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WEATHER HEPORT.

On the 7h at 11,35.--No returns from Japen or NE. China..

Pressure has Increased slightly in the neigh- bourhood of Shanghai and over Indo-Chins, and has decressed silgotly over Formona. It is nearly stationary stanwhare,... ́...

The depression "to ška osat of the Visayas does not appear to have developed,

Hongkong rainfall for 24 hours ending at 10 a.m. to-day, 0.00, inch. Total since 1st Janasry, 76.75 inches, against an average of

80.93 inches,

The forecast for the 24 hours middag at noon to-day is as follows z

FORECAST. (N.E. winds, m *** { dorata ; fine,

DISTRICT

Hongkong to Gap Rook

Formosa Chandel

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Bouth Court of China between / The same se

Hongkong and Halsan..k-

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Temperature

Humidity......

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ARMY CONTRACTS.

JUDGE'S CRITICISM OF DEPARTMENT.

CONDUCT OF CONTRACTORS.

COUNTESS WHO MARRIED A

GERMAN CLERK

for the sake of gain, to lend themselves A WOMAN'S DOUBLE LIFE. to transactions of this sort, as I said a short while ago, almost passes compre, hension. I can only say with regard to the contractors that I very much regret that it is not in my power to send them ka-share the wall-merited punishment of | their associate and necòmplice: They leave this Court free on, but they will leave this Court disgraced men, with the disgrace that should attach to men who have not hesitated to sacrifice the interests of their country to their desires to accumulate money.

Josephine

Bauer"

went, by the direction of the London Sessions, into in- ternment for the rest of the war, and similarly the Comtesse de Bourriculo has vanished from the West End of London.

Before Mr. Justice Low, at the Central Criminal Court, the trial was concluded of Lucien William Asseling, 44, and

For Mrs. Bauer and the countess are William Lewig, 2, cutter, the latter on

the same woman. An amazing career in bail, upon the indictment charging them

double living has thus closed. One of with conspiring to defraud the King and

Whispers reach one, and it is right the smartest,women in London, the coun- the Secretary of State for War by falsely that I should say that, that it is difficult tess was to be met at the Carlton the pretending that goods consisting of sometimes for honest contractors to com- Savoy, the Ritz, and other fashionable razors and clasp-knives had been depote because it is said that these prac-hotels. She was generally either in the livered at the Royal Army Clothing tices are widespread. With regard to writing-room or taking afternoon tos. Department and duly inspected there that, of course, I know nothing; but I. with obtaining from the Secretary of

Dark and petite, she was perfectly fell certain that these matters will not State for War by false pretendes two be allowed to be passed over and that a gowned. She had diamond rings on her pay warrants for 2619 and £800 respec-stringent inquiry will be made as to finger and a gold cross set with amethysts tively, and with using inspection what has been going on in this depart at her breast, and her tiny feet were im nates containing false, erroneous, or ment, both in the department itself and suatulately shod in the latest footwear defective statements.

on the part of those associated in any Hotel servanta krew her ng "the coun

tem" and a fairly regular guest. (adds way as contractors with the department. fel suggestion to the Legislature, that parked upon her loneliness. But it was I should like to add this as a respect the London Evemag News). They te

it is high time that a short measure

understood that her husband was at the should be passed giving power to the war and that she herself was spending: Courts, at all events during the continuer leigure in Red Cross work. convicted of bribery or attempting to since the disturbing incident at the Hotel ance of the war, to inflict on persons The true facts have only been known bribe, Government employés, a long Victorio, when a secret bell which a period of penal servitude, because the detective had contrived rung unawares penalties provided by the Corruption and the manager entered to find the Act are absolutely useless and inadequate countess placing a valuable vase in her to deal with matters of this sort,

handbag. Mr. Justice Low directed Asseling to pay the costs of the prosecution.

Lewis was acquitted, but Asseling was convicted and sentenced to five years' penal servitude, being also directed to pay the costs of the prosecution,

*GRIEVOUS AND GROSS ABUSE.”

ARMY

VIEWER" SENTENCED.

Mr. Justice Low, in summing up to the jury, said It is buc very rarely Hongkang Observatory, November 7th.

conceive it to be my duty to go at all Frovions On Date On Date outside the particular case at the parti

·Day

Acular moment being investigated. But

think it will have occurred to you, as it certainly occurs to me, that it was impossible for any public official to have sat here day after day investigating cases in connection with this Army Clothing Department without making a few general observations in the hope that those observations may induce some inquiry and some reform in what I cannot help saying is a very grievous

At the same Court, George James and gross abuse. It has been shown in the course of this case that here we have Montagu, 19, on bail; a "viewer" in the a department responsible for the dis Royal Army Clothing Department, was bursement of many millions of public entenced to 18 months imprisonment money. conducted upon methods and with hard labour on the charge of accept- principles which would infallibly landing or obtaining £5 from Messrs. H, H. any business of a private nature in a Boar & Co. manufacturing tailors, who very short time in the Court of Bank had a contract for the supply of Army The defendant plended Not ruptcy. We are not here dealing with Guilty. an administrative department. We are

Weather *** Bain.

