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BRITISH NORTH BORNEO.
GOVERNOR'S TRÁGIC
DEATH:
[Our Own Correspondent.]
Singapore, December 6. His Excellency Mr. Scott Mason, the newly-appointed Governor of British North Borneo, met his death is a tragic manner this morning.
He was thrown from a horse and killed instantaneously.
EUROPEAN AND OPIUM.
An Export Proposition
Cruses Trouble;
At the Polico Court, this morn ing, before Mr. C. D. Melbourne, James Baker, employed by
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1912.
PHILIPPINE AFFAIRS.
Journalist's Statement of the
Political Situation.
wording of asubsequent date. He has not brought any evidence. to show there was no opium' at the place where it was stored. His Worship: the 28th they have no trace of the opium.
We have obtained "a (most in- Mr. Denny's-You meet pro- teresting statement regarding the duco evidence to prove it was not tate of Philippine affaire from The ordinance says the onus is on Mr. E. J. Haberer of Manila, who, the prosecution to trace is. They as a journalist, has spent some must trace how this apiam dietimo in the islands and has made "ppeared.
His Worship:-If he says the opium was there it disappeared after the permit was issued.
Mr. Donnys in his speech for the defence said that his client signed the document in good faith under the impression that he was carrying out a bonafide transaction. The history of the whole case was that his client: received a letter from a relation some time ago as a matter-of
study of the subject. Mr. Haberer is a journalist of ex- perience both in America and in Manila and is managing the Baguio Herald and El Ideal, in the latter of which he is making several changes in the near future, including an edition of this daily paper in English..
To a Telegraph representativo Mr. Haberer said
To understand the Philippine fact it was his son-in-law, a political situation, the basis of Chinese in Singapore-telling Philippine politics, must be taken him that a capitalist was willing into consideration It is alaimed
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again appeared to answer pla
business 11o contemplated Islands that before the American. dylaise parish con- starting. That business was military occupation when Admiral fection with the exportation of he exportation of opium to Dewey arrived in Manila Bay, he
pium..
Mr. P. M. Hodgson, the Singapore in the name of this had promised them independence. man, Finances would besupplied, Further more it is claimed that
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sistant Crown Solicitor, pro-an office taken and he would President McKinley in his first TURCO-EGYPTIAN sated; Mr II: I. Dennys Jr. of receivo a stipulated salary of so message made promises of a simi Tosera Dennys and. Bowley, ap- much on month. It was also con- lar, kind. While there is no evid sared for the defendant, and Mrsidered that the business could ence to sustain these claims-tho O. Hutchison, Superintendont be extended to silk. The defend-promises, it given, would havo Imports and Exports, also ant thought it was a prefectly been without proper authority NESTOR GIANACLES and TOCCOS CIGARETTES. tended.
bonafide thing and he could see from the bodies. representing the Mr. Dennys said that no ovido flaws. All he had to do was American people-they form the ca had been produced as to buy the opium, pay for it, fill basis for the present extrava- gards the first oliarge. There as no evidence that opium was not the form and ship it to Singa- gant agitation for independence.
pore. As the business extended It must be
havo hialusy i oy taking arms againat increased. An office was taken America, without giving time for Club v. Navy.
the fulfilment of such promises, in Bank Buildings, and OD
certain day
the Filipino has released the Americans from their obligation, since the attempted revolution was itself a denial of their good faith. While more leniency was shown
offie at the time, (that was 26th) when the application portation was hold up. Question of Permits.
a only evidence brought for concerned asubsequent date
B.
was to
Polion Forco.
he
went
saidanportation", or "any placo nccording to the permit", and that permit, he submit- ted, was a permit of importation , and if the Ordinance was design- ed to cover any further ground it would havo said. "or any permit which comes under this Ordinance "It was distinctly a limited permit for importation. and, so far as section 20 was concerned, it did not cover the Damages Claimed for Alleged ground. The chests were in possession of the captain of the Lai Sang.
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to Nemazce, where be bought the opium openly, and it was weigh Tate upon which they were noted and paid for.. go, As regards the second Defendant said that for five ge brought under section 20 would ask his Woralip to readers he was in the Hongkong them than was exercised by any to other government under similar Fle came theorlinance and he would take
in 1888 He was conditions, still the fact remains, this potion, that section 20 did Hongkong not cour the facts which had to be allowed $200 a month for and the insurrection was put Subse- been proved. The Ordinance king af Spore pro-down by force of arms.
quently a military form of goy-tre nised that the same questions the usual course of events it By Mr. Hodgson: He recogernment was established and in would not be asked him in was followed by the present Royal. applying for a permit as would government, which already gives bo asked a Chineso,
the Filipino a larger aliare in the A fins of $1,000 wao. imposal. government of the Telangie than The fine was paid.
