LIBEL ACTION.

CAPTAIN OF THE PHEUM- PENH SUED.

Chief Engineer Gets 5500 Damages.

the defendant reading over the same to the plaintiff in the pre sends of the said three parmana,

THE HONE!

settlement. We have lot h pretty well. We have not that we wanted an apology or this. or that.

S. By the said words in the said log, defendant risant

His Lordship (10. Mr. Mat- that on the 9th, 10th, and tingley)-Ualess you are going 11th days of April, 1917, the to offer an apology, I don's think plsiatiff did publicly and without it is worth while. The settlement any necessity, in the presence of which has been arrived at is a several of the emigrants on board very happy and desirable one, of the said steamship, who and I think we might leave it at numbered altogether about 900, that. people, parade samples of dirty drinking water along the deck in

water

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The libel action which has been

glase tambler and did indicate A MINISTRY OF HEALTH. trought by the chief engineer of

the emigrants that the the 8.5 Pheamrenh, Waiter to

fit wae" not James Stokes against the muter of the ship, Captain de la Sala, drink, in such a way as to tend to was before the Paison Judge, cause panic, trouble and disorder (Mr. Justice Gomper'z) this among the emigrants, and that the morning, when legal aspects of aid conduct of the plaintiff with

bered that &

Lord Rhondda's Viston.

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the case were argued. The claim reference to the said drinking by the chief engineer is for water was such as to reader, it the Daily Chronicle as follows:~ $1,000, being damages for libelsnecessary for the defendant (a) to contained in the official log of the warn the plaint in the presence of National Hygiene have brea veseel, made by the Captain, on and hearing of all, the said asking for a Ministry of Health. April 11, 1917. It will be remem three persons from carrying out Bir Clifford Allbutt is perhaps

Marine Court 30y act of barratry against the the dayen of each reers. The day England and Wales and two- FOR RUN-DOWN PEOPLE. Bequiry was held sometime ago ship or her machinery, or to af is now dawning, for the war his thirds of the school entrants in at which the facts of the case tempt to fence say person shown even the purblind what is London, for instance, suffer from

board to do so would be regarded the relation of were fully gone into.

national preventable physical defeots due the The Hon. Mr. B. E. Pollack, by.

health to national existence to our neglect of them. (The Just K. O, appeared for the Chief seriously; (b) that any panish.

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Mattingley, of Mosers. Deacon that the fullest exquiries would be and House, thanks to the Duchess (child mortality.-Od. 8497) Then | health, it mesas a condition in Looker, Deacon and Harston, made as to his prat conduct of Marlborough, by the Nationalesmen the school age, during which all the bodily functions are

Courcil of Pablic Morals, the which the medical department of enfeebled. Appetite fails, the Wm. In addressing the Court, M. (0) be warned all the said three Bishop of Birmingham being in the Board of Education trise to digestion is impaired, the serves libel was contained in the cfficial Considered the plaintiff to be amove a resolation, unanimously already done by our national becomes pale, there is no anim- Pollock stated that the alleged persons that he, the defendant, the chair, it was my privilege to patch up part of the damage log of the abip. The statement dangerove and malicious person/Pasod, in favour of the Ministry{neglect of the home-child, and stion, but rather worry and mental and that he, the defendant, relied which it is now the splendid our money-grabbing oblivion of depression, Fatigue is a constant ambition of Lord Rhondda to the everlasting truth that only upon them to inform him at sy create. No one then thought that the race which regards ite young behave in a smepicious manner. time should the plaintiff act or were doing more than the 4. The plaintiff claime 81,000 spade work of education which damages.

would bear frais in distant year -bot war teaches lessons in lightning flashes.

of claim, stated:***.

