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HONGROG, FR DAY, OCTOBER 17, 1919.
HONGKONG DEP INCE
CORP
Bambulative Orders by Major J. H. W Armstrong. V.D., Acting. Adminis trative Commandant,
STRENGTH.
THE WAR MIND,
UNDER WHICH K NG7
WHO SE LL BE OBEYED?
Lord Robert Cecil said recently that what the country needs most at this moment is to get rid of the war mind. It looks as if the At the monthly meeting of the country will only get rid of the war North of Eugland Steamship Owners'. mind when it gets rid of the Govern ment. For the Government find, the Association consideration was given war" atmosphere so convenient that to the serious situation, created "by" they want to keep it as long as pos- the Coal Crintroller in limiting the sible. "Anybody," said Cavour, "can scope of hiding of vessels under 700 govern in a state of siege." Ministers, having had a taste of No. 857 Pte. J. R. Buiter, Stret-governing in a state of siege, are ber: Bearer Section, is permitted to reluctant to attempt the task of to resign, on leaving the Colony, dated, governing under any other condi- of Trade:-"We telegraphed the 14th October 1919.
No. 475 Corp. W. H. Bell, "B" Dompany, is permitted to resign, on leaving the Colony, from 81st Octo- ber, 1919.
No. 831 Pte. A. W. Eastman, "B" Company, is permitted to re- sign, oh leasing the Colony, from: B1st October, 1010.
LEAVE
2nd Corp. J. S. Thomson. Engi- noer Company, is granted. 14 months Beave from 13th November, 1919.
ALLOTMENT OF RIFLE KANOR.
King's Park Range is allotted to the TN Punjabis from Ist to Tth November. 1010, inclusive, Sunday excepted, from 7 a.m. Haily.
R. Hall.
Our
from
tons.
The Towing legram was sent the President of the Board
Ministry of Shipping yesterday that steamers released by the Minister from coasting trade would be allowed to run under
tions. They are now proposing that Parliament should "uthorise them to continue for twelve months the termination of the present war a number of drastic restrictions on personal freedom which nothing but the face of war could make in granted by the Ministry of tolerable to any people that cared Shippinu for France. The Coal Con. for its liberty. A regulation that troller has issued regulations for is to continue is the regulation collieries that they must not load
to the competent
steamers under 700 tons. Det giving power
register except for coast. There military or naval authority or police contable to arrest any person
serious detention, now .and
whose behaviour is of such a is to 1 p.m. nature as to give reasonable grounds in view, to ships here and in for suspecting that he has acted or Wales, because rollieries will not Uma Evidently is about to act in a manner prejudi- provide coat **
D.B.L. INSTRUCTIONAL CLASSES
Recruits will pamde for D.E.I.. instruction under RE. Instructors at Belchers ut 2 p.m. on Wednesday. 22nd October Officer on duty Captain, P. Hall.
atrullera. Ship- Bler has asked us to
I allow these steamers to
Prders for Engineer Company by Captain cial to the public safety or the defence there must be some misunderstand-
of the realm, or upon whom may be ing bei <ven found any artigle, book, itter, or r other document the possession of adres urselves to you. Will you which gives ground for hat therefor please inquire into the Suspicion." There must be very matter few people in the country, except o Fance and avoid this seri- Sir Edward Carson, who have not ous dutending and low money to made thereselves liable at one time the cone y
It w agreed to confirm the tele or another to arrest under this regulation. Presumably it was for gram and wire again for a reply, as Pay for September will be jened, this dirence that an insiturk temu - in the meantime being. at Engineer
wing resintion » Company Off, WOU had s
12 hela H.K.D.C. Headquarters between pocket of the highly seasoned Ulster, wed taxion by wire 5.15 and 6 pm on Wednesday, 22nd kind was clapped into jail for six to...d minister:
This in the North of October
www.sp Owners' Associa These are very prave proposals,, En
will ha flakond on protes strongly against the un- and 4 scussed. Bot a sten nas dyreddy i sumnjamunang
Character Wild whet.
