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“MIXED” MARRIAGES
HINDU AND MOHAMEDAN CEREMONIES.
THEIR CONSEQUENCES.
GOVERNORS.
HONG KONG PHILHARMONIC. SIR LESLIE SCOTT TO ADVISE COMMUNISTS ROUNDED UP IN GOVERNMENT AND METHOD
ATHENS SOCIETY.
OF APPOINTMENT.
IMPERIAL RATIFICATION.
London, Dec. 17.
Mr. De Gruyther, K.C., The Imperial authorities do not ty begun a round-up of the "Reds,"" dissent from the generalisation by Chamber "Committee that a tri- clent custom of Readings, revived M. Briand has informed the Autums Reader at the Middle a number of whom have been ar- the Vice-President of the Irish lateral agreement will shortly be by Mr. Justice McCardle in his Temple, in accordance with the an- rosted, including two journalists, Free State (Mr. Ernest Blythe) designed, whereby France will be capacity as Lent Reader last May, [An earlier message stated: and charged with high treason, in concerning the changed condi- given a direct share in the work delivered a Reading after dinner in Bombay, Dec. 16-It is officially connection with a movement for tions of the appointment of ing of the Irak oilfields on an equal ball on the subject of Mixed Mar announced that the personnel of the the autonomy of Macedonia and Dominion Governor-General as footing with British and Ameri- riages. Committee appointed to report on Thrace.
place at the Cathedral Hall, on MONDAY, January 23rd, at 5.30 Ip.m.
H. J. BEST,
Hon. Secretary. Hong Kong, 18th January, 1928.
NOTICE.
Chinese New Year Holidays.
London. Dec. 29.
Sir Leslie Scott, P.C., K.G.. has
left for India to advise the Cham- ber of Princes in connection with the Butler Committee's enquiry,
Athens, Dec. 12 The authorities have determined-
The sitting was adjourned.
the
Mr. De Gruyther said that the
riage was the voluntary union of
the relationship between the Para-i Hundreds of Communists demon- illustrated by the appointment of can interests. mount Power and the Indian States, atrated outside Parliament House, Mr. James McNeill as the new with particular reference to the and sang the "Red Fing." while Governor-General of the Irish accordingly entitled to 28% per one man to one woman to the ex-
· “Le Matin” says that France is very essence of a Christian mar- rights and obligations arising out Farliament was discussing are Free State. But they do not com cent, equivalent to 900,000 tons, of the treaties, engagements sanads, coramandation from the Judicial mit themselves
to his precise of cruda oll yearly, or half the usage and other causes and to en- Committee for the prosecution of terms namely, The appointment amount she imports-Reuter. quire into the financial and econo-ton Communist deputies on a of a Governor-General is entirely mic relations between British In-similar charge. account of the CHINESE dia and the States with a view to
a moro satisfactory adjustment,; will be no follows: Sir Harcourt Butler, the retiring Governor of Burma (Chairman). Col. the Hon. Sidney Cornwallis Peel, formerly Financial Adviser to the Foreign Office and Professor W. S. Holda- worth, K.C., Vinerian Professor in English Law at the University of Oxford.]
ON account of the CHINESE Office' will be CLOSED from JANUARY 23rd to 26th Inclusive.
THE INTERNATIONAL DRY CLEANING & DYEING CO. Hong Kong and Kowloon. Hong Kong, 16th January, 1928.
HONG KONG ST. ANDREW'S BOCIETY.
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25th January, 1928.
c/o Lowe, Bingham & Matthews, Hong Kong, 14th January, 1928.
Sir Leslie Frederic Scott, P.C., K.C., M.P., has represented Liver pool Exchange in the House Commons 1910.
law.
of
TROTSKY ON STALIN.
"His Brainless Polley."
Berlin, Dec. 12.
a matter for the Dominion Gov- ernment concerned. He is ap pointed by the King solely on the advice of the Dominion Govern- !ment.
Mr. McNelli is being ap pointed by the King solely on the advice of the Irish Free State Government."
BALKAN AFFAIRS.
MUSSOLINI RESENTS NEW TREATY.
