SLANDER ACTION CONCLUDES
Judgment And Costs
For Defendant
NO INJURY. TO PLAINTIFF'S REPUTATION OR CREDIT
After a lengthy hearing, the Cheung Chau slander action in which a village elder, Kwan Yip. was sued by a young Chinese girl for alleged "slanderous" words, came to a conclusion this! morning, when Mr. Justice P. Jacks awarded judgment to the defendant, with costs.
Mr. M. A. da Silva appeared for the plaintiff, while the defen- dant was represented by Mr.j M. K. Lo.
The plaintiff, Liu Kwan, an 18- year-old Chinese girl, claimed $1.000 damages for injury to her credit and reputation.
Evidence Not Satisfactory in giving judgment, His Honour the Pulsne Judge said:
To sum up the whole matter, the the evidence given on behalf of plaintiff has not satisfied me that the statement made by the defen- dant at the meeting of the elders on March 30 was slanderous.
It was made in the presence of Ave other men, four of whom had had previous knowledge of this -matter, and three of whom stated that nothing worse was said than that the plaintiff went for walke with the wireless officer.
The two remaining elders
done.
I believe that the
ex-
statement
THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1934
While waiting for favourable taking-off weather, Dr. and Mrs. Jean Piccard played host to Mr. Henry Ford, the prominent motor. car magnate, at their headquarters in Detroit, where their stratos- phere balloon was groomed. Mr. Ford is shown, left, inspecting the gondola, in the company of the Piccards.
CHURCH CARETAKER
IN COURT
Disorderly Conduct Alleged
St. John's
CAMBRIDGE
"DOUBLE"
Lucky To Win Over Oxford At Soccer
DEFENCES OUTSTANDING
To-day's Short Story.
FOOLS'
GOLD
Two
MCH were trekking Cross the interior. Their terms of imprisonment were many. and they wanted the police to give them a rest.
Then their thoughts turned to gold.
By Roy Gordon
went unmarked. Their eyes became red and inflamed; they found it torture to continue, but still they carried on, and over the number of the little skin bags increased. The gold fever had them tightly within its tolla.
As the days passed the men began HE two men gasped audibly to exhibit signs of irritability.
yellow specks adhering to the would, have been regarded as jokes sides of the pan.
now assumed a malignant meaning; "We're made," muttered Jim each fancied the other to be plan-! Midgly.
ning against him. At first they "Mm," replied his companion. fought down the idea, believing Numerous terms of imprison-that there was plenty of the "yellow ment had marked them, and it was stuff" for two, but the gold fever in order that the authorities might is not so casily mastered. There have a chance to forget their latest comes a time when a man feels that exploits that they had trekked into he must own all the gold within his the interior. So that their exile reach; that time was fast approach. might contain a possibility of profit, ing. they decided to devote the time to prospecting for gold; not that they know anything about the job, but as Jim said: "You never can tell what we may find." His companion, Bill Dyson, agreed that the idea was worth trying, and together they had set out.
TO-MORROW'S STORY
To-morrow's story will be "The Corduroy Pants," by Erskine Caldwell.
Across, sandy wastes, where s tropic sun beat down pitilessly upon them, they staggered, thirsty and
Bill Dyson, the more pugnacious! worn, until they came
once more of the two, had already begun to into the comparative greenness of Cathedral's care- pressed no dissent and apparent taker, Cheung Kaù, and Ho Hing,
the bushveld. They arrived at last think, in an impersonal kind of ly concurred in what was said and a tea-shop waiter, appeared be-
London, To-day. in the mountain country, where way, of plane which would engure that ho should be the sole possessor. (fore Mr. E. 1. Wynne-Jones at, the Cambridge University complat- torrential sprults roared along So I view the evidence given by Central Magistracy this morning, ed the "double" over Oxford yes- rocky beds, and here they sought of the treasure. Jim, on the other them in this case with consider- charged with disorderly conduct terday when they won the annual the precious metal. Following the hand, was wondering how he might able suspicion.
in Wellington Street.
soccer encounter by a goal to nil streams down to the plain, they retain his own share. No word on It appeared that the first defen-at Highbury, the ground of the came to the great Umvumvuvu the subject was uttered, yet, whe ther by some telepathic intuition or made by the defendant at the dant ordered a certain brand of Arsenal, thus avenging their 3.0 River.
Here at last they found, in the from a complete knowledge of each meeting was true he called three tea, but a different kind was given defeat at Stanford Bridge last witnesses who said that they had to him. This he refusext, and, year. On Tuesday the Light Blues sandy bed of the river, those little other's character, both were aware seen the plaintiff walking with when walking out of the shop, swamped Oxford at rugby. yellow specks which man has sought of the situation.
