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“ENGLISHMAN” WINS
ITS APPEAL.
Sequel to Consul's Libel Action.
EDITOR DEFENDS REPORTER.
SUICIDE TOLL IN AMERICA.
120,000 Kill Themselves in 10 Years.
"One hundred and twenty thou sand lives snuffed out in ten years. -Not by accident, but by suicide," The Chief Justice and Mr. exclaims the New York Literary Justice C. C. Ghose of the Cal-Digest.
1920.
The
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HAILSTONES IN 90 WOMAN'S TOUCH IN U.S.A. PREPARED FOR,
DEGREES?
Rare Phenomenon in Shanghai.
BIG AS A TEACUP ?
FLYING.
Reason for Two Notable Successes.
ACTION?
Warships Ready for Attack on Tsingtao.
PROTECTION TO FOREIGNERS.
The following account of the
London, July 12.. "What is the special qualifica- tion which makes women forge to the front in flying? is the question everyone is asking after Mies Brown's victory in the King's Cup, political situation in Tsingtao is and Miss Amy Johnson's lone taken from the Shanghai Times, flight to Australia," says Harry of August 18- Harper, writing in The Daily Mail. "The answer is their quickness, lightness, and delicacy of touch. to make long This allows them flights without undue fatigue, be cause an aeroplane demands not brute strength, but what a horse man calla 'hands'.
With the thermometer regis. toring above 90 degrees, which is eutta High Court allowed the ape And the problem is growing hot enough for any honest person, peal of the Englishman. Limited, worse, according to recently publish hailstones fell in abundance in show that "the various parts of Shanghai on from a judgment of Mr. Justice ed satistics which
An attack by Communists on Buckland, who awarded Rs. 7,500 suicide rate of American cities dur Monday, says the Shanghai Times as damages to the Hon. Antonio ing 1929 reached the highest figure of August 20. Don't take our word Arrivabene, formerly Italian on record or 18 per 100,000, since for it. Telephone the Siccawei
the city of Tsingtao is not un- expected by the American naval Consul-General, in Calcutta, in a 1916,"
Observatory, where, it is general For the last six years the rate hasty known, experts on the weather,
authorities stationed there, ac 'suit for alleged libel brought by
been growing steadily, we are 'told him against the appellants,
cording to Information obtained past, present and future are to. be found.
at Tsingtao by a representative The plaintiff's case was that in by Dr. Frederick L. Hoffman, con- Presi-
Yes, genuine hailstones. And
The the Englishman of August 7,aulting statistician of the
dential Insurance Company of
"Women pilots, too, have an ad- of the Shanghai Times.” 1929, the editor added a note at
mirable eye for country, and steer Informant stated that in no cir believe, perhaps, but facts are the end of a letter of denial sent America. But it is still consider the dead of summer. Hard to
point.cumstances will the U.S.S. Pitts- facts. by the plaintiff's solicitors to the ably below the highest ever record-
Several thousands of per- accurately from point to sons, who actually saw the hail-Instructora generally are astonish-burgh, flagship of the American effect that he accepted his re-ed, which was 2.15, in 1908.
ed by the confidence, skill, and porter's version of an interview lowest rate, we read, was 12.3, in stones will testify to this.. Ona
judgment women show in learning enthusiastic young family man which the plaintiff repudiated.
What caused the increase in self- claimed that he found a hail to fly light planer. Delivering judgment, the Chief
last year? Dr.istone on his verandah as big inflicted deaths Justice said the court was entirely Hoffman, writing in The Spectator, as a teacup, but later learned that woman pull on sto solo fight. concerned with the question whe
When the engine stopped, It was ther the meaning of the editor's an insurance journal, tells us some- the iceman had left it. note was defamatory as imputing thing about that:
"The stock-market collapse of last hailstones very seldom fall in this he acted with perfect coolness Maybe you are unaware that not easy to make a forced landing without an accident; nevertheless plaintiff was a liar and that the be associated with. year unquestionably had a direct city? True. Again we quote the and cate down without damaging
bearing
in increase On that question the first thing. suicides, although not as well mark-vatory officials
And the Obser- the machine in the slightest." Observatory.
further state in his lordship's opinion, was a
that hailstones at this time matter of the construction of the ed as might have been expected..