BRITAIN AND PEACE.
crusion of all others for life. Bat polygamy was allowed under both the Hindu and Mahomedan'laws, so that entirely different considera- tions applied to a marriage between an English woman and a Hindu or a Mohamedan than, be, tween two English people. He proposed to confine his address to the case of a Hindu or Mahomedan domiciled in India going through a ceremony of marriage In England' with an English woman, and to consider three aspects: (1) vali-
In
The Imperial authorities, while
London, Dec. 11. The most outstanding figure in admitting that the Irish Free Russla at present is M. Trotsky. State has instituted a new order The Geneva correspondent of dity, (2) dissolution, and (3) rights Fearing summary processes by the of procedure following, the last "The Times" says: "The confer- of inheritance consequent on the O.G.P.U., he has been living "un- Imperial Conference and thereby ence between Sir Austen Cham- marriage,
The Hindu conception of marri- He appears at meet probably establishing a precedent berlain and Sir R. W. Graham was age was not that of a civil contract, derground." Solicitor-General during March inga of his adherents, but nobody for other dominions as guberna- obviously connected with Franco- but a sacrament. Various religious October, 1922, and has taken an knows whence he comes nor whither forial vacancies occur, pointed Italian relations. Undoubtedly ceremonials were performed. The active part in the movement for in- he goes. Although he has no home out that the change was more in Signor Mussolini is very anxious object of a Hindu marriage was to In the past that Italy should preponderate in obtain a son; for the soul of a ternational unification of Maritime of his own, his supporters are so form than in fact.
He represented the British numerous that thousands of dwell Governors had not been appointed Balkan affairs and he resents the Hindu was saved from "put," the to Dominions or States without Franco-Jugo-Slavian treaty chief- equivalent of hell, by religions. Government at the International inga offer an open door to M. Conference held at Brussels in 1909 Trotsky.
In a special interview with M. their explicit concurrence. They ly because it challenges that pre-offeringa made by hie son, and 1910, and had taken a leading Trotsky published in Berlin he instanced appointments initiated dominance. It is believed here Bengal, priority in inheritance de- EMBERS desiring to be pre- part in all questions of social and makes a remarkable attack on his by Dominions and States and that he might be willing to relax pended upon the efficacy of the re-
reform, sent at the above are connection with the development of former alle has degenerated into though the procedure was not Western Mediterranean in return The Hindu law
former allies. "The dictatorship of therefore ratified Imperially, al- some of Italy's pretension in the ligious offeringe which could be FOR SALE. One brass "Hung requested to notify the undersigned agriculture and the improvement of the personal regime of the ruling made public. The Imperial Con- for a free hand in the waters and marriage between the members of The Hindu law did not permit a Ming" pan of the Chinese Hanas soon as possible.
the conditions of life affecting the clique," he said, "which has Dynasty with automatic springs.
E. M. BRYDEN,
de ference decisions had not affected territories east of Italy." rural population. Sir Leslie waa
ene caste of Hindus and another Price $1,000.00 Apply Box No. 487,
Differences Discussed, Chairman of the Governors of the prived the workers of freedom of State Governorships, but should
India to legalise a marriage be- c/o "China Mail.”
speech, assembly and professional Agricultural Organisation Society defence of class interests.
Geneva, Dec. 11. tween a Hindu man and a Mahome- anomalies develop in relation to The till 1922: Chairman of the Central Russian workmen, whe defended the appointment of an Australian Replying to questions by jour- dan women was absolutely invalid. Association for Mental Welfare; the revolution on the barricades are Governor-General or State Gov-nalists to-day, Sir Austen Cham- Equally, by Hindu law, a marriage Chairman of the Acquisition of compelled to work ten hours daily ernors, that would be a matter berlain said: "The British Am- ceremony between a Hindu and an woman, wherever cele- Land Committee appointed during for a miserable pittance. It cannot for inter-imperial consultation bassador to Rome (Sir R. W. English the war; and Chairman or member be borne longer. Hence the chief and adjustment.
Graham), visited Geneva to ell country of his domicile, to be wholly brated, would be held in India, the of numerous other Government demand of the Opposition, namely
able me to get a better under-invalid. But if a Hindu renounced Committees on reconstruction, agri-the democratisation of the Com-
standing of the Italian policy and his religion this prohibition of the culture, housing, mining, electricity munist Party and the restoration of
alms. Britain is always ready to Hindu law would cease to operate, freedom to the workers. That is
assist toward peace. She does and he could probably legally marry all that matters.
not contemplate any particular in England before a registrar. action in connection with Italy. There would still be left in doubt "Do not take over-tragically the the precise matrimonial relations Franco-Italian differences occa- resulting from such a marriage, and sionally arising. Their bickering also the method by which his estate brought the country to economic catastrophe. His foreign policy
has become acute and it is time would be distributed on his death
intestate. has proved a complete fiasco. An.
both called a halt but there is
He thought it desirable, that entirely new economic policy was
little detente in the situation. legislation should be introduced in based on the assistance of foreign
There is no immediate prospect of India t olegalise a marriage be- capital. The capitalista proved
M. Briand and Signor Mussolini tween a Hindu and an English Many gold relics are among the while continually raising hopes leas naive than our diplomats.
