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March 24, 1914,

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THE ULSTER CRISIS,

UNPREDECENTED REVOLT OF OFFICERS.

THE MATTER DISCUSSED IN PARLIAMENT.

[Router's Service To The Telegraph,"}

London, Received March 23.

According to trustworthy sc- counts, the position in the Third Cavalry Brigade at the Carragh and Dublin is unprecedented..

On Friday morning the War Office requested officers who were unprepared for active service in Ulater to send in their papers within twelve hours.

Seventy, out of seventy-five, including General Gough, "N.C., did send in their papers.

Hongkong Telegraph.

The King has abandoned his visit to the Earl of Derby for the Liverpool Races this week,

Press Comments.

The Liberal organs ascribe the resignatione to political in- fluences, and say they must be dealt with drastically, otherwise the Army's word will become the sole law.

The Daily News says that the As a result of the reference at Military conspirators againet the War Office on Friday night, Parliament should be broken General Paget, the Officer Commercilessly, never re-admitted to manding the Troops in Ireland, the Army, and replaced from the conferred on Saturday with the ranks. senior officers who had resigned.

Court-Martial Possible.

It was intimated that the War Office was willing to accept the

The Daily Chronicle comment is in similar strain.

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The Unionist papers land the resignations, and declare it is the duty of the Unionists to see that and Mejor Kearsley, but not the auffer for others, who, if they disobeyed patriotism. orders, would be liable to be tried by court-martial.

their solf-sacrificing

TO-DAY'S WIRES.

TELEGRAMS.

THE ULSTER CRISIS.

(ESTABLISHED 1881.) Copyright, 1914 by the Proprietor.

CUESDAY, MARCH 24

[Reuter's Service To The Telegraph."]

TELEGRAMS.

THE ULSTER CRISIS.

[Router's Service To The Telegraph."

1914.

TELEGRAMS.

THE KAISER:

VISITING VIENNA.

London, Received March 23. Wales, and is a Captain in the Reator's Service To The Telegraph"]] Australian Army Medical Corps,

He is a son of the late Jonss

London, Rocolved March 24.

March 24, 1913,

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- CA$207 SINGLE COPY 10 CENTS

TELEGRAMS.

BOMBAY DOCK FIRE.

60,000 BALES OF COTTON DESTROYED.

[Reuter's Service To The "Telegraph."]

London: Received March 21.

$36 PER ANN.

NEWS FOR BUSY MEN.

TELEGRAMS.

'CONDENSED.

The Kaiser has visited Emperor Francis Joseph in Vienna.

"London. Received March 23.. Unanswered Question. \\ Mr. P. E. Morrelly, Liberal member for Burnley, pointed out Horsfall, of Yorkshire and Mel. Reuter's correspondent at Vienna

Sir Elward Carson is to pro- that the question as to whether bourne, Victoris. He was formerly states that the Kaiser has visited Reater's correspondentat Bom-long his stay in Ulster. or not General Gough had re- Resident Surgeon at Melbourne the Emperor Francis Joseph and bay' states that a fire which The Ulater orisis has been. turned to Ireland on terms, had and Police Hospitale, Victoria, afterwarde gave on audience to occurred at the Docks destroyed discussed both Houses of Par- not been answered. He asked and Medical Supt. at Newcastle Count Berchtold, the Foreign 60,000 bales of cotton.

liament. Colonel Seely to answer it.

The value of the cotton w/8 half a million sterling.

Hospital, New South Wales. He Minister. served as a Lieutenant in the N.

Colonel Seely did not reply, Most of the Liberal back(S.W. Army Meditek Corps in the benchers accused the Oppositions South African War and as Medi- of reducing the Army from cal Officer to the 1st. Batt, Cam allegiance.

eron Highlanders. He was pre- sent at the action near Bethulie and the march to "Pretoria, at Diamond Hill, and at General Prinsloo's surrender.

