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The Hongkong Telegraph.

January 29, 1914,

Temperature 6 a.m. 62. 3 p.m. 67. Humidity

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TELEGRAMS.

P. AND O. COMPANY,

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BOMBS IN NEW YORK.

FOUR STEAMERS ·SOLD.

SENSATIONAL ADMISSION.

Router's Serrion To The "Telegraph']

Lordon. Received Janunsy 28. Reuter's New York e rrespond-

[Reuter's Barvios To The "Telegraph."

Lötiden. Reçoived January 29,

The Peninsular and Oriental

Steam Navigation Company

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THURSDAY, ' JANUARY 29,

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THE ZABERN AFFAILS. AUSTRALIAN CRICKET.

WHOLESALE RESIGNATIONS. PHENOMENAL SCORING,

THE COAL STRIKE.

MEN IGNORE "UNION..

HAYTI IN REVOLT.

FOREIGN SAILORS LAND.

London: Received January 29,

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London. Received January 29,

Realer's correspon tent BL There is a general rosumption

TELEGRAMS.

NEWS FOR BUSY MEN,

TELEGRAMS.

CONDENSED,

The majority of the coal strikers in London have resumed on the the old terme without the sanction of the Trades Union.

(Reuter's Service To The "Telegraph,""]|[Reuter's Service To The "Telegraph-"] [(Reuter's Service To The "Telegraph."] | [Reutor's Serviss To The Telegraph.”]

London, Received January 29.

London. Received January 20. Reuter's correspondent

Reuter's correspondent at ent states that during the triel of Strassburg states that the re- Sydney states that in the Inter- of the coal men in London. The New York states that owing to a gang of men foi placing a bombiguation of the Government of State cricket match between New majority are resuming on the old the revolution and fighting at A ballot is being taken among Alsace-Lorraine, including the South Wales and Victoris, the terms without the sanction of the Hayti, the German pruiser Vineta marine engineers at Home on the Borneo, Sunda, Palawan and in a fonement, one of the gang Governor, the Secretary of State former compiled huge sacre Trades Union.

confessed that he had placed

has landed eighty bluejackets question of an increase of pay, and two machine gune at Port au overtime remuneration, etc. and the Under Secretaries, is im- of 075, of which Kalloway con-

a result of the

Prince, and President Oreate and pending ns

his wife have taken refuge on board the oruiser.

announces that the steamers

Sumatra have lately been sold,

Zabern affairs.

MURDERER'S SUICIDE.

two for delivery in Japan and eighty bomba in different houses the others to buyers in Bombay in the city in consideration of The boate sold are being who were hoping to benefit as a money paid by property owners replaced by six ships of the

rosult of the insurance money. Kuiva type, double their tonnago He had also participated in two and of greater speed.

Renter's murders by the gang for hooty."

There are now 70,000 tons of shipping being constructed for the P. and O. Company, includ ing the liner Kaiser-i-flind, of) 14,000 tons displacement.

CANAL TOLLS.

PRESIDENT WILSON'S ·

VIEWS.

· London, R-colved January 29, Router's correspondent al

Washington says it is stated that President Wilson, conferring with the Foreign Relations Com- mittee of the Senate yesterday. strongly advocated cancelling the proposed preferential treatment of American boasting vessels using the Panama Canal; and also urgently recommended the adoption of the Gateral Arbitra- tion Treaties with Britain and Уврад.

MR. A. CHAMBERLAIN.

TO CONTEST W. BIRMINGHAM.

London. Rereived January 29.

YACHT ASHORE,

DUCAL PARTY RESCUED,

London. Received January 18,

correspondent at Tangier states that the murderer

tributed 188 and Macartney 201. NAVAL AND MILITARY.

Victoria scored 322 and 311, losing by an innings and 42 runs, New South Wales wine the Sheffield Shield. «

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Notifications of laterest to the

Far East.

