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TELEGRAMS.

The Hongkong Telegraph.

二初月四年子壬

TELEGRAMS.

(ESTABLISHED 1881.)

Copyright, 1912 by the Proprietor.

May 17th, 1912, Tomperature .in. 82, p.m. 85; Humidity...JI, 78.

No. 87:9

SATURDAY,

TELEGRAMS.

"DISESTABLISHMENT.

THE NEW CHINA.

LOAN TO CHINA.

HEATED WORDS.

FRANCHISE QUESTION.

THE AUDITOR.

Ieuter's

(Service to the "Telegraph."]

Loudon, May 17, 3:25 am. Received, 355, pin.

The dobite on the Welsh Diso stablishment Bill was notable for a spiach by Me. Lord George, replying to an attack by Lorl Hugh Cecil.

"LIMEHOUSE" METHODS.

(From Chinese Sources.):

Shanghai, May 17. The question of granting the franchise to Chines rosiilont

abroad has again been discussed

(Our Own Correspondent.)

Shanghai, May 18, 9.25 a.m.):

Received, 10.5.m. The appointment of Mr. Romp, formerly of the Tientsin-Pukow

MAY 18, 1912.

WARNING!

WEATHER FORECAST,

FAIR.

May 17th, 1011, Temperature a.m. 60, p.m., 69, Humidity...88, 90

大洋襪

就八十月五英港香

TELEGRAMS.

It has come to the knowledge of the Proprietor of the HONGKONG TELEGRAPH" that rasantly, ether through ignorance or a spirit of mischief, purchases were made by certain parties from the newsboys em - ployed by the Proprietor of a number of POSTERS or PLACARDS the property of the Proprietor carried by the newsboys in question.

These POSTERS or PLACARD'S bore the distinctive feature of being pasted on cardboard a id their gen-

THE CANADIAN NAVY,

SARCASTIO COMMENTS.

by the National Council, bat an ailway, as Auditor under the oral appearance and get up were such as to indica te dont wiros that the "Star", com:

decision has been arrived at.

LOAN AGREEMENT, Tho alause of the Loan Agrea- ment regarding the ongigement

Lon Agreement is confirmed.

FIRST ADVANCE,

Three million tiels five boo

of a foreign inspector has been advanced under the Loan, being The Chancellor of the Exche-ultored and an auditor of accounts paid at Sunngh and Poking. will be engaged inaloud. It is

will be ren-iy for signature to- morrow."

MINISTER RE-IGNS.

CHINESE AUDITOR.

Ima

886 PER ANKOMİ

Bixels Corr 10 Car.

NEWS FOR BUSY MEN,

Telegrams

It is now confirmed that Mr. Romp, formerly of the Tientsin- Pukow Railway, is to be auditor. under the Chinoso Loan Agree"

Routor's. [Service to the "Telegraph."]ment.

The question of representation London, May 17, 5.45 p.in. of Chinese Overseas Guilds on the Received 18, 7.15 a.m.National Council is proving a Reuter's Montreal correspon-

delicate one to handle.

Sir Frederick Lugard has been moating on Mr. Churchill's entertained by the African Society to the veriest tyro the OBJECT the Proprietor had in speech before the Shipwrights in London, and at the after-dinner view in issuing the same viz. to tersely announce to Guild, denies the necessity to

sugar-coat the pill for Canada by speeches Mr. Joha Burus paid a the PUBLIC the contents of the issue of the paper allud-allowing her to have her warships tribute to his "great ability and.

at home, like toys, whom they are absolute incorruptibility." ed to in the Posters.

required on the scene of danger, Such being the case, the Proprietor is at a loss to for in that cans they could only arrive on the scene for the funeral understand what possible object the parties purchas-of the Empiro.

Canadians, remarks the

Kant boat Somerset at cricket: Sweeper 11 now Leads the list

in the Derby betting.