PAY.
Orders for Infantry Battali
"R" COMPANY. Tuesday, 1st October-5.15 pm: No. 6 Paitoor. The following Men will parade at Headquarters for T.E.T.-P. J. C. Clark, P. R. Glendinning. W. S. Glendinning, D 3. C. Goodall, H. 0. Holt. Knight, J. A. Pharmer. E. H. Roy, W. A. Shepherd. J. Wiltshire, T Claxton, E. R. Hallifax, T. Hynes, and 3. Jackson.
month
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AUTHEN
- min.
Total tonnage
et sited by ter preventing supply kg 3 memuti kosti industrial espionage was estabus of ce for voyag's already arrang Thated with the sanction of the Shipping in the Ministry of Munitions. Department learnt in course of time Controller. This is not only causing what a dangerous instrument it was. great embarrassment to shipowners That system; introduced under cover in arranging their work, but conduces of war, has now been established as to uneconomical utilisation of tonnage part of our domestic machinery as a from national point of view. This branch of the Home Office. Some meeting desires that the licence of Staff Sergt. Edmonds and Sergt. day the whole truth of the proceed the Shipping Controller shall be Meade will attend. Riflee to be casings of this kind that did so paramount."
much to embitter the munition ried. Uniform need not be worn workshops during the war will N.C.. as detaled by Pistoon Com, be made public, and the sooner mander to attend.
Staff Sergt. Edmonds and Sergt. Blead will attend. Rifles, belt, pote and dummy cartridges to be carried. Uniform need not be worn. N.C.. to attend as detailed by Platoon Commander,
On October 7 at Shanghai Mr. G. W. King, H. M. Coroner, concluded
the better. Many competent judges A HOUSEBOAT TRAGEDY. Friday, 24th October.-3.15 p.m. believe that these methods of spying No. 6. Platoos. The following Men were at the bottom of a great deal of will parade at Bendquarters for the industrial unrest during the war. TETF C Stuart, H. H., We know from history what mischief Tayler, W. A Stephens, R. Eand danger lurk in these devices. A his inquiry into the circumstances of Belili, D. K. Moss, and A. G. M. century ago Lancashire was in a state the death of Herbert Alfred Hardy, Fletcher.
that was virtually civil war because who lost his life whilst on a-house. the Home Office and the magistrates boat trip near Seochow, suborned working men to act as spies Dr. N. Hay Bolton, describing the on their comrades and to enter trade autopsy which he made, stated that unions and reform societies in order there were no external signs of to find out their secrets.. Such violence. The condition of the lungs methods are peculiarly repulsive to showed that death was not due Englishmen, and the fact that our to drowning, and the heart was He present Ministers have resort to them apparently perfectly healthy. shows that they are as much out of concluded that death was due to touch with the feeling and sentiment shock. of their countrymen as were Sidmouth and Eldon. We believe that strong objections to this reactionary course were urged by the responsible officials
Witness-He of the Ministry of Labour, and no
have been wonder, for it is clearly impossible to frightened, and that would have had combine the method of consulting an effect. It is an unusual case. Labour and the method of spying The Coroner-This was not what on Labour, to treat Labour as a you would call a great shock for a friend and to treat Labour as an boy of twelve, especially as the water- enemy. Spying of this kind at the was not cold.
Orders for Cadet Company by Liszt
A. O.
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PAL JE.
At Headquarters on Saturday, 18th instant, at 1.20 p.m. Uniform, Cape
and belts.
G. E. STEWART, Captain. Adjutant. R.K. Defence Corps. Hongkong. Outober 17, 1919,
"FLYING THE WHITE PIGEON."
At the Magistracy this afternoon before Mr. S. L. Smith, two Chinese women were charged with conspiring with others not in custody, to de- fraud a woman of the sum of $120.
