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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1914.

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THE NOBLEST MIND THE BEST THE SPECTRE OF FAMINE IN CONTENTMENT HAS-Spenser

The other day, in a leading article, we commented at some length on the irritating delay in the work of linking up Capton. and Hankow by rail-a work in which Hongkong has a peculiar! concern. We then spoke of the probability of the rate of progress being retarded further still by the clear.. stappage of foreign faade in con- sequence of the war. What was|‹lear, then a probability has now become

The Weather. Lower level 8'a.m. Tamp. 60;

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GERMANY.

Despatch of German troops to Poland, and the Consequence."

THE BOMB CASE:

FULL COURT RULE OUT POINT OF LAW;

Seven Years for the Man Who Desired to Murder.

CHINESE ENGINEERING & MINING COMPANY, LTD.

Extract from Directors' Report.

⠀ Mesars. - Dodwell & Co, Ltd.,. local agente of the Kailan Mining Administration, advise that the Sir William Rees Davies (Chief annual general mesting of the Despite the somewhat vacillat- Justice) and Mr. Justice Gompertz, shareholders of the Chinese En

gineering and Mining Company, whatever work, there is in hand, Canadian Mail.Closes per aging reports from the eastern sitting in Full Conr this morning; Ltd., was to have been held in Ohicago Mara to-morrow at battlefield, we are able, in conse-heard the point of law reserved London on the 21st December,

quence of the cablee received by Justice Gomper z at the over-night, to form our own Criminal Sessions, in the case 1914, when the Directors' report ing along the Russian frontier. Hoi-fok was found guilty by the year ending 30th June, 1014, were So serious bave matters been jury of being in unlawful posses to have been submitted.

The net result of the year's from the German standpoint that sion of half a pound of dynamite

while the Chinese, Director has

gone on a visit to Peking to

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funds for the project. What the result of his mission will be re- mains to be seen, but at the moment the outlook is none too Yesterday the Telegraph rosy. It has been proved again lished 35 columns of and ugain that the Chinese them-reading maiter Today

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it was found necessary to draw and five.detonatore on Novembertransactions shows a balance to the credit of Profit and Loss Account › under such circumstances as to from the troops in the west to fill

| £152,288, follows:- up the gaps made in those in the give rise to reasonable suspicion of 102,006, madonas fol east. This surely is not a sign of that he did not have the explo

Mining Administra- Germany being victorious beyend gives in his possession or ander

tion's Frofits, less historical record. Is indicates, hie control for a lawful purpose.

Sandry Expenses £169,360 rather, that the Russians have It was then mentioned that pri

Interest been mowing down the enemy in soner admitted that he wanted

tako the explosives Agency fees. the colossal manner in which their to

to

.of

Daduot:

4,384

4,000

#65

6,854

Total...183, Bi

£6,528

3,708

9,245

11,914

31,895

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1914, absorbed..... £50,000

Final Dividend 5 per

cont. (making 10 per. coat, for the year)

50,000

Balance carried forward 52,288

Possession of Ammunition, despatches have stated. And Macao with a view to having a Sundry Receipts....... A Chinese, relarning from what has been the result of this bomb made, then taken to Canton Balance brought forward A Growing Evil.

Australia, was charged before poulticing of the western flink? and thrown at General Lung Again and again in this column M. Wood, st, the Police Conit The Allies have just taken their Chakwong. and elsewhere bave we dilated on to-day, with unlawfully being own time, and, finding the weak The Hon. Attorney General filthy habits of the Chinese which in possession of a quantity of ness, pushed the enemy back a con- (Mr. Kemp) instructed by the Expenses in Europe..

Directors' Fees ara allowed to go unoheoked in ammunition. He was fined $50. siderable distanco in a few days, Crown Solicitor (Mr. P. M. Income Tax" The rates of Subscription to the "Hongkong Telegraph" will this Colony. To-day a lady cor- Another Chinese arrested as he further than they had heretofore Hodgson, prosecuted, and the Hon.

