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shown addressing business vien in London recently qualities proved of value when he was subjected to much cri-

inquiry be held on accusations made that he had falled to ab- sorb the spirit of the Australian Navy and had been responsible for pettifogging regulations.

So far as I can learn, Rear- Admiral Lane-Poole has never been on the China Station-cer- tainly he is not fresh from a command here though he is known to some officers in Hong- kong. He was Commodore. of the South American Squadron and has served much of his time at Home but; going back to 1927, there is no record of his having been on the China Station.

This is what News Review has to say of the Rear-Admiral's re- lations with the Royal Austra- lian Navy:

"But when

Hongkong Telegraph. Churchmen and the Protestant seemed to be really established. he continued, "that for such a berra's ratings, detailed for

Saturday, May 9, 1937.

JURY REFORM

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was

Ever since 1908 when he was' made Archbishop of York at the early age of 44, he has been the centre of controversy but never once has his venerable head bowed to criticism though at

"In His Majesty's small but times the criticism has been so bitter as to amount to execra. he went on a mission to the U.S. ticiam. Seldom, he said, had a efficient Royal Australian Navy,

in connection with the war.

traditional custom is for He sovereign come to the throne a Stubbs Road tion.

1928 he has held his was not one of those who saw with greater natural gifts for jolly jack tara to strip to the sur waist, bake their hard-muscled present nugust position as Head a conflict between science and kingship, Edward had

rendered his trust owing to a bodies in sunshine while paint- of the Church of England. religion.

The church, he thought, craving for private happiness. ing ship. Even his nomination was op-

Can- posed by the League of Loyal should accept whatever truths "Strange and sad it must be,"

Dr. Lang was appointed Arch- motive he should have aban painting job, were about to fol- Alliance. His occupation of the

Even low this practice recently, their Primate's chair has been fea- bishop of Canterbury in July, doned a trust so great.

Low Churchmen again, more strange and sad it is that officers firmly but with averted tured by some of the most 1928. remarkable monarchial events objected and a petition was sent he should have sought his hap countenances, told them to in British history. After bury to the King opposing his nomina- piness in a manner inconsistent desist. Orders from the Navy's ing King George V, he saw Ed- tion on the ground that he was with the Christian principles of Commander, it was explained, The question of jury reform ward VIII, ascend the throne, "generally regarded as the real marriage and within a social cir- stipulated that ench man should in Hongkong is one which has took an active part in his ab head of the party who have so cle whose standards and ways wear a complete suit of over-

and traditions of periodically cropped up fromdication and now will play the recently attempted without suc-, of life are alien to all the best

to subvert the Protestant instincts

"Responsible for, this drastic reformed religion under the his people. Let those who be time to time, particularly in leading role in the consecration cess

Rear Admiral' of King George VI.

that change connection with criminal cases. This man, intimate friend of cloak of a revision of the Prayer long to this circle know but in its main aspects the sys- the late King George, was also Book". As a matter of fact he to-day they stand rebuked by RH.O. Lanc-Poole, jut-jawedl tem locally has undergone few a friend of Queen Victoria who favoured this revision, but he the judgment of the nation officer fresh from a command in

extreme her was not an of

High which had loved King Edward. the China Squadron, and steep- changes over a long period of appointed him one

In 1929 he gave I have shrunk from saying these ed in Royal Navy training. I have felt com- Very soon Rear-Admiral Lane- years. The limiting of the num-Chaplains when he was Vicar of Churchman.

One of his most re- up his plan to visit Jerusalem words. But ber of jurors to seven, instead Portsen.

loyal but easy-going Australian of twelve as is the case at Home,markable gifts is that of oratory on representations from the pelled for the sake of sincerity Poole discovered that intensely is one of the most important of in which he has few equals Vatican which feared that the and truth to say them".

visit might damage the prestige A sequel to this broadcast A.B.'s cannot give of their best among his contemporaries. the points which deserve atten- Incidentally. Matheson Lang of the Catholic Church in the was another in the same month if subjected to stern discipline Levant. But the 'plan was appealing to the nation to re- depending on to-the-letter ad- tion. It is difficult to ascer-was his cousin. tain the precise reason Cosmo Lang, was born at carried out in 1931 when, wear turn to religion and deploring a ministration of small details.

