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THE CHINA MAIL.
LXXIX' previous desorption of the KATHER 1 ** Drowned rodber." It la the pillage of this crowned marauder that has brought about a combination of two-thirds of the countries of
THE STRIFE IN CHINA.
HALF-HEARTED MEASURES
The cabler from Peking during the last few days show that while the
THE MAGISTRACY
- ILLICIT, OPTUM.
When brought before Mr. Wood this morning, defendant admitted possession but stated that the drug had been given him to carry. He could fad the man who had given it to him.
Mr. Wood adjourned the case until to-morrow.
A Chinese was arrested yesterday in the wide world to defeat his aggres-Presidential order to Generale Tao was Wellington Street and 17 taels of illicit tion, and to exact reparation for the and Chang Hwal Chee to food amice opium were found concealed under his wrong he has already done. LENIN, towards the south still atands, the clothing TROTZEY and Co. may yet come to President has not yet complied with so that the older democracies of the their request for the issue of the man world have diagnosed the causes of date, which is stated to have been the war correctly. Whatever may prepared some days ago, giving the be done in Russia will not weaken order to attack. The Government, the determination of the rest of the however, has responded to the request world to go on with the war till for military expenses by making an Prassianism in £nally defeated, and appropriation of $1,200,000. The President still clings to the hope of effecting 's panceful attioment, especially sa Luc Wing Ting has complied with the instruction to of Ewangtung and Kwangi and has intimated that he is willing to cancel the declaration of be independance of the province soit, Equanimem
Li Situn winned to be relieved of the nice of mediaro on hearing thad troops had been ordered to proceed south, but the President, has requested him to continue his efforts. #
the world is made safe for demoracy and we should not be surprised if the latest developments in Russia, and
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WILFUL DAMAGE.
Two Chinese youths were charged
FRIDAY, DECEMBER
"OWNER"FINED
CONTROL (AUTI.
́`· STATEMENT BY THE VICHY
An Indian money lender named |Ojagar Singh, the proprietor of the 0.8 Motor Garage at Kowloon and Wanchai, was charged before Mr. Dyer MINISTER OF COMMUNICATIONE. Ball this morning with deliberately disobeying the warning of the Police to obtain licence for the paptha which he stocked in bis premises at Wanchal for the use of motor care
Inspector Terrett stated it was merely a waste of time to make the defendant
The new Shipping Control Act of
Japan is already having beneficial effects, according to Mr. Uchida, Vice Mini-
ter of Communications. In an articlo Mr.. Uchida declares present circum written for the Kokumin Shimbun. stances testify to the opportuneness of
understand the offenes. He had to the Act, despite the adverse criticis bluster before he could make defendant recently advanced in some quarters.A
The usefulness to a nation of merca take out a licence for his stock of naptha tile marins during war time a br at bla garage at Kowlook. Defendants behind that of the Army-and aa, tacitly proved by the present had been over two months in his new world campaign. Not only the bellig premises at Wanchai, and, in spite of scents, but also neutrals have thas
bee legislated for the control. their Police warnings, he had taken ne stope tive shipping. Their principal object control over the mercantile maxine, in
especially the insistenca, on “fraternil polinquish the post of Tuspectar-General before H. Wood, this morning, with to procure-the necessary licence Dewasa to extend the scope of Government
ation" "will contribute something towards that defeat by promoting the A. S. WATSON & Co., Ltd., inevitable political changes, both in Germany and Austria. These coun- tries may never be Russianised. bot Lisame methode may quite possibly help to de-Prossianies them
WINE AND SPIRIT: MERCHANTS,
To-day's Advertisements
PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT.
NOTIFICATION.
TT 18 HEREBY NOTIFIED that on the 8th January proximo, st 3 p.m. at the Public Works Departament, and before & Committee presided by the Director of the Public Works, TENDERS will be received for the SUPPLY AND LAYING OF PIPES for Canalization of Salt Water (Extension).
The
ditions
of the tcndosing,
TELEPHONE No. 616.
The China Mail.
KONGKONG,--FRIDAY, Dec. 31, 1917.
THE GERMANISATION OF
RUSSIA.
