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No. 21,368 號叁十六百卷于查萬式第 BS+A¤K‡ƒ HONG KONG, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1926. # £#Ƒ¤#41+ER PRICE: $3 PER MONTH
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HISTORIC DECISIONS AT THE
» IMPERIAL CONFERENCE.
THE RELATIONS OF BRITAIN AND THE DOMINIONS.
ITROX OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT, ]
SIR ERNEST WILTON IN
DIVORCE SUIT.
MEETING AT TIENTSIN.
A · REMARKABLE ́LETTER.
A remarkable letter was read in the
Divorce Court on November 22nd when Mr. Justice Hill granted a decres nisi to Mr. Charles Robert Marling, of Park Lodge, Park Place, Knightsbridge, a retired merchant, in the suit brought against his wife, Violet Evelyn, on the ground of her misconduct with the co- respondent, Sir Ernest Colville Collins Wilton, whom she met at Tientsin and afterwards at the Legation, Riga.
LONDON, Nov.mmber 27th. The outstanding event of the week is of course, the official announcement of Agreement concerning the status of the great Dominions in relation to Great Britain. Absolute equality has been ar-
Mr. Alfred Buckhill appeared for the rived at, the definition being printed in | italics in the Report of the Inter-petitioner, who, in his evidence, azid he married on Boxing Day, 1906, at the 720 Imperial Relations Committee, and ap- British Consulate, and then at All Saints proved by the Imperial Conference. The Church. Tientsin. It was at Tientsin paragraph, referring to the Dominions, that they met Sir Erncat Wilton
After Mrs. Morling bad come to Eng
• antonomou comand Mr Morling heard, on September, reads:They are munities within the British Empire, equal 1925, that she was at Eiga, where Sir in status, in no way subordinate one to Ernest Wilton was at the Legation. When another in any aspect of their domestic shy returned with Mr. Morling to Tien or external affairs, though united by atain her affection had diminished. common allegiance to the Crown, and freely associated as members of the British Commonwealth of Nations."
In 1924 they were home again, and she would not accompany him back to Chias. On Christmas Day he received a letter from her stating-
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THAT XMAS DINNER.
THE WEEK'S DIARY.
To-day.
The following selection of wines may help you with your Menu:-
Christmas Day. Bishop of London will celebrate Holy Communion at 8 am, and will preach in SOUP St. John's Cathedral, 11 am.
Christmas services at St. Andrew's FISH Church.
St. Peter's Church: Christmas Com- munion, 9 am; Sung Eucharist and Sermon, li a.m.
Football Portugal . China in Sun- day Herald Charity Cup Competition. H.K.F.C. ground, 3.45 p.za.
Golf: Christmas Meeting competitions, Fanling.
Cricket: C.R.C... H.M.S. Hawkins; Capt. Dobbie's team v. Mr. T. E. Pearce's team on H.E.O.C. ground, p.m.
Queen's Theatre: "The Man on the Box"
World
Thief Theatre: The
of Bagdad.".
Star Theatre "The Great Divide." Sunday.
Bishop of London preaches on H.M.S. Hawkin, 9.30 a.m.; at St. Andrew's Church, Kowloon, 11 a.m. Visita Diocesan Girls School and Blind Home in the afternoon.
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St. Stephen's Day: Holy Communion at St. Peter's Church, 8 al., and matins and sermon at 11 am.
Christmas Carol Service and Organ-- recital, St. Andrew's Church, Kowloon, HONGKONG HOTEL; Bertan Bax Hor
Of course, this sentence merely sets
Now comes the hard part of my letter down in clear language the formal recog- nition of conditions already well develop-to write. I hate to hurt you. I fear it, o in practice. The Report further states will be a blow to you when I say that the principles of equality and cannot join you. I must say it now be- necessarily extend to function," and there now or never that we part.
It is now eight years since, think-6 p.m. ia the further statement," It was frankly recognised that in this sphere, as in the ing you did not love me, I let myself It was not his fault. sphere of defence, the major share of love another man. responsibility rests now, and must for He had gone away, but I found out, by some time continue to rest, with HM. chance or fate, and was happy to End
someone loved me Government in Great Britain."
"I am taking an awful plunge and staking all my chances in life on the hope you will divorce me, I know some one else must be dragged into it, but it would be better than three people living lonely, unhappy lives."
Mr. Morling replied that what she asked was impossible, and he and his wife resuthed their married life.
It was not until this year that he admitted misconduct at Riga in 1929, "On April 12th he was going to Queen Anne's mansions and found there a letter from his wife saying:-.
Social Gathering, St. John's Cathedral Hall, 7 p.m. Special Invitation to Ser- vice man.
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Yachting: Annual Race to Macao and back for Potts Challenge Cup. Start, 7.30 a.mi
Golf Christmas Meeting competitions, Fanling.
Cricket: Indian R.C. St. John's Ambulance Brigade (Indian Section), Sookunpoo. 2 p.m.
Queen's Theatre: "The Man on the Box."
World Theatre: The Thief of Bagdad."
Principal_Mails:-Inward: Europe bid Sues (Kalyan) Outward: Europe ria Siberia (Kalyan), 9 am; Australia and New Zealand rid Sydney (Cululu), D.m
Monday,
The King's New Title. The keynote of the Report is the definite and anequivocal allegiance to the Crown which it embodies. In this con- nection the fact is to be noted that the style and title of the Crown are to be changed. The King is still described in his title as King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas.' That is now inaccurate Henceforth, with King George's full approval, he will be known, when the necessary authority has been given by Parliament, as King! "I am leaving here before you_come, of Great Britain, Ireland, and the and. I can never return to you. I only British Dominions beyond the Sea." The hope you will not harden your heart change has been necessitated, by the against me and refuse to divorce me."
