1927-11-19 — Page 5

THE CHANNEL HOAX CONTRACT ISSUE.

„OUTBURST.

ANGRY LETTERS TO HOME PAPERS.

WOMEN'S PROTESTS.

London, Oct. 19. The Channel swim hoax per petrated by Dr. Dorothy Logan has caused an amazing outburst of nublic indignation.

COMPANY'S APPEAL SUCCEEDS.

MALAYAN PLANTER'S CLAIM.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

SINGAPORE NAVAL BASE WORKS.

"WELL-KNOWN BRITISH FIRM

INTERESTED.

SEVERAL MAY TENDER.

The Chief Justice Sir William

Sir Evan Jones, permanent Murison, delivered an interesting judgment in Singapore last week director of Messrs. Topham, Jones, in a ense in which the Roebourne and Railton, the British engineer- Finance and Investment Company, ing firm which built the break- Limited, appealed against a deci- water in the Singapore roads and This is evidenced by the large ton of the District Court Judge. the Johore Causeway, is at present number of letters received at the offices of the Daily Mail, With In the District Court the appel-engaged in inspecting the naval one exception only all the corres.lunts were sued by John Wisdom base site at Seletar.

for breach of contract by dismiss-

pondents condemn Dr. Logan's

Sir Evan Jones told a Straits

action, and among the complaints ing him without justification from Times representative at the Europe urged against her are that she has his post as assistant on their rub Hotel last week that he had spent discredited her sex; smirched the ber estate. The decision of the month in Perak, where his firm British reputation for sport and District Judge was in the plain- were constructing the dam across tiff's favour and he was awarded the Perak River at Chenderth for sportsmanship; cast a alur on

the $300 damages. The appeal was the Perak Hydro-Electric Company others who have swum

and he was for the judgment to be set aside.

now engaged in Channel.

making a preliminary inspection The Chief Justice gave judg of the ground at the naval base ment as follows: The plaintif in site, his firm being one of several this case sued in the lower Court which had been asked by the for breach of contract on the Admiralty to tender for works round that the defendants had which are to be carried out there. dismissed him without justifica- He will be returning to England tlan from his post as assistant on next week. October 12-Was present at the the Roebourne Finance and Invest- dinner of the British Medicalment Company's rubber estate. Association and was congratulated by Lord Birkenhead.

follows:

History of Hoax. The history of Dr. Logan's hoax October 11-Pretended that she had swym from Cape Grisnez, France, to Folkestone in 13 hours

10 minutes.

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Although the rumour published In a London newspaper some time

to The contract between the parago the effect that ties, said his Lordship, is contained Admiralty contract for harbour in a letter of the 20th of July 1927. works at Singapore would be The material part is as follows: worth £10,000.000 has never re "You are appointed on three ceived any confirmation, it is months' probation from July 20th, known that the Admiralty have At the asked five or six well-known firms 1927, at a salary of $250. end of September I will advise you to tender for works in connection whether you will be confirmed in with the naval base, and doubtless other lending British engineers your appointment or not.”

may be expected to arrive at Singa- pore in the near future.

October 1-Expressed disgust at allegations in French news. papers that her Channel swim was a "fake":

October 13.-A cheque for £1,000 was paid over to. Dr. Logan by the proprietors of the News of the World newspaper, Dr. Logan having obtained this prize by signing a declaration that she had sum the Channel in 13 hours 10 minutes. She took the cheque to her bank and asked that it should he was to meet the General Mana- be placed on deposit and held at the disposition of the News of theer and go in a launch to Paradin, A "WHALE”: PROBLEM.

World.

The facts are simple. The plaintiff, upon receipt of his en- gagement, set off to Seletar, where

an eight hours' journey, where the Confessed to the editor of the extate was. The plaintiff arrived News of the World that she had at Seletar several hours late with not Awum the Channel: that her an Indian woman and her son,.or- signed declaration way a bogus, dered the servants, thout loudly. one and that, although she get out and was in some degree apparent. with the intention of performing under the influence of liquor. the feat if it was pussible, sheThese circumstances being cam- decided to use her failure to prove municated to the defendants, they to the world how easy it would be summarily dismissed the plaintiff, for any person wrongly to claim that he or she had necomplish-d the feat.

**A Slur-on Others."

STRANDED CARCASES AT DORNOCH.

London, Oct: 31.

An intensified version of the islem of how to deal with a stranded whale is reported from Dingwall. It is stated that 156 Damages Against Company. earcases were stranded at Dar noch Firth during a massed, at- The judge in the lower Court Lack by them on shoals of herring held that there was no reliable Fishermen have now realised evidence of drunkenness, and that the utility of trying to "shoo" generally, the defendants' case whales to set. failed. He awarded $100 damages. The defendants have now ap pealed.

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The following are extrnets froin some of the letters received:

The astonishing disclosure that

The caresses line the const. for a woman, abetted by some men,

two miles. Experts who inspected bad, by means of false declara-

them have pronounced them "true tions as to the swimming of the Before us, Mr. E. A. Stevens fishes royal." Therefore they be Channel, deceived. Lu whole for the defendants, raised & point fong to the King. The Health Au- British public has a far more apou"the consideration of the con-thorities who were requested by serious side than the mere distract which was not argued in the the Royal Health Board to dispose grace attaching to individuals who Court below. He says that as the of the menice, have replied that it deliberately state a lie in a solemn plaintiff was "on probation" he was the Customs officers' busi- declaration "conscientiously he could be dismissed 'summarily if ness. The King was only con- Beving the same to be true." Uphis conduct did not meet with the cerned if the whales were wanted to now British sport and British approval of the defendants. He for scientifle purposes, especially sportmanship have been consider eltes Curry vs. Ogston Motor Co. If they were required as museum ed, both in this country, and before

OBEL There the contract was specimena..,' ' the whole world, as absolutely honourable. Now that this silvor the servant could be dismissed if Whaling companies have refus- shield has been smirched, this work was not "to the satis-el-to be dragged in, saying that whole reputation of British sports- fetion of the directors." It' was the whaling season has ended. manship must suffer.

