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THE HONG KONG TELEGRAPH.

KOMAGATA MARU CASE

EUROPEAN ASSAULTED,

Chlaese Convicted this Morning.

Further Evidence in Coal- Stealing Charge.

At the Police Court, this morn- ing, Mr. Froat, of Kimberley At the Police Court, this after-Villas, Kowloon, charged two noon, before Mr. J. R. Wood, Chinese, one his servant, with the case was resumed in which assault, and, in one case, treapses 8. Miyaji, the chief officer of the as well as nesault. 6.6. Komagata Maro, was charged • According to the

with the theft of about twouly/Frost went into theco, Mr.:

servanla'

tons of coal, the property of quarters, where he saw a stranger. Mesero, Jardine, Matheson and The fins defendant was asleep. Co., Ltd

The servant ran out of the place and Mr. Frost went after him to Mr. Shenton, of Mosers, Deacon, order him back. The boy as Looker, Decoon and ilareton, saulted him and the other defend. appeared for the complainantsant joined in the scofl. and Air. Lewis, of Messrs. third man also took an active Johnson, Stokes and Master, ap- interest in the affair in favour peared for the defendant. Tao of the Chineso: Mr. Frost called Uhineso Wore charged with for assistance, and some Indian receiving.

soldiers came to his aid, The soldiers secured one man and Mr.

escaped.

EXTRA

HONGKONG, THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 1915.

OUR WAR LETTER,

EXPERIENCES AT THE FRONT recounted.

(From our Special Correspondent.)

London, Dec. 4.

enemy's fire. For the fighting was still going on furionely, and his wounded comrade kaew it all desf for a fortnight. the time, but he himself wassigns

Take another example that may for the time being, because the surgeon on board the Olympic, Reem almost incredible. There furious, cannonade had caused who emphatically denied that that is an authentic letter from a and everything was silent. He ship had ever witnessed the sink- Belgian soldier desoribing the carried his wounded, comrade ca ing of the Audacions or taken INTERESTING COMMENTS ON THE FIGHTING. Put them off, and the bis burden. He was surprised York on October 21 bound for Lorrors of the retreat from his book to the British line, walk part in the saving of her crew. Antwerp,

when the Germans ing slowly cross country with The Olympic, which had left New onthesisem with which the gallant to feel the wounded man strug Greenock, put into Longh Swilly Belgians cheered the British gling feebly and to hear him instead of proceeding direct to soldiers and blarjsokots as they murmuring something about Greenock, on October 28, in con- marched past them, advancing to lying down, but be attributed it sequence of wireless messages form the rearguard. English to delirium. When he reached warning the commander of motor bases later on began to his destination be found that he mines. On the morning of para back filled with English had crossed unscathed the moat October 29 Dr. Beaumont left the wounded. This Belgian soldier deadly part of the battle zce, a ship, baving been transferred to narrated in moving language how terrain absolutely awept by the the Baltic,

The Olympio pro he saw on top of cre of these

ceeded to Belfast where she was banes & British bluejacket who bad

laid up on November 3, the crew had half his face blown away.

of 900, excepting some officera What would some of the gol bow France was compelled to amoking a cigarette, ae the Bela The wounded man was actually

and engineers, being paid off and the past have given to have lived with the universal bully. The other half," and waved his cap in a well-known British infantry supposed to have seen the Att Afightera and good sportsmen of share her African possessions gisu writer puts it,"With the

sent home to Liverpool. Actually through such an epoch as the last Kruppmaillery was Austria' as he went by. Needless to say, regiment are laughing heartily daoicus sink she was about 600 The friends of another officer at the time the Olympic was Present? Turn where you will, acquisition of Bosnis no matter to what quarter of the Herzegovina. After this war is

and he got the cheer he deserved. globe, the game's sicot. We have over Europe will no longer have Fusiliere has given me a vivid des- training at the railway base, his was blown up by a mine or tex

