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THE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS AND
[April 6, 1901.
THE CAPTURE OF AGUINALDO: | supply are not always the same. But the THE OUTBREAK IN VICTORIA
GAOL.
mutinied in Victoria Gaol last week and mur- The three long-sentence prisoners who derously at ackel Mr. R. H. Craig, assistant superintendent, and Mr. Pierpoint, chief warder, wounding them with knives, the former severely were charged on the 2nd inst. before Mr. Hazelund at the Magistracy...with attempt. ed murder. -- Captain Superintendent May pro- ovidence, had his head bandaged. soonted. Mr. Craig, who attended to give
The threo convicts, handcuffed securely to gether, were conducted into court by an armed constable, and placed in the dock, at each end of which a guard was set.
His Worship, on taking his seat, pointed out have prisoners manaoled in the dock. The to Mr. May that it was opposed-to principle to handcuffs were accordingly taken off, but the prisoners were secured by their queues. Thoy admitted the crime when the charge had been read over.
Robert Henry Craig, assistant superinten dent of Victoria Gaol, said÷At 9.50 a.m. ou
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unpleasantness is invariably there, and the atari (Daily Press, 3rd Apri‹.) ·
scarcity of water generally begins when the The news sent by our London correspon- Colony is threatened with an epidemic. The dent, to the effect that General FUNSTON, ever-present possibility of a combined water- the capturer of AGUINALDO," has been famine and outbreak of serious illness rewarded with a Brigadier-Generalship in detracts most seriously from the eligibility the United States regular army, having of Kowloon as a residential quarter for previously been a General in the Volun- Europeans, and it is therefore urgent for teer force, appears to be authentic the authorities to make every effort to ren confirmation of the rumour, to which der the water supply sufficient to meet the we alluded yesterday as current in Houg-demands on it. Shortsightedness in the past kong that the Filipino lealer had fallen and the general dilatoriness which marks into American hands. So frequent has
so many Government ́undertakings have been the report of AGUINALDO's capture produced a state of affairs discreditable that such a story could not be received as
to Hongkong, to put an end to which true until officially confirmed, and on Mou- every reasonable endeavour must be made. day the United States representative had no In official reports Kowloon is promised information to impart on the subject, nor 500,000 gallons of water a day in 1904-5. up to yesterday night had he any direct Recently Mr. LAWRENCE GIBBS estimated confirmation of the news. Nevertheless 413,000 gallons a day to be the quantity at our telegram seems to put the matter be-present necessary, though the temporary yond reasonable doubt...
works now in progress will only bring the That the capture of AGUINALDO will have minimum dry weather allowance up to a great effect on the state of the Philippines 300,000 gallons, which plainly is little the 27th ult, I was inspecting the lower yard, can hardly be doubted. While el Pre-enough, even if it compares favourably with accompanied by the chief warder. I am well sidente," as he was so long called, remained the actual supply of to-day. It is no doubt first of whom has been in goal for about uine acquainted with the three defendants; the at liberty, the Filipinos who refused to useless to attempt to hasten the new works, months, and is under sentence of ten years accept American rule had always a strong and Kowloon must therefore exist as best hard labour for armed robbery and piracy. The head to whom to look up. None of their it can, with occasional water-famines, second, who was sentenced to fourteen years' other leaders have so far shown a tithe of We do, however, hope that the authorities, hard labour for armed robbery in a dwelling- the ability of this remarkable man. General in view of the rapid growth of Kowloon, house, when a murder was committed, has been TRIAS, whose recent defection has very
will consider well the advisability of in-in gaol for about six years, and the third has probably contributed to AGUINALDO's creasing the supply which is to be available completed one year of a three-years.sentence for capture, has been much praised by the in 1904-5. If in the opinion of an expert months separate confinemont, was put to No.2 forgery. The first defendant, after doing six Americans since he gave up the struggle 413,000 gallons a day is necessary now, it is labour-the usual labour for such convicts. On against them, but he was not appreciated by improbable that 500,000 gallons will suffice coming off "separate," he received full labour them as an enemy in any such degree as was
even if three or four years' time, and they diet. On the 27th ult. the first defendant was AGUINALDO. That the war or insurrection certainly will not in th future, unless on No. 2 labour and iu recsipt of full diot. The will now collapse at once, is perhaps un- something occurs to check the expansion of second defendant was employed in the wash- likely. The Filipino Junta, of which we
this Colony on the mainland.
house from August last year up to the 21st The present have heard so much, will probably have is the time at which to atone for the short- February, on which day. he was reported some announcement to make on this point. sightedness of the past, where possible, shot and oakum.
