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"ALLEGED"FALSE] PRETENCES.

A Clever Dodge that Nearly Succeeded.

This afternoon, at the Police Court, before Mr. J. R. Wood, a

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

AFTER THREE YEARS.

Man. Charged with Theft

of $1,500.

Before Mr. C. D. Melbourne, at the Police Court, this morning, a

EXTRA

HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1914,

WAR ITEMS.

Austria and Montenegro. Two Austrian Army Corps. the 18th and 18th, are in the field (Is Germany Seeking Peace with against Montenegro. The opinion

France?

Simla, Sopt. 4-According to a cablegram to the Pioneer, Lo. Temps learns that a report bas

side of the frontier. The Ger- are lying in wait on the other mans were repulsed in an attack upon the village of Rouesses.

How to Deal With Desperadoes

RETIREMENT OF DR. BELL.

Hongkong Loses a Very Popular Official.

Chinese was charged with at-/Chinese named Wong Ki, alias been discreetly oirculated that named Keith Bradea was sen- tempting to obtain money by Wong Kam, was charged at the Germany is prepared to make tenced to ono month's imprison single fort has se yet failen into river near the dock at dusk. The board with extreme regret that Dr. moans of false pretences, and with demanding

menaces.

money

by

Inspector P. O' Sullivan pro- socated on behalf of the police. The master of a restaurant in Queen's Road West said that, on the evening of September 19, the

instance of Chan Heung-chun (complainant) with, on May 9, 1911, feloniously stealing the Chinese twenty-cent pieces, and aum of $1,060 or thereabouts in the sum of $500 or thereaboute

in Canton notes,

Hall Brutton) prosecuted, and Mr. W. B. Hind (Mr. G. K.

Mr. L D'Almada e Castro de fended.

peace with France on excellent terma.

is supposed to have been held at the outset that one Army Corps would be sufficient in this field of operations.

Spread of False Reports. London, Aug. 20.A man

ment at Bow street yesterday for improperly wearing a military Australian Trade Route,

uniform. An army officer testifi- Simla, Sept. 5.A Prosa co-ed that he saw Bradon at a theatre unique announce for general in

an artillery lieutenant's" information that the trade-routes uniform, and heard him say that to Australia andit Penang are he travelled from Havre to Liege considered safe.

with the survivors of the Black The Battle at Charleroi. Watoh, who were out up. He London, August 29. also said that Braden made a Stories of "Tommies" are similar statement with regard to beginning to throw light on the 10th Hussars at Alsace. various phases of the conflict. Braden, when questioned at the They show how fariously at War Office, admitted that the Oharleroi

the fight raged.story was false. To

In Action. Allahabad, Sept. 5. The Army Racquets Champion

(Captain Luther) has been killed in action.

The complemant said that one of his fokis took the money to the Wing Yuen bank. He went with the foki of the Wing Yuen and the defendant. Complainant's tho right of the Racquets Champlon Killed foki was away about five minutes British, the French Artillery at the most. Complainsutcould not worked tremendous havoc in the remember who gave the foki German ranke, which were over instructions to go. He heard the coming up. Nambora gradually instructions given to the foki to told, the Frenchmen fell back go with the defendant to the slowly. The French, according the to the British soldiers, lost more Wing Yuen and deliver money. When the foki came back heavily than the British. German he said the money was delivered to the Wing Yuen bat no money had been given to him yet and he would have to go back later. Complainant was perfectly satia fied with that answer at the time.

By Mr. Hind: The foki'did not say to whom the money was delivered at the bank.

prisoners told our soldiers that they did not know they were fighting the British. Their officere told them that their oppo- nents were Russians.

"Make Sure of Your Alm.”

∙London, August 28.

Balaclava Recalled, London, Sept. 3.-The Daily Mail records a feat of the Ninth Lancers on the Belgian frontier recalling Balaclava. The regi ment rade straight at a battery of eleven guns, hidden by bay

stacks, which had wrought havoo among the British. The Lancere cut down the gunners, disabled the guns and then returned amid murderous fire from the other

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batteries.

