1912-01-23 — Page 1

The Hongkong Telegraph.

January 22nd, 1912, Température a.m. 61, p.m. 61; Humidity...80, 88.

No. 8691

TELEGRAMS.

THE

REVOLUTION:

HELD TO RANSOM.

(Our Own Correspondent.) Shanghai, Jan. 23, 0.20 am.

晚五初月弍拾年三宜

(ESTABLISHED! Copyright, 1911 by

JAN

TELEGRAMS.

WEATHER FORECAST

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SINGLE COPF 15 start.

TELEGRAMS.

TUESDAY,

12.

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魏三十月正英港香

TELEGRAMS,

TELEGRAMS.

TELEGRAMS.

TELEGRAMS.

ARGENTINE STRIKE.

HOME RULE...

RAILWAY SMASH.

BENGAL GOVERNOR,

FRANCE AND ITALY.

· CRISIS"NEARLY OVER,

BELFAST PREPARING,

THE NEW COMER.

MAÑOUBA AFFAIR.

RIGHTS OF NEUTRALS:

4.

[Service' to the Telegraph." Durban, Jan, 29, 4.20 a.m.

Router's correspondent at

[Service to the "Telegraph."]

Durban, Jan. 22, 5.35 p.m. Meetings of Unionists and of

MILLIONAIRES KILLED.

[Service to the Telegraph."] Bombay, Jan. 23,730 sm, Telegrams from Illinois state. The official of the Taching Buenos Aires says that the Liberale have been held in Bel- that the Central Express dashed Bank who was abducted from strikers seems disposed to resunie fast and are making preparations at fall speed into the rear of a the Settlement on Jan. 1 has work immediately on condition for the meeting to be addressed passenger train at Centralia, been released upon payment of that the entire personnel be rein- by Mr. Winston Churchill and Illinois, and smashed to atoms a privato car at the rear of the Mr.Jahn Rodinond. $23,000.

latter, which contained the rail way megastos Haralan, Melcher, Peirce and Wright.

COMMANDER EXECUTED,

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Shanglini, Jan, 22.

Chu Shin-ching has discovered that Chui Ying, ond of the com-

mindors of the republicau 'forces,

hın bənn responsible for repeale cases of looting and robbery. The min his since been executed.

stated. The Government has de-

cided at the request of the compan

ios to settle the crisis without delay. ́.

~~(Reuter.) -

A ROYAL VISIT..

CONNAUGHTS ARRIVE.

Tuo Lord Mayor intimates that lo is personally opposed to the cancellation of the meeting.

The police are enquiring into

the situation-Router.

OUR LONDON LETTER:

Home Politics.

The millionaires, who were asleep, were killed and twenty other persions were injured.

Router.

[Service to the "Telegraph"]

[Service to the Telegraph."

Bombay, Jan. 23, 1a.m.

While the French newspapers

FRANCE AND ITALY..

(Service to the "Telegraph."]

Bombay, Jan. 23, 7.30 0.my/

Not a word has been received

Durban, Jan. 22,4.20 a.m. Sir Thomas David Gibson-Car. michael has been appointed Govar- to-day continue to insist upon confirming the statement made the liberation of the Manouba's by the "Daily Chronicle" that nor of the Presidericy of Bengal.-

Turkish passengers, as the France intends to make a nevel (Reuter.}

national honour is involved, they demonstration on the Italian coast

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[The new Governor of Bengal has been Governor of Victoria, assure Italy that France will in connection with the seizure of Australia, since 1908. He was thereafter loyally investigato the French, vessels, in a |born in Edinburgh In 1859, and,

after being private secretary to Sir true identity of the passengera. George Trevelyan and Lord Dal-

A MISUNDERSTANDING. housie; when these. two were

Secretarios for Scotland, he sat in Parliament for Midlothian, succeed. ing the late Mr. Gladstone.]

contingency.

certain

Italy proposes that the seizures. Hague They express the conviction should be submitted to the that the friendship between Arbitration Court. Reuter,

:

Franco and Italy is strong enough have been influenced by Habi-the oki-socialistic one-of-nation- tation and history. May we not, alisation, bound in the swaddling to ensure a prompt settlement of clothes of financial amateurism. therefore, trace the same onec-One can understand the honest what is simply a misunderstand- tion between mentality an Inatural enunciation of tho untenablo

ing-Router. [Borvico to tho" Telegraph."] Decombor duly draped in typi-phenomena? If in Undding dootrine of social equalization; cal gray sets in with alternating Spring a young man's fanoy one can appreciate the principle Bumbay, Jan. 23, 7.30 am.”

hints of fog and frost. The lightly turne to love, in Winter of adjustment of taxation to financial capacity, but the Routor's New York erree-occasional poeps of sunshins, there may be, for ought we know, covert employment of the die disclosing the leafloss Inndscape similar subjective sympathy credited oxpedient of robbing It is commonly reported that

pondent states that the nor

in all its barron beauty, seem less between the leaden hues of ity Peter to pay Paul is both disin- Tang Shao-yi is expectel to go Ganórál of Canada, the Duke of kind than the seasonal pelt of the and scape and the complexion gonuous and dangerous. It argues a lack of financial integrity in Connaught, with the Duchess and Pattering rain, which shrouds the of men's minds, Bat whatever high places and threatens subver-1

EXPECTATIONS.

over to the Republican party.

