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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY,

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Big Battle Impending,

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DAY BY DAY.

AUGUST 12, 1913.

GENERAL LUNG'

fight for General Lang, for they AT CANTON.feel that he is in the right."

"Where is the auting tutuh now ??

Forces Discusses his Plans.

(From our Special "orrespondent)

According to a message from our Shanghai corespondent,! Insurrection usually gains which appears on page 5 of this little; usu ly was es now much. New Commander-General of tho issue, a big haule is impending One of its worst kinds of vaste, in the north. What the rebels to say nothing of the rest, is that hope to gain by further fighting of irritating and exasperating is difficult to eay. If they were meu against each other, by vio unable to make any impression lence done, which is always sure to on the Northern troops while the be in jestice doue, for violence does later were well outnumbered even justice unjustly Jaclyle. by as many as five to one at times-they have much elighter chance of success now that the

The Malls.

loyal troops have been reinforced English Mail.-Duo

Arcadia to-morrow. and are in every way more able

per

to force the fighting. Six Chi-Siberian Mail, duo per nese warships have moved down.

the river for an attack on Woo- sang forte, while the land forces

are pushing forward. The rebels

B.R.

your correspondent is now wan-

THE CAUSE OF

MILITANCY.

Militant." The article will be

The Woman's Movement. Wong Sze-lung smiled. When he smiles, bia faco is particularly

[Below we give the first in-tal- pleasing and humorous; at other times, not only his face but bis ment of an article on the suffer gist Cantus. Monday General Lang arrived ut.eight o'clock this whole demeanour gives the im- question written by a Hongkong pression of nervous impatience morning and, unopposed, took and restlessness That story that continued in subsequent issue. porossion of Wong Sha, whither they are telling about his having It will be understood that "the dering by sampan. But that gone away is utterly untrue," he opinions expressed are not those

anid. "Cheong Ngo-kon is in the of the "Hongkong Telegraph."] the gunboats and other shipping, Tamen at the preesat noment. and the Admiralty offices, are the is in entire agreement with In June of this year, the decorated with flage, and but for BS.

ccasional cracker firing, there Long Chai-kwong and is taking Women's International Suffrage his position as commander of Alliance Congress was held in Yingehow to-morrow.

are no special signa of rejoicing, the first army-division."

Budapest. In the presidential Canadian and American Maila..

Quite early this morning s And you think that this new address it was stated that only -Despatubed per .. Shid-proclamation was issued, signed revolution is all over and that seven independent nations, with zuoka Maru at 4 pm. to-day. by Lung Chi-kong (translation Shum and others will not come the exception of the Spanish- American republics, were now Siberian Mail-Olose pers.s. explained his long delay in "Shum will certainly not come without an organised Woman Empress of Asia at 11 a.m. leaving Samshai. Canton, back; still lass is Sun Yat-sen Soffrage Movement. Twenty-five Futshan and Sainam were, he likely to show his face bere nations were there represented. said, the richest places in Yes; the trouble is over and we During last winter woman's suf- Kwangtung province, and any are going to have peace. In fact frage was considered in 17 nation- serious fighting there would ba

I have just assared the mer at parliaments and 33 sta'e and The police report that four disastrous to property and local chants that they may go about other legislatures. At the con- children have been reported commerce. For the sake of peace their ordinary work as though ference in Budapest, women from

up

tried yesterday to check the log-American, Canadian and lollows later) in which he back?"

alist advance but were unable to dol 80. To all appearances, the rebols are likely to receive a big defeat!" very shortly. The heavier it is, the batter. One thumping victory for the Northernors would end the whole outbreak.

A Ctrlous View

One of our northern comtem-

poraries, discussing the question of whether President Yuan "was, from the outret, hopelessly over- weighted by his task," pays him the compliment of saying that he

to-morrow.

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Childten missing."

missing.

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GREGORY-On 9th August, at Bournemouth, England,

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HONGKONG, TUESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1913.

THE ARRIVAL OF GENERAL LUNG

which made revolt inevitable. itdition, in Circular Pathway. He proceeds: So far from failing to was sent to the hospital. prevent it, be ac wally took steps

For Japanese Zoo. to preciptate the outbreak, as soon The 8s. Taington, which came na his own plans were matured, into port to-day from Bangkok, with a view to getting over has on board a live elephant for quickly as possible the unpleas. the Zoological Gardens at Tokyo.

unavoidable prelim. ant but

That,.. it claims,

The Balkan Settlement.

lasted there

was

what

Bandmann Opera Company.

