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ECHOES OF 1859
41.-The Erratic Course Of
Justice
"(June 1, 1859)
Whilst the prisoner Was under durance, his wife called on him. She was followed by the police to her place of residence, wherein not only were coining implemente found, but dies and chops corres- ponding to those on the dollars
CHINKIANG NEWS LETTER
. Effect of Sino-
Japanese Fighting
on Students
Chinking, "Oct. 28. Local events have not been very stirring though the Provincial Government changed hands "re- cently
In the remarks we made in our the issue yesterday relative to erratic course of justice in this Colony, We attempted to eluci- many culprits date that whilst who were accused, and who were clearly guilty of high crimes and
and attempted to pass. A clearer misdemeanors, managed to elude
less fortunate case it is impossible to conceive, Justice, others,
minorOur correspondent tells us of convicted standing
being to there
no proof that the sentenced odfences, were punishments the severity of which dollars were bad, they could not proved that Justice was adminis- find the man guilty. We beg to vengeance and not say first, that the money chan- tered with
'ger'a evidence proved they were tempered with Mercy.
bad. Becond that the prisoner never
Be up the defence that they were good, and third, the Court would soon have settled the point had the Jury stated they were in doubt.
"The Double Tenth went by very
quietly, in deed ever since which the prisoner had passed
of a We instanced the case coiner, whom the Jury at the last Criminal Sessions acquitted -for doing which we made some remarks far from complimentary We have to that august body. received a note from one of them justifying their conduct in the matter. .There is decided obtu- somewhere. The case seness
stood thus.
The prisoner took a dollar to be changed into a money, shop and it was changed accordingly during the day, the money chan- ger discovered the deception, and of course made up his mind to the loss-the next morning the again to get same man came another dollar changed the money changer of course had him arrested. Both the dollar the prisoner had changed and the one he sought to change were not identical in design, but each had the same chop marks on it.
HEALTH OF
that formerly
the
of the attended
Sino-Japanese, clash in Shang- hai, which covered the Nineteenth Route Army with glory, there has
utter that been an
absence clamor
National Anniversaries these and memorial days. The students had their taste of the war they demanded, and they do not seem
Our correspondent thinks we should have animadverted on the case of the Seedy who was tried at the same sessions for murder, The Court - was nothing less." provided with, a most inefficient interpreter. The prisoner bad to undergo the trial. prosecuted by the Attorney General and unde- fended, not comprehending one word
of what was going on. When called upon for his defen- ce, he stated what muist have appeared during the trial. bad the interpretation been efficient.
We beg to say to our pondent that two wrongs will not that this make one right-and
corres-
is "another case in point of the erratic course of Justice in this Coloriy.
SCHOOL CHILDREN
Interesting Exhibition At Ellis Kadoorie
School
+
With a view to disseminating ideas of exposing food, the fourth was on of health among the schoolboys in the school furnishing, the fifth was cover- Colony, the School Medical Departed with models of diseased tissues ment have arranged a two-days health and organs and the sixth had a supply. exhibition at the Ellis Kadoorie of books on health. School and so far the result has been very satisfactory.
The exhibition opened yesterday at 10a.m. and by 5 o'clock, notwithstand ing the inclemency of the weather, no fewer then 800 persons had visited the hall of the school
The Hon. Dr. A. R. Wellington, Director of Medical and.. Sanitary Services declared the exhibition open. Mr. N.L. Smith Director of Education was present, as was Mr. R. Sutherland and Dr. W.BA Moore. The visitors were welcomed by Mr. J. Ralston, Headmaster of the Ellis Kadoorie
School.
In addition to the tables, posters and pictures adorned the wails of the ball, and the visitor who made a round of these could not but be impressed by the lessons which these pictures must teach. Quite a number of charts giving statistics of health and disease were also on view.
Following the opening ceremony, the girls of Belilice Girls' School gave a brief play in which the theme was the value of health, and the moral was that health was the greatest thing in life.
During the day no fewer than five lantern slide demonstrations were shown and these were all well attend-
Various health subjects were dealth with and explained.
There were in all six tables fall of exhibite for the inspection of visitors.ed. The first table gave one some idea of the causes of tuberculosis and its at- cending evils. Besides providing a mass of information and statistics, it had a model of the lung which proved very interesting.
The second table dealt with
The exhibition was arranged by Dr. K. Au and Dr. H. N. Wong of the School Medical Department assisted by three nurses of that department.
That the exhibition, was an interest- ing one was evidenced by the fact that mosquitoes and flies and showed in addition to schoolboys, quite a how these insects carried disease. number of nurses from the Govern The third table showed the dangerment Civil Hospital attended.
EAST THE FAR
OIL MARKET
"Three Cornered
in their effort to get into the
rental market on a large scale. In North Manchuria where Amer- ican and British products were formerly sold almost exclusively, Russian "gas" and kerosene have taken the major share of the market.
