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MR. BRAGA CONDEMNS HONGKONG DIVORCE BILL CHENGTU STREET Luxury for the Leisured: Pandering to Morbid C
FIGHTING
SZECHUAN CAPITAL
INVADED
LIU HSIANG'S ADVANCE
(Special to "Telegraph")
Shangbai, Oct. 27.
Considerable blood was ched in.
heavy street fighting in Chengtu,
SPIRITED ATTACK IN COUNCIL
RECOGNISES FUTILITY OF EFFORT
graphically descibed in despatches THE MARRIAGE VOW
from the Szechuanese capital to-
day,
The city was attacked by the forces under General Lu Helang. who forced their way through, a determined defence. Guerilla warfare in the streets ensued, heavy lossen occurring on buth siden.
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Finally, in compliance with the request of the populace, the troops withdrew from the elty and carried
their fighting
outside. A severe encounter is now in pro- gress at Chingtain, where General Lin Hulang's gunboats are parti- cipating.
WARSHIP SUNK.
One of his men-of-war is said to have been sunk by gunfire from the shore.
The general trend of the hostill- ties in Szechuan are now believed to be developing in favour of Liu 11siang.
The rival forces are those of General Liv Wen-huet, the Governor of Szechuan, and thoro of his nephew, Liu Hsing. The dispute is alleged to have arisen from the seizure by Liu Halang of 71 consignment of arms and ammunition to the value of
$30,000,000 belonging to his uncle.
Reuter.
CAPITAL M.C.C. OPENING
SUTCLIFFE AND THE NAWAB IN FORM
Perth, Oct. 27.
The M.C.C. made a capital start in the second match of their Australian tour, against a Com-
DIVORCE IS A LUXURY FOR THE LEISURED, Council this afternoon im opposing the second reading
declared the Hon. Mr. J. P. Braga in Legislativé
of the Ordinance to confer Divorce Jurisdiction upon the Supreme Court,
In a spirited attack on the measure, Mr. Braga characterised it as class legislation, designed for the few, and said that while recognising the futility of his protest, he was impelled to uphold his conception of the indissolubility of marriage. The obvious effect of frivolous divorce, he quoted, is frivolous marriage.
Mr. Braga further criticised the Ordinance as un- necessary in a small place like Hongkong, leading to public ventilation of domestic difficulties and pandering to morbid curiosity. :
The opposition to the Ordinance received no support and the second reading was approved after a brief reply by the Hon Attorney-General. The Ordinance was then read a third time. and passed.
LEGISLATION FOR THE FEW
Mr. Braga said.-Your Excel lency, That I should rise to raine my voice, however feeble, in op-
position to the second reading of
CONCEPTION OF MARRIAGE.
This line of thought brings me very near the mark of the
Con-
troversial points that have formed
writer
RUSSO-JAPANESE ALLIANCE
SOVIET RECOGNISING. MANCHUKUO,
(Our Own Correspondent).
London, Oct. 28.
Hints of un impending Russo-Japanese understand- ing regarding the Far Eastern situntion have been lent addi- tional colour by an authorita- tive report from Moscow an- nouncing that the Soviet Gov- ernment has declared its will- ingness to receive
a Man- chukuo Consul,
SHELL EXPLOSION IN CHAPEI
MORE VICTIMS OF THE WAR
SEVEN KILLED: 20 INJURED
Shanghai, Oct. 27. Twenty-seven casualties were added to the record of the Chapel War operations and its
IRELAND IN shell co eftermath when a
THE COLD
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bage since the fighting ex- ploded to-day.
Seven persons in the vicinity
were killed and twenty injured as
a result of the blast.
For
Bome considerable time after the disastrous affair, St. Luke's Hospital resembled a war ime advanced dressing station. It appears that two boys ferreting in a pile of garbage in the heart of Chapel dis- covered the shell, a fairly large one, and planned to sell it as scrap iron.
-London, Oct. 26. The fact that the, Irish Free State, as from November 15, will cease to enjoy any tariff pre- ferences in the British market,
QUARREL OVER MONEY, was mentioned by Mr J. H moving the second reading of the wore likely to get for it.
