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SINGER.On June 2t Share then tinged with democratic aspira- Juni, Julian William Fractions, have turned out very different? Singer Shangloi Tramways) Who knows? aged 72 years.
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#TROJE, JUSTICE, PUBLIC SERVICE."
HONGKONG, THURSDAY, JULY 3, 1919.
TIME'S WHIRLIGIG.
The scene at the signing of the peace treaty was described for us yesterday by Reuter, whose man
Kaiser or President. Reich or Republic, there was quite a lot of argument and advice and intrigue before it was settled.
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THE CITINA MAIL.
'mals seulement de Pegalite." With an official statement (see Reuter yesterday) that there is Bolshevistic activity, in England, and an official Japanese journal describing the visionary Sun Yat-sen as a Chinese- Bolshevik it is not easy to know just what is Bolshevism." If it means the wholesale slaughter of Russia, then it is not present in England. But statesmen and officials are no more
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
Today's dollar is worth 38.5 15/16d.
The "s.3. Bessie Dollar" (Capt. J.Abernethyl arrived from Vancouver this morning with a cargo of lumber, etc.
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The big-motor-ship "Glenapp" arrived yesterday afternoon from Dalay and Shanghai, on her return maiden trip to England.
infallible than rewspaper men are Recall their opinion that it was better for the peace of Europe for Germany to be an empire under a monarchy, |and compare M. Gambetta's opinion A Chinese was sentenced to six (February 14, 1978) that England months hard labour, when convicted was no longer a formidable Power, of stealing a gold watch, chain and since every man-of-war epuld be appendages from a compatriot, in destroyed by torpedoes! From Fat Hing Street. torpedoes to submarines and depth charges is a long step in a short time. Time's whirligig, indeed. Will some writer on the China Muil in 1969 te comparing the "lasting peace" of that year with the utterances of by gone Wilson and Lloyd George, in this way? It is possible. But if so, what's the use?
TWO STREET INCIDENTS.
The Australian and Oriental ss. "Changsha (Capt. F. C. Gambrill) arrived this morning from Sydney with a cargo of frozen meat, lead. etc...She also brought a mail.
LOCAL AND GENERAL
To-day's return shows ñve cases of plague and two of enteric (one Americas).
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The, commodious new quarters. of the American Navy YMCA. at 6, "Avenue Edward VII, Shanghai, were to be opened on June 28.
Major LG Bird, D. S. O. returns to the Colony by the Blue Funnel 3.9. "Teresias" on July 4 Major Bird is amember of the firm of Palmer and Turner.
THUESDAY, JULY
THE TULLOCK CASE.
PRISONER CONVICTED.
· SENTENCE OF FIVE YEARS:
HARD LABOUR.
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her mother's boat; here, she said she did not know where the parcel fell. Why did she do it? Because at the Police Court she heard her mother state that there was no parcel in her boat. Then she awore that sho never said anything about the parcel at the Police Court. She also denied. asking the prisoner for $2, stating Before the Chief Justice (Sir Wil that prisoner offered her the money. Ham Rees-Davies, K.C.) and a Jury Why? Because she was told that composed of 'Messrs. A. E. Crapnell, it would mean consent if she D. Reichelmann, C. L. de Roza. J. H. asked for the $2. It was Pidgeon, G. Hyder, W. J. Roberts absolute change of front. Could any and H. Pomeroy in the Supreme jury convict his client on such Court yesterday afternoon, the hear evidence? What about the motive? ing was concluded in the case in This was it. The Sergeant charged. which John McBean Tullock, ex-her with smuggling oplum, and it A flag that has escaped general Lance Sergeant of the Police, was was very possible that the nolam notice among the host of national charged with committing rape on a ring in Shaukiwan wanted to get rid emblems displayed in the streets is 13-year-old Chinese girl named of an active Police officer. The Beaven. V. Mfurrell, and Mr. and Mrs. light blue lines with the shield of hours of the morning of May 19 last. proved the jury could bring in a Capt. Olivecrona, Messrs R. H. the Jewish flag. It is white with two Ng Li Mai at Shaukiwan in the small Crown stated that if rape was. not Pankratz who were passengers by the David in the centre with the word
The Hon. Mr. H. E. Pollock, K.C verdict on a minor charge of indecent "Ying Chow" yesterday, arrive"Zion" in yellow on the shie.c. (Acting Attorney-General) prosecuted assault always that that from Tsingtau and Swatow,
whilst the accused was represented nothing was more dangerou: + than an Consul General J. W. Jamieson, by Mr. Eldon Potter (Instructed by alternative charge. It looked like a CMG, who comes from Canton to Mr. W, E. L. Shenton.)
