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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH MONDAY APRIL 24 1911

Mr. David Landalo loft Shang- hai for a holiday at home on the 21st.

Mr. B. L Simpson, bolter known by his nom do plume Put- an Wealo, arrived at Sooul on

the 12th inst..

RUMOURS OF WAR.

HUGE UPRISING EXPECTED IN THE NORTH.

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lic excitement among the foreign population of Harbin is intonso and everybody is pro- a dicting a Lugo nprising of the Chineso on a scale much larger than the Boxer Trouble of 1900.

A Mongtze telegram says that large number of the loafor class haverison in robellion in the North! of Yuunan, and that it is reported that they are led by the revolu- tionary party.

fined $50 and $10, respectively. at the Marino Court this morning, for disregarding the rules of the road.

brought about. The Austrians are a proud race, quick to take offonce, while of late they have shown a marked military and naval activity, so much so, indeed, that their now Dreadnought A. S. WATSON & oct is, not without reason, rogarded by us as a menace to our CO., LD.

position in the Mediterranean, | The Adriatië is the home of a very powerful naval armament just now, and there are not those want ing who believe that, Italy and Austria will come to grips in its

The mastors of the stoam-laun- narrow waters. There is, how-chos Wikon and Kwong Si vero over, this hope that Gormany will bring as powerful pressure ne she can upon the excitability of her friends of the Triplice. In many ways that agreement is re- garded as an offensive alliance, but its destruction in consequence of a war between those old on emies, Austria and Italy, would bo a world disastor. A haval war, in the Adriatic or Moditer- ranean would be a calamity to the whold world. Trade would suffer to an enormous extent and the amoyance which would cer tainly be caused to noutrals is in calculablo. However, Young Italy is not bont on territorial aggran- dizement, and the danger lies more in her haughty spirit of in- FINE MELLOWdependence than to muy desire to

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Rome and Vionna will not fly at each other for causes so trivial.

HONGKONG DAY BY DAY.

A coolie had three months hard labour and six hours' stocks for

Hunghom district.

A. S. WATSON & housebreaking in To-Wu-Wan,

CO., LD. Hongkong, 7th July, 1910,

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here on business, and pleasure. He is interested in a big gold dredging scheme in the Philip pinos.

We understand that Mr. W. Stewart, of Kowloon Docks, lus been appointed captain of local britnch of the Legion of Frontiersmon..

the

The polico play the members of the Kowloon Bowling Groon Club on Saturday, the 20th inst. The akips for Kowloon are Mossrs. W. J. Crawford, A. Ramsay, D. Harvey, and T. Pouric.

Captain A. J. Orchard, 8th Rajputs, has hoon appointed addition to his other duties us Double Company Commander in Double Company Officer, vico Captain P. D. O. Johnstone.

Return of visitors to the City Hall Library and Museum for the week onding the 23rd April, 1911-(exclusive of Enster Mon- day when the doors closed).

Non-Chinese.. Chineso.........

Library. Museum.

355 150 160 2,932

3,088

Total...... 505

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A meeting was hold at the Shanghai General Chamber of Commerce last week to discuss

the proposed visit of Chinese business mon to Japan. Light Chambers wero represented, namely, Poling, Tientsin, Han kow, Nanning, Soochow, Hang

show, Canton and, Shanghai:

The incoting was adjourned till the middle of next month.

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the places in the interior of the Chinese Empire, under the pretext

of.iravalling

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The plague is absolutely for- gotten and the wildest rumours are in the air, Bands of Hunghutze Hays the "North China Daily. Nows," are said to be assombling inside a radius of 100 vorsts from Harbin, and on March 25 a report was current that the Russian Minister at Poking lud been

assassinatod. This was corrected.

to-day, but other wild rumours are boing spread.

