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THE SHIPPING CASE.

MORE GERMAN LIES.

Further Argument in the Full Court.

"News" Served up for Chines0 Readers.

Below we give further transla.

In the Full Court, today, tions of war news from the Haing. before Sir William Rees Davies min Pao, supplied from German

BODICES:-*

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Shifting the Blame.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, JANUARY 26, 1915.

order the three papers to insert an inmediate correction,

The Goeben and the Breslau, Telegram from Berlin.-The Turkish cruiser Maisti-li" (late Goeben) again bombarded Sabás- topol, a Russian port on the Black Boo.

A Mostem Rising. The Turkish

Gazette announces that

Government the eraisor Sai-li-moi-ch'eng (late) Breslau) bombarded Fatoumin

(Chief Justice) and Mr. Justice {*** Gompertz (Puisne Judge) the case was continued in which Sam Bee and Company were the

"How England broke the October. Owing to fire breaking plaintiff and the Flensburger neutrality of Belgium and Belot, the reply of the land batteries Dampfschifffari Gesellschaft von gium troke its own neutrality," was totally ineffective. 1869 the defendants in an action,

(This article, which consists of Reliable raports received at Con- in connection with which there familiar tales about a secret stantinople state that the Maeleme was an application: (1) for the document found by the Germans of the Caucasus have revolted and rtura of the sum of 314,000 Brussels with an arangement

that Russia has teat 60,000 paid by the plaintiffs to Meser.made between Great Britain and troops to subjagate them. The Descon, Looker, Deacon and Belgium in 1906, is a reprint Moslems of Transcaucasia are all Haraton on balulf of the defend-from the Hsich ho Pai, published seconding Turkey in reisting ants to obtain the release of 1,10St the offices of the Ostasia-Russio. bags of sugar, the property of the tischer Lloyd, Shanghai). plaintiff and then on

bard

the defendants' alesmebip Sexto in the

of Swatow po:t

London Bombarded; Russian Army Braten. Berlin telegram, The bomb- Despatch from the Gorman erdment by German cruisers of

German Accusations Against Belglum.

able to

DAIRY FARM NEWS.

FISH.

WE HAVE RECEIVED A NEW SHIPMENT OF

SELECTED

FINNAN HADDOCKS,

FILLET HADDOCKS

AND

KIPPERS.

“THANKS, WILLIAM !''

French Prass Views of the Egyptian Annexation.

TO-DAY'S ADVERTISEMENTS,

NOTICE.

Wo have now established our

sale of the British manufactures own branch'ia Hongkong at the undermentioned address, for the

ing comment vory favourably.cn

Paris, Dac. 19. All the newspapers this morn the dealeration of a British Psc-of- tectorate in Egypt.

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The Echo de Puris says:-

and which sugar the defendants Consul-General :-.IG.M. Con the coast of England at London Wrongfully refused to deliver tozul General at Shanghai, Kuippe, and the viotory of the German the plaintiffs or their order; (2); to the Commissioner of Foreign my in Poland happened on the for a deoloration that the defend Affaire for the Prince of me day. The announcement ants were not entitled to a lien Kiangen in the Republic of Chira, from General Headquarters bes or charge upon the said 1,168 Eage | dated October 23rd, 1914- of sugar for the payment of any

been received with universal It has come to my notice that acclamation. aums due or alleged to be due to here appears in the llain wan,se not yet to hand, but it is cert

Complete details the defendnuts under a time the Shen Puo and the Shihain that the Russian Army is charter party entered into between Pao a letter from the Belgian absolutely defeated on has been the defendants and Man Song Acting Consul-General stating toa been received, it is clear that driven north. From the news that and Company; (3), damages for that the German troope in wrongful detentibu of the said Belgium have acted in a way con- 1,108 bage of sugar.

after this great German victory, trary to the principles of human- the eastern regions need bave no the fruits of the inestimable work Our British friends are reaping Mr. Eldon Potior, instructed ity. The Germans at Shanghai more fear of hostile invasion, which Edward VII, and M by Mr. Crow, of Bara. Hastings are convinced from what they while the Austrians should be Delcase did, in 1904. We con- and Hastings, appeared, for the have seen and know that every plaintiff to make the application. body in the world knows of the This victory has great political contain that their cotion will be THE

advance peacefully.g's alste them cordially. It is The Chief Justice said that a German oivilisation (er Kultur) significance, and probably certain welcomed as of hopsy omen by statement had been attributed to and that they could not act in countries that are locking on will, all the peoples and races coccera- him which conveyed a different such a way. Moreover, the Ger-after this signal defeat, make up er Anb, meaning to what he had intended man Government bas investigated their minds.

