1913-11-18 — Page 1

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

November 17, 1913, Temperature a.m.-65, p.m. 74; Humidity.....79, 46.

9,251 晚一月十年丑

TELEGEAMS.

HOME RULE.

GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS.

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

* London. Received Nov. 17. The Times atatea that within

the next few days the Government will communicate to Mr. Bonar Law its proposale dealing with Ulster. The Times forecasts that these will consist of the exclusion of Ulster for a definite terra of. years, without any option at the conclusion thereof; also an ad- ditional bardon upon the English tax-payers to compensate Nation alist Ireland for the temporary loss of the wealth of Ulster.

"Arrant Moonshine and Nonsense."

London, Received Nov. 18.

Mr. John Redmond, speaking at Northampton, said the Home Rule Bill would be law in a few months, and he believed Uister would make the best of it. The talk of civil war was arrant moonshine and nonsense. The Liberals and.. Nationalists wel- oomed a rettlement by consent, bat they were not going, in the moment of victory, to saorifice! the fruits of their long battle.

TELEGRAMS.

(ESTABLISHED 1881.) Copyright, 1813 by the Proprietor.

TUESDAY,

TELEGRAMS.

WEATHER FORECAST

FINE

Barometer 30.15 ·

November 17, 1912, Temperature a.m. 68, p.m. 71; Humidity...72, 64.

NOVEMBER

18,

1913.

二拜務

號八十月一十英港貴

TELEGRAMS,

TOLÉGRANG.

TELESKARS,

STRIKE IN NATAL.

A SERIOUS SITUATION.

THE ROYAL VISIT.

EARL OREY JOINS PARTY.

BRITAIN AND FRANCE.

MEXICAN AFFAIRS.

THE VIENNA SENSATION.

THE ERA OF FRIENDSHIP,

SIGNIFICANT RESIGNATION. C.P.R, MANAGEROUT ON BAIL

Reator's

[Service to the "Telegraph."]

London. Received Nov. 18. Router'a correspondent at Dur- ban states that a strike of Inlians, in sympathy with the passive resistance to the South African Immigration Act, is be- coming general throughout Natal.

are

Burning Sugar, Canes, The atrike is most serious on sugar plantations, where the Atrikers are attempting to terroriz. the whites and burning the sugar canes. one instance 150 acres were destroyed while Indians stood and cheered.

LARKIN'S TIRADE.

A WILD SPEECH.

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by

Router's

[Service to the "Telegraph."]

Reuter's

[Service to the Telegraph."}

London, Received Nov. 18.

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friendships which bave borne the tent of ticie. The recent visit of

Router's

(Service to the "Telegraph."]

London. Received Nov. 17. Senhor Aldapo, the Mexican

Reuter's

$36 PER ANNUM

SINGLE COPY 10 CENTS,

NEWS FOR BUSY MEN

TELEGRAMS.

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

́ ́À, farther' series of Cabinet meetings is being held this week.

According to Mr. Redmond, the Home Rule Bill will be law

[Service to the "Telegraph."

London, Received Nov. 18, Reuter's correspondent at Vien Minister of the Interior, who has as reports that Mr. Altman, local within a few months, been urging. President Huerta to manager of the O.P.R Company, yield to the United States, has who was arrested with other of now resigned.

A Walting Policy.

Mr. Redmond says the talk of the Company's employees on civil war in Ulster is arran charges of facilitating the emigra moonshine and nonsense. tion of thousands of reoruits military service, has been released before they had undergone full

on bail amounting to 86,000.

BOUND OVER.

French Ministry of War, has been Capt. Larguier, attached to the

arrested at Geneva on a charge of espionage.

The engagement is announced of Lord Elgin, ex-Viceroy of India, to the widow of the late

Sotte Case that Should Not have Captain Ogilvy, R.N.'

Come before the Court.

The Austrian Consul General Herr Bilinski, a member of the Albanian Delimitation Commis- sion, has died at Valona, #3 cross-summons Vicante Botto for

London. Received Nov. 18.

