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Tuesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

October 17, 1939.

By Ernie

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£5,300 FOR ATHENIA SURVIVORS

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LONDON, Oct. 18 (Reuter). -The Donaldson Atlantie Lino, owners of the ill-fated Athenia, have sent £5,300 to Mr. Joseph Kennedy, U.S. Ambassador in London, as contribution towards the cost of taking home the American survivors.

The Athenia was sunk by a Nazi U-boat just after the war broke out, Out of the Athenta's 300--American passengers 20 lost their lives.

Artificial Leg Arrives Here By Air

Among the freight which arrived from England by the Imperial Air- ways liner Denebola yesterday was an artifeinl leg.

Rushed across the world by alr, the artificial leg is for a patient Hong- kong, whose leg has been amputated. Wearers of artificial legs in the East regularly send them to England for maintenance. One wearer in India, who regularly sends his leg to London is a keen golfer ond sports- man.

He finds the advent of air services

a boon, as he is not separated from his beloved golf for more than nbeut fortnight. Formerly he had to wait a few months until his leg was re- turned by rea...

Mr. Kennedy to-day praised the Eiffel Tower Goes

Company's action very highly, and also praised the assistance given by the people of Galway and Glasgow, where the survivors were landed, as well as the British Government,

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PARIS, Oct. 17

(Reuter). The

famous Eiffel Tower is going into khaki during the next fortnight.

Eighty-thousand tons of khaki Readypaint will be used in an attempt to make the famous lower less conspicu-

For England

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 10 (Reu ler)-Aerodromes in California have now u large number of aeroplanes ready for delivery to the Royal Air Force should, and as soon as, the Arms Embargo einuse In Neutrality Act be raked.

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LONDON, Oct. 16 (Reuter) ‚—— No less than 07 per cent. of India's fleemsed air pilots want to Join the Indian Air Force

reserve.

This was revested as the re- kull of a questionalte sent out to all pilots with current or expired Hernees. Some of the pilots want to serve overseas and most of the replies Included Ex- pressions of loyalty. fo. 1hr

Empire.

CHIANG'S STIRRING APPEAL

To Young Students CHENGTU, Oct. 18, (Reuter), A stirring appeal to the youth of China was made this morning

Conviction Of Indian

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APPLICATION for leave to appeal was refused by the Court

of Appeal composed of Mr. Justice R. E. Lindsell and Mr. Justice J. A. Fraser, this morning, in the case in which an Indian watchman named Bahadur Khan was convicted of rape and sentenced to 18 months' hard labour at the last sessions.

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Khan was convicted of raping å "We fail to see how It enn possibly 53-year-old widow, Lau Chung, near be sald that the verdict was against the Deep Water Bay Golf Course on the weight of evidence,. The woman's July 12.

story although in some ways was un- Mr. Percy Chen, instructed by Mr. | likely, wos complete and was to some |C. A. S. Russ, appeared for Khan and smali extent corroborated. The Jury

Me-M.-J.Abbott, Assistant Crown saw-and-heard the witnessen and. Solicitor, was for the Crown.

The grounds of appeal were that the corroboration of the evidence of the prosecutrix was insufficient law and practice to support a convic- tion and that yerdiet was against the weight of evidence.

Insufficient Evidenco Plea Mr. Chen said evidence adduced at

conviction safe. He referred to the trial judge's report in which he stated that in his (the trial judge's opinion) the evidence was Insufficient to make

despite the warning given to them, they must have. believed her. In such circumstances the court will not interfere."

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by General Chiang Kai-shek the hearing was insufficient to make when he addressed a large gathering of students, represent ing various Chinese universities, and cadets of the Central conviction safe, Counsel drew at-tages in a contest of endurance. Military Academy.,

tention to the fact that the trial judge! We have not made that mistake. had warned the jury of the paucity The final toning-up of our sinews Headed by flags of their respective of corroborative evidence, amounting is still going on. universities, the students paraded in almost to absence of it, in spite of

The first real strain on the brilliant sunshine before the General-which the jury convicted

at the Central Military Issime

Mr. Chen clied several cases where, martial temper of the Germans Aendemy.

he maintained, in such circumstances, came when they finished with Country's Strength

the Court of Appeal had the power General Chiang said: "Our coun- to grant leave to appeal in which Poland, they brought forward

Hong Kong try's strength lies in noble youth and event he would have the opportunity the question of peace."

Our refusal to make peace on true citizens.

