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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, APRIL 6, 1936,

WRECKED MARRIAGES

New Laws For Husband-And-Wife Cases

ANTI-GAS

SCHOOL

FOR CIVVIES

OPEN THIS MONTH

London, Mar. 24.

. The government has purchased

a Gloucestershire mansion, once the fashionable country home of the Burl of Liverpool, and fa transforming it into an anti-jas school for civilians.

- Police officers, firemen, railway. worker, dock hands, doctors and nurses will receive instruction in menns of combating gas attneks in event of air raids on England.

The school, for which the Home Ofice has appropriateil 375,000, is the latest development In anti- in activity that has gone ahend at feverish pace since war talk inflamed 'Europe. Handbooks on air raid precautions

being distributed to civilians, bomb proof shelters are being mapped In the heart of London, emergency corps of elvillan workers are be

organised

the and government will place 4,000,000 | yas-maska on sale at two shillings|

Ing

ench.

The

Gloucestershire

BOON

NEW HAIR STYLES

No More Summonses

On Demand

MAGISTRATES MUST| TRY TO MAKE PEACE FIRST

THE report of the Social Ser- vices Departmental Com- mittee will be presented to the Home Secretary shortly.

On its recommendation will be founded a determined at- tempt to prevent the break-up of ten thousand homes every year.

In this effort, the Home Office, magistrates, and probation officers are to unite.

Many of the proposals the Com- At an international Hairdresser mitice are to make will be adopted Congress in Berlin in connection with and enforced by administrativo competitions in beauty treatments, one action, which will avoid the delay of the competing hairdressers made involved in passing legislation re- this imposing frigate which makes,quired for parts of the new scheme,

The whole policy of the one thinking of the 17th century.

mondations is the application of] conciliatory methods to the settle- ment of matrimonial disputes,

Chinese

called Eastwood Park, was quietly Honour

purchased by the Home Ofee) some time ago. Its

One-time Ancestors

owner, the Earl of Liverpool, was Prime Minister of England for 14, years from 1812.

The house's noble rooms, stripp- ed of their Sheraton and Chippen-¡ dale furniture, are being turned into classrooms, laboratories and "lecontaminating" chambers,

Major F. W. OIs, a plancer of the anti-gas service of the British forces during the war, will be chief instructor of the school.

"We will open the place the first week in April and shall at once! begin teaching air ruid safety measures to representatives of the country's leading services," he ex-j plained.

"Our aim will be to instruct these people so thoroughly that they can go back to their respec- tive jobs and pass the information on to their colleagues.

We also will give instruction to members of the British red cross society and the Saint John Ambulance Brigade. Then they will pass it on to the general public.

The instruction will be carried on with seven different types of blinding, choking and searing gas for which British government chemists have been developing counter means in recent months. -United Press.

5-Year Minimum

For Marriages

DRUNKENNESS CAUSE

FOR DIVORCE

Mr. A. P. Herbert, M.P., intro- duced in the House of Commons last month three Bills dealing with

:

The Marriage Law; Public refreshments; and Betting.

The Marriage Bill has the back- ing of members drawn from all parties. Its main features are:

Marriage No marriage to be allowed unless:

Three months notice has been given of publication of banns or of application for Heence or certi

ente: or

Six months' notice of the engage.

ment has been given to the regis

trar or in a daily newspaper; or

Bpecial Heenco has been granted by the Archbishop of Canterbury; or the Court has authorised mar- ringe од grounds o! special urgency.

Divorce. To be granted on grounds of adultery; desertion for three years; cruelty; incurablo insanity; incurable habitual drunkenness; imprisonment for term on a commuted death sen- tence. No decres of divorce to ho granted unless the marringe has been in existence for at least five years.

Betting Bill-Legalises and licenses cash betting on the lines of the recommendation of the Royal Comnilasion.

Public Refreshment Dill-Seeks Introduce in Britain the samo laws concerning the salo and supply of wine, beer, spirit, &c., na exist in Franco.

PERSUASION

recom-

When a dispute arises, and litiga-| tion seems imminent, the magis- trates may intervene through their probation officers, and personally if those efforts fail.

