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AMERICA TAKES OVER ANOTHER ISLAND: IS IT BRITISH?

San Francisco, Apr. 1.

Naval announcement recently from Washington that the navy had assumed control of Kure, or Ocean Island in the mid-Pacific, indicated a new step in a long range programme of tightening possible Pacific defences, according to interested observers here.

News of naval control of Kure came while pressure was be- ing brought to bear in Congress for strengthening of defences in San Francisco Bay and at Scattle.

No comment accompanied the Washington announcement, but obscrvers felt that the location of Kure, 67 miles from Mid- way-now a trans-Pacific airway landing harbour as well as a cable station-Indicated that the tiny islet had been chosen as a possible link in America's strategic triangle of Pacific defence,

Kure is the first addition to the istanda controlled by the navy in theso

particular waters Bince

jurisdiction

over

331 Midway

Divorce

Established in 1003, although Reforms

there has been interest evidenced in Islands farther south in the Pacific.

Kurs is 3,000 miles from the next Land westward. It is approximately 1380 miles from Honolulu. Develop

ment

of aviation, observers paid. apparently has heightened naval in terest in islets hitherto considered to aval too small for adequate

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Proposals for the reform German divorce laws, which were recently worked out by a special committee of the Academy of German Law, start from thesis that any alterations must be based upon National Socialist

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THE HONGKONG

Royal Exile Takes His Life

Malaga, Spain, Apr. 1.

TELEGRAPH. 'MONDAY, APRIL 13, 1936.

A 20-YEAR-OLD kinsman of

the

Jugoslavian royal family, Radivoy Karageorge vitch, was found dying on Marine Parade here to-day.

A petition found in his pockets and directed to the Jugoslavian Royal llesse, asked that rights and econo- mie benefits to which he was entitled should be restored to him in spite of This forced exile from Belgrade.

A amall battle of polson was also found on hlm.

Karageorgeylich earned Bs. a day for photographic work.

He was exiled nine years ago and Arst went to French Morocco. Later he went to Gilbraltar, accompanied by an Englishwoman. On the voyage he was rubbed of all his savings-£10.

CLERGY'S LOSS OF £345,000 YEARLY

Queen Anne's Bounty On Tithe Report

of the

"GRAVE CONCERN" Outspoken criticism Tithe Commission Report and the Government proposals is contain- ed in a statement issued last month on behalf of Queen Anne's Bounty. rhe atatement, drawn up by the Tithe Committee, expresses "grave concern" at the reduction of in- come involved in the Government scheme. The, Committee, how- ever, are in favour of the general principle of the extinguishment of tithe.

The loss to beneficed clergy, it amount to over is stated, will £45,000 yearly out of An aggregate net tilbe Income · 01 approximately £1,870,000,

He told friends that the reason Including all tithe rent charge for his exile was 'areret, and that applicable to Church purposes," he was entitled to large estates in the statement continues, "the his native Innd. The King of Jugoslavia is the 12.arheme involves the expropriation years-old Prince Peter, son of King for the benefit of landowners and Alexander, who was assnashmted at without adequate conrpensation | Mursoifles in October 1934.

of over 19 per cant. of the Church's net tithe income."

Prince Paul, the Regent, is a bro- ther of the late King and a brother-in

law of the Duchess of Kent.

FOR HUMANITY ̧

ST JOHN AMBULANCE NEEDS HELP

Under the distinguished patronage

REDEMPTION ANNUITY Sharp critichum is directed at the Commission's Report on the scoru of its fallure to accord just treat- ment to the Incumbents who will be affected. The redemption annuity of £91 11s. 2d. payable by the landowners is contrasted with the £94 now received. The far- ther deduction of £5 "for what is

conceptions of the primary claims of His Excellency the Governor Sirenlled improvement of security reservation, it has been a forgotten of the community before those Andrew Caldecott, C.M.G., C.B.FL, the appears to be indefensible,"

Kure has been United States ter tory over since the Hawalan archi pelago, of which it is a part, joined the nation in 1898. Since then, visit the only by scientists and by govern mont vesels patrolling the land, inhabited only by thousands of the marine life that sea birds and

Hence, it is emphasized, the swims in its lagoon or creeps nlong

state has no interek in helping to Its low shores.

