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THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 12, 1940

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"REGARDED WIVES AS HEROES

FAIR GAME”

OF NAVY

- AT 60

DAMAGES OF £3,000 were awarded to a retired colonel in the Divorce Court against a co-respondent who, Sir Boyd Merriman said, “seemed to think a

Sixty was the average married woman was 'fair game."

age of four officers lost Colonel Robert Ferguson Gross, a retired Army when H.M.S. Campeador officer, of Gonville Lodge, near Cambridge, petition- v, a 200-ton yacht, ed for divorce from Mrs. Gladys May Gross on the sunk by a mine. All had grounds of her adultery with the co-respondent, volunteered for war ser- Captain Josceline Reginald Heber-Percy, against vice at sea. whom damages were claimed.

was

One of the officers lost was Mr.

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-$50,000,000

.E 0,300.000

..$10,000,000

$20,000,000

HEAD OFFICE: HONG KONG,

BOARD OF DIRECTORS; H. V. Wilkinson, Esq., Chairman,

Hon. Mr. J. J. Paterson, Deputy Chairman,

J. K. Bonfield. Esq.. A. H. Campton, Esq., Hon. Mr. S. H

K. A. Morrison, Esq. T. B. Pearce, Esq., 0.0. Roberts, Faq., Dodwell, Hon. Mr. A. L.

Shielde Sir Vandeleur M. Grayburn, Chief Manager,

Captain Heber-Percy's addressi Early last year the captain stay-Macandrew, a

G. Miskin, Erg... Clyde shipowner was given as Guyscliff, Warwicked with her at her flat in Jermyn and yachtsman, who was serving He has also retired from the Street, S.W.

as a lieutenant, R.N.V.R. Army, and is at present on war Mrs. Gross and Captain Heber-

Percy did not deny the charges of Of the other officers. Comman. Amay

der C. H. Davey, O.B.E., Roya Halavis

Bangkok Navy, the Commanding Officer Bombay returned to active service In the Calcutta war though over sixty.

work.

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Does a good night's rest refresh you --or leave you tired and heavy ? Does a square meal put life and

Colonel and Mrs. Gress were adultery, but the energy into you-or make you married as the Savoy Chapel, Lor-contested the claim for damages,

co-respondént sleepy, disinclined to move ? Get twinges of pain in the back?don, in August, 1930, and sub- sequently lived at Hong Kong,

Marriage of Honour From the end of 1931 they lived where his battalion was stationed.}

Joining the Navy in 1893, Giving judgment, the President,

retired from the Service in 1911 together near Cambridge.

Sir Boyd Merriman, said the issue and during the war The case for Colonel Gross was of adultery was not in dispute as served on the staff of the Admira of 1914-1 that in 1933 his wife took a flat in it was common

ground that, at of Minesweeping. London and they visited each least upon all the dates set out in other, and last year he learned the particulars of the petition, that since 1933 she had stayed at adultery occurred between the London hotels with

Captain wife and the co-respondent. Heber-Percy,

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(SPÉCIAL TO "CHINA MAIL") OVER 2,000 DELEGATES FROM VARIOUS ASIATIC NA- TIONS ARE TAKING PART IN THE FIVE-DAY "ASIA WEL- FARE CONGRESS,' WHICH WILL OPEN IN OSAKA ON MONDAY NEXT.

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The Congress aims at facilita- ting and increasing cooperation among the nations concerned: It) is being held under the auspices of the Osaka Municipality and the Nippon Koa Kosei Kyokai.

Japan, "China" and Manchu- kuo will be the chief countries re- presented, while official invitations have also been sent to Thailand, the Philippines, India, Burma, Indo-China and Afghanistan. Havas.

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H.K. GOVT. LOANS 3% Loan (1934) $95 sa.

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China Underwriters 10 cts. s. H.K. Fire Ins, $150 b. DOCKS, WHARVES, GODOWNS,

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Humphreys $7 sa.

H.K. Realties $3 b.

PUBLIC UTILITIES

H.K. Tramways $154 b., $15.90

s., $15.80/85 sa.

Star Ferries $58 b.

Yaumati Ferries $211⁄2 b. China Lights (Old) $7 sa. China Lights (New) $4 sa. H.K. Electrics (Old) $371⁄2 b.,

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Telephones (Old) $241⁄4 s. Telephones (New) $9% b., $10)

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INDUSTRIALS Cements $16 b., $16.60. s

STORES, &c. Dairy Farms $18.35 b., $18%

MISCELLANEOUS Vibro Piling $8 s.

Surgeon Navigator

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Current Accounts opened in Local Currency and Fixed Deposits received for one year or shorter periods in Loonl and other currencies on terms which

Dealing with the question of Surgeon Rear-Admiral James Rwill be quoted on application. damages, his Lordship said the Muir, who was serving as a lieu-

case was one of the most extra-tenant, R.N.V.R., was also ove ordinary he had had anything to sixty, and had had a distinguished do with.

career in the Royal Navy.

The co-respondent's case about, the woman with whom he had} In 1916 he was P.M.O. of thi been committing adultery was that battle-cruiser Tiger at Jutland. she was, to his knowledge and by her own confession, leading the

He had qualified as a maste: life of an immoral woman at the mariner, and this, with his yacht time she married Colonel Grossing knowledge and that it was almost as a mat-caused him to be accepted a ter of course that, after returning navigator of the Campeador V. trom the East the co-respondent should

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ALSO up to date SAFE DEPOSIT BOXES in various sizes TO LET.

Hong Kong, 28th February, 1940,

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AND

FOR THE HONG KONG SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.

V. M. GRAYBURN,

Chief Manager.

resume the relationship| It was a remarkable action fo which had occurred before.. a man of his age and rank, and Hong Kong, 1st March, 1937.

Sir Boyd Merriman said that was.as a lieutenant and a naviga. Captain Heber-Percy had made tor that he met his death.

most outrageous charges against Lieutenant Charles Turner THE BANK OF EAST Colonel Gross, but they were with R.N.V.R., who was fifty-nine, wa drawn as soon as the Colonel had a native of Kingswear, Dart-

ASIA, LTD. given evidence.

mouth. In 1911 went to Brazil a: Authorised Capital Whatever might have been the manager of the Manaos Harbour Paid-up Capital wife's character before the mar. Limited, where he served fo: Reserve and Undivided riage, his lordship was satisfied twenty-five years with the ex. beyond doubt that, so far from: ception of the period of the las Colonel Gross having been her war, when he was minesweeping paramour, he regarded her with

a romantic attachment and that! the marriage was, In every way one of honour from his point of view.

"The co-respondent seemed. to think that a married woman was fair game?". Sir-Beyd Merriman remarked.

Colonel Cross was granted a de- sacree nisi with costs against the co-respondent, who was ordered to pay the damages into court.

LAST DAY'S SALES. $5,000 Govt. 32% Loan @ 95. 200 Trams @ $15.80 100 Trams @ $15.85 200 Lights (Old) @ $7 500 Lights (New) @ $4 500 Dairy Farms @ $18/2 200 Telephones (New) @ $10 20,000 H.K. Mines @ 14cts..

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Head Office: Hong Kong. 26, Des Voeux Road, Contral. Authorised Capital $10,000.000 LONDON BANKERS:— Westminster Bank, Ltd, Foreign Exchange and every description of banking business transacted.

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