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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 11th, 1928.

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£800 DAMAGES.

Miss Bella Reid, of Elthiron road, Parson's Green, Falham, S.W., claimed damages for alleged breach of promise of marri- age from Mr. Frank Gray, of Piccards House, Bridge-street, Guildford, Surrey, before Mr. Justice Hawke and a common jury. Sir Henry Maddocks, K.C.. for Miss Reid, said that she was now nged 36. Mr. Gray, who was 60, was a retired captain in the Mer- chant Service, with considerable

means.

His Reid, who was then employ-] ed as companion to a woman, first met Mr. Gray in 1015 on a voyage from India to England, she being 23. and be a widower of 47. He proposed to her, but she refused him.

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In 1918 they met in London by appointment and he introduced her to his two daughters-"two very nice girls," said Sir Henry. She ultimately learned that he had married again. In 1028 he wrote stating that he was obtaining a divorce.

In December of that year he wrote to her, in America saying that at long last he was a free man. "I am not a young man," he wrote, but I do want the com- panionship of a good woman like yourself. It sounds like a business proposition writing in this man-

. You never told me whe ther you are domesticated and cap- able of managing a home of your own.. Tell me in your next."

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In another letter he wrote: "My dearest old girl,I am looking forward anxiously for ply to my last letter ask- ing if you are prepared to look after your old man for the rest of his life, care for him, keep his feet warm. He underlined the following passage:-"Try me,' Bella, and I will not fail you in Lay respect.”

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In reply to this she wrote to say she would marry him.

Miss Reid returned from the United States to marry Mr. Gray, She visited him at Guildford and thought he Wal on rather too familiar terms with his house- keeper. He told her not to pay any attention to that, and to call the housekeeper Wink.”

HONG KONG POLICE

RESERVE

TORDERS BY THE HON, MR. R. B. C.

WOLTE, C.M.G., CAPTAIN-SUrnk- -

INTENDENT OF POLICE]

Police Training School. The weekly classes for Police Reservists at the Police Training School, Kowloon, will be held on Wednesday, July 11th, at 6 p.. sharp. All members of the Chinese

and Indian Companies who have not yet passed Part II of Training Course must attend, w

Squad Drill

All recruits of the Chinese and Ladian Companies, and of the Police Station on Thursday, July Flying Squad will parade at Central

12th, at 5.30 p.m. sharp for Squad Drill under Sergt. Condon. Dress: Mufti

Chinese Uompany. Advanced men of the Chinese Company to be detailed by the 0.0. will parade at the Police Training School, Kowloon, on Wed- nesday, July 11th, at 6 p.m. sharp for Extended Order and Baton Drill under Inspector Paterson. Dress: Mufti, rifle, side-arms, and truncheon to be carried.

Indian Company. Strength: Constable R220 R. P. Ghilote is permitted to resign as from June 30th.

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Flying Squad. Leave: Constables R304 Lam Chung Mow, R305 Lo Shiu Wah, and 344 Poon Lok Chi have been granted one month's leave of ab- July 8th. zence from the Colony commencing

The weekly instructional patrol of the Hong Kong Section will take place on Thursday, July 19th. Fail in at Central Police Station at 5.15 p.m. sharp. Dress: Khaki uniform.

Sharpshooters' Company. Revolver practice will be carried out at Kennedy Road Range on Wednesday, July 11th, at 5 p.m. Members will assemble at the range, belts and holsters, at that time with their revolvers,

(Sgd.) W. KENT, A.S.P., Adjutant. Hong Kong, July 10th, 1998.

NO MARRYING UNDER 21,

WOMEN'S CONGRESS

PROPOSAL MAK

Tae conference of the Women's, Co-operative Guild at Plymouth ended on June 14th, ?

The age of marriage was one sub Great Britain and the Dominions ject discussed. It was stated that

were among the group of countries with the lowest marriage age. It was asked at first that the age should be raised to 16 for girls in stead of 14 and 18 for boys instead of 18, but it was decided after Giving evidence, Miss Reid said heated discussion to pass a resolu that Mr. Gray met her in histion asking the Government to motor-car and drove her to Guild use the legal age of marriage to ford, where he had a very nice de-21 for both sexes, as it was said tached house furnished with won the young people under that age derful taste. In every room thers knew very little of the meaning of was a picture of a woman. He marriage. This resolution gave her to understand it was the passed unanimously. picture of his mother, but she later

saw that it was a picture of his housekeeper.

