THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY,
NIQUE,
ARTISTIC.
Rounding them Up.
The process of wiping out some of the crime for which Hougkong has always been noted is going along very nicely. Yesterday the jadges at the Supreme Court dealt
You can record your engagements with a case of perjury, and sont
in our Calendar of Cathay.
DAY BY DAY.
NOVEMBER 16, 1915.
GOD MADE THE COUNTRY AND MAN MADE THE TOWN.-Cowpor
An attractive gift calendar contain-performing. The sentence is all alight fog.
The Malls.
NOTES ON THE CRISIS.
FULL COURT.
SKILFUL CONCEALMEN
BVENTS IN THE BALKANS,
Russia's Successes,
ONE OF SUN YAT-SEN'S
OFFICERS.
Pedestal.
ing 8 interesting pictures of Chinese te to proceded it on the European Mail. Due to-day per Western front, there esa bo no Lordabipa Sir Willism Roes Davies volver and 144 rounds of an
life and Selections from Chinese jury is a distinguishing mark of
proverbs.
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to be on charge. Willal and corrupt per- considerably more than half the Casos brought before magistrates and jadges in the East and it is more then time that the offendere should be taught that the low has definite reasons for putting a witness on his oath. Another undesirable, who was given a year'a imprisonment yesterday, a representative of just the very olass that our police hunger after and they are to be congratulated on casting short bis desfal coreer so early in the day. His was a typical case of an alien's walking into this Colony as though he had bought it, and calmly settling Correspondents aro
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atay in the Colony was yet only
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Mr. R. J. Birbeck and Mr. L. R. Needham returned from Flome by the Kashima Mern to-day.
European Fined. Mr. Rapp was fined $5 at the Police Court, this morning, for permitting bia dog to go abroad unmuzzled.
Lottery Tickets.
In the Balkans.
THE EXTRADITION CASE.Arms and Ammunition la Tab The "friend" was revived in case brought before Mr. Lindsel notice at the Police Court, th morning, in which a Chinese fro Little though one hears of de- As a full court at the Suproms California was charged wi Guite success or failure on the Court this mor ing, before their bringing into the Colony a r doubt as to what is happening on and Mr. Justice Gompertz, Mr. munition concealed in a tab the Eastern. Once more-it must Eldon Fotter, inatracted by Mr. G. pedestal with the exception o be for the thousandth time now K. Ball-Bratton, made application 14 rounds which were found o Germa diplomacy has been at ander habeas corpus for the re- his person. The trick was expos fault and has been most grievously loase of ons Hang Shin-long, at ed however, and trouble ensued disappointed in consequence. Our present detained in Victoria Goal. A Chinese detective said h sapientenemy thought, by divert The prisoner is declared to be a saw the defendant coming sabor ing the fighting for the time being political refugee, and was former- from a sampan in Connaugh to the Balkan district, to woskenly liver in Dr. Sun Yat-ren's Road Central, near the Hongkong the Allies on the West, and to get Revolutionary Army.
Macao wharf. Ho had a tabl breath for himself on the Esst. Tho only result of his schemes J. II. Kemp, along with Mr. F. H. received information with regar The Attorney General, Mr. with him and, witness, having however is that things remain as Sharpe, K.C., and Mr. F. O. to the table examined it carefully they were in France and Flanders, Jeskin, appeared for the Crown. The table top was attached to the and that in Russia, so far from To his opening statement Mr. pedestal by four screws. He took bis being able to get his wind Eldon Potter said that this was a cff the top, and in the hollow of back, he is not being allowed a case which concerned the decision the pedestal he found a revolver minate's respits, but is being push of a number of important points and 130 rounds of ammunition. ed and harried and driven back of law, and which also concerned He asked defendsat if he bad a farther and farther westwards, the surrender of the fugitive for permit and the latter replied that The German occupation of Riga punishment for a political offence; he had not. At the station 14 was never at any time more than and that quoation would involve rounds were found on his person: a remote possibility, and now it a considerable amount of evid- The ammunition was mixed. A man and a boy oburged with has become a very obvious im-ence. It would be of assistance to Inspector Brazil said some of the a fortnight old, and, in order to selling lottery tickets, were possibility. show him and his friends that remanded in bail of $150 eseh,
their Lordships, in grasping the ammunition was Winchester and facts of the case, if he laid before the other was for the revolver. Hongkong is not intended to be at the Police Court, this morning.