Kure is a corn island-a roughly prolong a union which has censed circumference, enclosing, according munal life or

of the individual.

of

St. John Ambulance Association and Brigade will be held on Friday, Aprli

at the lengkong Hotel. The Hon. Dr. A. R. Wellington, hun kindly consented to be the An excellent cabaret show in being arrange and joyable evening of thoroughly

feet or more ligh, and in places the children who must be unwillingnity,"

State Can Move

NEW MAGISTRACY

KOWLOON BUILDING OPENING TO-MORROW

To-morrow will be a red-lotter day In the annals of the development of the mainland, for it will zoo the open ing of the new Kowloon Magistracy in Gascoigne Road, which has been formally proclaimed as a Court in the Government Gazelle

The opening of the new building, which provides for two Court rooms on the first floor and a Juvenile Court on the ground floor, will meet a long- felt need, the old Court building in Shanghai Street near the Yaumati Market being now totally inadequate and unsuitable.

The ground floor of the new Magia tracy will be used mainly for record clerical purposes, with provision for cells.

The Court on the east side of the building will be known as the First

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BRITAIN'S STAND

ITALIAN CHARGES

LUDICROUS

London, April-11, There is no surprise in London at the wildly irresponsible accusationa printed by Signor Gayda In the Giornale D'Italia" regarding the supply of polion gas to Abyssinians from British sources. Experience of Italian press attacks on Great Britain during the past year had prepared opinion for this Intest and most, ludicrous example.

Explanation of reported trax casualties among Abyssinians by the suggestion that they were the result of inexpert attempts by Abyssinians to Uso against Italians, chemicals supplied by named subsidiaries of the British firm of Imperial Chemical Industries rend curiously in con- Junction with the fact to which the British Foreign

Court and that on the west side as tention at o mestiny drow

the Second Court

On the second floor there are two flats as quarters.

lines of the facade being obtained by.

The building is in classle style, the

the use of colonnades.

the Com-1 mittee of Thirteen, that the Italian Government has declared 250 tons of poison gas in transit through the Suez Canal.

Imperial Chemical Industries has considered it desirable, however, to The main approach to the Magis state that allegations concerning tracy is from Gascoigne Road, but arupplying of poison gas to

Abyn- new approach road, leading from slalans are false in all respects. no Gascoigne Road to the rear of the far as it is concerned. building. Is in the course of construc

tion.

Magistracy History

The official opening of the old Kow. loon Magistracy in what had been tho Yaumati Polles Station, took place on April 14, 1924, exactly twelve years ago to-morrow.

(now

for

When Mr. E. W. Hamilton Superintendent of Imports and Ex- ports) took his seat on the Bench the first sessions, he was accompanied by the Inte Sir Claud Severn, C.M.G., thos also in Court ware fr. P. P. J. then Colonial Secretary Among Un- D. S. F

Wodehouse, formada Remedios, Mr. W.. G. Fitz Gibdon (1st Clerk to the Kowloon Magistracy), Inspectors Lannigna, T. Murphy (now A. S. P.), Angus, Ogg and other police officiala, Mr. Wodehouse, on behalf of the police, welcomed

comed Bir. Hamilton there as Magistrate,

The Magistrate, in reply, uld be trusted that the establishment of the

total tithe losses did not exceed 78. Gd. per £100.

that

or

It is understood the companies named by Gayda either do not exist are unconnected with Imperial Industries. The Board of Trado has also denied netlon attributed to it by Gaydn.-British Wireless.

MENTAL HOSPITALS

CONSOLIDATION OF THE

HONGKONG LAW

The Government Gazette contains the

draft of a Bill intitaled: An Ordin Ance to consolidate and amend the law relating to the establishment of asylums for the detention, custody and care of persons of unsound mind, and others.

It is explained that This Ordinanco

low relating to consolidates the asylums and the detention, custody And care

care of persons of unsound mind, contained in the and others, a two amending Ordinances, No. 11 of Asylums Ordinance, No. 6 of 1906, and 1027 and No. 1 of 1935, repealed by

Court would result in the more con- venient dispatch of justice on and

Ride of the harbour and would any

friends the police, with whom he operating, a good deal of labour in niways had great pleasure in this Ordinance.

justice.

