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Seduced Girl's Mother Awarded £900 Damages
Night flying trips to Parls and lavish purtles were mentioned In the King's Bench Division when £900 damages were awarded to a mother who claimed that her daughter of 16 had been seduced.
Mrs Ethel Taylor, of Hightick-road, Shepperton, Middlesex, sued Mr John-Ettlinger, aged 36, of Whitfield-street, London, W., for the loss of the services of her daughter Joan.
He was not in court.
ever
Ar Justice Hibery, giving Judgment, said that at stage Billinger seemed to have behaved like a blackguard and with a degree of callousness and meanness in money matters that would have been a disgrace to a full-blooded Englishman.
the
lle was not that, because his father, at any rate, was German. He had broken his promise that girl would be, able to live with her baby and broken the premise to his; mother to give up the association.
Car Trips
Mr 1. J. Lindner, for Ettlinger said that in 1935 Joan was employed as a bookkeeper at the Anchor Hotel,
"EXPECT PEACE DRIVE" -Hitler's Next
of her
"Germany-robbed hoped-for short war, cheated of easy victory in the Mediter- rancan, let down by her junior in Greece and partner, Italy.
our
Shepperton, owned by Mrs Ettlinger. Africa, nud feeling the pinch in-
Join Killinger çame there orca-side her own lands stonally at week-ends, and his mother suggested that he escort doan | blockade continues its inexorable well put out home in his car at night. 1 wes on pressure-may
the trips that relations first peace feelers,
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took place. sistent and ke began taking Joan on night dying trips to Parts and lavish ly entertaining her at Hanworth and
119 attentions became more per-
in London,
to
When Mrs Taylor threatened take her daughter away from the hotel, Ettlinger promised Joan mac riage and took her to London.
While living with Ettinger Joan
worked as an usherette at a eling-
He gave her 2s. 6d. n day, Toward the end of June 1937 she entered a nursing home and gave birth to a child on July 4.
Kept Baby
On her being discharged from the nursing home, Ellinger put her in a tax and told her to go back to her mother. He would not let her have the baby.
"They can be made only through the Vatican or the states Lord White House," Queenborough in a message to the Royal Society of St George, "If and when such feelers are put out, the power of the White House will be enormous,' he says.
"It is well for democracy--not merely for Britain-that in the White Hone there still sit a man, able from experience to weigh the sincerity and the significance of Nazidom, and yet able equally to assess the capacity of the world for further war.
Social Changes "President Roosevelt will obvious-
ly not tolerate, in any peace terms
ASKS BILLIONS-Intenso seriousness provalled at joint meeting of Congress when. Prosidant Roosevelt road his message asking billions to supply nations resisting aggression and assorting U. 5, was in grave poril. He's at lower loft, Senators are in front rows of House chamber, Ropras sentatives in roar and Cabinót af lower right..
King At Bomber
Spends Night Station
The King recently spent a night at an. R.A.F. station of the Bomber Command. During his visit he saw heavily loaded Wellingtons take off for Cologne, and welcomed their pilots and crew after seeing them land safely on returning from their successful
| raid.
It was midnight when the first crew back entered the bright-
Mr Lindner said that Miss Tuy-in which he has a voice, abuses taly lit intelligence room to make their report. As the little
lor was anxious
to see the baby, other countries that he has set him group, with their squadron leader, an Australian, at their head, Chamber Music
and on her recovery returned to Etself to eradicate in his own.
tlinger in London, where she worked and maintained herself.
Later her mother learned that she was critically ill with pneumonia and removed her lo Shepperton, where the was now living.
Two Doctors
Miss Taylor, who said that she was now 20, declared that while she was ill Ettlinger packed up bis things proper
entered, the King was standing with the senior intelligence officer and Air Marshal Sir Richard Pierse, Chief of the Bomber Command, and Air Vice-Marshal J. E. A. Baldwin.
The King took part in ques-1A.A. guns, and so on. He was much
"We in England should clear our minds of out-worn phrases, cease to talk of swings to the Jeft' or 'swings to the right, and begin to envisage nervousness #weening without changes of social and economic relationing the squadron leader tlowships which the war will make when he made his report.
"Were you able to drop your inevitable.
bombs on the target?" asked the King. "Yes, Sir," replied the good, and we had nine-tenths cloud, but 1 managed to pick up a bend in the river which gave me my, direction, and I made my two runs over the target, un- loading my bombs on the railway marshalling yards."
"I those changes are based on a comprehension of social and walked out. (She had dis-ustice, and are in the line of airman. "The weather wasn't covered that he was already a mar-old constitutional traditions, they ried and
man had associated with will be but the natural evolution of
other women.)