A French Squadron of sixteen Earl Grey goes to Windsor Castle to-night (Monday). He is war vessels will be at the Piraeus to stay a few days during the on the 30th inst, where it meets visit of the Archduke Franz the British Fleet

The French newspapers em- Tordinand and his wife

This is the first visit of the phasise the political importance Duchess of Hohenberg, Arch of this naval demonstration as

London. Received Nov. 18 duke Franz Ferdinand's wife, showing the strength and close- to England. The visit neas of the Enterite ('ordiale

The United States has decided M. Baudin, the Minister of originated, according to the

Daily News and Leader" cor- Marine, interviewed by the Matin, to wait a few days and see the effect of foreign pressure on respondout in Vienna, in an in- says the moment is propitious for Huerta before taking any decisive vitation, which the Duke of Port displaying the French flag in the land made when visiting the Eastern Mediterranean, where stop. Archduke at his Bohemian estate Franco has enjoyed faithful at Konopischt, and which Franz Ferdinand

King accepted. George, on learning of the Arch-

The French and British Fleets duke's intended visit, at once ad- the French Fleet to Egypt was a the weather conditions in the

Agueda Esteban de Vibora, a are to meet at the Piraeus on the dressed an invitation to him to fresh mark of Franco-British seas the vessel is approaching. be his guest at Windsor during friendship and the courteous and Such was the oase with a German married woman, of 45, Haiphong 30th inst., and much importance. part of his stay in England, spontaneous welcome by the vessel some time ago which, Road, Kowloon, was summoned During his stay at the Castle bie British and Grook Colonies had anxious about the weather and by Vicente Sotto to appear before is attached to the fact. Imperial Highness will take part produced the happibat impression unable to get into communication Mr J. R. Wood, at the Police with a vessel in Hongkong har Court, this morning, for unlaw in several shopts. After his visit

on the French officers and crew. to Windsor the Archduke and his

bour, was obliged to apply to fully assaulting him by throwing wife will, it is stated, pay a visit

Taingtau, right across the main-a stone at bim on November 11, to the Duke and Duchess of Port-

land of China, to learn the latest There Was land at Welbeck Abbey. The

HONGKONG AND meteorological forecast. Hardly against Archduke is the nephew of the

WIRELESS. aged Emperor Francis Joseph, and

a deep sea vessel of any preten behaviour calculated to cause

on reception at Manchester Free sions now visits the port that is a

pence His wife

Trade Hall, where thousands is in his fiftieth year.

not equipped with wireless, yet, the same date. was formerly Countess Sophie

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unless they can over-reach Hong- Vicento Solto personally 'pro- were unable to obtain admission. Chotek, a lady-in-waiting in the

At the present time, with the kong and get into touch with scoated, and Mr C. F. Mason, of household of the Arohduchess

Senhor Aldape, Merican Minis Isabella, There were weighty prevailing shortage of tonnage more Northern ports, their equip Mr F. X. D' Almeda's, appeared

ter of the Interior, who has been thousands were unable to gain state protests against this mor- and the abundance of freightment is useless until Hongkong for the woman. admission. He denied that bot

ganatic marriage, which, how

Mr Mason said his client insleturging President Haerta to yield had threatened a general strike ever, took place in 1900 with waiting to be moved, every hour is passed. in England, repudiated the idea the Emperor's consent and the of a steamship's time represents That Hongkong should not el on going on, on the cross to the United States, has resigned. that he was dictating to "those blessings of the majority of Au- fixed eum in her earning hove been the first to establish a summone

His Worship ordered both de wiseacres, the English Trade strians and Hungarians. After-capacity and the time thus wasted, powerful station is sufficiently Union leaders," and said, it was wards the Emperor conferred on not to mention the additional regretable from the British point fendants to stand in front of the next few days the Government will communicate to Mr. Bonar London, Received Nov. 17 for his bearers to do that. He the countess the title of Duchess anxiety of her commander in of view, but that she should still the dook.

Complainant gave evidence re- The engagement is announced appealed to them not to handle of Hohonberg. Her husband, on desiring to push on, get uncontain lag behind whon small and up-

his marriage, had to renounce all of the location of the storm once important ports are fitted with garding the alleged assault and of the Earl of Elgin, a former Lablia gouds.

claims of his wife or children on he has left port, must be enough, foient stations is somewhat dis-denied that he made indecent The speech was largely the House of Habsburg. The in the case of the vessel, to cotar turbing to the minds of those who signs to the woman, Viceroy of India, to the widow of Captain Ogilvy, B.N. Mrs. Ogilvy tirade of abuse of the cowardly Archduke is a devoted husband,

The defendant said the compla. is's daughter of Commander and bloodthirsty Liberal Govern- and his wife, says the Mall,he cost of wireless telegraphy for would look upon the Colony as

half the feet.

something more than a more inant made the signs complained has smoothed over the diflouities Sherbrooke, of Upton Hall, Notts, ment."

