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The United States liner Washington, which left Galway for New York, had on board some 2,000 American passengers from Great Britain, Ireland and the continent, who are fleeing from the European war zone. So pressing was the demand for sleeping accommodation that cots were placed In every-available space. Passengers slept in the palm court and the ship's swimming pool was drained so that beds could be put up. Photo shows baby Dilys Winn, aged nine months, being pacified by her 2-year-old brother Roddy, while waiting to board the Washington. They were (Copyright, returning to New York with their mother. Their father is in the British army. Fox).

FAMILY PROPERTY SALE DISPUTE

Leung and Chai Wang a charge

legitimate way but under the new! civil code, the Supreme Court of} China held that such sales were permissable only through sheer necessity and with the consent of all concerned. This custom was well known throughout China,

In some parts, the sale would

The case is proceeding.

A dispute over the sale (3) Is the said sale binding on be legal if the majority vote of plaintiffs as members of the Chan those concerned was obtained, but of property in Stanley set family, and, lastly, if the sale is the property was only to be sold aside for ancestral wor-not binding on plaintiffs have Lo through necessity. ship occupied the atten- on the assets now in the hands of tion of the Chief Justice, defendant for the purchase price 0000 Sir Atholl MacGregor, in and the deposit by Chai Wang and the Supreme Court

this ages paid or suffered by Lo morning.

for other costs, charges and dam-

Leung?

The parties concerned were

Ancestral Property Chan Hon and others, represent- -ed-by-the-Hon. Mr. Leo-d'Almada;| "Mr. d'Almada said: --The case instructed by Mr. M. A. Silva, and concerned a dispute over the an- Chan Sham alias Chan Wai-tong, cestral property of the Chan fam- represented by Mr. T. F. Lo, inily, which Chan Sham had sold to structed by Mr. B. C. Hobbs. Mr. Lo Leung, who in turn had sold Harold Lee held a watching it to Chai Wang. brief for Chai Wang, purchaser of the propertyArte

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The points at issue are: (1) that the property is known as and registered in the Land Of-

Plaintiffs' property was

the case was that

ancestral property and could not be disposed, of without the consent of all the

fice as "Ching Shing properties family interested.

(for ancestral worship) of the Chan family;

The property concerned Nos. 7) and 8 Tytam Village, and Chinese] law and custom since 1843 govern- (2) Was the sale of the property ed the sale of such property. It by Chan Sham as administrator_of the estate of Chan Yip-lee (de-was their case that Chinese laws

and customs were applicable ceased) to Lo Leung, and register the case: Mr. d'Almada said he ed in the Land Office, a sale to

would be calling. Dr. Kwok, and a purchase by the said Lo Leung without

Chinese law attorney and two vil- notice that the said properties were Ching Shing

lage elders. properties?

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BRAVEST MAN HE EVER SAW

A Cornish able seaman who

to

Both Lo Loung and Chal Wang ware informed of the en- cumbrances on the property and If they still made the purchase: that was their business.

Chinese Law

took part in the evacuation at Dr. Kwok Tin-po, giving evi- Dunkirk, said that the bravest dence, said he had practiced law men he ever saw was an R.A.S.C.lin Canton and Kwangtung for sergeant. "Eight Heinkels bombed seven years.

of

the fifty men under him who In reply to Mr. d'Almada, he] were loading ammunition to our said that the Tai Ching Luk Lai boat. I saw several of them fall was the law of the Ching Dynas- dead. The sergeant grabbed, afty in 1843 and there was a law Bren gun, stood his ground in the dealing with the illegal sale middle of the beach and blazed ancestral property, The punish away at them. When they came[ment for sale of such a property of back he did the same thing again 50 mow was, the same as that for and drove them off. We got him the sale of ancestral graves. and the survivors of his party the property was less, then away. Outside the harbour he offence would be the same dived into the sea with me to selling government property. For rescue a man, Then we were the sale of an ancestral temple, machine-gunned and we found the punishment was seven strokes. ourselves in the sea together Custom also governed such again. He was picked up at the sales. There was no mention of same time that I was.

'the sale of such properties in a

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