LEGAL FINDING ON PIRACY.
ROBBERY MUST BE ESTABLISHED.
APPEAL COURT AGAINST
THE CROWN.
DEFENCE SUCCESSFUL.
An important finding in law. that a conviction for piracy in Hongkong cannot be sustained umless robbery is established,
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CAUSE OF DISASTER TO THE R.101.
(Continued from Page 1.)
Three Phases,
After examining the views of the experts on these points, the Court renches the conclusion that there were three phases in the final movements of the R101.
"In the first, she drops her nose noticeable steep and descends at the use of the up-clevator she is angle for half a minute before, by brought back to an approximately
gasbags immediately before. the Or is the explanation Childhood charms were givennal dive?
the expression at the Quarry Bay & gradual loan spread over School this morning, when the whole ship before a considerable young pupils took part in the catastrophic loss? Spring Festival, which da always eagerly anticipated by parenta and friends.
Memories and visions
of old English village greens,
with the Keds and lassien attired in their smartest and daintiest, dancing to the Spring Song around the May the merry strains of the Poika and Pole, were recalled hi the pleas children, and the large gathering, which included Lady Feel, accom panied by Mr. G. P. de Martin (Director of Education), gave the youngsters an ruthusiastic recep tion.
HANKOW FEAR OF RED RISING.
COMMUNIST OUTRAGES AND LABOUR UNREST.
KINNIU CAPTURED.
Hankow, Mar. 31. A sudden revival of Commanist hear Hankow and outrages Wuchang, coupled with labour unrest in Hankow City, In causing among considerable uneasiness
fenr realdents, who
extremist developments similar to those of
1927.
Japanese sources state that tense feeling exists among the thou--
Bund and on foreign steamers.
delivered by the Acting are meant to give the prospective ing performance of these talented horizontal position. then begins, sands of labourets working on the
The second phase and continues for a short time, dur- ing, which in spite of her utmost
effort, she does not succeed in getting her nose appreciably up. but continues horizontal, until she suddenly passes into the third phase when she at dives again and strikes ground almost at once an angle of a least fifteen degrees".
Many of there workers are making
heavy demands on Chinese firms.
For many years past, the British Chamber of Commerce, Shanghai, has been the loent centre of the Commercial Education Depart ment of the London Chamber of and twice each year Conducted hae
examinations in commercial subjecta.
The Shanghal. Chamber, feeling that the time has arrived when the scope of its activities along educational Ипен should extended, has decided to conduct examinations u shorthand and typewriting. These examinations Chief Justice (Mr. Justice Wood) business boy and girl over the age in the Court of Appeal thin of 16 an opportunity of obtaining morning at the Supreme Court. certiffeste which should be of The acting Puise Judge (Mr. material assistance in assuring a
position in business offices. Justice Lindsell) read a short
The examinations, the first of judgment in which he concurred | which it is hoped will take place The progranime opened with the
finding of the Chief in May of this year, will be open entrance of the with the
May Queen, Justice.
to students of either sex and of characterfked In regal style by Waldron. She The case concerned the Pedro any nationality. In shorthand the pretty Gwenneth Blanco affair early this year, minimum speed will be
by the shepherda, eighty was preceded when 12 Chinese were captured lo words per minute, advancing by village lads and Insles, who hall-
Concluding its examination of two junks, after having been seen twenty words per minute to a ed her with the song "The Queen the possible cause of these Hite- to chase and fire at a Hongkong-xpued of 180, and over, should any
of May ia crowned to-day.”
vessive movements, the report pro- Beethoven's "Song of May" was ceeds: hound junk. At the Criminal Sex- elons the jury returned a nani Candidate desire to sit for mor
As these delightfully rendered, and after- advanced examinations.
"How the vessel began to lose mous verdict of guilty of
are commercial examinations, the wards the children demonstrated gas can never be definitely ascer- dignation in Wuchang sentence against all 12 men. hut
test dictation will embrace phrases the May Pole dance, of which they tuined. Her rolling was excep- was suspended wailing the
uned in general mercantile land-rove a clever and dainty perform-tionally bad ht all stages and we ment of the point of law reserved,
ns, in bankdug. law, shipping, are.
have had evidence of the existence to whether ralibery was neces
Carlinsarutive, ele,
Three folk songs were sweetly of projections, some of which may to support a vonviction
In typewriting the candidato sing, and the children were equal. have begun to wear the fabric,
the well-known The case for the
was will have to copy work of varyingly at home with
including commereful argued by the Attorney General difficulty
JER:23/E37762mm Hon. Mr. C. 6. Alabaster K.C.) | and legal statements, statements together with Mr. Somerset of arcounts and badly written and Fitzroy. Prisoners' case was con-confused manuscript. There will ducted by Mr. Hin-Shing Lo, in- he speed test of teu 'minutes structed by Mr. C. E. 1. Grist, of with a minimum speed of 50 words. Messrs. Wilkinson and Grist.
racy.
