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SAVING

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, APRIL 6, 1936,

10,000 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 Earl of Liverpool, and transforming it into an anti-gas school for civilians.

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Police officers, firemen, railway worker, dock hands, doctors and| nurses will receive instruction in means of combating gas attacks in event of air raids on England. The school, for which the Home Office has appropriated $75,000,

is the intent development in anti- gas activity that has gone ahend at feverish pace since war talk) inflamed Europe. Handbooks on air raid precautions Are being civilians, bomb- distributed to proof shelters are being mapped in the heart of London, emergency corps of civilian workers are be ing organised and soon the government will place 4,000,000

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 Iome Office, magistrates, and probation officers are to unile.

Many of the proposals the Com At an international Hairdresser mittee are to make will be adopted Congress in Herlid in connection with and enforced by administrativo competitions in beauty treniments, ene netion, which will avold the delay of the competing hairdressers made involved in passing legislation re- this imposing frigate which makes quired for parts of tho new scheme. one thinking of the 17th, century.

gas masks on ante-nt two shillings Chinese

each.

The Gloucestershire

called Eastwood Park, was quietly Honour

purchased by the Home Office

some time

ago.

one-time

owner, the Earl of Liverpool, was Prime Minister of England for 14 yenra from 1912.

The house's noble rooms, stripp- El of their, Sheraton and Chippen- date furniture, are being, turncil into classrooms, inboratories and "decontaminating" chambers.

Major F. W. Ollis, a pioneer 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 raid safety

Ancestors

BIG FESTIVAL

The whole policy of the recom- mendations la the application of] conciliatory methods to the settle. ment of matrimonini disputen.

PERSUASION

When a dispute arises, and litiga- tion seems imminent, the magis- trates may Intervene through their probation officers, and personally if those efforts full,

At present, a summons is issued and the matter taken to, and fought out, in the police court as a matter

course,

Tientsin, Apr. 5. Millions of Chinese paid homage to their ancestors to-day in obserof vance of the Ching Ming Festival.! a day devoted by all flint persons.

to

"Sou Mo". or sweeping the

tombs,

Railway lines steamer Janes. wheelbarrow paths and moter reads] have been thronged during the past week with persons en route to the Ch'ing hotness of their ancestors. Ming means Purity and Brightness,

arrange.

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

Should all attempts at a settle-

"BABY" MAYOR OF SEATTLE

Arthur B. Langkic, 25, candi. date of the Order of Cincinnatus, will oppose John F. Dore, veteran politician, for the mayorality post At Seattle. He was given 6,000 more votes than Dore in the pri- maries.

Elopement

Of U.S.

Ballerina

HER "DEVASTATING” HUSBAND

New York, April 1. "Gerald is absolutely de- eastating. He is the most wonderful man 1 Perve

GERMAN

SHELLS STILI KILL FRENCHMEN

J WAR-TIME "DUDS”

Coucy-le-Château, Mar, 25.

the

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Eighteen years after the end of war (and, according to récent 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 a farmer and his horse blown to bita because a ploughshare struck a shell or of children killed by a miselle they found.

Reconstruction is practically over, the farmers have carly conquered the stubborn lines left by the trenches, but the service which hunts and destroys shells is still hard at work.

Death's Junkman'

For the first twelve years army Jengineers did the job. Then it occurred to someone that instead of paying army speciarists to get rid of the war's grim calling cards, it might be brighter to give the concession to a private company which would pay for the recovered metal. Six years ago death's junkman came into being, and occupies quarters in Coucy-le- [Chateau, near the emplacement of the Big Bertha which shelled Paris, The concern has n

museum of particularly rare pieces (carefully unloaded) which it has found, the [biggest_exhibit being a 420 milli-

metre abell,

Heslles doing its own hunting. the company is regularly informed of the accidental finding of shells. It sends its special trucks, fitted for Such was the description given plosives, to the spot, and the shell in the gentle handling of high, ex- to-night by a girl friend of

brought back to the exploding

measures to representatives of the the festival being so called becausenient prove fruitless, and the case Gerald Sevastianov, the handsome ground of Saint-Aubin, near Coucy, |

country's leading services." he exi plained.

"Our nim will be to instreet 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 Jobu Ambulance Brigade. Then they wi!! 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; Publle refreshments; an Betting..

