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Personalities of Old Hongkong

SIR EDWARD

JAMES ACKROYD

Former Puisne Judge Of Hongkong

By T. Paul Gregory

Amongst the numerous civil stood him in good stend; 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 chaotic 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 (later 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- Ronality, yet he was greatly mission appointed to amend and esteemed for his lengthy period revise the laws of Hongkong. of conscientious service to the Colony during the closing de- cades of the last century.

This was in reality, a parting gesture of Governor Hennessy; for during his entire adminis- Sir Edward James Ackroyd tration, he virtually fought the order to institute was born in England in the year public in 1838. He was the third son of needed reforms, According to 11 "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 "crime waves" of the 'fties Crown.

fis 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, were 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. 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 Un this account nominated was of Clerk to the first Puisne that he

This Judge, and later al 24, became sit on the Commission. Chief Clerk in the Registry of body, the Supreme Colony.

ON GUARD 21, he was elevated to the post doubtless

AGAINST CHOLERA

Cholera, one of the dreaded scourges of the

This

most East,

time. although it Can

Court of

Enthusiasm For Law

His clerical work in the Re- gistry inspired in him a great

sion, and therefore he com-

whilst however,

March 1883.

GRIN AND BEAR IT

By Lichty

MUNNY

EGYPTIAN

PRINCESS 6000

YRS OLD

· Chest, 1938 às K'alled 'Trilben Apoklesla, Tau

5/12

"Humph--5,000 years old! I'll bet she's 6,500 if she's a day!"

EUROPE'S

FORTIFIED

FRONTIERS

By Captain J. L. Strong

FEW years ago military experts But France does not wlain for wor. were all against forts and forth She has to keep up three fronts now.

her Bentions. They pointed out that most apart from

commitments in of the old forts in France and Bel-

Africa, and maintains

standing ghum, though built by a man who army of 600,000 men, which is enor- it was recognised to

to be

France's allies.

the greatest

not

ů

that succeeded in remedying many military engineer of his time, were mous when you consider hier popu-

for her

man- from in mere death traps, and that although lation. Fortunately abuses, was unsuccessful

Verdun nad

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 thus to the walls of concrete and picked battalions of coloured troops in French garrisons for some years, to fulfil all his hopes was steel that served as ramparts.

so that they can be acclimatised and But military opinion has change thus not suffer in case of active ser- has struck again at Hongkong-1 interest in the law us a profes. perhaps a source of disappoint- i

ment to Sir John Pope Hennessy once again. Monsieur Maginot, who vice in Europe.

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

termined to keep possible tand in- epideme proportions as yet, himself for the avocation of R

vaders out of France. So he bullt

I have not touched on Poland, who barrister. Eventually, he suc

Surfeited With Duties the now famous Maginot line. But

vast army for her there is one European victimceeded, and in June 1872, was

Where another line

of defence that also maintain

size, and whose polical leanings During the administration of France has constructed that it change from time to time. Once the already and another suspected called to the Bar of the Middle

He did not, however, the succeeding Governor, Sir nearly so well-known, and that

Polish were very pro-French, but now of having contracted the disease Temple.

the line along the Italian frontier, a desert his career in the Civil George Ferguson Bowen, Sire which is mainly rounded 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 bat- Germans, and they are having unti-

employed harbour. So that is another thing intention, but

his feited with the duties of histeries, but which would be reinforced Semitle trouble in their towns.

Italy has proclaimed to the world to remember in guarding against newly acquired legal standing in office; for he sought a change in by culoured troops in case of war.

order to enhance further pro- position. This resulted in his Along the Pyrenees, France has that she has "hermetically sealed" infection: don't swim in dirty motion. In this, he was at once securing ຍານ appointment of had to embark on further military her frontiers, also that she cun com- becnuse of possible mand "eight mililon bayonets," The water. There are more rules, successful, and in

August Acting Puisne Judge in March commitments

trouble-not 50 much with the last staternent I venture to disbelieve, too, and they have been dinned 1873, served as Acting District 1885. His nomination, however Spanish Nationalists under General unless she counts all the school

not without much local Franco-but

Bolilla

Avan- and A because of General children in the

guardlett formations of the Fascisti, into the cars of the public until and Stipendiary Magistrate of was

Riviere du Mempart in opposition. Mr. John J. Francis,

There is a great deal of espionage in the essentials are surely remem- Mauritius.

a practicing barrister who had

Italy, but you rarely read reports tribunals. Italy issued bered. Actually, the

His name first appears in the been in the Colony since 1865, Hush-hush Aerodromes sued by the special trib of usc

Russia has lined her border on fluences and Germany is preparing is by no means free of German In- ore's common sense, plus the chronicles of Hongkong in the immediately took exception, and

year 1882, when he was es- accordingly penned a lengthy both the Rumanian and the Polish for

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 1015, when she revived Re- for the Colonies complaining corridor and Heaven help the refu- her military secret service départ- mended, such S inoculation, from Home to

fortified her own gistrar of the local Supreme that Sir Edward, whilst he was gee or fugitive who tries to pass the ment. She has

Trontier, provide reasonable security.

country as never before. Court. He arrived in the Colony indubitably exceedingly capable

Czechoslovakia is another country Clean food, clean water,

The name of the main German clean on February 27, and was duly in his duties of Registrar, hard-

which has had to join in the orma- 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 extensive, and secret- and private soldier, and it is impossible indulgence and plenty of rest: many years of experience in a son for a Puisne Judgeship.are

kindred post whilst in Mauritius There was in fact considerable directed strategically against Ger- for

the stranger to know their 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 Hitler's finance chiefs of spies have been beheaded for sell- information concerning these had been done in this regard to ever, the appointment was ap can raise in building fortifications ing

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

which are jealously guarded and Their very existence shows that it is dangerous to swim in the /control the situation. But re-wns accordingly gazetted in his which the Intelligence services of Germany believes she may be in- other countries are trying to locate. vaded. Her strongest line is op-

with Russia harbour of Hongkong, the reason ports from Swatow indicate that now post.

