FORTIFICATIONS, On the 3rd inst. four sailors belonging to the German mail steamer Preussen were brought before the Police Magistrate charged with trespassing within the field works of the Hungham forts at Kowloon. The prisoners pleaded that they did not know they were trespassing; they had seen the notice boards but could not read English, and a Chinaman had told them they could go that way to the beach to bathe. When searched nothing was found upon them. The magistrate said they must have seen it was a fort they were approaching, and he find them $25 each or one month's hard labour.
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