1914-03-14 — Page 1

March 13, 1914,

The Hongkong Telegraph.

Temperature 6 a.m. 65. 2 p.m. 75 Humidity

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(ESTABLISHED 1881.)

Copyright, 1914 by the Proprietor.

SATURDAY, MARCH 11, 1914.

WEATHER FORECAST

FAIR Barometer 29.84

March 10, 1919, Humidity

Temperature 6 s.m. 59, 2 p.m. 59,

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TÉLEGRAMS.

TELEGRAMS.

TELEGRAMS.

PANAMA TOLLS.

HUGE AMERICAN FIRE. TURKEY AND GREECE.

MILLION DOLLARS "DAMAGE, THE FRICTION CONTINUES,

HOME HACING..

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TELEGRAMS.

"TESTINGHOUSE-BRAKE.

THE INVENTOR DEAD.

#tenter's Bervion To The "Telegraph."

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London. Bacoived March 13.

Reatar'a correspondent at New York reports the death of Mr. George Westinghouse, the aventor of the Westinghouse

Lake.

The deceased, who was born in 946, in his early days spent much ne in his father's machine shop nd at 15 years of age invented rotary engine. He followed his atural bent, and later invented a levice for replacing

TELEGRAMS.

́A REJECTED MOTION. [Router's Barvics To The Telegraph."

London. Received March 14. Renter's correspondent at Boa- ton states that the State

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LINCOLNSHIRE HANDICAP.

TELEGRAMS.

PRINCE OF WALES.

APPEARS AT COURT.

(Bentor's Berries To The Telegraph.[..

836 PER 'AHKUM

SINGLE COPY, 10 CENTS,

NEWS FOR BUSY MEN.

TELEGRAMS.

CONDENSED.

The Prince of Wales has made his first appearance at Court at Buckingham. Palaos,

[Reuter's Service To The Telegraph."] [Reuter's Service To The Telegraph."]|[Router's Service To The "Telegraph,”]

London, Received March 14.' London. Received March 14.

London Received March 14.

Some interest is attaching to Router's correspondent The betting for the Lincoln the third Court of the season ut Constantinople states that the shire Handicap, to be run on the Buckingham Palace owing to the The Prince of Wales is to pay spread of the anti-Greek boycott, 24th, inst, is as follows:-100 to frot that H.R.H. the Prince of a three weeks' visit to the King especially in Smyrna, is causing 9 Cuthbert: 100 to 8 Mediator; Wales, in the uniform of a Naval and Queen of Norway, anxiety, and the Armenians are 100 to 7 Aghdoe; 20 to 1 Maiden Lieutenant, has made his first Lord Halsbury has been ap also affected.

Erlegh and Tuxedo'; 25 to 1 appearance at Court. He starte pointed Chairman of the Marconi The Oecumenical Armenian Short Grass, Brancepeth and on Monday for a three weeks' Committee. Patriarchs have strongly protest-Prevoyant.

visit to the King and Queen of Norway.

London. Received March 13, Reuter's correspondent at Port- Legislature has defeated by land, Oregon, states that six blocks 105 votes to 91 8 resolation pro-en the waterfront, as well as two testing against the repeal of the steamers, have been burned. exemption clause in the Panama The loss is put at a million Canal Tolls Act, Many of Presi- dollars (gold). dent Wilson's opponents were included in the majority.

derailed THE BALKAN QUESTION THE PICTURE OUTRAGE,

A GLOOMY OUTLOOK..

London, Received March 14.

London. Received March 13,

ed to the Porte and the Greek, For the Grand National

DR. PAGE EXPLAINS.

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Minister has also oslled the Steeplechase the betting is:-100 attention of the Porte to the to 12 Lutteur III; 10 to 1 Covert treatment of the Hellenic Greeks. coat and 100 to 8 Jacobus. team cars, patented his invention of the air brake in 1868, applied

They have received a reply that pneumatic devices to switching

|CÜLPHIT HUNGER-STRIKING. so long as the island question is

RESENTED SPEECH. and signalling, thus greatly in

unsettled to Turkey's satisfaction oreasing efficiency; also utilised

an improvement in the relations alectricity in this connection. He eventually succeeded, in spite The Austrian Minister of The woman, Mary Richardson of the Turks and Greeks is of great opposition, in introducing Defence, speaking in Parliament who was caught damaging the impossible. It 18 understood the alternating current system of supporting an increase in reoraits, famous picture of Venue by that the Porte has also notified electrical distribution for light declared:" Nobody could he- Valesquez in the National Gallery, Laly that it will not admit any and power. He also built the lieve that we may hope long for has been sentenced to six months olitical condition in the restora. first ten great dynamos for Niagara, the dynamos for the peace or that the Balkane ques imprisonment. She is hangertion of the occupied islands. elevated and subway roadsign can be settled in such a way striking.

in New York, and for the 8 to preclude sudden complic- Metropolitan Railway, London.ations."

