THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 15,
1937.
PRISON FOR NATIONALISTS
CRYSTAL PALACE: "OFFICIAL ARSON"
STORY DENIED
that the "Can't you?' he answered, still THE suggestion
Crystal Palace was burned smiling.
"And then he told me how the Ger- down as on air raid precaution, mans had said that on no account ever be 'made by Lord Ponsonby in an must the Crystal Palace article in the current issue of touclied. Its glittering roof made the Peace News, was emphatically most splendid mark, and its immense length was sufficient to give any denied by Sir Henry Buckland, hombing plane is bearings.
So you general manager of the Palace,
he ended, 'two and two malte four" recently.
"Oficial arsont. It had certainly never occurred to me. It was cer tainly very well done. Air raid pre- cautions with a vengeancel"
The article stated:
"RIDICULOUS"
"I was talking the other day to an architect friend of mine who had served in the air force in the Great War," he writes.
Sir Henry Buckland's comment "We were discussing building was:
"It is perfectly ridiculous," he said. materials and fire precautions.
I made some coniment on the fact / "I do not want to be unkind, so I will Bing Crosby is the highest paid male film star in America and he lias to that it was surprising that a building make no further comment."
Sir Henry also sald; "We should pay tax amounting to $30,000 p.. like the Crystal Palace, constructed
very much like to ascertain the cause The picture above shows the film of the fire. The Home Office sentrtar with one of his many racehortes. three experts and the Fire Brigade also made investigation, but the cause
exclusively of stone. Iron and glass,
should have made such a blaze.
"Very surprising,' he said with a smlle.
*I CANNOT UNDERSTAND" "So completely demolished was it,' I went on, 'that it could not be re- constructed,'
And no lives were lost,' he added. "The wind of course was favour- able for such a blaze,' I said. But I cannot understand why there was so much inflammatory material.
THE EX-KING
**SILENCE NOW IS BEST"
-Primate
could not be determined.
"At 7.35 that evening our own fire-made before the end of March, mon-a most reliable man-left the he said. building. He told me that at that time there was no smell of burning. [
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BURNING OF WELSH BOMBING CAMP
"LAND OF MY FATHERS“ SUNG
WEL
OUTSIDE OLD BAILEY
FELSH Nationalists, men and women, stood bare- headed in the dusk beneath the grim walls of the Old Bailey one day recently singing with fervour "Land of My Fathers."
¡
Three of their leaders had just been sentenced by Mr. Justice Charles to nine months in the second division for setting fire to the R.A.F. bombing camp in North Wales,
The sentence men were:
вед;
John Saunders Lewis, lecturer at University College, Swan-
Lewis Valentine, minister of the Welsh Baptist Chureli; Llan- dudno; and
سلام
David John Wiliams, master at the county school, Fish-
guard.
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The wives of
Their Second Trial
The three men were charged with "causing unlawful and malicious damage to buildings,. umber and other aricles, pro- perty of the King, and setting fire to certain bulkdings on September 8."
When the verdict was announced, Mrs. Valentine, who had been waiting outside, said: "I am now.going back to my two little children. I have nothing to say about the case." the other two men had stayed at home.
Professor J. E. Daniel, an- other. Welsh Nationalist leader, said: "There is only one thing to fight for Welsh I was on the scene within six minutes "United States film com say. The of the outbreak and there was a great panies," Mr. Ostrer went on,Nationalism will go on.' blaze, on which the water had no are receiving between £7,000,
After the trial was over, the effect."
and 000 and £10,000,000 a year net Welsh visitors went The royal yacht Victoria
to Hyde Albert, which will be required for from. British cinemas; the net Park where a protest meeting King George's Coronation review of revenue British producers re- the Fleet in May and probably for ceive from America is probably
was held. Cowes Week in August, went into dry
Owing to the limited accommoda- dock at Portsmouth recently for between £290,000 and £300,000.
"Unless our American distri-tlon, most of the Welsh visitors were gallery in the famous No. 1 buting organisation can produce disappointed at the Old Bailey. The a substantial net revenue we are Court accommodates only 35 people, not prepared to continue producand seating for another 50 people was provided behind the dock. There was a large queue outside the public entrance as early as cight a.m., but the case was not opened until after the luncheon interval. CONTEMPTUOUS
overhaul.
བཥཆབ——---
FUTURE OF GAUMONT- BRITISH
tion.
Å
OF WELSH NATION
The trial was first heard by Mr. Justice Lewis at Caernarvon, but the jury disagreed and the trial was transferred to the Old Bailey.
English. Williams was then allowed an interpreter, but said he did not wish to put any questions.
