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GENERAL NEWS.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1912.

TANJONG PAGAR CASE.

From the "Straitą. Times " special correspondent in London, November 8-

THE S.S. DUNOTTAR CASTLE,

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As we have already announced, the R.M.S. Dupottur Castle is dus her on the 18th inst. with a select

Servia's Boy Scouts. A year or so ago, some Servian fries applied for information in Londa about General Badon- The trial of the action, Airds, Powell's Boy Scout movement, Atd., v. the Tanjong Pagar Dook party of English tourists. - She leading citizen of Belgrade, Dr. Board, was continued to-day in will leave the following day for Milos Pupovitch, interested him the Queen's Bench division, bo-Japan, and return to Hongkong solf keenly in the question, and fore Mr. Justice Parker, when the on January 2nd, leaving again to-day the "Boy Scouts" have question of a possible settlement for Home on the tth. The liner flourished so well upon Servian was bronched.

is in charge of Commander W.F. soil that 3,000 Belgrade patrols have tendered their services na messengers and elorka to the authorities. They have already been employed, being installed in various public offices. There are also large numbers of Boy Scout patrols already organised in other

parts of Sorvia.

Sir R. Finlay, for the defend- Stanley, R.N.R., and the dirsotor ants, said that unless the charges in charge of the party is Lord of frand were withdrawn, there Lyveden. The joint Cruise no possibility of an arrangement. Secretaries are Mesars T.C. Joy- Mr. Justice Parker said there nes and SC. Hodge, while Mr. O. was no attempt to make the charge Mayer is the Courier- one of personal-fraud, "If it were measured not ns a question of noral character, but in the com- mercial interests of the parties, in-charges of frand or of negligence. there was very little either in

Bubonic Plague in Shanghal. Further inquiries into the cidenco of bubonic plague in Shanghai show that up to the judge and leading counsel At Sir R. Finlay's suggeation, the prosent Chirtoon have occurred, all from the the end of an hour it was on- adjourned for consultation and at area mentioned, the rectangle nounced that the case would be bounded by Peking Road, Shanse adjourned till Tuesday for the Road, Ningpo Road and Fokion Road. Since November two ad- undisclosed on which Airds based production of documents hitherto ditional cases have been report their tender.. ed, but thereafter no others. have come to light says tho " N. China Daily News" At the same time the death roll haa boon augmen- tod to five, and death taking place in the Chinoso Public Iss Iation Hospital on the 10th and another on the 11th inst. One feature which is still cause for satisfaction, is that there livs been no indications of a spread of the plague from the area men-

tioned.

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the current strength is multiplied An electric battery in which by six when its liquid is raised to boiling heat had been devised The plan on be seen and sil partion by a Parision, inventor. Saya lars obtained at the Offres of MenTS, "Popular Electricity": "To show PALMER & TURNER, Alexandra how the battery ncts, he makes Buildings, Sel Floor. the following experiment. He takos a porcelain vessel which will stan i the heat of the fire, or probably an ordinary enamelled vessel would do, and fills it with) Bankers belonging to the six- a weak acid solution, or, better, Power syndicate, formed several bichromate battery solution. years ago for the purpose of fiuan-Two carbon plates are put in,

The four Cammell-built 33-knot sing the nee is of Chios, are not leaving a middle space. A zing destroyers which Greece got away apparently in agreement over the rod or plate is attached to a wood from Birkenhead by the skin suggestion made by Russin to handle so as to dip it into the of their teeth should be heard of indemnities. A member of the small, low-voltage incandescent sea-horne commerce under the press for payment of the Buzer bath between the carbone. A before long, says "Truth." The group said recently that no de lamp is connected to the carbons Turkish flag is such a negligible this region to the north of not believe that formal action had a dipping in the zine the quartet will get no opportunity Sision had bou reached. He did and the zino in the usual way. quantity that this formidable Chenguan. The two features been taken by any one reprosen-urrent given by the battery cell for the species of operation to which catch my attention aring the syndicale. He added is very small, and the lamp will which they are eminently suited, the hilltop fastnesses and the that the syndicate bankora were bardly glow. Removing the But, once they get into the gen large area being planted with merely sitting still, awaiting dov-zine, he puts a smill flame under Sea, their opium. The formor were put in elopments.

ргеявное should order a year ago, in expectation

the vessel so as to bring it about promptly become a very material of Bouial chaos, the same as has are likely to oppose such a course again, it is found that the larap are craft of 000 tons and 20,000

Some of the bankers concerned to a boil. Putting in the zine source of trouble to Turkey. They GREEN always occurre-l when China had

as tending to arouse public seati-now glows brightly, and the hip, against which Turkey oan

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Opium in Kueichow."

writes:-

A correspondent of the China Daily News" Szenanfu, Kuoichow, Oct. 10: -I have been out for ↑ week now travelling

which he measured by instra inventor claims that the current, meats, is six times as much. His method is the subject is the a French patent.

a political houso-cleaning. As to opium, I think there is more against its whole scliome of find ment against the syndicate and being planted an over sawing. A member of the original before. Proclamations are ont syndicate said warning the people how if China goes on weakening herself by what will be dona by the group "It is pronature as yet to say opium a lot of hungry foreign af bankers known as the six-pow. Sir R. Laidlaw's new Estate. nations will ore long divide the syndicate., The Chinese situa

Sir Robert Laidlaw has bought country among themselves. But tion lias become greatly complicat- from Major EH M. Elliot the the one question these poor od by the fact that there is no estates of Wolfes, in Roxburgh- farmers ask is "will I be able to public officer in China to-day who shiro, consisting of a fine old gather my crop?"

