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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY,

JULY

8,

1935.

Canada's celebration of His Majesty's Jubilee centred at Ottawa.

Above is pictured part of the vast crowd which thranged the lawns outside the Parliament Buildings, in the shadow of the famous Victory Tower. Inset (left), the Governor-General Lord Bessborough reviews the Regiment of Governor-General's Foot Guards; inset (right) the Governor General, Lady Bessborough beside him, addresses the crowd.

CHURCH CONSIDERS DIVORCE

GROUNDS FOR NULLITY OF MARRIAGE

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TELEVISION A THING

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Now York, July 2,

The day when one can sit at home and tune in pictures is well as music and voices has been brought a little closer through recent experiments in the United States.

David Sarnoff, president of Radio Corporation of America, told stockholders the company would spend $1,000,000 to erect a television transmitter, build re- ceivers and conduct practical ex- periments in sending pictures over the ether almost immediately, Sarnoff's statement was regard- ed as the reply of United States radio engineers to recent

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ENGINEERS' PROBLEM

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Sarnoff stressed that television is not just around the corner,' Its general LINE Is beset by obstacles vastly greater than those which delayed radio and talking movies,

The chief problem. 130W that engineers have learned how 10 transmit and receive accurate images, is of distribution.

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But the day is coming

Tele-

a more lentient legislation even television will be as common as on the part of the Church itself. radio. That's why the Radio Cor- Therefore, we cannot agree with poration of America is willing to the unqualified statement that the stake a million dollars on experi- Chureli must regard marriage asentation.-United Prean, an indissoluble union. We ho lieve that the State did right in

DIANA WYNYARD

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vision transmitters have an effec- tive range of 15 to 25 miles and great numbers of relaying or "We do not think so. report pointed out, to consider the marriage of a husband and wife

We think repeater" stations would have to facts of life, and to ask what line was "till death us do part." It the mind of Christ-as we know!

be built

cover the 3,000,000 of action by the Church was best was a lifelong vocation. re-it-justifies, if not towards sin-square miles of the United States. calculated to bridge the gulf be-lation, which not only ought toners at least towards those who

when tween the ideal on the one hand; be dissolved, but also involved a suffered from the sins of others, i and human weakness on the other, moral and spiritual bond which But before they considered the cauld not he terminated save by problems raised after inarriage, death.

The report registered 7623 it was necessary to recognise the cases in which a union reputed to phatic protest against the way, in it is now possible to be a marriage was in reality not a which

arrange a divorce desired for quite marriage at all.

"The subject of nullity has re- different reasons, under the gover: providing legislation for divorce necessarily be condemned ceived less attention in England of an inferred act or series of acts under certain circumstances. We life of celibacy, and of barreh think it is a mistake on the part of misery. We claim that it shall be than its importance demands, and of adultery, a careful study of the subject has "The Church must make it clear the Church to maintain the atti- fairly recognised that there are that the State did many cases of the dissolution of Leonvinced 17:1 that the matter that if any relaxation of the inde, either

needs further investigation," says divores laws is to be sanctioned wrong, or that while the State may marriage in which one party is not only should there be no right fairly legislate for those who do known beyond all doubt to be not the report.

second marriage to got claim to be Christinna, the only innocent but to be one to Any annulment of #reputed given for marriage must be a judicial act take place in church in the Rife Church must stand by the law of whom the marriage bond was, in The Majority Report, recomand upon the facts disclosed in time of the former partner, but indissolubility for all its mem-intention, an indissoluble one and mending certain relaxations of

the Church should be free to for-hers.

for whom nothing but the cun- the marriage code and four new grounds for annulling a marriage, GROUNDS FOR NULLITY was approved by 18 votes to 1 by! the Upper House of the Convoca-;

After dealing with the present tion of Canterbury, sitting in Lon- grounds for nullity according to

of Christ in saying to the aggriev "We are not persunded that such the law of England, the committee |

ed partner, for the sake of your a person has sinned in seeking a Dr. Barnes, Bishop of Birming¡ continue:-

Dr. Barnes, Bishop of Birning-children you should seek a dis-divorce, or that in marrying again ham, was the only dissentient to We submit that a considered ex-| the report, which was made by the tension of the grounds for annull-ham, and others in a minority resolution of your marriage, than during the lifetime of the offend- Joint Committee of the Convoca ing a marriage would be consist-port, said that they disagreed in reminding him or her that he ing partner he or she ought to be tions of Canterbury and York. ent with principle and free from with the view of the majority that or she had vowed to be faithful to denied the sacraments

Dealing with the question of objection. For instance, a Court the interpretation of Christ's pro- that bond, for better, for worse, Church. We are not even pre- nouncements meant that what-and in insisting that he or she pared to deny to a genuinely in- divorce, the Majority Report might be allowed

the legislature of the must suffer to the end.

nocent person the privilege. If it ever be stated that, while the Chirch marriae vold-

State, the legislation of the "We are not convinced that one be sought, of having his or her munt bold fast to her teachings,) (a) In proved enses of infantil- "some provision for dissolving theism and similar abnormalities in Church must be on the supreme whose first marriage has been second marriage blessed by being

blighted by another's sin must celebrated in church. legal bond is inevitable."

many of these cases the marriage level of the Divine mind.

don.

It had become necessary, the

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is already voidable by law, put the fnet is not sufficiently recognised.) (b) Where either party is to his or her own knowledge, from ven- ereal disease or certain other dis- orders to be specified,

(c) Where a party knows of audi has concealed from the other thei existence of some notable heredit- ary mental or physical disorder in his or her family, likely to be detrimental to the happiness of the marriage or the health of the children.

(d) Where the woman knows and conceals from the man, that she is at the time of the marriage i [pregnant by some other man,

(e) Where there has been wilfal refusal to consummate tlie marri-“

age.

As regarded the children of a putative marriage subsequently! found to be null and void, it seem ed only just to hold those to be: legitimate, assuming that both parties were free to marry at the; time of the contract, and that ni lenst one of them was in good faith.

STERILISATION A BAR?

The question was now being raised as to whether sterilisation was a bar to Christian marriage, and they felt justified in saying that the mere physical fact that an operation had been performed need not in itself be regarded as a har.

Dealing with the present-day' attitude towards marriage, the report stated that from 1857, when the Matrimonial Causes Act was passed, a steady increase had taken place in the number of dissolutions of the marriage tie.

The report called attention to the grave perplexities which had been felt among Christians in all nycs on the vital question of divorce.

The Church had a law to declara and a discipline to exercise for its mombers. Under that Inw the

bid to its own members the use of "We believe that there are eases inued and persistent outrage of the marriage service, admission of unhappy mariages in relation the offending partner could have to the sacrnments, and other pri-to which a minister of religion made that intention impossible of

would be more true to the mind fulfilment. vileges of the Church.

DR. BARNES DISAGREES.

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