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We wonder how much truth | there is in the repert that sa agreement between Chips and "Nothing is more beautiful Gormany has I.cen "partly than to sea men hid his art, CO.renchel, whereby the Chinese trade or function in an easy,

army ie to be placed under a disengaged way-wearing it as Gorman lieutenant general and a soldier bis swoid." large number of other German officers. Router adds cautiously that до confirmation of the report has been obtainable, "although it is generally ac cepted as correct." The idea soome rather a waste of money, for the | Chinese are not a military people, and it is doubtful if they ever will be. We know that General Gord in thought very highly of the Chiness as a soldier, but there is little in the events of the past two years to back #P bis prais). German officers cap teach smartness and efficiency,

Gorvernor E Walters, Governor and can show their pupils Mindoro, is passing through how to preserve a semblance of the Colony. discipline-in times of peice; but neither they nor anyone else can eradicate from the Chinese soldier

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HONGKONG, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1913.

BULGARIA'S DECLINE.

American and Canadian Maile.

Despatched per 8.8. Persia at noon yesterday. Siberian Mail-Despatched per 9.8. Yingchow at mid-night on Saturday, Australian Mail.-Due per s..

Coblenz to-morrow. English Mail of August 16- Delivered in London an September 13.

of

Governor Walters,

Going Ho ne. Among the pssengers on the. the tendency to Itga his head the.. Devanha on. Saturday was moment danger threstens, or dis Mr. Stephenson Jellie who is abuse his mind of the idea that going home on leave. the only thing worth fighting for is plunder.

A Fine Programime.

Tooshin not Floated.

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Silk Delivered

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Passing Through.

A CHINESE WILL DO

Judgment in a Friendly Case,

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THE COC » INK CASE.

Speech for the Defence This Afternoon. "{{fontinue 'from pays 5.) The cure was resumed this

plates, from a case once opened, to be found"

Dear Mr Danoan's desk, Then comes the explanation as to how these plat s found their way into the peokin 2 osse. It is not in evidence, su Ro-vekt, gave his jadguftornom before Mr Geoffrey cannot put it any higher than mustine Suprons Court this Norman Orme. ̈„**

that it is extremely probable, Mr Guldring said-If your that one of the cases which morning, in the oa in which

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the plaintiffs were Chan Yau and Worship pleases. 1 have now the "office bɔy supplied to Chan Pat and Chan Wu-alii and closed ry case and it is for me Laung Kum-tong was the onse Others were the defendants, the to address your Worship on the containing the photographic matter concerning the estate of facts and on the law. Now, your plates, and that when Loung Chan Quan-Ee, decesso. His Worship, the defendant in this is Kum-tong and his coolies w Lordship was asked to give as partner in a firm of 70 years' looking for something to do the desision on the car struction of standing (which is in evidence) packing (there being no straw) the will, the parties in the action and

have held they took the first thing they could being on friendly terma

lioraces of all kinds, sorts and find to do the packing with. Mr M. W. Slade, K C. instuol descriptions, and, up to the That fits my theory throughout ed by Mr Needham (Messrs presint date, there bas never been the whole case, that these Ewena and Needham), appeared any suggestion or of arge against people were working entirely for the plaintiff, and Mr E B. them of any kind whatever. In tshind Mr. Duncan's back; and Sharp, K. O., intructed by Mrt, may go as far as to ay I would go as far as to eay it is F. D'Almada, and Mr F. C that they have an absolutely un- possible they were actuated by blemished record. I emphasise malies against Mr. Dunesa. I Jenkin, instructed by Mr Beavis that paint, your Worship, because submit, your Worship, that the (Mearra Wilkinson and Grist)

I shall make use of it later in question of the plates and Mr. were for the defendanta,

poiating out to your Worship thit Duncan's knowledge of what In hie judgment his Lord-it is extremely unlikely that Mr went on on Thuraday the 21st and ship said: The answer to the Duncan would jeopardise that re on Friday the 22nd, is not saf- first question is in the affirmative cord by any illicit dealing. Of ficient by any possibile means to The bequest to the five benefici course, your Worship, in a way it is connect him with it. aries is, in my opinion, an absolute a estions case for Mr Duncan, but that he had any knowledge of Yesterday morning another-un-one, and I can discover nothing to ramo time it is only a revenue what was going on on those two successial attempt was made to which would justify me in ac-offure, and therefore I will pre- rights. Aat the s.8. Tooshin, which went/ 9910scing in the constraction fan my remarks on the question The second point, your Wor- The rates of Subscription to the "Hongkong Telegraph" will Lesson for the P.W.D.

which the plaintiffa desire, and of the probabilities of the story ship, is this question of the keys. The torrential rains which we be as follows:

regarding the bequest as a gift for which is before your Worship by There was a good deal of cross- experienced on Saturday night

life with remainder to the rest of this that it is not such a seriona did much damage to roads in the The silk shipment or the O. Skia absolutely. It is also cle case as would warrant Mr Dancin Colony, and it is to be hoped that K.. steamer Chicago Maru" upon the authority of the cases and all the witness for the de-keys. On that print I rely en- the Public Works Department which left here will have learned a lesson thereby, was delivered in New York' on of land passes to the land itself. in committing what, if your Wor-offics boy, namely that he had August cited that a devise of the rents fenes who have gone into the box tirely on, and ask your Worship to take, the explanation of the By that we mean we hope the the September 10.