Before they knew what they Thomas, Dominions Secretary,.
they Jegan to quarrel regarding the Ottawa Agreements Bill.
Mr. Thomas deplored the pos-pected to make, one boy claiming
livision of the money they tion whereby one of the Domina half-share, the other ions, by her own action, had his right us he was not the-ac- denying
ex-
was
the
deprived herself of
tual discoverer. the benefits of the
Attention to the quarrel Oltawa Agree-
people in ments, and on be attracted and
vicinity warned the boys against half of the Govern-handling the shell at all, pointing ment expressed the out that it was dangeroun. hope tunt this
THROWN TO GROUND. would only be toni- porary,
Curiosity
Mr. and Mrs. Pawley, who have left for Japan. where 'Mri. Pawley will recuperate from har recent
unpleasant experiences..
VOLUNTEER CLAIMS
HULAN, KOSHAN & PAYEN FALL
HEAVY FIGHTING
(Telegraph Special.)
Peking, Oct. 27. Important successes are claimed for the anti-Man- chukuo Volunteers in re- cent operations.
FRANCE ORDERS A
BATTLESHIP.
ANSWER TO GERMAN ·
"POCKET-SHIPS"
Parly, Oct. 27.
The Minister of Marine has ordered the immedinte bultd- Ing of the 26,500-ton armoured cruiser, to be named Dunker- que, the construction of waich was voted last year as a counter to the now German pocket-battleship.
The Dunkerque will carry mine 330 millimetre guns and will steam at thirty knots.-- Beutor.
PUKOW EXPRESS INCIDENT
CREW OUTWIT BANDITS
MANY PASSENGERS WOUNDED
(Special to "Telegraph".)
Shanghai, Oct. 27.
A fast express on the Tientsin- Pukow Railway had a narrow escape from bandits last night when on its way to Pukow.
The bandits had arranged an ambush and attempted to bring the train to a halt, without success, according to Chineso reporte.
The engine-room observed the band of brigands near Pingyuan just in time to counter their plans. The train Increased its speed in- stead of stopping.
TRAIN RUNS GAUNTLET.
The bandits immediately opened fire, sending a fusillade of bullets Into the carriages. The railway Chinese reports state that the guards replied, but with the train large contingent operating in the travelling at high speed their aim Sungari River region have captured was not very accurate. the important city of Hulon and Soveral of the passengers on the Payen. The volunteer army is train were wounded, but the aetion under the command of General of the train crew undoubtedly Hulan after stiff fighting. Luau Chin-wen and they captured saved the passengers from a much
worss fate-Router.
Meanwhile, General Su Ping-wen,
who commands the volunteers on the western section of the Chinese Eastern Railway, where, at present, they dominate the situation, reports that Koshan has been captured by! troops under, Gen. Po Pin-shan.
RUBBER STREETS ROUND ABBEY.
LABOUR AND nghting took place before the SUGGESTION IN HOUSE
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city fell.
He also states that General Ma Chan-shan is at present directing an offensive campaign with Laha Station as its objective.-Router,
·OF COMMONS
London, Oct. 26. In the House of Commons to- day, ropiving to a suggestion that tho otrocts around Westminster Abbey should be paved with rub- ber blocks in order to 'minish tha vibration, Colonel C.M. Hoad- lam, the Under-Secretary to the Transport Ministry, paid the mat- ter would be carefully considered by the Ministry and the West- HOMELESS:minster Council when the Abbey authorities malle official repre-
FOOCHOW FIRE DISASTER
the Bill entitled An Ordinance 10 the subject of heated debate for a BREWING SOME TIME.
confer on the Supreme Court
Upon this one of the boys threw Actually, however, the trouble Jurisdiction in Divorce and Matri- long period of years. Different
A motion for the it to the ground. It exploded in- schools of thought entertain vary- has been brewing for some con-monial Causes is not surprising. Ing views on the main restrictions
rejection of the stantly, killing the two boys on siderable time. The junior Llu | And that I am conscious of the
Bill was submitted the spot and injuring twenty-five holis the Chungking district, the futility of my
on liberty of divorce, effort, however,
by Mr. W. Lunn Persons standing nearby. Some The conception of marriage Lab, Rothwell) on the ground of the injured were in an extreme neck of Szechuan and has effected Jearnest, I fully recognise. Never- a strong control over the trade of theless, I feel that I should be which I and those of the same up that the agreements would not y critical condition when they the province which his equally wanting in my sense of the civic bringing as I entertain is only one. contribute to a solution of the un-were removed to hospital and five ambitious uncle has resented-duty which I am called upon tot is that one which has been very employment problem.
