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HATRED AS A HOBBY.
GERMAN BRUTALITY,
HARDSHIPS OF BRITISH PHISONERS.
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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, MAY 29rH, 1915.
THE DISMISSAL OF A MASTER MARINER.
INTERPRETATION OF MERCHANT
SHIPPING ACT.
MINING IN CHINA. INTERESTING STATEMENT BY
NATURALISED BRITISH
SUBJECT.
The following letter to the Peking. A judgment of much interest to local Gazette by a naturalised British subject mariners was delivered in the Sum-of-Chineso birth is an interesting com mary Court on Thursday by the Paisne mont on the Chinese mining laws: Judge, in the case in which G. W. Ellis, a master mariner, sue the Phranang Steamship Company, Limited, of Hong zong, for $472.50, being as to 8247.50 for thirty-three days' salary earned and $295 dismissal.
Sir-For many years I have been engaged in tin mining in the Federated Malay States, and under the sensible mining laws there have made a little like many others. When money,
1017 took place
balance thereof for damages for wrongful the Revolution of
1 did hope that there would
INTIMATIONS
LANE,
CRAWFORD&Co.
SUMMER FURNISHINGS
JUST TO HÅND.
Trished any inpes and discuss CASEMENT CLOTHS
Since the issue of our last report on- the 19th instant the local market has rald generally firm with a fair volung of
The action of our trench mortars has lately. business for investment account passing, heen very effective. A few days ago‘opposite most stocks closing in further request Givenchy, the concentrated fire of these won London stocks have been more or less drove the Germans from their front neglected during the interval and clos trenches to their second line, where they without material change in quotations, came in for the attentious of our artillery. Plantation Robber is quoted "to-day at
A few days ago tlie Saxons opposite the 2/4 per lb. Tin at £162/10, and Bor
centre of the line put up a national flag in Silver at 23hd. The closing rats front of their tronches, probably in the hope exchange for T.T. ure, on London 19:
of laring our men over a mine or in front of on Shanghai. 76, and on Singapore 77k awaiting machine gun in an attempt to take the Bank's buring rate for 3ds, bills on away the tag at night. A better way was
mining in my Shanghaj being unchanged at 795.
foard. Our men boisted the Union Jack in
The case put forward for the plaintiff be development of BANES--The buying rate for Hongkong front of our own line, and knocked theenemy's was that he was allowed by the Captain native country, because although a and Shanghai has advanced to $792, tg down with a shot of a trench mortar. of the str. l'aranang to leave the ship naturalised British subject yet I still but no shares are yet available and we Prisoners express great respect for our when he was suffering from humbago, on cling to China and wish tow eher prosper have no business to report.
I therefore came to China artillery, especially for our field guns, whose the understanding that he would be por-and happy.
height mitted to MARINE INSURANCES.- Small sales of shrapnel bursts at exactly the
return when his health was in 1914 with the idea of prosp:eting guns, fights eight
restored. they
He underwent treatment, But
and taking up mining here. when he wanted to return to his ship he ark closing quiet but steady at the back. In speaking of their own army
offcera
I visited rate. Cantons continue in request at state that the shortage of Regular was told by the company's superintendent numerous schemes with me-owners and
that his services were no longer required. 8360 with no shares offering under 870, and the promotion of "one-year volunters North Chinas and Yanglezes are unas led to a great deterioration in the quality The defendants case was that the plain- also government officials, but after a year's changed at last quotations with no local of the junior ollicers, many of whom the signed off the articles when he wont work. I find there are many obstacles in Isiness to report.
Brd with secret contempt. The ashore, and was paid up to that time and the way just now, and am returning heme FIER INSURANCES-Chinas hay nd-wholesale a disappointed vanced is a buying rate of $131, and appears, has caused the decortion to be $132 would probably be paid, but sellers despised by the fighting troops. One man continue to hold for higher rates. Hong-said that it was given as a matter of course to kongs continas in request at $5 but ginental sergeant-majors and to "fawaing there is again no business to report.
Smrs-The feature of the work has been the continued demand for Douglases at advancing rates, the quotations for which have risen from 971 to $51 for cash, and equivalent rates on time,
CAPTOR AND CAPTIVE. the stock closing in further request. This
Sous information has been obtained regard. Comunny is said to have done very well on the Coast during the financial rearing the British prisoners from the point of now drawing to a close, anil, with the view of the German private sollier. They churter of the s.s. Heiging at highly are described as being very proud and ob- remunerat rates will doubt, bestinale, refusing to work like others of the mabled to present to shareh dders a very flat prisoners in factories or mines. They encouraging report, Hongkong, Canton an apparently not allowed to work in the and Macon Steamboats have been booked fields, even if they are willing to do, for fear at 1, and close in Brm request at the of their making a concerted attempt to escape rate Indo-Chinas are wanted at $94. On this necount, also, they are kept more at which rate business has been done, and strictly guarded than the others and are Chlua and Manilas continue in request more harshly treated at 81.00. after small sales. Star Ferries
sokiiers
dend-heads on the lines of communication, who had-over-even-heal the sound of bullet, au that 30,000 had been distributed lefore the fall of Lidge. The Kaiser and Hindenburg are still popular heroes, but the. Crown Prince has lost raste.
of wrongful dismisal.
mmt."
