AT THE MAGISTRACY. FURTHER OPIUM SEIZURES. " At the Mag:af74c3yesterday--In- apecter Kerr prosecuted three men, on charge of being in unlawful possession ef opium, and with attempting to export ya. The amounts concerncil Lotaller 122 taels of prepared and 270 tals of loose opinm. The man were arrested near the 6. K. Wharf as they were about to leave for Swatow. The cases were remanded nadi). Wednesday-
AN HONEST PAWNBROKER. Inspector R. MacDonald told Mr. Land: all at interesting story of the larceny of a diamond ring worth 2778, which was stalen from a house at West Point on the Eth May. A search was made when the loss of the ring had been discovered, but it could not be found. Among those who
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the distinction of their rank or be allowed to mingle with other prisoners of war. That LORD KITCHENER AND SAVAGERY.
was all very well, but he hoped that before the House ruse they would hear whether it! Tho Attorney General, in moving the..
In the House of Lords an April 27 Lord was the First Lord of the Admiralty who first reading of the Banishment bill, at a meeting of the Straits Settlements Newton having called attention to the offcial was responsible for this procedure or whether Legislative Conneil last week, said that correspondence respecting, the trontinent of he had the full support of the Government. on the the measure consolidated and amended all prisoners of war and interned civilians in the They all knew that the First Jord of the the Ordinances in the Statute Book relat United Kingthin and Gettany respectively. Admiralty was brave man
Lord Kitchener said:The noble lord has field of ttle and a Lage man on the ing to the banishment of aliens. Ordinances might be grouped into three raised a question of some importance with field of politics, and was not a
that certain cato- and when he (Lord Albemarle) represented classes. The first class gavo power to the regard to the treatment of prisoners of war, to-shelter himself behind any body, Governor-in-Council to banish any alien and has suggested from the Colony for life, or for any gories of prisoners should be released, or to him the other day that he felt very keenly exchanged. I mny inform the roblo on this question Mr. Churchill was only too period that might be thought fit of land thint in dealing with alien prisoners ready to say, I have laid down this policy expel ang alias vagrant from the Colony Cummission under the direction of a general and Iating to adhere to this or who had been convicted of certain offences, offer investigates tinch case, and, when ad-fio would like to have some assuances from and who had been recommended by the visibit, on the evidence produced, effects a Government whether it was the policy which Court to be expelled from the Colony,
Presents considerablo dificulties which in- From what he hail heard and seen he thought The amendments in the bill relating to the ehe exchange of alica prisoners had their support or has not their support class wors of no importance; they werenso as the war progresses owing to the us that if this matter had been left in the hairde merely formal. The second class of ordi- which Germany makes of the services of of the Foreign Office they would have head nance prohibited aliens banished from Johore and the Protected Malay States prisoners who hitherto, on account of ad- of no reprisals and patters would have been vanced age, would have been immune from adequately and satisfactorily adjusted br tween the two countries with the aid of the From residing in the Colony. The amendmilitary employment. ments respecting them extended the pro- The noble lord opens a wider field in American Ambassador.
Lord Lucas said no one could fail to realise B bibition to all aliens banished from all desing with the treatment meter out British Protectorates from all British to our officers and mea who have had the extreme serioass of the restin the difficulty the the. Many Peninsula. Therefore, under the Gerumns. Although the conduct of our Government was these amendments, an alien who
enemies does not directly affect the opera that though in Foreign Oflice were not able nurning this amah presented the ring banished, say, from Hongkong, ur from tions of the war, it is of the utmost import to obtain sperly waits, it was not through
shop 'in
Queen's British North Borneo of Sarawak, or ance to those taking an active part in it, and any fault or lack of initiative. Even what pawnbroker's
The pawnbroker - From a Siamese State in the Molay I'enin in a scarcely less degree to their relatives had been done would not have been possible Road West,
sula, was prohibited from residing in the and friends at home. As a soldier, I have at all except for the assistance of Mr. Gerani suspicious about the matter,
Colony. The third class of Ordinance hitherto always held the officers of the Cler and the United States Embassy. There was rendered it legal to detain in custody in Army in respect, and it has been with reason to hope that the general permission and after questioning the
the Colony any person who was banished the greatest reluctance that I have been which had been obtained for several
members the police. informed
from Johore or a Protected Malay State forced to recept as incontestably trus the of the staff of the American Embassy in was arrested, and she admitted to the when he was brought through the Colony maltreatment by the German Army of Berlin to visit the internment cataps in Ger The constant testimony many would result in amelioration of the our lot of the Britisk prisoners. Three weeks police that she picked the ring up from in custody on his way to the place to British prisoners. the four and had kept it in the meantime, which he was banished. For instance, a that ims come in, not only from
