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ANDUM REFLECTIONS.

To-morrow is a general holiday," und once again one is being asked, what is the distinction between a "public holi tay" and a "general holiday"

A Public

SUPREME COURT.

Saturday, June 28th.

is CRIMINAL JURISDICTION.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, JUNE 80гn, 1913.

BANK.

|| On being asked if he had anything | THE HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI perhaps, from one Frenchman in Lyons,

to say, prisoner stated that overything found in his possession was bought after | he met Weigall, and at the instigation of Weigall and the police. If an expert could be called to examine the paper

Holiday is defined by the Ordinance BEFORE THE CHEF JUSTICE (S W. RES which was said to be similar to bank-note

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"a day which shall be kept as a holiday sall'edientional establishments, public! offices and Government departments. In short, it is not a Bant Holiday. "General Holiday" is defined as "a day which shall be a dick on, and which shall tional establishments, public offices and be kopt as holiday by all banks, educa- Government departments. There is only Que Public Holiday" during the year; that is. Empiro Day, May 24th. All the ethers are General Holidays.”

400's clothes,

DAVIES, K.C.)

THE BANK NOTE CASE.-PRISONED SENTENCED). Mr. F. C. Jenkin, Counsel for Anton Hanter, the Hungarian subject who was found guilty by a jury on Thursday of pressions of bank notes, moved the Court unlawfully having in his possession im. for an arrest of judgment, on the ground that the indictment was wrongly laid. The Attorney-General opposed motion..

the

paper ho would find that it was not so, and

MR. HERSHOM STEWART'S REPLY TO A VIGOROUS ATTACK IN PARLIAMENT,

fuller report is now available of the China Mr. NORMAN CRAIG (Unionist debate on 20th ult. on British policy in

that it was never intended for that pur-member for Thanet) in his speech said: merely there, as members of the COMMER="

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follow is Ilangkong; most women think," any wood, stone, or other material aux time Weigall was placed under the diree-be well, in the public interests, if more interested. The hon. member for North i such deliciousness as, wo, believe,

His Lordship-Do you say that the indictment would have been good under Sub-scetion 37

Mr. Jonkin said it would have been. The charge in the Police Court was pro- ferred under Sub-section 3, but, for rea- sons of which he was not aware, it was preferred in this Court under Sub-section

According to the leading cases there would have been absolutely no answer if the indictment had been framed under Sub-section 3. His point was that pri- soner was charged with being in poses sion of paper and material. It was

"other material"

It was no

I have been trying to ascertain from obvious that the Legislature never intend. livelihood in an honest manner. the report of the Captain Superintendented that the words

OUTAINABLE EVERYWHERE.

pound. the scene, I think, after the negotiations making of every

another body of Thritish financiers. Eng thorough double chaning, the for the greater loan had comnesced, and watchful-election of herries, the if the Foreign Office had taken up with

and would have been accused of double-perfect

and the exact dealing, and would have been laid open to the grave suspicion of the other Powers roasting combine to give you Somerset has pointed out, what I noticed myself two or three days ago, that for a no other Coffee has ever attained. debt of £3,200,000 incurred, China. got £1,100,000 in cash, and is to get sama.

'LOTUS" COFFEE- torpedo-boats, the upkeep of which will be a great burden. This is but one of any such instances of reckless borrowing

for China against her will.

In my larity in Chinese finasting on regu opinion, at the moment China is suffer- ing from too much Home Rule, and too much Deraceracy, but I am not going to say anything on that point. There are prople who are opposed to granting a Juan to Yunn Shih-kai and his party, but after all, his fallowing is the only solid force in China at the present time. support the action of the Foreign Office, and I think probably China would not have had such good terms as she has now had the British Government neted other wise than it did.

THE INDO-CHINA CONSPIRACY

SENSATIONAL ARREST IN BANGKOK.

