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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7 1918
TELEGRAMS.
Continued from Page 1)..
THE SUPREME WAR COUNCIL.!
DETAILS NOT TO BE PUBLISHED.
LONDON, Feb. 5.
N.Y.K.. MEDITERRANEAN SERVICE TO RE-OPEN..
Toxio, Feb. 5 The Nippon Yosan Kaisha line han decided to re-open its service via the the MediterraDOEK.
BRITISH EAST AFRICA.
ITS IMMENSE POTENTIAL ENERGIES.
NAIROBI, Fab, 3 In the House of Commons, replying to Mr. Asquith, Mr. Bonae Law stated
A mass meeting has enthusiastically that the last meating of the Supreme and unanimously requested the Imperial War Council at Versailles, after careful Parliament to appoint ex-Governor consideration, decided that in view of Gironard Military Governor of British the important military considerations East Africa, for the period of war with involved, it was imposible at present, powers to organise the Colony's efforts without giring valuable information in the direction of utilising inch to the enemy, to publish further portion of its population as is available detaile or explanations regarding militarily to develop its immense the enlargement of the functions potential energies and resources in the immediate produstion of commodities of the Supreme War Council. understood the discussions at the Con which are urgently required." ference dealt almost exclusively with The plan of campaign for 1918 and Cherstore it was impossible for him to give any information.
GERMANY'S TREATMENT OF.
, PRISONERS
FURTHER REPRISALS
CONTEMPLATED.
LONDON, Feb. 5.
He
In the House of Commona, Mr. "MacPherson, Parliamentary Secretary to the War Office, stated that informa tion received showed that undoubtedly the German authoritics placed officer -war prisoners in localities expecially subject to air raida. A similar notion was contemplated in England (Loud Cheers).
11,120 NON-COMBATANTS KILLED.
LONDON, Feb. 5. In the House of Commons, Mr. Bonar Law stated that since the war 14,180 non-combatant men, women and children had been killed by German submarines
and aircraft.
|
Mr. E. 8. Grogan, Lord Delamere and others emphasised the urgent necessity of organising the entire resources of the protectorate in order to provide for the immediata require
THE CHINA MAIL.
THE POWERS OF THE SHIPPING CONTROLLER.
THE CHINA MUTUAL SN. COS
CASE,
The case of The China Mutual Steam Navigation Company. (Limited) Sir Joseph Maclay, Bt. was decided on Nov. 18th by Mr. Justice Bailhache, sitting as the Commercial Fudge in the High Court of Justice
His Lordship held that the order of the Shipping Controller contained in his letter to the plantiffs of March 8 was ultrav ires, as he bad no power to requisition the services of the owners as the letter parported to do
Mr. Leslie Scott, K.0. Mr. F. D. Mac- Kinno, E., and B. G. U. Keogh appeared for the plaintiffs: the At- toras-General (Sir F E Smith, K.03 (Sir Cordon the Solicitor-General Hewart, K. and Mr. G. W. Bicketts for the defendant
JMOMENT,
ing whore posible with the owners incerely trust that in the grayG
Himes through which we are passing owners will fall in of their own free will, and un
THE DEVICES OF THE OPIUM SMUGGLER.
reasonable terms with such arrange OPIUM IN KUSICAL INSTRUMENTS,
ments as the Shipping Controller may think necessary. should deeply regret Fit if any judgment of mine made his tsak more difficult or in any way hindered the wise and energetic use of four undly depleted tonnage.
Hr. Mackinnon said that he was instructed, if judgment was given in the terms of the declaration, not to my anything about costa.
Solicitors ---Mears. Stokes and Stokes, agents for Moars. Cameron, Maclver, and Co., Liverpool for the plaintifs; the Treasury Solicitor for the defendant
DO WE HATE ENOUGH ?.
The following story of the discovery
of opium is told is the Manila papere
It all came about through the fondues of a certain customs officer for It happened like Chinese music.. this.