Premier Heckled, During Mr. Asquith's speech there were numerous pointed in- terjections.

A Unionist member asked if General Gough had been re- instated.

Mr. Asquith:-There is question of reinstatement. was never dismissed.

JOHNSON AND LANGFORD.

Why the Boxing Match is not Wanted.

非

pions which would appear likely to endure for a long time. For behind Langford there loom the figures of the almost equally

formidable Jos Jeannette and Sam McVea, not to mention one

Liberala accuse the Opposition of seducing the allegiance of the Army.

The situation at Belfast is mont oalm, bluejackets and Volunteers frotornising.

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Mr. Horsfall wires from Mel- bourne that he will give £20,000 to help Ulster to fight.

Colonel Seely has refused to say whether Genera! Gough has two othere, and we have returned to Ireland on terms."" no certain feeling that say one of The Cabinet has again met,

or

these would prove more accept-and Col. Seely left it to visit

Lord Morley says the order that the resigning officers should. rejoin their units is approved by the King,

Sir Marcus Samuci. When quite a young man Sir Marcus Samuel set out on pro- no longed travels in the. Far East. He He visited Japan, and become intimately acquainted with the Mr. Bonar Law interposed that mannera, habits, and customs of certain section of the press, writes Jack Johnson. They are all voted

An effort is being made in aable as a world's champion than the King, Ultimately returning. his successor was actually men- its people, among whom he made Arbiter in The Chronicle, to act "real good fellows," and are destroyed 60,000 bales of cotten A fire at Bombay Docks has tioned.

many friends he is, indeed, as the part of friendly counsellor generally popular at prosent; but Mr. Asquith mentioned that well known in Japan as he is in to Jack Johnson in the present so was Johnson when he came valued at half a million sterling. resignations of General Gough those who have resigned do not that was pending General Gongh's Eogland; he was made a Knight negotiations to bring him and over here, and no one could have

explanation, He and all the Commander of the Order of Sim Langford together officers concerned had now re- the Rising

in created a better impression than Fun by thei

contest for " the world's torped to the Brigade.

late Emperor of Japan. This is

the before he defeated Burns, The National championship. Unionists asked whether they one of the highest honoure the Sporting Club has made an offer had returned unconditionally. Japanese Emperor has it in his which most people will regard as

Americans know much more Mr. Asquith:-Certainly. power to bestow, and is rarely or substantial, even thought it falls about the blacks than we do when Finally & motion for an ad- never conferred on any but memfar short of the irreducible they have emerged from the journment of the House was ne- bere of the Japanese peerage, minimum of £6,000 which John- position of "under doge," and, gatived, and the master dropped. Sir Marons collected daring his son demands, whatever the result though they not Johnson, Big numbers of officers have various visits to Japan a number of the light may be, and because and have looked anxiously over resigned over the Ulster question, of the rarest kinds of Japanese to box at the "National" will give the crop, of white heavy-weights but have agreed to go to Ulster dwarf trees, and these form him the opportunity to

in the hope of discovering one to not called upon unique feature of the beautiful habilitate himself in the eyes of beat him, they have not made the

to fight gardens in his country residence the sporting world that is the mistake of clamouring for a match" in Kent. Many of these trees are way it le put to him-Johnson is between him and Langford or hundreds of years old, though advised to accept the term: cffany other black. the tallest of them is but a few ad him. But Johnson politely feet in height.

Early in his career Sir Marcus counsel and the parse, as he does bat firmly, declines to accept the became interested in oil, and he the £6,000, offered in another was the first to introduce the place in London becase there is transport of patroleum in bulk to be a big slice out of it for the through the Suez Canal,

General Gough and Major Kearsley declined the special treatment offered and said they would stand or fall with their brother others,

General Paget then intimated

that the movement of troops at

present was unly for the protection of Government property and to assist the Police in maintaining order.

Further Conferences.

