1920-05-08 — Page 3

INTIMATIONS

FALACE HOTEL, KOWLOON Corner of Haiphong & Han kow Roads

THE L

Tik & ddvomi Palaco,

DIVOROH LAWS.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, HAY 9TH,

should, nevertheless, be tied for life. One LORD CHANCELLOR'S PLEA FOR trigio case was within the knowledge

RELAXATION,

their Lordships. He would mention naer It was the case of one-who dis In the course of a debate on the motion corored at the church door that his wife for the second reading of Lord Back-was mentally affected. One day mon master's Matrimonial Causes Bill, the re would wonder how we sustained so long a jection of which had been moved by Lord at a savage in its conception and so

devastating in its consequence", "\" Braye,

IN RUSSIA.

AN INTERVIEW WITH. TCHITCHERIN:

The Best

Virginian

completely renovated and refurnished is jection of which had been mored by Lordova ground for divorce was in audy days in the Ministry of Foreigans Cigarettes

T'station. This Hotel has just been WO Minutes from Ferry and Railwar completely renovated and refurnished is now up-to-date in every respect and under English Management. Cuisine under personal pervision, of the Proprietor. *BARA

AND BILLIARD ROOMS, ' TERMS MODERATE. Special Arrangement for Families on Application to

77:

JH. OXBERRY, Proprietor

SATURDAY, MAY 8TH,

their views.

BLOT ON CIVILISATION..

Moscow, April 18th. Mr. Tehitcherin received me [Mainichi's correspondent at midnight on the 18th. inst. He comes of a rich family, and is of distinguished birth. He served in his Another ground for divorce was in dy days in the Ministry of Foreign") prisonant under commuted death sentences Affairs and in 1904 began actively cham It was only the indulgence of the State in

pioning internationalism in Berlin, commuting the capital sentence that pre vented the discharge from the obligations whence he was expelled. He then trans of matrimony. It was said that these ferred his salivities to Geneva, Paris, and changes ignored the case of the children.mally London, where, at the beginning That was untrue. If they contrasted the of the war, he was arrested and imprisoned state of the children as it existed today for his agitation against the war and in and the state of the children as it would favour of the labour movement. He vaa be under the propossle of this Bill, not free in 1918 at Trotsky's demand and reasonable man could doube where the the threat of reprisals against the Selance of advantage would lie. Under Englishmon in Russia. On his return to Russia and after the signing of the Brest the rooted system the children would be Link Fence Treaty, he became People's removed from contact with spouse who Commissary for Foreign Affairs Atta from moral or physical taint was unfit fo

now.

The LORD CHANCELLOR Raid he had to announce that Lord Muir Mackenzie had received a petition signed by 100,000 per Bon asking their Lordships to give second reading to this Bill The Govern- [ment falt that on a subject which so much perplexed the consciences of individuals it would not be proper for them to give such direction as was acorded by putting the Government Whips in charge of the divi-I REPULSE BAY HOTELion. Members of the Government would therefore speak" and "vote" according to He associated himself with Lord Buck master when he asked whether the report of the Royal Commission was to count for

Tehitcherin has introduced a nothing. By an overwhelming majority stain the obligations of marriage Workers and Peasants Soviet diplomacy they recommended the conclusions which has said that what he could to infience and daily thunders forth to the world his were now before the House. The Bill con- their Lordships in coming to a decision now-famous wireless diplomatis Notes. cerned two distinguishable topics. The on what he'rgensded ja no momentous issus. He impressed me is a man whose whole first related to the machinery which the in the social development of the country-being is permeated with the conviction. Commission recommended. Hoe did not It might be that if the Bill was sent to that his cause is right, or a man who, and find himself in agreement with these re the Hors of Commons it would meet with outwardly gold and calm, is inwards commendations, and if the Bill was given such a volume of support that they would burning with a fiery revolutionary tem- a second reading, he would make alter at last be able to remove this great blot perament. native propols. He did not agree that from our civilisation. He implored their the County Courts were the proper tri-Lordships to be the pioneers in this great bunals to decide these matters, and to reform. Should it prove to be so they

"Our repeated proposals of pesos are bring divorce within the reach of these would receive the unspeakable gratitude who lived in the provinces he would pro of thousands of their fellow subjects, and often understood abroad as signs of weak- pose that the matter should come nader the generations yet to be would acclaim themes on our part. This is untrue. We jurisdiction of the Judges of Assize. On for the wisdom and humanity of their the fundamental recommendation he ae decisions. (Cheers) cepted the majority report of the Commis sion without any qualification whatever.

