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CITY COMPANY SCANDALI John Middlesex, 13, Jaket Plump, and Salomon Precociously, 10, directors of the Dorset Ostrich Farming and Bad.um Corporation, Limited, were indicted at the Old Bailey for falsifying the books and accounts of the corpora tion.

THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 15m

CHINESE NEWS

HIGH MILITARY COMMISSION.

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KNIGHTS ERRANT OF THE

TWENTIETH CENTURY

SOME EPISODES OF THE AIR-

BY AN ATE PILOT]

A Higa Military Commission has bron organized with General Tuan, the Prime Minister, na Chairman and - General Wang Shih-chen, the Minister of War, Land: Admiral Cheng Pikuang the

Minister of the Navy, as Vice-Chairmen. Flying is a more than happy blend of General: "Chang Hsi luun. Lan Tien wo', Chiong Tao-ping, Chen Yi, Chin Yun science and good sportsmanship. I is peng, Fu Liang-chu, and 34 others are profeccion-more, a calling with an appointed Commissioners irresistible heart appeal to very healthy

his Comin ssion will deal with the conduct of the higher naval and military affairs of the whole country. Its first work will be to reorganize the army sys S tem Its immediate duty will be to con- Immense interest was evinced in the sidor the requests for army requisitions case owing to the high position in City for army funds and the proposals for financial circles of the accused. The disbandment and re-adjustment sub

mitted by the Tucuns of the various ably dressed young woman, who shricked At first, the Government proposed to

provinces, sh when sentence was delivered, 18 supposed

be the

court © was crowded with friends and relatives of the prisoners, and a fashion-

obce,

⠀⠀⠀⠀

minded young“ Briton. Therein is

superlative

quaint blending of danger and adventure a strain of caution with dash of daring. It serve, to strengthen the character and develop the mind. It

has given to the prosaic world a new; und lovable, type of man--the knight-

errant of the twentieth century, sans peur, Raus reproche," who wighe death and mockingly passes danger ns the broad face of the Lourens, day by day night by night, in constant conflict with the vampire spirit of the air.

to wife of the prisime Plump organice this Commission afts, the new has been promulgated, but the pressing outlined his case, r. Quickrise, Krequests of the provinces made the Pro-An od neguaintance, and creeps across (who was congratulated by the judge on idmt decide upon its establishment at boing the first member of the Bar to tako silk at the age of seventeen), nzado an cloquen; · speech for the defence. He | urged upon the consideration of the jury i the relative youth of the prisoners and the ruin conviction would bring upon them, Counsel suggested that the nocured had fallon under the influence of the secretary of the company, a mature man of seventeen, who had absconded. It was the old story of men being led into cater prises for which they had neither train

MINE PROSPECTING.

Mr. Ku Chung-hsie, Minister of Agriculture, has received instructions from the President to obtain detailed data regarding the mining resources of the country and to proceed energetically with the development of mines. Mr. Ku has now appointed Mr Wang Cheng saan, who is the technical expert in the Ministry to prospect the minerals of Great capital had been made by the Shantung and Feugten Liu Chi-cheng prosecution that promoters of the comand Chao Juchun are sent to Anbwei to pany had only one ostrich on the farm prospect the coal mines, Chon Chiu-ling

ing nur experience,

THE APOLOGY OF A SLACKER.

There's bect a lot of writing About us fellow's fighting, Who are angle, fit, and not yet forty thres;

But the Government we've got Are a slowly moving jot, Who woult schnuge their blooming war

whoop, Wait and See:"/

the Hun

The old trading point of view Some employers overdo, When we ask for leave to go and “strafe” Of You really can't be spared “ Is the ery that's always heard,

done. For the business of the island must be

Sniffing tea or broking shares, Salling whisky, hats or Beecham's, all'a

Slinging ink from office chair,

the same

You think you're doing nothing, For you're keeping up lie Empire's

You're really doing something,

mighty danio, –

Our fathers and our mothers, Our sisters and our brothers, Our pals out in the trench for you and me.

Say how unfair is the game,

Bit the anger's just the same, "Aren't we carrying on the business over-

So

we're

A?

At the seaplano- station at X-R

was out testing now machine. Tho ... an experienced and capablo pilot,

heroes every one, time arrived for his return. Half an

And our duty's softly done, hour went by, an hour, two hours. Then I the Town Guard marching round the the alarm wag raised, and a motor boa

Barrack Square; who despatched hurriedly in eoarch.

We all drill one hour a week After cruising round for some time, a Or you if interfere with business-that's dark square of wreckage was spotted on not fair the horizon. The black irregular shapoot fair that rose and fell gently to the motion of the sea might have been anything an upturned bost, a disused mast hove

More then this you must not seek,

And one ways we ought to mead, But the farce should really erd,

We're all tired of

in Dorset, that it was not an ostrich is sent to Shansi to prospect the iron overboard by some passing tramp, or a you and wg soldiers, don't ·

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FORTHCOMING EVENTS.