London. Received March 24.

with Colonel Sealy at the War General Paget has conferred Office, where General Gough and other Irish officers, as well as

iso called. several Aldershot officere were

General Gough's brother Joho, stationed at Aldershot, bas also resigned..

The Officers' Decision. In view of this assurance the

A fall meeting of the Cabinet officers eventually agreed to go to was held after the War Ofice Uleter, but definitely stated that conferences, and it is understood they would not participate in that a statement will be made in hostilities against Loyalists. the House of Commons to-night. This decision was tolegraphed Crowds of unusual dimensions to Whitehall, and afterwarde have gathered in Downing Street. General Gough, Colonel MoEwen of the 18th Lancera and Colonel Parker of the 5th Lancers were summoned to London. They visited theorOffice yesterday.

Meanwhile the ordera to move the Cavalry from the Curragh and Dublin northward have been sus- pended.

Colonel Hogg of the 4th Lan-

cers has not resigned.

It is reported that a number of other Aldershot officers are in readiness to resign if ordered to Ireland.

The Nationaliate at Derry have finally abandoned their proposed

muster.

King and Cabinet.

House of Lord.

In the House of Lorde Lord Lansdowne dwelt on the grave public anxiety created by the events in Ulster and asked if the Government intended to coerce Unionists.

Lord Morley replied on similar lines to the statements in the House of Commons, and said be hoped they might yet come to an agreement.

Lord Morley mentioned that His Majesty the King approved the order that the officers should rejoin their units.

Fund for Officers.,

Loser...

re-i

A White Man Waiting.

Sir Marcus Samuel has offered £10,000 to start afand for families of officers resigning on the ulster question,

Lojalista..

NEWS,

A meeting of the Sanitary Board was held this afternoon.

Log book appears on page 6 and general news on page 3.

Some interesting facts concern- Really, I do not see why we ining White Wolf appear on page 3 England should fight the battle to-day.

Johnson into

A number of officers left the meeting and went to sea the King, give £20,000 to help Ulster to ally a reserved man, and this re-without boxing or to refuse some discover of what stuff he is made,

Colonel Seely left the Cabinet Curragh yesterday on special with whom he was in audience leave. They etated that their for three-quarters of an hour. He resignatione had not been accepted then returned to the Cabinet, because they would then be free which was evidently awaiting the

* result of the visit, to join the Ulster Volunteers.

Many resignations have also His Majesty the King has been rendered in the infantry sad granted an audience to General Artillery Brigades at Dublin, the Paget.

Newbridge, Curragh,

and Belfast is most culm. Kildare, but up to the present all bluejackets are fraternising with Infantry and Artillery ordered the Volunteers.. North have gone without demur.

MEN OF THE MOMENT.

General Gough.

"

Professor Salt lectured on the

The seatholders and subscribers

DON'T FORGÉT,

TO-DAY," Victoria Theatre-9.15 p.m. Bijou Theatre-9.15 p.m,

TO-MORROW.

Vistoria Theatre-9.15 p.m. Bijon Theatre-8.15 p.m.

Thursday March 26.

He was elected Lord Mayor of London in 1902, and the splend-

This is very grasping of John-of Langford and attempt to force meeting him. our of the entertainments at the son, of course, and if one did not Rather, let us cast around for Philippines at the Y.M.C.A. laat Sir Marcus camuel has offered Mansion House daring the time know that the public does not care a man of our' own race of aight. £10,000 to start a Fund in aid of be sud Lady Samuel were the two straws whether he boxes or the families of those officers who chief host and hostess are still does not one might feel inclined to is at present matched with one to St. John's Cathedral considered

championship mould. Johnson are resigning.

talked of among the city fathers. become indignant at the cham-Frank Moran. Can we not hold the question of an assistant chap- Reater's correspondent at Mel-

In speaking, Sir Marcus has a pion's obstinacy in refusing all bourne states that Mr. Horsfall, rather deliberate delivery but his the good advice offered him. But brief, moral and material, for lain last night.

