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TO-DAY'S CRIMINAL
SESSIONS.
YAUMATI MURDER CHARGE.
TYPHOON WARNING.
| The following telegram was recolund at
· the American, Consulato "General from Manila Observatory at 10:30 am. Angust 18:
Cyclone or typhoon dast of Laser, more than 500 miles distant, direction naknawa,
the two lovers changed their position when the barometric pressure fell to 410 mm. (18 in.) of mercury, which corresponds approximately to the pressure at the top of Mout Blanc,
I don't think I am going to die. "Che the altitude of which is 4810 m. of my foki's has lately been dismissed by (13,780 ft.) The explosion, therefore, missed him from the Yuen Ting tobacco 100. He is named Wong Hi Ch, I dia- had led to a sudden barometric or shop a 488 Shanghai Street. I am the static depression in the room where tobaces to s shop. On my return
master. Tonight at p.m. I was taking the instrument was placed dis-as passing at the back of the Tauenti LAWN TENNIS TOURNAMENT,
two mon fulluring me, I cannot Government School as I usually
du
identify either of them. They suddenly passed a hand of me and eich of them stabe
I
SPORTING.
Entries In Men's Doabiss.
tance of less than 3 m. (less than 10 ft.) from the point where the shell burst, of at least 760-410-330 mm. bed a with a knife. I cannot identify The entries in connection with the |(13,83 in.) of mercury, corresponding which I was stabbed. Qué of the nonment are as appended:-"
then This is the sort of knife with | Hongkong O. C. Men's Doubles Toums. from the formula generally used in ring black and the ather blue Byes.-G. W. Sawall and.. C, D. Stark aerodynamics, to a driving velocity clothes before this affair. I have never (rco. 1d); T. A. Loughlin and 3. Baving seen this usa (prisoner.) I + suspect this tad (roc. 3/6); W. J. lodge and J. He of the air of 276 m. (905 ) per Wong Hoa Chi belongs. After I wan} Sim (reo 1/6) S.. E. Groon and Dr. is the work of Tung Hun's party to which Donald (scratch): H. Muriel and E. L. stabbed I chased the two men who stabbed Lindsay Woods (ore 10/9): W. J. Morrison.
second and to a dynamic pressure of 10,360 kg. per sq. m. (2123 lb. per ૧)
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 18, 1915.
BY
TELEGRAPH.
THE
PROGRESS OF
THE WAR.
BRITISH TRANSPORT SUNK
IN THE AEGEAN SEA.
me. I could not catch them. I chased and N. J. Austin (scratch); J. MOL. A LARGE NUMBER OF TROOPS
tham a long way. A Chinese constable joined in the abase. When 1 fell down
the twan men ware only about twelve feat
Ahead'
Thin, the lying deposition of a man and Wong Tao, tobacco merchant of important part in a murder charge against 448 Shanghai Street. Yaumasi, played an a man named Woag Fuk at the Criminal Scelona to day.
Walker and G. Maltby (rec, 3,6).
To Play.. F. de Rome and K. B. Reed (ow 3,0), verses T. W. Hill and A. H. Crow (red. 3,5); W. G. Warcaster and S. 5. Moore (owe 9/8) versus R. Hancock and R. P. Thursteld (owe 3); G. Miskin Wood and E. Mitchell fowa 26); F. and R. St. Amery (owe 46), venos J. R. Batton sad. A. Biden (ows 10), vereda 11. Hancock and P. Leigh Bennett (own 15/1); Wong Fuk was charged before the Chief N. E. Kent and W. N. Ford (ore 15/4), Justice, Bir William Reas Daries, with versus H. A. Nisbat and E. Ormiste avere murdating Wong Tao with malice storm- | 14/3); A. J. Gace and A. A, Claxton (owe 3/6), voraus E Bayabay and Smith (scratch); C. Thorna and .P. P. J. Wodehouse (own
Such a dynamic pressure, however, produced, has for effect, to burl up | into the air, ar to crush on the ground, all the living Beings directly exposed to it, whilst in the case of those who are sheltered behind any kind of [protection," the very sudden static
depression of the surrounding atmos-though phere which ensues comes into play. In regard to these latter, the air and
EU), varsa E. E. Abraham and W. H. carbonie neid in solution in the blood,
Vivessh (owe 3,6); R. F. Hall and 4. Whitmarsh (owe 18), vomas C. J. Hewitt in a proportion which is the larger The jury ampanelled in follows: and M. M. Mana owe 15/3): L. N. Murphy the higher the ambient atmospheric Masts WL. W. Wonser (foreman) F. F.xd F. W. Cary (owe 13/3), veraus De
Duckworth, J. ML Vieira, Mathieson, Forsyth and Colonel Crisp (owa 18). pressure, are disengaged from the W. E. Roe, A. Abdoolrahim and Y. blood in the shape of minute gaseousThe facts, mid the Attorney General, were bubbles, as soon as the pressure de-faw add simplu, and arusaally shart for These bubbles are driven into the very artfai consideration, but the facts creases too suddenly from any cause but that the facts would not require tha majority of murders. He did not racan
small arteries under the influence of the pressure exerted by the heart. If
The Attorney General, Ms. J. H. Kemp procuted on behalf of the Crown and prisoner was defended by Mfr. Alabaster instructed by Me. Agassiz of Mexers Hard. ing and Agassiz.
