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DRUNK AND DISORDERLY BEHAVIOUR,
An Indian, pleaded guilty to being drunk and disorderly on Sunday at Nathan Road,
Inspector Gordon stated that defend- ant, who was an ex worder of the guol,, trata a grant, nuisance. He had been sum- moned several times before for a similar offence. Whear found in Nathan Road, defendant's clothing CENTRAL TO
*was disarranged, and he struggled with the Indian co stable who arrested him,
Mr. Dyer Ball administered a severe
U warning, and fined defendant $5, with this alternative of ten days' hard labour.
FIGHTING.
Eleven coolies were charged with Igting at Kowloon City on Saturday.
Mr. King, ASP, stated that when he was standing near the pier he heard a comumotion and, going to the spot, he saw the defendants fighting with bamboos, etc. The fight was stoped and the men were arrested. The fight was the result of a stono falling in a trench where some men were working There has been fre quent quarrels before, and, if allowed to continue, something serious would be
Bure to occur.
Mr. Dyer Rall bound defendants over in bonds of $50 each to be of good be haviour for six months,
MISSING BICE
Chinese was charged, on remand, with stealing 455 lbs. of rice the property of the Tong Seng Co.
Mr. J. H. Gardiner appeared for the Company, and Me, P. Goldring for the
defendant
At a previous bearing it was stated that a quantity of loose rice was dis covered conscaled in the servants quar tors of the junk, which lay alongside a Japanese steamer. The bags of rice were weighed and were found to be short of 800 lbs.
The Junkmaster stated that as a result of the bursting of some bags, the rice was spilt in his boat. He ordered his fokis to sweep aside the loose rice with the inten-
tion of returning it to the owner.
Mr. J. R. Wood believed defendant's story and discharged him, suggesting that a regulation should be made imposing a penalty on junkmasters whenever cargo was found in any other place but that allotted for the cargo,
FICKING ANOTHER MAN'S POCKET
of another Chinese.
The complainant, dealer in furs, said he was walking along Queen's Road West on Saturday when defendant came up: to him and speaked the purse from his pocket. The act was noticed by witness companion, who immediately arrested the
THE BOLSHEVIKS CREED.
WILD MESSAGE TO ALLIED NAVAL MEN
The Bolshevik organ The Red Flag has published the following extraordinary appeal to the men on a British and Ame rican warship at Vladivostock ----
Comrades and fellow workers.
LEST WE FORGET
THE TREATMENT OF GERMANS APTER THE WAR
[CONTRIBUTED,1
It is almost incredible that there should still be persons of British national- ity who are prepared, at the conclusión of the war, to have dealings with Ger-
We are asking you to forget for a moment that you are sailors and soldiers,s, not merely in business, but on holystoning the deck, polishing braas,terms of friendship. Yet such persons do, and maneuvring guns against a race cxist; and, this, notwithstanding the con which at the bottom of your hearts your clusive proofs with which we have been do not bate. Be men with all the cle- furnished of the utter parfidy of the Ger.. ments of humanity, men of -sympathy, man race, the indescribable horrors per- of emotion, of love, hate, laughter and patrated by the fends if human shaps of sadness! You are men whose hands are all ranks in the German Navy and Army.. hardened with toil, and sons of labour. and the connivanse at in fact, the deli Let us talk things over together.
