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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17TH, 1913.
one of the principal planks in the Liberal TELEGRAMS. TELEGRAMS.
platform was the Abolition of the Lords'
veto, it may confidently be said that the question of the maintenance of Free Trade was the determining factor in the election,
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Ireland. Even allowing, for the sake of argument, that the demand for the Abolition of the Lords" veto was the important factor in the election that the Government claims that it was, it should aot be forgotton that the veto of the House
of Lords was not objected to merdly because
the Lords opposed the Liberal scheme of Home Kule for Ireland. The abolition of the Lords' roto was demanded because the E House of Lords in 1910, by an overwhelm- ing majority, rejected the Budget, and the primary object of the Parliament Act was to secure "the undivided authority of the House of Commone over finance in legisla
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JAPAN AND CHINA.
WARSHIPS ORDERED TO
YANGTSZE PORTS..
TOKYO, September 10th. Several warships have been ordered to various ports in Yangtze.
'ANOTHER' INTERNATIONAL
INCIDENT.
THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCK.]
THE HOME RULE DISCUSSION,
THE
COCAINE AND MORPHINE CASE. ·
MAXIMUM PENALTIES IMPOSED.
At the Magistracy yesterday morning LONDON, September 16th. Mr. G. N. Orme give his decision in the caso in which George Leopold Duncan, Mr. John Devlin, M.P., speaking at
of Messrs. MacEwen, Frickel & Co., Listowal, said that the Nationalists were stood charged with being in unlawful ready for any concession short of sacrific-possession of 188lbs. of morphine and 519 ing Ireland's nationhood, but they did ounces of cocaine on the 23rd August. not believe all the talk about a settlement
the by consent to be sincero, and were of opinion that its real object was to destroy the Home Rule Bill.
A collision between Japanese railway guards and Chinese Police at Changli has occasioned a renewed outburst in the Press.
THROUGH REUTER'S ADENCE]
THE NANKING AFFAIR.
ANTI-CHINESE AGITATION IN JAPAN.
The Home Bule Question was practically a sido issue. At any rate it cannot be claimed that the 1910 election was entirely fought on the question, and the obvious objection to submitting the ques- tion to the electorate now in the usual way of a dissolution of Parliament and a general slection is that it is extremely unlikely that the result would express the views of the country on the single question of Hoine Rule for Ireland. It may represent the verdict of Ireland, but in England, Scotland and Wales the result of the polls would be influenced by other questions which make a wore direct appeal to the electorate. For example, no secret has been made of the fact that the Government is counting upon a steadily improving attitude of the work- ing classes towards national insurance and purpose.
TOKYO, September 16th. Two cruisers have been ordered from Saarbo to Nanking.
Mr. P. M. Hodgson (Crown Solicitor) prosecuted, and Mr. P. W. Goldring defended,
compradore, but ho has stated that such laxity did exist and I am unable to hold that it is quite out of the range of possibility for the defendant to ignore the doings in his oflice to the extent described
by him; in other words, guilty knowle ige on his part is not absolutely proved.
the must, however, here comment on evidence of the two compradores in the case and state my opinion that these are two men whose recklessness and negligence
constitute a scandal to their firm and a danger to the Colony. Of the office boy it would not be reasonable to expect that
he should not utilise his opportunities o the full, but I trust that steps will be taken to see that their powers for evil are effectually destroyed.
His Worship said--The incts of the The Westminster. Gazette emphatically
case are as follows:-On the gard ult. two cases containing four hundred ounces declines a Dissolution, and says that the of cocaine were carried out of the defen-
I have now ta turn to the Liberals shsolutely refuso to bo
dent's office. In the passage way of the meaning of the words posstasion, intimidated by Sir Edward Carson's office there were stored a number of cases custody, or power," and to decide whether unloaded revolver. It is of opinion that containing morphine, some of which any or all of these terms is applicable to the Unionist admissions that a change of showed evidence of having been recently the relation of the defendant to the illicit opened. In the strong-room were two wares stored in his offices. Is the master government is necessary in Ireland is 2
cases containing cocaine, and other tius table for the presence of these illegal proof that the Unionist stalwarts are full and empty with signs of the recent drugs on his premises, even without his already shifting ground,
packing of cocaine and morphine in knowledge? The common law requires The Home Rule Council announces that anrdine and starch tias. The packing the proof of mens
it is rapidly completing an extensivo auturan campaign in England, in con- junction with the Liberal Associations, Mr. John Redmond and other Nationalists will tour the country, and will be supported by Liberal Members of The Council, asserts that the campaign will convince the electorate that in the absence of any alternative proposal it is in the interests of the Empire that the Bill should
pass promptly, and adds that it is disposed to
Buth the public and the Press apparently regard the Government's Parliament. demands on China as being insufficiently drastic, and efforts are being made to renew an anti-Chines agitation. A raca meeting is being arranged for
this
CHAMPAGNE old-age pensions to ensure their gratitude THE AISGILL RAILWAY DISASTER. agree with Sir Edward Carson in his
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LONDON, September 16th
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view that Lord Lorebara's proposal
Conference is impracticable,
TURKS AND BULGARIANS IN
AGREEMENT.
