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Hongkong Telegraph.

August 19, 1913, Temperature a.m. 80, p. 32, Hamidity.., 85, 84.

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London. Received Aug. 20, Reuter's correspondent at

HARRY THAW'S ESCAPE, THE AUSTRIAN EMPEROR BIG SHIPPING DISASTER. A STREET EXPLOSION.

EVIDENCE OF COLLUSION,

Router's

HIS EFFORTS FOR PEACE, OVER 30 PEOPLE DROWNED. OVER 100 PEOPLE KILLED

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London. Received Aug. 19. The Kaiser, casting the Em-

Reuter's

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London. Roceived Aug, 20.

A message from Juneau (a

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THE NEWS CONDENSED.

Hirry Thaw has been arrested at Coatinook, Quebec.

The Duke of Westminster han contributed #1,000 to the Olympic Fonds.

The reb 's who fled Iròm Wo0-

garing the Northerners

at Kading.

There is growing belief that there was collision in the escape

Reuter's

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London. Received Aug. 19,

London. Received Aug. 20, London. Received Aug, 20.

Harry Thaw's mother has re-

Reuter's correspondent, an Renter's New York correspond- ent says a telegram from Mexico Athens states that unbounded coived a letter from her son im- paror Franois Joseph, at a ban. mining settlement on the shore Meixco City Atates that City states that the Mexican sathusiasm was displayed on the plying that he is going to take quet in honour of the Austrian of the Alaska strip) states that Government has handed Mr. Lind, King's entry into the capital. the rest cure at the Thaw family's Monarch's birthday, at Hamburg, the steamer State of Californian, dynamite truck exploded in a the special Commissioner from The streats were thronged with country seat in Pennsylvania. said" We have to thank in no while going at full speed, struck street in the suburb of Tucubaya measure the Emperor an uncharted rock in Gambier and over 100 people were killed, Washington, a letter demanding crowds carrying miniature Greek Thaw evidently regarda himself amall

an safe outside the Now York Francis Joesph for the preserva- Bay and sank in three minutes. mostly women and children., recognition, while another letter flags and laurel branches.

The people broke out into State, as the difficulty of extradit- tion of peace in Europe during The passengers were asleep at was sent to Washington direst. These are regarded in New York fervent cries of "Long Live ing a mere lunatic is enhanced the Balk war, As the faithful the time, and twenty-five or more

also as an ultimatum, as the United Constantine the Grest," "Long by the Clynn-Felzer imbroglio, ally of Austria-Hungary, this were drowned, as States is given until midnight to Live Constant ne the Slayer of both claiming the right to in- gives us particuler cause for twenty-seven of the crew.

vestigate the affair and arrange rejoicing, and we look hop sfully The cargo and mails were lost. recogaire the Mexican Govern- the Bolgai ane.'

to the future because the might The vessel is valued is valued at ment, and it is understood that al

for his recapture. ́.

There in growing evidence of and activity of our old and tried half a million dollars, ∙refus:) will mean the severing of

all felutions.

collusion in Thaw's escape. It alliance, uiting Germany and Reuter's correspondeut at

appears that the gatekeeper. Austria-Hangery, will be pre- Washington, says the officials

whom. Thaw overpowered, allow-served for the pence of the world. od ten minutes to elapse before The Heir Apparent. there deny the receipt of an

informing the Asylum authorities, London. Received Aug. 20. ultimatum. Mr. Bryan has Lu-

who found the telephone. wires Reuter's correspondent at Vier- nounced that he has only received news of President Huerta's re-

Rouler's correspondent at Buk-cat when they wanted to raise na states that the Emperor, on the occasion of bis birthday, bas jection of the American sugges-harest states that Rumania has the alarm.

appointed Prince Franz Ferdin. tions for a peaceful settlement of ratified the Treaty of Peace. the Revolution.

and Inspector General of the THE NAVY OVERSEAS. Kerschensteiner, a well known Graham Kerr and the Governor entire armed forces of the country.

A Royal procs sion went to the Cathedral, where a Te Deum was sung, and subsequently drove to the Palace, crowds running he hind the cortege shouting for joy Peace Treaty Ratified.

Powers and Tukey,

Arrested,

London, Received Aug. 20 President Wilson and his

Router's Sufia corespondent Reator's New York correspond- Ministers are plainly disappoia says Bulgaria has been informed ent, states that a telegram from tod at the rejection, and legislators that the Powers are concerting Costinook, Quebec, says Thaw! take the view that the Governmeasures with a view to compell-has been arrested there at the ment has done all that a friendly ing Turkey to respect the Treaty request of the United States reight sur can, and that the only of London. interest of the United States now is to protect lives and properly, claiming indemnity for losees, and withdrawing all American citizens.

