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EARLIER TELEGRAMS.
COLONIAL "VETS."
London, Jan. 29.
The Colonial Secretary has appointed a committee to consider whether the statis of the veterinary departments of the various Colonies and protectorates are adequate and if it is necessary to recommend increases to the staf on improved salaries; also to recommend regarding the improvement of arrangements for recruiting such veterinary staff. The chairman of the committee is Sir Herbert Read and the members Sir J. McFadydan and Sir Stewart Stockman, President of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, Professors J. Sharp, Jones, O. C. Bradley and Major R. D. Furse.
FRENCH FINANCE.
Paris, Jan. 30,
"The Government has decided on radical measures in order to improve the nanchi situation. Including the application of an important portion of the new loan to the withdrawal of the paper money now in circulating and furthere AL large increase of taxation in order to balance the budget and. if it is absolutely essential, drastic restrictions on importations of luxuries so as to check further depreciation of the frune.
PAISLEY SOCIALISTS..
London Jan. 29,
Mr. Paul, whom the Paisley Suclists invited to stand or election has declined the invitation.
Luton, Jan. 30.
Polling takes place at Paisley February 12 and the counting of rotes February 25.
ITALIAN RAILWAY STRIKE FINISHED.
Rome, Jan. 29,
The Italian railway strike has ended.
THE BOMBAY STRIKES.
London, Jan. 7
A Bombay message of Jan. 2 says the cotton mill strike situation is unchanged. There have been only minor distur- bances with some looting. The Labour Settlement Committee, states the Governor is endeavouring to arrange a resonable settlement.
HAVAS ITEMS.
Paris, Jan. 29.
M. Stephen and M. Pichon have resumed their journalistic labors as editors of the "Petit Journal." It is recalled that M. Pichon began his newspaper career- under M. Clemenceau's auspices on "Justice." Pichon's return to his old profession has been signalised by his election to the presidency of the Parisian Press Association.
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Headed by their President, a party of members of the Paris Municipal Council arrived yesterday in London' as guests of the London County Council.
Ypres, Dixmude, Furnes and Nieuport, Belgan towns associated in the tragedy of the great war, were decorated yesterday by M. Poincare.
An Important political meeting has occurred between M. Poincare, M. Millerand, Marshal Foch, King Albert, and the Belgian Premier and Minister of Foreign Affairs.
GERMAN WAR CRIMINALS.
London, Jan. 29.
The "Daily Mail" states that the German Government bas informed the British Charge d'Affaires at Berlin that it cannot arrest and hand over the war criminals within a month as demanded by the Peace Treaty. -
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DRINK AS EXCUSE FOR. CRIME?
IMPORTANT LEGAL POINT.
A tragic-looking man. with nervous hands, Was probably unaware, when he appeared in the House of Lords recently that his presence there was creating a precedent in Parliamentary and legal history.
He was Arthur Beard, formerly a night watchman at a mill at Hyde, Cheshire, who was sen- tenced to death last July, at the County Assizés, for the murder of Ivy Wood, a girl of 13. The Court →óf Criminal Appeal. however, reduced the charge to one of manslaughter, and Beard was sentenced to 20 years' pens! servitude. It was then urged on Beard's behalf that the death of tle girl was accidental, and that he was in such a drunkea condi- tion that he did not know what he was doing.
The judge (Mr. Justice Ballha. chel at the Assizes told the jury that they must find that the man did not know what he was doing before the defence of drunkenness could be successful. The Court of Criminal Appeal held that this was a direction calculated to mislead the jury, and it 38 against their decision that the Crown was appealing.
"ONLY TWO LOOPHOLES." Never before had a criminal sat in the Upper House and listened to an appeal for his life... The Lord Chancellor sa: behind the clerk's table. On the front crimson benches sat the Lord Chief Justice, Lords Haldane and Atkinson on one side of the Lord Chancellor, and Lords Sumper, Dunedin, Buckmaster, and Phillimore on the other.
The opening speech of the Attorney-General (Sir Gordon Hewart) lasted several hours. He argued that the prisoner knew what he was doing when he put his hand over the girl's mouth to prevent her screaming. The ques- tion of disease of the mind had to be considered. and there were coly two loopholes "of escape. The person must be in such a state of find that he did not know what he was doing. or if he did he must not know that what he was doing was wrong. It was now suggested that a man should be given the benefit of a third point; namely, that he knew what he was doing, and knew that it was wrong, bur, knowing all this,, did not appreciate the extent of the injury that was likely to follow. "VOLUNTARY MADNESS."
The Lord Chief Justice engaged the Attorney-General in long arguments on the point of drun- kenness as a defence. He held that a man could not be con- demned for a crime which he had never intended to commit. It was undoubtedly the law 50 or 60 years ago that a man could not be in a better position as regarded a crime by taking drink, and therefore hav- ing what was called a voluntary madness contracted by himself. The question was, to what extent was the law to be relaxed?
Was a man to be treated more favourably, asked Lord Atkinson, because he made himself insane by his own act, than if Providence had made him insane?
The Attorney-General said that his proposition was that the law still was as it always had been, namely, that drunkenness was not an excuse for crime.
Lord Atkinson cited the hypothetical case of a man who, having bad too much to driok, knocked a woman down. The man knew it was wrong to push her down but did not know it would kill her.
The Attorney-General was atill quoting legal history when the hearing was adjourned.
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