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THE HONGKONG – TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, MAY 18, 1915,
A Disorderly Indian Watchman.
Hongkong's Indian watchmen
DAY BY DAY
seem to be, on the whole, s use.THE GREATEST THING IN THE WORLD IS JOY, BUT ONLY THE ful and respectable body of men. STRICKEN KNOW THIS." There are, however, two classes of exceptions: those who think that they can "watch" beat while they are asleep, and those-fort- unately fewer in number who fine. go on duty while under the in- fluence of drink and so render{rain.
AND LEARN HOW TO themselves a nuisance, · and
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being drank and disorderly. Ag to the disorderliness, one could wish that the evidence had been a trifle more explicit, or else that
more witnessed as to the man's behaviour had heen forthcoming For it was alleged that, when reprimanded by a European for being in a drunken condition, the offender attempted to draw his bayonet on the gentleman in quer
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NOTES ON THE CRISIS
THE COAL BRIBERY CASE. The Attorney General had
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Further Details of the
Big Battle.
The so:roity of detail of which
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tion. In the end he was fined ten dollar-pot, we are bound to U. believe, for attempting to draw a weapon on a European, but on drunk and disorderly. For the| |latter offence the fine was a perfeci~] ly reasonable one, butre confess to some amount of curiosity, first as
ing behaviour, and secondly sa to why this was not included in the charge.
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CONTRACTOR
Suggestions Against Staff Sergeant Withdrawn.
gented that this was a delibat attempt to bribe Staff Berg Hawkins. Of course it was
LENIENT SENTENCE ON ARMY liberate in the sense that ar crime is deliberate, but he thou he would be able to sat bis Lordship that it was not liberate in the sense that it thought out and planned at length of time before the offer was committed. The defend entered into the coal basin in February of this year, his si being the Wing On Coul Oc structions, it would appear that was the defendant's venture in the ecal trade. did not know whether it was fact of the outbreak of
at which their netion has been torney General, appeared for the The Hon. Mr. J. H. Kemp, At- engaged, from the Middle Ages to Crown, instracted by Mr. P. M. to-day, and no amount of adverse Hodgson, Crawn Solicitor, Mr. circumstances can knock it out of Eldon Potter instrasted by Mr. them. In this case, even the C. E. H. Bearie, of Mesare, officers of the enemy took upon Wilkinson and Grist, appearing themselves to congratulate the for the defendnot. French general on his men's prowess.
Count the Columns, potentially a danger, to their
we complained yesterday is, to This morning, in the Supreme To neighbours, the second
the Telegraph some extent, stoned for by the Court, the Chief Justice, sitting in Yesterday group belonge the individual). who was brought before My Published, 40 columns of solid belated second half of Eye-Criminal Session, bad before him pany, and, from counsel'r-
reading matter. To-day there witness story, bya certain amount the case in which Wong Kam Lindsell yesterday on a charge of will be 30 published.
of new matter which he has sent Ying was charged that on April 6 through, and by the brief message he did unlawfully attempt to in from Sir John French. The Field cite and induce Staff Sergeant Marshal never goes to extremes, Hawkins, Chief Clerk in the Army his aicaple statement: Fighting in defrauding the Government of as to induce people, who had a fact which adds to the worth of Service Corps, to collude with him made the coal trade so profita
may take also as the most up-to supplied to the Government. contianes in our favour." This we la cartain quantity of cos! to be experience in the trade, to en into it, but this was the defer date of the wife, all the others A second count in the indictant'a frat experiance in t ive nature. being of a more or less retrospect-ment charged him with uttering line of business. The
A French cuial and putting off a certain unter- appeared upon the depositio magnificent success of our ally at to wit an I.O.U. for $100 purported, that the contract he e message tells us more about the taking for the payment of money, and it had not been contrad
Caroney. The quality of " dash" ing to have hoen signed by Staff ered into with the governme is as noticeable as ever, where the Sergeant Hawkins, at the same was so unprofitable for him si French troops are concerned. It time, well knowing it to have it he was compelled to carry it ie a obaracteristic of theirs that been forged.
