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G-E MOTORS

ANDERSEN MEYER & CO.LTO.

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

(ESTABLISHED 1881).

68971 登拜禮 號十弍月十英港香 MONDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1919.

REUTER'S TELEGRAMS,

THE SHANTUNG QUESTION.

AN AMERICA SENATOR'S STRONG SPEECH,

Washington, October 13.

REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.

NAVAL REFORMI:

A NEW ZEALAND DIVISION PROPOSED.

London. October 17. The Time corespondent at Wellington says Almiral Jəllico's In the Senate, Senator Lolge charged Japan with breaking her pledges with regard to China and Korea violating the open-doorpori, cabled to the House of Representatives, says the ideal of a policy, and destroying foreign commeres in Manchuria and Korea.single Navy is unobtardable. Experience-bas abundantly shown that responsibilities in regard to naval defence would be far more He asserted that all Japan's promises to return Shantung werd marked by a vital omission; namely, a definite date of withdrawal. cheerfully recognised and shouldered if the saps provided are sen He declared that Japan was steeped in German ideas and would by the pabple wao pay for them, and are minded by their owa ith ultimately use the man-power of China militarily and threaten aniin. The general principle of the proposals is that Na Zaalani Europe. He declared that the Shantung award was morally in-hould co-operate in the nasal de ence of the Empire and assist defensible, and urged the adoption of amendments to the Peace Britain Saancially by paying for, manning and maintaining sesain Treaty returning the German rights in Shantung to China instead proportion of the Far Eastern Fiest and alt vessels required for harbour defence ir. New Zealand, also Providing of to Japaa.

such portion of the personnei

is AS

practicable, the ships thus maintained to be in all essentials a portion of the Navy, under the suggested title of the New Zealand Division of the Ro al Navy. The waters from the Indian Ocean to Cina la arə 000, and all parts of the Empire situated therein are equally interested in the security of sea communications. Therefore the defence thereof

tries and directed by a high Flag Officer stationed at Singapore. Britain should contribute 75 per cent.. Australia 20 per cent, and New Zealand 35 per cent. to the maintenance of this fleet. New Zealand's ships should comprise three light cruisers, gix submarines and one submarine parent ship. The annual cost of maintenanco and depreciation is estimated at £925,000.

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SENATOR LODGE'S MOTION DEFEATED.

Washington, October 17. The Senate by 33 votes to 35 has defeated Sonator Lodge's amendment to the Peace Treaty, proposing the handing over of the rights exercised by Germany at Kiaschan, Shantung, to China ought to eatrusted to one Flee: composed of units from these coun- instead of to Japan.

COTTON CONFERENCE.

HOW HEAYY LOSSES OCCUR.

New Orleans. October 14. At the Cotton Conference, delegates of the Banking Credits Section stated that Britain. Scandinavia and Spain are able to finance cotton imports unassisted, but Italy, France and Belgium need aid. Speakers blamed every, group handling textiles from the field to the loom for damage to cotton, and the British Delegation contended that blunders in wrapping and compre-sing America hales, caused: heavy losses in transit.

TRADE OPPORTUNITIES.

STRONG COMPETITION EXPECTED.

New York. October 17.

At & Convention of American Manufacturers and the Export Association, foreign trade experts asserted that there were great opportunities for American trade expansion in Russie, Siberia, the Balkans and the Near East, but that the strongest competition was to be expected from Britain. France and Japan.

THE AMERICA CUP.

New York. October 17.

It is expected that the New York Yacht Club will accept Sirl Thomas Lipton's challenge to race for the America Cup in June 1920,

OBITUARY.

HENRY IRVING. ¿

London. October 17,

The death is announced of Mr. Henry B. Irving. [Mr. Henry Irving was the famous actor-manager, and was the eldest son of the late Sir Henry Irving. He appeared first on the stage at the Garrick Theatre in "School," in 1891. was called to the

ar. and has been the lessee of Savoy Theatre since 1913.]

