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DIVORCE LAW TO BE AUTHORISED IN HONGKONG

U.S. MARINE ARRESTED

HAWKER'S DEATH IN SHANGHAI

SKULL FRACTURED BY: A STOOL

¡Our Own Correspondent).

Shanghai, Aug. 27.

An American marine has been

placed under

arrest in conse-

RUTHLESS BOMBNG IMPORTANT

ALLEGED

JAPANESE ATTAĢKS

IN JEHOL.

Peking, Jug. 27. Chinese renpfts puished here The Javanes military authorities of causing heavy fo of life and great matrial damage. as the result of confulous burib- ing aids carried out against villages and towns/n Jehol, nut- side the Grent Will, on Japanese suspicion that they are harbour. ing Volunteers,--ßenter.

AÇINDERNOSTNET RACINEMA RANJIJUESTENTORIATECTUROIDER

P

RIVIERA

quence of the death of a Chinese CAR SMASH

hawker. He is being held in:

custody by the American military:

authorities for the time being.

At the inquest held yesterday: MRS. BARNEY TO BE upon the dead man it was revealedi that he died as the result 01 # Fractured skull,

SUMMONED

NEW

ORDINANCE

STRAITS SETTLEMENTS

PRECEDENT S

LOCAL DOMICILE

HONGKONG WILL HAVE ITS OWN DIVORCE LAW IN THE NEAR FUTURE, UNLESS IT IS HIS MAJESTY'S PLEASURE TO DISALLOW THE ORDINANCE.

Following the precedent set recently by the Straits Settlement, an Ordinance is to be introduced in Legis- lative Council shortly conferring upon the Supreme Court of Hongkong, jurisdiction in divorce and matri- monial causes. Litw

Nice, Aug. 26. Mrs Elvira Barney is 10 be Witnesses of the incident, in summoned to appear at the which the man met with his injury Courts at Grass on September 11th state that after obtaining Son in connexion with the motor apples from the hawker. the

|ident in which she was recently, marine had an altercation with

involved. him regarding payment.

She will have to answer a charge of wing bodily harm, by

i-i

A brawl followed and the hawker received a blose over the bend prudence, to Countess Karolyi in! From a stool.

COTTON STRIKE

INEVITABLE

BREAKDOWN OF

PARLEY

the mishap which occurred on the Nivedannes road on July 31st.

The

a collision. Countess Károlyi's car! was thrown fifty feet acrúss rond, while Mrs. Barney's rar, after, richochetting, crashed into telegraph póły.

The Countess severely injured |

1

Mr. Raminy MacDonald, who flew from Lossiemouth yesterday to meet his colleagues returning from Ottawa.

OTTAWA-

BIG LINERS IN TYPHOON

BATTLE WITH THE ELEMENTS

MOUNTAINOUS SEAS

The P. & O. liner Ranpura, and Dollar liner, President Jefferson, both showing signs of the batter- ing they had received from the typhoon, arrived in Hongkong carly this morning, roughly 24 Įhours late.

Both ships left the mouth of the Yangtze River nt daybreak on Wednesday morning, and struck the full force of the typhoon that night,

Officers of the Ranpura, de- scriblug their experiences, said that the Ranpura left Shanghai on Tuesday night, but, owing to typhoon warnings from Ziccawei, anchored in the Yangtze River

YORKSHIRE until next morning..

Subject to its special provision, the Supreme Court AND AFTER CHAMPIONS

will act and give relief on principles which are, as near- ly as may be, conformable to the principles on which the High Court of Justice in England acts and gives reliéf in matrimonal proceedings..

Power to grant judicial separations, to order re- stitution of conjugal rights and the payment of alimony are embodied in the Ordinance, which also provides that decrees nisi may be made absolute in three months.

her arm, while a man in Mrs. Har MAIN PROVISIONS OF ORDINANCE

noy's car was thrown out and ent

about the face and arms,

200,000 COMING seldom imposed. Rentre.

OUT TO-DAY

!

AGREEMENTS WITH OTHER STATES

A wide detour to the East, well aff the ordinary course between and Hongkong, was made to avoid the typhoon, but at 11 p.m. the wind reached gale

tered the ship mercilessly.