Captain M. F. Day, King's Own Light Infantry, will vacate of Valdrome, the French Agentranded all the camps of the Hung-the adjutancy of the 1st. Battalion, at Tangier, has been fourd dindhulzes and made prisoners of the Singapore, in April next on the in his cell, having hanged bim-t, including Malunga, the com- completion of three years in that self with his braces.

mander of the whole force and appointment. the reputed murderer of Mr. The following month, Captain Grant, of the Chinese Telegraphe. A. C. G. Luther, King's Own The Inner Mongolians of the force Light Infantry, will similarly remained neutral during these vacate the adjutancy of the home proceedings.

battalion stationed at Dublin.

LATE TELEGRAMS.

New Currency Law.

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Recruiting for the King's Own

American bluejackets have also been landed there. ·

Cape Haytien is in the hands of rebele.

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THE 25TH PUNJABIS.

Hongkong Regiment's Ninety-

Fourth Birthday.

The queation of the arrest of Trade Union officials ia South Africa was mentioned at the Labour Conference at Glasgow,

President Wilson is said to ad- vocate the cancelling of preferen tial treatment to American coast- Ling vessels using the Panama

Canal.

Mr. F. W. Vanderbilt's yacht Warrior struck the rocks off the coast of Columbia, and the party on board was rescued by a

The 25th. Panjabis, now at steamer. has shown some signs of improv Hongkong, will celebrate its 94th. ingin its own recruiting quarters birthday in May next, says the

London. Received January 23. Reuter's New York correspond-

The exact significanes of this ent says that Mr. F. W. Vander-

Peking Jan. 21. newe cannot yet be stated, but it bilt's yacht Warrior, struck on

The draft of a currency law, is known that Malungs was in the rocks at Cape Aguatre of which has been approved by the treaty with the Chinese to change For a considerable time outside L. and C. Express. It is one ing the steamers Borneo, Sands, The P. and O. Company is sell- the coast of Columbia. A stermer President and Cabinet, has just sides, bringing over with him his recruiting had to be carried on to of the many regimente added to Palawan and Sumatra, which are came to the rescue and took off Mr. been published. The document Hunghutzes and the Inner Mon- keep the ranks of the home the Indian Army in 1857 to re- to be replaced by six ships of the and Mie. Vanderbilt, the Duko and has been prepared by the special golian 'section with their arms. battalion up to establishment, place those which were swept Khiva type. Duchess of Manchester, and Lord Currency Commission, which has Tae Urga Mongole were just in Falconer, who are proceding to

Captain . B. O. Symons, Royal into the vortex of the Matiny. New York. The crew remained on board the yacht, which is hard

ground but fairly safe.

COMMANDER EVANS.

WELCOMED TO PARIS,

London. Received January 28,

The Labour Conference at

been at work for the past eight time to prevent the defection of Engineers, has been selected for The regiment was raised as one months, and it is stated to have Malunga. Whether the Mongolian service in North China. Captain of the 18 Punjab regiments which Glasgow demands the recall of been approved by some of the Government wished to prevent Symone joined the Royal Engine then came into existence, Lord Gladstone in connection foreign advisors to the Govern him from going over to the ere in October, 1884, was promot and its first regular designs with the deportation of "South

Chinese or only to put out of ed captain in 1904, and has been tion WAS the 17th. Punjab African Labour leaders. action a freebooter who was pro employed in the Colonies pre-Infantry, and at the reorganis- longing a state of war they desireviously. He was for some time ation which followed the collapse an assistant professor at the Royal of the Matiny it was designsted

ment.

The draft provides for a silver standard in which a dollar of seventy-two candareens of ninety per cent. silver shall be the standard coin, subsidiary token coinage to be legal tender for limited amounts

Mr. Austen Chamberlain has decided to contest Weat Birming. feted upon his arrival at Paria, thereto in the first instance at the ham at the next Gsneral Election, blo his father, Me. Joseph Chamberlain, retires.

