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FAR EASTERN CABLE PROF WARBEN ON

NEWS.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] ORDER OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE.

LONDON, January 8th.

The Gazette announce that H.M. the King has been pleased to appoint Mr.

Bourne, the War Office representa Live in China, a Commander of the Most Distinguished Order Empire, for services rendered during the

war

CHINESE

of the British

AND JAPANESE PRISONERS OF WAR.

COPENHAGEN, January EDC,

A hundred Chinese and Juphriese have arrived from the internment camps in Germany. They have not been allowed to land und will be scat back to Germany

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COLLISIONS AT SEA DUE TO CRIMINAL IGNORANCE.

CRIMINAL SESSIONS [BEFORE HIS MONOUR, THE CHIEF JUSTICE (BIR WILLIAM REES-DAVIES, X.D.)}

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At the Helena May Institute, last even· ing, Professor Warren delivered an inter-Trom eating lecture on Wireless Telegraphy?'' to a fairly large audience.

The Hon. Mr P. H. Holyoak presided,

and, in introducing the lecturer, stated that, the subject of wireless telegraphy bad engaged the attention of the whole

world since the Titanic disaster.

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RETURNING FROM HANIBHKENT,

Chun pleaded guilty to returning banishment.

Mr. G. H. Wakeman, Crown Bolicitor, who prosecuted, stated that the prisoner was arrested on December 19th at Gil- He was found to be in man's Bazaar.

possession of certain house-breaking im plements. He had been banished four Limes In 1905, he was convicted for

BLACKMAIL AND THREATS

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AN INTERESTINO CASE.

At the Magistracy, yesterday, before Mr. J. R. Wood, two Chinese were charged with attempting to obtain money by means of threats, and with aiding and abetting others not in custerly to commuit the same offence.

Mr. P. W. Goldring appeared to watch; the case on behalf of the complainant.

The facts of the case were to the effect! that the complainant was walking along.

possibilities were only just now becoming larceny and banished for five years but Shanghai Street, Yaumati, on the 15th known, and its future was believed, than anyour ever conceived, Now wireless telegraphy gave the travel

returned in 1909. He was agaip banishedigst.. with a friend, when he was accosted for five years, but returned and was then by four mon, two of whom were the banished for a further term of five years, defendants. One of the men not in cus

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fers on the sex and those living in distant prior to which he served a year's hard tody, described so the broken lip man," PURE FOOD PRODUCTS.

parts of the Empire an opportunity of labour. The man, however, persisted in assaulted complainant and then charged communicating with each other. Thore was also a great commercial possibility in wireless telegraphy.

Professor Warren said that, in the short tiate at his disposal, he only intended to:

give a very brief account of a limited partion of his subject. He would attempt to give. in ne clear a manner as possible, than 400 It is reported that mure

some idea of the nature of electrical waves. and Journalists in Peking were entertained by President. Hsu Shih-chang how they come about, and how they could yesterday.

M.

Lak Ching-chang, the Peace Envoy to Europe, has reported that he and Wyog Ching-ting will be allowed to attend the preliminary Conference in Paris

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org the other Envoys to proved to Paris at mce.

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Anti-Opium 1 is reported that Society is being formed with President Wilson as the head. A hundred cliests of

returning. He was at last deported for a term of twenty years and, when he dis- rogarded this sentence, he was banished for lite.

The prisoner, when asked if he had anything to say, made the novel exouse that his ancestors had been resident in Tai O for over a hundred years and that it was hard that he should have to reside away from the place. The Government had banished him, but his property and family were at Tai O.

His Lordship: You wish us to know that you were born in Tai 01

Complainant

ras opium were burnt in Peking on the end waves not included in ordinary light,lds and my houses and then to remove appointed time but at an hour Inter aud

This him with teasing his youngest sister. complainant denied and the man there- upon assumed a threatening attitude and said he would kill complainant unless he made some reparation for his fence, After a little discussion the man with th broken lip suggested that complainant should pay him $200, stating that his

ister was worth that a he developed. There was a very prevalent

seemingly agreed but promised to let the iden that wireless telegraphy was one of

man know his decision on the next day, and then went to his father and told him the val marvellous achievemente of

about the matter. The father took the selenes which bad been accomplished in In that iden there

young man, who is married, to the Police the twentieth century.

