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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5, 1946.

CHINA MAIL

Windsor House

Managing Editor: W. J. Keatos.

Editora

24351

TO Nationalise The Law!

BACK TO SCHOOL

When our Government Gnally formulates its proposals, I hope that they will be settled by nomo Minister who is not a lawyer.

Many of us feel that Jim Griffiths deserves much praise

"pick-

Hundreds of things wo fc- cept as part of our everyday life In an old, 90-rovin, stone-bulltare quite preposterous. Of no- mansion standing above the thing is this more true thun of retty village of Erlatoka a fow the structure of the legal pro- miles from Devizen, senior offension. Telephonce:

ficers of the British Army, and "The law is an ans," said a for preventing lawyers from of many Allied Armies, are go-famous Dickens character, and obtaining unnecessary

his words have been echiped by ing" out of workmen's compen- Reporters & General Omer 32312 ing back to school again.

They are attending the first many infuriated victims of legal | eation. (four lines)

post-war course of the Senior pettifoggery.

I in doubtful whether tho Officers' Senool which has been

If you want to obtain an au- sume result would have been dosigned to bring up-to-date | thoritative opinion as to what achieved if the Minister of British genfor officers who the law is on a particular sub National Insurance had been a wore P.O.Wa, during the war ject you will be told that "the lawyer. and to give officers of a number last word" in counsel's opinion. of Allied countries an insight But you cannot go to counsel into British Army methods, direct.

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INDIA'S CHOICE

Side by vide in delightful You have to pay one lawyer surroundings, officers who (called a solicitor) to pay an fought the Germans and offic- other lawyer (called a barrin-a ers who had little opportunity] ter) to give you the opinion on of fighting are absorbing lessons the state of the law with which that came to the British Army you are concerned. the hard way. And what they are learning will be reflected in a dozen different Allied Armies In the future.

The first courge lasts twelve wecks and will be followed by others. Instructora are Lieut.-

Any lawyer who puts the in- terests of the community before the accepted interests of his own profession might be sUR- pected by his collegues of being

"quisling."

:

One can easily imagine that if Aneurin Bevan had been a doctor, the fury of the B.M.A. would have known no bounds. may be But the value of the independent

mind looking at auch problema" free of prejudice is unquestion- able.

Yet even then however wrong the opinion there is no redress for foolish advice against either barrister or solicitor.

Privileged

Neither the law nor lawyers Lawyers in and out of Par-are seriously at fault. It is the Colonels and above, who lecture liament have preserved the most procedure which the citizen in on all arms, including tanks, privileged position for them-forced to use before he can avail artillery and air aupport, selves.

By CAPT. R. JACKSON

Within a day or two, it should he possible to say whether India's leaders have risen to the height of the opportunity now offered for securing India's independence, or tactic, and staff work. Visits whether the Cabinet Mission must Ineeds settle down to another at

tempt to find a solution of vexed problem. The signs are favour able. From the correspondence

nt the

never

work na they

himself of the law's protection,

Changes Overdue

By maintaining a system un-that is hopelessly out date.

For example, the legal costs der which the legal profession is divided into two halves, they involved in buying or mortgag- have gone far towards doubling ing a house are really exorbi- which tast... Law suits are uncertain the amount of money"

and coutly gambles, "Agree to other nearby schools are ar-lawyers draw from law suits.

quickly I believe that we need an An- with thine adversary ranged for the students and a curin Bevan to modernise the whilst thou art in the way with good deal of practical work is done both outside and in the ministration of the law. The him" is very good advice for School's fine model rooms. In- changes that are needed will most litigants. struction a modelled

lawyers

The uncertainty of the law on the never exme from the

the itself is infurinting when themselves. | released the ather day, it is clear Staff College, Camberley.

of finally establishing between the

Changes would

lave coasts that differences

Lectures are given frequent-'

what the law is fall on some in- visiting Hindus and Moslems have been ly by

distinguished come from the doctors.

If we have an efficient com- nucent litigant whom many of narrowed. The Mahatma Gandhi soldiers. When I was

service for the judges may have thought to has given the Mission's plan a School, a brigadier with exper-prehensive health

fighting

in all, why should we not also have be in the right.

situation Even the simplest warm blessing, proclaiming frank-lence of jungle ly that there is no sign that the Burma spoke on tropical war-similar legal service for all?

The Free Legal Aid schemes may give rise to the most in- fare and another gave a talk on British negotiators have, said one atomic bombs.

which the Law Society operat-tricate points of law which are thing while meaning another. Students way they find thee, touched only the fringe of finally settled only at huge ex- That should determine the at- course absorbing but strenuous. the problem. They applied only pense.

lower A very great legal expert on HEREBY titude of the Congress Party. They have a six-day week, people with income

in some libel and slander once said to GIVEN that an Extraordinary which has everything to gain by Normally, a day at the school than £2 a week and

me that nothing on earth would o'clock with a casts £1 per week. General Meeting of Ching accepting the scheme. Mr. Jinnah starts at nine

Worse still. lawyers were not induce him to start such an ac- Entertainment and Land In- and the Moslem League have yet period of three-quarters of an

Our

deservedly justice is Police The Hong Kong

ngth, broken by the usual they were reded as acts of

famous throughout the world. Reserve will be organised in the be held at the registered office to declare their anitude. The hour and periods of the same paid for handling such cases, but tin.

of an hour "for a charity.

