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THE HONGKONG DAILY BESS, FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 1916,
THE BLOCKADE OF GERM Y.
LEGAL ASPECTS.
[BY A LEGAL CORRESPONDENT OF "g
TIMES..
In the discussion in the House of mona of the motion for tighteninthe blockade it will be advisable to dis guish clearly between issues which appt to be mixed. With the important ses- tions of policy involved in the motion cle remarks are not concerned. They deanly with the Prize law administered bpur Prize Court and by noutrag Prize Ceta.. and, in order to avoid a common arce
SHIPPING NOTES.
A fire broke out on board the O.S.K. Panama-mara on February 5th. The vessel arrived at Yokohama from San Francisc
The flames were the same morning. extinguished in'an hour. ¿About 50 bales of raw cotton were damaged by water, bu no damage was sustained by other cargo,
TIRE ON THE “IYO-MARU."
KUCH COTTON BURNED.
LIFE AFTER THE GREAT WAR.
MORE ABOUT ÏTS CHANGES.
TDK TWELLS ARES.]
FORESTRY IN CHINA....
PROJECT FOR ITS ENCOURAGE
MENT.
In order to promote forestry according to the latest European methods, the Minia I have received a letter from a spirited try of Agriculture and Commercy bra specially engaged a foreign expert to train 'octogenarian. “'Directly penco is declared,” Chinco in afforestation affairs.
An ex- he says,
I intend to take a prolonged amiantion will be held by the Ministry in tour over the battlefields of Europe. candidates to be trained by the said export. order to select and appoint len successful
My young-hearted octogenarian had bet-Applicants must be between 20 and 30 of misunderstanding they deal in thoan this N.Y.K. Ty-cz. 6,320 tons, on the his tour as a celebration of his ninetieth will be appointed learners in the Forestry A fire broke out in No. 8 Hold on boarilter reconcile himself to postponement of years of age and graduates of Elementary Forestry School, Successful candidates with these questions apart from thDe Bombay run. at eucher alongside the Wad claration of London. That instruent. Pior, Hyogo, on February 14th. At the
year. Not until about then will Europe Department of the Ministry of Agricul which has not been ratined, and whievas time 25,700 bace of raw cotton to be
be able to receive him with such comfort as ture and Commerce and at the expiration prepared too much on the assumptioshatvered to the Kobe Pier Company were
of this terr will be appointed forestry evon England was to be a outral, in any being discharge, to be conveyed into the would rather that he and all other tourists nonagenarians appreciate. Earope
officials if found "competent. binds us.
godowns of the Tokyo Warchouse Cortayed at home for several years after the From the nature of modern waire,
pany, Wade Of 5,330 bales still remain. war is over. For directly the war is over which presses into its service all tiring on board, 700 bales, which were in No. there will be a placard over the gates of sources of industry, it has been nectary
5 hold, were destroyed, and No. 4 hold alw almost every fémiliar, travel route of to enlarge greatly the list of artice of caught Hire, The flames were extinguished Europe; its legend will be "Admission on COPY ORDERS BY LT.-OOL, A. CHAPMAN, V.D. contraband, both absolute and condithal. two hours, The dainage stained is business only." In some degree that necessity was ejerestimated at about Y.80.000. enced in the Americas Civil War ad in the Russo-Japanese War. But as thres sent war proceeded it was found nedenry
CONTRABAND.
SHIPPING RECORDS "OF
SHANGHAI IN 1915.':
to a degree never before known to muijply by some nine proclamations the artich of contraband, which now amount to ove300 varieties, the largest number over ro
Although it is at present difficult to say claimed. Until the American Court re-exactly how far Shanghai has suffered on cognized the doctrine of continuou, vage and that doctrine became, as it has bee, accounts of the shortage in tonnage, dus: part of the law of nations. there cald, to the war, it is interesting to note (says it was said, be no contraband untesthe the W.-C. Daily News) that, generally ship conveying the goods whs on its bay speaking, the figures of 1915 compare very to an enemy port; a rule which wild favourably indeed with those of the pre have effectually prevented us stoppingin
vious year. In all, the tonnage entered contraband goods going to Geronny by jay inward and cleared outward during the of Holland or Denmark It was lef to year amounted to about 18.850.000 tolis, us American Courts to take distinctly a tre compared with 18,950,000 tons for 1914 rational view-to look to the destinaion showing a decrease of some two million tons. TERRACE
of the goods rather than the ship ad to The shrinkage în tonnage is not as larg? EWLY BUILT FLATS, in SAIFEE justify the condemnation of goods inteded by half as it would seem from a cursory
Nathon Road, SIMILAR FLATS in Jordan Road, Kowloon. forces. Our Admiralty and Prize Qurt total has the advantage of 1,125.000 tong of also, to go, though circuitously, to the cudly's examination of the figures, for the 1014 Rents very moderate.
