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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, JANUARY 11, 1930.

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Columbia, S. Car., Jan. decision rendered to-day by the South Carolina Supreme Court stated that a jury had been entire- - ly within its rights in drinking 35 bottles of liquor submitted as avid- ence in a bootlegging case.

Mr. F. Llewellyn Jones, Liberal M.P. for Flintshire, in an address Mukden, January 6-A' project to the Grotius Society, summarised providing for the construction, to the present state of the English law begin this year, of five new rail and the international law with reways with a total mileage of about ference to the statua of married 1,000 miles, to facilitate communi- women in respect of nationality. cation in the Three Eastern Fro-

Mr. Llewellyn Jones said that vincci has been jointly completed trial judge had charged the jury

since the war the question of the by the various Provincial Govern- nationality of married women had ments concerned. The proposed new been receiving increasing attention lipes are as follows:- not only by women's organisations

1. Kiutai Changkiawan Railway but also by the international jurists-This line will start at the Kiutaï | and the legislators of different coun. Station of the Kirin-Changchun tries. The agitation for an altera-Railway and terminate at the tion in the existing law of England | Changkiawan Station on the Chin- and other countries arose on the one ae Eastern Railway with a total hand from the grievous position in mileage of over 27 miles. The pro- which women married to aliena pasal to construct this railway was found themselves during and after submitted by the Kirin Provincial the war, and on the other hand it Government. will facilitate was the natural sequel to the great transportation between the Provin fbprovement in the legal and policial capital of Kirin and Harbin fical status of the, married woman.

Work will be started shortly and all construction expenses will be borne by the Kiriz Provincial Government.

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was that a woman retained her nationality on marriage, and it was not until the Aliens Act; 1844, that there was partial departure from that principle. That Act provided

that an alien woman who married

It

2. sinkingfu-Fushun Railway: The plan to construct this line

This was held to be because the

to the effect that it might "taste, smell or do whatever it pleased" that members of the jury should with the liquor, his intention being

assure themselves that the evidence was genuine intoxicating liquor within the meaning of the law.

George Burkholter, convicted of being a bootlegger, had appealed on the grounds that the jury had consumed all, the evidence. The Supreme Court decision indicated that his appeal would not hold, as the jury had à right to consume the liquor and then-it convinced that it was intoxicating and that the defendant had bootlegged it- find the defendant guilty..

was submitted by the sinking MR. JOHN GALSWORTHY ON

Commerce which FAMOUS DECADE.

Chamber of

Salt Merchants to Assist.

3. Tsitsihar-Heiho Railway

Responding, Mr. Galsworthy said he wanted to take them back to the literary year of 1985, when the Anglo-Indians first discovered that there were works from a young person named Radyard Kipling,... when on the horizon the star of Bernard Shaw was beginning to be

a British subject should acquire the subsequently approved by the

Northeastern Communications Com-LITERARY FIGURES OF 1895. status of a naturalised British sub-

mitice. The line will be a semi- ject. Then the Naturaliantion Act, 1670, enacted that "a married

official enterprise and part of the There was a large and distin- woman shall be deemed to be a construction expense will be fur-guished gathering at the annual subject of the State of which her nished by the Shenyang-Huilun dinner of the Incorporated Society husband is for the time being a

Railway Administration and part of Authors, Playweights, and Com- subject. The question of giving to be subscribed by the commercial posers at the Hyde Park Hotel, an Englishwoman the option of de interests of the two terminal cities. London, recently. Lord Gorell pre.. clearing whether she should retain The length of the line will be 40

sided, and proposed the toast of the Kuests. ber own nationality or adopt that miles (120 li) and construction is of her husband on marrying an alien was raised by Mr. W. H. expected to begin in the middle of Dickinson in the House of Com May following completion of sur- mans in 1914, on the bill for conveying. solidating the Acts relating to British nationality and the status of aliens, but the then Colonial Secretary would only agree to n proviso that where a man ceased The lack of communication facili-seen, when Barrie had completed n during the continuance of his marties along the Heilungxiang border Wells was confusing oxygen with work on nicotine, when Mr. H. G. ringe to be a British subject the wife could declare for the retention was keenly felt during the recent hydrogen (laughter), when the of British nationality and in that Sino-Soviet dispute when Heiho was great genius of Arnold Bennett was ase would be deemed to be still threatened by Soviet troops. The making itself felt, when G. K. British subject. Thus the Act of Northeastern Communications Comter, when Belloc was imbibing Chesterton was growing-(laugh- 1914 did introduce to English lawmitter, therefore, will petition the mother's milk, when their humble the possibility of husband and wife Contral Government to reserve part servant perched in a high buiding having a different nationality. of the returned Boxer Indemnity was drafting conveyances with his for the construction of this 600 mile mind on the weights of the Can- A Long Agitation for Reform.

line. A special representative of the bridgeshire-(laughter), when Con- Since the beginning of the present North-Eastern authorities will soon rad was steaming into the heart of century women's organisations had leave for Nanking to confer with darkness, when Thomas Hardy was been actively engaged in trying to the Ministry of Railwaye relative still a novelist, and George Mere- influence police opinion in the direc to the proposed construction.