TGA DANSANT FROM 4 PM TO 7 TX DINNER DANCE FROM 8 PM,

BUNDAY, MAY 9TH. Orobestral Concarta during Tiffin

Afteroon

A. G. DA ROCHA.

1

IS THE AUCTIONEER--

10

G. DA ROCHA, AUCTIONEER, SURVEYOR AND

GENERAL BROKER

Queen's Road Central, Telephone No. 2913.

FAVOUR The Conounced.

MAVOURED with instructions

ill "sell by Public Auction,

SATURDAY, May 8th, 1920,

(at 2.30 PİL

· THE - REAL CONTRÖVERSTA

After all rhetorical devices had been stripped away, the real controversy was between those who believed that marriage enght to be indissoluble for any reason and those who bold the opposite view Towards the end of the Seventeenth Cen- tury it was recognised that divorce could from be obtained on the ground of adultery There was, however, a dividing line be tween the rich and the poor. The prin- ciple that marriage was and ought to be indissoluble disappeared from our in

ARCHBISHOP'S POSITION,

̈་

In answer to my request be made the following statement on the Soviet Govern- ment's policy in the Far East:

propose peace because the people from amongst whom our power springs are entirely foreign to any conquest or aggres sive designs. We have no intention of The Arerhishop of CANTENERY aid he disturbing the calm of the Far East. This not approach the subject on ecclesia is proved by the fact that we agree to the tical grounds or distinctively religious establishment of a buffer State between gounds. He offered no opposition to the Baikal and the Pacific Ocean, includ several of the larger changes proposed bying in it, the Russian half of Saghalien. the Bill. He did not object to a cheaper. There is no doubt that the great mass of mode of obtaining divorce: though he the population of the new State is inclined should like that the Courts. to which the towards Rasis, which will continue to poor man could go would not be inferior exert influence in the future. We are to those open to the rich He had no ob ready, however, to cut it off from us and we Fection to the equality of the two sexes shall not interfere in its solf-administra as to the grounds on which they could tion. None the leas the settlement of our claim divorce, and he did not object to the legal relations to the new State as well as additional grounds for obtaining nallity its future entirely depends upon our rela

Japan must resoh If those changes were made they would tions with Japan.

this Sales Rooms, Queen's Road Central stitutions 350 years ago. While holding have gono very far to meet the greater simultaneously an agreement with Russia

(Old Post Office Building). Comprising:-

Blackwood Furniture Brass and from Bedsteads, Tubing, Carpeta and Bags, Overmantles Sik Tapestry Cormed, Drawing Room Suite, Scias, Easy Chairs Occasional Tables, Ertendom Dining Tabla, Bevelled Mirror

Warumbes,

Fictures, Ornament, Cabinet, Tear Bookusse, Dinner Bed Sheets, Crockery, Glassware, Waggons Dining Chulis

Silver Ware Clock Marble top Waabstands Cookies Stoves Cutlery,

Tollet Set, Electric goods and a long line of Sundries Catalogin will be Innnes. TERMS:-Cash on delivery

JUST ARRIVED

A CONSIGNMENT OF

The woman who was deserted by her

deserted.

CAUTION NEEDED.

well as with the Trans-Baikal, buffer State. After becoming separated from

consider it quite useful for both countries Japan by a vast buffer Btate we shall to attract Japanese technicians and capital to different branches of our indus try and to renew exchange of goods. Our general commercial relations would, of course, depend upon the success of our France and Bezadinavia."" delegations negotiations with England,

#

&

The Cigarettes of distinction.

Rob Roy

75c. per 30.

Sunset 888

RUNSET INFLOR

CICARETTES

65c. per 50.

TABAQUERIA FILIPINA,

10. DES VŒUX ROAD, C.

LA FAVORITE

LATEST PARISIAN CREATIONS. EVENING DRESSES, AFTERNOON GOWNS,

SMART COSTUMES AND SPORTING APPAREL.

LA FAVORITE

Telephone No. 2312.

9, Beaconsfield Arcade.

CORPORATION

̈se strongly as anyone that continency was

of vital importance to tharriage, yet he part of the deed that was real, and would would make this point, by which he must be met by legislation. If all the proposal stand or fall, that the spiritual and moral were carried there would still be a great

many hard cages, ^." side of marriage were incomparably moro

But these cases must be dealt with in important than the physical side, RE

Think of what marriage represented, the dividually; the law must be fundamental memories of the world, adventures faced It was taken for granted that there was together, heedlessly, but yet so con general demand for these changes

casociatiecoder

all the demand was for the cheapening of fidently, the tender comradeship, the From examination, he found that nearly much more ought they to count than the divorce and the equality of the sexes

