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The Hongkong Telegraph.

March 12th, 1912, Temperature a.m. 73, p.m. 77; Humidity...01, 89.

No. 8788

TELEGRAMS.

晚五十月正子壬

(ESTABLISHED 1881.)

Copyright, 1011 by the Proprietor.

WEATHER FORECAST.

RAIN.

March 11th, 1911, Temperature a.m. 72, p.m., 70; Humidity...90, 92.

【三拜禮 號三十月三英港香

TELEGRAMS.

WEDNESDAY,

MARCH 3

1912.

TELEGRAMS.

TELEGRAMS.

TELEGRAMS.

TELEGRAMS.

COAL CRISIS.

GERMAN TROUBLE.

HOME POLITICS.

CHINA IN TRANSITION. SUBMARINE TRAGEDY.

TRIPOLI WAR

THE PROFITS.

POLICE AND STRIKERS.

ARMY ESTIMATES.

CANTON TROUBLE.

A 13. AT PORTSMOUTH.

TURKEY LAYS MINES.

-$30 ran ASSUM, SINOLE COPY 10 Car.

TELEGRAMS.

COMING BOAT RACE.

OXFORD'S FORM.

[Service to the "Tolegraph."] | [Servico to the "Telegrapili."] Bombay, Mar, 13, 12.55 am. Bombay, Mar. 13, 12.55 a.m.

Mr. Markham M., who is a

large conlowner, in the curse of a forcible speels to a large

Router's correspondental Essen attes that a collision botwgou the police and the strikers took placout Recklinghausen, in which seven of the strikers were soverely wounded by sabres.

Que non striker boat both lis! eyes in the course of a fight with

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[Service to the "Tolegraph."] London, Mar. 12, 9.55 p.m. - Dineussing the Army Estimates,

Ju the House of Commons Mr.

S. Amery declared that the

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[Service, to the "Tolegraph."]

London, Mar. 13, 12.5 p.m. Router's atospondent at Hongkong states that fighting| has taken plaço at Canton - posi-tween recruits under an ex-pirate chief and the regular forces owing to the proposed disbanding of

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tion was the same now as in 1899. Colonel Seely said that it was then impossible to send a small| reinforcement to Natal without ASKING FOR PROTECTION. withdrawing troops Trom India,

Ceylon, and Western garrisons.

àudionco of m'uors at Min fld, dovlared th• profit;f the trade had en understand by strikers." many milions. He extended thne they pay a minimum wage of wight weddings.

LINGTRY CONFERENCE.

Baby, Mar. 13, 7,15 am

London, Mar. 12; 5.30 pan,

| Renter'serrespondent at Essen states that the strike is not in-

the

A SECRET.

Colonel Seely tendered Mr.

creasing, but Christian Amery an envelops and, asked Unions have asked for protection him to keep contents secret. This conlowners, and the miners ist intimidation of their the offered a similar envelope

oxecutive conferred with. Mr. Asquith, Mr. Sydnoy Buxton and Sir G. R. Askwithat the Foreign Ofice.

The conference was adjourned till to-morow after a 31-2 hours sitting-Reuter,

RACES ABANDONED;

London, Mar. 12, 5:30 pm.

The Blackpool Steeplechase, dus to be held on March. 15 and 10, have been abandoned owing. to the strike.

THE POOR SUFFER.

workers.

MANY DISTURBANCES.

Thero have been many die urbances, the police using their

swords,

The strikers aul their wives are assaulting and stearing the men who are still working

Reutor.

STRIKERS CHARGED. -

Bombay, Mar. 12, 1,50 pan.

any ember.

to

A SURPRISING STATEMENT.

The contents show how, if the Government wanted to reinforce the troops in Natal to-morrow, they could, without withdrawing the Eastern garisons, send, within a few days, 150,000 troops fully equipped.

Thereafter they could send reinforcements for three months. That was the most extraordinary

tho former.

MANY CASUALTIES. There have been 200 casualties. The ex-pirate hol is tho Airalty Luildings. A British warship is board for safety-Reutor. taking mission girl and refugees

THE NEW PREMIER,

London, Mar, 12, 5.30 p.m. Reuter's correspondent at Po- king states that Ting Shao-vi has been appointed Prime Minis Ler.-Router.

