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The Hongkong Telegraph.
HONG KONG, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1912.
APATHETIC HONGKONG,
DAY BY DAY.
The noblest service comes from nameless hands, and the best servant does his work unseon
Naval Arrivals.
Sir. Henry Blake,
DAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1912.
BURGLAR ESCAPES.
ALLEGED CARELESSNESS.
ANOTHER PIRACY.
GOEBEN IN TYPHOON,
Gallart Rescue in the Chins
NOTES AND
COMMENTS:
Sen.
A REMARKABLE STORY OF Asiatic Petroleum Co.'s Lighter
Held Up.
Is a Fine. Advisable f Another piratical outrage is We have been informed, in the week or two ngo a suggestion Climbed Down Spout at Hospital reported. This time from Wong course of an interview with the was made in this column to the H.M. ships Cadmus and Atins
moon. We understand that, on Captain of the N. D. L. Goeben, offent that house-holders should arrived from the North yesterday: We have been informed on Wednesday afternoon a lighter that his slip struck a typhoon insist that no strange boys or good authority that there is no with a cargo of oil in bulk, the about 300 miles from Hongkong. little commotion in the Police property of the Asiatic Potroleum Thore was a strong N.N.W. blow-coolies should be permitted to Sir Henry Blake has arrived in Headquarters in consequence of Company was being towed upling which changed to N.N.E., sloop in their out-houses and, as London from Myrtle Grove, the escape of a man who has the Sailam Channel by a Chinese then to East. The greatest force far na possible, should allow only Youghal.
pleaded guilty to a charge of owned steam launch when she of the wind was nine, (about 60 Constable Charged with Assault.ed for further enquiries, escaping of piratos
burglary, and who was remand-was borne down upon by a gang miles an hour), or three below compradores' boys and the liko At the Police Court, this morn from custody. The story, though
the maximum." The period at to come around during the day, ing, a Chinese constable was it concerns a serious matter, is the launch stopped and was was at noon. The centre of the pains to keep strangers away
On finding horaolf fired upon, which the fullest force was folt But if house-holders are to take charged before Mr. E. A. Irving, not without its amusing sido.
and with assaulting anot her Chinese.
speedily boarded by the gang. typhoon passed South of the Ile was fined $5.
The man who has made good Discovering that the lighters Goeben, about seventeen miles are to put themselves to the his escape successfully negotiatonrgo could not be taken away, they away.
trouble of handing unwelcome od an entrance into the house laid hands on ovorything else of Chinese Jumps Overboard. visitors over to the police, we of Mrs McEwan, Bouconsfield value that they could seo, and About four o'clock in the after- hope to see their efforts strongly Lieutenant J. C. Farmar, Royal Arcade, in the early hours of having made prisoners of the acona Chinoso jumped over- Marine Light Infantry, joins the Wednesday morning. Although skipper and chief engineer, the board and the Captain had a boat supported by the authorities. As Tamar, says the "L.&O. Ex-ho made a successful ontroe his ruffians cleared off, leaving the with four men under the fourth matters are at prosent in the press
to fill a vacancy in her axit was barred by the form of craft and the remainder of the officer, lowered. Dospite the Colony, the offence should be complement.
Sanitary Inspector McEwan, bro- orow unmolested,
trancherous nature of the set the punished as a rigorously as possible. ther-in-law of Mrs. McEwan. To The launch and lighter at once gallant men succeeded in reach-Harshness in punishment for its get into the room wherein he put back for Wongmoon, and ing their man and in bringing was captured he had to pass over latest reports from thore state him safely back to the ship. own sake wo should alwayą the body of a sleeping amali, and that the two vessels are_now. when he was arrosted he had lying at anchor in the Weat Rivor, $49, worth of property in his near the Customs Station. possession. He tried to injure. It is bolioved that the two pri- Inspector McEwan, but the latter soners are being held to ransom, rendered him stupid with a sories and that $20,000 is the sum of quiok punches on the chin. fixed as the price of their release.
Joining the Tamar.
Major Hall R. O, A.
The "L.& C. Express" etios that on arriving at longkong Major H. C. Hall, Royal Garrison Artillery, will take up the com- mand of No. 83 Company.
Mr. Stewart Leaves. The Hon. Mr. Murray Stewart left for home to-lay, por es, Gooben. Be is travelling via Siberia and expects to be away for about six months.
• Arrived from Tientsin. Mr. E. G. Jamieson, pro-consu- lar registrar at Tientsin, and Mrs. Jamieson arrived in Hongkong yesterday by the 8.a. Kleist, they leave to-day in the s.o. Haitan.
Malls Arrived,
lini, with the Siberian mail.
Heavy Rain and Swell,
Reported Theft of Clothing.
I
Pleaded Guilty.