REPUBLICANS AND

MEDICINE.

Princes Patrioin bavo arrived nii were welcomed at Mr. White

A military medical board saw "Roid's residence.

is

naked prospect with the darkling mantle flung from brooding alouds. The political sky, too, aken on a sympathetic tone. For "now the winter of our disc intant." Scarcely have the mattered threat boan established in Nanking. The crowds wore controlled by enings of organised labour, with Pak Wing-lung as President, potics and guardo. -“ Sheung Pu.”

Fifty invitations to a dinner to

·TROOPS FOR CHEFOO. be held to-night have been incl. Toug Honng-ming, Vico Mini-

A MYSTERY.

Durban, Jan. 22, 3.50 p.m. The "Daily Chronicle" publishes

the cause, there can be no aion of the accepted basis of com- doubt as to the popular hostility mercial stability. If it were a message from Paris which states to the Bill and its rejection by merely a question of making or

the rank and file of workers, marring political reputation, the that ranice intends making a naval nation might complacently await Christmas presents may be alla denouement ending in fiasco; very well, but the Chancellor's if it even involved the inoffensive demonstration on the Italian coast offer is really an invitation to the expenditure of a few insignificant poorly-paid working, man and thousands, suffering taxpayers in the event of the Italian reply. In. recently filling the air with woman t sample the greater might yield a reluctant rumours of an industrial strike. blessedness of those who give been silenced; hardly have the rather than of those who receive; lurid clouls of war, looking in and with one consent they beg unsuspected seriousness nerosa decline the generous invitation. The Duke, the Duchess and from Tripoli and Morocco, for the moment been dispersed,

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ter for Naval Affairs has tele-Princess Patricia drove in senathan the shadow of a man's

gophod to Nunking asking for rate motora to avoid raportere.

the early despatch of troops and Routen~~

vessels in Chiofoo." Shat Po."..

YUAN'S DEVICE.

[THE "TELEGRAPH CONRESPONDENT)

Cinton, Jan. 23.

Chan Kwangming his sent a

GREAT ANXIETY..

Durban, Jan. 22, 4.20 am.

There is great stir in New York

J

over the Duke and Duchess of Con-

hand appears in the near west above the petty principality of

Wales.

Insurance Bill.

Her political prophet proclaims the advent of Christmas blessings,

Great Women's Meeting.

to

over 20,000 women, mostly wage: The unprecedented sight of earners, gathered in and out of the Albert Hall, Kensing on, was only the prelude to the national protest that has oured in daily upon Parliament in a veritable deluge of pétitions through the

ITALY AND GERMANY,

WAECHTER'S VISIT.

[Service to the "Tolegraph,"

Durban, Jan. 22, 4.20 am.

[]

Herr Kiderlin Waschter the

German minister for foreign

affairs, has left Rome.-Reuter.

TRIPOLI WAR.

TOWN BOMBARDED,

Durban, Jan. 22, 4.20 a.m.

quiescence; but the introduc- regard to the captured Turks being [Service to the Telegraph.”] tion of such principles of social disintegration and of State unsatisfactory. Orders have been interference witli private righte must prove disruptivo of our ostablished social order and repollent to ONE British

sent to Taueon to hold the squad-

great ultimato national assel.true or otherwise, the situation sense of personal liborty-that ron in readiness. Whether this is

Sensational Finance.

seanis grave, and it has been com-

Sensational finance may serve

electioneering purpose by plicated by a telegram in cyplier holding out elusive promises to

Post Office and the Protest catch wavering voles, but is a sent to the Consul at Cagliari telling League. The ultimate fate of the doubtful- foundation wliereon to lying capsulate in his Insurance Insurance Bill is yet uncertain; build a lasting reputation for

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ENQUIRY DEMANDED.

| Bill, for the toiling masses of but even if it is eventually statesmanship. Politically, we him to surrender the Turks. Britain's poor. But as the skyentored on the statute book,have as a nation arrived at the it will remain unworkable parting of the ways. No longer will the duty of government. grows heary with the abundance

dovolve wholly on the leisured of these impending benefits, the and, therefore, a dead letter.

faw, however wall qualified they have, in the past, proved them- parliamentary representation be

public mind grows gloomier un-

naught's forthcoming stay in the city for a few days, Ambassador

A Local Paralle!..

