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Mulinous Troops In Tungchow,

Peking, Aug. 25,

On Saturday night the troops at Tangahow, thirteen miles from Peking, mutinied' and 'in- dulged in incendiarist. Some people were killed, "The riot has boon suppressed.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, AUGUST 30, 1912:

BASELESS CHARGES. Imperial Merchant Service Guild,

Senator's Smiths Attack on

Titanic Officers.

Liverpool,

2nd August, 1012. Senator William Alden Smith, Washington, USA...

فراوته

Now that the judgment of Sir, Lord Meresy in connection with Supplementing the letter which the toss, of the "Titanic" has the Guild addressed to you on been made public, the Imporial the 8th July last, I am now direct. Merchant Servies Guild bave ed to acquaint you of the follow- decided to publish a letter which ing extract which appears in the A Japanese Dock Strike, was directed, by the Guild, to judgment of Lord Mersey, in con- About twenty mon employed Senator Smith, some few weeks noction with the loss of the by the Harima Dock Co. in Öno|ngo, for his unwarrantable attack | Titanic:- Mord, Ako, Harima Province, on the executive Officers of the "The ovidence Batisfies ine that struok work on the 20th bepnase" Titantic", in a speech made the Officers did their work very their application for an ineronse after the Committee's Report had of wigos had boon dolined.

Socialist Kilis Priest. Brussels, Au. 11-Abbe Flourot, anold Belgian priest, diod to-day of a atab inflicted by a Socialist, who BBBailed him while sitting in the park reading his breviary, and Hurrah shouted for social ro-

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woll, and without any thought boon introduced. Senutor Smith of themselves. Captain Smith, not only criticis Captain Sinith the Master; Mr. Wildo, the Chief for failing to head ice warnings, Oftuar: Mr. Murdoch, the First but he alleged that the Junior Officer; and Mr. Moody, the Sixth Officers availed themselves of the Officer all went down with_tho first opportunity to leave tho ship. ship while performing their These and other baseless charges duties; the others, with the ex- created considerable indignation ception of Mr. Lightolier, foultTodown situated on inter frost. throughout the whole of the charge of bouts and thus wore East Point. Forfurther partiqulars apply Tram Conductor Sent to Gaol. mercantile world, particularly saved. Mr. Lightoller was swept Property Office, ordine, Matheson

Wang Sih-wau, u conductor in amongst Captains and Officers, off the deck as the vessel went Co., Ltd. the service of the Shanghai and the Guild in the interest of down and was subsequently pick-Hocgkong. 19th Aug., 1912. [688] Electric Construction Company, those concerned deemed it necos-fed up." recoived a sentence of six monthsary to address the following com-1 This, of course, fully justifies in the Mixed Court the other day munication to Senator Smith: our letter to you and our feelings for stealing

a bunch of tickots Emporial Merchant Service Guild, from another car, selling thom and pookating the provsoda.

Camphor. Planting in Fermosa,

·Liverpool.

8th July, 1912. In Formosa, says the United Staton Consul, largo areas are to Senator William Aldon Smith. be planted with camphor trees Sir, am directed by the during the next few yours, The Guild, which is the great repre- troos now utilized aro 500 to sentative body of the Captains and 1,000 years old, and the Japanese Officers of the Britiel Merchant winoly intend to, conserve the Service to inform you of the pro- Houres of supply of one of their found indignation which prevails important monopolies

Bystander Shot, at Duel.

More Disbanding.

of indignation at your suggestion

of gross cowardice on the part

of worthy mombora of the British Marcantile Marine.

I am, Sir,

Your obedient sorvant,

(Signed) T. W. Moore,

Secretary.

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COAL-DUST EXPLOSIONS.

shortly appear

this space

A call on

GARNER, QUELCH & CO.

Secretary that it may now be com will enlighten you on the subject

The Explosions in Mines Com- AN ATHLETIC FAMILY.mittee have reported to the Home

Canadians, particularly insidered established beyond all throughout that Servico, ranging Eastern Canada, have followed doubt that coal dust suspended in from the highost to the lowest with the greatest interest the air is capable of being ignited New York, Aug. 7.At a duel rank, at the malevolence which success of Goorge Hodgson, of without the presence of any in- fought at Huntsville, Missouri, characterised your speech at Montreal,- in the swimming com- flammable gas, and of propagating yesterday, between Mr. John Washington on the Report of your petitions at the Olympic Games, an explosion through the dusty. Hamilton, editor of the Herald," Coinmittee which enquired into Although only nineteen years of galleries of mines. Experiments and Mr. Van Davis, editor of the the loss of the "Titanic" Hadge, Hodgson for three seasons at the Allofts Colliery, Normanton, "Times," several shots were ex-your recriuinationsand criticisms has heon winning championships Yorkshire, in 1908 and the two changed and a hystander was been confined to those really res at Canadian swimming meets,following yoare, undertaken by mortally wounded, a ballet strik ponsible for grate laxity in the the wonderful times of his the Mining Association of Great ing him just below the heart. way of obsolete regulations or the races have shown that he was Britain demonstrated conclusively omission to make sneh in order likely to be a world's champion that coal dust, in the complete Fifteen hundred troops lofto keep pace with the modern before long. Since entering senior absence of firedamp or other in- Shanghai on the 22nd inst., for developments of merchant slip-ranks, he has only been defeated flammable gas, is explosive whon Naoking where they are to be ping, your Committee and your twice, and then he was swimming raised as a cloud in air and ignited paid off and disbanded. During remarks would have done a great at 100 yards, against the pick of under conditions which may exist the day twenty cargo boats loaded publicservice; but when, without the Eastern United States. At in a goal mine, and moreover is with gun carrist

