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THE THREE EXCEPTIONS
A GENERAL RULE,
AS ALIENS.
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MR. J. G. GARRAWAY.
PASSES AWAY. IN A LONDON HOSPITAL FORMER DOCK EMPLOYEE.
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It is urged by the women's organisation that the present TO British law imposes hardships on British woman who marry allens and thereby use their nationality, and if they continue to live here lose, the right to vote, to join the Civil Service,, and other rights.
It is regret that we record [By A Barrator]
death 'of Mr. James Women's organisations that it is pointed out that in Belgium the
re- exist for the purpose of securing since 1922 a Belgian woman who Graham Garraway, who sex equality in English law to marries an alien can retain her tired from the Hong Kong and the utmost are very much con- nationality if she makes cerned at a recent declaration by claration accordingly within six Whampoa Dock Co.'s service last the Home Secretary, in reply to a months of the marriage, and in April to go Home. question by Misa Ellen Wilkinson, some other European countries was conveyed in a cable from Lon to the effect that a Committee the law is less rigid than in Great doa, received by the Dock Co. on
Saturday. which was entrusted at the Im-Britain. perial Conference of 1926' with
Exceptional Cazes.
a de-
The sad news
Mr. Garraway joined the Dock Co. In March; 1906 and for a num- ber of years was shop foreman at Kowloon Dock and later, until his retiral, was the harbour engineer.
He had been in failing health for some time previous to his departure and, on his arrival at Londen, went direct into a hospital for tropical diseases for treatment.
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A conscientious and thoroughly efficient employee, Mr. Garrawas held the respect of all his fellow workers, and his death will be much regretted by all who knew him.
of age.
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Mr. Garraway was accompanied
the duty of reporting on the sub- But the official view, as express- jject of married women's nation-
ality will take a long time to reed before the Butcher Committee by the Home Office and Foreign port.
The question that is being ask-Office representatives, is that to ed is: "Why should the Com- give freedom of choice of nation- mittee be so long about making jality to British women who marry up their minds about a subject aliens or to alien women who which was exhaustively consider marry British subjects would in- ed by a select-committee under volve far more inconveniences and the chairmanship of Sir John a much greater conflict with for Butcher (now Lord Danesfort) eign laws than exist at present. Sir Cecil Hurst, K.C., the legal in 19237"
As the law stands, under the adviser to the Foreign Office, gave British Nationality and Status of a concrete case of what would Deceased would be about 59 years | Aliens Acts, 1914 and 1918, the happen. A British woman mar- rying German would re- wife of a British subject is deem- ed to be a British subject, and main British under British law, the wife of an alien is deemed to but would be German under Gerome by his wife for whom mus. be an alien. There are three man law. There would be vary-impathy will he felt in her
bereavement. main exceptions to this rule: (1) ing nationalities in the same The wife of a British subject, if family, and such a change would, the husband ceases to be a Bri-it was suggested, inevitably lend tish subject while he remains her to a change as to the nationality husband, is entitled to declare her of the children, which at present 20 retenon of British nationality; universally follows that of the (2) a Britishi-born wife of an alien, on his death or on divorce, may get a certificate of natural isation without the usunt residence conditions; (3) a British-born wife of an enemy alien may in wartime declare for British na tionality.
.father.
The Butcher Committee, being equally divided, was unable to agree to a general change in the law such as was advocated by the
TUBE TRAGEDY. KILLED: 150 INJURED IN
. DERAILMENT.
TERRIBLE SCENES.
New York; Saturday. Twenty persons were killed and
women's societies, but they re 150 injured in the tube train de- commended amending the law in railment at Times Square Sta- particular respects where a clear tion, the centre of the business case could be made out, such as a
A defective switch provision that a woman who mar-and theatrical world. ries an allen shall not lose hered the rear car to go on the, original nationality If she does wrong line with the result that not acquire that of her husband the last four cars were smashed
to smithereens. under the law of his country.
It will be seen that the subject
MRS. BALDWIN,
ADVICE ON HAPPINESS.
