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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1918
APPLICATION FOR WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS.
NORTHERN PERSIA.
AN INTERESTING POINT"
A correspondent writes to the Timaof September 24 -
It is loss than seven years since, a Before. His Honour, Sir William Ress Davies, in the Supreme Court this distingished American citizen, then morning, Mr. Eldon Potter (instructed Treasurer-General of Persia, war expelled by Mr. Goldring) made an application from Persia and the Persian service for a writ of Habeas Corpus directed to Because be perfisted in appointing two the Superintendant of the Victoria Gaol or three Englishmen to administrative to have the body of one Kong Chun Jan posts in Northern Forsia pasion otherwise Cong Obai, otherwise Coog was forced by England and Russia, and Chai Jan, otherwise Coug Chai Yan and necessitated the moving of a strong befors the court.
Russian force into Persia In Taheran
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Addressing bic Lordship, Counsel anid that Cong Chai Jen had been the Cabinet fell, Parliament was closed charged sa a Jagitive" offender, and the Constitution lapsex.
Drastic! Yet let it not be supposed having committed an offence which
liabla. extradition that Russia was harsh or exacting ・mada bina from Hongkong. The present applies tion is to pray for the discharge from custody the said Cong Chai Jan, on the
• following grounde
to
towards us, even if we are bound to admit that neither we nor Russia can have seemed less than harsh towards the Persians Fer it is certain that it (a) That his identity with the person instead of an Arglo Saxon temperament, named in the judgment of the Macao Mr. Shuster had had a dash of the Slav Court has not been sufficiently estab-in him, and bad manifested his admira lished
tion of the Elav genius for administra- (b). That thassid judgment of the Macaotion by appointing Russian or two Court does not disclose a conviction, for to posts in Southern Persia, wo should an extradition crime within the defini immediately have put our Ressian part -ion of either the Extradition Act or the ner's loyalty to, the teat, and called upon treaty with Fortugal nor of the Macacher to join as in securing Mr. Shuster's Extradition Act of 1881..
departure for Washington's less com.
Muse Court,
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c) That the warrant is bad as it con-plicated climate. Those were the high infaod a different name from that dis. closed in the said judgment of the day dear, dear days let us hope beyond
recall of the Anglo-Russian Convert (i). That the judgment of the Macaotion, a document drafted in such secrecy Court disclosed an offence outside the that neither the Persian Government grisdiction of that court and the which might be pardoned for thinking offence is therefore not an offence in itself more vitally interested in the text pect of which the Hongkong Court than either Kussia or England, nor the ahould or could grant extradition. British Minister at Teheran, vho oddiy (). That the whole of the extradition enough supposed that his advice might proceedings are bad as they should have been brought under the local Ordinance have been useful to Downing Street, was E 1681 and not under the Extradition ever consulted. Let it be recorded that both these worms turned. Adow Minis- .art of 1870.
SPORT
THE PIRATES. BLACK
LAWN TENNIS
LADEES
CLUB TENKL
MAN WHO SANK LUSITANIA ANG PAYS WITH LIFE UNA
German familice, in parusing the list. will be able to appreciate it truth and its, traedy They will know that their imenfolk were sent to a terrible end
with the following resulta
Played at the Fesk Club on Monday this most inhuman form of warfare,
LEG-Total $1. "Mrs. Armstrong and Mrs. Kent beat Mrs. Anderson and Mrs. Cary, 8.3; heat Mrs Stark and Miss Wilkinson, 3-2, beat Mr. Berington and Ma. Dreaper, beat Mias Robinion and Miss Ventils 83Total, 33-11
Mr. Hammond and Mrs. Nisbet, beat Mrs Anderson and Mrs. Cary, 7-4; lost to Mrs. Stark and Miss Wilkinson, 4-7: lost to Mrs. Bevington, and Mra Dreaper, 5-6, lost to Miss Robizison and Miss Yeatris, 2-9--Total, 18-26.
Peak Club-Total, 48. Mr. Anderson and Mrs. Cary lost to Mr Armstrong and Mrs Kant, 38; lost to Mrs. Nisbet and Mrs. Hammond, Dreaper 7-4; best Miss Robinson and 47; beat Mrs Berington and Mrs. Miss Ventris, 8-8-Tatal, 22-12 (ə
Mr Stark and Miss Wilkinson fost.
to Mr. Armstrong and Mrs Kent, 20 beat Hrs. Hammond and Mrs. Nisbet 74 best Mrs Bevington and Mrs Dreaper, $3 best Miss Robinson and dies Ventris, 9-2-Tatal, 26-18.
