LUDENDORFF TO WED.
WILL MARRY LADY DOCTOR.
Berlin, Sept. 3.
A notico is exhibited at the Munich Town Hall announcing the impending marriage of General Von Ludondora to the Indy doctor Hathilde Von Kemnitz, of Tutzing. --Reuter.
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[It was announced on July 9th that the wife of General Von Ludendroff had been granted divorce, her plen being that Luden. dorff's political activities had caus- ed him to neglect her.. The case was heard in camera. The Court declared that both parties were to blaine, The Goneral withdrew his original petition for divorce, when his wife brought the counter pet tion.]
THE ST. LEGER.
PROBABLES AND JOCKEYS.
London, Sept..3.
The following are the probables and jockeys:—
SOCIALISM IN OUR TIME.
MR. MOSLEY INVOKES 7HE IRONSIDE SPERITE
At the LLP. Summer School, at Easton Lodge, Dunmow, Mr. John Wheatley, M. P., and Mr. Oswald Mosley contributed to the dtacus- sion on "Socialism In Our Time," both expressing objection to a policy of gradualness,
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER
1926,
MARRIAGES ON THE CAFE RESTAURANT PARISIEN.
HIGH SEAS,
THE BRITISH LAWA
Although there has been a slight stir in the Americau pross about the announcement of the United States Shipping Board that the masters of merchant vessels have no authority to perform mar- riage at sea, a legal correspondent to a Homo Paper points out that this is only a declaration of the most effective instruments for same for the United States as for Mr. Mosley said that one of the common law-in this respect the carrying out a drastic Socialist Great Britain. For the sake of policy under a Labour Government couples who, have been so mar WAS the present Emergency ried it la pointed out that concel Powers Act. He hoped, therefore, vably the marriage laws of the duly critical of it. Under this Act gel is registered may allow such that Sociallets would not be un-particular State in which the ves- a Labour Government could naa procedure, and many of the tionalise land; mines, banking, and United States have differing ma- other essential services in the trimonial laws. The question event of an economie breakdown, whether a marriage performed by and could even seize all social pro-a merchant captain a valid or perty without the payment of com- not has never een specially decid- pensation.
ed by the English courts, though In the event of obstructions by there is an Irish case (Du Moulin the possessora a Labour Govern vs. Druitt, 1860) which seems to ment could arrest and imprison point to such a union. being in- them in the same way as the pre- valid. In tha caso a marriage sent Government had done with was celebrated in 1817, in a Bri-" strikers during the past threetish transport bound for New months. He did not believe that South Wales, by the elvil comma- piecemeal Socialism would be any dur of the ship. use in this country, and the Socin- The general principle of En- lists must be prepared in the spirit ghish law about marriage, on the of Cromwell's Ironsides to wage high seas is that they must be thoir cause. strenuously against valid by the law of the ship's the fierce opposition that would.be country and most people are fami- offered by the possessing classes. liar with the rules and formalities
Mr. Wheatly on Free Trade."
required by the English marriage law. But the most recent authori- Mr. Wheatley said that in his ties are of opinion that in the case opinion Great Britain was riper of a marriage of necessity the pre- "for Socialism thur Russia, ang sence of a minister may be dis- after five or ten years of an e pensed with ant the captain or cient Labour Government would other person in authority be able to defeat Russia in the oficiate, provided it is clear that rice for economic improvement.both parties freely consented and To make this possible Socialists intended to marry. By the Mer- would require to rid themselves of chant Shipping Act, 1804, all mar- Free Trade shibboletha and othe:riages aboard ship have to be enter hoary ideas in regard to political ed in the ship's log But the ques- LAND OFFICER'S NEW POST. economy. Free Trade had noth-tion what is à marriage of neces-
ing in common with Socialism. sity is not, free from doubt.
There are different rules for
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MARRIAGE REGISTRAR.
The Gazelle contains the draft of an Ordinance tp enable the Govern- or to appoint auch person as he may please to be Registrar of Marriages.
"The Objects and Reasons state: -It has been decided that when the office of the Secretary for Chinese Affairs is moved to the new government building opposite the Central Market it will be more convenient that the Land Offlcer,
whose office is in the Court of Justice, should be the Registrar of Marriages. This Ordinance has been drafted in order to enable the change to be made,
AVIATORS' MOTTO.
NO FLYING NEAR THE
EARTH.
"Those of us who are behind the scenes are now getting fax. cinating peops into a future well nigh unbelievable," writes Mr. Harry Harper in the Daily Chronicie.
may
He was not afraid of Protection marriage on naval ships, and Ad- or subsides for foreign trade in amiralty orders lay down what offi British Socialist State, and waters may perform the ceremony prepared to advocate the establish and in what circumstances it may ment of Socialism in this count-be performed: in other European States. He did try, irrespective of what happened-
not believe it was good policy to
keep back Socialism in this coun NIAGARA "COMMITTING try until. Mussolini joined the
I.L.P.
SUICIDE."
