THE HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1934.
GERMAN DEBT. FACILITIES
NOT BEING USED IN BRITAIN
REICHSBANK FUND AT LIMIT
London, Sept. 12.
The Treasury announces that the Reichsbank, in accordance with article 2 of the Anglo-Ger- man exchange agreement, has temporarily suspended payments into the special account opened in the name of the Bank of Eng. land
It will be reenlied that the agreement set up machinery to overcome the diiculties experi- enced by German Arms in obtain- ing sterling to pay their debts for Imports from Britain...
This machinery provided that: German firmia unable, owing to the exchange restrictions, to obtain sufficient sterling to meet their debts should pay the balance in
Tossing the caber at the Highland | Relchsmarks into this special
Gamer.
"Arranged" Divorces
HOME LAW MAY BE
A
REFORMED
London, Sept. 7.
account at the Reichsbank.
On the other hand, British traders owing money to German Arms were afforded an opportunity of buying marks from that speciali account through the 'Bank of j England, with which to pay their delta in Germany.
Marks put on sale by the Bank of England
Sonder are called marke.
this
NOT USED,
for
This picture from Russia, the country of great parades, shows cyclists riding past when 130,000 sportemen demonstrated in the Red Sikre at Moscow,
"DIDN'T LIKE HIM”
Man's Explanation For
"TELEFONEMA"
SPANISH GOVT. MAY TAKE OVER
TRACED BY DOG
"BURIED IN SWAMP FOR
29 HOURS.
Chuck, a shaggy little dog, des cribed by his master as a "Mountain. Airedale," is the "hero" of Hudson City.
Brutal Assault When Leonard Trevor Smith (38), described as a commercial
Madrid, Sept. 7. traveller, of The Crescent, Wimble
The "telefonema" or telephoned don Park, London, appeared at Wimbledon, recently, charged with telegram service of the National unlawfully assaulting the bookstall Telephone Company of Spain, spent seven assistant at Wimbledon Park subsidiary of the International Secaucus swamp near Hudson City
Given an old shoe to smell, he hours in the Great
There is, however, no obligation on the part of British firms to use
machinery special financing their purchases and it highly organised divorce would appear that in many cases business, employing a large number it has not been employed. Marks Station, his explanation of the Telophone and Telegraph, will be searching for a lost man. He
either of professional women co-respond- have
been purchased affair was given in these words, taken over shortly by the Spanish found the man, Steve Lacey, in the ents, is claimed to have many through other channels or goods just didn't like him, and I jind Government.
nick of time, branches throughout Grent Britain.bought from Germany have been it all bottled up. It just had to The ten year concession under Lacey. an unemployed man, with
invoiced in sterling..
come out one day."
the which
company has scen a wife and five children, went into Payment of debts to. German
Smith added that he had an in- operating this service expired in the swamp to pick borries. He fell divorco in this country, but the firms made otherwise than tense dislike of the bookstall at August. The Government hae into a bog and was burled almost authorities are now charging that through the machinery of the tendant, who annoyed him. too many of the divorces
decided not to renew the contract up to his neck in mud and water. "arranged." A. thorough: over-exchange agreement are obvious-
The attendant, Leonard Gordon which was intended as a temporary He lay there for 29 hours before Belson, Haid that hauling of the present procedure of ly not credited to the
Smith expedient to supplement an inade- Chuck found him and summoned account.
rescuers by his shrill barks. By the Divorce Court is contemplated,
was outside the bookstall and quate telegraph service. SUSPENSION TEMPORARY. said: "I am going to give you n
that time Lacey was unconscious with a view to tightening up the
Under the control of tho Article 2 of legal loopholes which at present per
American operated company, the and so seriously affected by mas- mit of the "arranged" divorces.
"Telefonema" service reached
There is only one ground for
are
More searching inquiries will be made in future into any suspicious cases, and an attempt will be made to abolish the type of case in which “unknown women" figure.
special
attacked
provides that the payment of behind the counter and
the agreement Jolly good hiding." Then he came marks into the special account him.
may be Busponded when the Describing it as an unprovoked amount of Reichsmarks on that and brutal assault the Bench fined account exceeds five millions and Smith £5, with the option of one it is in
this month's imprisonment. accordance with provision that paymenta into the account have now been temporari- ly suspended,
ROMANCE REBUILT
TWICE ENGAGED TO SAME MAN. Behind the announcement made
MANUFACTURED EVIDENCE. Many of the smaller hotels|
It is stated that the Bank of throughout the country are stated England will continue to sell Son- to work in with the divorce agents.dermarks and ax soon #19 the Entries are made on the hotel re-balance of the special account at glater, rooms taken-although not the Reichsbank is reduced below of the forthcoming marriage of always occupied-and the manu-five million Reichsmarks, further Miss Jasmin van de Weyer and factured evidence made avaliable at payment into the account will be the right time. .
Another promulgated reform aims to do away with what one judge described as the "naked blackmail" of the guilty partner by a husband or wife who bas obtained the decree, nisi.
The
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quito bites and exposure that doc- tors feared for his life. Later they were more hopeful.
