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The

Hongkong Telegraph.

December 23rd, 1912, Temperature a.m. 62, p.m. 61; Humidity...85, 58.

No. 8977

TELEGRAMS.

BOMB - OUTRAGE.

VICEROY OF INDIA INJURED.

"Router's

(Service to the "Telegraph."]

London, December 23.......... During the State entry into the new capital of India (Delhi) a bomb was thrown and struck the howdah of the Viceroy's elephant, killing the attendant and wounding. Lord Hardinge in the shoulder.

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TELEGRAMS

THE BALKAN WAR.

TURKISH NAVAL SORTIE.

Router's

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[Service to the Telegraph."] London, December 23. Router's correspondent at

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December 23rd, 1911, emperature a.m. 63, p.m.,

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 24,

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NEWS FOR BUSY MEN.

TELEGRAMS.

CHRISTMAS LETTERS.

AN ABOMINABLE ACT.

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TELEGRAMS.

HOM, S. BEAVER.

ONLY SLIGHTLY DAMAGED

Reuters

[Service to the "Telegraph."

Renter's [Service to the Telegraph."}

London, December 23.

London, December 23, The Suffragettes took advant The torpedo boat Beaver, which Athens states that the Turkish ago of the heavy Christmas mails went ashore at Harborough, has attleship Torgutreis, the orniser to again raid the London pillar returned to Porstmonth under her Medjidjon, and three destroyere boxes last evening, hundreds of own ateain. She is only slightly made sortie from the Dar letters and Christains cards being damaged at the bow danelles on Sunday towards she damaged. island of Tenedos. The des

troyers approached the town and "NYMPHS" IN TROUBLE. fired twenty shells, doing no

The Viceroy was removed to harm, however. The Turkish in- Fun Round A ̈Public Water Tap.

hospital.

nichowk.

The assailant was on top of a house, and the attendent holding His Excellency's umbrella was killed, and another attendant wounded in eight places.

The bomb was of a most power:

ful nature.

The Viceroine, who was also in the howdah, was untouched, though she was terribly upset

The procession was then sumed, Sir Guy Fleetwood Wilson. Finance Member of the Council of India, replacing the Viceroy and conducting the Durbar.

engagement on the 18th inst

TURKISH LOSSES,.

ARMISTICE BROKEN.

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A message from Belgrade etates that the Turks on friday attacked the Servians near Scutari. The Servinne replied and n fierce engagement was fought with [onsiderable loss.

the

Before Mr. C. D. Melbourne, at

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GOID COAST DEVELOP MENT.

defendant onme neor obtaining the concession in quest tap with his bucketion, as well as options on several with the object of getting water.djoining tracts of land which he Whilst the complainant was filling considered it would be a good

TELEGRAMS.

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

It is reported from Belgrade that the Turks have attacked the Servians near Soutari.

The Buffragettea bare damaged hundreds of letters and Christmas cards in the London pillar-boxes.

SIBERIAN MAIL.

Faster Poking Service.

WEATHER FORECAST

FAIR

Barometer 30.28

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THE BOOK WORLD

A Volurio on Siberin.

Travel-books nowadays KYO BO, Since the opening of the Tien- tain-Pukow railway the letters often written by ignorant and from Poking travel by that line. pretentions sciolists that it is a re- In fact letters are arriving from lief to come across one informed the capital in Shanghai every

morning, and there has been with common sense and some- great improvement in the service thing of political philosophy, Bays since the mails were transferred the Manchester Guardia, Mr. from the steamer to the train. P. Price went to Siberia This applies only to letters with an open mind, unclouded by parcels come by steamer. For prejudice and an eye keenly alive the information of the general to the significance of economio H. M. S. Beaver, which went public, pamphlets have just been phenomena. Consequently, he ashore at Haisborough, has issued in which it is pointed out hat given as a valuable, book arrived at Portsmouth with a

ith a that mails close daily, from nine which throws now light upon the o'clock in the evening, for de problems of modern Russia, does slightly damaged bow.

spatch by the night train to Nan-much to lift the veil which has In an action near Janina, king connecting with the northern hitherto shrouded Central Ama Djavid Pasha, in command of the train leaving Pakow every day from Europe, sud is fall of material and advice of service to Monastir forces, was killed, as at 9.15 a.m.