An officer of the Lancashire to

st his experiences on the way miles from Lough Swilly. “I

the front. After Mr. Skinner, obiel officer of the Frost another, but the third ways boasted that the san never to go on periodically purchasing oription of a thing vory hard to get battalion, of which he was in } pedoed off the coast of Ireland": de- cannot say whether the Audacious ret on the British Empire. It peace and neutrality from the properly described rasl infan- command of the leading com- said Dr. Beaumont, but I can The defendante were found glinting on a British bayonet.

never rises nowadays without Mailed Fist, ' guilty, the first man being fined The gigantic struggle on

try charge of the most desperate pany, marched through several vouch for the fact that neither the

"Lucky Horton." ed. It was the duty of consignees' $10, or in default one month fortatile plains of Europe so much first hand to-day of how the E 9 ing laurele, lost many men, and greeted by the mayor and thing of such a disaster." Now" oharacter. It was at Birgoboste, small villages. At one larger the passengers nor crew of the trespassing and $15 or one month engrosses public attention that

From an account given to me where the Fusiliers earned andy place they were effusively Olympic Baw cr heard any- run consceatively. The second de anbeeded. Only a few clerks in commander certainly seems to messages of thanks from General their arms round the British Audacious for the assault, the sentences to the minor sorapping passes almost qualified for one of Mr. Char got something like a enlogy from his two charming daughters, it is out of the question for chill'a coveted brass plates her their Brigedier. Sice of these impulsive young ladies who threw those who maintain that the Government department justify the title of Lucky officere will becoms heirlooms in captain's neck and kissed him on shift the ground of their charge. really understand how Armaged Horton" eonferred on him in the British regimental messes. My both obecke. His Tommies tock They have taken their stand up. don is fiercely eddying into some service long before the war broke officer friend described in detail it all in with great glee. And all on the morning of October 27. of the neglected backwaters of the world. These are brave days out. The submarine was lying the final advance of his men, the the rest of the journey, whenever and Lough Swilly, as the time and for brave spirits, The youngster not necessary to particularise, and and slime under a hellish fire, the that other know that all bis man with a photograph, subpoenaed submerged at a point which it is slow crawl forward through mad any cort of petticoat tove in sight, place of the disaster, and have, who knows something in his the men were whiling away the consultation of officers as to the were looking at him quizzingly, the Olympic as a witness, not- ardent soul of "the keen joy the time by playing bridge. The rud- desperate nature of their predica while they emphasised the joke withstanding her alibi of 600 warrior feele," and the old war horse who has thrilled to it in the den indierosition of one of his ment, and the decision that the by whistling "Kiss me, Charlia" miles. Again, we may dismin, opportunity. past, cannot complain of lack of shipmates, who was seized with Fusiliers makt risk a charge at all and "Who were you with last with apologies for even suggesting faintness, led Commander Horton costs. The order was given night?" The embarrassed officer it, any idea that Dr. Beaumont temporarily to bring his boat to accordingly. Men stood up and wrote home "I was damn glad to was act speaking the truth, the surface, an operation which sank down again. Some fell with get into the firing line-but my A thousand tongues of crew incidentally upset rubber" a yell of agony. Then suddenly Tommies behaved splendidly all and passengers were able to con- and robbed the narrator of win- the whole line dashed forward, the same.

tradiot him and, as he very r69». nings which he still sesma rather The expression on the faces of surface, Commander Horton took" dulkand force." to deplore. Tas boat being on the the men my friend desoribed as

sonably says, "it would be a mat«, ter of impossibility to keep some

fendant was fiard $15 cra month

Sui Sang, said it was the rule ou British ships for the chief officer to see all the cargo was discLarg tallyman to weigh the cargo. In would say there should be sweep a cargo of 3,100 tons of coal the inge to the extent of about 23 or 3 tona- tons at the outside.for assault. That was when coal was deposit- ed over the ship. To say the col he had seen in the case was sweeping would be absurd; abou one-fifth should .be sweepings. The consignees were not responsible for the cleaning of the ship.

