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HELPING THE EMPIRE, MOVEMENTS IN THE CROWN COLONIES.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS THURSDAY, OCTOBER 216, 1018,

THE ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINS HONGKONG SHARE MARKET,

·ATE ADMIRAL TSENG.

Messra, Vernon & Smyth, in their STORY TOLD IN THE SHANGHAIweekly share report dated the 20th

October, state MIXED COURT.

The following loading article appears

Our last report was issued on the 15th. in the Straits Times of the 13th inst. :-

The story of the attempt to assassinate instant, and in the interval there have The Ceylon Legislative Council dis- cused recently a scheine of now taxation, Admiral Tsong. Fui-cheng, Military been few changes of importance in the with a fair general enquiry for shares of one object of which is to raise the sum of Governor of Shanghai and Director of local market which closes steady to firm, @million pounds sterling as a contributhe Aramal, on August 18th last on the about current quotations With London. tion to the war expenditure of the Em. French Bund, was told to Mr. Grant no business has been reported, and we Jones, British Assessor, and Magistrate have no advices of any change in quota- Yu at the Mixed Court last week. One tions for the stocks usually dealt in. Bar

· pire, sach contribution to be spread over a perid of years ending in 1025. So far man appeared before the Court, named Silver in quoted to-day at 23 13-18d., as we are aware this is the first proposal Tsung Dau-hwo, and he was described as Sterling T.T. at 1/01, Shanghai T., st a shop servant. He was charged that he, 77, and Singapore T.T. at 78. The Bank's of the kind made by a Crown Colony, but we to not wish it to be supposed that with another in the custody of the Chin buying rate for 3 d/s bills on Shanghai the matter has escaped attention locally.ese authorities, and four others not yet

in custody, on August 18th or the French is unchanged at 77. On September 25 we deal with the que Bund, did feloniously, by the explosion

words :-

BANKS-Hongkong and Shangbais have

BRITISH AND FOREIGN SAILORS SOCIETY.

A TRAFALGAR DAY APPEAL.

The following letter, from the High Commissioner of the Australian Common-

us for publication.:- wealth in London, has been forwarded to

78, Victoria Street, Westminster, LONDON, S.W.

14th September, 1915.

The Hou, CLAUD SEVERN,

Colonial Secretary, Hongkong.

Sin Trafalgar Day will fall 91

Thurs-

tion of contribution in the following of a certain explosive substance, direct again been booked at $830, and class day, the 21st October, and I am asked to steady with probable small buyers at the make a pica for the sailers on that notable

come-tax voluntary or compulsory. Cey

Admiral Tseng, with intent thereby feloniously, wilfully and with malice rate aforethough, the said Admiral Tseng to kill and murder.

A native detective from the Chinese City said the accused in the custody of the Chinese authorities was arrested on September 10th, and he gave information He was arrested at No. 1120, which led to the arrest of the present accused. Manila Road, which was the address given by the non in the City.

At the accused's request he introduced these men to him. The accused and the 1wo men then planned to assassinato Witness was asked to Admiral Tseng. throw the bomb, but he refused, and it was then arranged that Waung, the coolie, should give information as to when the Admiral left the Arsenal: The secused rented a house, No. 13 Tez Tuh-li, and Tanu was asked to live there, his food being supplied to him.

On August 18th a message was received

pro

#anniversary.

MARINE INSURANCES.--Unions trifle easier with smult males at $955, and Cantons are unchanged at 8425 nominal There are buyers of North Chinas at Ts, 175, and of Yangiszes at 8250 with ex) 73.

;

Falling as it does in the midst of a terrible world-conflict, it' promises to be the most memorable celebra. tion since the hour when, Nelson, fell on

Cape Town, in board the Victory in Trafalgar Bay..

The Mayor

Botha from his welcoming General

in Live German victorious campaign Colony, emphasised the fact that the pre Africa for 100 servation of Sonth

of

INTIMATIONS

LINCOLN,

BENNETT & CO.

