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ANOTHER COURT MARTIAL.
WILTS OFFICER'S DEBTS.
TWO DISHONOURED CHEQUES.
ACCUSED PLEADS GUILTY.
There was another general court martial at Victeria Barracks this morning. The accused to-day was 2nd Lieut.
D. P. Hannam of the 2nd Wilts Regiment who pleaded guilty to four charges alleging disobedience, absence without leave, and dlous conduct unbecoming in an officer and a gentleman" in that he presented cheques well knowing that be had not sufficient funds in the back to meet them.
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The court
was constituted as follows: Pesident, Col. Clementi Smith, 22nd Punjabis: meraters: Major H. M. Edwards. D3.0., RE; Major W. S. Downing. R.G A.; Major Bagnall DS.O, RG.A., Capt. Leslie Smith, 22nd Punjabis; Judge Advocate; Major Hickling. DS.O, Prosecutor, Captain F. L. Betis.
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STUDENTS And FRIENDS of the
STUDENTS and FRIEND FINDINGS The Federated Malay States Lega!! The following items are from the Information Bureau, at Canton: Adviser introduced at the Federal SC TOOLS, will be interested to know that MR. J. E. OLLERTON, who held an The destruction of the Tuchunate Council, a Bill to amend the Fenal Exhibition of Student's Work, at the in Kwangsl by the force of President Code and Evidence Enactments, and Old Post Ofice in Pedder Street, about Sun Yat-sen's Government has been also a Bill entitled the Children 1915, arrived a law days ago on the quickly followed by the appointment Exactment," these being taken to "Silver State from Shanghai and will of Dr. Ma Chus-wu, a distinguished gether as dealing with the same act here in the capacity of Hongkong s of Kwangsi, as Governor of the subject. The former struck a blow Agent. MA OLLEETS, served province. The appointment marks the at the" mai tsai" system which was France and elsewhere durag the war as inauguration of the new regime!
which President Sun promised would sufficiently well-known not to need lieutenant in the British Army. be introduced directly the provicce explanation. He explained the pre- was freed from the petty despotisment provisions of laws dealing with of Lu Yung-ting, the last Peking the subject, pointing out that they
the sale off warlord in the South-West.
did not prohibit n boy or a girl over ten yest
THE BETTER way.
In ordinary circumstances, there) of age so long as the sale was not for is no special merit in redeeming aan legal or immoral purpose. This pledged word. Bat it is permissible Bill was intended to make the sale to point out that the circumstances of a human being for any purpose in which President Sun now whatever an offence. With regard to fulfilling his promise to the people of Kwangsi are unusual, and one less the Children Bill, the cruel treatmen: strong in purpose might conceivably of children in this country was not succumb to the very human tempta perhaps specially noticeable, but cases tion of allowing the Cantonese he had occurred, and the law was not himself being a Cantonese to do to strong enough to afford all the protec- the Kwangsites what the latter under tion necessary. He emphasised that Lu Yung-ring bave lately done to it was not pretended that neither of While a travelling trader was the former. There is, of course, these Bills was incapable of improve. having a bath in the kitchen of a no possibility
nient in detail, and said it was the Wanchai flat yesterday, his coat con-wise course being taken. President intention of Government, if they Sun and the group of workers with passed the first reading to refer them taining a cheque for $170 drawn on
him bave set themselves to the the Hop Hing Bank of Fachau, was stolen from bis cubicle.
creation of a ruling system in China both to a Select Committee of the which, from Canton as a provisional Council. A report had been received The management of the World Centre, shall pass on to the Nation from that committee. Theatre has been requested by the fruits and gifts of good govern patrons to screen the wonderful filmment-peace, liberty and progress.
Woman and the Law". This film will therefore be shown again on Sunday at 9.15 p.m. for the last time.
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The body of little Harry Bolder was drowned in the son, who harbour through accidentally fall- ing overboard from the Stone bathing beach cutters "Feetu." on Tuesday evening, has been recovered.
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of such an
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at Fa Pang, Kowloon in the Colony of Hongkong, for a term of 5 years, with the option of renewal at a Crown Rent to be fard by the Surreyer of His Majesty the King, for one farther term of 75 years.
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Mr. Choo Kia Peug agreed that it was advisable to postpone the second teading to give the Chinese com The appointment of Dr. Ma Chun-munity an opportunity of looking
in operation in Kwangtung will be he thought, was not so conspicuous in is a guarantee that the system closer into the matter. Ill-treatment, extended to his native province. Malava as for instance in Hongkong. He is a European-trained Chinese who
Mr. Kenion held that the Secretary has a command of the cultural re sources of England, France and Ger- for Chinese Affairs wrote very strongly Lieut. Hannam was charged with
many. A scientist and a scholar, he against the first Bill, and he question- launch is of that rare type which combines ed the unanimity of the Chinese having disobeyed the lawful com
altogether he mand of a superior officer in that at
great gifts of learning with the Advisory Boards, temper and methods of the man of did not think the Government hadi Hongkong, having been ordered on;
science. For the new Governor is a very strong grounds for its introduc- April 29 to use no clubs whatsoever
The noise of a falling firewood German-trained chemist; and he is tion. The practice of the sale until he had reported himself out of debt, he was found in the Victoris chopper cutside their quarters aroused the Chinese translator of the greatest children, he held. was chiefly practis Rebreation Club on May 20. He was the servants of St. John's Cathed al werk of the Nineteenth Century, the ed by people who really had not got charged also with having been ablast night. Opening the door they
'Origin of Species" by the English any money to keep their children, sent without leave from July 11 until saw a man running away.