Later.

An Understanding. Reater's New York correspond ant states that a conference look place between Mr. Lind and President Huerta last night, and.

en understanding which may

render possible a continuance of the negotiations,

OBITUARIES.

Roumania's Promise.

to-morrow (Wednesday).

Turkish Denial.

Lat-r.

Shoriff.

PIONEER SCOTSMAN'S DEATH.

The Captain and forty others escaped on rafts.

[The State of California was a vaasel of 2,266 tons and was owned by the Pacific Coast, 3. S. Co. She was built in 1878.]

EDUCATION IN GERMANY AND UNITED STATES.

of Herry Twww.

Nanking a been captured by the Government troops after thres days' cavern fighting.

The Powers are concerting

"The average man of the people measures to compel Turkey to in America is much more inter-respect the Treaty of London. ested in the affairs of the public

Mexic is fepo:ted to have sent an ultimatam to America demanding recognition by mid- night on Tuesday.

school than the average man in The dentis ara announced of Germany," declares D. Georg General Sir M. Dillon, Professor

German

in educator,

4 of Barber. Publis Comparison of Education in Germany, and the AUSTRALIAN SHIPS IN AFRICA United States," just issued by the Bureau of Education. In the daily press reports and discussion on educational topics occupy s London. Received Aug. 20. space which to my observation is Router's correspondent at fully ten times that which Ger BIG BEQUESTS BY SUPPOSED Captown states that the Australian man newspapers devote to the

warships Australia and Sydney subject." have arrived at Capatown, where a week's programme of festivities has been arranged.

INDIGENT.

London. Received Aug. 20. Reuter's correspondent at Mel-

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The. King of Greece on return- ing to Athens was given a won- derfully loyal and enthusiastio reception by the crowds.

Direct election of soliool-board members by the citizens, 8 found in the United States, im

Prince Franz Ferdinand of pressed Dr. Kerschensteiner very Austria has been appointed. In- favourably. He notes that in Ger- spector General of the entire many the citizens have little or armed forces of the country.

beavy loss, but mot with a severe Router's correspondent at Sofia check in Italian territory at states that Roumania has assured F-ego, on October 6th, The Bulgaria that evacuation will la Mallah, however, retired as the completed by the 26th inst, and result of this action still further that shewill indemnify the popular in Italian territory, to Geladi tion against all losas sustained Five months later a third ex-bourne states that the pioneer it in balieved to have resulted in and will hand over, the railways podition, co-operating with the Soolsman, William Bobbie, a than the United States or Italy or nothing to say about their school |

Abyssinian Army under Brevet nonagenetisn, who was supposed France, or than England was in Rystem. "In Germany the local William Robbie, a pioneer Lient-Colonel (Ircal Brigadier-in ba indigent, has died at eighteenth century. And much school boards are nowhere chosen Reuter's correspondent at Cor-General) W, H. Manning, Insp.- Ballarat, bequeathing £30,000 to that is called corruption is re- by popular vote," he declares He Scotsman, has died at Ballarat.

Aberdeen University. His rela stantinople reports that the Grand General K. A. Rides, comprising

12 песеевагу, BQUERZO,

and Vizier emphatically denies that British and Boer M. I., Indian lives, none of whom are incognised and established the thinks the American plan might Though a supposed indigent he be a very good thing for his left £30,000 to Abordeon Univer

sity, understood to be Turkish troops have advanced and African troops, with the Australia, receive £850, and

necessary, own country, particularly as a to supplemont the in means of arousing genuine public into Bulgaria proper, but admits main bass at Obbia in Italian Bullarat Hospital $50.

The s.8. Sato, of California adequate nalaries of officials interest in education. that the right bank of the Maritze, Somaliland, preceded to Mudug

struck an uncharted rock while A Chinese official is corrupt much. as well as Demotica and other thenes detaching a force under.

