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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1911, 1913.

dealing with any probable dangers. There is no finality about the growing expense of armamente except by the means of the "international holiday

" which Mr. CHURCHILL bas On Wwo demasions publicly advocated. So far there has been no indi

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Thursday, December 16th. IN CRIMINAL JURISDICTION.

BEFORE HIS HONOUR THE CHIEF JUSTICE (SIE WM. REES DAVIES, K.C):

À TOO COMMON OFFENCE. Lam Kee pleaded guilty to a charge of larceny from the person,

The Crown Solicitor mentioned that on the 4th Novermbor, complainant, a girl of aber 4 years of age, was returning from school and when going upstairs to her

the police, P.S. Cosham wont to the TELEGRAMS. TELEGRAMS.

house and found the two girls therë, Prisoner was not present, but he was sent for and was arreste. When prisonor was sent for he came towards Sergeant Cosham polishing something, if nothing untoward was happening to him. Prisoner's submission was that he met

the girls when they arrived at Hongkong, that they followed him to his home and he took them in. However, he (the Crown Solicitor) would show that the girls were brought down by prisoner to Hongkong, and if that story was true the jury would

(THROUGH, REOTER'S AGENCY.]

THE LEEDS STRIKE.

WORKING CLASSES. HANDICAPPED. ·

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LONDON, December 18th. Although only a proportion of the men have resumed at Leeds, it is not anticipated that there will be any further trouble in the public services. The strike

people cheering the workers. The work-

THROUGH REUTER'S AGENOY.)

THE BURDEN OF ARMAMENTS.

PREMIER RECEIVES LIBERAL MALCONTENTS.

LONDON, December 18th. Mr. Asquith has received a deputation of Liberal Members of the House of Commons, who contended that a further

increase in the Armaments beyond the programme already sanctioned by the

already sanctioned by the House of Com-home in Water Street, she not the have to return, u verdiet of guilty. The has created several remarkable scenes. House of Commons was unnecessary and

of Europe as practical proposal. Yet a telegram to-day tells us that a deputation of Liberal members of the House of Com mons has approached the PRIME MINISTER with the submission that a further increase of armaments beyond the programmes

mous is unnecessary and ought to be refused. Notwithstanding Mr. CHOECHILL's Guildhall announcemeat that thers will be a substantial increase in the Naval expenditure, Mr. Asquru is reported to have told the Deputation that he knew increases except those already actioned by the House of Commons

of no

prisoner coming down. He caught hold story that they were missing was not of her by the neck and beckoned to consistent with the girls story, that they another man to come upstairs. The other were kept for two nights in one house inat came up and took from the girl a before being removed.

The pair of gold and Lacton bangles. prisoner was subsequently identified by the girl, we picked him out from a At the police number of other men.

Evidence was called, and the jury returned a verdict of guilty.

In passing sentence of five years hard labour, his Lordship said that that was

ng classes have been badly hit by the ought to be refused. They also protested

strike.

LATER.

The Leeds Corporation have given the strikers until Friday to resume their duties, otherwise their places will be

against Mr. Winston Churchill's announce- ment at the Guildhall of a substantiał increase in the expenditure.

The proceedings were private, but it is understood that Mr. Asquith replied that

which are of an automatic character. We station he admired-stealing one pair of an offence which in this Colony was alled. At a meeting of the tramwayanço he did not know of increases except those

bave seen it suggested in a Service Journal that Mr. CHURCHILL'S language has been raisinterpreted. What the first Lord said at the Lord Mayor's banquet was that next year it would be his duty to ask for Estimates "substantially greater than the envrious suns originally voel in the VERT SUPERIOR OLD PORT WITH | present year." Now the aggregate of the sums originally voted was 216,000,000, but STYLE AND CHARACTER.

as three British ships had to be accelerated in construction to all temporarily the gap Per Dozen $20.80 caused by the action of the Canalian

