WAR AND ITS EVILS DISCUSSED BY LOCAL PEACE GROUP
ABOLITION OF WAR URGED BY REV. DR. ALLEN AND DR. K. L. REICHELT
PLEA FOR PEACE BETWEEN CHINA AND JAPAN
The first annual general meeting of the floag Kong peacu Group, which was forced with a view to resisting war and main taining pear, was held at the Helen May Institute yesterday. the Rev. 6. L. Allen preside
In his report for the year, Mr. H. A. D. Forrest, the stern- tary said that the group hart ben allikate with the War Resis ters International, and tunt The Fonudation of the gron last year. an indirect result of the Sino-Japanese trouble in Shang-
hai.
An interesting outline of the activities in conuetion with war in different parts of the world in 1932, was made by Dr. Allen, while a plen for the abolition of war was delivered by Dr. K. L.. Reichelt.
MARTIAL ACTIVITIES IN 1932
After the report of the activities of the Group during 1922, in wand Me. Forrest said that goud progrees had been made in the cooperation with the League of Nations Society in the sehene for an weway prize. open to scholars of Hong Kong the interests of peare, the election: of officers for the followinot "year Were held. The following were elected : --President Rev. Allen: Secretory and · Treasurer, Mrs. Kennedy Skipton; Committee:; Mr. May, Mr. Felshow, Dr. Rei cluit. ME. A. Hamre, Mr. Wei Tat and Miss Griffin:
Dr. Reichelt then addressed the gathering, and in pleading for the abolition of war said, inter alia
When facing the tremendous pro blees in connection with the abolish ing of war, the first question to be answered is this: Where are we to begin? Where is the most funda mental thing to be taken into con sideration in order liberate humanity from this most gigantic of all the miseries and evils on carth?
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After careful thinking and study 7 think that we all will come to this conclusion: The most import ant, the most fundamental things, creating the conditions from which war arises, originate in the human soul. It comes forth as a result or a process going on in our emotional and mental life, and it is worked but in and through the buman soul.
Here is the point where war dif- fers so very redically from other calamities which time and again befall the human race. These other calamities are linked up with the catastrophes and brutal forers in the nature which surrounds us, war is a product of the working of the human soul. Here we have the pathetic side of the whole case but here is also the very hopeful and deeply encouraging aspect.
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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1933,
way the Fretch people, with na JUBILEE ROAD MURDER
tionalist propaganda more vigor ous than ever and with the German i menace before their eyes, gave their voice at the general election for a bald forward move in disarmament.
What does all this mean? When is the inference to be drawn from theas, two sets of facts? It seein to me that the inference is clear. Poace is to be sought, not in the reahn of diploney but in that of the popular will.
Experts Criticised.
The present system of entrusting the welfare of the world so men; with closed minds, to men who in virtue of their training, position, ! and outlook on life are committed to the very things which are our; undoing. minst be abandoned. We dare not leave technical problems to military and naval experts, for they ennuot envisage any form of national defence except by armed force. But gually we dare not leave political problems to the statesman, for he accepts as in- evitable and final the division of
VERDICT OF “ GUILTY" AGAINST
CHAN KAU
CASE AGAINST OTHER PRISONER OPENED
A verdict of "Guilty" was returned at the Criminal Sessions yesterday in the case in which Chan Kau was charged with the murder of Lam Kam Chuen in Jubilee Road on the night of Sep. tember 22,
The jury added a riler to their verdict recommending the prisoner to mercy,
Mr. Justice Wood passed sentence of death and informed the jury that their recomendation would be forwarded to the proper quarter.
In the course of his summing up, the Paisie Judge told the jury that the only evidence against the prisoner was his own volun- tary statement and it was for them to decide whether they belicy- ed the contents of the statement.
humanity into so many separate DEFENCE SUBMITS NO CASE TO ANSWER and mutually jealous States, each consulting its own advantage.
The problems which to-day divide Mr. R. C. Lim (instructed by Mr. the nations are incapable of solur. X. Almada, senr.) for the de- tion in many cases; the oun hope. fence, submitted there was no case is that we may be able to create for lum to answer.
