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Mr. ALKUB HENDERSON.. For Com- It is annouded that Bear-Admiral pulsion there were Lord CURSON, Lord Braisted, Surgeon-General of the U.S. LANSDOWNE, Mr. LLOYD GEORGE, Mr. Navy, is studying the effect on American CHURCH, Mr. BONAE LAW, Mr. A. officers and men of prolonged visits to CHAMBERLAIN, Lord BELOR, and Sir tropical climates. One ship's surgeon
EDWARD CARSON.
SHAUKIWAN MURDER TRIAL VERDICT OF MANSLAUGHTER RETURNED.
The trial was concluded before the
The latter has just has reported that there is a pronounced Chief Justice (Sir Wm. Rets Davice, resigned from the Cabinet and we deterioration of the mental and physiol K.C.), and a jury of whom Mr. Harold foreman ad the Criminal Sessions yesterday of the case in which
think this in itself may be regarded powers after a six months' stay in the Seth was as a hopeful sign that the Coalition topics Government will not come to grief. It
At a meeting of the Hongkong Football Hon Mau Yah was charged with the indicates, at least, the absence of
a Association last ovoning Commander F.
murder of an old woman in a house að desiro to force a dissolution. Mr. Gibson, R. N.; and Captain Morris, 4th
Shaukiwan. BONAR LAW, Mr. LONG and Mr. Shropshire L.I., were elected judicial
A Hokla interprotqr gave evidence as CHANDERLAIN
are described as not members of the Referees' Board.
to prisoner's statement at the Polios Tho inclined to
press for a compulsory Hon. Secretary announced at a meeting Station, and prisoner questioned him as If there is dandruff or it is policy if it should lead to schism in the of the Hongkong Football League, which to why he had omitted his statement that
Government of the country. Lord KITCHENER's views on the subject to membership of the Second Division of
So far as followed, that application for admission mau and a woman assaulted him at th are known his lordship ba's boon the League had been received from the
The interpreter said it was not in regarded hitherto as being of opinion Hongkong University, the Staff and De that the moment had not arrived when
portant. He admitted that prianer said that the woman attempted to cut compulsory military service was
him with chopper. - and that he Wit ness did not tell that to the Sergeant Interpreter on duty.
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Members with Handicape of less than 7 to be drawn by los with Members with Handicape of 18 or more.
Mambers with Handicaps of 7 to 12 inclusive to be drawn with Members with Handicaps of 13 to 17 inclusive.
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house
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sary, and, according to a recent telegram, Fourteen team will thus compete in wrenched the chopper from ber his lordship wkes the perfectly proper ttitude that it is for him as a soldier to slate the country's need for men and RESORCIN HAIR leave it to the country to supply, the Nevat Concert Party at the Victoria defended) witness, said that the prisoner A bumper programme was given by the In answer to Mr. Alabaster (who need in the way it deems best. We have Theatre last evening, the performance admitted killing the women with the yet to learn that the voluntary system being on behalf of the Red Cross Fund. chopper, and witness told that to the has failed to furnish the men that Lord Items were contributed by the follow- Sergeant-Interpreter. KITCHENER requires.
Prisoner did not Whether Or notingMessrs. W. Booley, Bauks, F. show witnes: any marks, there shall be compulsory service both Simes, J. Bradley, Al Cohen,” A. The Attorney-General said that whep in the army and in the workshops, Beale. F. Cook, H. Duna. W. Nicoll. J.
prisoner made his statement about the rest entirely Brooks. Millar, A. Ward, J. Robson, and woman attacking him he had already the judgment of Lord KITCHENER. Onco S. Venner. There was also a boxing been charged. He did not then say his lordship is convinced that it is skit.
The Braiser's Waterloo," in that the woman had dolained his clothes. the opposition, we believe, which the characters were sustained by
The Chief Justice (to the interpreter)-- would varrish like this smoke. The only the following:-Messrs. G. Robson, A. Did you only interpret what you thought questions which would then remain aro, Ward, J. Cleave, W. Langshow, J. C. was against the prisoner? first, the possibility of training in time Baird, and S. Colyer.
Witness returned - no answer, the increased numbers which would be was of a very miscellaneous, description,
His lordship said that such a state Di the question as to how a very large
The Management of the Theatre the interpreter thought unimportan voluntary force could be mixed with staged a fine war picture entitled “Fer smaller conscript force.
very important. Had compul-
Henour and Country."