for
and support in future elections for the Party responsible for these measures. A general MIDLAND MANAGER ADMITS COAL TOO SMALL. election is certain to te complicated with all sorts of issues. The question
The enquiry into the recent railway of granting Home Rule to Ireland then disaster at Aisgill was continued on 14: $59.00 | is pre-eminently one for a Referendum,
Monday, The General Manager of
CONSTANTINOPLE, September 18th. but against the introduction of this
Midland Railway, Sir Guy An official communique says that the method of ascertaining the views of the the people Liberal opinion, strangely enough, Granet, deposed that after the Hawes Turkish and Bulgarian delegates on Monday arrived at an agreement on the has always been strongly opposed, on the disaster in
Company 1010 the general ground that experience of the signed £100,000 ́as & first instalment to principal points connected with the system in other countries has shown that it effect improvements, including automatic frontier question, and that a final settle checks progress and onormously strengthens signalling, safety valves on gas cylinders,ment will be reached at the next meeting of the forces of reaction. Be that as it way, if the judgment of the people is wanted
asbestos carriage floors. The the delegates on Wednesday. Though the on a particular qucation the Referendum Company were strongly opposed to the officials refuse to give details, it is understood that Bulgaria accepted the is surely the most certain · meant of introduction of electricity instead of
Turkish main
demends, including ascertaining it, and it may be added in gaslight, and therefore had not carried this connection that the Unionist leaders out the Board of Trade's recommenda- Adrianople and Demotika, in return for those in regard to the retention of are committed to this means of testing the tions in this respect, He admitted that country's opinion on Tariff Reform.
minor concessions. The changed attitudo
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Ir will be sincerely hoped that some satisfactory settlement of the problem of Home Rule for Ireland will result from the important discussion which Lord LoRnHURN has initiated in the United Kingdom. One of three courses must be taken either (1) a Conference such as Lord Lorantry has suggested must settle the basis on which a measure of Home Rule shall be granted to Ireland; or (2) there must be a dissolution of Parliament and a general election; or (8) a resort must be had to the Beferendum as a means
The new steamer Tai Shan, built at the Hongkong and Whampoa Docks for the Hongkong, Canton and Macao Steamboat Co., Ltd. is to be launched this morning.
and
THE INDUSTRIAL UNREST IN
BRITAIN.
ree in a criminal of the cocaine in one of the two cases offence, but this condition has been modi first discovered was completed by the addition of a number of boxes of photo-fied in the case of statutes directed to the graphic plates privately stored in defen- protection of the public, or even of the revenue of the State. I believe the dant's office, and stated by him to
Ordinances under which this proscention be for his own personal use. The defendant himself accompanied Inspector is brought to be directed to both these Wilden round the premises, and gave him ends, and in the very highest degree to every assistance in opening and discover the protection of the public from certain ing everything in the office. At the end deadly and pernicious druge. I believe of the search, Inspector Wilden informed that with this aim in view the Legislature the defendant that he was going to arrest has intended to guard against such drugs him. Defendant then went to see his being kept in anyone's possession, in the compradore, and then returned and said, widest sense which they could express, according to Inspector Wilden, "I accept leaving only to the Magistrate the duty all responsibility," or, according to his own evidence, "In the meantime you will have to hold me responsible,” The defendant was then charged and the
present case ensued.
На
of
assessing the degree of guilt implied by possession in any particular case. I believe that it would be a travesty of the Legislature's intention in framing these Ordinances to divest a manager of the responsibility for the storage of such drugs on his premises, and the storage especially, not in bottles, or oven boxes, but in such enormous quantities as were found in the premises of the defendant in this case. I have therefore to convier the
defendant.
Lastly, as to the degree of guilt involved in this breach of the law, which the
defendant has stated to be due to circum- stances out of his control. On this point, it is necessary to consider not merely the
The above facts hava bean given in evidence on behalf of the Crown, and for the defence evidence has been given of the storing and packing of the goods in question. This is to the effect that in the forenoon of the 21st of August the Canton compradore saw a certain party named, bat not produced in Court, and arranged with him to store certain goods in the Hongkong office of the firm. was in the office in the afternoon, and soon after 5
P.D. the SLAZ party apposted again and arranged with the legal, nor merely the moral side of the Canton compradore for the immediate question, but also whether the defendant storage of the goods in question in the has used all the care and diligence in the Hongkong office. Nothing was said, by conduct of his business, and in the super- sible person in the office in the interval humanly possible to prevent the jutro the Canten compradore to any respon vision of his staff and his office which win
between the forenoon and 5 p.m., and at duction of this most serious public evil. the coal in the engines concerned in the of Bulgaria is attributed to her failure fast, when all was quiet, the office boy, à coolic convicted, as in the former case Aisgill collision was too small, owing to to secure the support of the Powers, to let the strange parties and their goods whose possession rendered him liable to on the Canton compradore's instructions, referred to, for carrying about a drug bad screening at the Colliery.
