INJURED MAN'S DISSOLUTION RIGHT TO SUE FURTHER
OF DEUTSCHER BUND IN AFRICA
Berlin, To-day.
The legal argument between Mr. Peter H. Sin and Mr. F. H. Loseby The voluntary dissolution -as to whether or not a person, hav- the Deutscher Bund, the German ing been awarded compensation in League of South-West Africa, as the Police Court, could seek further result of the action taken by the damages in a civil action was settl Union Government against for- ed at the Summary Court this morn-eign political groups, is discuss- ing, when Mr. Justice R. E. Lind-ed in the "Berliner Boersenzei- sell gave a decision in favour of tung."
Mr. Loseby, who represented plain- The German Bund, says the tiff, Lai Kong.
paper, was becoming the central or- Lai Kong claimed $300 from Wong ganisation of all Germans in South- Yee-kee, owner of
West Africa, and for this reason motor-lorry a which was involved in an accident. the Union Government attempted to Remarking that he was satisfied weaken it by making distinction that plaintiff did not realise that between Germans and nationalised consent to the award at the Magis British subjects.
tracy might debar him from taking "The Union Government played further proceedings in respect of its cards wrong, however, because the damage and loss that his in-the majority of Germans in South- juries had cost him, Mr. Justice West Africa decided to dissolve the Lindsell ordered that the judgment League voluntarily rather than per- in favour of defendant on June 3 mit Pretoria's efforts to separate last be set aside and that the case.
Reich Germans and Germans be reopened on August 6 at 2.30 naturalised British subjects.
p.m.
Mr. Peter H. Sin represented Wong Yee-kee.
WORD OF WARNING.
cannot ex-
"Even though they press their solidarity through the organisation, the spirit of unity and similarity of attitude nevertheless joins them.
"For this reason, the Bund must In the course of his judgment be regarded as a demonstration be- this morning His Lordship sail:-fore the entire world of the unity "The plaintiff having succeeded on of all Germans in South-West this issue, it is not necessary for Africa."-Trans-Ocean. me to determine the further point whether or not. payment into Court was sufficient performance of the
Magistrate's order. Here the Ma- Fair With Local
to
Showers
Although only .2 inches of
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THE NEW
rain
gistrate's order was silent as whether payment was to be made direct to Lai Kong or into Court and there is no evidence before me as to which method of payment is usual or what Lai Kong under- fell yesterday, the rainfall for the stood to be the effect of the order year is still above average, and in this respect. Had he been given further showers can be expected to- to understand that the payment day. would be made to him direct he The thermometer yesterday reach- might, I think, have succeeded on fed a maximum of 86 and at 10 this head also."
o'clock this morning was a degree
"In view of what has happened lower, though it has risen slightly in the present case one further since.
word of warning is, I think, neces- In its report issued this morning, sary. In awarding compensation the Royal Observatory stated that in a case of this sort a Magistrate a weak anticyclone lies between the should, in my view, specify exactly Loochoos and the Bonins, while pres- how the compensation is to be paid, 'sure is relatively low over Western whether into Court or to the injur- China and also over the Pacific be- ed party personally, and once the tween the Philippines and the Caro- form of the award has been deter- lines.
i
mined no variation therefrom Local forecast: South winds, mo- should be allowed except with the derate; fair with local showers. consent of the person in whose fav-
our the award was made."
Forthcoming Wedding
The forthcoming
be-
GERMAN MINISTER tween Mr. Jose of
TO IRISH FREE STATE
Dublin, To-day,
The new German Minister to the
siding at
No.
10, of
the Government
re-
Woo Street,
and Miss Pang Yuet-wah, of No. 20, Argyle Street, has been an- nounced to take place soon.
Mr. U. Gonella was cautioned by Mr. W. Schofield at the ⠀⠀⠀⠀ Central
car
Irish Free State, Dr. Eduard Hem-Magistracy when he pleaded guilty pel, arrived here yesterday.
to a summons of leaving his
Connaught Road on June 3. over the time limit in a car park in
The summons had been adjourned several times.
The charge d'affaires in Dublin, Dr. Hans Koster, is leaving for Capetown to take up a similar post there in three weeks' time. Trans- Ocean.
The Foreign Secretary and Mrs. Eden yesterday gave a farewell lun- cheon for the Netherlands Minister and Madame De Marees Van Swin- deren. British Wireless.
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Shanghai, To-day.
A message from Tokyo
says that the Cabinet has
decided to strive for a peace-
ful settlement of the North
China clash..
The Japanese Ambassador
in China has been ordered
to hurry back to Nanking
from Tsingtao, where he has
just arrived.
The Japanese Foreign
Minister has instructed the
Japanese Embassy in Nan-
king to protest against the
"illegal firing by Chinese
forces.' Reuter.
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