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HONGKONG DAILY PRESS,” TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER
DEMOBILIZATION:
MEMORANDUM BY THE SECRETARY
OF STATE FOR WAR."
اذ
9TH, 1910.
SHOOTING A BABY.
AN ATTEMPT TO SILENCE
WRANGLING AMAHS
As the Magistrney, yesterday, 's Chinese
with wounding a háby, 20, days old. in the right lege
There are two parts of the world, however, where we cannyt at persent fe rong armies at all. Fn the Middle East, including Egypt, and in India, I sia monthy bay pasni šiure
where the Atchans auf Hölshevik agents quel giuluining tugan, ke must muntrin the receps the arrangapients neshwary for our forres as full drength," But these the Armies 'then tution and the prin Bare also the very plaers where there is (riple, that would be followed in demoki, the largest proportug of men who hase Hee the great army of the war perbak | den away from their hennes for the The plan then unfolded is well known.
longer time. As we cannot over these folat i. may be briefly Simmoød ng as follows mon we have to replace them.
To Three men out of four go, aud s the fourth mum load to Raigh the job; these fourth my being picked out "gg show what had not joined up before
the st. January, 19m: had not passed "their 37th birthday; aurk" bad ant got
three op more wound stripes
It was also explumed that Parliament wold in 'asked to make a law prolong ing the compulsory military service of fall men kept under the above lika until the ith Aprila 1920, after which they were to be released with all convenient speek. This law has now been made
Anyone c s for himself today how necessary it was to do this. Peare is about to be ratified, and but for this law we should in a few days be absolutely defenerless and without, any kind of melis fary organization, We should have a army at all to garrison our Empire and the new provinces for which we have become responsible, on to mute sifre that the Germans keep their word. We should have thrown away ng only all that have worked so hard to gain in this grutruggle, but also all that the British Empire had annisfeed before the war. It is lucky than we took the siege
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Fiore
· Mr. By W. Goldring appeared for the Mr. Tändsell asked whether the Police
JUSTICE IN SIAM. TWO BRITISH ENGINEERS IMPRISONED.
fr will remembered dise
was chanted with being ur posession of ago Mexers: Lewis and Farrar, the first, ass air güre without alieeter and and end offer," respectively, at the s. Lin, a frequent enfler, at Hongkong, were convicted 53 importing opina into Siaur and of being a Bangkok enter of in tanlaithi posession of opium, » They ́ were sentenced to three years and to từn Jars and six mouths imprisonment respectively. The appent, the enviction and sentence were" "uphold, hus" in the Dika Court, when the master came before
we can bring thing home acvoriting to the ↑ suggested that defendants deliberately premni which has been nude, wo must
aimed at the baby or had been jailty of and mento relieve then. In these dis.negligenes. pant theatres there, are also the disculties"
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judges, the sentences were redtend to two years and two months and two peore and one moits, respectively.
Messes. Fartar and Lewis are both
Sergeant Aris" replied that the mother of making the very shipping ardeliately aimed at the youngster. The if the haly had stated that defendant mangements" hat it is expected that the whole matter arose over a quarrel betwisen Regular troops who are to form the per
atent garrison of Trolia" will all be building us which defendant was staying. two amah on the groundoor of the despatched by the end of this year Defendant asked them to desist from well-known in Hongkong, and the follow? release the present temporary garrison.making a noise and, as they "paid ning art from, the Bangkok, Times, vi Thew Regular units are now being sent attention, he shot at them with the gun. August 5th. in referohes to their treats eat, two or three hattalings every week. and they will reling an equal number uf demobilizable na waons we have hitherto Iwen-forveil, to retain in India, First, among those to come home from kadin will by those who were already on their way from Mistamia and wbu stopped in india on account of the out break there
The shot. However," missed the women and entered she baby's right leg.
Mr. Lindsell remanded the September 13th, fixing hail at #100.
ment will be read with interest:
Comparisons, we are told, are invazi. cas till ably odious bat we make no apology für submitting the following, to the sense of justin, of our renders, who will doubtles. assign any diuri attaching thereto tu the quarter concerned.
