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GERMAN PLOTTING IN THE

UNITED STATES.

THE news conveyed in the cables faring the past few dari relating to & German plot in the United Stats to embarrass the Britisli v zamest by engineering revolution in India have told us making new except perhaps that the India Chiy-mittee, which was formellas Berlin shonly after the war broke out, was under the personal attention of Herr Zici- mermann, lot nieris a Cal in Chim,

and now the German Secretary for Foreign Affairs. A grent leal d evidence has already been obtaince) | in the mainpiracy trinks which have taken place in India in the course of the war, and perhaps it is this

manifestly hava tremendously affected the fortunes of the war; but, happily, every, one of the "knavish tricks" has been successfully frustrated, and the coloured races which Gersang regarded as elements of weaknes in the Allied ranks have been revealed to her as pillan of strength con tributing to her sure and certain

defeat.

NEWS OF THE DAY

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Government of Sizin last mouth prohibited by proclamation the export of silver.

This morning the banks' selling rate on demmarul had risen: a forthing from yesterdag, to 2,7 7,16. . This after there was no eltinge..

Eu-motor is the birthday of Prince Joan, the young child of King Gizorge and Queen Mary. The young Prince will be 12 years obl. -

The Fion. Mr. H. E Pollock, KC, ext Wednesday is to present the Hongkong Schools

Chess Legs Challenge Shield to the Sai ingpun Bchool, winners of the 1917 competition.

We have received this afternoon the final list of thecriptions to the Aeroplane Furl. This list, which will published in our next issue, adds

total up to $13,611,89. -

DRAGON FLAG VANISHES

in

FROM PEKING.

'THE ATTITUDE OF THE LEGATIONS.

((The "Chi Mail',

ail Service) Preisa, July 9,

THE MAGISTRACY.

WEDNESDAY, JULY [1, 1917.

about nine family houses. The rob- bars renained in the village about. two hours carrying out depredations and then made good their escape.. On the 8th March, the Sun Fai agistrate attacked the robbers.

--A SHIP'S OFFICER FINED. Andres M. Lorses, the ship's officer who was yesterday charged with being drunk and incapable in Water Street, West Point, was Again before Metronghold at Tin Wu Long in Wood this morning.

the San Wut District, and succeeded In aniver to the charge, the defend in rescuing twenty-five prisoners A meeting of diplomats decided that jant said he lost his pocket book, which. from the hands of the robber

and many valuable | The defendant who was arrested in documents, and also lost his watch. Hongkong had been identified as

The magistrate imposed a fine of $5. Fong of the band of robbers.

After evidence was henni, his INDIAN ASSAULT CASE.

Worship adjound the case until Wednesday.

order to avoid bloodshed in Ferring,

Chang Haun will be considered a political offender so will be given protection in the Legation quarters.

It is reported that Hau Hai chang arrived last night, to act as mediator.

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RAIL REFUSED.

All the Dragon flags have disappeared this morning, and the Flist of Abetica- The case in which three Indian tion is expected to be issued to-day, constables of the Naval Dockyard ware Liang Tunyan is in hiding ingayesterday charged with assaulting an certain Lagation, and Kaug Yu Wei Indian Sergeant Major, also of the has escaped in disguise.

Naval Dockyard Police, was again before Tan Chi-jul: will come to Peking to Mr. J. R. Wood this morning.. form a new Cabinet within the next Mr Lea D'Almada, who appeared as few days. Liang Chi-chao, Tang Fa-solicitor for the defendanta, nid he was lung, Chan Ruokan Chang Chi instructed that the complainant's Yip Kangcho and To Yu-lin are adition was not serious, and made su reported to be likely to join the new application for bail" Cabinet.

General Chang Hsun, has withdrawn the sensorship of the telegraph offices to-lay-

[REPUDIATION OF DR. WU

FANG'S CLAIMS

His Worship informed Mr. D'Almada that the complainant's condition was serious and refused to grant - the application.

The three defendants were then TING|remanded in Police custody until next

Friday.

SHANGHAL July 10. The Premier, Tuan Ki Sui, referring | to Dr. Wu Ting fang's telegram in which the latter states that he bas installe! himself as Minister of Foreign Affairs in Shangbai, states that Dr. W office, and all his actions after he left Ting-iang has been dismissed from

Peking were without responsibility. Cahine: has been formed in Tientsin which will be transferred to Peking to-day, and it alone, will undertake all diplomatic dealings

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THE NEW CABINET. General Tuan Ki-aui telegraphed to to General Feng Kuo-chang last night that he proposes appointing Coo Yu-lom

OPIUM TIED ROUND HER WAIST.

