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CABLES.
LATEST CAREER.
{THROUGH KIUTER'S AGENCY.) WAR CRIMINALS. ALLIES WILL INSIST ON THEIR RIGHTS.
LONDON, December 4th.
THE" HONGKONG DALLY
NOT AN ULTIMATUM. SUPREME COUNCIL'S REPLY TO GERMANY.
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PARIS, December 8th.
A Havas message saya!— The official text of the Supreme Cour- cil's reply has not been issued but the general tenor is known. It is not ultimatum, but if it fails an ultimatum will follow, requiring compliance within 48 hours, the alternative being a general Allied advance beyond the Rhine. The Allied armies will occupy the Kuhr coal-
In the House of Commons, at question time, Mr. Lloyd George stated that the Allies had the right to demand the san render for trial of any enemy war criminals, and it was intended to enforce the right The final lists were now underfeld and, also, croût the Main and occupy -ponsideration, but at present it was an desirable to state the numbers or be many were already in the hands of the Allics
THE IRISH PROBLEM, NEW BILL TO BE INTRODUCED 'INTO PARLIAMENT.
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LONDON, December 4th In the House of Commons, at question time, Mr. Lloyd George said that he hoped to introduce the Irish Bill early in the third week of December. Parlia ment would be prorogued before Christ- mas, but the Bill would be carried over to the next session by a special suspen sory resolution.
THE ALLIES AND, RUSSIA. JURTHCOMING INTERNATIONAL
CONFERENCE.
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LONDON, December 4th.. In the House of Commons, at question" time, Mr. Lloyd George said that the forthcoming International Conference which would consider the settlement of the future of Russia would be composed of representatives of the same Allied and
Frankfort and the surrounding district. THE WAR ON BOLSHEETENE BOLSHEVISTS BEATEN IN NORTH RUSSIA:
LowDow, December 4th.
à semi-official statement from the North Russian Front says that the Bolsheviks were compelled to abandon their position in the Pinags Valley and retire rapidly towards the Dwina. They also relaxed their pressure in South Russia
UNITED FRONT FROM THE CASPIAN TO THE BALTIC. The Volunteers in the Ukraine bave joined the Polish Advance Guards, thus forming a united anti-Bolshevik front from the 'Caspian to the Baltic, also ren- dering possible the co-operation of "the Poles and the Volunteers.
BIG ADDITION TO DENIKIN'S. FORCES
A treaty has been signed whereby the Galician Army comes under General Denikin. The Galician Government ha
FAR EASTERN CAF
NEWS.
EST COURTEST DE TRE OF CHINA MATE.""} A CHINESE MERCANTILE MAKIN.
Sugar, December High.. Commissioner Sal of the Government Steamship Administration has submitted a plan to the Ministry of Communication to form the nucleus of a Chinese marbans marine from sequestrated enemy steamers and build up, a Chinese export trade. A favourable decision is a
li anticipated.
OIL STEAMER “CASTOR OVER
Bidasoa, December 10th
FRIDAY, DEOMMBER 19TH,- 1919.
DEATH OF CHINESE MULTI-MOTOR BANDITS IN COURT.
MILLIONAIRE.
MR. CHAN KAI MINO.
The Chinese community of Hongkong is the poorer by the death, which took place Yesterday, of Mr Chan Kai Ming, who was i reputed to be one of the richest men the Colony Constantly in the public eye, he was one of the leaders of his community, for his genial nature made Ha was 黯 him deservedly popular. staunch friend, always ready to help a good callse or to succour anyone in need, Much sympathy will be felt with his bereaved children-five daughters and two
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INTERESTING EVIDENCE..
"I WALKED INTO THE SHOP SAYS ONE PRISONER.
He extracted a
Dr. H. B. Parker, Medical Officer of the Victoria Mortuary, said that oa November 7th he held a post mortem. examination at the Mortuary on the body of a Chiness male, aged between 20 and 30 years.
The body was identified by The Magistracy was "uncomfortably crowded yesterday afternoon, when the and Sergeant Field as that of Lau Cho three Chinese in the presence of witness bearing was commenced in Mr. J. B. The cause of death was a bullet wound Wood's Court, of the case in which Ipthrough the abdomen. Sui Ping, Ng Wai and Cheu Sing are charged with (1) armed robbery in No. 40 Des Vœux Road on November 28th, and stealing 10,700+
with killing F.. 000, ang Pui; (3) with killing Lau Che: (4) with killing. Wo Cheuk: (5) with shooting at Pe Bag Khear Deen, with intent to 'murder; (6) with shooting at P.ac. 48, Li King. Yau, with intent to murder:
The bullet
bullet, similar to the one produced, and handed it to the Sergeant. appeared to have entered the left side of the body and had travelled right across to near the skin on the right side.