With engines going full speed With a typically brilliant jahead the ship barely made half Tapeed, and she shook and quiver- victory over Hampshire fed with each blow from the tons The Prime Minister, having Yorkshire yesterday won the of water which constantly pour

AMAZING KNOCK BY force, and mountainous seas bat-

London. Aug. 26.

flown from Lossiemouth this

Cabinet.

LEYLAND

went out A

of

morning, arrived on the flat-county cricket champion-led over fore peak and flooded the well deck. The nose of the ship form at Waterloo Station just ship for season 1932.

was kept into the wind all day. as the boat train from South- Sutcliffe made his eleventh cen- and it was not until Thursday hampton, with four members of tury of the season in Yorkshire's afternoon that the gale showed the British delegation to the first innings, but the real thrills [signs of abatement. Ottawa Conference drew along of the match were provided by JEFFERSON BATTERED. The usual penalties for the

Leyland when Yorkshire were to be side. offence with which Mrs. Barney is It is provided that nothing in the have committed adultery

The black and white hull Sir John Simon, who, in another seeking to force a victory against the Dollar liner President Jeffer shall authorise the made a respondent. being chuusyed are a fine and ordinance

aeroplane had also flown to Lon-time, judgment for damages. The maxi-court to make any decree of dis-

SCOPE OF INQUIRY.

don from Lossiemouth, joined the They led by 18 runs on the son showed even more signs of

received int the battering

the mum penalty of imprisonment is solution of marriage except→→

to where the

Prime Minister's party, which in- first innings and marriage was Upon any petition for the dis-1 either a Christian marriage or the solution of a marriage the court cluded several members of the second time with instructions to lands of the gale.

Streaks of red rust showed make all possible runs in the civil equivalent of a Christian shall satisfy itself, so far as it

where men and rain had had their His Majesty King was represent-quickest possible time. They marriage: and

12) where the domirite of the facts alleged, but also whether or the delegates, hosted by Mr. on the board for the lass of five sets.

reasonably ran, not only as to theed by Lord Harapden, and when were able to declare with 199 rungellect, and the ship showed many her fight with the parties to the marriage at the time not the petitioner has been in any Stanley Baldwin, alighted there wickets, Leyland giving one of the elements. when the pelition was presented manner accessory to or conniving was a hearty exchange of Kreet-most majestic displays of hitting PASSENGERS ORDERED BELOW.

at the adultery, or has condonedings.

in his career to score of their The President . Jefferson Jeft Nothing in the ordinance shall the same, and shall also inquire The cheers which were raised 199 runs 153 not out! Hampshire the mouth of the Yangtze River at authorise the court to make any into any countercharge which is for the homecoming statesmen were then dismissed for 160, practically the same time as the decree of sullity of marriage made against the petitioner. lat conclusion of their successful! PHENOMENAL SCORES. except where the marriage The court shall dismiss the mission were warmly taken up by which the decree.rolates purported petition if (a) it is not satisfied the large crowd assembled to wil many of the to have been celebrated in the that the petitioner's case

has ness the scene, and these were re Colony and to have been a Christ-been proved; (b) it is not satisfied newed as the party drove off. days at Manchester with a view MORTGAGE ORDER valent.

jan marriage or its civil equi-that the alleged adultery has been (Continued on Page 12.)

committed; (e) it finds that the 11 is further provided that petitioner has furing the marriage ¦ Washington, Aug. 26. The court may not make any been accessory to or conniving at!

London, Aug. 26. A strike of 200,000 Lancashire weavers to-morrow is inevitable. A strike of 200,000 spinners shortly is almost equally certain.

The conference between ployers and the operatives

י

ganisations of the weaving sec- tion of the cotton industry, which, have been procetiling for three

to preventing u stoppage.

up this evening.

brake

THE HOOVER PLAN

AMERICAN FINANCIAL CRISIS ATTACKED

was in the Colony.

to!

were

P. & O. liner. and ran into head Phenomenal

marked winds of gale forch just before scoring games. Middlesex midnight. The seas, coming over with 573 in reply to a total of the port bow, continuously wash- 179 for wickets. declared),ed the decks of the ship, and

passingers Gloucester and Glamorgan all ex-Special class ceeded five hundred runs in their jordered below. first innings,