The Customa man, after passing on all of the baggage of the performers, picked up one of the korne that is che pile of musical instedilerde yusuke dock handed it to a member of the company, and said "You play em ́"No can do; ne can play em said the setor, aking a wild clutch for the inatro ment.
All right? said the Customs. man. No hard feelings. Yon play em this [BY MAUDE ANSES EY.] pieces one. "No, no, no. No can play em this piccre one came in an excited Mr. Justice Bailache read the follow
judgment: This is an action against mouths let them fall away like by this time had gathered around the Break their teeth. O God in their oborus from the entire company, who the Shipping Controller in which the water that runneth space and when official and were reaching out cagariy
Steamavigation they shout their arrows at them; be for the horn. China Butonl (Limited) claim a declamation that rooted out55th Psalm. Their anxiety to get the horn out of certain voyage of the starship Kerian, The other day a friend and I were his clutches aroused the auspiciens of the which left Liverpool fue Easter ports having a quiet hate talk" I mentioned Customs man who called one of his April 8 last, was for the owners as the altered psalm. It it madden assistants and made a thorough mins their teeth to fall out !" Inaccurately quoted, but exactly my own sentiment theatrical "props" of the company. This friend and myself are both the These were taken apart, with the daughters grand daughters and wives result that when the men finally finisk- of soldiers does this make a differents, they had been rewarded by the
mants in Mesopotamia and Palestine, count. Behind this innocent-looking ing sho exclaimed. “Why, I want altion of all of the instruments and
thereby saving shipping and subse quently contributing food and other necessitics. They mid there ware millions of acres of the finest land in:
claim lies hid the grave question
whether an order isased by the shipping Controller on March last was within his
powers or not.
the world available in East Africa to created 57 section 6 of the Ministries I wondɑrenemy. Is this the root covery of 335*"gfkm of opiam, all of
the Empire's war worn soldiers.
IMPERIAL CONFERENCE IN · LONDON.
CONTINUATION OF LAST YEAR'S MEETINGS.
LONDON, Feb. 5. Reuter learns that in accordance with the general wish expressed last year and as the convenience of Dominion statemen and their Parliaments will permit, a series of Imperial War Cabinets ind Imperial War Conferences will be held in London this year, in contibus tion of those held last year, at which the representatives of the Dominions will attend to confer with the British Ministers on problems of the war.
It is understood that the Imperial
The office of Shipping Controller as and Secretaries Act, 1918. His daties were defined by section R of that Act, and by the same section he was to have, for the purpose of enabling him to per- form his duties the powers Any Government Department or authority which his Majesty by Order in Council might transfer to him, and also such farther powers might be conferred up- on him by Regulations under the defence of the Realm Consolidation Act, 1914 and Regulations might be made under that Act accordingly
No Order in Council has transferred any powers to the shipping Controller, but & Regulation, No. 30 BBB, made solidation Act, 1914, bas conferred very under the Defence of the Resim Coo wide powers upon him, among others
Love
all this spiritus-brother. lk. Is there ch had been runningly concealed in not a great confusion here 7 Christ spoke the horns banjos, guitars and other of personal enemies where did Ele tell instruments of the company. us to loys the enemy of cur country and our God
THE
FUTURE OF GERMAN
- INDUSTRY.