he would lose a very large an the whole cause of the troub indeed. That, be submitted, The man had just started off it Dew line of business entirely, a found himself in a position which he must either carry ont contrect at a loss, perhaps such lona as to entail his financial'zu The defendant pleaded guilty or else he must get out of ti to the first count, and the pro- contract. The right course wa secution accepting this, the At have gone to the authorities a torney General entered a nolle told them that he could not car prosque with respect to the second. on the contract under It Germany cannot stand up The Attorney General, outlinexisting conditions. He did n against French obarges that carrying the facts to his Lordship, said do that, and inatesd of going everything before them, she is that at the beginning of April the authorities and pleading equally helpless against the the coal contractor for the Army leniency, he went to di feature which signalises British Service Corps was a firm koma Bergeant Hawkins and ma fighting: that stubborn resistance as the Wing Of Coal Company, an offer of a bribe of $10 and power to endere, for which and the defendant appeared to be he thought they were the circun our men have always been famed. the man who deal with the stances which should induce Nothing is more wearing to an authorities in respect to that con- Lordship to say that it was opponent than being continually treat. The contract, started only deliberate attempt at criminali met with the sort of stone wall at the beginning of the month,
in the sense of being a we obstinacy which is torn in the and the first coneigement thought out plan to defrand British boy and is cultivated and of coal was delivered on April 1, government., perfected in the sports field. The and was found to consist partly The Chief Justice: Wh purport of the delayed portion of of screened, and partly of un- makes bis position a good de the Eye-witness" Darrative is screened, and the attention of the more serious was that before t that, at a fearful expense, both in defendant was drawn to the fact magistrate he slleged this was ammunition and in German lives, that the coal supplied was not up loan of $100, which the Sergea the enemy Bought to carry ont a to the contract. The second deli- pressed him to make, and be i very elaborate movement which, very of coat was made upon April structed bis solicitor to c if successful, must have re-2, and was of screened coal the examine upon that line. It reen nstituted the field entirely, and third delivery was due upon April to me to be a serious element might ultimately even have left 7, sad upon April 6 the events the case in reply to what you a him master of Calais or the took place which formed the sub- saying just now.
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It is fifty-one years ago to-day siace one of America's greatest men of lettere-Nathaniel Haw thorne died. Hawthorne had, one feels, a double value: literary and historical Not only did he help to found what may yet become s great national literature, but he was a link between the old Am- erica and the new. His "Scarlet Letter," in addition to being so grent a book as to deserve a place
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Opened the Safe,
A shopkeeper of 37, Bonham Strand East, reports to the polios that some person stole the key of bis safe and stole from the latter 210 in notes and subsidiary coin.
Chief Officer's Loss:
Pistol Stolen.
Small Fire,
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road thereto. The failure of such a ject of this charge. On that day Mr.Potter replied that movement depended on the ability. the defendant came to the trans- thought that the defendant
bav
The number of murders-fourteen-was the same sa in 1913 18 to-day. When he was at that 2, Wing Wah Lane, yesterday repetition of her former eeries of to enable him to reach his pre- good character that he should in
A small fire which broke out afternoon was extinguished by Damage to the extent of $100 the inmates and the police.
wse doue.
Fell Down the Hold,
.
try is the fact that his work seema Oficer of the a.. Tungshing, had cocasion to give ground. Our the attempt was made to bribe him to have suggested such
Mr. G. S. L Gambey, the Chief of the British to "alay-and port office at about ten in the position upon that point WES OVE HONGRONG. TUESDAY, MAY 18, 1915.
to re-form quickly where they morning, and it was then that in his favour, It was wrong to be as bighly thought of and as THE HONGKOng annual POLICE REPORT. popular as ever among the people his drawer in his cabin, man did what Britain expected the Staff Sergeant. It was a clear thing in the police court but th
ports that some person stole there whose opinion counts.
of them, and the result has been attempt to induce him by the not men, so far from persistingi In last Thursday's leading article we touched upon the
sum of $100 in notes.