He, addressed the housekeeper in a most intimate manner. Later he wrote saying he had given the housekeeper notice, and it was a ranged that he and Miss Reid should be married in a few days. He, however, called on her at her

sister's and told her that the mar riage was absolutely off." He gave his health as a reason. She suggested she should act as his housekeeper until he was well enough to marry, but he would not CODscnt.

Later she called at his office at Guildford, he being in business as. a builder and contractor, and re- minded him that she had given up her position in the United States; and said that if he did not give her a doctor's certificate showing the state of his health she would go to law. He said that if she took legni proceedings he would shoot himself.

Cross-examined by Mr. Wilfrid Lewis, Miss Reid said she had no receipts for the £220 she had spent on clothes and in respect of which she was claiming special damages. Mr. Gray had told her not to spend

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Maddocks, Mr. Gray wrote down At the request of Sir Henry the name of the disease from which be suffered, and the paper was shown to the jury.

Further cross-examined, Mr. Gray said he did not get on affectionate terms with Miss Reid when they

met on board ship in 1915.

Sir Henry asked him,how he re- conciled that answer with a letter of his to Miss Reid at the time, saying:

Of course, you are quite right in what you say about mothers liking to see the man their daugh-

tera are to marry.

I am certain I could convince your mother there is not another man in the world she could choose better than I am. "This is, of course, blowing my own trumpet. E

THE WORLD'S AIR PROGRESS.

BATTLE FORCES.

THEIR ADMINISTRATION AND FUNCTIONS.

[ST LORD THOMSON (FORMERLY BRITISH MINISTER FOR AIR)]

immense impulse to aviation, one Although the World War gaye an feature of its aftermath may quite conceivably have an opposite effect. That feature is the dependence of the aircraft industries in the prin-

In Great Britain, France, Italy, and eipal victorious belligerent States on orders for military machines, i the United States, and probably in Russia, "the demand for these is far greater than it is for commercial aircraft, and naturally, the indus- to supply it. tries concerned are organised so as

Performance And Design.

proportion of the time and money As a consequence, an unduly large of designers and constructors in all production of machines, fitted with these countries is devoted to the powerful engines, capable of high speed at altitudes of 10,000 or 13,000 ft., and handy to maneuvre. It is, of course, essential that military this" performance," but there is aeroplanes should be designed for undoubtedly too marked a tendency in all countries with Air Forces to sacrifice the general and more scientific development of aviation to the power and speed required in aeroplanes designed for air war- fare,

This is undesirable from every point of view and must, ultimately, After all, the real significance of react unfavourably on Air Forces. aviation is that it is a means of transportation, and its fature will depend on whether or not air travel can be made both safe and cheap. To starve the research work neces- sary to secure these two conditions, because of the greater demand for machines with exceptional perform- ance, would be a short-sighted policy. It is probably true to say that the claims of military and civil aviation can best be met and

equitably adjusted if both are ad- ministered by the same department under a Secretary of State. This is the system of Great Britain.

Administration Of Air Forces," Various methods of administering Air Forces exist at present. Ia Great Britain, the Air Ministry con- trols all branches of military avia- tion. This organisation was satab lished under the stress of war, after two alternatives had been tried and failed, and emerged triumphantly 'from the severest of all tests, Nevertheless, it still has critics, and military air arms, as in the some of whom want separate navalį

United States, while others would like to place military aviation under { one of the older Service Depart ments, as is the case in France. Italy has followed the example of Great Britain in this respect and Signor Mussolini is himself the Secretary of State for Air.

Functions Of Air Forces. Perhaps the explanation of the persistence of so many different solutions of the same problem is. that the functions of the Air Forces)

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LONDON, June 14th. ed yesterday morning in the tree- Medieval pageantry was re-enact- surrounded garden of Clarence House, St. James's Palace, when the Duke of Connaught inspected" the King's Body Guard of the Yeomen of the Guard.

