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WEDNESDAY, JULY 13, 1930.

THIS IS "PIRACY"!

The attitude of the Japanese press in the delicate matter of the occupation of the Paracels Islands by French police would be amusing if it were not so deadly earnest. The Japanese

do not often bluster. So when

the influential Hochi Shimbun

cries "Piracy" against France

it is not a joking matter.. More-

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Personalities of Old Hongkong

JOHN WALTER HULME.

7

CHIEF JUSTICE

By T. PAUL GREGORY

A great man of Hongkong's past was the first Chief Justice-the Hon. John Walter Hulme. He was in certain respects a stern representative of the age; but in others, he was most genial and won for himself during his stay in the Colony a host of warm-hearted and loyal friends. However, his most outstanding characteristic was his spirit of rugged independence which often brought him into collision with that other individualist of the day-the Governor, Sir John Francis Davis.

The Hon. John Walter Hulme was about it until nearly a your later, born in England in the year 1800, when the Governor went to the Imits! Yery te is known of his youth, of citing Chief Justice Hulme to up- save that he was admitted to the Bar pear before the Executive Courell to of the Middle Temple when he was answer the following charges;

quite young and early in his career First-For having been intoxicated he gained a reputation throughout the

at dinner party given by Rear- country as a sound Inwyer. Perhaps. Admiral Sir Thomas Cochirune 031 much of his legal success was due to board H.M.S. Agincourt in the his associate, the famous Joseph latter part of 1845.

Chitty, a barrister whose name

even

bern

Second-For having been intox!-

yet familiar one with meni-

W rated at the house of Major-General) Whilst of the legal profession. he was assu

D'Aguilar in July 1846. associated with Chitty (who

Third-For being Incidentally was his brother-in-law) Hulme collaborated in the compile drunkard.

the compila- tion of a number of well-known law

Imbitual

The Executive Council In addition

to the Governor, was composed of the G. O, C., Major-General D'Aguilar,

books which added immensely to his reputation. Largels on this account. Mr. 11. K. Johnston (Secretary to Sir and also, undoubtedly, to his sucense John Da

Davis

bis

DUCKY

MATTRES

of

, 11 y United Fixture Araktedte, Int

Calne.

as a practicing barrister he was P Plenipolentiary), and Major

capacity pointed to

to serve as Chief Justice of The G. O. C.

was apparently the Colony of Hongkong, with the unwling member of the examining sperific task of creating an efficient hads

protested system of legal administration and body; for he vehemently

agafst the whole proceedings, declar- procedure from the uk-fashioned ing that it was both shameful and military court which had given disgusting to plory a man who had much dissatisfaction,

a guest at one of his parties. In vain did Judge Hulme demand A pubite hearing of the

and the allats created intense excitement in the Colony. Public opinion became

Feud With The

Governor

bern

1

"Let's take a stroll while they're making up our berths."

5-Q

Taking The Sting Out Of The Future

ahead.

As we

lle

Judge Hulme arrived in Hongkong outspoken and menacing in attitude. all know what it is to look There are also two ways of reacting

W The residents believed that the gist fearfully

to an emergency. The one consiste aboard H. M. S. Spiteful on May 7,

the matter With him as u fellow passen- of 1044.

WAS nothing, awake in the "wee, sma' hours" the of activities, physical and mental, on the voyage

than Was Sir John more

an attempt KOI

to coming day stretches out before us calculated to enable us to cope with Francis Davis, the first nctual "rollroad" the Chief Justice like a desert with no osals promising it and, in so far us we are successful,

out Governor of the Colony. The month

The publie his arrival, he was appolnit- rallied manfully to his support and nude and refreshment to encourage we feel highly exhilarated. If, how- following

ever we fall, the second type of re- ed to serve on the newly created every one agreed that even in that First of all, we cheer ourselves by action takes place, and we experience

day of hard drinkers. Judge Hulme deciding that as we are not likely in varying degrees a sense of paraly Legistative Council.

From the very first, Judge Hulme was never an imbiber to excess. They to sleep for hours we shall not be sis or collapse which is exceedingly

cited his appearances in Court and the fit to meet the day. In imagination, unpleasant.

of

office.

Us.

us.

did not appear for Davis, and the customary clarity of his judgments we then see ourselves rikast, getting Spectator and Actor well with Governor the which would be impossible in a man cating little or no breakfast, dislike, which seemed to have been who was nothing more than as the into trouble with our superiors, br

*

Fourth

Governor

to another

constructive

to suspect that Great Britain more or less mutual, soan broke it

Now in the face of forethought wo rnur alleged a "notorious wine coming exasperated with our subor- into on active feud. The trouble.

