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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JUNE 6rn, 1914.

TELEGRAMS. BENEFITS OF THE BERLIN THE HONGKONG BANK CASE.

DEH OSTASIATISCHER LLOYD"! SERVION.] -

RUSSIA'S HUGE ARMAMENT. EXPENDITURE.

BERLIN, June 24th.

The Russian Mimiter of Finance has informed the Imperial Russian Council that it would be necessary to take up a loan for the purpose of railway construe tion, since the expenses for armaments have absorbed all the income from the

increase of taxes.

GREECE SECURES AMERICAN BATTLESHIPS.

BERIJS, June 24th,

FOUNDLING HOUSE:

DEVELOPMENT OF THE CHILD

A few youra ago, says the report of the Berlin Foundling House for 1913, a lady missionary came into a small village. She went around, but all the houses looked alike, and were not interesting at all Suddenly one house caught her eyes, because it was cleaner than the others, some flowers stood behind the windows, two happy Chinese girls played in front, of the door. She began to talk with the little ones and they did not run away us she had expected, but confidentially nuswered the questions and very soon called the mother. She looked just as clean as the daughters and invited the lady to enter the house. In the course of conversation it came out that the young woman was brought up in the Foundling House, that she afterwards was trained in a Hospital and received her pertificate as a doctor and that she was now married to a Chinese gentleman Suddenly the lady heard a child crying, the doctor rushed out of the roomy in came back with a very small thin baby. "Is it yours?" asked the visitor. “No, it really belongs just now to nobody. It was sick and the parents did not like to have it, so I took it under my care, a Stadium. at Leipzig after the and I feel sure the parents will be only too glad to take it back, when it has recovered. In that way

I brought through quite a number of children and saved their lives. I will show my thank fulness in that way," she added, because my life was saved in that way, too, by the mercy of the people in Hongkong."

Greece has succeeded in obtaining the sale_of_the_battleships Iduhu and Jissapp from Washington, and it is

CABE OPENED AT THE

MAGISTRACY————

The case in which Antonio Filomeno Remedios aged 28, a clork in Mears. Jardine, Matheson & Co.'s offico, and Reginald Oliviera Gutierrez, clark in the Hongkong and Shanghai Banks are charged with conspiring to defraud the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank of divers large sums of money on the 4th May and divers dates before and after again came before Mr. Wood yesterday.

Mr. D. Lewis (of Messrs. Johnson, Stokes & Master) prosecuted, Inspector Terrest represented the police, Mr. A. B Crew was for Remedios, and Mr. J. H. Gardiner appeared for the second defen dant (Gutierrez)..

Mr Lewis said he had already explained to his friends the course he would pursue, and they had agreed to it. He would open the case that after noon, but owing to the fact that Mr. Messer had to attend a meeting of the

defraud, he handed them over to the the drawer may ratnin the postcard and

RUBBER COMPANY REPORTS.

police. The first of the two lotters inside then destroy it afterwards. When the thing this registered cover was hand-written, is discovered, I do not think it will be and it was in the handwriting of the published in the local Press, The B. here Company for 1813 states that estimates of The report of the British Malay Rubber second defendant, who had admitted when will fights case out with the B. of expenditure were not strictly adhered to, enquiries were being made that he Honolulu. The b. can only come to the and the year's outlay was heavier than himself wrote it. He also said he wrote conclusion that some oxport swindlers have anticipated, but it shows a very marked He made these admissions to the Captain-card to fraud the B, hero. If the business of £22,030 was spent, and adding £65,243 it at the request, of the first defendant come from Honelalu with this forged post-roduction on the previous year. The sum Superintendent of Police, long before in properly done and well conducted, sure expended to the end of 1912, a total is any question of arrest arose. The second to ho success. The only thing I on afraid shown of £98,178 as the cost of planting Lyndhurst. He would endeavour to of, is the difficulty in imitating the device letter was typewritten, and signed, “ L. prove that that signature was that of the on the postcard The colour can easily he made and also the typos. A little difference Brat defondant, and

*M* Lewis then read the following won't matter. I think Anderson will have letters:

to present one at Shanghai, If not cash the pa

whole thing here if advisable Without Hollywood the thing cannot be done, as he the man to pass the slip. His boss won't want you to wake me a set of special see the postcard at all but will only initial it.