Luncom
were But
complicated. In's warder charge there was seldom evidence of * direct nature, but usually it was circumstantial.
The bunt of three sots will be played. August Soth; the weed maad by Septem The first round has to be played off by bar Brd; and the third wound has to be completed by September 10th.
and blaas on &ugust 23rd.
Hall and Whitmarsh will meet Hewitt
A murderer, aszale, did not HONGKONG POLICE RESERVE.
A. S. WATSON & Co., Ltd., their diameter is greater than that of attack his victims openly but generally got
HONGKONG.
dotm. Powell, Ed.
'PHONE 346.
GENTLEMEN'S
HIGH-CLASS
TAILORS.
NOW
SHOWING
NEW DESIGNS IN
IRISH AND SCOTCH HOMESPUNS
IDEAL FOR
SPORTS
HONGKOND WEDTestay, August 18, 191ō.
KILLED WITHOUT BEING
STRUCK BY SHELL
him to some place where the action was pet likely to be observed. In the cass fo them they had the statement of the decussed which was some evidence, taken shortly after the occurrence. The deceased did not identify the prisoner and the rest of the ovidence would be circumstantial. the jury to infer from that circumstant al The Attorney General said he would sak
evidence that the prisoner must have been the man who assaulted the deceased.
Certain siruumstantial evidence of that kind might not be so convincing as the direct evidence but it was evidence upon which one acted everyday, not only in the Law Courts, but also in the affairs of every day life; we draw "conclusions or inferences froci circumstances
prosecution were unable
to
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the small arteries, they form so many gaseous plugs, which instantaneously stop the blood circulation. They are produced the instant the atmospheric depression takes place, and death occurs before there is time for them to disanive back in the blood when the ambient atmospheric pressure returns to norinal. The sudden action required to bring about such a state of things is the characteristic feature of the shattering -nitrated explosives now used, which combine power and ONE of the consequences of the instantaneity both far in excess of present war will be to revolutionise those possible with the use of black the art of killing human beings with power. The projectiles charged with 'gua-fire, this being the final object of these explosives were at first destined artillery, and not the wutton destrue to destroy all kinds of fortilled works tion of houses, buildings, cathedrals and to demolish trenches, and the even, and the making of more or less discovery of their unexpected action large holes in the ground. On the upon living beinge is quite as import various fields of battle men havant as the discovery of the new ex-regards the chase and the arrest they Secretary for Foreign Affairs whether, in frequently been found stark killed plosives themselves. Their radius of exactly in the position they occupied action is less than the possible one when the shell which killed them of shrapnel, but they are more deadly exploded, the men showing no sign than the abrupnel, ipt in their radius
show in that case any express malice on the part of the prisoner against the deceased. At Erst sight that might sppons as a flaw in the evidence, but the law presumed that in every homecide it was not ancambent on the prosecution to show
that the defendant had any express that homicide was something ions than that. The facts could be divided into tärse groups, the stabbing, the chase and the arrest. For the facts of the stabbing the dying deposition of the deceased. As the prosecution were dependent wholly an
malice it was for the defendant to show
etable, a hawker and another Chices
of wound. These men when they of action no living being escapes, to distant from the scene of the neur
met their death were generally pro- tected from the direct action of the bursting shells. The shells in yes. tion are those fired by the French 75
whilst the shampoel is dangerous only when one of its balls or Ingments strikes hume..
