THE
WAR.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26TH, 12.6
HOW SILK IS STOLEN,
JERSEY AND RICE INSERTED IN BALES
valued at $350,
MORE MERCHANTMEN TORPEDOED. CA 9. Rusas defended the female
LULL IN OPERATIONS AT THE FRONT.
HEAVY FIGHTING BY TSAR'S ARMIES.
prisoner.
Mr. Lewis said the facts were simple The first defendant was No. 1, and the other defendants members of the crew of
WATER THROUGH THE CEILING.
CLAIM FOR DAMAGE.
WHERE GERMANY IS SUFFERING.
REORGANISING INDUSTRY, The Berlin oorrespondent of the
No. 7 lighter belonging to tlie P. & Q, Co. Mr. Goldring was for plaintiff, and Mr. industrial undertakings. VE DOO y Dr. O. Stillicos in Die Bank,
He
TRADES THAT HAVE LOST. German industry is
now attempting. reorganisation and details are published He says the greatest losses have been suffered by the following industries:-
Industry: Yearly Export. Machinery Coal Iron
£34,000,000 36,200,000
CHINA AND THE WAR, EXCHANGE AND TSINGTAU. China's experience in regard to the The ingenions_thaft of hanks of silk A Japanese silk and picos goods mer European War was on trinsically or Handelsblad sends an interesting lottor
effect produced by the outbreak of the from bales on a P. & O. lighter, and the chant, of 18, Lyndhurst Terrace, was one position was no less sound than at any his paper, in which he describes the
thab of countries. manner in which the weight of extracted day tranquilly employed in arranging other time; but business in China must economic situation in Germany. GERMANY IN THE COWARD'S ilk is made up, was related at the his silks in the most attractive of designs necessarily be at a standstill if there is writes
Magistracy yesterday when a Chinese when lie, along with his goods, was
no quotation for forward silver. As woman and four men, the crow of No. 7 assailed with water from above. Much Europe, the foreign banks wore obliged and more intensely than any economic ROLE.
money was no longer available from economic life of Germany more seriously "This war of wars has disorganised the lighter of the P. & 0 Company, were damage was caused to the silk, and the tot with extreme caution, and their crisis. The disorganisation surpasses that charged, with the theft of 23lbs of silk, quel was heard at the Summary Court tions on the native banke. The silver and nothing could be expected »
attitude placed proportionate restrio-of the Franco Berman War of 1870-71. yesterday, when the dealer, T. Arakawa, and exchange markets were for some According official German reports, MW. J. Lewis prosecuted and Mr. sued Wat Kut Ban, whom he alleged was war in Europe would have affected August amounted to 22.4 per cent., thoughz time virtually closed. In aay as the the number of unemployed at the end of the occupier of the floor over his, and was China's trade, but it was the Japanese Augustamanted to 22.4 per cent, though washing it, according to Sanitary Board action in regard to Tsingtau that led to been called to the colours. In times of orders, when the deluge came from the Fortunately the stock of vilver held by peace the highest percentage of unem the complete collapse of some, markets, ceiling.
The claim was fo: 81,000 the banks in Shangba was large and ployed was 4.8. damages.
exercised a steadying effect, while enabling advances to be made to local Preston (Messrs. Johnson, Stokes &
APECULATIVE TENDENCIES. Mastor) defonded,
The
year 1913 saw a record movement of goods through the Customs, which At the outset,
Mr. Goldring explained showed little tendency towards any falling that there was some doubt as to whether off in the earlier months of 1914. Thus the
person served, and who was repre-ter of last year was Ilk Th. 10,808,176, the Customs revenue for the scoond quar- ented by Mr. Preston, was the real or less than . Tle. 9,000 (say, £1,500) tenant of the floor above his client's, and while more cotton piece goods reached. behind that of the same period in 1913, it would be better if that issue were dealt China from Great Britain during the with first. If the person served was not arst seven months of 1011 than during the same months in the previous year. There suit. He bad had an enormous amount figures reveal speculative tendancies on the orders for the Army and Navy. of trouble in getting the writ served at considerable amount remained uncleared capitalist group began mediately to part of importers, and that cargoes to a
With astonishing adaptiveness thờ
had been subpoenaed with some difficulty, the landlord of the house, and this person though he (Mr. Goldring) did not think The Harpalion was a British steamer of of raw silk, which would be indentified as he was present, Mesars. J. and C. Harrison, Ltd.] 5,607 tons gross, built in 1910, owned by part of the raw silk which can down the firm's name. A considerable amount All his client know was from Canton. The keys of the boxes in custody of the female defendant, and which the silk was found were in the
evidence would be given as to her conduct at the time of the search; she endeavoured to run away. The amount of silk re covered from the cabin weighed 331lbs, When the bale which was over-weight was PERING, February 25th. The President has conferred on General the silk had been taken out and a jersey, opened, it was found that a quantity of Lung Kun Kwong (brother of the Mil-filled with rice, put in its place, this Merit, 5th Class. tary Governor of Canton) the Order of Weighing 18lbs. The other 17153, had been
FRANCO-BELGIAN FRONT.