codeword and mail it to me as soon as possibk. Make all 5 letters so that tire words can be cubled ne one. If Anderson has rough funds you had botter send him up hore as that we can explain things to him tictford

12.30 n.m.; 4/5);4; DRAULICHARDSON, Now overything con uning your past affair is almost quiet with signataro, Mr. Hollywood tells me the Secreta" did not go to Manila in search for victim because J.M. & Co. have asked the B. to let the matter drop in order not to crise your father's anxiety, as at the cimo he was in Manila under treatment, You can now realise that the firm really gave special consideration to your old man as he is one of the oldest seriants in the I will notify your brother to-morrow the change of your cable address,

regard to your stroke of 200 ou Mr. Folha's

company.

|

of the business 'together, as he is of no

expected that this will be an influence who likewise was a disciple of Esculapius. | Legislative Council he proposed to call I am inclined to think that it would beccess to the

toward the security of peace. It will also tend towards relaxation of the tension

regarding the Aegean Islands.

A NEW GERMAN STADIUM,"

BERLIN, June 4th. Geriau Patriotic Society are con structing pattern of that in Berlin, It will cost about $75,000.

THE BALTIC CANAL

BERLIN, June 24th. H.M. the Kaiser has inaugurated the enlargement of the Baltic Canal, which has recently been completed,

SUPREME COURT.

Thursday, June 26th,

IN ORIGINAL JURISDICTION.

BEFORE THE CHIEF JUSTICE, MR.

H. H. J. GOMPERTZ.

SEQUEL TO AN INJUNCTION..

Arising out of an injunction action in Chambers between Chui Taz Yuen, carry ing on business as the Pan Houng Choi firm, plaintiffs, and the Bo Mang Buen firm, defondante, a motion to discharge the motion was made by Mr. G. O Alabaster (instructed by Mr. Stokes, of Messrs Deacon, Looker, Deacon & Haraton), on behalf of So Kwok Wan, of

189, Queen's Bood East,

The report then agits-Is the money really wasted which is spent for keeping uka Kome like the Berlin Foundling House, as some people think, when they walk along the Caine Road and come to the High Street, where they hear the voices of our small ones, who are playing on the compound? Certainly to his nothing specially to show to the visitor to our Home. Our children are like other children, the small ones grow up slowly, the bigger ones go to school, the biggest, who have left the school, clean the house or do needlework or help us in taking care of the small ones, some- body who does not know that all thess girls are not wanted by their parents, that they are poor orphans, may think that they are only boarders as in other schools, too. But when he comes on the let or the 16th of the month, then he can see some Chinese women with small

who

Ficas answer promptly to this letter, as requested by Mr. Hollywood. I again ropent 1. Gago is to be kept entirely dark and out

so to na. Concluding with best chin china. With regard to the proposed business" to solf and Anderson and wishing staunch Siam Commercial Co- to bring a reliable Philipino to cash say advisable for you to bring or Mr. Anderson Sincerely, 1,000 From cachamp to £6,000 on five or six occasions. Of course Anderson must come in disguise with a false moustache, wearing a glass. If Anderson can come up here for 2/3 days and take up quarters at Kowloon, it would be a splendid idea as we can explain everything to him and his anxiety or doubts enn he removed as regards risks.

In conclusion. I would remind you to

nients to return to Manila as soon as you

on

no evidence yet. The offence with which the defendants were changed was an indictable offence at common law, and if he inade out a prima facie case he would ask his Worship to commit the men fur trial at the Criminal Sussions. He did not propose dealing with the law on the subject at all, but, as his Worship was aware, when two persons agreed to commit an unlawful act, that agreement destroy all letters relating to this "proposed in itself was a criminal conspiracy. It business. You had better innkering was quito innecessary that anything can should you wish to carry this stroke and should be done by way of committing the keep me posted by wiro regarding your offence itself. The conspiracy was commovement,

I strongly vrge upon you to send Anderson The first defendant (Remedios) was plete once the agreement was arrived at, ¦ up to interview us. Yours truly, until his arrest a clerk in Messrs.