The burglar appeared at the Police Court, Inter the
SPORT.
thunt
in,
10.
The passengers were all excite-ablior, but there are times when mont and a whip-round was the kid-glove methods are aötually menns of each of the muilors being. presented with 1-10-0. On ronch-hurtful. They
Bro unfair, ing Hongkong the
the general passengers subscribed for a suitable present body of the publio. Fo for the officer who had charge, na this reason we rather regret that
recognition of his gallantry. The Captain referring to the heat in the Red Sea said that he the servants quarters of Mr. had been travelling the tropics Lopes were let off with the option folt the effects of the hoat in the in the end if offenders were made Rad Soa so bad as this trip. For
the two men who woro fo id in..
sanie morning, and plondod Annual Report of the Hong from his youth and he had never of a fine. Would it not be botter
Felgned Illness,
kong Cricket League.
the first time in his life he ex-to realise, once and for all, that perienced the sensation of prick-imprisonmout was ly heat,
DIFFERENCE IN PROCEDURE.
that at Home.
the one
guilty to the charge of burglary, but donted that he had ever been banished, according to the state- The ninth annual report of the ment in the second charge pre-Hongkong Cricket League has forrod against him. Mr. Irving just been issued. It states that said that if the defendant plead for the Shield Competition oight
punishment for this offence? ed not guilty to the charge of Clubs entered viz:-Oraigen- Properly Recovered.
Hair and the Vote. roturning from banishment he gower, Civil Service, Kowloon, The police report that $129 would have to be sent to the Royal Gurrison Artillery, Navy
Strange reports emanate from worth of jewellery and valuables Criminal Sessions for trial. A Yard, Royal Engineers, Hong Hongkong Code Differs From Paking these days. But one of has been found in the garden of remand was asked for and grant: kong Police and the K. O. Y. LI The
the most astounding which has Mr. Ho Tung's Ponk residence, od, so that enquiries could be Yorkshire Regiment). which was recently burgled..
made.
Shield was won by the CraigonTM An interesting point arose this come to our notice of late is that gower Cricket Club with 30 morning, in the Original Court, contained in to-day's Chinese It is now alleged that the pci-points for 14 matches played, of showing ono of the differences telegrams, stating that President The following muls arriand disoner foigned illnosa in the gol which were wou, 2 lost und 3 between the flongkong civil code, Yuan hus directed the Senate [day. Goobon, from Singu-
and was successful in porsuuding drawn.
and that exising at Home The Preparatory Bureau" to deny the Since the beginning of the point arose out of the ease in franeliiso to those still wearing pore and Europe; 8.8. Zafiro the authorities there to send him to from Manila; P.B. Siboria from the Government Civil Hospital. League, numerous systems of which Kwok, Siu Lan, of 49 the queue! We do not know San Francisco, Japan and Shang stated, insisted on his being hand-net season saw a reversion to Che, of 250,Queen's Road, Cen-sation named may h, but from The Inspector at the station, it is cooring have been tried, and the hinson Road, sued Kang Yan what the functions of the organi cuffed whilst ho was being con- the original method viz:-3tral, claiming possession of pro-its name we suspect it to be a rayed to the hospital, and also points for a win and 1 point for mises, 250 and the second and body brought into being to draw The general report of the voyage the hospital to watch the man count; this system worked very Central which the defendant that be so, we can only express sent word to those in charge of draw, while a loss did not third floors of 258 Queen's Road up The complaint is often made, that the Hongkong public rarely of the ss. Tean from Manila states closely, as he believed he was satisfactorily, and for local con-cupied as tenant at will, which the profoundest surprise that s China's new Constitution, IE ovinces a serious interest in any question, whether it be local, strictly strong S. W. wind with heavy
ditions was found the most tenancy was determined by notice man credited with such progres- national, losporial or univorṇal in its influenco. Our own view i30 hours; wind backing to S. .,
rain;
and heavy S. W. swell for only shamming.
practicable. that there are solid grounds for this assertion, for on more than one moderating slightly before ar- of the doctor the muscles wern will be held on Monday, at 5.30 ofmoney as profits.