Detective Bergeant Field stated that he received the bullet from Dr. Parker,
First prisoner: What sort of a bullet is it ?-Detective Sergeant Field: A nickel-
I There is still no news of the Artation Mr. Chan Eại Ming bad been in (7) with shooting at LS.A. 113, A. Clark, plated bullet.
Fetroleum Company's steamer Castor (Captain McDowell) which left Singapore for Haiphong of Movember 18th, with a cargo of kerosene It is feared she was lost in a typhoon because wreckage is reported to have been found.
different health for the past six months. Besides heart trouble, he contracted in
dents, and was ordered. North by his doctor His visit to Peking did him no good, for he caught a cold when motoring here and complicatione set in. He re
WORBO.
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The career of Mr. Chan Kai Ming was an interesting one, inasmuch as during GREAT FLIGHT COMPLETED.
the time be took an active part in busi- ness be was invariably successful in his SINGAPORE, December 11th.
Fentures. He was educated at the Dio- Capt. Rosmith left. Timor for Port!
reten School and Queen's College (then Darwin last morning. He landed attended the Central School). His scholastic
dock, this winning the prize,
(THROUGELUYER'S AGENCY.] CHINA AND THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS.
with intent to murder: (8) with wounding Pac 48. Li King Yau.
their behaviour.
First prisoner: Then it is not one of the bullets used in our revolvers. Crown:MY W. Pryde, of the P.W.D., produced plans of the scene of the incident which were included as evidence.
&turned the shots. He did not know how,
Mr. Leo Longinotto, Assistant Solicitor, prosecuted.
Frisoners, when asked, said they under- stood the charges. Throughout the hear Chan Yuen Tye, proprietor of the turned to Hongkong and his bealth `im- proved slightly, but the change was lying the prisoners, one of whom was given money-changer's shop which was robbed, temporary On Saturday last his condi-seat in the dock as he has not recovered stated that, on November 20th, he was CAPT. ROSS SMITH'S PROGRESS.
tion took an unexpected turn for the from his wounds, appeared to be indiffer having his meal outside the office when SINGAPORE, December 10th-
As soon as they On Tuesday he became semi-con-ent to the gravity of the charges preferred four robbers entered it. Captain Ross Smith is flying from Bims
scious, and, gradually failing. be died against them. They were talking and came in, one pointed a revolver at the direct to Australia.
laughing and generally nonchalant in accountant LATER.
Witness seized the oppor "noon yesterday, surrounded shortly after b
tunity to escapo by the back door. When family... Captain Boss Smith landed at Am-by, bis
Mr. Longinotto, in opening the case for he got on to the road, he raised an alarm. boewa, Timor, yesterday-
the Crown, stated that on November 26th,He did not see what took place after- in the afternoon, four men--the Crown wards. He saw the robbers leaving the suggested that prisoners were three of shop. Ba noticed shots being fired at an them-went into a money changer's shop at Indian constable. He was unable to see 40. Des Faux Road West. One half of the robbers' faces, therefore, be could not the shop was used as a money-changer's identify them. The Indian constable re- career was full of promise and before he establishment and the other half as left Queen's College, he had become Morri-pork-butcher's stall. The men entered the many hots were fired. He saw that only aca scholar. He became a pupil teaches premises, pointed the revolvers at the one robber was armed. After the robbers. inmates and terrified everybody The had taken their departure, witness went in the school, holding the post for several master and two of the fokus rushed out back to the shop and examined the coun- Fears till be was appointed third clerk of the shop and, it is stated, raised anter. He found that $5,700 had been stolen in the Magistracy. Incidentally, for alarm, though the actual alarm, which by the robbers.