irgos and fold a shred of evidenca or a particle his favourite distances, from 220 capable of producing such de pieces, muchine guns, ela,, were of truth' you accuse Ollicers of the yards up he has never been struction as is observed aftor a towed up the Sonohow creek by British Mercantile Marius of dos defonted." The three world's colliory disaster. The experimente steam launches, en route to Nank-picable cowardics, we deem it records which he established in also indicated that the admixturo ing.

requisito to repel such odious winning the 1,500 metres race at of increasing proportions of an The Republic's Soldiers. insinuations, whilst we would Stockholm justified the hopes of incombustible dust with the coul According to the criticism of suggest thai thợ falsity of them is his friends. Ro comes of a dust rendered the initiation of an foreigners, says the "Siam Week-such as to minimiee very greatly family famous in Canadian explosion increasingly difficult to ly Mail," the only things the Chiu- the importance which, otherwise, atheletics, his father and four accomplish, and that, therefore n ose republican soldiers can do is would have been attached to the uncles having begu notel cricket, means of proventing coal-dust ex- to waste food and money, disdain Report of your Committee' and 'scrosse, and hockey playere plosions in mines might possibly drill, use influence for promotion, your own speech upon it.

fifteen or twenty years ago. exist in the treatment of the roads ́offend againsi order, disturb peace,

Hodgson himself is an under- with incombustible dust such as abuse country peoplo, lond in- moral lives, extort money, be ill

graduate at McGill University. iterato, and to flee from battle.

The Shanghal French Conces.

sion Murder.

You speak of "strong men used to command being rudely silenced by junior officers who availed themselves of the first op portunity to leave the ship' The sequel to a couple of native These Officers did nothing of the murders in the French Concession kind: It has been proved up to Shanghai, during the past fow the hilt that in the midst of an months took place at the French appalling emergonoy perfect dis- Mixed Court on the 22nd, when feipline prevailed, which the principal in the affair was worthy of the best traditions of Bentenced to imprisonment for the British Mercantilo Marino; life, one of his accomplices, hav. indeed, under such terrible cir ing previously received the same cumstances, it is really a mar- vellous thing that so many were saved.

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An American Consular report It is obvious to the morent tyro states that in Siam, instead of in shipping affairs that the boats. being used for a bovorage, the should, as far as possible, be in leaves of the ten plant, after being charge of responsible Officers, fermented, are rolled into balls. The four Officers who left the one of which is placed in the hol-ship in charge of the four boats, low of the cheek and allowed to did so acting upon definite in- remain there until the soluble truotione from their superior contents have been exhausted. Officers and, as you know, the This use of ton, it is stated, is three Senior Officers and one common in Northern Siam. Junior Officer gave up their lives 10pair of bailors and hulls, welding of cracks.

Snowstorm on Fuji. |like heroes, when, had they been

A Skidzuoka despatch anys that possessed of a spark of cowardice, severe thunderstorm followed they had a better opportunity by a snow-fall was experienced than any on board to get into the on Mount Fuji. The temperature boats and save, atleast, their own was 43 deg. on the highost part lives.

of the mountain, 59 deg, at Roku-

The Peking Execution.

gome or the 8th station. The Wo sionerely trust that this moantain elimbers numbered 176 matter having been directly Japanese mon, 23 Japanese wo brought to your notice by the men, one foreign man, and three Guild, we may either learn from foreign women at Subasairi. you that a gross reflection on the Baven persons were taken under honour of a great profession of the care of the police owing to this country has been made in illness.

error, or that, on the other hand, on further and more mature con- Press opinion in Wuchong is anough to withdraw it. In justice sideration, you will be gond divided on the question of the to yourself we consider it to be the execution of General Chang creature of impulse rather than of Cheng-wu. Tang-men-hui newe pspora proteak against the excoU- tion of the general, but the ma- jority of the Kunghotang and Independent newspapers are in favour of Li Tuan-hung and con- sider that the execution was just. The N. China Daily News" says that the population is quite quiet and considers that the punish ment was oondition,

deliberation.

I am, Bir, Your obedient servant.

(Signed) T. W. Moore.

Secretary,

Who Guild has since official- ly acquainted Benator Smith of Love Kersey's version of the ours..

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