Nor is it in the typhoon season naval base on the coast of China, of. at the Austrian Court inseparable who was formerly in the Royal

from the circumstances of her alone that the apparatus would Since Navy.

marriago. Her intellectual gifts demonstrate its value. urs brilliant, and she possesses a the consumption of coal" varies 48 of the apead, an wonderful voice. Only a year the cube after her marriage the Kaiser enormous wastage of fuel must paid a high compliment to the annually occur through a vessel Duchess by sending his eldest son pushing, cu against strong FRENCH OFFICER ARRESTED, to take luncheon with her, and he monsoon and high head sex to

INTERESTING

ENGAGEMENT.

LORD ELGIN TO MARRY

AGAIN..

[The Earl of Elgin was pre- viously married to Constanca, daughter of the 9th Earl of Southeek, who died in 1909.].

UNHAPPY MARRIAGE.

ROYAL COUPLE disagree.

London, Received Nov. 17. Larkin, the Dablin strike leader, was accorded a tremen- dons reception at Manchester in the Free Trade Hall, to which

ESPIONAGE CASE.

receive her as if she were 00

MISSING GOLD.

..

breach of the

Two women supported the de- fendant's statement.

His Worship sald the case should never have come before the Court, and in binding them both over in the sum of $100 oach to be of good behaviour for six months, he did not with any- thing to he reflected on either side.

AMERICAN SAILOR'S

DEATH.

Met with Accident Whilst Shooting.

Larkin hod

tremendous

The Times states, that within

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Law proposals dealing with

later.

Princess Marie, formerly the Russian Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna, is in Paris and has an- nounced her intention of not. returning to her husband.

LOCAL..

Hongkong Volunteer orders are given elsewhere in this issue.

The Tingsang has become a total loss in Haitan Straite where she went ashore the other day.

An interesting article dealing with the question of a wireless station for Hongkong appeara to-day.

A meeting of the Hongkong and South China Steam Fisheries Stanley Reeves Taylor, a sea-Co. Ltd. was held to-day and an on the Wilmington, has extraordinary meeting was held

immediately after..

It appears that whilst the Wilmington was at Fooohow, the

Stolen Sult,

COMPANY MEETING.

(Continued from Page 5.) It will in the first place be has allowed his brother-in-law to reach her destination, only to evident to you that the amount of Archduchess. She has two sons.find, on her arrival, that the berth $59,566,98 now atanding at the The Archduke is one of the rich was not ready for her owing to debit of our Profit and Loss London. Received Nov. 18 est men in the world, and, with circumstances that had arisen account has been lost, or, at A French officer, Captain Laryears creeping on the Emperor, after her departure from port, any rate, is no longer repre- by available 4988t8, quier, attached to the French who is now eighty-three, he ie and that she might have prosented Ministry of War, has been arrost-coming into prominence as the ceeded under easy stem to time and nutil this item has been re- London, Received Nov. 17.ed at Ganova and charged with future Sovereign. He is already her arrival in such a manner as moved from our balance sheet, Renter's correspondent at espionage on behalf of France to practically the Austrian War Stockholm says it is armi-officially the detriment of Switzerland Lord, for last August the Em-to fit in with the arrangements the Company will not be in a peror invested him with the office made for her loading. Similarly, position to distribute dividenda of the many a vossel has come up the to shareholders. The effect of stated that the Princess Marie Italy and Germany.

of Inspector-General A later mosange states that the Austro-Hungarian Army

and coast at her ordinary spoed and of the reduction in capital, as m (formerly the Raasian Grand

missed a tide, with the con- proposed, will be to remove the died at Foochow through a gun Duchess Maria Paulovnn), "who is affair is connected with the recent Navy.]

sequence that she has lost a debit bilance of Profit and Lose shot wound in the thigh, acciden now in Paris, has announced her arrest in Rome of a man named

valuable charter, or half a day on account from the one side of the tally inflicted. intention not to etura to hor Menozzi and an Italian cavalry

her loading borth, through being acconat. while on the other side

Mr Browne, government analyst, husband, Prince William. Eforts sergeant, who are alleged to have

out of communication with her the capital will stand at 15,000 to indoon the Princess to recon-been acting on behalf of an In-

office. Such vessels, in touch by fally paid up ahres at 86 deceased, who was aged 19 years, reports that a suit valued $36 went out on a shooting trip with has been stolen from his house. August sider her decision were unavail-ternational Espionage Bureau

wireless telegraphy, could have equal to $90,000. ing....

with headquarters at Geneva.

beon hastened or retarded to suit It is hardly necessary for me a comrade. The comrade ac A boy who absconded in. the special circumstances of each to point out that the reduction incidentally discharged his shot is suspected, case, to the saving of time and capital will not in any way adver-gun and inflicted the wound in Six Months for Assault.

