THE DIAMOND RINGS CASE.
Pawnbroker Regalas Valuable
Property.
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WAR ITEMS.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1914.
both men and ammunition ara be- ing brought up. It is believed that the casualties on the German side cannot be far short of 100,- A Now Type of German Ship.000 between the gas and Arras.
burg at the end of October stated.
Copenhagen reports from Ham. Misuse of Passports.
Answering a complaint" from that the Germans were busily en-Sir Cecil Spring Rice, the British, geged in building a ship of a new Ambassador to America, that type, combining the qualities of many Germans are receiving pass- The case concerning the owner a submarine and destroyer. The ports from Germany to England ship of two diamond rings came work was being done in secret. through the American Embassy before the Obief Justice, Sir It is stated that the principle and Conenlater, the U. S, State William Rees Davies, K. C., at embodied in the boat will give it Department ways that, while the the Supreme Court, this morning. immense rapidity and mobility, problem of American officials in In connection with the owner-The bow of the boat is armoured Germany is a difficult one, all ship of the rings, Tong Yin, and is provided with a ram. The will be cautioned to use the stric partner in the firm of Toung chief object of the type is to des-test vigilance to prevent passporte Hang Co., Macao, brought an ao tray open y submarines. in fature from falling into the tion against the Capt. Superin.
hands of persons not entitled to tendent of the Police of Hong-
them.
Judge's Way With the Huns.. Addressing the Grand Jury af
Worcestershire Assizes Mr. Jus tice Ridley said that when we had victory in the European war we most make an end of spies. The German nation appeared to dream that they could conquer Europe
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LC.C. and Concrete Floors. At the London County Council kong, claiming that he detained.recently, Mr. Reynolds enquired and was cotsining, two diamond whether attention had been paid rings, and asking for the return to the building operations of of them or their value, $4,500. German firms of recent years to Arising out of that claim, sa derertain if foundations of undue order nas made by Mr. Justice strength had been put down Gompertz that the rings should Mr. Wood replied that the Build- remain in the custody of the ing Act Committee had made an Captain Superintendent of Police investigation and a few such in- by a system of espionage. Weed to use the strictest vigilance to and that the costs incurred by cidents in strategical situations would have no more of that prevent passports in future from bim in the matter should boa had been referred to the military. Secondly, he hoped that with falling into the hands of persons first charge upon the jewellery, eatborities.
not entitled to them.-Renter.
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Russian Fleet.
regard to the outrages committed in Beglium, we should insist that some officers of the German army should be harged in the streets
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Von Moltke "Il,
of
IN
French Grit.
drastic regulations under the War Precautions Act. The con- travention of any of these regula tions renders a person liable to bo court-martialled and imprison- Brisbane has removed a Gorman ed for life. The Executive at from the Commission of Peace for disloyal conduct.
Germany's Huge Losses. "Telegrams from Berlin to Indicator of the Empire has pub. Zurich newspapers state that the
which shows that during the lished the fiftieth casualty list, first six weeks of the war 251,000 Germans wera hora de combat, wounded 158,165, and missing the killed numbering 35,531,
hundred and eighty-five officers 55,522. Two thousand three
were killed.
Li Yao, a pawnbroker, claimed 3rd Battalion London Scottish, that he was entitled to the ringa, olonel J. W. Greig, O.B., and Tong Yia disputed the claim, M.P., announces that when the
and M. Sarraut, who left to-day Paris, October 27.-M. Briand and it was consequently ordered 2nd Battalion of the Londen Lovain.
for Bordeaux after their tour in that an issue should be tried Scottish leaves headquarters at
the East of France, are much btween Li Yau-chuen as plain- Buckingham-gate, the authorities
It is officially confirmed at impressed by the terrible scenes tiff, and Tong Yiu as defendant, will favourably consider the rais- Amsterdam that von Moltke is in of devastation which they for the purpose of deciding which ing of a third battalion.
dying condition and has been witnessed, but also by the invinc of them was entitled to the rings.
Mr.Eldon Polter, instructed by On the outbreak of the war oher. It was generally expected by the inhabitants. Nowhere takon home to Berlin on a strat ible hope in the future manifested had four battleships that the Kaiser would have did they hear a single complaint, Mr. W. E. L. Shenton, of Messi, Russia Deacon, Looker, Deacon; and approaching completion, to say appointed him field-marshal. It The peasants only said, "It was Earston, appe: red for the plain-ething of a number of torpedo is said that von Moltke's condition inevitable; but we shall have the tiff and the di fendant was un-craft. It must be assumed that has been made wirse on account best of it, shan't we?" The every effort is being made in the of the failure of his plane to Ministers bring back a touching represented.
Mr. Fotter said that he had dockyards to complete as many as reach Paris.