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new mentality in which those a
Sentence of death having been passed, his Lordship stated that the recommendation for mercy would be forwarded to the proper quar· ters.
SECOND MAN CHARGED
ALLEGATIONS AGAINST
POLICE
In the afternoon the rate against Lam Fuk Lung, a nephew of Lam Kam Shek, father of the murdered man was opened,
problems will die out. I look for Mr. Lim, said:---1, submit there is a world-rovement of a spiritual really no evidence at all in this order and arising out of it a world-; case. There is really no scintilla There was a moment of evidence except perhaps the community. is needed, a field when it will work
when woodrow Wilson
seemed statements made by defendant him- wonderful results. And here is a about to give us that. He spoke self and even that, I submit, does thing where we can he helped and to the heart of the common man and not justify the case being present assisted most effectively from our it looked as though the new worta ed to the jury. We have the evi- brothers and sisters in the East. for which he had hoped was not sa
dence of Sergt. Kinnear, and it is They have this. Faculty of medita- far away. But then he made the quite evident from that evidence tion and concentration as a holy great mistake, he let his vision be that the murder could have been inheritance from the forefathers.
come a counter in the sordid game done by one man. No bandkerchief There are much of wonderful ma
that was played at Versailles for nor any finger-print on the scissors terial which the people of Asia may indemities and colonies, eoal and or stones, were found, and there is Mr. Fraser went over the grounds contribute to this noble struggira and oil, and it became only a
no evidence to prove the piece of covered by the former case relative for world peace. At present ic
scheme like so many others and it rope belonged to the defendant. to the finding of the body and does not come to the fore, that is failed. But his method the
added that the accused was arrest- The Judge: The case depended on November 8, over a month one of the sad offects of the unrest
right ons. in the East. But it is there, and
entirely on the statements! the time will come when the young
Mr Lim: Yes. That is go, my Lord. idealistic and suthusiastic multi- tudes of China, Japan and India will step in and present the vain able material, the noble gold from their ald culties and religions for the common struggle, for world peace, Then something will hap pen. The springtime is ahead.
DR. ALLEN'S SPEECH
APPEAL FOR ENDING OF NATIONAL ANIMONITIES.
In reviewing the activities connection with war in 1939, Hev. Allen said:-
in
the
Was
Sino-Japanese Conflict. To-day, almost in our immediate. neighbourhood, two great nations stand over against each other in you. suspicion and hostility, sometimes even they have met in armed con
flict.
His Lordship: So far, I am with
after the murder. It was found that on the night of the murder he left the Man Hing Cheung tailor shop, where he was employed, and stayed away all night. He returned to the I shop once or twice the next morn After Mr. Lim had read the firsting and then went back to the statement, his Lordship said: I country. He returned to the shop on October 20 and worked there agree that the first statement was until his arrest. a complete denial and cannot be interpreted in any other way.
Is it not foolish, someone says, to talk under such circumstan ces of a world-community and a united humanity 1 I answer that, this is about the one thing of which i
Mr. Lim: There is no common it is worth while to talk. We in this Peace Group have made it design between this man and the quite clear that the only kind of other men accused of the murder, peace we want is the kind that is and I submit he cannot be convict ed. He was not present at the based on justice, for only this can endure. We belong also to a neutr scene of the murder.
rest on
Case for the Crown,
It was a
al community. But what is neutr. | His Lordship: I do not think ality? The neutral one on whom you can expect me to withdraw the
evidence from the jury. the responsibility rests of bringing As one looks back over the year together the two warring sides. 1932, it is only too clear that it And how is that to be done? In brought many set-hacks to the cause the last resort, no peace between! Addressing the jury, Mr. Fraser of peace. I refer in this connec: China and Japan can last unless said the fact of the murder had tion not only to the Sino-Japanese it rests on some of a different or been amply proved. The motive dispute, but also to other incidents der from any plan which a Com- was to get a dangerous and useless which may prove in the end to have mission can devise, any negotiations son out of the way. even greater significance.. The Dis
which Conference
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can carry family affair and it would be dif armament Conference dragged its through. It must
the ficult to have taken a questioning slow length along for a period of friendship and mutual understand an to such a place. 11 months, and with what resulting of the two peoples. And what One is tempted to say of it is Mr. is there, after all, to hinder bat Baldwin did a month or two, ago. in the House of Commons, that its futilities reduce one to despair.' Now, however, it seems as though the Conference may yield. tangible result, but that that result Face to face with the force ina. will take the form of the reintro-listen to those who tell you that you a little slip like that by the mur-
duction of onscription into Ger many against the will of her ple and a consequent renewal of the armaments face.
