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COURTS AND COUNCILS
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IN ENGLAND
COUNTY AND VILLAGE COUNCILS
AND SOME MURDER TRIAL REMINISCENCES
WORK IN WHICH RETIRED ITAIPANS AND GOVERNORS CAN ASSIST
The speaker at yesterday's meeting of the Rotary Club was Mr.
R. T. Barrett, of the "Hong Kong Daily Press," the subject being. "Courts and Councils in Great Britain."
Mr. Barrett's speech revealed how the life of a journalist on a provincial paper can be just as interesting as that of his collea gue in Fleet Street, After giving-come reminiscences of Assize and Police Courts, A County Counell and Town and Village Councils, the speaker said that by assisting in this very interesting work re- tired people, Governors, judges and taipans generally could and new interests in the Homeland.
A REAL-LIFE DETECTIVE STORY
1933.
****CHRISTIAN". GENERAL'S ADVICE
Death Resistance to Japanese
ANOTHER EPISTLE TO CHIANG KAI SHEK
In response to Chiang Kai Shek's approach for advice in regard to the Japanese Invasion in North China, Marshal Fong Yu Hsinng presented his views and plans, as embodied in the following letter from Kalgan, dated March 30, 1033-
My Dear, Kai Shok,-
The other day Chen Hsi Wen re- turned from Paoting and told me. of his interview with you. Now Huang Shao Hsiung and Hsiung Ping care and delivered your per- sonal letters asking, me to give advice in regard to the Japanese menade, I wish to avail myself of this opportunity to express my ad- miration for your laborious exertion. for the country.
I am of opinion that the supreme task of to-day is to offer death re- sistance to the Japanese invasion, asked and to recover the lost territory with all our might and at the carliest
The Way to Resist¦
"The great difference between a they squirmed and usually Fleet Street. and a provincial or, to be allowed to stand. Colonial journalist said Mr. Contiäning Mr. Barrett said:duto. There is no other path be- Barrett, is that the former deals one hears a great deal about fore us in consideration of the vital with the unusual, the special and. the abnormal, while the latter has Metrates in England and their interests of your good self, of the to be content, in the main, with abortcomings, but the Great Uo-state, and of the nation. the ordinary life of the community paid I have heard have always con- in which he lived. In-books like ducted their cases very well and Phillip Gibb's Street of Adventure, with great care and ability. He and When Fleet Street Calls, you also paid a great tribute to the courtesy and patience of Coroners, get the picture of the big organisa tion with unlimited staff, able to! employ aeroplanes, racing cars and deep sea tugs, in order to interview princes and ministers, film actresses and first class murderers. But the provincial journalist's work, sa 1 hope to show, is just as interesting as the former, as the novels of Hardy, Jane Austen and Trollope, about ordinary people, are in no way behind the Brontes, Edgar Allen, Poe and the lesser dealers in the frankly sensational.
A County Council and Ite Chairman.
Passing on to local authorities existing in England, he said that the West Sussex County Counal was a typical example. It was an aristocratic body, comprising, two dukes, the Duke of Norfolk and the Duke of Richmond, about a dozen other peers, several generals admirals, colonels, knights and
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"With one exception, the things 1 am going to tell you caused no impression on seeing them was that special interest. They have been the huge proportion were bald. forgotten except by the principles | and the observers. I could in a
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The Chairman was a big blue-eyed" man, and certainly one of the best Chairman I have ever heard. He " will, however, start off with had a huge agenda in front of him the one exception-a thing that all-out is big se à dozen Govern- the world has come to love, nama-nent Gazette and he was deter ly murder mystery."
The Hooded Man and His Hat.
The way to resist, howevor, should not be to defend when at- tacked, or to wait when the enemies do not invade. In my opinion, it should rather be as fol- lows:-
1-Eighty per cent of the troops of the nation should forthwith be mobilized at designated centers and despatched to the front.
2-Eighty per cent of the army for the expenditure of this anti- appropriation should be set asido Japanesc campaign.
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Li Tsai Hain Suggested.
