SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST A GERMAN.
ALLEGED ESPIONAGE,
At the Magistracy yesterday nefare Mr. Hazeland, Karl Boettner, 28, described as a clerk and a native of Germany, surrendered to his bail of $500 to answer three charges brought against him under the Defences (8ketches Pre-.
Witness was questioned respecting other photographs, and admitted that they were taken in localities whereof fine scenie views could be obtained. He described
swo of the photographs as being import ant. The photograph of Stonecutters was not so important, but it was useful.........
You know the pathway from which this photograph was taken --Yes.
There are no notices on this
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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, MARCH 77¤ 1913.
THE LI FAMILY CABE.
APPEAL - DISMISSED.
At the Supreme Court yesterday the
judgment of the Appeal Court was
delivered in the appen! against a decision of his Lordship the Chief Justice in the Li family will case.
UPREME COURT.
Thursday, March ath.
IN CRIMINAL JURISDICTION.
BEFORE THE CHIEF JUSTICE (HIB HONOUR
Sin W. Res Davies, K.C.)
SEVERE PUNISHMENT FOR ARMED ROBBERY.
Lung Cheong and Wong Yu. were indicted with being concerned in an
village
SHU PING. NOTES,
During Inst year five Japanese steam- ship companies were. established at Dairen. The largest of them has a capital of Y500,000. Between them they
own ten steamers.
The Manchurian Daily News hears an reliable, authority that the Kwantung Government (Japanese) has now under
vention). Ordinance, 1895, preferred by | warning ̈ people not to take photo. constituted Full Court, Counsel engaged armed robbery by two or more at Tai-hans contemplation a scheme for imposing
Inspector Watt..
The charges werc (1) for having on the 25th January, 1913, taken a photograph of a portion of Upper Belcher's Battery without permission; (2), for having photographic materials in his possession in the vicinity of the same fort with the intention of contravening the Defences (Sketches Prevention) Ordinance, 1995; (1) with being in the immediate vicinity of Mount Davis Battery with photo-
graphs f-No.
Mr. Shenton-There is not a
single notice on the island calling upon people not to take photographs-
Mr. Hodgson-There is the Ordinance. Major Tulloch-Neither is there any anywhere in England.
Mr. Shenton-At Portemouth Dockyard you are searched before you go in 1
The appeal was beard before the newly
being Mr. H. E. Pollock, EC., and Mr. F. C. Jenkin (instructed by Mr. Need- ham, of Messrs. Ewens & Needham), for the first appellant; Mr. Duncan MoNel and Mr. C. G. Alabaster (instructed by Mr. Scott Harston, of Messrs, Deacon, Looker Deacon & Harston) for the second, and Mr. M. W. Slade, K.C., and Mr. Eldon Potter (instructed by Mr. R. A. Harding) for the respondent.
The Presiding Judge (Sir W. de
Prisoners pleaded not guilty. The following comprised the jury: Mesura. W. D. Bell (foreman), F. Astroom, E. F. Aucott, A. M. Smith, G. H. Banning D. K. Blair and T. J. Fisher.
His Lordship, addressing the juryinen, said-I am sorry that you have been detained in Court this morning, but the Present pressure of business has rendered
it unavoidable.
graphic material and apparatus in 18 people from taking photographs1-Yes, Sausmarez), in a lengthy written juts | 16th January six men entered a house in!
possession with the intention of contraven- ing the same Ordinance.TAT
Mr. P. M. Hodgson, Assistant Crown Solicitor, prosecuted, and Mr. W. E. L.
Major Tulloch-You may be. I was not. Are there any sentries here to stop
but they are not on the public highways.
Is there a patrol on duty warring people not to take cameras on to pro- hbited areas-Yes, but not on the public
Shenton, of Messre. Deacon, Looker, road. Deacon & Harstun, defended.
Mr. Hodgson said he desired to add another charge under the same Ordinance with respect to another photograph of
Mount Davis.
Mr. Shenton said bir client pleaded not guilty to all charges.
Mr. Hodgson, in opening, said the facts were very simple. The defendant was found within the vicinity of certain forts of the Colony-Upper Belcher's and Mount Davie. The defendant-and be thought it was not denied-took certain photographs which he (Mr. Hodgson) would put in, and his submission would be that they were photographs of these forts, and that they were unlawfully taken in contravention of the Ordinance. It was not necessary for him to prase for what purpose the photographa were taken
Hongkong is datiy visited by strangers and there is no man on duty telling the not to take photographs of Hongkong harbour or Stonecutters -We would stop them if they were seen,
Witness added that they had certain
went, said only facts were in dispute. The matter arose out of family difficulties dating as far back as 1904. In that year the Xik Lung Bank, a family concert was in difficulties, and early in 1905 an agreement was come to by which it was hoped that these dificulties would be surmounted. They were not, and conse
tonnage dues on vessela registered in the Kwantung Leased Territory.
