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1905,
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Remanded from Monday last, the case in which the 'extradition of Yuen To is sought by the Chinese authorities for complicity in an Tik year 1904 was the most prosperous of all armed rubbery in Chinese territory, was resum- ed before Mr. F. A. Mazeland at the Magistracy yesterday afternoon.
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according to the report read at the meeting of shareholders on May 30. Sales were 372,336 lons of coal and 77,89; tons of briquettes, aguinst 260,637 and 57.568 respectively in the year 1903 The rough receipts amounted to 1,538,429 frs., against 1,028 972 in 1953. The future is promising,
The daily ine is delivered free when the address is Turgunboat Xiangyuan, built at the Kawasaki Dockyant, Kahe, for the Nanking Viceroy, which arrived at Woosung on ith inst., passed up the river to the arsenal on the 19th. She is ja neat-looking, low-freeboard, boat, in war Singis Capise, Daný, ten synte: Werkly, cwenty-paint, with two masts and two high yellow
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In another section of the present issue we reproduce a translation of the full text of the FINE FLAVOUR judgment in the case in which Captain
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FAR EASTERN NAVAL SCANDAL
At the Wallsend shipbuilding yard of Messrs. Swan, Hunter, and Wigham-Richardson, Line-
QUEER ALLEGATIONS ANENT SAILORS". ited, a steel screw steamer named the Kalping,
MASHING ARRANGEMENTS, built to the order of the Chinese Engineering
Some unpleasant allegations that suggest a and Mining Company, has been launched. Her dimensions are:-Length over all, 324 ft.; suspicion of jobbery in the arrangements for Mr. Hursthouse, of the Crown Solicitor's beam extreme, 44 ft. 3 in.; depth, moulded, messing the men of the Amphitrite, Centurion, office, appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. 0.13 ft. Accommodation has been provided for Ocean, Vengeance, and other British warships on this Station, have been published at home, a few first-class passengers amidships, and'a D. Thomson for the defence.
Ho Kai, accountant, said that he was account. large number of Chinese passengers aft. The in the Storning Leader, and Mr. Labouchere. vessel has been designed to carry a large dead has taken up the matter in Truik. In the ant to the complainant, and went on to corro. borate the evidence of the last witness and weight cargo on a draught of 18 ft 9 in, and issue of that paper.for June aand, we find the to steam about tak knots at this draught. The following comments on the matter, which, if added that a great many things were stolen. besides those already enumerated. He knew engines ara triple expansion engines, having they be well-founded, ought to make uncom of his own knowledge that all the silver jewel. cylinders 2.3 in., 411 in, and 68 in. in diame.fortable reading for certain persons in Hong; tery was stolen, because as soon as the robberster, with a 45 in, stroke, steam being supplied koog left he went to the shelf, where he had seen the by two large single-ended boilers, working at jewels just before he went to bed, and found 189 1b. pressure; and fitted with Howden's them all gone. He heard firing outside the forced draugh!. house, and looked out through the bars and saw 13 or 14 men with arms, torches and maske, He recognized one of the man because he
THE RISKS OF CONTRABAND.
ECHO OF A HONGKONG CASE.
An interesting test action was just been de afterwards took all his masks. He recognized cided by Sheriff Fyle in Glasgow Sheriff Court,
I read last week in the Morning Lander that a number of blue-jackets on H.M.S. Vengeance and Amphitrite on the China station had re fused to rettle the bills of the bumboatmen, and had been punished in consequence. This con. firms a statement made in Truth of April 27. I did not mention the name of any ship at that.. time, though it was stated that the incident oc;
I return for a small favour done by a police: /im because he had frequently seen hin pass in which a South Shields seaman named Tho❘curred on the China station ; but as a matter of man, a millionaire brewer at Allegheny, Pénn. by the shop, for the past three or four yearsmas Clark claims against the Auchen Shipping fact the Amphitrite was the vessel referred to.
sylvania, has presented him with an order en- citing his to a glass of beer whenever he likes to call at any une of his breweries. The uffer is 1mited to 1,000,000 glasses which, the policeman says, is a pity, but can't be helped After all, a million glasses is something. is favourite food nowadays is salt herring."
