G-E MOTORS
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
(ESTABLISHED, 1981).
68972 #1 92TATX TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21-1919.
ANDERSEN.MEYER & CO.LTD.
REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.
THE FRENCH ELECTIONS.
DATE DEFINITELY FIXED.
Paris, October 16. After a debate, in which M. Briand shared, the Chamber of Deputies easily accepted yesterday by 34 votes against 13. the Clemenceau Bil fixing the Legislative elections, the first of the ballot battles, to begin on Novetaber 16-Haves.
INCITING A REVOLUTION
Paris, October 16.
A German soldier was arrested yesterday at Metz, wearing the Erench uniform, and making revolutionary speeches-Heras
ITALIAN RATIFICATION OF PEACE TREATY.
Paris, October 15. Signor Tittoni arrived in Paris yesterday afternoon bringing the Royal Italian ratification of the Versailles Treaty-Hus,
PARIS-AUSTRALIA FLIGHT BEGUN.
Paris, October 16.
The airman, M. Poulet. is now on his way to Rome. -Haras,
SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.
(From Our Own Correspondent)
THE CHINA STATION FLAGSHIP.
Singapore. October 20. H.M.S. Alacrity arrived here on Sunday. Commander D. B. Cowan and the men of HM.S. Hawkins had a good time at Penang. the officers defeating the Club by four goals to one at hockey. seaman of H.M.S. Hawking died in the General Hospital at Penang and so:ne of the games that had been arranged for had to be cancelled in consequence,
ATTEMPT ON WANG YI-HANG.
Shanghai, October 20.
A
An unexploded bomb was found early this morning one hundred yards from the entrance of Wang Yi-tang's residence. It was evidently thrown over the wall during the night but landed on soft mud. An incense coil connecting with the fuse was doused upon lending in the mud. There have been no arreste. The guards have been strengthened.The bomb was made by experts.
GERMANS IN CHINA.
Shanghai, October 20. The Shanghai Defence Commissioner cancelled the regulations n enemy subjects in Chinese territory. No action has been taken in the Settlement.
:J
KOREANS SUPPRESSED.
Shanghai, October 20. The French Police have closed the Korean headquarters by order. Publication of the Korean newspaper has stopped.
STRIKE IN SHANGHAI
Shanghai, October 20, "brassworkers, zincworkers and painters are on strike.
·TO-DAY'S CHINESE TELEGRAMS,
BOLSHEVISM IN CHINA.
DEMONSTRATION AT TIENTSIN.
Peking. October 2 Information from Tientsin shows that on the 15th and 15th! inst. students and idlers numbering over 2.000 again surrounded the Police Headquarters, some of the uttering strong words against the President and the Government and proposing Bolshevism. The traffic was stopped and most of the shops closed, whilst the Con sulates were alarmed. The police, after very hard work, dispersed
the crowd.
!
found
日八廿月八
that the
accused
SINGLE COPY: 10 CTS
$36 PER ANNUM,
After the Chief Justice explain
SHERWIN-WILLIAMS
PAINTS & VARNISHES
was the aggressor and that be ed the law to the jury, a ubani- pushed the deceased over the wall, mous verdict of guilty was then he would be guilty of man- brought in, with a strong recom- jalaughter. If the jury found that mendation for mercs.
there was some break in the chain of events, that an assault was committed on the deceased, that the deceased fell over the wall accidently and met his death, then, of course. it would be an
accident.
The Chief Justice, after being told that the prisoner had been
in custody since August 18th, addressed the prisoner as follows: The charge against you is a very simple one. The woman gives a different story to yours. She says: Dr. Parker, naval
surgeon "I saw the fight, both men hitting in charge of the mortuary, said one another with their fists. In the be examined the body of the de-struggle one man fell down." You ceased which wasntified by say you had a quarrel with the other witnesses. In his opinion deceased, the deceased got excit death was due to fracture of the ad and struggled over the parspet skull. If he fell on a rock that and fell down. The jury have would be the cause of death. found you guilty of this offence The deceased was 10 years old. with a strong recommendation There was one mark on the left for mercy. Now I am prepared shoulder. That might have been to accept the evidence given by caused by the fall...