The Montreal"Star" sarcasti-

Chou Chin-tao boon ng the Posters had in mind to accomplish other than journal, desired to be treated like

the deliberate intention to deprive, the Proprietor of sonsible adults capable of doing ually comments on Mr. Churchill's

their duty, 39 mon, to the naval spoooh, saying the fruits of the trouble an i expense to which he had Motherland. gone in issuing such Postars.

quer sail that Disestablishment reported that the Loan Agreement without Disendowment would be ridiculous. Property which had besu bequeathed to the poor and siek nu to education had beca

appointed Chinese au liter tom. annexed mostly by great familica,

porarily Ho will be more power Chiu Ping Kwan has resignalful than the Minister of Finance. and this was ONO

of the Minister of the Interior and most discreditable records in the will probably be replaced by history of the country. He was Chung Yuen-ki. bound to notice ono specially offensivo case that in which the i

TIBET TROUBLÈ

Duke of Devonshire had' applied The Control Government in- by circular for subscriptions to tends to appoint Wan Chun-yao oppoo the Bill, accusing the as High Commisioner to settle

the trouble in Tibet, Government of robbery of God.'

„SUGGESTIONS GALORE.

**Yet, said Me, Llúyd George, "he knows that the foundations (or lią fortuno are laid doop in Vice-President Li Yunn-henZ sacrilege, un 1 are built of de surat- has tolographed to the Central ed shrine and pillago i altars "overnment at Peking suggest-

ASOENE

This romack was greeted with

'shouts of “Limehouse."

Ling the reitenlizing of the Army,

THE FRANCHISE.

POSER FOR CHINA.

(Our Own Correspondent.)

..

Shanghai, May 18, 9.25 in. Itecsival, 10 ñ a.in.

The National Caned is c~;

service of the military an;l naval | provinces. officers, and the curtailment of the militery and n val expenditure.

that

Canadians desire to e treated liko sonsible adulte capable of | doing their duty to the Mother-

Whether the Proprietor has corrɔctly gauged the object of the purchasers or not is a matter of small TURCO-ITALIAN WAR. land. moment compared with the CONSEQUENCES to the Purchasers which will follow should the acts com- plained of be repeated.

In this connection it will probably suss if the Proprietor reminds those concerned that thɔ PRIVATE PROPERTY of an EMPLOYER may not with Impunity be purchased from an EMPL JYEd or a SERVANT without the consent of the Employer a principle which (though ignored by the Purchasers of the Posters referred to) was RECOGNISED BY A CHINESE CLERK employed

TURKS SURRENDER.

vai Bombay, May 18, 7.30 a.m.

lecoived, 12.8 p.m.

The leader of the notorious Allon gang of the Blue Mountains has been found guilty of murder. in the first dogres in connection with the recent Court house

aurder.

The British War Office is offor-

Reuter's Romo correspondeni ug magaifioout prizes for the wires that three Italian columns construction of military" sero- by the Turkish garrison at surrounded the position occupied platies.

lodes in the mountains, the only retreat from which was com mandod by the guns of warships.

20 wounded before they broke

LOCAL.

Judgment was given by Mr.

the drawing up ota map of the sidering requests for representa whole Empire for use by the Ariny, the promotion of education, tion, of the Oversos Guilds whose Ministerin! elicers, and Vinions Prolongation of the period of the members live outside their own oy the Proprieter who, in razpoazə tɔ namac543 re-. The Turke lost 83 killed and Justice Gompertz this morning

The general opinion is that quests made to him to sell sama, refused to do so epresentation is regarde the despite the fact of the price offered being raised in Guilds is opposed to the spirit of varying suma fram 10 cents to ONE DOLLAR. Kopublicanism, and is decidedly delicate from an international point of view.

Thero then followed a heated passage-at-arin 4 balwoen Mr. Lloyd George and Lord Hugh Cecil.

Eventually the Chancellor of the Exchequer resumed his re- marks, saying "Charges of theft against the nation should not be brought by those whose ancestors have robbed the Church, robbed monasterios, altirs, almshouses, the poor and the dead. Then

NATIONAL LOAN,

The Society formed at Nanking for the raising of a national loan has elector Dr. Sun Yat-sen 38 President, and Wong ling Vico-President.