While Bill could easily hold his was asked to pay for it by the
The Light Blues won one of the since the beginning of time. They "Defendant's Statement True" walter. A quarrel ensued in keenest matches, though it was amade rough skin bags from the own in a trial of strength, he was a surfeit of I believe that the statement was which second defendant picked up the run of the play. Oxford dia panned feverishly that they might
poor one, the result being against hidey of animals they had shot, and not blessed with
Imagination. Jim, weaker physical- made without malice, for there a stool and struck the first defen-
ly, was endowed with an abundance was no evidence that the defend- dant on the right arm. An Indian most of the attacking, but the de fill them. ant bore any ill will towards the constable arrived
fences of both sides proved the All day they worked, through the of natural cunning which usually plaintiff. and the wireless opera-and arrested them.
strongest departments.
heat and far into the cool of the enabled him to win through, tor admitted that he did not think A fine of $16, in default three
Sayer, the inside-right, scored evening.. Only the tropic nightfall, the defendant bore any ill will weeks' in gaol, was imposed on Ho minutes before the end, the shot their labour.
the only goal with a snap shot 15 swift in its descent, put a period to Hing, and Cheung Kau was dis- As I have already stated, I am charged. Mr. F. H.
dropping into the net from a kick They scarcely' atayed to eat, fored. Simultaneously they had decided Kwak ap- not satisfied that the alleged in-peared for the second defendant.
near the touch-line-Reuter. 80 great had become their greed for upon drastic action. Bill Dyson's gold that their physical hunger Buny brain wrestled with schemes cident at the Ho Tai Sun Restaur
until he became bemused with the immensity of the problem. Jim de-
the defendant.
towards him.
ant took place. I do not credit any evidence given concerning it. Nothing Improper
I do not believe that the plain- tiff has been guilty of anything more improper than going out for walks with a young man, if that can be considered improper in these days.
There has been no evidence in this case to throw suspicion the plaintiff's reputation and
on
on the scene
WOMAN SHIELDED BY BOYS
$260 Fine For Heroin Pills And Lottery Tickets
Fines totaling $200 were im- posed on Chan Ng, a married woman cre-living on the second floor of No. 123
dit, or to indicate that she has Queen's Road Central, by Mr. W. done anything immoral chaste.
or
un-Schofield at the Central Magistracy
KENT AND SURREY
TRIUMPH
Hampshire Beaten In County Rugby Series
London, To-day. Kent and Surrey recorded wins in the County Rugby Championship yesterday.
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They began to watch each other's) movements closely, either confident that his intentions were unsuspect-
ILLICIT DISTILLERY plored the lack of strength which
Visitor Charged 'And Discharged
would so heavily load the dice against his chance of overcoming: his companion by force.
The crisis caine one evening when
Bill found a small but deadly pol- aonous snake, its back broke but Fines totalling $370, in default still alive, in his sleeping bag. For- five months' imprisonment, were im-tunately he had
seen a scorpion posed by Mr. E. W. Hamilton at creep into his bed, and had prompt- the Kowloon Magistracy this mor: ly shaken it out. Snake and ning on Chan Lung for 'distilling scorpion dropped from the blanket. Chinese liquor, for having posses- Dyson gasped with horror. He
this morning, for being in possesed Sussex by 28 points to 9, while paratus, and for having possession and found that, although it was I find that the plaintiff has not sion of 170 heroin pills and 60 po at Richmond Surrey won an ex- of fermenting materials at No. 440 incapable of striking, it still retain- proved her case, and give judg-Įpiu luttery tickets, ment for the defendant with costs. Two boys were also brought into citing match against Hampshire, Portland Street.
ed sufficient energy to bite. If his south-eat champlona last season, Chan Wan also charged with the naked feet had come into contact by 6 points to Reuter.
above chatges, but pleaded that with the snake Lacking in he was only a visitor to the floor. imagination as he was, he could not DEPARTMENT STORE His plea was accepted and he was repress a shudder. He had once
accordingly discharged.
At Tunbridge Wells, Kent trounc-sion of a still and distilling ap-prodded the reptile with a stick,
KWANGTUNG INDUSTRIAL
CONDITIONS
court, as employees of the woman. Revenue-Officer A. W. Grimmitt said) that accused used the two boys to carry the drug and po piu tiekets.
Mr. F. X. D'Almada, Jr., pleaded (Continued from Page 1.)
guilty on behalf of the defendant, and asked for the boys to be sent At-the-same-time, the Committee back to the country-His-applica of Foreign Trade of the South-West tion was granted. Political Council is making investi- gations of the latest export and im-1 port trade of Canton and will rely
in a great measure on Customs re-i ports.