A LABOUR COMPLAINT. Bident Poincare bestowed upon him the insignia of an Officer of 1he Legion of Honcur,

AFRICAN OFFICIALS

ARRESTED.

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NEWS.

formed part of the Third Brigade Arrangements have now been The Doris, gruiser, at present ande Brigadier-General C. Mmade for the early commence- in the Third Floot at Devonport, MacGregor, and it shared in the ment of the erection of the new Was to be completed to full crew defeat of Ayoub Khah's troops railway station at Kowloon.. fat that port on the 15th. inst, under the walls of that city. The

to end, remains to be seen.-N.-9. Daily News Correspondent: Military College, Kingstown, the 25th. (Punjab) Bengal Log book appeara on page

Provincial Contributions, Canada, and for some time was Native Infantry, and in 100 it and commercial news on pages?

Peking, January 21.

employed on survey duty on the received its present title.and 8. The following sums of money Gold Coast, West Afrios.

The 25th. served in the Afghan It is intended gradually to sub-have been remitted to Poking by

Engineer-Commander Hilgrove War, 1878-80, being in the ihe Habeas Corpus case wa Commander Evans, one of the stitute the new for the existing variona provinces:

Hammond, from the oruiser action at the battle of Ahmad proceeded with at the Supreme Kiangan $1,000,000, Chekiang Diamond, has been appointed to Khel, where Sir Donald Stewart Court this morning. survivora of the lato Captain coinage by means of reminting, Scott's Antarctic Expedition, was and to enforce the laws relating $200,000: Shantung $400,000 the battleship Triumph, Chins defeated the Afghans when on

This officer joined his march from Kandahar t Kiangsi has promised $800,000, Squadron. where a luncheon was held in his trading ports, whence it is ex of which 8400,000 has been re- the engine-room department of Kabul. The 25th. was amongst the sestholders and subscribers The annual general meeting of honour, and he received a gold rected that the popularity of the ceived: Shantung has promised the service in July, 1890, was the troops commanded by the to St. John's Cathedral was held modal from the Municipality. new coinsge will penetrate to the $400,000, of which $200,000 promoted commander in July gallant "Babs" when he started yesterday.

Ho lectured before the Geo-interior by degrees.

has been received Kansu hisa

last, and has considerable overses on his march of 313 miles, and it Honan graphical Society, where Presid- The scheme appears to be a promised $100,000;

Bervice.. reasonable one, but, as it requires $300,000-Reuter to the N.C.

large amount of ready money to Daily News. inaugurate it, it must for the White Wolf in Hogan. present be regarded as one of the

Peking, Jan. 22. mang reforms which await e A Presidential mindate ex for trooping service to Hongkong, 25th. took part in the Chitral Mr. Ellis Kadoorie has donated great improvement in the fin-presses pain at the havoc caused Woosung, and Nanking, leaving campaign of 1895, and again $15,000 or $20,000, if need be, ancial position of the Govern- by brigands in the districts of ment before they can be institut-Kuangshan and Haanghuan, in as soon as convenient after that found itself in a. Third Brigade for the purpose of erecting a

date. She is to take out relief along with the deh. Gurk women's hostel in Hongkong. ed-N. O. Daily News Correspon- Houan, and states that this acrews for the Bramble and has, one of the regiments satisfactory state of affairs is due Britomart, which will be drawn with which it marched Step to Gold Standard. to the administration of the from Portsmouth; for the Thistle, to Kandahar; also in the late

Peking, Jan. 21.

