AN ANTI-UPIUM ENTHUSIAST.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SATURDAY JANUARY 26 1907
HOTEL MANAGER AR.
RESTED
CHARGED WITH FALSE PRE- TENCES.
BAIL 3000 GOLD. [From Our Own Cerrespondent.]
Shanghai, 22nd January,
2.50 p.m..
The Manager of the Metropole Hotel Co., Ld., Shanghai, W. C. Biddle has been arrested, and releas ed on bail of $3,000 gold. Mr. Biddle is, charged with obtaining money. under false pretences.
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TO THE MUNICIPAL COUNCIL.
SHAREHOLDER'S PROTEST.
Many good people in the home country appear to be of the firm belief that the extinction of the opium habit lain sight, and apparently there are not lacking news. papers which are willing to foster this belief. A Bombay paper refers to the fact that it' is firmly belloved an antidote has been dis covered, the effects of which are so far reaching and effectual that the oplum fiend will be as dead as the dodo in a few months. According to a writer in a London news. paper: "A few weeks ago a well-to-do Chinaman in Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Selangor, received from China specimens of a plant which was said to be a cure for the opium habit. A short search revealed the fact that the plant grew fredly in Selangor in a wild statu. A quantity was obtained and active operations commenced. The leaves of the plant are exposed to, the sun. for a day, then chopped fine and roasted, after which an infusion is made and the specific is ready for use. The first man experimented upon was a coolie employed by a European lady, and although he was a confirmed opium smoker he was pronounced cured in a week." The Ferak Pioneer waxes sarcastic over this piece of information, 'remarking that "the information and the wonderful statistics given of the newly-dis- covered cura.comes from London, where they appear to be much better informed the subject than we ourselves are on the spot." It also suggests that many. of the writer's statements should be taken with a grain of salt, for if there have been any curea they must partake of the nature The statement that the of faith-healing. antidote,was discovered in China is ridiculed, and it certainly seems more probable that it le contends that the fact of the was found in Selangor than in the Middle Company not declaring an interim Kingdom-only it has to be proved that it dividend points to the necessity of is an antidote at all. For instance, the fact the Dock directors devoting more that the writer's facts are all wrong-he says time in the interests of their business, that 2,000 Chinese addicted to opium make,
[Mr. Prentice is one of the three members daily application for the new decoction at Kuala Lumpur alone, and aircady 14,000 nominated to fill the vacancies caused by the people have been cured-does not incline sign "tion of the old members, Mesare. E. S. one to give absolute faith in his variouse, J. Liddel and F., C. Heffer. The other two are Messrs. Hansen and Lowe.-Ed,, 1.K.73
assortions. ar Perak contemporary ob- serves that “it is well-known that the poorer- classes of the Chinese live most economical- ly, waste nothing, throw nothing away, as was revealed in the case of the first visita- tion of the deadly, bubonic plague in. Hong- kong, when wholesale forcible evictions bad to be made in order that the filthy and in sanitary dwellings occupied might be pulled down and razed, when all sorts of rubbish were found deposited beneath the beds, even to potato peelings. We must, therefore, certainly be rather sceptical concerning the statement that cach smoker when be feels that the craving for the drug has been per manently overcome, brings his opium pipe, lamp and smoking paraphernalia for immedi. ate destruction. It will further, we imagine be rather difficult for the Mission dispensary to continue the free supply of the 'cure' to all-comere, if, as the article further states 'those who gather the leaves, now demand ten dollars per picul for the same. After all, as we have frequently stated, what proof exists that the 'cure! will be lasting? Time
has not yet been given the opportunity of the test being made. Trouble, sorrow, and worry frequently cause individuals to im bibe in order to drown their care, and what proof is there that any Chinese suffering from either of the above afflictions, may not again fly back to his former vice ?" If there is such a potent drug in existence that the opium habit is wiped out in a week it is strange that it has not been brought to the notice of the Chinese authorities. It is to be feared that despite all the proclamations of the Chinese Imperial Government, the edicts and penalties, the anti-opium societies and the wonderful antidotes, the time is yet far distant when it can be declared posi tively that the vice has been eradicated. When the present generation has faded away, when every opium pipe and smoking outfit has been thrown into the sea, when the poppy ceases to be cultivated in Chita then, possibly, it may be inserted, that the opium hahit has disappeared, but not till
then.
