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DAIRY FARM NEWS. TENNIS WEAR.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, MARCH 17, 1916
THE BLOCKADE,
POLICE RESERVE ORDERS.
ALLEGED BETRAYAL OF TRUST.
Can it be Made Effective Against GermiRDY ?
Orders issued to-day by Mr. F
Admiral Sir Cyprian Bridge writes in the Pall Mall Gazette- Would it surprise the reader to
0. Jenkin, D. S. P. (Reserve) Serious Charge Against Solicitors"
stato
Interpreter, a
Orchestra-Urgent Order.
"All members of the Police Be serve Orchestra will attend as the
A Chinese named Lam Shui-ni,
SAUSAGES.
We invite you to inspect the variety of Sausages we have
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QUALITIES
SOCKS SWEATERS
BOLOGNE SAUSAGES. TONGUE BLOOD
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BELTS and SCARFS FLANNEL BLAZERS BLANKET COATS.
learn that there are two kinds City Hall st 4.15 p.m. sharp on who was described as an inter ALL READY FOR YOUR TABLE,
at the Police Court this morn-
ing, with having conspired
of maritime blockade, and that Saturday afternoon, March 18th.preter to Messrs. Holmes and one of them is not a blockade at and play during the Tea to be Heywood, solicitars, and Sham all? When an enemy's fleet retires given there by Lady Hay and the Lee, described as a gentleman, into its ports and remains there, ladies of Hongkong to the Crews were charged before Mr. Wood, the opposing navy does nos try of H. M. Shipe now in port. to black it up. On the contrary, it tries to persuade it to come out, and endeavours so to arrange matters, that if it does come out, it will be brought to action. The retiring feet, therefore, is not really subject to blockade.
On the other hand, the real blockade sims at preventing any commodity from going into or coming cat of an enemy's country. What is called "international law" has always sanctioned this form of maritime blockade, and also its adoption concurrently with the maintenance of the long- established belligeren: "right of search."
Drill Cup-Amended order of
Competing.
Teama will parade punctually at the times mentioned below (Platoon Numbers in brackets).
2.50 pm. No. 3 Co. (2) 3.00 p.m. No. 2 Co. (1) 310 pm No. 2 Co. (2) 3.20 p.m. No. 2 Co. (3: 3.30 p.m. No. 2 Ca (4) 3.40 pm. No. 1'Co. (1) 3.50 p.m. No. 1 Co. (4) 4:00 p.m. No. 3 Co. (1) 4.10 p.m. No. 1 C. (3) 4.20 pm. No. 3 Ca. (4) 430 p.m. No. 1 Co. (2) 440 p.m. No 3 Co. (3) Uniform with Cape and Covers. A blockade can be carried out ou land; though there the area Team Commanders wear Helmets over which it is operative is and Spibes. recessarily limited-hot by the
Mounted Patrols.
wishes of the blockaders, but by Monday, March 20th-The fol- the possibilities of troop dis-laing members will report in tribution. The blockaded uniform (Caps without Cover) population, however, may be to the Riding Masters: 5.30 p.m. equal to that of a Kingdom. barpSergt. Major Roylance, In 1870 71 the Germane block-Troopers Scull, Grimble, Fern- aded Paris with the deliberate andez, Harwell, Kew, Alves, intention of starving its people Chan Mak Hang, Goldring and into surrender. Its porelation Cartwright was much about the same as the population of Greece, Denmark, at Switzerland. The city beld out for nearly four months and a half, and then gave up for want of food. The German military anthorities have always justified
Orderly Trooper for week ending Saturday, March 25th- Troper Kew
to obtain from Lam Lai-sang, spinster, the sum of $1,000 in money, between January 29 and February 8,
Mr. A. M. Preston prosecuted, and Lam Shuißu was defended by Mr. W. B. Eind.
P. C. Stimson gave evidence of arrest, and the defendants were zemanded until Thursday moro- ing.
OXFORD SAUSAGES. TOMATO POLONY
LIVER SAUSAGES, &c. &c., &c.
TROUSERS
All made on our own premises by MACKINTOSH & CO.
our own European Expert.
Mr. Hind requested that bail MORTALITY AT THE ZOO. should be allowed to the amount of the charge.
Mr. Preston said the case waÐ B very serious one, and he' sug- guested bail of- $5,000.
Mr. Preston reiterated that it was a serious charge, which called forth a remark by Mr. Hind that all charges were serious,
Mr. Preston: This is more so, because he was in a position of trust. He was interpreter to a
Crocodile's Death from Consumption.
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There was a considerable re- Mr. Hind intimated that they duction last year in the death- sub-rate at the Zoological Gardens. were ready to put op stantial bail, but it was Professon B. G. Flimmer, in his well-known that all prosecutors report of the deaths which had asked five times as much bail as taken place during 1915, presented they were entitled to.
to a meeting of the Zoological Society recently, said the nam bern were-Mammals, 280; birds, 706, and reptiles, 179-represent THE LUZON SUGAR REFIN- ing respectively 21 per cent., 27 per cent, and 29 per cent of the total there, including new arrivals. daring the year. If however, they took only the figures for the cocap ants of the Gardens since the be ginning of the year, which was the best, the percentages in the three groups were redued to 18,15,and 14. Apart from the new arrivals during the year, the cases of infectious disease had been very
firm of solicitors here.
