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BE AMENDED ?

(By Lord Hewart Of Bury)

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Task Before Judge The King's Bench judge who is not born to divorce and has Only recently the distinguish-zo desire to achieve divorce, but

the written mainly by people who steady restraints of the Vicere fought in the war. But a book on gal Government-and it is safe their war experiences is now to say that these non-democra-written by a series of war resis- tic methods will be more strong-ter

It is to be called "We Did Not ly entrenched than ever the more India proceeds on the way Fight," and will be published in

thing to be done about the water bottle. to Dominion Government Yet the autumn under the editorship TS it not almost time for some fatal about the choice of a hot- The question By all means let the topic of De law of divorce? none of the Native States, hadjof Mr. Julian Bell, Mr. Clive Bell's the right to invade a neighbour,

The contributors include Sir may be asked by those who, divorce be approached with solemnity indeed for the suitable from choice and or to collect Customs Duties They could only be called auto-Norman Angell, who

the, temperament of the patient, Hong Kong, Thursday, Nov. 21, 1935 Domous by a very loose use of Neutrality League: Lord Allen, moment, desire to avoid "party with portentous soleranity if

who was chairman of the No Con questions."

or the physician, should so re the word.

Many recommendations have quire. But let it be the right The truth is that nothing is scription Fellowship; Mr. David so important in any system of Garnett, who worked on the land been offered, and some legisis topic, and let not the remedy, or government as that it shall in France with Mr. Duncan Grant tive proposals have been made the palliative, be confused with actually govern Generalissimo and the late Mr. Francis Birrell; But nothing of importance to the disease

be Mr. James Maxton, who spent wards the solution of the pro- Of all the sciences that have Chiang Kai-shek had to put up with the slings blamed if he recognises that some weeks in gaol in the inter-blem appears to be accomplish- and arrows of outrageous for with things as they are at pre vals of bailding barges for the ed tune in our present generation, sent it would be foolish to in West African rivers in a Clyde the most buffeted has been the sist on a shadow of authority shipyard; Mr. Harry Pollitt, who Science of Constitutional Law which has been, despised by describes the dockers' strike ined Bishop of Salisbury, what has divorce thrust upon him, Forty years ago a student would those who should have obeyed 1920, when an attempt was made ever his general opinion about may with a full sense of respon the "tricks and subterfuges" divorce cases in an "off day” first read an authority such as it and which he is at present to ship munitions to Poland, and divorce may be, was deploring sibuity try his 100 or 150

Mr. Bertrand Russell. Austin, and grasp the concep-unable to enforce.

The chance of any foreign from personal experience the con-

contributors describe which are now so often employ on circuit, with a stop-watch near his hand. But does be ted tions of Sovereignty as the ab-

really undergo agony of mind. solute control not merely power interfering is at the mo

The problem-if it is a poor feel his hair growing whiter, laws and internal administra- ment very slight, for

terms, because he has to face again. tion, but of the right to make anthors of the policies of "hands Ambulance Unit and alternative blen-is, in concise

to off China" and "the Open Door forms of service, and the Ford whether and how, in the inland again the searching and. treaties and to make wars

Peace Ship

terests of the body politic, and indeed, momentous question, enforce them Internationally have coupled those policies with

especially in the interests of "ought I to believe this cham the right to make war was the both the theory and practice of

patient and long-suffering "sanction" of a treaty, just as non-interference. It remains to

ber-maid?” Or does he find womankind the provisions of the burden of life almost grea- the right to arrest a trespasser be seen whether Japan will have

A barber took his go the the existing law should be ter than he can bear because of was the sanction of the do-the skill to make their tactics

amended and extended? There the doubt, recurring often to minium or absolute ownership lie on the side of what is toler- of a London theatre. of a piece of land. Subsequent able both to those whom they of the show the young woman was is something a little odd, and his swift thought, "Is this page study would reveal some slight seek to control, and to those singing the praises of the musical perhaps grotesque, about the in the hotel register a forgery, atmosphere of mystery and una palimpsest, or the real thing?" differences of emphasis in the whom they seek to supplant in Albert "To tell you the truth," reality in which the topic is

In

It was without doubt a sad sometimes sought to be enve loped. The late Lord Buck-aggeration to say that the master, at any rate, was not at average pass-man if he rose early, had a light breakfast, and all afraid of it-

brought his mind to bear upon Often Choice Of Evils

the kimatter, could between A great man observed once Sunday ano Monday get up the for all the mischief which may whole English law of divorce, arise from not distinguishing including the subtle (but things that ought to be distin- not elusive distinction between guished, and confounding “alimony” and “maintenance," things that ought not to be an “intervener" and E "Yes, madam, we can."

respondent.". Nevertheless will the trees be tall and thick confounded. :*** in the trunk?”