Tutab of Hoaan, Chang Cheng and halt crews for the Widgeon, operatione against the Zekka The law adop's the yuan or fang, the Commissioner of De: Woodlark, Saipe, Nightingale, Khela and in the operations arrested have had their books and There was a prolonged meet dollar, as the standard coin, fence. Chao Chow, Chief Staff and Kizsba, drawn from Devon generally of the Bizar Valley funda confiscated, and they in ing of the Cabinet yesterday, and following the precedent set by Officer, Wang Pi-hun and England were unable to cable it is believed that the Ministers the Manchu Government's our- Lieutenant-General Cheng Hei- port; and half crews for the Tea), Field Force. The omposition funds to South Africs for fear of discussed the increase in taxation rency eoheme of 1910, bat, yuan. Chang His-yuan has and Robin, drawn from Chatham, of Sikhs, two of Dugras, two of Moorhen, Woodcock, Sandpiper, of the 25th. is three companies necessitated by the Navy Esti- whereas under the latter smaller already been deprived of his rank Lieutenant A. G. Sparrow hos Punjabi Ma salmans, and one of mates.,

ocin-ge was to be proportionate and now the Ministry of War been appointed to the Newcastle Pathaus. The honours on the in weight to the yuan, ten cents requests to be instructed whether (1st and G), to date Jan. 5. weighing one tenth of the stand Chang Cheng-fang and Chao and coin, in the present law Chow may be deprived of their subsidiary coins will be paraly posts and ordered to wipe out tokens. The denimal system will their past offence by suppressing

London. Received Jaripury 29... At the Labour Conference at Glasgow, Mr. Browalio, the Chairman of the Amalgamated Eaginears' Society. announced that all the Trade Union officials in South Africa who have ben

confiscation,

THE CABINET.

ANOTHER. MEETING.

London. Received January 28,

More Meetings, London. Received January 20.

Another long Cabinet meeting hold to-day (Wednesday) another will be held this

Mr. Harcourt had refused to receive a deputation on the ques- tion, saying it was a master solely within the competence. of the Union Government, but he had was promised to obtain particulars and from Lord Cladstone,

Mr. week, Brownlie declared that ho was not. satisfied with the answer and he "intended to get satisfaction.

Recall of Lord Gladstone Demanded.

Later. The sudden and secret doporta- tion of ten. South African Labour leaders to England created a great stir at the Labour Con- ference at Glasgow, which adopt- ed an amendment demanding the recall of Lord Gladstone.

COL, GOETHALS.

DEFINITE APPOINTMENT.

dent.

'WOMEN'S INSTITUTE..

Kadoorie.

regimental colours of the 25th. are "Ahmed Khal," "Kandahar, 1880,"

Afghanistan, 1880," and "Chitral."

TELEGRAMS.

CONDENSED,

be adhered to. Ten varieties of the brigands. Chang Cheng. Magnificent Offer by Mr. Ellis coins will be issued; the yuan, fang, Chao Chow and Wang alty cents, twenty cents and ten Pi-luan are hereby deprived of

Last night Lady May wan" at NEWS FOR BUSY MEN. corte silver; five cente nickel; their official functions, but are two cents, one cant, five, two and permitted to retain their poate in bome' to the members of the one li copper.

Christian order that they may atons for Young Women's An explanatory note attached their paat demerits. They will Association, and the occasion was to the law points out that the be more severely punished, how-marked by the attendance of some present law is only a step towards ever, unless they effect a clean 125 ladies. During the course Reuter's correspondent at the adoption of a gold standard, sweep of the briganda-Reuter to of the evening the Secretary, Mrs. G. T. Edking, read a letter which Washington staten that President which obviously is impossible at the N. O. Daily News.

had been received from Mr. Ellis have been given a warm welcome Wilson hos appointed Colonel prérent.-Reuter to the N.C.Daily

in Paris. Kadoorie and Lady May's answer, Goethals as the first Civil Gover-News.

both of which we publish in an- other column.

London, Recelyed January 28.

DON'T FORGET,

TO-DAY,

Victoria Theatre, 9.15 p.m. Bijou Sconic Theatro, 9.15 pan.

TO-MORROW.

Victoria Theatre-9.15 p.m. Bijou Theatre 9.15 p.m.

Saturday February T Philharmonic Society's Concert 8.15 p.m.