A Chinese woman was yesterday arrested aboard the & S. Hung the on the charge of being in the unlawfal When the woman was brought before possession of 25 taels of opiame

Mr. Wood this morning, Sergeant Davitt stated that the drug was found tied round her waist.»

After evidence was heard the magia trute imposed a Sue of $1,000, with the alternative of four months' hard lahour, and ordered the opium to be confiscatul

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THEFT FROM A CARGO BOAT. Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hung In Mr. Wood's Court this morning, Hi-ling. Minister of faterior, Liang two Chinese coolies pleaded guilty to Kai-chui, Minister of Finance. Tuan the charge of stenting 33 hemp lings

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THE COLLAPSE OF GERMAN CREDIT.

AN ELOQUENTA TABLE.

The criterion of foreign exchange, say, home paper of 7th May, is the one t applied to the credit of a belligerent country, because sxperience, has shown that, internally, the difficulties of war finance can fairly easily be met. In this respect practically all the belligerens countries have had similar experies.co The outbreak of war in 1914 gave france and industry a severe shock everywhere. But the industrial nature of modern war and the improvement.in the machinery of modern finaner have enabled that

belligerents have been forced to alter their economic life in the direction of

EXTRADITION CASE RESUMED shock to be almat forgotten. All the

The extradition case in which Chinese farmer was charged with armed concentrating industry upon the one robbery and kidnapping on May work of producing munitions of war. goth, in the Tun Mi Village, Pun This concentration having been success- District, was resumed before Mr. Wood fully effected unemployment has been avoided, and with an infatin of currency yesterday...

varying in the different belligerent countries everywhere maintaine

Aften further evidence wes-heard the defendant entered the witness bow and deposed that he had taken to part in the armed robbery which occurred

EXCHANGE BATEN IN BOLLAND Thus it is only in neutral countries in the Tin Mi Village on the 20th of that a just estimate of the respective aredits of the belligerents can be formed. last June. The charges against the defendant were false. His clansmen mate is to be found in the quotations for And the best means of making this cati- had conspired against him.

belligerents' currency in neutral markets. After Crown Solicitor Wakeman hadThe country in which the respective i cross-questioned the defendant, His credit of way. England and Germany Worship committed the latter to Victoria can most fairly, be estimated seems be

Holland, which is soparated only by Gaol, to await there further orders from and frontier from Germany, and by. His Excelladcy the Governor."

SANITARY BOARD MEETING."

QUESTIONS ON THE WATER SUPPLY.

A meeting of the Sanitary Board was held yesterday aftemoon at 4.15 p.m.

There were present Mr. E N. Carp

short sen passage from England. One may then describe the course of exchange rates in Holland on London and on Berlin which show the market value of British and German currency expressed in Dutch money.

While during the first 14 months of the present war German currency had only depreciated in Holland 17 par cent., between October 1 and Docensber 31, 1913, this depreciation had, increased

mael (Chairman), Hon. Mr. Wto 28.7 per cent. This relatively rapid Chatham, C.M.G., Mr. F. B. L. Bowley, depreciation in the value of the Reichs Mr. C. G. Alabaster, Dr. W. W. Pearse, mark during the last quarter of 1915 is (Medical Officer of Health). Dr. Ozorio acknowledged by scuncoists to indicate Mr. Chan Kai Ming, Mr. S. Hon Tze that the military activity of the Oer- ail M. T. W. Ainsworth, (acting in that period was only made possible by a further decrease in pro- secretary.)

duttive activity in Germany which Several letters from the Governments involved a virtual collapse of the remains manting perruission for the erection of of the German export trade. In Angast water closets etc. were laid on the table. 1915 Finance Minister Halferrich stated With regard to a letter from the that the depreciation of the marir abroad WAY unimportant. But subsequent actions of the German Government have January 28, 1918, free dealings in foreign given that economia the lies from

arranged through the Reichsbanke exchange in Germany were forbidden. and such transactions can now only be

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ing up of the chief conspirators -in the United States A hundred and The Hongkong Land Investment five men are involved, including and Agency Co., annonces an interim prominent business.men, Õerman ex-dividend of $3 per share, and the West Consuls from Chicago, Honolulu and

Point Building Co, Ltd., o futerin Shanghai, and ex-Attachés of the months ended June 30th. both payable dividend of $3 per share, for the six Germany Embassy at Washington." on the 26th inst. Ninety-eight of these have been indicted and presumably they will be brought to trial without delay, so that the full story of the conspiracy may be revealed.

JEWELLER'S SHOP ROBBED BY BURGLARS.

in order to set the nation on its OVER $47,000 WORTH STOLEN guard against movements of a

Tai-abi, Minister of Communications; Road. West, near Centre Street. Chang Kok karni, Minister of Agricul ture and Commerce; Fang Yaz-lim, Minister of Education, and Tong Fa-lung Minister of Justice.