In the news from Russia seldom is the
and the plans of the any mention made of Lasix, the
18th December, 1917.
HAUL M. 13 FARIA 1 MARIA,
Engineer Director.
"NEWS OF THE DAY.
LOCAL AND GENERIL.
Two lotereating football matches ara advartined for Boxing Day, the gatomoney to be devoted to the Halifax and the Star and Garter Funds..
A Szechuan telegram-reports that Yaboan troops are attacking Wingshuer, Pikshan, Napki, and Loochow
wilfully damaging the trees in the grounds of the French Sanitorium et Pokfulam
A French priest who appeared to prosecute, atated that there had been considerable damage done to troca lately. Ea kaew both boys who, he said, were vary bad characters.
Mr. Wood fined each defondant #5. with the option of seven days' hard
Liboar
AN OBSTINATE WOMAN:
fendant had about ten American gallons of napths in his Hongkong garage, to
if a fire broke out there he, the inspector, would be held responsible for zos making defendant take out & Reence
Defendant said he had only a little naptha in his garage in Hougknug, so ha did not see the necessity of procuring
licence.
order to expedite as operations, and waneously contribute to their oven
KELI-KACRIFICING EFFORTER" The loss to the world's shipping dus“
the ruthless German submarinigro. is ready pusst eight million tons. Since the outbreak of the war, Japan bae co specated with the Alies in China and the South Seas Although abe has
mucia do in the Pacific, she be greatly ascri ficed herself in the direction of Europe,
OVBINGBI regard to
His Worship said the matter was especially in
to.
Very seriona He would fine defendantportation of the war on Japan's Mer
$50.
The
cantile marine are the sale or chartering ing of Japancoe ships to Europe on ons hand, and a considerable reduction of foreign ships coming to Japanese A on the other. These tendencies mused no soral unsesinees as te Japan's national He A congestion of freight at home in consequence of the remarkable progress" of various indus tries since the oatbreak of the war, ban $24,205.43 | made the
"Act yet Shipping
more dest able. At this juncture, shipping tonna
has become scarcer, sa tan waai
Each army is to consist. df › two divisions. The First Army is intended to protect the provinces of Hupek and! An elderly Chinese Woman W CIGARETTS AND TOBACCO FUND. Kiangst and will concentrate on Hankow. charged before Mr. Dyer Ball thisZ
The following in the Subscription List The Second Army will concentrate on morning, with the unlawful possession
to date :--- Iehang. The province of Anhui will of a Mauser pistols
Acknowledged to 30th. also send, que brigade to Fukier by seL.' Inspector Brown stated that the
1917 Since racal red The document, in the form of defendant was a boatwoman. She was Members Kowloon
Customs Sta been held this month, has been post-sealed by the President and the Premiar, whom he alleged gave her the pistol, The Dog Show, which was to have proclamation, dealing with the situation very obstinate and refused to give the
in the South which has been signed and police any information as to the parson, Mr. O. D. Gander... 28.00 poned until next March owing to the states that the North and the South or the number of her boat ditenity in securing the ground.
7
16
have been at variance for years chiady
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per
| K. 8. S. Bab. for, For.. -
to December Mr. F. G. Becke for November.
Oct D.A. W. for Now. to
December Fremature Peace Fro
rams Penalty. Memberovicon Customs. Staff, per Mr. A.F. Reynolds for Nov. and Dec.... CB.B...
Defendant in her repen to the to preserve the Republic Republicanism Magistrate's questions, stated that a means complying with the wishes of stranger on board a steamer promised the majority of the people. It is impos-to pay her a few ten cents to take able however, to definitely ascertain charge of the pistol. If she had kiówn these wishes in China, but the people are it was illegal, she would act have tired of the continuous trouble and look accepted his offer-even for bigger GAP for order. Now that Lak Wing Ting remuneration.
Ars open to the public at reputed leader of the Maximalist or the Public, Works Department and in Bolshevik element in Ranian politics the Portuguese Consulate in Hongkong, where they can be examined all week] He is overshadowed by his former days.