Bougouin and his Japanese employé were charged under the Japanese law for espion age. As observed by us at the time when the sentence was cabled to us by our north. ern correspondent, we remarked that the penalty was rather severe. We now learn from our comtemporaries printed in Japan that comment on the severity of the judg. ment on Captain Bougouin is very general. There is no doubt that the strictness of Japanese military law, as exempli. hed by this trial, will cause some sur CI FAT, a farmer, of Sumsbuipo, was placed prise anxi
no little sensation abroad befere Mr. Hazeland this morning, charged The facis established by the trial, according with (1) neglecting to report a death in his to the judgment, prove for us only,, says the house to the registrar of deaths for the district, Deutsche-Japan-past, i̇mt Captain Bougouin and (2) with burying a dead body is an unnu was, an active correspondent, and that his thorized place, without permission. Chi ad- paper was not parsimonious, but gave hini mitted the charges, and was fined on the first charge $75 and on the second Ses, with the sufficient means to make the fullest inquiries. usual alternative. The body was exharmed and A. S. WATSON & Co., he, well knowing how suspicions the removed to the mortuary, but was su decom-
- Japanese are; and how they love to surround posed as to make it impossible to discover the everything with mystery, has used secret
cause of death. The contic who acted as grave. channels, then this is simply a stratagem ferdigger for Chi was fined $; or 14 days' gani. which no jounalist will blame the other. Others have done the same. If he made
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THE "man without a language" who, as re-
That man was Yuen To. That is Yuen To Cross-examined by Mr. Thomson, witness (painting to the man in the dock). said he left the shop on the 24th of July, four days after the robbery. He left because every thing had been stolen. There was a door between the shop and the street. It was not locked; it was balled by two bolts. The rob lers prized the door from the bottom. He raw
THE CNS. FENGTIEN.” The new steamer Fengtien, which arrived
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tion or any further reference to the wishes. of the crew while the ship was at Malta, the canteen being handed over to a Maltese bum- boatman. The Morning Leader states that on the Chinn station the bumboatmen did not
buy in the local market, but from Chinese con tracters, so that the stock is loaded with two middlemen's profits before it reaches the con-
sumer. The men.contend that if they man- aged the concern themselves they could buy. direct, and consequently get their food much cheaper. This seems reasonable enough, and stead of a tenant canteen-at any rate, as it is an argument in favour of a ship's canteen
must be employed, I should have thought that it would be as easy to find a Chinese contractor on the Chinese station as a Maltese contractor
use of the dispatch-box of the French corded in these columos yesterday, was charged bat Yuen To had been arrested and witness hom the time, her keel was laid until she was worked on the China station. If a contractor
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Co., Glasgow, the owners of the ss. Aucher. I have not heard anything about the Vengeance, din, for wages lost to him by the interruption but that ship has recently arrived home from of bis service contract, and for expenses whilst China, and no doubt that is how the matter has waiting as Hangkorg for homewardship. The come to be again referred to in the press. The purstier states in his pleadings that he shipped Amphitrite is also on her way honie, if she has three years "from the Tyne to Hongkong, or occurs for the Admiralty to look into this mat in March 1904, upon foreign trading articles for not actually arrived, and an opportunity thus
any other post or places in the world" within a || ter a little more closely. There is the more CAPTAIN Ogilvie, of the s.s. Forest fall, pro- that after they had gone by the marks. Thir-Certain latitude south. Then he goes on to say need for this if, as the Morning Leader states, secuted Abdul Khan, a fireinan on board that teen or fourteen inen went into the shop. Three that when the vessel was being cleared at Hong. similar incidents have occurred on the Cen vessel, with being absen without leave. Demen had masks on, but they all took them off kong the crew discovered that she was carrying turion, Oreas, and other wefels in Chincus fendant admitted the charge, and said he did before they left. He could not recognize any of Welsh steam coal to "a port in Japan" in con
