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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29, 1988.

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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20, 1938,

SIR EDWARD

JAMES ACKROYD

Former Puisne Judge Of Hongkong

By T. Paul Gregory

Amongst the numerous civil stood him in good stead; for the servants who have held posts in affairs of the Court were stated this part of the Far East, is one to be in a chaotle condition, and whose name was very familiar it was his primary task to put to Hongkong residents of forty matters right. This assignment or more years ago. He was Mr. was speedily accomplished, and (Inter Sir) Edward James he was then named by the Ackroyd, and whilst not, Governor, Sir John Pope Hen- perhaps, an outstanding per- nessy, to be a member of a Com-. sonality, yet he was greatly mission appointed to amend and esteemed for his lengthy period revise the laws of Hongkong. of conscientious service to the This was in reality, a parting Colony during the closing de- gesture of Governor Hennessy: cades of the last century.

for during his entire adminis-i

Sir Edward James Ackroyd tration, he virtually fought the was born in England in the year public in order, to institute 1838. He was the third son of needed reforms. According to a "gore Robert Ackroyd, Esq. of Her Governor Hennessy, Majesty's Civil Service, and like spot" in the legal structure of his father devoted his entire life the Colony was the series of to the service of the British harsh laws passed to curb the CrownL

"crime waves" of the 'fifties His first appointment was and 'sixties. These Ordinances, that of a Clerk in the Registry according to the Governor's of the Supreme Court of the candid opinion, wore decidedly island of Mauritius. At the obsolete, and therefore it was time he was very young-barely high time that they should be fifteen years of age-but he was abolished.

ON GUARD 21, he was elevated to the post doubtless

AGAINST CHOLERA

Cholera, one of the most dreaded scourges of the East, has struck again at Hongkong. This time, although it сап

scarcely be said to have

LS

Enthusiasm For Law

His clerical work in the Re-

"Humph-5,000 years old! I'l

MUMMY

PRINCESS 5000 YRS OLD

et she's 6,500 if she's a day!"

EUROPE'S

FORTIFIED

FRONTIERS

By Captain J. L. Strong

because

Czechoslovakia is another country

a

man- from

country as never before.

The name of the main Germant

such an industrious youth that Sir Edward, as Registrar, was his further promotion was com- considered by Governor Hen- paratively rapid. When he was nessy to be a liberal, and it was

But France does not wish for war. A FEW years ago military experts on this

were all against forts and forti- She has to keep up three fronts pow, account

fleations. They pointed out that must aport from of Clerk to the first Puisne that he was nominated

her

In commitments to

of the old forts in France and Bel- This

Bel Africa, and maintains Judge, and later at 24, became sit on the Commission.

a standing glurn, though built by a man who Chief Clerk in the Registry of body, however, whilst it was recognised to be the greatest army of 600,000 men, which is enor- the Supreme Court of that succeeded in remedying many military engineer of his time, were mous when you consider her popu Colony.

abuses, was unsuccessful in mere death traps, and that although lation. Fortunately for her Verdun and Belfort held out against power, she can draft troops carrying out its lofty plans to the Germans, this was rather due to some of the best fighting races in the entire satisfaction of the the excellence of French

gunnery Africa, and she has been placing Governor. The patent failure than to the walls of concrete and picked battallons of coloured troops. to fulfil all his hopes was steel that served as ramparts. in French garrisons for some years, so that they can be acclimatised and gistry inspired in him a great

But military opinion has change. thus not suffer in case of active ser- perhaps a source of disappoint- interest in the law as a profes- ment to Sir John Pope Hennessy once again. Monsieur Maginot, who vice in Europe. sion, and therefore he com-

had fought in the War and after- reached menced assiduously to prepare when he left the Colony in wards became Minister for War, de- Poles' Sympathies

March 1888.

termined to keep possible land in epideme proportions

himself for the ayocation of a yet,

vaders out of France. So he bullt barrister. Eventually, he suc- there is one European

Surfeited With Duties victim ceeded, and in June 1872, was

I have not touched on Poland, who the

now famous Maginot line. But there is another line of defence that also maintain a vast army for her already and another suspected called to the Bar of the Middle During the administration of

so well-known, and that is change from time to time. Once the of having contracted the disease Temple. He did not, however, the succeeding Governor, Sir nece has constructed that is not size, and whose political leanings

heline atong the

the Italian frontier,

Polish were very pro-French, but now. desert his career in the Civil George Ferguson Bowen, Sir line which is mainly manned by the they seem to lean more towards the --from swimming in Hongkong Service as was perhaps his first Edward apparently became sur Alpine chasseurs and mountain bai Germans, and they are having anti- harbour. So that is another thing intention, but employed his felted with the duties of histeries, but which would be reinforced Semitle trouble in their towns. to remember in guarding against newly acquired legal standing in office; for he sought a change in by coloured troops in case of war.