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TELEGRAMS.
"HONGKONG TELEGRAPH”
SERVICE,
ALLEGED PECULATION.
CHINESE POLICE OFFICIAL CHARGED.
{From Our Own Correspondent.]-
Shanghai, 22nd January, 2.55 p.m. The chief of the native police at Pootung has been arrested and sent to Nanking for trial.
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Ile is charged with smuggling arms into the Yangtze valley with the object of ailing the cause of the revolutioniats.
RAILWAY RIOT.
COMMUNICATIONS DESTROVÉD.
[From Our Own Correspondent.]
Shanghai, 22nd January,
12.65 p.m.
(From Our Own Correspondent.].
Shanghai, 21st January,
1.10 p.m.
The appointment of Mr. John Prentice, Managing Director of the Shanghai Dock and Engineering Co., Ld., to the Municipal Council has evoke a protest from one of the Dock Co.'s shareholders.
U. S. COURT for CHINA.
SENSATIONAL CASES.
MR. C. A. BIDDLE PROSECUTED.
[From Our Own Correspondent.]
Shanghai, 21st January,
1.10 p.m. The U. S. Court for China is be. coming more, and more sensational every day.
A civil action was heard to day, before his Honour Judge Willey, wherein Mr. C. A. Biddle, general manager and secretary of the Metropole Hotel, d., was sued by four Chinese for a sum of "ls. 6,000.
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hut fu have appealed to the Imperial Government at Poking for the pro teation of certain students, who are: charged with swashing the idols in a local temple..
The people of the district, it ap. pears, have retaliated by wrecking to schools conducted by the mis sionarice.
SITANGHAI PESTS. SWEEPING THE AUGEAN STABLE. [From Our Chun Correspondent.]
Shanghai, 23rd January, 5.46 p.m.
The disorderly district of Shanghai has been raided by the police and the keepers arrested.
Tho trial of those, arraigned has been fixed for Friday at the
Court
ES LOVE, AÐFAIRS,
The fireman's condition was sat serious and takes he was able to limp into Mr.Hazalund's Court four this morning, to testify, in company with other Hon witnesses, against the office coolie, who was up and o eight found guilty of the charge of it, custing and wounding" and sentenced to six weeks' impri.
onment with hard labour se
WHY THE POLICE
were also seized by
other sources, it is reporte contractors bave had long them a sum of some, Sto0,000 for otherwise the constraction of the bava, been completed longe the present ontlook of affairs? to say when the work of the constr the bund will be resamad. The Contractors and seizure of their propertjes bare been the
talk of the city at
WANTED TO EMBRACE THE LADY. Leung Chak Shun,, an unemployed in `dividual, was 'ordered by Mr. F. A. Hazeland, this morning, at the olice Court, to be taken to the Government Civil Hospital to be placed believed his mind is unhinged, Leung wal under observation for a few days, as it is charged with entering house No. 1, Hill Road.
COOLIE AND AN OPIUM PIPE. after, ten o'clock last night with the intention of committing a felony. A young lady, who A Chinaman, looking the picture of misery, wald she was the complains 11, testified to the strolled quietly into an opium divas at Wan effect that while she was in bed having dinner" chai last night and hauling out five cents from cabicle and hide himself in a comer. She asked maks. He was shown a bad and was supplied last night she saw accused sneak into her his pockets told the keeper that he wanted a him what he wanted and on receiving no reply with the necessary implements to consume his called an officer and gave iba strånger in charge. | five conts' worth of opium. After about half an amily for the purpose of avoiding troubl
hours stay the coolie proceeded to leave the clear away the opium tray, but was soon after premises. The keeper went up to the bunk to the retiring coolie.
ed the Court.
"What were you doing in this house? apk The defendant murmured something which the interpreter could not understand, and the Court fuking was given a test.
He says he went there to embrace the
girl," said the atukong, going red about the face,
after hearing all defendant had to say.
"Didn't give him the chance, murmured
U.S.the girl when she heard what was said.
Accused were allowed out on bail.
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FRAUDULENT CHINESE.
COLLECT LIKIN DUES IN SHANG- HAI SETTLEMENT.
