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The Hongkong Telegraph.

May 8, 1913, Temperature a.m. 73, p.m. 83, Humidity...88, 59.

(ESTABLISHED 1881.) Copyright, 1912 by Proprietor.

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May 8, 1012, Temperature a.m. 74, p.m. 80, Humidity.....92, 76

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號九月五英港香

TELEGRAMS.

TELEGRAMS.

THE OPIUM DEBATE. THE OPIUM DEBATE.

9091

晚四初月四年丑癸

TELEGRAMS.

FRIDAY,

MAY 9, 1913.

TELEGRAMS.

TELEGRAMS.

TELEGRAMS.

KING ALFONSO..

BRITISH TRADE.

FLYING ROUND BRITAIN.

THE BALKAN CRISIS,

ACKNOWLEDGING A DEBT.

PRECAUTIONS IN PARIS.

STILL BOOMING,

SOME HARD FACTS.

Reuter's

[Service to the Telegraph."]

London, May 8.

Reuter's

[Service to the "Telegraph."] London, May 8. He believed the whole force of Commons on a resolution con- of public opinion

was with

During the debate in the House!

Hongkong and Shanghai Stocks.

Reuter's

[Service to the Telegraph."] London, May 8: The Trade rolurns for the

The principal increases in ex- ports were coal, mounting to 31 millions. iron and steel manu- fectures of 2 millione, cotton manufacture 14 millions, and woollen manufactures 1 millions.

BOY SCOUTS.

* DAILY MAIL ", COMPETITION EVACUATION OF SKUTARI.

U.S. TARIFF BILL.

PASSES LOWER HOUSE,

Reuter's [Service to the Telegraph."]

London, May 8.

CHINA'S FIRST PARLIAMENT:

NEWS FOR BUST FIN.

TELEGRAMS.

THE NEWS CONDENSED."

The U.S. Tarift Bill has the House of Representat practically as submitted?

The opium stocks in Shanghai and Hongkong are to be release at the rate of 2,000 cheste moothly

The Governor of Skathriiston- to the dato and mode of evacuation ferring with Admiral Hulney of the city.

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

Rent' [Service to the "Telegraph."] . London, May 8.

London, May 8, King Alfonso, ou arrival in demning the opium traffic, Sir the Government is response to

Paris, was mot at the station by month of April show an increas for a hydro-2er plane Hight that the Governor of Skutari is for a hydro-aeroplane flight round

The "Daily Mail" competition A message from Cottinje states The Daily Mail competition). J. D. Rees, Unionist M P., Not- Chine. He concluded by asking President Poincare and members in parts of $2.551,109, and in round Britain starts at the end of conferring with Admiral Bulaey Britain will begin at the end of tingham, moved an amendment the House toucknowledge the debt of the Cabinet... Extraordinary exports of $10,105,462, declining to vary the Agreement it owed to the representatives of precautions were taken to nesure porta wers

August. The route follows these to the date and mode of the August. Tho principal increases in im-Caledonian Canal, thus avoiding evacuation of the city. or to precipitate the cessation of India who cheerfully accepted the the safety of Ilis Majesty. Namer- tobacc, manufactures, el, gerous air currente

in foods, driak, the Pentland Firth with its dan the traffic without due provision dieappearance of this revenue. for safeguarding the interests of

ous anarchie's ware arrested. cotton and wool, but the importe the Indian taxpayer and of the

Troops closely lined the whole 3 millions, and wool 2 millions. of raw cotton whoir a decrease of British Indian merchants. He was mest anxious to put an end to the

route to the Quay D'Orsay in abuse of opium, but he did not growth of the poppy in India of the French anarchists.

--Me. Montague added that the view of the organised campaign think that the carrying out of the would to reduced to an amount recalation would do it. He om-sufficient supply India and the phasis that Indian was not fia exira Chinese markets. We were.

