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Turkey, lying in the contre of the THE TIGER SEEN AGAIN.
Suez Canal
IN FULL VIEW ON FORESHORE
NEAR THE DAIRY FIRM.-
SEQUIERAN NEW RECORD.
*
956H APPEARANCE FOR DEDGING, "
Manuel Sequeira, described as
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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER – 1918.
THE PRESENT SITUATION IN KWANGTUNG.
(Wah Tax Yử Po's Sérpies,)
LILIEH KWAN'S FINANCIAL
DEMANDS..".
Old World, is ni the same tina a. natural fortress of the greatest | defensive strength and an ideal base: for a surpring attack upon Southern Russia. Constantinople, the Aegean identified. The good-natured bunter the Court this morning on a charge of The tiger has been seen and Brazilian, made his 35th appearance at Islands, Greece, the
begging. Egypt, Persis, Afghanistan and India,ing that has been intulged in sinve Mr. BARKER shows how German Stripes" was seen at Tusou- Inspector Terrett, who arrested de thinkers have advocated a Greater him must perforce give place, to while he was in uniform. Defendant fondant, said the latter bogged of him Germany embracing the Austro-fact, for yesterday morning the tiger wm an absoluta nuisance at European It has been reported to the Hungarian States and the acquisition was full view for three or four offices. Witness spoke to him nad Covernment the General i Lich of Asia Miner in some form or other, minutes at a bay on the east side of warned him only ten minutes previously Kwan has arrived at Shin Hing, and dreamt of the creation of an Waterfall Bay, below Mount Kelletaal he came back and asked the officer Largo funds and required for his organic connection between Berlin und quite close to the Dairy Farm, at for money and Baghdad by including the Pokfulum.
Army and he cannot proceed to Poking until suitable" Bzancial ar- rangements are made.
The Cabinet has decided to in-
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Defendant was fined $5 or ten days.
CHARGE AGAINST CASTRO.
PEKING, Sept. 8.
Balken States in un Austro-German The Hou. Mr. E. E. Pollock, Federation. A strong European R.C., and Ms. Pollock were out in military Power, firmly settled in their house boat the Snips yesterday Asiatic Turkey, disposing of 2,000,000 and saw the tiger while the boat INTERPRETERS AT MAGISTRACY struct Lung Chai Kwong to hand Turkish-Asiatic soldiers and of a was lying peacefully at anchor in the sufficiency of railways and of a Reet
bay. The sun had risen from behind
GIVE EVIDENCE.
SUGGESTION OF A TRICE
over his office before the 10th ́inst. He will be allowed to take 5,000
WAR SAVINGS CERTIFICredi
THE BRITISH POST OFFICE SCHEME.
We have requiyed from the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Cor poration (from whom any further particulars may be obtained on application) one of the circulars issued by the General Post Office. London, setting forth the Wor Savings Certificates scheme. AS follows:-
WAR SAVINGS CERTIFICATES. " Value 3 years after. purchase. 2300
CE 19
"
Purchase Price." 4987 10 0
15.04
Ez or AMB Tax"
+
For every 15. M. lent now 21 will be WATSON & Co., Ltd., could make Constantinople and Mount Kellet and as they were look
Important evidence was taken by Mfr.roops with him to be stationed at pald in 5 years' time, equivalent to 5 par Egypt.
cent, compound interest. No Income Tax almost untenable,"
Kiungehow. Air,
will be payable. ing towards the hill a huge beast was ❘ Wood in the charge of bribory against BARKER declares. He is anxious to-
Luk" Wing Ting has repeatedly. Anyone, whatever his or her incuma. seen to both down the hillside from R. M. E. Caito, a Court interpretar, ee Asiatic Turkey created under
the direction of a stone bridge on the this morning. The witnesses called telegraphed to Peking complaining may be, can buy War Savings Certifluste European guardianship into a peace Aberdeen Road. He paused for a included other interpreters and clerks that Lung Chai Asong is disabaying up to a maximum of 500 LT Certificates {fal and prosperous buffer state. That
is not Germany's wish. We know moment underneath a tree and then employed at the Magistracy. Inspector the "Central Government's instruc-in all, or their equivalent.