The South Manchuria Steamship. Co., Ltd., Dairen, has purchased another steamer, viz., the British s.s. Maragon, 4,097 tona, and has rechristened her the Teikoku Maru. She and another steamer also purchased by the Company are to he taken delivery of at Bombay. The S.M.S.S. Co., which is capitalized at Y500,000, owns the Fukaku Maru, formerly the Lang Bank, recently registered at Dairen.
INTIMATIONS
BRANDY
IS
HEALTHFUL
The Rich
The Crown Solicitor (Mr. J. H. Kemp), in opening for the prosecution, said that about half past six on the evening of the the village of Tai-hang. Two of them had revolvers One went into a cubicle there our others proceeding upstairs, on the ground floor and threatened a mar where they found a maid-servant. They caught hold of her and tied her up attempting to put a gag into her mouth. From a cubicle on the upper floor ny new intermediate service across the Pari- aid stole a pair of gold rings, valued at about fie by the twin-scrow steamer Vinnesota, $176. The maid servant raised the alarm the largest steamship calling at Hong- SAYER'S BRANDIES. and eventually the six men ran out and kong, having a carge capacity of 19,000 scattered. Two of them were caught as they were running, and the maid-servant identified both of them. There was further evidence against the first man that when he was caught a gag was found in his pocket, and on the ground near the knife were found the next morning. In cene of his arrest another gag and a
the pocket of the second prisoner was found a packet of pupper, which was commonly used by robbers for throwing
Boquet Starts the Readers will have noticed the large ad- Gastric Juices Working and the vertisement which has recently been a
pearing in the Daily Preas announcing o warm effects starts peristalsis and digestion. TRY GEO-
ently the payments alleged to have been made by the late Li Chuk Chi, who was not personally interested in the Bank, mon on duty for the purpose of stopping were unsuccessful in attaining the end people from taking photographs. Nobody for which they were made. The plaintiff, who had been in the army ever took who was the personal representative of photographs near a fort innocently Li Chok Chi, alleged in the alternative As a matter of fact, he had been rua in
that he advanced money against a borrow in Germany for much less than this.
You don't took on this case as seriousing note deposited with him by the I have no grudge against him.
These photographs might be taken by defendants, and that he paid this money in the eyes of their victims. an ordinary visitor to Hongkong -They some $52,000, on behalf of, and at the request of, the defendants. The defen might.
dants deny the request, or that the money was paid, or paid on their behalf, and they set up a family agreement, which according to them, contained conditions which were not fulfilled, and that the
They may have been taken quite in- nocently I quite agree.
Witness then detailed seeing the defend. ant at the Police Station and questioning him with regard to the photographs Defendant told him that he had taken ne photographs of fortifications, Witness pondence.
Evidence was then called and the prisoners when given the opportunity to make a statement said that they had nothing to say
tás men.
His Lordship, in sumning up, said the only question was whether the jury could satisfy themselves as to the identity of the The jury, returped a verdict of guilty prisoners to seven years hard labour and ent, said he was 13 strokes with the determined to put down this form of robbery
She tons and & displacement of 37,500. has been running between this port and"
Bre
therefore
Seattle now for five or six years, and her enormous proportions, familiar to most residents. She is to make her firat voyage from Hongkong as
an intermediate steamer in the first week in May, and the advertisement announcca attractive rates.
The Stoomvaart Maatschappij Nøder- land are starting a new enterprise with. a monthly service of cargo boats bobween. the ports of the Straits Settlements, Javn and Europe. The Best of the steamers of this line was the s.s. Vias, a large cargo boss. The ship has a registered
or what purpose the defendant had in his had also seen defendant's private corres- plaintiff, knowing of the non-fulfilment of and his Lordship, in sentencing both aett tonnage of 3,756 and a gross tonnage
mind when he took them. The defendant was seen on Sunday morning, 26th Janu- ary, about 11 o'clock, by two military men. outside Belcher's Battery with the camera fixed on a tripod pointed towards Bel- cher's Battery. He was taken into custody and the camera was taken from him. Eventually the plates were developed and it was found that the defendant had taken five quarter-plate photographs. One of the photographs was of Mount Davis an important military fortification; and a
FIRE AT SEA.
the terms and conditions of this agree The hearing was adjourned until nextment, still paid the money, if it were paid Wednesday, hail as before.
et all, and so cannot recover. They also plead a revocation of his authority to pay. The considerations on which this appeal was founded stencil to his Lord ship to have been given careful and edequate thought at the trial, and he thought that the conclusions arrived at by the learned Chief Justice were entitled to all the consideration due to the opinions of the Judge who had tried the
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*** ALLEGED KIDNAPPING ÓF A BOY.