LOCAL

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This train arrives at Suchowfu business men on the look-out for at 7.48, the same evening, at new markets. Siberis in the Tainan at 5.45 the following popular imagination of the West morning and at Tientsin at 3.36 figures as a raat ergastulum in p.m., on the third day. It will which hardened criminals and re- be seen from this, that letters volutionary martyrs toile side br can be received in Peking within side. But the Russian myth the four days.

Fast Through Trains. Through trains leave Pukow for Tientsin twice a week on Mondays and Fridays at 8.20 a.m.

habitants cheered an hoisted the Turkish flag whereupon a com- pany of Greek bluejackets on the the Police, yesterday afternoon, Syndicate to Exploit Off-bearing well as his Chief-of-Staff.

Land. DETAILS OF THE AFFAIR.

Idan fired upon them killing two Chinese were charged with

A Turkish naval force fired and wounding fifteen. Tr Tur-assaulting another Chinese. Mr. Later:

Mr. L. A. Allen, presiding at kish vessels then returned to the L. D' Almada, prosecuted and

Mr. F. X. D'Almada defen- the meeting of the Gold Coastwenty shells on the island of Dardanelles.

Tenedos with doing any harm. Router's correspondent at Delhi

The Greek Squadron off ded. The first defendant had Development Syndicate, Limited, The Greek squadron is pursuing

after explaining the position as the foreo,

created by the sensationaliste is wires the following account of Lemnos was informed of the also taken out a cross-summons.

Mr. L. D'Almaria said that this regarded their mining interests,

gradually melting away in the the outrage. The Viceroy's sortie by wireless, and is now in

A dastardly attempt was made The Greek Admiral case was one of those cases of went on to describe an oil interest

light of simple facts. Mr. Step- splendid elephant procession left pursuit,

considers that the absence of assault which was caused directly which they had acquired. He or Lord. Hardinge at Delhi,

pen Graham saympathetic studies the station, passing through the three of the bost Turkish war or indirectly by the unfortunate said that three months ago one of a man throwing a bomb which

of moujik life did much to dispel famous street namci Chand-hips is proof that the Greek scarcity of water. It was the their agents had come home from injured the Viceroy, who was

the idea of a suffering and besot quadron disabled them in the usual custom of the Chinese to the Gold Coast and said that he taken to hospital.

arriving at Tientsin on Tuesdays ted peasantry. Mr. Price follows send their shop-coolies to hnd Ingated a place there where

and Saturdays repectively at him up by proving that Siberia is get water from the public there was oil. The board had a Sir Charles Eliot has been 10.33 a.m. Letters posted at the one of the happirst and most pros The correspondent of the tapa in the streets. The com- great belief in the future of oil. entertained at the International Shanghai Head Office before nine perous parts of the Russian "Times" at Constantinople says plainant in this case, went in the and they had taken a great in- Institute, Shanghai, his state-o'clock in the evening on Sundays Empire, His book falls into that Djaviti Pesha, commanding ordinary course of business to treat in this discovery. After ment on the Hongkong University and Thursdays will thus reach two halves, the first occupied Tientsin on Tuesday and Sunday with an account of his personal. the remnants of the bionastir get water from a tap in Wing discussing the matter with the impressing the Chinese.

morainge respectively thirty-experiences and impressions and forces, has been killed, with his Lok Street and when he had agent they had dispatched him

eighty hours only being occupied the second with a historioal and Chief-of-Staff, in an action in the filled one of his buckets the to the Gold Coast with a view to

on the journey. Therefore in the economie essay on the develop vicinity of Janina, in which the first

light of these facts, as was pointed ment, the present condition, and Turks were finally victorious.

