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TUESDAY, JUNE 2, 1931.
THE SWEEPSTAKE
CRAZE.
TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, JUNE 2. 1931.
solze at the porta have even been Haunted in his face in the House of three depart-
Commons. With ments of State-the Heine Ofice.
DAY BY DAY
THE ONLY FREEDOM THAT DE- SERVES THE NAME, IS THAT OF PURSUING OUR OWN GOOD IN OUR WAY, SO LONG AS WE DO NOT AT | Tues-John Stuart Mill.
DEPRIVE OTHERS
OF
TEMPT ΤΟ
The P. & O. x.s. Rajputana, from Hongkong, arrived at London on 29th May at 4.m.
The Tongue of the Law.
By Sir EDWARD PARRY.
TT IS REPORTED from the Knowing that he was a travellor.
Old Balley that when an in-nnd a linguist, I asked him, if he terpreter was about to be sworn found himself in a French Court to take the evidence of a French about to be cross-examined on a witness the judge intervened with matter of grave importance by M. the question: "When you go into Labori, whether he would ask for the Bodega and order drinks do jan Interproter. After Bome you order them in English?" The hesitation he admitted that he witness replied in the affirmative, probably would do so; but he still
to think he was to answer the questions couggested to him that whereupon the judge decreed that seemed
my fellow countrymen very unreasonable at to him in English.
the Post Office, and the Customis-- bually manufacturing criminals, and with mingistrates all over the country giving contrary decisions as to what is legal, the law is belog thoroughly brought into contempt. As one writer has remarked, we do not want this question of gambling to become the bugaboo that Prohibi- tion has proved itself in Amerien. The annual ordinary generat meet ing of the Peak Tramways Co., Ltd., The euncern of the Government will be held at the Hangkong Hotel, over the sweepstake cruze would beʻj on Monday, June 16. more fully appreciated if the law
Mossrs. Lane, Crawford, Ltd., ad- absolutely and rigorously set Itselfvertise that the ninth ordinary yearly against gambling in any form, but meeting of shareholders will be held
I dare say that is good law. St. English judges who sat in Wales when revenue is derived from betat Exchange Building, on Wednesday. Paul said: "If any man speak in should learn to speak and under-
June 17, at noon.
an unknown tongue let one stand Welsh, at which he laughed interpret." He thought that only heartily. rainfall registered at then that way could evidence be Botanic Gardens during May totalled given "decently and 1432 inches. Fails were recorded on But this is not the Common Law. Judges in Welsh districts
in order." But nowadays County Court 21 days, the higgest being 4.42 iuches,
on horse-racing, it becomes difficult
the to understand
Premier's
righteous" índignation. Moreover, Faflies and innumerable compett- tions so popular at Home are just sheer gambling, and yet to effort is made to suppress these schemes for entching the públle's money, To the ordinary man, the most sensible way of dealing with the question would be to recognise that people will speculate and to divert their Inclinations into desirable channels. The premium land system, su much favoured on the Continent," might well be introduced in Britain and prove an extremely fruitful source of income to the Government. The trouble is, however, not so much that there is any inherent objection to this form of raising money, but that any political Party which put forward the plan would have to face the prosperer of lusing the votes of narrow-mindea electors of
the
type or those who have come into prominence in connexion with the Sunday cinema issue. Some sanity of outlook, based on a recognition of facts, and a little less rant, would seem to be needed.
-The Drug Traffic.
duction quotas. In
the fact remains that an issue hassured. The thereby been raised which will have cogaine have already
The
•
are
the/
on the 10th. Two inches fell on the In anciant days indictments were nearly all conversant with 24th and 2.84 Inches on the 31st. read to illiterate citizens in Latin, language, and as aolicitors and plendings were drafted in Law witnesses are also Welsh speaking
statutes
are the proceedings are often carried
A notification issued by the Inspec. French; modern" tur General of Police with regard to often incomprehensible even toon in the language of the in- the traffic arrangements which will judges. The law still continues habitants of the country. In be enforced during the ceremony at to speak to us in an unknown modern Courts the prestige of the the Cenotaph on the occasion of 11. M. tongue and no one has a right te incomprehensible is not so much The King's Birthday Review is pub have it property interpreted.
ínslated upon as it was fifty years Ushed in this issue.
Messrs. A. S. Watson and Co., Ltd, | advertise that all departments will be closed on Wednesday, June 1. The Hongkong Dispensary, Dispensing de partment, will be opened for the dis pensing of prescriptions from to 1 p.m. and from 6 pm, to 7.30 1.11.