Cheung Sui Wong was charged with child stealing at Laugati and with attempting to kidnap the child,
SOLE AGENTS :
H. RUTTONJEE & SON,
Wine and Spirit Merchants.
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of 5,960 with an indicated horse-power FOR. THE RACES. of 2,000. She has a carrying capacity of 835 tons of cargo in bunkers, and a daily consumption of 37 tons of coal. She travels at the rate of 113 knote per hour in fair weather. The dimensions are:-Length between the B. V, erpendiculars 391ft. 3in. moulded breach 51ft. 3in.; depth from main deck 20ft. 3in.
The most recent development in connee- tion with the Trans-Pacific trade is the interesting announcement by The Royal Mail Steain. Packet Co., for whom Messra."
loc Agents, of the inauguration of a
ALARMING INCIDENT ON THE "AUSTRIA."
Prisoner pleaded not guilty.... The Crown Solicitor mid the child, who About 2 a.m. on the 19th ult, when the
was six years old, disappeared from his Austrian Lloyd steamer Austria was three
mother's house at Yaumati on the 14th and a half days out from Colombo, bound East the officer on the bridge noticed
December in the morning. Late in the dense clouds of smoke shoot upwards from
afternoon of the same day the child was found on board the Macao steamer Su the ventilators of one of the holda. The
especially when, as in this case, there had painter on board the ship saw the Water measures taken to save the ship. the same pusation. The next was another
hoses and afterwards steam pipes were been a great deal of unsatisfactory prisoner with the child and became view of the harbour, which took in Bel-directed into the hatch and every open-evidence, and, he feared, rue duin of suspicious. He questioned the latter, cher's Battery fairly clearly. There vas ing soaled so as to stills the flame Jay another photograph in which the Univer- spite of these precautions the fire showed little perjury. It was clear from what, the prisoner apparently tried to
no signs of abatement. Life boats were sity came out not very distinctly and was prepared, and all things made ready to blurred somewhat by the fact that the two abandon the steamer at a moment's notice. However, thanks to the energy and pre. Indian men who took the defendant in
sence of mind of the captain, and the ex- charge had come out on the plate very cellent conduct of the officers, engineers, indistinctly. The fifth plate was broken, and crew, a catastrophe was prevented. and by the afternoon the flumes appeared but it was logged, and nothing could be
to be extinguished. The hatches were then distinguished on it. The defendant and opened and water pumped into the hold the plates and camera were taken to No. 7 until the evening, when the passengers were happy to congratulate the captain Police Station, and he was there charged on the success of his efforts, and let out no bail. The camera was con- fiscated, and the plates were developed.
Two gunners of the H.K.S. R.G.A gave evidence of stopping the defendant as he was about to take a photograph between Fort Elliot and Belcher's Fort, and
general view of the harbour taken from alarm was immediately given, and prompt case and who had seen the witnesses, Ta a little way out of the harbour. The Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd., are the!
arrested him,
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The draf had on board fifteen passen- gers, who were loud in their praise of the skilful manner in which Capt. Cosulich and his officers and crew dealt with the outbreak. For several hours the danger was precarious, and the passengers wre ready to take to the life-boats. If the Hames had once escaped from the confines of the hold there is every likelihood that - Major Tulleoh, of the General Staff, de- the ship would have been burnt out.
arrival at Penang the ship was survevad scribed the first photograph shown as Mr. Allen Donnys and the dunged photograph of Mount Davis, which was a cargo was discharged. The bold itself fortified place. The next photo showed was not greatly damaged, but a consider Belcher's Battery in the foreground, and able quantity of cargo was ruinely the third was one of Stonecutters, the affected.
material consigned to Penang being chiefly Some bone-meal and cotton enlargement showing the guns. Another goods consigned to Yokohama and Ko photograph was of Lower Belcher's were also much dannged, Battery-
Cross-examined by Mr. She, ton-There were no guns actually visible on the first photograph.
There are no guns there-I can't go into all these questions.
No guns could be visible because the guns are on the other side of the hill- The guns are where they are."
No guns could be visible on that photo graph -That is so
How far is the top of Mount Davis from the spot where the photograph was taken
About 1,500 yardı.