Electric Light and Gas installed,
have acted upon that doctrine B Austrian and German shipping, which. Apply to
serious risk attaches to the exercise ofthis was only represented in 1915 to the extent power. In the case of conditional cobra of 637. tops, basa ne tik A band (such as "grain, wheat, foodstuffs, Houghly speaking, there was a falling etc.) it must be shown to the Prize Gurt of in the tonnage of the Entente which not only that they are on their way an entered and left the port. Great Britain enemy's country, but (which is apt to be fell off by about a million tons or about that they are intended to be used by the or thirty per cent, while Japan increase forgotten by these discussing the subpet) fourteen per cent. France about 140,000 oemy's forces, aaval or military or Guvby 433.000 in round figures, or about nine
That is the law administered by our per cent, NON Prize Court and it is a law often difficult to satisfy. Though strong suspicion nay exist, the proof required fur consumario may not be forthcoming; and if the cargo is released, there is sure to be a claim for damages, which may run into large figures,
KATAMALLY & Co., ̈
5, D'Aguilar Street. Hongkong, 1st March, 1910/
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splaadid set of OFFICE ROOMS on the Firet Floor of No. 10, Des Voeux Road Central (above the Robinson Piano Co), comprising Three Large and Two Small Rooms with Onthouses and Servants Quartom. The Premises are being thoroughly repaired and UNFURNISHED FLATS, in Nathan renovated Centrally located in the vicinity of the Banks and Shipping Offices. Rent
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MOW FUNG & Co.. 10, Des Your Boad Central. Hongkong, 18th February, 1916.
Road, Kowloon.
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PEROY SMITH, SETH & FLEMING,
Hongkong, 29th February, 1916.
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H. E. POLLOCK,
Princes' Buildings. Hongkong, 28th February, 1916.
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Hongkong, 17th February, 1916.
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MENT & AGENCY Co., LTD, " Hongkong, 24th October, 1918, 107
erament,
BLOCKADE.
In the course of the war there is not and never has been a blockade in the strict sense, that is, the prohibition of ingress to or egress from enemy ports only. Termos, The Order in Counen of March 11st, 1915, did not proclain one. It purported to de more; it actually did less. Nor will the mere proclamation of a strict blockle necessarily avail us unless we go a step further. We are in fact confronted with i difficulty (though in a far souter degree), such as the United States experienced in 1861-63. Thouga our fleety have had, for DAVENSHILL
EAST, Part Boad, 801e centuries, auiple experience of block- containing & Booms, 2 Bath Boomades of individual towns and the adjacent Serrants Quarters, &o. Vacant lai Nevember.
territory though Hove, St Vincent, Nelson, Collingwood did
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KATE
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APP BEACON, LOOKER DEACON & such operations the attempt to Rockade
HAESTON
Hongkong, 19th October, 1915;
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TWO HOUSES in "STONEHENGE,, No. 5. Robinson Road, Newly done up Each House contains downstair Two Good
and remodelled,
of our nations dealt with by the The round figures showing the shipping Chinese Maritime Customs during the past year are as follow
American Austrian “BritWh
Danish
Dutch
French
German
214.000
Mw.atl:0,779,000)
80.000 147.000 304,000
637 .5.137.000-
Norwegian
Eussian...
wedish Chinese
146.000 209,000
47,000 3,681,000
Japanese
FORMOSA.
"There are forecasts of a mighty crnosing of American tourists directly after the war for conducted" explorations of that tangled Golgotha that stretches from the sea to Switzerland and among the blacken- ed remains of the war-ravaged cities of Bel- gium and Northern France, But if the tourists are hardly enough to come they will be like visitors who descend upon a host who has just sten his walls go down in an carthquake, and whose family and servants are straining with rope and pickaxe among the ruins. If the tourists want të make. sure of their tour, they will have even now to charter their ships, been us, after the var tonnage will be precious and state- rooms and saloons will remain dismantled. for the cargoes of the rebuilders and the foodstuffs for cumply granaries. The tour- ists should bring niso their own moters or wagons for land transport. Half of the railway lines in the touring district rolling stuck lies in war's great scrap heap. are twisted wreckage, two-thirds of the
The tourists should also bring tents and camping equipment, and even their own commissariat, Towns left inhabitable will be vercrowded during the rebuilding epoch; hotel life will not have been reorganised; millions of the lean and hungry and dis possessed will have first claim on shelter and slowly increasing food supplies.
