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MONDAY, JANUARY 19, 1914.
BY TELEGRAPH. BY TELEGRAPH. BY TELEGRAPH.
(Rauler's Service to the China Mall.) | (Router'e Servicn to the Chino Mail) | (Reuter's Service to the China Mall.)
GERMAN OFFICEE'S
ARREST.
P
AN EXTRAORDINARY STATEMENT.
LONDON, Jan. '19,"
Renter's Berlin correspondent tela-
THE SUBMARINE DISASTER.
ELEVEN MEN DROWNED.
LONDON, JAL. 18
THE SOUTH AFRICAN LABOUR TROUBLES.
THE STRIKE COLLAPSES.
LONDON, Jan. 18. The Admiralty reports that the sub': A telegram from Johannesburg states marine is 18 fathoms deep. It was im-that the collapse of the strike is now possible to locate ber before dark, and tred. The railwaymen are streaming the operations were resumed at day-back at Braunfontein and other points break.
saying that it is useless to continue the strike as they have no leaders. It is expected that the normal service will shartly be resumed. Most of the mines are working steadily.
Lieutenant Welman, Sub-Lieutenant Grant Morrison, and nine men were
graphs that the "Tager Zeitung" publishes a long and vehement letter from a German resident of the Malay States, protesting against the cou- viction of an officer of the steamship
Silesia" at Fenang on December 13. | aboard.
The writer states that abuses of authority, especially towards Germana, a popular sport with British Colonial authorities.
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THE CATASTROPHE IN JAPAN.
Ronewed Eruptiona.
INHABITANTS AGAIN TAKE
REFUGE.
Losnos, Jan. 19. Router's correspondent at Kago. bima telegraphs that the eruptions „have again comm^aced violently.
The city is anveloped in alcude and asher,
The vessel was constructed in 1904.
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French President's Sympathy.
President Poincare has telegraphed to H.M. King George as expression of sympathy in connection with the loss of
the submarine.
HM the King telegraphed to the Naval Authorities bat ho is deeply grioved to learn of the valuable lives lost in the submarine, and expressed his sympathy with the relatives.
The Submarine Not Located.
More Landers Arrested.
The leader of the strikers at Witbank
Colliery and two Natal leaders have been Committee and others have also been arreated. Twenty members of the Strike
arrested at Pretorias, including the Mayor, The latter wis released on his own recognisance.
THE CHINA MAIL.
TODAY'S CRIMINAL
SESSIONS.
|
SPORTING.
ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL.
The Jinnary Criminal Sessions_opened at the Supreme Court this morning. Ha Rotu ENGINE. Hokova Chea.. Honour the Chief Justion (Sir William Those teams played their retura Hong- Ree Darios) presiding in the First Court, kong League match on Saturday, their árat and His Honour the Pulsne Judge (Mr.j.match resulting in a goaliem draw:- Justice Gomperta) in the Second Court.
Terms:-
Befors His Honour the Chief Tristice.
A MURDER CHARⱭB,
The se la which Kan Cha, alias Kan Ping Shang, stands charged with murder, was left over to February 2nd.
ARSAULT WITH INTENT TO MOB. Chan bak was arraigned on charges of) amault with intent to rob and assault.
Accused pleaded guilty to the first charge and not guilty to the second.
His Lordship asked the Attorney General (Hon. Mr. J. A. S. Backuill) who appeared for the Crown, if the Arab count Was suficient."
The Attorney Genaral replied in the
affirmative.
Hongkong Club C. G."Cope; H. „D. Brown, J. Stalker; M. L. Railton, W. B. Rigden, R. C. Brown; J. Walker, O. Edgecombe, F. F. Long, I. L. Goldenborg, P. Wilkio.
Royal Engineers-Regera; Coxon, Mor- rish; Ferrigan, Smith, Robinson; Lavis, Tucker, Hortop Kelly, Sutherland.
Referos, Sergt. Wilson.
Tho Club started play, and the soldiers icomodistoly attacked. Tucker natted an odside goal soon afterwards, Liter he put a contro across goal that one of the backs misticked, and Kelly tipped the leather into the net. The Club had more of the game after this reverse, Wilkie and Goldenborg making bedway until Cuson relieved. Long burst through with his customary energy but Rodgers came out and did a litle däbbling, Lowia and Tacker kept the ball, on the right and Lewis spoils otherwise good work by insistent His Lordship instructed the interpeter shooting from acute angles when Kally to explain to the prisoner that the charge and Hortop were in the right position for was that be made an sawault with intent to scoring. Smith and Robinson frequently rob Accused-Yes.
spoilt any Club pretensions at combination. Sutherland was given a chance just before the Interval and his centre was headed that little wide by Kelly. Cope avada comple
robbery?
