THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29тп, 1904.
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THE DISPUTES OF DELGIAN FINANCIERS,
POLICE COURT.
Tuesday, 28th June,
Barona Mr. H. H. J. GoaPERTZ (ACTING POLICE MAGISTRATE).
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The Brussels correspondent of the Globe
PHOTO GOODS OF EVERY DESCRIPTION. writes:-There has just been published what
We have an Establishment Solely devoted to appears to be an inspired account of the disputes of the Belgian franciors over their railway
DEVELOPING AND PRINTING enterprises in Chinu. This account glowes over. Thirteen men wore charged with gambling for Amateurs, where we turn ont work of the best descriptionsand with great promptness. the money question, and attributes the difi- | No. 20, West Street was raided by this polles at culties which have arisen to the machinations of p.m., the defendants being found playing Bugland. It says that when the first part of Ngen Pai. They were mostly from shops in the Hankow Cunton quilway, which was a Bonkore Strund. The first and second defen- personal undertaking of King Leopold's, was dants, the keepers of the house, were fined finished. England raised objections to the | $50 each, and the rest 85 ozol. Five men who construction of the second part of the line by failed to appear forfeited their buil, $10 wich. Belgians because that part would pass through her sphers of influence in the Yangteze district. Mr. M. W. Slade, barrister-at-law, and Mr. and that it was then that the Belgians entered | Almada o Cestro, solicitor, appeared on behalf of inte an arrangement with an American company the respective parties in a cross-summons for to continue the enterprise, and reserving the assault. The case, however, was settled' out of most important part in it, and making a court on the undersfunding that Mr. Castro's convention with the American company by client would not further intorfere with Mr which the construction of the railway was to be carried out by Balgían engineers and workmeų. The account I quote seems to hint that for time this fietitions transference of the enter
The Swiss Confederation, since 1874, has umie mita tmining obligatory upon its citizens, THE REISELT OR A ROYAL COMMUNIÓN.
"Every Swiss nitizmu brcomes liable to military math ugo our Lezadou rorrespaarlent. † service on reaching the age of twenty. During febographed the rows that the Royal Commise | his twent first your the recruit is called out sion on the Milia and Volunteers bad recom - for a recruit's course of from forty-five to eighty | mended a 'conscript hous defence army. By days, according to the arm of the service to yesterday's "mal we received the full report of which he is assignel. At twonty-one he is Fine Commission tout quote below that section of posted to the aclivs army, in which he remains it dealing with the conscription recomupenda.. for eleven or twelve years, being called out in every alterante year for a repetition course of from sixteen to eighteen days or in the cavalry every year for ten days. The strong paints of the Swiss Army are that it is organized for war and that its training is concentrated on what is necessary for war. But the purious devoted to training, though longer than are possible for the Volunteer Fores, aro shorter than thows actually in use in the Militia, and the officers, except a very less instructors. re not profesional. High officers of the per- mavent staff of the Swiss Army have long held the opinion that the initial course does not enable a thorough training to be given, and that this defect is not compemuted by theprise to American hands satisfied England, repetition courses of sixteen days. The officers and it goes on to say. Kugland recently peas |
If the Militia and Volunteer Forces ans Lo coutime to be as they have hitherto boom, maxilary forros for the purpose of resisting in conjunction with 1 regulur Artay the foreOSE qa invader, the changes mad forth in the fourth suction of this report will prepare them for that daty aml Joud to a great improvement in their efficiency, while permitting them to maintain the requisite mumerical strength. That, if the purpose is to predves a force which without substantial help from the regular Army can be relied upon to dofnal an invæðir, thou improvements in the Militia and Volunteer Pavers will uns be sufficient. We cannot assert
that even if the monsures recommended in the precodingę wziętion were fully curried out. these forces would be equal to the task of defeating a modern Continental anay in the United Kingdom. The military efficiey of an army depends on many elements; the thorough train ing of officurs and men, their mutant confidence developed by continuous intercourse under cons ditions of discipline, their constant practice in every form af held duty, and their organization. We cannot feel confident that either a six Tonths' proliminary training for the Militia
followed by annual trainings of six weeks each.
