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The

Hongkong Telegraph.

November 25th, 1912, Temperature a.. .05, p.m. 68; Humidity...70, 58.

No. 8953

TELEGRAMS.

THE WAR.

BÚROPE STILL CALM

Reuter's

{Service to the "Talograph:"}

London, Novembar 25. The sensational reports of

躺八十月十年于壬

TELEGRAMS.

THE WAR.

TUESDAY,

TELEGRAMS.

(ESTABLISHED 1881.) right, 1912 by the Proprietor.

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November 25th, 1911, Temperature a.m. 72, p.m., 75; Humidity...75, 71.'

NOVEMBER

26, 1912.

二拜後

就大廿月一十英港香

TELEGRAMS.

TELEGRAMS,

TELEGRAMS.

THE CHINESE REPUBLIC. THE CHINESE REPUBLIC.

THE EUROPEAN SITUATION, A GENERAL'S SUGGESTION.

Router's

[Service to the "Tolograph."]

(From Chinese Bourean.)

Peking, November 24.

KWANGTUNG LOAN."

NAVAL LIEUTENANTS, PICTURE SHOW PANIC.

OPENINGS FOR R.N.R. MEN. | MANY TRAMPLED TO DEATH.

Router's

The offer

A CHINESE LOAN

MYSTERY.

186 van Am

SIMOLE COPT 10 Canin,

NEWS FOR BUSY MEN:

TELEGRAMS.

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

The American cruiser Montana has sailed for Beirat and the Tennessee for Smyrna.

The P. and D. Company lost £102,000 by the transport workers' strike and £33,715 by the coal strike.

The Turco-Bulgarian peace delegates have held their first meeting in a neutral zone at Abak Tobikoui,

THE CANTON ARMY.

(From Chinese Sources.)

Reuter's Shanghai, November 25.

[Service to the "Telegraph.""] [Service to the "Telegraph."} Vice President Li Yuan-hong

London, November 25.

London, November 25. London, November 25. General Huang Heing has tele-

The “Standard "states that in

Renter's correspondent at Bil Thero is nothing tengible to graphed to President Yuan ask. has recommended the appoint-

ment of Tam Lan-yim as the order to remedy the shortage of bao (Spain)wires that 38 children mobilisation appearing in the warrant to-day's pessimism ex-ing him to direct the Governosa chief adviser of the General Staff Lieutenants, the Admiralty have and six women were trampled to Austro-German Press, have failed cept the undoubted military pre-General of the various provinces of the Canton Army; Heung decided to offer a number of death during a groundless panic to disturb the equanimity of parations by Austria and Russia to make preparations for finding Chin-to as adviser at the First commissions to oficers of the in a cinematograph theatre. Europe owing to the conciliatory in view of possible, though not funda towards the cost of the Battalion of the Canton Army Mercantile Marine. attitude of all parties, including probable, contingencies. It is ex- expedition to Mongolis; other and La Man-kup da adviser of the will, however, be confined to Servis, who is apparently propar. plained that both the Austrian wise the expedition will be un- Second Battalion.

officers of the Royal Naval ing to gracefully yield upon the and Russian mobilisation ian slow successful.-"Shat Po."

Reserve. Texed question of a port in the process and it therefore becomes

AGAINST ARBITRATION: Adriatic. The fact that the necessary to begin even precau British Third Battle Squadron tionary preparations long before

Premiar Chiu Ping-kwon has has returned to Malta is likewise required. Thero is no indication

regarded the suggestion of re- NEWSPAPER IN COURT. How Two British Banks Became to the Servians, and the total is regarded as indicating a relaxa- of any disposition to bronk away The loan raised by the Pro-ferring the Mongolian question tion of the tension.

from the European Concert; on vincial Government of Kwang-to the Hague Conference for Nevertheless, despite the the contrary, friendly conversa-hung from American merchants arbitration as a poor one. generally optimistic feeling, a tione continue. slight sound of "sabre-rattling may be discerned in an inspired "Koelnische telegram in the Zritung," declaring that it is now expected that Russia will not dolay to speak for pacification snd, that the Servian frency will field to good sense. The tele- "The Bulgarians gram adde: are already sobered and a deaire to end the strain is spreading among them."

affairs.

