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HONGKONG TELEGR
October 4, 1940.
INSIDE A JEHOVAH'S WITNESS MEETING
HUSBAND
PIRATES CONCHIE SECT CALLS AND WIFE
Spain Cracks Down
With New Law RELIGION
RELIGION A RACKET
MAHRID, Oct. 3 (Rcuter),—
•
Spain's extremely difficult, food A SECT KNOWN AS "JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES," WHICH HAS
WOULD NOT LIVE
problem has been greatly wor- THE SLOGAN "CHRISTIANITY IS YOUR PROTECTION RELIGION TOGETHER
sened by many producers not IS A SNAG AND A RACKET," IS TAKING UP MORE AND MORE selling." through government channels and a widespread boot-TIME OF CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS' TRIBUNALS. Jeg traffic has sprung up which is Judges at the tribunals have expressed themselves strongly about the sect's said to be sabotaging the govern. ment scheme of rationing and price control.
Bootleggers and a ready sate for lentils and rice at 15d, a pound, olive
sugar at three shillings per pound,
oil at seven shillings a lítre, and for many other commodities,"
The law now published provides Anes from 1,000 To 800 pesetas. In addition, sentence of a year in a penal labour battalion may be imposed, and penalties apply to both buyers and sellers.
People denouncing guilty parties will receive 40 per cent, of the fines while those buying solely to denounce
offenders will themselves be exemp! from punishment.
CHAMBERLAIN RESIGNS
FROM PAGE ONE
activities.
Judge C. J. Frankland, of the Manchester Tribunal, said recently: "I want to say publicly, with all the force I possess, that there is very grave doubt in my mind about the bona-fides of this organisation and the people it employs."
Swedish Park
Bombed
A reporter, sent to investigate the activities of "Jehovah'e Witnesses (sometimes known
as the International Bible Stu- [dents' Association and "The | Watchtower"), presented the
following report:--
SPECIAL TO THE “TELEGRAPH" STOCKHOLM, Oct. 3 (UP). The "United Press" corres-
Hall Slogane pondent at Malmoe reports that
Battered a "service" of the sect heavy boniber, believed to have a Kindon Hall, the Parsonage, been British, dropped heavy Manchester, and found the wit bomba on the public park at nesses" In a large, well-appointed 2.30 a.m.. to-day causing very ball ornamented by slogans, I introduced myself, and loud explosions, and terrifying once invited to write anything 1 was at the inhabitants.
pleased about the organisation of Swedish anti-aircraft, opened long as it was honest.
leadership of the three fighting services
unaltered at remains Impiled indication of the satisfaction | hagen. which Mr. Winston Churchill feels at the way the war effort is being puanla-
ed forward.
INDIAN LEADER
A couple married in October, 1925. In the following January they parted. Since then they have never lived together but have lived next door to each other for fourteen years.
They were Mrs. Mary Catherine Joyce, living at the Royal Oak, Rus- kington, Lines, and her husband, Mr. Walter
The Joyce, of
Limes Ruskington, who cross-petitioned for
"TIMES" ON F.E. divorce before Mr. Justice Hodson,
SITUATION
FROM PAGE ONE
There is nothing in the pact to in erease her capacity or to enable her to intensify her military effort.
"Japan has plunged upon a course fraught
with incalculable sequences to herself, for the advan tages, even on the shortest views, appear negligible.
Japan's Choice
con-
Each alleged desertion on the part of the olher, and each dented the other's charges. A decree nisi was granted to the husband, and Mrs. Joyce's petition was dismise-
The Judge said that after their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Joyce lived for a time with the wife's parents, at the Royal Oak. Things were not happy at the inn, and a fortnight before the parting Mr. Joyce was menls in his parents" Laking hin home.
The parting came about because Mr. Joyce mw`ħla wife, her mother and a man in the cellar at the fun, and took offence for what did not seem a very good reason.
