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Copyright, 1914 by the Proprietor,
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Barometer 29,80 ·
May 14, 1914,
Temperature 6 a.m. 81. 2 p.m. 87 Humidily
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TELEGRAMS.
THE YELLOW PERIL.
SIR IAN HAMILTON'S, VIEWS.
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TELEGRAMS.
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THE DERBY.
(THE TATRARCH SCRATCHED.
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London. Resolved May 14.
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London. Received May 14. The Tetrarch was scratched for
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May 14, 1913,
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NEWMARKET STÄKES.
AFFAIRS IN MEXICO.
F. MS. LOAN.
WIN FOR CORCYRA,"
FIGHTING AT TAMPICO.
QUESTION IN COMMONS.
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London, Received May 14. The race for the Newmarket
distance of one mile and quarter, resultoi as follows:-
Corcyra (O'Neill)
Reuter's correspondent at Wel- lington, New Zealand, states that the Derby at 10.48 this (Wedner Stakes, run at Newmarket over General Sir Ian Hamilton, speak-day) morning. ing at a civic reception, attributed
Later. the war precautions being taken. Persee, the trainer, telegraphod in Australia and New Zealand to to Captain McCalmont, the owner, the shortening of distances owing advising the scratching of The to the advent of electricity, aero-Tetrarch ir the Derby, stating planes and high explosives. The that his leg "filled" after Pacific Ocean, he said, was the galloping yesterday. "meeting place of Continents where
it might be decided whether
Asiation or Europeans were 10
guide the destinies of the world.
The Betting...
Latest betting for the Derby He pointed out that the fine penis:-6 to 4 Kennymore; 11 to 2 ple of the Malay States were going Black Jester; 7 to 1 Ambassador; down before cheap.coolie labour,|25 to 1 Du-bar II. and Chian showod aigns of breaking up. Those were illus trations of fundamental changes. Foreigners were invading British countries, and they lived on rice and monopolisad businese. This was a real danger.
HOME CRICKET.
London. Resolved May 14.
Middlesex beat Oxford Univer sity at Oxford by 234 runs.
BOXING.
Amateur v Professional,
DR MAWSON.
RECEIVED BY THE KING.
London. Received May 14. Dr. Mawson, the Antarctic es- plorer, was received by His Vajesty the King at Buckingham Palace, when he recounted his experiences.
A Big Distinction.
I do most decidedly make a very big distinction between boxing, sa personified by our amatours, and fighting ne given
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Brakespear (H. Jonas) ... 2 Hapsburg (Riokaby). 3. A'so ran-White Prophet (Clark) and Son-in-law (Bullock).
Hentor's
of
London. Received May 14.
London. Received May 14, correspondent Washington states that Admiral McCallum, Scott asked whether In the House of Commons, Mr. Badger reports that the battle at a Malay States Loan was impond Tampico between the Federals ing and whether it was necesitated and the rebels was continued last by the ear-marking of other fands evening. The termin and Datch to pay for the Dreadnought. oruisera withdrew from the river.
Mediators' Proposals.
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CRICKETER'S DEATH.
NEWS FOR BUSY MEN.
CONDENSED.
Mr. Reginald E. Foster, the famous cricketer, is dead.
Middlesex beut. Oxford Univer-
MR. R. E. FOSTER DEAD.
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London Received May 14. The death is announced of Mr. cricketer, at the age of 46 years. Reginald E. Foster, the famous sity at cricket.
STEAMER FOUNDERS.
CAPTAIN'S TERRIBLE
ORDEAL.
Mr. Harcourt replied that a It is announced that the media toon of £0,000,000 was proposad Won by a short head, three tors' proposals include the for railways and other public lengths soparating second and elimination, of President Huerta worka. He added that the heavy third.
and the establishment of a development programma under- Provisions] Government in which taken in the Malay Peninsula
London. Recelved May 14. both Federale and rebels shall rendered a loan unavoidable in
The Captain of the be represented.
any case, though it was obvious Turrethill was landed at Margate 8.8. that the sums assigned to the by the battleship Implacable last Malay increased pro tanto the evening. Federation's commitments.
The betting was:-4 to 1os Corcyra; 20 to 1 against Brake- spear; 10 to 1 against Hapsburg Sir Eager, Argentino and Tomlin were non-starters.
NATIONAL PARK.
BIG CANADIAN PROJECT.
NEW YORK UNREST.
GRADUATE SENTENCED.
London. Received May 14.
