1912-08-23 — Page 1

The Hongkong Telegraph.

August 22nd, 1912, Temperature a.m. 78, p.m. 81; Humidity...04, 85.

No. 8872

TELEGRAMS.

中联一十月七年子壬

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August 22nd, 1911, Temperature a.m. 82, p.m., 83; Humidity...82, 75.

TELEGRAMS.

TELEGRAMS.

FRIDAY, AUGUST 23, 1912.

TELEGRAMS.

五洋®

晚三廿月八英港香

TELEGRAMS.

NEWS FOR BUSY MEN.

THE TRADE COMMISSION.

ENGLAND THE CHAMPIONS.

CHAIRMAN RESIGNS.

THE DAVIS CUP.

AMERICA WITHDRAWS.

·GENERAL” BOOTH.

AUSTRALIAN TRIBUTE.

PEKING EXECUTIONS.

THE CRISIS PASSED.

TEST CRICKET.

Sensational Bowling

Router's

(Lervice to the Telegraph."'] -

Router's

[Service to the "Telegraph."]

London, August 22.. The "Times" states that Lord

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

London, August 22. America has withdrawn from

London, August 22. Inchcape has resigned the Chair- the Davis International Lawn The Triangular Tost matchmanship of the Commission on Tennis Cup Competition, and between England and Australia the Trade of the Dominione on Britain will thus mest Australa was concluded to-day at the Oval, the ground that important basi-sia, the present holders. the result being a win for Enk-nene will detain him at home. land by 244 runs. England thus The Right Hon. Mr. Arnold become Triangular Champions. Morley will probably succeed him.

When play was resumed, the weather was bright after the over-] * night rain, but the wicket was still difficult.

There was an attendance of

12,000 spectators,

NEW CHAIRMAN.

Loter.

The appointment of the Right

With an over-night score of 64 Hon. Mr. Arnold Morley as Chair- for four wickets, England again mun of the Imperial Trado Con

"KID

McCOY.

EXONERATED AND DISMISSED.

Router (Service to the Telegraph.") London, August 22. Router's Brisbane, correspon dont rays that the State Ascom- bly, on the motion of the Premier, passed a resolution of sympathy with the relatives of the late "Gonoral" Both, the members standing

Later.

The body of the late "General"

Booth has been removed to Clapton and will lie in state to- morrow and Saturday:

Reutor's [Service to the Telegraph."]

TELEGRAMS.

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

A number of Europeana hava beon stopped near Safi in Morocco and compelled to pay heavy ran-

Bom.

London, August 22, Router's Peking correspondent says the National Assembly satThe movement to divert the with closed doors to consider the question of naval defence from orisis arising out of the execution party politics in spreading in of two Generals.

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NEWS FOR BUSY MEN.

LOCAL.

THE NEWS CONDENSED,

Mr. Frank Dooly, the eldest son of the Headmaster of Queen's College, has passed the recent. matriculation examination at the. London University.

A man who failed to register the birth of his child was fined

Apparently moderate counsele prevailed, end the impeachment America has withdrawn from $2. at the Police Court this morn motion was dropped, the Assout the Davis Cup compolition, and ing. Ho laid the blame on his bly agreeing to President Yuan Britain now have to meet Austra-wife who, he said, forgot to re-

mind him. Shi-kai's suggestions.

lasia, the holders.

This morning, in the Summary

The crisis is regarded as passed, President Yuan refused to Franco has accepted Austria's demand, the attendance, of the proposal for an intorchango of There is a movement afoot for Premier and the Minister of War. viows botwoon tho Powers on the Court beforo Mr. Justice Gom-

Instead, ho suggested that the Balkon situation. Hupeh deputies should visit him:

London, August 22.

his burial in Westminster Abbey The Magistrate at Bow Street went to the wickets, and succeed-unission is confirmed. The Com Police Court has exonerated mission has completed its pro-"Kid" MoCoy, the well-known

od in taking their second innings liminary arrangements and when boxer, in connection with the THE GALWAY ARREST.

total up to 175. Of these, Fry knocked up 70 and Douglas 24, Hazlitt captured seven wickets for 25 runs, taking the last five

for one run.

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With arrears of 300 to face, the Australians went out to bat second time, but they were all accounted for for the small total of 65, of which Macartney mado 30. The lowness of the Australian Boore was due to the fine bowling of Doan and Woolley, the former taking four wickets for 10 runs and the latter five for 20.

THE BALKAN unrest.

SATISFACTORY DEVELOP.