"On three of the Canberra's

anti-aircraft were decided Fyvie, Aberdeenshire, a son of ing mitre, purple vestments and lackening and even a scorning

guns, juries of seven

breech-blocks were sabotaged. upon and are still retained in the Dr. Marshali Lang, Moderator pectoral cross, he went in state of the standards of Christian four-inch of the Church of Scotland and to the Church of the Holy morality".

Even then the

appeal Shortly afterwards, boat-falls administration of justice. There Principal of Aberdeen Univer- Sepulchre.

He repeated his Governor did not let him reply was a time, in the early days of sity..

The Primate written several arrived in Brisbane, members of the Colony's history, when, be-

Educated at Glasgow Univer- to the address of welcome, hold to M.P.s only two months ago, were cut, and when the vessel sides the cununion jury, there sity, he won a scholarship to ing that this would disturb the books on religious questions and the Queensland Bureau of Crim- existed a Grand Jury. The Balliol College, Oxford and status quo rights of the various in his carly days, a novel. He inal Investigation went aboard functions of the latter are, how-after graduating in 1886, he be- denominations in

a member of the Royal and took fingerprints. was

"Meantime, Rear Admiral ever, now discharged by the At came a Fellow of All Souls. For Places. torney General. The first ene six years he was a student of

1934 he and his brother Commission appointed in. 1909 ever heard by a jury in Hong- the Inner Temple, but gave up were at the head of the Church to inquire into the divorce laws Lane-Poole piped all hands, toki kong was as far back-as-1844, law for the church and was of England and the Church of and signed the minority report them exactly what he thought

Filipino seaman when a

was ordained

Leeds Scotland respectively, Dr. Mar- Dr.-Lang favoured barring from of the culprits, offered rewards curate of tried and sentenced to death for Parish Church in 1890.

There shall Lang having been nomin- solemnisation in church, the and protection to informants.

steely silence. murder. It is not clear from the his wonderful preaching soon ated as Moderator of the latter, marriage of any person separ His investigations met with records how many jurymen con-attracted attention. From 1893

The Primate denounced Italy's ated by divorce from a husband

"Soon more incidents showed that stituted the panel, but it would to 1896 he was Fellow and Dean invasion of Abyssinia and spoke or wife still alive or of any per

other newly-constituted son who had not been baptised.

orders were meeting with gen- appear from subsequent cases of Divinity at Magdalen College, in favour of economic and even that at one time a jury com- Oxford, and vicar of the Uni- military sanctions, if necessary. Admiral Ragged

eral disapproval. For long, sen- prised only six members. Atversity Church of St. Mary and He told pacifists in 1936 that

men have been divided into By Ratings

Forecastle, Foretop, Maintop any rate, by 1864 the number of then he became vicar of the circumstances might arise in in war

Described by News Review as and Quarterdeck groups, each jurymen was fixed at seven, and enormous parish of St. Mary's, which participation it has remained so ever since. Portsea, with its 18 curates and would not be inconsistent with

being "fresh from a command in charge of an officer. The general impression is that five churches. He Wats very people's duty as Christians.

"In addition to organising his the reason for limiting the num- successful among the working On the death of King George in the China Squadron", Rear-

Lanc-Poole, men's work, the officer-in-charge ber. to seven Was that the classes. When Dr. Ingram was V he delivered a fine tribute to Admiral English-speaking community in translated to London in 1901, the monarch, whose intimate C.B., O.B.E., is at present bask- takes an interest in their wel- ing in critical publicity at the fare, hears complaints which, if the early days of the Colony was Lang succeeded him as Bishop friend he was.

the hands of Australian newspapers, worthy of consideration, are too small to permit of the Home of Stepney.

an passed on to the Commander, practice being followed. Indeed,

Captain and, finally, the Ad- iniral.

