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The Hongkong Telegraph

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April 25, 1914,

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晚十三月三年寅甲

SATURDAY,

APRIL

25,

1914.

April 25, 1919,

大拜晚五二月四英排

TELEGRAMS.

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THE MEXICAN WAR.

THE MEXICAN WAR

THE ROYAL VISIT.

THE ROYAL VISIT.

THE ROYAL VISIT.

AUSTRIAN EMPEROR.

"DRUNKEN ASS HUERTA."

CARRANZA'S ATTITUDE:

THÉIR MAJESTIES DeparT

HOME AGAIN.

DISTURBED SLEEP.

Router's Service To The "Telegraph.

London. Received April 24.91

(Reuter's Service To The Telegraph." (Router's Berride To The Telegraph."

London. Received April 24. Reuter'a correspondent

Washington states that General

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CONDENSED.

Their Maicoties have left Peris for Englana, neing given a great - ovation..

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

London. Received April 24.

London. Received April 24, Later. Renter's correspondent at Vien- welcomes on at ing distaskoj, the Emperor's on goount of " that drunken 186 Their Majesties were given the na slates that continuous cough dragged into war with America General Villa refuses to be tele-Calais and Dover They reached sleep. last

London. Received April '24.

London, Roceived April 24. at General Carranza's agent said Router's correspondent at Paris

Carranza's note to President states that Their Majesties King Majesties for France, King Prior to the departure of Their Villa has informed the American was not hostile and Agent at Chihuahun that her fuses to be dragged into war with negotiations. Carreoza, if reovation. the United States on account of "that drunkea ase Huerta..

SAIL PLANS OF CUP

YACHTS.

No Over-Sparring Likely on Challonger or Defenders."

intended as the basis for further for England, being given a great exchanged most cordial

rognised as the de facto President, will not hesitate to apologise for the acts of toe traitor Huerta

In a le, and that what they, Ni | ckulson included, believe to te an approximate freak, will strike

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President and Madame Poin- care and other distinguished personages bade farewell to Their Majesties, who expressed the utmost pleasure and gratification at the visit.

grams.

Total...

On the ordinary foreiga cargo steamships, enge- ged in the China trade, four Chinese are employ- ed, Deduct their wages and board, amounting to

Net extra cost

room

$280

Lendon in the evening and were given a memorable ovation by large crowds.

owners. Our regulations should be framed to correspond to the foreign ones, namely, to make the inspection with little loss of time or expense to the owner. Then our regirements demand $228 that once a year a cold hydrostatic

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$500

pressure.

.N His general Huério,"

conditica, however, declared Lo be satisfactory.

went ashore in the Firth of Clyde on February 28 while undergoing builders' trials.

Clyde Shipbuilding Output.

The output of the Clyde ship-

Americana as not at all unusual. week, and give emphatic hint of The fact is, American designers popularity of the larger type of Those who are prating glibly concerned in building defendere power craft, to which brokers and of the dimensions of the various aro worrying much more about motorboat men generally have Add extra men in engine aup-defence candidates, as well one another than about Niobol- called attention." In addition

test shall be made of every boiler as of the challenger now in pro-1800.

thora has been activity in

of one and one-half times the building yards during the mouth cosa of construction, have little There is not the slightest.doubt ateam yachts. H. D. Wal-

Tulal extra mon and

working pressure. This racks of March totalled 27,400 tons idea, according to a promint now that the approaching Amebridge, of this city, has bought

board for month American designer, how far from rica's cup races have exerted an the 16-foot stoom yach. Walucia,

our boilers and pipes to such an spread over 13 vessels. This 8728 Amounts to $8,736 a Year.

extent that it takes a month to actual facts they are getting. inspiring indusrce upon the formerly owned by W. B. Hurst

This montbly tural fuota up order,

get them all tight and in

compares with 40,000 toni in the good This, he asserts, apples especially motorboating branch of yachting and several charters and sales of to $8,736 a year, and this amount after each yearly in preceding month and 81,000 tons to sail area, and he states ne hiss open the sport of sailing large craft now wintering at the is in excess of what any other "pection.

