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Religious Scruples and Divorce.
A case in which # woman Bought judicial separation from her husband, but objected to divorce on religious grounds re- cently
came before Mr. Justice Hill in the Divorce Court,
In this petition Mrs. Hilda Kathleen Marcuse, nee Pitcher, of
elicited from her that after full consideration and in view of her own feelings she had made up her mind not to petition for divorce, and that in her own mur and woman were made man and wife in God's
opinion once a
wife.
Was
Church they were always man and submitted Sergeant Sullivan that the fact that a decree of granted could not divorce make better living Where a conscientious view like the present was entertained it ought to be respected.
a man's conduct in with another woman.
Mr. Justice Hill said that he respected those views in those who entertained them, but he thought that it was exceedingly unfortunate that such a view a husband should be forced on who did not share it, with the result that he might continue to live in adultery and there might
Coombe Dingle, Queen's Park, Caterham, sought a judicial separation from her husband. Mr. Eugene Marcuse, of West Drive, Sonning-on-Thames, on the ground of his adultery at the Angel Hotel, Grantham, in December last, with woman unknown. By his an- swer the respondent denied the be illegitimate children. charge.
The marriage took place at Kensington Parish Charch on April 23, 1915. It was alleged that differences arose in June, 1928, owing to the respondent'a association with another woman,
Sergeant Sullivan, K.C., and Mr. T. F. Davis appeared for the peti- tioner; and Mr. H. W. Barnard for the respondent.
Mr. Barnard said that the res- pondent was unable to contest the issue of adultery, but he would submit that the course taken by the petitioner in paying for a judicial reparation instead of a divorce was. not justified in law, it being a purely vindictive peti-
tion.
Sergeant Sullivan-In spite of human infirmities, it was not im- possible for a man. to cease be having improperly.
Mr. Justice Hill-Here we have to make the best of a very bad job.
to
A Province Outside the Court.
Sergeant Sullivan. The way to make the best of a bad job la for those who are doing wrong cease doing wrong. That side of this question does not receive the prominence or the consideration that It deserves. If a woman holds the conscientious conviction that she and her husband are in- separably united, to endeavour to undermine that conviction is to encroach on a province on which no Court should encroach..
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IN ASIA.
Developments Made in Russia.
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Lord Thomson. Secretary of Reports of 1 strange unfre- State for Air. spoke on the pro quented island which partially sinks from view every 24 hours gress of aviation in Asia at the and whose physically superb in anniversary meeting of the Cen habitants live almost exclusively tral Asian Society; which was on a diet of fish and coconuta. held at the Royal Society's Hall were made to. Matson Line off- In mall week. Field-Marshal ciala by C. N. Olsen. captain of the Golden Eagle, when his ship Lord, Allenby presided,
arrived at San-Francisco recent- Lord Thomson pointed out that|ly from Australia. British aviation was non-existent This freakish In Central Asia. being confined to land is located exactly on
equator in the heart of the Park, the fringes, the northern frontier fe South Sens and is go smail of India, and in Arabia While that map makers have not even Imperial Airways had a regular dignified it by so much as a dot. For identiñcation purposes on the weekly service to India, the Royal mariner's chart It has been nam Air Force played an important ad Tarawa and is one of the group part in both regions.
known as the Gilbert Islands.
Captain Olsen reported. the cir- him to cumstances that caused
little speck
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Best styles, most completo stock troop carriers stationed at plained, "was to unload five white
of all sizes. Repairing a specialty. Hinaidi, near Bagdad, on that adventurers whom we took aboard WONG SIU WOON day, two were at Aleppo with the at Sydney. Weaving our way High Commissioner for Iraq, two through the coral reefs to Tarawa were at Risalpur on the North- was more of a job than I had West Frontier. three were on bargained for. There are many their way to that frontier by way teacherous reefs a few feet under of the Persian Gulf, and three water, but by careful watching. were at their base..
from the bridge I could spot the ceep water by the way the light struck it and thus we were able For the relief of Europeans into crawl along, feeling our way Kabul, seven similar machines as we went.
Evacuating Residents.
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any I have ever seen. They ap In Persia the Junkers firm had peared to be a mixture of Malay- played a leading part in the de-slan and Polynesian.
The men velopment of civil aviation, and are glants in stature, cleanlimbed four air routes radiated from and muscular, and the women Teheran to Pahlevi, Meshed, tall and slender with a regal through Shiraz. to Bushire, and bearing. through Hamadan to Bagdad. "The natives were awed by our
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assuring Unusual New Designs - themselves that our mission was Russia formed a link between friendly, they received us warm- name of the woman with whom he
There was a was ctually living, but he asked Europe and Asia.
ly. Bronze-skinned children, like for an adjournment in the hope service every week-day from Lon scared rabbits, peeked at us from that in the meantime the petition don through Berlin, Moscow, and behind paim trees and bushes.
to one of Sochi, on the Black Sea, to Baku, would be amended
thence weekly to Teheran, and 22 miles long and only a mile THE ONE PRICE STORE divorce.
