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BRITISH POLICE STATION RAIDED.
PIRATICAL ATTACK AT CHEUNG- CHAU.
THREE INDIAN CONSTABLES KILLED One of the racat daring outrages which has been perpetrated since the British occupation of the New Territories was. committed on Monday night at Cheung Chau, the large island about ten or twelve, miles from Victoria, more popularly known as Dumb-Ball Island, a band of pirates landing in the dead of night and, armed with riffes and other weapons, at tacking the practically defenceless police station, killing three Indian constables, overowing the two Chinese detectives, pillaging the station, breaking open the safe and making off with money amount ing to about $1,000 representing Govern. nent revenue from land rents and harbour.duos.
The cows of this daring attack was brought to Hongkong just after seven o'clock yesterday morning, when the police boat arrived from Cheung Chau and reported that the station had been attacked overnight by
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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2187, 1912.
Later information is to the effect that: A 10.30
night on Monday Cheung Chau police station was at tacked from all four sides at ones by a band of robbers variously estimated at 50 or more, carrying the place with an impetuous rush. The ludian eunstable on duty at the wharf was shot down, and the Indian sergeant who came along on hearing the noise met with a similar fate.
HAMBURG LETTER.
(SPECIALLY WRITTEN FOR THE "HONGHONG
DAILY PRESS,"
··THE BHIPPING TRADE,
July 25th
and the rise in wages everywhem have absorbed a large part of the profit. As long as the present activity lasts, and it looks as if it were going to continue for
The report of the Verein Hamburger Rheoder (shipowners) for the year ending June 30th contains little that is really BCW. It confirms the general improve- A third Indian was encountered by themont in the shipping trade and the robbers, who shot him dond also. Then advance in rates, whilst regretting that the increase in the working expenses they soized the shroff and proceeded to smash the safe, using a big hammer.ewing to the coal strike in Great Britain They soon got at the contents, which are believed to have been over 81,000. The entire station was ransacked, books and other articles being scattered about, and all the revolvers and carbines, with a box
some time to come, it may not be felt so of ammunition, were removed, even the much, but in times of depression the revolvers being stripped from the dead enhanced cost of working ships will tell Indians. Simultaneously with the attack beavily and with the large amount of on the station a band raided a large pawn; new tonnage that is being steadily turned shop and practically stripped it of all valuables, taking away jewellery and out an over-supply of freight-room and clothing and other articles to the value, lower rates are bound to come sooner or of $4,000 or $5,000. Another gang enter- ed a grocer's shop and carried off the salo from there with its contents amounting to $500. The raid was carried out on a
later.
The year under review has been a satisfactory one to the shipping trade and the outlook is still promising.
The
bo the extreme limitation of the powers of the non-official members of the river conservancy beards, another of a more
local nature being the further handicap- ping of the traffic on the river Elbo by the new impost. It is maintained that, considering the urgent necessity of further regulations of the course of the river and the advantages accruing there- from to the port, a broader view should have been taken by the authorities and less auxiety manifested to provide for
the cost beforehand.
The Titanic disaster and the proposals of the London conference regarding inter- national legislation for the purpose of insuring greater safely at sea are also dealt with; then questions of the main tenance of discipline on board ship, of the jurisdiction of the German consular courts abroad, etc., and other matters of more local importance are touched upon, which, however, do not appear of sufficient general interest to find a place in your columns.
BILLS OF EXCHANGE.
The international conference on the unification of the lase on bills of ex- change which has been sitting at The before yesterday; an agreement bearing Hague since June 15th was closed the day on the introduction of an international code of laws was signed by the representa tives of twenty States, amongst which were those of Germany, France, Austria- Hungary, etc. Great Britain seems to withhold its adhesion so far.
ANGLO-GERMAN LITIGATION.
"BLESSED BE SNOBBERY.”
MR. LUTHER MUNDAY AND HIS SOCIAL VIEWS.
hard tussles with poverty. But I will confess that there does seem to me a certain spirit and discipline underlying the organisation of the privileged classes that is altogether excellent. Somehow one does not find it in anything In a very few days from now the like the same degree elsewhere. I have dovecotes of society are likely to be con- known, for instance, of some unforgetable siderably fluttered by a remarkable book conspiracies of kindness towards mysolf from a remarkable man. One must not, among people who would be looked upon of coures, discount beforehand certain an utteranobs. But the stern07. pur- cheerily authentic anecdotes which will be
poses of snobbery are, to my mind, 'no found enlivening the pages of "A Chron-ess useful.7 icle of Friendships,' as the volume is to be onlled.
