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NEW APPROACH TO DIVORCE
Everywhere. MY “MARRIAGE” BILL
Notice To Contributors.
BANKER-TENOR A very unusual case which may All communications intended for
Recently English: listeners publication should be addressed to have far reaching effects came be
the Editor, and be accompanied by fore the authorities yesterday heard a new tear, Henry Hart
the Writer's Name and Address when the Captain of the British well, who made a broadcast for not necessarily for insertion, but freighter Bright Vega applied to the first time in England
the Harbour Master, the Hon.j The name is a pseudonym and as a guarantee of good faith.
Commander "G. F. Hole, to show conceals the identity of Baron reasons why he should not be Faroid, you Oppenheim, a member given a clearance certificate to of the famous Cologne banking leave Hong Kong.
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IN PARLIAMENT
SUPPORTED BY MODERATE CHURCH
OPINION IN ENGLAND
(By A. P. Herbert, M.P.)
ET me give a word of warn- points though every expression
ing to any who are suffer-of opinion will be helpful Objections were raised to the Baron Oppenheim, whoseling under the present law con- And now for the new pro manning of the Bright Yes mother was an American, married ceraing the Marriage Bill which posals. I believe that moderate which arrived here on Sunday from Australian ports via the niece of the late Spanish dicta-I have presented to Parliament. Church opinion is much more Solomon and Philippine Islands to Primo de Rivera: He is now They must not, because they see ready for a reasonable reform than most Though sailing under the Bri-Playing the lead in the successful that a bill has been introduced of the State law
Members of Parliament sus- Joperetta, “Ball of All Nations” into Parliament, begin to hope. tish flag the ship carries only Berlin.
I was unlucky in the Ballot pect; and having been elected three Britons, the Master, Cap- Its success is curious, for the for Private Members and am aya Member for Oxford Univer tain F. A. Kielgaard, the Chief
music is by a Czech composer and long way down the list. So, in sity I have good reason for Bay- |Officer and one "other. The rest
according to Nazi standards, the the absence of a fluke or a more ing so. After hearing that lasted of the officers and crew are
Those who addressed my en- Baron is not a 100 per cent. Aryan genial reception from the Gov
estimated the for nearly a fortnight, all three panese.
He received special permission ernment than past efforts have velopes have defendants in what has become Captain Kjelgaard stated that
from his theatre to come to Eng-enjoyed, there is little chance of number of clerical electors at known as the "Pepper case" he could not understand the land for this one B.B.C. concert.
the bill being so much as dis-figures varying from 25 to 35 were found guilty and sentenced jections to his ship's crew as he
cussed in the near future. per cent. (I do not know which HOW TO NOURISH A SKIN THAT
at the Old Bailey last month. has already been in a number of
But one never knows; and, at figure is correct) In my elec "IS FALLING INTO WRINKLES In reality, as the judge made British ports since the men were
least, it was worth while to tion address I made no secret of plain in his summing up, the picked up in Japan and no ob- The decision of the Netherlands present the bill in order to test my intentions; and I quoted the & FURROWS.
trial did not turn upon transac~[jection has been raised. He un-and Belgian Governments to cor-and collect opinion on the new saying of the Archbishop of WHEN YOUR SKIN IS NATURALLY tions in pepper. The compar-derstood, also, from his Company respond henceforth in Dutch fur-proposals.
Canterbury on October Nor must the sufferer find "The time has come when it is HEALTHY IT WILL BE CLEAR & atively simple question involved in London that the practice was ther weakens the claim of French
to be regarded as the official dip fault with my fellow private impossible for Parliament to re- FINE & SMOOTE.
Members. lomatic language.
I have been sursist the growing public demand Up to the end of the seventeenth prised by the width and volume for some extension of presum-
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material particulat," and whe The official view of the case is, century Latin was the invariable of the sympathy expressed ably legal grounds of divorce." ther he was aided and abetted it is understood, that the case is medium of diplomatic intercourse; among members of every sec- ́State Law And Churchi in, doing so by the other defen-junprecedented here and that any then, for two centuries, French, tion of the House. But private Reasonable Churchmen, I be dants, John Howeson and Louis definite step against the ship. Even before the war, English had Members cannot command Par-lieve, now recognise the great Hardy.
Hamentary time. The issue was one of such as holding her up or insist supplanted French in the Far
volume of public opinion which company law, about which there ing on the substitution of British East; and the Treaty of Versailles The bill is to use a phrase favours reform, and are weary is little that is haphazard. Pep-officers for the Japanese, would be established English and French Which is not my OWN new of having this tiresome ques- per played so large a part at far too dangerous and might cause as having equal rights in interna- approach to the divorce pro- tion clattering at their heels. every stage of the trial because a great deal of trouble. Aaytional usage.
olem, or, rather, the problem of But they wish to be assured the prospectus in question action which should be taken can
that what is proposed will not In recent years a common prae- getting something done. that of James and Shakspeare be taken in England.
