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WHY GERMAN FLEET VERY QUEER DIVORCE EX-SERVICEMEN'S CRY

REVOLTED

CURIOUS STORY

EX-KAISER AND HIS CHANGE OF MIND

CASE

"MAN UNKNOWN ”

•

FOR WORK

ONLY IDLENESS

JUDGE COMMENTS ON LINE OF GENERAL'S BITTER DENUNCIA-

DEFENCE

TION OF DOLE

"19 NOTHING LEFT?”

FATHERLESS BABY

London-A divorce which end- "Our ex-Servicemen ask for ed in the Court of Session, Edin- work, bot instead they are served burgh, was remarkable for a line out with the iron ration of idle- of defence concerning which theness,”, said General Sir Ian Hamil- (Judge, Lord Moncrieff, said there ton in a forceful speech at a con- seemed to be no previous report ferènce. on unemployment held by ed example.

the British Legion at Fulham in mall week.

Mr. James Whitton Robertson, of Dundes, sought a divorce from his wife, Lizzie Easson Robertson, on the ground of her adultery with

"The very word dole gives us the shivers,” he said, "

**To give able-bodied men regular

THE KIEL OCCUPATION

The Amsterdam "Telegraaf published a remarkable story of how, when the German fleet was ordered to attack the British fleet in October, 1918. Admiral Scheer only agreed on the condition that the Kaiser accompanied him on the flagship, and nominally assum- ed supreme command. The naval chiefs and Field-Marshal. von Hindenburg supported Scheer, Admiral von Tirpitz emphasising | Charles. Edwards, both of whom pay without asking them for serv that the presence of the Kaiser denied the charge. The hearing, vice in return le to do them an in- with the fleet would rally all sec- lasted a fortnight,

jury. But why do we not ask for tions to the throne. Scheer there- Lord Moncrieff, in giving judg-'service? Did God make our islands upon went to Berlin, where the ment said it was asserted that so perfect that there la, nothing left Katser expressed delight with the Edwards was not addressing un-for us to do to them? Certainly idea, and said: "I cannot conceive lawful proposals..to Mrs. Robert- not? They are not by any means a moro noble death than at the son, but was courting the daugh-as well shaped go they might be, head of the fleet. In a last glori-ter with a view to marriage. yet we can employ thousands of ous attempt to defend our free- Failure of that evidence would coolles at Singapore making another dom and honour."

lead to a necessary inference of Port Arthur. a most audacious conspiracy, and "It does not seem to strike any- would have a disastrous effect on one that we might profitably em- numerous other persons besides ploy fifty thousand or so of the men the Individual panties to the de- who won the Great War within our fence.

own borders.

Scheer returned to Klel to com- plete preparations, but just before the fleet was due to sail the Kaiser sent a message stating that he had decided not to accompany the, fleet, but insisting on the fleet sailing. Scheer tore up and burnt the mes- aage in order to prevent the Kaiser's "confession of cowardice" ever be- coming known. He also announced that he refused to sail. Instead, he occupied Kiel, and then the revolt of the navy began. Scheer inform- ed the Minister for Internal Affairs that he intended to. occupy Kiel until a new Government was estab- lished, and added that the following Inscription could be placed on the grave of the German fleet: "She chose disgrace, rather than to fight the battle of a coward,"

RE-ORGANISATION

CHINA'S FIGHTING FORCES AND PLANS

Nanking, Yesterday.

It is learned that a proposal has been submitted to the Disbandment Conference asking for a complete re-organisation of all the arsenale In China. If the suggestion is adopted all the arsenals will be in- structed to stop working, pending re-organisation along modern lines, urder the supervision of foreign experts.

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Mr. and Mrs. Robertson · were "Some may suspect me of being married in 1906, and Rhoda, the swayed by Scottish sentiments when daughter, was born in the follow-j I speak of the Clyde and the Forth. ing year.

Well, how then about that mighty In December, 11927, Mrs. river the Severn? Why not make Roberston gave birth to a son, of it as famous and as useful as the which Mr. Robertson declared that Germans are making the Shahnon? he was not the father.

"When all this labour le sitting Idie, is it not a God-given chance to harness the Severn tides?

"A Certain Document" The ovidence za to a certain document in the case might be as "How about the old English cepted as sufficiently displacing all, Wash, which has been yawning in the usual presumptions of prothe face of the British Constitution priaty, character and conduct in for centuries; or how about planting the case of Mrs. Robertson. It a real forest over our dead coal pits, was a document, of which school instead of nibbling at a lot of little boys would be ashamed,

woods?

