1913-01-28 — Page 1

The Hongkong Telegraph.

January 27th, 1913, Temperature a.m. 50, p.m. 59; Humidity...70, 55.

No. 9005

TELEGRAMS.

税二十月二十年子壬

TELEGRAMS.

\\(ESTABLISHED 1881.)

Copyright, 1812 by the Proprietor.

'TUESDAY, JANUARY 28,

TELEGRAMS.

FRANCHISE BILL.

THE MEASURE DROPPED.

THE BALKAN CRISIS.

ALLIES BLAME TURKEY.

Router's

MONGOLIA,

"AN APPEAL TO 'RUSSIA.

Router's

[Seraice to the "Tolagraph."]

Loudon, January 27.

After a prolonged mooting of the Cabinet, the Clover ment

Bill immediately.

[Servico to the "Telegraph."]

London, January 27.

Thio Balkan delegates' le ter

Renter's

[Service to the "Telegraph."]

London, January 27,

TELEGRAMS.

GERMAN CROWN PRINCE.

MADE A COLONEL.

Reuter'à

[Service to the "Telegraph. "I

London, January 27,

Thia correspondent of the Router's correspondent at Bor- will declare that the Conference is Daily Telegraph" at St. Peter-line states that the Kaiser, on the decided to drop the Franchise broken of owing to Turkey's shurg telegraphs that the Mon- ecossion of his birthday, has pro- refusal of their proposals. Alian Ambassador on Saturday moted the Crown Prines to the draft of the letter will be sub visited M. Jilinsky, the Chief of rank of Celine! mited at another meating of the the General Staff, and bogged for Balkanites today, and they will future military assistance to then decide the time of presenta tion, and also whether the nego tions shall end with the prosenta tion of the letter or sore brief

In the Commons,

Later,

In the House of Commons, after discussion, the closure was moved and carried by 253 votes to 112, whereupon the Franchise Bill was formally withdrawn.

orgainse the Mongolian forces AUSTRIAN ARCHDUKE'S against a possible Chinese attack in the Spring. At present_only two Russian officers are at Urga,

period be allowed to intervene They asked for at least ten more

Bluff?

THE FAR EAST IN PARLIAMENT.

New Chinese Loan.

DEATH.

London, January 27.

Archduke Rainer of Austria,

WEATHER FORBEANT

FAIR.

Barometer 3037.

January 27th, 1012, Temperature a.m. 53, p.m. 53; Humidity...88, 84.

二拜禮

號八廿月正英港香

EGRAMS.

TELEGRAMS.

LORD HARDINGE.

SIR EVELYN WOOD,

ATTENDS COUNCIL MEETİNG, || NASTY HUNTING EXPERIENCE

Reater's [Service to the " Telegraph."]

London, January 28. Reuter'a correspondent at Delbi

Reuter's

[Service to the "Telegraph."]

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186 PEX AREGI

SINGLE COFT 10 Ousti.

NEWS FOR BUSY MEN,

TELEGRAMS,

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

The death is announced of the Archduke Rainer of Austria.

London, January 27.

The Kaiser has promoted the Whilt in "full cry" with the Orown Prince to the_rank" of wires that the Legislative Council Essex Foxhounds, Field-Marshal Colonel. met in the new Cnuncil Chamber. Sir Evelyn Wood's horse was Lord and Lady Hardinge drove impaled on a fence. Sir Evelyn, to the Chamber along a route who is nearly 75 years of age all police leave in London has In view of suffragatte threats, lined by police.

kept his seat, and subsquently The Viceroy, on entering the borrowed a gan from a farm near the cheering lasting for a minute. Chamber was given an ovation, by and himself shot the animal.

In returning thanks for the reception accorded him, Lord, Hardinge displayed considerable emotion.

Two members, on behalf of the Council, expressed their horror at the recent crime and their pleasure at the Viceroy's appearance.

