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The

Hongkong Telegraph.

WEATHER FORECAST

FINE

Barometer: 30,63

February 25, 1914,

Temperature 6 a.m. 51. 2 p.m. 66 Humidity

2727 晚一初月二年寅甲

FELEGRAMS.

THE MEXICAN MURDER.

ANORY FRENCH COMMENTS

91

79%

TELEGRAMS.

SOMALILAND•

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MR. HARCOURT CRITICISED.

London. Received February 23. In the House of Commons, dur-

Temperature 6 a.m. 64, 2 p.m. 71, Humidity

(ESTABLISHED 1881.)

Copyright, 1914

Proprietor.

February 24, 1913,

WEDNESDAY,

FEBRUARY 25, 1014.

TELEGRAMS.

WELEGRAMS,

PELEGRAMS,

台秤識 號五廿月或英港香’

HELEGRAMS.

DEPORTED LABOURITES.

HOME RULE.

ARRIVAL IN ENGLAND, THE GOVERNMENT ADAMANT.

THE DYNAMITE OUTH AGE MINISTERIAL AVIATOR, MR. CHURCHILL'S FLIGHT.

HOW IT HAPPENED.

London, Received February 24, Router's correspondent

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London. Received February 24. London, Received February 23.-

London. Received February 25. London. Received February 24.

The steamer Umgeni, with the In the House of Commons, Mr.

Mr. Winston Churchili, First Reuter's correspondent at Wa- shington says Sir Cecil Springing the debate on the supplemen- deported African Labour leaders R. 2. Falle, Unionist M.P. for Dubreczin, reporting on the out- Lord of the Admiralty, piloted Rice has instructed M. Porcoval, try estimates for Somaliland, Sir on board, arrived at 7.30 in the Portsmouth, moved that it is im rage in the office of the Catholic an aeroplane over the Solent and

Gilbert Parker oriticised the morning at Gravesend.

porativo in the interests of public Bishop there, says a letter, aigned located a submarine which was withdrawal from the interior. He A deputation of Trade Un-peace that the Premier submit in a lady's name, said a parcel mancenvering under the water. ailmitted that Mr. Corfield exced-ionists, headed by Mr. Henderson, proposals for the alteration of she was en route with candlesticks, a He eventually alighted on the ded his instructions, hat he MP, approached but were not Home Rule Bill without delays leopard skin and a hundred water near the Admiralty launch

Mr Asquith stated that the crowns. The Vicar opened the Enchantress. denounced the despatch of Mr. allowed to go on board. Harcourt's ungenemnus, cold- Mr. Bain, on behalf of his Government had not changed its parcel and was instantly killed, blooded and unhappy minute to colleagues, stated that they were opinion in the slightest. The along with two others--not five- the Commissioner regarding Mr. resolved to stay on board until Bill was sound and statesmanlike and seven were injured. Corfield before the whole of the they wore takou back to South and provided security for the Investigations show that the minority. There was no indides of any Protestant hostility" facta were known.

Mr. Harcourt warmly defended Mr. Henderson welcomed the tion that theelectorate was avere is without foundation. the despatch and said it was im-deportees and informed them that to it, there was no reason to tip- possible to withhold cennare in a great programme of receptions plisate for a truce and stilles justice to the other gallant and was awaiting them.

to hoist the white fise The

the British Consul at Galveston, to proceed to El Paso to inquire into the execution of Mr. Bonton

There are stormy comments by the French Press over the execu tion. President Wilson's lioy is vigorously denounced, and the papere call attention to the great French interests in Mexico and intimate that if the United States is unable to assure the safety of Europeans, the time has come when the Powers must undertake their own protection.

Another Outrage. Reuter's correspondent at Vera Cruz says the Mexican rebels blew up a troop train at Lima station, and all aboard, including, fifty- five soldiers, and an English engineer, were killed.

American Conference.

London. Received February 25.

A conference between President terms with the Mollah.

A frien

THE HEAT STRIKE.

DANISH STEAMER

FOUNDERS.

WILDENFEL'S MESSAGES

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TELEGRAMS.

CONDENSED.

Mr. Frederick Gould and his wife have been charged at Bow Street with espionage.

The French papers call atten

tion to the great French interests in Mexico.

It has been decided this year: to substitute a test mobilization of the third fleet for grand

manœuvres,

The French cruiser Waldeck Roussean has gone aground dur- ing manduvres and is badly damaged."

Investigations show that the idea of Protestant hostility in the outrage si Dubreczin is without foundation..

Mr. Winston Churchill, who was piloted in an seroplane over the Solent, located a submarine manoeuvring under the water.