turned, broadside on, müking for the Brazil asid that at 2 p.m. on August tions how sedulously she has been working
The Members of Parliament repre- tor domination in this region, and à
As he turned Mrs. Pollocks 19th, he explained the charges of false recognition of the high stategical had an excellent view of the animal. pritances to defendant. The latter and senting Kwangtung have called on
"I have nothing to say.”
the Premier respecting the state of] importance of this territory when They were about 200 or 250 yards
Ng Chak Wing, an interpretar at the affairs in the province. controlled by a masterful military away at the time and the beast's
Magistracy, said the document produced, Power helps us to appreciate the stripes could easily be distinguished the promissory note, was translated
To-day's Advertisements The China Mail.
DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP COMPANY,
LIMITED.
TEEING OF SHAREHOLDERS HE ORDINARY GENERAL
in the above Company, will be hell at the Company's Offices, on TUESDAY,
..the 26th of September, at Noon for the
1910.
of receiving the Report of the
HONGKONG, MONDAY, Septas, 1918.
THE WAR.
General Managers, together with We were told in the telegrams Statement of Accounts to, 37th Jane day or two ago that the British in London The TRANSFER BOOKS of the military anthorities Company will be CLOSED from the regarded the war outlook as having fath to 24th September, oth days been completely charged in forty- DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & CO, (bight hours following the intervention
General Managers. Hongkong, Sept. 4, 1914.
inclusive.
(Continued on page 5.)
THE DIARY.
MEMO, FOR TO-DAY.
3.15 p.-The Palisade, Kowloon.
NEWS OF THE DAY.
wood.
of
the payment of money. Interrogated by Mr. D'Almada, wit. nese said defendant told him a friend of (defendant's) wanted to borrow money from a Chinese. He (witness) did not know complainant. Mr.
The Cantonese officials in Paking and members of Parliament repre-
offue of Tuchun.
OBJECTION TO A CANTON APPOINTMENT.
Meanwhile the money may be with.... drawn in full at any time, with an add- tion after the art your
TERMS AND CONDITIONS.
(1) A Certificate antitles the purchaser to receive £ for rack 158. Bd. qp tho filth anniversary of the date of purchase, free of income tax in respect of the
accumulated interres.
not transferable
General; a fee of is, will be charged -im respect of each, transferee. In the ovens o death, the same tules will be applied as in the case of Savings: Bank Deposits.
On written application (ca a form obtainable at uny Post Office) being made,
the Controller, Money Order Depart
ment, London, the purchase price, or part
thereof in multiple of 15%. Ed., will be repaid at any time, with an addition of
"Importance which Germany attaches / It walked along slowly for about two into Chinese by him at the request of seating Kwangtung have telegraphed. (2) A Certificate is
to the operations in the Balkan minates and then. quickening its the defandart. Witness knew nothing to Luk Wing Ting to assume the except by permission of the Formagter- theatre of the war, and should pace, took a huge leap into the wood prepare us for a desperate struggle where it was lost to view. It went there at the cost of German sacrifices in the direction of a white shed, the elsewhere.
property of the Dairy Farm. used as a cows" house, and situated about 150 yards away. The view obtained
Chan Yu San, a clerk in the Magistracy was a really excellent ge. Pollock, who is short sighted, didices, said he heard a conversation not see the animal as well as Mrs Pollock who clearly saw stripes. The beast was abont six or seven feet leng and about four foot high and it had a long well-marked tail. There were no glasses on board the Snipe sa thoss had been contributed to Lady Roberts' Binocular and Field Glass Collection However, there was a cartera but in the excitement
of Rumania. The supercession of General VON FALKENHETS by Field Marshal vox HINDENBURG as Chief of the German General Staff, it is ad, means that the German military authorities have been persuaded that
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
that
A Peking telegram "states the decisive Area is south-eastern Lady Ho Tung has arrived there on Europe, and not France and Flanders, her way to Kalgan.