kay scheme of training for the Volunteers' will gīvo du forces offlcored largely by men who are not professional soldiers the cohesion of
arinies that exact a progressive two years' course
from their soldiers and rely, except for expand- ugg the subaltern enaks on mobilization, upon professional leaders. The opinion has been expressed by some of those whom we have.
consulted that troops acting on the defensive in Great Britain would derive from the walowal untury of the conatry, and from their
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of the Swiss Army devote far more time to vails on the American Goverment to force their education and are instructed with much the Chinese Government to forbid the Belgians tuure system than ofteers either of Militia or to he employed, or to interveùs personally in the Volunteers, and yet it is doubtful whether construction of the Hankow-Canton Railway. the system produces the cohesion required of The Poking Government has signified to the an Army. We are unable to recommend the Belgians the formal prohibition to take part in aloption of the Suiss system na regarils the the construction or the surveillance" of the initial training. which 然 BUL jn our Hankow-Cuuton line. The Americans having judgment saffležent for the purpose. The Unus deceived the hopes of the Sovereign. he soldier's initial training should give him has held those whom he sent to negotiate with a thorough musvery of all that is essential them. Col. Thys and M. Davolder, responsible for him in a war in the United Kingdom for his disappointment. Whatever the truth so that in his subsequent trainings he will not
of this tale, or whether it is because of their he required to make up for deficiencies in the failure to negotiate a loan in America: the fact ground-work. Nor can we recommend. the remains that the King of the Belgions ex adoption of the Swiss systers us regards the pressed his displeasure with these two ancient
mede in which the army of that country is offered. The abandonment of the old method of long service by a small class in favour of the modern method of extending the training to all classes while shortening its duration, involves the exaployment of instructors of the highest possible qualifications. These must be profes-
sional officers.
knowledge of it. an advantage compensating
The principles which have been adopted, after For a training less thorough than that of an
the disastrous failure of older methods, by overy invading forre. But the balance of opinio great. State of the European continent, are, and our own judgment is to the effort that in the first, that as far as possible the whole able-bodied absence of highly specialized training in the male popalation shall ho trained to arms; of onelosed and intricate country the diealtins which it presents toll in favour of these rosenilly, that the training shall be given in a
batants who have the greater skill and are the obro ubly levi. Armies which rely upon the defensive alene, and are unable to attack, have almost always been beaten. We cannot forge: that the standard of numbers which we have taken as a rough guide is in no sense authorita five or final, and that in any rase it does not exhaust the reed. The Militia has long been and the Volunteer foren wus during the late wáT, a seared upon which the Army could draw to streperthen itself. The paper submitted to us by the War Office called our special attention to thu vecossily of continuing and enlarging such
poriod of continuous service with the colons,
not necessarily in barracks, and thirdly, that the instruction shall be given by a body of specially educated and highly trained officers. We are convinced that only by the adoption of these principles can an aring for home defence. adeqnuto in strength and military efficiency to defeat an invader. be raised and maintained in the United Kingdoan.
To make detailed recommendations under this
head appears to as to be beyond the scope of the task mutrusted to us, especially as the principles which we recommend cannot be adopted without
associates of his so very forcibly that they folt nothing remained for them bot to rotire. not only from the directorship of the King's rail. way companies, but, as far as Col. Thys was
concerned. from the offices he held in His Majesty's Household. M. Dovolder does not hold an office of State at the moment from which he could be expected to retire, but I may mention as a sign of the high place he held until quite meently in the Royal farour that he was not very long. 20, created a Ministre d'Etat a position rarely conferred
in Belgium.