compromise. His defence was no be in charge of the British Consulate-
Mr. A. E. Hall of Messrs. Lo and compromise. He denied the cusa- General at Shanghai during the Lo watched the proceedings in the tion entirely, If the prisoner was absence of Sir Everard Fraser, arrived interest of the complainant. found guilty he was a ruined man in Shanghai on June 23 from Hong-
The defendant having completed for ever, Two Indian policemen stood at the.
kong on the Navigation Company his evidence before the adjournment,
Mr. Potter addressed the Court the jury that it was of the utmost The Attorney-General reminded ¡foot of Flover Street at one o'clock
Mr. G. F. Dumbarton, of the
steamer "Suiyang." yesterday. Within six feet of themCommercial Union Assurance Com-
after the tithin hour and said that Importance that they should decide a stood a ricsha, with the poller in the pany Limited is shortly leaving for China Mail, a popular oficer in evidence adduced by the Crown was favour, without paying attention to As previously reported in the he ventured to submit that the case of this kind without fear or shafts, and a passenger in the seat. Japan to take charge. temporarily, Lieut-Colonel R. M. Crosse, R. G. A. so peculiar as at once to make one any question of national or class Beside the wheel of it, a bare yard of the Company's interests there.
is returning to the Colony Colonel suspicious that it was not true. He prejudice. They had to decide the from the policemen, stond a little
Crosse is due by the Blue Funnel thought he would prove to the jury's case on exactly the same principles man talking to the passenger. It
Steamer Teiresias on July 4. was an obstruction. The pofcemen
will 'relieve Major L. Cassel of the committed the offence he rust have the dock
He satisfaction that if the prisoner of justice as though the prisoner in didn't think of that apparently
duties of General Staff Officer here.
been nothing short of a madman, ansergeant charge with the rape were a Chinese Police- There was a shout from other ricsha
absolute lunatic. When the evidence of a Furopean girl between the age pullers, anxious to get by and a workman swinging his neat tool
...The Inspector-General of the was of such a nature he, for one,jef 12 and 16. 7 Chinese Maritime Customs has issued was always prone to suspect its ciple of British Justice that no Wats a prin. boxes from both ends of the usual
instructions to the Commissioner of geruineness. The first incident was regard should be paid either to race, bamboo, sidled a little to let HMS "Kent" is flying her Customs at Shanghai regarding trade the pursuit of the girl because she caste, or position, and it was for that them go between the Scylle paying off pennant which means that marks and fees for temporary filing was suspected of carrying opium-reason that, as furcra, they took the of the standing ricsha and the the warship is going Home and her which will be of interest to mer. He did not Charybdis of the two Indian police crew will pay off and enjoy a well- chants and others. "A fee of Hk them would believe that when the to the evidence, regardless of the anyone of oath to return a true verdict according me, dreaming of Nirvana. fortunately, in doing so, he swung the Navy will recommission.
