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WORRIED TO DEATH. SUICIDE OF A EUROPEAN® CIVIL SERVANT IN THE F.M.S.
An inquiry has just been concluded, before "Mr. A. W. Just, Senior Magh trate, Kuala Lumpur, into the circum stance surrounding the tragic death of Mr. J. W. C. Ellis, Deputy Controller of Labour, who committed suicide by shooting himself on July 4th. The südden death of this popular Uivil Servant created a great sensation in the F.M.S., and allegations, having been made that he committed suicide owing to unfair treatment by the Government, much more than usual interest was erinced in the Magisterial inquiry,
The Hon. Mr. F. Belfeld, Legal Adviser, and Mr. J. MeCab Reay, Deputy Public Procutor, appeal " the F.M.S, Government, while Mr. HN, Ferrers, the most successful lawyer in Kuala Lumpur, represented the deceased's relatives and friends."
LOTTERIES IN THE STRAITS
SETTLEMENTS.
GOVERNMENT'S CHANGE OF
POLICY UPHELD.
Interesting views on the legality of lotteries were expressed at the meeting of the Straite Legislative Council on Sept. end, when a Bill" to establish a measure of control over war charities and to legalise lotteries held by permission of the Governor for the raising of money for such charities was passed through.all its readings. The Bill gave power to the Governor to grant a licence for the bold ing of a lottery, on the condition that not less than one-fourth of the proceda be handed over to a charity connected with the present war.
The Attorney General, who moved the that the only lettery which would bo first reading of the Bill, said, inter alia, authorised under the bill would be one which was held for the purpose of raising money, a portion of which would be pre- sented to a war charity and the rest lent
CORRESPONDENCE.
THE
THE SOLUTION OF
SIBERIAN QUESTION-
(TO THE EDITOR OF THE "EONGKONG DAILY FRESH"}"
that the Government, had broken. its promise. One of the evening papers in, the Settlement recently published an article in which it made that state uènt and there had also been correspondence on the subject of the so-called promise between the Governor and the Bt. Rev. the Bishop of Singapore. Last year a letter was sent to the Bishop of Singa-
SIR,-I have read with great interest pore by the Governor dated Septembertion in Siberia" of the 18th inst
your leading article The Transforma- 10th, in which, it was stated that a public announcement would be made in the Press that no promise would be given in the future that organisers of lotteries would not be prosecuted. In that letter there was a proviso to the effect that such an ment for all time. announcement did not bind the Govem- The Bishop in a letter, dated August 16th, this year, wrote to the Governor and said that practically the Government was breaking its pro- mise and declaring that the statement Government the moral right to withdraw in the letter quoted did not give the from its promise in such an exceedingly short time as one years He (the speaker) thought he could not do better than quote the Governor's reply to the Bishop's
Sir, I have the
with dramatic suddenness, but the end The situation in Siberia has changed
is not ret. Who can say what will be Czecho-Slovaks and the Bolshevists, the the outcome of the struggle between the
former supported by the Allies and the latter by their inscrupulou's Germán task.
Masters.
Intelligens observers can see that there are going to be complications, which may endanger the peace of the world. Surely we do not want to see had experience another world war.
1
In these days of war and, bloodsbed, and great ideals-League of Nations, universal peace, independence and
Historically, geographically.
and
"Render unto Cæsar the
Among the witnesses called were. Sit Edward Brockman (Chief Secretary F.M.S.), the Hon." Mr. R. G. Watson (who neted as Chief Secretary for four months when the former was on leave in Japan), Mr. L. McLean (Registrar of the Supreme Court, F.M.S.), Mr. J. R. O. to the Imperial Government for the pro-remarks on that point. Aldworth (Controller of Labour, S.3.cution of the war, through the medium
Right Reverend and F.M.S.), and Mr. M. S. H. McArthured as prizes. That class of lottery would honour to acknowledge the receipt of integrity of small States and the proces
of war bonds, which would be distribut- (Under Secretary, F.M.S.).
Mr. McLean, acting Registrar of excluded from the operation of the your letter of the 16th inst., on the subjecttion of the weak, rectification of bound- the Supreme Court, F.M.S., id be Common Gaming I use Ordinance of of lotteries.
1888. was well acquainted with the, deceased.