OPIUM SUPPRESSI ›N,

they come here, when wo aro try. The National Council proposos ing to recover part of the pillaged to enforce the total suppression property for the poor, for whom of the opium trado in January it was originally given, and van-1913. "Shat Po.'

turo with hon la dripping with

the fat of sterilega to nexuso na

of robbery of God.”

CRUSHING, REPLY.

:

Mr. Bonnr Law contrasted 41 o

luke-warmness of the speeches of

RECOGNITION.

Peking, May 17.

SIR F. D.. LUGARD.

TELEGRAMS.

TELEGRAMS.

·MURDER IN COURT.

FEZ MUTINY.

FETED IN LONDON.

SENTENCE PASSED,

(Our Own Correspondent.)

London, May 17, 10.30 a.m.

Received, 9.25 pjo. ·

The African Society entertained

The Diplomatic Budy at lek-Sir Frederick Lugard, late Gov-

the English members of the ing will, it is reportge, send a

Itouter's [Service to the Telegraph."]

London, May 17, 5,45 p.m. Received 18,.7.16 a.m.

Allen, the leader of the gang

INSTIGATORS SENTENCED.

Router's

and took refuge in the ravines. in the handcuff case. Judgment the Italian casualtion wore four was given for Mr. Law for the killed and 20 wounded,

fall amount claimed ($1,000) Another Romo mossage states with costs. that in the Chambor the Preinier announced amidst enthusiasm

A man said to be an Australian

that the Turkish garrison at Army Captain became wroth Rhodes had surrondored with with two chair coolies last night - honours of war,

and chased them: As a consequ- once he found himself olurged

"

DENMARK'S GRIEF."

SAD SCENES.

via Bombay, May 18, 7.30a.m. Received, 12.8 p.m. Router's Copoalingen. corre

with disorderly conduct at the Police Court this morning and was fined $4.

Three men wore charged to-day at the Police Court with being concerned in the murder of a

spondent wires that the body of youth at Yaumati on Wednesday the late King has arrived, being that three youths were sot upon night. It will be remembered

transported from Travonusude:

.to

[Service to the Telegraph,"

London, May 17, 7.10 p.m. Copenhagen aboard the by a gang of roughs and that one.

Dannebrog.

of them, a fitter, diod in hospital. Received, 18, 9.40 a.m.

The landing was effected Sixtoon men wore charged this Router's Foz correspondent with great solemnity, amid the morning with being copos, ned if gune, and the body was con-

Cabinet with those of the Welsh, formal message to the President nor of Hongkong, at a banquet of bandits who in March last telegraphs that a French court tolling of belle and the booming in an opium divan in Stone

killed the judge and prosecutor martial has condemned to death veyed in a six-horse hearse to the Nullah Street. One was fined in the court-house at Billswirle, aine Askuris in connection with Castle Chapel, whore it was $150, another $50, and the

ordinary thing ever hoard-in the meeting on the 15th inst., to who was Superintendent of Afri- of the sentencing of one of thoiro mutiny ani massacrò on Ap; il placed on a catafalque, to lie in others $2 each. ..

especially Mr. Lloyd George's, on the 25th inst., recognising the held last night. whose attack on the Duke of China Republic provisionally. Dovonshire was the most extra-President Yuun hebi a Cabinet

Sir Clement Lloyd Hill,

M.P.,

House of Commons. Mr. Lloyd consider what reply suzuld be can Protectorates under George had done something like sent to the Diplomatic Body in

the

For

Sir Mat thew Nathan, also a former Gov.

Blue Mountains, on the occasion members for a petty offence, has 21st. been found guilty of murder in ign Office, presided,

the first degree.

*

M. VEDRINES RECOVERS

DERBY BETTING.

it on the platform, but this was this matter.

the first due ha hudgivon them i

a sample of it on the floor of the

House. Could anything bo more unfair than to attack a man for

CHEAP BONDS.

what his ancestora dii four national bonile issued at Nanking centuries ago? It was beneath are being sold to foreiguors at a the level of the House of Commons. low discount.