[From Our Own Correspondent]
Shanghai, 24th January,
1.5 p.m. Several Chinese found collecting: like within the Settlement have been tried and convicted. :*
They were sentenced to pay a fine of cue thousand dollars.
SHANGHAI TELEPHONES.
QUESTION OF 'FRANCHISE.
AGITATION BY RATEPAYEKS.
[From Our Own Correspondent.]
Shanghai, 24th January," 1.5 p.m...
The members of the Shanghai Municipal Council have intimated their intention of concluding the negotiations in connection with the granting of a franchise to the tele. phone company at present oporating.
Considerable agitation, has beer aroused by those interested in the matter over the proposal to withhold the document from the public until de agreement has been confirmed.
It is urged that the agreement should be published prior to con. |firmation.
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Judgment was given for plaintiffs. Whereupon plaintiffs' attorney was forthwith instructed to prosecute AMERICAN WOMEN CONVICTED. Mr. Biddle on a charge of obtaining money under false pretences.
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THE SENTENCE ON S. R. PRICE
TO BE APPEALED 'AGAINST. [From Our Own Correspondent.]
ORDERED TO LEAVE THE SETTLEMENT. [From Our Own Correspondent.]
Shanghai, 26th January, 2.40 p.m.. Four American women, the pro- prietors of certain houses in a no- torious district of Shanghai, havo been before Judge Willoy, at the United States Court for China.
They were fined one thousand on Friday last, of six months' im-dollars each, and ordered to leave prisonment, is to be appealed against. the Settlement.
Shanghai, 21st. Jarmáry,
1:10 p.m.
The sentence passed on S, R. Price,.
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Mr. Andrews, one of the disbarred Several other cases have been lawyers, left on Saturday for Wash-adjourned, in order that the nation- ington to appeal against Judge ality of the accused may be inquired Wilfley's sentence."
[The indictment alleged that S. R. Price on July 24, 1906, with a dangerous weapon, to wit, a.42 ral, automatic Colt revolver, did wilfully make an assault upon A. Jovausen, by point ing the said revolver at him in a threatening manner, and by so doing did then and there put the said A. Jovansen is great fear of bodily harm, against the peace and contrary to law. Ed., 77.k.7.]
SHANGHAI-KASHING RAILWAY.
• FIRST SOD TURNED.
[From Our Own Correspondent.]
Shanghai, 23rd January,
8.15 p.m. The first sod of the railway track which will connect Shanghai with Kashing was turned on Monday.
ADMIRAL SAITS PROJECI.
NEW NAVAL ACADEMY AT
KIANGNAN,
[From Our Own Correspondent.].
Shanghai, 23rd January,
3.15 p.m. Admiral Sal has commenced the construction of a new naval academy at Kiangnan,
MISTAKEN ENTHUSIASM,
ACTION OF CHINESE CHRISTIAN STUDENTS.
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SHANGHAI · AFFRAY,
ONE MAN SHOT AND KILLED.
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Shanghai, 25th January, 2.40 p.m..
A shooting affray occurred in Shanghai on Wednesday evening.
One of the combatants was killed." His assailant has been arrested. CLAIM AGAINST LUNION INSURANCE. CO.
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JUDGMENT FOR PLAINTIFFS.
At the 'upreme Court, this morning, before his Honour the Chief Justice, presiding in Original Jurisdiction, judgment was formally. entered for the plaintiffs in the case in which the Sun Kwong Les firm, piece. goods. dealers, formerly carrying on busi ness at No. 152, Queen's Road Central, but now at No. 63, Wing Lok Street, sued L'Union Fire "nsurance Co., Ld, for the re- covery of the amount of the policy of insurance issued to the plaintiffs by the defendants in re- spect of the said premises, No. 357, Queen's Road Central, and which premises were en tirely destroyed by fire, as already record- ed in these columns. There had been a similar suit brought against the North German Fire circumstances, and L'Usion Insurance Co. Insurance, on account of almost identical had elected to abide by the decision arrived at in that
suit, and, if given against the defendants, to consent to judgment against themselves, As the plaintiffs in the former case won their case and judgment with costs was given in their favour against the North German Fire Insurance Co., Hon. Mr. H. E. Pollock, K.C, applied that judgment Fire Insurance Co, Ld. Judgment was ac cordingly given for plaintiffs for $4,485.30, and
It is reported that an anti-railway TEMPLE IDOLS SMASHED WHILE PEOPLE might be formally entired for plaintiffs, L'Union riot has occurred at. Hunyinlisien, in Shopsi.
