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** THE UNWRITTEN LAW.".
ACQUITTAL" OF LIEUT. MALCOLM.
BRAZE AND, THE WAR.
SUPPLIES FOR THE ALLIES.
The trial of Lieut. Douglas Malcolm on In recent enumerations of the Allied the indictment charging him with the countries the name of Brazil has often murder of Anton Baumberg, otherwise. Count de Borch, at a boarding-house in been omitted. Though technically justi Parchester-place, Hyde Park, on August, fed, inrauch, as Brazil is not yet an 14th, was concluded, before Mr. Justice Ally and hardly an active belligerent, Melandic, at the Central Criminal Court on September 10th,
the omission scarcely doen justice to the position she has taken up and to Ler readiness to do all in her power to assist the Allied cause.
A telegram from Rio de Janeiro, pub lished in The Tomer of 4th August, 'stated that the Brazilian Government disposed. of 10 naval units for policing the South Atlantic. It added that a Government
[DY R. G. ALLINGHAM.]|
Arthur Gibbe had been brought up and. educated, as far as he was educated, in a inetu street. He came of a generation of inhabitants of mean streets. Small spaces, small means, small hopes, small portions had been the lot of Arthur Gibbs Small things had been the lot of his people. His mother was a pinched and toiling creature; his father was a pale-
The facts of the case, were simple faced little man. All the children were Lieut. Malcolm shot a mun, known as pale. Arthur Gibbs had played in the the Count de Barch, whom he accused of street, in summer when it was bot. in familiarity with his wife. It was con- winter when it was cold; he attended attended for the defence that the accused. the school, went to the church on Sunday, visited the Count de Borch to use a whip and would never have seen the wild rose upon him, and that in the course of in bloom had it not been for the church struggle the Count was shot by the enting once a year. Froin pale childhood prisoner in self-defences he passed to pale adolescence, and went to work with his father. Then a tremen-luir, who prosecuted for the Director Bill was in the Committee stage for u In addressing the jury, Mr. R. D. dous change.come. Placards appeared all of Public Prosecutions, emphasized the over the town, in the squalid as well as fact that he had a tremendously hard special appropriation of £100,000,000 for in the rich quarters, calling upon the task, probably as hard a task. as any the Army and Navy, and that the enrol young men to serve their King. Men in advocate for the Crown had ever had. khaki were to be seen everywhere. When His speech, like his preliminary address ment of volunteers was increasing. Por The greengrocer's son enlisted Arthur of the day before, was a model of fair haps the best description of the Brazilian Gibbs went too, and stood for hours in
ness and keen appreciation of the difficult position is that given by the Foreign ng line of waiting men until he was situation in which he and the Judge and Minister, Senhor Nilo Pecanha on 23rd made a autlier. Then when he returned jury found themselves. He said that we hy found himself a hero. The Vicar tolch were living in times when it was more MayBrazil is not declaring, war on Mrs, Gibbs that they were all proud of than ever necessary to preserve a strict anybody--Brazil is defending herself. It Arthur, and the district visitor had pleasense of justice and a proper and fair sant things to says and Mrs. Gibbs was upholding of the law. The jury must, is Germany who has declared war on nil in little flutter about it..
on no account, let its sympathies run neutrals." The facts are that from the Arthur Gibb, went away with a crowd riot towards the liberties of the inbeginning the sympathies of true of shabby London lads by train to the dividual, country. He had never in his life
Sir John Simon rose and a whisper Brazilians have beer with the Allies, and travelled so far. He found himsel in of expectation, and those in Court who especially with France; and that though a great camp, and, outside, the awful thought that they would hear an address the justice of the Allied cause has ́un- loneliness of the countryside. Arthur full of interest were not disappointed, Gibbs felt, a hero no more. The city lad Sir John spoke very slowly, with lang Brazilings, as to the rest of the world, doubtedly appealed as strongly to feared the country. He spent his times pauses between his sentences. He opened their sympathics with France are oft in the cheerful room of the Y.M.C.A. quietly, and at the beginning of his deep that their hearts would have gone but, where there was, at any rate, a cer-sperch seldom raised his hands, but as out to her even had her cause been less tain amount of human sound and noth reached his climax, he employed manifestly the cause of humanity than Lhe terrible silence of the country roads gesture more and more..