Mr. Mezling said he and his wife never creation of the Irish Free State with Dominion status.
met again, but on June 14th he had a Another very interesting point is in re-letter from her in which she said: gard to the position and duties of the Dominion Governors. The actual Con- stitutional position of these representa. tives has never before been clearly set forth. They have combined the functions of constitutional representative of "the Crown and agent for practical purposes of the Home Government. This is now to cease and the Dominion Governors will stand in precisely the same relation CHINESE PATRON OF ENGLISH Sunday Herald Charity Cup Competi
to his Government as the Sovereign to the British Government; and official re lations between the Home Government and the Dominion Governments will be curried on by direct diplomatic corres pondence or through any more personal agency that may be determined.
Looking Ahead. --- "Several important and difficult ques- tions are dealt with in the Report, and some are referred to a Special Committee. They include the position of the Privy Council as a final Court of Appeal; the conditions under which the treaty-making 20wer, already recognised as belonging to each Dominion, should be exercised; the "technical right of the Crown to dis allow Dominion legislation; the compli cated and difficult subject of merchant shipping legislation by the British Parlia The business of meat, and so forth. adaptation is to go on quietly and steadily. The point to bear in mind, when all is said, is that the Report has gone no further than to define publicly the theories that were already accepted in practice.
"I love another man to whom I have been greatly attached for many years." She enclosed an hotel bill, and added, "It is our intention to get married."
The Judge granted a decree nisi on evidence of misconduct at a Kew Hotel.
*ART.
+ A SINGAPORE MILLIONAIRE.
Chinese
millionaire patron of English art is, if not an anomaly, at least a rara avis, says a correspondent to the Daily Chronicle. Yet I have just heard of one in the person of En Tong Sen, of Singapore, who has given a com- mission for fire pictures to Mr. J. H. Amsbewitz.
They are intended for Mr. Ben's pala tial home, which houses over $100,000 worth of furniture bought "in London during the past two years.
Amsbewitz was the youngest artist who received a commission to decorate the walls of the Royal Exchange, where, his Henry VI, and the Train Bands areb- ing through London may be seen. He was educated at the Royal Academy Schools, for he is an Englishman in spite of his foreign name.
One of his still life pictures, "Toby Tempted," a Cupid statuette whispering to a Toby jug, was greatly admired by the Queen at the Dominions Exhibition,
Amshewitz also paints portraits, and his easel I saw a vivid one of Sapper."
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St. Peter's Church, Holy Communion, 7-30 s.m.
Fanling Hunt paper chase.
Golf: Christmas Meeting competitions, Fanling.
HE Civil Service C.C. Annual Amas Tree and Tea for members and families, 3.30-6 p.m.
Cricket Army . .K.C.C. (Club ground); K.C.C. v. Navy; Club de Re-
creio 21. Volunteers; Craigengower Cricket Club: Married v. Single.
Football: England v. Scotland in
tion, I.K.F.C. ground, 3.45 p.m.. H.K. Hotel tea dance,. 4.30 p.m. King Edward Hotel tea dance, 4.30 p.m.
Boxing Day tea, dance, Crzigengower Cricket Club, 5.30 p.m. to 8 p.ni."
Boxing Night carnival dance, H.K. Hotel, 8 p.m.-1 a.m.
Repulse Bay Hotel Dance, 8:20 p.m.-19 midnight.
Tuesday.
The Holy Innocents: Holy Communion, St. Peter's Church; 7.30 ..
Bishop of London addresses Mothers'
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Wednesday.
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Cricket: Army v Navy (HK.C.C. ground).
H.K. Hotel tes dance, 4.30 p.m. King Edward Hotel tea dance, 4.30'
Thursday.
It is curious to observe that although the Foreign Office here was reluctant to have the question of Dominion relations hammered out at the Imperisi Confer ence, the Department is now enthusiastic about what has happened They shied at first at the idea of the Dominions examination as a solicitor in London. She being independent in matters of foreign lives with members of her family at policy. But it is now evident that the for Twickenham, and has been in this country mulation of that independence increases, for seven years. I learn that she was not diminishes the importance of the born in British Guiana, and is a British Foreign Office in Imperial affairs, subject. It is quite noteworthy for a Hitherto the Dominions Office in London woman
to pass the final solicitor a has been the channel between the British examination, which is a pretty stiff test Government and the Dominion Govern of legal knowledge, but, Miss Houbing P
has the added distinction of being the The chief use of the Dominions Office first Chinese of her sex to do so. It is Bishop of London visits various educa has been to send out dispatches and tele said that she has shown a gift for con- tional institutions in the Colony in grams to the Dominions, Dispatches and veyancing. She served her articles with morning; guest of honour at tiffin given telegrams will now probably decrease in firm of solicitors in the West End. by Old Mariburnians, 2 p.; attends quantity, and communication will be There are many people who find that "At Home" of Chinese workers IR effected through Ministers Plenipoten solicitors letters are not welcome things John's Cathedral Hall; gives address at tiary. It is being already suggested, I to receive; and there would certainly be service for men in St. John's Cathedral, hear, that the Colonial Office will be a decided piquancy to be asked by a 330 p.m. eventually merged in the Foreign Office. Chinese to send a cheque by return of Cricket: Army 2. Navy (H.KOC
A Chinese Solicitor
post it further proceedings are to be ground).“ avoided, etc. But this is a remote pro- Miss Kathleen Hothing, aged 23, &spect for potential delinquents at leass Chinese girl, has received numerous con- in England as it is stated that Miss gratulations this week on pausing her Hoahing, alter's tour round the world,
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