Twelve hundred

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A sharp lesson to raidera has been taught by the sentries on guard day and night in the upper The 10th German Army Corps, resobes of the Clyde near the reinforced by cavalry, attacked dockyards, in which a battleship Liege laat night. The enemy is being rapidly prepared for had to cross some zones which service. had been mined. The mines During the week-end, says the exploded, and whole battalions of Globe, the sentries observed a

All his friends in the Colony- the enemy were killed. Not a small motor-boat gliding up the and they are many will have the hands of the Germans. boat was challenged, but the Bell has decided to leave Hong German occupant, who eat in the atorn, kong. Eighteen years ago, with a wounded were picked up on tho made no reply. He guided his fine record behind him, he entered field of battle.

graft close to the ship, and was the Government service as assist- Six German officers, disguised evidently engaged in making a ant surgeon; and, since then, at four o'clock this morning into warnings that were being shouted meats, including those of Pre- ne Englishmen, made their way close sarutiny, heedless of the has held various official appoint the Governor's offico. They were to him. killed. The Governor is safe,

aident of the Sanitary Board and Then suddenly the man put Superintendent of the Civil on full speed and

started Hospital and Lunatio Asylums. Harbin, Sept. 12. down the river. He had not But it is not only as an extremely the activity of the Russians pre-sentries opened fire and riddled that Dr. Bell will be remembered A telegram from Petrograd says gone many yards when the popular and efficient civil servant vente the figuring up of their the boat with shot. It aank liko in Hongkong. His researd a work trophies. When the Russians co- a stone, carrying its unknowa in the domain of tropical medicine cupied Nikolaieff, after two days occupant with it. So far the body has made his name known both battle, they only halted two hours has not been recovered.

in the Far East and at Home; and and then pushed on all night to

it will be remembered that, at the Medical Congress of 1913, he read papers on subjects, wherein he has specialised which were regarded as exceedingly valu able by all his professional brethren.

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| Russian War Trophies,

the enemy's new positione. Hundreds of prisoners are arriv ing daily at the railway stations. A Russian battery destroyed an Austrian steamer on the Vistula armed with quickfirers. A Cos Back regiment brought from prisoners and numerous horsoe Framegol seventeen Austrian

A host of men are working day and night on the ship, and every few minutes big search lights are swept over the yards after dusk. Sentries are also posted with loaded rifles.

German Aviator Files French Flag.

Paris, Aug. 13. How a German aviator tried to

and cattle captured from the 17th blow up two French towns is Landwehr as well as the re- described in su official commu-

mental cash box, e ntaining 148.000 kronen. prisonere twenty verste south east Russian infantry captured 700

nique isened yesterday.

defendsat came to him and represented himself to be Treasury

official.

Ele told the prosecutor that he owed the Treasury money for stamp fees. Witness said he did not know. whereupon the defendant asked for the licence. He was shown it and he said :-You owe the Government money; don't you know that? Witness replied that he did not know the regulations relating to that, and a passage in the English print was pointed out to him by the defendant to support his story. The defendant said that stamp money had to be paid in each quarter and, three quarters were Con- sequently owing. The defendant said he was a Treasury shroff, and that a letter would come from the Government the next day about it. The defendant

A British soldier in a letter Home, giving a description of the brought a letter the next day and prosecutor gave $15 to the

The foki of the complainant fighting at Mons, says: The

Glorious British Valour. defendant who put the money in said he was employed by the com- Germans are atrocious devils. his pocket. The prosecator de plainant to deliver money atc. They were furious, but their firing

London, August 30. manded a receipt but was told it He deposed to what took place was inaccurate. Ours was good. Impenetrable gloom still hangs was not necessary, and on the on the date in question. We piled up their dead, but they over the battle line. No word is prosecutor threatening to go to

