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HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1914,
Committee. He played back for LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
the 17th Lancers when that re- giment won the Inter-Regimental Tournament eleven years ago.
The following are the ordere Lord Woodhouse, who has joined of the day for to-morrow'a meet- the 18th Laucers, Captain Belling of the Legislative Council - ville's regiment, Lord Rookes vage, Firat reading of a Bill entitled who has rejoined his old Corps, An Ordinance to amend the the 9th Lancers, and Captain Alien Enemies (Winding up) Hardrese Lloyd, who caplained Or ivanos, 1914, and provide the English team in America for the protection of public officers in 1911, are all famous polo in certain cases. This Bill will Others go through all its stages at this are Capt. "Bivy Grenfell and meeting Captain Francia Grenfell, the former killed in action and the latter wounded in a V, C. affair.
Of polo men who have fallen in sotion we have to mourn Major V. R. Brooke, Captain Lucas
men at the front...
First reading of a Bill entitled An Ordinance to amend the Defences (Sketching Prevention) Ordinance, 1895.
PRIZE COURT.
A UNIQUE CASE
Was the Paklat on
Philanthropic Mission P"
.
paragraph 14 of the affidavit.
His Lordship-It resolves itself into a question as to whether. or not it is a philanthropio mission.
VOLUNTEER ORDERS.
Corpe Orders issued to-day
Mr. Potter agreed and remarked
by there was no authority on the Lient-Col. A. Chapman, V. D., point, boosnes casas had not state arison which would give rise to authorities. Ho submitted that mission, andoubtedly a human the Paklat was on a philanthropic iterian one, and, that being what the Convention mesat, was exempt from capture.
dealing with a mission to succour Mr. Potter quoted an authority
Justice, Sir William Rees Davies, Tois morning, the Chief K.U., aiting in Prize Juris diation, had before him the case of the steamship Paklat, Capt. Zollner, master, an application for the condemnation of which was made by the Crown. The case ia of unusual interest, and Firat reading of a Bill entitled one which will, we are informed, An Ordinance to amend the Re-possibly be unique in the present the ship was on a philanthropie the Hague Convention, ships on couring non-combatanta, women mission at the time, and, under ted that a fortiori the ship sao Mr. Potter agreed and submit
ligious errands are exempt from empt.
Franklin, the great explorer.
· London, Oct. 30.
1909. ed an Ordinance to amend the First reading of the Bill'entitl
1884.
Prisoners of War: Paris, Out. 23,The Petit
capture.
mission to succour Sir Edward His Lordship suggested that B Shackleton, should such a need
representatives of the Powera
Joined. Pte L. Forster joined the Corps on the 2nd instant posted to Civil Service Company. allotted Corps No. 1708 and Parades. Parades for to- morrow, Thursday 3rd instant: 6.15 am. under Company Officers. exercises under 8. M. Colley, 5.15 pm, N. 0.0's. Musketry
D.OLI. Remainder Route March. pany. Officers on duty, Lieut. Detail-On duty, Scants Com Weall, 2nd Lt. Canningham and
ly Sergeant to-night, Sergt. Mur- Guard, Soonte Company. Order 2ad Lieut. Swire. To furnish
So far as one can make out then, and was unwilling to accept our gallant kinsmen overgess need the German yoke on fairly easy Tooth and Lieut. Allfrey, all of the Orestion Grounda Ordinance, war, as the claimants urged that arise, would similarly be exempt, Zad Lt. Swire. Orderly Officer, cheering up even less than we do terms, the campaign against the Dth Lancers, and the wounded in at home. The men who are do- French was to be prosecuted at nolds and Lieut. Straker. There clado Captain Porter, Captain Rej ing the pioneer work of the Brit-loisare in the South while ish Empire do not suffer from Germany hold Belgium and the is not a polo player, a M.F.E., or Medical Registration Ordinance, philanthropio, scientific and re- and children, abould also bé ex- doch; to-morrow Sergt. Hegarty, nerves. They may be glad to North and used the Channel a steeple-chaser who has not gone bear that, in spite of all the coast to harass, if not to invade, into khaki, even though he was twaddle that has been