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WEI-HAI-WEI.
News in Brief
Quarantine restrictions have been
TUESDAY, MAY 6, 1930.
SIR J. KEMP.
imposed against arrivals from Appointment Receives
Royal Approval.
Saigon on Account of cholera.
A. Te Deum will be sung on the occasion of the blessing of the new chapel of St. Paul's Institution at Causeway Bay at 3.30 p.m. Saturday.
on
LOCAL CONGRATULATION.
The Colonial Secretary informs the China Mail that a telegram has been received from the Secre- Charged before Mr. A. W. G. Hary of State for the Colonies Grantham to-day with trespassing to
the effect that
His Ma- to pick up empty cartridges, a Chateused to approve the appointment the King bas been was fined $4 or seven days' of Sir Joseph Komp, K.C., C.B.E. hard labour.
to be Chief Justice in succession to Sir Henry Gollan, C.B.E.
un the Kennedy Road revolver range lesty
| Rese
Partly demolishing a hawker's lal by stealing three planks of wood, a Chinese, who was stated to he hot of work, was at the Kew loon Magistracy to-day sentenced to three weeks' hard labour,
The China Mail has received a copy of the April number of the Yellow Dragon, the official organ of Queen's College, which is up to the Usual standard an regards in- tellectual fare and light humour."
MYSTERY TEETH.
(Continued from Page 1.). charge of the body and everything he found there. He found blood- stalns on a door curtain, and also on, the staircase. The stains were traced to the scavenging lane at the back of the house and from there to Prince Edward Road, where all traces were lost.
Witness also mentioned that it had always been his practice dur ing an identification parade to send away any Chinese detectives who made the arrests.
Mr. Jenkins then proceeded to cross-examine Det.-Inspector Fa!- circum-on. Raising the question af. the teeth, he asked the Detective whe- sover ther he had made any investiga tion as to if, by any possibility. the teeth could have come from the victim.
pared, "under suitable stances," to restore the eignty of Wei-hai-wei to China, His successor in Downing Street to-day has a peculiar idea of what are "suitable circum- stances." With actual hostilities in progress between war lords of varying hue, with banditry rife, with. Red hordes looting and massacring all over the country- side, one could not well imagine a worst set of conditions for the endition of any property at pre- sent held by the British.
Witness replied that he had not, and in reply to further questions stated that he had no directions [rom Chief Inspector Reynolds to take any precautions of that kind.
No Instructions. Mr. Jenkin asked whether it was not absolutely essential to
make certain on this point, bearing in teeth assumed in the case. mind the important aspect that the
no
Ceremony in Court.. When Sir Joseph H, Kemp sat Criminal Sessions in connection en the Bench this morning at the with the murder trial, reported elsewhere, the Acting Attorney-
grace, and charm with which dur- Ing the 18 years your Lordship has, as Attorney-General, adorned and added lustre to the profession to which we are proud to belong. We look forward with convic- tion to the continued maintenance of those happy relationa between Bench und Bar which characterise tha administration of British Justice throughout the' Empire,
His Lordship's Reply. In reply, his Lordship said: Mr. Attorney-General, I thank you sincerely for your very kind in the notification which appeared words. If the intention expressed In the Press this morning is translated into facts on the retire ment of Sir Henry Gollan, I shall accept the office with a deep sense of responsibility. I can wish that qualities so necessary to fill the I had a larger share of the office, but I have this conaotation that I know I shall receive from
Sir Joseph Kemp,
32 Years' Service.
the Colony on
Sir Joseph Kemp first arrived in 1898, as a cadet, and during his 32 years' service, he has been Christmas Day,
through practically all the Govern- ment Departments.