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SUPREME COURT,

CRIMINAL SESSIONS.: The Criminal Sessions wore opened at the Supremo Court this morning, His Lordship the Chief Justico, Sir Francis Piggott, pro- siding..

plan. Why should oighty Chinoso Englishman, had the right to support ong Manchu? Wo,are in suggest the abolition of King- fact a pitiable people whose coun- ship and the setting up of a Ros try is lost." The song also contain public, ad references to the "suokling His Lordslup We're not deal who occupied the Throne. Certain ing with the English law.** of the words of the song wero print- od in different type, which was obviously for the purpose of drawing the reader's attention thereto...

Evidonco was thion' called. The Chiness policeman who pureliased the book on the 4th of March spoke to having mado

ÁLLEGED, SEDITIOUS PUBLICATION. Kwong King, Li Chan and Chung Ching were indicted on charges of having published for salo on the 4th March Just the purchase. book called "Pak Wo Shing Lo Ka" containing seditious matter embodied in a song entitled Manchus and Chungs Stabbed" calculated to excito tumult and disorder in China and to excite parsons to crime-in China, Mr.

Mr. Potter suid if the intention of the Governor and the gentle- men who sat in Council and advised him was what it was suggested to be, thon, thoy had flown directly in the face of the English law and that His Majesty - would novor liave sanctioned the Ordinanco. If the prosecution's

was right, then of tho local liablo

morning 'papers.

contention Detective-Inapeotor Sullivan the Editors was next called.

Mr. Potter-You are an Irish to be run in because they man, aren't you, Inspector?-Iam. hnd published articles having Have you over read any of reference to tho iniquitous ac the Dublin Nationalist papers?tions of Chino in such nattors as

over-taxation of the country, elc. Yes, sometimes.

0.Alabastor, instructed by Mr. Have you ever found Bucht senti- F. B. L. Bowley, Crown Solicitor,ments in the leading articles in fret Ale, R. A. Harding's office, off this English yoke"?-No, prosecuted and Mr. Eldon Potter, the papers "Lot the Irish people instructed by Mr. P. S. Dixon, riso in their strength and throw

have not. appeared for the defence.

The following jury was sworn

Don't thepapers publish articles

Arrangements are being made women muilchildren, as everybody to send away immediately all is afraid that one of the first moves on the part of the Chinese will be to eat railway communications.

A train load of rifles and an-in-Messrs. T. E. Pearce (fore- wishing that Ireland might be munition consigned to the Chinese man), J. F. Van Rees, D. Dor-free from Englial rule?I know

Goldschmidt and G. W, Gogg. (Laughter). authorities at Taitsihar went ward, G. L. Daina, F. Frisk, S. they are agitating for Home Rule through yesterday, and the popu lation here are indignant that the Railway Company transport such

war-like material at this time.

Tho straatsin Harbin proper aré very empty and business is prac. tically at a standstill, and the shops and stores are doing nothing, sovorybody is saving money in case of an outbreak.

LATEST MAIL NEWS.

San Francisco, April 7.-Mr. Perkins, a Californian senator and the Chief Naval Commissioner, is

quoted to the effect that a tacit

Mr. Alabaster in opening the case for the Crown stated that wo lived on the edge of an Empire which was in friendship with our own. We enjoyed the protection of. code of laws which was different from that of the Empire. so near to us. All who lived in the Colony enjoyed that protection, although many wore natives of the noiglibouring Empire, Therefore, they could not allow Hongkong to be need as an asylum for the pur poso of inciting persons to crime against the ruling powers of the neighbouring Empire. Accor-

Mr. Alabaster-I don't know whether my friend is going to suggest that this ordinance is in force in Ireland.

Mr. Potior-There is a mueli stronger law in forco, mainely the Coercion Act.'

His Lordship-I haven't soon these articles. If they had been

Mr. Potter-They have bot published, the papers would have been prosecuted. published ns. inatter of fact. His Lordship You mustn't assume that.

Proceeding, Counsol argued. that the law could not take away

froin a man the right to criticize fairly political affairs. The law only applied to literature onicu- lated to tear down governments -literature whose only desiro was rack and ruin and no desire. Aftor further remarks, Counsel to see one's country bettered. Mr. Wong, from tho Attorney-asked the jury to acquit the pri General's offico, gave evidence soners.