man, Charles Darwin. He has also "That be cries of "this" attracted the atten- translated John Stuart Mill's political and was usually for the benefit of apprehended on July 18. behaved in a scandalous manner tion of the Cathedral watchman who tractate on "Liberty," Rousseau's the children themselves,
"Contrat Social"
The Chief Secretary deprecated any unbecoming in an officer and a gen chased and caught the man, who epoch-making
was alleged against him had often been seen by out of the Ernst Haeckel's "The Riddle of the suggestion that the Bill had anything in that he gave Major Culver a servants loitering in the vicinity of Universe and other important whatever to do with adoption. There term of 5 yours.
foreign works, dealing with some of was no suggestion whatever of doing cheque for $256, in settlement of his the Cathedral.
the searching questions suggested by anything that interfered with adop mess account, and the Kowloon Cricket a cheque for $90 well know. ing that he had not sufficient funds at the Yaumati Police Station, whole science and the economics of tion, and that was clearly stated in
capitalism. in the bank to meet the cheques and was last week remanded on a charge
As in Kwangtung so in Kwangs, having no reasonable grounds to of having accepted a bribe of $20 to suppose that they would be honoured"influence bis conduct while in the there will be no military governor or In connection with the cheque paid execution of his duty as a public tuchun, and no licensed gambling zo to the K.C.C. it was alleged that be servant," failed to appear at the any of those sinister measures for the awed the Club $72.21 and received $17.79 in exchange.
The accused, who wore the 1914-15, General Service and Victory ribbons
wu's installation in Nanning, a further with the Bill but to submit! and displayed two wound bars on his
muzicipality will be inaugurated it to a Select Committee, together tunic sleeve, was unrepresented by
two in the capital of the province, with the other Bill which must really
to be followed by District Bell be read with it. counsel. After he had intimated his intention of pleading guilty to the ing brought before Magistrate Orme government of the model of the Both Bills were referred to a charges he was asked by the Judge on a charge of having demanded system now obtaining in Kwangtung Select Committee. Advocate whether he understood that $400 with menaces from a Cantonese and a general scheme of compulsory Inspector education whereby every child of in that case he would not be per living in West Point. mitted to furnish any evidence except Appleton asked for permission to school age shall receive at least an 23 to character and that the Court withdraw the charge explaining that elementary education in a Govem was bound to find him guilty, Lient, the complainant and his witnesses ment school.
had disappeared since the accused's Hannam replied that he did.
Guild matters are believed arrest. to be at the bottom of the trouble.
any
The Chinese detective stationed
ABOLITION OF "TUCHUNATE
the Bill itself. The aim and ohjeet
of the Bill was to provide what was thought to be a deficiency in their present law, and that was that it was ut present possible in this country to Magistracy when the case was called raising of money which Lu Yang-ting sell a human being. That they yesterday. His bail in the sum of practised here, in Kwangtung, and in considered should not be the law. $200 was estreated, and a warrant Kwangsi. Soon after Dr. Ma Chun They did not propose to go any was issued for his arrest.
A Shantung man ard natives of Tientsin, were this morn
At a later stage the club shroff gave corroborative evidence and deposed to having handed Lieut. Hannam $17,79 in cash in exchange for the cheque.
SEARCH FOR LOVER.
YOUNG WOMAN'S FRUITLESS QUEST.
ATTEXIT TO COMMIT SUICIDE.
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A RAILWAY SYSTEM. In this connection it may be of ia- Evidence was then taken, Capt.
terest to mention that President Sub's A. H. Bleckly, adjutant of the Wilts.
Government has under consideration Regiment, being the first witness called. Captain Bleckly said that on
the question of linking up, by railways, April 29, cwing to previous mic
the two frontier provinces included in demeanours of the accused, acting
the South-West Federation, which is
"Don't ask me too many questions. under the Commanding Officer's in
now a reality in name and in fact! structions, be gave Lieut. Hannam a
since the fall of Nanning. It is in I was disappointed and very much. tended to construct a great trunk-line upact," said an married Japanese written order that he was not to use
clubs
A copy of the accused's banking from Canton to Chungking in Sze woman to Magistrate Orme this whatsoever until he could report himself out of debt account for June and July was pro- chuan and another from Carton to morning in answer to a charge of On July 11 the accused's company duced to the Court by Mr. A. M. G. Yunnanfu, the capital of Yuncan. having attempted to commit suicide. commander reported him absent Wallace, of the Hongkong and Shang-The most difficult section of the
Inspector Blackman said that without leave and on July 18 witness hai bank staff. The witness said latter line has been surveyed, Le. the
early this morning the accused engag- sent picquets into the town to look that on June 10, the account was in section from Yunnan to Kwangsi, the a motor boat at Arsenal Strest for Lieut. Hannam. The accused credit to the extent of $132,33 and rest of the line following level ground. was found and placed under close on July 15 there was a debit balanceBesides the construction of these and gave instructions to make for a
of $30.27.
trunk routes, there is good reason to Japanese steamer in midstream. arrest.
