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The

Hongkong Telegraph.

August 11th, 1912, Temperature" am, 80, p.ni. 87; Humidity...89; 02.

No. 8862.

TELEGRAMS.

THE EARTHQUAKE,

晩十三月六年子壬

TELEGRAMS:

MIDLOTHIAN ELECTION.

WHOLESALE DEVASTATION. LIBERALS AND LABOURITIES.

Rouler's

[Service to the "Telegraph."]

London, August 10.

Router's

[Service to the "Telegraph."]

(ESTABLISHED 18818) Copyright, 1012 the Pro

WEATHER FORECA

SHOWERY Barometer 29,75

August 11th, 1911, Temperature a.m. 87, p.m., 85; Humidity...70, 75,

MONDAY,

AUGUST

12, 1912.

-拜禮:

就二十月八其港香

TELEGRAMS.

TELEGRAMS,

TELEGRAMS.

PANAMA CANAL.

TELEGRAMS.

TURKEY AND BULGARIA. FRANCE AND RUSSIA.

M. POINCARE'S VISIT.

HOME CRICKET.

WEEK-END RESULTS

THE PORTE'S REPLY.

Router's

U. S. SENATE'S DECISION.

Router's

· Router's

(Service to the Telegraph."] [Service to the Telegraph."] London, August 10,

London, August 10. London, August 107

Routor's Washington corros Following are the latest cricket The Master of Elibank hás A lamp overturned by the earthquake shock caused a con- telegraphed to the Midlothian pondent saya the Sonato, by a results- flagration at Okorlu on the Liberals referring to the possibi-majority of 47 to 15, adopted thei

Surrey v. Middlesex, at the Adrianople Railway, by which lity of the miners selecting their Panama Canal Bill; with the ox-Oval Drawa. 300 houses ware destroyed; agent, Provost Brown of Dalkeith, omption of American constora

Essax v. Yorkshire, vot Leyton Router's correspondent at Com, as their candidate, and recom-frain paying tolls, and, also with stantinople says "the earthquake mouls the Liberals to support several amendments anabling Won by Yorkshire by 10 wickets. Warwickshire v. Gloucester- was inout sovore on the south him und withdraw their own foreign vessels to obtain American shores of Marmorn, Tho tele-candidate.

rogistry, thus securing the freedom of the Canal, and oxolud-shire, at Birmingham. Abandon- graphs in the Dardanelles tuo ADVICE REJECTED. interrupted, the Gronk Vice-

ing ships owned by the railroad ad owing to mais, pointless. Consulate has sont news by wire laun telegraphy that the consulate and villages are destroyed and that there are many viętiam.

There was a fresh slight shock at Constantinople on Staurday.

Stemors from Marmora report great destruction of life and pro- porty. A steamor and torpedo boat destroyor have been dis pitched with provisions and

stores.

London, August 11.

FATE UNCERTAIN,

Later. Tho Executive of the Midlomponics. thian Liberals, at a meeting at which the Scottish Whip -(Mr. | Gulland) and six mining repro sentatives word presont, decitld |} to 10ject the Master of Elibank's advice. They recommended Me Alexander Shaw, son of Lard Shaw, as their candidate,

"

Later.

Tho Panama Canal Bill 18

amended must return to the House of Representatives, whose approval is not certain..

Northamptonshiro v. Bussex, at Northampton. Home team won

by 40 raus.

[Service to the "

'Telegraph.'']

Beuter'a [Service to the " Telegraph;"]

$80 PER ANNUM Single Cort 10 Omsta.

NEWS FOR BUSY MEN,

TELEGRAMS.

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

It is believed that the death of President Leconte of Hayti was the result of a plot.

London, August 11.

London, August 10. The Porto, replying to the German torpedo-bonts awaited vigorous remonstrances of Bal- the entry of M. Poincare, the garis, has promised a promised French Fromior, into the Baltic a prompt inquiry into the mas Son, and sub-quently four battle. The death is announced of Sir sacro at Kaicluna and the ships appeared at intervals in the Joseph Diosdulo, a former Lord punishment of the guilty course of the afternoon, firing a Mayor of London.

WAR AGITATIONS.

Later.

Router's Sofia correspondent states that excitement over the Katshaon, sporo continues, The Press is threatening and atolamouring for war.