London, Dec. 18. meeting. I wish there was great-woman, to determine the legal in- discoveries, at Ur of the Chaldees, with promises of credit, they have partment, was devoted during the but it is not necessary to take a as to inheritance.
Room 40, in the Admiralty De-ler agreement regarding Albania, į cidents thereof; and to make rules an ancient Biblical town in Iraq, made use of the armistice declared war, to intercepting and decoding tragic view. Nobody wants to according to a report from the joint by us to strengthen their positions, enemy wireless messages. It was disturb peace." expedition sent by the British with the result that the Soviet is called "Room 40" to prevent people
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WAR SECRETS.
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SIGNALS INTERCEPTED.
fleet were aware of its existence.
"BURNED" FOR 120 HOURS.
.. Mahomedan Law.*"
By the Mahomedan law marriage
was a civil contract, involving no
| its validity. A marriage with an Idolatrous woman was prohibited, and as a result a Mahomedan could not marry a Moslem. "But a marri- age between a Mahomedin and a woman belonging to the Scrip-
Museum and the Pennsylvania Uni-economically isolated. This means from inquiring into its activities, A GERMAN FAKIR. religious element or ceremonial for versity. A Royal Prince's grave, the same old dilemma-either a and thus its secret did not leak out. B.C. was found to contain a goidistic Europe.".. dating probably back to 3.500 years Socialistle federation or a capital Very few officials or officers of the headdress, and gold wig. Nearby there were golden bowla, lamp. beads, ear-rings, and rings, silver daggers, with gold hilts, gold- mounted spears, and many articles in silver and lapis lazuli.
RAIN-MAKING.
ELECTRIFIED SAND ON
WORK OF THE SOVIET.
Communist's Claim.
Berlin, Dec. 12.
SHARK FATALITY.
"It was the best kept secret in the war," said Sir Alfred Ewing. now principal of Edinburgh Univer sity, and formerly Director of The "Fakir" was exhumed at tural sects," or believing in God, Naval Education, whom Mr. Win- Stuggart on Saturday night in the was valid, and therefore a Mahome- Other finds showed that the
ston Churchill, on the outbreak if presence of a large crowd appar- dan could validly marry an English women once wore a hair-net woven
the war, requested to handle enemy ently none the worse for his 120 woman, Such a marriage before a with golden ribbons, from which]
ciphers. The department grew hours burial.
registrar in England would be re- huge ear-pendants. Later, fashion Times" state that M. Bukharin, in a hungs beads of lapla cornelian, also
London, Dec. 14.
until it was staffed by fifty [The “Fakir” in question was a cognised by the law of India. Un-. The Riga correspondent of ""The
man of German.extraction who had der Mahomedan law a Mahomedan cryptographers."- decreed the weaving of ribbons three-day speech to the Communist sophical Institute at Edinburgh, de- was placed in a glass coffin and same time.
Sir Alfred, addressing the Philo- studied Indian Fakir methods. He could have four wives living at the round the tresses, which were Congress, emphasised the looped overhead. The earrings developments maturing in China,
"new-clared that eavesdropping, usually, lowered into a "grave" in the pre- The question of dissolution of were quite small.
"It is false," he said, "te y high vocation.
ignoble, became, in wartime, a sence of a medical man. For a marriage must be settled by the law He established small fee the public were allowed of the domicile gamely, India. that we have been defeated in many listening posts, he said, to see his face through a small Hindu law did not permit divorce, China. Already we have excited where enemy signals were inter- tube-like arrangement which but a Mahomedan could divorce his the workers and peasants, and cepted, and from where they were plerced the earth above the coffin.] wife at will without recourse to any although tens of thousands ve telegraphed to Whitehall oftep at
court. This arbitrary power was perished in the struggle the re the rate of two thousand a day,
checked, by the husband's Hability serves are, truly colossal. The
He went on to say that they knew
under a pre-nuptial contract to pay apathetic peasantry has begun to
his when dower at the formination respond to agitation, and a rising almost everything the German fleet
of the marriage either by divorce in one district ha resulted in the was doing, and the British fleet was
or his death. In the latter evant thereby enabled to give battle . at, | killing of 300 landowners."
the dower was a first charge on the Cape Town, Dec. 13. Cheers and cries of: It is too few. Dogger Bank and Jutland.
A wife A peculiar position has arisen in We must kill more.
