Husband Cites Best Man, Gets Decree
A MAN who, seven years ago was best man at the, wedding of his friend, appeared in the Divorce Court in London recently-cited as co-respondent by the husband.
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********* } . Mr. Justice Hodson granted a decree nisi to Mr. Laurence Aloysius Nicholas Henry Doyle, who gave a London hotel as his nddress.
Paris Changing
'Moscow Street
The petition was on the ground To 'Helsinki that Mrs. Doris May Doyle com- mitted misconduct with Mr. Charles Stewart, now on war service, and formerly of Finleigh Court, Bath- road, Slough, Buckinghamshire.
PARIS, Dec. 12 (AX')—If going Councilmen have thelr way, "Moscow" Sirect in Parks will become "Helsinki" Street.
Ata nolay session at which Finland's defence against Russia was praised, several Counelmien Introduced a motion to name a street in the city after the Fin- nish capital. Other Councilmen immediately proposed the present Afoscow Street be renamed Hel- slaki (Helsingfors).
The resolution was referred to A committee which indicated i would give quick approval to flie change.
NEW CHIEF FOR
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Monday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
February 5, 1940.
FILED
The Worst Official Muddle Yet
R.A.F. MAN TOLD HE LETTER
IS NOT
SANE THEY
AND "GIVEN" A CHILD
CARSHALTON, SURREY,
AIRCRAFTMAN F. LEMPRIEVE, is a victim of brutal official muddle.
Further offelnidom has notified him
of the birth of a daughter he does
not possess.
And finally It has casually describ- ed him as "of unsound mind."
Lem-
The remarks about "unsound mind" was scribbled on the alde of a printed document in reply to priere's desperate appeals for allow ances to which the is entitled.
Mrs.
Mrs. Doyle did not contest the suit. Mr. Stewart, who conducted his
I spent this afternoon with Mr. lown ease, contended that Mr. Doyle
had condoned his wife's misconduct Lempriere and discussed the com- and connived at it and, by his con-plicated story of his case. duct, bad conduced to it.
Wanted Wife Back
Mr. and Mrs. Doyle were married
at Kensington Register Office in July
Ile is an entirely sane and highly intelligent
man.
Completely Fit
That brutal comment, however, in only one incident in the tribulations 1932, and last lived together at of the Lempriere family, Penywern-road, Earl's Court, S.W. Mr. Lempriero wan a local govern-| Mr. Justice Hodson, giving judgment clerk, who had never known a ment, pointedont that Mr. Doyle had day's illness. filed an answer to the suit which was afterwards struck oui, and she Had not been in court.
Mr. Doyle had admitted that the circumstances in which he met h wife made it incumbent on him to
take extraordinary care of her.
But he did not take particular care of her. At that time he was drinking heavily, and it soon became impos |sible for Mrs. Doyle to live with him. Mr Doyle, who was dependent on THE appointment of Air-an allowance from trustees, wanted Marshal (acting Air Chief-his wife back.. Marshal) Sir Charles S. Burnett Greatly to his credit. he got rkl as Chief of the Air Staff of the propensity to drink, and re- soubled his efforts to get his wife Royal Australian Air Force has|back. led to a reshuffle in three higher commands of the R.A.F.
She did not return, however, Mr. Appointments to take place in the Doyle took a housekeeper, with whom he eventually committed misconduct. In respect of that misconduct, Mr. Doyle had to ask for the discretion
near future."
Took Housekeeper
Air-Marshal Sir Christopher Lloyd Courtney, to be Air Member for Sup-of the court. ply and Organisation on the Air Council in place of Air Vice-Marshal (acting Air-Marshal) W. L. Welsh,
Air Vice-Marshal Gossnge Is the new Inspector-General of the RAF, replacing Air-Marshal (eting Alr Chter-Marstani) Sir Charles. Burnett.
After explaining how Mr. and Mrs. Doyle came together again, Me Justice Hodson held that Mru. Doyle's eventual misconduct was not con- dured to by the husband,
He found that Mr. Doyle had not been guilty of connivance or condon- S.ation; and exercling discretion in his
favour, granted him a decrce nisi.
De Valera "Solves" Irish Problem
SINGLE
TICKETS to
BRITAIN from BELFAST
MR. DE VALERA, Eire's; posed to unity that they should be Prime Minister, has a plan for transferred ul of treland, if they settling his country's "minority" preferred to be British rather than problem.
It has a similarity to that by which Germans were transferred "home" from the Baltic State,
ite served throughout the last war. latterly in the R.A.F., and was called up for the present war 3 a Class reservist,
When medically examined he was! passed as completely fit and sent to an aerodrome.
blankets and sent to sleep
He and 1,000 other men were given on the cernent floor of a hangar,
During the night ground mist madej them so cold that they ran up and down on the tarmac to rel warm.