Enough that its author is known and respected by a wider and more varied of distinguished friends-real circle friends-than possibly any living man who was not born to a fortune himself, por achieved it, nor hại ít thrust uzion hin,
"
This is Mr. Luther Munday, who baa been many things in his time, but, can be hest explained to the outer world as the
ereator of the modern social club. In little more than 20 years Mr. Munday has been founder, organisor, owner, chairman or on the committee of more than 40 clubs.
In connection- with these he has organised no fewer than 500 social gather. ings and entertainments, at which 1,200 of the most famous players and of the day have appeared for love er
mbet uxtensive scale and must have been passenger traffic has retained on a pas had at the suggestion.of the Anglo-Gor- Mrs." Grundy," or at the present Manor
band of men, which is supposed to have carefully planned. The fact that these numbered somewhere about fifty, operations could be undertaken at the same time indicates that a considerable Iramediately. & police launch despatched to the scene, with Mr. King, body of men must have been engaged in Assistant Superintendent of Palice, the attack. Inspector Kerr and others on board, while it is understood that another Jaunch proceeded to Tai C, lest that place might also have suffered in the
same way.
At the time of writing the details of the occurrence to hand are very meagre, but all that is known is summed up in the following statement.
As the station at Cheung-Chau is only accessible after nine o'clock at night from
The cœɛapo of Sergeant Boulger and his wife was remarkable. When the sergeant heard the noise he came downhill from the matshed, but was fired at point blank by a number of the pirates, who how ever missed him. Seeing that he was so hopelessly outnumbered the officer did not procced further.
The Chamber of Commerce of Berlin
caused an exhaustive exposé to be drawn man section of the London Chambor up on the present node of procedure in cases of legal actions between inhabitants of the two countries. This was published series of proposals for its simplification in the beginning of May, and contains a whilst recommending the convening of a meeting of delegates, legal and com- subject. The Berlin Chamber has now mercial, for further dealing with the received a communication from that of London stating that the Anglo-German section, fully approving of the exposé and the recommendations it contains, has re- quested them to express to the Berlin Chamber its carnest desire to co-operate with them in furtherance of the object and a wish that the two Governments may be prevailed upon to lend their support.
with that of the previous twelve months, without, however, reaching the figures of 1906-7, but it should be remembered that, 80 many sutside being subject to influences, it cannot be expected to advance in the same steady manner the goods traffic has done. The recent refusal of the Imperial Government to license a new emigrant service from the port of Emdon to the United Statea has therefore been received with satisfaction; it is alleged that to sanction competition for purely local reasons with the two great lines (the Hamburg-American and the Norddeutsche Lloyd), to whose rapid and brilliant development is due the high position Germany has attained in the maritime world, would be unpatriotic and shortsighted, and that Rhineland and Westphalia, on whose exports Emden would chiefly have to rely, produce mostly heavy goods, such as iron, steel,-cca), etc., which are not shipped to the States in Daily News gives the following acccant large quantities.
The tramp lines can for the first time for many years look back upon twelve months of prosperity, Ireights having been very remunerative, particularly dur ing the first part of it; afterwards the Then they, labour troubles in Great Britain, which, besides causing an increase in the cost of fuel, condemned many steamers to idioness in British and other ports, and the political disturbances in the neat East, in consequence of which many charters had to be cancelled, affected rates unfavourably.