A feature of the typhoon was

centuries for Middlesex, M., the barometers of the two ships The lowest

It is understood that the break- "We are convinced that we decree of judicial separation or the adultery has condoned the JOINT ACTION BY Lee, Hearne and Hendren made the fact that at no time

flown of the conversations was on the question of the reinstatement can overcome the major Gnan-ut restitution of conjugal rights adultery; or (d) it finds that the

of already striking operatives and cial crisis,'

it is believed that the breakdown Hoover to-day in the course of is complete

In view of the failure of the) conference, there appears to

ment of the Ren

per Weaver,

SPINNERS' DECISION.

declared President, except where the marriage was a petition is presented or prosecuted Christian marriage. or its civilin collusion with either the equivalent and where both the respondent or the co-respondent.!

arties to the marriage were in the

GRANT OF PETITION. Colony at the time of the com- mencement of proceedings.

his speech at the opening of the "Anti-Depression Conference." The conference is being alten

by business and industrial]

of the twelve Federal

hed

GROUNDS FOR DIVORCE.

If the court is satisfied that the petitioner's ease has been proved, 1 and does not find that the petition-

con

THE EMPIRE

TARIFF CHANGES

consequent

נו גז 11

were

| Turnbull (205) and Dai Davies extraordinarily low.

made the Glamorgan score pos recording on the President Jeffer- sible and lammond, 264," played son was 29.45. AT the principal part in the Glouces

these

en-

The N.Y.K. liner Kitano has, ter font. None of

reporta, also teams according to succeeded in winning, though countered the full force of the Lancashire still needed over typhoon, and will not arrive here hundred runs and had only three until to-night. wickets remaining to avoid ab innings defeat when stumps were

SOLDIER SENT TO

PRISON

SAME TIME

nothing to prevent the strike of leaders

(Special to "Telegraph") the weavers, numbering at least Reserve Districts, and it is under 200,000, called for fo-morrow.stud that President Hoover will

A husband may present a peti-er has been accessory to or runni

Ottawa, Aug. 26. It is learned that August 27, against the proposed present to them a new industrial, tion to the court praying that his ved at the adultery, or has

મા uniform drawn. wage ents and for the reinstate plan, which will include provision marriage may be dissolved on the doned the adultery, or that the agreement is contemplated among

With over A thousand runs Who struck for a wich we include provisseground, that his wife has since petition is presented or prosecnt the governments of the British for 16 wickets in the first innings against the system of more boos The agenda also includes dis-the solemnization thereof heened in collusion, the court shall Commonwealth

of Nations that of Leicester and Middlesex there pronounce a deeree -aisi for the their parliaments shall meet early was of course no prospect of

FOUR MONTHS FOR cussion of a programme for a wide guilty of adultery,

of 1106 expansion of credit facilities, andi A wife may present a petition dissolution of the marriage.

The court shall not be bound to October, all at the same time, to result. The aggregate

BURGLARY penying that her tor the repair and maintenance of to the court

wickets changes runs for 17

gives an The trade unions governing the railways,

mirriage may be dissolved on the pronounce such decrer if it finds give effect to the tariff

the Ottawa average of 65 runs per wickel! Pleading guilty to a charge of spinning section of the imlustry

Kround that since the solemniza-that the petitioner has during the

Forty-two runs per wicket re-burglary at a haberdashery shop at. agreements. marriage been

(*) guilty tion thereof her husband has been adultery; (b) of unreasonable de-i have in the meantime, rejected

PROPERTY,

The statement is made by

sulted from the Glamorgan-Notts No. 53, Nathan Road at 1 a.m. to- the proposals of the employers for

President Hoover announced t

guilty of--(13) adultery; or lay in presenting or prosecuting reliable sources after a lons mee match, 1146 runs for 31 wickets day. Private Duncan Smith, of the a reduction of wages by 2/9 in the outset that the Receivers of ape, sodomy or bestiality.

were the petition; fe) of cruelty to the ing of the Canadian Cabinet, that Northants and 1 for 33 wickets anders, was the £ and this has brought to the National Banks have

Every such petition slin state. respondent; (d) of having with uniform Parliamentary action is were obtained by Warwick been head the dispute between the ordered to suspend for sixty days as distinctly as the nature of the out reasonable exeuse, deserted or probable in the first and second Worcester. mill-owners and the spinners. Toreclosures threatened on mort case permits the facts on which wilfully separated himself or her. weeks of October,--Reuter,

held by the banks,

the claim to have such marriage self from the respondent before The spinners negauisations are s

of prepared for a ballot their State authorities have been asked dissolved is founded.

