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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

-MONDAY, MARCH, 26, 1928.

MR. LEE HYSAN IN LIBEL ACTION. ROYAL OAK AFFAIR

(Continued from Page 1) improperly and corruptly used hi influence us a Government official to enable the Yau Seng Company to acquire the oplum monopoly Macao; that the plaintiff had been guilty of gross misconduct in the discharge of

that it was defendant's duty to ro E. the Governor of Macao. port the matter immediately to HI,

SEQUEL.

COURT-MARTIAL OPENS ON FRIDAY,

Defendant also stated, in the course of the particulars supplied, that he caused to be printed three hundred copies and no more, the ronson being that the Victoria HIGH

his official duties; that he had Printing Press stated that ns he been guilty of bribery: and desired the document to be printed corruption; and had connived at] in as quick time as possible, bribery and corruption.

they would charge him for three many he actually required. hundred copies no matter how

The document which contained the words in questions ware, according to the pleadings, caused to be sent and published to IL E.

Not Defamatory.

But the

OFFICIAL IN ADMIRALTY TO GIVE ADVICE.

WHAT AMERICA'S TOLD

Gibraltar, Mar. 25. Captain Kenneth Dowar and Com. court-martial arising out of the in- cidenta on H. M. S. Royal Oak at Maita, on Friday and Saturday.

It will be held on a ship at Gibral- tar, but the vessel will be directly connected with the shore and overy effort will be made to provide amplo accommodation for the Press and public.

the Governor of Magno and his Counsel commented that the demander H. M. Daniel will face tho private secretary, by the defen-fendant did not attempt to say that dant. The document and petition the statements contained in the were printed by the Victoria alleged libel were true. Ho sald Printing Press, of 8, Duddell-they were not defamatory.. On Hongkong, on the instructions the contrary, the plaintiffs said of the defendant. A thousand that they were and that they were coples, or thereabout, were print clearly read in a defamatory sense ed and many had been sent by the by those who read them. defendant to prominent persons in Hongkong and Macao. Defendant Defendant further claimed that

Captain H S. Measham, C.M.G., threatened, and intended, to con- they were privileged. tinue publication of the same or plaintiff claimed that even if they who has been Deputy Judge Advo similar charges against the plain-were privileged, that privilege was cate of the Flest for the past year, tif. Plaintiff had been greatly destroyed because plaintiff was has arrived from the Admiraly to by express malico. ct as legal adviser to the Court, ($25 for thirty Tin Tickets can be had at the Office of the above injured in his credit and reputa-Defendant, up till the end of June Both sides will be entitled to his

tion and had suffered damage. He of last year, was acting with a advice on points of law... claimed damages and an injune- Company called the Yue Sing and tion to restrain the defendant from Company which managed, the defended by an American-born publication of the words complain. opium farm In Macao (prior to London barrister, Mr. Day Kimball, ed of, or any of them, or of any that date it had been let out to similar words.

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Defendant's Denials. Reading from the pleadings on occasions). behalf of defendant, counsel aaidi

The two officers concerned will be

---Reuter.

American Versions, London, March 16,--Three Bri-) tish, naval officers have been sug pended because of a disagreement over whether the band attached to the battleship Royal Oak should play dance musle at a party given The dispute occurred at Malta. The

vesnel refused to honour Admiral

The Yue Sing and Company was it was claimed by defendant that a somewhat nebulous institution, the words did not and were not a sort of Jekyll and Hyde. It was understood to mean what was sometimes represented as a buni-y Rear Admiral Bernard Collard. alleged in the statement of claim, ness of a single individual, Yue nor did they contain any defame- Sing, of whom the defendant captain and the commander of tho tory meaning.

claimed to be an attorney, and sometimes as a syndicate partner- Defendant had for many years ship which had a considerable been i leading merchant and number of shareholders and which citizen in Macao and one of its issued serip and of which the de- principal benefactora. He had fendant claimed to be a managing been continuously and actively director. The petition in which associated with public and govern the libel was contained represent mental life and on numerous ed Yue, Sing in the first of his occasions had been called on, by two capacities. Governora and Government to

advise and co-operate in the solu- tion of administrative and public problems.

Collard's order for the music. The suspended officers will be court- martialled.Associated Press,

London, Mar, 10.

All England is deeply concern ed over reports of a break in dis- cipline aboard the British man-of- war Royal Oak, following official announcement that Rear Admiral Bernard Collard and two other officers were suspended from duty last evening.

Government Control. Continuing, counsel said that

The statement declared that the when the Farm terminated in Juno entire trouble arose over the ques- The alleged libel, continued the of last year, it was decided by the tion as to whether the ship should statement of defence, was included Government of Macao to take have a jazz band.

in a petition sent to the Governor over the management and con-

Press

GENEVA CREATES

PESSIMISM.

(Continued from, Page 1.)

Detailed Scheme.