amrly, two score years this man of mil-brought the Police, was given by a man
received a Am
a small pension from in the pork stall. The robbers ransacked the Hongkong Government,
the place and stole $5,700. As the robbers -The foundation of his huge fortune was
were leaving the shop, an Indian con laid when he became an employe of one or stable confronted them. The Indina con- another of the numeroas opium farm stable 82, Khear Deen, behaved in a com Which then existed in Hongkong. Sabse mendable.manner, for, as soon as he met mitted into the hospital on November
ently he became managing director of the robbers, be opened are on them. The fire
28th, about 2.35 p.m. He had a ballet the Tai Yau Opium Farm. By the time was returned. The robbers then rewound on the right side of the stomach the monopoly, was taken over by the followed by the Indian constable for and another wound on the left upper arm. Government, Mr. Chan, like many other considerable distance tits they entered Later on in the afternoon he operated on ris Chiness of the present day, was a motor-car and cleared off millionaire. Thenceforward, everything be touched turned into gold. At the time of his death, he was Managing Director Messrs. Gande, Price & Co., partner of His New York residence, with its art the Japanese Government has sequestrati Tai Yan Bank, Director of the Bank His Majesty expressed his great appre contents valued at $50,000,000, has beened Mission property, They declared it Bast Asia, Director of the Chung the men had, got into the motor-car, said at 10:16 ciation of the cordial, even affectionate, left to his widow for life, after which was the private property of German sub: Kong Co. and Director of the Hongkong the Assistant Crown Solicitor, informa examination and discovered that death
"Associated Powers as had up to now been acting together. It would not include re- presentatives of Soviet Russia,
THE PRINCE OF WALES. KING'S FELICITOUS SPEECH OF WELCOME.
LONDON, December 4th, H.E. the King, welcoming the Prince - of Wales at a dinner at Buckingham Palace in a felicitous speech, declared that the Prince had forged a strong new link between Canada and the Mother
Country.
been removed to Odessa.
-BALLIER CABLES.
STEEL MAGNATE'S PRINCELY
GENEROSITY.
'CHARITABLE DONATIONS AMOUNTING TO $117,000,000.
NEW YORK, December 7th. The will of the recently deceased steel magnate, Mr. Heory Frick, after setting naide $25,000,000 for his wife and daugh-
ter;
diverts the entire remaining 8117,000,000 to philanthropic ases, ve
Princeton receives $15,000,000, and Harvard, Massachusetts and the Institute of Technology, $15,000,000 ench
welcome the Prince had received from the it goes to the city as an art museum..
Government and the people of Washing ton and New York. It had always been bis earnest wish that the relativas of the
two great, English-speaking nations hould be of the closest war friendliest nature, and that so they should work together for the good of civilisation and man- kind He trusted that the visit of the Prince would assist to that end-
His Majesty added that be was now entirely satisfied with the way the Prince had carried out his two very im portant missions.
THE BULGARIAN ARMY, BIG REDUCTION IN STRENGTH. LONDON," December 4th. The Bulgarian Army has been reduced, in strength to 3,000 officers and 44,000,men. THE BALTIC STATES. RUSSO GERMANS BEING DRIVEN
OUT.
LONDON, December 4th. The situation of the Russian and Ger man troops under the Lettish pursuit is
PRIZE MONEY.
BIG AWARD TO CREW OF "E14"
The Privy Council has awarded the
crew of the famous submarine E14 the
inga Turkish transport with 6,000 troops and 200 crew in the Sea of Marmora in 1915.
PAR18, December 8th.
A Havas message say Wang King-ki, Law Professor at Peking University, interviewed in Patin after Brussels Conference for establishing the League of Nations, asserted that China was ready to asociate with the League provided that all nations were allowed the
a rights.
GERMAN PROPERTY IN
SHANTUNG Z
ROME, December 7th, The German missionaries in Shantung have complained to the Vatican becaitse
T
jects.
The Vatican thereupon, telegraphed to the Archbishop of Tokio entrusting him to ask the Government to revoke the un- justified measure.
Mercantile Co. As soon as the news of his death reached the Hongkong Mercan
Cog business was suspended, and the offees cloned, as a mark of respect to his
As a public man, Mr. Chan, Kai Ming was looked upon by the Government and
Mr. Wood wished to know if the robbers were identified.
The first and the third prisonera, said they had no questions to ask witness
Second prisoner: Oh yes! I walked into that shop.
