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OF
DOCTOR'S LIBED ACTION AT THE DEATH OF MR. GODWIN,
SHANGHAL
SHANGHAL
MACKINNON
The following leading article appear. THE DEATH OF THE LATE MR ed in the Vorth China DailyVend of April 28th
tho
OUR PRISONERS IN GERMANY FARCELS FOR THE STARVING,
Sir Starr Jameson, chairican Central Prisoners of War Committee, made the following statement on March 16th in the special telegram to the Daily lot on our starving prisoners in Ger- many. The cable was sent by Mr. of the directors, of Pomeroy Burton, ona.
Mr. GW. King, HM. Coroner, at shanghai, continued his inquiry on April 59th into the circumstances touching the death of Mr. H. H C, Godwin, who was found dead in his bath on April 23rd.
Mr. S. Wiggan, a messmate of the do ceased, at in, Peking Road, said that deceased underwent an operation during the latter part of last year, but did not the Daily Mail, who travelled to the ce. He did not know of any reason Gerard know of his having to undergo another United States in the same vessel an Mr. why deceased should have bem worry- ing he know of no ofice, or financial troubles, nor was he anticipating bad too is fully cognizant from authoritativo | news. The deceased had a brother,
Lieutenant-Colonel, who was due to go into the trenches, but he spoke of this as a matter of course,
The Central Prisoners of War Commit
In HM. Supreme Court Shang- We had no time yesterday to reply to on April 4th, befors Sir Havilland the correspondents who took us to task
de Saumarez (Judge) and a jury, the over our recent criticiers of Sir Henry hearing of the action. was continued in Alay: but, in common justice to the latter which Dr E, L. Marsh sought to recover it was important that the letters should damages for ad alleged libel contained not wait. Of the two writers. Mi a letter written by Mr. Hayley Gordids Nielsen, introducing himself
Merriss and published in the North with characteristic humility as un, out China Daily News, two of whose diree sider_with_the, at present, almost
tors, Messrs, E. C. Pearce, and Gordon criminal denomination of A Neutral,
Morriss were joined as defendants takes a point of view which is just now
The plaintiff alleged that the letter onster for those so placed to take than
was written and printed and published Dr W. B. Billinghurst, who was called to the deceased, said that when be for the Allies. Assuredly the war
falsely and malicionsly of him as arrived the deceased was quite dead. There are at present 33,000 military being fought "to make this planet medical practitioner, and that by it he With the exception of a little blood and 3,200 civil prisoners in Germany. To more decent and habitable globe" and
Thad bren much injured in his credit, beneath the now, a swelling of the right every or of these, since December 1st, cheek and a cut in the cartilage of the the war will have been fought in vniueputation and profession. The defend-ight ear, there were nu external signs three tard parcels, each weighing if it does not, at the last restore Gerants meant, and were understood to of injury on the deceased. However, when 10lb,, have been regularly mean, that he was more concerned, for subsequently found, that the bone in despatud; the contents of these are cer Trans to a state in which they can once. anore be admitted amongst civilized would he peoples. Meanwhile, it criminal folly not to realize the immense scleries that Germany is revolving for a
in the left fronted lobe, The revolver
sources of all, the matters roterred to in this cable, and every point indicated has been and is being taken up by the com- mitted.
side the right car had a large hole blown the observance of medical etiquette than in it. He performed post mortem ex tified by the scientific authorities to con- amination the sume afternoon and found taio, with the broad ration mentioned for the welfare of his patient. bullet had passed through the middle of
The defence, denied malice and pload the ear, into the base of the brain, cutting below, the number of food calories essen- "war after the war” and to prepare for ed that the letter, so far as it consisted the medulla and had then taken a sharp tial to the sustenance of a man in full them accordingly, The Allied nations are of facts, was true; and, so far as it confectangular turn to the front stopping work, and in making the calculation no
and sisted of expressions of opinion, was fair not to be caught twice applog, when they find a want of sympathy, or comment on such facts. The general ques what seems to them to be such, in their tion raised in the letter was a matter of public interest and proper for newspaper officials, they speak out sharply.
discussion, and had not caused any in- jury to the plaintiff.