this white man in preference to the Pastoralist, has esbled Sir voice is rich and full, and he has while the public take the matter the black? Cannot the National Edward Carson saying "Since my the Gladstonian talent of cloth-ao coolly there is no need for the refuses the Referendam. I will turesque language. He is natur- fellow Yorkshireman Mr. Asquith ing dry facts and figures in pic-writers in the press to get heated. Sporting Club or one its wealthy If Johnson can afford to do members take Moran in hand.

fight.

serve has perhaps been intensified thing short of his demands I am and persevere with him if it is by his prolonged travela in the sure the public can deny themsel- thought worth while? It would East. His intimate friends are ves the privilege of seeing him surely be good work to set one's There is plenty of time Brigadier General Hubert de few, but his manners are plea- undue distress. If Johnson does

box without causing themselves and to.

between now and next June in Puer Gough, Commanding the sont and genial and his courtesy

not worry, why should we? It which to put Moran through a Third Cavalry Brigade, was born is unfailing even when bie pst seems foolish to try and hound searching teat. At present he is in 1870. He is the eldest son of ience may be sorely tried by the

making no progress, He might the late Sir Charles John Stanley stupidity of his listener. He him into something for which he unattached, at a loose end, and Gough, G.C.B., V.C., and received finds his chief recreation in read has no liking and in which we hie education at Eton and Sanding, and, of outdoor pastimes, are not concerned as beneficiaries, turn out another" hopeless," but The American press did the at any rate something tangible Sir Edward Carson prolonga his hurat. He joined the 16 h. fiebing is his favourite sport.

would have been accomplished; bounding business five years ago etay in Ulster, He says he will Lancers in 1889, served in the Mr. Asquith's Speech. "Honest Misunderstanding. keep steadily preparing against Tirah Expedition in 1897-98 and When Mr. Asquith rose he was when it helped to drive Tommy some attempt would have been

coercion.

in the South African War. He greeted with great cheering. He Barns into a corner and sell his made to interpose a white champ- The Times learns that the

commanded the 18th. Lancera said the Generals were informed title to the negro as dearly as be ion in the line of waiting blacks. attitude of the Government is.

House of Commons Debate. |from 1907 to 191k

in December that it might be could, and it only made the that the resignations are due to

General Paget.

their daty to come to the BS situation worse when, 18 months It may be said that Moran is honest misunderstanding of the In the House of Commons, Mr.

Lieut. Gen. Sir Arthur Heary sistance of civil power, but later, Jim Jeffries was drugged an American or Irish American, matter which had boon Balfour ridiculed the efforts of tactlessly handled locally. There Mr. Asquith to minimise what manded the Forces in Ireland be exempted. The War Office battered into helplessness. These going to fight in Paris it is none Fitzroy Paget, GUB, has com- officers domiciled in Ulster would into the ring at Reno-to be and that se he and Johnson are would be no penalisation of the had happened in the Army. He since 1911, for three years prior gave General Paget no instruc- are things for which Americans of our funeral, but these consi- officers. General Paget has been declared that the instructions which he commanded the tions concerning the conquering have been kicking themselves derations ought not to weigh with summoned to London,

were meant to be directed against Eastern Command. He was born of Ulster. The only instructions ever since.

ences

The

King Stork for King Log.

those who have a genuino desire to see a white man once again on the top of the boxing heap.

Messrs. Hughes and Hough Auction of Land at Sowkewan

noon.

Bandmann Opera Co.-Theatre

Royal-0, p.m.

Friday March 27. Bandmann Opera Co.-Theatre

Royal 9. p.m.

Saturday March 28. Oxford and Cambridge Dinner, Hongkong Hotel--8 p.m.

Monday March 30, Ordinary Annual Meeting of shareholders-Chins Sugar Re-

fining Co. Ltd.--11 a.m.