Elis Lordship-There was no actual
The Attorney General-No. A police
whistle was bin, and the intruders fled
The men arrested in the Trades Hall are being imprisoned preliminarily for 21 days, ander the Peace Preservation
His Lordship asked through the Ordinance. Graver charges will be pre-interpre'er if he quite and stood it. ferred against them later.
Accused-Yes, I went there with intention.
At the T
The Burghers and troops instituted a house-to-hour search at Heroni, and
The reporta sent by local corres hundreds of strikers have been arrested, one ord«hip's request, the Attorney) of fre shots and the teama changed ends;
pondents regarding the tapping com- munication between the divers and the
be untrue.
3000 Natives Repatriated.
proceeded to set out the facts. The with the score :- complainant in this case, he said, was an
"Royal Engineers, 1; Hongkong Club, 6. aldarly Chinese lady of considerable wealth add respectability, and abo lived with her
The soldier restarted and Hortop did Many people who had returned bave men in the submarine are declared to
servants, her son and her granddaughter at some nice passing to the inside forwards la consequence of the outbreak at 37, Elgin Road. Abeat o'clock one enabling his side to get at close quarters: ngaia led in terror.
Jagersfontein on the 9th inst., 3.000 evening a woman knocked at the door of with Cope. Twice the custodian fisted
this house. She wa naked whatabo A buoy placed to mark where the sub-natives there have been repatriated.
and said she bad a noe to deliver. The way when the position was dangerous, marine sank brake sway in the rising Martial Law not to be Relaxed. door open dute, and on her heals thre Anshed shot into the side net. Kelly
an amah. the woman
man and Lewis, socuring one'of these cleaïnacas. sen and the searchen up to the present
entered a have failed to locate the submarine.
tha accused was out, received a grand chanes of increasing the Everything was quiet on Friday even- NOTE.-The officer who commanded the ing, but, despite the calm, martial law rushed in. The accused was identified by lead but after getting through he fell whet
two, certainly, and perhaps three of the yard
yard from Cope, Ceann and Morrinh stationed on the hallway lina repulsed
Practical Sympathy from
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Atologram from Melbourne states that the Lord Mayor has opened a
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of whom
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of the ofcars in the China Station last absolutely ended and normal conditions the old lady, her amah and ghter the finish when the Club secured a corner;
destituto by the calamities.
LAUNCH OF AN AUSTRIAN
DREADNOUGHT.
LONDON, Jan. 18.
A telegram from Fiume states that the fourth Austriaa Dreadnought has be launched and christened Szent -Istvan
INTERNATIONAL RUGBY
MATCH.
England v. Walo",
LONDON, Jan. 18. An enormous crowd assembled at Twickenham for the International Rugby match between Wales and Eng land. The conditions were perfect. The Welsh forwards, led by the Rav. Davies, were superb scrimmagera, whilst the Englishmen were good in the loose. Hirst dropped a goal for Wales, England replying with a try by Brows, from a fine run by Poulton, and Chapman converted. At half-time England led by 5 points to 4. The second half was most strenuous, The Walsh three-quarter Evanı got ever with a try, and Bancroft converted, “Then England's wing forward Pillman scored a try, Chapman again convert ing Amidst the wildest enthusiasm, Eng. land than winning by 10 points to §.
-THE LOST HAL. STEAMER **ACILÍA.**
Bodies and Wreckage Found.
LONDON, Jap. 18.
The bodies of two of the crew and some wrockage of the Hamburg-Americs Tinet Acilia, have been found in the Straits of Magellan. Local Indians say a big ship sank in the vicinity.
THE FRENCH FINANCIAL SENSATION...
LONDON, Jan. 18.
year. He was well known and popalar in Hongkonz, and took the title part in Lieut. Crosse's maxial comedy **The Cook."--Ep. 0. M.]
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POLITICS IN IRELAND.
Mr. O'Brien Fesigns.
LONDON, Jan. 19.
Mr. Wm O'Brien, M.P., has resigned his sent (but seeks reelection,) owing to the result of the Municipal elections
which the Redmonites nasert show that be has lost the confidence of the electors.
MR. ASQUITH.
