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PRESS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23rd, 1928.
THREE MEN IN RING OF
FIRE.
SUSSEX COASTGUARDS' TERUIFYING EXPERIENCE.
WIVES ORDEAL AS BAD.
Three Sussex Coastguards had a terrifying experience in a furious gorse fire which, fanned by an easterly gale, swept neross' miles of open downland on the top of Fair light Cliffs, near Hastings.
The scene was the famous stretch
A point of importance regarding the right of a woman to pledge her husband's credit to defend herself against divorce proceedings was de vided by Mr. Justice Sankey in the King's Bench Division on January 13th, when he delivered a reserved | judgment in an action brought by Messrs. Matchuw Arnold and of gorseland known as the Fire Weaver, solicitors, of Watford, to Hills, which was recently dedicated recover fees amounting to EST 17% by the Prince of Wales for the 6d. from Mr. Sebastiano Amari, public use for all time. The hills. of Alfred-place, South Kensington.so named because beacon fires were Judgment was entered for Mr, lighted there in the Armada daya, Amari with costs.
and smugglers warning fires were once seen thore, were devastated. and it will be two or three years before they are again covered with their natural carpet of gorse.
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Mr. Justice Snakey said that Mr. Angari took proceedings against his wife for a divorce, "alleging two nets of misconduct on her part with a boy of sixteen. The wife, in November 1926, after che threatened with proceedings, TO- tained Mors. Arnold and Wenver as her solicitors. They made full Inquiries into the catter, satisfied themselves of her inaccence, and obtained evidence on her behalf. They received on April 7th copy of a letter in which the wife wrote to her husband that she did not
The three Coastguards were Henry Smith, Frederick Saunders, and Thoms Chessum. They were imprisoned in a small concerets. lookout at the highest part of the clif. The hut was surrounded by a narrowing circle of fire, while 'n
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imprisonment," added Mr. Deacon. It is a period of west and rel cuperation of health, and I have beard it sounds a sad thing to say--that it is regarded as a rest eure which in other classes might be taken at Harrogate." (Laugh ter.)
Taken Of In bars.
He had had a few cases of men Ther wele eases in which girls had accosting wonen from motor-cars. foolishly allowed themselves to be taken off by men in ears, and the cases, came before him not as street offences but as cases of indecent assault.
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intend to defend the suit for the mile away, across the valley, th, ber chance of getting off was very H.K.&. Hotels
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Defence Continued,
men's wives, made aware of the husbands' danger by telephone m sages, watched in agony the flames leaping around the hut.
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The solicitors inquired of the wife why wrote the letter, and the told them that she did not adj mit the misconduct, but that her husband had urged her to give up" It was terrible," said Mrs. the defence, and said that he would Smith, "to have to stand outside make provision for her. The solici
our cottages powerless, while the lors continued the defence, but flames were closing over the spot Mr. Amari failed to appear at the where we knew the hut was with Divorce Court.
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The fire came sweeping towards us across the valley and we had a think of our own danger.
across, but I am not prepared to Singapore Tractions.10.20 bay, "We got stores of petrol and essay she is anxious to prostitute
herself." and the more valuable furniture from the cottages into a field at the The comingitte adjourned till a back. Then, miraculously it seem-date to be fixed. ed to us, the blazing gorae burst out & few yards from the cottage windows."
Meanwhile the three coastguards- were trapped in the hut, half "blind-
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Hot Negligent."
I am in favour of the solicitors on the first point," said Mr. Jue tive Sankey, find that they did not know that the wife com- mitted misconduct, and that they were in no way negligent.
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"The second point therefore emerges, and that is: Can a wife in these circumstances bind her husband to pay her solicitars' costa of divorce proceedings in which a divorce is granted against her! It was conceded that she committed misconduct with the boy before she instructed the solicitors.
"It may be stated in general terms that a wife living with her husband binds him by a contrpet made for necessàries, whereas a wife who is living apart from her husband and has committed mis conduct does not bind him.
