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THE HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 1937.

£100,000 Plot To Kidnap The Quins

NO MORE PROVINCE DIVORCES

London, April 1.

When Mrs. Ernest Simpson slipped out of London and got a 10-minute divorce at Ipswich from Justice Sir John Anthony Hawke, her case started a train of events apparently destined to close provincial divorce Courts to all except the resident poor.

Despite Mrs. Simpson's close association with. King Edward. Justice Hawke looked askance at transfer of the case from London to Ipswich; he was told that Mrs. Simpson was living at Felixstowe nearby.

Since the Simpson divorce King's Bench judges, including Lord Hewart of Bury. Lord Chief Justice of Eng- land, have raised increasingly -toud: voices against the growing practice of sending undefended divorces to provinela assizes.

ONLY IN LONDON

Until 1922 an English divorce was pbtainable only in London. · Then; provision was made enabling poor persons cases. and underfended divorce

suits to be heard in pro- vincial courts. Now nearly a th of all English divorce cases heard by judges outside of London, and the judges don't like it. They And wherever they go a spate of divorce cases waiting them, iri addition to criminal and ordinary civil actions.

are

Justice Sir Reynolds Warren Swift in Birmingham recently put back) divorce cases on his docket so int; juries dealing with ordinary business) of the court should 'not be detained) longer than necessary. He accom panied the action with biting com-¡ ment.

Justice Hawke

Manchester,

cuse

astred counsel why a divorce had been taken there when the parties lived in the south of Eng- Land.

INTENSELY DISLIKED

com-

"I dislike it Intensely," be mented, finally agreeing to hear the

chise.

In a divorce action at Lewes, the woman was said to be living in Paris and the man in London. Lord Chief) Justice Hewart, sitting, asked why, "This rubbishy case" was brought to Lewes, He was mollifled' when in-

" Guard Trebled At Nursery:

"Mounties"

TOTE SLOT Armed Men

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Things are made easy for totalisator players in England. Tote slut machines have been installed in the paddock of leading race courses,

The machines give a receipt for the amount paid

Duce's Romance: Spy Rumour Alleged

Paris, Apr. 15..

formed that the witnesses to the AN Italian police record, adultery charged in the complaint alleging that she

docket.

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himself had an audience cancelled. Luter Mme. Fontange discovered

that there Was police record against her containing Information

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lived at Brighton, nearby, and that French spy and that she had which, she was told, emanated fromn Inquiries had been made before the Case was admitted to the Lewes boasted

of being Mussolini's a secretary of the French Embassy, mistress, was, mentioned here

POLICE DOSSIER The Lord Justice said he was glad to-day by Magda Fontange, the to know there was a check on such beautiful French journalist. cases being brought into the pro-

- vinces,

She was appearing before the ex-

This was the dossier which alleged that she had "boasted" of being Mussolini's mistress and alleged fur- ther that she was a member of the (French intelli-

amining magistrate, charged with "Second Bureau" The upshot of the matter was an-having shot and wounded the Count nouncement by N. B: Goldie, M.Pde Chambrug, former French Am-ence Service). that he would bring up the question bussador to flome,

in the House of Commons, asking

for a ruling by. the Attorney-General that no undefended divorce chse other than a poor person's

Case

shall be entered at an ussize town.

Mine. Fentange formally alleged that Mussolini was the "lus trious Italian who had been her lover from April until' July, 1936. "My Benito" was the epithet which The only exception he made was slipped more than once from her where the petitioner or respondent lips.

his

the

a permanent residence within

"When I returned to Rome after

county served by the couri, Explaining why she had shot at obviously striking at London social the Count, she salt to the judge: figures whe choose 4 provincial court in the hope of avoiding the publicity, little enough under drastic English law, the ease might receive, in the capital.

A legitimate reason, however, for

been Mussolia!'s mistress since April. a brief absence in July, I had already

Usually he received me at once, but this time there was delay.

Mme. Fonlange said she wrote two

seeking to have divorce cuses heard letters to Mussolini, enclosing them the provinces is the crowded as usual in an envelope addressed to condition of the London courts, So one of his secretaries.

in

long is the waiting list of London

divorce cases that nine months to a Worried at receiving no reply, she year may elapse before a case is visited the French Embassy, appealed

be

Mme. Fontange told the magistrate that by comparing the dossier with her words to the Count she hod "complete proof that he had be- trayed her confidence to the Italian

authorities,

In despair she attempted to com- mit suicide.