The deceased also devised a com-

plete system for controlling natur-

al gas and conveying it through

lines for long distances, GERMANY AND RUSSIA.

roby establishing the practic-

ity of utils:ng natural gas as

fuel in homos, mills and factories.]

THE MARCONI COMMITEE.

PRESS CONFIDENCE.

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London, Received March 14.

The semi-official Norddeutsche Zeitung Rates that it declines to sea any ground for uneasiness in- the anti-Gorman articles in the

QUESTION OF THE CHARGES. Lussion Prose, which are no

more able to disturb the good relations between the two Govern~ London Received March 14.

monta than the unfounded. note The House of Lords Marooni of alarm sounded in the German Committee has met and appointed Press. These are simply National- ord Halsbury chairman. Theist attempts to diaturb the that the steadfast official peace policy of harges against Lord Murray the two Governments, should be formulated by Tues day,

attor has directed

LEO FALL'S LATEST,

Amusing Suffrage Opera.

and during the game. Missia. Cachou eats off their coat-tails

AERIAL POST.

London. Received March 15. Turkey has accepted the French proposals for the establishment of an aerial postal service from Aleppo to Bagdad.

LAST AFRICA.

BIO LOANS

AUTHORISED,

London. Received March 13. : The House of Commons bas adopted a vote authorising a loan of £3,000,000 for East Africa.

AERIAL TRAFFIC.

NEED OF REGULATIONS,

London. Rosalved March 13 Renter's correspondent at Ber- lin states that the Reichstag has passed the first reading of a Bill for regulating air traffio. The speakers, in the course of the de- bale, advocated international regulations.

BOXING TO-NIGHT.

Londor. Received March 147. Reuter's correspondent

Al

Washington states that Dr. Page,

American Ambassador to Great

DEVIZES TRAGEDY

A CORRECTION

London, Received March 13,

The officer mentioned as being found dead at Devizes is not Lieut. Robert Martin, but Quar- termaster and Honorary Lieut.

George Martin of the Wiltshire

Britain, has replied to Mr. Bryan Regiment. He leaves a widow explaining that his remarks on and four children. An inquest the Monroe doctrine at a dinner is being held to-night. of the Associated Chambers of Commerce in London were either distorted by over-condensation or in jooular vein.

AVIATION.

TURKISH DISASTER.

London. Received March 13. Reuter's correspondent at Con- stantinople states that the aviatore Nuri Bey and Ismail By fell into the ses while flying off Jaffa, and swam ashore, The former died

from exhanstion.

CITY FIRMS IN TROUBLE.

Brazilian Houses Call in

Accountants.

Quite recently was mentioned the trouble in which an old Perkins' Withdrawal wakes little established and well-known firm

Difference.

We an-

DIVORCE COURT.

A PENDING SUIT.

London, Received March 13.

The spread of the anti-Greek boycott by Turkey is causing anxiety.

The charges against Lord Marray in connection with the Marconi affair have to be formu- lated by Tuesday.

The Norddeutsche Zeitung saya there is no ground for uneasiness in the anti-German articles in the Russian Press.

The betting quotations on the Lincolnshire Handicap and the given to-day. Grand National Steeplechase are

A vote authorising a loan of three millions for East Africa has been adopted by the House of Commons.

Lady Girouard is bringing a suit against her husband for the re- stitution of conjugal rights; the #case is undefended.

Dr. Page explains that hie

over.

Among the forthcoming unde-speech on the Monros doctrine fended cases in the Divorce Court was distorted through is a euit for restitution of conjug. condensation. al rights by Lady Girouard against Sir Percy Girouard, form- er.. Governor of British East Africa.

NEWS.

1889 appears today on page Log book appears on page 6 of this issue.

DON'T FORGET.

نهار

TO-DAY.

Victoria Theatre-9 15. p.m. Bijou Theatre-0.15 p.m. Boxing. Theatre loyal-9.15

in the Probate Division of the Law Courte recently, suggests that the trash which is stronger A short story and other interes- than fotion is not confined ting matter will be found on a tropolis, Oxford and Cambridge to the footlights. Outside the me- extra to-day.