Oil petrol, and Targe quantities of highly explosive rock in a were stored in the "hut, and in a momentary break the encirling | wall of fire the men made a dash with these combustibles, and suc ceeded in carrying them safely ra
field some distance away."
Saunders returned to the hut to fetch some papers. The ring of fire closed in again, and he was-cut off from his companions. He had a marvellous escape.
" ** One Awini Moment." "I could see nothing but fire all around me," he said, and no way but out, at all. There was nothing to do but wait here in the hut for the fire to come. It came, and ACTOSS the open jumped clean
ground all round, then swept right into the hut, I was just one awful, singeing, gasping moment, and then the fire was gone.
"I can see no authority which compels me to hold that the wife is entitled to pindige her husband's
"It left the hut falt of smoke, credit and to hind him to pay her hardly anything was oven blister solicitors' coste in circumstanceere, the Bamser swept through the such as the present."
building so quickly. Fortunately for
infiainmable ine all the materials had been removed.”
Unlike most other parts of the country, Hastings and district have escaped the recent heavy snow, and the fire spread with amazing MACHINE-GUN COMPANY TO rapidity once it obtained a good hold.. For over four hours it raged A BATTALION.
over the gorse, and the glow was seen for miles both on sea and faad.
Morning Post,
DRASTIC. CHANGE IN THE ARMY.
RIFLES REPLACED.
LONDON, Jan. 27th. The General Staff is considering an important proposal to include a machine-gun company, furnished with mechanical transport, in the establishment of all infantry" bat- talions. This would constitute the Arst step toward the eventual mechanization of infantry. Its effect may possibly be seen this
year.
It is contemplated that every bat talion, instead of the machine gun platoon which now forms part of its headquarters, should have a whole company converted into machine-gun unit.
An infantry battalion would thus consist of three companies armed with rifles, and_one_machine-gun. company,
Such a change has been antici pated by the advocates of the new school of thought in the Army which lays stress on the vital im portance of the massed fire power and rapidity of movement which mechanisation afforda
Heary Gost
The expenditure must obviously be considerable, and the provision of armoured mechanical transport for these new machine-gun com panies, it is understood, would be spread over a number of yeBIL
The cinct number of machine guns for each battalion and the number of men affected by this change in detail are not yet avail able
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world than there is evil, and I am "There is still more good in the certain that there will always be greater and stronger forces for the
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I don't think God worries much whether I smoke or not.-Miss Maude Royden
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This exhibition of legs cannot last.-M. Poiret.
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"Go along the road at all costs, and eterybody must clear out of the way that, I am afraid, is the attitude of many motorists.-- The Camberwell Coroner.
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"So far as pen and ink are con eerned I think he has made love as warmly as it can be made," said Mr. Justice Talbot, at Montgomery There is somewhere a half-way Assimes yesterday, referring to a house between the specialist-the zuries of ardent love-letters rend man who know more and more is a breach of promise action by about less and less and the dilet Miss Winifred Lewse, daughter of the postmaster of about more and more. Mr. W. R.. grand tante, who knows less and less Waithddu, near. Newtown, against Halliday. Frank Sidney Evans, formerly a An ideal is an iden trying to postman at Newtown, and now of realise itself in the external world. Conduit-street, Lower Astley-road,Dean Iage. Bristol.
Mr. Hobema M.P., for Mits Lewis, said the parties became en gaged in April 1923, but under peculiar circumstances. A young woman to whom Evans had been previously engaged, returned his ring. He wanted to buy Miss Lewis a new boe, but the whs of a saving nature and put up with the returned" one?/21_sp
Mis Lewia razi:
One passage in Evans's letter to "Your letters are all right, but I want more love in them. I am longing for a real love letter."
Evans said he never promised to marry Mina Lewis and now intend- ed to marry someone else,
Mas Lewis was awarded £180 damages and costa. "
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