1912-05-20 — Page 1

The Hongkong Telegraph.

May 10th, 1912, Temperature a.m. 81, p.m. 80; Humidity...82, 70.

No. 8790

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TELEGRAMS.

MONDAY,・・ MAY 20,

1912.

TELEGRAMS.

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TELEGRAMS.

HONGKONG UNIVERSITY. BRITAIN AND GERMANY.

PRINCE OF WALES,

OUR NAVAL POLICY.

TURCO-ITALIAN WAR.

HOME CRICKET.

SIR F. LUGARD'S BELIEF.

REICHSTAG DEBATE,

REPORT AND DENIAL.

AUSTRALIA. PLEASED,

ITALIAN JUBILATION,

Router's (Service to the "Telegraph."],

vin Bombay, May 18, 1.50 y.m.

Received, 5.53 p.

Router's

[Service to the "Telegraph."],

(via Bombay, May 20, 7.15 d.m.

Received, 11.0 a.m,

At the Royal Colonial Institute During a debate in the Reich- Banquet, Sir Frederick Lugard said tag on foreign policy, the the possibilities of the Hongkong references made were chiefly to

He England. University were very great.

The Conservative and Centro

Router's [Service to the "Telegraph."]

via Bombay, May 18, 1:50 p.m. Received, 5.53 p.m.

A message received in London from Toulon states that the motor tour by the Prince of Wales and the visit to the French Fleet have been countermanded owing to the

Denmark.

I.

Reuter's.

[Service to the "Telegraph."]

London, May 18, 12.5 p.m. Received, 4 p.m.

Router's

[Service to the "Telegraph."]

London, May 18, 2.30 am, Received, 3.45 p.m.

A telegram from Rome stales A message from Reutor's corre that there is great jubilation in spondent at Melbourne states that

the Hon. Mr. G. F. Pearce, Minis-taly over the victory at Rhodes, er of Defence, during, an inter

Marquis Giolitti

road. the

LATEST RESULTS.

Router's.

[Service to the "Telegraph."]

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London, May 18, 2.10 p.m."

Reosived, 19, 2 a.u.

686 ras AMWUN

SINGLE COFT 10:Cart-

NEWS FOR BUSY MEN

Telegrams.

During a foreign policy debate, in the Reichstag, frequent refer ences, wore made to England the Conservatives denying that Gør- ̈ many was responsible for England continuing to arm.

Frantio chearing greeted the reading in the Italian Chamber of despatches detailing the Italian victory at Rhodes.

A "scene" took place in the The following matches have been Reichstag when" Herr Schelde- played in the County Champion-man, a Socialist, described the ship-Hante beat Worcestershire at Kaiser's threat to Alsace-Lorraine Worcester by oight wickets.

believed it would securo the pre members said that if England mourning for the late King of/View, welcomed Mr. Churchill'despatches to the Chamber, amidst by thres wickets at Bristol,

dominance of the English language throughout the Far East,

HONGKONG'S IMPOR

TANCE.

(Our Own Correspondent.).

London, May 18, 5,35 p.m. A meeting of the Colonial Insti- lute was hold on Friday, being presided over by Earl Grey, Sir Frederick Lugard, formerly Govern or of Hongkong, was present, and during the course of a speech dealt at some length with Hongkong's position. It is impossible," he declared, "to overestimate its importance to Great Britain,"

with row ber claim to seizuro at sen there would be no reason to iperoase the Nary.

Horr von Kiderlen-Wrechter, Minister for Foreign Affairs, said it was erroneous to think that dormany was opposed to the obolition of the right of seizure at sea. The English were always held up as an example, but they rigorously insisted on demande which fitted in with their policy.

GERMANY TO BLAME?

The Socialista declared that an understanding batween the two nations dopended on Germany. lono, as England had repeatedly pronounced in favour of an entente.

The Conservatives and Centre denied that Germany was respon- sible for England continuing to

WELSH GRIEVANCES. .

MR. LLGYÐ GEORGE AGAIN,

PARIS DISASTER'

London, May, 18, 5.30 p.m.

TRAINS COLLIDE.

Received 1, 5.15 ..

