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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1936.

KERENSKY SAYS THE REDS CAUSED BOUDOIR COMFORT

YOUTH TAKES THE LEAD

IN SPAIN'S

TERRIBLE CIVIL WAR

SPAIN'S

Spanish girls and boys, wearing the uniform of the Youth organisations for the young warriors of Spain.

U.S. A.

MAY NEW

HUSBAND &

WIFE

BUILD OCEAN

GIANT

WERE Challenge To Queen Mary

BOTH BIGAMISTS

Bitter Outbursts In Court

London Nov. 8.

IJUSBAND and wife followed each other into the dock at Dorset

Assizes yesterday, and both were found guilty of bigamy.

So bitter were their outbursts against each other that, when the

ume came to pass Judgment, Justice Charles suid:

Slum Owners

Churches

Mr.

in the

"I don't know if I should put the husband in the dock with the wife. The warder will have to intervene his small frame between them."

The woman Internased: "Oh,

I

won't do anything to him."

So, with the warder between them, the couple stood in the dock.

"DON'T BELIEVE EITHER” Addressing the woman aral, Mr. Justice Charles said that he was dis- inclined to send her to fall, but if he did not he could not send the man, because they were as bad as one on- other.

you bolb don't care a Denny about decency or law," he continu- ed. You both wanted to go off with "somebody else, and off rou ̈weit, You both have lied. I don't believe either of

YOU,"

Slory told to the Congrega- Jonal Union Assembly at Bir iningham by a London Deacon. Mr. J. B. Gotts:

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certain town the Free 16 Churches

and

the Church of Eugland representatives formed'

social council and dealt suc- cessfully with various social evils. When it came to slum clearance, there seemed to be something wrong and they got no farther.

Then it WAK discovered that three members of this council were themselves owners of slum property One WAS 1 church- warden, another was a deacon. and the third was the brother of a missionary.

The scheme was killed within three years--by its own members and the ridicule of its opponents,

The couple were Frederick Roberts; Majuba Cooke, aged 30, of Parkstone, who was charged with bigamously marrying Florence Pounds at Poole, and Mrs. Hannah May Cooke, also year, sent him £10 later, and re- 36, charged with bigamously marry-ceived a letter from him stating that Ing Perey John Weston at Lyminster divorce had gone through, and that OTHER WOMAN'S STORY If she waited six months she would

be free to marry him.

Mrs. Cooke gave evidence that her: husband went away woman in 1031.

with

another

Florence Pounds sald that Cooke told her he had been divorced and She saw him in London the next was free to marry.

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CIVIL WAR

Patriots Will Beat

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Anarchists Who Murder Liberty

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WHEN the Empire of the Tsars fell, Russia had, for a few months, her only democratic regime.

It was crushed by the Bolshevists.

Head of the defeated democratic Government was Kerensky.

He knows too well the methods of the Reds which drove him into exile 19 years ago.

And here, in an interview with a London newspaper he gives his view-founded on his unique experience- of what has happened, is happening, will happen in Spain.

By ALEXANDER KERENSKY

(The Russian Premier whom the Reds expelled)

I AM certain that the patriots

will emerge victorious from

the Spanish civil war.

freedom of the Individual nor the Institutions for the maintenance of freedom.

While destroying the framework of This will not mean the defeat oelety, they niso destroy him whom

But I cannot formulate an opiulon upon the future of France. 1, can

of the "Frente Popular": it will they would rescue from State slavery mean that the Spanish demote Individual himself.

In France, too, the danger is eer- eracy, caught between the cross-tainly very great. fire of two extremist move- ments, will perish utterly.

I know Sendr Azana (the Spanish President), and sie stands high in my esteem. It is, however, to be deeply regretted that he was not able to keep the extreme left-wing under control.

only hope that in following a strong democratle tradition France will save herself from the disasters which ex- tremists of the right or left would

cause.

I hope that the Socialists, the Radlena and the Moderates of the

It is the fashion to accuse

case Labour Party will suceerd in form- Socialists and Democratie regimes of ing a central block which will check preparing the path for Faselsm. This the activities of both Communist and

is not true.

It is always the Communists who, attacking and weakening the; Democratic Party, assure a vic- tory for those of the extreme right.

that

Fascist.

Abroad, the Soviet agents pro- tess the most perfect liberalism and Instigate the formation of Popular Fronts, while in their own country flourishes the most tyran- nical of dictatorships, ́ ́as demonstrated by the recent Zino- viev trial.

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The origin al Fascist dictator- ships has variably been the same. After the first Communist revolt- tions in lungary and at Munich brought about temporary Bolshevist

Democracy is not yet dead-look at control, I felt sure

Fascism the Scandinavian States and, nhove woukt engull all those countries all, at England: There they have where Moscow's intervention in managed to avold the Communist governmental affairs was tolerated. peril and retained their time-honour-

RED BID

ed democratic Institutions. Those Nozidom owes its ascent to power nations have not had to adopt a red to two direct causes; one, the moral or black or a brown dictatorship.

And you cannot tell те that and economie bankruptcy of Ger- many subsequent to her defeat in the Britain's insular position makes ber Great War, and second, and far more different from the rest of Europe. important, to the Communist bid for On the contrary, I believe that to- the day it is she that represents In Spain, Larzo Caballero, the genuine European spirit.