QB-

By Mr. Lewis-The ocul in question was not all sweepinge The average shortage in charging coal was acout 15 per cent. Tue "average varies mach (laugher),

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DAY BY DAY.

Parade Cancelled.

We are asked to stated that the tearves for 10-mcrrow afternoon parade arranged for the Volunteer has been cancelled.

Recovered.

acme

The World in Arms.

Was Bunk

to

No order to THE MYSTERY OF H. M. S. members of the craw from talking

¡AUDACIOUS.

From Uhina to Pera and farther there is some beautiful fighting Friends of Chief Inspector to be bad, and, to do no more Gourlay will be pleased that he than justice to the prodigal, most Mr. Lewis The average which took him to hospital over

is again about after the illness of our younger sons saddled op cannot vary so much.

sometime ago It would be a the New Year.

pity if Britishers overseas were

a look round, and was amazed to fix bayonets was given, but, before Witness-The shipments vary

if they had taken part in such a Silk Delivery.

miled about be spirit of their a small German warship in the sutus,order to obarge, the The Yokohama Office of the brethren at home. The recruits bis close vicinity. The sick man ring of greek could be heard as

gallant deed as rescuing the crew very much. Two per cent. or T.K.K. is in receipt of a wireless are coming in all right. The was forgotten in a moment. the men fed them, and every

Shaoghal Paper's Comments.

of a British battleship. They even one and a half was not a

would mention it either in con•Ÿ good average. He had never the silk despatched hence per 6.8. splendid.

communication to the effect that temper of the men at home is The submarine dashed away in body falta sort of thrill. They eeen Meears. Jardine Matuesun's Shingo Maru on the 8th Dccem-safer to take the emphatic declara, German boat was soon sout to was or bantt. Enough of them aflat or not that is up to the house of call for refreshment in So far as concerns the question fidence to their families or over a On this point it is pursuit of her prey, and one more knew that supreme moment whether HMS Audacious is still friendly glass at their favourite tallymen go into the bald to see her was delivered in New York tions of Lord Kitchener, who has these alone tend to relieve the German fing. The Fusiliers despatched from London, and wa if all the coal was discharged..

the bottom. Incidents such as resobed the trenches to send the time when the last telegrams were Liverpool." te twice asserted that he makes dalness of the daily round and leap into the enemy trenches, bay trust no scoident has befallen the photograph? Chr own belief is What then becomes of the no complaint about the rea- ponse to his appeal, than the mon task of life in the North oneting the Germansright and left, great battleship since then that it is a remarkable blever fake bysterical twaddle of a group of

Sea English newspapers

and mihing on the dying and there is, of course, no mystery, and an unusually deep russ on That is In the Homeric Vein.

the wounded as they fired over says a N. Daily News leader, the part of the German Press seizing on any straw to beat the To state that daily spisodes at the reverse side at the retreating Had the Admiralty made no Bureau, and that the Internation- War Office with, regardless of the front equal anything in the border. It was a terrible but statement at all bearing on the al News Service, which supplied patriotism and calumny, simply liad is merely to state a simple tremendous experience, the most matter, it is just possible that the photograph to newspapers, because General Joffre's tan on faot. Sir John French's "eye madly ozbilarating thing in life, it might have been "eitting on" has been victimised Years before war correspondents at the front is witness bas given us in his Tragedy and Comedy, the news of the disaster," al-the marvels of cinematograph con being rigorously respected. There terge and formal prose a splendid Everybody speaks very well though the promptitude with jaring became as comfnon as they is a cortain class of commercial epic of the famous charge of the of the way the Indias which all British naval raverses, are now, every amateur photo. jornalist who regards even a Prussian Guards. Those brave troops are fighting. They however disheartening, have been grapher knew the absurdity of the

on the 10th inst.