NEW CABINET.

[Service to tho "Telegraph."] Bombay, Mar. 13, 7.15 a.m.

The A 13 has beon towel into

[Sorvico to the "Tolograph.”].

Bombay, Mar. 13, 7.15 aàn.

Turkoy has commenced to lay mines in the Dardaitolles. Pilat:

[Sorvice to the "Telograph."] London, Mur. 12, 6.39 p.m...

The Oxford night has rowed

Portsmouth with her flags at half ships will meet vessels ontering. from Barnes Bride to Chiswick

mast.Retter.

COMPULSORY

TION.

FOOTING THE BILL.,

Reuter's correspondent

al

steps in 3 mins. 52 Rec. The

Rome says that the Chambor has previous record for the distance passed all the clauses of a Bill

ARBITRA-authorising the expendituro of was four minutes.—Router.

A CONVERT.

[Servico to this "Telegraph."]

London, Mar. 12,12.5 pm. Router's correspondondent at

£8,200,000 sterling on the cam-

paiga in Tripoli--Router.

THE BRISBANE STRIKE. RUSSIAN TRADE WITH

All About Badge.

A correspondent writes from Sydney on Jan. 31 as follows:-

MONGOLIA

11.M. Embassy at St. Peters

Bristjut, at the time of writburg roport that, according to na ing, is in the throes of a general article in the "Oficial Messenger," strike, and we shall see whether the chief contros of Russian trade it is really as bad as it was re- with. Wostoru Mongolia from the pressited. The ground of sjuur-

rel, as is always the caso in AugRussian sido are the towns of Melbourno states that Mr. Joseph,tralia, is liudicrously trivial. In Zaisan, Blisk, Minusinsk, and this "working man's paradise," Irkutsk, and in Mongolia the towna Havelock Wilson, General Seal roal griovaness about wages of Kobdo, Ulineutai, and the and hours of work have long ago

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His wishes will not be thoroughly

erotary of the National Seamen's been removed. Having obtained depot on Lalto Uban. The Chorno- all he could reasonably demirtish region of Western Mongolia Union, after watching the work-under these heads, the working is supplied with Russian goods man" is now setting himself the from Zaisan, from which town task of running the whole show. one route, about 215 town met, until the hated and dospised length, goes to Tulto, a Chinese" umployer is reduced to the one sattlemont which forms a central. simple function of paymaster. point of Boveral routes in the The dispute in Brisbane arises Chineso Altai. Another route from the claim of the tramway goes to the town of Kobdo via the employees to wear a Unión badgo,

Shanghai, March 12, President Yu Shih-kai la given Tang Shao-gi`a list of the

mes of those who are to servag of compulsory arbitration in Australia says he now favours Tang Shao-yi in proceeding to Nanking to consult Dr. Sun Yat-the principle.-Seuter. sen uho. Assembly about tho appointments.

on the new Cabinet.

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CIAO ENIL-HISUN. Clay Erh-beun, whp. Viceroy of Manchuria under the A message from Essen says advance in the military history former egin, has tou·lerad his that absenices from the alternoon of the country and is the result of resignation. shifs have swelled the ranks of years of thought and effort.- the strikers to sixty per cent. The Reuter

police, white attempting, to dis- perse the strikers from the pilheads ut Hanborn and Bruckhausen, were stoned and charged in batches wounding many and effecting numerous arrests..

FRENCH MINERS.

NAVAL ESTIMATES.

ADMINISTRATIVE

CHANGES.

The Army Advisory Council under the old government has advisory board of military is A new president will bo elected |to take clunge..

been transformed into a chiol

PAYMENT OF MEMBERS.

London, Mar, 12, 5 a.m.