in the corresponding months belief that none of the four de. windjammers. Brokers and des- E-io Basin and other South nation with whom we are in dire nations is to test the boiler smallest. Murch total recorded! The custom of foreign of last year, and is the signers involved, save, possibly igners in this city attest they have Brooklyn sarda, are imminent. competition hos to pay. Nicholson, bas yet begua to pot seen the outlook for spring The new 178-foot yacht Mokomis,

when new, but, definitely decide upon the expense business so favourable for years as built for Horace L. Dodge, of Government measures our ships to believe the boiler has been first quarter of the year shows a

"Then, under our statutes, our

never again since 1809. The output for the unless the inspectora have reason of canvas that will be flung to this winter. Numbers of contracts Detroit, will be launched larger than those of our oom- the breezea. As a matter of fact, have been signed for new boats, from the Robin's yards at Erie petitors, thereby in foreign parta

weakened through age or any decrease of over 12,000 tons. it may be stated positinely, that while the business of selling Bein, where day after day, now compelling us to pay foreign reason, when it is left optional The gards are still active but now the Americans are loaving that excellent second-hand craft and is heard theclatter of the rivetters, governmente 20 per cent to 35 with them to apply the hydrostatic contracts are very scarce. matter in abeyance for the pre-chartering. boat is anu-ually hammere, preparing oraft for the por cent, more fonnage daes, and figure out just what all this test

It involves a matter of brisk. The ultra-red oraze, summer-New York Eaching all other taxes which they levy on

It is impossible to extreme delieny and nice judg.say the motorboat men, is lost. ment, and no designer upon whom dying out and in its devolves the responsibility of place has come an abundant torning out a oup defender, is demand

the who some, likely to over-spar his craft, seaworthy, fost cruiser, which can through too much haste.

take conditione as they came and There has been the general have a wide radius of action. belief that those seventy-five. This meave, they say, that the -footers will sport between 0,000 sport of motor boating has settled Criticism by Mr Robert Dollar.

and 10,000 square feet of canvas; down to the substantial basis

Mr. Robert D. llar, the Pacific not a few designere had this idea, which all who have the best in.

Coastateamshipowner, tells why in until they got out their pencils and térests of the game at heart hare hi sopinion American ships cannot began to wade through the intri-been praying for. Powerboats he operated in the foreign trade.in cacies of logarithma and the like. bave increased in size and in the following letter addressed to What they learned made them sit curising radius year by year, until the Evening Post: up. For the fact is that a sloop now the order for the big power- sailing in the seventy-six-foot boat ranging in water-line length class is entitled precisely to 7,000 from a hundred to a hundred and square feet of sail, and for every thirty feet in the expected thing 450 square foot over that amount

sent.

..

for

the designer has to face a penalty Largest Powerboat in World- of forty-eight seconds. Now, in In line with this tread Gielow view of this fact, a designer will and Orr announce that in a abort

AMERICAN SHIPPING'

LAWS.

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Tone,

of boilers and pipes amounts to each year; such as delay to ship, extra repairs caused by the application of the pressure, and

WAR.

Limitations of The National Guarantee Scheme.

the tonnage measurement of the ekipe. Therefore, the American ships must pay for 20 per cent to 35 par cent. more than any the shortening of the io of the COMMERCE IN TIME OF other ship for pilotage, wharfage, boiler. But I feel safe in putting dockage, drydocking, eta infact, it at $3,000 a your add to this for every charge that he figured a crew in engine-room and out on the basis of the tonnage of | the ship. Herewith is a concrete

quartermasters $8,738; then in example of the difference:

the extra measurement, $5,500; total, $17,236. Then, in addition British steamship Bessie

to all this, there is the higher Dollar, net British re-

wages that must be paid American gistered tons

officers over those of foreign American measurement,

nations. And to cap the climax, the La Follette bill in Congress Much prominence was given in measured by the Ame- rican Government

proposes to allow our compett a paper on Mirine Insurance tend surveyor

tore, the Japanese, to carry recently before the Instituts of Asistic crewe and to compel us Shipbrokers by Mr. Charles. to employ white crews at three Wright, of Lloyd's, to the import times the wages.