A Pathetic Scene,

meuns free from difficulty, but I am taking steps to prouare the Lord Hardinge replied. He fear amendment of pension legislation ed that he would be unable to in the various Crown Colonies preside at the proceedings for and Protectorates so as to prevent some time.

A CHINESE PLAY.

stopped.

The Government has decided

to drop the Franchise Bill im- mediately.

The House of Commons has began consideration of the Trades

Tò Appear in London Shortly. Union Bill.

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A Chinese play, "The Yollow Prince Said Halim has been Jacket," by Messrs. Hazleton and appointed. Turkish Minister of Benrimo, which is being produced Foreign Affairs. at the Fulton Theatre, New York, will soon appear in London. AMisa Kennoy declares that the play in the Chinese manner," Suffrageties will make the life of says the "Times" Washington cor- the public impossible. He would have respondent, could hardly be reck- any retiring officer from becom-liked to shake hands with all, oned

1 "safe" commercial ing a director or emploves of any but his arm was still in a sling.

Mongolia is asking Russia for ventute. Its production company operating in the Colony

must military assistance to organise The Viceroy left amid 'n storm surely be almost without preced against a possible Chinese attack

ent at any metropolitan theatre. in the Spring.

before the rupture become effo and it corresponding number of The death is announced of the ive. In the view of the Allies,Subalterns and instructors. The Premier's Denials. the Turks are alone' responsible Mr. Asquith declared that the for the rupture, the change of Government's opinion had been Cabinet and the new Govern- that, in view of preceitonts, an ment's manifesto clearly indicat amendment in the direction ofing that the reply to the Powers women's suffrage would have would be in the negative. been admitted in Committee. Tho Government had honestly ondea-

The opinion is hold in some Toured to carry out their pledges, quarters, especially in view of a and he vigorously denied that certain indefiniteness in reference there had been anything in the to the inumadinto effects of the (Dec. 30.) Mr. Grinnell asked the direction of sharp practice. He Balkan delegates' decision, which Secretary for Foreign Affairs if he regrotted that women's suffrage their statements do not assist to

remove, that their netion is a pieced state what recent addition of bluff and is intended to indace or alteration had been made in the the Powers" to exercise stronger personnel of the British section of pressure on Turkey.

tha Six-Pawor Group for lending Warship Movements,

money to China: the names and. According to a telegram from particulars of the present con- Malta, H.M.S. King Edward and stituents, of that section; what IIMS. Zelandia have gone, to

Aegean Sea.

adjustment had been made in the A message from Port Said says terms for division of profits on

had not been brought to a divi- sion, to which he had looked for- ward without apprehension. The question was what further ought to be dono.This remark was greoled with Opposition cries of "Go to the country!"'s

Mr. Asquith then made an announcement abdut, a private Bill to secure the franchise for

women, and claimed that the Government had thus carried out

and the spirit.

Beirut,

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Later.

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or Protectorate from which he of cheers. has retired, without permission in writing from the Governor of such Colony or Protectorate... tions refer to retiring Governors Sir J.D. Rees: Will the regala-

as well as to subordinates?

Mr. Harcourt: The words I

A NEW CARLSBAD.

And what does the Chinose “manner" mean? It means, among The Balkan delegates blame other things, that the whole perfor-Turkey for the rapture brought mance is dominated by the "pro-about by the breaking off of the perty man." Han the hero to

peace negotiations. Rebullding of Famous Resort for climb a mountain? The proper-

Summer Visitors. used covered, and were intended

ty man advances with languid

At a womans' meeting, Mrs. indifference, a cigarette between Pankhurst declared guerilla Carlsbad, December 14-The his lips, and piles a chair or two war" and asked for names of to cover, the case of retiring Governors and others,

average visitor to Carlsbad, who upon a table, and there's the those willing to participate. hat TM.S. Duke of Edinburgh loan transactions now under hon. gentleman take into account height of the season, when the snowstorm required? Again be Sir J.D. Rea: Will the right comes for a few weeks at the the mountain! Is p blinding arrived there yesterday, and al-negotiation; and, seeing that the the fact that that retiring Gover-place is a fairyland with ita music, steps forward, his boredom still Fox-hounds Sir Evelyn Wood's While riding with the Essex their undertaking to the letter most immediately preceeded to Russian section of the group was nors are very often men of large ite garden cafes, its brilliant illa quite manifest, this time to scat horse became impaled on a fence composed of non-Russian financial abilities and small incomes, and mination at night and its throng ter a few grains of rice about the and the rider himself shot the Opposition Criticism.

