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conducted for twelve or more hours at a
stretch at all times of the day and night.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, JULY 30ɗ, 1914.
In this connection u rather significant statement was made by one of the judicial officials when application was made for the A. S. WATSON bail of Mr. PoOLEX, to the effect that as Mr. POOLEY had made no admission of his guilt, his release could not be effected. After this it can only be concluded that the mental processes of the judicial officials have mide no progress since feudal times and that, however much Japan may have mored in other directions, in the admini- WINE& SPIRIT MERCHANTS.stration of justics she has rather gore
ESTABLISHED 72 YEARS.
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backwards than forwards. One of the fret reforma required is either the abolition of the secret examination or the admission of counsel for the accused while it is being conducted according to the procedure fol lowed in France. Turning to another point in regard to the above trial it may be noted that it threw additional light on the judicial estimation of the value of evidence, Mr. J. R. KENNEDE, the former corres- pondent of the Associated Press in Tokyo, and now the foreign employe of a Japanese news agency which has bought up Rerse's news service to Japan, took it upon himself
to write to the Procurator who was in charge of the arraignment of the accused Our Celebrated E very old denying certain statements made by Mr. Liqueur Scotch Whisky is POOLEY in bis evidence. The curious poist is that the letter was apparently taken as a blend of the best Pot-
evidence against the accused. It was com Distilled Scotch Whiskies.municated to his counsel, and on request It is of great age, very fine, being made that Mr. KENNEDY should be summoned as a witness, in order that he
means clear even now, he committed a very
venial offence which could hardly bring
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him eves technically within the clutcher of the law in any European country. I whole case, which has aroused great inter- est in Japan, exhibits in the clearest light all the defects of the Japanese judicial system. Let us hope it will prove the last straw to break the back of a procedure which can only bo ocosidered as a relic of feudalism,
The German mail of the 20th June was.
delivered in London on the 28th July,
Work on the new building for the Y: M.C.A. at Canton has been started. The estimated cost of the new premises is $250,000.
We are asked to remind those interest ed in the Associacao Portugueza de Socorros Mutuos that the general meet ing takes place this evening at 6 o'clock in the Lusitano Club.
The
AUSTRIA
FAINT
DECLARES AGAINST SERVIA.
WAR TELEGRAMS.
EUROPEAN
HOPE" THAT A CONFLAGRATION MAY BE AVERTED.
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AUSTRIAN ARMY ADVANCING: RUSSIA MOVING TROOPS IN POLAND. ["DER OSTASIATISCHER LLOYD" THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
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LONDON, July 29th. War has been declared by Austria. The defente in diplomatic quarters in London to-day suggests that some sort of understanding has been arrived at between Russia and Austria, based on the former's positive disavowal of the intentions of conquest or permanent occupation. It is thought possible that Austria may occupy Belgrade and other important some permitting an opportunity for points, and then there will be a pause
reconsideration of the position. The Portuguese who was arrested at
There is a faint hope that direct Austro- Colombe in connection with the Hong-
was Russian conversations will avert a Euro kong and Shanghai Bank brought to the Colony by the P. and Opean conflagration, Delta yesterday, under an escort.
The Canton District Court has decided that marriage contracts made by parents are not binding, and recently freed a girl from her contract. This decision affects
a time-honoured custom."
case
The resignation of Mr. E. T. C. Werner from the British Consular service has been
Meanwhile, Germany is taking military and naval precautions, the people of Paris are calmly preparing for war, and
and mellow. Its superior might be cross-examined on the accusations accepted, Mr. F. E: Wilkinson, C.M.G.. | the British dockyards are very active.
quality has established its re- he had made, the Court rejected the applica putation for over 30 years as tion on the ground that Mr. KENNEDT could THE LEADING SCOTCH 206 ear-more in the uitrions-box theo he WHISKY IN THE EAST. | had already stated in his letter! This apparently went that the Court nocepted Mr. KENNEDY'S statements with as little
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HONGKONG OFFICE: 10A, DER VEUX ROAD C. LONDON OFFICE: 131, FLEET STREET, EC.