·Messrs." Leaks & Farrar,
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CELEBRATING MOHAMMEDAK
FESTIVAL Saturday was the Mohammedan Haji
Perun? festival, when Mohammedans all
Indian
Mr. J H. Gardines, appearing for the defendant. pleaded guilty, atating that his client was beastly drunk" and did not know what he was doing. There was no quarrel between the two, but the liquor, getting into defendant's head, made him mad.
We have net ys, loowever, apt wrongh colunteer Regular unit, ready to be able the world over eiserve as a general
boliday. An to provide reliefs of volunteers for theated Abdul Latiff celebrated the peca- Mohammedan nemies in the Mills Fast, including sion in Hongkong by getting drunk, con- Egypt. It mossary therefore, that trary to the teachings of his religion. draft, shoulit be quaile up out of retaia and attacking a comrade with a pair of able men of the Annie, of Occupation scissors. He was arrested and charged at who may becine surplus on the Rhine, the Magistracy, yesterday, with wound- or in France and Flanders, or at home, ing a comrade. to get wit to the Middle East and re- 3. Meanwhile all the time the old plieve their comrades who have been away war voluntary army is being made from note so much longer and are en fast as pissible. Towards the cited to demobilization. These relief making of this army We have already will not, however, he kept abroad inde- obtained 209,000 rilantrers for periods saitely. They will, in their tura by re varying, frown to nine years. These fieved as son is the Regular troops have men are being useil zu form 134 battalions, been organized and can'take'over from you batteries and 3 cavalry" regiments, then in addition to other necessary units. But this takes dig, especially as the men who re enlia are 'entitled to two or three months' leave before they join ap For dusty. Volunteering on the whole has been well maintained and has lately improved The average weekly intake of recruits and re-enlisted men is more than four times the usaal rate before the wur. If this goes on it is likely that all man who actually fought in the field in the war will be released before the new Military Service Act expires, and it is
7. All sorts of suggestions" have been made ily to the order in which mea should now he released from the Army: and there are many hard cases, both compassionate and pivotal, which deserve attention. But the time is getting short now. The end of the task is coming into sight, and it is briter to keep to certain broad and simple rules which everybody can understand, even if individual cases of hardship are caus
The following therefore, are the rules
HAPPY HIT hopet Phat a very large proportion, will on which we shall now proceed
have been released before the end of the present year. Thus we should be able to provide for the defence of, the British Empire in 1990 entirely by volunteers for the Regular Army and young recruits
CIGARETTES in time to share in the
ighting
The above is not a pledge in any sense; of the ward, because no one can foresce what will happen, and Parliament must
The "Real" Burley Cigarette roussin supreme to take whatever steps
IT'S TOASTED.
are necessary for the common safety. It is, however, a very clear indication of what we believe is likely to happen, wi what we are trying to bring about
-
4 Already since the Armistice nearly 31,000,000 men have been demobilized, leaving altogether in the Army 1.200.000 including the 200.000 volunteer Regulars. These are distributed 'roughly as fol
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Army of the Ruine, including the troops in France and Flanders g
130,000 Arty of the Binck Sea .... 11,000 Army of the Middle East... 105,600 Army of India (including
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from Mesopotamia, temporarily detained in India) Home Army including Ireland. the Volunteer. Regular Army now being formed, and
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about 185,000 non-effectives, sick and wounded and men awaiting dềmobilization ........... 544,000 Detachments in Russia..i.. 17:000 Detachments in Italy
7,000
Complainant stated that defendunt and he lived in the same house in Anton Street. was half drunk; not full drunk." and On Saturday night defendant
injured high with a pair of wissors for what reason he did not know,
Mr. Lindsell Ened defendant $95.
POLICE CASES.