PEACE DELEGATES.

A message from Constantinople says that the Turkish delegates reached the Bulgarian head quarters on Saturday night. The Balgerian and Turkish plenipoti aries were expected to meat on Monday.

PEACE ENVOYS MEET. The first meeting of the Turco- Bulgarian plenipotentiaries was held on Monday at Abak Tchikeni, in a sono which has been declared neutral.

Shanghai, November 24.

Lurn to Canton.

WAR MATERIAL DETAINED.

The Chinese authorities at Li Kwan, in Manchuria, have de- tained 37 londa of guns and ex- plosives belonging to the Russians and have telegraphed to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for instructions as to how to act.

A LLAMA'S DEMAND,

ANTI-RUSSIAN BOYCOTT.

Po,"

TIT FOR TAT.

EFFICACY OF PLAGUE INOCULATION,

Statement by Bombay

Government.

Injunction Sought Against "China Republican."

CARO

Russian.

Since the fall of Monsatir 10,000 Turks have surrendered

increasing daily.

In the "Daily News and

In the event of the failure of Lender" was published recently the peace negotiations the Allied a list of the financial houses com- Armiss intend entering Constan- prising four of the famous Sixtinople together. Power Chinese Loza Group. The

The Servian Premier outlines Servis's minimum demands in the "Times," which journal thinks them unlikely to assist the efforts towards peace.

in Peking, with the tax on THOUSANDS SUR- butchers as security, has been

RENDERING.

successfully floater. The Loan

The The representatives of the in-

in which eleven Reuter's correspondent at Bel-Agreement will he signed on the grade wires that the Turks who 20th inst., by Liu Chung-hoi, lustrial and commercial bodies foreign opium merchants are

European equanimity" is not have surrendered since the fall Commissioner of Finance of have decided to boycott Russian seeking an injunction against the curious thing about, this list, of Monastir now number 10,000 Kwangtung, who is at present in goods, if the Russian Government owners and Editor of the "China which was supplied by the For-distarbed by the reports of Russo- and the total la increasing daily. Peking. Afterwards he will re-does not cancel the Treaty con- Republican" came before the sign Office, was that two English Austrian mabilisation appearing

Court last week. houses were discovered to be in the Austro-German press. eluded with Mongolia."Shat Shanghai

Mr H. P. Wilkinson appeared numbered with ile Russian on behalf of the plaintiffs, Group. These wore the Eastern

Thirty-eight ohildren and six bat the proceedings were Bank, Limited, of which so dis-

women were trampled to death quite formal. Mr. Ma. Soo, the inguished a British statesman as

cluring & panic in a cinemato The "Reischspost" which is

Shanghai, November 25,

editor of the journal, said that Lord Balfour of Burleigh lappens the organ of the Archduke Franz

The Russian Minister at Peking he desired to file a reply to the to be chairman, and J. Henry graph theatre in Bilbao, Spain. Ferdinand, likewise makes

her lodged a protest with Lu petition and to enable him to do Schrooder and Co., a well-known

firm of long standing, How Using Sir Percy Scott's new FEELING IN AUSTRIA.. significant statement to the effect

Ching-cheung against the publi- this the case was adjourned. Later. that the Archduke, during his

cation of inflammatory articles The petition stated that The these British institutions came to fire-director, H.M.S. Thunderer visit to Berlin, gained the convic- Some interest has beon aroused

by the nativo press against the plaintiffs are foreign merchants be sailing, so to speak, under the made, 41 direct hits out of 50 Russian Government. tion that the Triple Alliance was by the sudden departure of an

The carrying on in China the lawful Russian flag was the subject of shots at a target six miles distant. firmer than ever, and that the Austrian Squadron from Smyrna

Russian Minister says that this is trade of importers of Indian inquiry by a "Daily News' liable to lead to a severance of opium.

representative in financial circles

To remedy the shortage of three Powers would march in a in conjunction with the hurried

The defendants are the owners and the explanation given Lieutenants, the Admiralty is married line with regard to Eastern sailing of an Austrian orniser The Llama in Fulon has the relations between the two

said to be offering a number of from Constantinople, though it written to President Yuan that he countries. In reply, the Minister and Editor of a daily newspaper makes an interesting story.