Q. C. Guard, Acting-Tnspector J. M. Woog.
(Sg) F. C. JESKIN,
D. S. P. (Retro).
THE FAR EAST IN PARLIA- MENT.
THE BRITISH AND RILOCHON. „ (July 7.) Mr. Jowets make the
ON BOARD.
GERMAN COLUMN PRACTICALLY ANNIHILATED..
-TRIESTE EXPECTED TO FALL SOON.
THE GREEK GOVERNMENT RESIGNS.
(Router's Service to the China Mall.)
BRITISH TRANSPORT SUNE.
32 OFFICERS AND 1,350 TROOPS ABOARD,
LONDON, Aug. 17, 1.50 p.m.
The Admiralty announces that the British transport Royal Edward" was sunk by an enemy submarine in the Aegeun Sen on Saturday.
She had aboard & officers and 1350 trooper in addion to the crew, 220 of the troops were mainly reinforcement of the 29th. Division and Details of the Army Medical Corps.
Fall information has not yet been received, but it is known that about 600 were myed.
GERMAN COLUMN PRACTICALLY ANNIHILATED.
GASSED BY THEIR OWN. GAS..
LONDON, Aug. 17, 3,40 a.m.
A telegram from Petrograd states that it has just transpired that Es Garman column has been gassed, by their own gas at Ossowiecz.
Recently 3,000 Germans advanced ut dawn with a view to storming one of the forts. They wore preceded by an asphyxiating cloed. The wind suddenly. changed and the Geniais led panic-stricken to their fortress. Gups shot them down by hundreds, while the Gemun urtil- lery, not realising the reason for the light, also shelled them.
The column was practically annihibited.
TRIESTE TO BE OCCUPIED BY
END OF THE MONTH.
THE
LONDON, Aug 17, 11. p.m.
4 telegram from Udine states that the reports from the front ay thas attack and that it is expected to result in the occupation of the Carso General Cardorna has almost completed his preparations for a fresh goal
mild have the evidence of a Chinariew of the joint nature of the military constable who took part in the rest. operations at Kiao-chew there was now taken place on July 9th at 8p.m. and British of the affairs of the port of
The murder
WAS alleged to have any joint administration by the Japanese" close to the Government school at whether any British Consul or Vice-Conmal Taumati, and prisoner was 3:00 running had yet been appointed there?
Lord Robert Cecil, whereplied, mid the resta. Prisoner ran into soothes, street answer to the first part of the question was was aght near the Kowloon mortuary patt, & British Vice-Consul was appointed and eventually into Nathan Road where he the negative. As regarded the second The decenrod gave chase and fall down in at Kine-chow in 1911, and still continged Man Ming Lane. He was safering fromto represe British interests at that port.
Mr. King: Is it intended that the The fall of Gorizia and the entry of the Italians into Trieste may be Kino-chow, without any referenen to our Sir, Alabaster said it would be sear in Japanese shall have permanent control of expected by the end of August or the beginning of September.
did not think he was going to die..
rights and position thera His Lordship observed that the question
Lord Robert Cecil said noat did got arise
descretion of the Magistrate.
two wounds in the abdomen.
mu. guns. There is no noxious gas LATEST SHAKE QUOTATIONS. the statement that the deceased said he koown which is capable of producing such an instantaneous effect, and
The share quotatious pablished on the
WEAR certainly none is evolved from the back page are those declared at the moming of a dying deposition rested eabrely on the nut of the question.
Fit Guaranteed.
THE DIARY.
General Memoranda.
VAIDAT, Anguri 20,-----
President Poincaré's Birthday (156)
Mr.
PASSENGERS EXPECTED.
Per P. and O. steamen, Woldazia. From London August 7-Mr F. L. Jarrett, Mr Gascoigte. Mr. A. H. Barlow,
Per N. Y. Ks Kitano Moru. From
shells, seeing that the high tempera-eeting of local stock hookers. Delow we
Lalaster: I don't pross the tures developed by the detonation of
give the aftermos ductuations.