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The Saigon Opinion gives details of an stems to have been in operation for some extensive anti-French couspiracy which years, and of which the recent bomb outrages were incidents. At the head of the conspirators is the Prince Cuong-De,

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that there is anyogo on the regular stoff of that bank who is not an Englishinen, It is probably the greatest commercial asset in China which this country has. The Government very wisely found that outs and they have during the last 20 years used it for purposes which have been of China. It is true that there are Ger- beneficial both to our trade and to that man directors on the board. They are It is a pity that in earlier times British gial community, I can understand people posc, With the chemicals found in his interests, so far as finance in China were attacking the bank who do not know much possession it would be impossible for oven concerned, were entrusted to one parti- about it, but I do think it is most extra- cular group--the Hongkong and Shanghai ordinar" for an hon. member to come the greatest expert to make a bank-note.

discredit this Mr. Jonkin asked to be allowed to say Bank. From 1895 to 1009 the Hongkong here and endeavour

and Shanghai Bank, in virtue of a pool institution because it has succeeded in a few words before his Lordship passed ing agreement it had with a German dicing good by giving us an example of sentence. He never meant to disagree institution, the Deutsche-Asiatische Bank. Englishmen and Germany working to- with the verdict af the jury, and had did the financial business of China gether in perfect harmony for 30 years an never challenged it, but he had considered equal terms; but, the terms were only example that remuy at the present day very carefully the evidence given at the equal in this way, that while the desire to sen followed on & wider scale. Deutsche-Asiatische Bank was a purely In view of competing, concession-hunters trial, and had not been conscientiously Teutonic institution, the Hongkong and and the dangerous friction liable to be able to alter his mind upon one point. As Shanghai Bank was controlled by a dire created in Peking by their unrestricted because

activity, the Consortium, imperfect na it Mr. Jenkin said the point upon which his Lordship said when he (Counsel) was torate in which no fewer than five out of 11 members represented prominent enter

mect, the position. Crisp & Co come on I see that a Indy tourist who has been he was moving the Court for an arrest addressing the jury, the police officersprising German firms. In 1909 negotiay be, is still the best device possible to thought and care that go into the visiting the Colony tells the readers of a of judgment was that the offence charged were perfectly entitled and within their ions took place between those two banks By the Hongkong clinate upon plated by the Section of the Ordinance of crime. He was entirely in agreement opinion of gud jadges, in the sacrifice to Bydney paper much about the ruinous in the indictment was one not contem right in setting traps for the detection-negotiations which remained login obscurity and which resulted, in the ladies' under which the indictment was framed. with that, but in this case, paying atten- the Germans of immense British interests particularly dresses, and she concludes her reference The first sub-section made it a felony to tion only to the evidence, it was admitted in the Yangtsze Valley, and in regard to to the subject by saying Inexpensive make or engrave upon any plate or upon by Inspector Watt, for instance, that at the the Canton-Hankow Railway. It would light could to-day be afforded us to enable frocks and no gloves is the best plan to

number of figure, &c. Sub-section 2 inade tion of the police prisoner had committed just appreciation to be formed on the no crime. He might have come to the soundness of the polier of the Government But do they act upon this plan? What it n felony to use or knowingly have in

A little more de the husbands say about the inexperi possession such a plate, wood, stone or Colony with crimim! intentions, but the China in this matter,

other material made or engraved under law of England did not punish a state ofish ought to be thrown on the inner history of the Newchwang Railway, and siveness of the frocks?

mind. Though for the detection of crime | I will ask the right hon. gentleman to Sub-section 1. The third and last sub Hongkong does not wean to have been thrilled with the news that the Supreme section dealt with a man who had in his the police might set a trap, it was not consider whethier, at this stage. Papers The Consortium in insisting upon regu

interest, be laid. The danger of confer- Const sunce had arrived. It is described possession any paper or other material in accordance with the principle of Eng could not, without detriment to the public upon which there was an impression. The lish law to set a trap to procure the com-ring upon one institutio a very large as a fine example of the art of modern section dealt under three headings with mission of a crime. Counsel appealed to powers to the exclusion of the general body of financiers in this country is silversmiths, That may be so, but what the complete making and asing of his Lordship to take all these circum-great, and it is more serious when it is is the use of it? Hongkong does not

forged bank-note.

stances into consideration in inflicting pooled with a purely German body, while the British body is tinctured with Ger- indulge in processions as a rule, though

punishment.