Betrothal,

By his Worship-Ia discharg ing a cargo of coal it was his custom to go down into the hold The engagement is nanounced himself and see all the cargo of Mian Stella May, eldest daugh- discharged:

ler of His Excellency Sir Henry May, K. C. M. G., and Lady May, The case was proceeding as we to Lieutenant Philip de Fooblan-

que, Royal Engineers,

went to press,

HONGKONG CRICKET

CLUB.

The following will represent the Hongkong Cricket Club against the Civil Service Cricket lab on the Hongkong Cricket

a

Publications Received. We have to acknowledge the receipt of the Decembar number of the World Traveller de war like this as a penny-turning men acquitted themselves well. are all doing well, Sikha, Pathane, announced rerders oven this saying that "photography cannot Luxe," and also of "Sunset" spectacle. These gentry are They came on without wavering and Gurkhas, Rajputs, Jats, theory highly improbable. Bat lie." Anybody could get photo the Pacife monthly magazine. awfully severe on traitors who and quite undaunted by the in- Panjabis, Garwhalis, Dogros, since October 27, on which all graphs of the Audacious, and the Both publications are exceedingly trade with the enemy, but never ferno of fire that greeted them. and Deccan Mussulmane. I am reports are agreed as the date of rest of the fake would be eas well got-up and handsomely scruple about the methods by They broke the British line at told that perhaps the Jats have the alleged sinking of the Aud-Moreover, the German Fress illustrated.

which they seek to turn a filthy one epot and pressed coward. A done a shade better than any soions in Laugh Swilly, we have Bureau had far more to gain than Fractured Skull, penny themselves. Happily, this battery of RF.A. was abelling body so far. There was a case had repeated and emphatic the mere spreading of a report has been conveyed to the Public

The body of a Chinese woman criticism applies on y to a few, them all the time, and many of the other day in which the Ger- denials by the Admiralty of any that Britain had lost a battleship.

their dead bodies were fouad mane, dog tized in their trenches, truth whatsoever in Will See It Through. Mortuary. She was employed as

German The crew werɛ, in any case, sup= Some notion of their code of The battery oummander realised space of ground with the object Navy, battleships cr others, except loss of the ship would be made ourrying conlie in connection honour may be gathered from the that the situation was preity

within seventy yards of the guns. pat cut 30 sentries over a short reports of losses to the British posed to have been saved, and the.

giving the other men a night's sach na have been announced from good, and more than good, before

2.16 p.m.-Messrs. R. Hancocktaining wall through a distance gulations under cover of the Red pierced,

Gacs, P. Jacks, R. Kennedy, P.

8. Leigh Bennett, M. M. Maag,

Capt. E. D. Matthews, E. J. R, Milobell, S. S. Moore, and A, N. Other.

skull.

Indians Sent to Gaol,

Clab-ground on 3-turday 16th with the erection of a house above fact that they have actually been desperate when he saw that feat. A Gurkha officer obtained. London. Here then is the mystery, the end of the year. But if the instant; play will commence at May Road and she fell from a re-endeavouring to evade the re our Infantry line had been Permission to try and bag those On November 28 the Scientific German Press Bureau could sally" (Captain), D. E. Donnelly, A. of 30 feet and sustained a fractur- Cross. There need be no mistake for some means to reform to talk them, with instructions oustomed to lend itself to ecares" | British Government for speaking and cast about entries. He sent out 60 Gurkhas American, which is not a paper as the unblemished reputation of the about the unfaltering determin- All that was available was two that there must be no firing. The or to be engily hoodwinked, the truth, it would achieve a very At the Police Court, this morn-Governments represented by the reinforcing there gallant fellows the night was a subdued gurgle, Audacious, and another of a large bar. 27 it had been made sband- Ation of the peoples as well as the companies of sappers. Eastly only sound that came through published a photograph of H.MS. great sucoses. Long before Octo- ing before Mr. Hazeland, two Allies to see this business through with as many artillerymen as he The Gurkhas bagged the lot, with- vessel, certainly similar to the antly plain to all the world that Indians employed by Peer Bax, a thoroughly. Recently we have could spare from the guns and a out the Germans knowing Audacious, in the act of sinking, no German statement is worth dairyman of Kowloon City, were had from Petrograd and Paris contingent of the Sappers coaks, a thing about it, and our troops underneath which is printed, the breath that voices it or the cach sentenced to three weeks' some startling <fficial revelations boled this curious command bold were able to surprise the "This view, taken from the deck paper on which it is priated. If, imprisonment for the theft of a of the sort of thing that is goingly forward to rapsir the breach enemy asleep in their trenches, of the Olympic, shows her boate then, people's confidence in Bris coat and vest and forty dollars to be stopped at last for good and in the line. Eye Witness ro with the result that the official assisting in the rescue of the fish official statements could ones from their employer.

