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Hoxo Koxa, JULY 1, 1937.

"THE FUTURE OF

DIVORCE

MELCHERS EXHIBITION

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JAPAN REVIEW

Of "great interest to the sportas man are the marvellous binoculars Future Of The Yen displayed. Very powerful ones are

«Some wonderful instruments are un diplay at the offices of Messrs Melchers and Co., in Queen's Building, which are of great in- used by the Navy, and have a "Foreign exchange" bankers are all pessimistic of the future. terest to the general public. (as lease which enables very tar disposition of the yen it is reported from Japan. They are inclined to well as to doctors, scientists, and tant Abjects to be clearly seen. think that the Government will find it extremely difficult to defend, sportsmen). at their exhibition | Such powerfully ballt binoculars the present basis of 18. 2d.

These bankers hold that now that the visible trade shows' an". which continues to-day and to- would ordinarily be extremely morrow from 10 till 1 p.m. and [,heavy,

adverse balance of nearly Y600,000,000, it is impossible to attain a from 3 til 6 pim.

Those displayed at Melchers are balance at the year-end, even if the export trade" mounts in the Microscopes, the Metaphot. and made of a new substance called latter half of the year and the Government makes more gold ship- various opthalmological instru- | Bakelite, which is very strong but ments. There may again be a flood of import bills in the coming" ments are of special interest to the but as light as a feather, _and } half-year. Medical

old- Profession. The

therefore easily carried.

It is almost certain that the Government will come to exercise fashioned type of microscope®"is There are many opera-glasses | stricter control of foreign exchange in view of the aggravation of displayed alongside the very latest of dainty design, (with or without the trade, balance. This naturally makes the exchange markot nar type in which are lenses for both the customary long handle) made rower. No improvement in the yen can be anticipated in the near

of mother-of-pearl, and other future. It is a quarter of a century eyes (no more of that shut-eye et-

Considerable alarm is being caused in various quarters by the since the Majority Report of the fet, so trying to the sight) and substances; but for the really keen

these lenses are tilted so that the theatre-goer, or race-fan there is heavy increase in the adverse balance of the visible trade which is Royal Commission on Divorce user can see through them with-something infinitely better. The expected to reach Y840,000,000 or Y650,000,000, at the end of June proposed the five additional out tilting up the instrument. The most marvellous spectacle-feld- or the half year end. grounds for the dissolution of advantage of this when looking at glasses which can be worn like

ordinary sun-glasses. marriage-wilful desertion, cruel-objects in liquid is obvious. ty, incurable insanity, habitund drunkenness, and imprisonment under a cominuted death ser- tence-Which have since been the basis of every serious attempt to alter our divorce law.

"Another wonderful microscope has а camera, with lighting- attachment, so that objects can be photographed while they are under observation.

"Eye-Doctors will be keenly in- terested in a new invention for eye-examination which enables the retina, as well as the pupil to be examined. This instrument is attached to a small electric light battery, and the whole thing is so compact, it can be slipped into the user's pocket.

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EYE TESTS Another more elaborate instru,

The House of Lords is begin- ning its consideration of the Marriage Bill which is associated. with the name and the efforts of Mr. A. P. Herbert, and it will be only the second time in twenty-five years that a Bill sim- ed definitely in the direction efment is for use in the doctor's con- sulting-room. and is for testing the eyes for glasses. Instead of the mendations has come before that old method of trying on different House...

glasses until the right one is found. the patient merely looks through the lenses fixed on two small reving drums (one for the left and one for the right eye) When the patient comes to the lense which suits him the doctor has only to look at the number

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Many observers express the hope that when the Government definitely decides to renew the existing import permit system or "EYE" FIELD GLASSES exercise stricter control of foreign exchange it will estimate previous- They are made with eye-pieces | ly the extent to which to restrict actual imports and take appropriate of clear glass and in the centre of measures to minimize any friction each is a tiny field-glass attach-

'ment, made of featherweightBoycott" Of Inland Sea

Bakelite. Thus the wearer, caII

either look through the field-glass "It is stated that a number of foreign and Japanese steamers are at objects far away, or through now "boycotting" the Inland Sea, sailing via Tosa off Shikoku Island. the clear glass, without having to This move was apparently started by Mr. Yoshitaro Okuno, cap- remove the spectacles from his tain of the N.Y.Kliner Terkuni Maru who caused some puzzlement nose. Furthermore, they are made among shipping circles in Kobe by taking this roundabout course for men with an ordinary frame every time the vessel returned here, from Europe. The Tosa route is.. of flexible metal, or for ladies with some 20 nautical miles longer than the Inland Sea course but it is .a frame of tortoise-shell which pointed out the Black Current often makes this extra distance almost slips over the ears without di negligible. arranging the hair.

