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proclaiming that Germany must retain Flanders, Antwerp, Catard Tad Zeebrugge, and certain French territory," and "must also take CaİKİK and Boulogne. The Labcor Mani- festo contemplates no peace with "a triumphant outlaw and it to quite clearly recognised that there can be no League of Nations other than such Leagues" ar now exist! before the foes of Civilisation are:
ACCIDENTS TO LOGAL
STEAMERS.
Mes bas runched the Clay on accidents to four local steamera within the past week.
THE S.S.
HONGKONG,"
CHINESE ÄFFAIRS.
[Tha” “Chinam Haz” Service]
ONE DIVISION OF TROOPS YOR
BUROPE.
PEKINO; Doc. -18
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1917.
CHANG HSUN
THE QUESTION OF HIS EXILE..
THE ALLEGED FRAUDS AT
SHANGHAI
Altholigh there has been a great deal ARGEN SUMS YET SAID TO ME of discussion of the case of the former General of the Ting-w Army Chang
Henn, in diplomatic circles and in Chiness
INVOLVED.
RAISED SCRIPT.
The N.Q Daily News of Thuesda
If all the reports current yesterday
It is reported that it has bean decided to diapatah one Division of troope to ófficial: circles, the proposals made and We have already described the Europa. Britain and France will provide the decisions reached have been given last says finally defeated and publio misfortune, of Messrs. Marty & Co.'s the equipment for the troops and very little pubiicing possibly because
steaner Hongkong which struck the China will supply cotton, grains and very few persons are deeply interested. concerning the alleged sinberalement by rocks near Fort Bayard and of which veses) no further news is to hand.
vindicated.
NEWS OF THE DAY.
LOGAL AND GENERAL.
A congregation is to be held at
Degrees, on January 9th.
A. S. WATSON & Co., Ltd., the Bougniversity for cocording
WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS,
To-day's Advertisement
HONGKONG HOTEL
TEA DANCES.
THE MANAGEMENT beg to rounce that in future the CHARGE FOR TEA INCLUDING THE PRIVELEGE OF DANCING, will be #1 per head; 33% of which sum will be donated by the Hotel Company to War Charities.
J. H. TAGGART,
Manager.
Hongkong, Dec. 19, 1917.
THE CALENDAR.
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MEMOS TOR-TO-MORROW. Prince George's birthday (1909). 10.30 am and 2.30 p.m.-Auction of Toys, Xmas Trees, Crackers, etc, at Hesars. Hughes and Hough's.
GENERAL MEMORANDA,
FRIDAY, Dec. 21:-
Hongkong Stock Exchange Bettlement
Day.
MONDAY, Dec. 24-
General Holiday. TUESDAY, Dec. 25 :—
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The China Mail.
Interim dividends have been de clared by Rubber Companies sa follows:-Harpenden 25, Highland and Lowhands 10, Bidor 20, Baldt Clob 12).
The Great Northern Telegraph Co., Ltd, announce that telegraphic com. manication with Busita and Siberia west of Tchita (except with Klachts) is interrupted.
The Union Church Guild will meet to-night in the Lecture Hall, Kennedy Road, for & Social Evening. Various musical and other items will be rendered and refreshments served during an interval Members" are requested to javite their friends to this social, which will commence at 9 o'clock.
Mr. D H Blake, vice-president of
the American Trading Company of Now
THE LAERTES."
The .. Laarick (the Hung Hing | Stearnship Company), has gone down as the result of a collision with Singapors steamer. The Luertex is stated to have supit rapidly and the
Captain and crew were taken aboard
cattle
peace negotiations.
the other steamer, which stood by The Cabinet is still discussing the until daylight. The Laertes was policy to be adopted towards the South insured with Chinese Companies for $100.000.
sum total.
