1914-05-22 — Page 1

The Hongkong Telegraph

(ESTABLISHED 1881.)

Copyright, 1914

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FRIDAY, MAY 22, 1914.

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THE IRISH QUESTION.

"SCENE" "IN THE COMMONS.

SUFFRAGISTS AND KING.

PROCESSION BROKEN UP.

ALBANIAN SITUATION.

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

Londan. Reosited May 22.

London Received May 22. A suffragiat deputation, on

ESSAD PASHA'S RESOLVE.

Renter's Service To "The Telegraph."]

London, Roceived May 22. Essad Pasha has arrived at

GIANT LINER LOOSE.

VATERLAND OUT OF CONTROL

[Router's Service To "The Telegraphit]

London. Received May 22:

MISTRESS MURDERED.

CHINESE "BOY" CONFESSES.

Reuters: Service To "The Telegraph.

London. Received May 22, Router's correspondent

Victoria, British Columbia, atates

VALUE OF WIRELESS

100 PASSENGERS RESCUED..

Benter's Service To "The Telegraph."}

was announced that the Irish attempting to petition the King Brindisi and gone to Naples. York states that the giant liner at the Chinese "boy" auspected | battleship Connecticut,answering

In the House of Commons it! Amending Bill would be first as he was returning from Alder. He has signed a pledge never to Introduced in the House of Lords, shot, was enfronted by thousande interfere with Albanian sifone and the latter would decide of police and soldiers around whether they would consider it efore the Home Rule Bill itself:

Not Fair.

Later.

In the House of Commone, Mr. Bonar Law pressed for the intro- -duction of the Amending Bill. He asid it was not fair that the Commons should continue with Home Rule without knowing the Government's real proposals.

Mr. A quith replied that he would explain the reason loter.

Buckingham Palace. "

al

Router's correspondent at New

of murdering Mrs. Millard, wile Vaterland has arrived there on

of a Canadian Pacific Railway' her maiden voyage.

The tide tore the vessel from the Reater's correspondent

terland official because she reproved him swarm of toge, and the Vaterland for carelessness, has fully confess drifted broadside for a mila The suff agist procession was Durazzo states that an expedition downstream, obstracting naviga.ed that he killed his mistress by broken up on the top of Conatil-.

& blow with a obair, and then ution Hill, and Mrs. Pankhurst of Volunteers numbering 300,tion for several hours.

diamembered and burned her commanded by a Datch Major,

body. He declares that alie and others arrested.

Later. has suppressed a peasant rising under control and berthed. | brandished a knife because he Mrs. Pankhorst was arrested at Siak. opposite the Palace. The suffrag

The Major parleyed with. the late forced one of the gales Al Hyde Park Corner. Fisticuff peasants, who promised to die ensued, and some injuries were peres and send a deputation to austained. There are already 47 Durazz) to formulate their wishes arrests, including three men.

Further Arrests.

Later.

There were further arrests for

Victim of Plot.

Essad Pasha has arrived at

Lard Robert Cecil, on the third reading of the Home Rule bill, moved the adjournment of the window-smashing at Whitehall Naples. He denied that there was House, saying his resson was that in the evening. The total number a conspiracy and says he was the the Government would not cou- arrested is now 67, including victim of a plot on the part of the mand a majority when the whole Miss Sylvia Pankhurst and Mrs. of its proposals were submitted. Drammond, who were arrested Austrians and the Datch gene Mr. Asquith replied that the on the doorstep of Mr. McKenna's darmes. He protests against the House of Commons must give The police raided a flat in outrage on Albanian autonomy, deliberate judgment on the main Maida Vale and arrested five and науа,

My Sovereign has proposal first. *Mr. Bɔnar Law &firmed that women, also seizing half a bun- been shamefully deceived.”

dredweight of pebbles in bags, the whole proceedings were farc:

Renter'a correspondent at Rome hammare, choppers and important ical, and he saw no ass in par documents. It is believed that asya it is denied that Essad Pasha ticipating in them.

huge window-smashing campaign will be deported to Tripoli.”

The Uproar.

Later.

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The motion to adjourn was rojected by 288 votes to 176.

The Speaker then put the motion for the third reading of the Bill.

At this, the Opposition raised a chant of “ Adjourn! Adjourn!