During the remainder of his Holland, Belgium, and French Plan- posite France. War being that refuse of all sorts is a cholera epidemic of really stay in the Colony, he filled ders right to the sea at Dunkirk are would probably mean open battle now being prepared for the possi- with armoured cars, light tanks, and thrown or washed into the water. serious proportions is raging various oflices, sometimes serv-bilitles of war, while Sweden has an aeroplanes as the principal instru- This warning should be taken to there, with as many as 600 cases ing as Acting Puisne Judge, and Immense and gloomy fortress watch- ments of destruction, not to mention

an arca where cavalry, which the Russians are or heart. It might be advisable, in in a week, and that hundreds of on other occasions as acting ing the South in

have given Attorney General and Acting strangers are not permitted. ganising again. They

The Puisne

Across the Mediterranean, Spain, back horses to the Cossacks, and 1 fact, to go farther. Thousands refugees from this infected port Chief Justice. of Chinese-particularly little are swarming into steamers and Judgeship, however, seemed to France, Great Britain, Egypt, and believe that Russian omcers

among the principal purchasers of Soine- be his forte; for he was named aly are all busy with military pro blood stock in Ireland to-day.

blems. Germany has always wished boys-swim off the steps along coming to Hongkong.

how one feels that the examina-as its temporary occupant on no to gain a footing in Morocco, and the Praya and around the scores

less than three occasions.

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

threat to Gibraltar. which only a glance should tell people is not enough to ensure for England on leave, expecting, coast us a conceivable

nevertheless, to return to the'

to

Medical opinion maintains that

dic

serve 18

+

Self-Preservation

arc

What immenso Suns of money them is filthy. But if they are that they will not carry disease Colony as soon as his furlough Even Switzerland

must have been spent in building. heedless-and little boys are-ashore with them. Encyclopoo- terminated; but contrary

all these forts und fortifications! The authorities advise that every one's expectations, how- Little Switzerland has also joined original Maginot line cost sixty authority should step in to pru-

Travellers should be kept under ever, it was decided that his in the race, but she is pretty safe, million pounds, and its existence tect them against their own

grant of leave should be per-points on her frontiera; one at Lake out another thirty million at least although there are two possibly weak means that Franco will have to pay inspection" in combatting manent, and simply a prelude to Constance opposite Germany, and the It is n most extraordinary thing that rashness; and to protect the rest

Just what is meant final retirement on a pension. other in the Jura mountains oppo- countries can always find money for war and secret service when they are of the community against the cholera.

is not clear; but it would scom This proved indeed to be the site France.

Finland, Jugo-Slavia, caso, and early in the following

and consequences of their ignorance,

Ilu- Rereaming poverty at the tops of their

political voices. It would be wisdom to erect con- that, for a brief period after year, the Legislative Councilmanin are other countries that have

Russia, Intent. on succeeding with award of a been rearming and building lines of

defence which would indicate that her vost industrial plans, has had spicuous placards forbidding their arrival here, travellers approved the

arens pension equivalent to £1,166/the war lords of Europe do not think to from plague-stricken

raise an enormous army to gar swimming along the waterfront,

138/40 per annum,

that aeroplanes will win the next rison her far-flung frontiers, and an should be sogrogated if possible.

Later on, in January 1898, he war in spite of their mass produc- air force which is reported to be the and even to send policemen here

There is one more thing for was one of the recipients of New tion in Germany and Russia. France's largest in the world-and certainly and there to

the Ace that

the public to remember about Year Honours, receiving the main idea is defence against invasion, one of the best organised.

though it has been pointed out that And we ourselves? Our work Any gastric disturb- dignity of a knighthood. At an her long-range guns could demolishings have been somewhat

secret instructions were obeyed. And

investiture held by Queen Vic- German towns near the frontier these things should be done

ance may act as a predisposing toria at Osbourne on January notably Karlsruhe, Mayence, and than those of the great Continental boforo cholera has reached an

factor, and even undue alarm 25, the new knight received the Stuttgart. The Germans have actu- Powers, but something considerably ally stated that the French could more than fifteen hundred million poundta is surely a staggering bill for epidemic height.

might therefore indirectly cause accolade.

The bestowal of a title was demollah these towns without moving our defence forces. Yet such is the For a long time, now, this an attack. For this

of Sir Edward's older, a gun, or na aeroplane state of the world to-day that it is essential that we do across the line, and that they might absolutely urging people must take precautions for the last

honours; for he died at his conceivably commence such a bom- strengthen our fighting services if wo their own peace of mind. action of a preventive naturo

The same should apply to homo in Surrey in 1904, aged 66 bardment ahould Runala attack the are to survive in the struggle for

| years. against cholera, and for a little Government.

FRIDAY THE MAJESTIC paper has been

choleru.

renson

Fatherland from the Enst.

existence,

more