MILITARY AEROPLANES.

WAR OFFICE OFFERS.

viu Bombay, May 17,155 p...

Received, 6.48.p.m.

ernor of Hongkong, the Right Hon. News has rotoliod bore that the John Burns, General Sir Alfred Gaseler, who commended the Br', ish forces in North China during the Boxer ising, and the Right Hon. Sir George Goldie, an expert on Niger questions, were among those present.

FUNDS AT LAST.

SWEEPER II FAVOURITE.

London, May 17, 12.40 p.m. Received, 11.2 p.m.

M. Vedrines, the well-known avintor, who recently met with an accident while flying from Paris to Brussels and Madrid, has now completely recovered and has visited the scene of the accident.

THE DARDANELLES,

state for a short period of time.

A great throng witnessed For being in possession, with- the landing of the procession, aut a Licenco, of 15 taola of which was largely composed of grepared opium, a man was fined soldiers and sailora.

8500 at the Police Court this

The widow, sons and daughters morning, of the decansed King were much A case of kidnapping prefarr- overcome with grief.”

ed against a man at the Polios Twelve officers carried the cof- Court this morning was dismiss fin from the hears to the catsfal ed. que,

HOME POLITICS,

A WANING MAJORITY,"

Star Ferry Mishap. The ferry steamer “Southern Star" left Hongkong this after- via Bombay, May 18, 7.30 a.m. but when a little way out, jast noon at a quarter to two o'clock,

Received, 12.8 p.m.

Three million dollars, being the

London, May 17, 4 j) m. first instalment of the loan to Replying to the toast of his

Received 18, 5.65 a.m. China, has been paid, half in health Sir Frederick Lugard spid The latest quotations for the Paking and the other half in the most important development of Derby read:-11-4 Sweeper If, Shanghai.

The Conservatives are jubilant PPosite the Naval Dooks, some- ator days was the fact that we 6-1 Cylgad, 10-1 Lomond, 100-2

at the reduction of the Govern-thing went amiss with one of the DISBANDED TROOPS. -

were on the threshold of conquer Jaeger, 100-7 Mordred, 100-8

ment's majority to 81 on the propellors, and she was unable ing the innovation of railway ex Tagalic, Pintadeau and Lorenzo.

second reading of the Welsh to continue the trip noross. She A meeting in connection with tension and opening up the world's

lay where the mishap took place Disestablishment Bill. the disbandment of the troops markets to the products of the has been held at the reaidonco of inpics.

Eighteen Ministerialister for some ten minutes, blowing her The War Office has issued par the President. The result was

via Bombay, May 17, 1.65 p.m. absent unpaired, and 75 Irish whistle continuously, and even ticulars of a military aeroplane that the soldiern disbanded are to

Mr. John Burns sald' it was a

Received, 6.48, p.m. voted with the Government, tually, the "Polar Star

Several well-known Nonconfor was the pert bost to leave competition. The first prize is be given $20 each a special great satisfaction to know that the £4,000, the second $2,000, and allowance will be granted to ploneering work of the Empire had

A message received in London mist Liberala who favour dla Kowloon, went to ben

the Southerz the competition is open to makers officers disbandle. in incognition bien done by men of the stamp of

The match between Kent and today, states it is Mondial de establishment, but are opposed to took her in tow.

ople that the the disendowment clauses, intend

transferred and the world. Nine prizes of their services; and the old Sir George Goldie and Sir Fred Somerset at Gravesend reunited clared in Constan

forming a group to take sotion in will be re-opene

ned on

boat out of order 10 500 are confined service men will be pensioned erick Lugard, men of great ability in win for the former by nn Dardanello

the committee stage of the Bill off Sai Kai Kung Yok Po" and absoluta incorrung

inmings and 18 runn

HOME CRICKET.

London, May 17, 7.10 p.m. Receivel, 18, 9.10 p.m.