Chinese banished from Johore, or from own escapei prisoners, but also from ago, with a view to further exchanges of The wrinan was sent to prison for e'x any Protected State, or a Javaca banish, French, Russian, Belgian, and American prisoners, a fist of those who were perman- months with hard labour, and the Magised from there to Java, or to China, may sources, has brought it home to all who have eatly incapacitate was sent by the Govern come through the Colony to be sent to sifted the ovidence that the inhumanity ment to Germany, and amply was being trate highly commended the pawnbroker, his destination. The existing Ordinance displayed by the German authorities towards awaiter. The general policy of the Wat gave permission to detain such persons in British, Irisoners, especially is oryond. Office had been to endeavour to repatriate remarking that his conduct wa
eustody here and put them on the ship doubt... example to pawnbrokers generally,
which was leaving the Colony for their destination at same subsequent time. THE OUTRAGE ON A EUROPEAN. The amendment in the present bill to that class of Ordinance rendered it legal to The case again came on for hearing in detain in custody here, not only those which several ricsha coolies are charged persons who were banished from Jolore with committing highway robbery and and the Protected Malay States, but also with assaulting M MOHutchen, the persons banished from all British Possen the escape,
sions and Protectorates, For instance, prisoners, Chief Enginter of the Cheong King. The under the amendments, if a Javanese was complanant, in the cauren of his evidenes banished from Hongkong to Java, or from complaint is to prisoners hardships can it was felt very strongly that some sort of
British North Borneo, or from Sarawak stated that he rode in a ricsha to Blak: to Jara, he must come through Singapore Pier at about midnight on the date con to get to his destination, and power was suraed, and, failing to get a gampangiven by the amendments to detain stich a person in prison bere until he could be there, be rode to the West Point district. put on bourd of a ship and shipped to On the Praya ho touched his coolie with Java.
Mr. Saunders seconded, and the bill was a stick, and told him he wanted a simpan. The coolic dropped the shafts of the read a first time, the Attorney-General mengiring notice that at the next meeting of Tebicic, end auddenly
him tho Council he would move the second appeared on his left, knocked down and assaulted him, taking away reading of the bill. with them $300 in notes, $5 în coin, u gold watch and chain; a cigar case and
He had not even new i a cigar holder. recovered from the shook coexicned by the assault.
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ALLEGED THEFT OF NEWSPAPERS:
THE HONGKONG VOLUNTEERS.
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those Gerans and Austrians in Gar intern- ment campy who were not of military nge, The Hague Convention signed by Germany and for whose detention there was no special nys down rules for the treatment of prison-reason-but-many of the men did not wish Its provisions are broad in to leave. The special treatment of the crows ers of war. stope, and admit of such differential treat of Gerinan submarines was not undertaken ment as military conditions may demand, by way of reprisal Init as an expression undue combination of of using submarines. The aetion of the while providing stringest rules to prevent of moral disapproval of the enemy's method
unique in "civilised wartaro, and expression of the most severe disapproval should be unade. Ent it was important is should be quite clearly understood by every treated according to the conditions laid body concerned that these men were very down by the Hague Convention.
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this convention are observed, no Just was reasonably be nude by any belligerent nation.
With regard to the allegations made against the Germans in this matter, I would quote Articles 4 and 7.
Article 4 reals as follows:-
Prisoners of war must be humanely treated. all their personal belongings, except arms, horses, and military papers, remain their property.
Article 7 lays down that
Frisoners of war shall be treated as regards rations, quarters, and clothing on the same footing as the troops of the Government which capture them.
GERMAN DETENTION CAMPA.
The Earl of Camperdown wanted to know whether the action taken originated with the
it had the approval of Cabinet, First Lord of the Admiralty alone or whether
Lord Lucas said the decision was the reci sion of the Government as a whole.
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LOND CURZON AND ML CHURCHILL. Earl Curzon said they all know the con- stitutional position, but there had been more than one occasion since the beginning of the war in which there had been an appearence of independent action on the part of one. Minister, particularly the First Lord of the Adubalty. The Government must not be surprised if the continued recurrence of these incidents was called attention to in the House, as it had undoubtedly caused profound was an appearance from time to time of disquiet and anxiety in the country. There HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, independent action on the part of the Minister-action
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as to whether he was supported by his colleagues at the Admiralty, and also whether the course in question would conceivably lare been approved by the he existence of Government as a whole.
these doubts ought to impose upon the Cab
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CIRCULARS.