His lordship instructed Inspector Angus to inform the sory service been adopted from the The Manchester Guardian on SeptemCaptain Superintendent of Police that in A. S. WATSON have existed, but at this stage there mout
beginning the latter problem would notber 21st published an illustrated supple-his opinion this interpreter should nevez of 24 pages on British trade again be allowed to act as an interpreter are difficulties not easy to surmount, prospects in China. President Yuan Shih for the Police Yet to most foreigners, and
even Kai in a cable to the Editor expressing a considerable number
of Eng his appreciation of this enterprise said lishmen the expedients which resorbed to ia
Inasmuch as the trade of Great Britain order to raise constitutes half of the total of China's voluntary army-the open-air meetings foreign commerce and in view of the the advertisements in the newspapers, the industrial supremacy held by the City of posters on the hoardings, and, above all, Manchester, in which your publication is the personal canvassing, often by women, domiciled, a better knowledge of the are regarded as unworthy the dignity actual trade conditions of China is bound of # Government. But
these very expedients
to produce a better understanding between peared him fundamental differences between the British and the the peoples of the two countries, thereby FLATS in Humphrey's Buildings, TILLEY-On October 14th, at Shanghai, A writer in The Fation recently put the of the existing amicable trade relations, Continental conceptions of Government, contributing to the continued prosperity
matter very succinctly when he said that In view of our plans for railway extension is the underlying assumption that a foreign trade of China is bound to increase at the bottom of the foreign critic's mind and the development of our resources, the Government commands; it does not greatly in the coming years."
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ORDER OF ST. JOHN OF JERUSALEM, TO-NIGHT (THURSDAY), OCTOBER 21ST, 1915, AT 9 PM
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Admission will be aarded at the Main Entrance and the Albany Entrance.
The Gates will be opened at 8.30 1.3. By kind permission of Lieut.-Colonel L. A. WATSON and Officers the Band of the 74th Panjabis will perform, and also The Police Reserve Band.
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HONGKONG OPTION: 101, DER VEUX BOLD, LONDON. OFFICE: 181, FLEET STREET, É.C.
The Daily Press.
HONGKONG, OCtober 21st, 1918,
THE NATIONA SERVILCE QUESTION.
reveal Whe
are
TO-NIGHT'S FETE.
Prisoner dvein red
that
UTE
If he
friendly terms with the woman?. had murdered her he had two clear
taken them,
days to get away. What he did he did in self-defence. He had lost some clothes and went to ask the woman if she hai the woman attacked hins with a chopper, They had a quarrel, and which he took away and cut her with it in self-defence.
A
ma
in the house "all over the body "
and he had to cut him as well.
Mr. Alabaster, replying to the con- tention of the Crown that the onus was on the defener to prove any circumstances. slaughter, quid it was the first time he that would reduce the killing to man
had heard that it was for the prisoner to prove his innocence and be hoped he would never hear it again, as it was not law. It was for the Crown to prove their case, and in that they had miser- ably failed. There was no evidence to show that prisoner went into the house for the purpose of committing a robbery. In fact there was nothing in the house worth stealing.
His lordship remarked that the jury- were at liberty to assume that the
exhort, speaks there is only one mood of this It speaks seldom, but when it
verb which it
may idly use--the imperative. If it stoops to reason or appeal, it in some way lowers its
The Fête in aid of the British Red Cross authority and weakens its prestige, Society and the Order of St. John' of The answer of a `zaind steeped in the Jerusalem takes place in the Public Gar British tradition, it was suggested, tiene to-night at 9 p.., the gates being would be that, on the contrary, a Govern opened balf an hour earlier. The price ment, when it appeals in this way for of admission is 80 cents; as excellent volunteers is using its prestige and open-air concert programme has been drawing upon its reserves of moral autho-arranged, and it is hoped that the atten- prisoner, coming there as he did at Ir is not pleasant to contemplate the rity, and the extent of the response is danes of the general public will be suck midnight, went there for the purpose of prospect of another political crisis in the
the measure of the respect and confidence United Kingdom which, according to Afr.it enjoys. Hitherto these appeals have forwarded to support the noble work did so, the occupants were entitled to as will enable a substantial sum to be committing a felony, and, assuming her JOHN REDMOND, would instantly end the set with a ready, an enthusiastic which is being done by the two organisa- rest him, political truce and rend the British people indeed, a magnificent response.
If the man stabbed the But as tions for whose benefit the Fête has been woman, he would be guilty of murder. into contending factions." While the the struggle develops so the demand for general character of the recent news from
arranged. The important question
Supposing that when he arrived at the Home makes it clear that there is
place he was immediately attacked by much whether this dissension in the Cabinet on questions of additional strength is obtainable by capital importance, it would be little short
voluntary recruitment, as whether it is of disastrous to the moral of the nation to
not to the greater advantage of the
men
grows. now is not w.
