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BARGAINS

THE

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER

13,

1937.

11

"Divorce Laws Are

Wicked & Cruel "

Late Mr. Justice Swift's Views

Read These Amazing Offers! JOKES of Mr. Justice Swift, whose cruel. These people ought not to be

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dreadful in- cently, frequently led to laughter, dignities, and I wish some of those who have 10 which he repressed by tapping his learned ecclesiastics penell.

Often a joke was akiifully much concern for the well-being of come and sit there Interposed by him to relieve the soclely would nervous tension of a witness or to (in the public gallery). coin

becoine

"Those who talk about the sanciliy n scene which had

of marriage, who lay emphasis on heated, says the Daily Mail.

Ilis memory was a good that he let no mon put asunder,' do not aco, could lay alde hils notes after try-or, if they see it, do not realise the Ing a case lasting several days and pain and suffering which comes into.

the wilnes-box.

What dreadful sum up Jucidly to the jury. His manner was kindly, there was storles I have heard to-day." often a merry twinkle in his eyes, one felt his court was humun, but. when occasion demanded it. he could be severo.

THOUGHT FOR VICTIMS

"TREMENDOUS MUDDLE".

He was moved to this criticism by having heard little children called to Have divorce evidence, and many religious leaders were much con } 6"

It was, perhaps, his very kindnesscerned by it, and human sympathy that led hist to order the "cat" for crimes of violence. No picus fur mercy made

sufferings him forget the victim.

of the

Once, when sentencing a man to 18 strokes for rubbery with violence, he said:

"I think it will be good for every- hody if you should feel some of the pain which you inflicted on this girl. I am not in the least moved by your pleas for leniency." His care for justice and dislike of altempts to Introduce Irrelevant pre- judten was shown when, in the cource of a case, he complained of an attack being made on the char- acter of a woman.

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Betting laws he denounced as "a tremendous muddle," and he sald to a Leeds Jury: "We have Ind a { commission on the aubject, but] nothing has happened and, belleve me, nothing ever will. It is a hopeless mess and everybody is afraid to touch it."

He wan sarcastic about the eme ployment of juries in civil cases and once said to 45 jurors summoned to try four cases which were settled out of court:

Sir Oswald Mosley, British Fascist leader, severely injured when stoned at Liverpool, Eng land, as he prepared to make a sprech. A crowd of 10,000 most ly hostile, attacked bim.

"Why I Am

Fittest Woman'

-LADY BADEN-POWELL Lady Baden-Powell claims to be the fittest woman in Britain. throughout the

Organising Girl Guide activities world means hard work. But the wife of the Chlef Scout Is never ill.

"In my opinion, the criterion of t- "You will be able to go out in a nesa is not the ability to excel in few minutes and tell people what sports and fames," she told a Sun- great thing the jury system is, and how necessary it is that we should preserve it."

"I don't care how disreputable Free Wine For Islanders woman mang le, she is entitled to the fullest protection which the law can glve her in the case of an attack such as is bere alleged," he declared. "She is just as entitled to it as the proudest princess in the land."

11 ready wit is shown by a re mark he made in the Divorce Court to counsel who said:

is

day Chronicle reporter. *It ability to enjoy your own job.

"Mental. moral and physical fitness must be Inked together.

"I am a non-stop worker from 7.30 In the morning till 10.30 al night. And I steep when I can. "Exercises? I and walking to be the best exercise for fitness-walking in the quiet, alone."

Lord Baden-Powell at 80 is one of the fittest men of his age. He has

of programme mapped out a full scouting activities that will keep him busy for the next two years,

London, Oct, 0. Some of the people of Guernsey are very happy. Not only have they got something for nothing, but the sonic- thing is wine. This is how it hap- pened and how It was found out.

Pollen thought it rather odd when "Your Lordship is always right they found a man crawling home from the seashore on his hands and The answer was: "I may not al-knees. They thought it odder still ways be right, but what I say here when they found another man alseep salvaged and handed over to the In the grass clutching a wine cask authorities. Olier casks are now He did not mince words when he and wearing un Incredibly broad being washed ashore from the wreck. gave his opinion of "our wicked, smile. They decided to Investigate Men, women and children with milk crucl divorce laws."

and discovered the respon. The cans, ketiles, teapots and cups have

helping French ship Briseis was wreeked off been

themselves, Now the west coast

of Guernsey last roads near the coast are being patroll- Friday.

ed at night by Police. Cars are stopped and searched. So the dream is o'er.

DREADFUL INDIGNITIES "To my mind," he said at Dir mingham Assizes, "the divorce laws are wicked and of this country

Her cargo consisted largely of barrels of wine, many of which were

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