This failure has account of the last farewell which received a letter from the solici- possible of these new ships, kindled the Kaiser's anger,
they took of their colleague, tor for the other aide, Mr. Leo Eventually the Russians will have
An earlier Reuter message from Senator, Reymond, when they d'Almada e Castro, this morning, at the'r dispose! no fewer than Amsterdam quctes
an official no longer eight battleshipe, of which four Berlin telegram, which says:— arrived at the hospital whither stating that he was
the dying aviator had beau
Colonel Ulrich, Dr. Vableander, instructed. These proceedings will te vessels of the Dreadnought
"It is announced from the conveyed. The latter, bolding and a student named Kahr have were originally before the learned typo. These new units are ships Great German Headquarters that out his hand, taid, "Well, it is been sentenced to terms of im Paisne Judge and were adjourned of 23,000 tops displacement, General von Molike is suffering over. I hope you won't forget espionage in favour of the
order that the defendanta mounting 42 12-in. guns, 64 from liver and bilious trouble. me."
prisonment Lausanne for might procure evidence as to the 4.7-in. quick-fires, and 32 smaller There is no reason for anxiety. weapons. They are thoroughly General von Moltke is well cared The case tarned upon the well-built ships, designed to steam for at the Great General Elead. possession and the right of at 23 knots, and they are well quarters, and the state of his
of
two diazaond armoured, the belte having a health has already greatly im possession
were given to maximum thickness of 11 in. proved. ringa which
man by the plaintiff, with When these four battleships are
Macao law on the matter.
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"The Minister of War, General
First V, C..
certs in powers. The man went completed and pass into commis. Falkenhays, has been charged te Macao and, gambling, pledged eion, Germany will have opposed with General von Moltke's office the rings in a gembling house st to her a naval force of consider-se Chief of the Staff." Macao. He lost the rings, and able strength.. the owner of the gambling house Where our Sailors are Interned. came to Hongkong for the purpose of realising on the rings and went to the identical pawnshop, the owner of which had entrusted them to the man who gambled.
The Captain Superintendent of Police had interpleaded and the present action had arisen,
a
"A resident spy as a rule is doctor, engineer, small shop keeper, shop assialant, clerk, bair- dresser, tobacconist, hotel waiter, or hotel manager,
"Reater's Special,
M. Maeterlinck Suggests German "Hostage Towns.” Maurice Maeterlinck, after stating Writing in the Figaro M. that the Grando Place, the. Hotel de Ville, and the Cathedral in Brussels are mined, and that the Germans are ready to blow thom up at any moment, asks why the Allies should not decide upon German hostage towns, which would answer stone for stone for the Allies' cities..
If Brussels, for instance, were destroyed, Berlin would be razed to the ground. Hamburg would disappear if Antwerp were devas tated, while Nurnburg would guarantee Bruges, and Munich would go bail for Ghoạt,
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the arrival in Europe of Canadian Paris, October 26,Discussing troops to serve the cause of the Allies, the Temps remarks on the strange turn in history by which the blood of British Canadians will be shed for France and the blood of French Canadiana, for The Dutch have chosen
The first Victoria Cross in the
England. "No one can say," it continues," that those who fall pleasant places (says a correspond present war was awarded to Sgt.
will die for their Mother Country ent) for the internment of the Major While, of the Army Service English who have been forced to Corps, for displaying magnificent
of yesterday or for that of to-day, cross into their neutral territory. gallantry at Le Catean. He was
for the two ancient rivals are now Groningen is a town of fine houses hit in both legs but rescued an
closely united to defend and wide, clean streets, in which officer. It was White who carried
liberty of the world. There is enough sixteenth century houses the late Lieut. Roberts from the
perhaps no finer lesson nor more He served
splendid chapter in the annals of Mr. Jorge, a legal practitioner remain to give it an old-world air. fire zone at Colenso."
Munchausen's Latest. oirilised peoples than this final at Macao, said that assuming a Gardens and promenades abound for eleven years in India and re- servant was entrusted with certain on the ncr.h'aide of the town and enlisted for the war. He is the
The last word in German men reconciliation after age-long diamond rings, to negotiate fcr in the centre lies a group of open holder of five medale.