Maco Fablic Works Department, lieutenant, Laos TROTZKY, whold appointment as Chairman of the
Snow fell in Peking on the night Executive Committee of the Petro of the 12th inst, and on the following grad Soviet, or Council of Workmen's day the depth of snow was reported as and
Soldiers' Delegates after being between four and five inches. Laxix's fight, gave him excep BOXING DAY. tional opportunities for bringing to The total output of the Kailan
bear his plans for the overthrow Administration's mines for the week and Tong Kai Yui have telegraphed that Mr. Dyer Ball imposed on the der Day:
suding 8th December, 1917 amounted to 69,463 too and the sales during the period, to 82,084 tong
Hongkong, Dec. 21, 1017.
FOOTBALL.
CLUB GROUND, CHARITY MATCHES.
2.30 PM
SERVICES. CIVILIANS. Admission to Stand 50 Cts."
Front Seats 20 Cts.
4.00 PM.
ENGLAND SCOTLAND.
Admission tɔ Stand $1.00. Front Seats. 50 Cta.
$413
of KARKASKY, TROTZAT is spoken
an
tent
they are willing to stop hostilities, dant a fine of $100, and ordered the naturally both sides should stop, but pistol to be confiscated,
for fear of bandits, the armies will be maintained." The document has not yet been proclaimed and it is not known whether the other Cabinet Ministers will countersign it.
10.00
20:00
44.00 ∙10,00 5.00
Guy
::the
children Kowloon Dock*...*.
25.00
30.00
m Guy
Cheque from Kow- loon Children Collected by Mr. V. E L
Shenton. List Ka^ß geh The OU Kings" 25:00
ANOTHER CAPTURE
Another Chinese, making three in all, how stands charged, with being concerned in the murder of Wang Sze, an uzish în R
the service of Mr. N. Jeremiah, at 99 Praya East on the 29th Nov, last
Inspector Terrest applied for a remand stating that a fourth m would pre bably be charged
His Worship granted the application, and the case was adjourned until next Friday.
NOT INTENDED FOR HONGKONG.
of anthe Jewish agent of the German Government.” He had been expelled from France and Spain for pro-German astivities, and was given | The police have found in a pawn an American passport to return to shop a gentleman's gold watch, by Benson. Anyone who has lost a Russia Inst March, and, a American writer has put it, America watch of this description should com- played directly into the hands of municate with the Captain SuperintendHONGRONG BOYS AT THE FRONT. | Germany, when she gave Thonzer of Polica
The following are extracts from the a pasaport, and when she sent back,
latters of two Hongkong boys Frank to unhappy Russia the horde of
A fire recently broke out at Hankow and Sydney Dealy, who went to the plotting Russians and other reds in the press packing godowns of Front from Adelaide, South Australia from the dark comers of New Mess. Mackenzie & Co. The estimated They were despatched with different York, Chicago and other cities loss on cotton burned is Tls 200,000 contingents, and although under train- There is no doubt that Law and from which a certain amount of salvage ing at the same time in England, have hie gang cleverly “doped", the world, will fall to be deducted. The following not yet met since leaving the Common- Proceeds will be given to the Halifax·
for LENTS had been protesting insurancecompanies haveñoating policies wealth. They hope to meet sometime, and Star and Garter Fands. Aenergetically against what he called on the various compartments:-The "somewhere, in France. The older,
& Chinese quarter-master was charged 12410 the slanderour statements spread Moji, The Tokio, The Scottish Union: Frank, is private in an infantry before Mr. Weed this morning, with by capitalists against the Bolshevik the Liverpool, London and Globe. The regiment: his brother Sydney has a unlawfully possesing 20 tacks of pre- First Presentation anywhere in Party" to the effect that they were Yangtee and The Northern Insurance commission, in the Australian Flying pared opium other than Government China of the Grent Spectacular in favour of a separate peace with
Coy. Germany. One extract from a state- mant written by bim just before the Bolshevik revolution reads: "To as the sapitalists of Germany are plain pirates, like the capitalists of Raisin, England and France Emperor WILHELM is a crowned robber, like the rulers of Eagland, Italy, Rumania and other nations." On the question of a separate peace, [3411 LENIN'S views bare evidently
***1.zm
DAMON AND
PYTHIAS
5 Reals of LOVE, ROMANUE and DARING:
VICTORIA THEATRE,
MATINEE MONDAY.