LONDON, Jan. 19. Mr. Asquith the Prime Minister, has left Cannes for London.
THE ARMY CANTEEN SCANDALS.
Prosecution Opened at Bow Street.
and
restored. The arrests continus. Among These met rushed into the the persons arrested are the Natal threatened the women, according to their which, however, was fruitless. Result
account, with kaivas. Both the old Indy Legislator, Mr. Boydell, and the Chair
Royal Engineers, 1; Hnngkong Club, 0 man of the Labour Party, Mr. Kentridge knife, which denied. According to their
and her amsh said the accused Cazried It appears that the Mayor of Pretoria ry, the accused pushed the old lady was arrested while discussing with the
story,
of the into one of cubicles, sod AS she strike lenders with a view to mediation. misted
in shouting persisted in
robbers; out The Hon. M:. J. C. Smuts has thanked thieves" he bib bar on the head. all the Commandoes, particularly those His Lordship Is there evidence as
Aby who had achieved such splendid feats to the condition of the old lady 1 of mobilisation na enabled them to resch
The Attorney General replied that she the Rand in time to enable the Govern- was bleeding. According to the evidence ment by its own resources to deal firmly and effectively with a national danger. The Defence headquarters rotifea that the Burghera who have been called out are being engaged to replace the strikers when released from Defence service.
Situation Calm.
A telegram from Cape Town aisted that Press Correspondents in all parts: of the Union telegraph that everywhere the situation is calm, and thas the men
Chinese constable she was dirty,
、A NEW MAGISTRATE.
Small Debts Court-Formed.
It is notified in the "Government
having bean wounded on the head, and he Gazetto" that His Erellery the Gover the disturbance in the house the son of the S. B. B. McElderry to be a magistrate, saw two persona holding her up. During nor has boca pleased to appoint Mr. old lady blow a police whistle, police and under the provisions of Section 7 of the other people came on the scene, and the
robbers ran away. It was fair to
Daly to y Magistrates Ordinanco, 1880, with effect
that this constable said he searched the from the 22nd November, 1918, and his
bat did not find any weapons further been pleased to authories Mr. premises,
however, The old lady,"
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to attempted robbery with violence. That lowing places:-Trun Wan, Tai 0, Trung you did not succeed in your attempt to rob
in the various strike areas are remming old woman probably is no fault of Chung, Cheng. Chou, and Yeung Shu
An Unfortunate Incident
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A Johannesburg telegram staten that Ernest Proscher, a private in the His Lordship-At any rate you were assist the police in recovering the stolen 8.8. Transvaal Scottish Regiment, was shot there committing, or attempting to commit, property. Farthermore, this is what 8.8. dead by a picket of his own Regiment. an armed robbery. The sentence of the tight call a subtle larceny, and differs sl. 8.8. He was patrolling the line near Denver Court is that you be imprisoned and kept together from the class of cases we have fu at hard labour for three years, and that the Courts where violonce is used in Station, waaring mackintosh instead, you receira tan atrekps of the cat, obtaining money. I shall pass upon you of a military cost, and stepped down).
what I regard * lenient seotape, but let it be warules to you, when LONDON, Jan. 18. into a culvert to gat out of the way of
you come out of pricot, dører The prosecution of sixteen defend-4 passing train. It is surmised that be
commit an act of this sort again. The sentence of the Court is that you be im
ante alleged to be concerned in cor- (rupt practices in connection with Army Canteen supplies, has been opened at Bow Street Police Court.
1.
They are charged with conspiring to give and receive commpt commissions na between Army officers and Lipton's Ltd.
failed to hear the three challenge of
the picket owing to the noises of the train sad the adjoining mine battery. The picket was looking out for a man who had laid dynamite on the railway for the last four nights.
Recalcitrant Nativos,
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Conditions Almost Normal.
"MAN'S BARN. INGLATITUDE,"G" Lau Shia Kan, a respectable looking Chinese of the gentry class, was indicted
on a charge of larceny.
prisoned and kept at hard labour for Prisoner pleaded guilty to stealing all twelve months. I also order that the the items set out in the indictment with stolen property be roared to the owner. the exception of a pair of bangles.
*t
The Attorney am not con corned about the
all, my Lord. The point is the robbery.
His Lordship asked if the prisoner understood that the chaige against bim war of stealing number of pieces of
283 in mone jewellery, several promisory notes sud
Accused-Ter
The Attorney General, in relating the facts to his Lordship, and this was not really very serious case in Bome
Man's mora,
J.