I am firmly convinced of one thing- patriotism anly will via this war. Patriotism, as I know it means a love of country surpassing all other loves love that makes us say (and mean) that we would sacrifice all things fe our deat land; that we would willingly go bare-
The Saturday Evening Post of footed and beg our bread sooner than see Philadelphia, whose articles, we need not the enemy triumph. Yes, and to my
mind patriotism also means bite. Hate point out to our readers, have usually can be uplifted into the sublims. Why is not a petty, unworthy feeling. Hate the weight of authority behind them, her
should we be taid by the lukewarm an important communication
entitled
the power of requisitioning ships. that there we good Germans" What The Faming of German Industry," by
have we to do with "good Germans "3
It was contended for the plaintiffs that a far as the Regulation purported it is nonsense to say that we are not the former United States Vice-Consul at to confer that power it was ultra vires fighting the German nation. We are Platen, Saxony. The secons the author
his think that that contention is ansound. As Major Corbett-Smith, in
I
very
The Defence of the Realm Consolidation new book, "The Marae and after gives of German trade, and especially it. Act, 1814, empowers His Majesty' in forcibly puts it: It is the engineering and allied industries, are well Council during the present war to issue depravity of a hole nation rather worth attention. He states, for example, Regulations for securing the Pablic than the individual
excuses of ani which is responsible for these that the manufacture of an innumerable
recruited as it is from the rank of t the
Parliament it now trying to arrange a safety and the defence of the resim, and B. no national armly and navy jist of machine tools is being alighted.
THE BRESTLITOVSK CONFERENCE. date which will, as far as possible, amit 1 do not doubt that Regulation 30 BB
the convenience of all, but nothing was rightly issued. The Regulation was definite is yet attled, either regarding not issued until June 38 last, but the the date, or regarding the statemes. { determined as if that Hagulation bad not that the poison had choked theircing by the board. The manufacture of ]
plaintiffs
agreed that this case was to be
been in force on March 5
BOLSHEVIKS HAUGHTY
ATTITUDE.
AMSTERDAM, Feb. 5
A telegram from. Berlin, apparently semi-oficial, speaks of the baughty attiture of the Bolsheviks at Brestlitovek as being unjustified by the situation on the Eastern Front and states that the Ukranians defeated the Bolsheviks on the the Kovei milway and at other places. Moreover the troops of the Ukranian Republic practically entirely support the Rada. The Bolsheviks gained the -apper hand at Poltava, "Kharkoff, Ekaterinoslav and Odessa, while the Odessa and Black Sea fleet is on their ride. On the other band General Kaledin has thrown his army of 150,000 on the side of the Radn
THE BOLSHEYIK GENERALISSIMO
ARRESTED.
UKRANIANS SUPPRESS BOLSHEVIK AT KIEFF.
AMSTERDAM, Feb. 5.
A telegram from Berlin states that the Poles have occupied the Mohilet General Headquarters and Fassion arrested General Krylenko and the entire staff.
The Ukranians have suppressed the Bolubarik rising at Kief M. Bola- bowitch, the chairman of the Ukranian Praes Delegation, has been appointed the Ukranian Premier.
THE ITALIAN FRONT.
AERIAL ACTIVITY,
LONDON, Feb. 5.
An Italian official message states:-
We shot down five enemy aeroplanes and the English shot down eight.
PADUA BOMBED.
ARCHITECTURAL TREASURES
#DAMAGED.
PADUA, Feb. 5. Ten enemy aeroplanes dropped, sixty bombs on various localities. The Albergo d'Italia was demolished and the bospital; the Cathedral Church of Sao Erstesco, the ancient hospice of the Confratenita della Garita were damaged, the last named not seriously.
The King visited the stricken szen and received an ovation..
STRIKERS IN AMSTERDAM.
POLICE CHARGE CROWDS.
AMSTERDAN, Feb. 6.. Mountad and foot ponce frequently charged, with drawn swords crowds of strikera in the streets of Amsterdam while at The Husgo procassion of atrikers passing the Palace shouted
We want bread.
SWISS SOCIALISTS PROTEST/
BERAL Fob. 5. mpeting of Bocialista and Trade Unionists has pretested against the fresh
frontiers,
#bó will come to England.
A telegram from Wellington to-day gives the first official lätimation that,
subject to the approval of the Dominion Parliament, Mr. Massey and Mr. Ward will represent Now Zealand.