Crown
The Judgment.
pirney
-
for
per minute. The fees will be $10
| for each subject or $15 for the two. The standard has been made high
In the course "f his julgin order to attract the heal type
The ment which took 10 minutes to of randidate. read. Mr.
ed mit
Justic
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examinations for beginners. Wood point- are not intended his argoment Beginners may sit for the London on behalf of the Crown, the Altor, Chamber's junior examination ney General had submitted that the application to the local vestre, decision on the question depended purpose of the examinations is to
International wholly upon
Law. unprove the standard of shorthand The piracy charged was pirney and
Lypewriting. Jure gentium and, by International Arrangements have been
mule Law. was justiciable everywhere, with the Hongkong General Chium-
for locat A conviction for the crime could ber of Commercs be recorded by a competent Court in any country.
In his Lordship's opinion, the argument that A jurisdiction, whether in England or in Hong- kong, in respect of an extra-ter- ritorial occurrence, could be deriv ed by a Court from International Law directly, without the inter- ference of legislation, could not be sustained. Legislation said his Lordship, was necessary; and the crime of piracy, being extra-ter ritorial, legislation which was to empower the Court to try the offence, must be legislation of the, Imperial Parliament.
Court's Competence. To hold any other view lel to the conclusion that
would
it
can-
didates for these 'examinations to be examined here. Particulars may be obtained from the Secretary.
EUROPEANS CATCH
PICKPOCKET.
COMMENDED BY MAGISTRATE | THIS MORNING.
.
Messrs. B. Richardson and P, J. Soloman were commended by Mr. Williams, at the Central Police for effecting Court this morning. the rest of two pickpockets who were sentenced to three months, and six months' hard labour res- pectively.
According to Detective Sergeant MacDonald, a hawker was walking in Connaught Road, at the junction might be possible for the Court to Pottinger Street, when he had xercise alternatively views of his pocket picked by two men work- tained from two authorities which ing in conjunction with one other, might, in time, be found to be con- He managed to seize the hand of flieting. It would, on that view,
the man who had extracted his in certain eircumstances, be con-
purse, which was passed on to the ceivable that a Court might
ast second, who started to run away, legally in defiance of the Imitations The imposed upon it by its own eon stitution
The competence of a Court was derived from its Sovereign. Judi- cid functions were a portion of
tinn, while the second had two.
WEATHER REPORT,
and
EXTRALITY DEADLOCK
RUMOURS.
Denial in Anglo-Chinese Circles.
MERELY SUSPENDED.
Nanking, Apr. 1. Replying to enquiries re- garding widespread reports that the Sino-British extrality Begotiations have reached a deadlock, Sir Miles Lampson's stail states that the reporta are antrue, adding that the conversations are merely being suspended over the Easter holidays,
it
Mr. C. T. Wang, the Foreign also denied that the #gotiations had reached 1 deadlock.---Reuter,
Last week, in Atatement to Pross representatives, Dr. Wang Chung-hui, President of the Judicial Yuan, Baid the Government was determined to effect a complete settle- ment of the extrality question hofore May 5th. He added:- "As to the proposal of gradual and regional abolition report- ed Lo have been made by eer- tal Powers, the Government will under no circumstances agree to it. What we seek is complete and unconditional abolition."
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country air "A Farmer's son so sweet, whilst their happy inter- pretation of "O no, John!" clearly showed their delight for this gay ballad.
Inferences
The bumpiness of the wind and the pitching of the the ships would intensify the strain." |Barfler flights had indicated the possibility of leakage through Chafinge, and, if the yeusal rolled through an unusually large angie. Through the intermittent opening if this vnives.
KAB
By far the most serious incident is reported from Kinniu district, some twenty miles south-east of Wichang, the commercial and in- Four lustrial centre of Hupel. thousand Communists, who made a sudden appearance, enptured Kinniu after a brief battle with the Government forces. All and Arma wealthy individuals were robbed,
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This affair has caused much in-
The
Communist hordea, who well armed with modern were weapons, retreated ut dawn Monday,
on
ALLEGED BREACH OF TRUST.
BAILIFF'S WATCHMAN ON SERIOUS CHARGES,
"But it seems very probable that A breach of trust by fraudulent- the more serious and sudden lossly converting goods which hud of gas which followed, was con- neeted with a specific misfortune such as the ripping of the fore part of the envelope.
hud
oc-
"Something of this wort happened on 11 previous casion, And NO amount of care could secure that if would never happen agnin.
Probable Explanation.
been left in his charge an Π bailiff's watchman, was alleged against Wong Sik, who appeared before Mr. Williams at the Central Police Court this morning.
