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CHINESE EDITOR GUILTY. SOUTH CHINA AFFAIRS.

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH THURSDAY, NOVEMBER

DAIRY FARM NEWS.

PEACE TERMS.

What Herr Harden Thio ko, “

Herr Maximilian Harden's &

a voios crying in a wilderama of militarism. Undoubtedly his Canton correspondent appeal for an armistivë eshore a writes under date of November 7 hope in the hearts of all Ger- as follows:--

mane, for ressons various. Herr Information from Swatow shows | Harden has gone so far as to that three cruisers from the North advocate the abandonment of entered the harbour a few days Belgium➡s hopeful sign-bat ago and delivered a large quantity even be clings to the "Reichstag of ammunition to the authorities pesce," which at bast is sheep

While Herr Harden is epeaking

A Full Court sat this morning, composed of the Chief Justion (Sir William Reea Davies) and the -Paisno Judgo (Mr. Justics Gom

peris) to give judgment in the cane argued before them recently, in which Mr. H... Follock, K.O., contended that the indictment on which the editor of the Macao|thers.

wool for the Prussian wolf. Daily Press was found guilty of The troops sent by the Govern- Prassianism wants peace na badly. demanding money with mensoes ment to attack General Mokas Herr Harden dose, but only to from a local Chinese doctor, was King-yue are at present taking consolidate its gains and converrs bad.

ap their positions in the Ho Yun itu forest for the later drive The Hon. Attorney General district. They number 3,000 against civilisation which it har (Mr. J. H. Kemp), who was a strong. Those from Swatow to frankly predicted. companied in Court by the Crown attack Waiohom are 4,000 strong Solicitor (Mr. G. H. Wakeman), and have arrived at A point not the word that the Prussian con- represented the Crown and the very far from the Canton troope. tingent in this country will weirs | Hon. Mr. B. E. Pollock, KO.. Both sides are now preparing for upon as text for a renewal of ite (instructed by Mesurs. Hastings artillery fighting

fforts to sid Germany. Copen- and, Hastings) represented the Lak Wing-ting has wired to bagen newspapers produce indie- socused. Mr. Mattingley, who General Mok requesting him to putable evidence that the fanga prosecuted the prisoner at the cancel the independeros, for the have not yet been drawn from the Police Court trial, was also in wake of the people.

Pan-Germanic snake. Germany Court:

The public is very indignant is being flooded with pamphlets The Chief Justice, in his judg. on hearing a report that the holding before the eyes of a ment ssid : The prisoner in the tresearer, who went to Hongkong people hungry and wearied and crae was charged at the last a few dava ago, has sold the easy riotime to sach lure what Criminal Sessions on the first gunboat. Kwong Hai tó a Hong are described as "Germany's count in the indictment that he kong merchant for $700,000, pesoe terms." As "told in" a did on seven specified dates in whereas soch a vessel would cost #pecial rable despatch in the New September demand money with at the preeart about $2,500,000,|York_Herald Copenhagen these meanose. Two farther counts while the lie Governor Oba ioolade :- charged (a) threatening to publish Bing-lan refoeed an offer of A “compensation" of 350,000,- certain matter, and (b) abetain- $1,750,000.-

000,000 marke-the modest enm ing from publishing such matter All the military commanders of $87,500,000,000--"lor which with intent to extort money. Ob-|have jointly requested Lak Wing- the normal rate of exchange will be jection was taken at the trial ting to ask Chen Ping-kwan to ezsoled," and the following terri- by the learned Counsel for the give up the Tachop's post and torial acquisitions:-The grester prisoner to the form of the indict- ask Admiral Ching Pik Kwong part of Belgiam, the districte of -ment, on the ground that the to be his exccERLOT.