If you were taking this photograph for
a military purpose you would take it with telescopic long ?--I don't agree to that. You say Mount Davis is a fort Yea,
THE MEXICAN REVOLT AND
SILVER
he had already said that so far as he could judge, the credit of Li Po Lang, Li Hoi Tung and Li Po Nam was not in any way impeached in the Court below, and, further, that the appellants had to get rid of the testimony of Li Po Lung, their own witness, in order to succeed in some parts of the case. His Lordship said he had annlysed the evidence which would upset Lo Tun Meo's right to credit, and with the exception of the Chan Tun Yeuk incident, he could not see that it took them very far. Very full, even excessive, weight was given to this episode, and yet the learned Chief Justice believed Lo Tun Me, whose evidence was substantially in accord with circumstances.· ́ Seven
'prevent the boy from giving proper answers to his questions, declaring that the child was a relative of his and that his father was dead. He did not pretend at the Police Station, however, that he was related to the child, but stated that he went to drink tea with three friends. The small buy followed him, and the three men took him to the Macao steamer and thers left him and ran away. The prisoner was handed over to the purser, and he was extradited from Marae on the present charge.
After evidence had been given, his Lordships briefly reviewed the facts, and the jury returned a verdict of guilty.
The prisoner was sentenced to live years' imprisonment and ordered to re- ceive 14 strokes.
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for the round voyage from the Pacific Coast to the Philippines and back, leaving Portland about the beginning of April, In due course through steamers will be despatched from Europe to the Pacific Coast, ria Buez Canal, Straits Settle- ments, China and Japan, and ce versa. The well known firm of Messrs. Frank Waterhouse & Co. will act as Agents for the new service at Pacific Coast ports.
Another interesting announcement is
that "by the influerial support of the mado by the Osaka Shosen Kaisha. It is
Japan Cotton Spints' Association and
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(new model)..
£10.10.0 £10.10.0
£9,5.0
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£6.10.0
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(large field).............. £7.10.0
6
£6.0.0
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(smal model)
£5.18.0
3
£5.8.0
To be. Obtained from
The following were empanelled as the by the kind helping hands of the Nippon Chs. J.
with committing robbery with violence A Chinese named Ip Ki Loi was charged at Lyeemd village.
Prisoner pleaded not guilty, years clapsed between the events to which he testified,
jury-Messra.
E. de J. Figueiredo. and the learned. Judge (Sir W Rees (foreman). E. D. Zacka), R. W. Bristow, Davies) told them that Lo Tun Meo gave CM. Castro, S. S. Levy, G. H. Wilson,
and J. A. Young his evidence intelligently and with an
The Crown Solicitor, who prosecuted. evidently intimate acquaintance with the said that the prisoner, in company with books. He was no mere illiterate as the others, entered the house of the proseen appellants suggested. Under those circumter, bound him, and then ransacked the house, escaping with a large quantity of stances it would be wrong to interfere property. The prosecutor reported the with the judgment of the Court below, matter to the Shaukivan police, but as the offence was committed in the Kowloon on the ground that La Tun Mee was di City police district, he was sent on there. credited. As to the defendant Li Ya While on his way he met the prisoner, who was carrying a bag containing some man, and with assistance caught him. oventually handing him over to the Evidence was then given, and both pro-
Tusen Kaish, this Company was prompt. ed to enter into a new field of Japan. Bombay trade, of which we have "now. pleasure to announce to the public the inauguration of a regular monthly ser vier of freight steamers from Yokkaichi. and Kube, Japan to Bombay, India, touching on downward voyage at Moji, Hongkong, Singapore, Penang, Colombo, and on upward voyage Colombo (or Tuticorin), Singapore, Hongkong." The steamers commissioned for this new trade are the Saigon Varu of 1,538 tons gross; the Indo Maru
at
We subjoin extracts taken from Messung, he was clearly a discredited person of the stolen property. He pursued tas of 5,311 tons gross; the Luzon Maru of
Samuel Montagu & Co.'s circular of the
13th ult.:-
Suspenso as to the Chinese loan negotia tions and tightness of money have com-.
author itica.
The jury having found the prisoner guilty, his Lordship sentenced him to four years' hard labour, and 10 strokes with the ca
A SHOP COULIE'S THEFT.