For the use of doctors there is the "Spectacle-Magnifying-Glass," worn in a similar manner. A tre mendous advantage for the busy medical man who can thus observe wieth both hands free.

Interviewed on board the Terukuni Maru by an "Asahi" reporter, Captain Okuno declared: "My reason for preferring the Toss route is very simple and obvious for we almost invariably pass through the Inland Sea at night when returning from Europe via Shanghal As we arrive at Wadamisaki early in the morning passengers have no opportunity of enjoying the scenery. This, coupled with the fact that the dangers of the Inland Sea are increased by the small Ja- On the last occasion the mea-

Any written description of these panese freighters which take advantage of the lenient navigation. sure originated there" in Lord

novelties is, of necessity, unsatis-rules and sail across the path of large liners makes the course an For the Benefit of Importers Buckmaster's Matrimonial Causes

factory, and we strongly recom-extremely nerve-wracking one. The thick fogs which are wont to ment those interested to go and settle on the Inland Sea are also another good reason" for avoiding and Exporters, from 5th July Bill of 1920. It included all the

see for themselves.

It: Of course, when the sex off Tosa, is too rough we have no choice Next, a Branch of the CHAR-five new grounds for divorce and,

grilled assistants are delighted but to take the Inland Sea route.".. TERED BANK OF INDIA. after debates of much vigour and registered on each drum to know to demonstrate, and visitors are AUSTRALIA & CHINA will be interest, it received a third read-what glasses the patient requires.

allowed to try everything. Opened at No. 71, MOSLEY ing in the Lords by 154 votes to STREET, MANCHESTER, 107 with only one additional NATIONALIST TROOPS ENGLAND.

ground (inprisonment under a 5394 commuted death senteÈce) struck out in the course of the struggle.

BIRTH

It then went to the House of Commons, where it perished un-

ADVANCING

-Paris, June 30.

·

Japanese View Of Russian "Purge'

LINDSAY-On June 24, 1997, at der a hostile amendment and the let troops advancing in a westerly peng, Minister for Communications Army should all hold the same political views as themselves an

DEATHS

Stoneycrest Nursing Home, Hindhead, Surrey, to Molly, imminent approach of the end of wife of H. B. Lindsay.

the session. Now for the first -'daughter.

time in the long history of this much discussed question the MORGAN.—On. June 24, 1937, at process is reversed; a Commons the Shanghai Cille Hospital, sill goes to the Lords, where it is, almost certainly assured of a happier fate than was the lot of the Lords Bill that went to the Commops.

Ernest George Morgan, aged 47 years. OSBORNE-On June 24, 1937. at Woodside, Kinson, Bourne- mouth. John H. Osborne, aged 87 years, formerly a Director" of Mackenzie & Co., Ltd. ··

HOUSE-On May 25, 1937, at Wins combe, Somerset, England, Mrs. H. House (formerly Miss AC Tilley. of Redcroft School, Kuling and Tsingtao).

BILL APPROVED

Paris, June 30.

II.

The Senate Finance Commission

will appreciate that this means a has approved the Government's

.direction from Bilbao

Commenting on the "purge" campaign being carried on relent- MINISTERS `GO

lessly by the Stalin Administration, the "Azahl" says that in a sense TO KULING

It argues a step forward towards Moscow's preparedness for war, Should war break out before the Red Army has been purged of Nanting, June 30.

"Trotskyist" Generals, Soviet Russia would soon fall into the position. The Spanish Nationalist head. Wel Tao-min, Secretary General of a house divided against itself. In the eyes of the Moscow au- quarters report that the Nationa- of the Executive Yuan, Yu Feithorities, it is of paramount importance that the leaders of the Red occupied and important members of the At any rate, the Osaka journal thinks that it is wrong to the coast between Bilbao and San-Executive Yuan left for Kuling by regard the arrest of eight eminent military leaders as symptomatic tander. They are continuing the steamer this morning thus ocial- of the disintegration of the Red Army. In any other country, the the latter town byly closing their offices here durlis occurrence of an affair of this magnitude, would be fatal to the advance on

Cabinet in office, but the case is entirely different with Soviet Russia. forced marches -Transocean News Service.