must have been put right inside the ear 4ccount is taken of any rations which addition to this 1315. of bread are sent, and death would have been practically may be provided by the German
Mr H. F. Gray, electrician of the
instantaneous
In
either from Copenhagen, Berne, or in
prisoners few cases from England, to every one of
A list is kept of all the German camps, and to provide for cases of men passing rough, or cases in which owing to come larly despatones of supplies in bulk are accident the parcels do not arrive regu system is not unsuccessful the acknowledg made to each of these camps that the ment cards enclosed with each parcel and returned by the prisoners are the best proo
For this, after all, wales teutor's summary has badly misrepresented him,
The calo tumed on the question of the is the main ground of complaint against Sir Heory May's recent speech. No one refusal of the plaintiff to call in Dr. seriously believes him a pro-German. Bolton, st, the request of the defendant, But when he describes a motion supported Hayley Morriss and others, for a con by the Hongkong Chamber of Commerce sultation over the condition of the late tooxcluda Germans from the shelter M. Mackinnon. The plaintif pleaded which they have so groatly abused as that his patient was sect by his two not in the best interests of the Colony partners, who agreed with his diagnosis cannot be surprised if of the case, and that, when asked if he wished a further opinion, Mr. Mackin the Governor
What Mr. non replied in the negative and request people grow indignant, Holyoak proposed was no more than whated to be protected against intertermice the London Chamber of Commerce is by his friends. When the letter which formed the subject of the action was advocating, and that body is scarcely to submitted to the editor of the paper he be accused of what our correspondent refused to publish it until it was up.
proved by his directors "Hongkong" denouncia as "wild and
When the cast came before the Court entirely impracticable schemes." More again on the 24th inst, it was announced over it is, we think, true only up to a that a settlement had been arranged be tween the plaintiff and Measts. EC certain point that questions of this Pearce and Gordon Morriss on the fol- nature will be decided at the Peace Conlowing terms
The defendants Edvard Charles, ference that is, unless the nation at large Poarce and Gordon Morriss absolutely gives a strong mandate beforehand to withdraw the sibel complained of and
sincerely womanjakiza for its publication. At the eleventh ordinary general meet the men who will represent that they agree to pay the plaintiff's costsing of shareholders of this Company that only supplies in bulk should be Conference. No doubt many are two line and client occasioned held at the offices of the secretaries and being urged to day which it will never by thein p a stale to be fixed by the general managers (Messrs. Hugo Reise be feasible to s cure, however advantage Judge, and also to pay the sum of five Co) No 35 Cantor RoLa, Shanghai, hundred pounde sterling to the Bhanghai on April 9th, it was decided to pay a final per late for the year ending January,
Eastern Extension. Australasia and meet the deceased in Singapore in 1898 China Telegraph Co., Ltd., said he first again at the same place in 1914 and last year in Shanghai when deceased came down from Peking to undergo a course in electrical training. The deceased he was a man likely to take his own life never gave witness the impression that The work he was doing with witness was not worrying him, but deceased was not ness's position, for which he was passing particulars keen upon taking up wit
The central committee paeks at its own through a period of qualification, which MEN'S ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; came to an end this month Deceased's premises for about one quarter the health was not particularly good and on prisoners. The supplies for the rest Sunday while golfing he complained of are despatched by the regimental care
under our authority all over the country not having slept since cleet that committees and associations working
and inspection. As regards the central morning, ille was piite anable to say what would have led deceased to do what these are subject to continuous control he did
Aftor hearing the evidence of Det. committee's one-quarter, we received no the weak,
nearly Inspector Burnside and the Chinese hoy fewer than 7,327 cards from military who discovered deceased, a verdict of Prisonera alone during last
20,000 When it is considered that there death from a hullet wound in the head, total of such cards up to
ia irregularity in the arrival of the parcels and further that the men them- self-inflicted was recorded.
selves in the camps are often very care- less about sending back these neknow- ledgment can be
and is at least, prooz tast the vast majority of the supplies despatch ed reach their
destinationdatio
COMPANY MEETING. SENAWANG RUBBER ESTATES CO LTD.
