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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, MARCH 12ris. 1981

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A LAND OWNERSHIP TITLE INTERESTING POINT IN ORINESE DAILY BECOMING MORE ACUTE-ferred to, endorsed this recommendation,

LAW DISCUSSED IN U.S. COURT.

"His Honour Judge Lobingier delivered an important judgment in the United States Court at Shanghai, last week, in an action over the possession of a piece of land brought by the Doong Ngi Bone volent Association against the heirs. of Henry S. Grew, who were not represent ed. Mr. Rodger appeared for plaintiffs: In giving judgment his Honour said:--

The latest bulletin received from the International Relief Committee in Peking

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Conditions are daily, becoming more acute over the greater part of the famine area. "Death figures in West Honan ara now reliably reported to exceed 1,000 daily, und typhus, which has broken out in the Pihansa Kaifeng, has spread so rapidly that there are more than twenty

ically and economically..

The Sanitary Committee, already re

pointing out that in the villages, where there are no more overcrowding and no more lice than in ordinary years, the chances of a widespread epidemic are no greater this year than in previous Springs. The Tientsin Camp, however, was regarded as a danger-spot, which might be responsible for a disastrous epidemic, if typhus once gained a hold therein, and it was urged that it should be broken up without unnecessary delay,

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and prevented from returning...

This is an action to quiet title to tract of land situated in the-International Settlement of Shanghai known as Cadas tral lot. No. 901 Plaintiff's chairman | deaths thers daily. Over the entire area, and that the inmates should be sent back testifies that plaintiff has been in posses the population is slowly sinking both phyto their homes with grain and money sion thereof over 50 years, without meet ing adverse claims, exhibits a deed dated 1588 and a series of tax receipts, the earliest of which (Ex. S) is for 1891,

to the United International Famine Re-and of the Sanitary Committee were duly It appears, however, that on March fiet Committer, by independent inves-conveyed to the local Consular body, 19th, 1802, the lot in question was regis- tereit at the American Consulate in tigators who made their reports in person which addressed representatious to the Shanghai in the name of Henry S. Grow and by responsible field workers who re. Civil Governor, urging that the Camp and it is to extinguish his claim and those

These are the grave reports submitted

of his heirs and successors that this action, ported by wire. is principally brought.

If this land were located within the United States and the plaintiff had occupied it for the time and under the circumstances disclosed in the evidence here proluced, a decree would undoubted- ly be rendered in plaintiff's favour as having required title by adverse posses sion or, as it is termed in the civil law, prescription. The time required varies in different jurisdictions but in none of them is it as long as plaintiff shove its pos- session to have been and under the latest congressional enactment on the subject it cannot exceed 22 years even as against those under disability.

But the land is located in China and most writers on international: law hold that prescription, as one of the incidenta of land tenure, is governed by the lez rei sitae.

The views of the medical practitioners

should be broken up without delay. While All indications are that the crisis is the course proposed is understood to find close at hand, that additional money and favour in Chinese official circles no steps grain must be forced through to the more remote districts or a large part of the have yet been taken to carry it out. Each week that elapses without the break-up population will go down.

The reports come in just as many see-of the camp intensifies the danger to tions of China are winding up their parts Tientsin. And the fact that the Civil Gover of the National Famine Relief Drive and ner's reply to the Consular hody made no as other sections are getting their cam- mention of plans for the future, but mere

ly announced that the inmates of the! paigns well sped up,

camp had been or were being vaccinated indicates that the gravity of the problem is neither appreciated nor understood. Vaccination may confer immunity against

Deaths are increasing so rapidly in the twenty-two bsiens of West Honan that they cannot be recorded, bat might easily run into the thousands daily, ac cording to Bishop White, while there are some hundred of deaths daily in six hsiens of the northern portion.

all-pox, which has been very prevalent in the City this winter. But it affords. no protection against typhus, the disease from which there is most to fear at the

moment.

Typhus has been raging for a week at Kaifeng and has not yet been checked.