Three Chinese, charged with the murder of a rattan shop-kreper on August 16th, were committed for trial, yesterday, at the next Criminal Sessions,
Two Chinese one a workman employed
(i) Definite orders have been issued that all 1914 men, except those in India and any there roay be in Rassin, shall begin their journey by the Kowloon Dairy Farm-charged home within one month of the with being concerned in the armed rob signature of peace, namely, by the bery at the Dairy Farm. have been com 28th. July, and that all 1915 penitted for trial,
The hearing of the charge against Give
an armed
and men over 3 years of age, except those in India and Russia, sball start for home within two months of the signature of Pence, men of being concerned in nately, by the 28th August.
Alt uther men who are now desirous and robbery 2 Ching E Island Bas been . eligible for demobilization under fixed for Friday. One of the accused is;
existing regulations will start for retüruri banishee. home within three months of the signature of Peace, namely; by the 9th September. The above pro Morrison Hill by the Police, on Friday, The three armed men, arrested on gramine of release will apply were charged at the Magistracy, yea equally to faen who, although deterday, with being in unlawful pos mobilizable, have hitherto been reseion of daggers and revolvers, The. tained for essential purposes usual men, it was alleged, attempted to rcb ly described as Machinery of either No. 5 or 6 Morrison Hill Road. Demobilization, but will not, of The case was remanded.
course, apply to men who, although eligible for demobilization, bave volunteered to stay on for a period with the Armies of Occupation, (y All Derby men who joined the colours for service before the 1st.
July, 1916, excepting those in India and Russia, will have begun their journey home by the 1st November:
· OPIUM.
At the Magistracy, yesterday, nese was charged with being in unlawful possession of lbs. of raw opium.
Defendant stated that the luggage in which the drug was found belonged to a friend, whom he could find.
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Sai Char
Attempted mariter, or, in the alternative, causing grvous bodily furn
to a girl of 17.
Charge: Endeavour. Charge:
ing to import, and with being in pos- session
oplum contrary to law. No previous conviction.
Wur Service.
Lewis War
No previous conviction.
Service
years sea service years" service with in European war the Motor Trans
zone.
Faqrar-3 years vontinuous xèu ser- vic in the Euro jenn war zove, part of which aino hu served as an officer
British Royal Naval Transport; during this period be took part in 3 engagements with enemy submarines ultimately becoming involved in a colli- sion with a British cruiser following " suhmarine attack
บ LIVOV of merchantmen and their escort, from the effects of which he was declared ang
it for further war Mortice.
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port retion of the Siame Expedi tionary Force, in France.
guilty und senten- red 1 your's im prisament, but the operation of the sentence suspendeda for five years and his immediate re lease ordered,' this view of the fact that he had gone or active service, und that he had no Previous conviction.
Sentence: Lewis Sentence: Found
Fined Tins 49,365, in default of payment sentenced to 2 years impri-on- ment, with a. fur. ther term of r prisonment, without the option of fine, of 1 year. Farrer-Fined Ticals
0,000, or in defaul of paynient senteu. end of 2 years in- prisonment, with a Further term of it. prisonment, with out the option of fine, of 6 months. Suspension of the further terIEN fuseh
Beth have already been imprisoned for nearly 7 months
OUTSPOKEN AMBASSAD OR GERMANY'S PENALTY DESERVED,, Professor, Foerster, the Bavarian Am bassador at Berns has published a FR Chimarkable article in the Tageblati telling
Germany plainly that it is a great, nii take not to seek in her own actions the cause of the severity of the peace condi tions. The mistrust and aversion of nearly the whole civilised world, the dis-
in every clause of the Treaty, he says. belief of Germany's uprightness expressed
ought to make it clear to her what abo has been during the last fifty years, and what the world thinks of her sabotage of the Hague Convention, ber systematic destruction and plunder, her mass de portation of women and girla, and her fright ul initiative in all poskible new ways of killing.