Hundreds of the poor, with the

Bombay, Mar 13,7.15 a... permission of the landowner, the

The Naval Estimates amouk Duke of Norfolk, have been digging

Allowances are to be made to for coal where it crops out in the

to 444,085,400, which' shows j

members of the National Parlia decrease of £307,100. strocis and waste ground about

Mr.ment: The President is to re- Churchill's explanatory statement

criso $700 a month ad the Sheffield. Nine of them have been

Vier-P$000 while the members ways that the estimates are framed are to receive $500 each."Shat Injured by subsidences. Yester-

on the 'nsumption that the exii. Po" day the colliers drove the diggers-

[Service to the Telegraph."]

ing programmes of other Powers away and sold the coal to the works

will not be increased, otherwise)· Londra, Mar. 12, 5 30 p m,, at high prices. The Duke of Nor-

Router's Paris correspondent it would be necessary is present" folk has now rescinded the per-aays at the miners everywhere supplementary estimates,

mission.'

WORK RESUMED.

have resumed work.-Reuter,

ERIN'S SOOTHING

WEED.

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Zaisan.

From statistics published by

with the unspoken, but implied, passover the Urmogajti. Shipping UP THE MIDDLE.

corollary of being enabled to on the Cherno-Irtish is - iu a make it very hot for any of their flourishing stato," and in 1910 Also, down the sides. That mates who do not wear it. The thero word six steamers plying un-crapulousness of the proceed between Somipalatiask and Lake should be wateliword of England

ing is intensified by the fact that tolay. It is Mr. Plowden's suż-]the Union has included the gestion really. But it is only demand in the claim which it han what wo have been feeling our-submitted to the Arbitration the Russian Customs Department, solves for a long time. It was Court, and has taken the law into Russian trade with Western its own hands by striking without Mongolia may be put at approxi- brought to head by the prosecu waiting for the award. The strike mately 4,000,000 roubles (about tion of an organ guindor, who was hus been unde general becauso £420,000),

Zaisin Custom playing the organ to the annoy-

to rebrands of other Unions(statistics show that Russian trade ance," to the constablo alleged, have made the eau of the through that point has risen * Badge-itos their own cause, from 174,029 roubles (about of the neigbourhood of West-and have persuaded the rank an£17,000) in 1891 to 1,348,843 bourne Park." The officer added file that Unionist, to which it is roubles (about £141,000) in 1908. that there were about one in-redulously represented that they The chief articles of export are dred and fifty people round the owe all the betterment which they manufactured goods, the importa have experiencx, will be en from that country consisting organ; that many of them

dangered unless they scenied its chiefly of animals and of raw and

half-manufactured articles. wero dancing, and that th triumpla, footway was blocked. Tho Redeeming Features.

A railway from Omsk to Semi- magistrato sent the musician

This torrific blow at the general palatinsk is under consideration, away with many kind and wise moderated by the decision of the expected materially to increase ublic has to some extent been and its construction isconfidently remarks. The handle-shover was bakers to deliver broad as usual, Russia's trade relations with Tibieca was first smokel 104 | told that he played too well: was on the ground that the sufferings Woatern Mongolia, The route THE NEW PROGRAMME.ly in the British Isles by Sir too populer. Mr. Plowden was of the workers and their families from Biisk is the principal one Walter High at Myrtle Glove, sorry that the Horo-song-from- come out with the rest. This region, but here Itussian trade would be too savoro were they to for Russian wares to the Kobdo

The now const action

Youghal, an 1 it seems only right the Chocolate-Soldier-Morchant decision touches the weak spot of has to meet the competition of dat Ireland should now givo pro had been interfered with, for the the "general" strike. The hard- Chinese and foreign, merchants, include four remise of being a tobrero proluc people were enjoying themselves, ship inflicted on the public by The third contre for Russian armoured cruisers, oight lighting country,

Experiments in tobea-grow-and.the gentle grinder was caus-will necessarily be most severely golis is the town of Minusinak. the cessation of necessary services trade with North-Western Mon. armoured cruisers and twentying, under the Department of ing far more pleasure than folt by the workers themselves, Here, however, development of destroyers, together with a numAgriculture, have been in probatetion. "It is a pleasant as an integral part of the some trade is much impeded by the ber of submarines and subsidies there for more than ten

thing.

