EXTRA
TU THE
CHINA MAIL.
HONGKONG, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1913.
THE WAR.
(Reuter's Service to the China Meil.)
SUEZ CANAL AND EGYPT.
INTERESTING SPECULATIONS.
LONDON, Dec. 15.
THE OPIUM CASE,
CHARGES AGAINST THREE
EUROPEANS.
Mrs. Reurden, one of the three defen. dants charged with being in possession of
Would you take the luggage of a per- son who was only a ship-board acquaint- unce --You." Why not? I would do is for anybody.
Mr. Joukin: There's a chance Mr. King to soad homo, that bit of blackwood-- (laughter).
Witness I'd be delighted. (Laughter.) Mr. Taggars, Manager of the Along- long flute, said he bad kiwi a ima munied Sydney Conen, pa and on, lor abyire tou yours."
A telegram frdin Rotterdam statës jepit and with attempting to import the that the Dutch Eust-India liners have suite into-Hongkong, giu evidence' at been ordered not to use the Suez Canal } das resumed hearing this unbruing," for the present, but to follow the Cape Replying to Mr. Jenkiu, counsel for route. There will be a ten days' instead deviento (instructed by Mr. Mason) she of a weekly servicu. ',
1 I said she hnd never befora seon the boxes le
The Rotterdamachu Lloyd (manager,
in an interview, and that the decision that word produced on dgek and bearing as owing to the uncertainty of obtain. her name. Sydney Colou, whom she met ing coal at the coaling stations and that at a hotel in Piccadily, ushed her to take there was no political reason for the a few boxes. change.
Have you observed the mattor, of spell- Speculation in Holland has been in.fing your game on the boxes?--No, I have creased by the publication of a German" not. telegrany purporting to emanate from Cairo to the effect that the British are fortifying the Suez Canal nad that troops are daily landing at Alexandria whore it is estimated there are 210,000 troopa already.
General von Mackensen in mentioned As likely to command an expedition against Egypt.
ALLEGED TRADING WITH
THE ENIMY. «
Witness examined the labels and said that on some of the boxes her came was polt Reardon." One label on each. box was correct and the others incorrovt Madame Delcairo (another defendant) had never told her and she never know
of any luggage down below" in her Madame Delcaire had never not
name.
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13. Jeukin: He curried fitus, becantad
nected with tho eineistograph business? you have had them, because he was con
You have seen thon?—Yes.
| What sugt of a looking man is he?-
He is a Jewish type, smartly dressed.
'' la ho a in whứ would induce one,
a slight friend, to repose confidence in him-Decidedly..
nothing of the boxes to the ship's bold;
Madamo Deleair and she know
nor had sho" ever heard of Cohen.
Air. King: What is your explanation. of the trunks being in the, bold ?
„Witness: I could not give you any.
How long have you known Mrs. Rear- den ?-Three or four years, perhaps more. I had met her "in London at a friend's place,
Are you an intimate friend of Mrs. Reardan ?--Yes.
Mr. Jonkin, in the bor, said he pro- duced three bunches of his own keys. With those keys, in the presence of Sergt.
How did her name occur on the boxes? When I was speaking to Cohen I men:incott, ho was able to open five of the boxes in Court. He opened, boxes four and five with the key of a trunk his wife. used when travelling recently to Japan. He opened box nine with the key of the
An important che, under the rewtioned her namo several times as she Governm ne ordinance, came before Mr. was going to travel with me. Eszeland in the Magistracy to-day Messrs
Thorenson And Co., represented by Kate · Questioned regarding the keys, witness Jeneen. 9. Queen's Road
obarged with unwrally total, were said the key which opened. two of the cupboard in which he kept his wig and
with an
gown at the Supreme Court. He opened enemy firm, Pasedag and Co., resident and boxes belonged to an aid trunk she left another box with a key which opened a carrying on business at Amey; and further beland.
drawer in which he kept papers from the with paying $166.87 for the benefit of alien
Mr. Jenkin: My key" which locks my Captain Superintendent of the Polico
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mios, viz, Carlowitz And Co., Arnhol) wig and gown in my cupboard in the Reserve, the C.S.P...
Karberg and Co. and Melchers and Co.
Mr. Orme, of the Crown Solicitor's Office: Dice prosecuted and Mr F. C. Jenkin, instructed by Mr Preston (of Messrs Johnston, Stokes and Master's Office) defended
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Mr Buen, of the Import and Exports Offico, proditud.the wifests of the "Dalj Maru, showing the dispatch of live enves' of petroleum stores from Copenhagen "to the Fukien Drug Co.
Mr Jenkinsid ho admitted the
<manifeste."
Bevarding the payment to three German Arms Mr Jenkin saft he was going to cou-
Supreme Court, unlocks the same boxes. Mr. King: How many keys are there?
Replying to Mr. King, witness aid] -About 15.
she had plenty of time to throw her keys There were 14 on Heckrath's bunch- away between the time she first know Yes, so we are equally guilty or iono. the police bad asked, for her and her intorceat (aughter). “ view with Det.-Sept. Pincott.
You bourded the ship at Marseilles ?—-
Yes,
Did you put any luggage aboard in London on at Marseilles ?-In London.
Was Madame Delcaire travelling us a
tend that from the letters of the Colonial friend or as a servant ?--I asked her to Secretary, they had the permission of the come on this voyage as a friend, and I Governor, or if they had not that pormis-paid for her ticket...
defendant
for the trip to Canton and then for going on to Yekohama. One trunk and a hat box?--Yes.
