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CASEBOOK

Delayed Action

UST

the Christmas

So these days tends

to spread on one side of the festival into autumn and even late summer, so do its in repercussions reach out the other direction almost until spring is or hand.

At the Clerkenwell court, the other moming, a tale of Christ - anas Eve was told to the magi strate, Mr Frank Powell

The scene was a lavein sel in one of those small grey stivels that spread like the thonds of

a wth spun by a drunken spider.

In all directions from the south

of the Pentonville Road

aid

A CARELESS WORD

THE burs

with

Jekod

of the an71 Wie

Howing Think

Was

down

miti-race urgency the oats of men and women who for some reason always find themselves at that season, seized with unalakenble thirsts.

There even was anothing like

a spirit of good will abroad

the bars, but

that wits a

Jes

thank

so frugile that there seemed not

a chance of its surviving until

closing tim

Indeed. it did not word was dropped

A careless

that me one took as a light. A moment

Air Intan the

Instils, and

thick Was

nument

with alter that it was bottles and glasses and lists that flew through the umuky air. Good wit fled.

KNOCKED UNCONSCIOUS THE but of the trouble ap

perred to be a stocky little Irishman, who had a shock of fair hak and a brogue so thick as ninxst to constitute a secret His name nguage of his own. was Dxus, and when the police arrived on the bar-room battle- neid, he was arrested.

Dennis was presently brought

to Clerkenwell, having been drunk orderly

d JXPL and dis-

That appeared to be

the end of the matter

However,

WUS not for

a little luler there cute to the court a woman who claimed she had been knocked unconscious by Dennis in the row in the bar. She applied for a qummons for sault, und Even retired to hospital, where she stayed some weeks ;ecovering from her

injuries.

THE

I NEVER TOUCHED HER

other morning. Dennis Was shown again into the dock at the Clerkenwell court, and trom there he pleaded not gulity, before Mr Frank Powell, to an asstrull occasioning actual bodily harm.

"I was just going to pick up my husband which two gentle

sald men had knocked down,'

"when the lady in the case, this gentleman (she nodded at Dennis) punches me and knocks me out."

. "She's a liar," cried Dennis.

He took the oath, and said: "I

was fighting her husband, but

I never soughed this woman."

A FREE-FOR-ALL

says you knacked her

SCHE

out "i

મ

"Nivver touched her," Dennis

Bald, "and I've a wiÊICES."

Dennis's Wines,

01

dark

young man, followed him into the box.

"Did you see this man involved in a fight?" Mr Powell

asked.

"Everyone was involved in a fight," the young man answered, and his eyes sparkled as it the memory was sweet.

"Did you see him fight that Indy there?"

"I nivver enw her at all."

"Go to:

1

"I And you guilty," said the magistrate to Dennis. He asked if anything was known. Thero were seven previous convictions, prison for one month," magistrate suld. Dennis was led away. Going, bo muttered something half aloud, in his secret language: What it www, no one know but his glance was upon the lady in the case, it may have been Gaelic variation on the theme of "Compliments of the

Bomo

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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1955.

SHEAFFER'S

ADMIRAL

SNORKEL

PEN

The Commonwealth Family The Quie Case Resumes:

Queen Elizabeth, happy head of the British Commonwealth, and lovely in a crinoline dress of white lace entertains her Ministers, Sir Godfrey Huggins, Central Africa Federation: Mr Mohammed Ali, Pakistan: Mr Robert Menzies, Australia; Mr Charles Swart, South Africa's Minister of Justice who is representing his Prime Minister; Sir Winston Churchill, Britain; Mr Sidney Holland, New Zealand; Mr Louis St Laurent, Canada; Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, India: Sir John Kotelawala. Ceylon, to dinner at Buckingham Palace-London Express.

VASELINE CONTRACT CASE DECISION

Judgment For $304,032 For Plaintiffs

Judgment with costs for the plaintiffs for $304,032.96 was granted by Mr Justice J. Reynolds at Supreme Court this morning, against Codar Enterprise Co., and two of its partners, sued as guarantors on a transaction of 200 metric tons of vaseline.

