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The Hongkong Telegraph.

August 23rd, 1912, Temperature a.m. 78, p.m. 83; Humidity...93, 81.

No. 8873

二十月七年子壬

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SATURDAY,

AUGEST

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August 23rd, 1911, Temperature am 83, p.m., 83, Humidity... 77, 74.

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驶四廿月八英港香

NEWS FOR BUSY MEN.

WELSH BYE-ELECTION,

LIBERALS HOLD SEAT.

Router's

203 ZAR ANNA BE "Binole Cory 10 Cuits.

NEWS FOR BUSY MEN.

TELEGRAMS

OPIUM-SMOKING.

SUPPRESSION IN INDIA.

Reuter's

[Service to the "Telegraph."]

London, August 23.

Router's correspondent at Simla

TELEGRAMS.

SALVATION ARMY.

TO SPREAD TO china.

THE NEW MIKADO.

BRITISH HONOUR.

Router's

[Service to the "Telegraph."} (Service to theelegraph}"]

London, August 23.

London, August 23. The "Daily Chronicle" pub His Majesty the King hus con- says the Government of India lishes an interview with Mr. ferrod the Order of the Gartor on has instructed the Provincial Bramwell Booth, who says there the Mikado, and Prince. Arthur Governments, including that of is no doubt that the military of Connaught will invest the new Barma, to prohibit absolutely system of the Salvation Army Emperor therewith during his toplum-smoking in ealoons, or at will be maintained. He believed visit to Tokyo.

gatherings exceeding two persons there was still an immense amount in number.

The Government also proposes

of work to be done in the lowest strata of society and also in the

to reduce the amount of opium service of foreign and colonial ALBANIAN TROUBLES. which any individual may law-governments. The Army must fully possons, inorease the price, do something for Chins. "I

and revise the regulations for the sale of morphin and allied opium compounds.

CHINESE AFFAIRS.

think," he said, two will make

that one of our next steps."

MESSAGE TO THE WORLD.

TRIBES ATTACK TOWN,

U.S. POLITICS,

HOT CAMPAIGN LIKELY,

Router's

(Service to the Telegraph."]

at

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THE NEWS CONDENSED.

Lomond heads the quotations

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THE NEWS CONDENSED,

It is probable that from now to

in the betting for the St. Leger..1916 the German Government

[Service to the "Telegraph." London, August 23.0

London, August 23. ··· Router's Dorrespondent

The bye-election at East Car-

The well-known New Zealand Washington states that indica-marthenshire has resulted as

brower, Mr. McCarthy, hos bo tions point to a political care follows phign, owing to allegations inade Tev, Mr. Jones (L.)... 6,082 queated halfa million to charities. in the Senate, by Senator Penrose, Mr. Peel (U.) 3,354 of Pounsylvania, that the Trusts

Mr. Williams (Lab.)... 1,089 had contributed large sums to

[At the last General Election, Mr. Mr. Roosevelt's campaign in A. Thomas, K.O., (L.) was returned looting in the Ohangohun dis- 1903. Mr. Roosevelt publishes with 5,826 votes, Mr. Fel (U.) polling trict: lotters showing that he bud for- 2,910, and Mr. J. ll Williams (Lab) bidden the acceptance of such | 1,170]. contributions.

STANDARD ‘OIL GRANT.****

Later,

London, August 23. Router's Constantinople correa- Ho expressed thanks for the pondent states that 400 Maliasori,

A message from Reuter's cor- world-wide messages of con-led by priests, attacked Durazzo dolence received, and concluded (a decayed part of Turkish respondent at Washington states in those words, "My message to Albania, on the Adriatic), but that Mr. J. D. Archbold, of the Standard Oil Company, giving the world is that the spirit of the were oventually routed by rein-

ovidenco before the Congress old 'General' will still go march-forceinonts. The Malissori lost, DR. MORRISON'S PROTEST.ing with the Army. To my 30 killed and 70 wounded, but soldiers say 'Let us honour the Turkish casualties were fow. Christ and live to Him.""

London, August 23.

The Times" publishes a longthy letter from Dr. Morrison, who is now in London, protesting against the alarming reports

ANOTHER TRIBUTE.

Later, Router's Adelaide correspond- which come from China, and the ent states that the South Aus hysterical forecaste of disruption tralian Assembly has passed a appearing in the English Press, resolution exprossing apprecia Dr. Morrison states that when he tion of "General" Booth's work loft China the conditions every-on behalf of humanity, where were improving, and he

dwell upon the cordial relations

of President Yuan Shil-kai with General Li Yuan-hung and Dr.

