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CALCUTTA UNREST. STRAITS DIVORCE.
MORE COMMUNAL RIOTING.
DECISION IN. “MEYER CASE.
Calcutta, Sept. 6... During a communal riot in the
WIFE'S PETITION FAILS. Watgunge suburb several were in- jured, including one European
The petition, presented by Mrs and one Indian police officer. Over a hundred arresta were made. Florence Mozelle Meyer against her When a Hindu procession, with husband, Mr. Isaac Manasseh a band, was nearing a mosque. Meyer, was dismissed by the Chief Hindus to stop the music. The Justice, Sir William Murison, in Hindug refused, whereupon the Singapore Supreme Court last fighting ensued, the Hindus week. Mrs. Meyer in her petition marching past playing. Both asked for a declaration that she sides were reinforced and the police had to charge-Router.
Mohommedans summoned the
SPAIN'S DICTATOR. KIRIONING CHESIDENCIAS
GEN. PRIMO DE RIVERA,
FALSE CHARGE OF THEFT.
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after six o'clock on the evening in question. Six Chinese were there but Mr. Murphy was not present. No one was making any charge against the plaintiffs, and they were being detained by the Indian A number of cement baga guards. were produced which were alleged to have been stolen. "The guards were armed, but they did not seem to be able to clearly explain why the Chinese had been brought to the station. The plantiffs were not handcuffed when he saw thern legally married to the respondent as they were in the dock. He had not and that there has been no dissolu- received a report earlier, neither had policemen gone out under his tion of her marriage by the Jewish instructions. No one was there to law or custom of divorce; for an charge them but as far as he could order enforcing perpetual silence gather it appeared to be a case of on the respondent in regard to any larceny. allegation of dissolution of her mar rlage by the Jewish law or custom fof divorce; and for an order for
restitution of conjugal rights..
the Spanish dictator, who figures prominently in the crisis which has arisen in Madrid.
VALIDITY POINT,
GUARDS ATTACKED.
In reply to Mr. Wadeson witness said he had submitted a written re- port to the Deputy C. S. P. in which he stated that that afternoon The Chief Justice, in the course he was in Kowloon, and on the way of his judgment, sald that in June, back to the city called in at Hung- 1922, the petitioner was in England hom station where he was inform- and the respondent in Singapore.ed that some Indian guards had The petitioner wrote to him wish been attacked. When he arrived ing to return to live with him, at the police station he found the The respondent did not reply and six Chinese there.
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did not consent to the petitioner's Mr. Wadeson:-Later you re- return or suggested resumption ofceived a telephone. message from cohabitation. In August.or Sep- the P. W. D. to the effect that the tember, 1922, the respondent at other coolies would probably go on tempted to serve upon the petitioner strike, and that was really why
a document, purporting to be you released them?—No. Jewish Get or Bill of Divorcement.
Replying to further questions The pétition was then filed by the witness said he did not question the petitioner in consequence of the res-guards about the attack..
refusal to cohabit One of the plaintiffs, cross- pondent's with her and his claim that the al- examined by Mr. Wadeson, said a leged Jewish divorce was valid. revolver was given to Mr. Murphy The defence to the petition was that by a European lady. She did not the Court had no jurisdiction ask him to stop swearing, and there to entertain it, and, alternatively, were no other ladies present. A Fascist organisation in the that the respondent, on or about crowd did not collect, and he did Italian provinces is not only ex-June, 1922, divorced the petitioner not hear a watchman blow his ceedingly vigorous, but it is in at the Chessel El Synagogue, Oxley whistle.
closer touch with the central Gov-Rise, according to the laws, rites Mr. Wadeson: Did, the Indian ernment than it has been since and customs of the Jews. The pre- guard level his rifle at you? Yes, the March on Rome. The local sent application was a motion for two revolvers were pointed at me. authorities rely on big posters the dismissal of the petition upon Why did he do that?-I don't affixed to walls in towns and coun- the ground that upon the facts al-know why. try, which he who runs may read, leged the Court had no jurisdiction
NO JURISDICTION.
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Did you say just now that Mr. In order to get, or to keep. in touch to entertain it."
