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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

TUESDAY, MAY 31, 1938.

DOCTOR'S WIFE AWARDED

3/4D DAMAGES

Libel Action Against

A Well-Known British Firm

FREEDOM FOR 113 UNHAPPY

A doctor's wife, Mrs. Florence Emily Pierce, of Longbridge- COUPLES

road, Barking, Essex, was awarded three-farthings damages by a special jury in the King's Bench Division recently.

She had brought a libel action against the Witney Blanket Co., Ltd., and the Recovery and Adjustment Bureau, Ltd., of Cannon-street, EC-a debt-collecting agency, which, said Mr. Justice Finlay, had adopted "extremely undesirable methods."

The case arose out of the purchase

of a cloth roat from the blanket, cont- 1935 by Mra pany In November Pierre for £2 158. on the instalment system.

Her enau was that after the had settled her account in October 130 she received communications from the bureau describing her an "stubborn defaulter," demanding im- mediate payment and indicating that an "Inspector Matthews" woult b calling upon her.

BOGUS LEGAL PHRASES

Referring 10 a letter sent by the bureau, Mr. Justice Finlay sald: "Nobody knows what legal adjust

attestment

nent or attestment means. It obviously legal phraseology test to frighten people. in, of course, mere nonsense, and anybody who knew anything about the law would know 11 WOD 1100-

sense.

G. O. Slade, for the blanket company, said Mrs. Pierce was not an uneducated type of person who would be affected by letters in way that "Mrs. Aris" of "Mr. Gamp" fame might have been.

Mr. P. B. Morle, for the bureau, said his clients were sincerely sorry that they had sent the commonlen- tions. They were under the impres sion that the debt was still oustand- ing.

Mr. Justice Finlay indicateal that he would later hear legal argument on the question as to whether there had been a publication of the libel.

The jury found that the defendunts were equally responsible for the i libels, They awarded Mrs. Pierce a forthing on each of the three bels.

“UNREST"

AT

SCOTLAND

YARD

Sir Samuel Hoare (Home Secretary) is to be asked to set a day aside for a full debate on the question.

Five divorce judges in the Law Courts recently listen- ed to 113 unhappy men and women mumbling answers that revealed tragedies of wrecked romances, broken marriage vows, jealousies, pleas, deceptions and heart- breaks.

The judges, sitting from 10.30 am. to about 3.30 p.m.-with on hour off for linch-gunteil eve-of-Easter devrees nist to the unhappy 113.

In ve courts the same questions were usked and the daine unswerz

alven.

some

A man who twiddled with a clothi cap and a man with a monocle, wa- men who twitte old and whose charms have stl to fade, wo- Mr. Jack Hayes, former "Police- men in furs and women in theend- man's" MP and one-time pollee bare routs they gripped the witness- sergeant, has brought the whole mat- ¦ box rails in turn and said; - 1፡ Inter the day light LU Police RezILE,

"Yes, we were happy at first. Quite happy.

Then I noticed a I was worried, but sand

nothing at first.

"I'm afraid," he says, "that behind ¦ change. the several resignations taking place in the crimge departments at the Yard there is a feeling of soreness, which is a more potent reason for resignation than a desire to retire."

Then confeautons, lettern or photo- graphs found by chance, anonymous letters, or the brutal trutit of an Hotel Fall Anished off the stu: les.

IDENTIFIED

"SOCIAL CONNECTIONS" "There ran

can be no question of el- ciency in respect of any of the fleers who are retiring," Mr. Bayes muys. Photographs of wrring Husbanda He complains that a new form of and wives were handed up to wit- arumotion from

Men and women took them the ranks of in-nesses,

little spector upwards is being introdured and looked at their a

longer tion wis necessary to idently thein in the Metenpolitan Police.

Photographes of "the other man" ur "the other woman" were passe<i like Jol bricks. Curt "Nors" regilded to counsel's queries; "130 you

eognise the other person?"

