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THE OPTIMISTIC. "TOMMY.” ENTERTAINING LECTURE BY MR.
FREDERICK COLEMAN.
HONGKONG MAGISTRACY.
OPIUM.
TER HONGRONG DAILY PRESS. SATURDAY, LUGUST 2ēru, 1916.
For being in possession of twelve 'taels of opium dross a Chinese was fined $280, Inspector Wilden made the haul at a house in Bonham Strand.
FIGHT WITH HAMMERS. Three Chinese, each of whom was heavy banduged, were charged with disorderly conduct at Hanghon.
ALLEGED OPIUM THEFT. EXCISE OFFICER CHARGED, A Chinese excise officer was charged at the Hongkong Police Court yesterday with the theft of 5 lbs. of loose opium at Kowloon.
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HONGKONG BANKRUPTCY
COURT.
SOLICITOR THREATENED WITH CONTEMPT.
At the Hongkong Bankruptcy Court yesterday, the Official Receiver 'applied for the rescission of the receiving order in Mr. the case of the King Tai firm Grist, on hobalf of the debtor, opposed the rescission, and asked for an adjourn sent of the case until next bankruptcy
Mr. Beavis appeared to defend, Inspector Gordon said the Govern
avary cut looked upon the case serious one, as the defendant was an They excise ofher, and at the time of the were found by glukong fighting with [alleged theft he had arrested another day.
haminers.
THE N. D. L.
CLAIM BY MR. C. W. BESWICK.
At. Government Hous: last night a large audience listened attentively to a war lecture by a neutral, Mr. Frederick Coleman, author of "From Mons to Really speaking. Yures with French." Mr. Coleman did not deal in any de tailed manger with that exciting and momentous period of "the history of British arms in the field; be travelled
One of the men said that all Aver The Wegern Front, giving
sorne boys were fighting, he made it his numerous anecdotes, buth sad and amus-business to try and stop them, and was ing: chats with famous Cominanders, ban-
then set upon by the other two men. ter with "Tommies" in areas where to be All he did was to defend himself. cheerful seemed quite out of place; and
The case was remanded. now and again expressed his opinion on certain controversial subjects which were made more interesting because of the fact that Mr. Coleman has been to the front and passed through periods of the war which stand out above all others. The far that Mr. Coleman had been out there" made him personally attractive, and bis happy-go-lucky, but exceedingly fluent discourse, combined to make his lecture one which will long be remem bered. Early in his lecture Mr. Coleman dropped something in the nature of a bombshell when he claimed that the chief objective of the Germans in the opening stages of the war on the Western front was not Parik. The intarer stated that the German objective at the outset was to smash the French army in the field and, having succeeded in this, to march into Paris unmolested. The French arny was still in a state very far removed from smashed, he added; the Frenchinan had
come into his own as a result of the war, and had surprised himself even more than he had surprised his enemies.
The lecturer had my things to tell of the British Toming," as seen and beard at the front. Nothing seems to have impressed him more than the won derful spirit of our men under the most trying conditions. They juked when they were facing death, and groused and grumbled at the least thing when they were in clean and civilised quarters away But Tommy is from the firing line.
,
man who was in possession of 58 Jbs, of
opium. It was thought that the defend ant took the opium from the man whom
he had arrested.
A remand until Monday was granted. Arising out of this case a Chinese was subsequently charged with being in illegal possession of 36 lbs. of opiam, but he absolutely denied the charge,
A Chinese revenue officer went into the box and snid defendant was one of three
Far Official Receiver said there were
no assets and also objected to Mr. Grist making the application for adjourn
ment. Mr. Grist, he said, had no focus standi. The debtors had absconded, and were therefore in contempt, and Mr. Grist, by appearing for them in that Court, was committing further con- tant. (Laughter.)
The Chief Justice How do you know debtors have abscended i
Mr. Giriat said his instructions were that debtors were prepared to come for-
The list of cases at the Hongkong Sum-persons carrying three bundles and who The Official Receiver--I have sent for. them and they have not appeared, aud ran away.
they have not appeared here to-day, mary Court contains a claim by Mr.
Inspector Mackenzie said the three men thereby coinmitting contempt of this C. W. Beswick, against Messrs. Lowe,
honourable Court. Bingham & Matthews, as liquidators of in question had been dealt with.
Lloyd Norddeuschter
steamship Inspector Gordon asked leave to ques the Company. Plaintiff claims the sum oftion the witness, in the hope, he said, ofward to file their statement of affairs.
83015, being damages for breach of proving that the witness was not telling contract to supply plaintiff's wife with the truth. He declared 1 believe de- a first class passage from London to Hongkong; being as to $732.90 thereof, the amount paid by the plaintiff to the P. & 0. Co., Ltd., on September 8th, 1014, and as to the balance for interest on the sum of $732.90 from September 8th, 1914, to June 30th, 1916.
EXCHANGE NO ROBBERY?
fendant to be an innocent agent in the ease." Inspector Gordon then asked the revenue officer if he was present at a restaurant at Shek-ton-tsui on the night. of the 23rd when a raid was made.