(fi) All 1914, 1915 men, and all Derby
men who jonied the colours before)
Mr. Lindsall remanded the case. the 1st July, 1916, who are in India, will similarly have started possession of 10lbs. of raw opium, was Another Chinese, charged with the for home by the st. December, fined $600, while a third man who bad. if not released earlier, provided | 171bs. of the drug was fined $1,000. always that no unexpected trouble} In each instance the opium was con- bccurs in that country.
cealed in false-bottomed boxes.
-(Iv.) All troops in Russia who have not volunteered to join the Missions, will have started for home before the winter, as already explained (v.) As from 1st July, no conscript soldier will be sent to India or Mesopotamia, and no Derby man will be sent further from home than the Army of the Rhine.
...
DOING TIME" FOR STEALING
A CLOCK.
A man who had been banished from singapore for life, came to Hongkong and stole a clock and some clothing from the residence of Mr. N. G. Nolan, of the
fifteen
5. We now propose, ́aasuming that Pesce is ratified by the ist. August" next, to. make further reductions as follows:--
The Army of the Rhine, which now consists of 10 divisions, will be reduced to 2 divisions" by the late autumn. This will effect a saving of about 150,000 men. The clearing up in France and Flanders. is also proceeding well, and as soon as the German prisoners have been sent bome the then who are guarding them will become available. Altogether, by lat. November it is hoped that the force in France and Finndera will have been re- 8. Finally, it is hoped that it may be Supreme Court. He was sentenced, at duced by more than 100,000 men.
found possible to release in the early the Magistracy, yesterday to Owing to the evacuation of the Cau. Spring of next year all the remaining months hard labour-three for larceny ensus, which will take place in the men of all classes who fought. in the war, and twelve for coming to Hongkong." autumn, the British troops in the Army that is to say embarked for any theatre of the Black Sea (which is the Army of war or garrizor abrond before the enforcing the peace on Turkey and Bul Armistice was signed, excepting always garia) will be reduced by 10,000 men. such as may have volunteered to continue All troops in Russia, except those who serving. It is impossible, however, at volunteer to join the Military Missions, this distance of time to make any definite will be brought home before the plans in this respect. Moreover, it must winter, and those who were in North be clearly understood that, if Peace is Russia during Inst winter will, it is not ratified, or if the ratification is de anticipated. start for home in September,layed, or if the Germans break out again, excepting always such men as may volun or if there are risings in India or Egypt, teer to stay.
or wrions trouble in Turkey, the above Nearly 200.000 men will be released programme will have to be modified; and from the Home-Establishment-German-bere and there shipping delays may pos prisoners return home, as wounded rasibly occur, But assuming all goes well over, and as demobilization proceeds. we have every hope and intention of
Thus by the end of the year the British 1ing able to give effect to it" Army, which is now 1,900,000 will be
WINSTON 8. CHURCHILL. reduced to about half that number.
Var Office, July 18th., 1919.
Whoever has the slightest, apprecia tion of what millions of people had to suffer under the rule of German armies for four long years in the occupied terri tories," he declares, "must ask his.con. science: What right
exactly have we to humane treatment What Germany has always honoured as the last word "of political wisdom is now applied to The German authorities should have in a formed the people
after the
armistice of the media by order
of
Opproving
SMUGGLING AMMUNITION.
America, brought between them
Two Chinese, lately returned from in Belgium and Northern France; then rounds of ammunition. They pleaded Cermany would not have been suspected 650 the best people would have spoken out and ignorance of the law.
Mr. Smith Sned one man $100 and the
BVETY excuse." other $50.,,
the results, he points out. is that the enemy grew accustomed to regärd the change brought about in. Germany the revolution as only one of institutions, by and not as the rising up of a New Ger many. As to the infringement of the For trespassing-in-the Astor House acorn, derision, and Brest-Litovsk. Ger Fourteen, Points, those offered Germany
January, 1918,
were answered
with Hotel, a Chinese was sentenced to three many hoped to gain more by a great weeks hard labour at the Magistracy, poison gas offensive thaq by the establish yesterday."
ment of a new world order.
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