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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JUNE 28ra. 1918.

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SEAMENS BOYCOTT- PENALTY FOR U-BOAT CRIMES

15.000/ BRITONS MURDERED.

Mr. Havelock Wilson, President of the Seamen and Firemen's Union, has inade a statement on the subject of the serifices of our morcantile murine and the future punishment of the murderers Ic said:

I shall be well within the mark if 1

state that nearly 15,000 British canien have been murdered by. Gorman pirates ince August, 1914. And the pace grows hotter, so far as the loss of life is cun

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DR JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE

IN REAL LIFE. AN EXTRAORDINARY STORY FROM

AMERICA

Jekyll and Mr. Hyds,

AN UNCENSORED LETTER WHAT KARL THINKS BUT HAS NOT WRITTEN.

AMERICA AT WAR

GREAT AIR FLEET"

SPLENDID PROGRESS

THE DAILY TELEGRAPH ́s OWN

CORRESPONDENT.]

VIENNA, May-day, 1818. Recently, in Denver, Col, the climax My dear Sixter After the trouble was written to a chapter in real life | caused by my last letter to you I vowed which, with its romance and tragedy never to write to you again. I inust

New York, May 2nd.. blended into an amazing case of double however, open my heart to someone,

America's early promise to produce personality," is quite as thrilling and and you, at least, understand something and send to France an overwhelming fleet surprising as the famous case of Dr.

of the miserable position in which I aim of aircraft begins at last to show signs placed. As you know, I had no love of fulfilment, and after many weary. months of disappointments and delays, for my arrogant, Jesuit-ridden uncle. Franz Ferdinand, but how often and how the leash at which the great American manufacturers have been straining has bitterly I have regretted bis death | | been severed This is the conviction of suppose that historians will trace the your correspondent, who, with a dozen. beginning of the war to the Serujevo other European Press representatives, has assassination. My quarrel with the been permitted by the United States sin is that he made me a puppet em Government to visit several of the largest peror, the last of the Hapsburg, danglacroplane factories in various parts of ed at the end of a Hohenzollern string. me for banishing your mother to Switzer. tion may be attributed neither to Govoru

[the_country. Whatever delay there has I suppose you are very angry with been up to date in quantity and

produc land. Zita is furious, but what could 1 ment, red-tape nor to the dilatoriness of do? It was quite true that I told you inclciency of the producers, but to ever that the French ought to have Alstee zenious desire on the part of officials to Wilhelma saw red when Clemenceau pul- up to the minute devices. From now Lorraine again. So they ought, but produce a super-acroplane, equipped with lished my letter. A scapegoat Ind to be cowards, however, production will not be found, since the divine right of kings halted while changes are made in the would have been seriously affected if ho plans and specifications. Manufacturers had punished me as he longed to do. So are now being told to regard every plan of the Hannigans." was sent to prison your Tuother was banished. Perhaps it they have as bual, so far as present pro. duction goes, and improvements will bo of the future ne

For many years the police of Denver and other Colorado cifies had been is music. And Melba, McCormack,cerned, for, although there has been abled asd mocked at by a mysterious

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the underworld who Caruso, Farrar, Galli-Curci, Gluck, the Germans are more than ever deter was known to them as "Red Hannigan," Homer and a host of other world-mined that the sailors in the ships they tender of a daring gang of thieves and do manage to sink shall none of them cut throats, known throughouts the Stuto famous artists have chosen the live to tell the damning tale of murder of as the Hannigan_gang." Night-time Victrola to carry their superb act on which cur comrades have been the victims, raids, carried out with the dash and It cannot be too widely known that the spirit of the old time James boys, and Victor records exclusively to all the British sailors are in deadly carest in city robberies, which have nutted, in the world.

their de crmination to apply the punitive aggregats, more than a hundred thou boycott Germany after the war. Les eaud dollars in loot, are laid at the door than a year ago the limit of the boycut of the Hannigans" by the Colorado police. Occasionally a manber of thy was fixed at two years; but the pennity gang was caught. Once in a while one grows with the crime, and at the moment

to have anything to do with the transport of goods to or from Germany is five years and a half. And if there are people at home foolish enough to think that this penalty

will not be exacted to the utter most, can assure them that I have the most positive proof in my possession that the commercial folk in Germany are fiving in no such fools paradiso. They are very uneasy about it, because they know, that we already possess the power and influence to make good our threat, and that public opinion in this country is growing in our favour every day. almost by every post we are enrolling new members in the Merchant Seamen's League, and we have yet to discover a hall that is too large for our meetings in any part of the country

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the period during which we shall decline but none of the gang ever helped this for the best. She will get more to installed in the Yen Ms.