originally supposed, it is alleged, who Many more parsons and concerns them trusted the missing man with there money and script, have lost sums narging from Tis. 5,000 to Tis: 60,000. There are also said to be numbers of Chinees who have lost heavily
Chang Haum has enjoyed the sanctuary Portuguese sharebroker are corrects of the Legation Quarter for five months, the affair in much more serious dam His residence in the Dutch Legation has originally supposed. Batims THE PEKING GOVERNMENT: AND THE BOUTEL
undoubtedly been very humiliating for state that the amount of money involved may reach Tis. 1,000,000. Owing to thự him, always a man of action and manner in which the money is said PEKING, Doc 18. who has not only enjoyed the fullest have been obtained and to the radi The military movements are regarded personal liberty bus has also been accus. of Individuals who are supposed to have as measures to prevent a further advanes tomed to exercise an unquestioned been the sufferers, it is dificultat present by the Southern troops and to secure authority, and it has also brought up to place any accurate estimate on the better position for the North in the some very slice and very dificult probleme
for the diplomats who have acted hosts. The tradition of sanctuary which does not permis of the extradition of political refugee nor the execution of a sentence passed by the refugee's enemies without the consent of the refugee him- self has made is impossible for the Items according to reports frour varied sources, that the Portuguese bad diplomatic body to rid themselves of the built up a reputation during the bes person and problem of Chang Hsun by few yearn for honesty, and tristorche expelling him from the Legation Quarter, and because he was able to nego because such expulsion would certainly tinta business deals speedily and to the entail his acizure by his enemies, event of his customer, had secured
Many man,
but it
is stated, faith in him, and through though they are the recognized authoritien placed! of the Chinese Government, and would there barebroker obtained than be equivalent to the surrender of his other clients. When it
on Monday that he had person which they have sheltered and that large sums of money were missing, and I disappested held inviolate for five months utter surprise was evinced in numerous In view of the measures which have circles. Later, when more details of the been taken against Chang Hauh's sub-alleged fraud were learned, the
business world was astounded: ordinates and lesser colleagues, who had
It is believed that the larger portion of the ill luck to be caught, the Chinese the money was secured by forged script Government could not relieve the This was done, it is unders
is understood, embarassment of the situation by pardon king small script of Eve and on
abares, ing the old loyalist, nor was it consistent and using them to fifties
hundreds. Land exact amount of original script, in- with the dignity of either the Govenmvolved cannot be determined wond ment or the Legations to connive at his it will be many days, perhaps, before dednite can be learned. It is escape to a Treaty Port or a foreign country. If also devolved upon Chang for bat made this alleged forg
possible was the fact that the Hisua himself to protect the reputation of th
OWNETE the
Spon purchase. Baving the refraining from any attempt to escape, full confidence of his clientèle. It is sup
that it was as such an attempt would certainly have
matter for the missing men to man tcomparatively easy
as he pleased. T So Ear, the absconder is still a mystery, and effort is
to find
LUNG CHAI KWONGS
THE TONG LEE.
PEKING, Dec. 18. General' Long ChaiKwong telegraphs The .s.Tong Lee (Messrs that he has assumed as Yangkong the Thorensen & Co) is ashore at Office of Inspector General of the Two Quangoghi, close to Bangkok. The Kwang. Tong Lee left Bangkok about
[It is reported locally that General Lung Chai Kwong has crossed the straits November 25 under the charge of a with his troops from Hainan, and is Japanese Captain, for. Hongkong, making for Kwangsi.] with a cargo of rice. As far as is known, the vessel encountered bad weather and sought refuge in one of the coves on the coast and went ashore at the spot mentioned, on of about November 27. The Captain and crew are funding by, but it is not yet known whether salvage operations will prove successful.
Prim to the reeipt of the news regarding the Tong Lee, a tug had
THE MAGISTRACY,
RAW OPIUM.
Revenue Inspector Clarke charged a Chinese before. Mr. Wood this morning with the unlawful possession of four pounds of me opium.