Briez and Lorgwy and Calais charges of the alleged dates were The rising in Burngeban die and Boulogne, in France, the distinct and separate and should trict has subsided in consequence Suez Canal, the Belgian Congo, be dealt with by the jury as such, of the arrival of 300 soldiers the colonies of Poringa), the and that the indictment was bad from Cantor, and crder is grada-English and French colonies by reason of duplicity, ie, the ally being restored. Normal in tropics! Africs; Malta, including of different offences trafic is being resumed. Another Aden, Cyprus, Gibraltar, under one count; and he contend-report saye that the city has been Madeirs, the Asores,. Morocco ed that the Crown should be captured by 1,000 bandita and Tanis and the Canary Islands, required to elect to the that the Magistrate has fled to and from Russia-Lithuspis, specific charge in point of date Macao.

Fethronis, Livonia, Vilns Grodno, on which it would proceed. The

Minsk and Courland. learned Attorney General replied that the circumstances combined to form ons continuous transsc- tion and therefore one offence, and should be teated an sach. The learned Judge left the indict. ment to the jury sa covering one continuous transaction, after

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BANK HOLIDAY,

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The R. E Reeerves and St happened spon an atlas in bie Joseph's College Saturday on the Navy Ground; accurately portrays & portion of

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padded call were it not that it

Reters will be represented by hsa obsessed a whole people. kick-off at 4.30 p.m. The B. E the Pan-Germanic dream that ing of the above-named Company will be held at the Office of the Clarke; Andrews and Simonde;

Chartered Bank! Foster, S. 8. Tider and L/0.

Instead of appealing for the Liquidator.

dinance No. 5 of 1912 the armietice that Prassianism werks Building, 3, Queens Road Central IN ACCORDANCE with Or directing them in the manner to Webber: Millard, Parton. 10.and needs so badly Herr Mari Victoria, in the Colony of Hong-EXCHANGE BANKS will he which I shall presently allude Baker, Sherwood and I/C. White. milian Harden should realise that December, 1917, at noon, precisely PUBLIC BUSINESS on MON- SATURDAY. 22nd CLOSED for the transaction of and asked for a general verdict, upon it Ele, however, at the

bie firet duty is a devote all his for the purpose of having the DAY. the 12th instant. request of the learned Conn- took place at the trial? The Dergies to tebing the Pan-I account of the Liquidator, show. Hongkong. 7th November, 1917. fel, reserved the point in learned junge handed these docu- Germanic raske. On the part of ing the manner in which the the event of a conviction. menta to the jury and asked them the United States and other Winding-up has been conducted The jury conristed the prisoner to consider them in conjunction Dations of civilisation there can and the property of the Company and the point has been argued with the verbal evidence of the be no thought of peace or of any before me in the Fall Court. The prosecutor, and be directed them thing approaching peace until position may be shortly stated as that if they found that they con that enake is killed. follows:-My learned brother stituted a continuone threat in re- If the Germen people cannot directed the jury that if they spect of the $200, they should fad or will not kill it somebody else found that over the period of 20 the prisoner guilty. The jury by must. In realisation of that fact days, ie, the lat. to 20th. Sep-their verdict of guilty arrived, Tis found the renean "Why Wo tember (the dates alleged in the think at the only possible con- Are at War." indictment) the prisoner was conclusion under the circumstances. tinuously demanding some $200 In my opinion the direction of the

him

GIRLS WHO GROW LISTLESS.

or there toute from the prosecn- learned judge was right. To tor on a threat of publishing libel- have asked the jury to consider lous matter concerning him in his piecemeal the evidence bearing A girl can grow too quickly. newspaper, they should convict on the transaction according to In her teens she should be peeing. On the indictment. The the dates alleged in the indict-smoothly from girlhood to woman- learned Conneel for the prisoner ment, and to atste whether it con- hood. She needs all her blood for contende that the question of stitated a continuous threat or development. whether the several threate con- separate distinct threats, would Oce north-country mother bad alitates a continuous transaction have obtained 000 алужек. daughter of fourteen, whom was entirely a question of fact for Fathermore, the verdict of the everyone turned to took at. She the jury, and that they should jary, taken in conjunction with wae tall, straight and beautiful. have been specially asked by the the directions of the Bench, is, in All the neighbours praised her learned judge whether the threats my opinion, a clear fading that good looks and charming ware, formed one continuous threat the demande constituted & ron- Bat at home, where there was or were separate threats made fioned eeries of threats ar menaces only her mother to see, she was on diff rent day. He contended, by the prisoner in relation to his pettisb, excitable, and restiess. therefore, that there had been a orignial demand.

