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HONG KONG, MONDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1931..
CREWS' QUARTERS. "IN THE LIGHT OF
Possible Improvements
Being Considered.
The attention which is now being paid to the accommodation of mer- chant seamen makes it interesting to note that. It was the old-time sailor himself who prevented most
THE LAW."
Many Famous Cases
Recalled.
THE TRANBY CROFT SCANDAL.
Legal reminiscences make strong
treat In the
of the progress being made. Many appeal to very many people who will remember the experiments that have no personal interest in the were made from time to time in law, provided that they are divest- improving the accommodation of ed of legal technique, and sanmen, which falled owng to the matters so that the man attitude of the men. Ventilation street can understand and appre- was blocked up to preserve the good ciate them. old-fashoned "fug" which WES usual in the sulling ships.
Even since the War there have heen some complaints of improved accommodation, notably when com- panies Introduced the
custom
in
their fastest cargo ships of accom- modating the men in two promenade decke amidships. This gave really excellent quarters with which one might think it would be impossible to find fault, yet some of the old- timers were heard to say that in the forecastle the draught could only get in through the door, where as in these new-fangled arrange-
ments it could come all round.
Of this order of literature may be classed a volume which makes appearance to-day-"In the its Light of the Law" (Grant Richards, 124. Gu.), written by Mr. Ernest Bowen-Rowlands, barrister-at-law, son of the late Judge William Bowen-Rowlands, who died in 1906,
The author has been responsible for several volumes treating of legal matters and persalities. In this latest issue the reader will find his memory refreshed about many
NAVAL PAY.
Alleviations in the
Cuts.
· London, Saturday, The new senle of naval pay issued by the Admiralty alleviates the carlier cuts, particularly in the lower ranks. For example, Able Seaman 44d. daily instead of the proposed 36d.; Chief Petty Officer 92d, compared with 90d.; while as regards Officers, with certain ex- ceptions, 'the standard rates for full unemployed and re- tired pay in force on Sep- tember 30 will be reduced by 11 per cent subject to six months trial and revision according to the cost of liv ing-Reuter.
BOYCOTT PACT. ›
Clitheroe, Sept. 27.
Mahatma Gandhi, India's in-
of the most famous causes celebres dependence leader, visiting with! and murder trials of the last half-leaders in the Lancashire textile century, and gather much fresh in-trades, to-day offered the hard- pressed textile workers a compro- mise in India's boycott of British re-textiles.
formation about them.
But there is a new breed of sea-
Three Gallows Failures. man in the Merchant Navy just as
There is, for instance, the there is in the Royal Navy, and al though he may lack some of the old-markable case of the Babbacombe timers qualities, he is certainly ac- murderer, Lea, and the triple customed to better home conditons failure of the attempt to hang him nahore, and, therefore, appreciates in 1836. Mr. Bowen-Rowlande has
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RAMON DAYBE
Gandhi anid there has been
no
progress yet in the conference an the future of India's government. -United Press.
He said if India were voluntarily given self-government he would ad- vocate the prohibition of all im ported cloths except those produced better quarters float.
gone most thoroughly Into the in Lancashire. The Mercantile Marine Depart-causes of this failure, with a description of the ment of the Board of Trade has cir- minute culated to its aurveyors details of mechanism of the gallows, which the proposals regarding crews' Ac- will hear a perhaps somewhat mor commodation made by the special bid perusal. Berry, the hangman, committee of Shipping of Trade. had his own explanation of The proposals were outlined in A the drop refused to fall three suc- statement made to the House of cossive times when the lever was Commons by the President of the pulled, fixing on structural faults; but so late as 1926 the author re- Board of Trade.
ceived a communication professing to explain what really happened.
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why
Sir John Simon's Memory.. Judges and counsel innumerable) come under inspection in this in-
On Sir John! teresting book. Simon, K.C., a man who "stands for Pure Intellect," whose practice "never been in money value has equalled," the finest encomium Is An incident is recalled passed.
his phenomenal illustrative of
In a case involving a memory. long and intricate series of trans- actions dating many years back his "opening" occupied more three hours, without his being seen j to refer to a note, or book, and afterwards his opponent, Sir Ed- re- ward Carson, K.C., stated
though he had checked every state- ment he had not found a single error.
In addition to receiving details of the recommendations, surveyors are also lustructed to ascertain in It appears to have been the cus- Ithe case of all new ships the pro- tom at the time of this tragic affair posals as regards crew spaces for some joiner or carpenter among early as possible, no that if neces- the prisoners to erect the scaffold, sary they can approach the owners and the story was that the old gaol and builders and discuss with them bird engaged on this task in Lec's the possibility of making Improve-case had confessed that he surrep ments in design or in fittings where titiously inserted a wedge which these appear to be called for in the prevented the drop from working Bght of the reremmendations. As at the critical moment, and when regards existing ships, surveyors called in as an expert he removed arc instructed to endeavour to the wedge and demonstrated that secure improvemente which can nothing was wrong, only to reasonably be expected, having re-insert it before Lee again gard to the age and condition of the placed upon the drop. So was ex- ships and the particular trades in plained a hiatus which some good which they are engaged.
folk attributed to the intervention
Mr. E. V. Lucas, being perfectly well, has read with an amused in terest's report that he was not. It ls good testimony to his personal activity and personal vitality, that he has two books shortly to appear with his own house of Methuen, One is a fresh series of essays, which, for no particular reason, he entitles "Visibility Good.” The other is a conversational plece which he calls The Barbor's Clock,"
was
than
that
con-
Subsequently, when asked by the of Providence. Lee's life was author if he had used any system spurgd, the sentence of death being of mnemonics, Sir John said, "No": commuted to one of imprisonment. all he did was to read to his briefs
Innocent of Trickery.
over and over again, thereby fixing! The recent death of one of the in his memory all that he consider- participants in the famous baccarat od material.
use-The Tranby Croft Scandal"
Mr. Bowen-Rowlands will en- gives topical interest to Mr.
on the domestic Bowen-Rowlande's reflections upon lighten many
Unequivocally he aspects of the Bar, particularly that affair. states his belief that Sir William with regard to the relative Gordon-Cumming was innocent of sequence of being a "junior" or a Counsel," "A.K.C'ship the charges of trickery brought "King's against him, and incidentally re- is a Court distinction, not a pro- lates a story told to him by his fessional honour.... It may only "I think there is confusion In father, who had it from Lord Cur- imply that the possessor of the ap- some people's minda between man- zon, a brother-in-law of Lord Ran-panage is a 'Civil Servant' of high agement and direction. A whole-dolph Churchill. To Lord Randolph time governor
a governor the question was put: "What would and managing director. But the you have done if you had seon blm governor, must be a critic of the cheating?" "Backed him," was the management, and, if he is a man- Inconic reply. ager, he cannot well criticise him. Coming to later times, the author self. My duty is to place around comments with equal felicity upon me first-class whole-time managers trials still fresh in memory, last whom I and my board direct."—Mr. of all that of Bywaters and Mrs. Wright, Fraser, McCardie, P. Ashley Cooper.
means
Edith Thompson.
position, a writer of distinction, or a social worthy. The letters do not imply any eminence as a practising
And there follows] barrister." mention of very many who havej won distinction on the Bench and never were King's Counsel--Black- burn, Bowen, Parke, Willes, R. S.
Travers Humphreys.
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