Bnate, it is rumoured that supplement ary votes amounting to four millions sterling will be needed in consequence, bring ing the total up to 250,000,000 for the current year. If the Estimates for 1914.15 are to be "substantially greater" than forty-six million pounds sterling, it does not seen an unreasonable deduction that the First Lord expects

exceed afty millions, other

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severely punished. It was a disgraceful His Lordship Did he use any violence thing that a mother and father, should be The Crown Solicitor-Beyond putting deprived of their children in that way. his hands on her neck there was no and by a man of prisoner's class. Thore violence. He also mentioned that there was no doube in the minds of the jurymes, was one previous conviction, prisoner or indeed of anybody who had heard that having served a term of one years hard case, that the man took the two girls awey labour for a similar offence. Those with the object of gaining same pecuniary offences were becoming rather common recompense or money out of them in some just now, and the police had had a good way or other. At ay rate, if it had not many cases of that nature.

beed for some other persons the father His Lordship said that that was the and mother would never have found our second occasion upon which prisoner had where their children were. committed an offence of that kind. Ittan of comparatively respectable stand- was therefore his duty to pass a more ing, and you ought to be getting your severe sentence than he would otherwise living in an honourable way, other than His have done. He would be imprisoned for by trading in girls in this way,"

hard Lordship then passed sentence as wien- eighteen calendar months with labour,

tioned above,

HIS MAJESTY's '' QUEST.” Chuo Sang, wide to Choi, pleaded guilty to returning from banishment,

The Crown Solicitor said the man was banished on the 29th August, and he left

November he was arrested in the Colony

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IN SUMMARY JURISDICTION.

BEFORE HIS Honour Mr. H, H. J. COMPERTZ (PUISNE JUDGĖ),

it was resolved to continue the struggle. | sanctioned, which were of an automatio The volunters continue to be partially character.

He sympathised fully with the anxicty successful in maintaining the services, and women are acting as lamplighters. A of Liberals over the growth of expendi Lady of men, escorted by police, removed

ture, and the mintter was receiving the a huge accumulation of garbage in the earnest and constant attention of the municipal markets. There is indignation Government, at the action of the gravediggers on THE HOME RULE CONTROVERSY strike in picketting the cemeteries.

THE COVENT GARDEN ESTATE.

SOLD FOR THREE MILLION POUNDS.

LONDON, December 18th. The price paid by Mr. H, Mallay-Deely, M. P. for the Duke of Bedfords Covent ristate, is stated to be under £3,000,000, while the stamp duties and Transfer amount to £10,000. The initative came from the Duke of Bedford, and the bargain

LONDON, December 18th. Sir Edward Grey, speaking at Alnwick, referred to the Home Rule question, and said that up to the present there had been no progress towards settlement by co- sent. He was not anxious for a formal conference of the leaders till it was clear that the Opposition were disposed tor spitle the question,

LATER.

The Daily Chronicle states that Mr..

wiso he has exaggerated the meaning the Celony on 1st September. On 24 firm. The claim was for $803.26, balance view with the purchaser, who declares communicated with Lord Lansdowne and Yuen Sz Hing. The Kwong Sang Wo was concluded in a thirty minutes inter-Asquith this week, for the first time, has Mr. Bonar Law on the subject of Hopie on another charge, and when he was at thee for goods sold and delivered. There that he stands alone.

was a second action in which the Kwong

Rule Letters have passed between them. police station he was recognised by the Sang Wo firm sued the Sun Shing Lung inspector as having been, the man who firm for 8900 in twenty cent pieces,

OLDHAM MURDERER EXECUTED. had been previously banished. Hig

`LANCASTRIANS' MORBID CURIOSITY- finger prints were taken and they deposited by the plaintiff with defendants cortespored with those which were taken on the 3rd November before de conviction against him was one of larceny, for which he had six weeks' imprisonment.

Thesis Wines are specially recommended,nection. It is strange to note that the Service papera calculate that next year being of Superior Vintage, Old, and thoroughly there will be an actual reduction in Naval expenditure, compared with what is being spent this year. It is clear, however, that only a naval boliday" can avail to stop A. S. WATSON & CO..creasing expenditure on the Navy in subsequent years in carrying out a pro- LIMITED,

gramms of construction already sanctioned.

