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ATTACK.

MR. ALABASTER ON COURT

QUESTIONS

'WING ON CASE.

Gross-examination of second prisoner in the Wing On

the

WEDNESDAY, MAY 5, 1926.

count suddenly terminates in the Mr. Alabaster Your Lordship fifth moon. How do you account has decided to adjourn on the ap Prisoner The provision ac-out hearing counsel. I should for that? Replication of the other side with count for that year was copled like to have been heard but it from the cash book I had not doesn't matter. completed copying it.

The court then adjourned until this morning.

Mr. Jenkin Yes or no, was and the same time? that writing done by you at one

Prisoner. I cannot tell you.

not do it in one day.

Prisoner: Several days, I could

alleged conspiracy to defraud case, was continued this morning Mr. Jenkins How long woulik it and had not concluded at the end take you to write these five of this morning's session. There pages? is no doubt about the case proving record as to length, a recent case which created great local. in- terest having broken the previous record with eloven days hearing. The Wing On Bank case has already extended over eleven days book referred to payments which Prisoner replied that the day and it may not finish this week.were entered into the cash book In the course of the case,. Mr. and then from the cash book into Jenkin handed book exhibits to the provision book..

the "jury remarking that one would expect the book for 1928 to be newer in appearance

than that of 1922.

in your firm to copy the provision Mr. Jenkin Was it the practice items from the cash book?

practice was followed in the next Mr. Jenkin And the same

year.

2

Prisoner: Yes.

MOTOR ACCIDENT. EUROPEAN ESTATE MANAGER

"KILLED.

The Penang correspondent under date of April 24 cabled:--

News has been received of the tragic death of Mr. Noel F. Symos, Bedong, Kedab, in a motor accident manager of Riverside Estate... at Butterworth this morning..

Enquiries made at the offices of Messrs. Kennedy. Burkill and Co., news, but there are no detalls agents for the estate, confrm the

Of

ing from a function in a car, 'pro- It appears that they were return- ceeding in the direction of Sungef Symes, his house boy, the tindal, Fatank. The car contained Mr.

While passing another car going. their wives...a baby and the syce.

in the same direction, containing

It is stated that three or four. Mr Alabaster interposed and

other occupants of a hired car said that the case seemed to be

"Strong Comment."

died as a result of falling into a The There is the experience of Shang-soner to an attack on the pri-they witnessed the raising of an

proceedings yesterday canal turning from an attack on the pr afternoon were brief although,|| Detalls of Five-Fold Tragedy. hai where one or two groups of soner's solicitors Prisoner was interesting legal point.

Later.. about eight people each, British in jail at the time the book were A book was put in relating to of the tragic motor: accident which Details: have now been received" and Chinese meet socially and sent for and the prisoner's solicithe accounts of the shop of the occurred.

tors had carried through the second prisoner in which the Patani Road In Kedah, in which discuss debatable points. As Mr.necessary arrangements.

on the Bigra-Sungei Crown hold that certain acces- Mr. Nook, Symes, manager Powell rightly says, unless therei

His Lordship remarked that hesories to alleged forgeries were Riverside Estate, Bedong, and four Js individual understanding and coud not stop the prosecution's made.

It was held for the of his servants, were killed.. cross-examination. It would be defence that the book showed friendship between British and

open to counsel to refer to that printing business had not Chinese no Concord Club will ever later.. come into existence or be worthy

been entered into until after the Book Records. of the name. He next speaks of

Second prisoner was examined Mr. Jenkin complained that the

alleged forgeries. this morning the formation of a society for the

on his books for book was in Chinese. 1922. There were five in all, he fence had had three months in discussion of questions affecting stated the ledger. rough pay which to translate it. Mr. Jenkin The de- Chinese and non-Chinese and for book, record of business done, asked for an adjournment so that three Europeans, the near wheel of encouraging a greater interest in wages and provision book and the book might thoroughly be Mr. Noel's car caught a tree stump British and Chinese culture. cash book.

In reply to Mr. Jenkin, prisoner Finally he is of opinion that the said that in accordance with though the action of the defence

with the result that the car swang His Lordship, held that atto the ditch. The other car also British Clubs should have occa- Chinese practice he started his in refraining from providing ran off the road but the occupants sional guest nights by way of re- accounts anew each Chinese year counsel with a full translation were not injured and rendered burning hospitality afforded by the cash

Asked why he had not produced gave counsel for the prosecution assistance, but five of the party

book prisoner replied subject for very strong comment,

were found to be already dead, the Chinese. 15

that on the instructions of his the defence was strictly speaking Mr. Symes had his spina broken in wages and provision books and criminal cases was such that the solicitors he had got the two in the right. The procedure of

two places.. only one cash book.