While the French Govern

It may, however, bo interesting der the unwelcome burden of to enquire how this olla po-selves for the work; no longer willment asserts that such a tele questionable good, and the crydride of embryonic socialism goes up from millions of ex-came to be concocted and what pectant beneficiaries for parlia-effect it will eventually have on

career of its author, Casting by awakening in thio educated

nonopolised by the monied class; Bram has not been sent the the Reform Bill and the School

A telegram from Jaffa received in

19th inst. an Italian warship Bott barded Khanyunas in Syria, close

Constantinople, states that on the,

to the Egyptian frontier.--(Reuter.)

HEAVY LOSSES.

Bombay, Jan. 23, 7:30 am.. Heuter's correspondent at Romgestates that the Italians

Jan. 21 reoccupied Gergaresh, whence they retreated on Jan. 19,

telegraphio messages to T'resident Whitelaw. Reid will visit their Roy-mentary deliverance from the the political reputation and Board have begotten neir forces French papers hint that the and found no traces of the enemy

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Sun Yat seo, Li Yunn-lieng, Dr.

al' Highnesses in private, but the

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Wa Ting-fang and the Governora of the provinces, informing them

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allayed benefactions of a-zealous about for a 16cal parallel to artisan and the enfranchised telegram has been tampered with but misguided Government. enlighten your readers, I bé labourer, a nobler sense of man- papers are full of conjectures as to But whence this feeling? Does thought me of the Rajput Band, hood inspired by the ambition to and they demand an enquiry. environment explain it all? Has Hongkongitos will recall: pleas achieve for itself a corresponding who asked him to meet them. Tre-December darkness anything to antinomories of its public perform-nplift in the lovel of life's masterial They talk of the famous Ems des-

anos under the able direction well-being. To recognise these do with political.depression and of Composer. Cole. They may, changing conditions of national that You Shih-kai's aim in obmendous anxiety prevalis with winter foga with this rejection perhaps, remember one of his chiar existence and to mald the patch preceding the Franco-Ger- taining on arualetice was to gain society people lost they should be of Lloyd George's scheme of acteristic compositions, which nascent tendencies of the body o

The Italians maintain National Insurance? Science was repeatedly played. On one oc politio is statesmanship; to time more effectively to mobilies omitted. Reutor.

tells us that the dull hide of chaion this particular volke was panter to the caprice of au

played three times in a single ignorant proletariat is the doom that their action was justified. It the elephant, the tawny tint of the African lion, the die motif, toortohitsdistinctive theme; wholesale socialistic ideas from is declared that the prisoners car- night. In vain I tried to trace ite of the paid politician. To borrow tinctive stripes of the Bengal itwas simply a farragopfchromatio other countries and to trim them tiger, are due to Nature's next nonsense. The Georgian, Jugar to fit the variant conditions of a red no surgical appliances, and adjustments, the influence of anco Bill, in like manner, is a different people, requires more habitat.

RIVERS OVERFLOW.

[Service to the "Telegraph.""]

Durban, Jan. 22, 0.15 s.m.

the Importul forces. To sugges FLOODS IN ENGLAND.

ed that Yuin Shih-kai should be

given fifteen daya to-roply, to the demands of the Repúblicans, and| ahould his replies by unfavour- able, Ir, Chan, would be randy

with two divisions of troops to are sloadily rising owing to heavy join in the marsh on the capital, reins and melting wow Re

The rivers Thames and Trent have overflowed their banks and

Effects of

of Environment.

man war.

bewildering.axcursion, into the courage than originality, but the untravelledogion of foglalative operation overlooks the essential were not doctors. They cite Eng socialism In it, as in the re-factor of an assured success in

Is humanity not equally aub volutionary Budget and the Land disregarding the divergent spiritland's action in the Transvaal war, ject to the same law? Leslie Tax Bill, the underlying principle and character of, that people, as

within a radius of five miles.

This is regarded

as confirmin

the reported seriousness of loss on the Turkish sidé,“

The

enemy admit that they lost over

150 in killed alone-Renter,

ENGLAND' AND GER- MANY

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COLONIAL QUESTIONS,

[Service to the Durban, Jan. The London "Dall spondent at Ber Horr Solf left for London yo

Stephon held the view that there some to bilo exel, impulsory manifested in their insations in the seizure of the Bundes, and it is understood that he

contributions from die woll-to-do and their history, is a correlation between the in order to exect the betterment ble of a nation and its political of the inigent poor and the

ganisation, Croods, w, knów,

Med suss certain Colonial Helt Melvin rath with General Hortedg on have arisen between At bottom the Alkor i 15onilon, Peokwbar 8, 1911. baard "Beuter,

Germany