On 11th April, 1917, the defendant falsaly and maliciously wrote and published of "the plaintiff, in relation to his cffice as chief engineer of the .. Pheumpenb, the following words in the cfficial log of the esid steamship, namely: "April 9th, 10th and 11th 1917, Hongkong to Singapore, 11/1/17-The master, meaning the defendant, has this

Mr. Polkek went on to say that the defence which would be put forward would be that there was justification, and also that the

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The chief arguments are these our national acquiescence. Sach the entire system, and Dr. First, the bewildering number is our appreciation of adoles the epoch-making pablishing was made on a pri of offices and departments to cence, vileged ccossion and withou: approach at present before any period when the adult is being day April, 1917, found it neces. malice. The points on which those thing can be done. Take the born, and for which all wiss rsces: various organe. regain their tone sary to command the chief pleas were based were set out at most recent instance, the attempt and religione have specially cared. engineer, W. J. Stokes, to cease length in a letter from Messrs. to stop racial poisoning by Then comes

"discbylon," suthority, not the Local Govern- making unnecessary trouble con-Descon, Looker, Devon and lead plaster or cerning the drinking water on Harston, and Mr. Pollock went onto which I have been direct ment Board, as it should obsionely with Dr. Williams' pink pilla, the vessel. This is the third to read the plaintiff's reply to that ing public attention for many be and would have been but for consecutive day that W. J. Stokes defence. It was stated that the years, and which we thoroughly jealousy between two ministers & Chemists everywhere also post bas publicly produced samples of finding of the Marine Court examined upon the Birth Rate few years ago, but the Nations!

it was enquiry abowed that Stokes Commission. Hers is a notorious Health Insurance Commission, free, ose bottle for $150, 6 for water, declaring tbat

carried out his duties in a pro- poison, the sale of which in stick plas the admirable Welfare De- $81 from the Dr. Williams' Medtoine Co., 96 3zechuen Road, *stagusat and after each time when

There were real-or lamp form serves no medical partment of the Ministry of the master bas told him to pump per way."

defences, one being or other useful purpose, but is Munitions in recent times. If Shanghai. over the side for several minutesy two

Free-Send a post card for s the other raisons to the public health, not any should become inebriates, 80 88 to fash out the pipes justification

of publication on a

only in this, but in the next however, auch unhappy invalida most neefal Health Guide to thoroughly be has changed his that

the water had privileged occasion. The plaint- generation. If we had had a come under the Home Office. Is, above address. opinion after been taated by the ship's doctor, was putting that plea of justi. Minister of Health he would have it not time for & Ministry of master, chief (fficer and com-fication in issue, and, as regards stopped it ten years ago. Instead, Health to co-ordinate and sub- pradore, and agreed that it is the question of privilege, that we have had to spend immense same the labcars at present wearisome-because 20 shared by some fourteen different fi for human consumption. waa absolutely decided by the end

Marine Court, because the fading factitious-labour in appealing authorities?

that the

and

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master read "We are of opinion that the to and interviewing msny official All disinterested people are has made this entry is OD account of him fearing by the chief engineer on this occasion bodies for our purpose. The Local agreed. The Committee of Government Board, the Home Unionist members of Parliament, B proper actiona of W. J. Stokee in carried out his daty in

the best of his Office, the Privy Council, the which has been eladying Pablic parading dirty dricking water way and to along the deck in a glass tumbler ability." If there were any pri- Registrar General, the Pharma Hesith since February 1914, and the master also having vilege, that did not extend to the centical Society, are all more or under the chairmanship of Major Now we have Astor, who really knowsand cares, noticed the enquiring looks on doctor and compradore of the leas concerned.

The other day has isened a valuable report, "The WANTED-Full sized BIL- the faces of several of the ship to whom the log was read, succeeded.

LIARD TABLE emigrante in the vicinity of where and slao did not extend to the "diacbylon" was scheduled as the Health of the People: a New

of the entry.

The deadly poison it is, and to-day no National Policy," in which a ACCESSORIES in good con- the water was being publicly whole

Box No. 1302 c/o " Hong- tasted on deck that the question plaintiff alleged malice, in fact. na may pass twopence over a policy as old as Moses and a new dition might arise without cause or Mr. Pollock went on to argue chemist's counter sad bay sa to-day is well set forth, inclad- kong Telegraph." ressos among the 900 people points of the case, and stated that once of what will kill her and ing a Ministry of Health; and, a log was always for the entry of her unborn child, or blind or Lord Rhondda's work at the (about) that the water 18

certainly paralyse ber for life.