He went out and, when he re- turned later, Mrs. Joyee, who-net Dansturally—Wa annoyed, and whom he had offended by observation Sbout the man in the cellar, turned him out.
Joyce went to his parents' home, next door.
Later that year Mr. Joyce offered
"Like Germany in Europe, Japan fire, but the bomber escaped The "service" began with a hymn could, if she had chosen the path of penceful co-operation and partner- after laying mines at Oerseund, and a prayer followed by the reading ship, have played a predominant and economic deve- flying in the direction of Copen by a Mr. Henshall sen, of a newsrespected role in the econo
lopment of China, Like Germany, paper report of the tribunal in which his son and another witness had Japan lacked the necessary self-con- fidence and self-restraint for this tasks taken part.
unged recklessly down the Occasionally he paused in his read-and
the path ing
comment on the tribunal pro- of ruthlessness and domination. to Charged In Calcutta ceedings.
The many attempts made both by Great Britain and the
the United States Oct. 3 (Reuter).—-A LONDON,
The next part of the service
past errors and to reach a to
make home in cottage he had Kingster Wood, Conservatives charge under the Defence of India isted of a test of the knowledge of to retrieve
28 people-ayrapathetic understanding of Japan-bought, but at that time, his wife outnumber the Labour members by Regulations was promulgated at Cal-those present-about
Subhas regarding their association's publica-se needs were treated as a sign of was not willing to live with him. to-day ngninst cutia TR
Chandra Bose, the well-known Con-itions, gress Leftist leader, necording to the Delhi radio.
In-
In the enlarged War Cabinet, creased from six to eight by the In- clusion of Mr. Erucat Bevin and Sir
TOW
KUL
five to three and there is place for the Liberals,
There is now no reason to expret any more government changes in the near future.
The average age of the new Wor Cabinet is 40 years, Mr. Churchill
con-
Questions were asked also frum
weakness and used as a starting point
For a long Ume after that the for fresh nggression."
couple did not speak when they met, After stating that Japan's progress but in 1932 they became on such Bose was arrested in Calcutta in the platform about the price per 1,000 In the last three years has been friendly terms that, learning that July under the Defence of India Re of the organisation's pamphlets, the accompanied by debere provoca Mra, Joyce had parted with her wed at 65 being the oldest and Mr. Bevinations. He is one of the most pro-pelen of fix books, how many of these tion of the Western Powers the ding ring. Mr. Joyce bought her an- minent of the younger generation of books had been printed for sale in "Times" adds: "The pact now con- other. There was talk then of their
ecluded with the Axia marks a further Indian politicians and as an ex-Britain, and how many for
anlee, and almost the last step, on this ex in Britain, and how many for President of Congress, is on
path. It must now be regretfully ometo member
Congress throughout the world.
lädmilted that the caution characteris- Working Commlitee.
tle of Japanese foreign policy in the past has been abandoned.
"The country where the paet has
at 56 the youngest.
Lord Halifax: New Duties Lord Halifax, the Foreign Secret- ary, will be leader of the House of Lords in place of Lord Caldecote,
He will be assisted in hh duties, R is aunounced from Downing Street to-night, by Lord Snell who will continue as Deputy Leader House of Lords.
of
the
Commercial Catechism
EGYPT PREPARES After this strangely commercial
eatechism, members of the "con-been received with the most unre- to from the served satisfaction is China, whose the Treasures Stored Away gregation"-referred
platform as "brother" or "sister far-seeing rulers believe that Japan, LONDON, O. 3 (Reuter).-Epwere invited to describe their ex
hy deliberately courting hostility the British with Great Britain, is taking suitable precautions to pro-
fatally mortgaged her future and Aures from the dangers of air raids.
involved herself in the consequences Many
of Germany's coming defeat."
VICHY VICTIMS Tried For War Guilt
tect and preserve her literary treo-periences in selling the association's rinminions and the United States, has;
thousands
of
[publications.
