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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, AUGUST 16, 1937.

SPEEDY DIVORCE REFORM DEMAND

KING CAROL BUYS WINDSOR'S

HOLIDAY YACHT

London Efforts To Travel Incognito

KING Carol of Rumania has bought Lady Yules' yacht

Nahlin, in which the Duke of Windsor cruised last summer when Edward VIII.

One of the reasons for King Carol's visit is to discuss plans for a state visit to the King and Queen at Buckingham Palace late in the year, the Daily Mail says.

Ily, is seen photographed when

PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT's Arrangements are being made to entertain a number MOTHER, Is spending some teen of foreign royal guests, including King Leopold of the arriving at Naples. Belgians and King George of the Hellenes.

More Judges Wanted:

Delay

Worse

"At least one extra judge is needed immediately in Unless the Divorce Courts to tackle the present arrears. the Lord Chancellor introduces speedy and drastic reforms there will be hopeless congestion and misery-especially to poor persons.”

A lawyer with many years' experience of divorce delays and the unnecessary hardship they impose upon husbands and wives already embittered by unhappy marriages, made this indictment of the present state of the Law Courts when discussing with a reporter recently the inadequacy of the system.

ONE-THIRD UNHEARD When the Law Courts closed'

A tanned, happy-looking man,-in Ineze brown letters, easy to read DEVIL'S ISLE MAN their doors on July 31 to give in a brown chalk-stripe suit,fifteen yards away.

bowler hat, and rubber-soled

At the station plain-clothes deter- shoes, jumped from a private uves, trying to look unconcerned and couch of the Continental boat-unlike polleemen, refused to let people even touch the three barriers) train at Victoria.

across the platform.

und

He kissed a solemn reception com- Much: thinner, handsome. mittee of three and marched through jalmost boisterous with good humour,

car.

ARRESTED

TRAMPED 200 MILES THROUGH FOREST

twenty polleemen to a closely-guarded the "count" had been recognised After escaping from Devil's Island, every inch of his journey as King the dreaded penal settlement in French Guiana and walking 200 miles Carol.

through dense forest, living on rents and berries, a convict named Elle Rondent has been arrested In Paris, | He had secured a loaf of bread and a plece of beef, walked to Cayenne. Hntless, he walked across the lounge Friched Amerten by host, and return- into Hyde Park, his suite-two con-ed to Paris, where he had been living spicuous men in bowler hats-at his under many arsumed names. heels,

He was a monarch trying to be on holiday--Carol of Kumania, The "count" took ordinary rooms iravelling Incognito as plain Count on the second Door of the Dorchester Vrancia. Ho was in Britala to Hotel, but the reception office denied walk in Hyde Park, visit museums, ul knowledge of him. buy presents, go to a few theatres, and avold the strain of Kingship. "He wants to be a normal human being with a few days to enjoy in- self," said M. Dimencesco, a mem- ber of the Legation. Ils Majesty refuses to make any plons, and will Just do what and go where he plentes. He wants to try to disappear in the crowd and look at London. He la very fond of London,"

"We still say King Carol is not here,” repeated the reception clerk,

People stopped and stared

was certain.

It was a London policeman who He held up a double stream of traffle while the King eros- The first slips in the Incognito were ed the road. It is difficult for n king the printed labels on his luggage-to be an Ordinary Person.

Rondeau, who had ten previous convictions, was sent to Devil's Island in 1931. Twice before he had tried

to escape.

On the first occasion he got some distance away from the island in a rowing boat before being recaptured. The second time he was bitten by a snake and overtaken by warders be- cause he was too weak to run.

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because more petitions for divorce are being led at Somerset House in a week than are being dealt with in the courts. To-day petitioners have to wait six months before securing a divorce petitions set down in absolute under 12 months to

decree

prac- the current Trinity list remain-tically impossible. ed unheard.

EXTRA JUDGE NOT ENOUGH A solicitor Unlucky petitioners will have several

judges and officials a ten weeks'

holiday, over 600 of the 1,612 deerce nisi. To

or eight mor

secure

facing the prospect of left high-and-dry

to wait till mid-October before on the waltsid:

their cases are even approached. **In

my opinion the appointment of Despite the "mass attack"one extra judge will not solve the which the President, Sir Boyd problem unless divorce is made a Merriman, is launching on the Admiralty and Probate business. At separate division unhampered by arrears in the undefended list least two extra judges will be neces- his most optimistic estimate is sary to prevent the courts being

tions will have been dealt with. the Marriage Bill, spid: that only 850 of the 1,051 peti-snowed under in the near future."

Mr. A. P. Herbert, M.P., sponsor of He is arranging for one judge to deal exclusively with tir- defended cases, sitting daily during the last fortnight of the

Lerm.

MONDAYS ONLY

"I believe that divorce Judges hearing peiltions at Ansizes would greatly case the

burden on the courts in London,

"My own desire Is to see the num- ber of divorces decrease £1.4 the result of new legislation. I admit Pressure of work in the Admiralty that there will be additional grounds: and Divorce division has relegated for divorce, but on the other hand there cases to "Monday only. No there will be greater restrictions, and assistance can come from the King's many persons who to-day enjoy easy Bench, where the judges are also divorce of the hotel bill variety will busy,

find their path more difficult."

While divorce figures have soured

Lord Hallsham, the Lord Chancel-

in the past five years-due mainly to lor, has to apply for Parliamentary the facilities extended to "poor powers before he can appoint an persons"-the number of divorce additional judge or Divorce Commis- judges-three-has remained the sioner. He is awaiting the fate of

same.

the Marriage Bill before making a Alarm is growing in legal circles | final decision on Law Courts reform.

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From January to June this year exports are valued at £251,214,000, an improvement of £43,323,000, 20 per cent., on the same period last year.

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Scotch whisky sales to the United States total £3,000,000, a jump of 50 per cent.

The increase in our imports is even greater. For June they were worth £88,116,000, an increase of £20,500,000 on June 1936, and the highest monthly purchase from overseas for more than seven and a half years.

In the first six months of 1937 Britain has bought from abroad goods worth £489,422,000, an increase of £80,000,000 on 1936. Raw materials, account for £32,000,000 of the incrense, manufactured goods for £28,000,000, and foodstuffs for nearly. £20,000,000.

A 30-year-old English omnibus driver, Jack Scott, has walked from London to Capetown in South Africa. - distance of 15,000 miles in three years and elglit months. The picture above shows him passing "Dig. Ben", Westminster, on his return to London.

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