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done, was provided, and the usual toasts were duly honoured. The party returned to port at 6 p.m. after a very pleasant outing.
SERIOUS DISTURBANCE IN QUEEN'S ROAD.
A BLUE-JACKEN STABbed.
At the Magistracy on Saturday, before Com- mander Hastings, five Germans from the men- of-war in the harbour were charged with being implicated in a disturbance which took place the previous evening in Queen's Road Central. Chief Detective-Inspector Hanson acted as interpreter.
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There were three charges against Albert Hervig, a stoker on the Gefion-being drunk and disorderly in Queen's Road Central; as- sanlting and wounding Zachariah Hall, a gunner in the R.A., in the Land We Live In Hotel, Queen's Road Central; and assaulting Horace Herring, of the Garrison Police.
THE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS AND
Hall said that at about a quarter past nine on Friday night he was in the Land We Live In Hotel with Gunner Dodd. Defendant, who was also in the hotel, came towards them, pointed to a picture on the wall, and said some- thing about the Kaiser. Hall said to the bar- man, who was a German, that he did not under- stand his language. Upon this defendant knocked a cigarette out of his mouth. He stood up to defend himself when defendant threw a glass at him, cutting his left cheek, and then about 30 more Germans came at him. He had not spoken to defendant. Two English sailors got him away and washed his cheek.
Gunner Dodd said he was sitting with Hall at a table when defendant came up and acted as Hall had described. After defendant had
thrown the glass at Hall defendant's comrades came up to them and knocked them down, tearing off witness's shoulder-strap. Some English sail- ors from the Powerful and Immortalité came to their assistance.
An American sailor named William Hartley and the barman corroborated.
Herring also gave evidence, adding that defendant hit him on the head with a bottle.
P.S. Scott said he was in Queeu's Road Central on Friday night when he saw a large number of German sailors coming from the east and going towards the Land We Live In Hotel. He ran there too, and he saw defendant outside the door surrounded by a large number of Ger- man sailors. Gunner Hall were also there, and in con- sequence of what he was told he arrested defen- dant, with the assistance P.Cs. Grant and Smith. Defendant resisted violently and an attempt was made by the Germans to rescue him.
British blue-jackets and
Defendant said Hall tried to knook a cup out of his hand and said something about Ger- mans, which annoyed him.
Defendant was fined $15, or six weeks, for the assault on Hall; the same for the assault on Herring; and $5 or 14 days for being drunk and disorderly.
H. Gallschalk, of the Gefion, was charged with cutting and wounding a British blue jacket named Davies. He was also charged with stabbing an Indian constable; with attempting to stab P.C. Smith; and with damaging P.C. Smith's clothes.
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Commander Hastings said it was not a very serious matter for sailors to have a fight when they came on shore and filled themselves up with whisky, but when they came to using knives it was not manly. Defendant would be sentenced to six weeks' imprisonment, with hard labour, for stabbing the bluejacket Davis; six weeks, with hard labour, for stabbing the Indian (these sentences to be consecutive); one month for attempting to stab P.C. Wm.. Smith; and be fined $5 for damage to the policeman's uniform. Karl Movis and Albert Kulim were each fined $10, with the alternative of one month's impri- sonment, for assaulting the police; and $5 or fourteen days' imprisonment for being drunk and disorderly. Alfred Detloo was fined $10, or | the disturbance. a month's imprisonment, for the part he took in
Davies said he saw a German sailor throw a bottle at a garrison policeman and hit him on the head with it. Then all the German sailors came into the street. The man who had been hit with a bottle pointed out the sailor who had thrown it to the police, who arrested him. There were a lot of Germans about, and defendant was brandishing a knife. A constable attempted to arrest him and as he ran away called upon witness to help him. Witness rau defendant to the Sportsman's Arms, and catching him by the throat pushed him against the wall. Defendant, who had an open knife in his hand, stabbed him behind the left ear.
P. C. Smith said he saw defendant stab Davies. He also stabbed an Indian constable, and cut him (witness) slightly in the cheek, also cutting his tunio. Witness then knocked him down with his truncheon.
Defendant did not dispute what the witnesses had said. He said he did not remember any- thing. He was full of whisky.
A ROWDY MARINE.
COMMITTED FOR CONTEMPT Of court.
At the Magistracy on 6th Dec., before Com- mander Hastings, Walter Walters, a marine from H.M.S. Powerful, was charged with being drunk and disorderly.
P.C. (72) Brazil said:-On the 5th inst. at 11.30 p.m. I was on duty in Praya Central when I saw defendant there. He was drunk and catching hold of a Chinaman by the queue. I cautioned him, telling him to desist, but he took no notice of me, so I caught hold of his hand. He then attacked me. We wrestled and I knocked him down. Two Indian policemen came to my assistance and we took him to the Police Station. On the way he resisted violently. Inspector Gillies said that when brought into the charge room at the Central Police Station defendant resisted violently.
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During the hearing of the case defendant behaved in anything but a becoming manner. He asked the witnesses all sorts of absurd questions, and called out in a loud voice, Bring that Chinaman here, bring him here." When informed that he would be fined $15, or six weeks, for being drunk and disorderly, Defendant said-I am not going to pay. The Magistrate informed him he could go to gaol and do six weeks.