Wireless telegraphy The Prisoner: Yes, I was born there.

and gave a full report of the incident. were many PTFOYS.

I was sentenced to imprisonment and was The Police marked a number of bank) was far older than man; it was as old as then banished

My reason for coming notes and gave them to the complainant, the seeing eye, if not older. i might be back was because my father had said that, in making that statement, he When I was sentenced to gapl I asked telling him to keep the appointment, was pedantic and that by wireless Lole-De gaof authorities to send a petition while the Police surrounded the rendezvous on my behalf to the Government asking ginphy was want those forms of electri-permission for me to return to my village and waited the coming of the then. The for the purpose of selling my paddy then, however, did not crine AL tho and which are produced by electrical my family and my mother to the Chinese

Turcing to that idea, the man in territory. The Government gave me per- then took the complainant to a vacant mission but the Police in Hongkong ar-piece of ground and there, while $30 were the street immediately thought of such rosted me.

His Lordship: You were allowed to go being handed over, the Police arrived sodų names as Marconi, Lodge, and so on.

to Tai O to settle your affaire

arrested the two defendants. The other Those men had done a lot of varnishing The Prisoner: The Government allow and polishing, and without their worked me to go to sell my property.

men, including the broken p managed to escape.

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ment.

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The defendants admitted that they

we aluli Ive been unable to signal standing that you did not return to the

His Lordship: That was on the under rapidy and with such sucness, as we were Colony again. You have been banished able to do to day. Their work, however, four times and the Police regard you as promised to meet the complainant but a dangerous peron. We do not, want stated that ho suggested that he would' Nu invention, was your sort in the Colony. I am going to was only polishing.

impose upon you a long term of imprison. pay then the money willingly as he did the work of one mau or group of men, but if he were asked to name the founders be softened to a very much longer period.

If you come back again you will not want his parents to know what he had of the science of wireless telegraphy he Three years hard labour. would mention such nacies as Helmholtz, Hertz, Maxwell, Kelvin, etc., much of whose work in that field was done over It was one of the benefits Sfty years ago.

dono.

Bergeant Murphy informed the Court) Lai Tai also pleaded guilty to returning that he had tried to find the girl and the freau banishment.

The Crown Solicitor stated that the other two men with the assistance of the prisoner was arrested on Christmas day defendants but had failed. The first in Kowloon City. He was originally defendant's mother was traced a few days of our modern syston of education that sentenced on August 14th, 1915, it was almost considered improper for an September 12th, 1914, and was sentenced

banished for five years. He returned on ago and was asked to attend the Court educated wan to know anything about a to six monthe hard labour and was the but now he, too, had disappeared. More- He returned over, the defendants had given wrong scientific fuct until it was fifty years old.nished for twenty years.

in March, 1916, and was given twelve

addresses. banished for life.

That this will prove a great attraction ene has only to recall the match played on the 12th February, 1915, in aid of the Prince of Walra Fund, when several thousands witnessed a gane in which the Indians (Islamics) emerged victorious by and only then when there were dollars in months liard Ishour and subsequently

5 goals to 1, after a thrilling battle fen- ured by the sterling playing of both

units.

The game as recounted by those who saw the affair, was one of the fastest and cleanest exhibitions of football seen in the Colony in recent years und in which the superior side unquestionably won.

it. The second error or partial error in the prevalent idea about wireless tele.

The prisoner stated that he came to the Colony because his mother had died bere Hin Lordship, in sentencing the prison

that the Police knew the prisoner to be an undesirable character and did not want him to live is the Colony.

