NULLAH OUTRAGE RE-TRIAL
Probably Held Next
Wednesday.
SPECIAL JURY TO BE CONVENED
Left undecided owing to the. failure of the jury to agree, the re- trial of Ng Loi-yuen, charged with the murder of Michael Pine, aged 8, will be re-opened on Wednesday, providing the present case at the Criminal Sessions is concluded be-, fore then,
It is probable that the Chief Justice Mr. A. D. A. MacGregor will again preside, - and a speciali jury convened.
When interviewed yesterday the Attorney General, the Hon. Mr. R. E. Lindsell, said that there is à Special Jurors list, comprised al- most entirely of head and assistant heads of Arms, but consisting of any nationality, as opposed to the Common Jury which is,. roughly --speaking, drawn from English speaking people not in those posi- tions,
In a case of exceptional difficulty such as the present ense, said Mr. Lindsell, the Judge or the Attorney General may order the convening of Special Jury under the Jury Ordinance and though rare in
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 25, 1934.
Waring his hat to the accompaniment of his broad smile, President Roosevelt is shown acknow- ledging the greeting of natives upon his arrival at St. Croix, Virgin islands, during his vacation voyage aboard the U.8.9. Houston to the Hawaiian islands, Right, a general view of the festivities at Bt. Croix an the President's party listened to songs and cheers of the native children after landing.
AMERICA'S
PRODUCTION
CAPACITY
Can Double Yearly Output
INTERESTING DISCLOSURES
Washington.:
The producing plant and la-) bour force of the United States! are capable of turning out twice the production being obtained to-day and about 20 per cent more than was obtained at the height of prosperity before the 1929 crash, according to the Brookings Institution here.
The nation could do this year in and year out without using any better methods than those in use to-day, allowing for break- downs and other factors prevent- ing, continuous plant operation.
These are the main conclusions of the institution's study of American productive capacity, sponsored by Dr. Edwin G. Nourse, of the economics divi-
H.K. VOLUNTEER DEFENCE CORPS SEAMAN'S MARINE Bion
1
Orders For The Coming Week.
PRIVATE & BUSINESS ADDRESSES
LIBRARY
Building With 4,000 Books In New York.
To facilitate sending out of no- Orders by Lieut-Colonel H.tices &c., it is required that the criminal cases, there have been In- B. L. Dowbiggin, O. B. E. Com-addresses entered in the Com- stances here, such as the Cheng mandant, Hong Kong Volunteer pany's Roll-Book be kept up-to- DEDICATED TO JOSEPH CONRAD Kwok-yau and the Carvalho Yeo Defence Corps:- trials, when Special Jurles were empanelled in the first instance.
It is also learned from the Attor- ney General that the Crown will
not be instructing outside Counsel.
Hong Kong. Frday, 24th August, 1934.
PARADE
Corps 1st Battery
date, therefore members of this Company will send in their Pri- vate and Business addresses (to-)
New York:
A richly filled marine library,
In presenting his report, Dr. Nourse stated that the practical productivity which the country failed to realise in 1929 was the
equivalent of £3,000,000,000 of
national income-"a nice bit of change," as he described it. This would have been enough to bring the incomes of all families with less than £400 in 1929 up to that level.
The report declares that still gether with phone number) to dedicated to Joseph Conrad, has greater production could be se their respective Platoon Ser-been opened at the Seamen's Church cured if all producers could be geants who will make complete Institute here, 25. South treet. brought up to the standard of lists and pass same to the Com Situated in the heart of New York's the most efficient. Reuter. pany Sergeant Major.
busy shipping district, overlooking | Categories-For Training Furposes the East River with its acores of
Platoon Sergeants, in conjune plers, the library was opened by THE CONTROL tion with the Company Sergeant Bir Ashley Sparks, resident director Season Major, are requested to make de of the Cunard Company, in the will commence on Thursday, 13th tailed lists of men in the various presence of numerous prominent September and not as previously Categories. These lists should be writers,
At the trial last week, Mr. J. A.
All N.C.Os will parade at Head- Fraser, Assistant Attorney General,
on Thursday, 30th conducted the case for the Crown, quarters while Mr. R. C. H. Lim, instructed August at 5.30 pm for Instruc- by Mr. J. M. Hall, of Messrs.tion under Sergeant Evans.
The Bathdry Training Lyson and Hall, was for the de- fence.
CHIEF JUSTICE'S CRITICISM
Discrepancy In Lower Court Depositions.
4
| stated.
Corps Engineers Parade at Miniature Range on Monday, 27th August at 530 p.m.