Saturday, 17th Feb

Noon-Hongkong Hotel Co., Ltd., Musting

rounder..

1:30 pm Anction of Valuable Household Furniture at No. 0, Mountain View, Peak by Mesum, Hughes & Heigh Monday, 19th Feb,

12.90- Guodes & Co., Ltd, Cremur? At the Office of Mesars, Lowe,

Touring

Matthews,

gar Agent,

Saturday, 24th Feb

Noon Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corperation, meeting of Shareholders at the City Hall, Monday, 28th Feb, 2-**

Today

Hongkong Races-1st Day,

no gkong Babes-2nd Day, Wednesday, 26th

Hongkong Ross 3rd Day. Saturday, 3rd March

Hongkong Races-Off Day Thurs, and

and 9th Marek.com table &how in the Botanical

gkong sul Kowloon Wharf and KLANG

Godown Co, Ltd. Mesting at Bhareholder

Gar

at the Offices of Mesra, Jarding, Matheson Saturday, 10th

Friday, 23rd Feb.

113017 China Provident Loan and M page Co., Ltd. Meoting of Shareholden

1430

Hongkong and South China Steam Fisheries Co. Ltd. General Meeting at the Office of the Liquidators, New Government Building.

nos in Dorset but Spitalfields*. Ho asked the jury to brush aside these mati. culous details as irrelevant to the main issue. Did or did not, the prisoners. conscientiously, and reasonably believe that they would be able to start ostrich farming with the shareholders' money i As for the radium mining, he would urge thay the directors never let the share

holders to entertain this except as by-product of the ostrich farm, As for tie accounts and balance shoot, unwisely but not criminally, the directors left figures to their secretary

These men, continued counsel, were moro sinned against than simning Dreams had been mistaken for realities by men who had been successful bitherto in their undertakings All the prisoners were at school only six months ago. They would have been at schoo, still had not wtime conditions called them into the word The career of Middlesex had been meteorie. From being a tail board boy in a railway van, on a pittance of two nounds weekly, he had become chiet clerk in a tea broker's office, and then hingell produce broker. He and also spec Iated, heavily and successfully, in electric torches, chewing gum, mouth-organs, sugar, and wheat______________

He bought an abandoned house-beat at Penton Hook for three pounds, engined itrofitted and then sold it to a great wning company for a million and a half pounds. Plump's career had been started at once in The Boy Labour scarcely less amazing. He left school, Bureau, and made a huge income in providing youths under fifteen for City olices. The youths earned an average of £250 per annum, and paid 20 per cent of this as commission to Flump. The Eusivers was ruined owing to boys being able to command higher salaries elee where.

Plump then formed the Householder's Egg League, un organisation that, in return for an annual subscription of £50, undertook to deliver two eggs weekly to subser ibers breakfast tables. The rising price of eggs eventually ruined the busi, ness, Plump then borrowed $1,000 from his bankers and bought a thousandth Aiste of the profits of a voyage of the 2 ton atconier Jane Dodgen of Bark ing. The steamer berthed safely on the home voyage, and Plump then intended to retire, but was persuaded together with Middlesex, who occupied a reigh bouring seat near East Grinstens and was a fellow member of the local Bench, to enter into this corporation by the prisoner Precociousky

Counsel once more begged the jury to take a lenient view of the mistakes of the three accused. A verdict of guilty was however, given and the prisoners were sentenced to three years in a reformatory the prisoner Precociousky to be also birched.

A

Minister has also notified the Governors of these provinces regarding the coming Fisit of the mine prospectors

BRITAIN AND RUSSIA

FUTURE RELATIONS,

boat guessed instantly. A growing ap prehension scized their hearts, and they drave rapidly forward,

When they ng length got alongside they found the seaplane overturned, the two grent fosts almost submerged by the water Clinging to one of them was tho gallant pilot, bine faced, frozen - with

him on board, inquiring the cause of the mishap Unusual Danouvres un- deries was all the reply they could get. Then, almost patheticnly, Any one got a cigarette

Afterwards it appeared that when landing the machine had turned a com- pleto Bomersault, throwing the pilot down beneath the surface and entangling him in the wreckage wires and stays.

Sir George Buchanan, British Ambascold, bur game to the end. They hated sadne at Petrograd, who presided at the anual dinner of the New English Club, Petrograd, at which the guests included M. Rodzianko and M. Sazonoff, said there was put one answer which the Allies could give to Germany's Pence move.