THE CONTROLLEK'S SCHEME, the date of the stop play Continger
Order Shipping working the plaintiffs fleet. This scheme
bad three essential features ---
(a) The steamers were requisitioned: (B) The owners were to work them exactly as if they were still running for
nation itself, could possibly be guilty of and then other industries are gradually sach obscenity and criminality were it
very blood. It is the German people rails and railroad equipment is below who are guilty.**A
wrong to hate the sends who can burn Geman nurds is going into a state of Nothing will convince me that it isquirements, and the magnificens net af pillage, and loot bayonet and crucify inefficiens ill repair. The fabrication of babies: rape and mutilate women and
young girls; murder old men. and shrapnel has replaced the manufacture of women, delle unspeakably the rooms lace and machines and looms. The they enter in fact, surpass in sheer fabrication of manor parts has re- demoniacal cruelty, and bestiality ang other nation that has ever existol placed the manufacture of locomotives, Have we become such a fiabby, ansermic
The
That cannot be true. It is & contradic. implements. All the strength of factory tion in itself. If we truly love our and forge is being sicked into the never country we must hate her enemy.
I should die, think only, this of me But do we love as we oughtf
satisfied munitions banjar, the tentacles of which, furthermore, e contionally drawing the lifeblood of many other industries. The steel industry, wa źro
their own account; FUEL SAVING`IN CANADA.
(They were to run them, in fact, for the Government accounting to the OTTAWA, Feb. 5.
Government for all profits after deduct people that we can either love nor typewriters and sewing machines. With the object of saving fuel the ing working expenses, hire of the love my country, but I don't hate the down the manufacture of agricultural hate can hear someone saying, "I fabrication of shells and cannon ha cut Government has ordered all manufactships, and remuneration for their services.
These two last items were to be Germans." ures, including munition makers, and settled by agreement, or, failing agree excepting those producing food, to close ment, by arbitration. The scheme three days next week. It has also purported to be mandatory in all these ordered the theatres and other places of respects. It is obviously scheme umussmart to close every Monday, from which can only be worked as a whole. Feb. 18 to March 35 inclusive. Both It is invisible, and as a whole it must be judged. The scheme requisitioned orders apply to the provinces of Ontario three things the ships, the owners' and Quebec, east of Fort William.
services, the profits; and the question to be determined is whether such a scheme, intended to be obligatory throughout is within the powers conferred upon the Shipping Controller. The answer is to be sought in Regulattion 39 BBB, where alone his powers are to be found. A A close examination of that Regulation has convinced me that it contains no power to
ARGENTINE WHEAT.
EXPORT PROHIBITION ORDER RESCINDED.
BUENOS AIRES, Feb. 5. The Government has rescinded the decree prohibiting the export of wheat.
YANGTZEPOO COTTON MILL.
AN EXCELLENT YEAR,
That there's some corner of a foreign
field
That is for ever England. There shall be In that rich earth a richer dust
concealed
A
if
dust whom England bore, shaped,
made aware
...
told, has become a thorough-going war industry, one feature of which is the
Gave, once, her flowers to love, her continued manufacture of impertively
ways to roam,
air.
body of England's breathing English needed staples. This industry has been sa tarihi poshed by the primary Washed by the rivers, blest by suos of
demands of the gigantic war business of owners. Inition the services of the home.
the Attorney-General, How many of the hundreds who Central Europe and Turkey that it has towards the close of his argument, have quoted Rupert Brooks's lines admitted that such was the case. The understand what they mean Shortly not been found possible to produce scheme, therefore, is ultra vires in its before Hector Munro (Saksas suficirao mails and rolling stock for the second essential respect, and the Order killed he wrote, in one of his letters to
railroads, important as these battle nerves (referring to a certain of March 5 last cannot be supported.
controversy): It was urged for the plaintiffs that, "What is it all about 1 What is the use of Germany are in her efficient game of taking the e echende as a whole, it is not of all these words words, words 1-Just as requisition of ships, but of o
war. The Krupp people have established owners' trad- anything mattered but the country." ing profits and that it is in effect, & There you bure is all in a few words branch furnaces and farges in all parts of taxation of the plaintiffs without Partis
Just as if anything mattered but the the country, likely with the idea of muntary authority-a revival of ship country.