US.ROLTotal, 33.
WHEN THE NERVES GIVE
© Hades and a condition deserves more pity than that for which there is generally last tempatay Men fand women with nerves out of gear become irritable and retful, and are blated for ill-temper, whereas it is not their faul. Their health is the on use Often the nerves have given way under the susin of working for the very people who reproach the offerers. The tired wife of mother, the bread-winner, whose anxiety for his family has worned.bim until he be thin wad it are the perve sufferers who become ruz dayak
and by the gaps in their homes will be hie to abitantiate the veracity of the British claims The lab makes known to the world the authors of some of the worst of the many atuncions crimes com mitted by German sebetarines. It is leur that the officers guilty of par
Their nerves, like all the bodily organs ticularly wanton or despicable catrac are known at the Admirsity, and special need healthy red blood: worry, taila on endeavours. Are doubtless, rada to bring their digestion and their nerves are their active careers to a swift end. The ill-fed. In ruch, caso a course of Dr. following outstanding
nams of a Williams, pink pills for pale people is up the nervous" kysten ky tamy may be picked out of the list for do these pills make new blood
VESNAUS hich method, they invigurata special mention
Scrima
Fahneider Wigenfubr
whose reever have givenway The
patients become high spirited and full of energy Nervons starte and irritability Belgian Prince
are gone Happiness for themselves and Theam three officers are dead, and another returns VALUE analysis of the list of 150 mes shows the follow
Prisoners Interned. Hosped back to
150
The official statement points out that Schwieger was a kapitan leutnant and in. U go. torpedoed the Lusitanis an adds: This was the officer who, whilst May 7, 1915. U 20 was lost on the
Danish coast in November, 1910, but Kapitan-lentnans Schweiger survived to bring disaster to another submarine,
U 88. which was lost with all hands: in September 1917.
Of Kapitan-leutnant Rodolf Schneider the statement says: This was the oficer who torpedoed the Arabis Aug.
15, 1915
If your blood is thin and waters, 15 Your SAFTOR are weak, you can begin to gut well now for Dr. Williams pink palla
are to be obtained of merlicina, vendors everywhere, also post free ona boltia for | 31.50; six for $8, from the China Offices of the Dr. Williams Medicine. Co se Bredhaan. Road, Shanghai.
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Mr. Bavington and Mrs. Dreaper lost to Mrs. Armstrong and Mrs. Kant, 3.8; beat Mrs. Ramrand and Mr Nisbet, 6-3; lost to Mrs. Anderson and Mr. Cary. 4-1; lose to Mrs. Stark and Mian Wilkinson, 3-Tatal, 16-25
Miss Robinson and Miss Ventris lost Kapitan leutnant Paul Wagenfabre WING to Alterations and Repairs the Power Station the to Mr Armstrong and Mrs. Kent, 1-8-ohitusy is as follows This was the
officer who mark the steamship Belgian SUPPLY OF ELECTRICITY Will (f). That the Magistrata was wrong inter was soon found,, but for five years beat Mrs. Hammond and Mrs. Nisbet, Prince on July 31, 1917, and so barbar SHUT OFF on SUNDAY, the 8th refusing to give a definite ruling na to every variety of governmen: in the 9-2; let to Mrs. Andersen and Mrs only drowned 40 of the crew, whom bebe Com 140 1 whether or not such proceedings were Teberan kaleidoscope steadily refused Cary, -8; last to Mrs. Stark and Mine had ordered to line up on the submetime's bad until the cass for Crown was closed, its recognition to the convention. Wilkinson, 2 9.--Tobal, 17-27. (deck. The submarine (U 44) was sont about fortnight after as the Solicitor for the defence was
It was not till after the dratic crash
The RC. has now won the Ladies' With all hands
his outrage." Aa anglysin of the list.
2 Agente of Mr. Shuster's expulsion that sa auto Challenge shield three times and the shows that the dead U-bost officers Hongkong, December 5, 1918.
include the following: matom was found to mutter a flimsy Peak Clap chce. formuls of assent.
embarassed to such an extent that it was impossible to decide what evidence. (if any) to call on behalf of the defend ...ant, until such ruling had been given.
Continuing. Mr. Potter said he ished to drop ground "C" as ir Goldring, in the Police Court, had considered it. was not of any material importance.
His Lordship agreed.