STUDIO bibber. has encouraged France to seize started

About sixty witnesses were dinates, and dragging our footsteps are able, as it were, to "live" the over the case of a British D merchant in Canton, A Mr. Charles Calle

called both for the prosecution and home again to a miserable evening future by an act of

the afl

except one..

prelude the group whose ownership has Spencer Compton, who had been in the defence, and

wretched imagination; and so also we expect Major

Caine Lestined that the Chief night.

to be able to experience in advance, for

years been in dispute bevolved in some trouble in the fore Justice had never been unduly more definite to fear; it may be an sense of power

in- But perhaps you have something in the fullest way, emotionally, the settlement at Shap-sanm-hong,

Suc accompanying Major toxicated. The testimony of Lween France and China. But

seerns that Compton had over-turned Cir

was

the decking

interview for a post you are very cessful reactions. on the "glorious Caine, however, what is a little ludicrous is the hawker's stall

and the anxious to obtain. You see yourself

But we cannot do this. We should point with the Governor, and had "beaten up" Chief Justice was declared guilty on

on meeting your fellow applicants, be- soon get exhausted if we were to Japanese claim to ownership of Chinese official who had attempted to the first count-two years after it had com your claims are nothing in com- physical demands as well as to-day's

more convinced meet coming more and

meet to-morrow's emotional and restrain him. Four days Jater, "feci-

In vain, did the Paracels at this late date, ing unduly exuberant" he further gently occurred.

Major-General D'Aguilar and the parison with theirs, then appearing So, because we do not feel emotional

before the discovery, it is said, having engaged in a fistic encounter with Ma

the leading residents protest; for

unsympathetic committee, exhilaration, it is as though we had. falling to do yourself Justice and failed to

to cope with the situation, and been made by a Japanese who the coneession, which bad extremely Governor's mind was made up, and coming away, miserable and unsuc- the requitant nightmare sensations of he accordingly suspended Hulme has been carrying on an export serious repercussions, ending up with from office on November 30, 1847.

cessful

powerlessness and collapse are ex- The scene unfolds itself before the perienced, Inward eye with the relentlessness of group for killed.

reason

come of the Chinese on the border of

a riot, in which three Chinese were

מן

on

with

his

December 30,

an

other

we

not

may be watcling a

whose work is essential to the singularly enough, nothing was done and the Chinese let of salvos of the means to some end we wish to same thing, he would feel quite.

arc

tions prevail when he projects him- solf into the future. He is master- of the self of the moment, but the

business from the

The British Consul at Canton, Mr. Over-Night Hero

The only way to rob the future of a cinematograph film, and you gaze anxiety and to look forward to it years. This is all very confus-McGregor wrote to Sir John Davis The unjust decision was received at it, experiencing that sense of with equanimity is to decide, in the ing; the more so since, to most for instructions, and was informed by the populace

the most paralysis which gives its characteristic first place, that we will not occupy that he should at once take action marked feelings of disgust. The horror to a nightmare.

nurselves with situations wheth are observers it will appear that the against Compton. As 1 result residents, not only of the Colony but

beyond our control and that, when Morbid Day-Dreaming

we really require to anticipate the ownership of the Paracels is Compton was fined $200 for his part also of Canton, hastened to

the affair, but unfortunately, the addresses to the Judge, who became

we will attend only to the future, legal aspects

How of the case became over-night a herp. His determination

different will be your creative planning of activities and scarcely a thing to quarrel sert|

singularly twisted; for he was sen- to return at once to England In emotional reactions when actually not to our possible emotional re- lenced under

words, will ously about.

law and one

fined order to

to seek Justlec,

the faced with the crisis Nervous and actions. In madic under another. The circumstances

of his sojourn previous to lacking in confidence you may be, exercise forethought, but we will were adjudged

almost a peculiar, As far as France is concerned, Compton appealed to the Courts of tainment. The suspended Judge was quality will be absent from the xenancy to emotional anticipation is the

a gala of enter- but even at its worst the nightmare indulge in morbid day dreaming.

Another factor which adds poig and, fsted everywhere, and the Bar pre-perience there really seems to be no good Hongkong against the decision.

whether you sented a gold snuff-box to him, appointed or not, you will rise to the strange feeling of being a spectator to doubt her sincerity Governor's Indictment

de situation and even enjoy it. Why of a scene in which one is also an Upon suitably Inscribed.

30. should there be this difference be

A man actor. when she says that police have The case was brought up before parture for Hom

O. Steamer Pekio, his

bis tween

friend leaning over the edge of a the 'P. &

anticipation and realisation? Chief Justice Hulme on November send off was a regat

On been despatched simply to safe-26, 1846, and he quashed the sentence Great crowds thronged to

one indecu. There are two kinds of looking cliff in trying to reach a rare plant, Pedder's ahead. There is creative planning and he may suffer agonies of appre- guard the staff of meteorologi-and the fine. Governor Davis was Whorf, and the Chinese community, for the future, in which our attention lension on his account, whereas, if

extremely annoyed and sought means

too, glended in large cal and other workers there, to suspend the

numbers. is focused upon activities which are ho himself were doing exactly the Judge. However, Flags were in evidence everywhere

fire reach. This process is predominantly secure.

