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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

MISCONDUCT CHARGES AGAINST

SCIENTIST

Grossly Untrue

Untrue And

Scandalous,

Declares Counsel

BRITON WHO MARRIED

A CHINESE

Mr. F. W. Beney, counsel for Dr. Sidney Cross Harland, the scientist in the Chinese wife case, described in the King's Bench Division when the hearing was resumed how the doctor "supplied the evidence" for his first wife's divorce in 1932.

Dr. Harland, aged forly-seven, of Clur Grange, Sainton, Yorks, alleges that he lost his £1,400- 0-year job beenuse he married (in 1934) the Chinese girl who had been his assistant for eight years, and is claiming damages from the Empire Cotton Grewing Corporation for breach of con- tract of his employment on head of the department of genetica their cotton research stution in Trinidad.

He plended that he was appointed to that position in 1929 for twelve years at a salary of £1,409, with the use of house. In August 1933 he was summarily dismissed.

The defence was a plea that the corporation were entitled to end Dr. Harland's employment "for larum pelence, negligence, or misconduct," and that at the line of the dismissal

they were dissalsited with his

services.

+

The facts about the divorce were former that Dr. Harland and his

The wife were unhappy together.

attachment, wife formed another

became and ultimately a divorce desirable from the point of view of both.

NEVER ANY MISCONDUCT

"Dr. Harland will tell you that in truth and in fuel there was no mis- conduct on his part by which these proceedings could have succeeded. but, in view of the fact that it was obviously desirable that these twe should be relensed, he agreed to do

called 'supplying shat evidence.'

the

"He never comtnitted misconduct. but he went through a performance in front of witnesses so that mi conduct might be inferred and a de- erre might be granted.

CFS]

PRINCE AND IS BRIDE-Royal honeymooners arriving in New York, recently, wore Princo and Princess Dominique Radziwill The Prince, a member of the wealthiest family in Poland, and his bride, the former Princess Eugenio of Greece, were married in the Church of St. Louis des Invalides, in Paris, where only de- scendants or other relatives of the first Emperor Napoleon may bo wed. The Princess is related through her mother, daughter of Roland Bonaparte.

Films Teach Nazis To Catch Spies

In every German town where military centres, munition works and aerodromes are located people are being invited attend evening lectures on spying and how to recognise and catch heapies.

Dr. Harland was advised that to supply evidence for a divorce

Iwe witnesses must be found by with a woman, Mr. Barry went on "GROSSLY SCANDALOUS'

Di Harland was found at an hotel. Mr. Beney

tronseript of by arrangement, and that was ult rend

When that matter cane to Te put proceedings of the corporation

b writing at Some stage or cury held under the chairmanship down at Sir Richard Jackson. in London father, he was told that I was not

rough before Dr. Harland was dismissed.

-

Sir Richard said that Dr. Harland's It was therefore arranged that a threatened libel action against Sir woran should come one evening to $115 bungalow-on unhappy Woun Geoffry Evans, controller of the re- search station, had brought about an; named Gladys, impasse, so that the corporation and to choose between the two.

Mr. Justice Hawke asked what the complaint was in Dr. Harland's libet nction.

The arriartement was that the two wilnesses should go in and find the worn in bis bed. She went into his bed, and he stayed in his room, in his pyjamus,

hat

Films show spies at work, the damage they do, and means used by foreign Powers "to seduce good Germans spying."

Mans

was

11)

(4) Several other wamen whose

unkttuwit were

the corporation. Pucts which the corporation would seek to prove, a said in the defence, were that Dr. Harland was in the habit of receiving al night

xm, and there Into his bedroom, milting misconduct with, some eight other women than those referred to, The suggestiau. that Olive Atteck, now Dr. Harlund's wife, branded in thr delence as his mistress, WAR false.

con

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Dr. Carrell will return to America in time to resume work at the Rocke- feller Institute at the end of Septem- ber.

"My last book was meant for tech- nicians rather than the general publle, and I am surprised at the wide in- terest it has aroused," Dr. Carrel told press Interviewers.

