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SYSTEMATIZED CHARITY:

DR. BUNYAT-SEN,

Arrival in Hongkong.

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of conquest is no different, no A CHARGE OF FORGERY. defendant forged another cheque, NOTES AND COMMENTS. better than was that of the Mon

gol and Manoha tribes who made

her ten thousand fields, a barren tenure,"

General Lea Interviewed

Extraordinary "Allegations.

paid it in to the account and de

bited it in the bank's books in the Peace and Goodwill.

ordinary way. No manipulation

was necessary to cover that except

Wiser counsels prevailed and

O. steamer Devanha, en route for General Homer Lean Paidores over come before this court."he did the same in respect to the it does not look as if peace and

It is a far cry from 1877 when a few minutes hasty interview Mr. Hodgson's opening statement $1,000. The position then was Great Britain after RATIO?

Shanghai.

Dr. Cantlio, of Harley-street, founded a medical college, in Hongkong and had young. Sun Yat-eon as his first pupil Events have move rapidly, too, since 1896 when the youn reformer 1896 was imprisoned at the Chinese Legation in London and was re- lonsod through Dr. Cunilio's efforts.

·· An Extravagrant Term,"

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Dr. Sun Yat-sen, General Homer

The charge is of a grave clar to make a false entry, because it the threatened Christmas strike Les and Mrs. Lea reached Hong- Our representatives forta-acter. As daring and as clever a thie money have gone throngh in been averted, but unfortunatoly would appear in the ledger that of postal employeon at Home has kong to-day, on board the P. &nate enough to discover swindle, I venture to think as the ordinary way. On Sept. 21

Street and hustled" "him", to theq Hongkong Hotel corridor where Tlue was the closing sentence of sum of $350, thus making in all goodwill are to bless elicited on interesting statement on behalf of the Crown in the onse $1,000 loss than it should bo and microbe las been at work and a

that Lau Po-chun's account was land and Wales In answer to question, General Len said the revolutionary party

in which A. R. Samy, an Indian, Ho Ching-hing's $5,000. had asked him to come over to stands charged with the forgory As long as those two kept away

cold and hungry Christmas teems Chind in order to become Chief of twelve cheques ammunting in from the bank the matter would all too certain for the prikers and of the General Staff. This was all to $23,000. Further counts not have been discovered but un- their families. It is a thousand announced in London before lie charge him with obtaining the fortunately for tlie defendant, He pities that the wit ofm n can de- leit, as was also the statemout money by means of forgo in Ching-hing did come on Sept. 18 viso no scheme of the nature of a hint to future President of the truments, with intent to de-mont on his own account. Now, compensating balance to deter

and presented a cheque for pay Chinoso Republic would probab fraud the International Bank with his account $5,000 loss mine once for all the relative ly be Dr. Sun Yat Sen i ing Corporation, and that he

What do you think of affairs did on various dates between cheque would have been dishon

should have been, that rights of Capital and Labour. as far as fly loveyone?" ask July 31 and November 11 falsify oured. This did not disturb the Notice to Quit." To-day Mrs. Chatlió hole kimo Marésid: “I don't Booking Corporation with re- made a book entry crediting lo

od the intro Goustal Loaf the books of the International defculent at all. He promptly There are inany ways of inform as "the Gurrbaldi of Chins. know wil hy greed of car-gard to the money received and Ching-hing with $5,000. This in a man that his services pro That is an extravagant term be- tainty, ono way of the other how other sums,

put that account squaro, but no longer required; some of them gotten largely of long standing matters aland. This I do know,

Mr. P. W. Goldring defended left the ledger a like sum out kindly and considerate, others-- friendship; but at least he is in and I believe I can say it loly, accused, who pleaded not guilty if a balance had been taken well less so. Among the latter a fair way to becoming the first that the feelings of the most pro-to all counts of the charge. President of the new Republic, minent men in Franco and

Up to this time only Mr. Hodgson said at the outset had been falsified, but to get out!