Highest open-air Temperature on 6th Lowest op- Temperature on 27th

BONGKING TIDE TABLE

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dealing with a department which is a great purchasing department, and believe to a considerable extent also, but I am not sure, a manufacturing depart

ment.

trousers.

BAD GOODS PASSED.

It now appears that in spite of her. frocks, her expensive millinery, and her admired jewellery, the countess WAS engaged in a grim fight with poverty. She was living in an attie in the house of a specialist in Harley Street, for which she only paid 10s. a week, and even that small rent was a little in, arrears.

Practically since the war began, the Countess, by her own admission, has lived by theft.

"When I married a German," she told an acquaintance, my father stopped. my allowance. Readers of 'The Queen'a Necklace," by Dumas, will recall the lived in a garret but traded on a distant story of the Comtesse de la Motte, who relationship with the Royal family and

Francis William Soar, who is now in the Army, said that he was formerly in the employment of his cousin, Mr. H. H. Soar, who carried on business as H. H. associated with the theft of the

Antoinette diamond necklace, Scar & Co., manufacturing tailors, in

Josephine Baner Globe-rond, E. He gave evidence sup-respects

#

Mr. Justice Low. He did not say any posed viewers ought to be shot i...No.:

In somo

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was

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One would have thought that in a deporting Mr. Muir's statement in opening imitator. She moved in the fashionable partment of that sort you would have the prosecution. In September, 1914, world in the day-time and returned to found some one indeed more than one contract was entered into for the supply her attic in the evening. She did not

with some capacity and experience of of 20,000 pairs of trousers for the Army return empty handed. a business - nature. We have seen that at 9s. 3d, a pair. At the invitation of

COLLECTED FOR RED CROSS. in the filling up of forins and initialling the defendant he visited him at Thornton and all these ceremonies that are dear to that other firms were "Exing up

Heath. There the defendant mentioned She told the other occupants of: th view-house she was collecting goods for saf the administrative míad a good deal of energy was displayed and a great-

ers with the idea of getting stuff passed for the Red Cross, and showed thes through without any trouble. He said cushions and curtains and clocks 11 deal of labour-probably most of it

he could do the firm a lot of good or a mantelpiece ornaments as gifts to t thrown away-was used, but, as far as lot of harm. They spoke of the had cause. Her bed-sitting room I can see from first to last any notion stuff that was being passed through, and times crowded with such articles, fr that any sort of real supervision over the defendant said, Some manufactur time to time they were sold--but not f the employés of this department was re ers ought to be shot."" quired never seems to have occurred to

charity, as the countess friends sup-

Their destination was the anyone. There is, in my opinion, here in this department something that re- In reply to further questions, the wit pawnshop, and the aristocratic Jose- quires immediate and drastic attention, aess said that in the defendant's house it phine" was using them to raise pocket and 1 have not the least doubt that you was arranged that the witness was to give money, will agree with that view. So far as the defendant £5 down, and he was to None of those who met the countess am concerned that is all I am entitled pass the stuff through whether it was good socially ever dreams that she was in to say about it, and all I propose to iný,

or bad. The witness told him that some poverty, and it was at first thought that But of course these observations, though of the stuff which they had made outside her arrest was all a terrible mistake. at the moment of some general interest

their own factory they were afraid would Inquiries show that the countess is a not be passed. The defendant wanted £5 descendant of Louis de Bourrienne, the are not altogether without a bearing on this case, because it is not unfair to say fendant suggested that some bad stuff she was born in Paris, and her father-

down and a halfpenny a pair. The de- friend and biographer of Napoleo that, if you get ineptitude and i should go through with good, and it was holds a high position in the French capacity in management, you will not arranged that in telophone communica improbably get fraud and possible cortions about the matter the defendant

Army. ruption in carrying out the concerns of should give the name of "Thornton Her father in anger then refused to the department involved, and of course | Heath," and the witness that of a French aristocrat. About seven years that is the question that we have to con- "Frank."

ago she was left a widow. She the sider in this particular case.

The jury found Lewis For Guilty and he was discharged, Asseling was found Guilty

"

The witness went on to say that he told came to London, and since then his cousin, who gave him a cheque for divided hor time between London £5, and subsequently he gave the money Paris. In January, 1014, she marr to the defendant. Two or three days German clerk named Bauer, who afterwards the first delivery was made been acting as her secretary, at a Le The witness got a telephone message from registry office. The marriage took

HALF GOOD AND HALF BAD,

Thornton Heath," who said "Is that

from an address in Green Street, E Mr. Frank Things all right. Keep on He recognized the voice an sending."