General, the Hon. Mr. C. Alabaster, K.C., asked permission fession that consideration and as- G. both branches of the legal pro- to address a few words to his sistance which I have always ex- Witness said that he had
Lordship. He said:
perienced at their hands during May it please your Lordship, on instructions on the point.
the whole of my service in the. behalf of both branches of the Colony, Mr. Jenkin: Neither of these legal profession, I should like to Of course, the British Foreign three men (the prisoners) have avail myself of this opportunity Office bungled, as it has an un-any teeth missing? Not that I fortunate knack of doing in the am aware of.
express nur feeling of gratifica tion at the announcement made in Mr. Jenkin: I suggest that you, the newspapers that your Lord Far East, when it consented in 1898 to hold the lease of Wei-hai-those of the victim?-Witness re-will occupy a seat which it is the assumed that these teeth were ship as substantive Chief Justice wei "for so long a period as Port plied that so far as he was con- hope of all of us that your Lord- Arthur shall remain in the posses-corned, that was 80:
ship will continue to occupy for C.S.O., Sir Joseph later went First being attached to the sion of Russia." In 1905 the
Blood on a Clog. Mr. Jenkin then produced a clog,
many years to come, Russian lease was transferred to asking witness whether It had either to the Bench in this Colony In
Your Lordship is
Canton no stranger returning
to Japan, and if China so desired she blood upon it when found.--Witor to ourselves who live and prac- Registrar of the Land Court, and
1900 he could have pointed out that the oss said that it had one spot of tise here. Many of us remember in November of the same year, he
blood on it. British lease of Wei-hai-wei auto- Mr. Jenkin: Is it the little girl's matically expired.
China, how-clog? She won't claim it. Wit ever, has been content for many reas stated that the girl later had vaid that the 'clog belonged to a years not to disturb the British woman named Sam Koo, who had lease, and she was quite satisfied been known to be a visitor at the At last the agreement between with Lord Salisbury's assurance place, and, in fact, used to reside
China (or, eight years ago to agree to ren
i with the old man. Great Britain and.
the Nanking Govern-dition "under suitable circum- rather, ment) has been signed and instances.”
In the annual general report October this year rendition shall.
"At the time when the Bri-
another point, that in the event of Mr. Jenkin: You will agree on
persons being suspected of im.
plication in this affair, inspection their clothing?-Witness said it
should be made for bloodstains on
would be desirable.
Mr. Jenkin: If the first person
sided with distinction in the time when your Lordship pre- Courts of the New Territories, the the
Court in its Summary jurisdiction. Magistracy, and All of us will remember the tact, the Supreme
Inspector
to study Chinese, in July, 1899. was appointed
was made acting Second Magis- trate.
A number of appointments fol Secretary of the Sanitary Board, Deputy Registrar, and appraiser at lowed which Included
Assistant
the Supreme Court, acting First Police Magistrate, acting Registrar
and Head of the Sunitary Board. Official Receiver in Bankruptcy, of the Supreme Court, acting
the Supreme Court, and two years. In 1909 he became Registrar of
inspection himself. the matter, and witness knew that Vincent was handling this side of
There was not to witness's know the latter looked at the cups. ledge any other examination.
later, he was made Crown Solici- Importance of the Curtain, Mr. Jenkin then asked for the been wholly confined to the fram tor. Since then his service has
He was
tish authorities occupied Wel was one of the three, and blond curtain to be produced, which was ing and administration of laye .was found about the place in the said to have borne bloodstains: Sir Joseph was appointed At- hai-wei the Territory was a
Witness demonstrated the man torney-General in 1915. roadless, desolate tract of land manner you describe, it would not ner in which it was hung.
He was inhabited by a poverty-stricken
be unreasonable to find bloodstains
Mr. Jenkin proceeded to point Empire in 1018, and in the same made a Commander of the Britlah peasantry who earned a bare on his clothes? It would not be
out that the portion of the cur unreasonable. substance by fishing and tilling
year he became a K.C. What precautions were taken!tain which had borne the blood-also knighted in the New Year' the soil; of trade, other than by the Police to find out whether stains was near the bottom. IIe Honour List in 1927. the barter of dried fish for the man's clothes bore any bloodstains being in this position It
! advanced the theory that native wine, none existed, for
Sir Joseph Kemp is a man ul the simple reason that the Ter. Stains?-He was searched when was logical to assume that some pointment as Chief Justice will be. sterling worth, and his ap- be came into the Police Station, ritory produced no commodity and his clothes, were taken off blood from an injured leg.To welcomed. by all who know him. suitable for export. But 28 him.