ane ledger may be included the expedient of Not once but many times ho las England and Amorica are very that he at once repudiated any of the difliculty of the $5,500) he the Irish foreman of a day labour offered the opinion that reform of favourable to te. We have many the Court is impossible The things to disider as soon as suggestion that had been made turned to another ledger, and gang who says "Git, and the Court, he points out, admits of we get foot if China, but till or would be made, that the de debited the account of the Com- thing is done. To dismiss the fondant was a dupe of somebodymunications Bank with $5,000. Prince Regent of a great, Empire no improvement. The Emperor then we are not in a safe position else in the case. It may be said That would put the ledgers right, is quite another matter. There- is a child; his uncle the Regent, to make any public pronounce that there were others, who were taken altogether, but leave the is a weakling; and everything is ment, as to par future course of at the mercy of intrigues between action. I think, however, intcused's orinio, but when lie $5,000 less than thoy should have Prines Chun his conge in a lengthy oventually to profit by the ac-Communications Bank with fore the Empress Dowager gave two Dowager Empressos. So it you will agree the revolution has comos that to-day Bun Tut-son is hebu remarkably roll conducted. fenurse) had unfolded the ox-and. To do this he used it em-Message, in which, however, on his way to Shanghai to meet With Fuch n what country and the ordinary scheme, and the alur celled cheque of the Communic-she include 1 some home truths whole world to be considered I Acis perpetrated by the defendant tions Bank, No. 100,850 and de: The Messigo informed the Prinos Wu Ting-fang, Wen-Tsung-y think it is marvellous. Our do- he was sure his Worship would bited is ticking the entry as if and others, and, in all probabi- lity, to be offered the Presidency sire How to stop all war as soon sible for the defalcations and for Realizing thit balances were to" Through his mismanagement of agree that he alone was respon passed by a European official, that by his own showing": of the New Republic. Whether as possible but insofar as I am the forged cheques. It would be be taken shortly each ledger affairs the people of the whole this is a provisional measure, or concerned, I can see no com- not, cannot yet bo stale de- promise, if the principles of necessary for him during the case being balanced separately, he nation has beau thrown into Shanghai has begun to take mersures to regularize the granting finitely.

liberty are to be ignored. fo refer to several accounts. They about Sept. 23 again made false of relief to those in need of help. A public meeting was held re-

these principles are good for those of Jai Po-chan. Ho entries, crediting the account of serious distress. It is too late for This, however, wears in a post- Ameribs they are good foring-hing, the Communications tho Communications Bank with him to feel sorrow for what he contly, at which it was pointed out thist at present there are over ation, to state with certainty; a score of societies which give relief, but that there was no co-opera-furnished house in the Hong Ching, and in liberty like truth Bak, Man Chang-you and fou $5,000, sad, again debiting He has done by pangs of hoort or tion and that as a result overlapping frequently occurred. Under district of Shinghai has been

there is only one criterion." Cheung-wan. The first instances Ching-hing with a similar sum.

that Mr. Hodgson dealt with wore this system, or rather lack of it, one individual might be receiving taken for him by the revolution-

Pence Negotiations.

On Sept. 23, Io. Ching-hing aches of hond." He was ordered relief from two or three different societies while another, more aries and is ready for his coming.

forgal choques amounting in all presented a choque for $24,000 for therefore to retire into priváte Askel about the peace negotia to $5,000 which were passed payinent, and as his account was life and "nover again take part deserving, might not be able to obtain assistance at all. At the It is more than merely probable, tions General Lea said, I through, the account of Lai Po. 56,000 less than it should have in the handling of political public meeting a pommittee was appointed to daviso a scheme for the however, that Sun Yat-sen will don't know, anything about chun and debited against him in been to had only. $10,250 to meet establishment of a central organization to which all applicants for proceed to Nanking where the the negotiations further than the bank ledger, and though it. The defendant to got over this affairs." Her Imperial Majesty, relief could be referred. It was pointed out that the existence of a provisional Government is likely that matters have been sus- this was tho caso not central bureau of this kind would be a great relief to firms and to be established.