A message from New York states that as a sequel to dieturb- London. Received May 14. ances on the 10th inst. at Calvary Rouler's correspondant at O:- Church, in connection with the Mr. tawo states that an Orde:-in-Colorado strike, when Council assigns as a national Rockefeller, junr. was present, a park an area of 95 square miles Harvard graduate has been in the vicinity of Mount Revel-sentenced 10 stoke, British Columbia,
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imprisonment.
FRENCH FINANCE.
HUGE LOAN EXPECTED.;
London, Received May 14. A French loan of £80,000,000 months sterling is expected to be issued
at the beginning of July. ·
met and was unmercifully thrash- SHIPPING CASUALTIES. | Board, and Mr. Allan, who was
ed by Jack Johnson in 1908. An amulear who goes over to profes- sionalism has to start de no Even the layman is matters bor- ing must appreciate the difference
Boxing is, perhaps, the only one, certainly one of very few sports, that does not allow of a comparison between the amateur to us by the professional. It has between the boxer who boxes for!
and the professional. Boxing to
Coal Ship on Fire; Steamer on Reet.
He states that his vessel sprang
Corcia won the Newmarket Stakes.
Latest Derby betting shows Kennymore to be favourite..
The Tetrarch has been scratch- ed for the Derby, ··
The battle at Tampico between the Fedorals an1 rebels is being oontianou.
A French loan of £80,000,000 beginning of July. is expected to be issued at the
Dr. Mawson has been received
in aadlence at Buckingham Palace, where he recounted his A leak and foundered while Antaratio experiences.
boat
was boing lauaobed, bist even-year-old son being drowned before his eyes.
The fate of the crew is akoown. The Captain was picked up four hours after the lisaster.
[The s.s, Turrethill is a British steamer of 691 tons, being built in 1895 by Messrs. W. Doxford and Sons, Sunderland, for the Broomhill Collierier, 'Lid.]
Derwent's Mishap Near the
Sultan Shoal
Speaking at Wellington, N.Z, General ir Inn Hamilton made asigaificant reference to the Yellow Peril.
The Mexican mediators' pro posals include the elimination of Buerts and the establishment of a Provisional Government,
NEWS.
Kowloon Garden Cinema to open on Saturday.
General news appeara on page-
3 and logbook on page 6.
The Bannal general meeting)
of the Hongkong Electric Com- pang, Ltd, was held to-day.
"Our contemporaries "appears
surveying the vessel for the agent of the
company in
The first thing this morning which it is insured, were then says the Straits Times of May on board. Mr. Allan was able to:
it became known in town that certify that the cause of the file there was'n vessel ashore on a reef About half past three yesterday was spontaneous combastion. near the Sultan Shoel. Enquiries on page 2 and commercial dewa been suit! that too much reliance u living and the boxer who boxes morning, says the Pinang Gazetés The aft part of the ship was made by the shipping authorities on page 9. the amateurI mean the genuine is placed on the left hand. I do because of his love for boxing. of the 4th inst, the s'esmer enshrouded in smoke, and water showed it to be the fleamer Der The question of the F.M.S. good Boxing to the professional is his Irismere, from Calcutta, which was being pumped into the hole went, commanded by Captain Loan has been raised in the amateur is a sport; a splendid, not think so. Give me a manly sport that teaches self. left hand-that is, if I am only bread and cheese; Lexing to the bad benn discharging calf the by tugs on either side of her, The Jenkins. All particulars were not House of Commons. The professional, if he be worth lod, Of course, there are ama'eurs sport. The two belong to differ. sinon Friday, hoiated the "O R." was distinctly felt as the steam understood that she had come to the vicinity of Moant Revelstoke discipline and great good temper out for boxing--I shall be satisfi-amateur of the right type is all Eastern Shipping Co. "at Prge heat emitted by the burning coals hand this morning, but it was his salt, must be a fighter by who are more of fighters than eat worlds; they breathe a differ-signal, indicating that a fire bad launch proceeded alongside. Itarief in the course of the beavy rain B.O. has been assigned sea
her hold. The signal was observed extended to the fourth bold; only night. Information as to exactly broken out among the cargo in was found that the fire had storm which broke during thei
Canadian national park. by the Harbour, Department, and the fifth hold now remaine l intact. how the vessel is placed was not The British steamer Tarrethill the disinfecting launch Kite, and The first, second and third holde zailable and it remains to be bas foundered, the seven-year-old the tags Seagull, Dooby and Alert, were belching forth volumes of een whether she was badly piled son of the captain being drowned the latter belonging to the Penang smoke, while the steel plated deck up or whether it will be possible before the latter's eyes. Harbour Board, were despatched bad become so booted on to render a float her off little the worse for to render assistance.
it impossible in places for even a the mishap. well-ahod person to stand on it.