Mr. Lloyd George has visited via Bumbay, May 20, 7 15 nan. Carnavon, and was ovated, tho pavilion. being uncomfortably crowded. At the outset, there were suffragette, interruptions. During the course of a speech, Air, Lloyd- George affirmed that there was noither malice nor hatred towards the Church as a church, but to establishment, which was still wronging Wales. This wrong it

Received, 11'9 nam.

Reuter's Paris correspondent states that two suburban trains enllided von Marcadet Bridge, near Gare du Nord.

Eleven porple were killed and 30 injured.

was meant to end for ever in the THE MEDITERRANEAN. principality (cheers). Ho dwelt on

the national spirit af Wales, and

sold it was a gross injustice that IMPORTANT CONFERENCE,

tillers of the soil, though Noncon- formist, should maintain their own minister and also a chaploin for the squire.

U.S. DREADNOUGHT.

"TEXAS" LAUNCHED.

Lanton, May 18.2.10 p.m. Received 19, 2 a.m.

American Dreadnought Taxas has been launched at Now- port News, Shelins a displacement

The

"states

via Bombay, May 18, 1.50 p.m. Iteceived, 5.53 p.m.

The Daily Telegraph that considerable interest attaches to the cruise of Mr. Asquith and Mr. Churchill to the Mediterrancan at Whitsuntido. They will prob ably discuss with Lord Kitchener at Malta the general situation of the Mediterranean in the event of war, the proposed naval re-distri- bution having been criticised in nigh quartera

THE PLANS.

of 28,367 tons, and a speed of via Bòmbay May 12, 7.25 a.m. twenty-one knots,

Received, 11 20 a.in.

A massage from Malta says that Lord Kitchenor arrives there on CARE OF WEAK-MINDED, |the 29th instant on board the cruiser Hampshire. He joins Mr. Asquith on the Admiralty yacht, MR. GERSHOM STEWART'S and will visit Gibraltar,

MOTION.

(Our Own Correspondent)

London, May 18, 5.35 pm,

On the motion of Mr. Gershom Stewart, M.P (formerly of Hong kong the Bill providing for the balter protection of feeble-minded persons passed its second reading: in fig dorian at Comment

A STRIKE ENDED.

London, May 19, 7.15 am.

Received, 5.40 p.m.-

Later.

The report that the tour of the Prince of Wales has been counter manded is groundless, as arrange ments have been completed. It is not a pleasure trip, but a course of instruction,

COFFEE TRUST,

FEDERAL PROSECUTION.

London, May 19, 4.15 am. Received, 5.40 p.is.

A message from New York says the Federal Government are prose uting the so-called Coffee Trust of the Brazilian Valorization' schente, alleging conspiracy, witholding coffee and attempting restrain the coffee trado

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the world, The.. defendants ciled include Baron Bruno, Mr. Schroeder, of London; Mr.

· Burge, of Antwerp; Mr. Comptedes and Mr. Touches, of Havre; Mr. de Silva, of San Paulo; Mr. Wille, of Hamburg, tho Societe Generato gi Paris; and the New York Dock Company.

SAFER SHIPS.

IMPORTANT STEP,

via Bombay, May 18, 1.50 p.m. Received, 5.53 p.m.

Mr. Sydney Buxton has appoint ed a strong committee of naval architects and engineers to advise him on the subject of the provision

speech. It would strengthen the Commonwealth Government, he said, if it asked Parliament for a large naval construction grant, and also provided an adequate reason for an active naval policy of all the Dominions. Hon. Mr. Andrew Fisher, the Premier, considered Mr. Churchill's policy the most practical for the safety of the Motherland and the Dominions,

CANADA WILLING?

London, May 19, 4.15 am.

Recoived, 5.40 p.m.

frantic cheering. The Italian papers describe-tho-defeat-of-the- Arab hordes, as one of the most entrenched Turkish 'regulars, not brilliant victories of a glorious

war.

THE CAPTURE..

Later.

Warwickshire beat Gloucestershire as a sentence of ponal servitude: Ministers walked out of the House and two hours afterwards, on their return, the Chanosilor re- buked the Socialist for insulting his country.

Lancashire beat Middlesex at Lord's by an innings and eight rans, Northants boat Essex by seves wickets at Leyton.

innings and twelve runs at Notting

Nolts beat Leicestershire by nu

bam.