Sergeant Sullivan.-That is ask-from
only four feet above sea level and ing her to reconsider a conscientious Bushire, a journey occupying 61 Cross at its widest point. It is objection, and when the Courts come hr. 50 min. actual flying time. at high tide approximately half to that they are on the wrong track. Russia now had aviation centres its surface becomes submerged. Mr. Justice Hill. I bave to be at Tashent, Samarkand Termes. Its year round, temperature aver- satisfied that the petitioner is not Kabul, Lake Aval. Khiva, Charjui, ages between 93 and 95 degrees.
Semipalatinsk, Sorgfopol, guided by some other motive..
In spite of the small area that The most important remains above, ocean level when His Lordship directed an ad- Alma-Ata Journment for the petition to be link was that between Moscow the tide is in, Tarawa maintains amended, giving the name of the and Tashkent, which would give about 4.000 population. woman, if it were forthcoming. Rassia access by air to the whole with liberty to restore the case northern frontier of Afghanistan after service of the amended petland to Mongolia and Sinklang
He added The line from Tashkent to Kabul tion on that he hoped that during the ad- was to be operated once a week tournment the petitioner would throughout the year.
Three new air lines bad been carefully consider the position.
the weman.
and
"What impressed us most was the apparent rugged health of the natives, who probably live on the most restricted diet of any people on earth. Because of the absence! of Boil on the coral formation there are no tropical fruits or Even If she respected her own added to the Russian network this vegetables; nothing but coconuts. conscience and felt herself un-summer, and had increased the Fortunately plenty of fish
remarry, although the total length of airways from 7,488 available and these, with the coco- able to marriage might be dissolved by miles to 11,445 miles. One of the nuts, sustain the populace.
"The national beverage, We law, was it for the benefit of lines, running over the Caucasus
Baku vía Tiflis. learned, is coconut milk, which anybody that she should bind her Mountains to
completed the former air connecoften substitutes for water during husband in the anime way?
tion between Vladikavkaz and periods of prolonged drought.
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A "mystery plane" motored by Siberia, with Alma-Ats, In the engines of radical design is near- Soviet Republic of Central Asia. ing completion In New Jersey New lines planned for the next for a trans-Ocean flight this sum-three years would raise the total Sunrise and Sunset in Hong mer with Clarence Chamberlain, length of airways to 25,955 miles. Kong for August (Standard time trans-Atlantic flyer and Ruth The Russians had made con- of the 120th Meridian, East of Nichols, society aviatrix, at the siderable strides in aircraft and Greenwich) are as follow: controls. 1. &
zero engine construction in re- Mr. Justice Hill said that he
Although many of the construc- cent years, mostly following the Mr. Justice HI-I do not tion details presumed that when a wife ask-
are being carefully German model. Many types of ed for a judicial: separation in agree, and have expressed my kept under cover, it is known that purely Russian design had al- stead of a divorce she did so be- views on this matter before. But the plane, motors and navigation ready been produced, Germany cause she hoped that at some here the petitioner says that it is instruments embody several un- was largely interested in Russian time her husband would return toon the ground of religious scruple que features, and are intended developments, and if friendly re- her. That passiblilty would be that she takes this course, I now for extreme long distance flying.lations could be established with rendered unlikely if the case were have her reason, which the law The outstanding feature of the Russia It was possible that a faint fought out In Court. Moreover, compele me to ascertain,N Chamberlain mystery craft is sald arrangement would be made for when a wife who had the right Mr. Barnard submitted that the to be its specially geared propel the operation of the route from to ask for a divorce asked only petitioner was not a Roman for. Moscow to Irkutsk, Urga, Peking, for a judicial separation it was Catholic and that ber motive was Chamberlain, though reticent Nanking, and Shanghai. bis daty to inquire into her not a genuine one
about his latest venture, has ad- France was planning to fly in motive.
SAAREN Mr. Justice Hill-Some mem-mitted that he is building such a co-operation with the British and "Some Indirect Reason bers of the Church of England plane, that Miss Nichols is under the Dutch to Hangoon and thence He wanted to know the pet bold the same religious view, contract to him for an indefinite to Bangkok and Saigon, and also tioner's reasons. Some people: The question then arose as to period and that "he probably will to Hanoi and on to Canton. gave as their reason religious the identity of the woman on fly over the Atlantic some time Chinese lines were being worked scruples, and held the view that known at the hotel, and his. Lord- Selection of Miss Nichole as co- between Nanking and Shanghal. having been married once they ship said that, owing to the un-pilot on the journey, to nowhere" and also, between Hankow, "and could never marry again. The easiness which he always felt which Chamberlain's ntimate Shanghai, with the assistance of occasion at an friends believe will be a world an American company. W law compelled him to be satisfied when a single that a judicial separation was not hotel was presented, he should fight to beat the record of the A line from Canton through desired for some indirect reason. direct an adjcürument for an in- Graf Zeppelin, was decided upon Hankow to Peking was planned, His Lordship put a series of quiry into the woman's identity, after Chamberlaid had accompanied Japan had started one line from questions to the petitioner to as
the comely air queen on a 8,000 Tokyo, through Oaska... to Dairen. certain ber reason for praying
mile day and night fight through in Manchuria, but the resulta so for May Judicial separation, and
the United States.
were disappointing
As Amended Petition
Mr. Barnard said that then res pondent was willing to give the
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