alone.
but office at
the scramble
1521-
"The case against the accused," said Mr. Fraser, "will depend en- tirely on statements made by him- self to a witness, who acted is police infermer, before anything was dono about arresting the c- cused. Statements made by accus- ed after his arrest and after he was charged will be read to you."
"A very important item to which objection is now made by the de- fance, is a statement made before was charged, to a Chinese police in the Detective Office officer in Central Police Station while that police officer was investigating the circumstances of the murder.
The polics informer was the first witness called but he was not ques tioned about the alleged statement
and the victim must have been un-of the evidence was vague and the "It must have been a family affair made by the accused, the Paisno Judge pointing out that the nature suspecting. Every single thing was taken from the body which might Crown agreed not to offer it. If one could speak at this mo-help to identify the dead man. ment to the peoples of Chima and, But one single mistake was made, Japan, what would one say? Some and that was the label on the thing like this, I think: Do not singlet, It frequently happens that
Not Enemies.
The Defence,
jeare in the external nature, earth
are natural enemies, rid your minds derer will lead to a conviction, and quakes, typhoons, volcanic errup
proof this delusion that you are not 1 submit that such a slip was made fions etc. we stand helpless, but
human beings with human feelings in this murder." being men, and knowing a little
but two great collective monsters of the god-given potentialities and
Intrigues at Geneva. ponsibilities for good, for harmony,
called nations, one of which can Thea there Was for constructive work, slumbering in the human soul, knowing that among the Powers for the spoils only prosper by the ather's hurt. Geneva when Sir Eric The real truth about you is that we are not working
Drummond's resignation was together with God as his co-work
you are not Chinese and Japanese ets, knowing that and through hisounced, scandalous intrigue and but men and women bearing which proceded the confession ap: own exalted Logos we are brought in bargaining, as an observer on the touch with the boundless dynamic spot described it. The practice has of the omnipotent God-knowing now actually begun of filling the that we are linked up with all the higher posts of the Secretariat, not. good and great spiritual leaders through all the ages and: In all lands, knowing all this, we CCT tainly may be assured that war be- tween the nations can be abolished and shall be abolished.
This Noble Struggle.
by appointment of the League buti
common burden and threatened by
a common foe.
What is the cominon burden? It
Mr. R. H. C. Lim replied that the only evidence against prisoner was his own eonfession and he drew the attention of the jury to the fact that the identification parade peared to have been unnecessary, as prisoner had all along admitted that he was Chan: Kuu and there was ao question of his identity.
The effect of the identification parade on the mind of the prisoner was that he was being accused by Lam Kam Shek, the father of the murdered man, and therefore ho made a statement implicated Lam
by the direct nomination of the is the poverty of the village popu Government to which a particular lation. Is not, I ask you, the pea post has been granted as its mono- poly. In a word, we seem to have sant, breaking the hard ground on given up the ideal of an interna the slope of some Japanese hillside tional service. Most serious of all for usarer to the farmer gathering was the revival of secret diplomary on a scale without precedent since in thé rice-harvest in Kwangtung Kan Shek. the War Behind the scenes pres sure was exarted to prevent the ro
than he is to the militarist in Tokyo. As a matter of fact, he was not at the scene of the murder, but no
Questioned by Polles. Principal Chinese Detective Wong Lau was called and he stated that on November & in Central Police Station, he had an interview with accused and explained to the latter his position and cautioned him.