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When to the enormous increase which has taken place in recent years on armaments we add the fact that civil expenditure in the United Kingdom has been increasing at a similar rate, we must realise that the financial burden is becoming a very onerous one indeed for the nation. Since the Liberals came into office the civil expendi» ture of the country has increased by more than £30,000,000, and if they are permitted

was banished. The only other.

His Lordship-You have returned from banishment after you have been expolled from the Culony; you have set the order at defines and have come back again. Under these circumstances it is right that you should enjoy the King's hospitality for a period of twelve months with hard labour.

CHILD THIEF HAS FIVE YEARS.

Ip Chung was charged with unlawfully taking by forge two children with the to add to this the expenditure contem-intent to deprive their father of their plated by Mr. LOTD GEORGE's Land poseession, the children being under the scheres and by the Government's Home ago of fourteen years, to wit, 13 and 12 Rule Bill, the country's fanuciul position will become a very grave one indeed. So long as the naval predominance of the Empire is threatened by the shipbuil·ling. programines of other countries, it is safe to

years.

In reply to the charge prisoner said that be intended to hand the girls over

to their father.

His Lordship explained to the prisoner

Mr. Dixon appeared for the Kwong Sang Wo firm, and Mr. Buss represented Yuen Sz Hing and the Sun Shing Lung

firm.

Judgment was given for the defendant in the first action and for the plaintiff in the second less 830.

THE MAGISTRACY.

EUROPEAN STOWAWAYS ON A JAPANESE

STEAMER.

Two European stowaways 00 the Japanese steamer Tango Maru, which arrived in the Harbour on Monday from Thursday Island, were sentenced to six weeks' hard labour by Mr. J. R. Wood, yesterday.

CRYSTAL PALACE FOR THE PUBLIC.

:

LONDON, December 18th. The arrangements have been finally made for the purchasing of the Crystal Palace for the public, Lord Plymouth agrebing to sell at £30,000 less than the sum he paid for it.

LONDON, December 18th. A vast coacourse of people, some of whom had walked seven miles, assembled outside Manchester Prison on the occasion of the execution of the Oldham murderer, A strong force of police cleared the AMERICAN'S APPRECIATION OF surrounding streets. The murderer died

unflinchingly.

SHAKESPEARE.

LONDON, December 18th. Practically the whole of the late Pro- fessor Dawdens Shakespearean books have been purchased by a New York collector,

FRENCH MILITARY LOAN

WITHDRAWN.

A BRITISH JOURNALIST IN

SOMALILAND,

PRISON IN PERFERENCE. TO FINK,

LONDON, December 18th. Mr. Alan Ostler, the special correspoù- dent of the Daily Hepress in Somaliland, has been fined at Berbera to the extent PARIS, December 18th. of £189 sterling, for travelling in pro- M. Caillaux is withdrawing the con-hibited districts and carrying arms, ér templated £52,000,000 loan, and has been in default of payment, two months" authorized to introduce a Bill opening imprisonment. He refused to pay the

assert that no British Government will but the charge against him was that he man was searched on leaving the yard. credits to meet the current expenditure.

supported by the country at large in ignoring that menace, and if the taxpayers week financid relief, it must be obtained for the present by putting a check on the growing civil expenditure.

Two great-coats have been stolen front the B.G.A. Barracks on Stonecutters' Island.

Lock the little girls away, intending to deprive their father of their possession.

Prisoner pleaded guilty, but it being obvious that I did not, understand the position of affairs,

His Lordship said-It is not a question of whether you took them away or not, the point is whether you took them away intending to deprive the father of their possession.