The Daily Press.
who has been Acting Consul at Foochow, has received the substantive appointment.
Notice appeara
Notice appears in our advertisement columns of the intention of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation to apply to the Legislative Council for leave
AUSTRIAN KING'S MANIFESTO. The Emperor Francis Joseph has issued. manifesto in which he reviews the Servian intrigues. While fully conscious of the consequences of his decision, and
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BERLIN, July 29th. The official Austrian Gazette notifies the Declaration of War by Austria, as the Servian Government's reply to the Austrian Nóte is insufficient.
"[THROUGH_REUTER'S AGENCY.] THE FRENCH POLITICAL
TRAGEDY..
MADAME. CAILLAUX ACQUITTED.
LONDON, July 28th. : Madame Caillaux has been acquitted of the charge of murdering M. Calmette, late editor of Le Figarg.
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[The story of Madame Caillaux's shooting of her husband's political opponent, M. Cabuette she being the wife of the Minister of Finance at the time of the tragedy-created a great sensation in French political circles. On the evening of March 18th, M. Calmette was leaving his office, accompanied by the norelist, M. Bourget, when the card of him Madame Caillaus, in the coolest manner, Madame Chillaus na, handed to followed M. Calmette into his room, and opened fire immediately with a Browning pistol. M. Calmette fell at the first shot, and Madame Caillaux elmly fred four more. Journalists, trhu poured into the room, heard M. Calmette mattering I have only done Madame Caillaux, who isn my duty." leader of Society and a noted beauty, told the police magistrate that she only wanted to wound M. Calmette. She added that sho regretted the act and would be pleased to hear that M. Calmette was out of danger. She also stated that she bought the revolver Subsequently M. the previous afternoon.
BUILDERS LOCK-OUT IN GREAT
·BRITAIN.-
AUSTRIA'S COMMENTARY ON SERVIA'S REPLY. The Austrian Government publishes a commentary on the Servian reply to the
society, "Narodnaobrana," which has Note and describes the activity of the secret greatly compromised Servian statesmen and officers as leaders in the outrages. Implicated officers took part in founding: Caillaux resigned from his position.] the society. The Commentary also states that in no point did the Servian Reply to the Austrian Note wholly accept the respective demands, but reserved every thing until further proofs of guilt were furnished or until after the opening of the Diet. A deliberate attempt at pro crastination was evident.
NOBILISATION OF THE CZECH REGIMENTS IN AUSTRIA. Great satisfaction is derived in Austria
LONDON, July 29th. The master builders have ballotted in favour of a national lock-out in Great Britain.
THE MALAY STATES LOAN.
LONDON, July 29:h
reserve as if he had made them on oath to introduce n Bill to amend the Hong- his responsibility to the Almighty, Ilis from the mobilisation of the Czech regi-stated that it was unlikely that the Malay
The fact is that the Japanese judicial mind
kong Rad Shanghai Bank Ordinance 1566. The proposed Bill is printed in the advertisement.
Kin is badly aground ten miles below. Changsha. She went ashore on Sunday. morning when the flood was at its highest. The steamers Changwo and Shasi tried to tow her off, but the water dropped rapidly and the ship is already high and dry, although the water is only two feet off the bund at Changsha,
Majesty says he grasps the sword to ments, which was effected smoothly.
secure the honour, dignity, and territorial integrity of Austria-Hungary. AUSTRIA HUNGARY A NATION,"
The official Fremdenblatt says that Europe will see that Austria-Hungary is a nation and not merely a political entity The idea of a Greater Servin would be
AUSTRIANS BLOCKADE ANTIVARI, shattered by their united strength.
The Times correspondent af Durazzo says that the Austrians have blockaded the Antivari, the Montenegrin sexport on the Adriatic.