The Egyptian Army is about to be reorganised.

Mr, Buxton has appointed a strong committee of naval architects to advise him on the subject of the provision of water- tight compartments.

Cambridge University. beat Sussex at Cambridge by ten wickets. AUSTRALIANS WIN. The match between the Austen lians and Surrey at Kennington Oval At a banquet in connection resulted in a win for the Austra-with the Colonial Institute Sir Frederick Lugard referred to Hongkong's University, saying

A message received in London on the 18th says that the Italiansliaus by seven wickets. at Rhodes took 2,300 prisoners, in- cluding 38 officers, and captured 4,000 rifles and four batteries.

MAGAZINE DESTROYED.

via Bombay, May 20, 7.15 a.m. Received, 11.9 n.m.

Reuter's Ottawa correspondent states that the Hon. W. T. White, Minister of Finance, does not doubt that Parliament and tho people of Canada will do their full Au_Italian, battleship has dos- share in the Imperial Defence troyed the barracks and magazine Federation of the Empire. There at Marmaris, opposits Rhodes, seemed at present no insuperable difioulty. Hon. Mr White conclud- ca: "We are the elder son, and PERSIAN GULF TROUBLE. we have the territory and resources to hold the centre of the Empire, Canada will be the heart of the Em pire in the days to ctime."

REICHSTAG “* SCENE ?*

SOCIALIST ATTACKS

KAISER,

London, May 18, 2.30 am. Received, 3.15 p.m.

BRITISH FORCES LAND.

is Bombay, May 18, 7.25 a.m.

Received, 11.20 8.m.

A message from Bushire states that the tribesmen have attacked Bunderabbas. His Majesty's ships Perseus and Alert have land ed parties, and the transport Minto landed a detachment of Raf- puts. A message from Karachi slates that H.M.S. Fox has been ordered immediately to Bun

AFRICANS DRAW. The South African v. Yorkshire match at Huddersfield resulted in

a draw,

THE DARDANELLES.

believed it would secure the predominance of the English language throughout the Far East.

Australia welcomes Mr. Chur- chill'a speech on Imperial Defence.

The Japanese cruiser Kongo has been launched at Barrow. She is the largest warship in the

Bombay, May 10, 7:25 alm. Received, 11.20 a,m The Dardanelles were opened toworld. day, and steamers are passing out

THE NEW CHINA.

RECOGNITION SOON.-

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The U. S. Dreadnought Texas has been launched:

Ai criokot, the Australians have beaten Surrey, and the South Africans drawn with Yorkshire.

Baron Stalbridge, Chairman of the London and North Western | Railway, is dood.

The Dardanelles have been opened.

(From Chinese Sources.)

Peking, May 19. The Diplomatic Body in Peking has decided to soad formal mess- There is serious trouble in the nges to China, recognising the Re. Gulf of Persia, owing to the public, sometimo during this tribesmen attacking Bunder Abbas. British marines have bean landed.

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MEDALS.

The Ministry of War is prepar- ing a listof regulations governing the award of medals to military and naval officers and, men in the various provinces.- Shat Po."

TANG RESIGNS.

Shanghai, May 19. Tang Shao-yi hins sont in his

A "scene" occurred in the Reiderabbas. Telegrams indicate a chstag owing to a Socialist, Herr serious situation, The Arabs re- Scheidemann, describing the Kaisealing interference in gun- resignation to President Yuan, of penal servitude, because Prussia waterwells. The ser's threat to Alsace as a sentence running, seized the municipal but has offered his services in had no civil rights and was the already landed cerman Siberia,

and fifty bluejackets.

of bulkheads and watertight com*« REGRETTABLE INDISCRE- partments.

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OBITUARY.

London, May 18, 5.30 p.m. Received, 5.15 a.m:

The death is reported of Earl Stalbridge, Chairman of the Lon don and North Western railway.

DESERVED HONOUR.

TION."

The U.S. Federal Government is prosecuting the so-called Coffee Trust for an alleged attempt to restrain the coffee trade of the world.

LOCAL.

Four men were ocharged before the Hon. Mr. Rees Davies, the Chief Justice, sitting in Criminal Jurisprudence this morning, with kidnapping a boy aged eight years on April 22. Prisoners Pergaua tas connection with the proposal to pleaded not guilty, bat were sentenced to five years with hard One hundred increase the Customs' toxos.