(Sd.) LOSK Jardine, Matheson & Co Several names would be brought to the attention of his Worship in the course of the case, and most of the nien had either two or three aliases or nickusmes. His Worship would bear the first defendant referred to ns Lionel Lyndhurst, as Antony & Com- pany (he was the owner of, or a partner in, a firm called Antony & Company in Hongkong) and also as Delphine. The his arrest a clerk in the Inward Bills second defendant was up to the time of

Department of the Hongkong and Shang- ha Banking Corporation. That was a point of some importance for his Worship to remember, because he was in the posi tion of being able to get inside knowledge of the way matters were worked in that department of the Bank that would not be available to the ordinary man in the

- Hongkong, May 4th, 1914. 23th and 27th April renched me to-day

DESH RICHARDSON,—Your letters (2) dated Replying thereto; I now give you in detail reports on the various subjects,

At first, when your cable came to hand move to Singapore, it did not strike my iden from Manila advising me of your sudden

that it was your brother who sent you the cable of warning, but later on I guessed that in question. However, as the matter is now it was probably he who sent you the message past, I am not going to say any more shout to this point again later. it but let it drop altogether. I will refer

In your letter you asked Gage to go down subject bo is damn scared and says he does to join you, On questioning him on the aut like to be starved and that the "position" does not auit him at all. Under the circumstances, I think you should leave know outiruly, as Mr. Hollyrood does not want to diside our profits with him, neither him alore. Our new business be must not

de Lwish to as he will be of no assistaned to

morcial Co. We wish this Co. every success in raising some capital for the Siam Com-

esteemed fiem. Should you require Anthony and hope that we any be of service to your

Commercial Co. I am prepared to do

& Co. to act us your agents for the Siam

It was claimed that So Kwok Wan was a party affected by the fajunction or order made in the previous motion for Ku injunction on June 8th which washab Come for their wages. They strect. His Worship would probable as-at-all Glad to hear of Anderson's succÐSY granted by the Chief Justice in Chamo- take care of the smallest inhabitants of hear him referred to as Hollywood, as bors. This motion restrained the defen- dants, and nominees and representatives, or any of and can enter the Kindergarten. There Gilroy Another person whose name his

their bordvest of and can enter the Kindergarten. Phero Mariposa, at

and also as The Stoker, and them, from receiving, alienating or they learn to behave themselves, learn Bisigning or otherwise dealing with the little songs and all the very important Worship would hear rather frequently proceeds of the sale of goods seinad under duties we have learnt, too, when we were was that of Ribeiro, who at that moment

writ of execution issued on behalf of in this happy age, which does not know the defendants to this action in a Sum any responsibility.

was under arrest at Colombo, and who mary Jurisdiction action, to a portion of

was wanted here in Hongkong for, in ontified by virtue of an order of his

referred to in the course of this case, which proceeds the said Bo Kwok Wan

amongst other things which would be Honour Mr Justice Hazeland. Mr. Alabaster applied that the said injune-

having forged two cheques drawn on the tion or order be dissolved or discharged.

Hongkong and Shanghai Bank in the Mr. Eldon Potter (instructed by Mr. Dennys, of Messrs. Dennys & Bowley) opposed the application on behalf of the plaintiffe in the previous action

name

But time changes and with 0 years, when school girls. Up to this time they wear they are strong enough, they become European dresses sent to us by our friends in the Homeland, but the moment when they enter the school, they get real Chinese and they are very proud that everybody can see by their Chinese dress,

of Mr. Leefe, Mesare, Jardins, that they are near to the adults now. Matheson & Co. The man Ribeiro was Eight long years they study, more or until some time in February of this year ment, during which he quoted lengthily and the European wisdom which of Messrs. Jardine Matheson & Co. He Mr. Potter, in the course of his argu. less diligently, the Chinese characters employed in the Insurance Department from authorities, said that one of his imbibed to them following the receipts objections was that the order which it of the Education Department, which would be referred to under the names of was moved should be discharged was not controls our school work very carefully, a motion at all. His application for injunction was properly made and. obtained in Chambers. He also contended that the applicant in the present motion had so locus standi before his Lordship The real defondant in the action obtained judgment against a certain firm, and exccution was levied and the goods were sold which plaintiff claimed as his own Orders had been obtained by the defen- dant and the applicant in this claim that the money obtained by the sale of what he held were plaintiffs goud, should be paid to thom in satisfaction of the defendant's claim and also the applicant's claim. He (Mr. Potter) contended that