Turning to Lewis the judge sald, "John Saunders Lewis, do you wish to ask this witness (meaning Davies) Mr. W. N. Stable, K.C., outlined the any questions? If so, you will ask it case for the prosecution and describ-in English, or not at áll.” ed the incidents of; the night of September 7-8, when the R.A.F. camp was set on fire.
His voice was stern and firm, as he
spoko, but Lewis shook his head.
"The Board of Trade has suc- ceeded in establishing a reason, able ratio between exports and CAUMONT - BRITISH may imports. It can do the same cease to produce films and for the film trade as between themselves to their England and America. Only confine
thus can British film production theatre business.
in this country be saved."
The Gaumont-British com. "It was perfectly obvious that this have a complete prodestructive fire had been deliberately pany gramme of pictures arranged lighted by someone declared Mr. for 1937.
A statement handed to the polico Hudge asking Lewis and Valentine if by the defendants when they gave they wished to ask any questions and themselves up at the Pwllhell police both replying in Welsh that they did station was then read,
not.
THE Archbishop of Canter- bury, Dr. Lang, speaking in the Upper House of the Convoca- Mr. Isidore Ostrer. president made this tion of Canterbury, which for of the company, the first time in history met in statement on his return from
referred America recently. Westminster Abbey, briefly to the recent Constitu- A decision will probably be tional Crisis.
Dr. Lung said: "It is only a year ago at this very time since Convocation met to express, however inadequately, its feel- ings about the death of King George V., and of our loyalty to his eldest son who had succced- ed to his Throne.
CALMNESS
"And yet that reign, so full of promise, came unexpectedly and sud- denly to an end by his own choice. "As to the circumstances which led to his abdication, silence now is best. "Yet, though the Duke of Windsor has pussed from our midst, he will not pass from our remembrance and
our prayers.
"It is only right that we should record our thankfulness for the calm ness and steadiness with which the peoples both of this nation and the whole Empire met an unprecedented crisis in their history."
LOYAL ADDRESS The House unanimously decided to send an address to the King, which rends in part:
Judge's Kind Word For The "Unorthodox"
WITH
WITH a verdict for the plaintiff for £490 damages against Mr. George Foster, nature-cure practitioner, of Forest Road, Walthamstow, the lawsuit brought by a patient, Mr. William Sones, of Dudley Road, Ilford, ended in the King's Bench Division recently.
An issue had been raised during the case-which lasted nearly five days-whether Mr. Foster represented himself to Mr. Sones as a medical practitioner.
Mr. Foster denied having done so and the Judge pointed out that it was not alleged in Mr. Sones's statement of claim.
Mr. Sones claimed damages for, there were ccrlain associations which, alleged negligence in the treatment by examination, sought to achieve of his left foot, as the result of which, a certain standard of skill among the he said, his leg had to be amputated. persons who practised nature-cure.
可 Denying the allegation, Mr. Foster suppose," he said, "that every- pleaded that he did his best for Mr. body will admit that we owe the Sones.
present-day benefits of fasting to the Leaching of naturopaths.
"RENDERING A
PUBLIC SERVICE"
Mr. Justice Atkinson, summing up, advised the jury to put cut of their minds "all prejudice that might be imported into these cases against un- crthodox practitioners,"
"Therefore it does not do to dis parage these unorthodox practitioners t to jeer at them, or to pour con- tempt on them.
or
He directed the jury to deal with the case on the assumption that Mr. Foster represented himself as a natur opath of a high order.
"Just a year ago, when present ing a loyal address to his Majesty King Edward VIII on the day of his proclamation as King, we spoke of the achievement of your Majesty's father, King George V., in having bequeathed to his successor a stable thro
full measure of thut
"We know," he said, "that the achievement has been strikingly demonstrated by the events which medical profession likes to think it is
the sole repository of Imowledgeered the evidence of Mr. Soncs, and have resulted so suddenly and un- connected with the art of healing, the evidence of denial by Mr. Foster expectedly in the accession' of your
that everybody that the latter told him, after the Majesty to the sovereignty of this but I don't know
agrees with that.
first few days, that he had saved his realm.
foot, and advised him to carry on to complete the care.
"It is a cause of protound thanks- giving to remember that a crisis unique in our nation's history has been surmounted with dignity and self-control on the part of all con-
The judge sold the issue became most serious when the jury consid
If Mr. Sones' evidence was right it was not a case of want at skit), but of sheer dishonesty.
"In fact, there cannot be Very much doubl that there are other practitioners who are rendering con- siderable public service."