Lieut. J. M. Dudington of the Wilts In reply to questions put to him hope that the completion of the Can- When the motor boat was going full Regiment deposed that on May 30, by Captain Leslie Smith, through the ton-Hankow Raliway will soon be speed, she jumped into the sea. A youth employed on the motor boat he and Lieut. Samut were ordered President, Mr. Wallace said that the taken in hand.
promptly jumped in and rescued her. to find the accused. They discover accused had previously overdrawn
The construction and operation of At the station she said that abe had ed him at 9.45 a.m. in the Victoria his account, this practice being allow- Recreation Club and witness put bined by the Bank to a certain extent as these three track roads will, it is been only 20 days in Hongkong. She under arrest. Witness was present long as there were certain sums expected, transform Canton
came to look for her lover. He was on June 29, when the General Officer coming regularly into the account, make it one of the greatest to nowhere to be found, and becoming Commanding told the accused that Captain Leslie Smith observed that if centres in the world. The Canton- be intended to hold his allowances the bank bad previously honoured Chungking railway, for instance, will desperate, she determined to end for June and his pay for July under cheques when the account was over- tap the biggest and richest province her life.
The Magistrate referred the accused drawn there might be some excuse of China with an area as large as suspense.
Corroborative evidence was for the accused.
Germany and a population equal to to the Japanese Consul with a view to The last witness was Private F. the combined population of France her repatriation. tendered by Lieut. A. J. S.mut of the Wilts, who said that when he and Paginton who said that he was and England, and resources that sre Lieut. Dodington found the accused ordered on July 18 to patrol the town truly continental in scale. And it He may be noted that for the present the latter was asleep on the verandah in search of Lieut. Hannam.
found the accused at about 12.20 and for many years to come, Hong. Wiseman's Cafe and kong must be the ocean port of p.m. escorted him back to barracks where Canton.
near
of the V R.C. and was wearing mufti Major R..B. Carvel; the accused's company commander, said that Lieut. Hannam was absent without leave on July 11 and remained so antil July 18 when he was arrested. Prosecutor, produced and read out
he handed him over to Major Rapson. At the direction of the Court the
Od June 10 the accused gave him a Lieut. Hannam's record of service. kong
CANTON AND HONGKONG.
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Amingmeting, lectures and
cheque on the Hongkong and Shang-This disclosed that he was with the observes the Singapore Free Press. hai Bank for $256 in payment of his B.EF. in France from September Another petition has, been prepared dral Choir. Will those willing to join mess hill. On the following day the 1915 to November 1915 when be for presentation to the House of kindly communicate with MR. T. P.M. bank returned the cheque wit an joined the Mediterranean Force in Commons, in which all that your BEVAN, of the Asiatic Petroleum Co., intimation that there were not suf- Saloniks serving there until May petitioners claim is the customary or apply to him in person at the TO SECRETARIES OF CLUES AND 1916. From July 1916 to Augast right of citizens to manage their Cathedral any TUESDAY or THURS Eclent funds to meet it.
Mr. N. E. Stevens, kon secretary 1916, March 1917 to March 1918, purely local affairs, and to control the DAY; between 6 and 7 o'clock Offers
LL preliminary notices of forth- of the Kowloon Cricket Club, and November 1918 to March 1919 raising of taxes and the outlay of will be gratefully received. told the Court that the accused's he served again with the B.E F. is expenditure." There's the rub. The
entertainments, sent for insertion in anpaid chits at the Club amounted France. He was not entitled to any public is no doubt willing to control
the news columns of the China Mail, the raising of taxes, but can they to $72.21. On July 14 the shroff pension.
are.charged for at the rate of $1 each. The accused declined either to ad- control, in these times, the outlay of informed witress that the chits had been paid by the accused with a dress the Court, call evidence as to expenditure. The electorate suggestNGLISHMAN. 25, MARRIED, AC- (as announced to May and June of cheque for $90 and on the next day character or to make any statemen: ed includes is Class 2 (11) represen-COUNTANT, but a live all-round last year) providing that they do not the bank sent back the cheque in mitigation of purishment and the tatives of the press, who are exempt man, with abiity fax organisation, occupy more than four lines. In marked "refer to drawer." On the fol- Court then closed to consider its sen from jury service to Honakong desires position. Hss experience in future if this space is exceeded they lowing week witness wrote to the C.O. tence which will be promulgated in where many professions are excused Hotel Management. Apply Box 1311, c/o will be placed in the advertising.
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