The testator's intention in clear ship dass not believe their story four keys tied up in one bunch Department may be led to see the

Deported from America, that the $6,000 marriage dowry amounts to absolute and deliberate

one the key of the padicok value of tar macadam roads. A

Aer Chinese who had been is a first charge on the tents of perjury, walk round Kowloon yesterday

the strong room, one On the que t'on of facts, your provided an admirable object les-deported from Americs, was fined the property concerned. The son on this point. Wherever the $100 or in default one month, daughter, I understand, only Worship had really to decide the key of the ough ard, and two ronda had been macadamised, they for being in aulawful of a revol- twelve years of age, and heq ter-whether your Worship believes Mr private keys of his own and that were in an excellent condition, ver and ammunition.

tion is raised as 13 whether the Deccan was or was not the victim on the Thursday night he looked aam shall be invested by th ex- of rerian Chiness connected up and cleaned the flcor before the

office opened in the morning aɔ, but those thoroughfares laid with

Bahould ba ordinery metalling were in a sorry Mr and Mrs. Frank P. Helm of ecators and tow on the ineret with the Canton compradore's the o state. At the junc ion of Nathan Manila, are passing through is payable until the mariage of staff; whether your Worship. bs- aud Haiphong Roads the damage Hongkong en route for the United the girl. I sg-co with the view lieves the evidence of the office-trara of what bad taken was especially great, big fissures States on holiday. Mr. Helm is submitted by counes on both boy who was called and who place in the strong room; that himself on Friday they were a little longer than they meant to bsover. ting out and the binding ma- the director for the next Manila sides that until marriage or, alter practically admittel

natively, failing marriage, the in- guilty of a gross breach of duty the task of repacking; and that tarial absolutely washed away.} carnivel,

terest forme part of the property to his employer, and who admits Leung Kum-long and his sesoci- It is significant, too, that this

Lottery Tickets.

од which it is specifioully he was in fact, a very bad boy spot was only quite recently At the Polics Court, this morn:

sible and in the burry. newly laid down; and now it willing, a Chinese who was charged by charged. The annual of inde ad. In f ot, of all the wit-ats got away as quickly as pos locked the gate and gol cost a considerable eum to do the Inspector Gerrard with being to $1,050 for worshipping purposes that were called (I shall back to them later, work over again. From a point possession of lottery tickets, was pores at the shrine in the country came

me that away with the aid of the bɔy. of economy, to say nothing of the fined $250, or in default, three house, workmene' expenses and though it seems to other advantages, it pays tɔ treat months.

donations to charitable institn with the excaption of Mr. Doocan I submit, your Worship, that if your Worship taken the evidence tions and free schools" is clearly and the evidenc of the Crows of the boy, there is no doubt the roads with tar macadam.

Mid-Autumn Festival. a frst obarge on the property con. we are really but little concerned Today was the Mid-Autumn cerne. and the executors should with them, the toy was, of all the whatsver that that is what hat- aned; but, however, the boy Fertival, throughout China, and retain annually out of the witnesses, the bist. He was aut could not cover up the tracks of Though at the moment there is peace in the Balkans, no-one We are interested in the pro- all Uustoms offices were closed. proceeds of this amount before jeotalto very rigid cross-examina those who bribed him to allow believes that a final adjustment of differences has born attained be-gramme of events which has been most of the dockyards had to distribution of this property tion, and he was in a very them to us the strong room.

awkward position. But there was tween the rival factions. If the situation appears composed on the sent us as a preliminary to the work short-handed as

D.O.L.I. regimental swimming squence of the holiday.

amongst the beneficiaries.

no hesitation and there was no surface, there are still troubled currente underneath. Fighting has races which take place at the Ad.