the strength of the Turkish forces at into the shop by the back door. Packing the severest penalties might enlist our Thrace, and the rapid and successful went on between seven and aine on the sympathy, and the absence of mens rea revolution of the inhabitants in the 1st insk, and again on the 22nd inst, would count for much in mitigating the and then the goods were left, some in the penalty. But, in this case, we have an districts round Guauldjina, where the strong-roum and some in the passage, in intelligent and well-to-do European mer- Moslems and Greeks mustered a force of the condition before described. On
chant, thoroughly conversant with the 20,000, which Bulgaria would and difficult Saturday at 11 a.m. two coolies carried
ways and the dangers of the trade in to subdue without the support of the gut two of the cases, and took them tomorphia and cocaine, yet impotent to the boarding-house where they were prevent the use of his own personal officce seized. I confess frankly that I am unable for this extensive business in those drugs- to believe the story that was told, that the Canton compradore, in the innocence
may have been carried on time after time of his heart, and absent-mindedly forget almost before his very eyes. I can find ting to mention this unusual circum no excuse for such gross apathy, and in stance during the day to the manager or fining the defendant I must say that the to the compradore, did entrust the office
outsiders to enter the premises and store
house was blown bodily into the air, and unusual liberty, did not even stay to sen aix families were buried in the débris. the storage completed; that the office boy, Firemen and troops extricated a number with the onus of this great responsibility of victims from the burning wreckage. retired to the office each evening and read upon him, let the strangers in and then he red typhoon signals were hoisted in paralysed to-day, and prices of com the harbour yesterday afternigion..
but ten are still missing.
a paper, while the strange customers modities are wearing. Huge riots are
were allowed to penetrate to the back of Before His Honour Mr. J. H. Kemp feared:
: The carriers have ceased their (Puisno Judge) in the Summary Jurisdic-operations and have sent their horses to
Thiriten persons were killed in the the manager's desk in the corner of the office and help themselves to the photo- tion of the Supreme Court yesterday
accident, and there
graphie plates required for filling their action was brought by Yu Kau Hing
missing. against Leung Fuk Chuen claiming $17, being for one month's rent in respect of joined the strike, 5,000 of them being NEW GERMAN SOCIALIST LEADER.
A riceha coolie was charged before Mr. Orme yesterday with plying for hire when insufficiently dressed. His Worship asked how long these travelling regulations " had been in fores. Inspeeter Withers said, the regulations had always existed, but they had not been enforced prior to last November.
LONDON, September 16th. Messrs. Tiling's Bus Company denies that any men in their employ were suspended, but the Company declines to recognise the Union.
The railwaymen at Liverpool are in sympathy with the Dublin strikers, and The Observatory yesterday reported are refusing to handle the Irish trafic. that at 8 a.m. the typhoon was about 100 Three men were suspended for their miles to the north-east of Aparri, travel-action in his respect, upon which 1,500 ling W.N.W. at the rate of 12 miles per struck on Monday. hoor. The Manila Observatory telegram
Turkish Government.
TERRIBLE GAS EXPLOSION IN GERMANY.
HOUSE BLOWN BODILY INTO THE AIK.
COBURG, September 16th.
business which, on fiis osa statement,
A terrific gas explosion occurred during boy with the authority to allow theen penalties provided by the law are no real
n search for a leak in a pipe in one of
dispatched at 10.15 am. reported the DUBLIN'S TRADE PARALYSED BY the streets of the town. A neighbouring goods therein; and, having taken thie typhoon as near or over Aparri, and a further telegram received yesterday after- noon gave its position as in or about 120 deg. E. and 20 deg. N., travelling W.N.W.
the first floor of No. 9, Belcher Street; and against the Kwong Hing firm and respect of the ground floor of the same Chan Team claiming a similar amount in
house. After hearing the evidence, in which it transpired that the louants were turned out without receiving proper notice, his Lordship entered judgment for the defendant in each case with costs.
STRIKES.
LONDON, September 16th. The whole of the trade of Dublin is
the country.
Builders labourers in Dublin have
affected.
HUNGER-STRIKE BY A STRIKE LEADER.
Dre
LATER
stilt four
BERLIN, September 16th. The heads of the Socialist Party have selected Herr Fritz Ebert to succeed the late Herr Bebel as the Party leader. The choice is subject to ratification at meeting of the Party.