dacity is found in a proclamation quarrels. The liberal civilien- How German Spies Work. which has been placarded in three tions have developed on paralle eale, and he improperly took them spaces, chief among them the
Mr. Edwin Knight, who resided languages in Brussels. It rang: lines, while tiermany, enslaved to a fantan shop, pledged them large market square, in which the and gambled with the proceeds, French Republicans planted their for many years in Brussels, gives Paris being infected by to feadal Prassia, militarising the fastan shop would not have tree of liberty in 1705-Sunday his personal experience of the cholera, the Kaiser has withdrawn her universities, and deifying working of the German spy his troops, and has permitted force, has returned to barbarism." acquired property in the rings as Chronicle
Wireless Hidden in Vine. system in a letter to the Times, them to winter in Berlin, where against the real owner Thie was
Halifax (N.S.), Cotobar 29. He says:-
they will enjoy the repose they provided for both in the civil and oriminal codes of Portuguese law. Three Germans have been arrest-
bave so nobly earned," says, the His Lordship gave judgment for ed here for operating & wireless
Daily Telegraph, The precise the plaintiff with costs and made telegraphy installation the ant
form of the lie is regarded as an order allowing for the costs of ennae of which were not suppor:-
significant, as it seems to prepare. the Captain Superintendent of ed, as usual, by a pole, but, in
German opinion for a possible. "When the German Army pro-retreat. Police, and certified for the services order to soupe observation, of three expert witnesses whom trailed from a third-story window, gressed through Belgium we were Jadians' First Taube,
concealed amid vine-branches. amazed to find that people whom, Paria, October 31, stirring the plaintiff had retained.
Are Carpentier's Fighting
we bad known for years-mem- little episode which was recently Days Over?
bers of our clubs were spies. It witnessed in a French town in Confirmation of the report that was no uncommon sight to fad the war area is being talked about Carpentier, the famous French the German troops led into a here to day. A Taube aeroplane boxer, is wounded, comes from village by a German who had which was passing over the Privalo J. Lael, of the 1st been so long established there church dropped a bomb, which Cameronians, who writes to a that people had quite forgotten fell on the back of a horse. The Unfortunate Plight Due to War, friend in Glasgow na follow his nationality. La other cases, animal was torn to pieces. Some "Ism on the way down to St. the soldiers were shown their way people who were standing by Nazaire with 2,500 German pri- about by former residents of were also struck, more or less Harbin, Nov. 21.
sonore and a number of British German nationality, who had seriously, by splinters. The The position of the Chinese and French wounded, Carpentier, found out all they wanted and Taubs meanwhile continued on Government Sugar Factory locate the fighting man, is one of the had gone back to Germany, cor- its course, and passed over the ed in Harbin goes from bad to wounded. I think his fighting responding meanwhile with Ger-railway station, in which was worse. The crop of beet seems days are done.
Our mana of the class I have standing a xain filled with Indien doomed to go to rot, because there casualties are mostly caused by mentioned.
soldiers. The Taube was shown are no experts for making the German artillery fire, which is "Naturalisation is regarded by to them, and independent fire Bugar.. Notwithstanding the very accurate. As far as infantry Germans as a matter of business was quickly opened on it. A efforts of the Chinese author, and cavalry is concerned they convenience, and numbers of those moment later the German aircraft ities to get back their German very seldom come within striking | who naturalised themselves in the fell into a field some distance employees who
are intera distance of each other, and most Allied countries went back to Ger- away. No doubt it was carrying ed in Hulan, the Russian of the bayonet charges you read many and are now fighting against more bombs, because as the authorities, and rightly too, roof are only sock and ball stories: Belgium, England, and France." teroplane struck the ground main obdurate. Should one of There is a big move coming of British Ambassador's Protest to there was a terrific explosion and them dare place his foot in the very shortly, I believe, on the
Washington.
the three aviatora who were in Russian railway area, he will be result of which will greatly de- Washington, October 27-An- the machine were torn to ad- arrested and shipped off to pond how much longer this war swering a complaint from Sir recognisable shrede, Irkutak as a prisoner.
Osoil Spring Rice, the British Australia's Way With Aliens, 100,000 German Casualties.. Ambassador, that many Germans Melbourne, October 31.The at a very low abb, and with the
North-East France, Oct. 22 ore receiving passports from Ger- Victorian Cabinet has found the present talries, running antil There has been loss artillery many to England through the charges brought against two controls expire, it is doubtful fire to-day along the Nieuport American Embassy and Con- German employees of the whether funds will admit the Dizmude line. It is believed that eulates, the State Department University unsubstantiated, but engaging of expert labour from the Germans, after the prodigal saya that while the problem of a third alien who considered to other parts of the world.-N. C. expenditure of the past week, are American officials in Gormany is have acted indiscreetly. The
short of ammunition, Reserves of
a difficult ons, all will be caution- Federal Executive has issued
CHINESE SUGAR FACTORY AT HARBIN.
The finances of the factory sre
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were
At the annual drawing for debentures at the U.S.R.C. on Saturday, 5th December, 1914, the following numbers drawn for redemption. ****
Numbers-3, 4, 8, 25, 27, 37, 49, 50, 55, 56, 60, 61, 63, 65, 69, 72, 81, 90, 93, 101.
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