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SUPREME COURT.

Wednesday, December 18th.

IN CRIMINAL JURISDICTION..

Braone Tile FIRE JUSTICE (BIS HONOUR MR. REER DAVIES, K.C.)

A LARCENY, CABE

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1912.

HAMBURG LETTER.

[Specially WRITTEN FOR TAS " Hongkong DAILY PRESS."]

November 27th.

INDUSTRIAL ACTIVITY.

The reports of numerous failures in the Balkan States have brought trade with those countries almost to a standstill and a temporary pause in the general activity

"SOMEWHAT DEPREBBING CONDITIONS."

"COLONIES OF A NEW SORT.

| PORTUGAL UNDER THE REPUBLIC: † liberty “on suspicion,” which sometimes ang sayans on the accusation of informers

belonging to the lowest classes of the Out in Wisconsin, where they are fond population. Trials when they have taken of large experiments and rather enjoy place have been interfered with; sentences venturing into new paths just to see what have been revised by Ministers; juries, will happen, the State is about to iry a and witnesses have been intimidated with scheme of co-operative colonization as a punity by the carbonarios, and the means of utilizing for agriculture the Press has been overawed. We cannot many millions of acres of public lands

that have been laid wasto by lunormen. agine conduct better calculated to The plan on which this will be done is

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Fang Sam was indicted with stealing seems to be experienced in, other quarters even of those who took part in the Revoluent Republican groups appear to have an Eastern expert, and, as explained~~~ |

Contral.

Mr. J. H. Kemp (Crown Solicitor) prosecuted, and prisoner, who was not represented, pleaded not guilty.

A GOVERNMENT OIL MONÓPOLY.

Un.

Democrats widened

The plan

SZEMIA

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INTIMATIONS

ECZEMA ON WRIST

AND RIGHT ARM

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1 up. When I got the crusty scales washed of, it was aw red Besh underneath, but in about a week's time you saw it dis appearing and a nice new skin coming over it. "It is all nice and strong and I can work in as much water da I need. It does not hurt it. I just cured it with Cuticura Rem- edies. I can recommend anybody suffering with it to try them." (Signed) Miss M. Lille. Hatchedrize, Coldstream, Berwick shire, N. B., Apdi 13, 1911.

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The Times of the 23rd ult, had the following leading article:

The third Sasion of the Parliament of the Portuguese Republic, which began some ten days ago, opens in somewhat depressing conditions. The MELSA KO which we publish wo-day from our Lisbon Correspondent, and which the Consortionate sympathy from the Republic.

In Parliament the leaders of the differ-liams, who is rather vaguely described as one davised by a certain Arthur L. Wil- endeavoured to suppress, shows that some tion are far from being satisfied with the acted very much as their selfish and short-not very lucidly by the makes Free

The Press it combines the sighted predecessors used to act. Official assur-

fund foa- -a-box-of-clothes at 312, Queen's Road as well; but all the groat industries of prenat star from being a

the country, iron works and textile mills anees that all is for the best ander the breach between the Conservatives and the ture of the "Little Londoos, fit fo

throughout and factories are full of orders for many best of all possible Governments are 89 Session, and the Vasconcellos Cabinet fell of the German Landschift, with provi

last Isidro and the mortgage-loan department in June. months ahead and the enormous demand plentiful and as positive as they used to

The advent to power of Dr.sions for credit borrowed from the be under the Monarchy, and they appear Duarte Leite may possibly be followed Railffeisen system, for coal shows how busy they are.

to have about the same relation to facts, by improvements in legislation and in As solid foundation for the enterprise, fortunately the railway authorities are They cannot shake the impression created administration. The fashion in which there is a fund of $10,000,000, appro- not in a position to meet the demand for by the concurrent testimony of indepen- the new Premier put an end to the priated some time ago by the Legislature, The following were the jury:-Marstrucks and waggons, having from motives dent observers, well scquainted with the formidable Lisbon tramway strike shows to be used for developing the cut-over R. Henderson (forenman), R. L. Atkinson of mistaken economy failed to increase neither sounder nor sweeter than they Royalist troubles in the summer may have bought at wholesale rates in suck quanti

country, that the politics of Portugal are that he can act with decision.