Corps Signals
The 1934-1935 Training Season will commence on Tuesday. 4th September and will continue on subsequent Tuesdays throughout, the Season.
approved by Platoon Commandera before being put into operation.. Company Orderly Officer For Week Ending 11th September 2nd Lieut. F. P. Sequeira.
APPOINTMENT
Designed to serve exclusively the
seafaring man, the library already
contains 4,000 books on all subjects, selected around a nucleus of the sen tales of Conrad and other sailor. authors. Technical books for stu dent mariners as well as leading Machine Gun Battalion, is sp-works in fiction, blography, travel pointed to Machine Gun Troop.
Lieut. E. M. K. Mead, attached
RETURN FROM LEAVE Lieut H. G. Williams resumed
LEAVE
RADIO
OF
U.S. Authority Denies Newspaper Assertion
GOVERNMENT PROPAGANDA
ALLEGED
Washington.
and science are well represented,sion has called upon the presi
The Federal Radio Commis- and it is the intention to add to dent and editor of the New York the collection as funds permit.
"Herald Tribune," Mr. Ogden
stated: "The radio,
the administration licensing, powers,
Machine Gun Battalion on Thuruese Company) as from 9th Au-Dora Clarke, the British sculptor, New. Deal and largely restricted
When the depositions were look-day, 30th August at 5.30 pm. In ed up it was discovered that the the Lecture Hall Room. original note was "I recognise the It is imperative that all Com- woman," and the typescript copy pany Commanders attend. read "I recognised the woman."
His Lordship: I hope steps will be taken to draw the attention
Troop
STRENGTH
No. 2142 Fte. E. F. V. Barnes Machine Gun Bn. (For Motor Mac: (Gun Section) 20.8.34.
No, 2148 Pte. A. L. Fisher (Gun Section) 20.8.34.
No. 2144 Ple W. S. Blogg Machine Gua Btn. (For Anzac Co.)
A discrepancy in the certified copy of the depositions taken by the Every member must do his best duty from sick leave on 13th Au-.The library room has a thorough Mills Reid, to furnish "any facts Magistrale in the lower Court was to attend the first parade night in gust, 1934.
ly maritime atmosphere. In its or other material" in support of commented upon by the Chief order to get an idea of the Train-
window panes are depicted Ameran assertion the newspaper made Justice, Mr. A. D. A. MacGregor ating required of his for the Season.
ica's first clipper ships, New York's recently in a leading article that the murder trial at Criminal]
Lieut. A. W. Brown granted two first floating church, and scenes the Roosevelt administration Members should report any de- Sessions. Supreme Court yesterday, ficiencies in Uniform and Equip-month and 9 daya leave as from from the old waterfront.
The discrepancy was discovered mennt o C.Q.M.S. Millington as
23rd August to 31st October, 1934.
licensing powers had made the Dominating the library and rest-radio the spokesman of the during the cross-examination of a soon as possible.
ing against the wall half way down New Deal." STRUCK OFF THE STRENGTR witness in the course of the trial Other details have already been
the long room is a wood carving of The article of Chenng Chak, who fa charged sent to every member.
Having Completed Three Years Joseph Conrad, slightly more than controlled by with the murder of Wong Sze Muf. Corps Machine Gun Battalion by cansing her to fall from the se-
No. 1429, Pte. V. Bernardo, No.life-size and representing a ship's through its There will be a meeting of all cond floor of a verandah at a house Company
19 Platoon. Corps Infantry (Portu-figurehead. It is the work of Miss was made the spokesman of the Commanders of the In Wong Chuk Street,
and is described by Mrs. Conrad as to government propaganda." gust, 1934
the most lifelike representation of Under the Radio Act of 1927 her husband that has been made.
the commission became the li- Memories Of Conrad
censing power, the law including The walls of the room bear photo the following prohibition." graphs, maps and pictures of ships
Nothing in this act shall be reminiscent of Conrad's life. One understood or construced to give of the most interesting of these is the licensing authority the pow- Charles Robert Patterson's painter of censorship over the radio ing of the "Torrens," a passenger communications of any sta and freight vessel plying between tion and no regulation or condi- No. 2145 Pte. B. L. Heytmate London and Australia in which tion shall be promulgated or fix- Machine Gun Btn. (For No. 1 Coy) Conrad, as chief officer, made the ed by the licensing authority laat voyage of his seagoing career. which shall interfere with the No. 2146 Pte. M. T. Nutes Ma-On one of the maps the various right of free speech by means of chine Gun Btn. (For C. Infantry) ports mentioned in Conrad's books radio. 28.8.34.