Then we
211:17, My experience, however. is, I am afraid, that of many others, but perhaps all are not aware of the difficulties we have to face, and therefore if I state these clearly it will perhaps eventually lead to an improvement.
WITH COLOURED BORDERS, INEXPENSIVE, DAINTY AND EFFECTIVE,
BOLTON SHEETINGS
AND
PLAIN CASEMENT CLOTHS
IN A VARIETY OF SHADES, SUN FAST AND TUB FAST
WIDE RANGE OF BORDERS TO MATCH.
CRETONNES, LINENS AND TAFETAS.
PLAIN, FIGURED AND SPOT CURTAIN
RING UP
MUSLINS.
FOR RANGE OF PATTERNS,
LANE, CRAWFORD & CO.
The judgment was as follow :--- I will now deal with the Statutory defence under the Merchant. Shipping Act, 1804. I would first refer to section
The great and chief difficulty is that 115 sub-stims and, which set out the condition of a running agreement. By the articles put in, it will be sen that the Chinese wher obtain government per- the agreement in the present case was a mits for mino: very seldom work the running agreement.
property to any extent but nee their per- If you enquire Section 247 as to the business of the mermits to keep oth rs cut. castile marine officer, and amongst his why they do not work on a large scale duties he is to superintend and facilitate they invariably say that they are short of the engagement and discharge of seamen capital, but when you offer be provide in the manner in this Act provided. Then we have section 127, which relates capital it always occurs that when you get to the discharge of seamen On Mared to deta as you cannot get a reason. belief of the mine-owners bat-because- The superinten. 13th the plaintiff signed off the articles abfier. It seems to be an itivariable by mutual comment. dont was present when the same articles they have registered the property that were signed. Then we come to section therefor the contents of the mines belong They themselves enact in.l 130. This section is as follows:136, to them. According to civilians who have come in (1.) Where a seaman is discharged and capital to work it properly, but they ex. are neglected at a gelling rate of 837 ex from Lile the British prisoners who are kept the settlement of his wages completed, pret you to find all the capitsi, take all the dividend of $1.00 per share for 1814 in the Citadel are enduring great hurtships, before a superintendent, he shall sign in the risks, and share half the profits with paid to-day, and a slightly lower rating insufficiently fed and faving been de the presence of the superintendent ath, m.
prived of their greatcoats.
release in the form approved by the Board If-they have spent a few thou and taels would probably be accepted.
In connection with the treatment of pri- of Trade of all claims in respect of the in obtaining the Government permit, and Ous-Shells have been booked at 03/ closing with probable buyers at this, and sees, civil and military, the following past voyage or engagement, and this scratching the surface, they expect you to extract from the fetter of a French civilian release shall also be signed by the master spend a few hundred thousands of tucis sellors at 94 Ural Caspians are un-who has recently returned from captivity in or owner of the ship and attested by the their property and then after taking changed at 43/- and without business toermany, is not cheerful reading
superintendent. (2) The release so all the risks you must share half the pro- If our deliverance is delayed much longer signed and attested shall operate as s This attitude of the mine-cwners report. Langkats have fluctuated between Tla. 10 and Tls. 42 market-closing with we shall find thousands of unfortunate people mutual discharge and, settlement of all has been brought about, I think largely by reported buyers in Shanghai at T, 41. dying of hunger behind the German lines. demands between the parties thereto in the Government Mining Regulations, HEFINERIES-China Sugars owing to the enemy feeds the population they have respect of the past voyago or cogage where in Article IV. it is laid down that settlement influences have relapsed to a ruined with 150 gramus of "K" bread
per selling quotation of $111, buyers offering day. About the fate of these prisoners all 1
The form of release and which was the shares taken up by foreign subjects 8110, at present without, result. Luzons en ny is that the papers underestimate wigned by the plaintiff was as follows: shall not be allowed to exceed five-tenths in sympathy are unsaleable at 820, the truth, Of the 120,000 civilians taken
We, the undersigned members of the of the whole share capital" This would buyers being in evidence.
crew of this ship do hereby release the be all right if the Chines ming-owner MISING. Kailang have been broked at
ship, and the master and owner or owners could raise one half of the necessary 33/6 and mera shares are obtainable.
thereof, from all claim for wages, or capital, and agree to accept a reasonabl Raubs are wanted at $3.60 after sales
otherwise in respect of this voyage, and number of shares for the property and and Tronohs contine on offer at 32/0.