It is inconceivable that the Molotor Cabinet be forced to resign on that account. Much less is it likely that it will force Mr. Stalin's retirement. On the contrary, the arrest of "Trotskyist" elements reflects credit on the Government and the party which supports it. Mr. Stalin remains as absolute an autocrat as ever, his authority re- maining not a whit impaired by the series of plottings,

HITLER VISITS ART EXHIBITION

Berlin, June 30. Chancellor Hitler, visited the ex- The past record of the Lords hibition of contemporary French this morning. The Chancellor was on this subject is not "unpromis-art at the Berlin Academy of Art ing. Not even its bishops are conducted through the exhibition necessarily committed to uncom-by the French Ambassador. M. promising opposition to divorce. Francois Poncet.- after ali, nino of them, including Transocean News Service the Archbishop of Canterbury, voted for the basic Act of 1857 which brought the Divorce Court into existence while Gladstone was an opponent of that Act in

interval between the granting of decree nisi and the making of that decree absolute, a proposal. which might be regarded as some

all, the House of Lords has the of the five-year barrier. advantage of possessing eminent

the summer months when the Government functions at Kuling. Wnag Chung-hul and Sun Fo are leaving for Kuling on July 2 and 3. respectively Reuter,

FIRE IN ROYAL MEWS

Gold Production

London, June 30.

The Bank of Japan believes that there will be a sharp increase Two fire engines were rushed to in the production of gold in this country now that the Government Buckingham Palace this morning has set out on a positive campaign. It estimates that the combined but their services were not needed annual output in Japan and Manchoukuo will be brought up to ap- An 'electric fron set fire to the door proximately Y500,000,000 within the next five years. in the Royal Mews but the Palace servants put out the small blaze which caused slight damage.

Renter's Bulletin Service.

well believe that such is Mr.

bargains in order to reduce oppo-

In their report submitted to the Bank of Japan at the begin ning of the year, authorized miners estimated their total production this year at approximately 150,000,000, and it was further assumed that outsiders would deilver T30,000,000 to the Bank of Japan. All this, combined with the Y15,000,000 production in Manchoukuo, makes a total of 155,000,000.

However, now that the Bank of Japan has raised its official

reduction in the actual cost to 3 a dozen members abstaining

Plenary Powers Bill by 20 votes to the House of Commons. Above compensation for the introduction Herbert's view; the striking of quotation to Y14.1375 per momme (effective as from May 15th); it is them of beer despite the consi- from yoting. The Senate meeting derable advancement in prices of will be held in the morning when, the Brst-class ingredients used in the final stages will be debated. If the Bill is passed further devalua- the production of H.R. BEER.

tion of the French franc is almost

NEW YORK" FREIGHT BUREAU,

TRANS-PACIFIC FREIGHT

BUREAU, HONG KONG

Joint Freight, Tariff`No, 9. Issued 1st May, 1937.

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Notice is hereby given that, effective 1st October, 1937, all' rates of freight quoted in the above tariff will be increased by Approximately 10 per cent.

A revised tariff will be issued.

an early date,

certain.- Reuter's Bulletin Bervsco.

tion on the Government Bland

as

The Kobe police have started on a campaign to create an easier atmosphere between the police and the public, some of the stations

The Sannomiya, station now provides a factotum whose business

Other services include the installation of electric clocks at 28

Dossible to exploit the low-content. As the messure.... now stande sition is an almost inevitable part Police And The Public lawyers with a close professional both the barrier and the decree of the business of wheedling and interest in this subject. It does nisi period are retained. pushing through a private mem- not follow that they will agres on

The barrier must seem to many ber's Bill. All the more reason it; against

the relomner's zeal people a device which deserves why the vastly important subject announcing the inauguration of certain "services to the public.” of the late Lord Gorell, Lord the very closest examination; a of divorce should not be left to it is to help the puzzled civilian in filling out and handling various Paris, June 30.

