European Crisis Throat
CORRESPONDENTS HINT TROUBLE IN NEAR FUTURE
Foreign correspondents in Italy believe that Europe is rushing towards another crisis and at the same time the Italian Press charges Britain with planning a commercial "offensive" In Nationalist Spain.
A report from London slates that the Government is attempting to re-establish relations with Soviet Russin following the fallure of attempts at political appeasement with Italy and Germany.
In the United States Senate the Government was urged to give all possible, assistance to Britain and France to enable them to "whip the dictators."
Itome, Mar. 2.
The Stefani news agency says that foreign correspondents in Italy be Heve that Europe is "rusting towards another arials," with attention cen- třed on Franco-Italian developments in the Mediterranean.
Saturday,
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The Now Pope
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Coronation Fixed For March 12
Message To World
Vatican City, Mar. 3.
The Pope's coronation will take
place on March 12. After the coro- nation the Pope, for the first time since 1870, wil, by the Basilica Sun-
the glovan) outside
Vatican, taite passersion of his Cathedral.
It was gathered to-day that he
Pacelli the first ballot and after the second there was a definite trend in his favour. The exact Ogures, however, are not known-Reuter,
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March, 4, 1939.
TWO APPEALS UPHELD
:
MAGISTRATE'S PITY FOR PARTIES SAID
...
TO HAVE OBSCURED DECISION
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Criticism of a Magistrate's dismissal of two summones relating, to the keeping of a lodging house for prostitutes, an the keeping of a brothel, were made at the Full Court of Criminal Appeal yesterday, when the Court - allowed the appeals and remitted both enses hack to the Magistrate for conviction.
Mè. E. i, Williams, Crown Counsel, represented the Crown, who appealed against the decisions of Mr. R. A. D. Forrest, First Police Magistrate, in dismissing the two following summonses: Au Sum, woman, for keoping a prostitutes lodging house ni No. 10, Gough Street, ist. flour, on January 10; Ho Fo-kam, willow, for keeping a brothel at No. 132, Aldrich Lane, 2nd, floor, on January 11,
Sub-inspector S. J. McEwan, who His Lordship added that they were prosecuted in the original symnonses, familfar in that Court with the
whitch, alleles Cuart, dkt o Fo-kum, alternative charge
this one of the respondents.
cuse would be that of receiving a proportion of the earnings of pro- The appeal was heard before the stitntes as a solatium to the tent. Chief Justice, Sir Atholl McGreg. There was no such alternative men-
and the Puisne Judge, Mr. R. Ettoned here Lindsell, whlte Lord Justice Fisher was a distinguished occupant of the
A Look Through Cardinals began voting strongly for Bench as a spectator.
At The
Spain.
now press
that use Bix
Telegraph"
50 YEARS AGO
Britnin with planning a com- "offensive" in Nationalist
Signifcantly the Stefani Agency
March 4, 1990, States: "The opinion prevalis
Mussolint Sumor
will
The ideas expressed the other day by the writer in the King-Pay with rẻ- diplomatic channels in
ference to the advindcility of Chine claims against France in preference opening all its ports to furler trade to flery speech and that the moment are a faint indication of the thought For presentation of bis demands has tortained by the floral-minded Chi- adnost arrived.
on this all-important... subject, "Italians are somewhat disappoint-China still remains a practically sealed ed" at reading the Italo-Polish com-country to Europena enterprise and munique which does not tuta ex- pectations. The Italian Press inter- prets the mere profession of tradi- tional friendship as a cloak for a pact as Count Clane was not able to bind Cal. Jusef Beck to any committments. -United Press.
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ustry.
The electric light is making great progress in Berlin, the number of lamps in there being about on against Köll at the end of 1982.
volee.
Plea for Fence
| civilised progress.
At the close of the address, which www.elayed from the Sistine Chapel. the Pope gave the Papal benediction, The message was also broadens to the world and a short hymn sung in Latin-Heuter.
