1912-04-10 — Page 1

The Hongkong Telegraph.

April 8th, 1912, Temperaturo a.m. 64, p.m. 66; Humidity... 88, 81.

No. 8750

TELEGRAMS.

晚三廿月二年子壬

TELEGRAMS.

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April 8th, 1911, Temperature a.m. 69, p.m., 00; Humidity...83, 79.

TELEGRAMS:

TELEGRAMS.

TELEGRAMS.

HOME RULE

'COAL CRISIS.

CHINA IN TRANSITION.

STEAMER TRAGEDY.

BOMB EXPLOSION.

GREAT DEMONSTRATION,

GENERAL RESUMPTION.

ADVISORY COUNCIL.

TWO-HUNDRED DROWNED,

[Service to the "Telegraph."]

Bombay, April 1), 1.25 a.m.,

The scene at tha»t is mist;

[Service to the Telegraph."]

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Loudon, April 9, 450 pm. - The miners are generally re-

(Our Own Correspondent.)

Shanghai, April 10, 9.10 s.m..

An Advisory Council assumes

(Service to the "Telegraph."]

Bombay, April 10, 1,25 a.in.'

Router's correspondent at Cairo

OUTRAGE IN LISBON,

三雞 號十月四其淮香

[Service to the "Telegraph."]

London, April 0, 2,25 p.m.

During a religious procession

TELEGRAMS,

BRITAIN'S TRADE.

MARCH FIGURES.-

A

(Service to the "Telegraph."] Bombay, April 10, 7,20 á.m. The imports for March show un incroase of 12,640,607 and

It is reported that five were

the exports à decrease of £149,941, killed and thirty injured, but the The latter' includes decreases in Consorship withholds details.cotton of £411,125 and in wool

animated. Specials are arriving Suming work and there is already the functions of the Tszedlong-states that an Easter Oxoursion at Lisbon a bomb explosion took.

from all parts of Ulster and there a reawakening, of trælo and are procassions with bonds, industry. The service of the Union Jacks and colours.

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railways is improving Búd

strontons efforts are being mado

MR. LAW'S SPEECH,

to bring things back to the

yuan (National Assembly) pond-

ing the establishment of

Purliament, which will be elected

before October.

fi

normal.

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steamer with 300 persons on board sank last night after collis ion with another steanor near

the barrage below Cairo.

Rescuers hastened in boats to The membora of the loo of the gene and enved any, but it is feare 1 that 200 were drowned.

Feventeen bodies have been

recovorod.-Router..

Bombay, April 10, 7.15 a.m.

Reu15's correspondent at Bel-

There is much suffering among Representatives will be elected fast states that there, was a de- the miners themselves, in the for four years and the inomhers

home district. monstration of a voral humulto

For example of the Sonate for six. thousand. Tremendous enthu-8,000 at Cleveland are unable to

Each of the provinces will havo]

equal representation.

sinam was displayed.

Start för a fortnight and are with-

out funds.

DANGER POINTS,

London, April 9,4 35 a.mm,

The railways are resuming nor-

MIXED COURT WANTED, '

Shanghai, April 0.

MONGOLIA.

JEMAND FOR INDE-

PENDENCE.

Mc. Bonar Law in his speech said that no Unionists regarded

Ulster's canso

ne that of the

Empire. He emplasised the point |

that Tariff Reform would benefit nono more than Ireland and well services. South Wales and comed that day's demonstration urham remain danger points, ow- which showed that Home Ruleng to the discontent among the of a Mixed Court at Tientsiu, gram from Urga in response to an was not the cul but the begin- urfacemen. Elsewhere prepara-

ning of the Irish problems."

HELP WOULD COME.

There was no hope that the Government majority would le broken but the loyalists niust trust themselves and help would

come. (Prolonge·l chicors.)

ULSTER NOT SOLD.

User's resolation to resist Home Rule must prove irre-ist- ible. There had been no change in British opinion regarding Home Rule. The Radicals had

soll the constitution an I thought they had sold Ulster, but Ulster was not thoirs to sell (chocre.) The present danger was very great.

The meeting pastod a reselu tion assuring Mr. Bonar Law of Ulstor's unalterable opposition to Homo Rule.

The Diplomatic Bodyat Peking ars insisting on the catablishment

(Servico to the "Tulegraph."], Bombay, April 10, 1.25, m Renter's correspondent at St. Petersburg states that in a tole-

ions are most active for an imme-President Yuan has refused to invitation from President Yunn

Jiate resumption, and a thousand

nen were getting coal in Lanca- shire yesterday, despite the holl- Jay.

