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The story of the forcible detention of a
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February Captain's Cup and Foot.
Below is the result on the monthly com petition which took place over the shorton. course a Happy Valley on the 13th. The fact of the holes being within the 14th and 15th inst Race Track accounts for the low scoring,
of England the sanie anthority finds Chin so, furtarly darin, and preet even piore grotesque and improbable sumably man of wealth and position in Nh China, was investigated by Mr. Englishmen have been expected to
Wol at the Magistracy this afternoon. aliver at this bogey for some time, The consplainant's name is Chin and such hysteria has at times pre-San Tat allas Lam. Chung Hang. vailed among
Four men were charged with detaining nervous people in
him against his will with the intention England; but never more than a of procuring ransom for his liberation.
Mr. Dixon represented the defendants pinch of common sense was needed
while Inspector. O'Ballirea conducted to dispel it. The General Staff of the case for the prosecution.
The complainant, who hitherto ad no Fokies,
il the first defendant the German Army would, in tha writer's opinion, reveal themselves a came to his house and showed him.
what he purported to be wAITRE
little better than imbeciles should for his arrest on charge of being a revolu they order such a raid. He says:tionary in the cusutry. The first defendant took him to a house in Tang Shing Lane, They know that buge sheds must where he was, detained. Defendant and me others Enreud him to write a letter
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THE FAILURE OF THE.
"ZEPPELIN."
HARDLY a week"passes but it has to be recorded that in some way the "Zeppelin" has again proved its in- efficiency. In today's telegrams it will be secit that another of these costly machines has come to griel Many people have not yet been com
army, but
Apt 8:00 and the latter was sent.
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Wins Pool,
ol then return of the ex mandarin and enquir a culminated in the arrest of the four men.
Mr. Wond abaerted that he proposed to trent the esse for commitment.
A Chinese detective, bo made the arrests, said that when be eutered the bass be found complaizat in a cubicle
long with the four defendants.
a harbour somewhere in Germany, as a rule, to which harbour it must resire from time to time. The limitations this imposed are such that three Zeppelin shed's have been built at Brüssels and four at Anwerp to bring the air-ships
Replying to Mr. Dizon, the detective nearer the reat of war, both on landsid the fourth defendant declared that bo was the prine pal tenant. The Evet dolen. and sea. Count. von Zeppelin badant did not sy ecmplainant owed him spent years in trying to devise a way 820 Dis n: Is it a fact that the com of lettering his unruly giants in a gale plainant is wanted by the Chinate Glover, near the ground, and to his lack of test and that they have offered a reward
f82000 for his arroOS!! success are to be attributed some o
the catastrophes in which his ships have been destroyed. A hundred new Zeppelins require a hundred sheds, and Germany has not half that anmber. If the slaps were actually built for an invasion, they could not carry more than a few regiments, sanll is their lifting capacity relatively to their size.
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25 Entries.
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Happy Valloy and Fanling.
Mr. T. W. Hill
Dr. Lindsay Woods
Mr. A. Ritakia
Dr. G. M. Baston
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W., J. Morrison
G. Duncan
Major R. 5. Stewart Mr. R. J. Rawlinson
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A scratch match between the Civil Ser-
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THE RUSSIANS BECAPTURE PRASYNYSZ.
THE KING VISITS THE GRAND FLEET.
Losnos, Feb. 28. 11,23 p.m.
It is officially announced that Eis Majesty the King has returned London from a visit to a portion of the Grand Fleet.
GREAT SPEECH BY MS. LLOYD GEORGE.
Losos, Feb. 29, 8.13 pan.. Mr. Lloyd George, Chancellor of the Exchequer, in the course of great speech at Bangor, said he had always been convinced that the Allies would he victorious but that victory would not be secured without a long struggle. He urged Britons to leave rothing untions to achieve a triumphant peace at the earliest possible moment. The Allies bad an overwhelming preponderance of men, natural resources and accessibility to roarkets: but above all the Allies cause had moral strength. A nation could not endure that had the crine of Belgium on its sout
By Inspector Sullivan: He heard the vics C.C. and the Kowloon CLC. was to first defendant Riy on the day after he was played on the Peninsular ground on Satur arrestert that snmplainant owed him $200.
Inspector 'Sollivan, on oath, said that day. The Service were able to field aly he received a letter at No. 7 Station. nine men, who made a total of 47 runs. Witness and several consta
to the Ewloon replied with 118 runs, which Tung Shing
ral constables
hape Iarronted the included 59 by J. P. Robinson.. Details:-- house in third defendant, while he was running in the lare fe at the direction of house No. 9. P. T. Lamble,
In a statement, the fras defendant said R. Witchell, b Overy that when he went to complainant's house too. J. Tacchi, e sub b Evans... ask for the $20, which he owed bin, defend Hon. Mr. Severn, c and b Overy... "How useful Germany's fourteennt, who was with five others, tore, up the R. E. O. Bird, ros out... pletely disatused of the belief that Zeppelins have been, or for that promissory note and attempted to strike 0. Sara, b Evans
him. He took complainant down to the the Zeppelin will one day sweep tatter the air ships of France, the rest where the latter asked him for a down upon. Paris and London in the only other nation which has a fleet place to sit down.
