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What would you do if your ran away?
HAT would you do
if your wife
ran
away with another
Divorce her? Thrash
man?
him? Or both?
No academic question this. It It is can happen to anybody.
by
EMRYS JONES
wife
THEY don't get divorced. because they can para- phrase the filmu. **You only live onco" to "You only love once," and loving that one person, though they may never see her, is living for them.
In the film n woman prefera to face death with her pursued hus- band rather than live without him. The Frank Mundays of this world prefer to face Ufo 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 do the courts or in the public places;
happening to lots of people, and nobody would blame you.
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 transcende more so their thoughts hidden tri Now what did Frank Munday that. Love. IT happened to Frank
the secret places of the heart. Munday.
do?
Now evidently Frank Munday had that kind of love, and it is Munday's story out, for such Only a court brings Frank Stubbs Ild. Did you read his story?
He forgave his wife. More than that, he stood £100 not as uncommon as some folk husbands do not wish to appear He is thirty-three, happily 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 The deputy chairman of the way a sum of money to do with the wife who does so la regard- ed na noble. In the theatre ho 1937, at the Queen Mary Hospi man at a dance, becomes in- sessions called him a "noble as she wished. She did go away. is laughed at, while she is pllied,
She returned and was forgiven. and in this husband."
the stage reflects Then she went away again, something of life.
DEATH!!
HONNIBALL-On th November, tal, George Ilonniball, aged 66. Funeral will pass the Monument al 4.30 to-day,
(Shanghai papers please copy)
The
Emily May Munday meets a fatuated with him. She leaves her two children, and goes to live with a man the deputy chairman of the sessions calls a "thorough blackguard."
Hongkong Telegraph.what would you do?
NOVEMBER 9, 1937.
What do you think?
IN France the judges and he tells me he will forgive would have called him her again. Why? Because, he
Now the husband who that, more likely, if he had shot says, he loves her, and nothing
does forgive his wife- Now if you were Frank Mun- and killed the betrayer of his she can do can kill that love. may be considered noble, though day and your. wife did that
in few cases does he consider wife. The "crime of passion" And I believe he means it.
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 In these islands, too, some- masculine brain. In everything not nobility, but love. The plain telling her you would not divorce times. The Scottish courts re- he does he behaves as rationally fact is that men can love a WHERE LIES DANGER?[her.
cently heard the story of a hus- as the next man,
woman above and beyond any- And him? You could thrush band accused of
He is more cynical than most thing that the theatre or film murdering a A good number of people him, or try to. Maybe you man found in his wife's room. about everything, except his own can show. "THEODORE PRESSER" suspect that the three-power could ruin him, if the disclosure Lord Aitchison said to the love and marriage.
I think it was Balzac who said: anti-Comintern pet, signed by would harm his trade or profes jury: "If you are satisfied that Germany, Italy and Japan, kas sion.
Of course he hates the "Marriage unites two people for "other man," but he life who do not even know cue an- a further significance than the You might get damages the act of misconduct, or in cir will do nothing to injure him, other." True enough, but not as “RICORDI” “CARL FISCHER" obvious. Because of the report against him in the Divorce cumstances that reasonably con- because ho places his wife's true as the fact that love can
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that German batile craft are 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, steaming to join Italian ships in haps would be to do all three, had just committed misconduct life is broken, but the dream and nothing the woman does can joint manoeuvres, Paris has
or was about to commit miscon- holds firm.
shake it. jumped to the conclusion that Italy into the three-cornered duct when discovered, you are She has not asked for a di- Do you think that in all the behind the anti-Soviet pacific alliance? A desire for protec entitled in the circumstances of vorce, and he will not seek one, divorce cases both parties: alliance lies a 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 jest 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,"
For ten years, he says, he No one can calculate the terri- only add to it, give the sus consequences of an over-vigorous picious something tangible to colonial and foreign policy? It"The law is not just so blind as those ten years he would pay wife can get the freedom she Then the judge continued: thought she loved him, and for ble sacrifice Rome men (and women, too) make so that the The decidedly con-would seem that Germany and it is sometimes thought to be, any price. servative Daily Telegraph in Japan, in return for very wel- and if, in his natural and proper Is his case uncommon? I wishes, though it condemns him London observes: "This brigaded come allies against their ros 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 unhappinesa. casily capable of transformation Italy some measure of assurance jury to find that he is not guilty lar dream, for the number of into forms which would chal- against isolation in the event of murder, but of culpable homi- divorces is nothing like as great
SUCH marriages are bet- ter broken, you may lenge much more than Bol- of collision with somo other cide."
as the number of married folk say, and perhaps that is true, shevism
Both France" "und power or powers:-
More, "it is also open to the who are not living together. Britain, and the United States The farther one thinks along jury to convict of assault where
though the cost in broken hopes Why don't they got divorced? is terrifle, and that men can 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 cor in a barrier against Bolshevism many and Japan may have had did.