are marked, together with places he The commission asserts that No. 2147. Pte. J. C. Dos Santos is thought to have described under it has never controlled' radio Car Section:--
Machine Gun Btn. (For C. Infantry) fictitious names. An autographed programs or restricted' them to Monday, 27th August, Parade at 28.8.84.
photograph of Contad is another government propaganda." In Headquarters for Machine Gun In-
calling for material to support No. 2148 Pte. R. Gomes Machine point of interest. Gun Blu. (For C: Infantry) The Seamen's Church Institute the newspaper's assertion, the Cycle Section
[23.8.34.
has an interesting history. Its commission requests the names Monday, 27th August, Parade at No. 2149 Pte. F. C. Mendes Ma-original "act of incorporation was of any persons Headquarters for Machine Gun chine Gun Btn. (For C. Infantry) drawn up nearly 100 years ago, supplied. Reuter. Instruction at 5.30p.m.
when its objectives were described AMAH FATAL FALL Wednesday, 29th August, Riding No. 2150 Pte. E. A. de Souza Ma-as the building of floating churches, FROM CAR. parade at 5.30 p.m. In the event chine Gun Btn. (For C. Infantry) the provision of chaplains for
of inclement weather a. lecture 23.8.34 will be given instead of the latter "Misadventure" Verdict parade.
At Coroner's Inquest.
NOTICE
of Parade on Thursday, 30th the Magistrates to the very grave August at 5.30 pm. at Troop necessity of exercising scrupulous Stable for Pack Saddle Drill, and personal care in this matter. I am not accustomed, I may say,
23.8.34. The Competition, 1st Stage Dow- elsewhere, to find the certifying of biggin Trophy, will Not be held depositions done by anybody, but on September 2nd; the Trophy will n Magistrate, under his own hand. be completed at the Gymkhana. I hope, In future, this will be done, and that this Court can rely on the certified depositions implicitly. This discrepancy might have done irre- mediable harm to the accused per-
Aon,
In this case it has put the
three of us in a quandary,
The hearing was ́adjourned until Monday,
Armoured Car & Motor Cycle Sections
struction at 5.30 p.m.
23.8.84.
123.8.34.
No. 2161 Pte, B, E. Da Costa Machine Gun Bla. (For C. In- fantry) 23.8.34.or
sallors and of lodging "and"enter. tainment for them.
The first floating church was moored in the East River in 1848 No. 3 (ANZAC) Company No. 2152 Pte. 31. V. Faria-Neces and was succeeded by two others Rifle practice will be held in the Machine Gun Bta. (For C. In before the Institute's present thirteen-storey building, at one time
may have
CHURCHESE
FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST.
A verdict of death by misadven-Miniature Range on Thursday, fantry) 23.8.54 ture was returned by the jury at a 30th August at 5:30 p.m.
No. 2153 Pte. Henrique A. V. the most imposing building in New Branch of The Mother Church, Coroner's inquiry held at Kowloon Magistracy yesterday on the death strength on Monday, 11th Septem-Infantry) 23.8.34.
The Company will parade at full Ribeiro-Machine Gun Etn. (For York, was erected. The building The First Church of Christ, Scles-
now provides beds for 2,000 men of flat, in Boston, Mas of an amah named Ah Ying, who ber. This is the first parade of dled as a result of wounds received the Training Season and all ranks chine Gun Bin (For C. Infantry) How populous of marinera le the when she fell out of a motor-car are expected to turn up.
steel district may be gathered from the near the Alhambra. Theatre on A Company meeting will be held No. 2156 Pte. F. Joanilho Me fact that 8,000, sallurs on shore August 14..
chine Gun Btn. (For C. Infantry) leave are believed to pass through |23,8,84;
South St. every day...
directly after the parade.
Mr. E. J. Porter, for whom the deceased had worked, said that he
Corps Infantry (Portuguese)
No. 2165. Pte. F. J. Collego Mathe sen,
23.3.34
No. 2167 Pte. J. T. P. Soura
was driving to the Kowloon Ferry Members of the Corps Infantry Machine Gun Btn. (For C.. In- from Kowloon Tong with his sister. (Portuguese) are reminded that entry) 23.8.84 Mrs. Ray. When passing the the Training Season 1934-1935 Alhambra Theatre, the amalaud-starts on September 4th (Tues denly opened the door of the motor day), This is the Company car and before she could be stopped parade. It is requested
had fallen out.
everyone will make a special ef orroborative evidence was given fort to answer the Boll-Call on
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