It wa
announced
one
York and general manager for the firm been sent out by the Taikoo Dock-f defendant's person, underneath his girdle. and honour of bis distinguished hats by immediatelled to have it registered
HOND LONG, WEDNESDAY, Dec. 10, 1917. daughter, Miss Dorothy Blake, returned
LABOUR WAR AIMS,
THE British Labour Party's Manifesto of war aims, given in a telegram which appeared in last night's Ching Mail gives Germany very clear evidence of the determination of the working classes of Great Britain to wage the war till victory is achieved and the world is made safe for Democracy." It is no hysterical appeal bat a salmly reasoned analysis of the root causes of the war and a clear declaration of views as to the arrangements needed to ensure a just and per
in the Far East, accompanied by his to Yokohama by the Siberia Mart on December 2. Mr. Blake has completely recovered from the serious illness from which he bad suffered prior to his departure for home.
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL
Consul at Canton, China, has been Mr. SM. Schnare, American Vice-
assigned to the T. S. Consulate Gederal in Yokohama, for special work in regard to passports.
and 1915 was Special Commissioner in Mr. T. M. Ainscough, who in 1914 manent settlement. While this
Chins for the Board of Trade Commer- Manifesto is yet but a draft to be cial Intelligence Department, has been submitted to the forthcoming National appointed H. M. Trada Commissioner Labour Conference it may be accepted | for India.
at once as embodying the resolves and ideas generally held by the
Company to
asaist a Japanese steamer that is also ashore close to Bangkok, and it is surmised that this tug will go to the assistance of the Tong Lee. In any case, full details as to the condition. of the Tond Lee must be awaited until the Master in charge of the Taikoo tug makes his report
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HONGKONG CASE.
DECISION OF THE EBIVY COUNCIL. dars 2
We are informed that a telegram
It a stated that the opium, which was wrapped in oil paper, was found on
Mr. Wood fined the defendant $350 with the alternative" of three months hard labour..
ALLEGED PICKPOCKET.
given rise to the suspicion that his foreign foulate whereabouts of the alleged
guards had connived at his fight. This was the position adtil a few weeks ago.
Now it has been reported recently that
to
the diplomatic body and the Chinese other two Portuguese,
money, sod A Chinese was charged before Mr. authorities have agreed that the best who are thought to be
on their way to Wood this morning with the theft of solution of the difficulty is exile to some Japan, have not yet been apprehended. 310 from another Chinese at Queen's French or Dutch, and that it was finally patched a telegrain to Nagashi to have
foreign entony in the South Indian Ocean, The Portagness Consul-General has des
Road West.
understood that the French authorities the men arrested immediately upon their Defendant pleaded not guilty had made themselves responsible for his the ship they are thought to have taken. arrival, and providing they have taken Evidence, was given by the complain-transport and the surveillence of his news of them should be received bero ant who stated that he was walking person as far as one of their remote island to-day
long Queen's Road West when he felt possessions of the coast of East Africa and a
It is now alleged that the's someone pulling at his pocket. He The only difficulty in the way of this turned round and caught the defendant the jurisdiction of China, is develops that time, as was originally supposed
solution is that if after passing beyondment has probably extended over a period
of two or three years, instead of a short who attempted to escape. Complainant Chang Hun objects to being taken to the It is understood that valuable papers searched his own pockets and found bedesignated spot in the Ocean, no one and information from individuals have has just been received from London bad lost $15. The money, hanerec w have the slightest authority for tak been obtained which throw considerable
light from Hongkong to the Privy Council
it on the alleged embezzling deals: containing the result of an appeal was not found on the defendant who ing him there. He is not French had evidently passed it over to an prisoner or a Dutch prisoner, he has in
The Ohias
* hiza Press
of Saturday says: in the action, Tong Shun v. Fung
the past committed no act which would. The wife, daughter and father-in-law Ping Shan and Fung Yee Chai.
accomplice.
