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The Hongkong Telegraph.

March 3rd, 1913, Temperature a.m. 56, p.m. 69; Humidity... 78, 61,

No. 9088.

晚六十月正年丑癸

TELEGRAMS.

TELEGRAMS,

GROWTH OF ARMAMENTS.

THE BALKAN CRISIS.

FRANCO-OBRMAN FEELING.

PROSPECTS OF PEACE.

Router'a

[Service to the Telegraph."] London, March 2,

The question of increased arma-

Reuter's [Service to the "Telegraph:""]

London, March 1.

(ESTABLISHED 1881.) Copyright, 1912 by the

MONDAY,

TELEGRAMS.

CHINA AND JAPAN.

SUN YAT-SEN'S MISSION.

Reuter's

[Service to the Telegraph."] London, March 2. Reuter's correspondent

leaves to-morrow.

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རྨཱ་

MARCH

- 1913.

TELEGRAMS.

COUNTY CRICKET,

CHAMPIONSHIP. QUESTION

Router's

WEATHER FORECAST

FINE

Barometer 30.18

Maroh 3rd, 1012, Temperature am. 64, p.m. 70; Humidity.2.66, 65.

一拜禮

TELEGRAMS.

AIRSHIP FOR RUSSIA

SUCCESSFUL TRIALS.

號三月三英港香:

TELEGRAMS.

INDIAN BUDGET.

LOSS OF OPIUM REVENUE.

Rentor's

$30 ras ANKAR

SINGLE COFT 10 Cente

NEWS FOR BUSY MEN.

TELEGRAMS,

THE NEWS CONDENSED;

Questions regarding the Conn- Urioket Ohampionship are be-

coming acute.

A strong force of Turke was

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

London, March 1.

London, March 2. The prospects of peace in the

London, March 1. It is reported that the question monis, is absorbing, French and Balkans are regarded a more Tokyo wires that Dr. Sun Yat-sen of the Coins Advisory Com- ship built for Brasoval air. wires that the Finance Ministor defeated in a six hours? battle to

Beuter's correspondent at Bar; German public opinion.

Reuter's correspondent at Delhi The French press regards the the armistice.

favourable than at any time since

ship, which the Com-whip for Russia made a introduced the Indian Budget on the north of Janina. re-adoption of the three years

The speeches he has delivered mittee has been discussing at successful flight of 140 miles Saturday, Towfik Pasha called at the indicate that the real object of his Lord's, is becoming acute. The yesterday. service system as assure and as London Foreign Office on Friday, visit is to foster Chino-Japanese chief controversy wages round the

It shows a surplus of £3 1-3 the only possible reply to German followed some time later by Hakki commercial and political ententes, restriction of matches to two days military expansion. Popular feel-Pushe. Diplomatic circles regard He offered important concessions of seven hours each, and the pro ing is evidenced by the action of these visits as portending s more to bankers and manufacturers. motion of counties by merit. time-expired wen rallying to the acceptable reply on the part of colours for a fresh term of service.

Germany's Big Bill.

Turkey to the Note from the

Powera.

The German Press is now

No importance is"attsoled to agreed that the cost of the increase the telegrams from Sofia that in the Army will necessitate anTurkey is endeavouring to treat expenditure of fifty millions ater-directly with Bulgaria, because ling of which amount eleven the Powers insist on negotiations millions will be annually recar-with the Allies generally. ring, while forty millions will be non-recurring and will be largely expended upon now fortresses on

the eastern frontier.

Turks Defeated..

BOY SCOUTS.

OFF TO THE COLONIES.

London, March 1. A party of Boy Scouts are pro- ceeding to Melbourne. aboard the that a strong force of Turks was assisted passages under the Vic- A message from Athons reports 18.8. Marathon, emigrating by defeated after a six hours battle toria Government British lads' The official "Norddeutscho" an- 112 dead and 180 prisoners. The

to the north of Jamins, leaving scharno. nounces that the huge increase of Greek losses were insignificant,

A second party proceeds to Canada on the 4th of April. The expenditure is to be met by a

Boy Scouts' Association establishing a fund to assist the Scouts to the Colonies.

Finding the Money.

special levy upon property in addition to the regular property tex. The Federal Council was

Turkey Gives In,

Later. Reuter's correspondent at Rome:

convenced yesterday to discuss says the Turkish Ambasador bas

the questions.

informed Marquis San Giuliano, Minister for Foreign Affairs, that

is

At a meeting at Lord's this week a proposal was submitted to exclude five counties, and the decision was postponed until July.

BISHOP OF VICTORIA. which is £2,000,000 above, the final, Gloucestershire best Cum- millions for the year 1912-13, In the County Championship estimated surplus. The estimates terland at Rugby football. for 1013-14 show a surplus of $1 1-3 million.