A Washington despatch, 23rd May, states For nearly a wouch: Chen-tung Liang-Cheng the Chinese Minister, assisted by Mr. I. F. Ferguson, Secretary to the Chinese Railway Administration, has been endeavoring to get the State Department to recognise the American China Development Company, which is con structing a railway from Canton to Hankow, as a bona fide American company, notwith- standing the majority of the shareholders
Belgians. Formal
recognition bas
now been rendered the company by this United States Government. The step is considered to be ono of great import- as the United States maintain her
anco,
precision for the support of the Army when Producing an effect on the regular Army. But sole right to deal with alt diplomatic matters engaged in operations over sea, and the Report....We believe that the necessary thorous affecting the interests of the company. The
of Your Majesty's Commissioners appointed to inquire into the military preparations and other mentters connected, with the War in South Africu, expressed the opinion that No military
system will be satisfactory which does not con-
tain powers of expansion outside the limit of the Regular forces of the Crown."
we submit the following general observations:
training could be given within one year, after which only one or two annual periods of a few weeks exercise or manœuvre would be usedled, The condition of such a short training being sufficient is that instruction should be given by professional officers and non-commissioned ollicors. Under systems of this class the strength of the Army on mobilization depends
Chinese Government feared Russia might acquire the line through the forsign stook- holders und instituted negotiations with the United States, in order to prevent such action on the part of Russin.
From Brusselsweget the following intelligenas. King Leopold has suddenly dissolved the partnership with the American Syndicate con-
We proceed to the consideration of mossares which may provide a home defence urmy qual on the numbers taken for training in each year, | cerning the construction of the Hankow Canton 1.. the task of defeating an invader. It has and upon the number of yours daring which Railway, aftor having acquired the greater part b- thought by many of those who have given liability to be called out for servico in case of of the shares from the original shureholders evidence before us that the uforcement of the war camins. The experience of other countries He intonds to entrust exclusively a Belgian Jaillot for the Militia, with excmption for shows that, after deducting men of insuficient Company with the construction of that im- Volunteers, would he the means of automationlly physique and the classes by law exempt from portant line. But it may be presumed that the filling the ranks of the Militia and Voluntong service, men for example as clergyman and the American Government will oppose the King's forces as well as of the Regular Army, and of only sous of widows, the number annually schume. Meanwhile the Belgian and American tita Hankow.Canton Railway erroring the diflenities which have attended | trained is about fifty per cent of the young | directors of the attempt to ruiss the standard of attainment men of twenty. The male population of that Company have tendered their resignations. in the Militia and Volunteer force. We have age in the United Kingdom is about 350,000,
paid close attention to the evidence laid before and if half that number were trained each its dealing with this subject, and have formed year and remained for the thron next years the opinion that the Militia. Ballot is unsuited liable to be recalled to the volars in ense to the modern conditions of the country, and of emergency the home defence army, after that its irregular and unequal incidence would dus provision by voluntary enlistment for the He felt as an injustice. The ballot, if enforced Navy and for all the purposes served by the with exemption for Volunteers, would press hard regular Army, and after dae allowance for ipon the poorer classes, who would be driven tural wastage, would on macbilisation number into the Militia, while the better-to-do would about 350,000 men, which is approximately thu escape it by joining a Volunteer corps, and strength proposed to us. We have examined would thus perform their service under into the probable cost of the system, which we beliove would be less than the present cost of tasjer condition. Th would transform
the military forces. After some years there the character of the Volunteer fores, which
would be in the United Kingdom a very large would be filled by men joining not from
number of men above the age of twenty four love of soldiering. bat from their desire ta mcapó its bardous. The ballot would not remove the chief difficulty which besets the
[It is impossible to gather from these con- position is, and the inspired account which dieting accounts precisely what the present
comes from Brussels is of course wrong so far as it representa that the trouble arose when the first part of the Canton-Hankow railway was finished. The first part of the trunk line scureely been commenced- as in fuct Eu. D.P.]