The policy pursued by In passing sagtence of there may be an occasional ceremonial

two years' an influences

the Government in regard to fincuce in church visit, and when the public are to

imprisonment. His Lordship referred to Ching has not only led to the shutting of have an opportunity of being delighted

the part played by Weigall, and said the door, so far as China is concerned, to or impressed with a view of the mace is

there was no doubt that prisoner was her power to borrow, but it has shut the door also upon British enterprise in that & question that cannot be easily answered.

#reu. What, wanwhile, is happening How the vote of Ceo (1 believe that is the

entrapped by another man part of his duty to place any praise upon elsewhere? The Gorman houses are float- figure) ever passed the Finance Committee

ments between the Hongkong and Shaig of the Legislative Council is more than I

Weigall, when he considered the poor parting loans independently of the arrange he played in his case. Prisoner's offence hai. Bank and the Deutsche-Asiatische can understand. Had he been present,

was a serious one, the maximum penalty Far worse than that, firms represented should have expected the Hon. Mr.

being fourteen years' imprisonment, and upon the court of directors of the Hong- Hewett to have risen and quoted the

in passing a lenient sentence he hoped represent British interest and Chinese kong and Shanghai Bank, supposed to famous words of Cromwell; Take away

prisoner would on his release return to Guancial firms, represented by individual that bauble !!!

his own country and endeavour to get his directors upon the Hongkong and Shang

hai Bank, are themselves floating loans npon their own account in the provinces of China: You get the cases of Carlowitz pretender to the Throne of Annum, & Co. and the case of Arnhold, Karberg and they have boon at work since 1906. In 1908 there was an attempt to poison & Co. Carlowitz & Co. being the agents

the troops in Tonkin, and from scizures of Krupps, the great firm of Essen, who

made it was found that the campaign was mako terms advantageous to Krupps in doing 80.

These firms, which are repre- being operated from Japan, where the An Australian lady (Jean Walker) who sentative of the Hongkong and Shanghai inflammatory pamphlets were printed. has been travelling in the Far East, has Bank, which is supposed to represent the The massacre of the French in Indo-China

what was British side of finance in China, are

Was preached in account of her been contributing an experiences to the Sydney Daily Tele allowed without protest from the German graph. From a long description of "Life Government, and without protest, so far as anyone knows, from the Government in Hongkong" we make the following on this side, tu Soat provincial bans in China upon their own account, Is that The summer is trying in Eastern on the part of the Government du between paper, and plate, wood, stone; though the temperature in August and interests? The matter goes further than towns for white people In Hongkong, regard for the protection of Britisn they might be put to similar uses, but that September is rarely above 84, and thoro that, because you find that even outside did not give them a common characteris are the hottest months, it is a moist sad firms, German in their origin, such a

You cannot help feeling Diedrichson & Co., are floating provincial

warders nassacring the inti. In this rase the argument of the clammy heat.

1 Crown all along had been that, so long as languid and fit for nothing, the sun beats loans in April, 1912. What, meanwhile,

On the 99th March this year .500 there was an impression, it did not matter pitilessly down, and it is no wonder that does the Foreign Secretary say to British the ladies do very little in the morning, banks in this country? He way: "I whether it was negative or positive, and take a long siesta every afternoon. Cannot do anything: consult the Hour Annamitis marched on Cholon. Every Chinese town to supply them with arms part of the bank-note or the whole. Calls are made at 5 o'clock, and not a kung and Shanghai Bank, and see if you thing had been arranged in the big

They have such a nice can make terms with them.

and ammunition and lenders; and then whether it was faint or clear, an offence minute sooner.

and satisfactory custon, these ladies. In Politically and commercially we want a

somewhere the garden, or

the strong China. Our interests in China they were to make an assault on Saigon. had been committed.