Soinerest v. Worcestershire, Taunton. Abandoned, pointlosa. Lancashire v. Derbyshire, at Manchester. Lancashire won by 248 runs.

Australians Durham, at

The Liberals of Edinburgh are It is believed that anyhow a resentful at the Master of Eli-Presidential voto of the Bill is Sunderland. Drawa. bank's action.

probable, owing to the effect il will have on the country's foreign relations.

The earthquake destroyed the THE CHInese republic.

villages of Heraklitta, Peristasis, Miriophile, Horn and others

Two hot nnused were destroyeı by fire.

WIDESPREAD HAYOC.

RECOONITION REPORT.

(From Chinose Sources.)

DISAPPROVAL.

The action of the Sonato has

THE MONSOON.

There is also a warlike agita tion in Southern Bulgaria, met- ings being organised."

ODDITIES OF THE PATENT OFFICES:

Inventors always will bon queer, fraternity, says the Railway

[created a good deal of fooling|GOOD REPORT FROM INDIA. Magazine," when they venture |

unong British shipowners.

Peking, August 11,

Soveral American newspapers Ti ia reporte! that the United strongly condomn the Senate's Later. Stutas will be the first Power to action and point out that Great Renter's Constantinople corres.recognise the Chinese Republic, Britain may retaliate by reducing in view of the proposed Alliance | the Suez Canal tolls, and so pondont mys the earthquake was. folt throughout the whole coun between the two Republics, and divert trade in that direction. iry botwoon Constantinople and that a formal message al recong-

London, August 11. Adrianople, the centro being nition will soon be despatchel by

President Taft. apparently in the Dardanelles, where it Inated for 30 seconds. SOLDIERS AND POLITICS,"

Thoro is scarcely a building in) Tho Central Government has Gallipoli or Tchansk which is not instructed the Telegraphs Bureau not to transmit telegrains sout by damaged.

Earthquake fugitives report the troops concerning poliction that at the village of Hora 80 peo-questions." Shak Po ple were killed and 300 injured,

A WELCOME

while at the village of Myriowhite | The British Minister has made 300 were killed and and 600 in a proposal to accord a welcome to jured. The former village was Dr. Sha Yut-sou and Wong ling destroyed, and the latter, as well on their arrival in Peking. The as many others, are burning. Two proposal hag been favourably villages were ongulfed.

received, and the other Foreign Ministors will join in the welcome.

EDITORS ARRESTED

ani

A Grook church and a mosque at Tohanak wore destroyed..

Steamers report that light- Vice President Id how suppress houses at Couos (Genon?) and of the Tai Kiang Pal

Ho hus! Norn disappeared, and that arrested three editors. villages adjacent are in flames. also ordered the arrest of Ho Hoi- Warships in the Dardanelles ming, who, however, has managed thought there was an attack by to escape. torpedoen.

BANK CONTROL

London, August 11.

saluto of 10 guns and hoisting the French flag. This elaborats courtesy is commented upon in the French press.

Later.

M. Poincero arrived at Cron-

As the result of the Katoliana horo aro warlike massilorës,

strut and was recorded an official agitations against Turkey in

Bulgarin. recaption.

Lator.

M. Poincare has arrived at St. Petersburg, boing cordially wel coined by the. Foreign Minister and other distinguished people.

LOCAL

Three men who had returned to the Colony after being banish- od were asoh sentenced to six

NEWS FOR BUSY MEN.onths' imprisonment to-day,

TELEGRAMS.

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

upon ground where they are ignorant of technicalities. We all know the famous proposals for

featherhed" conchos, or spring The French Premier bas buller velioles, designed to absorb arrived at St. Petersburg. In the shock of collision, when it occurs,

1

An excellent concert, on bolalf of military charities, was given at the Palace Theatre of Varieties on Saturday evening..

When asked why he was de- ported front Singapore, a man, at the Police Court to-day, admitted that it was because he had com- mitted so many robberies.

A message from. Simla statos

that is; provided passing through the Baltic Sea that the monsoon constitutos a record na rogardą distribution and catastrophe does not happen when he was accorded marked naval A message from Router's Now timeliness. A continuance of the the buffer car is at the wrong end honours by the German Fleet. York correspondent statos that exceptional conditions is expect. of the train, or is laid up for American exporters generally areed, and a large Government repairs. Another iden several times

one train to pass over another, Prines Arthur of Connaught, displeased with the Canal Bill surplus for the current year promulgated is that of allowing

to the hands of one or two and fear that tho trafic will fall practically assured...

