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HERE, THERE
and
EVERYWHERE
Mr. Maxton's Hold-up".
Just as the late Sir Edmund
Turton, who was an M.F.H., used|
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19, 1933.
GLARING. EVILS OF DIVORCE LAWS
MANY SUBTERFUGES TO
WIN RELEASE
to employ hunting phraseology, WORLD'S MOST ILLOGICAL DECREE
and the late Dr. Macnamara, after years at the Admiralty, interlard- ed his speeches with nautical similes, Mr. Maxton is now react- ing politically to his hobbies,
In a recent week-end speech he said he was wondering how long
(By Sir Ellis Hume-Williams, K.C.)
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London. 1give his wife the evidence upon Year by year the lists of divorce which he could be divorced. it would be before he and his cases for trial published at the. friends could enter the House and beginning of each legal term seem formed me afterwards that she an
A Tryst At The Hotel. So he procured a lady (he in- give the order te. "stick them up and get out.”.
to grow in length and prove how nounced herself as being as usual, Mr. Maxton's musical role as the very nearly the Law of Divorce the daughter of a clergyman and the Pirate King is well known. He touches the lives of the people." widow of an officer), who consented to spend the night with him at an
ta also an omnivorous reader, on train journeys, of Wild West two- gun-men thrillers.
Your Daily Smile.
The law has grown up very hotel gradually, inherited from the prac- The hotel having been chosen and tice of the old Ecclesiastical the time of meeting arranged, my Courts, which with reluctance were tryst, and the lady duly turned up. friend arrived punctually at the sometimes persuaded to grant a She was quite pleasant, if a little separation "a mense et thoro" prim, but looked, he thought, not in
conversation mainly I shall expect you to avoid them.
NEW MAID: Don't worry about after much tinkering and many they adjourned for dinner, though And now the law of divorce, on political and ecclesiastical topics, that, ma'am. I'ates the sight of amendments, is probably harder of this she ate practically nothing. 'em. My father's a burglar.
INHERITED
· MISTRESS: The last maid I had from "bed and board," but exer-the best health. was too fond of policemen, Mary cised little further power,
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After some
and more illogical in this country And she began to look very ill in-
deed. than in any other country in the
After a short and rather silent world.
interval in the lounge of the hotel, When Bad Bargains Are Made. the lady mounted apparently with Marriage can be dissolved for one some difficulty, to the bedroom, the cause, and one cause. only-the joint occupation of which was to too, adultery of one of the spouses. provide the necessary evidence of a
Is it to be wondered at that, night of sin.
"Your essay is excellent, Jones, but it is exactly the same as Phil- ip's. What. shall I conclude from that?"*
"That his is excellent {teacher."
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BETTER LATE. LATE ARRIVAL AT CONCERT: Say, what's this stuff we're getting?
FRIEND: oven's. Ninth Symphony.
Hush, this is. Beeth-
"Well, if the other eight were like this, thank goodness, I 'was late."
Alternately.
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may yield an equal or even a greater When a man says he's scared of net revenue. But even if the Rail-nothing it may either mean he's The British Raflways are makingway Companies reap, as they are/terribly brave or a bachelor. a bold bid to recapture the passen entitled to do, the reward of their ger traffic they have lost during
Facts You Did Not Know.
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with only one door of escape, But no sooner did the lady arrive those who are miserable in their in the room than she was violently married life should be prepared sick, and then lay down on the in- to run any risk and to stoop to criminating bed, and was seized subterfuges which in ordinary with violent spasms. life they would scorn, so as to gel. My friend, a kind-hearted man, through it?
despite his matrimonial errors, at
To be honest about it, the law of once sent for a doctor, who pro- divorce, in this country is wholly nounced the lady to be suffering Bogical. Either we should say, as from a violent colic, which, unless the Roman Catholica do, once mar promptly and continuously treated, ried always married-marriage is a might become exceedingly danger- Sacrament, and if you have made a ous.
bad bargain you must nevertheless The "Gentlemanly Thing."