Last March, says our contam commissions to officers of the ia stated in Vienna that the will onneel the declaration of of Foreign Affairs says that the called "The China Republican," vessels are coming home owing independence on condition that press of Russia is doing similarly, printed and published at No. 1porary, the two houses in question, R.N.R. to the now unnecessary cost of he be granted's sum of $800,000.and he wants to know why the Balfour Road, Shanghai, within together with the Banque Sino-

the Danqu Russo The deaths are announced of keeping them in the Levant. On If the money he forthcoming Russian Government has in the limits of the Foreign Settle- Belge,....

creased ite forces on the frontiers ment at that Treaty Port of China. Asiatique, and a French group, Sir Edward Moss, Sir Edward the other hand, the considerable he will leave Falon for abroad.

of Mongolia.- Sai Kai Kung

On certain dates the defendants entered into a contract with the Clouston and Mr. W. F. Mony- reduction of the passenger service

MEDIATION.

Yik Po.

falsely and maliciously printedChinese Government for a loan penny, Director of the "Times hetween Warsaw and the Austrian

The Japanese and the French

and published, and caused to be of ten millions, a million of which

Company. frontier is attributed in Vianni

printed and published of and was to be payable in advance. to Rnesian mobilisation, though Governments have telegraphed

was ap concerning the plaintiffs in the The Foreign Office the Russians, explain that it is to their respective Ministers in

way of their trade words proached and asked for its ALLIES DETERMINED.

due to the laying of new rails.Peking to mediate in the matter of the Treaty concluded between

in support. The result was a letter injure them It is announced semi-officially With regard to

tending to yesterday's in Soan that large, bodies of utterance in the "Frankfurter Ministers have accordingly made

their trade, exposing them from the Foreign Office, from Russia and Mongolia; These

to hatred, contempt and which the contractors for the loan Greeks and Servinns in Mice-Zeitung," inspired Vienna papers

obloquy, and impating to them understood that they were to go donin are held in readiness to declaro that the rumours of suggestion to the Cabinet,

moan and dishonourable conduct ahead and issue the loan.

The contract was duly signed, proceed to Chataldja in the event German mediation are unfounded, namely, that Russia be approach. ed to cancel, the Treaty. How-

On the 3rd day of October of the failure of the negotiations, and that mediation is only pos-

A Press note issued by the Gothe defendants, in the issue of the and the million in advance has whereupon the allied Armies will sible when maximum demands ever, the Chinese Cabinet has not

vernment of Bombay states: The "China Republican" of that date, since been paid over. When the enter Constantinople together. are reducible. The question of yet given a reply." Shat Po."

Government considere it desirable falsely and maliciously printed contract was concluded the that the following recent statistics and published of and concerning Foreign Office was asked to in connection with plagas inocul- plaintiffe as aforesaid the words recognise the lean, but this was ation should be published for following:-

refused, the reason given being Shanghai, November 24.

"British Fairplay,

The that the Foreign Office was com The Mongolian ruffians are general information-During the advancing towards Chiu Yeung year 1911 the number of persons fact of the matter is, these mermitted to the Hong Kong and from the direction of Chek-fangin Bombay Presidency who were chants do not care a straw either Shanghai Bank.

