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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, JUNE 29, 1915.

The Shanghai Forgery Case,

DAY BY DAY

ALL WHO JOY WOULD WIN MUST SHARE IT, HAPPINESS WAS BORN A TWIN, -Byron,

Those who have read the details of the Changhai forgery Base which has been appearing in ourcolumns, and the end of which we give to-day, will feel that Sir

Count the Columns. Havilland de Sausmarez," in

Yesterday the Telegraph imposing a sentence of six months

published 37+ columns of solid with hard labour, has been reading matter. To-day there extremely considerate and lenient will be 331 pablished. The case made out by the defend. ing counsel might have suited a youth of one or two and twenty, Australian Mail-Dae per 5.8. bat the man charged is twenty- Empire to-morrow. seven and had apparently had Siberian Mail Dae per

some considerable amount of

The Malls.

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"FORGERY CASE.

NOTES ON THE CRISIS.

THE SHANGHAI

GERMAN "SCIENCE."

Accused rots Six Months' Hard Labour.

Affairs in Africa.

REFRACTORY COOLIES,

·Smashed the Foreman's Head,

Coolies are not at all times anxions to obey orders even from The irial of Harold L. Blair, an their own countrymen, and three News from Africa is scarce, employee of Mesera. Butterfield of them engaged in carrying sand but always good when it does and Swire, op a charge of for on May Road, were alleged, at dome along. From the latest gery, took place in I.M.'s the Police Court, this morning, wire, it is evident that General Supreme Court this morning be to have sesaulted a weighmen Stewart's men are just as deter fore Sir Haviland de Saumarez who had called appo one of them mined on subduing the German (Judge). Mr. H. P. Wilkinson to weigh his sand. The com in the East as those under Sit (Crown Advocats) prosecuted, plainant's head was badly dam Monteagle to-morrow. Louis Boths are bent on crushing and Mr. E. W. Godfrey appeared aged with's piece of wood. American, Canadian and Siberian them in the south-west. The for the defends. There were two

The defendants were bound Maile.Cosed per s.e. Tenyo victory at Bukoba is rot a small charges of forgery and two of over in the sum of $100 each to Maru to-day 11 a.m. thing, for it announces to the Geruttering, viz.

keep the pesce, his Worship Canadian Mail-Closed per e..mans that there is yet one more

"pointing out that if he had any For that he, on or about 31st more trouble with the complainant Tamba Mara 3 p.m. to-day side on which their East African Siberian Mail.Closed per as territory can be successfully as May, 1915, feloniously did forge they would be sent to goal.

sailed. The other news item from a certain compradore order for Africa is one that has been long 8792 25 drawn by Messra. Bat- expected: the suggestion that terfield and Swise and purporting the Union should send an overseas to be payable to Capt. R H force to Europe. That this should Lloyd with intent to defraud; also have come at any rate in great with uttoring same with intent to messara from the Datoh ele defraud, and further with forging ment, is particularly pleasing, and attering a compradore order, Hongkong and K. W. and G. and should effectively silence purporting to be signed by Capt.

R. J. Cain, for $1,857 98.

Accneed pleaded guilty.

office experience before leaving Home. If anyone deserves our sympathy it is surely the learned judge himself, in being obliged to brand a follow..." coautryman as a criminal and do to "let down" the British race in the eyes of the Chiness. To our way of thinking, the matter is all the graver in that it has happened ata time when the Mother Country is at war. Men out here are shelt ered from the privations and in conveniences which their brethren in Britain are perforce undergo

A. S. WATSON & CO, LTD ing. While young men at Home

HONGKONG.

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The object of this paper is to publish correct information, to serve the truth and print the news without fear or favour.

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BIRTHS.

BULLDEATH.-On June 21, 1915, at Shanghai to Mr. and Mrs. R, Bulldeath; a son.

MARRIAGES. SANFORD-COWEN-On June 19, 1915, at Holy Trinity Cathe dral, Shanghai, by the Rev. W. H. Price, Mary, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J.L. Cowen, Shanghai to Mr. William Henry Sanford,. of Mukden.

The Hongkong Telegraph

HONGKONG, TUESDAY, JUNE 29, 1915.

CHINESE AFFAIRS IN HONGKONG.

are either enlisting or else are practising self-denial in order that they may sasist the Empire, in some other way, those in the East are asked, at most, to contribute to the various benevolent funds, to use a reasonable amount of

self-restraintand, where possible, taj in some rolunteer corps. Yet the prisoner in this case thought the present time quite a suitable one for committing ridiculous ex- travagances and for running up debts which he could never hope to meet by honest means,

The Young Man in the East.

,

Siakiang to-day at 3 p.m.

Up to the Minute-Share Market News.

Closing prices :-

Union Insurance Society of

O'ton, L.-8895, sales, Indo-China $104), bussrs.

