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HONGKONG CRIMINAL

SESSIONS.

ROBBERY WITH VIOLENCE.

One of two Chinese who were charged with robbery with violence in the New Territory was discharged, but the other. was found

guilty

This was an echo of a robbery with violence case which was heard at the previous Criminal Sessions.

Addressing the prisoner who was found guilty, the Chief Justice said that a number of conspirators in the crime were sentenced at the last Cringnal Seasiena. He would not sentence the present pri soner to such a long term of imprison- ment as he had inflicted on the other mon because he (the Chief Justice) was going to impose corporal punishment which would make the prisoner feel emo of the misery he had inflicted on others. He would be sentenced to eight years hard labour, and receive fourteen strokes. with the "ent."//

CANDID PRISONER.

When a Chinese who had seventeen. previous convictions was charged with the theft of clothing at Yuumati, the Chief Justice reminded him that he lad quite recently been before the Court for a similar offence.

To this the prisoner replied that he had been in gaol so many times that he was at a loss to know what to do fur a living except steal.

He was sentenced to twelve months' faced labour.

FALSE MONEY

Thu case was not concluded in which a Chinese was charged with having in his possession 202 counterfeit Hongkong ten cent pieces, and nine counterfeit Hong- kong silver dollars, with intent to utter the same.

The man was apprehended by a bucking in Third Street, and a basket which he was carrying was found to contain the

bad coin, it being mixed up with good

money.

The man's excuse was that he was not aware that the money was bad, and that it had been given him to take to Canton to be melted down.

The Crown contend that the fact that

SPORT.

-LAWN TENNIS

U.S.R.C. VANGUARD.

"HÒNGKONG TENNIS LEAGUE

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JUNE 19r8, 1317,

In the Hongkong Tennis Leage, the U.S.R.C played Vanguard on Saturday on the Urajgengower Ground, Happy Valley, with the following result:--

Vanguard U.S.R.C.

Score.

Lu and Lo:-

lost to Milner-Jones and Kenta lost to Cooper Hunt

and Hammond Jost to Crisp and

King Grose and Lanley--

lost to Milner-Jones

and Kent

Just to Cooper-Hunt

und Hammond lost to Crisp and

Ah Lo and Le

King

Just to Milter-Jones

and Kent A lost to Cooper-Hunt.

and Hammond. lost to Crisp and

King

Totul

Score.

37

02.

The US. R. Care how + 10 points,

LADIES RECREATION CLUB +.

UNIVERSITY: “B

Scores:-

ERC,

THE GILBERT REID LIBEL

CASE.

APOLOGY ACCEPTED.

Bofore the Hon. C. B. Lobingier in the United States Court Shanghai, on June

DR DERNBURG'S PLAIN

SPEAKING.

DEMANDS TO KNOW PEACE TERMS.

DrDeraburg delivered an important 12th the hearing of the charge of seditious apesch recently at Breslau before a meet- libel against Dr. Gilbert Reid was coming of the German Progressive People's tinned.

Party, and it as doubtless a bid for leadership of the Liberal parties, weing that Hasserman is hesitating on the ques- tion of reforın,

At the provious day's hearing fr. Reid had read the following statement

With the leave of your Honuur. I wish to submit here in open Court the Following:

The more we give of ourselves to the State, he declared, the stronger is our

"I do not occupy a pleasant position, feeling in favour of personal right and

INTIMATIONS

LANE,

CRAWFORD & Co.

(ESSAAZISHED 1810).

"WHITE

(TELEPHONE 1741).

FROST"

and I believe your Honour will appre personal tresthom. The more the State SANITARY REFRIGERATORS

ciats the feelings. I must have when stand in Court charged with libelling the President of my country and its accre dited representative to the Government of Chini. It will be apparent to your Honour that the general public. Chinese and foreign, holds the one thus charged in a light far from complimentary, even before trial, and particularly in times of War V

stands.

fills our lives the more must we take part

in the settling of its destiny and in the determination of the direction in which

CONSTRUCTED OF HEAVY SHEET - METAL.