BIG FESTIVAL

At present, a summons is issued) Tientsin, Apr. 5. and the matter taken to, and fought Sititions of Chinese pald homagefont, in the police court as a matter to their ancestors to-day in obser- of course. vance of the Ch'ing Ming Festival,

the

Under the future arrange- ments, a summons may not be issued on demand and without some effort at conciliation, and i even after it has been served, the machinery of peaceful per sunsion will be operated to bring, the parties together.

a day devoted by all filin persons fo Son Mo", or sweeping tombs.

Railway lines, steamer lanes.! wheelbarrow paths and motor roads have been thronged during the past, week with persons en ralite to the homes of their ancestors. Ch'ing Ming means Purity and Brightness,

Should all attempts at a settle- the festival being so called because ment prove fruitless, and the case it falls almost always on a sunny has to be taken to the court, the day of the bright spring season. circumstances in which it will be The staging of tomb-visiting cere-heard will not be such as to create monies is not necessarily confined further bitterness and widen the to this day, although Ch'ing Ming is the principal day for such ocea;

cstrangement. sions.

Such cases will be disposed of

"BABY" MAYOR OF SEATTLE

Arthur B. Langkle, 25, candi- date of the Order of Cincinnatus, will oppose John F. Dore, veteran politician, for the mayorality post at Seattle. Ile was given 0,000 more votes than Dord in the pri-

marics..

Elopement

Of U.S. Ballerina

HER "DEVASTATING"

HUSBAND. New York, April 1. "Gerald is absolutely de- He is the most vastating, wonderful

} have

Been.

GERMAN SHELLS STILI KILL FRENCHMEN

WAR-TIME "DUDS”

DL

Coucy-le-Chateau, Mar. 25. Eighteen years after the end of the war (and, according to recent estimate from an authori- tative source, eighteen · months before the start of the next one) unexploded shells are still being found daily in what was once the

war zone,

They are all duds in the sense that they failed to explode when they landed, but many of them turn out to be very much alive on their second chance, and every once in a while the papers carry a story of farmer and his horse blown to bits because a ploughshare struck a shell or of children killed by a missile they found,

Reconstruction is practically over, the farmers have early conquered the stubborn lines loft by the ¡trenchcs, but the service which hunts and destroys shells is still hard at work.

Death's Junkmen

For the first twelve years army engineers did the job. Then it occurred to someone that instead of paying army specialists to get rid of the war's grim calling cards, it might be brighter to give tho concession to a private company which would pay for the recovered metal. Six years axo death's junkman came into being, and occupies

In quarters

Coucy-le- Chateau, near the emplacement of the Big Bertha which shelled Paris, The concern has a museum of particularly rare pieces (carefully unloaded) which it has found, the biggest exhibit being a 420 milli- metre shell

Besides doing its own hunting, the company is regularly informed of the decidental finding of shells. It sends its special trucks, fitted for Such was the description given plosives, to the spot, and the shell is the gentle handling of high ex- co-night by a girl friend of Gerald Sevastianov, the handsome ground of Saint-Aubin, near Coucy, brought back to the exploding young private secretary of Col. Wer to a larger property at Heurte Ballet Russe, with whom Irina At the latter field, two years ago, Basil, director of the Monte Carlo bise, near the Chemin des Dames. Baronova, the 17-years-old primnone of the trucks upset, and the ballerina, eloped on Wednesday a resultant explosion broke vvery Those who were not in a position part from the ordinary criminal few hours before the company)window in four surrounding villa- to return to their native town or

were due to appear in Louisevilleges, at a cost to the company of village to-day, will stage the reli-

After their wedding at Colom-1,800 france. By some miracle. gious ceremony at home, in front a

bus, Ohio, they flew to New York, the truck driver wasn't scratched. of a small shrine on which is on-

The justices will be authorised to na Irina explained in a note to. graved the names

arrange for privacy and the pre- her parents, "To of their

Armourplate. Screens have a quiet of the holiday.**

When a shell is brought in, an cestors. Following the ceremony, yention of the disclosure paper money and effigies will be details of home life to people who i

attempt is first made to unscrew bunded on the street or in the appear to take a delight in attend-i Mr. Saul Hurok, the manager the cap, take out the fuse, and of the Ballet company, heard from emply cut its dangerous contents. court-yard, Ir, the belief that they ing court to hear these disputes. will reach their beloved ones in the obtain a separation order will not couple intend to return to Cincin pulated by an operator from behind While the right to apply for and Irina's parents to-day that the The unscrewing machine is mani other world.

