THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 30, 191
TSON'S SULFOCREME
HAS THE WONDERFUL PROPERTY OF GIVING TO THE SKIN INCOMPARABLE SOFTNESS, PREVENTING REDNESS AND IRRITATION, AND OF TAKING AWAY WRINKLES AND FRECKLES,
THE
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1 BOTTLES 60 cents & $1.00 each
PREPARED ONLY RV
The Truck Tragedy.
It is a thousand pities that, af the Criminal Sessions yesterday, no case could be found against the opolis who was arraigned on
charge of manslaughter in con-
'nection with the recent fatal
track
DAY BY DAY
AB IT WAS IN THE BEGINNING IS TO DAY OFFICIAL SINNING, ANDSHALL BE FOREVERMORE, Kipling.
The Weather.
At the Peak 8 am. Temp. 53;
accident in Kowloon. Apparantly there was no absolute-
y direct evidence of neglig fine. lence--that is to be explain.
Lower level 8 a.m. Temp. 63;
ed from the fact that thers fine. was no actual eye-witness of the happening-but there was surely
The Malls. OF Bufficient circumstantial testi Siberian Mail-Olosed to-day
per 8.8. Singkiang 3 p.m. mony to justify a verdict of guilty. The medical evidence was Siberian Mail.-Dae to-morrow
per a Yingchow. to the effect that, from the nature of deceased's injuries, the truck English Mail-Closed to-day mast have been travelling at an per u.6. Nankin 2 p.m. AICORUİTA speed, and,
in-Europesa Mail.-Das to-morrow per .. Atsuta Mara.
The Dollar.
Kanch 86 the prisoner was one of the men in charge of the vehicle, one would have thought the jury would have had no difficulty in finding that a degree of responsibility for the There was nothing in the case to show that the deceased lady was at
A. S. WATSON & Co., Ltd. agedy reated on him.
HONGKONG DISPENSARY.
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BIRTHS
fault, and, as the incident occar- rad in broad daylight, it is sarely a safe assumption that the negligence of the coolies was the nanes of the tragedy.
Fours for the Future,
BRAGA. On 29th December at 5 Ohaarvatory Villas Kowloon, made to Mr. and Mre.. Vincent Braga, a daughter.
PRISEN ETTE. -On December 22, 1915, at the Victoria Nursing 1me, Shanghai, to Mr and Mrs. A. Frisenette, a ann.
MARRIAGE.
THOMAS SELIGER-On December 23, 1915, at H B.M. Consulate General, and at the Holy Trinity Cathedral, before the Rev. W. H. Price, Herbert Thomas, son of the iste John I. Thomas, of Liverpool, to Marie Crystal Luise Seliger, younger daughter of Friedrick W. C. Soliger, of Berlin.
the
Tomorrow's Anniversary.
NOTES ON THE CRISIS.
THE RUSSIANS.
The "Westminster's” Statement.
A YEAR AGO TO-DAY, PILFERING OF DYNAMITE.
LEADING EVENTS IN THE GREAT WAR.
Extracts from the war news con- tained in the "Hongkong Telegraph" of December 30, 1014.
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Hr Hezlnd on How to. Prevent it.
What Mr. Asquith refrain from telling us, concerning the number of single men whom, |
The case, which we reported apparently, nothing but force
yesterday, in which two Chines will affect, in now told us by the
were abarged with stealing two leading Radical paper--the West-
sticks of dysamits from Wi
Wing minster Gazelle. According to American Protest to Britain, (Oo, who is carrying out the work o that journal "the number of on- Reuter's correspondent at Was of building the new reservoirs at attested single men is much greater hington states that the U. 8. Go-Pokfulam, was concluded before than was anticipated, amounting versment has sent a long Note to Mr. Hazeland this morning. to six hundred and fifty thousand, Britain insisting on an early im- The first defendast, aworn,esid very few of whom are in Governprovement in the treatment of that firs sticks of dynamite ware ment, "starred "or indispensable American commerce by the Bri-supplied him to fill up holes made industrine;
for blasting. He had used four and "all of which is an tiah Fleet. amusing comment on Mr. As The Note warns Britain that was going to use the other when qaith's recent statement that the mach feeling has been aroneed he was arrested. Derby rearaising scheme bad been by unwarranted interference with His Worship pointed out that an unqualified success. Have we legitimate trade, and the United the witnesses for the proeeontion not almost bad enough of the States Government feels com- said the prisonera, were going Premier's methods of letting as pelled to ask for definita informs down the hill to fill up botes.
D. 8. Olark said the witnemon The rate of the dollar ou down gently? As a precursor tion of Britain's attitude in or-
of the Westminster's assertion|der to take measures to protest were hostile as they were "all in" demand to-day in 1/10 15/16.