The cause of the strike against the bom not want to go back to the ship. His Worship the others. Chung Wa used to sleep on the sequence of which discovery the seamen left asked the captain when he would be leaving counter. The accountant's room was about the ship at Hongkong, signing off the ship's boatmen was the extortionate prices charged Hongkong, and was told on Thursday.. He
to the ships' messes, and, as mentioned in my 12 feet square and had two beds in it, and articles, and being paid wages up to that date
The Sheriff has dismissed the action on the previous reference to the matter, the dis then ordered defendant to be detained in gaul several boxes. None of the jewellery was until Thursday morning, and requested In-kept, in his room. Some of it was kept on
ground that coal is not of itself contraband satisfaction was aggravated in the case of spectar Warnock to have the man put on braid the shelf mentioned and some in the cupboard merely because it is given to one of the belliche Amphitrite by the fact that when the there, and to see that he left the port in her. the vessel on Thursday morning and kept under the counter. The sound of firing begerent countries, although it may become con- ship left Chatham a poll was taken on the beard came from outside, and was made by the traband according to the circumstances. The question whether the canteen should be ran police. He did not see any of them that night. Sheriff further holds that even had the case by a committee, or contractors, and that the They did not catch anybody. Yuen To was the seamen's claim is barred by his own action
been relevantly stated on the general ground, poll resulted in favour of a committee, which very well known in the village. After the in accepting his wages and his discharge at rescinded by the captain without any explana was duly appointed, but the arrangement was robbery Yuen To came to Hongkong. He
Hongkong. thought so because he disappeared from the village after the robbery. Witness next saw Yuen To to-day only. The Elders sent wit ness out of the village with reference to this here from Greenock on Thursday, the 13th case, but he was not wil ing to come. Chan Wainst., for the China Navigation Co., Ld, and is reppied all about the case to the Elders, but to be immediately put upon the Tientsin run they did not tell him Viten To was one of the is, as we (N. C. D. News) have said, a sister of robbers. The Elders went to the Tung Foo the Shuntien with improvements, and a very Magistrate, and the latter sent a policeman to fine specimen of the modern light-draft passen lake witness to Hongkong, and he was handed
ger and cargo boat. The Fingtien is 267 feet over by him to Chan Tai, one of the Elders long, 40 feet in beam, and 18 feet in depth, and who was in Hongkong. The police who
was constructed by Scott's Shipbuilding and brought witness down to Hongkong told him Engineering Co., only twenty weeks elapsing with the theft of a gold watch valued at $300 was to come down and give evidence against fully completed and equipped. Her displace and $30 in cash, the property of Mis. Tom Sikhim, as witness was employed in the burgled ment is 1,200 tons. She carries 33 first-class Kee, evidently derived great benefit from his shop. The police did not tell him what he foreign passengers, the cabins being most con- night in the cells, for when placed before, Mr. F.
fortably fitted, with electric fans and electric A. Házeland this morning, he was able to speak
lights, and with five bathrooms, two for ladies volubly in French, and smilingly pleaded guilty
and three for gentlemen. There are also cabins in that language. His Worship sentenced him
for 45 rst-class Chinese passengers, with suc three months' imprisonment with hard labour.
When he saw Chan Tai, the Elder, he tion fies, and two bathrooms, and for 4 2nd His smile-grew broader as he repeated after the only said, "if you recognize Yuen To go class Chinese. Her promenade deck is a great interpreter "pour trois moins," and added "out into Court and speak the truth." Witness feature in this stranier, extending, as it does, qui, três bien": "The watch and money were
was very much afraid at the time of the rob- almost the whole length of the vessel, there bery, when he was driven into the corner. being a full supply of life belts in boxes on this There were about eight men is his room deck. She is provided with an entirely new and seven or eight men ontside. He did pattern of windlass, the latest patent of not make any mistake about his identifying Messrs. Clark, Chapman & Co.