More and more variety is being them shortly the history of the
Defendant said his friend gave a happy bunting-ground for
Returned,
introduced into the Balkan poaí- fugitive.
him the table in California to take Ohina's criminals, Mr. Lindsell Mr. T. F. Claxton, Director of tion, and it looks as though we
Amongst other facts to be taken to another friend in China. He added to his sentence twenty- the Royal Observatory Hongkong, might expect some definitely fav-into consideration was the murder did not know the pedestal con- four strokes with the biroh.
returned fron Home leave by the purable developments down there of a Chinese cook in an oil shop tained anything. The detective Kasbima Maru to-day, being no- in the very near future. The in a village named San To Chuk, told him that, if he WAN oompan ed by Mre, Claxton. Italian bombardment of Daden-on November 1, 1914, and the fined, he should get his friend in Remanded for Enquiries. gatch is one new and interesting stealing of $7,000, for both of California to refund the money to As we have known Reuter make A Change charged with being feature. By Dedeagatch we take which offences it is alleged the bim (laughter) when he got back, graver mistakes than the substitu-in possession of the stock and it that the whole district, with prisoner is responsible. The fugi- His Worship asked how it was tion of one lotior for another, we breach of a Winchester rifle, in special reference to the railway, tive is about forty years of ago, a he admitted bringing the arms do not apologise to him for assum-Canton Road, Kowloon was re-is means. So far, the Bulgarians comparatively young man, who, and ammunition here. ing that the "A. B. Benson," manded at the Police Court, this heve had little to worry about as when only about twenty, joined Defendant said it was because mentioned in to-day's wire as the morning for enquiries to be made. regards their own territory, but the Chinese Army, Shortly after he could-not properly understand now master of Magdalene, aboald Addition to the "Telegraph's" we live in hopes. The Rossinne wards he was given a commission. the interpreter. He had a letter be "A.Ü." "A.B." is not "down"
on the Black Sea coast, and In 1911, while still a commission from his friend in America in Who's Who, but there is every Mr. A. Morley, late of the {the other Entente Powers ed officer in the Chinese Army, which would prove that he wIE reason why the vacant post should Reading Observer, arrived in the on the Booth, can he joined a society known as the delivering the table for him. The be offered to Mr. A. O. Benson; Colony to-day by the Kashima make things very unpleasant for Koomingtang, which
letter showed that the friend for, though not a Magdalene man, Maru, to join the staff of the King Ferdinand at a convenient pulitical society formed for the was sending a table and gold he has been a lecturer at that col. Hongkong Telegraph.
season. Already, in the Isnd fight purpose of getting rid of the coin to someone A Day Late.
up country lege since he gave up hie assist-
ing the Bulgarians are suffering Manchurian Dynasly, The Kashima Mara arrived in far greater punishment than any which as
in and asked for a speedy reply ant-mastership at Eton some years port from Home this morning. they are ever likely to be able to they succeededor, at any rate, so as to save the sender worry.
matter of faci when the things were delivered, ago, and Cambridge has always been his real home-the home that
She was a day late owing to infliot, and the possibilities of a the Manchurian Dynasty wont
His Worship said it did appear he loved. Those who remember
having encountered rough protracted and tedious "war" in out of exi lence for the time as though defendant was deliver- bis delightful papera in the
weather is the Gulf of Tonkin. Serbia become diminished every being. A revolation broke out ing the table for someone; bat Cornhill: "From
A number of local residents re- day. The Bulgarian army haa in Ohias in the year 1912, the that did not alter the fact that he Returned to the Colony. all, and, unless the Austro-part in that revolution, with the munition here and that he knew the Universities for the pukka Telegrapli, returned to the Colony deal more to help it than they nasty disappeared, and the Re. He would be fined $150 or in Mr. F. Hicks of the Hongkong Germans are able to do a good result that the Mancharian Dy. very well what the table contained. literary man. Usually they have by the Kaebima Maru this morn have yet done, it stands every publican Government came into default must go to prison for thought that it was sufficient for the rewards to go to men who ing, from Home leave.
We re. Johance of being wiped out of heing, with Sun-Yat-sen as the six weeks. had distinguished themselves
gret to learn that, owing to illoxistence. in classics,
first president. Even after tho mathematics
health, Mrs. Hicks has been cr
Greece, theology, and that, at most, a Hongkong for a few months.