At a banquet given at the Elysee, President Poincare grest- uncially in a position to standable, he said, not only to responded, in the person of King Allonso, the change. With referces to the to the recent request of tho a noble nation which had con- effect of opium amoking, he Chinese Republic for the united tributo many glorious pages to pointed at that the insurance

prayers of the churchmen of this companies did not fsualise opium country, but also in the House of history. He rejoiced at the con- amokers. If the Gove, nment treat Commons to show a real sympa by elusion of the More scan Conven- ed the merchants in the manner with China in the action ho had tion which would enable the two suggested it would be tshaving announced-(Cheers). Mr. Mon countries to co-operate in the worse than any bucket-shop pro-tagu paid a warm tribule to the work of peace and civilisation. prietor in the city.

earnestness, sincerity. stadfast- Two Ways.

ness and courage of the Chinees Government and people for the Mr. Leslie Scott, Unionist M.P. purpode of ridding themselves of for the Exchange division of the mischiefs of the opium trafic, Liverpool, zeconded. He dwelt Ele announced that the opium upon the loss to the individual accumulated in Shanghai and irader if the resolution ware acted Hongkong would be released at on, and suggested that the Go-the rate of 2,000 cheats monthly, vernment arrange with the Go-and he anticipated the stocka vernment of India, which had would be absorbed in about a made such enormous projects, Fear. to negotiate with China, for the purpose of taking the vast ac- cumulated stocks off the market, thus relieving the strain threaten- ing o grave financial crisis in the Est. There were two ways of dealings with the stocks. One was

The resolution and amendment were withdrawn, and the House! adjourned.

Poppy Growing."

His Majesty, replying, said he weltomed the fraternal conti men's of the French people.

THE BOMB OUTRAGE.

A FORTUNATE

·CIRCUMSTANCE.

London, May 8. The clock work bomb found at

PRESENTATION TO THE "CHIEF."

Itouter'a

Mr. W. Sheldon Ridge, the editor of the National Review," (China,) contributes to the "Daily News" an instructive article on "Obica's First Parliament,'

Special precautions were taken the course of which he writes: Paris, a number of anarchists bee "in during King Alfonso's visit to London, May 8..

The details of the Parliament ing arrested. ASA ary constitution are not yet finally. correspondent at esitled, but some points are quite Washington roports that the clear. Parliament is to consist two English books which the It is announced that for every Tariff Bill has been passed by of two Houses, & lower Hours of Bible Society, salia, three in the House of Representatives Reprezentatives and a bigher Chinees jejsold. C practically in the same form as Senats. The. Senators are elected. it was submitted to the Houre. by the Provincial Assemblies';

the Reprecentatives by popular show increases of over two milliong The trade returns for April- election, the franchies being based sterling in imports and over tax on educational and property quali

millions in fications. Educational qualifice- tions are almost non-existent in

General Sir R. 8. Baden Powell England, and we do not rofnes has been presented with a moter the franchise to drunkards. In car as a wedding gift by the China the corresponding de Boys Scout Association.

LOCAL SPORT.

Hongkong Cricket League,

generate, the opium smokeris disqualified. Ex Oriente" lux ! Th

exports.

An intended effragist

London, May 8. The Duke of Connaught, the now President of the Boy Scouts' Association, presided at a meat- ing of the Council and presented to General Baden Powell a motor, car as a wedding present from The presentation of the Shield the Senuts. His Royal Highness to the Hongkong B team (the another respect Chins sets the against the Hours of Lord said he deprecated the talk of winners of the 1912/13 competi- West an example: she allows getting a sufragist the positum of militariam in connection with the tion) will take place to-morrow representation to Chinces abroad, a typist thre, has been revealed.

He was happy to on the Hongkong 0. 0. ground in such places as the Straits, say that there was a slight but after the L.R.O.-H.K.O.C. Tehnis Sumatra, and Java, where there definite improvement in the con-match,.

in St. Paul's the congregatián are very many Chinese. This,"

stood up, and sang the Doxology says Dr. Eugene Ch'en, an as an expression of thankfulne eminent Chinese authority; "I that the sufragist bomb outrage regard as the most vital contri- did not succeed, yt:: 2014. bution to political thought sinca the establishment of representa-

movement.

naught. Nothing was more en- dition of the Duchess of Con-1

fight against the insidious disease than, the sympathy and affection Eo generously manifested by the whole Empire.

Mr, Acland, Undor Secretary St. Paul's Cathedral was pre-couraging to ber to continue the to buy them by general subscrip for Foreign Affairs, replying to vented from exploding by a tion and bara them. That was Sir John Jardiue, said the condi-mechanical defect. possibly Utopian. The other waytions regarding the increase or The Dean of St. Paul's express- was to cease opium growing in decrease of poppy growing since ed the opinion that the bomb was India till the stocks were sold in the Revolution in China differ intended to explode during the the markets still open." By this greatly in various provinces. night when the Cathedral was course nobody would suffer:

Indian Sacrifices.

CERTIFICATE

WIRELESS WORLD'S

RECORD.

