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SPECIAL CABLES,
BANK NOTE
THE CHINESE LOAN.
REPUDIATED BY SENATE.
A Sensational Development.
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[Our Own Correspondent.]
Shanghai, April 30, The Chinese Senate yesterday
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30, 1913.
unsuspecting Chinese was waiting!
IMPRESSIONS. for the forty eight hours to trans-
Serious Charges against an Austrian
After we had gone to press yesterday, the following iran- spired in the course of the hearing of the charges of being in posses- sion of bank note impressions, and also of being in unlawful posses sion of an automatic pistol and ammunition, which are being a native of Austria-Hungary, who preferred against Auston Hauler,
was arrested in one of the hotels in Hongkong last week.
pire, he would have decamped with the genuine ones. Continu- ing, Mr Lewis said that the police. were informed that the defendant was armed and that he had said that he would shoot at sight.
After Mr Woigal had concluded his ovidence, tho adjourned.
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Was
Further evidence in the case was taken by MrC. D. Melbourne late this afternoon.
UNPOPULAR FRUIT.
Epicures' Choice Rejected by
Man in the Street,
conservative
Probably our tastes in food-stuffs are responsible for the comparative failure of the attempt to popularise the deli- cious grape fruit in this country, saya a Ilome paper.
passed a resolution by 102 votes to 69 repudiating the Loan, which was signed between tho Chinese Government and this Quintuple
Mr. Lewis, continued his ex- Group of Bankers on Saturday.
planation of the modus operandi of the defendant and said that in The grounds on which they the course of the defendant's passed the resolution were that interview with Waigal, the former that the Cubinot's explanation of intimated suficiently that it was the Loan being signed without re-amatter of somedanger and amat ter that had to be kept very quiet. ference to Parliament was unsatis- Mr. Weigal, from the tone of the comes of the citrus family, hus The large globular fruit, which factory.
defendant's remarks, came to the boon imported in such large quan- conclusion that the defendant tities lately, that it has found its wished him to join with him in way to the barrows of the coster- some criminal conspiracy of some monger. But liking for grape sort, but whatever the nature of fruit is an acquired taste, and, it was he could not quite under-while its devotees will pay high stand, and either informed the prices for it, the man in the street manager, or some other official will not touch it, even at the low of the Diary Farm, of the affair.price of three-ball-pence.
As one disgusted street trader
A DIVIDED CHINA.
PROSPECTIVE SOUTHERN
"PRESIDENT",
[Our Own Correspondent.]
The Process.
on the
This official, at Mr. Weigal's reput it: "They opens the fruit and Shanghai, April 30 Ohen Teli chaau, tho Tatuh of gost, rang up the Captain thinks they're going to find it as Kiangau, has not left Shanghai Mr. Waigal informed him of the be a fine thing if directions were
Superintendent of Polico, and sweet as an orange."
"It would sinco despatching the telegram little he then koew. Inspecgiven to all purchasers, for pre- of the 26th, to President Yuan, or Wett thou came the Cabinet and Parliament, stat- scenie, and, as the result of an that is necessary is to out the paration is simplicity itself. "All ing the results of the investig- the latter saw this man again and enough castor sugar to "take the interview he had with Weigal, frait through and serve it with ation of the documents in the ho told him that he thought he edge off." Sung Chao-jen murder case. could introduce him to a rich
It is reported that the Kuo-Chinaman, but before he did so mingtang is pressing him to be he wanted to know what was come "President of South China". wanted of him, and what the défendant was going to do. After further parley ho showed him what he was going to do Defendunt sail he could make
UP A TREE.
Taking Observations with a View į banknotës
to Business.
A Chinese named Wong Chin was charged by Inspector Gerrard, at the Police Court, this morning. with being a rogue and vagabond at Yaumati
A
Constable Wilson said he found the defendant up a tree at 2 a.. outside tho police station.
Mr. Hezeland asked why defen dant had chosen this particular spot?