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pension of £300 a year, rendered The flag officer's good service vacant by the death of Admiral Sir Vesey Hamilton, has been awarded to Admiral Sir Compton Domvile, says "Truth." He has had a long and varied career, ment. The independent loan Two Casan of piracy have again even for a naval officer, the first on November 7 in which a Lance was made, possible by the fact been reported at Surabaya, says notable incident in his record Corporal of B. Co of The Buffs, that China was in desperate a recent number of the "Soura- being that, as a lieutenant in named Cricksfield, out his throat traits and neaded money to pay baya Courant." The one took command of the little Algerine in No. 28, Hylam Street, Singa- the troops. China tried to obtain place near Grissee and the other in China, during the later six- pore after first attempting to take small loans in Germany and else near the maidland close to Kali- ties, he got his first special pro- the life of a Japanese woman, where, and failing in the attempt wason. There is a police officer motion for breaking up a nest Cricksfield, who had visited the was glad enough to find a syndi for the suppression of piracy, who of pirates. Sir Gay Domvile's house the night previous, met date that was willing to advance has at his disposal a swift motor last command was in the Mediter some 'fricats the following day such a sum as $50,000,000, on boat. Notwithstanding this, piracy rancan, when that Fleet was in the transport Rohilla, less onerous terms than we named. is as active as ever. The paper the zenith of its glory, number- About noon Oricksfiold revisited Our torms remain and will adds:-It is most amusingan ing fifteen of the latest battle- Hylam Strent spinowhatthe worse, govern whatever future loan, we officer for the suppression of it is said, for liquor. Then sudy be called upon to make piracy. One involuntarily thinks denly, it seems. he whipped a We do not wish to take any un- that that title, par maniere de dire, Wireless Telegraph Offices on razor from out of his coat pocket fair advantage of Obins, or to carries a broom at the mast bead

0.5. K. Liners. and made an attempt to kill the make our terms excessively bar for the cloaa sweeping of the ocean According to a reliable auth-PLUNKET'S girl. The latter rushed out of the long me. But to such a country and its corners. But in reality ority, the wireless telegraph room and Crickefield, on being as China, where no one knows everything has remained the same office on board the O.S.K. Kobe

The Peak, left alone, cut his own throat. who is who, or how long the Suppose we sell the motor boat Dairen liner Kagi Maru is to ba

near the Team Terminus A regrettable part of the affair present Government will last, it and pat officer Spottke, now nick- opened for traffic on the 25th

Tel. 56.. says the "Straits Times," in the is necessary, when considering named The Terror of the Free inst., and that on board the fact that Cricksfield was to have such a loan na $300,000,000, to booters' back again at his work Taichu Maru on the following

For Terms apply to the obtained his discharge from the exact the most rigid promises on the streets of Sourabaya? Then 28th, on which dates the above jegimorit next day. He bore an concerning the purposes for which he would at least be able to do mentioned steamers are scheduled the money is to be used. More than useful work-regulate the traffic, to leave Oanks for Dairen re- a. K. C. on Modern Journalism thie, it is important to supervise and catch doge without licenses.spectively,

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Mr. G. K. Chesterton, presid. the outlays: That is nothing more ing at a lecture at the Sian Col-than ordinary business caution- lege, recently, remarked that the which must prevail in such cases. object of the journalist, according And those having the best in to the enemies of journalism, was terests of Obine at heart. know merely to be sensational. Be per perfectly well that such a course zonally liked sensational novele, is altogether reasonable under sensational papers, sensational the circumstances. articles, and all the rest of it, as "None of the new Chinese long as they gave the right een bonds has come to this city, al sation; and in modern journal-though it is believed that some ism, which he did sincerely be small bide were sent over from lieve to be in a dangerous state this side at the time of the public of ignorance and hypocrisy, he offering in London." New York was not at all sure that the most Evening Post." honest. part as a rule was not police news. Upon the whole the leading article was more immoral": than the police nows. (Laughter.) At this moment modern English From what transpired at the journalism tonded simply to be consideration of the 1013 estimate dull. Political compromise, fin- by the Singapore Municipal Com- ancial entanglemente, cowardice, missioners on November 6, s had all made English journalism steady advance is being made BO cautions that at last there with the asit water system in con- fell upon it that curse of God nection with the watering of the

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