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ARMY SEX RISKS: NEGLECT IS CRIME

THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 10, 1940

Controversy over sex disease pre- nature. It is far and away the most vention in the Army goes on Ivor C. | valuable one. To ignore it is criminal Lewis, secretary of the National So- | negligence, bound to lead to ghastly ciety for the Prevention of Venereal results." Disease, urging the need for the issue Mr. Lewis quotes, in reply to Miss of prophylactics, answers points made Nellans, another section of the Tre- by Miss Allson Nellans, of the Asso-vethin report: "We think that a man clation for Moral and Social Hygiene. who after exposure is thoroughly and promptly disinfected by disinfectants of appropriate nature and runs little risk of infection,

Miss Neilans suggested that there is no available proof that the issue of these packets can be relied upon. Re- Committee ferring to the Trevethin report, she quoted the following sen- tence: "A great difficulty arises in far these results determining how were due to the prophylactic methods employed or were influenced by other factors in the case."

"I venture to suggest that Miss Neilans misses the point," comments Mr. Lewis, "My Society, of which Lord Horder is president, does not deny that other factors can contribute to the restriction of venereal disease.

"But we insist that scientific pre-

vention is the only one of a specific

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CLUB HAVE THEIR REVENGE

Hong Kong Cricket Club made no mistake in their two- strength day friendly cricket match with Free Foresters and won by the convincing margin of eight wickets.

Resuming

The next point, he goes on, is "our

their innings yesterday old friend" human nature, "always a

with a lead of 27, with three wickets convenient resource

controver-intact, including that of John Pearce, sialists unable to impugn scientific evi- who was not out overnight with 37 dence."

runs to his credit, Club carried their Supposing some men do get drunk score to 247. and fall to avail themselves of pre- Pearce continued to bat confidently ventive measures at their disposal. Is and when he was finally stumped by that a valid argument, he asks, for Grose off Owen Hughes, he had scor- depriving the vast majority of the op-ed 76. He was given good support portunity of doing so?

by D. de S. Carey and J. F. Lawrence. overhaul and preparation of the mon- the most

Owen Hughes and McLellan were successful Free Foresters keys and men Miss Neilans refers to bowlers, taking 3 for 40 and 4 for 53 was I am at a loss to understand. I

respectively. Following on 105 runs do know that the infection was far in arrears, Free Foresters could only more thorough than would be the

manage 127, Skipworth again being case in ordinary promiscuity, and yet

top-scorer with 38, while Owen the results were completely success-

Hughes, Harvey and McLellan made ful.

twenties.

What the most careful and scientific

The War Office says that "instruc- tion in the methods of prevention of venereal disease is given and provision is made to render the necessary mate- rial available to individuals."

"NO!' SAY TROOPS

Is this carried out? asks Mr. Lewis. Although I have asked many members of the Forces I have not met one who could say it was so in his case.

Surely in face of such facts, it is idle to quibble about "human nature" and refuse to use the strongest and surest weapon in the prophylactic arsenal, asks Mr. Lewis.

POSTCARDS LIBELS CHARGE

knocked these off for the loss of two Set to score 23 runs to win, Club

wickets,

FREE FORESTERS-1st Inne.

2nd Innings

H. Owen Hughes, b Fay Capt. Wilkinson, b Allkenhead Capt. Skipworth, b Altkenhead Perry, lbw., Fay Man, Ibw, Fay

Capt. Grose, e Richardson, b Fay Lt. Col. Teversham, c Richardson,

Fay

Major Harvey, b Altkenhead

Weedon, not out

b

142

20

38

No coa&o

127

McLellan, c Aitkenhead, b J. L. C.

Pearce

27

Capt. Parsons, b J, L. C. Pearce

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Total

Bowling Analysis

O. M. R. W.

.13 3 53 * .11 0 49 3

2 0 11

Fay Aitkenhead Lloyd

A seventy-year-old woman was al-J. L. C. Pearce

leged at Chester_to_have_"peppered"

a Major X with postcards, imputing

that he was a man with two mistress-

1 0 8

HONG KONG C.C.-1at Innings

es, an adulterer, a home wrecker and J. E. Richardson, e Owen Hughes, b

a bigamist.

McLellan

She faced three charges of publish. Marshall, e Skipworth, b Harvey ... ing defamatory libels. Charged with: A. Pearce, Skipworth, b McLellan 41 her was a twenty-two-year-old girl, J. L. C. Pearce,

Lt.-Comdr. Garrett, e Perry, b McLellan 14

whom, the prosecution declared, had Hughes been incredibly stupid.

·

st. Grose, b Owen

B. C. Fay. b McLellan

Hughes

The women were Mrs. Agnes Blan-Brig. Macleod, c Skipworth, b Owen che Gristwood, aged seventy, of San- don-road, Newton, Chester, and MissN. D. Lloyd, e McLellan, b Harvey Greta Marion Stewart, twenty-two- D. Carey, not out year-old typist, of Kingsway, Newton, G. T. Aitkenhead, c and b Owen Hughes

Capt. J. F. Lawrence, run out Chester.

ABSOCIATION WITH DAUGHTER

It was alleged that Mrs. Gristwood had objected for several years to the association between her daughter, Mrs. Shond, and Major X.

བྷ༠vཝཱ བྷུཊྛ ཀྑུམྨསྶསཨྠ།སྱཱ

1

24

12

1

12

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Total

Bowling Analysis

Harvey

O. M. R. W. .10 0 46 * .17 1. 98 0 ....14 - 59 4 6.6 1 40 3

10

2nd Innings

Mr. J. P. Mooreley, prosecuting, Perry said that Mrs. Gristwood's viciousness | McLellan caused her to send three highly de-Owen Hughes famatory and scurrilous postcards, Marshall, not out addressed to Major X at his mess at a capt. Lawrence, b Harvey ... large military establishment in Eng-Aitkenhead, e Grose, b Perry

Lt.-Comdr. Garrett, not out-

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land.

The first postcard read: "To which woman will you assign your allow. ance? Your wife, your mistress near the camp or the mistress you have left in Chester?”

A second referred to the seventh and tenth Commandments, followed by six exclamation marks and the question to Major X: “Ever read?"

QUOTED COMMANDMENTS

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Total (for 2 wkts.)

Bowling Analysis

Harvey Perry

0. M. R. W. 0 .6 1 0-

1

py couple, especially when they have a dittle baby.".

The other cuttings were words' ad-

Mr. Mooreley quoted the Command-dressed by Mr. Zustice Hawke to a ments "Thou shalt not commit adul- convicted bigamist at the last Ches- tery" and "Thou shalt not covet thy ter Assizes: "I wish it could be un- neighbour's wife.

derstood that men who get women The third postcard had two news into trouble don't make honest wo- ́paper cutținga atuok on the back. One men of them by marrying them if they read, "A fellow la pretty low who have a Wife living. The whole thing comes between, what" nay be a hap” lis-futile."