Section 16 (2) of Ordinance No. 6 of 1906 ns enacted by section 2 of The first case was one in which a Ordinance No. 1 of 1936 is amended Chinese was summoned for causing by the deletion of the words "or like- an obstruction. tle pleaded guilty,

ly to become of unsound mind" and Addressing

the defendant, his the addition of a proviso to that sub- understand that eases of obstruction Worship said:

"You must clearly section.

This amendment, which is incor- will not be permitted here any more porated in section 15 (2) of this than they are in Victoria.

As you

Urd.nnnce, is made on the instructions are the first prisoner to be charged of the Secretary of State for the In this Court I am going to exercise Colonies in his despatch No. 205 of the prerogative of mercy allowed to 20th May, 1935, to the Officer Ad- me, and I therefore discharge you."

ministering the Government Di The Colonial Secretary then left, Hongkong. and the other cases of the day were proceeded with

In particular, the Committee is dissatisfied with the compensation circular atoll reef about 15 miles in Jio form a moral basis for com- President,

proposals. Compensation for the which endangers

losses of incumbents of livings to one authority two, and another the biological and cultural existe

not exceeding £500 in value would description four, amali anndy inlets. enco

the nation. Divorca The rim is broken for a mile or more should therefore be permitted when Tickets are $5, including dinner, exhaust the £2,000,000 fund aug- on the western side, but the Ingoon

a continuance of and may be purchased at the Hotel, rested by the Government on स enclosed is too shallow to admit the the hope of

normal union has ceased to exist or from the Hon. Secretary, Mrs.3 per cent. basis (capital entrance of seagoing ships,

Over the low coral rim a curving This difficult issue must be decided Langley, and mumbers of the Com-interest) in about 13 years.

mittee.

The final conclusion of the line of white breakers hents, forming by the Judge ("Bherichter'), and

In addition to an evening's enjoy Committee is as follows: "If the without a snowy girdle about the low islets my distinction with or

ment, patrons will have the satisfac that lic protected within. Thes ilets are almost barren. Wind has children, since, constant quarrels ting of having contributed to the work scheme were abandoned, the barm crossing to their former seats of

is being done to the whipped their sand info dunes ten cords can only harm the of the Venerable Order of St. John in which

"for the sake of Church's spiritual work by tithe agitation would continue and hardy nenevola shrub had dag ita-witnesses of them.

The financial depression has reper-night be aggravated," roots into the unpromising soil and

According cussions everywhere, and the locally, they commend "the main An important innovation now brganization is finding it increasingly principle of the scheme--namely, spread a thick mantle of dark green. studded with small white semicircular propused is the granting to the difficult to meet the claims upon its flowers. A few other low ur Public Prosecutor of the right to services. The work of alleviating the extinguishment of the tithe-in ing plants relieve the glare of sand.

A Her stipply of binekish water present to the courts an applica-elek pour in the New Territories has the earnest hope that means may

the lion for divorce, even without con- increased by leaps and bounds.

be found for making the terms miny be had by digging

sulting the parties themselves, in

Children suttering from tuber-less severe to the Church." islets.

or joint, are derives its name from such cases where it can be shown culosis of the spine, hip, or The atoll Captain Kure, a Russian navigator, that the marriage Ineked "mural being admitted from Hongkong to the St. John Hospital at Cheung Chau, who is supposed to have discovered content"-by which ix meant and no satisfactory have been the re- In 1884 Col. J. II. Boyd, special marriages carried throgh for

sults of the

sen air and baths commissioner, visited t Hawalian

possession of it for the minoral or criminal purposes, or that the association has been ap and took

the contracting parties, proached to take in more tases; but then Hawaiian kingdom. He named here

means, under the protection of the legal at the present it is financially which it Moku Papapa, simply, fint coral island. After the form, garry on Communist pro- possible to do so, and the

the Association must regretfully turn away, for the Hawaiian revolution of 1895 it was paganda. leased to n fortilizer company as a The report lays it down also lime being, other little miles who are guano inland for 25 years.

that its proposals are not to be in-in desperate need of treatment. It is In 1909 Kure, together with other terpreted as meaning that it hoped that if funds are forthcoming northwesterly istands, was made a wishes to facilitate divorce, but one of these little ones may be denied government bird reservation, under

of the Territory of that the time has rome when the jurisdiction Hawall and the US Department of question should be settled us to whether unions which have been Agriculture.

shattered beyond repair and have lost their inner value should be continued artificially by the state.

