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[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "HONG KONG DAILY PRESS."],

My dear EDITOR,Aren't men just too horrid-I "don't mean Editors, but ordinary men like Tubby 1

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1931.

DEATH OF TAMIL FUNERAL DANCER.

$250 FINES FOR EUROPEAN MAN AND WOMAN,

in

CAR MISHAP PASSING PROCESSION.

Penang, January 27, — The caso which two Europeans, Mr. Matthew Reid, of Messrs. Mansfield and Co., and Mrs. Ellen Jano Ma son, were charged with causing the death of a Tamil named Kup- pusamy, in Green Lane on Nov.

I was so worried last night that 14, by driving a motor-car in a I asked him again about that Mili-rash and negligent manner, end- ary Distribution business, and lend in the Assino Court to-day. anid, "No Something foar of their Both were found guilty by the going unicas they raise the Liquid jury's majority verdict of five to Duca," and he won't tell me what two, and they each were sentenced he meant.

by Mr. Justice. Sproule to a fine of 8250 or one month's rigorous imprisonment.

Mand says things are in the Smelting Pot. Angus, who got a "bluo" at Aberdoen for Domestic At the first day's hearing it was Economy, and that takes some do-stated that the motor-ear, while ing, tells her that positively all the passing a funeral procession, hit best economists totally agree that three Tamils, one of whom died. no one should pay in rates more At the time Mrs. Mason, a learner, than one-sixth of his Club bills was driving with Mr. Reid at her and that the limit has been reach- side sa instructor.. ed and the time for Protest has

come.

I think so too, for Tubby says, dankait that last dress of yours cost a year's rates and it's the Something Limit, and did I think he's made of Gold.

Tubby says it's all a matter of! currents; he won't say why, but isn't it too plebeian to think of poor Sir William having to worry about Groceries! I say, why can't they leave housekeeping and bor- rew the money from Brokers-so. simple, my dear. Tubby says that anyhow we shall have the Brokers in our house if we don't pull our horns in, and that would be nice, because some of them are too ravag. ing, and, anyhow, the only horns we've got are on our cars, so what can. We do!

I'm not sure list Tubby quite likes our writing to each other, but you know it's only. Plutonie, don't you, my dear Four troubl ed,

"POPSY." Hong Kong, February 4.

MR. JAMES BELL AND THE

WORKERS' ENEMY. .:

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE “ HƠNG KONG DAILY PREBA."]

►

Sin, road with great interest the speech delivered by Mr. James Bell, M.P. ad the Rotarian Tifin of yesterday.

I am not a Rotarian.

I am not an Industrialist, por do I pretend to any deep knowledge of Industrial problems,-but all right thinking men must agree with Mr. Bell in one thing that the lot of the manual labourer should be improved everywhere, and that their lives should be brightened and their Bardships diminished by all possible means If Trade Unions exist to that end Teds Unions are good.

But there is one question I should like to ask Mr. Bell who in I presume, a "Labour" M.P.

OWNERSHIP OF RUM RUNNER.

DISPUTE OVER CAPTURED BRITISH SHIP.

COASTGUARD WHO DRANK

CARGO..

New York, January 28,-Contro versy over the capture of the British steamer Josephiné K by an Ameri oan coast guard' cutter continued to rago. in New York today.

Members of the crew of the captured rum-runner testified that Boatswain Schmidt of the cutter which fired upon and capture the Josephine E drank als'and whisky from her cargo after he had beard- ed Hia prize.

Moanwhile, the American consul nt Yarmouth Nova Scotia, report cd to the State Department în Washington to-dng, that he has in- dications that the Josephine K belongs to the same rum-running syndicate which operated the I'm Alone, a Canadian ship which was fired upon by sonst guard cutters off New Orleans some months ago.

It is beliovod that if it can bo established that the I'm Alone and the Josephine K were owned

by the same rum-runners Canada's claims will be considerably weakened. assert that the Canadians now whisky smuggling vessels have been actually controlled by Americans ́operating under Canadian registry The new jury was empanelled on the third day and after, Mr. Gib-who sought to make Canada a son, the DP.P. had outlined the case. Mr. Hume, for the defence, called witnesses, one of whom, Mrs. A. J. Batchelor, who volun- teered her evidence, said that the people in the funeral procession looked a drunk that she thought it dangerous to pass and had told her syce to go slowly,

At the second day's hearing Mr. Justice Sprouls dismissed the jury on the ground that the foreman was employed in the same firm as Mr. Reid and Mrs. Mason's hus band. A new trial with a now jury were ordered.

Lurched Along Car, When the hoaring was resumed this morning the Rev. Colin King said in evidence that while he was driving towards town on Nov. 14 Ho he met Tamil funeral. stopped his car well over to the left hand side of the road near the grass; yet all the crowd did not pass on his right side. Some pass- ed on the loft.

One man was so incapable that be lurched along the oar from the mudguard' to the door. He was certainly incapable of controlling hia movements He did not know Mrs. Mason or Mr. Roid.