berato stirring up of such horrors by "Doubtless you remember the un- those in Ruthority over the perpetrators. hoppy day when you donned the uni As we any, the acts of the fiends are, form. You were struggling for life any of them, indescribable. It is only necessary to read Lord Bryce's report, and the two publications of Mr. Toynbee
**You recall the days when you sought for work, very often in vain-and when you found it what miserable work it was! You Tenember the master of slaves, known as “the foreman?" who practical- ly dominated your existence, at the machine, in the mine or in the building yards, and you will remember when con ditions became insupportable and you went on strike! Your masters gave you bullets instead of bettering your lot, and you remember what were your feelings
them
“Do you recall, how, defeated by force, but too proud to return to your work you joined the navy
You certainly remember all these thing
The German Terror in Belgium, and. The German Torror in Franceta
soldier a savage in an instilt to the most
realise the fact fast to term the German uncivilized numan being who has over existed. What men or u savage tribu would, betere carrying out their inten
on to murder der, une atter the other Violète a giri caud or tender years ( "This is by no means the worst us, rae crimes. committed by these beasts; encouraged,
and ussisted, by tacir ofheets,, with the aumitted View of pursuing polley of
frigottuiness. nat which reads like impious olaspneniy out the part of the Kalder, and German pustors, when he and they offer praises to God for aiding the
ormans in the massacre of innocents, is very possibly the explanation the od they thaug, and call upon for further
Now you are in the navy far from your homes and those you love, but do you know that your comrades are living the same life as you lived, but with more stanice, is not the God We know but bitterness 1 Do you know that since the the one who took our Lord up the an dear old United States entered the war cecaing nign davuntain, ana showed there have been more than 3,000 strikes, dim, all the singuons of the world, and accompanied by all the horrors that the glory of them; and said unto rien,
Do you know All these things will I give thee if thouy always attend strices? that we, the Russian revolutionaries, are wilt fall down and worsat me... It is fighting to rid ourselves of these horrors this temptation to which the German destined rulers and people succumbed, and this is and that you are the to destroy Meally the Gerino god we hear so much "Think of it then. Yes, you men about the cloven-hoofed god who has of toil hardened hands, sons of labour implanted in e ainds of the German Fare here to help in fighting the social people the iden tant they will be serving, and economio strike in which we cho nim best by committing every atrocity in- Russian working and pensant classes, are aginable; by exterminating, or crusning, engaged. We are fighting heroically and those who do not serve the some god, are making great sacrifices in order to regardless of age of sex, and thus masing rounded by soldiers from all parts The would thenceforth be ruled by that Ger- ensure success. We are nevertheless themselves masters of the world, which bloody German soldier is crushing us in man god. But, just as Germany regarded the West, and you men just as we her solemn Treaty merely as a scrap of
paper so no more relance can be placed,
in spite of yourselves will have to strike at us in tho
not find
East Probably Do you know that if we are beaten on this offer of the devil, to give the here you in your turn will be beaten world to Germans provided that we con down when
your own tinue to show the same determination as return to you
did our Lord, and say, as the Germans countries in your
employment, but have not said = ' Get thee bence, Satan”. poverty,
misery strikes desired now is to impress upon British and This is, however, digressing. What is On the other hand, if we attain the people the necessity for holding as little. deathunger object for which we fight that is to say intercourse as possible with hersons of an order of things which will allow every German nationality, affer the conclusion. than to receive the full fruits of his of the war until they have given proof labour which will ensure that he who that the devils with which they are ati present possessed have been cast out. It
does not work shall not eat, so been said that, if we so resolve, our
Suppress
the parasites known ployers, the vultures known as
A Chinese was charged with picking a purse, containing 200,10, from the pocketers and speculators and the lick Commerce is likely to suffer This is spittles called bureaucratsight and the case, how much better should we be place of exceedingly doubtful, but, even were such all these there will love, happiness, and when you return to your than profiteers-scoundrels who make a homes you will find the same state of frost out of the murder of their country things, to effect which measures are in ten and relatives-if we treated these train here. For men this revolution has people as before, and thus condoned become infectious and is spreading their offences By so doing we should through the whold world.
qursnives become accessories after the fact. to the murders and other crimes com- hitted by them. It is true that our Lord preached forgiveness of sins, but the sins. He referred to were sing against man, against individuate – and truly re pented of not against the world, Christianity, civilisation, and hu
man.
Defendant said he was a new arrival in the Colony While going along the rond he accidentally trod on complain- ant's foot, as a result of which complain- ans and another man assaulted him He ran away, but was stopped by a constable, who ́arrested him. The complainant accused him out of spite...
Inspector Macdonald said defendant was one of many undesirables who were over-running the Colony.
Mr. JR. Wood sentenced defendant to six months' hard labour and four hours
atooks
LORD RUSEBERY ON PRUSSIAN HYPOCRISY
“It is for this reason, comrades, that it will be high treason to your cause and to ours, as workers, to fire a single shot at us even if priests bless your dynamite!
