EARLIER TELEGRAMS.
(Continued from page 1) IMPERIAL PREFERENCE.
London. July 2
In the House of Commons, replying to Mr. E B. Lees Smith, Mr. Bonar Law said he did not in the least admit that the policy of Imperial Preference was fatal to the League of Nations,
Replying to further questions Mr. Bonar Law said there would be no opportunity of carrying out the policy in war time but the Imperial Government had put itself into line with the Dominions Governments by accepting the principle. (Cheers).
W
Mr. B. L. Outhwaite : Has the Government a mandate to commit the country?
Mr. Bonar Law: No, but the Government has always' a mandate to commit itself.
EX-LORD MAYOR HEAVILY FINED.
London, July 20.
The Jonas case (in which Sir Joseph Jonas, tormer Lord Mayor of Shefeld, was charged with giving information aseful to the enemy) has ended in a verdict of guilty of mis- demeanour.
Sir Joseph Jonas was fined £2,000 and the second defendant, Vamon, £1,000 starling, defendants being ordered to pay the costs" jointly.
MUNITION STRIKE ENDED.
Landen, July 29.
The strike of munition workers has ended. The trouble was dua to the Ministry of Munitions forbidding a few firms to engage more skilled workers with a view to enabling other firms which were" understaffed to secure additional skilled labour.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, JULY 31, 1818.
THE TAI O TRAGEDY.
More Evidence by Indiaus,
The enquiry into the death of the late Sergt Gleadioning was resumed this afternoon.
been made.
LEATHER SALES TO
GERMANY
|PARNELL'S SISTER DIES IN WORKHOUSE.
THE TRIBUNAL.
10,000 Bags of Quebracho Extract The Final Tragedy of a Gifted
as Prize.
Family.
This Afternoon's Cases.
The Tribunal again met this afternoon and considered the following cassa:-
Maiara Lowe, Bingham and Matthews.
sad that
the
Our
CANTON NEWS.
Canton correspondent writes as follows:--
Sham Returning. Sham Chun-hean is now on his way back to Canton from Wachow The Macao Piracy.
}}
Another report from Ngai Tok Ming, commander in Chin Shan, in regard to the death of the Earopean captain of the armed of the 10 pirates, puts all respons launch Pak Tao, and the scape sibility for the affair on the Com-
The Indian Sergeant, who gave
Sir Samuel Evans, in the Prise
The death is announced this evidence yesterday, was recalled Court, condemned farther large evening of Mrs. Emily Ricketts, on the point as to whether there captures of quebrache extract and the last of Charles Stewart had been sny trouble between other extract for tanning. One Parnell three sisters, in the the Indians and the Sergeant, he Albert Davidson, who had been South Dablia Union Workhouse
A. E. Schuls, medically fit. yesterday being understood to say claimant, was said to have that had been none. He wished to exported leather and hidee to of the Daily Chronicle on May 23. are in this firm have been reject
sayas the Doblin correspondent The following men of military gorrect that by saying that there Germany and to have been had been none between himself engaged in selling military boots their great and famous brother Woolley, T. A. Martin and A. J.missioner of the Lapps Customs.
All three died tragically, like ed as unfit for servion: W. J. and the Sergeant. The box of B36 to Austris.
Fanny, the youngest and, IJ. Martin, The Solicitor General, Sir believe, Farnell's favourite, at a had been searched by the Chinese
Macao Govern ment Thanked.. interpreter in Jane last. The Gordon Hewart, K.Ü., and Mr.
Mr. A. E. Lows appared on"
On receiving an official tale. Sergeant was in Hongkong at Theobold Mathew appeared for very early age in Boston in the behalf of the firm.
early 'eighties. She wrote some the time. Witness was called by the Crown, instructed by the
The Chairman maid it was stating that the gunbost Kwong gram from the Governor of Macac memors bis posms, one of from the papers which had been On (which had been seised by the Sergeant interpreter and was Tressary solicitor; and Mr. Le
which.-.
applied the Tribunal that the the disbanded soldiers of Yuan told that 836 had stolen money Quesne and Mr. Balloob for
this claimants, instrusted by Messrs glory, Q my country?
