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The remarkable fact is that, despite the unparalleled incentive offered to exports, and the fighty specialised training which they possess, there have not been any new discoveries of any moment in connection with explosives during recent years. The nations now
SIR, In common with your corres at war all um practically the same expondent Wireless" and I believe, the plosives. It is, perhaps, disappointing majority of the public in Hongkong, 1, to us that after four years of warfare also, would like to know, bow much we have been unable to hamper seriously longer the Government is going to dilly. the supply of explosivos to the armies dally before taking drastic steps to put of the Central Powers, but it is as well to recognise the truth, however, unpalat ful and scandalous state of affairs which an end, once and for all, to the disgrace able it may be. No nation is ahead of Las been prevailing in the Colony for the others in the possession of superior some tinio past.
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on A small quantity mixed with either intensified researches now being con- ducted all over the world, but experts are not very sanguine, for they realise The power which is needed depends much more upon heat than upon gas, and it has been found by delightfully refreshing Summer practical experiengo that high tempera. tures" produto cxcessive erosion of the rifling of the weapons in which they are generated. What the chemists really hope to discover at no very distant date is something better than T.N.T. for shell-filling, for that most important of all of the shell high explosives has only about one-half of the shattering power of blasting gelatine. If only a new compound, equal in power to the latter and as safe to the user na TNT," could be discovered by the Allies, they would score very definitely. For it must be remembered that the explosive used for filling whelly must possess special qualities not essential in those used in herbs. The difficult problem of the shell is the detonation.
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MODERN GUNS AND EXPLOSIVES.
Is it not sufficient that five Europeans. have been foully murdered within the last six months or sol
Is it not sufficient that armed robberies are taking place, so frequently?
What more do the officials (or the offi cial) responsible require before arousing themselves from their torpor,
CHINESE TELEGRAMS.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENOT.] GERMAN PROPERTY ON SHAMEEN.
LONDON, July 19th.
In the House of Commons, Mr.
Balfour stated that it had been decided at present to treat German property in the British Concession on China, similarly as the Chinese Govern→ Shameen,
ment treated German property outsida tions had been given. This involved a the Concession, and the necessary instruc
termination of the leases of German buildings.
CRIMINAL BESSIONS [BEFORE HIS HONOUR THE PUISNE JUDGE (MR. JUSTICE OCHPERTZ). I THE WOOD ROAD ROBBERY, The trial of Chin hun Chan Kwong, Fung Yew Ting, Chu Wa, Leung git Shiu, and Li Ching for committing an armed robbery at Wood Road on May
Methinks if it were the Hon. Mr. So and So, or Sir Somebody or Other there would have been a great outery, before this, but the poor fellows who have been so ermelly done to death without having 19th, and stealing jewellery and money, a dog's chance to protect themselves were to the value of wver $2,000, was concluded. not sufficiently important, personages, in yesterday the Colony in the eyes of the powers that be, there was not sufficient incentive to prosecuted. The prisoners were unde Mr. G.. H. Wakeman (Crown Solicitor)
make a mave in the matter.
fended.
Poor consolation-is it not to attempt to console the heart-broken widows and families of these officers by telling them their husbands and fathers died nobly doing their duty.
try the case-Messrs W: G. Baker, A. The following jury were empanelled to
H. Abbas, N. J. Austin, A. D. Hum- phrya, H. E. Green, and A. Aitchison.
Why for instance, are there not at been concluded, a question arose as to After the hearing of the evidence had least two European officers alloted to tho admissibility of certain evidence each outlying Police Station?
which had been adduced,
The authorities responsible may say they cannot spare the men. I put it to you, sir, that such a statement would be untrue, fot, if it were not, then the blame rebounds on to their shoulders, as they
Hongkong, 20th July, 1915.
OBSTRUCTION AT NORTH POINT.
It is the misfortune of experts that so drafted not less than 69 Regular they become so absorbed in the technicateak of the Waren who really Police officers from the Colony since the lities of their subject that frequently could not be spaced, as they were engaged cut are unable to explain, in simple
in work of Imperial interest the language suitable to the layman's inte)- ligence, the elementary principles of most important of all, in fact-namely, the preservation of law and order in Bri- their subject. Not long ago Mr. Jaish Territory-Yours truly, Young gave three lectures before the
DEEJAY." Royal Society of Arts on modern mili- tary explosices, and while the layman may find it hard to understand what is meant byacetone" and "amatols " there was much in the lectures to interest 18, although we have noticed no extracte from them in the Home newspapers, The most interesting portion is that in which he explains the parallel between the war of today and that at the begin ning
of the last century. Then the British command of the seas cut off the supplies of saltpetre from our enemies, and their chemists promptly found
thods of artificial production. Nown days nitrates, or nitric acid, are essential as saltpetre was a century ago It was only four or five years before the war that scientists demonstrated how the
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the bulble reputation acquired by the German gun used to bombard Paris. The experts of the Allies-and, indeed, the general public as far as they aro able to understand the technicalities involved-now know everything that can be known about this piece of artillery, There is nothing about the weapon that shows any real inventive talent, its development is due to the mania of the
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It will be remembered that the Crown- Solicitor, in his opening statement. mentioned that the wives of the second and fourth prisoners informed the Police of the whereabouts of the filth
of participation in the robbery. and sixth prisoners, whom they accused
His Lordship said that that was the only evidence against the two men, and he asked the second and fourth prisoners whether they wished their wives' evidence. to be considered by the jury,
Both prisoners strongly objected. His Lordship then said that the fifth and sixth prisoners ought to be dis charged.