idling and put to No. 2, labour- The wash houso also But it cannot be doubted that the capture and every fresh scarcity of water, such as counts as No. 2 labour, so that, though put of AGUINALDO is a very heavy blow to the that now existing, emphasises this fact. to different work, the prisoner did not lose Filipino cause. In the interests of peace in
anything in diet. On 18th January the third the Islands, and because it was inevitable
defendant, at his own request, was transferred that he must one day fall into his enemies'
from shoemaking to Nr. 2-labour. Shoemaking power, a feeling of relief must be experi-
is industrial No. 2 labour, and nothing therefor● was lost in diet. On the 27th ult, the thres enced by all but the extremest, partisans of AGUINALDO. and his Filipino followers.
prisoners were working together in the same There should be no fear that the captured
party at the same labour. At ten minutes to ten they were picking oakum in the lower yard, leader will be ungenerously treated by the
at the south side of the washshed, which has Americans, who have throughout behaved
no door, but is fitted with opon arches leading with if anything an excessive generosity to
into it from three sides-gast south, and the chiefs who have been captured by them.
west. After visiting the yard, and when No change of policy in the case of AGUINALDO
A Nanking despatch expects that Li in the act of entering the wash-shed by is to be anticipated. Such a change would Hung-chang will be appointed Foreig of my head. I immediately turned round the east end, I felt a blow on the back be very unpopular in the United Sta es, Minister in place of the old Tsung-li Ya- and found myself confronted by the first and would alienate those who sympathise with men, and that Liu Kuug-yi will be made second prisoners, both. with knives in their the American attempts to pacify the Philip Viceroy of Chibli, and u Lien-yuan, Act hands. They struck at me again, and I pines, and furnish the Filipino cause withing Governor of Chekiang, the Viceroy of received a blow with a knife on the head and a an unnecessary martyr. On every ground,
stab on each shoulder. While def nding my- we believe, AGUINALDO will secure the treat-
self, I noticed the third defendant enter the meut granted by civilised conquerors to a
shed from the south side. The attack took brave enemy who can resist no more.
place in the archway of the shed. At almost the same moment the three defendants were overpowered and the knives. taken from them. When I was entering the shed the chief warder was just behind me, and he seized the second defendant just after I was struck, and whilst I was defending myself. I did not, so Mr. Pierpoint struck, because the whole affair was but momentary. Other officers then came and overpowered the prisoners, who did their best to get at me with their knives. This is the coat I was wearing at the time (coat produced). I saw the three prisoners disarmed, and the weapons produced are those that were taken from them. In my coat there are alto- gether four cuts, and three correspond with the plane iron. The two kniyes have not been used in the Gaol as long as I have been con- nected with it On that morning, immediately after this occurrence, all the implements used in the workships and cookhouses were checked from entries, but none found missing, All the articles used in the Gaol are checked three l·times a day at the time of leene, when taken up for the mid-day meal, and again at bight,
THE KOWLOON WATER SUPPLY.
(Daily Press, 1st April.) Kowloon is once more waterless for the
greater part of the day. In the Government Gazette of Saturday, the 30th ult., there appeared a notification to the effect that, owing to the scarcity of water, the supply in the public mains in Kowloon Peninsula will be turned on from 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. and from 4 to-8 p.m. only, until further notice. That is to say, for seven hours in the day it will be possible for Kowloon residents, to obtain water; for the rest they must depend on what they have drawn during these hours. There is nothing new in this experience for Kowloon. It is an aunual occurrence, with the only variations that in some years the supply is cut off carlier than in others and that the hours of
THE CRISIS: TELEGRAMS.
[FROM OUR COBRESPONDEN [8]
SHANGHAI, 29th March, 7.40 p.m. The Reformers here have been officially assured that all reports of t e signature by China of the Manchurian Convention are unfounded.
the Liangkiang.
SHANGHAI, 31st March, 7.53 p.m. A despatch from a reliable sourve at Hsianfu announces the early issue of an Imperial Decree stating that the Emperor firmly refuses to ratify the Manchurian Convention.
A Tokyo despatch reports that Russia has assured Japan that the Convention is harmless to China and immaterial to Japan. The Church Missionary Society's claims in Chekiang Province have been settled in a
favourable manner.
SHANGHAI, 2nd April, 8 p.m. On the invitation of Yu Chuan-lin, Tung Fuhsiang has secretly visited Hsinnfu to idvise the Empres Dowager to avoid Peking.
The Empress begged for Tung's assistance in event of further troubles, and authorised him to maintain a large force of militia at Ninghsia.
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