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MONDAYE DECEMBER 15, 1919,
TO-DAY'S CABLES.
(Reuter's Service to the China Ma^}
(Continued from Page 2.)
DIFFICULTIES OF EXCHANGE.
́UNUSUAL. SUGGESTION BY LORD SWATHLING.
THE SHIPPING DISPUTE
STRIKT DECISION CONFIRMED.
THE CHINA MAIL.
TO THE PUBLIC OF HONGKONG.
would point out that not only are the rhymes in the Trojet as stated in Adversaria, but also fines 1, 4, 7 are identical as also are lines 2 and 8.
W. E. Henley's classic will serve
an example:
I feel it my right to unsheath the rapier in defenderolitha fair sex) In Members of the China Coast Off the China Mat of the 9th instant, cer's Guild and the Marine Engineers following a triolet by Miss Grahamn, Guild met at the Astor House Hotel comes .couple Badly rhymed qua- yesterday and unanimously confirmed traics, purporting to be in the same the decision to strike. The meeting. form as Miss Graham's poem. commenced at 3pm and continued until 6, there being some fifty or sixty members present. The offer of arbitra tion made by two native companies was considered, but the view taken was that arbitration in this respect as LONDON, Dec. 11. ' Lord Swathling has returned from America and is an interview on the would be futile as the number of problem of supplying Europe in the face of the increasing difficulty of boats involved was smal. A discus- payment owing to the rise is American exchange said the deadlock wassion then took place on the general removable only by international agreement.. He suggested suspension pay position and the rejection of the of general arbitration Expe the OWNETS, being de cide that the only alternative was a strike.. Three sub-committees were then appointed to deal with matters appertaining to general purposes, housing and cabling, while questions of administration were also
ments for three years for imports of machinery and raw materials by buyers in necessitous countries, the Governments concerned guaranteeing the exporters against loss,
POOR JOEN!
CALLED A TRAITOR AND RENEGADE..
LONDON, December 10.
offer
who
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desire
Easy is, the triolet
If you only learn to make it; Anyone may say, you bes "Easy is the triolet": Mark you how I pay my debt With another rhyme-deuce
"take it!
Easy the triolet
If you only learn to make it!
- V. E. HENLEY.
To damn the lady in Pope's words, brought up. The Guilds have with faint praise by shewing how easy At the Trade Union. Congress there was a stormy scene.
it is to write interior:quatrains as a After Mr.made arrangements for members Tom Mann had made a vigorous speech favouring peace with Soviet Russia
to be housed comparison to her more polished verse and the immediate raising of the blockade Colonel John Ward entered the
at the Seamen's Institute is. I think, hardly justifiable.
KEITH WEST." hall and demanded a hearing. He met with a hostile reception being booed and the Sailor's Home. It is thought and greeted with cries of "Traitor" and Renegade. Eventually Col. that the arrangements for handing
[See Adversaria" for answer to Ward was allowed to speak. He denounced the Bolshevists amid interrup resignation in to the owners will be this-Ed, C.M.] tion and declared that they ruled by force and terrorism over a reluctant completed by noon on Wednesday, people.
HONGKONG DOCKYARD EMPLOYEES:
MATTER BEING FURTHER CONSIDERED.
LONDON,--December-10-
The Guilds seem to be preparing for a lengthy struggle and it is said that they are in cable ouch with Mr. Havelock Wilson and the Joint! Seafarers' Counci
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ARMED ROBBERY AT A RESTAURANT.
The accountant of a restaurant at
No. 89 Shanghai Street, Yaumati has
men
In the House of Commons Sir C. Kinloch Cooke asked the terms of THE HONGKONG CAD T. reported to the Police that yester the settlement between the Government and employees on the Royal Dockyard at Hongkong. Mr. Macnamara stated that owing to dissatis- faction at the July award the matter was being further considered.
THE AMERICAN COAL SETTLEMENT.
INDIANAPOLIS, December 11. Reviewing the coal settlement the miners have made a statement point. ing out that neither operators nor miners will be allowed to change the basis of the settlement and no discrimination by operators will be permitted and affirming that mine workers are fully confident in the President and have a profound regard for his will and judgment.
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IMPERIAL NAVAL POLICY."
A CONFERENCE SUGGESTED.
LONDON. December 10.
In the House of Commons during the debate on the Naval Estimates Sir C. Kinloch Cooke suggested the holding of a Conference in conjunction with representatives of the dominions for the purpose of framing a true Imperial Naval Polity. Sit F. Flannery emphasised the great Imperial duty of the government of co-ordinating the navy of the Empire.
CORPS
A NEW OFFICER.
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day at 1.50 Psix entered the restaurant and occupied a table. Food was served, and one of the men, as at the counter pay- ing the bill, when he produced a re- volver: The other five men pro. Mr. A. I. M. Weyman of the duced revolters and daggers, and Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Com-the people in the restaurant were pany, who has recently been apferced to go into the kitchen, with pointed 2nd Lieutenant in the Hong one of the robbers as guard outside keag Cadet Corps, went to France at the entrance. Money and clothing the beginning of the war and was to the value of $59.80 were stolen. attached to the RA.M.C. He was No arrests have been made. wounded at Mons during the first month of the fighting and was unable to take further part in the fighting line, but he continued in the Service in connection with munition work. Later he was given a commission in a cadet corps, over 400 strong. in Glasgow. Lieut. Weyman with his experience should prove a useful acquisition to the focal cadet corps which is enrolling quite a number of new recruits.
