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DEATH
man?
wife
What would you do if your ran away?
THAT would you do
if your wife ran away with another
Divorce
her? Thrash
him? Or both?”
No academic question this. It
I happened to Frank
Munday. Stubbs Rd. Did you read his story?
He is thirty-three, happily
JONNIBALL-On 9th November.
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The
by
EMRYS JONES
TIIEY don't get divorced because they can para- phrase the film. "You only live once" to "You only love once,' and loving that one person, though they may never see her, is living for them.
In the film a woman prefers to face death with her pursued hus- band rather than live without him. The Frank Mundays of this world prefer to face lie without love.
The story of Frank Mundays gets big headlines because such BY all the laws of nature stories are rarely heard either in the Instinct is to de- the courts or in the public places;
can hippen to anybody. It is and nobody would blame you. happening to lots of people, Only you know what you friends, neighbours, and the would do, and maybe even you stroy what angers you, and, not because they are rare, but newspapers are full of such
don't know if the situation has without sentimentality, there is because men keep their deeds and stories, or the results of them.
not arisen.
only one instinct that transcends more so their thoughts hidden in Now what did Frank Munday that. Love.
the secret places of the heart. do?
Now evidently Frank Munday Only a court brings Frank had that kind of love, and it Ile forgave his wife.
Munday's story out, for such More than that, he stood £100 not as uncommon as some folk husbands do not wish to appear married for ten years. Then bail for the man who betrayed may imagine. My best friend forgiving, one day he finds a note on the her, paid his fare from Brixton had it.
His wife also ran away, and he wife is considered odd, though The husband who forgives his mantelpiece, saying his wife has Prison home, and lent him money left him.
to get to the court.
anticipated it by placing in her Emily May Munday meets a The deputy chairman of the way a sum of money to do with the wife who does so is regard. ed as, noble. In the theatre he a "roble as she wished. She did go away. is laughed at, while she is pitled, man at a dance, becomes in sessions called him
She returned and was forgiven., and in this fatuated with him. She leaves husband.”
the stage reflects her two children, and goes to live
What do you think?
Then she went away again, with a man the deputy chairman of the sessions calls a "thorough blackguard."
Hongkong Eclegraph.clay and your wife did
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1937.
NOW the husband whe does forgive his wife that love. may be considered noble, though in few cases does he consider
IN France the judges and he tells me he will forgive something of life.
would have called him her again. Why? Because, ho that, more likely, if he had shat says, he loves her, and nothing Now if you were Frank Mun- and killed the betrayer of his she can do can kill
that wife. The "erime of passion" And I believe he means it. what would you do?
No stupid sentimentalist - he, himself so. and the unwritten law hold good You might divorce her.
You there.
but a man with a hard, entirely
What prompts that action is might take vengeance on her by
masculine brain. In everything not nobility, but love. The plain In these islands, too, some- telling her you would not divorce times. The Scottish courtą re-
he does he behaves as rationally fact is that men can love a woman above and beyond any- cently heard the story of a hus- as the next man. And, him? You could thrash band accused of murdering o
He is more cynical than most thing that the theatre or film about everything, except his own can show, him, or try to. Maybe you man found in his wife's room.
love and marriage. could ruin him, if the disclosure Lord Aitchison said to the
I think it was Balzac who said: would harm his trade or profes- jury: "If you are satisfied that
course he hates the "Marringe unites two people for sion,
the husband found his wife in
"other man," but he life who do not even know one an- You might get damages the act of misconduct, or in cir will do nothing to injure him, other." True enough, but not as against him in the Divorce cumstances that reasonably con- because he places his wife's true as the fact that love can Court, and your first instinct per- veyed to his mind that his wife happiness above his own. His unite a man to a woman for life, haps would be to do all three, had just committed misconduct life is broken, but the dream and nothing the woman does can
OF
or was about to commit miscou- holds firm.