CHANGE OF FRONT,

Meetings of miners and speeches by agents indicate that there are Jifferences within the Federation.

accede to the request;

place.

Router:

BOXING.

MOVEA BÉATEN.

of £344.301. It is considered

wonderful that the exports have decreased so little in view of the

atrike.. There were notable in-

cronses in iron, steel, and electric-

[Service to the "Tolograph."]al manufacturo, but coal and

London, April 9, 3.30 p.m.

coko declined by 29,053,609.- A message from Sydney states Router. that in a twenty rounds boxing match Langford beat McVea on points.

Fiftoen. thousand people

were present. The betting before

CANTON NEWS.

but veered round and was 5 to 4 the contest was 10 to 9 on McVea, (The "Telegraph" Correspondent.)

on Langford after the third round. The fighting throughout was fast and fair-Reuter.-

LINER ON FIRE.

CLAIMS FOR COMPEN

SATION,

Shih-koi, asking "Northern Mon-

golia to join the Chinoso' Répub.

lie, the Kutuelita replied that the

people had proclaimot thoir in-

PLUCKY OPERATOR.

The foreign consuls at Hankow depondence in order to maintain tho inviolability of their religion Irive forwarded to the Chinese

and their territory. The Kutu

(Service to the "Telegraph."

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$80 PER ANNUM•

BBGL Cory 10 Carr.

TELEGRAMS.

Warner's health.

A REASSURANCE.

[Service to the "Telegraph."]....

London, April 9, 8.5 p.m.

A specialist luis assured Mr. P. F. Warner, who only played in ono match during the visit of the M.O.O. team to Australia,

the forthcoming cricket season, that he can safely play during

-Reutor.

A HUSTLING PRIME MINISTER.

M. Poincare's Energy and Resource.

France, writes Mr. Paul Vil- liurs, is beginning to realise that in her new Prime Minister, H. Raymond Poincare, she has so- oured the service of perhaps the strongest, ablast statesman who has headed a French Government since the day of Gambetta.

His position as the strong man anong French statesmon is shown by the fact that two ex-Premiers live consonted to serve 'under. him. His hustling powers aro proved by his forming a Cabinet in record time. Ten hours and a taxi-cab were all that were necessary.

Canton, April 9 "The Itising Chins Society In taking up the Premiership Ing rodeived a telegram from Dr, he is losing heavily, from a financial point of view, for the Sun Yat-sen announcing his im- now Promier has been making.

pending return to Houngalina, quite the biggest income of any French barrister. Before taking bis native district, and the society to the law ho was, like snow making grout preparations so many French statesmen, a to give him a hearty welcome. oxaminations in the intervals of journalist, studying for his legal

is

It is said that the people of his nowspaper work,

A short, broad, boarded man, Heungshan tro considering the somewhat untidily dressed, Poin- question of changing the name care is not personally impressive of the district to "Chungahan," and crisp, slow talk. Ho has the except for his square, grim chin Chung being one of the names of reputation of being able to die- Dr. San..

pose of any man or any matter within five minutes,

London, April 9, 4.55 a.m.. The liner Ontario, bound from Baltimore to Boston, was battling

But if a man of few words in with a gale when fire broke out at

that be is accepted by all educat- political life, it is curious to hear midnight in the cotton hold. The editor, Chan Tin Houng, editor od Frenchmen as the greatest

living French orator.

When he is engaged in a case,

On Saturday afternoon, through information supplied by another

The miners at Chirk have decided Government claims for compealla boga Yuan Shih-kui to crew and thirty-one passengers had of the "Toor Siug Po," who was

secede from the North Wales Federation. Mr. Spencer, the Derbyshire representative at the subjects of foreign countries de

sation fu hszes sustained by

Conference of the 6th inst., ad-

PRESS RATES GRANTED.

ressing the miners of Alfreton, ing the revolution. said the change of front by the caders would shake the Federa ion to its foundations. convinced that never again would the cost of the de-patch of ps there be a strike of such magni-

| telograme has bɔen: officially de-

tule.

He was

A reduction of 25 per cont in

clared.

CONDITIONAL RECOGNI-

TION.

LEADERS CENSURED..

STRONG LANGUAGE.