Well Known. Visitor.

A Clean Sheet.

Reported Armed Robbery.

he had deemed it advisable to stay where he was. Now that the army chiefs were agreed to wel- come him as their superior there was no longer any reason for delay, Chan Kwing-ming w now overthrown and peace would prevail. Those who had. De from the city to Hongkong and elsewhere should now return.

merchant

of him

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all over the world met and talked

nothing bad happened."

"Where is Wang Woo-shun with each other of the fight, how it now?"

progressed, where and on what "Still ia Hongkong. I don't grounds it was being held back. know what force be bas; pro-fa one country only, in Norway, bably not a large one. If is the victory complete. The bie- he should come here, it will tory of the Movement in most certainly be as a friend of the countries has a basis of similarity. Tutuh's, I don't know much It began in education rather the a about his movements; I have in politica. Most of us remember been in Paking and Shanghai the time when it chief aspect in more than in the South, lately." our own country was not p litical

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Mr. Wong Interviewed Your correspondent visited the Chinese Chamber of Commerce

"And you have troops enough In those days it was called the earlier in the morning. This has to keep everything in order in "Woman's Rights Movement." been requesitionel by Wong Sze Kwangtung province ?" Women asserted their rights to lung, the new Commander Gene- "I have twenty thousspd enter colleges and professions, to ral of the Kwangtung forces, as a troops, well disciplined, and train rida bicycles, to join in outdoor sort of temporary head quarters ed largely by myself; and I have sports and to order their own inary to more lasting peace." The Badmann Opera Company The place is strongly guarded had a good amount of military lives. Men for the meat part were A whole arrived this morning by the Rubi and quick firing guns are placed experience. Before the Revolu immensely amused. the course of event indicates.frany Manila after a most succees in the entry. After very little tion I was military, adviser to now world of witticisms was open- Et seems to us. that is rather a

Ming-chi, one-time ed to them. They had no longer etairs and introduced to the new viceroy of Canton.

to depend on the woman-who-can- sweeping deduction to draw from fal sensin. They open to-morrow delay the writer was taken up- Chang

head of the army by Mr Sam Pak- recent events, and we should night with "The Pink Lady."

On taking leave General Wong not-keep-a-t cret joke or the wom- prefer to believe that the Pre-

Mr. O.F. Mc. Williams, General ohu, a leading member of the said he wished to thank the an-with-the-last-word joke. The sidant far from taking steps to precipitate the outbreak, was agent of the Great Northern Chamber of Commerce, and the European papers for their fairness New Woman had made her appear-

principal" "ailk

of in giving complete publicity to ance, depicted in mannish garb axious only for peace. Which- Steamship Company is now stay-

Canton.

the views and intention of both smoking a cigarette or with tight- ever view is right, there can being at the Hongkong Hotel having

Wong Sze-long is a slightly parties without showing any ly screwed hair, ganot features, little doubt that lie was prepared arrived by the "Minnesota".

built man getting towards middle partiality

spectacles and a book. And in age, and though his face is a

It is said that General Lung's newspapers, magazinos, ¡ublic" to meet the rising and thist, when it is over and the air cleared, his administration will be recognised farm, had not a single case of unly think

Mr. Hoggarth, of the opium strong one, one does not readi appointment by Yuan Shih K'ai speeches and private social inter- the has actually found favour even course the New Woman became as stronger than ever.

lawful possession of opium to hero of a hundred fights and with the members of the standing joke. Nevertheless bring before the Court, this the leader of thousands of Kwomingtang.

the ineu remonstrated with such morning. It is over eix monthe pirates. The large upper room All parts of the city to-day of their own kith and kin as be- since Mr Hoggarth last had was almost filled by members of abound in soldiers. In the game involved in the Move- "clean sheet".

his body-guard; most of them in native streets they are lounging ment, threatening them with the If, as is hoped, the peace just

civilian dress, but all armed. A about idle, while on the Bund awful penalty of losing theirebarm concluded in the Balkans ia last- ing, all Europe will be relieved. The police report that a gengsentry stood on either side of his are many who are fully armed and power of attraction for men, It has been a long and bitter of four armed robbers entered a chair and one behind the inter and are embarking or disem- not perceiving that such an arga struggle, and as long it as house at Sai Cho Wan, opposite viewer who, from the demeanour tarking. At Wongsha, when the ment was likely to have little the over Shaukiwan on the mainland, this of some of the bystanders, night writer arrived, there was quite a weight with a woman who had. present danger of events morning, and stole $30 worth of have been supposed to have big number of General Lung's just discovered that she was not resulting in a serious com-moay and clothing. They after-designs on the general. Hero resps, some on the river bauk, made for man. Then something rlication of the interests of the wards escaped in a boat, rowing and there among the crowd was a in the village and about the sta- startling happened. The Women's man who seemed to be of the battertion; others crowding into junks Movement began to ta practics!, Great Powers. That possibility in the direction, of Shaukiwan,'

classes, but the majority were ready to be towed eastwarde, hagan to interfere with things as now appears to have been defini-