stick to it-or we should say that it. He offered to send in a nurse, but is not in the interest of the com- my friend, seeing that the evidence munity that people who have honest of a nurse might be fatal to the in- ly tried to make marriage the suc-ferences which he intended the
For
recent years. Recently the four enterprise in extending the facilities main-line companies announced a
for cheaper travel, it is hardly to be big scheme for extending the penny-expected that these holiday reduc- a-mile third class fare to all return tions will make any very great dif-
A Canadian scientist has demon-cessful companionship which it Court to draw, refused, and said, journeys over ten miles during the ference to their financial positionstrated that light rather than tem-ought to be and have miserably Tail quite truthfully as it happened, that summer months. The new return They are none the less to be wel- perature is one of the principal ed-so much so that they are living he was quite accustomed to deal tickets, which will be valid for one comed as a sign that the Railways, reasons for migration of wild birds, separate and Independent lives with such cases in his family. manth, are to be available on any been in the past few years, are difficult as their circumstances have
should continue to be bound to So the doctor gave the lady an in- day by any train, at the same rate doing all that lies in their power to developed by a telephone company to
Tractor drawn, a machne has been sether.
jection of morphia and left, with the 88 the present week-end tickets,
In France, where the grounds of Instructions that a hot-water bottle, between May 1 and September 30.
serve the public.
dig teaches in the ground, lay cable divorce are much wider than here, freshly filled, was to be placed on her The two Northern lines followed up!
and cover it with earth.
no case is allowed to proceed until, stomach every hour during the this announcement by a further Greek Politics.
as a preliminary, the judge has night, This my friend faithfully scheme for reducing return fares by
A government monopoly has been interviewed both parties and has did, Alling the bottle every hour. certain night express trains between Thanks to the common sense and established in Egypt to control pro- satisfied himself that a reconcilia from the bath-room and placing it London and some of the principal to the democratie spirit of the great duction, importation, exportation, tion is not possible.
on the patient until the dawn, towns in the Midlands and the majority of the Greek people. the distribution and prices of sugar. "Manufactured" Evidence.
The lady dozed a little when day- North of England. Beginning on political crisis at Athens was solved|
light broke, and the man sat and March 20, night express return by constitutional means. It began,
And so, alone I believe in Europe, watched in an armchair, where the A figure of a horse that trots we ordain that, however miserable waiter found him when he brought tickets available for seventeen days and indeed were issued at half the full rate, month, when it became known that its base to start an electric motor there is no chance of escape unless tunately the lady was able to returns
came to a head, last when a coin in dropped in a slot in the spouses may be in their life, some tea in the morning.. which is equivalent to a single fare, the General Election had gone has been invested for children. and therefore represents an average against the Republican National
one or the other is proved guilty of home with the help of some further adultery. payment of less than the standard Union which M. Venizelos leads and
soothing medicine. pre-War charge of a penny a mile.in
Is it to be wondered at it, as one paid her and the hotel bill, and was. My friend duly favour of the platonically These new facilities, which will monarchist
of the judges sitting in the Divorce in due course properly divorced! Popular Party. Al-rampaging about Athens, the Presi- Court pointed out recently, evidence cheapen very substantially the cost though M. Taaldaris, the Popular dent of the Republic was in consulta is sometimes manufactured and the of railway travelling, will certainly leader, had unreservedly
re-tion with M. Venizelos, M. Tsaldaris, Court deceived in cases where there be welcomed by the general public. cognised the . Republle six and General Othonalos, the senior is no other means of escape from the The travelling habit has spread months ago, the.
news alarmed General of the Greek Army. They misery of an unhappy marriage? enormously since the War among all officers, who professed to fear for formed a Cabinet of major-generals, classes of the population; and, if the Republic, and were certainly rear-admirals, and Civil servants, desertion by one party of the other Even in Presbyterian Scotland the Railways have not benefited afraid of drastic cuts in military with 'General Othonaíos as Prime for a specified period is ground for thereby, this has been due very and naval expenditure. They found Minfater. And the new Government divorce, and not merely, as here, for largely to the cheaper facilities pro-a leader in General Nicholas immediately descended upon the judicial separation. vided by their road rivals, who long Plastiras, who had led the revolution War". Office. The Dictator ngo adopted the policy of the cheap which drove King Constantine from rendered his authority into their brutal and sustained, even if it ruin sur In England cruelty, however return ticket as part of their gen-Greece after the Smyrna disaster, hands and prudently disappeared, the health and kill the happiness of eral practice. The popularity of Backed by part of the garrison of after a reign of fourteen hours. His the sufferer, is not ground for the long distance, motor-coach soems Athens he proclaimed a Dictator decrees were cancelled and his chief divorce. Neither is it If one of to be based not so much on con- ship on the pretext that the result associates were arrested; so effec the parties becomes hopelessly in- venience as on cost, and discerning of the election gave no hope of a tively indeed did the provisional sane or develops into a raving Kwai-keung, proprietor and Editor persons will probably agree that for stable Government, and that the Government set to work that in two drunkard or a besotted drug maniac, of the Tin Nam Daily News, a local long journeys the railway provides Parliamentary regime had led to a days their chief was able to place not only greater speed and greater succession of powerless Administra- his resignation in the hands of which enables the marriage to be 8pm. yesterday. Only one of the It is adultery, and adultery alone, vernacular newspaper shortly after safety, but also greater comfort. tions and had encouraged the President Zalmis, who requested M, dissolved, however much and how shots struck him, causing a slight There is good reason, therefore, to growth of Communism. M. Venizelos, Tealdaris to form a Cabinet. Within ever Bagrantly either party may shoulder wound, suppose that a reduction in fares though still Prime Minister, could four days ho had formed it. His have disregarded every honourable The assailant, who rave his will divert back to the Railways at only expostulate, while General Ministry includes several well-known obligation which marriage entails: name as Chan Hee, is 22 years of least some of the passenger traffic Plastiras put. M. Tsaldaris under Boyalist names, but his selection of
Unless one party can prove the age, declared that he was
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SHOTS FIRED AT
H. K. EDITOR
Mr. Lo Kwai-keung -Slightly Injured.