(which, by the way, has the the rights of American citizens.the swim," including the Chipses To-morrow is the 15th anni aroma of Government inspiration Namerous specific cases of deten- foreman, Mr. Wing:On blges sa Tomary of the granting of the about it) comes Mr. Asquith's tions and seizures of cargose are much as a case a monili, which Charter to the East India Company, announcement to his colleagues oited. The Note declares that was 400 sticks.
that "a measure of compulsion" the representations are made in s His Worship said the only way Seizure of Oplum.
Will the friendly spirit, but the United for the sticks to be obesked was Revenue officer Wilden this would be necessary. morning made a seizure of 254 men of his sabool ever learn to States considers best to speak in for the head man to go round and be. of prepared opiam off the ....call a spade a epsde? In the past terms of frankness, leat silence ses for himself whether there were
they have certainly shown them-sboald be considered acquiescence holes or no. selves masters in the suppression in a policy which has infringed of the true and the suggestion of the rights of American citizens, he was given the stick by the
The chief difficulty is the moral foreman. the fales; but that sort of poligy
His Worship said it seemed does not carry a country very affect of the practice on American far. At present Mr. Arquith is very exporters, who are restrained quite clear that the prisoners hard at work proving to the world from taking risks which should were given the sticks by the on that he is not the man for his job; not surround legitimate tra le tractor and could not be found the pity is that the nation ever between the United States and guilty of stealing, but only of ro
The ceiving. He proposed to congiof allowed itself to be lailed into the other neutral countries, belief that he was. The men Note is practically intended for them of receiving bat, taking in whom one pities most in all this all the nations of the Triple to consideration all the olroom. stanoes, he would bind them over are the army and navy chiefs; and Estepte.
Router's we are inclined to think that if,
at in the sum of 8100-oschto-dome correspondent at the present moment, Eazi Washington reports that the Note up for judgment if called upon Kitohener were to walk into the adds, with reference to the deten in regard to that sort of storing: House, Cromwell-like, with a few tion of American ships at sen, he thought the only way to pre soldiers behind him, and clear that the Government cannot vent it was for an absolutely to the whole place out, determining tolerate andge delays in examin-liable man to go round and count to run the country himself for a iog or convoying to British the holes and dole out the num-
for detailed examine ber of sticks required. If that' while, he would find plenty of ports sympathisers.
tica, and argues that proof of the were not done, the stealing would bostile destination of the cargo go on for ever and a day.
Baichiog.
Chinese Return Home.
The P.. Glenfalloch, arrived in Port this morning from Singa- pare, having on heard 238 Chinese
pagaвngere.
Departed.
It is somewhat remarkable faot, too, that of the six track coolies only one could be traced. Mr. W. T. Harbord, of the These vehicles are licensed, and Royal Naval Dockyard, departed there certainly should be some by the Home-going P. and means of keeping a check on the steamer Ninkin to-day, men into whose charge they ara
Kallan Output. given. Oga of the statements The total output of the Kailan
hy
prisover Mining Administration's wi, en appeared to lend colour for the week ending December, to the probability that the 18, 1915 amounted to 62,315 tons brakes of the track were not and the axles during the period, effective. He stated that the to 57 704 tons.
A Passenger's Heavy Loss, It has been reported to the master should have been in the dock, since it was his duty to ses that the brakes were in order. Police by Obinose passenger on And, if it were the Dase that the the Kiyo Maru that between the brakes were defective, the wonder 22nd and the 24th., while in Moji W16 not harbour or at sea, some person
DEATH. BLISS.-On December 23, 1915, at the General Hospital, Shang, is that the hai, Venetia May, the beloved wife of Leonard Bliss.
The Hongkong Telegraph
HONGKONG, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1915.
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As for these six hundred and must be evidenced at the time of charged, not in place of the pristole from his boxes in the cabin fifty thousand nice young men the searchment on the sea. The soner, but along with him. The $2,500 in money.
who are willing to loaf at home preemption of guilt cannot rest case was brought not only to secure Very Strong Monsoon Reported, in safety while other men are with neatral abippers, but the the punishment of the guilty, The .. Glenfalloob, which has, bring for them-what sort | burden of proof must be imposed. but also
they object arrived in port to-day from Eiuga of soldiers are going on any belligerent interfering lasson to truck coolies that they pore, having taken nine days to to
measure therewith. abould exercise a larger measure do the run, reports that she en- of compulsion "is applied to them? of care when on the streets. The countered very strong monsoOD We Britishers know that they are public does not require to be told from Singapore to, the Paracele not fair specimens by which to that the atmost carelessness and with very bigh seas, From thence jadgs; but the enemy and the recklessness are displayed by to Hongkong it gradually gol neutral natione, and perhaps some these coolion; we have had ample finer. evidence of that in the past. And our only fear is that, after the lenient view taken by the jary in this tragic ease, the dangers will increase rather than diminish in the future.
instance,
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Rifted Luggage.
