July 11th,
No. 8830
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
Temperature um. 81, p.m. 85; Humidity...00, 78.
TELEGRAMS.
TELEGRAMS.
Copyright,
WEATHER FORECAST
Barometer 29.82
(ESTABLISHED 1861)
July 11th, 1911, Temperature am. 84, pr
晚二十月七英港香
87; Humidity... 71, 63.
SINGIN COPT 10: Cit.
FRIDAY, JULY
職八廿月五年子
TELEGRAMS.
TELEGRAMS.
UNLUCKY P. & 0.
BISLEY SHOOTING.
ANGLO-FRENCH TENNIS. IMPERIAL DEFENCE.
OUR FOREIGN POLICY.
THE PERSIA. ASHORE,
THE MOKINNON OUP.
HONOURS EASY
IMPORTANT MEETING.
HE MEDITERRANEAN.
FRENCH DECISION.
$56 TEK ANHUN
PÅ SENGERS, TAKEN OFF.
Reuter's
[Service to the "Telegraph."]
London, July 11. : Received, 12, 11 a,m.....
The Poninsula oirl Oriental Stearn. Navigation · Company's stonmer Porain weni nɛhare at 11 o'clock this (Thursday) morning when 20-miles off Marenillos.
The passengers have been taken off by tugs sit to the scono for
the purpose.
The vo-sol is not making water, and there is no dung r
Salvage sieners are lighton- ing her.
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IMPERIAL IDEALS.
Reuior's [Service to the "Telegraph."]
London, July 11, 8.5 pan.
Recolved, 12, 0.25 a.m.
At Bialov the shoot for the
od as follows:
Itouter's
(Service to the "Telograph."]
London, July 11, 6.30 p.m. Recéivoi, 12, 9.23 a.m.'
Lawn tonuistelics between McKinnon Challenge Cup result-England and France, preliminary to the Davis Cup, have resulted he follows:-
Dixon (England) bent Decugis (Frnuoo) 0-3, 6-2, 6-4.
Gobert (France) beat Gore (England) 6-4, 4-6, 6-3, 6-3.
The matches were playod at Folkestone,
Englund....
1,683
Scotland
1,550
South Africa
1,554
Troland
1,541-
Canada..........
1,535
1,496. 1,435
India ...... Guernsey
MAWSON EXPEDITION.
GOOD NEWS.
London, July 11, 5.15 am,
Received, 5.35 p.m.
A message from Wellington, New Zealand, roporte thai Maw- sun's antarctic ship Aurora has arrived from Port Chalmers. The ship loft all the members of the expedition in good health.
- CANADIAN PREMIER'S
ARMY HEADGEAR.
VIEW.
REVIVAL OF SHAKO.
London, July 11, 3.10 nm. Received, 5 p.m.
wore guests at a dinner at the
London, July 1I.. Itecovel, 0.51 p.m.
Mr. Borden and his colleagues According to a report, in the Morning Post" the War Office Colonial 1ostitute, the Duke of has decided to abolish the in- Argyll, rd Stratheon and fantry helmet and revive the Lord Saiborne being prosent. Mr. Phako.
Borden snit Canadians were de-
termined to work nut their destiny
Tis one of the great nations of the
British Empire. They realised THE CHINESE republic.
that naval supremacy was the breath of life of the Empire, and an integrity which could hest be secured by one navy,one King and one flag. But he did not dosire to way anything fmperilling Chit- adian autonomy. The great question of defener 'enuld 'not be settled for years to come at con- ferences extending over only fow weeks.. Io omphasised that these responsible for defence must have a voice in the policy of shaping the Empire, and Canada did not propose to be an adjunct evon of the British Empire.
THE OLYMPIAD.
SWIMMING RESULTS.
London, July 11, 3.25 a.m.
Itevolved, 5.26 pan.
At the Olymple games at Stockholm the 1500 metres swim- ming contest, free style, was won by Badgson of Canada in 22 mins.
GERMAN PRINCE'S VISIT.
(Prom Chinese Sources.}
Peking, July 11. Přingo Waldeipar of Prussia has visited Poking for six days and is now returning to Europe.
THE WUHH REVOLT, As tho rosali of the mutiny of the troops at Wu-hu, 27 shops wero loofed and four burnt down.