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LADIES“ SINGLES OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP." Bo much of the dead past it is necess
Mrs. Armstrong, LLR.C, plays Mim ary to recall that we may realize how Robinion, U.S.R.C., on Friday at the much England and Russia stood in thrall.SRC. The winner meets Mrs. to each other in Persia, bo spry move Miller, Wigwam, who had a walk-over of one was conditioned by the attitude from Mrs. Mitchell, U.S.RC. The latter. of the other, above all, how paramount beat Miss L Scott, of Talkoo Russia was in Northern Petsin.
RUSSIAN INFLUENCE NO MORE.
and to lay the
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Mr. Fotter then applied for leave to add exother ground; that the amagistrate should have informed the prisoner that he had a right to ap cardfully built up by autocratic peal to the Supreme Cours within Rassin lies to ruins. There is no 15 days, under the Macao extradi-Russian Government, and of all the tion ordinance.
juntas that aspire to that title none has His Lordship having agreed, Coun- time or etrenath to spend in Persis and sel proceeded to explain the position most have proclaimed the principles of of the case in regard to extradition. the revolution of 1917, which forbid in There was, said Counsel, a special terference in the internal affairs of Alacas Extradition Ordinance No. 1 any non-Russian Sinte Along with of 1881 for the surrender of criminals her aspirations towards Constantinople from Hongkong to Macno, which was Rassis voluntarily renounced her pri- in existence long before the Treaty vileged position in Northern Persis in with Portugal for the extradition of March, 1917. To-day the Tarts, Persia's prisoners Counsel contended that secular enemies, are in possession of prisoner should have been dealt with Tabriz, and there is no Russian to deny under the Macao Estradition Ordiit them. The Persian Government is manca No. 1 of 1881 and not under
incapable of doing so. the Extradition Act of 1878, «
The Crown differed and contended
There is only one ordered Power left
DEATH OF MR. WEIR.
KOBARONE,
Freiherr Feawolf von Berckheim. Freiherr Wilbeļus von "ircks. Freikore you Stein zu Lausnitu .. SOWN2.
Craf. M. vor Schmettow, Graf von Schweinitz und Krain.
· STUKER" DILANS.
Benno von Diffarth
Ruble von Lilienstern. Harald Keyserlingk,
Ferdinand von Bucbodletz. → Werner von Zerboni di Spɑsetti, Frisoners of
of war include fiber-leutnant Vicco von der Lahe andy Expitan- lestrant Heinrich you Branig. Of Kapitan-leutnant Waldemar, Bender the statement says: This officer was not lost when his submarine sank, and be succeeded in returning to Germany
Criminal
Crime.
GTBB LIVINGSTON & CO,
ST. JOHN'S
CATHEDRAL.
ORGAN
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MONDAY next
AT
6 P.M.
The many friends of the late Mr. Weir will regret to bear of his death which occurred at the Government Civil Hos pitel this morning. The deccaeed came
MURDERERS STILL AT LARGE. to the Colony from Greenock in 198 where he had been employed.in the firm
There are German U-boat murderers of Caird & Co. On arrival in the Colony still at large. Their names are known he took up a position as draughtsman in and their crimes noted, so that no effort many interests, member of the Hongkong to a speedy and. Among these are the the Taikoo Dockyard. He was a man of is spared to bring their shamatal careers Defence Gospe and an enthusiastic mem following bor of the Taikoo Bowling Club?" Bowl- ing vas his favourite recreation. He was also the Sunday School Superinten dent of the Quarry Bay Branch of the Union Church. From this position he only recently resigned. He was also n member of the Engineering Society of brutal sinkings of the Magila (Nor THE BEST COUGH MEDICINE. Hongkong. Deceased was well known wegian), Fens Castillo (Spanish), and
YHAMBERLAINB Cough Remedy is syppily is extended to the bereaved barbarocaly sent the Aguila to her doom. The fagers will be a military one and Two other marked men are Korvetten in the world today because it does ex- the largest selling cough medicine will take place to-morrow, paaring the rapitan Forstmann and Korvetten Monument at 6.p.m The Engineer
kapitan Gansser: Eerers U-bost actly what a cough medicine is supposed Company of the H.K.D. Corps will criminals have avoided the peril of to do. It stops coughs, and colds attend.
expiating their times by deserting the speedily and effectually For sale by all
Chemista and Storekeepers.