1 gors, and all the more must we prevent WILL KEEP FOOD it from unjustly concerning itself with matters of our belief, our customs, our freedom, and all the more determinedly us was demand that where all give the same and the utmost, political injustice, social inequality and out-of-date castes bo thrown overboard as quickly as possible. The naw Germany is here and requires its honse. Let us build it. Do not let us delay,"

He went on to say some straight things Chanceller should outline them clearly, about war aims, He demanded that the and declared it would have been better if a concrete answer had been given to President Wilson's question about Ger man war aims. If that had been done then things would have been much farther There is so sense in the discussion

of war aims without definite premises," he continued. We shall not reach perman- ent peace if we keep ourselves and, our Allies in that isolation which the war has brou at us to and into which, indeed, we had fallen before the war, unknown even to those whose duty it was to have known

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COATED WITH

WHITE ENAMEL

FITTED WITH

REVOLVING

SHELVES.

MOUNTED ON

ROLLER BEARING

CASTORS.

REFRIGERATOR S

IMPERVIOUS TO WHITE ANTS.

What I wish to say, and I say it with all sincerity, that I have never experienced a feeling of disloyalty to my country, and I do here in open Court unhesitatingly profess my loyalty and devation to my country, to its great con- stitution, and to the high ideals for Played on L.R.C. Ground on Saturday which our Republic has stood and still

UNIVERSITY. ** £** TEAM,

I shall be Trank in stating to your Martin

Unit Honour that it has never been my inten- Woon 1:12 0. Trama ya

Wright Ang Πήρ aitytion to libel, injure, or defame either Bevington &

Winkler lost 4-7 best 0-5 beat 7:17 16 the President or his chief diplomatic Sooters

officer in China, or to attempt to expose ic Morse....bent 11.0,, * 7-4 11-0 20 Vermey &

either of them to public hatred, ridicule. We ought to recognize that we are ARE CONSTRUCTED WITH NON-DESTRUCTIBLE MATERIAL. Jonckheer', 0-2 lost 2.0 63 19 14 or contempt. But if, in expressing, my-cated our people politically. We have seriously to blame for not having edu

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self or current events, in the hurry of with particular self-contentment troubled 16-18 26-7 65" 31

an editorial room, I appear to have ourselves little as to what foreign coun LR.C. won by 63 games to 34.

tries thought of us. When we did what stepped beyond the bounds of propriety, we thought right, then we were satisfied. CLUB DE RECREO 6. Y.MIC,A,

I express my honest regret and desire

What others thought of it left us that what has been written may not be in standing on guard in shining armour indifferent. We have delighted ourselves HONGKONG TENNIS LEAGUE-DIV.

construed to possess any offensive mean in Central Europe, and we have in a ing and I, as Editor of the Poking fateful hear act ourselves against the .M.CA Post will be most glad to refrain from general tendencies of a world that desired Scores-its officials, which may be contrary either peace tendencies which aimed at erecting to the spirit of our laws or to the pur arbitration and unions of peoples het ween buffers of mutual agreements, courts of 110 pose of any special legislation as may be political differences and, the loosening of enacted during the period of the war the world war which was certain to arise 9-91 may be allowed to explain, that my out of the system of ententes and coali- aim as an editor has always been and 18tions Even when we believed that such 3 carefully to avoid writing anything, de

famatory of any one's reputation or movements were not disinterested and 3 impugning any one's motives, I have without arriere pensée we should not have

aimed to criticize policies rather than them shortly and sharply.

Day Nothing, he said in conclusion, had

The Club de Recreio beat the on Saturday by 83 games to 10.

Yvanovich and Fina bent Moosdoen

and Cho

Yvanovich and Pina bent Turner

and Chan

Yvanovitch and Pioa bent Moller

and Chow

Lopes Bros beat Moosdeen and Choi.11-0 Lopes Bros bent Tarner and Chan Lopes Bros best Moller and Chow

criticism of the American Government or

good money was mixed with bad showed Yvanovich and Marques beat Moos men desire that the words which made such a great impression abroad as

intent to utter.

HONGKONG MAGISTRACY

**WAR-LIKE GOODS."

A Chinese was charged with attempting

to export 4lbs, "of calcium carbide,

It was sinted by Inspector Kunt that the export of the stuff was prohibited, it being classed as war-like goods."

A Boe of 86 was inposed. ALLEGED UNLAWFUL POSSESSION,

MISSING SILK.

deen and tho

Yvanovich and Marques beat

Turner and Chun Ivanovich and Marques besit.

Moller and Chów

is my

I have used, as quoted in the informs the belief that Germany was the enemy bitions, shall be blotted out in so far as of freedom. Another belief had had the they may possibly be construed as same effect, and that was that in Prussis libellous reflexion upon my Government one could not believe what ono wished to or the officials to whom reference has and that therefore the prople had re- 93-18 been made, and I renew through thisnounced influence in the State, which was

Court durances of respect to them and of devotion to my Government at this and all times.