The metace to Tientsin from the Relief So far the Japanese lead all the foreign! groups in the totals. Final reports will Camp, with its thousands of refugees show whether any other nationality will should appeal to a wider circle than the pass the total of $50,000 turned over to members of the North China Inter- the treasurer, The Japanese sold 1.000 national Society of Famine Relief and tickets to the open air programmes. The the local medical practitioners. It is a Oriental Development Company gave matter which might well engage the at- 845,000, students in the Chinese language tention of the various foreign Chambers course at the School of Foreign lang-of Commerce, for it may be regarded as certain that if a typhus epidemic_should unges, gave $1,010 and Japanese and Koreans gave 6,143 yen through the accur in the Camp. nad get beyond Keijo Nippo and the Masil Shimpo. control, Tientsin will be declared an in- Japanese and Chinese friends in Port fected port, and vessels, trains, passen- Arthur, gave 3,031 yen, and Japanese in gers and cargo from this part of the country will be subject to the strictest Harbin gave 3.888 yen.

Apart, therefore, form of quarantine. from the menace to the health of the community, a typhus epidemic would have disastrous effects upon the commerce of the port, and this, as well as the purely sanitary aspect of the matter, ought to receive immediate attention.

"This follows" observes Bar, not as the popular belief generally goes, as merely dialectical or merely logical Decessity springing from our conception of the law of things or of territorial sovereignty, but as a real necessity, resting upon the intolerable inconveni ence of any other doctrine.", Now the lex res, sitae, in this case, is the law of China. It is true that the jurisdiction of American courts in China must be exercised in conformity with the laws of the United States." But so the civil jurisdiction of British courts here is exercised in conformity with English law" and said courts neverthe less apply the local law to land and its incidents, including prescription, because, As was declared by Lord Talbot, before the middle of the eighteenth century, the law of nations was part of the law of England." It is equally a part of "the laws of the United States and we are prepared, accordingly to apply the Obinese law of prescription to this case. Navy, $5,000; and the Ministry of

But here we encounter a new difficulty, for our researches disclose that there is no such law. The highest Chinese tried. bunil has declared:

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Nanking has wired that it has passed the $100,000 mark and Kaifeng has raised 898,000. Chungking is out for a fund of $30,000 and many other sections are still conducting their campaigns.

Most of the Ministries in Peking have turned in the money on their pledges. Those that followed the Ministry of Com munications which gave $41,000 are: the

finistry of Foreign Affairs, $5,000 HONGKONG VOLUNTEER. DEFENCE

CORPS. Ministry of Justice, $4,000: Board of

Finance, more than $3,000. All the dona- tions exceed the round figures as detail- ORDERS BY LILUT,-COL, L. G. BIRD, D.8.0.,

Peking's house to house canvas netted

A Mandate dated the 10th day of more than $10,000, this fund being obtain- March in the to be in force. Now,

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"THE TYPHUS MENACE.

ADMINISTRÁTI TE COMMANDANT.

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neid on Monday, the 14th inst.. Other parades during week ending,

Corps will parade on Monday, March the 19th inst. will be held in accord ance with programme of work. 21st, at 6.30 p.m., at Headquarters. Attendance, strong as possible. Drill order, with helmets.

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After famine-pestilence. That is

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since the provision contained in the Tsing Code to the effect that claim for had the following article on the typhus

· The Peking & Tientsin Times recently further payment, or redemptionis barred after 30 years was repealed when menace:- the Code was revised, it cannot be ap plied:

the usual sequence, the survivors of the "Our existing law has no provision famine, herded together in those areas as regards prescription. What is pro-where scanty supplies of food are ob- The vided in the Draft Civil Code relating tainable, and weakened by insufficient to acquisitive, proscription as regards nourishment, succumb only too readily to " ownership and to extinctive prescrip certain types of infectious disease, of Officers for duty 2nd-Lieut. E. M. tion as regards the restoration of the which typhus is generally the most pre- right of succession is inapplicable.

The Civil Code has not yet been is endemic in North China. It usually There

valent and the most fatal. Typhus fever promulgated, and, in the absence of ex makes its appearance in Spring. It press provisions, it is not for the court claims large numbers of victims annually to say what kinds of rights should be in this part of the world, though the subject to prescription in regard to epidemies seldom assume alarming pro their acquisition and extinction and portions unless there has been a famine when the prescriptive period begins to in the neighbourhood. Its appearance in run and when completed." It would appear, then, that while there hension in well-informed medical circles, the Spring of 1921 is regarded with appre was once a prescriptive law of some kind and the practicability of taking effective in China, it has been replaced and that, precautions to check any outbreak has Parade since those provisions of the proposed engaged the attention of the various Civil Code which are intended to re- International Relief Agencies from the Dress place it have not come into force, there outset. is now a legal, hiatus.

