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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 23, · 1936.
Napoleon Letters
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HE WAITED 21 YEARS GIVE HER
FOR A DIVORCE
EGYPTIAN CAMPAIGN Judge Critic of Law Says:
"I Am Sorry for This Man'
DOCUMENTS
Famous French ·
Collection
To the list of important forth."
coming sales already announced
Swansea, Dec. 18.
AM sorry for this man, who has had to wait 21 years for a divorce to which he was entitled, in my
must be added that of the dis-opinion, nearly 21 years ago.” persal of the third portion of M. Emile Bronwet's collection of autograph lotters and documenta relating to Napoleon and his times. This will take place at Messrs. Sotheby's this month.
The sale is particularly interesting as the first two sections of this rol lection were sold in Paris in 1034
Mr. Justice Swift made this comment at Glamorgan As- the present divorce sizes hero to-day in a critical review of laws.
and 1935. M. Brouwer's reason for transferring this portion to Sotheby's because he now realizes, like so many other Continental collectors, that London is the best centre in the world for the disposal of art · and literary treasures.
The main interest In the present catalogue, which is printed entirely in French, lies in the extensive series of letters
and documents dealing with | the campaign In Egypt. It
opens with the preparations for departure in April, 1708 and ends with the surrender of the scanty remnant of the expedition to the English troops under Hutchinson in June, 1801.
CARE FOR HIS MEN Mest fascinating are the letters of the Emperor himself, showing many different phasce of
his versatile
genius. See
We see
milltary
bim as the
Albert Ernest Phillpott, of Albany Road, Cardiff, was grant- ed a decree nisi against his wife, Emma Jane, on the grounds of her misconduct with a man named Reader at Cardiff.
It was stated that Phillpott and his wife had not lived to- gether for 21 years.
They were married at Cardiff în 1900 and the wife left her husband in 1916 and went to India.
Rome Wireless
for Rexists BELGIAN LEADER'S -
CLAIM
Brussels, Dec. 18. At a political meeting at Mons the leader of the Box Party, M. Leon Degrelic, announced that very shortly the voice of Hex will be heard on the wireless.
He sold that once a week the Rome wireless station will put their great microphone at the disposal of the
holding disander, ruthless in up- Rexists.
but careful also This is likely to bring a diploma- to maintain the spirit of his troops, tie action from the Belgian Govern- providing drums and trumpets for ment, as it is almost certain tha: the them on
on their marches
theatre
and
oc-
The Rexist Party of M. Degrelle
semi-Fascist." It has been cused of connection with Germany following M. Degrelle's visit to Ber- lin last month, it is alleged that M. to restore Eupen Degrelle promised and Malmedy to Germany If his porty came to power.
the for
them while in barracks at Calro Rome station will be used by
Rexists mainly for attacking' the He appears also as the colonia! ad- Belgian Government. ministrator, signing documents drawn up in Arabic; and again-in what is for him
part the
very rare
ot a friend, writing from Cairo to Desalx to give him the remarkable
medical advice to wear
a flannel waistcoat as a protection against discase.
of particular interest to English the documents relating students are to Malin, to
to naval warfare, and the Battle of the Nile, and to the un successful slege of Acre. It is amus- ing to find Napoleon characterising Sydney Smith as "un jeune ambi- tieux qui veut faire sa fortune detention, cherche a se mettre souvent en evidence," unconscious of the fact that the words might be applied to himself.
the
There are the letters and diary of Hoche, the long series on campaigns In Spain and Russle and those dealing with Waterloo and the Hundred Days. There are 205 letters
The recent threat of M. Degrelle to march on Brussels with 250,000 of his followers resulted in a fusco, the meeting being banned and M. Degrelle being arrested and kept in
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of Marie Louise, including 180 to her life-long friend Victoire Du Poutet. extending from 1799 to 1840.
Finally note must be made of the tour Sevres plates from the service known as "Des Quartiers Generaux" used by Napoleon at St. Helena,
In granting the decree Mr. Justice Swift said: "Con you justify the present state of our law which allows people to be tied together when every spiritual and every physical relationship has been destroyed for 21 years?
say.
LEFT A NOTE "Ought it not to have been enough for him, the husband, to have gone to somebody, to me if you like, and She wife has left me. *My went out of the house, left a notu behind saying she was never coming back and she has never been back. She has gone and I do not know where she has gone and she has been gone for 12 months,""
say, "You "Ought I not then to may have your divorce?"
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"The ants will be well treated, but we shall expect them to try to eat waxed cardboard. insulating tape and other electrien! products," said
the oficial..
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