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TUESDAY, APRIL 20, 1926.

PARTNERSHIP LAW.

ALLEGED CUSTOM TO OVER RIDE LAW.

BK, CHIEF JUSTICE QUOTED,

The long drawn out case.centring around the affairs of the Ming Surg Umbrella Factory in quitation) -came to an end,in the Mixed Ecur Shanghal, on. Apr 7 so far, us evidence and argument were" con- cerned, Mr.A. A. Martin (British Assessor) and Magistrate Kunis, feserving judgment. The case is expected to have a bearing on the matuer of the abolition of extraterri- Gorillagi and Bhis was emphasised by A. Alan Donnell in his clodey

akhiess. The case, says the "3. C. Daily News concerns the question of Habilily of the ahurehoblosa la

registered Enimese purtier: ship in connection with the Ming - Suing «Elmalbiss Me Pactory. Me, A. MI PYCALCHE appen and for sheet of the Bufeters of the factsry. nnd Mr. aleDonaki BU behalf of Messrs. Below a Co., O 1. Bkburn and Frederick Large and Co

Question of Custome

Mr. Meonahi sakda-

CAMILLE PULZETTA

Camille Polllin, aprotty Now Yirl was found in a hallway stubbed to death and police arp-Book- ing her husband East Jung she nind Tony Greek at the trial anve of her parent, although the loved Artha Sardinia Spaniam After Three months of mariasdą,3fe 'she ran away and had not been seen again until her hudy was founds

PEKINGS FUTURE.

CHINESE NEWSPAPERS

SUGGESTION

POLICE BUT NO SOLDIERS.

Peking, April 1‚ ̧

THE CHINA MAIL.

ALYING JADE.

DAME RUMOURS REIGN IN PEKING

SATAN FINDS PLENTY OF" WORK.

Peking, April 2

Request has been made of Chang Tsung-chang and Li Ching-Frightened by the constant En, that the peace envoys who stories of firing and military en- left for Tientsio be given railway gagements which circulate dally transportation to Nanking, Han in the capital, many of the lower kow and Honan, and likewise schools have been closed for five military protection while on route, days by the authorities,

Discussing the problem of both Refugees pouring into Peking the immediate protection of will now find shelters opened Peking and the deeper question under the auspices of the Chris- of permanent. peace, the "Che tian churches. At present the [Huej Yi Bao" asserts that the one-war victims are being taken caru

to keep all of step necessary is troops outside Peking as well as Shih Po Ma Ta Chieh, the church n the Shing Kung Mission,

from the suburbs at Nan Yuan na Chine Tao Ku. the and Pel Yuan,

[W. W C A... the Presbyterini Mission, at WuJiang Ta Jen Hutang, and all the London Missions

PALTIKEWARMITAGES Pauline Armitage.

If that be done, the paper be lieves that there is a chance "a Peking politics to follow a proper course and for the government to These six stations take in re- recover finantially, since it would fugees who register themselves · be freed from the burden of sup- and who are allowed to bring their personal effects. They are At the outset of the memorandum porting troops. by Mr. Alabaster there

fully into the details of a plan for

The "Chlag Pao" goes more given food by the institutions,“

Peking has become a hotbed of ference to a judÿment off at feast Is the course of his summing up. 16 years ago by the Chief Justice keeping peace in Peking. By war rumours which find rapid circula at Hongkong who refers to cer- of immediate remedies, the papertion among both Chinese and Laf Chinese customs. What those recommends that the Fengtien foreign residents alike. That the To these decisions we find that the Supreme Court ere dechuring customs are, what evidences (if any) allies stop their advance on the food supply within the walls can the Chinese how with regard to those customs wore called, we capital, accompanied by the de- only last for fifteen days a one enstem to be very similar indeed demot know What knowledge the parture of the Kuominchun, upon such rumour. Added to that, it as the hay of England, and feel Chief Justice of Mongkong had of Proper guarantee from their op a pointed out that the police are those customa, we do not know. ponents. Lastly, pending the taking daily large supples of confident that if there are fecunac we do know, however, that not actual withdrawal of the dy four and bread for the troops at stages in regard to the law upon the point the Supreme Court would be tention was paid to those customs Kuominchun from the capita.. no the Front, which is a drain on the

dy to pleased to wall themselves in Court of law because they were troops of the 2nd or 3rd Kaomin available supply.