House of Commons during the debate yesterday.

Important announcementa was tive Government in the West. By this principle, China will be able tarffie by Mr. Montagu in the made concerning the opium to bind her emigrant eons, to the Washington, April 3. It was Mother country, instead of suffer announced to-day that pre-ing, as does Germany, for in- liminary experiments in radio stance, the loss of her migrating telegraphy between the scout population." Monks, priests, Government to take the Commons

The "Times ย advises oruiger Salem, on her voyage to preachers, the illiterate, and the intcitaconfidence regarding nerál and from Gibraltar, and the great opium smoker may neither vote oil contracte, because of zumours wireless tower at Ailington had for nor become members of Par- A Collision Narrowly Avoided. proved this station to be second lament; and no jargon under 26 involving certain Ministers.

to none in the world, not excep-years of age may be a candidate ting the Eiffel tower or the great for election. German wireless towers.

SUSPENDED.

Political Parties.

'LOCAL A special article descriptive

Generally speaking, the latest empty and that it would destroy reports show that the loss of the throne and the floor below, as The Hon. E. S. Montagu. Under revolutionary disturbances bid

Government control during the well as part of the pillar. Secretary of State for India, said led to a large increase in poppy

"The Devil's Work," that China never suggested com- growing in almost all opium The Bishop of London, in the plete cessation of importation bat growing districts, but the Repub. evening, at St. Paul's, referred pari passu policy. It waslican Government had been with emotion to the bomb out- nseless to talk of our forcing making strannous efforts to sap-rage, and asked the congregation China to take opium. She asked press it and had already met with to stand up and thank the Al- for our co-operation in getting copaiderable succuss in many mighty for taking care of his own Magistracy, before Commander This morning at the Marine rid of opium, and the readiness districis.

Cathedral against the machina-Basil Taylor, an enquity was held with which that co-operation had

It was demonstrated that, by There are four leading political opium-boiling appears in to daya been given had been recognised.

tions of persons doing the Devil's into the circumstances attending the use of kites on the vessel, parties: the Kuo-ming Tong, paper. work. He asked the band to the failure of Li Muk, master o When the Treaty of 1907 was

with wire conductors, messages the Kung- ho Tang, the Tung-yi strike up modified in 1911 Chins did not

"Praies God from the al. Fooksang, to observe the could have been exchanged Tang, and the Min-chu Tang, The Anglo-American Players whom all blessings flow," and rule of the road on May 8, suggest the abandonment of the

throughout the entire trans the first and second being by staged The Sweetest Girl in the huge congregation, without It was alleged that the defendments made during this voyage Tang-yi Tang holds principles night, Atlantic trip. Results of experi- far the most important. The Dirie" pari passu policy but merely

at the Theatre Royal laut acceleration. Mr. Montagu gave

waiting for the band, sprang to ant sterboarded bis helm and with new coils of apparatus are differing but little from those of their feet and sang the Doxology. came right across the bows of the said to mark a new epoch in the Kung-ho Tang, and in prae- statistics to show that the end of the traffic, which was four cen-

The bomb found in Bouveriel. Blackkead. The latter re-radio-telegraphie communication. ties the two parties will probably distinct triumph on the occasion Street was a dummy. turies old, would be ia sight in 1916. The situa- tion

TAB complicated by accumulation of 20,000

the

chests of opium at the treaty ports. That accumulation did not repre- sent the desire of the Chinese

OIL CONTRACTS,

ALLEGATIONS AGAINST

MINISTERS,

London, May 8:

Suffragists Remanded..

Later.

House of Lords Plot.

A detective gave evidence to

t

versed her engines and avoided a collision by two or three yards.

The Magistrate found that the defendant was not keeping a pre- rer look out and suspended his certificate for two months.

*

ANCHOR STOLÉN:

Minimum Married Wage.