He turned it is. He was cold in his thin clothes, for n directly to the prisoner, who, on these unform had yet been served out, and occasion, only, looked up at his counsel After he had been wet through several He emphasized his points as much by times and had slept in damp clothes he lowering his voice to an almost dramatic got a fearful cough, However, after whisper as by raising it. He said that several bad colds, when the uniform at the counsel for the Crown had used the last rame and the spring was warm and expression the unwritten lawan lovely, Arthur began to feel and look expression used in another country to another man. He grew stouter and broa justify and explain the action of a jury der and colour was in his face. He could which allowed its sympathies or its pas eat anything in the fresh country air, sions to get the better of its reason and He began to be happy. He was a good its duty. If that is what my learned lad and get on well, and Mrs. Gibbs friend means by the unwritten law, hardly knew him when he walked into the he said, I make no appeal to it. I do Kitchen in his khaki one day, and the not require to do so." Vicar said that the army was the making of young men.
Then camp the time in France, It was not a long time for Arthur Gibhe. He was two months a soldier in France. Daring that time his letters told very little of his history, for he was a bad hand with his pen. His letters generally began Dear. Mother, I hope you are well as this leaves me at present. The weather has been dreadful, but I am thankful I am alright up to now. 1 may not say much. My feet are sore and the noise is awful out here."
He generally referred to his feet and to the noise in his letters. But what he telt most was the noise. He dreaded it. What the lad could not express was the black fear that held him. Terror possess ed him long before he was in the actual battle. He and his chum both dreaded the guns and the shells. No one knew it, only those two in the secrecy of their Bunla. Arthur Gibbs was only in one battic, and he remembered nothing of it afterwards, except as a sort of blurred horror, for its events, as far as he went, took away his memory. He saw his chum - bleeding heap upon the sodden A terrible explosion buried ground. Arthur Gibbs for hours. He was dug out eventually, a shaking, hopeless wreck.
He's gone dotty," said the Sergeant. Well, get him away if you can," said the Captain.
THE GERMAN COLONISTS.
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When I say "tene Brazilians” I do pot incinde, at least as far as the mass is concerned, the large German popula tion that inhabits the provinces of Santa Catharina, Perans, and Rio Grande do Sul. Though many of these German? colonists are doubtless loyal to the land of their adoption, to which they or their fathers came to escape the blessings of German military Kultur, it might be rash to regard all, or even the of the
as unfeigned supporters of majority Brazilian policy
Kind German pro-
He mid he did not ask, the jury to pugande has been busy among them. embellish their finding with recommenda Portraits of the Kaiser and of ather Teutonic worthies decorate the walls of tions for mercy. "I say," he said, punctuating his remarks with energetic their public buildings and of many pri
stures, that Lieutenant Malcolm was vate houses. They have been kept well- Justified in what he did. He went to of the war, and, not unnaturally, feel supplied with German news and views chastise, and not to kill. It was a choice some pride in the resistance of Germany between Borch's life and his own?" to a world of enemies. But apart from The Judge, in his summing up, in some minor disturbances, in the suppres structed the jury exhaustively in the aton of which the Brazilian authorities possible verdicts which they could give, taught then a lesson, these Geriaan and explained the different degress under Brazilians have hitherto given little which the crime, if it was a crime, could trouble, and seem scarcely to present a be catalogued. The so-called unwritten scrious danger to the State.
They are law did not exist in England. There hard-working and thrifty, and are by was no such thing as unwritten law. no means averse from disposing of their It was a negation of justice. He even produce even to Allied purchasers. jointed out that it was quite within the bounds of possibility that Baumberg was justified in defending himself by any means against Malcolm. It was the pris oner who had sought out Baumberg, and not the latter whe had gone to the pris oner's rucia
„NEED OF A BRITISH COMMISSION.