REWARD OFFERED FOR CHANG HSUN'S ARREST..

SHANGHAL, July 10. General Feng Kup-Chang ise ordered that Chang Haun shall be dismissed and tis Orders of Merit cancelled, and also that he shall be arrested and panibed. through Liang Tug Tung Yin, to Chang Hann bas asked Chu Sai Chong

arrange with Tuan Ki Su for his (Chang Hann's) arrender, but Tuan Ki Sui has refused and has offered $100,000 reward for Chang Ham's arrest.

CHANG HSUN'S, ALLEGATIONS.

His Worship sentenced the defendants to four months hard labour, and four hours' stocks in lieu of the last day

FALSE SCALES,

| madaling

A Chinese hawker charged with the possession of scales 45 per cent. against the purchaser, was brought before Mr. A.. Dyer Ball this morning.

Inspector Terrett stated that the case was the wor instance of false scales be had ever come STORA

convenience in a new house in Kennedy Road, which application was recommend granted by the Government, Dr ed to be refused by the Board, but was

OZORIO gave notice that, he would ask, at the next meeting of the Sanitary Board, why the Government rejected the opinion of the Board.

OFFENSIVE TRADER.

Yet despite the increasing thorough- depreciation in the mark has gone on ness of this govemmental control, the space. Through April and May 1916, the quotations of the mark in Amster dam showed some recovery but in lowest level previously touched.

the

How TZE seconde, that the point there was a period of relative The CHAIRMAN moved, and Mr.se the decline began again, and con

tinued steadily until November. Att report of the aub-Committee which mark resumed its downward course, a

steadiness. But in March 1917, the and

friend gave him the scales, and he wand Kowloon, be adopted, and the States, the depreciation in the value of

The defendant's excise was that a

was appointed to enquire into the as a result, no doubt, of the British vic- Offensive Trade limite in Hongkong of war against Germany by the United tories in the West, and the declaration unaware that the scales were false.

the mark had by the middle of April His Worship imposed a fine of $5.

motion was carried.........

1917 amounted to 37,8 per cent This depreciation may be stated in another LARCENY OF AN IRON

Dutch goods who would have paid 100 way, namely that a German buyer of GRATING.

marks for them before the war had (quite apart from any rise which may have. taken place in prices generally) to pay

marks for the same goods in April.. 1911

similar. character in the United Burglars at night broke "into the States, for now that the United jewellery store of Mobideen and States is at war with Gerniany the Company or the ground Hoor of No. country which gives the conspirators 3 and 40. Queen's Road Central, and refuge is as much an object of stole watches and jewellery "to the total their machinations as the other value of more than $47,000..

Chang Heun, in a circular talegram, Chinese colie to three months' hard Mr. Wood, this morning sentenced a earlier adversaries of Germany. Thei

The burglars broke into the int states that he was duped and alleges labour and four hours stocks for timaly "discovery of the plot of the occupied, and sawed a hole, about two and others, urged him on. He state Road East, Wanchai.

floor of the premises, which is un-that Feng Koo Chang, Chu Sar Chong stealing an-iron grating from Queon's 10.30 am.-Auction of Towels, Bath German Government to instigate feet square, in the ceiling of the ground that he has written proofs that they Gowns, Table Cloths and Brass and encourage an attack on the floor. They descended into the jewellery favoured & monarchy. He is now will Ware etc, etc. at Moara. Hughes United States by the Mexicans store by means of a rope and beganing to repent. and Hough's

MIKOS TOR TO-MORROW, Prince John's Birthday (1805),

General Memoranda.

SATURDAY, July 14:

Anniversary of the taking of the

Bastille (1780)

10.30 am Auction of Brass Ware, Rath Gowas and Towels, Pottery, etc. at Mesers. Hughes and Hough's, Bursa, July 15 -

St. Swithin's Day.

Monday, July 16 —

Fall Court of Appeal

opened the eyes of the people of riffing the glass cases containing watches America to the dangers to which they and jewellery. Each piece of jewellery themselves are exposed by German was removed from its "cot," and the velvet-covered boxes were left in the intrigua "We have not heard so much of the German affort to set сале.

WOMEN IN PHARMACY,

GOUD OPENINGS FOR

·ULIIED CHEMISTS.

The Pereira medal, the "blue ribaad

America ablaze with a negra insurwhilst engaged in sacking the store The burglars were probably frightened rection, because popular confidence as half of a case of jewellery walde in the loyalty of the negro enabled untouched. The burglars made good that effort on Germany's part to be their escape. regarded as an absurdity. Mr. The burglary Es been reported to chemist for the third year in succession. ROBERT R. MOTON, necessor of the the Police

p.m.-Auction of Crown, Jand at late BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

P.W.D.