Miss Taylor added that wille slay- ing with Ettlinger in London she had double pneumonia, necessitating the attendance of two doctors and two
a natim.
Beginning Of End
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Club Concert
linc
ducts.
The Hongkong Chamber Music impressed by the friendly atmosphere Club will be having their thirteenth surrounding the stiff cross-examina-concert, in the Great Hall of the tion which all R.A.F, pilots and crews University of Hongkong on Friday, at have to undergo after making a rali. 9.15 p.m.
Before The Raids
The programme has been arranged Earlier the King had heard erews by the Very Rev Father A. Rigant!, on and the choral items will be by the being "briefed" for their raids
formality,Choir of St Joseph's Church,
Plano solos will be given by Caro- Cologne. There was and the King. laughed with the bom
Braga, and she will be accom- ber crews when the Intelligence officer said: "Cologne used to be con-panted by Elizabeth Drown in three sidered a very hot spot, but it is not Works of Chopin, Macdowell, Bach Aerial photographs of recent raids and Hoydn,, and one item composed
by Father Riganti,' will be among | interested the King. He saw
pic- those sung or played, tires which showed bombs bursting and fires raging In the German docks, The King-Was there much and others showing a successful raid' noise, much opposition?"-"Well, Str, on enemy air bases, Walking across Jerry is still playing foxy. There the aerodrome to the control tower, were no searchlights, no flak, until he saw the Wellingtons, one by one, could give vindictive damages where
dropped my bombs. Then 14 or 15 take off. lights came on, making a cone in the a parent had been wounded in her
and they chucked verything up sky, honour and feelings by a seducer's that intins now 15 to endure-from-the-A.Ai-guns to the apex of the
cone."
nurses.
They had not been paid, and the tent of the furnished flat was not paid.
Justice Hilbery, in giving Judgment, said the mother was en- titled to recompense for the loss of her daughter's services, and the law
Mr
conduct.
Singapore Has Black-out
Road Users' 'Dilemma SINGAPORE recently had the most complete black-out yet ex- perienced since air raid exercises began in Malaya.
"It was obvious from a tour of the city before the air raid glarms that heed was being taken of the necessity for as little light as possible being directed on to open spaces or reflected into the air," writes the "Straits Times."
"On the other hand, it was also obvious that as far as road users were concerned, motorists!
themselves -and wardens were still uncertain as to the
"Held in Africa, rolled back from Greece, defeated decisively in tho Mediterranean, Mussolini is proving as helpless an ly to Germany as his nation was to Britain in 1917," Lord Queenborough continued.
The defeat of the Axis combina-
tlon on its Itailan flank may well be the beginning of the end, though the end may yet be far from us,
"It may be late Spring before Britain begins to show air superiority, and before that time there will be much to chdure.
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Airmen Report
a little longer until the day when the British forces, re-equipped, fully Other members of the crew crowd- trained, and Alled with conquerable determination to avenge the wrongs of Europe, shall carry the war again into the enemy countries."
STOCK MARKET REPORT
Hongkong Stock Exchange Offcial Summary issued Saturday, says:
For a short session there was a fair turnover with China Lights re cording a slight improvement.
Buyers
Bank of East Asia $70 Union Ins. $412.30 Providents $5.70
Lands 40% Debèhlures $07,50 Lighis "O" $0 Cements $17.50
Sellers
Realties $3.75 Trams $17.05 Lights "Q" $0.20 Electries "O" $30.75 Sales II.K. Donks $1,400
type of light vehicles are allow- Union Ins. $411
ed to display."
RA.F. observers flew over Singa- pore most of the night.
Several Accidenta Several areldents took place after! dark including one in which an alr rald warden was the victim.
The warden was taken to hospital with a compound fracture of the right leg, head injuries, and suspect- ed fractured ribs. It is reported that ho was crushed between in omnibus and a motor-car which were in volved in N
collision.
Lands $34.25 Star Ferrles $57 Lights "O" $6.15/20 Watsons $11
National Red Cross Society Of China
The budget of expenditure of the National Red Cross Society of China for the current year was fixed ut NC$0,000,000 and HK$300,000 at the second and last session of its 24th nnnual conference held at its Hong- konk
Office, Kowloon, last week. Presided over by Dr C. T. Wang, President of the. Society, the meeting us that there will be no parade of as attended by Mr Hats Shin- the H.K.V.D.C. Training Cadre and
Chairman of the Company on Monday and Tuesday, Relief Commission: Dr W. W. February 17 and 18."