They kept up the uproar, and the Speaker asked Mr. Bonar Law if he approved of the demonstra- tion...

-the sitting was unavoidable.

• Time for Reflection.

house.

was thus averted.

THE BURDEN OF THE PHILIPPINES.

Reviewing The Philippines Past and Present" by Denn C. Worcester. (Two Volumes, with 128 Plates, Milla and Born. 30

net.),

..

who are inclined to meditate on

for the Filipinos that they shoul

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Eventually she was again got

(The Vaterland, built for the Hamburg-Amerika Linie, is the displeased bar. largest ship in the world. Her The boy" has not yet beer tonnage is 58,000, length 950 feet. sentenced. beam 100 feet, horse-power 65,000, aud designed speed 25 knots. She was to leave South impton

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NEWS FOR BUSY MEN;

CONDENSED

A forest fire in devastating an. London Received May i-orea six miles by sixty in Ja Reuter's corresp

It is denied in Romie that adl Galveston states that the

Pagh is to be deported to Tripoli wireless call, rescued a hundred passengera from the Norwegian steamer Atlantis, which is dan gerously ashofe a hundred miles from Tampico.""

On the Home Hule Bill & Mölby to adjourn the Hous defeated.

The Irish Amending – Bill

frat to be introduced in the House

of Lords.

Esgad Pabha has signed a Those rescued were mostly pledge over to interfere in foreigners returning to the oil-Albanian affairs." fields from Galveston, where they ara now being cared for.

on her maiden voyage on May which Mr. Worcester telle at pines at the earliest possible

An expedition, of 360 Volun teers commanded" by a Dutch Major bas suppressed · a passent rising in Albini.

The Dubita Unstoms - krve- length in these two invaluable opportunity. Not a little adverse sized a consignment of bayonets volumes. No one can claim to us criticism of the administration intended for Nationalist Volun« derstand the Philippine problem has been inspired by this policy."

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FOREST FIRE. who has not mastered them; and The best answer to such An uproar in the House of even those to whom that problem oriticism is a perusal of Mr. Commons over the Irish question is.not a matter of direct urgency Worcester's honest, outspoken, resulted in the Speaker suspend- GREAT DAMÄGE IN JAPAN.

will be well advised to acquaint and most praiseworthy booking the sitting. themselves with a story which We trust that he and his silent col- A Chinese" boy" has fully Londos, Received May 22. may compare in interest and in leagues in the islands will not confessed to murdering rs, Realer's correspondent Tok- importance with the finest ad- be forced to submit themselves

at Victoris, B.C. yo states that a forest fire is ministrative pages of our own to the hardest of all the criterions Millard, wife of a O.P.R. official devastating an area six miles by lodian or Colonial anuals, and of manhood sixty miles in the Provitics of which is the highest tribute ever Kiplingood stated by y Mr Kitami, Hokkaido.

paid to the effetency with If you can bear to hear the

truth you've spoken. The outbreak cannot be check-which our American kinsmen.

Twisted by knaves to make a ed owing to a drought, and the have risen to the height of what

trap for fools. entire population is fighting the is to them an entirely new and-

Or watch the things you gave flames. Thirteen people are as we have long known from our

your life to, broken. reported to have been killed.

And stoop and build them up

with worn-out tools. We cannot easily conceive

the Bituation, and #34

an experiment which Mr. Woi-

own experience in many parts of the earth an exceedingly ordu ous enterprise.

traotable material to work upon-

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Suffragiste who attempted to petition the King ware dispersed after Mrs. Pankhurst and others were arrested,

huge window-mashing campaign is believed to have basa averted by strests and seizures in a Maida Vala Him.

During an uproar in the House. of Commons, the Speaker aated Mr. Bonar Isw if he appr the demonstration, and

The U.9 battleship

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To all who know the problems. ioan. He first visited those islands the only member of the first: in 1886, when he took part in Commission who continued to presented by the Philippines that a great country which the biological expedition of serve on the new one, of which when; after centuries of Spanish can point touch Profeanor J. B. Steere, under he remained a member, until big misgovernment or half-govern.dy shouldering of the white refused to answOT,

meat, their wild, turbulent, and man's burden as Mr. Worcenter whom he was studying in final retirement. in September of mixed peoples were taken over here depicts will so far derogate the University of Michigan. He last year. The first business of returned for a longer stay in 1890, the second Commission was to by the United States, and who from its high administrative nections, answering wire when he spent nearly three years arrange for the gradual transfer can compare them with the far ideals as to abandon that burden call, has rescued a hundred pa