There is little or nothing fresh out by Mr Tollefsen, the head of the fature prospects of the Siberian hai, there is no possible reason for be at present by a rudimentary his bucket the first defendant thing for the company to acquire. to report regarding the boycott the Chinese Post Office at Shang: continent. Hampered though it delay except in the event of a transport system and by the bu rushed the bucket over and spilt The agent had since returned, to-day. the water. When the complainant having obtained the lease, to-

reaucratic machine working olum and shaken.

remonstrated with him, he re-gether with an option on adjoin- The death has place of Captain collision!

When the mails were received sily sad often ineffectively from The elephant was quickly halt

ceived in reply, a knock on the ing ground. Samples of the McGinty, who was a well-known

by sea before the opening of the St. Petersburg, Siberia will un- ed, as the driver was not injured.

shoulder with a bamboo pole "earthy matter" composing the local figure.

line, they were very often late doubtedly in time become one of which the first defendant was anrface ground had been sent to Mrs. Holloway and Mrs. Battye,

An interview with-the-super- owing to the weather, and aspect the most economic bases of the of the St. John's Ambulance MILITARY SERVICE IN using. When he turned round England, and had besanalysed by

to see the man who had struck Cir Boverton Redwood. He (the intendent of telegraphs in the ally was this so during the winter world's production. It possesses JAPAN. Society, and others, assisted the

him, he was hit in the mouth chairman) had shown the analyses Philippines appears in this issue months. Mr. Tollefsen instances illimitable forests at present un- case in which the mails were detouched, enormous stretobes of by the second defendant, and to neveral experte, who said they

layed ten days during the winter, virgin black soil only just wounded into a chair, a stretcher

afterwarde It is reported that military immediately

were of the opinion that the

but he assured the public, through beginning to be brought into was improvised and Lord Har dinge was placed in a motor crervice is inereusing in popularity crowd of men "jumped on" the results shown were sufficiently

H. M. S.. NEWCASTLE:

the medium of the "China Press," cultivation, and vast steppes for ainong tlie better classes in Japan. complainant and he was so encouraging to warrant a further

that they need no longer fear be the rearing of sheep and cattle, and taken to hospital.

According to a report published seriously handled that he had to examination of the property. The

H.M.8. Gibraltar arrived in lnted mails either in Shanghai or to say nothing of its coal mines, The Vicereine motored to the hy the Army Education Depart he brought to the Police Station proper exploitation of the pro

ment in the War Office, the num in a chair. He was seen by party would require the expendi- Colombo barbour yesterday after Poking The railway which is its iron, and its gold. Once the

about three, says Viceregal Lodge.

the working emoothly las obviated transport problem is solved de- ber of candidates applying for lootor who attended to his in-ture of a certain sam of money. noon

velopment will come quickly, and service as military officers this year was 4,542, and the oan-

The case was adjourned.

position of the company, the 2. She has on board, about 308 directors had come to the con- petty officers and men for H.M.S. berian mail, Mr. Tollesen made a economic growth in Central Asia idates making application for

ANTI-RUSSIANS IN clusion that it would be wiser to Newcastle of the China station, very important announcement comparable with that of North admission to the junior military

SHANGHAI. preparatory schools numbered!

from a separate syndicate for the which is also in harbour sad has which is sure to come as a boon to America. The question is how 4:424. The total number of va-

exploitation of the property. been awaiting the Gibraltar for Shanghai business men, if the ar- far this growth will be on Russian cancies for candidates for the