Your first point appears to deal with aries and the freeing of enslaved and They had several conversations concern-
The hon. member went on to refer at the meaning to be attached to the expres. subject races-it is clear to all thinking ing the inquiry which was pending re-length to the history of lattery legislation sion for all time-1 informed you that men and politicians that the real solu- garding a report which be had made on at home, saying that between 1800 and
the announcement rilating to the Govern- tion of the Siberian question is the com-a the Hoscote Estate. The general tenor passed suppressing lotteries, declaring Malay State did not bind the Govern-plete restoration of the territory to China, 1824 some eleven or twelve Acta were ment's policy both in the Colony and the of Ellis' remarks was that of concern. These conversations went on until about nuisance. In the preamble of one of that such ah announcement does not give
them to be a common nad public ment for all time. Your contention is from whom it Was week before the inquiry began. The those Acts it was stated that the Act was the Government the moral right to with-plundered by Yermak and ethers, and, systematically Erst time he seemed to take serious view of the inquiry was when he spoke passed on, that around that the lotteries draw from its promise in such an exceed-subsequently, forcibly wrested and an- of a conversation he had had with Mr. wore promoted by certain evil disposedingly short time as one year. I cannot sexed by the Russian Government in the a Aldworth, who informed him that the persons who by means thereof most un-agree with you. It is obvious to my mind Chief Secretary had said that he hadjustly and fraudulently got to themselves that the expression means for an inde year 1857. better engage counsel to represent him, great sums of money." The lotteries were inite period. To my mind, it is obvious, That was early in May. He seemed to be also declared to be formidable and too, that such an expression must be con- ethnologically Siberia belongs to Chinn very much disturbed about it. Later, he which were held during that period. I am advised, and firmly believe, that and, in the interests of universal peace, dangerous rivals" of the State lotteries strued with regard to the circumstances. asked witness: Don't you think it unfair that I should be treated in this Those State lotteries "were held for the circumstances have changed since the way we hope that the coming League of way Whenever I asked for a inquiry, purpose of raising revenue with which to time when these letters were written. Nations will see that Siberia is finally the Chief Secretary refused.
Now an
run the institutions of the country.
The appeals for funds to the Red Cross restored to China. its original and law. inquiry has been instituted without my In 1891 Stato lotteries were abolished are stronger and more urgent, and unless being asked for any explanation of my state, but the eleven or twelve statutes further lotteries are allowed certain fül owner. cunduct.
On another occasion deceased to which he had referred remained ope- money which cannot be obtained by other things that are Caesar's."Yours truly,
means 'will not be forthcoming for the inferred that his position in the Governative and were in the statute book and ment Service would be injured, even if in force at the present day. In the purchase of comforts for pur soldiers and
TSE TSAN TAL he were successful at the inquiry. Au- course of time it was discovered that there sailors."
Hongong, 17th September, 1918. other remark he made in April last was
was one lottery which ought to be treated that everyone seems to know a Com differently from all the others, and that mission
was a lottery promoted by the Art Union has been appointed, but the
or Art Association, the prize in which Department bas received no official notification.*
were paintings, drawings and other works Pf art and the money subscribed had to he expended in the purchase of those works of art. Accordingly in 1848 an Act was passed legalising such lotteries, the reason given being that they were conducted in good faith and for the compare such a lottery with the lottery which be was now asking them to legalise. halfpenny went to charity, but in the In the Art aion lotteries, not one Straits Settlements lottery, not less than one-fourth (and it might be mure) would go to war charities as an unconditioned gift and the rest would be invested in war bonds. He mads bold to assert that the admit that the Art Union lotteries did Imost rabid orpunent of lotteries must not stand on the tame plane as those now Proposed. If the one had been legalised, the other certainly should be. The lottery would give succour and comfort to risked and all but lost their lives in their wounded soldiers and sailors who had efforts to save from destruction the Empire and civilisation. Further, let it for the successful prosecution of the war. not be forgotten, it would raise money
Continuing, witness said the deceased was of a very sensitive disposition, more so than the average person. He seemed to exaggerate the importance of the
inquiry and to think he was the only Government official concerned. So far
COMPANY.
Another point on which stress was laid in the letter from the Bishop was that the letter addressed from his (the SHELL TRANSPORT AND TRADING Colonial Secretary's) office and signed by himself to the firms of accounts in the lines as the Governor's letter to the town answered practically on the same Bishop, but did not contain the proviso that it did not bind the Government for and Trading Co., Ltd., has been decided all time. That letter was dated on by Mr. Justice Sargent in the Chancery
to the shareholders in the Shell Transport A question of considerable importance
as witness knew, he had no other matters houragement of the fine arts: Let them September 10th, three days after the f Division. The point was whether in con-
to trouble him.
conver.