There were no further cases before the Court

graphy was that it was marvellous. It was marvellous, but was not as marvellousr to three years hard labour, te as, for instance, a table, in terms of our modern conceptions.

But the Common

idea was at error in its view of what was the marvellous part of wireless telegraphy,

was not wonderful if one shouted in one room to be heard iu urother room, and if such conversation had to be carried on regularly, and it was inconvenient to

The Chinese certainly play excellent football, possessing the art of passing and combination to much a marked degree that it is always a treat to watch them. In view of this, I am certain the Indians, a speaking tube was fitted up to

are only too eager for another opportu mity to recapitulate their vid performance Over their worthy rivals. Yours, etc., VETERAN." Hongkong, 20th January, 1919,

NEW CHAPEL FOR YUEN LONG.

FOUNDATION STONE LAID.

A number of Hongkong residents in- terested in the work of Christian Missions

CANTON NEWS,

[BY COURTESY OF THE "CHUNG NGOI SAN PO.")

CANTON, January 9th.

After the evidence had been taken Mr. Goldring stated that the facts suply amounted to a case of blackmail.

Mr. wood rewrked out the was no straight forward evidence gasen by either side. Clearly there was somekatig arauca. what it was he did not know.

Mr. Goloring stated that the money was demanuen by torvats and that thereby the defendants a contravened whe ance.

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Mr. Wood remarked that it was possible, that some insult has been offered to the woman and that she had asked her ariend to recover money for that inault, although she had no right to BO

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Mr. Goldding submitted that that did not justify the prisoners' attempt In the electrical PKAOS ENVOYS. ennfine the sound waves.

squeeze. The Military Government has request- $2r. Wood: Assuming that the men world the development bad been the other way about. In wire telegraphy we directed Parliament to approve of Dra. Wu were acting on behalf of the woman.

Ting-fang, Sun Yat-sen, Wong Ching-claimed compensation on some ground ting, Wu' Chin-shu, and Wong Chung and the men were pressing that claatu wat, being sent as the plenipotentiaries and that as the result of from the Canton-Government to the Peace minor and there is no legal claim what Mr. Goldring: The complainant a Conference in Europe.

ed electrical waves by means of a pair of wires, much as sound waves were directed in a speaking tube. In wireless telegraphy electrical waves were sent out more or less indiscriminately in all direc Lions, as sound waves were sent out when

ever. The Canton papers are proposing to

discussion.

Mr. Wood: Quite so. After some dis-

one spoke. When electrical waves were send representatives to the Conference cussion the courpisinant agrees to pay seat out undirected by wires much more which is to be opened in Shanghai certain money in acttierunt of the matter. energy must be used in order that the shortly.

Then an offence is not committed.

waves might be detected at a greater dis-TEUN AWAY" DUNBOATS,

Mr. Goldring remarked that it was this tance away. The problems that wireless telegraphy presented were very great, but The gunboat wong Lee was returned sort of thing that the law wae trying to prevent. That was really a case of black- more utilicult problems had already boon to the Canton Government yesterday.mail. Half the people in the world did

Radio teleThe boat's engines and boilors being out not know what to do in a case of thi solved in wire telegraphy. in China, went to Yuen Long, a village raphy, said the speaker, had a great of order, she was towed back to Canton, sort. The complainant did the sensible future before it, but he thought that it and the crew, who wore Lung's supporting He went to his father and tolu in the New Territory, close to Ping Shan would never replace ordinary telography ters, were paid off. The crews of the hits and the father informed the Police.

except in a few isolated cases. Later, King Kong and Chai Sas which are in *Mr. Wood agreed that the lather did Policy Station, on Saturday, to witness conditions might require thousands of British waters refuse to give these vessels the matter to the Felice, but he said ko the straight-forward thing in reporting The authorities are making another did not believe the witness story. the laying of a foundation stone for a transmitted at the rate of thousands of Words per minute, and he thought the ebapel in connection with the London

oldier Form of telegraphy would accept request for their return.