talked and England and to eat of communt not already in the Service. Three written about the degeneracy of cations with France. Slow-mov. steople chasers who have been is no sign of nerves in the afer France had been beaten to of the Coldstream Guards, Cap- the homekeeping Briton, there ing Russis was to be dealt with killed are Lieut. Peroy Wyndham, Old Country either. On the her kneen, and England, the real lain Springfield of the Queen's contrary, we are keeping warm enemy and object of envenomed Bays, and Lieut. hearte and cool heads, and German hatred and apiteful Crespigny, also of the Bays. Commission for the inspection of Messrs. Deacon, Looker, Desoon intended to be provided for, it Wakeman, Commanding .. every weak that passes confirma Jealousy, waa to have her handeCaptain C. W. Banbury, who has the prisoners of all natione. Such and Baraton, appeared for the would be stated in express terms. V.R., state: and justifies our incurable op-fall with the rebellions German died of wounde, was another commission would send delegates claimants, the Norddeutscher- It was a big order, so to speak. firism.. No one under-rates this gold and intrigue had stirred up steeple chater, and so was Cap- to German, French, and British Lloyd
Mr. Potter could not see that crisis. It is the biggest thing in in her Oversea Dominions. Thattain Christie Miller, who has been towns in which prisoners are
The Attorney General asid be it was a big order. our rough island story by a long was the master plan.
badly wounded. But it is impor-quartered..
would make two submissions in chalk. The stupendous horrore
sible even to survey casually the M. Dasplas suggests that the law. The first was that the flag giam: thousands of helpless His Lordship-Take Bel-
ready. Apart from the incalcal-fing the, Channel coast has been have already given their glorious be the president of the commisly speaking, conclusive against land, to Folkestone, as many as Ground on Friday December 4th The new German plan of saiz. list of famous sportsmen who United States Ambassador should which a ship carried was, goneral: Belgians have been sent to Engpanies will parade on the Uricket
The Attorney General, the the words of the article relied on His Lordship pointed out that Hon. Mr. J. H. Kemp, iustruoted Parisien saya: M. Desples, Solicitor, appeared for the Crown, oame to discuss the question of
by Mr. P. M. Hodgson, Orown were general, and when the VOLUNTEER RESERVES. Deputy for Paris, proposes the and Mr. Eldon Poster, instructed the transit of houseless women Norman "de formation of an International by Mr. W. E L. Shenton, of and children, and if it
of it are only too manifest al-
The General Outlook.
manhood to their King and Country.
sion. Reuter.
Was
Orders issued to-day by låsjor
Orderly Hoom of the Volunteer Orderly room. The Office and
Reserves have been removed to the Volunteer Headquarters.
Paradea-Nos. 1, 2 and 3 Com-
Poland, and East Prussia, the movement, and the French troops Every player who figured in the menting on President Emeritus #33.onomy roperty and liable to plura, it should form the sub-this parade the laspacing Officer"
colossal cost of the
cold iron and steel.
No fewer than 90 per cent. of the active members of our Ragby Football Clubs are at the front. International matches of the last two seasons is, without a single exception, either in the Navy or
.
Dr. Ellot Called Anti-German Leader. Munsterberg, of Harvard, in com Boston, Oct. 17.-Prof. Hugo
Eliot's statement that the United States would ult pately have to come to the aid of the allies in
"I call Doctor Eliot the Isader
many. For my part, I stand by a better undera'anding of Ger- all I have said."
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capture and condemnation.
His LordshipIa this going to be contested?
to
the ownere, as evidence of its ten or twelve thousand at a time at 5 pm. Dross:Drill Order. national character, and if a mer. If it was intended that a ship N. U, 0.5, will parade on ohant ship had an enemy flag it which carried all those re the Cricket Ground on Tuesday was conclusive evidence that it fugees was to be exempt from December 8tu at 5.15 p.m. At ject of distinot provisions the will decide whica N, U. U. s. sre Convention.