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A SETTLEMENT.
DENTISTS CHARGED,
Ororser Simmons, of the Waterworks, olurged Drs. N. Wilson annad W. Danel, dentists. with wasting water. Mr. P. W. Goldring, of Mr. John Hastings's offies, appear- ed for the defence.
Mr. Gompertz dismissed the case, holding thut there had been no misuse of water.
CRUELTY TO' POULTRY.
A Chinaman was charged with cruelty to poultry, having, at Yaumati, kept no less than 75 birds in one basket, The defendant said he was a new nusu uvl did not know the law. His Worship imposed a fine of $5.
THREE MEN COMMITTED.. Three nou were charged with having com mitted one of the most brutal assaults that has occurred in the history of the Colony. The wife and daughter of on accountant in a cracker factory, residing at No. 71, Station Street, Mongkok, gave evidence that while they were
sowing in one of their roots, at 11 a.m. on the 10th inst., they heard a knock at Um trap-door- The mother asked who sought admission, and the reply came that a man who desired louk in the roof desired te to repair a
enter. On the door being opened throw ruffians entered and the women were prewed down. string was tied tightly around their throats, wooden gaps were placed in their months and their hands were tied. The men punched them in the face several times, then took away jewelry from the complainants' ears and persons, and from the aroom; also some money. The property stolen at the time altogether valued about $110. The mother identified the three prisoners from a crowd. Another witness, whostated that
he had seen the men coming from the house, did likewise, and a third witness a man, identified
two of the defendants as men whom he had seen coming down the stairs of the house in question about the time of the robbery. The daughter of the woman, a girl of 17, was rather thaid; she could not identify any of the men. The two complainants had still ugly marke eu
thoir necks where the string had braised them.
The defondantsi were committed to take their
WEATHER AT SEA.
The Ape, from Colombo, reports threaten- ug weather and high casterly sea during latter part of the voyage.
The M. M. s.s. Nankin, from Saigon. reports fine weather.
The Clitus frous Saigon reports high easterly sea and threatening weather during the latter
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day of her voyage. The Ashley from Singapore HAVE YOU TRIED gives a similar report.
The Mayur, from Singapore, reports strong S.W. monsoon and cloudy weather,
MISCELLANEOUS.
The Portuguese cruiser Athumastor arrived. from Marae yesterday.
The Cletus, from Saigon yesterday. brought 2,000 tons of rice and 1,000 teas of general merchandise for Mossrs. Dodwell & Co.
Tlies. And arrived from Barry yesterday with 4908 tons of coal for Messrs. Shewan, Tomes & Co.
The Ashley arrived from Barry yesterday with 2,823 tons of coal
STEAMER MOVEMENTS.
The CP.R. steamer Empress of Indio arrived at Nagasaki, ut noon on Monday, the 27th inst., and left again at à p.m. on same day for Kobe, where she was due to arrive at 8 pm, on Tuesday, the 28th inst.
The C. & M. steamer Zefiro loft Manila on. the 27th fust., at 2 p.m., and is one here to day, at 5 p.m.
The Een Line steamer Bentary left Singa pare yesterday morning, tad is due here on the
3rd prox
BEPORTED PURCHASES.
Japan is reported to have purchased at Antwerp the steamers Masculis, Roehampton and Ronmoor, each of about 8,000 tons register.
An Antwerp telegram states that Russia has bought the German liners Deutschland and Kaiserin Maria Augusta, and that the Japanese have purchased the steamer St. Irene,
THE NEW CUNARDERS. Thedimensions of the two great steamers, toba
built for the Atlantic service of the Cunard Line, 760ft, loag, 87 ft. broad, with 65,000 indicatod herac-power, indicate a marvellous advance from the dimensione, not only of the first Cunarders, but also of such vesselsas the Persia and Scotia. which in their time were the largest steamers in the world. The Britannia, the first of the
line, was 207ft, long, 34ft 4in, broad. Her gross tonnage was 1,154, and her indicated horse-power 740. She had a coal consumption of 39 tone a trial at the next Criminal Sessions.
day, and on average speed of 8 knots. The BEFORE MR. J. H. KEMP (SECOND POLICE Scotia, the last of the puddle steamers, was
MAGISTRATE).
