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STRIKE CREW SENTENCED.

REFUSING TO OBEY ORDERS.

PROCEEDINGS IN PENANG POLICE COURT,

"Soven men of the crew of the s.s. City of Newcastle were charged belere the Penang magistrate, Mr. B. S. Walton, a few days ago with wilfully refusing to obey, and with continuing whist on the high reas to disobey, the lawful commands of their captain.

Of the seven, one was the ship's cook. four were firemen and the

DOCTOR AND WIFE INTRAGEDY.

CHILDLESS SPECIALIST IN CHILDREN'S AILMENTS.

CHURCH HONOURS AFTER SUICIDE.

The tragedy of a childless, wife, and her doctor husband who was s noted specialist in children's ail- ments has been revealed after' the suicides of Professor and "Frau Klemens Pirquet of Vienna.

The professor and his wife, though both committed suicide, were given full church hopours, and the ceremony was attended by, ex- rest trimmers. They had been President Hainisch, the American taken on at Calenta and, said the and Japanese Ambassadors, and Captain in his evidence, their workmen internationally known in the world of medicine, social welfare, was satisfactory until two days and science. before, the ship's arrival at Colom-

bo.

"Rather Jail Than Work.'"

Mr. Robert Middlemist, chief en gineer on board, stated in the course of his evidence that he gave orders to the accused but that they refused to obey. When the ship put into port at Colombo, he told them to get down below and work. Their reply, witness said, wag, they would rather go to jail than work

Witness had no idea at all why the accused would not work. His impression was that all the men below deck were satisfied. He had received no complaints prior to the etrike.

Asked if the accused had been put to extra labour, witness said that it was a matter of common run for the remaining crew to come round in six-hour watches.

First accused: When we were two days from Colombo, did I not complain to you that the serang ill-treated us and provided us with lasufficient food ?—No.

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Prize Lecture.

Professar Pirquet was to have gone to Berlin in a "few days to deliver the lecture in connection with a prize, which he was recently awarded, and he was afterwards to

to Rome, where the League of Nations' Commission for Children's Hgyiene, of which he was a mem her, was to meet.

He had actually booked his sleep- ing-ca: berths for this journey. The professor disclosed in his fare- well letters the fact that the intal decision was due mainly to the hopeless mental suffering of his wild.

The death, in fact, marked the end of a long and heroic struggle against her despondency.

Frau Pirquet was outwardly of fine physique, and was formerly the Baroness Pereira-Arnstein. She was popular in Vienna society, an enthusiastic dancer, and was known to many acquaintances as a friend ly and engaging personality.

Acute Depression.

Second accused: Did you know that I complained to the Close friends, however, had Captain against the serang for ill-known for years that she suffered treatment? And did he not tell from periods of the acutest depres you about it 1-Yes.

sion, which was ascribed to her Third accused: Were you aware grief that she was childless. I that I complained to the Captain seemed, indeed, a tragic irony of that the serang had broken my fate that the physician, whose whole head 1-No.

life-work was devoted to the welfare of children, had no children of his

Fifth accused: Did I not com- plain to you about the serang ilaw. treating me I never heard a com- plaint at all from anyone.

His Worship: You did hear that they complained before they reach ed Colombo ?

Mr. Middlemist: Yes, before the arrival at Colombo,

Was any action taken in con- sequence We interviewed the serang and the tindals. The serang; said that the accused had complain- ed that it was too hot to work.

Did the others. complaint-No...

Frau Pirquet of late had under- gone n severe operation, and since then her general condition had be come much worse. In more recent times she sought relief in narcotics, and scarcely ever left her home. It waknown to a few friends that Profesor Pirquet, while maintain ing his scientife work and fulfilling his public obligations (he was also President of the Austrian National Health Society and interested in numberless welfare institutions), was fighting with mequalled self- sacrifice for the restoration of his wife's health

Äsking to be Paid On. Captain Hill said the accused had been working on the ship from Caleuita to Colombo, and their covery of a special skin reaction, Medical science owes him the dis- work had been quite satisfactory, called after him, which makes it Two days before the ship's arrival possible to detect tuberculosis in the at Colombo, they asked to be paid earliest stages; and the theory of of. They gave no reason for their Allergy," which тесля the request. They just wanted to be liability to infection of super- paid off They had signed on for sensitive organisms, and was the basis of new treatments for such complaints

and hay fever asthma.

a year.

They finally went to their work, witnesscontinued, and

worked satisfactorily till the day of enter ing the port of Colombo. When vitaess returned from shore he saw the accused with their boxes and belongings waiting at the gang. way, ready to go. They would not work. Witness commanded them

to go back to their duties. One of them tried to jump overboard, but did not succeed. To save fur ther trouble, witness.locked them alt up in one room and sailed the ship from Colombo.

To answer to a question, Capt. Hill said that one of the secused laid any complaints with him.

First accused: I complained to

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This theory was advanced by Professor J. E. Marcault in an address to the conference on new ideals in education at Malvern

you about the serang's ill-treat I could quote the case of a ment of us-No.

I spoke to you in Hindustani of which you did not understand much -No, I do not understand Hindustani.

Magistrate: It was no good com- plaining to the Captain in Hindus fani when he did not understand the language.

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Magistrate: About two days be Lore you arrived at Colombo the accused came up and asked to be paid off. Did you understand

them

ters, met a man, whom she started mother who, having three daugh-

to love," he said.

"She was married. She never said a word of that emotion. She Bot kept her passion, to herself. knew it; no one ever knew it. she nursed it. Her husband never

She remained perfectly faithful to her marriage vows, but because" she nursed it and developed in ber unconscious mind the power of passion, which went against her own moral eonviction, her three daughters went wrong.

"There is no doubt whatever to me or to the doctor, who told me Captain Hill: No. I sent for the of the case, that it was the action Chief Engineer and the serang. of the unconscious mind of the Rahman Nulla the Erst accused mother upon the unconscious minds who worked on hoard as a fireman of the daughters" gave evidence that the serang il treated him and beat him. His fellow" accused, he said, all belong- ed to the same part of India as hé The others of the serang'a gang, who did not complain, were of the

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Bame nativity as the serang. He Constantinople.The new. Tur complained to the Captain and he kish railway program just sane was ordered back to his work tioned by the Government provides When the serang came to know at for the construction within the the complaint laid against him, he next 19 years of three new lines of. ill-treated them all the more altogether 1,000 kilometres length The other six accused intimated and the extension and improvement that they had the same grievance of the harbours of Mersina, Sam- to vent

His Worship imposed. maximum sentence for the offence, sentence of six weeks on each of the accused, together with an order to forfe 15 Ways of their pdy. 1

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