Turkish Foreign Minister.

houses, even the Russo-Asiatic that they should not he too much of fashionable visitors, has little stage. Should a character extend animal. Subsequent speakers, including

Bink being controlled by non- circumscribed with regard to their conception of the transformation his arm to mark a significant Mr. Bonar Law and Mr. Balfour, Reuter's correspondent at Con- generally agreed to the Governstantinople starios that Prince Russian interest, whether he was activities 7"

which comes over it with the speech; it is as likely as not that The German Government has went's course as affording the Sid Halim has been appointed in a position to state any interest

advent of the first of October. the property man will pick up his Russia now had in the Six-Power

With the commencement of that feather brash and meditatively the Schuettelang Airship Co., acquired, the foreign patents" of best opportunity of obtaining an Minister of Foreign Affairs.

Group.

month men appear from all cor- dust the extended alcove. One which will construct airships in unprejudiced vote on women's

Mr Acland: As was announced in which they have recently lives.ners with ladders and long poles cannot even die without him suffrage, but Mr. Bonar Law

recently in the Press, the British Their activities in other places and commence tearing down what when the hero's "Fidus Aobates' England. blamed the Governnient for Fail- ing to anticipate a technical point

group is now composed as fol- will not be be circumscribed.

appear to be half the houses in is overcome by the blizzard, the The Balkan decision to break. of procedure, and Mr. Balfour

|lows The Eongkong and Shang-

the town. Great unsightly gaps property man is at hand to cover of the negotiations is regarded disputed the Government's right

hai Banking Corporation, Mossra

appear in the rows of houses, the corpse with a white sheet, in some quarters as "bluff" to Baring Brothers and Co., Limited,

though a tooth had been pulled thoughtfully leaving the board secure stronger pressure on Tur .to set up private Bill on a

the London County and Weat- question whereon they were

out: deep pits are are dug. outside. Altogether Mr. Arthur key by the Powers. minster Bank, Limited, Parr's hopelessly divided and apply

very often discovering some Shaw makes a delightful figure| Bank, Limited, and Messrs J. H. thereto all the powerful ma-

Schroeder and Co. I am not in

ambitious off-spring of the of this property mana kind of

has A court of enquiry, composed Sprudel, which to be deandent factotum whose charm position to give details of the as under, will assemble a Murray promptly suppressed; the "Alte is all the greater from his com- between the constituents of the 3rd February, 1913, to investigate yard, and in place of the fresh, financial arrangements arrived at Barracks, at 10a.m. on Monday, Wieso is turned into a builder's plete silence.

ohinery at their hand."

Other Views.

vernment measure. ・・

TRADES UNION BILL.-

BEFORE THE COMMONS,

London, January 27. The House of Commone to-day began consideration of the Trades Union Bill.

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Mr. Harcourt: The application of the new rule is to their activi ties in the Colony or Protector

COURT OF ENQUIRY.

LOCAL.