December, 1914, the German fleet Mossel Bay (Cape Colony), Dec. 30, estate like other debts. consequence of an offer by the Anti- M. Bukharin shouted: You are made no more without the Ad- While a 17-year-old boy, Okert could not divorce her husband, but Drought Association to conduct right. We must and shall kill miralty knowing it beforehand. Heyne, was bathing with a number could, for sufficient cause, live rain-making experiments by drop-more.. We need not be downheart The alleged British stupidity was of others in water waist-deep,a apart from him and be entitled to.
most valuable asset. It was only huge shark attacked him, taking off an allowance. ping electrified sand on clouds from ed. an aeroplane. ·
M. Bukharin added that it was after the war that Germany dis his left leg above the knee. and Farmers are asking who will be difficult to employ Chinese methods winked. The Germans frequently The lad was taken to hospital,
covered how she had been hood-partially severing his right foot. responsible if the experiments pro-in India, where the British man- duce torrents and floods, but the ouvres had estranged many Na. changed theix, cipher keys, but where he died of his injuries a few Anti-Drought Association refuses to tionalist supporters of the Soviet. "Room Forty became so expert hours later.
This is the first time that a shark is freed from liability as to the re- Morocco proved the success of the going home were particularly talka being in these waters. undertake the experiments unless it The unrest in Syria, Egypt, and that the changes made no differ
ence, Zeppelins and submarines has been known to attack a human sults; and the controversy is still revolutionary plans. raging. The whole country is aceptical about the proposed oxperi- E. A. LEGGATT, ments, but the farmera are des- Superintendent,perate enough to try the scheme, Hong Kong, 12th January, 1928. provided the queation of liability is
settled.
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M. Bukharin Again.
tive, then
From
17-YEAR-OLD BOY'S LEG TAKEN OFF.
U. S. CHEMICALS.
FOREIGN SYNDICATES' PROGRESSS:
On the question of inheritance, the wife would take nothing under
the Hindu law, nor would her child- ren of the union. Under Mahome- dan low the widows would all take one-fourth, the rest going to other relatives if there were no children. If there were children the widows would take only a one-eighth.share.
· Other decoded messages threw
The Reader then discussed what much - preliminary light on the
relief was open to an English wife Easter rabellion in Ireland...and
in England against an Indian hus another one, showing Germany's,
band domiciled in India. In his offer of an alliance with Mexico,
opinion she could not get a divorce when the United States was wayer-
or judicial separation. If remedial ing, reached "Room 40," and was
legislation were enacted, conditions London, Dec. 15.passed on to Ambassador Page in In consequence of the progress might be imposed probibiting such The Rigs correspondent of "The the strictest secrecy. Its sub made by international chemical marriages if the husband already Times" says Beware of America acqueat publication in the United; syndicates in American markets had a wife living at the time of the and American industrial ten-1
States resolved public opinion in the leaders of the American chemarriage, and probibiting a hur dencies, is the latest slogan of favour of war.
mical industry have been sum while his marriage with the English band from marrying a second wife moned to meet Government off-woman was still subslating. Such cials at Washington on February restrictions would be in conformity 1-Reuter's American Service.
14. Rukarin, who is continuing his tirades at the Communist Congress, He declared "that the British workers and employers were ́dan-
ASKS FOR CIGARETTE ON SCAFFOLD.
Beronely Inclined to adopt the MURDERER'S FATE. worst American methods of re |gulating industrial relations, In- ' cluding workers investing in em- playing companies' shares. It was merely an employers and bankers' trick further to exploit the workers who banked their dividends. The result, was that the capitalists were doubly parasitic sa they were able
Adelaide, Dec. 16. -- For the murder of a young
to use the money borrowed from woman.zamed Devina Nellie Schmit the workers. Such a devilish ays
at a plenie at Bridgewater in the
| tem must be banned from Ecrope. Adelaide Hills, fon - October 12, *** "Another disquieting sign is the William Ephraims Haines (25) wan | Boglish" tendency towards indus- executed at the Adelaide Gaol to- trial conciliation, which is aboming day, Prior to his death the con able." "The workers must make demned man cexpressed penitence inoat strenuous efforts to
"for his crime and gratitude for, the considération shown him by officlalá nd others. «. He asked for amoke las he was about to ascend, the
diwas; banged with!!
all forms of arbitration, striving to abnegato tão, which has made the Bố2 hateful to true. Communists | proletarians.
Washington, Saturday,
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with modern developments in India, where there was a growing ten- dency': 'ugainst polygamy, which; moreover, was now actually forbid- den in Turkey.
The American translation of the Old Testament, published by the University of Chicago, will probably arouse criticism. "You" and "Your are substituted for thou" and thine The King James Version of Genesis, chapter fit, verse "And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day rands, in the American wording. But when they heard the seund, of the Lord God taking a walk in the garden for hise dalesh
In Psalm xxi thổi
Zof the shadows
me Even though