I
men
(and
WHERE LIES DANGER?]her,
A good number of people suspect that
the three-power anti-Comintern pact, signed by Germany, Italy and Japan. has: A further significance than thei obvious. Because of the report that German battle craft are stuming to join Italian ships in
shake it, manoeuvres, Paris has
Do you think that in all the jumped to the conclusion that Italy into the three-cornered duct when discovered, you are. She has not asked for a di- divorce cnses both behind the anti-Soviet pacific alliance? A desire for protec-entitled in the circumstances of vorce, and he will not seek one,
parties alliance lies secret military
tion against some
other the case to acquit him of mur- because the dream is that one emerge with gladness in their scheme, The suspicion is not imagined menace? Anxiety lest der and to find him guilty of day there will be a reconciliation. hearts? new. The joint manoeuvres she be left to face alone the culpable homicide.".
"No one can calculate the terri- For ten years, he says, he only add to it, give the sus-consequences of an over-vigorous, Then the judge continued: thought she loved him, and for ble sacrifice some picious something tangible to colonial and foreign policy? "The law is not just so blind as those ten years he would pay women, tos) make so that the thew on.
The decidedly con-would seem that Germany and it is sometimes thought to be, any price.
wife can get. the freedom she servative Daily Telegraph in Japan, in return for very wel-and if, in his natural and proper Is his case uncommon? wishes, though it condemns him London observes: "This brigaded come alles against their pos-passion, he took the man's life, doubt it. Who can calculate the to a long and, perhaps, a last- hostility towards the Soviet is sible enemies, have granted then the law says it is open to a number of men who have a simi- ing unhappiness. easily capable of transformation Italy some measure of assurance jury to find that he is not guilty lar dream, for the number of
ter broken, you may lenge much more than Bol-of collision with some other vide."
as the number of married folk say, and perhaps that is true, shevism Both France and power or powers.---
More, "it is also open to the who are not living together though the cost in broken hopes" Britain, and the United States The farther one thinks along jury to convict of assault where Why don't they get divorced? is terrific, and that men as well, might be excused for these lines the clearer comes murder is alleged."
In many cases either one party make such sacrifices for the hap not finding much reassurance the conviction that while Ger- And that's just what the jury or the other refuses to go into piness of faithless wives is cer in a barrier against Bolshevism many and Japan may have had did.
the courts. Other cases, though tainly touching the heights of KERAARNAAKOAKRANKHEDENNFRIEKENAARDAGLARAFATALPENAKANAN } which extends from the Baltic the Ruskinn mennee in view The law considers provocation, not many for there is aid for nobility.
and North Sea, through the when they signed their defen-and in this case, the judge says, poor persons, cannot afford it. Why, there are cases within Mediterranean to the Pacific. sive agreement, Italy was "the blow was struck under the Count those out, and there is a human experience of husbands Indeed, France and Britain watching Britain and France most terrible provocation to vast army among us living sepa- who have divorced their wives might be excused for believing out of the corner of an eye. which any man could be subject- rute lives. And among them a and then helped them and their their concern for this pact is It must be remembered that ed."
great number of Frank Mundays,
(Contimed on Page 5.3 more direct than the Soviet's." all three of these powers are!
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a letter to yourself and receive
fair mail routes.
to Eight Days
Improve on this time. Using aere-- planes, the round trip" was covered
and, still using standard steamships, trains, and airliners, four days were taken off this record in 1930.
Airmen's Efforts
work continues, oficial denials tion may carry her closer to formed the fent.
und women since Drake first per-America had been bridged by rail-ing via India, Japan, the Kurlie antl
the
variously estimated at from enemies. Germany wants her 3,000,000 to 6,000,000 men, and African colonies back from including vast wir and me-Britain and France. But she chanised forces capable of swift|might, particularly with movement across the frontiers. land's acquiescence, strike east Grant, too that there is an into Russia for new ground for it a month later after it has travelled From Three Years by two travellers in 1926 in 20 days. element in Russia which still expansion. For if fight she round the world by ordinary preaches the doctine of world must she would probably choose revolution accelerated by a to meet the unknown strength round the
Envelopes that had been Gown world were exhibited buffet from the Red Army. of Russia rather than the well-recently at the International Aviation Grant that Russia has worked known power of the British Show, and bore the stamps of four Jules Verne's Fancy - In a diferent category are records for the undermining of Rightist Empire and Britain's close ally, different countries, totalling 130.