Tauziday, July 19

11-New Moon. 1230 p.m.-Ex. Gen. Meeting of the British Traders Insurance Co., Ltd. Thursday, July 6-

Jand Investment Co's. Dividend due. West Point Building Coe Dividend

dra #mvas, July 27-

Bottlement Day Hongkong ek

ta Exchange Baturday, July 2816

Esian Internal Liberty Loan closes BOMDAY, July 31

principal of the Tuskegee Institute, is quoted by a correspondent of the New York Tribune as saying that German efforts in the South to erente disaffection among the negroes

PIRACY OFF CHINESE TERRITORY.

A BELATED REPORT.

The cozavain of a Chinese cargo boat, and Un Laing, has reported to the

A CASE OF KIDNAPPING.

Two Chinese women and a man were charged with conspiracy before Mr. A. Dyer Ball this morning.

Detective-Sergeant Cockat stated that

MR ALABASTER'S QUESTIONS In accordance with notice of motion, Mr.. ALABASTER asked the following questions

(i)How many sanitary conveniences

A STRIKISU COMPARIBOY,

are there in the Colony flushed with water from the mains which supply the population with drink amount of depreciation of a belligerent's It may be said, however, that certain ing water!

currency in a neutral centre is inevitable The PRESIDENT replied that there emerged from the ordeal unscathed. and 'that, even, British credit not were: 377. water closets and 192 urinals. This seems true, but the following table (11)-In how many of such cases is shows that British money has depreciat-

the water so used measured by that of Germany. ed to a very much

smaller-extent than will further water-meter 1

observed that during the last year, while in Amsterdam, German marks depreciated British currener recovered by per cent. by further a per cent.

The PRESIDENT replied that there

the charge against the defendants con-were 374 water closets and 188 nrimis. stituted a eses of kidnapping, The Hon. (ii)fs filtered water used in any Secretary for Chinese Affairs would

and if so how many, of such cases appear to prosecuta.

The PRESIDENT said that filtered

His Worship formally adjourned the water was used in all cases

of the School of Pharmacy prize com-case. petition--has been won by WORLD

VILLAGE ATTACKED BY

ROBBERS.

precistion in percentage of the rates of The following table shows the de

exchange on London and Berlin, as quoted in Amsterdam at the end of each. remouth since October 1915–92

Berlin

Lendyg 19.1

(i)-In how many of such cases was the question of using potable water from the públic mains discussed and considered when permission was given for the constraction of the convenience

Women have won it four times in all This year's winner is Miss Try Roberte The society's bronze medal also has been won this year by a woman, Mia Doria Grégory. The only other occasion Mr Wood this afternoon beard on which it was secured by a woman another extradition case in which a was in 1911,

Chinese mamed Lam Fli, was charged In 1914 there were 416 men com- petitors and 21 women. Women num with being one of a band of armed robbera, who, on the 27th of last against $19 men in the former year and February, raided the Ngan To discussed 247 in the latter fo chemists are employed in public institu-

can achieve but little, for those who running between Tai Ping Tung Kubered 39 in 1915 and again in 1916,

The PRESIDENT replied that up to approximately 1897 or 1898, applications were simply granted and were not dis use After that date they were

are misled namber only a few "nal Police.that on May 14th last, ab about Most of the women who qualify as Cheng Village, BanWui District CEMETISY" "“SUB-COMMITTER,

contents who have the universal coo- 2:30 pm, whilet hirboat was en route demnation of all thinking negroes, to Tai Ping; a large ampan was obertions and by retail chemists, but there outlining the case, said that at about Vice-President seconded that the name Mz. Wakeman, Crown Solicitor, in The President proposed and the The negro race is ready to deal swiftly ed approaching from Chinese Territory chemists in business on their own secount

is an increasing number of women 8.30 am on February 27th and temly with any form of dis The sampady came alongside and in London and the provinces.

of Mr. F.B.L. Bowley be added to the thân two hundred robbers, armed Cemetery Sub-Committee, which is now loyalty, according to this authority, five men, armed with rifles, boarded No Auction of Lysbolt," who adds: This is our country the cargo boat. After ransacking the

constituted as follows-The President with swords, evolvers and rifles, Col Crisp and Mesari F.B.L Bowlay made an attack on the Ngan Tong and It is our flag. We are one people boat, the pirates kidnapped the master

and C.G. Alabaster of the boat and has fokt, and returning

Cheng Villa Sun Wui District to their sampen sailed away in the

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matters, but when a foreign nation insults the American flag and kille our citizens, white or black, that is entirely a different matter. The

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