Mr. Alabaster, replying for the of having translated the song in

Crown, said it was for the jury to question.

sny whother the publication in question foll within the words of the ordinance. Ho submitted that thora could not be the slight You were not even partially est doubt whatever that the words of this extremely filthy rag, Witness-No.

which cannot arrogate to itself the rank of a loading artiolo by a re- sponsible editor of a respectable paper" were intended to stir the people. This filthy and scurrilous rag was calculated to oxcito por- to tumult and sons in China to crime and rebellion, disorder. That was the inton-

Mr. Potter-Were you incited to tamult and disorder, Mr. Wong? (Laughter).

Witness-No.

dingly, the Legislature of the induced to commit a crime?

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agreement has been established Colony, following the principle of with the Secretary of the Navy to an Order-in-Council, passod 40 Ifis Lordship-Mr. Wong is dispatch half the number of battle- Ordinance providing any person in the Attorney-General's office The Board of Foreign Affairs ships of the United States to the printing, publishing or offering and it's clear he cannot commit has just framed a list of regula-Pacific Ocean and that as the for sale mattor calculated to incite crime in China, **** tions governing the visit of Democrats will command the persons to tumult or disorder or Mr. Potter-I know Mr. Wong foreigners into the interior of majority in the Congress from excite persons to crime in China, will have suppressed any such China, which are considered ex-noxt year, the number of battle-shall be guilty of an offence. The desire but ho might have been

tion of the writer of the song. podiont owing to the numerous ships to be constructed will be charges against the prisoners were incited to it (Laughter).

lint they published and effored for In the course of the ovidence, a casos of discovering foreigners limited to one. secretly surveying and sketching

sale on the 4th March Inst matter point arose, and at the conclusion The jury had to say whether sulculated to incite persons, to the discussion, the Chief Justice they thought that such publica

in- tumult and disorder in China and said that he did not think the tions as those, caused, or were

established the toaded to cause, the unfortunate to excite persons to crine in indictments

Ficus af arimo" kur that they becurrences which they heard of were these. All the prisoners might prove the charge of inciting from time to tline in Chinn... were employed in a druggist's | tumult and disorder in China. store. The first prisoner was a The Attorney-General contend- partner in the firm he might od that high treason constituted not bo tho only partner he was norime and the defendants the managing partner, he be action was a direct incentive to re- liaxod. The second prisoner move the Emperor of China from the Throne. Ho (Counsel) did soner was an accountant. On not wish separate punishments to at Albany, the Capitol of Now Landon, April' 10.—The affair the 4th of March, a Chinese bo inflicted on the prisoners. York Stato, had been burned in relation to the theft of French policeman bought a book from His Lordship over-ruled Mr. out. In view of Reutor's more diplomatic documentsshowsavery the second defendant. On the 30th | Alabaster's point. elaborato intimation we corrected appearance of reaching develop-March, other copies of the book At this stage another point the information sont us by our ments unforeseen at the time tho wore bought and an enormous arose London representative but now oulprits were arrested. An official number of books were found on the right of reply, Mr. Potter find that our Correspondent's admitted that four documents the premises. All the three dofond-contonded that it had boon information was correct, and Reuter's nows was wrong.

Now York, April 7A New type of hull lately invented by the Krupp firm is to be used for explode vienmulans will According to the Times tact with any substance, however report it is evident that Router pliable that substance may be. made a mistake in a recont The shells will travel at the rate telegram when it announced that of 2,000 foot por second. the Capitol in Washington had Vienna, April 7-The Italian beon destroyed by fire, The day Government has decided to previous wo published a special establish a life insurance system telegram from our London cor-which in to boaGovernment mono-was a foki, while the third pri- respondent to the effect that, poly.

ECHO OF THE CRAIG CASE.

Some days ago the Wai Wu-pu memorialized the Throno that for the sake of convonience the Chi- nese Diplomatic and Consular officora abroad might be alloweit. Under "Miscellaneous Notos,'

gronter part of it is devoted to a Alliance.