The railway office, it is stated, has been burned, the schools destroyed and the telegraph wires uprooted.
Troops have been sent to the scene by the governor of the province,"
RETALIATE.
From Our Own Correspondent.}
Shanghai, 23rd January, 3.15, p.m. Reports from Tientsin state that the missionaries stationed at Wels
costs.
THE Japan Chronicle learns from a Tokyo dispatch that Mr. Nagasaki, a Councillor in the Imperial Court, han received a private alles, in which it was stated that H.R.. Prince Arthur of Connaught intended to pay another visit to Japani.
"I don't think this man is right in the head," ald his Worship.
The police did not think so either and they were instructed to have the man placed under medical observation, and the case was ad Journed.
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"Come back here for a minute," the coolic, "I want to see you."!
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am very busy now," returned the coolle, making for the door, "but will son you later.".
Where is my opium pipe?" queried the keeper.
"I haven't got anything belonging to you," said the confic. "You don't mean to call me a thief, do you?" he asked.
passage-way, forbidding the coolie to leave the In the meantime the keeper had blocked the house. A couple of the keeper's fokir, hearing the discussion outside, went to their master's assistance, and together the conlio was seized and searched. The opium pipe was found lashed on to his girdle.
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· Mr. J. Hutchings, of the Public Works De- partment, summoned Tam Ho, the owner of marine lot No 797, before Mr. C. A. D. Mel-polica?" bourse, at the Police Court, this morning, for neglecting to comply with an order, dated 20th December last, requiring him to pall down certain rainous and dangerous sheds at the rear of Nos. 174, 176,178 and 180, Third Street, West Point, A coolis represented the owner of the lat
"Where is your master ?" asked the Court.
way," replied the coálie,
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"Are they down now," asked the Court. Mr. Hutchings said he did not know. The sheds, he said, were in very bad condition and were in danger of collapsing at any moment. "They were pulled down this morning."" His Worship adjourned the case until next week to allow the P. W. D. representative to visit the spot and ascertain whether the sheds were there or not, and the confle to come
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EXCITEMENT AT THE DISINFECTING STATION,
Disinfecting Station as 2000 as possible. A "Send a policeman to the Tai-ping-than
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Call the police quick, yelled the keeper. "The police "exclaimed the coolie. Ha- ven't given you back the pipe? Why The police arrived and the coolie was removed to No. 2 Police Station, where he was recognised by Inspector Gourlay as having been banished on the 29th July, 1006. He was promptly entered on two charges-theft and returning from banishment. He pleaded guilty to both charges at the Police Court, this morning, and Mr. F. A. Haseland sentenced him to one month's gaot on the first count and twelve months' imprisonment and four hours' stacks on the second, sentences to run con- secutively.
CANTON DAY BY DAY.
[From Our Own Correspondent.]
Canton, 19th January, The directors of the Canton-Hankow Rail- sent a telegraphic despatch to the Ministry of way Company headed by Chu Nam Chou have Commerce and the Ministry of Posts and Communications reporting as follows:-The account banks of the Yust Han Railway Com- pany have heen examined by the officials of the Government Railway Bureau and have been found correct. Although Chan Kung Yu, Chan Chik Yu and Yung Sai Ngam, Hongkong merchants, have nominally subscribed some one hundred thousand shares of the Company, the subscription of which are long overdue, for hey have not yet remitted their capital to the Company, tothe ex-Viceroy “hum has request- ed you for authority to cancel their scrips, and accordingly the Compasy' and the "Canton shareholders do not recognize them as share- holders. Nevertheless the above named three merchants are continually interfering with the affairs of the Company, which action is gaite contrary to the status of the concern. More- over, they have proposed to withdraw the whole of the capital of the Company, some $8,010,000 at prosent deposited in the various native banks of Canton, and to deposit same in different Hongkong banks. A number of the Canton shareholders have made strenuous protests in consequence,, against their proposals and interference. Since this affair
is of great importance to all the shareholders and is a difficult question to decide, we, direc- tors, could do no more than to follow the regulations as stipulated by your Minis tries. Now we have decided to
