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THE BUFFS LEAVING KENT

The Buffs who, pace the Royal Scots, pride themselves on being the oldest regiment in the British Army, are to leave Kent,

The first battalion is in Burma. The second, which has been at Shorncliffe, is to be moved to Bordon.

NOT "SICKI Y”

MAGISTRATE REPUDIATED

(By Margaret Lane)

London. they have been called to try

OR the last fifteen years happen, nearly every day. Forte have served on Juries The women themselves are

"The Buffs (East Kent Regiment) In this country. Yet only this often extremely unwilling to not only has the highest local re week another weighty legal voice serve on a jury and come armed cruitment of any regiment, but has been lifted against them. with a dozen excuses. during its stay at Shorncliffe, the Mr. St. John Raiken, K.C.. Not Representative second battalion has covered itself chairman of Derbyshire Quarter The only women who agitate with professional and athletic glory. Sessions, annoyed at a recom- to serve on juries are membera In 1981 it was chosen to do the mendation to merey put forward of feminist organisations and by the two women members of they, as everyone knows but guard duties in London during the absence of the Guards. It has won his jury on behalf of a man con-themselves, are far from repre

victed of stealing sixpennyworth sentative. the Army Golf Championship and [of coal, spoke his mind from the A woman, much more than a for three years running the Army bench. It had been stated that man, is swayed in her judgment Cross-country Championships the prisoner had eleven previous by emotion. When the 60-year- At Bordon It will not be quite in convictions for similar offences. old prisoner faces her in the the wilderness. Its divisional.com- Such a recommendation to dock, all for sixpenny-worth of mander will be Major-general Ken-mercy, he said, was nothing but coal, she is likely to ignore his nedy, who commanded the battalion sickly sentimentality-but then previous convictions for the same feight years ago.

sickly sentimentality was always offence and think that, after all, present in court when there were sixpence is a very little suni. women in the jurybox. Women, She admits his guilt, but recom- LAND OF RECORDS

he said, had no knowledge or mends him to mercy. It hurts Russia, like America, now thinks experience of true justice; they her to see him go to hard labour handful of stolen more and more in terms of "out- judged by emotion and by senti- for that

ment, and emotion and sentiment warmth,

aizes" and records.

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A woman has less inherent A Moscow rebident states that were unhealthy things to have

in a court of law."

respect than a man for the sanc- the Bolsheviks now claim to have The woman juror, in fact, is an (tity of the law. Legal points unearthed the world's oldest man offence to Mr. St. John Raikes sometimes seem trivial to her He is Artemi Lagiashvili, said to Judgment, to his mind, would be weighed against poverty or de- have been born in 1784, in a village more just, and juries less preju-spair. It seems to her a terrible six miles from Tidis, the capital of diced, if we heard no more of her thing to help to send a man to

a fellow- versus expert administration, Georgia. He is thus

He is not the first judge or the gallows, no matter how guilty tends to throw into vivid relief countryman of Stalin, whose real magistrate to dislike women on he may be. If she must, under the jury. The late Mr. Justice the weight of evidence,' admit MAY-To Andree (nee Freund) certain incidents that were either name is Jugashvili.

Y-To: Andree (may re the not known at all to contemporo-year-old Artem, who McCardie had no patience with his guilt, at least she salves her French Hospital on the 15th aries or passed without comment/still works every day in his veget-them. They were "too emotional, conscience with a recommenda-

If we concentrate on one or two able garden, says he remembers too nervous and too inexperienction to mercy, of these for the sake of clarity seeing the Russian troops marched in matters of human life." he it is only the compulsion of space into captured Tiflis in 1801. thought, to be trusted with the Artemi's eldest surviving son is public duty of deciding between and not from any lack of recogni

to know how right and wrong. tion that they are only a few out 80. Nobody seems of many. First we may take the many wives he has had his question why England was bound memory, although perfect on ele- in honour to interpose in a Con- mentary history, is feeble in domes Hong Kong, Friday, November 16, 1934 timental war in which her losses tic matters.

of men and wealth exceeded all her previous wars together

November, 1934, a son..

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Stella Maris Incident

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very sensitiveness her legal de- For that very reason for that

tractors condemn-I believe the woman juror is invaluable to the It has been a common occur decisions of the court. Emotion rence, during these last fifteen does not necessarily mean years for either counsel or pri-hysteria. A tendency to forgive soner to challenge women mem- in forgivable cases need be call- bers of the jury and have themed neither sentimental nor sick- removed solely on objection to ly. A woman's judgment. their sex.

which has little to do with legal Women jurors have often laid technicalities is often far more

for popular debate the question A doctor says it is impossible to When anyone with the experi-whether Little Peddlington is to keep a slim figure indefinitely. ence and ability of Sir William have a new pump, if so great a There is a destiny that ends our themselves open to accusations valuable in dealing with other Hornell proposes for our con- decision cannot be publicly dis-shapes. sideration such a subject as the cussed? Yet in August 1914 tho

