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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

EDITOR AND NOVELIST.

“HONGKONG SNOBBERY,

The Ri. ht To Cut Established.

Sweets From The Sweet.

When an editor opens a letter, beginning

"MODERN CRIME”

DETECTION.

Use of Clairvoyant "Blood-Hounds."

secrets of Paris, its romance and The man who knows all the its crimes, is in London. He is M. Ashelbe, prince of intar

McKenna v Curnock and

"We should like to attempt to others-This was a motion, which: came before Afr. Justice McCardie dissipate the idea that prevails in in the Vacation: Court at Home Shanghai, if not in other places. last month, an injunction to re-that Hongkong is the Far Eastern national detectivas, and the most strain the defendants; their Home of Snobs"

famous private inquiry agent in servants and agents, from infring- ha naturally thinks that the aid the French capital. M. Ashalbe,| ing the plaintiffs copyright in a of his paper is being sought in a short, stockily built figure, with novel called "Gloria "by printing, this worthy cause. Such a letter a clean-shavan, boyishly round publishing, or distributing copies reached us yesterday from Hong-face and mesmeric blue eyes, thereof or instalments therefrom kong. The writer's heart is clear came to London in connection otherwise than in accordancefly in the right place and though with the trial of Mme. Fahmy, M. with the plaintiff's licence. The his way of letting down some Ashelbe said to a newspaper re-

presentative

their

subordinates, In

WAS

man and a woman. The work-

plaintiff was Mr. Stephen Mc- people kindly way endear him to Kenna, the novelist. The defen- them he means well. For ex- dants were the editor, the ample:

"I employ sixty assistants in my office, Iwanty of whom are publisher, the printers, and the

"The existence of such an ideal women. Women make excellent proprietors of the Referee.

(i.e. snobbery in Hongkong) is no detectives, particularly French The Hon. S. O. Henn Collins doubt partly due to the presence girls, when it comes to obtaining appeared for the plantif: Mr. of the Garrison here and the information from men. I have. F. T. Barrington-Ward, E.C. Mr. atmosphere of discipline created American girl detectives, but no, F. A. Holt, and Mr. Herbert thereby. Many people are utterly English." Shanly for the defendants.

incapable of distinguishing be-

M. Ashelbe is the only detec Mr. Henn Collins said that in tween discipline and snobbish- April his client, Mr. McKenna,ness. Discipline is the basis tive in the world who uses clair- had been asked by the editor of civilizations, and snobbishness is en of great service to me," he voyant mediums. "They have the Referee whether he had a the antithesis of good breeding.

said. There was the case of a suitable book on the stocks which The two have nothing in common. was capable of being presented in Occupants of the higher positions distinguished French politician,

who disappeared. There serial form in the columns of the in civil life are entitled to be

I was at a loss. I Referee. Mr. McKenna offered treated with the same deference clue. the serial rights in "Gloria, and respect that is accorded to bold me that the man was dead.l

went to one of my medium-. She which had not yet been published those holding official positions and that his body was hidden in in book form, to Mr. Donald, they editor, who accepted it. Terms due course many of the latter ravine. She described how it happened how, when he Was were agreed between the parties. Will Occupy the seats lif and a licence was granted for they prove themselves worthy walking, he met a working publication of the work in the to do sol in which their superiors Referer only in serial form. The now sit. Those who clamour ring man dofed his hat to the first instalment was published in the abolition of class distinctions politician, and at the same mo

and the issue of the paper of June 10. do not apparently realize that eat few at his throat Subsequent to that date a change this would entail a general level-angled him. The description Was sa clear, so complete, that To keep your clothes of the editorship was effected,g down rather than that uplift found the materer. He con looking

and a new editor, Mr. Cumnocking efect to which the effects of new-that's

| frysed." came in. who had some different all good Governments and peoples

directed Indi-criminate A curious meeting befel the views on the suitability of the pre story for the Referee. On Julv fraternization undermines dignity. French detective in his Tendon

Mr. McKenna was invited usurps authority મે conse-bote! make "rut" and altera-quently breeds Bolshevism.

"I walked into the lift," he the believe that a social earthquake said. "and I was face to face tions in the story for purposes of publication in the would leave Hongkong with most with the director of a French Referee. Mr. McKenna replied of its present social standards bank who ran away with all that he regretted he could not in

intact whatever el it might his client- money nearly five any circumstances · consent

demolish."

years ago. I recognised me, this. On July 2 the Referee) By this time the reader has be- langhed, and said. You cannot published a further instalment of come quite excited, wondering do anything. I am in England, the story with beavy "cuts" in how the ideal conditions of life (and in a fortnight's time I shall it, which he (counsel) submitted in Hongkong might be realized in [ be back in Paris and will see was in breach of and quite out-places where one has heard of you there.' He was alluding to side the licence. Further "cats"ladies who were quite pettish on the fact that in France we have were made in subsequent issues being sent in al duter behindļa law which lays it down that. of the paper.