The American high school going full speed in Gambier Bay strategic points northward there- Ligut-Colonel Cobbs, V. C., 10.

corrupt; and whether the Chan- cellor ought properly to be called comment by Dr. Kersohensteiner. fifty lives were lost.

both complimentary and other- then the head quarters of the

corrupt is still matter of con-

wise. He praises the high school's enemy. A force of 200 Yaos and

A wiiter in the Manchester troversy. Moreover, the people democratic spirit, its aim to Sikhs, under the late Lieut.- Colonel Plunkett, was overwhel- Guardian," in the course ofan ar bave always had their remedy, educate all the people; but he med at Gumburra, in April, 1903. ticle on "China of To-day," ob- When the recognised "squeeze" misses the thoroughness that after a fight of the fiercest dee serves -

is exceeded, they protest by riot. oription. A column of 200 men The Chinese are along among So that the Chinese system, in characterizes the work of the

German gymnasium. under Major Gough, being at the nations of the earth in detesting the most unfavourable view, may

In both nations the schools are same time attacked at Daratolah, violence and cultivating reason. be described as corruption temper whence it retired fighting to Bobo-Their instinct is always to rom-ed by anoroby.

now in a period of great develop- And this system, it is admitted, ment, according to the Munich

GENL. SIR M. DILLON.

Loudon, Received Aug. 20. of, have been occupied. He says Geladi, which place was up till "CHINESE CHARACTER. as Lord Chancellor Bacon was comes in for some interesting and sank in three minutes; over

The death in is announced of General Sir Martin Dillon, G.C.B., at the age of 78 years.

[The deceased General entered the Army in 1843, and resched the rank of General in 1892. His record of service was a remark- ably fine one, including actions

in the Crimea, the Indian Mutiny,

"

this is solely to defend the rail- way which follows the right bank of the Maritza River.

SOMALILAND PROTECTORATE.

ISTICS..

The new corrupt BB

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more divorced

LOCAL.

There were over 1,000 people present at North Point last night, during the moonlight bathing.

A special article dealing with

A charity concert was given at the RE. Theatre, Wellington Barracks, last night, in aid of Sapper Rouse,

DON'T FORGET.

China and Abyssinia. He was In 1884. a Protectorate was tleh, and in June the expedition promire and save everybody's formerly Assist Lut Adjutant established over the trits on fell back on the Berbera Bohot-face. And this is the main reason still prevaile after the Revolution: educator. "The great advantage modern developments of the game General in China.]

izace. the Somali Coast, extending loh lines of communication, when why Westerners despise them. Clearly indeed it cannot be ex- that Germany possesses," he of lawn tennis appears in to-day's Profcesor Graham Kerr. from Labadu (Loyi-ada), balf Lieut-General Sir C. O. Egerton, The Chinees, they aver, have no sirpated until officials are proper- dentares, in addition to the re-

London. Received Aug, 20.

His Excellency, the Governor, The death is reported of John way between Ras Jihouti, and K.O.B., was placed in com guts." And when hard pressed is paid; and China is not in a lentless thoroughness of the whole as to the policy of the Western position to pay for any reform educational work, is the well-re- Graham Kerr, F.R.S., Regius Zeyla, to the 46th meridian Emand."

Reinforcements, increasing the Powers in China they will oft inwhile the Powers are drawing galated organization of a State is leaving for Home to-night. He Professor of Zoology at the Un-long. The boundary has been

with force to 7,000 ifles, ware des- quite frankly.confess that they away an enormous perentage of provided school system, which is errated to be away for four iversity of Glasgow since 1902. settled by agreements

France, Italy and King Menelik patched and placed in the field, consider the West has benefited her resources by that particular requires in each community months. [Professor Korr was born in

of Abyssinia. Till 1898, the and in January, 1904. 3,250 Obina by teaching her the use of form of robbery called by diploma-school as good as that in every

A meeting of the Hongkong 1809 and was educated et Edin- somalliend Frotectorate was ad troops defeated 5,000 dervishes force. That this should be the tiets "indemnity."

other community. But this ad 'burg and Cambridge Universities.

vautage has been purchased at Football Association was held last He spent two years in zoological ministered by the Resident at at Jidballi, about 1,000 of the main contribution of Christians officials, then, are

to Pagan civilisation is one of the old ones were; and they are the expense of many qualities night. The proposed rules were explorations in South America, Aden, as a dependency of the latter being killed.

maet envy the discussed. In Marob, 1905, an agreement the ironies of history. But it is something more. They are Ja for which we especially on the Pilcomaye River Government of India. In that

it was transferred to the was concluded between the Italian part of the greater irony which cobius, Educated abroad, they American schools." and later made a special expedi-charge of the Fareign Office, and Gove.oment and the Mallah gave the Christian faith to pre- are as full of ideas se was Robe- tion, to the Gran Chaco to investigate the habits and lift-on let April, 1905, to that of the Seyyid Mohammed, whereby peace cirely those nations all of whose spierre or St. Just, and their history of of South American Colonial Office. The chief ports was declared between the der fundamental instincts and con-ideas are evin

Suicide to Cure Love.. Langish. From 1897 to 1902 he are Barbers. Balhar and Zeyla vishes and the neighbouring victions were and are in the most from sentiment, tradition, and