Bail was eventually fized in the rum of $5,000.
Another Conspiracy Case. On and from Monday, March A Chinese doctor named Lao 20th, all members of whatever Gee-wo was charged before M. mark and whether riding their own Wood, at the Police Court this ponies or not, will enter in the morning, that he, together with their procedure, and have been Patrol Book (which will be kept George Frufree, conspired to few. inclined to brag of its efficacy. in the Police Reserva Stables) the obtain from John Peter Somer-
No known case of a naval following particulare:-Pany rid-ville the blockade has, SVET reduced a hostile country by starvation. There are two reasons for this. Military action obtained a decisive ed as a default, result before the Economic
dea, Time, Out and in Stables, District patrolled. Failure to enter up this record will be treat-
Orchestra Practice.
of $1,400. Mr. Leo D'Alimada appeared for defendant.
Sergeant Murphy stated that Mr. Somerville was Chief Officer of one of the Macao steamers, but
Deaths from tuberculosis had decreased very considerably. Among mammals the number had been reduced from 59 last year to six, and among birds there was a redaction of 50 per cent. He be lieved spitting by visitors in the Gardans was the main cause of As neither
or the disease. If they could prevent solicitor пета present, Me overcrowding and have proper D'Almada said he would ask for quarantine, he saw no reason hsa client's discharge.
why the disease should not be His Worship, however, remand-stamped ont There had only ed the case, and bail was allowed heen two cases in the reptile in the sum of $1,500.
house, One was that of a crocodile, the first recorded of ita kind
prosecutor
pressure--which operates very. Monday, March 20th:-Practice he was away this morning. slowly becama definitely at 8.00 p effective, and the blockaded country ran out of other supplies before its stock of food was ex- banated.
In the War of American Izde-a blockader must maintain his pendence we were caused con- station. Even in this Americas siderable inconvenience by the blockade, when there was no decrease in the supply of naval locom tive torpedo în existeroa, stores, occasioned by the hostility the commen plan was to have of the revolted Colonies. If the three semi-circular lices of ships materials referred to had been outside a port, the outermost line completely kept out of this island, being a considerable distance we should have been mensced [away. with collapse, though we had not | run abort of food.
In addition to stationing ships of the approaches to a port, the
A NEW BARRISTER.
Mg. His Shlag-che Admitted.
Yet another Chinese barrister
CRECET.
-There had been two cases of One was that of a wolf whose mother had died from cancer, while the son of the wolf which died last year had probably got the disease in the same place the neck. Many birds bad This will give an ides of the United States Government availed was admitted to practise in Hong- died from fatty degeneration of objects of a blockade. First of all, itself of what is called "the korg this morning by the Chief the liver through over-esting. The what is desired is to prevent say doctrine of continuous voyage. Justice (Sir William Rees Davies), difficulty in their case was that article capable of conversion to Cruisers captured goods which the applicant being Mr. Hin if they were not fed they died of naval or military nees from get the officers had satisfied them- Shing-che, of 18, Ashley Road, Barvation!
Kowloon. On the afidavit, it
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ting into the blockaded country.selves were destined for the block-
THE FREIGHT BOOM
Shipping Share Values Higher.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that an Extraordinary General Merting of the above named Company will be held at the Office of the General Agents. Messrs. Jardine. Matheson & Co. Ltd., Hongkong, on FRIDAY, the 31st March, 1916 at IL35 o'clock in the forenoon for the purpose passing as Extraordinary Resolu of considering and if thought fit:
tions the resolutions following, namely
(1) That it is desirable to re- construct the Company and accordingly that the Com- pany be wound up voluntarily and that Arthur Rylands Lowe, of Victoria, in the Colony of Hongkong, Char- tered Accountant, be and he is bereby appointed Liquida- tor for the purpose of such winding up and that Article 124 of the Company's Articles of Association be cancelled accordingly. (2.) That Messrs, Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd, the General Agents of this Com- pany, be authorised and re- quested to procure the in- corporation in the Philippine. Islands of a new Company to be called the Malabon Sagar Company (of which Messrs Smith Bell & Co. Ltd. shall be appointed by agreement General Manag ra) with | Articles of Incorporation and Bye-laws in such form as the General Agents shall approve.