THE FRANCHISE QUESTION.labour. His Lordship said the On the 17th inst., the National judges of that Court would do Council passed A resolution their utmost to put down kid- granting the franchise to Chinese napping. residents abroad,

LARGEST WARSHIP.,

JAPAN'S NEW CRUISER,

Received, 5.10a.m.

The Chancellor, members of the abinet and Federal delegatos walked out; returning two hours later, when the Chancellor, after rebuking Herr Scheidemann for in-via Bombay, May 10, 1.35 a.m. sulting the country, gaid that the Emperor's conversation with the

The Japanese cruiser Kongo, the Burgomaster of Strasburg had been published owing to a regrettable largest warship in the world, has indiscretion, but no situation had been successfully launched at Barrow by Madame Kioke, in the arison for which the Chancellor did not accept responsibility. The Kal presence of a distinguished com ser had no intention of encroaching pany. The vessel is the heaviest on the rights of the Bundesrat or weight ever launched, and practic the Reichstag, which had to decide ally all the machinery, except the Sir David Bruce has been special would be changed, Efforts to make

whether the Constitution of Alsace (urbines, are on board.

ly promoted Surgeon General on Alsace an insecure frontierland account of his services to science, must be opposed; and he said the Kaiser had voiced:Gerusan resent- mont against the Alsace Lorraine Diet siding with the anti-German management of the Grafenstaden Locomotive Works,

via Bombay, May 18, 1.50 am

Roceived, 5.53 p.m.

EGYPTIAN ARMY.

London, May 18, 5 am. Received, 3.58 p.m.

The Chancellor's reference, was to a resolution of the Diet express

The correspondent of the "Morning dissatisfaction with the Prus

Post" at Malia reports that slan Government for cancelling

ing

AVOIDING, ICEBERGS.

WISE PRECAUTION.

London, May 18, 12.5 p.m. Received, 11.41 p.m. The American Admiralty has despatched a crudeer to watch

USING THE LOAN.

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In another case, also of kid- napping a sentence of five years The ministers and officials of was also meted out. the various Ministries intend not At the Summary Court this to appropriate the foreign loan in morning Mr. Reader Harris, who defraying the expenditure of the should have, appeared for the various Departments, as a means defendant in a case in which the of preventing foreign countries the Sze Hop Company, steam interested in the loan from inter- launch owners, claimed $1,000 fering with China in the admins-from the Tong Houng Tao, with tration of her Government,drow from the case. Judgment

Bhat Po."

for the plaintiff with costs was accordingly given.

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PRESS. ADMITTED.

Poking, May 19, The Ministry of State Affairs admitted the representatives of the Press to its sittings, beginning on the 18th inst."Sai Kai Kang Yak Po."

SOCIETIES UNITE.

Shanghai, May 19. The Progressive Society has combined with the Jointly Sworn Union throughout China.

THE CUSTOMS. STAFF, The Government intends to alter the terms of appointment of foreign employees in the Customs service.

BELATED OPPOSITION. Ohang Kai has submitted a

The plague is showing an abnormal inorense over the num- bers for previous years, Wanchai especially suffering. Forty bodies were deposited at the mortuary over the week-end.

'Mrs. Gordon made her last appearance on a concert plat- form in Hongkong on Saturday evening at the Palace Theatre, Mount Austin. She had a very hearty reception,

There is said to be a general. strike of washermen in the Colony as the result of a dispute over wages.

A bar boy employed at the. Grand Hotel was sentenced to one month's imprisonment to day for stealing a quantity of empl bottles,from

Dr. Sun Yat-sen few days visit to Mongkontz

A message from Wilkes Basro the reorganisation of the Egyptian orders for locomotives, alleging

Army of occupation, on the lines of that Westphalian competitors wera steeme lanes and advise all ves-letter to the Government oppos: the Sirdar's scheme, is under-responsible for the accusations re- sela by

to the where ing the raising of foreign loans denies that be 1 retiring stood to be imminent.

states that the Anthracite Miners' Convention has ordered the strikers

arding the museums

Sai Kai Kung Yok