call a public meeting on the 24th day of the st next year, for the purpose of discussing whether the said Hongkong merchants he re cognized as proper shareholders or not, and the advisability of depositing the whole of the Company's capital in different Hongkong banks. At the same time a president and a
Railway Company, felt for Hongkong with
Yesterday, Lo Pe Shun, a Inumber of the board of directors of the Canton-Hanko
connection with the railway affini
at Shing Chou market, in Wachow
It is reported that during the last month three cases of armed robberies have been committed
[From Our Own Correspondent.]E
Canton, 21st January Admiral Li Chun has taken over the pool tion of the commander-in-chief of the army of the two Kwang provinces. He has now about seventy regiments under bis command
The paper and printed forms, etc manufac not gain much popularity so far, owing to the tured by the Goverment Paper Factory
do unreasonable prices. The authorities are try ing to lower the price in order to obtain the patronage of the public PASOWAN
Oo the 20th instant two deputies were sent from the Bureau of Agriculture, Industry end Commerce to Ngau Shan, Whampoa, to In- of making the place into a port, povanden spect and survey a site there for the purpose
stationed at Pang Hab, Fatsban, was attached It interesting to learn that regiment by a number of robbers on the midnight of the
to instant whilst the soldiers were out on patrol. There were only a few 'soldiers left in" the barracks at the time; they boldly offered resistance, but ultimately they were obliged to yield owing to the great violence of the robbers. All the ammunition was taken away by the robbers,
A telegram has been received here stating that the Shiu Wa Chi has decided to abolish the Registration and Cancellation Fear and to abandon the scheme of making good the def- ciency of the revenus by levying another tax,”-
[From: Our Own Correspondent,]"
Canton, 23rd January.g/ Wong King Tong, Wen Tsa Tsoi, and some When H.E. Viceroy Sham was in Canton, other gentlemen applied to him for the pri vilege of building a bridge across the Pearl River from the Canton side to the Rodam side; but before much was done in regard to the matter, H.E, left here, on transfer to his new post in the Yan-Kwei Provinces. Now. a merchant named Lau Cheung Hing has forined a syndicate and has forwarded a peti tion to 14.E. Viceroy Chow, accompanied by copy of regulations of the proposed undertaking. applying for the right of carrying out the project. LE Chow has replied granting the application and stating that he will be glad to see the work of building the bridge completed at an carly date, with the intention of encouraging the applicants in their project.
The Engineering Department of the Yust- hau Rallway Company has been removed to the premises of the Railway Company's Offices yesterday.
The Viceroy his proposed to boild quar. ters on the new Bund for the purpose of accommodating the members; of "the flaff: of the Canton Water Folice Force, which formerly took up their quarters in boats, moored on the river. The approximate cost of this proposed undertaking is estimated at $9,000,
The officials of the Ministry of Commerce and Agriculture and the Ministry of Posts and Communications, being informed of the difficulty arising in the Canion-Hankow rail- way question, has sent an official named Yang- Sza Kita Cantón lo make inquiries into the present state of railway affairs. .
This morning H.E. the Viceroy proceeded to the Shameen, to pay an official visit to the
onsul for Holland in Canton.
The Police Department are at present mak
vice-president are to be elected to replace Pre|ing inquiries into the advisability of having
sident Chaug To Chai and Vice president Wong King Tong, who resigned their pasi tions, and also one director to fill the vacancy caused by the recent death of Mr. Tso Niu Chuk, which happened a few days ago. We will send out circulars înviting shareholders at home and abroad to attend the meeting. We have also reported to H.E. Viceroy Chow to this effect and are now sending you this information requesting you to instruct the Viceroy to give the Company the necessary. protection for the maintenance of order at this meeting.
After the examination of the accounts of the Yuet-han Railway Company, the offi cials of the Government Railway Bureau bava made a complete list of the Company's capital deposited in the different banks and firms, and have published same in the press for the in- formation of the general public.
Two robbers named Chun A-chou and Lo A-hip, who were arrested in Hongkong and brought back to Canton, charged with having committed armed robbery, were executed in the Execution Grounds, by orders from the Viceroy, in the presence of the Magistrate of Namhai.
