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THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 17, 1937."
BASQUES REINFORCED
SEPARATE STATE
AND CHURCHTM
MARRIAGES
ARCHDEACON'S
PLAN
BANKERS, ARRIVE IN CANTON
New Bank Being Opened
This Morning
Canton, To-day,
Messrs. Feng Kan-kwang and Li Shing-yik, directors of the Sinhua
MR. JUSTICE SWIFT'S Trust and Savings Bank, arrived at
DIVORCE “ERROR”
Canton from Shanghai yesterday for the opening of the Canton branch of the bank this morning.
Recapture Of Vital Defence Points
Claimed
Bilbao, To-day. After Saturday's manoeuvres the Basques Those who treat marriage "as a Mr. Li is the secretary of Mr. T claim to have recaptured Hill 566 on Mount Vizar- social function" rather than a reV. Soong, Chairman of the National qui, described as the key position in the battle of ligious service were criticised by Economic Committee, and it is stat- the Archdeacon of Worcester, thejed that he will consult on the cur Bilbao. The position of the insurgents holding Ven. J. H. F. Peile, when he de rency problems of the province with other posts on the ridge has thus become increas- livered his charge to the clergy and Kwangtung officials as well as re-ingly precarious.
laity of the Archdeaconry.
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present Shanghai bankers in nego tiations for investments in Kwang- He suggested a compulsory State tung industries. Our Own Corres civil marriage with a "separate pondent.
Church Christian ceremony for those who seriously desire it."
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In the northern sector the Basques also claim to have defeated, with heavy loss, a large concen- tration of insurgents, "mainly composed of Italian LAND SERVICE TO troops combined with German and Italian techni-
cians."
SWATOW
By Train And Bus From Hong Kong
FROM PARIS COMES A REPORT THAT THE INSURGENTS CLAIM TO HAVE INFLICTED 10,000 CASUALTIES ON THE GOVERNMENT FORCES IN THE RECENT FIGHTING. IN THE TOLEDO REGION.
"I hope I shall not incur the pen-j alties which attach to contempt of court," said the Archdeacon, “when I venture to say that Mr. Justice Swift appears to have adopted the popular error that the Church is re-
Canton, To-day. sponsible for the divorce law of this
The joint bus and train service country, and is deeply concerned to between Swatow and Hong Kong keep it unchanged. No Christian and between Swatow and Canton will Salamanca state
Insurgent headquarters at blockade with a cargo of arms from can possibly wish to maintain the be started on June 1.
that 20,000 the United States. revolting features inherent in the vice between Swatow and Cheung ed into the Bilbao defence lines The bus ser-Asturian miners have been draft- law as it stands.
Muk Tou via Weichow will be com-in order to reinforce the Basque
"The present system, as everyone pleted by the end of this month, troops, who have been decimated knows, is a tissue of horrors and and from Cheung Muk Tou, one can by weeks of severe fighting. absurdities, a hotbed of perjury and go to Hong Kong or Canton per condonation of perjury,
the Canton-Kowloon
an open
market for suborned and manufac- Our Own Correspondent. tured evidence, demoralising to those who seek relief under its rules, and
Railway.
even if that were possible, to those CORONATION
engaged professionally in playing| the unedifying game, according to the rules."
Mutual consent, the Archdeacon went on, was the most satisfactory ground for the termination of other civil contracts. It was difficult to see why, in the case of marriage, if it was merely a civil contract, this ground should be carefully, and even pedantically, excluded.
Flower Fashion Weddings
He offered a solution. It was that the State should require in every case a civil marriage ceremony con- ducted by a State official, and that on the completion of the civil con- tract the Church should offer Chris- tian marriage to those who serious- ly desired it and were prepared to abide by the obligations which it imposed.
The great difficulty was the at- titude of so many people in the Church to marriage. They seemed to regard it as casually and materi- ally as any worldling could, and to treat it more as a social function than a religious service.
They considered the dresses and the flowers and the music and the fashionable company in church just as much à tribute due to their guests and their own position in society as the champagne and the wedding cake and the show of presents (at) the reception.
Shanghai Fish Strike
Shanghai, To-day. Fish stores in Shanghai have re- sumed business after their one day strike-Our Own Correspondent.
DECORATIONS
FOR BLANKETS
London, To-day.
VALENCIA BOMBED.
In Paris it is reported the rebel planes appeared over Valencia, the General Mola's troops again at seat of the Spanish Government, tacked on Saturday, the main offen-yesterday and dropped several Isive being on the Bilbao-Bermeo bombs.
road. A rebel division advancing Thirty-three were killed and a along the coast is said to have ar- large number wounded. ried at Garliz, north of Plecnia.
REBEL CLAIMS
The division has also occupied Menaca, Bilbla and the Jata heights.
Nearly three quarters of a mile of In spite of desperate resistance London's West End Coronation de-by the Basques, a rebel column is corations will shortly be used
as reported to have advanced as far as blankets for 2,000 Spanish children Mazguia. who are expected to arrive în Bri- tain from Bilbao this week.
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The French consulate was hit and two
persons in the building wounded.-Trans-Ocean.
Warsaw University Reopening
The rebel infantry were support-
Warsaw, To-day. After remaining closed for eight led by artillery and aircraft, includ-weeks owing to repeated clashes be-. The Bond Street Coronation Com-ling, it is said, 36 planes captured tween Polish and Jewish students, mittee has promised to give bunt-by the rebels from the ship Mar Warsaw University is to reopen on ing for the use of the Basque chil-Cantabrico, which was intercepted Wednesday dren.-Reuter.
this by rebel cruisers while running the Ocean.
week.-Trans-
Some of the twenty-five Englishmen captured recently by the rebel troops of Gen. Francisco Franco are shown here in s rebel prison camp near Madrid. The men are the sole survivors of a "regiment" which was virtually wiped out in their first battle. They were mainly unemployed men enrolled in London and are reported to have been promised work on the roads of Spain. Rebel authorities say that on their arriva the men's passports were taken from them and they were given riles instead of plóks and spadas.