Chuck found the body of a man in the treacherous swamp a month ago, but scoffers said it was only chance. To-day they are patting his head and admitting they were
high state of efficiency.
of seniling manner telefonema is the same as that for telegram. The sender writes his message on a form and hands it over the counter, net of the telegraph office, but of the tele- wrong. phone exchange, and gives it over the telephone. The recipient of the message similarly has it delivered in the same way as an ordinary telegram but there is the [additional advantage of having the memange given by phone frat in order to reduce time and then
delivered by messenger.
Mr. R. E. Banbury lies the story accepted by the German authori- of a romance which was shattered having the confirmatory copy
and rebuilt.
ties-British Wireless,
LIVING COSTS -AT- HOME
WHOLESALE PRICES
TO BE EXPANDED,
It'
Miss van de Weyer is the young- est daughter of Major and the Ilon, Mrs. Van de Weyer, of Clyle The state telegraph service, Dorchester, and is a niece of Vis- count Powerscourt. Mr. Banbury was explained, will take over such is the elder son of Mr. R. E. Ban-equipment as can be transferred bury, of Chilcotes, Baldock, Hert-service will be expanded and its to the new department. The state fordshire,
In the season of 1932 Mias van equipment modernized. Teletypes London, Sept. 12. de Weyer was presented at Court. and other modern apparatus will wholesale In December 1933, her engagement installed whenever possible. In -maintenance allowance already ap of 2.1 per cent, as compared with the wedding was expected to take Phones but no telegraphs, the state
prices in August showed a rise was announced to iir. Banbury, and the few districts which have tele
The "blackmail" referred to is the practice of the innocent party refusing to apply to have a decree niel made absolute. unless the gullly one agrees Increase the
proved by the court, or makes sub stantial cash payment.
The
RISE
of average
July and of 3.1 per
cent. over August of last year, the respec tive index numbers being 88.6, 86.7 and 85.8.
It is expected that the law will be amended so that after a certain set time. every decree na will automatically become absolute, un less the King's Proctor, whose office is responsible for checking up on all divorce actions, intervenes. 1930. United Press.
place within a few months.
Last May it was announced that the marriage would not take place.
are engaged again. Their wedding has been fixed for Friday, October 5.
Now they
Food prices increased by 6% per cent. from the previous month, and the index for the group is the highest recorded aidce August, continued the downward trend which began in March-British Wirclens.
Industrial material, however,
Little Evi and Rudi Dollfuss, children of the late Austrian 'Chancellor, playing, in the sangle at. iccions, under the watchful eye of Sigaora-Mursol ini, who is seated behind them......At løft sye Romano
ang Anna Maria Mbasglial_two?of=II«Duce's childrenā
The
and the telephone company will operate a joint service temporarily. newspaper La-Livertoo, on the commenting editorially Government's decision to taice over the telefonerna service, expressed lack of confidence in the atate telegraphs' ability to operate it as successfully as the telephone ebm- pany. Praising the expansion and efficacy of the Spanish telephone jaystem, now one of the best in Europe, the newspaper said "ite excellency and efficiency can make. us forget some of the defects of its origin," referring to the fact that International Telephone and Telegraph secured the telephone monopoly during the
Primo de Rivera dictatorship.
The newspaper referred to tho Inefficiency of the state telegraphs i and expressed fear that the same inefciency will creep into thu telefonema service when it becomes
Government-oporated depart ment,-United Press.
A realistic mimic gas attack during recent manoeuvres in which the civi- lian population were required to participate in Tokyo recently.
AUTHOR DIVORCED
By Daughter Of a Cunard Director
Mrs. Eleanor Sparks Mott has obtained a divorce at Reno, Nevada, from her husband, Mr. Jordan Lawrence Mott, the author, on the ground of cruelty, says Reuter,
She is the younger daughter of Sir Ashley Sparks, London-born POETRY OF DIVORCE resident director of the Cunard
HUSBAND'S PETITION
IN RHYME.
A petition for divorce, entirely in rhyme, has been filled in the Jefferson Chancery Court at Bir- [mingham, Alabama.
The introduction reads:"Folix Gains herewith complains against his wife, Orpholla Gains,"
Lino In the United States since 1917.
Sir. Ashley Sparks, who lives at Long Island, was Director-General of the British Ministry of Shipping in the U.S.A. In 1918-10.
AMAZING DUEL
SPIDER AND GRASS SNAKE.
The petition then states in rhyme that Felix charges Orphelia with
A four days duel between a abandonment, that Orphella has beon absent for one year, and that spider and a grass anake in the
basement of they were married in Valley Head, Maryland,
a honso at Baltimore,
onded when Alabama, on May 4, 1927.
National Society for the Pre-
tho
In addressing the Judges, the yention of Cruelty to Animals
petillon says:---
To the Judges of this Court, Most honourable and true," Felix Gains makes this report And prays thus unto you." The petition has been set down for hearing, later...
stopped in and killed the snake.
The reptile was slowly strangling to dentit beneath the web which the spidor, which was no bigger than the snake's eye, was steadily weay- Ing around him.
The dual excited much public
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