Co, Ld. $70, buyers. Hongkong Electric. Oo. La.

$391, buyera. Ohina and Manilas"

buyers.

bagere. Hongkong Tramways.

bayers.

Steam Laundries.

bayere.

$5,

Luzona.- $36, Ballers. China Sugers.-$118, buyers.

The Dollar.

The rate of the dollar on demand to-day in Is 9.8/8d.

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To-day's Analversary,

Stolen from a Junk.

Exporting

Two Caisse were pro-ented at the Police Court, this morning, for exporting small quantities

of

come from medeat surroundings and have been in the habit of living on a small salary, by the side of which their Hongkong pay seems a millionaire's wealth. The pendulum swings, and lends them opium from the Colony-one was in the moraes of extravagance, and fined $50 and the other 8100. they are lucky if they ever succeed in extricating themselves there. from.

ailly German alanders,

for

German Hate and German Science.

"The enemy

His Lordship-That is sub-

stantially what the charge azonate to, but I oan hardly think

that that in the whole story. If

| ***Mr. Greaves.—On behalf of sccpsed's employers, 1 sak you to

possible."

His Lordship.-What is the use of this extravagance.

I must deal with the case in any exceptional way I ought to be Mr. Godfrey said the fact that taken into the confidence of the nocused had committed sots everyons and if I am not I can The old women of the German of great seriousness could not be only take the case just as an Douglas's 8534, buyers, Humphrey's Estates. $8.70, newspaper world seem to be busy denied, and there could be no ordinary case

just now writing up columns of question that it must be a matter -$4.95, "hate", all of which put together a regrei to him for the rest of his

will not help their army to win life. He was a young man of 24, dosl with him an leniently as $3.15, its battles. At one time the Ger- and had been lee a year, coming out to join Messrs. Butterfield and man press was a power in Europe. Swire. At home he bore an irre and British journaliate took off

came here with excellent refered- Mr. Greaves. From what we' their hats to it. To-day it proachable character, and he has degenerated into a vehicle

ces. It would be said; no doubt, know he was living beyond his childish spite OF

that he had arrived at an age meane. as in the case of the Cologna when he should be able to distin His Lordship Living beyond Gasette and its defence of the guish between right and wrong, his means is no excuse whatever. gases-into an organ of typical but there was a great deal to ba I don't know whether there are Lutheran bypocrisy, which is ten To-day is the 338th anniversary degrees worse than British purit said for a young man eming out any other matters that could be to the East alone and away from brought to my attention if I post For a man of seven-and-twenty of the birth of Peter Paul Rubens, aniam at its very worst. Only those influences which at home psnsd sentence till tomorrow, but

people sprung from a race of who does these things, we must the Dutch painter.

humbugs could dream of such were such protection. In the cir-unless there are I must proceed on own our inability to work up

statement se that to the effact cumstances he asked bia Lordship the information I have, and there mach sympathy. The man who comes East after he has reached. Property to the value of $22 that the poisonous gases are "anto consider accused's age, his is to very much to take it out of roundings and the circumstances explanation whatever given to the age of twenty-five should have has been reported stolen from the extraordinarily mild form of war," antecedents, and the general sar- the ordinary case, There is ro under which he gave way to suppert what temptation there learned at least some amount cabin of a Chinese seaman on a The conclusion:

is jealous of German science" is

was, how he was influenced, or of wisdom, and should have junk at Shaukiwan.

probably the nearest that our fat temptation. willed friends can get to a joke. what they are.

His Lordsdip-I don't know what led to this, Bome notion of guarding himself

Deportees.

M. Godfrey-The temptation against extravagance. If we had

The local police had forty odd German science and "extraordin

Mr. Godfrey-I refer to what was that he was in difficulties, our way, no one under that age should ever be allowed to come to deportees from Singapore through arily mild forms of war seem to I have said his coming out here, through having fallen into the Far East at all, and not even their hande this morning. They have been well to the fore, and that he was apparently not certain way of living, as some the way, on the heights of the at that age unless he could show are being sent to the country,

Meuse last Saturday when strong enough to resist temptation. young men do in Shanghai. that he bad come amount of ex-

I ask your Lordship to consideria Lardship-In what certain burning liquids were squirted cnbether, under the circumstances, way? I cannot understand this The Secretariat for Chinese offeira. in Hongkong is a Govern.

perience of real life before leaving Dogs Without Muzzles. ment Department which devotee itcelf to much useful work and

At the Folice Coart, this morn- the French.

it is not possible to apply the squeamishness in a court of which rarely provokes much unfavourable criticism. Its latest Home. The curse of Hongkong

Probation of Ollanders Act. He justice. and Shanghai is the small-minded ing, Miss Yvanovitch, Mr. Muntoa

̈Bulgaria's Preparations. and Mrs. Railton were each fined.

has suffered certain imprisonment report, excerpta from which we published on Saturday, constitutes

Mr. Godfrey-There is no. a record on which it may honestly be congratulated and, more than nobbery that encourages young-86 for permitting their dogs to

already, and must enfier, an I say, squeamishneas about it. He has stera to live beyond their meanɛ. this, shows the same disposition noticeable in other Government departments of, late, to go forward. The hospital and Po Leung The majority of our young men wander abread without muzzles. Balgaria'e affairs are arousing for the rest of his life. If that simply led this life, and that is

general curiosity, so the Italians were done his life would certainly, all you can say about it. well versed in probably the most becaus) he is very anxious to no excuse whatever. tell us. One would need to be in the near future, not be wasted, His Lordship Then there is difficult subject on earth-Balksu enlist in the Forces. I know that In passing sentenos his Lord- diplomacy to understand the arrangements could be male in a ship said Harold Blair,—It is a very painful, duty which fella very short tims. preparatione in Romania and

Mr. Wilkinson said be felt be sometimes to the lot of a Judge meaning of all the talk and all the

Balgaris daring the past few could not say anything in the in a country like this to have to Boy Drowned.

months. On the face of it, it would circumstances. He left the matter pass sentence on one of his own. The son of a cargo-boat woman appear that Bulgaria has nothing to his Lordship.

fellow-countrymen—a young man was descending a rope from the to gain and everything to lose by His Lordship I hardly feel who has come out with pros= as, Kiyo Maru, according to a joining the side on which Turkey that I know enough about this, pects and who has not had suffi- report to the police, when the finds herself. German lies and asse at present to be able to deal cient self-restraint to avoid the rope broke, precipitating him impossible promises will go with it otherwise than as an temptations which are perhaps into the Harbor where he was long way, but the men who ordinary case. 1 must have somewhat too easily within his

are ruling Balgaria and Rou everything put before me. drowned.

reach in such a city se this. Bat, Arrived in the Colony. mania are lega simple than those Mr. Godfrey-There is a geu- ready as I am and auxious as Mr. and Mrs. IX. D'Almain e in whose hande Turkish destines tleman here fon Messre, Butter am always to weigh anything that to an impossibility. Everyone is Castro, Mr. L. B. I. Kirby, lay before the Ports took a hand field and Swire-Mr. Greaves, can be urged in the favour of aaddled, by circumstances which Mrs. A. Tilaton, Mr. E Le Duc, in the war. Nor has either of His Lordship-All I have on anyone who is in the position in he can cosreely hope to control, Mr. W. A. Dawley, Miss J. I, these two Balkan countries been the depositions is Here which you now stand, Imuat looke with expenses and obligations Belges and Mr. G. Thornton broken in and prepared to serve a corious

of to the general interests without incurring which be might arrived in the Colony this morn the Kaiser by a long system of which we are not unfamiliar community; and it would never live at llone for filty years. Bating by the N.Y.K. Mishima Maru. tyranny such as that exercised all here in Shanghai-a maen taking do, where there has been so the existence of these necessary Arms and Ammunition. these years by Garmany over advantage of his facilities to serions a crime as this committed, outlets for money should surely As the Police Court, this morn- Tarkey. Both have fine armies, defraud, That is all there is in to pass it. over or even to des put the young man on his guarding, a Chinese was fined $200, Bulgaria more especially, but the depositions, and if you wish with it so lightly as has boun against others which are not by Mr. J. R. Wood for being in neither has much money both, me to consider the special circum- suggested that I might do in this necessary. We are not for blam-enlawful possession of two re- too, have, in the past, shown stances of the case the special care. It is quite impossible for ing him entirely, however. voivers and hundreds rounds of themselves very suspicions of birconstances must be put before one man to go free without it being Neither society nor the Govora ammunition. The alternative was Rassin. Nor, ageio, is either the court.

atemptation to others, insamach a ment helps to make the path any three month's imprisonment: likely to be awayed by sentiment. Mr. Godfrey-I refer to his the fear of punishment is removed easier for him. Many a hopeful An Insubordinate Indian: It would be as idle for previous character and aga.

from them to. do the same sort lad from Home has fallen An Indian constable was the Entents to preach Ger

His Lordebip--I don't think of thing. The one thing that has into bad babits colely because taught the seriousness of in-many's persecution of Belgium age is anything at all. He is been and in your favour is that he has so few means of getting subordination at the Police Court to them as for the Kaiser to urge quita old enough to know better, when cada the end was put to in with" family life. The two this morning. It appears that his all-fatherhood. Lookingas Bal Mr. Greaves said that acopsed this course of extravagance and pennyhalfpenny "pride of the Shir Khan forgot the respect he garia more especially must do, at wasone of many young men which vice when I say vics I am re- cobbler's dog", with which so owed to his superiors and his the position with a severely practi- the firm bad brought out to the ferring to the defrauding of your many people here fence them forgetfulness cost him $20 or in calore and in a What am Last, and it was impossible to employers-you appear to have solves in naturally chills him, default ens month with hard going to get out of it "sene, overlook the great temptation given them all the information and, finding that he is not want labour.

where the Entents can put down here for a young man like that you could, and you have refunded ed, he not unnaturally drifts

hard cash for the sake of an ally, who was suddenly removed from such money sa you had in order Germany can deposit nothing but all his friends and alvisers at to minimize their loss towards company where be, or anyone else will always be welcome

promises which, as everyone must home and came amongst utter impossible for -30 long as he has money

now know, oan never be fulfilled.

etrangers. They must all be course indicated by credit. Death or disgrace athor

It may be doubted, too, our live to that unless a man had a

Windoud The telegram quoted below prime enemy, at hairt rain have been the portion of

very strong character." many a perfectly well-intention was receivad from the Manila wants a new ally. She know how

DEPOTRESSES HENTANG had given the firm certain in- ed young fellow who has come Observatory on June 28.

the war is going to end, and, formation which bad assisted in though the entry of another

them very much in tracing the fed in country in her beh might deficiency

and he thought what extent tap the troo and the hold them was entirely the imprisoned and kop

temporarily, it rath. He had also made certain labour for a term of six month would bring no comfort and no

restitution

shanghai Mezoury early C1 hope to official Germany,

Kuk reports are excellent, and the continued success achieved by but last-named institution is not only creditable to the Secretariat but is another feather in the cap of Chinese charity.

Since the abolition of contract labour at the Etraits and in other Malay-speaking countries, Hongkong bas had less and less to do with male emigration, and the Department is left more free to devote itself to other mattere, 1914 was, happily, but little concerned with boycots and strikes. Two minor strikes are mentioned in the 9.0.A.'s report one of dock carpenters at Hanghom and one of Caulkers at Taikoa; but there seem to have been quickly dealt with. It is interesting to notice that there were three applications from Chinese for naturalisation, and that thirteen persons applied for British Subject certificates. We have said, a good many times, that it is more than time that definite distinction was made between British and non-British subjects among the Chinese hera. Wherever. our Flag files there is always room for foreigners who wish to work or to trade or to dwell peacefully as private citizens, and the British Government does not go out of its way to ask these to enrol themselves as subjects to itself. If, with a worthy motive, they care to do so, no obstacle is thrown in their way, provided their period of domicile is suficient. The greater the number of respectable Chinese that so enrol, the batter it is for the Empire-but the sooner some of those who are not enrolled batake themselves to their own country, the better it will be for Hongkong. From the manifestly law-abiding character of the younger Cainese born in this Colony, it is evident that British citizenship is no bad thing for the race. The British Born Subjects among the Singapore and Hongkong Chinese bave shown themselves loyal to the throne, and we are as proud of them as they are of their citizenebip.

It is with subjects of the Chinese Government, however, that the Secretariat's time is mostly taken up, and the business is not one that many of our readers are likely to wish to rob it of. It has to deal with the troubles and sins and wants of, roughly, four hundred thousand people, many of them here to day and gone to-morrow, and none of them British subjecte. The work, as far as the Chinese are concerned, is done well, and they have nothing to complain of. It is from the European that complaints may justly come on the ground the the Secretarist and other Government Departments allow the bridle to bang too loosely. If we allude especially to the control of the piers it is because the Report devoten a particular olanie to that subject. For years past, the Telegraph has been com- plaining of the manner in which Chinese of all classes, but notably the ocolie element, have consistently ignored the regulations posted up on Blake Pier; yet it is not until now that stops have been taken for the better control of all the piera in the Colony." better control!" The Government admits, then, that the control in the past has not been all it could have been. The pier instance is sufficient to show the sort of careless spirit that has prevailed, If necessary we could quote a hundred other case in point which go to show that the various Government departments not exclud- ing the Secretariat have been more ready to consider the con. ventence of the Chinese thin the comfort of the Britisher, This old bad system of slackness hus tired Europeans, has evoked numberless

to the Go protests and has, it seems at last appeale mind as not being a TEA better thin

"The

Whose is the Fault?

Of course we all know that a life of strict economy here is next

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TYPHOON WARNING.

to the East full of hopes and Urolone or typhoon west of ambitions; and this will continue Balingtang Channel. movi to be the case until the social life north. here is shaken up and re-organie ed by thoad brave enough

ough to do it.

andui

10 sm. June 29,

Cyclons or typhoon west of Braki Channel, moving north,

crime

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of the.