The plaintiffs, Mesars Gordon Woodroffe and Co., (Far East) Ltd, of 316, Edinburgh House, were represented by Mr T. Shurlock, instructed by Mr M. E. Ives of Wilkinson and Grist Defendants were not present in Court and were not represented.

In his opening. Mr Shurlock said on August 27, 1951, plain-of Us entered into a contract with

The new terms were payment purchase- price for 200 metric tons of vaseline by a 50 the Cathay Engineering Co. for per cent margin forthwith and 200 metric tons of vaseline. The the balance was to be paid terms were payment of 10 per within 30 days of the date of cent performance bond and abill of lnding on shipment of the letter of guarantee for the full cargo and that this bond was remaining purehuse price to be to be secured by the guarantors. opened within 30 days of signing the defendants. of the contract,

The Cathay Engineering Com. bund but pany supplied the

fatled to provide the necessary letter of guarantee and the bond way forfelted to the plaintiffs.

Later, negotiations were made between the two parties and it was agreed that plaintilts would account for the forfelled bond provided that u new contract was entered into on terms pro-, posed by plainuffs.

More Floods

Sweep South-west France

SECOND CONTRACT

*The second contract Was drawn

dated October 2, up. 1051. The Cathay Engineering Co. falled to pay the balance margin and failed to furnish the guarantee.

was

Plaintiffs again threatened forfeiture but a guarantee furushed eventually and the contract was signed.

market in the

Loo

1

Fog Disrupts

Kai Tak Flight Schedules

Heavy Tok aver the Colony this morning dis- rupted

the schedulen of incoming and outgoing fights at Rai Tak.

Delayed fights included PAA from Tokyo (duc In 8.44 am) arrived At Tokyo JAL from noon!

a.In.) (бие

now shaduled to arrive at 2.20 D.m.; Air India and BOAC flights for Tokyo scheduled to take off at 9 6.m. arc the will grounded, while CPA Bight for Bangkok due to leave at 7 a.m., and the Qantas Flight

for

Iwakuni (postponed from yesterday) are also still at Kat Tak.

The TAC flight from Bangkok circled

over Kai Tak for three hours

and finally gave up hope of landing and continued to Taipei,

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

More About Inflexibility

Sir heartily agreed your correspondent

with "Listener"

anti

was

Cross-Examination

Of Dr Curran Continues

Explaining the difficulties and misconceptions arising in the use of psychiatric terminology, London Psychiatrist, Dr Desmond Curran said in the Quie case this morning that to the man in the street the word “mania" gave the picture of a raving lunatic. On the other hand there could be a manic case suffering from severe disturbance of judgment who yet would strike the ordinary man as being perfectly normal.

Mr John McNeill, QC, apologised to the Court for inconveniencing them by Kis absence yesterday. He declined an invitation from Mr Justice T. J. Gould to continue his cross-examination of Dr Curran seated.

was

this The cross-examination

by punctuated morning interruptions of Crown Counsel who repeatedly challenged Mr McNeill's version of the evidence This drew KIVCD. previously

Counsel

from the plaintiff's

complaint that

was being 21 again.

Mr Blair-Kerr "Jack-in-a-Box"

slu

It

a

these books. would a long time to do so. But may- be what, you say is correct. My was not Is there recollection much evidence of abnormal be-

what you haviour as

are de scribing.

take

Al one stage when Dr Curran

fort being apologised

to repeat because he wanted circumstances he was asked to assume " be quite sure.

Mr McNeill said he hoped the witness War noi heing slow deliberately.

"I resent that," declared,

Dr

Curren

the

Defendants are Dr P. M. Yap, Government psychiatrist medical officer-in-charge of the Mental Hospital, Dr S. H. Moore of the Medical Department and J. S. McFadzean of Prof. A. Queer, Mary Hospital.