Mussalman,

and in relation to the laws of England the matter, and the following

Christian alike." When the German men-of-war and the laws of Hongkong. What snuoussement appear in the attacked the British coast at

The Malin remarks that, is he said was that he had frequent-German Government (zette: London, British destroyera drove monumenin of one man, which thanks to the domineering Jy bad contentions with Sir

The Belgians are now vilify-them cff. The German men-ol has been overcome by the un- Francis Piggott on the subjecting the German soldiers and say-war sunk two of them, nd severe-animous revolt of the civilised and had often lamented that the ing that they have acted contrary laws of England were not conto principles of humanity. These

ly damaged one."

peoples, all pending questions are sidered good enough for Hong. arguments of the Belgians may be

Russian General Killed. il about to be settled. Thanks, kong.

ho, product of a highly heated Wei-lich-cha-ko-fu, (?) who for The famous Russian generd,

William!": Mr. Polter continued his argu. imagination or shameless fabrica- merly" ment, and said that be would be tions. The German Government Arthur, has been killed in an

commended

Port able to satisfy their Lordships har, however, made an investiga-action at Lodz. that the company, through their tion and bas definitly established, agánte, Messrs. Siemesen, bad by incontrovertible proofs, such On the Way to Suez.

by

According to news from Lo-po

Suez C1ual. is now only 15 miles from

A Rebuke,

the

printed at Paris, rebukes the The Russian paper Ko-lo-ya(?)

Russian journals that the present aris for the relief of suffering peoples.

Prct ctorate as follows: By The Gaulois greets the British proclaiming a protectorate Great Bilain teale Turkish prestige is the Easta decided blow! She is Entente Power showing the Turke that the Triple +were hardly warned the

Turkish Government that their alliacos with Austris and Germany would result in the dismemberment be expected Great Britain's slep of their lottering empire. It must will create a profound impression in Constantinople, and give h further impulse to the growing movement among the Turks British Disunion. against a suicidal war that ia ter 27 printed in extenso & literal

The Heing min Pao of Decem-disastrous to their interest.”,

Commenting upon the pro- Poet's leading article of October over Moreco, the Figaro says: 13, ("The Antwerp Blundor"),The noble attitude and loyalty under the beading British news of England have demonstrated to paper attacke the British Govern neutrale the justice of our cause." ineal for the failure of ita plane for the relief of Antwerp."

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performed a most material partfacle as the elauglitering of rh(?) in Italy, the Turkish army mistaken when they." of the corporation's business in sleeping German aldien the Colony and not only in the Belgian women, the digging out Colony, but also in Caias. Also, of the eyes of wounded Germana as far as the two boats were by te Belgiens, and the concerned, the German cam-shooting from windo xa at pass- pany's business in the Far Easting German troops by Belgian was confined to two ships which women. The German Government hypocrisy of the pretence of the were operated in eastern waters has now cited these instances. of solely on cherter, and he was will breach of the law of nations and ing to assume the correctness of has ontered a Messrs: Deacon, Looker and neutral Powera.1

protect with the Deacon's latter on the point, that

The wording of the latter of the Mesers. Stemssen were not able Belgian Consul that I have cited to finally fix the charter without bears internal evidence of its translation of the London Morning clamation of a Freneb Protectorate reference to the company in Ger falaisy, and a obild would not many. He would be able to prove believe it-how much less would that Mesars, Siemseen did every a grown man, who knows tf the thing hore, to the actual signing Kultur of the Germans, lend it of the cherter, a broker went to credecea?" Siemssens, arranged terms, and l'eople of the neutral nations what the charter should be. and representatives of the Ameri Tae Puiene Judge: I do not can press have met at the battle think we can very wall take that. fields and have investigated the M. Potter replied that he could charges against the Germans of put this in evidence in the form of breaking the law of nations, and on affidavit from a European found that they are all wilful

The Journal ex csses the samé broker, and he did not think fabrications willout the least France, in an article on the pro adhesion of the ntral Powera is

Too Journal du Nord de la convictior, addig that

"the their Lordships would put him foundation, as they themselves are tection of the German trenchos certain. The game out of Court without allowing prepared to guarantee, and the by means of barbed wirs entan before it we played." him to file this evidenco.

