1939-02-21 — Page 11

THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 21, 1939,

"BUT WHY US" ASK TUBE BOMB VICTIMS

TWO EARLS IN DIVORCE SUIT

For Lord Cottenham

The Earl of Cottenham was granted a decree nisi by Mr. Jus tice Buckmill in the Divorce Court because of the adultery of his

wife, Venetia, with his cousin, the Earl of Devon, who was cited as

co-respondent. The suit was un- defended.

Lord Cottenham, whose names gave his address as Grenville

were given as Mark Everard Pepys,

House, Dolphin-square, W.

The marriage took place in 1927 at St. Margaret's, Westminster, and there are two daughters, Lord

and Lady Cottenham lived at vari-

ous addresses, including Oak Hill- park, Hampstead.

Lord Cottenham's case was that after he returned from America in

July last he found that his wife was in love with Lord Devon, In August the stayed with Lord Devon at a Brighton hotel.

The petitioner was given costs against the co-respondent and the custody of the children.

I.R.A. OUTRAGES AFFECT THE INNOCENT

London, February 4.

Bombs explode in London political tem- pers flame up ・・・ public works are damaged and THESE are the people who suffer

They don't know exactly what is wrong, except that his legs have suffered most. His legs and him a milk roundsman,

“Why does this happen to people like us? We don't care about politics and Ireland and that sort of thing, and yet it is poor people like na who are suffering for the bitter- ness."-

Wearily she passed a hand over her brow. "I just can't understand

it.”

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Glancing at his watch, grey-hair-

ed Joseph Eyre, sixty, a ticket col- lector at Tottenham Court-road Tube

who was to relieve him..

A milkman walked into the staff room at Lei-station, looked round for the man cester-square Tube station yesterday, whistling, Two seconds later he was lying Swinging a bottle of milk in each hand. For two in agony, unable to move, deafened years he had bustled in just like that. But yester by the explosion which had shaken day he did not bustle out again.

When consciousness returned he was lying in a hospital bed, head bandaged, arms bandaged, pain nagging violently in his legs. He turned his head to see his pretty wife sitting beside his bed, forcing a smile to her tear-stained eyes.

He tried to smile behind his band- but the smile would not come. ages,

"What good am I without my legs?" he cried. "What good am I without legs?"

Love-Need Of The Sexes, By A Woman Professor

"The love-need of the sexes dur-, than the sight of pale-faced chil- ing adolescence" was the theme of dren in cars tearing along the an intriguing address given at a main roads and missing everything mental hygiene conference at Cen on the way." tral Hall, Westminster, by Profes- A paper by Mr. C. M. Cox, head- sor Olive Wheeler, of University master of Berkhamsted School, College, Cardiff;

supporting the view that biology "It is

now well known," she should be included in the curricu- said, “that in adolescence there is lum of every secondary school, not only a broadening, but also the was read by Dr. Crichton-Miller, beginning of a. redirection of the as he could not be present. He love-need of the individual towards said, "The adolescent's curiosity the opposite sex. Should second-concerning the facts of life is in- ary education then continue to be tense, and he has the right to be planned for boys and girls separ- given a proper understanding of ately?"

creativeness and birth.".

“YOUNG WOODLEY” CITED "The difficulties of “Young Woodley, who in a boys' boarding school could find no suitable friend of the opposite sex to respond to his emotional needs, and whose affections, therefore, fastened on the young wife of the headmaster, “are not unusual in boys' schools, and have their parallel - also in girls' schools.”`

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There was positive evidence, she declared, that in many cases the separation of the sexes dur ing adolescence did not lead to emotional health.

“This is surely sufficient to justify experiments in co-educa- tion, both in secondary and also in the newer central and senior schools," she suggested, "and to warrant an attitude of opon- mindedness on the • part of educa- tion authorities in regard to the

the station.

He was due to go off duty in fivo minutes when the explosion occur-

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"IF HE SHOULD DIE",

His sister told me at the neat little villa in Highlever-road, North

Kensington, where she lives with the injured man:-

"My brother is far more serion.

Albert Edward Brice is not, in-ly injured than he knows. Besides terested in politics. He has never having fractured an arm and leg, been to Ireland.

it is thought that he is injured in- ternally.

The nearest he has ever got to the problem of Home Rule is the worry “At the minute when he should of keeping Mrs. Brice, his son have been coming home,. I was Leonard, aged eleven, and his hurrying to the hospital to see him.

a week

daughter Ethel, nine and about Until the bomb struck him

£3

Now thirty-six, he has been a milkman for twelve years.

He has left his little house in Stebbing-street, Notting Hill, W., at 4.30 each morning to go on his hum- drum milk round.

It was heart-breaking.

hehe .could not speak.

in bed he could only look

at

"God knows what I should do if anything should happen. Even now he will be in bed for months...

"What am I to do while he is ill? The loss of his wages will be a big blow to us-the money he geta from his union will not make up for it. me."And if he should die.

"I expected him home for ten this afternoon," Mrs. Brice told

Instead a policeman came to tell me that he was badly hurt.

TOO ILL FOR X-RAY "There were Leonard and Ethel to get off to school. I don't know what I told them, but I rushed off to see him at once. He was cover ed in bandages from head to foot, and the doctors said that he was too ill to be X-rayed.-

"Why must these people do this to us? This senseless maiming can- not help their cause. Innocent peo- ple should not suffer for political. grievances.”

A night watchman at Leicester- square missed death or serious in---- jury by ten minutes. He had just left the station when the explosion wrecked the offices.

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