The Cherniavskys scored

work much together. The Min- of their opening appearance st cha Tang consists of the followers the City Hall last night. of Kang Yu-wei and Liang Chi

The suffragists charged with

chao, the two great reformors who A scheme for the... prov conspiracy were further remanded

only managed to save their heads bathing facilities has to-day, all the females being

A ulab of Wellesley College by fight in 1898, They wera gested to the Governmen Government to sbirk from treaty circumstantial detailed ramours, mond and Miss Kenney; who The Times," referring to bailed out, including Mre, Drum

girls has bound its members not constitutional monarchists then, Hongkong Tramway to be married to any U.S.A. man and now hold a middle position obligations, but was merely an originating in the city and cit-appeared to be ill.

whose income is less than $5,000 between the Kang-ho Tang and The new C. P. B. steamer, index of the troubles of the culating, regarding the oil con- Chinese Government in the period tracts for the Navy, and alleging

a year. These girls are the real the Kuo-ming Tang. The recent Empresa of Russia, arrived pioneers of the minimum wage. elections have shown that the Hongkong this afternoon. E Foun of transition from an empire to a personal connections of Ministars republic. In order to assist China and others with would-be con- finding a letter suggesting a plot Chiness at the Police Conrt,

Leon Kendal in Hongkong.

strongest party is the Kuc-ming facts concerning the veeming Sergeant McKay, charged a the Government of India took the tractors, says the Government against the House of Lords by this morning, with the larceny of nounces that Leon Kendal is in parties in August last, the song the founding of s-Fur and

An advertisement to-day an- amalgamation of five political

Tang, which was formed by the to-day, step of abandoning the revenue would be well-advised, in the case getting

Good headway is being tomary from the sale of opium to Chins of any panding oil contracts, to of a typist there.

suffragist the position

an anchor from Tai Kok Tsui, Hongkong. It is hardly recessary ent of the five being the Tung- this year. India was now not tell-take the House of Commons fully

It was stated that the anchor was to say that he is the famous ming. Hui, Dr. San's political ther Club, Monday, May ing one single ounce of opium to into its confidence from the first

taken from the beach and offered palmist and astrologer. A Home Ecciety. The party

is strongly

been fixed upon as the date for Obins. When, the stcoks at the in order to obviste suspicion and

for relo to a blaöksmith,

paper says of him: "One of the radical, and stands for a strong general meeting/W/ treaty ports were ab orbed 'up-exaggeration from the outset,

Defendant was sentenced to present is Leon Kendal, who tells developed system of local self- most talked-of men in London at central government, with a well- country in a year's time we were

CHINESE LOAN DISPUTE one month's imprisonment and ontitled by the treaty to sell to

four hours stocks.

you, some remarkable truths government. It aims at the reform Chins 26,781 cheste more, He

about yourself without any other of social conditions on sound was glad to announce that, not-

guide than an outline of your economic lines and is decidedly withstanding that we might get

thumb and your natal day. So socialistic. Some of its leaders $11,000,000 of revenue from these

faithful are his delineations that are keen students of Mill and cheats, notwithstanding that we

his name has become universally Honry George. The party seeks were entitled to sell opium in any

known, and people of all ranks to break down tribal barriers and province of China where opium

London, May 8.

write to him for his advice and make of the five races" one was still grown, we were prepared

The telegram quoted below was and judgment. His opinion on nation. The Kang-ho Tang, the to undertake to refuse to send any British and Foreign Bible Society of Representatives were unable to vatory by the American Conacity is much sought and fathers atively conservative. It believes The Chinese Senate and House received from the Manila obeer-children's qualifications and cap-second great party, is compar more opium to China, not merely the Rev. A. Taylor said it was agree upon the Loan queation, sulate General, Hongkong, at and mothers who have consulted in preserving the supremacy of this year but never again, with wonderful that, in 1912, for every and an uproar followed in the 10.25 a.m. to-day: the single condition that we desir two English books which the House of Representatives. The Cyclone or Typhron W. of for his help, as he points ont in a the promotion of national progress him have reason to be thankful the central Government, and in ed to be satisfied that Chins was Society sold they sold three in supporters of the Government northern Luzon, more than 100 very lucid manner in what career by the exercise of central govern in steadfest puranit of her present Chinese, mostly copies of the withdrew in face of the Opposition miles distant-moving NN.E, success for their little ones would mental powers. The party policy

Gospels,

tumult,

or N.EX

THE BIBLE IN CHINA.

London, May 8.

At the annual meeting of the

AN UPROAR

*

TYPHOON WARNING.

"best attained."'

strongly pacificist.

DON'T FORGET,

TO-DAY.

The Anglo-American Play Theatre Royal 9.15 p.m.

Bijou Theatre 9.15 p.m. Victoria Theatre 9.15 pm.

Saturday, May 10. Grand Orchestral Catholic Union Hall 9 Chamber of Commerce The Cherminsky

Hongkong v Hai HK.CO.V.LEO.

Monday

Bag Baturday

Bankruptor Con Concert FK400%