And do not forget this-Bolshe- present Fremier, started hatching! Communist conspiracles as far vism always signifles disaster. back as February. A group led by Indalecio Prieto openly opposed hlm. The more moderate leader wanted to bring him to reason, Useless,

N American rival to the Queen Mary. and the Normandie was hinted at. by Mr. P. A. S. Franklin, chairman of the Inter-control. national Mercantile Marine, who arrived here to-day in the Queen Mary.

"The idea is in the background of our schernes," he admitted to me, "but I would not like to say anything definite yet.

"You know that the strength of the right gathers from day to day." Prieto warned Largo Caballero. Then look out. If you continue your policy we shall not be able to prevent the catastrophe."

THE CAUSE

"We still have our problem with the Leviathan, which has been laid up so long.

"It

cost so much to put her in service again, and she costs such a 101 to operate that I doubt whether she will go into service again, even To-day we are witnessing, help though the Coronation next year will lessly, the work of this mailgu in- mean a great boom in American flucice. It is not a revolution, but tourist traffic to England.

n war provoked by the blindness of And in a war there is "Work will start on the slater ship Bolshevism

Washington no doubt that victory will always go of our Manhattan and

to the milliary.

at the end of the year. She will be an improvement on them, and should be commissioned by the end of

1938."

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Harry G. Prentiss went down to the Cunard pier at New York to see some friends off in the Queen Mary. They threw a party in their tourist

the class cabin, and when

party ended they were well out to seu.

Poor Harry was very frightened and hid himself away. But only for 24 hours.

In Spain the Patriol troops possess an incalculable advantage over the Government forces. They are sol- diers and their trade is war.

The militiamen are nothing better than improvised soldiers. long They will not withstand a campaign; they have neither the discipline nor the

of equipment their adversaries.

Guns cannot be replaced courage, and Madrid must fall

ANARCHISTS

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Government authorities that the dividends are to be 21 to £2, not the £5 a month promised during the elections,

Mr. William Aberhart, the Premier, says he will ask the Canadian Gov- ernment for a loan of more than by £200,000 to meet accruing bonds, but Mr. Charles Dunning, the Dominion Finance Minister, declares that no loan will be given to Alberta or any ather province by the Fedemi Gov- and that this is clearly ernment, understood by all State Premiers,

The liberty of Spain will pass

away

flames.

He thought the best thing to do was to give himself up. He W:14 1 accuse Largo Caballero rather taken to the bridge, where Captain than Franco of having started the Sir Edgar Brillen decided that he civil war. was not a real stowawny.

One might get to understand the

He gave him a job of work to do Socialists and even the Communists Ex-Kaiser As

in the ship, and he was landed at but what about the Anarchists?

Southampton to-day, and not locked They are impossible people.

up on condition that he returns to America by the very next boat,

With their wanton lack of dis- cipline they respect neither the

ACE GIRLS SWIMMER

FORFEITING FAME

FOR MAN SHE LOVES

RIE MASTENBROEK, the world's speediest woman Swimmer, now only 17, will forsake the water for

a husband and a home.

Ideal Squire

THE ex-Kaiser would have made the ideal English borough councillor.

E. F. Benson gives this opinion on Germany's William II, in "The Kal- ser and English Relations," published by Longman's. He says:

"Destiny had been cruc] in

or- dalning that a man of his tempera- ment should be emperor of a great nation.

had Throughout his reign ho never shown any grasp of the seri ous responsibilities of kingship.

"His happiest years were in exile. "If only Providence had con- secrated him to be a squire of ample means and estate just out- Bide some county town in England, what a pleasant and useful exist- ence might have brea kla "His defcets, ruins in a monarch, Yet danelux I ike, and I do not would have been erely humorous train a lot," (In eight days Mls, and even endearing.

REFORMER Mastenbrock swam in eleven races; and was only once defeated.)

"As a member of the borough "Swimming is as easy to me as council ho

have proposed a walking is to you. I was three hundred reforms when first I learned to slip through the water.

The fair-haired Dutch girl has been making a short swimming tour in England. When she returned to London, she spoke of her romance.

"He is Dutch, too," she said, "and we are,

what you say, very, very fond,"

tio won the 100 metres and 400 metres events at the Olymple Games In August. Twice she broke Olympic

records.

Olympio judges sald that In two or three years she would probably become the greatest woman swim- mer the world has ever known. But by then Rio counts on being a model Dutch housewife, with a home, maglia In Rotterdam, and a blond Dutch husband.

"I cannot think I have a swimming future," she Fald "hecause when wo hea morried I shall swim. In public no more,

WOMAN'S DUTY "Perhaps it is sad that I may nover take part again in this Olymple; batiles. But a women's duty is to

husband and her home.

ex-

Mr. Benson imagines tho Kaiser. In the card-room of the county club laying down the lawy to his partner at bridge and soon afterwards revoking amid general satisfaction,

*He would have been president of "When I am married to HIM I will the local cricket and golf clubs, not want world honours just a would have contributed large ple home and happiness.”

tures to the annual art exhibition, Mias Mastenbroek then went off and got up penny, readings in his to Lime Grove Baths, Hammersraith, village, reciting the more famous and hand pngther British record by passages in Shakespeare's plays,' "Old fashioned? If you say so. covering 440 yards in 5mins. 358ces. my's,

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