CHINESE VIEWS.
There was no question, of course, that section with the allotment of the pew Governor's own letter written on the 7th. his office could have seen that both letters 1,000.000 ordinary shares allottees were were written exactly in the same manner. On that point he would agnip-read to entitled to participate, pari passt, with the Council what the Governor wrote to the ordinary shares existing on June 30th, the Bishop:
1017, in the dividend declared by the com- pany DA December 11th, 1917, notwith- standing that the actual allotment of such new ordinary shares might have been made subsequently to the date of the declaration of the dividend.
His Lordship decided
"I understand your second point to be that, in a letter written by the Colonial September 10, last, there was no such Secretary to Messrs. Barker & Co., on
saving clause as that above mentioned in my letter of September 7th to you. It is obvious that the later letter should have contained the saving clause of the earlier ance that it was only by an oversight that letter; and ask you to accept my assur
it was omitted."
they were entitled to it.
HONGKONG TRAMWAY CO., LTD. The approximate statement et "traffic receipts for the week ending 14th September
Mr. John Richard O. Aldworth Con- troller of Labour, S.S. and F.M.S... said: About May 8th I had sation with Mr. Ellis regarding the employment of counsel. I told him that the Under Secretary had informed me that the Commission was to be held and that the Chief Serretary had instructed him to advise Mr. Ellis to employ, per sonally, legal advice. The question as to the payment of such assistance would depend upon the finding of the Commis. sion. I was also authorised to tell him there would be representative of the Labour Department. I told him the in- formation came from the Chief Secretary The deerased for several days serm undecided. He discussed the matter with me repeatedly, and possibly a fortnight later he informed me he had decided to employ legal advice. Subsequently het. seemed very upset about the question of Dr. Lim Boon Keng said that mere payment for his legal representative. than one party, had approached him, a Air. Reginald George Watson, acting no doubt they bad approached other Chief Secretary, F.M.S. said that the members, asking him to oppose the bill. letter notifying the Controller of Labour The reasons assigned could not be dis- that Mr. Ellis had permission to engage missed without consideration. The par- cutasel at his own expense, wn's written ties concerned would come under the The Bishop, as would be noticed, had by witness instructions. The reason for heading of what Robert Burn, called the suggested-and it was also referred to in this was that in a case of this sort it rigidly righteous (Laughter.) They the paper he bad quoted-that a grant of colony where an appeal had been or was the drdinary procedure for an in- brought forward moral and religious money should be made to the Red Crossganised and £18,000 was collected, while dividual to engage counsel and at the questions which certainly ought to have or other war charities from the revenue conclusion of the inquiry it would be decided whether the Government should regretted that he was unable to accept with the unofficial members of Singapore the fullest consideration. Personally he of the Colony. That matter was discussed bear the expense or not. the letter to be written, because in a case said temptingly because the persuasion official members and the official consisting Witness ordered the views sa temptingly put forward-he in 1917 and at that time both the un- of this kind it would not be fair for the was such a force tending to shove one of the Governor and myself were of Government to provide money for the onwards to the gates of heaven that it opinion it was undesirable to grant funds defence. The letter was merely meant to was difficult not to feel oneself pushed towards war charities from the Colony's convey what it said, namely, that Mr. on. (Laughter.) Nevertheless, after revenue and, further, the views of the Ellis could engage legal assistance at his dreaming about high things, they were F.M.S. Government were against such a
still on this earth.
proposal.
own-expense.
The Chief Magistrate delivered his finding as follows-
I find that the body recovered on July 4th, 1915, was that of the late Mr. J. W C. Ellis, that the cause of death was a gua-shot wound in the bead, and that the wound was self-inflicted,
.."
is as follow
He would say, as Colonial Secretary, that he regretted the oversight. He felt sure that one or two of the hon, members knew to a certain extent the volume of papers a wretched Colonial Secretary thought it was not a very serious offence. had to deal with during the day, and he
against him if occasionally he put his This Year........... $15,663 name to a letter part of which did not Last Yor... 13,818 convey all that it ought to.
Ingrosed... 1,735
GÖVERNMENT. PROMISE NOT BROKEN.
one.