Having made an affidavit and held that the dismissal was justi-The local Council has decided, in fed if the directors were genuine the interests of local health, to

for a year, but it was agreed that

aworn the contents of sama to be y dissatisfied with the servant, tow the carcases to deep water be- true by virtue of the Statutory and that the directors neeil assign|fore putrefaction sets in. Declarations Act, why should not immediate action be instituted reason for their dissatisfac against this woman to show how tion. There appears to be no re-

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the law deals with persons who parted case nearer than this to the sion "on probation" and (2) thai this state of affairs was to con- make untrue statements in affi- present case,

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davits? Dr. Logan has branded. And some difficulty about this Linue for three months when either herself for ever, and in the true contract. If the plaintiff could be a new contract of service was to sportsmanlike world there is no dismissed at any time without any he made, or relations terminated. time for any such persons.

reasca assigned, or any reasons, In fact, I think the words of this

Dr. Logan has "let down" her which did not amount to such in-case, though not quite so strong -profession; and what-is-more-im-competence or such-misconduct as as the words in the Ogston Motor portant in these days, her sex the law requires for summary dis-Co, case so nearly approximate to Dr. Logan "has cast a sur on missal, why is the period of three them that our words come under others who have achieved what she month's named? Similarly, if the the principle which the case laye failed to accomplish by implying contract is simply a contract of downt that they were as dishonourable three months' service, what do the

words "en probation" mean?

as she.

Special Contract.

which

Not only, is our faith shaken in

In my opinion, what we have to If this view is correct, regard to affidavits but also this sort of thing destroys confidence arrive at is a construction which after some doubt, I think, is the weight to all the case, it is unnecessary to consider in the medical profession, and I will give, due do not think it is anything but words of the contract. I think this the findings of fact of the lower detrimental to the cause of women object is attained by constrains Court upon the issue raised. They doctors. How Dr. Logan could the contract as meaning (1) that leaf only with the law relating to accept the world's congratulations the plaintiff should remain in the justification of dismissal in the and the cheque for $1,000-ander service of the defendants so long ordinary case. This, if the view pretence and still feel no shame as his services were approved by I have taken is correct, is not an wall, I blush with shame for the defendants-for that, I take ordinary case but a case of special her!

to be the meaning of the expres-contract. In my opinion the do- fendants under the contract in this case had power summarily to dis- miss the plaintiff if his work or conduct generally did not meet

This Channel hoax has done a great and unfair' disservice

to women all the world over. It even reacts adversely on Flappers.

Votes for

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SYSTEM.

30,000,000 ACRES IRRIGATED,

Ferozepore, Oct. 31. Before a distinguished assem blage, including the Governor of the Punjab, Lady Hailey, and high Punjab civil and military officials, the Viceroy opened to-day the Ferozepore headworks.

His Excellency pointed out that the perennial canals of India nov irrigate nearly thirty million aeres, an area three times, the slic of Denmark. The total length of the channels. which brought life giving waters to the lands would more than girdle the earth twice

EE with their approval. I have no doubt whatever that the disap- proval of the defendants was gen- uine..

The voice with the engagement

ring in it wins.

I would allow the appeal and direct that judgment be entered For the defendants with costs here and below,

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Mr. Justice Deane concurred: and gave it as his opinion that

claration that the bones unearthed to benefit himself, began the District Judge was mistaken

modern times.

prematurely. in treating it as an ordinary con-

A man named Hunter Charles were those of a modern cow, and covering things Rogers, whom the Daily Sketch has that the inscriptions purporting to Most of them were genuine, but tract where the master was bound to justify the dismissal of the ser

repeatedly exposed as a dealer in reveal the oldest alphabet In the others were copies which I made. apurious documents and pictures, world, were faked, that the au "Ihought a lot of genuine prehle vant. By the very terms power

has asserted that, with the aid of thenticity of the discoveries was toric stuff. I also had a few genuine to dismiss him at any time if he "ANCIENT" BONES DIS

an Englishman, now in America, questioned, stones bearing prehistoric draw did not prove satisfactory, and the

COVERED TOO SOON,”

"We went to France with stones,ings of reindder and horges, and I be planted the relics. whole question was whether the

In 1924, when the Field was Arst Implements and vasce, declares made more by scratching stones employer was honestly dissatisfied.

London, Oct. 263 Under the circumstances, it was It is now definitely established discovered, it was hailed by Rogers, "and, with the help of a with glass and old razor blades. not surprising that Mr. St. Alban that the famous Field of the Dead, archaeologists as of considerable farmer, dug them into the field. It is easy to deceive experta” a Buckinghamshire farm-labourer, Smith, who employed the plaintiff, at Glozel, France, at which up importance. It was not until The idea was that we should lead a was Rogers's boast "I am only should come to the conclusion that rosedly prehistoric objects were September last, when M. Dussaud, discovery party in 1928221

Fran out of money however, yet I have hoaxed the world In my he was not a suitable person for discovered, was one of the the well-known archaeologist,

cleverest scientific hoaxes of startled scientists with the de- however, and the farmer, in order time." his purpose.

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