OPIUM.
A Chinawan charged with unlawful possession of 74 taels of opiumi was fined $250 or three months' imprisonment.
Another similar case was rather amusing.
379ft. long, with a breadth of beam of 47ft. 8in., agrees tonnage of 3,8 1, and an indicated orge power of 4,900. Her ocean speed was a little over 14 knots, and her coal consumption
148 tona a day.
Twenty years sitor the launch of the Scotia When the defendant landed at the Canton the Servid, the first of the really great ocean ser ens belonging to the Cunard Line, was steamer wharf he was stopped, and smureled by the Excise officer, with the result that a package launched. Her length was lift, her breadth offer asking what the package contained the horse-power 9,900, her coal consumption about was found in his umbrella. On the Exriseft, Sin., her tonnage 7,892, her indicated
The about 200 tons a day, and her ocean speed
161 knots,
man said rice mixed with ruedicine." medicine turned out to be epium
The defendant explained that he was taking the opium with his rice to cure the opium labit! The man was fined $20 or three weeks' im- prisonment.
A GAME OF "PO CHL"
Fourteen men were charged with gambling. A house in Shelley Street was raided and the men ouught indulging in a quist game of 'e
Chi. The first two defendants were fined $25 or one month's imprisonment, and the rest 83 or fou days' imprisonmout.
A STEAM-LAUNCH OBSTRUCTION.
The coxwains of the launches Kong Wo and Tak Fat were charged with causing an obstruc tion at Murray Pier. They were each fined $5 or 14 days' imprisonment,
CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA.
Au extraordinary general meeting of the
WATCHMAN CHARGED WITH DURGLARY. Shareholders of the Chartered Bank of India. Australia, and China was held on 25th Mayrean with having, ou the 19th inst., stolen Mr. Fang Wu Chuu charges «. Chinase watch- at the Caunoz-street Hotel. London, for the purpose of authorising the Directors to accept a renewal of the Bank's Charters,
whe, having received a good military training, Mr. J. H. Gwyther, who occupied the chair,
a double cased gold watch and three trinklets to the value of $350, and a long coat, from his house. No. 47. Robinson Road.
Twelve years after the Servid, the Campania and Lucenta came, in 1895. They were the first winscrew steamers of the Canard Line, and at the time of their launch were the largest steamers in the world. Their dimensions are 600It. long, 65ft. 3in. broad, 12,950 tons gross, with an iudicated horse-power of about 26,000, and an ocean speed of fully 214 knots.
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Though the Canard directors were slow to adopt screw steamers in place of paddles, and twin-screws in place of single screws, they have in some respects led the way as regards the adoption of the turbines in swift ocean steamers. fer though two turbine steamers, each ovar ( 12,000 tons, are building for the Allan Line, these steamers are only to have an ocean speed of 17 kacts, so that they cannot be called swift ocean steamers, and they do not belong to the zame class as the Cunard turbine steamIS, which are to have an ocean speed of 244 knots. As the Cunard Line is leading the way in regard to ocean tur bine steamers of the highest would be a source of reserve strength in case of said he was sorry to have had to call them
The complainant gave evidence that on the Sunday before lust he was awakened speed, it may be expected that in the very Volunteer force, for it would not equalise the great national emergency. The question put to together for a purely formal process, but that four o'clock in the morning by a noise probable veut of their new steamers proving DR. NEWELL WILSON. DE. WILLIAM DAREL burdens thrown upon employers of labour. nor us by Your Majesty was whether any, und, if law required it. He had to explain that his on the verandah. He wont there and saw successful many other ocean lines will make make it possible for Volunteers to attend forary, whut, changes are required in order to Majesty in Council had been graciously pleased what he took to be spots of blood. Going haste to follow their example.