Local Government Board has taiated and thus possibly osuses occurrences," "and

him A nation is maintained by the stready inspired

with panic, trouble and disorder more than half of the entry was

deñaite intention. The on the vessel, which might lead not about an "occurrence," but conception and maintenance antil to disastrous resalte on account was what the Captain thought of maturity of a sufficiency of new campaign against venereal dia of the ignorance of the emigrants, the chief engineer. It really lives. If this process fails, the eases is not advantaged, for in- After due consideration and re- took the form of abuse. As re-nation dies. The living creature stance, by having one fraction of flection, the master bas come to gards justification, the plaintiff is a chain of living links, se strong work done. in Bill from the the conclusion that he must, in would say that the defendant was as the weakest of them. It con LG.B. and another in a Bill from the interest of himself, the owners stopped from pleading by the and all concerred, warn the said finding of the Marine Court. W. J. Stokes from carrying out or Mr. Mattingley-We don't attempting to carry out any set admit that we are estopped. that will prejudice or injurs in any Farther argument took place way the steamer Phenmpenh or and his Lordship expressed say person on board, and he has desire to

the parties in farther warned W. J. Stokes that Chambers.

so-called.

tains the whole of its part per the Home Office, as at the present. hapa its racial as well as its in-moment. dividual past-in its present. Having put his hand to the Accordingly a Minister of Health plough, Lord Rhondda is not the must begin his care of the living man to look beind him. The cycle at the beginning. Expect-harvest, will be men and women

motherhood must be mot

worthy of the wonderful, past of guarded from the racial poisons or undegenerate race and of our Buy sitempt to commit any act of A long consultation in private by which term I mean lead, incomparable task of maintaining

the British Commonwealth,| barratry against the ship or her followed, and subsequently there alcohol, and the machinery, or to attempt so or was a conference between the venereal diseases. A Listeriaz throughout the world. for the iz fluence any person on board to parties, evidently with a view to Order of specially qualified men common west of all, mankind, in

or, better still, women-olean to aecals & caloramen do so, will be regarded by the la settlement. master most seriously and that Upon the Court-resuming. Mr. their finger-tipe, must guard the any punishment that the law of Pollook told his Lordship that bean born life and usher it into the Great Britain allows will be asked was happy to inform him that day. The thousand lives a week, for, and that the fallest enquiries settlement had been arrived at and more, that could be saved in

made will be

38 to his between the parties by consent, the infantile or first post-natal past conduct, on board of and that was, judgment for the year must be saved-but more of this vessel and the officera signing plaintiff for $500, including coste, that anon in Baby Week, the let

The litigent in the notion this entry (meaning thereby the $200 to be paid down and the of July. Lord Rhondda is fully obief officer, the doctor and the remainder at the rate of $50 per alive to these primary necessities, brought by Mr. Channel Law o as he showed in his reply to the set aside a deed of apoaration compradore) are warned by the month.

His Lordship entered judgment formidable deputation of infant with Mrs. Tabella Harrsgin maaler that be, the master, consi-

life-preservera” who waited upon shook hands in court, at the ders she said W. J. Stokes to be sonordingly. dangerens and malicions pernon Mr. Mattingley said that, whilst him the other day. He could exclusion of the bearing in the and relies on them to notify his agreeing to the judgment, ha scarcely be otherwise with Sir Chancery Division. Mr. ustion the master, at any time should client wished-is to be meg, thas an dzibar Namaholms at his sar.it personale that when the dest But from the end of the infantile was entered into neither party the said W. J. Etoken not or be- the time he made the log entry be have in a tuercions manner." was satisfied that he was acting year to school entry, the child believed the first husba said words in the said within bis rights an Captain, and, in no one's care. Such a child hear. It was wzocated published by the defen- in view of the finding of the should be at homey and again. I Marine Court, he still felt that," urge the farm "home.child" to Mr. Pollook must objset, indicate its klantity. Some three t is not part of the forms of million such children we have în

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