warrant any foreign power in regarding of the Russo-kristie Bank, named in the Romuls do Carneiro, former employé Mr. Wood found there was not him as its political enemy, so use Du J. L. Carneiro: case, were arrested cient evidence against the defendant side the borders of Chim he is as free yesterday by the Fortuguese authorities This case, it will be remembered, sed discharged him
as any other political exile and his on charge of having ma
made
false declara concerned a mortgage to the defen-
removal by force to any foreign posses- tions to his Portuguese Conzal-General. dants, who are bankers, of certain
sion and his retention there could only be › Consal Oliveira said that the Mered described as an official kidnapping, which bank man was in connection
perjory of the relatives appeal were made in Chang Hsun's babak be taken in this
the missing certainly would not be defended it an monies. Just
what
action will
the Consal, nor the Neither, the dental Power concerned." It was stated that the defendant was most futile rumours, which attempted Carneiro and
The absurd charge, hased upon the sould confirm yesterday, the persistent reports that two men supposedly E
DRUNK
An Indian watchman was charged
Sir Frederick Lugard, G.C.M.G., property claimed by the plaintiff who their labour interests of the United KingC.B., is mentioned as the probable applied to have the transaction set before Mr. Wood this morning with
Road East yesterday.
tion addressed to the Editor, not necessarily
with
certain
forther
ames and addresses with any communicadom. Labour means to play in the successor of Sir John Anderson, in the aside. The trial involved questionsbeing drunk and disorderly at Queen's to the home Government of any Occidocidode matter has not boon
for publication but as evidenes of good future a vastly more important part Govenorship of Ceylon. Sir John of law, and engaged the attention of All matter for publication should be than it has played hitherto in Anderson who has been seriously ill for the local Courts for a considerable
faith.
written on one side of the paper only.
international politics. In all the some months past, is proceeding ome. period. The original judgment of drunk and tried to create a disturbance to connect Chang Hsun's monarchy movereted in a do Lemos, had been Letters relating to business should be countries of the Allies the views at an early date.
addzensed to THE MANAGER.
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ations and additions to Advertise, media on Page 9, 8, 6, and 7. should be teat to the Chice. No. 5, Wyndham Strest, not inter than 11.30 a..
μ
Havilland de Sausaarez, and the Defendant pleaded guilty and was
Puispe Judge, Mr. Justice Gom-sentenced to a fine of $5.
or the rumour that
did not
Carpeiro had been located in
the Chief Justice was for the plain-in a shop at Queen's Road East. Hement with a German propaganda, would Fakow. The conel said that be tiff. On appeal to the Full Court was then arrested by an Indian Polica not bear an hour's investigation. These believe say of the men had ret beery here, consisting of the President, Sir Reserve.
charges were exploded and pronounced caught, but
all would groundless in every British paper in be arrested was hopeful that all China within two weeks of the collapse
A further development of the day was of the monarchy movement, and algned stares of various companies as lost or advertising of large numbers of documents giving positive evidence which stole Ose instance is that of a Chinese made the charges ridiculous were pub who claims to have turned over NO fished in some journals. If Chang Hsun shares to J. L Carneim for mortgaging were to be railroaded to Madagascar or them. The local stock exchange bosiness
nothing further haring
been heard of any other sub-tropical setting ground on મ the convenient charge of collusion with if the forged certificates, a
said to be practically paralysed because and large the enemies of the Allies, simply because quantition of the altered script were still it offered a convezient and simple way coming in to agents yesterday. In some out of an awkward situation it would be cases the altering of the fignirs had been very cleverly done, the forgery, being a grave injustice against a defenceless perceptible only when the certificaten old man, who has not only committed were held up to a strong light In
the work was hastily and other
WAR LOANS INVESTMENT TRUST pertz, the Judges disagreed, the
OF MALAYA.
President's view being in favour of the defendant bankers and the Subscriptions to November 30, 1917:——
Puisse Judge's in favour of the Applications. Amount, plaintiff; and consequently the 427,760 original judgment stood. On further 744
180,040 appeal to the Privy Council, the 102 243,870
result is that the view of Sir Havil- 204
301,000
land de Enusmarez has been upheld, 246,000
Orders for extra copies of the Ox of echo they produce in Germany, MAI should be sent as soon as possible We heard much about the desires The supply is limited. Cash 18 sta, Credit of the German Labour Party to
stake per nopy."
participate in the International Labour Conference which it was intended to
November, 1918 hold some months ago at Stockholm, January 1917.