With this money land will be The tracts. A. H. Forbes, J. Fasse, D. E. Maria de their rolling stock in proportion to the were before the Revolution and that her distracted his attention from the many colonist will have to pay for what he ties as any colony "may desire; but oach Soum, R. B. Wood, and F. D. Haigh.

growing requirements of the country, material condition is distinctly worse. grievances which ery for prompt redress. Kemp said the prisoner was They are now giving out large orders to It is but bare justice to acknowledge the The new Bession will prove whether he wants whatever it is worth for his pur- Mr.

pose. The difference between these two charged with robbery by two or more, supply the "want, but in the meantime great difficulties of the task undertaken has the wisdom and the power to remedy prices, which is expected nearly to equal

by her new rulers. Government and this was naturally more serious than there is a tremendous congestion of traffic, democratic principles, where the masses he would invite Parliament to revise the operative uses and the common benefit of outhern. It was stated in the summer that the smaller, will form a fund for co The particularly in the Rheno-Westphalian are too ignorant to take an intelligent devrees passed under the Provisional the colonista. It will be administered a robbery by the prisoner alone.

In the month of September interest in politics, must always expose Government, which include the law for ander trustees acting under the State floor of 12, Queen's Road Central was coalfields. occupied by coolies employed in the New there was a shortage of 24,000 trucks and those who attempt it to great dangers and the asparation of Church and State and Board of Public Affairs, but the admini- The first of these stration is to be along strictly busincas Western Market in the day time and it was feared that at that rate there would to great temptations. The founders of the the divorce law.

Republic held out high hopes to the

measures is certainly unpopolar, and so, lines, with no slightest taint of charity at entrance could be obtained to it by the be at least half a million tons left unfernatiou. They showed extreme sensibility we should imagine, is the second.. The any point.

The colonies are to be composed of suc- back. On the 19th of November, while warded during the following month. This to the rank abuses which had thriven parochial clergy still possess n grent deal! the coolies were away the door was opened figure has, however, boen much exceeded as under the Monarchy, and they ingenu of influence over the peasantry, and it is cessful and efficient families, not paupera the demand increased, owing to the con-ously suggested that upon its overthrow not wise for any Government, and least or defectives, and the land will be really and two men came in. The watchman tiaued activity of trade and the approach prosperity would immediately set in. It to depend on popular support, to drive they can sell out when ever they wish for the reign of justice, enlightenment, and of all for a Government which professes theirs, to do with what they choose, and was present, and one of the two was of winter. The mines are therefore sori has not set in yet, and the more moderate them into permanent hostility to it. But whatever they can get in case the ad known to him, as he had slept thereously considering the advisability of re-apologists of the new régime have all sorts it is by its administration, rather than vantages of the co-operative plan do not before, and the watchman thought he was ducing their output to three days a week of explanations, more or less plausible, by its legislative proposals, that the spirit come up to their expectations. It is a friend. Suddenly they attacked him, in order to avoid a further accumulation to offer of the facts. They plead, with of the new Ministry will in the first place hoped, however, that the colonies will be

truth, that they are the heirs to an estab-bo revealed. The Government returns for permanent. tied him up, and gagged him. Prisoner of stock at the pits. This measure would shed and traditional system of corrupt September show some improvement in the Many sources of weakness that have scized a box containing clothes and ran affect 300,000 colliers and entail heavy tion. They urge that in the most state of commerce and of the finances. If proved fatal in the end to other schemes

losses on the owners.

conservative and beneficent of revolutions it is to be more than transitory, confidence more or less socialistic or communistic with it to the staircase door, and was

things are said and done which could not in the safety of property and the stability have been eliminated, and the aspiration captured. The other man had previously

be defended in ordinary times. They of order must be gradually built up. has been to be practical as well as up to decamped.

The draft of a bill to be submitted to the assert, again with truth, that overy They have been badly shaken, and it rests date. The colonists will be a "peculiar Reichstag, vesting the sole right of im-Gert is bound to defend itself, in the first instance with the Government people" only in that they will share a and that the repeated efforts of the to restore them. by dispensing firm and common desire to suplement individual porting, manufacturing and refining Royalists to bring about a restoration by even-handed justice to all

effort by mutual ass.stance so far as it mineral oils for lighting purposes in the armed invasion and insurrection have

may prove agreeable and profitable. They resort to measures imperial Government, has just been pala.compelled them to

will not be anybody's wards or protegés, Oils within the meaning of the they affirm, are all that is needed for the which they deplore. Time and patience, fished.

