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Nor does it alleviate the plight of avert the perils of foreign miss elonaries in Ching.
Pillion Riders.
Motor cycling accidents which pillion riders are involved
In
are now so common that there is
THURSDAY
SHANGHAI TOPIOS,
New Mixed Court's First Session.
INTERESTING CEREMONY.
“SUNNING" PIRACY
(Continued from Paga 1.)
Witness was cross-examined by Mr. Alabaster as to the alleged kenese (deposed to by Messrs. Pringle and Beatty), between Nos. 7 and 11 prisoners. He From Que Own Correspondent.(witness) did not notice it. He
a danger of the public taking
* Shanghai, Jhu, 19, did not recognise. Na ↑ by his them as a matter of course, as In my letter last week I refer stature but by his face. - one of the ordinary perils to red to the formal handing over "The More I Look." which road users dre liable, of the old International Mixed Andrew Duncan, 3rd. Engineer Actually, one is inclined to think, Court to the Commissioner for of the "Sunning" was the next they are in a class by themselves: Foreign Affairs. Interest during witness called. After narrating. Pillion-riding adds an extra, and the past few days has centred his movements on 'board In the opinion of many, a super-around the proceedings in the the
vessel, witness went fluous risk to motor cycling, new tribunal, the Shanghai on 60 say that he left The truth, wo are glad to see, Special Provisional Court, and the ship in the No. 2 life- was recognised at an inquest at some reference to the happenings boat, being subsequently picked Home recently on the body of a of the past few days may not be up by a Norwegian steamer and woman who had been knocked without interest.
later transhipped to HM.S.. down by a motor-cycle carrying a The first session of the new "Verity which brought him to pillion rider. The jury expressed Court was held on Tuesday morn Hong Kong. the view that the practice should ing when a large number of Witness identified the 5th and be suppressed, and the Coroner Chinese and foreign lawyers ware 20th. defendants. agreed, adding that it interfered present in Court.
Cross-examined "by Mr. Shel with the driver's action and judg
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At 9.50 a.m. three gentlemen don. witness said that he was ment. In most cases it is the pertook their seats on the Bench. In quite certain that No. 5 was the son, commonly a girl, on the the centre was the new Senior man who patrolled the saloon. pillion who bears the brunt of the Judge, Mr. Ziah, a British barris during dinner. risk, but as this case showed, the ter-at-law, and formerly a mem- To his Lordship: The more" 1 practice may be directly respon ber of the local legal firm of look at him, the more convinced sible for the injury or even death Mesars. Teesdale, Newman and do I become that he was the man.
of pedestrians. Cyclists who McDonald, On his left was a George Cormack, Chief Engine carry pillion riders should ipso Chinese clerk, and on his right eer, told of having been forced facto be liable to a charge of man-was Mr. Tajima, formerly the into the Chief Officer's cabin, discussion, witness slaughter if a fatal accident oc- Japanese Assessor, who, upon this After some feurs,
OBITUARY.
"EMPRESS" MASTER AT
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MR. ANDREW WHITE.
occasion was described as Secre- was allowed to go to the engine room, where he relieved the 3rd tary to the Court.
The judge wore a hat which re-Engineer. Later in the evening sembled very much the type witness was trying to shut an iron which finds popularity on the door when a number of pirates European Continent, being of forced him on to the saloon deck, black material, embroidered with Firing took place from the bridge, gold braid, and a plain black robe causing witness to be wounded in with broad bands of gold braid the side. upon the sleeves.
In reply to Mr. Alabaster, wit
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Further evidence was given by the ship's wireless operator.
Yesterday's. Hearing.
At the resumption of the hear. ing after the tiffin adjournment yesterday afternoon, the first. witness called was Mr. T. P. Beatty, the Chief Officer of the *Sunning.""
It has been announced officialnas said that he could not say Death took place one hour be-ly that in future all foreign law-how many pirates were on board fore the arrival of the "Empress yers appearing in the new Court the vessel. He, witness, did not of Russia" from Manila yesterday will be required to wear Chinese see more than half a dozen at the of Mr. Andrew White, master at legal gowne. arms on that vessel.
English will only be permitted Deceased was taken ill with in one Court that presided over Chinese have never had the
typhoid a few days after leaving by Judge Ziah, cases in the other slightest ground för charging the Vancouver but appeared to have courts being conducted in the British with being other than recovered until after leaving Chinese language only. (Every evening except Sunday.
