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JAPAN'S SIBERIAN POLICY. MR. OZAKI'S INDICTMENT OF

INTERVENTION.

THE BRUTAL TRUTH AT GOLF. MUTUAL CHASTISEMENT AND ITS

BENEFITS:

** THE TIMES,”

[BY A CORRESPONDENT OF

Those of us who insist on telling our neighbours of all their little faults and endeavouring to correct them are not as We are like the a rule very popular. poo misunderstood gentleman in the

In a long serius of interpellations pres sentat to the Imperial Diet before the dissolution, Mr. Yukio Ozaki attacked the policy o continued intervention in Siberia. His principal points, repro- duced below from a transition in the direction. North China Standard (Japanese

tion.)

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DR. WU AND MILITARY FUNDS INJUNCTION AGAINST HONGKONG

AND SHANGHAI BANK,

SPORT.

TENNIS.

HONGKONG CO. TOURNAMEN

In H.M.. Supreme Court at Shanghai

Yesterday, before a large gathering of on April 19th, his Honour Judge tennis enthusiasts, R. Torasendentored Skinner Turner delivered judgment in the final of the open singles championship the action of Chang Shih-chao. The

Bab Ballads with a weakness in this gong and Shanghai Banking Cor- when he defeated 0. Runjahn Townsend poration. Mr. B. N. Macleod appeared has not, perhaps, a greater variety of for the applicant and Mr. McNeill for theatrokes, but he is the better player near the - defendant bank,

net, and he often got the better of his His Lordship said:

Topponent, at a crucial point of the game This is a motion for an interim injune-by going up to the net nad killing his

a

the good I can

Yat everybody says I'm such a disagree-

⚫able mant

And I can't think why!

SAID HE TO ME.

S

what we

A

have.

organ), are of interest to-day as indicat ing that the Opposition leader fortsaw

The general truth here stated becomes tion restraining the defendans bank from opponent's lobs. On the other handi Rum the trend of events. The main points of

Parting with moneys alleged to be in their hands as bankers, After the net. Rumjaha is a young player who is The man who, without receiving encour issue, of the writ saking only for s bound to do well in coming tournament his interpellations follows:-

(1) Before the guestion of extending are doing wrong" should be acourged from for an interim order practically in terms Forster, he did far better than many of injunction, the plaintiff moved e parte In defeating Crocker, Raworth and agement, presumes to tell us riel to the Czecho-Slovaks was brought the links with the broken shaft of his own of the writ and I granted the application his friends expected. As a matter of fact, niblick. On the other hand, be who when until the hearing of this motion. The up the Government, out of its desire to invited can and will try to direct our Bank now appears and takes up a par few expected either Townsend or Bumjahn dispatch our troops to Siberia, had been mistakes for as is a friend indeed

fectly proper position; they do not admit to go as far as they did. Townsend, who conferring with the British Government little plain speaking from him may do as that they have any moneys in their hands has beaten M. P. Choa, M. H. Lo and

more good than hours of our solitary to which this injunction applies: if they Major Greenaway in the oarlier rounds. thereanent. What was the object of the theorizing

they do not claim any interest in will now meet the winner of the Lo-Red- Government at that time! (This na ab A few days ago a fellow-sufferor and I them: but they arge that such an injune mond match being played this evening.

Rumjaha appeared to be nervous. in-the- the time of the predecessor of the present went out together for the deliberate purtion as is asked ought not to be granted

pose of mutual analysis and criticism. Cabinet, but the Chief of the Generale indulged in a perfect orgy of plain against them as bankers. I do not under- first set, and started badly... Towngand wa Staff and the Military authorities that speaking. I could not help thinking of stands them to argue that there is no leading four love at one time and looked jurisdiction to grant in I understand like getting a love set when Rumjahn won ex-Kings Fadella and Valorose, who that their argument is based not on the two games, Townsend was playing too - time being still in office, the present after their tail, became monks of the character of the moners sought to be well at this stage and won the first set, Government is expected to be under severest Order of Flagellants

and ad

attached (it is clearly a fund) nor on the sa. In the second set, Rumjahn played obligation to give an answer to this ques-humbly but resolutely."

ministered

one another Borgings to

nationality of the parties to the dispute in something like his accustomed "form With such bitter and scathing language did we ash but on the position that they hot as Instead of lobbing so much as he had beer bankers: such an order. say they might (8) When the proposal of the United each other's faults.