The bequest is fourfold (a) tlis) Bv ne ce fcm his demean- Dumping Rubbish.

ebrine, (b) workmen's .BI- ceased, it is true; but this is due more to the physical and financial miralty Coal Camber on Eaptem,

our, or anything else, to sbow Two men and two women were peness in connection with it, that he did not fl himself to be exhaustion of the erstwhile combatants than to anything else. And ber 30. For once in a way, it is

institutiona very wrong; and he came forward we may be sure that one of there days, the sword will again be a complete and really helpful each fined $10, by Mr Bazeland, (c) charitable. drawn from its sheath and the boom of the cannon heard. What Programme. It tells competitors at the Police Court, this morning, (d) free sclioole. The two former and made a elesu breast of it all. exactly what they want to know for dumping rubbish at West bequests being invalid and the That is my strong submission ever may be one's views regarding the recent conflict, the present as to the conditions of the events Point, A man who carried pig two latter valid I am asked to sud on the boy's evidence and position of Bulgaria cannot but induce a feeling akin to pity. In and it should thus prevent error wash during prohibited hours was direct that excontore shall apply the etiience of Mr. Duncan the

More, it in fined $5.

half of the annual sum of $1,050 care largely reste, the early days of the war her soldiers had won a encoession of and confusion.

Eleven polo pomies for the to the charitable institutions and.

Now, your Worship, I pr pse Shanghai interportyolo team have brilliant victories and had pushed the Turks back nearly to Con-helpful to the spectators, of whom

A Chinese who gave the name free eshools and apply the to go very hastily through the arrived for the match this week. moiety as part of the specifically evidence that has been given. The They came from Shanghai to triumph after triumph. Then come diplomatic problems, and in which can be entered the result dressed when arrested for being bequested property under the Crown have proved, your Wor-Systow on the s.5. Kwong Bang the handling of thees her statesmen incurred the displeasure of her of each event, and lookers on drunk and incapable at four terms of the will.

ahor, the presence on the pre- and were transbipid at that allies with the result that all that was won has practically been lost should find that useful. A neatly o'olcek in the morning, failed to Now I think it is impractic-mises of Mesra, McEwan, Frickel port to the s.e. Hai-mun.

drawn up, well printed; and appear at the Police Court, this cable in this case to fix and Company of a number of and to-day Bulgaris stande a humiliated and chastened nation.

game is to start at 4.45 If we look into the causes which have led to Bulgeria's undoing complete programme of this kiod morning, and his bail of $10 was the proportions and regarding the cases alleged to contain sardines,

is quite a rarity out here where, estreated.

bequest as fourfold, the two for- but whoh, on investigation, p.m. on Thursday and is one of we shall find mash that is arresting and significant. Whatever may if there is a programme at all, it

Arms Again.

mer being invalid and the two were found to contain, in one lot four eight-minute chaltas. The be said by Bulgaria's friends concerning the differences which have is commonly arranged in slipshod sprung up between the former allied nations, the point cannot be fashion, full of errors of various s.R. Kores, with a Winchester fund attributable to the shrine morphine. If I can prove it all, Major Bikinin, Captain A Chinese who arrive by the latter valid, the one balf of the ofra os, eccaine, and in the other, Hongkong team will be: Major Bscaped that Bulgaris berroll dererves some censure for the reck- kinds, and unattractive to a rifle in his possession, was fined and workmens' expenses which is the case that I hope to put tators Edye, and Lieut. Bisdes.

Major MoHardy will sot se re- lessness with which she launched into a struggle that has proved so degree.

$150, by Mr. Geoffrey Norman void, should form part of the pro- your Worship for the defence dienstrous. And it is manifestly clear that the imprudence of the

Orme, at the Police Court, this perty on which it is charged and satisfies your

Worship that feres. Bulgare will cost them very dearly. Mr. Francis McCullagh, the

nothing morning. Inspector Marison which is equally divisible among Mr Duncan know

The programme is published famous war correspondent, who, it will be remembered, was

proved the charge nd said there the five beneficiaries. The whatever sbɔat tbis that, of a polo gymkhana to be held at faken prisoner by the Bulgarian, has admirably summed up

were notices about bringing remaining one half being it was done by Chiness the raccoon on Saturday. the cause of the nation's set-bick by pointing out that the The telegram quoted below was great advantage and the great defect of the Baglar is that be received by the American Can-am into the Colony, posted all in respect of charitable in behind his back, I shall later There are seven events, the first

over the ship

stitutions and free schools which satisfy your Worship 1, trust, that baing timed for 3.30 p.m. is still a peasant. Being a peasant, he makes a fine soldier, sulate General, Hongkong, from

A He fights well, but when, after the the Manila Observatory at, 10 but a bad diplomatist.