Cat in Switzerland than she bad in the is true that the past year hus pro

develop It

police to trap the elusive lender, “Red Hannigan.”

About all the police really could find out about the gang leader was that one of the prettiest young women of the under-world was supposed to be his wife

or at least his girl.

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They tried to trap him by watching the girl. She boasted that the police would never catch bim

During these same years one of the most popular of the younger couples, in Denver's smartest circles was Mr. and Mrs Ray Daniels Harrigan. The young husband was the scion of one of the oldest Colorado families and appeared to in unusually sucessful in retrieving the family's scattered fortunes. His pretty young wife, who had been a concert prima donna, was the centre of a gay social net. Their palatial home was in the exclusive résidence district. Being close to the Stats Capital, this home wis the serce, almost daily, of luncheon parties, at which Mrs. Harrigan was the hostess and the Governor and other State llicials ter guests. She was often accused by envious friends of establish

ELECTION TEST FOR CANDIDATES, Since the foundation of the league at the Albert Hall last September over 100 meetings have been held in various parts of the country, and members are being drawn from all classes of the community We have over 10,000 members in the leagno already, and the members grows with every fresh outrage committed by our unspeakable foes am quita satisfied that the policy of the boycott will he supported in this country as the only the English custom of brewing punishment to fit the crime, and how any Briton

think otherwise passes ean

iny comprehension. Those candidates for Parliament at the next General Election who do not definitely pledge themselves

MAREAL KING."!

He really did his best to bring about aduced few machines for American use Vienna. Poor old. Czernin has gone, too." decent peace, and the Junkers hated him abroad, but great numbers have been Wilhelm insisted that I should appoint shipped for Allied use, and many thou- Burian in his place. He, of course is sands, for training purposes hore. Despite the more creature of Tisza and Berlin, uncertainties, individual manufacturers. He will do nothing that is not ordered have steadily enlarged their plants, until either by the German Embassy or on the these have reached a point where it is production of all types runs to several aeroplane long-distance phone from his High estimated that the capacity for Mightiness himself.

thousand per month. The great Curtiss I see that you have been staying with acroplane factory, at Buffalo, New York, Alfonso, Wilhelm a very angry with which wo were privileged to inspect him for snabbing the Spanish pro in three months, and is now crowded with covering seventy-two acres, was erected Germans, and he will have to consume a. large slice of humble pis if we ever wingting aircraft of all types and in all the war, which, between you and me, British and American armies and movies.

stages of construction, for use by the devoutly hope we shall not. Give uy love to Albert. He is a real king, even though his kingdom only consists of a few acres How I envy him and you, would give to be with you, and to be who are fighting by his sile! What allowed to play the man and hash the Hohenzollerns!

of

HIVES OF INDUSTRY viewed

The swarming hivos of industry we of the United States, and include ten

their replicas in overy

part

great. Wright Martin factories. At Day- plants of the Curtiss Company and the ton, Ohio, near the spot where the Wright Brothers, the pioneers of the

moderii As it is 1. am off, with the inevitable aeroplane, made their curly fights, we Burian, to a conference with my allies inspected one of ten aliliated Does the term make you smile Wilhelm the Dayton-Wright Aeroplane,

Company politics over the tea table, will storm Old Hindenburg will puff now engaged in quantity production of

Finally, the State police captured the and glower. Ludandruff will glare, and bombing biplane. Here, again, we found long-sought Red Hannigan. The the utterly hateful Wilhelm the Little that vaxatious delays hnd

decurred until gang made a successful early evening (do you remember Zita's caricature of recently owing to the desire to ship no raid in the northern part of the State him) will sneer shall receive my

machines until every succeeding change for vital to vno policy of the league whil have a The police gathered at a bend in the orders, and shall then be sunt liome to Happily. (vement, had been made. poor chance of finding their way to road near Denver along which the motor carry them out if I can. The people well passed, and although it would be period of evolution is now of the tent in every constitueret, and von lid hairs At midnight they for a red

organizing branches car in which the gang had disappeared here, poor devils, are hungry and desandvisable to give figures, it was glad shall De prepared to run candidates heard the car approaching, lights at tion that will give Zita and me a decent against those who do not satisfy us on the rushing at great spied towards the excuse to bolt over the frontier to Swiss score of their sympathy with our objects city ret We are not taking this line because we The ambushing police were certain the given Tino and his force wife many con