The Flation trade a most successful trial Yuen To, as the latter still held the torch trip on the Clyde on the 31st of May last, do- after he threw off his mask. There were tweing 13.33 knots, and started for Shanghai on or three men outside with torches, but he did the 1st of June. She lef: Port Said on the 14th not recognize them because he did not know of June, and Singapore on the 6th inst, arriv
Ing at Shanghai on the 13th just, making the them and had not seen them before!
whole trip in 45 days, and from Singapore to Shanghai in 74 days, her avenge speed for the voyage being 11.7 knots. She was finished so quickly that Captain Dewar could not gel heme in time to bring her out, as intended.
FROM Panama United States Minister John Barreti sends out a warning to Americans not to seek work of their own accord on the isth- mus, for they will surely repent it. He says: Yuen Chun Pen said he was an Elder of the No American white labourers should come to Wong Tong village. He knew the defendant; the Isthmus of Panama seeking employment he belonged to the same f mily as witness. His unless previously engaged by the Commission. name is Yuen To. Witness had known him At first, before the organization here was fully since he was eight or ten years of age. completed and civil service methods were ap Mr. Thomson objected to witness's being plied, work could usually be found for able asked if he knew defendant's place of birth, and bodied white labourers who might arrive from Mr. Hursthouse changed the question, and asked the United States, or from any other part of the where defendant had passed most of his life, world. Now, however, the situation is changed. and witness said defendant had lived in Wong When labourers come of their own accord the Tong ever since he was eight years old, and chances are against their employment. The may have lived there before, but as to that wir result is that a majority of such men find them ness could not say anything. The day after the selves, after a short stay on the isthmus, with rubbery witness with another Elder visited the Mau Sui shop, and precured the attendance of out funds or work. If it were possible for them the last, witness. Cross-examined by Mr. to do manual labour in the sun like the Jamai- Thom on: Defendant has no brothers; he is cans, at corresponding wages, there would be the only child of his parents.
plenty for them to do, bat they can not
was to say,
Witness'; I am telling the truth. Mr. Thomson: Nobody bas as yet suggest ed you are not.
Legation, one can only, Blanie the Lega- tion for not having been more careful (only a subordinate official can have help ed Captain Bougouin in this way), but he himschl cannot be blamed that he availed hiruself of such an excellent opportunity. 1 adds our German contemporary, the authorities desired that only such news should get abroad as they considered ad- vantageous to their cause, then they should returned to Mrs. Tom Sik Kee- have forbidden all and every correspondence to foreign papers. As it is, official reports Ax old man and his two very small grandsons have been got out at high-pressure; and the appeared before Mr. F. A. Hareland this morn- fact that the one announcing the destructioning, to answer to a charge of assaulting a big 34, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL, of several vessels before Port Arthur was burly Chinaman. It appeared that there was some difficulty in the part of the burly one in kept secret at the time when a foreign loan
collecting his rent from the old man, and when was about to be floated, shows that such a
he called yesterday for the rent, he grew very system can lead to serious consequences. angry at not receiving it, and advanced upon He did not know where Chan Wa was now. If a war correspondênt does once and the old man in a threatening manner, seeing Since the 24th of July, when he left the service awhile snap his fingers at the Censor, nobody which the two little boys used their baby hands he had not seen Chan Wa. He did not see will regard that as espionage; jest la guerre.
to keep him away from their grandfather. For him in the beginning of this month in Hong. As is well known the Imperial pardon was this they were charged with assault! But the kong, because he was not here. Witness saw received with considerable relief by most him and slapped hint on the mouth, and he was did not speak to them.
landlord got hold of the old man and shook the Elders at the shop after the sobbery, but he people. On the afternoon of the 16th instant, Chief Procurator Okumya, in the Tokyo Chibo Saibansho, summoned to his uffice Captain Bougouin, who was at home under bail, and handed to him the following note of special pardon :--
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By special grace Alexander H. M. Bougouin, a convict condemned to ten years' imprisonment, is released. He is alsu released from police supervision.