1, the master, do hereby release the said their previous expenditure, but generally DOCKS, WHARVES AND GODOWNS.-Hong
andersigned members of the crew from all they want to reive half the shares in claims in respect of the said voyage." exchange for a castro of the mine with kong and Whampon Docks have been booked at 862 to 863, closing with buyers
Then we have the question whether it out putting up any capital themselves. at the former and probable sellers at the
is necessary for the plaintiff to sign off This arrangement is not laid down in latter rate. Hongkong and Kowloon
to enable the 2nd officer to sign ou as the Mining gulations, but this is the Wharves have advanced to 871 with sales
Chief Officer. The answer to that ques-way in which it is construed by the tion is in the negative. We have Captain and more shares on offer at this rate.
om a British subject, and, therefore, come "HONGKONG DAILY PRESS,” New Engineerings art noted at Tls 8, Shanghai Docks at Tls. 51 and Shanghai
it is to the effect that there could be any under the heading of a "foreigner" under The absurd forms being assumed by the Milroy's evidence in this question, and owners. Although a Chinese by birth I and Hongker Whorses at Th. 20, all German Intre of the British nation are number of supernumerary Chief Officers these mining laws. Therefore I cannot
shown by the report made by one prisoner
on a ship. nominal..
LANDS, HOTELS AND BUILDINGS, Central that the gasomuters at Diedenhofen aiv
Then we come to the question whether take full control of a mine in my own Estates have been booked at 8100, andpainted with Gott strafe England" in enor
the plaintiff signed off on the ground of name, and the dog in the manger Hongkong mous letters. And, unless some of the re-
illness.
There is no statement in the attitude of the Chinese mijn owners pre more stares are available.
are obtainable at 8105, and marks shouted out to our troops in the Lands Humphreys Eatea at $ without re- trenches have been misunderstool, hatred articles that the plaintiff signed off on vents me from inv sting motey in my purted business. Kowloon Landa con of their neighbours is becoming a hobby with account of illness. In the official log on own native country.
the 13th March, the date the plaintiff. inue in request at 813, and West Points the Germans, for at one point the usual cry signed eff, there was the following entry: that much e bi da in opening in
The
Mr in Chinn, because it will be a long time at the improved quotation of $71, but was changed to "Guit strafo Hot and "1
Hong precise cause for this alteration in the objec. Mr. Ellis. 1st mate, signed off.
Wilson, 2nd officer, promoted to 1st off before my countrymen would snance any Because no shares are yet forthcoming.
cer.". On the 1st May, that is six months mine to the extent of half. kong Hotels are now enquired for attive of their kind wishes is not known.
In view of the false accusations which have $114.
COTTON MILLS.-After a period of com- recently appeared in the enemy newspapers afterwards, Captain Flashman added where there is native capital it appears parative weakness due to profit taking,regarding the conduct of the British at after the words" signed off" the follow-that they do not understand how it would most Shanghai desoriptions are again in Neuve Chapelle, to which allusion has already ing words, on sick leave to rejoin when a more economical to extend the opera
I might mention that tho
and do not keep a sufficient, réserve le The result is demand, the closing quotations being been made, the following extract from the recovered.
issued. Then we come to the question Evos Tis. 153, Shanghai Cottons Tis. 96.diary of a Garman officer, dated December 19, official log was altered after the writations, and so they go o nin a small way,
Internationals 1914, descriptive of the conduct of his own
with respect to Form C. C. 8. I am of open out on a large scale. and Kung Yiks Tls. 14. are nominal at Tls. 90. Laon Kung Mows meron a former occasion, is of more than
opinion that this form is imperative, hay generally that after a few years their ordinary interest
closed as a failure or worked on a hand. at Tls. 89 and Soy Chers nt Tis. 191.
The sight of the trenches and the furying regard to section 37 of the Morchant inall capital is used up and the mine is
men in Shipping Act of 1008. MISCELLANEOUS.Electrics are firni with
With respect to the construction to be to mouth plan, whereas all that salis at 839) ex dividend, Cements at not to say the bestiality-of our $0.85 buyers after fairly extensive sales beating to death the wounded English
day I was fit for nothing.
into Germany, and of our solliers taken prisoners, more than a quarter will die of hunger and privations before six months; the ranzinder will suffer for the rest of their lives from the horrors of this captivity. You can tell the soldiers that I would wish them death rather than captivity in Germany. must stop because I cannot bear to think of these horrors. I have the firm conviction that victory is at land, and what I have seen and heard of the Germans confirms this balief.