Murphy pointed a revolver at you with the people. These show less
as you came along and said "shoot regional originality than formerly; |
him, shoot him?”—No, I did not most of them are reproductions of It has already been decided by say that. Signor Mussolini's commandments, the Court of Appeal in this Colony, Answering Mr. Wadeson, His and one of the favourite posters (the Chief Justico said, that this Lordship said he had it in his notes which adorned the walls of Per-Court has no jurisdiction in regard that the witness had made such a ugia only lately is the following: to the relief Bought under heads statement. "We Italians have need of ter-} (1) and (3) of the petition. 'I am The case was adjourned until ritory, because we are prolific, ani bound by that decision and it 8.15 this afternoon, when the re- desire to remain prolific-Musso-would serve no useful purpose for maining four complainants will
me to repeat the grounds of the come up for cross-examination. judgement therein. With regard
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trembling for what the doctor ha to say. His fears were ne justified. His character wh painted in brighter colours tha he had ever dared to hope.
"The mystic properties of num hers have beef known for thousands of years," said Dr. Dr. Julla Seton, of New York Seton. Pythagoras," the Greek (an M.D. of Colorado and of philosopher, the Hebrews In "The Tufts College, Boston), has come Book of Numbers, men and women to London to advance the cause in all lands and at all times have of the science of numbers.
wreated from Nature the secrets: She reduces charm in a man and of numbers. jealousy in a woman to a number. "Once it was called Black he violet is a favourite flowe Magic though it is not magic; because its number is two; and but a science. Everything in the the reason that some people break world-mind, matter, soul-le only out in, a rash when they have. a series of vibrations." eaten atrawberries is' simply that | According to Dr. Seton every It cost £0,000 to adversise the to head (2) of the petition,
the strawberry has a number vowel has a number. A is 1; o la sale of Wembley, said Mr. A Malaim for an order enforcing per-were granted. It is true that the antagonistle to the eater's own. 5; o fa G, and u is 9. Everything Samuel, replaying to Colonel Daypetual silence in regard to the dis-Charter of 1855 gave the Court Dr. Seton claims that a proper with a name can be reduced to a of Commons. He solution of the marriage. It is the same jurisdiction as the old understanding of the science of number by adding its vowel values stated that the liabilities under-contended that this is in effect & Ecclesiastical Court had and if numbers makes for health, success, together, and then the digits of the taken by the purchaser included certain liabilities with reference claim to prevent jactitation of that were all the argument might and peace of mind; not only does sura. Thus, if the vowels add up divorce and that there is no be sound. But the Appeal Court it show what is a person's lucky to 18, one continues, 1 plus 8 to the Stadium, and others for rates, taxes and upkeep. Asked authority for an order in those of this Colony held that that day, but what colours in ties or equals 9.
as regards non-frocks that, person ought to wear. A man whose number is has what the value of these liabilities terms. It seems, anyhow, that jurisdiction wero, Mr. Samuel said it was the petition for such an order Christians had been taken away. It regulates the whole of existence charm, and all women love him; greater than the difference, be- implies a petition for a declara-by recent legislation in the Colony, When a Daily Express repre-1's and 4's and B's are determined;. tween the offer of £800,000 and the tory order that there has been no such as the Civil Procedure Code sentative was shown into Dr. 2's are commonplace people, and bid of£315,000 at the acution sale, divorce, that is, that the marriage and the Divorce Ordinance. They Seton's consulting-room he found 7's are scholars and preachers,
exists, which, according to the also held that the English De-that she had already worked out quiot, introspectiva men.
"We live by numbera," says Dr. Orsott Church, Essex, one of the judgement of the Appeal Court of clarations of Legitimacy Act, does on his visiting card the number most beautiful shrines in the dis-this Colony, is outside the juris-not apply to this Colony. This of his personality and his soul. Seton. "Numbers of omnibuses. view of the Appeal Court bound it turned out to be sixty-six, and, and trains and houses, and money trict, was severely damaged by diction of the Court.
him, and, feeling bound by the remembering that it only wanted and hotel rooms. Numbers are the Appeal Court decision, he must one more six to make the "Mark of most important things in the destroyed, and as the work was It was argued that in various make an order in the terms of the the Beast," he waited in fear and world." nearly completed a further sum casts in the old Ecclesiastical motion and dismiss the petition. will have to be collected and re-Court in England orders such as It was stated that an appeal storation racommenced.
those asked for in this potition would be lodged in due course.
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