Peak Depot, In the face of Japan of presenting his case as a whole. cse aggression, cach student must;

Mr. Abbott Replies

any terms but the evacuation of resolve to do his part in the salvation Mr. Abbott said the Jury

were Polish territory has shaken the

with which complacency

of his country and to make China told there was little or no corroburn- independent and free by helping to tive evidence in spite of which warn- put into effect the People's Three ing they convicted. He painted out German man-in-the-street Principles,

that the Court would not interfere followed the Fuhrer's hitherto "As the soldiers at the fronts are where a Jury Inspite of such a wurn uninterrupted series sacrificing themselves to free Chinuing found there was sufficient evidence cesses.

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from crucity and oppression, so cach to convict. He submitted there was citizen must determine to show a like umple evidence upon which the jury

pirit of sacr.flce, thus wiping out the could convict, and no useful purpose getting steadily stronger while country's disgrace."

would be served by reopening the Germany's power begins to de-

matter.

Mr. Chen, replying, said he was not cline; and with more and more asking the court to upset the finding neutral States adhering to the of the Jury, but to be given the on-cause of the manifest-future- portunity of stating his case 45

conquerors, the process of wear- whole.

The whole gathering then read aloud with the Gentralissimo the 12 przecple-and-the-ten commandiacals for Party members and soldiers.

Need For Mutual Help General Calang especially emphu-

Mr. Justice Lindsell: Before weling down German resistance will. sised the need for mutual help. He give you leave, you must deal with go on until one day, like a steel sald: "If everyone, old and young, the case raised by my learned brother girder eaten through with rust, rich and poor, tries in his own circle in which it is stated that the evidence it snaps as it did last time. to help others, Chine will never of the prosecutrix need not in law

again be as a sheet of sand, but will

corroboration,

be corroborated at all. You started At present, the fact that the be closely lift and therefore strong off by stressing the necesalty for only missiles which have fallen

"One of China's weaknesses in the

in the interior of Germany are past has been the selfishness of su

Proceeding His Lordship said Mr. many people to seck their own good Chen was bound to substantiate his pamphlets is represented to the rather than that of their comrades grounds of appeal as set out in his German people as a symptom of and country."

notice of appeal and if he could not Britain's fear that military Finally the Generuilssime stressed do that the court the need for cadets,

could not grant action might provoke the Ger- during their leave to appeal.

man forces to retaliation. Judge's Question Mr. Justice Fraser; You have not This unexpectedly gradual careful not to injure their property shown us there was no case to go the entry into war conditions has,

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Jury, nor that no

jury however, great advantages for would convict. What is wrong with us. In untroubled safety and

the jury's verdict?

Mr. Chen: The jury decided there perfect weather all our prepara- was corroboration when in fact there tions have been completed, so was no corroboration..

that, when the war suddenly mis-enters on the intensive phase directed the jury. I don't see any which must inevitably come, we such ground of appeal.

shall have done everything pos- Mr. Chen: I am not making that aible to meet it. statement. I am only dealing with

Mr. Abbott: My friend is now argu- | Ing that the learned judge

the adequacy of the worning that Meanwhile, it is a privilego to there was pauelty at corroboration. be members of a nation which Mr. Justice Fraser (referring to is fully informed of what is go- the case of Rex vs. Crocker); I tried

to bring to your notice at the begining on, instead of being hood- ning of the hearing that this is a winked and blinkered like tho

ase of tainted evidence, but the Germans.

judge was trying to bring to the We, at least, are able to grasp notice of the jury that this was a case the full significance of the his of oath against oath,

old toric times through which wa Mr. Chen: In sex cases the law has demanded for centuries Injure living now, practice that the evidence of the prosecutrix shall be corroborated.

Mr. Justice Fraser: That does not agree with Crocker, and Crocker is good law,

Mr. Chen: It is in its proper circumstances.

Judgment Delivered Giving judgment Mr. Justice Lind- well sold: "We aro sallafled that leave

M. Maisky Sees Lord Halifax

LONDON, Oct. 18 (Reuter).—It is learned that M. Ivan Maisicy, the Soviet Ambassador, had an Interview

must be refused. The appeal is with Lord Halifax. the British For- based on two grounds. Firstly, thero cign Minister, this afternoon.

I was not sufficient corroboration of It is understood that the resump-

the prosecutrix story, and, secondly, tlon of economic negotiations

that the verdict was against the touched upon.

weight of evidence. We cannot see that either of the grounds has been substantiated.

Was

German-Yugoslav Trade Protocol

"The Crocker case seems to bo clear authority for the provision where at any rate there is no ques- tion of consent on the part of the BERLIN, Oct. 10 (Reuler)The woman involved that in sexual, German-Yugoslav Trade Protocol offences corroboration of her evidence was signed in Belgrade to-day.

is strictly not necessary. But here in On the German side, measures wil fact there was some corroboration.) be taken to ensure, even under pre- The trin! Judge gave a warning to the sent circumstances, payment for Jury which we must assume to have Yugoslav exports and supply German been properly given.

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