Messané of Peace
Dealing with the first case, Williams sak a registered letter had been sent to Au Sam interming; he of the appeal, but the letter had been returned with the inscription "not at this actress,"
Influenced by Pity
The
has
Mr. Williams: No, that is so, Magistrate does not seem to have applied his mind to that orpret of the case, but pity altogether moved the Magistrate's mind ond not the charge brought by the Crown Vatican City, Mar. 3. Au Sam had been summoned under and reply made by the respondent. An Impassioned plen for peace, Section 13, Ordinance 5, 1938 (Pro-
. Counsel then proceeded with the sald, which, he justice, charity and concord belween | tection of Women and Girls Ordin. second appel
for keeping, a nations was inade by the Pope in ance)
prostitutes originated from a charge under the his Arst broadcast message to the lodging house, and the evidence that some Section but was not involved entire Catholle world this morning. would have been offered by the pro- by the difficulty of a lodging house, The Pope spoke for four and a halfccution if the woman had not plead-as the word brothel was used. The minules in Fatin in a clear, Ormed ulity, was that 11 giza were
this case He prayed that all peoples found on the four who claimed to be the was tend to the respondent in and she pleaded guilty. night be led towards prosperity and
prostitutes paying a fixed monthly | The Magistrate apparently asked rental to the respondent. This was questions as regards the rent, and the admitted in their presence by the depositions then read "Fixed rent. respondent, who was further enti- case dismilased."
collector as the tied by the rent
The Magistrate admitted that the woman who had bargained for the
premises described in this case fell tenancy of the floor.
It was admitted by the prosecution within the defnition of a brothel, that no other
between The evidence the appellant was pre- connection girls and the respondent could bepared to give was that there were proved or that she controlled their three women in the premises and a inovements, but Uls was entirely number of men had resorted there. was the unnecessary and irrelevant to the The woman admitted she charge.
principal tenant, the keeper and ne- This is one of the most significant
Notwithstanding
this. the cupier of the floor, and the two or indications of a new trend in British A Home Cae the training of Chinese
Magistrate said that the full in-more girls admitted in her presence polley, since Mr. Chamberlain's at-maternity pupil-nurses in connection
gredients of the case had not been that they were prostitutes She tempts at political appeasement with with the Allee Memerint and Sethersuleponsibilities
ilmapiti was feally opened this and begged them in žívariably assist proved, and he advised respondent to made no statement that she did not Italy and Germany failed to produce murning by Lady May.
him with their advice,
withdraw her plea of guilty. All the know they were prostitutes. The the desired results.
His Holiness sald his blessing was prosecution had to prove then was Magistrate again ruled that it could Episcopate and Clergy, for the Mem- destined more especially for the that respondent was the keeper and not be brought under the Protection had control of the premises. Thint of Women and Girls Ordinance, and bers of Catholle Action, for the sick
in the Ordinance, and again gave the history of the legisla- was defined Es and poor and those in distress. Holiness then referred to those out it would appear that the Magistrate tion. Counsel submitted that, as in there was no side the Catholic Church, for whose was fully satisfied that it was a the
words The for prostitutes and ambiguity in lodging house enlightenment he prayed.
that the occupier knowingly allowed charge, to which the respondent had them to live there.
unreservedly pleaded guilty. Prior Knowledge
Respondent, who was present in Puise Judge: She must have Court, was asked if she had anything prior knowledge of the profession of to say and she said: I was the prin hur sub-tenants.
cipal tenant but I did not know they were prostitutes..
London, Mar. 2.
REJOINING RUSSIA
The Government is making up for lost time in re-establishing most cordial relations with Soviet Russin.
The Queen's spach Mates that the enormous warlike" preparations of ther | Europvan 'nations render necessary in•{ feruased preautlook for safeguarding the shores of Great Britain and her commerce.
25 YEARS AGO
March 3, 1941.
Anglo-Russian relations have been In the Rouse of Commons, My Win cooling off since the early days of ston Churchill, introducing the the Spanish war. It is recalled that supplementury naval estimates tulailing following Germany's taking over of two and a half million sterling, explain Austria, but before Germany 'mart that the principal causes wern gew Into Czecho-Slovakin, M. seroplanes, increase of sil fuel, higher ched
te the dockyard wages, better progress by the Maxim Litvinoff appealed European Democracies to unite with contractors, and also the neceleration
nt three battleships owing to the tr Tussin against the aggressors, butrary delay in the provision of the
Gundian Dreadnoughts. He end the appeal was not echoed.