Shall mine eyes behold thy firm was one of accountants and Tai) had been seized in scad from the charge room,
anditore consisting of some ten cent pieces. Travers, Smith, Braithwaite and remsine a vivid Irish memory firm's business largely consisted harbour, the Authority sent the Witness Pras present at the Co., and Movers Botterell and
to the present day.
of auditing the socounts of Hong: stoner along with namber of Foreign Intercourse Commis searching. There had been no Roobe. olher trouble.
The Crown asked for the non-strength of her character and receiving. The firm was este Governor on behalf of the Tachan Apna, the eldest, sad in the kong me, liquidations and officers to Macao to thank the Asked about the letter written demnation of 13,800 bag of political convictions the most lished in 1908, before which time and to take over the gunboat and by B18 with regard to the deceased ausbracho extract and tanning gifted, once stopped Lord Spencer, there were no qualified sccount bring it back to Canton. Sergeant having taken bribes extraor peisad
on foar Scan when Viceroy, as he rode through aute practising in the Colony. writem said he did not know dinsvian reseale se fallow-On Westmorland #treet
with his The firm had branches at Shang- anything about that, and did not the Annie Jobuson 1,856 bags of military staff, by seizing the bridle hai and Singapore. It was pat
Lottery Scheme. know way the accusatione bad quebracho extract, shipped by of his hores, to demand why he to the Tribunal that the firm's the sale of the guabost Kwong Owing to the cancellation of Bracht and Co. to the order of had evicted certain tenants.She was work was necessary for carrying Hoi the redemption of the Bank The Indien constable, B145 David Rapp Aktiebolaget, Stock found mysteriously drowned in on the trade of the Colony and of Chink notes cannot be carried who was on duty at the time of holm; Repp A.B. claimanta. On pond or lake in England sboats was therefore essential. the murder, stated that he had the Nautilus 8,000 bags of to-dosan years ago.
The out. The Financial Commissioner total exemption been stationed at Tai O for sighting extract, shipped by Svensson, months. He had been in the force Ohlsson and Co. to the Svenska astonishment of the public and of The pre-war staff in Hongkong as the War Bond sicketa in
And now Mrs. Ricketts, to the Schulz
Mr. has therefore decided to issue asked for. lottery tickets on the same system for nine years. There was always Emissions A B., Stockholm; 4,200 her immediate relativan, has was six Europeens, two chartered Hongkong, but selling once every a man on guard with a rifle and bag claimed by Albert Davidaoho passed away, although possessing accountants, one incorporated two monthe 100,000 tickets at twenty rounds of ammunition and 3,800 by the A.3. Nyman ample means, in a poorhouse.accountant and three general $10 each. Of the proceeds 70% of this being left in the barrack and Schults. On the Drottning She had reached the great age of clerks, while the Portuguese and will go in prizes, and 10% for room when the man, was not on Sophia 1,800 bags of quebracho 80, and had been long in Wales Chinese staff was six, including expenses, while the remainder duty. The ammanition was left extract, shipped by Svenson, with her daughter, Mrs. Delis one incorporated accountant and will be deposited with the Cham- in the pouches and the belt hung Ohlsson and Oo. to Albert Wright, nee Dickinson. five general clerks. To-day ber of Commeras for redemption on a peg by each man's bed. Davidsohn, of Stockholm, claimed
Some years after the death of the European Atal The arms rack was between the by-Olof Johnson and J. P. her first husband, Mr. Dickinson, seven,"
is purposes. The whole matter will · two windows of the barrack room. Brandstron. On the Annie John- this sister of Parnell married Cap chartered
consisting of two be controlled by the Chamber in it 13 generally known that no tine Witness went on duty, st ten soa, 1,870 boge of quebracho ex-tain Cathbert Bicketta, an officer incorporated sccountant and four publi
800ountants, one order to secure the support of the. of preserved food should be used o'clock on the morning in ques-ract, same shippers, same con- who has been invalided out of the general clerks instead of three. in which gas has developed, tion with his riffs and ammuni. signee; claimed by Olol Johnston. Army and is st
Albert Davideohn had been Australia.
present in The Portuguese and Chinees evidenced by balging or fizzing tion and was doing station guard.