Would that be suflicient?-Quite, or board.
And at Canton? Quite sufficient. We should have stayed at the hotel and would not have dressed for dinner.
sion, they could have reasonably concluded How much luggage would you require from the latters that the honestly believed they had such permission. The chief clerk in the employ of defen. date, Mr Olsen, and that Mr Sorensed, the heat of the
the firm, was absent from the Colony from Septembar until a few days
Thorensen
and Co. were the agents BRO of the East Asiatic Company of Copen bagea, s
shipping company and-importers and exporters, and the payments were made by the defendants in their capacity as agents, and to Deacon & Co., the East Asistic Company's agenta at Canton, a British firm.
20th witness wro the
wrote Colonial Socrutzey asking for permission to make payments to Behn, Meyer and Co., for foes in connection with the
The hearing was, adjourned.
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PRINCE OF WALES FUND."
DECISION 10 CLOSE IT.
At a meating of the Committes of the Prince of Wales' Fund, held at the Council Chamber this afternoon, it was decided on the motion of HE the Governor, who pre-ided, to close the fund on December 131.-
H EXCELLENCY said that he had called the members together to propose that the fund should be closed at the end of the month. When the war broke out it
there wasnticipated that would be a good deal of unemployment in
United Kingdom.
That was realised for some time, but thea
anticipation different ast of circumstances supervened with the withdrawal. .of large numbers of men from the labour amount of work necessary for the Govern Large and you have money, so I don't sou what, to jest of there being a shortage
And at Hongkong for a week?-I had plenty of clothes. I had two övening gowns and an afternoon gown.
Mr. Jonkin: We have milliners shops
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market and the
it matters. I am married, Mrs. Hear. there was an execus cf employment with
Code of cargo; and also to make den; I know.
A
shortage of
of labour. That had continued
The
payments of £174.5 to certain unnamed Mrs. Reardon as then questioned the Fund only a small sum bad bean and out of the large amount subscribed to German firms in Capton for rebates. The about the boxes. She said it had slipped
real expcoded relief of distress. Colonia? Secretary replied that he had no her memory about Cohen's boxes, and remainder, over
£5,000,00 sterling. when the steward mentioned that there band been to Deacon and Co. bring agents,
intosted and would be Melchers and Co. were the agents, and in were four boxes in the held in her name the relief of distress which might supe rene uesd at the conclusion of the war for Manila,
Bean, Meyer and Co., had been she concluded they were Caben's
the labour market. would again succeeded by Smith, Bell and Co. Both changes were made at the instigation of Mr. King And what were you do become considerably disturbed, or for other with it 2-Mr. Cohon said a representa
reasons. In the Thorensen and Co.
the meantime it did not Questioned about the payment of robates tive would come aboard at Yokohama and Appear necessary that the fund should
be added to by subscriptions from
thiu witages maid the payments were incurred take the bozes off. prior to the war.
Colony at any rate, where
new
would last so'
Mr Jenkin said that raised n
What was the date of the luncheon at people had bound themselves to monthly question of law, which he had not thought the Piccadily Hotel?-The 11th or 12th subscriptions not thinking that the war
October. of; it would form another line of argument.
long,
and Being in any case. ill all
able to afford thone monthly subscrip Way, prior to remitting the payments Was Madame Delcaire with you 7-No. tions. There were other funds for variou in this case on October 5th, to Deacon &
What sort of a man was Mr. Cohen 2 charitable purposes connected with tho Co.,
How would you describe him?-He is and there was also no doubt that presently
wou
o, did you put a permission of the Government1",
Witness answered: Because I believed very pleasans man, dresses very Walther national loan. Those two
erament!" queried Mr Jaskin -thai the permission we received from the very nice in every way; a man who would Colonial Secretary, in the latter mentioned, impress one as being a thorough, gentle covered that particular instance. Witness man.
had in his mind.
Dos, and bonum tempo in that Dead Was he an intimate friend of yours?
Agente and that infneboed him considerably.
Never, I met him at different restaurants Interrogated by Mr Orme, witness said and he was always very polite to me. We read to notice any altered condition nothing more.
proclamations in the
Gazelle
had a conversation, but beyond that * Did you between January 20 and October 5th, which
He was a hip-board would make you cautious as to payment of acquaintance. German Brosa in Canton asked Mr. Orme, Mr. Coben's scheme was to defraud answered that he had not noticed the shipping company-It is done every- There are so many quafiostry where I don't think it would be con
would be asked to subscribe to a7- charitable and, the patriotic, assisting the wuhjects, the Government with funds to carry on the war, were both objects to which "people might vary usefully subscribe. In those fand, circumstances it seam d proper too
to close the
The Hon. Mr Wet Tek stronded, and the motion was carried unanimously, while Me- N. J. Stabb, as Hon. Treasurer, and his staff ware thanked for their services, on the motion of H.E the GOVERNOR, ascunded by the Bon. Mr H. E. POLLOCK.
he got a little mixed: they were very aldered a wrong thing to take another Printed and Published for THE CHINA difficult to follow.
Mr Jenkins :-You have the sympathies, person's luggage. Cohen said the Allms,
of Benah and Bar on that subjech
The onse was adjourned,
which by sald the box contained, were
wanted at Yokohama.
Man, Idmited, by BERTRAM A Him, Ne. 5. Wyndham Street Hongkong.