London. Received February 25. BETTER OUTLOOK IN

Reuter's correspondent at Bre

MELBOURNE.

men states that the captain of Mr Asquith said they were not

the Wildenfels, which yesterday

Sir Cecil Spring Rice has in- going to be browbeaten into a

sent out mysterious messages structed Hr. Perceval, British London. Received February while in the Bay of Biscay, re- Consul at Galveston, Texas to Later course which would not promote, The owners of the vos el in the self-government on the found the Melbourne meat industry steamer Ekliptiks sank in the into the execution of Banten.

but embarrass, the basing of Trish

Peace is practically assured in ports by wireless that the Danish proceed to El Paa, to enquire afternoon allowed the Labourites ation of consent and goodwill. The Union officials have recom: Bay of Bisbey, and one passenger Mr Bonar Low said My Asquith mended the acceptance of the and ten of the crew were saved. Mr. lienderson and Mr. Bower- The

Reater's

steamer is dead.

There is a storm of comment

tion of Benton and President Wilson's policy is vigorously de- nounced.

efficient men, He denied that The deportees have issued a Government was not abandoning. Mr. Corfield had any discretionary long statement in which they the proposals contained in the powers whatever and explained appeal to the people of Great Bill, nor yielding to the menace that the object of the Camel Britain that every riton in South of physical force. The Bill would Corps was to maintain order Africa bus a right of trial in the be read a second time after the among the friendlies and not to courts of law, and to frustrate the end of the financial year, before protect them. As regarda the evident intention of the Govern-Easter, and the Government present position, a small ment of South Afrion to make would explain its proposals them. Dervish, outpost was outting off South Africa a Boer Colony. the friendlies from Ain Valler, Reuter's correspondeat at Wa-which was essential for grazing shington states that the protection in the dry season. The friendlies of foreigners in Mexico has be- required moral and material sup- come the predominant problem, part to prevent them making ⚫ Wilson and members of the For-occupation of the integior was man to go aboard the Umgeni, was still drifting and trifling, masters' proposals, including an The captain of the foundered in the French press on the execu-

eign Relations Committee of the andesirable, and an expalition which is off Gravesend. A con but the Unionists would use increase of five chillings weekly.

ference is proceeding...

every mesne to prevent the Senate yesterday agreed that if would be a costly folly. It was Barao

correspondent at Government committing a great the Mexican situation is discussed intended to simply occupy

Carotown says the Indemnity crime. The Government could in the Senate it should be with as the basis for to Camel Corps, Bill was read a second time by go to the country or ezelade Ulster.

which would enable the friend- lies to graze in Ain Valley, and 95 votes to 11 after an all-night Ulster would regard any other proposal ass declaration of waY. also Sheika, which might serve as

Mr Asquith thus held in his sneatorium for Somaliland and Aden.

hands the issue of peace or war, The deportees eventually left and the sooner his decision was

known the better, for 1014-15 provide for a farther the Umgeni sad were loudly

The motion was defeated by increase of the Camel Corps to cheered as they landed at Grave- 450 or 500, while the ladian goa sand. They entrained for Lon

311 votes to 238. Rogent will be increased from don by special train, avoiding 200 to 4,000 regulars. The lat- ter are now about 400, but this Pressmen and photographers.

Mr. Hondaroon and Mr. Bower- inclades an emergency draft from an urged that Labourites should Adea. Atundred will be station-use all their influence to place ed at Sheiks and 150 at Barao the case before Parliament and apart from home. The initial the pablic and see that justice cost and the recurring cost of

was done.

closed doors.

A Signficant Report. It is semi-officially reported that Japan and France will land marines for Mexico City.

In an interview at Chihuahua, General Vills denied the exaon- tion of any foreignera oxcept Mr. Bentor.

TROPICAL DISEASES.

AN EASTERN EXPEDITION,

London. Received February 24,

Mr. Leiper, the helminthologist

Mr. Harcourt said the estimates

debate.

Later.

these permanent forces would be Before going ashore the depor.

NO MANŒUVRES.

MOBILISATION TEST

INSTEAD.

London Bocaired Fobruary 25, Daring question time in the House of Commons, Mr. Char ohill announced that it had been decided to substitute this year's FOOTBALL test mobilisation of the Third Flest instead of the grand

INTERNATIONAL

London. Received February 25. ́. Router's correspondent

at

£58,800. They had done all teen were "long adamont and Brussels states that in the inter- of the London School of Tropical that the men on the spot thought insisted that they could not law-national football match England Medioine, has left London for the desirable and necessary and there fully be driven ashore.

beat Belgian by 9 goals to 1. East, accompanied by Surgeon had been no change in policy. Atkinson, (seconded by the Ad- General Sir William Manning's miralty,) and also Mr. Cherry-instructions were only to carry out Garrard, both of whom

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Details of the Hall and Holtz Conflagration.