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novelty which does not command Grape fruit is not the only street sale. Not long ago red- skinned bananas, which have delicious flavour, were a feature of the costers' barrows, but, though offered at a ridiculously small price, found surprisingly and asked for little patronage. So with the de- banknote adding that he could licious mango, which has been make others from it. Defendant selling for two a penny in St. showed him, or made in his Luke's, and finding none too presence, reverse copies of bank many purchasers at that. The process would be explained notes from the genuine binknote.
by Mr Weigal. Now, what he did was to soak the original banknote in some oil or essences which had the power of loosening the ink of the banknote, and thon place it between a double sheet of paper.
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The Reverse Impression, Inspector Gerrard said he ap The two pieces of raper and the peared to be taking observations, banknote were pressed for some with a view to entering one of the short time and after the pr sure houses. Defendunt had come was applied, and the paper opened from Canton.
there was the reverse impression. Mr. Hazeland: He evidently as his Worhip would see, of the did not know it was the police original banknote. The idea then station. Surely he would not being, that having once got this think of breaking into that? impression from the original bank- Inspector Gerrard said defend-note on to these two pieces of Bat could see into the windows of paper, he would then placeanother the houses in the locality. piece of paper similar to the paper Defendant said he got up the on which banknotes were printed, tree to watch the festival, think-first of all treating this impres- ing the police would pot notice siva with essencen him, as be had been moved on "loceen the ink between them THE H. A. L. Steamship. just previous to that.
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." ALEBIA,” Inspector Gerrard :-The fes The impression would go Captain G. Habel, having arrived. tival finished at 11 p.m. He was through the treated paper Cansigases of Cargo are hereby informed up there at two in the morning. Dn to the clean sheet, and that their goods are being landed and Defendant was sentenced to a then he would have a duplicate placed at their risk in the hazardons month's hard labour and he was banknote. That was how he got and/or extm-hazardous Godowns of the recommended for deportation. it and that was how he explained Hongkong & Kowloon Whart & Optional Cargo will be forwarded on to Mr. Weigal, he could do it.odowa Company Limited, whence unless intimation is received from the STOLEN ORNAMENT.
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Be showed him the first part of the process, but the second signod. part, where he could reverse the anless notice to the contrary be given Optional Cargo will be carried on At the Police Court, this morn- him. He explained to Weigal
impression, he would not show -day,
All claims must be presented within 10 ing, two boys were charged that this was not the way in which days of the steamer's arrival here, after betore Mr Hazeland stealing a gold medallion from a He was going to explain to the
with he was going to make his money. which date they cannot be recognized.
No claims will be admitted, after the house at West Point.
Chinese that in order to get Goods bara left the Godowns, and all Luspeptor Dymond said defend- the frat impression he would Gods remaining undelivered after the ante were shoemaker's apprentices want fifty thousand dollars, a 6th prox.. will be subject to raut. and lived in the same house as the
All broken, obafed, and damaged impression could the complainant, who went away, be got in fifteen minutes and where they will be examined on the fth not Goods must be left in the Godowns, leaving the piece of gold hang- took forty eight hours, to do it. prx. at 9.80 a m. ing near a jo89.
If the Chinese brought him. A pawnbroker's accountant
No Fire Insurance will be effected by said that one of the boys pawned, even ten thousand dollars in as in any ears whatever.
notes, he would treat them in the This steamer bringa on Cargo:- His Worabip told witness that press, telling them that they
proper way and put them in the Ex 88. Goteborg." from Goteborg
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Drammen he must be very careful about ac must not be touched for forty-
Germania" from Goteborg NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD, cepting such things from boys. eight hours, otherwise the air
"Biga"
Portimao *Inspector Dymond: The would get to them pod spoil
"Farl"
Abus pawnshop 18 only ten shops away them. He would get the impress-
HAMBURG-AMERIKA LINIE, from the station, and he could ion for the second ten thousand Hongkong 80th April, 1918 Hongkong Office. easily have let the police know dollars. What he proposed to
[840 about it.
One of the boys said he stole notes they were
do was, knowing how many Regular Steamship Service
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With Liberty to all at the Melbar Coast, other to pawa
would be made up in pockets of Defendants were each ordered one thousand for putting in the eight strokes of the birch.
the gold ornament for $7.
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