WREATH FROM KAISER:

Lator.

This afternoon a wreath from Sun Yat-son, as well as upon the II. M. the Kaiser, composed of high character of the present white lilies, was placed o members of the Government and "General" Booth's coffin, the upon the administrative reforms representative expressing sym

pathy with the family and the Salvation Army, ...

which have been introduced.

EXODUS FROM BRITAIN.

THE NEXT OLYMPIAD.

GERMAN GOVERNMENT

Borlin.

GRANTS.

THE CHINESE REPUBLIC.

Committee, admitted giving $125,000 (gold) to the Roosevelt Campaign Fund in 1004. Ho was unaware, however, whother Mr. Roosevelt know it was from the Standard Oil Company.

A PRACTICAL EXPLANA-

TION.

THE MIKADO'S FUNERAL.

U. S. REPRESENTATIVE.

LEAVES.

London August 23. Mr. Secretary Knox, who is representing the United States ut

tho funeral of the late Mikado, has sailed from Seattle on the

oruiser Maryland.

MARK TWAIN AS A TYPIST.

A New-fangled Writing Machine.

It was in 1874, during a famous trip to Boston with Dr. Twitchell;

Two thousand Mongolians are

The South Australian State Assembly has expressed it appre- ciation of "General" Booth's work on behalf of humanity.

In nine years the number of immigrants to Australia-nearly all from Britain-hasrison from 500 to 100,000 annually.

will grant 5,000 marks annually to secure worthy representation at the next Olympic Games.

Mr. Bramwell Booth has stated that without doubt the military system of the Salvation Army will be continued. One of the Army's next steps will be to do something for China.

LOCAL

We understand that all tho naval dookyard's fastest launches are being fitted with maxim guns.

It isnotified in the Government Gazette that the names of slaven' companies have been struck off the register.

It is undorstood that France

On and after September, until does not intend extending field operations to Marrakesh, whero further notice, the western end of disturbing events have been Wellington Street is to be closed taking place.

Led by priests, 100 Malissori attacked the port of Durazzo in Turkish Albania, but wore re- pulsad.

at The byo-election

Eart

to vehicular traffic.

Tenders are being invited for of the supply and making up winter clothing for the use of the Hongkong. Police Force,

The scaffolding reaching to the second floor of premises in Connaught Road West collapsed yesterday and two Chinese work- men were injured. They were removed to the hospital.

London, August 23. The Daily Berlin corrospondentima that the Government willqobably mavo

The failure of the Chinese loun Kaarks) an In grant of '5, naally from now to ensure negotiations after so much fass worthy representation at the next and worry is not to be ascribed that Mark Twain saw for first Carmarthenshire has resulted in Olympic Games, to held at entirely to the action of the Chi- time what was then a brand-now the Liberal candidate, the Rov. nese Government,-euy the New invention, a typewriter; or it may Mr. Jones, being returned in a York "Evening Post It is true have been during a subsequent three-cornered fight. -

Two Indians of the 25th. that the authorities at Peking visit, a week or two lator. At were compelled to take cognizanca all events, he had the machine,

Mr. Secretary Knox, the United Mr. Melbourne, at the Polios Punjabis wore charged before of the objection raised by this writes A.B. Bigelow in "Harper's," States representative at the fun-Court, to-day with stealing cloth THE LYING-IN-STATE-

patriotic element in the provinces on December 9, 1874, for he wrote against the incurring of any fur- two letters on it that day, one to oral of the late Mikado, has sailed from a dye works at Sham Shui The lying-in-state of the de crased "General" attracted con- THE RECENT EXECUTIONS.ther foreign liens on China's right Howells and the other to Orion from Seattle aboard the cruiser Po. They were discharged,

Maryland. tinuous crowds, despite the

to manage her own affairs. It is Clemons. In the lattor he writes: a continuance of the old. anti-' "I am trying to get the hang

A man states that he was taken THE AUSTRALIAN MAGNET. drenching rain. The coffin was

(From Chinese Sources.j

The inability of the Chinese away by another man in a launch of oak and on it were placed the

foreign spirit which took form, of this new-fangled writing ma- Shanghai, August 23. {"General's" cap and Bible.