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For his broadcast after In 1908 he was made Arch- abdication of King Edward VIII, It is even suggested just before the 1864 Ordinance bishop of York, the appointment was passed, the total number of being opposed by the Protestant, PHONE common jurors on the list num-Truth Society, on the ground 28028 bered only twenty-three. Now that he had encouraged flagrant! days, however, the Jury List breaches of the law as to church runs into hundreds of names. ritual and had joined in illegal Thus the old argument cannot ceremonies, but no action was possibly apply to present-day taken by the authorities. conditions. It is obvious that archbishop, he took a conspicu- in capital cases the limitation of

part in the discussion of the number of jurymen to seven the social and economic ques-} Then there was the man is liable to work to the distions that arose in his province, advantage of a man on trial for while in the House of Lords his whose business was turning the his life. We can see no reason eloquence

and commonsense corner nicely until the crash

He was a taxi-driver. whatever why, particularly in gave him an influence not con-came. murder cases, the rule of "twelve fined to church matters. These good men and true" should not obtain in this Colony. There is

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Some of the latest bathing a further point in regard to such night in a hotel, under surveil- cases that calls for considera-lence. That is the procedure costumes seem to be backless in tion, namely, the local practice which is followed in England, front as well. of permitting jurors to disperse and there appears no adequate during periods of adjournment cause why it should not operate!

"Under the Lanc-Poole re- gime, subordinate officers have realised the futility of passing men with complaints which have arisen through the Rear-Ad- miral's direct orders. Further, they themselves might incur the Rear-Admiral's displeasure for

complaints that

Perhaps a use could be found sponsoring for the swords which go with could only be regarded as critic- "When those incidents came the new Civil Service uniformsjism of his orders. by employing them for cutting before the notice of Australian through red tape.

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were newspapers, accusations mude that Rear-Admiral Lane- Poole had failed to absorb the As an American journal re-spirit of the Navy, had been marks, it's a pity that jig-saw responsible for pettifogging re- puzzles and sit-down strikes gulations.... At once it was didn't come along simultaneous-demanded that Defence Minister Sir Archdale Parkhill should set up a committee of inquiry but, before he could consider the

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ជ Maybe the failure to stipulately. in lengthy trials. Originally, here. It is almost inevitable, that privilege was not enjoyed in under existing circumstances, the British product for Stanley!

None of these newspaper ac matter, Sir Archdale had to Hongkong. In 1868, during the that jurors, between adjourn Barracks is the first move in the

should discuss with trial of two men for a murderous ments,

case scheme to cement Anglo-Japan-counts have told us anything suit for London to attend the about the part the Colony's Coronation, Arriving in Lon- bright young things will play indon last week, he was still pori-

dering the situation."."

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that the Canton Beg-

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attack, the jurors desired to go friends and relatives the to their homes when it became they happen to be trying, and ese relations. Impossible to conclude the case they thus become susceptible to in one day. Counsel for the de-outside influences, however much fence did not object, but the they may endeavour to preserve then Chief Justice pointed out a mind shut off from all factors

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sions of the Ordinance of 1864 Court. The two reforms we gars' Union has been asked to NIGHT, WEEK-END No. 28028 requiring that jurors be kept in have suggested are long overdue, send a delogation to the forth the ponies which have been pro- charge of an officer of the Court in the Interests of British justice coming Tourist Conference in moted. Now he'll have some-

Hongkong.

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PHONE-DAY No. 28021

rumour

As C.-in-C. of the Austra lian navy, the Rear-Admiral is responsible for four cruisers, a few smaller warships, and 8,350 officers and men.

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