the adultery complained of: relay members immediately go the issue 10 take similar steps to

(e) of such wilful neglect of or misconduct toward the respondeut to be accepted or whether the

Upon any auch petition present-ļas has conduced to the adultery, `|

No adultery shall be deemed to executive is

Home Loan banking system, which ed by a husband, the petitioner empowered negotiate.

will have at its disposal some shall make the alleged adulterer have been condoned within the

SAVING MORTGAGED

as to whether the wage ents are foreclosures by the State Banks.

He also announced that a new

THE CO-RESPONDENT.

Eight.

by scored

Detaile

Surrey

ON

BRITISH STEAMER SEIZED

Sutherland High- and Argyll and

Aeutonced to four and months' hard labour bofore Mr. Page Fraser at the Kowloon Mugisttney

this morning.

4$14,000,000, will be operating as a co-respondent to the petition, meaning of this Ordinance unless SEQUEL TO ALLEGED GREYHOUND

The employers' notice of reduc- From October 15,--Reuter,

tion has still three weeks to run.

Two hun/red thousand men und women are Involved in this dis- pute-Reuter.

At Tuesday's meeting of the Rotary Club, Mr. W.B. Watson will spenk on-The Spirit of Rotary in a Scrap of Paper."

.

u

LATEST RADIO APPARATUS

FOR CUTTING OUT OF INTERFERENCE

unless he is excused from doing so conjugal cohabitation has been.

SMUGGLING ATTEMPT

are not protesting in view of the clarity of the fucts which have| been established.

Two additional counts, causing malicious damage and possession of an offensive weapon, were withdrawn against defendant ast The pleaded guilty to the charge of (burglary.

BUS CONDUCTOR TERRORISM

ACID-THROWING IN SHANGHAI STRIKE (Our Own Correspondent).

Shanghai, Aug, 27.

on one of the following grounds, continued of resumed. to be allowed by the court:—

In any sult instituted for dis-

("Talogenph" Special). (a) that the respondent is lead- solution of marriage, if the re- ing the life of a prostitute and spondent opposes the relief sought

Shanghai, Aug. 27, on the ground of the adultery, that the petitioner knows of no cruelty or desertion without rea-. As a sequel to the attempt to person with whom the adultery aonable excise of the petitioner, smuggle greyhounds into Shang-kennels discarded by the Ball's It is understood that floating has been committed;

the court my in auch suit give hai, by putting the animals Head were found by a Customs (b) that the name of the alleged the respondent, on his or her ap- ashore at an unauthorised port cruiser and that this discovery put adulterer te unknown to the poti-plication, the same relief to which near tioner, although he has made due he or she would have been entities Customs Administration have

Shanghai, the Chinese the authorities on the trail.

The strike of Chinese bus con- ductors in Shanghai still continues efforts to discover it;

In case he or she had presented

The Ball's Head formerly was and the terroriatic activities of (c) that the alleged adulterer is a petition steking such relief.

confiscated the 8.8. Ball's Hend. the Hilda Hugo Stinnes, a collier the strikers against the Russian The vessel is being offered for built in Germany in 1911. Sho conductors is still causing anxiety. Jaale by public auction.

had been brought up to Shanghai Tho confiscation can be subject on sale from a Sydney firm to a incidents yesterday, but fortunate

There were four acfd-throwing to Consular protest but it is under-Chinese shipping concern.~ly no-one was badly hurt and little. stood that the British authorities Reuter.

damari was donellemen

London, Aug, 26. The Radio Exhibition at Olympia Hongkong experienced heavy rainstorm last night and early this was visited this morning by the morning, with considerable flooding Postmaster General, Sir Kingsley doad.

in various parts. The Royal Observa Wood, who inspected, the apparatus Upon any such petitios present- tory reports a fall of 4.40 inches dur-ntaged by the Post Office to assisted by a wife the court, if it sees ing the 24 hours from 10a.m. yester-in cutting out interference with re- At, may order the person with a day.

ception.—British Wireless.

whom the husband is alleged to

NULLITY OF MARRIAGE.

Á husband ́ar wife may present: petition to the court praying

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