Yet listen to the conversations in tubes minimising enemy opportunity for crip- money in new form. In the view that Messrs. Jardine, Matheson and Co., services this point does not on possessed by a great wonder. We are Furnaces have been operated for the I have taken of the right to requisition and omnibuses and you will sometimes pling the shell and cannon production. Ltd., the General Managers of the Yang- tzepoo Cotton Mili,Limited, com- sppear to call for separate decision. struggling for the oxate of the Krupp works in France, Belgium and since there could be no owners trading est Empirs the world has ever known, monicated to the Shanghai papers last profita unless the ships were managed for the dear soil that is our birthland, Asia Minor. Asis Minor is being develop weak the information that, at a meeting of the Consulting Committee of the by the owners. Trading profite could; yet nive out if ton conversations do noted into a metal treasure trove for Gur.
refer to the wafat all. What can we do? Company, held on January. 30th, it was no doubt be zaade if the ships were ke doctors have invented inoculations many, and many millions of marks have 1 decided that, after allowing for the Tis. taken out of the owners' hands on time 35,000 for Preference Share dividend for charters, or by some other form of re for most ills can no genive invent, & been and are being expended in the 1216, paid in August the Shareholders quisition open to the Shipping Conserum of Love and Hate, an anti toxin building up of mining properties there. should be recommended to apportion the troller and such
mast for sloppy sentimentality, poison for the There is donger scarcity of metals balance at credit of Predt and Loay be made by the Controller as deadly germ of spiritual brotherhood Germany.aper is plentiful Nickel Account on 31st December, 1017, of Tls 677,480, 43, aa follows
Tha
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To pay dividend on 5,000 Preference Shares at rate of 7% per annum To pay a dividend of Tis. 1.25
per share on 200,000 Ordi-... sary Aheres!
To create Equalization of Divi
dont Fand "...
To
writeoff Plant & Machinery write off Brick Buildings... write off Reinforced. Con crete Building
write off Demolished Build-
Writeoff Foreshore Bending
write off Moter Car (-0.
35,000.00
profits
by any private time charterers, but slush
the retention by the Government of
profite to made could not be called
great.
cult
taxation of the owners within any mean- SITUATION" AT YLADIYOSTOCK. ing of the word " taxation” known to mer
ERELIMINARY POLITY
A preliminary point was taken by the Attorney General that this action will 250,000.₤not lie against the hipping Controller, but that it should have been brought 250,0000gainst the Attorney-General as repre 80.000.00 senting the frown. I do not thick so
mines in Anatolia Were in the fest stages for development when he left. Germany but in a year of tw they will yield con aiderable outputs. Serbis, Rumania and Anatolia are now furnishing large supplies OFFICIAL STATEMENT HE VISIT OF of copper. Before the conquest of Serbia
JAPANESE WARSHIPS.
the metal outlook for the Germans wa dark and dreary. They stripped the roofs
of the large buildings, and factories of Vladivostock, Jazı. 12 (Kokusai cor- their copper, and conducted a painful 4,000.00 I adopt the observations apon this head respondence), Japanese man-of-war
0,728.00
HARPER'S BALSAMIO
COUGH LINCTUS.
The mild and “. soothing - infRamos „Š which this preparazion kas slam 30 ft b among the mast valushie of its kindy is Case of Cough Asthma, Bronchitis Shortness of Breathing, or Diaculty of. Expectoration and while it removes, the accumulation of phelem, from its Tonic and Astringent virtuas it prevente Its furma Won and allaya, imitation of the membranes of the throat and chest," rendering those delicate parta “lons, gasosytible of future irritation "and
PRICES: $1.00 and $1.50 PER BOTTLE.
Queen's
Tel, 492.
Dispensary
81, Queen's Road Central
OTHERS LOOK THE SAME,
'MALTHOID”
IS THE SAME
EVERYDAY! EVERYWHERE I
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· Fros particulars froce
Apmu BRADLEY & Co.