Republican Government had obliged to postpone her return to Up to the present there is code into existence, the fugitive fellowship or a lecturership was To be a Judge of the Full Court. situation, and, for all Hongkong and later he was retired by nothing new ae to the Greek was still retained in the service, The sorrowful history of the war which has one day to be good enough for the mare man written will need to devote a formidable amount of its space of the who was interested in general traordinary issued to-day, it is Salonica are as cheerful and un-commander-in-chief of
In a Government Gazette Ex-known to the contrary, matters at Chan Kwing-ming, at that time
The following is the approxi winking of passenger ships by Germans, regardless of the number literature for its own sake and notified that is Excellency the disturbed as ever.
nine mate statement of Traffic Beceipts of innocent lives risked or sacrificed. The Ancona is yet one more who had made his mark as a writer Governor, in
The French, armies in the Province of for the week ending Nov. 13, to be added to the appallingly long list of such ships which Germany of English. This
exercise of the like the Italiane, evidently retain Kwangtung. Weiobor mparatively powere conferred upon him by but little confidence in the Athene district in this Province and it
WAS A | 1915:- has destroyed out of mere wanton love of doing damage and in cold-new tara of events ill give all-Section 5 of the Fall Court Or-Government;
Receipts Aggregate blooded indifference to the death of women, children and non-round satisfaction, we feel sure.
but have the was with this they were concern- combatants. In the oase of the Ancona there are one or two features)
dinance 1012, has been pleased to Greeks themselves, as a whole, ed, Chan Kwing-ming was made
for week. Receipts
for 46 weeks. which especially mark the event. In the first place, the offending
appoint Francis Arthur Eaze any more confidence therein than Governor General of the Kwang- This Year:...$11,212 $505,881 submarino was flying Austrian colours. It is unfortunate that the
land, Esquire, Barrister-at-Law, our Allies ? to be a Judge of the Full Court to plunge into war when a small the prisoner in turn for a time Increase:
For Bulgaria tung Province, and be appointed Last Year:... world's experience should have taught it to associate low trickery of every kind with Germany; it is thus the more natural to assume
for the purpose of the proceedinge proportion of her population was the Commander of the 6th divis Decrease: A auspicious sititude over every one of her actions and it is little ta
now pending in the Appellate opposed to it was not an alto-ion, and after that there followed be wondered at if everyone jumps immediately to the conclusion,
Jurisdiction Action between gether safe experiment; for Greece the naual custom of residing in in this particular instance, that the submarine which sank the
Francisco Pereira Marques (Ap-to join the Austro-Germane, the Governor General'e yamen. Aucous was German property and pot Austrian.
pollant) and The Great Western with very considerably more than
thought their Lordships would Smelting and Refining Company balf of her
In February 1913 the fugitive agree that there had been a serious (Respondente)
people pro-Ally, was made Saporintendent of revolution. would be an inänitely more seri- the district of Weichow, the August 7, fled to Bongkoug, from The fugitive, on ous matter; one that might quite appointment giving him oom-there to Shangbai, and from there easily lead to opsa revolution.mand over the civil and military to Japan, where he was
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HONGKONG, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1915.
THE ANCONA.
Staff.
&
WDA 3
Window" will realise thie, Tub
College tarned from Home by this boat, plainly turned out a "frost after fugitive taking a very prominent had brought the arms and am-
little has been done in the past by
ORGAN RECITAL.
At the Cathedra
A BLUFF.
Might have Carried but for Inspector.
LANGKAT OUTPUT.
HONGKONG TRAMWAY COMPANY LIMITED.