Politicians in Shanghai seem to They suggested that the capital some time. The officers who will rangements now in progress in and how far on cosmopolitan lines. ervice was only 511, while the have taken a strong attitude with of that ayadiante should be be transferred are Liant Salis- the north come to fruition. It is At present the village commune number of vacancies for stu- reference to the present diplo £10,000, of which only £2.000 bury, Lieut. Gray, sub-Lieut. well-known that the mails from is strong in Siberia, which indeed Later.lents in "the junior military pre-antie troubles with Russia, and would be issued at once. The Bolitho, Staff-Surgeon Roche and Earope are received three times could hardly have been colonised paratory school was not more on the 18th inst. a section of capital would in the first place Ropne and Staff-Paymaster Jones. a week in the north, but that successfully without it. But the Lord Hardinge has sent than 300. There can be little them sent an urgent telegram to be offered to the shareholders, It will be remembered that we owing to the steamship service mir in breking down in Europe, ite new land policy to Asia, message to Sir Fleetwood Wilson doubt that this drift towards the Peking giving expression to their and, if they did not subscribe, have already announced that from Dalny they are only receiv and if the Government extends Siberia will soon follow suit. saying that he is only slightly my is due to economic reasons, opinions. This was signed by the they would then try to, get the Captain F. Powlet arrived by the ed twice a week in Shanghai. injured. Sir Fleetwood, Wilson the universities and the high Chinese Industrial Group, the money elsewhere. They consider Mail steamer Malwa to join the

age of the business people of also Siberia seems to be assimilat rend the men age at the Durbar, schoole turning out many men saciation of Chinese Socialista, er that £2,000 would be quite Newcastle, and that Lieut, Gibbs It would not be to the advan- Moreover, in other directions

every year who find it increasing the editorial staff of the "Bill" sufficient to exploit the property accompanied him.

The Gibraltar should have Shanghai under ordinary eiring to what we call a new country: whereupon the andience

ly difficult to find a place in the (Chinese newspaper) and its gist throughly. It the results were

company arrived in Colombo on November oumstances, to insist that their or colony. She is becoming self- cheered for several minutes. The professions or in the higher was that certain officials, de satisfactory another spplause of the Chiefs was most grades of commerce. From the scribed as holding pro-Russian would be immediately floated to 28 bat between Plymonth and letters go to the North by rail conseigns, impatient of the central Japanese point of view the emplu sentiments, should be dismissed take over the property, and the Gibraltar she had to look after through Nanking, for by this control, and Mr. Price even heard 'noticeable.

ments offered by the military pro- from office in order to provont shareholders in the syndicate the dredger Dunstan, which method it would occupy four talk of Siberis fro the Siberians." fession, though not laying the them "selling their country. "would naturally be favourably could not steam more than three days before they could connect Siberia's real danger in the fature to four knots an hour. It with the European express trains. is the proximity of China, and an. SEVERAL ARRESTS."

foundation of a fortune, are no The telegram first pointed out dealt with."

took about seven days to get to Under the present circumstances interesting chapter at the end of doubt attractive to those who the inadvisability of the men

Coruna. At Gibraltar the ship the boats arrive at Dalay in two the book is devoted to Mongolis. Indignation at the outrage is are compelled to choose's career. being retained in office at the

had to leave Engineer Lieut. days, this securing a saving of The Siberians, like the Americans and the Australians, are haunted The lowest grade of aublioute present critical juncture, and pro- The "Globe" states that mates Johnson behind, as he was auf time over the train service. most intense.

The police immediately Aur-ment receives Y33 per month, ceeded to give ressons.

and promotion to a lieutenancy in. The men referred to in the and acting-mates are to wear fering from appendicitis, which Mr. Tollefeen said he could not by the dread of yellow im similar uniform to that of sub-developed somewhere off Lisbon, see at present how the train was migration. The writer indeed, volves 's rise of salary 10.767 telegram are: La Cheng-heiang. lientenente; but they need not He was intending to join the going to cut out the steamer in was told by s the bomb was thrown and made The monthly salary of the highest Minister for Foreign Affairs, des provide themselves with the full Newcastle, and will now do so this rospect, but he put forward travelled on the Ama was als

grade of captain (there are three cribed as a well-known pro-Rus dress coat.