Preliminary Expenses bo sa follows :-****

respondent, whose letter will be landed from a sampan with a in as many weeks almost. And Mr. H. E. Pollock, instrooted by found in another columa, relates pistol and 200 rounds of ammuni- now we find that the British have Mr. O. A. 8. Russ (Mr. Gardiner's en experience, even the thought of tion in his possession was fined recaptured a host of trenches and aflos) appeared for the defence.

that the Allied forces have routed The Hon. Mr. Pollock said he The rates per quarter and per menam, proportional. Bubscriptions which makes one shudder in dis- $250.

for any period less than ne month will be charged as for gust. But expectoration from

the opposition from its first line was appearing before their Lord. Leaving a net balance

$152,268 of defence at many points and ships that morning on a point of which the Directors recommand fali month.

verandahe is a mild habit com- Mishap to the Benlawers, The daily isone is delivered free when the address is accessible to pared with some others of a like The 6. Benlawers, which are positively in the first line of law which was reserved at the should bo appropriated

bearing of this caso by his Lord follows:- nemsenger. Peak subscribers can have their copies delivered at nature which we could mention. arrived in port to-day, reports German trenches.

The Real Front.

ship the Paisne Judge at the trial their residences without any extra charge. On copies sent by The scandal is that these filthy that during the last two days of

Interim Dividend 5 per The omniscient William has of the prisoner which took place post an additional $1.80 per quarter is charged for postage, practices should be tolerated. Our the ran up from Singapore, light

cont, paid 15th May The postage on the wookly issue to any part of the world is $1.00 correspondent suggests, as one easterly winds and heavy swell found that his country has been on Monday last. The charge was

per quarter.

way of dealing with the matter, were experienced. At 7 p.m. on actually invaded by an enemy laid under section 5 of Ordinance Single Copies, Daily, tan centa. Weekly, twenty-five cents (for the serving of strongly-worded the 21st, land was sighted right that announced its presence very 23 of 1913, and the important

cash only).

notices in Chinese on tenement abead, and before anything could rudely-famine. As relentless a worda of that section, from his Advertisements and Subscriptions which are not ordered for a fixed holders. That might have some be done the vessel struck, damag-pestilence, famine is literally point of view, were the first five

period will be continued antil countermanded.

effect, but a vigilant watch kept ing her stem and filling the fore aweeping the country. Even the lines down to the words "for a on Chinese tenements and a few peak with water.

mach-muzzled press is calling lawful object." His contention really stiff fines on offenders

out in agony against the increased was that right down to those would be more effectual still. Wờ

Trade Enquiries.'

price of food and its never ceas-words, the whole burden of all know quite well that it is no easy

ing upward tenderoy. And all the allegations, and the burden Hongkong importers are in this while the fantailed warships of proving all the necessary ver- matter to catch the transgressors, vited by the latest American nestle in the snug dovecote of sions rested on the prosecution. but the thing has now become Trade Enquiry List to correspond Wilhelmshaven, two

Callous Kalser. or three That was to say, not only had they An interesting story has just such a common nuisance that with American exportere seeking leaving the nest when driven to prove possession of an explosive been revived as showing the special efforts should be made to Hongkong connections as listed ont for want of excitement, substance, but they had to go on Teutonic indifference to carnage. bring some of these individuals below Electric insulated and HE has gone back to the front, and prove the possession not for a Some years ago, when the Kaiser other wires cotton fabrics; we are told, but in going to lawful object. Possession alone, was present at our mancouvres, antitoxins, curative'sers, vaccines the scene of shot and shell he is under that section, of an explosive he saked the War Minister Mr. and pharmaceutical products actually leaving the front, the substance was not sufficient per Brodrick, as he was then--why: enamelled ware; detached elec. fighting front along which these, but the prosecution had to goon an English division consisted of tric light plants; wood-working terrible struggle of the people and prove possession under such only 20,000 men, adding that in machinery; and formaldehyde against the ravishes of hunger is circumstances as to give rise to Germany 25,000 was the number. fumigatore.

taking place a battle more reasonable suspicion that the pos- "But why the extra 5,000 ?” serious to Germany than the blind session was not for a lawful object asked Mr. Brodrick......... militarists can see.

This was one whole offence and Why?" echoed the Kaiser, Naval Matters.

they could not separate it into speechless with astonishment. The British warships, we learn, two; they could not make two Why? To allow for the casual- have captured, near the Talk-offences of it; both the possession ties. Every time we go into battle lands, the new Bamburg-Amerika and the circumstances to give we expect to lose 5,000 men out

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HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1914.

CINEMATOGRAPH PLAYS.

to book,

HELPLESSLY DRUNK.'.

Could Talk, but Couldn't Walk.

Who are the people, one wonders, who write, or constract-or misconstract-the oinematograph plays? A few years back, perhaps, the question would not have seemed worth diving into; but to-day in Europe and Amerina, and to a great "extent even in such small colonies as Hongkong, the picture palace has become not only s diversion but an influence. The modern serious cinematograph drunk and incapablo in Queen's plays might be classified as good, ridiculous and pernicious. Under|

ing, before Mr. J. B. Wood, At the Police Court, this morn-

Charles Austin, an American enilor, was charged with being

Road.