During the Munich erisis Russia statement from Lord Fisher, Chivas was left entirely out of calculations the advantages of uit na
of the Royal Commission, slating that n fuel were It is recalled that Opposition mem-conclusively established, bers in the House of Commons have Mr. Churchill continued that frequently accused the Government Admiralty were ustering a burge rigid uf snubbing the Soviet Union.
ateship of Dhe Zeppelin Type from When Mr. Frank Ashton-Gwatkin Mear Vickers and Armstrong, an and Mr. II. S. Hudson to Moscow Astra Torres airship from France and
three semi-rigid aitships from Messrs. on March 23 for a week for trade Armstrongs, two of which would be yơn. talks it will be a signal to Europe kiructed in Britain. He could not pre that Russla and Britnin are augalu tend that your airship provraging was meeting at the council lable.
fential to that of France, but in view of
It is believed that the trade tulks our great and growing superiority in
Anglo-explicies, it was suficient. will result in a permanent
Russian_trade agreement as part of
a new and forceful British com- The Ule-Belich=nuite-panaenger-ship- mercial policy in Eastern Europe. the year, which is of 47,000 grows United Press.
TRADE DELEGATION
London, Mar. 3.
tounge, in the Aquitania, which is now belg: Atted out at Clydebank,
Vatican City, Mar. 3. Pope Pius XII in his broadenst ruessage to the world said that his first wish was to give his blessing to the whole world. He thanked the Cardinals who had deemed him worthy to assure the burdens and of the Pontifleate,
The Pope earnestly emphasised the blessings of pace for the family and for the entire world. Peace implied mutual understandifu
con- and fidence, and true peace could only be based on Justice. Hence, his Orst message as Pope must be a message of peace, iis feliness concluded by imparting the Apostolic benediction, Trans-Ocean.
Social Items
His Excellency and Lady Northcote will visit the Pó Leung Kük on Mon- day, March 6. at p.20.
A wven larger vesnol is the Hamellenes ant Lady Northcote will pay burg-Amerika 66,004 ton Beer Vntern informal visit to the Dairy Form. land, built at the Hamburg yard of At 0.15 the same evening, they will A British trude delegation is ex-Messrs. Hohm und Voss. The Britan he present at a Mock Trial, héldi by pected to arrive in Nationalist Spinale, which is under construction for the the Hongkong Legal Debating 50- in the very near future for economie White Star Line et ilelfast, and which iety and financial discussions, according nearly ready for launching, will prob
to the Daily Telegraph special respondent in Burgos.
гог-
ubly stand between these two sign.
Other notable passenger liners of 1913
On Wednesday, at 2.30 pm. His were the Norddeutscher Lloyd Colum- Excellency accompanied
by Lady Nationalist Spain is considered in, 35,000 tons; the Hamburg-Amerike Northcote will open the England as offering great possibili-Company's Tirpitz, 1, trist Precaution Display at the Peninsula Air Rald ties for the export of British made Allan liners textile machines, railway carriages which were both of 18,500 tons. (The Hotel,
on Wednesday, His
Alasting and Culgarian
Vaterland and Bismark were in New and engines, motor trucks, cars and York on the outbreak of war six months
At 5.20 p.n. iron ore, as, well, as finished products. | later and, when the US, estered the
be present at Pro- The first aim of the British delega- war in 1917, were arized na prize. The Excellency will
fessor Isu Ti-shun's second lecture tion will be the casing of the ex-Vaterland became the Leviathan and the port and import controlling system Bismark was retoured Majestic. The on Chinese Jade in the Fung Pl now exercised by the Spanish nutter is now an Admiralty trainingShan Chiurse Library.
Aquitania ship. The thoritiesTrans-Ocean.
broken up.--Exİ.)
Germany Displeased
now being
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previous
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the Magistrate interprostitutes, but that, the summonses were dismissed.