one difficulty inde a further fl-after all, achieved the same result ponded in Shanghai for two of the items appeared in individualų who at presont were often cajoled into giving monetary

entry by repaying the sun of as the Irish foreman, The inter! The arrival of a Chinese crui-days pending our arrival Tele the pass book, which defendunt. $5,000 to Eo Ching-hing's acting question now is whether it assistance to European mendicants without enquiry, owing to the absence of any one particular place to which beggars of this type with the Governor-General of poro. When we get to Shanghai to be initialled by a European

ser last night from Canton, grams wore bxchanged at Bingn-leo made up. All pass books had count.

she will be able, in the trang might be sont to bavo 'thoir slime for help investigated. This Kwangtang and a large boly of conditions may be entirely-differ- officer before being sent out to

No balance was to be taken for Pacific phrase, to "bold down difficulty ofton presents itself to Hongkong residents when persons officials, set at rost all doubt as eat and we my

have to proceed the oustomers. The initials wore fondant had time to look round. seven days in this case, so the de- -of-the-beach-comber class implore or demand money to procura food to the arrival of the man who is on lines altogether different from forged. The position would then The position of the bank now, wan

her own job." or lodging. Too often the money that is given is spent in liquor, destined to take up the reins of those already mapped out. It is be that the pass book would be that they $6,000 too much and to The Audacious Cook, but many find it difficult to rofase aid when they have no method of

government in the now Chinese hard to tell.

correct according to Lai Fo-chun's onquiring-into-the-bona-files-of-tho-applicant. With the establish

We are not upplying the head- ment of a central bureau any difficulty of this kind would disappear,sentative of the Telegraph." is to bring to Ching the same

Republic, says a special ropro- My aim, Baid General Loa," paying in book and cheque book, got over this defendant turnel to

but in-correct according to the

the account of Man Cheung-yuen as mendlicnuls could be directed thither with a full knowledge that, Newspaper men were early astir spirit, that Lafayette brought to ledger, The deception would and altered an entry on the dabing on this paragraph to the' if they wore found deserving, they would be given assistance.

side from $20,000 to $20,000. On on or house cook, though Businessliko methode should be applied to charity if the best but were disappointed us Dr. Sun, us in America and I feel that every koop Jai Po-chun at arm's length Oct. 7, Man Choung-yneu prosent the term audacions might often, results are to bs obtained. The absence of a central charitable very shortly after arrival, want American in Ching should have (and lowo the defendant freo toed a cheque for payment. which be ftly applied to specimens of on board the Chinoso cruiser and the same spirit. We know what work the accounts in the bank "clearing hous0 means that money and effort are often misapplied remained there throughout the liberty is and what enjoyment it ledger. He then set to work to was awkward for the defendant that species whose bump of ac and that the unscrupulous frequently victimize several societies,

who immediately orelited him quisitiveness is better developed while persons in genuins want are as a consequence disappointed day in consultation with the ofli- brings. We know what these cover his track by miking owing to a shortness of the funds available for relief. If charitable cials from Canton. It was ob-poor people in China have suffered false entry, orediting Lai Po-chun with 80.000 putting the acount than that of honesty. The, Gook relief were given on a system in Far Eastern ports the money subvious the Doctor had no desire to and what they will suffer as long with $5,000 on Nov. 11 h means right and leaving the leger we have in mind is Dr. Frederick

of two sum, one of $3,000 and wrong

A. Cook, the person who claimed scribed for the purpose would go further and would be employed to be interviewed, nad there is as this dynasty fu in power. batter advantage. There is little doubt that most people would be nothing surprising in this in view want Atorica to take the lod in the other of $2,000, totalling the On Nov. 1. defendant forged to have discovered the Pule, but cheque for $5,000 and who was later shown to be in glad to pay a fixed sum each year to a central bureau to obtain the of the fact that while he has been recognising China, in assisting amunt that he had drawn out by 2

for a similar impostor of the worst type. After privilege of dirosting thither applicants for relief. Shanghai seems at sea rapid changes have come this movement,and to take the lead means of the forged cheque yet another

over the situation..