According to the instructions
to quit on March 18. The olim sive ideals, ne is Yuan Shih-kai, The annual general nosting anked, in addition, for two sums should seriously tender the Bureau occasion have wo observed attempts made to rouse public opinion rival,
removed, but a lukong was left without the loast response being forthcoming. Those who have
suoli a piece of foolish advice.. in attendance ovor the wily Ulab pavilion,
Mr. O. G. Alabaster, instructed We can quite woll appreciate the p.m, in the Hongkong Crickot. Settled. made the effort have, in fact, soon come to the conclusion that they
"pationt." Sometime after his
by Mr. . K. Hall Brutton, ap-attitudo of mind of those Chinese The case in which the. Anglo-admission be asked permission to
reared for the plaintiff, and Mr. who have discarded their hiraute might as well flog a dead horse, and hope thoroby to galvanise the Chinese Education Trust Co. Ltd. retire to the lavatory and the lu- PROSPECTS OF PEACE. Eldon Potter, instructed by Mr. appendages because they believe brute into life again. It is therefore all the more gratifying to sued L. M. Hazeland to meover kong accompanied him. Aftor
Otto Kong Sing, appeared for them to be a mark of bondage, observe that there is at least somebody in the Colony who takes before Mr. Justice Gompertz this the lakong forced open, the door Co., Ltd., wore plaintiffs in un
the sum of $200, was mentioned waiting souo considerable time
The Hongkong and Chinu (as the defendant.
but we can equally well under Yesterday, Mr. C. G. Alabaster stand that there may be others sufficient interest in outsido matters to write a longthy letter to morning. A settlement was ur-only to find that the bird had action in the Summary Court, opened the case for the plaintiffs who attach no significance either the "Telegraph" on the question of clestoral reform. We have rived at,
down. He had made his escape which they claimed $41.83 from cross-examination of plaintiff's tho queue. And these latter may
bo fore Mr. Justice Gomperts, in and called evidenco. heard of otherwise apparantly intelligout men declaring that they
In the to the absence or the presence of through the window and down W. A. G. Bearwolf. caine to Hongkong "to get away from politics," and they frankly
the water pipo.
witnesses, Mr. Potior produced be fast as wise and just as confess that since they have boon in the Colony they have studiously to the police that whilst he was modiately informed of what had or the plaintiffs, but the defend- friend's case, announced that he peculiar morit in abort hair. We Mr. D. Young of Taikoo ropurts Police headquarters were im Wilkinson and Grist, appeared but, on the completion of his brethren. After all, there is no Mr. Reader Harris, of Messrs. portain documents to the Court, partriotic as their quereleas ignored Home polítical developments. We regard this as a dis-residing at Mount Parker some quioting sign. It may appear on the face of it to be a very little thieves entered his house at Stan-writing the missing man had not
happened, but at the timo of ant was unrepresented.
would call no evidence.
have often noted demands in mattor, but we fear it betrays a lack of appreciation of national ley Terrace oither by means of the been re-arrested.
His Lordship, to the defend- This morning, Mr. Alabaster Europe that there should be an questions, and often leads to the adoption of an outlook as provincial window or with a duplicato koy,
ant:-Do you owe this money?
claimed to have the right of ad-educational qualification for the and circumscribed as is that of the average rosident of, say, any sinall
and stole clothing valued $75.50.
The defendant: I do not, my dressing the Court last, an was vote. This is the first time we country town at Home. We believe, in fact, that there are in Hong-
Lord.
the practice in England, Mr. Pat have come across the idea of bas- Memorial Service. kong to-day dozens of Britishers who seldom, if ever, look further
His Lordship: Are you ready tor having put in documents. He ing the franchise on a certain On Wednesday a memorial tigation into the circumstances to go on?
pointed out that the English pro-style of doing the hair. afield than the physical limits of the Colony. They are cor-service was. hold ou the parade surrounding the escape of the
Mr. Harris-I think so. Icedure precluded the defondant respondingly cramped in their outlook, and are as bad as blind to in memory of the late Mr. Fang akong who had charge of the witness to prove the case.
ground at In-tong, near Canton, burglar revealed the fact that the have only brought the necessary from the last word, if he adduced Trade Unions. the larger issues of the wide world,
ovidence of any sort. Yue, who recently lost his life man when he was successful in Proparod as we are to admit that it is a glorious relief to place while making a flight on his aer-effecting his escape, is a brother $24, your Lordship.
The defendant:-I owe about
It is rofreshing to turn saide Mr. Potter pointed out that on nine thousand miles between one's self and the scenes of petty oplane. The service was attend to him.
from some of the over-heated or this point the Hongkong pro- political squabbles, we do not agree that it is a healthy sign to see ed by thousands of soldiers and
His Lordship-Porhaps you cedure differed from that at nonsensical romarks uttered re- young Britishers in the Overses possessions of the Empire absolutely civilians, and it was most impros-markable remissiosy somewhere.
If this is true it speaks of re-hud better see Mr. Harris." homo, and maintained that he contly by or on behalf of trade. unoncerned about the leading questions of the day. Get away sivo.
