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SATURDAY, APRIL 11,
1914.
April 11, 1913,
六颗翼號一十月英
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SEALING TRAGEDY.
IMPORTS TO FINLAND. RUSSIA AND GERMANY,
KING OF SWEDEN.
BALLOON ACCIDENT.
ALBANIAN SITUATION..
RELIEF FUND OPENED.
GERMAN SUCCESS.
MANY PEOPLE INJURED.
INSURGENTS SURRENDER.
SUCCESSFUL OPERATION.
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CONDENSED.
A GREAT ECONOMIC DUEL.
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Interest in Paris is growing in the visit of the King and Queen. London. Received April 9.
Lohden. Received April 10,
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London. Received April 10, The King has contributed £100 Reater's correspondent at St. Renter's correspondent at St. Reuter's correspondent
A sudden gust of wind barst
af A Fuffragist has smashed the correspondent and the Queen 550 to the New Petersburg reports that the Duma Petersburg reports that the Dama Stockholm states that the opera- the envelope of an Italian military Darazzo states that it appears glass of a number of cases in the foundland Sealers Relief Fund has adopted, with urgency for has by an overwhelming majority tion on the King of Sweden billoon which was moored to a that the Albanian government British museum Asiatic sections, which already amounts to £2,423 debate, a Bill taxing imports of adopted the Government Bill occupied seventy-Era ministers, tree near Milan and was surround-bas astered the situation at By a balloon accident near in London.
insurgente Milan over fifty persons were The Canadian German corn into Finland. It is imposing a duty of thirtykopecks and was most successful.. ed by spectators, Two persons Korytza. Parliament has voted £2,000. reported that it gave "figures to per pood on grain, peas, beans, The surgeons, found a super- are dying and fifty are slightly surrendered and the movement is injured, two fatally.
show that German imports were and spiches. It is made olear ficial, but not malignant, ulcer on injured.
regarded as suppressed. gradually ousting Russian Pro-that the measure is anti-German, the lower part of the stomach. duota in Finland.
The President of the Agrianitaral Committee in the Duma declared that they were on the eve of tà great economic duel and cences- sions were impossible.
Floating Pelts.
London. Received April 10. Router's correspondent, at St. John's states that the steamer, Kyle has sent a wireless message that she sighted seal pelte floating seventy miles south-west of Cape St. Mary's. They are supposed to be from the lost sealer, South- ern Cross.
SUFFRAGIST AGAIN.
BRITISH MUSEUM OUTRAGE.
London, Received April 10.
A Saffragist with a hatchet smashed the glass of a numbor of cases in the Asiatic section of the British museum. She has been arrested.
BIG TURKISH LOAN.
AGREEMENT INITIALLED. '
London. Received April 10. Agreements for a big Turkish loan and other financial facilities, and also for Turkish concessions to French groups
have been initialled in Paris,
DOWAGER-EMPRESS OF JAPAN.
ANNOUNCED. ·
ENTENTE CORDIALE.
PRESENTS TO KING AND QUEEN.
London, Received April 10,
A Quiet Night.
Later. Reuter's correspondent at Stookholm states that the King of Sweden spent a quiet night, He suffered some pain, but the wound is healing satisfactorily.
A JAPANESE PROTEST.
PRICE OF RUBBER.
CONFLICTING INTERESTS.
London. Received April 10. Mr. Frank Sweetenham, at a rabber company meeting company in Glasgow, asid that the com- panies were all prepared to ad.. here to any combination formed in order to raise the price by over "UNDESIRABLE RELATIONS." two shillings per pound, bat the difficulty was that they had also to count on the brokers, shippers, etc. whoss interests were flicting.
London. Received April 10, Renter's correspondent at Victoria reports that the Japanese
•Renter's correspondent at Paris Consal has protested to the Oity reports that interest is growing Council against the segregation of DEATH REPORTED BUT NOT in the visit of Their Majesties and Japanese school children and says the leading firms of Paris will that the most andesirable rela- present Their Majesties with a tions will arise between Canada golden book containing the and Japan if such legislation is signatores of the prominent com- passed. marcial men,in a casket, and to the Queen, needlework representing diale framed in gold. The schemes of decoration in the City promise to be most magnificent.
