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HONGKONG TELEGRAPIL FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1936,

Seven

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Judges Sit

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Maid's Case

HOUSE OF LORDS' "ENTICEMENT" VERDICT

TELEGRAM LIBEL CHARGE HELD

TO BE FANTASTIC

HOUSEMAID in the little Thames-aide village of Cookham

A Dean, near Maidenhead, has been the contral figure Cook dan

puta which has set the ponderous machinery of British law in motion for eighteen months.

The King's Bench Division, the Court of Appeal, and, finally, the House of Lords have been exercised over her problem.

Altogether seven of the most experienced Judges have spent many days in considering the case. They are:

Mr. Justice Talbot,

Lord Justice Roche,

Lord Justice Greer,

Lord Justice Stesser,

Lord Alking

Lord Russell of Killawen, - Lord Macmillan.

The

chat of

of the litigation has into hundreds of pounds-it was almost £400 in the first court alone.

maid her wages and that he was a person to whom no one ought to give any credit.

"It appears to me," said Lord Atkin, "that the alleged innuendo is fantastic and the fudge (Mr. Justice Talbot) should have withdrawn the alleging the innuendo from the

Only the postal officials saw the The case is

is the now famous one telegram and there was no direct 'evi. where a housemaid, Edith Saville, was dence that they, had ever heard of “enticed" from her employment with Mr. Stretch. Mr. Hesbert M. Stretch, of Applu wood, Cookham Denu, by Mr. Alex SMALL LOANS Grant's. Pass, an Oreron (U.S.) der Frederick Churchill Sim, of tourist centre through being the june-Old Harton, Cookian Dean.

When tion of the Redwood and Pacific High-

it opened in the King's Bench Lord Atkin continued, "why a per- ways; and gateway to the Oregon Division, counsel quoted "Thou shalton's character should be lowered in anyone': atimation if he or she has eaves and fishing paradise, has estab- not eavet

A USUAL OCCURRENCE **

"I am at a loss to understand,"

lished a lengthy slop privilege on its maid-servan hy neighbour's!borrowed from a domestic servant,

main street for visiting mourists. The jury awarded Mr. Stretch $25 The mayor has ordered local auto- damages against Mr. Sim for enticing

£250 ints to park on back streets, to clear the maid and

damnges for alleged libel in a telegram. congestion.

All the dispute since then has been whether the telegram was really tibellous It read:

TEN MINUTES' GRACE BEFORE BOMBS FALL

LONDON'S LONGEST

WARNING

The longest period of warning which the people of London will get of an air raid in the event of war will be seven to ten minutes.

The Incendiary bomb is the greatest menace we have to fenr. These statements were made by a Home Once ofeial, Colonel W.) Garforth, in an address to 1,200 mem-| bers of the London Chamber of Com- merce at the Cannon-street Hotel, recently.

He paid a high tribute to British in ventiveness when he explained how effective were the civilian gas masks which had been approved for mass -productoņi-

Ile offered to act

to accompany any mem- ber

of the audience into a chamber filled with

phosgene, 100 times more concentrated than would be possible. In warfare, wearing the gas masks,

and bring him out safely.

Such gus would kill an unprotected person stone decd in four minutes, he remarked.

would

HIGH EXPLOSIVES

"Edith has resumed her service with us to lay please send her pos- sessions and the money you or Towed; also her wages, to 'Old Barton.-Sim."

"I should have thought it such a usunt decurrence for small sums to be advanced in such circumstances that the mere fact of borrowing from a servant bears not the slightest tinge of MCARNESE,

"Or course, there may be special cir- cumstances and so large an amount may be borrowed or left so long un- paid that the facts, when known. would reflect on the character of the employer. TRUMPERY AFFAIR

In the Court of Appeal (where pro- ceedings took place before Lords Jus. ires

Roche.

he. Greer and Slesser) Mr. "The truth of the case is that the Sim did not elinllenge the £25 award whole matter is a trumpery affair and for enticement. but vainly appealed that the alleged libel would probably against th 2250 damages for libet in never have been heard of but for the the telegram; and it was this issue wounded feelings caused by the im that was argued in the House of proper

nent. Loca before Lord Atkin, Lord

Lard Atkin added that he was in Russell of Rillowen und Lord Mac-complete agreement with the dissent- millan.