【THROUGH HEUTER'S AGENCY.}
FRENCH SUCCESS OF PECULIAR IMPORTANCE."
LONDON, February 25th..
1.25 a.m The Paris evening communiqué saya; -- There have been sharp artillery angage ments between the Lys and the Aisne, all in our favour.
In Champagne, north of Mesnil, we progressed" afresh, and repulsed several Counter-attacks
Our artillery on the heights of the Mouse silenced several German batteries.
Further reports establish the peculiar Importance of our success at Eparges and the extent of the enemy'e losses. On a mall part of the captured ground we have already found 600 German dead. Prisonera state that two regiments were driven from their positions and lost moro Man 3,000 men,
We progressed in the Bois-de-Brule and the forest of Apremont,
A QUIET DAY AT THE FRONT.
LONDON, February 24th,
TWO MORE STEAMERS
Textile
On January 28th last, a quantity of raw ailk was received in Hongkong from, Canton for transhipment to Europe by the
6,8. Nubia. 62, bales of silk were received and transferred to the lighter, after being weighed by the official measurer. At the time the bales were received they were apparently in good order. The same day the bales were being terranean, and the Harpalion, for Now transferred via from the lighter the tenant then he must consent to a non can be little doubt that these import made up their losses by the increased
and were again weighed, when it
TORPEDOED.
LONDON, February 25th. The steamers Rio Parana, for the Medi-
Sugar Paper Chemical
33,150,000
12,200,000
13,250,000
13,150,000
12,700,000
Most of these have to a great extent
port News, have been torpedoed and sunk was discovered that one of them weighed all. Defendant's name was secured from or were cleared with a small margin of manufacture articles which allow a big
off Beachy Head,
tion of three Chiness on the Harpation, The crews were saved, with the excep- who were killed in the explosion.
CHINESE TELEGRAMS, [FROM THE "CHUNG NOOI SAN PO."] CANTON MILITARY OFFICER HONOURED.
THE JAPANESE DEMANDS.
PEKING, February 25th, The negotiations between China and
Japan have been facilitated. The Govern ment's policy in defence of territorial integrity and the maintenance of national
4.20 p.m. Paris reports that the communiqué | rights remains unchanged. states there is nothing to report exopt a Dr. Ariga, the President's Legal for successful actions by our troops near Adviser, returns to Japan to day with the
uborives-sur-Buippe, and grees northward of Perthes
object of further facilitating the negotia tions. RUSSIAN FRONT.
further pro-
(THROVOK REUTER'S AGENCY.]
TWO RUSSIAN REGIMENTS ESCAPE.
LONDON, February 25th.
An official communiqué published at Petrograd states that two regimente off the surrounded corps broke through the enemy's lines in the forest of Augustowo fund rejoined the Russians.
The Germans are making repeated attacks on the whole of tho Bobr front in the district of Edvabno to the Vistula, and in the district of. Bodzanoff. Fight ing is extremely severe in the region of Prasysh and a desperate battle is pro Feeding in the Carpations Best of
Lupkoff, the Russians had a series of suc- cessen and in the Muakes region they saptured three linca of treaches at day break of February 22nd on a precipitous height, the German defenders being killed
or captured.
The German attacks south of Koziomok have been repulsed, while the Russians checked an important offensive by the enemy on the Doline Calisez roads,
NAVAL ACTIVITIES.
[TANOUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
DISTRESSED SHIP LOST.
SHANGHAI MIXED COURT. PERINO, February 25th. The Mixed Court at Shanghai is to transfered to the control of the Chinese
authorities on March 1st,
CURIOUS WAR-TIME
INCIDENTS..