13.6 per 100,000. document which was not capable
of the year are few and far be- When the suicide rates for a tween. City boosters could easily of being read as stating that the
correlated to make capital of it with some- plaintiff was a liar. Any person period of years are looking at the note would know business failures, there is a fair thing like this:
"While New York, London. that the newspaper looked upon consistency in the correlation, the the solicitors' letter as an attack highest and lowest figures usually Berlin, Paris and other great on the veracity of its reporter, coinciding, though sometimes the world cities sweltered and suffer- follows the ed in the terrific summer heat, and, in his lordship's judgment, highest suicide rate
upon the
note was that it was not capableness failures."
"This was recently shown by a
A PROPHECY.
UNIVERSITY DEGREES FOR BAKERS ?
Asiatic Fleet, or any other of the vessels of the American. Nuvy stationed at Tsingtao at the pre sent time be removed from Tsing- tao waters.
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Phone 21474. University degrees in baking in tive of this newspaper, a high 21, Pottinger St. the reasonable construction of the year after the highest rate of buai-Shanghai, the great port of the the near future were prophesied by official of the American
Far East was visited by a hail- Mr. E. O'Neill, president of the forces at Tsingtao pointed out Of 151 cities, with an estimated storm." of being read to be an attack
The maximum
Irish Master Bakers' Association, at that there are many more for. on the character of the plaintiff population of nearly 38,000,000.
temperature the annual conference of the eigners in that city than at but only as a defence of the char eighty show an increase in the on August 19 was 92.3 degrees, National Association of
Master Hankow or any other city in acter of the reporter. In his lord-suicide rate over 1928, Dr. Hoffman being, the same maximum tem- Bakers, Confectioners, and Caterers, ship's opinion, the note was not points out, while 56 show a de-perature as on the corresponding at Scarborough. Over 1,100 dele Shanghai. These foreigners, it defamatory, and from that point crease, and in the remaining 15 the day of last year. of view no further question need rate remains stationary. be considered.
FATAL SERUM TREATMENT.
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The lowest temperature was 73.8 degrees, "In 1928. the total number of which was some three degrees deaths from suicide in the United cooler than the same day in the Newspaper's Duty, States registration area was 15,566, previous year. But upon the view that the equivalent to a rate of 13.6 per statement was defamatory, the 100,000," writes Dr. Hoffman. "if the population of the next question was whether the oc- we assume ension was privileged. His Lord- United States at the present time! ship had already said that the to be 125,000,000, and the prevailing newspaper was well entitled. in rate of 14 per 100,000, this would the social and common interests give approximately 17,500 deaths of its readers to publish the plain- from suicide during the course of a Three Doctors Indicted For Deaths tiff's denial and he (the Chief) year, a national loss of valuable"lives' Justice) could not think of any in most cases, as to which there la better way than publishing 'it in less concern than if it were an its own columns. It was a duty equal loss of livestock" of the paper to bring the denial to
The seriousness of the peril is the notice of the public and, in his lordship's opinion, the publi- emphasised in later paragraphs: cation of the solicitors' letter was
National Problem.
"We are thus confronted with a
Of 35 Children,
Three responsible doctors are indicted by a majority report of the Lubeck Parliamentary Commit- tee which enquired into the deaths of 35 children after their treat-
in no way an excessive publica-national problem. of considerablement with a vaccine. tion. In this case it was essential magnitude, and it is no small thing that it should be published, and to contemplate that 120,000 persons there was no way in which the have voluntarily ended their exist denial could be published in ence during a decade of unexampled justice to the reporter without prosperity." adding the editorial note.
The report urges disciplinary and penal action. It declares that the doctor preparing the Vaccine did not observe proper precau- tions, and kept the Calmette Pointing out that "during 1927 cultures in the same incubator as the number of suicides due to fire virulent tubercular cultures. Also, arms was absolutely restricted, the he did not experiment on animals number of deaths from suicide, as to ascertain whether the vaccine well as homicide would unquestion was innocuous. ably be materially reduced."