Died in England. tely staved off, and for that reasOD, We regret to record the death very much of the bold, bad pirate From the point of view of the they were. It began to ask ques if for no other, the conclusion of of Mr W. P. Gregory, which took type; hard cases" against whom tailor these men's appearance tions, to collect information, and deplorable, but as to disseminate it and to agitata peace is cause for deep satisfac-place on the 9th inst. at Bourne-Chan Kwing-ming's supporters

one would not openly on certain moral questions. tion. The striking feature of the mouth. The deceased was for would have stood but a paltry fighting men

chance. One man looked to have be slow with

to book any one which for centuries.man had kept The arrival at Canton of General Lung should do much to ease whole affair is the triumph which several years connected the situation there. The newcomer is evidently a shrewd man, a Roumania has achieved. Her Messrs Kelly and Walsh's print- at least half a dozen revolvers of them against any two or three very careially in bis zole control, born tactician. His military strategy when he first threatened cards bave indeed been skilfully ing establishment in Hongkong huddled up under his long cost of those who figured at the big under the honest impression that No Trouble Expected.. review ten days ago. Most of the good women were too good Canton was commented on in our columns at the time. For some played. She stood by, holding a ani left for home some months

Speaking through an interpre- them have enormous quantities and the bad women wore unit to days past he has shown quite another kind of strategy; the strategy watching brief, while the other ago. which focusses the eyes of the public upon a ruan and makes his States fought a common enemy ill-health and those who knew tor, Mr. Wong asid that he did of cartridges (with leaden bullets) feil with asx matters. This new presence seem more desirable. Evidently he decided that, if Canton and then quarrelled among them-hira intimately feared the worst. t now anticipate any trouble and there is certainly variety development destroyed heasszice. really wanted his help, a few days of delay might make it want him seles; and came into the picture Desceased was most popular within the city. The chief source of among the rifles wherewith they of the joke for the time being. discord had been Ex-Tutuh are srmed. The majority of them Then indeed the seriouнopposition" even more, to the advantage of all concerned. He appears to have at the vitel moment. The result all his friends and was a Chan Kwing-ming, and now that look what they doubtless are began, though still disguised of to-day's mirent member of the Kowloon he has gone, there was nothing pirate mob not devoid of beneath an aspect of facetiousness been determined, moreover, to discover the popular feeling towards has been, as one himself before he ventured upon moving. If his caution, in this wires puts it, that, with scarcely Cricket Club.

for people to fight over.

plack or training. Most of them and the..Movement became the matter, is characteristic of the man, Canton should be more contented the loss of a single man, she has

"I think the soldiers have are barefoot, though some go to Revolt of Women" and the and secure under him than it could ever have been under a hot head gained a big extension of territory

pretty well settled their grievances the length of one sandal, while "Women's War." From merely like Chan Kwing ming who failed entirely to read the emper of the and has secured complete pre-THE

now," he said, "and averything some have putties and white asserting her rights, women had people. He may have shown a little of over-caution; he may have deminance in the Balkans. Sach

seems to be quiet at In Tong; and slippers. All wear aniform coate, turned her attention to the actual considered himself, and his own safety, about as much as he re- are the fruite of a rare diplomacy,

and the same may be said of the (either blue or Khaki) and a fair the attaining of them. She beame garded Canton's needs; but, onasidering the gravity of the situation

Yamen. Two lieutenant command- sprink line have kahaki caps with actively interested in social ques- and the ease with which a false move would have set the city ablaze,

ers have taken over the control five coloured star badge in front; tions end social work and won of the barracks, and Governor but the greater proportion bave her way on to School Bonus, General Lung can rely upon their To-morrow the O.P.R liner

as head gear either the ordinary Bor la of Guardians, etc. and Our special correspondent in Canton remarked yesterday that

The man must take it secretly loyalty to him."

coolie hat, or the British straw attained the municipal franchise.. no one appeared to bo able to discover the feeling of the army Empress of Asia starts from

"What will be your first step hat. Each man has an blue cot- The course of the Movement has towards General Lung. The military commanders on Saturday Hongkong on her first trip to to be guilty of larceny. All this

More than usual man's fokis saw him take it now that you have been given ton umbrella strapped on his been very similar in other coun- issued orders to the troops to welcome the General heartily on his Vancouver. arrival, but a forced and ordered welcome is a poor substitute for interest will artich to her move-away," observed Mr. Hazeland, control over the Kwanglung back. Altogether they look tries, first educational, then

amiable hybrids and one can well social, then political, one hearty and spontaneous. The $10,000 additional pay, whichments, inasmuch as her sister at the Police Court, this morning troops?"