Other suggestions of which we Prince Henry of Prussia and Mr.

The residence of Mr. A..O. steamship traats which, will con

have recently heard afford ovidence of the amazing

Secrotury Knox are to roprosent Little, Carnarvon Road, Kowloon,

is

d the trade and regulate the TURKEY & MONTENEGRO. lengths to which amateur rail-Britain, Germany and the United has been entered by burglars, tes

way inventors would proceed. Statos rospectively at the Mikado's and goods to the value of $140 Here are a few apocimons: 1.

funeral.

Biolou, Coaches fitted with duplicate RUSSO-BRITISH SERVICES, wheels, so that in the evont

CONTROLLING WIRE- LESS:

AMERICAN REGULATIONS.

London, August 10. A mossage from Washington states that the House of Repre- The Paris and Constantinople The Ministry of Finance in-sentatives has passed a Bill provid papers give the killed at 1,000 tonds to transfer the control of the ing heavy penalties for interference and the injured at 5,000 or 6,000. Communications Bank to the with wireless messagoa ateos, giv- Communicationsing the Governmont control of Ministry of The Hink will be utilised as o inter-stato wireless communica. depositing bureau for the postal tion, and authorising the Prosidont to be commander of wireless stations in time of war.

MIKADO'S FUNERAL.

U S. REPRESENTATIVE.

London, August 10.

London, August 11,

rovenues,

CHINA MERCHANTS CO. President Yuno has directed Choy Ting-kou to proceed to! Shanghai and enquire into the reported sale of the China Mer- olants Steamship Co.

RAILWAY LOANS · President Taft has designated

President Yunn has directed Mr. Knox, Secretary of State, or the Ministry of Internal Affairs to special ambassador to attend the notify the Provincial authorities funeral of the Emperor of Japan. not to raise loans from foreign Ile starts on Thursday for Japan. sources for the construction of

railways.Shat Po",

SOCIETIES UNITED. Mr. Knox will be accompanied On the 8th inst. the Union by high military and naval re- Soviety and the Jointly Sworn presentatives, and it is thought Union signed an agroament of that he may take the opportunity amalgamation, the organisation of explaining to the statesmen of to be known in future as the Tokyo the attitudo of the United Republican Society. Statos with regard to the open RUSSO-JAPanese AgrEE- door in Chino,

This Prosa connects the visit Mr. Chang Yim-long, the with that of Prince Katsura to Minister, at Washington, has: St. Petersburg,

wired to the Central Government

OTHER REPRESENTATIVES.

London, August 11, Router's Tokyo correspondent

MENT.

OBITUARY.

SIR JOSEPH DIMSDALE.

London, August 11. Sir Joseph Dimsdale, Lord Mayor of London in 1001-2,

dead.

PRESIDENT LECONTE.

VICTIM OF PLOT.

is

of breakage one can be removed and the reserve brought into uso

The exceptionally good con-

We learn that another attempt without delay, 2. Sowing ma- London, August 10.

chines operated from the exles of ditions prevailing in India beis to be made to refloat the passenger coaches, for the bonofit cause of the timeliness and die Quinta, which went ashore on the Reator learns that Great Britain of industrious lady travellors. 3. tribution of the monson, is rocks near the Paracel Islands and Russia, through their repre- An automatic lunch counter for

some weeks ago. sentatives at Constantinople and trains, delivering various drinks expected to have it result in a Cetinje, have used their good and eatables when coins are in large Government surplus this officos to avert a conflict between sorted in slots. 4. Travelling cots

year. Turkoy and Montenegro.

for babies. 5. Coin-frood onmeras! for taking viowe from trains. And so on, almosted infinitum.

ANOTHER SHANGHAI

FIRE.

Peace in Chengtu.

A Bill passed by the U. S. House of Representatives provides for the imposition of henry penal.

The "N. China Daily News" tios in one of interference with correspondent writing

from wireless messages at Fox and also

Two house-boys were charged at the Police Court to-day with assaulting a forester who was arrosting a woman for cutting turf. The charge was dismissed.

At the police court this after-

tro applied to Mr. Melbourne for

a re-hearing of a chargo againsta woman concerning the adoption of a child. It was decided to ro- hour the case on Thursday.