BY

SPECIAL

TANCOLL BENNETT

& Co

Score Street

PICCADILLY

TRADE

MARK.

APPOINTMENT

HATTERS

TO HIS MAJESTY THE KING

AND TO THE ROYAL FAMILY AND SOVEREIGNS AND COURTS

OF EUROPE.

THE NEW SEASON'S STYLES IN GENTLEMEN'S

and heroic armies from Australia, Canada, FELT AND STRAW

Land, have crossed in safety to defend the India, New Zealand and the Mother Empire; once again demonstrating that Britannia is Mistress of the Seas,

Os. Shells have declined locally to

It was my privilege on the eve of the do- 87/6 sellers, but are not obtainable from London under 90/7. Langkats notwith. standing poor outputs have steadily im proved, and can today be placed in the quiet at 39, with no local business ttish and Foreign Sailors' Society's meet- North at Ts. 30. Ural Caspians are claration of war to preside over the Bri- report.

NOW SHOWING:

HATS

SOFT FELTS

STRAW HATS IN ALL COLOURS

FITTED IVY BANDS $6.50 TO $8.50 EACH. $3.50 TO $4.50 EACH.

We are probably the least taxed part of the whole British Empire a the present time, and it would be gracious thing to recognise all we owe to sorely axed Britain by giving help voluntarily in the hour of her need. True, that has already been done in

FIRE INSURANCES-China Fires are dull certain ways-through the military

with sellers at 162, though for smell anan. contribution, through the Prine of Wades Fund and in other directions. na

titiks buyers might be found at a attic Hongkongs continue under this rate. Bat Britain is doing relatively much as we are in all these ways and

The accused referred to as being in the is, besides, hearing taxation, local and

BHIPPING-Douglases have again been imperial, which will soon rise to about bands of the Chinese authorities said quiet and without business at 8420, 5/ in the £ on the majority of incones, that he came to Shanghai in the second booked at 889, and close firm with buyers moon of this year. Ho lived with his

at this rate. Business has also been done He If the Government would organise a

In the far-reaching and voluntary income-tax during the con- brother in the French Concession. tinuume of the war, we could send came to Shanghai in order to get work, at 892/803 for December and at 803/894 years was due to the invincibility of the from Malaya at least three to four but after two months, having failed to for January delivery. Indo-Chinas are British Fleet, million dollars a year to help the Im-find employment, he went to a school, the quieter with probable sellers of the Com-gigantic struggle of to-day, the conviction, perial war purse, and the contribution muster of which he had become acquaint bined at Bing. The Preferred shares

ed with during his stay here One day separately have advanced to a buying is deepening that the Royal Navy has would have 'n moral value a great as if each dollar were a pound sterling. he went to No. 9, Yib Ping-li, where he quotation of 8671, the Deferred now stand-saved (under God) our British Isles from What say the people to our suggestion met the accused, who asked him if he ing at 802 buyers. The latest London

Our splendid The suggestion of a voluntary income-hud any friends in the Arsenal. Witness selling quotation for the Combined is invasion, with its awful consequences;

Hongkong, even now from starvation. tax inny have struck a good many of our replied that he had two, one a coolie £15/10/- ex all dividends declared, and while our Mercantile Navy, is saving us

It will bang oomed Wanng-and the other a carpenter for the Proferred £6/5/..

Canton and Macao Steamboats are in readers ns fantastic. good deal more inspection than the first named Tsau.

request at 819 with probable sellers at $20. casual glance may lead them to suppose. The Government, in these times, should

Star Ferrys have been booked at $38 and close firm. not be wholly averse to the opportunity the mo- of experimentally devising chanism of a system which some not very hant date may be a practical necessity. But we have no hard and fast An idea convictions on such matters. is an idea, useful as long as it remains ...such, but a nuisance when it becomes an obsession. We can imagine many better ways of raising money than by an in- lon has decided that export daties shall his family to a wharf on the French dull, and more or less neglected during on that occasion, Her Majesty Queen be imposed on tea, rubber, coconut pro Bund. The house was given up and Tsau the interval, closing with probable buyers Alexandra sent a gracious message, ducts and the like, of which we gave went out with the object of throwing the at $131. Luzons are somewhat casier with which occurred the following testimony to He returned to sellers at $37.