Dr. W. McKenny, Acting P.C.M.O., stated that Chinese constable 600 was ad-
the constable and found that the first bullet bad passed through the stomach, and had caused other damage in the abdo-. men. The operation seemed at first to improve the patient, but after some time and proceeded with his statement. After he grew worse and died on December 8th He held a post mortem
Mr. Longinotto replied that the three prisoners were identified beyond doubt,
tion was sent to Inspector Macdonald, was dus to inflammation of the intes who turned out with every available tines. The wounds were rather small policeman. The robbers, who had been and might have been caused by this bullet lost sight of for a time, were eventually (produced). traced to a tea-house at No. 22, Catchick Street, by the Chief Chinese detective who went to the place accompanied by Ber geant Clark and some Chinese. The detective went upstairs with two or three
Withem also examined Chinese con-
A reply has arrived at the Vatican. sum of £30,000 as prize bounty for sink-announcing that the Japanese Govezancial Hongkong as one of the most influential Chinese in. the Colony He ment has revoked the sequestration.
was identified with every movement which men and told Bergeant Clark to watch in hospital under treatment for the MORE SHIPPING, FÖR THE PAST.
concerned the Chinesey and rendered great below. The detective went on to the first LONDON, December 10th.service to the Government during times foor and there saw three men seated at The Time Correspondent Rotterdam of deben the advice f
A table. He immediately told them that states that the Netherlands, Steamship thoroughly intimate with the peculiar be had come to search for arms and a
After Company and the Rotterdam Lloyd have noece and views of the members of his struggle ensued.
considerable decided to open a regular monthly wer community was in demand. He acted as trouble, one of the trio was arrested of the Zi, numbering only about a score,vice between Hamburg, Shanghai and Member of the Legislative Council for The other two men crawled on their hands
The Prite Court had previously refused the bounty on the ground that a transport is not an armed ship.
The bounty goes exclusively to the crew
and thus represents the biggest baul in prize money during the war. LANCASHIRE COTTON MILLS "STILL CHANGING HANDS.
LONDON, December 7th.
Big sales of cotton mille in Lancashire continue
The directors of the Vatberland Com- pany, have accepted the offer of £1,500,000 for the Leigh mille, possessing 100,000 spindles
tion of the Baltic States cannot longer be £24,000,000. postponed.
ence
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withdrawn.
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stable is at the hospital and found him suffering from & bullet wound in the nape of the left elbow. The bullet had passel through the skin. The constable was still
wong There was a possibility that the injury to his elbow might be permanent
Witness examined Sergeant Clark's thigh and found a slight abrasion, which might have been caused by a bullet
Witness examined the second prisoner, who was admitted to hospital on Novem ber 20th, at about 10 p.m. He had wound on the left leg, which, on examina- tion under X-rays, he found was not caus ed by, a bullet.
of the left leg, about three inches above
ankle joint.
a thort period during the absence on and knees to the door and then made Yokohama. These companies were re-
leave, last year, of the Hon. Mr. Lan Can for the staircase with the intention of cently admitted to the Eastern Confer-Pak He was the scníór unofficial mem- escaping."
ber of the Sanitary Board, on which be Mr. Wood: Who was the person arreste The third prisoner, who was also "tx- www.completing his third term. He was ed Mr. Longinotto: The first prisoner. amined by, witness, had several wounds. He had a bullet wound on the right Continuing, Mr. Longinotto said that hand, pear the wrist and coming out near One case (one death) of enteric fever so the Vice-Chairman of the Chinese was reported in the Colony on Wednesday General Chamber of Commerce, a member no shots were fired in the tee-room. When the palm. There was a second bulleb of the District Watchmen's Committee, the two men escaped, they were met by wound on the same hand and from it he The quarantine declared by Hongkong member of the Committee of the Chinese Forgeant Clark and a stand-up 4ght took extracted a bullet which he handed to place. Bergeant Clark fired at one of the Inspector Grant. He discovered a third against arrivals from Baigon, has been Fermanent Cemetery in Aberdeen, a mem-men, the bullet entering a part of the wound on the right thigh; which also con- Bogdanber of the Po-Leung Kok, a past Chair body, and then the Sergeant struck the tained bullet removed by Dr. To. This
man in the head with the butt-end bullet was discovered by means of X-ray The Baffle for a lady's fur cost man of the Tung Wah Hospital and of his, revolver in an endeavour to render There was an abrasion on the outer sur
the man unconstions", organised by Mrs. Templeton, took place Justice of the Peac
In doing so, the
been caused by a bullet grazing it. These It is calculated that 86 mills have on Wednesday at the Hongkong Stock His charitable works were far more than Sergeant dropped his revolver and was face the right knee, which might have
shot at by the second man who was run- critical. It is considered that the evacua-Tchanged, kande, the deals representing Exchange and was won by Ticket No. are usually credited to him, for he was ning away. The Sergeant then took was also an abrasion on the outer surface
believer in not letting his "right hand cover. At this stage Detective-Bergeant The West Point Police, learning that; know what his left hand did His great- Field arrived on the scese and took
He managed to shoot the
Fint prisoner · On that day I was THE MEXICAN CRISIS. as a recult of some trouble between pat chilim to remembrance was a magni- chase, the les and when the letter taken to the hospital to be confronted by
sidents of the locality, a fight was immin. PRESIDENT WILSON DEPRECATES, rent a phase of detectives to High gift of $50,000 to the Hongkong fell down a Chinese detective arrested the Chinese detective.