118lbs instead of 115lbs. Subsequently, by the P. & O. Co. searched the cabin of a Chinese and Indian policeman employed
the lighter and found, in boxes, a quantity
abstracted from the other bales, but the weight was made up correctly in these bales and they had gone to Europe, being impossible to stop the ship.
it
Mr. A. J. W. Rosser, an assistant in
the P&O offices, spoke to the receiving Canton for transhipment to Europe. The of the bales of silk in Hongkong from value of each hale was £120 sterling.
weight, The price worked out at £1 sterling per lb,
of damage was done to his client's goods, dant was liable. and the question was whether the defen
Plaintiff, giving evidence, said he was a silk merchant and piece goods dealer, On December 11th a quantity of water came through the ceiling of his shop and injured his goods. He did not know who man in Court was not known to him the occupant of the next floor was.
The
The name of the man produced was Wat Kut San.
An assistant at the plaintiff's store said he knew the tenant of the first floor, but he did not know the man in Court, Wat Kut Ban
also stated that the man in Court was not The rent collector was also called, who
His lordship thereupon known to him.
plaintiff with costs.
non suited
DEPORTATION OF YOKOHAMA
RESIDENTS.
OTHERS BELIEVED TO BE UNDER SUSPICION
for the army. The same can be raid of bakeries, the chocolate manufacturers, the sausago fastories which are now working the textile industry.
many of the holders felt the financial be distinguished :-- profit. When, therefore, oven the reduced profit. rate of the bolders felt the maintained, In this reorganisation two groups must stringency acutely.
1.-Industries which were not obliged with America continued on a diminishing goods. almost completely stopped, while trade but only had to shift the market for their In September exporta to Europe had to change the articles of their production accustomed to the idea of the siege of change the nature of their productions. scale. By the time the Chinese had become Tsingtan, the drought in the Yangisze
-Industries which had altogether to Valley, which had been a minor factor preserves industry, the mills, the great To the first group belong the tinned- her own feet without a market for silver the general depression, had broken, and Chine made an effort to prop herself open in London. "T.T.," which is the breath of the commercial nostrils of the country, in September, in the daily life of the figured once more, from the third week banks Bome movement of goods in the interior began again. But other difficul- tonnage and insurance was high owing ties supervened there was a shortage of mainly to the exploite of the Emden in with Japan showed signs of reviving the Indian Ocean. In October trade Chinese merchants turned to that country from Europe owing to shipping troubles. for the goods they were unable to obtain With the surrender of Tsingtau came
Exchange re-opened. November 28th the Shanghai further accession of confidence. By
Stock
effect of the war on the finances of the
EFFECT OF THE WAR ON FINANCE It is still early days to state the actual
BABY BARMY TOBICOD SUPPLY.
Central offies for war supply of tobacco The cigar manufacturers opened n products" at Minden, which receives all them among the five districts for tobacco orders from the army and distributes industries in Germany.
A
its articles of production belongs the Allgemeine Elektricijnets Gesellschaft To the second group which has changed
at Ferlin.
Instead of dynamos they are now pro ducing shells, metal-buttons, etɛ.manda
"Biemens-Schuchert " all necessaries for telegraph and telephone are producing lines.
...
with bicycles.
A typewriter factory supplies the army
now manufactures leather belts for
A factory for photographie camerae soldiers.
Chinese Government Customs duties and Likin together provide about one,
revenue fell in July and in August, was beginning of the war produced nothing third of its revenue, but both are hypothe cated to meet foreign loans. The Customs The chemical works which at the about one-third of its usual total, But but dyes for uniforms, are now making this revenue had made suck notable strides tea tabloids. for a long period, extending over a year, pharmaceutical articles, coffee, and beef- that no difficulty has been experienced
When I was on guard at a certain pier
(DY FRED. E. WEATHERLY).
The King comes by and he says to I,
(Which I mustn't report to you)
An I says to him, "Excuse me, sir,
"Hallo, mate, how he do?
For, blow me tight, it's a dirty night,
But where be you a-goin',
Ana black north-easter blovin'." An' he looks me straight in the An' this is what he replies:
William Robinson, assistant gunner in the P. & O. Co, spoke to receiving 32 bales of silk from the Charles Hardouin, which were landed on to No. 7 lighter; 30 other bales being loaded from two other vessels.
so far in meeting all the calls upon it.