The reason is that, while he knows was intellectual, and may be called fore- crackers. A champagne timin safeguarding of international

given to the Judge on

on board the thought. And there is morbid day-that he can control his own actions, he does not feel that he can control wa every dreaming, during which navigation in these dangerous of revenue may come or where, ship in the harbour, and

of those of his friend, and so the possi- respect, it was 11 1 triumphant. absorbed in the contemplation

we Imagine will be our blities of a serious accident loom waters. It

in some future time, she can rather than suspended dignitary that what is possible that

emotional reaction to a situation. large in his mind. Similar condi- base warships. France France had in mind when she

and he took his leave of Hongkong.

Less than six months later, how- decided to guard this staff the Britain are equally interested in fever, he was back again. This time

publle. Not even a fully-reinstated general

his self of the future is almost like an- fate of the very useful wireless Japan's intentions in this latter he returned.

oficial, his case having been in- caemics, and he now proceeded to other person, whose reactions he can direction and already have rea-vestigated by Lord Grey, Secretary make many on account of his pro- observe but not direct or manage, and weather station at Pratas

to fear for

for the Colonies. His arrival pensity for awarding harsh sentences and whose experiences he can only the future

State Shoals, which was reported to

by the P. & O. Braganza on June 16, in the Supreme Court, could say that share incompletely. have been dismantled by the security of their Far East sea 1848 was hailed by the people as a he was not at heart a good man.

singular

triumph of justice over the Even Mr. Yorrick James Murrow, the Japanese following their occupa-but they

lanes; not that they fear attack, dictatorial methods of Governor Davis founder of the Day Press, who had Breaking Point

and are unwilling that any

his clique." Governor Davis been sentenced to six months in guol tion of that island last year.

power should be in a position to have heard of it was alleged to and a fue of £100 for an alleged trol the self of the future. There is.

Wien he

exclaimed

"Glorious news! I libel on Governor Bowring had a verse in the Bible which enshrines. Subsequently other Far East

am delighted to hear of it." The great deal of respect for Judge Hulme fundamental psychological truth! interrupt their commerce, iso-Government Gazette duly announced on account of his high moral prin- "As thy days, so shall thy strength weather stations have CX-

ciples. Murrow once sald of him; be. We cannot expect to be con- late Hongkong and Indo-China the return in the following words:

"He was neither n bad man perienced much difficulty in

"The

Honourable Chief Justice corrupt judge." His only defect #cious of to-morrow's strength and Kwangchowan, and build a Hulme, having returned to

When it comes, plotting the course of typhoons, base which would be within long, is by the direction of principi question of sentences to prisoners, tunities, Nature has so organised our seemed was over-severity in the bringing its dimeuities and Its oppor- for Pratas was of invaluable as-raiding distance of these posses- Secretary of State for the Colon severo to a degree, and as unjust as siological endowment of nerve. and

Honourable Her Majesty's

and in this, it was sald, "he was emotions, our thinking. Our phy sistance in this work. But sions. So it is altogether likely

office from this date severe."

heart and muscle all work in harmony. whether or not France remem- that Britain and France will

Perhaps the increasing merciless and enable us to meet them. When, By Order,

W. CAINE,

ness of the justice meted out by bim

howover, wo

the try to use tip bered the Pratas affair, and its oppose Japan's claim in the

from the Bench was due to port to sources of the future in the Colonial Secretary.” his declining state of health; for we are imposing upon our systems a present, consequences, it is hardly likely, Paracels.

Sir John Davia apparently felt a eventually he fell that sixteen years strain they were never meant to if she intended to permanently Finally, bearing in mind: the great deal of chagrin at the unex- in Hongkong was enough, and ac bear. They break down, and mental

pected upset of his attempt to "sack" cordingly applied for sick leave, collapse and paralysis follow. occupy the Paracols, that she enterprise which. Japan is pro- the Cblet Justice; for not long after- This was granted and on long bring about such dire results? Lar would do so with a handful of, accuting in China, it is really wards, ho wrote Ilome asking 10 tenure of service, here was rewarded jus exercise human forethought eros. But why should we net so as to to be 1869, ho left the

Colony. Annamite policemen.

astonishing that tho Hochi plowed to resign. Judge Hulme in

the meantime, was making himself by the action of the Government in tively, not morbidly, and when we Shimbun can see piracy in anymore popular than ever, and during bestowing upon him an annual pen-have decided what are the things of Japan, of course, is interested thing so innocuous as the French the remaining years of his stay in the ston of £1,600, but he did not long to-morrow leave them to the morrow,

Colony was fortunato in being able live to enjoy it; for he died on March their rightful and efficient gusallan, **** in any island whence a penny action in the Paracels.

to maintain the high opinion of the 1, 1001 at Brighton, aged 61 yonra.

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reinstated in inclusive.

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nor a

23,

But then wo are not meant to con-

to-morrow" dawns.

re