a-In order to unify military- command, you should take the leadership yourself. If you could do Be, you should ask Li Tsai Hrin to take your place, who is a patriot of fearless courage, crystal con- science and deep sincerity and who was your chief of staff for many years. -
mined to get through it by lunch time, as he had to preside over; a couple of committee meetings, where the real-work is done, that after Mr. Barrett said the case in ques- noon. He rattled through reports
4.-Taxi Ting Kai, Ching Kwang tion was known as the Hooded Man and resolutions at an amazing
the quick Nai and Tai Chi,-these three com- Mystery because the prisoner was speed, ending with several times conveyed from place formulae said in one breath,-rades are veteran generals noted to place under escort with a hood. "Those for the motion signalise in for valour and self-sacrifice and rich over his face and his identity was the usual way. Those against? in experience of fighting the Japan- a mystery upon which the press. The "Ayes" have it." fastened. The facts were as fol-
Sometimes someone would raise a lows:-A lady rang up the East- bourne Police Station to say that point. Occasionally he would be her house was being burgled and heard; more often, & quick but in response to the call an Inspec- very courteous, "Would you raiss tor and a constable left for the that when we take the Roads and house. When their destination was Bridges Committee report. If you reached the constable was sent to will look at the agenda you will
find your point dealt with." the back while the Inspector pro-
еве. Tsai can load 50,000 men; Chiang, 50,000; and. Tai, 30,000. They can be directed by Chen Ming Shu, or yourself, or Li Tsai Tsin.
6.-Sung Chich Yuan is ready to die for the nation, and Sun Tien Ying fears not death. These two generals can each take command of
6.-Chang Fuk Kwei is a sterling Patriot and has inade supremo efforts for the revolution, of which you are well aware. For the sake of national preservation, you would be good enough to forget the past and assign 40,000 troops to his com- mand, I am sure that he can ae complish grea, deeds in the recovery of the lost territory,
ceeded to the main entrance. The The Chairman was Lord Lecoa- 50,000 men. And any insufficiencies burglar seeing the Inspector, shot field-a backwoodsman, fox-hunting in their armies should duly be him and bolted but leaving his hat peer. That was ΟΥΔΙ twenty made up... in the drive. The Police arrested years ago, but Lord Leconfield still a well-known burglar, and imme-presides over the West Sussex diately set to work on the hat. County Council and hunts with his The hat was of unusual size and own pack of hounds, though he has fitted prisoner's head, traces of handed over the mastership. hair oil similar to that used by
Local authorities are not always tho burglar were found on the hat, together with hairs of the men's so well behaved and business-like. colour and texture. The hat was! There was an urban district council, sold by a Bournemouth hatter two! whose meetings, I attended. The years previously, when the prison-members were like the competitors er happened to be in Bournemouth, in the Dodo race-all talked and no The hat formed the basis of a most one listened. The greatest clo-
7.-Hu Yu Kaan is a gallant hero terrible indictment against the pri:quence-and the quantity made up Boner and the case was elinched for the quality had not the least of Manchuria and a true gentleman Apart from that there was little effect on the little consultations, by of sound character. If you could against the burglar. The Police no means in whispers, that went on apportion 50,000 men to his com also recovered a revolver with one the whole time, despite the Chairmand, he would certainly well ac bullet missing, which had been man's hammer, beating on the table quit himself for his native land. taken to pieces and buried in the like an anvil;
8.-Chiang Pab Li and Hung Fu Sometimes little knots of people are not only well versed in military Mr. Patrick Hastings (then 1 collected outside and cheered science, but also farsighted in plan- junior) defended, and the man was derisively. The board's angryning for the state. Should you aski convicted, although Marshall Hal voices stirred their humour. At them to participate in your pinas might possibly have got him off the second meeting I attended
beach by the woman in the case.
The lady whose house was being there were pointed remarks about against the Japanese invasion, they burgled was Russian and it was mis-reporting I had the last word would assuredly man cut for you endeavoured at the trial to connect by saying that reporting was not her with political activities. Also easy when all talked and no one it might have been argued that the listened.
hat had been "planted" by a young blackguard who in several ways played Judas and Iago.
I also
A Strange Vicar,
remember
The woman in the case fenced village council meeting near Oxford desperately with prosecuting coun-I had been warned that the Vicar,
dat schemes.
great
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Hiang Pab, Chu. Ching Lan, Sah Cheng Ping, Wang Hu, Huang Yen Pei, and Chang Ch'ong Jen, these are heart and soul in their love for the country and the people and great characters of pro-
sel but failed to answer a couple was a bit tough. He looked it priety and honesty. If you could
of simple questions by the judge,big burly man, bald and with a prize fighter's face, a farmer's tall
collar. He strolled in with a troop of headlinen at his heels. He and Mr. Barrett mentioned here that the Chairman, an iron grey little Sir Basil Thompson the well-known Canadian, the local Conservative Police Commissioner had pointed agents were soon at loggerheads. out an interesting psychological. The climax came with an ADETY fact. He declared that poss
The man was Convicted and paid cost and gaiters but a clericat of saving the nation and the people,' the penalty.
infinitely bigger advantage in the main street of the eve examination, then taplerain flookfas up. This fact air Banil overed while questioning, supiter during the War. He Blways minde quspects sit on an 'arm chair whil he chirpself did the questi standing up, the rerült wha
invite them to come together and ask them to suggest ways and means
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