Thirty-five people were injured. The Finance Minister (Sir Guy by an engine dashing into an tended the conference organized tinct shadow in the financial sun.

The Bishop of the Diocese at. Fleetwood Wilson) said a dialectrio train at Newcastle.VI

Buslly Engaged in Diocesan Work.

by the Edinburgh Continuation shine was the loss of opium The Paraeval airship built in Committee at Canton early in revenue, which materially affected Germany for Russia has made a February, says "Church Notes." the arrangements for the coming sucosssful flight of 140 miles. Dr. J. R. Matt. presided over the year. He described the Govern conference which was attended meat's opium policy up to the

Tarkey bas placed herself in

visit to Japan has been to foster Chino-Japanese commercial and The real object of Sun Yat-sen's

political ententes.

GERMANY'S DEFENCE.

FINDING THE MONEY.

by seventy-five delegates repre- present as being an adherence to London, March 1.

senting almost all the Churches the programme of sales arranged, the hands of the Powers with a Reuter's correspondent at Ber and Missionary Societies engaged despite circumstances frequently view to the conclusion of peace. in telegraphs that in view of the in missionary work in the fire justifying "the denouncement of approaching introduction of the southern Provinces of China. On the Treaty, and also resistance to Under opium, the Indian re- new Army Bills and the Govern February 12th, the Bishop, ac pressure to effect an arbitary and venue account for the coming ment's secrecy concerning these, companied by the Rev. A. D. premature suspension of the sales. year is put at £3,618,000 lees than the German newspapers are pub Stewart, started on a visitation of The action of the Chiness Govarn- last year. fishing estimates of the increase. some of the Mission Stations in ment, however, had created a new They agree that they will amount the Diocese. At Shakki they situation, as was evidenced in the to £12) million annually, and ex- were met by the Reverend practical stoppage of the trade in pect that the method of paying Moko Shan Teang and E, I Chinese markets and the great the bill, whether by a property Blanchett. This prosperous city, drop in the auction prices, neces- The papere stato that owners of property of the value of fifteen Turkey places herself in the hands

tax or indirect taxation, will lead which is lighted by electric light, aitating the suspension of sales to a stiff fight. hundred pounds sterling and

of the Powers with a view to the

bia a substantial and fairly large which had been ordered in Janu- under will be exempt from the conclusion of peace. Reports from

church and school. The Bishop aryThe revenue account under

A olerk in the parcels office of special levy but the federal Prin- other capitala indicate that similar

examined the candidates for con- the heading of opium for the Devonport railway station was Ceas will be asked to relinquish aption is expected.

London, March 1. Giting reasons for his conten-firmation and confimed 11; after-ming year is eaimated at terribly injured in an explosion the exemption from taxes which will now seek to ascertain if the pondent says the Naval Com-that they seemed to be moving infant baptisms. On the 14th, 13,

It is understood that the Powers Reuter's Washington corres-tion, Mr. Smith addaoad the fact wards there several adult and $3,018,000 below that for 1912-attributed to suffragettes.

mittes of the Senate has restored into a time when there had arisen special services wore hebt and the principal items in the Naval united cry for cheap amusement. 14 persons confirmed at Kong Appropriations Bill, including The cry for fun was sweeping Moon, a treaty port of growing the provision for two battleships, their nations to-day; until many importance and the forminus of which the House of Representa a man was forgetting what it was new railway line. Sunday was tives struck out.

to think deeply. He believed in pent at Shaibing where the life. He believed that the shoud .M.S. owns a house and mission live on the side that brought most premises. The Bishop met all the buoyancy, but they knew that the Church members, administered worst evils in life were the abuses the Iloly Communion and preach-Col. J. F. Bagot, Conservative of blessings. That was true of ed at the Morning Service

they have hitherto enjoyed.

A later message says the spe- mediation of Europe. olal lery is to be made at once: It will only oover non-recurring expenditure on fortresses and buildings, and the permanent increase in recurring expendituro will be met by, permanent * taxation.

Allies are willing to accept the

It is anticipator that the Government's proposals will be determinedly opposed in the Reichstag, which will probably meat for a special session during the summer.

THE SUFFRAGETTES.

HOAXING THE POLICE.

London, March 1.

The Pontypool police received

U. S. NAVY.

SENATE TO THE RESCUE.

Later.

The Senate has passed the Naval Bill. The Bill returns to the House of Representatives.