Ordinary Annual Meeting of shareholdere Luzon Sugar Re- fining Co. Ltd.-11.15 am.

H.K. and Whampoa Dook Company general meeting-noon. Auction of Crown land at Ngau Shi Wan, P.W.D-3 p.m.

Auction of Crown Land, Bowen Road; P.W.D.—3 p.m.

Tuesday, March 31. E.K. Rope Manufacturing Co. annual general meeting HK. Clab, Half Yearly Draw

noon.

It is expected that Mr. Bonar Ulster, and that General Gough in 1851, being a son of the late sent to him were those of last Law will move the adjournment resigned under that impression, General Lord A. H. Paget, O.B. week, for the movement of troops. of the House to-day and that an was dismissed because he did not He entered the Scote Guards in Mr. Asquith reiterated that this important debate will follow.

want to fight against Ulater, and 1889 and has seen service in was purely protective, and the Present efforts of the English It may be said also that I am Lord Lausdowne will raise the had been reinstated after still the Ashanti, the Soudan, Barmah, Government did not intended press to force a Johnson-Langford advocating a freeze out of the question of the resignations of the saying that he would not fight for which he received many.de any further movement. It was contest are equally ill-considered, blacks. I am not; I am simply officers in the House of Lords against Ulster-(Cheers). Mr. corations. He commanded the an undoubted fact that General and must have an equally unde trying to point out that the world to-day.

Balfour concluded by saying that Soots Guarde in South Africa Gough and others interpreted sirable result. If the holder has nothing in particular to gain There was a series of confer- the Government were dealing antil promoted, and was formerly the instructions in a wider should succeed in retaining hie from a contest between them, and Ltd., of leading Ministers with a question deeper than in command of the lat. Division sanse. The Army Council was title we shall be treated to yet that the sensible and prudent throughout the day and evening ordinary problems. They had of the 1st. Army Corps. He now satisfied that there was a more vagaries of the real Johnson course is not to take sides, but yesterday, and this is regarded raised forces which nothing could holds the Grand Cross of the misunderstanding, and the officers brand-possibly, but the case to await developments. When ing of 65 Debentures 11 am. as an indication of a very grave pacify, except broad statesman- Dannebrog, Legion of Honour were also satisfied that and had would be even worse from the Johnson is in the frame of mind

like treatment which hitherto (Grand Officer), and the Order of returned to their commands. white man's point of view if to box Langford he will do so for Meeting-5.15 p.m. The London and South-Western they had not attempted to adopt the Red Eagle (First Cines). The Premier concluded by saying Langford should win a contin- what inducement he can manage HK. Ice Co. Ltd. meeting

Monday April 6 railway management state that) (Cheers),

that Mr. Bonar Lawa doutrine geney which a good many critics to squeeze out of the promoter, they know nothing of the report! Mr. Ramsay Magdonald and The Mr. Horsfull referred to as brought up a new danger, and be believe probable. We should but the longer he is able to do that they had been ordered to others continued the debate, Mr. contributing $20,000 to the Ula-pointed out that if soldiers were have exchanged King Log-for without fighting the better chance keep trains in readiness at Alder- Macdonald remarking that officers ter Fund is evidently Mr. Alfred to appraise the value of different Johnson is willing to remain inert there is of finding a white man shot for the conveyance of 10,000 were prepared to shoot Trados Herbert Horsfall, D.9.0., who is measures under the Constitution, if people will let him for King to send up against him when this troops to Glangow and other Unionists but not to shoot in practising as physician and ear- then the whole fabric of the Stork, and laid the foundations of easygoing champion does consent

Ulster because of clase bias ports

gcop at Newcastle, New South State would be dissolved, a black dynauty of world's cham- to outer the ring.

crisia.

~Mr. A. H. “Horsfall,

noon

K. Club, Annual General

Friday April 10 Stainer's Crucifixion," John's Cathedral-9.15 p.m.

Saturday April 11 Int Gymkhana Meeting