Sir Edward Grey declared that General, said that though the Sir Rafus Isaacs, Attorney

There is also the chorus, and Some Home views on the the Government would be false funds of Trade Unions would be group. It is for the Russian Go- and report apon losses of bedding clean gravel known by the "cure Signor Perugini gets a vast deal Opium Question appear in this to their plodges if they placed the exempt with reference to the acts vernment to decide whether they reported to have occurred on guest," appears a thick layer of out of this personage. Not. issue, woman suffrage measure" in a of their officials, yet it would be are satisfied that the Russian board the H.T. "Rohilla," in rutted mud. It is in fact a race moralising Sophoclean chorus position inferior to that of a Go-quite a fallacy to argue that in group is properly representativo November, 1912: President against time, and a handicap at this, nor yet a martial Shako-

Owners of trading junke roport dividuals would not be individual- of Russian interest.

Lieut-Colonel H. D. Tuson, 2nd that; a race because the builder spearian chorus, but a deliciously that their vessels were boarded Mr. Austen Chamberlain midly responsible for their actions. it would be a most serious thing

Bo. D.O.LI; Members: A Major knows that unless his contract is conceited chorus, reminiscent by pirates near Chuk Chow Tau. or A Captain, R GAA Subal completed by the 15th of April now of Peter Quince and now of to apply the Parliament Act to a.

tern, 2nd Bn. D.C.L.I.

the town authority will step in Eliza in "Poter Pan." The pro- A burglary in the servanta subject so little considered by the

and he may have to wait till the duction, the chorus assures da, is quarters of a house in Robinson electorate.

Reason is over to finish it; wholly his, not that he wishes to Road is stated to have taken place, handicap because the winter in deprive his "brothers of the Pear this morning. it is for this reason that on ro- We may even call them before Carlsbad can be very severe, and Garden," of their meed of pries. The Parseo gentleman, whose

Querilla War."

Mr. Pankhurst, at a womans' meating in the London Pavilion, declared a "guerilla war," and asked for names of those willing to partioipate therein.

Misa Kenney said: "We will make the life of the public im possible. We will attack pot only shop-windows but something olse if

you are not careful."

ALLEGED COUNTERFEIT

COINS.

China and Tibet.

(Jan. 1.) Sir J. D. Roes asked the Secretary of State for Foreiga Affairs whether any and, if so,

Court Martial Dissolved.

what answer had been received to which Major C. D. Harvey, R. E, The District Court-Martial of At the Police Court, this aftor- the British Note of Aug. 17, 1912, is president, is dissolved. noon, Mr. Hazeland, heard further addressed to the Government of evidence in the case, in which China; and, if so, whether His

Leave; four Chinese are charged with Majesty's Government accepted" making counterfeit coins, and the contention, if advanced, that to Major Comyn, R.A, from Station leave has been granted having plant for the making of China had sovereign rights and January 28 to February 2 in- base coins, also a quantity of base rights of intervention in the inclusive coins in their possession. ternal administration of Tibet. Mr. Davidson, of Messrs. Mr. Acland, who replied, said. Preparing for Trouble.. Hastings and Hostinge, defend-A memorandum in reply to the A lecture will be given in the

the first and In view of Suffragette threats, ed

third British Note of Aug. 17 laat was Seamen's Institute, at 6 p.m., on all police leave has been stopped. defendants; Mr. Dennys Jur. handed to His Majesty'e Minister Thurday, January 30., by the Two thousand constables and a appeared for the second defend-at Peking on Dec, 23. I have as Rav. G. B. Berry, on The hundred mounted police will be ant, and Mr. Goldring, of Messrs. yet only received. a telegraphic place of Britain in the Bible, be- Goldring, Burlow sud Morral, summary of this communication, ginning with the Coronation

which is now under consideration. Stone."

available at Westminster.

AIRSHIP COMPANY.

GERMANY ACQUIRES

PATENTS.

the fourth.

Lecture.

tion.

Chinese Detective 955, said on His Majesty's Government would The Kallan Mining Administra- the 4th inst. at 2 p.m. he not accept any unqualified con- want to 121. Queen's Road | tention of the nature suggested in West

with Sergeant Grant the last part of the question.

number of police.

and

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| A`search was made on the second Colonial Officials and Director-

floor and in the cookloft above the staircase, witness found, dies

ships.