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Mr. Potter The jury have to docide no such thing. They have only to say whether the publica lion was likely to incite people to tumult or disorder. I know what my friend is referring to. It is the Tartar General.

Mr. Alabaster-I think it only right to say that this prosecution has nothing whatever to do with

the assassination of the Tartar

Conoral, and those people were in of custody before the Tartar General

died.

His Lordship in summing up

and disorder in China or whe- His Lordship The point has ther it was calculated to excite already been decided by inc. I persons to crime in China. The can't go back on what I've already Crown's submission was that it decided.

on the Baghdad Railway hap boen ants were there. All were charged decided the right was vosted in romarked that ho somewhat re sold to an outsider; but as a large with solling books on both dates. the Attorney-General but not an grotted that the jury was not com number of the papers lave boon All admitted having sold the Acting Attorney-General.

posed of Chinese, for they would discovered in the stranger's rooms, books. It was for the jury Mr. Alabaster-I'm His Ma-have been better able to appre it is evident that the lattor had to say whether the language used josty's Attorney-General and I've cinto the standard of education obtained them from other sources. was calculated to incito tumult been sworn in as such.

and of incipient revolt in the aver The Fronch public believe that

"ge Chinese mind. Because this "the stolen documents have been

was an offence which would affect to wear foreign clothes, and it isTruth" of March 15 has a short utilizod for weakening the

the relations between China and Groat Britain, this was a very, Hoxazong, MONDAY, Arntt. 24, 1911: now reported that the said memo-article upon the Sink onso. The strength of the Franco-llussinn

rial has been grantedì. -

serious one. Speaking of the was calonlated to do both. Tho Mr. Alabastor-1 submit that statement of the circumstances San Francisco, April 10-The book contained a lot of harmless the paint has been decided in any criticism, insult and reference to document in general, there was attending the flotation of tho Washington Stuto authorities have matter but it also contained what favour. The Bandmann Opera Co. yos-company, the court proceedings, begun n test case on the basis of purported to be a song, which After a little time, his Lordship the traditional hatred between torday deserted Kowloon, where and sentence, and it then concludes the state constitution, against a must have been written within the intimated that it was clear that the the Manchus and Chinese, and Is the Triple Alliance in danger thioy and arranged to give a sacred as follows:--Craig was a mombor Japanese subject in Everett named last year or two, because there were Acting Attorney-General had the there was no doubt of a spirit of of disruption? is a question that concert, in favour of Macao. The of Council and a prominent man Sato, with the object of disprov-references in it to the child Em- same rights as the Attorney incitement to something pre-to- recent events in Italy and Austro- greatest disappointment was thus in Shanghai, and the local corrosing his right to land ownership.peror of China. The jury pro Genoral during the latter's absenceing through it. It was not for Hungary load one to ask, For occasioned, as much by the failure pondent to whom I am indebted The case will affect all alion land bably knew that the ruling rice on leave. The point he had de them to say whether the docu-

to announce the change adequately for particulars of the caso thinks ownora in the State.. some time past a spirit of un-

in China was not Chinese but cided applied only to one acting ment was likely to incite this as by the absence of the company. that in view of the enormity of London, April 12. The French Manchus. They invaded China on behalf of the Attornoy-Ceneral. Chinese to tumult or disorder but oasiness has been prevalent in

the fraud, "the inadequacy of the | Covernment has suffered an ad- about 300 years ago and swept Mr. Alabaster-1 only raised whether, if there were a rebellion, both countries, and troops have

The last mail from home bringe British justico." I am not so policy of delimitation of the cham occupied

sentence will astonish all lovers of verse vote in reference to their away the Mings. They had the point because I don't wish to this document could be one of been massed on either frontier. the sad nows of the death of Mr. sure about that. Home-staying pagne aroa,

the Throne of have a precedent established the causes contributing to it,

The jury, after & retirement of. Then came an incident, foolish John. Keddie Wilkio who, for Britishers at least are more likely

