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IBE BONGKONG DAILY PRESS FRIDAY, JULY 19гn. 1918.
SEAMEN WITHOUT FEAR. TORPEDOED SEVENTEEN TIMES.
The proposed badges, as Sir A. Stanley announced, are for men of the Mercantile Marine who, after being; tor- pedoc or mined, have gone to sea again."
How many
many men, do you think, after being torpedoed or mined, refrain from put by a Daily Chronicle representative going to ers again?" This question was to a man with unique qualifications for suvering it, amely, Mr. G. Hobden, the superintendent of Jack's Panço London's superb rendezvous for seamen. plied. At least, I never heard of such "None," Mr. Hobden promptly re a case.
Then he added, thoughtfully "Rather on the contrary." "But how can that be?"
SEA-POWER WILL DO DE A LESSON OF THE GERMAN OFFENSIVE..
CRIMINAL SESSIONS. [DEPORE HIS HONOUR THE CHIEF JUSTICE
(SIP WILLIAM REES-DAVIES, K.C.)
A STRONG PARTIALITY FOR HONGKONG.
T
Mr. Belilies submitted that there was
no evidence against the first prisenor.
The Attorney-General stated that sha must have had a guilty knowledge as was living in the same honse. If sho were innocent she would have informed
the
BY GERARD FIENNES
bo and i am bound to believe that it is, Grave as the military situation may
beenuso I am told no-whether the enemy
Lo Him pleaded guilty to returning the authorities. The second prisoner, had offensive succeeds or whether it fails, it from banishment. means that German plans are confounded
confessed her guilt by the statement sho Hon, to establish the conditions of the land the prisoner had rather a long record, stayed at bor house and she fed her. by sea-power. They trusted to the U-boat (Attorney-General), who prosecuted, said panied the child to Hongkong. The child Mr. J. H. Kenip, B.E.had made to the effect that she accom
upon the sca. They are a land Power, He was sentenced to six months' imprison- not a sea-Power, and they thought that rent in September, 1915, for larceny and the odds might be evened against the was deported for five years. He returned Anglo-Saxon communities, their deadliest in May, 1816, and was given six months defied all conventions and all the dictates in February, 1915, he was found in the Toes. They stuck at nothing. They
hard Inhour. He was again deported, and of humanity to bring us to our knees by Colony. He was charged with larceny starvation. They risked the intervention
His Lordship in summing up, said
there seemed to be an absence of any incriminating evidence against the first prisoner, except that of the accomplice, whose statement must be accepted with roserve. If the jury had any doubt as to the woman's guilt she should be given the benefit of it.
of the United States on the assumption and sent to prison for one month... He was EAGER TO BE. AFLOAT AGAIN.
that an unrestricted U-boat weapon could I mean," he explained," that after prevent the latter from ever intervening deported once more. In March, 1918, be being torpedoed or mined they are more with success.
The jury found the first prisoner guilty cager to be afloat again than under other for peace in three months--in six in three months hard labour for larceny the second prisoner guilty of knowledge
They would make us sue returned again, and was sentenced to
of selling with a knowledge of theft, and circumstances. They will aften express nine. More than a year has
passed: We themselves as eager to help bring more are no neurer suing for peace than we and deported for ten years. He return of theft and of harbouring to sell. food into e country-sometimes it is an were in February, 1917, and American impatient xclamation to have another troops are pouring into the Europeaned in September of the same year and
His Lordship, in sentencing the prison.
go at those Huns,
accompanied by the enthusiastic buying of powerful revolvers Only last week ccompanied by the sis is often the master of a merchantman, coming in here imediately after being torpedoed, went off and bought himself a beautiful seven-chambered revolver and a fine lot of ammunition,"
And does the fear of being torpedoed deter youngsters from joining the Mer cantile Marine}"
theatre of war.
was sentenced to fourteen months harders to five years' imprisonment each, szid he decided by a knock-out blow, And the from banishment, and was subsequently no connection in the actual stealing of the attempt to deliver that blow is the evi
The consequencesi "That the issue must labour for larceny, and for returning he had no doubt that, although they had dence that the U-boat campaign has failed deported for life. in the estimation even of the Germans been deported four times, and had perlittle children was a very serious offence, child, they assisted in harbouring her He had altogether themselves.
and afterwards in selling her. Trading ward by the Powers that be in Germany,sistently returned.
