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THURSDAY, MAY 22, 1930.
Shanel
If the disadvantage of a law is The China Mail has just received of their allies, the
a copy of the New York Central troops will constitute the main that, being made by man it is not Line's calendar for 1930. A ne strength in the offensive on the. Infallible, its advantage is that painting portrays the eastbound Lung-Hai lice. Yen himself is to ita interpretation also depends on and westbound Centuries meeting remain at Shihchlachuang to direct
York Central's
Generals For persona at the New
new the general movements. human nature.
terminal at Buffalo, New York. Chow Ta and Koo Yan-fa have been authorised to interpret the laws The painting is from the brush of sent by Yen to interview Feng Yu- are allowed to use the facuity of Water C. Greene... judgment. Thus, often the great-
halang at Chengchow, to arrange a
| meeting place; concerning further est wrongs are not done by the At 2 p.m. yesterday a Chinese plans in the present campaign.
woman named Chan Wai was the Elimination of Ironsides. Laws, but by the manner in which victim of a sneak thief whilst ahe Generala Chu Shao-liang and they are Interproted and applied. was walking in Caine Road, near Chan Chai-tong, C.L.C. of the and 8th Route Army A judge has to take into his Coronation Terrace. The rascal 6th
have issued, i consideration, many factors apart approached her from behind and respectively,
snatched her handbag, which con- joint circular telegram, declaring' from the offence itself, and in the tained money and other property that with the elimination of the case of an habitual criminal, past worth $63. The thief escaped Ironsides and Kwangsi-ites and the offences are often quite likely down 'Aberdeen Street.
conclusion of the Kwangsi military aftuation, they are, with the approval taken into account. Again the
In an attempt to obtain $10 by of the Central Government, on the character of the individual falsely representing himself as ove of sending an expedition to the charged, the possibilities of his "Lei Kel," a Chinese of Macno was north, to participate in the cam- reform, the social "value" of the at the Kowlcon Magistracy this paign against Yen Hai-shan and crime, and even the antecedents morning sent to jail for three Feng Yu-hslang, in order to strive manths with hard labour. It was for a permanent unilleation of the of the accused-all these often stated that he tried the letter trick country. strengthen in cque way or another on a schoolboy living at 466 Shang-
A general reception under the the deliberations of the judge. [hai Street, but the latter's suspicions auspices of the representatives of It may be argued that the were too strong and the would-be various local organs will be accord-
swindler was arrested.
ed to the victorious commanders, judge, equally a human being,
officers, and men returning from may allow himself to fall prey to For motive which is not ap- Kangsi, at the recreation field of that
curse of weak natures, parent at present, a Chinese named the Chang San University on May Wong Yau (32), living at 6, Plikem 22, commencing at 9 am. In the vulgar prejudice; but it must be Street, Yaumati, was the victim of afternoon, a banquet will be given allowed, on principle, thut mos: a murderous alfack last night. He at the auditorium of the Party judges' feel their sacred duties to was attacked by six men on the new Headquarters to C.I.C. Chu Shao- the State and their fellow-men. road at King's Park, at the back of liang, Chan Chai-tong and other the Club de Recreio's football naval and military officers above the and resolve their minds in these ground, and wounded several times rank of major, Chairman Chan difficult courses away from any in the abdomen. All six men Ming-shu has been elected chair- but the highest planes of justice, escaped and Wong is now in the man of the General Reception Com-
If there is any injustice in the Kowloon Hospital, where his in-mittee.
juries are not considered serious. sentence inflicted upon Carnell it The C.I.D., have taken up investiga-
is in the fact that, additional upon tion of the case. This sentence, he has to suffer a penalty which may never be undergone by a prisoner at Home.
of the State has been eclipsed by In short, Carnell, who is a white
a new and juster social spirit,man, is forced to do hard labour
CORRESPONDENCE
SNAKES WITH FEET.
Short-Term Military Bonds.
For the purpose of meeting the military expenses, it will be recalled that $4,000,000 worth of short-term military bonds were issued some months ago, to be redeemed in two periods. The first period for the drawing of the bonds will take place on June 1, at the premises of the
end many distinguished lawyers in a tropical heat for at least (To the Editor of the China Mait.] General Chamber of Commerce, ac- Sir, Tho article entitled cording to the order of the Commis- have laboured to revise, some-three or possibly four months of "Snakes with Feet" in your issuesioner of Finance.