Mr. Lempriere was later posted tol another Air Force unit and was taken seriously ill. His life was despatred of, and after a serious nominal operation repeated blood transfusion: were made.
Meanwhile Mrs. Lemprlere hudi been forced to apply for public es- statance because her allowance book!
did not reach her for six weeks.
Payment Stopped
On November 1 her husband was brought home from hospital in an ambulance with EL
He was given a slip of paper stating that he would be discharged from the Army as from November 20, als in- valid, family and other allowances to continue ill that date, when he would | receive his discharge papers,
They have not arrived. All allow- ances stopped on November 23.
In reply to a letter asking the reason for this is wife was told that, in consequence of her hus band's discharge," the Pest Onice had stopped payment, but that " postal draft for family allowance in respect of the birth of your child, Carol, will be forwarded."
pro
When she protested that there was no Carol the authorities sent and
subsequent correspondence duced a reply from the main depot with a marginal note "Your husbund was discharged with unsound mind.”
-I-have seen all the papers-masses of them-and If that were arranged by the two penell notes protesting ignorance of
some are just curi peoples it would cost for less than anything and everything. the constant friction between them.
Viscount Craigavon, Northern Ire They have now been turned over nddressing to Mr. Tom Williams, M.P., who is Minister.
to Insist on full redress,
Irish..
Prime
Mr. de Valera disclosed" his plan] land at the annual congress, of the Flanna || Orangemen in Belfast, said that or- Fail Party, which re-elveted him rangements to meet any difficulty president.
from the South of Ireland were He saw no Justice, he said, in a "splendid and complete." portion of the Irish people who wanted to be under a national Parla-j ment being kept out by forco.
There was not a nation whose territory and national home were o well defined us the national home of the Irish people.
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MEMORIES of a
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Russian prison, a story sweeps back to a differ- and of brutality 20 years old, ent Europe, when as a young man were raised at question time in the he taught English in the high schools House of Commons recently.
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These doctors, according to men prominent in the medical profes- slon, are viclling of one of the greatest
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is most likely conveniently forgot just led and
The West End doctor clled two
of how
In November, 1919, he was asked ten." to work in the anti-British section of the Third International. Ho re-instances
]። to
own operates in certain cases.
were taking
from compensation
the Soviet Government for the Injuries suf- country. fered by Mfr. Joseph Martin, of He was arrested, thrown into a Brighton, who WAN
Imprisoned verminous cell, beaten by warders, without trial in Moscow in 1919; starved.
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"Fer cach: Board they receive
practice £2 28. Thus their richer by £21 a werk,
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If he would ensider granting Butirki prison in Muscow.
Later he was transferred to the payment to Mr. Martin because his
He was fled to his bed with ropes.jobs Kept Open" claim was not put forward withị
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those of two other British subjects that cut weals in his arms. He was
beaten severely. which were met by the Soviet
Another man who pructed den- After a time he fell unconscious, tistry, but never touched medicine. Government in 1923. The Prime Minister replied that and was pitched into
corridor has been appointed as a qualified there are 200 claims against the among corpses.
A fellow-prisoner rescued him, and Soviet Government for compensation for the consequences of imprisonment
of British subjects In Russia.
In none of these had it been pos- sible to obtain satisfaction.
haustion.
examiner.
Meanwhile, other doctors see their he lay for months in a state of ex-incomes rapidly depleted as the re- sult of evacuation and the calling up In 1920 he was released at the reof men. quest of the British Government and
"It is a scandal that Government repatriated.
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£1,000 LEAFLET DISCOVERED
A pamphlet worth £1,000 has been discovered after laying about for 300 years.
It is of ten leaves and it has been discovered in the survey of the an-
near Blackfriars
Wouldn't Be Traitor
His complaint against the Govern-honey should be used by an associn-ient library of Sion College on the
for the payment of past ser- Embankment, Behind that question and answer ment is that in 1923
similar vices," said the West End doctor. Bridge. lies a bitter story. Mr. Martin, who case those of Mrs. Davidson, whose "But that-is-happening. now lives with his Russian wife in husband was shot, and Mrs. Stan St. George's terrace, Brighton, told it Harding, who had been imprisoned for four months--were pressed At G4 he is a pitiful man, his ál-against the Russian Government. most unseeing eyes hidden behind Russia paid them £10,000 blue glasses.
£3,000 respectively,
to me.
દેશી -તો. નાનાસ
"Certain local branches of the It has lala gathering, dust on the BM.A. are keeping jobs open shelves for more than 300 years. nicely for their members."
Published in London In 1030, the of 60,000 doctors in this country, date of the founding of the library, and the BMA. clotm 37,000 as mem-it was probably among the ent
ibers.
books acquired.
TOGETHER THEY MIGHT HAVE RULED THE WORLD
Juarez the strong, Carlota the ambitious... but fate pitted them against each other in a fiery
conflict that toppled a throne!
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