At this point the hearing was adjourned.

Search For Couple

Secret Service Called In

SENSATIONAL PLOT TO KIDNAP YVONNE AND

ANNETTE, THE TWO STRONGEST OF THE FAMOUS DIONNE QUINS, AND TO HOLD THEM FOR A RANSOM OF £100,000 HAS JUST BEEN THWARTED.

A terrified passenger in a transcontinental road coach overheard two men discussing the details of the kidnapping.

At the first stop at Etobicoke Village he rushed to the police station, where he found Mrs. Charles Suggett, the constable's wife.

She flashed a warning to Attorney-General Arthur Roe. buck. Armed men rushed to the coach station, but the men had gone.

This is what the man in the bus heard the kidnappers say:—

"We'll snatch two of them little · Dionnes out of

their nursery. Two'll be enough 'cos that'll spoll the five. A Jump over that 8ft. steel fence o' theirs-then off in a rachig plane at 250 miles an hour. 'Course-It's an easy stunt. But, oh, boy-what a whale of a prize? Why,

they'll give a million dollars (£100,000) to get them kids out of pawn."

These words, flashed over the wire, set Canada ngog with tension and excitement.

"We must take na chvuners," said the Attorney-General.

Watch for Mid-night Raiders

The guard of hefty armed Canadian Mounted Police on duty at the home of the Quins was immediately trebled. Motor-bus routes Awarmed with secret service agents who questioned all suspicious characters.

Nothing was left undone which would protect the world's most famous children from kidnappers,

They have taken partieular precautions to prevent any attempt by a mid-night raid by armed and desperate men on the Quins' home.

The danger from kichapping is very reol. This is the second occasion on which a plot has come to light.

"American criminals regard the Quins as a potential gold mine," suid an official of the Mounties. "We can never afford to relax our vigilance over them for one minute. Δ reckless assault by force might succeed if we were not armed and ready to act.

"We Must Keep Vigil”

"If kidnappers did succeed in getting away with the two sturdiest Hirls, it's conceivable that America alone, to say nothing of other nations, would rally to redeem them at any price.

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"You cannot imagine what these five-at-a-birth children mean to us Canadians. If Yvonne or Annette were to sleken and die captivity, then the miracle of our far-famed Quins would pass away with them at any price.

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"All we can do," the oficer concluded grimly. "is to keep watch ward to the utmost of Provincial powers. And the need for in increasing vigil will grow greater with every year.

Brewery Has Hostess Now

Adelaide, Apr. 10. TOLLOWING the dance hos-

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tess, the train hostess and the air hostess comes the bre- wery hestess.

Aliss Lindley Villeneuve Smith-beautiful society-girl.- daughter of K.C.. has been appointed hostess to an Ade- laide brewery company.

She will visit hostesses who do not like ordering supplies of drinks from men, and will sug gest appropriate quantities of wines and spirits. She will also enlerlain prominent visitors at the brewery.

CAPTAIN HERO OF

BURNING SHIP

Holyhead, April 5.

A burly Scot is the hero of a thirty-mile race between

Secret of No. 1 Gunman's Doom

Dil- ME man who brought John THE

linger, America's Public Enemy No, I to his doon, is in London.

He la Nocl Madison, the celluloid counterpart of the notorious gangster who could not resist studying the screen tactics of the perfectly played gunman.

Madison, ano of the most sinister figures who ever fitted across the cinema screen Is, In rear life, a smiling young man. "This is the real story of Dillinger's death," he told a press representative, "I was in Chiengo at the time in a dual capacity. But it wasn't me in the flesh that brought about his cap- ture Dillinger was in hiding.

"Then it was remembered that he was one of my fans-particularly in Mad- picture called Manhattan

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ness."

"The point was that Dillinger couldn't resist seeing that film. "He made the most careful pre-

heard. In the provinces cases can to the Count de Chambrun to keep life and death in a blazing steamer.

decided within a few weeks. her secret and told him of her dis- There is agitation for appointment of tress at being unable to see Mussolini.

He is Captain W. J. S. Anderson, of the 4,800-ton cargo parations. He had had his face lift- at least two additional judges for the

The Count promised secrecy and Vessel Marie Moller, which caught fire 30 miles from Holyheaded, his hair dyed, and his moustache divorce división.

comforted her, saying that, he in the early hours of this morning.