Round the garden theso eighty veterans of the British Army marched to the music of the Irish Guards' drum and to band. Everyone was a picked ex-non.com- missioned officer," and "all had seen war service in some part of the world.

in the countries mentioned are Great Britain has over 750 machines different. The British Air Force, in various parts of the world, and

it is also the first line of home de proximately the same. and ears for the sea and land forces, Force in the United States is ap- 30 ON PARADE AT AGE OF 70. "for example, not only provides eyes the numerical strength of the Air

fence and responsible for policing and protecting territories like Iraq, criterion, however; ground organi- Trans-Jordania, and the Hinterland. If it were split up be- considered.. Although Germany has Adensation and reserves have also to be tween the Army and Navy, over no Air Force at all, she possesses lapping, confusion, waste, and con- a large and efficiently organised air sequent loss of efficiency would be transport system, which constitutes inevitable, and if it were put exclus a national reserve. sively under either a paralysing Air Forces As a Deterrent,

In France, on the other hand, the

Speaking generally, the size of an Army is supreme; the people look Air Force is determined by the to it for security from invasion, and functions it has to perform. Those regard the Air Force as an anxiliary functions are nominally defensive, and subordinate arm. They may but since the only defence against be mistaken, but, this being their air attack is counter-attack, the attitude, it is only logical for the problem becomes extremely compli French War Office to administer cated. In its simplest terms it may the French Air Force. This ar- be expressed as follows:--Nationa rangement does not suit the French maintain Air Forces which, in the Navy, whose complaints are loud opinion of competent advisers, are and long.

adequate to serve as a deterrent to The system which obtains in the any hostile action on the part of a United States was tried in Great State within striking distance by Britain, before and during the early air. 'goes on: I should also explain it was not

part of the World War, with un- Needless to say, expert opinion on ber I was asking to marry but her satisfactory results. To judge by such a point as this is seldom, if daughter Bella.

the Report of one Commission, it ever, unanimous; but in spite of does not work well in America; but the vagueness of the term the frank disclosures of the Report rent," reprisals, even by a numeri-bearing, came the Duke of Con in question caused such dismay in cally inferior Air Force, are so influential quarters that a white dreaded that the most powerful washing Commission had to be States would hesitate before pro- appointed. For the present the voking them. United States are practically in- With the cultivation of "air muse from air attack, and for this sense" among civilised people, and reason a peacetime administration a wider comprehension of the usca can be tolerated. With the further and opportunities of aviation, it development of military aviation, may be hoped that its abuse will and more particularly of airships, come to be regarded as an inter- almost certainly be forced to tighten the authorities in Washington will national crime. up the organisation for air defence.

Mr. Justice Hawke: That sounds rather as if you contemplated' mar- riage-It does, but I have no re- collection of it

Bir Henry: Your letter'

...

a great deal of money on clothes. "I think most girls like to be Mr. Lewis: You did yourself naked to be married at least once pretty well on dresses eight pre in a lifetime." vious to leaving America --Yes, I' left Americs in the heat of June and I had to have four white dresses for day wear.

'Offer After Writ,

i

The Housekeeper.

the faintest recollection of it.

Mr. Gray said that he had not

Miss Reid's offer to be his house- keeper till he was fit to marry was an attempt to nail him down.

Mr. Lewis: Why did you refuse to marry Mr. Gray when he offered. She insisted on conditions he through his solicitors after the could not agree to, including the issue of the writ 1-I wanted a dog discharge of his housekeeper. tor's cortificate as proof of his Bir Henry: Did you expect to health wanted my life made keep a wife and a housekeeper ?— safe in his keeping

Many men keep a housekeeper as Mr. Gray, in evidence, saft he well as a wife. considered that to have married Were you contemplating retain Miss Reid in his then conditioning the housekeeper if you married would have, been a criminal net. Miss Reid Yea The offer to marry her ke later The jury found a verdict for mada through his solicitors was Miss Reid; assessing damages at perfectly bona fide.

2000. Judgment accordingly, with costa.

(Continued on next Column),

Bize of Air: Forces. France, maintains the largest Air Force in the world, with 1,350 first- line machines. Italy, comes second, unless Russia can lay claim to that position--some authorities declare that the Russian Air Force com prises 950 military aeroplanes,

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As they drew up. in two lines, waiting for the inspection, the Privileged crowd in the garden. noticed their square-cut beards above their shite ruffles, their. Tudor hate of black, with a band of red, white, and blue rodes, the brightness of the gold facings on their tunics, their red stockings and old-fashioned black shoes.

Then, upright and military in

naught in the undress uniform of n Field Marshal. The royal salute and the presenting of pikes, "follow- ed, and then the inspection. The Duke said:

You, the Yeomen of the Guard," represent the greatest body of old N.C.O.'s in the world, a body to which the country owes so much for its loyalty, devotion, and example to men. I congratulate you on your turn-out. You have shown a specimen of the smarte "ness and discipline which has survived from the example which you set to the men of your regi- ment during your Army service. Among them were two aged 85, several aged 80, and nearly thirty who were more than 70. And not one faltered in the beat of the sun..