date
he expected result is as good a
With regard to the recommendation
despatched everywhere, the central com
experience mittee has, as, snown above, adopted this system to some extent, but shows that large consignments in balk,
ously the war may end for us But the General Hospital utvidend of 15 per cent, equal to Tis. 0,75 such as would be necessary if all thes
outbreak and the whole course of that war have sufficiently revealed the folly of leaving officials and politicians ten much to their own devices. The nation may ask for more than it can get. Bat it is all important that it should ask, thereby building up a strong body of opinion to strengthen the hands of the British delegates at the Conference and of British administration within the Empire
motion
All imputations of malice are with drawn on both sides
The case avainst the third defendant. Mr. Hayley Morriss, was then proceeded with, and war still unfinished when the Court adjourned
An amcant of Tls, 201,244 to the credit of Premiuin on Shares Account Account and Estate Development was utilised to write down" Estate
Account
CRUEL TREATMENT OF BELGIAN SLAVES. MEN BROKEN AND KILLED BY THE GERMANS.
system, are apt to be lost in transit or tisoners were to be supplied under that tampered with In certain selected cen- tres, such as Ruhleben, where the condi as present arranging to feed a farge portion of the prisoners by means of bulk ions are fory peculiar, the committee is
supplies. The remainder are provided for
by local associations working under our authority or under the permit system from authorized ancps in cases where their friends prefer that method.
A BREAD CUT THROUGH.
pro
question of reprisale on the Ger man prisoners, as suggested in the article, is entirely a matter for the British Gov- atmment to decide
SHIPPING NEWS. IMPORTANT ADDITION TO CHINA MAIL FLEET
According to telegraphic advice re
Some fresh details of the shocking treat ceived from the head offic, of the China ment of Belgium deportees in Germany In theso circumstances it might at least Mai S.S. Co. Ltd., in San Francisco, have been recived by the Begian Govern. It is said that the German inspectors
all through have been expected that the Governor's that Company has recently purchased the
overnor's steamer Congress, from the Pacific Coast mnt the report come from a number and tins, and then ropucks and forward manner would be more conciliatory tha Steamship Co. When placed on the runter detailing how all men from 17 them to their destination. The central to 35 years of age in their village, except committee has on several occasions for it seems to have been. While he might this vessel will represent
$1,500,000 gold an outlay of perceive impossibilities in the
The Congress is a stul twin or the Is who consented to work for the warded, through Lord Newton, the most camp at Aldenster, the report prosceds and has also taken measures to enlist the which its proposers did not, there was teamer of American registry, built by enemy in Germany, were taken off to a vigorous protests against this practice surely no call for the rebuff which, if the the New York Ship Building Company Went in the camp a great number sympathics of the International Red Cross
of Camdea,
New Jersey, in 1913. She is
From tons and the sur Society in the matter. It is hoped to episode has been correctly reported, was an oil-burning
fully conipped of deportees
weeks betore, and were in a most pitiful stringent and, from the prisoners' point signel apparatus, etc. Her gross tonnage
1,595, tons, not, 4,913. She is 424ft. condition. Two of them died before out of view, very harmful practice ong and 55ft. bem, and has fr moda eyes in one day. Strong meu of 20 to 30 tion for 180 1st cabin, 100 s cond, and 500 were absolutely worn out, and walked uke old men, with bent backs and ter steerago passengers. She is at present bulling feet. They had undergone t Bequence. that the whole system was con-
rible experiences undergoing a complete overhaul in pre- paration for the Trans-Pacific trade, and Having terused to work for the tralized under the British Red Cross it is expected that she will be in cetive service about the 1st of November of this enemy, they had been taken to a painish Society, as it was realized that the Ger mint camp (straffager), where they had man authorities who Examined these Deen compelled to work in the marshes narrels would be more inclined to accept during 42 days in the codest weather with consignments packed and consored by the only their shirt and trousers on, without British Red Cross Society and covered food, during the whole day.