VISCOUNT BORTMAR.

London, October 17. The death is announced of Viscount Portman, at the advanced age of 90 years. The deceased sat in the House of Common as a Whig for 33 years, 1852.85.

THE TURF.

The Middle Park Plate resulted as follows:

Tetratema

Southern

Light-Hearted

London, October 17.

1.

3.

Five ran; won by a head. The betting was 4 to 1 on Tetralema; 100 to 7 against Southern; 20 to 1 against Light-Hearted.

PRESIDENT WILSON'S CONDITION.

OPERATION MAY BE NECESSARY.

W shington, October 17. Prostatic inflammation, which is retarling President Wilson". recor**, is described as a minor selling, but a specialist will examine it to determine whether to operate.

JAPANESE STEAMER BEYOND SALVAGE.

Tokyo, October 15.

The Master of the steamer Otaru Mara, which is ashura at Baralula, Somaliland, cables that the vess it is fall of water and the bottom suriously damaged. Salvage in hopeless.

CHINESE LABOURERS FROM FRANCE.

Paris, October 15. Four thousand Chinese labourers have sailed from Havre for Canada.

THE CAPITULATION OF KRONSTADI.

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BOMBARDMENT BY BRITISH FLEET,

London, October 17. The Daily Express Helsingfors correspondent says that Kronstadt has capitulated after bombardment by the British fleet. The main attack was directed from Kuporia Bay, and windows in the villages of Finland were blow out by the concassion of the all-day bombard-

meat. •

The stronghold of Kransnaja Gorka was previously captured and hence the fleet bad nothing to fear from its heavy batteries. The White Russians have captured Krasnoeselo.

It is rumoured that Yudenitch entered Petrograd on Wednesday

night.

LABOUR DISPUTES AT HOME.

IRON FOUNDERS STILL ADAMANT.

London, October 17.

On a ballot the iron founders have rejected the agreement negotiated with their employers. The result is a serious blow to the engineering trades, which depend on castings from foundries, and will lead to further serious unemployment.

GENERAL ALLENBY'S NEW APPOINTMENT."

London, October 17. General Allenby has been appointed High Commissioner for Egypt and the Suden rice General Sir Reginald Wingate, G.C.B.

BRITISH SHIPPING LOSSES.

London, October 17.

A detailed return of British merchant shipping losses during the wur shows that the total gross tonnage destroyed was 7,759.000 tons, the vessels nombering 2.479. The lives lost were 14.257. Submarines were almost entirely responsible.

THE SILVER MARKET.

London, October 15. Silver is quoted at 6344. spot and G31. forward. Chins is buying and the market is steady,

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

[From Our Own Correspondent.)

THE PLKING-TUKIO SPLIT.

Shanghai, October 19. . Tang Shao-yi has refused to interview the four Northern delegats sent by Wang Yang for sugestions as to the mathot of disclosure of the scrat treaties. Taug is reiterating the duty of the Foreign Offices of Péking a id fukio. Wag.boasts possession of all the triatica, listed under foncseen healings. Hessurss publication, but will not commit him: if as to when or how. Ta ng Shao-fi deciires Peking con luded fifty or agrements with Jajan já forty- eight months. The Northera tolgates hold a co if i sopron Monday morning to discuss tacir future policy now that Tanz stands pat.

ADMIRAL DUFF AT SINGAPORE.

Singap re, October 18, H.M.S. Hawkins leaves Pénang on the 19th and arrives here on the 20-h.

“Admiral Duff, the Commander in-Chief of the China Station, is Larriving in Bingapora on Monday morning by, train and will then proceed by mator to Government House where a guard of honour will be mounted.

日七廿月八

SINGLE COFT: 10 CTS- £36 PER ANNUM.

SHERWIN-WILLIAMS

PAINTS & VARNISHES

CRIMINAL SESSIONS partition and stabbed him in the

A HEAVY LIST.