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turning home late at night one the curtain at the end of the play loss was reported yesterday, finds. can see great braziers of coke if we like, provided" we ila that it is 82000 greater than Was glowing from the depths of some not adulate them too much." at first supposed. skeleton building.

Bot he is fully conscious

Apart from the concerts, which of their deficiencies; "should The death occurred at his are continued at the Kurhaus anything in the play," he residence in Kowloon yesterday tbroughout the winter, the theatre he says, "appeal to your sense of of Inspector Alfred Brown of the and one or two hotels, which also humour as strongly as it does to Sanitary Department, remain open, there is little to in- mine, I beg of you to honourably dicate that Carlsbad is supposed smile. I shall not deem it a dis

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At a meoting of the Sanitary

to be in a position to receive courtesy." He is full of kin lly Board this afternoon corres 'cure guests" all the year round. instruction too. Not only does pondence was dealt with relative

Only the ubiquitous cinemato he "say what the play treats on," to the question of oremation.. graphs seem to offer a prospect of but he gives us many a hint as to animation. In fact, Carlsbad is our own attitudo, telling us, as The directors of the Hongkong," very much in its working clothes, for instance, quite in the style of Canton and Maoso Steamboat Co., and not till "Fashing" or "Car Mr. Henry James, that the pro- Ltd., recommend a dividend for The total output of the Admin-nival" will signs of merriment party man is for you quite in the half year of one dollar per istration's mines for the week reappear, and then only among visible." And yet, despite this share.

the inhabitants of the town. ending 11th January, amounted

usivete, despite the primitive to 42,381.54 tone and the Bales

The stream of visitors, com- theologeion, from which the "an- The B.E. and 88 Coy. R.G.A. mencing with the Junkers from cestors" address their descend-met yesterday in a United Ser- the North of Germany, the exi- ante on the stage, and by which vices League Football Match, in gencies of whoes agricultural ope: the virtuous dead of the play which the former, retained their rations compel an early "care," mount to their rest with business unbeaten record by drawing. sets in only with the month of like despatch; despite quaint

during the period, to 43,870.95

tons

March.

sayings like "I am desorted by

A now theatre-cafe is to be built all, but my self-importance still

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for the making of one cont pieces. (2nd.) Mr. Wedgwood asked

R. G. A. Appointments. In the drawers of the counter the Secretary for the. Colonies London, January 27, in the accountants room, witness what steps, if any, he bad taken

Lieut. P. R. Mitobell, No. 16 A message from Reutor's cor- found counterfeit coin. During lately to prevent Governors and Co., R.G.A., at Weymouth, has respondent at Mannbeim states the search the third defendant other Colonial Office officials from been ordered to join No. 93 Co.,.

or on the great open space where remains,” "She died of that the German Government has came upstairs and in his pocket becoming dirroters or promoters RG.A, Ceylon.

British Consul-General noquired the foreign patents of were

at Tientsin. found on false Kwang of public companies after their Lieut. 3. T. B. Mayne, No. II the hotels Goldener Schild and her mother-in-law's accomplish- the Sohuettelans Airship Com- Tung twenty cent pieces. In a retirement.

do, R.G.A., has been posted to Zwel Monarchen used to stand, ments," or "Time has honourably Mr. Henry English Fulford, pany, with whom negotiations cubicle witness found twenty Mr. Harcourt: I have recent No. 79 Co. RG.A., Aden, for and judging from the plans, it pursuel his venerable way the C.M.G., arrived in Tientsin on have recently been opened with four slabs of metal in a box. ly given much consideration to Rangoon, No. 79 Company have will be a very artistic building, actors, lime and again, contrive to January day by the train de luze. the question which my hon. friend since arrived at Bombay on ang which will do the town every get a good deal of tragic emotion to take over the dates of British

Centul General there! across the footlights, raised. It is one which is by no mentation of establishment,

view to the construction of their Irahips in England,

The case had not concluded when wo Woul to press...

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