MINING.-Tronohs are obtainable from this Society: "Her Majesty trusts you details yesterday. But it is always abomb at the Admiral. nice question who pays export or import the other men later on, and said that duties, and though we have read widely he had been unable to strike the Admiral London at 27/-, and Kailans are procur will convey to the High Commissioner of on the subject, the only conclusion at The present accused and witness did not able locally at 30, though at 20. buyere

memorable meeting, and express to him which we have arrived is that there is accompany Tau on his errand, but they might be found. Baubs are still in Australia her thanks for presiding at this no fixed law. A duty of either descrip- were together when he reported his request at 83:40, with no sellers under $31. Standard Tin has advanced in tion is paid by seller at one time and failure.

THE ACCUSED'S STORY.

pathy in the beneficent and far-reaching by the accursed London to £162) and £1538 for cash and Her Majesty's earnest and heartfelt sym- by the boyer at another-all depends

givem The story apon the market. conditions under which

DOCKS, WHARVER AND GODOWNS. Hong work that is being carried on by the Society For our differed altogether to the one given by the three months' delivery respectively. the transaction takes place. own part, if we were devising a way of last witness. He said he arrived in raising money in order to express our Shanghai or the 12th day of the fourth kong and Kowloon Wharves have ad-

He bought some being now obtainable under $82. Hong throughout the world." deep sympathy with the King and his mous this year, and went to live in the vanced to a buying rate of 2003, no shares British and Foreign Sailors" Government in their great struggle on French Concession. behalf of humum freedom, we should aim old books with him which he intended kong and Whampoa Dricks after further at gone form of contribution which would selling, but in this he was unsuccessful, sales at $50 and $90 for cash, and settle emble us to say:This money was in and he accordingly returned them to ament delivery, are somewhat lower, but He had a friend in firm at the close with buyers at 888. Now my own purse, and I took it out because friend in Anhui I wished to express my personal madi-Canton Road, but when he went there Engineerings are firm with buyers in the principally with the object of getting North at The 9, Shanghai Docks and ness to help the Empire.'

Whatever may be done here-and we employment, he found that the shop ha Shanghai and Hongkow Wharves close hope very sincerely that something will been closed. He knew the last witness dull and without feature at Tls, 60 and be donc let it if possible be done more as they were from the same place, and Ts, 80 respectively.

There, ash also know a man at No. 1, Tsz Tuh-li.. graciously than in Ceylon. far as we can gather from the reports where the last witness' brother was a in the Colambo Press, the proposals for cook. The latter asked him to buy some now taxation were brought forward spine, which he did, but consequently emergency business, and a considerable the cook was arrested with it in Wuhu. intensity of protest was made on the The last witness, and others, suspected that he, the witness, had given informa: ground that insufficient opportunity was given for considering the effect of the tion, and that was the reason that be was now being dragged into the present new taxes. On an important motion the whole of the official members were on one affair. side, and the whole of the unofficials on The other. That may be due to circum- stances about which we are not suffi ciently informed to justify us in passing judgment, but the impression create le

to the effect that the Admiral was taking REFINERIES-China Sugars have ruled ing at the Mansion House, London, and ALL OUR FELT HATS ARE FITTED WITH SWEAT-PROOF BANDS,

The accused was ordered to be handed over to Admiral Tseng.