Yet it is not more than a month ago
"
that we were being told, in messages
Injured through a fall while step trom Holland that the German ping off a car in Des Voeux Road Central General Staff makes every other confon Saturday a Chinese woman has been this was not utilised.
sideration subsidiary to the holding
said towards the end
removed to hospital.
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at over
of the France and Flanden line. It The loss caused in the Philippines WBS
of by rinderpest since the beginning of MEMOS. FOR. TO-MORROW...
Jely that, within three weeks 3-10,000 the year is estimated -2.30 p.m.-Auction of one Cabinet German had been sent to the P1,200,000.
Gramaphore and Records at Mesars west front, about a third of these Hughes and Hough's.
being treat reserves, the balance 1.30 p.m.-Auction of Furniture, being soldiers who had recovered Blackwood Ware, Planes, etc, a from slight wounds. We were ther Memrs. Hughes and Hough's
told that the German General Staf
General Memoranda..
The Manila Observatory yesterday morning gave warning of a cyclone or typhoon E of northern Luzon, less than 300 miles distant, moving N.W.
was prepared to verifice not a little William Gall Roberts, retired territory at certain points on the engineer, formerly of Hongkong, and Fasterfront, if it is deemed neces- afterwards of 115, Broomall Drive, sary to withdraw troops for the Glasgow West has left £7,104. Western front. Within the past few A-Excursion to Macao by ss days we have been told of German, The damaged steamer Wisley was troops being dispatched from the towed into the harbour about five Western front to the Russo-o'clock yesterday and is now at the
SUNDAY, Sept. 10:
"Taishad"..
MAY, Sept. 11:--
· 10.30 am--Anction of Office Furni- ture, Fittings, Safes etc. at Melchers Co's Offices, Queen's Buildings.
WEDNESDAY, Sept. 13-
Earies close for next Gymkhana
Saturday, Sept. 23. 2.
1 Mr. and Mrs. Pollock afterwards went ashore as far as the wood in which the animal had gone but there were no pugs visible, the ground
being very hard.
PERING, Sept. 3. Strong opposition is being offered by the Cantonese members of Parlia between defendant and Mr. Gardiner ment to Liang Lan Far's appoint The latter said to defendant I have meat as Commissioner for Foreign received instructions to send in a report Afairs and as Commissioner of against you for obtaining $200 from a Customs, on the ground that he was Shanghai man by false pretences." Hentified with the monarchical Defendant said: "I borrowed this money from the complainant and I gave him a promissory note for it." Mr. Gardiner then said: "If that is 90, you had better settle." That was all witness heard
Mr. D'Almada Did you hear Mr Gardiner say "you pay up the money it will be all right"!
not
Witness answered he could remember accurately but he though
something to that effect was and.
Wong, the shroff at the Magistracy, produced a record of a certain case in Jonnection with which part payment of a fine was made on June 14th. The amcunt paid was $126.10. Witness remembered receiving the amount from someone not on the office staff. He did not receive it from Castra
movement.
In spite of this opposition Liang leaves for the South next week.
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CHINA SEEKING LOANS.
PERINO, Sept. 37 Chan Kam Te. the Minister of Finance, before contructing a big loan will borrow from British and American sources Loans, amounting to $10,000,000 (cach ?) meet
mediate requirements.
THE CONSTITUTION.
PEKING, Sept. 3. The Committee which has been appointed to consider the Constitu-
THE MAGISTRACY.
ONCE BITTEN, TWICE SHY.
City's few days ago and handed over a A man went to a shop in Kowicon bungle which he said was gold and for the habit of receiving money from the tion held a first meeting yesterday
which he asked $10. The shopkeeper discovered later that the bangle was made of brass. Two or three days afterwards the same mian brought another, bangle to the shop which he declared was gold and asked $12. The Mr. A Fong, the well-known photo.bopkeeper became suspicious and de-
Ramanian frontier. Both statements Docks at Hunghoni. are likely to be true of the times to which they relate..