2
Casda.
All of this evidence I feel compelled to discard in coking for the facts of the
measure of the gravity of this offence. The defendant will be fined the inaximum penalty of 32,000 on each charge.
Ou the application of the Crown Soli- citor, his Worship ordered the forfeiture of the cocaine and morphine to the Crown..
INSURANCE AND SHIPPING STRIKE EXPENSES.
ATTITUDE OF THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
resolutions passed at a special meeting it will be seen from the following
that the London Chamber of Commerce is not favourable to the proposal put forward by the Shipping Federation for
making expenses consequent on strikes a subject of insurance to be effected partly
ease, and I am reduced to the facts shown in the case for the prosecution, together with the evidence of the defendant as toy shippers:- his ignorance of the whole proceedings. a communication to the London Chamber That this meeting having considered But the latter must be discounted by his of Commerce from the Institute of London LONDON, September 18th.
admission, putting the most favourable Underwriters, dated July 22nd, 1913, and construction upon it, that he must be also the terms of the proposed strike The strike leader Connelly, who was
clause for use in bills of lading therein held responsible in the meantime. It sentenced to three months' imprisonment
referred to, is of opinion that it is THE NECKLACE THEFT. was unfortunato for the defendant that unreasonable that one-half of the addi- for seditious libel and inciting to riot,.
he was not prepared immediately and tional expenditure incurred by shipownere has been released, as he refused food for
LONDON, September 16th.
entirely to disavow all that responsibility by reason of a strike should be thrown The hearing of the case against the five for the machinations of his subordinates upon shippers or consignees of cargoes, nine days. Foroible feeding was not
men- in connection with the theft of theor of folks entirely strange to him, which and that such an innovation is inequi- table, in so far as it will penalize shippers now disavows 80 completely. and consignees in respect of contingencies famous pearl necklace in the post between be
Strangers had trespassed on his office in which are beyond their control. Further, London and Paris was resumed on his absence and without his knowledge this meeting is of opinion that the expen- and left goods with which neither he nor aiture being outside the liabilities of the Mr. Price, representing a firm of his compradore claim any connection, usual policy of marine insurance and irrecoverable under such contracts, should insurance assessors acting on behalf of and yet he admitted responsibility in the be met by the shipowners as being Lloyd's, testified that two days after the meantime, if not entirely. I am unwill incidental to the usual business of ship- reward of £10,000 was offered he received ing to believe that there could exist in owning, and, as far as shippers and con
signees are concerned, have been and a letter from Messrs. Quadretstein and the defendant's office such larity as would should continue to be covered by the Brandstatter. He subsequently supplied admit of strangers entering his office and freight paid.
That a copy of this resolution be sent an expert jeweller named Spanier with his strong-room, and placing therein
to the Institute of London Underwriters, cases ten marked 1,000 frane, notes, and eight some sixteen or seventeen
the Shipping Federation, the Chamber of of these were found in the possession of packing therein these forbidden drugs, Shipping of the United Kingdom, and
without the knowledge of himself or his the Board of Trade." one of the prisoners.
of obtaining the direct verdict of the people upon the Bill which now threatens to become the law of the country by the means which the Parliament Act provides for ignoring the opinion of the House of Lords. There ssoms at present to be very little prospect of the proposed Conference being hald,
An application was made by Mr. George because of the difficulty of fuding a common
Hoggarth, on behalf of the Opium Farmer, basis for discussion, but even though agree-
to Mr. Orme that the 35 tack of opium mont by consent. may not be possible, it is
concerned in a case in which the defendant | attempted. nevertheless desirable that a conference
had the previous day been fined $2,000 should take place before the question is should be handed over to the Opium again referred to the electors, as it ought to Partner Mr. T. H. King (Assistant be failing agreement by consent. It is non-Baperintendent of Police) said the police sense to say, as the leading Radical organ had seized the opium, which was in does, that the Government will not insult the acrurdanes with the asual procedure in country by asking again if it meant what it these cases-Mr. Hoggarth stated that said in 1910.
What did it say in 1910 P this was the first case of the kind un ler It certainly cannot be said that the the new Section of the Opium Ordinance. country gave a clear and emphatic man- The Opium Farmer did not want the date to the Government to carry through Government to interfere with his mono- the Home Rule Bill. General elections are poly-His Worship granted the applica not fought on single questions. Though tion.
OBITUARY.
LONDON, September 16th. The death has occurred at Buda Pesth
of Professor Arminius Vambery, C.VO, Professor of Oriental Languages at Buda Pesth University.
[The deceased Professor held numerous foreign decorations, including the Second Class of the Ispanese Order The Holy Treasure.
Central Asia, and had published several works Elo bad travelled much in
on travel, ethnography, and linguistics. I
Monday.
and