ASSAILANT CAUGHT AFTER LONG CHASE:
Five shots were fired at Mr. Lo.
burst Terrace when he felt some
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at present carried by the road. arrest in his house,,proclained mar-that hard-bitten soldier, General ather to have been unfaithful, man chicken carrier of Stall No. 12, That would indeed be to the advantial law, Imposed a censorship, and Condylia, as his Minister of War is and wife they must remain, Western Market. tage not only of the Railway share-in word followed dictatorinis guarantee that the Republic has although they may be living at op Mr. Le was walking along Lynd holder but also of the countryside. routine. But the Athenian people, nothing to fear from his success,posite ends of the globe, From the point of view of Ballway who had mostly voted for the Op. With his allies of the Republican revenue, it is difficult to forecast position, began to gather and pro- Opposition he has a majority of
And so, as surely, as you leave thing strike him on the shoulder. with any accuracy the effect of these lost until the Dictator's armoured twenty-four seats in the new Cham-
to people leading miserable lives He turned round and as he did so striking reductions. There is, of cars cleared the streets with bar, and this may suffice him for
no means of escape except proved he saw a man standing about aix coprse, the possibility that net machine-gun fire and diled and some months. No change in foreign stronger than any law, and collu He ran into a nearby shop, and
adultery, human nature will provefeet away holding a revolver. earnings may suffer a little; but the wounded over a score of his up polley is to be expected; the financial evidence seems rather to point in grateful fellow-citizens. It was and economie embarrassments of The judges do their best to stop with a blanket. His assailant fol-
alve divorces will continue.
hid in a corner, covering himself the opposite direction, and the total bad beginning for the would-be Greece will engage the Cabinet's it, it is their duty to do so. The lowed him, into the shop and risk is really quite minute, since saviour of society. Although the chief attention, and it is significant Judges do not make the law; they emptied the revolver at him. Only only a small proportion of the Com- people of the new provinces were that the Foreign Minister, M. administer it. If the scandal of Danies gross receipts will be in- Venizellats and Republicans, they Maximod, an ex-Governor of the collusion is to be stopped (presum the erratic aim of Chan Hee sav volved. There seems to be little showed no sympathy, with his at National Bank, will deal with the ing it in scandal), it is ed Mr. Lo's life.-^ doubt, therefore, that the reduced tempt to reverse the result of the foreign debt and with the organiss Parliament that the remedy must The Assailant after he had Arad, return fáre, which has been adopted election. What was more, the garris tion of a system of barter. But come
threw his revolver, sway and ran in more than one Continental coun- sons of Thessaly and Macedonia whatever his future ficnities, M try, is right in principle; nor is prepared to oppose. His usurpation. Tesldaris should be heartened to there any reason why, affer a trial In the circumstances all that General face them boldly by the clear pro period, It should not also be extend- Plastira, could do was,
ed to winter travelling, if it proves wonder what would successful in attracting additional had not to wait long.
walf, and that his countrymen „prefer for next. He constitutional progress to expe
he was ments in atritocracy
T have known more than one case off through the Chinese district, which those wishful to obtains being chased, and finally-caught, divorce have had some odd exper) by Police constable C300, and ■ inces, In one a friend of mine-clvilian Mr. Lewis Woo, who was who, however, has had the windən formeri scout in the 1st Hong not to consult medetermined to Kong (St.