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THE HONGONG DAILY PRESS SATURDAY, APRIL 6, 1929.
CHILD MARRIAGES
IN ENGLAND.
LORD BUCKMASTER'S NEW BILL
WILL RIDICULOUS LAWS, BE CHANGED?
LUXURIOUS AVIATION.
NEWSPAPER MAGNATE'S EXPENSIVE FLIGHTS.
CHINA FLEET BOXING.
FIRST NIGHT'S
PROGRAMME.
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The preliminary bouts of the China Fleet Amateur Boxing Cham! pionships SETTING UP A RECORD.
haid yesterday afternoon and evening at the Paris (U.P.)-Airplane propel
Royal Naval Canteen Theatre. The- London (U.P.).-Child marriage lors eat money faster than roulette boxing arrangements were made between girls and boys of twelve wheels, according to people promot
by the China Fleet Boxing As and fourteen years of age will being a species of "ride in your own
sociation. The programme includ prohibited in Great Britain it a sirplane" movement on the conwere fought off yesterday. The ed some 55 fights, of which over 30 bill which Lord Buckmaster success tinent. Tourist agencies are mak fully sponsored in the House of ing a special effort to obtain thiswelterweight class was concentrated Lords meets with the approval of type of business because it brings upon and brought up to the finals. the Commons. Lard Buckmaster in the largest profits and in the Several bouts were also decided in one of England's foremost legal long run require less expenditure the catchweight class. authorities, when interviewed in his of effort. One company is consider home by the United Press explaining opening a special department ed his reasons for urging the bill.
Permitting children of twelve At the present moment, all re-
for the air taxi service. and fourteen to marry if the cap-i sent of their parents can be ab. cords for luxurious travel ara tained is frequently sheer cruelty, being shattered by Van Lear Black, he declared.
the sportaman financier and part It was the study of owner of the Baltimore Sun. Mr. e particularly tragic case that start Black, it is estimated has already ed me working on this question spent close to 8100,000 and before which should certainly have been he is back in America will have revised years ago."
spent as much more.
He cited the case. A girl of be- tween twelve and thirteen had been assaulted, he stated, by a man of The man was hailed before a magistrate.
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A Tri-Motored Fokker. According to reliable informants, Mr. Black travels in a tri-motored Fokker with two pilots, a valet and a secretary. He stops only in the most luxurious hotels and sends telegrams ahead to aviation fields, ordering the field cleared of snow, the grass clipped, and all things done which are conducive to a safe and pleasant journey.
Little Girl's Sufferings, It was then suggested." Lord Buckmaster continued, "that if he married the girl she could not be compelled to give evidence. This was done and the man,-who should have been sent to prison for the The plane which he is using for loages term the law allows-was his tour is said to have cost permitted to enter into a union 325,000. Add to this sum the bleased by the law with the little salaries of his travelling com creature against whom he had perpanions, hotel and entertainment petrated this unforgivable wrong." bills, and the cost of voyaging in He added that this happened the air, and the total at the end three years ago and that he had re- of a few months will not be for cently been informed that girl had from a quarter of a million dol been half-starved and brutally ill lars. used..
Very little is known of this air- "It is exactly what one might tourist's plans. It is known that have expected,'
he wired to Athens and Constan- he concluded Lord Buckmaster regards the pre-ftinople to inquire the state of the sence of a law sanctioning such landing fields. It is also known marriages as a great disgrace. that he was including Africa in his Turning to a book-case, he produced itinerary. A law treatise from which he quoted the following explanation of how the law originally came into being The explanation was, be said, made several hundred years ago.
Mr. Black is the latest and most spectacular of the air tourists. His fight will have set a record, it is confidently believed, for high speed expenditures. Several years ago "It is not because the parties plane and visited fourteen coun an American millionaire engaged a are supposed to have sufficient dis tries in eleven days, transacting cretion at that age to appreciate business in each. He finally land- the consequences of so critical aned in the Mediterranean Sea and engagement, but because in gen- although he did not drown it cured eral they have by that time arriv him of airplanes for a while.' ed at physical maturity and the worst social evils would ensure from holding them incapable of marrying."
