1940-06-24

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GENERAL

BRIDE

Anti-Opium 18-YEAR-OLD

Conference WEDS R.A.F. OFFICER

MANY RESOLUTIONS

PASSED

January 1, 1941, will dawn over

A drug-free China as far as the Central Government and the ter ritories under its administration are concerned.

SIR HARRY LINDSAY, THE DIRECTOR, IN A FOREWORD IMPERIAL INSTITUTE TO THE ANNUAL REPORT OF THE FOR 1939, states that although many activities have had to be curtalled owing to the war, the Empire Film Library is kept at full stretch, with consultative committees, who link the work ́of, the Institute with the trade and industry of the Empire,

have performed very effective service during the past year. The Inquiries referred to the mite; sources of tale in the United

suppliers councils and the committees are Kingdom; British reoakyed from a wide range of burytes Auorspar and other min

their erala; occurrences of semi-precious correspondents, materials,

certain colonies; the availability, quantities, official and stones #in non-official relating to raw quali-possibility of producing salt from ties, methods of processing, pack-sea-water in Nigeria: the mar ing and prospects of entry into keting of mica; uses of, and pros- the British market in competition pects of marketing, silica sand; oll-suppression programme. with foreign products.

producing countries of the Empire; prospects of sale of tungsten ore; the manufacture of sulphuric acid; the possible development of molyb- demite property in Newfoundland.

The subjects dealt with by the committees range from timbera, vegetable Abres, hides and skins tanning materials, oilseeds and oils, casential oil. gums and resins. and insecticide material to pre- clous and base metals, tron and ferro-alloys, coal and petroleum,

miscellaneous minerals, and ques- tions related to chemical indus- tries and mining law.

[[Babe)

Eighteen-year-old Mies Evelyn Margarat Doreen Lindsay," who celebrates her nineteenth birthday at the end of the month was married to Flying Omcer Patrick Flaney (Bob). Davis, R.A.F. in Singapore recently,

He is the only son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Davis, of London, and his bride is the elder daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. Lindsay of Singapore.

Miss Lindsay was attended by ner sister, Miss Alice Lindsay, as uridesmaid,

Mrs. W. Lindsay was matron-of- honour.

BACK FROM

At the national anti-pplum

SOUTH FRANCE conference, which just ended here,

LISBON, June 23 (Reuter)-FTVe the delegates decided to recom-

The Res, A Qlles, RAF.

hundred British refugees from the end that the Government make Padre, officiated at the marriage. South of France arrived here on

pronouncement on the first

The bride was given away by Friday and 3,000 more are expected day of next year of the successful conclusion of the six-year optus her father, Mr. W. Lindsay, and today.

the bridegroom was attended by best F/O Pennington-Leigh man.

RESOLUTIONS "PASSED Much of the three-day discus- sions centered on rehabilitation Penang.

aleaaures Among the resolutions passed were;

That the laws governing öplum and drug cases be upheld for three more years and that in this period these, cases may be tried by a military court;

The honeymoon will be spent in

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Two steamers have arrived with French and Belgian refugees, in- cluding many leading Belgians.

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MONDAY, JUNE 24, 1940.

JUDICIAL REFORM

IN CEYLON

First Sitting Of Criminal Appeal Court

"The sre is one of unbridled savagery, in which freedom of thought and expression is in danger of being extinguished by a ruthless dictatorship aiming at world domination. Institutions which are a source of pride and beloved by free peoples are bew ing trampled under foot. In a large portion of the world the due administration of Justice is the exception rather than the rule. In these circumstances it is no small satisfaction to know that at such a period another milestone in the history of judicial reform. In Ceylon is being passed by the establishment of this Court,” said the Chief Justice, recently addressing the Attorney-General on the occasion of the first" sitting of the Court of Criminal Appeal.

A large number of lawyers ways been shelved on secount of crowded the Court before the anancial stringency. Owing to the Portuguese Centen- Judges came on the Bench At 11 "It gives me great satisfaction ary celebrations all Lisbon hotels

a.m. the Chief Justice. accom- to think of the part played by were full and the refugees had the panied by Mr. Justice Keuneman you and myself, Mr. Attorney in greatest difficulty in finding ac- and Mr. Justice Nihill, came on the palitiesi battle that was commodation, Frontier trains were the Bench.

inally won in the cause of pro- delayed many hours.

Among those in the Court were per judicial administration. Among the refugees expected Mr. J. W. R. Hangazoon KC., consider myself fortunate that I today is the Grand Duchess of Attorney-General, and Mr. E., G. P. occupy the position. I do at the Luxembourgh.