The cass wandjourned. (highly romantic fashion which the foomparaide with that of Gernians, novelists used to predict. Of this the we shall know only after the treaty of latest indication is a rumour appear-pence has been signed. Meantime, it ing in the newspapers with the is quite evident, judged by the num beginning of 1915, to the effect that er ul. disasters that has befallen the building of new Zeppelins in them, that they are by no means worth
Clu. Powell, Ld. being rushed night and day, and tl at the enormune expasso. of their cur-
Da Yeux Read Central.
n each new armoured air-cruiser passes muccessfuly its trying-out tests
struction.
LANGKAT DAILY OUTPUT.
ses Benjamin and Puits, share and
NEWS OF THE DAY.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
In celebration of St. David's Day the Welsh community is holding a conversazione at the Hongkong Hotel from 7.31 to 12 this evening.
The bar boy at the coffee bar, Mount Davis Barreks, West Point, has reported
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B. D. Erana, c Sub b Witchell E. McLennan, b Edwards Maj. Stansfeld, b Bird... 11. P. Robinson retired -
J. F., Mead atpd. Bara, b Bird
A. EL. Stikstone b Biri...
V. L. Wasser did not bat ...
H. Overy not out ...
it is spirited away to some unknown. concentration camp, there to await the moment of its mysterious errand general Uroker, send us the following to the Police that sosite person has stolen. Davidson did not bat
report
THE 'DIARY.
This tale is of the same tenor as others in the past, and one and all one expert believes, are bused on an entirely false idea of the possibilities of dirigible aircraft. In the Philadel. phia Public Ledger, Waldemar
Feb. 21,
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HEMO. FOR TO-DAY.
First night of "The Quaints "it Theatre Kaempffert, managing editor of The
Rujal.
MIMOS. FOR TOMORROW.
....
Diveeran Girls' School Recommences
2.20 p.m.-Auction of Teakwood and
Hughes and Hough
5,15°μ m‚—Aṇnual Meeting of members
of the H.K. Gymkhana Club.
General Memoranda.
800 from the bit.
The ... Indraghizi," which arrived inpott last Friday, reported "Maca activity among German steamara in Manilä, loided with full cargoes of coal.",
One fatal exme of bubonic plague, wo
E. P., Edwards pot cut...
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J. O. Finch.
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Bird ********* Witball Savers
| of diphtheris and thros of anteție wers the|| Edwarda
CHARGE AGAINST A TRAMWAYsly notifications of communicable discus Wood
| in the Colony last week. All the patients
wero Chinese.
EMPLOYEE,
Podore Mr. Wood at the Magistracy this morning the Tramway Company chargeli one of their conductors with arging and uttering counterfeit tivkets for muls on,their tramway system.
Mr. Shenton prosecuted and asked for adjournment which was granteed until
Thursday.
Adved.
The Biller surched the defendant's
We wish to remind members of the E.K. Gymkhana Club and members of the B.K. Jockey Cuhinterested in Gymkhanas of the meating at 3,15 to-morrow afternoon
in the offices of the Jockey Club.
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Friendly Match.
W.
Mr. Llogi George eulogised Russia as an essentially peaceful country 6ard the Grand Duke Nicholas as the best friend Trace ever had. Ger mony had made the quarrel with the same quiet Lllenition ng sha made a new dyo: it was the purest piece of brigundage in history. Ho emphasised the point that Great Britain had raised the largest volun- tary army in the world, which ought to be larger still. The Allies could muster 20,000,000 men, and their enemies barely 10,000,000. The need for armis, however, was greater than the need for mes and, consequently, he appealed to employers; workmen and public to see that the Allies had 14sufficient equipment."We have," said Mr. Lloyd Gorge, in conclu
3sion, every reason for confidence but none for complacency-compla-. 153 cency is the rust of a cation."
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ofa Bays Association and the Chinese A match between the Diocesan School Recreation Club was played on Saturday, the former securing the victory. Scores:-
D.5.0.1, AMOCI STION.
A. B. Ramjahn, e Wei, b Ng W. Hall, Howfang, b Yow" Southerton, 1.b., Ng
P. W. Farro, hit wicket, b Yew W. H. Vivesih. Ng
Scientific American, declares the Zeppelin as hopeless nao raider and bomb-dropper as it would be as transport Militury officers of all nations knew ten years ago that bomb-dropping was impractical Blackwood Furniture etc.. at Mars, warfare. During the airge of Port.