NEW RUSSIA.

MR. HALL CAINE'S WARNING.

The following is extracted from an article contributed by Mr. Hall Caine, the famous novelist, in response to an appeal from a Provisional Committee of the Duma:

Major CP Holcomb, District At torney, appeared for the proaccution, and Dr. Hua-chuen Mei for Dr. Reid.

Dar unnoticed,

the interest and work of all.

The speaker pointed out emphatically that it was very foolish to reject such beliefs as having nothing to do with Prussia's internal affairs,

Everything," said Dernberg

"that" fords foreign desire to destroy us is important and ought to be considered. Only too long Germans and Frussi the have been the object and not the subject of lawmaking and not the subject

FRENCH SOIL FREE OF

GERMANS

NECESSARY REORGANIZATION

FOLLOWS.

Two months have elapsed since the

The District Attorney said: It ap pears from the statement that the accused regrets making the publications on which the charges of lib are based, he further Promises to refrain from criticizing the Mr. Lea d'Almada appeared to defend

American Government or officials in the from the people hampered our domestic "Only too long has a certain aloofness inese who was charged with being

future. This is to be taken at its luce policy. Only too long have we inwardly a Chinese

And now what wonder if in their value, and morally and theoretically he and outwardly been an unpolitical people in unlawful possession of 8100, and also new found liberty, as soon as they have bas purged himself of the charges filed and allowed antiquated State fortas to with offering a bribe of $20.

realised it, they should come to think against him. Under our laws great lord it over us. We must begin reformis The defendant pleaded not guilty, statthat war has been the sole expression of menting on governmental affairs, officialsWhen we have a better franchise

latitude is given the newspapers in ron with ourselves their calamities and thraldoms? What and their acts, and articles published systems we can work together, but if wo ing that the money was his own.

wonder if they should come to believe that A remand was applied for and granted, the present war, like all wars that have during normal times, though illegal, may wish to parliamentary government we gone before it, has been made by kings in a state of war, articles of the ente If we desire fra dom inwardly and out- bail being fixed at $500,

, but when the country is must develop the necessary strength for it. Laars, statesmen and diplomatists for kind do, and it is properly so, merit and wardly, then we must be upright and their own selfah ends, and for purposes receive the attention of the prosecuting honourable man, looking more in front of in which the people of Europe have no officers of the Government, especially is then above us." -Dasly Chianca When charged with the theft of six pert? What wonder, too, if a new spirit under conditions existing in this juris- of brotherhood has been born to the diction. I wish to state that if the yards of silk, entrusted to him to make a Russian democracy out of the fires of accused renew his attacks on the Ameri garment, a Chinese master tailor, girevolution, and they have persuaded can Government or its officials the In Queen's Road Central, stated that he went themselves that they have only to join formations will be re-filed ag trial on to Cantor and upon his return he found hands with the democracy of their enemy then has not been comuneaced

countries to put an end to war altogether? Dr. Mei said it appeared to him that that his jokia had decamped with all his But therein lies a frightful dangor, War the manner in which the District Attor goods.

may indeed end, and the long martyrstamus, had withdrawn the charges scented Detective Sergt. Cockle remarked that of man may cease, when the democracies, to leave an ax suspended over. Dr. of all countries have attained to an equal lead's head, that would restrict his the man had been given ample oppor supremacy. But that day has not yet rated States to criticize the acts of the Germans were forced to abandon the

liberty of action as a citizen of othe tunity to make good the lose, but had not dawned, and it will not dawn first upon done so..

French territory that they laid waste be- Germany. The democracy of Germany is Government in a lawful manner not a pacifist democracy. It is a fighting The District Attorney replied that if fore retreating. It has been necessary to democracy. It is a democracy in slavery vious day he had nothing to fear, but reorganize theas regions completely, as Dr. Boid meant what he said the pre to the nation, its expansion and pro if he did not mean what he said he had part of the population that has not been sperity can only be carved out by the sword. It is a democracy that has been to for this that the Government would carried away by the enemy, that is to say, the old men and women and children constrained or converted to the damnable Prosecute him. B