for flying round the world in a authority in various states, France, Japan is similarly Circumnavigating the world in one The coming of railways and steam- slagle 'plane. The first attempt was possibilities,made in 1022, the proposed route be- notably Spain, and that this situated, except that her ambl way or another has fascinated men ships opened up new
way, but Jules Verne's "Round the Aleutian Islands, and back to Britain from Moscow notwithstanding.collision with Britain. Italy's In spite of all this, is there any road to colonial empire parallels 1577,
When Drake set out in December World in Elghty Days", was a piece through Canada and Greenland,
of Betion and not fact in 1847 when The fight broke down in India, world bad already genuine reason to feir an those well-kept and hardily de-been circumnavigated, but Magelton, thought it little fantastic,
It was written, and many people and a second attempt to fly round the world in the following year ended in armed invasion by Russla? It fended lases which linkt British whose ship returned from the "round
the Kurile Islands after 13,000 miles would seem most unlikely, par-possessions by land and sea. Her trip" in 1522, did not complete, the Fifteen years later un American had been covered. ticularly in view of the econo-course runs close
writer, Miss Nellie Bly A round-the-world flight by alr to French Journey himself. mic condition of the Soviet. borders. There is danger there. 10-days crossing of the Pacifc time, in fact. fler time was 72 days, Americans in four planes, but the After fearful hardships and a earned fame by beating Jules Verne's was made in 1024 by a number of The excuse for a three-cornered It cannot be anid with any oecan, during which the sailors hind and it is interesting note that re-time, taken was 174 days and we had alignment of the sort recently certainly that
American woman to wait unt! 1920 for the record to the anti-Bol-to cat rats and leather, Magellan was cently HONGKONG HOTEL; REPULSE BAY HOTEL; accomplished seems singularly shevist pact is not precisely killed in the Phillippines and was journalist traversed the same route, be lowered. In that year the Gent
small.
thus denied the honour of being the
using aeroplanes, and leaving herself Zeppelin travelled from Lakehurst to what is claimed for it. But, first explain to all his ship round time for sightseeing in every town. Germany and then back to Lake- Then there is the matter of likewise, it cannot be deniede world.
In 1006, George Griffith started hurst vin Tokso and Los Angeles, in Italy's adherence to the Ger-that it conining the clements of
Jules 21 days, Only one of the five ships witleh from London and covered man-Japanese accord. Germany an alliance which could chalet out, returned to Spain, and the Verne's journey in 16 days less than Two years later Wiley Post end
time taken
11 days short of the allotted time. In 1903 the record Gatty startled the world by dying and Japan have territory within lenge, with some hope of win- three years,
for the "round trip" was brought round it in just under 9 daya, Jules striking distance of Russia's ning more than compromise, Drake three years four
down to 36 land forces.
transport.. Italy has not the still only loosely bound de months for the journey in the Golden facilities in trays, but only by special Verne's 80 days was beginning to
look 'old-fashioned! The record for circumnavigation by In 1033, Morcover, there are a number mocracies. As long as the pact lind, but not a little of this time was
Post alone brought Wiley of neutral states between Italy is purely defensive, however, it spent in plundering Spanish settle-standard means of transport, calling down his own record by a day, fy-
ments in the New World.
chiefly for ingenuity in time-table ing from New York to Berlin, and and Russia which the Soviet is no real menace to democracy's Through the three centuries that fitting, was brought down to sixty then back to New York along the would not willingly offend. Italy security, but rather an influence followed, the time for the "round days by an American who made use northerly route over Siberia in 18 is as safe from Soviet attack as for closer co-operation between trip" by boat was slowly reduced: of the Trans-Siberian Railway short hours over a week.
It is doubtful whether the world England. Safer, in a physical those who would maintain world but at the beginning of the nineteenth ly after it was opened in 1985.
eentury, a year would have been good Without making use of aeroplanes will be clrcumnavigated by a pilot: sense. What, then, brought 'pence.
fume,
or special facilities, it is not easy to (Continued on Page 5.)
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