*The circumstances which there do seem to be some prae-

of

German or French authorities, trade and influence.

the scription tribunals, the Friends"

Anymore in accordance with reali-

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Preparedness of those oracles of wisdom would ties than any of the arrange "I want to grow some trees in.my * Lew now give us the impression ments of the period subsequent garden. Can you sell me of resembling the flowers of to the Revolution. It will cer- seeds" asked Ms. Newlywed

Certainly, madam replied the Spring in having nothing, to do tainly not be a Japanese Autoassistant. He fetched her a packet. with the case". Even the nomy of the North We shall "Can you guarantee these?" she United States, which has been more clearly, estimate what is asked pre-eminent in avoiding even the occurring if we drop such a mis- most useful action that appear-leading word as ed anything like a foreign en altogether. tanglement", has recently found

lit necessary to complete a Re ciprocity Treaty with Canada that makes

a revolutionary

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YESTERDAY'S CARTOON

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Y cartoon represents the house the

What then is this "Auto- nomy" that we see in the head-

M which belonged to lines? Just as "automobile” meant a car that makes its own Reverend John Pankin of Ripley, motive power, "so “Autonomy"

(Ohio, known as Uncle Tom's Cabin. means a constitutional system that makes its own laws! The house stands on a hill about what sense five years, 250 did 400 feet above the town, and is the same-house-in - which Eliza: took the Nanking Government pos refuge after crossing the pertly

σε sess autonomy in respect

as a fugitive making laws at its own discre frozen Ohio Rive tion for Makden.or Peiping or Carton? It may be said that at any rate the latter two great}

retained divisions of Chins their autonomy after Manchuria But all had been amputated

the old authorities ascribed the power of coining money to any sovereign State as the first ste tribute of autonomy, Was Nanking then able to stop the shiploads of silver from leaving Tientsin? How can we explain

slave.

DROPPING THE PHOT

MAJOR FEY GIVES UP COMMAND

· CHINA -MAIL * SPECIAL--

Vienna, To-day.

the glaring fact that an order The former Minister of the from General Doihara was im-Interior, Majoy Fey, who was mediately obeyed; and all the dropped from the Cabinet dur talk of the difficulty of resing the recent re-shuffle - pre- training those terrible "Koresumably because he did not see ans was ended as soon as the eye to eye with the supreme order was issued?. In Canton leader of the Heimwehr, Vice- silver was called in at the be-Chancellor Prince von Star- best of the Kwangtung Ad- hemberg has now also been ministration, not under a law deprived of his leadership of sent down from Nanking, the Vienna Home Guards:

There is of course another At a meeting of Home Guard nesday evening way of looking at what is going offic

red fast be Jon in the North. The habit of Ma

leadership settling everytizing by a definite was

into the law passed in accordance with

terben- rules, and duly published, is s system that is only found. homogeneous and mifed co munities with a centrs. governmen At no timer, has China as a whole been such a community. Custom, not Law.

The Chin has been supreme.

ese have made a civilisation, not a legal system And

tined&tato

Custom is deeply

babits and suited

equiremen

that May

the

"They should be, madam-

"And quite strong at the roots,

suppose 7"

"Oh, yes, madam.”

I give rise to divorce-in other titioners in the Divorce Court words. which make ⠀ divorce who, in spite of the anxieties of appear to be a choice of evils troublesome world, remain "Very well, I have a hammock may, indeed, be grievous or reasonably-cheerfull-men, and at the same time.”

even tragic But it does not are able to sit up and take a take a Selden to perceive that little nourishment. "Will you have a full-length por- that fact does not make the law "Sunt lacrimae rerum also

A cold in the “crocodilorum.” itself tragic

Things have trait or head and shoulders, si

"Head and shoulders 2 Certainly head may perhaps lead to part-their tears and crocodiles have not. Why, I've got a new pair of ful or even fatal consequences theirs

But there should be nothing (Continued on Page 10)

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