London. Received April 10.
a
It is contrary to etiquette in MURDERED BY CHINESE. Japan to admit of the death of
royal personage, but it appears certain from various officials and other circumlocations, that the Dowager Empress died last night.
SENSATION IN BRITISH COLUMBIA.
London. Received April 9.
The murder of Mrs. Millard, BOXER & MILLIONAIRE.
wife of a Canadian Pacific Rail- way official by a young Chinese house-aervant because she roprov- ed him for carelessness has orested a painful stir throughout British Columbia where such servants are most numerous and is leading to local enactments against Orientals.
ULSTER CRISIS.
A LAST RESORT.
London Received April 9.
The opinion is strengthening amongst the back-benchers of both parties in the House of Com- mons that a settlement of the Ulster question must, as a last resort, be forced upon the party 1 leaders.
Matty Matthews, tells a good
story.
"After I knocked out Billy Smith for the championship thought I was a swell guy," says Matty."I bought me a plug hat
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Cón-
Proposed Railroad
The proposed railroad surveyed last year by the Chinese Govern ment from Chefon to Weisien is to go by Langke. There seems to be no doubt but that this road years With Langko opened up and & railroad to the weet it can cot but be a place of comincicial, importance in course of time.
an apotheosis of the entente co" NEW PORT OF LUNGKO. will be built before many
ENGLISH
FOR GREECE.
UNIFORMS
Soon to be opened.
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The
AVIATION TRAGEDY.
MURDERED BY MOORS.
It is said that Germany and Russia are on the eve of a great economnio duel.
The operation on the King of Sweden occupied seventy-five minutes, and was most succesful.
The steamer Kyle has sent a Landon. Received April 9, wireless message that she sighted The bodies of a captain and saol pelte floating seventy miles Aviation Corps who were flying The surgeons found a super- corporal of the French Army south-weet of Cape St. Mary's. from Casa Blanca to Fez on April ficiel, but not maligrant ulcer on 4 were found in the valley of the lower part of the King of Wadburegreb on April 8. It is Seder's stomach. believed they landed owing to an Moore as they were walking to accident and were murdered by the nearest post. No trace of the seroplane has been discovered.
quiet night. He suffered some The King of Sweden spent a pain, but the wound is healing satisfactorily.
Agreements for a big Turkish loan and other financial facilities, and also for Turkish concessions French groups have been initialled in Paris.
likely than a man not in a robust state of health to get this strepto tococcos.
Dr. Morley Fletcher, hon. physician to St. Bartholomew's ospital, stated that deceased was student at the hospital for some salted him about his hesith. On years, and had frequently con his advice deceased, two years ago, went to a sanatorium and made. very good recovery from tuber. culous disease of the lungs.
Witness bed frequently exa mined him since, and WAS thoroughly satisfied that the re- covery was complete.
The jury returned a verdict in
Will your evidence.
It is to be opened on the same Jaichow fo, Shantung.
basis that Teinsnfu was opened. The port on the north of this Residents of Shantung
are province known as Lungko, interested in the opening of the
Dragon's Mouth, soon to be
port, but there are many of us opened by the Chinese govern who do not know just what the accordance with the medical ment, is the most important on opening means. the north of the province except Teinenfu correspondent please Chefoo. It is 60 English miles tell us what rights to foreigners northwest of here. Ita nearest and foreign commerce will be city of importance is Hwanghien, involved etc., etc. This informa TALKING BY WIRELESS. the latter being about 15 miles tion will also be of value to others southeast of Lungko. This port who are interested in other ports is well protected on the north by which the Government proposes a long promontory at the end of to open-Central China Post. which the government erected a
and blew the rest of the bank-roll The Times Athens Correspon on diamonds. I had 'em on every dent writes:-Whatever virtuee finger and one as big as a walnut the Greek soldier may possess, it in my tie,
can hardly be questioned that he "A couple of months afterward is quite the worst dressed fight I was coming down from Buffalo ing man in Europe! Beginning light-house some years ago, and on a Pallmao. There was only with the useless, inconvenient, is otherwise protected. It gets one other passenger in my car. and ungainly kepi, there is little its name from the shape of the said to the porter: Say, bo, that can be said in praise of any harbour. All ships along the we're a little shy of company to portion of his field uniform. It coast this side of Cheloo prefer day, eh?'