Her death, which staff had also been increased. out when being opened; that Sergeant Glendinning was sitting claimant in the last two cases, took place in the workhouse The Chairman remarked that it Many of our medical specialists tins, when opened, should be in the charge room. Witness took but the claim had been with on Saturday, was due to advanced was gathered from the papers that were pazzled when, during last used up immediately and the up a post under a tree at the drawn.
age. The body will be interred no men had left the Hongkong The Solicitor Generel explain in the barging-pisce at Ballintone, office for military service. March and April, they were called contente, if poosible, be recooked western corner of the station.
At this point it was
nated that in most of the cases near Batharam, Co. Wicklow, upon to see patients with an bafore use.
Soon after the description in possible to see anyone sitting in relating to hides and tanning where the remains of so many of Dunn, who was formerly is the This Yankee pash must stop. Mr. Lowe replied that Mr. Said Keiser Bill to Ladandorf, "Ensemble "of symptoms hitherto unknown to them, the principal the Lancet of the supposed the charge room, but a person material which had come before the Parnell family already rest.
Hongkong office, and who went They've chased my soldiers every of these being a great somnolence new disease it was found that standing might be seen if he were the court the claimants had been
Mr. Baketts was the author of on leave, did not return and was where and paralysis of some of the Birmingham, sad probably in /he heard was the noise of åring evidence of a sale in good faith contains on interesting history of the Ministry of Munitions. Mr. They're walloped them and ham- occasionally deepening into coms, physicians in Manchester and bear to the window. The first thing able to produce documents BA Patriot's Mistake," which now doing seconatani's work in Until they're fit to drop.
THE SIBERIAN SITUATION. -
Vladivostok, July 29.
The Czecho-Slovaks have occupied Schmakork two hun- dred, versta northward of Nikolaievsk with the capture of considerable military stores.
GERMAN MUNITION WORKS EXPLOSION.
4)
Zurich, July 2a.
Two hundred and ninety-two people bave been killed by an explosion at the munition works at Plauen.
¡A STRANGE EPIDEMIC. foods. This suspicion may now happily be dismissed. Of course
still,
Puzzled the Doctors.
the
W89
of
Ohapman left the firm for the
Columbia.
THE KAISER TO HIS 0. M. GENERAL.
Addressing Mr. Schals, the Now right away you'll isens Chairman said that if was gather-
ed from the papers sent in that out
Iset
how
nervo
'Datch."" 0. F. Freeman in the Manila Daily Bulletin.
̈Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co.
masoles of the ese, followed fre-other places, had seen cases with this being about half an hour after to them, and had said the goode the Parnell family.
In a preface to the work she front and was now at the front. Across the bloody Marne.
mered them quently by facial paralysis, says the same symptoms. But even he had gode on duty. Everyone were intended to be congamed in
the Man-before then the writer of this ram out of the station, come Sweden. In a good many asses wrote the following: “A well-¦ Mr. Willisma, who was s pärineı, | And now they say they'll soon a correspondent in
a paliant who without shoes. Witness followed upon that evidence, and in the known Irish journalist has said was at present away on lesve, chester Guardian. The cases did article had seen not occur in great frequency;tad just returned from Paria to them. He only beard one shot absence of sufficient evidence on that ours in the most trazio He believed that he was now Our German ball of yard.
wind op w physicians with Manchester whose illness had before he ran. He ran away to the other side, the court bad family he had ever heard of. Thin; spending holiday in British large hospital and consulting commenced in Paris. In this city the west, through the gate released the goods. In two of these I think, is true."
and
пр the hillside. He case, however, the Crown, by an practices would see ten or twelve Dr. Netter, physician to
ach cases during those two Hopital Trousseau, had observed took his rifle and ammunition accident, had been able to obtain monthe. Professor Hali, of and reported a small epidemic, looked at the back of the station, that the documents put forward with him. Before, running he evidence which clearly showed Sheffield, and Dr. Wilfred Harris, and other cases had occurred at
that he was 30 and single and Ten extra rounds of 'schnapps' of St. Mary's Hospitel, London, Rouen and Havre, Thas it was He could not say where the sound on behalf of the claimants were Victoria Theatre Attraction.