Consider the case put for for the consumption of their public is, that Britain is on the verge of gullible
The Chief Justice (to prisoner): You and they were liable to fourteen years' starvation; that the American armies can have made up your mind that you will not be brought to Europe; that the iron
g
"Deter them!" laughed Mr. Hobden
round the Central Empires is return to this Colony, and the Police are No indeed it is the other way round the food treasures of the Ukraine will at a loss to know what to do with
broken by the Bolshevist peace, and that determined that you shall not.
I am Nearly all vessels carry boys-ns deck soon be pouring in to feed their banger hands, galley boys, assistant storekeeper, peoples. Now, if all this be true, why stewards, and so on but everybody is hari a million and a half of German notwithstanding that the last time you you, You have returned four times, fairly inundated with applications from troops against the Allied lines, to be boys who are eager to join, but for whom there are no openings Also, if any dasht as to be gained, even by an advance the four years hard labour.
by the hundred. thousand
wern banished for life. The sentene of
you go to the shipping offices, you will find hundreds of men waiting to sign
on.
"Do you get many men here who hay been torpedoed more than onec ?"
By way of answering Mr. Hobden took me into a lounge for personal investiga tions. Of three men spoken to the first had been torpedoed only once, the second three times, the third three times.
1 have known, a good many cases, said Mr. Hobden, "of a dozen immer sions, with a sprinkling of 13'e, and one case of 14. But our port missionary Mr. S. J. Jarvis, hug just officially reported that he has discovered a naval gunner who has been torpedoed or mined: 17 times, on 15 of the occasions the ship being lost, This, we believe, is the ro cord."
to Calais, if the boat campaign is suc- ceeding? The only possible justification for the strategy of the Great General Staff is that it knows that the U-boat campaign has failed, and that it is forced, by that failure, to try other methods to obtain a quick decision.
WOMEN KIDNAPPERS.
Au Fung and Li Liu, two women, were indicted for (1) detention with intent to Boll; (2) child stealing; (3) harbouring a child with intent; (4) harbouring an un: married girl.
d'Aimada) defended the first prisoner.
following jury were empanelled- Mess. B. H. Ethelbert, W, E. Hooge- werf, W. J. Pringle, T. G. F. Fleming,
Gens.
-imprisonment for it.
[BEYOR HIS HONOUR THE PUTSNE JUDGE (MR. JUSTICE COMPERTZ):]
THE WOOD ROAD ROBBERY.
Chin Chun Hing, Leung Chan Kwong, Fung Yew Ting, Chu Wa, Sit Chin, and LI Chang were indicted for committing an armed robbery at Wood Road on May 10th, and stealing jewellery and money to the value of over $2,000.
Mr. G. H. Wakeman (Crown Solicitor), prosecuted. The prisoners were ande fended.
The following jury were empanelled to try the cam-Mesars, W. G. Baker, A.
phreys, H. E. Green, and A. Aitchison. H. Abba, N. J. Austin, A. D. Hum.
terested an official of the Board of Trade ur Fleets. Mr. Lloyd George 4 lackenzie, J. Maclachlan, and W. Mr. Sc Pak Ching, who was, apparently,
The
Affairs on the Continent are
I trust I shall
be misunderstood. grave enough Aircraft and long-range guns did not exist in Napoleon's time. But, The Hon. Mr. J. H. Kemp, CBE, nerve to stand bombardment, the circum-. E. Belitios (instructed by Mr. Leo given that the civil population has th
(Attorney General), prosecuted, and M. would not be very different from those stances following upon a defent in France which prevailed before Hawke's victors in Quiberon Bay and in the years which preceded Trafalgar. An enemy would overlook our coasts. But his power would. stop at the water's edge, unless he could Later, the reporter considerably in
up the position which would then by mentioning that apparently there necur in his speech to the House of Com would be an applicant for 10 bars to his ship adont, we will
nons the
While we liave badge.
German poace.?
never consent to a We have heard of cases of numerous will once more be stayed at bigh-water power of tyranny immersions," said the official, "though mark. This is not vain boasting. 17 is rather higher than was reckoned for. It bears upon matters now under con
Germans have decreed the destruction of the British Armies in France, sideration-us to the position on the left should they make good their boasts, the cuff, and so on. The position must clear. Britain they have then to 6ght her on conflict has but just begun. To subdue ly allow of 17 bars, and even more, being the element which has been her own for added.