A BAD MEMORY--OR AN IMAGINATIVE BRAIN? A store coolie at the Naval Yard was charged before Mr. F. A. Hazeland at the Magistracy yesterday with the larceny of a number of "butterfly screws." The

and the screws were found concealed on his person. The man

said that he brought the articles uut with him in tror, and only remembered that he had them as be approached the gutes, when it was too late to throw them down, as he would have been noticed and arrested. He was sentenced to a month's hard labour and four hours stocks.

TALE OF A BANK DRAFT.

HONGSONG, DECEMBER 19TH, 1913.

A married woman named Chau Kwak, TELEGRAMS during the past week have

The King has been pleased to approve Prisoner thereupon said that he did who arrived in the Colony by one of the made it plain that the Budget is for Mr. Doctor Stanislaus Ritter von Milkowski as not plead guilty to that, and the case Empress boats, cashed a second of exchange Asquirn's 'Cabinet as thorny a problem as Consul of Austria-Hungary at Hongkong.proceeded.

draft for $1,000 at the International Home Rule for Irelan1. Mr. CHURCHILL'S

The installation of the Saigon wireless led:-Messrs. J. Smirke, W. Stewart, of exchange. On Wednesday morning a The following jurymen were empanel Bank, having apparently lost the first statement at the Mansion House last month

station figures in the Indo China with regard to naval and serial defence has estimates for next year, an appropriation, F. Remalios, O. S. B. Rowe, O.man presented the first exchange, stated been generally accepted us foreshadowing of 600,000 francs being set aside for this Zwanck. J. M. Gutierrez, and J. he was Chau Kwai, and signed that name very heavy Supplementary Naval Estimates work. when Parliament meets in Jaapary, and it has been confidently stated that we

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now within eight of

AD annual

Mr. Beilby Alston, who has been in

charge of the British Legation at Peking

during the absence on leave of Sir John

PORT OF LONDON LOAN.

LONDON, December 18th. The Port of London Authority has issued a loan for £1,000,000 at 82, bearing interest at the rate of 4 per cent.

HUGE N.D.L. LINER LAUNCHED,

DANzia, December 18th. The Crown Princess has launched the new Norddeutscher Lloyd Trans-Atlantic liner Columbus, of 41,500 tons. Her speed is 20 knots, and she is fitted to carry 3,522

passengers.

ADMIRALS WINSLOE AND

KEPPEL RETIRE.

LONDON, December 18th, Admiral Sir Alfred Winglee, who has recently returned home from the China

fine.

[Mr. Ostler has been contributing from Somaliland to the Daily Express recently a serica of sensational articles headied, Torture of British subjects: Horrors that rival the atrocities of the Congo."]

IMPERIAL NATURALISATION.

IMPORTANT LEGISLATION FORESHADOWED.

LONDON, December 18th. At a meeting of the British Empire League, Mr. Herbert Samuel announced that alter long consultations with the Dominions, the Government hoped to pass in the coming Session an Imperial Naturalization Bill in accordance with the resolution passed at the Imperial Conference in 1911.

ROBERT" AND HIS PAY.

LONDON, December 18th.

The Home Secretary has sanctioned an

expenditure of £50,000,000 a year upon Jordan, will remain until February, when and this would be proved by another He declared that his "friend" asked him Station, has voluntarily retired from increase of pay to five thousand London

be

the Navy and its allied aerial service. Theke will leave Peking for London. meaning of this figure can perhaps best realised when we all that from 1894 naval expenditure was about stationary at £13,000,000 a year. The causes which have led to this enormous increase in the

detive service.

Admiral Sir Collin Keppel has also voluntarily retired.