Impl the hates GD OF

manœuvres.

It appears, therefore, that the Wildenfele eimply saved the Ekliptika's crew.

Later,

Ten were drowned from the Ekliptika, which sank in a storm.

Contining Fire Åres...

....

The Merican Rebels blew up a troop train at Lime Station on the 21st inst., every passenger, including 55 soldiersand an Eag lish engineer, being killed.

Dr. Leiper, helminthologist of the London School of Tropical Medicine, has left London for thos East accompanied by Surgeon Atkinson,

NEWS,

By this time all efforts to save the Hall and Holtz godown had practically to be abandoned, and the work of the fire brigade 60. Baard was held yesterday after- A meeting of the Sanitary centrated upon saving the adjoin-noon. ing premises, the Lyceum Theatre

General news appearing Union Church Hall, and Mesare

on page

wind blowing and its increasing danger, the latter especially so,

There was a strong south-east. Siemssen's godown being in grave 3 as does an article

come revelations at an înquest. force added to the general danger. since the wind was, blowing Log book appears on page 6 Jets of water were poured into

to-day and commercial news on pages 8 and 9.

The Jubilee Road murder trial was farther continued at the cri- minal Sessions to-day,

the building from all points of strongly in the direction. Flames wore the evacuation if the friendlies GREAT SHANGHAI FIRE within a very short time the fire rantage, and at the same time leapt out strangly towards this members of the late Captain were in a position to hold out

grew to the most alarming pro-adjacent premises had to be care-building, and the iron shutters at Scott'a antarctic expedition. against the Mullah.

portions. It was quickly soon fully watched to prevent a great the doors and windows seemed of Mr. Harcourt said it was really The object of the oxpedition is

that all surrounding buildinge extension of the fire. In the teeth little use in keeping them back. to ascertain the mode of the waiting for dead men's shoes, for

were in danger, Union Church of a strong wind, veering_from Hall directly opp site, the Lyceum east to south, the flames gradually It was not until 7 o'clock ths, spread of trematodea diserna in the Mullah was old and there was

As was reported by special Theatre on the south side and ate their way through the entire the fire was checked beyond air shareholders in the Hongkong The ordinary meeting of the mankind. more aspecially bilbarno possible or probable successor. ziasis. Investigations will also He confidently commended the cable to the Telegraph, the large Mesars. Siensson's godown on building, and at about 3.45 the be made into the prevalence of present proposals as sufficient for furniture factory, bakery and the west, were all within olose whole place was a roaring furnace danger of spreading, being at this Hotel Co., Ld., was held to-day.

time conflued to the building in ankylostomiasis among conlies present needs.

store of Messra. Hall and Holtz strange, the two latter being so of fame.

A special article on the pro Several members vigorously the corner of Yuenming-yuen parated from the burning build-

which it originated. It burned for employed on the tea and rubber

defended Mr. Corfield's setion, and Soochow roads at Shanghailing only by narrow alleyways. Dangerous fire-fighting.

some time afterwards, and whe,gress of Kowloon appears in to. estates.

day's issue. The expedition is being sub- and Mr. Dillon protested that the was completely destroyed by fire A section of the brigade was told sidised by the Colonial Office, Government was wholly revers- in the early hours of Tuesday of off to attack the fire from a stair-At intervals there were trom eventually the brigade retired

DON'T FORGET, and the United States. Rubbering its previous policy.

last week. Reaching its greatest case at the Lyceum end, and endous crashes when walls and and left the coolie corps to play The motion for a reduction of force in about an hour, the fire three or four streams of water parts of the roof collapsed, sending upon the smouldering rains, Company has offered facilities for the heady of the diseased on their the vote was rejected by 295 was magnificent as a spectacle, were soon at work in this quarter, up vast showers of parks, red nothing remained of the building

votes to 170.

and it was also a grave danger to The firemen reached the third hot and curling fragments of cor-

estates in Sumatra.

SERVIA'S WARS.

A TERRIBLE TOLL.

London. Received February 24, Reuter's correspondent at Bel- grade states that the Minister of War, speaking in the Skupstina, intimated that the Servian losaen

ESPIONAGE.

MAN AND WIFE ARRESTED.