And in this systems the young College. men from the Police with social connections, are get- ting preferential treatment,

The matter is to be raised at the next meeting of the Polire Federa- tion.

The same kind of thing is happen-

After legal argument. Mr. Justice Fining entered judgment for Mrs. Pierce for three farthings damages. without costs, and ordered that the company and the bureau should ring in some of the provincial forces, cover against her the general corts of the action subsequent to the date of payment of £100 to

court, except for the costs attributable to the issue of lability.

TOO MUCH PURGE

Moseaw

The Central Executive of the Com munist Party has ordered the holding. between April 15 and June 15, of new elections to all the provincial execu tive committees of the party in the various republics of the Union.

This decision has come on a sur- prise, because the last elections were held less than a year ago.

un

Private inquiry agents (blue suits, Imlacouts, gotel watch-chains and ruddy faces) told what they sow

Sleepy-eyed Hour waiter. chambermaids, receptionists, ans- Wered a few questions and counsel said: "On that evidence, m'lud. ask for a decree nist.”

1.

A case was brought to the notice of the Secretary for Scotland a few days ago in which a mraber of the Sutherland Force was said to have been promoted to sergent over the heads of men senior to himself, al- Mr. Justice Langton, in Divorce though he had not been in the furce Court No. 1, mude many For year and had not sat for the ser-regarded each witness through horn- notes, geants' examination.

rimmed spectacles, asked Ith occas The Secretory for Scotland, Mr. sional question. and dealt wilb Elliot, as promised to make personal, twenty-two applientions before tea- Raquiries into this case,

time.

EVEREST PARTY'S

PROGRESS

Weather Conditions Similar To 1936

The President, Sir Boyd Merrimun, thun-fured med vigilant, nodded "Yes, very well," nodded again for counsel in the next case to carry on, satt once, "Oh, I don't want any more" when the evidence was drag glog on to repetition, and dealt with twenty-five appications.

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Mr. Justice Bucknil, Court, listened to twenty-two appli cations. Kalimpong (Bengal.

He examined documents The first news from the Everest handed up to him as earnestly as The new polis have been rendered

expedition since it crossed the Indian student sitting for an examination. necessary because, owing to the re-frontler into Tibet has reached

TELLS OF SON purges," many of the execu Kalimpong in the form of a letter pented tive commitices have been depleted from Mr. F. S. Smythe, dated March He spoke kindly to a mother who and Stalin wants a complete change | 30. In the personnel.

The electoral inw published to-day stipulates that only candidates devoted to Stalin may be elected.-Exchange

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SULTAN'S "GET-OUT

Singapore.

It is stated here that the Sultan of Johore pronounced the word talak ("get out") only once to his wife. formerly Mrs. William Wilson, widow

of a Glasgow doctor, and that the door is thus left open for a recon- ciliation.

four times to divorce her and it was

done this,

A

United Press.

Danger In Short Falls

gave evidence of her son's miscon-

Mias Chan Wan-sheung

KWANGTUNG BEAUTY BECOMES IDOL OF

CHINA'S FILM FANS

Meteoric Career Of Miss

Chan Wan-sheung

A well-known personality to Chinese film fans is Miss Chan Wan-sheung, a glamorous and able actress who since her debut as a stor some three years ago has appeared in more than twenty pro- ductions. Her youth, vivacity and charm have won for her in- numerable admirers, who have compared her to Claudette Colbert of the American screen.

Miss Chan was born in Tolshan, Kwangtung on July 10, 1920. Her father was at one time a District Magistrate in Hunan Province, and ber mother was a niece of the late Mr. Kam Tsang-ching, & Commis- siamer on the Board of Education In Canton a few years ago.

She was educated in Canton and after finishing her primary school course at the age of twelve, entered School with the intention of touch- the Municipal Norinat Trotning

ing. However, about this time she studied also the ngazi or "polite accomplishments" of old China

under the tutelage of Mr. Yik Kin-

Chun is very much appreciated in Chinn, and her namo Wan-sheung, signifying "Cloudy frost" Is as fami- lar to the Cantonese as that of Greta

Garbo, Claudette Colbert, Joan Crawford or any other of the great atars of the Hollywood screen.

