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PROBLEMS OF PALESTINE.

(Continued from Page 1.)

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 1931.

the measure in which the immig-Supreme Council and the Jewish rants can be absorbed without die National Assembly have powers possessing the Arabs, in this way over their own members which may the possibilities. will be discovered easily encroach on those of the automatically, and if the Zionists lawful Executive; and the abjee are right in thinking that much' tions of both to serve on any Legis more land can be made available lative Council on which they are Government Policy.

extra- than the Hope Simpson Report sug not in a majority is an The only policy for the Govern gests, they may reasonably expect ordinary obstacle to the self-govern- ment is to hold firmly to the deto obtain peaceful occupation of it. ment which it is one of the declared clarations made on the main issues from 1922 onwards. These affirm nel land as they will be able to mote.

The Zionists have probably as purposes of the Mandate to pro-

two main propositions:

Ivolonise and develop during the 7.That the Mandate requires all next few years, and if they coween- ponsible facilities to be given trate on this and be as moderate. in as possible in their propaganda it

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The Next Step. There are no cut-and-dry solutions of any of these problems, but I

ALIMONY ORDER UPHELD.

COURT AND LADY DIANA FITZHERBERT.

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11 to 11.30 am-Stock quotations. 11.30 a.m.-Chinese programme. 12.30 p.m.-European progrĽNIMG. An appeal hy Lady Fitzherbert.m.-Weather report, local time. with regard to the allowance pay-1.30 p.m.-Rugby Pross, news, ota. able by her divorced husband, Sir 1 идо Meynell Fitzherbert, of Tissington Hall, Ahsbourne, was dismissed by the Master of the

Palestine, but does not con will; I am convinced, be to their would urge that the Government Rolls and Lords Justices Lawrence

A Thorny Task.

for the establishment of a Jowish National Home

template the conversion of

advantage in the long run, and help Palestine into.n Jewish State;

the Government and

to pacify the 2.-That regard for the interests Arabs. The situation has been buil. of the Arabs must be considered up to the danger point and will ed an equal obligation upon, the Mandatory Power with not bear any more stoking on either that of creating the conditions side. Becessary for the, establish. ment of the Jewish Home. There is no other way in which the Jewish National Home can be puncefully established, or its pros perity and happiness be ensured. It might undoubtedly be enabled to exist, under cover of British bay anets, but it could not prosper and be happy, and its existence in such conditions could scarcely give antis- faction to its Jewish supporters. Sooner or later there must be a re- 'conciliation between Arab and Jew. or the Jewish National Home could be neither a material nor a moral

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The problem in one of extra- } ordinary complexity and difficulty,! and, looking at it all round, I feel sure that no one could have handled it more patiently and cour- ageously than Sir John Chancellor, the present High Camininsioner.

Palestine would, in any case, be very difficult country to adminis ter efficiently.

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It is subject, if one may so apenk, to a serica of religious expitula-7 tions, under which the different communities, Christian, Mastem and Jew, claim to regulate the personal status, marriage laws nad testa. mentary dispositions of their men- The general conclusion is that thebers according to their own legal problem enn only be solved if the Zionist organisation keeps touch with the Government and consents to immigration being regulated in

Summing Up.

and moral system; and all the Gov- ernments are on watch to see that these are not invaded.

In addition, buth the Moslem

should go forward as quicklyás and Slesser, possibic with its own development

Marringe with a man of very scheme, so that it may become clenr that, apart from the Zionist prob.rge means did not necessarily con that when a wife had separated lem, it has a policy of its ownole, said the Master of the Rolls, which will be of benefit to the whole country, and to Arab and Jew alike.

from her husband she ought to ex- pect to reign in affluence as if she were still chatelaina of a big house.

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Mr. Alexander Graut, K.C., Mr. Valentinie Holines and Mr. Bushr James (instructed by Guedalla Jacolison and Spyer) appeared for Lady Diana Fitzherbert; Mr. Bay- ford, K.C., and Mr. T, Bucknil)] (instructed by Messrs. Lewis and "Dance of the Hours" (Ponchielli) Lewis) represented Sir Hugo,

Husband 20 Years Older.

Mr. Grant said the parties were Barried in January, 1920; the hus band being twenty years older than his wife. There was no marriage settlement, and there were no child.

The married life was tin- happy, as Sir Hugs was addicted to drink and was guilty of gross cruelty. In November, 1925, struck his wife with riding whip. and in 1027 she filed a petition for Judicial separation.

Mr. Bayford: I have said from the beginning that the lady's stoto of health would have to be taken into consideration in asscasing the amount, but from first to last the husband has denied that he is in eny way responsible personally for ler state of health. Never from the first has there been the least ad- wission that the husband has been gailty of cruelty or drunkenness. It was pot raised in the divorce proceedings, the questino being merely whether the husband had committed adultery. It was found

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It is recognized that these statis ties are far from giving a complete picture of divorce among Cana. Many couples anxious

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Mr. Grant: I say both. There is 5.03 to 10.30 pn-Chinese Studio practically no precedent, for the re- duction of what has been described 10.30 p.m.-Close down. as a jointure in the event of tho this case Mr. Bayford never asked judgment, said that after Sir Hugo quietly to dissolve marriage, made. wife surviving the bushand, and in

for it.

The Master of the Rolls, giving dans.

and his wife had lived together forin Canada establish temporary re three years the husband gave way sidence in the United States and to intemperance, and there appear

were divorced by United States courts.

With regard to a small portion of the property, Mr. Grant said,

there sue for divorer, but of such the husband was tenant for life, but ed to have been much unhappiness there are no records more recent with regard to the mujor portion he and a great deal of suffering by the than 1022 In that year, when 544 was absolute dwner, Bubject to an etitioner. It is a guarantee based on the ex-nuity of about £3,000 to his thed it was arranged that Lady Dominon, 1,369 Canadian coaples Under a separation divorces веге granted in the perience of nearly a million users.nother, who was 70 years old. In during the joint lives of herself and Hugo should receive £3,000 a year 1627 when Sir Hugo was examined her husband and £1,000 a year after For the past three years, General

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| needs a constant supply of healthy Now her position would be that, chimpanzees. for his gland-grafting. even when her husband had passed operations; the Pasteur Instituto Mr. Grant submitted that when away she would have an income of the divorce decree was made the £2.000 a year not, which was equiva cannot secure nearly as many mon.. wife entered into a state of artient to something like £2,000. Was keys us it desires, and now the the Court able to say the President Academy of Medicine has announc feial widowhood, and the occur had gone wrong in applying the that more monkeys must be rence of the death of the husband principles that ought to guide hint supplied for the preparation of the serum required to combat yellow He thought not. afforded no ground for making a

fover. The Colonial Minister bad to make any difference in the report on the best means of fight It was said that death ought not asked the Academy to draw up allowance, and, in fact, there was ing that disease, especially in only one modern case of the kind French West Africa. The reply of in which such a variation had been the learned assembly is, in effect, provided for. All these were Give us more monkeys." It is ters of discretion and he thought paid the the Colonia) Minister will. adequate provision hau bean made, therefore be naked to issue instruc- and the appeal must be dismissed.tions for the preservation of the Lords Justices Lawrence and simian in all French possessions and

change in her income. Deducting trxation, the difference was between $3,500 and £2,000 in this case.

The master of the Rolls: She will be caught by super-tax. There is always a difficulty, about making allowances free of tax. (Continued at foot of next column.) 'Slessor concurred.

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