I hope Mr. Anderson has returned and

aero. It is estimated that the present ont 3,222 acres, equal to £27. 78. 4d-per issued capital will be expos cent October 31st. The upkeep of the future will have to be provided for, and the board. It is hoped that in 1918, proceeds- matter is receiving the attention of the from crop will go far to meet all outgoings.

for 1913 states that against a total out- The Oriental Rubber Company's report turn in 1812 of 105,2841b, the estate yielded in the year, andor review 200,22016., which is 15,220lb, above the original estimate of 185,000lb. Revenue has borne half the upkeep of the estate and the whole of the crop exponses, and while the yield has doubled the total ontlay charged to revenue shows an ins crease of only 20 per cent. Against an "all in" cost of 31-880, in 1912, the past:

years crop has been produced at a cost

of 2001d. The larger crop has not added greatly to the proceeds owing to the sharp decline in the value of rubber. The net profit for the year was £6,685, to (Sd.) L. LYNDHURST,

which must be added the balance brought forward, making a total of £12,929 The Regarding the first letter, Mr. Lewis board only proposes to distribute £4,000 said he might mention that the word in a 10 per cent. dividend, of which 3 per folha was the Portuguese word for cent. has already bees disbursed, keeping the lenf of a tree, and probably was from £8,229 in hand against the excess spent on the same root us the English word capital account. The manager has been

foliage, , and he imagined it was asked to submit estimates for an exten panning allusion to Mr. Lesfe, on whose sion of 1/200 acres, it being the intention forged signature a cheque for $200 was of the board to bring the planted area up

Lawis explained that Maher wair- cleri After reading the second letter, Mr. in the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, and he had extracted a list of the Bank's them to his house, at which place, the employees signatures, and had taken

if his Worship would read a letter of second defendant was also living. Also, credit instead of postcard second letter he would understand more. clearly what was being referred to There was no admission about the second. letter, but both were in the same cover.

to about 2,000 acres.

INTIMATIONS

in the CHS. J. GAUPP

& CO.,

AND

JEWELLERS.

Proceeding, Mr. Lewis said be under- stood that the procedure in the Bank was roughly this: When a of credit was presented for payment WATCHMAKERS Then on the back of the letter of credit would be handed to this Portuguese clerk, who would prepare a bill of exchange. was endorsed the amount drawn out. That endorsement had to be signed by an European clerk. The Portuguese clerk. passed after being signed by the English then made out a debit note, which was clerk to the paying-out shroff, inside the counter. So the whole procedure adopted in this letter was the one which would he genuine letter of credit. That was the adopted by anyone cashing a perfectly SURVEYING AND NAUTICAL conspiracy they came to among them- selves to defraud the Bank. The offence was complete as soon as they had put agreement p

His Worship The whole conspiracy is their heads together. and come to an

composed of these two letters?

Tuesday afternoon, wan perintendent of Mr. Lavis-At the present moment, yes. The case was then remanded until call the Hon. Captain-Superintendent of Police.

THE DERBY.

ITS PLACE IN THE SCHEME OF IMPERIAL UNITY.

The Saturday Review in an article on the Derby remarka

"Where there are two Englishmen, in

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In my (previous) letters, I omitted to bell you that the Lightweight nearly put Mr. Hollywood into a hell of a trouble, through

This list was afterwards found by Mr. carelessness in keeping a list of all specimen signatures from all employees of the B. Hollywood's old man, who then at once told keep at the sante time asking Hollywood the bush, or in the jungle, or on the his son that it was a dangerous thing to

whether he was implicated in the affair of ↑ pampas, there will be a bet on the Derby; 2,000 with Laina-q, whereupon Hollywood and where twenty or thirty are gathered said he knew nothing about it and that together there will be a sweepstake. The

mattress on the Lightweight's bed. If such together. The exile remembers the Day he had nothing to do with the affair. The Derby is one of the gossamer filaments list in question was found underneath a that bind the English-speaking race a document had fallen into the hands of the of twenty years ago as he remembers, Roberts, Richardson, Maurice Riley, and Secreta" I am sure there will be a lot with a hunger unknown to the stay-at- and helps us, too, by a grant-in-aid. Heyes. Most of the schools in the Colony do not