HONGKONG.
Just received a Shipment of GIMBALL'S AMERICAN
CHOCOLATE.
Prices
Moderate.
VICTORIA DISPENSARY.
THEATRE ROYAL,
HONGKONG.
GRAND CONCERT
TO-NIGHT at 9.15.
A MIROVITCH, & M. PIASTRO,
"(PIANO.)
(VIOLIN)
SECOND CONCERT TO-NIGHT, 7th FEBRUARY, 1018. PROGRAMMES
-Sonata G. Major
PART I
A. MIROVITCH AND H. PLANTEO. D. Minor
PLASTRO
MIROVITCH.
phoniq
PART IL
Canzonetta
Barcarolle Valse Capric
PLASTRA.
A. STROK, Manager,
Booking at MOUTRIE'S,
PRICES
DAYS
of Mr. Justice Romer in Raleigh Goe arrived here today and dropped anchor house to house survey of the topper and 15,050.00 chen ([1888] 1 Oh, at p. 77) sad the in the harbour. I the course of the nickel stores of the Empire, Ornaments, statement of the law by the thon A6 or day the Japanese Consal culled upon the kitchen utensils, heirlooms, statues and commandant of the fort and acquainted 107817 neg-General, Sir Richard Webster, atp.him with the võject of the visit at the bells al weer into the munition melting as SUBMARINES SUNK IN FIFTEEN
78, in these terms 2,273.69
143.70If any person, whether an offer of same time handing him a memorandum pois; and the kitchca-ware, at least, was of which the following is a translation: replaced by course, pottery,This saved. Btate or a subordinate, has to justify en
The Imperial Japanese Government many of the porcelain people from going 15,000.00
NEW YORK, Nov. 29. act alleged to be unlawful by reference having in view that at the present time to the wall. The difficulty in the mudi- pay a Bonus to Will Staff. 12,000.00 to an Act of Parliament, or State au Japanese docts residant in the tention industry is not want of material, hdt British Ambassador represented the
Mr. T B Hohler, counsellor to the the Dai thority the legal justification can be in of Viulivostock and district are ex quired into in this Court and in such a tremely alarmed, decided to send want of labour. All aquilabio labour has Embassy at the Hero Land" bazat in case it does not matter whether the de map of war to Vladivostock. This decis boen drawn into this industry, and there the Cent 877.450.43 fendant in the head of a department or non was take exclu for the fir
write off Farmitaro: ** donate to War Funds
carry forward to new so- :count ....
Th
1.052.81
not
That statement of the law pininly comprpose of protecting Japanese subjects volum
The Government whe which is obligatory, Lo MEN BEWARE OF CULDS/templates that the officer of State hosee Japanse/Empre
conduct is in question would be too the healthy develops
of the latter NHILDREN BB much more likely to defendant to the action..
and hopes that the fir contract the contagious disses make the declaration asked for
Apa and when they have colda Whooping cough I have now discharged my duty Bed diphtherin scarlet ever and con Jadze, but,
in view of the territory sumption are diseases that are often ublich contracted when the child has
thorities sy That is why a mood
Beware of colds
onick care pids von will find Chamberlain's Cough Remedy,
same time
Governm
filing the poli
$3, $2 & $1.
SIISMATCHES 1 DIY
Every adult in the community mys
(ap)) in prozdised
die, in the
alace last night. It war Commons and that that and distinguished persons for all British Day including milltary and naval officers of
crystaedify
for more, ever zsöre hang
The
metal industry of Germ
ranky as the splendid features franged for the docto
Constels
with 113 bozes
War on the outpat of shells, plate cannon., submazine
(million böxör, enough
Mr Hobler made brief, address, Bride every man WUDSTE and
The 'deliveries one rece which he was enthusiastic about, the
pectacle and its purpose, and brought 20 million forth great cheers when he andorunced. Boz that in fifteen days-batean Noveber Box
ovember 15th th
ware sunt through
Fier were addressed to Mr.
Rövide from