Thereafter, it sented by many of our own sentimental, or indiferent poli-wegian steamer Atlantis. The Times says. It ia jutt 150 working on the zoology of the ar: of authority from the military to less complicated problems pre- at the bidding of self-seeking, sengers from the stranded; Nora The giant liner Vaterland on chipelago, and familiarized him-civil officers.

arriving at New York Lore away years since the Philippino sell in the course of mach travel became the true governing body Dependencies where we have ticians. archipelago was evacuated by the ith the customs and habits of in the Philippines. On July 4, bad simpler and, therefore, more

from her togs and drifts1 broad- side down stream for an hour British force which had captured the Filipinos. The knowledge of 1901, when Mr. Taft became

PLAGUE IN JAVA:

but was eventually bertbed. Mr. Bouar Law refused to Manila in the course of the brief the Philippines then possessed by Governor of the islands, Mr. Wor- may well seem that Mr. crowded the advances towards answer, his silence being the sign war which followed on Charles the average American öitizen coster was appointed Secretary Worcester and his colleagues have

III's accession to the Bon bon might be illustrated by the ques- of the Interior, and three Filipino civilization and good government Official Statement On Combative

NEWS for frantic Opposition cheers..

Femily Compact: Spain gave up tion of a Vermont lady on his members were added to the Com..

Vice-admiral Stokes, formerly Sitting Suspended in. Contusion. Florida and some other American return home" Deanie, are them mission. Thus constituted, it which might reasonably be ex

A telegram from The Hague commodore at Hongkong, died territory in exchange for the Philippians you have been remained the sole legislative pected in a century, into less that The uproar continuing, the Philippines, which remained in visitin the people that Paul wrote authority until October 16, 1907, half a generation. Mr. Worces-

been done, but throws & brilliant states that interpellation of Mr. on April 24.. Speaker said in the absence of her possession until the Treaty the Epistle to?" When the when it became the Upper House for not only tells us what has dated April 30 to Java rapera suddenly at Queenstown, Ireland, Mr. Bonar Law's nezistance of Paris in 1898 handed them Spanish-American war broke out, of the new Philippine Legislature, light on the way in which it has Th. v. Deventer (V.D.) in the *. General news appears on page maintain order, a Luspension of over to the United Staion. Those and Dewey's victory at Manils the Lower House being ni releebeen, dopo. He pays a high second Chamber with saference of this issue and log book on suspended, and members left theory may ask themselves whether the sphere of active American This Constitution still endureight of Mr. Kipling--whose in Java was answered fully by The sitting was accordingly the "might Lave besus" of his brought the Philippines within tive Assembly of 81 members tribute to the almost prophetic to the combatting of the plague |

President McKinley (on his way has been tried of giving the him ao admirably to understand The Minister slated that the share circular appears on page f House amid continued confusion, it would not have been here laterests, Mr. Worcester called on though recently the experiment Indian experience of course fit Minister Plexto. Mesare. Fraser's Singapore

bavo remained in ur Emire/to Europe) in order to communi-Filipinos'a majority in the Upper guch a work as has been done in destruction of rats would be con- to-day.

The recent piracies formed the and passed under the same ruleste to him certain facts bearing as well as in the Lower House the Philippines when he tells us tinued and an improvement would

thed selling aubject of questions in the Hones The sitting has been suspended which has been so conspicuouslyzed" to be rewarded with a caster clearly regards with grave that, on reading that wonderful be made

in .lodia init

ed that our great Imperial poet cination was not very apparent, until to-morrow. Home Rale is successful

tropical depen propwal that he should return to misgivings as to its effect upon a " in 1910, he recogniz-conditions. The utility of yau of Commone. They are given not on the Order Paper again till in

The islands as the President's rer- the progress and prosperity of the had written for these men of while the evacuation of housed en meny

| The Childar, piracy 0586 was our admin Monday Ministers have thus time doncies, were

mine np in the hills without know would not be done, with such in which to reconsider their farators have 1.arned how to sonal representative. Before he islands.