LANDS, HOTELS AND BUILDINGS.-Hoag kong Lands, Central Estates, and Hong kong Hotels are all unchanged, and without business during the interval, Humphreys Estates have been booked at 87, and close stendy with probable sellers. though at 26.90 there are buyers. Kon loon Tands at $40 and West Points at 872 continue in request, but again there are no shares forthcoming.

not what we should like to see a hearty KWANGTUNG FLOOD RELIEF sales, Kang Yiks Tis: 151 buyers, Interna

FUND.

and unanimous approval of proposals wisely designed for the purpose in view.

The Tung Wa Hospital begs to acknow We hope that our Goverment will give som gentle hint if it contemplates any action similar to that taken by Ceylon,ledge with thanks the following donations and that full opportunity will be given to thresh out the various ways in which

COTTON MILLS-Hongkongs have ad vanced to $9.40, and c'ose with sales and sellers at this rate. The latest quotations from the North are:-Ewo T. 172 tionals Tis, 90, Lao Kung Mows Tls. 84, Shanghai Cottons Tis. 93,"Soy Chees Tls. 48, and Yengtszrepoos Tis, G, all

MISCELLANEOUS.-China Borneos nominal.

con.

to the Kwangtung Flood Relief Fund:tinue in request at 101. Electries are money may be raised, so that if possible T. T. from Tieng Hun Kwee ·

Kwan of Pekalongan; Guil-

..........$ ders 1,007.29 ...

we may be enabled to agree unanimous on which is best. But the duty to do something seems to us to be obvious. ItT. is not that a million voted by Ceylon or half a dozen millions voted by our own and other Crown Colonies will make much difference to the actual financial. position of Great Britain. We estimate that before the war ends the war debt will be at least two thousand millions, The Chinese National Allianes

Such contributions and it may be more.

Бать

T. from Tiong Huo Kwee Kwan of Pekalongan, Guil- ders 147.12 Chinese merchants at Cairnes,

N, Q., £100 The Chinese Association

Lourenco Marques £92.....

at Victoria £14.......

ot

Per Netherlands Vice-Consul, aje Sinar Sumatra. Daily News, Netherlands India (2nd contribution)

Hospital, Kwong Wa balunce Hu Chuk Shan and Pun Lai

Per

Wa

Already acknowledged

wanted at $45, Ropes at 834 after fairly extensive sales, Peak Trams at $91, 923.18 Cements at $10.63 after sales down to

$10.70. Watsons

at 881, 1 Steam Laundries at 3. China Previdents have declined to 801, and close steady at this with sales,

135.41

1,077.00

237.88

160.78

MEMO,-Next Settling Day, 27th inst.

WANCHAI ARSON CASE,

in

The work of the Society for which 1 plead is vouched for by such eminent Sail. ors and Soldiers as Sir Ernest Shackleton (who was present at the meeting referred

across the Antarctic Continent), Admiral to, on the ove of leaving to carry our flag Sir John Jellicoe, our Nelson of to-day; and General Sir John French, who, with conspicuous brilliance, 4 playing the part of Wellington in the deliverance of the world from a military despotism.

Since the outbreak of war, the Society's stations in many ports of the world have been placed as far as possible at the dis- At the Ramsgate prsal of the authorities. Rest, for example, some 400 wounded Bel gion and British soldiers were received; while in the King Edward VII, Saitors' Rest at Malts, Australian, New Zealand; Canadian and British wounded from the Dardanelles have been welcomed. In Falamuth Bethel Naval Rest and Reading Roam, over 200,000 letters have been writ-

At Milford Haven ten, and tens of thousands of men have taken refreshment. Rest the Society received men, women and children, the rescued of all the torpedoed ships (save the Lusitania)--but including At all the Falaba-in the adjacent seas hours of the night and day they were brought in and cared for. At Havre, the

LANE, CRAWFORD & CO.,

SAKURA

BEER.

THE BREWERY'S OWN BOTTLING."

SOLE AGENTS..

TRADE

MARK

Sakara

TEIKOKU BREWERY CO. LTD. MOJI JAPAN.

Hongkong, 12th August, 1915.

SOLE AGENTS:

SUZUKI & CO.,

ALEXANDRA BUILDING,

TEL. No. 468.