Buckmaster, and Lord Birken proposed reform which begins by that procedure; this is a matter documents to be submitted to the police. Specially trained young It is considered the Government | head," or the present Lord taking away a legal facility which that should be settled rather by gitis are also on hand to attend to the care of babies while their crisis has ended with the Finance Hewart, may be set the great other reformers extracted some considerations

of justice, de mothers are carrying out their business in the station. At the Hay-

aahida police station three such girls are on duty and a large num Commission's unconditional adop readiness of the equally experi- eighty years ago may well be re- cancy, and the civilised structure ber of books explaining the intricacies of police procedure are also that the Senate itself will pass the enced Lord Merrivale, to let the garded as progress backwards. of society than by bargains with provided. Bill this afternoon. M. Callias, divorce law rest where it stands. The argument for it is clear sectional interests. President of the Commission and But there are knowledge, experi- enough; it is conceived as con. With the exception of such police boxes in the city for the benefit of the residents and pedes trians. The police authorities hope that people who have any busi- ex-premier and naval representa-ence, and a readiness to debate, tributing to the security of mar-Roman Catholic countries tives were among the commission All are urgently needed.

riage by ensuring that young Italy, the Irish Free State, and ness to attend to at the police stations will do so la future without For the Marriage Bill that is people shall not founce on into the former Spain, there is hardly due to appear in the Lords is not divorce without fuller knowledge a civilised country in the world Professor For Britain. a perfect measure, as was ad of themselves and their new which "does not admit of divorce mitted by its seconder on its third sphere of responsibility. Wheon wider lines than ours, which practice of exchanging professors with foreign countries, such a reading in the House of Com ther they like it or not, they are does not recognise desertion, in- Italy, it has now been decided that a Japanese professor be sent to mons. It is not so good a Bill to have at least five years in sanity, Kid long terms of in Great Britain.

Ambassador Yoshida who had been negotiating for some time as Lord Buckmaster's, which which to appreciate Mr. Glad prisonment, as well as bigamy with the British authorities concerned despatched a cable to the For An Important convention of Commons and Government fel stone's view of manage as " and adultery, as grounds for dis-eign Office intimating that the matter has been settles De Mitou- Near Eastern Foreign Ministers is die in 1920.That Bill, as al- | powerful instrument of discipline solving & marriage. It may be exchange professor to be sent by Japan to Britain to be Dr. Mitsu-- ready mentioned, dropped one of and self subjugation, worthy to the British way to do otherwise, tomo Dol, a professor of Tohoku Imperial University. Dr. Doi will sail Dr. Rushdi Aras, is already here, for divorce in its course through systems of appointed means by it British wisdom, or British Starting in October. His lectures will be on six subjects cove The Turkish Foreign Minister, the classical additional grounds | rank in that subtle and wonderful sa Lord Merrivale claims, but is towards the end of July, and is to lecture at three British univeritie

Oxford, Cambridge, and London University beginning with the while the Iraqi Foreign Minister the House of Lords. The pre-which the life of man on earth Wednesday night, accompanied by

abstentions.

Reuter.

FOREIGN MINISTERS

CONVENTION

Teheran, June 30,

to take place here during the 5396 next few days

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any feeling of uneasiness,

In view of the success which has marked the recently adopted

Nadjial Assil will arrive onent Marriage Bill has dropped becomes his school for heaven obstinacy? Is it so certain that ing Japanese mythology, culture, contemporary literature and

Dr. Dofis expected back early next year.

WANG CHING WEI'S CONDITION

the foreign way is here the proved background. several high omcials, The Afghan two, so that only desertion, Mr. AP Herbert, who has enemy to family life? And if we Foreign Minister is also expected cruelty, and insanity remain. fought long and hard for the pre add a five-year period with no to be present.

Moreover, it retains that ori-sent Bill, has let it be known that divorce at all, a provision which The main object of the conven- tion will be according to press ginal feature, wholly unknown to if the five-year barrier to divorce to the best of one's present know reports, to sign the Non-Aggression the proposals of earlier divorce were to disappear he could only ledge is unknown in any other more British Pact between the four countries. law reformers, of no divorce, on regard it as a breach of faith country. shall we be as proposed by the Iran Foreign any grounds whatsoever, within with some of the opponents of the and excellent than ever? Or

Nanking June: 30,

able to walk to his office and read oficial documents,

Consequently, there - is. probability of his being at, tend the Loo Shan conference the date axed.

able to move about, The Bill as drafted would have induced to accept it for the sake about our way of approach to king Central Political Council is still advise quiet rest

greatly improved in health, and is dieting Chinese Evening done away with the six months of that Dew obstacle. One can really important subjects?

Is reported that Dr. Wang

Chartered Accountants. Ministor, and already initialled by the first five years of mariage. measure who have evidently been just more obstinate and careless.ching-wei, Chairman of the Nan Although I Wang Ching

25th June, 1937)

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the four Foreign Ministers - at

5388 Transocean News Service.