"I shall disband. all soldiers understand that, when it comes The ordinary Englishman as was after all only the final instalment, and which has been gifted to ship, the Empress of Russia, made when trying a man charged with

who have shown themselves to their knowledge that so large for as possible ignores the exis- General So's trocpe, should go some way towards allaying any a record run across the Pacific stealing some wood.

Inspector Mc. Hardy-Yes, neally disaffected to Yuan Shih- a proportion of the wealth of Can- tence of other countries. When feeling of antagonism to General Lung which they may still last June on the corresponding entertain; and, upon the whole, the cutlook in favourable. 1 is trip. She crossed the Ocean in your Worship, that may be, bat kei. Many of them are scattered ton is stored in the godowns of he is obliged to recognise auch significant, at least, that a day has elapsed since his arrival and that 9 days, 5 hours, which was 1 day, 5 his master did not see him take individuale and cannot be so the Shameen, they might be existence he protects Himself no ill news has come through. It is clear enough, at any rate, that hours,better than the previous bast. it away, and it is not bis pro-readily got rid of as a whole tempted to cast a covetous eye frem being advised by, taught by or reproved by the experience of be bas the support of the merchants and the guilds, which is nearly Will the new bost set up another party. Perhaps Your Worship caps; and I am quite prepared in that direction.

to find the weeding out of The reach opposite Wong Sha other nations by the assumption tantamount to saying that he has the support of the people record? So far, since leaving Glas- will hind him over?

gow she has behaved splendidly, His Worship Oh no, he is these a work of time. To clear looked very busy at mid-day; that England is different. One generally.

and her officers have every con- either guilty of larceny or not out all the bad ones may troops embarking from both wonders if some Englishmen

even take six months, but it will banks in the junks that are being believe in a common humanity. The real difficulty to be faced now is the disbanding of the fidence in her capacities; but she guilty.

Inspector MoHardy said the be done."

towed by torpedo boats; fruit That the ordinary Englishman troops. That proved a tedious and dangerous business after the will have to do wonders to eclipse

"Are there many of ChanKwing boats doing a lively trade with the faile to see the significance revolution, and it may prove a delicate work on this occasion. The the performance of her twin man took the wood for a bed.

His Worship: These men ming's faction left behind ?"

newly arrived men, and sampans of the fact that the Woman' carrying of arme has no uns ttling affect upon most men. They sister. One thing which will tell

Yes; he has quite a big num-plying between the shore and the Movement in world wide is quite find it hard after to return to the humdrum of their ordinary against her is the fact that she think they have a right to take

ber of adherents here, but, thay two big gunboats which brought consistent with his general attitude avocations. To persuade men, therefore, quietly to give up the has now been at sea for some wood for a bed.

down Lung and some of his col- but that English women should be profession of soldiering and to return to the tillage of the soil, couple of months withont being Inspector MoHardy-But he have no power."

"How about the Wai Chau diers and which, to-day, are gaily so indifferent is amazing Do requires at once tact and firmness. The danger which threatens, dooked, and it is well known that, took three pieces.

Defendant was bound over in troops, of whose loyalty Chan decorated with flowers,

they understand that women of from this source is, it seems to us. about the greatest now facing when it comes to fast speeding,

It is understood that the Mer-all countries, all races, all oreede, Canton, If that is overcome without mishap, there should be a the least roughness of bottom tells the sum of $100 to come up for Kwing-niing felt so assured"?

"Ah you mean the 3rd army chantsore jubilant over the course are being drawn together in return of peace and commercial activity. Is it too much to hope considerably. However, she is a judgment when called upon. He ibat Canton has learned its lesson and that it will be a long time fine vessel and we shall watch her was cautioned not to "borrow division. They will all of them

(Continued on page 6.).

(Continued en "progress with much interest,

wood agsin Before it again sole so rashly as it has done recently?

to be ultra-careful was no bad fault.

| An important Trip.

He WH then in

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