OCEAN. BLUE
RIBAND
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1935.
ANGLICAN CHURCHMISSING
This famous trophy accompanying
the "Blue Riband of the Atlante" is in the possession of the French
liner "Normandle". The trophy was recently on display in London.
GREEK INCOME FOR GEORGE II TO BE SMALL
£10,000 YEARLY ESTIMATED BUT
SWELL
ESTATES MAY
SUM
Athens, Nov. 25.
KING
GEORGE of Greece will receive an annual income of ten million drachmas (about £10,000) from the mo- ment he steps on his throne to-day.
According to reports here this is the sum that will satisfy him. And he will not even ask for any Arrears that might be due since his abdication 12 years ago, or for any income from the former royal estates now the property of Greek refugees and peasants.
At the same time a large part of the estates not occupied by the re- fugees and peasants are likely to be returned to the royal holise, thus considerably augmenting George's annual income.
Among them, and probably the richest, is the Tatoi estate of roughly 125,000 acres, in which there-are-forests,-pastures,—orch. ards and vineyards. Only one small part of this is a refugee Hugo Estate Included' The estate was bought by King *George I, in 1880, and was the summer residence of the royal
settlement.
family. On a hill stands the small plain tomb of King Alexandros who died from blood poisoning, caused by the bite of his pet mon- key.
One of the first moves of the Royalists for George's return was to get parliamentary ap- proval for the transfer of the bodies of King Constantine, Queen Sophie, and the Dow- ager Queen Olge, from the Russian church in Florence, Italy, to the tomb at Tatoi.
Corfu Land In Litigation On the Island of "Corfu is another royal estate surrounding the Palace "Mon Repos.” The estate messures about 625 neres. King George I left it in his will to Prince Andrew, who, when it was confiscated on George 11's abdien- tion, started a law suit for its re- turn. The suit is still before the Greek courts.
The estate of Manolas in the north-eastern Peloponnesus, was once the property of Crown Prince Constantine. It measures about ,500 acres and is entirely occupied
by refugees and peasants.
AT DIVORCES
BISHOP ON "REVOLTING INCREASE"
PRIMATE AND DEMAND FOR
MORE LEGAL GROUNDS
"The increase of adultery and the breaking of mar- riage vows are of far greater danger to our national safety than bombing from the air," said Canon S. Bicker- steth, Vice-Dean of Canterbury, at Canterbury' Diocesan Conference, during a recent discussion on the question of the Church and marriage.
The Bishop of Salisbury, Dr. St. Clair Donaldson, chairman of the joint committee of the Convocations of Canterbury and York which had investigated the question, described it as one of the most serious problems of the present time. A lead from the Church was overdue.
The ever-increasing' rate of collusion in divorce cases
and
divorce, he said, was revolting asked whether something more
against their consciences and than one act of adultery proved common sense. More people were by "one scrap of paper'' could not
granted.
becoming determined to get and be required before divorce was
of their partners and were evading the law by collusion and perjury-and that, forsooth, was being called "behaving like a gentleman."
The Church must attempt to ace to it that the marriages of divorced people did not take place in churches. A second task was to try to teach mankind to strive for the ideal of married life as a life- long bond. By withholding the Communion Service from divorcees for a time, it should work towards
that object.
Guidance To State
I was bad for a nation to have
The Archbishop of Canter- bury (Dr, Lang) agreed that marriages of people who bad apouses living should not take place in churches. The proper place for auch marriages was in the register office,
The question of communion for divorcees would receive consideration by the Church authorities in a fair manner, and Equity would be exercised.
The time had come, he said, when it was almost impossible for Parliament to resist the growing public demand for some extension of the presumably legal grounds for divorce. The proposals must bu considered on their merits.
Canon F.N. Heazell, a member
marriage laws, and the Church of the joint committee, said that should give guidance to the State far too many young people had on that matter.
come to look on matrimony 49 The Hon. Mrs. Hardcastle, little more than an interesting ex- president of the Diocesan Mothers' periment which Union. spoke
could easily be of the problem of remedied.
In America, Too
2,000 PER
IN DIVORCE
SOCIAL
CENT. INCREASE ALARMS U. S.
LEADERS
New York, Nov. 15. Proposals-for-a-new-department of the State Govern-- ment of New York, to be called the "Department of Marriage and Family," to stem the increase of 2,000 per cent. in divorce cases, are being considered by the Governor, Mr. Herbert Lehman.
The idea is that of a committee of prominent clergymen, educationists, and social service officials.
Dr. Sidney Goldstein, one of the principal advocates of the plan, to-day stressed the seriousness of what he termed the "breakdown of marriage and family life in America."
"In 1867," he said, "ten thousand divorces were granted in this country. In 1929 the total reached 201,000. In 1870 there was one divorce for every thirty-three marriages. In 1934 there was one for every five.
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"Consultation Centres"
"Our programme would include the revision of the marriage law, reform of its administration, the organisation of courses of pre- paration for marriage, the establishment of consultation centres, and the development of research into the effect of social conditions on marriage and family life.”