China where
In
the
anxious to repeat it though they have by no means related their national aspirations. They have simply changed their from tactics. and every scholar kindergarten to middle school have to subscribe to a fund for furthering their desires.
if
The restrictions with regard to religious "teaching in Mission Schools have been greatly relaxed
actually not
cancelled. The 'local Methodist Girls' School has3 opened this term with a brighter outlook in this respect than ever before. Religious Classes i.e. Bible instruction, is being per- mitted on the school curriculum and all the scholars but three, those have registered to enter
classes.
That the Chinese are not in- poor within different to the their gates," is being evidenced just now by a sale of work in the Public Gardens, presided over by young people, in the main.
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The handiwork of this indus- trial venture is both reasonable in price and excellent in execu- tion. The proceeds are to help the poor.
Three years ago the Hills round Chinkiang were almost treeless but that has been remedied by their afforestation scheme--and they are now thickly wooded- This has a twofold effect. It both adds to the beauty of the port and yet from some points of view tends to hide it! ·
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Buddhism is very active and the finishing touches are being put to an immense building in a central part of the port, more accessible than the more picture- sque temples on the Islands and promontories of the Yangtse,
CHINESE WAR MEMORIAL Programme For Armistice Day
The
Secretary for Chinese affairs has kindly forwarded the programme for the ceremony a the Chinese Memorial, on Novem- ber 11th, at 11.45 a.m.
His Excellency the Governor with H.E. the G.O.C., The Com- modore and the Senior Royal Air Force Officer will be met at the foot of the Botarile Garden steps by the Chinese Members of the Legislative Council, who will es- cort them up the steps, to the Memorial
ངར་ཟ
The last post will be sounded by Military Buglers and then there will be a short pause followed by
"Fight" For Control western companies formerly also the sounding of the Reveille.
enjoyed a monopoly the Russian sales are stated to now amount to Shanghai-A three cornered virtually one third of the trade, fight has started between Amert- † and to be still growing, can, British and Russian Borlet oil interests for the control of the Far East market,
Until recent months American and British interests controlled the market. Then the Soviet petro leum trust, known in China as the United Petroleum Trust, turned its attention to the Orient and began to pour large quantities of kero- sene and gasoline into China and Japan, and at lower prices than the western interests.
The result has been a steadily declirsing price and the passage of
His Excellency the Governor will then lay & wreath followed by The Commodore H.E. the G.0.0. and the Senior Royal Air Force Officer.**
Champiozis of the American
The Chinese Members of the and British-oils say these com- paries will launch a price cutting Council will then lay a wreath, drive that will bring the Russian followed by the Chinese Repre- interests to its knees. To this thesentatives on the Banitary Board, Russians reply they are able to the Senior Members of the Dis- trict Watch Committee, the Chair- withstand such a war far better
Similar man of the Tung Wah Hospital, the Chairman of the Pot Leung than their opponents.
are occurring in
Ku and the Chairman of the devekipments
Chinese General Chamber of Com- Japan,
merce. Wreaths will then be laid by others who deatre to do so.
Other Members of the Executive and Legislative Councils have also been invited to take their places beside the Memorial Arch."
CHINA'S ATTITUDE. Both the Chinese and Japanese governments are considered to be taking a hand in the battle in the form of assisting the Russian in- a steadily increasing share of the terests in getting their oll into business into Soviet hands. The these countries. In China 4. KUP-
The Last Post and Reveille will be souded by buglers of the Russian policy has been to keep posedly private Chinese oil com their prices a few cents below that "pany has been formed. It is re-
Bouth Wales Borderers, and à of the competing companies, Until parted in reality to be the Chin-
detachment of Chinese from the the Americans and British ese "government gone into the ol
Chinese section of the 40th Com- now have not taken the offensive In business. If the facts are as, ré- the trade war, but with the in- ported the company has a tre pany Royal Engineers, (Volus
tish Omicer and crease in the Russian share of the mendous advantage over Ameri-teers) will parade under a Bri- business the western companies can and British competitors in
The steps leading up to the seem to be in a mood for a battle that it allegedly avoids the heavy Memorial Arch will be lined by royal. Prices have been halved as duties the Chinese government 18 special Police Reserves; and a de- compared with what they were now assessing against petroleum before the Russians shoved their Imports, way into the field. A
And indications are they will go lower. The Soviet trust has not declared, its intentions but 1a expected to continue keeping its prices below that of American and British olla parte KAY SOVIET OIL INTERESTS. The Soviet oll Interests have made great strides in a short time
The
tachment of District Watchmen parade under Inspector
Japanese government is will said to be doing the same, it be- Elston, ing credited with handling the Russian products through a sup- posedly private company,
The American and British com- panies say they are not making any money and rumblings are evi- dent, they are considering whole dale price cuts in an efforts in
The
crack the Soviet invasion... latter seem quite willing to en- gage in such a confict, and have indicated their bellei they can stand the pressure better than their adversaries.
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