9,157 519,249 2,055
13,568
Fow people, unfortunately, are bodies. This was a very import- joined by San-Yat-sen; and, in over burdened with confidence ant position and the fugitive re- that country, it was decided, in in the Greeks, but their self-in-tained it until the outbreak of 1914, that a fresh revolution terest will surely do the dictating what they might term the Second should be started, the fugitive which ebould havo boen left to Revolution, the object of which arriving in Hongkong in March personal and national honour. was to depore Yoan Shib-k'ai and 1914 with the purpose in view of
set up Sun Yat-sen as President. starting a revolution. He, the speaker, ought to have On October 27, 1914 the fugi- mentioned that Sun Yat-gon, al·live left Hongkong for the dis- though appointed President first, triat of Weichow with the express resigned in favour of Yaan Shib-object in view of starting a fresh Revolution was to replace Sun November 1, when the murder of 'ai, and the object of the second revolution, and on October 31 and Yat-sen. The fugitive took the the cook in the nil shop was al- side of Ohan Kwing-ming, and leged to have been committed, te was one of his leading men. As was in the village of Sam To it happended, this was the losing Chuk. He was there as Com- side, or perhaps the fugitive mander in Chief of the district would not have been in the of Weichow, and not, as it position he was in to-day. had been suggested, in the guise
advise us that the Langkat out Messrs. Wright and Hornby put for the current month is as
Leaving the fact that we are all woll persuaded of Germany's For some time past it has been preference for ways that are crooked and mean, there is more material necessary that extensive repairs ground for believing her, and not Austris, to be the marderer in should be carried out in connec- this case. Technically Italy is not at war with Germany, and there-tion with the Cathedral organ in fore no possible pretext conld be found for one of the latter's order that the efficiency and life Bubmarines' sinking a vessel that was sailing under the Italian Rag of it should be preserved. Nat- But since Austria and Germany are one in aim, and since Austris urally these repairs have been bas but few submarines, it is more than likely that Germany would s good deal come to her nusistance, covering her offence by dying false coloare. D
of expense, despito Unhappily, whether the real aggressor was Germany or Austria, of the congregation the amount in the liberality appeals and protesta are useless. This kind of thing will go on and hand is about $200 still short of on, au long as the enemy has a submarine loft-until he is deûnitely the required amount to wipe off! vanquished on land.
the debt. Unfortunately ro assist. There is just one other point of special interest. Over two auce is available from the or-ing, a Chinesn charged with At the Police Court, this morn- hundred poor souls were drowned through this latest piece of black-dinary income of the cathedral, larceny, told Mr. Lindsell, in a guardian, and, of there, nice were Americane! The excuse which and so with the object of raising moment of candour, that he bad has been made in post times for the United States' not interfering the mousy, an organ recital by been to prison twenty years ago. actively over the murder i some of her citizens was that these were Mr. Daaman Faller, FRC.O, By this he thought to win the follows: delibera dy travelling by British boats, knowing full well the risk L.R.A.M. was given last evening. sympathy of the Magistrate they ran. On this last occasion, however, the viotims were travel- There was a large ocngregation who, he opined, would regard ling in an Italian vessel and in an area where submarine attacks were and the excellent programme of him as having lived honestly thought to be more or less out of the question. How, then, will the music gone through was highly since that period. United States propose to deal with such a 0880? The men slain appreciated. were not even touring for business or for pleasure; they were ro-
All might have been well had Miss Wilke in the racit. and not Inspector Brazil informed the ligious pilgrims-which fact would seem to make Washington's air "Angele evar bright and fair" Court that the candid one was in responsibility even greater than ever. The enemy's act will at least (Handel) and the air "Hear yo, gaol eight years ago, and was then save the British Government the trouble of replying to President Israel" (Mendelssohn) was heard banished. Not being in the Colony Wilson's Intest Note; for the reply is there, in the fact that Ger- to advantage.
it was hard for him to have com. many and her friends can once again be written down as deliberats Mr. Denman Fuller whose milted an offenco against the murderers who must, at all costs-ay, even though American pro- musical abilities are well-known lawe of the Colony. fits should have to be diminished for a season-be brought to in the Colony gave a sympathetic account for their orimes against the law and against mankind. Of interpretation of the following prisoner commenced the stealing
His Worabip realised course we do not look to see the United States straightway volunteer- items: ing to join the Allies, but if these nine murdered Amoricane should
business when he did decide to Passacaglia (Baob), Andante in return, and fined him $50 (or in be the means of their Government's taking proper steps to control D fat (0. Debussy), Andantino default six weeks') which mosca the Germans that are living under its sway, and to assist, and not to (E. Lemare), Basao ostinata that a further period of exile will hinder, the British blockade, they will not altogether have died in (Arensky), Tocosta (Boellmanu). probably follow. mia.
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In the deposition of the prisoner, of a highway robber breaking into taken at Victoria Gaol, he said oil shops., Not only was this man that San Chow-jeo ran away and not a robber but he was a men that Chang Nae-king had been in high command, appointed to the position of the of great importanco political- command of the 3rd Division. ly, ond, in the documents That was the evidence relating supplied by the Chinese Govern to the first meeting of the present ment, they would not find a hint Governor of Canton. The rovoln of the murder of the cook, but tion of this man wis more an they would find that there WAS & armed raid on oil shops. It reward of $10,000 offered for his WAB not BO much like a capture. revolution as it was a raid} At the time of going to press of armed robbers. Ho (Mr. Potter) the ease was proceeding.