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THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 21, 1940.

LONDON, TO-DAY.

WHEN THE COMMONS REAS- SEMBLES TO-DAY AFTER WHIT- SUN RECESS, THE BUSINESS WILL BE 'SECOND READING OF THE CO- LONIAL DEVELOPMENT AND WELFARE - BILL,

THE MEASURE WHICH EMBODIES THE PROPOSAL ANNOUNCED BY THE GOVERN- MENT EARLY THIS YEAR FOR DE- OF VELOPING THE RESOURCES THE COLONIES AND PROMOTING THE - WELFARE OF THEIR PEOPLES.

NAZIS 'TO SQUEEZE WORLD'

"We have a lot more in store for England since the Reich has been placed by the Fuehrer's initiative in a position to squeeze the world," said the political commenta- tor on the Nazi wireless.

The bill authorises the expenditure MR. X ADMITS

of up to £5,000,000 yearly for

years on development and welfare

schemes and up to £500,000 yearly on LOVE

colonial research.

'Provision is also made for remitting loans amounting to over £11,000,000.

It is not expected that the maximuni amounts will be reached at once. In-

LETTERS

deed it is improbable that war condi- Letters the twenty-six-year-old son tions will permit of their being reach-of an elderly Methodist minister ed at any time while it lasts.

admitted writing to the wife of an

The second reading would have been | R.A.F. man were mentioned at Marl- moved by Mr. Malcolm Macdonald, borough-street when а charge of but in the reorganisation of the Gov-blackmail against the husband fail- ernment he has gone to the Ministry of ed.

Health and his successor as Colonial It was stated that the husband, Al- Secretary, Lord Lloyd, is in the Up-bert Cecil Matthews, also twenty-six, per House.

a leading aircraftman, when arrested, denied demanding £100, and said the writer of the letters, who was referred to as Mr. X, owed him £118.

It will fall, therefore, to the new Under-Secretary, Mr. George Hall, a Welsh mining representative, who was Civil Lord of the Admiralty in Mr. Edwin Clayton, prosecuting. the Ramsay Macdonald Labour Ad- said Matthews threatened to send the ministration in 1929.-British Wire-letters, which a police inspector de- seribed "as sexual and passionate to the highest degree, and leaving prac- tically nothing to the imagination,” to the father if £100 was not paid.

less.

PEDESTRIAN TRAFFIC LIGHTS?

Pedestrians. may `soon be provided with three-light traffic signals.

The Ministry of Transport has sug- gested to local authorities that they survey the possibilities of improving road safety, particularly by a varia- tion of traffic light signals.

The Minister has asked local au- thorities to review the existing traffic light arrangements and in exceptional cases to provide "cross now" signals, to be operated by pressing a button.

It is pointed out that it may be necessary to provide additional three- light signals so that pedestrians may see a signal immediately facing them.

LOCAL DOLLAR

The demand rate on the Hong Kong dollar to-day was 1/2 27/32.

Silver was quoted at 22-5/8 and 22-3/8. forward.

Mr. X sald, in cross-examination by Mr. Claude Hornby, that before her marriage he had asked the bride-to-be to marry him, and that soon after the marriage. he asked her to go off with him so that her husband could divorce her. "He denied that while the husband started was away in the R.A.F. he thoroughly carrying on with the wife. The passionate letters, he said, were written when she rejoined her hus- band.

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Mr. Hornby: Do those letters re- present the true relations existing be- tween you? Mr. X: Yes.

Mr. Hornby quoted: "I shall be able to take your lovely white body into my arms."

back K.C. I don't

The magistrate, Mr. J. B. Sand- think you need

read it.

To Mr. X: Have you committed adultery with the woman?—Yes.

Mr. Hornby: And you have referred to everything intimate in connection spot with her in writing? - Yes:

I suppose you agree that that would The cross rate London/New York | infuriate any husband when he found was quoted at £-U.S.$4.0250 and out? Yes. the New York/London rate at

£—U.S.$3.27-3/4.

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Did he come up to London to see you, take off his coat, and give you a thorough good hiding?—No; he scratched my face and, someone stopped It.

Do you think you have any particu- larly good reason for hiding yourself under the cloak of Mr. X?—I have a very good reason.

MISSING WIFE OF KNIGHT IS DROWNED

The month-old mystery of the dis- appearance of Lady Nora I, Gibb, fifty-five, wife of Sir Alexander Gibb, the engineer of the Singapore naval base and Rosyth dockyards, was solv- ed when her body was found floating in the River Wear.

Lady Gibb, who had been ill for some time, went to Durham late in February and stayed with the widow of a friend of her husband. She left the house shortly before dinner one day and did not return: 1:25.

Her dleappearance - was reported to the police, but the news was kept secret until the discovery of her body,

The house where Lady Gibb was staying là within one hundred yards of Prebends Bridge, which spana Wear. The body was recovere mile from this place.