In view of the conflict of testimony regarding the reported attack on Chinese fishing' junks by Japanese warships it is satisfactory to learn that the British Government has taken steps {0 Institute a formal judicial Inquiry. Sir Atholl Macgregor, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Hongkong, will preside over the Cam-mission. His wide experience and eminence on the bench will command confidence. Sit Atholl, after graduating at Edinburgh Uaiversity and Lincoln College Oxford was called to the Bar at Lincoln's Tun in 1908. "He took silk In Trinidad and Tobago in. 1927, when hho was Attorney General of that administration. Earlier he served in Southern Nigeria as Assistant District Commissioner; he was Police Momistrate at Lagos from 1914 to 1923, and afterwards became Crown Counsel and Solicitor General successively to the Government of Nigeria. He was fora short time Attoruey~ General in Kenya before coming to Honckong where he has been Chief Justice since 1934.
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