Arthur, more than ten years ago,
A Chinees,woman living at Wing Lee tho Japanese mortars dropped
Mr. Kennedy, the Manager of the Street tried to commit amicide yesterday 500-pound shells on the protective company, said that so far as had been | Ly jumping from a verandah to the ground," S. Jex, e Wai, b Lat decks of Russian war-ships. Their certained 1 worth of tickets were in- distance of 25 fect. She was picked up. Wilson, cand b Ng
A. Kow, D Ng... Russians never blinked, and the
in an unconscious condition and taken to W. Gitsins, raz out... warships remained afloat, not evenemis-and found over 100 fake tickets
the Hospital.
La Fook Kei, b Lec
disabled. Many facts of the sanie, which were casalkout' infusioon. : kind had long ago convinced military experts that not much is to be ex- pected of bomb-tropiping. There woa one supreme wonent when bom! sl might have been dropped with awful effect en massed troops, and that came when Si folu French's forces erarred from England to the Continent, Nearly a mire thi usand men wern 30p-Auction of Teakwood and transported in ordinary ships, the thir,
decks of which could easily have been pierced by a bomb of proper design. Tauzoday, March é & FriDAY March 6 Yet no such attack was attempted,
Venesbay, March S:— 13p.m.-Auction of Baca Ponies outside
-the Ciy Hall.
Ézgasday, March 45-
II am. Auction of 9 Blules sad one Chin Puay at the 3.8.0. Pier, Kuw both
Hixekod Farniture era., at Mesara
Hughes and Hough's.
-Anaux) Flower Show.
Saturday, March 6 :-
THEFT OF GOVERNMENT OPIUM.
Four Leon Russian sailors of the Ras sian rubor Zemtehng are passing through Hongkong on board tho. Sardinia. The Zemtchug, it will be remembered, was sunk
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by the Emden, while at anchor in Panang Up How Fan harbour and a la go number of the crew Yow Man Chung... werd drowned. The ailors are bound for Sze Kwang
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Vladivostock...
A charge of healing Government preferred astra a southful Chinese, employed ng in pristant-rook to the stored But in Tin Lok: fopes, wan : heard by Mr. Wood this numri
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THE LATEST COMMUNIQUE.
Lospas, Mar. 1, 2 a.m. The Paris evening communique states that the Germans" made en attack at Becourt, near Albert; but it was immedis ely checked.
The enemy threw 200 shells at Soissons..
We raade marked progress along the whole front in Champagne. Our gains yesterday worth and north-west of Beau Sejour represent 2,000 metres of trenches. These gains were appreciably extended to-day. In onu trench alone 200" dead Germans were found.
We captured in the Argonne 300 metres of trenches, and west of Boureuilles reached the edge of the plateau of Stanquois.
The Germans attacked at Chapelette, in the Vosges, but were repulsed.
ROUTED GERMANS RETREATING.
LONDON, Feb. 29, 2.45 a..
A Petrograd official communique ways that the Russions have recap- tured the important town of Przasnysz,
The Germans on the 20th inst. apparently passed to the defensivo along the greater part of the front.
Their retreat in many places is in the character of a rout: Our coralry bro pursuing, our advance engaging the enemy on the left bask of the Nieineri,
The Russian artillery annihilated a German force which and crossed the Bobr.
Tho Eussian artillery at Ossowrics successfully engaged the enemy's heavy batteries.
The Russians repulsed furious Austrian attacks in Galicin, and made numerous emptures.
RUSSIAN TROOPS. RE-CAPTURE PRASNYSZ.
LONDON, Mar. 1, 1.25 a..
Five passengers on board the
A Petrograd official statement says that on the left bank of the Niemen, north of Grodno, the battle is intensifying and fighting has been. Fefendant, whmitzing the theft, raid Sardinis from London, including a lady,
curried far beyond the fortified works. There have been attacks by both that a man named the Chik asked him were relasel permision to land to Boox to sbeul it and gell'it'lộ hàm for $7.0
side was called which showed that day, as they were without the necessary Un Esy Fan, & Viressh, b Beatherton
kong on the arrival of the boat on Satur. Ng Sza Cheung, a Southertoa, b Wilson 12 sides, and hills and villages are changing lands. The artillery action at
Wei Wing Hon, a Wilson, b Southerton 19 Ossowiecs continues... when searchush Jafendunt had seven permit, for Hongkong from the Military dea. Lam, not out, for vereigns in his land; which Ip tried Authorities at Singapore. The passengers : Mowfung, cand b Viresah
were bound for Yokohama and wa under J. Lam, & Row, b Virmash... to throw away.