Between us and Germany a great gulf is fixed, red with the blood of peaceful on-combatants. We cannot grasp her and again until the armies of Germany have been defeated, and the spirit of militarism permeating the whole nation exercised. During the past two years Great Britain has more than once been perused not only of wishing to secure for heres the lion's share of the spoils, but of thwarting the realisation of Russia's traditional ambitions MT pot's recent statement the Dumas specting Constantinople and the Straits agreement has laid that bogey at rest for even

*

A scene somewhere in the north of France. An acroplane appears a more speck in the distant sky, then gradually Brows to and more distinct. There is

third, and the pilot lands clumsily

Thought you'd gone home on leave Did you give my love to untie Been kiss ng a Halberstadt

the nation,

So let's have arbitration And decide if to the Front

we ought to go.

Called shirker. and enlled slacker, But what the the h-e it matter, We can hear the blame quite easily, you

and vieIR

we'll all push the cursed hogs back to the

We re but waiting for our chance, And if once we get to France

Sprec

Colombo, January 3rd, 1917.

M.J.

FAR EASTERN MEN AND THE WAR

Lieut. C Mills, 4th Seaforth High- cipal Police), through the lining of whose landers (Sub-Inspector, Shanghai Mani

cart a machine gun hullet penetrated and took exit through the lungs, on the Somme last July, has been heard from again. Writing last month he says he has received instructions to prepare for transfer to the 2nd battalion, and hopes for a chance to return to the front where Have you But the slim figure he has an account to settle with fr in the fuselage remains motionless The Boche. On December 18th he was corti wings are riddled with bullet holes and fed fit for light duty for a month later His Majesty's Government when first torn with wrapnel Tenderly, gently he went to fin, Yorkshire, where he approached on the subject early in the as a woman, they lift him out on the was again examined and pronounced un ring of 1925 at once expressed its whole grass. There is an ugly red stain on the ft for service for another two montha hearted asscht. We want to see Bussiannis The young fat is set and drawn. His heart is all right now, he writes, but and sacrifices, we want to help her to catch the faint whisper largely compensated for all her services His lips move Somebody Loads over to his eft lung is still weak, win the prize sho so long dreamt of The report-under the seat. Then We want to see her strong and prosper-*- more. ous, and we want to consolidate for all time the alliance which this was cemented, for on its maintenance dependa the future peace of the world. That is the corner stone of our policy -Reuter,

JAPANESE SHIPBUILDING

PROGRAMME.

The aggregate number of ships which are planned to be constructed in the course of this year in Japan 15 61 vessels with the tonnage of 360,267, out of which 35 vessels, amounting to 56,918 tons, are those for which the proposed launching before the end of last year had to be postponed on account of shortage of the required material

The report is discovered; filled in almost to the moment of landing. The V.C is handed to the pale-faced widow. But the brave spirit has fled to the Valhals of the airman, above the racing clouds.

It is sunny, windless morning. Along the aerodrome are stretched the forms of seven graceful scouting graft and two clumsy bustrapped and begoggled, the pilot of gun buses Already one of the machines is bandying words with a crony alongside

The Brutes hit me at twelve thousand yesterday, but I'll take jolly good care they don't touch me again," he says,

How are you going to avoid it? aks the friend

Go up to fifteen and stay there, IR the reply.

wouldn't the friend counsels. Stick to the others, that's the enfest plan

The pilot shakes his head vehemently, The friend shrugs his shoulders, and then they are off.

and skidded into the woman, a member. of a good and once prosperous family who had been reduced by the war to match-selling The prisoner offered to pay the vom five pounds, and then fampted to drive off. Evidence for the defence was that the defendant was late for a dinner party in Park lang and that he did not realise the speed of the motor With the twilight they return, one car. He denied the intoxication, alleg after another speeding their way out of ing that for eighteen months past bis the heavy bank of clouds. But there are doctors had prohibited his drinking any now only eight dark spreke. Who is BAD BIGAMY CASE

thing but a glass of light caret daily down? Speculation rung high.. At last Harold Smooth, 18 munition maker He deeply regretted the accident and had the fire man lands-they crowd round was indicted with having married instructed his solicitors to pay handsome him breathlessly. ANCA Catherine Jones, Hannah Pong Alico compensation to the victim of 3 he exclaima, Vipple, Dors Tibbits, Iris Brown, and accident Fined twenty pounds, Gertrude Malone, his wife, Camilla (nee SMALLER PARAGRAPHS, Montmorency), being still clive,

The wife gave evidence tla, she was introduced to the prisoner at an evening party in December 1916. He told her that he was a man of substance, shewed her his list of juvestrucnts and photo graphs of bis estate, and at their next meeting proposed to her. He had treated her kindly and she had no suspicion that he was leading a septupla life

Charles Hoburn, CC., has been elected Mayor of West Ham. ne is the younges. mayor in England, being seventeen next February. The mayor is in the British warm trade and has been munificent to lical charities

up to fifteen thousand, and got plugged the rest of us came through at eight untouched. Then, to reassure them

It's all right though; be landed ia Holland

HONGKONG POLICE RESERVE.