Then chun should be permitted within "A prolific source of rumours y assistance of guidance not recognised by the law..

the city walle.

reported to be the tea houses Which they coultonbtain from the memorandum proceeds to sep

The roud to permanent, peace, where biesha boys fearing im Bow or the decisions of the Courts out what in Mr Alabaster's opinion! of England America. Before 14e the chief characteristics of says the "Ching Pup," begins pressment into undesired service. ps from the question with regard Chinese partnership and the first with the basic principle that no sit and spread twley which one he sets ont is what I have caft-faction shall be allowed to quar- eventually find their way into the ed "u loose understanding *

ter troops in Peking, while order mouths of more responsible Unfortunately, Mr. Alabaster is ha be maintained by a muni- classes. not avjilable for eross-examination. cipal police force, recruited from Several cases of riesha" thefts

fle that hew of China relating to

some say that this alleged cus- tom which my friend is seeking to

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other jumped us doll to hos desth

from the fourteenth floor window of Now York. hotell She had won un- usual suctese in efght years, on tho

DOCTOR

MOSCOW PERTURBED

EISAPPOINTED WITH THE

*KUOMINCHUN..

HOPES FRUSTRATED

The Soviet are already greatly perturbed over the break-up and retreat of the Kuominchun Armies, which they attribute, with their usual mendüsity, to the upport afforded by the Im.

perialistle, Powers to Marshals | Chang Tso-lin and Wu Pei-fu. The Kuominchun says the Moscow Press, "is not a product of a re- "volution in China, but a part of a "military corps organised by if för-

· "mer military-chun, with no self- consciousness and organisation

Wonderful

THROAT

CHEST

・

COUGHS

COLDS&

ONE PASTILLE

DIRICI

Dr M: chamlats and medicine, vanders,

sufficiently powerful to accomplish in salad Sorties, with fell diretiens

"revolution." They express the

hope, nevertheless, that the f

"Kuominchum will now "quietly re- HANGHAI WEDDING.

STORER-FITCH. »

St. Joseph's. Charel, Shanghal was the scenes April 10 of a very pretty wedding "when Mr. John Storer, son of Dr. John Storer, was married to Miss Evelyn Roan Fitch, daughter of Mr. Edward A. Fitch, of Brick House, Maldon, Essex.

leuperute their.... strength, and lestablish closer relations with the "national movement" in the ex- Epectation that they will be favoured with an opportunity of coming to the fore again, especial, y as the national movement. In the South is being carried out energetically, while the labour movement in the North and Cen- tral part of China is gaining in Buence. They do not, of course, & FASTING, disclose their plans for assisting

was given away by Mr. T. P... the Kuominchun quietly to

Pottinger. She carried a bouquet" cuperate their strength, but (says of white and pale pink engnations, the "Peking and Tientsin Times"The mutron of, honour wise Mus of April 1) one can guess what. T. Road, who wore a gown of fawn coloured georgette, trimmed they are, and that the price to be with bhie and sliver net lace. The paid for their disinterested co- bridesmaid was Miss Mary the operation will include the exten-

WALKING CONTEST AFTER: 16 DAYS DXPERIMENT.

STARVE THE DISEASE.

"Perhaps the man with

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re.