Plairdin is Mr Joseph Leslie, Quic He is suing fendants for $250.000 damages for alleged injury to himself the defendants' allegea from negligence in connection with his detention in a mental home for observaton, or for his cer- uncallon as being of unsound mind and consequential confine- ment in a fie

ent in mental home

ས

Mr Quie is represented by Mr

Mr Law John

McNeill, QC, rence Leong and Mr R. W. S. Winter, all instructed by Mr M. A. de Silva,

Defendants EXI represented by Mr W. A. Blair-Kerr, Senior Crown Counsel, and Mr J. C. McRobert, Crown Counec),

NO BASIS WHATEVER

that

а

I asked you to assume behaviour such

crying. stream of Irrational conversation and any other thing that a lay- man would call an abnormality, are freely and clearly noted 4hroughout the books, If you assume that and you find that in Mr Quie's case there is nothing of such abnormality noted between March 15 and the time he went away, do you not agree that these hospital books afford no basis whatever for the con- clusion that Mr Quie unsound mind?

OB of

enough. Dr Yap told us that no find out whether it la true or other grandiose idea was ex- untrue.

the Mr pressed by

Quic in

that

Duce mental hospital than

he had made a million dollars in accing Ask

to nine months. 1

you assume that is so

Mr Blair-Kerr: He should not be asked to assume that, It a not true.

Mr

I

McNelli: It is true. will put it like this: the only Hieme discussed by Dr Yap him- self and Mr Quie in relation to grandlose ideas or delusions was that Mr Qule said he had made

that not apply to the of Important people?--I it would think

be important Insofar as it was claimed to be relevant. But I don't think it is relevant to the question whether it

was sensible or wise to lat Mr

Quie demand to see these people. We do not want to restrict o

but patient's 'activities things for the benefit; we stop We do

the palient from doing some things to protect their feelings

afterwards.

a million dollars in nine months String Profensar McFadzean's and had n bellet in certain | application and assesalny that H building projects.

WI you indicated severe mania--a "dari-

cm-

assume that?

ger to himself and others--would you expect to and in the hos- Witness; I am told to spital records some indication of sume that I must, but i don't violence?--I think отю would Mr McNeill A severe attack

think it is 50.

usually in really severe maniss, Mr Blat-Kerr interrupted to has been made upon certain de-

but not necessarily. The finitions which Dr Stungo has

say It was not only building pro-phasis is that what we mean by given. Having established this

Jets.

severe b vary different to a lay- Mr McNeill retoried that Mr man's view. point I am going to proceed to the definitions he gave. Assum-Blair-Kerr was behaving "like a ing that this document conveys jacis-in-the-box again."

high degree of mania do you with the And that consistent absenco from the hospital re- ports of abnormal behaviour?

Witness: I do. Might 1 explain that? I think that the terms mania and moniacal ате усту

ה

Но continued h explanation asking the witness to assume what he said was true, 2fter the Judge asked Mr Blair- Kert to sit down..

a

De Curran repeated what he

for being so slow.

FLIGHT OF IDEAS But if there is violenco you would hope to And it in the report?-It depends on the de gree and type of violence. It should be reported, but in hos- pitala in Great Britain many

reported.

ked to assume, apologising cases of minor violence are not "It hope not deliberately" no- marked Mr McNeill.

rosent that," retarted

Cutran.

Dr Curran was referred to his Drbook

Psychiatric Medicine where he described a flight of Ideas.

He said that if a person was showing a flight of ideas the disturbance of thinking would provent concentration on

IVITY given subject for any length of time. But people could show a

Referring again to the million dellers and building scheme, Mr McNeill asked "If that is on fa- cldent of personal observation would that substantiate, in your vlow the belief of Mr Quie's unsoundness of mind?