the courts. Other cases, though tainly touching the heights of MAGYAYASANTITRARALASENTOKORNERRANEERATAKANNKAKKANAKARI" which extends from the Baltic the Russian menace 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. Mediterranean to the Pacific.sive
Why, there are cases within 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- rate 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. more direct than the Soviet's." all three of these powers are Let it be granted that Ger-hungry for colonial empire. In many and Japan have some order to obtain the territory to fear the effect of they seck, two at least are Russian advocacy of world re-ready to go to war, though. volution, backed by an army admittedly against weaker variously estimated at from enemies. Germany wants her 3,000,000 to 6,000,000 men, and African colonies back from including vast air and me-Britain and France. But she chanised forces capable of swift might, particularly with Po-hat now to yourself and receive movement across the frontiers. land's acquiescence, strike east Grant, too that there is an into Russia for new ground for a month later after it has travelled From Three Years element in Russia which still expansion. For if Oght she right round the world by ordinary preaches the doctine of world must she would probably choose revolution accelerated by
a to meet the unknown strength Envelopes that had been flown!
round the world were exhibited buffet from the Red Army. of Rusala rather than the well- recently at the International Aviation Grant that Russia has worked known power of the British Show, and bore the ramps of four Jules Verne's Fancy In a different category are records for the undermining of Rightist Empire and Britain's close ally, different countries, totalling 135.
for flying round the world in 1 authority in various states, France. Japan is similarly Circumnavigating the world in one The coming.of railways and steam-ringle 'plane. The first attempt was notably Spain, and that this situated, except that her ambi- way or another has fascinated men ships opened up new possibilities, made 1922, the proposed route ver work continues, official denials tion may carry
and wornen her closer to formed the feat.
since Drake Brst per- Amerlea had been bridged by railing via India, Japan, the Kurlle and 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 of fiction and not fact in 1847 when
World in Eighty Days" was a plece through Canada and Greenland,
The fight broke down in India. the world had already genuino reason to fear
au those well-kept and hardily de- been circumnavigated, but Magellant was wrlften, and many people and a second attempt to fly round the world in the following year ended in armed invasion by Russia? It fended lanes which linke British whoce ship returned from the "round thought it a little fantastic,
the Kurile Islands after 13,000 miles: would acem most unlikely, par-possessions by land and sea. Her trip" in 1522, did not complete the Fifteen years later an American had been covered. ticularly in view of the econo-course
runs close to French Journey himself.
A round-the-world flight by alr mic condition of the Soviet borders. There is danger there. 100-days crossing of the Pacific time, in fact. Her time was 12 dupe, Americans in four planes, but the After fearful hardships and entned fame by beating Jules Verne's was made in 1924 by a number of The excuse for a three-cornered It cannot be sadd with any Ocean, during which the sailors had and it is interesting to note that re-time taken was 174 days and we hed alignment of the sort recently certainty that the anti-Bыl-to cat rats and leather, Magellan was cently another American woman to wait unti. 1020 for the record to accomplished scoms singularly shevist pact is not precisely killed in the Phillippines and was fournalist traversed the same route; be lowered. In that year the Graf thus denied the honour of being the using aeroplanes, and leaving herzeit Zeppelin travelled from Lakehurst to what is claimed for it. But, first captain to sail hals sily round time for sightseeing in every town. Germany and then back to Lake. Then there is the matter of likewise, it cannot be denied the world.
In 1885, George Grinth
started hurst vin Tokyo and Los Angeles, In | Italy's adherence to the Ger-that it contains the elements of
London and covered Jutes 21 days. Only one of the five ships which from man-Japanese necord. Germany an alliance which could chal-set out, returned to Spain, and the Verne's Journey in 10 days less than
Two years later Wiley. Post and and Japan have territory within lenge, with some hope of win-time Anten was 11 days short of the allotted time. In 1903 the record Galty startled the world by flying
for the "round trip" was brought atriking distance of Russia's ning more than compromise,
Drake took three years and four down to 30 days, but only by special unit in just under D days. Jules Verne's 80 days won beginning to land forces. Italy has not. the still only loosely bound de-months for the foumey in the Golden facilities in transport.
look old-fashioned! Moreover, there are a number mocracies. As long as the pact Hind, but not a little of this time was The record for eircumnavigation by In 1933, Wiley Fest alone brought 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, fly- chiefly for ingenuity In lime-table in from New York to Berlin, and and Russia which the Soviet is no real menace to democracy's ments In the New World.
Through the three centuries that fitting, was brought down to sixty then back to New York along the would not willingly offend Italy accurity, but rather an influence followed, the time for the "round days by an American who made use northerly route over Siberia in 10 la na safe from Soviet attack as for closer co-operation between trip" by boat was slowly reduced; of the Trans-Siberian Railway short-houre over a week.
is doubtful whether the world' England, Safer, in n physical those who would maintain world but at the beginning of the nineteenthly after it was opened in 1900.
Without making use of aeroplanes will be circumnavigated by a pilot:- century a year would have been good Rense. What, then, brought peace.
or special facilities, it is not easy to (Continued on Page 5.)
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