Annual General Meeting, Union

| Waterboat Co. Ltd.--noon.

Tuesday, February 10.

Organ Recital St. John Cat- bedral.-5.30 p.m.

Hongkong, Canton and Macao Steamboat Co. Ltd., general

-дoon.

Thursday, February 12. The Llol's Eye. Theatre Royal,

Commander Evana and party-9.15 p.m.

As a result of the Zabera affair

Revolutionizing Mentia." Peking, Jan. 21. A further step in the "revolu- Interesting nows comes from tionizing" of Manila street names, On the strength of these letters the Government of Alsace-Lor Mongolia. Contrary to the in-has been taken by the city fathers, a vote was formally put to the raine is to resign, formation lately received here who have decided to bestow the gathering that the name Y.W.O.A.

Colonel Goethals has been from Urga that all the Outer cognomens of twenty-five Fil- to changed to that of the Mongolian forces had retired ipinos prominently identified Women's Institute" and later appointed first Civil Governor of from Inner Mongolia, it now ap-with the insurrections against to take the name of the "Helena the Panama Canal Zone. pears that the total Mongol force Spain and the United Staten, apon May Institute for Women." The

Mr. Ramaay Macdonald, in the nor of the Panama Canal Zone. Treachery In Mongolia, course of an impassio ed speech, This discounts the recent talk moved a resolution protesting of his appointmoot ng Chie! Police against the suppression of Trades Commissioner in New York. Unionism in South Africa and insisted on a searching enquiry into Lord Gladstore's conduct so that fature Governors of the Dominions might not follow his example, Ha declared that the deportations constituted the most oynionl conclusion to the South African War.

THE STRIKE HABIT.

MÄRINE ENGINEERS*

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DEMAND.

London. Received January 28.

of 2,500 remained scatteerd in as many new thoroughfares short motion was unanimously oarried. New South Wales scored 075 bands within one hundred milesly to be opened to public traffic It will be seen from Mr. runs agaiast Victoria and won of Kalgan. Of this force 500 in the district of Tondo. As in Kadoorie's letter that he has pro- by an inpings and 42 runs. were Unter Mongolians from the case of the changes of street mised to give a sum of $15,000,

Urga, 300 Hanghutzes and the names previouely decreed by the or, if necessary, $20,000, to Owing to the revolution at

Mr. Keir Bordie pointed out that the Indemnity Act required A ballot is being taken by the remainder Inner Mongolians who municipal board, the sponsor of establish the Women's Institute, Hayti, German and American

marine engineers of the United engaged in the fight against the the proposition to honour the provided the public raise a like bluejackets have been landed.

illustrious dead was Isabelo delos sum. All donatione received will Kingdom on the question of a Chinese.

Two or three days ago the Urga Reyes. The board concurred in be acknowledged in the Pross, Mr. Austen Chamberlain has strike, for an increase in pay,

and they should be sent to Mrs. decided to content West Birming- remuneration for overtime, and Mongols, apparently soting under the recommendation without a an extension of home leave, orders from Urgs, suddenly ear dissenting vote.

Kemp, 2, Gomez Villas, Kowloon, ham at the next General Election.

the King's signature, and Lord Gladstone had the power to refuse to sign it till sent Home for con sideration,

The motion was adopted.

Friday,

February 13.

The I lol's Eye-Theatre Royal -9.15 p.m.

Saturday, February 14 The Liol's Eye Theatre Boyal -9.15 p.m.

Half yearly meeting of Share- holdes Hongkong and Shanghai Baking Corporation-noon.

Monday February 18. Jockey Club Race Meeting Happy Valley.

Maud Allau at Theatre Royal -2.15 pm. Ju

Tunday, February 17 Maud Allan at Theatre Royal

9.15 pm.

Wedosed y, February 18. Maud Allan at Theatre Royal 9.15 pm.

Tharaday, February 19. Ball at Government House.