Unearned leave Those remaining in Ts. 5.00 will, from August 1, 1919, prisoner chased the girl to her sam fact that they might be very SOFTY be charged for each Trade Mark or par he did so with the intention of to see a European in the dock one of his boxes. so that it lightly
Patent filed for provisional registra ravishing her. It was absurd. He charged with an offence of this sort touched the trousers of the whipper snapper by the wheel. In an instant
The s Bessie rollation at the Branch Office of the chased her because she was carrying against a Chinese. It was a prin- te was incarnate fury. He was like
Pakwo"Changsha," "Houroto," Trade Marks Registration Bureau a parcel which he suspected to contain ciple of English justice that equal a wasp on a window pane. He
Jini Maru Madras Maru,"
situated in the Shanghai Custom opium and because she ran away. He justice, should be meted out to all, Malay Maru, Manila Maru House. When fees are remitted by then brought the girl to the Police and the honour of danced. He squeaked. He ran at "Chicago Maru," Soshu Maru" and persons living in foreign countries station, accompanied by her mother. sampan girl was just as great the Chinese workman, burdened with Shinbu Maru," are late shipping Mexican $7.50 will be accepted as The next step was that, with the possession in the eye of the law hia pole and boxes, and kicked him- under the very noses of the police-
the equivalent of Hk. Tis. 5.00. This knowledge and consent of the as, that fee will be payable until the Regula Inspector and with the knowledge of in the land,
of the highest lady men. Fe pointed a monitory finger
He submitted that at the kickee, who shrank awpany's traffic receipts for the week Marks and Patents come into force, took the girl out to look for the sara offence of rape against the prisoner The Hongkong Tramway Com-tions for the Registration of Trade every person in the station, he the Crown had proved the little kicker resumed his conversa the same week of 1918. The aggre modifications the same Regulations were $16,646, or $547 more than in when it will be subject to whatever gate for the half year was $374,250, may prescribe."
$26,038 more than for the corre sponding moiety of last year. shrimp that he couldn't hurt very "Yesterday afternoon the Staff much. It is because he was so tiny and pupils of Ellis. Kadoorie School a man that we didn't interfere, but were entertained by the Chinese
sidled away, meekly. Then the
tion with his friend in the still standing ricsba. We don't say that the man who was kicked was Badly hurt. The kicker was such a
just watched.
roll
'em back
to
The Indo China ss. "Hang Sang" (Caps P. R. G. Cumming) arrived from Shanghai yesterday afternoon with a general cargo. Al Chinese died of blood poisoning during the voyage..
arrivals.
For
pleasant afternoon was spent in pavilion at North Point. A very
and on rafts and, perhaps most swimming, diving, disporting in boats pleasant of all, disporting at the
festive tea-board.""
H
think
a Chinese
when he did that he intended doubt. He perfectly agreed that in pan. Did they really think that without any reasonable shadow of to take her up the hill-side and ravish certain matters of detail her was a her? He took the girl through a discrepancy in the evidence, but the Nite Shanghai men who bave crowded thoroughfare-there was no jury, with their long residence in served with the armies of Britain and doubt about that, as there was a China, would realise that it was im three China Coast captains who have theat.icas performance going on possible to expect Chinese witnesses seen service with the Royal Naval and everybody must have seen him to give evidence from beginning to Reserve returned to Shanghai yester walking along with a girl in his end complete in the smallest details. Here were two breaches of the Recreation Club at their bathing day on the Tydeus, which came up custody. It was remarkable that The Chinese had no regard for ac- that they could have arrested bost
the group, Captain L. G. M. Kidd of who saw the two going from the it was not to be expected that a law right under their noses, so close
the river shortly after noon. Twe of not a single person was preduced ruracy of detail as Europeans had- parties without moving a foot. They
tain R. Llewellyn Joses of the China was a line of hawkers right up to with gruesome details against the Jardine, Matheson and Co. and Cap-main road up the hill, although there sampan girl would invent a story didn't move a foot. All that they
Mutual wear the Military Cross, the foot of the hill. It was a vitally prisoner without any reason, and the moved were their eyes, reminded us of those eyes, moved by which
awarded them for conspicuous gallan important point and would have motive suggested that it was because an interior weight, in wax dolls.
try on the field of battle. A third, proved the case. That was not the girl was charged with optum. The Dockyard Recreation Club Captain A. Brook, R.A. S. C.. wears all. The two went down again, smuggling was not the real motive, One, two, three roll four eyes after held a whist drive in the Naval Yard the D. C. M. Captain Brook was and no In the last month of 1870 the King disappearing kickee.