The protected lagoon indicated to abservers here, that the naval depart ment might be considering it for a future landing base for naval air.. ships.

Community to Benefit

admission.

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HONGKONG MARU

RECEPTION HELD ABOARD

NEW O.S.K. SHIP

A reception was held aboard the 0.8.K. Line ship Hongkong More on Saturday afternoon in honour of the ship's maiden voyage to Hongkong.

The Hongkong Maru arrived here Thursday laat on her first trip from Keelung and salled last night for only such persons will seek divorce

that port via Amoy and Swatow. Thero was a

a large number

of whose marriages are already de guests at the reception held on this stroyed from the ideal standpoint ship at her borth at the new 0.S.K. Any increase in the number of wharf on Connaught Rond. All the divorces will also only be tempor members of the O.S.K. staff were A whole chain of small islands and If these new German divorce lawry,. it is assumed, focuse the Present and aided in entertaining the roofs extends northwestward from Proposals based upon National Government's other measures for ship.

guests and showing them the new the main Hawaiian group to Kure, Socialist idealogy, become law, preventing marriages, which are

Among the 600 guests were: more than a thousand miles from great increase in the number of doomed from the beginning, K. Midsusawa (Consul-General of Honolulu. Several of these hava divorces Is foreshadowed. Bat should tend to reduce their num- been used recently by naval seaplanes such an eventuality, according to her in future.

Japan), K. Ishizuka (Vice-Consul), G. Kishinami (Manager of the Yoko- from Pearl Harbour, Hawaii, which Dr. Mosemer, chairman of the

Specio

K The new proposals provide for hanu have alighted within such enclosed

Manda Bank)

O. TAU- lagoons an those of Pear) and Hermes mittes which formulated the special divorce courts, with judges (Manager of the M.S.K.).

timura Roo! and French Frigate Stant. Proposals, is to be regarded as an selected according to their age, ex-

(Manager of the N.V.K. Indications were that possibly some advantage rather than as a dis-perience in marriage and family many shippers and consignees by the Line), and representatives of the of these also would eventually coma advantage with the interesta of life, and their reliability as true

O.S.K. Line, the community benefiting, since National Socialists.

besides many friends and well wishers of the line.

The

proposed trip round the Island which was to take place during the afternoon was cancelled owing to the state of the weather and the rough and foggy conditiona outside the harbour.

under naval jurisdiction.

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Toronto, Apr. 1.

The convention of the Na- tional Association of Merchant Tailors and Designers held here. discussed colour in men's clothes.

Raymone G. Twyeffort, of New York, in his forecast of 1938 malo fashions, said that thers will be forty shades of colour for men'a dinner suits, including wine, maroon, green, twilight blue, and evening blue; with coloured silk facings to match the silk lining

of

Ile stated that evening capes black and royal blus, lined with co loured silk in red, blue, purple, and white, will be the vogue.

King Edward's tailor sent to the convention, for exhibition, a dog. tooth check golf ault, to be worn with a bright blue shirt and tie.

The first social gathering of the Hongkong Slagers is to take the form of an Informal Concert, to be old in the Rose Room of the Penin- sula Hotel on April 22, at 9.15 p.m. There are to be vocal, choral and in- strumentol Items, and tickets, at the modest charge of $1 each, will includo llaht refreshments. Members arc allowed to bring one friend each. An excellent programme has been ar ranged.

Work Increases

Since 1924, with the growth of the Peninsula more and more wark has been thrust on the Kowloon Magis trate, who has had to accomplish one what twe Magistrales have to da in Hongkong.

In the summer of 1934, Mr. J. H.

B. Lee, was appointed to relieve the but as there was only one Court room burden of Mr. E. J.-Wynne-Jones: this ster did not assist much.

In September of that year, another

A Table of Correspondence is nt- tached showing the nature of, the con- solidation and the amendments.

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