Douglas Steamships this morning had much that I certainly wont press the
objection. The "statement help us the high explosives now used for xdvanced to 970 aalee from last night's objection. charging shells, explosives which are
price
of $67 buyers, and this afternoon Continuing, the Attorney General mid strengthened to 870 sales and boyers, that when, the prisoner was arrested he trinitrated hydrocarbides (benzol, strong
resisted very strenuously and the constable Chinn Sagnes have dropped, half a point, had to draw his trungborn. Both fell to phenol, tolval, naphthol), of the being quoted this afternoon at 8197 reller, the ground and waistance was rendered London July 31.-MH North, Mrs aromatic serics, can only lead to the Indu combised are stendy at 813t by another constable. At the statin Rouse and children. ' giving out of carbon monoxide and sellers.
prisoner said he 1&2 because the Bubutput for the past four weeks is wounded, man chased him and before the
Per * N. Y. K. 1.5. Fushimi Maru. From Cramogen, two gases which are but 1,282 2
Magistrate, thinking, claerved the At London August 14-Mr and Mrs &. T. law in their action.
torney General, that his other statement Campbell, Mr and Mrs Muir and infant, NEWS OF THE DAY. was walking along a street in Yaumati Plumb, bir W. H. Stapleton, Sir C. 1.
was rather daniaging. the prisoner's id he Miss Orenden, Mrs Chance, Mi when he heard a disturbance from fighting. Stapleton. Today is the oughty-fifth birth lay
The men are killed by a sudden [stoppage in blood circulation, and it
"I walked away and a Chinesaconatario carr me and cassed me. I did not know anyone
in interesting to note in this connec-anniversary of the Eosperor Francis Joseph man duped into was by the mudbinations of Austric Hungary, the unfortunate okiting was chasing mo. I was so badly of Persin.
Ition an explanation put forward by Mr. R. Arnoux before the French Society of Civil Engineers after the
·
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Three Filipinos chuiged with being reading of a paper recently stowaway pu the ss. Chiyo Mare" from Major Ferry on French, Gen Mati in Hongkong were sentenced to six and Austrian gans Mr. Ameurred labour sach by air Wood
the Magistracy this morning. received, du January last, from a superior officer commanding at the 11a.m.- Auction of Boots and Shoce,Front pocket uneroid barometer
police Household Farnitura, etc. at Messrs. which Inul been rendered unscrvice
Baturday, August 21
Hughes and Hougb'a..
Tursday, August 24': -
St. Bartholomew's, Day..
WEDNESDAY, August, 253-----
|_ 5,40 a. pl. -Full Moon,
pan is when, when he saw the verband in a guany bag 180 taels of pra
eming to another sampen, dropped
targa, was charged before Mr Wo I At red spiam at Causeway Bay sesterday the entry this mor ing and slopeed to six months' hard biboak.
injured that I became unconscious. I told.
THE END OF A CHINA CLIPPER.
The Norwegian hargne Fiery Craw recently sunk by a Gertuan subamarine of
Flatsan
RESIGNATION OF THE GREEK GOVERNMENT.
A' VENEZELIST ELECTED PRESIDENT,-
Loxpo, Aug. 17,
A telegram: from Athens, states that the Greek Goverment has resigned.
LATER Prior to the resigilation, the Chamber, elected u, Venozolist as Pre- sident by 182 votes to 13 against the Government enndidate.
RUSSI INS REPULSE A SERIES OF GERMAN ATTACKS.
BOMBARDMENT OF KOYNO CONTINUES.
Loxnux; Aug. 17, 4
A Pairogend emmunique states: The Germans in the Bausk district,
The Police I did stab not anyone. E don't know him; no knife or weapon was found on me. I know nothing of this matter."
it seed bed Exo words in the clipper that Sgured so prominently in the bardinent of Ravno continues incessantly, while furious fighting between Evidence was then called. Dr. Moure the Scilly Isles, was the celebrated China u ve again been driven back towards the An River The German bou- women which had pe famed the intestine grent ten races of the sixties. She was the River Narea and Eg ended in the repulse of a series of German in places Death was due to hemorr-built in 1850 to replace the older attacks.
from, which had been wrecked, in the
Mc. Alabayte Would death be accele previous year, and Mr. Basil Lahtask, in rated by deased uning any distance?hie fascinating work on The Chisi Crip
Witness: Fro
peg. She was commanded on bor Would it bave been possible to sage his maiden voyage by Dallas, who had been se life it he had rot run No, I don't think cessful with the first Fiery Cross. Thou Richard Robinson had her until · 1886, and Dr. W. J. Goodman gave
under these two famous släpper she proved woll nigh invisible, receiving the premium
60
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the effect that he was present when the deceased deposition wis taken by Mr Lindsell, Folice Magistrate.
