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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, JANUARY 11, 1937.
THE KING IN “SHORTS”
KING GEORGE VI.
DIVORCE IS NOT ALHAMBRA
A CRIME
-Mr. A. P. Herbert
NO RENO LAW FOR BRITAIN
"I hope this Bill is not going to be known as the Reno. Bill, placing the divorce laws of this country on a par with the notorious divorce laws of Novada.”
This comment was made by Mr. A. M. Lyons, K.C. (Con., Leicester E.) during the recent discussion of the Marriage Bill by the Standing Committee of the House of Commons.
He moved an amendment to delete the clause which provided as a ground for divorce desertion over a minimum period of three" years.
Mrs. H. D. Tate (Con.. Frome) thought that she could allay Mr. Lyons' fears. Since 1573 desertion had been one of the grounds for divorce in Scotland.
WOMAN M.P.'S ANSWER
"I don't think," she remarked, "that any of us would consider that Scotland has been looked upon in the same light as Reno in regard to granting divorces."
Mr. A. P. Herbert (Ind., Oxford University) observed: "Divorce is a release from misfortune and not a crime. This Bill is intended to re- lease people from misfortunes."
Sir Arnold Wilson (Con., Hitchin) said that in the last 25
years 200,000 maintenance orders were issued by the courts in this country. Last year 4,000 persons went to prison under Inaintenance
orders, whereas in Scolland the number sent to prison under such orders was only ten.
The amendment was defeated. Mr. A. C. Crossley (Con.. Strel ford) moved that the word "persist-
When Hot-
Gospellers
Fall Out
Los Angeles, Dec. 31. BITTER feud between Mrs. Aimee Semple Met'herson, the hot gospeller," and her associate pas- tor of the Angelus Temple, Mrs. Rhebn Spitvalo, has culminated in a lawsult by the former "angel of Broadway."
Secking £200,000 damages. Mrs.
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Spilvale alleges that the evangelisTHE MIGHTIEST DRAMA OF THE CENTURIES!
ent" should be inserted, which would make one of the grounds for divorce said of her in the presence of others: only possible if the respondent had been guilty of "persistent" adultery. He urged that it was desirable to get rid of collusive divorce. Collu- sion affected Bie children of the marriage to a greater extent than in the case of genuine adultery.
"FRAUD ON JUDICIARY"
considered that it was wrong for the Government to take up the attitude that this Was 6 purely private Member's Bill. It was the attempt for many years to alter bur marringe lows.
irat
This photograph shows King Edward VI at the Duke of York's early Instead of putting an end to coilu- Mrs. Tate opposed the amendment. camp, Blure boys from industriasion, she said, it would make it more areas and public school boys pet to unjust than at present.
People who
wanted
collusive divorce would have to make arrange ments over a longer period.
kuow each other,
Barbarous
Business Jargon
-LORD HEWART
"Yours to hand of the 27th it,”
Lord Howart, the Lord Chief Justice, carried the war on busi- ness jargon a stage further re- cently when he described this everyday--term as- barbarous stuff."
He was speaking at the Incor- perated Secretaries' Association ban- quel in London.
Secretaries, he said, could perforth a great service by guarding the King's English. Slovenly expressions might, Bke a London for, creep In and change the whole atmosphere.
There was much laughter when Sir Henry Fildes (Simonile M.P.) told a story with a moral,
Three men set out to swim to a certain point, and Sir Henry,
The first was drowned after 30 yards he was a Communist and sank because he opened his mouth too much,
The second went 40 yards and sunk --he was a Faselst and only used his saluting arm.
The third got within ten yards of
It the Bill were passed judges would be in a far stronger position than they were to-day to say that they were not satisfied there had been genuine adultery.
am going to do something about that Jezebel. She may have been a Governor's mistress, but no woman of her klud is going to use my platform and use my money to wreck my Temple and get away with it.
tnken
"1 ክ. working day and night to pay her salary. She is trying to take my Temple. She has money from me Just the way as she did from the Salvation Army.
"I don't care how many detectives you hire, but get the Itheba."
goods on Before the feud began a year ago the two pastors said they were the closest friends and that their co- operation was making the Temple into a powerful national organisation. A few days ago Mrs. McPherson told Mrs. Spilvale she was "fired.""
Fortunes
Mr. A. M. Lyons said that the ftrat thing to do in amending the divorce law was to strike out all the para- phernalia of the collusive letter be- fore the case was brought, then the collusive petition and the unknown 66 woman.
They saw the whole fraud on the judiciary all over the country.
JUDGES WHO "NOD"
"I hope that collusive divorce will be stopped," said Mr. Lyons.
They knew that Judges nodded their heads in cases which were obviously fraudulent. Public
Made Out Of
"Passport Brides"
New York, Dec. 28.
"marriage
AMERICAN
opinion was against this form of brokers" and unscru-
divorce, He claimed that the Bill, as it
pulous lawyers are said to stood, gave further opportunities for have made fortunes out of this fraud to be perpetuated. (Cries the Transatlantic "passport of "No.")
Sir Arnold Wilson sald public bride racket." growing degree to collusive divorce, opinion was thoroughly hostile in a
They lure American girls into
that if the Bill becomes law it will grants in order to make it easier "We may well belleve," he added, marrying prospective immi- be the prelude to a great decrease in for aliens to obtain preferential character." divorce, especially" of a
collusive
The amendment was defeated and the Committee adjourned.
the spot and then disappeared-he was a trade union dmcial and heard the five o'clock buzzer.
When the laughter had subsided Lord Snell observed:
"Sir Henry has not finished his story. The man who reached the chore was a die-hard Tory-he had nothing to carry, as usual of course."
Count Spends £12,000 On Racing Car Freak
visas.
The immigrants pay fees for the "marriage." then apply for visas on the ground that they have Ameri- can-born wives.
The Government are making at- tempts to end the racket.
"STRIP ACT" GIRL STRIPPED
OF HER JEWELS
New York, Dec. 21... LAMOROUS Gipsy Rose Lec. a Broadway beauty who does a "strip act" in burlesque, leaving the stage in "scantics," was stripped of her jewels in the lobby of her flat last night.
WITH £12,000 you can buy 220,000 murs of beer, fifteen comfortable little houses, close to five million cigarettes. 2,000 radles, or half a million helpings of Italian spaghetit. To young Count Felix Trossi, blond star of Italian motor racing. £12,000 means none of these things, gangsters, who losted her of gems but a new-fangled racing car.
Count Trossi, In his litile workshop
at Biello, Italy, has been bullding
the freak racer for two years, run- ning up an expense bill that now totals £12,000.
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All this he reported in breathless staccato as he dashed from the Savoy Hotel to Croydon, ending his flying 24-hour visit to London.
Said the count: "I am buliding the rager Just for the, fun of it. Really I am in the wool business, But motor racing is my big pleasure. It is worth £12,000 to build a good car that will break records."
• Count Trossi's creation'is n stream- Hined racer with an 8-cylinder, radial airplane engine mounted in front. Why the airplane engine? Because, says he, it is light, läkes Hitle space, has air" cooling, und hooks nicely 10
a front-wheel drive.
Innovations are: not new to the court. In last spring's Mille Miglio
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As she got out of her taxi a man grabbed her by the arm, pointed a un, and led her into a group of valued at £5,000,
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