Hood examples of the difficul. thes and

that misconceptions srise in the use of psychiatric Psychiatrists are Leninology. faced with the dilemma of either using technical terms which are more or less unintelligible to the of using terms in layman, or

in a common usage

technical, hence highly misleading and

think mania sense typical example of this difficulty. I am sure mania to the

ordinary

Witness. It cannot be a per-fight of Ideas one moment of | Bona! · observation

the day and not at another, because in the street implies person

by Itust checked

MeNeill said that Prof. raving lunatic; to doctors it cer

McFadzean eling tion from others. If not. In interpreting fadly doos

testified that in his You sald "severe"

a million dollars it consultation with Mr Quie ho applied to mania you made a mil

substantial amount doctors would, I believe, imply would not be a delusion unless obtained a something quite different to theft is proved to be untrue and of information about Mr Quio's conception the ordinary lay per- you cannot prove it is so unless

you find out from others. cannot son would have in using such a

It disassociate To me patients could be term. suffering from

u severe degree personal observation, at mania (as I would use the

MISLEADING and as of term

I believe other psychiatrists would use it) but

The hearing is before the Acting Chief Justice, Mr Justice T. J. Gould, and a jury.

Questioned about the reports head male nurse made by the and dressers of the mental hos- pital, Dr Curran repeated that he thought they were up to UK standards

Mr McNeill: "You said that it might well be that the parties concerned were not trained to indicate abnormal circumstances? that I understood Witness: only the head male nurse was mentally trained and some the assistent nurses and some of the dressers were unable to I don't know speak English. how many.

BỀ GW A PICTURE Dr Yap had suggested to you that Mr Que did not speak Chinese? I got the impression from somewhere.

in-

Mr M up by informa-

You from

Does that apply to demanding

Mr Bl

physical illness.

Blair-Kerr contended that not true; that Prof. this was McFadzean's evidence was that he obtained very little informa- tion about Mr Quie's physical Illness from the patient.

"That

is what Prof. Me- cannot itemise. Fadzean said to you, but he did

he might strike the ordinary to SEND Important people?--I person meeting him casually, or think that one the ordinary uninformed person, Taking

a alngle instance in not say the same to me," de-

The case is continuing.

as not being sick at all. You frightfully misleading. In-clared Mr McNeill. can have a manic state of very vestigations #ro Important to severe disturbance of judgment might strike the and yet he ordinary person meeting him as being normal.

Yes. If there is no evidence of

un-

ob-

The cargo was duly shipped that the Comment of the Day but neither the Cathay En- about Radio Hongkong referred to Co. nor defendants the inflexibility of the station and gineering pald the balance of the purchase not necessarily to cricket alone. The Test broadcast, or the near price. Plaintiffs gave notice to both parties und as there was no exclusion of it, was merely an

You know his father wha Far East, the item to make your point

Chinese?--I was so informed. abnormality, there would be no cargo was shipped back to this should have been abundant-

You heard that Mr Quio drew value for on opinion of Europe where it was sold at ly clear to "Wot, More Cricket,"

of Dr Yap and put abnormal a picture

behaviour or Noticing a loss.

a photograph of the

down

in Chinese characters sound mind. Oxford crew in today's China

"Mad Doctor?"--I was to

And Mr Qulo was there for Cathay Mall reminds me By that Ume, the

in- of the

formed.

observation purposes. You have Engineering Company had dis- fexibility of Radio Hongkong a

Counsel referred the witness told us that Prof. McFadzean's solved and the partners had dis- few years ago when the BBC

to the three hospital report sppilention (for observation) appeared. Accordingly a writ of commentator's boot, which wus Paris, Feb. 7.

un books and asked him to read Indicates to you a severe degree Swollen rivers, heavy with summons was issued against the following the race, broke down

guarantors, the defendants.

