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THE NEW PALACE AT GENEVA.
League's Luxurious Mansion.
GRETNA BRIDE.
Judge Says She "Played with Fire."
NOW SHE REPENTS.
at
Sinco Great Britain, began to A girl who was "married" feel the lining of her pockets and Gretna Green to make her "engage to cut out luxuries, the eye of the ment to a boy "more definite," National Parliament has more
than once been turned reflectively and to persuade her parents to agree to a "real marriage," asked
on Geneva. 1
miniscent of Kubla Khan's cele
SCIENCE ON TRACK OF CRIME.
Clues Revealed by Microscope.
methods in the investigation of
The increasing use of scientific Final
crime is commented on by Major-General Sir Llewelyn W. Atcherley, Inspector of Consta bulary, in his annual' report.
Questions on the cost of the at Edinburgh for the anvil marri- League of Nations and of ita new Palace (which some think too re-age to be declared "null and void,"
"The practical use of a micros The action was brought by Kath- brated establishment in Xanadu) leen Williams Rockfort, of Helens- cope in the earlier stages of an have been frequent, and certain burgh, against Alfred Theodore investigation may provide clues unsophisticated newcomers have Koch, a commercial traveller, for- which in the past were not known appeared surprised that although merly of Lillybank Gardens. Glas- to exist," says General Atcherley, England punctually pays a great gow.
"Photography is not limited to taking criminal likenesses, but is often of great assistance to the investigator and forms an indis- pensable help to the courts."
Emphasising the need of more effectual organisation of a co-operative kind in detection
Ideal, she counte for no more on[ It was said the "pretended mar- the Council than several nations rlage" was performed at Gretna in who forget to pay at all.
1929. The couple were in love, This inkling that there is a ceer but the girl's parents objected to tain disparity lay at the back of a the marriage, series of inquiries which Lord To overcome the opposition they Lovat addressed to the Government motored to Gretna, and went in the House of Lords.
through a ceremony of marriage, Having been to Geneva and neither intending it should be A there studied
imposing real marriage. the mechanism of peace at first hand, They returned to their respective work, General Atcherley Bays Lord Lovat, was able to submit two homes, and had never lived to-that, while the preventive side of convictions to the Government; gether as man and wife. Both re- police establishments with mech- that there IB " disgraceful garded the ceremony AB a means nical aids has been able to cope amount of waste;" causing over- of making their engagement more with the needs of the times fair much expense to the British and definite with a view to persuadingly successfully, there has not Dominions taxpayer; and that the girls' parents to agree.
been the same effectiveness of Great Britain's standing in In granting a declarator na assistance on the detective side. League is not commensurate with sought, Lord Pitman said the girl
"Successful results must de- her subsidy.
would by this time have realised pend, in the main, on good in. the stupidity of her actions. She formation, and it is just there By a departmental paradox, the played with fire and nearly got where the present system is be- | headquarters of peace fell to be burned.
ing so highly tried.
Peace and War.
the
MODERN WIVES.
They Want Too Much Liberty,
"Where a clearing-house insti- tution has been at the disposal of neighbouring forces. the state of detection has correspond- ingly improved."
General
Atcherley expresses the hope that this organisation may be extended.
justified by Lord Hailsham, who is If the man had held her to her Minister for War. It may have statement, it was difficult to see been this incongruity, or the fact how she could have got out of It. (for which he apologised) that he was speaking from a brief on a topic not deeply studied, which ac- counted for the answer not being specially enlightening. For ex- ample, though Lord Hailsham gave
The report refers to the valu in figures the sums that foreign-
able work done by way of organ "The trouble in this case, as inising a sound mutual aid scheme ers payor omit to pay--he sever mentioned the amount of the levy many others," said Mr. C. L. Hodg for dealing with fugitive road
kinson, for the defendant in a offenders and criminals. on this nation. But it appears that the Empire as a whole de-matrimonial case at Walsall, "is eral Atcherley thinks this will be that the wife seems to have taken the means of securing the arrest too much to heart certain words of wanted persons and will ex- pedite the exchange of important information,
fraya twenty per cent. of the League's total cost,
Beem
But about the cost of the Palace of Mr. Justice McCardle. of Nations Lord Hailsham was de-Modern wives
to think finite. In 1980 the Assembly vot- they have the right to go out and
do what they like. ed 23,633,000 Swiss francs for the
If husbands claim the same liberty there is in- stant talk of separation.
Gen-
"I have been astonished," he writes, "to find en occasions the gaps which have occurred during transmission of important crime
building, exclusive of the Library -which is by Rockefeller, but at the last meeting the estimate was "In the present case," Mr. Hodgmessages where the circulation kinson added," the wife complains has been limited to an arbitrarily revised, in the way estimates usually are, to 25,600.000 Swiss that the husband went out to selected list of places to be in- francs, are over one million ster-dances and billiard rooms.
formed," ing. What Great Britain and "The ease with which separationi other members of the League are orders are now obtained Has re- respectively contributing was not vereed the accustomed positions of stated.
husband and wife, and I think Mr. Justice McCardle has helped to- wards this."
The main contract for the steel. work of the edifice has been split
HOUSE MADE OF GLASS.
£6,000 Building in America.
ultra-violet glass, with sky-blue and vermilion-red doors and win- dow-frames is to be seen on Long Island, New York.
A house made of aluminium and
up between a syndicate of French. fendant, the chairman said the Making an order against the de- Italian and Swiss firma. The Minister seemed to imply that Bri- facts disclosed did not point to a tish contractors did not go after hoppy home life. the spoils with proper war-like zest, and Lord Cecil later attribut-
its owner, an architect, predicts ed our want of luck to mere geo League?-to pool their conceptions. that many families, will be living graphical distances; but whatever The facade, therefore, may be in such houses within a few years. the reason, there will not be much expected to present in a novel and He says they can be manufactured British handicraft in the Palace. striking manner the quintessence in factories and “assembled". like.
Five Mixed Designs. of quintuplism, and appropriately motor-cars within's week, The Castle of Conciliation, how- express the universal mind of Hla particular house cost £6,000, ever, when it is finished promises those who dwell within.
but he says mass production will to become a notable landmark-an
Not much information was pro-allow them to sell for £600 esch. amalgam of the architectural best vided by this Lords debate. It re One enters through the boller. Five designs of merit, Lord Cecil mains, worth while for the Com-room. The kitchen is in the front related, were picked, and the au- mohs, when thay have more time, of the house, one flight up and thors induced-is not "Co-opera- to turn the attention of the Low there is a dumb waiter to the roof- tion" the watchword of the ar House on the Geneva Budget. garden.
Genuine
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