It is also desired to prevent mer-aded country. This coctrine may chandise generally from getting be regarded as established. It appeared that Mr. Hin was admit either in or oat, and thus to should be said for the American ted to Grays Inn in October 1912.
and was called to the degree of destroy or greatly impair the officers of the time in question that
oater barrister on June 18, 1912. enemy's commerce, and conse- they performed their doties care-
The Attorney General in moving quently the means provided by fally, and that not a single case of the admission said that this was a that commerce for carrying on inhumanity, was ever made a motion for the approve, enrol The Liverpool corresponden Liquidator be and he is here the war against them. While, as has been said, inter- Hitherto
ment, and admission to practise, of the Shipping and Mercantile. we have not
onder date of national law sanctions & maritime been distinctly blockading che. He was the son of a well-February 1, as follows
xa a barrister, of Kr. Hin Shing Gazette writes blockade, it does so on the co- our enemies' countries. What known merchant of Hongkong, dition that the blockade is effec-ever may be thought of it, our Mr. Che Mat-hin. He went to shown a disposition to advance Shipping shares have lately tive. This is interpreted to mean action has qe ionably been England in 1906 for his education in valse. Khedival Mail Steam- that a vessel intending to enter or guided by a ceaire to cause 36 and was a graduate of Cambridge ship Company's shares leave a blockaded port would be little baza as possible to neutrala. University. He was called to the enjoyed a emart advance from more likely to be captured than No serious student of Daval bis-Bar by the Benches of Gray's about 158. to 20% to get away safely. The intertory will have a word to say Int on Jane 18, 1915. He (Mr. Palace Shipping shares had a pretation, haa had a wide exten-against this course. Inconveni-
tional enemy.
have
sion. In the American War of ence to ourselves that may be due Kemp) thought his Lordship remarkable jamp from 16a, to Secession, the United States Gay to a not quite perfect blockade is would find all the pepers in order, 40 on a circalar to shareholders ernment declared a blockade of the almost sure to be lese than that and he would ask bis Lordship to stating that the company bad an make the order prayed for.. offer of purchase at 45s. per Southern ports, warning neutrals which would ensue from the con- that vessels trying to enter them version of a neutral into an addi- Mr. Hin, said he had looked shareholders had slready agreed. The Chief Justice, addressing share, to which the principal would be liable to capture.
Farness Witby shares have im- through the papera and found thar A the date of issuing this No maritime blockade has ever he (Mr. Hin) was duly admitted proved to 381 63., and are likely declaration, the United States succeeded in completely keeping a member of the Society of Gray's to go over 40e. or increased had not a quarter of the number every commodity from getting Inn, and he had much pleasure dividend prospects. of ships necessary to make the into or getting oat of B
in admitting him to practice in. blockade effective, and thia con- country. To change our present the Courts of this Colony. dition continued to exist for plan into a definite blockade is months. The blockade first re expected to prove more acceptable
Mr. Hin Shing che.-I thank ferred to was the greatest opera to neutrals than that plan. It will you, my Lord.
A Candid Thiet,
Freights Firm.
(3. That the draft Agreement | submitted to this meeting | marked "A" and expressed. to be made between thi-Com- pany and its Liquidator of the one part and the Malabon Suxar Company of the other part be and the same is here- by approved and that the sai
by author sed pursuant to Section 185 of the Companies Ordinance 191 to enter into an Agreement with such new Company (when incorporat ed) up the terms of the said draft Agreement and to carTY the same into effect with such (if any) odifications as he thinks expedient. (4) That the said L'quidator be authori ed to obtain ad-
·vances from Messıa Jardiče, Mateson & Co., Ltd., of a07 moneys requ site upon such terms as be sees fit and to make arrangements if he thinks fitfor Messrs Jardine,! Matheson & Co., Ltd. to com- tinue managing the affairs of the Company on such term15 as he thinks fit until the undertakinz of the Company. is handed over to the said Malabon Sugar Company pursuant to any Agreement entered into by virtue of Be- solution No. 3... Should the above Resolutions be they will be sub-itted for con- passed by the required majority
firmation as Special Resolutions to a econd Extraordinary Gen- eral Mee ing which will be sub- sequently couvened.
Dated the 16th day of March.
JARDINE MATHESON & CO., LTD. General “Agents.
In some quarters the feeling Peems to be, that recent legislation affecting shipping will bring about lower rates, and m some tion of the kind known. The coast probably bring greater pressure
Cassa charierers have been inclin- line blockaded was immense, and upon our enemies. It will be ex
ed to hold cf. The majority of the ports and inleta numerous, ceedingly interesting to see what Apparently there is an epidemic shipping people maintain the The blockaded country was de-the increase in quantities prevent amongst Chinese of shady shar- opinion, however, that no material pendent for most of its needs oned by the blockade from entering acters of stealing sine from sign fall in zatenie likely. outside sources of supply. A or leaving the blockaded country boards. This morning Fang Ma, Tonnage is scares, and require mmerically enormous fret was may turn out to be. As basalize Fung Man-wah, w. s charged menta difficult to fill. From the employed in the blockading work, already been mentioned, a block-with stealing 14 catties of zinc Mersey coals offer to Alexandria still, the country held out for four ade, like all forms of economic from a board in Queen's Road at 35, Hsia, 458, Gibraltar your word its final collapse was pressure, works slowly. However Defendant admitted stealing it. 40, Bordeaux 358, Cette 1916. N effected by an army.
stringent our blockade may be, Ha was sent to prison for a month 60%., and Gence 854. Even st ¿yhere is no particular distance we ought not to relax in the land was ordered to be placed in these rates tonnags cannot be from a blockaded coast at which slightest, our military efforts. the stocks for four hours.
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