A SERIOUS CHARGE."

the first head very few that we have ever seen would come; under An Indian constable said that Chinese Committed for Alleged linera Baden and Santa Isabel, rise to reasonable suspicion had of every division.""

the last, quite a fair number; but the bulk would undoubtedly have to be sat down forthwith as ridiculous.

Of course, among a given hundred or thousand of spectators,

when he made the arreat, the de- fendant was staggering about

Inspector Fenton said that,

Assault on Woman.

$252,268

which were acting assupply ships to be proved by the prosecution. This story is venched for by a to the remnant of the German Fleet That was his submission as to the bigh War Office official who had that is speaking round the clear meaning of the first five it from Mr. Brodrick's own lipsa Atlantic and the Pacific. This is lines of the section.

The Chief Justice: That is so;

there will be persons with all sorts of appetites, and it is the business the road and impeding the trafic. This meraing, at the Police just another little item to be put

amah being away at the market.

of the film-maker to conside: how near he can go to pleasing every when the defendant came to the Court, before Mr. F. A. Haze on the debit side of Germany's I should say. body. Unfortunately be, as often as not, ends by pleasing nobody police station, he was helplessly land, U Pui, a Chinese, was war account. One can safely Defending counsel Raid he had to abuse the press censor. Can we not find a word or two to say chair, and had to be carried from with another not in custody, two vessels will materially bring a special verdict by the jury, andto try is quite different from that. Nowadays, when in want of a topic of conversation, it is fashionable drunk. He was brought up in a charged with having, in company assume that the total cost of these applied to the Paisne Judge for statement. The point we have against Mr, Bedford, or his representatives? We have been told by the charge room to the cells. He assaulted Sybil Joseph, of 16, down the aggregate of the dam- the request was acceded to. He

Counsel:-I thought it might people interested in the cinematograph business that quits good and entirely harmless films have been condemned by the censorate, on was able to talk, but not to walk. Queen's Road East, with intent age done by the Emden. And,talk then went on to explain to the be difficult for my Lord to under- account of some very trivial detail. But we have also been told The defendant claimed that if to roab.

ing of naval matters, oar atten- Chief Justice what transpired at stand the full bearing of the jury's “ verdict without referring to it. by our own feyes-that many a picture is passed by the censor he had been let alone he would Prisoner pleaded not guilty, tion is called to the Belgian cosat. the sessions hearing. There was which is calculated to do serious harm where young people or the have gat into a rickeha and gone Inspector Gordon was in charge Here we find that Middlekerke no doubt, and it was not disput- Continuing, counsel said the pri- natives of the Colonies are concerned. More than once or twice the to the Seamen's Institute, where of the case.

has been evacuated by the Ger-ed, that the prisoner had the soner was passing through Hong- Telegraph has published instances of youthful crime being traced he had previously secured a bed.

The prosecutrix, in the witness mans, according to the reports in explosive en bstance in his posses- kong to Macao-it did not merely rest on his own ipsa dizit-be. to the influence of the picture-house. Is it good that a boy in his Be was aware that he must have box, said she lived by herself and the Dutch papere. We alro find son, but it might be of some stood on board the steamer for teens, who is of a turn of mind partly romantic and partly criminal, gone to the Police Station in a had an amah in her employ. On Westend. What does this indi- that the prisoner was about to Macro when arrested. The ques-

that the French have occupied little importance to point out should be allowed to see the means by which a successful forger, for chair, for he certainly was not Saturday at about 10a.m. she este? Surely that, being two proceed on the boat to Macaotion put to the jury on ots example, gains his ends? Similarly, is it a good thing for a be not been stopped be would with her breakfast beside her, the proximity to Ostend, and being draw attention to the statement/explosive substance was he able to walk that distance. Had was lying on her conch reading, important positions, through their when he was arrested. He would arrested in possession of this colony where the criminal classes among the Chinese are to be found, that the noble art of house-breaking or of safe-opening should have gone straight home. be so realistically portrayed as is often the case? Once more, will Mr. Wood fined the man 85. All of a sudden the locked up view of the theatrical invasion of because it was really on that the object of looking for some vary valuable from the point of which was made by the prisoner, passing through the Colony with it increase the native's estimation of the European to have placed and in doing so remarked, that he and saw the defendant coming England with the Belgian coast statement, or on the strength of person to take it to Canton, and before him the questionable performances of one of the great won of opinion into constable towards her with a cloth in his as the base of operations, that statement, that this charge as Lung Chai-kwong wherever

would not have interfered with hand. The defendant put the unclassed-or undressed?

