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CLOSE SCRUTINY OF A JURY Amusing Incident At Sessions

WAR VETERANS IN BERLIN

General Goering's Speech

Berlin, To-day.

THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 16, 1937.

SOCIALISTS SUPPORT BLUM

Resolution On Spanish Situation

Paris, To-day-

A rather amusing incident oc-

The first official reception for the curred in the Criminal sessions this

accused, asked delegates from fourteen nations as- Unqualified support of the Blum morning when an whether he had any objection to the sembled in Berlin for the congress Government was resolved on by the jury, said he was short-sighted and of the permanent international com-Socialist Party Convention which could not see them from the dock.mittee of war, veterans, took place at concluded here last night. He was led to the jury box and noon yesterday when General Her- closely scrutinised each member.

The man was Wong Fong and he was later found not guilty by the jury of possession of heroin, at 170

Gloucester Road.

Accused was represented by Mr. Leo D'Almada jun, instructed by Mr. F. E. Nash.

Two resolutions were passed, one mann Goering, the Reich Premier, giving support to the Government and the other dealing with the Spanish situation.

welcomed the visitors at the Air Ministry.

the

Following a short address by the

The resolution welcomes the Gov- Chairman of the committee,

ernment's adherence to the policy Duke of Coburg, General Goering of collective security and indivisi-

ble peace. greeted the ex-soldiers as valiant upholders of the ideals

various nations.

Declaring that those

of their

who had were the

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M.C.C.:-172 that the policy of non-interference in Spain has not had the desired Barnett, 99 N. O.).

The following jury was empanell-fought in the trenches ed; E. Hospes (Foreman), H. G. best exponents of peace, he urged results and that the present situa- Cooper, H. Sauerbeck, Fung Ho-po, them to disregard the categories of tion cannot continue since it is en- Li Pui-fong, Cheung Kam-chuen victor and vanquished and let their dangering international peace. and To Shing-chung.

conferences in Berlin and their

efforts at home be guided by the Mr. E. H. Williams, Assistant At-principles of comradeship and the torney General, conducting the case observance of duty: for the Crown, said that at eight All their endeavours, he stated, am. on January 15, Mr. Taylor and should be inspired by the desire to Senior Revenue Officer Grimmitt, bring about-peace of honour and accompanied by several revenue of-jequality of rights in the world- ficers, proceeded to 170, Gloucester Trans-Ocean. Road, top floor, and knocked. Some- one peeped through the door but went away without opening it. Several people could be heard mov- ing about, and Mr. Grimmitt tried to force an entry. Meanwhile he sent a revenue officer to the roof where he saw accused moving to the back of the premises carrying two bowls to a room which was after- wards found to be the lavatory.

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STAINED HANDS

BRITISH AID FOR REFUGEES?

Appeal From Madrid

Government ·

London, To-day.

In the House of Commons at question time yesterday the Under-

were

The hands of accused were stain-Secretary for Foreign Affairs an nounced that an appeal was receiv- ed pink and they were cold and damped last night from the Spanish Gov- having evidently been newly wash- ed, .In the front cubicle was found ernment for the relief of refugees

at present at Almeria. the necessary materials for manufacturing heroin pills.

When the men were taken to the Police Station and charged, accused stated that the material found did not belong to him as he was only staying with the master. At the Magistracy, he said that he only stayed the night because he had no time to return to his ship.

Mr. D'Almada, before placing ac- cused in the box, reminded the jury that in a case of this description, the onus was on. the prosecution to prove to their satisfaction that the accused was guilty and also, if accused told a story which in their opinion, might be true even though be could not substantiate it, he was entitled to acquittal

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Accused then stated that he was

His Majesty's Government. urgently considering whether the question of any international relief action could be profitably examin- ed.

the

Lord Cranborne recalled that the British proposal last December that assistance for the relief of. Spanish civilian population should be organised on an international basis, was not at that time accept- able to the Spanish Government. British Wireless.

VOLCANO CRATER

EXPANDS

Impending Eruption Indicated

a seaman from the ss Tai Yuen The crater of Mount Mihara (2,500) which at the time, was in Taikoo feet high), the famous "suicide vol- cano" on the island of Oshima, sixty Dock On the night he was a miles south-west of Tokyo, has expand- rested, he came ashore and went to ed to ten times its size in 1924, accord- Gloucester Road, the residence of ing to a recent survey... Chan Yu Man, and as his cabin The present elliptical crater has a on the boat was under repair, took maximum axis of about 1,000 feet and clothing with him with the idea of spending the night.

a minor one 850 feet long, each about three times as long as they were in

1924

He left his clothes on a trestle The incessant tremors and the con- bed in the middle cubicle and was tinued emission of sulphuric gases are roused by knocking at the door. said to have destroyed the crater wall since the previous, survey. The ab Chan Yuk Man met him in a high sence of any other comparative data is state of excitement, gave him the said to make an estimate of the future bowls and asked him to pour the expansion of the crater impossible. In contents down the water closet, this time it was found to be nearly 900 1924 the depth was not measured, but which he did. He did not know the feet nature of the contents. He account-Experts believed that if the crater ed for his stained hands by the shows signs of becoming shallower an handling of the bowls

impending eruption is indicated. How- ever, it is poimbed out that Mihara is Mr. B'Almada submitted that the of the Kilanes type rather than similar Crown had not proved their case to Mt. Asama or Sakurajima. Erzp- and after His Lordship had summed tions merely mean the overflow of up, accused was found not guilty much lava with no likelihood of danger

to the 7,000 inhabitants of Oshima. and discharged.

Chan Tuk Man who had previously pleaded guilty was

three years

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Orsett Isolati Hospital - Graya, to has been closed to visiters because of

The resolution demands energetic action by the Government to estab- lish an effective system of control, including the entire coast line of the Spanish peninsula.

Should these efforts not lead to

tangible results the Government should consider recovery of its free- dom of action.-Trans-Ocean.

The P. and O. s.s. “Santhia” left Singapore for this Port on Saturday and is due here on Thursday morn ing.

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