1912-08-15 — Page 1

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

August 14th, 1912, Temperature a.m. 78, p.m. 70; Humidity...03, 91.

No. 8865

TELEGRAMS.

耦三初月七年子壬

TELEGRAMS.

COCONUTS AND COPRA.

WARNING FROM F.M.S.+

HOME RULE.

CHURCHILL'S `REJOINDER. -

Router's

[Service to the "Telegraph.").

London, August 14.

Router's

[Service to the "Telegraph."},

London, August 14

Mr. Winston Churchill has

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THURSDAY,

TELEGRAMS.

WEATHER FORECAST

SHOWERY

Barometer 20.70

August 14th, 1911, Temperature a.m. 83, p.m., 32; Humidity... 77, 85.

AUGUST 15,

1912.

四弃濃:

魏五十月八英遵香

TELEGRAMS.

TELEGRAMS.

NEWS FOR BUSY MEN.

NEW YORK SENSATION. TURKEY AND BULGARIA. PANAMA CANAL BILL, APPEAL FOR DELIVERANCE

•ASTOUNDING "GRAFT."

Reuter's

Routor's

[Service to the "“ Te

"AUSTRALIAN REGRETS.

TELEGRAMS.

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

Her Majesty the Queen and H. R. H. Princess Mary have left London for Neustrelitz.

Mulai Yusof, brother of the

886 Pæn AMNEALS

SINGLE COFT 10 Queri

NEWS FOR BUSY MEN.

TELEGRAMS

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

It is reported that the District Attorney at New York has un- earthed banking accounts which show that police high officialshave - accumulated as much as a million dollars through" graft."

It is reported that the Govern

Router's [Service to the Telegraph."] [Service to the Telegraph."} London, August 15.

London, August 14,

London, August 14. Reuter's New York correspon-

A message from Sofia reports a Router's Melbouiae correspon The Colonial Office publishes widely a telegram from the Co-issued a longthy and vigorous dent says that in connection with demonstration of protest against dentistates that in the House of vernment of the Foderated Malay reply to Mr. Bar Law. He the Police "graft" investigation, the Kochans massacros. There Representatives Mr. Fisher in- Statos warning investors against says the incitements to violonce the District Attorney Ins un- was a procession in high black formed Mr. Denkin that he re-ex-Sultan, has been proclamed rash sprontations in coconut and and throats of armed force which earthed bank accounts which dogs were carried the bell of gretted that the United States Sultan of Morocco.

Mr. Bonar Law and Sir Edward show that high officials have no the churches wereel, and the had taken a course with regard to copra Companies, whose pro Carson have stridently reiterated sumulated as much as a million shops were shut. A resolution the Panama Canal tolls which perty has probably been over-

during the prosont year are now dollars.

passed demanding the was seemingly clearly against the Eight Chinese have been ex-barm is submitted to Dublin valued.

Police Lieutenant Bocker, who Government to do its utmost to terms of the Anglo-American couted for plotting the murder Castle. -- Tho telegram states that the ap-apparently represented morely as

salary of deliver the Macedonian Bul-Treaty. He added that the Co- of Yuan Shih-kai, pearance of names of retired solenn warnings which are not is under arrest, with

to be translated into action. Malayalon officers in the prospec

$2,000 (gold) deposited $51,845 garious from the Turkish yoko. tuses cannot be accoptel as in- dicating that tho business is Bound.

TURCO-ITALIAN WAR.

PEACE OVERTURES.

MOROCCO.

A RESEMBLANCE TO BLUFF.since November.

"This boars a strong resem- blance to bluff, but we cannot accopt Mr. Bonar Law's reassur- Although he does not intend the extreme. consequences of his words and actions, the position is far more serious than his explanations imply."

писов.

"LAWLESS DOCTRINES.

After referring to the arming |

SULTAN PROCLAIMED,

London, August 14.

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monwealth Government had al- ready communicated with the Imperial Government on the subject. He hoped that the matt- THE IRISH SITUATION. er would be satisfactorily settled.

SIGNIFICANT PRECAUTION.

HOME CRICKET.