Mr. Hazeland, did not think the ques- tion was relevant.
and that statement of affairs would show that there were considerable assets. At the present time the Official Receiver was not aware that there were any assets, journment, but his instruction were that ur sufficient assets to warrant an ad-
there were assets.
Mr. Aggasiz, representing the petition- ing ereditur, said he had no objection to Mr. Grist's application. *.
The Oficial Receiver. Of course not; this is a case of debtor and petitioning kjervliter wurking togethre. I submit that Mr. Grist is entirely out of Court in making this application. I should like a decision on the point, my lord: A most Gilbertian situation has been. created.
The Inspector observed that it was in relation to the truthfulness or otherwise of the witness' statement.
Witness denied that he was at Shek- A Chinese in Ching Wan Street wast aroused at 1 a.m. yesterday to find aton-tsui or that he saw, another rerenne He also denied he had been mes balf-way through the bed-room officer. window attired in the clothes which the inside 44, Canton Road, another place former was accustomed to wearing, and railed by the police as an opium divan, which also contained his gold watch, and
“Did you see me there" asked the chain. The housebolder dashed out of Inspector. his cubicle, caught hold of one of the intruder's legs, and held on, and at the same tinie a foki blew a polite whistle. A, lukong arrived and took charge of the nocturnal wanderer, who will in due course be charged with burglary. The visiter, it appears, opened the bed-room window by seans of a pair of pliers.
a great mu178," said Mr. Culeman" aftèr a long revital of aneciloten. His wonderful spirit has mennt, much in this **THE BLACK BOX.” war. It helped him and pulled him to
nystery, The Oppenheim's great gether when he seemed to have gone all
Black Box," becomes more mysterious to pieces in that fateful period at Mons, and fascinating with each episode, and and it has produced the great and con-
thus it is that the picture is attracting fident spirit which is to be found every large audiences to The Palisade, To where on the Western front to-day. It might the fourth and fifth episode will is this spirit and dry, even grim, be screened, and huniour which makes the
British exciting mysteries to be solved a good house is assured. In addition to this remarkable picture the management an nounce another startling film entitled "Comedy and Tragedy," along with "Kitchener's Army," which depicts the in- late Lord Roberts conducting an spection, and some Keystone comics. To-night is also band night, and, given fine weather, the Palisade should prove
great attraction after dinner,
* Tomny,' along with his military accom plishments and aptitude for doing things on his own initiative, equal to three, yes, and sometimes four and five Germaan soldiers. This glowing neutral opinion. of the comparative worth of a British soldier was very warmly received.
Towards the end of his lecture Mr. Coleman briefly touched on the future, und emphasised what this spirit of the British solder would mean in the great,
could be no ending the war, be claimed; it had to be won on the Western front. It would not be won by commercial or economit means, it would be won by arms alone, and, that being so, the future was in favour of the Allies. We had learned many things from the Germans, the British troops early in the war realised that they were the amateurs on land and
Witness--No.
Did you see Inspector, Wildin at the restaurant in Shek-tour-tsui!--I was in Yaumati: 1 did not go there.
The Chief Justice decided the point as follows: If Mr. Grist does not bring his clients to your (Official Receiver's) office before the next bankruptcy day, I shall decline to hear Mr. Grist, und shall com- sider whether I shall commit him for contempt as well as his client. (Laugh- fer.)
COLLUSION BETWEEN DEBTOR AND CREDITOR.
Inspector Gordon added that he did not know if witness ought to be cautioned that anything he might say might be 4th, and an interim receiving order was used as evidence in a charge of perjury.. raade on July 21st. All the property in Witness again denied seeing the Rethe jurisdiction of the Colony was sold or attached about eight months ago, and venue officer the morning the latter seized the act of bankruptcy relied on in the the opium at the godown wharf. petition was not an available act of
Inspector Gordon--It is true you had board the three bags of opium on Geastrac without anyone being under arrest when you blew a whistle?-I had opium on the deck, but I did not blow a whistle.
In the case of the Wong Woo firm, the [Official Receiver applied for a rescission
filed against the debtor, he said, on June of the receiving order. The petition _was
bankruptcy. The act of bankruptcy had to be committed within four months of the presentation of the petition, not eight months. The only asses were book persons out of the Colony and out of the dots, which were all due by firms or with the jurisdiction of that Court, exception of not more than $100 owed by lities were $44,800, and there were
as there are several Did you go with another excise officers of firms in the Culuny. The total
to Inspector McKenzie's house and inno substantial assets for distribution. form him of the opium-I went alone. -Defendant was eventually discharged.
A CHINESE COMMANDES.
AND AN UNFAITHFUL
CONCUBINE.