Wong Cheong was charged with larceny at a shop in Bonham Strand East, whern he was employed as a coolie
Prisoner pleaded not guilty.
and his Lordship did not suppost any Court would care to act on his eviler, He contradicted himself, and was always bined to retard buyere generally from ready to say anything which might cervesecutor and his wife declared that they presenting themselves. On the other his need regardless of its truth had know a prisoner for a number of hand, hopes, founded on the continnacco
His Lordship, in concluding his written years.. of Indian Government purchases and an improvement of Chinese finances generally judgment, said he did not pretend to have when the Government of that country dealt fully with all the points raised in has secured the funds to meet its pressing the long and able argument by Counsel, embarrassments, militated against any but he had dealt with the case fully freedom of selling, either on the part of the United States or elsewhere.
enough to explain his conclusion that this In Bombay silver for delivery in time appeal should be dismissed with costs. for the February settlement which com
ences on February 26 is quoted at a The Chief Justice said-1 am of the The Crown Sclicitor said that the Would you say Stonecutters is a fort-premium of 1 per cent over that for silver sante opinion. It is u unnecessary for me prisoner was a shop coolio in Bonham to be shipped from London, showing that to recapitulate the reasons which ide the accountant, who was also a partner in Strand, and on the 18th November, when a squeeze is in progress, though, as yet,. not very acute.
me, as they were fully stated in the Court | the firmy returned to the shop he found The transference of the seat of conflict below.. I think it right, however, to say that his keys had gone from his girdle. in Mexico to the capital suggests that in regard to proof of payments, in which ther investigation led to the discovery
He immediately became alarmed, and fur supplies from this quarter may, before I found difficulty, that the arguments w that the safe had been opened and a quan long, be directly affected. Hitherto, the chief mines, situated no far from the addressed on flat part of the case inre tity of money had been taken out, as well capital, have been successful in maintain removed the difficulty alluded to and have as a lot of valuable securities, deposit
Some rings and other per ing connection with the refineries there,
notes, etc.
ivore also missing and in forwarding their output to confirmed in ray mind the view which sonal property market. Now that the contest for power I then arrived at. I agree that Kwong found in Macao later with some of the Frisoner was not the shop, and he was is being waged in the vicinity of the ra
Yee Wo's claim should be disallowed. fineries, transit of bullion may be deferred
stolen property in his possession. When Mr. Justice Gompertz, whose judgment charged at the Police Station, prisoner until a decisive issue has been reached.
Eastern stocks of silver are consider equalled in length that of the Presiding admitted stealing part of the property. ably increased. Shangbai reports a total
'but before the Magistrate he alleged that
It is fortified; not necessarily a fort.
This photograph of Stonecutters is a common sight on postcards ---Yes. -.
Do you object to that?-We would if we could.
I put it to you that that photograph to be of any value for the purposes of an invader would have to be taken from the sea in order to get the proper contour
I do not admit that.
Would it not be better if it were taken from the sea It would be better to photograph the guns straight off.
His Worship--The photograph is of 101 £4,490,000, compared with £4,360,000 Judge, concurred that the Kwong Yee Woon ricksha coolie gave the articles to him
some value?
Major Tulloch-Yes..
last week, and Bombay £1,750,000, com payment must be disallowed for want of Prisoner now repeated this statement, pared with £1,080,000. The offtake in the sufficient proof, and also that the appeal but the jury found him guilty, and be latter city has fallen from 110 to 90 bars
was sentenced to three years' imprison
a day.
must be dismissed with costs.
ment.
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The following are the Settlements re- ported in Messrs. Lamke & Rogge's latest circular:-
- British str. Puoting, 1,073 net reg, Saigon to Hongkong, 22 cents per picul.
British str. Telemackus, 1;340 pet reg Saigon to Hongkong, 22 cents per picu,
British str. Eashing, 1,143 net reg., Saigen to Hongkong, 23 cents per pioul, Saigon to Hongkong, 23 cents per picul
British str.Tientsin, 1,227 net reg.,.
German str. Clara Jebren, 1,103 net reg," Saigon to Hongkong, 23 cents per picul. Saigon to Hongkong, 23 cents per picul
Gercian str. Qwerto, 1,140 net reg,,
British str. Onsong, 1,787 not reg, Saigon to 1 port N.C. Java, 37 cents per picul.
Germana sir. Cool Diederichson, 774 net reg, Swatow to Couton (troops), $3,490 lump sum,
Japanese str. Fri, 859 not reg, Time- charter 12 months, $7,500 per month.
British str. Namsung, 2,691 set reg., Moji to Hongkong (past-cargo), $2 por ton.
Germon str. Rajaburi, 1,189 net reg Port Courbet to Canton, $4.75 per ton.
German str. Kalsichang, 1,292 not reg., longay to Singapore, $3.25 per ton.
German str. Signal, 907 uet reg., Hongay to Hongkong, $2.50 per ton.
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