British judges are fair and im- future. Will those of the Company, King's Theatre Akali Sikhs have announced op urter

follow until ene

Grossly Unfair

partial, British lawyers, with a interested in joining Building, 6th Floor, Victoriaposition to any arrangement that smoke"

a minority o'clock. The afternoon may be This was grossly unfair to few unhappy exceptions, are the Perge send their applications in the Colony of Hong Kong, on would leave them as

Wednesday the Twelfth day of under Moslem tule. As Lord spent on out-of-doors work but the good lawyers who were pre extremely honest and painstak- June 1946 at 12 o'clock noon Wavell said in his broadcast to at five o'clock, officers are back pared to take on as much of

ing. New Oriental Building.

when the subjoined resolution the Indian people, a considerable in their class-rooms-spacious this unselfish

as a special change will be required in the rooms with a grand view which could.

But they cannot be expected, will be proposed

officers must find somewhat

the political opinions outlook of all the communities f resolution.

distracting for two further Chincse officers now rounding with thethe great experiment upon which periods before dinner.

off a tour with the Chinose which they hold, to institute of

Mission be India is embarking is to succeed. Instruction is given in Eng- Military

in London. their own accord a comprehen- comfortable ante Both Col. Chen and his alim sive legal service for the benefit The first obstacle to be surlish but the mounted is the creation of an in-rooms are a Babel when Allied colleague Col. C. C. Yang (who of us all.

That must be done for them a reputation as a many countries has made terim Government representative officers from of the main communities;

Lord relax. Newspapera of half the practical joker) are especially by Parliament, as with the doc-

world find their way into the keen to learn all they can about tora. Wavell

to Contrary is already engaged on

mechanisation.

an impression ¡Mess, that task, success or failure in) I spoke to a number of Allied Officers attending the course widely prevailing, the law is not which will determine what pro- officers at the School and their live in four Sandhurst-type a very well-paid profession. gress can be made in the larger comments all add up to the blocks away from the main The average income of solici field of constitution-making. Here same thing; the course is ad- building, but mess in the house tors before the war was below

qfficers Roon £500 a year. the Moslem League, with its mirable, they are learning a lot itself. Allied

Many of them realise claim for equality of seats with and enjoying it. They think drop into English ways, play

a Labour Government English games and even joyful under the caste Hindusa demand for it is a fine experience.

From Chungking has come ly enter "sweeps" on the big great changes must and will which there is no warrant, in the Lt. Col. P. K. Chen, one of two horseraces.

come. They are long overdue. relative numbers of the two com- Will all individuals or firms manities may be the_stumbling"] having claims against Green Notice is hereby given that Island Cement Co. Ltd., prior block. At this stage British res there will be vacancies for

to 8th December, 1941, kindly ponsibility remains to secure n about fifty first year students forward same, with supporting Executive Government at the

commencement of the details where possible, to our deal competently with the vast next collegiate year in Septem-Head Office, Exchange Bullding, administrative problems that In Charlie Suet clalma toNote On My Thumbnail of his periods of intense social activity, is now at Shrillwillia Des Voeux Road Central, Hong dia faces under the shadow of have invented a synthetic rub-

A dietician has discovered Hall, in Wigtownshire. admission Kong, on or before 15th June, famine and the danger of civil ber house which works on the for

Hearing a crash in the middle Applicants

that we are getting too much balloon principle.

hoot, Sir must postiera the following

This information is required, war, should there not he co-opera- Until blown up, it is so small starch. Perhaps that explains of the night, his qualifications:--

at the present time, for record tion between the communities. It that it can be kept, like those the complaints of well-dressed Archibald McCaber, came down- is as essential for the British peo-models of ships, in a bottle. It men that laundresses are eating stairs. He found the Captain purposes only.

ple as for the Indians to whom can be inflated in a matter of (or anyhow taking bitos at searching à small capboard in the dining-room. "What is it?" R. TAYLOR,

Lord Pethick-Lawrenez and Lord minutes, and tethered to tho their stiff white shirts,

ihe asked. "I thought I saw Manager & Secretary,

Wavell have appealed, to realise ground like a tent.

a ghost," said the Captain, "and what is involved in the great ex-ately the first house of this kind

I followed it." "Only a very Hong Kong, 27th May, 1946. periment now

on foot. Should could not be got out of the 'bot-

small ghost could get into that the bottle was the Indian decision be for indetle and when

broken, the material of the

cupboard," said pendence outside the Empire the balloon had been cut beyond British Commonwealth of Narepair." Which proves nothing," tions is reduced to one fourth said C. Suet, Esq., sulkily.

the

to

have a That Article 71 of

of Association Articles altered by substituting figures "$1,200.00 to $2,400.00 for the Agures "$600.00 | $1,200.00."