one saw thera. The When the mother found the daughter of Bavaria was willing to let the six,
Four, five,
accumulated evidence ravished she went back to the Police- last night. A pleasant evening re- secretary of the Country Club, leav-prisoner King of Prussia be Emperor of the kicker, still obstructing the traffic ruled. Mr. V. Stannard was the ing here in 1914 and serving at every step, and the jury must re- station and found the prisoner wait- Federation, "because he suffered But for the swivelling eyes, they were to the successful players. These were. Others were Captain Kirk, Lieut. one who knew the value of circum.The Attorney General then drew the M. C and he also handed the prizes in both Egypt and France.. member that they were dealing with ing for her with a guilty conscience. from toothache." This was accord ing to Freiherr Roggenbach, ther
of wpoden Ladies Ist. Mrs. Alderman: 2nd, W. J. Roope of the British American stantial evidence. Would not the jury's attention to various phases of just back from Versailles, and urging
Mrs. Cousins; 3rd Mrs. Taylor: the Tank Corps, who was with the immediately if there was any truth bably prisoner believed that he would Tobacco Company, Lieut. Olive of mother have reported the matter the evidence, and stated that pro- the annexation of Alsace-Lorraine, and cpposite the Bank, a coolie lay men-1st. Mr. Irvine: 2nd. Mr. Chinese Maritime Customs; Lieut. in it? He put it to them as com be safe in committing the crime be Hohenlohe remarks. "The Prussians then talked about barter
over him telling him to wrist stood Bower: 3rd. Mr. Wilson: Booby JL. Martin, Shanghai Public School to believe, the story. Even nagumine cause the girl was only a sampan souls and land grabbing' but
boy who later resided in Chefoo: to girl. Perhaps he thought he would out of the way of traffic in the prize, Mr. Steed. when the question of Alsace-Lorraine side-car near by, a lady. Whether
Lieut. Ivy of the Labour Corps and that the story for the Crown was true, escape. but the mother, as soon as comes forward, they sing another he had knocked the coulie down or
On June 26. in the British Lieut. Hegg of Chefoo. The mer that the prisoner went with the girl, she discovered the intolerable wrong tune." Barter of souls and land not, we weren't in time to see, and Supreme Court, Shanghai, before cantile marine men to return were they could not accept the statement done to her child, appealed to the grabbing, with the Prussians the didn't trouble to enquire. The coole Assistan: Judge Skinner Turner, Mr. Captains Walker and Mason of that he did so without her consent, principles of British justice: virtuous protestants, and England looked very sick. The cyclist looked Richard Hope, formerly of the Hang- Messrs. Jardine, Matheson and Com. There was not a single mark of violently opposed to republics, and embarrassed.
His Lordship summed up at kong Telegraph and the China Press Pany, and Captain Brymer of Hang violence on the girl's bedy although The lady looked especially the French! Isn't worried. The contis crawled into claimed damages for alleged libef known throughout the Far East as three doctors and one nurse to hold the jury returned with a 5 to 2
length. and now of the Shanghai Times, Yang Iron Works. Captain Pine, she was so strong that it took
After retiring for about 15 minutes, wonderful what changes can come in
the gutter. The cyclist, riding of, one shor: life-time?
told the lady he was "right as rain from Mr. C. H. Lee, Ed-tor of the manager of Wright's Hotel at Yok her down while an anesthetic was erdict of "Guilty of rape." We also can assure her that the man
Shanghai Gazette. The plaintiff hama, goes, through to Japan on administered. False charges of rape seemed all right after they had here Marks of external violence were of
succeeded in two out of three counts, the Tydeut. All have sen active were not unknown in that Court-sessed throughout the trial broka gone..
of
the
There had been a German con found it "unimpressive." He was federacy before this, which dissolved singularly uninspired in his sketch of in 1866, Bavaria being an incorrigible this momentous meeting, but he did Home Ruler, and on several occasions manage to note an incident. Moquetting with the idea of a French Clemenceau referred to the German alliance! It was the war with Republic. A voice from the German | France which knitted table corrected him, with "a cry Germans and inspired them with that was almost a shout? It said the
of sensc
racial unity- Reich, reich, and M. Clemenceau the awakened spirit of nation accepted the correction and sub alism." It seems to have been stituted the word Empire. This is generally agreed, even among English rather curious.. It brings to mind statesmen, that the formation of the the situation 48 years ago.