WIB Won An Interesting Lantern Lecture The Puisse Judge remarked been published in the Shanghai troops advanced a few days ago Protectorale over Egypt has by the Rev. N. O. Popo, M.A, the

result of their investigations has glements, relatea how Scottish

will be given in St. Andrew's Rome, December 18. that Mr. Potter's atatement could Ostasiatischer Lloyd,

Church Hall on Thursday even- The prcolamation of the Britishing, commencing at nine o'clock, be more or less covered from

to capture the formidable trenches the correspondence, but

I would mention that the North of E-under a murderous fire, caused no surprise here, Italy, subject being he China Daily News-a freign thought Mr. Potter had better papar, an English paper-ale British soldier," says the journal, and one of the moat numerous

A Visit to Corn- Not a man fell back. The baving large interests in Egypt wall." put it on affidavit.

received a similor letter from the "is wonderful. He is a slave to colonies there, rejices at the Mr. Potter submitted Siometens' action in arranging consideration did not prist it, he ordered to do so, and those greater prosperity and stability of that Bolgian Consul, but after caretul duty. For him to retreat he mul measure which, through the charters right up to the point This on be proved by a perusal Sectan en were prepared to give Egypt, will mean greater ad when they were signd, must bo of the Notes and Comments their lives to the last mas. They vantages for Libya and Italy her the action of an agent doing the end of the editorial articles were joined in the assault on the self. corporation's business, us distinct in recent numbers of the N. C. enemy's trenches by a detachment from his own, Siemens noted Daily News. If an English paper of Indians, who slipped like ole throughout as the corporation does not print such a thing, how under the barbed wire, their The two 9,000 ton steamers of would act if it were in Hongkong. can the paper of a neutral country kakris in their right hands, utter the Osake Shoeep Kaisha, now in They were able, in addition to do so? this, to hold up the cargo and

ing their weird war cres. Son puree of construction at Nagasaki refuse to deliver and were able to sent a single letter to the Chinese trenches. The quickfirere cease

Up to the present I have not the British troops leap into the and Kobe, will be named Manila hold up the ship at Swatow. The press asking them to announce to work, rifles are silent, Terror

Maru and Hawaii Maru, owner himself could not do any the Chinese people the cruelties stricken, the Germans try to flee. more, for Siomasens carried out and enormities practised by the The exhortatione of their officers the charter and enforcad the per-Belgian women on wounded Ger- are lost in the tumult of carnage. formance of all its clauses. Ac-man soldiers. cording to the correspondence as the Belgian Consul has emblood. The vanquished-implore Now, however, The combatante roll in water and and the Swatow-agents, Messra, barked on

PUBLIC AUCTION, Siemssen had power to eattle the campaign, even though it is quite not understand. The Indiana Cat Instructions to sell by Public this extraordinary their slayers in a tongue they do THE Undersigned has received whole dispute. He put his asso contrary to my wishes to engage and clash, and the frightful Auction o so high as to say that if the agents in a war of recrimination in the stragg en continue through the the 30th January, 1915, com- here had power to sign the press, none the less, as the Belgian night. The Germans are no

WW SATURDAY, charter, the whole of their busi- Consul, in accordance with the longer men, they have in their ness would have been conducted orders of his Government, has thus eyes the firedness of madness, in Hongkong,

infringed international comity, he and tremble with torror. They hold Furniture, Their Lordships, after hearing forces me to take counteracting have Icet arms and lege. The farther argument, rearved judg. measures. I would therefore ask spectacle of the German trench is ment,

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hour of the train by which the applicant wishes to leave. Ap- plicants should apply in person! for their passes to the Provost Marahal at Head Quarters Offices between the hours of 10 a.m. and 4 p.m.MA Hongkong, 26th January, 1915

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