another dira reverse for Germany, unsubstantial bribe of $100, per that defence to-day, withdrew diminution of punishable offences within the Colony doring the year
Unluckily for herself she cannot month, to conspire with him the most public and most nuequi 1914. This was in connection with the Gaol Report, The Hon, the
as the French and British have in defrauding the government of vocal manner that he could, an Captain Saperintendent's more detailed Police Report has since The American Novel,
ever done-learn wisdom by exits proper rights, under the con suggestion of any impropriet coma to hand, supplying farther evidence of that dimination, for it
A watchman at the glass perience. She mistakes the pig tract. Counsel would like if he on the part of Staff Sergean covers, in addition to prison oases, all matters reported to the police;
factory, Tai Wan, reports that headedness that is the cffspring might, to draw attention to one Hawkins, and he was glad to be during the year in question. The total number of cases thus
some person has stolen a Brown- of a morbid eelf-conce for or two points which made the able to say that in the presenc reported during the twelve months was 8,817 as against 12,011
There can be, at best, but little ing automatic pistol, valued strength of will, and se goes on Crown look upon the case as a of Staff Sergeant Hanking senio in the preceding year-a decrease of over twenty-six per cent, comparison between Hawthorne $40, from under his bed. committing the same old blunders serious one. The first was that it officer. Whatever lapse may Even if we compare the number with the average for the five fore-and the modern Americas
over and over again. This fact is was an attempt, a deliberate at caused the man to make the ang going years, we still find a decrease of some thirteen or fourteen per
novelist, because the United
notices ble enough throughout the tempt to corrupt an officer of gestion in the police court, he Dent, so it can hardly be said that 1914 merely shines by comps ricos States of his day was another
describes what is practically a Bergeant Hawkins must have had it was entirely consistent with his later "Eye-witness story, which good and long service, as Staff again put it to his Lordship that with a particularly bad year (1913).
country altogether from what it but the gang robberies have sunk from fifty to seventeen. As height of his success, Abolition
frustrated attacks. regards the actual amount of thieving dene in the Colony, it is was scarcely more than talked of,
cent position. The defendant this court and upon his own in mistook his man but it was con-itiative clear sway beyond all interesting to read that the estimated value of property stolen during
the Continental population was
German Doings.
ceivable that he might have found possible doubt any shadow or 1914 WBB $190,079.27, as against 8276,219.61- decrease of comparatively small, and the tone 388.140.34. The value of the property recovered by the police was
of thought was still rather that
someone else, with a weak moral suspicion that may have been And while the Allies can show sense, and might have succeeded raised against Staff Sergeant $26,097.58. Here, again, it is fair to add that the average value of the early settlers than of people
a record of olean Iriumphs-even in leading bim into crime which Hawkins. He thought his Lord- annually, of stolen articles during the previous five yeare was Modern Americs has produced an Hospital aoffering from injuries of account would Germany have the court martial, and to disgrace. no suggestion could be made Constituting a separate nation. A Chinese has been sont to the though dearly-bought what sort would have lead him to ship would agree with him that $203,126.81. Figures such as these speak for themselves--and speak very eloquently in favour of the good control which the police entirely new type of novelist, and caused by falling down the hold to give of her recent doingsif it The bribe have over the district. And to this list we must add one more item: while it has been inluenced to on which he was employed as a issue a truthful bulletin? To the substantial one because one now should take away any sting
one that has come to stay because, of Kowloon Godown lighter no 6, were possible to compel her to the frand
showed that againat Staff Sergeant Hawking, 204 search warrants for opium were exeunted by the police or the the fall by Hawthorne at his best, seaman, whilst working cargo north of Ypres her troops made could believe that the defendant's that there might have been in his intended was and the attitude of the defendant revenue men as compared with 2,047 in 1913. In 08 cases opium it has had a wider field in which into the e.. Persia. was found and 80 persons were arrested,
another effort with gas; and the own illicit gains under the pro-attitude in the Police Court The police, as we have often remarked before, are more subject advantage of it. The American to range, and has taken due ed to criticism than any other department, perhaps because the lay novel-writer of to-day has no
