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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1935..

ACTRESS SEEKS DIVORCE

Lawrence Of Arabia's Secrets

Revealed In Diary

NEW CHINESE CRUISER

BRIDGE AT NIGHT

MISS DOROTHY ("CHILI") BOUCHIER, actress, and film star, has filed a petition seeking a judicial separation from her husband, Mr. Harry Milton, actor and former "Co-Optimist."

They were married six years ago when Miss Bouchier first became famous as "The English

Clara Bow."

Married in the morning, they

Bew in an airplane for a few hours after the reception, and returned in time for Mr. Milton's performance in "The Show's The

Thing," at the Lyceum.

Many American 'Divorces May Be Illegal

VALIDITY OF MEXICAN COURT DECISIONS QUESTIONED

Washington, Oct. 4.

A final legal interpretation of the validity of Mexican divorces may result from the post office department's latest drive mail order decrees obtained by Americans in the Mexican

courts.

on

£100,000 BOOK THAT HAS BEEN SUPPRESSED

Rigip Discipline Of Astounding Picture Royal Air Force Of Hardships In

THE

Revealed

British Service

New York, Oct. 1.

HE secret of the post-humous book by Lawrence of Arabia which an American publisher has announced his intention of publishing-in order to retain the copy- right-and immediately suppressing has been revealed.

He proposes to issue only five copies and to put a price of £100,000 on each in order to prevent any sale..

The book is called "The Mint."

It is an astounding picture of life in the Air! Force in the form of a diary which Lawrence kept! day by day from the moment he entered the R.A.F. depot at Uxbridge as one of a batch of recruits. It continues through his period of training until he graduated at Cranwell with the full status of an aircraftman,

Nobody Spared

Only a few privileged imong Lawrence's friends and certin high officials of the R.A.F. bave seen this document.

There are several drafts of it in existence, for Lawrence was in the habit of constantly polishing and re-writing everything he wrote.

dragged his war wounded body through those fearful exercises with as little flinching as ho could.

"Incredible"

The non-commissioned officer In charge of the squad apparently took particular pleasure in pleking on him, in adding to his agony. which he added further to by a Everything went into that process known in the Army" as diary. He spared nobody, least extra fatigues. of all himself.

At times Lawrence's physical The R.A.F. at the time he enlist-suffering was so great that he says ted was in process of reconstruc- | himself that he could acarcely hold tion. It had been born among the pen or pencil to write down what make-shifts of war emergency. he had been through. Few of its active officers In the

But he realised that if he was to

field had had any other than pure put these things down they should flying training, the personnel of be done Immediately, and by the the ranks consisted of emergency light of a guttering candle after drafted skilled and unskilled "lights out". he would keep his Inbour.

diary posted up to date with the painful details.

To make an cleient service all this had to be changed. The word went forth that the R.A.F. must be drilled and disciplined on

the strictest lines.

"Rigid And Brutal" The diary begins with Lawrence marching into Uxbridge depot in mafti.

He found there the atmosphere The ruling may involve the of a Guards battalion subjected to validity of additional thousands a discipline which was iron rigid of marriages in which one of and at times brutal.

the principals has been

by the Mexican route.

Another Chinese cruiser, named the Pin Hai, was launched at Klangnan Dockyard recently, the

coremony being performed by Admiral Cheng Chi-liang, Vice Minister of the Navy. The host, which is 300 ft. long and has a beam of 39ft., will take nearly another year to complete."

Prince Of Wales Sets New Shoe Fashion In Budapest

Black And White Shoes

Now The Rage

Budapest, Sept. 28.

BUT

ANDREWS IN THE MORNING

A friendly rubber-good company- few drinks. Pleasant, fleeting hours. Just one side of life in this country. Tomorrow, the blazing sun the daily round. Can you greet the morning with the joy which comes from a sense of personal fitness and well-being? You can if you are an Andrewa man. A glass of sparkling, pleasant-tasting Andrews in the morning main tains the healthy rhythm of the body and keeps. at bay the minor ills. In a word, Andrews keepe you fit! It supplies the tile gentle corrective which is necessary to us all and besides it's so cooling and lastingly, refreshing

Sold everywhere in inrge and small boules.

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THE Prince of Wales, stepping on to the plat-****************

form here to-day after a two-days' train

journey from Cannes, started a new men's SWAN, CULBERTSON & FRITZ

His body became hardened and fashion-black and white sports shoes.

his mind became steeled, and in the middle portions of the diary he makes caustic comments upon, the progress and purpose of such training in which several names are mentioned.

Episodes

episodes in this period which re There are one or two pointed

fleet no credit whatsoever upon those in immediate authority over

In-his-later--years-in-the--Air-

divoreedity they apparently made no sign.

If the authorities knew his iden-him.

He notes down every detail of Force the diary found its way into his early days and comments upon the hands of those responsible for

So far state courts in the the incongruity of so drilling men the direction of the Service, and it

United States have ruled gen-who were destined to be mechanics, it a tribute to Aircraftman Shaw erally that such divorces are riggers, etc. They did nothing that most of the things he so illegal and not binding in this bat sqund drill and "P.T."

bitterly_endured were afterwards The physical training he removed from the training curri- country. The question has not- found hardest to bear. He culum. been determined, however, by any high court such as the

supremo court,

Action of the Postal authorities į

in barring from use of the mails

the Border Law office nt Elpaso,

Tex., may furnish the test.