The Attorney-General said his conten- entrance to their houses, they have a little are far larger than those of any other The instructions were simple; Kill all French people. But the police had been tion was that Sub-section 1 dealt with the wooden box, ostensibly for letters. But it country. Trado depends upon prosperity die, Sub-section 2 with the negative, and lias, underneath the printed name of the For all these reasons you have to considor forewarned, and the unarmed force was

lady of the house, a little slit in which China's position, ant from China's own dispersed on its arrival at Cholon,

arrests being made. Sub-section 3 with the positive a

is inserted Out" or "In," as she desises. point of view alone, but from your own

Revolutionary placards simultaneously Mr. Jenkin said the Attorney-General If you notice that the word is "Out," China cannot be an active factor in the

Pacific for many yours: other Powere appeared, in April, in the principal towns You have, therefore, to consider of Indo-China. In Saigon bombs were may. was going back on his argument that any you never dream of inquiring further;; changes are in contemplation in the impression was sufficient. The jury said you put your cards in the box and go whether your interests or China's interests found before the dwellings of the leading Educational Department also. The func- the reverse did not seem to be an in-way it is so simple, isn't it, and saves are best consulted by the course which had civil and military authorities. Quickly

your friend, in deshabille within, such been adopted by the Governmeal, a course

on that followed the fatal bomb outrages tions of Director of Education and pression which would pass as a bank-note. a lot of trouble! But, oh! the ceremony foreign to the whole character of freedom

By this time the Government was active, Inspector of School are to be separated. The Attorney-General contended that they stand on in these parts. Those cards in a free country, a course inexplicable at Thai-Bioh and Hanoi, Mr. Irving is to remain as Director of wood plate and stone were mentioned must be left, or you'll soon find yourself when taken by those who insist upon

out of it. After a dinner party all the freedom of every kind. Would it the end is believed to have done a good stroke Education with the additional dignity

even the bachelors. that an increase of salary imports, and specifically in the sub-section under which guests must "call" i the hostess--yes, better to reconsider the whole relations in securing the arrest in Bangkok of Bin- Bachelors have to of this Government with regard to China chi-Nhunn, said to be one of the three The unrest was made on the 17th of last Mr. Ralphs. Second Master of prisoner was charged, and paper was one

of the other materials" mentioned. It behave "like gentlemen" in the East, for as to matters of finance, and the relations leaders of the movement.

they are at a discount anyway, as all the of this Government as to the Governments Queen's College, w: be Inspector. of

was not specifically mentioned because it world knows, and must mind their P's of other countries? Would it not be month at Wat Mongkon Sam Kom, Schools.

was an unlikely material. He could not and Q's.. It does em good," say the better to introduce a system consistent papers and photographs of importance What a shame it is that Government have charged prisoner under Sub-section married men, who, strange to say, are with the true interests of Chine which belonging to him being also seized. Siam envied, by the would not injure and fetter the coumer agreed to his extradition, and he was financial interests of our clabarked un the Onze on the 19th under officials are forbidden by the servies, because it would have been necessary envied, absolutely

bachelors. "No such Inck for us as a cial and

the charge of Phra Arthikarn and strong regulations to reply to criticisms in the to have proved that prisoner was in wife, is their grumble; we never see country?

In the course of his speech a little later escort, possession of a positive impression, and any girls, and when we do get a holiday Press! Otherwise the letter from Messre

The point raised and fly. Home, vid Siberia, for a month in the debato Mr. GERSHON STEWART During the voyage he refused food, and. Dennys & Bowley on the subject of a he could not do this. recent rating appeal might have led to a Mr. Jenkin was not one that could or two, we haven't time to get our (Unionist member for Wirral) said in Saigon, where he is kept in the strictest

ber for Thanet, who told me an hour gro

The arrest was accidental. It was not come for an honest dollar and a crust." lively correspondents which would have properly he raised in arrest of judgment bearings even, Away back again wo must am indebted to my hon, friend, the Mein confinement, he has had to be forcibly fed. As men in the East are very nice speci- that he was going to introduce the sub- Bui-chi Nhuan the French Government jeet of China, because I was thereby had asked the Siamese police to search been welcome in theso dull times. As it at all. The procedure was a very unasun! is, we must await for the reply until Mr.one, and he had never in the course of mens, usually often with quite desirable able to sten to his speech on the for, but Mai-Lao-Bang, one of the most

crusts, items a pity that so many financial position. I only wish to say Bryor returns to the Colony, when, Ihis experience seen it resorted to oner,