Suicide as a cure fur. hopeless ite 40 human feeling. A foreign educa- was Demonstrator in Animal Area about 68,000 square miles. tribas, both those subject to the radical antagoniem

-The Hand waterlese plains con Government of Italy and those teaching.

tion seems to make a cut right love is a common expedient in "There are Japanese Morphology at Cambridge Un-

Though, however, it is broadly across a Chinamsa's life.. He re- Japan. iversity, was Walsingham Medal stituts the principal pastures of under the protection of the list in 1881 and was a Fellow the country. The ob of course British Covernment. The Mullah trae that the Chinese have relied turns with a new head; and this lovers," writes Mr Hadland Davie, "who, owing to circumstances, wealth of the people lies in their was given a port on the east cost on reason and justice in a way head never gets into normal re- live steel.

coast and was assigned certain and to a degree which is inconlations with his heart. That, I are unable to marry: but they do In the beginning of 1901. op territories within the Italian ceivable in the West, they have believe, is

of not blame circumstance. They ratione were commenced against sphere of interest, beyond which not bean without their share of Jacobiniam idee's working with regard their misfortune as the fanatical Somali leader, the he and His dervishs undertook original sin. Violence, anerohy, enormous rapidity and freedom result of an error in a previous Mullah Mohammed Abdullah, and not to encroach. ,"

and corruption have played a unchecked by the fly-wheel of existence, such as breaking their Governor of Berber.

In the latter part of 1908, part in their history, though a traditional feelings. The death is announced of the native le-y with British Officsts,

under Captain (local Lient. some unrest was caused by the less part then in the history of Governor of Berber.

Whitaker's Colonel) E. J. E. Ewayne, Indian unfriendly attitude the most countries. And these forces [According Almanack for this year, the Army, penetrated into the Nogal Mullah, and reinforcements were have been specially evident in Governor of Berber Province Valley. After defeating the brought into, the Protectorate that department to which Wes How many people known what dergirdle and spring into a river (Sadan) is Capt. (H. Townsend. Mullah at Somla and Fo.diddin, from East Africa, Uganda, Nyasterners are apt to pay the greatest is meant by a bull roarer ? One or lake, they will become united and killing 1,200 men and taking salend and India' daring 1909,, attention in the department of of there curious instruments was in their next birth. This suicide 600 prisoners, he drove him into Arrangemente baving an governments. Government has offered for sale in a London auo- of Japanese lovers is called made by arming and organising always teen less important in tion-rcom recently. It is used in Joshi, which means lovedeath' The dervishes after vards gath- the British protected tribes, to China than in Western States; it certain parts of Africa to notify or passion death."" ered together again, and enable them to defend themselves has always been rudimentary in women and children to leave a similar expedition, strengthened against attack, H.M. Government its organisation, and for centu-particular village when a Kive by the 2nd King's African Rifies withdrew all reinforcements from ries it has been incompetent and Kaku dance is about to come on: (Yoos), was despatched under the interior in March, 1910, and corrupt. Of his corruption Wes- It is attached to a string at the At the Police Pourt, this morn The Duke of Westminister, bes Colouel Swayne in the summer administration is now limited to tornere, it faline, make more than end of a stick, and as it is whirled ing, a Chinese was fined $825 contributed £1,000 towards the of 1902, and again drove the the roast belt, an it was prior to they fairly should. China is no round it gives forth a dull roaring for being in possession of opium,

Mallah into Italian territory with 1901,

more corrupt (to say the least) sound. Olympia Funde.

of Christ's Obarch, Cambridge from 1898 to 1904. In this latter year her he won the Neill | Prize of the Royal Soiety of Edinburgh.]

to

OLYMPIC FUNDS.

¡GIFT OF £1,000.

London, Received Aug. 20.

Italien territory,

of

the

essence

ABull Roarer!!!

promise to wed, or because they were cruel to each other. Such lovers believe that if they bind themselves together with un-

Oplum Possession.

by Mr. Haseland,

TO-DAY.

Victoria Theatre, 9.16 p.m. Bijou Scenic Theatre, 9.15 p.m.

TO-MORROW,

Vietoria Theatre 9.15 pm. Bijou Scenic Theatre, 9.15 p.m.

Saturday, August 23.

Thursday, August 28. China and Manila s.s. Co.. Meeting of Shareholders.-11.30

Third Pagal Gymkhana.

B.m,

Tuesday, September 2. Auction of H.M.8. Alsority, on board, 11 a.m.

Auction of HM.88. Handy and Janus 11 am,