of them have died since their ad- perform in the position that aptly put by one
thni Mr. Lunn argued that the mission.-Iauter. have the honour to hold in this "Christianity has had no greater ageements would hinder instead Council, were I to refrain from practical effect on the life of mas of aid world trade recovery and kind than in its belief that declared that the Labour Party giving expression to the thought
no mere civil uppermost in the minds of a large marriage is
con could not consider themselves number of my fellow-citizens who tract, but a vow in the sight of bound by the agreements, are definitely and uncompromi-Cod binding the parties by obliga-1 Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister, singly opposed to the introduction tions of conscience above and be Secretary of State for the Colonies, i of any law legalising divorce in yond those of civil law. Such is stressed the benefits of the Agree- my conception of the indissolubi menta from the viewpoint of the Hongkong.
ty of marriage.
Colonial Empire, pointing out that It is not my purpose to argue It is no wonder either that the Crown Colonies. for the first agninal the provisions of the Bill should hold tenaciously to n con-time, were receiving proferences in detail; it is to the principle coption born in the atmosphere of from Australia, South Afrien, New- of the Bill that and those for the particular religion in which foundland, New Zealand and whom I speak are opposed. I was brought up and of whose Southern Rhodos.
teaching I am a professed ad-l
(Our Own Correspondent). The debate was adjourned till bined Australian XL. scoring In thin view I am supported by herent.
to-morrow when the House will ninety-nine runs for the loss of a great many people in the Colony It is the opinion of a leading divide-Reuter.
London, Oct. 26. one wicket prior to lanch.
who acc, as dó, absolutely no authority on divorce that "once
The submission of the dispute reason why facilities for divorce the indissolubility of marriage in EMPIRE MIGRATION 1. R. Jardine won the toss and should be afforded to a very small abandoned in
with the Irish Free State to the principlo, then elected to bat frat on a good number of Hongkong residents to matrimony becomes a mere
Roplying to Mr. Lunn, Mr.League of Nations was suggest- wicket in fine weather.
whom the proposed enactment is periment, or at best u
Thomas said the opposition argu-jed in the House of Commons to-
Fonchow, Oct. 26.
The movement for the adoption Leyland and Sutcliffe opened designed to give, in legal phraseo-voidable upon the non-fulfilment ment that nothing was done by night.
of rubber for city streets and road Over 1,000 buildings, including paving is making headway. the un- Mr. Georgo Buchauan (Lab. the batting and Leyland met with logy, relief in matrimonial
numerous Chinese business pre- proof certain conditions, and, in the the agreements to aa80 disaster almost at once.
Frontagers on Lombard Street, an-Gorbals, Glasgow) one of the mises, were destroyed in the city such as the banks and insurance Iden of many, terminable at will employment altuation wards, when the Nawab of Pataudi |
swered if in the steel industry, the members of the Left Wing group,
as the result of a disastrous fire companies, have presented a poti- joined Sutcliffe, the Australian
SOCIAL CONSEQUENCES. coal Industry and wool, the result urged the Dominions Secretary,
which broke out early this mora- tion to the city corporation offer- howlera could
ing and was not controlled until Ing to contribute 80 shillings 4 make No im-
of Ottawa enabled the industries Mr. J, H. Thumas, in view, of the On several occasions it has been The points dealing with dog- pression, runs coming freely. argued in this Council that the matic and spiritual reasons
concerned to compete successfully. rupture of the Anglo-Irish negotia- four o'clock in the afternon, 80
The blaze originated in a house cost of 60 smilings If improved 'square yard towards the total He asked the Labour Party totions, to sack the only possible Government cannot be a party to not enter into the scope of my
in Chung Ting Street and spread rubber block is used. class legislation. Yet Section 4 argument, which denis with the consider the future position of compromise and submit the case
in four directions despite the fire of the Bill specifically provides in- social conogquences of the measure unemployment unless the Domin- to the League.