London, August 14. The match between Australia and Worcestershire at Woroos- London, August 14,

tor has been abandoned because and drilling of Ülstor, and quot- Reuter's corresponden ut Rabat

The Belfast "Evening Teloof rain. London, August.14.

ing the Blenheim speech, Mr. states that Mulai Yusof, brother

graph" states that the Govern Yorkshire beat Middlesex at There have been informal con Churchill says: Surely these of Multi Hand, has been proment has decided not to sanotion Leeds by 107 runs.

claimed Sultan of Morocco. ahy further miniaturo rifle clubs versations proceeding in Switzer- are mad tactics for the leader of a land for some tino in the hops of party which hopos soon to govern') Numorous salutos were fired, but Ireland unless the list of mem-Cheltenham by nine wickets, finding a basis for the settlemont the land. If a warning was all the inhabitants appeared to take bors is submitted to Dublin

Castle. of the Turca-Italian war, though he sought to givo, was it necessary but little interest in the proceed-

so far nothing concrete lins been to offer this brazon countenance

to lawless doctrinos? achieved.

Thoro is gonoral feeling of optimism that the ond of the war may not be remote, and it is! hope that M. Poincaro's visit to St. Petersburg may contribute to the discovery of u formula accopt-veno before it comes into opera able to both sides.

CHINA AND TIBET.

AGREEMENT PROBABLE

NO IMMEDIATE DANGER. Mr. Churchill points out that many months must olapso before the Homo Rule Bill becomes law, that a lengthy period must inter-

inge.

NEW TURKISH MINISTER.

FRENCH NAVAL INCIDENT.

Kent beat Gloucestershire at Sussex and Easox drow at Eastbourne.

MORE TROUBLE FOR THE

MOSQUITO.

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The oricket match between

Australia and Worcestershire has

had to be abandoned through

rain..

The Dalai Lama has made

certain concessions to the Chinese which render an early agreement of the Tibetan dispute probable..

The latest figures regarding the Turkish earthquake are that 701 people were killed and 3,081 houses destroyed.

The Colonial Office is circulat- ing a telegram from the F.M.8.

Government warning investors against rash speculations in coconut and copra companies,

ment has decided not to sanction any further miniature rife clube in Ireland unless the list of mem-

There has been a demonstration: in Sofia as a protest against the Kochana massacres, ▲ resoulu- tion was passed demanding that utmost to deliver the Macedonian the Government should do its

Bulgarians from the Turkish yeko.

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LOCAL

During the 24 hours ended at 10 am. to-day the rainfall was 6.73 inches.

The man charged with murder from Wanchai again appeared before Mr. C. D. Melbourne this morning and was discharged.

For. stealing two pieces of gas piping a man was asut to gaol for aix weeks and was ordered four hours' stocks this morning.

It is believed that two more arrests have been made in con- nootion with the Pingshan armed robbery:

A landslide at the back of

The Illinois Central Railroad has announced that it would lead London, August 14. the work of hounding the mos Fahred Din Boy has been ap-quito to its end by stooking tion, and that a third lengthy EXPLOSION CAUSES PANIC pointed Turkish Minister to every stagnant pool on its lines;

With a view to ending the Hung Hom police station has poriod must olapse before the,

Coltinje.

with minnowa of the goldfish. Turoo-Italian war, informal condone considerable damage to the slightest oppression could touch the Unionists of Ulstor.

The idea was conceived by Dr. vorsations bave been proceeding in out buildings. G. G. Dowdall, chief surgeon of Switzerland for some time. There the road, and will be the first is a general feeling of optimism

ANOTHER GENERAL

ELECTION.

London, August 15. Router's Toulon correspondent

says that the boiler tubos on the THE CHINESE REPUBLIC. experiment of its kind over made. in consequence.

Vorito exploded, "If the Orangemen are right," battleship The goes on, "in the ovil, which causing a panio.

they apprehend from an Irish The newspapers say that a London, August 14, Parliament, it is cortain that be-number of the crow jumped over- The Tibetan-Chinese negotia-fore they are actually affected board aud swain ashore and that tions at Lliassa have advanced there must be another general the captain sounded the recall, materially during the past wook, oleolion. Are there not, there. whereupon the men roturned and the Dalai Lama moking conces the Constitution for their specifis

foro, sufficient remedies within wore severely reprimandied. sions rendering an agreement

grievance ? probable.

SPANISH DISASTER.

FISHING FLEET'S FATE

London, August 14, Router's Madrid correspondent

FRANCE AND Russia.

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EFFECT OF M. POINCARE'S VISIT.

