1933-05-09 — Page 19

CHINA'S CRISIS

DISCUSSION BY NATIONAL CHRISTIAN COUNCIL

The National Christian Council of China la holding its second

GANDHI RELEASED

(Continued from Page 1.) roached between the National Con- gress and the Government.

biennial meeting, and the ninth "If the political atmosphere is meeting since its organization, in still murky when I have survived the compound of the Southern my ordeal, I shall invite the Gov- Methodist Mission at Songklang. ernment to take me back to goal."

The first session was hold on-Reuter. May 3. The Southern Methodist Church and the schools connected therewith gave a public reception and welcome to the members of the Council. Later, various com- mittees were appointed.

zatlana.

and

UNCONDITIONAL RELEASE.

London, May 8.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, MAY 9, 1933.

WOMAN'S BOOK CONDEMNED

ANT-HONEYMOON

IDEA REACTIONS

A FEW OPINIONS

FIRE AT A BIRDS' Sentenced to

SANCTUARY

Death After

BEAUTY DESTROYED Acquittal

SPOT

A Fire destroyed the Hawk EFFECT OF BROTHER'S

amoor Nature Reservo and Bird Sanctuary, a North Staffordshire

A shower of mingled brick-bata beauty spot, about 15 miles from and bouquets have followed the Stoke-on-Trent, which was acquir publication of Mins Borden's new fed for the nation in 1927 at a cost book, "The Technique of Marri of £1,200. age," I which the anti-honey. moon idea is but one of many re- markable challenges to our age old marriage customs,

and gorse-

ningg

of

An official statement anys:- Mr. Gandhi was unconditionally

orams of lovely woodland scenery What was an enchanting pan- Of approximately one hundred released. The release followed members of the Council over two-the beginning of a 21 days' fast

was desolated by the flames, which thirds are present at the Biennial which Mr. Gandhi has undertaken marriage made harder and divores ed the stately trees

Misa Borden would like to ane licked up the dry grass and envelop Meeting. The membership of the in the cause of the Indian depress-thut her views on these delicate covered hills in a huge

made casier. Already it is cleur Council represents seventeen ma- etl classes. jor church organizations

The circumstances and purpose of the present fast

subjects are seven national Christian organfare entirely different from those

not likely to beamoke. generally accepted, of the fast which Gandhi under- described as "provocative."

Very rightly the book has been in the afternoon

The outbreak was discovered ear- The Biennial Meeting was open-

by Mr. R. ed by Bishop C. P. Wang, of the went inat year.

In all fairnes it must be said worked heroically in an

Charlesworth, the keeper, who Methodist Episcopal Church, Pek- On that occasion it was sought that whoever writes a

attempt ing, who is chairman of the Coun-to bring pressure upon the Goy-marriage munt expect a storm of which narrowly missed his home. book onto subdue it, but huge flamer, criticism, for, as will be seen from forced him to make adash for safe- the following selection of opinions ty. He then went to Onkamoor, to expressed to me yesterday, each the nearest telephone, one and a woman has her own deeply rooted half miles away. fleas about what marriage should be:---- ILL-TEMPER AND DIVORCE.

Mrs J. R. Clynes, the wife of the Home Secretary in the last Socialist Government, said:

ell

ernment to alter a decision

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The chief subject of discussion policy: The present fast has no on May 4, was the present crisis political significance and is en in China and the relation of the tirely dissociated from civil dis. Christian Movement thereto. Dr.f obedience, in which movement prominent

C. Y. Cheng, General Secretory and Gandhi his played a Mr. L. T. Chen of the Kincheng part. Banking Corporation, Shanghai, were the principal speakers. Both, speeches and discussion

blems

NO POLITICAL MOTIVE.

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wero The Indian Government is con- marked by a note of realism and vinced that there is no patitical honeymoon would be doomed to Any attempt to abolish the frankness in dealing with the promotive behind the present action failure and would be viewed

at present confronting and as he has declared hia China. The difficulty China has tention of imposing upon himself ritual, and custom is often finer in-fantastic. It is part established in formulating a definite policy this ordent in order.solely to for-than law. vis-a-vis its present national situ-ward the removal of "Untonch- ation was frankly recognized. It ability" and of devoting the rest where the honeymoon in over done There are. of course, cases was also recognized that with re- of his life to that cause, it has by too much travel and needless gard to most of the foreign powers been considered desirable to re-expense, and the leading of a China enjoy satisfactory rela- lease him from prison and to at-

strenuous life. tionships.

tacle no conditions or reservations

In the afternoon, the delegates to his freedom. were divided into four groups with a view to facilitating discussion and understanding.

Gandhi has been

disobedience

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When the Cheadle Bre brigade arrived a charming wooded valley was blazing like an inferno, and before the outbreak was under control more than half of the 250 neres had been burned.

SUN THROUGH GLASS.

theory that the dry HASS

Experts have put forward the was ignited by the sun shluing through

hank-side. glass which was found littered on

An eye-witness of the fire said :- The clouds of smoke gave ample warning to the birds and scores of them flew to seek shelter where in the countryside.

else.

EVIDENCE ·

history of British Jurisprudence, a For probably the first time in the man, tried and acquitted on charge of murder, has been ro-tried and found guilty.

n

In the first trial, last August, Joseph Pitre was acquitted, of the charge of murdering a New Bruna- wick storekeeper.

After the acquittal fresh evid- ence was submitted mainly through his brother. The Crown appealed for a now trial.

The case was carried to the Sup. ene Court of Canada, which or- dered & retrial.