The October Criminal Sessions were opened this morning, both Courts sitting.

RETURNED BANISHEES.

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one went into the room where he Was and told him to get off bed on which he was THE WEATHER. lying. He did not know what was

Forecast-Fine. Barometer -- happening and before he could 29 92. Temperature 2 p.m. 73. get up he was stabbed in the leig Humidity 2 p.m. :---$7. [Before the Chief Justice.] and a revolver was pointed at Leung So WAS

He charged him.

was then sent into the woman 、 was suddenly with disobedience of order of the kitchen and tied up with awakened by being shot in banishment and pleaded guilty. the others.

the thigh. Είνα

men, the The Attorney General,the Hon.

the Attorney prisoners, camo aboard, all being Mr. HE. Pollock K.C. said General said at the time of his armed with revolvers and ther accused had been banished our arrest the accused was wearing also fired at her son, who jumped times and had committed offences the jacket and trousers of the first overboard and swam to another foki over his other clothes for the beat. It was this action which on each occasion of his return.

His Lordship said accused had reason, presumably, to cover up eventually enabled the police to

clothes which made up his mind to stay in the his own

weetrace the prisoners. The robbers Colony but he was a dangerous stained with blood. A pair of took possession of the boat and character and the Police did not socks and a pair of garters be- sailed it in the direction of want him. He would to longing to accused were found in Luk Chau Island but they were his pocket which were also pursued and caught by the Police. bloodstained. In addition, the All the prisoners were on board shoes accused was wearing were slightly stained with blood.

Evidence was then taken after which the jury found the accused

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prison with hard labour for five years.

Wong Chung Fook also pleaded guilty to the same offence, but stated he was registered as a British subject in Hongkong,

The case was adjourned, pead-guilty. ing enquiries.

ROBBERY WITH VIOLENCE

indifferent

at the time, so there was little room for doubt as to their identity. When they were charged they made statements which were in- criminating. The first prisonersaid he fired two shote, but ho did not intend to injure anybody. He wanted the boat to take him

In passing sentence, His Lord- ship said accused had been found Leung Siu was charged with guilty upon the clearest evidence robbery with violence and pleaded of a very bad robbery indeed.to Po Tai but at the people re- not guilty.

Accused went to a house armed fused to do this he sailed the boat The Hon. Attorney General with revolvers and knives and it by force. The other prisonera appeared for the prosecution, and was a matter of indifference to admitted being on the boat but the accused was undefended. him if he brought about the death denied that they fired any shots.

The jurymen were Messrs. or not of other people. These Evidence was then called. E. L. Sim, J. B. Chapman, J. robberies with violence, His Lord- j His Lordship sentenced each of Young. J. Abbas, Wong Ping ship was sorry to say, at the the accused to seven years impri- Chun, E. -Ezra and A. Alives. present moment, were very sonment with hard labour and to Opening the case for the Crown, frequent in the Colony. The object recive sixteen strokes of the cat. the Attorney General said the of the Court as to put them down

KIDNAPPING. · indictment in the case contained as far as possible. Many of accus-

Cheung Fang was charged three counts, in connection with ed's class of Chinese appeared to with kidnapping and harbouring a robbery which took place in the be

to ordinary a female child. Wan Yuen Resturant, No. 247 imprisonment, but what they Accused pleaded not guilty. Des Voeux Road, Central, in the did not like was to be whipped The Hon. Mr. C. G. Alabaster, early morning, at about 2.15., on and to endure some of the pun-10.B.E., appeared for the Crown Sept. 6, this year. It would lishment they inflicted upon and the accused was undefended. appear from the evidence, that at others. The laws of the Colony The jurymen wereMessrs. about 1.30 that morning, three had recently been amended to C. Lurice, C. J. M. Periera, C. F. lots of men, consisting of two enable the Court to impose cor de Carvalho, D. E de Carvalho, men each, went into the poral punishment upon men of G. F. Wetton, C. Wallace, and restuaraut, sat down and ordered prisoner's stamp. He regarded C. H. Osmund, food. At 2.15 they stopped eating this as a very bad case.. The and then the robbery commenced accused would go to prison with The managing partner in describ- hard labour for seven years and ing the robbery had deposed receive 14 strokes of the cat. that the first two men sitting near A PRISONER DISCHARGED. the door went up to the counter Wong Wang Hing, à Chinese where he was working. He was detective, who was charged with seized and a revolver was pointed being an accessory after the fact mert under three charges The at him. Two robbers sitting of the murder of one Li Kwan on first was under .section 45 nearest the kitchen drove the April 12 last, was formally dis-of