"Accordingly the load did not Six ladies, who are making a inoculated against plague was for China's welfare or the dignity show. Chiu Yeung is at present 93,655 as against 30,635 inoculat- the British Government. Their go forward. In May, however, the tour of the world, arrived in in a critical condition.

ed in the preceding year. employment of the latter'sservices Russian and Japanese groupe Hongkong to-day. A SIGNIFICANT GIFT.

Of this total 32,047 were in in their behalf is merely a means joined what had until then bean London, November 25, The ex-Empress Dowager has poulated in Dharwar district which to an end. If they can but the Four-Power Group, convert ing Servia's demands, declares The deatli is announced of Mr. contributed $20,000 towards the was the worst affected in the Pre-manage to acquire the laore ing it into the well-known Six- should possess the coast line from W. F. Monypenny. Director of cont of the-expedition to. Mon- sideney. Eighty-one plague cases stained with the lifeblood of a Power Group; and, by virtue of were reported during the year nation whose manhood has been the arrangements of the Eastern Durazzo to Alessia. This const The Times" Publishing Com-golia."

among persons who had been in-stified by the opium traffickers, Bank and Messrs. Schroeder and line should be joined to Old pany, at the age of 46. · Servia by a strip of territory [Droned was eco fed at the Roy). President. Yuan has directed oculated, of which thirty-sight that is enough for them. That Co. with the Russo Asiatic Bank,

A large audience assembled at proved fatal. But among the lat-evidently is the sum-total of their which practically formed the from Durazzo to Lake Oohrida Tublin (BA. Mathema loal Gold gation into the matter of the in the incubation stage at the of their arabitions. bounded on the south by a line Somol. Dunganon, Trini v Colleis Yeung Si-ki to make an investi ter cases thirty-six were apparent exalted principles and the height Russian element in the interna, the Victoria Troll to Verns and

tional combination, these two to give a farewell Medallist and Ballol College, Oxird reorganization of the manage time of the incoalation, the disease and on the north by a line from He was a contribute to the Epic" ment of the China Merchants having been contracted before then the 4th of October the English firms became members Smith and the two Franklins, Alessio to Djakova. Servia was tir" from 1891 to 1999 and becam

defendants, in the issue of the of the Russian group. They quite prepared to make every Baorifice to obtain this minimum.which position he h ld until 1899

risant editor tha Times" in 1894 Steam Navigation Company.

serum had time to repot. On China Republican" of that date, would certainly, it is stated, have An interesting dispute is pro- MONGOLIAN COMMANDS. the remaining two cases one de falsely and malicously printed preferred to be associated with coeding in the Original Court The "Times"? ia a leading the latter year he was appointed editst The Ministry of War has veloped plague after, ons month, and published of and concerning an English group, but no option over some dealings in human hair. The oase has already taken article, regrets this statement. as of the "Johannenborg Star." On the begged President Yuan to and the other after two months the plaintiffs as aforesaid the was left them. being nalikely to assist in the ratbrak of the war in the same year he

"It is stated that the Hongkong some days, efforts for peace, as it is much o'tinen ommision in the Imperial appoint Wong Tin-Chun Le Com- As showing the relative immuni- words following:

mander-in-Chief of the forces in ty to plague of inoculated persone "Wanted accounts. It would and Shanghai Bank, which, it is more extensive than the original lett Homs, and served with that Ontor Mongolia, and Chang Sik- the figures relating to the town of be interesting to know how much only fair to say, interested itself ~suggestion of a scaport.

smith. After serving on the staff of u as Commander-in-Chief of Bijapur, which were carefully douceur has up-to-date been re-in Chinese loans when nobody the Military Governor of Johanorsburg Laner Mongolia. The Ministry checked under the supervision of ceived from the opium traffickers else would look at them, re- Tirector of Civil Supplies, he also begs the President to decide the Civil Surgeon, are instructive, by that section of the Press which cognises the impossibility of that the American cruiser Mon-r samed the editorship of the "Star" on the appointments of generals among 3,590 persons inconlated poses as the champions of the continuing its monopoly, against tana has sailed towarde Beirut, in 1902, and rest and in 1909. Mr. and officers to be stationed at the twenty-eight were attacked, of cause of the much oppressed which, we may add, a number of Mooyeon had ben ommised to cantres of the various Mongolian whom sight died, while out of opium merchants. Were authen- English houses have protested to with the authoritative Life of Lord clans,Sai Kai.Kung Yik Po." 6,410 uninoculated 1,228 were sio accounts of the money which the Foreign Office."