Armageddon, He will carry plans and One tourist only will be welcomed after
drawings instead of camera and picture- contracts rather than in visitors lists. His postcard album, His name will appear in luggage, will be spades, trowels, and iron girders. The traveller's tucked-up shirt sleeve is going to be more fashionable than the traveller's dinner jacket for a genera tion to come.
sape
We easy British will feel the draught of (he new "travel discomforts, even when we visit our good Allies, oven in leaving or en- tering our own free country, even in traj veiling in our own country. If there is one Continental restriction we have derided and disliked more than any other it is the pasaport. But we have a strict passport system ourselves to-day is war time, and it is certain that we will continue it in peacetime, just as We will bo
enough to continus the safe ALLEGED "CONSPIRACY" IN guard of national registration. For our eyes are now opened to the Teutonis mean- ing of "
peaceful penetration," our ears have heard the Teutonic whisper of the war after the war," we know now what was the meaning of that chain of excellent German hotels that linked all our coast re sucts and strategie mud neval suð military According to an official report received towns, and the mission of all their alert, by the Japanese Home Office from Mr courteous and attentive German proprie. Shimomura, Chief of the Civil Administrators and German stafs The passport will been tried and sentenced on a charge of ilers and visitors and sort out, the natives tion in Formosa, 1,131 mativos have so far henceforth help us to sift out our alien set- conspiracy. Of the total, 878 have boca of that country whose emigrants and travellers will henceforth be lepers among civilised men,
NEARLY NINE HUNDRED PER SONS SENTENCED TO DEATH,
a long line of coast with easily accessible adjacent neutral territory was gade for the first time in 1861. Neutrals. took ad- vantage of such ports as Nasen in British territory, and of Matamoras in Mexican to then thence to the Southern States If convey goods to these ports, and to forward the goods were of the nature of contraband, continuous voyage, could condemn them peral servitude for fifteen years; est & Prize Court, applying the doctrine of sentenced to capital punishment; 19 to
TO.11,GAGE STREET, from lui Janukry+ { Rooms and upstairs Three Bedrooms, each with But what if they were not of that chartwelve years penal servitude; 1 to fou
1910.
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OFFICES in Queen's Building.
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THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST NENT & AGENCY Co., LTD.
1105
Hongkong, 8th December, 1918.
TO LET From Let March,
GODOWN, No. 8, Dudáāll Street,
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A. B. ÄVASIA,
Care of E. PABANNY,
No. 1. Dediell Street
Hongkong, 2nd Febrasry, 1615.
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'O,'5, MOUNTAIN VIEW, PEAK..
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No. 141, Wanchal Road, Large and Spacious Godown,
SHORNCLIFFE," Garden Boad, to lef Farnished, 8 Booms.
"GLENIFFER." 8, Hankow Road, Kowloon. "BILANDONAN No. 6, Des Voeux Villas, No. 54, THE PRAX, Fally Furnished, facluding Piano, from 1st
"WOODBURY, 8th November.
No 4, Hankow Road,
Kowloon, from 1st May, 1916.
No. 2, ZETLAND STREET.
No. 25, SHELLEY STREET.
No. 25, SEYMOUR ROAD, WOODLANDS
VILLA WEST.
Lorel
-65, PEEL STREET on Caine Food
"GLENSHIEL," No. 141, Plantation Boad,
Ponk, from 1st November, 1915.
HARTING, Austin Kond, Kowloon,
"ROSENEATH "9, Hankow Bd. Kowloon.
No. 6. BELILIOS TERRACE
No. 25, BELILIOS TERRACE, with entrance on Conduit Road,
ONE GODOWN, No. 8 Barrows Wanchai. V
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TWO GODOWNB, in Duddell Street, No. 3, DES VŒUX VILLAS, 51, PEAR (Unfurnished),
No.6, THE PAX ( CAMERON VILLAS Apply to LINSTEAD & DAVIR
3rd Floor, Alexandra Balldirys. Hongkong, 18th February, 1916.
Bathroom.
Onthouses and Gress Tennis Court, Shortly available for occupation. Apply to—*****
DAVID SASSOON & Co., Lzo, Hongkong, 22nd December, 1915, [113
ASAHI
DAI NIPPON BREWERY
Eighty-six per
HONGKONG VOLUNTEERS.