VICTORIA
THEATRE
ONE NIGHT ONLY.
Spenial Engagement of tăn
DAMON AND PYTHIAS.
The magnificent photo-drama, Damon and Pythias, will be given its first presentation at the Victoria Theatre on Monday afternoon. This spectacular drama is in Exc parts, and each scene is one of wondrous
Corps.
France, 14th Oct 1917. You must not be surprised or worried if letters do not reach you sé frequently We have been continually on the move daring the past few days, and no means of despatching letters have been at
***
a
opium.
It was stated that the opium was found tied around defendant' waist sa he was going asbere in a sampan.
Defendant's statement was that he hand his last letter, Syd tells me that bo to take it to Shanghal i
bought the drug in Saigon and intended has obtained his commission, and may Mr. Wood sentenced the defendant possibly be sent to Euypt. Of course he wishes to fly in France to start with to fine of $1,500 with the alter-
You cannot imaging the awful
1state of
ative of six months bard labour. the ground on which we have been fight- ing. It is simply one mass of shell-holes which, in some cases, develop into dan-
THEFT OF BRASS. garbas bog-holes: One's feet are never for more than a. few hour at a time. changed, but we have yet to hear beauty, the producers having at the
BIS at prosent s
sitting in oue of A cools was charged before Mr. Wood whether he still adheres to the view greatest expense and after months building in front of which there is a quantity of breas from the Taikoo
Fritz'a old
gun pot- solid concrete this morning with the larceny of that the Emperor WILL of research pictured faithfully Greece large-sized thelbele full of water. crowned robber. No one, but at this period of its power and pomp feature of the locality.
fact is the predominating Dockyard fool would expect Germany to be It is at the era when life is filled compare cluster of tree stumps.
Scattered at vario
various points Of the prepared for a peace with Russia with the thrill of battle, the games, all that remain of the woods that misted which would fit in, with the atopian the chariot races, the grace of the
in the days of peace. ideas expressed in the Bolshevik
It is all indeed very hertible, and the military programme, as it has been
dances, all in scenes of medieval end of the war is not get in fighter
I did think that, the splendour; and through all shining nearing its-climaz bulunce I have LENEX wants will not be to the like great light the everlasting actually participated in i ny opinions have changed. However, to grumble is liking of the German malere. One story of the friendship of Damon and of no avail paragraph of his tonifesto in Pythias, the crucible in which it was these terms “Finally we must tested and from which it came forth encourage at once every attempts gold leaving the world a lesson made by the soldiers on both sides that is as imperishable as the truth of the line to fraternise in order it carries.
FANTASTIC stated by Lust A peach each sa
STARS
SUNDAY, DEC. 23rd, 9.15.
IN A NEW AND VARIED PROGRAMME.
THE CALENDAR.
that these instinctive manifestations
on
of solidarity may ripen into scioua, organised movement to plaas the Governmental owner of every belligerent nation in the hands of the revolutionary proletariat which MEMOS. FOR TO MORROW.
alone can restrain the
hand of capitalism Winter. Bolatieć. Chinese Holiday.
The whole 1030 am--&uction of Jewellery at purgo of the WEE BEKİNEL
Auction
p. Mator
Hughes and
and
FANTASTIC STARS AT THE
VICTORIA THEATRE.
On Sunday night the Fantastic
Stars will appear by specia
thent at the Victoria
erformance, Bor
Water
Defendant pleaded guilty.
It was stated that the brass was found the around the man's legs as he was fearing the yard.
Mr. Leo, d'Almada who appeared to defend the prisoner, requested His Worship to take a lenient view of the cence. The defendant had a wife and two children dependent on him. He had been taking opium resntly and got into bad company. He had been in the
half, and during that time he had tarvice of the Dockyani for a year and
borne's good character.
