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THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 15, 1941.
VANISH FROM CAR
WOMAN ACCUSED OF STATE DOCUMENTS
SENDING £19,000 TO THE GERMANS
TWO MEN AND A WOMAN were accused at the Old Bailey of having done “great disservice to their country." Sir William Jowitt, Solicitor-General, said of the woman, Miss Doreen Grant Gibbons:-
"On the facts in this case you cannot have any doubt that, while her country is at war, she has been entering into all kinds of financial transac- tions to the benefit of Germans.
Charges of trading with the! enemy were brought against Miss- Gibbons, whose age was not given, Loui Francis Szilagyi, aged 66, and Thomas Ogle, aged 58.
They pleaded not guilty and en- tered a similar plea to charges brought against Metal and Elee- tro Chemical Products, Ltd., ef) which they were stated to be directors.
Opening for the Crown. Str William sairi; "With the country
MORALS OF THE CHURCH
-By Dorothy L. Sayers
Documents belong- ing to a Government department, confain- ed, in a black leather brief case, are missing from a car in which they were left in the West End, and the police are trying to trace them.
They are under- stood not to be of great importance.
16--WEIGHED THREE STONE
A boy of sixteen was "If every man living stated at an inquest to
at war and lighting for he were to sleep in his neigh-have weighed only 3st.
we are very anxious to prevent the Germans getting any sort of
supplies which we can possibly
prevent them getting.
The "Real Brains"
* Quite obviously, in wat tum",
if anybody in this country trades with the enemy, or for the bene tit of the enemy, he or she is guilty of being very unpatriotic."
The two men were really in a subservient position, he said. The real brains, the person real. ly responsible, was Miss Glb.
bons.
There were twelve counts against each defendant and against the company.
It was alleged that the men and the woman had financial dealings for the benefit of the enemy in December. 1939, by transferring assets worth £84,713, in accord- ance with an agreement between Metal and Electro-Chemical Pro - ducts, Ltd.. and Aktiebolaget (A/B) Nordring, of Stockholm, firm under enemy control, by contracting with the Stockholm firm to pay £19 356 to A.F.A.. Berlin, and by transferring into enemy control three other assets worth £12,500.
On Dotted Line
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near
The boy
William was George Sylvester, of Hawks Road, Kings -
hed of malnutrition.
bour's bed it could not bring the world so shipwreck as that pride, to, Surrey, who, a ductor stated, that avarice, and that in- tellectual sloth which the Church has forgotten to write in the tale of its capital sins."
Miss Dorothy L. Sayers, the authoress, said that at Malvern in an attack on what she call
"one-sided
ed
the morality
Church's
She was
opening the
second section of the Archbishop of -York's conference, which is con- sidering how Christian thought can be shaped to lead post-war
reconstruction.
Property Problem
The coroner expressed the view that the police or other authorities should prosecute the hoy's parents.
The
George parents, William Sylvester, and Elizabeth Emily Sylvester, said the boy had al- ways been delicate, but did not
school complain. After leaving he did no work because he was not strong enough.
He was given good food, but had not been attended by a doc - tor from the time he was an infant until ten days before his death.
The mother said that the best of everything was put in front of the boy, and If he did not eat it, it was not her fault.
"Starvation"
"It must have been clear to the
"Suppose," she said, "that dut- ing the last century the churches had devoted to sweetening intel- tectual corruption a quarter oi the energy they spent in nosing parents that the boy was suffer- out fornication, or denounced
ing from starvation," said the cheating with a quarter of the coroner, "I think the parents are vehemence with which they de- just saved from a grave criminal nounced legalisad adultery. But charge by the fact that ten days one was easy and the other was
before the boy died they called in u doctor.
not,
"The law cares little for sacra- "I think it is still open to th ments, but it is reluctant to alter police or other authorities to in- marriage laws because such al-stitute a prosecution for a lesser terations
upset the orderly de- offence. In my view, this is u volution of property. And of
case where it ought to be done.” fornication it takes little cognis- A verdict in accordance with
"If you arrange with a Swedish company to give it assets, provid- ed it will pay a debt which you ewe to Germany, in that way you are indirectly paying your debt to Germany instead of paying it 10 ance unless it leads to riots and the medical evidence was record - the Custodian of Enemy Property," | disturbance.” said Sir William.
"That is the scheme which this lady evolved and the two men obediently signed on the dotted line,' because the line was drawn up by her.
"In that way they have en deavoured and succeeded in do-
ing a great disservice to their country."
Sir William said that at the be-; ginning of the war certain deul- ings took place between the de- fendant company and the Stock - holm companies.
"As a result," he alleged, "the English company, Metal and Elec- tro Chemical Products, was strip- ped bare of all its foreign interests so that nothing by any chance could pass to the English official custodian.
"The debt which the company owed to A.F.A. Berlin (a sum of £19,000), which should have been paid to the Custodian of Enemy Property, was disposed of in this ingenious way. A/B.Nordring was given all the assets and in return
arranged to discharge the German
debt.'
He commented that £19,000 was almost the price of a boni- her.
ed.
PARSONS TO LEARN. SEX TALKS
MINISTERS WHO have felt bashful about talk- ing intimately about sex to young couples about to be married are to receive help.
Advice on what clergymen should tell young people about marriage relations when the couple call to put up the banns is contained in a pamphlet composed by a panel of thirteen Lancashire clergy- ̈ ̈ ̈men appointed by the Bishop of Blackburn, ~ Dr.'
Herbert.
The panel was formed, to give guidance
other on "sexual and is desired by clergy, by women moral problems where their help
workers or by other persons."
feci able to solve, he is asked to place it before the panel, - . The pamphlet will be available to clergymen in a few weeks.: It goes frankly into the "matter. of the number of children' and
In the words of a member of contraception." the panel, the step was desirable, as "it was ludicrous that so many,
A clergyman tuld a reporter: young couples went to the altar "We are not trespassing on the without knowing what marriage ground of medical men, but ap- meant.
proaching the subject from the spiritual point of view,
Before evidence was called Mr. G. D. Roberts, KC. defending Miss Gibbons, asked. for an ad- Journment to consider a count in the indictment which was altered "They went into it blindly," he at short notice before the hearing. said. "And there were many Mr. Justice Asquith said that an ministers who, through ignorance. adjournment seemed the proper of sex matters or fear of interfer- course. Although it was deplor- Ing, did not put them on the right able that the Solicitor-General| lines." should be put to the trouble of opening the case again, he would postpone the hearing to next sey- sions.
The jury was discharged and the two men and the woman: releay- ed on bail..
"Contained in the pamphlet are suggestions which will help us to give the couples advice which will help them to steer clear of dim- culties, mainly of the physical kind, which in the past have ! wrecked many marriages.
**There are, of course, ministors who make a practice of having in- The pamphlet covers the timate talks with young couples Spiritual and sexual aspects of about to be married, but they marriage. But if a clergyman | seldom go as deeply as they has a problem that he does not could.'
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