His Lordship said that it was very com- charming and estimable English girls a few words in response to his very vigor active and dangercas of the revolu- presumo, he will contest the assessments

should languish alone in the provinces,ous attack upon the Hongkong and toury leaders. The spies were tracing STUDY mon in this Colony.

and even in great London itself.

Shanghai Bank, the financial institution this individual for weeks, and could made by the Puisre Judge. These asses-

The Attorney-General said he was not

which has carried through this China low hardly believe it was not him when the ments must stand now for twelve months,

sure that it ought to be common. The as appeals, I believe, can only be

in British interests. He is entirely under arrest was made-Bengkok Times. a misapprehension when he says that this I know how lodged within

is not a British institution. the twenty-one days only ground upon which the Court could

it is constituted, and that it is manned during which the valuation lists are he moved was some objection arising, on sipen for inspection at the Treasury, the face of the record itself, and no obje

entirely by men collected, examined, and trained in London. I do not think, apart, tion was being taken to the face of the

reason that in Bub-section is made it an offence to have paper upon which there was an impression, and the only evidence in this case was that there was paper upon which there was an impression.

of Police what is the actual strength of should include paper, for the simple the police force of the Colony, Table IV. shows that the total strength of the fores in 1912 was 1,196, while Table III. gives the total establishment on 31st December at 1,173. As the latter table includes as vacancies, the real strength on the date mentioned is only 1,14. Which total has the reader to accept? It is e frite remark that figures can be made to prove any thing, but I would like to know what these

figures prove.

rent gossip, there According to will be another "general post" the local Civil Service before long. hear that Mr. E. D. C. Wolfe, who was Head of the Sanitary Department when he went Homn on leave, has been devot- ing some part of his holiday at the General Post Office in London, training for the position of Postmaster-General in Hongkong. Mr. S. B. C. Ross, who is at present acting as Postmaster-General, goes back to the New Territory as District Officer, and Mr. One will become Hend Some Sanitary Department. of the

Mr. Jenkin quoted authorities with the object of showing that the word "other"

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"other applied material with common characteristics."extract:-- There

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An Ipoh contemporary has discovered record. He contended that what Mr. a now race for rymkhanas: no less than Jenkin was trying to do, and do in a

Jilting at the ling." I pass on the information to the Hongkong Gymkhana perfectly erroneous fashion, was to quar Club, or on second thoughts-I make rol with the verdict of the jury, and was the organisers of Pagul gymkhanas the trying to prove in this extraordinary first offer!

manner that the jury did not really

I recollect seving in a British Con-understand what they were finding. sular report some years ago the suggestion

His Lordship said he was quite sure that when the Yanan railway was com that Mr. Jonkin had it in his mind to pleted it would bpen up splendid sanatoris for residents in Lado-China and raise this point long before the case went other parts of the East. The lake region to the jury at all. Mr. Jenkin was saying of Yunnanfu, the Consul said, would be a that the indictment was bad, but he terrestrial paradis if, the destruction of timber by the Chinese pesannt were thought the better course would have checked. I au reminded of this by been to have submitted that there was seeing in a Shanghai contemporary the no case to go to the jury at all. following telegria: Yunnanfu, June was clearly of the opinion that upon the 10th-The tourist season is in full swing. evidence and certain cases upon the legal The hotels are crowded with French, point before him the prisoner was guilty, English and American visitors.".

and that the jury was right in coming RODERICK RANDOM.

to the conclusion it did.

He

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