A Dangerous Practice.
Opium Possession.
of our allies, do not know this; and
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INDIAN CONSTABLE”
CHARGED.
A Serious Allegations:i: Indian Constable. B480: wan charged before Mr. Hambland, at the Police Court this morning, with misconduct while on duty
In asking for a remand for ca. weak, Inspector O'Sullivan aside that the complainants reported |that on the 25th instant they wern' walking along Lyttleton Road to warda Babbington. Path when the constable stopped them and asked where they were going. They repli- ed that they were going for a walk, and the constabla said they could not walk there, but must go to the station with him. They accompanied him part of the way, when the constable said that if they came before the magistrate. the man would be fined $20 and the lady $10, but he would jat them go if they gave him $10. This the man did, but later re ported the matter to the Police, when the 08.F.decided to charge the constable.
Messrs. Wright and Hornby we have the immense satisfaction advise us that the Langkat output Mr. F. K. Keith, a visitor at of feeling that the magnificent for the current month is as the Hongkong Hotel, has reported heroism of our men in the trenabas follows: to the police that between the is being liberally discounted by 22nd ult. and the 29th inst. some the story of these hundrede of person stole from his luggage thousands of young men at bloms either during the journey from who are afraid to fight. There Nagasaki to Hongkong or at the has never been a more galling A newly arrived Homs paper gives some somewhat startling On the Trail.
T.K.K.'s Godown at West Point, moment in the history of the figures in connection with the Daily Mail's circalation, which show that, in the cour-s of the fire mouthe May to September, that oircula- | We made reference the other tortoiseshell toilet set and ciga-Empire. Moraliets may tell us that it is good that some of the tion fell from 1,227,501 copies a day to 1,000,359-a drop of over day in this colump to the ease with rette case value $280.
conceit should be taken out of us, 158 000. The same paper informs us that the Daily News, which which Chinese obtain possession
At the Marine Court, this morn- and doubtless they would be may be regarded as, in all respects, the opposition paper, contrived to of dangerous explosives such as raise its daily sales during the same period from 680,032 to 800,000. dynamite. Yesterday a case came ing Commander Beckwith, in the right; but it is a bitter pil! for ae ader ordinary circumstances there might be little in these com before the Bench which threw aime case of three Chinese who were of an older generation to swallow. parative statements to interest readers whose life and basiness are light on the subject. The leakage, charged with boarding vesse! The Radicals, grand motherly bound up with the Far East; but it happens that, in this particular judging from the facte brought while she was ander way, said legislators, peace meniece, bu that this was В revival of a manitarians, trade-anionists and case, the whole pciat of the matter turns on the war and the attitude out in this taken thereon by certain sections of the prese
in connection
blasting dangerous practice which he bed anti- this that-and-the- other operations, the men whose date it thought he had put a stop to in cranke ought to be proud of their When, somo few months ago, Reuter stated that the North. is to fill the holes being in the the Colony. The defendants would work. Everyone with any senge clan press had gained an undesirable notoriety by vilifying Earl habit of emuggling as many sticks be sent to prison for two monthe. always knew what was bound to happen (if ever the Empire was Kitchener, we made bold to suggest that the effect of each a of dynamite as they can gain
A quartermaster on board the faced with a big war) as a result of policy woul! declare itself before very long in the sales of those pornBRRion of. If the mettere Japanese boas Kigo Maru at Yau-a generation of crank teaching. papers that followed it. At the time, it will be remembered, Stock probed into, it would most likely mati was charged, before Mr.
It was only to be supposed that Exchange men in London showed what they felt in the matter by be found that there men er Hazeland this morning, with the a people who could find time to
a business with the' publicly burning the Daily Mail. Lord Northcliffe is known to, on quite be one of the cleverest exponents of the fize art of advertising in explosives which they are able lawful passession of 7) taels of listen to and to encourage, every craze from anti-vivisection to their hands in opium, rained $60. The informa- the world, but for once he has made an enormous-perhaps an to get into
tion was laid by F. 8. Grant, and suffragiem and from anti-flogging irretrievable-mistake. His special genius lay in seeing what athia way. Be that as it may the Cofendeut, who admitted the in schools, to anti capital punish- very large proportion of the pablic wanted, and giving it to them we quite appreciate the difficulty which perhaps, is but another way of saying that he was shrewd of getting at the root of the charge, was fined $200, or two ment-everything, in fact, that would rub the rising generation enough to turn the people's amiable weaknesses against themselver, matter, and we can only add that
of ita rossary animalism and With the poor system of education that obtaine there, England is as the police are to be commended
We have to acknowledge the moral viscera would berdly sentially the home of the small-minded; of those who love the super. for having got so far on the right
receipt of extremely dainty produca soldiere; but what has fisl and the obvious; and the Harmsworth ability to supply both in track in their endeavours to
calendars from Mauers. W. G.
happened is even WOTBO than
A Trick Which Did Not Work vast quantities has never bara denied. To exploit small-mindedness prevent these dangerous sub- ie fine thing while it lasts; bat Britain, of late, has been pass hands of those who could be Oo, Messrs. Loxley and
*izacee from getting into the Humphreys and Co. (the State
ona Anticipated.