TANG'S REQUEST. Ex-Premier Tang has decided not to return to Peking, und has usko the Ministry of Finance to rove to the public how the Blgian lon has been appro printed "Shat Po."
MAGAZINE EXPLODES.
Shanghai, July 11. One of the magazines in Tiên- tain has exploded and several persons were killed, including a commander.
THE PRESS WAR.
1 sec, which is a record. Hat- Prosident Yuuu has directed field of Great Britain was second | Chin Ping-kwan, Minister of In. in 22 mi. 39 secs, Hardwick of tornal Affairs, to mediate in the Australia being third in 23 niius," press war." 15.4/10 ser
REPUBLICAN AMITY,
IMPERIAL CRICKET.
Tandon, July 11, 6.15 am. Received 5.35 p.m.
It is probable that His Majesty the King will attend the Test match between Australia and South Africa at Lord's on the 15th inst.
Reuter
[Service to the "
Londofuly 11. Roceived, I
•Router's
to the "Telegraph."}
London, July 11. Received, 5.30 p.m.
TELEGRAMS.
ELECTORAL REFORM.
Router's
NEWS FOR BUSY MEN.
Telegrams.
At Bisley the McKinnon Chal- lenge Cup has been won by Eng- land, Scotland being second,"
News of the Mawson Expedi tion states that all were in good
[Service to the Telegraph."]hoal that Port Chalmers.
F
لام
The War Office has decided to abolish the infantry helmet and revive the shako,
There Majesties have toured the industrial districts of the West Riding, and visited various works.
London, July 11. Received, 8.38 a.m..
Mr. Asquith provided i at a Sir Edward Grey, speaking, in
Router's Paris correspondent The French Chamber has meeting of the Imperial Defence the House of Commons in regard states that the Chamber, by 339 adopted the Government Bill for Committee which we attended to the Foreign Office vote and votes to 217, adopted the Govern electoral reform. It is based on by Mr. Borden and four other referring to the situation in the ment Bill for electoral reform, Canadian Cabinet members, as necessity of a suffiolent margin of tation. The Radicals strenuously
Mediterraneun, pointed out the based upon proportional roprosen proportional representation. well as Lord Haldan, Mr. Lloyd George, Mr. Churchill and other strength in Honie waters withust opposed the measure, and hooted Ministers and naval and military alone to protect the United
relying upon the foreign policy. Poinoare after the division. members,
Kingdom. It le,' he said, un- necessary for us to keep a forcoin the Mediterranean able to hold our O'Wil any moment against all other Powers. Though there is no prospect of any quarrel in the Received, 5.25 p.m. Mediterranean, if we abandoned Their Majesties King George it altogether there would be a and Queen Mary have toured the tendency for us to slip out of industrial districts of the West account and the diplomatio Riding of Yorkshire, visiting the situation thereby might become glass-blowing, wire-making, fuel strained. We ought to keep a
ROYAL VISIT. INDUSTRIAL INSPECTIONS.
London, July 11, 3.25.m.
and woollon works,
POLICE RAID ON
NEWS BOYS.
Owing to the arrest of on of our news boys by the POLICE yesterday afternoon, many of the boys bocame frightened and returned to this office with their papers unsold.
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If the action of the police prevents the paper from being sold on the streets by news. boys' wa will sell it direct from this office as well as deliver it to all our subscribers, old and new alike.
Hongkong, July 2, 1912,
THE DOCK TROUBLE.
TURCO-ITALIAN WAR.
13 MEN INJURED.
SETTLEMENT LIKELY,
Router's [Service to the "Telegraph."]
London, July 11. Received, 6.51 p.n.
Rauter's (Service to the "Telegraph.”]
London, July 11. Rutoivod, 7.51 p.m. Altogether - thirteen were in- jured at the Surrey Commercial stantinople states it is learned on Reuter's correspondent at Con- Docks and were taken to hospital. reliable authority that there, are _The___hundred...____metres...breast
Most of them:urs.cut-and bruised,-good-prospects for an early settle- stroko swim resulted in Germans On the 9th fust, Chinese, nono boing shot though revolvers ment of the war. The departure only being placed.