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anti-British agitation, a repeti- The ship entered harbour with made by Judge Ziah during the course of a case heard in the new tion of obvious facts may do no flag at half mast.
Witness said that upon hearing Mr. White was a police pension-Court or Saturday morning, and harm, but rather assist the more
er, having served over 20 years moat people are agreed that if scuffle he got up and saw the level-headed among the Chinese with the Leeds City constabulary Judge Ziah's colleagues on the indian guard being disarmed by Others teaders to readjust their mental before settling down in Van Bench adopt the same attitude number of pirates. ity and recognise who are their couver with his wife and two from the outset, many fears and arrived on the scene and he was
children, son and daughter.
misgivings in regard to the new forced, with the Chief and 2nd. Engineers, into one of the cabins. real friends and who their natur-
tribunal will be dispelled.
Addressing counsel present in Eventually witness went to the al foes.
navigating bridge, which appear Court, Judge Ziah said.
Regarding the motion for aed to be in charge of a quarter- hearing in a case in which a cer- master acting under orders from in past international crises, with the utmost regret. Wreaths lain native bank is concerned, a one of the pirates. The man ap There seems no impediment in are being sent on behalf of the representative of the bank in peared to be the leader of the Police and individual members of question came to see me at my gang his attitude was not the way of history of repeating the force to the funeral which private office yesterday after-menacing, but he continued to itself. But, whilst we can repeat takes place this afternoon, pas
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Deceased was 68 years of age.
noon.
told him to go away. I felt and
I refused to see him and cover witness with a revolver.
Witness identified the 7th. de fendant as the nian who hustled still feel very much annoyed at the 2nd. Engineer into the cabin. such conduct. I did not know what he wanted or why he came
Ship Re-Captured. but it was most improper to call Witness went on to tell of the
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invitation is accepted and the CHEMICAL JOURNAL. on me at my private office in, such re-capture of the ship shortly
2 manner. I do not know whe-after midnight. At 12.30 a.m.. Chinese authorities are prepared
ther he came for a corruptive he and the 2nd Officer were on LOCAL SCIENCE MASTER'S to meet us in the spirit of
purpose and I do not care. I will the bridge with two pirates. PAPER
not permit it. During these two Whilst they were looking at the: Locarno. If it takes two to
The "Journal of the Chemical days, at least five people concern-Chelang Light, the 2nd. Officer make a quarrel it must not be Society for 1926, contains an in- ed in certain cases that came up felled both of the pirates with an Whilst taking the shople pre-overlooked that it takes two to ternating, though highly scientific before this Court have come to iron bar. A man on guard out- cautionary measure of strength-patch up a peace. One side may paper by Messrs. H. R. Raikes, A. Fsee me "for consultations" but I side the Captain's cabin came on Yorke and F. K. Ewart on the refused to see them all and I will the bridge and opened fire, which to extreme Equivalent Conductivity of Solu- maintain that attitude always. witness returned, bringing the ening its Naval forces in the be prepared to go Far East the British Government lengths to attain peace, but it tions of Sodium Hydroxide and the In future auch interviews will not men down, and securing his rifle The paper, which is far too ab be allowed, and people who come and other arms. Promiscuous fir is giving the Cantonese author cannot be blamed if it finds the Mobility of the Hydroxyl Ion." ities every possible chance to other party obdurate and stub-arruse for review at any length in to me in such a way, in whatever ing broke out all over the ship and an attack was made on the bridge. a daily, newspaper, is of interest to capacity, will be punished. come to a settlement of the Han-born. In any event, whatever may local residents in that one of the St. John's University.
Witness also identified the Mr. Frederick kow incident by negotiation. As ultimately eventuate it shall not three authors.
Some interesting references to 20th. defendant as being one of the President of the Board of be said of the British that, they Kenneth wart, is solence Master at the attitude of the students of the pirates.
King's College, and Div. Supt. of
Cross-examined by Mr. Alabas- Trade says in a cablegram pub-did not go to the utmost limit in the King's College Division of the St. John's University were made lished "this afternoon, "we are
seeking that "peace with hon-local branch of the St. John Am- by the President, Dr. F. L. Hawkster, witness said that he was cer bulance Brigade the. Division Pott, when interviewed by the taim that he had not confused
No. 7 with any other man prepared to go much farther our" that would for ever redound which won the Ralphs Shield for local Press.