Mar Valentinerea Forgin Wilhelm. Werner ... Hospital Ships Frmherr von Forstner Falabe Valentiner is also responsible for the
that they were entitled to proceed in the world. that can actively befriend ; and universally respected and the deepest Ancona (Italian); Forstner (a, baron) under the Home Extradition Ordi- Fersia a Paris a little, aby of being nduce (which was valid in Colony) and ignore the Masto ordi-
Prince.
"the
befriended.
Shall I stretch my left hand to the Indust Mr. Potter, said this was a dificult The English blow bot and blow cold. position for him as the Crown bad But no longer can she ponder the two lams to choose from for one possibility of stretching her right band- mode of procedure. He submitted to the Oxus, "that the Russian may fill that the Macao ordinance was the it with gold. Gone are the days when only one the Crown could proceed the simple art of Persian foreign politics under The Treaty with Portugal was to plant the seed of dissension be was signed on October 17, 1892 for tween the British and Russian legations the surrender of prisoners and it was and water it well every Wednesday after not until March 19, 1894, that the Home Extradition Act was applied
"HODIZ"
At the first hint of thelong dusty
transferred from Teheran
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BOXING! BOXING!!
any are fill the empty shoes of anto- cratic Russia or profit by her disappear and from the field to exploit some Im- perialistic aim of our own. That is what the Persians sometimes suspect us of, and the suspicion is a esaker corroding Our relations
with
them, Yet we must, and do, act in Persis. to cases of surrender to Portugal. days of summer the British Legation There is no other Fower left on earth to that can save her from being stifled in s Continuing, Counsel said the ordi- 1
Taree German bag, or from dissolation mance was kept on the Statue Book Gulbek, a village in the hills which from within. And to reality, the disap and the act put into cover the is British soil, the generous gift of pearance of Bassis gives to Persis a existing provisions. In the present a former Shib. Over against it liesinger hope if she will bat believe in our under
sincerity. There is no lack of modera case, the provisions were in exist Zergendeh, s village with which the definitions of our policy in Persi ence under the Macao cadipance and Stab endowed Russia to keep the batance Before the war Viscount Grey action should have been taken under even For many year have these two deaned it over and over
villages been each other's presecapation; as the maintenance of her indiepen- that ordinance.
so that had, haply, the trump of Doom dence and the previous preamble His Lordship: "The Treaty was sounded at any moment the foul of the of the Anglo Russian Convention ascrib subsidiary to the Ordinance.ene might have been found in the body ed this intention to both England and Mr. Potter: That exactly my of the other. Galbek rose in the mara Rosa Bat Viscount Grey was ever point. The intention of the Treatying wondering what Zergendah was forced to couple with his declaration in wae to preserve, intact, the terms thinking about the Persian tariff or the latoret Fernian independence a state-
of existing laws for surrender of pri- sonem, as well as any future laws.”
His Lordship said that the applica tion was for a rule, and he thought there was sufficient ground for grant ing it. He then asked Mr. Potter
Cossack brigade. Zergendal want, toment that in all things he would act in bed trying to penetrate Babek's con-alon with his Russian partner. Now ception of the Lakhtiar tribe, or the use in practice, with the old regions in Bussis, of an oilßeld. But today, whatever pre these two policies were often absolutely breakfast cares may weight upon the incompatible. Whenever it camA British Minister as he strolls in that to an issue between them,
danger delicious garien to taste sexet airs Gray with an ere on the
of morning, bo can at least look scross in Europe, and some appre
In what way was prisoner demnified towards the trees of Zergeddeh without ciation of German designs, never hesitat
munications right through Northern
CITY HALL
SATURDAY December 14th, 1918.
At 9 p.m. Sharp.
Under the auspices of the HONGKONG POLICE RESERVE and. the Distinguished Patronage of
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His Extellstov Major General PF: Ventria; 0.0.0
H's Bonour Sir Willism. Bees Dar eso. Chief Justice. Commodore Garner, W. Captain Edwards, G3, 2x.
His Honour Mr. Fasties Comporta
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would have been in a different posing British troops hold a line of come the ostrof soine. Infringement of the RANG UTAMPIONSHIP COT, TILE COLAY VERON and was informed that the prisoner icker of interest. Theoce comes noted to stand by his Reason, partner SPECIAL FIFTEER-BOUND CONTEST FOR THE MIDDLEWEIGHT: doctrine of Persian independanes. That tion. By Section 6 of the Macao Persia And Zorgendel has nothing to necessity has gone, but Britain's interest Ordinance 16 days would be allow say in the independence of Persis remains trital as aver, and, dan ow be par sued with singleness of purpose. ~ Biere,
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