The parties had a discussion had the right, under decisions of unionists, to a fow shrewd obser from party wranglings and bickerings by all means; but lot an
and Mr. Harris later applied for the ex-Chief Justice.
vations made by the Cardinal Young intelligent interest still be displayed towards those matters which
Archbishop of Westminster at the an adjournment of a week, as the barristers at home word Vory Norwich Congress. To be good are demanding and receiving the serious attention of the statesmaa
RAILWAY TRESPASSERS. case was likely to be settled. aften trapped and deprived of the in the Homeland. Hongkong people, surrounded as they are by bourne at the Police Court, this
last word; by their putting docu-trados-unionists, said Cardinal most cosmopolitan community, ought in all conscience to be able to
At the Police Court, this morn-
INTERESTING DOCU- ments to opposing witness, when Bourne, men must remember (a)
MENTS.
Le called no ovidence himself. the binding force of the Ten Com secure a broad enough and detached enough outlook on most morning, for assaulting him. The ing. two Chinese who said they questions; and distance from the seat of warfare should only served the complainant but denied to Sha-tin to look for work were defondant admitted that he push-were unemployed and were going
His Lordship, the Chief Jusmandments, (b) the rights of to inoroase their partiality. The only alternative is for one to be-the stack him. He said he fined $10 osob or, in default, tor, that a judge should order ment for the amendment of the was at liberty not to join. His tice, said he was forwarding cer- other men, (c) the fact that a man some absolutely absorbed and wrapped up in purely local affairs,
The unusual request of a solicitain suggestions to the Govern. who wished not to join a union with a consequent narrowing of one's outlook on life. For while did not know that the complain-one month's hard labour, for discovery as he wanted to show civil code, and he would like to Eminence added that those with there are oircumstances here which should help towards broad and ant was a detective. Mr. Moltrespassing on the railway at the solicitor on the other side have that matter cleared up. He families were bound to see whe tolerant views, and an unrestricted vision, there are also physical bourne said that it was a very Kowloon.
some documents, was made this would especially reserve the point
ther their reason for withholding features about Hongkong which easily encourage the narrower view- serious thing to assault a police. point. Thus is it that many a resident in the Colony knows little man and fined the defendant 85. said he wished to press the charge, before Mr. Justice Gompertz,
Mr. Clarke, of the K. C. R., morning in the Summary Court, for discussion later, if they liked their labour was sufficient to alue of the East than what he sees on our rocky island, while many
Mr. Alabaster said he was quite justify their inflicting privations another has been content to wonder what lies on the other side of the Light Draft str. for Swatow necessity for the men to be with- D'Almeida sued J. A. Dove to re-add to the cost of the case.
as to get to Shs tin there was no The case was one in which A willing to do that, if it did not on their wives and families; & Kowloon Hills, when by a short railway trip ho could have his Hongkong a light draft steamer There was a notice to the effect
very necessary reminder, as the There is being constructed in in 500 yards of the railway, cover the sum of $420, curiosity gratified.
His Lordship said that his ob- Home news of a couple of months Mr. Reader Harris of Messrs, jeat in suggesting the mond-go testify. The curse of the In Shanghai there exists, we believe, a very active branch of the ways of Swatow which will be secuted close by where the men the plaintiff, and Mr. Otto Kong here, into conformily with that parent powerlosanges to see both intended for service in the water that trespassers would be pro- Wilkinson and Grist appeared for ments, was to bring the procedure average union man is his sp League of Young Liberals, in which leading rosidents take a decided completed during September. were arrested." interest. While we would not care to soo in Hongkong any The vessel has a length of 124 ft.
Sing for the defondant. organisation whose existence might give rise to undignified and and 20 ft. beam and is constract
appertaining at home. He con- sides of the question. The more acrimonious discussions, we cannot help feeling that the maro fact ofed to draw, when loaded, a maxi-advised Mr. Clarke to have notices your Lordship order discovery. I the home law.
Mr. Irving in passing eentonce adjournment and added: Will they should be in conformity with tights, the more persistently does Mr. Kong Sing applied for an sidered it extremely desirable that loudly he clamours for his own. Shanghai possessing, such a body as we have referred to, shows, at mum of 2ft, Gin. She will be posted indicating that two men would like to show my friend
he bind himself to the facta that least, that there are many young men in the Model Settlement who fitted with ample passenger au- still keep a keen eye on Home affairs. And so far as this be true,commodation, and her engines Mr. Clarke said it was the Mr. Harris: Mutual discovery, ship would sit with the Puiane that Men of Bin the Amp find bean punished for trespassing some documenta. (Laughter) the case was finished, if His Lord. for the non-unionist and that
Mr. Patter, suggested that after there is also something to be mala Hongkong might do worse than follow the lead of its northern will give her a speed of about intention of the company to my Lord palgabours
| eight knots---"'N. 4. D. Nema
Judge, they could take it straight may possess an odd rigton
of his own
Assaulted a Policeman.
A Chinese detective sammoned an Indian before Mr. C. D, Mel-
An Amazing Statement. · At a lato hour this afternoon wo were informed that the inves-