By Mr. D'Almada:-Com- came for us in thousande. It coming through indicating the the station and see the inspector, plainant's instructions were to was a magnificent, but awful trend of events. From all sides the defendant handed back the deliver the silver and bring back eight-shrapnel made the night comes the testimony of the heroic money. They went to the station banknotes. When he told com- hideous, but our chaps were calm, resistance of the British troops but as they neared the door of the plainant that the bank would have and aimed deliberately. Our at Mone, and Cambrai, eclipsing station the defendant startel toto collect notes before they could Captain was a fine fellow. He anything even in the history of run but was soon caught by the deliver them, the complainant was had his leg smashed by a shell, the British Army, not only in quite satisfied. He did not remem but he knelt on the knee, and gallantry but in efficiency. What ber, what day the 9th was. If bis kept cheerfully calling out, "My ever may happen in the future, it master bad esid, seven days after bonnie boys. Make sure of your is generally admitted that they the occurrence, that witness took aim." The letter concludes that saved the Allies' left wing, though the notos, he must have made a the Germans were more like mad at a terrible cost. Yet the German

losses were mistake. He would not say that | Zulus than human beings.

colossal oven on his master was lying then or that Hostages in Austria, conservative estimates.

Lord Kitchener announces that St. Petersburg, Aug. 19.—In

Teinanfu, Sept. 11.

"While I was in Namur this he (witness) was telling lies now.

with

Thirty German resorviste, most- (Friday) evening at 6.30, three Perhaps it was his master's bad connection pro-Russion the British losses from Augustly from Mongolis, arrived at bombs were dropped from a memory; he had a lot of work to agitation in Austria, members of 3rd

to 26th were do. Witness was away half an the Slav police in Elerzegovina thousand to six thousand. The Weihsien to-day and are proceed-German seroplane. The first hour. It took time to count notes,

German losses were inanitely ing by handcar, freight train and caused no damage, but the second

boat to Tsingtau, Mr. D'. Almada : The last

greater." witness said five minutes.

prosecutor,

The defendant, who is a long story explained that what he had done

Was од

the instructions of another man, this being the third time the latter had made a fool of him, was convicted on the first charge, and sentenced to four months' hard labour.

ABSENT DEFENDANTS.

This morning, in the Summary Court, before Mr. Justice Hazeland, The Tak Yuen firm, traders, of Kowloon City, sued the Tai Fang Firm, brewere, of Causeway Bay, for $188.93 for goods sold and delivered.

Mr. Otto Kong Sing appeared for the plaintifle, but Mr. Nor- rington, of Mr. Bratton's office, who was to have appoared for the defendants, and the defendante themselves, did not put in an ap

pearance.

The plaintiffs formally proved their claim and judgment was given for them with costs..

TYPHOON WARNING.

The telegram quoted below was received by the American Consulate General, Hongkong, from the Manila Observatory, at 4.00 p.m. yesterday

Cyclone or Typhoon-E. of the Visayas falando, moving. W. or W.N.W.

Cyclone or Typhoon-8. of Guam, direction unknown.

The following telegram was received at 11.20 a.m. to-day :-

Cyclone or Typhoon-E of Southern Luzon, moving N.N.W. Cyclone or Typhoon-W. of Guam, moving W.N.W. or N.W.

Leave Canceled. Lent: Colonel R. E. Dyer having returned from line on the forenoon of August 10, the anerpared portion of his leave from: 19th to 18th August" in cancelled.

The assistant manager of the Yau Kes bank said defendant was the man who arranged the price in the buying and selling of coin. On the date in question be BOW the accountant · sell $3,200.50 worth of tronty-cent

fendant and his two fokis about eleven o'clock in the morning.

He saw people at the Wing Yuen Bank making for money. That was later in the day.

and Dalmatia are being held as hostages by the Austrian Govern- ment, as a guarantee against possible rebellion.

Russian Labourers and

Travelters. Copenhagen, Aug, 20.-Berlin official order with regard to the newspapers have published an

from five

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of Zamostie.

· Austrians' Severa Losses.