Another person whose name of trouble, and Hollywood will surely be a home, the May glory of St. James's Park, have such small childron in their lowest would appear was that of a man named victim, although he was innocent. You can or the scents and sounds of the country standards as we have very often other Maher, who was

now see how unreliable the Lightweight is Piccadilly Circus. It is one of the things lane, or the eddying torrent of life at schools have in the 7th standard pupils the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, and weight from Manila saying that he was Sabib or Sefior or Ban, is still of the

ho was formerly employed in

Last week I received a letter from Light that remind him that he, whether called of 10 or 11 years who surely can learn he was referred to in correspondence as working with Wise & Co., Ltd., at a salary straigtest seet, an Englishman. With the things quicker than our girls. That may bu the reason that last year the Inspector the Lightweight,*** ̈ He (Mr. Lewis) of Ps. 125 r mensem and requesting me masses at home the Derby is more than of Schools expressed the opinion that our believed he was a boxer at the Victorik him I have no time to answer his letter sidered, it is the attenuated modern

He

to sand a tin of Three Castles cigarettes to a race it is a holiday. Rightly con- school was only poor; or bad he gone, perhaps secretly, to the Bank and had a Recreation Club, and was known as the yet, as it does not interest me much and representative of that protest against the look into our accounts, especially into “Lightweight" He left Hongkong on I am not going to send him the cigarettes. supremacy of the prosaic which was once our Buildings Fund account? the same boat as the man Ribeiro. They and will now this indienter in the event of saints days. People go to the Derby

I note your new cable address, Success,"

expressed more liberally in gods' days or As to the work done last year the report both left on the day following that states :---

my cabling on urgent business.

much as they used to dance round the We had in the House at the on which Ribeiro was alleged to have

Maypole, or join in the pagan revels. I the applicant in the present motion was beginning of the year 132 children and cashed one of the forged cheques in Mr. that you have explained matters to him satisfies the dep-seated human lunging MACGREGOR&C.

stranger to the motion and that he had took in just as many as we lost during Leefe's name on the 2nd or 4th Febru- the Hunting With Bingapore branch, so for a day the modern idol of routine. 3fr. Hollywood tells me he cannot get hold to kick over the traces, to dethrone even not been served with notice of the year. Four of our bigger girls got

Mr. Alabastor remarked that he had married, one became a teacher in aary, he believed. Ribeiro left under the you had better drop this business altogether People do not go to the Derby to sco been served. It was served on the Mission-school in the country Ninety name of Reyes, and Maher left under the This stroke is not much good and risky. Our horses race; nine-tenths of them see little solicitors who had no instructions pupils were enrolled in our school, most

Mr. Potter said that he was instructed of them children of the Home; only 10 name of Videl. Two other persons were business is the host and cannot fail, but the crowd. They go because they

came from outside. As soon as we have also mentioned-Anderson and a

Phase register letters to ine in future, are habitually quiet men who are dying that the order was not served on the better premises, we hope to got more named Gage.

sons to secure its safe arrival hore, and I to be a little rowdy; habitually strait- applicant; beyond that he could not go. pupils. Our children have not often the

They left for Manila will register all addressed to you from here. laced men who crave the luxury of Mr. Alabaster said that his friend's opportunity to see and to hear something. Then Ribeire left for Bingapore, pro- The position is as follows

Te postcard. This is a wonderful thing conscious wickedness; habitually prudent men who feel that they must be reckless argument amounted to this, that where of the outside world; when they have ceeded to Joaore, and then went on to two people were each claiming, or where such classmates their horizon, will become Colombo, where he was arrested.

When such is presented, Mr. Hollywood for one day out of three hundred and each had some claim against a certain enlarged by talking with them about

will make ont a draft, for the drawer to sign, Rixty-five. The wisdom of other ages provided regular outlet for women as property

one of those persons could things they have not yet seen.