Home Office Excludes a Foreigner. FAMOUS RAPIDS RECEDING.
Miss Minnie Hallister, advocat-
ing a scheme of family allowances, Niagara Falls, visited yearly by said that the LL.P. proposal was upwards of a million and a half that each child should hav, à dis-people, is commiting sucide. tinct allowance to be paid from A joint engineering commission, State funds, collected by direct appointed by the Canadian and taxation. This scheme would American Governments, is. strengthen the trade unions. If it devise means of preventing the had been in operation before the catastrophe.
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DEATH DANGER OF DIVORCE.
BROKEN VOWS RESULT IN SHORTER LIFE.
single men five died, and out of a thousand married men only four died.
In the group between the ages of thirty-five and forty-four, out of one thousand in each class, eighteen divorced, fourteen single, mining dispute and each miner's Of late years à break has de-
and only soven married men'died. thild had beef receiving a State veloped in the escarpment at the The statement made by Profes-
The age between forty-five and allowancù it would have been in-centre of the Horseshoe Fall, sor G. M. Robertson, president of fifty-four comes next. Statistics possible for the coal-owners or th: creating a V-shaped notch, into the Royal College of Physicians here again reveal that whereas Government to use their economic which the water is concentrating. of Edinburgh, that the incidence thirty-seven divorced and twenty- power to defeat the miners. This is impoverishing the flow over of insanity among married people three single men died in each thou- It was stated during the pro- the two wings and lessening their is low, but that it is increased in sand of this class, fourteen mar- ceedings that Mr. Edo Finnen, magnificent scenic effect.
a marked degree by the loss of a ried men succumbed., secretary of the International Erosion has continually changed husband or wife, gives an added Forty-nine bachelors, fifty-alk Transport Workers' Federation, the aspect of the falls. The interest to the, senantional dia- divorced men and only twenty- who was to have lectured at the main flow of water, which used to closures of Dr. Herman N. Bundes- nine married men, further, died in school was unable to attend, the be in United States territory, has en, the famous Health Commis- Chicago last year between the Home Secretary having refused within the last 80 or 30 years sloner of Chicago, who declares ages of fifty-five and sixty-four in.. of huge, unique, luxurious mahim admission to
come the country.
over into Canada. The that married men live virtually their respective groups of one chines which are to carry travel-The chairman of the school (Mr. Keneral rate of recension is at twice as long as men who have thousand. lers at heights and speeds consid- ered impossible hitherto.
P. J. Dollan) said that Mr. Fin- least a foot a year, but at the point been divorced. nen was obviously being excluded already alluded to it is at the alarming rate of seven feet yearly.
"Scence, alert, tireless, imagina tive-has just embarked upon an- other quest, and expert air design
ers are at work upon the plans
"Taking our places in graceful because of his activities in sup-
"Consider finally the age of Dr. Bundesen bases his revela- sixty-five," says the Health Com- It allowed to go on the falition on new completed statistics intesionere. "No fewer than 116
clippers of the upper air, we shall port of British trade unionism will, from the scenic point of view. compiled by his department on the divorced and 112 single out of one
travel vast distances at speeds during the strike.
which ultimately will transcend, anything even imaginative writ- ers have conceived. Already, in the infancy of commercial dying journeys of days shrink to hours; and it will not be long before weeks of weary travel are reduced until they, too, are measured mer- ly by hours.
Abandon flying near the .earth!' Such is now the slogan of far-seeing technicians. "We are about to enter a plinse in which i giant craft, designed specially for their purpose, rise till they are ten miles
or more above the earth's surface.
"Granted that engines and pro- pellers can operate efficiently in this rarefed upper air and there is now definite promise of success in both these directions-it will be possible to attain speeds which are out of the question in denser Jayers of air nearer the ground.
This high-altitude air offers a minimum of resistance to rapid movement, and specially-designed craft, their occupants in totally- enclosed oxygen-fed saloons, will hurtle through it with their body and wings offering the least pos sible dróg or friction to' their own enormously fast motion.
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Plans which the commission will consider include the construction of a submerged weir, and the con- The statistics show that out of A Timica Riga ccorrespondent re- struction of small islands in the every thousand divorced" men be-ports that it Leningrad the Ogeu upper rapids to divert the water tween the ages of twenty-five and (Chika) shot three more Eatoniana and spread it over the wings of thirty-four, fifteen died last year; after a Court-martial." They were the fail.
that out of the same number of charged with espionage.
comparative longevity of bache-thousand over this age died last lors, married men, and men who year, against only eighty married. have been divorced.
TAIPO ELDERS ENTERTAIN GOVERNOR ON BIRTHDAY.
This group, was taken on the occasion of the reception: given by the Elders of Taipo to His Excellency the Governor on the occasion of his birthday. In the centre of the group, left to right, will be seen Lady Clementi, H.E. the Governor, Mrs. Southern and the Hon. Mr. W. T. Southorn (Colonial Secretary). Photo by 4. Fong.
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