The brido, who was attired in a Bown of white, satin charmeuse. trimmed with pearl beads and wearing an embroidered silk not veil and orange blossom wreath,

in has not been observed by peopltbasis of his knowledge. We do not units here. This force should be recently. One favourite trick is fasting is a Wimpole-street doctor, Inner Mongolia, and possibly into pagne colour silky her bouquet was is is not valid because, first. We know nothing of the extent or the present military and police have been reported to the police greatest personal experience of sion of Soviet power throughout Storer, whose frock was of cham-

Heniny and immemorially, and at

hie vehicle.--"Chung: Mei.”

of daffodils. The little flower girl.. The avowed aim of Marshals was Miss Betty Bondfield, who look

any rate is is obvious that since the know whether he is purporting under the civil administration and to send the ricsha boy into a shop. Major Reginald F. E. Austin, inte Peking itself. commencement of the Republie it speak of Hongkong alone, or of the its expenses kept from the hands whereupon the fare runs ofr with of the Royal Army Medical Corps: does not conform tis this condition South of China, or of Shanghai, or of squeezing officials.

se all the decisions of the Supreme Court and of this Cour to which I have already referred.

Secondly, I any that even af though it may have been recognised

of the whole of China. We dis not Neither the Chief Executive,. know the sources of his Informa-nor any other high military tion. We cannot tell whether his official, shall be permitted to move Information is correct in the about in Peking with a bodyguardi slightest. We do not know whether larger than one hundred men. this was a memorandum written for Similarly, no military headquar am prive bixed it has not been re- peatedly observed by people as law. political purpose in order toters, not organs of individual com- Thirdly say it is not. n validecure the passage of a certain bitmanders shall be maintained here. ustom Beenuse, it is not one for We know nothing except that it while provinces shall have only which there is no express provision, was prior to the decisions of the evil representatives in the capital, There is the Companies Ordinance Supreme Court at Peking and sub-without military escort. "Chung and there are the express-decisionsmit that as a piece of evidence it Mei"

of the Supreme Court. Fourthly, utterly valueless, should be

I way it is not a valid custom be use it is contrary to publie policy interest and I intend to develop

wholly disregarded and should never have been put in

The Identity of Partners that in the concluding portion of Incidentally, I observe, he states,

That math who is paying atten tion to Madge is certainly a loud dresser."

"Doesn't matter:

my speech when I will attempt to that among the other Chinese deaf ear to his suit." set out some of the consequences (characteristics, there is no limit to of any decisions of this Court in the number of people who may be favour of the custom. I say fifthly.come partners. This is in striking that it is not a valid custom because contrast

with the views of the

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She turns: a

it is not based on immemorial learned Magistrate and some of my future business; it does not always Face. They also have an eye tes vanje and common arreptance. My Jeurned friends" witnesses. Teamed friend in his argument is we see that names are frequently Pay to make a man bankrupt. De may get much more" out of him in

Ther

isten to this pitch, that he invites used for the purpose of contenting the future by compromising one's

the say thad the whole practice the identity of certain partners claim,

at this Court of paying attention from the public-n very dangerouá

18. Suprémie" Court decisions is habit if they are to be given the

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b that is go. then indeed we have chaos and chaos serhias an Court in the world! calling jself funt of law has ever experiene

Hongkong Ordinance.

ed.

My friend then refersed to that memorandum of Mr. Alabaster and I will denk with that a little later, With regard to the Hongkong O 'dinance of 1011," it was necessary to alter the pre-existing law, but to provided that "you must have

↑ registation.

privilege of imitation of Bability.

"What Custom May · Entail. What will happen if it is held Then see niso that many Arms.that this custom exists, and thak have a "red" sharchoker, who has us say, it can over-ride the oxy a share of the profits, but apparent press provisions of the law and no liability whatever for the ever-ide the decisions of the debts of the fem. This again Supreme Court at Peking and the the express ducisions of this Court? It in striking contrast with evidence of some of the witnesses will mean that every prudent

learned friend. every unscrupulous Chinese buri called by my Imagine the appalling danger and ness mair will never bother in the inducement to fraud and forgery if future to spend any money in form- this latter characteristic were toing his business into a limited be recognised as a custom in con- ability company but will simply junction with the so-called eustom make all his children and grand- contended for in this ense, as it no children and retainers generally doubt would be at a later date ifif any or his businesses do not pros the so-called custom is held by this this he will be able to still retain. Court to over-ride the luw, of the the profits under his control and and and the Hw of the world any of his businesses do not pros- wild any no more about thisper he will be able, to may To hin document. !