German Empire only 49 years ago was a guarantee of the peace of Europe! Our Prince remarked that
The Germans, not yet an Empire, were at war with the French. At
the blood and tears which this war has cost have not been shed in vain." He was very dubious about the real unity of the German states, regarding it as so many now regard the League of Nations, and rather envied "the aristocratic republic," as it has developed in England from the feudal State, a most desirable form of
admirable imitations. images.
Further along, about an hour later,
"S. S. HOPSANG."
up and
The Indo-China s. 3. Hopsang" which left Shanghai for Hongkong on June 21, carried gold bars to the value of £700,000. The vessel was provided with an armed guard of a sergeant and ten privates of the
Booby prize. Mrs. Sears. Gent!
to taels $1,500,
Mr. James Kerfoot has retired from the service of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd., after many years in China,and is returning to England. Mr. Kerfoot was born in 1870, and before he had reached the age of 21 years he was already man aging the weaving mills of Messrs. John Leech & Sons, Ltd., Stalybridge, in which there were nearly 3,000 On arrival in Hongkong, she will looms. Seven years later he came be taken over оп Government out to the East, where he has done charter for the conveyance of rice to great work for Great Britain and Colombo at $1.50 per picul, says
China, Shipping and Engineering.
British army.
the first big contingent in 1914.
TYPHOON WARNING.
A
about eighteen years on the China on the morning of June 25 John Bogg
The "Hopsang." which has been In H. M. Police Court Shanghai. Bashi Channel moving N.N.W. or N. coast, had a dynamo, for lighting was committed for trial by the the ship electrically, fited during Magistrate (Mr. F. A. Robinson) on ANSWERS TO her last overhaul.
a charge for that he about' May 24 last, with one W. Wallace, an American citizen, and one De Roza,
The prisoner who was self-pos
verdict.
not
the utmost importance in such a charge of rape. Again, the result of the bacteriological examination was Asked he had anything to say. in the prisoner's favour. There was, why sentence should therefore, a total absence of two of be passed upon him, the the most important pieces of evidence prisoner, said "Before God and man relied upon by the Crown. The I am innocent of the crime I am The telegram quoted below was doctor stated that the injuries might charged with. I am the victim of a received from the Manila Observa-have been caused by other means, dastardly plot and conspiracy." tory at 5 p.m. July 3, 1919.
and the prisoner swore on oath that His Lordship: John McBean and 20 Lat. N. moving N.
Typhoon in about 123 Long. E. he did not do anything to the girl. Tullock, the Jury have found you His Lordship said that it was only guilty of rape. It is a very serious Later, right to point out that in the majority offence indeed. The maximum Typhoon in about 123 Long. E of ordinary cases of rape the turning punishment that the law allows me. and 20° N. moring N.
point was whether the woman was a to pass upon you is imprisonment 12 noon July 3. consenting party or not. If in the for life. Now in your case I cannot Cyclone of typhoon near or over jury's opinion the girl consented help regarding it as being an through fear or under duress then aggravated offence owing to the fact it was not consent. In other words, that you, a Police sergeant stationed if the girl's story was true that she in the Colony to protect other people, was taken by the Police sergeant in have abused your position by taking uniform up the hill and that, after this girl away, as yhu undoubtedly threatening her with a revolver, she did, and acting as she says. I am allowed him to commit the offence bound to pass a severe sentence upon a Portuguese citizen, did conspire,
then it was rape. In that case the you. As far as I know," you have combine, confederate and agree
absence of external marks of violence hitherto borne a good character. It together to defraud one Ching Chong sible. Not without careful considerá
IN UTRUMQUE PARATUS —loudmis would be explained-
essential that the people Last night the Empire, Revue Co. of $1,000. Mr. R. C. Faithfull pro- tion, we have decided to refrain from he said that another point was that the poorer classes and the Chinese, Mr. Potter azreed. Proceeding, of every community, especially repeated their successful show "Let's secuted. Bail was granted the comment lightful wit and had the audience in and two sureties of $2,000 each. Go." George Ross revelled in desum of $2,000 by accused himself,
the place where the offence was said should know that the members of the J.O.M. We forestalled your criti- to have been committed was passed Police Force of this Colony should cism in the headline, which you seem frequently by soldiers and their protect them, and should not take to have overlooked: A reverie is servants, who probably were at the advantage of their position to conte talented singing, while the chorus was deported from Hongkong after
Miss Hyland was to the fore with danced cleverly and presented a regaling the public with wonderful
Count Toulouse de Savine, who admittedly loose and irregular. theatre. There was thus the risk of mit disgraceful abuses of this kind. being discovered. The girl in the The sentence of the court is that vou witness-box seemei very self-possess be imprisoned with hard labour for Pretty appearance. The whole show accounts of his career in some of the went with a fine swing.