A fire broke out in a motor Chengta on July 17 says that gives the Government control of

of the inter-State wireless communica-noon Mr. F. X. D'Almada e Cas shed, situated in the Municipal since the departure Compound, Shanghai, on the 8th Governor for Tibet to lend the tion. inst, and some excitement was Chinese forces thoro, Chongtu occasioned. A number of police has been more than usually officers, assisted by the Central orderly. The soldiers, who were station contingent of the Fire one of the disturbing elements, The centre of the earthquake Brigado, extinguishor the flames have gone, and certain factions appears to have been in the Dardanelles. Worships in theao before any really serious damngo seem to have come together. was dano. The flames spread to The bead of the forces at pre-wators thought it was an attack a small quantity of oil and the sent in the city and the head of by torpedoes. The number of dense smoke suggested that the the police have smoked the pipe people killed is extimated at outbreak was of a really gorions of peace and are now united to 1,300 and the wounded at be- unture, The two sets of window maintain. order. As a result a tween 5,000 and 6,000, panos that lond light to the three number of minor proclamations workmen who are occupied in a are out ordering the early closing shed were broken and the sides of gates, no pig feeding, no hang- of the structure were rather bad- ing out of washing from shops All looks ly soorabad, Otherwise little in the streets, ato. damage was done, although a hopeful for the future, ohauffeur, who, was on the pro-

The tennis match between

Kowloon and the Host of the Longus on Saturday ended in a win for the Rest by 12: gamos to 78. At the conclusion of the

wad presented

It is believed that President match, the shield Taft will veto tho Panama Canal Bill owing to the effect that it to Koloon and medals to mem- will have on the country's foreigners of the team by Mrs. Forsyth, relations American papers point out that Britain may retaliate by reducing the Suez Canal dues so Mr. Philip B. Dankey, a former as to divert trade to that route, if the flames had been permitted Manila and Shanghai newspaper-

London, Aug. 10. It is believed that Presidentmises at the time was rather bad- to the effect that the United Leconte, who was killed in hisly burned about the legs in a gal- Statos is strongly opposing the palace at Bayti as the result of a lant attempt to quench the fire. Russo-Japanese Agreement con- series of explosions, was the It was thought by many that corning Mancharia and Mongolia, victim of a plot.

A RUSSIAN REFUSAL Russia has refused to pay back

wires that Prined Arthur of Con- to China "several tens of thous

Fortune for Ex-Shanghai

Newspaper. Man,

to "progress some injury would man, but of recent years residing have been occasioned to the muni- in Honolulu, has fallen heir to an tions of the Artillery (8. V..0.) immense fortune. An uncle. The Liberal Executive at

On Saturday Lieut, Col. Kirks was presented with a case of pipes by members of the Kow- loon "A" Cricket Team in re

naught and Prince Henry of ands of dollars" deposited by the ALLEGED SPY ON BAIL. On the contrary their guns are Frank 8. Alling, a Tacoma Midlothian, have rejected the cognition of his sexvions, to the

Prussia will represent Their Ministry of Education of the old Majesties King George and the Government with the Russo- Kaiser respectively at the funeral Asiatic Bank, on the grounds that

In 'on. August 11. of the Inte Mikado,

the money will be used for the The Russian Captain named (The "Telograpli's" own car payment of compensation to Kostevitoh, who was arrested in respondent wired the news bon-Russian merchants for losses aus Berlin, in June on a charge of King George's repro- tained during the Devolution. sapionage, has been released on erning of meatstive, on Wedponday that; Bal Kal Kang Yik Po.

beyond destruction by fire, and millionaire, died recently, leaving advice of the Master of Elibank Club. In replying, Lient. Col. there is little contained in the gun millions in money and property, to support the miners, nominee, Kirke commented on the fact shed that could have added to the but leaving-no will., Mr. Dankey, and have resolved to bring for that cricket was a democratio conflagration. A recent report by being the sole surviving heir, has ward Mr. Alexander Shaw, son of game, and said that personally inspection officer from petitioned the Supreme Court of Ford Shaw. The notion of the he did not mind playing cricket Hongkong was responsible for the State of Washington for the Master of Elibank in resented the removal to more safe keeping administration of the estate anions, the Liberals of Edle- with a Duke, a Rajah or a postę. of the more dangerous explosives. "Japan Gazoite."