THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 16, 1939
LORD ROTHERMERE GIVEN JUDGMENT IN ACTION BY PRINCESS HOHENLOHE
London, To-day. MORE NAZI MR. JUSTICE TUCKER yesterday delivered judg-
ment for Lord Rothermere in the action for WISHFUL breach of contract brought against him by Prin- cess Hohenlohe.
Mr. Justice Tucker decided that Lord Rothermere had not contracted to vindicate her political re- putation or pay her ar annuity of £5,000 for life. Mr. Justice Tucker said the Princess had put for- ward two claims. One in effect was for damages for wrongful dismissal or repudiation of a con- tract of employment.
satisfled The Judge said he was there had never been any bargain that the Princess should refrain from accepting £25,000 from the American
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The Judge was also satisfied that the Princess had been paid till the end of 1938, when the contract would have expired without notice required on either side.
DESERVED
NO SYMPATHY
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You deserve no sympathy,' said Mr. E. Himsworth at Kowloon this NEVER UNDERTOOK
morning, to Cheng Kwok-tai, 32, of of the case was No. 369, Prince Edward Road, al- The second part that Lord Rothermere contracted in leged 'hit-and-run' driver, who ap- January, 1933, to clear the Princess's peared in connection with an acci- name in connection with libels pub-dent in Kowloon lished in certain French newspapers. night, and would thereafter look after her financially.
The Judge found that Lord Rother- contractually undertook mere never
the Princess nor con- to vindicate tractually promised to maintain her
for her lifetime.
num.
The Judge referred to a ber of highly confidential docu. had been read in ments which court, and remarked that there was nothing discreditable to Lord Rothermers or to the writer In any of these letters.
THOSE PHOTOSTATS
Any man of honour would strongly object to such highly confidential cor- respondence with the heads of for- eign governments being bandied about court.
The Judge declared he had not heard a satisfactory explanation of the circumstances in which the Prin- cess had received photostatic coples of these documents, not from Lord Rothermère, her employer, but from his correspondents in Europe.
"There can be no possible oc- casion for the lady to continue to receive from the German Chan- cellery copies of private docu- ments sent by Lord Rotharmere to that destination as late 88 January, 1939.
Tuesday
City on
Cheng was fined $210 for driving private car, No. 3611, under the in-
at a fluence
dangerous of drink, speed, falling to stop after knocking down a pedestrian and failing to report the accident.
Traffic
J. Sergeant Scrim sald Cheng reported to the Water Police last night, stating that he did not know last he had had an accident until night when he went to the garage to take the car out and saw the front light and mudguard were damaged.
MORE JUNKS MOLESTED
Arriving here yesterday Tao Hoi-fu, master of junk No. 539, reported that his junk was set on fire on October 20 by Japanese sailors, who stopped the boat off Swabue. Total loss suffered was said to be $1,200.
Tao and his fokis were forced into a sampan in which they managed to reach Hong Kong safely.
Another attack on a junk by Ja-
THINKING
THE
LONDON, TO-DAY.
CLAIM GERMAN
BRITAIN IS
THAT
DOUBLY VULNER- ABLE COMPARED TO 1914, OWING
TO THE INCREASE IN THE SIZE oF FREIGHTERS DOUBLING THE
DOES NOT
IMPORTANCE OF A SINGLE LOSS, TAKE INTO AC- COUNT THE GREATLY DECREAS- OF SUB- ED EFFECTIVENESS MARINES OWING TO THE IM- PROVED BRITISH ANTI-SUBMAR- INE EFFICIENCY.
The proof lies in the figures for the first two months of the war.
losses were British merchantmen 56 ships of 238,95 tons, compared with losses in a single month, in April 1917, of 210 ships totalling 551,000 tons.
800 FEARED DEAD IN DISASTER
Caracas, To-day.
Some 800 people may have lost their lives in the oil disaster on Monday, it is now feared.
The town was bulft of wooden houses on piles in the lake, and the fire started when a kerosene lamp overturned. The wind awept entiro the flames through the town and within four hours nothing was left but floating de- brls and smouldering piles-Reu- ter.
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BRITISH MISSION
FOR SPAIN
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MADRID, TO-DAY. WITH THE VIEW TO CONCLUD- ING SEVERAL ECONOMIC AGREE- Germany has already lost at least MENTS, AN IMPORTANT BRITISH one-third of her overseas U-boat | COMMERCIAL fleet, while British losses have RIVING HERE. greatly decreased.