ed. She struck him as a person who five years, VA local press, and charged in the Shang- Oh Baby" which is reputed to be a Russian General, was discharged To-night the Company present hat Mixed Court with impersonating
had her story nat. It was only in in the first class.
cross-examination that she con. on June 26. The Court, however,
any person belleve that the reason The China Merchants S. N. Co. is tradicted herself, hopelessly. Could ordered that documents found in his tram-car without paying the fare why the girl ran away from the possession be detained. A medal cost a Chinese $3 this morning. prisoner was because she feared she preparing plans for the construction and epaulettes which the Count had It is a common practice with some would be ravished? With regard to the of three new ships, one to be a river were retained, by Assessor Ivanoff. Chinese to jump on to the footboard revolver, it was only after the solicitor steamer of the Klangwin type and
fi
EMPIRE REVUE CO.
the end of 1870 the German states were minded to federa'e, but it was a complicated business. The Bavari. ans disliked the Prussians. The war was ending in their favour, and some sort of federation was recognised as necessary; but at that time there was a chance that it might turn into a Republic, with a president. Prince Hohenlohe in his memoirs tells us government." that President Simson of the Reich- The lasting peace" (Bismarck) .stag was against the imperial title took as long to arrange as this one. of Kaiser." "He regards the word Even when all was agreed, the Kaiser as a foreign word derived ratification took weeks. Today we from Caesar, and therefore is opposed. are awaiting the same. The French He has nothing to object to the title were difficult Empire (Reich) but will conceal his Bismarck had to threaten an attack to deal with. sympathy or antipathy." Count on Versailles. M. Thiers was like Muenster, ambassador, told him of Count Ranzau, poor man. Had his roars of laughter. his stay in England.
attitude been described by modern There he had spoken with many journalists, they would have called it statesmen, and said that public insolent," whereas it was pathetic. opinion in England was delighted "Vous etes le vainqueur," he said with the defeat of the French bitterly et nous sommes les. The English statesmen advise before vaincus." The journalistic complaints everything the establishment of a about the dlly-dallying at the monarchy and the rejection of the Paris Conference look odd, when we republican form of President of the realize that it took more time,' federation."
and more talk, to annex Alsace. Doesn't that make queer reading Lorraine than it did to restore it. It to-day If the Katser Had been only was France that was then the
WHEN YOU EAT TOO MUCH.
CORRESPONDENTS.
$3 FOR A TRAM RIDE.
Travelling on the foot-board of a
a President, would he have been Bolshevistic country! As Deputy STRESS in the sto toh after eatingThe Count was ordered to epologize of tram-cars and to jump off when for the defence cross-examining her the others coast boats of the Hain-
different? It our statesmen in Duval said soon afterwards, "Nous 1870 had not been so prejudiced ne nous soucions pas de la liberte
is relieved by talting one-of Obam... burlain's Tablets, Try if the next time to the Russian Consul General in the collector came for the fare.
y All Chemists and Storekeepers. you eat more than you should. For als Shanghai.for writing improper letters
to the Consul General.
This particular man was a coolie tioned it. At the Police Court the girl these, the company intends to order.
and pressing the point that she men chang type. On the completion of employed in the Taikod Dockyard.
awore that she threw the parcel into a further three coast ships.