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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1938.

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SIR JAMES RUSSELL

By T. Paul Gregory

A well-known name in the Successful Career

Colony during the latter

Upon his return to the Colony

part of the last century was that of Chief Justice, Sir James in June 1874, he was gazetted Coroner, an office which he fill- Russell, Kt., C.M.G. His carcer

ed with entire satisfaction. of more than twenty-five years From this position it was in- in the service of the Hongkong

evitable that further promotion Government was a most meri-

should be his lot, and he served [torious one, and earned for him

during the next nine years in the esteem of the entire com- munity; for he was happily one Acting Puisno Judge to Colonial various capacities, ranging from of those personalities who com Treasurer and Registrar Gen- bined in addition to great ability

eral. and a remarkable capacity for conscientious endeavour, a kind and generous disposition.

then

36 hours before Britain was came plunged into the most disastrous wur civilisation hus The speaker on that occasion was Sir Edward Grey, the Bri- tish Foreign Minister

to the attention Governor,

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The death of Mr. Francis Snowden, the Puisne Judge on Sir James Russell was born in

April 1, 1883, provided him with Ireland about the year 1840. He he was immediately appointed an unexpected opportunity; for was the scion of a well-to-do by the Governor,

Sir George family, who provided him with Ferguson Bowen an excellent education, and he

to fill the graduated at Queen's University he discharge the duties of the vacancy. So conspicuously did in 1863 with a B.A. Degree. Bench that he won wide acclaim, The subsequent three or four and it was not to be wondered at years were spent in private that his ability soon came to the study and in acting as tutor and attention of the Home Govern

MAN has just ob- companion to the sons of other ment. He was accordingly the

served to me that at wealthy families. The apparent recipient of a Companionage in ly futureless vocation of a the Order of St. Michael and St. the

the recent meeting of

British teacher at length began to pall George on June 18, 1887. The where the scientific work Association, Writing on the eve of a on the young man, and he de- bestowal of this honour seemed and achievements of the momentous meeting of the

cited to enter the foreign ser- to be a signal for further pro- House of Commons, we would to

vice. In 1867 he was appointed motion; for on November 10. year were discussed, women || HELEN SIMPSON |

a cadetship in like to refer our readers to ex-Upon his arrival in the Colony, of the Chief Justice, Sir George

Hongkong. 1888, owing to the retirement had little to contribute. tracts from a speech made in he occupied himself with his Philippo, he

There may be more of them thou) that same Chamber twenty-four the Government

habitual ardour to the studies of gazetted as his successor,

was accordingly usual with a lot to talk about, but it

Says Miss Susan: "What is ol- will just be a paper here and there gebra, exactly? Is it those three- cadet, but so

checking somebody else's facts; some cornered things?" years ago, on August 3, 1914 rapid was his progress that he ing legal minds, Chief Justice original stuff, very le

As one of the Colony's lead-records of patient observation. Or

And Miss Phoebe answers sadly: "It is X minus. Y equals Z plus Y. of the Russell was noted for the fair- Sir Richard

It was odd, he thought. I dis- And all the time you are saying they are equal, you feel in your "heart. Graves MacDonnell, who, the cured, it was perhaps on the sidefects known.

ness of his decisions. If he agreed with him. I though it per- Why should they be?" very next year, nominated him as his Private Secretary.

Mathematics is a specialist's game, of leniency. Like others of his have one bind spot, and that blind anyhow. What about the other as-

pects of science? His next post-that of Police tering the great controversy body's mouth, a name: Mme. Curie, car, both of which

How about the aeroplane and the Magistrate instilled in him an which raged in Hongkong dur-well, Mme. Curle

women have his leave of absence at Home in the public whipping post should born.

was a prodigy. leurned to drive?

1872, he determined to utilise be

How about the Air Raid Precau- tions, with the lectures on chemical the opportunity

abolished. His recorded

and The quiet Polish woman calculat- warfare

the power of ex- Study. The law now became his committal one; for while he was children-and going back to work these?

for further opinion was apparently

ing at her chemist husband's alde, plosives? a non-obscure and content, having her What is the reaction of women to forte, and he took his LL.B. at too kind an individual at heart Stricken with illness, loss and go- |

of Dublin. So to openly endorse the weekly is resting upon the Government standard that he won in deciding what to advise the medal, and was called to the Bar honest enough to state that "he a gold the thrill-seeking public, he was We at Lincoln's Inn in the Easter did not know how local crime have disclosed our mind to the Term of 1874, the authorities was to be curbed if the cat and glory, denied entrance to the French she could help it. "I hate se odds House of Commons. We have allowing him

claimed by France as her greatest She said she never looked at it if disclosed the issue, the informa- three terms, as ordinarily he In this respect, he echoed the was a foreigner; frantically praised, and ends Jigging about."

a concession of the birch were to be abolished." Institute on the grounds that she I'm at the mercy of all those odds tion which we have, and made would not have been admitted to convictions of the majority of any of it-and going back to work. clear to the House, I trust, that Practice until later in the year.

savagely assalled, caring nothing for

The man who taught her to fly the community, who, while they!

told me she was fine in the air, Yes, Mme. Curie la out of the top because she was an excellent rider, were perhaps as humanitarian drawer. Harriet Chick's work on and had geed hands with a the determination, the resolu- as any other, did not feel too sure a Welsh girl solved a mathematical what made the propellers go round. horget rickets is world-famed. Recently but she knew no more than Adam of the wisdom of Governor Pope problem which had balled aircraft Henncnay's "advanced" liber-designers for years. Then, of course, There are plenty of women flyers there's Mrs. Maxine Miles, who very like this: plucky, sensitive to the alism.

successfully designs aeroplanes.

feel of the 'plane, able to endure But we women are not employed as The Chief Justiceship of But you cannot make out a case test pilats, nor do we invent new for Hongkong was really his lasted on the strength of these excep- but not the imagination.

for women being scientifically mind- aerobatic stunts. We have the heart, which Sir Edward Grey appeal official appointment, and altions, as you cannot, on the strength

who

time, he was not adverse to en-

spot is science.