that he had joined the firm abost To see if we can't check some. were the first to describe their seen that we had to do with an of the shot came from or how fraudulent. In the last two cases,
far away it
He wae,
was those of the Drottning Sophis and
Jear ago, having left Messrs. There should be a large atten- Linstead and Davis. He volan. The driving of these chape, cases in the Landet. Naturally epidemio of a few cases spread
standing wide awake at the time. the Annie Johnson, he did not dance at the Victoris Theatre toteered before the Military Sarrics Who seem to have the iron they looked about for a cause of over a wide sse2. this supposed new illness, and
He did not ran straight to the put it too strongly when be said morrow night, when the final Commission It is known that a nervous Dr. Harris finding that epidemics disease of a somewhat similar charge room because when he there was indication of false episodes of the "Seven Pearle "
Jear. The Tribunal understood that for The Germans lack so much with very similar symptoms had character, but principally affecting saw the people running he did not evidence manufactured for the are to be screened.
All the himself he did not ask for more
Unless well primed with cour occurred at different times, moally children, occurs in rather wide Row what was wrong. He did not purpose of deceiving the court. mysteries of this serial will then than month's exemption i
ago in Germany, after cating sausages spread epidemics of sporadio know until ho reached the bill that The goods in these two case were be unravelled, and an unexpected order that ha might arrange his That the world has labelled which somehow had gone wrong, causa.
the shots were fired in the station sent to one Albert Davidechn, of eading is promised. There will This disease (epidemio When on the hill he was joined Stockholm, and were in fact sold also be shown a very pretty two-
private affairs. the idea
coourred that the infantile paralysis or polio-my by B212, B36, and B381, and by him to a firm for export to part play.
Mr. Schuls was granted x- disease might be dus to elitia) affecte mostly the spinal they told him what had happen Germany. In the other four casse
emption until Oolaber 12. the ingestion of the
same cord; the new disease, though ed. When on the hilaide witness the goods were insured by the micro-organism which
caused occurring mostly in adults and heard many ebote fired, but he Swedish State War Insurance
The Robinson Piano Co. sausage-poisoning - i. 8. the affecting mainly the brain or could not think who was firing. He Commission, a commission which
F. H. Weston, medically fit, Bacillus botulinus (botula-the medulla oblongata, bsa many sat there for over two hours, bat he professed to insure only when Annie Johnson, from Santos to this firm).
(No unft men of military age in sausage). However, this theory pathological and post-mortem heard no woman screem. He knew it satisfied
WAR
that the Gothenburg, his Lordship said Mr. Pearson appested for the could scarcely hold good, for it appearances in common with the that Mrs. Glendinning lived in goods were for consumption in the claim was first made by Albert firm and Mr. W. B. Hind sleo (The remaining men of military E. F. Ancott, medically. At was found that many of the former, and is therefore
the station, but he did not know Sweden. He submitted that the Davidsohn, to whom he had just patients had not partaken of any "polio-encephalitia."
appeared.
age in this firm came before the food which could be auspected, Though the Paris epidemic-- He did not know where the which he had referred put forward several months after seisare. Aed, it being stated that Mr.
know whether she had run out. fraudulent nature of claims to referred. It was not made till
Absolute exemption was claim-tribunal on Friday, 5th July). nor had even two otse of the new Netter calls the disease "Ence Sergeant was when he first rau, in the cases of the Drottning month later the Aktiebolaget Weston was indispensable to the appeared for the firm.
The Hon. Mr. D. Landsle disease been seen in the same phalite lethargique epidemique house or family members of which preceded the one in London He did not try because his mind was an element to be considered claim of Davidsohn was with Weston is 25 and single, and has recently from leave, and is head and did not try to find out. Sophia and the Annie Johnson Rapp entered a claim, and the firm, being the only tuner. Mr. Mr. Anoott has returned had all eaten of the same tin of only by a few weeks, it appears was all upset. On the hillside side by side with the general drawn. It was for the claiments been in Hongkong for seven of the shipping office. His in preserved meat or salmon, &c. that Vienna had an epidemic of he made no enquiries and was evidence in the remaining cases. to make out their claim, and his Epidemica of botulism have similar nature in the winter of not told anything. He did noth. Originally appearance was enter Lordship found the claimanta bad
pending return was why Momzn. always appeared in Germany 1916 and 1917. A Vienna medi-ing, but simply ast on the hill anded by Davideohn in four cases, not satisfied him the goods had exemption, and after a short allowed to go. & beolate exemption Major Morgan slaimed non- Bailton and Macdonald were in groape the sansuges enten cal journal of May, 1917, gives went down when the launch came, and except in the case of the become theirs at the time of deliberation, the Tribunal decided was asked for. Mr. Audott is 36 there are
mostly stackean Boount of this epidemic which cared and only partly, if at all, in all respecte corresponds with his story and the enquiry was other claims till two years later. allowed. With respect to the Witness went on to complete Drottning Sophis there was no seizure. Their claim was die
to give no exemption."" cooked; farther, the Basilius that observed here.