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London, August 22. Reuter's correspondent Constantinoplo roports that news has arrived of the resignation of the Montenegrin Cabinet, which to regarded as paving the way out of the present situation.

it reassembles in the United chargo of larceny for which he Kingdom in October it will com- was wanted at Ostend, and has

dismissed the case. mence to take ovidence."

[The now Chairman of the Trade Commission is a son of the late Mr. Samuel Morley, M.1. for Bristol, He

educated ni Trinity College, Cara- degree in Mathematical honours ha bridge, where he took an mg otat ing been nigh in the three days. Latur bows en lel to the Bar and su queatly became M. P for Nottingham. te was afterwards ap;cialo! Patronage Seurotary and Chief Liberal Whip and Later Postmaster Genera{}

ULSTER.

CANADA'S NAVY.

A NON-PARTY MOVEMENT.

ESPIONAGE SUSPECT

RELEASED.

London, August 22. The Belgian, named Quetslei, who was arrested on the 10th inst. at Galway on suspicion of espion ago, has boon discharged, ibere being no ovidonce against him,

MOROCCO.

THE PRETENDER'S SUCCESS.

London, August 22, Reuter's Tangier correspondent says the Protender, El Hiba; entered Marrakesh after fighting with Kaid Elglawi,

The remaining loyal French are besieged in a house with the French Consul and French polica instructors.

London, August 22. Koutor's correspondent at Toronto states that the movement to divert the question of naval defence from party politics is. spreading, and is taking the form largely of a sigued memorial to be presented to Mr. Borden, tho Premier, and Sir Wilfred Laurier, declaring that if international Quick Firing from an Aeroplane: stopped near Safi and compelled relations, according to official].

EFFECT OF THE COVENANT information, indicate the exist-

London, August 22 The "Time" says the statement that the people of Ulster are planning an armed rising is un- BULGARIAN FEELING. founded. At meetings to be held Bulgaria in anxiously awaiting at the end of September they will details of Count Berchtold's pro- enter into a covenant not to posals. The Bulgarians think acknowledge or pay taxes to a that decentralisation will only Parliament established in Dublia,

· benefit the Albanians. BulgariR will only accept local solf-govern- mont with Macedonia, or go to war with Turkey.

THE AUSTRIAN PROPOSAL.

Lnter.

situation. MONTENEGRINS WITHDRAW.

drawn from Berano.

SEPARATE ASSEMBLY

POSSIBLE. ·

Later.

n

THE NEW YORK MURDER. Ulster Parliament would not last long, for the same reasons which brought Natal within the Union

once of an urgent situation,

Canada, should forthwith take substantial action adequate to the country's wealth, and exhorting the Government to consult the Opposition to that end.

THE CHINESE REPUBLIC.

A STIFF TEST.

EUROPEANS MELD UP.

London, August 22. A number of Europeans from Marrakesh were on the 17th inst.

to pay heavy ransom.

perts, the Robinson Piano Com- pany sued Helen Roedor to re- The Queensland State Assom-cover the sum of $181, alleged to bly has passed a resolution of be due for the hire of a piano. sympathy with the relatives of The case was adjourned. the lato Gonoral Booth.

This morning in the Summary The Austrian oruiser Kaisor Court, the case was mentioned in Franz Josef is to visit Yokohama which Mrs. Margaret Ogilvie, of in connection with the funeral 42 Nathan Road, aued Major of the late Emporor.

Walton to recover the sum of $32.67. It was stated that this was for damage to furniture.

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The resignation of the Mon- tonogrin Cabinet is regarded in Constantinople as paving the way out of the prosent situation.

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The body of the Into" Goneral" Booth will lie in state at Clapton to-day and to-morrow, There is a movement afoot for his burial in Westminster Abboy.

The "Westminster Gazette !! states that Liberals will willingly listan to reasonable arguments regarding the establishment of a separate Assembly for Ulster.

A man sentenced in connection: with the armed robbery at Lower Lascar Row, was called before Mr. Melbourne, this afternoon, at the Polico Court to give evidence against another mian arrested in connection with the offence.

A European named Pollook, alais Brown, was remanded at the Police Court, to-day in conneo- tion "with a criminal" "offence. against a girl of 13 years at Lord Inchcape has resigned the Shanghai. He was arrested on quick-firing gun in an aeroplane VINCENT ASTOR THREAT Chairmanship of the Imperat the Kaifong, this morning, when,

An experiment with by the Royal Flying Corps at Farnborough has proved entirely successful. This is affother, stop in the advance of the aeroplane and waterplane as a means of land and son.defence.