Thirty-six per cent, of marriages are dissolve in the first four years. The breakdown is attributed to:-
1. Young people who were unsuited, and should not have married. 2. The biological, psychologien, ethical and economic founda tions on which married life rest are not correct,
3. A young couple cannot cope with the problems brought about by marriage,
4. They lack the counsel of experienced men and women during the critical years.
There is also the Monodendri estate in Thessaly, about 350 acres
In extent,
Germany leads the world in the development of peak efficiency. In
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TWO EX- QUEENS
Exchange Jewels Worth £45,000
FLIGHT OVER ANTARCTIC
Mr. Lincoln Ellsworth, the famous American aviator, who is re- ported missing in 11 survey flight over the Antarctic continent and back, a distance of 2,000 miles.. These photographs were taken dur ing a recent trial flight in Los Angeles of his low-wing monoplane, specially built for the Antaretle flight. Top: Mr. Ellsworth (left) and Mir. Bernt Balchen, his pilot in the cuckplt of the plane. Mr. Balelen flew over the South Pole with Admiral Byrd. Lower: The machine in flight,
Film Star's Mother Seeks £100,000 Libel Damages
SEQUEL TO MYSTERIOUS DEATH
Los Angeles, Nov. 15. Libel damages totalling £100,000 are demanded by Mrs. Charlotte Shelby, mother of the film star, Mary Miles Minter, in an action against à New York firm of brokers.
AUTOGRAPH HUNTERS HELPING HAUPTMANN
Trenton, Nov, 20. Autograph hunters are help ing Bruna Richard Hauptmann finance his appeal to the United States Supreme Court.
Many small cheques have.. heen received for the defence fund, attorneys revealed, and each must be signed by Haupt- mann. They will provide autf- ficient money to meet expenяER of preparing the appeal to the -high court, the defence counsel
sai,
This Dog Plays The Piano
Bonzer is no ordinary dog: he is A virtuose.
and despises Chopin. But how he He has no reverence for Bach,
can play the bass!
She alleges that during the hearing of an action against Leslie B. Henry, an employee of the company, for embezzling £8,000 from her, the public was led to believe that she killed a film director, William Desmond Taylor, whose death has remain- ed a mystery,
Henry is now serving, a sen- tence in Sun Quentin prison.
The case against him for de- frauding Mrs. Shelby was heard in Los Angeles a year ago.
It was thon, according to Mrs. Shelby, that the impression was given by the defence that she was implicated in a murder, and also in transactions designed to evade income tax payments.
She claims £50,000 damages in each case.-United Press,
THE INANIMATE GENIUS
By S. A. Gray
Silent and motionless it stands, like a Horseguard on duty at White- He is no reluctant performer, hall.. Forbidding, yet comforting. that is, in his proper setting In The cynosure of thousands of eyes. the darkened room of Constable Ferguson of Sydney.
Unprejudiced, but benigningly, it evening. At a word from his makes its gracious gesture to the master, "we want a tune, Bonzer," tired office worker plodding his way he springs to the plano stool, home, offers encouragement to the switches on the light, and begins young lady hurrying to keep an ap- a rhapsody, beating on the bass of pointment, and protection to the the piano foverishly with both kiddie who has momentarily escaped
on
siny
the care of his nurse.
a "Faster," he Is bidden, and Frigidly it stares, then frowns at
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Two ex-queens have just ex-menn. "Softer," he is, bald, and an acid and corrective glance at IN
changed £45,000 of jewellery.
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about
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Bonzer shows -what allegro the man in the sports coupe tear- animato and presto furioso reallying off to the golf club, and throws
Bonzer goes to the treble and the omnibus driver. strikes one or two soft, albeit, It is not beautiful to look upon, Here is the complicated cauas perhaps, dissonant chords.
but Its adornments are attractive Helen, ex-Queen of Rumania, Bonzer is quite accomplished in and colourful, has gone to Greece, to act as other directions,
Austral It remains. frigid and aloof.
If worrying hostess for her brother, George, News. He counts correctly.. when he returns to the throne. asked how many would remain of curses nor compliments. Though So she has to have the royal Jowels, the ten rabbits he caught if four great public servant, it is not previously worn by Elizabeth, ex-were taken away, he barks out the harassed by the susceptibilities of Queen of Grecco.
right answer. He selects and its human prototypes. It cannot fotches almost anything he is told, be bribed. Its immune Elizabeth is now in Rumaaia, dotes on babies and will not allow flattery and regards criticism with acting as hostess for her brother, even sparrows near them, and. can mild amusement. It nover wavers Carol. So she is entitled to the swim for hours and rescue swim- from its duties and it haa'saved an Jewellery which, belonged to Helen mers in difficulties...
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Both, Helen and Elizabeth are gotten and Bonzer becomes just west protector of life and An inanimato genius is England's of Queen plain bullterrier at the galvanizing Victoria, to whom some of the call of-- jewels belonged.
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