French and Americ in Ropubli-woro undoubtedly fired. One In the hundred motros free cans hold a monorial meeting at arrest has been mado. style swim Kahamaku of America Chang-you, Shanghai, Thou ANOTHER AFFRAY. was first in 1 min. 3.2/5 secs, and sute of Europeans and Chinoso Honly of Australia in 1 min.
14.0/10 Rece.
THE 200 METRES. London, July 11. 5 10 pm. Reveived, 12, 3.40... The 200 notres flit raco, ut the Olympiad, Stockholin, resulted as follows-Onig (Amorica), 1 ; Lippincott (Ameriva), 2; Applc-| garth (Britain), 3..-
attondod,Shtat Po."
THE BELGIAN, LOAN.
Peking, July 11. The Ministry of Finance his givon publicity to the items of penditure which have bson met out of the Belgian loan.
A GOOD SIGN. All the burrivades orected round the Legations during the revolution have now been pulled down.
London, July 11, 5.10 p.m.
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of Said Halmet Pasha, the Fre
It is stated on reliable authori ty that there are good prospects
at WINNIPEG EXHIBITION. for the early settlement of the
London, July 11, 5.15 u.m. Received, 5.35 p.m."
Turco-Italian War.
King George will probably' attend the cricket match between South Africa and Australia on the 15th inst.
:
The P. and O. steamer Persia, from London to Bombay has gone At Winnipeg H. R. H. the Duko aahore near Marseilles. All the aufficient. naval force in the of Connaught has oponed an Mediterraneau available for use industrial exhibition.
passengers have been taken off, at any moment to enable us
and the ship is not making water. Replying to au address, Hi»| to be counted as one of the Royal Highmoss the Governor. There has been another affray Mediterranean
naval powers General said the only parallel to between the strikers and workers. In view of the coming debate the warmth of his reception at at the Surrey Commercial Docks, on the subject he would not Winnipeg was at Johannesburg. two of the latter being seriously say more than that. Our foreign He mentioned that it was King injured. polloy remained uncharged. The
starting point of any new develop. Edward who had selected him as ment; of our foreign policy in. Governor General of Canada. Europe was the maintenance of our friendship with France and Russia. Ho welcomed the moet- ing of the Kaiser and the Czar.
TELEGRAPH CO.
Our relations with Germany, he THE GREAT NORTHERN said, were excellent, They were perfectly frank with oach other on' all questions of mutual inter est and he (Sir Edward) balioved that when questions came up for discussion, such as, for instance, their respective interests in Africa or flie Baghdad railway, both would be convinced that their mutual intorests could easily
be reconciled.
CRITICISM.
GERMANY SATISFIED.
Sir Edward Grey has delivored
an important speech on British policy in the Mediterranean, stat- ing that it is unnecessary for us to keep a force there which would be able to hold our own at any moment against all other Powers.
Mr. Borden, the Canadian Pre- mier, delivered an outspoken speech at a dinner arranged by the Colonial Institue. He doolar ed that those responsible for de The Great Northern Telegraph fence must have a voice in the Company's privilege of landing policy of shaping the Empire, on the soil of Japau ite cables and Canada did not propose to between Nagasaki and Shanghai be an adjunct even of the British and between Nagasaki and Vladi- Empire. vostock expires on the 21st of December next, and the Japanese
LOCAL.
Mr Bonar Law criticised Sir E. Government intends to avail Grey's attitude with regard to the itself of this opportunity, to pur- Mediterranean, where, ho said, chase the cables, from diplomatic the naval force should be strong and commercial considerations. es contractor was to-day fined For dangerous blasting a Chin- enough to overcome any pro On the other lund, the Company's bable combination.
