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SERVICE MATTERS.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1918.

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The Murderer in Gaol,

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organisations of Australis for 10 Company, Royal Garrison THE S.S. KOREA MURDER: purposes of mutual defence. The Artillery, at Cork Harbour, also nral Producers Association of loft in the Hardinge. He has Victoria, the Queensland Far been appointed to the command. "mora' Union, the Dairy Farmers' Association of New South Wales, and the Farmers and Settlers Association are favourable to the proposition, and a conference of two representatives of each as sociation will be held in Sydney

at the end of the present month

constitution,

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of the 30th Indian Mountain Battery at Kohat, in succession Major F. A. Wynter, D.8.0, Royal Garrison Artillery.

The following story, told by Honolula raper, gives a very good idea of the murder of Wong Fook, a Chinese passenger on the Kores on her last trip out:

But when his part in the affair was discovered by his country- men he was marked for slaught or. Knowing this he gathered up his wealth, some $3500, and fled secretly for China on the Korea.

But the vengeful tong, whose slave girl had been rescued by Wong Fook, learned at the last Bhrouded in mystery. made moment of his flight and detaled at large, all persuasions are to-doubly puzzling by the apparent Lee Hing Jou to follow and take lerated. On joining, every soldier, lack of any motive, the cause for toll of his life not only in re

Religion In the Army.⠀ In the army, as in the country

to

"But Wong Fook was cautious at first. He knew the ways of the tongs and feared that even on the bosom of the broad Pacific his life was in danger and so he kept himself secluded during the early days of passage. But when six days has passed and Diamond Head was almost in sight he felt confident that he had eluded his pursuers and mingled with his fellow passengers.

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to consider a suggested draft it be has not already got one, has the murder of Wong Fook on venge, but also as a good business TEL. 636,

to adopt one, by declaring to what board of the Pacific Mail line move, one which would prevent World's Coal Production in 1911. religion or denomination the be- Koren the day before the other lovers of elave girls from- The total known coal produc longs. In ordinary regimonts, if steamer reached Honolulu on its assisting them to escape from tion of the world in 1911, accor not of the Established Church or recent voyage to the Orient from the gaudy prison cells where ding to the Coal Tables publish- Church of Rome, he is considered San Francisco, has now been un- they are kept eaged in the vice ed by the Board of Trade, was 18 belonging what

earthed as a result of a sensational dene of the Oriental underworld. about 1,050,000,000 tons, of sergeant-major once irreverently raid in San Francisco's Chinatown which the United Kingdom pro- described as one of the "favoy on the night of December 17. duced more than one-fourth and religions." It is certainly an im

In broad daylight, on the crowd- the United States more than two-pressive sight to see a large body ed steeraga deck of the Korea, fifths. This exoludes brown coal of troops brought together for Wong Fook was shot three times or lignite. The output of the five public worship on Sunday morn and another Chinaman wounded, principal coal-producing coun-ings; and strangers are always by Lee Hing Jou, a young China. tries were: United States, struck with the heartiness of man well known as a highbinder 443,025 000 tons; United King- parade services, and with the of ons of the tongs of the Bay City. down, 271,800,000; Germany, reverential and attentive demean- Apparently the killing was the 168,164,000; Franco, 38,023,000; our of the men. And one would result of a quarrel over a game of Belgium, 22,683,000

not hastily see this important poker, but in reality it was at the Stagmotype."

feature in the training of young orders of the tong which is now "Then it was that while play In the printer's method of re-men discontinued. But it is diff-reported to have employed Les ing a game of cards one of the producing photographs as half-cult to deny the contention that long Jou as its official exe- players, named Lee Hing Jou, tone illustrations the original is by making such attendance com-outioner,

suddenly got into a rage, called photographed through a finely pulsory the parade becomes hu- "In the greatest raid ever Wong Fook some vile names and fined screen on to a negative. miliating. If these restrictions carried on in San Francisco in then suddenly disappeared. But Mach better results can now be of a soldier's liberty-relies of a which over one hundred federal he returned almost immediately obtained from the newly-invented bygone age, when Macaulay con-officers and municipal police took and opened fire with a revolver, 'stagmotype"; process, says the tended that it was essential for part, led by United States District killing his man and wounding "University Correspondent." public freedom that they should attorney McNab, steel doors were one of the Chinese crew in the Instead of the lined scroon, a be subject to a sharper despo battered down, and a four storey leg. film is used consisting of antic rule"-are still considered brick house at No. 16 Portolo A score of eyewitnesses, saw emulsion of strong solutions of necessary to discipline, we must alley was taken by storm." the killing, but not a single gelatine and of guin arabic, which not be sarprised at the continued Five Chinese slave girls were Chinese interfered. A moment when shaken together do not difficulty in obtaining recruits of captared as well as many in- later, however, officers of the form a mixture but yield a desirable class.-"Globs. ".; mates. This raid was planned Korea took the murderer. into medium containing evenly dis Manning our Future Flects.and carried out as the result of custody and placed him in irons, tributed minute spherical It is to be hoped, says the information obtained from two and United States Maralal Hon- globules.

"Globe", that a generous public widely separated quarters. First, dry took charge of him upon Underground Railways for will respond liberally to the com- confession by an escaped slave arrival of the vessel in Honolulu.

Sydney.

mendable effort being made by girl as to conditions in Chins. "Lee Hing Jon is now held in The New South Wales Minister the Rev. H. C. Elen and the comtown; second, the address of the jail on a charge of murder on the for Works announces that stepa mittee of the West London Train-mysterious brick house in Por- high seas, but as yat no action will be immediately taken to put ing Brig, to fit out as a fraiding ula alley sent to San Francisco by has been taken for his trial, al- into operation a portion of the brig the old gunboat Stork, The Advertiser," which secured though witnesses are being held scheme drafted by Mr. Hay, the which has been lent by the Ad- the number from United States here at considerable expense to English expert, for dealing with miralty for that object About Marahal Hendry of Honofaln the testify. Only as the result of the Sydney's traffic. It is proposed $1,500 is wanted for the pur-day that Lee Hing Jou was arrest-raid on the Portolo alley house, to carry out the first section of poss, and there are several ed by him for the murder of however, did the final story of the oity underground railway at prominent MP.'a a cost of between £250,000 and officers on the management com sent by wireless in a dispatch.

and naval Wong Fook. The address was the slave girl's escape and Wong CASSUM AHMED,

Fook's connection with the case £300,000. In view of the committee. There are, it is said. "The girl who gave informa- become known." pletenora of Mr. Hay's report about 30,000 London boys leav tion was Yee Mee Ho, whose es- upon Sydney's trallie problem, ing, school each year, and on cape from slavery was made with the Minister considers a reference siderably over half of these drift to the Works Committee unneces-into the casual labour market. Bry, and proposes to introduce a With the salt of the sea tingling short enabling Bill in Parliament in their blood, they witness in lieu thereof, which will effect foreign seamen housed in the a considerable saving of time and forecastles of our merchantmen, money,

and find, too late, that a naval The Chinese Parliament. career would have been infinitely As the new Chinese Parliament better for them than street- is to be opened some time during corner idling. It is in the this month, many of the new public interest, at a moment when representatives are expected to both of our national feels, the

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