The only one who escaped un- Mr. Jenkin asked when theserve his defence.

defendant had the right to re-scathed was the house boy, who was asleep when the accident

With all these ideas there ought to be perfect unanimity amongst those who sincerely desire a bet- ter spirit to prevail between the Chinese and the non-Chinese GOMES NUNES. On April 24. The adoption of even one of them 1926, at St. Andrew's Cathe--and there are no insuperable ob- dral Singapore, by the Rev. stacles in the way-would assist GT Shetliffe, Frank R. in no small measure to brush Gomes, youngest son of the Late Mr... Comes and away the cobwebs of misunder Mrs., 1. Gomes of Singapore, standing and lead to an entente to Lilian Eugenie Nunes, cordiale that would react most second daughter of the late favourably on the whole com Mr. H. Nunes and Mrs. E Nunes of Singapore.

DEATH.

XAVIER-On May 4, at 11 p.m.,

munity. Nothing is to be gained, bat, conversely, much lost, by waiting until the "mists have roll ed away" to "know each other better." Among the Chinese is

at 25 Jordan Road, Kowloon, our lot cast. Let opportunities be. Vera Gertrudes, beloved created for each knowing the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. other better now, for that way R. G. Xavier, aged 15 months. Funeral will pass the Monutes the only hope of a genuine ment at 5.80 p.m. to-day.

rapprochement.

Hongkong, Wednesday, May 5, 1926.

CHINESE AND CONCORD.

THEY SAY THAT-

"To prepare for war is not the best way to prevent war."-Maj.- Gen. John F. OʻRyan:

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gone into.

books had first been got by the Mr. Alabaster (for the doccurred. The tindal received prisoner. Prisoner replied that fence) remarked that all that severe concussion and was taken to it was after the first time of Tam was relevant had been translated hospital in a critical condition. Lay's evidence at the Magis: but His Lordship commented The rest, including the baby, were tracy.

that counsel for the defence could killed outright, their necks being Prisoner was asked how long it hardly be a judge of what was broken. took to get the books from relevant. He appreciated the dif

Mr. Symes leaves a widow' and Canton. His reply was that he ficulty counsel for the prosecution three young sons, at present in was in jail at the time but he had been put in. His Lordship England. should think that it was about continued, but he could not grant twelve days.

would adjourn at once. a long adjournment.

His Lordship intimated that he

has not heard me

Mr. Alabaster Your Lordship

that the first time Tam Lay had Mr. Jenkin then pointed out given his evidence was o February 24 and the second, March 8, an interval of 14 days having elapsed.

Mr. Jenkin: Did you keep the books for 1922 in your own hand? Prisoner: The majority of the books were kept by me. kept by you?

Mr. Jenkin: Was the ledger Prisoper: In part.

Mr. Jenkin: book?

The rough day

Prisoner: No, the accountant and sometimes Chan Kau or Chan Chau.

Prisoner: Sometimes manager, Kwok Man-fong.

His Lordship: I don't wish to mind. I will adjourn now until hear you I have made up my 10.30 a.m. to-morrow.

The funeral, which took place on Saturday, was the largest ever seen in Alor Star. Over 80 Europeans were present and there were many floral tributes. The funeral was a Masonic one and was conducted by the Rev. Keppel Garnier of St. Smart, R.W.M. Kedah, was at the George's Church, Penang. Dr.

graveulde.

NOISY ART OF LAUGHTER.

to

(With special relation to the Bergerac, whose only claim to fame supplanting of laughter by the that we have been able to discover, smile circles regarded as fasti- with the possible exception of unre. An Apprentice.

dious and discriminating, though quited passion, a fecble jewel, how- Asked who Chan Kau was, pri- perhaps a trifle over-estimated). aver, worn by many who persist in [soner stated that he was a young Not so many generations back a

blushing unseen historically for and who when he had obtained ex-foundations. It seemed to spring Gascon-flavoured laughter, flung man who had been apprenticed good laugh was wont to shake their little hour or so was an ability to laugh uproariously. As would be seen from our "Do not confuse nationalism |perience was allowed to do a from vast inner

"spaces, the issue of yesterday an interesting with Bolshevism in China."-Dr. certain amount.

rotundity of a Falstaff or the blufingering less hoially in vine-cover- from parapets at high noon, or Mr. Jenkin: Did anyone else wassall bowl of King Hal, and to ed balconies at night! contribution to the subject of the Tenyi Hsieh.. Concord Club recently suggested

have anything to do with keeping resound throughout ancestral halls. the accounts for the year in ques- But generations. succeeded.

The proof of the pudding is, |tion?

generations in college text books naturally, laughter at oneself. the with a callow indifference. Then The greatest philosophers have one bright day somebody made the Worried themselves inordinately Mr. Jenkin: What was his erudite discovery that we had lost though quite harmlessly over this the art of laughter the art having problem of laughter. Whence Prisoner: Neither he nor I had become

conspicuous: through cometh, the laugh ?" they" question- 'salaries.

absence shortly after the Victorial-ed, the while they themselves were, Mr. Jenkin: What exactly were straight-lacedness. Next the ad- through overburning of night oil, your duties in connection with vice of doctors began falling upon able only to snicker in hours of re- the business 2.

a repressed world that "a good laxation. Prisoner: I was to look after laugh is an aid to digestion. How Definitively, one recalls that a the finances.

mightily we have fallen that we reason is given for the laugh in the must align our sense of the ridicu- fact that it deals primarily with lous with our digestive process, athe "human." A scene is beauti form of apology for a guffaw.