NO PARADES
"The Military Authorities inform
Acting
LIG. 1. Yen. former
Chinese Ambassador to Soviet Rusala: Mr Wang Hsino-lai, Mr Ych Kung-cho, Me Tu Yuch-sen. Mr Dr J. Heng Litt S. U. Zuu, and oth
others. Dr Robert Kho-seng Lim, Director of the Rod Cross Reller Kwelyang, was also
Japan Cannot Get Or Sal
Make The Guns Corp, who
The Japanese 45,000-ton super-here by air made a special trip dreadnoughts, one of which was present and reported on the rellot launched Inst spring, are not yet work carried out last year. armed and have not the slightest The conference decided to train a prospect of getting their 18-inch competent medical personal for relief guns,
German firms had contracts the guns, mounting and range finders, but lately the Japanese have boon trying to get machine tools from America for the work.
work. In the first year, five doctors
for and 19 nurses will be trained at an estimated expenditure of NC$17,000.
To conference re-appointed Mr. Pan Hsiao-no as Secretary-General of the Society.
ed round as the squadron leader. made his report. The King looked at the large-scale map on the wall, with coloured pins and stretched tapes marking the route to Cologne. "Where was your target exactly?" he asked and the pilot pointed it out to him on a map.
Knew Berlin Well
so und now."
After dining in the offleers' mess the King walked to the sergetints mess, where he drank "good luck to the sergeants.
Malayan Coast Now Mined
St Patrick's Club Officers Elected
The annual general meeting of St Patrick's Catholic Club was held on Triday theCluvial, The following were elected officers for the coming year:
President and Treasurer, Rev. Fi F. A
A. Rigant; Chairman, Mr N. L. Leonard; Hon. Secretary, Mr G. F. Santos; Librarian, Mr H. Williams; Management Committee, Messra B. A Marcal, A. J.. Marshall and C. J. Thorley.
London. Feb. 10. The Admiralty. announced to-day that a portion of the Malayan coast Ilev. Eiganti fave a short would be a danger to navigation as address on the objects of the Club,
When the squadron leader men-it had been covered with mines, and explained that its financial tioned that he had made 23 nights Ships wishing to pass through the status was quite sound. It is in- over Germany, the King asked: "Have area would have to apply to the tended that members will have you been to Berlin?” With a quiet Singapore authorities for safe opportunities to indulge more time smile the young officer replied; passage. Any vessel not doing In sports, and for this reason, it is "Oh, yes, Bir; I know that place quile would pass at His own risk and perli hoped that a football team will soon well."
-Reuter.
be formed,
The crew of a second aircraft that! with
had been over Berlin came into the St John Ambulance
had
room. The King shook hands the young sergeant pilot who caplained the bomber, and asked him how he had got on.
Competition
|Bowls
Lane,
Crawfords
Beat K.C.C.
Playing on Kowloon Cricket Club's
The St John Ambulance, Brigade The pilot, who has made 25 trips held its annual Mok Cho-chuen Cup over Germany, replied: "We found a Competition in First Aid Proficiency, lot of cloud, but we hind a bit of good yesterday morning ui Brigade Head- luck. There was a break in the quarters, when cach division entered cloud at the right moment, and In squad of four men. Results were: could see our objective, a railway 1. Hongkong Chinese Y.M.C.A. Krech yesterday, the home team were station, very clearly just as we drop-Division; 2, Confucian Society Divi-beaten in a friendly return game of ped our bombs."
slon; 3,
3. Kwong
Wah Division.
lawn bowls by a
team from Reads Log Book
Among those present were the Crawfords, 54-47. Scores were: The crews of two other bombers Director of Medical Services, Hon. 8. Carr, G. Tanner, B. llament, and Col. Stimson C. Fincher (L.C.) toat If Brokenshire, ports
drinking coffee smoking cigarettes while their com-
Lanc
which had been over enemy invnsion Dr P. 5. Selwyn-issioner E. M. Gray, H., Wellwood and J. Fraser
and R.AM.Ctrlet Superintendent A.
were
Burton, T. 11. Edgar H. W. Randall Brown (LC) lost to A rades made their reports. The King el Arculli, Major T. L. Weight, Mr Guest R. G. Burch, Sleven and V. C. chatted to several of the men, bor-1. B. Trevor, Mir A. E. Perry, District Labrum 16-20, rowed, the log book of a sergeant Offeer T. K. Chak. District Officer A.W. C. Ogley, J. W. Dertran, J. I. S.
Hung. Zunniern, L. Jack and T. pllot, and read the pencilled entries H. Humjahn and Corp Offeer Chan Puncan and W. W. PATRON (L.C.) beat B.
Madar 10-13, giving the time of attack, detalls of Yuk-in.
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