Mr. Fraser: What was the pur pose of your interview with him?
Witness: No object. I received instructions from the Chief Detec tire Inspector to question hua.
What were you to question hữu about -About the murder of Lam Pak Hong
Was he charged with the murder } Not yet.
Witness went on to say that the accused made a statement which was not taken down.
His Lordship: Why
Witness: Bouso what he said appeared immaterial to the case. The statement took 20 or 25 minutes.
Witness said it being then tilin
In this noble struggle for world's, peace the lecturing, the preaching the writing of articles and book turn to the Disarmament Confer. Who is planning a fresh campaiga doubt he had heard about it later time the accused was taken to the will naturally play a great role. ence of men who had shown them-or to the financier dreaming of the on, and in the course of his state- But there is another way of work selves to be genuinely in favour of profits he is to draw from Manchu ment he said that he was at the Chinese Detective Office and it was which I would like to mention hele disarmament, and there can be no to-day, a way and a method which doubt that the Assembly has been kuo? What is nationality beside a more than anything else will hasten seriously hampered from the outset common human need? It is said the great day of harmony and bro-in its endeavours to uphold the that the total indebtedness of the therly love among the nations That is deliberatly and methodical Principles of the Covenant in the agricultural communities of Japan said that the whole question was said to the accused: "I have!
ly to combine the true flantrophist of the world in an holy endeavour through meditation and prayer to create the spiritual atmosphere, the spiritual forces, which finally wil overcome the war.
We have even that the deepest roots of war loads back to the emotional and mental strata of the haman soul. Consequently the evit must also be conquered through spirit.
Sino-Japanese dispute by the har gaining carried on behind its back and over entirely irrelevant consi derations,
in his summing-up, the Judge-
whether they believed the state ments made by the accused him
not.until 3 p.m. when witness say murder in order that his statement, which accused, Lau Kam Shel, hita again and took him to the European Detective Office where he might he believed,
questioned the accused.
Witness told the Court that ho
is increasing at a rate now of
already cautioned you. If you have 700,000,000 yen per annum, that
anything to say, you must speak the truth. You must not falsely accuse their alender resources are further
The jury after a quarter-of-annybody and you must not say any.... being constantly drained by high hours consideration returned a ver- thing at random. You need not say anything if you like, but if you want At the same time, I question wherents, a disproportionate share in dict of Guilty," adding a recom-
to say anything you must spenk thor there has been a year since the taxation, and the litigation which mendation to mercy.
the truth o War which has given such uamuis
Popular Will to Peace.
kablo evidence that the will of
ensues from constant friction be-
the people everywhere is for peace. tween Jandlord and tenant. This
self.
Confession Believed,
The statement took three hours. His Lordship (to prisoner): The but withess explained that he was The German people bitterly dis- is the situation of one half of the jury finds you guilty. You have the room several times.
very busy that day and hed to Icare appointed at the slender results a Japanese people, wherein does it been accused of h brutal marior Mr. Friser: Did you put has eruing from a policy of co-opera
differ, from that of their Chinese committed on September 27 When questions to the necursed in the returns of making that statement?-- ck Tyuntry tre vou Werỡ li the custody of the Tantay, Faily of 18 ye prothers 1. In
The great realities, the dynam Forcas de cernasion with a fien and with a revived militarism thoughts and inner affections of promising everything for whica the human soul are at prescut re they hoped, has steadily refused to
ognized is never before We know listen to the voice of the tempter. burden may be stored up and utilized and Social Democracy Las -through-right-concentration Lideolared that it
meditation-All students of psy-
that wonderful sources of energy i
"equality of
chology are aware of this fact, Here is a fields where this process - armament is
deas from the
is the same, to lift the ensuing policn you confessed your guilt done so
flages. The jury have beloved your sonfes Cross-examined by Me, Lin wit out the ersion as a true confession and I, my-ness said he could not tell which Their by ini self, also believe it to be true. It part of the statement was in an Lawer to questions and which parts is now my duty to pass sentence of
were voluntary. death upon you,”
(n Roge 11.)
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