Before His Honour the Prane Judge.
Cruz
THE AULT ON A PORTUGUESE LADY. Chan Shing and Chan Pak were, chargoď A hundred natives broke out of the
on two counts with stealing from the person The defendant officers are Quarter- master Hon. Lieutenants Armstrong ed" into the plantation. They replied
Vanryu Fatatan compound and "bolt
of Miss Britto, and with
receiving stolen goods.
Both accused pleaded panelled-Messrs, (Norfolks) Johnson (Lancasters), Burns to demand for murrender by volleys
not guilty, and the following jitry, was (8th Hussars), Kelly (Leinsters) and of stones and bottles. The leader ad-
W. Taylor (foreman) EI, O. TAN Weeren. E. M. da Bocha, A.
A. Kahr, A. J. da Quartermasters Hon. Captains Mitchell anced and throw a bottle at the Com-
mando of burghers, who fired and ways, but it was s case in which, Becha, J. A.. Young and I. Turner. (Devour), and Quarrell (Suffolka), Staf-woanded him. The natives afterwards once
baad ingratitude
The Crown
wn Solleitor (Mr. J. H. Kemp) Sergt. Major Thomas Milward (A,S.C.), surrendered,
the case for the Crown, informed was exemplified. Apparently the accused in openi and Bergt-Major O. P. Beanótt (West
was a relative of the person from hom the Court and fury that the sceased were the articles were stalen." Ridings) and the civilians consist of
kept a panahop, and the sccused man was money and other thin
things from a young was at Kowlom employees of Liptons, Ltd.," including
in the habit of having his evening meals alternatively, with the offence of receiving were also charged, Practically all the Transvaal railway-there. It appeared that the accused, the bag and other stolen property. On
who Mr. Causfield, the general manager.
man have resumed work,
was going away very early in the mono Surday, January 4th, at about 7.30 p.m., The condition: in the Orange Free by a steamer, was allowed to sleep at the Miss Britto was walking along Nathan State and in Natal are almost normal shop on the previous night. On this Road towards t
the complainant went out, the
the manager Row is the ferry, When she got to and the yees went to sles, and when the corner of Nathan Rord and Salisbury The Allegod Murder at
Boad * Chiness
from approached her
the Jagersfontein.
snatched Arizz, He also foun 1 that the cafe had been open away bag she was currying, pushed her and the articles mem ioned in the in. down to the ground, and ran away. At 8 the areaing of the samo day a dictment extracted. Eventually the police o'clock found most of the articles at the house of watching at Bolts Godowa w the Årst Over the wall from the the accused's wife, arresting the accused prisoner climbing
into the
The Jard. day or two after, when he did not deny the road charge. The key of the safe was kept, to him, and the secased threw a bag of
up in ka, unlocked drawer in the the ground. The wate apparently,
Lit up boune, & very
praction.
took accuand
quarters. sent back to A Toki His what is the accused' A The Labourite legislatör, Mr. Cross-employ! He is spgaready a very respect the spot where the the was thrown Cown,
able looking
and picked up a whitlo
The and key. The Attorney General I understand he statement of the first prisoner at the police in commission Agent...
tationTM: referred to the second prisoner, Fir
bo in bones but the. Orowa Solicitor saked the jury AD Lordship-Is" be in business in bot
considering
second to'
AMERICAN ARMY'S NEW SURGEON-GENERAL.
A telegram from Paris states that in
LONDON, Jan. 18. view of the fact that no action, has been Beuter's Washington corresponder brought with reference to the failure of states that President Wilson has vomin- the Societe Auxiliare de Credit, and theated Dr. Gorgas, who made his name: probability that it will be able to re-famous in connection with ensuring the imbursa its creditors, it is understood healthiness of the Panama Zobe, as that there will be no judicial pro Surgeon-General of the Army, coedings.
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LONDON, Jan. 17.
LONDON, Jan. 17.
The miner, Stockenstroom, who was charged with the murder of a Basuto on the 13th inet, bas been acquitted.
Another L'ader Arrested.
well, has been arrested,
BILLIARDS AT HOME,
Pummplainant returned about ad. behind peized her ‹by!
he found that the accused hat.
man.
On
watchman went
the
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Hoogkong
Inspector arrest he was not in business.
HE
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Lord Strathcons, High Commission-ica recent interview stated that he might policorey Goderal Nath the secondairely "disregard any."
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