RADIO BROADCAST

em, an eminent Cantonese writer "The Canterbury Pilgrims"

und scholar. Under the direction of

The letter was sent from Jkyop.duct with a married woman lodger her distinguished master she acquir-} two marches beyond Tengkye.

Mr. Tilman and the remainder of and said: the party were then three marches

"I hope she is not going to be your daughter-in-law." ahead.

"Thank you, sir, I hope not," and "Everest looks calm, has been the tearful mother. cloudless for days on end," says the

Mr. Justice Langton had spoken letter. The weather is hol with kindly to an erring wife who said conditions similar to those experi- she had come to court merely be enced by the 1930 expedition.cause she was anxious to keep her } Anela-flāvas,

Duck Shows Chimney Sense

Colusa, Ca

NEW BRUTISHI BOOKS SET RECORD

London.

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From the University

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SIBELIUS SYMPHONY Interpretation ot ancient musle, classical dancing, the art of stage net-

Radio Programme Broodcast by ing, and the fundamentals of versify Z.B.W. on a Frequency of 845 k.c's. ing in the manner of the great writers and on Short Wave from 1-2.10 p.m. of the Tang Dynasty. The remark and 0-11 p.m. able diligence displayed by the young second. girl in her difficult studies won for

12.00-12.20 p.m. Intercession

on

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Relay of Service from St. John's

her the approbation of her teacher, of "You have nothing more to

and after two years of studious effort Cathedral. she had made such progress that she 12.30 Delius-Over The Hills And was now considered to be an adept Far Away (Suite),

child. worry about," he told the mother. "Your husband has not asked for the custody of the child to-day."

Mr. Justice Henn Collins looked

WAS

bud

Thais

In oll the arts of ancient Chin. Played by the London Philhar- very pale in the Criminal Appeal Subsequently, she took up the study monic Orchestra conducted by Sir Court as he disposed of his list of

of western music and dancing and Thomas Beecham, Bart twenty-five undefended petitions

managed also to obtain a satisfactory 12.43 Violin Solos. According to the Mohammedan

Mr. Justice Hodson sat in the Bar A wild duck here took a lesson Reading Room, behind doors marked

background of the high-lights of faith in which they were married at

Le Coq O'or-Hymn To The Sup western literature. Upon her gra- (Rimsky-Korsakow-Franko) Woking Mosque seven years ago, the

from Santa Claus and flew down the "Private, For Counsel Only," WI- husband must repeat talak to his wife double chimney at the residence of nesses, counsel and solicitors

duation from Normal School in 1935,-Meditation (Massenet)....Mischa she was advised by her relatives to Elman (Violin) Piano accomp. by Mrs. L. R. Tadlock. understood in London that he had duck sense also to fly down the side petitions were heard.

It had enough comfortable armchairs while nineteen

make use of her abundant talents. Josef Bonime; Scherze Tarantelle Accordingly, she decided that her (Wieniawski Op. 10); Malaguena of the chimney that led to the open;

21)... Temianka Bil legalising the divorce fire place instead of the side that the Divorce Courts

By 3.45 p.m. the corridor outside true metier would be the screen, and (Sarasate-Op.

with this in mind she managed even- (Violin) with plano accompaniment. according to the lows of the State ended in heated stove-United The last of the unhappy husbands

deserted.tually to obtain work in the studios

1.00 Time and Weather. of Johore will be introduced in the Press.

and wives hurried into the Strand

of Canton. Her vivacious person- 1.03 Charlle Kunz at the Piano. State Council on Tuesday.----British

sunshine to begin their new lives. ality soon secured her a contract, and Charlic Kunz Plano Medley No. with the consent of her parents, slic R.14; Charlie Kunz Plano Medley No. embarked upon her successful career R.10. at the age of fifteen. The picture in 1.15 Reuter and Rugby Press, [For Hitler's Autograph-id. Which she first appeared as leading Weather and Announcements.