Apparently the availe
a hundred years or more, and which ex- will not allow the badge being in gold.perience in this war has shown to be as Red has practically been decided on, and
her own as ever. the torpedo will be, I should say, two and a half inches in length, and the bar, which must be narrow, may be rather shorter. It is impossible to say when the new badges will be insuod, but no doubt in the course of a week or so-certainly under a month I should say,"
The Crown Solicitor said that evidence would be called to show that on May 19th between 9 and 10 p.m., the prisonera Visited No. 7. Wood Road, occupied by
a very wealthy man. Complainant, his The Attorney-General said the prim. wife and jokis, were at home when a knock cipal witness in the case was a man who was heard at the door and a man enfled admitted etenling the child and bringing out that he had a letter to deliver to her to Hongkong. They had, also, the complainant. On the door being opened,
when the child was kidnapped, and of aing on a sofa. A letter was proferred, Even evidence of a woman who was present the cubicle where complainant was reclin. the third prisoner entered and went into.
Hongkong. The father of the child, who ant grew suspicious and asked him his woman who took charge of the child inbut as prisoner was a stranger complain-
supp
Tho
is a chair-coolie at Canton would be business Thereupon, prisoner assaulted called to say that he last saw the little him and threatened to do him bodily of nature about the "far distant, storin-he left home. On his return in the oven-other five tien Lad entered the promises,
People are forgetting the great dictum girl on the morning of May 11th, when harm with a knife. besten ships" which stood between Napo
By this time the
the world. Keith, of course, was in the searched, the whole of Canton for over the inmates, who were shut in in an inner leon's grand army and the dominion fing, the child had disappeared. Ho Downs from 1803 to 1800; but the main
and they immediately gagged and bond
flects of Britain were no nearer to Napo two weeks, but could not find any trace icon's
concentration rounil Boulogne than of the child. He reported the matter to is the Grand Fleet to day, making allow ánce for the change of motive
the Gerraan feet is no less eve Police and also offered a reward of!
$25, which was a very large sum for à orn man in his position. He discovered, later
house for over three-quarters of an hour eubicle. The robbers remained in the
and then escaped with jewellery, clothing d than was Garteaune by wallis. But Napoleon could not cross
lensed he followed the prisoners along the unless the command of the Channel was that a man, who proved to be an accom Praye, and, noticing the first prisoner and money. When complainant was re- of heith, small though it was, frustrated plice, had invited his little daughter to ten getting into a riesha, arrested him with secured to his The watching squadron the attempt, and wo have the equivalent at a restaurant. Tro man was arrested the assistance of the Police. This prisoner of Keith's squadron protecting the Straits
déci
INDEPENDENCE OF ESTHONIA Already, before the German invasion. the Estonian National Council, or Diet, in Reval, representing the whole of the population, had proclaimed the independ once of United Esthonia, which consisted -of-the former Russian Government of to day. There is no need to anticipate and offered to go to Hongkong and try Esthonia, the northern part of Livonia, that the Germans will succeed in over- the islands of the Moon Sound, and somewhelming our armies. parts of the Pakow and Petrograd Gor do so, the effect will be that sea-power
and trace the little child. It was further Sve information which led the Police ernments inhalated by Esthonians.
But should they stated that on May 9th two men and the to go to 44, Shanghai Street, where a provisional Government was established, effects, now hidden, will be immediately intention of kidnapping the child, and
A will come fully into play, and that its second prisoner went to Canter with the quantity of the stolen jewellery was and a special delegation was authorised scen. The Germans will reach no
found. None of the robbers, however, the foreign Powers ask to visit and of the Estonian people, to may be, until they have reckoned with cussed the plan. The accomplice and the and his wife visited the steamer Heung sion," however victorious their armica on May 10th the accond prisoner dis
was there. One man was arrested in recognise the independence of the Demo and overcome the force which is incalcul
Yaumati, The next morning, complainant cratic Republic of Esthonia, to recognisable to their generals. That is the fact second prisoner brought the child to also the Provisional Government as the Which Britons must come to recognize, if Hongkong by train and left her at a only legal authority in Esthenia, and to the position. The Observer.