do them irreparable harm and also would doing, he started driving and forced Town- States Government for sending military On the whole I think that we did one interfere with the relationship which and to the back of the court. Townsend assistance to the Czecho-Slovaks was another good, or at any rate jet me grate-exists between then and their customer in made a big effort when Rumisha was lead fully say of my fellow-flagellant that be the absence of the customer. I am re-ing 4-1, but the youngster won the set 6-3. received, our Government immediately did mo good. The errors that we wereferred to the case of Fontaine-Besson In the third set, both players spent them- complied with the American pro- respectively committing were of a different Parts Bank (12. Time, LR 181.) in which elves. Townsend was leading 3-1 when character. My crimes, save for an occ the Court of Appeal dissolved an injune- Bumjaha equalised. Thenceforward, it posal, and instead of dispatching sional aberration with the wooden clubs, Labout the same number of troops us were chiefly committed on the green when on granted against a bank, on these was a ding-dong struggle, each man win- grounds: a case which is quoted in text ning a game, till the set stood 7 all. Then Books on basking law, but does not seem Townsend won two games by his accurate America (7,000) as at first expected sent in the grip of sheer nervous paralysis My partner suffered from a

to be referred to in more general works: play from the service line. and the set His out an army to Siberia about ten times more obscure and resondite disease. stronger (70.000) than arranged at first. patting was, saeyer, most graceful and as it is not given in the Annual Prac-9-7. In the last set. Townsend assumed an that effective, but be had lost all his length tire. In that case an action was brought early lead, but Ramjain, forcing matters, against a bank to recover some £11,000 made the set 3 all. Then Townsend won Our diplomatie credit was injured

with all his other clube; his tee shots went which had been paid in by the plaintiff's two games, and looked like finishing his the distance of a light iron shot, and his wife and against which the bank had opponent when, after a series of long: (6) According to the statement issued by light iron shots did not go at all. It was, issued a letter of credit: the plaintiff radius, Rumjahn won a game. The Indian the Government in August, 1917, gned therefore, my part to do most of the talk-alleged that the money was his and that made a great effort to win the next game by all the Ministers of State. the purpose ing through to the green, but when once he was prosecuting his wife for larceny and equalise, but the tack was with Town of dispatching our troops to Siberis is

we arrived there I was humbly silent and only for extending relief to the Czecho he addressed me in a for biting sentences of it. The Court of Appeal dissolved an send, who won the ses 6-4, and the match,

injunction restraining the bank from Slovaks, on the accomplishment of which purpose the troops are to be immediately I do not propose to set out all our vari- parting with this money on the grounds 3-6; 9-7,„,6-1.

Is it consistent with this ous and tentative prescriptions but only of England Supplement for 1918.00 p. 84 forward above. In Halsbury's Laws pur withdrawn. statement that our troops are still kept into give one or two which illustrate the I find a reference to an unreported case. THE FUTURE OF GOLD. Siberiat

benefits of a mutual condemnation societyLazi. v. Lizardi in which an interim (7) Our troops still stationed in Siberia When we try in solitude to cure ourselves injunction apparently against a bank was The reports that have lately obtained." in the absence of a clear reason and neces our minds are too apt to dwell on insigni- granted in respect of securities This currency in London and New York us to sity therefor and their withdrawal being Ecant details of grip, stance, or what was in 1912 and I am sorry I cannot get the impending export of gold on a large- delayed can only tend to increase suspinot, which, save in so far as they may any access to a copy of the Times news scale to the United States afford many up- cion on the part of the Powers with re ference to our policy regarding the situs temporary confidence do not alect paper in which it appears. It is an addi-portunities for surmise and speculation as When the first tion in Siberia. Does not the Government have no sympathy with these tiny points tion to the note giving the reference in to the future of gold.

Besson's case. The note shows me that think that it may become a cause of isola of style, for one reason because be cannot be rule that appears to have been laid Bailable gold under the new arrangement tion of our country by the Powers?

reached the London market last Septem- ease cannot be aber, states a correspondent of The Times, (s. It goes without saying that the disown sensations. He is like the law de sheolute one. Mr. MoNeill has very patching of our troops to Siberis is simis os curat, and ho will tell us in rightly referred me to a case in this Court the most adverse exchange to doll being. of the military operations against Ger one expressive word expetly how little he in 1911, in which Jadge Bourne granted was that of New York, the dollar being. many. Consequently or is ad cares about them to rent or an injunction against the present bank then at Further, the price at which propor

wilddraw" them, aming lintely.

would not laten to my various in circumstances almost exactly similar per cent. upon the coming into force of the Peace abstruse theories as to why I could not to those in this case. It is worthy of gold was exchangeable for dollars was Trenty with Germany. But not only his patt. He simply said: A more miser remark that in that ease the learned still $20.67183 per oz. fine, a figure corrent the withdrawal nut been effected, but able, cowardly, undecided sort of patt

that the bank noted

con-ponding to the parity of $4.8665 per additional troops have been sent out. Is I never saw in my

life.