$100. charters from the Russian and Chinese Governments to land The family of the man who their cables extends to 1930. As made an attempt on the life of the high charges are made of 48 Sir Hoary May have come to san per word for ordinary Hongkong, hoping to see nocused. messages and 18 son for Press: A cargo-boat woman, for an service between Nagasaki. and choring in a prohibited place Sir Edward Grey's speech has and Shanghai, 79 per within prohibited hours was fined- produced an entirely favourable word between Nagasaki and $10 at the Marine Court, impression in Berlin, and it in Vladivostock, these two lines For the laroony of 100 lbs of pointed out in official circles that are a great source of revenue to dynamite and other offences, a the assurance that there is no the Great Northern Company, man was to-day sent to gool for
London, July 11, 3.20 p.m: Received, 12, 0.15 am.
and
800
some doubts were felt as to three months. single question between the two countries, and that their relations the success of the Japanese ovor
For using his boat in the The are excellent, coincides with the tures to take them over.
harbour without a licence, a German view, which fully represent indications are, accord-fisherman was sent to gaol for a cognises that friendship with ing to the Japan Mail, that the month to-day, at the Marine Tranco and Russia is the starting Company will accede to the sur- Court. point of British policy. It is also render of the Nagasaki-Shanghai pointed out that there is no dis-line, but will demand a further position on the part of Gormany extension of its privilege to use of the Bagdad Bailway. to object to Basra as the forminus the Russian line on condition
that it reduces its charges to
SAIGON.
sident of the Council of Stute, on ART EXHIBITION AT the 3rd of July, ostensibly for Vienna, is connected with thei possibility of a direct understand. ing between the belligerents.
The portfolio of Minister for War has been offered to Nozim
Received, 12, 3.40 am. There has been another affray at the Surrey Cominercial Dooks,
The strikers are seemingly Pasha, desperate and furious.
Two workers were seriously Injured,
INDIAN RAINS.
ANXIETY ENDED.
FRENCH GOLF.
"Le Courrier d'Haiphong" informs us that the opening of
reasonable rate.
The mosquito larvæ case was ro-opened to-day, but the Magistrate's previous decision was aaphold. Leave to appeal was
given.
THE TRIALS OF THE PRESS PHOTOGRAPHER.
The high-landed expulsion of
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In-the-Summary-Court-to-day- an action was mentioned in which Emma 8. Hamilton sued Mr. H W. Looker, solicitor, for $1,000, It was suggested that a jury might be necessary.
The third party cass, concern- ing the Coronation Garage, resol ed its closing stage to-day, bafore the Chief Justice, judgment being reserved.
The concert given by the Phil harmonio Socisty last night was H., E. the distinct excosas. Governor and Lady May were present, and the programme was For of a refined and enjoyable order. The case in which a man in
the Saigon Salon, originally fixed a Press photographer from for the 21st inst., has been post- military land at Aldershot recent- poned till Angust, when the Gavely, continues to exoite much com- ernment Council will be holding ment in service circles, and the ita session. On the suggestion general impression is that an of M. Outrey, president of the unfortunato mistake was committ- Society, the committee has de-ed, says a Home paper. London, July 11, 3,25 a.m.
cided to organise a retrospective surely, if it was a part of the exhibition of native art, and there King's intention to popularise the charged with possession of $8,000. Received, 5.25 p.m.
Lore appeals to all persons owning army by his visit, and apparently worth of morphine again came on Annamito work of art, to lend it was, then the utmost courtesy to-day before Mr. Melbourne. (Benin) was roronil in Generals of the provincial force, nat rain has fallen throughout Ladies Golf Championship of them for oxbibition, the 1912 been afforded those who have, it tended that though the drug wa
Cooll - Leften ha
the To give ad and every facility should have For the defence Mr. Lewis pons nis 704-10 sex and Feng Po-chiu has been appointed nearly the whole of Northern Touquet Links, defeating Ginige Bilan, special space will be ro, so largely in their power to in- in defendant's custody it was not (Italy) was third, his for the province of Kwangtung, India. This has relieved the acute Ravensoroft by Gup and 5te served for the exhibiting of Onoresee the army's prestige and in his possession. A decision in balho (7 mins: 37 4-10 sou. *** Sai Kal King Xik Po. anxiety produced by the drought play
to be given to-morrow.
The time was 21 7/10 Poes, CANADIAN VICTORY. The final of the 10,000 maựos: walking race rosulted in riotary Goulding (Canada), whose
abb
London, July 11, 3.20 p.m. Received, 12, 0.15 am:
PROVINCIAL INSPECTORS.
President Yuan has appointed A message from Renter's Simla * 1.2854-10 10 19. [enyeral officials as Inspector correspondent states that abund-'
France, which was played on the
muis:| Indian art sjosauros,
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