It was stated by Mrs. Robertson. There is a Latin phrase which that the document was copied out, says: "To pick up winkles from an by her some years ago at her hua 'onemy is good business. If the band's request. Lord Moncrieft powers-that-be will not heed their sald he had no hesitation in re- own countrymen, let them not dis- garding that as false.

dain to take a tip from the Germans. Mr. Robertson, however, had en-j "When their trade was 'down and connect Mr. 'out' the Germans jumped at the tirely failed Edwards either with the document chance of digging canals and of or with the taking of a certain electrifying the countryside." photograph referred to in the case.

to

In affect the defence was that Mr. Edwards's visits became more frequent under his growing affec ton for Rhoda, which matured into an engagement on. Rhoda's! The National Defence Conference birthday in 1926. all be convened Immediately the the great improbability of a girl

Lord. Moncrieff commented onį

Disbandment Conference has con-

affection fon her mother's paramour to screen her mother's behaviour.

cluded its sittings. Among the principal issues to be taken up will be the re-organisation of China's naval, and air forces. Reuter.

GENERAL DISMISSED

com-

Nanking, Yesterday, General Chien Ta-chun, mander of the 3rd Nationalist army corps and formerly garrison com- mander at Shanghai, has been. dismissed.-Reuter.

[General Chien fought loyally for Marshal Chiang Kai-shek's cause in Kwangtung and has been a firm supporter of Marshal Chiang.]

Captain F. H. Robinson, a master at Wycombe Royal Grammar School, has been appointed headmaster of Kimmel School, Abergele, North Wales.

professing

NO CEREMONY

IN BAD TASTE

CHRISTMAS DAY EVENTS IN YUNNANFU

INVITATIONS TO FOREIGNERS

Yunnanfu, Dec. 29.. On Christmas Day, an athletic display was given here, to which all foreigners were invited. There

He granted a decree nisi, hold log' that Mrs. Robertson had been guilty of adultery with some man was drill and singing by about unknown.

8,000 schoolboys and girls of He upheld Mr. Edwards's de different ages, but the most re- fence, dismissed the case against markable thing about it was that arranged in him, and granted half his costs.although they were

|thirty columns of 100 each, extend- ing over a very large parade- ground, they were all controlled by one mad with a whistle, and moved with absolute precision. There was no word spoken or The Colonial Secretary states order given and the performance that His Excellency, the Governor went right through without a is expected to arrive in the Colony hitch, in a most pralesworthy man in the Canadian Pacifc a.s. "Emner. press of France" "to-day: "and" to land at Queen's Pier after dark.

His Excellency will therefore, land without any ceremony what

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A display was also given by the artillery. Guds were placed in position and blank cartridges fir ed, but the number of very blank cartridges did not speak well for the country of origin.

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DONALD

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TRAGEDY:/

COURT PROCEEDINGS

How It Was Spollt Unfortunately the whole display was spoilt by the very decided and continued anti-Japanese propa- ganda which, was carried on dur ing the afternoon, boys riding round the grounds all the time terday afternoon Major C. Willson, with paper flags on which were 0.B.E, beard evidence in the case Inscribed anti-Japanese remarks.

At the Central Magistracy 'yes-

TO-DAY & TO-MORROW At 6:15 & 9.20,

who had joined her husband in Singapore since the tragedy, return- ed to the Colony specially for the purpose of the case against the accused, She was able definitely to identify the bracelet which she wore on the night of the murder and robbery, but at an identifica- tion parade was unable to pick the acensed out as one of the two assall-

in which a Chinese, described as a ante. She explained to the Magia-

A large lay figure was paraded, blacksalth, employed in the Naval trate yesterday that it was dark at labelled in a similar manner, but Dockyard was charged with the the time and she was so frightened more offensive,

murder on February 22, 1928, in that detalle of the two rufiana

There was an anti-foreign item, Kennedy road, of Fung Men-chiu, a oscaped her attention. when a number of boys stood in young student of Bt. George's The circumstances of the affair two rowę about 50 yards apart; School, who was attacked by two which the woman had already re- one row Holding small paper faga robbers while walking at night tated at the inquest on the youth Inscribed with remarks, about the with a young girl friend named But foreign treaties, and the others Pal-forg

holding sticks – with Natiouslist Hars on the procedure for this

With the Nationalist flags

the

hoys and

were repeated yesterday,

which the case was adjourned.

„Mr. H. Somerset Fitero got away with some

the discoveryant Attorney-Gez