Mr. Potter could not see why.excused farther attendande at suficiently profiorent are His Lordship:You are quite thess parades. Tas attendanos of right to argue that, but I see a hole N. UU.'s. who are passed great difference between that and au expedition with the object of
out will subsequently bo science,
voluntary #or, generally, the The Attorney General pointed
on
object of philanthropy.
decision to the effect that ** cenevolence," might mean good-
The Hague
Convention contemplated" "sume
able incidental losses the whole an expensive failure. The Allies, world is suffering in its trade and Belgians, French and British, commerce, the cruel ruin and de- with the Flest energetically shell- solation that has swept over Beling the Germans from the sea, gium, a large part of Franco, have decisively crushed that mere are now making impressive head- upkeep of the armies and way on the extreme esst flank of navios engaged, which patient the far-stretched battle in France.
Mr. Potter:-Oh no; my Lord. etatisticians work out at about It is never safe to prophesy, but with the Artay. Some magnificent/Europe, said to-day:
The Attorney General said he £8,000,000 a day, think of the everything points to a German re-footballers have "gone out" in the hideous loss of life and limb. treatinto Belgium, and our soldiers tragio sense, including Captain of the anti-German party in was going to submit that, apart from the flig, the vessel was liable There has been nothing like it, as well as the French are confid-Wilson, Lieut. Simon, Lient. Americs. By his recent atter-
to condemnation as being the in the history of the world. The ent of it. The Belgians have Huggan and others. The cricketers ances Doctor Elio: has aggravated
Field Day. Postponed from nearest approach to it was in the fought pluckily and doggedly, are doing their share, too. Mr. Opposition to and misunderstand property of a German limited dawn of European civilisation, and ramour has it that the Ger J. W. H. T. Douglas is with the that this discassion will lead to the captura was admitted, so that, out that there was no evidence to The full strength of Nos. 1, 2 and ing of Germany. Let us hope
He understood that 'company.
Ling on Sunday, December 6th. Nov. 22ad will take place at Fan when the Macedonians and the mans get little quarter from them. Army and Mr. O. B. Fry is with Romans waged wars of conquest It will be a great satisfaction to the Navy. Captain the Hon. F. S.
ship would have to be condemned. They left Taingtau by the ship Cricket Ground at 3.50 am, no
the facts, be submitted the
prove the poverty of the refugees. 3 Companies will parade on the and domination, and mea fought the Belgian troops and to their
Jackson now commande the
Mr. Potter referred his Lordabip not because they could not pay marobing order, bus without eye to eye and hand to hand with heroic King to take part in the Reserve Battalion of the 7th West
to the section of the Hague Con- their fare by train, but because ammunition. Water bottles to £3 operations against the Germans Yorkshire Regiment. And so the
vention upon which his contention, the trains were overorowded. The filled and luncheon carried in the This is the 88th day of the war, that will eventually turn them table goes on, and the casualty and it is a low conservative out of Belgian soil for good. lists reveal the names of famous same time attempted to reach the capture, was based, and then of saving valuable property, which that the ship was exempt from expedition might have the effect
haversack. estimate that since the first shot Meanwhile the Russians have won footballers, cricketers, golfere, Fatherland, but they were arrest read the affidavit of Capt. Zollner, would otherwise be captured at was fired nearer three the two the battle of the Vistula and the hookey players and boxers. The ed as prisoners of war and areThisstated inter alia that the ship, the sad of or during the siege. million men bave fallen. This is San, and the Germans, who were latter have suffered very heavily, now interned in the South of whose port of registry was Bremen, Mr. Potter said the ship was that what they did was done from "Armageddon" with a vengeance. valiantly advancing on Warsaw, Last year's heavyweight cham- France.
loft Tsingtan for Tientsin on to be used, and properly used, for philanthropic moves and not But the day of reckoning will have been driven back about 70 pion of the Army, Captain M. P.