Judy was entitled "Yeung Kwal-fel",

1.25 Dance Music.

To A stained and battered edition of cubine of an Emperor of the Tang Evatide Loule

n tale of the life of the beautiful con-

Fox-Trols-Lyin'

Myself; "The Renaissance," by Count de

Armstrong and the first woman parachute 1937, ihe highest total ever recorded of Adolf Hiller, has been plekett un standing was her characterisation of Armstrong: Cross Patch......Hob Gobineau, containing the signature Dynasty (A.D. 610-907), So out Flis Orchestra, vocal chorus by Louis for a penny on a Paddington books the lovely but ill-fated heroine in this Crosby and His Orchestra, vocal

Alm that the ploture was not only en chorus by Bob Crosby; Fox-Trois-

but favourably reviewed by the Fox And His Orchestra with vocul Press, and she won immediately thou-refroin. sands of urdent fans. Indeed, by the 1:40 Relay of Rotary Tin Speech time her second picture was shown, from The Roof Garden of the Hong- Miss Chan had become a box-office kong Hotel. attraction and was henceforth runk- 2.15 Close Down. ed as one of China's leading actresses.

6,09 Sibellus-Sympliony No. 1 la Her reputation has been, more-E Minor, Op. 39. over, further enhanced by her splen- Played by the Symphony Orchestra die performance in her latest plc- conducted ture, the English title of which is Kajonus.

The Bloody Battle of Pac-shon

Melbourne,

More thun 17,000 Within a few hours after she be-published in Great came

books Britain lag

Jumper in Australia by making a The annual analysis of the Publi- successful descent of 3,200 feet Miss thers' Circular and the Publisher and Jean Burns, 17, lost her balance while Bookseller states that the total of 17,- appearing on the stage that evening,288 is an advance of 714 on the feil 5 feet and injured her head. Ogure for 1936,

Princess's Baby Will Be Born In Exile

Plymouth

kali.

found its way out of the possession

It is a mystery how the booit thusiastically received by the public,Wuh-Hoo; The A-Muggin' .....Roy

of its famous owner to the undignified Junk barrow from which it was res- cued by a book collector, Mr. R. de Grete, of Blomfeld-rond, Maida Vale, "The signature at first conveyed nothing to me except that the book had previously been owned by a German," Mr. de Grete told a TC- porter,

"Later I was told by 20 expert

Herr Hitler has robbed Princess Loowenstein, wife of thirty-one-year- that the writing is · Identical with old Friace Hubertus zu Loowenstein, of her most cherished with...to have Adolph Hitler's signature.

"I have written to Hitler offering

sentimental value.

her first baby in her native Austria, says à correspondent of the Dotty to return the book, as it may have of the present Sino-Japanese con-

City This film which is based on an actual incident in the early stages flict in so vivid in its realism that' tho patriolle emotions of the

pitch, and as a portrayal of the diffl- culties of Chinn's fighting mon is probably unsurpassed.

Express

er husband, a prince of the royal August, they decided to return home ferr Hitler does not want it audience are wrought to the highest house of Bavaria, was exiled from | Just before they sailed they heard "IL Germany because he opposed Hitler. of Hitler's march into Austria, I shail keep it myself."

[Count Ho continued his anti-Nazt campaign

de Gobineau, Franch when they went to live in the Tyrol. At Plymouth to-night Prince novellet and philosopher, of inst

Recently he and his wife have been | Hubertus told me that he will century first put forward on a lecture tour in America. With ineturn In England, France and Spain, Aryan" theory of race now adopted the Frincess expecting her baby in then they will return to America. by Nazi Germany,}

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The histrionle art which is zo cap- obly portrayed in the person of Miss

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