A former minority report was The Hoffman,report causes an not so severe. editorial stir, M. E. Tracy writes in | the New York Telegram.
Entitled to Defend the Reporter. The next question was whether the occasion was privileged, as in his lordship's opinion, it was pri- vileged, irrespective of any proof of malice either in the publica- tion or by reason of collateral evidence. His lordship was whol-
"Who can doubt that the sub- ly unable to understand why the mergence of individuality as made learned judge thought that there inevitable by the, goose-step of was evidence of express malice on modern business and modern society the assumption that the news-plays an important part in the in- paper was doing something increasing of auicide. The in- view of a libel action. The evid-dividual has become a Blave to ence of Mr. Mackie was no more organisation, not only as a toller than this: that he and his direc-but as a member of society," tors thought that the letter and]
the note were the fairest way to comply with the rights of both
parties. To say that this was confusion of mind in thinking in evidence of malice was impossible. the way he did. That he was en. The only other matter which titled to defend his reporter was need be considered was the form in his lordship's opinion closer. of the editorial note. It was set In his lordship's opinion, more- tled and passed at a meeting at over, there was no internal evid- which Mr. Mackie had the counsel ence of malice and a total absence of certain members of the board of any such evidence.
at directors, including Mr. A. H. The appeal must be allowed Watson and Mr. H. E. Watson, and the judgment of Mr. Justice and as the matter was regarded Buckland set aside. The plaintiff as something serious, the note must pay all costs. was settled by the directors.
No Libel on Plaintif.
His Lordship then referred to Mr. Justice Ghose, agreeing Mr. Mackie's evidence on the with the Chief Justice, said that point, and said that the Court the interview which was publish- must regard Mr. Mackie as a pered did not in any view of the son who was carrying out the matter constitute a libel on the order of his directors and in plaintiff.
which he concurred. In his lord. As regards the question of the ship's opinion, the directors them editorial note, it was clearly in- selves would have been very tended that the letter- should be much astonished if they were published in the Englishman and, told at that time that the apology taking the letter as a whole, it was wanted because there was an was clear that the plaintiff was attack on the character of the questioning the veracity of the plaintiff, They were satisfied reporter. That being the pozi- that the letter did not imply any. tion, the Editor had a duty to thu thing of the kind.
Courteons Mr. Mackie.
reporter if he believed in his veracity The nota did not mean anything more or less than that, Mr. Mackie, was most courteous a the plaintif demanded an op- in his letter and the only difficulty portunity of publishing his denial,
In this case was the fact that in it was afforded to him, but at the cross-examination he was in same time it was stated that the duced to accept the proposition Editor was of the opinion that the
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conference and were given a civic gates and guests are attending the welcome Scarborough.
by the Mayor
of
Mr. O'Neill said he looked for
ward to the day when British universities would give degrees in baking. Soon they might have bachelors of confectionery.
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DENTIST.
China, with the exception of HARRY FONG, Dentist,
was stated, will be fully protected. At present there are several hundred residents of Shanghai vacationing st the Shantung summer resort. The streets of
the city are well policed, foreign- ers are treated. courteously and residents of the resort feel no alarm. It was noted, however, Mr. O'Casey, of Wembley, sug-that hundreds of armed soldiers gested that the sons of operatives are in evidence and are co-operat- should be given equal opportunity ing in full with the police to main- with the sons of master bakers in tain law and order. obtaining technical education.
The retiring president, Alderman H. Warburton, of Bolton, sald the Consumera Council Bill was ob viously intended to pave the way for the day when all the means of production and distribution would
be controlled by the State.
Alderman G. B. Soddy, East- bourne, urged the association to oppose the bill.
Mr. A. J. Clarke, of Hove, was elected president for the coming year. Next year's "conference will be held at Torquay. It was men.. tioned that the membership of the association was 8,265, and was steadily increasing. It was cipated that this.. year the figure would be the highest ever reached.
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