that. Your Majesty's Militia and to authorise the renewal of their tharter for back into the room to turn up the light prolonged training without the sacrifice of their secure
ho missed his watch from the muntelpiece. He eivil employment. A Volunteer force of which i Volunteer forces shall be maintained in a ten years from the end of March, sod that they then took a piece of blotting paper to see what i the establislament was maintained by any form condition of military efficiency and at an had taken advantage of that renewal to obtain the liquid on the verandah was, and he found it of compulsion, could not long preserve the adequate strength. We humbly submit as the from the Treasury the insertion of two words to be ink. In the reading room, which also eharacter in virtue of which its zoombers have answer, to which, after a protracted inquiry, our whereby their operations in the future would be connected with the verandah, he found the ink bottle had gone. He called repeatedly for his aunqnirod remarkable degree of military most earnest cousideration compels us to sub. less hampered. Their original Charter stated'
watchman, the defendant, but received no proficiency in proportion to their limited seribe, tlust Your Majesty's Militia and Volun that they could only establish ur ncies and
answor. Returning into the house be found his opportunities for training. The work of the tuor forces have not at present either the branches East of the Cape of Good Hope.amah, and he sent her to call the defendant. Volunteers has been a labour of love. This strength or the military efficiency required to They pointed out to the Treasury that the him. At about five o'clock he telephoned to In about twenty minutes the d-fendant came to course of business had very much changed the police. He ordered all the servants in claracteristic may be maintained in a force of enable them to fulfil the functions for which which the principle is daty to the State the they exist; that their military efficiency would siner those days, and they readily fell in with the meanwhile to watch for the same for nil; it must be lost to a forco raised by be much increased by the adoption of the the Bank's views "and they had added the two and told them not to leave the place. The de- Plant left & latter stating that he took his life | measures set forth in the fourth section of this words or elsewhere," which quite met their fendant, however, went away and would not in order that his insurance might go to the wishes. He moved That the Directors be heed when he called him back. A detective creditors of the two insolvent banks. He loft a unequal compulsion. We have also considered report, which would make them valuable auxili- authorised to accept a renewal of the Bank's arrived from the Palice Station and observed will in proper forma so as to enable his desires to selemes based on the principle that an establish defence army capable, in the absence of the ance with the terms of the draft Charter which line of it across the verandah.
aries to the reglur Army; but that a home Charters with certain modifications, in accord-ink on the defendant's thumbs; there was a long be legally carried out. ment should be fixed, for the Militia and whole
the greater portion of the regular will be submitted to the meeting." Volunteer forces and that whenever either foreve, of protecting this country against in- Fores or any of its unite fell short of the vasion can be raised and maintained only on the establishment, the State should select from principle that it is the duty of every citizen of military age and sound physique to be trained among the men of military age a number for the national defence, and to take part in it anfficient to make good the deficiency. The should emergency arise.
The indirect effect of a fitfully applied and
This was seconded by Mr. E. Levita, and carried unanimously.
A widow of an Indian Mutiny veteran at Axminster has just received her husband's share of the Delhi prize-money, 1857.
thief,
Other witnesses gave corroborative evidence, The defendant explained the fact of ink being on his clothes by saying that when he had put then out to dry smuts came upon them from the chimney. He denied that he had ever refused the call of his master.
The case was remanded.
NEW WAY TO PAY DEBTS.
According to the New York correspondent of the Daily Chronicle, two of the leading banks of Macon (Georgia) failed rently, and their liabilities ran up to £160,000, involving a largo number of tradespeople and farmers, many of whom practically lost all they had in the way of vas president of both the banks, Committed savings or investments. Mr. R. H. Plant, who
suicide, and now it is learned that he carried a life insurance amounting to £200,000. Mr.
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