You are not adge expressly not this contrary to the Imperial Rescript hitting the ball, and your club is not sented to the order. I do not think it has pound. It was naturally anticipated that issued on the occasion of the

restoration going through." Now I think I knew this been questioned in this Court that in large proportion of the gold available: of peace! ..

myself, but without his aid I could not proper cases there is ample jurisdiction from time to time would find its way to (9) The War appropriations in the act upon the knowledge. I wanted to do to make orders for the detention or pre-New York. In point of fact, it is doubt- servation of property: they certainlyful if 3 per cent of the total gold marketed Budget being for the expenditures neces-something more difficult and elaborate have been made in respect of goods to in London since September has reached the sitated by the war with Germany it is than merely to try to hit the ball. But wh

which rital claimants appear: they are|United States of America. Another indisputable that the same credit can not my friend cleared my mind of cant, and made in relation to title deeds for land strange fact is that since the latter part be employed for any other purpose. It by sheer overbearing insistence made me

wter boundary disputes are in litigation. of October, apart from nominal quotations be legitimately employed even after for a short while, hit the ball clean andAnd if I may quote Jessel, M.R. "the when to dealings took place, the price of the restoration of peace for withdrawal of fearlessly, instead of treating it as if i principle underlying all orders for the gold has not vase been fixed at a figuro the troops, but is it not illegal to devote were a live bomb,

preservation of property pending litiga- the same credit for the expense of station- ing the troops in Siberia and also for

the litigation is to reap the fruite of that have been immediately profitable. tion is this, that the successful party in at which it export to New York would litigation and not merely obtain What, then, are the factors that have barren success," see Polini v. Grey. Is Ch. contrived to negative there early anticipa Div. p. 3. In that case a very strong tions The Indian Government, faced That I ever should griere,

Court of Appeal continued an injunction with the necessity of providing for their That I ever should suffer again sang the converted Master Charles restraining the distribution of a fund currency demands, have resorted to exten Wesley, but we may be sure that he had, pending an appeal to the House of Lords, sive purchases of gold, which have been even though the claimant had been un-continued until a recent date, and it may nevertheless to sorrow metaphorically successful in two Courts, on the ground be stated without fear of contradiction over many ill-struck putts. Doubtless that if she were successful there would be that the greater portion of the "free gold" shall often be as pusillanimous on the danger of the fund not being forthcoming, has found its way to India. Other i green na over 1. was.. Still, I do think I have also been referred to the case, in portant purchasers have been Argentina, that my friend has taught me a valuable this Court of Hayes v. Shanghai Explora Straits Settlements, South Africa, Spain lemon for all time and all strokes in tion Company (1919), in which the learn Switzerland, and, in a lesser degres, Hol brushing away side issues and going toed Judge of this Court refused, anland and France. Bizce the adoption of the root of the matter,

application said to be like this one but the report on Indian currency the India that was case in which the plaintiff Council seems to have retired from the sought to attach the property of his feld for the time being. With exchanges alleged debtor in the hands of the defen at their present level the potential destina- dants with a view of levying execation tions of gold are the United States, upon it if he recovered judgment in an

the

sending "additional troops there?

the main issue. The candid friend will

detect them, and they exist only in our down in Beeson's

*

when he grows so old and cynical and There comes, slas to every golfer a time disappointed that faith is dead, and no cure can make him ecstatic any more.

I could not believe.

LA SAID I∙TO. HIM.

♫

defendants claimed an interest in the Settlements, Switzerland. So far "free. property.

The Court diamissed

the gold" has not been engaged for ship The heavier costs of application, on the ground that the plain- ment to Japa

COL.nexion

(11) In any country no loyal people will welcome foreign assistance in bettling national disputes. It is only those dis loyal to national interests who seek foreign help. Our Government's policy is direct ed to belping the latter class of the people and very naturally results in inviting the antipathy of the whole of the Russians who are loyal to their national interests. All the Russians irrespective of their political inclinations (except only a few inclined to be traitors) are desiring to see our troops withdrawn. Does the Gow ernment think it to be of advantage to our national interests to keep our troops in Siberis in spite of inviting the sata So much for the kind but arm chastise gonism of all the Russians

sent which he administered. The treit (12) As a result of military operations ment that I had to apply to him was of a certain degree of concession of rights a rather different order. It consisted in may be secured, but such will prove to my most solemnly swearing that things action against him. In that case, too, the Argentina, Japan India, Spain, Straita be of no benefit when a majority of right were not in the least as they seemed to minded people become hostile to us. Does him. He was, for example, trying very the Government in spite of this fact think bard to go slov back, and was ander, the that the expenses of our military opera impression that he was doing so, but, in i must get his judgment first and then shipment and interest charges would re- tions are compensated for by the acquis fast, his club was going up like a streak seek for execution. Until that indgment quiry the premium of Japanese exchange tion of certain concessions/",

