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Injunction Against Widow of Late Tong Shao-Yi Sought
A DISPUTE AS TO whether the remains of the late Mr. Tong Shao-yi, a high official of the Court of the Republic of China, should be buried in Hong Kong permanently or in Macao or else- where temporarily and later in his native place, to- day occupied the attention of the Chief Justice, Sir Atholl MacGregor, at the Supreme Court.
SOME MIRACLE!
his plaintiff's alleged tendency published in the French towards the puppet Government, that Macao was surrounded by press on the conditions for the Japanese, and she wanted a "lasting peace." the body to be away from such influence and make sure
Ludovic Oscar Frossard, former there would not be any desecra- Independent Socialist Minister in tion of the body of a patriot. M. Blum's Popular Front Govern-
Continuing. Mr. Chen said that
that
an
Tong Lao, of No: 4, Hanoi, been some reference to tempor- (SPECIAL TO "CHINA (MAIL") Road, a Councillor of the Execu-j ary burial in Macao. Further tive Yuan of the Republic 'of reasons for defendant's decision Many articles are being China, and eldest son of deceased, were that rumours were rife of is the plaintiff and is represented by Mr. Percy Chen, instructed by Mr. H. J. Armstrong, of Messrs. Deacons.
Defendant is Wu Vi-jau, resid- ing at No. 15, Kennedy Road, widow and third wife of deceased. She is represented by Mr. Eldon Potter, K.C., and the Hon. Mr. Leo d'Almada, instructed by Messrs. Ts'o and Hodgson.
Plaintiff is asking the Court for a declaration that he, us the eldest son of the late Tong Shao- yi, who was assassinated in Shanghai on September 30, 1938, and as the person entitled in priority to the grant of adminis- tration of the deceased's estate and by virtue of Chinese law and custom is entitled, in conjunction with the sons and daughters of deceased in preference to the de- fendant, the third wife of de- ceased, to decide when, how and where the mortal remains of the deceased should be buried.
Injunction Sought
He is also asking for an in- junction to restrain defendant, her servants or agents, from burying the mortal remains of deceased in the Colony of Hong Kong or from dealing with or disposing of the remains without. his approval and consent.
Mr. Chen said that the late Mr. Tong Shao-yi was, a native of the Chung Shan district and a man of very high position. He was responsible for the formation of the cabinet of the Chinese Re- public of China in 1911 on the intructions of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, and held many responsible posi- tions. All his property was in
China.
such burial would be against the ment and Minister in the last express wish of deceased, and Reynaud Government, publishes that if conditions at present were
article in the newspaper "L'Effort." still impossible or inadvisable, or inconvenient, for burial in de- Stressing that the responsibili- ceased's native place, the body ties of the present war must be could be temporarily buried in traced as far back as 1919 he says: Macao and when the Japanese "The servile application of the na-, move out of China the body could tionalistic principle, the odious be buried in Tong Ko-wan.
carving up of Europe, the creation • Defendant stated that for good of States which are incapable of reasons it was not possible for living, all these factors contribut- deceased to be buried in Tonged to the war risks." Ko-wan. Another reason that it would enable her and others to perform ancestral rites in Hong Kong which would not be possible elsewhere.
Mr. Chen read part of affidavits.
The case is proceeding.
was
the
TWO WOUNDED IN
MOCK FIGHT
Two soldiers, Frederick White and Charles Lear, were accident- ally shot while exercises in street fighting were taking place on the East Coast.
People watching the manoeuvres fling himself down saw, a soldier carrying a Bren gun at a corner,
and as others came charging down a hill opened fire. The dispute was as to whether
-Evidently live cartridges had the obligation or duty rested on of the leading men fell wounded. got in with the blanks, for two plaintiff or defendant, or both. They were removed as to the time and date of the suffering from bullet
to hospital
the legs.
funeral.
Defendant claimed the duty rested with her and had decided
wounds in
on permanent burial in Hong A BAD GUESS JERRY!
The Royalist leader, Charles Maurras, writing in "Action Francaise," says: "Things per- taining. to Europe or Asia, will become what they will. At pre- sent they are outside our scope of action. We can do nothing at all about them.
"What we must do is to support things which are within the scope. of our action.
was
"Our Government, which established, by some sort of mira- cle, must and can be consolidated by us. This is our only duty." Havas.
COSTLY CAP
-£21 FOR SPITFIRE
An Irish international cap be- longing to Joe Bambrick, which its owner gave for auction for. Ulster's
sold Spitfire Fund, was and resold and eventually realised
£21 155.
Kong without regard to the cus tom of Chinà or the express wish
Two wounded German airmen, of deceased, who desired to be prisoners of war in a British, ml-Black, paid ten guineas for it and
The last bidder, Mr. William. buried in his native place:
Plaintiff claims it is his duty, and the disappointment of their nounced that he would offer the.
litary hospital, had the surprise shortly afterwards it was an- as the eldest son, and head" of lives. the family, and as part of the
cap for ballot at the next Linfield- In the morning system of ancestral
their guards Celtic match on behalf of the worship. were doubled, and they thought fund. covered by custom, which he the invasion had begun. Instead, must discharge in
During the auction a soldier " accordance later, they found the Queen had walked in with a with the wishes of deceased.
parrot from When deceased was assassinat-
been visiting the hospital...
Captain W. Stewart, of the Royal ed in Shanghai plaintiff, son by next room to them, but it was not
She had passed through the Ulster Rifles.
As the first wife, was engaged
the bidding proceeded; business of the state in Hankow.learned how near she had been and it
until after she had left that she "Polly" kept shouting "Hurrah," Defendant was staying in Hong to the prisoners.
was ultimately sold for Kong and immediately went to Shanghai. Plaintiff arrived two
or three weeks later.
Common Ground
A decision was made to bring
it
to the body to Hong Kong and, it was common ground that. was the intention of all parties: that deceased was to be buried l'in Tung Ko-wan in the Chung
Shan district..
In Hong Kong, funeral obse- quies were held and both plain- tiff and defendant played that part allotted to them by Chinese custom. After that, plaintiff not being a member of defendant's
£25 10s.
FLOOD DAMAGE IN FRANCE SAID
BEYOND DESCRIPTION
THE HAVOC WROUGHT by the floods in the household, went to his home in south of France recently is beyond all description,
Macao. The body of deceased
Tung Wah Hospital.
that deceased should be buried in Tong Ko-wan.
remained at the depository of according to M. Rene Berthelot, the Minister of In August, 1940, he received u Communications, who has just returned to Vichy cable from his sister Informing him that defendant had decided following a tour of inspection in the flooded areas.
On the northern slopes of sumption of railroad communica- Mount Canigou, in the Roussillon tions with Spain within six weeks. region, the waters rose, three feet Sino-Japanese Activities within 24 hours,
Also, damaged was the railroad In the Cerdagne valley, which it the
- affidavits, defendant Railway track suffered the will take three, months to repair. The French Government will Japanese activities, the body had the Perpignan-Cerbere line, where allot Frs. 100,000,000 for repairs to been kept here for two years a bridge was swept away by the damaged highways in the region. and the unsettled conditions waters, causing a 600 foot gap in Of this sum Frs, 20,000,000 will bz prompted her to decide on an the tracks. Reconstruction work given over to a public works pro- early burial. Reference was also will take six months, although a feet which will make impossible made to storage difficulty at the temporary "bridge thrown across a recurrence of the devastating Hospital. Previously there had the river Tech will permit a re-floods,→→Havas,
In
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KEEPS BABY WELL stated that owing to the Sino- heaviest damage, particularly on
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