Those whose facilities jabsence of roada suitable for iaries. To incroaso in the

conclude the cadi, public, Sinco 1904 about 100 ees softly tapping his feet, as wo beg are most slender will be the first obtained in July, 1909, for an for laying in a store of provisions wheeled traffic; authorisation was

personnel ja 2,000,-Router/

have bronculiivated under leave to imagine, on the polished to feel the pinch. They will be expenditure of 200,000 roubles subridy in different parts of the floor bords below his clair," to slow to put the blame where it (about $21,000) towards re- Emerald Isle, and since 1908 see dancing in a melancholy city rightly belongs. Bat they will medying this deficiency. Three growers have added like London, and I hope you will urgently clamour for relief, and EL.M. Embassy add that in further twenty acres to the indur-continue to cause amusement and relief can only come by restoring cidentally, the report drawn try. An American expert is give pleasure by playing your the activities which have bron attention to the immenso advan employed by the department to organ." The thing must not be suspended.

tage which Russia enjoys from Bombay, Mar. 12, 1.50 p.m.

visit and advise the growers, allowed to stop at that. Street Another feature is the deter the waterwaya which she possesses The difficulties first encounter dancing must be compulsory for mination on the part of the con- in those regions. The Embassy The "Times" says it is under-od wore numerous, but already all. It is no good to say that we trolling body, that the needs of are informed that the upper waters stood that in the final settlement what varieties will thrive with British," writes Mr, W. R. tions shall be supplied as usual rivorsteamers far into Mongolia. the result has been to ascertain cannot dauce. We can, "The hospitals and charitallo institu; of the Yenisei are navigable for of the Naval Estimates it was found | prospect of suerosis, "fl Tittorton in the "Eyo-Witness," This step is being donounced by At present a rocky gorge some Fields of five qud ten acres are" are the finest dancers in the the more thoroughgoing revolu- distance to the south of Minusinsk Amundsen does not expect to impossible to make the reductions split up into blocks by arrow world." England was strong in tionaries as tending to unke near the frontier presents a bar return to Europe for a long time so strongly desired by the minis-belts of tall-growing hemp. The the Good Old Times. Why? 6h of one and flesh of another." to steam navigation, but it is un- as he says he must continue his

hemp, acting as a win l-broak, Beoviso everybody danced. No There can be no doubt, however, derstood that a scheme is on foot. day, will submit a 'resolution that work in the Arctic. He is present-terialists as the delays in ship proteels the tender tab. esp plant village-green now? Never mind. that it will materially mitigate for the avoidance of thin gorge by It is desirable that all coal owners ing twenty-one of his dogs to the building had thrown an unduly of crop for the small holler, who One solid hour's dancing for that it is a very politic conces difficulty can be overcome, the | Tobacco in esentially the kind There remains Westbourne Park. the hardship of the strike, and means of a canal, and, if this should accept the minimum wage plajcau, he declares, is not the same

Mawson expedition. King Haakon heavy expenditure upon the en-is able to handle the lasta in everybody daily, That is our sion. At present, about 14,000 Yenisol route is stated to be likely as a preliminary to the introduction that Sir Emest Shecdeton named suing year. There will be a re-children are able to pick all the hats, A General Election. A bers are totally opposed to 're old caravan route from Chins by dividually, and at the harvest his programme. No livers. No top hands are affected. Large num- to prove a formidable rival to the of a Bull-Router.

after King Edward.---Router,

duction but very, small,

lower leaves at the right point. Unioni Cabinet, The "Globe, desperate a procedure,

way of Urga and Kiikka

THE CONFERENCE.

THE SOUTH POLE.

gramm

It is understood that the South

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NO ALCOHOL.

Wales coal owners will participate

in the conference which will prob- ably be held on Wednesday.

CRUISE CANCELLED,

The cruise of the Home Flect

tto Bereliaven has had to be

cancelled owing to the coal strike.

THE MINIMUM WAGE.

The fact that Mr. Asquith has

Tixes no Government business for Thursday Indicates, it is believed

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that tho. Government, failing in

reaching a settlement on Wednes-

B

[Service to the Telegraph."

London, Mar. 12, 5 a.m. The "Daily Chronicie" publishes continuation of Amundsen's account of the discovery of the South Pole.. It is stated that alcohol was barred on the journey to the pole, but provisions of the best and most satisfying kind were taken,

ARCTIC WOK.

SLIGJIT REDUCTION.

1-

years.

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