the Ofences against the resturant assistants into the charged, owing to insufficient (Prions Ordinance, of having kitchen. The two other evidence.

men went upstairs into the cockloft one of whom im- mediately came down and,

PIRACY.

Opening the case for the Crown, Mr. Alabaster said the prisonst was, quite shortly, charged with kidnapping a little girl agel about ten years with the object of selling her, but the Att rez General had formed the indict-

taken tbe girl away with intent to depriva one, Wong Leung Shi, of ber lawful pos888-..

(Before the Puime Judges. Five Chinese, Man Wo, Tsang sion: the second WS ander with the other two, demanded the Wai, Tong Tak Pui, So Pat and section 44 of the same Ordin- keys of the safe. He handed them Sam, were charged on three counts once of taking the child away, over and was then driven into the with robbery with violence and against the will of the child kitchen. Later he was brought wounding with intent to disable herself, with intent to sell her; back because the robbers, could at Luk Chau, Lama, Istead, on the third was under the Protection not open the safe. He; in fear, July 9.

of Women and Gi la Ordinance

opened the safe and Was The Hon. Mr. C. G. Alabaster, that accused barboured the child then sent back to the kitchen O.B.E., appeared for the Crown and took her away from the per- where he and his assistants were and the prisoners, who all entered son who had the lawful care and tied up, except one who had a plea of not guilty. were un-custody of the child. Tue child a bad arm and who later released defended.

was a little "bought" girl who bat

them when the police informed., The following jury was called been bought from ber parents by The robbers, in the meantime, Messrs. G. E. Watton, C.the woman Wong Leung Shi; stole a sum of $710 and made Wallace, C. H. Osmund, J. G. therefore with regard to chargea off. Two of the fokies were Lurjae, C. J. M. Periera, C. F. dejone and three the jury would act stabbed by the robbers. One of Carvalho and D. E. de Carvalho. as His Lord-hip directed as to them would tell the jury that he The facts of the case as out whether the woman who bought was working in the cockloft. lined by the prosecuting counsel the child had lawful custody. He heard nothing until the two are that on the night of July 9 a On the second charge there was no men went

and

seized woman, her son and the rest of question of lawfulness or unla v- him. They took him down to a her family were at Aplichaufulness. The mistress of the room on the ground floor, where in a fishing boat. They were child would tell them that abe three other men climbed over a asleep, when at about 11 o'clock | had had the child for three years

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and that she, bought it from its parents. The woman never author- ised anyone to take the child away and the child herself corroborated. thatatatement and also stated that her mistress treated her very welk indeed. The child went to the Western Market when. she met the accused who told her that she would take her to Yamati. The child did not want to go and the defendant practically dragged her in that direction. They went to Yaamati and then took the train to a certain place and went to a house where another woman came and had a loke the c ild and after soms bargaining this woman agreed to buy her. She remained with the" woman until rescued by the polic The woman who bought the child would tell the jury that the accused came up to her house and offered her for sale She agreed on the purchasy and paid a sum of $99 and got so ma kiud of a receipt. If they believed that evidence, they would have np. doubt whatever that the accused took the child away: azainst its will with intent to sell it.

Evidence was then taken after which the fury found the accused gulity, and she was sentancad Swo years" hard tab

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