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U. S. COURT RULING

ON DIVORCE

Insistent On Year's Bona Fide Residence

SHANGHAI ACTION.

Insistence upon a bona fide re- sidence of one year in China for any American citizen seeking a divorce in this Jurisdiction was emphasised in a memorandum given out in Shanghal by Judge Milton J. Helmick, of the US. Court for China, with reference to the case of Rosalie 11. Mulvi-| hill Crum v. Otto L Crum. The decision, which denies Mrs. Crum her petition for divorce. stated:-

This Court insists upon a bona fide residence of at least one year in China before filing a complaint for divorce. The rule Has been liberally applied to Navy people, because it is realised they are subject to be moved about on orders, and that people in Government service, are usually more or less without settled domicile. This Court has several times held that Navy people in the Asiatic Fleet who have been physically within China during a major part of their service, and who look upon! Chinu as their headquarters, are within the requirements of the rule.

"The term bona fide residence) is, difficult to define. entailing, many considerations of both law and fact, so that neither physi

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1935

Members of ¿he family of Isidor Fisch," tuberculosis victim, whom the sentenced B uno Hauptmann wald' was 'the Lindbergh ransom receiver, arriving in New Jersey to testify at the Haupt- mann trial. Left to right, at ton: Hanna; sister; Mra. Pincus Fléch and Pincus Flach, brother. In circle: Minna Stegnitz, his muree,

AUSTRALIAN LIFE SAVING METHODS

Best In The World"

SERVE AS PATTERN FOR OTHER COUNTRIES

Mr. J. S. Fishenden, vice-pre-

cal presence alone, nor intention sident of the Royal Life Saving

BUDDING ORATORS OF HONG KONG

Contest Arranged For Middle Schools

TROPHY PRESENTED BY DR. YIP

The

To-day's Short Story.

A Ricochet

By "Tanjong

EADEN was a man with an down his neck if he persisted in

Minigraving grievance. From sowing discord among his servan s

To his amazement, Meaden's the moment of his arrival in Batu Kuning he had succeeded in three-folto complaint to official making the little community headquartora received no more at- thoroughly uncomfortable with tention than the customary ack nis perpetual complaints and nowledgment, which sent him Rying criticisms. The club whisky to the club with a newer and notater was "filthy," but he managed to grievance. It was "favouritiem, absorb quite a lot of it. The bribery, the fellow had some secret food "wasn't fit for a dog," yet a hold on the Government,"unt'l dog would have starved on what someone took him aside and ad- Meaden left on his plate. He vised him not to tread on Willing's disputed his bills and argued over toes too hard or too often, and his bridge losses. He insisted Meaden went away full of murder- that bis Chinese boys were Rous hate for his neighbour. nack of thieves (they probably were) and were plotting his se- cret destruction. He was a hypo- chondriac with a list of allments (ranging from A to Z, and his temper alternated between vio- [lence and sulky rudeness.

MONDAY'S STORY

Monday's story will be "Vagabond Loafer," by Guy Gilpatric

In short, his character was with- out a single bright facet, and had not the inhabitants of Batu Kuning

A month later an unexpected in- recognised in him a rod sent by the Government to chasten them and cident happened. The name of the make them think better of certain incident was Louise Darrel, the ex- reforms, they would probably have ceedingly attractive niece of the

taken him to the jungle and lost District Officer. The unexpected

him there.

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part was her sudden disembark- ment from a cargo boat three days Although a bachelor, this cuckoo before, the scheduled date of her nesting was not content with er-arrival on the ordinary passenger | dinary quarters. Nothing wou'd steamer.

Batisfy him until the

exasperated

·

D.O. obtained permission to house At the moment when she was Hong Kong Middle School him in the Government guest house, being decanted with her belongings alone, is determinative, and no Society, is at present in Aus- Chinese Oratorical Content, which settled genuine test can be for- tralia conferring with life-saving will be an annual affair and will be hill overlooking the comings and up and down that same structure a fine bungalow on the top of a on the wharf Meaden was storming | mulated, but the Court must clubs in Australian cities and hold this year on March 2 at the goings of the whole town. judge each case on its own cir- inspecting their work. After he Chinese Y.M.C.A., is arousing con- Even then he would not keep officer over the matter of a supposed brewing a row with the Customs 'cumstances and must be satis- leaves Australia he will go to siderable Interest among the fied the claim of residence is New Zealand and then to China

quiet; he made himself thoroughly | overcharge. achrois. At present representative objectionable to Willing, his imme Being the only white person In genuine, and reasonable. For and Canada.

speakers from different schools are diate neighbour, whose garden was sight, she trotted up to him and whatever reason the plaintiff. Information about Australian diligently preparing and polishing divided from his by a row of mango naked,.."Can, you, tell me where my gave up her Shanghai apartment life-saving methods, he consider-up their orations..

trees which Meaden wished to cut uncle Hives?” to remain in Manila and not- ed, might be useful in raising The topics for the contest are down because he insisted that they withstanding her wish and in- the standard of life-saving in "Rural Rehabilitation As One of harboured wasps and ants.