etill proceeding went we to presa. He enggested it was possible that rest of the case, he found that bolulisus has not been found in It further appears that we
parties in Sweden by that time having regard to the need of F. W. S. Evans, medioally át, Any of the so-called cases of have with this disesse only
had become aware that incrim quebracha extract, the value of the (No anfit men of military age in botalism in England, and some another instance of the truth of essentist differences in the Ben Akiba's saying, that there is France, England-in fact, all inating evidence was in the producte in Germany, the com- this firm).
possession of the Crown and it mandeering there of raw materials Mr. H. W. Looker appeared for|| symptoms could be noted. Thus, nothing new under the san, for over Europe, and some in these expedient to put forward for the purpose of the manufac- the Arm, and it was stated that for instance, the dilation of the a small epidemic of a similar United States. At first it was different claim
tare of leather in Germany, and the firm's head office is in London, papil of the eye and the drying oharacter is recorded to have feared that the epidemio might The President, in delivering the other dealings of Albert with many branches in the op of all glandular secretions, pocurred in 1712 in Tabingen, become as prevalent as influensa, his judgment, said in the last two Davidacha, these goods were Far East. Absolute exemption saliva, teare, do, which form in Germany; it was then called bat happily this fear proved cases, the Drottning Sophis and really destined for Germany, and was claimed for Mr. Erans, who
Mr. Adamson appeared for the anoh a remarkable feature in true sleeping sickness." (It has, of groundless. There is every hope the Annie Johnson, where there he condemned them accordingly. is 34 and married, and who is
Absolute exemption was seked botulism, were mostly absent course, nothing to do with the that the same may hold good for were claims by Albert Davidson If he had to draw the inference, the manager in Hongkong. To illustrate the latter, it is, for aleeping sickness of the tropics.) this epidemie. It is evident that and afterwards by Olaf Johnsson he should hold that, having regard
for, Mr. Nicoll being the instance, recorded that a mother And to come to more recent the contagiam, or virus, whatever and J. T. Brandstrom, a oase had to the dealings of Davidson, the papers, and these were referred is 37 years of age and married a
Many points were raised in the European engineer. Mr. Nicoll who had lost two children from times, a similar epidemiccocurred it might be, is not very infective, been attempted to be set up in goods were going to a fortified to in detail.
Mr. Adamson said that botulism and was ill herself with in 1890 in Upper Italy and no two cases having so far been that court by this disease would not orv, se her Hungary the disesse was named observed in the name, house, or documents. The 1,800 bags and the cargo on the Nautilus, he tion of keeping trade going,
wholly false place of the enemy, Cologas. Of Mr. Looker spoke on the quee, qualified engineer was tear glande bad cessed to secrete, "Nons. A number of cases, do, happily, many persons seem the 1,970 bege of quebrecho ex-released 220 tons out of 100 tons mying that if Mr. Evans were Morgan, and Mr. Nicoli
It was therefors somewhat un many of them fatal, cocurred in prone to the infection. Some must be condemned me (ar 3,800 bags) to Davidsohn, taken it would mean the closing exempted.
*** time of food Manius, and others kept crop experiments to isolate the poison absolute contraband, its destins which he said had been mold, of the branch.
mark, szazs made in Vienna Blast" your ;
In anal - condensned, the other, 200 20Eononption was granted until Tribuns! wil
22
months.
Messrs, Caldback Macgregor.
+
and married."
Major Morgan made no claim. Exemption was granted,
Hongkong Rope Manufacturing
Co.
D.G. Nicoll, medically fit. (No aufis men of military age in this Company).
Company.
Noʻolaim was made
The
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