is therefore interesting to learn Langko for protection in time of that the Greek Staff, having deoi-storm.
I
****Sho', boss,' saya heshy on company, but we'a carrying also of mosey.' I think he has the eye on my diamonds, and I wills out my chest four feet.
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DOCTOR'S DEATH IN A CAB.
Poisoning Through Handling Féver Cases.
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The sudden death of Rupert Edward Shaw Waddington, aged
Successful Experiment by Signor Marconi.
Rome, March 12. The Duke of the Abruzzi has submitted I report to the Minister of Marine describing the excellent results obtained by Signor Marconi with his new. wireless telephonic apparatus,
The Duke described an experi-
ded that the British soldier is, on The business of Lungko has the contrary, the best dressed been increasing for some years, private soldier in Europe, have There are always several steamers summoned a fanions English there and during the summer Boss,' saye be, "what do you military tailor, who is to be en-months there in considerable twenty-seven, assistant medical ment which communication was think of that young man down trusted with the designing of business. There are three boate officer of health at Willesden, Bot up botween two ships 45 at the other end?"
new uniforms for the whole of to Dalny every week and two to which occurred whilst he was miles apart, and in which the the Greek rank and file. Newchwang. Later there will be being conveyed to St. Bartholo-connection Continued uninter-
four to Newchang. There is a mew's Hospital recently was ruptedly for 12 hours. boat to Tientsin every five or six days. All these bosts are run by Гарапова.
Price of a Tenor,
The Carlow Hunt Sportsmen's Races have been abandoned, the farmers of County Carlow having requested the withdrawal of the Military Cup as a protest against "I gets up and walks down the attitude of the Curragh past him and sizes him up. Then officers.
walk back and size him up again. He's a smooth, clean- Looking young fellow, dressed in kind of ordinary clothes, bat long Eaton strenuously denied his hands, or a pin in his tio. Colonel Seely speaking at well cut. There isn't a ring on sides of armed attack on The only jewellery he wears is a Ulster and intimated that he beavy gold watch-chain. -.
I guess he's a bank clerk, for each performance at which he business at Lang-ko. resigned because the document
No Idea of Armed Attack.
London: Received April 10.
he gave General Cough which I said to the porter,
was intended to be applicable to
It is announced that under the terms of a new contract into which
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Standard Oil Branch, There.
the subject of inquiry at the City Coroner's Couti, ¦ ¦
Dr. J. R. Kemp stated that STANDARD OIL COMPANY deceased was very ill, and, after
'AND CHINA. consulting Dr. Morley Fletober,
witness took him to St. Bart's in
he has entered with the Metropo- There are now one or two litan Opera House New York English firms, one Japanese; end a taxicab. He died on the way Signor Caruso will receive $600 the Standard Oil Company doing at Oxford Circus, witness
next;
a tenor,
Rector's Death.
The thought
NEWS.
share report appears on page 9.
Messrs. Wright and Hornby's
1880" will be found on page 4 of this issue.
The Telegraph Acrostia appeara on another page.
Our contemporêtes appears on page 2, and log book on page 9.
The rainfall for March appears in this issue.
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A notice of "The Balkan Princess.
appears in today's іввце.
*DON'T FORGET.
TO-DAY, Saturday April. 11. 1st Gymkhana Meeting. 3.15 p.m. Wednesday April 15.
The China Borneo Co., Ltd., Meeting of Shareholdera-noon.