Meaden goggled at the appari-| tention to return to Shanghai, other parts of the world. "Aus- China's

tion, and a voice which didn't seem Impartant Present-Day the realitics

Herein he made a mistake, for to belong to him, although it came seem weigh tralian life-saving methods," he Problems". "Chinese Students and willing, the estate doctor, was from his lips, replied, "If I knew against a claim of bona fide re- said, "are regarded as the most Vocational Education", and "A sidence in Shanghai thereafter, efficient in the world. The work Man's Life and His Spiritual Culti- rather a dashing person who cared who your uncle was I'd ask for an and consequently the Court finds of the Australian clubs is taken vation."

for neither Government nor devil, immediate plaintiff lacks the necessary one as the standard. It is the pat- year residence. The complaint tern of excellence.

The objective of the content in and offered to push Meaden's head niece." On the mainly to focus the thoughts of the will be dismissed."

Natal Coast, Australian methods students on pertinent problems of and equipment are used exten- to-day which are and ultimately will sively, and in other countries be of the utmost significance to the features of Australian practice students in the seeking of their have been incorporated in the livelihood and the adjustment of organisation and conduct of life-

themselves to a rapidly changing saving clubs."

society.

to

DECADE OF PACTS

Paris Leads The Way With 20

ALL EUROPE- SIGNED 145 IN TEN YEARS

and Brussels,

2.8

European

NOVEL EXPERIMENT

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Warm Water Supply For Frosty Springs

The Rev. Paul S. F. Tso and Mr. L King Hone will be the judges.

Dr. T. C. Yip has generously pre- sented a handsome "Torch of Know- ledge" trophy to the winning school.

LOCAL NEWS

BREVITIES ·

· THE GOLDEN AGE OF MUSIC

his Introduction to

Her eyes danced as she explain- ed: "His.name's. Jimmy Darrel, and mine's - Louise." What's yours?...

"Wilfred Meaden," was his fanswer. "Why isn't there someone

here to meet you?

"Because I'm not expected." She Liszt's Memories. Of gave him an account of her sudden and. Irresistible determination to Childhood

travel on a cargo boab instead of the more civilised craft. "The captain's an old angel," declared. "As soon as he's shaved and put on a clean tunic he's going to take me to Altogether, the coupling of the Jimmy's house."

APPEAL OF SCHUBERT'S SIMPLICITY

names

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of Schubert and Liszt by "I' be hanged. If he does," ex- Sacheverell Sitwell in his book, ploded Meaden. "I'll take you there "Liszt," in a particularly happy myself." And In less than a min-

No fower than 115 political pacts, not counting trade agreemonts, have been produced by the diplomacy of the past ten years.

The figuro is taken from the The vine growing community of

His Majesty the King has not chapter in the immense chronicle ute he had aroused the Customs men, kicked a couple of coolies out "Berliner Tageblatt," which, with Bernkastel on the Mosel can now been advised to exercise his power of Liszt's works. characteristic German love

of boast a vineyard heated during the of disallowance with respect to an His veneration of Schubert kept of their sommolence, and arranged diagram, prints a page of maps and frosty spring and with running Ordinance to apply & sum not ex him within the strictest bounds, the transport of her many belong- charts showing how the various water laid on in the hot summer ceeding $20,404,229 to the Public and none of the charges laidings. countries of Europe have been time.

Service of the year 1935.

against him, in his other piano ar "There's no such thing as a taxi linked by agreements aigned sine:

rangements are applicable in this in this place," he said. “Do you An apparatus which has been 1925.

installed provides pump-water at

It is hereby notified that at the instance. It was music which mind walking?" Paris is shown

"I want to walk," she declared. the most sufficient pressure to reach the expiration of three months, from recalled the days of his own ear- "pact-ridden" capital, France have most precipitously-situated vines February 18, the name of the liest youth, when he left his native "I want to meet all the inhabitants; ing been a signatory to 20 purely on the hillside.