At the Police. Court this morn money since up to the present, sely effect the market value of the the thigh from which the youth

ing, a man named Mak Mak was London, Received Nov. 18, the vessel which had once left a shares, in fact it should have died.

The comrade rendered first aid sent to gaol for causing grievous Revier's correspondent at Paris China port for Shanghai was entirely the contrary effect, for states that forty boxes of gold practically lost to her agents until reasons I have already outlined. and did all he could for his un- bodily harm to his employer by he was smoking opiam. The have been stolen en route to the her arrival so far as the possibility If, as I hope, you pass and sub-fortunate companion, but he died bitting him with a chopper whilst Ottoman Bank in Paris from the of communicating with her was sequently confirm, the resolution, from shock and hemorrhage.

we shall then be in a position to The body was brought to trouble was alleged to be over Ottoman Bank in Constantinople. concerned. The contents are valued ot The establishment of ship-distribute any dividenda earned Hongkong on board the Wilming- some back-pay, which the de-

stations, however, can be of little by the Japanese Company, where ton, and, we are informed, was fendant said was due to him, ase unless communication can as if you do not, it means that placed in o receiving vault, and be obtained with the shore shareholders will possibly have to will be conveyed to Americs later. The deceased was a native of and it is unthinkable that wait some years for a dividend. such an important port as Before putting this resolation to Texas, Hongkong should be content for the meeting I will be pleased more than two years to depend answer any questions, upon the kind offices of a ship There were no questions, and in the harbour or a more distant the Chairman said:-I beg to

The newspapera state that Prince William is starting on a hanting expedition in Africa.

OBITUARY.

MR. MONTAGUE

CRACKENTHORPĖ.

London. Received Nov. 18.

The death has taken place of

BITTEN BY MAD DOG.

GERMAN CONSUL'S EXPERIENCE.

London, Received Nov. 18, The German Consul General

FORTY BOXES STOLEN,

5,000,000 franos.

Mr. Montague Hughes Cracken-Herr. Winckel, a member of the ALBANIAN COM- thorpe, K.C

Commission of Oontrol, has been

[Deceased was President of the bitten by a med dog and bas gone Eugenics Education Society and to the Pastour Institute, Naples," was a well-known writer, in the for treatment.

reviews, on legal, social and

political matters.]

SAFE IN PORT.

London, Racaivod Nov. 17.

THE CABINET.

FURTHER MEETINGS.

MISSIONER DEAD.

To Consignees Consignees of cargo by the a.. Yorck are reminded that goods be subject to rent.

DON'T FORGET,'

·TO-DAY, Harmaton's Cirona-9.15 p.m. Victoria Theatre, 9.15 p.m... Bijou Soonio Theatre, 9.15 p.m.

TO-MORROW.

London: Received Nov. 18. station to pick up and transmit propose that "It is resolved that undelivered after to-morrow will Hermeton's Circus-9.15 p.m.

The Austrian Consul General messages intended for merchants the Capital of the Company be reduced from $150,000 to $90,000 Herr Bilinski, a member of the or shipowners in the port, Albanian Delimitation Commis- Is Hongkong more than eler by reducing the par value of the

where the need of a powerful shares from $10 to $0 each." sing, has died at Valono,

wireless alation exists since it is Mr Bonnar-I beg to second the first port after the long and, that.

Oun Practice. Sub-Calibre practice will be carried out as under 25th inst. Pakehawau, in a N.E. to N. direction, from 8-15 pm, to midnight...........

to those responsible for the safety The Chairman-For. Against,

Inquest on Policeman. Trespassing

of ships at sea, anxious journey Carried. That is all the business,

The inquiry into the circum At the Police Court, this from Singapore when, in the gentlemen. An extraordinary morning, three men were fined typhoon teason, no land is sight meeting to confirm the sail ro- stances surrounding the death of London. Received Nov. 18. 85 each for trespassing on ed from one port to the other solution will be held on the 4th, the late police constable Migel fire on board the latter has been A further series of Cabinet Government ground at Mount and there exists no possibility of of December next; I thank you Watters, has been fixed for Mon extinguished

learning, except by wireless, of for your attendance. meetings is being hold this week, Kellett, and cutting-trees,

The Pannonia and the Balraes have arrived at Bermuda, The

day next, the 24th.

Victoria Thentre 0.15 p.m. Bijou Theatre 9.15 p.m. Auotion of Cut Glass at Sales Rooms by Mr G. P. Lammert, 11 a.m.

Friday, November 21, Auction of Old Chinese Force laina at Sales Rooms, by Messrs Hughes and Hough 2.30 p.m.

Auction of Suit lengths at Sales Rooms by Mr G. F. Lampert, 2.80 p.m.