Jayatilleke, KC., Solicitor-General inception of this reform. I have Meanwhile, many refugees are Mr. H. V. Perera, EC.

no doubt Mr. Attorney that you also feel proud of the position you leaving France for Britain, getting

occupy on this occasion. away on British ships. The last batch to arrive in England in-

FAST INVESTIGATION Laboratory investigations com

MANY MORE REGISTER picted included the suitability of the oil of Hudnocarpus wodii from

LONDON, June 23 (Reuter) North Bornea in the treatment of leprosy; Acacia laeta gum from That a Anal check of the oplum A total of 332.995 were registered Nigeria; papain from Tanganyika: suppression work be made, and in the 1910 class of which 2,291 PLANT ANIMAL PRODUCTS

relief

provided the were conscientious objectors.

CHIEF JUSTICE'S ADDRESS ·. On the plant and animal pro-proteolytic activity of bromelin, that ducts side, the inquiries covered prepared from pineapple juice: workers now that the programme

Palestine: Po has been brought to an end:

"It remains for all those con- Before the work for the day the effect of war conditions on lamb skin from

That all anti-oplum hospitals

began the Chief Justice, address-cerned in the administration of the demand for New Zealand Lompon ábre (Thesesia lampas) as

ing the Attorney-General, saldustice by our actions to ensure that the establishment of this kauri gum; sources of supply of a jute substitute: alkaloid content be turned into health clinics after groups to wipe out whatever may cluded some 80 British Journalists. substitutes för agar agar: Empire of yellow lupin seed; ginger from the completion of the progarmme; be left of the evil, and to examine That reward be given for the the cured addicts from time to

EARL" OF ATHLONE do not consider the occasion Court is a real measure of reform time!

of the frst sitting of the Court of and not merely an avenue where- sources of red squil, required in Montserrat suitability of young

To makes lean sweep of the IN CANADA

Criminal Appeal in. Ceylon, should conni tion with rat control; the tear thinnings as a source of paper seizure of oplum, and that seized production of rämte and flax in pulp: the composition of vermi-drugs and optum, with the excep-

to destroy any anti-oplum pilis OTTAWA, June 23 (Reuter) De allowed to pass without a few the guilty can escape from Australia; drugs at present in de-culte trom Western Australia; the tion of the quanuty needed by evil, the anthorities have decided

of Athlone arrived in words from me with regard to its Punishment duly merited by their

crimes mand in the United Kingdom, solubility of alumina in three the narcaties bureau. be burnt;

ar medicine found in the market. The Earl be produced in samples of Gold Coast bauxite; the and, which might

That no opium suppression of Meanwhile, wider publicity will be Ottawa on Friday accompanied by establishment. The realisation of Kenya And South Africa: the suitability of black sand from Ja-

source" of titanium ces be maintained after the com- given to the oplum suppression the Princess Allee, Countess of the necessity for such a Court is Athlone, They were welcomed by not a matter of recent growth. movement

"For some time past the Judi- cultivation of drug plants in New malca as a

The authorities will send men the Prime Minister and the Chief

clary,...

the Law Officers of the Zealand for local use; Empire compounds; the quality of a ping-pletion of the programme and that sources of citrus pectin; the use of sten ore: the arantum content of the district and military authori

tles and the preventive service. be to inspect the suppression work Justice of Canada.

The Royal Canadian Air Force Crown, the Bar and those ele- in Free Ching as well as in the walnut shells; the possibility of a mineral sample.

responsible for the suppression

war areas. As to the border re provided a guard of honour and a ments of political life who under- introducing the band spinning and

matters.

anti-smuggling

great crowd cheered them as they stand the real meaning of Justice Tenders are invited for the par

glons, wearing of cotton in the Tongo

CLEAN SWEET

drove to the Parliamentary build- have appreciated the fact that will be tightened. Islands and of wool in Tang-chase of the old steam launch

The conference urged the pro- The conference adopted 47 re-ing, where the Earl of Athlone without such a Court a link was angika: the production of vege GP.0.1. for the supply of rations.

redouble solutions, some of which have yet was sworn in as the new Governor.mising in our code of judicial

procedure. 21 New to the Indian Police, for the erec-vincial authorities to table lubrication oils Zealand

tion of temporary quarters for their efforts to comb every corner to be rectified by the government. General of Canada. As to minerals, inquiries includ- guards at Shek Là Pui, and for of their province for poppy seeds At the conclusion of the con- ed the possibility of manufactur- the erection of temporary wooden and to strictly suppress poppy ference, the delegates were enter- ing charcoal tran a Western Aushut at Ballebury Road, Kowloop cultivation. The authorities are tained at dinner by Generalis

asked. to organize inspection simo Chiang Kai-sher. tralia: African sources of disto- for the Auxiliary Fire Service.

measures

BRITAIN STRAIGHT

AHEAD

NEW YORK Jme, 23 (Reuter). afty-five low-wing Northrup at tack bombers which formerly be longed to the United States Army, have left Mitchell Field for Hall- fax, on the way to Britain, says Els first act was to give the "The matter has year in and the New York Times › Royal Assens to the Canadian year out been the subject of con- Thirty-eight more bombers are” Conscription Bill thus making It sideration by the Government but being shipped to England from

to spite of its urgency it had al-New York. law.

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