WOS,
must be
Mr. Williams: I am in a difficulty because everything tint was said waa hot set down. The girls admitted in respondent's presence that they were prostitutes, and no evidence was The Chief Justice said he proposed
deal with called to show that they had been to
the two appeads to- prostitutes for a week, a month or ether, mainly because of the degres two months. They claimed to have of principle which the Magistrate paid the rent, and i suggest that the attached to them. A written answer inference was there.
would later be given from the Bench.. Chief Justice: The inference was Strictly speaking, the Magistrate irresistible,
could not state a case as he had Mr. Willmontinuing suld be done here; the law was quite clear only point to which the Magistrate that it was only after the hearing und nny complaint, On Tuesday, at 4 pan, this Ex-appeared to have given his attention determination
was that a prostitute's lodging house charge or plea by a Magistrate, that was not defined in the Ordinance, he was empowered to state a case. though there was
definition of The Appent Court was bound, and thel as a place, frequented by must be bound by the record which. two or more females for prestitu- in this instance, bore no more than tion." A lodging house for pro- the bure statement that, on a lawful
he situtes, submitted, must be charge, the respondents pleaded guilty; in each ense and, notwithstanding covered by the Ordinance under dwelling house for
into the
primarily and exclusively words that it must be
"We are not prepared to hold, und specialty.
that this was a pro-we cannot hold,
kawful hearing and determination Counsel stitutes. It
submitted, unnecessary to read these meanings said the Chief Justice, "But not-
of the charge by the Magistrate," into the plain words of the ext. · withstanding that view, we propose
Chlef Justice: We do not need to
in this case to go a little further and hear you further on that point.
Continuing. Mr. Williams said the answer the questions of law raised Magistrate appeared to find some by the Magistrate." ambiguity in the Ordinance, for The Chief Justice, said that the which he said Guidance 10 YEARS AGO London, Mar. 3.
will be present at the Taiping Thea- the Protection of Wonen and Girls/n the classic definition of a lodger His Excellency and Lady Northcote sought in its title, which was "For Paises were correctly designated March 1, 1929.
in "Thompson V. Political circles here state that the The nomes of two Bongkung residents tre on Wednesday at 9.30 pm, The Magistrate's argument was that situation therein described as be President of the Board of Trade, Mr. appear In the Honors List usually con
application of this Ordinance would tween a principal tenant and sub Oliver Stanley, and the Parliamentary | ferred on New Year's Day, but which
be a hardship in depriving the girls tenant was exactly that which per- Secretary for Board of Overseas has been postponed on account of the
On Thursday at 9.15 p.m. His Ex-
of their place of atode. The tained Jargely
houses in this. Trade, Mr. R. S. Hudson, had a longness of His Majesty the King.
cellency and Lady Northcote will be Magistrate then went on to give Colony, On Mr. Li Yau-taun, the Chairman of the
the other hand, the conversation last night with the chief Chinese hamber of Commerce, long persent at the performance of "The history of the legislation which, sald common lodging house was contained of the economie department of the kong, has been appolated Commander Shining Hour by the
Hongkong Counsel, was not admissible to in the four corners of a particular British Foreign Onlực, Mr. Ashton-of the Most Excellent Order nf the Amateur Dramatic Club, at the China Gwatkin.
Tritish Empire (CBE) and Light. Col | Fleet Cluh Theatre.
explain the meaning. However, even statute, and had no bearing at all on Mr. Ashton-Gwnticin
and stated that Lennox Godfrey Bird, the Commandant
on this aspect there was a relevant the relations between tenant Defence
amendment in 1030. from his conversations with Field of the Hongkong Volunteer Marshal Goering, Herr von Ribben Corps, bis een appointed 0.8.E.
His Excellency and Lady North-
Cuts Both Ways Minister, trop, Foreign
the premises were correctly and the
The Chief Justice: That cuts both cate will proceed to Fanling Lodge Mr. E Minister for Economies, Dr. Walter)
as n lodging house and ways. If the Magistrate is not en- described Funk, he received the impressional general meeting of the Kowloon for the week-end on Saturday.
titled to refer to the history of the some persons therein that efforts to strengthen the British Residents' Association. He stated that
legislation, are you? We do not wish stilutes, the Magistrate asked if this the railway company had appropriated
to hear more on that point.