The second prisoner ran into. Third prisoner: The constable said the Streets on Wednesday afternoon. When University, of which he was a life mem timber yard where he took shelter and man he hit him was dressed in Ameri HASTY ACTION.
the detectives reached the place they nober1 He also gave $10,000 to the Ellis several shots were exchanged between hitacan dyle.
The accountant: st the money-changer's WASHINGTON, December 7th ticed over ten men armed with chisels. Kidbarie School for the Chinese Be and the Police. This continued, for sor
hammets, piece of ironywuidem, bamboe rund qua me
till the man,
considering it useless shop stated that at about 1:45 pm Senators Fall and Hitchcock, who were poles, etc., gquatting in the khadway Bailes of his own school career, be to evade srrest, eamer one of his shelter November ath; he was sitting, inside sho delegated to confer with President Wilson The Police arrested four of them and the reated several scholarships in the Dio and gave himself up to Bergeant Hedge office counting, the inoner recrived from regarding the Mexican crisis, had alsoto rest disappeared. The ones san fchool, Queen's College and the and sorte Chiste: Constablening high customs, whe man walked in and simr was a sort of fight be poitled a revolver at him. Three men will be charged at the Magistracy riti
the Police and the
robbers "deta
accompanied the robber." Witness ran With Sir Robert Ho Tung, the Hon. Mr.
605 killed Mr. Longinotto The in Jan Chu Fak, and the. Bon. Mr. Hocident occupied several hours. There Be was alred of being shot by the rob The application, made by Mr Leo Fook, he gave an seroplane to the British were two men, apparently innocent specta bers. He did not what took place.
tors, and some of the bullets, which were A Job was pront with him in the shop Agreed that President Longinotto, Assistant Crown-Bolicitor,
before Mr. R. O. Hutchison, so the Government in 1917.
about, struck them and they were when the robbers entered. De Wilson is in with recent develop begistracy, on behalf of Cab Center The toners takes place on Saturday, is simcult to say who shot one At this stage the hearing wa Fimis, December 8th.ments and is mentally keen enough to Authorities, for the extradition "obin: from his residente No. 18, Cains Road of the specators, but the other was killed
to day- Hava message, KSI'W Zin The general tendency is to test the form judgments of questions confronting Chinese wanted for murder has been. His children, having recorved a liberat by a bullet which is of the same calibre as new Chamber of Deputies as being cap the nation.
granted. The fugitive, who is alleged to
used by the robber. No one fred except have mordered a Chinese Police Commis Western education, have decided that the the robbers so the Police. The constable. able of grappling nccefully with the financial questions which will come up Fresident Wilson said that too many toner because he was organizing a volin funeral sheequics shall be carried out in was shot by a robber on the staircase lead- ing to the tes-house. The other constable, for Glicussion About December 17th and serious conditions were tavolved in the teer force to put down crize
European style. The coffin will be borne who is in hopili, was also shot at near Hing which will be given printity over all other Mexicsa itaation to warranty detained at the Victoria Gaol, pending
instructions from Cantomi
THE PEACE TREATY. "RATIFICATION BEFORE THE END
OF THE MONTH.
Lonor, December 4tà.
In the House of Commons, at question time, Mr. Lloyd George said that he hoped the Treaty of Versaillez would be ratified
· before the end of the month.
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port as to whether the President, by reason being in unlawful possesion of offensive Elia Kadoorie Bchool, In-ociation modes When: was Chinese constable into the office and 25 the notes behind.
THE NEW FRENCH CHAMBER of his illness, is nuable to exercise his wedoons
duties. After a 45 minutes' conference at White House they
CONSIDERATION OF FINANCIAL
QUESTIONE
hire to Aberdeen.
the tsd-bordsO""
killed