while the rules by which they contract to abide will be made and enforced by them- act are defined as such possessing reforms they have made, and for the

solves.-New York Times. The present activity of Japanese steam- density (specific gravity) of 770 to 830 at further reforms they contemplate, to bear a temperature of 15deg. Celsius." The the rare and refreshing fruit they have ship companies is welcomed by the Can bill empowers the Government to entrust promised their country. Other champions Shogy as a sign of the development of Japan's foreign trade and the extension of the Republic hardly contend that the of her. commercial rights." The hard the exploitation of the monopoly to a fruit is already abundant, and that it is struggle of the Nippon Yusen Kaisha on Member, on behalf of Captain Craig, company, to be formed for that purpose only malice and perversity which fail to the Calcutta line, says the Tokyo com-asked the President of the Board of Trade under the auspices and control of the see it and to enjoy it,

ercial paper, has had its effect on trade whether he was aware that only one Imperial Chancellor, for a period not vain to argue. On the other hand, it may matches and other merchandize from certain P. & O. mail steamers; and whe With politicians of this latter kind it is between Japan and India, the export of Marconigram operator was carried by exceeding thirty years. The capital of the be useful to remind those who have not Japan having increased to a remarkable ther, in view of the experience gained Frisoner pleaded not guilty.

company to be raised by the issue of shut their eyes to all truths which are extent The journal also notes the within recent years, the Board would Mr. J. II. Kemp prosented, and said shares in the usual manner, part of the unpleasant that it is high time for the activity of the Nippon Yusen Kaisha in issue regulations that every ocean-going

promised reforms to take practical effect. the direction of Manila, whence the Com-steamer fitted with the Marconigrem CHRONOMETER-MAKERS, the man was charged-on-two counts, with shares to be to bearer and part to name, The failure of the successive Monarchist pany is now shipping Manila hemg to instrument should carry at least two attempted gang robbery and with assault. the latter to be deposited with the Reiche plots removes all valid excuse for the Japan direct. Manila hemp, which is On the 14th of November three men en-bank and to be entered on a register, any harsh treatment of the real or suspected being imported by Japan in

large operators. Mr. Buxton replied:-I am tered a shop at Mong Kok Sui. One of subsequent sales of them to be subject to enemies of the Republic. We notice with volumes, has hitherto been forwarded informed by the P. & O. Company that the men caught the maidservant and the approval of the Imperial Chancellor, satisfaction that in a recent trial at India 8.N. Lo.'s steamers, and there on certain of their ships, and that it is from Manila to Hongkong by the British only one Marconigram operator is carried pointed a knife at her, the shopkeeper who will delegate his powers to a commisporto a number of alleged conspirators transhipped to vessela of the Nippon difficult, to find sufficient work for this were acquitted, and that the few who were Yusen Kaisha or the Toyo Kisen Kaisha, operator, as there are few opportunities also being threatened. The latter took sioner and deputy commissioner,

convicted received moderate sentences; The British India S.N. Co.'s spliere of for communication cast of Suez. The up a blanket and tried to throw it over The articles of association and any sub but in other parts of the country the influence in this direction has now been Board of Trade have no power to issue the second man, and enlied out "Thief," sequent alterations and new rules and Courts-martial have been condemning penetrated by the Nippon Yusen Kaisha, regulations as to the number of operators The bye-laws to require the sanction of the prisoners with monotonous regularity to which has commenced direct shipments of to be carried, but, as I have already stated the robbers then running away.

long terms of solitary confinement, and to Manila hemp. This will not only lower to the House, a Bill requiring certain prisoner was seen runing out of the shop commissioner, and the names-of-the-mem deportation to Africa. The punishment the price of the imported hemp in Japan, ships to be provided with wireless tele by a foki who fived next door: The foki bers of the council of administration, of inflicted on somne of theso political but it also indicates the development of graphy apparatus has been prepared, and and twn constables chased him, and he their chairman and vice-chairman and offenders is barbarous. The prisons are Japan's navigation power. The journal the question of operators will be dealt ENGLISH,

of the managing directors to be submitted worthy of the Middle Ages, and their continues to state that the Toya Kisen

with in it. was caught.

unhealthiness is greatly increased by Kaisha is not behind the N.Y.K. at this to him for approval.