"Twas a Famous Victory."
August 21, having on board 260 housing, in Tientsin, houseless as a matter of business--and come. And when it comes that miles with heavy losses. All this Lehy, of the R.A.M.O., is missing, No-one seems to have noted the German women and children, and penniless German womenand unless they did that, they would reckoning will be exacted to the points to the beginning of the and Captain B.B. Selby, of the 5th fact that the sand dunea amidst refugees from Tsingtau. They e ildren. There was destitution uttermost farthing. We hear no second phases of this war, in which Fusiliers, one of the best light which the Germans have been bad to go by ship because the in Tientsin and it was a well- jail. Counsel pointed out 8" deplorables who are an insignifi- be confined to a mere defensive, ed. Major W. O. Obriatis, of the bave been shelled by the Allied other nationalities, including and children were destitate as the will to one person, bus "pouan- more talk from the long-haired the depleted German armies will weights in the Service, in wound-fighting and from which they trains were overcrowded. All known fact that German women cant handful in London, but know and a hopeless one. This will be between Regimen, the warships, are the line of hille British, went by train. The Captain result of war. He was not relying thropic indicated goodwill to how to make their voices heard, the test not only of the endurance been killed. He was one of the finking the famous Belgian goll had on board with him an open on the fact that the Paklst was manand at inge about not humiliating Germany, of the German armies but of the keenest of sportsmen, a soldier-links at Knocke-sur-Mer. The crowds in the London true temper of the German rider under National Hunt Rales,ther along ia the almost equally Teigtau to the effect that theto Tiestein, but that the ship was thug generally phusnthropic and
Far letter from the Governor of carrying the women and children streets have watched the motor people. There is not the least and a splendid long-distance well-known golf course of Lomship was taking women and to be interned there and used for not merely benevolent. There ambulances roll slowly and doubt about the result..
runner in olden days. He held the barizyde which, though it does not children refugees from Tsingtaa housing the destitute thera silently past with their dreadful Sportsmen at the Front,
record for the Urick at Ragby, provide quite such fine golf as the Tientsin,, that there was no The Attorney General, while done in the case of the Paklat The new Badminton has an/ Two years ago he ran a long; } championship links, atirac's every/contraband on board, and that 100 commenting on the absence of was in any way oltraistic. This freight of swathod and shattered mon. The homes of England, interesting article on Sportsmen distatice race with the men and year a large number of golfers tons of coal stately and otherwise, have each at the Front. Really the term officere of his Company and finish from England, The official guide carried in the No. 2. hold. esid that in the case of scientific 100 was not one
being direct authority on the matter, their vanished faces. If the voice sportsman applies to every in-ed an easy first in spite of his books tell us that the hazırda on The captain hade sapato in expeditions, the authorities seem of imbecility or treachery raised dividual Tommy at the front. forty years. This is the type of these links are "mostly high sandstructions from the Tington Good to show that safe conduals were iteelf in London or England to What our officers and men have sportsman who is inspiring the dunes covered with marrem Terror to fly the German colours obtained before the expedition day it is highly probable there endured, and the way they have British Army to-day to do deeds grass." Amidst these danes, and the parliamentary Bag toeet ont. That was so in the 0300 would be a salutary public endured it, demonstrates once and that will for ever enshrine the where in more peaceful time men stop when called upon, and to of a French explorer who obtained lynching.