COURT AT His 35 Wives

WOMAN'S TRIAL

BEDSIDE MARRIAGES

STORM

New-York, Apr. 10.

JUDGE Smith, of Los Angeles, who

passed the death sentence on pretty thirty-one-year-old Mrs. Helen Wills Love for the murder of her husband, to-night ordered a session of the court of her bedside to decide whether the execution can be carried out.

For five days Mrs. Love"I can dle any time. I want," she claimed has lain in a self-induced coma in her cell in Los Angeles Gubl

This afternoon State psychila- irist Samuel Marcus tried to hypnotise her back to conscious- neas while nurses forced glucose and saline through her clenched, teeth.

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She cried, sobbed, and her legs and arms lost some of their rigidity. "Oh, Harry," she murmured, "don't hurt me; please don't hurt me. I love

you

Mrs. Love shot her husband Harry on New Year's eve because he would not announce their marrloge,

VIOLENT protests are being made against the growing system of trial marriages in the villages and} small towns of Yugoslavia,

It has become a custom in many parts of the country for a man to take a girl into his house on trial and to turn her out after a fow months if he doesn't want to marry

her.

With his ship ablaze, and with a On shore, at Holyhead, rockets crew of nearly 70 Chinese ou board, and maroons brought the crew of He directed fire-fighting operation the lifeboat, the A.E.D. out of their from the bridge, at the same time beds before dawn. driving his ship landwards, hoping to beach her.

After a six hours race with death he saw every member of his crew taken safely off the burning vessel by craft which rushed to help.

Not a single seaman was injured.

CAPTAIN'S STORY

The captain was modest about the part in the adventure.

altered.

THE WOMAN IN RED

"As soon as the film came to the city, Dillinger slipped out quietly one night and made for the cinema. He Hundreds of people crowded downlant throughout several performances to the breakwater, and saw the before slinking back home. He came stricken vesel with smoke and flames a second time. Fascinated, he risked belching from her holds two or three capture and sidled along dark streets miles away.

to visit the cinema for a third und fourth time.

The A.E.D. put off at once, and was followed by the Trinity House) bont Beacon.

One of the lifeboat's crew said: "There was a heavy sen running, snow was falling and when we got to the Murie Moller she was red hot. Captain Anderson was still on the bridge."

Then came the fifth visit with 'he woman in red," who gave him away to the police. After the fifth visit to see the film, DiI- linger and his woman were walk- ing along when suddenly she bc- gan

to run.

was

merely he sensed that there

wrong. Standing at ja half-crouch, his hands slid to his

"We were coming from India to Liverpool with a cargo of peanuts and of cakes," he told me. "About one o'clock this morning there was an explosion in one of the hatches. "The lifeboat coxswain's brother armpits he always carried two guns believe that it was caused by gas, got on board and to the bridge, but-but before he could shoot, there the flames were so ferce that both was a hall of bullets from the guns "Fire broke out, and all the crew the skipper and he were beaten from of the G Men and Dillinger crumpled were roused. At the time we were the bridge.

up on the sidewallc." about 30 miles out, and although we tried to get the fire under it gained

Lack of money to pay fees and rapidly.

Causch of this growing custom,! which is being so often abused,

moral laxity are blamed as the two "My iden then was to try to drive the ship sherewards to beach her before she could sink beneath us.

One man has been found to have changed 35 wives" in 13 years.

"I lost the race by a mile-she did

He has been legally married 13 not sink; but everybody got ashore times all the rest were trial mar safely."

First news of the burning ship rlares wiilch lasted between 15) days and 12 months. Only by his as flashed over the radio by

Liverpool liner which saw the glow first wife has he any children-one in the distance, and picked up the son, aged 12-Reuter,

Marie Moller's SO S.

The Marie Moller's chief officer,

Mr. G. T. Hogg, of Liverpool, said hundreds of feet above her we could the trouble started in the No. 3 coal feel the heat. bunker, and that there were two ex- plosions."

The red ensign was flying upside down.

Of those on board 57 were token

to

During the afternoon I flew over

remander by the Beacon. the blazing vessel as she lay half off by the Holyhead lifeboat and the mile out at sen

The Mario Moller belonge With a heavy list to port and Messrs. N. E. A. Moller, of Shanghai, settling very low in the water she and is registered at Leith. was a redhot shell, The uncovered At midnight the fire was burning holds were a seething cauldron of flereely, and the ship has been given smoke and flame, and as wo: circled up as a total wreck.

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