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doubtful, the gain so far being mainly Russian, whether even the sagacious Muscovite will be able to retain a monopoly of French aid and thereby hold on at the altitude to which the Great White Bear has so suddenly risen. The Japanese-Chinese war precipitated affairs and has brought about an entirely new state of matters for which Russia was not prepared. Rapidly as she has acted and can act on occa sions, events have moved too fast for her the completion of the Trans-Siberian railway will not be a fait accompli for some years to come. Yet no power has realized so completely the vastly changed position in the Far East since the Japanese-Chinese was as Russia has done! The extraordinary brain power in Russian states- manship may be difficult to locate, but never theless, Russia has already acquired and secured prizes of no ordinary magnitude and richness, and without drawing the sword. In the matter of astuteness in empire making and expansion the Bismarck of 1860-1880 must take a back seat in-competition with Muscovite diplomacy and statesmanship. Russia, assisted by France and Germany, deterred and prevented the Japanese in 1895 from entering into possession of the fruits of their victory, coerced her into retroceding the Linoutung Penin- sula to China, and thus ** save China from Japanese domination, not in the interests or for the benefit of the Chinese, but in order that Russia, France, and Germany might help themselves to a no lean slice of Chi- ness territory, as they have already most effec- tively done, notwithstanding reiterated British protests. In the interests of the Chinese and the Anglo-Saxon race, it is a matter for great regret that up to the present time the Dowager Empress of China, Li Hung-chang, and Russian diplomacy should have so completely over- matched and out-distanced British statesman- ship. The victory has been complete, and assuredly our diplomacy has been worsted. The slow-moving British government have not given evidence that they yet begin to realize the vastly changed position of affairs in China; they seem reluctant to believe and lothe to recognize that the situation is seriously altering daily; they have pro- tested that, "under all circumstances, éven at the cost of war, the open-door policy and trenty rights would be upheld; that no spheres of indence would be tolerated; that the in- tegrity of the Chinese empire would be main- tained; that we must prevent it falling into
com rains, invite it into the paths of reform,
mercial prosperity, etc." These and such like protestations have been reiterated, but all in vain. England has not extended any moral support or substantial backing to the notoriously weak, corrupt, and effete Chinese government- Two letters by the Hon. T. H. Whitehead on a government which is tottering, utterly. the position in China are published in the Sanhopeless and helpless from within, and Francisco Bulletin of the 23rd October under equally helpless and hopeless without the following headings:-"Russian aggression foreign assistance. The maintenance and the in China. T. H. Whitehead writes of the integrity of the derelict and putrid imperial Far Eastern question. Since 1895 Russian government of China cannot be accomplished diplomatic successes in China have been remark by loud wordy protestations or by platitudes, able. Japanese-Chinese War precipitated and however high sounding. Herculean force is changed the state of affairs. Mr. Chamberlain absolutely essential. Cabinet Ministers have at Birmingham truly said that the situation in indulged in irritating statements and so far China was most unsatisfactory. Unless Russia they do not seem prepared to back the same up is stopped it is only a question of time when by action. Russia is already in possession of British interests will be jeopardized." The let Manchuria a white man's land and climate, ters are as follows:--
with a population of upwards of twenty million. people, a most virile race, possessed of all the best qualities for the making of an army and unlimited as regards numbers; Germany is in possession of Kiaochau; Eng- land gratuitously recognized Shantung province as within the sphere of German influence, which irreparably neutralizes the value of Weihaiwei, while France already occupies Kwongchauwan, has acquired a railway conces sion to Nanning, in Yunan, etc.—and Britain, yes Great Britain, it is sad to think that not- withstanding her oft-declared policy of "the integrity China" and her big talk of stopping grabbing, has herself grabbed and “lessed Weihaiwei and 200 square miles of territory at Kowloon, opposite Hongkong. The latter Lord Salisbury's government has, however, reserved that the walled city of Kowloon shall' continue under Chinese jurisdiction, doubtless to save Chinese “face, and thus permit of the corrupt Mandarin setting_up within British territory an imperium in imperio
Defendant replied “ All right."
The Magistrate-If you use any more insu't ing language I will put you in gaol for another fortnight.
Defendant-All right; you can do so.
language The Magistrate-You are sentenced to 14
days
in court.
HON. T. H. WHITEHEAD ON THE POSITION IN CHINA.
Hongkong, 5th August, 1898. China and Africa are destined to play an important part in the world in the twentieth century, and events in the Far East now threaten to move with much greater rapidity than they have ever done in the past. The vast territories and teeming populations in Asia must in the natural trend of things come under modern civilization, the very best of material and physical force, is waiting to be utilized, and weighty developments are not far off. We on the spot cannot begin to realize what great uses the dominating races will make out of the two continents, more particularly China-uses which will be a lively, yea refresh- ing, variety upon the squatting and coloniza- tion of the North American continent and the Australias.
Since 1895 Russian diplomatic successes in the Far East have been phenomenal and through French and German assistance have attained heights seldom reached, It, however, appears
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