Interested. me
Molestation At Peking. times altogether to annul, those his sentence. We wish to em- or the 20th inst
Tientsin, Tuesday. I had not heard of greatly as clauses in the Statutes which phasise that we have no sympathy such reptiles until Mr. R. Bland,
Much excitement prevails in were no longer consistent with (for Carnell as an individual, and an officer serving under my Peking, due to the searching of modern philosophy. We approach are merely selecting his case be-orders at Lintin Station-Kow- schools and shops and the arrest of the subject then at a time wher cause it is a timely example..
(Chinese) Customs since many students by the garrison deceased, sent me particulars of troops. Mayor Chang Yin-wu ex- the Laws of Great Britain may be In fact, it has for long been the one which he killed there in May, plained that the enforcement of said to have attained that degree opinion of most white men in 1916.
loon
readers.
such measure was necessary,
on
of the
Kwangsi Rebel.
Canton, Yesterday.
of expansion and justice which is tropical countries that no con- I enclose these particulars as count of the activities
they may interest your numerous Communists. as near to perfection as any laws victed person who was born in a may be. Having then so sound temperate climate should suffer
Yours; etc., and honourable, a basis for the imprisonment, more especially
E. C. TRAGILLUS.
A message received from Gen- Kowloon, May 22.
oral Liu Chin-sha of Hunan sintes conduct of society, it is to be pre-hard labour, in a tropical climate.
that the remnants of the Kwangal sumed that any who, be so anti-Fublic opinion out East is strong-
The letter sent by Mr. Bland to rebels, numbering three regiments social as to offend against the ly. opposed to this additional Mr. Tregillus, dated May 18, 1916, under the command of Tang Seng- laws of the State, shall be punish-punishment, which is a cruelty in- etates:
ming, have appeared at Yungning ed according to the statutes. The consistent with the finer things of cnakes, I have much pleasure in he has instructed Brigadier General In reply to your query about and Taohsien in Hunan, and that statutes being both fair and just, modern civilisation. If Lady sending you some details. As the Chen Kwong-chung to remain at it is also to be presumed that the Simon, who knows the East, snake was so badly mutilated. Chuanchow, while on the other hanä sentences ordained by those would only turn her attention to did not take the interest in him he has despatched two brigades to statutes shall be both fair and this injustice of the white man to him intact. Having never seen a rebels-Canton News Agency.
that I would have done had I got | Yungchow to crush the retreating
just, and commensurate with the the white man, instead of seeking snake with legs, and
I've seen offence. So when we turn to the notoriety by persecuting so-called hundrede of snakes, big and small, I naturally did not expect case of Bernard Joseph Carnell,["slave traders" in Chins, she to find any on this one. When I that Chiang Kai-shek has returned A message from Hsuchowfu atates who Was sentenced at the would earn the gratitude instead found that he had legs, it was too from Kweltek after an inspection of CAPPLEMAN. Mr. D. E. Capple-Criminal Sessions on Monday to of the contempt of her fellow late, as he was already broken in the captured city.
man passed away last night
three pieces. At first I thought The Generalissimo's headquar- (May 21) after a long fl-one year's imprisonment with countrymen and women.
it was the legs of some animalters have issued a communique ness, at the age of 42-hard labour for obtaining goods Feople who offend the Criminal he had swallowed, and to, make stating that as a result of con- Funeral will pass the Monu by false pretences by means of Law in a British Colony and are sure I opened him up with a pen- tinual aerial bombardment, the ment at five o'clock this false cheque, we must admit that sentenced to hard labour should Enife and examined the legs. Kuominchun troops in Chengchow
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From Other Sources.
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in-
in inflicting that penalty Mr.be sent to Britain to serve their were his own, and the funny thing Shantung forces have been
And to my great surprise they are entraining for Loyang. Tha Hong Kong, Thursday, May 22, 1930. Justice Wood was interpreting term of imprisonment. Surely bout it was that the gut or sinew structed by Chiang Kai-shek to the statutes in a proper and the horrible brutality of the that actuated the legs seemed to blockade the Yellow River where honourable manner. The prisoner French legal system, under which hrough the body toward të it leads from Honan to West Shan- is said to have pursued a sys-men are shipped like swine to or so and not coming on the end communications in Honan.-Reuter. to cut off the rebels' tall. I traced it along for a foot tung, so as tematic career of fraud, and Devil's Island, should be an ob- I gave it up, it probably went as
Peking, Yesterday. The Laws of Britain are gen-tightly should be removed from ject lesson to those who make far as the tail itself.
It is understood that some of Particulars:
Chang erally accepted to be as fair, as society until he has recovered his and those who apply our Laws?
Fat-kwal's troops have
those of any other country. They sense of social values, not so
There is a wonderful oppor-6 feet and the girth at the thick-
The length of the snake, was reached Yungming and Taochow.
