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WOMAN CHIEF JUSTICE.
SHANGHAI PROVISIONAL COURT APPOINTMENT.
STRONG PRESS CRITICISM.
A POLITICAL BLUNDER."
A FILM WITH A STORY AT THE QUEEN'S.
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HIGHWAY.
HAS PILOT HOUSE LIKE
OCEAN LINER.
HOT MEALS, RADIO CONCERTS.
GUNMAN MENACE IN SINGAPORE.
REVOLVER DUEL IN PUBLIC STREET.
A TROUSERS TRICK.
Оде тал was found dead by
"The Song and Dance Han" is aa
SINGAPORE, October 7th. anusual firm for it has ï story and
Three men were shot down at a moral without any "uplift" or Tam auch sentimentality.
The most amazing motor vehicle about 8:30 p.m. yesterday at the Strong feeling has been aroused Maors, whose pleasant breezy peria the world to-day can be seen junction of Benecoden Streat and in both Chinese and foreign circles sonality is always welcome on the on the famous "King's Highway "Middle Road, by the dismissal of Chief Justica screen. plays the hero "Happy" between Los Angeles and San Loo Hsing Yuan of the Provisional Farrell a song and dance man. Francisco in California, U.S.A. Inspector Dale and a party of Court and the appointment of Miss" Happy" comes of a small town distance of 453 miles. It is a huge police who arrived on the scene sö Soumay Tcheng as his successor mining family and from boyhood has motor coach with an elevated pas soon after the shooting that the says the North China Daily News. bad but one ambition to be the senger deck, and a gleaming, glass, street and vicinity were still clear Mies Tcheng is now the Chief Jus-best song and dance man in the enclosed "pilot house" set far of pedestrians.
That it was a revolver dust be tice of the Court in the native city world"; incidentally he is nearly above the level of the lower pisson-
The charge which has been the worst Working with the same ger deck level-and through the tween members of rival secret from a circumstance suggesting brought against Chief Justice Los company is "Leola charmingly wide observation windows, can be society gangs appears to be evident is that the Provisional Court under played by Bessie Love whose seen travellers partaking of steam- his management has been lax in its spirituelle type is very refreshing ing hot meals, as non-chalantly as that the shot men were gangsters attitude toward Communists. It is after a diet af ramps and minxes. if in a hotel diping room."
There is nothing in the realm of Success.. Happy regarded as remarkable that this Leola makes able and conscientious jurist should doesn't; how they are helped by land travel that so much resembles be dismissed, while those judges Nelson," & theatrical producer of a giant ocean liner-for both the against whom there have been many quiet Barritish charm how Happy ships of the sea and this Leviathan of the highways have beautiful protests by Consular Deputies, by is persuaded to turn his talents to
stream-lines, rich interior appoint- the Consular Body and by unof business; and how Lealandsments, and a snug pilot's cabin dial foreigners should be permitted popularity and love: make a very perched high above the forward pleasant little story. But it is Tom deck. In this car 28 passengers Miss Tehong is a French educat, Moore in the excellent part of order and promptly receive hot
"Happy" who keeps things going meals a-la-carte. ed lawyer, having taken her degree in Paris. She practiced privately he get smiles rather than laughs" in Shanghai for some time and was but they are smiles of real appre
to continue to function."
appointed to her present judicial ciation, and how one sympathises elevated glass-enclosed cupola is
Safety Innovation. The position of the driver in an
net merely a spectacular leature, vision than has ever before been obtainable in any type of motor vehicle. He can see over the tops of cars ahead, "judging with ab solute accuracy the moment to pass slower cars or lorries on the high way, without danger of brushing machines coming from the opposite direction. From this elevated position, there rear-view mirrors reveal all the read in the rear.
position and to the Kiangsu Pro with his ambition! It is not a very vincial Government after the estab-elevated one, perhaps, but it aymit gives this land pilot clearer lishment of the Nanking Govern bolises the revolt which we all feel ment. Previous to that, her name at times against the humdrum round had appeared ow the list of those and the acquisition of wealth for its who were members of the Commune own sake. organized in Nantao previous to the arrival of General Chiang Kai Shek in this city. Except for the office which she has held in the native city, Miss Tcheng has never, held public or judicial office in China.
The dismissal and the new ap- pointment was made by order of the Provincial Government, of which Miss Tcheng. is a member.
Judge Loo is in my opinion, says Mr. George Sokolsky, one' of '
China's the few individuals in officialdem whose presence in the Government gives one cause for hope. Judge Loo has had to con tend with politics" and petty inter- ference during his administration of the Court and his work world have been seen to greater advan- tage were it not for some of his associates who were. not of his calibre. To dismiss him at this time, when the Court and the Con- sular Body acem to be reaching an understanding, is a gross political stupidity.
Political Control Of The Court.
judges, and the Consular Deputies have from time to time protested
Spare an hour for "The Song and Dance Man" to-day you will enjoy it.
HEALTH BULLETIN OF
EASTERN PORTS.
The Health Bulletin for Eastern ports for the week ending October 8th, 1987, states:-
Plague.