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Mr. Barrington-Ward said that at last: certain portions of the story con- "The mellowing and refining the criminal is free to go where

ained of sive references to influence of Blank ui-cuits and he will. Church dignitaries which were Thingummy choe lates, springs not suitable for publication, and from the condition- existing ini there were also two incidents the factory in which they are. which had been cut out. He made."

Submitted that the editor was From the large consumption of¦ entitled say what was or was these comestibles it would seem and suitable for publication in his springs the perfection of Hous paper and that he had in the kong life. We are sorry but bri present rase exercised a proper be able to give more exact indica di-cretion in making the "cuts."tions. But in his enthusiasm this

Mr. Henn Collins, said that ingenious advertiser forgot to although the paper had acquired close a cheque to cover the cost of the right to publish they were space. "North China Daily News, under no obligation to do so, Ett

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Disease Alters Function.

A remarkable story of a Buff- Orpington hen which, after leading a respectable family life the three and a

half years. producing eggy and rearing chickens, tumed into a cockerel and became the father of a family

u bad bargain but if they did further that he must not bring, was de-cribed by a young Edin- publish they raust publish the himself within the law of

deburgh zoologist. Dr. P.A.E. work as it was written in its famation. Affidavits were then Crewe entirety. What had been done read to show a well-recognizeri Dr. Crewe said at 3 years the constituted i breach of the

custom amongst editors to make hen's plumage began to take on licence. He submitted that this alterations in this way. was a case in which interlocutory relief was essential.

the attributes of a cockerel and Mr. Justice McCardie said she began to crow. at first with "that these affidavits showed that" an effort, as though practising.” FAR-BRACHING PRINCIPLE. the standard of the English Press. Later the comb and wattles wore wa.- extraordinarily high increasingly marked. The bird Mr. Justice McCurdie. You He feit that both pen- pissad through the regular are asking me to try the action positions which had been put for- moulting stuge, and as the feath and to lay down a far-reaching ward by counsel required con- ers were replaced it was found principle that no editor can alter sideration, and a legal formulu, tiey were entirely cockerel's. the matter submitted to him. would have to be announced us to plumaze.

tion.

Was no result.

Mr. Henn Collins said that it the rights of authors and of new- After recovering from an illness was difficult to estimate the valuej paper properietors.

in the winter the bird was mated. of a story if passages were cut; Mr. Barrington-Ward said there in the spring with a virginal hen out of it. If the work was not was no evidence here of any of the same breed. The eggs that which it was designed to be immediate injury to the plaintiff. were incubated. but for three the author would suffer. He was

Mr. Justice McCurdie.address months there the best judge of his own reputaing Mr. Collins, said that in the Then there were evidences of

· fertilisation. Two chickens were circumstances he "had better ac- Mr. Justice McCardie Excuse cept the undertaking which Mbatched alive, and were reared. me he is not. No man is the best Barrington-Ward was willing to The father sickened and died. judge of his own reputation. give on behalf of his clients that and a postmortem examination

Mr. Collins said that Mr. Mc-they would not make any further showed that the bird had suffered} Kenna would be content if the omission from the story with the from severe abdominal tuber-1 Referee would publish some exception of the second incident. cubeis. The effect of this had! acknowledgment of what they and such slight alternatious as been the gradual removal of the were doing in the way of cutting might be necessary to give effect ovary tissue and the opposite the story.

to it, and further that the editorsex.

would announce in his paper that Hen pheasants, which in their certain omissions and alternation old age had developed the char- of the story in serial form. were required by the publication acteristics of the cock bird, were

exhibition at the Royal College,

Mr. Barrington-Ward said the defendants were willing to do that without prejudice to any question at the trial. He had a mass of evidence from literary people to show that the editor, cepted that. had the right to make TH Mr. Justice McCardie sald with all the plumage of a cock) asonable alterations

in the there would then be no order on and possessing a lusty crow, laid matter supplied to him. Apartithe motion to only desired to an egg in its pen at the National from custom, if any of the matterjødd that noth a 1: had taken Utility Poultry Show at the submitted might, in his opinion, place that da be a possible cause of offence loweret or to his readers the editor literary reru” » had a right to take it out. And McKsona by custom the editor had a desired to ero

Mr. Hene Collins -aid he ac-of Surgeons in 1914. As reported in the Daily Mail recently, the bird to which Dr. Crewe referred.

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