After 24 Years
mean the break-up of marriage failed to reveal, when invit- Accordingly the Bright Vegase their own languages in cor Commission reparted, and all the State law diverges from the It is 24 years since the Royal and the family, and that where ing subscriptions from the was granted a clearance certifi-responding. public, that the company was cate to sail for Dairen at 5 pun..
efforts to pass its recommenda- Church's ideal their own con- involved in huge purchases of yesterday.
tions through the House of sciences will be respected. pepper which would have to be Mr. W. E. Kirby, Secretary of
Commons have failed. These Some of the new proposals financed. The prospectus, by the China Coast Officers' Guild,
recommendations, of which the will, I hope, provide that assur ignoring a matter of impor- and the Marine Engineers Guild, claims business needs a return to the grounds for divorce and nullity, forward for that purpose only. Chamber of Commerce executive most important are the new ance, though they are not put tance, created a false and mis-in a statement yesterday, said old order. Or, possibly, a food of leading impression in the minds that there could be no objection new ones.
are embodied in the bill, almost The bill provides that there of those who were invited to to the ship carrying Japanese of-
exactly as they were in Mr. shall be no divorce within five subscribe. and the law holds ficers provided she hauled down A man took an elderly relative to Holford Knight's bill
years of marriage. This, I re- that a document with that de- the Red Ensign, but if she in-e football match. Why is that Many people do not like them peat, is not merely a sop to fect is false.
tended to trade under the British man walking away?" asked the wall, as they stand: I do not those who fear that more Concealment gave importance fag it should be made imperative
divorce myself: but they could be humane
will mean "He's been sent off the Seld for amended in Committee. to the pepper transactions. Ex-
If we "Hollywood" divorce. I believe cept in their magnitude there for her to carry British officers. foal
Apparently the decision of the "My goodness, one fowl won't go had tinkered excessively with it to be sound was nothing in these that was
far between twenty-two men.” the Royal Commission's Report Those early years are often authorities here means that any not perfectly legitimate busi-
we should be in even Lotter the most difficult, and ness. Merchanting firms buy British ship trading on the China
A farmer, aged 24, advertises for water than we are sure to be the hasty, cause dissolutions large quantities of commodities Coast which does not intend visit wife "between 18 and 65 years of already. I hope, therefore, that which might, with delay, have ahead in the expectation that ing the United Kingdom or which are." they will be able to sell at a pro- does not desire a passenger certi women between 40 and 65 are in their 20 one will write fierce, indign-been avoided. But it does not
ant letters on purely Committee; (Continued On Page 20) fit As Mr. Justice Atkinson ficate may dismiss all the British said in his summing-up, a man officers and substitute Japanese may attempt if he choose, to or Chinese:
corner the supply of a particu-
lar article, and "there is nothing
legally wrong about it.”
But
if a company is to be floated LATE MRS. W. EGGE
LAID TO REST
Happy Valley Burial
RUSSIAN ORTHODOX SERVICE HELD AT CEMETERY
which is committed to trans- actions that are necessarily speculative, "the obligation to disclose a situation full of po- tential danger cannot be den ied" It was ably pleaded on behalf of Bischirgian that, while recognising there was something which ought to be jexplained to the public when The funeral of Mrs. Pelagia E. subscriptions were to be invit Egge, wife of Mr. Egge, manager ed, he left the drafting of the of Messrs. Kunst and Albers, who document to others. Had that died yesterday morning at the plea convinced the jury the French Hospital, took place yes- whole of the defendants would terday afternoon at the Prates- have gone free. Their finding tant Cemetery, Happy Valley. The means that Bischirgian knew chief mourner was the bereaved that information fatal to a stic-husband. Prior to the interment, cessful promotion of the com-a Russian Orthodox service, was held in the cemetery chapel, the Such an ending to a case that Rev. Fr. Dmitri Uspensky officiat- has excited widespread publicjing. interest will do much to Among those present were Herr strengthen, public. confidence H. Gipperich, the German Consul alike in the vigilance of the law Messrs. Liermann, H Heitmeyer, and the security that is given Meyer, D. Dohse, Harty, T. V. by company legislation. The Treskin,
Ehren, Nocht, B standard of rectitude in the Schowb, A. Crestijo, Petrey, EL. City of London is as high as Mueller, T. M. V. Devan, Chinj anywhere in the world. Its Hei-hing, Hai Pak-choi, Ho Yau, maintenance is a matter of high Laf Fat, Wong Yau-cheong, Wong] concern in these days,, when Kin-hong, Au Pan-sam, "Yip Chan-j the habit of investment in pub-hing, and Yip Pin-lum. lic companies has spread to *** great new classes of the comp- munity. The pepper trial em-
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