I death at Bassein.
2 deaths at Bombay.
4 deaths at Rangoon.
I ease at Bangkok and I death.
Chalerą.
1 case. at Basrah and 1 death.
3 deaths at Madras,
1 death at Rangoon
2 cases at Bangkok
cases at Saigon.
1 death at Laurenco-Morquez.
2 deaths at Shanghai.
4 cases at Amoy.
3 cases at Chinwangtao
Small-pox.
2 cases at Bombay.
I case at Madras.
1 case at Nega patam and 1 death.
0 cases at Bandjarmasin and 1 death.
1 case at Maji
Then the driver is absolutely solated as though he were in an other world from his passengers. He climba into his little compart- ment, shuts a door, and is alone with his instrument board, wheel, and controls. Steering from this height is just as easy as on the re-
couch, since gular motor
the mechanical principle is exactly the same. Since the driver's seat is swung above and ahead of the pas sengers, occupants of the unusual conch have greatly improved vision straight abend.
He is also able to manipulate
themselves.
Double Trousers.
This is that they were found to be wearing two pairs of trousers cach, the outer one of different colour to the inner.
This is a ruse not infrequently adopted by gunmen when they are "business," the idea of out on double trousers of different pattern being that they shed one pair im- So mediately after a shooting. that while the police are searching for some one in, it may be, blue
in grey or China silk pantaloons, is one of the crowd that usually gathers after any street ecusation.
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One of the two wounded men has been shot through the spine. His companion was hit in the neck.
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NAVY PERSONNEL.
RUMOURED INCREASE IN NEXT ESTIMATES.
SHORTAGE ALL ROUND:
"Rutnour has it that the next Navy Estimates will ask for a con siderable increase in personnel. There are at leaet certain definite sounds for believing that in this case, rumeur is likely to prove true. New abipe are coming into service, and although, so far as the cruisers are concerned these will only re- place existing ships which will be passed into reserve or placed on the disposal list, yet they are much bigger vessels they will re- quire langer complements. la pre- srating the Navy Estimates for that the man-power of the Fleet bad been "pared to the bone." Various expedients, carried out in The administration report of the the name of economy, may in fact be traced to the shortage of per- Commissioners for the Port of scanal. It is stated that the draft-
RANGOON PORT.
the car with greater skill, as he SUBSTANTIAL DECREASE IN 1925-26, Mr. Bridgeman admitted
can see both front fenders and the sides of the car equally well from his gh, commanding pozch. The curved glass in front of him pre venta all glare from lights, and. eliminates corner posta
Radio Concerts On Highway. The steward steps out of his com
REVENUE RECEIPTS.
Rangoon For the year 1926-27 showsing officers at the various depots that receipts under Revenue Acare at their wits end to meet any requests for more ratings, but, as count amounted to R 79,88,002 much the same thing has been said and payments to Rs. 78,99,592,ince as long as we can remember, pact kitchen, to the rear of the leaving a surplus of Rs. 2,68,480.
there is probably no necessity to take it too literally. Still, it is coach, where he opens a hinged
Compared with the receipts of beyond question that the personnel panel in the polished walnut wood the previous year, those for the strength of the Fleet is relatively work. He adjusts two dials and year under review show a decrease lower than it should be, and the
Now folka touches a button.
of Rs. 6,20,930. The principal necessity of providing complements the voice leaps clearly on the air cause of this decrease is a redue for the two new battleships, five. *You are about to hear a musicaltion in the rate of river date on new 10,000-ion cruisers, and various
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against breaches of the Rendition Agreement. But Judge Loo has developing in Nationalist circles are viewed in endless succession, tonnage of 13,233 entered the port cruiting up to requirements. The
In the course al a leading article the North China Daily News says! The dismissal of Chief" Justice Loo Hsing. Yuan of the Provisional Court reopens the entire question Miss Teheng's career has not been of the existence of that court as in the law but in the Kuomintang an impartial, non-political agency it is to be assumed that her train- for the enforcement of law in the ing has been political rather than
judicial; it is further to be assur International Settlement. Thereed that she was appointed not be have been many reasons for object cause the is the outstanding juri
K. F. Τ Los Angeles" and into vessels. Payments show into service this year has put ing to the procedure of some of thedical personage of the Nationalist Programme broadenst from station goods discharged from or shipped destroyers and submarines' passing
Government, but because she is a
is illed with total increase of Ea 3,05,748.
very heavy tax upon all available The Pro the whole coach revolutionary heroine.
music, while through the windows
One hundred and forty-eight resources. Court requires good the broad Pacific and its shining
The ReservOS. visionni judges, not politicians; it requires
Fortunately, there is no reason against decisions of the court and trained jurista, not heroines.. We waters flash by, or ripened fruit steamers, with an" aggregate net
ing ships with an aggregate mett to anticipate any trouble in re- understand that a sort of pride is orchards of Santa Clara Valley tonnage of 3,313,564, and 192 sail- There are three cone-shaped loud peskere set into the ceiling-one during the year. The number and. can be tuned off independently if the previous year, show a decrease, naval mechanic nowadays, and no
of 65 and 235,735, respectively. for each compartment and anyone tonnage of vessels, compared with teal difficulty in that it takes a long current shortage in man-power is passengers prefer quiet.
