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SUED FOR RECOVERY OF $28,651

But Defendant Says It Was No Loan

A claim for the return of $28,- 651.41, alleged to be money lent, was brought by Messrs. Lopes and Alves, Ltd. against Meroni. "A. F. D. Silva-

Nello and Co., hefore the Chief Justice, Sir Athoil MacGregor, in the Supreme Court this morning.

CRUISE LINER ARRIVES

Distinguished Canadian Businessmen In Big

C.P.R. Empress

With a passenger list which many distinguished included

names and numbered over 250, the Empress of Britain, flagship Plaintiffs were represented by the of the Canadian Pacific Fleet, Hon. Mr. Lee D'Ainada, Jr., in-arrived here this morning for a structed by Mr. F. L. Zimnem, while five day's stay in the course of Mr. A. F. B. Silva-Neito appeared her seventh round-the-world

in person.

document involved

It

his

voyage.

friends and tradesmen.

Air. D'Almuku jubinitted the onus Shortly before 11 a.m. the big of opening the case was on the de-liner docked at the Kowloon whart fendant because he had admitted the and was immediately invaded by a wns Renuine, host of officials, newspapermen. though he denied it was 1123 пс- knowledgment of indebtedness.

Over 40 passengers are joining the was up to defendant, therefore, to ship at Hongitong. They included prove that the document was not Ms. R. A. C. North and her two chil- what it purported to be,

dren, who are going to Wellington; His Lordship agreed, and defendant Mr. and Mrs. R. A. U. Forrest, to opened his case by saying that Southampton, Copt, and Mrs. Cook defence was that the money was not (B. & S.) and their children, who a loan but a partnership account. About the end of July, 1931, he said, Robinson, local solicitor, Mrs. J. W. are going to New York, Mr. Keith be and Mr. S. A. Lopes, one of the Platt and her two children who are plaintiffs, decided to enter into part-going to England; Mujor F. C. Hogy nership and instructions were at of the Hongkong Jockey Club, cordingly

to Messrs. Leo Miss C. Cameron, Mr. V. R. Gordon D'Almada e Castro to draft an agree- and Mrs. E. Cock.

the ment for

He was then purpose. ment carrying on business under his own mine but by the agreement, which was signed no two months later, he agreed to harve it changed to Silva-Netto and Copes. At the re- quest of Mr. Lopes, he moved his office from Alexandra Bullding to

Ice

Wits de Street Shortly after this

ww

Mr. Lopes went to Shang- hai, leaving Mr. A. S. Alves to act, na his attorney and to have a share in the profte

Mr. Alves was then with the Union Insurance Company but he resigned in November to take charge of the finances and books of Dhe firm.

FIRM NOT REGISTERED At this time, the firm of Silva- Hello and Lopes was not yet re- Histered and all contracts were made ant signed in the name of Silva-

and Company. decidant salt, was used by plain

on

From here the ship will sail Monday for Manlia, Batavin, Bali, Australia and New Zealand, there after proceeding to Honolulu to re- turn to her original itinerary which wns varied this year by the elimin- ntion of calls at Shanghai, North Chinn and Japan.

INTERESTING PASSENGER

An interesting character In the ship was Mr. E. Lipsett, Director of one of the biggest salmon and halibut fishing companies operating from Vancouver. He is travelling round

THE

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 1938.

Scandal of Divided CANADIAN PACIFIC

CHRISTENDOM

"TRY to understand +++

the other man's

point of view" is always wise

advice. "Get

to-

By

gether and think things The BISHOP of WILLESDEN

over" is always wise policy.

It is remarkable how much progress and friendliness then come about. It is astonishing also how much agreement will ofen be found beneath dif ferences of opinion. The sea in the enough beneath steady waves which toss to and fro on the surface.

"I don't like Mr. A. or his point of view," said B. “But I thought you didn't know him." B. "and that's probably why I said C. "That's true," replied

don't like him. I have never 10 understand his tried opinions."

What does the Church of what England believe? For does it stand? These are ques tions men often ask.