"FUNCTIONS OF THE HEART"

"Our work un the living organs, though it is in an early stage, has already been misunderstood.

"We are not out to make men live for ever. to

We are out to protect them against local breakdowns In their bodies, and to make them live the natural span.

the into

It is clained that a great centre al clonage directed against Germany hus been discovered in Amsterdam.

This centre is working. German guise omeial report says, under the of a private loan bank.

ATTRACTIVE TERMS

" want you to say that 1 have not ¦ invented an artificial heart.

"Hat the apparatus Lindbergh and are working on now should be able. when perfected, to perform the tune-

tions of the heart and lungs outside the body.

"We he found incans to protect the organ. absolutely against infection through the apparatus, and we are perfecting an artificial liquid which It has extensively advertised In

will be able to take the place of blood Germy offering cash loans to priserum from the human body. vale persons without security and at

very low rate of interest.

But many years of research wil

we can claim to Through this method, It is alleged. ve uceded before

have reached our goal." people living near military centres,

of SOITIC or even working Mona Moraden stood in a different

them category. She was a coloured ser- have been recruited as spica. was all that happened."vant, for one week prior to Christmas This system was discovered by the

1931 in

the employment of Dr. German Embassy in Paris through Parts of the defence, added Mr. Harland at his bungalow.

two Germans who, fearing they had Beney, showed the depths to which

French been discovered, fled to the the corporation were willing to loop

capital. in defending the present proceedings.

When he heard the witnesses cum- Mr. Beney replied that there were

his door he went into the two complaints. The first was that 10 Sir Geoffrey Evans was the author bedouin, and the witnesses found Press him. of an announcement lu the that Dr. Harland had no connection with the Imperial College of Tropical said Mr. Beney. Agriculture, whereas every one knew that he was their cotton adviser,

The second was that Sir Geofrey made certain statements about had the relations between Dr. inrland and his wife Miss Olive Alteck, be fore they were married.

to

The lectures and films about spying the grim warning: all end will "Spying in Germany is punished by death,"

This young girl came the bungalow and saw Dr. Harland and Dr. Phillis, who lived there through- out that period. Dr. Phiills slept in FOUR ALLEGATIONS They alleged that between 3ep-the bedroom next to Dr. Harland.

1034 Dr. Mona Moraden arrived in an un- tember 1931 and June Harlund, when in Trinidad, habit-tempt, dirty condition, suld that she The German Secret Service has re-

misconduct

considerably with was being persecuted by her family, (cently ually committed various women at the house provided and asked Dr. Harland if he could counter-espionage service. for him by the corporation,

give her a job.......

"TISSUE OF FALSEHOODSS

There were matters particular). sed in the defence which were grossly scandalous

untrue, and Mr. Beney went an.

It was suggested that Dr. Harland had habitually committed miscon-

duct with various women and tha! the circumstances of his divorce were such as to chuse scandal and to be detrimental to the good name of, and maintenance to proper order at the research station.

(1) With one Olive Atteck (now his wife).

the

(2)

increased its

irritability which he had been, led; to believe was the reason for his dismissal.

Gladys, the woman cited in petition of divorce card against Dr. Hurlund in December,scribe it as a tissue of falsehoods." Now the issue had been enlarged

1032,

(3) Mona Muraden, H woman in the employ of Dr. Harland as a domestic servant at the house.

"ir defendants persist in this story," said Mr. Bency, "I shall de-

Mr. Beney suid Dr. Harland sought the opportunity of answering the charges and to clear his character of the stigma

Incompetence and

jo

His business might have failed

due to NIGHT STARVATION

THE HOTEL

| COMPLAINED AGAIN,

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DELIVERED YÊT,

HORLICKS REGULARLY AT

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DOCTOR...

BY TAKING HORLICKS EVERY NIGHT, AND I'M EXTENDING THE PREMISES

NEXT WEEK!

HORLICKS

and still more did he seek to have his character and reputation cleared from those suggested abominations.

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