ROMANOFF

TERCENTENARY. The "Norddeutsche" urges the what was apparently on official necessity of passing the Army order, but which was presumably

London, March 1,· Bill by Whitsuntide with a view sent by Suffragettes, instructing and Moscow bave decided to pre- The Banks in St. Petersburg to enabling the War Office to them to mobilise the Territorials sent tho Czar with a million carry ont the necessary changes on a war basis. by the autumn.

roubles for charitable purposes on the occasion of the Romanoff Tercentenary.

German Naval Estimates.

A debate took place in the Reichstag yesterday on the naval estimates.

The police put up placards and communicated with a number of Territorials and Reservists before the hoax was discovered..

A Serious Explosion, Remarkable speeches were made by the lovers of the Centre in the parcels office of the rail- A serious explosion took place and National Liberal parties, way station at Davonport, and a dwelling upon the progress of the clerk was terribly injured. The German Navy, especially in tor outrage is attributed to suffra- pedoers, submarines and aircraft geltes. A portion of a tin was and the need of maintaining' found. powerful fleet commanding reg

poot.

Admiral von Tirpitz mentioned

OBITUARIES.

.LT. COL. BAGOT, M.P.

London, March 2. The death is reported of Lieut.-

1.P. for Kendal.

Britain's reply to America cons corning Panama Canal tolls aubi- mits that arbitration should pres cede rather than follow aotus] friction

French and German publio opinion is absorbed with the and telograma detail Germany question of increased armaments, proposals...

The U. 8. Senate has passed the

of whiskey, true of anesthetics, A Flourishing District. trus of money and true of ples.

On the following day, the party dal sice January 1910, previously [The deceased had sat for Ken- ure. Thore was too much desire started before daylight, as usual, desire to read backs and indulge Tan Tsing District on the 18th,merly in the Grenadier Guarde vision for two battleships, and the

tuency from 1906. He was for in great thoughts.

spending the night in Canton en and retired in 1886. In 1882-83 and Bill now returns to the House of route, when the Bi-hop attended again in 1888-89 he served as Reprosentativea, "The Cheap Toy,"

iho Aanaal Mee ing of the A. D. C. to the Governor General Some of them'in that theatre had English Chu c' lost that which they knew once, thirteen Churches of our Com-ivate Secretary to the Home There are of Canada, and was l'arliamentary that love for religion, brosuse musion in the Tan Tsing Secretary from 1897-99 and to then an apparently official order The police at Pontypool, noting they had heard it all their lives: District, with 680 Church rae Financial Secretary to the Trea- but believed to have come from others had lost it because they bers, of wh m 205 have been sury, He served in the Boer War offragettes, proceeded to call up were selling themselves for the previously confirmed and there ed was 58 years of age. At the

us Chiof Military Censor. Deceas- Cerritorials and Reservista. cheap toy pleure in the are about 50 people asking last General Election Col. Bagot world. Others were, losing the for teaching, but alas, the supply polled 3,041 votos on! Mr W, H. grip on religion because they were of cler. y and techists is miser somervell (1) 2,733, a majority not bungry. Success had made ably in equate. A few persons of 308.] them forget God Did they know, were conficiat Waing Long Smith hold a men's meeting in about one chance in a thousand who are indeed as sheep without of Dr. Headers, formerly of those winning men in commerce, but the Bop recommender

Dr. Henderson. Yesterday evening Mr. Fred B. that were was not more than that the jity of those people,

London, Marchi 2. The death is announced of Dr. the Theatre Ragat, when Col. that they would not lose their W. R. St. Jolin presided over a gule ? Show him the ratio of a the summer when he in'ends to

a shepherd, should wait until Shanghai, very large attendance. He was man's success in business and be visit them again. Meanwhile ar- would show them the ratio of his the Rev. C. H. Hickling and the decrease in religion.⠀ International Quartette. During He, the speaker, would rather the evening, bymns were sung be a coolie carrying thirty-eight and some vocal items were given brickaup the Peak on his biok than by the quartetto,

and knowing God, than live in a

for fun; they were losing their and reached Waung Long in the representing the same consti-Naval Bill, reinserting the pros

MEN AND RELIGION.

Stirring Address By Mr. F, B.

Smith

that new aerodromes will be laid PANAMA CANAL TOLLS. supported by the Rev. Mr. Welle,

-down at Wismar and Rostock.

RUGBY FOOTBALL.

GLOUCESTERSHIRE

CHAMPIONS.

RAILWAY DISASTER.

35 PEOPLE INJURED.

London, March 2.

PLEA FOR ARBITRATION.

Mr Knox bas reserved the reply An engine dashed into an elec- for his successor.

Dodging Religion.

rangements will have been made for their further instruction by the few missionaries and Chinese workers available.

Future Engage▾ents. During March the Bishop will

MEXICAN AFFAIRS,

London, Magali 1.- A mossage from Mexico City reports that Felix Diaz has de- the Presidency. oiled to become a candidate for

NEWS FOR BUSY MEN.