That

Mixed Bathing Prohibited

In Kentish Borough

company, or any similarly stunted SO THEY ARE PUTTING BY-LAWS IN may appeal to the Federal courts

from the postal order.

A MUSEUM

DRIVERS of horse trams must place nosebags The Border Law Office, necording i containing food on their horses' heads whilst those which advertise that they they are waiting.

to Postal officials, is typical of

can obtain the judicial sundering, This is one of Hythe's (Kent), borough by-laws, which

a mail order basis.

of marital ties for small fees on date back to 1873. They have not been revised or

modernised since. ·

The company, the department

charges, offered the services of two

Councillor T. A. Taylor, ex-Mayor of the town, Juarez attorneys and a decree of describes them as ridiculous and the laughing stock of the

divorce which must be recognised country.

throughout the workt nt prices

ranging from $100 to $250. Dell- very of the decree was promised In! from 10 to 5 days after the neces-i sary application papers were received,

Advertising used by the Border Law Office held that International: Law made It Jiecessary for overy other country to recognize! the Mexican decree whatever the -local law on divorce might be. It; also claimed that courts in the United States had consistently re- cognized the Mexican decrees where: they had been tested.

The Post Office department, in a finding by Solicitor Karl Crowley. held that this was a fraudulent representation. The domestic courts of this country, Crowley found, had never recognized a Mexi- can divorce excepting In equity cases. He held that anyone who obtained a Mexican mail order divorce and re-wed could be pro-1 secuted for bigamy. `

Princess Zahal, daughter

of

The Prin

Genova,

m Ala arrival by Natu

black-and- white shora.

The by-laws for public bath, Buried With Horses ing, dating back more than 60 years, include the following:

(1) No porann above the age of 10 years shall bathe from any part of the seashore within the borough east of the Coastguard Station between 8 am, to 8 p.m.

In Ancient Graves

Moscow. Oct. 1.

They were the first things that Budapest noticed. Within, half an hour inquiries were being made in the shops for them. Before closing time a few lucky Hungarians had secured pairs of the shoes.

The Prince wore a straw hat, a grey flannel double-breasted suit, blue shirt, grey tie, the al- ready famous shoes, and a white orchid in his buttonhole.

On the hotel register he ap- pears as the Duke of Chester.

27 Rooms

The Prince first asked for the stationmuster, whose. greeting

he replied in Hungarian. Then. after shaking hands. with the Rudapest police chief, he walked smiling through the crowd of 1,000, who cheered their "Prince Charming," as, they call him. Jumped into a car, und drove to the Dunapalota Hotel,

There an entire flour of twenty- seven rooms has been placed at his disposal. Five aro his own, which overlook the Danube facing the royal palace. The restaré for ħlà friends and stair.

The grey-carpoled sitting-room |is furnished with gobolin tapos- fried chairs worth £4,000. Över

shed is a portrait of Queen

Elizabeth. The roma were pa

only spected by the British

Minister, Sir Patrick Ramsay, bo- fore the Prince arrived.

The Prince greated the hotel

"I am proud," was the reply,

Gift From Promier

except from adwolling-house, Men and women burled In coin-manager with the words, "You, did bathing machine,, cabin, hat,pany with one, two and even three not expect to see me hack no noon, tent or other enclosure or screen, horses each, and stone enses con-

(2) Every person

above the taining the remains of people of did you?"! age of 10 yours who shall from the fronze Age have been found Any part of the seashore between by an expedition of the Moscow the Hotel Metropole and the State Museum of History, excavat- the Altai Mountains Coastguard Station betwoon the ng in

On the Prince's table was hours of 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. shall (Mongolla).

large bowl of ponches grown by whilst bathing wear an opaque The graves with the Penisins of the Prime Miniator, General costume renching from the

human beings and horses date Goomboos, The Prince and le shoulders to within three inches from the seventh and ninth cen parly finished off the peaches be

turies. Thoy

Bro

it

of the knees to prevent Indecent

amongst 25 foro leaving for a short tour round; exposure of the person.

(3) No male person above the burial grounds discovered by the the town before dinner. age of 10 years shall bathe from expedition. any part of the seashore within

He intended to do some skop-

Rich ornaments, harness, stir-ping, but changed his mind, and the borough which is or shall rupe, bridwhits and other appure showed his friends the fashionable be set apart by notices erected tenances havo been recovered Margareton Island, on the Danube, by the Council in a conspicuous from the graves, place on the sonshore as a bath-

The Prince's chauffeur will be ing place for the use of fomalo! One of the mounds containing the Hungarian Hussar oficer who pornons exclusively. The penalty 224 antique articles, revealed a drove his car Inst spring, for an offence against those by-warrior buried, with a servant, Inwa is £5, **

For these reasons, Crowley held, the Border Law Office's business was fraudulent and it might be. Abyssinian amparor, in 10 years old barred from use

of the mails, and a modern young women who

three horses, weapons and a Thore la no accommodation to This case, it is thought, will furnish doesn't miss beauty nor intelligence,

There is only one copy of variety of gold and sliver fug in be had in any of the chief Buda - direct test of the legality of mail Shopenk English; German and order divorces and may resolve the French fluently, plays the pleno and these old by-laws in existence, scribed with Orkhon script (at pest hotels. The city fa-packed question of their validity for good.

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