London, August 14. An authoritative French state- ment has boon published, sum- ming up the effects of M. Poin- ene's visit to Russia. It says

wires that a Spanish fishing fleet that while the Alliance did not

A

Simultaneously there was panic on the battleship Republi- quo and some fishing vessels who were lying near the Vorite.

AVIATION.

THE LATEST VICTIM.

London, August 14.

ANOTHER GERMAN LOAN.

'All minnows eat the larvm of

the mosquito, Dr. Dowdall ex-

Two coolies, charged to-day with hawking without a licence, pleaded that they were merely delivering" the goods. They plained, "but no minnow except A Spanish fishing fleet of were dismissed with a caution. that of the goldfish is able to sur-over one hundred vessels has For allowing the House, 39 vive in stagnant water. It had been caught in a storm and many Wyndham Street, to be used for never been thought of before, but of the draft have foundered. The gambling purposes, a man wão. (From Chinese Sources we believe that by stocking all of Government is sending tugs to fined $25 at the Police, Court

the pools on our lines with the search for the remainder. Poking, August 14.

hardy minnows we shall be able

The Princesa of Hesse, a sis The Ministry of Communics-in a short time to do away entirely tions intends to raise a loan of with the malaria and other tor of the Kaiser, has been rob- bed in London of a dressing bag $10,000,000 from Germany and disease-carrying mosquitos"

The Illinois Central has written containing gold-mounted toilet will devote the same to the institu- tion of an express train service onto the various state hatcheries, set and a Bible bearing her fat the Tientsin Pu-kow Railway along its lines and to the federal her's antograph.

hatcheries, asking co-operation, "Shat Po."

to-day.

An Indian police constable, who returned from leave only yesterday, fell out of a window at the barracks this morning. He was removed to the hospital but died shortly after..

Preparations are well in band If the aid is not given, the road The Commonwealth Govern for the commencement of the will establish its own hatoheries mont regrets that the United active work of the Hongkong and stock the pools itself.

States has taken a course in reUniversity. The first term opens gard to the Panama Canal tolls a month hence and practically all which is seemingly clearly against the appointments to the staff have the terms of the Anglo-American been made.

Treaty

COMPENSATION FROM MEXICO. Shanghai, August 14, The Mexican Minister has The latest aviation victim is notified the Chinose Govern- THE PRICE OF RUBBER. of over a hundred vessels has been need strengthoning, the exchange Mr. Fenwick, of Lark Hall, Scotment that the Mexican Govern

A few weeks since it was men- ought in a storm off the north of of ideas has resulted in a clear land, who met his death while mont has agreed to payment of Spain, and many have already definition of views, and an agree-flying across the Mersey in a $30,000,000 as compensation to tioned, says the "China Press,"

A million tsels is being claimed to-day of a assaulting a man ment was easily reached on all monoplane, a small low-powered the Chinese residents in Mexico that the price of rubber had been by Hankow merchants against with a hammer and inflicting a The Government is now sond-questions pressing for solution in machine of his own invention, for damages sustained during the so monotonously steady during the Chins Merchants 8. N. Co. wound on his head, on board a last revolutionary outbreak there, the present year that the public for loss of cargo which the Com-vessel at Taikoo Dook. Deiend-

hardly realised the fact that the

foundered.

ing 'tuga to search for tho the East and also on all the great romainder.

FEARS REALISED.

London, August 15. Several fishing bonta have been brought in at Ban Sebastian without a soul on board.

THE EARTHQUAKE.

LATEST FIGURES.

problems exciting public opinion in Europe. It says that the Naval Convention, while dis- quieting to none, will prove that Russia, while attentively follow ing events in the East, is far from detaching herself from her allios in the West.

OTHER RESULTS.

The Times

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A ROYAL DIVORCE.