Apace and plenty Fats bas certainly want Parliament to do anything for leader of the "Hannigans was in the pensations. We do not want Parliament to interfere car with his men. They decided not to I forgot to tell you about the congress We want this thing to be carried through risk a running fight, which under similar of arebdukes, summoned by Wilhelm, to Replying to the question: How do circumstances always had resulted disas tell me to have Comic uncles and you propose to carry out your policy after trously to the police. This time they met cousins, that I had not seen for years the war without the sanction of Parlia the approaching car with a gudden volley came from their dug-outs in abject terror ment! Mr. Wilton said from half a score of rifles. The officers that they might lose their incomes. I

Easily enough. No man can be com

centred their aim upon the crouching have often read that we Hapsings are pelled to work for any particular firm, gure at the steering wheel. The car decadent lot, but I never dreamt that or buy from any

one shop nor can our swerved into the ditch at the side of the we were as ckcadent as we are. The con members be made to work for firms that road. Its driver tumbled out, dead-andgress was a joy, only it should have been deal with Germany, if they make up their tae cxultant police discovered they had minds not to do so. Our league, as well hagged Red Hounigan himself as well us es our union, is in this businos to the several members of the gang last man. Manters and officers aro with

by the people.

far-fetched handle re to get their

in

the

job,

tion.

ather that the 20 delegates found the young society matron hysteri

Mr. Wilson added tha from the Seamen's Union attending the rocent Scottish Trades Union Congress, after they had stated their case, were the moat nonular mon in. the congress, although at first they had a rather cool reception. The strength of the seamen's case was a surprise to their friends in Scotland, as it had proved to many people in England, who had not bad the least idea of the price that the seamen were paying every day to keep them in safety and comfort at home.

to observe circles of the American Aviation

the red, white, and blue appearing with such frequency.

Your correspondent was gitos every Particolo test the efficiency of this type by being the first of the visiting journalists to make a flight in one, and to endure all the thrills of the Orville Wright witnessed our flights, and air ranging from a loop to a tail spia, later, in the course of conversation, it

was

mange They sing the song and prac biso the sentiment of Keep the home- res burning The spirit of co-ordina tion now happily existing between the war workers and their employers

is.

The

unasiming gooius of the air was still refreshing to learn that this quiet, devoting his alert mind and highly technical knowledge to aerial problems.

In all the factories which we visited we met with an intensely patriotic spirit held in a lunatic asylum, animating every one of the thousands of

Well, my dear Sixte, there we are. My own opinion is that Rusin will still After the Coroner's formalities had prove a horrible nuisanet. The French in hearty unanimity, and it would be teen completed, the beds of the dead and English are giving as good as they interesting to know where the owners gang loader way claimed by the under reotive. Even your Belgians are kill even if they wished to do so, which is a world girl and taken by her to a shacking Germans. My ramshackle empire rapidly extending to the manufacturers senamen from fo

stuff in any

on the outskirts of the city, which had (which, by the way, A never wanted) is and Government officials, and all predica connected with Germany, pecing that watched by the police word or closed us hope is that the inevitable end will Reports from the shipyards indicate

bern their home when not too closely evidently crumbling to pieces, audythe near future

tions regarding America'e aerial fect of there is not a man servies who will

are justifiably But befors the underworld girl had come quickly. I am sick and weary of that the construction for be a party to such work. For the work

constituencies we have some red Red Hannigan, a message the whole-iness. Only do want to April warrants the assumption that there month of * rattling good hustlers already on the from the young Mrs. Harrigar was de-watch the last ect. If I can live to will be a minimum of

and We have the money toy build

livered to Colorado's Governor common see Wilhelm and his beastly son beaten weight of ships completed this year of 3,000,000 tone dead efficient aggrossive organizader of the State police, asking him, to and humiliated I shall die happy-Your During the twenty-six working days of A come to her home quickly. The Governor affectionate brother-in-law-KAL. April an average of 9,000 tons per day

was constructed, calRed" Hannigan, was, she told

and much

uch greater totals monthly are expected henceforth. Since the Governor, her husband, Ray Daniels Harrigan, the Governor's friend! She whenever the police were close on his of the

Whenever Red

my visit to the shipyards last month was in trouble, great progress has been recorded in most wanted his body brought home. She had trail, he always came to me, the under not known about the other woman the world girl said to the authorities. Hegressive scale proportionate to

put should tents, and the monthly out underworld girl.