During the course of an argu of Macao and members of the trol of opium themselves, this ment on this subject, the Admiral Council with whom lay the duty of being the practise becoming more struck the bandmaster, whereupon upholding the credit and integrity prevalent in all countries con- the crew declined to sail with the of the Government, Government cerned with the sale of oplum, vessel. Subsequently, however, departments and officials in the certain Conventions and Agreo- the tenzion sinckened.-United | cycs of the citizens, the great ments having been entered into majority of whom were of under the League of Nations. The Chinese race, with the object of old monopolists had to come to an assisting them in the discharge of end and plaintiff was appointed as the aforesaid duty.

a.Superintendent and Administra- lor in the new Farm, he taking Acted Bona Fide. 1 nto his employment as advisers The petition was printed and people who had been connected circulated without any malice to-with the opium monopoly before, wards the plaintiff or at all, but he had had no previous experi- with the purpose of securing, inence. He had been in the Govern the interest of the public of the ment service for several years and

"In course of it he states that be had retired, acting with banking Colony, as well as in the interest and other business ventures but was compelled during his speech of the Governor and his Council, a Governmental enquiry into (inter being re-appointed to do this work, on Tuesday to refer in indefinite The defendant had not to any terms to these proposals the exact aliu) the facts which had come serious extent suffered, continued purport of which he proceeds to 10 the knowledge of the de-counsel, and there was no reason set forth in the Note. fendant through the medium of why he should. He seemed, how- The proposals of the British the said letter and in the hon-ever, to have suffered from intenso Government, are, firstly, that any est belief that the atatements there-resentment that he was not con- battleship to be built in the future in contained were true. In 80 sulted or made a figurehead in the shall be reduced in size from the doing, the defendant acted bona fide new administration. This, claim-present limit of 35,000 tons dis- in a matter in which the defendant, ed counsel, appeared throughoutplacement to something under by reason of his long and intimate the petition to the Governor of 10,000 tons, association with public affairs in Macao which counsel proceeded to "Secondly, to reduce the size of Macao, had an interest, and was read in full. |published to those who had a cor-[***

responding interest and duty. Save

as was therein stated, there was no]

Services to Government,

guns in battleships from the pre- sént limit of sixteen-inch to 13.5 inches.

"Thirdly, to extend the accepted life of existing capital ships from 20 to 26 years. This involves the revision by the Powers of their

Some Elasticity.

further publication except to the de- The petition, as quoted, set out fendant's legal advisers.

the various benefactions to Macao Counsel also rend from further by defendant. "Having fulfilled particulars supplied by the defend-every obligation under the contract full rights under the replacement ant in which defendant stated said with the Government and having tables agreed upon at Washington. that included with the letter to him done more thar it may be expected from Fung Cheung was a receipt of any member of the community in Chinese issued by the Yau Seng in Macao in rendering services to

"Such arrangement, it is point- Company for $100, being the the Government," the petition read, ed out, would naturally have to amount subscribed by one Mian Tin your petitioner feels that he provide for some little elasticity Fo to the share capital of the Yau should be given, if not pre- on each side of that figure.

ferential,

fair at least Sing Company. The receipt was

and "The Note adds that it would signed and issued by Lu Kin Butt, sympathetic treatment at the obviously be of advantage, if such whone signature was well-known hands of the Government in any steps were agreed upon, that it to-and recognised by the defendant. case where the interests of your should be taken in time to enable Defendant interviewed Fung Petitioner or the Company le con it to become effective before the Cheung shortly after the receipt of cerned. Your Petitioner also ex-commencement of the capital ship his letter and examined him care pected that he and the Company replacement programme provided fully upon the sources of his in-should enjoy the confidence of the for by the Washington Convention. formation and the statements made Government in connexion with in his letter.

mattors concerning the Oplum Note would represent a great steb "The proposals outlined in the Monopoly and that they should be towards disarmament and a large Genuine Signaturo,

consulted in the event of any measure of financial relief both as change in the management." Defendant had no means of práv.

regards the initial cost and the ing conclusively the truth of the extracts from the Petition, which, vessels in this class."

Counsel continued to quote other maintenance charges of all future said statement, but he was satie he said, indicated that the de- Newspapers in London regard

had

the

I

fied that the signature of Lu Kin fendant intended to attack the new this development as an event of Butt on the receipt was genuine. The statements relating to the Yue Department and everyone included the greatest importance and the Seng Company

in it. corroborated

Sunday Times remarks that its reports, that defondant

Counsel was referring to the significanco la Increased owing to heard in Hongkong. The fact with document containing the al- been forwarded to the delegates at individuals to whom the petition the fact that those details have that En Kin Butt, who at that time serving

Waleged bel had been sont, when their own request-British Wire- Government of Macao as the adviser that the document had been sent

his Lordship said, ho gathered Tos8. of the recently-formed department which had been announced by the to certain lawyers mentioned of the document was merely a pre- Government to be operating the merely as lawyers.

tonce to give it publicity. Macao Oplum Farm Instead of the Counsel said that it was claimed Mr. Alabaster, in the course of Monopollet, was issuing receipts for for the plaintiff that they had been his speech, said that by Lo Bo was subscriptions to the capital of a sout merely to give the document meant the plaintiff; Ah Mut would firm which was reported to be the the widest publicity possible. It the Government in Macao; and mean someone else connected with Macno Opium Monopoifat, appeared was true that defendant bad at one Tsof Tung might mean either the to the defendant to be a matter of time or another consulted every Treasury or the Colonial Trea- grave irregularity which required lawyer in Macao, but it was plain surer of Maeno the immediate Investigation of the tiff's contention that the sending Macao Government, and, further,

The case is proceeding.

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