After the foregoing figures, roommerce in time of war.

ant question of insurance on is it any wonder that not one of two and one quarter million gross Mr. Wright remarked that from

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proceed none tco blithely in the time the launch of Florence-the why, after Congress had passed British not register matter of cracking tail on to his largest powerboat in the world

2,797

3,679

882

2,803

boat, for, as may be imagined, I will take place at Lawley's yards any American citizens who owned American net register. 3,582 tone of shipping owned by the speech of Sir Norman Hill ar

he wouldn't have to go very far she has interested. Bostonians

A difference of ... ... nam being 22 peccant... Steamship Siam:

770

At a recent meeting of the House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, while the members were discussing the

A difference of abernce of American shipping in the foreign trade, it transpired Being 24 per cont.

the steamship that they could not understand Another,

Hazel Dullar: the law two years ago permitting foreign ships to register them ne American shipe to engage in the in this way to put bis sloop out deeply and when she is aflast foreign trade, no one had taken of the running altogether. No will interest the nautical world, advantage of the permission made one likes to pile on sail more as an example of what the power possible by the rider put on the than Herreshoff, but it will be bout designers and builders are Panama Canal ast. It is a fact interesting to see what he will do doing. She is 154 feet on the that up to the present time not in the face of hard-and-fast facts load water line, 20 feet beam, and

has twin Borew motors. She is one vessel has taken advantage of No Radical Changes In Desiga building for H. J. Peterson, of this manificent offer. The object Boing 35 per cent.

Manner of Inspection. The designer referred to in the Yonogetown, O., and will be used of this article is to give some of

41f a impossible to give the foregoing has recently been on the Atlantic seaboard.

the many reasons Why ?** exsos figures that American ships abroad. He bae aleo had ex- Another interesting craft, which "The American inspection re- are penalized for. asin different perience in evolving craft under is prépared to make her way to gulations of inspection service trades it varies. However, it is it would not cost our country the Navy kept command of the the Universal rule, which obtains New York from the shipyards at require that more men shall be safe to say that in one year's trad one cont to do it.".

there.

3.311 6,114

Their Majesties have expressed their utmost pleasure and gratification at their Paris visit.

General Carranza says his note to President Willson is intended as the basis for further negotia-

tions

If recognised as the de facto President, General Carranza will" apologise to America for the acts of "the traitor Husste."

Continuous coughing haa disturbed the sleep of the Austrian Emperor, whose condi tion however is declared satisfactory.

NEWS.

on another page.

The Telegraph Acrostic appears

share report appears on page 9.

Messrs. Wright and Hornby's

"1889" will be be found on page 4 of this issue.

"Our contemporaries" appears

on page 2, and log book on page

and

Mesure, Polishwalla Kotwall's report appears in the present issue.

81,000 have been distributed from the profits of "The Idol's Eye" performancIÓ.

The results of the Longus foot- bull matches played on April 4 are given in this issue.

DON'T FORGET.

TO-DAY.

Bijou Theatre 0.15 p.ta. Victoria Theatre 0.15 p.m. Oicematographa at Theatre Royal

p.m.

American citizens and flying the the Uhamtar of Shipping flage of foreign nations came Banquet it seeme i reasonable to under our flag? If we are ever infer that the Government had to use American ships in the under consideration some scheme foreign trade, we must be put of national insurance.. Buch Not Danish register Not American register

exactly on an equality with our competitors. We do not ask for consideration as the lecturer had-9.15

been able) give to the subject con- A difference of ....... 1,803. any advantage or any concessionvinced him that if our statesmen them, but we must be put would apply as much ingenuity on an equality; and it most he in removing objections to such a plain to all from the foregoing sobeme aa they had hitherto figures that a change in our laws applied in raising them, a cettle- and regulations will do this, and ment would son be achieved. If

Manitowoc, Wis., as soon as put in the engine-room than are ing in foreign countries it will

Over

"I couldn't learn much on the the opening of navigation on the carried on any other similar-sized amount to 30,500 a year, Be it other side about the challenger," Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence steamship of any other nation remembered that this penalty all INTERESTING SHIPPING captures here and there, but if he said, "but you can set down will permit, in the 100 foot house Figuring the extra men at Pacific as a plain proposition that when boat Conewago, built from Coast wages, namely, an 8,000-ton 500 into the tropanties of for

a designer creates under a rule Gielow designs for ex-Senator W. with which he is not familiar, he is D. Cameron, of Pennsyly nia: very likely to believe he is pro- She is fitted with two Winton cending along extremely radical engines, and will make the trip ines, whereas as á matter of fact from the Middle West ander her he is not making extraodinary own power, George W. Elkins, of departures at all. I have an Philadelphia, it may be announc idea that will find this to be theed, bas purchased the big 138foot, oase with Nicholson. This is twin-sorew powerboat, Josephine, something more than a suspicion. She is one of the largest and I recall a year or two ago and swiftest gosoleno craft in the designing a twelve-moire boat would, with an average speed of for