DOES HARM

ON the

surface the Church looks divided. For example, to the man-in-the-. street, and indeed sometimes to man-in-the-pew, Anglo- the Catholies and Evangelicals seem far apart.

the world for the first ilme and

He is more likely to hear and accompanied by his wife. Both of them have done half the trip on read about their differences of several occasions before but this is opinion than about-their agree- the first time, during a "close season,ments. For differences and dis- that they have decided to go whole distance in one ship.

the

Mr. Lipsett said the chief thing that was interesting his sphere activity was the same subject that hat had been going on for yearsrutem Japanese fishing in Alaska Day, which was of so wholesale and inconsiderate eta nature that it threatened to wipe cut salmon fishing off that const in a few years unless action was taken. Some

had been arrived at agreement recently, he stated.

a munth later, plaintiffs thought of rescinding the agreement aud formed a company of their own. Prior to that, the money paid in by them was for the Company, and at no time was there any mention that it was

a luan. In fact there was no demand for repayment until the writ was issued.

ANCIENT DISPUTE Explaining the cause of the years- oid dispute, Mr. Lipsett said there was an agreement between fishers that salmon should be allowed to come into the Bay at the spawning their customary season and make swim

the

putations always will attract attention and provide "news."

Nevertheless, disagreement, whether it be superficial or deep-seated, is confusing, and leads men to say that Church people cannot agree about their beliefs. This does harm.

"Ought not the Church," men were saying much in the early take days after the war, "to special pains to know its own mund and be at unity within itself?"

The Rt. Rev. Guy Vernon Smith, M.C.:

who discusses 'to-day's

momentous Report of

the Commission on Christian Doctrine

་་་་་་་་Hག

the

shows Unt in opinion of the members of the Commission the difference which have attracted so much attention recently are largely superficial.

Continuing, defendant said that on March 15, 1932, he fled a petition for bankruptcy but the proceedings

The differences of opinion Faith, clearly expressed in the light We may certainly hope for help in were never carried out as he had reached an agreement whereby the

the weight which attaches to any up the several streams that run about the interpretation of the of modern knowledge and possessing three main directions:

the Christian statement above the into the Bay. The Japanese were great acts of issue was to be settled by Instalments.

names not 1. The Report offenders against

Christian eltolars the agreement, Faith and

unchanging merely of great REVOKED POWER OF

however, in that they spread huge

men whose intellectual ATTORNEY

nets just outside the three mile ilmit truths of Christian revelation, but of

capacity is recognised and respected Archbishops 15 years throughout the land. Subsequently, be inserted an ad- and caught the fish on their way to led the

Yet vertisement in the S. C. M. Fast spawn, thereby seriously depleting ago to gather together a com here we must stand guard

attorney

next season's catch,

misunderstanding. the most eminent against the power of

Many revoking

The ballbut and

pany of salmon which he had given to Mr. Alves,

fishing to Yakatat thinkers from the clergy and important subjects receive compare- and plaintiffs responded by putting from Vancouver north in an advertisement in the Telegraph Bay

worked in arcos

by laity of all "schools of thought." tively little notice because of the

wide agreement. that he had nothing more to do with Candians and Americans and when

Those subjects. (on the them. The books used by plaintiffs certain quota from one area had

whale) receive most attention which were those of his firm and it was in- been taken, the next area was fished,

THEY might meet con- are at this time, or have been during should have nd

and so on, uniif the close season

Commission's period of the they conceivable that

stantly and talk things abours. occasions There was no

ol controversy advanced money out of charity if when fishing stopped. they had

no interest in it.

nership agreement was not available,

was

IMPERILLING UNITY

the

practice."

encroachment on this area by the over together. "Tensions be within the Church of England Cross-examined, defendantd-salmon came too close inshore

Japanese, possibly because the tween different schools of sources of confusion In. Anglican mitted that the original of the part-thin but was a deep snore while thought in the Church of Eng-Obviously a report of this magni- and that, it was in fact not carried prey they were not expert at catch land were imperilling its unity, tude and importance will need very

Ing.

and impairing its effectiveness." careful study by all the bishops and

be the clergy. The work of 15 years. A serious attempt was to

suinmed up in

five made to face these dificulties. cannot be The Archbishops' Commission on minutes.

My own reading of it, for example, Christian Doctrine was formed, and

out. He further admitted that In his affidavit for bankruptcy he did not inention plaintiffs us his partners, the reason being that he did not want to implicate them.

The

document in question was nude out to protect their interests because of his imminent bankruptcy.

us creditors of Silva-Netto and Co.

the Sino-

WAR'S EFFECT The vital effect that tish Columbin was mentioned by Mr. Japanese struggle is having on Dri-

couver

D. Hamilton, publisher of the Van-1 for 15 years has been hard at work, will be as thorough and careful as I

He started and niso o financier,

the tour with his wife

from Vancouver on New Year's Day.