The characters "Sao Mu" has be diminished by the new law, what natii to-night in time for the n-armourplate-screen-If the top nowadays become a popular term have been called "peace-making show. But he was unable to won't come off, the shell is buried

LTI-

work of the polico courts.

SECRET HEARINGS

in the Chinese official vocabulary, obstacles are to be interposed so ascertain where in New York and exploded by a fuse long enough Officials who are either in an em- that only in extreme cases will it Miss Baronova and her bride to give the man who lights it time barrassing situation

their become necessary.

over

duties, or confronted with dif- The Probation system-which is ficulties in settling complicated to form a vital part of the scheme issues, announce their intended de--is to be reorganised and im- parture for their native places for proved.

à "tomb-sweeping" ceremony, which

virtually is a brief period of relaxa

groom are staying,

The members of the company. however, are preparing festivities for the week-end to celebrate the wedding.

to take refuge in an underground bomb shelter.

ofick leave to the interpretation SYDNEY GOES CONTINENTAL found shells, which have led to its

the

Every

grave mound country-alde honoured with a visit from the offspring of the persons lying inside, is decorated

with n paper banner. Persons lying in The graves without the white paper! graced by having no children at all banner, would be considered dis- or for having no children who re- member them.

Many Chinese buy their graves long before their death. Still others buy their coffins and tombs while still hale and hearty. A hus- band must be buried together with his wife and concubines, if any.

In the public cemeteries it is not rare to find a double grave with only one of the compartments being occupied. The tablet on the grave bears two names, one in black and the other in red. The name of the deceased is in black and that of the aurvivor in red.--United Press. WORSE AND VERSE

Just Learn These Lines And Dodge The Fines New York, Apr. 1. Motorists and pedestrians are to be safer in the borough of Manhat- tan, if Mr. Samuel Levy, the Borough President, has his way. passion for rhyming. Thus: Mr. Levy has been seized with a

"When the light burns red Don't rush aliead;

But stand serene

Till the light turns green.". Another verse to be displayed on posters throughout the Island runs:

"There was a driver who ofitimes

Bold,

'I've beaten the lights, I'm away

ahead."

He drove that way just once too often,

And now his bones rest in a

HUGE LIDO PLANNED

Sydney is to have largest tiled Olympic swimming pool in the southern hemisphere. A company has been formed to build it.

It will be 166 feet long and 100 feet wide, will have accommodation for 10,000 bathers, and will cost £30,000, says Austral News. Sun-bathing areas on each side will be 300 feet long and 25 feet wide. Open air restaurants and cafes will give it a Continental atmosphere. Venus carnivals and beauty contests will be organised.

How much latent death is still hidden under the peaceful soil of the fields of France may be deduced from, the figures of the company's six-year activity. In that time, it has responded to 4,320 reports of trucks bringing In 1,450,000 tons of, duds. During the same period It has destroyed where they were found another 167,000 tons of shells considered non-transportable. Ita trucks have carried their dangerous cargos over 420,000 kilometres. And still undestroyed at Its two fields are 236,794 tons of shells- 116,900 at Saint-Aubin, 119,694 at Heurteblse.

The company has never lost a man. It is still kept busy.-United Press.

SURVIVORS OF U.S. AIR CRASH

Hero are the two survivors of Army bombers in night manoeuvres over Luko Field, Hawall; in which six others were killed, and gasolino tanks at Luke Field wore endangered by the flaming planes, · Lieut. Charles M. Flacher, left, pilot of one bomber, and Private Thomas. Lanigan escapod. by parachute. Lanigan, struck In the face by a' pièce of wrockago, was about to alight in blazing wreckage when a gust

of hot air tossed him aloft again and, he was able to land a way from the fire.

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USE

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FOR THE SKEJ

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Equally soothing and curative for CUTS, BURNS, SCRATCHES,. ABRASIONS, BRUISES, and for akcin complainta much as HEAD and FOOT SORES, RINGWORM, ECZEMA, PIMPLES, ULCERS,

INSECT BITES and STINGS; also for SUNQURN, CHAPPED HANDS and LIPS, and CHILBLAINS,

She-ko has a delightful fragrance, and is excellent as a skin preservative, keeping it soft, frosh and cool,

Obtainable at chemists, or from the Dr. Williama Medicine Co., 451, Klangad Road, Shanghat; 70 cents per package, post free.

Healing

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Antiseptic

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