Before Mr. Hazeland, at the Assurance Co.) the Vacuum Oil
The Russians and Varna.
Police Court a Chinese was churg- through a period of its existence which left it but little leisure or
Co. Let us hope that the statement zet fet Daily Mail joruslism; and when, to the known absurdities depended upon to use them for (Izal"), Messrs. Shewan, Tomes about the bombardment of Varna
ed with stealing a bag and ita of that periodical, wb lesale libels of the greatest soldier of modern their own dastardly purposes,
and Co. (the Hongkong Rope is a true one. A week ago we
contents, valued $171. ti ure were Bilded, is it any wonder that the public cried: "Hold;
The facts ze stated by Iauges Manufacturing Co,), and a neat were told that thie port bad been
A case was heard at the Police little pocket diary from Messrs. practically blown off the earth Court, this morning, before Hr. tor, Macdonald, were that the Dodwell and Co., the local agents and that the Russians had landed Wopd, in which it transpired that complainant intended going to of the Phonix Assurance Co.
there. A few days later Reater Chinese, representing to be Taipo by train and arrived with employed at the Gas Works, went his brother at the Star Ferry informed as that there
o ugh!"?
0:e men's los is anually another's gain, and even those who dissent m set strongly from the past policy of the Daily Newa will not grudge it its rise in life at the expense of its adversary. It is true that, when war first brake oat, our Radioal friend was publishing
TWO JOLLY TARS.
mouibe' bard labour.
Calendars,
Pick Pocket Caught,
Do
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Total to 29th inst. 4,100
Daily avange
118.42
A BOLD THIEF.
Posed as the Glas-man.
Inspector O'Sullivan said it was impossible to go on with the case now, as the lady had gone away into the country and would not be back until sometime next wook.
The remand was granted, bail being allowed in the sum of $13.
sa eston AN IMPUDENT THEFT?
A Chinese was charged this truth in the statement that our into a shopia Gough Street armed Wharf. He went to buy morning, before Mr. Wood, with allies had effected a landing, with a large pair of pincers and leaving his brother huge "Stop the War" advertisementa; but it speedily saw the error It has since transpired t the attempting to stents wallet con- Now we learn that Varas has began to remove some gas pipes complainant sitting on vest of ite ways and is, at the present moment, less near to being objection- two jolly tore who made a tour taining 3320 from the Secretary been again bombarded. Is and anforew the connections. the bag by his side able from 5 political point of view than it has ever been before. of the hotels and other places, on of a Chinese firm in Wing Lok contradiction to follow ? Seeing Theshopkeeper beosma adspicious dant came up and sold Valuckily when the Daily News became a halfpenny paper it speedily Christmas Day, where the made Street. The complainant stated how very obvious a thing it was and took the man. to the, polios, with the bag that there began to lose its old journalistic value. It was always rabid, more a collection for the Soldiers' and that the wallet was in his, breast that the Resisus should attack elation where he admitted that he dirt on his side. Wh or less, even as a penny publication, but its reporte, eritiniame and Sailors' Cigarette Fand, were pocket and suddenly he felt & Balgaria on her Black Sea coast, was an unemployed blacksmith round to lock literary articles were many miles ahead of anything that the halfpenny Messrs. McMillan and Head, hand there. He, seized hold of one would have thought that at Company sisted that thefte of He was just going on
A representative of the Gas picked up the bag and papers, no matter what their politics, have ever been able to give and they were saccessful in col the hand and later gave the pri- least some ontline of her reasons us. Will if make use of its new popularity to try and feel its way letting the axceedingly nice little soner over to the district, watch for refraining therefrom would this kind were getting very com when arrested. back to its old influential days-the days of James Fayn or of H. W. sum of $37.32, which amount man. There was a previous con- have been given us: It is almost mon of late, Lany and "Q"? Feople would put up with its politics if it would set will be forwarded to the Secre vlotion against the man and he time that some steps were taken Mr. Wood sentenced the pri- the man out to give the lie to the generally-accepted belief at Homs that it is, tary of the principal Fund in dus was sent to prison for six months
to remedy the dimuler of the soner to three months hard weeks, with hard impossible to "run" a halfpenny paper that shall contain no journalism doura,
Balkan campaign. of the cheap and assty order.
with hard labour.
labour.
The offence
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