The Sin Hau Kuk, by order of the Viceroy, has purchased through Messrs. Carlowitz & Có. Boo rifle bayonets, which have now arrived at Hongkong, and the firm has now applied for the necessary permits to land the bayonets in Canton,
Alp.in. on the 17th instant, a gang of about forty rubbers attacked a village named Lung Hing, belonging to the clan Pun, in the Nam hoi District. The robbers ransacked five houses and carried away a large quantity of hooty. It Is, interesting to note that there was a certain reziment of troops stationed in this locality, but the soldiers appeared entirely ignorant of the excitement at the time. From the present state of affairs there seems to ba mora bið characters barboured in the Namboi District than in any other place.
[From Our Own Correspondent.]
Canton, 20th January. H.E. Wu Ting Fang came to Canton from Hangkong yesterday on important business. H.E is at present taking up his temporary re- sidence at the Viceroy'a yames,
Chan Lun Tai & Co.'s engineering establish- ment, carrying on business in various parts of the city and with branch offices in Honam, was by order of the Viceroy. The firm con sealed up yesterday by the Punyl Magistrate
the different streets of the city of Canton lit up by electric incandescent lamps, for the con- venience and safety of the general public.
[From Our Own Correspondent.]
Canton, 34th January,
At one o'clock yesterday afternoon, whilst a meeting was taking place at the Railway Shareholders' •ssociation in Mun Lan-She Yup, a number of other Canton shareholders appeared on the scene and made some vigorous protests and interruptions, with the intention of creating a disturbance at the meeting. After au interruption of about half an hour's duration, a body of police was called in and order was
then restored.
On the 20th instant ing of
rubber attacked a village named Sling Tsun near Fatshan, and ransacked about
savepicen houses. When making off on their way with their booty, the robbers attacked another village named Lung Tailm and broke inta another eighteen houses, in this locality.It is an almost daily occurrence for me to report cases of robbery committed in Fatshan and lis vicinity for the past few days.
tis reported that the Sevesty-two Guilds Association of Canton and the different merch ants are at present devising means for the pur. poza of showing their gratitude to E., M. the Emperor, for the abolition of the Registration. and Cancellation Frem
A report has been recalved from Wuchow that a robbery of a dastardly nature baş takan place at Tang Yuen District in Kwangal in village of the clan of Shek on the 8th jostant. Some eighty robbers attacked the villaga, and killed one and severely wounded several villagers. Furthermore the robbers kidnapped nine males and, four females; but, alace, the male villagers have been released. "About a thousand soldiers are in hot pursuit of the rob bers, the number of whom seemed to be increasing on the way. In the encounter some twenty soldiers have beco ́ killed 'and some fifty wounded lucluding an official” „The pursul hat lasted for some too days and ■ despatch has been received by HE. Viceroy Chow, asking for reinforcement,
H.E the Viceroy bas given: Instructions 36 the Military Department to at ones↑ félect suitable military officers and different military, students, who have completed their cours, la the different military colleges, for the purpose province to reorganise the present military of sending them to the different parts of the
sailant under arrest." This was the telephone message received at the Central Police Station last night from the officer in charge of the Disinfecting Station. Inspector Ritchie, who was on duty, dispatched Detective Sergeant Earner to look into the matter. On arrival at the place whither he was summoned Chan Yut, an office coolle, employed on the premises, was was found to have been slashed under the left given in custody, and a fireman, San Kl, who breast, was removed to hospital.
tracted for the formation of the new bund, system. From a statement made by the prisoner at which has been in construction for some time The Provincial Treasurer Wu bas been in the station it appeared that the fireman returned pist. It is rumoured that the reasons for seal-office here for three years and by law he should home in an intoxicated condition last evening, ing up the firm's establishments werk that the have an interview with H.J.M. the Emperor, and started to raise trouble with everybody. He wk on the band has not been carried out in a ultimately tackled the accused, who was in bed, satisfactory meaner and that the accounts, telegraphed to the Grand Council, to retain but at present" HE-Viceroy Chow Fashas and a quarrel, which was followed by a fight, which were presented to the authorities con the services of this official here, whose help h ensued. Although accused denied it, it was sit of many doubtful items. Five persons cannot very well at present spara owing 10 the believed that during the fight he drew counseled with the firm have been arree new Provincial Jadga bojug in his position for knife and slashed the fremanĹ
ad, and all the account books"" were sech a short periód
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