Double Nationality. Generally speaking, the law of the British Dominions is, the same, and in foreign countries, with few exceptions, the nation- ality of the wife is that of the husband. Notable exceptions are to be found in the laws of the is full of difficulties, and this may United States and Argentina, explain the prolonged incubation where the foreign wife does not process of the Imperial Confer- now automatically assume the fence Committee.Daily News." nationality of her American or Argentinian husband. By the Cabell Act of 1932 American. women who marry foreigners do not lose their American citizen- ship unless they formally re-
Mrs. Stanley Baldwin, opening a nounce it. So we have here an example of double nationality; in hospital fete at Hagley Hall, Stour the case of an American woman bridge, said that voluntarily sup married to an Englishman, by ported hospitals, were among Eng- English law she is British, and land's glories which must not die. by American law she is Ameri- The world was divided into two can, if she has not formally re-lots, thoss who put things into life nounced her American nationality and those who took all they could before the competent Court. out of it. If they wished for hap- Thus there are two conflicting piness In this life they must be principles: that of the British givera, because in giving all true law, and that commended by Mrs, happinces had its foundation. Corbett Ashby at the British Commonwealth League Confer ence a few days pro-i.e.. that married woman's nationality visit. should be determined by her own qualifications, and be unaffected by her marriage.
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H. M. S. "Cambrian" recently arrived at Eastbourne for a weck's
H.M.S. "Canterbury" arrived off Hastings and remained there.
Ozark Pábler, & trying thema'out on the⠀
The record catches of Bah se suck entering te native element the popular outdoor resorts as the fish contracts a fungus growth on Mipigor River Bungalow Campi the octed portion and dies s the McGregor Lake District result. Wetting the hands lessena“, reached from Best Templeton on the ill affeck.
the Canadian Pacific line "ness. The backless kook requires little Ottawa, and Dovils Gap Bungalow more skill than the older variety as Camp at Konork; ate being mostly it hỏns the fighting fish almost as made with barblest hooks. These murely, although it may be removed permit all but iba kargent fish being without dificulty. It has become popular, and is expecially
Tread painlessly...!' unde' returned wide to fly flabing for bass,
uninjured to the water, some fish
being undoubtedly caught two of trout and talmon.
three times in a season. The barbless book was invented Dis The barble hook, in which slighe
bend in the wire near the paint some years ago by a man named similar to a kink in a hairpin takes Villemin Ohio, his model having the place of the thiary barb, does a brod sloping away from the pint not. Inle" ); the hooked fan, and that caused considerable damage enables ać to be removed easily in being afrlested. - This idea wa and returned to the water, some taken up six years ago by the times without even touching with rumalo Bill Nataleson, well
Contact explaina Drazk Ripley, known Chicago Ashing, tackle er~- well know sporting writer, causes peat and veteran fisherman, where- often mere injury than the hook] duced the sugh of the bend no that Itrélite The protective, mucus it was slight kink and did much, covering of the skin is removed into popularize the new-kumane handlingõzendaszoon
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Veritable Madhouse,
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After the smash the station, which was packed with home- ward-going city worlters, was transformed into a veritable mad- house. Thousands of men and women fought like animals to the escape. Police swarmed platform and added to the up- roar, screaming for aid through telephones, while from the tunnel reverberated the shrieks of the dying as whitecoated surgeons, beside black-faced firearm, strug- gled to extricate bodies pinned under the wreckage. — Reuter's American Service,
AFTER AN OPERATION
This Lady in Ceylon Was Left Bloodless and Weak
Until She Took" DR. WILLIAMS' PINK_PILLS.
Even in temperate climates sur- gien!' operations of any magnitude must of necessity sap the strength Undergone in the tropics they are doubly weakening and dangerous because the patient usually is 81- ready thin-blooded and debilitated. As a restorative after operations Dr. Williams" Pink Pills, stand, pre- eminent, for the reason that not only do they rapidly replace lost. strength and build up shattered nerves, but also they supply to the enfeebled system new rich, red blood at every dose. The case of Mra. E. C. Buckley, of 93 Avenue, Dehilwela, Colombo, Ceylon, is -11- lustrative of their unique health- restoring powers. ⠀⠀
"I underwent a serious operation for tumour six months ago and leat a great deal of blood," said Mrs. Buckley recently. “I. was In hos- pital for two months and when I came home was still in a very weak state. So, acting on the advice of a friend, I took a course of Dr. Williams Pink Pills. These Pills have certainly done me a great deal of good. They have given me oppetite and built up my strength, I-am up and about again, and now have great, faith in Dr. Willems' Pink Pilla."
Equally good for both sexes, Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People have enjoyed a world-wide renown, extending over forty years as a remedy for anaemis, nervous dability, early deany, digeative weakness, rheumatism, malgris, also for the aches and Ills which
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