later. A week laat Saturday the a suggestion which is being con-years back that Siberia was al- Overrun by Celestials grades in the Japanese army) is sian, who very long ago was Mishap to Japanese Vessel. All the outlets to the city are 105; of a colonel T245, of a decorated with a high order The 8.8. Senzan Maru 2,210/ship called in at Aden for a few gidered in the north-that of a ready being an inhabitanta

hours and dropped two officers third mail day for Shinghai. sgainst whom major-general Y225, and of a by the Tear; his followers tone, formerly the Goalpars, own-| for another ship, She also This it is intended eball arrive were economically no match, lieutenant-general 7416. The and proteges such as Li Chia-ed by Messrs. Iwaki & Co., of brought to Colombo a number of on Thursday and by train that the Trans-Siberian monthly salary of a general ao, formerly Chinese Commer Chefco, and registered in the marines and men for various There is no mail on Thursday instead of opening up is Y620, a substantial income as oial Agent at Vladivostok and at Kwantung Ledsed Territory, ships out East, who when aboard and it is thought that by utilizing Europe, WAS in effect things go in Japan, but there are present Tootsi (7) of Harbin while on her way to Kobe on the the alert this afternoon prepar- the railway, the people of Shang actly the reverse. In only 10 generala on native service Chang Chington, a returned stu-30th ult., collided near Yoroi

third mail from Europe, which there does not seem ships: female child bas, according to the are given if retirement takes place corated by the Tear for having Japan with a Japanese sailer of aboard the Gibralter are about has to wait for the bont before definite sign of an The borly of a newly horn in the Japanese army. Pensions dent from St. Petersburg, also de-Island in the Lauer Channel of atory to joining their respective hai will have delivered them the west aren visited by on at present, but he police report, been found in Yan-after ten years' service, the amount translated into Russian, the "Life good size, which was being driven 90 to 100 men for the sloop Es being transmitted.es mati, yesterday, at the back of being about one-fourth of the of Li Hung-chang" written by by the swift current and furione Arthur Street. Deith was apanlary paid on service and in- Linng: Chi-obao and also Chen gule, resulting in damage, to be piegle, who will leave her at Arten Further it is suggested that once shows hims al parently due to natural causer, creasing according to the longth Han, another returned student farboard bow, &c. The Senzar on the way back to England. The there be a third mail from Shangscious of future

from Russia who was some time Maru is now receiving hurried men for the Newcastle will leaving on Thursday via this direction Bat

change ships on Thursday, about Nanking connecting with the space forbids us ago assistant engineer of the repairs at the hands of the Inno 320 homeward bound men com- Moscow express the following this Huangpa Conservancy. ahima Branch of the Osaka Ironing from that ship to the Gibral- Monday. These matters are not Mr. Price's By the Laetzow, from the Russia's Naval Programme. North, there are passing through Russia has arranged for a small The telegram was addressed Works. The Marine Disciplinary tar It is expected that the yet fufinitely decided, but, there hope he w soma 150 Italian soldiers and navy programme in 1913, which says the N. China Daily News Committee has the matter under Gibraltar will sail on Saturday is in to hope that they will and East twelve non-commissioned officere provided 59 million roubles, to President Tuen Shib-kal to investigation, and a preliminary and the Newonut on be deuided in a way favourable to more of the Italian Kerine, bound for wherect 39 million will be set the Cabinet and to the National hearing The stunner will be ganday for the Chine Biatlon, the third meil plain.

spart for men-of-wars-Er Assembly,

juries and who would be called.and in view of the financial Times of Ceylon" of December this,

When asked regarding the Siwe shall probably witness a rapid

THE VICEROY'S INJURIES.

rose and

rounded the house from which

feveral arrests.

being carefully guarded.

Child's Body, Found.

Italian Service Mon.

of years served.

Mate's Uniforms.

Third Mail Plan.

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the proble

Biberia