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News has been received in the Colony of the death of Mr. L A. Spalding the Agency Superinten- dent of the Manufacturers Life Insurance Company for India. China, Japan. the Philippine Islands, Straits Settlements and South Africa.
Mr. Spalding has had many years of service with the Company, and has pioneered most of the Branches in the aforesaid terri- tories. He was a man of about 65 years of age with o charming personality and genial disposition, and well-known for his outspoken fearless honesty.
Mr. Spalding's death has not come as a surprise, as he has been suffering from a lingering and pair.ful Illness for the last three
He had years.
number of friends in this Colony
A
VARIETY SHOW
Celebration Of
'Chiang's Release
A very representative gathering of the local Chinese community attended a variety concert, which was held at the Tai Ping Theatre yesterday, in celebration of the re- lease of Generalissimo Chiang Kai- shek. President of the Nanking Executive Yuan, from captivity by rebels in Sian.
Before the opening of the con- cert many enthusiastic speeches were made eulogising Generalis- simo Chiang Kol-shek and re- minding the audience of his ability: and Importance, and the necessity for according him their united support.
THOSE PRESENT
Heading For
Extinction
The view that the British nation increase the readiness of parents was heading for extinction unless to have children. Under the pre-.. something was done to raise the sent social organisation, with their birth-rate was expressed by Sir present degree of desire for chil- dren, the people of these Islands William Beveridge, director of the London School of Economics. states are heading for disappearance, the "Daily Telegraph."
'For the survival of any race. Speaking to the Sheffield Lun-every couple in it must have on an cheon Club at Sheffield, he de-
average two descendants who grow up to replace them. To allow for clared that at the present "net
people who have none, or less than production rate" the population of
two, and for children dying be- England would be 20,000,000 in
fore they grow up, a large propor- 100 years and 5,000,000 in 200
tion of parents must have three ar years.
four children."
The population some years from now would begin to fail by a quar- ter in each generation and would inevitably become extinct.
""Increasing knowledge and ap- plication of birth control wit al most certainly lawer fertility still further. If nothing else changes." he continued.
"We have to stop the decline, not to-day, then some time. The only way of stopping it will be to
DIVORCE BILL
FOR SCOTLAND
Cruelty As Ground
Lord Alness moved the second reading of the Divorce (Scotland). Bill which extends the grounds on which divorce decrees may be granted in Scotland mainly along the lines of the recommendations of the majority report of the Royal the Commission of 1912, states "Daily Telegraph."
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He pointed out that since 1573 In Scotland, desertion had been a sufficient ground for divorce the instance of either party to a Public opinion in the marriage. matter of divorce reform had moved steadily and rapidly in re- cent times. They lived in an age which no longer regarded divorce as a disease, but as a remedy.
Marriage should be dissoluble on any ground which frustrated what the were universally regarded as
of matri- fundamental purposes mony.
Those present at yesterday's concert were Mr. Li Sing-kui, Chairman of the Celebration Com- mittee, General Chan Kee-yau. High Adviser and Special Delegate of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek in Hong Kong, The Hon. Dr. R. H. Kotewall, The Hon. Dr. S. W. Tso,
To refuse this relief was, in his the Hon. Mr. T. N. Chau, Dr. L Shu-fan representatives of the view, a direct incentive to im- Tung Wah Hospital, Po Leung Kuk, morality. The bill reduced from Chinese Chamber of Commerce, four years to three years and many other social and edu-period cational organizations of the Co- lory.- Chinese Evening Press.
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SHANGHAI DANCE HALL INCIDENT.
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No Representations To Be Made To Italy
Boy: babies, said Sir William. mattered very little. It was un- necessary to count anyone except the girls.
"One reason why people do not have children is that they are afraid of the risk of child-birth A second reason is the cost of rear- ing children. The question family allowances will, before long.: be in the centre of all discussions of social policy."
TRIBUTE TO HAIG
Legion Memorial Service
of
of
Over 80 Metropolitan units the British Legion were represent- ed at the ninth anniversary service of remembrance for Field-Marshal Douglas Haig, first president of the Legion, which was held in St. Columba's (Church of Scotland), the London, states Pont Street, "Bulletin," (Glasgow).
Before the service Field-Marshal
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The service was conducted by Ian Gillan. assistant the Rev. minister of St. Columba's, and the sermon was preached by the Rev. J. Hutchison Cockburn. Dunblane Cathedral.
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WEDNESDAY
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Form588 of desertion which must form of a St. Andrew's Cross on elapse before a divorce decree was the Halg Memorial inside the Straite granted and provided for the church, and there were also floral granting of a decree when one of tributes from the London Scottish the parties had been insane for and from the British Empire Ser- three years.
vice League.
Cruelty Defined Cruelty was also made a ground for divorce. The definition of cruelty in the bill was that which warranted 1 decree for judicial
separation:
Other grounds were sentences of penal servitude. commuted death sentences and habitual drunken-
ness:
Lord Snell; leader of the Opposi- tion, supported the second read-
London March. 1. Mr. Anthony Eden. the Foreign Minister; was asked in the House of Commons to-day whether his attention had been drawn to the attack by Italian sailors upon aing. few men of the North Lancashire! Lord Macmillan sald many of Regiment, at present in Shanghal. the provisions required very care-
He asked, toc, whether the For- ful consideration. eign Minister proposed to make representations to the Italian Gov- ernment in this matter.
Mr. Eden gave details of the affair, and added, "I understand the incident has been amicably settled by the respective comman- ders concerned.
The Italian sallors visited the hospital where two British soldiers arc under treatment, bringing them presents. They invited. a party of the North "Lancashire Regiment to visit aboard their gunboat, where they staged an entertainment. The latter part of the question therefore appears not to arise," said the Foreign Secre- tary.-- Reuter.
CANTON-HANKOW. RAILWAY
Completion Urged
Shanghai, March 2.
The Earl of Iddesleigh said he feared that if this bill passed into law and the much more moderate measure now before the House of Commons became law in England they would have people getting a Scottish domicile purely with 11 view to obtaining easier divorce facilities.
and Mount Lord
Strathcona Royal for the Government, left the bill to the decision of the House..
The bill was read a second time without a division.
SPANISH CITIZENS IN SHANGHAI
Chinese Court To Assume Jurisdiction
Shanghai, March 2
A breach was made in the wall of foreign extrality when the Chi- nese Court in Shanghai indicated The necessity of completing the Canton-Hankow Railway for solvite willingness to assume jurisdle- ing Kwangtung's food problem was tion over Spanish subjects (who emphasised by Mr. Wu Teh-chen lack consular représentations in at a luncheon given in General Shanghai as a result of the clvli | Yu Han-mou's honour,
war) by issuing a summons to-day Mr. Wu Teh-chen also urged against a Spaniard, Benor Avalles, early adoption by Kwangtung or for arrears of payment under à debt judgment originally granted by the Spanish Court which is now non-existent
national currency."
General Yu Han-mou replied that he would do his utmost to make Kwangtung a model province and hoped that Shanghai' as a financial centre would support and eo-operate with Kwangtung Reuter.
The summons was issued "at the request of Greek complainant. Friends-advised Senor Avalles to Ignore the summons.---- Reuters
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The steamer Halchan will open the service, arriving bere on March 28, whereafter the company will maintain a regular ten-day sche- dule.
It is understood the chief ob- fect of the service is to enable local Chinese, most of whom are from Fukien, to visit their homes more often. Reuter.
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