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GENERAL

Commemorative Ceremony In STUDENT GUILTY BRIDE COMING

Catholic Cathedral

For The Victims Of The War

CAREER OF JOSEPH LO PA HONG

SPECIALLY REMEMBERED

There will be a solemn Requiem Mass in the Catholic Cathed- ral. Calne Road, on Thursday, at 7.30 am... for all who have last their Uves in the present war. It will be celebrated by the Vicar Apostolle of Hong Kong. Bishop Valtorta, and will be attended by representatives of all the Catholle organisations in Hong Kong.

Among the victims who will be remembered in this Mass special mentions is made of Joseph Lo Pa Hong, the leading Catholic lay.. man in China, and indeed in the whole East, who was assassinated in Shanghai in the closing days of last year.

for

BUT INSANE

"SPLIT MIND" PLEA

SUCCEEDS

TO CHINA

Minister's Daughter

Married

Found guilty of murder, but in- sane, John Stanley Phillips, 23, ■'"

(BY AIR MAIL) theological student, was ordered,

London, May. 2. - at the Old Balley, recently, to be raias Lilian Kathleen Ferrier kept in custody until the King's was a charming bride in Edin- pleasure be known.

burgh, when aho married Mr. Phillips had been charged with James C. Fleming, who is attach- the murder of Harold Matthews, ea 10 the "Brm of Butterfield 18, a pantry boy, whose body was and Swire, China, found on the roof of Wycliffe Hall, She is a daughter of the late Oxford. Dr. Henry Yellowlees, a Rev and Mrs. A. Ferrier, St An- mental specialist, in evidence on drews, and the bridegroom is a Wednesday. declared that Phillips son of Mr. Charles J. N. Fleming. sumered from schizophrenia-the The Rossar, Äuchencairn, Castle- "splitting of the mind."

Douglas, and the late Mrs. Flem- Ing.

the

America.

A considerable amount of con-

For this reason. 1.3 well

The jury reached its verdict troversy arose in connection with as his outstanding quali-

After the reception bride and. this assassination, for. as in the ties as a member of the Catholle after a 10-minute retirement.

In his summing-up Mr. Justice bridegroom left for a honeymoon of all political murders. laity. It is natural that his name there was the suggestion that the should be singled out for special Asquith, who was hearing his arst the West Highlands, and will act was an "execution" for having mention when the victims of the murder trial, referred to the de- return to China, in the fall of

via year.

Canada and engaged in dealings with the war are being commemorated in a fence plea of insanity, and asked enemy. All who knew Lo Pa Catholic church.

the jury to consider what degree of insanity would justify a verdict The wedding took place in St Hong, however,, both during the

In the

Andrew's Parish Church. Drum- Catholic conception. of guilty but insane. carller part of his life and in the

"Abnormality." said Mr. Justice aheugh, Edinburgh, with the Rev. war period, knew that anything prayers for those who died in war

associated with Asquith. "Is not enough. nor is A. K. Walion officiating.

The dishonourable was unthinkable in are necessarily

was given away by her connection with him, and since prayers for peace, for all barriers even certifiable Insanity

neces-bride his death all classes of the com- of hostility are swept away by sarily enough. There have been brother, Mr. "D. A. Ferrier, and death. and petition is offered to cases where a man has been con- the bridegroom's cousin. Dr. J. A. munity have combined to keep

God that the peace which reigns victed and the conviction upheld C. Fleming, was best man. his name in horiour.

In His kingdom may be extended by the Court of Criminal Appeal, Miss Ferrier's gown of ivory The career of Lo Pa Hong is a

to the word of man. Lo Pa Hong although every one of the medical satin was covered by a veil of record of good deeds that have refused to let distinction of any witnesses said he would be willing beautiful old Brussels lace. The few parallels. for, not content kind be made when there was to certify bim insane in the ord-only attendant. Miss Beatrice with giving lavishly of all that he question of a relief of suffering.inary sense."

Louise Ferrier. the bride's sister, possessed, he organised vast en and in that he was merely ex terprises of charity in which

pressing the true spirit of Chris- thousands of afflicted people were

tianity. supported by voluntary contribu- tions. For the maintenance of these he sought help from friends and acquaintances and from the general public, and the Chinese people of every class and of every religion were liberal in their con- tributions to his works, for they trusted him unhesitatingly.

wore a dress of turquoise blue

match.

"LIVING IN TWO WORLDS". Dr. Yellowlees had said that marocain, and had a bonnet to Phillips was suffering from schiz- All, therefore, who attend theophrenia, and had defined the Mass. while praying for eternal symptoms of the disease as an rest for those who have died, will unnatural emctional indifference, pray also that war may cease and a living in two worlds, one descri- that peace may return to China, bed as a world of fantasy and and may exist between all men dessociation.

C.L.B. SERVICE)

SERUM RUSHED TO AMOY

PRISON DOCTOR'S VIEW Dr. Grierson, medical officer of Brixton Prison, thought that Phil- lips knew that what he was doing was wrong and had said that he The Jury might think it im-would not be prepared to certify possible to read the letters written him a lunatic:

that

by Phillips from prison without "In comparing his evidence In private life he won the res-

Astonishment at the state of de- with

of Dr. Yellowlees," peet of all for the deep religious

tachment and Indiference they observed the judge, "you must fervour and the utter unselfish-

revealed, continued, the judre, Į take into account that Dr. Yel- ness for which he was conspicu-

One could imagine with a har-lowlees is a specialist in mental Dus, and his help and advice were sought in matters of charity and

dened criminal. a certain bluffing diseases.

Phillips's father, Woking public welfare by people of all Because of the threat of an out-it. out, flippancy and Janntiness,

clergyman, sat at the back of the creeds and nationalities. He was break of cholera and typhold, but it was not the case there.

Phillips's "dreani story" to the court during the proceedings. organisations, and when Catholic to Amoy to make a routine relief doctor about seeking a victim in When the trial had ended there War Relief work was organised on for H.MS. Diana, 1 carrying a the streets of Oxford also showed were tears in his eyes as he shook

quantity of a national scale he was, almost considerable

anti-a very abnormal state of mind, hands with Mr. Norman Birkett, as a matter of course." made the cholera vaccine and anti-typhold unless the jury regarded it as a KC., who defended. before going

to see his son in the cells. President.

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TUESDAY, MAY 17, 1938. -PAGE 3

FOOT ITCH

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