She could not sit still. She had a

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disposed of, laid before such Meeting, and of hearing any explanation that may be given by the Liquidator, and to pass his remuneration and also to A variety concert by the Magpie Pierrot Troupe will pass the following Extraordinary Resolution, viz

be held in the above theatre on "That the Booke, Accounts WEDNESDAY. 14th November, and Documents of the Company 1917, commencing at 9 P.M. and of the Liquidator thereof Proceeds in aid of the Prisoners- he retained by the Liquidator, of-War Fund. 4 he undertaking to destroy the Reserved eeels .........$1,00, same at the expiration of five Booking at MOUTRIE'S. years from the Diesolution of: the Company.“

A. R. LOWE, F.C.A. Liquidator. Hongkong 8th November, 1917.

IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES' CONSOLIDA- TION ACT 1908,

IN THE MATTER OF THE NATIONAL BANK OF CHINA LIMITED. (In Liquidation)

misdirection by the learned Hie Lordship went on to review poor appetite-ercept for: sweets, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

that a seventh and Final

Mesurs. LOWE, BINGHAM &

MATTHEWS,

Thorners Chambers,

Ingram Court,

jadge, apon which the jury's of the authorities quoted by Instead of being happy to lend a return of Capital and Dividend verdict should be set aside. In Mr. Pollock and concladed his band in the house, she was languid at the rate of Forty Cents fact, the learned counsel arged judgment by aaying The and tired, trailing upstairs with a (Hongkong Currency) por share that, having regard to the direo-conviction must be affirmed”. hand on her back. Soon there will be paid on and afterSATUR tione given to the Jury, this Court The Pasioe Jadge remarked began to be days when she could DAY. the 22nd day of DECEMBER we not required to consider feote-"I ogree, I have nothing to not get up. Her cheeks and lips 1917. at NOON to registered at all, that being solely the add.”

wore pale, and ahs was out of bolders of A and B Shares upon function of the jary. With re-{

application to p Prisoner was asked if he had breath after the least c'imb, . gard to the last contention. Ianything to say why sentence

I the case of Shares on the Someone said to her mother, London Register:- may observe that before this Court should not be passei on him, and "That girl is a mic. She is can decide whether the directions sid" He invited me to come here making bone instead of blood. given to the jary were justified and there is no such thing in the If you let her go on, you will have by the facts, it is clearly neocanary world for a man to invite another an invalid on your hands. Give that this Court should be inform to have money extorted from bar Dr. Williams' pink pills for ed of those facts. Since the argo-bimsall"

pale people; they have saved E.C. ment, I have had the opportunity. In passing sentence, the Paisas many a girl is that state." The of considering them. A parasal of Judge said that it was a very ser mother took the hint and in a Colonial (Hongkong) Register = the documents put in evidence, ions (soos and it was a mystery little while she had bor reward... together with the conversations to him why the law only provided a healthy daughter, who was s which took place on the dates for a comparatively light sen- promising woman, Take the hint alleged in the fodiotment, de- tence. The utmost sentence the yourself and begin Dr. Williams monstrate in my opinion, beyond jaw allowed was three years, pink pilla to-day. They are doubt, that they constituta a series Men like the prisoner were a pest obtainable from: ohemiats, Story, ( consinhona thrests in respect of so somety, and he would be given where, also 1 bottle for $1.50, 8

original demand made by the the fall pensity of the law, three for $84, from the Dr. Wil joner for some #200 ton, the youru' hard labour on each count: Medicins Co., 96 £aechuan Brad,

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