the woman Ling Ah Chan. She A woman said that she was and in the struggle the deceased says you wers fighting together living in the Ho Wan village and man fell over. That means that remembered the evening in quest as far as the fall over the wall is ion, when the accused beat the concerned it is a fact. I shall de al The War Department has decided that ammunition and deceased. This was at 7.30 p.m.with the case as equivalen: to expenses should be supplied to the troups on the south-west front in coming out of her house man-slaughter. Of course, if I she SAW the deceased And believed for one moment that you Information from an important official states that the threaten- accused hittling each other intended to push him over I would ing attitude of the Northern and Southern troops merely indicates with their fists. In the
bave passed a severe sentence. co-operation to blast their respective Governments in order to get struggle the deceased fell over a You have been in gao! for two their arrears of pay which they think will never he obtained after the stone wall. The cause months. I consider that sufficient. conclusion of peace.
of the struggle was that the The sentence of the Court is that deceased asked the accused to you be imprisoned for one day. quit the house. She could not say who struck first.
Hunan Province.
THE FIGHTING IN HUNAN.
THE PEACE QUESTION.
Peking. October 20.
Shanghai, October 20. The acting Premier has secretis negotisted with the Military Government on the peace question and it is said that most points I have been mutually agreed to except three which the Premier con-
siders very hard to comply with.
SECRET AGREEMENTS.
Shanghai, October 20
In reply to Wong Yap-tong, the chief delegate, the Foreign Department has stated that all secret agreements with Japan wera disclosed in the spring, and there are no other secret agreements existing.
A MINING CONCESSION.
Shanghai, October 20. Ng Iu-kum, the chief of the Industries Department of Hunan, in reply to a query from the Peking Government, states that the mining agreement made between himself and the British merchant Grand (?) was insisted upon by the Tuchun,
CRIMINAL SESSIONS.
41
TO-DAY'S CASES.
The Criminal Sessions were re- sumed this morning, both Courts sitting-
"Before the Claej Justice).
MAN-SLAUGHTER. ·
Li Ho was charged with man- slaughter.
The following jury were em- pannelled Messrs. E. L. Sims! (foreman), D. A. De Carvalho, W.j Anderson, D. Costa, B. M. Castro. C. J. Osmond and Charles Wallas.
Prisoner pleaded not guilty. The Attorney-General said the facts of the case were very simple! RETURNED BANISHEE, and he did not think the sifting Wong Hong Fuk was again of the evidence would take arrainged charged with return-the jury long. The accused ing from banishment.
in this case was' a sub-tenant of j The Chief Justice said that the the deceased man in a house near prisoner had raised the question Quarry Bay and there was a of his birth, The Government quarrel between these two as the had considered this and had deceased gave accused notice to come to the conclusion that he quit, and on the day of this was born in the Colony, and were alleged manslaughter on 18th also satisfied that his parents August, 1919, the accused came could not prove the date of his to blows with the deceased. birth. That being so, the question They fought with their fists, and whether he was born in the the evidence would show that the Colony was immaterial. There deceased was pressed by the were a number of convictions accused, and on the deceased comprising even stealing, and stepping back he fell over the going as far back as 1904 wall on the beach with the He was convicted of stealing in result that the deceased met 1904 and 1905 and again in 1906, with his death. On behalf of and again in 1907. He was con- the Crown and as the accused victed of wrongful possession in was not represented by counsel, 1909 and for several other the Attorney General would tell offences he was convicted them at once that even if they by the Magistrates, prior to his found this to be a case of man- being banished in 1915 for 5 slaughter, the Crown thought it years.
Ele returned and was to be a trivial case of man- banished in 1917. The Chief slaughter. It might be man- Justice remarked that he would slaughter which could be serious. pass a lenient sentence now but In this case the man-slaughter if the accused returned again he seemed to him somewhat would pass a very mora severe of a trivial character, The sentence. The sentence of the Attorney General's submission Court was two years' hard labour was that if the Jury
Inspector Angus said there was
a space of 10 feet between the sea
THE TAIPO SHOOTING AFFAIR.
TungSan was arrainged on three
with.
*
and the wall. The wall counts, namely, that (1) on 24th) August at Yaumati he wounded inches high. There was 18 was a drop of 18 feet and the Sergeant Lannon (2) that be shot
Lannon stone was rubble stone. The Sergeant height of the wall next to the loaded revolver and (3) that he house was 18 inches. The wall was in unlawful possession of the was a stone wall.
revolver.
The prisoner pleaded not guilty.
The sergeant-interpreter of Shakiwan station said that when The same jury were empanelled. the accused was charged with The Attorney-General, in open- murder he said. "I did not intending the case, said the charges were to murder him."