At the Hongkong Magistracy yesterday a Chinese concubine was charged with stealing trunks of clothing, valued at
Mr. Faithfull, who appeared for the petitioning creditor, said the property was sold under a Bill of Sale about eight minths ago. Since that date, however, the debtor had disposed of his household furniture, and everything else he was What was sold under the possessed of. Bill of Sale was simply debtor's stock. in-trade as a rattan mat importer. Therefore, he held that the act of bank- Tuptcy was committed less than four months before the presentation of the petition. It was added Mr. Faithfull, the duty of the Official Receiver to do all he could for the creditors, and b, on behalf of the petitioning creditor, con
$350 $1,000 in banknotes; 56 tacks of gold tended that it would be to the benefit of leaf, valued at $3,000; a gold watch the creditors to adjourn the case. This chain and seal; and a gold ring. An-would give the debtor, who had agreed receiv-to work along with the petitioning credi tor in the matter, time to secure some of h's assets. Debtor was owed about Mr. A. M. Preston prosecuted and Mr. 88,000, though it was true that his liabi- |
Flies were in the region. of $40,000.
final struggle which was to come. There HONGKONG GYMRHANA CLUB. PROGRAMME FOR NEXT MEETING.
The next meeting of the Hongkong other defendant is charged with Gymkhana Club will take place ating the stolen goods.pa Happy Valley on September 23rd. The programme will consist of seven events,. F. Mason defended.
Mr. Preston said the complainant, who as follow:-Five furlongs handicap, for ponies that have run and not won this commands a regiment of soldiers under season: Polo scurry, 400 yards; Gymk-General Lung, when trouble broke out in set about the task of changing the posi-hans Stakes, one mile; Bending race, for Canton, about the middle of last month, tions. This had been achieved, the "bul- ladies; Handicap. "B" class, uace ly beof" spirit was intact, and, that being the case, the Allies could look for- round; Distance handicap, all ponies.gram to his concubine, who was residing ward to the great struggle which was to about half mile; and Handicap come with confidence.
class, one and a quarter iniles,
The many photographs taken by Mr. Coleman during his sojourn at the front,
The Official Receiver said he had gone into the matter fully with the debtor, and the latter had stated that prastically all the money owing to him was outside the jurisdiction of that Court; that he had tried to get the money in and had was out of the city, but he sent a tele- failed. Some of the debts were a year old, and none less than nine months old. The Mitsui Bussan Kaisha had judgment "A" in Canton, telling her to pack up every against debtor for about $8,000. The Official Receiver added that it seeme to thing portable and take it down to Honghim that the petitioning creditor an Ponies entered for the Class Handicap kong. This she did, being accompanied the debtor were working together with by complainant's younger brother, the real object of trying to avoid paying
some right in the front line trenches with will be divided into "A" or "B" Class, the German helmets showing fifty odd the former going in the one mile and a yards away, proved extremely interest- ing, and added greatly to the excellence quarter event, and the latter in the once
of the lecture. At the close Mr. Coleman was thanked by H.E. the Governor, who said that all present must have greatly appreciated the manner in which a neu tral, one of their American cousins, had referred to the British Tommy."
GERMAN PRISONERS IN JAPAN,
and race.
CHINA AND AMERICAN LOANS.
soldier, and a maidservant. They cams
the M.B.K
The receiving order was rescinded. to a boarding-house in Hongkong, bring ing with them eight trunks, costaining LIABILITIES $108,500; ASSETS $50. clothing which the Captain had bought,
The Official Receiver applied for A and some official robes, besides the rescission of the receiving order in the onse articles mentioned in the charge. When of the Fo Sang firm. The petition, he said, was prescuted on June 21st, and It seems to be the case that the Chinese they had been in the boarding house for an interim receiving order was made on Government is trying to raise a loan from
some days the women sent away the July 21st. No full receiving order bad American and other financiers, but in all these cases though apparently for indus younger brother and when he returned he been made, but he had called an in trial purposes yet there is no doubt that found she had gone with five trunks, She formal meeting of creditors. The stock- in-trado had been sold, leaving a balance the loans are for political purposes. In regard to political loans it seems that had paid her bill with a $1,000 note, and of $440. After the payment of incidental the Chinese Government has forgotten it was afterwards found that she had expenses, possession fees, etc.. a sum of only 850 would he left over to be divided the existence of the special right exelu gone to live with the second defendant,
among creditors whose claims totalled sively of the Quintuple group to give the
Complainant, in the box, said he com$108,500. That was an arithmetical prob We learn from the Mainichi that loan, and the U.S. having promised to Knitted goods manufacturers in Canka the five Powers concerned, at the time manded a Chinese regiment, and bought lem which was beyond him. de there- have received an order from a foreign when the U.S. withdrew from the sex- the woman as his concubine about eight firm in Kobe for 120,000 pairs of socks, tuple group, that America will not com- 120,000 dozen towels, and 120,000 pairs pete with the Quintuple group in politi-years ago. He sent the telegram telling of shirts and trousers to be presented to cal loans to China, if China acts against her to pack up everything valuable and the German prisoners in Japan by their the agreements with the Quintuple group bring it to Hongkong, on account of the compatriots resident in the Far East. China must face a very complicated prob Delivery is to be made during Septemlem and it will be extremely inadvisable
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The case was adjourned.
fure asked for a rescission owing to in-
sufficient assets.
Mr. Gardiner, on behalf of several creditors, said he understood there would he abundant assets, about $60,000, aud
he opposed, the rescission..
The case was put back until next bank- ruptcy day.
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