In answer to my question whether Russia bonds by which nature, in her intelligent Lord Buckmaster alleged, the evidence of intends to send similar delegation to Mr Tchiteherin replied:-" We telepathy, had contrived to Redure the innumerable cases of desertion, especially Japan, perpetuation of the species. Those who ince the war. He had been in touch witfr cannot send anybody, to Japan as she has oppoate this Bill must my that the Associated Societies for the protection left all our Notes unanswered. physical was the higher, for if they said of women and children, and he found that I was also received by Mr. Tehitaberin's the physical side was not the higher they in 1918, 891 cases of women had been desit deputy, Mr. Karakhan. Besides explain were committed to the monstram paradox with by these Societies, of whom 144 were ing to me all that Mr. Tehitcherin told that they allowed divorce for a breach of deserted. In 1914 973 cases were dealte, he said among other things: Por the less important obligation, and denied with, of whom 147 were deserted in 1918 sonally I definitely recognise, as do all it for a breach of the more important 726 cases of whom 117 were deserted; and the leaders of the Soviet politic, the parti obligation.

in 1919 1,113 caso, of whom 197 case, were cular interests of Japan in the Far East. If American interests in Siberia are "ROTEED OF VICK"!

mainly political, those of neighbouring MESSRS. SHANKS & CO., LTD. husband who had also committed adultery ship, difficulty, and wrong that, consider standpoint. Taking this peculiar atua He admitted there were cases of hard-Japan are incomparably deeper, not only

JACBRO PRODUCTS from the political but from the economie could get relief but & woman who was ed individually, were heartbreaking, buty tion into consideration we have decided deserted by a soldier from overseas, could not identify her husband and prove adal viewed Droportionately, their number was to delimitate Eastern Siberia "under a tery, and was unable to get relief. There small. The House alust proceed with can special regine. Let the local Zemstvo or were thousands, tens of thousands of tion, for whatever was done would be done a similar democratie organisation rule people in that position. He knew it was irrevocably the door would be opened, there and determine such laws, as would not the intention of the opponents of the and experience went to show that however allow foreigners to continue their peace Bill to encourage, adultery, but let them wrongly it might be used, it could not he ful occupations-Japan Chronicle, consider the case of a young woman of closed again. The Bill touched the whole (The remainder of the telegram has been twenty-two who was left for the rest of life of England. There were about nine censored by the Japanese Government.] her life by a fugitive husband whom she million married couples in England, burb could never identity. The Archbishop of the number of cases about which they were York had said that judicial separation was talking was very few, and they must be open to her. It was the caddest thing for war lest in helping the faw they might the Church to support a state of affairs not bring unrest and distress on the ins which really meant that the only alter-finitely more numerous happy home

Mr. H. H. Fox, C.M.G., Commercial native to this Bill was a state of judicial Moreover, this was the worst moment to Reparation. He was prepared to say that deal with the question. The wildest pro Counsellor at Shanghai, calls attention in judicial separation was a hotbed of rice, posals for social and other reform were a recent despatch to the wasteful practice They were told that such a woman of being made all over Europe. He agreed of manufacturers and exporters not only twenty-two should remain chaste. For that there should be cheaper divorce, in the United Kingdom, but also in prac that age this cold admonition of the grounds for declaring marriage annulled. trade circulars, catalogues, etc,, to Chinese cloisters, and he did not believe that the If their Lordships supported a Bill em- firms who have ceased to exist and whowo. Supreme Being had set a standard which bodying such measures they would do all addresses have apparently boen taken 3,000 years of Christian experience bad that was needed in England to-day from out-of-date directories. It is also shown that human nature in its vigorous Lord PARMOUR (U.) said that the pointed out that the addresses on commu prime could not support: Do not let them Christian and religious aspect of marriage nication are in many cases given, in delude themselves. It meant that new was the fundamental matter which could Romanised Chinese, which makes identi LONDON SELLING AGENTS connections were formed, and that in an not be eliminated when the great question fication almost impossible, with the result

TEA, INDIGO ·..

overwhelming number of cases the man or of the sanctity of marriage was being dealt that the Chineso postal authorities are. woman entered into adulterous relations. with The more opportunities given for unable to deliver Was not the legislature responsible for all divorce, the mere restlessness would grow. these adulterous anions and for their The appetite increased with what it fed consequences 1

SHIPS CLOSET BALTIC PACIFIC

MEDITERRANEAN ABOVE AND BELOW WATER

LINE

WARREN & Co.. Ltd,

20 & 23, Des Vonne Road, Central,

Established 1900,

FIBREE

BEIFTLES

EXILDERD ..

#I

Bold flation fa Bellick and Condinarial.

HIDES & SKINS Maricada.