overcrowding. We hear of seven prisoners juncture, The T.K.K., which is in- being confined in cells intended for two, terested in the trade between Japan and of rooms without windows and partly South America, is said to be contemplat- underground, of roofs that are not ing an extension of its service in that stanch, and of poor prison diet. Most direction in view of the approaching significant of all perhaps is the recom- opening of the Panama Canal." mendation made by the director of the other hand, the combination of owners of Lisbon penitentiary that, indulgence, the political prisoners in his charge should no longer be forced to wear the prison hood which covers the whole head and face of the wearer. Many persons have been deprived of their

The jury found the prisoner guilty, and his Lordship said that having regard to his youth, and that nothing was known against him, he would not sentence him to a long term of imprisonment, as he did not wish to make a gaul-bird of him. He would be kept in prison with hard labour, for 18 calendar months, and his Lordship ordered him to receive 10 strokes with the

birch,

AN EXEMPLARY SENTENCE,

Tong Fuk was charged with being co- cerned with two or more persons with as-

sault with intent to rob.

Prisoner alleged that the witnesses who

The holders of registered shares to be were called to support the opening state- ment for the prosecution had conferred entitled to at least one-half of the num together and had concocted a story.ber of votes. Out of the annual net He denied being concerned in the at-profits, after placing ten per cent. to tempted robbery,

The jury found prisoner guilty on the first count, and his Lordship sentenced him to six years' hard labour and 14 strokes-with-the-birch.

INDUSTRY IN A FIX.

of

reserve account, holders of both kinds of shares are to receive 5 per cent, interest. on the face value of the shares, the remainder to go to the State, subject to modifications

mentioned Later

The Government, or in its place the company, to acquire all existing works for the manufacture and refining of mineral oils for lighting purposes, their plant,

and everything appertaining

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Should the share of the Government ex- ceed four times the amount allotted to the shareholders the surplus to be used for the formation of a separate fund, which, with the permission of the im A singularly difficulty, says the British perial commissioner, may be drawn upon Teide Review, has arisen out of the trade to eke out profits on future occasions or to reduce the selling price of the oil, should prosperity in Lancashire. In many of either be deemed expedient. This fund the towns and districts outside Man-to be limited to 20 million marks and the chester in which new works have been ordinary reserve fund to 50 per cent, of erected and old premises extended there the share capital. is either a dearth of cottages for the work- men or a lack of journeying facilities to and from the shops. Firms like Messrs. Brunner, Mond & Co. and Messrs. Lever Brothers are overcoming the obstacle on stocks the Cheshire side by erecting what are thereto, also all warehouse, stocks, ete, really garden cities for the occupation of of importers and merchants engaged in those in their employ, but many firms do the trade; the prices to be fixed by not possess the capital to embark on private agreement or, if such prove im- building enterprise, and have depend practicable, by arbitration in accordance The company may, upon speculative effort. Owing to the with existing laws.

however, should it appear advisable, with higher quotations for all classes

the consent of the imperial commissioner, material, builders are chary in putting instead of purchasing works, leave it to up cheap dwellings, and there is an the owners to carry on their onerations urgent demand for cottages. Meantime

03 certain conditions and under the workmen are obliged to walk long dis supervision of the excise authorities. tances to and from their toil, and hesitate

Provision is also made for taking over before entering shops that are situated into the service of the company part or far away from their homes, inasmuch as the whole of the employés of the different tooth-powders and tooth-pastes is com- engagement means, in addition to their establishments and for granting.com- pletely mistaken. Mistaken, that is day's work, a five or in some cases nearly pensation to those whose services will not

to say, if anyone wishes to have sound a 10-mile walk in and out. Consequently be required.

teeth, and it must be Imagined that some firms are in the dilemma of

The mean selling price for the first this is the real aim of all care of the industrial shortage, and work is retarded year to be fixed at 20pf. per litre, to in- to such an extent that they cannot always clude all working expenses, taxes, depre- his teeth sound and whole should clearly teeth. But anyone who wishes to keep complete their

to time. ciation, and ipf. profit. The rate of

understand that it will be necessary for Engineering firmas on the banks of the profit allowed will vary, according to a Ship Canal and at Irlam find the diffi- somewhat complicated scale, as it may

him to accustom himself to cleansing bis culty particularly acute, and are making become advisable to raise or reduce the mouth and teeth with an antiseptic fluid. representations to the local authorities to selling price, and the mode of the division extend the tramway systems, and to the of the annual profits between the share-