RUSSIAN CHEERS FOR WAR. The declaration of war was cheered by Demon- the crowds at St. Petersburg. strations which were attempted at the English and French Embassies were pre- vented by the police without disorder.
BERLIN DEMONSTRATIONS. Twenty eight Socialistic and anti-war At the Magistracy yesterday Sergeant meetings were held in Berlin, but the Wills prosecuted two Chinese for being
speeches were drowned by singing. in unlawful possession of one revolver and 1,500 rounds of ammunition.huge patriotic demonstration was held in
Unter den Linden. The officer executed a search warrant at
dents were sitting.
Colt
No. 11, Queen Street, and found the revolver concealed behind a wooden
The first defendant outside a cubicle in which the two defen:
revolver and ammunition, and he was pleaded guilty to the possession of both The charge against the fined 8500.
mah was withdrawn by the second
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RUSSIA AGREES TO CONFERENCE.
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AUSTRIAN ARMY ADVANCING. The Austrians are marching on Mitro- vitza and the Servians are falling back.
The Chief Command against Servia is held by the Archduke Friedrich. RUSSIAN MILITARY MOVEMENTS. Russia is moving troops in Russian Poland,
The troop in the Austrian frontier districts have been recalled from the
maneuvres.
POWDER MAGAZINE EXPLOSION- AT WARSAW, The powder magazine in Warsaw has been blown up.
KAISER RECEIVES MILITARY
In the House of Commons, Mr. Har court, Secretary of State for the Colonies,
States Loan would be raised for some time, THE COLONIAL VOTE.
LONDON, July 20th. In the House of Commons, the Right Hon. Lewis' Harcourt, Secretary of State for the Colonies, replying to the debate on the Colonial Vote, said that Burno and Somaliland would probably be re-occupied
September. The revision of the native. in't
general taxation of East Africa, he and said, might be necessary in the future, but this must not be used as an indirect means for increasing the laur supply. ALBANIAN AFFAIRE.
DCRAZZO, July 29th. The Dutch gendarme officers have ro- signed.
HOME CRICKET,
AND NAVAL CHIEFS.
CHARLOTTENBURG, July 29th. H.M. the Kaiser has received the
LONDON, July 9th. Chief of the General and Naval Staffs,
Yorkshire defeated Somerset at Sheffield and intends to leave in a few days for a stay of longer duration at his castle-by an innings and 155 runs. of Wilhelmshöhe. This is taken as being of favourable import.
SARCASTIC COMMENT ON FRANCE'S ATTITUDE. Thus Frankfurt Gazette has an ironical Russia has accepted the principle of same time desires to continue direct the Kaiser, who seems, it says,
valuable have suddenly become Sir Edward Grey's proposal, but at the article on the French appeal to HM. exchange of views with Vicana.
DISSENSION IN THE ITALIAN CABINET.
has no clair idea of what is evidenos and what is not evidence. Some guidance is
On the 16th inst. we reproduced some required. Severely restricted as the Courts are by the present codes of judicial pre-satirical comment from the Foochow Echo cadura, it is evident they must be restricted on the subject of the telephone service etill more. The weighing of the value of at that port. We notice that the Echo has evidence is one of the most important since published an expression of regret duties of the Bauch, but it is hardly to be for having printed the article, which is exported that the Bench in Japan, occupied described as detrimental to the interests concerned, and apologises to the pro- as it is by young and inexperienced judges
prietors of the service, Messrs. Siemusen should show greatly ability in this direction.