instinct. He is a man who, born boxers, but even as such I do not eat atmosphere; there is nothing is a fighting pit, thinks only of know of one at the present me in common between the two, and life as a fight: to him life is just ment, be be ever so high in his it were better and eaner not to a terrible business.
olass, likely to beat the best of mix them up together. One has only to know the our professionals. I think highly
Odds Against the Amateur. careers of the ex-amateurs who of E. V. Chandler, the preяes We may take the amateurs in have done more than passably well heavyweight amateur champion, any weight who are champions, as professionals to know how very but I do not think he would te and wita half an eye we can see true this is; in more recent times equal to beating Dick Smith, who that they would be no match men like Matt Wells, Alf Wye, took that title at Alexandra Palace for the paid boxer of any Diok Smith, threo ex-amateur in 1912, and again the following note; big, little, or medium champions who have made a year, if only because of the reason BLccessful business f boxing, are that Chandler has not gone ne unlike the average amateur as through the fire of profas chalk is from cheese: they arosionalism. fighters. That is the reason why they have lifted themselves out
of the ordinary run of those in
the profession. Matt Wells is the
When Tommy Bros was over
Boat Scuttled.
An area of 95 square miles in
LON'T FORGET.
TO-DAY
Bijou Theatre 9.15 p.m. Victoria Theatre 9.15 p.m. Hippodrome Circus-Causeway
́TO-MORROW.
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Bijou Theatre 9.15 pm. Victoria Theatre 9.15 p.m. Bay 9.15 p.m..
Hippodrome Circus-Causeway
Bale of Ostrich feathers G, P. Lammert's Sales Room.
Saturday May 16. Hongkong Colton Spinuing, Weaving and Dyeing Uo. Ltd.. Extraordinary General Meeting
Concert and
and Prize. Giving Volunteer Headquarters.
Dockyard Rifle Club Dinner, 8: p.m.
the Iriemere, which is a vessel of On arrival- it was found that
The Derwent, of some 1,582 2,341 net tonnage, owned by
tons burthen, is chartered by the Messrs. Jacques and Co., and
Saigon firm of Kim Ho.. She was amateurs, it would be the same. commanded by Capt. W. II. Scott,
in Singapore about a week ago All the odds would be against was on fire in Nos. 1 and 2 holds,
and left for Penang. Having left] their besting the professionals. which are eitusted afs, and the native, were still working man-atood, on her way straight through The crew, both European and that port, she was, it is under- I certainly saw no one at the vessel was enveloped in clouds of fully, despite the fact that they to Java paris when the voyage Amateur Boxing Association smoke. Efforts were at once com- had been up all night, but it had was brought to such a andden cinmpionships who came within, menced to deal with the outbreak, bean apparent for some time that top. She will, of course, be assurable distance of the profes-four Loses being brought to play no progress was being made to brought it Bingapore for any best ex-amateur we have had for here, and after bo batensional champions. I did not thiakapon the barning coals, Mesa,wards subduing the fire, and it repairs that may be necessary. Bay-9.15 p.m. ever so many years, but he is on Gunner Moir, our then champion, in aausually high standard was while Commander McIntyre, the wae consequently decided to cut On the 7h inst. signals were away from the ranks of the iter the manner we are doing Palsco; the boxing I saw there, Government Surveyor of Ships, the holds-a procédure known as and in response to these the out of a thousand. When he broke we fell to bewailing, very much up this year at Alexandra King's Harbour Master, Mr. Mair, holes in the ship's side and. flood observed flying from the steamer, fact that taking it altogether, was not and Mr. J. G. Allan had arrived, scattling. amateurs he wisely forgot that he these days, the
This was done on Singapore Harbour Board's ag hand been fous limen amateur we had no good heavy weight. nearly so good as has shown by the latter gentlemen representing Monday afternoon. The vessel Varuaho left Tarjong Pagar for John Hopley, the Light Bao, the public schoolboys at Alder the local agents of the insurance was lying in a depth of 20 feet of the cone of the mishap. Capt. lightweight champion; he set ou
company in which the vessel is water, and it was believed that Jenkins had been relying on the to were into his knowledge of then playing Rugby football, and shot.