LEAVE:
1.-Private C. G. Anderson is granted leave of absence from Sud March, 1010, to 2nd April, 1916,
TRANSFER.
2. No. 1720 Private P. W. Gaudring. from Left Section 11. G. Co, to Hong- kong Police Reserve (Mounted Patrol), dated 1st March. 1916.
PARADES,
3.--Parades for today (Friday).
3.15 p.m. No. 3 and 4 Sub-Sections Arty. Batty. (as dotailed in Corps Order No. 4 dated 30th December. 1915)-10 pdr. gun drill at Head- quarters. Sergt. Bradley, R.G.A., will attend.
5.15 p.; Right Section M. G. Co- Defaulters' drill at Headquarters. ander · Sorgt.-Major Witchell, 0.05. of other Sections and Companies should instruct their own defaulters to ultend this parade.
5.15 p.m, No. 3 Section Scouts Co. (all members)-M. G. instruction at Headquarters.
5.30 p.m. Engineer Co.--Squad drill. and Musketry exercises on Kowloon Cricket Club groand, under Sergt.- Major Higby,
DETAIL.
4.—On duty, to-day: Scouts Company. On duty to-morrow: Scouts Cam
pany:
Orderly Officey from 3ed to 9th insi.-
Lieut Danby,
G. E. STEWART, Capt.
Adjutant, H.K.V.C.
HONGKONG POLICE RESERVE.-
-MOUNTED· POLICE
on
Moubers who have transferred, or desire të transfer, to this detachment will attend at the D.S.P.'s office Friday, March 3rd. at 5.30 p.m. sharp'. and will also keep. Saturday afternoon, March 4th, free
MUSKETRY.
All tanks who have passed Part 1 and have not yet fired Ranges A to D in Part II will leave Blake Pier at 1.30 p., on Saturday, March 4th.
PLATOON PARADES.
Friday, March 3rd-No. 1 Company (1st-
and 3rd Platoons).
Monday, March 6th-No. 3 Company
(lat and 2nd Platoons). Tuesday March 7th-No. 3 Company
(3rd and 4th Plateous),
Wednesday, March 8th--No. 1 Company Thursday, March 9th-No. 2 Company
(3rd and 4th Platoons).
(1st, 2nd, and 3rd Platoons). Friday, March 10th. No. 1 Company 1st Platoon) and No. 2 Company (ith Pla
toons)......
Note No. 1 Co. (2nd Platoon) will
646 pm, on Tuesday, March 7th, parade at Water Paice Station t
No. 9 Co. (3rd Platoon) will parade at
St. Joseph's College,
MAXIM GUNNERS,
Will report at Central Station for In-
struction as follows:- Friday, March 3rd, Monday, March 8th Wednesday, March 8th and Friday, March 10th, at 5.30 p.m. sharp. Friday, March 3rd, at 0 p.m. sharp.
BAND PRACTICE.
F. O. JENKIN, D.S.P. (R.)
Even travel at home will for long not he as easy and comfortable as it was in the old days. It is scarcely likely to be as cheap again. The excursionist has seen his zenith, and the weekender is in his nadir. How long will it be before all those can- elled trains, all that choice of swift ex- presses, creep into the time-tables again I How long before there will again be so many trains, and such long trains, that the third-class, long-distance passenger will be able once more to feel resentment when he cannot get a corner seat? The railway con panies have much to build up; the war has taught them the meaning of wasteful A strict and regular blockade means the competition"; they have pooled traffic; prohibition of exports from Germany No they have pooled rolling stock; they have doubt there will be attempts, more and found that three expresses two-thirds more frequent and ingenious, to evade empty, starting from thres different Lon- capture by shipping goods in thedon termini at almost the same hour for names of neutral consignors at neutral Birmingham or Edinburgh, can be submarbles were made in Germany. All the porta, Prize Courts look with great sus stituted by only one express from one of hum life that began to make the modern picion on sales to neutrals by belligerents the termini, Exilway companies are a world decadent was born in Berlin. during, or on the eve of, war. If the man concerns with very human instincts of Bachhery is another thing that has suf- transactions are merely formal as they self-interest. Why should they be in a fered by war. It still is not dead, but it often are, or intended to defeat the right hurry to replace the old time-tables There is badly wounded. We of the new world of capture--if the German manufacturer are people who talk of nationalisation of must see that it walks not again. The Bill was the real owner, the Jetter or documents the railways after the war. But has ever that has just passed through Parliament notwithstanding they would be disregard a Government Department been as generis the cruellest blow that snobbery ever ed. The real difficulty is that in the case ous to its public as a private corporation? had. There are two sorts of compelling of genuine transactions, if the Declaration Whatever happens the railways, the trú that the Compulsion Bill will achieve. It of Paris is adhored to, enemy's goods veller's golden days are gone.