ENED.

Trade Commission owing to im- the latter arrived from Manila"-- portant business, and he is to be

aucossded by the Right Hon. MrIt is alleged that all the no-

Letter Writers Demand Part Arnold Morley.

of His Wealth.

cemary chemicals for the manu- facture of high explosives have boon found, together with a bomb shell at 112, Queen's Road West, from where twelve men have been arrested. At the Police Court to day, all were remanded.

"Kid" McCoy, whose extra The test with the_quick-firing|

dition to Ostend was sought in gun was made in stiff breeze at a: William Vincent Astor, the connection with a jewellery theft, height of four hundred feet youthful head of the Astor family, has been exonerated at Bow Some twenty rounds of am-controlling on estate valued at Street Police Court, the magist THE RECENT EXECUTIONS. munition were fired at imaginary more than $100,000,000, has re-rate dismissing the case,

objects on the plain directly ceived so many threatening letters The trade of Hankow is boom J. L. Crockett, of the Peak, was At the Summary Court to-day beneath the aeroplane. The that he now goes about armed and ing, the disbandment of troops issued for the sum of $12.20 by a recoil had little effect upon the is trailed by an armed guard steadily proceeding throughout chair coolie who had been die- steadiness of the machine, which whenever he is around town and the Yangtse Valley and 99 per missed from service for disobedi was piloted by Mr. De Haviland, in the country. with Mr. Wilson as gunner.

The Minister of Justice has, in

at

directions..

ence. After bearing evidence, His Lordship gave judgment for the defendant..

(From Chinese Sostroom)

Shanghai, August 22. Vice President Li Yuan-hong The Westminister Gazsite"

He has been besieged, hounded cent of the population are stated France has accepted · Count discusses the question of has telegraphed to Peking giving. The biplane used was one built and threatened with dire results to urgently desire quietude. Berchtold's proposal for an ex-separate Assembly for Ulster, and publicity to the particulars of the the factory, and was specially unless he hands over a portion of change of views on the Balkan says Liborals will willingly listen ton crimes committed by the strengthened to carry the weight his wealth to the insistent letter against Australia by the comfor- England won the Test match to reasonable arguments thero-decapitated Generale, Chang of the gun and ammunition, writers,

table margin of 244 runs and A Chiness was charged, at the anont, But what the Imperial Chun-wu and Fong Wai.

President Yuan has despatched seat in front of the pilot, and has The gunner sits in a box-shaped

thus become Triangular Chamip-Police Court this morning, with The Montenegrins love with. Government cannot contemplate four officials to Hupeh to investi-n clear view. The gun, which

ons: Some remarkable bowling stealing a roll of wire, valued at is defiance like the Ulster covonunt,

THE SEA-SERPENT. marked the last day's play. $10 from the 'stors of the Public which would put an end to orderly gate the case of Generals Chang works on a pivot, was fired in all Government.

Works Department and further Chun-wu and Fong. Wai.

Sir H. Rider Haggard has sout The "Times" denies the state with falsifying a book. The oase The journal believes that an

As these trials have proved so to the Prese a letter from his ment that Ulsterites are, planing was adjourned until Wednesday, satisfactory, several more biplanes daughter, who is staying at his an armed rising. It says they bail being fixed at $100. are to be equipped with guns, house, Kessingland Grange, near will enter into a covenant not to and Mr. Mervyn O'Gorman, the Lowestoft, and who thinks she acknowledge or pay taxes im. The congested state of the superintendent, will direct fresh has seen ases serpent" there. posed by the Dublin Parliament. Summary Court was clearly experimente. Already provision Miss Rider Haggard's letter Premier Lu Las tendered, his has been made to carry bombe says: "I saw what looked like closed doors to consider the Lordship, Mr. Justice Compartz, The Poking Assembly sat with shown this morning when His resignation, but President Yuan in most of the army biplanes as a thin dark line, with a blob at crisis arising out of the execu- had to commence fixing daten for has refused to accept it. Bow-s result of recent experiments at one end, shooting through the tions of the two Generals, but hearing cases more than a week

he, grante five days' leave. Franborough,

water at terrific speed. Through apparently, moderate counsels ahead. In one case there was glasses we could make out it had prevailed, and the impeachment quite a battle to got a day fixed a sort of head at one end, and motion was dropped. The crisis for hearing. then a series of about thirty is regarded as now passed. pointed blobe, dwindling in size as they approached the tail. It got more and more submerged and then vanished. I suppose it was about sixty feet long."