A single answer leaps to every-

fought, as Mr. Neville Chamber-interest in the law, so that upon ing the 'eighties as to whether Hers was the life of the scientist

lain is fighting to-day, to avert catastrophic war and its atten- dant horrors.

This is what Sir Edward

Grey said:

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the University

ing back to work.

"The most awful responsibility conspicuous was his scholastic quota of floggings in full view of High Honours

House of Commons to do.

we are prepared to face that situation, and that should It develop, as probably it will de- velop, we will face it. We work- ed for pence up to the last mement, and beyond the Inst moment. How hard, how persis-

tently, and how earnestly we atrove for peace last week the House will see from the papers

that will be before it.

"But that is over, as far as the peace of Europe is concerned.

We are now face to face with a situation and all the consequences which it may yet have to unfold.

tion, the courage, and the en- durance of the whole country." The determination, resolution, courage and

endurance

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I have a friend who is a remark- ably good air pilot. She casually flies about Europe and Africa, feels at home, and is perfectly happy in the air. I asked her how on earth her she dealt with the engine when it

went wrong.

but

black dress, turned and re-turneu INTERRUPTED by war, dozen times, receiving high honours

tien to get the best out of a machine, of Boardicea and Joan of Arc, des- It takes a special sort of imagina-

and this is labelled Men Only.

Consider the woman who is afraid

war.

MATHEMATICS

of anything remotely mechanical,

DOCTOR lamented to me: wo cannot

the Bible see the sonse of. The ladies speaks of who knew not their right Sir James Borrid's "Quality hand from their left must have been female viewpoint women. Ninety-nine per cent of all

screws, from the key of the eytinder to the cap of

Oxyge bottle, turn clockwise to tighten and anti-clock- wise to loosen. But can I get any

ed just over twenty-four years though he was honoured with a eribe them as notable strategists in ago persisted unt!l, four years knighthood while on furlough in later, the forces of Might crim- 1890, he began to feel that qualities which so to make an Eln

We lack, and always wi! lock, the inally unleashed upon the world health were crushed.

considerations would stein, a Pasteur, or a Stephenson. I have watched a woman turn on eventually compel his retire- And a woman chess champlon a gas fire, retreat a yard or two, and British people to-day are not ment. The arduous duties of gave it as her opinion that we could throw lighted matches at it like never well, hardly ever"--be ex- darts. "I hate being near the pop" concerned with the merits of the his office began to tell on his connected to beat the chess masters of was her explanations We believe that we shall have kia and Germany. In 1914, Home in an effort to recuperate dispute between Czecho-Slova-|

stitution, and in 1893, he deter-the world.

Will Never Learn mined to resign and return "What Is Algebra?" the support of the House at large in proceeding to whatever

A "Those people his failing strength. While It the consequences may be and the merits of the dispute be-was hoped that Sir James would strect put this whatever measures may be.

and Servis, recover sufficiently to permit quite clearly. forced upon us by the develop which culminated in the Great his return to the Colony, the ment of facts or action taken | War. But they are vitally con- majority of the community felt

cerned when the peace of the that his departure would be from Lord Ripon to the Gover-nurse to grasp that? They still pro

nor, Sir William "I have put the vital facts be world is threatened by brute permanent. Their fears

Robinson on ceed, each time, by trial and error." force.

fulfilled: for on September 3, And, as In 1914-1918,

September 8:

Finally, take the authentle story of not improbable, we are forced, British people can be relied upon had passed away at Strathpeffer, opinion, Sir James Russell's ser. how to minimise the effects of gar 1893, came the tidings that he

an Air Raid Precautions lecture in a It stated in part: "In my village hall. Gas was the theme: and rapidly forced, to take our to support their King and Coun-Scotland, where he had gone but vice to the Government was of a how to know when gas was about,

how to render first aid to the gained; stand upon these issues, then I try to the last man and the last a few days previously in a vain very high order, and in him suc believe, when the country rea-penny. News of the last minute effort to profit by a change of cessivo Governors and Secre-man rose and said, amid applause:: Ilses what is at stake, what the proposals for a Four Power Con-scenery. The residents of the tarica of State found a wise, Just, "All very well, but this won't come.. real issues are, the magnitude of ference at Munich is wonderful Colony were profoundly shocked and single-minded advisor, who, here.**

our way; we cook. with. oll round: the impending dangers in the news. Wo all pray that Mr. at the news of his death, and not on the judicial bench only. No, we women haven't got the West of Europe, we shall be sup- Chamberlain's last minute hastened to pay tributes to his but in other ways, did good and mechanical or scientific mind. We ported throughout, not only by efforts for peace will not go memory. The most culogistic lasting work for the Colony in don't understand machinery the House of Commons, but by unrewarded.

of them all came in a telegram which his public life was spent." chemistry. And it seems to be no

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