gas seems to have disabled as posed arrangement would have His Lordship in sentencing the many Germans as Britishers: At been at least as great as those defendant to six months imprison- mind eadows them with well nigh supernatural powers and does not need to confine himself to history
St. Julien some of them diegulted offered to Staff Sergeant Hawkine. ment, without hard labour, re- take into account the difficulties and drawbacks with which they or to the doings of delightfully
themselves in kilts, and at Bailly It was apparently a deliberate marked he was passing upon him are bedged about. The population of Hongkong is not to be com old world people who lived in police by a carpenter who has both these manifestations of Prus- ment and that was very serions mentioned the matter of Staff 4 report has been made to the they hoisted the Tarkish flag; but attempt to defraud the Governalenient sentence, and he had pared with any other within the British dominions, by reason of ite migratory and flaotuating character. We esy, glibly enough that 92aint towns unthreatened by Just returned from the Straits, sian "resource" ended disastrously especially at a time such as bie, Bergenat Hawkins in order to the Colony contains half a million people. It door; but at least a He has before him an unfailing tral, his boxes were broken opened on the civilised world that attempting to defraud the go- suggestions made sgeinst him the railway and the motor car house, 142, Consanght Road Cen- the lesson has also been impress- should be husbanded, and a man of withdrawing unreservedly the
that whilst staying in a boarding for the tri tenth, if not more, of that number can be put down as here to day topic in modern American social and property to the value of Germany id still Germany, and vernment at this time was really and which as they were bound to tricksters. Elsewhere when the resources of the country give his counsel an opportunity and gone to-morrow; gone, not into other British territory where life and, even if he fires of that, track can be kept of them, but into China-which is like saying he can, like the late Marion Craw-148 was stolen,
gone into the unknown,'
We spoke of the police as labouring ford, Harold Frederick and Henry under difficulties. Not the least of these is the amiable practice Harland, or like Henry James,
culture still culture; for our helping the King's enemies, enemy's cavalry in the eastern Mr. Potter, on the defendant's the Colony. He accepted
do had soared wide publication in followed by the Government of allowing Chinese to swarm into the
A Difference of 53.10.
part of the great battlefield has hehalf, remarked that the case sel's assurance of regret that he Colony just as they please. There is, we believe, some dim idea at go to England and the Continent
distinguished itself by killing and was a sad one, because the man should have made moh angged the back of the Governmental mind: that all this ingress of aliens the exception of Owen Wister between these good ladies, the on the English const, a Zeppelin this act, had led an industrious would deal with him
for his material. Indeed, with There is a difference of 23.10 burning Russian wounded, while, up to the time when be committed tions without famification. makes for a larger revenue. And it does; but how much of the increase has to be devoted to the payment of polios, sanitary and Winston Churchill, there are price of pork for the Queen of has dropped bombs on anfortified and entirely honest life. He wise becom inspectors, revenue officers eto? The figures and facts which we have lived during the peat thirty taking it to the festival," said a later wire, the way of that Zep twenty eight years of age, and for his
few of America's novelista who Heaven." (laughter). They were Ramsgate. A propos, judging from a man of about have culled from the Report show that the police have had a succese-
twenty seven or him an opportunity ful year, but they also show that crime is still far more prevalent selves of the possibilities of non-three women charged with ore, seems to have been hard honest life, and be
years who have not availed them- Mr. P. W. Golding, in defending pelin, like that of all transgress the last nine years, had lead an out of in the Colony than it has any right to be; and common juation American life; and, in so doing, assault, as the Police Court, this for she was forced to flee ignomcould show his Lord demands that the public should not hold the police themselves not few of them have attained, morning. The mount being iniqualy and, in teend;
hip in short sentence responsible for such prevalence, they 1080 no opportunity of
paid, the parties left the Court rather more damage than the her led him to deviste for the first when he came.
ustained moment, the circumstances which ing detecting crime, but until they are better supported by the Goveran
раво *mosat a good half of their efforts will continue to be, so much waste
popularity
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