London, Sept. 12.

A telegram from Rome states that the Petrograd correspondent of the Messagero roports that the second battle in Galicia was a greater Russian success than the

first.

The Austrian losses are estimat ed at 180,000, including 90,000 prisoners.

Japanese Advance on Tsingtau.

Peking, Sept. 11.

The floods surrounding Tsing- tau are spreading inland and will probably delay the investment of the place for some months.

High Treason. Mr. Ahlers, the German Consul mitted for trial on a charge of at Sunderland, has been com

high treason.

Allens and India,

A Gazette

A German aeroplane. flying morning over Vesoul, some 35 the French flag was sighted this miles to the west of Belfort, and later over Lare, about 20 miles to the north-west of Belfort.

"Three bombs were dropped over the station at Vesoul and two over Lure Station.

Among his own patients he was more than well liked, for his

aaner inspired instant con- the presence of a man who was fidence; one felt that one was in sympathetic," knew what to do," and would do it,

Bell have been the recipients of Needless to say Dr. and Mrs various tokens of respect from all directions-official, profession- al and privato. Boy will leave shortly for London, where it is possible the doctor may accept

"The damage done, however, appointment in connection was of but little importance, and with the School of Tropical the hostile aircraft was finally put

Medicine. But wherever he to fight by a lively fusillade goes he will take with him this

Colony's heartiest good wishes. from the gendarmes guarding the railway lines."-Router. German Airman Drops Bombs

Into Namür.

The Times correspondent in Belgium gives the following account of an exciting experience

in Namur :-

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TION OF HONGKONG."

OWING to the postponement of the Shanghai September Settlement until October, the public is hereby notified that the settlement of all transactions in shares bought from or sold to Shanghai will take place in October.

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GMMER R. TECHNICAL INSTITUTE.

EVENING CLASSES in the following subjects will commence on Monday, the 5th. of October Engineering Section:

wounded five men, three of them seriously. The third fell on the The Press Barean has issued à

pavement of the Omalias Bridge. statement made by Lord Kit

"I was myself only about 300 the Settlement of all transactions With the exclusion of the above, ebener, describing the share of

yards away at the time. One of effected for the local September the British troops in the four

the victims had the lower part of Settlement will take place as days battle which started on the Allies were occupied in re- published at Simla, empowers being scattered in all directions.

both legs horribly mangled, blood advertised. on the 28th Septem- Aug. 23rd. During this period

Extraordinary, and bits of clothing and flash ber, 1914.

EDWARD RAYMOND, 45,000 Russian labourera employ- sisting and checking the German variona local authorities to exercise The inhabitants of Namur

Secretary pieces to defendant for $3,000 ined by German landowners in East advance, and withdrawing to powers under the Foreigners are very indignant at this outrage Hongkong, 23rd September, 1914. Hongkong banknotes, The money these men must not leave Ger- battle began at

Prussia. The order states that new lines of defence. The

Ordinance Regulation was delivered to defendant. De

and against a town which is not in o fendant was with two fokis. The many and must continue at work, Sunday.

The German attack Madras and Rangoon as the only

Mona on appoints the ports of Calcutta, state of siege.

Paris, August 14. money was divided into three and it empowers their employers was stubbornly pressed home bags and each carried one bag. to use armed force to quell the and repeated; but it was com enter or leave India. No German successful of late, and their value French aviatore have been very ports by which foreigners may The money was delivered to de- slightest show of revolt,

pletely checked by the British Hundreds of Rassians are Front. On Monday the Germans or Austrian may leave India before as a unit of power much enhanced. arriving at Copenhagen from made vigorous efforts with their september 15 or after September In the neighbourhood of Wovre a The monte for Rusin, superior numbers to prevent the 29 of no Gorman or Austrian German aviator appeared, flying The Dowager Empress Marie haa safe withdrawal of the British man of reservist age may leave at a height of 3,000 feet. He until further orders. Asiatica was immediately fired upon with provided at her own expense two troops, and to drive them into generally are exempt so far as good effect, and despite desperate trains for the conveyance of the fortress of Maubeuge this they may receive special permits efforts the machine came lower Russian travellers to the frontier, was frustrated. The enemy's