Mr. Lewis, continuing, said that on a slip for his how to initial and another well as men for the mutiny against FALCON ! bring an action againt a purely fictitious

"For many years, the report con

the 6th May a registered letter was There is no question about the shroff intervals if we remain human. Moderu slip fok the shroff to pay within fre minster routine which must seize us all at person, go into Chambers, and by a very cludes, we were longing for the moment posted in Hongkong, addressed to "Rispecting anything at all because the civilisation, with its worship of business, #incompleta - _ statement of facts - no when we could pull down the old school

complete statement had ever been made wing which was rolly dangerous to the Richardson, Esq.,.., at a certain address postcard will not pass into anyone's hands has stopped up thess outlets, Whether — obtain an order against a purely inhabitants. Now we have decided to in Singapore, and on the back of the but Hollywood's and also his boss to initial it has gained much may be doubted · Ve Gotitions porson who had nares heen go on with the rebuilding of this wing envelope was endorsed, “Forwarded by business to examine the postcard to see if also. Our females do not rush about the only, and nothing more. It is Hollywood's | have more working days, but more strikes served and who never could be served in building up a new wing on the west and by serving, before service, notice of side of our compound. It will coat not R.O.G., Beles Building, Room No. 1, it is in order before he makes out n slip woods in a frenzy, at stated times, with thet order on the solicitors for the other less than $38,000 to build the new house. Hongkong For some reason--he (Mr. for payment. His boss won't examine the wild invocations to Bacchus; these primi- person, to prevent that other person from to pull down the old one and to enlarge Lewis) did not know why when this posteard at all, but will simply, initial the tive outbreaks are not now in order. But handling the property which he claimed, the playground for the small ones, which letter got to Singapore apparently the stroke can only be done and good for two People go to the Derby, since neither old sume at Mr. Hollywood's request. This civilisation has not entirely conquered. and also to prevent him from coming was not sufficient at all for the large into Court to ask that the order made number of children we have. At the same address on the envelope was altered from weeks only, after which the whole world will paganism nor medieval Christianity can PILSENER BEER should be discharged except by the time the whole house has to be repaired. Singapore to Johore by the postal offi- be telegraphed warning of sich posteard come to their rescue The Derby wins extremely cumbersome method of making But we have in hand only $80,000, so we himself party to the action. The whole must have in the course of the coming cials, and it was delivered at the latter Aumbered being false and so on. We are of notably, in the fight with business. opinion that. 6. figures can be done, but for Parliament scorns the Derby nowadays, of the proceeds of the sale of the year about $0,000 more than we need for place to a Mr. Richardson, a respectable once and for all and never repeat the stroke and sits with empty benches factories do property, he explained, were restrained, the ordinary expenses Will our friends and the defendant in the previous action, show their willingness to do something gentleman, and not the Mr. Richardson, again. Bar, for instance, one of 6,000 and not close, and workmen decide in whose name never existed in the present extra for the poor children who need otherwise Ribeiro, for whom it was another of 1,000 sterling but the deser multitudes to lose a day offices refuse order, and his client, said that they were your love? AAC

intended. This gentleman opened the must not draw the full amount, but leave to shut, and mysterious sickung afbety entitled to portions of the proceeds. His The new wing referred to the one for

a balance of say 600 or 800 sterling undrawn the typist and the junior clerks friend said he was not entitled to any which the foundation-stone was laid by letter and found inside two letters in order to retain the postcard and destroy things are inevitable. They are a11 of it, and he now came into Court to Lady May yesterday. Owing to pressure read them through, and as they were review that order made in Chambers. on our space, the report of the proceed- obviously not intended or him, and as After more legal argument the hearing ings at the stone-laying ceremony is held they also disclosed some conspiracy to

relative to the defendant.

was adjourned until to-day

over until to-morrow.

man

These

it afterwards so that the B. has no clue assertion, in the most businesslike age of to work with. The whole amount cannot be the world, that business was made for drawn at one time, but on three or four man, sad at man for business. The occasions and leave a small balance so that Derby is English humanity's annual

mutiny against the machine.

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