Messra Wright and Hornby's in the Brazilian trade 5ଣ୍ଡ । are English birthplace of ro-weekly share report appears in A further development took

involved, the liabilities being mance. Hearts are always young page 9 to-day. with a large pair of scissore.place, when for the first time on

estimated as anything up to

in the university cities. TLe policemer-peers, blind-record news bulletins taken by

£1,500,000. On February 4 it fold and without their cost-tails wireless were displayed on the

Many happy marriages can be Despite the upset that came became known that this firm, traced to that long-standing in- continge to wander inguomia train, and the Lackawanna somewhat as a blow during the Megara. Fry, Miers, and Co., stitation the Sunday afternoon iously round the Home Office Company has made arrangements early part of the week, the box-which represented many Brazilian tes in North Oxford and the until dismissed by their chief. to continue this service. The ing will proceed to-night as boures in London, had been residential suburbs of Cam- The chief is a comic figure who astonished passengers, whirled though Perkins had never been forced to place their affairs before

bridge, but the greater romances Berlin, February 15. puts buns in the pockets of his along at 60 miles an hour received known in the Colony.

a firm of obartered accountants, and their

origin in dances: and that a statement was A new operetta in three acte coat-taile, and his secretary is a the latest information from bome nounced on Wednesday that

Bux-Parkina fight was being prepared for a meeting of

ot rectory barns, or even in by Leo Fall, the composer of sentimental tenor who smokes a and abroad-stock market quota-the

A popular the country ions. in off. and

further we the situation

e editors. Unfortunately, this The Dollar Princess, entitled pipe while wearing a top hat. tione,

hostess at one of the important Jung England, was produced Both he and the Home Secretary Mexico, and so forth,, Some of stated that after perusal of a last night at Monti's Operetten were accasionally to be seen read the passengers sent messages to letter to Mr. F. E. Hall from Per- trouble, involving, apparently Embassies to-day lived less

something between $1,000,000, Theatre here, and has been ing The Times, which was a con- their friends. This application kins, we were at a loss to see any and £1,500,000, had its ill-effects than ten years ago at a humble inn within three miles from one well received by most of the spicuous object in the President's of wireless will shortly be extend-reason in that letter for such a

elsewhere, an old and respected of our ancient universities. Her P.. critics. The Airtations of Lady Office and the Minister's countryad to ensure the safety of the drastic step as refosing to fight.. firm, Messrs, Coulon, Berthoud and usband fell in love with her

trains, On the underground We have given Perkins every Co., failing, partly as a result of Cooperfield,.- the very Frencb house.

when she was yet at school. Ho The other difficulty' ' wife of the Home Secretary, with The music is in many places systems of London and New York opportunity to have replied to us the

made no secret of his affection, some the positions of trains are shown and to lay his reasons before the liabilities in this care are said to but actually entertained the whole Harry Poole, private secretary of original, and there are

in the signal boxes by a system public. He has not done so how-

of her schoolfellows to pleasure of lights, but it is believed that ever, and the public has no option approximate to £400,000,

It is feared, says a home paper, wireless can render the same but to look upon his silence as that there may be some other excursions, mistresses and masters)

sharing in the fun. service efficiently in the case of an indication of a certain want of difficulties in the Brazilian trade

The China Fire Insurance Co. play seems to be to ridicule the WIRELESS ON EXPRESSES. the long-distance runs. These cause or excuse that would meet

at the sister university would create a sanaation in society Ltd., Meeting of Shareholders. experiments are being carried with the approval of those as a result of these failures, but comance which happened recently

Noon. out by the American Marconi sportsmen who have encouraged not, it is hoped, anything of a

bim by their applatise at the very serious nature. Company.

The firm of Fry, Miers, and circles and in the family of one of

Hongkong Fire Insurance Co. ringside when he deseryed it. It also shown a lack of respect to C, is one of the best known and our merchant princes if the the promoter who accommodated highly esteemed in the Brazilian facts were known. The eligblo Ltd. ordinary meeting of share- him in the past, We are cohoorn-trade, in which they have carried young man, whose arrival from holders-12:30. p.m.

society hostess98 were keenly ed with the publlo and the on business for many years, prin- distant parts of the Empire interests of sport generally, and cipally as engineers and railway awaiting, forsook single bleased- merchants. The partners, Mr. it is those interests that Perkins Fry and Mr. Nathan, especially is now enjoying domestic bliss ness two or three years ago, and appears to have forgotten. It is a United Service League Match. consolation to boxing enthusiasts, throughout Brazil, where they

the latter, are personally known with the daughter of a local

tradesman.. that the boxing arranged to take have had many years' experience place at the City Hall to-night will and where the failure of the firm

Bax. is billed to meet James

the London Chief of Police, form vigorous choruses, the thread which holds together

the customary chain of attractive

lyrics: but the chief object of the

News Bulletins Displayed on -S. U. A. Trains.