Acting under the Command of His Majesty the Emperor.
Coun! KATSURA TAKO,
"Minister, President." Maki Ko, assistant of Captain Bougouin, who was condemned to eight years' impri somment, received similar pardon. The
SANDEMAN, BUCK Japan Chronic understands that. Captain Bougouin will leave the country very shortly, His conviction, of course, deprives him of
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his decoration of the Third Order of the Rising Sun.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
*** Titx full text of the judgment delivered in
the charges against Capt. Bougouin and Maki Ko is printed on pages 6 and 7 of our present
issuc.
also charged with assault. When the case came To the Court: He saw the Elders come to before Mr. Hazelund this morning His Worship | the shop the morning after the robliery, at once discharged the babies, whose liny hands would not have hurt a sparrow, and bound both landlord and tenint aver in the sums of $100 each to keep the peace for 12 months, and advised the tenant to pay his rent and seek other quarters.
VELILY Sandow has much to answer for, for he has turned the heads of the "yrung bucks" of this Colung, until there one thought is the force of their muscular development, and how to prove it. This state of affairs was aplly exemplified this moming when a young man was called upon to stand up Lefore Mr. G. N. Orme to answer to the charge of assault. It appears that on the night of the 20th inst the youth was returning hame from a visit to
Sandow's show, and meeting a lone and in offensive Chinaman, though he would make an excellent punching-bag" to try the strength of his muscles on, and, acting on the inspiration of the moment, he let out "straight from the shoulder," and hit the. Chinaman straight in the nose, following up the first blow with several others on softer pans of his anatomy. But his victim had lived in Califomia and knew a thing, or two, so he grabbed his assailant and held armly on to him while he shouted lustily for assistance, which arriving the address of San dow's disciple was taked and a summons arrived there the next day, and this morning he appeared before Mr. G. N. Orme. He ad mitted that he struck the complainant, but, having a short memory, he forgot the silvery noon which was shining on the night in ques- tion, and said, in excuse, that "it was dark and to prevent a man colliding with him he put up his hand, so striking the complainant. But, he Tuy China Gazette understands that overtures | added, “I always let out at anyone who bumps have been opened for the purchase or lease of into me." His first excuse was a very the whole Arsenal property, including the dock, ingenious explanation, but, as compared with workshops, equipment, etc., by a well known complainant's, much too thin for Mr. Orme, foreign dock magnate. The Chinese concerned who'fined defendant Sg and bound him over are closely investigating the value of the offer in a personal bond for $50 to keep the peace [33-17 and are much perplaxed to know what it means. | for six months,
OLDEST FAVOURITES-
in the East.
Hongkong, 25th July, 1905.
The Kaiser has sent a medal to a Branden burg woman, who has bad twins three times, She herself is a twin, and her mother gave birth to four sets of twins. It is interesting (remarks the Globe) to see how speedily a pur. suit, started as a mere hobby, can become a perfect cract.
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Yin Kee saal he knew a man called Chan
Wa. He did not know whether he was here recently. He went to Canton with a clansman Hai Loi boarding-house, the same house as of hongkong Chan Wa stayed at the witness and his master lived at.
The case is proceeding.
CHINA AND THE PEACE NEGOTIATIONS.
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stand that class of work. Finding, them- selves in these straits, they come to the
knowing that there эге по funds pro. legation and the consulates, and, not
vided by the United States for the care of in- digent or stranded Americans, expect the Minister and Consuts here to provide them. with food and lodging until they can get em. playment, or to give them passages back to the It is reported that China, which has been United States. When questioned, the labourers seeking the privilege of participating in the say they gained the impression from the papers coming peace negotiations at Washington, has that there was abundance of work at high Peking will not submit to any arrangement stances they gave up fairly good employment notified the Powers that the Government at wages here for everybody, and in most in- which may be arrived at between Japan and Russia without consulting China, in regard to in the United States in order to take chances of doing better here. A remarkable feature of the disposal of Manchuria.