Her father in anger then refusi Montague's. Three other payments of have anything more to do with ber

5 were made to the defendant by post.

when the war broke out she and i were in comfortable circumstance Mr. Justice Low asked what proportion Brunswick square. His internment, a of the 20,000 pairs of trousers were badly weeks later, left her in difficulties, made.

The witness replied that about the result that she adopted the mod half were good and half bad."

Out of living now disclosed. 10,000 badly-made pairs only about 100 were rejected.

and denied the charge pla

The defendant was called as a w

Mr. Justice Low sentenced Asseling to KNIFE-LIKE PAINS,

five years' penal servitude on the indict- The sharp, shooting pains, the intense ment for false pretences, observing that agony of Sciation, often make death he had been convicted upon evidence of preferable to life. The fiery darte that the clearest possible nature of having run from hip to heel, the sleepless nights, been guilty of a series of gross frauds the cheerless days why not STOP land of abuse of his position as a trusted this and get back to health and comfort servant of the Government. He seemed again?

to have considered that he was there in "LITTLE'S ORIENTAL BALM is the that department for the purpose of com- best known remedy for Seistica. Rubbed mitting every robbery and swindle he into the limbs where the pain is, it givee could possibly lay his hand to. He had almost instant relief, and its persistent | been convicted on this indictment of

They continued to have contracts with use has effected maov miraculous enres. obtaining money by false pretences and the War Office, and in June last year Don't despair just because other he should sentence him on that indict about 4.000 pairs sent, to the Marylebone remedies have failed to cure your ment and should forbear from passing depot of the Royal Army Clothing De- Bciation. LITTLE'S ORIENTAL

The jury found the defendant. G partiment were rejected. The witness met with a recommendation to meres un BALM is different from all other sentence on the other indictments because

e different penalty was enacted by the Montague at a public-house and asked if ground of his good charcter. remedies. It cures, as thousands can statute. He could see no excuse for this it was possible to do anything there the Mr. Justice Low-I understand, gi Gently

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At Marylebone, but he thought he knew On hearing the sentence Asseling fell

a man who had been at Pimlico, and who fainting into the arms of the warders, could arrange matters. He handed The Judge sentenced the defendad and was carried groaning to the cells, Montague E5 in the public-house, and 18 month imprisonment with | Mr Muir said he desired to make an never saw him again. In the August fol labour, remarking that he did not BOUND

epithe case for the prosecution, as he After that he claimed from not as bad-as/some of the cases that BOUND VOLUMES of the HONGKONG explanation as to what he said in open-lowing he left his cousin's employment. his case was as bad he was sure it

might perhaps have been misunderstood. per cent, on the contract. In January me before him. He had made u He had stated that the Royal Army last he wrote to his cousin saying he had mind that in these cases wherever a Clothing Department did not view a given up the claim. He told the story ernment official was found guilty of prosecution with enthusiasm. He wished about Montague to his solicitor when his kind of corruption during the wa to say that those remarks did not apply cousin refused to pay: As far as he knewby law, but in the defendant's capta

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to the beads of the department and Army officers. They were men of probity and hunour and above suspicion

Mr. Justice Low-I think you are quite right to make that explanation. I do not think there is the faintest sugges tion against their probity or honour. When the matter was brought to their attention they gave all the assistance in their power.

CONTRACTORS DISGRACED. Later the Judge said:-) feel that I

ought not to part with this case without making some remark in accordance with the request of the jury with regard to the conduct of the contractors. The con tractors in this case, as far as we have got, truly leave this Court as free men. They do that because, by the display of

is cousin never saw Montague.

LETTERS FROM ** FRANK."

you..

Mr Jurice Low asked the two

Harry Herbert Boar said that when his to stand forward, but Harry Soal cousin told him of his interview with not in Court. Montague he refused to have anything to

The Judge said-It is no use a

do with the arrangement. Later he gave to what I said on Saturday about his cousin a cheque for £5. He under cases. But these contractors woul stood that there were certain expenses grace any business, and it is a shq that had to be met.

thing that they should be allowed The witness said that one or two post hold of contracts at all. am cards were written by him to Montague's inclined to think that in this part private address, They were signed case if anybody had made any ing Frank. A letter was also sent with as to the standing and condition £6 inside, with a blank sheet of notepaper entered into with them. They ob

firm no contract at all would hav

on which was written " Frank. ”

The Judge. Of course you knew that had not, either of them, the me that was not proper. You knew that it capacity for carrying out a cont was being sent to a Government official? this importance and the result w

Song in all probability it -I knew it and I regret it.

was gri Later Mr. Justice Low remarked: Mestre Soar should know that

scamped. The jury desire th such wisdom as might have been anti-am quite satisfied that this man has been under very grave, ensure for wit

cipated from them, they have taken an accomplice, and I am quite satisfied

have done, end the jury agree

advantage of the witness-box in prefer that instead of being where you are you that it is a great pity that we

ence to the dock. Bat for men in thought to be over there.

state that the country has been and is, (Continued at foot of next Columa.)

able to punish them as well as Montague