Italy has proclaimed to the world infection: don't swim in dirty motion. In this, he was at once securing an

order to enhance further pro- position. This resulted in his Along the Pyrenees, France has that she has "hermetically sealed" appointment of had to embark on further military her frontiers, also that she can com- water." There are more rules, successful, and in August Acting Puisne Judge in March commitments because of possible mand "eight million bayonets." The trouble-not SO much with the last statement I venture to disbelieve, too, and they have been dinned 1873, served as Acting District 1886. His nomination, however,

Fratico-but into the ears of the public until and Stipendiary Magistrate of was not without much local Spanish Nationalists under General unless she counts all the schoof and Avan- General children in the Balilla. of Riviere du Mempart in opposition. Mr. John J. Francis, Franco's allies.

guardisti formations of

of the Fascistl. the essentials are surely remem- Mauritius.

There is Kreat deal of espionage

In a practicing barrister who had

Italy, but you rarely read reports........ bered. Actually, the use of His name first appears in the been in the Colony since 1865, Hush-hush Aerodromes

by the special

tribunals. Italy free of German Sone's common sense, plus the chronicles of Hongkong in the immediately took exception, and

is by no means

in- Russia has lined her border on nuences and Germany is preparing year 1882, when he was es accordingly penned a lengthy both the Rumanian and the Polish for war. She has been preparing ordinary precautions recom-pecially selected and sent out letter to the Secretary of State sides with an almost impenetrable actively since 1926, when she revived mended, such as inoculation, from Home to serve as Re- for the Colonies complaining corridor and Heaven help the refu- her military secret service depart- provide reasonable security. gistrar of the local Supreme that Sir Edward, whilst he was gee or fugitive who tries to pass the ment. She has fortified her own

frontier. Court. He arrived in the Colony indubitably exceedingly capable Clean food, clean water, clean on February 27, and was duly in his duties of Registrar, hard which has had to join in the arma- defence lines is "Michael," the nick- body; the avoidance of over-gazetted the following day. His ly seemed to be the proper per- ment race. Most of her fortifications name often used for the German indulgence and plenty of rest: many years of experience in a son for a Pulsne Judgeship. are extensive,

kindred post whilst in Mauritius There was in fact considerable directed strategically against Ger- for the stranger to know their secret and private soldier, and it is impossible these are the sane man's safe-

feeling aroused on the subject, many.

strength, for their construction has guards against all forms of ill-

and the local Bar was divided The Fatherland is spending every been kept very secret, and a number ness, cholera among them.

while it seemed that sufficient in opinion. Eventually, how-pfennig Herr Hider's fanco chicts of spies have been beheaded for sell- Medical opinion maintains that had been done in this regard to ever, the appointment was ap-can raise in building ferulications Ing information concerning these it is dangerous to swim in the control the situation. But re- was accordingly gazetted in his which the urtelligence services of Germany believer she may be in-

proved at Home, and Sir Edward and in making hush-hush aerodromes lines.

Their very existence shows that harbour of Hongkong, the reason ports from Swatow indicate that new post.

other countries are trying to locate. vaded. Her strongest line is op... During the remainder of his Holland, Belgium, and French Flun- pasito France. War with Russia being that refuse of all sorts is a cholera epidemic of really

for the posal- with armoured cars, light tanks, thrown or washed into the water. serious proportions is raging very in me, sometimes sled now being prepared for unkirk are would probably mean open battle various offices, sometimes serv-billties of war, while Sweden has an acroplanes as the principal instru This warning should be taken to there, with as many as 600 cases ing as Acting Puiene Judge, and immense and gloomy fortress watch.