Thus, for the first fifteen ing it, and did not rest until he haste as heretofore, The improt attitude regarding the Amending tame the Lowcaught, ellen ao:epted this effor, the President

had already produced - good

E Bill

peoples, balf devil and half child." decided to send out the fist But in that case the United State Philippine Commissiou, a holy years of American rule in had sent a copy of it to each of ment in the housing conditions

which was instructed to did in the Philippines, Mr. Wor his subordinates. would have lost an invaluable the most hum ue, pusilic, and cesier has been at the centre of Mr. Worcester's book is not results, Only eleven madical affoire. He has had a hand in merely a narrative of good work men in Holland had offered/their object lesson in the difficultice of Empire, nor should we have had effective extension of authority tho pisanore of reading Mr. throughout these islands, and to the enactment of all the elaborate with no thought of self in it, in services for this work. If no Worcester's exceedingly able and secure, with the least possible legislation which has been put in which the world at large can take more came forward, then they interesting account of American delay, the benefite of a wine and force; he has participated in the ansdmiringand even affectionate would have to seek the sesistance idministration in the Philippines, generous protection of life and organization and administration interest. It is also an appeal to of foreign doctors. In a geogra of civil and municipal government bis fellow countrymen, too many phical sense, the plague was not property 10 the inhabitants." in the various provinces; he has of whom are still indifferent, spreading said the minister. His We should certainly have been borry to loss this plain and The members if this Commission been directly responsible for the too many misled, a beat the distant speech, was received with tokous unvarnished-ret eminently read. were Admiral Daway and General:

O is, commanding the United establishment of sanitary and and unfamiliar problemde of of ament, able and inspiring-record of work begna in mst unor mising Slates naval ind military forces agricultural services; and be has the Philippines, in which the Uhr. Mr. R. R. de Murale hed sole administrative control of author urges them to remember(UL) criticised what he con- continued under on the pot, en ex-Ambasador, the non-Christian tribes, bisspecial that is work done, undertaken sidered the low salaries on conditions,

Colonel Denby, President Schur ffection for whom, gave ground for the physical, mental, and which the medical man were sent almost insuperable difficulties, Mr. Lloyd George spaske at received with ingratitude in the Worcester for the date for the only serious accusation pral advancement of his favour-out, od, pointed out also that in

Tuesday May 26, Ipswich to night (Thursday); in islands and often with ansympa Worcat Bose the origin of neglecting the affairs of the sito non-Christians, bas suc- 1800 they had already had warn- Compactorsion Service

Crown Land Sale, PW.D-3 the bye-election campaign, nagthotic criticism in the States, and ion could begin ite work, the Filipinos proper in their intereste ceeded far beyond the hopes of ling of the approaching dánger.

The announcement has been set resulting in what the most insurrection under Aguinaldo had--which has been made against those who initiated it and that Mr. D. Fock (UAL) urged the app

broken out, and the civilian followed by an anounces triumph for the self-sacrificing Commissioners were able to do Judge Blount to speak of him at house of cards if American con antine regulations, and consider pm, a

little_beyond watching events non-Christian Worcester ** It trol were prematurely withdrawned that it was not advisable to BK Horticultural. Society's

the story of these fiffeth years There are some unpleasant symp, send young doctors direct to the Meeting... ment that Sir Edward Carson, nd, single-minded cfficiale, of

to which Mr Worcester plague districts, local conduljona. Smith and Hajor whom M Worcester himself island informing themselves as to

hard and unceasing labour, with tem en (the successful Unionist the most notable.

March 10:0, the second the aid of the devoted colleagues all

ordinates of whom he longer Philippina

an enthusiasm than fay provoke the interest | ap

Bayonets Salzed..

:

The Dublin Castome have

seized a consignment of bayonets

which were intended for the use of Nationalist Volunteers.

ELECTIONEERING,

THE IPSWICH ELECTION.

London Received May 22.

byshire)

The author of this one clopaedio: narrative pro

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and more intim

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continued to day at the Police

Bay

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various laces that a Mr. J. H. Schaper oriticised the mericen opinion is in conduct of the government retiring from the against the natives folk whose : rently odatly ou approdus terests with regard do five adeninistration of the Philip he said, were not looked after}}|

TO-MORROW.

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Bijou Theatre 9.16 p.m.

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