Most of us lost the art with our only amusing when he shows a ful or gracious, ugly or uninterest first sign of self-consciousness, and fitting expression like a human ing, never funny. An animal is

tious comments relative to the fact observers laughing because In the since paycho-analysts make face being. Once a small dog set its that we are born self-conscious

"Prohibition is making Amer by His Excellency the Governor fica more productive."-Herbert has been made by the Rev. T. B. Hoover, Powell in the current issue of St.

"People have been debilitating John's Cathedral Notes: The re-their memories by taking notesaalary? verend gentleman wisely brushes for some thousands of years."

Lord Hewart. avide some criticisms of the scheme suggesting that nothing "The more I see of politicians should be done till the Canton the more. A like journalists."

John St. Loe Strachey.. trouble is settled.. "After refer ring, however, to the relations of | "Women are finding economic the higher class and educated Independence an aid to domestic

| happiness."--Nell Donnelly. Chinese and the British, Mr..

Women are no longer inarticu- Powell volunteers the opinion that

late; they are no longer afraid to a Concord Club at the present hear their own voices in public time would be a failure, if not an places-Miss Eunice Murray. impossibility: He points out that |

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complexes of one tiresomeness or more often than not with inherited gination of a humorist. It took another, some of us never even had sent mistress. Other definers of on fleeting resemblance to its the laugh accredit' it with "inson- the art to lose. Thus we show our

Prisoner was examined as to his place of abode and said that for between ten and twenty years he had lived on and off at Macao or Canton. He had a house, in Macao where his family was.

Prisoner was also questioned as to the salary Chan Kau received. the educated pure Chinese is not sence makes the heart grow thing as an apprentice but that While it may be true that ab- Prisoner replied that he got no at all anxious to join a British fonder, it is very often true that later he got a little pocket money Club, neither is the ordinary it makes it grow fonder of some-1.50 a month.

body else. Mr. Justice Swift,

Jenkin his name Briton enamoured of the idea it is characteristic that did not appear in the account modernity by eulogising the snills, wibility. If it were otherwise ve

It is characteristic of us that books.

We wilfully delude ourselves with more often or at things in which we still connect bells with two Frisoner replied that that was an affection for the smile, escribing pathos courses, plous institutions that precarious because he did not get a salary. A Concord Club being, accord-ly survive marriage and Christ-

subtlety to it and a certain finesse. Whereas laughter has its roots la ing to his view, outside, the realm mas-Father Ronald Knox,

Prisoner's Memory. When questioned as to the

the supremely ridiculous wherever of practicality at the moment, Mr. Powell is not content to dis-

exact staff kept by him during the encountered, the smile has its roots year in question witness stated in capitulation and a sense of the number of staff. It was of humour made tractable, harness that he could not say definitely

humour. The smile is the senso either two or three in addition to ed to the decorous wagon of good the apprentices.oda

breeding

suggested.

...

NOT MUZZLED.E!

We laugh at the "mechanical" manifestations of humanity-its jerks, distortions-any others with in certain countries tiras still la a quizzical streak, Time was when

deformities of all kinds were

miss the subject of more happy Among prosecutions at the

hilariously funny. In the same way relations between Chinese and Central Magistracy this morning

the "exaggerated on the human- the British altogether from his under the muzzling law M mind with an air of resignation or Lodge, 180, The Peak, was sum soner did not experience the same plume of laughter in every age But the fact remains, says the tles in miniature are regarded ar W. S. W. Collasius, of Kellett Mr. Jenkin remarked that pri- People who have waved the white ronsons for laughter, finality. He submits for the con- moned for allowing a brown chow difficulty in answering questions have had an immeasurable in NC D. Now that laughter, sideration of those interested dog to be in a public thoroughfare as to the employees of the shop fluence, whereas the merely smiling though not quite extinct in fast three ideas, which might well be so

without a muzzle. He was fired when he was replying to questions persons are resigned to fate at the becoming so and having acted upon as certain to do no

from his own counsel offset and their epitaph reads "We fined to pessimistic circles Summoned for the same offence, Prisoner remarked that it was epitomized the effortless smile and lost art it is given harm but

tain dis- man prove that unused muscles tinction in that art did not appear and was aned 85.

left his employ and the particu- dianteir A similar fine was

singlevation, The Sed on

lars of thr

others which gener

elously it is to be Chinese, who

dog he was not sur without refera

innumer selves sounded animal was ence to the books

describinIRU

great rather possible to do Mr CC. Stark of 274 The Peak the particulars as to when.

His first suggestion Individual friendships with the idea of s Frank Interchange

is the promotion: or

enkin. The provision, sc

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