Military Hospital Friday, 25th Oct 1917. Ihave been here 10 days nowthers 3.0 to Egito, collect and ar buck ult of a serious crash. I was sent from
D. H. & Scout (on bich I gedn
["graduated). It was very oll, and had only been tested on the ground. They would not Mr. Wood sentenced the defendant test it in the air. I was sent up on it, to one month's hard isbour.
got up to 200 ft and when going down
wind, it was, No nose-heavy, that the
nose went down like a ston. I hit the UXPORTING SILVER DOLLARS. ground at 100 to 105 miles an hour, made two somersaults, and the wreckage of
the machine was strewn ove
of 3 yds. I suffered considerable from face cuis sad
and have all
buses
wad in thres placesă
fract
hope to
official enquiry abost cally got my wings
ves due to Franca Dekh 21skall be unit fór
Very annoyed abou
pat
Chinese was brought before Mr. Fall this morning on the charge morð 30 silver dollars
G.A.P COTER $10 G.T.E AW.LB
MAHAY
4. EGG.BL
JB.D.
G.HED AS, UKB WAL Q.H.P.B. G.B.A ERT GCM 8HDRS, NAM ~@ $0.00
13:00
150,00 9.00
145.00
EA, J.BKK, @
18.08
AWS, BEH
WB.J.B.KWJ.
$3
W.N
RT. ETC.D.,
W.JMANHAJ G.A. TB.W.L
D.R..
Moore: LS. DEM, G.ML, Cobb, T.C.N., H.F.C
$1.00
00
#582.00
tober 1917
1917541 $2.305.20 Since expended :: 10000 Cigarettes for cutertainments (local)
20
Cigaretter and
121 Iba, tobacco for local troops w Garrison Sorgente 1875 Cigaretter to
200.000
-
Cigarettes sont to the Troops: at the Frontales
Balance in band”:
813.68
323,7877.43
W. DOWLEY,
Hon. See & Tresauror
in
lawn export her articles harried...?!
view of threatened blockade of mercantile traffic between Europe and America A remedy more urgently. quired was in regard to the rising o
of freight rates, due to the scarcity of bot koms. It caused the cost of coal to gu Un exorbitantly, thereby badly affecting the productive industries
TES SHIPPING AOT KAYITABLE The Japanese merchants concerns urgently requested the Government. "bo devise some remedy or other to re- lieve the situation. Simultanenasly the Allies repeatedly
Japan for Under these
of bottomed
a supply of
circumstances, the Government had no zay open but to enact the recent Act, in order to Accomplish
duty sa
Chan her
ORE
of the Entente Powers, to normalize Japan's own shipping traffic, and to relieve national fears. Moreover, the U.S. embargo on shipbuilding materials, also, compelled Japan to promulgate the afore mentioned regulations.
GREAT REDUCTIONS ALZHAUT" FORCED A The Shipping Control dat gives ths- Minister of Communications full powere of shipping administration, but thr authorities concerned would endeavou to avoid cou
compulsory
measures as fa
as possible se to the allotment of lines,
es, freight and charter rates, etc. Not
eren
so many days have elapsod since the enforcement of the Ack but the charter rate of 47
47 yen in August has already de clined to 41 yen
en in September and 25 yen in October, the lowest the highest is tratỏ this month being $3 yen while less than 30 yen. The freight rate- for coal between Moji and Yokohams went down to 7.30 yen from усп in September and 10 yen in October. Cargo congested in various places page exceeding 400,000 tons, has now. declined to 200.000 tons. Shipping prices also fell to 600 from 800 yes. The Govern ment is new paying special attention to the satisfactory distribution of bottoms especially for the India trade, în to the
of
the settlement of + the relative amounts szporta and imports.
Some parties hare, suffered from the decline of shipping prices, charteraze and freight rates, but this is unavoid- able, as the present is a transitory period. A nordial state will be established a -nóvnd in dna course”
SPORTING
LEAGUE. FOOTHALL.
H.K.F.CY MIDDLESEX BEGT.
A match is to be played on the Club ground af p.m. to-morroEK.F.C. Team ---Goldenberg, Cave, McCubbin, Reichelman, Stewart. Rodgers McTavish, Chamels, Gerrard, Irving and Stallferica
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