Emphasis will be laid on the
export of silk, tea, leather and rat- tan.
MARRIED WOMAN
BOUND OVER
Mah-Jongg Set Hired And Then Mislaid
SALES
Less Increase_In November
seen a man die of snake bite.
An animal ferocity seized him. He knew that a snake with a broken back-could-not-have-crowled into WALLACE'S NEW URGE FOR
his sleeping bag; someone had put FOREIGN PURCHASING POWER it there. Had Jim been present he would probably have been killed out Nashville, to-day. The United of hand by his wrathful companion. States Secretary of Agriculture, Mr. Incensed by the cowardly means Henry C. Wallace, in a speech to adopted in the attempt upon his life, New York, to-day. the farmers' convention, advocated Bill decided to meet cunning with The Federal Reserve has report-increased imports of industrial pro-super-cunning. He would be artis
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ed that department store sales inducts through major tariff reduc- tic; he would not revert to brute
his revenge. 97.
The production of coal is 'like-1
Shum Kam-ying, a 24-year-old November increased less than usual tions in order to aid foreign pur-strength to achieve wise a subject of investigation. married woman, was bound over in over October, but were, however, 11 chasing power for United States As he gloomed upon the subject his Canton consumes about 65,000 tons a sum of $50 for a period of six per cent, higher than in November, farm products-United Fress, per gaze alighted upon a large boulder, of coal a month, of which about months by Mr. E. W. Hamilton this 1933,
18. E. Levy and Company. 10,000 tons is native coal. Import-morning when, she appeared at the
Sales for the 11 months were 18
ed coal is now keenly competing Kowloon Magistracyon & charge per cent. higher than for the corres- with the native product. Japan is of stealing a mah-jongg sat after ponding period of last year.-United the principal exporter of coal to having hired It from Lo Wing, a 25- Fress, per S. E. Levy and Company, Kwangtung, now that the boycott year-old shop foki. Ilving at No.
of Japanese goods has ceased. 124 Kilung Street, ground floor.
TWO NEW MINERALS
DISCOVERED
Defendant pleaded that she had hired it in the morning and intend- wed to take it back in the evening.
DIVIDEND OMISSIONS IN UNITED STATES
and with perception cama inspirá- tion. *.
He brought the boulder" to the tree under which the sleeping bags
N.R.A. THEORY DENOUNCED lay. With a tremendous effort he managed to climb with, his, burden Chicago, to-day. Mr. Alfred P. into the branches. Finding a con- Sloan, President of General Motors' venient fork in a bough immediate Corporation, in a speech here yes placed the boulder in position and, ly above his companion's bed, he
New York, to-day-Standard!
terday, recommended the industry with a piece of wood, he fashioned but a friend took the set away with Gas and Electric and Standard flexible wage scales, and modernise
to increase working hours, create a trigger to which he attached, a him. When asked why she did not Power and Light have omitted to plants in general, scrapping the report the matter to the police she declare
length of rope Page stated that she did wish to do so United Presa per S. E. Levy and S. E. Levy and Company,
preference dividends N.R.A theory United Fresa, per dragged the bed aside, then, seizing Descending to the ground, he
ay he was a friend of hers-
Company.
the rope, he gave it a sharp jerk With a crash the boulder fell, NEW YORK CENTRAL RAILROAD partially embedding its bulk in the
SHOWS BIG DEFICIT earth. As he surveyed his handl
work Bill smiled to himself, but his
Professor's Find In Caucasus
While surveying for the gold ore
CRUDE OIL PRODUCTION RISES IN U.S.
STANDARD OIL SHARES
in the valley of river Bolshaya Laba, and for the iron ores along the river Malka 64(northern
New York, To-day. The New Caucasus), Mr. Serdiuchenko, Pro New York, to-day-The daily York Stock Exchange has a New fessor of Mineralogy of the Rostoy average crude oil production Inst thorised the Standard Oil of New York Central showed, & deficit for York, to-day-The New University, discovered two new week was 2,386,850 barrels, as Jersey to list 400,000 additional October of U.S.8785,187, minerals combining Iron, aluminum, agsirat 2,372,700 for the previous shares at US$25 par, capital stock, a net Income of U.S.$20 and chrome. These minerals were week United Press per S. E. Levy United Press, per S. E. Levy and year United Press per 8. E. Ley formerly unknown to science.
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and Company.
and Company
sound pleasure was instantly dispelled by of a cough. Hepa about to find that Jim had beed an Interested spectator of his experi-
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