The robberies on the island itself did not exhaust the activities of the unwel. They wok possession of come. visitors. the sea, the big Chinese door at the rear the launch Lee Tub, which was lying of the station being closed, it is certain alongside the Hoi Yuen, and disabled the that the pirates must have approached engines of the latter so that she should from the sea, either in a junk or in small not be able to follow. Moreover, they boats. It may have been that the men had took the crew of the ffoi Yuen and placed been lying there for a day or two waiting them on board the Lee Tak, the crew of At any rate, it is this launch being battened down under their opportunity. most likely that when they made their hatches. The band then left the island attack they found the Indian constable on the Lee Tuk and proceeded, so, it is doing charge room duty sitting on the understood, to Colowan, taking with them bamboo wharf which leads up to the the shroff. About an hour's sailing die tance from Cołowan they deserted the station. The Indian sitting just outside the charge-room would have the charge-launch for a junk, probably their own, room and the interior of the station in which they had taken in tow view. Once the pirates had accounted for released the shroff who cans: back on the him, they would have the whole station launch Lee Tuk. completely at their mercy, as the Euro- -swan: Sergeant, and his wife (Sargeant and Mrs. Boglger) usually sleep during the summer months in a matshed on the hill at the rear of the station, and two warried Indian police occupy a matshed behind the station. As three Indian constables wore found shot dead, it may in inferred that the man on duty was shot The pirates were well armed, having modern rifles, and revolvers. During the by the miscreants, who then rushed the premises. Probably the noise brought the firing which took place on the island they other Indians on the scene, only to meet shot, accidentally most likely, two of with the game fate, their arms being their own men. The floating population in the charge-room. The constables was thrown into great alarm, and moal being disposed of, the robbers turned of the small craft harried from the ax their attention to the safe, and, breakingchorage. it open, secured somewhere about $1,000, money collected for harbour ducs, crown rent, licences, etc. Having secured all that they wanted, they next made certain of their escape by seizing the launch which runs between the island and Hongkong and which lics overnight at Cheung-Chau, and steaming off in a direction which at the present moment is unknown. They earried with them the broff belonging to the station..
Needless to say, when the news became known in the Delony it created a pro- found sensation, and great sympathy was felt for the men who had met an un- timely death at the hands of these desperadoes.
The situation at Cheung-Chau, as well as the other stations on Lamma Island, ia much worse than the station on the mainland. These are in telephonic com- the Central Police munication with Station and can apprise the anthorities in the city of any serious happening; but The not so it these isolated stations. police headquarters at Cheung-Chau were
The Hongkong Government informed the Portuguese authorities at Macao of the occurrence and of the departure of the pirates in the direction of Colowan.. It was reported that the Janus was ready to proceed to the locality, hut apparently it was not deemed necessary to despatch her.
The bodies of the three Indians, which were riddled with bullets, were brought to Hongkong yesterday afternoon.
HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE
COUNCIL.
A meeting of the Legislative Council is called for tomorrow. The orders of the day are:
THE OUTRAGE IN HONAN.
ASSENOLY ATTACKED BY BRIGANDE.
The Peking correspondent of the N.-4.
of the recent outrage in Hona!---
After an absence of ten days, Dr. Douglas Gray has returned from Honan, of the extraordinary attack upon the whence he brings an interesting account Assembly, reported to have taken place at the end of July. Over a dozen men ware dangerously wounded by revolver were killed. Many were badly bruised bullets, although strangely enough none and eat in the effort to escape the murderous fire poured upon them. All are now on a fair way to recovery, except one whom Dr. Gray has brought back to Poking for medical care.
Whether at the famous Lyric club, which he guided through its dazzling career from 1889 onwards, or at the Green Park Club, at which he afterwards blended the duties of Beau Nash and
song of club organisation," there is House Club, which he calls his swa hardly a member of our aristocracy of any activity at all who lus not come across Mr. Lather Munday-and been the better for it.
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It is significant that nearly 1,000 names of eminent folk he has personally met a fraction of the real number-only those appear in this book of his. This is only of whom he has a good story to tell. They range from Queen Victoria to Corney Grain, from Wagner and Whistler to Sandow and Chevalier, from Ruskin and Gladstone to Ada Menton, the poetess circus rider, and Arthur Roberts, from Dean Church and Canon Liddon to Buffalo Bill and H. M. Stanley, from WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS. Robert Browning and Cecil Rhodes to
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SCIENTIFIC AND
As a matter of fact Mr. Luther Mun- day has been many other things before club and brside his experiences as a manager. He has been a tramp. in London, a sailor before the mast, a mem- ber of the Thames Police and the London Fire Brigade. He has been a singer in the choir of St. Paul's Cathedral and a holder of the now abolished post of chair- He has been a man at a music-hall. in-chief to Sir Robert Tree and Sir coffee planter in Ceylon, and manager- He is, in leisure- Charles Wyndham. moments, a sculptor and a draughtsman. Above all, he has been, and is still,
i cheery, human philosopher-with philosophy of his own, which pervades. It was this both the book and the man. philosophy that a Daily Chronicle repre- Always have on hand a very large complete sentative talked over with him in the rose-grown country cottage in Berkshire, last chosen to live, on the edge of the where, like a true philosopher, he has at The Honan Provincial Assembly sits atbiggest and fairest village-green ever Kaifengfe, the capital of the province, trodden, by goose or pig.