A month ago | grapher of Queen's Road, took a number" tained the man until the arrival of the Germany had grounds for expecting of photographs of the presentation of police when he was arrested. The brass that if Rumania came into the war awards to members of the Special Police bangle dealer received two mouths at all she would come in on the side Reserve laat week.
3.45 pm-Gymkhana Happy Valley of the Central Powers. That much
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Inspector Taylor of the Police Reserve pursued and arrested in Second Strict Chinese who had stolen. sofas clothing set out to dry. The thief was sentenced to two months' hard labour and four hours' stocks.
HIS MASTER'S PURSE
is clear from the German statement Hongkong Volunteer Reserve explaining Germany's declaration of Order No. 70rof today's date says:All war against Romania. The entry of Officers and Sergeants of the Corps will Rumania into the war on the side of parade at Major Wakeman's office in the the Allies has clearly upset the]
Courts of Justice at 5:30 pm. op 7th Sept. 1916. German calculations, and the German General Staff sees in this the possible
Iron Bux, the well known coloured destruction of Germany's last hopes boxer, arrived in the Colony from of emerging from the war with any Manila yesterday and has signified his semblance of a world power. It is intention of giving contest on obvious to all that the overthrow of advantageous terms providing he con Two months' hard: labour was the FRICA 25 sts. (Cash) par Copy the Bulgarian Army would open the get an opponent. He has had some punishment imposed on a Chinese boy road of the Allies to a land attack fights across the water and is quite employed by the headmaster of the Constantinoplo and that this sous to meet either Richards or Anglo-Indian School, Causeway Bay, for would necessitate the recall of the Sammy Hicks.
stealing & pures. The heavimaiter asked Turkish forces from Mesopotamia..
the boy to fetch bis jacket and from it To understand what we are told is
he stole the pune VON HINDENDURO's view, we need
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One Ental Chinese case of cholera is reported in the return of communicable diseases for the week ending Sept. 2nd
to appreciate the great importance There were also six cases of entorie attaching to a Tenton-cum-Turkish taver, Eve of which ended fatally. One supremacy in south-east Europe, and British subject was affected and the especially in Asia Minor, particularly remainder wers" Chinese. A fatal case since German designs on the of amallpox is also reported. English Channel have been definitely frustrated. An article by Mr. ELLIE BARKER in the June number of the
BRITISH LOSSES.
The Magistrate; Have you been in
stoff?
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The re-drafting of the Constitu- tion is expected to occupy two" or three months
and the question will be discussed Wong: No, very seldom. I remember in Parliament next week. on one occasion Mr. money during my absence from
Bax received police officer and paid it to me. of the department that you should not D'Almada: It is a standing order receive fine money from the mes on the staff
Witness: Yes."
With regard to the powers of the Cabinet Secretary, it has now been
Complainant, witness said, he hanged that the decisions of the known for two on three years but he Cabinet cannot be altered and no did not remember him paving fines for documents or mandates can be issued Shanghai people. He had seen him unless they are signed by the Promier
krocking about" the Court. Answering another question witness and the Minister of the said he remembered Sung, the Court's to which they relate.. Shanghai dialect interpretor, stating| once in conversation that Cutro was going to get into trouble. Wimess, did not enquire what for.
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Sung next garo evidence. He said he was an interpreter in Mandarin and Shanghai dialecta. He had known complainant ten years and introduced him to defendant in March or April last, when Shanghai automobile
with was charged
Alleged forged Kwangs notes on the aisughter. Defendant interpreted in Chinese Bank at Wuchow have been that case. During May and June locati-locally theyugh the energies of witness did not do to, and defendant the Headquarters Detective Staff and defendant asked him to lend him money. then asked to be introduced to a friend the Special Police Reserve. who would lend him money. Witness On Saturday night at 336, Queen' told him he did not think he could but Rad West, which is not a money witness was sent for by the Court to changer's shop, a Chinese was observed would try. A low days afterwards. interpret and defendant asked him if he to exchange 100 Kwang banknotes antiple of 15s. 6d. up to 2387. 10. had found anybody who would lend him).