dith, then a mere youth of 62, was tion of a change in the legiti 4-Kaiping Fuchow Railway-beginning to be read, and when position of married women, and, The construction of this line was Stevenson was advancing to the generally speaking, it might be said first proposed in 1927 but the pro-conquest of Samoa. that there was a distinct indication ject was dropped on account of that. international jurists were Japanese participation which was in those days as now, but there. WRE There were experimentalists even favourable to the reform of the law regarded as in the direction desired by the China's sovereign rights. The pre- days it was more easy for an oyster an infringement of this distinct difference. In those women's organisations. The pro- sent scheme is to make the line a minent French lawyers Clunet and semi-oficial enterprise as the salt

to resist an alderton or an alder- Weiss and the Argentine jurist Dr. merchants in the district will zub experimentalist in literature to get man to resist an oyster than for an Zeballos had so declared themselves, serile for all the private shares. A Mr. Llywellyn Jones referred to the petition for construction of this line also this further diference between away with the goods. There was address of the late Dr. Schuster will be submitted to the Com the two decades: that in this decade a post-war International Law Assomunications Committee for

a swarm of rewards hovered over ciation Conference in London to sideration immediately after com the same end, and reviewed the pletion of the survey.

the cradle of the new writer. fate of the bill introduced by Lord Danesfort (then Sir John Butcher, This line will start from Hulan and

3. Hulan-Holihkang Railway: K.C) in the House of Commons in terminate at Holihkang in Heilung 1929, purporting to British women the right lost to them Provincial Department of Recon- kinng. The plan is initiated by the by the 1870 Act of retaining their struction of Heilungkieng to faci British nationality or marriage with litate the transportation of coal an alien, and providing that women who had lost their British nation-struction expenses will be borne by from the Holihkang mines. Con- ability by marriage should regain it the merchants of Hulan and Payen unless they made a declaration of chow and also the Holikang mining alienage. It also provided that an alien woman should not acquire British nationality on marrying a British subject, but require her if she desired British nationality to to an alien. The sub-committee re- satisfy the same conditions as an ported, on the basis of replies re- alien man.

The matter was relerceived from 25 countries, that it red to a Select Committee of was unlikely that the Continent of both Hauses, which failed to Europe would be inclined to accept, agree, and the bill was not without any limitation, the prin proceeded with. The question ciple that, the marriage of a foreign was considered by the Imperial woman did not involve the loss of Conference of 1923, a committee of her original nationality. But it was which thought it desirable to defer suggested that a general rule be a decision pending the consideration adopted that the loss of one nation- of the matter by the League of ality should be conditional on the Nations Codification Committee on acquisition of another, so, that a International Law,

woman should be prevented from becoming Stateless.

restore to

interests. Kuo Min.

con.

Why, asked Mr. Galsworthy, were then than now. The first book was so many first books so much better the result of a definite urge towards first book proved a good seller it self-expression. In these days if a went into fifteen editions and its author was asked to express his tral, Epstein, and other world- opinion on Pelmanism, birth con- shaking matters, and, if his head was not strong, he or she was acon standing on it. (Laughter.)"

The toast was also acknowledged by Lord Moynihan and Dr. Vaugh- an Williams.

AMERICAN ANNUAL MOTOR SHOW.

RACIER LINES AND GAYER COLOURS.

New York. Emphasizing rakish lines and gayer colours which pre- dominated throughout the display," the annual Automobile, Show opened on January 4 at the Grand Central Palace.

of interest was a first showing by One of the outstanding centres Cadillas, heretofore makers of an eight-eglinder machine, of a 18. cylinder production

Action by the League of Nations,

Mr. Llewellyn Jones Baid that The League committee of experts, though the trend of legislation was representing tile principal legal in the direction of placing the mar system of the world, had referred ried woman on exactly the same A total of 125 models were on to a sub-committee three problem footing, as the husband, yet it was view. arising out of the conflict of laws probable that for a very long view That sub- that the married woman, should regarding nationality. committee in its report said that in automatically be deemed to hate Belgium, France, and most of the the same nationality as her husband, new European States a woman did and, at any rate, would cling to the not lose her nationality by marriage principle that an alien woman Loan alien unless she gained the marrying a national should assume nationality of the husband. In an his nationality. He expressed the other group. of States, including hope that the conference which will Great Britain, the original nation meet at Geneva next spring would In general; wheel bases were lon- ality of the woman was lost uncon decide to accept the recommenda- ger and the appearance of the cars ditionally on marriage. In two tions of the League rommittee, tended to be racier and brighter. European States only, Russia and with a view to obviating such con- Bullet headlights are seen on a Tarkey, was the status of a woman ditions as Statelesiness or double considerable number of models, nationalunaltered haberzzimeringognatiskality which reacted from the Yelping toward the effect of latent

(Continued on next Column.) present conflicting laws.

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