^
ago.
case
The rights of a foreign witness The best
of judges and nd in an alien Court #12 obscure, vocates will sometimes go astray Here in England he must do us beenuse they do not understand the judge orders. If the only the language of the market place. English phrase he happens to or use a phrase which has a dif- know is, "Another glass of sherryferent interpretation in the mean wine, please," he must make that treets to that which obtains in answer to any question put to the Courla. him. i know no law entitling a One of my learned brethren, report made to the police by witness, either native or foreign, who was trying a tangled that a
of between question
two Lai i-shi, a married woman, of 140, to demand
coster-mongers Wanchai Road, states that at about counsel should be either sensible about the ownership of a donkey, On the other when the time came for the ad- p.m. on Sunday she entrusted her or comprehensible. private rietesha coolie with a sum of hand a criminal foreigner in the journament nodded pleasantly to $120 with which to pay certain dobis dack is entitled to have things the litigants and said: but the coolie hus disappeared with interpreted to him.
"Now, my men. I'm going to The fact is that, to quote the have my lunch, and before I come late Serjeant Arabin, "this mat-back I hope you'll settle your dis- The body of a Chinese boaforam ter bristles with pitfalls as an egg pute out of
Court." was removed to the Kowloon Mortuis full of meal." Not only must a ary by the Water Police ya foreigner reply to questions in a black eye, and the defendant, On his return the plaintiff had after having been fan on see English when told to do so, but it who had a bloody nose, spoke up merged samjan which had been moored to the Mongkok Forry Wharf, is a conclusive presumption of cheerfully and said: "Well, your The decensed, Chan Hoi-fing, English law that foreigners are Honour, we've taen your Honour's years of age, had apparently been acquainted with all its intricacies. advice: Tim's given me a dama drowned. He Was
him blind, and his These things must seem to many good hiding and I've given body has been identified by his wife of our visitors to savour of "l-back his donkey."
courtesy" rather than "presump- As a general rule it is the In procuting a Chinese before tion."
judge who really needs the Inter- Mr. Schofield at the Central Police; The notion that if you can order preter in the interests of justice. Court this morning on a charge of drinks in a foreign tongue you had many Yiddish cases to try the theft of a clack from one of the can understand the interrogatory In Manchester. The parties
the money.
private bathing matches at North
*inf
2.
(+37
own interpreters, A workable agreement.
at the Point, Inspretor Stimson, on the de-of an Attorney-General requires brought their
fendant admitting the charge, said the consideration of the League but they were fur from reliable. international drug
of these cases a Amall enference the accused had been recently dis of Nations. The position of the in one Whilst very many people will le now proceeding at Genevi de-charged from prison for stealing teetotaller must be regularised. scrap of paper turned up with a it. One upon the quantity of sports gear from the There must, I should fancy from Yiddish inscription on with the Prime Minister in bemoan-peads almost entirely
swimming sheds in April Inst. Thr
own experience, be many interpreter deciphered it as my the countries defendant was of.
given twn
other months Englishmen who could success receipt, and the
declared ing the fact that, in times like the willingness
pro-hard inbour.
fully
iemand vin ordinaire in that it was an order for 1 new present. millions of pounds should chiefly interested to accept
France or vino del pense in Italy, pair of hoots. 1 adjourned the be spent in England on sweepstakes,tion, success is practically, as At the Kowloon Magistracy this
noring before Mr Honiton, Revenue and yet fail to grasp the niceties ease and asked some friends manufacturers Officer Humphreys charged Fans Fak of the question of a public pro- the Jewish Board of Guardians to tentatively with possession of 42 laels of propar-secutor in the language of either send me an educated interpreter, On country. The fact in that to give which they did. Later on Lord to be faced. On moral and other agreed to a definite limit uponer spium at 84, Woosung Street.
mitting the charge, the man was accurate evidence in any language Halsbury persuaded the Treasury bigger problem, fined $:136 or three months' imprison- grounds, we may deplore the post-exports. The
native to pay this gentleman a small not, excluding The same officer charged Yip tongue-you require a masters Courts should have a call on an fee. All properly equipped tion, but that dors mit get over the that dealing with opium and its ment.
that few of derivativos, fact that people will indulge in this in spite of lengthy preliminary Mongkok Road and 105, Woosung
remuins. Hitherto, Shing and Chan Sing with possession that language
of 8.6 and 35 taels of raw oplum at attain. form of gambling. Phe prospects discussions, ag signs have
Judges are apt to be impatient been Street, respectively. They were fined of evidence, and especially of evi No judge can be expected to in- of big prizes, of enurse, provide the forthcoming of readiness to de$25 or two months" and $1.050 or dence given in a foreign tongue, terpret all the tongues spoken be- attention, and people who are not cept quotas for the
six months' respectively.