ALLIES DECLARE OCTION CONTRABAND.
d
SIGERMAN INTRIGUES IN AMERICA.
"FURTHER "DISCLOSURES.
able by the explosion close to it of
Losuos, Aug. 17. 11. 15 .. German high-explosive shell On
A telegrain from Washington states that the Government has been officially but authoritatively invised that the Allies intend to dechre examination, the speaker found the
for the Brst yesal la dock on ao fewer cotton contraband. It is stated that the decision as already been barometer to have been simply put
SMART SENTENCE ON A Mr. A'abatur, porting the original de hehind in 1864 and 1808. Besides remain
than four cocaf ns, and being only 24 hours réauled, but that the delay of the announcement is due to the necce out of order. It had ceased to act
HIGHWAY ROBBER. pratio: intermed his Lordship that & putying in the focalroub of the taging for years sity of the Allies making uniform arrangement
alteration, had been mide. because one of the two transmission
longer than any sither vessel, she outlived Seven your har labour was the senseid the Crown Solicitor had pointed out to race of 1860, won by the beautiful Ariel, Mr. Lindal, Police Magistrate, osed, all her contemporaries". In the great tan levers, connected with the hand, and sing Fuk, by the Frinne Jurye at the Court that his Engilah was ambiguous and time, and when in the Downs was obliged tence paased upon a Chinese named Tang bf, when the casa rame before the Lower the Furry Crus bald the lead for a long which normally bears on the other Criminal Bessions this morning on an in the Crown Solicitor oaked, him if he could to anchor because of a sale that sprang up. tever, had shifted and had, instead, who admitted the charge, asked for Witness remembered that in Anwar to his that of New York, and was afterwards sold in
dictment of armed robbery. Frindace reinemhar exactly what deceased bad said1a 1871 slie deserted the London trade for taken up position underneath leniency saying that he was forced to questions deceased aid he had never sconto the Norwegians. this "uhher lever. This could only commit the robbery
The CrownSalleitur, Mr. F. M. Holga,Mt, EsaR. Dorey, Acting Government
the prisoner before this business. have been produced by an abnormal prosecuting, said the case was rather shad Analyst, giving evidence regarding a knife swelling out of the useroid system, one, because it was committed on the which was picked up, sald be found at due, as is manifest, to a considerable farmer and he had been given a sum of
highway The man who was robbed was of namilian bloed on the knife.
strument had acted as a minimum rall coins and was carried to two bukoba. Witness Yes.
purchase of opium. The money was in of any animal QAL
peacock but it may have been the blood
recording instrument. After shifting He was waylaid on the road to Tai Po by It may have been pig's blood Ye .m.- Niybt Aquatic Fits at V.R.C.the two levers back to their original vera med compelled hift to give up the witness-Ter
two man who,thrtened bum with Aurol
His Lordship Was it recept blood? Hall procesis for Ogrotten sa position by hand, and then placing caiver 3250 of the $100 and remslever topdered
money Rainer admitted that here Details of prisoner's Errest a then the instrument under the bell of a was probably taken by the other rubber, Cara protestifie
FITDAY, August 27-
Hongkong Brock Exchange Settlement
Day.
Saturday, Aug, 26:
Tob do Fand
German intrigues, includes a letter from a Gornian agent in Chicago The New York: World, in a second instalment of documents prov
Germaní financial director, Dr. Albert, suggesting the acquisition of the Wright Aeroplane Werks at Dugton
Lo
barometric depression; the little in-8400 by his son to take fo Tai Polar the Mr. Alabaster It was not the blood of Diarrhoei Remedy should be The Evening Post says that the World has proved that are sums
ARE YOU GUINT ON A JOURNEY 1 The World, in an editorial, states that the Government at Washing?
Con can no longer afford to close their syen to the German official con HAMBERLAIN'S Colic, Cholera sad spiracy against the peace and wolfare of the United States, packed in your hand, leggage, when going ous journey.C Change of water, did, The Evening Telegraph states that it should be an easy cuter to
of German gold have been spent in the United States. and Leinperature xli tend to produce" bowel trouble, and this medicine carmot benve Count Bernstorfi recalled and other undesirablas deported bub secured on board the bain of steamship, the disgusting fact remains that a nailer of American citizensh It may save much suffering and indeuyeukold theraselves for German gold Janne it you havo 20 handy: - For Malá 12 ALE Chembur ajo SurakpersLH
The Evening de rejoices that the fight has now been transferred.