Now and then, apart from the occasional dramatised novel, the bin less he had been cem cloth on her mouth and as he did penter has been called upon to asked the solicitor at the he might be found. That was

somehow or other the Stage Car- was laid, because when he film-makers take it into their heads to publish a play that is in all

pelled.

so she felt two other hande give alter the setting of this wonder-trial for particulars be said the handed to the jury, and they respects good, whether comedy or the reverse. And when we say

her blows on the chest and then "good" we do not here mean necessarily so from any one particular

hold her down. Witness tried to markable after the successful the statement by the prisoner

ful scene. This is ther re-particulars were to be found in answered the question in the

affirmative point of view artistio, technical, moral, or what-not; but rather

Boream, but was unable to do so.

The Paise Judge:That was that the play in question is reasonably faithful to life. Five-aixths Handsome Dividend on Deferred The other, man then went cracking up of the concrete forta made in answer to the first

drafted by me and left to the of Scarboro!" It becomes, more charged the next room while the defendant evident day by day that it is now The Paisno Judge: The jury with consent of counsel. ly hermful, would not persuade even a child that they are "true,"

held her down. They continued but a question of time, and Time particulars are as in the state that the Court had no jurisdiction The Hon. Mr. Pollook submitted As often as not, some unfortunate (and innocent) person is condemn- At the 74th Ordinary General to struggle and the tray, table will wither the forces which the menti ed to a long term of imprisonment on evidence that no court in the Meeting of the Poninenler and and breakfast things were knocked world would arcopt, and a similar sort of exaggeration je noticeable, Oriental Steam Navigation Come over. Then she heard her smah's Emperor of Germany has ranged The Hon. Mr. Pollock There to try such an offence, insemuch other directions, in the average film. Why all pany, held on December voice and the defendant ran away, sgainst liberty and freedom, was not, apart from that state us the material part of that offende this should be, it is diflou's to say, for it ought to dust 16, the directors, after provid- leaving behind his cap and shoes. against Christianity and against ment, evidence of an unlawful was to be accomplished ontside the producers no more to make a story convincing than to make it ing for the nenal dividend Prosecutrix'samsh deposed that Civilisation.

of the plays which we have seen, exclusive of those that are positive-

in

P. AND OF COMPANY.

Stock.

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Bravo U. SI

aking some person to throw it

objeot. That was the case for the the jurisdiction of this Court Стомичес

The Patane Judge:That is absurd. They should know their own business bout, but we cannot at the rate of 5 per cent, per when she was returning from help thinking that there is an enormous demand for sane and sensible sunum on the Preferred visit to the compradore's shop at

The Attorney General:The another way of putting it. It is Crown Solicitor is not here at the Counsel.It is not an offence

an offence, story-films, and that those which are of the reverse order are Stock, recommended a dividend about 10a.m. on Saturday she calculated to drive custom away from picture-houses rather than to on the Deferred Stock of 0 per met a man coming down her

present moment, my Lord, and I Provisions sent to Brussels by sm not prepared to admit they triable by this Court attract it The managers of such houses as are a long way removed cont, for the six months, together mistress stairs. She went down the American Commission for the were the only suspicious cir

Their Lordships did not call from the central offices or agencies are more or less, helpless in the with a bones at the rate of 5 per stairs, followed by the defendant, relief of Belgium, provide 400,000 cumstances, bat, they are the only on the Hon-Attorney General for matter, for they must take the agent's or the manufacturer's word that cent, making, with the interim who was captured by a money meals daily, and arrangemental obvious ones.

his reply, and bold that the Court the films which are being sent to them are good ones. But inaamach dividend of 34 per cent. paid in changer and his assistant, aro complete for carrying on a The Chief Justice: The pointhe Paste Tadge then seat-

had jurisdiction." se a local manager's power to buy or hire new pictur depends on May, total distribution on the Aller hosting further evidence; sumilar work throughout that part is not reserved on that the extent to which his house is patronised, it is surely to the makers Deferred Stock of 15 per cent. his Worship committed the pri-j of Belgium occupied by the stand the prisoneT WAS interest to see that, they put out such films as will "draw" and not for the year

Boner for trial

mainly on the faos

ened the prisoner to seven years, with hard labo