MYSTERIOUS REWARD.

London, August 22. Reuters New York correspond- ent states that a reward of £1,000 sterling has been anonymonely placed at the disposal of the Die- triot Attorney for the arrest of "Lefty Louis" and "Gyp-the- Blood," who are wanted to com- plete the round-up of persons suspected of complicity in the murder of the gambler Rosenthal. The polios are ineligible.

of South Africa.

HANKOW TRADE.

SATISFACTORY REPORTS.

London, August 22.

view of the Peking executions, written officially to President Yuan and Vice President Li, rais ing the point of jurisdiction.

ever,

THE PREMIER.

DR. SUN.

Shanghai, August 22.

The members of the Jointly Sworn Union in Chefoo accorded a warm welcome to Dr. Ban Yat- son on his landing,

The shops in Tientsin and

The "Times" correspondent Peking have hoisted the ensigns

·BOILED MILK.—A WARNING.

The District Attorney is re-at Hankow states that trade at of the Republic as a mark of

In view of the Local Govern- ceiving written threats of death Hankow is booming. The rice welcome to Dr... Sun Yat-sen on ment report on the value of boiled in connection with the case.

harvest is abundant and other the occasion of his visit to Tieu-milk se a food, for infants, writes orops, exceptcotton, are excellent. tain and Peking." Sai Kal Kung Mr. J. T. C. Nash in a letter to The disbandment of troops is Yik Po." proceeding steadily throughout the Yangteze Valley, and 09 per cent, of the population urgently desire quietude,

TURKISH CABINET,

NEW APPOINTMENTS.

London, August 22,

Reuter's Constantinople corres

the "Lancet," it may not be out

JAPANESE COAL IN HONOLULU,

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A man was charged, at the A reward of $1,000 has been Police Court to day, with break- anonymously placed at the dis ing the conditions of his licens posal of the New York District for storing kerosene. A police Attorney to secure the arrest of inspector stated that the well of Lefty Louis" and "Gyp the defendant's shop held two tine of Blood" who are wanted to com- kerosene, but contained only two plete the round-up of persons balt tins when he called, while Buspected of complicity in the there were four tins at the back. murder of Rosenthal.

of the shop amongst a quantity of firewood and other things. TD6- fendant was fined $10.

LOCAL

A trom conductor has com-12

THE PREMIERSHIP.

of place to remind all concerned. that when milk has once been Peking, August 22,

bolled it needs to be carefully That a large supply of Japanr se Premier Lu is determined to protected from contamination, ooal may be deposited at Honolu plained. to the police that he has resign, President Yuan har de especially by flies or dust, because soon, presumably as a commercial been assaulted by a passenger Arickshaw driver was fined $5, cided to appoint Chiu Ping-kwan when once the lectio sold bacteria venture is, says a Honolulu paper, and his friende,

or in default, two days' imprison- as his successor, and Liang Tan have been destroyed by boiling, indicated by inquiries now being

ment, at the Police Court to-day, pondent states that Ferid Fasha, THE MIKADO'S FUNERAL. yon as Minister of Foreign Affairs, putrefactive, and other a bacteria made there by H. Yokotake, repre A privato riokalinw, it is re- for being oriminally careless in

UNACCEPTED INVITATION, gaining sooses to milk have unsenting the great Japanese coal ported, has been stolen from the driving a rickshaw and Parki

On the occasion of, the visit of restrained opportunities of mald merchants, fitaul and Co. Mr. front of a shop in Des Voeux down a little girl on Praya East. Dr. Sun Yat-sen to Faking, plication, and such milk is apt to Yokotake has been prospecting Road, London, August 22.

President Yuan has telegraphed putrefy and sognire dangerous along the water front for a The Austrian cruiser Kaiser to Vice President LA inviting him properties without show signs possible site for a coal depot, to-

(A ship's engineer was fined 81 Franz Josef has been ordered to to come up to the capital, Vice of soaring.

ather with landing rights and of the Police Court, to-day and Yokohama on the occasion of the President Li, in reply, says that cleanliness" pt

Incilition for such colliers as might funeral of the late Emperor he is unable to come. Bai: Kai for boiled

the loosi pile. Musuhito) (

President of the Senate, has been Appointed Minister of the Interior

and Senator Halim Pasha has been

given the portfolio of

DECLINED. shrugtong Lator. {{Pasha", bas declined the

appointment,

and

When saked for prodnoed that” of -

admitte