London. Received February24. Frederick Gould' and his wife were charged at Bow Street with espionage.

in the Turkish War were 5,000 The evidence showed that the dead and 18,000 wounded, while woman was arrested at Charing in the Serbo-Balgarian War they Cross en route for Ostend, with were 8,000 dead and 30,000 naval documents. wounded. Altogether 18,000 had died of wounds and sickness. ⠀⠀

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all buildings within a fairly wide floor with the hose, but they had rugated iron, and oven pieces of except the four walls, the whole zone, a great conflagration being to beat a hasty retreat in conse burning timber of considemble of the interior and its contente narrowly prevented, and only quence of the volume of blinding weight. Occasionally aleo fusing having been reduced to cinde; s.. after most strenuous work by the smoke pouring through the doors wires gave off flashes of electric

Later, advices show that the combined Brigades of the Settle into the passage way, the heat at blue light, so that the effect of the ment and the French Concession, the same time being intense, whole, from the spectatore' point Hall and Holtz building has beeu Scarcely had the men retreated of view, was as interesting as a declared a total loss, and as there when the staircase and the great firework display might have is little or nothing for the salvage whole of thie end of the building been, with the spice of danger

men to deal with, the damage added. burat into flames.

A Smart Turn Out.

About 2.50 a.m. the watchmen on the central bell tower telephone ed down to the Central Polire station office that smoke was rib-

| reaches "the maximum of. Tia. On Wednesday the

TO-DAY. Viotoria Theatre-9.15 p.m. Bijou Theatre 9.15 p.m.

TO-MORROW.

Annual meeting, Kowloon Land and Building Co., Ltd.-noon.

A notion of Autique China and Carios at Sales Rooms, by Mr. Geo. F. Lammert-2.30 p.m.

A. D. O. Performance, Theatre Royal 9.15 p.m.

Thurday, February 20. Noon-The Kowloon Land and French Brigade Symmened.· The wind-scattered fragments

Building Co., Ltd., Mesting of Shareholders. ingia volume from some building! Realizing the grave possibili. were carried over Mesars, Siems-108,000.

alores; aparks of the building was closed to Curios at Sales Rooms, by Mr. in the vicinity of Soochow Road, ties of the outbreak, the Chie! Ben's godown, over the B.-A.T.roadway in the immediate vicinity Auction of Antique China &

trail apparently on the North side. of Officer called for the assistance offices and the Hongkew Creek The alarm of the French Fire Brigade, Supt and fragmenta went

the Socohow traffic, the strength of the bare Geo. P. Lammert.-2.30 p.m. ing across was immediately given and the Madier and a number of his mes and threatened the and broken walls being uncertain, Drama Club at the Theatre Three Episodes by The Amateur Creek Bogade promptly turned out readily responding and rendering under Chief Officer Pett. At the valuable belp. The fire float, General Hospital, travelling with and it is probable that complete Royal-0.16 p.m. moment of their arrival on the which still remained at Macken. such force that, some of the burn-demolition will have to be under the fire had already zie's Footung godown, was also ing material reached even Quin- taken at once in order to ensure a considerable hold on the build-brought over nad worked aan Road, a quarter of a mile safety. The damage to Messra. ing, on extensive godown, having number of jets from the distant. Some fencing inside the Sismssen's building is compara- a bakery on the ground floor, Soochow Creek. For the first compound of the General Hospital tively slight. The fire which London Recolved February 25,

stores above, and a forniture time, the new turh-table" fire was set on fire, and several Chi- broke out in the e mpound of the Curing at Sales Rooms, by Mis The French cruiser Waldeck factory, and store on the top floor, ladder was brought into use, and, nese konses facing the creek were General Hospital was corflood to Geo, P. Lammert-2.30p.m.

brigade and some police officers building, and this was promptly ent Huerta has decreed, an export Rönssen grounded in the Gulf where also was kept a large extended to its fall height of leo caught, members of the fire a bamboo fanca round the new Saturday, February 28. fax of three pesos per hundred of Juan during manmaneres, and quantity of dry timber nearly 85 ft., gave a commanding having to set to work to prevent a checked by members of the fire Guaics at Sulos Rooms, by Mr.

spread of the fire in this quartor. brigade assisted by police."

COFFEE TAXES.

London. Received February 25.

Router's correspondent at Mexico City reports that Presid-

FRENCH CRUISER AGROUND:

weght on anhnaked and three and efforts to refloat her have failed. a half Posos on cleaned coffee.

She is badly damaged.

Scene

The central part of the first position above the roof of the floor was burning strongly and burning godown.

Friday, February 27. Mortgage Co., Ltd. Meeting of Shareholders-11:30.

Auction of Antique China and

The China Provident Loan and

Auction of Antique China and

Geo, P. Lammert-2.80 p.m.