ROSE DATOIA WE

Me Is 60 years of age but has a Chang Tso-lin and Wu Pei-fu ind charming in pink urgandie. "Mr. very much younger appearance. the present struggle, is the ER. Adams performed the duties Describing the self-discipline to elimination of Bolshevik influencell best mun, and those of ushere were carried out by Messrs. W. which he has subjected himself from China. This cannot be con- Craig Marsin und J. Cotter, s Major Austin avid to EL. "Daily sidered to have been achieved if a Mail reporter: The evident proof large compact army, notoriously

After the wedding ceremony o

of the bereft of eccasional fast relying upon the Soviet for assist- reception was held at the residence. ing is that I am healthy and unce in money, munitions and of Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Read, Be active while men younger than even personnel, retains its out- Kinnear Road, where a host of am who entered the Service at the posts on a trunk railway, less than friends, gathered to offer the bride time: aw myself are fold twenty-five miles distant from the und bridegroom their good wishes.

Later Mr. and Mrs. Stoner left Capital while at the same time erocka" now.

maintaining uninterrupted com- for their honeymoon, which is be munication with Urga anding spent in a trip to Hongkong...

The bride's

:same

I have fasted regularly for 18 10 days, and every week. dispense with all food for a day or two. Kalgan. The comp which flatten going away dress was of palo, During my long fasta 1 take a 12-ed Peking out on October 28, 1924, mauve silk crepe trimmed with miles. "walk every afternoon, and would undoubtedly be repeated at grey embroidery, with which was. on the last day of my 16-days ex- the first opportunity, once more worn a mauve hat, grey shoes and

ensumbie. periment I had a walking competi.cutting off Chihli and Manchuria stockings completing the charming..

"Shanghai. Times." tion with a man 20 years my junior from Honan and the Middle

Yangtze, upan Indian hill I beat him

The arrival in Tientsin of Gen- easily.

When I am fasting I take nothing but water or fruit juice. For the irst few days one feels shaky, but afterwards an exquisite feeling of fitness and an extraordinarily clear Esbate of mind are experienced.

When i began fasting in 1908 weighed 378. 21h, and measured 4 inches at the waist; now 1281. 30lb, and my waist measure-

years, once for 16 days, often feiachta, by motor-transport from and Baguio, Manila.

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era! Chang Hauch-liang is moet operations, the reorganisation of For some time past the Central Government, and the significant. he has made no secret of his ad redistribution of offices in North miration and respect for Marshal China, will be made without any Wu Pei-ft, with whom, indeed, he is believed to have favoured some

serious difficulty. China hus hud so many disappointments. Follow- understanding within a few weeks ing the rise of one, and the fall of of the disaster to the Chinli forces mother, militarist faction, that October 1924. If they meel, one is naturally inclined to be at Peking or elsewhere, it may be sceptical regarding the issue of expected that definite arrange any new conflict. One can only to think, however, that fusting isments for combined military hope that on this occasion,, all the

ment is 33 inches. It is erroneous

TAKE WITH SWEETENED

..WATER,

Bouilure she would not leave their

militaristy involved will, profit by two month-old baby at home and gu

benefelal only bu, heavy persons.

past experience; and lend actual to public dance hulls to do the

have known many cases in which Charluston with him, Tony Daloin deserted his sixteen-year-old bride, very, thin people have had their AVES the babies, help the grown support-and not merely lip-ser-

My D

ups, comforts elderly people-vice-to an attempt to reconstruct Rose, and their child. Mr. Daloistate of health transformed. and the baby (seen above) Woro

experience is that when food is that's Chamberlain's Colic and Diarr the Central Government on a real- faken away from a sick person Ithoon Remedy. Used for infantilely stable basis, and to restore. evicted from their tenement, unable to pay the rent.

choleru, sudden pain in stomach, is the disease and not the In-griping cramps, nauson with prostrat order throughout the territories

under their control. dividual that is, starved

ing diarrhoea. For sale everywhere.

