1936-11-19 — Page 3

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 CIVIL

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

U. S. A.

HUSBAND

BOTH

MAY NEW

BUILD OCEAN

·

GIANT

& WIFE WERE

BIGAMISTS

Bitter Outbursts

In Court

London Nov. 8.

LJUSBAND and wife followed each other into the dock at Dorset Assizes yesterday, and both were found guilty of bigamy.

their outbursts

So bitter were against each other that, when the time came to pass judgment, Mr. Justice Charles catd:-

"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."

interposed: "Oh, I The woman 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 first, Mr. Justice Charles said that he was dis- inclined to send her to jail, but if he did not he could not send the man, beenuse they were ma bad as one an-

penny

other

You both don't care a about decency or law," he continu ed."You both wanted to go off with Romebody else, and off you went. You both have lied. I don't believe either of you."

The couple were Frederick Roberts Majuba Cooke, aged 38, of Parkstone, who was charged with bigamously marrying Florence Pounds at Poole,

Slum Owners

In the Churches

Story told to the Congrega- tional Union Assembly at Bir- mingham by a London Deacon. alr. J. B. Gotis:

of

In a certain town the Free

and the Church Churches

formed England representatives

was

a social council and dealt suc- cessfully with various social evils. en it came to slum clearance, When

to be something there seemed wrong and they got no farther.

discovered that Then free members of this council were themselves owners of slum church- was -property___One_

warden. another was a deacon. and the third was the brother of a missionary.

3

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

and Mrs. Hannah May Cooke, also year, sent him £10 later, and re 30, charged with bigamously marry-ceived a letter from him stating that Ing Percy John Weston at Lyminster. divorce had gone through, and that if she waited six months she would OTHER WOMAN'S STORY

be free to marry him.

will

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

Florence Pounds said that Cooke told her he had been divorced and She saw him in London the next was free to morry,

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Challenge To Queen Mary

By A Special Correspondent.

WAR

Patriots Will Beat Anarchists Who Murder Liberty

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.

freedout of the Individual nor the

Institutions for the maintenance of freedom.

While destroying the framework of

This will not mean the defeat society, they also destroy him whom

In France, too, the donger is cer-

of the "Frente Popular": it will they would rescue from State slavery mean that the Spanish demo-the individual himself. cracy, caught between the cross-tainly very great. fire of two extremist move- ments, will perish, utterly.

But I cannot formulate an opinion upon the future of France. I can only hope that in following a strong I know Senor Azana (the Spanish democratic tradition France will save President), and he stands high in my herself from the disasters which ex- esteem. It is, however, to be deeply tremists of the right or left would regrelied that he was not able to keep the extreme left-wing under control.

to actuse

It is the fashion Socialists and Democratie regimes of preparing the path for Fascism. This is not true.

It always the Communists who, attacking and weakening the vic- Democratic Party, assure.

cause.

I hope that the Socialists, the Radicals and the Moderates of the Labour Party will succeed in form- ing a central block which will check the activities of both Communist and Fascist.

Abroad, the Soviet agents pro- fess the most perfect liberalism

of and instigate, the formation Popular Fronts, while in their own tory for those of the extreme right.

country flourishes the most tyran- was The origin of all Fascist dictator-

GA nical of dictatorships, ships has invariably been the sume.

demonstrated by the recent Zluo- After the first Communist revolu-

viev trial. tions in Hungary and of Munich

Democracy is not yet dead-look at brought about temporary Bolshevist

sure that Fasclsinthe Senndinavian States and, above control, I felt

countries all, at England: There they have would engulf all those

the Communist In managed to avoid where Moscow's Intervention Southampton, Nov. 10.

governmental affairs was tolerated. peril and retained their time-honour- Ted democratic institutions. Thuse RED BID N American rival to

Nazydom owes its ascent to power anttons have not had to adopt a red that And you the Queen Mary and to two direct esuses; one, the moral or black or a brown dictatorship.

cannot tell me the Normandie was hinted and economic bankruptcy of Ger-

many subsequent to her defeat in the Britain's insular position makes her at by Mr. P. A. S. Franklin, Great War, and second, and for more different from the rest of Europe. important, to the Communist bid for On the contrary, I believe that lo

day it is she Uiat represents the Inter-control. chairman of

In Spain. Largo Caballers, the genuine European spirit.