in bringing to this country the Having credited LiPo-chun with amount on the same day. On his exposure Cook, who in the liberty that they in America the sum of $5,000 he had to November 10 he forged another meantime had gathered together With Sun Yat-sen is General enjoy. I want this in order that debitsomobody oles wifli a similar for $6,350, and another the same much wealth by lecturing, die-

Life Republic of Chiun and the sum, if the ledger account were day for $650.

appoared from view, and the Homer Les, who is to direct the Republic of America, with the to be correct, because it had to False entries were mida by quest for Cook seemed likely to H.M.S. Kont arrive lia Singa- military side of the work of the Pacific Ocean-between them, will be borne in mind that the actual the defendant on the debit side prova as long and arduous s | pore from Hongkong on Dec. 14. revolutionaries. General Heiner be able to conserve the rights money for the forged cheque was of. Lau Chun-wan's account in business as the search for the

We have received from the Army and has written on the of the human race, We have a

Lea was formerly in the Americas and liberty of at least two-thirds drawn out of Lau Po-chun'a ac- respect of all these forged cheques Pole. When he was unearthed If people would dare to speak

corresponding and it was only detected by Liu he explained his lapse from the to one another unreservedly, there Pacife Mail B.S. Co. six pocket decay of China. from a military hard task before us to keep out money passed into the account Chun-wan presenting a cheque paths of rectitude by saying that would be a good deal leas sorrow calendars.

point of view. **

foreign intervention and, to re- when he credited him with for payment, which did not come the hardships, he had undergone One extract from General The British sloop Merlin and Lea's writton work on China concile, all these millions of $5,000. It was merely a book through defendant's hands. The iu the frozen regions had effected the. German gunboat Jaguar ar- must be quoted. He says:

people. It's hard task but I entry. Upon the arrost of the bank dishonoured the clieque; his brain and that lie had been Grant Lan Chun-wan approached the labouring under the delusion The Civil Service Club Christ-rived in Hongkong to-day; the To such a low plane of self- am confident of success. And defendant Inspector mas Tree for members' wives and former from Labuan and the lat-defence did the Chinese full in out the world any human armed with a search warrant, bank, took his solicitor with him, that ho had really reached the children will be dismantled at

the fourth and fifth cycles of de-being can support a dynasty that obtain various incriminating and questioned the accuracy of North Pole. Evidently he has in the defendant's the accounts, denied having reconsidered the situation and in 2.30 p.m. to-morrow.

cadence that, we find the vast lips been finiftro such crimes P pe s At the meeting of the Legisla- empire conquered by these desort as are at the door of the present house. One of them came in here, drawn the cheques and said that is instance second-thoughts do tive Council this afternoon, after tribes. And it is in relation to dynasty in line for ouo can- that was a cheque drawn by the signatures were forgeries, not seem to be the better. At all. Ho Ching-hing for $5,000. This The bink looked into tlio in ther events on Oct. 24 last he made a On page 3 will be found an in- some discussion, sub-section 2 of these two periods of nation dis not understand.' portant report by the Public the University Ordinance, 1911, integration, during which hinn

was perfectly genuine cheque and found out what had hap theatrical attempt at Copeulingen tvindicate his reputation" by was amended by the substitution became a subject nation, that the

which had already passed through pono Works Committee on the, Tytam of the words "Court and by the present cycle must be consideradoneral Homer Lea,doe tuotelis in the ordinary way on Aug. 9: In conclusion Mr. Uolgon lecture in the very hall whers, Tuk Water Works scheme.

