1938-01-25 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, JANUARY 25, 1938.

Royal Artillery Captain Who Spanked

Special Empire Cables

VOLCANO PERIL' IN NEW

GUINEA

Sydney.

The New Guinea Administration, acting on the advice of an experi on volcanoes, has evolved plans for rapid evacuation of the population| of Rabaul, the present enpital, in thej event of another eruption Great! damage was done by the last erup tion in May.

Continuous watch is being kept, and factories will soul their hooters If there are any untoward signs. Thie white inhabitants, especially motor- ints, are allotted tasks in, organised evacuationL.,

A committee will whortly tour the whole mundated territory to choose A site for the CW capital. The change will. it is estimster, cost the Federal Government at least £230,- | [000,

Embassy Oftelals,--A plan to op- point Australian officials, to British Embassies in important centres and to extend the Department of Exter- nal Affairs is being considered by the Federal Cabinet-Reuter,

£200.000 Bus Order. The largest order for 'buses ever made by the New South Wales Transport Depurt-j ment has gone to Great Britain, The order Is for chosals for 77 double- deck and 25 single-deck buses. Their total cost will be £200,000,- B.U.P.

Centenarian's Death-Mrs. Emma Sophia Bush, who was born at Bath. Somerset, has died at her daughter's home at Strathfeld, Sydney, ut the age of 100.-Reuter,

INDIA

Balloon Monsoon Tests.-Small bal- toons about five feet in diameter, when fully expanded, are to be used by Bangalore Observatory to secure more data concerning monsoon air currents, and to facilitate the pre- puration of weather forecasis Reuter.

Oriental Conference--Prof. F. W. Thomas, Botten Professor of San- skrit in the University of Oxford, is presiding over the ninth session of Conference, the All-India Oriental which is in session at Trivandrum, i Travancore.-Reuter,

BLUE BEARD'S MURDER HOUSE

And Kicked

HERE IS THE MURDER house in Celle-Saint-Cloud, Franco, whore Gor- man-born Eugene Weidmann confessed to Paris police he had slain somo of the five victims he killed for their money. Body of Jean Do Koven, 22-year-old dancer of Brooklyn, N. Y., was recovered from under the front porch, This W. W. Radiophoto shows, lower right, curious crowds about the villa after the dancer's body was taken away.

PUTTING THEM ON THE ($1).

SPOT

Berlin.

DOLICE have taken energetic steps to deal with the "street par- liaments" which have so long bindered the flow of pedestrian

traffic in Karlsruhe.

Wearied of repeated warnings against those who love to stand and stare or chatter pleasantly on their favourite corners of the malu strecis, the police have now introduced the "dollar on the spot" remedy.

..

By this means a policeman can descend suddenly on a gather- ing of "corner boys" and fine them each a mark there and then.

Since the introduction of the rule a few days ago the biggest bay for one siroop wna eleven marks.

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stated to have twisted his wife's arm, put her over his knee, and smacked her, saying it was the only way to treat a woman of her sort, appeared in the Divorce Court in Lon- don recently.

Mr. Fergy Barbara MacNeece, of Trinity-crescent; Folkestone was granted a judicial separation against Captain John Frederiek Donald MneNgece, of the Royal Artillery, now serving at Aldershot, on the grounds of his cruelty, which he denied..

The marriage took place at Saltwood Parlsh Church, Kent, In September 1933, and in August last year Mrs. MacNecce left her husband.

The President, Sir Doyd Merriman, said it had been plainly stated that the case was being tought because of the possible results which might occur after the now legislation came in on January 1, affording relief in charges of cruelly.

"SPIRITED YOUNG WOMAN”

Barbara

Hutton

Danish

New York. Countess Haugwitz - Re-

"At the time of the marriage," Sir Boyd Merriman continued, "Captain MacNeece was 33 and his wife 23, The wife showed herself to be a bright, attractive, spirited young woman. I am satisfied she was very much in love with her husband and was eager to make the marriage a

success.

"She admits she kicked her hus- band cnce and slapped his face, and hit him on the head on another ocea- sion when he was driving a car, but I do not think she had a bad or nasty temper.