China ever since that date while I'm acting as Attorney-

about a quarter of an hour, Movemonts of Spanish troops The majority of officials were General which will have future in itself, but possibly fraught many years, was well-known in

returned to Court and announced to be astonished at the ease and in connexion with the Moorish Manchus. The song in question. effect. with serious consequences. A engineering circles throughout expedition with which the culprit trouble are carried out at Melilla was entitled "Stabbed Manchus Mr. Potter in addrossing to that they were not agreed.

tho F.M.S. and the Straits. Ho

His Lordship again advised the street in Rome was named after first canic to the East, from was brought to book. Owing to in southern Spain,

and Chings." The sub-title was jury on behalf of the prisoners his inexperience, perhaps, Craig a famous opponent of the Aus-Dundee, as far back as 1882.

The Albanian rising is gather-"A Dramatic Song." At this stated that his friend had referred jury on the moaning of the trian Throno. Although pro-

wont to work clumsily, but really ing strength. The Turks bom-point, Counsel proceeded to ex- to the benefits accruing to the ordinance, and pointed out that his trick was not a bit more barded the insurgents' position plain the procadura followed by Chinese under British rule in the even if the pamphlot were the bably not meant as such, it was Major General Anderson. who heinous than dozens that are on the north of Souturi and drove the singer. A nisu sung a vorso, Colony. If there was one benefit cause of an angry procession in regarded as an insult by the sub-is at Shanghai in order to hold practised with impunity in the thom to Gradelza. The Albaniana then there was a certain amount of bestowed by English law, it was Canton, it would come within the

meaning of the ordinance. jects of the wall-boloved Francisual inspection of the Volun- City of London. I should think captured Dinoshi. The Turks patter, and then ho went on to an- the right which allowed a person The jury again retired, and Joseph, and moro than teous, saw the Gorman Company indeed that when they road of this were ambushed and lost heavily other verso. His(Counsel's) friend, freedont of thought and speecli.

casé quito a number of our They are wearied by continuous Mr. Potter, informed him that the To was ontitled to put his though guilty, by a majority of 5 to 2. drilling on the race course on

later returned a verdict of hot little indignation was arous Thursday morning, later inspect company promoting sharps will fighting.

song resembled a Greek play, on paper and issue it broadenst od It Was fearod that

The prisoners were discharged ing tho Artillery Gun Shod, the thank thoir stars they do not live Admiral Tainoll has been The following were among the The right was given not only to

REVENGE disturbances might occur during Maxim Gun Shod, and tho Arin Shanghai:

formally appointed Naval Advisor words and phrasos appearing in the Englisliman but to every the celebrations in connection monry and Headquarters offices,

to Grecco.

the song:"Great injury has boon foreigner who went to a British The case of Chang Hang, alias with the foundation of Rome, and in the afternoon gun target Prince Arthur of Connaught

done in Kwangtong. All the country. That riglit was obtained Chung Sat, who was charged with which wore montidued in our practice took place at the Point used often to take the place of The colonization of the Jews people of Kwangtung are made after one of the greatest struggles obtaining a regi cable nows on Saturday, but, the evening the lioneral inspected ocensions, and now he marries the subconful thus far, but Joseph devils, who are newild tribe did not think that an onlightoned soon dealt with, on Juis.

and the rifle range wasvisited. In King Edward ou coraminial in Palestine is proving very poor. Tato those shaggy-tired known to English history. Ile means of a forge happily, the ovent lins passed off

Company, of the Mounted proxy of King George oven more Fels, American Jewish million from the Clai Pak hills. They Colomal legislature intended to guilt peacefully. Novertlioless, the sore Rifles, the Light Horso; and the Proxy kin, que pone feqvs caused a terrible stonek dyin the face of shoesta remains, nad trivial as in the Engineers Maxim, American and line on my visiting card, enterprise and assure its success averywhere, Why aliquld we in England and

Japanese Companies on the monarchs understudied on short if the colony will have the Heary subinit Ourselves to their man of the måtter from even such trivial Parade Ground: The annual in est notice, once suggested the George land tax system wrilen despotic rule? Come, broth pleased and cause love great résulte been espolian took placerin fluturday. prinos.

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