And do not forget this-Bolshe national Mercantile Marine,

present Prender, staried hatching

far visto always signifles disaster. Communist conspiracies as

A group led by who arrived here to-day in

back as February. Indalecio Prieto openly opposed the Queen Mary.

him. The more moderate leader wanted to bring him to reason. Useless.

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

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

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

THE CAUSE

"It will cost so much to put her in service again, and she costs such a lol to operate-tnt-1-doubt whether

To-day we are witnessing-lielp- she will go into service again, even though the Coronation next year will lessly, the work of this malign in- American Quence. It is not a revolution, but man a great boom in

in war provoked by the blindness of Lourist traille 10 England.

Work will start on the sister shipBolshevism. And in a was there is Washington no doubt that victory will always to of our Manhattan and at the end of the year. She will be to the military. an improvement on them, and should be commissioned by the end of 1938.

*

*

Harry G. Prentiss went down to the Cunard pter at New York to see ume friends off in the Queen Mary, They threw a party in their tourist the party class cabin, and when ended they were, well out to sea.

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

was

in Spuin the Patriot troops possess an incalculable advantage over the Government forces. They are sol- diers and their trade is war,

are nothing The militiamen

soldiers. than Improvised belter

A long They will not withstand campaign; they have neither the equipment of discipline nor the their adversaries.

Guns cannot be replaced courage, and Madrid must fall. ANARCHISTS The liberty of Spain away in flames.

the

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that the dividends are to be £1 to £2. not the £5 a month promised during the elections.

Mr. William Aberhart, the Premier, than says he will ask the Canadian Gov- ernment for a loan of more by £200,000 to meet neeruing bonds, but Mr. Charles Dunning, the Dominion Finance Minister. declares loan will be given to Alberin or any other province, by the Federal Gov- and, that this is clearly ernment, understood by all State Premiers.

wiil puss

1 accuse Largo Caballero rather thin France of having started the he civil war,

He thought the best thing to do to give himself up. He was taken to the bridge, where Captain Sir Edgar Britten decided that was not a real stowaway,

One might get to understand the

He gave him a job of work to do Socialists and even the Communists,

in the ship, and he was landed at Southampton to-day, and not locked up on condition that he returns to America by the very next boat.

Anarchists?

but what about the They are impossible people.

With their wanton lack of dis- clpline 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.

The fair-haired Dutch girl has been making a short swimming bour 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."

Rin wan the 100 metres and 400 metres events at the Olymple Games: in August. Twice she broke Olymple records.

that no

Ex-Kaiser As 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 Koi- ser and English Relations," pubilshed by Longman's. He says:

"Destiny had been cruel in daining that a man of his tempera- ment should be emperor of a great nation.

or-

Throughout his reign he had never shown any grasp at the seri- ous responsibilities of kingship.

"His happiest years were in exilo. "If only Providence had con- secrated him be a squire of ample means and estate just out- side some county town in England, what a pleasant and useful exist- ence might have been his "His defects, rulnous in a monarch, would have been merely humorous and even endearing.

REFORMER

Yet dancine I like, and I do not train a lot," (In eight days Miss M-atenbrock swam in eleven races

"As a member of the borough and was only once defeated.) "Swimming is as easy to me or council he wild have proposed a

three hundred reforms.”

*Ex- Mr. Benson imagines the walking is to you. I was when firet I learned to slip through!

Kalser in the card-room of the county club laying down the law the water.

to his partner at bridge and soon afterwards revoking amid general satisfaction.

WOMAN'S DUTY "Perhaps it is and that I may never laks part again in the Olympic battles. But a woman's duty in to with her husband and her home,

Olymple judges salď that in two, or three years she would probably broma the ruantegt woman swim- mer the world has ever known. Dut by then Rie counts on being In made Dutch housewife,

home, mathe in Rotterdam, and a blend Dulch husband.

He would have been president of the local cricket and golf clubs, would have contributed large pic- tures to the annual art exhibition, Miss Mastenbrock then went off and got up peany readings in his Fried I shall swim in pubile to Lime Grove Balls, Hammersmith. village, reciting the more famous

and heat another British record by passages Old fashioned? If you, say so. covering 440 yards in 5mins. 35secs.

"When I am married to HIM I will not want world hancurs just a "I cannot think I have a swimming, hors and harniness." future" Fald "heen when

no more.

ne says.

Shakespeare's plays,"

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