The evidence detailed in the White Paper shows these two articles thave been fing CORPA DEGERA BY LIEUZ.-COL, A. CHAPMAN, v..rantly disregardled by German officers. Our prisoners have been stripped and maltreated in various ways, and in some cases uvidence 1.--Pto. C. A. de I. V. Ribeiro joined the goes to prove that they have been shot in Corps on ih instant, allotted Corps cold blood. Our officers, even when wounded, No. 1855 and posted to Signalling have been wantonly insulted and frequently Becond testimony has been in which given by Germans theraselves of the 2.--Parades for Tuesday, 8th instant. our people have been ill-treated and injured. 6.10 p.m. Contra Section M. G. Co-Sec-I think it is only sight and fair to say tion drill and Bayonet fighting at that the German hospitals stioukl be except Kowloon Ducks. Lounch leaves Statue ed from ang charges of deliberate inhumanity Pior at 4,30 p.m.
There have been indications of a lamentable 5.15 p.nu. Civil Service Co-Section drin lack of medical skill, and in individual cases of neglect and indifference to suffering and Rite exercises at Headquarters, 5.30 p.m. No. 1 Section Art: Batty and on the part of hospital orderlies. On the
Le Section M. U. CD.-Aiming drill other hand, there are statements from inet greater caution in the control they ex- (LLUSTRATED CATALOGUES. and Musketry exercises at Headquar-prisoners who have been release as incapa. ercised over their colleagues than hind bather- regretted citated that their experience in hospital lid to been the case. It was also to be ters. Sergt. Bullock will attend,
that their sense of disapproval of the conduct 5.30 p.m. No. 2 Section Art. Batty not form any ground for special complaint.
of the officers of the sabinaries should have Rife exercises and Bayonet fighting
The treatment in the detention camps in been couched in snfortunate a form. He at Headquarters, 6.30 p.m. Scouts Co. (except N.C.O. and Germany has varied considerably according would counsel the Government to be rather at Headquarters) to the locality. Our mea in most cases have more careful in the way they aniquncent on Juty Company drill and Skirmishing at suffered from want of food, and have their high moral principice, all the more na Happy Valley. Fallin or road between received different treatment as compared the sufferings of which they complained were Law Courts and City Hall at 8.15 p.m.with their French and Russian comrades, undoubtedly the outcome of the announce-
and many acts of violence have been ment in question.
er, there complained of. Laght improvement
in does appear to be a some respect, due, perhaps, to the visits of inspection which have been made from time to time through the American Ambassador. Recently some of our officers have been subjected to solitary confinement as retaliation for supposed treatment of Germans in this country. The Hague Convention does not admit of such confinement of prisoners of war except as an indispensablesion produced in Tokio by the war, says measure of safety, and I liope before long to obtain some evidence of the manner in which these officers are now being treated in Ger many
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The Chinese coolie who was charged before Mr. Lindsell at the Magistrney last week-end with stealing four newspapers belonging to his employers, the Hongkong Daily Pros Ltd.,' was discharged on Saturday. The evidence for the proseco- tion showed that the prisoner was seen by as Indian watchman employed by the Daily Press to hand four loose copies of the paper, which were secreted about his person, 40 a strect vendor of papers, who The watch was waiting near the office. roan gave chase and recovered the four papers. Later on, the coolie returned to the office and complained to the watch- man that he was short of four papers for delivery to subscribers, but to this no attention was paid, as the correct total had been checked and entered in a book before the coolie was allowed to pass out in the first instance. It was also stated that the prisoner was searched before he left the office, but that, owing to the allegations which had sometimes been rande against the watchman when dis- charging this duty, the search was only partial and superficial. On the date in question the books showed that there were papers: raising from the office in excess of those alleged to have been taken by the prisoner. The prisoner declared on oath
"A SLEE ON THE PROFESSION or ARMS." that he had merely lent four subscribers
Germany has for many years pred before papers to his friend, who would have paid
the civilised world as a great military nation. a back later when he had obtained a
She hus abundantly proved her military all sapply for sale from the office. He did
and courage, but, surely, it was also for her this because his friend was late that
to set up a standard of military honour and morning and wanted to deliver the paper.
conduct which would gain the respect, if not Instead she to four regular customers at Wanchai. In cross-examination, he admitted that
the friendship, of nations, atooped to acts which will surely stain in He knew it to be his duty to deliver as
delibly her military history, and which would speedily as possible all the subscribers'
vie with the barbarous savagery of the Ler vishes of the Sudan. I do not think there copies given to him, and, although he had been employed by the office for three or
The following are permitted to resign can be soldier of any nationality, even four years, he had never parted with any H... Silva and G. F. Alves, from the amongst the Germans themselves, who is not idle unemployed:
on Ifore this, although previong occasions the papers had not been hyst Portuguese Company under medical certiheartily ashamed of the slur which has been bath boys, too, are now only from Bs. to OTHER ESTABLISHMENT IN THE FAR EAST.