Do you draw any another of mania, and the crews were

passages concerning disappear-

distinction between severe and four days of rain spread

ing in the distance. Last heard patient, Tong, and Mr Quie. Mr

Yung-tsung,

acuto?--That 14 dimeult The entries on March 16 at 7

to flood waters over low-lying Director of the plaintiffs fem, of the said commentator

and praying for a.m. and 2 pm, were that Tong answer. Both are rather ambigu farmlands of, western and who is in charge of the chemical his voice crying

· of ous, both express a degree the

Radio Was BBC

was restless, iniking nonsense, France to- department and had handled south-western

Hongkong

to ethan the clapping his hands, slapping his considerable severity. I think in the transaction | Han

did and negotiated day, disrupting road traffic of the vaseline, corroborated Mr disc jockey put on some light thighs, banging on the door of some cases one competent and driving hundreds of Shurlock's opening.

records and having achieved the padded room, stripping him-server might describe as severe and another as acute, I don't The defendants were Codar this near miracle of flexibility self and was unresponsive

have any precise persons from their homes,

Enterprise Co., 6th floor. Pedder left me wondering about my questions, while Mr Qule was think, either

sensibly

meaning, you cannot draw the and behaved line. The turbulent Garonne, rush-Building, and Suan Pao-lin and $10 bet. Some 15 minutes later conversing

to the Atlantic 385 Zau Vung-tsing, partners of the we got the result. What I did well and was co-operative.

At those two times on the ing west

not know was that about a burst company. miles from Languedoc,

Dr Stungo has sald that' minute later the BBC also did following day, according to the that document conveyed to him through open breaches In its

switche something they

to reports read by the witness and a degree of mania which he nekr Bordeaux and dykes

their television men along, the pallent, Tong, was restless and covered corn and tobacco fields

described as acute do not banks of the river to carry on noisy and banging on the door

think that without knowing with the broadcast and in Radio and Irrational In his conver-

more about the case it was rea- Hongkong one of the most In-sation, but Mr Quie appeared sonable to draw any conclusion teresting races of all time was sensible in speech and be

other than that the man being followed by members of haviour.

Mr McNeill: the staff but not by Radio Hong-

are seriously mentally ill. These

List Dr. Stungo Assuming samples. I am suggesting to elected kong listeners. Was The 050-mile River Loire Governor of Kwangtung Pro Flexibility? No, not on your you that if you look anywhere it conveyed to him acute mania, ross threateningly at Nevera vince at the second meeting of life. The announcer suld we in the dressers report books you cannot say he was positively and In the heart of the famous first-Provincial Assembly on would get mysle, and we got it. and in the head male nurse's wrong in coming to that con- Chateau country at Chinon it Sundity, according to a Canton

A.B.C. book you will find perfectly chalon on the document?

plain statements of surpassed the

Mr Blair-Kerr: That is not so, reacheil last month."

with water. A number of ham- New Governor

F

lets were isolated and fishing boots brought farmers food and clothing.

four feet in 48 hours at La Rodio,

The Garonne rose more than Of Kwangtung

Mr Tou Chu

flood stage report

Mr Tou was formerly acting The riverside quarters of Governor. dosen cliles. were in, danger, Mr J. D. Alexander, former

Pottlers, Managing Director of Messrs including Nevers, Mackinnon, Mackenzie & Co Brive, Argenton, Niort and

Seven deputy Governors were elected at the same meeting.

Among 41 committee members

Back From Leave

..

to

1

the

any

SERIOUSLY, ILL

WELK

said

was asked what he the word

abnormal behaviour on the part in the document, i

of patients. I invite you to do

wilnem It

by

It depends In what He was not asked The Assistant Director of you mean by abnormal be-document as a whole.

about the

think the

Calay sa Zyrtaca, Sr the Not at watery Selected Sex zàn the XwUDKIDS | Marine. Mr AG. Parker,

and Tha what Dr

Yap has

toldoen

west from the mountains and administration were three Mrs Parker returned from Ipavemen ment-last March, returned here,

Worrior. with Mre !" Alexander, from highland to the Atlantic,

Weather forecast aid the London this morning in the FIMUS Cart for a mooing rain would continue, - United

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