The defendant, a watchman un- der engagement by the Oficial Receiver, was charged with frau- dulently converting to his own use wix sacks of iron castings at 24. If a tear had begun in the fore | Wing Wo Street, ground floor, part of the envelope it would tend where he had been posted and to develop into a larger tear. placed in charge of the goods so which would both check the speert that he might retain them in safe and expose the gusbags to custody. There was also an al- additional strain. This seems the ternative charge of larceny in re- most probable explanation of the pect of the castings. Curther loss of gas in inercusing quantity and suddenness,
Mr. F. X. d'Almada, jar, ap- peared for the defendant and ask- But whatever may have been theed his Worship to fix a date for precise circumstances, the explan the hearing of the case, at the tion that the disaster was caused same time applying for bail. by a substantial loss of yas
The defendant in very bumpy weather holds the until Thursday, April 9, at 2.15 feld. This is the unanimous viewp.m. bail being allowed in the sum of all three members of the Court of $500. of Inquiry.
After the public sittings of the Court were closed, the Nationa! Physical Laboratory was asked to make a series of calculations for the purposé of ascertaining what would be the theoretic move! ment of the R101 on various #ssumptions as to the loss of gas. the angle of the elevator, increas- jag pressure due to the bullets of the wind and so forth.
tunnel.
was remanded
YOUNG CHINESE IN FIGHT.
BOTH IN HOSPITAL WITH STAB WOUNDS.
of no
two
During fight between young Chinese in Graham Street yesterday afternoon, one of the Experiments Justify Theory. men received a stab wound to his victim informed Messrs,
These calculations were assist-shoulder while the other sustain- Richardson and Soloman, who gave Exceptionally well performed by experiments made with chase and arrested the second cul- were
aed an injury to his head, both be the Finger Palku, prit.
the model, four feet long, which pre-ing subsequently removed to the Friendly Nod and the Burgomaster cisely reproduced the external Government Civil Hospital for The first defendant was stated dances, while the children's band furm of the R101, and, by mensur-treatment." Sovereignty. Unleas it received time had one previous convic-displayed unusual talents in their ing the effect upon this model of According to a police report the jurisdiction from the Sove-
treatment of Schubert and Beethe currents of air of ascertained issued this morning, Cheung Yiu- reign, the Court was without power three months hard labour and the Marche Militaire, Gavot in a various positions in the wind abode, was admitted to the ha
In sentencing the first man to ven, selecting as their numbers, velocity when the model was put man, aged 22 years, of no fixed to net. An acquiescence by the second to six, his Worship Sovereign in a unsurpation by the
com Minor, and Moment Musicale.
stab wound pital, with mended Messrs. Richardson
on his Court of any portion of the Sove- Seloman for their public spirit.
"Hark, Hark, the Lark" and The Court's conclusion as to the inflicted by Lee Hi, aged 16, also left shoulder, said to have been reign's power would not amount to
"Now the month of Muying" enuse of the accident is shown by were two other chorus songs which the calculations of the National had a cut on the head alleged to sufficient authority.
fixed abode. Les himself were prettily sung, and finally W. Physical Laboratory to be consist-have been inflicted by Cheung, G. Hancock ably led the singing of ent with the facts, and to corres-The latter, however, was the more "May-Time." this bringing to a pond to the assumptions which seriously injured. conclusion a delightful entertain-may reasonably be made. ment, which reflected the highest credit both on the pupils and their Dealing with the lack of ude- instructors.
Others present in addition to says. "It is impossible
quate speed trials, the report RYOjd Lady Peef were Mrs. Walker, Miss the conclusion that the R101 would Skinner (Belilios School), Mrs. G. not have started for Indin P. de Martin. Mr. A. R. H. Phillips, October 4th, if it had not been that Dr. S. W. Tuo, and Mr. A. O. reasons of public policy were co- Brawn.
sidered as making it highly desir- able for her to do so if she could.
London, Mar. 31. But this is not to say that the au- The Air Chief Marshal, Sir John thorities, political and technical, Salmond, who is to make an who were responsible for or ac inspection tour of the Air Force quiesced in this decision, would Stations in Bfalta, Egypt, Pales. Friday. Yesterény, .124.22
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International Law, Continuing, his Lordship said he was of opinion that International The Royal Observatory reports Law did not occupy, in the English that the depression has deepened legal system, the pre-eminent posi- and moved to the south of Tokyo, tion which was claimed for it by An anticyclone is central to the the Crown in the present case, north of the Yangtze Valley. and, further the contention Fresh monsoon along the south
the Crown,
his coast of China and over the North Lordship's opinion, was founded, China Sen. upen
misconception of the con-
of
stituent elements of International
Law which, in this matter, gave correctly construed in the same no direction, but merely negatived senac.
แ prohibition. Outside the
elements of territorial jurisdic-
tion, the rule of International
tion.
on
Court's Jurisdiction.
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The Foreign Minister, Mr. C. T.
Law, which the Crown here After referring to the indict- rulied, was permissive and not ments concerning the no. Sunning Paris.. obligatory. It was procedure and, and the 8.8. Halching piracies, and Geneva. not positive.
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