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As interesting new development in the Fresh tuation is reported from Dabilia, English hackers have refused to load munitions for Ireland, and Irish trans port-workers have decided not to unload [any munitions arriring. Two shiploads of munitions are expected in Dublin from England.
LONDON, May 10th.
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EBY COURTEST "RONGKONG DAILY PRESS,"I
CHINA'S REPLY TO JAPAN REGARDING KIAOCHAO,
May 24, 191, Temperature 34
日七初月申庚
DIVORCE LAW REFORM.
WOMAN NO LONGER A
**UHATTEL.
Sir Edward Marshall Hall, K.C.. addressing the members of the Aldwych Club on the law of divorce, observed that the priests. PEKING. May 23.
who laid down the doctrines regard- After considerable hesitancy, China's ing marriage were celibates and of reply to the Japanese note, regarding alien religion. At this moment. the retrocession of Kiaochao, was presiding over our Divorce Court and delivered on Saturday afternoon. The
Following the shooting of the police reply welcomes pan's expressed de- delivering elaborate judgmen's, was sergeants at Limerick, large forces oferation to run Kacchao, but a judge who happened to be a troops and police tock possession of the
streets.
The townspeople booed and states that there is no need for nego-bachelor, and, added Sir Edward, issed. It is stated that the militantistion on the subject.
**I know no one who displays a more the pelice at one point fired on the crewd China declines to open negotia intimate knowledge of the necessities.
of married life than does the judge who adorns that bench." (Laughter.) After reverting to the question of the religious sanction of marriage, he
A man was killed and several anestions, because China is not a signatory including an old woman and a el
to the Peace Treaty with Germany; LONDON, May Buth. In the House of Commons, Sir Edward also because with a view of soothing Carson, speaking weeding Treland, said public opinion it is essential that dur- there was up evidence that the coading the present crisis the Government tion of airs was a part of
propisanda
step against new bag carried on in Egypt and Inita should not uke ́any and of
of which the chief offers were in New popular wishes. Therefore, the Chi-went on to say it was obvious that York. The directors of the campaign were nest. in a most friendly spirit, mus: pet animated by any desire to help Ires refuse to enter into direct negotiations laat, but from Fatre they were working for the time being.
stroy she British. Entire. Whether ia mume Pin Germany or unit, a great part of the family for the movement intone from America.
Sr Denis Henry, the Attorney General (for Ireland, describing the military meas (sures, said that the Chief Secretary
pa cavalry into the cattle-driving dis tricts of Roscommon Garay and Litri, 10 proutions for eattle resulting in driving. A good number of convictions had already been obtained. In some
ITALIAN AIRMAN LEAVES FOR
TOKYO.
there met be some reform in our divorce law. Three classes of people ware concerned in the agitations. that had been carried on for many years for reform. One class said that marriage could only be dissolved by death, and two most eloquent ex- ponents of this were Lord Brave and Lord Phillimore. While he respected deeply their feelings, it was impos- sitie to hope that any argument would ever induce these people to abandon The Italian Lega-the position they took up. Another class went so far as to say that mar- aviator.riage was a moral contract soluble
PERING, May 23. Ferarin departed from Peking at o'clock this morning. He circled the city and headed for Kowbungize districts, the establ
duty was en route to Tokyo: strengthened by the presence of three
oldiers in full fighting kit.
The House adjournek until Jane 1st, Losos. May goth- Today's Laws from Briand shows how the Military and Naval fores are rein- forcing the constabulary. A flying ehten of the Seventh Hu
Hussars has r placeit the police patrolling the mountain- ous district near Dablis, while a beach- ment of the Naval Brigade has arrived at Skibbereen with three gans and wireless equipment for the police barbucks, The Military are occupying the neighbouring police Garrneks at Golden.
Stories of outrage and murder continue to be received. The latest include the shooting with a revolver of two con stabulary sergeants in Limerick Street. the, with 30 years service was killed. The other, an ex-Amy officer, was danger; ously wounded, The assailant escaped at dusk.
[tiog, bade him farewell.
Masiero, the second Italien leaves on Meclay for Tokyo.
PUBLIC RAFFLES.
at the instance of the contracting parties, subject to certain safeguards: and an intermediate class, who, while not believing in divorce as a right, admitted that, with a state of society such as ours, misconduct in certain circumstances should be punished. The first party he regarded as hope less so far as argument is concerned, and in the second he placed himself, although he doubted whether they would be able to get a Legislature to go as far as they wanted. Once, One or two recent decisions by the however, we had admitted that mar Commissioner of Police, who hasriage was soluble, we admitted the thin-end of the wedge, and the only evidently been acting under instruc-question was how thick the wedge
NEW ATTITUDE OF GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
Dublin Castle ha promulgated a court tions, seem to indicate, says a corres- ought to be. martial sentence of 16 weeks imprison Lpondent in Englishman, that We had to consider the real human ment on an Enniskillenite for being in the local government has made up needs of to-day, and one point that possication of seditious dcenment,
orgat
namely the Irish Volunteers official its mind to put a stop to the public had not been sufficiently emphasised was the entirely altered position of raffles which are in Calcutta such a the woman. In theory, of course, she favourite and successful means of
LONDON, May 20th.
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The Irish Unionist Alliance mirting at Lublin passed a resolution against the making money for charitable pur- dead chattel; she was a chastel with LONG COATS from
· Home Rule Bili as Letraying the loyalists and the highest interests of the Empire...