-“worth”: $500, for $400 for Hongkong Wong Un, the complainantnotes, the difference being ten per cent. happened to be at the Court that morning and Castro asked witness if he on exchange. The Kwangsi notes were a loan Witness said to Castro You who had offered the notes in exchange thought Wong Un would make him discovered to be forgeries and the man
had better go and try him yourself." About ten days before Castro was was arrested. The Special, Polier were arrested, complainant came to witness watching the house tod took the man $200. He produced a document which further $120 of the notes were found. and said Castro had cheated him out of into custody. At the Police Station a
witness sad was a promissory note. Complainant said Yes, that, is the upon him.
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EUROPEAN VAGRANT
John Kennett Ross, a European, was charged before Mr. Wood this morning with vagrancy.
Inspector Kent and the mar came to the Central Police Station last evening and asked to be taken in chirge. He said he had been employed at the VISITING CARDS Nineteenth Century deals very
Taikoo Sugar Refinery up to the end of exhaustively with the great political A London telegram to Australian. lat mouth when he was discharged trick by which he has got the money, if It was alleged against the man in Mr.
papers dated July 24th nyss the He had no money and nowhere to live. into trouble from Shanghai Witness knew the notes ware forgeries
I don't get the money I shall get Wood's Court this morning that heitten instead of s eignature. importance of Asia Minor. He Bochn is very busy, through his manifold points out that a powerful agencies, in magrutying British losses Defendant related how on the 14th saw Castro who said complainants knew
by Turkey
can obviously the foll at home to retard our one of his superiors and getting "no
hoping so to play upon the feelings of of last month he had a few words with money was quite infe
On the application of Chief Detective- dominate 25 only the Bosphorus, culminating efforts in some way, it is satisfaction, addered as resignation, sta dinner party at the Hongkong Lan granted to allow of the attendance at The Magistrate I think you were Inspector Murrison 4 week's remand was the Dardanelles and the Suez Canal, and particular in stating the actual He saw now that that way a wrong well, where we can, to be very precise.
given by Wong- but the very narrow entrance to the facts, if this be done ithout CHRONIC DIARRHOEA
Red Sea near
Aden, and thet of the mything away to the enemy suit think thing to do. He owed litle And defendant was there? - Yer
possession what I think money and thiny, had been to the office! Witziens added he had no conversation. RE you subject to attacks of dia. Persian Galt near. Muscat as well. would be regarded by military pertant worryip him for it. He had so money Yeplying in cross-examination witness
with Castro Arhoca Leen absolutely quiet for It must also not be forgotten that since July 1 and up to the 22nd, and nowhere to go. He had a few things said Wong had complained to him that conclusive proofs that our casualties ja fox days, rost in bed if possible, be
Careful of your diet and take Chamber only a comparatively short distance, compare very favourably Indel with at the Refinery hat there was now Castro had early assulted him because Lin's Colic Cholers and Diarrhoea a stretch of country under the nominal Chapelle, and are no more than 20 per another tan in his place.
those at the scue and at Nouv
he aked for the money. of chronic diarrbox that physicians rule of went and decadest Persia,ont of the forces engaged. Moreover Mr. Wood said he would send de have failed on, find it will cure you. For separace Asiatio Turkey from the of the wounded, not anore than xalo by all Chemistrand Storekeepers.
zenit: Care included in the severbly
Temedy This medicine has cupoc CARCE
Asiatic
Indian frontier. It clear that Asiatic
fondant to the Board of Petantion where he would be able to look for work
Witness Yes
Mr. D'Almade said on the evidence there could be no committa The Magistrals adjourn until to-morrOW/
the Court of Bank official from Wuchow
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