The Crown Solicitor wished to know whether these two prisoners could be charged separately.*
His Lordship replied that that was not possible, and discharged the two prison.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS;**] SIK,-la regard to " Motorist's" lotter in yesterday's paper regarding the incident at North Point, I myself and ers.
His Lordship the summed up the other witnesses saw the thing occur. We had just stepped off the car when Motor evidence against the other four prisoners, Car No. 143 passed by at a moderate stating that there was a strong array speed, sounding no horn. The next thing of faces against there,” “ we saw was a small boy lying on the ground, be having been run over by the
ance ran to the small boy and His Lordship said he thought the pris picked him up and handed him over to oners deserved corporal punishment, and, the care of a Chinese. Then I went afterna be wished to pass a sentence befitting the car and, as I was taking its number, I the crime, he would defer it till Monday,
ear.
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The jury then returned a unanimous verdict of “Guilty."
was assaulted by the driver, and I severe-pending the medical examination of
FORGING A DOCUMENT.
A Chinese named Lo Ho Sang was charged with forging a documenta mortgage deed-and also with soliciting a forged document.
"fixed" Their object was the peaceful one of obtaining nitrates for feeding the assaulted him bħek, although no blows prisoners,
were struck. If the boy had been killed, soil. To day there are in Germany huge
I consider it would be a pure case of works for obtaining nitrates from the
manslaughter. It is a well-known fact atmosphere to enable explosives to be that this enz passes at variqua times in supplied to the Army. A substitute for the day to and from the North Point cotton, known long before the war, is Hotel. Trusting you can see your way wood-pulp, and this is widely used in clear to publish this Yours, ete, Germany for explosives. One great in- convenience experienced by our enemies, however, is due to the fact that glycerine, in nitro-glycerine, is a constituent of all powders used in heavy guns. Mr. TOUNG says that every cordite cartridge own weight of fat for the
ONE OF THE WITNESSES. Hongkong, July 19th, 1918.
ARETHUSA WAR EMERGENCY FUND,
Mr. G. H. Wakeman, Crown Solicitor, appeared to prosecute, but the prisoner pleaded guilty.
The document was a mortgage deed in respect of certain ground in the New Territories, by which means the prisoner falsely obtained 5200 from a woman. He
fare which other nations refuse t requires its
It is of the utmost importance that represented that a man he took with his consider. The Germans have studied glycerine alone.
but in fact he was no relation. That may explain the splendid work of the Arethusa, Train during the transactions was his nephew. and written more about human psycho- many things which wo have beard ing Ship should not suffer during the
Prisoner was previously convicted for war and onwards. Its contribution of larceny in 1913, and bis Lordship remark logy than any other people, yet recently concerning the fat famine in they understand it less. No doubt Germany, and we may you find that the 2,000 boys to the Royal Navy, 6,500 boys ed that if the prisoner was able to make their High Command would agree that, manufacture of explosives in Germany to the Mercantile Marine, and a further reparation to the woman he had defraud. from a military point of view, the long will accomplish in that country the 4,000 to the British Army's various ed that fact would he taken into con range gun has been almost useless result which the long-range gun has services should make an appeal hard to sideration. and certainly far more trouble and signally failed to achieve in Paris-that resist. Another 6,000 from the Society's
Prisoner said that he had some property | in the New Territories which he could expense than the actual number of casu is to say, make the masses cry out for Country Humes have been trained to sell and so raise magh to repay the NO 2 STEWART TERRACE, No. 9 altics would warrant. But," say the
become good citizens of the British money Empire, and many of them to day are Monday morning for enquiries to be |_ His Lordship adjourned the case until
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sponsors of the gun to each other, “it is having a moral effect. It is hearten- ing our own people, and it is making declared Hongkong infected by plague
The Lieut-Governor of Burma has
the Parisians clamour for peace,” For a time, it is true, it may delight the
There will be a service in the Peak Germans, but the truth will ultimately Church on Sunday at 6.50 p.in, and on penetrata even into mind, saturated subsequent Sandays at the same hour. with a childish belief in the genius of their military men As for the Parisi-
ans,
The following cases of communicable
the brutal murder of women and diseases were notified in the Colony on children in their midst is only hardening | Thursday -Babonie plague, 2. (2 their hearts. The long-range gun, in deaths), enterio fevor, (2 deaths); common with the submarine and other cercbm-spinal fever, (1 - death); inhuman methods of warfare, will be diphtheria, 1 (1 death). All the sufferers paid for at the Peace Conference,
were Chinese :
country and London Homes are to be maintained in 1919 without a shortage of funds it can only be accomplished by an increase of anhscriptions and donations and by special gifts to the War Emer gency. Fund (of which Their Majestics the King and Queen are patrons) to meet the increased con of food and mate rials. The Committee plead earnestly for a generous response to this appen for Britons living in the Far East All gifts will be promptly and gratefully land, Secretary, if sent to 104, Shaftes acknowledged by Mr. Henry G. Cope bary Avenue, London, W.C.2 England
GERMAN FINNISH TREATY
The Bergens Aftonblad learns from the best source that the socalled commercial
treaty between Finland and Germany in- cludes the following years be under Germany's
Finland shall during twenty years
100,000 Finland Oronic control.
many's mence war,
to be at Ger if Russia should recom
Germany is to invest capital in S ALE- ber of Finnish industrial concerne, pre- ferably those which produce raw articles for export to Rumia plakat tacticians and teachers in the Finuise
German officers are to be employed te military colleges.
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