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RAVINOWA MONDAY APRIL 5, 1926.

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DAUGHTER'S LETTER OF PROTEST AND DENIAL,

A tale about Charles Bradlaugh- the famous free-thinkor, contain; ed in a barrister's book of snecdotes, figured in a lible action heard in the King's Bench Division recently.

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Vladimir E. Babitzky, a man who in anid to be connected with the Soviet Consulate and who is the alleged plot to seize the White suspected of being concerned in Cossacks' ship lying off Woosung, again came up in the Mixed Court at Shanghal last week, his ensu having been adjourned so that it ST. GEORGE'S BUILDING, HONGKONG, should be heard by Mrje, P. before whom the men arrested had Whitamore, the British Assessor, previously been brought. Mr. E. T. Maitland, Police Prosecutor, ap- peared to prosecute and Dr. 0.. Fischer defended. A large num ber of Russians were presens In

The JC.J.L. str. Tilaaroda, is the latest of the steamers to be built for this well-known company The story was followed by without exaggeration, it may be for the China-Java trade. and latter of protest from Bradlaugh's said that the builders and owners printed in the Observer nows have specceded in incorporating in paper. She described the tale as her all that a lengthy experience absolutely false, insulting to the of conditions on this run have doad, and wounding to the living."shown to be not only necessary

Mr. Ernest Bowen-Rowlands, a but also desirable. barrister, the author of the book Some of the J.C.J.L. bonts run in which the story appeared, up to 15,000 tons, but the Tjt thereupon brought an action for saroen is of the medium class, her libol against the Observer Limited, gross tonnage being 7,089 and her and the Argus Press, Limited. -

net 4,394. She has been con He complained that the letterstructed to accommodate 11. first meant that ho had told

class passengers, 38 second class, 54 third class, and 1,200 Chinese) deliberate lie.

steerage passengera. The accom- i

Mr. Maitland said he wished for modation of the first and secom a further remand so that the de Sir Henry Maddocks, for Mr.class passengers suggests that of fendant could be brought up with Bowen-Rowlands, said that in his mail steamer, the staterooms the other men on April 13.. book "In Court and Out of Court "being exceptionally commodious, Mr. Bowen-Rowlands wrote of while the first-class saloon is Bradlaugh as follows:-

panelled in marble.

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Court

Dr. Fischer said there remained the question of bait and he pro- posed to ask for ball, because al- At that time there was in tha'

A Turbine Steamer.

though he realized that the charge Lobby (of the House of Com. The Tjlsnroea was built by the was a very serious one, he thought, mone a countor at which were Nederlandsche Maatschappy van in view of the existing procedure refreshments, including china Scheepsbouw, of Amsterdam, and and the conditions under which moulds of custard, at 5d. apioco, she is fitted with Parsons tur- foreign prisoners in the custody were much liked, especially bybines built at the Werkspoor of the Court were detained, that mywolf.

factory, which give her a speed the man was entitled to bail. He was arrested on the stateraents of tigation being made, other people without any inves-

Dr. Fischer added that he did

not mind the bail being made so high that it would secure the at- tandance of the secused. He con- linued: "I see your Hougtr is smiling and no doubt you are thinking of a case against a Rus- sian last year when the man did" not surrender."

I was eating one when Brad-of 13 knots. While it may be mon- laugh came up. He waited, and,modation, including atcerage, is of tioned that all passenger accom- when I had finished, he took me a very superior kind, being.ven- down to the smoking room, whore tilated by the system of pumping he remarked: "It's 'orrible to be in fresh air, as well as providing poor. "Ow I could 'ave dono one running supply of fresh water of those custards. Poverty is for passengers of all classes, the bad anywhere, but in the 'Duse of cargo features of the ship are Commons it's 'ell."

equally notable.. The strong room accommodation is capable of taking 100 tons of valuable cargo, and there are also two special Mr. Whitamore said it was al holds for high explosives, ench ways the idea to put bail sufficient- capable of being instantly floodedly high to ensure attendance upen any alarm of fire. Further Dr. Fisher said that a man-of- more, she is fully equipped with war, rightly or wrongly, was positions of the holds and derricks fendant and others were, connect refrigerating machinery, while the brought to Shanghai and the de for handling cargo have beened with a political party opposed give the atmost to those who were on the stemmer. Yet this man was only a clerk in the Soviet Mercantile Flect.;

Lord Howart pointed out that a criminal' prosacation for defamation might lio even con- cerning a man who was dead.

Sir Henry: If it is likely to cause a breach of the peace.

Lord Hewart: In other words, if the man has the good fortune to have a son living who thought

a suitable occasion for a horse-planned to whipping.

facility. JUDGE'S REBUKE, Mr. Bowon-Rowlands said the story was true.

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The Commander of the Tjisargen. Captain F.E.C. van Schermbeek

Mr. Maitland-It this man is to is in command of the Thieroga, have bail, I ask that it should be The Lord Chief Justico: Andand he has brought her out to the at least $av,000, that is what you thought worth | Far East from Amsterdam, He

Magis- Mr. Whitimore-The while to reproduce and publish to attained his first command in 1912. trate asks me to point out that, ac- the world?

when he took charge of the str. cording to the Articles under Laior

the judge remarkod: Timahi, which then traded bewhich this man is charged, bail "You say you are a member of tween Batavia, Hongkong, Shang-can not be allowed. The law im- the Bar have you over audied hat and Japan. Subsequently, puses the penalty of death or im- after he had left her, the Tjimahi prisonment for life, or in any case, was lost on the Paracels.

the law of evidence ?"

Mr Bowen-Rowlands' said he had so many things to think of

Lord Howart held that the letter was privileged, and gave

Observer and the Argus Press,

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