December, but we have yet to hear that the February, Labour interests in Germany are
March, in sympathy with the war sims MEY,
April, set forth in the British Labour June, Manifesto. This document will July be challenge to theut. What August, Advertisements and Babacriptions which have the working classes of Germany October,
September, are not ordereà fa a fized period will be
ontinued until ocanterwanded.
to say on the subject, of repudiat November, Telegraphis Addrem Max Hongkonging conquests in the war; on the Code "AB.O, 5th Edition.
Alterations and additions to Advertise imenta on pages 1, 4, 5 and 8 should be ment not later than I p.m.
Bow Adrastisements should be sent In before 3pm.
Telephone No. 22.
Tas China Mary Laiko.
demand for the reparation of the wrong done
Belgiam, and the matoration of Belgian in- dependence on the suggestion MAIL that the lubabitants of Alsace and
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HONGKONG POLICE RESERVE.
Onions issued by Mr. F. C. Jenkin, D.S.P. (R.)..
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LEAVE REGULATIONS. {PARADES: "AND" DELLA).
sad the changes
and the Hongkorg decisions have pended until further orders, and the such offenses as he has committed-againkt jinst Plan$ *nd examination
285.220 therefore been reversed, final judg 180,440 ment being given for the defendant 152,470 bankers with costs both in the Privy 103,340
2
142
$14,500
.11:
74
121
117
110
166,070
Council and below.
101
201,700,
403
2.808
Departmental Order No. 87 is following will take its place
87. No member below the rank of and ardent devotion to an ident, adi-Taking
the Chinese Republic, out of deep-rooted Inspector shall absent himself from any minted as it may seem, but as marry of Cerneiro's parade, drill, lecture, practice, etc., with times demonstrated to his enemies that the Portuguese unsulate and it is under papera in still going on at out the permission of either the D.S.P. Counsel for the plaintiff was Mr.) or Adjutant. No application will be has personal qualities which entitle stood that the evidence against the three him to nothing but the fairest and most men wanted has been materially entertained unless made in writing and impartial treatment. The caly posible 178.300 Eldon Potter, instructed by Messrs armitted through the proper channels solution to the diffenity, consistent with
strengthened 9.700.0 Hastings & Hastings and Counsel Inspectors and senior ranks will suply the dignity and obligations of all parties
for the defendant bankers, was the direct for such permission, la Hon. Mr. EH. Sharp, K.C., In- structed by Messrs. Deacon, Looker, Deacon & Haraton.
ANOTHER BIG FIRE IN OBAMA.
Damage estimated at over 1,000,000
Lorraine, as well as the people of Poland, should decide their own was caused by a fire at Osoite on the destiny on the re-organisation, of right of the 18th inst. which destroyed the Balkan peoples by
the works and warehouses, of the Japan national Commission; and
Artificial Fertiliser Company and also the godowns at the Fuil Paper Milla. claration that the
the
the
The
tcom
concerned and at the same time con of his theatrical restoration. PARADES, CEXTRGU, 630xistent which justice, is, to have Chang demmed him elderly Wednesday December 19th-No Fla-Hsun exiled after a formal consideration practical service to the State or Thursday Decemberth-No. of his casa iz a Chinese military court, the cause of the Maucho House which he Company and Ambulance Platoon under to see that he reaches a port of debarca shampioned. This does not howard own Chief Inspectoration in safety and then to permit hithract from the fact that he
Friday December 31st No:1 Platos to choose for himself the hand his the very few survivors Bikes of Nos. 1 and 3 Platoons will be
A inspected by the Musketry Officers in exile. This entalls no consideration of of Chinese, who bid,
the fall-in and belors sentiment, but
the poor response produced Roll Ceylon War Loss, which met
1,551,200, which has been leat to the APPLICATIONS CUBEEPOZDENCK, Ad
and
9,900 All applications, Correspondencat de of
retory
888,500
"plies hav
received
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