than they would be in the of miscel
administered. He might have said some with wireless Leahy, submarine tounding district. They had arrived six secure some modifications of this very
thing to the effect that, while he could not recommend the Council to adopt the motion, its proposal would be reported sympathetically to headquarters or words to that effecs It may be that something of this kind was said by Sir Henry, and that the fuller report will reveal it. If so we shall not be slow to
AFTER WAR TRADE BOOM. make amends. Meanwhile our corres pondent Hongkong wi hofies Mr. John Hodge, M.P. Minister of forgive us if we do not pursue the quee Labour, speaking on Capital and gun on thein and, nathby still refused to tion of the relationships" lictween the Labour, After the War Problems, at sign an engagement they were fired at Imsiness cotominity and the Governor, the fifty-ninth meeting, and dinner of the with blank cartridges Another day about which there would seem to be two Sales Managers Association, at the Hol- soldiers threatened them with rifles and
bora Restaurant, said he was an optimist, bayonets. We opinions, Speaking quite generally,
In
In connection with the suggestion that parcels from relatives should be allowed to go as in the past, it was in order to obviate the evils which had arisen in con-
One day & patrol, trained by the emblem of the Geneva Convention
met at Muenster
lancong despatches made by private in- dividua's all over the kingdom.
No overlapping of parcels is now pos- able under the new system, and the state part of things described is doubtless the result of the miscellaneous despatches made by
Ten the
“Kow
parcels
thero appears reason to believe that thend believed that after the war we were of those who lived this treat friends and relatives of the prisoners, atmosphere of the Colony would be great sping to have a great period of booming CHEATED OF THEIR WAGES ly lightened by extending to the business trade. It was impossible now to get new There was in the camp a labour before December 1st, when community that larger share in their wachinery or renewals; we were working bureau visited by all the employers of came into force It must never be forgot own affairs which they not unreasonably from hand to mouth, so that after the war the surrounding towns Some of us, ten that with the large number of claim. This is certainly not a matter for there must be a great demand for able to stand the zégime of the camp despatched to prisoners of whs the receipt the Peso Conference, but it is one that
renewals
Shipbuild ng would boom to any longer, and bouing to be able to is by no mess regular as the despatch,
commented ceased daring might well receive favourable attention
we won and steel trades booming imaudiate military supervision, munition old system would be evident to those on in the general re-shaping of the Empire an extent we bad never known before, and escape more easily we were not under and even though the irregular despatcher
every other trade would boom in to work in thể
Tajned. Moreover, during December and sympathy. But all thess industries, which Entory at Cielsenkirchen had been turned into munition-making Woweto promised daily salary of the spot in the camps long after the date not wait until peace was declared 75 to 115., out of which 2, 4d would be January there were periods during which lodging We the German railway services were inter change. Demobilisation would affect the wore allowed to
THE PADDY CULTIVATOR AND THE
PRICE OF RICE
He must lay their plans now for the taken for our end with our rupted
The Suigm Opinion, says that though the cost of rice has gone up enormously
Decenther, the results of the
in Hongkong and the other marketa aud.) We must see that the Army and Navy did este frem them. We were promissed Leaveaking the evidence we have received
labour market to a very large extent, and relatives in Belgium, and to receive par- food the labour market with too many after two months in order to go to Bel- plied from Saigon, the paddy cultivator not 2000
y the vast reponderance of opinion has not benefited at all The Chinese men at one time. Otherwise demobiliengiam, and to be definitely released after a whole, we can unhesitatingly say that #hion might create destitution of so appal four months. Low days work we soon throughout Great Britain is enthusiasti
But after a few rice milléra form a combine, and the plening Lind that we should be fase loud the none of the promises would cally in favour of Summer Time and of of paddy my the bands Moto face with revolution: That would be a
cultivators are large proportion of the
ten which Mr. financed by the rice mille or thy the poor reward to labour affer the sacrifices be kept Our cards to Belgium never its renewal not only, He was
They took 38. for our is the opinion of the com chetties and are so financed that they of its old customs and privileges which reached their destination, and our salary but as a permanent institution.
was not after six weeks at Gelsenkir Herbert Samtel. then Home Secretary, cannot carry on withmit Ketting into deb had taken half a century to build up. The opinion is expressed that only cam His great desire was to have the heartiest board, and netition will bmdg the wire of waddy and closest co-operation between capital chen we were only given 78 9d., one day's appointed Inst September to inquire into Tabour seeking to solve the prob vage. We finally succeeded in reaching the social and economic results of Summer
the frontier at the end of January last. into proper relation with the price of fice and in foreign markets