attacked and 857 died,

A message from Sofia reports a negotiation has been raised, but case of cholera there, the sufferer Austria has already defined the being a soldior. After, three irreducible minimum. weeks' training this year'sreoruits

are leaving to-day to do garrison

duty in Macedonia.

SERVIAN DEMANDS.

The Servian Premier, M. Pasics,

in the course of so important statement to the "Times," outlin-

that it is essential that Servis

AMERICAN PRECAUTIONS.

A message from Gibraltar states

via Port Baid, and the Tennessee. towards Smyrna, via Malta.

OBITUARIES.

* MR. W. F. MONYPENNY.

rarim-et through the siege of Lady-

16

Basconi field, of which the first volume

has already been published and recoİTEŤ. mah attention. 1.

SIR H. EDWARD moss.

London, November 25.

MONGOLIAN REVOLTERS.

C.M.S.N. CO.

RAISING WAR FUNDS.

Peking, November 25. The representatives of com

Compositors' Strike in Peking.

is fearlessly entering cholera Miss Alt, an aged English lady, infected dwellings in Constan- tinople, supplying comforts to patients at her own expense,

LOCAL.

An interview with Don Manuel

shaw appears in our columns to-day..

Quezon, and Don Manuel Earn

The New Tutuh of Mukden... The "N. China Daily News

Mukden correspondent wrote on November 9:- Our Tutah, Chas

Erh-sen, is leaving to-morrow. Already the seals of office have MODERN FLORENCE-

has changed hands to be publishi

been transferred to the hands they would a tale unfold." We NIGHTINGALE, ́⠀

of his successor, Chang, Chin-po, hope more money will be soon

The Chinese Budgets. There has been genuine grief at Renter's correspondent at Con-

forthcoming to further stimulate atantinople wires that the wor

In order to secure the much- the departure of Chao, and kera at the San Stefano Cholera

their energy The death is reported of Sir Emercial and industrial bodice The PekingJournal.

Other dates v were given and the desired centralization of financial cording to the Chinese papar Hospital include Miss Alt, an aged English lady, formerly a Edward Moss. Kt., D.L. Chair-have held a meeting here in peared recently as plone-sheet defendants claimed an Injunction administration, the Ministry of tears were shed at the farewell trained nurse sent out by Lady man of Moss' Empires, Ltd. connection with the expedition paper, printed on one side only: retraining the defendants and Fizance has sent a second tele-receptions Chang Chin-po, or Dufferin to establish a nursing SIR EDWARD S. CLOUSTON. to Mongolia. It was decided to the compositora had goneon strike their Agents from further print gram to the Tutuhs and the Civil Chaug Hai-lon, is well-known in Avalem among Turkish women.

Ask the commeroin and in- The editor says the strike is due London, November 25. Mine Alt fearlessly entera infected

The death is announced of Sir dustrial people throughout the to"outside inluenge," and thing, circulating, distributing or Governors requesting them to Mukden, where for many years

libels or any reprint of the same, vinces for next year, elli in Vice President and General Man- sibility of raising funds to the ing to the O. O. Post the anti- and from printing and publish expected that the badgels will be and hope that bo ing them with comforts at her ager Bank of Montreage amount of $20,000,000 for this Chinese pro-Russian poloy of thes similer libos decade received before the close of the bis popular pet name

paper has bech very pronounced.

plaintiffs in their traders ans purpose. Bhat Fol 1905 ; at the age of 85 years.

dwellings, tending to the pa-

sients single-handed and supply:

year. E. D. Newsle

afriends hare wish hit