Wong Cho Tlag, b Vivesab... Mr. Ria And tout Superintendent of stand they were transferred to the as police, sak hu had no grounds for asking Namur. leniency; he believed defendant was “&
not upon the regiments themselves as they landed and marched in close formation to the nearest railway 11. Auction of Embroideries
Diawn Work otc., at Mesars. Haghes station. Even if we fesume that these and surimp." and Hough &
Sunday, March 7 :-
Field Day for Volunteers and Reserves.
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After a successful visit to Singapore and Defendant said to Mr. Wood that he other towns in the Bizkits Bettlements and
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ly were, a bomb-dropping air ship equipped with search-lights might have ventured upon an attack. It more evidence is required of the attor futility of dropping bomba from Chan Chik, who was also in the dock, splendid reputation e high class enter. dirigible nir-ships, it will be found in was charged with being in possession of this. the capture of Lege, Namur, and 1800-ten times the value of the diug
10 trots of prepared opium, and a fine of Maubeuge Where were the Zep was imposed. He was uzested on identi pelins when these strongholds were fication by the hesistant cook and the GREAT REDUCTIONS IN taken? We heard of grent guns, but opium was found on his premises in West
PRICES.
little of great tär-ships. In truth, the Poist,
troops were transported and landed not steal the opium, hut he admitted vicinity, the Quaints, including Misses & Jad at night, as many of them undoubted the theft in the hope of being discharged. Croxton, Maya and James, Mesars, Salie Wilson
bary, Henlett, Fagan, Carlton and Batt, Virosh Mr. Wood sentaneed defondant to three arrived in Hongkong on Saturday by the sovereigns to be handed to the Superinpon their season here tonight at the months' hard labour, and ordered the Katenng.". As already auzounced, they tendent of Exports and Imports,
Theatre Royal. The company come with a
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more existenes of that wonderful 42- centinieter mortar, which tas reduced
fort alter fort in Belgium, shows how
TROUBLE AVERTED
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL
Von, Archdeacon and Mrs. Moale arrived on Saturday and lot. for Shanghal the same
day on the Sardinia,
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A battle The enemy having been re-inforced, entered. Pranysz raged all last Friday for the possession of the town, which the Russians re-captured in the evening, its defenders surrendering....
The Enssian troops also made important progress in other sectors of the battle of Braunys, and the enemy abandoned supplies and wounded. "Altogether 5,458 prisoners were sent to the rear, of the Russian "Army on Friday night.
We badly defeated the Austrians in East Galicia, the statement adds, our troops advanced from the Tchelshva Valley on a front extending from Jassiäaretz to Roznatoff through a dense forest impassable to artillery. It was nicessary for the infantry to force a passage through the foress with the butt ends of their rifles, and bayonets. We captured" "4,000. prisoners in this forest fight.
Elsewhere the position is unchanged.
FRENCH AND BELGIAN SUCCESSES.
United Service League
The only match of any importance va Saturday was contested between the Navy and the TE's. for United Bervico Langne points. The result was a win for the Navy-
LONDON, Feb. 28, 4.10 p.m. men by the only goal scored. The Navy showed the better form in passing and A Patia communique states: We have made important progress. Yester defense, the score would have been very and the otlines 5 the north of Beas Sejour. We also gained ground between general tactics, and but for tasir excellent dry a Chirpagna we carried two German works, ona northward of Perthes much easier in favour of the Navy these points and captured two hundred prisone
“▲ LIFE SAVED.
Cel CDarling, B., who is safe to pay that thramberlain's Colie, Ollicor Commanding R. beres few years Cholors and Districos Hemody has THAT is eald and sore beat of your ngn and was on the retired list at the equared the lives of mure poopis and loved and most ha eleckert at once or it any mencement of hostilities, offered his ser-existence. It is knows all over the civilized a
more suffering than any other romely.in Jes of Chamberlain's Gungh Benedy and
Over a thousand Carmens Have surrendered in the het 'on slays, Therehave been lively artillery engagements on the height of the Meuse, We hinde some progress at Hartmannawalerkopt The Belgian netillery demolished two of the sanary's works ment, Dixmuda their infantry occupied, a farte on the light bank of the air 865)
A Belgian aristor dropped bombs the harbour and station of<d)ten-1.
little the Germans relied on the Avalon into something wore, Take a few vices to the War OfBoo and was appointed word soz its speedy euros at crampe in the The Germans fired sixty shelle at Rholm, thirty of them being »imed at
offensive power of their Zeppelins, Why construct auch ponderous, ex-
ur frambles will manner jealo to his old command. Col. Dailing arrived stomach, diarrhoea, and all ratastical paloes the Cathedral
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