Do not be traitors"
STAMP COLLECTION WORTH manity in general, for He said:
£15.000.
PRESENTED TO A SYDNEY LIBRARY,
Whosoever speaketh a word against, the son of man it shall be forgiven him, but whosoever speaketh against the Holy. Ghost it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, nor in the world New South Wales stamps have always this is that crimes committed in the name to come What, clearly, He meant by been considered amongst the principal stamps of the world because the dies used of the Holy Ghost, and in respect of in printing them in the early days were up to God could not be forgiven. It is which blasphetuous praises were offered all engraved locally on copper. The nut, therefore, for us to forgive, and to work was done by bfr, W. Wilson, and hold intercourse with any person of fier, culi die was engraved separately, there
being then no means of reproduction man nationality after the war, unless and Consequently, when the copper plates until certain beyond all doubt that he containing 33 dies came from, the as not, wilfully, been one of the blas engraver's bands there were slight varia Phemers and criminals whom we have tions on each which the expert could been practically commanded to condemn. detect-bere a cloud omitted, there a full-
point. The greatest interest consisted in Addressing a large gathering in Bo'ness getting these 25 together and making of FIRST SEA LORD ON THE WORK OF (Linlithgowshire) Town Hall, on the oc- them a special collection. This has been d
THE NAVY casion of the presentation of a sword of done by lr HL. White of Bell-trees" honour to Captain Henry Strachan, station, Secne, and they have been Admiral Sir Rosslyn Erskine Wemyss Fort Garry Horse, who was awarded the included in a collection valued at £15,000, the new First Ben Lord, was the guest Victoria Cross for his daring leadership which has been recently handed over as of honour, recently at a dinner given of cavalry at the break through at Cam- a free gift to the Mitchell Library by members of the Eccentric Club in aid
gift to the i brai, Lord Rosebery said this war was Bydney of the Harwich and other Minesweepers the reaction of the world against a most New South Wales was the first country (Widows, and Orphans) Benevolent Fund insufferable, military, conspiracy against in the world to adopt the pre-paid post
Rusyn Wemyss, the plates tomar Bushir eyes, responding to the
been calculated and prepared by a country in Australia were in use for 50 years, life membership of the club, said. I can which had the insolence, at the inception In 1838 there was a controversy assure you thất we in the Navy we all
we know what.
of the war, to boast of being the apostle in England with regard to postage feel our Fe who protect
on us and, as the
of peace. If there was one thing more reform, and, acting on reports forwarded this war has terrible in the operations of this war to Australia, the then Postmaster-Cien chairman bas than another it was the hideous hypocrisy feral Mr James Haymond, in 1858 the shores don't know whether we do shown by Prussia, under the guise of instituted pre-payment by the issue of it well, or do it so wall as we could wish peace, in undermining the whole wil of embossed wrappers or covers at lid, esch, but of one thing I can assure you, that Europe with its preparations for war. or 1 3d. per: dozen, and Mr. White we all feel our responsibility; we all ty While Britons were true to themselves secured specimens of these rarities. In to play up to the traditions of the meri, there was no fear of the result of the the new departure Great Britain followed who have gone before us, and if we can war, in spite of the defection of Russia, suit in 1840 Stamps, as now used were in any way insure and we can the which had proved false to the calls of issued in Australia in June, 1850, the hell indeed, have done our duty. ⠀
approbation of our fellow-e eitizens, then honour, although i had so large a part values being ld, 24 and 3d. There are have come to a position which I never in the inception of the struggle. But we or 20 copies of these, unmect in the would perpevere to the ends we would strain our last nerve and give our last man, and our last sovereign, if necessary to carry this tremendous conflict of nations to a sticcessful lasko, vajus *re“ Dogged dow it. Lord Rosebery, con- cluded, and wo shall be dogged"
collection, and each is worth from 200 to pected to come to. In the days of one youth one never thought of it, but 2100 There is a 3d Laureate, extremely when one does come to it on, cannot help rare and worth anything up to £200, and festing a sense of responsibility in doing a 2d. Diadem, of which there are only so, and I can assure you that sense of two copies known to be in existence, and responsibility is considerably lightençik al conservative value, of one of which when one has the sympathy of one's Tel- would be £100
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