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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25, 1931.
ST. PETER'S CHURCH. PIRACY ARGUMENT.
SIXTIETH ANNIVERSARY
TO-DAY.
|
FULL COURT. RESERVES JUDGMENT.
ACCUSED DETAINED IN
PRISON,
MOTOR SMASH.
CAR OVERTURNS INTO NULLAH.
EUROPEAN COUPLE HAVE- NARROW ESCAPE.
On March 25, 1871, sixty years ago today, Bishop Alford Inid the Judgment was roserved by Mr. foundation stone of St. Peter's Justice Wood and Mr. Justice Lindsdil in the Full Court yentor. Church, West Point. The Church day when the legal arguments in
A terrifying experience befell stande in the grounds of the now the piracy case were concluded. Ai Mr. Sydney Ashworth, Assistant No, 7 Eolico Station, formerly the point involved in the case against Government Marino Surveyor, and the twelve Chinese who were found Stadors' Home, erected in 1864. In guilty by the jury in whether their his wife shortly before midnight on Monday when they were involved that year, heads of shipping firms conviction is good in law in a summoned a public meeting and caso of piracy where no actual a serious motor accident from robbery had occurred. Sentence has
which they were fortunate in,! decided to found a Sailors, Home been deferred pending the decision for the benefit of merchant seamen, of the Full Court
emorging with comparatively littlä and with the support of the Govern-C. G. Alabaster, E.C., OB.E.) to which they wore returning from The Attorney-General (Hon. Mr. injury. The Studebaker tourer in ment who granted a site, the gether with Mr. Somerent Fitzroy scheme was carried through. were for the Crown. Mr. Hin Shing Kowloon Tong along Waterloo Situated very near to the then Lo, instructed. by Messrs, Wilkin Road toppled upside down into the
son & Grist, appeared for the pri popular wharven and easily necen sonere."
nellah, pinning them until they sible to the sailors in those days, Resuming his argument, Mr. were extricated after considerable the site was an'ideal one," so much Alabaster said that every act of difficulty.
depredation on the high seas was a Bo that in 1871 Bishop Alford | piracy jote gealium; or robbery initiated a scheme for the erection within the jurisdiction of the Ad- of a church adjoining the Home.miralty, and by International Law it was justiciable everywhere, in- This was generously supported by eluding Hong Kong. the Margesson family in memory of their brother lost at sen, by the hends of shipping firms, and by the Government which gave £500, a further £500 being collected from the community as the result of an appeni which appeared in the
columns of the Press.
A Former Case, Counsel referred to the case of Kwok Ah Sing which, he said, was a leading Hong Kong care and was stated that where some of a large decided in 1873. The headnote number of Chinese coolies, who had been taken from China to Peru in a French ship, killed the Can tain and several of the French crew, and then took the ship back to China, they were held to have been guilty of pirncy jure gentium, but the piracy was held not to be an offence, against the law of China.
If they committed an act against the munfefpal law of any nation, it was against that of France and if they were punishable by the law of China, it was only because they which, jure gentium, was justici had committed an act of pirney,
able everywhere."
in
They were returning to their home at Observatory Villas with Mr. Ashworth at the whoci. Ap- parently, the car got out of control when passing the Dogs' Home, and failing to negotiate the cursor near the Nathan Road junction, it crash-
through, and overturned into the ed into the iron railing, broke clean
nullah.
The noise of the crash brought Eandmaster Boat, of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, living at President Apartments, to the steno, and on fading out that the occupants were pinned underneatli the ear, he summoned assistance after a fruitless effort to try and extricate them.
