ENGHINSA
DIVORCE SUITS BY
POOR PERSONS
SOLICITORS AND
INCREASE
Experts on the administration of the Poor Persons Department think there is no ground for the asser tion of Mr. Claud Mullins, the magistrate, that the new Matri monial Causes Act may cause a breakdown in the Poor Persons system of litigation.
PIGEER
Torture Allegations PLANS FOR PIC
Against Police
Of Many States
methods for extort- y a p
are
De Used
ing confessions or ience said to be "widespread and in-muruer creasing danger of our times in a Dia In report addressed by the Howard are no League for Penal Reform to the pulsion Fifth Committee of the League of Kepnes Nations
eart
revear knar it is the rule Tor accused
A leading solicitor said, "No one is going to suppose that the Law Society, with its 91 local commit This Committee, which deals to be tried or released within vary Sing. The tees, which has been doing this with social questions, is urged tong periods but in many countries period of five work and unostentatiously help-press upon States Members of the ts not true of poutical prison- Each aer ing thousands of people for the Leagues the need for watchfulness ers, who, notanty in Germany, Itary training is past 11 years, has neglected to look in their administration and mutual Russia, Hungary and Austria, may for general at what the new Act means or is co-operation”
stop these never be brought to trial at all. is to some likely to mean.
methods.
wo in-
ee methods to
25
ng quietly with his wife at
near Blackpool, songs the worlds
"It is really fatuous for anyone
Remarking that no one who ex to say that a breakdown may be amines the evidence
can doubt expected, when no one knows how that the use of torture is more HE SENT SALLY” many extra applications there will widespread than it was half a cen-ROUND THE WORLD be, or what will happen in Janu- tury ago, the re ary when the Act co
comes into opera-stances of third-des tion
procure evidence Early Reference To Problem
chösen,” says the The Law Society's report, predifferent countries of sented in July, referred several could, we fear, be times to the new Marriage Bill It other parts of the was pointed out that, if the bill became law, the number of Poor Persons applications for certifi cates must increase.
from
not know
drew
is wife
ote "Sally not famous number,
In one case a prison for days and nights in a washed cell, one metre square. by "Generally, all the local commit two metres high, with a light of but the song Florrie Forde made tees agreed that they would be in-1500 candle-power always burnir famous. undated with applications, and that before, his face. In the other the whole Poor Persons organisa case the nails of a prisoner were tion might have to be reconsidered torn out.
lo-day he sits in a chair in his ded garden humming and whistling ly, and every action he carried out to rhythm.
My
his tea to waltz Mrs Allen said.
Around the
wears a suit
"The council of the Law Society The report consists mainly of the agreed with this view that the replies of various countries to a number of applications would in questionnaire sent out by the crease considerably. The attention Howard League. The two most of the Lord Chancellor was direct-significant questions were ed to the possible effect of the bill. Are there any rules restricting
"The position, has, in fact, for a the interrogation by the police 0 long time been very much in the the untried prisoner mind of the Law Society, and I brought before the examining of his career as think there is no reason to sugges magistrate or other that the system, which has only been successful because it has been "What is the procedure in cases still being nursed with the greatest care, may where the arrested person is not hand wrote it in a few bo break down under the strain of pos- brought before any judicial sible new applications,”
authority
authority?"
ore he is gave him when
-CONFESSION RULES
judicial *America- heart," said
The Poor Persons Department, with its voluntary local commit- tees, has been able to deal with all applications promptly and effec The replies to the first question tively. Solicitors in adequate num- show that among the countries bers have been available to con-where police examinations are un- duct cases.
der more or less strict rules, are In London last year 122 addi-England, Scotland; Wales, tional solicitors allowed their Australia, New Zealand, South names to be placed on the rota, and Africa and most parts of the Bri- the London committee has met at tish Empire, Denmark, Holland, 1- the offices of the Law Society every Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, Tuesday for 11 years.:
Czechoslovakia and Argentina
The committees need not con- In India, Kenya and Tanganyika tinue unless they want to, that confessions made to the police are they do continue is proof that they generally not admissible as eviden- want to do a great public service ce. In Uganda on confession made to a police officer of lower
New Armoured Infantry standing than an assistant inspec-
Tank
bor is admissible. In Austria, Italy and Russia police interroga- tions are governed by the Bame The new infantry tank is the rules as those in force for examin- latest type of armoured fighting ing magistrates These restric vehicle to come from the armament tions do not appear to operate in shop. More is known about its pro-political cases. spective use than about its design Countries which have no su and equipment. It is like many restrictions include Germany, Bel-
war machines in the experi- gium, Poland, Portugal, Egypt,
cage.
mber of states in the United dard type of tank of States, and Canada. In Canada the Tank Brigade is targely however, the English rule of warn-
has a coat of armour too
its loitering on the
fantry tank is intended to
of the infantry
and overwhelming-
positions, de
ms, and general-chi
momentum
attack that its
necessari
that of that the
sacrifice
armour
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which flying
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(Sywell)
Manchester
(Desford)
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raining ave not yet.
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under have
to be xt few
at first
intended to in-
the crea- pilots for
gency.
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