Now it has issued a report. It is can make it, and It would not be

a book of 240 pages. The Archbi- fair for anyone to say much until its

so that they could come and prove He stated that he was not up to dal shop of York, the Chuirmen, in his contents have been carefully pon- Ho did not mention the debt in his with Canadian sentiment regarding introduction, guys of the meetings: dered. Habilities, however, because he was the Far East war, since he had had #dvised not to by his solicitors.

to rely mainly on cable news, but there was intense interest in every

"We have become a company of personal friends,"

of us have been eagerly and

Mr. H. A. de B. Botelho, sro, Plise of the struggle. Since Van- potlently waiting for this report for

of Messrs. Leo D'Almada e

id that sometime in 1931 defendant couver and San Francisco wer the

chief ports for Oriental Rave him instructions to draft an

trade, the agreement for the sale and purchase War had considerably curtailed the of his firm. There were no instruc-inflow of goods from Japan

There tions of any partnership with

Was considerable

Lopes

The case is pruceeding.

China.

and

BEWILDERED GENERATION

many

3.

In the deeper regions of religious thought the Church is united to a degree which may astonish the world and rejolce all men and women of good will.

2. Some real advance may be hoped of for towards the great Cause Christian Unity.

It is not only important that we in the Church of England should understand one another better. This we certainly hope to do. We want also to be better understood by other Christian communions.

I lived and worked in Cey- A buddhist land, and ser little of South India. People at home

lon.

seen n

are not nearly disturbed enough by the scandal of the divi- sions of Christendom, the kandi-

cap of which to Christianity is so obvious in the East."

Those who work for reunion will have misunderstandings about the teaching of the Church England removed. This will be all to the good.

of

The Report will draw men's ralnds ogain to the truth of the Ever- lasting Gospel, and steady strengthen their faith.

and

NATURALLY,

will ask, "What dif- for We have longed some yours.

to show the ference will the Report make to real evidence some world that our differences are not the ordinary man who has not so great as many people believe them the time to read it?”

Indeed, it is the belief of the Com- Of course, it will not change the mission that "its permanence amid Christianity is attacked by some Christian Faith. That is impossible. the weller of modern theorles, which

to be.

equipment

ent going from .America to and neglected by many to-day.

Japan, the counter-part, he thought, of the supplies going from Europe

to China, but incoming trudo was sadly reduced.

While reluctant to speak on. any

BAD CHARACTER boycott of Japan, Mr. Hamilton satd

RECAPTURED

six months' hard labour

it was a matter of common observa-

which

tlon, especially at Christmas when Japanese goods usually had a good Admitting charges of attempted sale, that they were kept in the back- A curious burglary in Aberdeen, and returning ground unless asked for. from banishment, Kong Hof, 22, feature was the peaceful nature in

the large appeared at the Central Magistracy

communities this morning, and was sentenced to Japanese and Chinese peoples llved pside by side in Vancouver. Though 10 collections were taken charge, the terms to be served con- coll

to augment f.cutively. Defendant attempted to war expenses, the children went to enter the house at 1.50 am, yester- school and met cachi other in the day by breaking the roof door. He streets without any idea of what the had previous convictions, including war was about, two for the possession of arms and ammunition and exoping from police custody. Police Sergeant A. Eatáil prosecuted. . --

LOVE FOR MONARCH Speaking of things Imperial, Mr. F.Hamilton said there WDB a warm feeling for the Royal Family Canada, especially for His Majesty because he, with his happy family. represented an embodiment of good to the Canadian people. Canada had

disapproval of the former

· DEPORTEE BACK had, in way to take the lead in

FOR ANOTHER

VISIT IN GAOL

Banished from the Colony for le

volcing

mar-

King's proposed marriage and it was aign that nowadays a monarch could not force an unpopular ringe on his subjects,

Questioned on ginnings of u

report on the be- Nazi movement in one

on April 1. 17, Chan Sio, 24, was, town in Canada, Mr. Hamilton des- found in Wonchiat yesterday, and cribed it as "newspaper talk." appeared at the Central Magistracy Canada was going on an even keel this morning, te was sentenced to commercially at the present time twelve months' drd labour. In- and though she had never had the apeeter A. V. Batter sud accused had prosperity of America, yet

on the

CONTROVERSIAL TOPICS

It is not something to take the place seem to succeed each other with of the Creeds. Nor will it alter the kaleidoscopic Inconscquence, may he forms of our Prayer Book services, one of its chief means of drawing to fresh and strengthening itself the attention of a bewildered Wor on explanation of our currents of thought will be sent pertation."

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