There has seldom beent me insured.
the fore part was already touching high tides to flat his vessel off boxing a capacity to fight, and who is a tremendous man physi- by the time be met Freddy Walsh cally, was mentioned as the one when the public schoolboy baxd
the bottom. We are told that the reef, but these proved of no Movel to Deep -Water. this is the first occasion on which at the National Sporting Club ka man likely to stop Burns. Joba butter; and be did this at hils was more of a fighter than a boxer; Hopley was, of course, an amateur, championship meeting-he ex-
It was deemed wise to remove a vessel has had to be scuttled in avail until the aid of the Varunho was sought. Next morning the that was why he beat Wel.h. and he could not meet Burns, but proted that mo shall only carve ho vessel from the month of the Penang Harbour. It is impossible Derwent was reflosted and will Dick Smith is our light-heavy- quite a auraber of people who had insisted that he shall carve Prye River to deeper water and yet to give any estimate as to the weight champion; and Alf Wye is en bim box for his school and his way to victory by scoring this was done under the direction extent of the damage. The vessel go into dock for an examination one of the little men whose post the time he would, so to speak, boy I saw at Aldershot was 001 service, a barth being taken in Eastern Shipping Co., of which university seriously believed that poia:s. Without exception, every of Lapt. Parkins, of the Pilot brought 5,900 tons of coal for the
suggest that he will win much eat up all the heavy weights. And to fight, and nothing so strenuous four fathoms of water near Palo about 700 tons had been discharg fame. But so long as a boxer is an to this day there is a belief that pe raore punishing have seen Kra and about soven miles from ed before the fire was discovered.
long time. To my Penang, From the first and The Irismere carris a crow of 54, Baron Dominico Camards has Boxing Theatre Royal, amateur it is as impossible as it John Hopley, had his life and for quite would be foolish to compare him circumstacco been shaped differ-thinking there was more hardness
second bunkera the fire gradually Her second mate died just before been arrested for having im would be foolish to cause of ently, would have won the world's in the bouts between the public spread to the third. No flames the departars from Calcutta on prisoned his two sisters in bis
Monday May 18, Cauton Insurance Office, Ltd. their very circumstances: the two heavyweight championship for schoolboys than there was in those sppoared, but the heat was in the 22nd of last month.
castle at Naples since 1800 Meeting of Bhareholders—11. 30, have different ways, different|
England,
at the Amateur Boxing Associa-
Owing to suspicions having been Canton Insurance Office Ltd. tion meeting.-Daily Telegraphene. Many of the steels plates ideas, and, most important, A
covering the holds affected be..
On the 6th inst, it was reported aroused, the police searched the Extraordinary General Meeting-- different outlook on life.
Hopley had a prodigious punch;
came red and afterwards white that the Irismero was couitled on aastle and found on a mattress in 11.45 am, Your amateur, so long as be the men hem the knocked down
hot. Throughout the night the the evening of the 4th in the a damp dungeon su insane, half- Itiyal Hongkong Golf Olnb. uses his left hand with reasonably like on many ninepine. I think At the Police Court this mora boses kept pouring water into presence of Commander McIntyre, clad woman. The Baron, on be Annual General Meeting at Club good judgment and precision, so it can be said that he could hit se ing betore Mr. J. R. Wood a the bolde, but without staying Mr. Muir, Government Surveyor ing interrogated, confessed that louis 250 pm.:" long will he be deemed to be on bard as most men; but I shall Chinese living at Tsui In Inne the progress of the fire. The of Ships, and various other harshe was his sister. She and a Meating of Metal Importers- the right teek. He would not set always maintain that had it been Lane was charged with unlaw- Seagall left at day-break this bour and Government officials at younger sister, he said, disgraced 4 p.m. out to mix it," he is no great pnsible for Hopley to have met fully being in possession of a morning to replenish her fresh Penang. The vessel was sunk in the family and in consequence he hand at in-fighting. Isionngh he would have gone out of Winchester rifle. The house was water-supply, but the other laun- twenty four feet of water, which placed them in a dungeon. The that he should seek to win by his class, his huge fist and im searched under a warrant by Inches remained alongside. wts sufflent to envelope the younger sister died in 1911 as a Union OhurchTM 6-46 p.m. points, and so long as he is only mense strength would have spector Moffardy and the weapon A representative of the Pinang holds. This extinguish the fires, result of the imprisonment. It is in the sport for the sport's sakevailed in little against the was found beldon among some Gazette paid a visit to the vessel. which burned even more faticus reported that the Baron killed he may be allowed to believe that French-Canadieu, Burns, and was clothes. A fie $150 was
Mr. Muir, Mr. Nỗ Weatherstone, ly during the night and were still two children belonging to his Dock Manager, Penang Harbour burning next morning.
sisters. that is all efficient.
the world's champion until he imposed,
sibilities are so obvions as to
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The Hidden 'Rifle,
of her hall.
A Barbarous Baron..
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Smoking
Wednesday May 20
Annual meeting of deatholders,
Thursday June 4 Hongkong Fire Insurance Co Ltd, Extraordinary,
Ef General Meeting
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