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Andy
Richard
DEVINE ARLEN
TROPIC FURY
THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 4, 1941.
WILFUL WIFE. SAYS PIG
SAYS JUDGE HOME PET
STRONG COMMENTS, on a wife's character
IS BETTER
were made by Mr. Justice Langton in the Divorce THAN Court, when damages of £1,000 were awarded to Mr. Hugh Thomas Cunningham Pepper, of Salvington Letts, Worthing, Sussex, against Dr. Eric Dickens Spackman, of Shelley 'Road, Worthing.
DOG
Pigs are "ideal pets" and ought to oust dogs from British homes, at any rate during war, says
Mr. Pepper, who alleged misconduct between Mr. Roger North, a well- his wife, Mrs. Barbara Pepper, of Toad Hall; Shore-known Norfolk barrister ham, and Dr. Spackman, was granted a decree nisi. and farmer.
Mrs. Pepper failed in her peti- tion for a decree on the ground of her husband's cruelty.
Giving judgment, Mr. Justice Langton sald that a; the time of the inarriage, in 1927, Mrs. Pepper was twenty-one and her husband twenty-three. She had a small income of her own, and Mr. Pep- per, who had an allowance of £500 a year from his father, sel up as a fruit farmer.
Really Frightened
OVERSEAS
CHINESE
CONFERENCE
Some are so companionable," urges Mr. North. He keeps nearly 300 pigs himself, so he ought to know.
"Unlike a dog, a pig will enjoy every kind of household scrap," Mr. North told a reporter:
There is no cleaner anlmai, and they are' quite caBy house-train.
to
"They are remarkably intelli-
The Overseas Chinese gent and most affectionate; in fact,
the only thing a pig can't do that
In November, 1939, Mrs. Pep-Conference held in Singa-a per left her husband, writing him
a note in which she said: "As pore came to an end yes- you have no hesitation in knock-terday after a three-day Ing me about and using abusive
nguage, I am really frightened meeting.
to go on living here.
of
Dealing with the characters
Chinese delegates from the
Mr. and Mrs. Pepper, the Netherlands
Judge said: "I have not the
to
East Indies, Hong Indo-China and
slightest doubt that Mrs. Pepper Kong. Thailand, was a lady who is courageous the Philippines participated.
the point of recklessness, ardent and tireless in pursult of her pleasures, vivaçious, sel fish and wilful.
"A lady
rigidly and ruthlessly determined to go her own way and get her own way seldom remember to have met."
1
more
By unanimous vote Mr. Tan Kah-kee (Chen Chia-kang), pro- minent Singapore financier, was elected to continue as Chairman of the Federation of China Relief Fund Committees.
dog can is catch rats."
"Are Obedient"
Mr. North advocates SOWS as pets rather than boars,
"People are apt to become to attached to their pig that they cannot bear to part with him, even for bacon," he added. "The solution is to keep a sow and let her piglets fill the larder. "Pigs
both faithful and obedient, and even their grunts are expressive.
are
"They would make ideal pets In any home where a dog is kept at present,"
STRAITS WAR FUND
He recommends as indoor pets the smaller breeds-say Essex, Cables were despatched to the Saddleback or Small White. British and American Govern- Bathing Together ments thanking them for con- tinued assistance to China during Regarding the allegation of the past few years, and telegrams dultery, the Judge said Mr. Pep- were also sent to Chinese Gov- per, in April, 1939, wrote to Dr. ernment heads pledging further >packman:
support, and to the chiefs of the "Your constant attention to fighting services. Barnie (Mrs. Pepper) during the ast few years has earned you Considerable notoriety....
NOW £600,000
the Latest instalment from Straits. Settlements Bomber Fund It was further decided that the this week to the British Treasury Conference send a circular tele- of £19,575 makes a total to date gram denouncing those communi- of £600,000, which is more than phasis on your almost daily cating with Wang Ching-wet as sufficient to purchase two squa-
drons of bombers.-Reuter. bathing together during the traitors. -
"I wish to put particular sm-
summer, and I know she han addressed you at least once as 'Darling'
the matter has now got to a pitch which I find unendurable."
Dr. Spackman replied that the etter was a great shock, and he promised to break off his as- sociation with Mrs. Pepper.
The Judge said he could see no answer to the point made-the interviews of two hours at a time, sometimes with the door locked.
86, KILLED BY BOY, 11
A grandfather aged eight-six received fatal wounds when a gun which
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He said that on the previous Tuesday his grandfather took a single-barrelled shotgun with the intention of shooting a cat, which got away. He did not see his grandfather remove the cartridge afterwards.
On Thursday the boy was sitting before the fire in the kitchen cleaning, the gun, and his grand- father was sitting opposite: watch ing him," The boy áld not know the gun was loaded.
While polishing the brasswork he daught a rag in the hammer. He heard a bang and his grandi. Father called bút “Oh,”
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