Mr. Goldring observed that this sort of thing should bo put a stop lʊ. It was Mission.

getting common in Yaumati and other

and surely inid. The Rev. Mr. Cheung of the Hongkong To Taui Church, offered prayere, and Miss Watkin presided at

the harmonium. Those present included

Dr. Hickling, Mr. Hickling, Mava Game

ren, of the London Mission, Rev. H. R. Wells, the missionary responsible for the

the condition quite casually, In fact, there scened to be no theoretical limt to

transmitted, if necessary. With radio!

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up

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and then blackinuiled Elsom.

Young wen

bey were

The Rev, J. Kirk Maconachie, of the the speed at which messages could be hie time if ho cared to liston. A chrono places. Blackmail had to be punished. Union Church, declared the stone truly is the difficulties in the way of motor on board ship is no longer a neces the reason why ee had come there was exceptionally high sending speeds soomed sity. In accurate directing of wireless because the father thought that the matter

The waves waves much sumained to be accomplished might take a serious turn. at present to be very grent.

wore young men. Even assuming that the ased in wireless telegraphy, pousisted of but the use of what had been done was CILS WE HO, these men Geiterately

By vibrations of some kind which were pro- very considerable. combined sound

great velocity-about and wirelos signals one ship could tell brought und women beiore young men pagated with 186,000 anles per second through the ether. the exact position and distance of

of another The lecturer dealt with the nature of the when they approaclied within a couple of chassig zust be stopped, they were nothing electrient waves and some of the methods miles, and it would be possible if required out bulls of the worst sort who were of producing and detecting thom, remark to make the received signala automatic Ling to squeeze Julsig natre ing conclusion that he believed the and to relay these signals on the steering air. Wood remarked that such a thing function of wireless telegraphy was to gour. Collisions at son were absurdities. as possible. The Nov. Mr. Wells bar been conducting provide us with means of communication chinastore as had taken place during to hind out those user and ing. Sea;

Mr. Gclaring said that it was difficult batwem moving ohjeete. There was no

the present war were simply the result before the Court. Even in England very The Mission for the Evangelization of the reason why one abould use coal tongs as of criminal ignoranes mer to go down i tow people came forward and brought up

| nut-ernekers, New Territory during the past 20 years

Ite only use un land was over districtssible for an ocean

going During his tenure of fee where cables could not be laid or polos crowded channel at full spood in the one case forward and it was the duty of chapols have been erected at Town Wanorected. Cable Juying through junglus Jíhlékost of fogs with the captain nalecp the law to nako an example of it.

the cost of ordinary tale on the bridge without a risk of collision. Mr. Wood kuid that he proposed to which would stand the world be safe. Still, pieces of apparatus not very satisfactory, He was not antin-

erection of the Chapel, and Mr. Paul.

or more.

It was now

such cason. Out of a hundred much ensos

and Custic Peak, and, now, with the ad. might and the pole lnd yet Its course gate sarpenting but its bind the ino man over. The evidenco wax

graphy

dition of Yuen Long chapel, it is believed to in

thers is a grens future for christian work combined attacks of white ants and a herd of his description ware not yet enforced fod that the daledania werg living b of wild elephants. The greatset usa in basocean going steamers and as they cost regular life with good employment. The in these fields. Much still remains to be pence time of wireless telegraphy was to money we should have to wait until the docendants could not And the men who' done, however, and ashools aro argently the sailor. He could now get a reckoning Government in 50 years tinte had caught were with than on that oversim

with very fair scaurney and it was quit up with the present. required in thon villagon where there are possible Umt in a zaw yours, he might be posalla to make the then it would be bound that over in bouds of $100 odch

thousands of healthy boys and girls, nów apparently neglected.

told his position ne ho was daily told (Continued at trot of next column.)

PAGBENROF Pay. At the conclusion, the Chairman pro pood hearty 'voto of than sy the led kurer and it was carried with soolamontion.

bobout good behaviour for six months and if they were unable to find the bouda they would have to go to prison without hard labour for three montaa upola.

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