Suggestion for a New Chinese Court We learn that Mr. Vu Yah-ching, chairman of the Chinese General Chamber of Commerce and Huipan of the Shanghai Special Municipal= ity, has wired to Peking suggesting: hat alow court should e establish ed in-connexion with the Shangital Special Municipal Bureau, this to Goal with lawsuits in Chinese for. sory within the munilpality auh Mixed Court:
act as a court of appeal from: ther In this connexion it is interesting, ty note an interview wich Mr. Tung Kang, former Mintster of Justice has given to a Chinese journalist, Briefly, Mr. Tung says that, in view: of the fact that there is no appellant. court to the International Mixed: Court, and thay the Kiangsu Higher Provincial Court is situated at Soochow, it would be preferable if a branch of the high court is estab lished in Shanghai; that special procurators and courts should be estab: lished in the districts of Shanghai, Paoshan, Taichong and Kading, aa, first step towards law reform; tat the Minister of Justice should be empowered to appoint or dismiss, magistrates of the International Mixed Court; that the Chinese Goernment should take over from the Mixed Court all civil cases, and later criminal matters; that eases involve ing the first degree of punishment in the Mixed Cours should be referred to the Shanghai District Court; and that district offeinlae should not be permitted to interfove with the law courts and the ade ministration of justice, routs Astosiaton=the "Bron:
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a 13-year-el nese boy, Scout Fred Gsell, a member of the 1st Tientsin Troop. When -his home caught fire recently "he gave the alarm.. His father "was stupefied. and unable to move, and the Glocted to remain with him sat bee, than follow his mother to safety.
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