The Chief Justice, addressing the prisoner, said that he was charged not with killing the ma but with fighting with him and, as a result of the low, be fell over the parapet end met with his death.
very serious. These counts de- they arose out of the occurrence pended upon the same facts and which took place on the evening of August 24th at 9p.m. Sergeant Lannon would tell the Court that about 9 p.m. on the 24th August he was on duty at the junction of Bedford and Taipo The prisoner said: The wit. roads. He had previously had nesses who came this morning information about a robbery at before
about Lordship know Kowloon, and
9 p.m. your
noticed the accused nothing at all about this. "They he are friends of the deceased and walk towards Yaumati along the He stopped the want to get me into trouble. I Taipo Road. had a quarrel with the deceased accused on suspicion as lie wanted which the witnesses here know to search him. The accused then nothing about. The quarrel was turned round and ran in the about quitting the premises. direction from which he came. Deceased gave me, notice Tas Sergeant pursued him and to quit. I told him that I after struggling for sometime the would
as soon accused drew a revolver and fired
the
and hit Sergeant The at as I got other premises.
As accused fired. the quarrel was about that. I was him.
of the eating rice at the time. Deceased Sergeant caught "bold
ensued. struggle was excited and stumbled over revolver the parapet and fell down. That's and finally the accused left the
revolver, and how it happened."
ran away. The
remove
DAILY NEWSPAPER
MEN'S CLOTHES TO INCREASE
IN PRICE 100 PERCENT
SHOES TO 10VANE
TO $20 A PAIR
LANDLORDS RAISE
RENTS FOOD.PRICES SAY HIGH
CIVILISATION 1
a
EARTH
ANDERSEN, MEYER & CO.LTD.,
TO-DAY'S EXCHANGE.
The closing rate of the dollar, on demand, to-day was 4s./5 15-154.
THE WEATHER.
Forecast Rain. Barometer 30 00. Temperature p.m.- Humidity 2 p.m. -89.
DON'T
FORGET.
TO-DAY,
Coronet Theatre-5.15 and 9.15 Victoria Theatre 9.15 p.m.
P.01.
TO-MORROW.
Coronat Theatre-5.15 and 9.15.
Victoria Theatre-9.15 p.m.
HAMPERED TRADE.
The results of the present lack of transportation in China are shown by the fact that, while the cost of mining coal at Siwan, in Kwangsi, is reported to be about $1 a ton. the expense of moving it toCanton is about $11 a ton. Since the coal is not of high grade, it cannot compete with coal import- ed from other places by sea, and so the mines have been closed. and the expensive machinery is idle.
Sergeant, taking it up, fired a shot, but the second shot was jammed. The accused escaped. Three days af er the occurrence, the Sergeant identified the ac- cused among other robbers at the Goverament Civil Hospital, in the presence of the Captain Buper- intendent of Police. The identi fication was an important point. The Sergeant would tell the Court that he saw the accused's face before the struggle as there
were two bright street lamps. The accused was dressed in black cloth. The description was given to the Police immediately. The Sergeant asked him where he was going, and he did not reply. Sergeant Hoare, who is stationed at Taipo, receiv- ed the description of the accused over the telephone and was also informed that Sargeant Lannon was wounded. Sergeant Hoзre boarded a launch and found the accused
to answering the description, and therefore seized him. On his arrest, the prisoner appeared to be dreary". and his boots were wet, and it looked as if he had walked a long distance, the distance between the scene of occurr Ence and the place where a launch was taken being 14 miles. Sergeant Lennon with- out hesitation pointed out the man when he was produced before bim in the Hospital in company with six others dressed alike.
The hearing was adjourned.
(Before the Paisne Judge).
ROBBERY WITH VIOLENCE. Leong Kwan was charged with robbery with violence, with two or
more, on August 22 last.
Accused pleaded not guilty.
The Hon. Mr. C. G. Alabaster, O.B.E.. appeared for the Crown and the accused was undefended. The jurymen were Messre. E Datenberg, E: Ezra, D, G Gow,
J. B. Chapman. W. C. Jackson, L. Kay and R. Nazarin.
Opening the case for
tho Crown, Mr. Alabaster said the prisoner was charged with robbery, in company
with three other men, who unfor tunately had escaped capture; and who inade an assault on a man who was employed by money-changer from whom acous-- ed took 123. The accused was chased by the money-changer and finally ran straight into the arm's of & policeman. The accused had pleaded not guilty and it was for the jury to decide as to that point after hearing the evidence.
Evidence then taken, after which the jury found the accused. guilty and he was sentenced to two years' hard labour.