We may add to this the reminder that the local fund in aid of these organisa tions closes to-day and that subscriptions, of any amount, will be welcomed by the
No. 1, MORETON TERRACE, Causeway take these disagreements to the hustings Country that it should be gathered by Hon. Treasurer, Mr. N. J, Stubb.
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NOTICE.
in a Coneral Election. The two questions quicker method than the slow pro
on which the Cabinet appear to be divided
oss of persuasion. The whole question
are conscription and the policy which the War Office, which has only to state is one which seems to rest mainly with requires the dispatch of a veonsiderable Army to the Balkans. These two questions its requirements and to tell the Govern aro inter-related, for dissent from the ment and the country that it is în a Balkan policy doubtless has its origin in battalions at a faster rate than they are
position
train
and equip new the problem of putting into the Balkans.
to
an army adequate to the probable needs being now formed, and once that is done; A NEXTRAORDINARY GENERAL without endangering the prospects of we doubt if any serious objection would
MEETING of the Members of the HONGKONG CLUB will be held in the Club success in France and Flanders and at this stage in the war be offered to the House on FRIDAY, the 29th October, 1815, in Gallipoli.
adoption of Conscription. at 5.15 P.M
The recommendations for BUSINESSA et forth in the Notice Lord CREWE's Committee in its several national service made to the Cabinet by posted in the Hall of the Club,
By Order,
reports have served during the past mouth to concentrate public attention
The
women and he struck her in self- defence, he would be guilty of man- slaughter.
The Attorney-General submitted that the story told by the prisoner did not. accord with the facts of the case.
The jury returned a verdict of man- slaughter, and prisoner was sentenced to ten years hard labour.
ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL. HONGKONG F. C. 7. ROYAL ENGINEERS.
WAB WITH BULGARIA.
LOCAL PROCLAMATION,
Proclamation was made yesterday by
out between His Majesty and Bulgaria, H.E. the Governor that war has broken
It was abo notified by the Colonial Secretary that way was declared against Bulgaria as from 10 p.m. on October 15th
On Saturday on the Club ground at and that a Proclamation was issued by Happy Valley, there will be friendly”. His Majesty the King on the 16th October,
game between the Hongkong F. C. and A mail for Europe vid Siberia closes 1915, applying to the state of war between the R. E.. commencing at 5 p.m. pune- to-day at 3 p.m..
His Majesty and Bulgaria the several Pro- tually.
The following will represent the clamations and Orders-in-Council issued Club:-R. S. Swan;. J. Stalker, and F. on the attitude of the whole Cabinet Mitsui Bussan Kaishe, Japan, this year's with reference to the state of war between W. Black; P. B. Gardener, P. R. toward the proposal for compulsory prospective yield of sugar in Java is His Majesty and Germany, and His Chassels, and M. L. Railion; N; V. H. service both in the army and the work 1,200,000 tons, or a decrease of 20 por in force, other than the Order-in-Council Majesty and Austria-Hungary, and then
Croucher, W. Fraser, P. Tod, H. McE- shops. A month ago, according ong cent, as compared with last year.
MeTavish, and W, V. Penuell. OO OIL ENGINE complete with
the London papers, the Cabinet was
issued on the 4th August, 1914, with coupled direct to one & KW. ContinuousHE HALF-TEARLY MEETING of opposed to compulsion by a majority of A valuable had was made by a Police reference to the granting of days of grace, Carreat Shant Wound Dynamo of 50/70 volts the 20th Octoler, 1915, at 12 o'clock Noos, at
GERMANS AT THE HANKOW Members will be held on SATURDAY, three. with shunt regulator.
Lord KITCHENER was set down oxswain on a junk in the Harbour on
CLUB. the Offices of the JOCKEY CLUB, on the av "uncommitted." ANNEIE, Chater Road. for Ground Floor of the HONGKONG CLUB sion were Mr. ASQUITH, Sir EDWARD of amungrition were seized, and four men Middlesbrough the stipendiary remarked
Against Compul- Saturday, Nine pistols and 5,740 rounds.
During the hearing of a case at Gney, Mr. BALFOUR, Lord CREWE, Lord and a woman arrested. At the Magistraes that a single candle shining in a window members of the Hankow Race Club held By Order,
BUCKMASTER, Mr. MCKENNA, Sir Joan yesterday Mr. Oto Kong Singap-could be seen from a distanes of three on the 14th inst. s resolution expelling SIMON, Mr. RUNCIMAN, Mr. BIRRELL, Mr.pared for the defence, and the case was added, "to have their windows shaded in out of 161 members present, amid great. milos, "People, must be careful," he enemy subjects was passed by 159 votes, MCKINSON WOOD, Mr. HARCOURT and remanded.
these times.
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