Roughly, this philosophy may be SURVEYING INSTRUMENTS
* Blessed Sailing vessels have also done botter, and on the occasion of this exciting
seventy members were translated into three words.
discussing be snubbery!" It is ag a dauntless Transils, Lovels, Plano Tables, Prismatic and although they, too, suffered indirectly by event
gathered together gravely.
Luther Munday the coal strike, having had to pay more affairs of state. The building is situated optimist that Mr.
Sight Compasses, Hand Larcis, &o, &c.) for tugs and all work for which steam is in a large compound, surrounded by the proudly and frankly confesses himself a
houses of the city, while the hall in snob by conviction."
also required. There has been all along à
seats are arranged lengthways facing the brisk demand for sailing tonnage for coal rectangular with doors at each end. The to the east and west coasts of South rostrum of the president. On the fore America, and for homeward bound ships noon in question, the Assembly was ex- in the northern ports for grain, and in peeting the Tutub, and when two mer orrived and told the sentrics at the door the Chilian ones for nitrate of soda. of the building that the great man was lively inquiry was likewise experienced coming, their appearance was regarded in Australia owing to the abundant crops as quite natural. Suddenly four or five
men dashed in from outside, ran to one law. of all kinds. A difficulty sailing vessels of the doors of the Assembly Hall and
"After all, "snobbery" is only a bad name given for hanging purposes. To me have to contend with is the high marine began firing into the midst of the mem- insurance premium now asked and which bars. The gentries rushed to see what the true snobbery is a really fine thing. It
but one of them was gives a man ambition, it teaches him to AGENTS FOR underwriters do bot seen inclined to irouble was,
immediately shot, and the other wisely be straight and clean, to have a cold reduce.
bolted.
A
The introduction of a uniform B/L, which I mentioned some time ago, is referred to with satisfaction, although some of the clauses, it is said, will re- First reading of a Bill entitled, "Anquire revision from a shipowner's stand- Ordinance to amend the Larceny Ordin-point.
ance, 1886."
tratca Ordinance, 1890."
First reading of a Bill entitled, "An Ordinance further to amend the Liquors Consolidation Ordinance, 1911.”
over
A CSE FOR SAFETY.
The
ADVANTAGES OF SNOBBERY. **What I mean is this," he said, "that I have knocked about a good deal, and I have met all sorts of folk, of all classes, from royalties to tramps, and what seems to me one of the best things in the world is the unofficial organisation that exists, particularly in English society, and finds
DRAWING
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AND MATERIAL
an expression in what 1 may call club T Squares, Bat Squares, Straight Edgre
Scales, Inks, &., 0)
bath every morning, to respect achieve ment, to face dificulties with courage, and disasters with cheerfulness, to keep his own self-esteem, and to help others to keep theirs. I would set it down that if a man is burred as a rotter" at a good club, he probably is one.
government.
The scene in the hall was in describable, for half a dozen men with large revolvers were busily firing their weapons into the crowd of men who were wildly tumbling over chairs and tables in their efforts to Many fell reach the opposite door.
To me snobbery is just a way in which our national common sense balances the The negotiations pending with regard wounded, but the remainder rushed out-
object of escaping over the wall, still in every form of public and officialised First reading of a Bill entitled, "Anto a new insurance policy, are, it is stated, side and across the compound with the wrongs and injustices that must abound Although Parliament is Ordinance for the further relief of not progressing altogether satisfactorily, followed by a murderous fusilade
for although the amociation of under- hall was emptied in a few seconds and public enough, our country is really ruled Innkeepers."
in the Cabinet, whose meetings are secret First reading of a Bill entitled, "Anwriters have expressed their willingness the miscreants appeared to be satisfied, by all sorts of unknown influences centrad
for they decamped without further ado. Ordinance further to amend the Magis to meet the insurers on some points, parti The President had a narrow escape, for and unreported. In the same way a club's cularly on such as the Chamber of Com-upon being fired at he dropped below his definite printed rules are really useless. merce had declared to require amending, desk, leaving a shower of bullets to pass Any law that is set down in black and they remain obdurate on others, either overhead and make a remarkable pattern white can be evaded if only a man is members were wounded in two places and refusing to make any concessions what- on the white wall behind him. Several clever enough. But an unwritten law over or giving vague promises.
all may be said to have narrowly escaped First reading of a Bill entitled, "An
The labour troubles in the. Hamburg with their lives.