[2%

(855

To meet overdrafts, and provide for the BEFORE LEAVING FOR HOME

At the Criminal Sessions yesterday, important military base of France, a simi- before Mr. Justics Gompertz, the hear-lar work of rescue has also been carried on. 118.43 ing was continued of the case in which three Chinese stand charged with com- 21.50

mitting arson at a shop at 158, Queen's 5.50 Road East.

great work of the coming winter, the Directors. need several thousand pounds. The Lord Mayor of Manchester has kindly The Sergeant-Interpreter at No. 2 promised the Guildhall for a Trafalgar Police Station said he had made a list of Day commemoration, and Admiral Sir $559,061.61 15 shops mentioned in defendants books, George F. King-Hall, formerly Com-

most of which were piece-goods shops, ..$561,880.48 that he could not trace.

150.23

as the Crown Colonies can make, even if they strain themselves to the extent as the people at Home are strain. ing, will be but a drop in that ocean of money, but their value is not to be fixed entirely by their amount in pounds, shillings and pence. At a time like this, moral support. is almost as precious as money, yet money is the only form in which the reality of moral support can Per Chinese Consulate at Van-

couver, B.C. be expressed. It is all very well to bold meetings, listen to eloquent speeches and pass resolutions of entire sympathy with a righteous cause. But when we put our

In answer to Mr. Jenkin (defending), hands into our pockets and send

witness admitted that he did not expect inoney to help the cause, so one can doubt

to find the shops. that our utterance and our resolutions

Mr. Jenkin That is why you looked are sincere. And we are all as deeply

for them?--Yes, concerned as if our homes were in Great

Mr. Jenkin-You know it is false to Britain. Chinese, Malays, Indians, Arabs, Armenians we have all sorts and

The Under-Secretary for War stated in say that there were no addresses in the conditions here, and they all know that the House of Commons on the 17th ult. firm's books?--I did not know where their lives and their liberties are secure that the British casualties in the Medi- they were situated and that their property is safe as long teranean Expeditionary Force, includ

few

men

of

aDy

Tace

our

who

Total

OUR LOSSES IN THE DARDANELLES.

You know they were given as being in other books.

as British rule is maintained. There are ing the Naval Division, up to August Canton-That was mentioned in to would not tremble if they heard 21st, were as follows:-

that in

the British

Officers. Men.

You did not really expect to find failed Killed or died of wounds. 1,130

Canton shops in Hongkong, did you 16,478 2,371

58,257 No. 373 8,021

that Wounded

of

fleet had

atad mission, its great there was a possibility of the type.. men who invaded Belgium, who have mode desolation in Poland, and who are. now threatening Serbial being let We fear not such danger, lobse npon 18. but we know the sacrifices in life and in treasure which are being made to avert it, and we should all do willingly what ever lies in our power to help and to encourage our Imperial rulers and our heroic defenders.

Missing

Total

mander-in-Chief of the Australian Squod- ron, will attend, and, on behalf of Lady Jellicoe, who is prevented from being pre- sent, receive gifts for this purpose.

During recent months the Society has received countless lettera of appreciation from both officers and men, including those who fight our battles afloat and thore; in the air and under the sea; be hind the gun, before the mast and in the trench.

Cheques may be crossed Bank of Eng- land, and sumg large and small will be wel comed and acknowledged.-Very faithful

Mr. Jenkin-You know perfectly well that you were wasting the public time 3.874 83,736 by trying to find them in Hongkong.

Mr. Orme-Such eng. Iries as he makes Total for all ranks...87,030 Considerable additions to these figures he makes under the orders of his lay yours,

spector. have been made since.

Mr. H. B. Lees Smith, M.P. for North ampten, bas enlisted in the R.A.M.C, as a private.

Mr. Jenkin said that the witness had endiear used to give the Court them presion that these shops never existed

all. The hearing was again adjourned.

G. H. REID.

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