are good gifte should be applied he is not liable under the Ordin On Saturday afternoon the bar. by the executors in the exercise ants. Now, the points that have fighting is over, the accounts come to t settled over a green table, am, to-day- the Bulgar's inferiority is at once apparent, For the peasant is rigid Cyclone or Typhoon E. of ial took place at the Happy Vallery of their discretion for such par come out in be evidence given by and transparently grasping, where a diplomacy requires, above all northern Luzon, more than 300 of Gonner Daniels of H. M. 8. poses. I should add that there is the pro soution, beyond the mere Cadmus, who died on Friday no residuary bequest in the will presence of thers "ases, and things, pliability and opaqueness. By allowing the war to drag on miles distant, moving W.N.W

in the evening after an illness of about and these annual gifts being, as I have been laid stress on for nine months and a new war to break out at the end of that time, the Bulgars showed that they had over-estimated their own strength

three weeks. The deceased was have already stated, a first charge cross-examination and in the accorded fall mazal honours, the on the property specifically opening, prothess, your Worship: and the extent of their resources. It has since been clearly proved

band and bugled Being supplied bequeathed, in my opinion the First of all, that a certain num- Corps Orders by Captain 0. V. that when the Bulgarian forces were in force before the lines of

by the 2nd Battalion. D. G. L. I. persons entitled to the property hor of photographio plates similar 8. Skrimsbire, Hongkong Volum Chatelja, Turkey would have signed peace on any terms, provided

The second metoh Garrison v. The Servics was conducted by charged with the gifte take each to thors which were found on Mr toer Corps, contain the following only that Constantinople were left to her, and might even have sup parted the Bulgars in case the latter had differences with their allies V.R. O. will be played to-day as Rev. A. C. Moreton, naval property freed from so much of Dratan's desk were found in one

the gifts as are void.........* of the case removed to the Kes Parades: Parades for next În attacking those impregnable lines, however, the Bulgara displayel R. C., play commencing at chaplain.

Olause 6 is, I think, devoid of Sang Boarding House in Gilman week commencing Monday 15th Chased out of the Cabin, a fatal foolhardiness, and from that day to the present they have been 5.45 p.m. The following will going downhill, though they have persistently shut their eyes to the represent the V.R.-J.M.R.

Pereira, A. A. Caxton, J. Chinese from America, before Mir gilt for life to the five parties

Bergeant Pincnot charged a ambiguity and I agree that it is Street Now, your Worship, there in accordance with Schedule E.

is more than one explanation of of drills issued last week. There is now no doubt that, looked at in the large, King Fer Finch, A. N. Barres J. Forbes, G. Hazeland, at the Polics Court, in equal shares with remainder that We have it very clearly Joined: Gr D.H.G. Asker join- dinand's generals and statesmen have played their carda badly. Dowell, R. O. Witchel (Capt), this morning, with being in un-th their descendants absolutely and this is the fit. and moet ed the Corps on 8th inst, posted They should have realised that their lesson had been terribly heavy. The public is cordially invited. lawful possession of a revolver and in equal shares as tenants in Me Duncan's evidents, that when

raturalexplanation we have it in to 10 pr. Section, that their Allies were uncertain and that if they had captured Cor-

Bigned Pto. O. W. Beswick and ammunition. The revolver common. stantinople the chances were that they would not have been permitted Jacket Stolen from Jockey Club. was concealed in his clothing, The funeral expenses are sper be purchased a big consigo is partaitted to resiga. to remain there. If they had given the Turks the Enoe-Midia ling

A man who was charge and the ammunition in a feather cifically charged on the rents of meat of these plata because Live: The undermentioned last winter they might have won for themotlves the reputation of with stealing a jacket from the pillow. During the voyage, the the twelve Chineas house he is an enthusiastio, photos, members are granted leave: Pis generous victors, good diplomutista and unconquerable soldiers. Jookey Club, was brought before sergeant told the Court, the chief ether debts should, I agree,

grapher and 1 the course roli M. Austin, seven n Instead, they have shown themselves much too self-contained and Mr Hazeland, at the Police Court, officer of the Korea; the ship upon paid out of the personalty, which

ordse amination, in

swer to H. H. Bind, 20 days unyielding and they have gained nothing by their honest but elupid this morning. He had long flow which the defendant had travel, is undisposed of in the will.

geon, he sai did not Fitzgerald; one year inflexibility. Their failure is all the more regrettable because the ing hair. His Worship expressed led, was chased out of the sto Costs of parties.as between gay so many plates in the hot Orme, one year, C

as patriotism, perenvorsuce, frugal- the opinion that the man was no with a revolvers because

including Bulgars have stern qualities such

cold weat

Shentonlonet vest ity and unity. But they lack lact and scorn compromiss, That right in the head and remanded to stop ese from gambling cost of the

(not ba-ai Biden, one mouta, I why today Bulgarie finds herself humbled and almost friendless, the case for a week?

Bail Estreated.

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"stantinople. So long at it was a question of fighting, she met with we hope there will be many.

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