COMMENDATION,

Sergeant Major Roylance and Pc. 68

Lai Man Wai have been commended by the Police Magistrate and by the Capt. Supt. of Police for their real and activity in effecting the arrest of a spatcher in Queen's Road Central, on the 1st instant,

POLICE SCHOOL, NEW CLASS.

The OC No. 2 Platoon, will detail 32 Constables to form Class IV, which will be taken by Chief Inspector Korr. Date of the sittings of Class I will be issued.

MUSKETRY INSTRUCTION, Members of Nos. 3 and 4 Companies who have to fire Part II of the 1917 Course and have no previous experi ence with Service Rifles will attend at Central Station or instruction sa followsack &

Friday, Feb 18th-No. 5 Platoon (No.

3 Company). Thursday, Feb, 22nd-No 7 Platoon (No.

4 Company). Friday, Feb. 2ard No. 6 Platoon (No.

3 Company), Reportin uniform, but without rifles, to Musketry Borgt. Fisher outs the Armoury at 5,15 p.m.

TRENGTH.

Pe. 862 Bowen Rowlands is permitted

to resign on leaving the Colony. No Platoon, S, M, Sadick

JOINED

the

movement

arthi was fachine He

This was but half the battle won

effort

Would there yet be time? The now perilously men descending at an alarming ruddered right and attempted gently to fatten out. Still no result, the pace, was terrifying, the force of the head wind

most took big breath away

(Bgd.) F. C. JESEIN,

D.SP. (B) At ten thousand a bursting "Archie"

AC Hongkong. 14th February, 1917.

Too Old At Sixteen was the subject and torn the latter into innumerable He began awkwardly to clamber over the

had carried away a strut of the left wing of a lecture given at the British Assoc shreds. The pilot had been hit in the narrow space that divided the pilots cean ton's meeting last night, by Fred left thigh, and was losing blood rapidly from ho Simpson, CB, chairman of the Peter He set his teet and turned the machine caused the machine to tilt Breathless, The other wives also gave pvidence, and Pan League. The lecturer urged that for home. He felt himself going off, and he paused, then, with a last all agreed that the prisoner had been a fossiliation of physical and mentally by sheer will power kept en Again quirmed acros kind and generons dusband. None of energies gets in after sixteen, and that that sickening feeling attacked him, and them had suspected him, I was delict man's best money-making years were ho could have groaned with agony from the prisoner in crossexamination, then over. He was fifteen himself and Instead he laughed, weakly, hollowly that his income, including overtime pay,

be already felt a lackening of It amured him in some indescriliable was $16 weekly. A verdict of guilty was abilities. The pre-war system of paying fashion to think that, feeble though he returned with a recommendation to mercy adu te more wages than youths was wrong was, he had still the better of the en owing to great provocation, Bound byer, and vicious, no hoped that when peace counter. Then outraged nature would

WEALTHY MOTORLEY 3 EOCTICANISM came his league would combine to see that stand it no longer; he fainted Percy Brazil, 15, machine minds, was it was not allowed to creep in aga charged with reckless driving to the The estate of George Limehouse

The observer felt the machine give a At laas she gave signs of straightening public peril, driving without one of Woolwich Arsenal, who died last to and the pilot ab inanimate heap that With Anal glide, he landed, sudden dive, and looked round in alarm out. Below, the aerodrome came into driving in a state of intoxication an? March of dropsy, at the age of seventeca, huddled over the joy-stick in a clumsily dangerously, but at last they causing bodily unit to Lady Hand has been proved at £54,000. manner gruesome to behold. Norman Conquest, an itinerant vendor Steep Dene, near Dorking, unoccupied

were safe, and he gave a great roh of Police evidence was that the defendant for several years has been purchased by

Lower and lower sank the prow of the relief driving a 60-h.p. Rolls Royce, for down. Bill Rickets, who retired from and the spare machine gun trays began dess 1 *

Now it was mort & nose-dive, What this he was asked Flight svenor place at forty-five miles an the Sam Browne Belt industry at the age He disregarded the shrns of of sixteen The youth of the new land- cortable, crashed into 2.8

refuge owner augurs a revival of geictics and

Joan titia at this famous house (Continued at foot of scat Column) Daily Mail.

late

to slide down of the front of the fuseNo more fright than ardour." was conla reach the controlsek himself himself, for there in tear on the eyes age. There was one chance if only he his reply, and, apologetic, he removes

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