The preventive measures are But while we cannot, for that reason,neas with which they have to be applied comparatively simple. It is the thorough- adjudicato a title in plaintiff by prescrip that constitutes the chief difficulty. tion it does not follow that no relief can Typhus or famine fover is a lice-borne d's- be awarded, against defendants, The leading one, as we have seen, had the which it is spread is by "

ease: The chief if not the only means by land registered in his name in 1869. But from the sick to the well through the transmission on December 12th of that year he signed louse." "No lice-no typhus" is the a paper (Ex A) declaring the pro- only practicable motto on which to act." perty to belong entirely to Chuping" But those who are familiar with condi- and transferring to the latter any title, tions in China will have some idea of the possessed by the former:

This, coupled with the long period during scattered population to embark upon difficulty of inducing an apathetic, widely. which none of the defendants has asserted a systematic delousing, campaign. Thou any claim to the lot, seems conclusively anda of doctors and assistants, and to show that they are without interest the provision of countless sterilisers, therein. We feel justified in so finding fumigatora, baths, cases of kerosene, and and it is accordingly considered and other material used for the destruction decreed that defendants have no interest of lice, would be necessary, and even then in said cadastral lot-904 (numbered 114 the people would probably yield unwill in the land registry American Consulate ingly to the precautions which science General at Shanghai) and no ground for enjoins. The North China International objecting to the registration thereof by Society of Famine Relief, which has its plaintiff in the name of a trustee selected headquarters in Tientsin, after securing a by it.

As the service was constructive there will be no award of costs,

WINE UNDER WATER.

G. F. E. RAPSOs, Bt-Major,

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NOTICES.

Members are reminded that the Azanal Smoking Concert "and Dis- tribution of Shooting prizes takes place at Headquarters on Monday, March 14th, commencing at 9:15 p.m. (instead of Friday, March 11th, as previously arranged). Dress for prize winners, uniform; remainder optional. Tickets for concert can be obtained from Headquarters. Admission by ticket only, 8.-Permission has been granted for the formation of a pipe band" in connection with Scottish Company. End-Lieut. T. W. Hill, M.C., is ap

pointed Band, President, Hongkong, March 11th, 1921.

YOU ARE JUST AS OLD

endorsed the opinion that a system ic report from a special Sanitary Committee, anti-typhus campaign in the region for which it has assumed responsibility us you feel A pair of correctly fitted glassen would not justify the enormous expendi

ture required, as the money could be used is a powerful factor in making you feel young. A party of architects, under the guid. to better purpose if employed to prevent Efficiency demands that you wear glasses it ance of Mr. S. Everard Davies and a conclusion in regard to the famine area your eyes are not perfect. Fully fifty per cent. deaths from starvation. This was ita Salvage Corps officer, the other day, inspected the ruins of the Hop Exchange as a whole. at London Bridge, which was destroyed by fire last November. The fire was so the problem which required and received. A great many are unaware of the rent come fierce that enormous steel girders were attention, nod that was the concentration dition of their over until the examination is twisted into fantastic shapes, and another in the vicinity of Tientsin, in an over-

There was however, another aspect of

of the people who do not wear glasses should do

curious feature (which none of the crowded and insanitary relief camp. of The Hongkong Optical Co., Successors architects had experienced before) was the about fifty-thousand famine refugeen. The to Clark & Co Refracting and Manufacturing bonding of cast-iron pillars as much in proximity of this camp was regarded as

some cases as 3 or 4 inches. Underneath a menace to the whole population of Opticians, Jocated in 53, Queen's Road Central, the building some £180,000 worth of wines Tientsin, and as long ago as December have the equipment to text your eyes accurately, belonging to a large catering firm were 28th last a meeting of local practitioners,

stored, and although the cellars were after an examination of the Tientsin Testing the eight and fitting glansen is their flooded for seven days, most of this wine Camp, strongly recommended that it has been salved.

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