half a dozen years ago, against chine, but am not making a shin-State Council to force from the and robbed of property valued The State Council has decided foreign railroad enterprise in the ing success of it. However, this Government explanations con- $3. The impostor said that he London, August 23. The Hon. W. L. Baillonu,vation Army, holding flage.

rounded by officons of the Salto impeach Premier Lu, and Empire, But while the leaders is the first attempt I ever have cerning the recent executions in was a policeman and "arrested" General Tuan Ki-sui, Minister of of provincial opinion have auc-made, and yet I perceive that I causing most bitter local feeling the duped one as he was leaving Minister of Public Works and The lid of the collin was of War, over the executions of ceeded in blocking the building shall soon easily acquire a fine says our Shanghai correspondent, a pawnshop at Yaumati. Health, Victoria, interviewed by glass, thus revealing the de- General Chung Chan-wu and of railroads by European capital, facility in its use. I saw the thing a Router's representative regard-ceased's features, which

were Fong Wai.

they have not heen ominently in Boston the other day, and was King George has conferred the ing the growth of omigration to sleep-like, oxeept for the pallor.

Vice President Li has des- successful in building up rail- grently taken with it."

Order of the Garter on the new Australia, pointed out that in The "General" was dressed patched four deputies to proceed roads for Chins through native He goes on to explain the new Emperor of Japan; the invest nine years the number of in- in full uniform, with a red jersey to Kiangei, Anhui, Kiangau and enterprise. Nevertheless, the wonder, and on the whole his first ment ceremony will be performed migrants--nearly all from Great showing at the wrists and collar. Chokiang provinces to explain to central Government, might have attempt is a very creditable per- by Prince Arthur of Connaught Britain-has risen from 500 to It was noticeable that there the public the matter of the known how to conciliate local formance. With his usual en- when he visits Tokyo........... 100,000 annually. Unfortunately wha nn entire absence of weeping, executions of General Chang sentiment if, on the side of the thusiasm over an innovation be Australia was handicapped by the Salvationist mourners. pass advise them not to oppose themade pretty plain that Japan and help to him, and proolaims its "Times "

Chun-wu and Fong Wai, and creditor Powers, it had not been believes it is going to be a great look of shipping accommodation ing by silently with grave, ear-

Official returns, published

Government. nest faces. yesterday, show that 154,344 emigrants loft Britain in the first seven months of 1912. The emi- gration to Canada is decreasing, while that to Australia is increas- ing.

. The contre of the hall was sur-

THE BALKANS.

REASSURINÚ INCIDENTS,

A BREWER'S WILL.

HALF A MILLION TO CHARITIES.

London, August 23,

to charities..

MOROCCAN TROUBLE.

London, August 23.

Reuter's correspondent at Con-

stantinople states, that the de-

THE ST. LEGER.

CHINA MERCHANTS CO, ·

This is the letter to Howells:

A report comes from the New Territory stating that a tiger carried away a pig weighing 102 catties and valued 820, the property of a schoolmaster. A party went in search of the animal but nothing beyond the lair was found.

Dr. Morrison, in a letter to the protests against the Russia were not in hearty co-advantages.

alarming reports from China, and operation with their partners.

the hysterical forecasts of die The Ministry of Communica Under the circumstances, the "You needn't answer this; I am ruption appearing in the English tions has telographed to the Government has apparently de-only practising to get three; an- press. Society for the maintenance of cided that a waiting game offered other slip-up there; only practis the business of the China Mer-the smaller risk,

ing to get the hang of the thing. For the first seven months of the scene of the fire was reached. I notice I miss fire and get in the present year 145,344 emi- good many unnecessary letters grants left Britain for Australis. and punctuation marks. I am While the emigration to Austra. the deputies despatched by the TO PRESERVE ROADS. simply using you for a target to lia is increasing, that to Canada

bang at. Blame my cats but in delining. Ministry."Shat Po."

chants Steamship Company not

to convene a meeting of share- holders until after the arrival of

BANK EXTENSION.

Poking, August 23.

this thing requires genius in or

dor to work it just right.

A fire poured in a dwelling- house at Kennedy Town, this morning. The brigade with the motor engine turned out, but ere

some policemen in the vicinity had subdued the flames before much damage could be done.

· Four; cart coolies were found guilty at the Police Court this Absolute prohibition of opium-morning, of driving their truck Prominent road engineers, says he tells how he was with Nasby smoking in saloons, or at gather on the wrong side of the road. The China National Bank in the "North American," have now when he first saw the machine in ings exceeding two persons in By doing so they allowed the

great business centres.