BROTHER ALSO SENTENCED.

after two

This has just ended. The jury, hours' deliberation, brought in a verdict of guilty with a recommendation for mercy.

The judge snid that the sentence of capital punishment must be pro- nounced, and that any commutation rest with the executive clemency.

Pitre was sentenced to be hanged on June 1.

The brother, who admitted com- piicity in robbery leading up to the murder, was sentenced to five years' imprisonment.

EXCHANGE RATES

Paris. "It is not thought that the fire Geneva, has caused any mortality among the Berlin birds, although their nesting places Helsingfors. have been destroyed. It is possible Oslo. that animals like moles and bad- Athens. gers may have been trapped and Milan. killed by the encircling flames.". Buenos Aires,

Shanghai.. Since the reserve was opened New York.

Divorce might well be made legal Cor, say, desertion, brutal in Yeravda treatment, or in cases where in. Gaol for sixteen months, but he sanity in medically proven. IL Effort was made to define the could at any time have regained would be dangerous, however, to causes of the crisis, the remedies Hiberty by renouncing the grant it for the lighter troubles of offered, and to determine which of evil

movement.-temper and contempt, as Miss

Burde urgen. these were sound; and what Chris-

The release does not involve any DIVORCE LAW HUMBUG. tlans, ns individuals or groups, change of Government policy in Miss Margaret Kennedy, the could do in face of the present regard to that movement and the novelist, who in private life is Mrs. crisis. At the close of the after- Government's hands are free to David Davies, sald: noon 110 conclusion hud been take any subsequent action that The average person cannot afford endeavours have been made to make Amsterdam.

the circumstances may warrant, to take a long honeymoon, and infit a sanctuary for specles liable to Vienna. No general amnesty of civil dis- most enses when it comes is become extinct,

Madrid. jobedience prisoners contemtaken in conjunction with

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Among the rarer birda these were Bucharest ordinary holiday from work. plated.-Britiah Wireless.

It is great fun, and a gloriously rail, and sandpiper, while most of Brussels,

the hobby bittern, dipper, water Hongkong. happy time, and over all too soon the 90 other sjecles

of Stafford- Stockholm.. for most people.

Copenhagen

that advice to people who take

All kinds of life, besides birds, Bombay. six months over their honeymoon, made a happy home in the sanctuary Yokohama. EASTMAN KODAK CO., then I agree. But I think that all-fallow deer,

her advice is inapplicable to the squirrels, stoats, and badgers.

shrews, voles, Montevideo. majority of people.

reached.

WHAT MAKES AN OPIUM DIVAN

DEFINITION BY MR.

WYNNE-JONES

“The fact that there were three; smokers three pipes and two

THEFT OF CAMERA

VICTIMISED

the

Prague..

But if Miss Bordeu addresnes/shire-made nests in the woodlanda. Labon...

I disagree, too, that marriage should be harder and divorce It is hard enough to get married nowadays, especially for people who are not too well uff.

lamps, automatically makes the A camera, valued at $435, was place divan" observed Mr. produced in Court this morning, easier.

21 Wynne-Jones in the Central Court in a larceny case in which Wong this morning, in imposing fines Shu, 27, employed by Mears. E. K. totalling $126 or eight weeks in Duckett and Co. and Kong Sio, prison on a woman, who stated she smoked opium because of stomach troubles. Defendant was

I urge that it should be harder 22, employed at the Eastman to get a divorce, although I admit Kodak Company, David's House, that a lot of humbug is attached were charged with theft and to the divorce laws at present, arrested at 40 Wellington Street. alternatively with receiving. Mr. especially in Cases Where two ILovenue-Officer Ward said de Frisque, manager of the people are really unhappy and fendant had been warned pre-Eastman Kodak Co. owners of the have to adopt sordid subterfuge to

camera, was present in Court. viously.

obtain realense. divan at 69 Stauley Street. R. O to receiving, stated the second de-"OIL AND WATER DON'T MIX" First defendant, pleading guilty Ward pointed out that the defendant left the camera with him. fendant kept the key to the upper

In charging a Chinese keeper of

floor, where the opium was stored Second defendunt, for whom Mr. in the kitchen. The floor was un- C. D'Almada appeared, was dis- occupied. The premises had been charged, Detective-Sergeant Fowlie raided on three previous occasions, making the application on Fines totalling $675 or four ground of insufficient evidence. months' gool were inflicted.

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But it should not be too easy to divorce.

Mrs. Elinor Gyln, the novelist, said that she had not had time to consider the question of abolishing the honeymoon, but that she had decided ideas on marriage and divorce.

"I am in entire agreement with The Sergeant said first defen-Miss Horden that marriage should dant was seen attempting to pawnbe made harder," she said, “und the article which he produced divorce should certainly be easier from a rattan basket. Question- to get.

It is learned that on her last voyngo, the R.M.S. "Empress of:

Won Shu admitted two previous Japan" created a record run from Honolulu to Victoria in 4 daya, 8 convictions and was sentenced to

three months' gaol,

hours and 3 minutes.

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ed, be said he obtained it from "I believe that before marriage Canton. He later look the Police people should submit to the second defendant.

to examination of character to see if: they are really suited to other oil will not mix with water, each you know. There is only one point on which I ani averse to easy divorce, and that is where it would! bring harm to children."

A Chinese charged with the The wedding will shortly take possession of a large quantity of pince between Dr. Michaël Lim tobacco, on which duty hnd not Nget Sew, of 7, Knutsford Terrace, been paid, was fined $250 or three Kowloon, and Miss Marle Eugenie months by Mr. Wynne-Jones thin de Lourdes Ribeiro, of 6, Knuts- morning.

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