for all that the national traditions valour of British arme in the in Norfolk suits may be teen hard show the ship's lights at night. permission from the British Go- Germany's Game. *
of this island and of the cause of freedom.min
at work with their niblicks, the
In answer to His Lordship, Mr. vernment, before he set out It is possible now to piece to, Empire are aadimmed, and that It is reported that Mr. Anthony soldiery of Europe have been Potter pointed out that gether with reasonable accuracy our fibre is as heroic, under our Wilding, the New Zealand looked in a life and death strugmentary flag" was the continental this case that the claimants were "parlia-There was nothing to show in Germany's moves in this fright-modern veil of flippancy, as lawn tennis player, who, until the gle. When ancient cathedrals term for a flag of truce, and, con not paid by the passengers or by ful game. She had prepared ever. Indeed human nature hae coming of Norman Brookes laat are being destroyed and whole tinuing, said that the instructions the Teingian Government, which for this war with steady and proved to the world and itself summer had made a monopoly towns are being razed to the were strictly carried out. The seemed to have taken a prominent insistent cunning for many years. on the plaine of France that it is of English honoura in something ground, the destruction of even a purpose for which the voyage part in the expedition, and, in It was bound to come, because se enduring and indomitable as after the manner of the incom- championship golfcourse neemt & Germany meant to have it. She in the age of iron. If the full parable Dohertyn, has been given very small matter. But followers from Taingiau to Tientsin and
was made was to take refugees fact, supplied by the Government. did not scatter gan platforms o'er story could be told of the fighting in the field. No details of may well, wonder whit the links the refugees who were without including a quantity of chame to press.
a commission for his gallantry of the Royal and Ancient game there to intern the ship so that file that there were atores on board, a smiling land and organise her at La Bassee, where our men his exploits have come to at Kwoko sur-Mer will look like means could be housed on board, pagne. That would not be supplied spies in every capital merely for drove the Germans back, fighting defensive purposes. Her North from house to house, in a grim hand, but those who know when the Battle of the Coast bas the ship being fitted up expressly to poverty-stricken refugees, Ses fleet, her airships and her struggle that lasted for days, we his great force of character been lost and won. There will for that purpose, monster guns were not intended should have an epic indeed. The and his indomitable fighting not be much of the beautifal His Lordship. They are going captain's.
Mr Potter Those are the for the defence of the heartha and Badminton admits the imposs spirit can understand that Le was velvety greens left when the Got to enggest that this was a phil- The Attorney General:-They homes of the Fatherland. She ibility of doing justice to the bound to distinguish himself. man Jack Johnsous" and our authropic mission is there any have not been claimed.
for conquest and sportemen at the front. From The New Zealander was in naval shells have done their dispute as to the facta?
Mr. Poiter:-They have been MATbe moment Sir John French downwards, Americs with the Australasian work. In years to come, when The Attorney General I claimed and refused.
ASHIFT ENGINEER(Marine earlier than they are all sportsmen. The Davis Cup team at the time war we search for our lost golf balls don't think so, my Lord, except The Attorney General pointed out at the
Bagineer, preferred) is required sho desired. But she British Field Marshal is an was declared, but he returned amidst the "sand dunes covered in minute details. I don't that Captain Zollner had instruc
Electrio Company's Generating Station. No objection seized it with ruthless deter enthusiastic hunting man, Smith almost immediately to England with ma ram-graag we may see any evidence of the poverty of tions from the Taingiau Govern to Larried men. First appilos mination. The plan was to over Doirien was a keen polo player,
and at once anlisted. The Ger. whelm France and hold Peris. If and so was Sir Douglas Haig, whois man lawn tennis representatives, some sad relics to reminds of
come, like little Peterkin, upon the refugees.
ment, and they did not merely details of experience and rating, tion, in writing accompanied by the French Republic still resisted chairman of the Hurlingham Polo Froitzheim and Kroitzer, at the "a famous victory!
Mr Potter-It says so in contribute towards the expedition to Station Superintendent, Gen-
It was for the claimants to show. arating Station, Wanchal,
W&B out
oame
W
ware
was no evidence that what was
which
would come within the Hague
Convention; it was not philan chrupic, it was not altruisto, and they ought to move obisiueda este sundues from the bruish
Coverament
last point, remarked that nothing Mr. Potter, dealing with the was aid in the Convention aboni Boouring safe conducta, - If it Wential, the effect of the Convention was neghgible, be- passports conlu be obtained in most of the events under re His Lordship: see on my The hearing was proceeding as
VLOW.
TO-DAY'S ADVERTISEMENT.