Within a fortnight of the Bishop's proposal sufficient money had been obtained and the erection of the church was proceeded with, the Rev. Thomas Talbot being the first
Half-an-Hour -Under Gar. chaplain. The plan approved gave
and Traffic Inspector Mason seating accommodation for 200, condition being that 30 sents should
wards, and with the aid of crow Sergeant Scriin arrived soon after.
be reserved for semen. At the
Lars they succeeded in raising the laying of the foundation stone," the Mr. Alabaster pointed out that enr sufficiently to release Mrs. Bishop stated that through the the former Chief Justice of Hong Ashworth. It took another half an Kong, Sir John Eminie, had said hour before they were successful in immediate co-operation of the Com-that, if anything the
act was extricating Mr. Ashworth. mittee of the Sailors' Home, the piracy jure gentium and it was," Both were removed to the Kow. Government and the community, the therefore. justicialle Hong tuon Hospital where they were de Kong. Counsel submitted it was tained. It was gecertained yester Colony had thereby secured another not necessary to go any further and day that Mrs. Ashworth was suffer.. church, which should prove of value if he attempted to do so he would, ing from minor injuries and shock. not only to the seamen, but to the only bring in a number of other Mr. Ashworth sustained a dislocat
elements which would lead to con-ed shoulder and minor injuries; many residents at West Point.
fusion."
which are also not regarded as This happy relationship lasted
serious.. twenty years until 1505 when trouble rose between the Harbour Master and the chaplain of the church. At a public meeting, convened for the purpose of settling the dispute the former disclaimed all responsibility for the church and the latter claim. od the right of entry into the Sailors Home" for religious pur
position was relieved in 1808
Mr. Justice Wood: 1 think your answer is definite, that the Statute of 1840 is unnecessary in respect of piracy jure, gentium 7
Mr. Alabnater: Yes, because the jurisdiction is already there.
frah Condurrent Jurisdiction.
His Lordship: Is it your view that the Act of 1849, in fact, con- fers a concurrent jurisdiction in respect of piracy jure gentinut
Mr. Alabaster: Yes.
is Lordship: So that piracy there includes piracy jure gentium?
Mr. Alabaster Yes.
The car with its wheels pointing. upwards from the auliah drew n curious crowd to the spot yester day. In addition to the damage suffered by the car in its fall into the nellah, fire also helped to in- crease it apparently through some person in the crowd gathered there throwing cigarette end which ignited the petrol escaping from the tank. Fire appliances arrived in time to save the car from being completely destroyed,
EXCURSIONS TO JAPAN.
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To Nagnenki and return Y. 185
Kobe and return
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His Lordship: I have got you by the arrival of the Mission to to agres with me that this Act does, ́Seamen's Chaplain in the person in fact, confer jurisdiction in re of the Rev. J. H. France, who lookspect of piracy jure gentium. You say that in. Kwik's case the Act charge of the church. Under this is not mentioned. Why should it be, | new arrangement the church rapid-mentioned?
Mr. Alabaster: Not only does it ly progressed. A Church Coucil of
not mention the Act but they use seven members was created and so the word "therefore" and they far realised its importance as to use words which show that the be photographed, the picture being jurisdiction is derived from the law of nations and not from anything framed and hung in the vestry. An | else. organ was installed and a Bew
Counsel gated, in closing, that pulpit, sreen and get window it was sufficient for his case to say that Kwok Ah Sing's case was were erected, the last three being a complete authority, that the Court the gifts of the late Sir Paulin Hong Kong had jurisdiction to try prisoners for the offence they Chater.
had committed and it was necessary So rapid was the progress that into rely upon the Statute.
Unzen, Kyoto, Nara, Hakone, 1911 the question of enlarging the
The prisonera, who were in the Kamakurn, Nikko and Karuizawa dock during the sitting of the Full are interesting places to visit, sa church WIS considered. As ή
Court, were taken back to Victoria well as being pleasant resorts for chapel to the Sailors. Home St.Gaol until their. Leydships announce | spending the summer vacation. Peter's was not a śifeceks. It was too large and the merchant seamen population of too Beeting a churae-i ter, for its successful management. In fact in 1973 the Trustees of the Mission to Seainen came to the con clusion that they could no longer provide a chaplain for the church. At this stage the Rev, W. T. Fea- therstone arrived on the scene and accepted charge of St. Peter's. Six years Inter, however, the colonial 'side of St. Peter's ac
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