'proved the premises to be a lodging Mr. Williams said he repudiated house for prostitutes. The answer unless the respondents the Magistrate's suggestion that the was "No," lodging house as referred to in the (in this case), were aware of the
profession of charge had the same meaning as character and Alameda, Col.
The lodgers. There was no direct evid- 'Harry Bischoff, automobile dealer, a common lodging house. telephoned police that a "suspicious" Magistrate was obviously confusing ence of this, but there was Indirect was Immaterial evidence in the pleas of gulity be- of Kentucky, to-day appealed to the of Nathan Bond's trees,
A reprieve bus lawn secured for some car had been parked for hours before the Issue, and it
his residence and asked them to whether the floor was let by the cause the charges Included the word "known." Assuming thai the Senate for the United States to give
in view at the strong representations vestigate. They did, and established week or the menth.
was satisfied that the all possible asglalance, except man made to the Government-slace Friday that it was Bischoff's
The Chief Justice: Your case must Magistrate own car. It
that power, to Britain and France so that pretexting against the wholesale felling had been returned by a friend who be stronger than
The res respondents were aware of the mean- they can whip, the dictators."
of the bayan trees in Nathan Rend, ha barrowed it the night before. pondent must have said "These are ling of the charge, then the answer
(Conthused on Pago. 14.) He urged for the repeal of the the
persons who are, to my knowledge, Neutrality Act, upon which he im-Botanical ant
The photographs of members of prostitutos; they have paid rent to medintely
encountered vigorous consideration.
he cast of 'the AD.C. production, ine, and I have allowed them to re- opposition.
"Shining
profes- Hour", which appear on main here knowing their Senator David Walsh, Democrat, of," Three. lirtinguished Anti-Fans Page 4 of our Picture Supplement slon." Minssachusetts, said: "It is no bust-exile, well-known in inteleg circles were taken by King's Studio. ness of this country to determine in Pnels and London, are alleged to be where justice or rustice prevails the brains behind the four men accused
Cock presided at the ninth
trade relations in the Danubian half of the waterfront of the Peninsula countries and in the Balkans would and had over one and a half million be regarded with great disfavour by} «quare feet İying idle, "The fact,” he Germany.--Trans-Occan,
aid. "obtrudes itself that the railway stands. In the way, of the best developi ment of Kowloon,”
SENATE APPEAL
Washington, Mar: 2.
Senator M, M. Logan. Democrat:
in the world."
Senator Hirom Johrison, Re- pubilean of
5 YEARS AGO
March 4, 1934.
to weighing instructions
Forestry Department have been suspended pending, further·
the
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"Suspicious Car" His Own
Spelling Bee
of plotting against Mussolial. The Lexiles will be teled "in contumaclum,” Twenty thousand unemployed demon- California, denounced! strators, including the two thousand the Administration "trigger men"
Mo-railed hungar marchers, Inamined who, he said, resorted to the name, Trafalgar Square this afternoon, com- calling down criticism on people who pistely paralysing traille in the area for the others? appose their policies
Several hours
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Mr. Williams: I would put it pa high as that, but the Magistrate appeared to think that the res ponicut did nol understand thu charge.
Ow many of these words are in the charge.
correct and what is wrong with*
Assining usstent
Siennese monologue signiflenney
Puiane Judge; That was intieren! Mr. Williams: I was preferring to prove my case on what the Crown wa in position to prove rather then what was admitted,
Chief Justice: Surely, the respon-
Ife said two principles of t for- eign policy must remain inviolate: Hances, commitments or-understand- monoghy Amerien does not want war but willing agreements involving the United English Oxford Dictionarį! spell-sibility was never on the appellant figlit n defensive war. Secondly, States In the troubles of other ings of thead woords will be found on from the moment wheri respondent, America will not have entangling al-nations-United Press.
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