Cleansing the teeth with tooth-powders railway companies to run additional holders and the State will likewise be and tooth-pastes can never protect them trains at cheaper rates. On the face of it altered.

from microbes; and for the simple rea there is a spice of the ludicrous in the

An advisory council to be appointed. son that the very localities which fact that foreign contracts should be by the imperial commissioner, the mem are most liable to attack, the backs delayed in completion because English bers to serve for a period of three years

of the molars, fissures in the teeth, and bands have not house-room near the works and to meet at least once in the twelve. or travelling-facilities to their labour months. They are to be consulted on all which are not purified by tooth-powders crevices between them, are the places Nevertheless, Brins are subjected to great important matters, such as the fixing of

In consequence, the inconvenience or are suffering consider the standard of the oils and of the selling and tooth-pastes. able loss frome causes; and unless prices, their chief duty, however, being the mischief being once set up proceeds they are removed by more conveniently supervision of the operations of the corn- on its way uninterruptedly. But a fluid placed habitations or cheaper travel a pany and the organization and develop can penetrate everywhere, and when it is

in ment of the system of distribution and. serious check will be sustained

sale, the investigation of complaints industrial development.

brought against the company, etc..

contracts

The present ordinary method of cleansing the teeth and mouth with

THE ACTIVITY OF JAPANESE STEAMSHIP COMPANIES.

"tramp steamers'

On the

has just opened

South Pacific Line in view of the increas The ing trade of Japan in the South. new line is, of course, anbsidized by the Japanese Government, but may be regard. ed as part of the present activity on the part of Japanese shipowners.

antiseptic it destroys all the enemies which attack the teeth. The dentifrice Odol is one that has a practical anti- septic effect, that is to say, it is a pre- paration that arrests all bacterial and fermentation processes;

The certain disinfection of the mouth. and teeth resulting from the use of Odol is especially due to a remarkable. property which this preparation alone. possesses, and which causes it to be absorbed by the surface of the lining membrane and in the hollows of the teeth, so that it here deposits a store of antiseptic matter whose action continues for tours By regular cleansing with Odol, healthy teeth are kept absolutely intact, and teeth already impaired are preserved from further destruction,

For this reason Odol must certainly be regarded as the best of all known preparations for cleansing the mouth and teeth. Of all Chemists and Stores,

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In the House of Commons an Hon.

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At a meeting of the German Society

conference at Berlin, on the 22nd ult., a lecture was delivered by Professor. Flamm, of Charlottenburg, on "The unsinkability of modern sen-going abips." The lecturer reviewed the history of precautionary regulations in England and Germany and said that the British regulation of 1888 to the effect that ships fitted with adequate watertight compart- ments need carry only half the number of boats ordered by law had been a blun. der which was avenged by the sinking of the Titanic. In Germany, Professor Flamm said, the State had taken practi cally no thought at all for the security of sea-going ships until the loss of the Elle in 1896, and in 1890 the general regulations regarding compartments had been introduced. These regulations were still in force 16 years later, and were quite unsuited to modern ships. They took no account of freight ships nor of the peculiarities of individual ships, and left unconsidered the atability of vessels which had sprung aleak,

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Professor Flamm said that he had examined the watertight compartments of the Iritania and Mauretania and found that they possessed a true so-called incapacity to sink." He recommended that not too much trust should be placed in pumps, that lower decks should be illuminated by artificial light rather than through windows, and that the number of boats should be fixed, not according to tonnage, but according to the number of ||THE persons on board.

COLLISION IN THE INLAND. SEA.

SCHOONER SUNK.

The s.a. Oriental collided with and sank an unknown schooner off Ten Foot Rock! at 2.12 a.m. on the 7th inst., Bays the Kobe Herald. The schooner had no lights visible. A buat was at once lowered and the Oriental brought to anchor. The bout cruised about the scone of the collision until 4. a.m., when the tide becoming too strong, it was called alongside. At day- light the anchor was weighed and the wreck located under half a mile, and after making sure that there was no survivor on the masts which were above the water, or in the vicinity, at 7 a.m2. the steamer proceeded on her course to Kobe, having stood by the wreck 4 hours. It is hoped that all the crew were able to save themselves in their own boat, as nothing was heard or seen of them by the Oriental's boat when cruising about looking for them

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