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FROM THE BRITISH SOUTH AFRICAN FIELD FORCE. The following letter has been proved by a lady in Hongkong from her brother, who is with the Transvaal Field Artillery in Gerraan South-West Africa:
Of course, another chstacle is the lack of
of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1908, I am perience. The writer of this was in the 13th Regi- of opinion this way" here means merp ment, 13th Division of the VIIth German permission, and not compulsory force. Company laws which would allow limited Corps His testimony as to the brutality of am not without some doubt, however, on liability compani's to be floated as is so often done in the Straits under British our enemy is borne out by the evidence of this point.
If the Chinese understood from ex- I will now deal with the contention put law. our own men or numerous occasions, notably at Neuse Chapelle, where several of our forward by Mr. Gardiner, that this agri-perienes how to float Companies and get wounded, temporarily left behind, were sub- ment has nothing to do with the Act, as capital subscribed they might be able to sequently found bayoneted or with their the operation was subserpient to the sign find their own capital. but the alas! ing off. I would point out that the agree brains blown out.
Another extinct from a letter referring to
ment was made prior to the signing off arises the question as to whether they The futura of min- this same fight on December 19 mentions I am of opinion that this is the true posi-could trust their capital in a purely that some of the English, being surrounded, tion of things, if the agreement is to be Chinese Company.
separate agreementing in China is undoubtedly great, bat surrendered after a inost gallant resistance regarded The writer als:-Bat they got mercy Plaintiff has released the company by there is a long way to go before success If in mining is sufficient to invite capital, The rifle butts were turned round and vesigning the articles under section 136.
LOKE CHOW THYL. went for them and make the sparks by the claim under the agreement, is coYours truly, Prisoners were not taken.'
extensive with the articles, and which articles have terminated, the agreement also terminates.
WREBE THE SHOE FINCHES.
These two excerpts from captured corre spondence are typical of the present tone of many German letters-
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I am of opinion that the plaintiff, hav- ing signed the articles by mutual consent. Buhl, March 21.-In the factories the that this operates as a release, and is a difficulty of obtaining work begins to be felt. discharge and settlement of all demands We are now on the bed of the Swakop This cannot last long now. Food is hoper between the parties. My finding on this. river, a few weeks from Swakopmund lessly expensive. I bought some potatoes at point is, therefore, in favour of the to get here, but Routzen and bad to pay 14 marks for two defendants. As this finding disposes of We had to scrap
the action, it is not necessary for me to fortunately none of the S.U.A. were sacks, and I was very gind to get them.
March 28,-Nothing changed here, but
Judgment for wounded.
I think we must have had
defendants with costs. about 17 of the burgers killed and wound it must be terrible on the Hartmannsweiler decide the other points.
Men are continually being sent ed, but we did a great deal of dainage Kopf.
forward, and none return. Last week
ull.
Sometimes romance comes even to the One such tale
"Come in:
Oh! I
to the enemy, I believe, with our guns, nen coming from the Hartmannsweiler and I understand that General Botha Kopf wandered through the streets of Soultz quite pleased with the show our battery during the night, with mutilated limbs and prosaic special constable.
One has moderately hard bloody heads We only get half a pound of is told of one who was set to guard a pot up...
He leant against a roads here to, trek over, but, of course,
bread a day now. I should like to know railway bridg you only have gecasional watering-places even here, and thirst is as bad an enemy how long it will before we get nothing at house wall to i sheltered from the rain, and then ab ent-mindedly-in this respect as the Germans.
Amongst the many incongruities of this the specials are absent-minded beggars-- We came into action at about 8.30 a.m, and kept up a fairly continuous fi compaign not the least strange contrast is tapped the aches out of his pipe on the that between the waging of trench warfare wall. The next moment a fair form zp- The country is very and the gardening which is carried op in peared round the corner. until about 3 p.m.
Ger
Mother's out many places by the British solders. The Willie. mountainous round about here. mans had evidently been waiting for gardens, which are mostly near the dug-outs, thought you was the young gentleman I'm bere for some time and were very well entrenched. The prisoners we have taken are not of a very ambitious order, but when walking out with
circunstances permit considerable care say that if it had not been fer our devoted to their cultivation. In some cases sar, which they never believed could be the small plots of growing primroses aud
good, we could never have taken the In addition to the six 15 position.
had pompoms and pounders they maxims on the same bill. Fortunately for as, they misjudged the range and though their direction was splendid, the shells kept falling beyond us."
is
The popular r'cruiting poster asking daffodils are not more than 200 yards from for "players" for the "Int rational' is the enemy, close behind the breastwork taken quite literally by the Fossische protecting their owners from the bullets Zeitung of Berlin, which declares that which whistle overhead and bury themselves "the English are now bidding for recruits with a vicous thud in the sandbags a few by the offer of cpecial spring sporting feet away.
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