Tho Corporation has sinco Mr. Thomas replied that the brigades' eforts. ter alia that "nothing herein shall in its application to the local con- fons were placed in a position to
agreed first to test the Many hundreds of the poorer block on New Bridge Street, where authoring the Court to make any ditions of the Colony of Hong- deal with the problem of migraGovernment could not possibly decree of dissolution of marriage kong.
residents have
rendered tion. If they were put in a post-undertake the step. The Govern
the traffic is much heavier than on ment considered .it Was not homeless and except (a) where the marriage,
the damage is Since the publication of the ton to welcomó hundreds of thou-
Lombard, strcot.-Router. was either a Christian marriago first draft of the Bill in the Gousands of British people every year,propriato to refer disputee bo- catimated to over $10,000,000.- or the civil equivalent of a 'crument_
tween members of the British | Sprefal. Gazette of the 26th something would be done to Commonwealth to outside organi- Christian marriage; and
(b) August last, Government has pro- mitigate the unemployment prosations. whore the domicile of the parties duced a second draft of the Bill. blem. to the marriage at the time when This revised edition includes the petition was presented was in material addition. The addition contains the definition, not includ-
Aftor-ceedings.
At the Jungh interval, Sutcliffe had scored 48 not out and the Nawab had contributed 45 not out,
--Reuter.
ANTI-DUMPING SURCHARGE
DUTY WHICH MAY
CLASS LEGISLATION.
contrhet
A
MEAT QUOTA.
was
as a means of in-
BUILDING
GOVERNMENTS MAKE GIFTS
HUNDREDS
HUGE LOSSES
been
LONDON GIRLS IN
CAPE FLIGHT
MISS PAGE AND MISS BARKER
sentations.
rubbor
HAN FU-CHU'S OFFER
BE ABOLISHED the Colony,"
The British dclogites deliberate, THE LEAGUE'S NEW
|SLIGHT IMPROVEMENT In other words, the Bill is aimed in the original draft, of the term ly agreed to the scheme of ment London, Oct. 20. ed at affording Christians por "Christian marringo- or its civil restrictions
́IN SHANGTUNG Questioned in the House of facilities for a branch of the the veinition of Marring the there was such an increase, there manently residing in the Colony equivalent." It is borrowed from creasing wholesale prices. Unless Commons regarding the Canadian
no possible. hope for the
(Special to "Telegraph.") Government's attitude towards the marriage vow the indissolubility same principle holds in English was
tha of which both husband and wife law-laid down in anti-dumping surcharge based on agreed to take at the altar rall at Hyde . Hyde and Woodmansee (1
case producera.
'Shanghai, Oct. 27, Regarding Russia, the British
London, Oct. 26.
(Our Own Correspondent).
Chinese despatches from Tainan the rate of exchange, Mr. J. the time they entered into the P. and D. 180). A loading case in delegates had undertaken that I Several Governmenté havo al-
indicate a blight Improvement In Thomas said sympathetic
con-life-long engagement "for bottor which this definition is applied is any nation, by any particular ready made gifts of furniture and
London, Oct. 28.
the Shantung situation. sideration was promised to the for worse, for richer for poorer, in fn re Bethell, Bethell v. Hildyard action, provenind the value of the panelling for the equipment of the Two London girls, Miss Joan
General Han Fu-chu has svinged vossibility of reducing, if not alchness or in health, till death (38 ch. D. 20.) "Christian mar-praforancos being onfoyed by the League of Nations new building Page and Miss Sally Barker, left raadiness to withdraw-bls troops wholly abolishing, the duty in so do us, part". Those words riage," by to new section 2 the Dominions, the purensure steps at Geneva, and the British Govern Heston Aerodrome this afternoon firet, provided the Centrai Cavern- far as it applied to Imports to the Catholic and Anglicans alike have Bill, is defined to means for would be taken to give effect to mont has under consideration the in an attempt to fly to Capetown, mant gives a guarantes of the United Kingdom Brillah Wire, inherited from their pre-Reforma- mal ceremony recognised by the law the intentions of the British making of some such voluntary 2088.
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