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THE HONGKUNG DAILY PRESS. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER SED, 1918.
THE DIOCESAN BOYS' SCHOOL. THE CHINA-BORNEO CO., LTD. NEX
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Nor September 9th.
Aan EITRAORDINARY GENERAL THE CHINA-BORNEO Parents and Now Fcholars can see the MEETING of Headmaster on September 7th, from AM-COMPANY, LIMITED, will be held at the Ofices of Mesra Gr83, LIVINGSTON AND COMPANY, St. George's Building, Victoria, Hongkong, the Registered Office of the above-named Company, on FRIDAY, the 13th day of September, 1918, at 11.30 o'clock when the subjoined the forenoon,. Resolutions will be proposed as Extraordinary Resolutions, viz
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INTIMATION
We have just
received
a fresh
consignment
of
VIROL
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DARING PIRACY.
HONGKONG VESSEL LOOTED. FIVE OF THE CREW HELD TO RANSOM.
THE increasing them at the expense of the
OPIUM TRAFFIC. Treasury. If there is money available, it
ALLEGED UNLAWFUL POSSESSION might be expended more advantageously,
OF 400 TAELS. * HIS EXCELLENCY suggested, on im
At the Hongkong Magistracy yesterday, proved housing accommodation, on water snpply, on sanitation, and upon other before Mr. E. D. C. Wolle, the assistant practical measures
for securing the engineer of the launch Few On was charg physical well-being of these people. Manyed, on remand, with unlawful possession steamed into harbour, of a particularly
Chinese youths now come from the neigh bouring province to sttend Hong- kong's public schools, and their fees do nut by any means cover the cost of the instruction they receive. There are ways and means by which the poorest among them, if they have the intelligence, ena pass from one school to another, and, finally, add a University degree to their equipment for the battle of life. The
standard maintained for the mass of
students appears reasonably high.. If our schools can develop character, teach
play the game," and fit them to earn an bonest livelihood, they should be regard ed, as meeting all that can fairly be expected of them. Even if the University is to be a goal towards which all may be encouraged to strive care should be taken
of 400 tsels of opium.
The owner of the launch was summoned
for allowing the launch, to be used for the carriage of the opium.
Mr. D. W. Tratau prosecuted, - and Hr. E. Grist appeared for the defence.
News was received in Hongkong. Yester- day morning, when the s
Wo Kwai
Saturday night while she was on her way daring piracy on board that vessel, op to the Colony from Wuchow, with à gen- eral cargo. Fortunately no lives were. last
The Wo Kwai left Wuchow on Saturday
Kong Hon, assistant engineer of the Yew Os, said that on August 10th the afternoon, and had steamed for about ten, chief engineer had left the launch, some
hours when the trouble occurred. She was time before the Excise othcers arrived and Passing the Shui Shing gorge at about arrested witness.
11 o'clock when a stern launch drew The passengers for
Chinese
Xaumati were on board and the launch alongside, and, before any resistance was ready to start when the Excise could be offered, about 300 officers appeared.
Witness was in the pirates, armed with automatic pistols and Believing that the safest course was to
the members of their classes how "toine-room. An Excise officer, having large knives, clambered on board.
paid a short visit to the engine room, went to the aft-bold, while witness remained on allow the pirates to seize whatever they dock. No sooner had the Excise man got wanted, the Chinese captain and the crew down into the hold than he shouted out let them take complete possession of the that there was a parcel there.
Witness vessel. The pirates stayed on hoard for looked down the hatch and saw him half-an-hour, during which time they holding a white bag tied up with a string.helped themselves to practically every- not to make the path towards it too easy. When the bag was opened a parcel fell thing of value, except the cargo. For the Chinese, we think wẹ mày claim, out, When he came back on deck, the
The pirates contented themselves with this Colony is doing all, and more than Excise officer asked who the chief-engineer taking away every presentable piece of all. that is required in this direction. was. Witoes replied that he was, where- slothing they would find, and their booty For British children, however, there is upon he was arrested and forced down in clothes is valued as over $800.
Aka room for some improvement upon bar into the hold. Witness was not allowed matter of fact the pirates went through present system. As time goes on it seems to come up on deck till Hr. Wildin everyone's personal belongings, and each. probable that the children of British arrived. He knew nothing whamever took what be pleased. The behaviour of about the opiam, nor how it came to be the pirates when they found that their parents will look upon the Colony, in an
booty was not as valuable as they expected increasing degree, as their home, and it on the launch. certainly seems an anomaly that in this University contre British children should
have to be sent to England or to some
distant port for the education which is necessary to give them a fair start in their business" or professional carvers.