Thursday April 16. "Betsy" Theatre Royal-9.15
Friday April 17. Annual Meeting, Union Insur
once Society of Canton, Ltd., noon.
China Trader's Insurance Co.,
Ltd., Annual General Meeting**** 12.15 pim.NKE
"Botey" Theatre Royal-9.15
Details are now available of the arrangement between the Chinese highest fee ever paid to a tonon village proper has some 200 In his post-mortem examina-Covernment and the Standard Bose, saya be, that'sJohn D.The contract does not become are fifty inns in all: Trom rob wounds on the right thigh, development of the oilfields of or 300 Obinese families. There tion, Dr. Spilsbury discovered Oil Company relating to the to the whole Army was regarded Rookefeller's son."
#1 walked down and back effective until the season after ruary to May each year there is a through which, he thought, the Shensi and Chibli. 688 Charter of conditional
daily average of one thousand microbe streptococcus was in- abedianoo. He had hoped to again and took another good
Fifty-five per cent, of the shares men leaving the port for Man troduced. Death, was due to in the new company to be formed retain the services of General lamp at that gay, and I learned
chutis. A boat leaves every day heart failure, from acute blood will be held by the Standard Oil pm. French and General Ewart, but something. Here was a follow they took the view that though it who could buy a third of the
to one of the points named above posioning, set up the microbe. Company and 273 per cent.
Saturday April 18. The Rev. Leonard Outley War and each boat carries 1,000 Streptococcus was an infection presented to the Chinese Govern was only a statement of fact the world, and he didn't have a piece.
Betey" Theatre Royal—9.15. document had been construed of rock on him. And here I was, ner, the restor of Kirby Misper-passengers.
that could be caught in the hand-ment as the price of the conces p.m. into a trophy, therefore they a bum prize-fighter, fush one day ton, Pickering, Yorkshire, who In September and October ling of scarlet fever cases. sion, while the Chinese Govern- Monday April 20, could do nothing but senign. The and busted the next, with sings was found shot in his bedroom nearly all of this great number of The Coroner Well, he sent ment also has the right to take up Extraordinary General Moet- King bad nothing to do with the on my fingers and ringe on my recently has died. Mr. Warner Shantung men come back to scarlet fever cases to the hospital. the remaining 7 per cent, within ing of H.K. Cotton S. W. and D.
toes, sparking all over like a recovered consciousnes befors spend the winter at home. It is Don't you think with those open two years. No exclusive oil Co. 11. a.m.. Tiffany showcase. When we his death, and left a letter waying for these men and their families wounds he was running grave rights are to be given to other Hongkong Schools Athletic reached New York I went right that he had been much hurt by and ChinanManchuria that Taskrinka?-Yes, I do.
foreignere for a year. Our Sports--noon. down town and sold all that junk, anonymous correspondence in ed recently in The China Press Coroner: He might have ob correspondent states that the Tuesday April 21. BRITISH POET HONOURED. and I never owned a diamond the local Fross. The letters re they be given by the Chinese tained the streptococcus in that belief is prevalent in Peking that Annual General Meeting of sino, The thing I learned flected on his work in restoring Government free transportion to way 7-Yes, he might very well besides the price est forth in the Shareholders Green Island that the fallows that have their two chapels of ease, and they Manchuria if they take their have done so,
contract the Standard Oil Com- Cement Co.-11.30.a.m. rts that Mr. Alfred don't need to advertise. The only were, he said, unjust to one families there and settle perman- The coroner said he did not pany have either promised a large Thursday April 22.
pleated
Visiting he bluffers who has to make a whose only fault had been an ently, thus alding greatly in sot want to cast any reflections on loan to the Chinese Government ExtraordinaryGeneral Meeting agh and hang everything he's attempt to do bie duty and im-ling Manpharks with Chinese and Willeaden, but, of course it stood for bave paid a sum of money. Chins Fire Insurance Co., Ltd. Poury st Princeton
us on the outside."
|prove things.
relieving overpopulated Shantung fu redson that nobody was more benidos,
document.
London Received April 10,
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