now be on a continually pro- tho always knew he could trust me more than immense work of preparation. Incident When the authorities at the bidding of any one else I never asked him to ally, efforts to secure efficiency between the Governor, went to reclaim the body account for the times he was away from the railways and ports of embarkation, of the gangster society man, they found

motley gathering of the foremost charwoman in his life, but he need not have at both ends, are being made ncters of the State's underworld. Men feared to tell me I loved him and perfection in this matter, and the ef me. I never suspected there was another so as to save wastage in cars and delays and women, some of whom seldom left would have been loyal still. I liked biciency of this line is the ideal placed Canadian Pacific Railway bps attained their hiding places in the day time, had because he was good to me and never before American transportation authori gone boldly to pay their last respects to afraid of anything the bold and widely feared Red

ties Hannigan. The two women met for the first time Around the cheap caket they crowded in Loyola Chapel, Denver's most fashion. at the funeral services, which were held In the House of Commons, recently Mr. to wisper gloatingly of the dead gang-abla church. The girl of the underworld Macpherson, answering Mr. Shirley Benn, eader's many exploits, of his long was invited to be present by a messager LORD DESBOROUGH'S WARNING. who called his attention to the fact that unity from the law. The girl who scat by the widow herself. The messen- at Bournemouth two English women with had been his companion fought desperger was the city's Chief of Police, who first class tickets were turned out of a ately when she was told there was another delivered also a message for himself a meeting of the London Chamber of Lord Desborough, presiding at the au- first class railway compartment and nut woman who had a better claim to him. into a third-class compartment in order Colorado's officer, of the law, in their the church that morning would be that after the war the same facilities that she might send out the word that Commerce said that one could only hope to permit of German officers under cecort surprise and sympathy for the young subetuary for all the former companions of alien enemies into the heart of our in- occupying the first-class carriage, and widow, offered to keep the secret to even of "Red" Hannigan who might wish dustries, with the sinister purpose which would not be given for the penetration asked whether instructions would be given invent an explanation of the popular to attend. The police, he said, would had become manifest since the war. that in the future no Englishwoman was young business man's death, Mrs. promise immunity to all of them for There should be very severe control as to be turned out of her seat to make root Harrigan refused to agree to such a plan. that cecasion de regt for any German, and that if there was Ray would want all his friends, the no empty first-class carriage available bad as well as the good, to hear his through the State the mambers of the as the lowest, as

When the Chief's promise spread

regards the

ding of German officers would be carried in any funeral services. They must all have gang hurried in to Denver. Crooks who United States had

Britain, compartament regardless of claes, said: the right to come," said Mr. Harrigan, carried a price on their beads were ful to the staff of the German Embassies The answer to the last inf the tion is in the affirmative part of the quest Though he were the most dangerous among them At the church they were for all that they did before the war

Colonel Burn asked why an Eng

Outlaw in all the country," the young ushered to seats reserved for them on fish commercial traveller was recently her own, he was still my husband. Heavily veiled, was given a seat close ing supplies and increasing pricos Mer wife said to her husband friends and one side of the main aisle. The girl, State control had not the effect of reduc It had still to be proved that, as a rule, turned out of a brattles could make no difference whether I knew to the hier, within few feet of the chants were in fair way of being ing compartiment at a station land Railway i

to znake

Toont for 'n party of his life as Mr. Hyde or not; his hap-widow across the aisle.ethods of State control employed, eliminated altogether owing to the piness was in my hands and my loyalty On the other side of the church were Many had been driven out of business. was given him without reserve and got minent citizens of Denver, including the

had been made to the Parliamentary Secretary, measured by either his faults or his members of the city's most exclusive

they wean hon.

GERMAN OFFICERS AND RAILWAY TRAVELLERS.

mok

by

of German officer prisoners, and that his "one of the station officials Board of

GERMAN

JENETRATION.

Germans in Great to the highest as well neither we nor the any reason to be grate

Egage was thrown out on the platform to him was a husband's right, My love more than a thousand of the most pro Router direct and th

Prime

Wade-If the l and gallant virtues. The greatest, blow, of course, clubs, its bankers, capitalists and State Waiting his trade after the war Was member will let me know when and where the existenes of the other woman-the and city officials. With these were their in the hands of the consumer. He hoped the incident to which he refers took place one who shared his other life, from wives and daughters who had been the that when somebody was tempted to hur

The question of will inquire into the circumstances Colonel Burn Why should these 10 have forgiven him for in his life with couple. The service was read by a on account of its cheapness he or sho which I was banished. But even this. I society friends of the poular young an article which was made in Germany human Huns be put into first-class com partments when our own people have often

Catholic priest designated by the Bishop would pause, and think that it was dyed to travel in cattle trucks (Hear, hear.)

I know he loved me.”

(Continued at foot of next Column.)

of the diocese,

with the blood of our bravest and best.