FATAL ACCIDENT.

SUBMARINE COMMANDER'S DEATH AT PENANG..

been

The Straits. Echost of April 10% foreign creditors, if there are alyssys-It is with deep regret that With regard to the witnesses left in those days, "Here is my

we learn that Lieut. William Leslie. called by my friend, these witnesson, hundredth or thousandth share of or the bulk of them, I think, said the losses, and here are the namesBerridge, R.N., command of Sub- that there was a custom all over of my other partner; unfortunatelyniarine Lit, attached to H.M.S. China to limit the liability of part-I am afraid that they have not very at the Penang Swimming Club yes. "Ambrose" met with a fatal accident

ners in the manner contended for much money, but you have my

terday afternoon. He had by my friend, bút, no particular deepest sympathy." case was cited-certainly no case It will mean also that we shall diving from the chute when he In which any foreigners were consoon find other convenient and one-struck the mud and broke his neck. cerned, and not one single foreigner sided customs of this nature spring-He was at once conveyed in a motor was called by my learned friend. ing up like mushrooms in the car to the General Hospital where One would have expected that If night. We shall be met, 1.have no condition was hopeleas from the he received every attention, but his

this was

a custom in the legal doubt, with contentions in future sense, and was universal, that at cases that it is a custom all over firat and be expired shortly before least one foreigner of standing China to compromise and therefore noon, to-day.

An extremely bright and pro- could have been found who would you can never obtain you just have been prepared to be cross-claim in full It will no doubt maing young oficer, Lieutenant examined with regard to it. I say reach the pass that we shall find Berridge, who was unmarried, was it is an abuse of language to call that, the custom of "heads I win extremely popular with all runka their own, made of such ingredientit a custom, and that no single and tails you lose" in regard to and this tragie accident of which

CHILDREN DO NOT FIGHT. Against Baby's Own Tablets.

Easy To Give and Pleasant To

Take.

Children require special medicine of

anly as cannot possibly do them harm, and put up in exactly the right doange

H.K HOTEL RESIDENTS.

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definite concrete case of it being transactions between Chinese and he was the victim has east a deep to produce without loss of time the carried into effect had even been foreigners will be the only one on gloom over the visiting squadron.,

which it will be necessary to rely. desired effacts. Baby's Own Tablets cited. precisely answer this description, being It may possibly be a habit or a In conclusion, I say that if the absolutely free from harmful druga or opiates, and equally

safe and helpful to practice In certain cases, but Faub Chinese merchants in Shanghat are the infant in arms as to the child of mit that at the utmost it is nothing to be held able to legislata in their six years or more. Furthermore, they more than a loose understanding wn interests in opposition to the have the advantage of being, tustelers, among a certain class or certain Legislature and the Supreme Court. pleasant in appearance, and free from beiter class of Chinese that among in lines such as those now contend all the horrors associated by children themselves, If certain partners for, and if Chinese Courts and with custar off, senna, Gregory powder and similar nauseating music promptly their full pound of flesh from those legislation, there will be no need abscond or fall, they will not exact the Mixed Court recognise such Baby's Own Tablets are A ufficacious remedy for Infantile indiges who remain and are bolyant. They for any future exodus to Ningpd, tion, constipation, colle diarrhoea, do this not because they are legally for Shanghai will without doubt simple fever, croup, colds, teething troubles and worms. Almost like bound to do so or legally prevent become a paradise for rogues and

od from doing otherwise but he is regards, business

Mr. P. Anderson Mr H. Fearin

de E: 0, Ando son Mr HJ Pearoo Me and Mra 3. W. Me and Min f

Butterworth Samples Me NEG. Bo Miss Samples ir Chauviors

Mr & Men V. Gould Mr Vander Sa Mr and Mrs F. J. Mrs IL-6, Baylon

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Mr and Mrs P. A. Mr PR: Fletcher Vander Fad

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