Disorderly and Drink.

Mr. Hong Huck Chuan, manager of the Anglo-Siamese Corporation, Penang, said that on overtaking the funeral he sounded His horn. The people at the back parted, but after passing the hears he saw a party of drummers and dancers. They were disorderly and very drunkt. Although witness sounded his horn they refused to make way

and be fed to stop dead. The at-

titude of the poule was must threatening.

A channel was firiälly, opened re. and witness drove luctantly through very slowly.

collecting agency for Americans ference in their illicit business. suffering from governmental inter-

In the capture of the Josephine, Klast week/Capt. William Chuett of Nova Scotia, the master of the vessel, was shot dead by American const guardsmen, The Josephine K, carrying liquor valued at Gold

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$100,000 was taken within the 12 miles limit.

Eye for an Eyo... Counsel then referred to a wit

Ho ness named Mat bin Ahmed. had been put forward as an indo. pendent neutral witness. He was called first as a witness who would tell the truth and be impartial. Counsel submitted he was regular- ly employed at Tamil funeral pro cossions and earned a livelihood by them. They had come to the con-· clusion that far from being an in- partial witness he had been putting up a false câro,

Counsel red extracts from hia evidence and compared it 'with' what Mre, Batchelor had arid. He suggested all witnesses for the pro- secution were vindictive and want- ed an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. Thoir mentality wae extremely low and they could not realise that if a man killed him self as the result of his own folly, he alone was to blame.

"Our friend was killed" they said, and we must get our bit" Either that, or they were prepar ing for a civil suit that might | follow.

Why does his Party support and comfort the present Soviet régime in Russia in every passible way t

That régime makes for Slave Labour and docs more to depress

Truth Behind Falsehoods. and brutaling the manual worker

He did not know either of the than any Government of modern accused. He came forward to give

Mr. Gibson, the D.P.P., addres days. It will drag down the stan- evidence in response to an advering the jury on the prosecution dard of living all over the world tisement in the dewspapers.

evidence, said he thought that by its dumping of sorf-made goods

Mrs. Mason's syco next gave ing for a civil suit that might in those countries that are strug evidence saying that when the disbelieve there was nearly always gling to maintain u. decent standard car had nearly cleared the in Tamil evidence some grain of for their workers The end must processioz three men sudden either be war on the Soviet, or they jumped in degradation of all morkers the ness demonstrated how they danced, world over.

That seems to

Had ho hoa driving witness could clear:

not have avoided an accident. What does Mr. Bell and his "Labour" Party say to that!

I have visited Russia recently, has Mr. Bell over been there!

Enclosing my card,-Yours faith fully,

OBSERVER.

Hong Kong Fibruary

CHRISTIAN SOFENCE

ARGUMENT

me

front.

Kature of Charges.

ruth concealed behind many false- Wit-hoods-

As reparde the drunkenness there wig the evidence of a doctor and they must accept it "The evidence of Mat bin Ahmed and snother witness was that Mra, Mason-look- Mr. Hume then addressed, theed back on passing the hearse. If court at length on bohalf of the accused, both on the law and on the facta

it was a concerted case they would have had all the Tamils making that statement, but there were only Counsel submitted that oven it two persons who made it, and they thers had been negligence it was made it just ag, a matter, of obser immaterial if that negligence had vation with regard to the datenco not caused death. Supposing, story that Mrs. Mason did not, so continued Mr. Hume, Mr. Roid or the three Tamile until they dano the syon had been driving at ed in front of the car. Mr. Keld tbo time. There would have did not see them at all until the

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE," HONG KONG) been no negligenco because it moment of impact and the-eyon

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was clear that they could not havo saw thơm ten feet away and Thi stopped or prevented an accident they were already dancing His free submission was that there syce said by applying the Hind was no realmoss on the part of brake and footbrake he could hate even if there was rathness and negligence it had not oased the death of Kuppusamy, Ed

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61-The individual signing on behalf of the Christian Science of his class, whooo policy apparent ly is to ignore alleged facts when said facts cannot be refuted.

I have read somewhere that argument in what might be termed the scholastic method or even srgument as it is usually under. stood by eduaated people-is wholly

It would doubtless be urged that Mrs. Mason should not have driven through this particular procéssion, He would ask them to weigh enro fully the evidence in regard to this

to-Mercy,

The jury recorded verdicis of guilty againzu both accused by ma forities of five to two. His Lard ship said the the accused had had a terrible ordeal and that moved

him to mercy. He would inflict a

use the femorate an epoche de evidence line of each and

not by logic that they defend their belinds, and it is not by logic thore fore-than they can be convinced of thoir, errorYours, etel

Magen BAR MEMENTO MORI: Swistow, February 2

of two witnesses who approached law he had to fix a penalty in de from the opposite direction and fault, he would make thao penalty one who approached from behind one month's rigorous imprisin At "most it was cur error of judgment. Bail would be extindell; for ment which was not criminal.

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