& Krohn, The compilation of a Law of Evidence is Another of the reforma urgently needed. Changsha telegram dated July 21st Only a few years ago ao Englishman was says:-Messrs. Butterfeld & Swire's str, found guilty by a Japanese Court of forging official documents on the strength of confessions by two Japanese, who, either from malice or from the idea that by so doing they would be more leniently treated, charged the foreigner with being implicated ia their crime. There was not a shadow of any other evidence against him; he had the full confidene of the firm with which be was concocted, and the Japanese Courts did not event take the trouble to put him HONGKONG, JULY 30TH, 1914.
under arrest. Yet be was convicted on THE trial in the lower Japaness Court evidence which, whatever its value in a of Mesare. HaZMANN, POOLET (formerly confirmatory relation, was valueless by REDTEE'S correspondent in Japan), itself. Mr. Poster's conviction on a charge BLUNDELL and two Japanese, on charges of of purchasing stolen documents and black-partition, the ammunition being just britery, destruction of evidence and black-mail is another example of the kind of mailing, has served to bring to light once evidence upon which a Japanese Court again the weak spots in the Japanese relies. Actually the only evidence that Mr. judicial procedure and the urgent need thero POOLEY was guilty of blackmail is the is of reforms. Throughout the public trial statement to that effect made by Mr.
There are dissensions between Marquis the correctness of the recoril of the evidenco HesMANN, another of the accused, who was police.
Di San Giuliano, the Foreign Minister taken at the preliminary examination, which charged with destroying evidenceand bribery,
Two Chinese were charged before Mr. is held in secret, was called in question, and It is true that Mr. PoOLLY was indiscreet
Melbourne yesterday with being in unlaw-and Signor Salandra, the Premier, the su impartial consideration of the discre- euongh to accept a cheque for £5,000 from
ful possession of eight railway sleepers, latter insisting on Italy's absolute neutra paudies must raise doubts both of the the firm which Mr. HERMAN represented, the property of the Canton-Kowloonlity.
INCREASE IN PRICE OF interpretation and of the recording of the but while there is simple proof that the Railway Company. The defendants, who evidence. Tais is a very serious matter for cheque was handed over willingly in the admitted possession, pleaded that the acaused persons, because the Courts in presence of witnesses, and that Mr. POOLEY sleepers were given them by a foreman. Japan, when discrepancies are shown to undoubtedly rendered great service to the The latter went into the witness-box, and the confirmed the defendants' statement. Mr. exist between alleged statements at the firm in restoring the documents, secret examination and the statements made allegation that he ever threatened the Com-R. Baker, acting manager of the Railway, pany or demanded money rests upon the tour the Magistrate that the foreman had His in open Court, are always inclined to attach more importance to the former than to the
statement of one person alone, and he by no right to give the wood away.
Mr. Worship thereupon fined the man $30, latter and to consider the discrepaney as no means a disinterested party. arising from the prevarication of the POOLEY was indiscreet-parhaps gravely ordered him to pay $10 compensation to accused rather than from any mistake made indiscreet-but that he acted in any way in the first instance. Thus the apparent dishonestly there is no evidence to show, contradictions go rather against the accused It was only on great pressure being brought than in his favour, and his protestations in
to bear upon him by the British Ambassador Macao Steamboat Wharf an elderly, the open Court are set aside. Further, it in Tokyo, and probably by the Japanese Chinese woman suddenly felt one of her has been shown recently that these acerct Government itself, that he abandoned the earrings pulled. She turned round and examinations are rather regarded as oppor- idea of publishing the papers and with it called “Thief, but the person who had tunities for wringing confessions from the resulting credit to himself. If he snatched the article had got among the crowd. A wide-awake wharf watchman accused persons than for their ostensible stooped to accept some compensation for this purpose, that of avoiding a misdirection sacritics he cannot be considered as guilty of justice. Particulars have been published of anything bat indiscretion. As for the of some curious casos where persons who charge of purchasing stolen documents, this have been sentenced on confessions of guilt is a risk which every journalist has to rus, Lade under secret examination bave The Times did not hesitate to purchase the been afterwards found to be not guilty, PARNELL letters, though it was plain that the only conclusion being that the if genuine they could not have been confessions have been wrung from them bonestly obtained; while the copy of the by mental, if not physical, torture Berlin Treaty which BLOWITZ obtained Of the existence of the former there for the can be little doubt, since it is acknow. ledged that the examinations are sometimes
.
the other two men, and to return the sleepers.