A Chinese who was convicted

ant'admitted that his temper got

AN UNWELCOME CALL. Shai Chuk has visited President could only be a trifle short of that Yuan and demanded the early for the whole of,1011 (58. Old.). payment of the allowances in This conjecture was recently

| average price of plantation grades pany is said to have refused the better of him and was told

mission to remove during à con flagration.

by Mr. Melbourne that he might have killed the man,

Challenged by a detective as to

Paris, July 10-lu reply to a connection with the Imperial justified by a statement made by Through the boiler tubes of the request to the Infanta Eulalia, Household and the expenditure the Mincing-lane Tea and Rubber French battleship Verite explod where he got a quantity of wax a aunt of the King of Spain, for a towards the Imperial Ancestral Brokers Association, that the ing,a panic was caused on board. Chinese said he got it from a statement regarding her alleged tombs. He had heated words public sale average for the past It is said that a number of the boatman whose name he did not Later. intention of taking out French with the President and was six months of the year was 4s, orew jumped overboard and swam know. His want of knowledge 11.99d. It is worth reiteration ashore and were subsequently so on that point helped to get him correspondent naturalisation papors, the follow-oventually shown out,"

that this average has been reverely reprimanded for their fourteen days this morning for being in unlawful possession of at Paris statos that the results of ing telegram has been received MILITARY ARREST.

alised notwithstanding the mar condnot;

the wax. M. Poincare's visit will be that from Hague in Normandy, where

The Governor General of Ho-keting of much larger orops; for France will support Russian in the Infanta is staying :--

"The Infante Antonio of nan has arrested five men con- then we can turn to fr. Lampard's An authoritative French state- An interesting case came be terests wherever necessary con- London, August 14. cerning the Chinese Loan, the Orleans (husband of the Infanta), nected with the shooting outrage cheerful anticipations of the

Poincare's visit to Russia, saying morning, when a Chinese con- Latest raporis in connection Balkan question and railways in having officially requested the on the members of the provincial course of the rubber market with ment sums up the effects of M. fore Mr. Justice Gompertz, this with the Turkish earthquake Asia Minor. Russia, in return, French Minister of Justice to be sembly. All are military men. something solid in hand. Most that agreement has been reached tractor mod the Pathe Phono rubber shareholders will have read on all questions pressing for solu Cinema Chine, to recover damages place the number of killed at will do her utmost to strengthen allowed to resume his French "Shat Po."

the speech of the trust chairman; tion in the East and also, all grest for a breach of warrenty in cons 701, and the number of houses the Alliance from military and nationality, basing his demand on

naval standpoints.

the foot of being the son of the

for he can always be counted upon problems exciting public opinion neotion with the sale of some cinematograph filme." It was al- destroyed at 3,081.

Duc de Montpensier, the French

to give a general summing up of the position of the moment from

in Europe.

leged that some films were stuck. Government must in justice grant KAISER'S SISTER

his point of view. Mr. Lampard ROBBED.

together like glue.

BRITISH ROYALTY.

WHILE IN LONDON.

cial Governments.

was even more optimistic than Mr. Winston Churchill has when making his previous pro-issued a lengthy and vigorous

'A' Chinese "with a very bad

PROVINCIAL LOANS.

Peking, August 14. President Yuan has decided the Infante's demand. By French upon the regulations governing law the wife follows the nation- the raising of loans by Provin ality of her husband."

PROVINCIAL, REQUEST. nouncement on the rubber out reply to Mr. Bonar Law's retort record game before Mr.Melbourne The object of the royal couple in seeking to become naturalived The Kwangei provincial repre- look; and that is saying a good to the First Lord's dexanolation this morning, charged with steal- French citizens is to enable them sentatives in Peking have begged daal. He expressed confidence that of Unionists for inciting Ulstering two bottles of milk from London, August 14. The Princess of Hesse, the to instituts divorce proceeding the Government to appoint Chan the figures of production and con- man to violence. He says it is the basket of a boy. It was Kaiser's sister, was robbed The Infanta's recent quarrel with Bni-cheong as Civil Administrator sumption justify mnoh higher certain that before Orangemen stated that the prisoner had Majesty the Queen and Victoria Station, London, of her King Alfonso over the publication of their province. They also beg price for rubber, and his belief are actually affected there must eleven previous convictions fur

dressing bag containing a gold- of her book, The Thread of that Lu Wing-ling, the Governor that, if English and continental be another General Election and mounted toilet set and a Bible Life," in which the expressed General, only naeumes control of manufacturers are not careful, the therefore there are within the lamony and he with her father's autograph/ very liberal opinions, will be re this troops. Sal Kal Kung Yik Americans are going to get them Constitution wiolente remedies

for their speciño grievi

CONTINENTAL VISIT.

London, August 14,

CH Princess Mary have left London for Nanstrelitz, on a visit which will extend for ten days,

membered?

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sat two year