Although a large reward has been offer Ordinance to amend the Post Office Ordin-docks are then touched upon and a com-
parative table of the new rates of wages ed for the apprehension of the assassina, First reading of a Bill entitled, "An and the old ones is added, into which, no clue to their identity has been dis- Ordinance to make provision for the however, I need not enter, as I have covered in the fortnight that has elapsed ordinary citizens, and had no distinctive appointment of and to define the powers already dealt with the subject in one of since the outrage. They were dressed like
BETTER THAN DOLLAR WORSHIP. of the Crown Solicitors and Assistant my recent despatches.
Regret is expressed
news mark, nor were any of them recognized by
"And this club-law is just the law of They have disappeared as
snobbery-the law that shuts out the Crown Solicitors of the Colony," *
First reading of a Bill entitled, "Anreceived, just as the report was going to members of the Assembly or by the atten- The view has been expressed that the Ordinance for effecting the final revision press, of the Bürgerschaft having adopted dants.
ed to consider the proposed increase in
instinct, however much they keep within and amendment of the Ordinances of the the report of the Commissioners appoint. suddenly and mysteriously as they came bounder and the charlatan from good Colony from 1844 to 1912 inclusive before the harbour and tounage chies in favour whole affair was engineered by the Tutuk men's feasts by sheer man-to-man incorporating them in the New Revised of the scheme. It is all the more to be with the object of getting rid of the laws of a more definite sort. Of course, deplored, as the state of the finances of Assembly, but Dr. Gray disposes of that Edition of the Laws of the Colony."
ance, 1900,"
at
the
can never be invaded.
Another great thing about elub-law is that it can dare to be illogical. Every club worth anything must be at once democracy and a despotism, the two blended by tact, commen scuse, and good heartedness state of affairs that can officialisation, never be brought about by any cast-iron
Committee on the Bill entitled, "Antho ropublic are such, according to the last theory, by declaring that the relations it has nothing really to do with birth-- | Of lato years the island has Ordinance to make provision for the re-official statements as to require no fresh between the Tutuh, who is a connection of i except in so far as birth generally means
never designed for a police station, being simply some old Chinese building con- It is worth vorted for the purpose. noting in this connection that the island represents one of the wealthiest stations in the New Territories, the revenue drawn by the Government amounting to over $40,000 a year. As is known, it is the centre of a large fishing and shrimping industry and possesses one or two dis tilleries. become popular not only among bathing and shooting parties, but has developed into a missionary health resort, there being some 22 missionary houses on the Island, while this summer the Y.M.C.A. have established a holiday camp there.
Tho police force at Cheung Chau con- sists of one European sergeant, four Indian police, two Chinese detectives one interpreter and one shroff.
constitution of the Full Court."
movement,
while
breeding. But taking things all round, I sources of revenue. It is hoped that Yuan Shih-kar's, and the Assembly were would much prefer our English snobbery Second reading of the Bill entitled, when the bill itself comes up for dis and are excellent and that there were no the reverence for the particular breed "An Ordinance to araend and consoli-cussion the economies to be effected in political differences between them. The
administration of the quay, as members of the Assembly were mostly old- of man typified in an English gentleman
the some other substitute.
"I don't think, in its essence, it need as defined by the recommended by the commission, will fashioned Chinese, unconnected with the to the dollar-worship of America or date the Law relating to "Chinese the Passenger Ships"
assailants used heavy old six-shooting have anything to do with class. Class Chinese Passengers Act, 1855, and con- receive careful attention and an increase revolutionary cerning Asiatic Emigrante generally." in the dues be deemed unnecessary....
The now navigation dues enacted by the revolvors, which do not suggest a revolu- Second reading of the Bill ontitled,
Reichstag last autumn do not find favour tionary plot. Inquiries are still being hatred seems to me as needless as it is "An Ordinance to amend the Tramway
with the author of the report, in spite of busily prosecuted, and an explanation of regrettable. Personally, "I am not in the Ordinance, 1902." *
the important amendments admitted to this strange fair is awaited with slightest degree ashamed of the fact that * Will not be proceeded with at this have been made during the passage of the interest. But before-and after the erent E am the son of a poor school master, that bill. One of the chief objections seems to the city was perfectly quiet and orderly.
meeting.
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