It is, indeed, as a source of supply that Brazil should be able to render the greatest services to the Allies in the im the naval and military help she may be mediate future. Without prejudice to When the jusy retired there was a buzz able to give if and when called upon. of excited conversation which for a time woods, manganese ores, and other com
rubber; cotton, leather, meat, beans, hard relieved the tension of the crowded Court,modities should be extremely valuable, Presently, however, the Court grew not to menti n wheat, of which the cul- quieter, and as the door of the passage tivation. down which the jurymen had gone opened Several Allied commissions are already is being rapidly extended. bo admit officials every eye turned to it. at work in Brazil organizing the pur After about 20 minutes the foreman re. chase of supplies. turned to Court, followed by his 11 col. leagues, and there was an immediate hush. People at the back of the Court Fortunately he was got away, and head in the gallery rose as the foreman did not full a victim to the cold steel of the enemy. Shell-shock was the verdict. He was in hospital in France for a week or iwo, then shifted to England. He passed into four hospitals, one after the other. At first he could not walk at all,
stood up. On being asked what the the finding was, he answered:~
Incidentally, a great advantage that might be derived from the work of Allied commissions, if they be composed of com petent men, would be the acquisition: of fuller knowledge of the immense resources of Brazil and the development of rela- We find the prisoner Not Guilty" tionships that may be invaluable re- On the instant a woman's voice from ciprocally after the war. As far sa the back of the Court called loudly, "Oh, Great Britain is concerned, trade, with thank God! "7 Then someone in the Brazil has in the past suffered from the and could hardly articulate Gradually allir started, not a confused roar of her that in Brazil the language is differ-
fact that 550
firms fail in remem be was able to speak, but very indistinct applause, but a lead for the three cheersent from that of South America, while ly, and he could stagger along a little which were immediately given. By this the people's tastes and customs are also time nearly every one in Court was on
BY
But he trembled and twitched, And wÜR anable to think clearly. Presently he wanted to go home, and it was thought that the change might help so he went home Mrs. Gibbs fetched him from the hospital she was distressed for him. All the family were full of pity for him, so were the neighbours and the Vicar. The neighbours and the Vicar continued piti ful, but gradually Arthur became known Mrs. Gibba trouble" There was so little room in that tiny house for a sick 41-6 man the children and the mother and the grandmother were tumbling over each other all day. Except for his pension, Arthur Gibbs, was useless. His twitching limbs were still his head was bad and his moods varied. Generally he was depressed" He gets on my nerves," said poor Mrs. Gibbs to a neighbour; yet she meant kindly, but there were so many in the house. A
The Vicar got 'Arthur into another hospital, and be passed into 14 hospitals altogether. The war had lasted some time when finally the cutcast drifted into new hospital. Arthur Gibbs had never expreted winch of life and the shell-shock
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case does not interest the ordinary person,
I hate all these men," said & VA-D who had been nursing since the outbreak of war. I don't like these shell-shock men. They're miserable."
different.
The his or her feet, and the cheering was traveller who knows the deafening. So loud was it that none of often tald to extend his
is too
Santilling into the cries for order could be heard. The Brazil, whereas to ensure success the ser cheering in the Court itself lasted three vices of a man knowing the country and or four minutes, and when it died down the language are essential.. the clerk asked the foreman, who was be changed after the war, if British trade till standing, "Do you find the prisoner is not merely to hold its own but to in- guilty of any other crime 1 and the fare crease its footing in the Brazilian Re- man answered emphatically "No." public
BRAZILIAN DESIRES..
This must
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The applause from the Court itself was taken up in the corridors and spread to the street outside, where a large crowd As I have said, sentiment, counts for had collected. Lieutenant Malim, per much in Brazil. The fact that the Bri- ceptibly paler than he was earlier in the tish Empire has stood so gallantly by afternoon, stood up and waited quietly France in this war, will tend to render for a few minutes before he fellowed the British subjects even more welcome than warder down the dock stairs. The crowd they have been in the past catside waited a long while, and when mercial relations should some of the chief figures in the trial in the case of
В nation now numbering appeared on the steps they were loudly in cheered,
25,000,000 souls is not a factor to be Lost night of Brazilians have, moreover, learned many a useful lesson during the mended. It was impossible for him to War. They have reason to be chary of live at his home with everyone tumbling that when the moment came to overhaul
German
Friendliness" and the fact over everyone else. The Vicar, said he would only get worse again if he came both and shells were found
their Krepp
field artillery. and mmuni honie, and he did all be could to secure on hot guns has not increased their Jim a home in the country. Finally, he belief in German good found Arthur Gibbs light, gardening work tude was accurately represented in the
faith. Their atti that he could de for some elderly ladies vote on the revocation of the declaration who had a beautiful house and garden of neutrality, when
only three Deputies
bo
in the country not fur from London. The voted against the revocation. Of these Some of the nurses were very elderly ladies had a due sense of what three, only one was deliberately pro- nice, those in, whom pity was
28 owing from the rich, and they were German While it is evident that a conse deeply rooted, and there were good friends to Arther Gibbs. They of solidarity with the United States few who knew what a country owes found him a lodging with an old woman,
largely ticians, to the poorest of its soldiers. Arthur was and they sent him to the doctor for tonics, an not unhappy, if not actually happy. The and they paid him for light work. They support of the official nurss who hated shell-shock cases put were kind and never exacting. So with ed by a desire that Bra was prompt
herself cut for no one, but the sister was kind. He stayed on at the last hospital till he was more or less cured. He could walk slowly and rather feebly, he had his epse though slow and indistinct his brain was slow, but he was fit to do L Little light work. He was but a feeble creature thrown upon the country for whom he had given himself. Then the question arose what was to become of him. Light work in the open air was recom- (Continued at foot of mezt column.)
a pension and a little money carved Arthur Gibbs had a livelihood during à short life. Only for a short time had he been bronzed and brown, only for a short time were a maid's kisses for him. He Always inclined to be shaky and never was a pale, rather sickly, feeble man quick in mind or movement-cold and wet affected him.
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