1932-08-24 — Page 12

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AUGUST · 24, 1932,

WOMAN FLIER SETS NEW RECORD.

PLUCKY EFFORT DESPITE APPENDICITIS

Confucian injunctions

Moscow, Aug. 23.

New York, Aug. 23. Internment in a concentration freely intermixed, with legal quota-

The airwomen, Mrs. Frances tions in an address by Mr. M. K. camp for from 6 to 10 years, Lo, yesterday afternoon, at the Cen- punishment for speculating, and Marsalis and Mrs. Confes Hladen, tral Magistracy, when he appeared cornering goods, has been laid have Innded aftor flying 196 hours, for a father who was charged down in a drastic decree published thus breaking the women's refuel- with cruelty to his own offspring.to-day, in order to prevent specula-ling endurance record by 73 hour. Mrs. Marsalis during her flight The defendant Fan King-chong, tion, which the decree declares is

dicitis, but refused to described as a wealthy ex-Canton rife, capecially in connexion with has been suffering from official, was proceeded against on a the necessaries of life-Reuter's until the record was well broken.

Reuter Special Service, summons by the Secretariat of Special Service. Chinese Affairs.

appen- doscend

A New York message of August

A recent. Moscow telegram slated At the previous hearing, Mr. J. that the death penalty for those D. Buah, Hon. Secretary of the stealing corn is threatened by the 20 stated: Anti-Muitsnl Society, gave evid. Soviet authorities who explain ence of a visit he made in company this draconic action with the with un inspector to the home of sertion that "theft of corn", con-ance Flight" while she is suffering

a counter-revolutionary from appendicitis. the accused at Village Rond, where stitutes

A woman aviator la circling over

as New York In n "Fuelling Endur-

he found the 11-year-old son of the crime and must be punished as

She is Mrs. Frances Marsalis, accured hearing marks of a severe such. These stringent measures

at-who with Mrs. Conlace Haden took caning. The visit, explained Mr. are by Independent observers Bush, resulted from an appeal for tributed, to the fact that in numer off in the "Flying Boudoir" at 2 intervention by the wife of the acous villages the pensants failed to p.m. on the 14th August,

supply the requisite quantities of She has already broken the pre- cused, the mother of the boy.

corn and concealed part of the crop.vious record for womens' endurance flights, of 122 hours and fifty minutes.

No Case to Answer.

In submitting that there was no éase for him to answer

031 the

be

This she refused to do, and her companion is applying cold packs in

So that, continued Mr. Lo, unless in the hope of giving relief.

or be

it was desired that the family should go to smithereens entirely disintegrated, the net of

Confucius said: "Amongst us, in Mrs. Marsalis on Tuesday sent evidence, Mr. Lo said that the our part of the country, those who down a wireless message describing charge was a serious one, involving

upright are are

different from a pain in her side which the Aero- as it did an arcunstion of cruelty these. The father conceals the mis-drome. Doctor diagnosed as Appen- to one's own offspring, and requir- conduct of the son, and the Bondicitis, and promptly urged her to ed genuine justification before it conceals the misconduct of the land.

ould be brought under the Section father. Uprighteousness is to in question, intended for graver found in those." things. In the Offences Against the Person Ordinance, such as mutila, tion or mal-treniment of the young. "I have no doubt," said Mr. Lo, "that this Anti-Muitsai Society has bringing the young boy to give Mr. Lo pointed to the legal require done, and no doubt will continue to evidence in the case was ill-advised, ment of the unsworn evidence of a do, a lot of gend, but if that "Your Worship had adorned, the child being corroborated by an in- Society is to take the responsibility office of Assistant Secretary of dependent adult witness. for bringing cases of this kind be- Chinese Affairs for a long time, and Mr. Bush had said in Court, Baid fore your Worship, then the sooner I know that you know a little of Mr. Lo, was hearsay evidence and the activities of that Society cease

did not adil one tittle of corrobora- the better it is for the Colony. I cannot see a worse case of unwar rantable interference with parental rights than this case."

Defendant Discharged.

What

Chinese classics and literature. know very little of it myself, but tion. you can take it from me that one of the most heinous offences which

In giving his decision, Mr. one Chinese could commit against Mr. Lo queried how the father another is that he should act as Schoßeld found that the evidence could hope to continue to exercise witness against his father. And of the young boy was inadmissible, his authority over the children that is based on theae Confucian but even on that evidence he did these proceedings were held against him, and delving into Con- fucian classica, counsel quoted the! following passages:

Filial Devotion.

The Duke of Shel informed Con- furias, saying: "Amongst us here there are those who may be held upright in their conduct; if their fathers have stolen a sheep, they will bear witness to the fact".

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not think that a case of cruelty or out. He neglect had been made No Corroboration.

thought that the beating might Now Turning to the facts of the case, have been a little excessive, Mr. Lo stressed as a vital point the that it was quite clear what the absence of corroboration of the trouble was, that the boy had beri black marks on the boy's leg having her, he thought that the prosecu- been caused by the father, and if he ion had been misled by the results did make those marks, the absence and symptoms of the disease into also of corroboration of those marks thinking that the swollen and black having been inflicted in such eir-marks were caused by curelty.

The defendant was discharged. cumstances as to amount to cruelty.

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