PRISONERS ESCAPE FROM nearly four years in France, return-
VICTORIA JAIL.
ing by the s.s. "Nagoya" about two months ago.
A Chinese painter employed 'at Later information shows that the Kowloon Docks while working Warder Speed was sitting at the desk | at 9.30 ‘a.m., on the 13th instant fell in the office making out the morning inte the basin of No. 3 dock. He report when he was attacked and his was immediately picked up and sent body was found in a sitting position to the G.CH" suffering from both reclining over the desk. On the desk internal and external injuries. was found a piece of paper on which died at the hospital the same evening.
EUROPEAN WARDERS. STABBED TO DEATH.
LOCK CUT OUT OF CELL DOOR.
He
Yet another tragedy has to be were blood stains and impres recorded in connection with local sions of what appeared to be the criminals and the whole Colony will big toe and three others of be dumbfounded to learn that the a left foot. The banishee was latest crime has resulted in the mur employed at the jail as a painter were on duty in the jail viz Warder.
der of a European warder, Mr. Speed, of Victoria Jail and the injuring of two Indian warders, ons of them seriously,
some
ZWEY.
It is stated that there was only one European warder on duty all night to supervise the guarding of over 800 prisoners.
THE OFFICIAŁ REPORT.
one
been made.
The Indian warder who was stab.
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edwarders. Only two Europeans while two of the others worked as Speed and Warder McLeod. The tin smiths in which capacity they behind the magistracy while the latter former was on duty in the old jail had access to all sorts of sharp
was in charge af the branch jail on instruments. One of the must have the other side of Old Balley. Warder It appears from unofficial reports, secreted a file which appeared to McLeed could not possibly have that at about 4 a.m. this morning, have been recently sharpened, in knawn anything of what happened three prisoners, who were serving a his clothing when retiring to his cell term in Victoria Jail, managed, by for the night, and with this be in the old jail at least not until after
means unknown to securs cut the woodwork around the lack four. prisoners were inmates o
the alarm had been given. All the knives. With these they cut the lack of the cell and thus get the door. Ward in the old jail. There are: out of the cell door, attacked and opened. Over the cut in the wood altogether 140 prisoners in this ward. killed Warder Speed, stabbed one was pasted a piece of paper painted It appears that none of the other Indian warder in the stomach and same colour as the door, and this prisoners took part in the attacks on nearly severed the band of another. must have been supplied by the Upon gaining access to the prison pai ter. After opening the door of the warders. No arrests have so far yard, by means of a rope, the des- his cell, the leader, went to the office peradoes scaled a wall and got clear and taking Warder Speed unawares, bed in the stomach died at the Gov. stabbed him with the file The According to the information we deceased had altogether thirteen stabernment Civil Hospital at about 2
o'clock this afternoon. have been able to secure, the whole wounds, seven on the head, one affair appears to be the outcome of on either side of the body, one in imposing character. The bodies will The odsequies will be of a very carefully prepared arrangements the left groin and four in the back. be taken along to the bottom of and so far, there is no theory as to After murdering Warder Speed how the prisoners managed to secure the man took his revolver and keys Garden Road in a hearse and will the knives and the rope.
and opened the cells of the other there be transferred to a gun carriage. men and let them out, the doors leading to the various corridors, and coming to the condemned cells, they were accosted by two Indian warders who were guarding two men await 1ing execution. The prisoners attack- The official report states that a led these men who were apparent serious outbreak was reported to ly, unarmed and wounded bave occurred in Victoria Jail at 4 several times in the breast and a.m., on the 15th lost. One convi
stomach while the other had a cut broke loose from his cell and liberat across the palm of his right hand. three others. All four attacked The first Indian is in the G. C. H. in the warders with knives. Warder in a serious condition. And very Speed Was murdered and to little hope is entertained for his
· Indian warders were wounded recovery. After this point, the cne of them seriously, The con details are very meagre. The fact victs escaped over the wall of the that the file was found in a lane, off branch prison by means of a rope Staunton Street led to the supposition thrown over. They took away the that the prisoners must have got deceased's revolver. A blood-stain to the sew jail by the tunnel under. ed instrument roughly and recently Old Baliey and then scaled the made from an old file was picked thirty foot wall into Staunton up in a small lane leading out of Street by means of ropes Staunton Street.
thrown over the wall by accomplices outside the jail. The alarm was given a quarter of an hour after the prisoners had attacked the Indian warders. It might be stated that The escaped men were ordinary the room in which Warder Speed prisoners serving terms of from one was at the time he was attacked to ten years viz. one, a returned measured about four feet square, banshee serving twelve months and so that if he was at all aware the others serving five, seven and of the presence of his ten years' respectively,"
vallant, he did Warder Speed only married last chance to defend himself, as he year and just received news from his could hardly stand up in a hurry. If wife, in England of the birth of a he moved his chair away for about son. She intended coming out to eight inches, it would have been Hongkong shortly,
The flush against the wall, while the desk deceased, who had exchanged duties was also flush with the wall on the with another man, went away to the opposite side of the room. It ap Front-with-the-Frat-batch of police pears that Warder Spent win the mn from Hongkong and had served only armed man of the three wound.
The funeral of the late warder Speed takes place this evening, pass ing the monument at 5.30
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