Poison for Water.

and lower to the ground." and the Swedish Government losses on both days for exceed

A rumour, which is apparently It was then seen that, an obeer- has placed a train at the disposal ours. of the refugees. Arrangements proceeded on the 25th with con- shot, that a German had been tion to the pilot. Both were made

The British retirement well founded, is current at Alderver was in the aeroplane in addi-Science Section: for Russiane leaving Hamburg tinuous fighting, though not on arrested and was found to have prisoners. have been in the care of the the scale of the two previous days. on his person a sufficient quantity Yesterday a French airman Spanish Consul there.

By the night of the 25th the of poison to impregnate the sapied a German reconnaitring British occupied the lines from waters of the reservoir with dead- the French position near the fron A report from the General Staff Cambrai to Le Jateau, and Lendly germs that would have fatsl tier. He gave chase and fired of the Russian army states that resies. It was intended to resume effect. He was summarily dealt several revolver shots. The the officers in command of the the retirement at daybreak of with, but in what manner is a German did not reply, but took German Army are the following: the 26th, but five German Army secret that has been carefully refuge beyond the left bank of the on the Western front, General von Corps attacked, and the fighting guarded. Moltke; on the Belgian front, was so close and force that it General von Balow; on the was impossible to carry out the Eastern front, General von Fritwiz retirement till the afternoon. Maron (?Gáfron.)

This battle was most severe and desperate. The troops extricated themselves magnificently, ander the heaviest artillery fire.

By Mr. D'Almada : There were three or four bankers at the Wing Xnon. He thought probably there was a meeting of the credi- tors sometime afterwards and the bank of witness was represented, He knew the defendant owed witness' firm money.

Mr. D'Almada said he objected to the evidence of the witness and the other witnesses, which his friend bad brought to give similar evidence, on the grounds that it was irrelevant.

After other evidence had boon taken, the case was adjourned.

LATEST SHIPPING NEWS.

German Commanders,

It is reported that a change has been made in the composition of the Austrian army on the Russian frontier. The Czech regiments have been withdrawn and sent to the French frontier, The Ben Line x. DENRINNES from being replaced by German sold Lalth and London left Singapore for the lord with a German commanding port on 22nd inst and may be expected officer.

MOVEMENTS OF STEAMERS.

| to arrive here on or about 28th insti

Mouse. A German aviator flying at a great height dropped three bombs on the French troops near Woel, but without serious dam- age.Exchange War Special.

Building Construation. Field Surveying. Applied Mechanics. Steam,

Machine Drawing. Mathematics.

Chemistry, Metallurgy Physics,

Electricity. Sanitation. First Ald.

Commerce Section:

English. French. Shorthand. Book-Keeping." Teachers Classes for: Women English:

Vornacular."

and

Men" English and Vernacu Students should attend at

Sounds of Heavy Cannonade. Heard at Dover. Tremendously heavy cannonnd ing was heard at Dover for about an hour in the early hours of this A Belgian military aviator had a morning. There was a very narrow escape from death yester strong north-easterly wind blow day. He was flying over Wieryck Queen's College at 6 pm, Monday ing, and the firing was either Plain when the motor of his 5th October for enrolment, taking place in the North Sts, or machine broke down gred the sero- that it may even have been the was backen by a telegraph wire, it is thought posible, locally, plane dropped. Luckily, the fall heavy armament of the opposing and he escaped with a few German forces armies in Belgium in sotion. ecratohen,Renter's Special.

derman Losses,

Liege, Ang. 7. it is reported, in position near Several German howitzers are, Harve (a few miles to the N.E. of Thege

Copies of the prospectus and entry forms may be obtained on application to the undersigned.

RE. O. BIRD, M.A.¡

Director. Hongkong, 23rd September, 1914)

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