ficates; Wong Fat Kwong from the Chinese thus brought upon the profession of arms, 24s. a mouth, besides board, instead of
The usages of war have not only been out- able to street vendors until a later hour. Company
DEVIL'S OWN PLATOON HILL CEP, raged by the infliction of crueltics on British to 406, per month as in an ordinary If the papers produced by the prosecn- tion did not show any fold to indicate Subject to uniform and riths boing pre prisoners, but by a contrivance which must year. This money income is derived from that they had ever been in an addressed vided or aequired. this Dril Cup Competi- have rrestal your lordships' attention. The stabbing the back of the fastidious at the 10a, DES VŒŒUX ROAD, HONGKONG. subscriber's wrapper h
The barber Eures no better, for.. suppose could only tion is provisionally fixel for Saturday, July German liave, in the last week, iatroduced rate of £s. a-piew. Ruggest that the Indian watchman had 17th Platoons will separately drill under a method of placing their opponents hors de substituted other papers because he want their own Commanders for one month prior mbet by the use of asphyxiating and delo esch man postpones haircutting by two terious gases, and they employ these poi- days, their income would be markedly to this fixture.
sonous methods to prevail when their attack, reduced in a city of two million people, ed to get promotion. The street-vendor frons whom the papers were recovered bore out the prisoner's statement, and Service Rifles will be issued to Nos. 3 and according to the rules of war, might have In the summer months "tonsorial artists"! another coolie employed at the Daily Press 2 Platoons of the British Company at 5.30 otherwise failed. On this subject I would go to the ashore or mountain resorts in office deposed that the prisoner was pro and 6.00 p.m. respectively on June 7th, remind your lordships that Germany was a large numbers, so that their. Tokio market The Truncheons will als ho issued to the Portu- signatory to the following article in the Hague usually begins to be over-crowded by the The contracting Powers end of October. But this year an over perly searched before he left.
agree to abstain from the use of projectiles supply of barbers was evident as early as B In auf Bores and Sites, F. C. JENKIN, A Magistrate.
stated, dismissed the guese Company on that inte
A.S.P. (Reserve). the object of which is the diffusion of the middle of September. Curious to state, the roast sweet potato trada suffers asphyxiating or deleterious gases."
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badly from the cheapness of rice, for other Colonci Maude in the Evening
charge.
As
(The obvious inference which the coolie
wind will draw from this will, it is hoped,
POLICE RESERVE ORDERS.
(CENTRAL POLICE STATION). FALAFES.
Tuesday, June 8th Indian Platoon and Chinese Recruits Platoon, 5.30 p.m. Wednesday, June 9th, Chin Company
5.30 p.m.
RESIGNATIONS.
168YNS,
ho modified to some extent In the fact Standard early last month affirmed that that the Magistrate pointed out that it was not nagelber meritorious for a coolie who German wastage is now considerably
Cinvention:-
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The Earl of Albermarle said his third sou was one of those officers
contemporary, is to be found in the fact that there has been a great decrease in the use of hot bathe by the poor. The warm ablution indulged in by the Tokio people of the poorer class, more fondly than by any other section of the Japanese, during the cold months of the year has been economised 10 to 30 per cent, com pared with last year.
There are about twenty employment agents in the city, who recommend bath boys, states Reuter's correspondent. In an average year very low men would be waiting for employment in these establish ments, but this year every such house is keeping a dozen to twenty or more of the The earnings of these
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is paid to deliver papers to subscribers to greater than 260,000 per month; so long many, and he desired imprisoned in Gor. Wiss the poor make at least one meat a day 3HOT. From No. 10 to 8830. at $5, $7 and
the enemy continues to play into our feed them to his friends. If a situilar ende Brises again and the trouble is taken of hands by reckless expenditure of men no sending it before the Magistrate in the public general advance is likely, The use of interest, perhaps the Police, when under-poison has stiffened the Allies and stimu takin cho prosecution, will look up the law, lated recruiting. The French heavy guns if they do not know it, and frame the charge bombarding the Metz lines are capable of. making short work even lot armoured accordingly.]
cupolas.
to enter a formal pro
his horror at what test against and to record had been done in the last few days by the ar- est of these gallant officers. The other day he represented to the First Lord of the Admiralty A parliamentary paper issued shows. that it was solely and entirely due to his that 1,289 members of the crews of lost action that this state of things had arisen: German warships have been rescued by The communique of March 5 by the Admiralty British war vessels, but German warships referring to German submarine officers and have not rescued a single man belonging men stated that “persons against whom sach to British war vessels.
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