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

Marriage. No marringe to be allowed unless:

'Three months' notice has been given of publication of banns or of application for licence or certia- cate; or

Six months' notice of the engage-

ment has been given to the regte

trar or in a daily newspaper; or

Speciul licenco has been granted! by the Archbishop of Canterbury; or the Court has authorised mar- .ringo an grounds of special

urgency,

Divorce. To be granted on grounds, of adultbry; desertion for thron years; cruelty: incurable insanity; Incurable· habitual drunkennesa; Imprisonment for a term on a commuted death sen- tence. No decres of divorce to be granted unless the marriage has been in existence for at least five yenra.

Betting B-Legalises and licenses carh betting on the Hinos of tho recommendation of the Royal Commission,

- Public Refreshment Bill-Sccla to Introduce in Britain the Saame laws concerning the sale and supply of wine, beer, spirit, &c as exist in France.

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 Ching Ming! estrangement. is the principal day for such ocen- Such enses sions.

will be disposed of

Those who were not in a position apart from the ordinary criminal w hours before the company window in four surrounding villa-

-

work of the police courts.

SECRET HEARINGS

to retura to their native town ori village to-day, will stage the reli- xious ceremony at home, in front of a small shrine on which is en-| The justicca will be authorised to

the names of their

arrange for privacy and the pre- praved

of the cestors. Following the ceremony.vention of the disclosure paper money and effigies will be details of home life to people who burned on the street or in the appear to take a delight in attend- court-yard, in the belief that they in court to hear these disputes.

While the right to apply for and will rich their beloved ones in the obtain a separation order will not other world.

be diminished by the new law, what nowadays become a popular term have been called "peace-making jobstacles" are to be interposed so in the Chinese official vocabulary, that only in extreme cases will it

The characters "Suo Mu" has

Ometals who are either, in an em-

become necessary. barrassing situation over their!

The Probation system-which is duties, or confronted with dif ficulties in getting complicated to form a vital part of the scheme ig to be reorganised and im- proved.

issues, agnounce their intended de- parture for their native places for "tomb-sweeping" ceremony, which virtually is a brief period of relaxa-

young private secretary of Col. W or to a larger property at Ileurte Basil, director of the Monte Carlo hise, near the Chemin des Dames. Ballet Russe, with whom Irina At the latter feld, two years ago, Baronova, the 17-years-old prima one of the trucka upset, and the llerina, eloped on Wednesday resultant explosion broke every ere due to appear in Loutsoville. yes, at a cost to the company of After their wedding at Colom-1,800 francs. By some miracle. Jus, Ohio, they flew to New York, the truck driver wasn't scratched. ab-izina explained in a note to

Armourplate Screens her parents, “To have a quiet holiday":"

When a shell is brought in, an attempt is first made to unscrew

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WE ARE NOW SHOWING A VERY SPECIAL RANGE OF SMART-

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CHINA BUILDING.

Mr. Saul Hurok, the manager the cap, take out the fuse, and SNAPPY SUMMER HATS

of the Ballet company, heard from empty out its dangerous contents. Irina's parents to-day that the The unscrewing machine is mani- couple intent to return to Cincin-plated by an operator from behind natti to-night in time for the an armourplate screen. If the top unable to won't come off, the shell is buried show. But he was ascertain where in New York and exploded by a fuse long enough Miss. Baronova, and her bride to give the man who lights it time to take refuge in an underground groom are staying.

bomb shelter, 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 found have led to its

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

How much latent death is still

tion, similar to the interpretation SYDNEY GOES CONTINENTAL trucks bringing in 1,460,000 tons

of "sick leave."

Every grave mound iu the country-side honoured with a visit from the offspring of the persons lying inside, is decorated with a paper banner. Persons lying in the graves without the white paper| banner would be considered dis- graced by having nó children' at all" 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 naraca, one in black and the other in red. The name of the deceased Is in black and that of the survivor in red--United Press.

WORSE AND VERSE

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

"When the light burna ved Don't rush ulicad;

But stand serene.

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

"There was a driver who oftimes |

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

ahead,

He drove that way just once too often,

And now his bones: rest in n .coffin.?

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 165 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 . Continental atmosphere. Venus carnivals and beauty contests will be organised.

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. 120,000 kilometres. cargos' over And still undestroyed at its two fields are 236,794 ions of shells- 116,900 at Saint-Aubin, 119,594 at Heurtebise.

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

survivors of U.S. air CRASH

Here are the two survivors of Army bombers in night imanoeuvres over Luke Field, Hawail, in which six others were killed, and gasoline tanka at Luko Field were endangered by the flaming.planes. Llout. Charles M. Fischer, left, pilot of one bomber, and. Privato Thomas Lanigan escaped by parachute, Langan, struck tho faco by a piece of wrockage, 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 firo.

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