In briefly introducing the mansion in Hongkong with the be at Shanghai to take part in London, March 2. The British rejoinder to Mr John said that Mr Smith was on was telling its story on this race he hopes will result in the more speaker for the evening, Col. St. fires going out in him. Prosperity two important conferences which London, Maroh 2. In the Rugby County Cham- Panama Canal tolls, of January tralia and fortunately Hongkong men who would talk of religion vast Diocese. The first conference, Secretary Knox's statement on the his way from America to Aus- of ours. And again, there were effective evangelization of his

THE SLOTT FUNDS. pionship faal, Gloucestershire, 23rd, has been presented at was on the route. the winners of the Western Washington. It answers the con-

na if it were a football to which March 3rd to 8th, is for the Counties' group, beat Cumber- tention that the British grievance ing a chapter from the Book of it earce along.

Mr Smith commenced by read-they could give a kick whenever Bishops and Representatives of

London, March 1. The Funde raised in connection land by 14 points to 3 at Carlisle. is only hypothetical, and that Deuteronomy and based his re-

all C.M.S. Missions in China, the with the Antarctic tragely now the protest is therefore premature, marks on one verse of the nection every man in Hongkong who was the continuation of the one held

Every man in that theatre, second-March 11th to 16th-is amunt to £40,000. and submits that arbitration, for that be read" Beware lest thon allowing himself to drift away in Canton last month in which which there is already ample pro forget God."

from Jesus Christ and the power mattersof far reaching importanc vision, should precede rather than follow actual friction.

Mr Smith said that if it were danger of his morals. He did not Church will be discussed. The Bis- of God in the Church, was, in for the growth of the Chinose not for the dread that he had believe there was a man in the hop will (D. V.) return about that there was a peril lest men theatre whose morals were safe March 18th in time to take several lost their grip on Obristianity he for five years without the power confirmations before Easter. He would be at home to-night with of God. those he loved. He believed it Items by the quartette, and the Ester inorning and preside over will prenob at the Cathedral on was a fact that men of his color, Benedict on closed themesting the Annual Meeting of the British

THE NEWS CONDENSED. representing nations that had reaped such a reward from Christ-

and Foreign Bible Society on March 25th and prcoeed the same

Dr Henderson, formerly London, March 2.

ianity were losing their sharp, quick appetite, because, in the Portuguese and King Manoel..

night to the half Yearly Meeting Shanghai, is dead. Beuter's correspondent at Wil- The announcement of the death first place, it was the old, old The Chamber of Deputies ha the Weat Kiver. As no0 LB of the Chiness Church Council on helmshaven reports that another of Faller Stanton relates to a familiar story: Familiarity brod rejected by 47 votes to 43 a possible, after that he and M. for Kendal, is dead.

Liont. Col. Bagot, Unionist Dreadnought has been launched well-known Rojnam there in the presence of the priest, and not to Father Stanton were men who were dodging, giving his Bill for a réconciliation of Pakhoi on a visitation of the A new Garmin Dreadnought,

Catholle contempt even in religion. There motion by Senhor Machado Santos Arohdeacon Barnett propose to go Kaiser. The vessel was christen, of St. Alban's, Holborn as indi, sneaking and running away with the Portuguese Royal Fami- Mission Stations there and in the med the Koenig, has been ed the Koenig

icated in the message of Saturday, rather than he caught by religion, by facilities asan ürgen, moggare, eruntry north of the Tonkin Gulf, lauashed,”

tric train at Newcastle, smashing

the last coach. No fewer than

35

passengers, were injured,

GERMAN DREADNOUGHT

London, March 2,

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CORRECTED MESSAGE.

TELEGRAMS.

The Indian Budget shows the surplus for 1912-13 to be two millions above estimate, and the estimated surplus for this year to be one and a third millions.

LOCALIDAD:

The March Criminal Sessions, opened to day.

The death occurred yesterday of Mr. W. D. Sutton, of Messrs. A 3. Watson & 06,

Tributes to the late Sir John v. Carrington were paid at the Supreme Court this morning.

The "Absentoe's" Cup for the 0.7.0. cruiser class and racing. class yachts was sailed yesterday.

A burglary is reported from Caine Road, one man has been arrestod in connection with the affair,

The Rev. Fr. Lynch, 0.8.S.R. preached an eloquent sermon at 3t. Joseph's yesterday. His miss sien begins on Sunday March 9,

M

Mr. Fred. B. Smith, who, with Mr. Raymond Robins is on a world tour, addressed a meeting for men in the City Hall last night. NERONTIS

Sieng Cheng, who ha

In another column we an inlerviów with Bir

from the post of Chin

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