All with certain exception wh│A. S. WATSON & The Director of Education points out
persons
remain in the Colony for more than 7 days are required to Register themselves ander the REGISTRATION
Cr PERSONE ORDINANCE 1916.
Forme of Begistration giring the parti animes required may be obtained as the O.P.O. And at all Folice Stations.
The Penalty for non-compliance la 'a fine not eroseding $50 -
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Cross-examined: The Chief Preventive became brutal in the extreme, and the Officer did not go down into the hold a captain and many of the drew were buffet. all; be stood on deck and looked downed and forced to submit to many other the batch. Witness did not tell the Chief indignities.
Preventive Officer the quantity of opium in the parcel.
י.
The pirates did not take long to find. the ship's accountant, who suffered him- self to be maltreated before he could be forced to part with any of the ship's money. After being badly knocked about he was forced to disgorge about $700.
The story of Leung Bo. the coxswain, who was first charged along with the assistant engineer, but who was later dis charged, was very similar in detail te that given by the assistant engineer. The for before, they left they forced the cap- The pirates were not satisfied even then, statement made hy, the Revenue Offertain, the accountant, the cook, one of the that the defendant war in the aft-hold and pilots, and a cargo coolie to accompany not in the engine-room was not true, them. It is presumed that the object is
Cross-examined: When the launch was
to obtain ransom, but the steamer's own ers, Mesars. Banker & Co., have not heard yet what figure the pirates demand for the release of their captives.
that the paucity of numbers forms' an alment insurmountable dificulty, and that, while it might be possible to establish one large British school, with modern equipment and suitable playing felds, which would meet fully all pre- sent-day needs, there is tendency amongst parents to demand a separate taken to the Harbour Office wharf the school for ench Ivenlity, and, naturally, Chief Preventive Officer called out to the the smaller schools cannot for, a variety defendant, who was still in the hold, to of reasons. maintain the requiredbring the opium up. Mr. Wildin did not standard of efficiency. Whilst education ask anyone about the amount of opium.
Lai Kan, i hawker, said he was on the here is regarded simply as a make-shift Bosexen Ornica: 104, Dam Faux Road, Cantil each time as the children can he
Yew" On as a passenger on August 10th. Laxnow Orsion: 181, Frame Stant, E.C.
Rent elsewhere, the objection raised by the He saw a parcel brought on board, and better to ensure their safety, and, if this parents may be valid. We Believe, bow placed on a bench on deck, by two other is so, it should not be beyond the povers ever, that it would break down in the passengers whom he described. The two of the Police to trace the launch. When face of a policy which aimed at pravid. passengers sat aft.
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It is plain from the manner of the attack that it was methodically planned by an experienced gang. that they hired the steam launch so s It is believed"
When the bont was communication is
received from the
ing a school in, some healthy district about to, start, the Revenue Officers came pirates as to the ransom of the five men
perhaps with facilities for a certain number of weekly boarders, which would be equal in every respect to the higher grade schools and the smaller grammar schools at Home.
on board, and shortly afterwards the taken from the ship it may be possible to
passengers were asked to leave. That was trace them. the last he saw of the parcel.
In order to ensure that they would not Witness was asked whether there was he chased by the Wo Krai, the pirates any boat on the further side of the wharf, disabled the cogines before they left. Witness considered the question for two Hepair work occupied some time, and it minutes before he returned an answer in was not till yesterday morning that the the negative.
steamer reached Hongkong and the re- Mr. Tratman asked the Magistrate to mainder of the crew related their strange note this reply,
story. The local barbour authorities have Witness was asked another question communicated the details of the incident Among those who left the Colony on about the wharf, and took so long in con- to the Chinese authorities, who, it is hop- Saturday last on the Siberin Mary were sidering his answer that the Magistrate ed, will spure no effort to effect the arrest the Hon. Mr. H. E. Pollock and Mrs. said it would hurt the witness to think of the pirates. Pollock, Mr. and Mrs. N. L Watson and so much, and directed him to leave the The Wo Kwai is a little steamer of 230, Mr. J. L. Plummer.
box...
tons, running between Hongkong and Anather Chinese witness corroborated Wuchow with a general cargo, she left the the statement of the hawker in every de Colony last Wednesday. She carries 20 tail. He added, "however, that, finding passengers.
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EDUCATION IN HONGKONG THE subject of education in Hongkong is one which we have discused on many previous occasions. It is, as the Hos. Mr. POLLOCK admitted in the Legislative. There were no cases of communicable Council, when advocating that a greater diseases reported in the Colony on Satur. proportion of the Colony's revenue day, should be devoted to the maintenance of, aur schools, a thorny question to tackle If figures were the sole criterion by which local policy had to be judged in this matter, it is not improbable that we should be condemned at the bar of out. side public opinion, for the allocation of only 2.29 of our annual income to the Education Department would seem to the
no room on the launch, he asked the man stranger to imply an utter lack of appre
with the parcel to take it off the seat, so ciation of the responsibilities resting
as to make room for him to sit down upon us as & great colonising Power.. NAVAL MUTINY.