This reorganisation has now reduced the As a result of a subsequent weighing, he says:—
The Japan Gazette of the 10th inst. paid up to December, and there has been
Interest on the Indemnity Loan has been percentage of unemployed from 22.4 to 16. beemoved. The 3311bs, of hanks of silk acting under instructions from the Home Tax have shown substantial reductions,
found that a quantity of silk had been The news first published in
no need to fall back upon the collateral JUST WHAT A KING SHOULD which were found in the cabin were Office, had decided to take definite action and at the turn of the year the Govern columns last evening that the police of revenue, however, including the Salt our security of the Salt Gabelle. All sources
BE similar to the hanks which had been sent against certain local residents, and hud ment's financial position cannot have home to Europe.
ordered the deportation of four Germans been free from anxiety. The shyness of G. Boden, Manager of the Deutsche the loan market had prompted it in the Mr. Percy Buckle, also of the the staff of the Deutsche Tapan-Post and experiment of a domestic loan. The Asiatische Bank; B. Kunze, formerly on early nomer of 1914 to try new the & O. Company, gave evidence regarding Japan Herald E. Eichelberg, Chief amount fixed was 21,600,000, hearing a report that was made to him on the Brower of the Kirin Browery, a Japanese interest at 6 per cent. The issue price Nubia, and to being shown 32 banks of Kaisha R. Slag, a German with no local was to be 94, but carly subscribers were duced. silk, which were found in two boxes pro- man, in the employ of the Japan Herald able to obtain as low a quotation us 82, occupation and H. G. Ball, an English- Kabushiki Kaisha, came as a surprise, and it was, in consequence, suspects were at last brought to book, but foreign exchange, and the general distur not so much because of the far subscribed in
In spite of the present difficulty of because of some of the parties involved bance resulting from the European War, It is generally believed that this is but the outlook for British enterprise in China the beginning; that others are under suspicion and are likely to be placed political situation, by all accounts, is is distinctly favourable, The internal under the "ban."
Nothing is yet known as to the future free from any serious trouble. Germany watching them, will insist on their to be anxious to grant new concessions. movements of the suspects, but it is under has lost face in a way which is
embarking from this port. stood that the police, who are closely calculated to discount German competi
The Chinese Gevernment is said So when wo gets to a foreign land Mr G. Boden, the manager of the And, if financial support is forthcoming, The troops come by, an ho twinks his eyo,
(Which I mustn't report to you).
which has charge of the interests of Deutsche Asiatische Bank, who is among there ought to be many new lucrative the deportees, visited Tokyo this morning openings for the extension of British with the permission of the police, and influence - The Times. proceeded to the American Embassy. German subjects
SOME STRANGE COINCIDENCES.
The war has been responsible for many dences. The following are a few typical curious incidents and strange coinci examples:-
has three nephews. One is in the English, A very prominent Government official a eccond is in the French Navy, and the third is in the German Army.
At a well-known West End restaurant a few days ago the exterordinary sight was seen of a state extorordinary sight
a private, They were brothers
at 11 am.
The case was remanded until Saturday,
ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL. BELCHER'S FORT HEAT SHIELD COMPETITION TEAM. An officer attached to the Canadian con- Regulars and Volunteers engaged at tingent is a fruit grower with a modest Belcher's Battery played the team that has income. His servant, who gets his bab cleans his boots and does his washing, been selected to represent the second has an income of £10,000 a year. Wales, went to Swansea to meet a Belgian cher's achieved a good win. The season division of the Hongkong League in the A couple living at Abercynon, South Shield Competition semi-final, and Bel orphan girl they had decided to adopt." By a locket the child was wearing the has been an extremely lean one for woman discovered that she vas the daugh- forwards, and the goals that resulted from ter of her own sister, who had gone to Belgium as a governess several years Belcher's scoring five and the Second
this match were
were unusually prolific, before.
M. Charles Menuier-Surcouf, a licu- Division two. All the winning team's tenant in a Breton regiment, writing to goals were registered by Pennell, while & London friend, says that during a violent spell of rifle firing a hare sudden Stalker and I. Goldenberg scored the ly ran between the trenches Both the Juniors' points in an extra five minutes. enemy and ourselves immediately turned The exchanges were remarkably fast, and our rifles on the hare, and the war was all, except the wing men, were run off forgatten for sport for a minute,"
their legs,
LONDON, February 24th.
Private G. Turley, of the Royal Fusiliers, writing home from the front, The steamer which was reported yester tells how a German spy was unmasked. day as being in distress was the 3.5 was an Englishman born in Surrey, An Ha very nearly convinced us that he Oakby, bound from London to Cardiff officer asked him suddenly, Where was She sank to day while being towed. The the Derby run last year Derby,
of prow were landed at Ramsgate and Dover, course, was the reply."
ARMED MERCHANTMAN MISSING.
LONDON, February 24th. The Press Bureau announces that the nrmed merchantman Clan McNaughton is missing..
It is considered that she was lost in the gale of February 3rd.
The ship married 20 officers and 260 min.
JAPANESE AID IN THE PACIFIC.
SA GRACIOUS AND GENEROUS
RECOGNITION..