Beceipts for wook.
Aggregate
receipts.
for 37 weeks.
$308,924
.499,075
9,340
in this Colony only £1,000 was réalised. the Council he undertook to organise the At the invitation of the Governor and
There was no question of a lottery that 1916 campaign and £62,000 was realised. Jess, although he was approached by several people with the object of starting
He thought he had better not," although at the same time he would say most frankly and in, the most public The most serious' objection raised, one
manner that then he did it consider, just at the same time as now he did not that could not be overlooked, was that by passing that legislation they would
He trusted he had disposed of the consider, that the slightest barm would be lowering the prestige of the British allegation that the Government, had come from a lottery properly organised fiovernment. He thought that a method broken its promise and said he neither for the purposes of the War Loan with by which a alur was cast on the Govern agreed with the statement ner the spirit certain portion of the proceeds going ment, in what he considered a most un-
indicated in that statement. They were
to charity. In 1917 he was asked again With regard to the state of mind of justihable manner-it came with the cloak
at war. Sudden changes came almost to undertake the campaign and did so, the deceased, I and that at the time of of sanctity and holiness, and was apt to daily, and even if promises were given
but was assured by a number of leading the act by which he put an end to his give many people a wrong idea as to the break them the next. It had been hoped. ment or any one community that if they one day it might be easily necessary to gentlemen not confined to any one Settle- life he was of unbalanced mind, and that wisdom of those who opposed the measure. what broke him down was the anxiety He thought that the methods adopted by that the war would have been over by hoped to raise anything like what they and strain he experienced over
obtained in 1916 a lottery was necessary. Hoscate Estate Commission.
the the opponents had probably done great now, and if it had been over there would
NOT A CAUSE OF DISHONESTY, harm in making ignorant "people think have been no question of not carrying out "With regard to the part of the in- that the Government was going to do the undertaking given regarding the quiry affecting him the evidence shows something wicked and immoral, which lottery.
The opponents of the bill seemed to that he felt strongly that he was not
forget that a man who took a ticket in treated fairly by the Government, feel: membered that the Chinese people had most pressing and outstanding need to
was absolutely untrue. It might be re- The war was not over and there was && lottery was actually investing his $10 ings expressed repeatedly, in conversation taken the greatest interest in the sup-
in the War Loan and the result whether to his friends and to his official head, presion of gambling. No doubt many the mother country with funds for the known for nearly six months. In fact assist the sick and wounded and to help he wanted a prize or net would not be and there is no doubt that the Anxiety Chinese gnabled, but the sense of the prosecution of the war, and in this con- sixty per cent. of subscribers practically of mind over this inquiry, though for community was strongly against the acction he proceeded to quote a speech by wrote off their subscriptions when they many months he stood it without it Government sanctioning gambling. But Mr. Austen Chamberlain as showing the paid the money, and if they were lucky affecting his mental balance, did at last he was glad to say that the Chinese com impossibility with the ever-changing cir enough to win a prize it would come as a push him to take a desperate view of his munity, as represented by the prominent cumstances of the present day of adhering delightful surprise. troubles and put an end to his life.
merchants and others who know what literally to promises which might be made. He certainly did not believe for one' "Had the deceased real ground for harinces was, had no objection to a lottery In how many cases since the war begen,minute that a lottery of the description complaining that he was not fairly such as that described by the Attorney he asked, had not principle had to give of thoes held in Selangor, Penang and treated Was he backed in his official General (Applause.) They looked at way to what might be called expediency? Singapore caused any dishonesty amongst action as he was entitled to be! These things from a practical standpoint are questions which I consider outside my
He had been attacked as the outstand the clerk class: He did not see how province and I express no opinion on THE GOVERNOR AND THE BISHOP.
ing person who had advocated lotteries. man could be persuaded to go wrong to them. It is sufficient for me to find as The Hon. Mr. F. S. James, the When be came to Singapore a little over try and collect money to purchase tickets a fact that it was the anxiety and strain Colonial Becretary, said the matter had two years ago he found that not enough for a lottery of which he would not know be experienced in connection with the been freely discussed chiefly by the had been done in 1015 on behalf of the and get money to deal in shares, the ups the result for six months. He could go Hoscots Enquiry and as far as appears churches and the newspapers Certain Red Cross and he had come from a small and downs of which he could experience "nothing else that broke him down.
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statements had been made to the effect