"Herbalists are recognised legally, cer has taken place in a man-
and that a change of 50 In the time of Henry VIII. a Statute TEES TO BE vereign ner which has strengthened the
passed recognising that all! unity of the antion and of the people with knowledge and experl- Empire and the stability of the ence of herbs should be permitted to
practise. Throne." When the Address came before the
was
"Curiously enough, that Statute Lower House, Canon T. Guy Rogers, has never been repeated."
of Birmingham, said he
was not quite satisfied
that
would' possibly concur with_the
JUDGE SAYS
"DONT JEER"
allusions to the abdication. Was Naturopathy, the judge went on, It necessary for the House to make
be & combination of allusions in that particular was seemed to Consideration of the Address was herbalism with certain treatment, described as nature-treatment, and postponed.
WATSON'S
RETURNED
When the jury announced their verdict the judge asked if they found
that Mr. Foster was guilty of breach of duty in the advice and treatment he gave to Mr. Sones?
The foreman:
Yes.
He said the total amount of dam- nges they awarded was £400, divided into £40 fees to be returned, £50 for unnecessary pain and suffering, and
£400 for the loss of his leg."
Judgment was entered for, the plaintiff accordingly, with costs.
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The judge put exactly the same "No" in Welsh.
question to Valentine, who replied ODOURLESS
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FOLLOW
Lign
the
This procedure went on throughout DRYCLEANING
the examination of the witnesses, the
It was in Welsh and a translation Williams was asked, through the was made. It began, "We who sign | Interpreter, whether he had under- this letter acknowledge our responsl-stood the evidence of each witness |bility for the damage which was done and whether he would like to ask any
to the buildings at the bombing camp question. this night, September 7."
Each time the reply came in Welsh; The statement concluded "Lawful "Nac ydwyf, r' arglwydd" ("I do not, and peaceful methods failed to secure my lord"). for Woles even-common- courtesy-at England.
the hands of the Government of.
All three defendants sold that they' did not desire to give evidence or call witnesses or make any statement to "Therefore in order to compel the jury... attention to this immoral violation" of}
the sure and natural rights of the Williams, in Welsh, said, “I am not Welsh nation, we have taken this going to plead my cause, as I do not method, the only method left to us by consider, with every respect to these a Government which is contemptuous English Jurymen, that they can do itstice to our cause or that anyone of the Welsh nation."
can do justice to our cause except REPLIES TO
juries from our own fellow-country- men."
JUDGE IN WELSH
When the Judge usked Lewis Mr. Justice Charles, summing up, whether he wished to put a question said that Lewis and Valentine had to the first witness (Dayles, the night freely confessed that they had done watchman), Lewis replied in Welsh: what they were accused of doing. Their motives, he added, had nothing "Nid wyf am fy amddiffyn fy hun to do with the jury. gwbl yn y llys hwn." ("I do not) intend to defend myscif-at all in this court.").
He was procceding further in Welsh when the Judge interrupted and sald: "One moment. Are you able to speak English?"
PETITION TO
GOVERNMENT
"It is no defence for these men to say that they resorted to unlawful means because their point of view was not recognised upon their peti- tion to the Government. There is no Lewis: "Nid wyl am siarad yn defence set before you of any sort Saesneg gan fy mod yn medru siarad or description." Cymraeg yn well." ("I do not wish to Mr. Justice Charles, passing sen- speak in English because I can speak tence, said to the men in the dock: better in Welsh.")
"You three men are educated men, The judge then called Superinten- and you have resorted to a most dent William Hughes, of Pwllhell, to ing attention to what you belleve to dangerous and wicked method of call- prove that Lewis and Valentine could be the propriety of your views. speak English.
to the propriety or impropriety of
Ag
With regard to Williams the officer your views, I say nothing. It is not said he had never heard him speak for me to express any opinion,"
Are Deaconesses Free To Marry?
[AY deaconesses marry?
MAY
"meet her fate," marry and have children.
Orders being Indeliblo meant that, for the rest of her life she would be "The Rev. Mrs. So and So."
that
This question was asked in the Upper House of the Convoca- tion of Canterbury recently by the Bishop of London, who declared that it "caused more The Bishop of Derby sald discussion than anything else." there had been, at the most, two The Bishop of Southwark, who cases of deaconesses marrying.
By a series of resolutions the presented a report on the subject following were among other func- replied that his committee did not lons by authorisation of the Bishop deal with the point because the of the diocese proposed to be allotted Church did not put any restriction to a deaconess: on a clergyman as to whether he should marry, or not.
It had been repeatedly alated, he added, that the Church did not put any limit on the marriage of deacon- esses, but it was general opinion among many deaconesses that they should not be married.
The Bishop of Lincoln said. a desconess after a few years might
Reading services of morning of -evening „prayer' and · the Litany, except portions reserved to the priest; leading in prayer: „Instruct- ing and preachlug, except in the service of, Holy Communion; and in the absence of the priest baptis-
·ing - infants.
The House adjourned.
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