Whilst standing on the Hongkong and
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PROVISIONS.
The prices of provisions at Vienna have risen by fifty per cent., and the stall- keepers in the market have been mobbed.
BRITISH CONSOLS. British consols are down to 69. Other stocks are unquoted..
LATER.
The Government are buying consols, which are now at 70
Already there have been three small failures.
The Times says that it is imperative to ADVICE TO THE BRITISH PEOPLE.
patch up the domestic differences without delay in order that the whole nation
to
to
the French. The paper reminds France of the fact that Germany and H.M. the Kaiser have shown their love of peace during several decades, and that it would be better for France to address the appeal to St. Petersburg
whose Monareb was the creator of the Peace Conference at The Hague, and who was the one who should bridle the pan Slavistic war parties.
GERMANY AND SIR EDWARD
GREY'S PROPOSAL:
HOME TURF.
DEAD BEST FOR THE STEWARDS' CUP.
LONDON, July 29th.
The following is the result of the
wood yesterday 1--- Stewards' Cup, which was run at Good-
Golden Sun (W. Huxley). Lord Annandale (Donoghue)... Castellan (Prout) **
* Dead heat. A neck separated Castel- lan from the leaders. Twenty-three ran.
Betting:-10 to 1 Golden Sun, 100 to
The stakes were divided. Voldy made 9 Lord Annandale, 9 to 1 Castellan.
the running antil close home. Golden Sun and Lord Annandale sent up a challenge, the finish being of a most exciting nature. Fancy Nurse was fourth. An objection was lodged by the rider of Castellan against the dead-heaters for bumping and boring, but it was overruled. The time for the race was 1.13 4.5,
Sir Edward Grey's proposal for media tion has been favourably received in Germany, but the proposal that the four Ambassadors should hold a conference would be acceptable to Germany only if MURDER ON THE EMPRESS OF
ASIA." Austrin should express a wish to that
effect.
ITALIAN SYMPATHY WITH AUSTRIA.
The Italian papers, the Tribuna, the Giornale di Roma and the Italia are in
CHINESE UNDER ARBEST.
When the Empress of doia arrived at Hongkong last evening she was at once boarded by the police and a Chinese under arrest and charged with the mur- employed in the engine-room was placed
observed him, however, and seized him should present an united front to the favour of active assistance being given to der of another Chiness by stabbing him
The thief, who was a mere boy, pleaded guilty at the Magistracy yesterday, in the expectation that this would induce the magistrate to take a leuient view of the rate. Inspector Fenton told the Magis trate that jewellery-snatching was becom
threatening international crisis. There Vienna.
can be no question of a change of Govern
when upon the high seas. CONFERENCE UNWELCOMED It appears that the murdered man- The proposed conference of the four whose body now lies at the mortuary
and the accused, named Lau Chan, both ment at the present time. NEW YORK MARKETS AFFECTED. Powers meets with a dubious reception, whom were employed in the engine- The declaration of war caused a panic in as far as the four Powers seek to regu-room, had some words which resulted in is alleged to have stabbed the deceased, as there were two severe wounds on the late the affairs of two others, which would a quarrel, during which the accused man
·body." be a new political experience.
ing rather too common. Men came down in the New York market. The scenes in the by one steamer, and, if they secured a wheat pit were such as have not been wit haul, went back by the next Defendantnessed since the Leiter corner in.1893. The BRUTO journal was certainly was sent to prison for three months, and transactions totalled 12,000,000 bushels, stolen. Even if Mr POOLEY was aware the was ordered to receive 12 strokes with the and the price rose by ten cents. Coffee
and cotton slumped, documents were stolen, and this is by no bamboo.
THE PARIS BOURSE. The Paris Bourse is very depressed. Servian Rantes especially have dropped heavily.
The accused will be brought up at the Magistracy this morning and charged
with the crime.