DR. SUN'S VISIT.

In an article writton long after,

parture for Europe of Ferdinand, tends to open branches in all the agreed that the most effective Boston through a window, and number, is to be enforced by the truck to collide with the private Czar of Bulgaria, and M. Gue- ahoff, President of Council and

method at present discovered for how they went in to see it per Indian Provincial Governments, riokelaw of Dr. Harston, damag- Foreign Minister, and also the

preserving the roads against the form. In the same article he and other regulations are also to ing it and injuring the coolies in The Governor General of Chibli disintegrating action of bórtea states that he was the first person be made.

charge of it: A message from Reuter's cor-departure of the Austrian Am- respondent at Wellington states bassador on a holiday, are regard has appointed Wat Wing-chan and vehicles le by spraying them in the world to apply the type

and Li Fook-ohuen as the re-with crude oil;'

The lying-in-state of the late The financial statement for the that Mr. MoCarthy, the well-knowned as reassuring.

machine to literature, and that

"General" Both drew enormous month of June, issued by the New Zealand brower, has be

caption officials in connection The first motor truck ever built the story of "Tom Sawyer" was with the visit of Dr. Run Yat-sen. in this country equipped with this probably the first type copied of glass, and the deceased's fea. on May 31 there was a balance of crowds. The lid of the coffin was Hongkong Treasury," shows that queathed half a million sterling]

ANOTHER RESIGNATION. system of oil-spraying device for manuscript. Teoi Ngok, Governor General road work was made by the Knox The new enthusiasm ran iteures, were sleep-like, except for assota and liabilities amoduling of Yunnan, has telegraphed to Automobile Company, of Spring-course and died. The typewriter the pallor. The deceased was in $2,175,582.95 The revise President Yuan tendering his field, Mass., for the American Car was not perfect in those days, nu dressed in full Salvation Army during June WA 8061,677.10, resignation, which, however, is Sprinkler Company, of Worcester, it is now, and the keys did not uniform. A wresth of white lilies the expenditure 82:141,895.95, leaving a balance at the end of not accepted,"Sai Koi Kang Mass, and has now been in ser- always respond readily. He was sent by the Kaiser. "Yik Po."

June of: 8695,364.10. vice over a year. 1. j

clared it was ruining his morale It is equipped with a tank that it made him want to Senator Penrose has stated holding about 1,200 gallons of oil swear." He offered it to Howells that the Truste contributed large

The eleventh ordinary annual The Central Government has and has a powerful circulating because, he said, Howells had no mums to Mr. Roosevelt's Presi meeting of Messrs. William directed the Ministry of Oom pump driven directly from the morale, any way. Bowells hositat dential campaign in 1904, but Powell, Ltd., was held to-day at munications to procure, students transmission shaft, forging the oiled, as Clemens traded the machine Mr. Roosevelt says he forbade the offices of the company. The to study the postal methods and under pressure through a series to Bliss for a side-siddle. But the soceptance of such contribu- Chairman expressed the gratife- regulations in foreign countries. of small nozzles so arranged as to perhaps Blies also became afraid tions. Mr. Archbold of the ation of the directors These students will be sent abroad secures very uniform distribution of the influence, for in due time Standard Oil Company, testifies Company was again after passing an entrance ex- The pump can be readily thrown he bought it back. Howelle, again to giving $125,000 to the Tund, paying basis and amination to be held by the in or out of notion instantly by the tempted, hesitated, and this time bat: he is unaware

again ordinary Ministry of Communications-- driver, and the nozzles also regu= was look. W batseentually became Hösserélt knew it "Sai Kal Hong Xik Pod

FRENCH DECISION

London, August 23. Beater's Paris correspondent staten that the Council of Minis tars has considered the oventa at| at Marrakesh, and it is under stood "that: a decision has been come to not to extend field opera

· Hons to the Southern capitali

BETTING QUOTATIONS.

London, August 23. The betting for the St. Leger, to be run at Doncaster on Bep tember 11th, over a distance of 1 mile, 6 farlongs, 132 yards, is as follows:****

2 to 1 against Lomond. 6 to 1 100, to 19 10 to 1

20 to

Tradory. Erlega. Hector Pintadosu

POSTAL STUDENTS.

Hiated without leaving the beat,,\ of the machine is not history::

Ghould not al

hat the