THE COURT'S

JUDGMENT

Delivering judgment, Lord Atkin said Mr. Stretch alleged that the tele- Fram meant that he was in pecuniary difliculties and had been compelled to borrow money from the housemanid: that he had failed to pay the house-

"England's Thirst-

for. Medicine TWICE SCOTLAND'S Westminster, Aug. 15. Only one thing worries the Colonel Garforth sald that proter-Minister of Health. tion from high explosive bombing "Our unquestionable medicinal necessitate concrete buildings thirst still continues," said Sir 12 to 15 feet thick, and the only alternative was to dig 50 feet into Kingsley Wood. In the House of the ground. Safeguards of that kind Commons to-night, with a die- ware Impracticable for most business (approving shake of his head, and factory premises and it Was and it is suggested with some tion from splinters, gas, and fire from truth that we are rapidly be- coming a nation of medicine Asked if there was a homely re-drinkers." England that is, not rcdy for dealing with the effects of

¡Scotland. mustard

#1 he replied. thet Ray,

The cost of medicine per head in special ointment was being prepared which would be in the possession of Entland, according to Sir Kingsley. decontamination parties for dealing is double that in Scotland.

necessary to concentrate on protec-

Incendiary bombs.

with

that

and other irritant vapours.

Sir Kingsley mentioned that the

Sir Stephen Deinetrindl, President national expretation of life had been of the Chamber of Commerce, said Increased by seven years in the last that 11 had been suggested in some twenty years, and that the malacia quarters that the holding of the tnosquito has been trained to social meeting was an indication of panic. welfare work. It is now, Sir Kingsley They took the view that the fact that reminded members, recognised as the if employers knew beforehand what unly remedy for general paralysis of sleps take to protect their stuffs the insane. During 1935 there were and buildings in the event of an air 318 requests for the Ministry and raid, it would be likely to avert,L.C.C.'s laboratory's healing mosqui- 100 hospitals, and rather than cause, a panic. The fact tocs from over that employers knew what to do did mosquitoes were sent by air mail to not bring the possibility of an air clinics in Austria, Germany and raid any nearer.

Rumania.

Unwanted Attentions?

ing Judgment of Lord Justice Slesser in the Court of Appeal-that the words were incapable of a defamatory meaning.

The order of the Court of Appeal and the verdict and judgment at the trial on the issue of libel were there- fore set aside and judgment entered for Mr. Sim. Mr. Stretch to have the

general costs of the setlon, except in so far as they had been increased by the libel issue.

Mr. Sim was granted.cost of both appeals.

Killer Doomed

Nonchalantly, Robert S. James, the rattlesnake killer" of his wife, Mary James, puffs continually at cigarettes in his Los Angeles jail cell awaiting sentence to the electric chair. was convicted by a jury without re- commendation of mercy, which makes death sentence mandatory.

To Mrs. Bryant's Children No Suicide Without

Dorchester, Aug. 12.

DORSET Public Assistance Committee to-day decided to adopt the five children of Mrs. Bryant, hanged on Wednesday for the murder of her husband.

A member, Mr. Brian Farrer, said he saw that Mrs. Van der Elst was desirous of adopting them. "Has there been any appli- cation from her, and what would be your attitude if she did apply?" he asked.

Consultation

FATHER BREAKS PACT WITH SON

A man slated at a Hove Inqueat recently that he did not take his father's threat to commit suicide sertously us they had made a pact that neither would commit suicide without discussing the matter with the other.

The inquest was on Walter James

The Rev. F. W. Brandreth, chairman, replied: "I should he very much obliged if there were no discussion on this matter at present.

Tho authorities want to protect them against unwanted Druce, aged 58, of Addison-road, attentions of the public, and are anxious to keep their exact Hove, senior partner In Messrs. whereabout: a secret. They will attend an ordinary school and Druce and Co., estate agents,

Brighton, who was found dead at on leaving will be placed in situations so that they will be able his home on Friday night with to earn their own living."

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