Dr. Mei, Dr. Reid stan & by his were in the moet, pitiable plight. For doctrine that war builds up the power statement in foto, ten two months, at the task of material and and glory of a people. Therefore let the. The Judge said that the only matter moral rescue, the administration and the democracy of Russia beware of the demo- before the Court was the motions, which military authorities have worked in cluse cracy of Germany. Let it be warned that were notions to dismiss, and which harmony. By repairing roads and setting there is an everlasting antagonism be would be ruled on. That would dispose in order again all that could still be tween the spirit of true democracy and of the present prosecution. As to any utilized, the aspect of the devastated Now regulations with regard to British the doctrine of the sword. Let it listen further prosecution that arose, that slipping have been made under the to no pious phrases out of the vocabulary rested with the prosecuting official country has been much modified. In the Defence of the Realm Act. From June of German diplomacy, lest the Russing The following ruling on the motions has much progressed. Civil Intercourse same way the morale of the inhabitants Int fit is not lawful for the owner of a nocracy should be betrayed as the was handed down later more general and commerce British ship to employ in any neutral German demoersey has been betrayed In each of the causes the District has begut, and the agricultural and State As manager, broker, or agent any betrayed by a system in which brazen Attorney moves the Court to enter

40 person who is of enemy nationality, or necessity is the only goddess worshipped, nolle prosequs to the Information

economic life of the country begins to who, being a corporation or company, is in which justice becomes brutality, and for the following reasons, to wit that show itself again. The agricultural situa the Shipping Controller have been given under enemy control. The Admiralty or the concept of an end auto public interests will best be served by tion is considerah improved owing to power to direct that any British ship shall completely lost. Let it remember who it not prosecuting the case to a farther the arrival of gram, which has made it possible to sow a great part of the already forthwith be and shall continits to be was that said Germany had been forced determination at this time."

ploughed land. Effects of the army have equipped with such apparatus as may be into the war by the Russian mobilisation

head in constant request and a more com specified in the, directions for securing at the end of July, 1914, and by the the safety of the ship, and that the crew Russian mobilisation at the end of July,

siderable number of horses and teamma "Now," said the bridegroom to the have been placed at the disposal of of the ship shall be properly instructed 1814, and by the threat of the Muscovite bride, when they returned from their farmers. The arrival of motor tractors in the use of euch apparatus. Failure to barbarity that was to overthrow the honeymoon trip, let us have a clear will increase the output already obtained, carry out such a direction may lead to civilisation of Europe Thank God, the understanding before we settle down to and even if all the ploughed land cannot seizure and detention of a ship. The mighty Samson of Russian democracy has married life. Are you the prendent or be used for the next harvest because of Board of Trade is empowered to authoris broken free from the cards with which the the vice-president of the society

the advanced season, it will be prepared the charging of harbour or dock dues, friends of the harlot bound him, But let I want to be neither president. nor in readiness for next years harvest. excess of the statutory maxun in cases Hussin look tout that they do not succeed vice-president." she answered "I will Every garden in the territory, except where, owing to circumstances arising in the effort they are now making, by the be content wit out of the war, such a course is necessary seductions of a pretended friendship, to

a subordinate position." some rare exceptions, where labour was for the carrying on of the undertaking.

hat position is that, my dear ? ". Dut out his eyes and blind him”;

entirely lacking, has been dug up and 44reauber

planted

Mr. Dyer Ball decided to allow the man a day in which to make good the loss If this is not done by to day he will be sent to prison.

NEW REGULATIONS WITH REGARD TO BRITISH SHIPPING

THERE IS NOT ONE PARTICLE OF WOOD USED IN

THEIR CONSTRUCTION, THEREFORE THERE IS NOTHING TO

WARP, SWELL, DECAT OR BECOME MOULDY.

DRINK

“BULL DOG ”

LAGER BEER. SUPERIOR TO ANY GERMAN LADER REER EVER BREWED.

BRITISH THROUGHOUT.

Browed in Great Britain.

OBTAINABLE AT

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Sincere Co., Ltd.

Sau Co., Ltd.

Cheong Tai.

Nam Hing Loong-

Ty Sing

Đang Tải

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Obtainable in Canton from

SINCE CO., LTD.

Blocked by

Tar HONGKONG HOTEL

Bottled by British Labour.

PRICES DUTY PAID.

QUARTS $20.00 per case

of 4 dozen.

85.10 per Dosen.

PINTS 825.60 per case

of 8 doson.

or 83.40 per dozen.

Admitted to be the Best

Lager Beer brewed.

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