"The husband has a considerable reputation, not only in the Army, but outside it, as a horseman."

Whatever were the military equiva- lents of the words "tart," "scarlet and "sewer," they were not

ventlow, formerly Barbara in the British Army as

Hutton, has

renounced

an officer and other ranks.

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"He was filed and actuated by an intensate jealousy of his wife in The beautiful heiress to many regard to his own mother, his own millions secretly signed her re-married brother, and his own battery commander. I have never been 50 nunciation in New York before conscious that I was listening to the she sailed, with attempts at embodiment of the egoist. more secrecy, aboard the liner' Europa.

SCENE AFTER HONEYMOON

She arrived in the Europa sion upon me as a witness. He was from Britain.

While America was speculating on her visit without her husband or 20- month-old son, the countess consult- en her lawyer, Mr. Gibson Mattison.

She appeared with him before Federal Judge William Bondy.

· "The-husband-made-a-bad-impres-

affable and plausible, and was talking: as one man of the world to another. Upon the major points I am satisfied he was deliberately trying to deceive

Sir Boyd Merriman said that when Captain MacNeece and his wife te- turned from their honeymoon they had no liquid refreshment In

the In open court she waited until house. The husband wanted to go: Judge Bondy had finished with his out and celebrate, but his wife was ordinary business, and then her case tired and wanted to stay in. came up in the deserted courtroom. He then told her that the marriage Technicalities were completed in a had got to begin as it was going on, few minutes. She scribbled her and, whether he used words that he signature on a piece of paper, kissed would "break her in" or "break her the Bible, and left the court un-spirit," he took the line which had recognised, no longer a citizen of the led to most of the trouble between

them.

U.S.A.

The countess automatically became

"The wife was telling me the truth

a subject of the King of Denmark, when she said her husband threw her like her husband, who has large on a sofa because he said she had estates near Copenhingen.

been late for some guests who were Judge Bondy said: "She came up coming, and had done it to make a and asked for a form. She signed it fool of him before them.

and took the oath.

"She gave no reason for her action.

I didn't ask her."

DUAL NATIONALITY

"HOPED SHE WOULD DIE"

"In the struggle her hand cought on something and bled on to her dress. He insisted on washing the

The real reason for the renuncia- dress himself, threw water over her tlon was that legal complication for while she was washing It, and saidi

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because of her dual nationality. At things

never died. her marriage she automatically within two months of having her sequired

citizenship under child. A man must be very callous Danish Danish law, but remained American to conduct himself like that. under American law.

"When she had gone with her hus- After

attending the court the band

and to sce him school a horse, as countess went back to the hotel to it was raining she wanted to watch! which she had sent sixteen trunks from the car.

This of clothes for the visit, which she he hit his wife

angered him, and Across the back of her announced was for the purpose of hand with his leather-covered riding seeing her father, Mr. Franklin sticks and made a large weal."

Hutton.

"On another occasion she says he She left the hotel towards mid-shouted and swore and said he wished night and boarded the Europo. She to God he had married a woman who locked her cabin door and posted a could ride. mold outside.

Another time, he kicked her on the leg.

She stayed in her cabin and refused to answer ship-to-shore tele- phone calls as the Europa tre her away from her native land.

Next time she arrives in New York

line up for immigration tion under the notice marked them to leave. The husband then said; : I have just heard that my wife has committed adultery,"

"ASKED TO LEAVE"

"On one occasion Capt. MacNeece and his wife were in n restaurant and, (over some matter, the waiter asked

- she

Lawyer Mattison sald he did not think that the heiress would inke

"On the same day, on the way to her fortune-officially assessed at Olympia in a taxi with his mother £9,000,000 last year to England, and his brother, he made it clear he where she has made her home. was recusing his brother of being too familiar with his wife. After the husband hnd used the words 'scarlet Count Haugwitz-Reventlow, speak-woman' the brother, stopped the cab ing to a Daily Express reporter from and got out and went on by himself. an hole! at St. Marliz, said when told "I think the husband was actunteit that the countess had renounced her by the foutent suspicion that the wife, American ellizenship:-

for her own petly ends, had stooped.

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