ments of destruction, not to mention heart. It might be advisable, in in a week, and that hundreds of on other occasions as acting ing the South in an where cavalry, which the Russians are or-

Attorney General and Acting strangers are not permitted.

ganising again. They have given fact, to go farther. Thousands refugees from this infected port Chief Justice. The Puisne Across the Mediterranean, Spain, back horses to the Cossacks, and

believe that Russian officers are little are swarming into steamers and Judgeship, however, seemed to France, Great Britain, Egypt, and boys-swim off the steps along coming to Hongkong. Some-be his forts; for he was named Italy are all busy with military pro- among the principal purchasers of

blema, Germany has always wished blood stock in Ireland to-day, the Praya and around the scores how one feels that the examina-as its temporary occupant on no to gain a fooling in Morocco, and

less than three occasions. French reports state that they have Price Of of anchored junks in water tion and inoculation of these On March 6, 1895, he departed raised heavy batteries on the African

threat to Self-Preservation which only a glance should tell people is not enough to ensure for England on leave, expecting, coast as a conceivable

Gibraltar. them is filthy. But if they are that they will not carry disease nevertheless, to return to the

Colony as soon as his furlough Even Switzerland |heedless-and little boys are-ashore with them. Encyclopoe terminated; but contrary to

authority should step in to pro-| die authorities advise that every one's expectations, how- Little Switzerland has also joined original Maginot line cost sixty tect them against their own.

“Travellers should be kept under ever, it was decided that his in the race, but she is pretty safe, million pounds, and its existence grant of leave should be per-although there are two possibly weak means that France will have to pay rashness; and to protect the rest inspection" In combatting manent, and simply a prelude to points on her frontiers; one at Lake out another thirty million at least. Constance opposite Germany, and the It is a most extraordinary thing that of the community against the cholera. Just what is meant final retirement on a penalon. other in the Jura mountains oppo- countries can always find money for

war and secret service when they are consequences of their ignorance, is not clear; but it would seem This proved indeed to be the site France,

case, and early in the following Finland, Jugo-Slavia, and Ru- screaming poverty at the tops of their It would be wisdom to erect con-that, for a brief period after year, the Legislative Council mania are other countries that have political voices.

award their arrival here, travellers approved. the

Russia, intent on succeeding with of a been, rearming and building lines of spicuous placards forbidding

defence plague-stricken areas pension equivalent to £1,166/the war lords of Europe do not think to raise an enormous army to gar

which would indicate that her vast Industrial, plans, has had swimming along the waterfront,

that aeroplanes will win the should be segregated if possible. 18/4d per annum.

next rison her far-flung frontiers, and an and even to send policemen here

Later on, in January 1898, hewar in spite of their mass produc- air force which is reported to be the There is one more thing for was one of the recipients of Newton in Carmany and Russia. France's largest in the world and certainly and there to see that the

the public to remember about Year Honours, receiving the main idea la defence a against Invasion, one of the best organised. instructions were obeyed. And

though

out that has been pointed cholera.

Any gastric disturb. dignity of a knighthood. At an

investiture held by Queen Vic-German towns, near

her long-range guns could demolish theso things should be dongance may act as a predisposing toria at Osbourne on January notably Karlsruhe, Mayence than those of the great Continental

of Chinese-particularly

before cholera has reached Ап epidemic height.

from

A

which

and

arco

What immense sums of money must have been spent in building 1 all theso forts and fortifications The

and

And we ourselves? Our work- the fronter, inge have been somewhat more secret factor, and even undue alarm 25, the new knight received the Stuttgart The Germans have actus Powers, but something considerably ally stated that the French could more than fifteen hundred million bill for might therefore Indirectly cause accolade.

pounds la surely a staggering For a long time, now, this an attack. For this reason

The bestowal of a title was demolish these towns without moving our defence forces. Yet auch is the last of Sir Edward's soldier, á gun, or an aeroplane state of the world today that it is newspaper has been urging people must take precautions for the

their own peace of mind. honours; for he died at his across the line, and that they might absolutely essential that we do conceivably commence such a bom- strengthen our fighting services if we action of a préventive nature, The same should apply to home in Surrey in 1904, aged 60 bardment should Russia attack the are to survive in the struggle fde Ingainst cholera, and for a littlo Government.

Tyears.

Fatherland from the East.

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