FOOTBALL

of

A similar

These are batisolated instances

grey

walls. The univer-

TO-MORROW."

Viotoria Theatre-9.15 pm. Bijou Theatre-9.15 p.m.

Thursday March 19.

Saturday March 21.

Y.M.O.A. Annual Concert. Sale of furniture G. P. Lammert No. Wongasi Cheong Road. 2.30 pm.

"Monday March 23. Meeting of Sestholders and Sacribers of St. John's Cathe

suffragista. They are led by the grim "Missia, Cachou," who wears a check skirt, a covert coat, and Homburg hat, and is a truly terrific personage. She drills her band with military rigour, and The day does not seem to be when she draws near, to the accoto-far distant when, in the United paniment of orchestral shudders, States at least, every long-dis- the Chief of Police bides in a tance non-stop train will be fitted cupboard, policemen tremble, and with wireless.. In Great Britain the Home Secretary loses that one company has made some Olympian calm which English tentative experiments in this men can always command upon direction. An official at Marconi German etage. The suffragists, House furnished a Standard repre- each one of whom bears a militant sentative with some particulars of The DOLI. Bind gave the go along with its customary swing will occasion great regret. They of romances born in the shadow name, such as Lucrecia Borgis or what has been accomplished with H.M.S. Tamar Reserves a sore Hannibal, encounter and on wireless on the Lackawanna Rail-beating on Thursday on the mili-and there is no doubt that James are no less highly spoken of in most cooasiónt utterly overthrow way, whose Limited Express is the tary ground Happy Valley, in the will put up the best that is in the City of London. It is thought ity cities, paradises for the anti- & chords of bright blue London only train in the world eo fitted. United Service League, Division him to secure the polu. He will that these difficulties have arisen quarian and the architect, have police men detren

On a recent occasion a guard. Play was never of a really bigk find Baz very last and he will over the locking up of funds in not been given that attention by dral City Hall 6.30 In the second not there is a fete of the Limited became ill when order, bạt the score have to get some weight behind railway enterprises, and parti- the Cornwalls his panches if he is going to make cularly in connection with a and a reception at the Home the train was 30 miles distant 6-1 in Office, at which some of the men from the next stop. In the favour, was very little more than any impression on the Hongkong wear white spata with evening ordinary way considerable delay what could be expected from the lad. There are to be four other

Monday March 30. clothes, while the women wear would have been caused by obange formof the two teams... Weakness contests, we are informed, and REAL LIFE ROMANCES. bats with low dress. The eight of conductors, but in this case a of defence was the losers' had point, they will be made up of men who

The President is issuing a man- Ordinary Annual Meeting of policemen, now disgnited te lords, wireless message was sent ahead. and in fact one of the victor's have proved their, worth. It is Love Stories From O

date empowering the administra shareholders-China Sugar Re are the guests of the Home Se- When the train arrived at the goale came from the sailors' right for local fans to rally now and

The romantic story of the tive officials to issue, precaution- fining Co. Ltd.—11 am cretary, with the task of keping stop the emergency man was in back who put the ball into his let those who are inclined to play

an innkeepersary orders where they are neces Ordinary Annual Meeting of a 3: Hale, gained by snch condant is daughter by Toolisbly undertake to play blind was able to leave the train and Cornwalls were Wri

fining Co. Ltd -11:15am. Cambridge, which was unfolded publio pense, ' but with the suffragiste,

recent Government contract.

Love Stories From Oxford and

novelista which they merit.

Chinese Legation Official.s.

Saturday March 28..

Oxford and Comhridge Dinner, Hongkong Hotel-8 pm.

Miesta Osbbon in sight. They readiness, and the sick guard own net. The scorers for the tricks see that the only thing adoption of rich, banker of sary for the maintainence of shareholders Luzon Sugar Re

salt a dentor.

1 end Cadler,

contempt.