Judge Cluer, of Shoreditch County Court, joined the Voluntary Training been made in the British Columbia Legis A gracious and generous speech has Corps in connection with the High Courts Inture by Sir Richard McBride, the of Justice, Maidenhead Division, as a Premier, private,
Mrs. Foulkee, of Huthwaite, Notts, ledge the assistance rendered by Japan Notis He said he desired gratefully to acknow. relatives at the war. Fourteen men are when the German fect was menacing the has, including her husband, twenty during the recent period of apprehension in the Navy and Army, and six women commerce of the Pacific. He wished to remove the false inference which held in the trenches, Two directors of a Legislature had taken steps to restrict A strange board meeting was recently had been spread abroad because the London firm met in a trench decided Asiatic immigration. These steps, he said, that they were a quorun, read the had been taken purely for coonomic rea minutes, and transacted all the business sons and they conveyed no reflection what of the company with every due formality, ever on the Japanese people.
are nurses.
TELEPHONING 5,000 MILES. INVENTION OF A SERBIAN PROFESSOR.
tion,
over
THE BRITISH WAY. AMERICAN AMAZED BY SCAR- BOROUGH CALM UNDER FIRE
oyes,
Oh, I'm going to sea my fightin' men, Foldiers an sailors too,
For I want to share what my people hear
An' do what my peoplo do! An' I'd like to be out on the rolling sen,
With Jellicoe anf his men,
bit,
I hope they'd admit I could do my
If I were a tax agen!"!
An the King of the land ho grips his hand
"Hullo, bays, how de do,"
An' says, What be you doin'? The shot and shell are makin' hell, ~
An' a thunderin' fight is brewin'!";
An' he looks him straight in the eyes, An' this is what he replies:
Oh, I'm come to see my fightin' men, Soldiers an' sailors foo, For I want to tell how we love you well,
An shake a band with you!
An' I'd like to be down in the trenches
An hear how the rifles sing. For a King who can fight with his men
like you
Is a regalar royal King
Mr. R. W. Kauffraun, the well-known American journalist, describes in Leslie's were hold last month between Presi-borough, "The town," he says felt about Mustrated Weekly (New York) of Janu dent Wilson at Washington and Mr.it exactly as you would feel if, as you The telephouio conversations which ry 14th the recent German raid on Sear-
Rolfe, the Mayor of San Francisco, were read these lines, they blew up, burnt your hailed in the American Press as fare moustaches, and killed a woman and shadowing the time when it will be child across the street. Instantly the Now if anyone thinks that it's all a lo sible for New York to talk with London bombardment ceased, however, rapid- That I've been spinning to you, The President carried on two conversa ly devised but thoroughly efficient order Well-I don't mean to arguefy, tions with Francisco-one zid Boston, manifested itself. The crowds were But I simply says It's true! the other v New York Mr. Theodore quietly marshalled. Towards the hospi- But if it's a yarn get inte my head, Vail, the head of the American Telephone tals were moving little processions of Boy and Telegraph Company, who was sitting Scouts bearing stretchers. You would It's a yarn you all will credit, in Jekyll Island, Georges, participated in have thought that the remedy for the For it's just the thing the King would have
Greetings were also exchanged hotwem daily routine of British municipal au- the conversations, effects of bombardment was a part of the phone, and a former assistant, with whom situation mother consciousness Bear Dr. Graham Bell, the inventor of the telethority. Nearly everybody accepted the
ments at Boston, when they spoke from borough, received its blow like a good he carried out his first successful experi- to my American consciousness. Scar
men are now over 80 years old. different floors of a boarding house. Both fighter."
It is pointed out that the distance over which Mr. Vail made himself heard in PLIGHT OF BELGIAN POPULACE.
ment of this record" for long-distance that M. Thiebaud, a Swiss pastor, who San Francisco from Jekyll Island is am
telephoning was made possible by a device recently arrived from Belgium, said :--- proximately 5,000 miles. The accomplish. The Temps Berne correspondent states invented by Mr. Pupin, a Serbian and Professor of Electro Mechanics in Column and children will die of hunger this "Short of a miracle, old men, women, bia University.
winter in fertile Belgium."
An' he's just the man to have raid it.↑
An if you ask me why, Well, this is what I reply:
Oh, he loves te soe his fightin' men, Soldiers an sailors too,
For he's ready to share what his people
bear, th
Au' do what his people do,
Though he never may fight in the
trenches grim,
Or out on the ro'lin sen,.
He's straight to his folk, an his folk
to him,
Which is just just what a King should
be!
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