The only ship sunk by a U-boat in the last fortnight was the 1,348-ton Ponzano, which the German broad- casters wishfully claim to
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IL DUCE'S SON ON AIRLINE SURVEY (SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL).
Seville, To-day. intermediate land- Surveying the
the tentative com- ing grounds for
with linking Italy mercial airline, South America, Bruno Mussolini, Il off for Duce's son, yesterday took Villa Cisneros from where he will go on to the Cape Verde Havas.
Islands.
MISSION IS AR-
Business quarters stress that Spain must fully re-establish economic re- lations with France and Britain and also intensify trade exchanges South American States.
Meanwhile,
policy is still
with
Spain's foreign based on closo
relations with Rome.
An Institute of Italian Culture has just been opened in Madrid with branches in other large Spanish
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towns.
RUBBER QUOTA
London, To-day.
The International Rubber Commit- tee has fixed the quota for the first quarter of 1940 at 80 per cent. Reuter.
REVISED OFFICIAL SECRETS BILL
RECEIVES WELCOME
London, To-day.
panese was reported by Kwok Fu- ON THE MOTION of Sir John Anderson, the Home
shing, master of boat No. 720HA, Kwok stated that at 1 p.m. on Monday
"The result is that this action falls his junk was stopped by the Japanese on every point, and there must be judgment for defendant with costs."off Lin Tin Island.
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NAZIS AND SOVIET
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MOSCOW, TO-DAY.
LUFTHANSA,
The Japanese
transferred the cannon, gun-powder and old rifles from the junk to the
Secretary, the House of Commons yesterday ́ gave a second reading to the Official Secrets Bill, which the House of Lords has already pass- ed unamended.
trawler and then ordered Kwok to sail The Bill limits the special powers of interrogation of
away.
JAPANESE TRAWLER'S
RESCUE
A JAPANESE TRAWLER WAS
INSTRUMENTAL IN RESCUING FORTY GERMAN INDUSTRIAL THE CREW OF A JUNK WHICH ISTS INCLUDING FOUR REPRE- CAPSIZED OFF FU KIU TAN LAST SENTATIVES OF
THURSDAY.
Clinging to pieces of wood and a HAVE ARRIVED HERE.
It is reported that they are negotiat-partly submerged sampan, the crew ing for the establishment of a Berlin-, drifted until daylight when they were Warsaw-Moscow air line.
The presence of numerous Germans, most of them businessmen, is noted in Leningrad.--Havas.
URGENT WAR AIM IS VICTORY
Canberra, To-day.
Mr. R. J. Menzies, the Australian Prime Minister, said that the urgent war aim is victory, followed by world security, the abandonment of arms competition, and prosperity, in which Germany will share-Reuter.
picked up by the Japanese trawler "Tsuru Maru" and brought to Hong Kong.
BODY FOUND IN THE LAM TSUN VALLEY
the police to cases of espionage.
FOUR SHIPS emergency, SUNK
It provides that the permission of the Home Secretary be obtained be- fore these powers are exercised, ex- cept in cases of great where the chief of police will' authorised to act without first taining permission.
ob-
In future, powers of Interroga- tion will be exercised only by po-
His Ilce, and not by members of Majesty's Forces, and the oppor. tunity will be taken to deal with the case of a person' knowingly which giving false Information,
Is not covered speelfically by the present law.
BILL WELCOMED
The body' of a › Chinese woman,
The Bill was welcomed by the re- between 30 and 40, was found yes-presentatives of all parties. terday in a field at Pak Ngau Shek Capt. Wedgwood Benn (Opposition the Bill in Lam Taun Valley, New Territories. | Labour) pointed out that Tightly wound round the neck was n dealt with peace time, and everybody piece of red string. Death was due was now subjected to much severer to strangulation. Murder is suspect restrictions under the defence regula
ed.
tions.-Reuter.
London, To-day.
Four steamers were sunk yesterday, only one of them British.
The small 800-ton coaster Wood- explosion, town was sunk after an and nine of her crew of 13 were drowned.
A 2,200-ton Grook steamer Kit' a submerged wreek off the northes east coast of ́England. Hem-22; orew were' ploked up safely«bý:1 "ahore lifeboat.
Two Lithuanian steamers of 'about 2,000 tons each were sunk in the Baltic near the Esthonian desat,^———
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