be accomplished. There has been for 1926 the British Commis- considerable impatience on the sioner stated: part of a section of the Chinese Press at the delay in reaching Jan agreement. Thus the China Critic churlishly complains that "the question of Wei-hai-wei is typical of the Powers'
way in dealing with China in regard to the special rights and privileges | they have wrung from this coun- try.". And yet previously in the same article, our contemporary, after saying that an agreement was ready for signature in 1924, admits that "civil disturb lances broke out in the North, leaving China with out an authoritative central Gov- ernment, and the matter was left there." Had the British at that time signed an agreement with a faction in power, or claiming to be in power, the so-called central Government now in Nanking and Ite adherents would not have found words sufficient to de- nounce the pourparlers. Even
to-day the tenure of the Nanking
Government is most u uncertain,
the
one might have stopped to wipe
this witness agreed.
Mr. Jenkin: The curtain Was taken down from the door of the
Ten Years Ago
To-day's 41,742.
(From the "Chinn Mail" May 6, 1920.)
dollar
wort
years of British rule have pro-Was that all that was done? duced a striking change in con-, That was all. ditions in the Territory: Un- Can you tell me, In a case of cubicle in which the little girl hampered by excessive taxation, this gravity, why no search wad says she was found hurt?—I saw the people have been enabled made at his house?-Owing to it taken down myself. to rise from poverty to prosthe time that had passed before perity, agricultural pursuits his arrest.
With regard to the stains on the have been developed; waste)
staircase, which might That was 48 hours 7-Yes.
have land has been reclaimed and
been blood, witness sald they were put under
Regarding the cultivation; good searches for stolen property..wit and were consistent with marks
question of roads have been constructed in ness, when further questioned, from an injured log.
also near the bottom of the wall, place of the former mule said that no search had been made ******** tracks; and industry and com- af the house. The only search Unconcerned Girl. merce have been fostered Apart from all other con- soner. Nothing was found upon the man who was Brat arrested, made was that upon the first pri- Mr. Jenkins here asked whether
The s.s. Songma, 694 tons groas, siderations, however, the great him, "no money, or anything." and afterward discharged, (Yeongplies between Hong Kong and commanded by Capt. Alexis, which blessing that British rule has The first prisoner had protested Chan) was accustomed to visit Haiphong and which struck a Territory during the past 23 out. brought to the people of the his complete innocence through- ing the priest and whether he reef in Hong Hum Bay, In
was known to the young girl?— reported to have Witness understood that such was and engine room full of water, and her.. holds the case,
this morning, a Chinese steamer
years has been the gift of peace, a gift that will be grate-
Finger Prints.
so far as I know. A
Twenty-five lift boya, partici offered in connection with the caso,pants in the strike among that sec
fully remembered by the people Mr. Jenkin: Was any search Witness, further questioned, brought in the news that the had long after, the British Govern made at the house for finger- said that the little girl seemed and if its successor fouts other ment shall have ceased to func prints? Inspector Vincent in- remarkably unconcerned over the Bunk.“ agreements made between Nan tion in the Territory.
Nothing else was done? Not whether any reward had been nacted the broken cups.
whole affair. He did not know king and the Fowers it could with Whilst there may be no option equal logic disregard the Wel- under the terms of the original By all the ruice of the game was He had not heard of any. As retion of the community, who were. hal-wol agreement. Not, of lease but to agree to the reitdi- done?Yes, provided you can get case, he had not made any chart of
this not the proper thing to be gards the bloodstains on the stair employed by the Hong Kong Land course, that such, is likely Evention of Wai-hal-wel,
cannot the proper vessels on which to find the positions. They might havo sa obser finger prints.
been a little further removed from report for Do you say, then, that there was the wall, 1926 shall be found applicable to have shown finger-prints Wit-examination.
nothing else there that would This concluded the cross the Territory thirty years hencel ness said he did not make any The case is proceeding
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