all, Germany has been Krupp cords how every man of the for communique gave us the bald crew. The photograph is mark be ebaken, and therewith their Marino Offences,

mailing the European chan-lord hope, even the cooke, des announcement next day that there ed, "Copyright International belief in British dementie This morning, at the Marineation. Whenever

collories for more than a gener-perately teised a rifle, efood had been slight advance" at News Service, and there is a of German falsehood, something giment, whose death is sundanced Court, before O.mmander O. M. trouble anywhere, Berlin stopped the onslaught of the finest soldier? An English subaltern had a Audacions came to be off the Germany's rained character for

there was firm an 1 steady," and repulsed this particular spot.

long article explaining how the might be done to rehabilitate obtained His first commission men were charged with dumping Vienna, and demanded back enough, the same thing happen. He was with ball a dezon brather reasons for believing that she was that photograph of the Audelous 1869 and Beckwith, R.N., two Chiness boat-in, backed up by her confederste in the Kaiser's army. Curiously weird experience a few days ago. north coast of Ireland, and the Veracity. In fact, when it faked from the Militia in 1892. Major rubbish into the harbour and were sheesh to keep quiet. The policy od with the French. They had officers in a ruined farmhouse not sunk by a submarine but by 'Daniell, was a graduate of the Saft fined fifty dollare each, or in of rattling the sabre "wa) 8 on one occasion to arm their reci when a shell burst in their midst, striking & mize, at something higher and infinite. College, filling several staff ap- default two months' hard labour. commercial policy, Russia had mental cocks and throw them into When he recovered consciousness So much for photography. Only more difficult to acquire than pointments, including.D.A.AGA third was ordered to pay a virtually to pay a huge wer in the line, and right valiantly they ho felt very dick, but slowly got the other hand, the New York any baillechipa reputation for North China, 19035 A similar fue for a like offence and, demnity to Germany, besides acquitted themselves. Ass Franch better, and difcovered that he Times, a paper second to none speaking the truth. But truth, had seen a good deal of service cence for his boat, the craft was during the Japanese war. This poate melee was over “Trench Wore dead except one, who was the accuracy of its news, pub.dcop ToWork Germany over to and Q.M.G. China, 1935-7. He as he had not taken out a new buying dud ammunition from her, officer remarked after the des. was untonskej. All his comrades in the world for carefulness as to praverbially, lies hidden deep, too in India and in the South African ordered to remain in Police caɛ- fact has now been frankly and cook is a batter man than a very sorerely wounded, and he fished on November 17, an inter. brip tit të ligh: as deep indeed

| judged that the fighting was over view with Dr. J. O. H. Beaumont, as the bottom of Lough Brilly.

Roll of Honour. Major Edward Henry Edwin Daniell, 1.8.0., Royal Irish Re

Was born in

War,

tody until he had done so.

officially stated. Everybody knows German waiter any day.

the German Pross Bureau aimed