Englishman, and twenty miles an hour and 18 feet proceeded T was heam. She was built in 1911 for filled with the idea that I was Edward Shearson of this city, and turning out a most fearful and gives as much comfort and enjoy. wonderful craft, whereas, when ment as a steam yacht. Mr Elkins she was afloat, according to the will use her in waters of this British standards, she was not neighbourhood. John H. Spencer exraordinary in any way except of this city has sold the 70-foot that she could sail fast. Perhaps powerboat Zenys, through ̈City, you will find that the British who intends to cruise in her along yachting experts, to whom oorrect the Great Lakes.

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information has drifted in piece These, sales and charters are miral are making thesame mistake the development of the precont

D. W. cargo steamship, we have a nationsbakuse we do not this result, for one month:

3

3

third assistant lic need engineer at

880

oilers specially for this

work at $50. (Note:

foreign steamships

storekeeper, donkeyman,

and No. 1 firemen do the

oiling)...

water-tenders who sit in

the fireroom and do noth ing but draw the wagee which they do not earn at $55. (The very name of watertenders is unknown on foreign ships). Board for seven men at $15

a month

ITEMS.

TO-MORROW.

Bijou Theatre-9.15 p.m. Victoria Thears-9.13 p.m. Tuesday April 28.

H.K. G.0.0. Annual General Meeting, City Hall 4 p.m.

p.m.

Wednesday April 20.

sea, he thought that probably the insurance market would not be unduly demoralized by a fow esptares were numerous, or if Dealers of Hongkong, Annual Association of Exporters and there were a few captures of our General Meeting, City Hall measure our lips. the same se

great liners, the insurance market they do. Han the time not come

Lloyd's

would, be believed, contract to correspondent for American citizens to ask Thameshaven stated on March very isadeqúa e dimensions. Yet, | Congress to tell us 'Why?'

28 that the P. and O. liner assuming that national insuranco Then another item apparent Persia, inward bound from was in full swing and that there ly small but in the aggregate Bombay was ashore on the there was no basis for the opinion were a fair number of capturea, Counting at the end of the year Middle Blythe Sands, but refloat that there would not be a very

tita, the manner of inspect. The vemel entered the

at

Annual Meeting of Peak. aurch-St. John's Cathedral Vestry-6. p.m.

Bandmann Opera Co.-Theatre Royal-9.15

p.m. Thursday April 30 sosroity high prices. One of the Old alleynian Dioner-8. p.m. spite of the news that the results of national insurance Bindmann Opera Co.-—--Theatre to cause as little delay and ex- torpedo-boat destroyer Laversok might be to give a large bonus to Royal 9.15 pm. pense to the shipownem es

150 ing our steamships. All foreign Tibury Dock before noun. serious advance in prices. Cap-

nations, in enforcing their laws The Case of Laverock, and regulations, have made them

In

tures would produce scarcity an

possible. That is they permit had been reflated, 30 per cent. shipowners and merchants at the the work of loading or discharg was paid to reidadre the craft as expenes of the community at a 105ing of the vessel to go on, doing original, which compares with 35 time of severe national atiesa. one part at a time, returning to per sent. quoted on March 28. Such criticisms as the lecturer 105 do other parts when it can be Yet, according to sa expert report, offered were, he said, made from done, so as not to slip the work are not distorted, and the would gladly join with others in the opinion is that the turbinen the point of view of one, who -8500 The American inspeolors general- Then on the Deck Department: ly require the holds all to the turbines in what has been ed scheme but was anxious that

possibility of serious damage to helping to work any well-concelo 4 quartermastern at $55,:, *8220 empty and boilers ready for Their board at 815 each are examination at one time there feare most since the vessel anfounded expectations as to the

month

60 ford causing delay to the ebip and stranded. The Laverook, valued possibilities of such a scheme

consequently extra cost to the with her armament at £112,000, should not be aroused.

Total

Friday May 1 Bandmann Opera Co. —Theatre Royal-9.15 p.m.

Saturday May 2. Bandmann Opera Oo.-Theatre Royal--9.15 p.m.

Saturday May 9,

H. K. Volunteer Reserves An nual Dinner.