of lightning "At length, when hann was given in his favour he had no interest against parity to appreciably exceed that

of New York or Buenos Aires is free aged to take the club back of (13) If the dispatch of our tools and and reasonable speed, he believed habe in the property little hesitation in

at all solely based upon the principle of Jus was swinging so slowly as to be an objecting mind as to the order to be made if it bypa

fice and Humanity, why has not even of ridicule, and had to be reassured over Bad agf been for Febson's case. It seems particular case, and one half of the military expenditures been and over again I have never seems a bet. Lo me that where a fund in the hands of should like to quote Astbury in devoted to supplying неселваку material

ter example of the way in which the Beith subject who claims no interest zalieving the people of their destitute swing, can be tebi porarily ruined by in the subject of rival claims as to Welldon .. Butterley Co. (1020, 1. Ch. condition (The expenditures required nervous anxiety to get the agony over.

which can only be deter 183) Before I pass from this case I for despatching troops may soon reach a The patien; hra by nature a rather long mined by litigation begun or about to be in Quinn, 6. Leather (1), which, not for would refer to the words of Lard Halsbury. um of three hundred millions yen. sing. Yet he was in ao dreadful hurry began order restraining that British the first Should the whole of Russia become our that the club had barely gone back as far subject from disposing of the fund is the to bear in mind. He says, There are I bave found advantageous, time, nemy there is no knowing the amount of ss it would for an ordinary mashia pitch proper order to be made. Such a case two observations of

character genera! money to be required for the purpose.) when down it came again far too quickly seems to me to fall exactly within the which I wish to make and one is to repea

(15) The Government is apt to say that and with no strength behind it; the principles laid down by the Master of the what I have very often said before, this the Japaness residing in Siberis call for attack was never given time to develop. Rolls in the case I have already quoted.” protection. But are the extent and de When we get to such a pitch in this au And this is the more so when one remem every judgment must be read an applicable groe of the value of thein undertakings observer must be useful, because without here the peculiar state of iurisdiction in to the particular facts proved or asumed there such as to warrant the disbursement bis repeated sasurances we never could this country, and the fact that in this to be proved since the generality of the dreds of millions yen! If their lives and is in very dificult to judge bow fast and meat fund at the disposal of a private whole law, but governed and qualified by of military expenditures of several hun believe how criminally we are behaving ease the fund is alleged to be a Govern- expressions which may be found there are, not intended to be expositions of the property and exposed a danger is it not also how far ye are swinging.There is individual. It is again to be remembered the particular acts of the case in which to order them to evacuule 1 nothings easier than to get into a habit of that in a case like this the aid of this such expressions are to be found. The (18) If the present tendency is allowed overswinging ithout realizing it, and Court will eventually have to be obtained other is that a case is only authority, for

be not only to go on, the consequence' will come to be tantamount to having declared war incredulous, but a little

It is the came with titking the awTOLse control over it. To my mind the that it can be quoted for a proposition againsɛ the whole of Bussia. Does the

Lacts in Besson's case are quite different that may seem to follow logically from it. Government feel justised in taking mili. the ball. We don't like being told of it to those in this case there the plaintif Our Rule 194 gives this Court jurisdica tary measures which are calculated to It seems so elementary a mistake for ex-was sucing the bank for the money heretion to make such an order in a proper Invite so rave a consequence without all perienced and self-important persone fire ho only asks for an injunction to preserve case: the rule is practically the same da I believe that really in the fund: there the bank bad already grant 0:50 B3 of the home practice and it seems ing for a Imperial Rescript and without us to make. securing the concurrence of the Diet

genious friend would tell us that our faulted a letter of credit as against the fund to me that in the position disclosed in. (18) Ther

her Godernment is always given to consisted in something rare, subtle, and here we have no knowledge of any such the plaintiff's fidavit which is the only expressing the necessity of concerted interesting-say that the knuckle of the transaction and the Bank would have evidence st present that is before me, this sation with the Powers concerned Now left little finger was not quite in the show this Court that some

omach action is a case in which the

should both Great Britain and the United States right place. Having the put us in a had been takenly. It seem

case 1 more like

's case After a lengthy discussion Lis Lordship Japan remains there alone with her toms of this obscure malady imitated in troops, inviting thereby the antipathy of a mysterious way those of a much simpler circumstances do not think that this tinued in its present form till after judg. ordered that the injuction would be con- all classes of the people of Russia: Docs one, and that, therefore childish and Court is bound to extend the ruling in ment in the Mixed Court with liberty! the Government by so doing think it has absurd as is might appear, the cure was that case further than the facts of the to both parties to apply, defendants to succeeded in realizing concerted action 40-go-low back, not to press, and

(Continued at foot of next d'lumn) „Kenya costs of the motion in any event. with the Allied and Assporated Powers? keep the eye on the ball

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