Replying to a number of ques- The examination-in-chief of than many observers of the situa- to the credit of both the Chinese 1926. tion to-day might perhaps think and the British.
cloded a second paper, one dealing tions, Dr. Pott said that the at Mr. J. W. Hurst, 2nd. Officer of with Anhydrous-Methyl Alcohol, by the past term had remained con- the Court adjourned until this tention of the students during the "Sunning" was opened, and 'justifiable, but we are prepared
Mesara. Raikes and Ewart.“
stantly fixed upon their studies, morning. political affairs having exercised
to go that length because we hope and
believe that the national Harrowing Experiences. qualities and commercial. No one can read the full ac standards which our trad- count of the harrowing experi- ers experienced in China ences of the Spanish and Ameri- can missionaries in Foochow
everywhere."
The Journal's contents also“ in-
FIVE CENT FRACAS. little, if any influence upon the
SERIOUS A89AULT CHARGE FOLLOWS.
other fokf employed at the market.
Municipal Council of the Inter national Settlement. A manifesto
school's routine. Dr. Pott point cession as being "absolutely "rnt ed out, however, that most of the ten." According to stories told 880 students when asked for by some of these unfortunates, their views are in sympathy with the Chinese looted the Hankow in years past represent the without lamenting the pass to
A fracas the Shamshuipo the. Nationalist movement, but Club as well as the Brunner Mond Chinese people and that these which the anti-Christian sita makararaamtr 23. allow are almost unanimous in express Building, qualities will assert themselves tien has come, and without ex dispute between a vendor and his ing hopefulness that the moder Defence of Shanghat to establish peace and order pressing the trapet sympathy customer, had its sequel at the Kowate wing of the movement will General satisfaction is expresa- for those who have come through loon Magistracy yesterday after he the controlling agents in duged in regard to the attitude of the & very trying ordeal. Mob law noon, when a foki was charged besource. of the Attorney-General, Sir that the Chinese authorities must using grievous bodily harm to a Refugees arriving in the Set has been issued in which it is
This supplements the statement has again triumphed, and for causing grievous body arm to Hankow Refugees, **
bear the full brunt of the respon. Mr. J. T. Prior appeared on be- tlement from Hankow, following made quite clear that our local Dougins Hogg Whilst claiming sibility. All the assurances of half of the complainant and Mr the capture of the British Conces authorities will tolerate ne non- that the situation at Hankow protection of missionaries and A. J. O'Donoghue defended.sion, appear to be unanimously sense. The special Police are all According to Mr. Prior, a pur grateful for the comfort and hos standing by, whilst experience must be regularised, the British other foreigners have been so
of much waste paper. What has ac- chaser bought five cents worth c
olives from No. 78 tall, but for pitality offered to them here. has shown that the organisation, Government, said Sir Douglas, curred at Foochow can also hap some reason or other gave the The a.s. orang" arrived here of the Volunteer Corpa is such had entered into negotiations pen at other mission stations money to the mistress of No. 72 this morning, and according to that it can be mobilised to fall with the Chinese authorities to throughout the country. The for- stall A dispute arose and the des the evening papers one and a strength in an hour each unit
eign Consuls are helpless. The fendant struck the complainant speak moat highly of the treat having a mobilisation centr see whether a satisfactory ar- local representatives of the Chin- across the kidneys with an from bar. ment received at the hands of the A in previous Insta rangement can be reached on the ese Government are powerless to After hearing medical evid basis of the Memorandum. With enforce law and order utterly ence from Dr Smalley of the Row- ship's officers. To show how supreme command of the him we can only hope that the in incapable of suppressing the eroon Hospital his Worship aljourn. comfort had to be sacrificed, it ment' defence on
ed the case for a week, allowing may be said that although there placed in the *cesses of the studenta and pre- £1,000 ball.
is only accommodation for twenty WEL vitation will be accepted, in which venting outrages. It truly seems
people, not less than 122 were car the Co case the Chinese will not find us that affairs in Chine are going
ried. The officers had little or no teers. Colonel. Geneva, Jan, 19—In the course of either ungenerous or unreason from bad to worse, and he would uble. That should, indeed, go be a bold prophet who could ven- the sitting of the Opium Comma leep during the trip from Han confidence of everyone
ston, Signor Cavazzini stated that kow giving up their ture to predict what the end will fly was ready to adopt the neces the use of women and without saying. In the long his, be. Merely to theorise, of course, sary measures to enforce the Hagua of Sino-British relations the does not tend to minimise the convention of 1812 Routerai
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