little demands for their services, tion will alone keep your life and Inquiries were at once set on Shanghai in order to advise the has robbod us, as à sex, of our Ho then threw the robes on the

property safe and introt, Uuri he had worn for sixteen years interfered the Chinese have and were practically starving agent will appear in, your office pot to discover the origin of this of the naval squadron right to the wearing of fine fea-aldermanic bench and left hur many curious waya which an En- when the English consul at Cologno Sunday afternoon and if he findsgubrious find. One of the older

|thers. Women are all right. They riedly, saying "I bid you all good-islinian

must not inquire too took charge of them and des-you there he will certainly blow clerks into bank then said that who surrendered to the re- can wear the most attractive morning." We can hear him closely into,”*

The whole miserable catablish box had been in the safe for patched them to Grimsby.

ment into atoms. Beware! -

forty years and had been placed saying it. And we feel perfectly volutionists to resubmit to the clothes they can afford. But what certain that if the morning that The medical evidence was to shall write to our Emperor,

there, at the order of a doctor, On further inquiry we find that whosongnecould not be establish- are we men to do? Intellect alon he hid his erstwhile colleagues the effect that the four men, who your King," said Pulay. "He you have more colleagues than ed. According to French law, ||'s not a-rbál⋅ attraction. On the was good, we do not desire to be who all slept in one cabin, indul- will help us. He is a great man one. You are commanded to. neoven it any emulator of Sherlook

other hand, a bowler hat does not out of doors on the morning gel inen opiam bout on Monday and has all power. He will send quaint them with our intention to Holnies discovers the nature add to the dignity or beauty of the which, at that moment; he would night, and that while they were us back to Ceylon, where we shall cure their lives, end properly the origin or the identity, off the [face below it. One thing only is have called bad. Come. Let us Tupel has arranged an armis left to us We miss agitate for face this thing. Let you and we in a state of stuper they were be worm again, I shall have to for crifice porposca to our criminal (if a crime 4 inv

August and Illustrious Ancestor groscedings can be fashion and common-sense to res at least agres that when we hate overcome by the carbon-monoxide start again os an overseer of coo- luang-

Account of the Japa too with the Imperialists fif tire to us the fine feathers of each other we can bid each other fumes from the burning cargo, lies in the plantation, but I shall

which civilisation has robbed us a rotten morning. Why pater?

of the Riviera is natively, Sheung Po."

"The Globe"!:

"The Globo,"

A verdict of Death from Mind be glad, because I shall see my

little daughter once minis.”

in investigating the

мед

Manchu Government.

The Rev. lutionary Government

seen daya.

[Ventus W:BICIONAL

Yours Patriotically, aggr

Watermined to Die,r. Peking, November 20, 1011.