The crew of the gunboat Arang Tung. The man with the parcel took it up and Indeed, this was the view expressed by ap matinied on the 28th ult. when the boat threw it into the bold. Australian legislator who happened to be was near Bhis Bing, on its return jour Mr. Tratman," in cross-examination, passing through the Colony when theney from Ewangai. The Captain and
the Council took placed The mutineers then sank the boat and because of the relative "positions of the
some of the officers were shot and drown showed how remarkable this feat Erroneously, as we believe, he came to fled. It is stated that certain arrests Bench and the batch.
have been made by the Shui Hing troops, the conclusion that we were thinking of and that steps are being taken to recover Mr. Grist said the complainant made no-one but ourselves, and later, when the boat.
Mr. Grist submitted that there was no out an entirely different story to that of the defence. A most important point for onus rested on him to disprove the charge, evidence whatever against the owner.. The consideration was the different statements hut where there was not
a breath of
debate in
CANTON NEWS.
[ST COURTESY OF THE
CANTON, September 2nd.
PHONG NOGI
MT.
"
was
& most serious thing if he was not, because
of the opium on the engineer, for the purposes of their case. Mr. Grist pointed out important discrepancies in, the state- ments of the Revenue officers and said
the opium on the launeb, but he was not their evidence could hot-be believed. It might even be that the chief engineer put
charged.
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| giving us the benefit of his opinions, becoNTRIBUTIONS TO THE MILITARY GOVERN-
half suggested that we had no moral right to retain our occupation of these
The Tuchun has ordered $80,000 from the salt-revenar to be paid to the Union as to where the defendant was when the suspicion against him in the evidence, ha territories unless we could rise to a Military Government every month. It is Revenue Officers came on board. The was not bound to accept the onus. Mr. higher conception of our duty to those said that the Civil Governor has promised defendant's witnemes stated that he was trist submitted that, as the owner had to raise a sum of about $400,000 as a con- in the engine-room." It would have been taken every possible, precaution against O
living under our protection. He spoke,tribution to the Government NOMMODIOUS" and Centrally Situated —
NEW OFFICES, with lift, in the old of course, without much knowledge of the PLKING MINISTER ARRIVES IN CANTON.⠀ Mercantile Bank Buildings, corner of Queen's | facts. He did not realise, for instance, It is reported that Wong Ki-man, the he was the only engineer on board and the found guilty a small fine would meet the smuggling, even if the defendant was Road Central and Ice House Street.
Also in Canton House, No. 31, Sharieen, the floating nature of a large part of our Minister of Finance at Peking, has relaunch was about to start. He asked case.
cently arrived in Canton, and that many British Concession.
native population. Most of those who of the leaders in Canton have visited him the Magistrate to disbelieve entirely the for the prosecution differed from that of Mr. Tratman showed how the evidence For reavand further particulars apply to have resided for any length of time into discurs questions of importance.) -9255
statement of the Revenue Officers. No-one the defence on the material points of the Hongkong will agree, we think, with LUNG'S LEADERS.
would be such, a fool as to wait in the case, and emphasised the discrepancies H.E. THE GOVERNGE that it is far more ex-Superintendent of Police of Canton, that Revenue officers were on board. It the accountant, had committed fat perjury "It is stated that Tang Yow-kwong, the aft-hold with the opium when he knew the accountant and the engineer. He said between the statements of the coxswain, important to promote the health and and some other leaders have received material comfort of the aliens in our instructions from General Lung to pro- would be sheer lunacy, and no guilty in saying that he could not remember the
cred to Shanghai to lend the Northern person would act in such a way.
occasion on which the launch was fined midst than to provide them with an
The last year. If the evidence of the defence, elegant education. The educational faci-left by the Japaneno mail.
recruits to Amoy. Tang and the other Revenue officers had been told that the that the opium was not found under the lities which the Colony, offers are far in THE VIOONS.
boards, and that the Chief Preventiva opium was to be found in the possession Officer did not go into the hold, was to be advance of those which China provides Owing to the heavy rainfall yesterday, of the engineer and, although they did accepted, the Magistrate had to believe that Chis! Preventive Officer Wildin had for her own people, and there does not the foods in Canton have increased con- not find it so, they forced the possession committed. perjury.
siderably. Many of the streets are again
(Continued at foot of nest Column.):
The Magistrate reserved his decision. appear to be any sound argument for submerged.
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