Claim by Norddeutscher Lloyd. of Medicine"

Court of the Hongkong College since conditions are basically the guise his beliet that a weak China Defendant and access to all old said he would prodnes intire years before, ho hnd nmid The case was continued before "Governor-in-Council." The dis- cadence, during which occurred with another

for the word came. In these periods of de-In the pours of an interview was that he must have stolen the monte, found at the defendence of members of the Royal is a danger to Britain and America. vouchers, and the only inference evidenco certain other docu- wild enthusiasm and in the pre-

Mr. Justice Gompertz, Puiano cussion was led by Hon. Dr. Hotho destruction of the Sung Dy-of the pross, hepointed out that The 85,000.having once been de-including some unused choques;ste, put forward his claim to bo representative sheque to enable him to use it ante house by Inspector Grant Funily and distinguished scien Judge, at the Supreme Court Kai, O.M.Ct., soconded by Hon. nasty and the establishment of the rise of Japan to to-day in which Mesere. Molchers Mr. H. E. Pollock, K.O

power bited to Ho Ching-hing on Aug. 9. and a rubber stamp, a facsimile le dirooverer of the North & Co., Agents for the Nord-

the Mongol Dynasty, of Yuon, destroyed the political equilib the defendant, on Sept. 14, falsi of that used by the Communion Pole. The attempt at vindi- and later the dissolution of rium in the deutscher Lloyd, sued the China The inhabitants of San Fran- the Ming Dynasty and the equilibrium could be restored sam of 36,000 on the old cheque, though the defendant was only Nauen, who tras pregunt at Last. Tht fied the account by debiting the tions Bank. He would show that cation was not a success. Dr. Borneo Co., Ltd. to recover the cisco, applying their ready wits enforcement of Manchu sove- either by breaking down Japon and ticked it off in blue pencil for getting $20 per month is an ap denouncing Cook as a swindler, sum of $3,693,73 in respect of to the extraction of blessings cut reignty, China had but to er strengthening and consolidat- the purpose of deceiving the prentes, he had placed in var and the climax was ronched when the lecture, elurted trouble by freight. The action arose out of of misery, have discovered, says protect horself from the aquating Chind so that Aus latter European officer when he looked on hunks of the Colony no anal an irregularity in the matter Les Nouvelles," that the iron horseman that screamed along should bearing a great military through the account. The week leta in the 320.000 between analleged picture of the North Pols of a receipt. Mr. M. W Slade, work of this houses burnt in the fire her northern frontiers. Today power. This would stop the ex-ly balance of the ledger took place July 31st and Nov 11 On Nov hrown on the soreen The K.C., instructed by Mr. WEL that raged through the town after in a period of national depression pansion of Inssin, whereas the on Sept. 15, and the only thing 18 ho deposited 810,000 with audience bomo so hostile that Shenton, of Messrs. Deacon, the earthquake of 1908, if mixed and decay that is in no degree utilisation of the Chinese toe by which the defendant had to do the Bus Asintic Bank in the Cook was compelled to, rotira, in- Looker and Deacou, appeared for with steel, possesses wholly re- removed from the defencelessness Russia would estroy Britial was to keep Ho Ching-bing at me of A Bievens, the initiale the plaintiff and Hon. Afr. H. Emarkable virtues. So loudly did of the fourth and fifth cycles of power on the Pacific; it might arm's length so that he should being the anime as those of his Pullock, instructed by they trumpet the qualities of their disintegration, this race has now mean, too, the conquest of India. not know that the sum of 85,000 came H Somy Mears Brutton and Holt, was scrap iron that Italy bought quan- for the first time to face enemies. The strengthening of Chias had again been debited to to his also been enquiring for par for the defendant. Evidence tities of it, and will use in mak-not alone on her northern borders, meant Lig open door and greater apcount. was called and the case adjourning the plates of their next but also upon the east and south expansion, gå drade for, both Bri. Turning back ed till Jan. 11 next at 10 a.m. Dreadnought,

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to be taking a stop in the right direction and her example in1y prove to be worth following.

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