Dated the 18th day of May 10-16.

George Y. K. Sun,

Secretary.

(Sd) C. H. SANSOM, Acting Commissioner of Police. Hong Kong, May 29, 1946.

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(2) A Matriculation Certific ate of the Hong Kong Univer-

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BY THE WAY

Unfortun

Houshold Notes

Tough

By Beachcomber

his host.

that

How Many Bowlers?

"It

Advertisements of films keep on boasting that here, at last, is the toughest film of all time. was the ghost of a baby" said And that has come to mean, the Captain. "It could hardly Hot men shouting each other, walk." "Hum." sald Sir Archi- but a man knocking a woman bald pensively. of its present population, India

down or bashing her face in. is a vital link in all the communi-

Now I have a film script ready cations by land, sea and air be

very first Owing to a shortage of cork-in which, in the

Clam of Chowdah and his tween West and East. For that screws, more and more people sequence, the hero, the villain.

subsidiary, char- Prime Minister, Juja Hopu reason, if for no other it is a are opening bottles with tele- and twelve

the heroine and Homf, recently ordered by post world concern that the transition copes. Care must be taken not acters act on from one form of government to to injure the lens. The cork is kill her with blows of their fista. four bowler hats in order to en- another shall secure order and a gripped in the teeth, and the Her brother turns a Bren gun courage the export drive,, and from chemical eggs stable, administration. These de- handle of the telescope is lower-on to them and wipes them out. so lead up to the import of a

He is then devoured by an es- few: Members of the above Clubspend upon the decisions that In-, ed slowly, so that the cork can en 5th, 6th, and.... 7th August, who have returned to the Colony dian parties are now called up be grabbed at by the side of caped lion. The lion is drown- Uruguay. By an official error, the instrument furthest from ed by a mad zoologist, who is the Board of Potential Alloca- 1946 and will commence at 9.00 are requested to advise the to make. The clioice for them the neck of the actual bottle, smothered by his sister. The tions requested the Clam to fill a-m. on each day....

Treasurers of the dole of their is in the words al Lord Wavell. The wobbling can be controlled sister is poisoned by a atranger, up various forms which would immediately frozen to entitle him to a cortificate em- return, if they have not already"between peaceful construction or by placing the bottle botween who is

death Applications for admission done so. This au be done by the disorder of civil strife." All the knees and tapping with the

in a refrigerator by a powering Him to receive bowler Representations wero must reach the Principal, completing a Northcote

form which is that the most extreme of partisans telescope on the top of, the cork, novelist, who is burned to death hats. Traluing College, available in Eastern St., Bonham Road, office.

the Treasurors' in India has ever asked is con- before thrusting forward with in a furnace by a young girl. made by the Council for the the catches on the lens. An The girl is shot dead by a chim- Entertainment of Very Import- ceded in the British decision to Before 20th July 1946.

were sent as a present to the retire. Upon the willingness of old, telescope with a leather panzee, who turns out to be the ant Tourists, and the bowlers

case la beat Binoculars are too real here of the film.

Clam. This provoked an un- the communal leaders to merge wide for the work,

Basic English For

official strike of bowlor opera- their differences hangs the pros;

tives. There the matter resta Nigeria?, pect of "that future even more

at present. glorious than your past" which I wish I had had cortain Paul Clark, an Ironmonger the Cabinet Mission has hope cartoonists with me the other Wibstoke, was surprised to hear fully forecast..

day. A man in a shiny top hat his clock, after striking seven, and an old-fashioned frock coat say, "Silly fool, silly fool." It London, Jugo 4.

was walking towards me. He was later discovered that a par Mr. Emmanuel Bbinwell, Minis-

had a self-confident air which rot had laid an egg inside the The talk was of a day's ter of Fuel and Power, arrived at

they would have called superclock. The egg was hatched by shooting, but Captain Foulen- Northolt tonight from his tour of

Major-General R., McLean cilious. I can almost hear them to warmth of the pendulum, ough was not paying much at-

tentional bas the Ruby coal milnes in the Brl-line been appointed Deputy Ad- saying "Filthy Fascisti Dirty and the young parrot uttered tish Zone.

Jutant-General, Headquarters Mid reactionary Effete feudallamt words it had heard repeated Waste of good drink,” be Mr. Shinwell told Router: "I di Bait Frog - July, announces Tory diehardt Old School Tiep in the room.

I was talking of the birds.” hope as a result of my visit sumo- the War Office today, 2012) r

bi wek cunth lately (~- Deputy and all the rest of their patter,

Captain Foulenough Water good enough for

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Foulenough, who birda, wald: Fouledoughe seems to be going, through one | There was a pussledēmilenös.

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said.