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an air taxi. Parcels to be deliver- ed in a hurry are often laid down Some Telling Statistics,
by airplane. The wealthy Ameri- can who comes to Europe is becom "I consider this a further proofing more and more air conscious. of the theory that men and women It is predicted that before many matured more rapidly three or four years have passed ten per cent. of hundred years ago than they do all travel in Europe by visiting to-day. Shakespeare was able to Americans will be done by air taxi. show Juliet as a girl of fourteen.
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stage to-day, the result would be considered ludicrous," he went on.
In his opinion and, he believes, in the opinion of most men, & law which regards assault of a girl under
PASSENGERS.
Arrivals,
boxing was seen and the finals Some very clean and hard hitting
to lovers of the game. should prove thoroughly interesting
Among those present last night were Commanders Byron, Porter Stanley, Figgins (President of the Association), Phillips, Lieut.-Com- mander Farrant and Lieut. Hardy (Fleet Recreation Officer).
The judges were: Lieut. Dalison, Refores; Lieut Alexander and Lieut. Comdr. Bremner, Judges-
Vice Admiral: Waistel, Comman der-in-Chief of the China Station, will be present at the boxing to night.
The results of last night's boxing were as follows:
Welterweight.
Webb (Hermes); A.B. Trimmings A.B. Turner (Hermes) beat A.B. (Hermes) boat Stokar. Harding (Suffolk); Stoker Harrey (Kent) beat Stoker Tucker (Titania); A.B. Perkes (Hermes) beat Marine Hurst, (Suffolk).
Catchweights.
AB. Bullen (Suffolk) best Swann (Hermes) beat A.B. Mo Marine "Godden (Kent); A.E. Kinzoy (Hermes).
Middleweights,
Stoker Taylor (Berwick) beat Marine Huntley (Kent); A.B. Hal combe (Sterling) beat L.-Stokor Day (Kent).
Lightweights.
Tel. Sears (Hermes) beat A.B. Brien (Sañol).
Featherweights. Boy Clarke (Suffolk) bent AB. Bambridge (Hermes).
Bantamweights. Boy Gilham (Suffolk) beat A.B.. Roberts (Eerald).
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The following passengers arrived the age of sixteen as a criminal yesterday by the 4.3 Hakusan offence and set permits that girl to Maru from Japan m Mr. Cheung go through the ceremony of mar- Mr." A Van riage with her assaulter, thus shield-Lew Chow, Mr. M. Gardan, ing him completely from the law, is Mrs Cuo Man Exg, Mr. Heary ridiculous.
Hale, Mr. and Mrs. Halter, "Mr. Lord Buckmaster produced the A. T. 8. Jensen, Mr. T. 8. Lew, figures regarding the child marriage Mr. Lee Kan Ting, Mr. J. Margeri- up until 1920, "the most up-to-date son, Mr. Sing, Chong Man, Miss F. available. In 1998 there were 34 I. Steele, Mr. Tow Whan Foo, Mies girls of 15 married and 4 of fourteen. E. L. G. Thomas, Mr. Wa, Mr. In 1926 there were 24 and 2 respec-3. R. Conning, Mr. P. H. Cheng, tively and in 1994 there were 19 Mr. Chan Tat San, Mr. G. Hanne, Obviously, the number of cases Mr. 5. M. Liang, Mr. AA Ro and 2.
Mr. and Mrs. Lewis, Mr. J. Loo,ns in a y cass whatever. is not great," he continued, "but medios, Mr. and Mrs. Soo," Mr. T. to my mind the number has nothing Sung." to do with it. If the existence of our law leads in even a single case to the perpetration of a grave wrong against the girl, it ought to be im mediately removed."
What of the Girl? The only possible reason against such amendment of the law, ho be lieves is that in cases where a girl under sixteen" is about to become a mother it is preferable to allow her to marry rather than have her child branded as illegitimate.
"But because a man has com mitted a crime is it any reason to allow him to marry the girl merely to make the consequences of the crime legitimate he demanded fiercely.What of the girl?".
Lord Buckmaster's bill provides for raising the marriage age to ixteen for both sexes. Sixteen is already the so-called "dge of con-
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A similar evil is growing in the declares, where an increasing num- ber of youthful marriages are to be noted. Although most of these marriages are Over sixteen, he learns on reliable authority that the chief reason for matrimony. frequently seems to be the fact that. the Government allows a-large "dele" to married couples.
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