Mr. McElderry of the S.C.A.'s
office prosecuted,
The Coroner-That is rather un- usual, is it not? The boy was only in the water for two minutes, at the
most
may
worst produces plots and conspiracies Witness gave it as his opinion that manufactured or stimulated by death was due to shock following the spies themselves; at the best upon sudden and unexpected Immer-
discontent underground sion. it drives
The Coroner If he had fallen.a and makes it more dangerous. The men who employ these spies are distance of 20ft or so into the water credulous, and the spies themselves there would have been shock, but he have every motive for finding trouble. did not fall a great,distance. And it They are men who do dirty work which no men of character would is quite clear that he did not receive any injury in falling.. In your touch. It is amazing and outrageous opinion it is a very unusual case?
The complainant stated that on that at this time of day any Witness-Very unusual indeed. August 7 she bought a giri ue daugh-set of Ministers should revert to No doubt it was a 'severe mental ter from the second defendant. She practices which were condemned strain. But I can give no explanation paid $120. A deed was executed and it was signed by both the defen. most strongly by a British House of other than shock.
Commons a century ago. A French- The Coroner returned a verdict in man invented an expressive phrase for this kind of relapse," nostalgie de la boue," a diseased longing for reversion to the unclean.
dants, the first being the go-between Witness was told that the girl was the daughter of second defendant's elder sister, and she had lost both of her patents. She said that the girl The Government, anxious to find wan big and not likely to take her, any other reason than the true one but finally she was persuaded by the for the dangerous condition of the Rofendonte to have her as her country, are talking about plots, and
This The second de- Bolshevism. bought daughter.
sounds Touch Bendant then said that the girl was better than the reason of which full sensible, and if she tera bad, she evidence has been given at the elec would hand her back the money. tions. Do Mr. Lloyd George and
accordance with the medical evidence. He expressed sympathy with the parents in losing a very promising boy indeed, and added that the case appeared to be a very rare one of which there could be no absolutely satisfactory explanation.
The total output of the Kailan.
On the morning of August 8, when Mr. Bonar Law and Mr. Churchill Mining Administration's mines for ber son, aged 7, got up, be discover-think that it is Bolsheviks who have the week ending October 4 amounted
Swansea, and Bothwell? What have
ed that the girl had disappeared. changed the minds of the voters of to 74,895 tons and the sales during She was told, and a search for the Liverpool, Leyton, Hull, Aberdeen, the period, to 71,402 tons. girl was made.
The case was continuing se we the Government done to inspire con went to prese.
fidence? Look at their mischievous
interferences with trade, interferences tion they have offered to the suspi- not merely mischievous but of cions of Labour by their behaviour doubtful legality, and then note how to Russia. The war has created pro- "AMONG THE CANNIBALS." they have failed to protect the con blems of immense difficulty for every
FILM PUBLICLY BURNT AT LAMERICE.
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sumer from the profiteer in clothes nation, and it has made millions of and boots. Where control might people, conscious of their sacrifices have helped the worker it has been and sufferings during the last four abandoned, while a vexatious and years, not more but less patient of capricious system of licences and hardship and injustice. To tell peo The Gaiety Theatre Kinema at monopolies has been maintained ple in such circumstances to trust. Limerick was entered on August 12 under circumstances that provoke all Parliament is one thing; to give them by members of the local Vigilance kinds of suspicion. Compare their reason for trusting it is another. The Committee, and the film" Adventures brave words yesterday about reaist- difficulty is that we have a Government among Cannibals" was seized, taken ing the illegitimate pressure of direct and a Parliament which represent the outside, and publicly burnt amid action with their timid surrender to war mind of last December, still rely- cheers. A large number of constab Sir Edward Carson. Look at their ing on stunt methods and thinking niary were present, but did not handling of industrial difficulties, only of strategical manoeuvres. A Interfere. Some of the figures were their record over Ireland, their equi- few months more of such govern- stated to be in the nude, hence the vocations and prevarications over ment may easily land us in a capes.
bjection.
conscription, and the sheer provoca- Įtrophe.-kanchester Guardian.
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