Me No one needs to be told that the Judges of the Provisional Court have placed themselves hopelessly in the wrong, Ju his eagerness to defend the Shanghai Bar Association's right to insult. the Court unreproved President Ho has now twice ordered Judge Kuh to refuse to sit with Mr. Van den Berg and the latter is driven to "assume that something so incredible as a strike of Judges is actually taking place." It is to be remembered that after the al of Tsu Zu-ching, the the beginning of the trouble, Mi Van den Berg withdrew th suspension order, which he had only issued because Presiden Ho, having promised in principle to deal with the man, fa to. honour his undertaking.
Whatever shadow of excuse the Judges might have trumped up was thus removed. Their strike becomes a matter of purely nersonal hostility to Mr. Van den Berg and an attempt to dictate to the Consular Body what Deputies shall be appointed.
Two demands have been sent from President Ho to the Consular Body: that Mr. Van den Berg must apologize and. that guarantees must be given that Deputies shall henceforward not [attempt to discipline unruly law-vers. A plai has been given in reply that these demands cannot even sins even while protesting he will sin no more. Let us look at the ereed which oozes inadvert cussed, and in the Senior Con sul's letter of March 8 to President Ho it was clearly laid ently from the tip of Mr. Wells pen. He believes that there ae imperative rightness in-the world. No man sees more clearly than' he that things are at Jaws-are often down that, if Judges will not. discipline lawyers, Deputies must and will, But the situation has gone far beyond this. The Judges sre now deliberately holding up the work of the Court
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