The Americans have retained for
A relic of the battleship Maine themselves.
has been asked for by the Cuban "It must be remembered," Government for preservation in said Mr. Haberer, "that all the the national museum at Havana. members of the Lower House Either the figurohead, which was are Filipinos, the Upper House on the prow of the battleship, or same a six-inch gun and mount, is de- nationality while there are also sired. Both the figurehead and The case was mentioned in the five Americans, and in the the gun were recovered recently hy His Worship:Yes in posses. Summary Court this morning in Higher Civil Service Offices from the harbour. The "Evon- saya that it was ion of the captain. These cases which Ling Oi Ting is saing Mr: outsido the chiefs of the various ing Post" in Court did not contain opium:D. W. Shallard and others of the bureaux, there are less than ten intended to use the relics in the at least so the export saye.
Peninsula and Oriental Company per cent American officials, monument to be "erected over the Mr. Donnys argued that he was to recover the sum of $1,000, be- while provincial and municipal Maine dead in'Arlington National charged with not having opium ng damingea for alleged false officers are practically all Filipi- Cemetery, but one of the pieces whoro he ought to have it on nimprisonment.
nos. The votes being practically probably will be left at Havana certain date. After it was stored
Mr. W. B. Hind appeared for all in these hands, the manage- to be exhibited there. it was consignal to the ship..
the plaintiff and Mr. R. F. Haster, ment is practically Filipino After the Application was
of Messrs Johnson, Stokes and and thus the American in Signed.
Master, appeared for the defend-the Islands at present is practically politically disenfran-
INTERESTING CASE
False Imprisonment
contains four of tho
His Worship After an apunts. plication was sigued by your] Mr. Muster asked his Lardship chised.
client.
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to make on order that the plaintiff "The American government Mr Dennys: This application should furnish particulars of the and the American citizens have to export is under a different sec-claim as to time, date and circum-set their hopes on the evolu tion; I am not considering that stances.
tionary progress of the Filipino, section at all. I am considering Mr Hodgson, the Assistant which in due time will enable section 20, your Worship. Crown Solicitor, said that he was him to realise the benefits which
His Worship:-Number twon-appearing for the third defend-he derives from American bene ty.. I think you said the opium adt, Jospector Korr, who had also volence. At the present time the was in the castody of the ciptain beon joined. He had bren served political control is in the handa and not your client."
with a statement of claim and a of those Filipinor, who obtained Mr. DennoysThere was no writ roturnable to-day and he did their education in Spanish col- opium under section 20. I am not know whether his Lordship leges, and who cannot appreciate not liable for whether there is ordered pleadings against the nor understand the principles opium there or not.. It says there third defondant.
underlying self government. Up- Lordship ordered to-date the Government at Wash- was no opium on board the Lai His Sang under Section 20, I am not plealings before the third defend-ington has interfered very little
esponsible if it is not on the Lai ant was joined.
with internal affairs of the islands Bang. It is a perfectly different At the roquest of Mr. Hodgand under the Taft administra- section and a perfectly different son, his Lordship made an tion, particularly, has left inter- "offence.
order for a statement of claim to nal problems to the Commission he delivered to the third defend- and Assembly for settlement. ant.
"Therefore," Mr. Harberer con- tinued, "two political aspects have been created-one almost abso- lutely apart from the other- namely, the internal and the external. While Washington has regarded the Philippino question Reserved Sents, $1! Ist Class, $1. | SATURDAY Deo', 14th. *812 at noon.
His. WorshipAs the charge stands now it does not arate whore the opium should have been.
Mr. Deangs-The evideque is brought to show it was not on the Lai Sang.
His Worship Afterwards a search was made?
Subsequent Offence Not"
Evidence.
The case is fixed to come off on Thursday next.
a
Perjury Every Day, Addressing the Recorder in recent caso of perjury at the Old Bailey counsel for the defence remarked that cases of this parti- cnlar character were rare.
only in its relation to the Ameri- can position in the Far East the Mr. Dennya:-Yos subsequent
Insular Commission have bad to ly, Evidence of a subsequent The Recorder: What, rare? grapple solely with local problems. offence is no evidence to show Perjury is committed before me This orestes a novel situation my client's knowledge before. is almost every case which I try whereby one portion of the go-
Mr. Hodgeon-Now you are
on the export permit again..
vernment is hampered in its for-
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In sentencing the prisoner to eign relations because of the Havezno Rillos, Shotguns, Mr. Dennge: This does not twelve month'e hard labour, the Philippines, which it does not apply to the question at all; it Recorder said he was sorry to say directly control, and the other is Camera, Biogole, Faddies, Cartridges, applies to opium stored. I am that perjury by persons accused hampered in the internal govern- Major Martin, Station Hotel, Kowloon, not charged with having opium. 1 of orime was of repeated coeur ment by the external relations am charged with not having rence, committied practically every equally out if its control. It will opium there on a certain date, day that he sat in the court and a be for the new administration to Mr. Hodgson:You you are similar observation had been end this either by more complete- Mr. DennysMy friend has made by other judges in differently amalgamating the islands with pot added any charge under the parts of the country.
(Continued on page 10
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