My own countrymen, the Welsh.fore him. How many southerners though bi-lingual in many places, could follow a crack about a horse
after a human nature, 11 the full facts could be disclosed. it
|
export
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Lo
your
official interpreter.-
by any means confirmed, gamblers {morphia and other derivatives of Hongkong estate umounting and therefore better Inguists deal in a public-house in Swale- will risk a few shillings in the hops {the puppy, the principal ditesity ($1,400, with not personalty elsewhere than the English, naturally pre-date, or a scrap in Bowton's Yard gaining Preat wealth. This is being the opposition offered by tatalling £10, 16s. Id., was left by fer to give evidence in Welsh about the liquidation of. lodgin'
Japan, Persia and Turkey. There the late Mr. John Herbert Whitehorn rather than in what to them is
улня? I have often seen judges anufacturing jeweller, of Messrs. foreign is no sign that opinions
tongue. Old-fashioned really puzzled by some of the have Whitehers Brothers. Laited, we judges, who did not understandiomatic and racy language of undergone any marked change died at The Corner House, Chesterford the psychology of perjury, henient English lincage still in would probably be found that the since the suggested quots figures Gardens, Hampstead, Middlesex, on subscribers lo The Irish
Darby created a babble of discord sonte September 27, 1930. Re-sealing of lieved that Welshmen asked for ure in Lancashire and Yorkshire.
certified copy of probate of the will interpreter for the
Shee once wittily interpreted a. Sweep include practically every months apo, and the outlook in and endicit has been granted to Mr. of evasion and deceit. A very Lancashire word at the request of cium of people, not excluding not very promising. Yet, if any. H. Turner. of Messrs. Deacons, learned judge who had recently Lord Coleridge. A witness, des- churchgoers ng others who might be plan is to succeed, it must comThe will contains family bequests,
wha is attorney for the executors.been in the Welsh circuit told me jcribing à verbal encounter which expected to have scruples in the mend itself to all the signatories. und even the non-sigantorles, matter of wholesale gambling. without réservation. Otherwise
Moreover, the great majority 11
nothing can be done to curb the these people would probably scout drug traffic. All that happens any suggestion that they are doing when the tichtening "of restric-· anything wrong or particularly re-ims in any one enunter begins prehensible.
to have its effect is that the fes
to another An attempt was made a few days į taurious trade moves ago to introduce a Bill in the Houseantry where the Government is of Commons authorising the raising development of huge factories in less strict. The example of the of money by lotteries for the Constantinople is a case in point. support of British hospitals, but the Before France. Switzerland. House refused permission for the Holland and Germany be- introduction of the measure. This gan to keep મ careful check we have a position in which finan-upon exports, Turkey Was cially-starved English hospitals are out of the muin field. A few shut out from receiving money
months ago she offered the biggest from such a source, whilst Irish viewpoint, and even now she ranks problem from an international
institutions flourish an English fourth in the list of countries money. This matter, as been the manufacturing ophum derivatives. subject of a great deal of comment |Japan's attitude is also typical. Pat Home latterly, and it has been She declares officially that she takes suggested that a Select Committee no part in drug exporting, but is might be appointed to deal with the
not prepared to tie herself down to whole question of latteries and that she sees no reason why manu restrictive figures on the ground sweepstakes. This may not be the facture for export should be confin- best way of tackling the subject, ed to those countries already en-1, but it is obvious that a load of some gaged in the trade. The argu- kind is needed. The attempts by ment is reasonable enough in n Mr. Clynes to suppress participa- general way, but it does not help to tion in the Free State Derby sweop
provide a solution to the world pro- blem. Then again Japan might stake have shown how strong are
very well question whether thoro
the currents of opinion which he will ever be a solution until the root has set himself to combat: The problem, the cultivation of the tickets which he had threatened to Į poppy, is luckled.
he was convinced of this.
purposes
"Imagine! Paying that doctor $10 to have him tell me I don't
walk right."
led up to an assault, said: "Then the defendant turned round and said it 'e didn't hold is noise 'e'd knock Im off is blinkin' peark."
"Peark? Mr. Shee; what is meant by peark?" asked the Lord Chief Justice.
"Oh, peark, my Lord, is uny position where n man elevates! himself above his fellows-for instance, a bench, my Lord."
Indeed, it is when a human unit attains to the giddy dignity of an official "peark" that he has the peculiar need of the spirit of the Interpreter, which, as St. Paul - rightfully told the Corinthians, is a condition precedent to a world intent on having "all things done decently and in order."
WATER LEVELS.
DETAILS FOR WEST, NORTH. AND EAST RIVERS.
The following table, issued by the Kwangtung River Conservancy Commission, shows in English feet the water levels on the West River, North River and East River on the dates'named:
May June
31
West River at Shlubing· 9.8 0.4 North River at Taingyuen 11.9 18.3
0.0 North River. at Samabui 0.8. East River at Gumahul 72.36
The highest levels recorded are: -Shlubing, 41 foot; Taingyuen, 29.2 feat; Samshui, 27.8 feet; Sheklung, 11.6 feet, ta
The lowest levels on record, are minus 5 feet at Samahul. and minus 27 feet at Sheklung.