A mзoting of miuers at

Sir Edward Curson who

Dinnington, Sheffield, passed a pro- sided, at, a “subsequent meeting vote of censure on the leaders, and said that they would moot the re resolved to start a crusade to, re- Iteprosentatives of the various volution heedless of the consevise the rules relating to the elec- quences. Their one object was ton of officials of the Federation.

|foreign nations are pressing hard

victory. (there.)

On the other hand, Mr.. Hartshorn, for the granting of certain con-

·PROCESSION MILES LONG. speaking at Cardiff, said prepara- cessions as a condition procedent

On the platform were Mr. tions were being made för a labour Bonar Law, Lord Londonderry, movement of greater magnitude by

to the revolutionary government Mr. Wüller L-ng and others, A

the Union transport workers, rall-being recognised. One repre- procession eleven doop and stret ch'ng for four miles mʻrohed past saluting Mr. Bony Law who bowed his noknowledgo.nents,

waymen and miners, and he pre-ba'ative' demands the axiousi„u dicted a general strike of the trans-

of the Shanghai' settlemeat.- port workers early in the summer."

“Shát Pu."

Island. They were then rescued

mon, studying the oratorical

respect tlie frontiera of Mongolian spend six hours on board, with wantal by the Canton Govern-the Court is thronged-with-junior- Government in consolidating till the vessel was beached on Long and to support the Mougolion treakers sweeping over the decks, ment on a charge of publishing

methods of the master. seditious articles in his paper, Some ten years ago the now the internal administration and

was caught by the police. He Prime Minister was on the verge strongthoning its friendly rela-

of a duel with a judge. Poincare was at once arraigned before a tions with neighbouring states. by a tug. The wireless operator court martial and sentenced to judge's somewhat bullying tone, had politely protested against the

Though he (the Kutuchta) was

stuck to his post for thres hours death, being shot yesterday. The but in vain. When the barrister reason for the severity of tho was brought up short with a willing to renounce independence sending wireless messages every sentence was that Chan had brusque, You have no authority wishes of the people. He sug-wero within fifteen feet of his revolt of Wong Wo-shun.

impossible to oppose the where for help, though the flames published a strong article on the

whatever for that statement.”.

The barrister stopped and ad- dressed himself to the ualer. gested that Yuan Slih-kai should cabin.-Reuter.

Li Hing-chun, director in "Would you kindly," he said, "find his lordship some sweetly, submit the Mongolian question to

charge of the Anti-Opium Bureau elementary treatise on the law of the Powers interested.Reutor.

in Canton, has reported that in contract? Or, here is a penny. many of the out-of-way, placob in You might got a copy of Law the province people are cultivat-for the Unlearned' at the nearest ing poppy in direct, defiance of news agent's," the law. Local magistrates have received orders to destroy any

it was

OBITUARY.

THOMAS MACQUOID,

TRIPOLI WAR.

TURKS HOPEFUL.

[Service to the "Telegraph."]

London, April 9, 2.50 p.m.

crops of opium poppy that may come under their notice.

.

The Chinose barristers practic- ing in Canton have been roqnost

General

The judge scowled and stalked out, to compose a challenges

The feud between the two was the talk of all legal Paris. But the actual duel was never pers mitted.

The new Premier is the most versatile of men. He has a pass

[Service to the Telegraph.

28.

The "Times" Calro correspond to form a Law Society and to slon for the theatre, for racing and for animals. He is an Aca London, April 9, 4.35 q.m. dent says that Edhem Pasha, the submit rules for the government demician-one of the famous The death is

Turkish commander at Tobruk, of the same to the Governor- forty "immortals," In science announced of

has arrived from Tripoli, and says

bo is nearly as eminent sa în Thomas Robert Macquod, R. the Turkish troops stili number ten

A meeting of the Canton politics,

Poincare is everywhere hon- the celebrated water-colour painter. thousand, and they are, assisted by Provisional Council was held the oured for his sturdy inflexibility RENOWNED VOCALIST. two hundred thousand Arabs. other day to consider the applica- and honesty. But can ho keep

They will be able to hold out for a tion of a merchant named Kwong in hand the brilliant and in Emily Soldone, the renowned vo-year yet, The Turks recently fired Sui-ying for

dependent team he has unde of the spirit

him? Is the strong man strong calist, actress, Journalist and nov at and brought down an Italian regulating the same. No decision from splitting, from within? P

farm and the suggested rules enough to prevent the Cabine

aeroplane at Benghání: /

erus arrived at: