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ALLEGED PERJURY.

Three Men Charged at the

Police Court,

At the Police Court, this morning, before Mr. J. R. Wood, Hang Hon-chi, Hung Shui-yu and Hang-hin, were charged with perjury.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

CAPTAIN PERSIUS AGAIN.

GERMANY'S LATEST CRIME.

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HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1915.

OUR SPORTS LETTER.

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BLOW TO TUBKS.

COTTON EMBARGO.

Alles Agree to Make It

Contraband.

Washington, Aug: 17.-The State Department has been advis- that the Allies intend to declare ed unofficially, but authoritatively cotton contraband;

HANGING FOR YELLOW JOURNALISTS.

Sir A. Quifler Couch's views about Newspapers.

ing at St. Anetell recently, Sir Speaking at a recruiting meet- Arthur Quiller Couch, lieuternot

The decision, it is stated, has in the 10th Dako of Cornwall's already been reached, and the Light Infantry, said he had given ment is due to the necessity of the weeks. He was a believer in the delay in making the announce up reading newspapers for six arrangement of a uniform trest liberty of the Press, but if soms ment of the subject by all the proprietors of English nowe Allies.

papers had what they deserved

Official Action Expected.

August 17 addressed to the Prime Memorial to the Premier. The following memorial was on

on :

"

VOLUNTEER ORDERS.

Lieat-Col. A. Chapman V. D. ere Corpa Orders issued-to-day by-

as under:-

Joined.

The undermentioned, having joined the Corps, are allotted follows:... Corps numbers and posted as

asual courteous reply. J. N. Orawford was then in charge of "Not a German, Austrian, or

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the Surrey team, and he called ont. "Hi Marshal, what Turkish Cruiser on the Ocean." H.N.L. Renton (9th Rifle Brigade) you mean by preotising with In a silly article abusing the who has been killed was a most a pipe in your mouth." At once

Dwindling Navy: the Enemy's Lament. British Navy, the notorious Cap promising wicket-keeper. He was came the reply, "Sorry, bat tain Persias. writes:-

head of his Horse at Harrow and I haven't a cigar."

Amsterdam, Aug. 0. "This little "The English Press devotes "kept" for the school against story has its significance in the in Constantinople states:-

An official report issued to-day columna every week to the British Harrow at Lords last summer. In failure of Morehal to fulfil the Fleet and its worth. Hymns of the ordinary way he would have promise of his gifted talente in baronse has been sunk by an The battleship Hairredin Bar praias full of divine harmonies gone up to Oxford next term, but English cricket. are chanted in bonour of the instead he obtained a commission. England lacking experience bat

He came to enemy submarine. freedom of the seas, which the Whilst in training he took an with a remarkable natural apti was saved.

The greater part of the crew Flect eo effectually safeguards by active part in promoting military tude for the game: At the time remaining in ignominious hiding; sport, and ran for his battalion W. G. Grass had started the L-however regrastable in itself, does The loss of the Barbarosse, and, farthermore, it is made clear in the team race started by don Conaty Club which played at not affect us excessively, beyond Mr, Eldon Potter, instructed to the Allies that their gratitude the King at Aldershot the Crystal Palace and the dia- the fact that it places the strength by Mr. Shenton, of Mosers, for the glorious deeds of that Capt. Philip Collins (7th gerning veteran stonos saw in the of our ships, as compared with Descon, Looker, Dazoon and Fleet must for ever remain Rifle Brigade), who has been kill-young Queenslander a champion those of the enemy, in the ratio Barston prosecuted and the Boa. irrepayable.”

ed, was one of the men mainly in embryo. He coached Marshal of one to tep.

Great Britain, France, Russia, during May and the early days of Mr. H. E. Pollock K.O. and Mr. "We anfeguard commerce on responsible for the advance of and was at once repaid. This

and Italy, it is atsted, agreed to

Juno they would have been F. C. Jenkin, instructed by Mr.all the seas, we escort transport hcakey into the front rank of was in 1905, and in that season

Bought From Germany in 1910. make cotton contraband, while hanged. (Applause. They did F: X. D'Almeda of Messrs. of troops in absoluto security sports. He founded the Beckon the Australian scored 2752 runs of the older Tarkish battleships, Possibly no action by her has the enemy sad disheartening The Hairrodin Barbarossa, one Japan's attitude is undefined.nch worse work in heartening D'Almada and Mason, delended, to their destination, and so forth. ham Club, whose members are and took 118 wickets. In 1906 was completed at Wilhelmshaven been called for at present, there England and they did it delibe Considering that to-day at a chiefly old 'Varsity players, took he did a great deal better, bis in 1894, having been launched being no German colony left in rately and mischiorously--thau Mr. Patter pointed out that German, Austrian, or Tarkish part in several international mat- total of rune being 4017, includ three years earlier. She had a die- the Far East, and therefore no any man shot as a spy. He went there were two obarges, the first cruisor is to be found navigating ches, sad on retirement became ing thirteen centuries, and wickets placement of over 10,000 tons, reason for a blockade. embodying two counts one with the ocean, theas are deeds that can hon. seo. of the Hookey Association 210. reference to a statement in affi- hardly command the world's He retired from his position a qualifying for Surrey by residing same size as the battleship Mee contraband is to be defended as not done! Caught unawares by a Meanwhile he had been tons, therefore being about the The declaration of cotton as "Talk about what England has davit, and another a charge of admiration."

year or so ago, and had since repre- in the County and playing for the sudiyeh, which, while guarding authorised by international law. treacherous foo, caught unpre- perjory with reference to a cer- Captain Peraius omits to mea-aented the Association on the latter in 1907 he was at once the minefield. was sank by the It is understood that the Entente pared, what has she dons! Good tain man alleged to have emtion that but for the British fleet British Olympic Council. It is a successful to a high degree mak- B11 in the Dardanelles last De- Powere expect the United States God! isn't it something to have bezzled the sum of $1,500. He the oceane would swerm with pathetic coincidence that on the ing 1085. In 1908 he begame comber. The dimensions of the to protest, but they intend to saved the Seven Seas, to bave was dropping the second charge German, Austrian, and Tarkish same day sa Capt. Collins was one of "the" batsmen of the lost vessel were:- Length, 354 base their arguments on the fo: wept the Gorman mercantile for reasons which he need not oruisers to-morrow. The ingeni- killed Lieut. 8. H. Shoveller, the year; bis reputation was made and feet; bean, 65 feet; draught, 25 mal proclamations of Presidents marine cff the face of the earth, worry his Worship with. As reous gentlemen proves too much, moat brilliant centro forward Grace's prophecy that he would feet. Her armament consisted of Lincoln and Johnson in 1885, to have raised her Army of garde perjury, there were such se usual. In his eagerness to show hockey bas known, wae wounded, become a second Victor Tramper six 11-inob, eight 4.1-inch, eight which maintained that materials 180,000 up to three millions? obvious defences for a man that the British fleet is doing They were officers in the same appeared likely to be fulfilled. 163-pounder, and four machine for the fabrication of munitions Heavens! and on top of that mak- who swore an affidavit that be nothing he proves how complete brigade. would not worry his Worship ty it has done everything.

Bat with most unhappy sudden guns, and she had two submerged were contraband. The story of the death of Lieut. ness his cricket career came to an torpedo tubes.

ing munitions for ourselves and with it. He would ask leave to

George Mitchell, the young end. One hesitates to say that

our Allies, and on top of that, withdraw the charge inoonnection

Yorkshireman who made a wager he was spoilt by success, but he and her sister ship, the Targat reporta se to the intentione of the mess. And then the Northcliffas Both the Hairredin Barbarosse With reference to American agaio, financing the whole basi- with the $1,500 and go on with

with Georges Carpentier that kicked over the traces and qaar Reis, are ex-Garman vessels. Then Allise in regard to declaring and others tell us we are not the one about falas testimony, in

he would stand up" longer relled with the Surrey olub. known respectively as the Kur- cotton contraband, the Press doing our duty!' which the first defendant said he

against the famous French boxer That little story of the pipe farst Friedrich Wilhelm and the Association says there is little was partner in a firm, when such

than Bombardier Wells, the Bri-tells of his independence whilst Weissenburg, they were was not the c999. On August 3, the firet defendant initiated French Civilians Held to Ransom done, is told in a letter home by temperament often put him out a hores-power of 10,000 they were that cotton is to be declared

tish heavy-weight champion had a

par reason to doubt the accuracy of general instability of chased by Turkey in 1910. With the news from soress the Atlantio criminal proceedings against the

The French Embassy has issued Pat. Condon, the professional aide the power of the control that capable of a maximum speed of absolute contraband by England complainant by laying an in- formation before Mr. Lindsell, and through the Press Bureau a Note the late Percy Illingworth, the ment of a county team; With all his about 550 officers and men. Ori- tion in available on the point, but boxer, Mitabell, the newphew of mast be exercised in the manage 17 knots. The Barbarosse carried and France. No official informa he substantiated the allegations from the French Government, chief Government Whip, won whims, however, Marshal had a ginally coating about $700,000,she thers is reason to expost that the which he made to the magistrate dated July 17, of which the hie wager with bat about seventy loveable personality. He enjoyed was sold to Tarkey for 8450,000. necessary steps to vary the list of by a statement on oath in the following in a translation; usual form.

The Government of the Re- seconds boxing against Car his cricket and played it with fine Doubtless the Germans were glad absolute contraband will shortly In that informa- tion he claimed to ts a part. public has been informed that at pentier, which was sufficient to sportsmanship. Standing 6 ft. to dispose of the vessel on these be taken. ner in a firm in Bonham Strand. Roubaix (Department du Nord), satisfy his ambition. Condon 3 in. strong and sapple of muscle torms, for neither the Barbarusse That was the important statement a town now occupied by German dergoing bomb practice and trench batsman. As big men often are ad a good investment by the writes: "Lieut. Mitchell was un- he was almost the ideal of snor the Targut Reis was consider- in respect to which this proseon- armed forces, 130 French citizens, tion was brought against the first including the leading industrial mir instruction in the next he was bothered by slow bowling, Admiralty. defendant. A warrant was then and commercial representatives, field to our stores. I was grilling but in few strokes was he at fault, Probably this latest feat in We, the undersigned, being a steak when I heard an explo. He sadly missed his opportunity Turkish waters was accomplished convinced that cotton which issaed and the complainant was 32 municipal councillors, and arrested on a charge of embozat-two prieste, one of whom is the wo have explosions sail of it as a hard cock, but he has died by one of the British submarines reaches Germany is used by that importance for the first defendare rested on July lat instant by the 200 heard that there had been remembered. To the ordinary ing and anocessful work in the propulsive ammunition and for ing $1,000. It was obviously of senior oure of the town, were ar. we soon held that there ay, but a herd's death, and will always be which have been doing such dar country for the manufacture of

Parades. military authorities of the Ger- an accident. From what I could public his disagreement with the Sea of Marmora; but it is possible general military equipment, and partner in the firm, as his infor- man Empire and dispatched on gather Mitchell had set the time Surrey Club was a mystery. They that the credit is due to a French that it is within our power to ex-

Paradea for Thursday, 23rd mation would then tend to have July 4 to the prisoners' camp at did not go off he got out of the on the field, and wore baffled by settled when the sabmaring re-neutral States by declaring it ab except Right Section M.G.Co. and

fase of a trench mortar, and as it knew him by his splendid prowess vessel.

instant. This point abould be clade this importation through 5.30 p.m. Reoruits of all unite greater weight with the Magis Kantrow (Mechleuburg), where trench to fix another fans. trate than if an outsider came they have been interned,

Im-the announcement that he had turns to the fleet and reports on solate contraband of war, and in Signalling Section-Squad drill along and said he wanted to pro- This wholesales arrest has been mediately it went off and killed severed his connection with the its work. secute a man who had embezzled carried out under the following wounding a lot more." The death

him and three others, besides Surrey Club..

view of the seriousness of the and rifle exercises at Head- matter and uneasiness felt in this quartera under Sergt. Major Golfing at the Front, money from a company. His pretexts:

of Lient. F. E. B. Hulton Sims Worship would naturally ask, in

country, call on the Government Highy and Corpl. Vergette (Civil (1) The town refused to pay an will be regretted in Queensland course has been constracted at It has been told how a golf

not to loss a day in making this Service Co.) Remainder. Nil. that case, what business it was of indemnity of £6,000 for the boas much as in this country. At Rahleban camp, Germany, where

declaration.

Detail. the man who was laying the bardment of the German Con- Cambridge he won fame as a British prisoners of war are in

We believe the rights of On duty until morning of 20th

Gun Club Hill, Kowloon, information. He would ask how late at Alexandretta (Turkey) bozer, winning the feathers interned. An even quainter place

neutrale can be safeguarded he came to know; and therefore by the French Flest.

by allowing them to import

inet, H. K. V.E.7 1901, 1902 and 1803 and during for the game to be played is to say that the person laying the (2) The industrial workers the three years he held a ouracy behind the renobes in France,

only the

Detention Camp. Kowloon. average normal information W1 a co-partner declined to open and allow their in Birmingham he often "put where, in the lull of battle,

amount of cotton which has been fat, H. K. V.R.

On duty until morning of 26th would add a reality to the matter factories to be utilised for the the gloves on" in encouragement every sport from the schoolboy's to reports which have reached years before the war, and that that it would

Zurich, July 22-According used by them during the thres not other needs of the German Army. wise assume,

of the sport amongst the members pastime of piggy" to golf, here, five Polish ladies of noble arrangements made for the The Government of the Roof his charok. In 1908 he went is being happily exploited to drive birth and moving in the most purchase of that portion of the However, when the 0330 went before