It is believed he intends to move allow greater liberties to the much as a punishment as a deter-tunity presented by the case of est part was 4 inches, It was along the western Hunan border to- subject than most and, whilst rent. Public opinion of to-day Bernard Joseph Carnell for the coloured evenly with yellow and wards Hupeh to attack Wuhan. necessarily inelastic in principle, has been educated to regard crime new Governor of this Colony to There were two teeth on the low- obtained General Ho Chien's per- black stripes, about " wide. He is reported to have asked and they enable the individual to lead rather as a disease than as the make some gesture to the authori er law, and no poison gland as mission before entering Hunan. a normal, unrestricted existence, deliberate pursuit of evil, but that ties at Home whereby Carneil far as I could find out with a per- The Hunanese troops which had There is little that remains of our attitude has not yet made its pre-might be allowed to serve his sen-inches long, and there were five border have been ordered to with- knife. The 2 lengths were 14 been stationed on the Kwelchow laws that can be said to be sence felt at all forcefully in Par-tence in Britain. The Press is, claws on each foot with nails on draw towards Changsha in order Draconian, and the percentage of lament. Indeed, only in civil law after all, only an organ of opinion each, similar in appearance to to allow Chang Fat-kwat an un- inapplicable to the age is almost brought about any change during article should suggest to Sir made of a kind of sinew, as a statutes which are outworn and can public opinion be said to have and is powerless to act, but if this that of a snake lizard, no bones molested passage. Reuter.
in ita lega or feet, but they were negligible. The last century un- the last twenty years. A law,{ William Peel some of the horror minor operation with the penknife, doubtedly saw the survival of until it be rescinded, is a rigid, with which future generations showed that the lega were .com.. many statutes which belonged to immutable standard by which all will regard that man's sentence, nected with the after part of the a mediaeval order of society, and must abide, whether in the we feel that it will not have been formed the legs, formed part of body, as the same alnew that even continued the inflistion of country which gave it birth, or in penned in vain. renalties which were relatively the Crown Colonies. So that, In
as savage as the "plous" tor- the purely legal sense, the sen. ments of the Inquisition
tence upon Carnell was a just one.
In the realm of State affairs, or
the internal construction of the snake, and ran like a gut from the legs toward the tail end. It had a remarkable grip with its feet, even when 6 inches of the tall was broken off when trying to dislodge him from the rocks.
* CHINA WAR.
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Ten Years Ago
[From the "Caluя Mail*
May 22, 1920.J
gid.
To-day's dollar is worth 4-
News in Brief Not a great many years before
Saturday being Empire Day, H.M. Hong Kong was ceded to Great in any affairs for that matter, Ships will be dressed overall.
We are interested by the state- Britain men in the Home country everything must be based upon H.M.S. Vindictive will arrive here
ment that our retiring Harbour were hanged and transported for that which is vaguely called "the from Woosung to-morrow and wil
Master changed his name from stealing sheep and horses, and human element."
Taylor to Taylour by "dead "poll.” And laws, sail for the United Kingdom on
about eight years ago. That coldiers and sailors were publicly which are of human, not divine. Saturday.
would cost him something. The flogged. Those of us who have origin, are liable to the same Monday being the anniversary of troops have advanced as far as vowel need not have cost him u the following day. The National extra and apparently superfluous been deceived by that charming errors and fallacies as the men HM. the Queen's birthday, H.M. Moyang, 20 miles from Yencheng, cent, for it is quite lawful for any but one-sided history by Greene that created them. When they Ships will be dressed overall and a on the Ping-Han line.
man to spell his name as he likes. will find as the reward of research are found to be unjust they are red at noon.
Royal Salute (21 guns) will be Shanghai, Tuesday. A great many Hong Kong skip-
Baksas Ten Hei-shan. among less timid annals that, the discarded, bat not until many a
Upon his arrival at Shihchlass pere have been clad recently by smug self-satisfaction of our poor wretch has been judged While walking on the Island Read, chuang on May 19, Yên Hai-shan the unexpected demands for Victorian forefathers concealed and sentence under them. Some hear the fytam reservoir at about immediately called an important vessels to take rush sugar cargoes. touch that was decadent and sort of law, I
**** 15-pan), yesterday, con his to military conference, with Generals to America The tonnage, roing is agreed, is neces Stanley, a Chinese
up by Fu Troyl
Wang Ching-kuo, out has been greater than any corrupt. Particularly was this so
Bary, even if but temporary, in thres highwaymen who
ever seen here, but- in regard to the legislature order that the State may subsist of $4.87.9, The robbers, who were tendance.
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