Luen Wah Mirror Co. Ltd., will, Hungary, for Vienns and stayed from the sample it looks as if European political agreements in

as they're going to be interesting." As these often produce the finest unless cause is shown to the con- there breathing the same, air the past decade,

From that moment Meaden's out- Berlin, Moscow, Rome, Warsaw, to help them along.

wine it in warth devising something trary, be struck off the Register Beethoven and Schubert, studying

of Companies and the company from Baller! who had been the rival look on life changed completely. He Belgrade, Angara and Bucharest Grass has been found growing on diasolved. **-

of Mozart.

became affable. almost human. He come next with ten such pacts the backs of sheep at Castle Hill

How much of Schubert's music he forgot his ailments and the ma apiece. London is credited with Farm, Perkhamsted, belonging to

The rames of The Ching Slong actually heard during those early chinations of his domestic staff. five-the same number as Athens Mr. E. C. Dickens, retiring chair- Brick Works Co. Ltd. The Tai Wah days it is impossible to determine; The club whisky was nectar, in man of the Hertfordshire branch of Banking Investment and Loan Co. very probably nothing more than which he invited the whole club to Another of the paper's diagrams the National Farmers' Union. The Ltd., and the Sun Kuman Co, Ltd., Schubert's name and reputation bathe at his expense. As for the shows seven new pacts which were phenomenon was a result of the have been struck off the Register. were familiar to him. It is, at food, he couldn't, understand why

still in the air" when 1934 closed normal rains and humid weather.

least, certain that they actually any sano person ever lived any- One of these is the Rome "agree":

The forthcoming 'marriage is met; he was introduced to him by where but in Batu Kuning The seeds had apparently got ment.

He electrified the town by appear- into their fleece when the sheep announced of Mr. Thomas Joseph Randhartinger:

Why Schubert Appealed ing in the most modern of tells and rubbed themselves against the hay-Alian, clerical, assistant, of No. 64

But there can be no doubt the whitest of waistcoats at a dance stacks. The growth varied from Tifeng Road, Shanghai, and Miss

Doris Webb of No. 90 Route Voyron, that'; "the musle of Schubert given in honour of Louise Darrel, one to two inches in length.

Shanghai

had an additional appeal to him beat which he not only danced with cause it spoke to him of the simpli- her but monopolised her; and she

seemed to like it. EMPIRE EXHIBITION cities of an older world.

There were no factories, no rall IN JOHANNESBURG

way engines, no machines, when

Then he began to entertain. A Liszt was 'a child in Vienna; the cocktail party which everyone voted F.B.I. Welcome Plan golden age of music was living be very well done,” and a week later fora hia eyes albeit its end was so a dinner, the lavishness ✅ of which The Grand Council of the near. It is, in fact, easy enough to made Batu Kuning open. Its eyes Federation of British Industries understand his admiration for with wonder and envy. By Jovel

In Grumpy

Meaden had come out of During his seven days' stay he The frequency of fatal traffic has passed a resolution welcom: Schubert and the light way went to a theatre every night but accidents in Tokyo is leading the ing the proposal to hold an Em-which his fingers touched upon his shell. Not such a bad sort one, vialted Whitechapel and White-police to stiffen the punishment pire Exhibition in Johannesburg those fragments of eternal youth. hall, talked on the wireless and to inflicted on offending drivers. in 1986 and strongly recommend Mr. Hore-Belisha, and supped In-Drivers have been treated too ing the scheme to British manu dustriously all over London Heniently," said an official recent facturers.

"BACK TO WORK-

FOR A REST"

·STRENUOUS HOLIDAY

Mr. Eddie Cantor was justified in his remark, made on his last ever- ing In England, that he war "returning to América to work- for a rest."

ROAD FATALITIES IN TOKYO

Severer Penalties. For Drivers Coming

BOY SCOUT MOVEMENTS RAPID INCREASE

after all

Exotic chocolates arrived from Bingapore, and little odds and ende of presents, expensive but in im peccable taste. He produced a His final triumph was the im-yHitherto we have only in. In a statement to the Council. promptu turn he gave after the ficted monetary penalties, but Mr. Bellasis, general manager of

couple of ponies that looked as if they might have a trace of blood in opening of the new Dorchester we shall have to deal more dras-the Exhibition, pointed out that Follies the night before he sailed.tically with them in future the Exhibition had the approval According to the data released them and rode every day and every-

He sang, danced, and "wisecrack- Enquiry at the procurator's office and strong financial support of by the International Boy Scout where with Louise. ed" fa the true Canter manner, to elicited the information that re- the Government of the Union of Movement, the total number of Batu Kuning opened its eyes still the delight of an audience which gulations are being drafted de- South Africa, and that the City boy scouts throughout the whole wider, and its mouth not a little. included such connoisseurs of, fool-manding prison terms for drivers of Johannesburg had given a world at the end of 1934 was Did the girl really mean it or was Ingas Mr. Leslie Henson and Mr.whose negligence is the cause of guarantee equal to the Govern 2.299,08, An Increase by 20,544 | Meaden riding for Bydney Howard,

over 1988

la fatal accident,

ment grantų

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