Mr. public brings to the knowledge out to Queeneland and joined the dullness and melancholy to the aristocratic circles of Austrian new erop. normally imported by Lindsell, he dismissed it of the civilised Government this Bush brotherhood there receiving shades. Tom Fernie, himself a society, were arrested in Vienne Germany and Austria will meet without calling on the com- new and adions violation of the the title of the "fighting poreon. plot in this case who was of Nations, and, unless the when he went round the outlying fimone Sottish Goling family, espionage in the interests of Russia. We believe, also, that ne soon se

distinguished member of that the defendant in that) for his Government of the German stations he generally carried a

a fortnight ago on charges of the fears of the United States. defence. It was history that, at Empire immediately sete at liberty set of boxing gloves with him, and ere soon after the start of the war, convicted, and sentenced to be from reaching Germany the

enlisted in the Glasgow Highland- They were tried immediately, cotton is effectively prevented HONGKONG POLICE RESERVE the time of the charge, the com- the French citizens above men-wee ever ready to stand up to the and was at the front for some hanged next day plainant had sued for an account tioned, will be compelled to take miners and planters. Returning time. At present he is back in Arsonal. The judge presiding ly shortened, and that it is a daty of a partnership in a firm in appropriate reprisals until it has home on the outbreak of war the England recovering from a nasty at the trial was obliged to attend not merely to ourasives but to our at the Vienna length of the war will be material- which the second and third defen- received satisfaction,

old Cantab was anxious to go to wound that is mending, under to see the sentence carried out. dant were partners; the third defendant being the father of the

the Front as a chaplain, bat as treatment. It was he who was The execution proved much aand one for which there is a pre- this was not possible he secured responsible for this battlefield barrowing spectacle that he en- cedent in the action of the United a commission in the 6th Duke of golf course. It consists of six tirely collapsed and lost his States itself for preventing the Cornwall's Light Infantry. He boles laid out in two fields where reason. He has since been re-enemy from supplying himself was the leading spirit in his bat the grass is short and thick. The moved to an asylum for the insane with the material for destroying $155, talion whether it was running, 250 to 800 yards with bayards of

distances of the holes vary from at Steinhof, a suburb of Vienna, the lives of our own and of our and of his death his commanding football or boxing, and in telling

Allies' troops. ditches and barbed wire entangle- officor wrote: "His death has ments and holes made

The signatures include Mr. caused a gap that oan never be ration tins. Here is the story services of three French arching Lord Charles Baresford, Mr. Bert parta nowe requisitioned the Bilaire Belloc, Mr.Arnold Bennett, filled."

of one of the games played by to help us to look for the ram Blount, Mr. E. K. Burstal, One sunny morning before the Fernie. There were three of us balls and to carry our belta and Mr. Hall Caine, Sir O. W. Cayser, start of a match with Yorkshire and we had two clube and three bayonets, I gave my opponents Lord Chamwood, Sir Henry Dal- military hospital in Malta after borrowed from goodness knows the ground was very lampy we Fremantle, Earl Grey, Mr. D. M. Alan Marshal who has died in a balle which one of our officers had each a stroke a hole and though ziel, Admiral the Hon. Sir E. R. fighting with the Australian where. Picture the three of us had a very interesting game. The Hanney, Lieut-General Sir J. a preliminary nook with a balloon on the skyline, the big picked up the game very smartly Macara, Mr. David G. Pinkney, Forces at Gallipoli, went out for three aeroplanes and a captive caddies were most amusing: They Hills Johnes, Sir Charles W. nominal

pips in his month. Lord Hawke guns eending over a few souvenirs and were as prond as Panch, Mr. W. H. Rseburn, Sir William Chins Light and Powers-was batting at the next net and to the Hans and we three kiltica

4.40, buyers, Cements.- 89.70, buyers.

Marahal greeted him with Morg- having a nice quiet game with matching round with our belts Ramsay, Lord Sydenham, Sir J. ingm'Lord" and received the gutty. The grass was long inang bandolier fashion round W. Bzlumper, the Dean of Can-

their necks, ve

terbury, and Bir Jolin Wilson.

to make out that he was B

first defendant. It was obvious then that, if some charge of the

kind made could be brought Closing prices :- against the man asking for the

account, it might influence the sales and buyers.

civil proceedings, so the fire defendant laid the information, swearing he was a partner, when really it was his father that was the partner. The perjury in the care of the first defendant lay in the sworn statement that he was a partner in the firm when he was nof; and, with regard to the other two defendants, the porjury was in connection with sworn testi- mony in connection with the proceedings.

(Care Proceeding.)

Up to the Minute.

Indos (Combined).

Sugare.

buyers.

Luzons.

buyers.

8131, sales

$39, sales and Langkats. Tls. 871, buyers. Docks.

buyers.

$81), sales and Shanghai Docks -Tis. 60

buyers.

Ewo's Tle. 1771, sales.

Shanghai Cottons-Tia, 104,

with

POLISH LADIES HANGED IN VIENNA.

Judge Goes Mad After Seeing Execution.

Minister:-

Allies to take the obvious courso

No 1910 Bapper H. H. Wilson to Engineer. Company.

Scouts Company (No. 4 Beo No. 1911 Pto, W.BO. Trafford

to

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