LONDON, May 20th.
of Commerce has
The Belfast Chamber
a good deal of life (Laughter.) poses. The sual procedure is to With her vote and with the protec offer one or two large prizes, taking tion of measures such as the Married isaned a statement on the financial pro- the form of motor cars and the like Women's Property Act, it was oblous visions of the Hot Rule Bill It con- and a host of small prizes, and to that in dealing with the marriage tends that the Irish contribution to Im-sell as many one rupee tickets as looked upon as an unprotected servile question woman could no longer be perial expenditure should not exceed $5,000,000 instead of £1,000,000. It pro possible. Where the raffle has been clattel, the property of her husband. poses that South Irelang should contri bute 1 per cent and North Ireland as well organised and properly pushed. She was an independent entity whose
the sale of tickets exceeds the value rights must be considered.
now a woman's property was her of the prizes offered by a very large own, there were certain unpleasant sum, which, of course, goes to the liabilities that attached to men which charity concerned.
should be reconsidered. A man was
percent.
FRENCH STRIKE MENACE
Paris, May 10th.
גם
And
A Hava, Sessage SAVA“ —
In the past several of the Catholic liable at law to maintain his wife In France most strikers have now re-educational charities in Calcutta and his children, but the wife had no stich liability. Further, if a woman turned to work. The strikes may be have relied almost exclusively regarded as at an end. They have degen- this method of meeting their deficits, did not choose to live with a man, crated into a family quarrel among the inions belonging to the General Con- The raffles are generally drawn in under certain conditions, he must federation. The men bave now gained a connection with the Fancy Fair held give her one-third of their joint in- saber vie
view of matters by the conviction at the Zoologiaf Gardens on Janu- comes for the rest of her life; and that they have been misled by revolutionary 1 every year, but books of Sir Edward did not hesitate to say nry agitatora,
tickets are prepared months before there had been many marriages con- Tumultuous scenes took place in the hand and distributed amongst people tracted in this country where the Chumber, arising out of the Royalists who in turn dispose of them to the sole object of the woman had interpellation regarding the strikes. The President suspended the sitting after half public at large. Although there may been to get married and to do an hour's pandemonium.
have been isolated cases in which as little as she could to fulfil ber persons with books have stopped marital obligations, but to secure people in the streets in order to sell the best allowance she could while tickets, on the whole the distribution not living with her husband. There and sale of tickets has been carried were many people married to-day who never lived together, and the on very quietly, and it would be a
wife in husband supported his gross exaggeration to say that these affluence. Marriage might be, and raffles are in any sense a public is often, the most immoral relations nuisance. Why then has the Governship in the world; men and women ment decided to put an end to who were married and could not get them?
a divorce, because both, had com-
GOVERNOR'S YETO.
ALBANY, May 20th. The Governor has vetoed the six anti sedition bills passed by the State Legis Inture largely as the result of the trial of Socialist members who were excluded from the House of Representatives.
HUNGARIAN TREATY.
AMSTERDAM, May 19th. A message from Budapest statts that Hungary has decided to sign. the Pence Treaty owing Rumania. Jugo-Slavia And Czecho-Slovakia agreeing to en- operate against Hungary if she refused.
BUSINESS MEN CONFERENCE.
It is possible that in a certain mittted misconduct, lived together-in sense the sale of raffle tickets to the circumstances which filled one's mind public at large comes within the with dingust. Or there was the case legal definition of gambling or gam of a wife, fond of another man, ing, but reasonable; practicable yet remaining with her husband and practical men know that the law simply because she was dependent ought not to be strained. These upon him. That state of things raffes have been going on for a num- ought to be removed. The new bill. ber of years and no one has hitherto did seek to remedy many of the ex-i objected to them on any ground of isting evils, but did not, he thought, New Yonz, May 20th- public morality. Indeed in the case go far enough. The real question at The Associated Press Doris correspond of the Catbolic Institutions such a the basis of the trouble we had with ented in Paris says among that the chief ground is obviously absurd, for the regard to marriage was found in our aims of the conference of the leading raffles are not only sanctioned by legitimacy laws. No country had businessmen in the United States, bat are organised by the clergy, who the same stringent laws in this re Britain, France, Italy and Belgian, which will be held in
in Paris in June, are the may be presumed to know more spect as ours. A woman married etablishment of an International Cham about what is pernicious and wher is a man, and she had a child a few ber of Commerce Ingely staffed by not than legal minded laymen... hours before the ceremony. That experts at the Headquarters at the sent However, the point is that accord child belonged to the man she of the League of Nationa
ing to report the raffles we have married, but no power on earth could Dr. John H. Fahey. D Bostonian, who in chairman of the Organisation Com- mentioned are going to be prohibited make it legitimate according to our mittee, has arrival with the delexation and the charities concerned are, laws. Yet a child born just after of the United States.
therefore, faced with the prospect of marriage could be regarded as representativeO. The total international delegate number larze deficits in the near future. legitimate. After a professional ex-: 100. The conference will discuss the most Will the Government End the money? perience of over thirty-seven years, vital economía, points,
It ought to fistly, because but for Sir Edward found; he said, that a the interference of the Government very large proportion of the unhappy. there would be no deficits, and marriages were traceable to the fact secondly, because in any case the that to avoid illegitimacy two people. Catholic educational institutions serve married who otherwise would not. There in a general atriks of milkmen in a large and useful purpose inCalcutta, have done so and he urged strongly New York owing to the dismissal of Union and the ripping of the activities that our laws relative to illegitimacy employes; but bospitala, and elmilar
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