The total quantity of sea-borne to be met by any amount of recruit- Dining Service Improved.
goods during the year amounted to ing. The position is not made any The latest development of the 4,994,324 tons, of which. 1,479,873 Letter by the reduced dimensions of kitchenette on board these marvel tons were imports, 351,557 tous our maral reserves. In the event of lous Observation-Bufet motor exports and 12,894 tons tranship necessity, the Royal Fleet Heserve coaches is a delight and a puzzle ment.
might just about suffice to complete to housewives who make the trip.
to full strength cruisers, and des The puzzle is to find how all the
troyers at present carrying reduced, full requisites for preparing a
complements. Small as the Reserve Fleet now is, the R.F.R. could not man the whole of it. The R.N.R. sandwiches, coffee, compactly fitted into so small a six cylinder Pierce Arrow motor and R.N.V.R. are, of course, valu- But there they are-ice sesembled in Pickwick Plant table as a leaven, but they cannot box, gas range, kitchen utensils, Los Angeles. and food containers. The delight
because of the fact that a woman can rise to such high office amongst them, but all this is propaganda and not justice.
Provisional Court One Of China's Chances,
been above criticism. He was the outstanding example of the judge who knows no politics, who serves no master but his duty, and whose conduct as such as to give misc,
If China's enemies had devised latterly, to the hope that the court the dismissal of Judge Log, they under him would eventually become could not have done more to dis an orderly institution. His discredit China. The rendition of the Mixed Court, was more than a mere missal on the false charge that he return to China of a court which was lax in the suppression of Com-rightfully belonged to Chins: it munism is a misunderstanding of was the acid test of China's ability to govern. If the Provisional the functions of the Court and a Court develops into a high institu reassertion of the political control tion of justice capable of pro- of the Court, than which nothing during a code and an administra- tion of jurisprudence, the need for can do more to damage its riputa extraterritoriality, would cease to tion.
exist and Chinae major national
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etc.--are 50 This modern bus is powered with
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time to make a trained seaman or
There are judges in the Pro-aspiration would be achieved. In in their chairs and they find eat eeamless steel" tubing, electrically when an adequate reserve is main visional Court who have been lax any other country, every efforting aboard is an easy matter.
would therefore bave been made to
The frame is of 10 inch channel be used otherwise until they have is manifest when daintily prepar steel, reinforced, and crossbraced and experience of warfare.
Paring the active personnel to сто members of heavy ed meals are served to passengers with 7
the bone" can only be justified. welded to frame. The universal
tained, and present numbers can joint, driveshaft, all water, as not the so described. Possibly the Upper Deck Affords Pine View. and in their handling of the Com produce a court above reproach, to
pressure tanks placed, exactly Twelve passengers are privileged between the 10 inch side of the Admiralty has been holding its munists; there are judges in the
to view the countryside from an chassis, allow the floor of the ear hand in the belief that the long- Provisional Court whose conduct disprove any statements of the in-
foreigners to live under elevated deck in the centre of the to be built lower and whole gravity discussed limitation of naval armo should be investigated very closely. China's laws. But from the very car, which is reached by a couple centro lowered. The body is under ments was likely to materialize
and that therefore the bone-pared But Judge Loo is not one of them.
start, the Provisional Court has
of steps from both the front.com slung wheel base is 938 inches personnel would prore suficient, Successor Appointed On Poltical
been beset by misfortune. Now we partment (ecating 12 people) and Tac Qualifications:
have the disirisgat of an honest and the rear observation compartment, over all right, It. 6 inches Now that it is clear that interna We do not desire to discuss the able Chief Justice who was holding which seats 4 people, facing back width 8 38 x 9 Firestone hal tional agreement on the subject is outside the range of practical suitability of his successor, The the Court together and who was, In a compartment underneath the torn tires amgle front, dual rear. lady may be an excellent judge day by day, making progress in upper deck, reached by an outside The over all length is 33 It-total politics, any such ades is no longer and she may not be. That is to he establishing the court on a sounder door, all baggage is kept in dust weight, 14,500 pounds. Weight is tepable, and for this reason we "A" of the secn. But the fact that the Court basis that perhaps party politics proof, weather proof safety, while greatly reduced by extensive use think the rumour as to a substani...
Sixty tal increase in Vote is back in politica is herrible desired. This dismissal will be
and the front compartment are the gallons of gasoline, is
prove correct, Naval and Military hai who look to the Court to sup-hops of the Trovisional Court ever kitchen and lavatory. plement the work of the police. being such an institution as might
be desirable in Shanghai.
thought for the residents of Shang viewed by foreigners as sealing the Just between tinis elerated section of aluminium throughoushed and next Navy Estimates is likely to
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twenty gallons of water. Baggage. Record (Oontinued on nest Column.) compartment is 120 cubic feet..