The views of Constitutionalist and Progres this situation is that these men come from all sist leaders on this question are published in Tokyo as follows:-If the Chinese Government parts of the United States. The last steamer desires to participate in the pence conference brought labourers, on their own account, from and to solve the Manchuria question, it should Maine, New York, Tennessee, Illinois, Col- have solved the question by its own strengthorado and California-and they have all been before the outbreak of the war between Japan obliged either to go without employment or to and Russia. 1 is absurd of China, which was
take work in competition with Jamaican and powerless to do anything before the great war was begun, to seek to participate in the peace other cheap labour, which they will not be able conference. If China ignores the principle for to endure for any length of time. In a report which Japan is waging the war and also submitted last year I gave a warning of the diplomatic usage and propriety, and insists on
same nature as this one, but the effect of it now. her demaud to participale, Japan must chastise China in the interests of justice, humanity, and seems lost. It would therefore seem wize that for the maintenance of the peace of the Orient, it be given as wide publicity as possible.
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the Mediterranean, and that a Chinaman with as a Maltese. At any rate, it seems an would be as satisfactory a man to do business
absurdity that a Maltese contractor should be catering for a ship in China, where he would naturally be at a disadvantage in obtaining rupplies locally, as he is said to have been in the above case.
CORRESPOND EACE.
[We do not necessarily endorse the opinions expressed by Correspondents in this column.]
"REFRESHMENTS-" WHAT ARE.
THEY?
TO THE EDITOR OF The "Hongkong Talkóraps,” ↑ SIR-What articles of dry or liquid diet coo› stitute refreshments-"I do not meus from ** Weary Willie's," " Tired Tim's " stand-point, but from that of ordinary respectable "irippers." The reason I ask is this: Liking always to see, (at least once, all there is to be seen in or
around any place wh rein I may find myself for the nonce, yesterday with a friend I went to seo a much advertised "resort," the fare to and
from which is $1.00 "including refreshments," As all will remember, yesterday was a particu larly hot and thirst-inspiring day, and after half an hour's journey to the place I was glad to get a glass of "lemon squash "-(it was lemonade in reality) which was served to me Os my showing the coupon attacked to the ticker, which requests that all and sundry shall serve bearer on presentation "(not surrender, bien entendu) "of this coupon." coupon was taken away, and was, though lost... to sight to memory dear, for what was one bottle of lemonade on such a hot, windless afternoon?
But the
An hour or so later I wanted may say actually required-acother got il-but I had to pay 25 cents for the
"refreshments?"-Yours, etc.
privilege of drinking it! What, oh! what are
TRIPPER.
Hongkong, 24th July, 1955.
SHIPPING AND MAILS.
MAILS DUB. Canadian (Athenian) 26th inst. English (Malta) 26th inst., noon. Indian (Namsang) 30th inst.. Australian (Taiyuan) 31st inst. German (Prins Sigismund) 31st inst, American {Doric) 1st prox. German (Scharakorst) 181 prax. German (Prins Eitel Friedrich) 1st prox.
The I. C. S. N. Co.'s sa. Namsang from Cal- cutta and the Straits left Singapore for this port on 24th inst., at 5 p.m.
The C. N. Co, s.5. Taiyuan from Japan ports left Kobe via Kuchinoizu yesterday, and
due here on 31st jest.
1. The P. & A. 4.5. Aragonia sailed from Port- land on azad inst, and is expected to arrive in, Hongkong on 22nd prox.
The H. A. L. 1.3. Rhenania left.Singapore
for this port on 23rd inst, am, and may be expected here on 28th inst, am.
The Imperial German Mail ss. Scharmkörg. left Koba da Nagasaki and Shanghai to-day at 4 ming and may be expected here on 1st prox.