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THE EASTERN OLYMPIAD.
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Swimmers: Shek Wing-kwan, Young Ping-kwai, Leung Shiu-{ man, Mok Sing-kam, Chan Hin- mes, Ho Pak-Ping, and Leung Tit-sung.
The party is accompanied by Lau Fook-keo, who will act in the capacity of Managar, and Ko Sik- wai and W.A. Hyder as coaches.
The football team will be drawn from tac following local men :--| Leung Yuk-tong, Chan So, Cheung Wing-sing. Kam Fook. Au Kit-snug. Loung Tai-Fong, Fok Ping-yin, Chan Kwong-giu, Ip Kau-ko, Pang Kam-wing, Wong Pak-chung, Lau Yuk-tat. ffu Sing-Iu, and Tsoi Hak-hong. The tennis players are due to sail by the Wenatchee on May 25,
The teants for the volley and basket hall contests have been selected by the Canton clubs, and
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contempt, which merely tend to lesson a man in public esteem,; or to wound his feelings, will support a suit for libel, because; of their being embodied in a more permanent and enduring form, of the in-creased delibera- by Judge C. S. Lobingior in the tion and malignity of their U.S. Court for China in connection publication and of their tendency. with the demurrers pleaded by to provoke breaches of the the Minister of Communications, defendants on April 11 in the case | public peace. on the occasion was as follows:--fof George L. Shaw
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Counsel for the editor cites a "I deem it a great honour that Bronson Reu und Patrick Gal-lower court decision to the effect so many distinguished personageslagher. Plaintif is using for that it is not libellous to publish have attended the jubilee celebra-the sum of Gold $50,000 alleged of another that he is an anureb- tion of the inauguration of the to be damages suffered as a resnitist;"hut that decision was re- Communications services in this of the publication of an article versed by the Supreme Court of country. The Communications entitled "Asiatic Sinn Féin," in the same jurisdiction. Which was service has a very close bearing the Far Eastern Review, of which aterwards followed elsewhere. on the development of civilisation, defendants are publisher and So it is libellous to publish of one and the rise and decline of the former editor respectively.
that ho is a **traitor "or national destiny depands in large Counsel in the case are Mr. dangerous, ablo and seditious measure upon whether a country Sterling Fessendon for plaintiff, agitator" which are not much is provided with an efficient Mr. J. B. Davies for Mr. Rea, and more then the phrases used in equipment or not. At the time Mr. P. M. Linebarger for Mr. the petition. of the Restoration, Japan was Gallagher.
Counsel for the publisher fortunate enough to have able In his judgment, hisHonour said: asserts that plaintiff's name) statesmen at the holta of the Demurrers are here interposed appears only three times in the Government, and the telephone to the petition charging that the article but we find it in seven business, was opened, between defendants wrote and published places one of which is a bead- Tokyo and Yokohama in the in the Far East Revivic of and line. Besides as the said counsel; second year of Meiji (1869). Two concerning the plaintiff an article, well knows (the point having been years later, that is to say, in which allegea :→→→
decided in caso where he March, 1871, the new postal That by the writing and publish-successfully prosecuted another systera was introduced. During ing of the aforesaid words and for alleged libel of him) the half a century that has passed article, the defendants meani libellous character of a publica- since that time many improve-and intended it to be understoodtion does not depend upon the use ments have been made in the by all persons who should read of the aggrieved party's name. service in conformity with the such words and article that It may be libellous even if the development of the national plaintiff is a Sinn Feiner an name is not mentioned. fortunes. For instance, in 1875 Asiatic Sinn Feiner, an enemy
view of the petition's the postal money order aud of human progress, an enemy of admitted averments it would sentences carried out during the the postal savings business was Great Britain and of other clearly be reversible error to hold whole of the war, including initiated between Tokyo and countries the Allies and friends that it fails to state a cause of native troops, was not more than Yokohama, and in 1892 parcel of Great Britain."
action, and the demurrer is 300 or 400.
post business was put in operation. It is elementary that a de- accordingly over-ruled. No right of appeal to Civil
Captain Loseby considered that In this way, communications murrer admits all well pleaded there was no fairer court in the business has made remarkable averments, and for the purposes By 161 votes to 63 the House of world than a court-martial, and progress year after year, and to of this ruling we must assume Commons rejected a proposal by said that during the war 89 per add to an already long list of the that the statements above quoted Major C. Lowther that members cent. of the mem found guilty business undertaken, a simple life are true. The question to be de-spectacle glasses is of the greatest of the Forces sentenced to death had had their contences of death insurance scheme was started in cided at this time, then, is not importance" writes Dr. C. Hart- by court-martial should have the
1916. It is satisfactory to note whether the article, slauding ridge, F.R.C.S., Ophthalmic Sur- Colonel John Ward believed that all branches of the service alone, is libellous but whether geon and Lacturor on Ophthalmic right of appeal to the Court of that if the soldiers were consulted are witnessing steady progress it is such when read in connection Burgery to the Westminster Hos. Criminal Appeal, assisted by one they would say they would rather and that further atid more with these admitted averments. pital. "They must be accurately or more military assessors.
be tried by their officers who brilliant achievements are assured Now it would seem quite unsafe centred in frames that Major Lowther'schief argument in favour of adding a clause to knew the human element in the for the future. I am confident to hold that one may with light, strong and fit well, other this effect to the Army and Air case than by a civil court.
The that this state of things not only impunity publish of another that wise the good effect of the most Force (Annual) Bill was that a present was the most humane confere much benefit upon the the latter is an enemy of human carefully chosen correction may inan on joining the Army shoubisystem devised from the point of Japanese Empire and people but progress," of his own country and be entirely frustrated by a faulty! not thereby forfeit the right of view of the view of the common will contribute greatly to the of other countries in alliance position of the glasses, or even a
soldier.
progress of the civilisation of the therewith. For it is conceded by fresh source of eye strain may be appcal enjoyed by a civilian.
The Sir R. Sanders said that a com- world. I take this opportunity counsel for all parties that a introduced." Mr. A. Hopkinson said the
Hongkong death sentence for desertion in mittee composed of soldiers and in celebrating the jubilee of the publication is libellous if it tend Optical Co., Successors to Clark this inauguration of the Communicato disgrace and degrade the party & Co., Refracting and Manu- face of the onemy was intended to lawyers had considered act as a stern warning to others, quest, and had turned down the tions Department to express my or hold him up to public batred, facturing Opticians, located in 53. and that would la prevented if proposal. The Government could fervent desire for the
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