Shan, which was proveeding to Macao, they would get a real understanding of grant to the new Republic the right to
certain house, with the first prisoner. and identified two more men, who, als participate at the general peace confera ence. The delegation has received an
Negotiations were entered for the ealo of. had jewellery in their posse
possession. One swers from the British and French Gov
the child to a woman, who wished, toy. The wives of these two men, beár of them is a Commander in the Chinese ernmets. On behalf of the former Mr. Balfour we are informed, intimates that
adopt her. The
money was paid to the the British Government is in sympathy Mr. Henry Wood, United Press Corres prisoners were arrested and the child divulged certain information which led to with the aspirations of the Esthonian pondent with the French Armies, tela rescued,
first prisoner. On May 12th or 14th thong that their husbands had been arrested, people, and is ready to grant provisional graphs-In recognition of the important
the arrest, at Macao, of the fifth and recognition to the Esthonian National role that has been performed by the
sixth, who had several pawn-tickets in Council as a de facto independent body correspondents in the present war in
their possession.RE until the peace conference takes place, moting amongst the Allies a greater
Evidence was then taken, after which when the fature states of Esthonia ought understanding and appreciation of each to be settled as far as possible in accord-other's contribution to the common cause she could tell the fortune of the Attorney.
the hearing was adjourned for to-day. the Frenon Government, The British communication further inti..
the rea
· request of mates that the Government will be glad Honour on seven of the English and prisoners, who asked her to direct ber
Pétain has just conferred the icneral. (Laughter.) to receive Professor Antonius Pup as American correspondents who have been
According to witness she met one of the the informal diplomatic representative attached for the past twenty months to to Lower Lascar Street. She did so and Adrian Carton de Wiart, VC, D.S.O. of the Esthonian Provisional Govern- French armies. Those receiving the dis later heard someone mention 8101 She appears ng offers wounded. This ment. The reply of M. Pichon, Franch
·(The Mr. Herbert Perris
FRENCH HONOURS FOR PRESS CORRESPONDENTS.
at
An aged Chinese woman described as pro- a fortune-teller, entered the witness.box.
His Lordship wished to know whether
ance with the wishes of the population Chevalier of the Legion of
nian Provisional Government
Lawrence
The
GENERAL'S REMARKABLE
RECORD.
In the list of casualties published.re rently the name of Brigadier-General-
an
most remarkable in the war. This
Minister for Foreign Affairs, is in similarction were Mr. Gerald Com The Daily had never heard that the woman who gallant soldier's career has been one of terms, and states that the Government of graph, sad Trity Chronicle), Mccupied the house visited by prisoner in the twelfth too ao ba bear wounded the Repablic is willing to receive M. Wer Allen (Horning Charles Robert Fusta as the informal diplomatic representative of the Esthu Hry Wood (United Press Association she was to have a child?-Witness: No. Justice. He served in the Boer War as
Agency), Mr. wished to adopt a child.
of Mr. Belilios: Did you prophecy that le Wiart, Darricter af-law, of Cairo, and in action. Brigadier General in Wiert date Mr. Leon Constant It may be added that the Ecthonian Ca), Mr. Robert Berry
of Amorice), and Mr. Paul Senth people are very strongly opposed to any Cross was personally hestowed on the her there, did you know the reason? No wice wounded in that campaign and
Mowrer (Chicag
is a cangin of the Belgian Minister of Daily annexation by Germany, and will have correspondents with the traditional cere
News)-
When you saw first prisoner and took a trooper in the Middlesex Yeomanry, was nothing to do with any personal union with Prussia. They hope to be entirely
mony at the French headquarters by a free from German influence, and desire as the result of having met the corres house1-When she asked me to take her
umajor-general of the French Staff,
was given & commission in the Dragoon How did you come to guide her to the Guards Subsequently he was to maintain the most cordial relations pondents repeatedly at the front in the to Lower Lascar Street, she knew the fighting round Ypres two years ago he
who.
with with the Allied Powers who are fighting discharge of their duties, declared that house and not the street; I knew the lost an arm, and was
the Camel Corps in Bomalien where he lost the sight of an eve. In the for justice and freedom for the small bo remitted the insignia of the Legion of nations.
Honour to them as soldier to soldier:" street and not the house. (Laughter.)
when he won the VC. Returning to the again wounded front, he was awarded the D.S.O.