Cruickshank.

on the back. As the second draft hatl The Crow Solicitor explained that already been cached, the police were sent though the charge concerned two girls it for, and the man taken into custody. As was practically, one offence. The elder the Magistracy yesterday he admitted child would say that on a certain day-that his name was not. Chau Kwai, and that he signed the draft in that name. witness-she went out with her younger to do it. The defendant was remander A married woman, living at No. 36, sister to cut grass in her village in China. until to-day on charges of forgery and

false pretenccs. Bonhamn Strand, has reported to the While they were so engaged three nion authorities that during Wednesday night came up and carried them off, taking E CONSTABLE AND THE "SWELLING,"

A shop coolie employed by the Wing a thief entered her house, e door having them to Kongmoon. The girl would also

Kre Company was charged before. Mr.. been inadvertently left open, and stole say that one of the three men wa.g brief period of twenty years are generally11 pieces of clothing and 3120 in money.

prisoner, and that he took them to his Wood with being in unlawful possession well known. They are briefly explained to

LONDON, December 18th. be the growth of rival navies and the In memory of the late Mr. W. Keswick, mother, eventually bringing them on of three singlets and with assaulting the Hongkong. They arrived here in the polies. The defendant was wearing the progressive development of weapons of who for many years was M.P. for the night, and prisoner took the girls to one detective observed that the man had

articles round his body when & Chinese

Cardinal Rampolla, who was on Tues- offence and defence each more sostly than Epsom Division of Surrey, which is now

bouse, where they stayed for two daya, swelling under his coat stopper day afternoon only slightly indisposed, its predecessor." Though a Little Navy" represented by his son, Mr. H. Keswick, and then ho took them on

bis. The man resisted arrest, but was to another an installation of elanuric light has been

house. This was in Lower Lascar Row ventually taken to the Police Station died suddenly at midnight. The Pope is

Mr. C. Mason represented the defen; grief-stricken, and dant, and said that his client was paid

A FAMOUS CARDINAL'S DEATH.

THE PONTIFF'S GRIEF

has

ordered the

party has always existed in Great Britain placed at Great Bookham (Surrey) Parish To the servant woman in charge of this gs by his employer end bought the three greatest honours to be paid to the

the opinion lias overwhelmingly prevailed

that while this enormous outlay is to be regretted, it cannot be prevented. It is rightly urged that national defence must come before every other consideration and that the British Government, which- ever Party may be in power, caunot safeguard the Empire's interests except at the price of a supremely powerful nary reinforced by an aeral service capable of

Church by Mrs. W. Keswick,

policemen,

MRS PANKHURST AGAIN

RELEASED. -

LONDON, December 18th. Mrs. Pankhurst having been on hunger strike, has again been released from gaok and is going to Switzerland

THE SOUTH AFRICAN CRICKET TEST MATCH:

M.C.C.'S OVERWHELMING VICTORY.

DURBAN, December 18tli

house prisoner said that he had no place singlets at $1 each from a hawker in the deceased,

In the first Test Match England beat The committee of the Royal Humane

for the girls and that he could not allow street. The defendant was an honourable.

The Inte Cardinal stampolla (Count del South Africa by an innings and 167 runs. The man. and became frightened when the Society have made the following, among them to roam about the streets.

constable attempted to arrest him. He Tindaro) was Arch-Priest of the Vatican. many other awards-Bronze medal to woman allowed the girls to remain-she might have struggled. but that was only Basilica, and was born in Sicily in 1843. There was only 50 minutes' play on Frederick C. Walter, AB, of H.M.S. had known prisoner for ten years-but natural. The managing partner of the He entered the Papal service in 1870, was Tuesday, owing to rain, England totalled. " Sandpiper, for his courageous attempt to the next day she seat asking prisoner firm gave evidence as to giving the defen appointed Councillor of the Papat Embassy 450 (J. W. H. T. Douglas, 119), and Soutt to take the girls away. He said he would dant the $3, and said he had been in his at Madrid five years later, Secretary of save a companic who fell overboard from

employ for the past 10. years. The Ecclesiastical Affairs in 1880, Papal Nuncio Africa replied in their second venturo the ship in the Canton River, China, on do so later. On the next day, 26th Magistrate sentenced the

Barues touk man to a at Madrid in 1882, and Cardinal Priest and with 111 (Nourse, 46). November, information having reached month's hard labour for assaulting the

Secretary of State in 1887.] September 18th.

police, and dismissed the other charge.

wickets for 48 runs.