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of emotionalism, of ignorance of women, with children, and with that grimmer side of life with that vast body of crimes based which juries have most to do, on human emotions than the

conflict of government by British citizen had no option in Very Rich' authority with government by the matter. Why? Not because The popular crooner who hangs There was the famous incident bare letter of the law. consent, it is only natural that of the invasion of Belgium, on to his notes. the problem should be debated which the Cabinet was advised wheresoever there be two or still left the discretion of war of Too Bad! three gathered together who take no war for its decision, but Many a man who takes a woman interest in the wider questions because by an arrangement or for better or for worse finds he has Hall's appeal to the jury, shes sensible, warm-hearted woman of the Management of States. series of arrangements of which got her for good. The questions raised by the the British private citizen was books that are now appearing, unaware, the French Fleet had Fair

of woman jurör in the Stella The law tempered with human Maris trial at Maidstone eight sympathy is a better instrument years ago. Overcome by the of justice than the dry and naked emotional power of Marshall law. The woman juror, if she is

went into uncontrollable (as most of them are), is a hysterics and was led sobbing human leaven in the harsher and moaning from the court justice of men.**

Buch as the Lloyd George been removed to the Mediter A circus man relates in his auto- And there was that time at the If ever I went on trial for my Memoirs go to the very roots of ranean leaving the Northern biography that he has been bitten Old Bailey when three women life. I should hope to see at least political philosophy, and if we coast of France, open to attack, three times by a leopard. Of course, jurors wept openly at the death one woman on the jury.- attempt to narrow down the de- and the military dispositions had he now becomes the leopard's own sentence, frankly regretting I do not believe with the bate to particular instances, that been made on the calculation that property...

their part in sending a murderer opposite school of their detrac is only varying out the tradition six British Divisions would be]=0.

to his death.

*tors-that they are unduly harsh of the English method which has provided to form the left wing of Opinion

Instances of women. Jurors on women offenders, nor yet that not been unsuccessful in the past. the Allied Army. As Mr Where can one man's love for asking to be excused because of they are too soft hearted to be

the unpleasant nature of the caso humanly, fair........... Baldly stated, authority versus Asquith said, there could be no

two women end?" asks a woman consent, there can be no question refusal of co-operation which

novelist. Quod. of how most men's votes would would leave England "alone in go. They would all go for con- the world without a friend" if sent. That is more consistent she refused to discharge an

The woman who married an old! with buman dignity; with life, obligation of honour.

fame to save herself from being liberty and the pursuit of happi- It would be difficult to explain left in the cold. -- ness; with liberty, equality and to anyone who has grown up, fraternity; and so on. It is the since those stirring days the A Bit Too Thick principle of self-determination. peculiar authority of Sir Edward An official complains that a lot But how can we apply such very Grey, who was the Minister of mud is thrown at the Peat Office. abstract terms to the intensely responsible for Foreign Affairs, And they put it in the ink pots. concert, variable, wayward unit and who had made those secret

of the individual man, who is the arrangements, so formidable in

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The first practice dance for St.] A donation of $50 from Dr. LE Andrew's Ball, will be held at the Shu Far, in addition to the result Peninsula Hotel on Tuesday be of the collection taken at St. Au-~ tween 5.30 p.m. and 7. p.m. Teas drew's Vicarage on Hospital Sun- will be served in the Roof Garden day, which amounted to $68.88, has from 5 p...

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the Governor, Sir William Peel, has consented to attend,

raw material of the experiment their implications. The soul of ence than anything else was. the Mr. LA. Tobias of No. 17 Felix in drganisation which we call a honour and discretion, the heir refusal of the United States Con- Villas, was yesterday bitten by a In connection with the Don Bosco Government? How is his of all the Whig traditions he gress to ratify the Versailles dog. He was treated at the GovCelebration a reception will be held opinion to be obtained? If he is was trusted not only by his own Treaty. Only one exception to ernment Civil Hospital, and the dog at the La Salle College, Prince Ed- ignorant of the issues, is his fellow countrymen but by foreign the rule that a nation will honour was sent to Kennedy Town for ob-ward Road, Kowloon, next Wednes opinion to be followed when it statesmen as well; and for many the signature of its official reservation. would be ruinous to his own well years his diplomacy had been presentative? But a very big being? If an immediate deci successful in devising compro exception. From the date of Sentence of three months' sion is necessary for his safety mises in the Balkans and else that vote, ratification ceased to labour was this morning imposed is he to be ruined rather than where It may be taken as one be a formality and became the Man Chung-shul, unem that the principle of consent of the assured facts that what most important fact for diplo- Mr. W. Schofield at the should be infringed. The writers ever he did in his official work matists to consider. It may be Magistracy, for the thef such as Arnold Toynbee and was in accord with the accepted taken for granted that nowadays dollar from Chung. Harold Nicholson, to whom Sir code of duty of honour. But the people of any country will fold, In Queen's Road East last William invited our attention by who conferred upon him the right not be held to be dishonoured if week. his address to the Rotary Club to commit his country to such they refuse, to fight for any Last Tuesday, are after all writvast obligations?

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Attempting to commit suicide by It is now known, and has been mise made by a Minister if it has jumping into the harbour ing to draw a moral from mis- confirmed in the biography of not been ratified by their con- Yaumati Ferry launch last takes

kes made by men in a hurry Mr. G. P. Scott, the editor of the stitutional orga of opinion: who had only a small proportion Manchester Guardian, that no The same doctrine is the bas of the information that is now information was given to the of Mr. de Valer available to us. The gre

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