FUBBER DRUGS

COTTON, WOOL Bamples vained.

ORES MICA

GUME, AND

GENERAL

PRODUCETM

Bork porta for ecmaigumente in dienbed.

KEYMER, SÓN & CO.

(Import Dept.) Whitefriars,

Londons. Telograma, "Keymer, London. Eat. 1844.

NEW GROUNDS FOR DIVORCE..

People objected to bringing into the world illegitimate children, and there were thousands of Englishmen and Eng. lishwomen at the prime of their lives who were condemned to sterile marriages be cause they would not desire to bring into the world illegitimate children. These people were living their lives in circum- stances in which they law no gleam of hope, and they asked for mercy and FRENCH LESSONS e It was said that mischief would follow the passing of the Bill. Was the mischief that might follow worse than the mischief that which existed to-day? They were not dealing with a new heaven, but with an imperfect world

MOUSSION.

18, Monnison Huṛ Bold.?

PUBLISHED "TO-DAY

HONGKONG WEEKLY

PRESS.

CONTAINING ALL THE WERK

LOCAL NEWE.

The Paper, to bend Home

Dealing with cruelty as a ground for diyorce he said that in some cases a woman

on.

FLATIZBING ST. MATTHIEW. The Marquess of SALISBURY (U.) appeal- to the House to vote against the Bill. The Lord Chancellor had referred to St. Matthew, but he preferred Bt. Matthew to the Lord Chancellor.

The LORD CHANCELLOR-I agreed with St. Matthew (Laughter.)

CORRESPONDENCE WITH

CHINESE FIRMS.

British firms desirous of entering the China market should apply to the Depart ment of Overseas Trade or to the Commer Cial Counsellor at Shanghai for informa tion as to the classes of goods which are likely to find a sale in China,, and for the names of arms who would be suitable as agents, thereby saving themselves the trouble and expanse of sending out circulars, which may in many cases not be productive of satisfactory results. The practice of sending out inquiries to all British Contular Officers in China on the same subject often leads to an unnecessary duplication of work.

The Marquess of, SALISBURY aid he thought St. Matthew would be Battered Renewed laughter) All our Western ideas of marriage had evolved under the doctrines of the Christian Church, and it was of vital importance that that which

The Marquess of SALIBURY thought the had been accepted and acted on for two thousand years should as far as possible Lord Chancellor would ind it difficult to be maintained. The ground on which the resist it on logical grounds. The question Lord Chancellor would have them stand was not whether the divorce laws were Was uncertain-sa the Archbishop had to be reformed but whether their could not go on living with her husband stain diseases were to be a ground for Bill or a more moderate one. He donbted described it, “a slippery slope At":[5. Lordships were to accept this moet drastia without incurring ruk to life and limb It was said that it was difficult to define divorce why pick out some more than if working women were in favour of the ernelty. While all definitions were dificult, others? The Bill proposed to admit de alterations proposed by this Bill; in fact, there was no definition which was beyond sertion; and crucity as grounds for divorce. there was every evidence that they were the resource and ingenuity of the law. Taking all matters into consideration, there against anything but the most moderate

It was proposed that diverse should be appeared to him no reason why mad reform, allowed where a lunatic had been confinedThis woman have married is repulsive Their Lordships divided and there. should not come to the Court and bat- for five years under, the Lanacy Law. That affected 40,000 persona. In many to me. I have a physical dislike, for her voted cases the Irnatic had not the slightes, con the proposals of the Lord Chancellor I cannot endure her any longer." Under ception that he was married, and the pro that would be good enough excuse to secure position. wal gravely put forward that a man or woman whose spouse had been divorce

rized by this, infliction to such an extent that they did not know ther bad a spouse,

The LORD, CHANCELLOR NO, 20.

(Continued at foot of mast colum

BICOND READING CARRIED.

For the second reading. Against Rand hepp

Majority for

The Bull read a second

Chemicals and Dyestuffs

Special catalogue, with private code and monthly price lists covering our full line of Chemicals, Drugs, Pharmaceuticals, Oils, etc., mailed on request.

Jacbro Products Corporation

Import and Export

21 Park Row

Cable. Address:

"JAPRODCO-NEWYORK'

New York

All codes used

804-

SWAN

FOUNTPEN.

NEEDS NO COAXING

It's made right To write right

That's why i's the most-

Yountpem

Does not Lak Boratch or Dry Up. Pilled with Gold Lektiem Lipped KII, WHERE IS YOURS?

TEY ONE NOWA

Sold

JEWELLERS, STATIONERS AND IMPORTERS,

MARIE, TODD & 00,

WWE LONDON.

USE

"SWAN