The service ended with another valuable hymn. manuscripts, ancient copies of the As I left the room I caught sight of Koran and other sacred books are more slogans, queries, or texts in- LONDON, Oct. 3 (Reuter)-Fifty-being stored away from danger including "What our latest plece of Error Over Eire Now three witnesses in the French wat huge eave in the hills behind the old crature?" "Who is without a year gul triol in Rom have been heard
city of Cairo. by the Supreme Court in the last few days, according to the Lyons radio.
This cave Incidentally was used by the ancient Egyptians as a rate
The witnesses Included Generalstorage place in Time of war, Weygand, Colson, Georges, Vuillemin, Bianchard and Mittelhauser and M. Georges Bonnel, the former Foreign Minister.
M. Guy La Chambre, former Air Minister, M. Daladier, the
former Premier, and General Gomelin, the former Ailled Generalissimo, also questioned.
wero
SPAIN WANTS TO
Dictators To Meet Again
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
"What is the special offer Admitted By Germany
| book?"
for July?" "Are you a subscriber?"
I paid a shilling for a book.
living together again.
He Fell in Love But in 1933 Mr. Joyce was annoyed because his wife would not go to see his sister's wedding presents,
At the sister's wedding Mr. Joyco had made the acquaintance of a bridesmaid, and he wrote to Mrs. Joyce
as he was in saying that, as love with that young woman, it was impose for him and Mrs. Joyce to live together again.
He suggested that he had waited seven years for Mrs. Joyce, and that she had treated him badly. The only way out of the difficulty, the hus marriage dissolved. band suggested, was to have their
The attitude of both Mr. and Mrs.
Joyce at that time, Mr. Justice Hlod LONDON, Oct. 3 (Router)-The son said, was that they had finialied
with cach
other. It was "Religion," by Judge Ruther-German Government will express its
Bul, finding he could not get a ford, published at Brooklyn, NY..regret to the Eire Government for
Mr. Joyce broke with divorce, U.S.A.
ไ
a section headed "Defence" I jenme across this passage:-
"One who attempts to commit an junlawful act against another may be dealt with, and against such wrong- BERLIN, Oct. 3 (UP)-It is rel-used by the one assaulted as may to doer such degree of fores may be ably stated that Hitler will meet Mussolini at Brenner Pass
hima appear to be necessary to protect his property or himself or kin from morrow.
an assault of the wrongdoer."
to-
It is understood that Herr von
STAY OUT Ribbentrop left Berlin by train at
6 p.m., for an unknown destination
MADRID, Oct. 3 (Reuter).-Mes-but it is assumed he went to Brenner. kages from Spanish sources in Berlin
continue to stress the belief that More Donations For
Spain will take no active part in the
war and for that reason, says one Spitfires
correspondent, some Central Ameri-
having "erroneously" dropped bombs: on Irish territory and will offer to pay compensation, according to the' German official news agency,
The agency stated that investiga- tion has shown that the bombs were lost its way, launched from an aircraft which had
English Children
Reach Canada
LONDON,
ilner by the
Oct. 3 (Reuter)~~A
31 evacuated Government, landed
the bridesmaid and approached his wife with a view to making a home. together
Mrs. Joyce denied that, and said the further approaches were made by herself. Then, in December, 1933, Heraus she wrote to her husband that sho had no intention of living with him again.
Jaid Mr. Late though it was, Justice Hodson, he thought Mr. Joyce had established desertion since 1933, and he granted him a decree nisi..
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LONDON, Out 3 (Reuter)-
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ANOTHER BRITON DISAPPEARS
BUCHAREST, Oct. 3 (Reuter) Another British subject has been kid- napped,
Mr. Percy Clark, the 60-year-old head of a British engineering firm at Ploesti, was taken frum his room in a Bucharest hotel by three youths in civilian clothes, who forced him to accompany them to an unknown destination.
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