will not only compel the British man of all would be immune when carried on neutral. vessels,
actor-if, for example, they were food. years penal servitude; and 273 to nine stuffs or other articles intended for con years pel servitude. sumption by the general population? This so have been acquitted. question came before the Supreme Court in the Stephen Hart, the Bermuda, and the Springbok. In the Inst-named case the Court distinctly applied the principle of modern conditions as to railways a block BEER continuous voyage to blockade
ade of any Continental country is impoa We do not now refer to the character of sible unless the doctrine of continuous voy the cargo for the purpose of determining age is applied to blockades as well as to whether it was liable to condemnation as contraband.. Without that doctrine a contraband, but for the purpose of ascer-blockade can be effectual only as to insular taining ile real destination; for we repont, countries, such as England and Japan. „ contraband or not, it could not be con-
PROHIBITION OF EXPORTS demned if really destined for Nassau and net beyond; and contraband or not it must be condemned if destined to any rebel port, for all rebel ports were under blockade. Upon the whole we could not doubt that the cargo was originally shipped - with intent to violate the blockade; that the owners of the cage intended that it should be trans- ferred at Nassau into some vessel more likely to succeed in reaching safely a blockaded port than the Springbok, that the voyage from London to the blockaded port was se to cargo, both in law and in the intention of the parties, one voyage; and that the liability for condemnation, if captured during any part of that voyage, attached to the cargo from the time of sailing
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With the shrinkage of travel will come a classes to serve his country; it will compel Substitute Rotterdam or Copenhagen
legal shrinkage of all the paraphernalia, the the British man of whatsoever class to To sum up the chief legal issues in- pomp, and the ceremonies that hung upon prove for himself, in the rough tost of for Nassau, railway" for "vessel," and volved in the discussion these words substantially apply to a large (1) International law is living juris-carpet. It is safe to say that, for many the man who is as good a man as he,
the people who could afford the magic field fellowship, the equality to himself of WAS of imports which have indirectly, prudence. The question is not entirely a year, Europe will see no more rebuilding will open up the biggest era the greatest It through neutral channels, boen ponred whing Lord Stowell decided, but what he of mammoth palace hotels and shining kursocial visto, of all the changes that the into Germany. Our Government, though would have decided in the present-circum eats The palaces that remain will have now world brings, pressed by the owners of the cargo to pro- stances and economic conditions.to nbate some of the grandeur both of their A Berrower world? Yes, but for all that test against the decision, refused to do so. (3) To constitute articles of commerce service and their tariffs. We are all going a wider world. A world you will find of The counsel for the owners in the Spring contrabanda Lok case (the late Eir George Mellish enough. Nor is the fact that the goods to-morrow, and we will have little admira and a surprising number of great gentle- mere declaration is not to be working people in Europa in the workers sud horny hands and shirt sleeves, and Sir Vernon Harcourt) did not are probably on their way to Germany; tion for gold braid. The chief creation of men. A strange era for us British, because dispute the law ng laid down by the there must be some proof that the parti- the Kultur" that came from Germany we the home-givers aforetime to so many Supreme Court, and the decision was cular articles are going to the enemy's was the sham world of the rich and idle Continental nations, are likely to turn ont approved by the International Comforces or Government,
traveller,・ The Idaring orchestra was made a race of Continental émigrés, ourselves. mission sitting under Article XII of (2) Blockade, properly so called, is up in Germany. The sham showy tablo Thers will be a new Britain over there in the Washington Treaty. The doctrine plicable only to enemy territory, not to d'hôte," with its slammed down wedges of France and Russia and Belgium, just 85 in the Springbok case has been much neutral porte ......
A food that was no food for hale man, was to day When the great time of rebuild- criticized, and it is repudiated by the De (4) Blockade of Germany must conse-made, not in refined France, but in un-ng comes many of the strong hands and claration of London. But it embodies the quently be ineffectum unless the doctrinefined Germany. The bovine storing, the great brains and muscles of ourselves opinion of the highest Court of the United of continuous voyage, now part of inter- hullet headed troops of pallid young as of our Allies, will be wanted among States. It is also true and it cannot be national law as to contraband. is applied writers were made in Germany. The sham those ruins of France and Flanders. too emphatically stated that ander to it as well as to contraband.
frescoes, the sham metal work, the sham Daily Mail,
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